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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2023
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09:01:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DO WE HAVE SOMEONE FOR THE INVOCATION
09:02:00AM TODAY?
09:02:01AM OKAY.
09:02:01AM WE DO.
09:02:03AM GOOD MORNING, SIR.
09:02:07AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:02:09AM MY PRAYER COMES FROM A BOOK.
09:02:11AM SO IT IS VERY SHORT.
09:02:13AM THE PRAYER -- I AM GOING TO STAND -- ARE YOU GOING TO STAND
09:02:21AM OR WHAT.
09:02:21AM THE PRAYER ASSUMES THAT THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE IS IN
09:02:25AM THE CITY.
09:02:26AM THERE WILL BE MORE CITIES AND BIGGER CITIES, THEREFORE, YOUR
09:02:30AM GOVERNANCE IS WHAT THE FUTURE LOOKS LIKE.
09:02:32AM IN OTHER WORDS, YOU ARE THE FUTURE.
09:02:35AM GOD BLESS US ALL.
09:02:37AM AND SO THIS PRAYER IS FOR THE CITY, FOR COUNCILMAN GUIDO,
09:02:48AM FOR BILL, FOR GWEN, CHARLIE, AND MY FAVORITE, LUIS.
09:02:56AM LET US PRAY, HEAVENLY FATHER, IN YOUR WORD YOU HAVE GIVEN US
09:03:00AM A VISION OF THAT HOLY CITY TO WHICH THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD
09:03:05AM BRING THEIR GLORY.
09:03:06AM BEHOLD AND VISIT WE PRAY THE CITIES OF THE EARTH, ESPECIALLY
09:03:12AM TAMPA, OUR FAVORITE CITY, AND OTHERS IN THE STATE, ORLANDO,
09:03:20AM JACKSONVILLE, MIAMI, AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT NEED YOUR
09:03:23AM PRAYERS FOR REAL, TALLAHASSEE.
09:03:25AM RENEW THE TIES OF OUR MUTUAL RESPECT AND REGARD WHICH FORM
09:03:31AM OF CIVIC LIFE SEND US HONEST AND ABLE LEADERS LIKE THESE
09:03:36AM HONORABLES HERE.
09:03:38AM AND ENABLE US TO ELIMINATE POVERTY, PREJUDICE, DEPRESSION.
09:03:46AM THAT PEACE MAY PREVAIL WITH RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE WITH
09:03:49AM ORDER AND THAT BOTH MAN AND WOMEN FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES
09:03:54AM AND WITH DEFERRING TALENTS MAY FIND WITH ONE ANOTHER THE
09:03:58AM FULFILLMENT OF THE HUMANITY AS THEY BEAR YOUR IMAGE.
09:04:02AM UNDER THIS SEASON OF ELECTION CYCLE, GOD, YOU HAVE BONDED US
09:04:10AM TOGETHER IN A COMMON LIFE, PURPOSE IN THE MIDST OF OUR
09:04:13AM STRUGGLES FOR JUSTICE AND TRUTH TO CONFRONT ONE ANOTHER
09:04:17AM WITHOUT HATRED OR BITTERNESS.
09:04:20AM TO WORK TOGETHER WITH A MUTUAL FORBEARANCE AND RESPECT.
09:04:26AM I REMEMBER OTHER CITIES I COME FROM, MY NATIVE COUNTRY IN
09:04:29AM EAST AFRICA, FOR CABALI, FOR NAIROBI, FOR CONGO,
09:04:40AM FOR SHIGALI BURA, CATUM, ARASHUM AND ARUS HA.
09:04:50AM I PRAY THIS IN THE FATHER WHO MADE US IN HIS ONE IMAGE.
09:04:56AM OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, AMEN.
09:04:58AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:05:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
09:05:23AM CAN WE HAVE A BOARD MEMBER ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
09:05:26AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:05:27AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
09:05:28AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
09:05:32AM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
09:05:34AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:05:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
09:05:36AM CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE MINUTES FROM JULY CRA?
09:05:43AM MOVED BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
09:05:45AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
09:05:46AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:05:47AM OPPOSED?
09:05:49AM ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES PASSES.
09:05:50AM JUST A LITTLE HOUSEKEEPING FOR TODAY'S AGENDA.
09:05:53AM WE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE ITEM NUMBER 5, NUMBER 6 AND 7 WILL
09:05:59AM BE HEARD TOGETHER.
09:06:00AM ITEM NUMBER 8, CAN I SAY IT STANDS AS IS.
09:06:06AM THE ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES, ATTORNEY MASSEY.
09:06:09AM YES, IT WILL STAND AS IS OR PART OF THE ADOPTION OF THE
09:06:15AM MINUTES?
09:06:16AM IF NOT --
09:06:18AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: A MOTION.
09:06:22AM I MEAN -- ARE YOU ASKING IF WE CAN ACCEPT THE MEMORANDUM
09:06:26AM NOW.
09:06:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN WE INCLUDE IT WITH ADOPTING THE
09:06:30AM MINUTES OR A MOTION OF ITEM NUMBER 5 BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON
09:06:35AM AND SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
09:06:37AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:06:38AM OPPOSED.
09:06:38AM MOTION CARRIES.
09:06:39AM OKAY.
09:06:40AM ITEM NUMBER 6 AND 7 WILL BE HEARD TOGETHER.
09:06:48AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE MOTION WILL BE TO ADOPT THE CHANGES OF
09:06:50AM THE AGENDA THAT YOU JUST ANNOUNCED.
09:06:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WITHOUT WORRYING ABOUT 8 RIGHT NOW?
09:06:55AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CORRECT.
09:06:59AM >> SO MOVED.
09:07:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU -- FROM NUMBER 8.
09:07:03AM >>BILL CARLSON: THERE IS A WRITTEN REPORT WHICH I
09:07:06AM APPRECIATE.
09:07:07AM THERE IS A LOT OF TRANSPARENCY IN THE DOCUMENTS THAT STAFF
09:07:15AM HAS DONE THIS TIME.
09:07:16AM I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM FOR ALL THESE DIFFERENT AREAS
09:07:19AM HAVE A LOT OF DETAIL.
09:07:20AM THAT ONE HAS A LOT OF DETAILS WE CAN LOOK IN.
09:07:23AM I DON'T NEED A REPORT ON THAT UNLESS THEY WANT TO DO IT.
09:07:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO, THEY DON'T.
09:07:27AM OKAY, GREAT.
09:07:28AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND
09:07:31AM FILE THE MEMORANDUM.
09:07:33AM >>BILL CARLSON: SO MOVED.
09:07:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON TO
09:07:39AM RECEIVE AND FILE ITEM NUMBER 8.
09:07:41AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
09:07:44AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:07:44AM OPPOSED.
09:07:45AM MOTION CARRIES.
09:07:47AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I SAY ONE THING ABOUT 5.
09:07:49AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SURE.
09:07:51AM ITEM NUMBER 5 -- WE JUST DID SOMETHING WITH 5.
09:07:54AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE JUST MOVED IT, BUT I WANTED TO SAY THAT
09:07:58AM THERE WAS A PORT BOARD MEETING ON MONDAY.
09:08:00AM AND THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO COINCIDE WITH THE REPORT FROM THE
09:08:04AM PORT BOARD.
09:08:05AM AS YOU ALL READ THE STORIES OR LOOK AT THE PORT'S REPORT, IN
09:08:09AM IS NOT COVER THE SAME AREA THEY ARE COVERING THE AQUARIUM
09:08:14AM NORTH BUT A COMPROMISE.
09:08:15AM DEVELOPERS WANT TO DEVELOP THE LAND.
09:08:18AM THE PORT WANTS TO KEEP IT.
09:08:21AM A COMPROMISE FOR BOTH.
09:08:22AM TALK TO STAFF ABOUT IT.
09:08:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DID I ADOPT THE MINUTES AND AGENDA FOR
09:08:30AM TODAY?
09:08:31AM ALL RIGHT.
09:08:31AM LET'S GET STARTED.
09:08:32AM ARE THERE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS TODAY?
09:08:38AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE COME FORWARD.
09:08:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:08:42AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
09:08:44AM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
09:08:45AM >> GOOD MORNING, MY NAME IS MR. DAVID CORNELL.
09:08:52AM I AM SPEAKING BEFORE THE COUNCILMEMBERS AGAIN.
09:08:54AM BEFORE I START MY PRESENTATION, I WOULD ASK IF IT IS
09:08:57AM POSSIBLE TO GET THE CONTACT INFORMATION OF ALL THE
09:09:00AM COUNCILMEMBERS, IF POSSIBLE.
09:09:01AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:09:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SORRY, I DIDN'T HEAR WHAT YOU SAID.
09:09:04AM >> GOOD MORNING, ONCE AGAIN, COUNCILMEMBERS.
09:09:07AM GREAT TO BE HERE TODAY.
09:09:08AM SO BEFORE I BEGIN THE PRESENTATION, I WILL ASK, IF POSSIBLE,
09:09:12AM TO PRESENT THE CONTACT INFORMATION OF EACH AND EVERY
09:09:16AM COUNCILMEMBER, IF AT ALL POSSIBLE.
09:09:19AM SO I WILL BEGIN MY PRESENTATION.
09:09:22AM THIS IS ABOUT MY BOOK I AM WORKING ON WHICH I AM HALFWAY
09:09:25AM THROUGH CALLED "BUFFALO SOLDIERS ACOMING."
09:09:30AM THAT IS WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS CAFE WILLIAMS.
09:09:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HOLD A SECOND.
09:09:35AM WE CAN'T SEE IT.
09:09:36AM TURN IT AROUND.
09:09:37AM >> THE OTHER WAY?
09:09:41AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LOWER TOWARD YOU.
09:09:42AM MORE, MORE.
09:09:43AM >> HOW IS THAT?
09:09:46AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LITTLE BIT MORE.
09:09:48AM >> ON DOWN?
09:09:50AM BETTER?
09:09:50AM OKAY, VERY GOOD.
09:09:51AM THANK YOU.
09:09:52AM IS IT GOOD?
09:09:55AM SO WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT IS A BUFFALO SOLDIER.
09:09:59AM THE ONLY FEMALE BUFFALO SOLDIER TO KNOWN TO BE IN EXISTENCE
09:10:04AM AND HER NAME IS CAFE WILLIAMS.
09:10:06AM AND SO -- I WILL TAKE THIS OFF FOR NOW.
09:10:10AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
09:10:11AM SO -- YEAH, SO I AM ENCOURAGING ALL WRITERS IN GENERAL TO
09:10:17AM WRITE, WHATEVER MALE, FEMALE, LGBTQ, JUST WRITE.
09:10:22AM THIS IS A CHAPTER OF MY BOOK.
09:10:23AM I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS VISIBLE.
09:10:25AM IS THAT UPSIDE DOWN AGAIN.
09:10:27AM OKAY, I GOT IN NOW.
09:10:30AM I WROTE THIS ON A BOOK GOING DOWNTOWN.
09:10:32AM VERY SHAKY SCRIBBLE.
09:10:34AM NONETHELESS, I DID IT.
09:10:35AM SO WHAT I HAVE HERE IS A TIME LINE AS TAUGHT TO ME BY MY
09:10:44AM CO-AUTHOR, ARTHUR DAVIS JR.
09:10:47AM THE CO-AUTHOR OF MY BOOK ONCE AGAIN.
09:10:50AM I WILL SET THAT DOWN.
09:10:51AM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO -- IF I AM PRONOUNCING THAT --
09:10:58AM COUNCILMAN GUIDO.
09:10:59AM HE HAS A PORTION OF MY BOOK IN PAPER FORMAT, AND THAT IS JUST
09:11:04AM UPDATING THE PUBLIC AT LARGE WHERE I AM IN THE TIMELINE.
09:11:07AM PARTICULAR NOTEWORTHY IS A LOT OF THESE WERE CHAPTERS OR
09:11:14AM WERE PRESENTED TO ME BY A GENTLEMAN WHO WAS A VETERAN SUCH
09:11:18AM AS MYSELF, MR. MARVIN DAVIS, A GOOD MAN, A VETERAN OF THE
09:11:23AM VIETNAM ERA.
09:11:27AM THAT IS BASICALLY IT.
09:11:28AM I WANT TO THANK COUNCILMAN VIERA.
09:11:32AM RODE THE BUS COMING HERE AND ALL COUNCILMEMBERS.
09:11:36AM ONCE AGAIN, IF IT IS POSSIBLE TO GET SOME CONTACT
09:11:40AM INFORMATION BECAUSE THE CARD I GOT FROM COUNCILMAN GUIDO,
09:11:44AM THAT INFORMATION IS NO LONGER VALID.
09:11:46AM THAT'S IT.
09:11:47AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:11:47AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HE WANTS IT FOR EVERYBODY.
09:11:49AM >> PERFECT.
09:11:51AM THANK ALL COUNCILMEMBERS AND HAVE A GOOD DAY.
09:11:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:11:54AM NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE.
09:12:06AM >> UHURU.
09:12:09AM MENTESNOT.
09:12:11AM MENTESNOT MEANS ANYTHING POSSIBLE AND UHURU MEANS FREEDOM IN
09:12:19AM SWAHILI.
09:12:20AM I WANT TO SAY THAT BEING HERE, I WANT TO SAY TO ALL AFRICAN
09:12:25AM PEOPLE IN THIS AFRICAN COMMUNITY AND THE WHITE COMMUNITY AND
09:12:28AM OTHER.
09:12:30AM AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO COME DOWN HERE.
09:12:32AM AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE TERRIFIED IN COMING HERE AND BEING IN
09:12:36AM PUBLIC AND BEING ANYWHERE AND GETTING ANY KIND OF MEANINGFUL
09:12:40AM CONTACT WITH NORTH AMERICANS OR WITH WHITE PEOPLE.
09:12:44AM AND THE WHITE PEOPLE HAVE IT THAT WAY AND THEY ARE LAUGHING
09:12:48AM AT US.
09:12:48AM JUST LIKE THIS CITY HAVE A $2 BILLION BUDGET AND THEY ARE
09:12:51AM LAUGHING AT US.
09:12:52AM NOT ONE WORD IN IT ABOUT REPARATIONS.
09:12:54AM BUT THEY RUN US AROUND LIKE DUMMIES.
09:12:57AM YOU TAKE THE AVERAGE AFRICAN PERSON IN AMERICA -- LET'S SAY
09:13:01AM YOU TAKE THE AVERAGE AFRICAN PERSON IN TAMPA, THEY PROBABLY
09:13:04AM HAVE, LIKE, A THIRD-GRADE EDUCATION.
09:13:07AM SOMETIMES YOU NEED A LITTLE SELF-CRITICISM.
09:13:09AM YOU SAY THAT AND TOOK THE AVERAGE AFRICAN PERSON AND GIVE
09:13:13AM THEM A STANDARDIZED TEST OF HOW INTELLIGENT THEY ARE, IT
09:13:16AM PROBABLY COMES OUT TO A THIRD-GRADE EDUCATION.
09:13:19AM THAT IS INCLUDING MYSELF.
09:13:20AM SO WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT IS, THE WHITE PEOPLE TRICK US.
09:13:24AM THEY HAVE BEEN TRICKING US FOR 623 YEARS.
09:13:27AM AND JUST A PATTERN THAT IT IS GOING ON.
09:13:30AM ALL THESE PEOPLE CAULKING OF PUTTING THE POLICE AND AFRICAN
09:13:33AM PEOPLE, COMMUNITY POLICE AND SO NO TO DRUGS.
09:13:37AM SAY NO TO SUGAR.
09:13:38AM SUGAR KILLS MORE AFRICAN PEOPLE, SUGAR.
09:13:42AM DIABETES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE.
09:13:44AM MISEDUCATION.
09:13:47AM IGNORANCE KILLS MORE AFRICAN PEOPLE ON THE EARTH.
09:13:51AM SAY NO TO DRUGS.
09:13:52AM SAY NO TO GUNS.
09:13:54AM SUICIDE KILLED FOUR OR FIVE TIMES THE AMOUNT OF THE
09:13:57AM POPULATION THAN GUNS DO, BUT THEY HAVE AFRICAN PEOPLE
09:14:01AM RUNNING AROUND SAYING SAY NO TO GUNS BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW
09:14:05AM HOW TO STAY OUT OF THE WAY OR THE WHITE PEOPLE HAVE THEM
09:14:07AM TERRIFIED OF GUNS.
09:14:08AM WHITE PEOPLE AREN'T GIVING UP THEIR FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS
09:14:11AM OR SECOND AMENDMENT RECEIPTS.
09:14:12AM THEY ARE NOT DOING IT.
09:14:13AM NO MATTER WHAT, THEY ARE NOT DOING IT.
09:14:16AM NO IFs, ANDs OR BUTs, AFRICAN PEOPLE, GUN BUY-BACK, ALL THAT
09:14:23AM KIND OF THING.
09:14:23AM ALL WITHIN THE AFRICAN COMMUNITY.
09:14:25AM IT HAS TO STOP.
09:14:26AM THIS CITY COUNCIL HAS TO PUT A SERIOUS RUN OF REPARATIONS.
09:14:29AM THEY PUT CRAZY THINGS IN OUR FACES LIKE THE CRAZY HOUSE OVER
09:14:32AM HERE THAT IS BREAKING DOWN THEY TALK ABOUT RAY CHARLES AND
09:14:35AM WHO LIVED THERE AND WHATSOEVER.
09:14:37AM IT IS AN INSULT TO AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:14:39AM IT IS AN INSULT TO AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:14:41AM IF RAY CHARLES SEEN THAT HOUSE, WE MAKE A NEGATIVE SONG
09:14:45AM ABOUT IT.
09:14:46AM YEAH, YOU CAN'T DO US THAT.
09:14:48AM THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THE ASSISTANCE, YOU HAVE CODE
09:14:50AM ENFORCEMENT UNDER THEM AND DOING THEM WRONG.
09:14:53AM THIS HAS TO CHANGE.
09:14:53AM THE DIALOGUE HAS TO CHANGE.
09:14:55AM THE DIALOGUE HAS TO CHANGE.
09:14:57AM YOU CAN NOT KEEP TREATING AFRICAN PEOPLE THE WAY YOU HAVE
09:15:01AM BEEN TREATING US THE LAST 623 YEARS.
09:15:04AM WE HAVE TO GET WITH THIS REPARATION ISSUE.
09:15:07AM DOWN IN SOUTH TAMPA, THEY GAVE US HENDERSON BOULEVARD AND
09:15:11AM THE MAJOR SAYING SHE HAVE 82% OF THE PEOPLE IN SOUTH TAMPA
09:15:15AM VOTING FOR TAX INCREASE.
09:15:16AM NO SUCH THING.
09:15:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, MR. MENTESNOT, THANK YOU.
09:15:21AM >> I FOUND 1.1 MILLION IN DRUGS, PEOPLE WOULD BE VERY
09:15:27AM SUSPICIOUS ABOUT THAT.
09:15:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, MR. MENTESNOT.
09:15:31AM NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE.
09:15:33AM >> HELLO, GOOD MORNING.
09:15:35AM NICK STOCCO, TAMPA FIRE FIGHTERS, LOCAL 754.
09:15:39AM FIRST I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE BOARD MEMBERS,
09:15:44AM CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS DURING THIS BUDGET PROCESS.
09:15:47AM WE UNDERSTAND THAT IT TAKES A LOT OF TIME.
09:15:49AM AND IT IS MORE THAN JUST A PART-TIME THING RIGHT NOW.
09:15:53AM SO I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TIME THAT YOU HAVE
09:15:56AM BEEN DEDICATING.
09:15:59AM I WANT TO STAY THANK YOU TO THE DIRECTOR NICOLE TRAVIS AND
09:16:13AM ON HER PRESENTATION AND WORKING WITH HER ON PROJECTS IN THE
09:16:16AM PAST.
09:16:16AM I BELIEVE SHE IS DOING A GREAT JOB AND HOPEFULLY WORKING
09:16:19AM WITH THIS CRA BOARD TO MAKE THOSE TOUGH DECISIONS THAT NEED
09:16:23AM TO BE MADE.
09:16:24AM AND IN FISCAL YEAR 2019, THERE WAS SOME CONVERSATION ABOUT
09:16:31AM BUDGET AND FUNDS BEING PUT INTO FIRE STATIONS.
09:16:35AM AND IT CARRIED THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 2023.
09:16:39AM AND WE ARE WONDERING WHERE HAS IT GONE.
09:16:42AM AND THIS BOARD, AS WELL AS COUNCIL, NEEDS TO LOOK INTO THAT
09:16:48AM AND SEE WHERE WE ARE WITH THESE PROJECTS.
09:16:51AM I WANT TO EMPHASIZE THAT DURING THIS TIME TO PROBABLE-FIRE,
09:17:01AM PRO-PUBLIC SAFETY BUT PRO-FIRE.
09:17:04AM 75% OF YOUR STATIONS ARE PAST THEIR LIFE EXPECTANCY.
09:17:08AM WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE -- CONTINUE TO HAVE THESE
09:17:11AM CONVERSATIONS IN THE FUTURE IF WE DON'T START PUTTING SOME
09:17:15AM ACTION FORWARD NOW AND IMMEDIATELY.
09:17:17AM AS IT WAS MENTIONED, WE SHUT BE CUTTING THE IRS BON RIGHT
09:17:25AM NOW FOR FIRE STATION 2024.
09:17:27AM AND WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT PROGRESSING AND HAVING FUTURE
09:17:31AM STATIONS ALSO BEING DEVELOPED IN OTHER VARIOUS PARTS OF THE
09:17:36AM CITY.
09:17:36AM MY QUESTION AS A BOARD IS, CAN CRA FUNDS BE USED FOR FIRE
09:17:44AM STATIONS?
09:17:46AM FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF FIRE STATIONS?
09:17:48AM I DON'T KNOW.
09:17:49AM IT IS JUST A QUESTION.
09:17:51AM EXCUSE MY NOT KNOWING.
09:17:53AM AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN HAVE CONVERSATION ABOUT IT.
09:17:56AM I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR RECEIVING MY E-MAILS.
09:18:00AM SOME OF YOU HAVE RESPONDED.
09:18:02AM SOME OF YOU I AM WAITING ON; HOWEVER, I LOOK FORWARD TO THE
09:18:06AM CONVERSATIONS, INCLUDING THE, CAN WE USE CRA FUNDS FOR THE
09:18:13AM INFRASTRUCTURE OF FIRE STATIONS.
09:18:14AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO
09:18:18AM ADDRESS THAT FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT.
09:18:21AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: PROHIBITS FOR BUILDING FIRE STATIONS.
09:18:26AM AND THERE IS AN EXCEPTION, IF WE RECEIVED THE PERMISSION OF
09:18:30AM ALL THE TAXING AUTHORITIES THAT PAY INTO THE INCREMENT FUND
09:18:34AM AND IF IT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
09:18:36AM PLAN.
09:18:37AM BUT THOSE TWO THINGS WOULD HAVE TO BE DONE IN ORDER FOR CRA
09:18:41AM FUNDS TO BE AVAILABLE FOR FIRE STATIONS.
09:18:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:18:46AM WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:18:53AM YOU CAN SENDS AN E-MAIL AND RESPOND TO ANY OF HIS FURTHER
09:18:57AM QUESTIONS.
09:18:57AM >> THE OTHER CAVEAT TO THAT --
09:19:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IS HIS TIME UP?
09:19:05AM 19 SECONDS.
09:19:06AM GO AHEAD, SIR.
09:19:09AM >> THE OTHER CAVEAT TO THAT WILL BE IF ANY OF THE CITY
09:19:12AM BUILDS THAT HOUSE POLICE OFFICERS, MAYBE THE POLICE DISTRICT
09:19:16AM IN 22nd STREET, COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON, IF THAT BUILDING WAS
09:19:20AM PURCHASED OR THAT PROPERTY WAS PURCHASED WITH CRA FUNDS,
09:19:23AM MAYBE ONE OF THE THINGS TO LOOK INTO IF THAT PROPERTY WAS
09:19:26AM PURCHASED WITH CRA FUNDS AND FOR THE BOARD TO GET CREATIVE.
09:19:32AM THANK YOU.
09:19:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
09:19:33AM NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE.
09:19:35AM >> WELL, HAPPY THURSDAY.
09:19:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
09:19:43AM >> I HAVE BEEN GONE A LONG TIME, YOU KNOW WITH THE KIDS THAT
09:19:47AM WERE OUT OF SCHOOL AND I JUST HAVE BEEN BUSY WITH THEM.
09:19:50AM I WOULD LIKE TO READ A SHORT SCRIPTURE "GOODNESS."
09:19:56AM EVERYTHING THAT GOD CREATED IS GOD --
09:19:59AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SORRY, STATE YOUR NAME.
09:20:01AM >> SALLYESE LEE OF THE SALVATION ARMY PENNY FUND.
09:20:08AM EVERYTHING THAT GOD CREATED IS GOOD AND NOTHING IS TO BE
09:20:13AM REJECTED AND RECEIVED WITH THANKS GIVING.
09:20:16AM TASTE AND SEE THAT THE LORD IS GOOD.
09:20:18AM TAKE IN THE REFUGE IN HIM.
09:20:22AM MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I AM SURE YOU ARE FULL OF GOODNESS.
09:20:25AM I AM SURE YOU ALL HAVE ALL THE KNOWLEDGE YOU NEED AND ABLE
09:20:28AM TO TEACH EACH OTHER.
09:20:30AM LORD, THANK YOU FOR THE -- FOR YOUR GOODNESS AND FOR THE
09:20:35AM ASSURANCES IN YOUR WORD THAT WITH YOU AS MY SHEPHERD,
09:20:41AM GOODNESS FOLLOWS ME WHEREVER I GO.
09:20:43AM WHAT A BEAUTIFUL IMAGE.
09:20:44AM BEING PURSUED BY GOODNESS.
09:20:47AM MY PRAYER TODAY IS THAT I WILL SLOW DOWN ENOUGH TO BE
09:20:51AM OVERRUN BY GOODNESS.
09:20:52AM I HAVE BEEN GONE THE WHOLE SUMMER NOW THAT THE KIDS ARE BACK
09:20:56AM IN SCHOOL.
09:20:57AM WE HAD A WONDERFUL TIME AT MOS G.
09:21:04AM THE KIDS WENT TO CARTER WOODSON MUSEUM ALL AROUND.
09:21:08AM I GOT TO SEE THE HISTORIC ABOUT INDIANS AND EVERYBODY.
09:21:13AM BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY ONE OF MY MOST IMPORTANT VENTURES
09:21:18AM WAS ONE DAY I WAS HURTING AND SO OVERWROUGHT WITH
09:21:24AM EVERYTHING, I WENT AND WALKED AT THE STADIUM, WHERE THE
09:21:32AM BUCCANEERS TRAIN.
09:21:33AM AND I JUST WALKED ACROSS THERE AND ME AND GOD.
09:21:37AM IT WAS LIGHTLY RAINING.
09:21:39AM AND I TALKED TO HIM AND I TOLD HIM, I GAVE ALL MY PROBLEMS
09:21:44AM ABOUT MY BUSINESS BEING REJECTED.
09:21:47AM AND EVER SINCE I WENT AND I SAID I AM LEAVING ALL MY
09:21:51AM PROBLEMS OUT HERE ON THE BUCCANEER FIELD.
09:21:55AM AND THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING ON PRETTY -- HAVE NO MONEY FOR MY
09:22:01AM INSURANCE, BUT NOTHING FOR MY BUSINESS.
09:22:04AM BUT AFTER THAT DAY OF WALKING, GOD CHANGED EVERYTHING.
09:22:08AM I AM NOT WHERE I WANT TO BE, BUT I AM NOT WHERE I WAS.
09:22:13AM AND IT HAS BEEN A GREAT SUMMER FOR ME.
09:22:15AM AND I JUST WISH THAT WE COULD COME TOGETHER ON HOUSING AND
09:22:21AM TRANSPORTATION.
09:22:21AM I GOT A CHANCE TO WALK THROUGH COUNCILMAN VIERA'S NEW
09:22:27AM NEIGHBORHOOD AT UNIVERSITY PLAZA.
09:22:28AM AND IT IS SOMETHING TO BEHOLD.
09:22:30AM WE NEED THE SAME THING IN OUR COMMUNITY.
09:22:33AM AND TRANSPORTATION IS VERY IMPORTANT.
09:22:36AM BECAUSE WHEN I LEFT RAYMOND JAMES STADIUM LAST NIGHT, I HAD
09:22:40AM TO WALK ALL THE WAY UP MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. TO GET A RIDE
09:22:44AM HOME.
09:22:45AM AND I JUST WANT US TO COME TOGETHER AND DO WHAT WE HAVE TO
09:22:49AM DO TO MAKE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, OUR BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS
09:22:54AM BETTER, AND THAT SMALL BUSINESSES CAN GET FUNDING.
09:22:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, MISS SALLY.
09:22:59AM YOUR TIME IS UP.
09:23:00AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:23:02AM NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE.
09:23:03AM >> GOOD MORNING, CHAIRWOMAN AND BOARD.
09:23:05AM CLINT PARIS.
09:23:06AM I SERVE ON -- I WAS ELECTED TO THE EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP
09:23:10AM AND BY WAY OF THAT, I SERVE ON THE EAST TAMPA CRA CAC.
09:23:14AM AND THE KEY WORD IS "ELECTED."
09:23:17AM BECAUSE AGENDA ITEM 4 --
09:23:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME, STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE
09:23:22AM RECORD.
09:23:22AM >> I DID.
09:23:23AM CLINTON PARIS.
09:23:26AM I WANT TO RECLAIM MY FIVE SECONDS, IF I COULD.
09:23:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES, GIVE HIM HIS FIVE SECONDS.
09:23:32AM >> ANYWAY, I WAS ELECTED TO THAT POSITION WHICH GIVES ME A
09:23:36AM VERY STRONG SENSE OF OBLIGATION TO THE CITIZENS THAT ELECTED
09:23:39AM ME.
09:23:39AM ON YOUR AGENDA, ITEM NUMBER 4, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU ARE
09:23:43AM PROPOSING WHAT I HEARD TO CHANGE THAT TO A POLITICAL
09:23:47AM APPOINTMENT PROCESS, WHICH I THINK WILL ELIMINATE THE
09:23:51AM OBLIGATION OF THOSE PEOPLE SERVING TO TRULY BE COMMITTED TO
09:23:56AM THE COMMUNITY, AND MORE CONCERNED OF MAINTAINING THEIR
09:23:58AM APPOINTMENT POSITION.
09:23:59AM BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T DO WHAT I GUESS YOU WANT THEM TO DO,
09:24:03AM THEY RISK NOT BEING REAPPOINTED NEXT YEAR.
09:24:05AM I WAS ELECTED.
09:24:06AM GUESS WHAT I GET TO DO?
09:24:08AM I GET TO SPEAK MY MIND AND FIGHT FOR THOSE PEOPLE WHO
09:24:11AM TRUSTED ME TO BE APPOINTED.
09:24:13AM THE PROPOSAL FOR MY UNDERSTANDING IS BECAUSE YOU ALL WANT
09:24:17AM ALL THE CRAs AND CACs TO BE THE SAME.
09:24:22AM THAT IS ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS.
09:24:25AM IT NOT THE SAME AS TEMPLE TERRACE OR FLORIDA IS THE SAME AS
09:24:28AM ALABAMA.
09:24:29AM EACH COMMUNITY IS DIFFERENT, AND MAY REQUIRE A DIFFERENT
09:24:33AM SENSE OF HOW IT GETS GOVERNED.
09:24:35AM THIS IS EVEN MORE IMPACTFUL, BECAUSE TO CREATE THE EAST
09:24:38AM TAMPA CRA, TO CREATE IT, YOU ALL -- NOT YOU ALL, BUT THIS
09:24:43AM BOARD ENTERED INTO A COVENANT WITH THE COMMUNITY AND ASSURED
09:24:46AM THAT YOU WILL BE IN CHARGE OF ELECTING WHO REPRESENTS YOU ON
09:24:51AM BE THIS CAC.
09:24:52AM NOW YOU ARE BREAKING THAT COVENANT IF YOU CHANGE IT TO AN
09:24:56AM APPOINTMENT PROCESS.
09:24:57AM AND I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE THOUGHT ABOUT REAL, REAL HARD
09:25:01AM AND LONG.
09:25:02AM BECAUSE THERE IS AN ATTACK ON DEMOCRACY WORLDWIDE.
09:25:06AM AND WE NEED NOT TO HAVE THAT DRIFT DOWN TO CITY COUNCIL.
09:25:10AM WE NEED TO TRUST CITIZENS TO BE ABLE TO PICK WHO IS GOING TO
09:25:14AM REPRESENT THEM.
09:25:14AM WHO IS GOING TO LEAD THEM.
09:25:16AM WHO IS GOING TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEM.
09:25:18AM ONCE YOU OPEN THE DOOR AND MAKE THIS A POLITICAL APPOINTMENT
09:25:22AM PROCESS, IT IS GOING TO BECOME A YES, MA'AM BOARD.
09:25:27AM THEY WILL SAY YES TO BEHAVIOR YOU WANT TO DO AND WHATEVER
09:25:30AM YOU THINK YOU WANT THEM TO DO SO THEY CAN STAY ON IT.
09:25:33AM WE HAVE A NUMBER OF ADVISORY BOARDS AROUND THE CITY OF TAMPA
09:25:37AM THAT DO NOT DO THEIR JOB BECAUSE THEY ARE MORE WORRIED ABOUT
09:25:40AM BEING ON THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE THAN REPRESENTING THE PEOPLE
09:25:43AM BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE NO SAY WHETHER THEY PERFORM OR NOT.
09:25:47AM THE EAST TAMPA CRA CAC HAVE GONE THROUGH A GREAT
09:25:51AM TRANSFORMATION AS HAS THAT COMMUNITY.
09:25:53AM WE FINALLY HAVE A EXTREMELY COMPETENT, CARING, CONCERNED AND
09:25:57AM KNOWLEDGEABLE MANAGER WHO BUILT OUT HIS STAFF AND THEY ARE
09:26:00AM DOING GREAT THINGS.
09:26:01AM WE NOW FINALLY HAVE A NEW DIRECTOR WHO CAN NOW PROVIDE SOME
09:26:05AM HIGH-LEVEL GUIDANCE.
09:26:06AM AND I THINK THOSE PEOPLE NEED SOME TIME TO FILL IN THOSE
09:26:10AM POSITIONS BEFORE THIS CHANGE WILL BE MADE.
09:26:14AM THE LAST THING I WILL SAY IS THIS.
09:26:16AM CHANGES AND DECISION OF PEOPLE HAVE CONSEQUENCES.
09:26:20AM IF DO YOU THIS.
09:26:21AM SOMEBODY BETTER GET IN THE COMMUNITY AND EXPLAIN HOW THIS
09:26:26AM WILL BE BETTER FOR EAST TAMPA THAN IT IS NOW.
09:26:29AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:26:30AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:26:31AM NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE GOOD MORNING.
09:26:38AM >> MY NAME IS PAST0R WILLIAMS, PASTOR OF THE BAPTIST CHURCH
09:26:54AM LOCATED 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET.
09:26:57AM YOU KNOW, I COME OUT HERE WEEK AFTER WEEK.
09:27:01AM IN FACT, I CAME HERE LAST WEEK AND Y'ALL WERE CLOSED.
09:27:06AM IT JUST SEEMS LIKE -- I DON'T KNOW, WE TRY TO GET THINGS
09:27:09AM DONE IN THE RIGHT WAY.
09:27:10AM BUT WE DISRESPECT THE BLACK PEOPLE ALL TOGETHER.
09:27:16AM WE ACT LIKE WE DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THEM.
09:27:20AM BUT YOU HAVE TO REALIZE THAT WE ARE TAX PAYING PEOPLE AND WE
09:27:23AM ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
09:27:26AM BUT WE TRY TO GET ANSWERS FROM YOU ALL, BUT YOU AIN'T GIVING
09:27:31AM US NO ANSWERS.
09:27:32AM IN FACT, YOU HAD POLICE AND SHERIFF AND EVERYBODY ELSE TO
09:27:36AM COME DOWN HERE ON THE FIRST -- THE FIRST MONDAY -- FIRST
09:27:40AM THURSDAY AND HONORED THEM IN A MIGHTY WAY.
09:27:46AM WHEN WE GET UP HERE, YOU DON'T HAVE NOTHING GOOD TO SAY
09:27:49AM ABOUT US.
09:27:49AM YOU JUST LOOK AT US LIKE WE ARE PRETTY STUPID.
09:27:52AM I RESPECT YOU, BECAUSE HE IS TRYING TO DO WHAT HE CAN DO.
09:27:57AM BUT SO WHAT YOU HEAR ABOUT HIM.
09:28:01AM I AM WRITING A BOOK.
09:28:02AM THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I GAVE YOU -- THE MAIL -- IF
09:28:09AM I NAIL IT WILL COST ME $28 SO I HAD TO BE THE MAILMAN
09:28:13AM MYSELF.
09:28:14AM BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, I AM WRITING A BOOK.
09:28:17AM IT IS NOT CALLED "WORLD HISTORY."
09:28:20AM NOT CALLED "AMERICAN HISTORY."
09:28:24AM NOT CALLED "BLACK HISTORY."
09:28:26AM YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS CALLED?
09:28:28AM "WHITE FOLK HISTORY."
09:28:31AM BOY, I GUARANTEE YOU, WHEN YOU READ THIS BOOK.
09:28:34AM I CAN'T WAIT TO GET IT OUT TO YOU.
09:28:36AM BOY, THE WAY Y'ALL TREAT BLACK FOLK IS RIDICULOUS.
09:28:41AM NOT ONLY THE WAY YOU TREAT BLACK FOLK BUT A WHITE BOY
09:28:45AM KILLING UP OUR INNOCENT WHITE CHILDREN IN SCHOOL.
09:28:47AM AND NOW THEY -- YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT A WOMAN CAN MURDER HER
09:28:56AM BABY -- UP TO TEN MONTH.
09:28:59AM AIN'T THAT SOMETHING?
09:29:00AM THAT IS RIDICULOUS.
09:29:02AM THAT IS SICKENING.
09:29:03AM AND THEY GOT SOME PILLS NOW TO TAKE TO CAN ELIMINATE BABY UP
09:29:11AM TO TEN MONTHS.
09:29:12AM THEY SHOULD PUT THOSE PILLS IN THE GARBAGE CAN.
09:29:16AM A WOMAN COULD TAKE CONTROL OF HER OWN BODY AND AIN'T HAVE
09:29:20AM NOTHING TO DO -- THE WORLD IT GOING -- THE UNITED STATES IS
09:29:23AM GOING DOWN TO NOTHING.
09:29:24AM AND IT IS SO SAD THAT WE DON'T WANT TO HELP PEOPLE THAT
09:29:29AM TALK.
09:29:30AM I AM GOING ABOUT -- 25 MEN, I AM TAKING THEM UP TO D.C.
09:29:34AM I AM NOT TAKING -- THEY ARE GOING UP THERE BY THEMSELVES.
09:29:38AM THEY WILL TAKE THEMSELVES.
09:29:40AM GOING TO WASHINGTON D.C. TO A PLACE YOU ALL CALL THE SUPREME
09:29:43AM COURT.
09:29:43AM AND WE ARE GOING TO BE HEARD.
09:29:45AM IF Y'ALL DON'T WANT TO LISTEN TO US, GOD KNOWS, WE GOT TO
09:29:49AM GET SOMEBODY TO HEAR.
09:29:50AM AND WE THANK GOD FOR JESUS CHRIST, OUR LORD AND SAVIOR.
09:29:54AM AND WE GIVE GOD ALL THE GLORY.
09:29:56AM THANK YOU, JESUS.
09:29:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:30:00AM ANY MORE PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:30:05AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:30:06AM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
09:30:09AM I DON'T ALWAYS AGREE WITH THE "TAMPA BAY TIMES."
09:30:12AM BUT SOME THINGS I DO AGREE WITH THEM THIS TIME.
09:30:15AM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PAGES THAT WE GOT WERE A BUNCH OF
09:30:19AM SCREENSHOTS WHICH MEANS YOU CAN'T SEARCH IT.
09:30:21AM SO WHEN I SAW SOMETHING AND I WANT TO GO BACK TO IT, TOOK ME
09:30:26AM 15 MINUTES TO FIND THAT PARTICULAR PAGE.
09:30:27AM SO WE NEED TO GET THAT FIXED.
09:30:29AM LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SALARIES, BECAUSE THAT WAS
09:30:33AM SOMETHING THAT WAS BROUGHT UP IN THE "TIMES" EDITORIAL.
09:30:36AM LAST YEAR IT WAS PROPOSED THAT CITY COUNCIL SHOULD GET A
09:30:40AM $20,000-A-YEAR RAISE BECAUSE YOU GUYS -- ACTUALLY IF YOU
09:30:43AM LIVED OFF OF YOUR SALARY, YOU -- QUALIFY FOR AFFORDABLE
09:30:48AM HOUSING.
09:30:48AM BUT YOU GOT A $3,000-A-YEAR RAISE THIS YEAR.
09:30:56AM AND THE MAYOR GOT A $9,000-A-YEAR RAISE.
09:31:00AM GO FIGURE.
09:31:00AM I LOOK AT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, NOT ONLY
09:31:04AM DID SHE GIVE HERSELF A BIGGER RAISE, BUT I STARTED LOOKING
09:31:08AM AT THESE NUMBERS, AND WE HAVE BETWEEN LAST YEAR AND THIS
09:31:11AM YEAR, SORRY, AT THE TO TOP, WE HAVE $506,000 LAST YEAR AND
09:31:18AM NOW THE BUDGET FOR THE OFFICE IS $737,000.
09:31:21AM BECAUSE SHE HAS ADDED AN ADVISOR TO MAJOR COMMUNICATION
09:31:26AM PROJECTS AND DEVELOPMENT.
09:31:27AM WELL, I WENT TO PULL THE LOBBYIST REGISTRATION FOR THE MAYOR
09:31:33AM SINCE JANUARY OF 2022, SHE HAD 35 MEETINGS.
09:31:36AM THAT IS ABOUT TWO A MONTH.
09:31:38AM SHE NEEDS TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO IS GOING TO MAKE $165,000 A
09:31:43AM YEAR TO MEET WITH THOSE PEOPLE?
09:31:45AM PLEASE.
09:31:45AM I WILL BE HAPPY TO FURNISH YOU WITH THAT LIST.
09:31:50AM AND ONLY ABOUT SIX OF THEM IN WERE ACTUALLY DEVELOPMENT.
09:31:53AM I ALSO WANT TO ASK ABOUT THE MAYOR'S OFFICE BUDGET.
09:32:01AM $500,000 FOR NEXT YEAR FOR CHARGING STATIONS.
09:32:04AM WE CHARGE A TAX ON OUR FUEL FOR OUR CARS.
09:32:09AM BUT WE ARE GOING TO LET PEOPLE CHARGE CARS FOR FREE?
09:32:14AM IS TECO GIVING US THE ELECTRICITY FOR FREE?
09:32:17AM JUST SEEMS ODD.
09:32:18AM AND THAT IS ONGOING, $2.5 MILLION DURING THE NEXT FIVE
09:32:24AM YEARS.
09:32:24AM $500K TO DO THE BUILDING NEXT DOOR.
09:32:28AM $500,000 TO DO THE LOBBY NEXT DOOR.
09:32:31AM I WILL TELL YOU FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE THERE ARE ROOM
09:32:33AM NEEDS IT FIRST.
09:32:34AM PEOPLE SIT HERE FOR HOURS AND HOURS AND HOURS ON END, THE
09:32:38AM SEATS ARE BROKEN, THEY ARE TOO CLOSE TOGETHER.
09:32:41AM NO WAY TO PLUG IN.
09:32:42AM PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE FOR BUSINESS SIT IN THIS CRAP DOWN HERE.
09:32:47AM SO JUST TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION, PLEASE.
09:32:52AM THE WATER DEPARTMENT.
09:32:53AM WHY ARE WE BONDING MONEY FOR THE WATER DEPARTMENT TO REPAIR
09:32:57AM OUR WATER LINES WHEN THEY HAVE EXCESS FUNDS?
09:33:01AM DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE.
09:33:02AM WHY FINANCE IT WHEN YOU HAVE THE CASH TO GO PAY FOR IT.
09:33:06AM GO FIGURE.
09:33:06AM GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT.
09:33:08AM THAT IS -- LET ME SEE -- OH, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, $835,000 THIS
09:33:14AM YEAR.
09:33:15AM I DON'T KNOW ABOUT Y'ALL, BUT THERE ARE TWO PEOPLE IN THAT
09:33:19AM DEPARTMENT.
09:33:19AM AND THE OTHER HALF OF IT IS SPENT ON LOBBYISTS.
09:33:22AM I HAVE BEEN COMING HERE FOR ALMOST THREE YEARS NOW.
09:33:25AM THE ONLY TIME I HAVE EVER SEEN THOSE PEOPLE ADMIT TO
09:33:29AM ANYTHING THAT THEY HAVE DONE WAS THAT THEY WENT TO
09:33:33AM TALLAHASSEE AND LOBBIED FOR PURE.
09:33:35AM I HAVE SAID SEVERAL TIMES IN MANY MEETINGS, EXCUSE ME, WE
09:33:41AM ARE THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS.
09:33:42AM IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU ARE GOING TO TALLAHASSEE OR D.C.
09:33:46AM TO LOBBY FOR, LET US KNOW.
09:33:47AM WE WILL SUPPORT WHAT YOU ARE ASKING FOR.
09:33:50AM AND THEY ALWAYS TOLD US NO, WE DON'T WANT ANY HELP BECAUSE
09:33:54AM YOU MIGHT MESS SOMETHING UP.
09:33:56AM WELL, GO FIGURE, $800,000 IN THE BUDGET FOR PEOPLE THAT I
09:34:00AM NEVER SEEN WALK IN HERE AND GIVE A PRESENTATION ON WHAT THEY
09:34:03AM DO.
09:34:03AM WHAT DO THEY DO?
09:34:05AM PLEASE TELL ME -- AM I DONE?
09:34:09AM YEP, $5.3 MILLION NEEDS TO GO INTO THE GENERAL FUND, NOT
09:34:14AM INTO DOWNTOWN CRA.
09:34:15AM >> THANK YOU, THANK YOU, MA'AM.
09:34:18AM GOD BLESS YOU.
09:34:19AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS?
09:34:21AM SEEING NONE, PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED.
09:34:24AM WE HAVE ONE MORE ONLINE.
09:34:25AM I AM SORRY.
09:34:26AM ONE PUBLIC COMMENT ONLINE.
09:34:29AM >>CLERK: MR. MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
09:34:30AM >> GOOD MORNING.
09:34:31AM MY NAME IS MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
09:34:33AM I AM WITH THE WEST TAMPA CAC.
09:34:36AM I THOUGHT Y'ALL FORGOT ME.
09:34:38AM ANYWAY, LET ME START OFF BY SAYING I HAVE SUBMITTED COMMENTS
09:34:43AM RELATED TO THE CHANGES FOR THE CRA.
09:34:47AM THOSE CHANGES THAT WE RECOMMENDED BASED UPON THE NATIONAL
09:34:53AM ORGANIZATION OF CRA AND THE PARTICIPATION OF COMMUNITY
09:34:58AM RESIDENTS IN THAT RESPECT.
09:35:00AM I ALSO SUBMITTED THESE CHANGES TO THE AGENCIES THAT CONTROL
09:35:04AM THE CRA, INCLUDING THE CONTROLLER OF THE CURRENCY, THE
09:35:09AM FEDERAL RESERVE, AND THE FEDERAL DEPARTMENT AGENCY.
09:35:14AM AS YOU KNOW CRA IN GENERAL IS GOING THROUGH CHANGES.
09:35:17AM NOW, NEXT, I WANTED TO CONGRATULATE THE NEWLY APPOINTED HEAD
09:35:21AM OF THE CRA.
09:35:23AM I AM THANKFUL SHE IS COMING TO THE TABLE WITH A BACKGROUND
09:35:28AM IN THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AREA.
09:35:30AM I AM ALSO HAPPY THAT SHE UNDERSTANDS THE VALUE OF A CDC AND
09:35:40AM THE ABILITY TO LEVERAGE FUND WHERE THE CITY CANNOT.
09:35:43AM TO GIVE SOME EXAMPLES RELATED TO WHAT CAN HAPPEN, I AM GOING
09:35:47AM BACK TO -- WAY BACK TO THE MAYOR -- MAYOR PAM -- I KNOW I AM
09:35:56AM NOT PRONOUNCING HER NAME, IORIO.
09:35:59AM WHAT SHE DID WAS DIRECT DEVELOPERS THROUGH HER
09:36:03AM ADMINISTRATION TO COME AND HAVE THE CONVERSATION WITH
09:36:07AM THE CAC IN TERMS OF LEVERAGING FUNDS TO REDUCE
09:36:09AM GENTRIFICATION.
09:36:10AM TWO OF THE PROJECTS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT WAS, ONE -- WAS
09:36:15AM ONE DEVELOPMENT THEY COMMITTED $450,000 TOWARD DOWNPAYMENT
09:36:20AM ASSISTANCE.
09:36:21AM THEY WERE DOING A HIGH-END TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT.
09:36:24AM IN ORDER TO BALANCE THAT, $450,000 TOWARD DOWNPAYMENT
09:36:29AM ASSISTANCE.
09:36:30AM THAT WAS 20 YEARS AGO.
09:36:32AM IMAGINE WHAT THAT AMOUNT WILL BE NOW.
09:36:34AM THE SECOND DEAL THAT WAS WORKED ON BY THE ADMINISTRATION WAS
09:36:37AM ONE DEVELOPER AGREED TO BUILD AN OFFICE FOR THE OFFICE
09:36:45AM INCLUDING A CENTER TO HELP SET UP PEOPLE BEING OBJECTIFIED.
09:36:50AM GOOD EXAMPLES OF HOW TO USE CRA MONIES.
09:36:55AM FINALLY THE MOST RECENT ONE IS THE ROME YARD DEAL.
09:36:58AM IN WHICH THE MAYOR -- CURRENT MAYOR, INSTRUCTED THE
09:37:01AM DEVELOPERS TO HAVE AT CONVERSATION WITH THE COMMUNITY.
09:37:05AM AS A RESULT OF THAT, WE ARE COMING UP WITH THE -- WITH THE
09:37:09AM BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY FOR OVER 50 DIFFERENT BUSINESSES THAT
09:37:14AM BE START IN THE WEST TAMPA AREA.
09:37:15AM ADDED TO THAT, WE HAVE A TECHNOLOGY CENTER COMING UP.
09:37:19AM THE FOCUS ON CHAT GPT, APPLICATIONS, AND FINALLY A
09:37:25AM PRODUCTION CENTER THAT FOCUS ON REDUCING CRIME FOR TV AND
09:37:30AM VIDEO STATION.
09:37:30AM I THINK THAT AT THIS TIME WHEN THE BUDGET SAYS WE NEED MORE
09:37:35AM MONEY, RELATIONSHIPS ARE THE WAY TO GO.
09:37:39AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR GIVING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK.
09:37:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:37:42AM ARE THERE ANY MORE PUBLIC COMMENT?
09:37:45AM SEEING NONE, PUBLIC COMMENT IS NOW CLOSED.
09:37:47AM WE CAN MOVE ON TO STAFF REPORTS.
09:38:00AM >> GOOD MORNING, BOARD MEMBERS.
09:38:01AM CAC UPDATE FROM OUR DREW PARK CHAIR, MISS MARITZA
09:38:09AM ASTORQUIZA.
09:38:09AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: GOOD MORNING.
09:38:19AM I AM MARITZA ASTORQUIZA.
09:38:21AM I AM FROM DREW PARK.
09:38:24AM AND I WAS MERE LAST YEAR TELLING YOU ABOUT SOME EXCITING
09:38:28AM PROJECTS THAT WERE COMING UP.
09:38:30AM AND WE WERE FORMING AND GETTING THEM TOGETHER AND GUESS
09:38:34AM WHAT, WE ARE WAY ON OUR WAY -- WAY ON OUR WAY, IF THAT MAKES
09:38:38AM SENSE.
09:38:39AM WE HAVE FOUR MAJOR PROJECTS GOING ON.
09:38:42AM WE HAVE A FULL BOARD CURRENTLY.
09:38:44AM WE HAD SOME CHANGEOVER, AND WE ARE HAPPY TO SAY WE ARE A FULL
09:38:48AM BOARD RIGHT NOW.
09:38:48AM WE HAVE A -- THREE CONSULTANTS AND ONE EXISTING PROJECT.
09:38:53AM THE FIRST PROJECT I AM GOING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IS
09:38:58AM WITH OONA JOHNSEN ARCHITECTS.
09:39:02AM LOOKING AT THE GATEWAY OF GRADY AND LOIS AVENUE AND LOOKING
09:39:05AM AT IMPROVEMENTS ON LANDSCAPING AND MAINTENANCE AND SO FORTH.
09:39:08AM AND IT IS MORE THAN LOOKING PRETTY.
09:39:10AM WE DEAL AND WORK WITH A LOT OF TRUCKS COMING IN AND OUT
09:39:15AM THERE, DUMP TRUCKS, HUGE TRUCKS, SMALL TRUCKS, AND A LOT OF
09:39:19AM BUSINESS AND A LOT OF ACTIVITY GOING ON.
09:39:21AM OUR LANDSCAPES NEED TO SUPPORT THE ACTIVITY THAT IS GOING ON
09:39:26AM THERE SO THEY DON'T GET TORN UP AND, YOU KNOW, JUST DEGRADED
09:39:33AM THROUGHOUT THE YEAR WITH THE SIDEWALKS AND SO FORTH.
09:39:34AM SO SHE IS LOOKING AT ALL THAT.
09:39:36AM ON SEPTEMBER 5, SHE WILL GIVE US AN UPDATE ON THE
09:39:40AM INFORMATION SHE GATHERED AND GIVE US A RECOMMENDATION WHAT
09:39:43AM TO DO AND HOW TO IMPROVE LONG-TERM FOR LOIS AND GRADY.
09:39:47AM SO WE JUST ALSO CAME ON BOARD WITH TERRA TECHNICS -- EVERY
09:39:59AM MEETING I SAY IT WRONG, I AM SORRY.
09:40:01AM WHAT THEY ARE DOING IS LOOKING AT THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR
09:40:03AM DREW PARK.
09:40:04AM SIDEWALKS, MOBILITY, PARKING.
09:40:08AM ISSUES WITH A LOT -- WELL, LET ME SAY THAT THEY HAD A
09:40:12AM COMMUNITY MEETING AND SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT CAME OUT WERE
09:40:15AM PARKING AND TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC CONTROL AND, LIKE I SAID, WE
09:40:21AM ARE DEALING WITH A LOT OF TRUCKS.
09:40:22AM TRUCKS NEED TO TURN.
09:40:23AM SEMIS ARE IN AND OUT ALL DAY LONG, AS WELL AS SAFETY AND
09:40:30AM SAFETY IN THE TRAFFIC, WHICH AT THE END, I AM GOING TO COME
09:40:33AM BACK TO THAT IN A LITTLE BIT, OKAY.
09:40:35AM I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SOMETHING.
09:40:36AM SO THEY JUST STARTED THEIR COMMUNITY MEETINGS AND SO WE WILL
09:40:40AM BEGIN WITH RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THEM.
09:40:42AM THAT IS THE STAGE THAT THAT PROJECT IS ON.
09:40:44AM IT DOESN'T STOP THERE.
09:40:45AM WE ARE MOVING FORWARD.
09:40:46AM WE HAVE BEEN MOVING FORWARD WITH PLACEMAKER DESIGN STUDIO.
09:40:50AM WHAT THEY HAVE BEEN DOING IS LOOKING AT THE LINEAR PARK THAT
09:40:54AM WE HAVE ON TAMPA BAY.
09:40:55AM ALL RIGHT.
09:40:56AM SO NOW WE ARE GOING INTO PHASE TWO OF THAT.
09:40:58AM AND HOW -- YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE THE IDEAS FOR THAT.
09:41:01AM SOME OF THE IDEAS MIGHT BE, YOU KNOW, AN ACTIVITY CENTER FOR
09:41:06AM -- FOR THE PEOPLE THAT DO LIVE THERE.
09:41:08AM BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A RESIDENTIAL AREA.
09:41:10AM AND WHEN I SAID THIS BEFORE MANY TIMES.
09:41:14AM WHEN I HAVE COME IN FRONT OF THIS BOARD IS THE PARK FOR THE
09:41:20AM KIDS OF THAT AREA, THE YOUTH, THE FAMILIES, WAS REMOVED WHEN
09:41:24AM THE AIRPORT EXPANDED OUT INTO DREW PARK.
09:41:28AM AND WHEN HUNTS PARK WAS REMOVED.
09:41:31AM WE LOST HUNTS PARK.
09:41:33AM CHARLIE WAS HERE -- EXCUSE ME COUNCILMAN CHARLIE MIRANDA AND
09:41:38AM MAYBE GUIDO YOU PROBABLY WILL REMEMBER TOO, THE REST OF YOU
09:41:42AM I DON'T KNOW TOO MUCH, BUT HUNTS PARK IS WHERE TAMPANIA NS
09:41:49AM GREW UP GOING TO.
09:41:50AM AND IT IS GONE.
09:41:51AM THESE YOUTH AND FAMILY CAN'T NECESSARILY CROSS DALE MABRY TO
09:41:56AM GET TO AL LOPEZ PARK.
09:41:58AM WE ARE PUTTING EMPHASIS NOT ONLY IN A LINEAR PARK.
09:42:02AM BUT LOOKING AT A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK.
09:42:03AM I CALL IT A POCKET PARK.
09:42:05AM IT IS AN OLD TERM BUT TO ME IT MAKES VERY VISUAL THAT IT IS
09:42:09AM A PARK FOR MAYBE YOUNGER CHILDREN.
09:42:11AM SO WE WILL HAVE -- SO WE ARE ACTUALLY WORKING ON TWO PARKS.
09:42:14AM WORKING ON DEVELOPING THE LINEAR PARK FOR MULTIUSES AND
09:42:20AM LOOKING AT THE CHILDREN'S PARK ON HUBERT AVENUE, OKAY.
09:42:25AM THAT MIGHT HAVE A PICNIC AREA.
09:42:27AM IT MAY HAVE SLIDES.
09:42:28AM IT MAY HAVE A BASKETBALL COURT.
09:42:30AM WE DON'T KNOW.
09:42:30AM THEY HAVE PUT FORWARD, THOUGH, A WHOLE PRESENTATION AND
09:42:34AM RECOMMENDATIONS.
09:42:35AM SO WE HAVE NOW, TO GET BACK TO THAT, MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS,
09:42:41AM BRING IT TO YOU GUYS AND HOPEFULLY MOVE FORWARD WITH FINDING
09:42:45AM HOW TO DEVELOP THAT.
09:42:46AM SO THOSE ARE THE THREE.
09:42:49AM LOIS AND GRADY, THE MOBILITY AND CONNECTIVITY, THE SAFETY
09:42:55AM PARK, AND PARKS AND LOOKING AT TWO.
09:43:00AM SO, LASTLY, WE ARE LOOKING FOR A PARTNERSHIP WITH THE TAMPA
09:43:08AM POLICE DEPARTMENT IN PUTTING AN OFFICER THAT IS MOSTLY
09:43:12AM DEDICATED TO DREW PARK AS MUCH LIKE EAST TAMPA DID AT ONE
09:43:19AM POINT OR PERHAPS STILL IS.
09:43:21AM IT WAS APPROVED IN THE BUDGET LAST YEAR FOR -- FOR LAST YEAR
09:43:25AM AND THIS YEAR.
09:43:26AM YOU ALL APPROVED IT.
09:43:27AM IT IS IN OUR BUDGET.
09:43:30AM NOW IT KIND OF CIRCLES BACK TO -- WE NEED THE PERSON, RIGHT.
09:43:34AM SO IT IS A STAFFING ISSUE.
09:43:36AM WE COULDN'T GET IT LAST YEAR BECAUSE IT ALREADY PASSED THE
09:43:40AM OCTOBER DATE OF WHAT YOU GUYS WERE UP AGAINST.
09:43:42AM I WAS HERE AT THE WORKSHOP TWO DAYS AGO.
09:43:46AM IF I GET TO SAY, MY ASK -- MY ASK IS THAT WE GET THAT STAFF.
09:43:51AM I DON'T KNOW HOW IT WORKS INTERNALLY BUT IT HAS BEEN
09:43:53AM APPROVED SINCE LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR, AND WE WANT TO BE
09:43:56AM ABLE TO CONTINUE ALL THE WORK THAT WE ARE DOING IN DREW
09:43:59AM PARK.
09:44:00AM THE NUMBER ONE CONCERN HAS ALWAYS BEEN SAFETY, BECAUSE, YOU
09:44:05AM KNOW, I DON'T NEED TO GET INTO ALL THE ISSUES RIGHT NOW.
09:44:08AM BUT YOU KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF ISSUES IN DREW PARK THAT WE
09:44:12AM -- YOU KNOW, WE WILL BENEFIT FROM THAT.
09:44:13AM AND WE HAVE IT APPROVED.
09:44:15AM SO IF YOU COULD SOMEHOW APPROVE OR SUPPORT US IN GETTING
09:44:21AM THAT STAFF MEMBER -- THAT OFFICER TO BE WITH US.
09:44:25AM THIS WILL BE THE SECOND YEAR WE ARE WAITING FOR IT.
09:44:29AM AND LASTLY, I HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH VIK FROM MOBILITY,
09:44:37AM WHICH IS A GREAT PARTNER.
09:44:39AM WE HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THE SPEEDING IN THE 45-MILE-PER-HOUR
09:44:46AM AIR CARGO ROAD.
09:44:48AM DALE MABRY IS 45.
09:44:50AM HILLSBOROUGH IS 45.
09:44:51AM I BELIEVE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. IS 35.
09:44:54AM SO WE ARE SURROUNDED BY 45, 45, 45, 45.
09:44:58AM BUT OUR ROADS ARE 25.
09:44:59AM THAT IS GOOD, OKAY.
09:45:02AM BUT FROM AIR CARGO ROAD, WE ARE DUMPING INTO DREW PARK
09:45:08AM AFFIDAVIT MY SPEEDS.
09:45:09AM SO WE ARE GOING TO BE WORKING -- AND I HOPE TO COME BACK AND
09:45:15AM REPORT WHAT SOME OF THOSE ADVANCES ARE.
09:45:19AM AND I HAVE BEEN TOLD MANY TIMES BY DIFFERENT AREAS, WE WILL
09:45:24AM LET TPD KNOW.
09:45:26AM WELL, TPD CAN'T BABYSIT AIR CARGO ROAD.
09:45:31AM EITHER THE SPEED NEEDS TO BE DROPPED OR SOME OTHER THINGS
09:45:34AM NEED TO BE DONE.
09:45:34AM IS IT A NEW TRAFFIC LIGHT?
09:45:36AM BECAUSE THERE IS A BIG SPAN IN TRAFFIC LIGHTS.
09:45:38AM WHAT IS -- BUT -- BUT IT IS LOGIC, 45, 45, 45, 35, 25.
09:45:45AM BECAUSE WE HAVE TRUCKS.
09:45:46AM BUT WHEN THEY HAVE TRUCKS AT 45 COMING INTO 25.
09:45:49AM AND THERE ARE A LOT -- THERE IS A LOT OF RACING GOING ON AS
09:45:53AM WELL ON AIR CARGO ROAD.
09:45:55AM SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I THINK WE ARE DOING GREAT.
09:45:59AM THAT IS MY OPINION.
09:46:00AM WE HAVE FOUR MAJOR GREAT PROJECTS.
09:46:01AM LAST YEAR WE CAME TO SAY WE WERE GOING TO BE DOING THIS.
09:46:05AM AND WE ARE DOING IT.
09:46:06AM SO THERE YOU GO.
09:46:07AM OH, CAN I SAY SOMETHING.
09:46:10AM I WAS HERE TWO DAYS AGO, AND I WAS VERY PROUD TO HEAR THE
09:46:14AM POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE, OKAY.
09:46:17AM WHAT YOU MAY NOT KNOW AND SOME OF YOU WHO KNEW ME FROM
09:46:20AM BEFORE.
09:46:21AM I WAS THE FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF THE POLICE ATHLETIC
09:46:26AM LEAGUE IN THE 1990s.
09:46:27AM SO IT IS VERY DEAR TO MY HEART AND BACK THEN, THERE WAS
09:46:33AM WONDERFUL WORK BEING DONE AND IT IS NECESSARY.
09:46:35AM I AM JUST SAYING THAT.
09:46:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS?
09:46:40AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: I THINK SOMEBODY -- SORRY, IT IS UP TO
09:46:43AM YOU.
09:46:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
09:46:44AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES, TO MR. MASSEY.
09:46:46AM IS IT -- WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE LAW TO BE ABLE TO REACH
09:46:54AM -- A REIMBURSABLE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CRA AND TAMPA PD
09:47:02AM THAT WE PAY WITH THE BUDGET.
09:47:04AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE CRA CANNOT PAY FOR BASIC POLICE
09:47:08AM SERVICES.
09:47:08AM THAT HAS TO COME OUT OF THE GENERAL BUDGET.
09:47:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IF IT IS ABOVE AND BEYOND?
09:47:13AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WHAT CRA FUNDS CAN BE USED FOR COMMUNITY
09:47:17AM POLICING INITIATIVES IN THE CRA AREAS.
09:47:20AM THE COMMUNITY INITIATIVES COULD BE APPROVED BY YOU ALL FROM
09:47:25AM CITY COUNCIL AND FUNDED AND IMPLEMENTED BY THE CRA FUNDS.
09:47:29AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW WOULD A COMMUNITY POLICE INITIATIVE
09:47:32AM DIFFER FROM A -- FROM A -- THAT WE HAVE COMMITTED ABOVE AND
09:47:36AM BEYOND NORMAL POLICE ACTIVITY A DEDICATED OFFICER IN THAT
09:47:40AM COMMUNITY TO PATROL THE AREA?
09:47:43AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO IS COME UP WITH
09:47:45AM A PLAN HOW YOU WILL DEAL WITH COMMUNITY POLICING OVER AND
09:47:49AM ABOVE THE --
09:47:52AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE EXISTING SERVICES.
09:47:54AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: EXISTING SERVICES.
09:47:55AM DEDICATED LEVEL OF SERVICE.
09:47:57AM SO I THINK WHAT HAS -- WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN IS A PROPOSED PLAN
09:48:01AM THAT THE COMMUNITY WORKS WITH TPD ON THAT PRESENTS TO YOU
09:48:05AM ALL AS COUNCIL AND APPROVED BY YOU AS THE COMMUNITY POLICING
09:48:10AM PLAN FOR THE DREW PARK COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA, THE
09:48:13AM EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY AREA THAT YOU APPROVE THAT AS CITY
09:48:18AM COUNCIL AND CRA FUNDS CAN BE UTILIZED TO IMPLEMENT THAT
09:48:20AM COMMUNITY POLICING PLAN.
09:48:22AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING WE NEED TO WORK WITH
09:48:24AM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO MAKE GET SOME SUGGESTIONS WHAT THEY
09:48:27AM WOULD ENVISION IS A GOOD COMMUNITY POLICE PLAN TO -- ABOVE
09:48:30AM AND BEYOND WHAT THEIR NORMAL SERVICES ARE.
09:48:32AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CORRECT.
09:48:33AM AND STATE LAW SAYS COMMUNITY POLICING PLANS CAN BE FINANCED
09:48:38AM BY THE CRA, BUT THAT THEY MUST BE APPROVED OF THE GOVERNING
09:48:42AM BODY NOT YOU AS THE CRA BOARD.
09:48:45AM WHAT STATE LAW STATES.
09:48:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
09:48:48AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:48:50AM MA'AM.
09:48:50AM I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU DO WITH DREW PARK.
09:48:53AM A NICE AND PLEASANT AND KIND PERSON.
09:48:55AM YOU DO A LOT.
09:48:56AM DREW PARK HAS TO COME A LONG WAY OVER THE LAST 10 TO 15
09:49:00AM YEARS.
09:49:00AM I REMEMBER 15 YEARS AGO WHEN THE CITY DONATE A LOT OF MONEY
09:49:03AM TO COMBAT SOME OF THE MORE UNPLEASANT BUSINESSES THAT WERE
09:49:06AM OUT THERE.
09:49:06AM AND I AM SURE WE HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO.
09:49:09AM I -- YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HEAR A LOT ABOUT DREW PARK IN THE
09:49:12AM CRA.
09:49:13AM THERE ARE CRAS THAT TAKE UP A LOT OF TIME, ETC., BUT WE
09:49:17AM REALLY SHOULD TALK ABOUT HAVING A DREW PARK WORKSHOP MAYBE
09:49:21AM IN CRA OR MAYBE IN CITY COUNCIL, TO DOING OF DREW PARK
09:49:25AM BECAUSE THERE ARE VERY UNIQUE ISSUES ESPECIALLY THAT MAJOR
09:49:28AM CITY INVESTIGATION THAT WE HAD AND SOME OF THE BUSINESS
09:49:32AM THERE IS AND WHAT NOT.
09:49:33AM SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO DO.
09:49:35AM BUT COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN DID A GREAT JOB OF TALK ABOUT THAT.
09:49:40AM AND I AM SURE THAT IF MAYBE SOMEONE WANTS TO MAKE A MOTION
09:49:44AM AT THE END FOR SOMETHING TO COME BACK ON THAT IN 90 DAYS OR
09:49:49AM WHATEVER, PLEASE BE SURE TO FOLLOW UP WITH US AND MAYBE IN
09:49:52AM LIKE A MONTH OR TWO AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN HAVE AN ANSWER FOR
09:49:55AM YOU.
09:49:55AM WHETHER IT IS COMMUNITY POLICING OR ANYTHING WE CAN DO WITH
09:49:58AM CRA FUNDS, IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE RESIDENTS THERE.
09:50:00AM JUST THANK YOU AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR WORK.
09:50:03AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:50:04AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:50:07AM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SOME COMMENTS ON SOME THINGS THAT YOU
09:50:09AM SAID.
09:50:10AM DREW PARK IS VERY UNIQUE.
09:50:12AM AND I BELIEVE IT IS, LIKE, THE ONLY COMMERCIAL AREA THAT WE
09:50:16AM HAVE WITHIN THE CITY.
09:50:17AM SO IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO -- TO PROTECT.
09:50:20AM WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL SIDE NOW.
09:50:24AM IT IS VERY MULTIGENERATIONAL.
09:50:29AM IT IS VERY HEAVILY MINORITY-OWNED IN THAT AREA.
09:50:37AM THESE BUSINESSES ARE DEDICATING TIME SEVEN DAY AS WEEK, YOU
09:50:45AM KNOW, THESE BUSINESS OWNERS WORK REALLY HARD.
09:50:48AM AND THAT IS ECONOMY THAT IS STAYING WITHIN TAMPA.
09:50:51AM WE ARE NOT BIG INVESTORS FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
09:50:55AM WE ARE TAMPA GROWN.
09:50:56AM AND OUR KIDS GO TO SCHOOL HERE.
09:50:59AM AND OUR TAXES PAID HERE.
09:51:01AM AND OUR GROCERIES ARE BOUGHT HERE AND ETC., ETC., ETC.
09:51:04AM IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO PROTECT THAT, AS WELL AS WE HAVE A
09:51:09AM LOT OF, YOU KNOW, AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON OUR RESIDENTIAL SIDE
09:51:13AM AS WELL.
09:51:13AM SO WE HAVE A GOOD MIX, YOU KNOW, OF PEOPLE.
09:51:18AM AND WE DO NEED SOME SUPPORT -- WE DO NEED SOME THINGS FOR
09:51:23AM SAFETY, YOU KNOW.
09:51:23AM BECAUSE WE HAVE THE RESIDENTIAL.
09:51:24AM AND SOME THAT ARE SPRINKLED IN WITHIN THE COMMERCIAL SIDE.
09:51:28AM THAT IS THE WAY DREW PARK IS, OKAY.
09:51:31AM AS FAR AS THE COUNCILMAN MENTIONED, I AM SURE WHATEVER WE
09:51:35AM ARE TOLD TO DO, BUT WHAT I FEAR IS THAT WE APPROVED THIS
09:51:39AM LAST YEAR.
09:51:40AM AND THE CRA BOARD APPROVED THIS MONEY LAST YEAR.
09:51:45AM YOU GUYS DID.
09:51:46AM SO THIS IS A PLAN.
09:51:48AM AND I DON'T WANT TO WAIT UNTIL OCTOBER OF 2024 TO IMPLEMENT
09:51:53AM WHAT WE ALREADY WAITED FOR FROM OCTOBER 2022.
09:51:57AM SO WE NEED TO WORK ON THIS FAST.
09:52:02AM AND YOU GUYS HAVE A BUDGET TO APPROVE IN OCTOBER FOR OCTOBER
09:52:05AM OF THIS YEAR.
09:52:06AM AND I DON'T WANT TO GET DROPPED AGAIN.
09:52:08AM I AM SORRY, I DON'T.
09:52:10AM YOU KNOW.
09:52:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN.
09:52:18AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ERICA, WITH WE SEE WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR.
09:52:22AM I THINK IT IS FASCINATING, AGAIN.
09:52:24AM I AGREE WITH YOU THE ASSESSMENT OF THE SMALL BUSINESS
09:52:27AM OWNERS, MINORITY BUSINESS OWNERS AND THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:52:30AM MY ASSUMPTION AND MY OAKS THAT SAY THEY WORK AND LIVE IN THE
09:52:35AM SAME AREA.
09:52:37AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: ABSOLUTELY.
09:52:38AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: LIKE THE PERFECT SCENARIO OF A IF
09:52:43AM COMMUNITY.
09:52:43AM BUILDING AND HAVING AMENITIES AND MAKE IT NICE FOR THE
09:52:47AM PEOPLE WHO LIVE AND WORK AND THE BUSINESS THERE IS.
09:52:49AM THANK YOU.
09:52:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
09:52:51AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU FOR YOUR BOARD AND WHAT YOU
09:52:54AM HAVE DONE FOR MANY YEARS.
09:52:55AM I NEVER WENT TO A CRA MEETING.
09:52:56AM THE ONLY ONE I EVER ATTENDED WAS THE ONE YOU HAD WHEN YOU
09:53:02AM WERE FIRST ORGANIZING.
09:53:03AM I GAVE A SPEECH AND I NEVER BEEN TO THE CRA.
09:53:06AM I DO THAT BECAUSE I DON'T THINK I SHOULD BE THERE.
09:53:09AM IT IS YOUR INFORMATION AND YOUR THING AND WE COME UP AND
09:53:12AM SAY YAY OR NAY ON WHAT YOU RECOMMEND.
09:53:15AM DREW PARK IS VERY DIFFERENT.
09:53:19AM ONE OF THE LARGEST AREAS IN THE CITY.
09:53:21AM YET RESIDENTIAL MIXED USE WITH COMMERCIAL.
09:53:23AM THERE IS A BIG OPERATION GOING ON THERE ON CARGO ROAD ON THE
09:53:27AM OTHER SIDE OF OSBORNE ON THE -- WHAT IS IT, THE NORTHWEST
09:53:31AM SIDE.
09:53:31AM AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE BEEN BY THERE, BUT LOOKS LIKE
09:53:35AM 1,000 PEOPLE WILL COME AND WORK THERE BECAUSE IT IS HUGE.
09:53:38AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: I THINK IT IS LIKE 3,000.
09:53:41AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I REMEMBER WHEN YOU DID AN UPGRADE TO THE
09:53:44AM MAIN CORRIDOR AND IT CHANGED THE WHOLE OUTLOOK OF DREW PARK.
09:53:47AM NOW YOU DRIVE AND YOU THINK YOU ARE SOMEWHERE ELSE AND YOU
09:53:50AM DON'T SEE THE COMMERCIAL, BUT YOU JUST SEE SOMETHING THAT IS
09:53:52AM UNIQUE.
09:53:53AM THANK YOU FOR THAT.
09:53:54AM YOU ALSO DID THE WALKWAY.
09:53:57AM THE DIFFERENCE OF TAMPA BAY BOULEVARD ALL THE WAY FROM DALE
09:54:01AM MABRY TO CARGO ROAD.
09:54:02AM AND ALL THAT AREA HAS CHANGED.
09:54:04AM SO LITTLE BY LITTLE, IT IS A SILENT GEM THAT IS STILL THERE.
09:54:09AM AND IT IS GOING TO BE VERY FUNCTIONAL FOR MANY YEARS TO
09:54:12AM COME.
09:54:12AM THANK YOU AND YOUR BOARD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE DONE.
09:54:14AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: THANK YOU.
09:54:16AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:54:17AM ANSWERING BACK -- OR COMMENTING BACK ON WHAT YOU SAID, YES,
09:54:21AM THERE IS A LOT OF WORK GOING ON ON AIR CARGO ROAD BY THE
09:54:26AM AIRPORT, YES, SIR.
09:54:27AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ONE THING AND ANOTHER THING I SEE THAT
09:54:29AM LATELY CHANGED ON TAMPA BAY BOULEVARD OF BOULEVARD BETWEEN
09:54:32AM COOLIDGE AND THE OTHER ROAD -- I FORGET THE OTHER NAME OF
09:54:37AM THE STREET.
09:54:37AM VACANT LAND THERE.
09:54:38AM I WAS BEEN WONDERING.
09:54:40AM USED TO BE AN OLD AREA WHERE THE TRUCK DRIVERS WILL BRING
09:54:44AM THEIR SEMIS AND PARK THEM AND LEAVE MONDAY MORNING 3:00,
09:54:48AM 4:00 IN THE MORNING TO DO THEIR WORK.
09:54:50AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON THERE.
09:54:52AM BUT I HAVE BEEN KEEPING AN EYE ON THAT AND A KEEN PIECE OF
09:54:55AM PROPERTY TO DO SOMETHING WITH.
09:54:57AM I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON THERE.
09:54:59AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: I DON'T.
09:55:00AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:55:02AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: COMMENTING ON WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY.
09:55:05AM AIR CARGO ROAD DOES HAVE A BIG DEVELOPMENT GOING ON FROM THE
09:55:09AM AIRPORT.
09:55:09AM I THINK IT IS SOME SORT OF SCHOOL, AIR SIMULATORS AND MUCH,
09:55:14AM MUCH THAN WHAT THEY EXPECTED -- OR AT LEAST WHAT HAD BEEN
09:55:19AM SAID.
09:55:19AM THAT GOES BAG TO THE TRAFFIC WHAT I HAVE BEEN TELLING.
09:55:23AM YOU A LOT MORE PEOPLE COMING IN AT A 45 MILES PER HOUR.
09:55:26AM AND WE ARE AT 25 MILES PER HOUR.
09:55:27AM SO IT'S -- WE NEED TO THINK AHEAD INSTEAD OF -- YOU KNOW,
09:55:34AM BEHIND.
09:55:34AM BECAUSE THIS IS GOING TO GET -- JUST GOING TO GET WORSE.
09:55:37AM I DID WANT TO SAY A COMMENT THAT PERHAPS MANY PEOPLE MAY NOT
09:55:44AM KNOW.
09:55:45AM WHEN THE CRA WAS STARTED, AND I REMEMBER BECAUSE -- VERY
09:55:51AM WELL BECAUSE COUNCILWOMAN MARY ALVAREZ BROUGHT ME INTO IT.
09:55:56AM SO I AM A FOUNDER.
09:55:57AM WE ASKED -- AND I ASKED PARTICULARLY OF THE CITY, WHEN WAS
09:56:02AM THE LAST IMPROVEMENT PROJECT THAT WAS DONE IN DREW PARK.
09:56:07AM OTHER THAN EMERGENCY SEWER.
09:56:09AM AND THAT TYPE OF THING, RIGHT, WHICH WAS VERY LIMITED, BY
09:56:12AM THE WAY.
09:56:13AM IT HAD BEEN 40 YEARS.
09:56:15AM 40 YEARS FOR A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM -- PROJECT IN
09:56:20AM DREW PARK.
09:56:20AM SO ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WORK THERE FOR SO MANY YEARS,
09:56:25AM MULTIGENERATIONAL, DID NOT RECEIVE ANY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT
09:56:30AM FROM THE CITY.
09:56:31AM AND THEN AFTER THE CRA, WE HAVE ALL THESE PROJECTS GOING ON,
09:56:35AM WHICH IS GREAT.
09:56:36AM BUT WE GOT TO KEEP THAT IN MIND THAT WE WERE BEHIND 40 YEARS
09:56:40AM AND NOBODY HELPED US.
09:56:42AM OKAY.
09:56:43AM I ALSO CAN'T GO AWAY WITHOUT SAYING THAT THANKS TO JESUS NIN
09:56:48AM O'S LEADERSHIP AND SUPPORT, A LOT OF THIS OBVIOUSLY IS BEING
09:56:52AM MOVED FORWARD.
09:56:52AM HIS GUIDANCE AND ANDREA AS WELL AND I APPRECIATE THE CITY
09:56:59AM STAFF THAT IS ASSIGNED TO US AND MAKING ALL THIS POSSIBLE
09:57:02AM AND, OF COURSE, YOUR SUPPORT.
09:57:04AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:57:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:57:06AM ANY MORE COMMENTS?
09:57:09AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF I MAY.
09:57:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
09:57:13AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.
09:57:15AM THANK YOU.
09:57:16AM SOME MAY KNOW OR SOME MAY NOT KNOW, BECAUSE OF THE CHANGING
09:57:21AM POPULATION, HUNT CENTER USED TO BE THIS DREW PARK AND NOW AT
09:57:25AM AL LOPEZ PARK.
09:57:26AM IF AT ONE TIME A ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN DREW PARK.
09:57:29AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: I BELIEVE SO TOO.
09:57:31AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANKS AGAIN, MADAM CHAIR.
09:57:33AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:57:34AM >>MARITZA ASTORQUIZA: THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
09:57:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOVING ON THE DIRECTOR'S APPOINT FROM
09:57:39AM MISS MOODY.
09:57:40AM >>ERICA MOODY: GOOD MORNING, BOARD.
09:57:45AM SO HAPPY TO BE HERE AND PROVIDE YOU WITH MY SECOND UPDATE ON
09:57:48AM THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
09:57:50AM JUST A LITTLE OUTLINE.
09:57:51AM I WILL PROVIDE VERBAL UPDATES, WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING AND A
09:57:55AM PRESENTATION ON OUR VISION, MISSION, AND OBJECTIVE AND MOVE
09:58:00AM INTO THE FISCAL YEAR 2024 BUDGET PRESENTATION.
09:58:02AM I WILL BE UP HERE FOR A WHILE AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE
09:58:06AM DISCUSSION.
09:58:06AM OVER THE LAST MONTH, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ALONGSIDE
09:58:09AM RESIDENTS AND CLOSELY WITH OUR STAFF AND MANAGERS TO MAKE
09:58:12AM SURE WE ARE ADDRESSING THE CAC POLICY UPDATE WITH CARE AND
09:58:16AM CONCERN.
09:58:16AM WE KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF CHANGES GOING ON WITHIN THE CRA
09:58:20AM AGENCY AND ALL FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE COMMUNITY.
09:58:22AM SO WE ARE VERY LOOKING FORWARD TO PRESENTING THESE OPTIONS
09:58:25AM TODAY AND HAVE WORKED REALLY HARD AND SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON
09:58:28AM THEM IN.
09:58:29AM SO REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.
09:58:30AM ALSO, I HAVE BEEN LISTENING TO EACH ONE EVER YOU IN YOUR
09:58:35AM PRIORITIES AND GOALS AND NEEDS AS WELL AS SOME OF THE
09:58:37AM FINDINGS THAT CAME OUT OF THE CRA BOARD RETREAT.
09:58:40AM AND ALL OF THAT HAS SHAPED THE OBJECTIVE, THE MISSION, THE
09:58:43AM VISION, AND THE VALUES OF THE CRA AGENCY.
09:58:46AM SO A LOT OF TIME WENT INTO THAT AND WILL REALLY SET THE
09:58:49AM FOUNDATION FOR ALL OF OUR BENCHMARKS, MEASURABLES AND
09:58:53AM PROGRAMS TO COME.
09:58:53AM WE ALSO HAVE BEEN SPENDING A LOT OF TIME IN TECHNOLOGY AND
09:58:58AM REALLY SCOPING OUT SOFTWARE THAT IS GOING TO AUTOMATE SOME
09:59:02AM OF OUR PROCESSES AND MAKE IT MORE EFFICIENT TO BE ABLE TO
09:59:05AM TRACK OUR PROGRESS, OUR SPENDING AND OUR GOALS.
09:59:08AM WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR PROJECT MANAGEMENT AND GRANT
09:59:11AM MANAGEMENT IS THEE-BUILDER SOFTWARE.
09:59:13AM THE CONSTRUCTION ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT ALREADY UTILIZES
09:59:17AM THIS SOFTWARE AND GETTING IT OFF THE GROUND AND THEY HAVE
09:59:19AM BEEN WORKING WITH US TO CUSTOMIZE IT TO THE CRA NEEDS.
09:59:23AM GREAT THING ABOUT THIS SOFTWARE, IT IS CUSTOMIZABLE.
09:59:27AM WE TELL THEM THE WORKLOAD WE NEED FOR OUR GRANTS AND
09:59:31AM PROGRAMS AND THEY PUT IT INTO ACTION.
09:59:33AM IT WILL BE A LITTLE BIT OF A PROCESS BUT STARTING WITH OUR
09:59:35AM FACADE BUSINESS GRANT.
09:59:37AM THAT IS THE MOST WIDESPREAD BETWEEN THE DISTRICTS AND HIGHLY
09:59:40AM UTILIZED GRANT.
09:59:41AM AND WE ARE GOING TO BE GETTING IT OFF THE GROUND AND LOOK
09:59:44AM FORWARD TO ROLLING THAT OUT SOON.
09:59:46AM WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE CONTRACT ADMIN DEPARTMENT.
09:59:49AM THEY HAVE BEEN REALLY SUPPORTIVE IN PROVIDING RESOURCES,
09:59:52AM STAFF, AND LEARN OF OUR PROGRAMS.
09:59:54AM THEY WILL CAN EXPERTS IN CRA AS WELL.
09:59:56AM ANOTHER SOFT WARE WE HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT IS JOB ORDER
10:00:00AM CONTRACTING KNOWN AS THE JOC PROGRAM.
10:00:03AM THIS IS WHAT WE WILL USE AS WE IMPLEMENT OUR HOUSING
10:00:07AM STRATEGIES.
10:00:07AM YOU MAY HAVE HEARD OF THE PROGRAM BEFORE.
10:00:09AM BUT WE ARE WORKING CLOSELY WITH PURCHASING TO MAKE SURE WE
10:00:11AM HAVE HIGHLY -- HIGHLY QUALIFIED VENDORS AND CONTRACTORS.
10:00:16AM AND ALSO A PERFORMANCE-BASED SYSTEM.
10:00:18AM IF THEY DO A GOOD JOB, THEY GET AWARDED MORE WORK.
10:00:22AM IF THEY DON'T DIFFERENT CONTRACTORS CAN COME IN.
10:00:24AM WE ALSO ADDED A SPECIFIC REQUIREMENT FOR MINORITY-OWNED
10:00:29AM BUSINESSES MBE AND WMBE SO WE CAN TRACK AND MAKE SURE WE ARE
10:00:34AM AWARDING TO THOSE COMPANIES.
10:00:35AM WE ALSO HAVE BEEN FOCUSSED ON MARKETING.
10:00:38AM LAUNCHED OUR FIRST CRA NEWSLETTER THAT CAME OUT.
10:00:42AM THANK CHAIR HENDERSON FOR A GREAT QUOTE AND HELP SET UP AND
10:00:46AM CELEBRATE THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS WITHIN THE CRA.
10:00:49AM WE HAVE THE VERY FIRST TAMPA LANDING PAGE.
10:00:51AM PREVIOUSLY WHEN YOU WENT TO OUR WEB SITE IT JUMPED YOU INTO
10:00:54AM THE DISTRICT, BUT WHICH WANT TO TEACH OF THE TAMPA CRA AS A
10:00:58AM WHOLE AND USE OUR LOGO AND BRAND TO GET THAT IDENTIFICATION
10:01:01AM OUT THERE SO PEOPLE CAN LEARN WHAT CRAs ARE, WHAT OUR
10:01:05AM MISSION IS, WHAT OUR OBJECTIVES ARE, AND WORKING ON A
10:01:09AM CONTACT FORM SO RESIDENTS CAN EASILY REACH OUT TO US AND ASK
10:01:13AM QUESTIONS AND PARTNER THEM WITH A MANAGER AND REALLY SERVE
10:01:16AM THEM IN A VERY EXCELLENT WAY.
10:01:18AM EACH DISTRICT PROFILE HAS ALSO BEEN UPDATED AS WELL.
10:01:23AM THEY ARE IN CARD FORMAT SO THEY ARE VISUALLY APPEALING.
10:01:27AM I ALSO HAVE BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD ON A COMPREHENSIVE
10:01:31AM GRANT AUDIT FOR ALL OF OUR GRANT PROS PROGRAMS IN ALL OF OUR
10:01:35AM DISTRICTS.
10:01:35AM SOME HAVE MORE GRANT OPPORTUNITIES THAN OTHERS.
10:01:37AM SOME HAVE BEEN HIGHLY UTILIZED.
10:01:39AM SOME HAVE NOT.
10:01:40AM WE ARE REALLY LOOKING AT ALL OF OUR OFFERINGS AND SEEING
10:01:44AM WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE HIGHEST IMPACT AND THE BEST BENEFIT
10:01:47AM FOR THE COMMUNITY.
10:01:48AM SO I HAVE DONE A DEEP DIVE ON ALL OF OUR GRANTS, THE
10:01:51AM MATCHING REQUIREMENTS, AND LOOK FORWARD TO BRINGING BACK
10:01:53AM SOME RECOMMENDATIONS WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO TO REALLY
10:01:56AM CONSOLIDATE SOME OF OUR PROCESSES.
10:01:59AM GET AWAY FROM GRANTS THAT AREN'T SERVING OUR COMMUNITY AND
10:02:02AM BRING ADDITIONAL GRANTS TO BETTER MAXIMIZE OUR FUNDS AND
10:02:05AM ASSISTANCE.
10:02:05AM I ALSO HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWING LIKE CRAZY.
10:02:11AM FIVE INTERVIEW AS WEEK.
10:02:13AM TEN OPEN POSITIONS.
10:02:14AM ONE HAS BEEN FILLED.
10:02:15AM WE HAVE HIRED MR. STEVEN LOPEZ.
10:02:19AM OUR NEWEST ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT.
10:02:22AM HE IS BEHIND ME.
10:02:24AM IF YOU WANT TO WAVE.
10:02:26AM HE IS RETIRED FROM THE COAST GUARD AND WE WERE LOOKING FOR
10:02:29AM STRUCTURE AND WE WERE EXCITED TO BRING HIM IN AND FORMALIZED
10:02:33AM OUR ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES AND TAKEN FROM OUR STAFF TO GO
10:02:38AM THROUGH THE RIGHT OPERATIONAL PLATFORM AND EXCITED TO HAVE
10:02:42AM HIM ON BOARD.
10:02:43AM IT IS WEEK TWO AND HE HAS MADE AN IMPACT AND HE IS VERY
10:02:46AM EXCITED TO BE HERE.
10:02:47AM I HAVE BEEN TAKING FRA RECERTIFICATION.
10:02:52AM FIVE COURSES AND I ALREADY PASSED TWO.
10:02:54AM WE ARE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
10:02:56AM PASSED THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT COURSE AND THE ABOVEGROUND
10:03:01AM INFRASTRUCTURE COURSE AS WELL.
10:03:02AM AND I WANT TO GET THAT DONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO HAVE THAT
10:03:08AM REPRESENTATION REPRESENTED.
10:03:09AM MY LAST VERBAL NOTE BEFORE WE GET INTO PRESENTATIONS.
10:03:11AM I WANT TO ANNOUNCE THAT OUR CRA MANAGER FOR THE URBAN CORE,
10:03:15AM MR. JEFFREY BURTON, HAS ACCEPTED A POSITION WITH MANATEE
10:03:19AM COUNTY.
10:03:19AM I WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT AND THE COMMUNITY WATCHING AND
10:03:22AM PUBLICLY THANK JEFF FOR ALL OF HIS TIME, RESOURCES AND
10:03:26AM KNOWLEDGE HE PUSHED INTO TAMPA BAY.
10:03:28AM I KNOW HE WILL BE MISSED, AND I JUST WANTED TO THANK HIM
10:03:31AM VERY MUCH FOR ALL OF HIS SERVICE.
10:03:33AM AND HE IS A LITTLE SHY.
10:03:35AM SO HE DIDN'T WANT TOO MUCH RECOGNITION.
10:03:37AM BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. BURTON.
10:03:39AM I WILL PAUSE THERE AND THAT IS THE END OF THE VERBAL REPORT
10:03:42AM BEFORE WE GET INTO THE MISSION, VISION AND OBJECTIVES.
10:03:45AM AND I WILL PULL UP THE PRESENTATION.
10:03:53AM PERFECT.
10:04:07AM SO THE NEXT FEW SLIDES REALLY FOCUS ON OUR MISSION, VISION
10:04:10AM AND OBJECTIVES.
10:04:11AM WE LOOK AT OUR CURRENT MISSION AND ALSO THE PROPOSED MISSION
10:04:14AM AND KEY OBJECTIVES BASED ON YOUR FEEDBACK AND LOOKING
10:04:18AM FORWARD TO THE DISCUSSION.
10:04:19AM YOU CAN STOP ME AT ANY TIME OR IF I COULD FINISH THE
10:04:22AM PRESENTATION AND GO BACK TO ANY SLIDE AND WE CAN, YOU KNOW,
10:04:25AM HASH UP AND GET ANY FEEDBACK THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
10:04:28AM SO OUR TAG LINE IS "STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES AS WE WORK
10:04:34AM TOWARD OUR ANNUAL REPORT."
10:04:36AM WE ARE USING THIS THEME TO REALLY SHOW OFF HOW THE CRAs CAN
10:04:41AM BE TOOLED TO STRENGTHEN COMMUNITY ESPECIALLY AS WE FOCUS ON
10:04:45AM THE C IN THE CRA WHICH IS COMMUNITY AND AND USING
10:04:49AM REDEVELOPMENT TOOLS TO BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY.
10:04:51AM OUR HASHTAG AND TAG LINE IS "STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES."
10:04:56AM IF YOU TAKE A PICTURE TO TAG US ON FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM
10:04:58AM AND HELP US PUSH THAT ALONG.
10:05:00AM OUR CURRENT MISSION IS TO IMPROVE THE RESIDENTIAL AND
10:05:04AM VIABILITY AND LIVABILITY OF ALL DISTRICTS WITHIN THE
10:05:07AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREAS.
10:05:08AM OUR PROPOSED MISSION IS A LITTLE BIT MORE THOROUGH AND
10:05:12AM DIRECT.
10:05:12AM THROUGH PLANNING, COLLABORATION AND INNOVATION, TAMPA'S
10:05:17AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY AIMS TO ENHANCE AND ATTRACT
10:05:21AM DEVELOPMENT BY CREATING THRIVING AND INCLUSIVE NEIGHBORHOODS
10:05:23AM THAT FOSTER ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENHANCE QUALITY OF LIFE, AND
10:05:27AM PRESERVE THE UNIQUE CHARACTERS OF COMMUNITIES.
10:05:29AM VISION.
10:05:33AM OUR CURRENT VISION IS THE TAMPA COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
10:05:37AM AGENCY WILL PRESERVE AND IMPROVE ITS AREAS BY IDENTIFYING
10:05:41AM AND INITIATING REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES TO EMPOWER
10:05:44AM RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS TO ENHANCE
10:05:47AM AND IMPROVE BOTH THE RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL AREAS OF
10:05:51AM EACH OF THE CRA DISTRICTS RESULTING IN ECONOMIC GROWTH AND
10:05:55AM QUALITY OF LIFE.
10:05:55AM THE PROPOSED VISION BRINGS MORE OF THAT VISION INTO PLAY,
10:06:00AM WHERE TAMPA CRA CHAMPIONS THE FUTURE WHERE VIBRANT
10:06:05AM BUSINESSES AND NEIGHBORHOODS FLOURISH THROUGH PROACTIVE, AND
10:06:09AM EMPOWERING RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES AND STAKEHOLDERS FOR
10:06:13AM ECONOMIC PROSPERITY, CREATIVITY AND ACCESSIBILITY.
10:06:17AM OUR CURRENT OBJECTIVES ARE, DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN EFFECTIVE
10:06:23AM WORKING RELATIONSHIPS AND COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS WITH
10:06:25AM RESIDENTS, STAKEHOLDERS AND BUSINESSES.
10:06:27AM IDENTIFY POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENTS AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
10:06:31AM WITH LONG-TERM ECONOMIC BENEFITS.
10:06:33AM MAINTAIN FINANCIALLY SECURE BUDGET FOR EACH ONE OF THE
10:06:36AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREA ANNUALLY.
10:06:38AM PROVIDE TRANSPARENT COMMUNICATION TO THE PUBLIC REGARDING
10:06:41AM CRA PROGRAMS, PROJECTS AND PROGRESS.
10:06:46AM AND IDENTIFY COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS TO CONTRIBUTE TO AT THAT
10:06:49AM BETTER COMMUNITY.
10:06:49AM AND LASTLY, WORK WITH THE CITY FOR FUTURE INFRASTRUCTURE
10:06:53AM NEEDS AND CRA PARTNERSHIP PROJECTS.
10:06:56AM WHILE ALL THESE OBJECTIVES ARE IMPORTANT, I WOULD LIKE TO
10:06:58AM RECOMMEND THEM BE OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAINTAIN FINANCIALLY
10:07:02AM SECURE BUDGETS AND BE TRANSPARENT.
10:07:04AM SO MOVING INTO PROPOSED OBJECTIVES.
10:07:07AM WE HAVE FIVE.
10:07:08AM THIS WILL REALLY SET THE FOUNDATION FOR ALL OF OUR
10:07:11AM PROGRAMMING AND METRICS THAT ARE TO BE DEVELOPED NEXT.
10:07:15AM WE HAVE ATTAINABLE HOUSING, TRANSPORTATION, ECONOMIC
10:07:19AM DEVELOPMENT, QUALITY OF LIFE, AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
10:07:22AM CAN'T JUST PICK ONE OBJECTIVE TO EXPLAIN THE IMPORTANCE OF
10:07:30AM THESE, SO THERE ARE THREE FOR EACH.
10:07:32AM ATTAINABLE HOUSING.
10:07:33AM TO CLOSE THE HOUSING GAP FOR 80% AMI AND BELOW THROUGH
10:07:38AM COLLABORATING WITH HOUSING PARTNERS, OFFERING FINANCIAL
10:07:41AM INCENTIVES, AND DEVELOPING TARGETED PROGRAMS.
10:07:46AM TO OBTAIN EXISTING RESIDENTS RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR HOME
10:07:49AM REPAIRS, MAINTENANCE AND ACCESSIBILITY OPTIONS THAT ENHANCE
10:07:53AM HOUSING CONDITIONS.
10:07:55AM TO WERE SERVE THE ARCHITECTURAL AND HISTORIC NATURE OF
10:07:59AM NEIGHBORHOODS BY IF DEVELOPMENT HARMONIZES TO THE
10:08:03AM COMMUNITY'S CULTURE AND IDENTITY.
10:08:05AM TRANSPORTATION.
10:08:06AM TO SUPPORT A RELIABLE AND INTEGRATED PUBLIC TRANSIT NETWORK
10:08:12AM THAT SEAMLESSLY CONNECT NEIGHBORHOODS, BUSINESS DISTRICTS
10:08:15AM AND KEY DESTINATIONS.
10:08:16AM TO PRIORITIZE MY QUALITY ROADS, PEDESTRIAN PATHWAYS, CYCLING
10:08:21AM LANES AND WAYFINDING THAT ENCOURAGE MULTIMODAL OPTIONS IN
10:08:25AM PUBLIC SAFETY.
10:08:27AM LASTLY, TO IMPLEMENT A SMART, SUSTAINABLE AND ECOFRIENDLY
10:08:31AM TRANSPORTATION NETWORK THAT REDUCES THE COST BURDEN AND
10:08:35AM ENHANCES SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES.
10:08:37AM NEXT OBJECTIVE IS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
10:08:43AM TO ATTRACT AND RETAIN BUSINESSES BY PROVIDING INCENTIVES
10:08:46AM THAT ENCOURAGE ENTREPRENEURIALSHIP, INNOVATION AND
10:08:51AM REVITALIZATION.
10:08:51AM ENCOURAGE LOCAL ARTS TO CELEBRATE THE HISTORY AND CULTURE OF
10:08:55AM UNIQUE SPACES THAT ATTRACT VISITORS, FOSTER CREATIVITY AND
10:08:59AM GENERATE ECONOMIC ACTIVITY.
10:09:01AM AND TO SUPPORT BUSINESSES BY CREATING ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND
10:09:06AM GRANT FUNDING THAT FUEL EXPANSION FOR JOB CREATION.
10:09:09AM MOVING CONTINUE TO QUALITY OF LIFE.
10:09:13AM TO CO-CREATE VIBRANT, INVITING AND WELL-DESIGNED PUBLIC
10:09:19AM SPACES, PARKS AND HOMES THAT PROMOTE HEALTH, WELLNESS AND
10:09:22AM SOCIALIZATION.
10:09:22AM TO HELP INCREASE ACCESSES TO ESSENTIAL COMMUNITY RESOURCES
10:09:26AM THROUGH REDEVELOPMENT THAT REDUCES BARRIERS AND BURDENS FOR
10:09:30AM RESIDENTS.
10:09:30AM AND TO REMEDY PLIGHTED AREAS AND PROMOTE SAFE, CLEAN AND
10:09:35AM WELCOMING COMMUNITIES.
10:09:36AM THE LAST OBJECTIVE.
10:09:41AM TO COLLABORATE WITH RESIDENTS, BUSINESSES AND STAKE MOLDERS
10:09:44AM ON DECISION MAKING PROCESSES THAT INFORM KEY INITIATIVES.
10:09:48AM TO IMPLEMENT EFFECTIVE OUTREACH STRATEGIES TO ENSURE
10:09:51AM RESIDENTS AND STAKEHOLDERS ARE WELL INFORMED OF PROJECT
10:09:54AM MEETINGS AND OPPORTUNITIES.
10:09:55AM AND LASTLY, TO DEVELOP CLEAR AND MEASURABLE INDICATORS TO
10:10:00AM ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS AND OUTCOMES OF OUR PROGRAMS,
10:10:03AM PROGRESS, AND REDEVELOPMENT EFFORTS.
10:10:05AM THAT IS UNDER "COMMUNITY ENGAGE."
10:10:11AM THOSE ARE OUR MISSION, VISION AND OBJECT STIFFS FOR TAMPA'S
10:10:17AM CRA.
10:10:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:10:21AM >>BILL CARLSON: I SHOULDN'T HAVE VOLUME TEED TO GO FIRST.
10:10:24AM THANK YOU.
10:10:24AM I THINK YOU ALL CAPTURED A LOT OF THESE THINGS AND
10:10:27AM FACILITATING A LOT OF ORGANIZATIONS THROUGHOUT THE
10:10:30AM PROCESSES, HARD TO COME UP WITH THE WORD AND THANK YOU
10:10:32AM EVERYBODY FOR THE TIME.
10:10:33AM IF YOU COULD GO BACK TO "MISSION" FOR A SECOND, PLEASE.
10:10:38AM ONE THING JUST FROM A GRAPHICS POINT OF VIEW, IT MAY
10:10:44AM LOOK BETTER WITH ALL CAPS ON STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES, BUT
10:10:49AM READABILITY BETTER FOR UPPER AND LOWERCASE.
10:10:52AM FOR "MISSION" WE CAN GO THROUGH AND PULL APART WORD BY WORD
10:10:57AM AND IT COULD TAKE FOREVER TO DO THAT, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT
10:11:00AM THAT SENTENCE, THE WORD THAT EVERYTHING KIND OF CENTERS ON
10:11:04AM IS "DEVELOPMENT."
10:11:08AM AS I SAID WHEN YOU CAME ON BOARD, I THINK WITH YOU AND YOUR
10:11:13AM EXPERTISE, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE -- I THINK MY COLLEAGUES
10:11:17AM AGREE TO SOME EXTENT -- WE WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON THE "C"
10:11:26AM INSTEAD OF THE "R."
10:11:27AM AND AIMS TO ENHANCE COMMUNITIES.
10:11:30AM BY CREATING THRIVING AND DEVELOPMENT -- TO ME DEVELOPMENT IS
10:11:36AM A SUBSET OF THAT.
10:11:37AM BUT DEVELOPMENT -- DEVELOPMENT GETS INTO THE EDIFICE COMPLEX
10:11:42AM THAT WE HAVE WHERE EVERYTHING -- AND BEFORE MORRIS CUTS ME
10:11:45AM OFF, I KNOW CRA IS LIMITED HOW WE CAN USE IT AND HAS TO BE
10:11:49AM FOR PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT WE NEED TO BE WORKING ON --
10:11:52AM IN THE PAST, AS WE ARE GOING TO SEE IN A LITTLE WHILE, CRA
10:11:58AM MONEY WAS USE TO SUBSIDIZE DEVELOPERS AND NOW WE WILL USE IT
10:12:02AM TO MAKE COMMUNITIES BETTER.
10:12:03AM WE NEED TO IMPROVE IN PLACES LIKE EAST TAMPA -- INSTEAD OF
10:12:07AM PAYING TO TEAR DOWN BUILDINGS, WE NEED TO -- WHERE BIG
10:12:11AM HIGH-RISES WILL GO IN, WE NEED TO IMPROVE THE STREETS,
10:12:14AM SIDEWALKS, SCHOOLS AND PARKS SO PEOPLE CAN LIVE IN A BETTER
10:12:17AM WAY.
10:12:17AM AND SO I -- ANYWAY, THAT IS ONE.
10:12:22AM I DON'T KNOW BE WHAT PROCESS WE WILL GO THROUGH, BUT THAT IS
10:12:25AM ONE.
10:12:25AM IF YOU GO TO THE OBJECTIVES, PLEASE.
10:12:28AM GO BACK -- SORRY, GO -- YEAH, GO TO THE NEXT ONE.
10:12:34AM I THINK THAT -- I THINK THAT -- AND I HAD A DISCUSSION WITH
10:12:39AM NICOLE ABOUT THIS AFTER MONDAY'S MEETING.
10:12:41AM AND I SAID THIS BEFORE HERE, I THINK 100% OF THE HOUSING
10:12:45AM MONEY FOR THE CRA SHOULD BE SPENT HELPING PEOPLE BUY THEIR
10:12:49AM HOMES.
10:12:50AM AND I THINK THAT IN THE CITY, THAT -- THAT THE CITY SHOULD
10:12:55AM REVERSE THE MONEY.
10:12:55AM IT WAS SOMETHING LIKE $58 MILLION OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS TO
10:12:58AM HELP PEOPLE SUBSIDIZE RENT.
10:13:00AM I THINK THAT IS THROWING AWAY MONEY.
10:13:03AM YOU HELP SOMEONE PAY THEIR RENT TODAY, THE NEXT MONTH, THERE
10:13:08AM IS NO MONEY TO PAY IT.
10:13:09AM WE NEED TO HELP PEOPLE BUY HOMES.
10:13:11AM THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT INFLATION.
10:13:13AM LOOKS LIKE FROM THE MAYOR'S PEOPLE OWN PREDICTIONS THAT
10:13:17AM TAMPA IS GOING THROUGH A RECESSION AND AN UNIQUE RECESSION
10:13:19AM BECAUSE OF THE ECONOMIC STRATEGIES OVER THE LAST 12 YEARS,
10:13:23AM AND IF THAT HAPPENS, THE PRICING FOR HOUSES MAY GO DOWN AND
10:13:28AM WE NEED FOR PEOPLE TO LOCK IN WHATEVER THE PRICE IS SO THEY
10:13:30AM CAN BE LOCKED IN THE FUTURE.
10:13:31AM THE ONLY WAY TO BEAT INFLATION IS TO HELP PEOPLE BUY THEIR
10:13:35AM OWN HOMES.
10:13:36AM IF WE AS CITY COUNCIL DON'T HAVE 100% CONTROL OVER THE CITY
10:13:41AM BUDGET, WE DO OVER THE CRA BUDGET OPINION.
10:13:43AM THE CRA BUDGET IS 30% THIS YEAR OF THE OVERALL CITY HOUSING
10:13:47AM BUDGET, BUT WE DESPERATELY NEED TO REVERSE THE NUMBERS AND
10:13:51AM SPEND IT MORE MONEY HELPING PEOPLE BUY HOMES.
10:13:53AM OTHERWISE, EVERY YEAR WE WILL BE PUTTING OUT MONEY TO HELP
10:13:57AM SUBSIDIZE RENT AND A NEVER-ENDING THING.
10:14:00AM WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING WITH A TAX INCREASE, WE ARE GOING TO
10:14:05AM TAX PEOPLE SO WE CAN TURN AROUND AND GIVE SUBSIDIES FOR
10:14:08AM PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO PAY MORE IN RENT BECAUSE RAISING TAXES.
10:14:11AM A NEVER-ENDING CYCLE OF THIS.
10:14:13AM AND I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO FOCUS ON BUYING HOMES INSTEAD
10:14:17AM OF -- INSTEAD OF RENT SUBSIDY.
10:14:19AM WE NEED SOME RENT SUBSIDY BUT CAN'T BE A NEVER-ENDING THING.
10:14:24AM CAN YOU GO TO TRANSPORTATION.
10:14:27AM I OBJECT TO THE WORD "TRANSPORTATION."
10:14:29AM I NOTICED AS THE MAYOR TALKED ABOUT TRANSPORTATION IS ONE OF
10:14:34AM THE FIVE THINGS TO FUND WITH THE NEW TAX.
10:14:35AM PEOPLE THINK THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE PAYING FOR BUSES AND
10:14:40AM RAIL, AND WE ARE NOT.
10:14:41AM THEY ALSO GET IT CONFUSED WITH ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION WHICH
10:14:46AM FAILED TWICE.
10:14:46AM THE SUPPORTERS SAY, WELL, ONE TIME IT IS SLIGHTLY WON.
10:14:50AM AND UP WITH OF THE TIME SLIGHTLY LOST.
10:14:52AM IF YOU AVERAGE THAT TOGETHER, HALF THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY
10:14:56AM DIDN'T WANT IT.
10:14:57AM A HIGHER NUMBER IN TAMPA, BUT A DIVISIVE THING.
10:15:00AM HART HANDLES TRANSPORTATION.
10:15:02AM WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST -- SOMEBODY MAY COME UP WITH A GETTER
10:15:06AM IDEA, BUT I WOULD SUGGEST CONNECTIVITY.
10:15:08AM WE AREN'T GOING TO BE BUYING BRT LINES.
10:15:11AM WE MIGHT SUBSIDIZE THE -- THE TROLLEY CAR A LITTLE BIT AND
10:15:15AM WE DO A LITTLE BIT, BUT THEN IF TRANSPORTATION IS SEEN WITH
10:15:20AM BEING EQUAL WITH HOUSING AND THE OTHER THINGS WE WILL GET
10:15:23AM ALL THE DIFFERENT CRAZY IDEAS LIKE THE DOWNTOWNER THING THAT
10:15:27AM WE SUBSIDIZED FOR MANY YEARS AND FAILED.
10:15:29AM WE NEED TO FOCUS ON WHAT WE CAN DO.
10:15:31AM IF WE SAY WE ARE TRYING TO SOLVE TRANSPORTATION WITH THE CRA
10:15:35AM MONEY, THIS NO WAY WE CAN DO IT.
10:15:37AM IF WE SAY CONNECTIVITY, THAT DEFINES SIDEWALKS AND
10:15:40AM CROSSWALKS AND THESE PATHWAYS.
10:15:43AM WE CAN WORK ON BICYCLE LANES AND CROSSWALKS AND THINGS AND
10:15:48AM SLIGHTLY HELP MASS TRANSIT, BUT WE ARE NOT GOING TO SOLVE
10:15:51AM THE TRANSPORTATION ISSUE.
10:15:52AM THE LAST THING.
10:15:54AM CAN YOU GO TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, PLEASE.
10:15:57AM I THINK YOU SHOULD PUT THE TOP ONE ON THE BOTTOMED AND THE
10:16:00AM BOTTOM ONE AT THE TOP.
10:16:02AM THE PROBLEM DOCTOR THE FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEM WITH THE EDC AND
10:16:06AM THE FACT THAT TAMPA OUTSOURCES ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HERE IS
10:16:09AM WE FOCUS 100% ON REALs REAL ESTATE AND SUBSIDIZING REAL
10:16:14AM ESTATE AND BUSINESSES OUT OF TOWN.
10:16:15AM WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS HELP LOCAL BUSINESSES BECOME
10:16:19AM SUCCESSFUL.
10:16:20AM THE TWO WAYS THAT WE BUILD INTERGENERATIONAL EQUITY THROUGH
10:16:25AM BUSINESS AND HOMEOWNERSHIP.
10:16:27AM WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THOSE.
10:16:29AM THANK YOU.
10:16:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:16:31AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR, I CAN APPRECIATE
10:16:34AM WHAT COUNCILMEMBER CARLSON SAID.
10:16:37AM I AGREE ON ONE AREA.
10:16:39AM IN THE AREA TO ME IS DEVELOPMENT.
10:16:41AM AND -- DEVELOPMENT IS CREATING SOMETHING NEW.
10:16:44AM SOMETHING VIBRANT FOR SOME COMMUNITY.
10:16:47AM IT MEANS THE SAME THING AS, YOU CAN'T HAVE A COMMUNITY
10:16:50AM WITHOUT DEVELOPMENT.
10:16:51AM YOU CAN'T HAVE DEVELOPMENT WITHOUT A COMMUNITY THAT NEEDS
10:16:54AM CHANGE.
10:16:54AM THAT IS HOW I SEE THAT.
10:16:55AM IN FACT, WHEN YOU ALL -- YOU WEREN'T HERE, BUT WAY BACK WHEN
10:16:59AM WE DID THE GRADY.
10:17:00AM I TALKED TO MISS ASTORQUIZA.
10:17:02AM THAT CHANGED THE WHOLE COMPLEX ALMOST A MILE LONG FROM MLK
10:17:09AM ALL THE WAY TO HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE.
10:17:11AM AND THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE APPEARANCE OF SOMETHING
10:17:14AM THAT THOSE BUSINESSES THAT WERE THERE HALFWAY DYING ARE NOW
10:17:18AM AT LEAST MUCH BETTER PREPARED, AND I WOULD IMAGINE SOME
10:17:22AM INCREASE IN BUSINESS, BECAUSE THE BOULEVARD -- I CALL IT THE
10:17:25AM BOULEVARD THAT WAS NEVER THERE.
10:17:26AM AND IT IS REALLY HAD AN OPENING THING.
10:17:29AM WHEN YOU DRY THROUGH THERE, YOU WANT TO FEEL LIKE YOU ARE
10:17:32AM PART IN IT.
10:17:33AM BECAUSE IT IS SO NICELY DONE.
10:17:35AM BECAUSE OF THAT OTHER AREAS COME UP AND THE ROADS LEAD TO
10:17:39AM IT.
10:17:39AM DEVELOPMENT HAS COME UP.
10:17:41AM PEOPLE HAVE DONE SOME OF THEIR PROPERTIES ON THEIR OWN.
10:17:44AM AND THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT CREATE WHAT YOU NEED.
10:17:46AM THE OTHER PART, I AM NOT ONE TO SAY ONE HERE, ONE HERE.
10:17:54AM LOOK AT TOTAL, THE TOP AND BOTTOM.
10:17:57AM I AM NOT GOING TO DISAGREE BUT WHEN YOU READ IT.
10:18:00AM YOU READ ONE LINE.
10:18:02AM THAT'S IT AND THAT IS NOT IT.
10:18:04AM THAT IS HOW I LOOK AT THINGS.
10:18:06AM YOU DID A LOT OF WORK ON SIDEWALKS IN SOME AREAS.
10:18:09AM THE PATH BEFORE YOU HERE.
10:18:10AM NOT THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DO IT, BUT THIS WAS DONE
10:18:14AM BEFORE.
10:18:14AM AND SOME HE THOSE ROADS WERE IN REALLY, REALLY, REALLY BAD
10:18:18AM SHAPE THEN.
10:18:19AM AND THERE WAS AN EXPANSION COME.
10:18:20AM THE GATEWAY.
10:18:21AM YOU LOOK AT DALE MABRY WHICH IS STILL YOURS ON THE SIDE OF
10:18:26AM -- OF THE WEST SIDE OF DALE MABRY, SOMEWHERE PAST THE
10:18:32AM STADIUM ON THE WEST SIDE, THERE WAS NOTHING BUT JUNK
10:18:35AM BUILDINGS AND TWO RESTAURANTS COME IN.
10:18:37AM THEY CHANGE IT.
10:18:38AM THEN YOU HAVE A MALL, A STRIP MALL THAT COMES IN AND NICE
10:18:42AM AND EASY.
10:18:43AM TWO BROKE-DOWN GARAGES.
10:18:45AM THEY LOOK A LITTLE BETTER NOW.
10:18:46AM YOU GO OVER THE HUMP, YOU SEE IT LITTLE CLEARER, YOU CAN SEE
10:18:49AM WHERE IT IS AT.
10:18:50AM IT HAS MADE A VISUAL DIFFERENCE.
10:18:53AM SO WHEN YOU ARE DRIVING, YOU DON'T REALIZE WHAT YOU ARE
10:18:55AM SEEING, BECAUSE YOU ARE DRIVING.
10:18:57AM BUT SUBCONSCIOUSLY, IT IS TELLING YOU AM I IN THE SAME PLACE
10:19:02AM BECAUSE IT LOOKS REALLY NICE.
10:19:04AM THAT IS HOW I LOOK AT THINGS.
10:19:05AM MAYBE I AM WRONG.
10:19:06AM I AM NOT SAYING I AM NOT.
10:19:08AM BUT IT ADDS SOMETHING TO THE EYE THAT WORKS WITH THE MIND TO
10:19:12AM SAY THIS IS NOT A BAD PLACE.
10:19:14AM THAT IS WHAT IS HAPPENING THERE.
10:19:15AM HAPPENING IN MOST AREAS THAT DEVELOPMENT IS GOING ON.
10:19:17AM SO WHETHER I LIKE A TWO-STORY HOUSE OR A ONE-STORY HOUSE OR
10:19:22AM LEAVE IT THE WAY IT WAS, THAT IS UP TO THE PEOPLE THAT BUY
10:19:24AM THE HOUSE.
10:19:25AM NOT TO ME.
10:19:25AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:19:26AM >>ERICA MOODY: THANK YOU.
10:19:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:19:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:19:33AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON HAS BEEN SAYING SOMETHING I HAVE BEEN
10:19:37AM SAYING FOR A FEW WEEKS NOW.
10:19:38AM WE NEED TO GET PEOPLE TO PERMANENT HOUSING INSTEAD OF THE
10:19:43AM ENDLESS CYCLE OF RENT AND RENT INCREASES.
10:19:46AM WE ARE SUBSIDIZING LANDLORDS.
10:19:49AM WE ARE ALLOWING THEM TO, YOU KNOW, PAY THEIR MORTGAGES AND
10:19:53AM COVER THEIR COSTS OR WHATEVER AND GIVING THAT ASSISTANCE
10:19:56AM INSTEAD OF BUILDING AND BUYING STRUCTURES THAT WOULD -- FOR
10:19:58AM THE PERMANENT HOUSING.
10:20:00AM I KNOW IT WAS MENTIONED NOT CRA.
10:20:02AM THAT WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY A HOTEL AND SOMETHING
10:20:06AM ELSE.
10:20:06AM 20 MILLION OR SOMETHING -- $22 MILLION AND IT WAS 300 UNITS,
10:20:12AM MAYBE MORE, TO GET PEOPLE OFF THE STREET -- FAMILIES OFF THE
10:20:15AM STREET.
10:20:16AM NOT JUST INDIVIDUALS BECAUSE NOT EVERYBODY ACCEPTS FAMILIES.
10:20:20AM BUT IT WAS OUTSIDE THE CRA BOUNDARIES AND WE COULDN'T USE
10:20:24AM THE MONEY FOR THAT.
10:20:25AM HOWEVER, YOU KNOW, IN GOING THROUGH THE BUDGET THAT YOU ARE
10:20:28AM GOING TO BRING UP.
10:20:29AM AND I AM LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS PER DISTRICT.
10:20:31AM WHAT WE ARE INVESTING.
10:20:33AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING TAMPA HEIGHTS IS THE LEAST.
10:20:36AM BUT IN OTHER AREAS IN THE MILLIONS.
10:20:38AM EAST TAMPA AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIATIVES, $3.4 MILLION.
10:20:43AM DREW PARK, ONE OF THE SMALLER NUMBERS BUT GOING INTO
10:20:46AM DOWNTOWN, $8.6 MILLION.
10:20:48AM CHANNEL DISTRICT, $3.5 MILLION.
10:20:51AM THE MONEY IS THERE, BUT AS WAS MENTIONED, IT SHOULD GO TO
10:20:55AM PERMANENT INITIATIVES.
10:20:59AM WHERE PEOPLE CAN GET OUT OF THE PERPETUAL BEING A RENTER
10:21:03AM AND PROPERTY OWNER AND NOT WORRY WHAT WILL GO UP NEXT YEAR
10:21:07AM TO.
10:21:07AM ENOUGH MONEY TO CONTINUE ON THAT CYCLE OF GIVING THAT
10:21:10AM ASSISTANCE.
10:21:11AM WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE LONG TERM AND GETTING PEOPLE INTO
10:21:15AM OWNERSHIP.
10:21:15AM THAT IS REALLY IS.
10:21:16AM I WILL WAIT FOR TO YOU PRESENT THE BUDGET AND WE WILL GO
10:21:19AM OVER THE NUMBERS THERE.
10:21:20AM BUT THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY.
10:21:21AM THANK YOU.
10:21:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:21:24AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GOOD MORNING.
10:21:25AM THANK YOU FOR THE EXCELLENT REPORT.
10:21:27AM A FEW THINGS.
10:21:27AM ONE, AGAIN, I DOUBLE DOWN ON JUST ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT
10:21:32AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAYS.
10:21:34AM I WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH HIS ASSESSMENT OF WHERE WE ARE
10:21:39AM AS A CITY AND WHERE WE SHOULD BE GOING.
10:21:41AM THE ONLY THING I WILL SAY, ON THE DEVELOPMENT TERM, I THINK
10:21:45AM THAT IS IN THE EYE OF THE READER.
10:21:47AM A DEVELOPMENT COULD BE LIKE BUILDING A GROCERY STORE IN A
10:21:50AM FOOD DESERT.
10:21:51AM HOW YOU READ IT AND WHAT YOUR PREJUDICE ARE FOR THAT.
10:21:54AM I GET YOUR POINT.
10:21:54AM I AM NOT AS HUNG UP ON THAT.
10:21:56AM NOW MORE OF THE MEATY ITEMS.
10:21:58AM I AGREE 100% ABOUT THE HOUSING DISCUSSION THAT JUST HAPPENED
10:22:03AM HERE.
10:22:03AM SUBSIDIZING PEOPLE FOR TEMPORARY HOUSING TO PREVENT
10:22:12AM HOMELESSNESS.
10:22:13AM SOMEONE ON THE EDGE OF HOMELESSNESS TO KEEP THEM IN THEIR
10:22:16AM HOMES IS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT.
10:22:18AM SAVES US MONEY IN THE LONG RUN.
10:22:20AM PROVIDING TEMPORARY HOUSING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS
10:22:23AM UNTIL WE CAN GET THEM INTO HOUSING.
10:22:24AM I THINK IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT SOCIAL VALUE THAT WE SHOULD
10:22:27AM SHARE.
10:22:27AM TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH THOSE TYPES OF GOALS.
10:22:30AM BUT CREATING PERMANENT RENTAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE CITY OF
10:22:36AM FLORIDA IS KIND OF OUTSIDE THE SCOPE AND SCALE OF WHERE WE
10:22:38AM CAN MAKE THE BIGGEST AMOUNT OF DIFFERENCE.
10:22:40AM YOU KNOW, WE DO HAVE HOUSING AUTHORITIES.
10:22:43AM AND THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS -- A LOT OF PEOPLE TRYING TO
10:22:46AM ACCOMPLISH THOSE THINGS AND SCALE WHAT MONEY WE ARE DEALING
10:22:50AM WITH THE CITY.
10:22:52AM WHAT IS THE BEST USE OF MONEY.
10:22:53AM HOMEOWNERSHIP.
10:22:55AM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
10:22:56AM SOME OF THE PROGRAMS.
10:22:57AM WE TALKED ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT.
10:22:58AM SOME OF THOSE NONPROFITS.
10:23:00AM HABITAT.
10:23:01AM THEY HAVE THE BANKING.
10:23:02AM THEY CAN BUY THAT MORTGAGE DOWN TO MAKE IT VERY AFFORDABLE
10:23:06AM DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE.
10:23:07AM TO HAVE PEOPLE OWN THAT DIRT AND OWN THEIR HOUSE.
10:23:09AM WITH THAT BEING SAID, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY -- I KNOW YOU
10:23:13AM HEARD IT FROM ME AND A LOT OF STAFF WILL NOT BE HAPPY WITH
10:23:15AM WHAT I AM GOING TO SAY, BUT I AM GOING TO SAY IT.
10:23:18AM I STILL -- I HAVE A PROBLEM INVESTING IN THESE COMMUNITY
10:23:21AM LAND TRUSTS.
10:23:21AM THE VALUE -- AND INCENTIVIZING HOMEOWNERSHIP.
10:23:27AM SOMEONE'S HOME IN OUR SOCIETY, HOW IT APPRECIATES, IT IS THE
10:23:34AM LAND.
10:23:34AM THAT IS WHERE YOU CREATE GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
10:23:38AM THE STRUCTURE ITSELF IS CREATED BY MATERIALS THAT HAVE A
10:23:42AM MARKET VALUE OF WHAT THEY WERE WHEN THEY WERE NEW, PLYWOOD,
10:23:45AM NAILS AND LABOR TO PUT THAT STRUCTURE UP.
10:23:47AM AS TIME GOES ON, ESPECIALLY OVER LONGER PERIODS OF TIME,
10:23:51AM THAT HOME BECOMES A DEPRECIATING ASSET.
10:23:54AM DURING THAT DURATION, TAKES A LOT OF MAINTENANCE AND
10:23:57AM CONTROL.
10:23:57AM BUT THE HOUSE ITSELF -- ALL HOUSES COME DOWN AND THE ACTUAL
10:24:03AM VALUE OF THE PROPERTY IS THE LAND.
10:24:05AM IF WE DEPRIVE INDIVIDUALS OF BEING ABLE TO HAVE POSSESSION
10:24:08AM AND OWN THAT LAND, WE ARE DEPRIVING THEM OF THE OPPORTUNITY
10:24:11AM OF CREATING TRUE GENERATIONAL WEALTH AND BUYING INTO, YOU
10:24:15AM KNOW, THE EQUITY ACROSS WHAT HOMEOWNERSHIP IN AMERICA LOOKS
10:24:20AM LIKE.
10:24:20AM AGAIN, I WOULD MUCH RATHER SEE US SPEND OUR LIMITED
10:24:25AM RESOURCES SUPPORTING THESE PROGRAMS LIKE -- SIMILAR TO WHAT
10:24:29AM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY DOES AND ANY OF THE PROGRAMS WE CAN
10:24:31AM CREATE LIKE THAT THAT OPERATE BANKS.
10:24:34AM THAT CAN BUY MORTGAGES DOWN.
10:24:36AM DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE.
10:24:38AM AND EVERYTHING WE CAN POSSIBLY DO EVEN WITH SMALLER HOUSES.
10:24:43AM DON'T WANT TO BUILD EVERYBODY MANSIONS OR WHATEVER WE HAVE
10:24:45AM TO BUILD.
10:24:45AM THAT WE CAN ACCOMMODATE PEOPLE.
10:24:47AM HAVE THEM OWN THEIR LAND.
10:24:48AM OWN THEIR HOME.
10:24:49AM CREATE GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
10:24:51AM THAT IS HOW WE ARE GOING TO, OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, FIX SOME
10:24:55AM OF THESE SOCIETAL WOES AND INEQUITIES THAT WE HAVE IN THE
10:25:00AM SYSTEM.
10:25:00AM CREATING A TWO-CLASS SYSTEM OF HOMEOWNERSHIP I THINK IS NOT
10:25:04AM THE WAY TO DO IT.
10:25:05AM BUT, AGAIN, I AGREE WITH WHAT EVERYBODY SAID OF GETTING
10:25:08AM PEOPLE IN THEIR HOUSES.
10:25:09AM YOU KNOW THERE ARE OTHER PROGRAMS -- WE DO NEED TO DO THE
10:25:14AM OTHER THINGS BUT WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL NOT OVERINVESTING AND
10:25:17AM SPENDING TOO MUCH OF OUR POT OF MONEY ON THAT TO CREATE THAT
10:25:20AM GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
10:25:21AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:25:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:25:24AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:25:25AM A COUPLE OF COMMENTS I WANT TO ADDRESS WHICH IS NUMBER ONE
10:25:28AM WITH THE HOUSING ISSUE, IT IS IMPORTANT WE MAKE PEOPLE
10:25:31AM STAKEHOLDERS.
10:25:33AM THERE IS KIND OF -- AND I DON'T WANT TO MERGE CITY WITH --
10:25:37AM CITY COUNCIL WITH CRA, BUT I GO TO SOME OF THE SPENDING THAT
10:25:40AM I WAS TALKING ABOUT FROM THE NEW PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE WHICH
10:25:44AM HAS WHAT I CALL THE STIMULUS MENTALITY.
10:25:47AM ARPA MONEY, CARES MONEY, IT IS RUNNING OUT AND LET'S RAISE
10:25:51AM PEOPLE TAXES TO CONTINUE THAT STIMULUS.
10:25:54AM SOME OF THAT MAY BE REASONABLE.
10:25:56AM SOME NOT.
10:25:56AM WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT.
10:25:57AM THE IDEA WE HAVE TO USE THAT FOR THAT STAKEHOLD MENTALITY IN
10:26:03AM A LONG-TERM WAY THAT WAS TALKED.
10:26:06AM ONE THING I WANT TO NOTE THAT WE ALL AGREE FOR ALL FOR
10:26:10AM TRANSPORTATION WERE, THEY WERE NOT FAILED INITIATIVES.
10:26:14AM FAILED BECAUSE OF LEGAL ISSUES.
10:26:16AM 20 CECIL ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION PASS IF I RECALL 57% AND IT
10:26:20AM GOT STRUCK DOWN IN THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT BECAUSE OF
10:26:23AM ISSUES WITH THE INDEPENDENT COMMITTEE BECAUSE OF LEGAL
10:26:26AM ISSUES.
10:26:26AM I AM NOT GOING TO COMMENT ON THAT.
10:26:28AM I HAVE A LOT OF RESPECT, WHETHER THE CIRCUIT COURT WITH
10:26:32AM JUDGE VARGAS AND THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT.
10:26:34AM JUDGE MOE, WONDERFUL JOB, STRUCK DOWN THE SECOND ALL FOR
10:26:39AM TRANSPORTATION.
10:26:39AM WHAT I CALL THE CASE LAW SAYING WHEN DO YOU A VOTER
10:26:42AM INITIATIVE, IT HAS TO BE PLAIN VANILLA.
10:26:45AM CAN'T BE SPRINKLES.
10:26:45AM THE CASE LAW FROM IT.
10:26:48AM STRUCK DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF VOTING AND FAILED 51% VOTING
10:26:51AM NO.
10:26:51AM SO I WOULD SAY IF YOU COMBINE THOSE TWO, IF YOU WANTED TO,
10:26:55AM RIGHT, VOTERS DO SUPPORT IT.
10:26:57AM THERE WERE JUST LEGAL ISSUES WITH IT WAY WERE UNFORTUNATE BY
10:27:01AM THE WAY.
10:27:01AM I AM NOT, AGAIN, ATTACKING THE COURTS OR ANYTHING OF THAT
10:27:06AM NATURE WITH IT.
10:27:07AM COUNCIL HAS VOTED TO SUPPORT THESE INITIATIVES.
10:27:10AM ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION IN 2022 AFTER IT GOT STRUCK IN '18,
10:27:15AM ETC.
10:27:15AM SOMETHING THAT WILL COME BACK AGAIN.
10:27:18AM AND I THINK IT IS SOMETHING IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT OUR
10:27:21AM LONG-TERM TRANSPORTATION NEEDS, ESPECIALLY FOR MASS TRANSIT.
10:27:23AM AND I SAY THAT AS THE CHAIR ERWIN OF THE HART BOARD.
10:27:27AM I AM PARK SON WILL THAT THE OF THE HART MISSION AND THE
10:27:30AM PEOPLE FROM POINT A TO POINT B ARE, WILL NEED MORE REVENUE
10:27:36AM LONG TERM.
10:27:37AM THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS IN THE DETAIL.
10:27:40AM YOU LOOK AT 2022, A LOT OF MASS TRANSIT -- PRO-MASS TRANSIT
10:27:47AM CANDIDATES WENT DOWN WITH 46%.
10:27:49AM A COUPLE OF COUNTY COMMISSION WHO WERE VERY GOOD PEOPLE.
10:27:53AM AND ABOUT 49%, EVEN WITH THE COURT RULING BEING IN THE
10:27:57AM MIDDLE OF VOTING, SUPPORTED ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION.
10:27:59AM THERE WAS A LOT OF CONFUSION DURING THAT VOTING.
10:28:05AM I WANTED TO DEFEND THAT JUST BECAUSE I WAS INVOLVED IN BOTH
10:28:08AM INITIATIVES, ETC.
10:28:09AM AND -- BY THE WAY, I THINK ALL SEVEN OF US SUPPORT THAT.
10:28:13AM SO I DON'T THINK THERE IS ANYTHING THERE THAT IS TO BE
10:28:18AM CONTESTED.
10:28:18AM JUST MY THOUGHTS.
10:28:19AM THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:28:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:28:24AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:28:25AM CAN YOU GO BACK TO HOUSING?
10:28:30AM NOWHERE HERE DO I SEE THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE PROVIDING
10:28:35AM SUPPORT FOR RENTERS.
10:28:37AM LIKE I DON'T GET THAT OUT OF THIS AT ALL.
10:28:40AM PROVIDING RESOURCES AND SUPPORT FOR HOME REPAIRS,
10:28:43AM MAINTENANCE AND ACCESSIBILITIES OPTIONS.
10:28:45AM THAT MEANS HOME-OWNER-OCCUPIED.
10:28:49AM AND MR. MASSEY CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, WE CAN'T GIVE
10:28:53AM RENTERS SUBSIDIES THROUGH CRA DOLLARS.
10:28:56AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: TYPICALLY THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THE CRA
10:29:01AM WILL DO.
10:29:01AM WE ARE MORE ABOUT PHYSICAL -- HURTAK EXACTLY.
10:29:06AM --
10:29:08AM >>LYNN HURTAK: EXACTLY.
10:29:08AM I WANTED TO CLARIFY.
10:29:10AM NOWHERE DID I READ THIS THAT I HEARD ANY DISCUSSION OF
10:29:14AM GIVING RENT SUBSIDIES.
10:29:16AM AND I HAD A REALLY INCREDIBLE POWERFUL PRESENTATION GIVEN TO
10:29:22AM THE AHAC BOARD, AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE THAT WAS
10:29:26AM UNBELIEVABLY POWERFUL THAT REALLY TALKED ABOUT HOW WE BUILD
10:29:30AM THAT INTERGENERATIONAL WEALTH.
10:29:32AM AND THIS STATISTIC REALLY RESONATED WITH ME.
10:29:37AM 65% OF PEOPLE WHO BUY A COMMUNITY HOUSE SELL IT WITHIN THREE
10:29:46AM TO FIVE YEARS SELL IT TO BUY THEIR OWN SINGLE-FAMILY HOME.
10:29:49AM NOT WITHIN THE LAND TRUST.
10:29:51AM THEY ACTUALLY DO USE IT AS A BRIDGE TO GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
10:29:55AM BUT THE REASON THEY ARE ABLE TO DO THAT IS BECAUSE FOR THREE
10:29:58AM TO FIVE YEARS, THEY HAVE A VERY SOLID PAYMENTS.
10:30:02AM THEY HAVE MORTGAGE PAYMENTS INSTEAD OF WORRYING EVERY YEAR
10:30:05AM IF THEIR RENT IS GOING TO GO UP OR IF THEY HAVE TO MOVE.
10:30:08AM WHAT IT DOES, IT PROVIDES STABILITY.
10:30:12AM THAT IS WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH PROVIDING HOUSING IS
10:30:16AM STABILITY.
10:30:17AM SO I DON'T SEE THIS AS A TWO-CLASS IDEA.
10:30:22AM BECAUSE A LOT OF THE FOLKS WHO ARE GOING TO BE -- WHO BUY IN
10:30:26AM A LAND TRUST DO NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY HOUSING.
10:30:30AM WE CAN NOT BE LOOKING AT SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSING.
10:30:33AM I BELIEVE WE HAVE A DEFICIT OF, LIKE, 30,000 HOMES.
10:30:37AM WE CAN'T BUILD THAT IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:30:39AM WE DON'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH ROOM TO BUILD 30,000 HOMES.
10:30:43AM WE NEED DENSITY.
10:30:44AM WE NEED FOR PEOPLE TO BE BUYING IN CO-OPS, MULTIFAMILY
10:30:49AM HOUSING UNITS AND THEN MOVING ON.
10:30:50AM USING THIS AS THE STEPPINGSTONE AND NOT SEEING THIS AS THE
10:30:55AM GENERATIONAL WEALTH OF THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY THAT THEY
10:30:58AM ARE MOVING.
10:30:58AM THAT'S WHAT -- THAT IS WHAT OUR PARENTS DID.
10:31:01AM THEY STARTED -- THEY HAD A STARTER HOME AND THEY TRADED UP
10:31:05AM AND THEN THEY TRADED UP.
10:31:07AM I LOOK AT COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
10:31:08AM I KNOW IT IS A DIFFERENT DISCUSSION BUT IT WAS BROUGHT UP SO
10:31:12AM I GOT TO GO.
10:31:12AM IT IS A STEPPINGSTONE TO MOVING UP IN THAT TRADITIONAL
10:31:17AM WEALTH BUILDING.
10:31:17AM AND REALLY FOR US TO MAXIMIZE, IT IS ABOUT LAND.
10:31:27AM WE GOT TO BUY LAND.
10:31:28AM LAND, LAND, LAND.
10:31:30AM LAND IS EXPENSIVE.
10:31:31AM IT IS NOT GETTING ANY CHEAPER.
10:31:33AM YOU SAY YOU ARE FROM THE GOVERNMENT, EVEN THE CRA, SUDDENLY
10:31:36AM IT SEEMS TO BE ODDLY MORE EXPENSIVE.
10:31:38AM SO GETTING IN AND BUYING THAT LAND IS SO, SO VALUABLE.
10:31:44AM SO I ABSOLUTELY -- HOW DO WE GET HOMEOWNERSHIP?
10:31:48AM WE HAVE TO STOP LOOKING AT IT AS INDIVIDUAL HOUSING --
10:31:51AM RATHER INDIVIDUAL HOUSES ON A PLOT OF LAND.
10:31:54AM BECAUSE, YES, OWNING THE LAND EVENTUALLY IS IMPORTANT, BUT
10:31:58AM WHEN YOU -- THE THING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, THEN
10:32:03AM YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY TAX ON THAT LAND EITHER.
10:32:05AM THAT IS CRITICAL.
10:32:06AM THE TAX ON THE LAND IS WHAT PREVENTS SO MANY PEOPLE FROM
10:32:11AM BEING ABLE TO ABLE START THEIR DREAM OF HOMEOWNERSHIP.
10:32:14AM SO WE HAVE GOT TO CHANGE THE NARRATIVE.
10:32:17AM THE STUFF THAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING IS JUST PUTTING US TO
10:32:20AM SHAME IN TERMS OF HOUSING AND WHAT WE CAN TO DO REALLY MAKE
10:32:24AM A GIGANTIC DIFFERENCE IN THIS CITY.
10:32:27AM AND I AM THRILLED THAT ATTAINABLE HOUSING IS A HUGE PART OF
10:32:32AM WHAT WE ARE DOING WITH THE CRA.
10:32:34AM I FEEL VERY STRONGLY THAT -- I MEAN, 30% IS, TO ME, NOT
10:32:40AM ENOUGH.
10:32:40AM ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO, YOU KNOW, BUYING -- BUYING
10:32:46AM LAND.
10:32:48AM SO I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE ATTAINABLE HOUSING
10:32:51AM PIECES.
10:32:52AM OTHER PIECES, I AM FINE WITH CHANGES.
10:32:54AM BUT THIS -- THIS IS SO CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO ME.
10:32:58AM THANK YOU.
10:32:59AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE CAN CIRCLE BACK.
10:33:03AM EVERYONE HAS COMMENTED.
10:33:05AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:33:06AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
10:33:09AM I APPRECIATE THIS CONVERSATION SO THAT -- WE SAY THIS TO THE
10:33:12AM PUBLIC, BUT WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO TALK OUTSIDE OF THIS ROOM
10:33:16AM SO THE ONLY WAY TO HEAR HOW WE ALL THINK.
10:33:18AM TO COUNCILMEMBER -- BOARD MEMBER VIERA'S COMMENT.
10:33:24AM MY COMMENT OF ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION.
10:33:26AM THE NARRATIVE.
10:33:28AM IF YOU LOOK AT THAT ISSUE, WE NEED MONEY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE.
10:33:31AM EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS THAT WE NEED MORE MONEY FOR
10:33:33AM TRANSPORTATION.
10:33:33AM IT SOUNDS LIKE FROM SOME OF THE VOTING THAT MAYBE THE
10:33:36AM MAJORITY OF PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA ALSO AGREED THAT WE
10:33:39AM NEED MONEY.
10:33:39AM MY POINT IS ABOUT -- SEPARATE FROM THE ISSUE -- OR POLICY
10:33:44AM ISSUE ITSELF WERE HOW THE CAMPAIGNS WERE RUN.
10:33:47AM YOU GO BACK TO GO HILLSBOROUGH.
10:33:49AM THREE CAMPAIGNS, TWO FOR ALL FOR INSPECTION IN GO
10:33:54AM HILLSBOROUGH THAT THAT WAS RUN IN POLITICAL WAYS.
10:33:56AM THE LAST TWO, ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION, ONE OF THEM -- THE
10:34:00AM BUSINESS COMMUNITIES, MOST OF THE CAMPAIGNS RAISED $1.2 OR
10:34:04AM $1.5 MILLION.
10:34:05AM THE BUSINESS COMMUNITIES GOT TOGETHER FOR THE THIRD TIME AND
10:34:08AM THEN THE FOURTH TIME TO -- I THINK THE LAST TIME IT WAS
10:34:11AM ABOUT $2 MILLION.
10:34:12AM WITH THE HOPE THAT THIS WOULD GO THROUGH AND NOT ABOUT
10:34:17AM WHETHER THE PUBLIC VOTED ON IT OR NOT, THE PEOPLE THAT RAN
10:34:20AM THE CAMPAIGN FAILED BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T ANTICIPATE THAT
10:34:22AM THERE WOULD BE LAWSUITS.
10:34:23AM IF YOU -- IF YOU -- IT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW HOW PEOPLE
10:34:28AM VOTED.
10:34:29AM BUT THE IMPORTANT IS HOW THIS PROGRAM RUNS.
10:34:32AM THE LAST TIME I BEGGED THEM, I SAID HIRE OUT-OF-STATE PEOPLE
10:34:37AM THAT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE DOING ON IT.
10:34:39AM THE POLITICAL CONNECTIONS IS IMPORTANT HOW YOU BRING IT IN.
10:34:42AM I KNOW A LOT OF THE PEOPLE THAT FOUGHT AGAINST THESE, BUT IF
10:34:45AM -- IF A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE WITH 140,000 CAN BEAT A $4 MILLION
10:34:50AM CAMPAIGN, THAT MEANS THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
10:34:53AM ONE OF THE BASIC THINGS THEY DIDN'T DO WAS TALK TO THE OTHER
10:34:56AM SIDE.
10:34:57AM WE CAN'T MOVE FORWARD AS COMMUNITY UNLESS WE CHANGE THE
10:35:01AM APPROACH AND HAVE THE BIGGER CONVERSATIONS.
10:35:02AM MY COMMENTS ARE ABOUT -- NOW THERE IS A DISCUSSION AGAIN OF
10:35:05AM RUNNING ANOTHER CAMPAIGN FOR CIT OR ANOTHER CAMPAIGN FOR ALL
10:35:10AM FOR TRANSPORTATION.
10:35:10AM WHAT I AM SAYING TO EVERYBODY, INCLUDING THE THUNDERS, WE
10:35:14AM NEED TO COME UP WITH A COMPLETELY NEW APPROACH.
10:35:18AM CAN'T USE THE SAME PEOPLE.
10:35:19AM THE SMALL GROUP OF PEOPLE WILL ALWAYS BEAT US.
10:35:22AM I FORGOT AND BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN MENTIONED THIS.
10:35:26AM NUMBER TWO, WE ABSOLUTELY NEED TO CONTINUE HELPING PEOPLE.
10:35:28AM IF SOMEBODY IS BARELY GET BEING I AND ROOF IS FALLING IN AND
10:35:32AM WE CAN HELP THEM KEEP THEIR HOUSE, WE NEED TO PUT MONEY
10:35:35AM THERE.
10:35:35AM THAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN HOUSING.
10:35:37AM RENTAL SUBSIDIES AS BOARD MEMBER HURTAK MENTIONED, THE WAY I
10:35:42AM READ NUMBER ONE, IT COULD INCLUDE A BIG SUBSIDY TO AN
10:35:48AM APARTMENT COMPLEX.
10:35:48AM SO MY POINT IS THAT IF WE CAN.
10:35:54AM IF WE PUT SUBSIDIES IN, IT SHOULD BE FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP.
10:35:58AM I AGREE WITH SINGLE-FAMILY, MULTIFAMILY.
10:36:01AM A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR SINGLE-FAMILY, BUT WE ARE GOING
10:36:03AM TO NEED MULTIFAMILY.
10:36:05AM INSTEAD OF FUNDING MULTI FAMILY APARTMENT COMPLEXES, MULTI
10:36:09AM FAMILY COMPLEXES THAT PEOPLE CAN BUY INTO.
10:36:12AM A CLARIFICATION FOR BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN ON THE LAND
10:36:17AM TRUST.
10:36:17AM I AGREE AND DISAGREE RESPECTFULLY.
10:36:20AM I LIVED IN SINGAPORE WHERE THAT IS A KEY PART OF THEIR
10:36:23AM STRATEGY.
10:36:24AM NOT THE ONLY PART OF IT.
10:36:25AM WE NEED TO LOOK AT DIFFERENT OPTIONS AND BETA TEST.
10:36:29AM I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD PUT ALL OUR MONEY INTO IT.
10:36:31AM IF WE CAN HELP PEOPLE ARE BUY THE LAND, IT MAKES YOU MAKE
10:36:36AM MORE MONEY AND THE LAND IS WHERE THE VALUE GOES UP.
10:36:38AM THE LAST THING, A GROUP I MET BEFORE, NEIGHBORHOOD LENDING
10:36:43AM PARTNERS.
10:36:43AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK TALKED ABOUT WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE
10:36:47AM DOING.
10:36:48AM THIS ORGANIZATION AND NONPROFIT ARE BASED HERE AND DO
10:36:51AM BUSINESS WITH GOVERNMENT EXCEPT US.
10:36:54AM BUT TO MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE THEM COME BACK FOR TEN MINUTES
10:36:57AM TO PRESENT THIS CONCEPT.
10:36:59AM IF WE PUT $10 MILLION OR $20 MILLION A YEAR IN THERE.
10:37:02AM $20 MILLION LET'S US HELP 200 PEOPLE BUY HOMES, AT THE END
10:37:06AM OF THE YEAR, WE GET THE $20 MILLION BACK.
10:37:08AM AND THE NEXT YEAR, WE HAVE $20 MILLION PLUS THE 20 MILLION
10:37:12AM WE HAVE IN AND CAN HELP 400 PEOPLE BUY HOMES.
10:37:14AM THEN THE FOLLOWING YEAR 600 PEOPLE BUY HOMES.
10:37:18AM A WAY TO PROTECT OUR CAPITAL IF WE CAN WORK A WAY TO MAKE
10:37:21AM MORRIS HAPPEN TO KEEP BUILDING ON THE CAPITAL TO PUTTING
10:37:25AM MONEY IN A STRATEGIC WAY TO GET AT THAT BACK.
10:37:28AM RIGHT NOW WE ARE PAYING EVERY YEAR A WAY TO COMPOUND OUR
10:37:31AM MONEY AND DO MORE, THE ONLY WAY WE WILL HIT THE $50,000
10:37:34AM NUMBER.
10:37:35AM THANK YOU.
10:37:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BED MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:37:40AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
10:37:41AM SO WHAT -- I THINK -- REFERENCE ALL FOR -- I WANT TO CLEAR
10:37:49AM THINGS.
10:37:49AM YOU.
10:37:49AM WE REPRESENT THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:37:51AM BOTH OF THOSE INITIATIVES.
10:37:52AM EVEN ONE THAT FAILED PASSED OVERWHELMINGLY.
10:37:55AM THE CONSTITUENTS IN THE AREA THAT WE SERVICED, IT PASSED.
10:38:00AM IF WE HAD ANOTHER ONE TODAY AND TOMORROW AND IN THE CITY OF
10:38:04AM TAMPA, WE WOULD RECOGNIZE THE CITY OF TAMPA THAT WE HAVE
10:38:06AM GREAT NEEDS.
10:38:07AM AND NO OTHER ABILITY TO ACCOMPLISH THOSE NEEDS.
10:38:09AM ONE LAST QUICK THING.
10:38:12AM THE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
10:38:13AM I AM NOT OPPOSED TO DOING A EXPERIMENT BETA TEST IN A SMALL
10:38:17AM SCALE.
10:38:18AM I DON'T WANT -- I KNOW ERICA AND OTHERS HAVE HEARD THIS FROM
10:38:21AM ME ALREADY.
10:38:22AM I DON'T WANT TO NECESSARILY DIVE IN HEAD-FIRST ON THIS AND
10:38:26AM INVEST A LOT OF MONEY UNTIL WE REALLY UNDERSTAND THE ENTIRE
10:38:31AM SOCIOECONOMIC THINGS THAT HAPPEN WITH THIS.
10:38:34AM AND MAY POTENTIALLY HAVE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
10:38:37AM I KNOW THERE ARE AREAS AROUND THE WORLD, BUT, AGAIN, I WORRY
10:38:42AM HOW WE EMPOWER PEOPLE AND BUY THEM INTO THE COMMUNITY AND
10:38:45AM BUY GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
10:38:50AM IT IS PART OF MY OWN VALUE SYSTEM OF NATURE THAT WE BUILD IN
10:38:55AM EQUITY AND PROTECT EVERYBODY.
10:38:56AM THANK YOU.
10:38:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:38:59AM MY TURN.
10:39:00AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR REPORT, DIRECTOR MOODY.
10:39:03AM IT WAS OUTSTANDING.
10:39:04AM I JUST WANT TO PIGGYBACK TO SAY THAT HOMEOWNERSHIP IS THE
10:39:08AM GATEWAY TO BUILDING GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
10:39:11AM THAT IS OUR FOCUS.
10:39:12AM THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP OUR EYE ON THE BALL OF THAT.
10:39:15AM AS FAR AS TRANSPORTATION IS CONCERNED, TAMPA PROPER
10:39:19AM OVERWHELMINGLY SUPPORTS TRANSPORTATION NEEDS.
10:39:22AM AND I DO BELIEVE IN THE LAND TRUST.
10:39:24AM I THINK THAT WORKS.
10:39:25AM I, OF COURSE, AM NOT THE EXPERT.
10:39:28AM BUT ULTIMATELY, WE WILL HAVE TO CIRCLE BACK BECAUSE THAT IS
10:39:33AM SOMETHING THAT WE WILL HAVE TO ADDRESS.
10:39:34AM UP WANT YOU AS THE DIRECTOR BASED ON THE COMMENTS YOU HEARD.
10:39:38AM THIS MAY BE A LITTLE BITS UNUSUAL.
10:39:40AM I DON'T WANT YOU TO JUST GIVE YOUR REPORT AND HEAR OUR
10:39:43AM COMMENTS.
10:39:43AM IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO READDRESS BASED ON
10:39:46AM OUR COMMENTS TO PUSH BACK ON, THAT YOU FEEL STRONGLY ABOUT.
10:39:49AM I KNOW YOU HAVE WORKED VERY HARD ON THAT.
10:39:52AM THIS IS THE MOMENT PUBLICLY TO GO ON AND SAY THAT.
10:39:55AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WOULD RATHER TAKE A WHIPPING THAN A
10:39:58AM MISSION STATEMENT.
10:39:59AM I HAVE DONE WAY TOO MANY OF THESE THINGS IN MY LIFE.
10:40:01AM I APPLAUD YOU FOR DOING THAT.
10:40:03AM IN OUR CASUAL CONVERSATIONS, I THINK YOU DID A GREAT JOB OF
10:40:07AM CAPTURING A LOT.
10:40:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ABSOLUTELY.
10:40:09AM PROCEED.
10:40:10AM >>ERICA MOODY: YES.
10:40:12AM THANK YOU SO AS MUCH.
10:40:12AM I REALLY APPRECIATE THE APPRECIATION AND WORK AND TIME THAT
10:40:17AM COMES INTO THIS AND NOT SOMETHING THAT WE TAKE LIGHTLY.
10:40:20AM GREAT DISCUSSION OF AFFORDABLE, ATTAINABLE, WORKFORCE
10:40:24AM HOUSING.
10:40:24AM WE CAN DEFINITELY THE LOOK INTO THE LANGUAGE TO MAKE SURE IT
10:40:27AM IS FOR HOMEOWNERSHIP AND RECOGNIZING THE IMPORTANCE OF
10:40:30AM TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND STEPPINGSTONES WE CAN TAKE TO
10:40:33AM ACQUIRE WEALTH AND GENERATIONAL WEALTH FOR YEARS TO COME
10:40:38AM BEYOND US.
10:40:38AM I APPRECIATE EVERYONE'S DISCUSSION.
10:40:41AM THIS IS WHAT THIS IS FOR EVERYONE TO TALK ABOUT IT.
10:40:44AM ALMOST LIKE A LITTLE WORKSHOP SESSION.
10:40:46AM SO I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT.
10:40:47AM I THINK THERE ARE JUST A FEW MINOR EDITS AND TWEAKS AND I
10:40:53AM WOULD COME AND BRING IT BACK NEXT MONTH.
10:40:55AM WE WILL LOOK AT DEVELOPMENT IN THE MISSION.
10:40:57AM THE WORD "DEVELOPMENT" AND MAKE SURE IT IS
10:40:59AM COMMUNITY-ORIENTED.
10:41:00AM WE TALKED OF TRANSPORTATION VERSUS CONNECTIVITY, AS WELL AS
10:41:04AM THE OWNERSHIP.
10:41:04AM SO I THINK IT WAS A GREAT DISCUSSION.
10:41:07AM I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR DISCUSSION AND PARTICIPATION IN IT.
10:41:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:41:10AM YOU HAVE RECEIVED THOSE.
10:41:13AM >>ERICA MOODY: RECEIVED AND FILED.
10:41:14AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:41:16AM ANY OTHER COMMENTS REGARDING THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT?
10:41:19AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:41:20AM >>BILL CARLSON: IN THE OVERALL STRATEGY OF THE CITY OF WHICH
10:41:27AM THE CRA HAS, LIKE, A 30%, I THINK THIS YEAR, OF THE HOUSING
10:41:31AM BUDGET.
10:41:31AM THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES THAT THE CITY HAS.
10:41:34AM YOU HAVE IN HERE 80% AMI.
10:41:37AM MY -- YOU MENTIONED WORKFORCE HOUSING A MINUTE AGO.
10:41:41AM MY PREFERENCE FOR CRA SINCE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO FOCUS ON
10:41:46AM SLUM, BLIGHT AND DISEASE, WE FOCUS ON 80% OR BELOW AMI.
10:41:50AM A LOT OF THE PROJECTS THAT COME BEFORE US 140% AMI.
10:41:54AM 180%.
10:41:55AM 200% AND THEY CALL IT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:41:59AM IT IS IMPORTANT.
10:41:59AM AND THE CITY CAN -- WITH OUR CITY HATS ON, WE CAN FOCUS ON
10:42:03AM THAT.
10:42:03AM BUT IF WE ARE STICKING TO THE STATUTE ON -- ON CRAs, IT
10:42:10AM SEEMS MORE COMFORTABLE TO ME THAT OUR SMALL PART WILL FOCUS
10:42:14AM ON 820.
10:42:15AM FROM THE HOUSING AUTHORITY LIKE 27,000 LIST OFFICIAL AND
10:42:19AM ANOTHER 25,000 UNOFFICIAL, THAT IS $50,000, 52,000.
10:42:25AM IF WE FOCUS 100% ON THAT WE STILL CAN'T SOLVE THAT PROBLEM.
10:42:29AM THANK YOU.
10:42:30AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, I FEEL LIKE YOU WANT
10:42:32AM TO SAY SOMETHING ELSE.
10:42:33AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:42:34AM YOU ARE RIGHT ON.
10:42:35AM I JUST CAN'T NOT SAY IT.
10:42:37AM BECAUSE BOARD MEMBER CARLSON IS RIGHT.
10:42:43AM 50% BELOW IN AMI.
10:42:46AM AMI IS AROUND $65,000.
10:42:53AM 50% AMI IS $37,000.
10:43:02AM IN A COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, SOMEONE CAN BUY A CONDO IN -- BY
10:43:07AM MAKING $35,000.
10:43:09AM THAT IS NOT AN OPTION FOR THOSE PEOPLE IN THIS CITY AND
10:43:13AM WON'T BE FOR THEIR ENTIRE LIVES IF THEY MAKE $35,000.
10:43:17AM OR $37,000.
10:43:20AM I AM JUST SAYING -- I JUST HAD TO SAY IT.
10:43:23AM SO IF WE ARE FOCUSING ON THAT AND HOMEOWNERSHIP FOR THESE
10:43:28AM PEOPLE, WE HAVE TO FIND A WAY.
10:43:29AM JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE 80% BELOW THE AMI, SHOULD NOT BE STUCK
10:43:34AM FOR THE REST OF THEIR LIVES RENTING.
10:43:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYONE ELSE THAT WANTS TO ACCIDENT IN
10:43:43AM OKAY, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON GETS TO SPEAK AGAIN.
10:43:46AM >>BILL CARLSON: I MENTIONED THIS THE OTHER DAY BUT THE NEW
10:43:49AM STATE LAW THAT RESULTED IN THE STORY OF -- I THINK IT IS
10:43:51AM CALLED BAYSHORE TOWERS THEY ARE BUILDING IN ST. PETE THE
10:43:55AM OTHER DAY.
10:43:55AM I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY UNITS ARE IN THERE, BUT LOOKS LIKE
10:43:58AM THEY MAY HAVE AS MUCH AS A 45 MILLION CHARGE.
10:44:01AM THE STATE LAW SAYS IF A BUILDING IT FOUR STORIES OR MORE AND
10:44:05AM 30 STORY OR MORE, THEY HAVE TO HAVE ENGINEERING REPORTS
10:44:09AM EVERY TEN YEARS AND THEY HAVE TO PAY.
10:44:10AM IT IS A HUGE CONSIDERATION IF AS WE ARE LOOKING AT
10:44:15AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING BECAUSE OF THEIR FOUR STORIES AND ABOVE,
10:44:18AM THEY WILL HAVE TO ADHERE TO THAT IF THE LAW STAYS IN PLACE
10:44:22AM BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE SURFSIDE THING IN FT. LAUDERDALE.
10:44:26AM IF PEOPLE CAN AFFORD TO GET IN NOW, WE HAVE TO THINK IN THE
10:44:29AM FUTURE IN 30 YEARS THEY MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BECAUSE OF THE
10:44:32AM ENORMOUS COST.
10:44:33AM LONGER STORY FOR A LONGER DAY, BUT WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT
10:44:36AM THAT.
10:44:36AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THOSE BUILDINGS ARE DEPRECIATING ASSETS.
10:44:40AM THE LAND STAYS FOREVER.
10:44:43AM THE BUILDINGS FALL APART.
10:44:44AM WHAT IS WHAT I SAID BUILDING GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
10:44:48AM THAT A POINT WELL TAKEN.
10:44:50AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SOURCE OF HUMAN LIFE.
10:44:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DIRECTOR MOODY, YOU WILL BE UP HERE FOR A
10:44:56AM MINUTE.
10:44:57AM >>ERICA MOODY: BRINGING BACK MY CATERING DAYS WHEN I HAD TO
10:45:00AM STAND ALL DAY.
10:45:01AM I HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS I WANT TO MAKE.
10:45:03AM I APPRECIATE THE RECOGNITION OF THE 80% AND BELOW AMI.
10:45:07AM THAT IS REALTIME DATA FROM TAMPA SHOWING THAT IS THE HOUSING
10:45:11AM NEED AND THE HOUSING GAP THAT HAS TO BE CLOSED.
10:45:13AM ANYONE THAT APPROACHES US NEEDS TO ABIDE BY OUR OBJECTIVES
10:45:18AM SHOULD WE APPROVE IT AND WE WON'T ENTERTAIN ANYTHING OVER
10:45:21AM 80% BECAUSE WE ARE BEING STRATEGIC ON OUR GOALS.
10:45:24AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:45:25AM I REALLY APPRECIATED THE CONVERSATION AROUND THE COMMUNITY
10:45:29AM LAND TRUST.
10:45:29AM I WILL SAY IF YOU WANT TO DISCUSS IT MORE UNDER NEW
10:45:32AM BUSINESS, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR ALIS DRUMGO IN THE ROOM AND
10:45:37AM CONNECT ONE ON ONE OFFLINE AND GET INTO THE TECHNICALITIES
10:45:40AM OF THE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
10:45:41AM WE HAVE TO TAKE INNOVATIVE APPROACHES AND GET CREATIVE WITH
10:45:44AM HOUSING AND MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE FOR ALL PEOPLE IN TAMPA AND
10:45:49AM THE THIRD THING IS I DO HAVE THE FISCAL 2024 BUDGET UNDER
10:45:53AM THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
10:45:54AM WE CAN HEAR IT NOW OR LATER ON IN THE AGENDA, I AM OPEN TO
10:45:58AM EITHER ONE.
10:45:59AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OH, NO, WE ARE READY.
10:46:01AM >>ERICA MOODY: WE ARE READY?
10:46:02AM OKAY ARE, LET'S DO IT.
10:46:04AM ANY MORE ON THAT?
10:46:05AM I WILL MAKE MINOR TWEAKS AND BRING IT BACK.
10:46:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I DO UNDER NEW BUSINESS WANT TO HEAR MORE
10:46:12AM OF THE LAND TRUST FROM DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR UNDER NEW
10:46:17AM BUSINESS.
10:46:18AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: BEFORE YOU LEAVE THIS, YOU MAY WANT TO MAKE
10:46:21AM A MOTION TO HAVE HER BACK NEXT MONTH TO CLEARLY ON THE
10:46:23AM AGENDA TO TWEAK THIS.
10:46:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SO MOVED.
10:46:28AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND FLORIDA.
10:46:30AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION TO BRING MISS MOODY BACK
10:46:32AM REGARDING OUR REPORT ON STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES IN THE
10:46:40AM CRA.
10:46:40AM MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:46:44AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:46:47AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
10:46:49AM OPPOSED.
10:46:51AM MOTION PASSES.
10:47:01AM >>ERICA MOODY: SHIFTING GEARS.
10:47:03AM TALK FINANCES.
10:47:04AM THE PRESENTATION OF THE 2024 CRA BUDGET.
10:47:08AM I WAS HERE LAST MONTH HAND THIS WAS THE FIRST HEARING, THIS
10:47:11AM IS THE SECOND HEARING.
10:47:12AM THE ONLY DIFFERENCE AFTER THE FIRST HEARING A PROPOSED
10:47:17AM MILLAGE HAS COME OUT AND TO BE OUR WITHIN SIGHT FOR ANYONE
10:47:21AM TO REVIEW PER STATE STATUTE.
10:47:23AM I WANT TO NOTE BY THE RECORD, BY REVIEWING AND APPROVING IN
10:47:27AM BUDGET IS BY NO WAY APPROVING THE MILLAGE ADOPTION.
10:47:32AM THAT IS DONE THROUGH CITY COUNCIL.
10:47:34AM ONE THE MILLAGE IS ADOPTED AT WHATEVER RATE, WE WILL AMEND
10:47:39AM THIS BUDGET AND GOVERN OURSELVES ACCORDINGLY.
10:47:42AM THE CRA BOARD WILL DECIDE HOW WE SPEND THE MONEY LIKE
10:47:46AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:47:47AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT ERIKA THANK YOU
10:47:55AM SO MUCH.
10:47:55AM CENTRAL PARK AT 1.39 WHICH IS VERY EXCITING.
10:48:00AM WE CAN GET INTO IMPLEMENTATION.
10:48:05AM INCREASE OF TWO FOLIOS, ONE BEING ENCORE PROPERTY AND
10:48:10AM DRAMATICALLY INCREASED THE TIF REVENUE HERE THIS IS THE
10:48:17AM BUDGET BREAKDOWN.
10:48:19AM A COUPLE OF PROJECTS.
10:48:20AM AND CONSTRUCTION TO REHAB THE ST. JAMES BELL.
10:48:25AM A HISTORIC BELL.
10:48:26AM THEY WILL RING IT ONE MORE TIME AND REVITALIZE IT AND
10:48:29AM PRESERVE IT AS A HISTORICAL PIECE IN TAMPA.
10:48:36AM WE HAVE A GOOD CHUNK OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIATIVES.
10:48:40AM INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL PROJECTS.
10:48:42AM WE HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, WAYFINDER AND SIGNAGE,
10:48:46AM PUBLIC ART INCLUDING THE SOUL TRAIL AND LIKE I MENTIONED THE
10:48:50AM CONSTRUCTION OF THE ST. JAMES BELL PEDESTAL.
10:48:53AM LET ME MOVE INTO CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:48:57AM THIS IS AT $12.5 MILLION WITH A 22% INCREASE THIS FIZZ CA
10:49:02AM CAL YEAR.
10:49:03AM WE HAVE 3.4 IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING INITIALS TIFFS AND 6.2 IN
10:49:10AM INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.
10:49:11AM THIS INCLUDES THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR CHANNEL DRIVE WITH
10:49:16AM KIMMONS CONSTRUCTION, AS WELL AS HAND THIS IS THE MAJORITY
10:49:22AM OF THE FUNDS THERE.
10:49:24AM WE IS ALSO QUALITY OF LIFE AND COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT.
10:49:27AM THIS IS FOR LANDSCAPING AND MAINTENANCE ENHANCEMENTS ALONG
10:49:33AM CHANNELSIDE AND PRESSURE CLEANING AND KEEPING THE CORRIDOR
10:49:36AM SAFE AND CLEAN.
10:49:38AM WE HAVE DOWNTOWN.
10:49:40AM THIS IS AT $31.6 MILLION.
10:49:44AM 38% INCREASE.
10:49:47AM SOME OF THE PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES IN DOWNTOWN ARE THE
10:49:52AM MAIN STREET CORRIDOR.
10:49:53AM WE ARE LOOKING AT MARION REVITALIZATION OF MARION STREET, AS
10:49:57AM WELL AS OUR COMMITMENT TO TAMPA THEATRE, STRAZ AND
10:50:01AM ADDITIONAL COMMITMENTS THERE THAT WE WILL DISCUSS LATER ON
10:50:05AM IN THE PRESENTATION AND THE MASTER INFRASTRUCTURE FUND AS
10:50:13AM WELL.
10:50:13AM THEN WE MOVE ON TO DREW PARK.
10:50:15AM THIS IS AT $3.07 MILLION.
10:50:20AM THEY HAVE THE FACADE GRANT PROGRAM.
10:50:22AM SEVERAL PROGRAMS AROUND RESIDENTIAL EXTERIOR IMPROVEMENT.
10:50:27AM THEY HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS LIKE SIDEWALKS AND
10:50:29AM BIKE LANES, AS WELL AS REVITALIZING SOME OF THE PARKS,
10:50:33AM BUILDING A POTENTIAL NEW NEIGHBORHOOD PARK, THE TAMPA BAY
10:50:36AM LINEAR PARK, SIDEWALK CONNECTIVITY AS MENTIONED, AS WELL AS
10:50:40AM THE LOIS AND GRADY STREET GATEWAY THAT MISS ASTORQUIZA HAD
10:50:44AM TALKED ABOUT.
10:50:45AM WE HAVE LANDSCAPING AND GROUND ENHANCEMENTS UNDER THIS
10:50:49AM BUDGET AS WELL.
10:50:50AM THEN WE MOVE INTO EAST TAMPA.
10:50:54AM EAST TAMPA HAD 34% INCREASE.
10:50:56AM $12.02 MILLION.
10:50:59AM SO WE ARE EXCITED TO REALLY REINVEST IN EAST TAMPA HERE AND
10:51:05AM THEIR BUDGET.
10:51:07AM THEY CARE OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
10:51:09AM DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE.
10:51:13AM LAND BANKING AND LOOKING FORWARD TO FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.
10:51:17AM THE GATOR BUILDING IN THAT CORRIDOR IS IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET
10:51:21AM AND A BIG REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
10:51:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN YOU MOVE THAT FORWARD.
10:51:27AM >>ERICA MOODY: I AM SORRY.
10:51:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ON 22nd STREET?
10:51:31AM >> YES, REDEVELOPMENT ON 22nd STREET.
10:51:33AM UPDATING THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN IN LINE WITH THEIR
10:51:36AM STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN, AS WELL AS BEAUTIFICATION WAYFINDING,
10:51:45AM COMMUNITY POLICING, QUALITY OF LIFE, INFRASTRUCTURE, LOOKING
10:51:48AM INTO ALLEYWAYS, SIDEWALK UPGRADES, AND MORE.
10:51:51AM WE HAVE TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT AT $2.1 MILLION.
10:51:56AM AS WE KNOW 74% OF THAT IS COMMITTED TO THE CDB.
10:52:04AM THEY HAVE A FEW GRANT PROGRAMS AROUND FACADE.
10:52:07AM THEY ARE PUSHING PUBLIC ART INCLUDING THE SOUL TRAIL AND A
10:52:10AM ROUNDABOUT IMPROVEMENT, AS WELL AS WAYFINDING, SIGNAGE, AND
10:52:15AM LOOKING HOW TO TREAT HILLSBOROUGH RIVER STORMWATER.
10:52:19AM WEST TAMPA WEST TAMPA HAD A 39% INCREASE AT 9.2.
10:52:33AM THEY HAVE A LOT OF GRANTS AND PROGRAMS AS WELL AROUND
10:52:36AM BUSINESS ENHANCEMENT, MICRO GRANTS --
10:52:41AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
10:52:43AM >>ERICA MOODY: UPSTAIRS CONVERSION, VANILLA SHELL, BUSINESS
10:52:51AM FACADE GRANTS, ENHANCEMENTS, RESIDENTIAL REHAB, LAND
10:52:56AM BANKING, DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE AND MOVING INTO
10:52:59AM INFRASTRUCTURE AND CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AROUND THE
10:53:01AM REVITALIZATION OF MAIN STREET.
10:53:03AM RAY PARK IMPROVEMENT.
10:53:04AM SALCINES PARK IMPROVEMENTS.
10:53:07AM PUBLIC ART.
10:53:08AM FREEDOM PARK IMPROVEMENTS.
10:53:11AM LINEAR PARK IMPROVEMENT AND IMPROVEMENTS WITH THE MARTIN
10:53:16AM LUTHER KING, JR. CENTER AND COMMUNITY POLICING, CLEAN TEAMS
10:53:19AM AND MORE.
10:53:20AM SO THEY HAVE A PARTNERSHIP WITH CODE ENFORCEMENT, AS WELL AS
10:53:30AM A CLEAN TEAM, SIMILAR TO YBOR CITY.
10:53:33AM THEY ARE GETTING A CLEAN TEAM TO HELP CLEAN UP THE STREETS
10:53:36AM AND STAY ON IT WEEKLY.
10:53:38AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
10:53:40AM >>ERICA MOODY: OF COURSE.
10:53:42AM THAT BRINGS US TO YBOR CITY.
10:53:44AM THIS IS YBOR CITY 1.
10:53:46AM THEY ARE AT 4.1 WITH A 26% INCREASE.
10:53:50AM SOME OF THEIR WORK, WHICH WE WILL HEAR MORE FROM THE MANAGER
10:53:56AM WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THEIR DISTRICT CURRENTLY.
10:53:59AM A BUSINESS ENHANCEMENT, MICRO GRANT, FACADE GRANT.
10:54:03AM INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDE THE 7th ARCHWAY AND
10:54:06AM STREETSCAPE REHAB.
10:54:08AM THE GARAGE.
10:54:10AM REIMAGINING CENTENNIAL PARK AND GETTING INTO BRICKING 7th
10:54:14AM AVENUE.
10:54:14AM THEY HAVE THE YES TEAM, WHICH IS THAT CLEAN TEAM, AND THEY
10:54:18AM DO FREQUENT PRESSURE WASHING TO KEEP THE BUILDINGS AND
10:54:21AM COMMUNITY LOOKING NICE.
10:54:22AM AND SIMILAR PROGRAMMING IN YBOR 2.
10:54:26AM YBOR 2 HAS $1.8 MILLION, A 25% INCREASE AND THEY HAVE THE
10:54:32AM SAME PROGRAMS, JUST IN THE SECOND DISTRICT AREA.
10:54:35AM I AM SORRY.
10:54:40AM HERE IS THE BREAKDOWN.
10:54:42AM AND THIS CONCLUDES THE BUDGET PRESENTATION FOR FISCAL YEAR
10:54:49AM '24.
10:54:50AM ACTUALLY WE HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING INVESTMENTS.
10:54:53AM HAND THIS INCREASES TO 1.3.
10:54:55AM FISCAL YEAR '23 WAS AT 20% -- SORRY, $20 MILLION.
10:55:00AM THIS YEAR AT $21.3 MILLION.
10:55:02AM THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY OF THE ROLLOVER THAT MAY OCCUR
10:55:06AM ONCE THE FISCAL YEAR IS CLOSED OUT.
10:55:08AM THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION.
10:55:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON WANTS TO GO FIRST
10:55:15AM AGAIN.
10:55:15AM >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, I AM EXCITED ABOUT THE AFFORDABLE
10:55:23AM HOUSING FROM OUR COLLEAGUES.
10:55:24AM YOU ALL WATCH COUNCIL, BUT YOU KNOW THAT WE MADE THAT MOTION
10:55:29AM THREE YEARS AGO AND FINALLY ARE GETTING IT.
10:55:31AM TWO YEARS WE SAID WHY ISN'T IT IN THE BUDGET?
10:55:34AM WHY ISN'T IT IN THE BUDGET?
10:55:36AM I AGREE WITH YOU IT IS TOO SMALL, BUT SO HAPPY THAT IT IS
10:55:40AM THERE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
10:55:41AM I THINK JUST THAT AMOUNT IS MANY TIMES WHAT THE WHOLE CITY
10:55:44AM WAS SPENDING ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING LAST YEAR.
10:55:53AM WEST TAMPA UP BY 235%.
10:55:55AM WHAT ARE THE KEY PROJECTS, DO YOU KNOW.
10:55:58AM >>ERICA MOODY: I AM NOT SURE OF THE KEY FOLIOS BUT I WILL
10:56:02AM LOOK INTO IT.
10:56:03AM >>BILL CARLSON: MAYBE E-MAIL US, IN EAST TAMPA, WHAT WOULD
10:56:06AM CALL A 34% INCREASE.
10:56:08AM >>ERICA MOODY: YEAH, I CAN LOOK INTO THAT, BUT DEVELOPMENT.
10:56:11AM >>BILL CARLSON: DO YOU ALL KNOW -- CAN YOU GO TO THE
10:56:14AM DOWNTOWN ONE, PLEASE.
10:56:15AM MY QUESTION -- AND MAKE ALIS CAN ANSWER THIS, WHAT
10:56:22AM PERCENTAGE OF THE CURRENT WATER STREET PHASE 1 IS ON LINE
10:56:26AM NOW?
10:56:27AM AND DO WE KNOW WHAT THE TAXABLE VALUE OF THAT IS?
10:56:31AM CAN YOU GO BACK ONE.
10:56:33AM SO IT IS A 38% INCREASE IN DOWNTOWN.
10:56:35AM I WONDER HOW MUCH OF THAT IS WATER STREET.
10:56:39AM AND HOW MUCH OF WATER STREET HAS COME ONLINE AND WHAT THE
10:56:43AM TAXABLE VALUE IS?
10:56:45AM ORIGINALLY THEY WERE PROPOSING $1.5 BILLION IN INVESTMENTS
10:56:49AM AND PHASE 2, UP TO $3 BILLION.
10:56:51AM BUT I WONDER WHAT HAS COME ON AND WHAT THE ASSESSED VALUE
10:56:55AM IS?
10:56:55AM ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEA?
10:56:58AM >>ERICA MOODY: WE DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER READILY AVAILABLE
10:57:01AM AND WE WILL BE HAPPY TO COME BACK NEXT MEETING AND PRESENT
10:57:05AM ON THAT AS WELL.
10:57:06AM >>BILL CARLSON: ALIS, WHAT IS YOUR GUT FEELING, 35% INCREASE.
10:57:14AM QUARTER OF IT, HALF OF IT?
10:57:19AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: GOOD MORNING, BOARD.
10:57:20AM FOR THE RECORD, ALIS DRUMGO, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR FOR
10:57:24AM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND OPPORTUNITY.
10:57:26AM I DON'T LIKE TO PROVIDE MISINFORMATION, THAT IS VERY DIRECT
10:57:30AM QUESTION, BOARD MEMBER.
10:57:31AM YOU THINK OF THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT COME ON LINE DOWNTOWN.
10:57:33AM I DON'T WANT TO MISSTATE THE WATER STREET CONTRIBUTION THAT
10:57:38AM WILL DROP THOSE ANCHORS.
10:57:40AM I WANT TO GO BACK AND PULL IT INDIVIDUALLY.
10:57:42AM WE CAN PULL THE MAJOR PROJECTS WHAT IS OCCURRING ON WATER
10:57:47AM STREET AND SOME OTHER PROJECTS THAT COME ONLINE AND THEIR
10:57:52AM CONTRIBUTION TO THE TIF AS WELL.
10:57:55AM >>BILL CARLSON: ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I ASK, WE GET TO THE
10:57:58AM LARGER DOWNTOWN CITY BUDGET.
10:58:00AM THE WAY CITY USED TO THINK OF THINGS SUBSIDIZE AND A RETURN
10:58:04AM ON INVESTMENT WITH AD VALOREM TAXES.
10:58:13AM I DID BACKING UP OF NUMBERS AND CAN'T TELL HOW LONG IT WILL
10:58:17AM TAKE THE CITY THROUGH THE CRA SIX, EIGHT YEARS AGO PUT IN
10:58:22AM $100 MILLION FOR THAT PROJECT.
10:58:24AM AND IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW WHAT YEAR DO WE THINK WE
10:58:28AM WOULD CATCH UP WITH THAT WITH AD VALOREM TAXES ON THAT.
10:58:31AM I DON'T LIKE THAT MODEL.
10:58:33AM I DON'T THINK THAT IS THE RIGHT MODEL TO USE.
10:58:35AM BUT THE MODEL USED BACK THEN TO JUSTIFY THE PROJECT.
10:58:38AM I AM CURIOUS, FOUR YEARS OR 20 YEARS?
10:58:42AM THERE PROBABLY WILL BE PROJECTIONS WHEN THE REMAINDER OF IT
10:58:45AM WILL COME ON LINE.
10:58:46AM BUT I AM JUST CURIOUS.
10:58:48AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST FOR THE RECORD, I WANTED TO CORRECT
10:58:50AM YOU, THAT THE COUNTY IS SHARING ALL THAT ON THE 50/50 BASIS.
10:58:54AM THE CRA'S OBLIGATION IS $50 MILLION.
10:58:57AM $50 MILLION COUNTY AND $50 MILLION CRA.
10:59:01AM >>BILL CARLSON: FROM A COMMUNITY POINT OF VIEW BECAUSE WE
10:59:03AM PAY COUNTY -- $100 MILLION WENT INTO IT.
10:59:07AM IF THE CITY -- IF THE TAXES ADD UP TO $25 MILLION A YEAR AND
10:59:12AM TAKES FOUR YEARS TO MAKE THAT BACK, THAT IS VERY STRONG
10:59:16AM ARGUE.
10:59:16AM THE IF IT TAKES 50 YEARS TO COME BACK, A WEAKER ARGUMENT.
10:59:20AM I DON'T AGREE WITH THE ARGUMENT OF GETTING A RETURN LIKE
10:59:22AM THAT.
10:59:22AM I WOULD RATHER INVEST IN THE COMMUNITY AND HAVE THE
10:59:25AM COMMUNITY INVEST IN THESE FOR-PROFIT THING.
10:59:29AM IT IS A MODEL AND I AM JUST CURIOUS.
10:59:31AM IN CASE ANYBODY FROM SBC IS WATCHING AND GREAT
10:59:36AM CONTRIBUTIONS.
10:59:36AM I ATE AT ONE OF YOUR RESTAURANTS LAST NIGHT AND IT WAS
10:59:40AM FANTASTIC.
10:59:41AM MAPS -- ADMINISTRATIVE.
10:59:43AM IN NONPROFITS YOU DON'T WANT TO GO ABOVE 10% ADMINISTRATIVE.
10:59:47AM SOME OF THESE ARE ABOUT 10.
10:59:51AM AND ANY PERCENTAGES IN CRAs?
10:59:54AM >>ERICA MOODY: NOT A REQUIRED PERCENT BUT TYPICAL GOOD
10:59:56AM PRACTICE --
10:59:57AM >>BILL CARLSON: SENSITIVITY TO OUR INCREASE IN ADMIN BUDGET
11:00:01AM AND MAKE SURE WE WATCH THAT.
11:00:03AM IT IS NOT UNLIMITED.
11:00:04AM THERE HAS GOT DONE SOME CAP AT SOME POINT.
11:00:08AM THEN CAN YOU GO TO THE YBOR 2 MAP, PLEASE?
11:00:13AM THIS IS NOT THE BUDGET DISCUSSION NECESSARILY, BUT IF YOU
11:00:16AM LOOK AT THE YBOR 2 MAP, YOU SEE HOW IT DOESN'T GO DOWN
11:00:21AM TO ADAMO, IT STOPS -- THAT AREA THAT JUTS IN, THAT GOES
11:00:28AM HIGHEST NORTH, THAT WHOLE AREA WHERE THEY ARE PROPOSING TO
11:00:31AM PUT THE ARTS, INCLUDING AN ARTS WORKFORCE HOUSING AREA.
11:00:35AM AND ALSO ALONG ADAMO.
11:00:38AM SO DISCUSSION WITH ANOTHER DAY WITH MORRIS, BUT ANY CHANCE
11:00:43AM WE CAN EXTEND YBOR 2 BY A COUPLE OF BLOCKS THROUGH THE
11:00:46AM MODIFICATION OF AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT OR ALL THE WAY DOWN
11:00:50AM AT ADAMO, THAT WILL HELP BECAUSE IF YOU JUMP ACROSS
11:00:57AM THE SELMON AND THAT AREA WILL BE DEVELOPED.
11:00:59AM WE NEED TO UTILIZE THE RESOURCE WE CAN TO LOOK AT ALL THAT.
11:01:03AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU ARE CORRECT.
11:01:04AM IT WOULD REQUIRE A MODIFICATION OF INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT
11:01:09AM BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE COUNTY.
11:01:10AM I WILL TELL YOU HISTORICALLY THOSE NEGOTIATIONS ARE TIME
11:01:13AM CONSUMING SO JUST FYI THAT THAT HAS BEEN THE HISTORY THERE.
11:01:19AM >>BILL CARLSON: THAT'S ALL I HAVE.
11:01:21AM THANK YOU.
11:01:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:01:24AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HELLO.
11:01:25AM ME TALKING AGAIN.
11:01:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
11:01:28AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: QUESTION FOR YOU.
11:01:29AM ON -- SPECIFICALLY -- REALLY ON ALL OF THEM, BUT
11:01:34AM SPECIFICALLY THE THING I AM CONCERNED ABOUT BECAUSE I STILL
11:01:37AM CAN'T GET PAST THIS, DOWNTOWN AND CHANNELSIDE CRAs AND THE
11:01:42AM SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
11:01:46AM DO YOU HAVE A BREAKDOWN ON WHAT THAT IS GETTING?
11:01:49AM WHAT ARE WE GETTING FOR THOSE DOLLARS?
11:01:51AM LIKE HOW MANY UNITS?
11:01:53AM HOW -- HOW IS THAT GOING TO BE SPENT?
11:01:58AM >>ERICA MOODY: I DO HAVE A BREAK DOWN FOR DOWNTOWN HOUSING.
11:02:01AM AND I CAN PROVIDE THAT IN A LITTLE BIT.
11:02:03AM AND ALSO, FOR DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL, WE KNOW THAT THE
11:02:06AM PROPERTY IS MORE EXPENSIVE.
11:02:07AM SO EVEN THOUGH THERE IS A BIG CHUNK OF FUNDING, IT -- YOU
11:02:11AM KNOW, IT DOESN'T GO --
11:02:12AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NOT A LOT OF BANG FOR THE BUCK.
11:02:14AM WITH THAT BEING SAID, I WOULD STILL LIKE TO SEE US -- IF
11:02:18AM THERE IS ANY WAY.
11:02:19AM AND I KNOW COUNCILMAN CARLSON HAS BEEN BEATING THIS DRUM.
11:02:23AM SOME WAY FOR US TO CROSS-UTILIZE THIS MONEY, BECAUSE JUST
11:02:27AM NOT THE BEST USE OF MONEY IN A VERY EXPENSIVE AREA THAT WE
11:02:32AM ARE ABLE TO BUILD HOUSING ELSEWHERE AND MAYBE DO CREATIVE
11:02:35AM SHIFTING OF FUNDS TO ACCOMPLISH THAT THROUGH THE GENERAL
11:02:38AM FUND AND SOME OTHER WAY.
11:02:39AM I JUST -- I WOULD RATHER SEE THIS MONEY GO TOWARD SOMETHING
11:02:45AM THAT ALSO HELPS PEOPLE LIKE TRANSPORTATION IN THOSE PARTICULAR
11:02:49AM AREAS BECAUSE THE COST PER UNIT IS SO HIGH IN THOSE
11:02:52AM PARTICULAR AREAS AND DOUBLE DOWN AND SPEND MORE MONEY IN
11:02:55AM OTHER AREAS TO ACCOMMODATE MORE PEOPLE.
11:02:57AM HOUSE MORE PEOPLE IN AN EFFECTIVE WAY.
11:03:04AM WE CAN LOOK THROUGH THE BUDGETS AND SHIFT AND ACCOMPLISH
11:03:06AM THAT AND USE THIS MONEY FOR TRANSPORTATION AND USE OTHER
11:03:09AM MONEY, MAYBE DOUBLE DOWN ON HOUSING, SHIFT MONIES FROM THE
11:03:13AM GENERAL FUND TO DOUBLE DOWN ON HOUSING, I THINK THAT MAY BE
11:03:16AM ADVISABLE AS WELL.
11:03:17AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE ANSWER TO THAT IS, BUT I LOOK FORWARD
11:03:20AM TO HEARING SOME -- MAYBE SOME CREATIVE SOLUTIONS TO THAT.
11:03:23AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: IF I MAY SPEAK TO A LITTLE BIT OF IT.
11:03:27AM JUST KEEP IN MIND THAT THE PROPOSED BUDGET THAT IS BEFORE
11:03:30AM YOU AS A BOARD YOU CAN MODIFY IT.
11:03:33AM THESE BUDGETS WE WILL WORK THROUGH WITH YOUR CACs, AND THIS
11:03:36AM IS BEING PROPOSED FOR YOU.
11:03:37AM IF YOU HAVE CHANGE IN DIRECTION YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE, LIKE,
11:03:40AM NOW IS THE TIME FOR US TO REALLY GOOD TO THROUGH IT AND
11:03:43AM MODIFY THE NUMBERS.
11:03:44AM BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE -- YOU KNOW, THE BANG FOR THE
11:03:47AM BUCK.
11:03:47AM AND, YOU KNOW -- IT IS THE GOAL OF THE ADMINISTRATION TO
11:03:50AM HAVE A DIVERSE CITY AND DIVERSE HOUSING OPTIONS THROUGHOUT
11:03:55AM THE CITY.
11:03:55AM TO LIMIT WHERE WE PUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING WE LIMIT THE
11:04:01AM AVAILABILITY IN THOSE AREAS.
11:04:02AM VERY WELL KNOWN THAT IT IS CHEAPER TO BUY AND RENT IN OTHER
11:04:06AM PORTIONS OF THE CITY, EAST COMPANY, WEST TAMPA, SULPHUR
11:04:11AM SPRINGS.
11:04:11AM CHEAPER AND EASIER COULD CONTINUE TO STRUCK BECAUSE OF
11:04:16AM BUILDING TYPES.
11:04:16AM DENSE AREA LIKE DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL DISTRICT, THE LAND
11:04:20AM VALUES ARE HIGHER AS WELL.
11:04:21AM ON TOP OF THAT, YOUR CONSTRUCTION TYPE BY WHICH YOU WILL
11:04:26AM NEED TO CONSTRUCT UNIT IS ALSO MORE EXPENSIVE.
11:04:29AM THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE EFFORT IS NOT VALIANT OR
11:04:33AM WORTHWHILE.
11:04:34AM WE DO HAVE PEOPLE THAT WORK IN THE AREAS THAT NEED TO BE
11:04:38AM APPROXIMATE TO WORK THAT SUPPORT THOSE BUSINESSES.
11:04:40AM UNDERSTANDING THAT YOU MIGHT BE PROVIDING A DEEPER SUBSIDY
11:04:45AM BASED ON CERTAIN LOCAL -- LOCALITIES IS A -- IS AN APPROACH
11:04:48AM TO THAT.
11:04:49AM BUT DIRECTOR MOODY DID GO THROUGH AND PULL SOME NUMBERS TO
11:04:52AM GIVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE TO RENT OR
11:04:54AM TO LIVE IN VARIOUS PARTS OF THE CITY.
11:04:57AM I THINK THAT SPEAKS MORE TO THE INEQUITY THAT WE HAVE
11:05:00AM RELATIVE TO THE ACCESS OF THOSE UNITS.
11:05:02AM AND SO AS A BOARD, YOU ALL JUST STATED THAT YOU WANTED TO
11:05:07AM REALLY, YOU KNOW, IMPROVE THAT GAP, RIGHT.
11:05:10AM SO IN ORDER TO DO THAT.
11:05:12AM YOU MAY HAVE TO DEEPLY SUBSIDIZE SOME OF THE UNITS YOU WILL
11:05:15AM BE PURSUING IN SOME OF THESE OTHER --
11:05:19AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IF I CAN SPEND $1 MILLION AND BUILD TWO
11:05:23AM HOMES FOR FAMILIES AND SPEND $1 MILLION AND SPEND -- AND
11:05:27AM BUILD 15 HOMES FOR FAMILIES, I MEAN, YOU ARE ACCOMMODATING
11:05:33AM 15 PEOPLE VS. TWO.
11:05:35AM IF I CAN TAKE THIS MONEY AND USE IT FOR TRANSPORTATION FOR
11:05:38AM SOMETHING.
11:05:38AM IT IS NOT THAT FAR WHEN WE TALK OF THOSE AREAS YOU JUST
11:05:42AM DESCRIBED.
11:05:42AM EAST TAMPA, WEST TAMPA, SULPHUR SPRINGS.
11:05:46AM LINK THEM WITH TRANSPORTATION -- INEXPENSIVE TRANSPORTATION
11:05:48AM TO GET PEOPLE TO AND FROM WHERE THEY WANT TO BE, YOU KNOW,
11:05:52AM TAMPA HEIGHTS.
11:05:52AM AREAS OF TAMPA HEIGHTS THAT ARE MORE AFFORDABLE THAN SOME OF
11:05:57AM THESE OTHER AREAS WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THAT IS RAPIDLY
11:06:00AM CHANGING.
11:06:00AM IF WE CAN GET THAT IN NOW, MAYBE SOME OPPORTUNITY.
11:06:04AM THE CHANNELSIDE, DOWNTOWN, EVEN PIECES OF YBOR CITY.
11:06:09AM THAT SHIP HAS SAILED ON LAND VALUE.
11:06:12AM SO EXPENSIVE.
11:06:13AM JUST HOW MANY PEOPLE -- HOW MANY HOUSES -- HOUSING UNITS CAN
11:06:17AM WE BUILD FOR X AMOUNT OF MONEY.
11:06:19AM LIMITED AMOUNT OF MONEY.
11:06:21AM THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE GOT.
11:06:22AM WHAT IS THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PEOPLE WE CAN -- WE CAN TAKE
11:06:25AM CARE OF AND HELP AND GET THEM INTO HOUSING.
11:06:27AM IT JUST -- IT JUST SEEMS TO BE A REALLY -- A COMMONSENSE --
11:06:34AM NOT ONLY JUST BUSINESS PRACTICE, BUT REALLY HUMANITARIAN
11:06:38AM PRACTICE TO KNOW -- BECAUSE IF WE BUILD TWO FOR A MILLION IN
11:06:42AM CHANNELSIDE, THAT MEANS THERE IS ANOTHER 15 OR 20 FAMILIES
11:06:46AM WE ARE NOT GOING TO HELP.
11:06:48AM EITHER THEY WILL HAVE TO MOVE SOMEWHERE ELSE OR LIVE ON THE
11:06:50AM STREETS.
11:06:50AM WE ARE ACTUALLY LEAVING PEOPLE OUT OF THE SYSTEM BY SPENDING
11:06:54AM SO MUCH MONEY IN ONE AREA.
11:06:56AM THANK YOU.
11:06:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:06:59AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:07:01AM IF YOU CAN GO TO THE MAP OF DOWNTOWN.
11:07:03AM NOW, YES -- WAS IT YESTERDAY?
11:07:07AM MAYBE IT WAS TUESDAY, WHEN WE HAD OUR MEETING, I GAVE YOU
11:07:11AM OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD FIVE OR SIX PROPERTIES I WANTED YOU
11:07:15AM TO LOOK AT DOWNTOWN.
11:07:16AM THERE ARE WAYS TO PARTNER WITH PEOPLE WHO ARE DOWNTOWN DOING
11:07:19AM WONDERFUL THINGS ALREADY.
11:07:21AM SO I AM HARD-CORE ON PURCHASING LAND DOWNTOWN FOR HOUSING.
11:07:28AM I JUST AM.
11:07:29AM THE FURTHER PEOPLE GET OUT, THE IDEA OF IMPROVING TRANSIT IS
11:07:35AM GREAT, BUT RIGHT NOW WE DON'T HAVE THAT.
11:07:37AM AND PEOPLE WHO CAN LIVE IN DOWNTOWN ALSO CAN WORK IN SOUTH
11:07:40AM TAMPA, BECAUSE THERE IS NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN SOUTH
11:07:43AM TAMPA.
11:07:43AM IT IS INCREDIBLY LOW.
11:07:46AM WE DON'T HAVE A CRA DOWN THERE.
11:07:48AM ONLY ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT.
11:07:50AM SO I AM -- I AM VERY INTERESTED IN MORE HOUSING.
11:07:56AM NOW, FOCUSING ON 80% OR BELOW.
11:07:59AM THIS IS WHERE CREATIVITY COMES IN TO WORK WITH THE PRIVATE
11:08:04AM MARKET ON FOCUSING ON THE HOUSING FOR 80% AND BELOW WHILE
11:08:09AM ALLOWING MORE OF IT TO BE HIGHER.
11:08:11AM I AM VERY CURIOUS.
11:08:17AM I AM STUCK HOW TO DO THAT IN CHANNELSIDE AND I WOULD LOVE
11:08:21AM SOME IDEAS.
11:08:21AM I DON'T FEEL LIKE WE HAVE A WHOLE LOT LEFT TO DO IN
11:08:25AM CHANNELSIDE AND THE FACT THAT WE ARE GOING FOR SEVERAL MORE
11:08:28AM YEARS IS CONCERNING.
11:08:29AM BUT I JUST WANT TO SAY, OVERALL, HOW THRILLED I AM WITH THE
11:08:33AM AMOUNT OF HOUSING MONEY -- LIKE COUNCILMEMBER -- SORRY,
11:08:39AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON SAID, IT IS JUST SO AMAZING TO SEE.
11:08:43AM SO WONDERFUL TO SEE.
11:08:44AM THIS IS WHAT WE SHOULD BE DOING.
11:08:46AM WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON HOUSING HERE.
11:08:48AM AND I JUST -- I JUST -- IT LOOKS GREAT AND I AM EXCITED
11:08:53AM ABOUT IT.
11:08:53AM AND THIS BUDGET QUITE FRANKLY IS A LOT EASIER THAN THE OTHER
11:09:00AM ONE AND WE CAN SEE THE LINE ITEMS AND MOVE THEM AND
11:09:02AM VISUALIZE IT.
11:09:03AM I APPRECIATE YOUR WORK ON THIS.
11:09:05AM AND I AM VERY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THESE
11:09:09AM DOLLARS.
11:09:09AM THANK YOU.
11:09:10AM HENDERSON-YOU WANT TO PIGGYBACK.
11:09:15AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I DO.
11:09:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:09:19AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SORRY.
11:09:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO PROBLEM.
11:09:21AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: FOR COUNCILMEMBER HURTAK, HOW DO YOU -- IF
11:09:26AM YOU CAN HELP TWO FAMILIES IN AN AREA VERY CLOSE TO THE URBAN
11:09:30AM CORE VERSUS 20 FAMILIES -- SORRY, TWO FAMILIES IN THE URBAN
11:09:34AM CORE VERSUS THAT SAME DOLLAR FIGURE TO A FAMILY SOMEWHERE
11:09:42AM ELSE BECAUSE THERE IS A LIMITED AMOUNT OF MONEY.
11:09:44AM I AM HAVING A HARD TIME BRIDGING THAT.
11:09:46AM HOW DO I JUSTIFY SAYING THAT THERE ARE 18 FAMILIES THAT WILL
11:09:50AM GO -- WITHOUT HAVING --
11:09:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SURE, BUT, YOU KNOW, BY THAT -- BY THAT
11:09:56AM MEASURE WE SHOULD SAY WHY SHOULD WE PUT A FIRE STATION
11:10:00AM DOWNTOWN.
11:10:00AM REALLY EXPENSIVE.
11:10:01AM PUTTING A FIRE STATION DOWNTOWN WILL BE INSANELY EXPENSIVE.
11:10:04AM WHY DON'T WE MOVE IT SOMEWHERE ELSE.
11:10:06AM BUT I AM JUST SAYING -- SO YOU -- YOU ASKED ME A QUESTION
11:10:11AM AND I AM ANSWERING IT BY SAYING, THERE ARE A TON OF THINGS
11:10:14AM THAT WE SUBSIDIZE AS THE CITY BECAUSE OF THE LOCATION.
11:10:17AM BECAUSE OF THE COST OF THE LAND.
11:10:19AM SO THAT IS WHY.
11:10:20AM AM I SAYING PUTTING EVERY TYPE OF HOUSING DOWNTOWN -- EVERY
11:10:26AM PART OF HOUSING DOWNTOWN SHOULD HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING?
11:10:29AM NO.
11:10:29AM BUT THAT SPOT UP BY 275, WE HAVE A LOT OF VACANT LAND THERE.
11:10:34AM WOULD YOU WANT TO BUY A MILLION DOLLAR CONDO NEXT TO 275.
11:10:38AM I KNOW, BUT IF WE BOUGHT THAT LAND CHEAPER AND SOME OF IT WE
11:10:43AM ACTUALLY OWN.
11:10:44AM WE OWN THE JAIL PROPERTY.
11:10:45AM OTHER PROPERTY THAT WE CAN ACQUIRE NEARBY.
11:10:51AM AND WE ALREADY HAVE THE ARMY-NAVY.
11:10:54AM SO WE HAVE ENOUGH LAND UP THERE AND MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO
11:11:00AM PARTNER WITH OTHER AGENCIES THAT WANT TO DO THE WORK THAT I
11:11:06AM THINK IT IS WORTH IT.
11:11:06AM AND -- SO TO ASK SERIOUSLY OF PROVIDING TWO -- TWO -- HOUSE
11:11:13AM FOR TWO FAMILIES VERSUS HOUSING FOR 20 FAMILIES.
11:11:16AM I AM GOING TO GO BACK TO THE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
11:11:19AM YOU ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOUSE 50 FAMILIES FOR THE TWO
11:11:22AM FAMILIES YOU ARE GOING TO BE ABLE TO HOUSE.
11:11:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:11:28AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I DISAGREE WITH BOTH OF YOU AND AGREE
11:11:33AM WITH BOTH OF YOU AT THE SAME TIME TO MAKE IT EQUAL.
11:11:35AM LET ME SAY THIS.
11:11:36AM YOU WILL NEVER BUILD A FIRE STATION DOWNTOWN UNLESS IT IS IN
11:11:40AM THE BOTTOM FLOOR OF A TALL BUILDING.
11:11:42AM BECAUSE THERE IS NO MORE LAND.
11:11:44AM AND THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
11:11:45AM AND THE FUTURE IT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
11:11:47AM IF YOU BUILD ANOTHER FIRE STATION, THE GROUND BUILDING OF A
11:11:51AM TALL BUILDING, 15, 20, 25 STORIES TALL.
11:11:54AM THAT IS WHAT I SEE.
11:11:55AM BUT I KNOW YOU ARE TALKING OF LAND TRUST.
11:11:57AM I WANT TO THROW A CURVEBALL AT BOTH OF YOU.
11:12:00AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR CONVERSATION.
11:12:03AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:12:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: LET ME CLARIFY.
11:12:06AM I AM NOT AT ALL SAYING WE DON'T NEED A FIRE STATION
11:12:09AM DOWNTOWN.
11:12:09AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I KNOW WHAT YOU MEAN.
11:12:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I FELT THE NEED TO CLARIFY THAT.
11:12:13AM BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ARE PLAYING DEVIL'S ADVOCATE.
11:12:17AM ABSOLUTELY I NEED TO SAY IT ON THE RECORD.
11:12:20AM WE NEED TO HAVE A FIRE STATION IN THAT AREA.
11:12:23AM BUT IF WE ARE GOING TO ADVOCATE WHAT WE SPEND WHERE, WE
11:12:26AM SHOULD BE PUTTING EVERY SINGLE OF DOLLARS OF OURS IN THE
11:12:30AM UNIVERSITY AREA.
11:12:30AM JUST SAYING.
11:12:32AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I SAY ONE QUICK THING.
11:12:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:12:37AM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU MAY WANT TO GO LAST.
11:12:39AM I PHILOSOPHICALLY AGREE THAT WE SHOULD HAVE AFFORDABLE
11:12:43AM HOUSING EVERYWHERE.
11:12:43AM RIGHT NOW WE HAVE AN URGENT CRISIS TO BUILD 50,000 UNITS.
11:12:49AM I WILL SAY LET'S USE THE MONEY TO BUILD AS QUICKLY AS
11:12:52AM POSSIBLE IN AS MANY PLACES THAT WICK.
11:12:54AM WE NEED TO BANK LAND AND OTHER THINGS, BUT WE NEED TO LOOK
11:12:58AM AT OUR PORTFOLIO JUST LIKE YOU DO WHEN YOU INVEST.
11:13:01AM INVEST SOME AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN DOWNTOWN.
11:13:04AM WE HAVE DONE THAT WITH THE ARMY-NAVY BUILDING AND THERE HAY
11:13:07AM BE OTHERS.
11:13:08AM KEEP IN MIND THAT THERE ARE OTHER TOOLS BESIDES MONDAY.
11:13:13AM ABBYE FEELEY AND BONUS DENSITY IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:13:18AM SIMILAR IDEAS DOWNTOWN.
11:13:20AM THERE MAY BE -- THERE MAY BE WAYS TO ACCOMPLISH THE GOAL OF
11:13:23AM GETTING MORE AFFORDABLE OR WORKFORCE HOUSING DOWNTOWN
11:13:27AM CHANNEL DISTRICT WITHOUT JUST APPLYING ALL OF OUR MONEY.
11:13:30AM THANK YOU.
11:13:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YEAH, THE ONE THING I JUST WANT TO ADD
11:13:34AM REGARDING DOWNTOWN IS THE -- LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION IS
11:13:41AM IMPORTANT.
11:13:41AM SO THE DIVERSITY OF DOWNTOWN, IF WE DON'T DO IT, DOWNTOWN
11:13:46AM WILL BECOME FOR AN ELITE POPULATION OF PEOPLE JUST LIKE IT
11:13:52AM IS IN OTHER PLACES IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:13:54AM AND IT WILL TAKE AWAY THE DIVERSITY BECAUSE IT WON'T BE
11:13:58AM AFFORDABLE.
11:13:59AM WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR AFFORDABILITY OF SPACES IN DOWNTOWN
11:14:03AM CRAs.
11:14:03AM THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT.
11:14:04AM BECAUSE THE VARIETY OF THINGS.
11:14:06AM THE PEOPLE WHO WORK DOWN HERE WHO WANT TO LIVE CLOSE TO
11:14:09AM WHERE THEY WORK.
11:14:10AM AND THEY ARE IN OUR SERVICE INDUSTRY AND OUR HOTELS.
11:14:13AM SO THERE IS AS VARIETY OF REASONS WHY WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO
11:14:16AM FOCUS ON IT.
11:14:17AM ALTHOUGH IT IS MORE EXPENSIVE, IT IS STILL HAS TO BE PART OF
11:14:21AM THE OUR PHILOSOPHY AT WHAT WE DO AND I WILL LEAVE IT AT
11:14:25AM THAT.
11:14:25AM BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
11:14:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I JUST GOT AN IDEA.
11:14:29AM IF IT IS CRAZY IT IS WHATEVER.
11:14:30AM THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS NEXT DOOR.
11:14:32AM THEY TALK OF MOVING THE POLICE HEADQUARTERS, RIGHT.
11:14:34AM INSTEAD OF SELLING THAT BUILDING THAT HAS A PARKING GARAGE,
11:14:37AM WHY DON'T WE RETROFIT IT TO A FIRE STATION ON THE FIRST
11:14:42AM FLOOR.
11:14:42AM A FIRE STATION ON THE BOTTOM LOOK AND UTILIZE THE UPPER
11:14:45AM FLOORS FOR HOUSING.
11:14:46AM WE ALREADY HAVE THE BUILDING.
11:14:47AM I JUST THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.
11:14:49AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE BEEN BRIEFED THAT THE BUILDING --
11:14:54AM THERE ARE SO MANY ISSUES WITH THE BUILDING ITSELF BEYOND THE
11:14:58AM USEFUL LIFE THAT IT PROBABLY WILL HAVE TO COME DOWN.
11:15:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN'T EVEN BE GUTTED AND --
11:15:04AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COST PROHIBITIVE.
11:15:05AM THE AMOUNT OF MONEY TO GET IT UP TO SAFETY STANDARDS WOULD
11:15:08AM PROHIBIT HAVING IT BEING RENOVATED.
11:15:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AND IT IS BLUE.
11:15:16AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SORRY, THOUGHT IT WAS GREEN FOR DRAGONS.
11:15:21AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OKAY.
11:15:21AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:15:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR DRUMGO.
11:15:28AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:15:30AM HEARING THE COMMENTS, I DON'T WANT TO ADD MORE TO THE
11:15:34AM DISCUSSION.
11:15:34AM YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT BUSINESS ACUMEN AND YOU WORK THROUGH
11:15:38AM THIS WITH LOGIC.
11:15:39AM THE CRA IS NOT MEANT TO BE A REVENUE GENERATOR ALL THE TIME.
11:15:43AM OPINION IT IS REALLY AN OPPORTUNITY TO FIX THE ILLS THAT
11:15:46AM HAVE FALLEN UPON THE COMMUNITY.
11:15:48AM SO AS YOU TALK OF BUILDING THAT COMMUNITY, THE DIVERSITY IN
11:15:53AM HOUSING STOCK AND HAVING THAT AVAILABLE TO FOLKS.
11:15:57AM BUYING INTO THE MORE EXPENSIVE AREAS IS THE WAY FOR THE CRA
11:16:01AM TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THAT PRESSURE.
11:16:03AM RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE HAD -- WE HAD THE PLEASURE OF HAVING A
11:16:07AM LOT OF MARKET RATE DEVELOPMENT IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT THAT
11:16:10AM COULD COME TO A STRETCHING HALT.
11:16:13AM THAT COULD COME TO A SCREECHING HALT WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT
11:16:17AM ABLE TO SHIFT THEIR HOUSING OPTIONS.
11:16:19AM SO FILLING THE GAPS BY PROVIDING SOME AFFORDABLE OPTIONS IS
11:16:25AM A KEY TO THAT -- SOME OF THAT TRANSITION FOR FOLKS TO BE
11:16:30AM UPWARDLY MOBILE.
11:16:33AM I WANTED TO POINT OUT THOSE OPTIONS.
11:16:38AM WITH THE POLICE STATION.
11:16:39AM WE HAD INTERNAL DISCUSSIONS HOW TO ALLEVIATE THE PRESSURES
11:16:42AM OF NEEDING TO RELOCATE THE FD AND HOW THE CRA MIGHT BE ABLE
11:16:48AM TO OWN THAT SITE AND TAKE IT AND RECRUIT DEVELOPMENT TO COME
11:16:51AM IN AND DO SOMETHING ELSE SO WE CAN HAVE MORE CONVERSATION
11:16:57AM ABOUT THAT OFFLINE.
11:16:58AM I WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
11:17:00AM YES, SIR.
11:17:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
11:17:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COST PROHIBITIVE AS WAS MENTIONED TO
11:17:07AM RENOVATE AND RENOVATE TO SOMETHING ELSE.
11:17:09AM WE HAVE OF THE EXISTING PARKING GARAGE EXPENSIVE IN ITSELF.
11:17:14AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: ABSOLUTELY.
11:17:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE BIG BLUE GETS TORN DOWN AND WE
11:17:20AM ALREADY HAVE THAT LAND AND IN THAT LAND, WE SPECIFICALLY
11:17:23AM DESIGN IT FOR FIRE STATION ON THE BOTTOM AND HOUSING FOR THE
11:17:27AM TOP.
11:17:27AM YOU ARE IN THAT DOWNTOWN CORRIDOR.
11:17:30AM AND IT IS NEW.
11:17:30AM IT IS -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE NUMBERS ARE, I THOUGHT ABOUT
11:17:34AM THIS TEN MINUTES AGO.
11:17:35AM BUT, AGAIN, THE MOST EXPENSIVE PIECE OF THE LAND, WE HAVE
11:17:40AM THE LAND AND HOW TO BEST UTILIZE INSTEAD OF SELLING THE
11:17:43AM PROPERTY OFF TO THE DEVELOP THEIR CAN DO WHATEVER.
11:17:45AM WE ARE IN CONTROL OF IT.
11:17:46AM WE HAVE IT.
11:17:47AM SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT IN THE FUTURE.
11:17:49AM AGAIN IT COULD BE A $100 MILLION BUILDING OR A $10 MILLION
11:17:54AM BUILDING.
11:17:54AM MOST PRECIOUS PIECE IS THE DIRT, AND WE HAVE THAT.
11:17:57AM SO THANK YOU.
11:17:59AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY MORE COMMENTS?
11:18:02AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:18:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:18:04AM I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THIS TIME TO SAY HOW MUCH AND -- I
11:18:10AM MEAN, THIS -- THIS IS JUST FOR THE ENTIRE THING.
11:18:12AM HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE ALL -- AND I HAD -- I E-MAILED THIS TO
11:18:18AM YOU AND SPOKE TO YOU ABOUT THIS BEFORE.
11:18:19AM BUT THE DETAIL OF ALL OF THE PRESENTATIONS, ALL THE BACK-UP
11:18:25AM DOCUMENTATION IN SIRE, HOW MUCH OF THE INFORMATION THAT --
11:18:30AM THAT I WAS INTERESTED IN LOOKING FOR WAS ALREADY THERE.
11:18:33AM AND I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT.
11:18:35AM THAT IS INCREDIBLY EXCITING.
11:18:37AM YOU AND YOUR TEAM HAS DONE A FABULOUS JOB WITH IT.
11:18:41AM AND WANT TO THE WELCOME MR. LOPEZ AND SAY, WE ARE EXCITED TO
11:18:45AM WORK WITH YOU.
11:18:46AM AND ALSO SAY, YOU KNOW, CONGRATULATIONS AND WE ARE SORRY TO
11:18:52AM MR. BURTON.
11:18:53AM YOU KNOW, WE ARE VERY SORRY TO LOSE HIM, BUT I KNOW HE WILL
11:18:58AM -- MANATEE IS VERY LUCKY TO GET HIM.
11:19:04AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION.
11:19:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:19:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MAYBE TO MORRIS -- MR. MASSEY.
11:19:11AM HAVE WE EVER BEEN PRESENTED -- I DON'T WANT TO -- PRESIDENT
11:19:15AM CHAIRWOMAN AND I ARE IN THE SAME BOAT.
11:19:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT IS OKAY.
11:19:21AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MAYBE NOT THE CRA, BUT ALSO WITH COUNCIL,
11:19:25AM HAVE WE BEEN PRESENTED WITH A LIST OF CITY-OWNED ASSETS OR
11:19:29AM LAND ASSETS SO WE HAVE THAT AND WHAT THEIR USES ARE.
11:19:32AM SO THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO THAT?
11:19:37AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: UNDER STATE LAW, WE ARE REQUIRED TO GO
11:19:40AM THROUGH INVENTORY OF CITY-OWNED PROPERTY AND COME FORWARD
11:19:43AM WITH A LIST OF THOSE AVAILABLE TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING
11:19:47AM OPTIONS.
11:19:48AM THAT WAS PRESENTED TO YOU RIGHT BEFORE THE LAST ELECTION.
11:19:52AM BUT WE ARE MANDATED BY STATE LAW TO HAVE THAT LIST AND WE
11:19:56AM GENERATED THAT LIST.
11:19:57AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHO IS THE KEEPER OF THAT LIST?
11:20:00AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK MISS VAN LOAN, THE MANAGER OF THE
11:20:06AM DEVELOPMENT.
11:20:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: TO MY AIDE THAT LISTENING BACK THERE.
11:20:11AM IF YOU CAN GET ME THAT LIST.
11:20:13AM I WOULD APPRECIATE IT.
11:20:14AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DIRECTOR MOODY, READY TO MOVE FORWARD
11:20:18AM WITH YOUR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT STAFF.
11:20:19AM >>ERICA MOODY: YES.
11:20:20AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:20:21AM I APPRECIATE THE CONVERSATION.
11:20:22AM SO IMPORTANT.
11:20:22AM DID ANYBODY HAVE ANOTHER COMMENT?
11:20:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY, DO WE NEED TO APPROVE
11:20:30AM THE BUDGET.
11:20:31AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE.
11:20:33AM ITEM 11 IS APPROVING THE CRA BUDGET.
11:20:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE ITEM NUMBER 11.
11:20:39AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
11:20:40AM I HAVE A MOTION FROM BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO TO APPROVE THE
11:20:44AM BUDGET.
11:20:45AM SECOND FROM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:20:47AM DISCUSSION?
11:20:48AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:20:49AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WANT TO THANK DIRECTOR MOODY FROM MENTIONS
11:20:56AM IN THE BEGINNING THIS IS NOT APPROVAL OF THE PROPOSED TAX
11:20:58AM INCREASE.
11:20:58AM JUST FOR EVERYBODY WATCHING IT INCLUDES THOSE NUMBERS SHE
11:21:01AM SAID AT THE BEGINNING, BUT IF THE TAX INCREASE IS NOT
11:21:05AM APPROVED, IT WILL REVERT BACK AND BE CALCULATED DIFFERENTLY.
11:21:08AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY KNOWS I AM NOT VOTING FOR THE
11:21:11AM TAX INCREASE IN THIS.
11:21:12AM THANK YOU.
11:21:13AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WANT TO CLARIFY.
11:21:14AM THE RESOLUTION HAS A PROVISION THAT SAYS EXACTLY THAT.
11:21:17AM THAT IS THE MILLAGE RATE -- WHAT IS PROPOSED IS -- WE WILL
11:21:22AM COME BACK AND HAVE AMENDMENT TO THE BUDGET.
11:21:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
11:21:29AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:21:30AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I AM GOING AS A PRINCIPLE -- WEIRD FOR
11:21:33AM KNEE, I AM NOT GOING TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF IT BECAUSE OF THE
11:21:35AM ALLOCATIONS OF THE DOWNTOWN UNTIL I REACH -- UNTIL I HAVE
11:21:39AM SOME LEVEL OF COMFORT THIS IS THE BEST USE OF TAXPAYER MONEY
11:21:43AM THAT SPENDING THAT MONEY IN THOSE TWO AREAS -- THAT MUCH
11:21:46AM MONEY, BECAUSE I CAN'T GET PAST HOW MUCH GOOD WE CAN DO IN
11:21:49AM OTHER AREAS WITH TAXPAYER MONEY.
11:21:51AM AND IF THERE IS A WITH A WAY OF SHIFTING FUNDS INTO
11:21:54AM TRANSPORTATION AND BUILDING OUT LESS AFFORDABLE AREAS -- OR
11:21:59AM MORE AFFORDABLE AREAS.
11:22:00AM THAT IS WHAT WOULD BRING IT MY LEVEL OF COMFORT.
11:22:03AM I WANTED TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY UNDERSTOOD THAT.
11:22:05AM I THINK YOU ALL DID A GREAT JOB ON PRESENTATION OF THIS AND
11:22:09AM YOU ARE DOING GREAT WORK.
11:22:10AM AND I ADMIRE YOU.
11:22:12AM THANK YOU.
11:22:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:22:16AM >>BILL CARLSON: I AGREE WITH YOU.
11:22:17AM ITEM NUMBER 6.
11:22:20AM IF WE DECIDE TO MOVE MONEY -- WE WILL TALK ABOUT THIS IN
11:22:24AM ITEM 6.
11:22:25AM IF WE DECIDE TO INVOLVE MONEY OUT, WE WILL CHANGE THE BUDGET
11:22:28AM BASED ON THAT.
11:22:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THEY WERE PRESENTED TOGETHER -- YES, WE
11:22:34AM DID AT THE BEGINNING OF THE AGENDA.
11:22:35AM ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION?
11:22:37AM OKAY.
11:22:37AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
11:22:39AM OPPOSED.
11:22:41AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NAY.
11:22:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: LET'S DO A ROLL CALL.
11:22:47AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NO.
11:22:48AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:22:51AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:22:52AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:22:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:22:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:22:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
11:22:56AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CLENDENIN VOTING NO.
11:23:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BE CAREFUL -- OKAY.
11:23:04AM THANK YOU.
11:23:05AM DIRECTOR MOODY.
11:23:07AM WE ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH YOUR COMMUNITY
11:23:10AM REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY STAFF BIMONTHLY REPORTS.
11:23:14AM WE PROBABLY WON'T BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH EVERYONE.
11:23:17AM WE NEED A HARD STOP FOR LUNCH.
11:23:18AM I HAVE AN ENGAGEMENT.
11:23:21AM WHAT TIME IS IT?
11:23:24AM >>CLERK: 11:23.
11:23:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: 11:23.
11:23:30AM >>ERICA MOODY: THE MANAGERS PRESENTATION WILL BE PRETTY
11:23:36AM QUICK.
11:23:36AM WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FINISH BY 12:00.
11:23:39AM I WANT TO REPEAT HOW MUCH IT MEANS TO HAVE YOUR SUPPORT AND
11:23:42AM ENCOURAGEMENT.
11:23:43AM I AM LISTENING TO YOU AND OUR COMMUNITY AND BRINGING BACK
11:23:46AM EXACTLY WHAT YOU ASK FOR AND WHAT YOU WANT.
11:23:49AM I WILL SAY IT TIME AND TIME AGAIN, THANK YOU TO DEPUTY
11:23:53AM ADMINISTRATOR TRAVIS AND DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR DRUMGO SO THE
11:23:59AM TRANSITION IS EASY.
11:24:00AM IT WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT YOU, THEM, AND THE COMMUNITY
11:24:04AM AND THE STAFF WHICH I WILL INTRODUCE NEXT.
11:24:06AM STAFF WILL COME UP MANAGER BY MANAGER AND PRESENT ON THEIR
11:24:10AM DISTRICT.
11:24:10AM THEY HAVE BEEN SO SUPPORTIVE OF THE CHANGES AS WELL.
11:24:12AM THEY KNOW IT WILL INCREASE OUR IMPACT IN EFFICIENCY AND THEY
11:24:16AM HAVE BEEN ADAPTING TO THESE CHANGES SO GRACEFULLY WHICH I
11:24:20AM REALLY APPRECIATE KATE IT.
11:24:21AM THE FIRST IS DREW PARK AND WEST TAMPA CRA MANAGER, MR. JESUS
11:24:28AM NINO.
11:24:29AM >>JESUS NINO: THANK YOU.
11:24:38AM ERICA.
11:24:39AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
11:24:40AM >>JESUS NINO: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
11:24:41AM JESUS NINO.
11:24:43AM FOR THE PUBLIC OUT THERE, DREW PARK AND WEST TAMPA COMMUNITY
11:24:50AM DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
11:24:51AM FIRST BEFORE YOU IS DREW PARK.
11:24:52AM AS MARITZA ASTORQUIZA EXPLAINED EARLIER HAS A LOT OF
11:24:56AM EXCITING PROJECTS GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
11:24:58AM BUT I AM ONLY GOING TO HIGHLIGHT ONE.
11:24:59AM THIS IS THE PROJECT WE HAVE WITH TERRA TECHTONICS THAT THE
11:25:05AM CONSULTANT CHOSE EARL WHY I IN THE YEAR TO GO OUT THERE
11:25:09AM THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE DREW PARK CRA AREA AND EVALUATE
11:25:13AM CONDITIONS OUT THERE THAT CAN BE IMPROVED.
11:25:14AM FOR EXAMPLE, CONNECTIVITY WITH SIDEWALKS, SAFETY
11:25:18AM IMPROVEMENTS AT INTERSECTIONS AND RIGHT-OF-WAYS.
11:25:22AM AND GENERAL MULTIMODAL ABILITY.
11:25:26AM TERRA TECH TONICS HAVE HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND HAVE A
11:25:30AM PLAYBOOK OF PERMIT-READY OR BIDDABLE PROJECTS.
11:25:34AM SO IT WILL BE A PLAYBOOK.
11:25:36AM WE CAN JUST PRIORITIZE SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS, TAKE IT OUT
11:25:40AM AND PUT THEM OUT TO BID PRETTY QUICK AND GET TO WORK.
11:25:43AM WE ARE WORK HAVING HE CLOSELY WITH THE CITY 'S MOBILITY
11:25:47AM TEAM.
11:25:47AM THE CITY'S DIVISIONS.
11:25:49AM TO MAKE SURE WE ARE NOT DUPLICATING EFFORTS AND NOT IN THE
11:25:53AM CITY'S CIP, IF IT IS, WE WILL NOT DEAL WITH IT.
11:25:57AM IF IT IS, WE WILL ENHANCE WHAT THE CITY IS DOING.
11:25:59AM VERY EXCITING $135,000 PROJECT, BASICALLY.
11:26:03AM WE HAD A MEETING ON HILLSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE ON AUGUST
11:26:07AM 9.
11:26:07AM IT WAS PRETTY SUCCESSFUL.
11:26:09AM WASN'T THE BIGGEST TURNOUT BUT WASN'T THE SMALLEST TURNOUT.
11:26:15AM RESIDENTS SHOWED UP.
11:26:17AM BUSINESSES THAT I NEVER MET BEFORE SHOWED UP.
11:26:19AM I AM GOING TO SCHEDULE RIDE-ALONGS IN DREW PARK SO THEY CAN
11:26:26AM SHOW ME AREAS THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN BEFORE.
11:26:28AM THAT IS DREW PARK.
11:26:29AM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, LET ME KNOW BEFORE I MOVE ON.
11:26:33AM THANK YOU.
11:26:34AM NEXT THE TAMPA -- THE WEST TAMPA CRA.
11:26:38AM WEST TAMPA IS ALWAYS BOOMING.
11:26:40AM ALWAYS ROCKING AND ROLLING.
11:26:41AM WE NEVER DON'T HAVE SOMETHING TO DO OUT THERE.
11:26:43AM WE ARE ALWAYS MAKING IMPROVEMENTS.
11:26:46AM BUT THE HIGHLIGHTS I HAVE BEFORE YOU IS THE WEST TAMPA
11:26:49AM ALLEYWAY PLAN.
11:26:51AM A PILOT PROJECT THAT CRA IS FUNDING.
11:26:53AM THE PROJECT MANAGER IS THAT IS THE CITY'S PLANNING DIVISION,
11:27:00AM STEPHEN BENSON'S TEAM HAS TAKEN LEAD ON THAT.
11:27:02AM BUT I AM THE PROJECT MANAGER AND WE ARE THE PROJECT SPONSOR
11:27:06AM SO I AM KEEPING AN EYE ON THEM.
11:27:07AM KICKED OFF AROUND MAY.
11:27:09AM $250,000 PROJECT.
11:27:10AM BASICALLY WHAT THEY DO IS GO THROUGHOUT THE CRA, WEST TAMPA
11:27:14AM CRA AND INVENTORY EVERY PUBLIC ALLEY THAT IS OUT THERE.
11:27:18AM THEY CONCLUDED WALKING ALL THE ALLEY.
11:27:22AM THREE DAYS.
11:27:22AM A FUN PROJECT, FUN EFFORT TO BE THERE THE ALLEYWAYS.
11:27:27AM WE CLEANED THEM UP LAST YEAR AND NOT THAT DIFFICULT TO
11:27:32AM NAVIGATE THE ALLEYWAYS.
11:27:33AM WHAT IS SOUTH THERE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND AT THE END, THEY
11:27:36AM WILL COME UP WITH A STRATEGY OF HOW TO IMPROVE THOSE
11:27:39AM ALLEYWAYS.
11:27:40AM RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE CITY'S LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AND
11:27:45AM TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL STANDARDS.
11:27:46AM A FUN PROJECT AND JUST KICKED OFF.
11:27:48AM NEXT WE HAVE SALCINES PARK AND RAY PARK.
11:27:52AM WE HAVE A DESIGN BUILT FIRM, THE FINESEY GROUP DOING BOTH OF
11:27:58AM THE PARKS.
11:27:59AM WE HAD A LAUNCH -- NOT LAUNCH -- BUT MET WITH THE RETIRED
11:28:03AM JUDGE E.J. SALCINES.
11:28:10AM AND HE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY WEALTH OF MILES PER HOUR.
11:28:12AM WE ONLY HAD AN HOUR.
11:28:14AM IF HE HAD HIS WAY, WE WOULD BE THERE 20 HOURS.
11:28:17AM A MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET FOR SALCINES PARK AND FENCED OFF
11:28:23AM WITH A DECORATIVE WIND SCREEN SHOWING THE AGENCY'S NEW LOGO
11:28:29AM AND THE PROJECTS.
11:28:29AM STAY TUNED ON THAT.
11:28:32AM ONE THING THAT I WANT TO MENTION THAT IS NOT ON THE SLIDE
11:28:35AM HERE, IN MID-SEPTEMBER, WE ARE PLAN AN ELABORATE COMMUNITY
11:28:39AM MEETING TO DISCUSS WITH THE COMMUNITY OUR PLANS TO IMPLEMENT
11:28:42AM THE CITY'S -- WEST TAMPA MAIN STREET CORRIDOR PLAN THAT WE
11:28:47AM HAVE OUT THERE.
11:28:47AM MID -- MID SEPTEMBER, STAY TUNED FOR THAT DATE.
11:28:55AM BID BUILD PROJECT FOR THAT AND IMPROVEMENT AND
11:28:59AM BEAUTIFICATION FOR IT.
11:29:00AM STAY TUNED.
11:29:00AM ANY QUESTIONS?
11:29:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:29:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:29:04AM LOOKING AT THE ALLEYWAY PLAN.
11:29:07AM I AM HOPING THAT YOU ARE ALSO COORDINATING WITH STORMWATER
11:29:11AM AND PARKS BECAUSE I BELIEVE -- I KNOW A LOT OF THOSE
11:29:14AM ALLEYWAY IS USED BY STORMWATER TO LOOK AT AND SEE IF WE CAN
11:29:19AM POSSIBLY USE ANY STORMWATER MONEY TO IMPROVE THOSE ALLEYS.
11:29:23AM THE ONES USED AS STORMWATER AND, OF COURSE, PARKS.
11:29:27AM I DO BELIEVE THAT ALLEYS ARE A GREAT GREEN SPACE, ESPECIALLY
11:29:30AM NOW.
11:29:30AM I BET YOU RUN INTO A LOT OF RESIDENTS OUT WALKING IN THE
11:29:34AM ALLEYS RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF THE ONES COVERED AND SHADED.
11:29:37AM I WOULD LOVE IF THAT -- IS THAT PART OF THE CONVERSATION?
11:29:45AM >>JESUS NINO: THE STAKEHOLDERS FOR THIS PROJECT IS EXTREMELY
11:29:48AM LARGE.
11:29:48AM WHEN WE HAVE THESE MEETINGS, WE HAVE STORMWATER, PARKS
11:29:52AM AND REC, YOU NAME IT.
11:29:53AM THEY ARE THERE TO TALK ABOUT IDEAS TO IMPROVE THOSE ALLEYS.
11:29:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GREAT, THANK YOU.
11:29:59AM GLAD TO HEAR THAT.
11:30:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE ALLEYWAYS.
11:30:04AM ONE OF OUR FIRST MEETINGS, WE HAD TO VOTE ON A PARTICULAR
11:30:08AM ALLEYWAY THAT WAS STATED THAT IT WAS DETERMINED TO BE USABLE
11:30:13AM FOR A PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THE OVERLAY PLAN, THEY
11:30:16AM WANT THEM TO USE THE ALLEYS, RIGHT.
11:30:18AM ISN'T THAT PART OF THE NEW OVERLAY PLAN OR WILL THERE BE
11:30:23AM CHANGES IN THERE.
11:30:23AM >>JESUS NINO: PART OF THE EXERCISE IS TO DEFINE WHAT IS A
11:30:27AM USABLE ALLEY AS FAR AS DEVELOPMENT AND SO FORTH, SO, YES.
11:30:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:30:33AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE ALLEY, NOT A PROBLEM WITH IT.
11:30:35AM BUT WHAT I SEE IS, ALL THE ALLEYS ARE DIFFERENT IN WEST
11:30:40AM TAMPA.
11:30:41AM SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN GIVEN SEVEN FEET ON EACH SIDE AND A
11:30:45AM FENCE THERE AND BEHAVIOR.
11:30:46AM YOU WILL NEVER GET 100% ACCURACY ON THE ALLEYS .SOME ARE ALL
11:30:52AM CLOSED.
11:30:53AM HOUSES ARE BUILT.
11:30:54AM IF THERE IS A NEW DEVELOPMENT WHERE THERE ARE NO HOUSES AND
11:30:57AM DEVELOPED THIS WAY, 100% SUCCESSFUL.
11:31:00AM BUT I HAVE DOUBT ON THE SUCCESS OF IT AND THE TERM OF YEARS
11:31:04AM IT WILL TAKE TO DO THAT.
11:31:05AM BECAUSE IF WE HAVE ONE HOUSE THAT HAS BURNED DOWN OR
11:31:07AM WHATEVER FOR WHATEVER REASON, YOU HAVE NINE THAT ARE STILL
11:31:11AM PARKING IN THE FRONT.
11:31:12AM ONE WILL PARK IN THE BACK.
11:31:15AM AND THAT WILL BE HARD FOR DO.
11:31:17AM IT WILL BE HARD TO DO FOR THAT INDIVIDUAL WHOEVER BUYS THAT
11:31:21AM HOUSE.
11:31:21AM HE OR SHE WILL SAY, WHY AM I DIFFERENT?
11:31:25AM THAT IS ALL.
11:31:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:31:30AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I LOVE ALL AREAS OF TAMPA, BUT WEST TAMPA
11:31:37AM HAS A SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART.
11:31:38AM I'M EXCITED TO SEE WHAT IS COMING THERE.
11:31:41AM POTENTIAL WITH MAIN STREET AND THE POTENTIAL REDEVELOPMENT.
11:31:44AM I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH TO YOU MAKE ALL THESE THINGS
11:31:47AM HAPPEN, BECAUSE THIS WILL BE THE HEART AND SOUL OF TAMPA.
11:31:50AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
11:31:51AM THANK YOU.
11:31:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:31:53AM ANY MORE COMMENTS?
11:31:54AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT.
11:31:55AM >>ERICA MOODY: I WILL INTRODUCE OUR NEXT MANAGER, EAST TAMPA
11:32:08AM MANAGER MR. CEDRIC McCRAY.
11:32:11AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING.
11:32:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
11:32:19AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: CEDRIC McCRAY, TAMPA CRA MANAGER.
11:32:22AM AS WE ARE COMING TO THE CLOSE OF THE FISCAL YEAR, I KIND OF
11:32:26AM WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE GRANT FUNDED PROGRAMS THAT
11:32:28AM WE HAVE BEEN WORKING.
11:32:30AM AND YOU WILL SEE SOME OF THE FRUITS OF OUR LABOR IN YOUR
11:32:34AM DECISIONS TO SUPPORT THOSE PROGRAMS.
11:32:35AM FIRST, WE WILL START OFF WITH THE ROOFING GRANT.
11:32:38AM WE HAD SEVERAL RESIDENTS WHEN COMING INTO A POSITION THAT
11:32:43AM HAVE REQUESTED THAT THEY HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL DOLLARS TO
11:32:46AM SURE UP THE HOUSING STOCK IN EAST TAMPA.
11:32:49AM AND TO DATE, WE HAVE SPENT A LITTLE OVER HALF A MILLION
11:32:52AM DOLLARS IN REPLACEMENTS AND REPAIRS FOR RESIDENTS IN EAST
11:32:58AM TAMPA.
11:32:58AM AND WE ARE JUST HALFWAY THROUGH THE LISTS THAT WE HAVE
11:33:02AM COMPILED SINCE THE END OF LAST YEAR.
11:33:04AM TREE TRIMMING, WHICH IS A VERY ACTIVE GRANT.
11:33:07AM AND WE, TO DATE, SPENT $275,000 AS IT RELATES TO -- TO THOSE
11:33:13AM GRANTS FOR RESIDENTS WITHIN EAST TAMPA CRA BOUNDARIES.
11:33:17AM DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE IS GOING GANGBUSTERS AND APPRECIATE
11:33:21AM THE ASSISTANCE THROUGH THE FOLKS AT HOUSING COMMUNITY
11:33:24AM DEVELOPMENT AND WE ARE MOVING TO REPROGRAM ADDITIONAL
11:33:29AM DOLLARS AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR TO ASSIST IN COVERING
11:33:32AM SOME OF THOSE AS WE WERE RUNNING OUT OF DOLLARS BECAUSE OF
11:33:39AM THE LEVEL OF APPLICATIONS AND FUNDING.
11:33:41AM COMMERCE FACADE IS MOVING ALONG.
11:33:44AM $66,000 THIS YEAR AND WE WILL HAVE MORE IN THE PIPELINE THAT
11:33:48AM WE ARE WORKING CURRENTLY.
11:33:50AM SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON WITH THE
11:33:57AM CRA OR CAC UPDATES, POLICY UPDATES, I KNOW WE WILL BE
11:34:01AM DISCUSSING THAT HERE SHORTLY THEREAFTER.
11:34:05AM THE CDC RIBBON CUTTING THAT TOOK PLACE LAST MONTH.
11:34:10AM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
11:34:12AM YOU HAVE THE PICTURE THERE AND A GOOD EVENT WHERE THE CRA
11:34:16AM AND THE CAC SUPPORTED THAT TO THE TUNE OF $190,000 THERE
11:34:23AM ABOUTS TO PAY FOR THE WATER, SEWER CONNECTIONS FOR THE FOUR
11:34:26AM HOMES THAT WERE BUILT ON THOSE LOTS.
11:34:31AM WE ARE ALSO ACTIVELY PURSUING LAND BANKING OPPORTUNITIES.
11:34:34AM I KNOW THERE IS SOMETHING ON THE AGENDA TODAY.
11:34:37AM YOU ALL APPROVED THE PURCHASE OF A PARCEL ON 22nd LAST
11:34:41AM MONTH.
11:34:41AM SO WE ARE ACTIVELY MOVING TO TRY TO PURCHASE LAND AND
11:34:46AM FOLLOWS UP ON SOME OF THE DISCUSSION YOU HAD EARLIER DURING
11:34:48AM THIS MEETING AS IT RELATES TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND
11:34:51AM OPPORTUNITIES TO BUILD A LOT OF AREAS IN THE CITY.
11:34:55AM NOT A LOT OF GREEN SPACE OR LAND TO BUILD.
11:34:59AM AND FORTUNATELY, EAST TAMPA DOES HAVE SOME LOCATIONS AND WE
11:35:04AM ARE ACTIVELY AND AGGRESSIVELY WORKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES AND
11:35:07AM WILL HAVE MORE TO PRESENT TO YOU AS WE MOVE FURTHER INTO THE
11:35:10AM FISCAL YEAR.
11:35:11AM URBAN MEAT STUDY WITH THE CLIMATE BEING WHAT THEY ARE.
11:35:16AM WE HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF FORMS AS IT RELATES TO GETTING
11:35:20AM FEEDBACK FROM RESIDENTS IN EAST TAMPA, PRIMARILY OF COOLING
11:35:24AM STATIONS AND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE THEM.
11:35:26AM AND ONE OF THE PHOTOS THERE KIND OF SHOW YOU THE NUMBER OF
11:35:29AM FOLKS THAT SHOWED UP AT THAT EVENT IN JUNE, AND I WOULD ALSO
11:35:33AM LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY FAIR THAT TOOK
11:35:36AM PLACE ON JULY 15.
11:35:37AM I KNOW WE HAD SEVERAL OF THE CRA BOARD MEMBER THAT WERE IN
11:35:42AM ATTENDANCE.
11:35:43AM AND THANK YOU FOR THAT.
11:35:44AM LAST THING I WILL LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT.
11:35:49AM WE HAVE THE SYMPOSIUM EVENT FOR THE EAST TAMPA SUMMER YOUTH
11:35:53AM PROGRAM.
11:35:54AM WE HAD SOME -- SOME FOLKS THAT ATTENDED THE EVENT ON JULY
11:35:58AM 31.
11:35:58AM I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE THINGS.
11:36:02AM WE HAD SEVEN GRADUATES FROM HIGH SCHOOL THAT PARTICIPATED
11:36:06AM THIS SUMMER.
11:36:07AM WITH ONE YOUNG MAN IS AT ALABAMA STATE.
11:36:11AM WE CONFIRMED THAT A DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY.
11:36:13AM WE HAVE ANOTHER GENTLEMAN WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE PROGRAM
11:36:17AM WENT ON TO ERWIN TECH AND REGISTERED TO START HIS HVAC
11:36:22AM CERTIFICATION.
11:36:23AM ANOTHER GENTLEMAN ATTENDING HCC.
11:36:25AM THERE WAS A CONSTRUCTION COMPANY THAT ACTUALLY ATTENDED THE
11:36:29AM EVENT ON THE 34th, AND SHE IS ACTUALLY HIRING ONE OF THOSE
11:36:32AM YOUNG MEN THAT WAS IN THE PROGRAM.
11:36:36AM HE IS GOING THROUGH HIS ONBOARDING PROCESS FOR SERVICES.
11:36:42AM AND MR. HUNLEY, I INVITE HIM TO THE MEETING THIS MORNING AND
11:36:47AM HE IS IN THE OFFICE WORKING WITH THREE ADDITIONAL STUDENTS
11:36:50AM ON THEIR RESUMES AND TRYING TO GET THEM IN LINE FOR JOB
11:36:54AM PLACEMENT FOR OPPORTUNITIES THAT MAY ARISE.
11:36:56AM SO HUGELY SUCCESSFUL AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT.
11:37:03AM AND FOLKS WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION AND THE VARIOUS
11:37:06AM DEPARTMENTS THAT THE YOUTH PARTICIPATED AND INTERACTED WITH
11:37:09AM DURING THE COURSE OF THE SUMMER.
11:37:11AM THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
11:37:12AM AND I WILL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE AT THIS
11:37:15AM TIME.
11:37:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:37:17AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:37:18AM THIS WAS SO COOL.
11:37:19AM YOU ARE TELLING ME THERE ARE SEVEN HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATES
11:37:22AM THAT PARTICIPATED IN THIS PROGRAM, FOUR OF THEM HAVE GONE ON
11:37:26AM TO HIGHER EDUCATION OR HAVE A JOB OFFER.
11:37:30AM AND THE OTHER THREE ARE BEING WORKED WITH TO HELP FIND JOBS.
11:37:34AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, RIGHT NOW.
11:37:35AM HE IS WORKING ON THE RESUME -- ASSISTING THE YOUNG MAN WITH
11:37:39AM THE RESUME RIGHT NOW.
11:37:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IS AMAZING AND EXACTLY WHAT FORMER
11:37:44AM COUNCILMAN AND GUDES WERE PUSHING FOR-- OR BOARD MEMBER, I
11:37:51AM SUPPOSE, WHEN WE WANTS AND OVERHAUL OF THE PROGRAM.
11:37:55AM I WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN AND THANK YOU TO THE COMMUNITY.
11:37:58AM AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT THIS BECOMES IN THE
11:38:01AM FUTURE.
11:38:01AM PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP US UPDATED IN YOUR NEXT UPDATE ON HOW
11:38:06AM MANY OF THOSE SEVEN WERE ABLE TO GET -- I GUESS THE THREE
11:38:10AM LEFTOVER, HOW THEY ARE DOING.
11:38:12AM IF THEY WERE ABLE TO GET JOBS.
11:38:14AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: ABSOLUTELY.
11:38:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK THAT IS A METRIC WE NEED TO BE ABLE
11:38:18AM TO USE IN THE FUTURE.
11:38:20AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, MA'AM.
11:38:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
11:38:24AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GREAT PRESENTATION.
11:38:25AM IT IS GOOD TO SEE YOU.
11:38:26AM I WAS GOING TO ASK YOU ON OFF-TOPIC BUT REGARD CAN EAST
11:38:31AM TAMPA AND THE CRA.
11:38:32AM I KNOW I MADE A MOTION AND IT WAS CONTINUED REGARDING THE
11:38:36AM STORMWATER PONDS.
11:38:37AM IS THAT SOMETHING THAT I CAN CALL YOU ABOUT?
11:38:39AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
11:38:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I AM IN CONTACT WITH HOPE.
11:38:43AM AND I PROMISE TO GIVE THEM AN UPDATE.
11:38:46AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
11:38:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I TALKED WITH THEM LESS THAN 30 DAYS
11:38:51AM AGO.
11:38:51AM ANYWAY -- I KNOW IT IS NOT PART OF THIS AND YOU ARE HERE.
11:38:54AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: WE HAVE BEEN IN COMMUNICATION.
11:38:56AM WE HAVE A MEETING SCHEDULED LATER THIS MONTH WITH THEM TO
11:39:00AM ACQUIRE ABOUT SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS AND WE ALSO HAD A
11:39:03AM MEETING LAST WEEK INTERNALLY WITH THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS
11:39:05AM THAT WOULD BE INVOLVED IN THAT.
11:39:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OKAY.
11:39:08AM WITH REGARDS TO THE SUMMER YOUTH CAREER PROGRAM, THIS IS --
11:39:12AM THIS IS WONDERFUL.
11:39:12AM YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HELP EACH OTHER.
11:39:14AM AND WE ARE HELPING THE FUTURE OF THIS COMMUNITY.
11:39:17AM UP KNOW YOU TALK OF HELP WITH THEIR RESUME.
11:39:19AM HELP WITH -- IT IS OPENING DOORS THAT MAY NOT HAVE BEEN OPEN
11:39:23AM AND OFFERING BETTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE FUTURE.
11:39:25AM SO THIS IS -- YOU KNOW, I SEE TRADE AND TECHNICAL SCHOOLS.
11:39:29AM I SEE THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT.
11:39:32AM BECAUSE KIDS ARE GRADUATING HIGH SCHOOL AND THEY MAY NOT
11:39:35AM KNOW WHAT THEY WANT TO DO.
11:39:36AM AND THIS IS SHOWING THEM THERE ARE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES OUT
11:39:38AM THERE.
11:39:39AM AND THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT.
11:39:41AM THIS IS WONDERFUL.
11:39:41AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
11:39:42AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: MY PLEASURE.
11:39:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:39:46AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO, I AM OKAY.
11:39:48AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:39:49AM I APPRECIATE IT.
11:39:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, MR. McCRAY.
11:39:52AM THE PRESENTATION ON THE LAST DAY.
11:39:55AM THE SUMMER YOUTH EXPLORATION WAS AMAZING.
11:39:57AM AREALLY, REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE HOW WELL PREPARED THE
11:40:03AM KIDS WERE AND SHIFTED.
11:40:04AM IF SOMETHING WASN'T GOING RIGHT.
11:40:06AM JUST TO KEEP THE PROGRAM RUNNING.
11:40:08AM IT WAS A REALLY GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO GET A SUMMARY OF
11:40:14AM THEIR ENTIRE SUMMER EXPERIENCE AND I CAN SEE THE BENEFIT IT
11:40:16AM DOES HAVE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
11:40:17AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.
11:40:19AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THANK YOU.
11:40:20AM >>ERICA MOODY: NEXT UP WE HAVE YBOR CITY CRA MANAGER MISS
11:40:30AM COURTNEY ORR.
11:40:33AM >>COURTNEY ORR: GOOD MORNING.
11:40:36AM THE FIRST ITEM I HAVE HERE IS 7th AVENUE ARCHWAY LIGHT
11:40:43AM PROJECT.
11:40:43AM AS YOU KNOW THAT WAS A LONG ANTICIPATED PROJECT THAT
11:40:46AM COMPLETED.
11:40:47AM A AND WE HAD OUR RIBBON CUTTING IN APRIL.
11:40:49AM SO FOLLOWING THAT, WE HAVE BEEN AWARDED THE ANNUAL YBOR
11:40:54AM CHAMBER BUSINESS IMPACT AWARD.
11:40:56AM WE ARE PROUD TO RECEIVE THAT AS THE YBOR CHAMBER SEPTEMBER
11:41:00AM 23 GALA.
11:41:01AM WE SUBMITTED TWO APPLICATIONS THAT WERE HOPEFUL TO WIN AWARDS
11:41:06AM FROM THE FLORIDA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION AND THE
11:41:08AM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY PLANNING COMMISSION'S PLANNING AND
11:41:10AM DESIGN AWARD.
11:41:12AM SO WE HAVE THOSE APPLICATIONS IN AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL HEAR
11:41:15AM SHORTLY WHETHER OR NOT WE WILL RECEIVE THOSE AWARDS.
11:41:17AM AND AIMED LONG THAT SAME LINE, THE FORMER 7th AVENUE ARCHWAY
11:41:24AM LIGHTS THAT WERE BROUGHT DOWN WENT UP FOR AUCTION.
11:41:27AM AND ON AUCTION.
11:41:30AM PRESIDENT AUCTION RAN FOR TWO WEEKS.
11:41:33AM FIVE INDIVIDUALS WON THOSE AUCTIONS.
11:41:35AM FOUR LIGHTS IN EACH BATCH.
11:41:37AM FIVE AUCTIONS AND WENT FROM ANYWHERE BETWEEN $600 TO CLOSE
11:41:41AM TO $1,000.
11:41:42AM WE HAVE FIVE WINNERS OF THOSE AUCTIONS.
11:41:44AM AND THE CENTENNIAL PARK REIMAGINE MASTER PLAN.
11:41:49AM AS YOU KNOW WE ANNOUNCED LAST MONTH THAT MILK WAS SELECTED
11:41:54AM AS THE CONSULTANT, AND WE ARE WORKING ON THE PROJECT SCOPE
11:41:58AM AT THIS TIME.
11:41:58AM WE LIKE THAT THEY HAVE A VERY ROBUST COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
11:42:02AM PROCESS AND THAT SHOULD START IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
11:42:05AM AND THEN THE 7th AVENUE BRICKING PROJECT WITH MOBILITY.
11:42:10AM WE ARE JUST ORGANIZING SCHEDULES TO HOPEFULLY KICK THAT OFF
11:42:13AM IN THE NEAR -- IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
11:42:15AM AND THE FOURTH ITERATION OF THE YBOR RESIDENT AND WORKER
11:42:24AM STUDY IS OUT ON THE STREET.
11:42:25AM WE ARE CLOSE TO REACHING OUR GOAL OF ABOUT 350 PER RESIDENTS
11:42:30AM AND WORKERS TO RESPOND HAND THIS CLOSES OUT ON AUGUST 22.
11:42:33AM SO WE WILL HAVE THE RESULTS ANALYZED AND PRESENTED TO THE
11:42:38AM CAC ON SEPTEMBER 26.
11:42:40AM THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT.
11:42:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:42:48AM ERIKA LAST BUT NOT LEAST URBAN CORE CRA MANAGER, MR. JEFFREY
11:43:02AM BURTON.
11:43:03AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DON'T CLAP, Y'ALL.
11:43:05AM >>JEFF BURTON: MADAM CHAIR, BOARD.
11:43:10AM WE HAVE CHANNEL DISTRICT AND DOWNTOWN.
11:43:12AM THE WAYFINDING CONDITIONS IN ALL THE URBAN CRAS.
11:43:15AM WITH THE PARKING DEPARTMENT, WE HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS WITH
11:43:18AM THIS.
11:43:18AM WE ARE COMING TO THE END OF THE CONTRACT FOR THE FIRST PART.
11:43:21AM WE DISCOVERED ALONG THE WAY THAT THE PARKING DEPARTMENT
11:43:24AM WANTS TO DO SIGNAGE ON THEIR PARKING GARAGES THAT WILL LET
11:43:28AM VISITORS KNOW WHETHER THE PARKING GARAGE IS FULL OR NOT.
11:43:32AM AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT.
11:43:33AM IN A DISCUSSION WITH THEM, WE DISCOVERED THAT WE COULD
11:43:39AM ATTAIN THAT INFORMATION AND PUSH IT OUT TO THE ENTRANCES TO
11:43:44AM THE DOWNTOWN AND OTHER AREAS SO FOLKS WILL KNOW WHICH
11:43:47AM PARKING GARAGES ARE FULL, ESPECIALLY DURING EVENTS.
11:43:50AM SO THAT WILL SLOW US DOWN A LITTLE BIT WHILE PARKING CATCHES
11:43:54AM UP WITH US.
11:43:54AM BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THEM ON THAT.
11:43:58AM ALSO THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE OTHER
11:44:01AM REDEVELOPMENT AREAS TO JOIN IN.
11:44:03AM THIS IS -- THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON A
11:44:07AM WHILE AND WE ALSO HAVE ABOUT A $1 MILLION IN THIS NEXT
11:44:12AM YEAR'S BUDGET IN ALL FOUR URBAN CRAs TO CREATE THE SIGNS
11:44:17AM THEMSELVES.
11:44:17AM AND IN THE END, THE CRA WILL NOT MAINTAIN THESE, MOBILITY
11:44:25AM WILL.
11:44:25AM DOWNTOWN, RIVERWALK BENEFICIAL BRIDGE STUDY.
11:44:29AM UP HEADED TO CONTRACT ADMIN.
11:44:34AM THIS IS AN ANALYSIS TO DETERMINE HOW TO GET UNDER, OVER THE
11:44:38AM INTERSECTION TO HEAD INTO CHANNEL DISTRICT.
11:44:40AM THE REASON IN DOWNTOWN IS ENGAGED IS BECAUSE THE BOUNDARY
11:44:44AM LINE IS RIGHT ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE BRIDGE.
11:44:48AM SO 25% DOWNTOWN.
11:44:51AM 75% CHANNEL DISTRICT ON THAT.
11:44:54AM CHANNEL DISTRICT, WASHINGTON STREET PARK, REDEVELOPMENT
11:44:59AM WORKSHOPS ARE BEGINNING.
11:45:00AM WE HAVE THE CONTRACT IR, THE CONSULTANT, DICKS HEIGHT.
11:45:07AM AND THEY WILL START WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY ON THE REDO
11:45:10AM OF WASHINGTON STREET PARK.
11:45:11AM DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATES IN DOWNTOWN IS SCHEDULED
11:45:16AM TO BE FINISHED IN FEBRUARY.
11:45:17AM THIS IS LONG OVERDO.
11:45:20AM IN DOWNTOWN, THE HARBOUR ISLAND REDEVELOPMENT HYBRID WILL BE
11:45:25AM STARTED ALSO.
11:45:26AM $1 50,000 FOR $1.5 MILLION REDEVELOPMENT, NOT OF THE BRIDGE
11:45:32AM ITSELF OR THE STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS BUT MORE OF THE
11:45:35AM AESTHETICS AND THE WAY IT LOOKS.
11:45:36AM ALSO, IN CENTRAL PARK, YOU HEARD EARLIER OF THE ST. JAMES
11:45:44AM CHURCH BELL.
11:45:45AM ITS PLAN, THE TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS FOUND THE BELL.
11:45:49AM IT WILL NOT GO BACK INTO THE TOWER.
11:45:52AM THE TOWER WAS NOT RECONSTRUCTED TO HOLD THAT TYPE OF BELL.
11:45:56AM IT WILL GO IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING WHERE PEOPLE CAN
11:45:59AM ACTUALLY SEE IT.
11:46:00AM IT WILL BE RUNG ONE MORE TIME.
11:46:03AM THIS IS THE BELL FROM CENTRAL AVENUE.
11:46:05AM THIS IS WHAT YOU HEARD ON A SUNDAY MORNING ON CENTRAL
11:46:09AM AVENUE.
11:46:09AM HOPEFULLY WE ALSO WILL GET IT RECORDED SO THAT SOUND CAN BE
11:46:14AM MAINTAINED HISTORICALLY.
11:46:15AM BUT WE WILL BE PARTNERING WITH TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY WITH
11:46:19AM THAT.
11:46:20AM THAT IS IN THE BUDGET.
11:46:21AM TAMPA HEIGHTS, WORKING ON HILLSBOROUGH RIVER STORMWATER
11:46:27AM PRETREATMENT.
11:46:28AM SOMETHING WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON.
11:46:29AM IT IS ACTUALLY IN THE PLAN THAT WE CAN DO THIS.
11:46:32AM AND WHAT IT DOES IS HELP CLEAN THE RUNOFF COMING OFF OF --
11:46:36AM ENTERING INTO THE HILLSBOROUGH RIVER.
11:46:38AM THIS WILL BE HELPFUL FOR PROPOSED FDOT STORMWATER PROJECT
11:46:43AM THAT IS HEADED THAT WAY.
11:46:44AM THIS IS A PROTOTYPE IN TAMPA OFFING.
11:46:48AM >> THAT COULD BE DONE AND OTHER CRAs ALONG THE -- ALONG THE
11:46:54AM RIVER AS LONG AS IT IS IN THEIR PLANS.
11:46:55AM AND IT IS SOMETHING THAT I HAVE DONE IN THE PAST.
11:46:58AM AND IT WORKS VERY WELL.
11:47:00AM SO THANK YOU.
11:47:02AM AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER
11:47:05AM THEM.
11:47:05AM MAYBE.
11:47:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
11:47:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
11:47:10AM FIRST, LET ME SAY AN HONOR AND PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU.
11:47:14AM YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL.
11:47:15AM YOU ARE INCREDIBLY IMPRESSIVE.
11:47:17AM YOUR RESUME.
11:47:19AM YOUR PAST.
11:47:21AM WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION.
11:47:21AM WE ARE SAD TO SEE YOU GO.
11:47:23AM AND BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR FUTURE ENDEAVORS.
11:47:26AM IN REGARDS TO THIS BELL.
11:47:28AM IT IS FASCINATING.
11:47:31AM IT WILLING RUN ONE MORE TIME AND HOPE IT IS RECORD AND VIDEO
11:47:35AM AND UPLOADED TO YOUTUBE OR WHATEVER.
11:47:37AM THE REASON SAY THAT IS BECAUSE -- I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS THE
11:47:41AM STEAM WHISTLE FROM THE TITANIC OR ANOTHER SHIP.
11:47:43AM IF YOU GO ON YOUTUBE, ONE HAS BEEN RESTORED AND DONE
11:47:49AM PROPERLY MEANING -- IT IS A STEAM WHISTLE.
11:47:51AM SO THEY DO IT -- THE SOUND COMES ALIVE AGAIN AND IT IS
11:47:55AM ONLINE.
11:47:55AM IT IS ON THE INTERNET SO IT LIVES FOREVER KIND OF THING.
11:47:59AM BUT I AM GLAD THAT THE BELL, ALTHOUGH IT WON'T BE RETURNING
11:48:03AM TO THE ACTUAL BELL TOWER BECAUSE STRUCTURALLY IT WON'T
11:48:06AM SUSTAIN IT -- THAT IT WILL BE THERE NEAR OR FRONT.
11:48:10AM THAT IS THE SOUND YOU WOULD HAVE HEARD ON SUNDAY MORNING.
11:48:12AM THE SOUND OF CENTRAL AVENUE.
11:48:14AM VERY, VERY IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING TO SEE IN THE PHOTO
11:48:16AM THAT CHURCH IS THERE.
11:48:17AM IT IS RESTORED.
11:48:18AM AND WHAT USED TO BE AROUND IT AND HOW MUCH HISTORY WE HAVE
11:48:22AM LOST; HOWEVER, PRESERVATION EFFORTS HAVE BEEN MADE AND WE
11:48:27AM HAVE THAT THERE.
11:48:27AM I THINK THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
11:48:29AM YOU CAN SAYS IT JUST A BELL, BUT THE SIGNIFICANCE BEHIND IT
11:48:32AM IS -- YOU KNOW, OF A HUGE MAGNITUDE.
11:48:35AM THAT -- THAT IS REALLY IT.
11:48:37AM I ALWAYS HAVE BEEN FASCINATED WITH THE HISTORY OF CENTRAL
11:48:41AM AVENUE AND WHAT USED TO BE THERE AND PRESERVE WHAT IS LEFT.
11:48:44AM I THANK YOU FOR THAT.
11:48:45AM THANKS.
11:48:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:48:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:48:48AM I WANT TO ECHO BOARD MEMBER ORDINANCE SAYING THANK YOU FOR
11:48:52AM ALL THE WORK AND ALL OF YOUR, YOU KNOW, DEEP KNOWLEDGE,
11:48:56AM ESPECIALLY WITH URBAN AREAS.
11:48:57AM IT HAS BEEN REALLY A PLEASURE.
11:48:59AM AND I WISH YOU WELL IN YOUR NEW ENDEAVORS.
11:49:03AM >>JEFF BURTON: THANK YOU.
11:49:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF YOU CAN GO BACK ONE SLIDE.
11:49:05AM I AM CURIOUS -- BECAUSE I, OF COURSE -- ALL YOU HAVE RUSS
11:49:09AM LOOKING AT THE BUDGET RIGHT NOW.
11:49:11AM HOW MUCH MONEY ARE THE CRAs OR SPECIFICALLY THESE DOWNTOWN
11:49:17AM CRAs PUTTING INTO PARKING?
11:49:20AM THIS PARKING PLAN FOR THE GARAGE, WAYFINDING.
11:49:26AM >>JEFF BURTON: THAT PARKING PLAN, I BELIEVE -- JUST THE
11:49:29AM DRAFT OF IT HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND SOMETHING THAT I AM SURE
11:49:32AM WE WILL LOOK AT.
11:49:32AM BUT WE HAVE NOT BEEN ASKED YET TO DISCUSS PARKING, BUT I
11:49:36AM WOULD TELL YOU THAT -- THAT ONE OF THE MAJOR EXPENSES OF ANY
11:49:43AM TYPE OF HOUSING IN DOWNTOWN IS GOING TO BE A PARKING SPACE.
11:49:46AM AND IF -- WOULDN'T IT BE INTERESTING IF THE CRAs ARE
11:49:52AM BUILDING PARKING SPACES THAT LATER CAN BE CONVERTED TO
11:49:56AM HOUSING BUT THAT COULD BE REDUCED FROM THE NUMBER ON THE
11:49:59AM UNIT ITSELF WHICH LOWERS THE PRICE OF THE UNIT.
11:50:02AM JUST AN IDEA THAT -- YOU KNOW, PARKING SPACES ARE OBVIOUSLY
11:50:07AM ALWAYS AT PREMIUM.
11:50:09AM AND -- BUT THERE ARE -- AND THERE ARE PROPERTIES IN THE
11:50:13AM DOWNTOWN THAT ARE NOT BIG ENOUGH TO PUT ANY TYPE OF
11:50:19AM DEVELOPMENT ON BECAUSE OF PARKING REQUIREMENTS.
11:50:21AM IF THE CRA HAD THE SUPPLY, THEY COULD BE LEASED.
11:50:25AM AND IT CREATES MONEY.
11:50:26AM IT IS AN INTERESTING IDEA.
11:50:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WELL, I AM JUST ASKING YOU BECAUSE IN THE
11:50:31AM BUDGET, I BELIEVE PARKING IS ASKING FOR $7 MILLION TO DO
11:50:36AM THIS.
11:50:36AM >>JEFF BURTON: YES.
11:50:39AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SINCE IT IS IN THE DOWNTOWN CRA, I WAS
11:50:42AM CURIOUS, MR. MASSEY, IF THAT IS SOMETHING WE CAN SPEND MONEY
11:50:46AM ON?
11:50:47AM IF THE DOWNTOWN -- IF THE CRA COULD TAKE OVER THAT EXPENSE
11:50:53AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT THE COMMUNITY
11:50:55AM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN TO SEE IF THAT IS SOMETHING WE COULD
11:50:58AM SPEND THE MONEY ON.
11:50:59AM I DON'T THINK THE PLAN REALLY CONTEMPLATES THAT THE PARKING
11:51:02AM -- AGAIN, WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT ARE ELECTRONIC SIGNS
11:51:07AM TO SHOW HOW MANY SPACES ARE AVAILABLE IN THE GARAGE.
11:51:10AM I DON'T THINK THAT IS CONTEMPLATED AS PART OF THE COMMUNITY
11:51:13AM DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
11:51:14AM WE ARE UPDATING THE PLAN AND MAY BE WAYS TO WEAVE THAT INTO
11:51:19AM THE UPDATE.
11:51:19AM THAT IS NOT DONE YET.
11:51:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:51:22AM THEN I WILL JUST MAKE A MOTION TO ASK THAT -- THAT STAFF
11:51:27AM LOOK AT THAT AND COME BACK.
11:51:29AM AND IF THEY DON'T -- I MEAN -- EVEN IF -- I GUESS I DON'T
11:51:34AM EVEN MAKE A MOTION.
11:51:35AM IF YOU WANT TO E-MAIL ME AND LET ME KNOW.
11:51:37AM I AM JUST REALLY CURIOUS BECAUSE $7 MILLION IS A LOT OF
11:51:41AM MONEY FOR PARKING RIGHT NOW.
11:51:43AM WITH THE CITIZENS ASKING FOR PAVING, I AM JUST WONDER GOING
11:51:47AM WE CAN FUND THAT BALANCE WITH THE CRA BUDGET INSTEAD.
11:51:50AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: UNDERSTOOD.
11:51:51AM THE OTHER THING REDEVELOPMENT FUNDS CAN BE USED IN PARKING
11:51:57AM GARAGES.
11:51:57AM IN THE STATUTE.
11:51:58AM AS PART OF -- WE WILL HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE PLAN
11:52:02AM AND SEE IF THAT IS CONTEMPLATED BECAUSE THE CURRENTS PLAN --
11:52:07AM UNFORTUNATELY IT IS 40 YEARS OLD AND PART OF THE PROBLEM WE
11:52:10AM ARE DEALING WITH.
11:52:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANTED TO BECAUSE WE ARE ALL TALKING OF THE
11:52:13AM AMOUNT OF MONEY THE DOWNTOWN HAS IN ITS CRA.
11:52:16AM HOW CAN WE USE THAT MONEY BETTER?
11:52:18AM I WOULD RATHER SEE THAT MONEY OUT OF THE CRA THAN THE
11:52:21AM PARKING BUDGET.
11:52:22AM I JUST WOULD.
11:52:23AM THANKS.
11:52:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:52:26AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MY ONLY QUESTION WOULD BE, BECAUSE IT IS
11:52:29AM COMING OUT COUNTRY PARKING WHICH IS A ENTERPRISE FUND.
11:52:32AM YOU HAVE TO SPEND THE MONEY TO FUNDS PARKING IN THE
11:52:37AM ENTERPRISE FUND.
11:52:37AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I BELIEVE IT IS COMING FROM GENERAL.
11:52:41AM PARKING ITSELF DOES NOT HAVE THE REVENUE TO SPEND $7
11:52:45AM MILLION.
11:52:46AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE WAYFINDING --
11:52:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: COMING FROM GENERAL FUNDS.
11:52:50AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: INTERESTING.
11:52:51AM I WILL HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT.
11:52:52AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DEPUTY -- HE IS NODDING HIS HEAD.
11:52:56AM SO I AM CORRECT, IT IS GENERAL FUND?
11:53:00AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: JUST AGREEING WITH WHAT SOME OF THE
11:53:03AM CONVERSATION WAS.
11:53:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA AND BOARD MEMBER
11:53:07AM CARLSON.
11:53:07AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU DON'T MAKE IT INTO A MOTION -- I
11:53:11AM WOULD MAKE IT INTO A MOTION SO THEY DIRECT IT BACK.
11:53:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SURE.
11:53:14AM I WILL MAKE MOTION FOR YOU TO SENDS ALL OF US AN E-MAIL.
11:53:18AM BECAUSE WE NEED THIS INFORMATION WAY BEFORE THE SEPTEMBER --
11:53:22AM BEFORE NEXT MEETING. SO YOU CAN SENDS ALL OF US AN E-MAIL
11:53:25AM GIVING US INFORMATION ABOUT WHERE THAT PARKING MONEY IS
11:53:28AM COMING FROM AND IF WE COULD POSSIBLY USE IT -- USE CRA MONEY
11:53:32AM TO SPEND IT.
11:53:33AM IF NOT, IF THAT IS SOMETHING WE ARE LOOKING OREGON CAN LOOK
11:53:39AM AT WHILE WE REDO THE PLAN SO THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO BE
11:53:42AM POSTPONED UNTIL THE NEXT BUDGET OR UNTIL THE PLAN IS DONE.
11:53:46AM THANK YOU.
11:53:47AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION FROM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:53:51AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:53:53AM ANY DISCUSSION?
11:53:55AM >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, I WILL SUPPORT IT JUST TO GATHER
11:53:57AM INFORMATION, BUT I AM AGAINST PUTTING -- MOVING MONEY IN.
11:54:02AM IF I CAN JUST SAY REAL FAST, SEVERAL STAFF MEMBERS IN
11:54:05AM TALKING OF DOWNTOWN IN PARTICULAR HAVE TALKED ABOUT WHAT I
11:54:08AM WOULD CALL TRANSFER PAYMENTS.
11:54:10AM SO IF THERE IS SOMETHING -- SOMETHING THAT WOULD ORDINARILY
11:54:16AM BE PAID IN THE REGULAR BUDGET, THEN WE COULD OFFSET THE
11:54:19AM REGULAR BUDGET BY PAYING FOR SOMETHING IN THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
11:54:22AM THAT WOULD FREE UP MONEY ON THE OTHER SIDE.
11:54:24AM I DON'T LIKE THAT BECAUSE IT IS NOT CLEAN.
11:54:27AM AND UNLESS WE DESIGNATE A FLOW OF FUNDS, WE CAN'T GUARANTEE
11:54:33AM THOSE OFFSETS WILL BE USED IN THE RIGHT WAY.
11:54:35AM IF WE PUT A CAP ON DOWNTOWN AND WE MOVE THAT $330 MILLION
11:54:39AM STREAM, WE CAN DESIGNATE, AT LEAST IN THE SHORT TERM, IT
11:54:44AM WILL GO INTO A HOUSING FUND OR ROAD FUND OR WHATEVER FUND WE
11:54:47AM WANT INSTEAD OF DOING IT PIECE BY PIECE.
11:54:49AM WE KNOW AT LEAST OUTSIDE OF DOWNTOWN, PLACES LIKE EAST
11:54:53AM TAMPA, FOLKS HAVE ADAMANTLY SAID THEY DON'T WANT TO DO THE
11:54:57AM TRANSFER PAYMENTS.
11:54:58AM WANT THE CITY TO PAY FOR WHAT THEY WILL PAY FOR AND THE
11:55:02AM CITY'S CDC WILL BE ON TOP OF IT.
11:55:05AM I AM OKAY TO GET INFORMATION BUT COMING UP TO A VOTE, I WILL
11:55:09AM VOTE AGAINST IT.
11:55:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK --
11:55:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:55:15AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE MOTION ON THE FLOOR IS NOT DIRTY
11:55:17AM MONEY TO FIND OUT WHAT THE LEGAL RAMIFICATIONS.
11:55:20AM WHAT COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK ASKED THE ATTORNEY.
11:55:24AM I DON'T THINK IT IS DIRTY MONEY.
11:55:26AM I DON'T THINK IT IS.
11:55:27AM AND TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO WITH IT.
11:55:29AM THE FINAL DECISION OF THE LEGAL RAMIFICATION WHAT OUR
11:55:33AM ATTORNEY TELLS US.
11:55:35AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: TO REMEMBER PHI WHERE IN THE CURRENT BUDGET
11:55:38AM THAT MONEY IS COMING FROM, WHETHER COMING OUT OF A PARKING
11:55:42AM FUND OR GENERAL.
11:55:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN I HAVE A DEADLINE FOR THIS?
11:55:45AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:55:46AM CAN YOU GET THAT TO US IN THE NEXT WEEK?
11:55:50AM OR IS TWO WEEKS MORE --
11:55:52AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE CAN GET IT.
11:55:53AM WE WILL TRY TO PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION AT LEAST BY E-MAIL
11:55:58AM BEFORE THE FIRST BUDGET HEARING, IF THAT WILL BE ACCEPTABLE
11:56:00AM TO YOU.
11:56:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL DO TWO WEEKS THEN.
11:56:03AM TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY --
11:56:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THE 1st.
11:56:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THERE YOU GO, THE 1st OF SEPTEMBER.
11:56:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT IS ON THE FRIDAY.
11:56:13AM FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1.
11:56:15AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:56:16AM OPPOSED?
11:56:17AM MOTION CARRIES.
11:56:17AM OKAY, WE HAVE A HARD FAST STOP FOR LUNCH UNTIL 1:40, IF YOU
11:56:27AM DON'T MIND.
11:56:27AM I AGREED TO SOME EVENT.
11:56:29AM SO WE WILL RECESS UNTIL 1:40.
11:56:31AM 1:40.
1:42:55PM >> I THINK YOU SHOULD TAKE THE ROLL CALL REAL QUICK, FIRST.
1:42:57PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, ATTORNEY MASSEY.
1:43:03PM >> CARLSON?
1:43:04PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
1:43:06PM >> CLENDENIN?
1:43:06PM MANISCALCO?
1:43:07PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
1:43:08PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
1:43:11PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
1:43:12PM >>THE CLERK: YOU HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
1:43:13PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
1:43:14PM WE'RE PICKING UP WHERE WE LEFT OFF.
1:43:16PM DIRECTOR MOODY WITH -- I THINK WE'RE ON ITEM NUMBER 4,
1:43:19PM RIGHT?
1:43:20PM >>ERICA MOODY: YES, MA'AM.
1:43:21PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES, MA'AM.
1:43:22PM ITEM NUMBER 4.
1:43:27PM >>ERICA MOODY: ITEM NUMBER 4 REGARDS THE CAC POLICY UPDATE.
1:43:30PM WE HAVE A PRESENTATION PREPARED FOR TODAY AS WELL AS WE HAVE
1:43:34PM THE MANAGERS FOR YBOR AND EAST TAMPA HERE TO PRESENT ON
1:43:38PM THEIR CHANGES AS WELL.
1:43:39PM SO MY PRIORITY IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN A MOTION IS PASSED
1:43:46PM WE FULLY ANSWER THE MOTION AND DON'T TAKE IT IN A DIFFERENT
1:43:50PM DIRECTION.
1:43:50PM WE WANT TO BE REALLY SPECIFIC WITH RESPONDING TO YOUR
1:43:54PM REQUEST AND MAKING SURE WE ARE PASSING THAT MOTION.
1:43:56PM A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW ABOUT THE CAC, THE
1:44:00PM LAST TIME THAT THE POLICY WAS UPDATED WAS IN 2019.
1:44:03PM THE LAST TIME THAT THE CRA BYLAWS WERE UPDATED WAS IN 2008.
1:44:08PM THE TOPIC WAS REVISITED AT THE JUNE 8th CRA BOARD RETREAT,
1:44:12PM AND WE HAD A GREAT DISCUSSION WITH BOARD MEMBERS AND REALLY
1:44:15PM THE NEED FOR MORE CLARITY AROUND CAC ROLES AND
1:44:20PM RESPONSIBILITIES AND CONSENSUS WAS BUILT AROUND UPDATING THE
1:44:22PM POLICIES AND RESTRUCTURING THE CACs TO BECOME INDEPENDENT
1:44:25PM OF OTHER ORGANIZATION AND TO ALSO EXPLORE A WAY TO EXPAND
1:44:30PM COMMUNITY REPRESENTATION ACROSS THE DISTRICT.
1:44:32PM WITH THAT, ON JULY 20th, THE FOLLOWING MOTION PASSED: THE
1:44:38PM CRA STAFF WAS REQUESTED TO DRAFT THE FOLLOWING REVISIONS TO
1:44:41PM THE CRA'S CURRENT COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE POLICY FOR
1:44:45PM CONSIDERATION BY THE CRA BOARD.
1:44:47PM TO REVISE THE CRITERIA AND THE SITE SELECTION PROCESS FOR
1:44:50PM NEW CAC MEMBERS FOR THE YBOR CITY AND EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY
1:44:55PM REDEVELOPMENT AREAS TO WHAT IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE FOR THE
1:44:57PM OTHER CACs.
1:44:59PM THIS IS IN LIEU OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FOR YCDC AND THE
1:45:03PM YBOR CRA AND THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION
1:45:07PM PARTNERSHIP FOR THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
1:45:09PM WE WERE ALSO ASKED TO PROVIDE A TIMELINE AND A TRANSITION
1:45:11PM PROCESS FOR CHANGING THE MEMBERSHIP OF THE YBOR CITY CAC AND
1:45:15PM THE EAST TAMPA CAC AS IT'S CURRENTLY CONSTITUTED IN THE
1:45:18PM CRA'S CURRENT POLICY.
1:45:20PM AND RECOMMEND ANY ADDITIONAL CHANGES OR CLARIFICATIONS THAT
1:45:24PM MIGHT BE USEFUL IN CONNECTION WITH THE CURRENT CAC POLICY
1:45:28PM AND THAT THESE REVISIONS BE BROUGHT TO TODAY, WHICH IS
1:45:31PM AUGUST 17th, 2023.
1:45:34PM SO THE CRA DRAFTED THE FOLLOWING CAC POLICIES IN THE CRA
1:45:38PM BYLAWS WITH CAREFUL CONSIDERATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
1:45:41PM WITH THEIR CACs AND WITH THE OVERALL COMMUNITY AND THE
1:45:44PM MANAGERS HAVE REALLY HELPED LEAD THE CHARGE AND BRING THIS
1:45:47PM INFORMATION BACK.
1:45:48PM AS I SAID THIS MORNING, JUST REALLY HANDLING THESE CHANGES
1:45:52PM WITH SENSITIVITY, CARE, AND CONCERN.
1:45:54PM SO PROPOSED REVISIONS TO THE CAC POLICY, MOSTLY ARE AROUND
1:46:03PM APPOINTMENTS.
1:46:03PM ALL CACs WILL COMPLETE THE APPLICATION PROCESS AND NOW BE
1:46:06PM APPOINTED BY THE CRA BOARD.
1:46:09PM YCDC AND THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PARTNERSHIP
1:46:13PM WILL BE SEPARATE ORGANIZATIONS FROM THE CAC BUT STILL SERVE
1:46:16PM AS EX OFFICIOS.
1:46:17PM THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN IS CURRENTLY
1:46:20PM BEING UPDATED TO REFLECT THIS.
1:46:26PM SO THAT IS AROUND APPOINTMENTS.
1:46:28PM THEN WE HAVE COMPOSITION SIZE AND TERMS.
1:46:28PM EACH CAC WILL BE LIMITED TO 15 MEMBERS MAX.
1:46:30PM SO A QUORUM IS OFTEN REACHED AND MEETINGS CAN OCCUR.
1:46:34PM MEMBERS WILL BE ELECTED FOR TWO-YEAR TERMS AND CAN BE
1:46:36PM REELECTED TO SERVE FOR CONSECUTIVE TWO YEARS AT A FOUR-YEAR
1:46:41PM MAX CONSECUTIVE TERM LIMIT AND THEN SOMEONE ELSE WILL COME
1:46:44PM AND PROVIDE THE SERVICES.
1:46:45PM WE UPDATED THE EX OFFICIOS TO REFLECT EVEN GREATER COMMUNITY
1:46:49PM AND STAKEHOLDER REPRESENTATION. IF AN EX OFFICIO DOES NOT
1:46:54PM REFER NEW REPRESENTATION AFTER AN INDIVIDUAL'S FOUR-YEAR MAX
1:46:57PM TERM, THE SEAT WILL CHANGE FROM AN EX OFFICIO TO AN AT-LARGE
1:47:01PM FOR TWO YEARS AND TO A NEW -- UNTIL A NEW REPRESENTATIVE IS
1:47:04PM DESIGNATED AND THEN THE EX OFFICIO WILL RESUME THE RESERVED
1:47:08PM SEAT.
1:47:08PM THE CHAIR TERM AND DUTIES, WE HAVE CHAIRS AND CO-CHAIRS,
1:47:11PM THEY WILL BE ELECTED TO SERVE A FULL TWO-YEAR TERM.
1:47:14PM THIS IS UPDATED TERMINOLOGY JUST TO ALLOW FOR THEM TO GET
1:47:17PM SETTLED IN AND CONTINUE FOR ANOTHER YEAR.
1:47:20PM WE ALSO ADDED A TRAVEL AND TRAINING POLICY.
1:47:23PM THIS PERMITS THE CHAIR TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL FRA CONFERENCE,
1:47:26PM THE FLORIDA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE, AND IF
1:47:29PM THEY CANNOT, THEN THEY CAN DESIGNATE A MEMBER ON THEIR
1:47:32PM BEHALF, WHETHER IT'S THE CHAIR OR ANOTHER REPRESENTATIVE
1:47:34PM THAT'S INTERESTED IN ATTENDING.
1:47:37PM A LITTLE BIT MORE BEFORE WE MOVE ON, JUST WANTED TO STATE
1:47:41PM THE PURPOSE OF THE POLICY.
1:47:42PM THE PURPOSE OF THE CAC POLICY IS TO PROVIDE GUIDELINES THAT
1:47:45PM EACH COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY SHALL FOLLOW.
1:47:48PM THE PURPOSE OF A CAC IS TO PROMOTE THE INTEREST OF
1:47:51PM INDIVIDUALS WHO LIVE, WORK, OPERATE, OR OWN PROPERTY IN THE
1:47:55PM REDEVELOPMENT AREAS.
1:47:56PM WE TALKED ABOUT APPOINTMENTS, SIZE COMPOSITION, TERMS OF
1:47:59PM SERVICE, CHAIR TERMS, AND TRAVEL POLICY.
1:48:02PM THESE ARE ALL OF OUR CURRENT CACs FOR EACH DISTRICT.
1:48:08PM YOU'LL SEE SOME HAVE NINE.
1:48:09PM SOME HAVE ALL THE WAY UP TO 15.
1:48:11PM AND ANY ITEM HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW IS A CHANGE THAT WAS
1:48:17PM MADE.
1:48:17PM SO WE HAVE IN DOWNTOWN WE ADDED THE TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL.
1:48:21PM THEY ARE A MAJOR STAKEHOLDER IN THAT AREA.
1:48:23PM FOR YBOR CITY, WE HAVE EX OFFICIOS, BUT THE YELLOW ARE ADDED
1:48:28PM EX OFFICIOS TO THE STRUCTURE.
1:48:30PM WE HAVE THE GAYBOR DISTRICT COALITION, THE YBOR HISTORIC
1:48:34PM SOCIAL CLUB, YBOR MERCHANT ASSOCIATION, AND THE YCDC, THE
1:48:38PM YBOR CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
1:48:40PM AND THEY ARE MAXED AT 15 MEMBERS.
1:48:42PM THEN WE MOVE INTO THE CHANNEL DISTRICT THAT HAS NINE
1:48:46PM MEMBERS.
1:48:46PM THREE EX OFFICIOS ALL REMAINING THE SAME AND ALSO HAVE SIX
1:48:51PM AT-LARGE MEMBERS.
1:48:52PM DREW PARK ALSO HAS NINE TOTAL.
1:48:55PM THREE EX OFFICIOS THAT ARE ALL OF THE SAME AND SIX AT-LARGE
1:48:59PM MEMBERS AS WELL.
1:49:02PM THEN WE MOVE ON TO EAST TAMPA.
1:49:04PM WE HAVE 13 EX OFFICIOS, 11 ARE ACTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD
1:49:08PM ASSOCIATIONS AND 2 SEATS WILL BE RESERVED FOR THE EAST TAMPA
1:49:13PM COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PARTNERSHIP AND WILL HAVE TWO
1:49:16PM AT-LARGE SEATS.
1:49:17PM SO WE THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT THE PARTNERSHIP STAYS
1:49:20PM HEAVILY INVOLVED AND WE CONNECTED WITH THEM SO THEY WILL
1:49:23PM HAVE THE TWO SEATS.
1:49:25PM AND MR. McCRAY WILL TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT
1:49:28PM WE'LL MAKE SURE IT'S ACTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS WITHIN
1:49:31PM EAST TAMPA SO WHEN AN APPOINTMENT COMES UP, WE WILL LOOK AT
1:49:34PM THE ACTIVE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION LIST AND THEN WE'LL DO A
1:49:36PM RANDOM SELECTION AND THEY WILL BE OFFERED THAT OPPORTUNITY.
1:49:40PM THEY ARE ALSO MAXED OUT AT 15 MEMBERS MAX.
1:49:43PM THEN WE MOVE ON TO TAMPA HEIGHTS.
1:49:45PM WE HAVE FOUR EX OFFICIOS THAT ARE REPRESENTED THERE AS WELL
1:49:48PM AS FIVE AT-LARGE MEMBERS.
1:49:50PM NO CHANGES HAPPENED THERE.
1:49:52PM CENTRAL PARK WILL ALSO HAVE 9, 2 EX OFFICIOS AND 1 BEING
1:49:57PM ADDED AS THE TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY AND THEY WILL HAVE 6
1:50:01PM AT-LARGE MEMBERS THAT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY WAS IMPORTANT
1:50:03PM GIVEN ALL THEIR DEVELOPMENT.
1:50:05PM SAME THING WITH WEST TAMPA.
1:50:06PM WE ARE ALSO ASKING THE TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY TO JOIN OUR
1:50:09PM EFFORTS IN WEST TAMPA WITH ALL OF THEIR DEVELOPMENT.
1:50:12PM THERE WILL BE 10 EX OFFICIOS TOTAL, 2 AT-LARGE MEMBERS.
1:50:17PM WE'LL START GETTING INTO THE DETAILS OF THEM, BUT I'LL PAUSE
1:50:21PM THERE FOR QUESTIONS BEFORE I PASS IT ON.
1:50:22PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
1:50:23PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
1:50:24PM I JUST HAD A CLARIFICATION QUESTION.
1:50:26PM SO EX OFFICIO WOULD NOT BE AT-LARGE.
1:50:32PM THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO APPLY TO COME TO US.
1:50:35PM THEY WOULD BE SIMPLY NOMINATED BY THE GROUP.
1:50:38PM SO IF WE'RE LOOKING AT DOWNTOWN, THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP
1:50:41PM WOULD CHOOSE SOMEONE TO REPRESENT THEM AND THEY WOULD BE ON
1:50:44PM THE BOARD.
1:50:46PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THEY COME BEFORE YOU FOR APPROVAL.
1:50:51PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE STILL HAVE TO APPROVE, EITHER WAY, THE
1:50:54PM DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP WOULD SAY I WANT, YOU KNOW, JOHN SMITH,
1:50:58PM AND THEN WE WOULD JUST APPROVE.
1:51:00PM SO THERE WOULDN'T BE JOHN SMITH AND SALLY JONES.
1:51:03PM >>ERICA MOODY: THERE COULD BE.
1:51:04PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BUT BOTH WOULD HAVE TO BE NOMINATED BY THE
1:51:07PM DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP.
1:51:08PM >>ERICA MOODY: YES, THEY CAN GIVE US OPTIONS AND THOSE
1:51:10PM OPTIONS WOULD BE PRESENTED AND THEN SELECT THE APPOINTEE.
1:51:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BUT IT WOULD BE THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP.
1:51:16PM I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY BECAUSE WE GOT SOME PUBLIC COMMENT
1:51:19PM TODAY ABOUT EAST TAMPA.
1:51:22PM WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE COLLEGE HILL BELMONT HEIGHTS
1:51:24PM NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND CRIME WATCH WOULD BE ABLE TO
1:51:27PM NOMINATE SOMEONE FOR US TO CHOOSE.
1:51:28PM >>ERICA MOODY: YES.
1:51:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: STILL NOMINATED FROM THAT COMMUNITY.
1:51:32PM >>ERICA MOODY: YES.
1:51:32PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT.
1:51:34PM THANK YOU.
1:51:36PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
1:51:37PM VERY COLLABORATIVE EFFORT.
1:51:40PM I LIKE THAT, EVEN THE FACT THAT IN DEVELOPING THIS PLAN,
1:51:45PM THERE WAS CLEAR COMMUNICATION WITH ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS TO
1:51:47PM GET TO THIS POINT.
1:51:48PM SO I APPRECIATE YOUR WORK ON THAT.
1:51:50PM READY FOR THE DETAILS FROM YOUR MANAGERS.
1:51:54PM >>ERICA MOODY: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
1:51:56PM YES, IT WAS VERY TIME-CONSUMING BECAUSE IT BECAME THIS VERY
1:52:00PM COMPLEX THING TO ADDRESS BUT WE WANTED TO SIMPLIFY IT TO
1:52:04PM MAKE IT EASY TO UNDERSTAND AND COMMUNICATE TO OTHERS.
1:52:06PM ONE MORE THING I'LL SAY BEFORE I PASS IT ON IS THAT WE ALSO
1:52:09PM JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT UNEXCUSED ABSENCES ARE TRACKED
1:52:14PM BY OUR STAFF.
1:52:15PM AFTER THREE UNEXCUSED ABSENCES, YOU'LL HAVE A CONVERSATION
1:52:18PM OF A REPLACEMENT THEN.
1:52:19PM THAT'S NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CHAIR OR CO-CHAIR BUT
1:52:22PM IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF CRA STAFF JUST TO KEEP THAT
1:52:26PM OBJECTIVE FOR THE CAC.
1:52:27PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
1:52:28PM >>BILL CARLSON: I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE YOU'RE GOING
1:52:31PM NEXT, BUT SHOULD I TALK ABOUT THE YBOR ISSUE NOW OR LATER?
1:52:34PM >>ERICA MOODY: WE'LL GET INTO IT NEXT.
1:52:39PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ONE OF THE THINGS I WANTED TO ASK YOU
1:52:41PM ABOUT ON ANOTHER SLIDE -- WILL YOU GO BACK TO IT SO I CAN
1:52:44PM GET THE VISUAL?
1:52:45PM THE LAST ONE, THE TRAVEL POLICY.
1:52:48PM SHOULD WE MAKE THE MOTION TO ACCEPT YOUR REPORT WITH THAT F
1:52:54PM -- WOULD THAT FRA CONFERENCE BE THE ONE COMING UP WOULD THEY
1:52:58PM BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ONE COMING UP.
1:53:01PM >>ERICA MOODY: YES, YES, THE CHAIR.
1:53:07PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
1:53:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: BACK TO THE OTHER SLIDE WITH THE BREAKDOWN
1:53:10PM OF ALL THE COMMITTEES.
1:53:11PM WHEN YOU MADE THE DETERMINATION OF THE TOTAL SIZE OF THESE
1:53:16PM COMMITTEES, DID I MISS LIKE WHAT WAS THE RHYME OR REASON FOR
1:53:21PM HAVING SUCH A DISPARITY AMONGST THE SIZES?
1:53:24PM >>ERICA MOODY: THAT IS A GREAT QUESTION.
1:53:25PM WE HAVE SOME THAT WERE UP TO 25, SOME THAT REMAIN AT 9.
1:53:30PM THIS IS WHAT THE CAC HAS APPOINTED AS THEIR DESIRED SIZE
1:53:34PM WITH 15 BEING THE MAX JUST SO IT CAN REACH A QUORUM.
1:53:38PM WE HAVE HAD SOME ISSUES REACHING QUORUM BECAUSE THERE ARE SO
1:53:42PM MANY MEMBERS.
1:53:42PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE'VE HAD A GREATER DISPARITY NOW.
1:53:45PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I UNDERSTAND THAT.
1:53:47PM RE-CREATING IT, I WAS JUST CURIOUS.
1:53:49PM OBVIOUSLY, ESPECIALLY WHEN TALKING ABOUT THE SIZE AND THE
1:53:51PM NUMBERS AND THE DOLLAR FIGURE.
1:53:53PM SOMETIMES IT SEEMS KIND OF LIKE CRAZY THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT
1:53:55PM SOME SO BIG AND SOME RELATIVELY MORE MANAGEABLE.
1:53:58PM I COMMEND YOU, BECAUSE I KNOW IT WAS A REALLY BIG LIFT TO
1:54:05PM WANT TO TACKLE THIS AND IT WASN'T EASY.
1:54:08PM I THINK YOU ALL DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF REALLY TRYING TO
1:54:12PM PUT COMMON SENSE AND RHYME AND REASON INTO THIS AND
1:54:15PM STRUCTURE THAT WAS NEEDED.
1:54:16PM THANK YOU.
1:54:16PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
1:54:17PM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST IN LIKE 30 SECONDS I'LL SAY WHAT I WAS
1:54:20PM GOING TO SAY A MINUTE AGO.
1:54:22PM YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TWO SPECIAL CASES HERE WHICH ARE YBOR
1:54:25PM AND EAST TAMPA.
1:54:26PM WE HEARD A COMMENT ABOUT EAST TAMPA THIS MORNING.
1:54:28PM WE KNOW IN BOTH CASES THERE WERE SOME RUFFLED FEATHERS.
1:54:32PM I HAVE NOT RESEARCHED EAST TAMPA AT ALL.
1:54:35PM I HAVE NOT TALKED TO ANYBODY.
1:54:36PM I'M NOT AN EXPERT ON THAT.
1:54:38PM I'M NOT COMPARING YBOR TO ANY OF THE OTHERS BUT I HAD A LOT
1:54:41PM OF CONVERSATION AROUND YBOR.
1:54:42PM AND ERICA KNOWS THIS BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN TALKING TO FOLKS
1:54:49PM INCLUDING THE CHAIR.
1:54:50PM THEY RIGHT NOW HAVE 25 AND THEY FEEL LIKE THEY ARE GIVING UP
1:54:54PM A LOT BY GIVING UP THE CURRENT STRUCTURE.
1:54:59PM AND AS THEY ARE LOOKING AT ALL THE THINGS THEY COULD DO NOW
1:55:01PM AND THE LIMITATIONS THAT THIS NEW STRUCTURE IS GOING TO PUT
1:55:04PM ON THEM, THEY ARE VERY HESITANT TO DO ALL THIS.
1:55:08PM BUT WHAT -- THEY ESPECIALLY DON'T LIKE THE NUMBER 15.
1:55:13PM INSTEAD OF THAT, THEY WOULD LIKE 10 AT-LARGE, 10 EX OFFICIO,
1:55:18PM WHICH WOULD REPRESENT DIFFERENT INDUSTRY GROUPS IN YBOR.
1:55:21PM AND THEN JOE CAPITANO AND FRAN COSTANTINO -- MY BRAIN IS NOT
1:55:29PM WORKING -- ARE BOTH -- WERE BOTH PROMISED LIFETIME EMERITUS
1:55:34PM SEATS.
1:55:35PM AND JUST TO HONOR THE COMMITMENT THEY MADE, THEY ARE OKAY
1:55:42PM NOT GOING ALL THE WAY BACK TO 25, BUT IF WE DID 10 EX
1:55:45PM OFFICIO, 10 AT-LARGE AND THEN DID THE 2 EMERITUS ONE BUT
1:55:51PM SAID IT WAS ONLY TO GRANDFATHER THAT IN AND NOT TO HAVE ANY
1:55:53PM EMERITUS POSITIONS AGAIN, IT WOULD ALLOW THE CHAIR AND
1:55:56PM OTHERS TO GO BACK AND SAY, LOOK, WE GOT SOME OF WHAT WE WANT
1:56:01PM EVEN THOUGH WE GOT THESE OTHER THINGS TAKEN AWAY.
1:56:03PM EITHER NOW OR LATER, I'LL MAKE A MOTION, DEPENDING ON WHAT
1:56:06PM YOU ALL SAY, TO DO THAT.
1:56:08PM WHAT WE GAIN IS THAT THEY ARE GIVING UP THE YCDC STRUCTURE
1:56:12PM AND THEY ARE JOINING OUR STRUCTURE.
1:56:14PM WE'RE MAKING A SMALL ACCOMMODATION TO HELP THEM FIT ONE
1:56:17PM STRUCTURE INTO THE OTHER.
1:56:23PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
1:56:23PM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
1:56:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
1:56:26PM I WANT TO THANK YOU, CHAIR HENDERSON, FOR BRINGING UP THE
1:56:29PM PART ABOUT THE FRA CONFERENCE BECAUSE I DO REMEMBER AT LAST
1:56:33PM YEAR'S FRA CONFERENCE, THERE WERE A LOT OF CAC MEMBERS IN
1:56:36PM ATTENDANCE.
1:56:40PM YOU'RE BASICALLY SAYING THAT ONLY ONE PERSON COULD GO PER
1:56:44PM YEAR FROM EACH CAC.
1:56:45PM >>ERICA MOODY: YES.
1:56:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
1:56:47PM THANK YOU.
1:56:48PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
1:56:49PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I KNOW, MR. CARLSON, WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT
1:56:54PM A LITTLE LATER, WHAT YOU JUST DESCRIBED, OTHERWISE GET INTO
1:56:58PM THE POINTS.
1:56:59PM MIGHT AS WELL JUMP THERE.
1:57:01PM I THINK THAT STAFF DID A GREAT JOB IN TACKLING A REALLY
1:57:06PM DIFFICULT ISSUE HERE, AND THEY HAVE CREATED A PROCESS WHICH
1:57:14PM WHILE NOT PERFECT, I LOOK ACROSS THE SPREAD OF THE NUMBERS
1:57:17PM AND I KNOW THE ISSUE WITH QUORUMS IN THE PAST AND WE ALL
1:57:21PM KNOW WORKING IN DIFFERENT BODIES SOMETIMES THEY GET SO LARGE
1:57:24PM THEY BECOME LESS EFFECTIVE AND OVERLY BUREAUCRATIC AND
1:57:29PM BURDENSOME.
1:57:30PM AND I UNDERSTAND WHERE YBOR IS COMING FROM, BUT IT WOULD
1:57:35PM ALMOST, OKAY, IF YOU DID IT FOR YBOR, WHY WOULDN'T YOU DO IT
1:57:39PM FOR EVERYBODY?
1:57:39PM I UNDERSTAND ALSO, DID THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO CREATE EX
1:57:44PM OFFICIO?
1:57:45PM THAT SEEMS KIND OF -- I UNDERSTAND AND I LIKE BOTH FRAN AND
1:57:50PM JOE.
1:57:51PM SO IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL.
1:57:53PM WE'RE CREATING -- WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE ORDER OUT OF -- YOU
1:57:59PM KNOW, PRIOR TO THIS COUNCIL WAS DISORDER.
1:58:03PM YOU'VE GOT TO START SOMEWHERE.
1:58:04PM I HATE TO DO DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS.
1:58:07PM I THINK WE SHOULD GO WITH WHAT THE STAFF HAS CREATED AND IF
1:58:11PM OVER A PERIOD OF TIME WE FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, THIS ISN'T
1:58:14PM WORKING, WE CAN CHANGE IT OR ADD SOMETHING TO IT OR GO BACK
1:58:17PM AND REVISIT THOSE ISSUES.
1:58:19PM BUT I THINK FOR NOW, TAKING THIS PILL, THE MEDICINE MIGHT BE
1:58:25PM A DIFFICULT PILL TO SWALLOW RIGHT AT FIRST.
1:58:27PM WE'LL SEE IF IT CURES THE DISEASE AND THEN WE CAN COME BACK
1:58:30PM AND REVISIT IT ANOTHER TIME TO ADD ON TO THINGS AND MAKE THE
1:58:35PM AMENDMENTS.
1:58:36PM BUT I DON'T WANT TO DIMINISH THIS HEAVY LIFT THAT STAFF HAS
1:58:41PM JUST GONE THROUGH TO CREATE THIS DOCUMENT AND CREATE THIS
1:58:43PM PROCEDURE.
1:58:43PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
1:58:44PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: TODAY WE ARE AT 25 AND WHAT WILL THEY BE
1:58:49PM AT 20?
1:58:52PM >> WE'RE PROPOSING 15.
1:58:55PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: CAN YOU TELL US IN THOSE 25 WHAT THE
1:58:59PM ATTENDANCE RECORD OF ALL?
1:59:00PM >>ERICA MOODY: I'M SURE MANAGER ORR WHO IS COMING UP NEXT.
1:59:07PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: 25 IS THE VALUE OR 16.
1:59:10PM IF YOU HAVE 25 AND ONLY 16 SHOWED UP, WE SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY
1:59:14PM MORE.
1:59:15PM JUST LOOKING AT IT REALISTICALLY.
1:59:17PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NOW WE'RE READY TO GET INTO THE DATA.
1:59:22PM >>ERICA MOODY: WE'LL GET INTO THE DETAILS.
1:59:23PM THE MAX IS 15.
1:59:24PM IF A CAC WANTED TO INCREASE THEIR NUMBER TO 15, WE WOULD
1:59:28PM ENTERTAIN THAT FOR SURE.
1:59:30PM NOW WE GET INTO THE TRANSITION PLANNING AND WHAT THE DETAILS
1:59:35PM LOOK LIKE.
1:59:36PM WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS A SMOOTH TRANSITION SO IT
1:59:38PM WILL HAPPEN OVER TIME AND GRADUALLY.
1:59:41PM WITH THAT, I'LL BE ON THE SIDE WITH QUESTIONS.
1:59:44PM WE DO HAVE YBOR CITY MANAGER COURTNEY ORR READY TO COME UP.
1:59:50PM PLOT TWIST.
2:00:04PM WE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO EAST TAMPA FIRST.
2:00:07PM WE'RE GOING TO HAVE MANAGER CEDRIC McCRAY COME UP AND
2:00:10PM SPEAK ON EAST TAMPA SPECIFICALLY.
2:00:11PM I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.
2:00:16PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD AFTERNOON.
2:00:18PM EAST TAMPA CRA MANAGER CEDRIC McCRAY.
2:00:22PM IN ITS CURRENT FORM, WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 13 SLOTS, EAST TAMPA
2:00:28PM CAC SPACES FOR THE EAST TAMPA CAC.
2:00:32PM WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED, AS DIRECTOR MOODY SAID, WOULD BE 15
2:00:35PM AND 2 EX OFFICIO SEATS AND THAT WOULD BE COMPRISED OF
2:00:40PM INDIVIDUALS FROM THE EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP.
2:00:41PM TO ASSIST WITH THAT TRANSITION AND I KNOW THAT WE MENTIONED
2:00:50PM OR I MENTIONED DURING THE WORKSHOP ON JUNE 8th AT THE
2:00:54PM RIVER CENTER WE ARE ACTUALLY IN THE ELECTION CYCLE
2:00:57PM CURRENTLY.
2:00:58PM OUR ELECTION IS SCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER 12.
2:01:03PM HAD A MEETING WITH OUR EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP LAST TUESDAY
2:01:10PM AND THIS INFORMATION WAS SHARED WITH THEM AS IT RELATES TO
2:01:13PM HOW WE WOULD TRANSITION.
2:01:16PM WE HAVE SOME 6 SEATS THAT ARE CURRENTLY NOT SET TO EXPIRE
2:01:21PM UNTIL 2024, AND WE HAVE 7 SEATS THAT ARE CURRENTLY SET TO
2:01:26PM EXPIRE SEPTEMBER 30th OF 2023.
2:01:29PM THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH THE
2:01:32PM ELECTIONS PROCESS WILL BE ELECTED TO THE EAST TAMPA
2:01:35PM COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION PARTNERSHIP AND NOT FOR THE CAC.
2:01:41PM WE WOULD ACTIVELY RECRUIT AND WORK WITH THE NEIGHBORHOODS
2:01:45PM DEPARTMENT AND JANELLE McGREGOR AND HER STAFF TO RECRUIT
2:01:51PM RESIDENTS FROM EAST TAMPA.
2:01:52PM WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 16 NEIGHBORHOODS.
2:01:56PM I BELIEVE 11 OR 12 OF THEM ARE CURRENTLY LISTED AS ACTIVE OR
2:02:00PM IN PROCESS OF BEING CREATED.
2:02:02PM SO WE WOULD HAVE CONVERSATIONS AND ENGAGE THOSE
2:02:04PM NEIGHBORHOODS TO RECRUIT INDIVIDUALS TO APPLY.
2:02:07PM ONCE THOSE APPLICATIONS ARE SUBMITTED, INSTEAD OF COMING TO
2:02:13PM US AS A STAFF, THEY WOULD GO THROUGH THE CLERK'S OFFICE AND
2:02:15PM THEY WOULD BE MOVED FORWARD SIMILAR TO ANY OF THE PROCESSES
2:02:19PM FOR YOUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS FOR THE CITY COUNCIL OR THE
2:02:22PM CITY OF TAMPA PERIOD.
2:02:24PM YOU'RE ABLE TO SEE THE SLOTS THAT WILL BE EXPIRING THAT ARE
2:02:29PM HIGHLIGHTED.
2:02:31PM WE HAVE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH MEMBERS OF THE CAC AND THE EAST
2:02:34PM TAMPA PARTNERSHIP AS RECENTLY AS LAST TUESDAY.
2:02:37PM IN RECEIVING INFORMATION FROM OUR NEIGHBORHOODS OFFICE AND
2:02:44PM THE ACTIVE OF ASSOCIATIONS, WE WENT THROUGH NEW SOFTWARE TO
2:02:49PM RANDOMLY SELECT NEIGHBORHOODS THAT COULD BE USED TO FILL
2:02:52PM THOSE POSITIONS IN 2025, AND THEY ARE LISTED IN THE GREEN.
2:02:56PM THE LEGACY OF FAIR OAKS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, JACKSON
2:02:59PM HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND CRIME WATCH, SOUTHEAST
2:03:02PM SEMINOLE HEIGHTS CIVIC ASSOCIATION, LIVE OAKS SQUARE
2:03:05PM NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, VM YBOR, AS WELL AS RAINBOW
2:03:09PM HEIGHTS AND SEMINOLE HEIGHTS EAST NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS.
2:03:13PM THAT'S WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED, THAT THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD
2:03:17PM ASSOCIATIONS WOULD HAVE REPRESENTATION WHEN WE HAVE THE
2:03:22PM FORMAL ELECTIONS PROCESS OR, I'M SORRY, HABIT, NOT ELECTION,
2:03:27PM APPOINTMENT PROCESS THAT WE WOULD BE MOVING FORWARD WITH AND
2:03:30PM PROPOSING TODAY.
2:03:30PM SO WE WILL HAVE THE SIX REMAINING SEATS.
2:03:34PM YOU'LL HAVE SEVEN NEW NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS OR SEATS
2:03:37PM DESIGNATED FOR THOSE SEVEN SEATS THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD
2:03:40PM ASSOCIATIONS YOU WILL HAVE TWO AT-LARGE SEATS TO PASS
2:03:44PM THROUGH THE APPLICATION PROCESS.
2:03:45PM AS IT RELATES TO THE NEW MEMBER STRUCTURE, THOSE ARE THE
2:03:52PM NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS AND HOW THAT WOULD FLOW MOVING
2:03:57PM FORWARD GOING FROM 2025 TO 2026.
2:04:02PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: QUESTIONS?
2:04:03PM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:04:07PM >>BILL CARLSON: UNLESS YOU WANT TO GO FIRST.
2:04:09PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WELL, MINE IS MORE SO OF AN ADMINISTRATIVE
2:04:14PM QUESTION, AND I LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU SAID IT WOULD GO
2:04:16PM THROUGH THE CLERK'S OFFICE, THE APPLICATIONS.
2:04:18PM THAT TAKES IT AWAY FROM THE MANAGER'S HANDS.
2:04:21PM HAVE YOU ALL HAD CONVERSATION AMONG YOURSELVES ABOUT PEOPLE
2:04:25PM COMING TO YOU WITH THEIR APPLICATION AND HOW YOU WILL HANDLE
2:04:27PM THAT IF EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE THE SAME LANGUAGE IS WHAT I
2:04:30PM WOULD BE RECOMMENDING, SO THAT YOU CAN BE NEUTRAL BECAUSE
2:04:33PM YOU'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE THAT DECISION.
2:04:35PM THE BOARD IS MAKING THE DECISION.
2:04:36PM THE ONUS ISN'T ON YOU ALL.
2:04:38PM I'M CURIOUS IF YOU ALL HAD THAT DISCUSSION.
2:04:41PM I LIKE THIS GOING THROUGH THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
2:04:43PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, YES.
2:04:45PM AND IT WILL TAKE SOME EDUCATION MOVING FORWARD BECAUSE I
2:04:49PM KNOW THAT FOLKS ARE CREATURES OF HABIT AND WE WOULD HAVE TO
2:04:53PM DEFINITELY INFORM AS WE'RE CAMPAIGNING IN SHARING THIS
2:04:57PM INFORMATION WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS, WE WILL HAVE
2:05:00PM TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE AWARE THAT ANYTHING THAT IS
2:05:02PM SUBMITTED DOESN'T COME TO THE EAST TAMPA CRA OFFICE OR
2:05:07PM STAFF.
2:05:07PM IT WILL GO TO THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE.
2:05:12PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ONE LAST COMMENT, VERY FIRST COMMUNITY
2:05:14PM MEMBERS I MET WITH WHEN I WAS COUNCILWOMAN-ELECT WAS FROM
2:05:18PM MEMBERS NOT CURRENTLY REPRESENTED THAT ARE LISTED ON THIS
2:05:23PM SCREEN RIGHT NOW THAT FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE BEEN KEPT OUT OF
2:05:26PM THE LOOP BECAUSE OF THE ELECTION PROCESS THAT CURRENTLY
2:05:29PM EXISTED.
2:05:29PM I'M GLAD TO SEE A PATHWAY WHERE IT PROVIDES EVERY COMMUNITY
2:05:34PM AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE REPRESENTED.
2:05:36PM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:05:37PM >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH.
2:05:38PM I WANT TO THANK CHAIR HENDERSON FOR BRINGING THIS ISSUE
2:05:44PM FORWARD.
2:05:44PM WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT YBOR AND EAST TAMPA FOR YEARS I'VE
2:05:52PM BEEN ON AND I DON'T THINK ANY OF US MADE THE MOTION.
2:05:55PM THERE WERE A LOT OF POLITICS ALL AROUND AS YOU WERE IN THE
2:05:58PM MIDDLE OF IT.
2:05:58PM THE PERSON THIS MORNING TALKED ABOUT THE ELECTION, BUT THE
2:06:01PM ELECTION WAS REALLY POLITICAL AND CONTROVERSIAL BECAUSE
2:06:09PM THERE WERE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHO QUALIFIED TO VOTE AND HOW YOU
2:06:12PM COUNT THE VOTES AND ALL THESE PROBLEMS AND DIFFERENT
2:06:14PM FACTIONS THAT WE'RE DOING THINGS.
2:06:15PM AND IT WAS TOO POLITICIZED FOR WHAT IT WAS.
2:06:19PM MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE CITY, IT APPEARED -- I'LL PUT
2:06:24PM QUALIFIERS -- IT APPEARED THE CITY MIGHT POTENTIALLY BECOME
2:06:29PM LIABLE FOR HOW IT WAS PUT TOGETHER AND THAT WAS MY MAIN
2:06:32PM CONCERN.
2:06:32PM BESIDES ALL THE OTHER CONSISTENCY THINGS, THE REAL BIG
2:06:37PM THINGS WE'RE GETTING HERE, THE HUGE THINGS, WHICH WAS HER
2:06:40PM MOTION, IS THAT WE'RE SEPARATING FROM THESE TWO OTHER
2:06:42PM NONPROFITS.
2:06:43PM WE'RE MAKING IT CLEAR THAT IT IS A CAC, NOT THAT ENTITY.
2:06:48PM SO I WANT TO THANK AND CONGRATULATE ON THAT.
2:06:50PM SECOND, UNLESS THE BOARD OF THE EAST TAMPA REVITALIZATION
2:06:56PM PARTNERSHIP VOTES TO DISSOLVE IT, IT CONTINUES, BUT WE HAVE
2:07:01PM TO SEPARATE FROM IT.
2:07:02PM WHAT COMMUNICATION ARE WE MAKING TO THE BOARD AND THE PUBLIC
2:07:07PM ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS TO THE EAST TAMPA REVITALIZATION
2:07:10PM PARTNERSHIP NOW SO THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT THE PUBLIC KNOWS
2:07:13PM WE'RE NO LONGER ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
2:07:16PM THEY CAN CONTINUE IF THEY WANT OR SHUT IT DOWN, DO WHATEVER
2:07:19PM THEY WANT WITH IT.
2:07:20PM IT JUST HAPPENED WHEN IT WAS FORMED THAT ENTITY HELPED
2:07:24PM ADVOCATE FOR IT SO THEY BECAME THE CAC.
2:07:26PM NOW WE'RE SEPARATING IT, BUT WE WANT TO GET RID OF THE
2:07:29PM LIABILITY, I THINK, CONNECTED TO IT, RIGHT?
2:07:33PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YEAH, AS YOU HEARD DURING THE COMMENTS,
2:07:36PM THERE WAS SOME HEARTBURN WITH SOME OF THE FOLKS ASSEMBLED AT
2:07:39PM THE MEETING LAST TUESDAY AS IT RELATES TO WHAT IT WILL LOOK
2:07:42PM LIKE AND THE EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP STANDING ON ITS OWN.
2:07:46PM BECAUSE RIGHT NOW A LOT OF THOSE MEETINGS BETWEEN T & I AND
2:07:51PM OUR STAFF TO HELP FACILITATE AND HOST THOSE MEETINGS.
2:07:55PM SO THERE WERE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT.
2:07:57PM I ASSURED THE FOLKS THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE
2:08:00PM CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHAT THEIR COURSE OF ACTION COULD BE
2:08:04PM MOVING FORWARD.
2:08:04PM BUT WE WERE RESPONDING TO WHAT WAS ASKED OF US AS A STAFF BY
2:08:10PM THE CRA BOARD.
2:08:12PM >>BILL CARLSON: MORRIS CAN HELP ANSWER THIS.
2:08:14PM ARE WE SENDING OFFICIAL LETTERS TO NOTIFY THE BOARD OF THE
2:08:18PM EAST TAMPA PARTNERSHIP THAT THE CITY IS NO LONGER AFFILIATED
2:08:21PM AND THEY ARE AN INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATION OR SOMETHING --
2:08:24PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST CLARIFY, I THINK THE CITY'S POSITION
2:08:26PM IS THAT THE PARTNERSHIP HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN INDEPENDENT
2:08:29PM ORGANIZATION.
2:08:30PM IN FACT, SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, WE HAVE NOT -- WE BASICALLY
2:08:33PM HAVE SAID YOUR ELECTION IS YOUR ELECTION.
2:08:36PM YOU HOLD IT PER YOUR BYLAWS.
2:08:38PM WE'RE NOT GOING TO TELL YOU HOW TO HOLD YOUR ELECTIONS.
2:08:41PM WHOEVER YOU VOTE IN AS THE BOARD IS THE CAC.
2:08:43PM SO THAT'S BEEN OUR POSITION ALL ALONG, THAT WE CAN CLARIFY
2:08:47PM THAT COMMUNICATION AND MAKE IT CLEAR, ABUNDANTLY CLEAR THAT
2:08:50PM THERE'S NO OFFICIAL LINKAGE BETWEEN THE PARTNERSHIP AND THE
2:08:53PM CITY.
2:08:54PM IN MY OPINION NEVER REALLY HAS BEEN.
2:08:55PM >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, EXCEPT WE GOT MORE INVOLVED THAN MAYBE
2:08:59PM WE SHOULD HAVE.
2:09:00PM I THINK WE OUGHT TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR AND NOT IN A
2:09:03PM DEMEANING WAY.
2:09:04PM THEY CAN GO OFF AND DO WHATEVER THEY WANT WITH THE
2:09:06PM PARTNERSHIP BUT MAKE IT VERY CLEAR LEGALLY THAT THE CAC IS
2:09:10PM SEPARATE AND EVEN THOUGH SOME OF THE PEOPLE ARE THE SAME
2:09:12PM THAT IT IS A SEPARATE ENTITY AND YOU CAN PUT IN THERE THAT
2:09:15PM IT WAS ALWAYS SEPARATE.
2:09:17PM WE WILL NOT BE INVOLVED IN THE ELECTIONS OR ANYTHING GOING
2:09:19PM FORWARD, AND THEN I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST SENDING IT TO THE
2:09:22PM MEDIA AND PARTICULARLY THE SENTINEL BULLETIN JUST SO FOLKS
2:09:31PM KNOW.
2:09:31PM IT WILL BE TWO PARALLEL ORGANIZATIONS NOW, NOT THE SAME.
2:09:34PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
2:09:37PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
2:09:38PM THERE ARE A LOT OF NEIGHBORHOODS IN EAST TAMPA, AND I THINK
2:09:44PM IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE MAKE SURE EVERYBODY FEELS HEARD, BUT
2:09:48PM WHAT I DO NOT SEE IN THIS LIST AND BECAUSE OUR MISSION AS A
2:09:54PM CRA WE ARE FOCUSING NOT JUST ON RESIDENTS, BUT THE ECONOMY,
2:09:58PM I DON'T SEE ANY BUSINESSES ON THIS LIST.
2:10:01PM I DON'T SEE ANY TYPE OF BUSINESS ORGANIZATION.
2:10:07PM AND THAT JUST CONCERNS ME.
2:10:10PM NOT BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THE NEIGHBORHOODS NEED TO HAVE A
2:10:13PM SAY, BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE THEY DO, BUT WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A
2:10:17PM SPOT HERE FOR EVEN ONE BUSINESS OWNER.
2:10:21PM AND SO I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
2:10:23PM I KNOW WE'VE GOT TWO AT-LARGE THAT SINCE IT'S UP TO US WE
2:10:27PM CAN FOCUS ON THAT, BUT -- AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT WOULD BE
2:10:31PM EQUITABLE IF INSTEAD WE COULD TRADE OFF NEIGHBORHOOD --
2:10:36PM BECAUSE I KNOW THERE WILL BE NO MORE NEIGHBORHOOD
2:10:39PM ASSOCIATIONS CREATED AS THE NEIGHBORHOOD RELATIONS KEEPS
2:10:43PM BUILDING.
2:10:43PM IN FACT, I KNOW THERE IS A NEW ONE COMING ONLINE THAT'S NOT
2:10:46PM EVEN ON HERE.
2:10:47PM SO MY QUESTION IS GOING FORWARD HOW DO WE BALANCE THAT?
2:10:52PM AND AS WE DEVELOP THE BUSINESSES OF EAST TAMPA, WHICH EAST
2:10:58PM TAMPA IS STRONGLY ASKING FOR, HOW DO WE CREATE SPACE FOR
2:11:06PM THEM?
2:11:13PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DIRECTOR MOODY.
2:11:15PM >>ERICA MOODY: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POINTING THAT OUT.
2:11:16PM WE DO SEE THE PARTNERSHIP AS A BUSINESS ORGANIZATION.
2:11:20PM SO THEY HAVE TWO SEATS AS WELL.
2:11:22PM I JUST WANT TO REITERATE THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO STAY CLOSE
2:11:26PM WITH THEM AS WELL AND THEM HAVE A SAY IN WHAT'S HAPPENING.
2:11:30PM I'VE MET WITH THE CHAIR, AND WE WANT THEIR SUCCESS.
2:11:33PM BY NO WAY DOES THIS MEAN WE WANT THEM TO DISSOLVE.
2:11:37PM WE WANT THEM TO STRENGTHEN AND BE SELF-SUFFICIENT LONG TERM
2:11:40PM EVEN AFTER THE CAC SUNSET.
2:11:42PM THE AT-LARGE POSITIONS, THEY ARE LIVE, WORK, OWN, OR
2:11:46PM OPERATE, SO WE DO WANT TO ENCOURAGE BUSINESSES TO FULFILL
2:11:49PM THOSE AT-LARGE SEATS AS WELL AS I KNOW SOME RESIDENTS ARE
2:11:52PM EXCITED ABOUT IT, TOO, BUT I DO APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS AND
2:11:55PM YOU POINTING THAT OUT BECAUSE WE ARE FOCUSING ON BUILDING
2:11:58PM THE COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS WITHIN EAST TAMPA, SO IT'S VERY
2:12:00PM RELEVANT.
2:12:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
2:12:02PM THAT'S JUST WHEN WE WERE LOOKING AT THAT LIST INITIALLY OF
2:12:05PM THE DIFFERENT GROUPS, IT SEEMS THAT THIS IS THE ONLY ONE
2:12:08PM THAT DOES NOT HAVE DEDICATED BUSINESS OWNERS OR BUSINESS
2:12:13PM ENTITIES.
2:12:14PM SO I WOULD CERTAINLY -- I MEAN, I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE A GREAT
2:12:19PM IDEA GOING FORWARD AND I WILL CERTAINLY LOOK FOR THE
2:12:22PM AT-LARGE MEMBERS.
2:12:23PM ME PERSONALLY WILL LOOK FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE WHEN I VOTE.
2:12:28PM BUT MAYBE AS TIME GOES ON AND MORE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS
2:12:33PM COME ONLINE, WE MAY HAVE TO REVISIT THE STRUCTURE SOMEWHAT
2:12:37PM TO NOT GO OVER 15, BUT SEE HOW WE CAN HAVE SOME EQUITY BUT
2:12:42PM ALSO AS THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY GROWS IN EAST TAMPA, WE NEED
2:12:46PM TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE SOME SEATS FOR THAT.
2:12:48PM SO JUST LOOKING AT THAT IN THE FUTURE.
2:12:50PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
2:12:51PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, CHAIRMAN, MADAM CHAIR.
2:12:54PM I WAS JUST LOOKING AT THAT.
2:12:56PM YOU HAVE 13 ALREADY ON.
2:12:57PM WHEN I SAW THE 2 AT-LARGE, I WAS SAYING, WELL, POSSIBLY THE
2:13:00PM 2 AT-LARGE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO BE FROM THE
2:13:02PM BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN SOME SORT OF WAY.
2:13:05PM SO I APPRECIATE THAT AND I WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO
2:13:09PM CHAIRMAN HENDERSON FOR BRINGING US TO THIS POINT.
2:13:12PM I THINK THESE THINGS THAT COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON TALKED
2:13:15PM ABOUT ARE VERY GOOD AND GOING FORWARD I THINK WE'RE GOING TO
2:13:18PM HAVE A MUCH TIGHTER ORGANIZATION.
2:13:25PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:13:26PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WANT TO SAY I AGREE WITH BOARD MEMBER
2:13:29PM HURTAK ALSO ON THE BUSINESS THING.
2:13:31PM I DON'T WANT TO COMPLICATE IT, BUT IF WE HAVE 20
2:13:35PM NEIGHBORHOODS AND I'M JUST MAKING THIS UP, 20 NEIGHBORHOODS
2:13:37PM AND 8 SEATS, MAYBE WE SHOULD ROTATE THEM SOMEHOW OR
2:13:43PM SOMETHING SO THAT IT'S FAIR TO EVERYBODY.
2:13:45PM WE DEFINITELY NEED BUSINESS REPRESENTATION, AND YOU SAID --
2:13:49PM SORRY I'LL KEEP HARPING ON WORDS -- BUT YOU SAID WE'RE GOING
2:13:52PM TO BE LOOKING AT BUILDING THE COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS.
2:13:58PM AND I WOULD RATHER -- THE WORD BUILDING AND CORRIDORS
2:14:02PM IMPLIES BIG BUILDINGS.
2:14:06PM WHAT I'VE SAID TO ALL THE BUILDERS, I MET WITH THE BUILDERS
2:14:08PM ASSOCIATION LAST WEEK AND SAID WE NEED TO FOCUS ON PEOPLE
2:14:11PM AND COMPANIES AND PRIVATE BUSINESSES, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, NOT
2:14:16PM BUILDINGS AND NOT SUBSIDIZING BUILDINGS AND EVERYBODY AGREES
2:14:19PM WITH THAT.
2:14:19PM IF WE'RE BUILDING UP THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY AND I KNOW
2:14:24PM MORRIS WON'T LET US DO THAT DIRECTLY, BUT IF WE CAN BUILD UP
2:14:27PM THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN EAST TAMPA AND HELP PEOPLE BECOME
2:14:30PM ENTREPRENEURS, THEN THE PRIVATE SECTOR WILL COME IN AND
2:14:33PM BUILD OFFICE PLACES FOR THEM AND WE CAN HELP THEM.
2:14:35PM BUT MY POINT IS LET'S NOT THINK ABOUT IT VISUALLY LIKE
2:14:40PM BUILDINGS IN A CORRIDOR.
2:14:40PM LET'S THINK ABOUT IT AS PEOPLE STARTING BUSINESSES AND THERE
2:14:43PM IS A THRIVING BUSINESS COMMUNITY GOING ON.
2:14:48PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
2:14:48PM WE HAVE ONE MORE MANAGER, RIGHT, TO PRESENT?
2:14:52PM >>ERICA MOODY: WE DO.
2:14:53PM ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON EAST TAMPA?
2:14:55PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
2:14:56PM THANK YOU.
2:15:00PM >>ERICA MOODY: AS WE WERE SPEAKING ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING,
2:15:03PM IT'S LIKE WE NEED TO BUILD UP THE BUSINESS IN MORE OF THESE
2:15:06PM RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND MORE OF THE RESIDENTIAL IN THE HIGHER
2:15:09PM BUSINESS AREAS.
2:15:10PM IT'S REALLY THAT BALANCE AND IT COMES THROUGHOUT THE
2:15:12PM DISCUSSION.
2:15:13PM ALSO BEFORE I PASS IT OFF, I DO WANT TO JUST MAKE A POINT
2:15:17PM THAT THESE ARE PUBLIC MEETINGS, AND WE ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO
2:15:21PM PARTICIPATE, PEOPLE INTERESTED IN THE AGENDA ITEMS, PEOPLE
2:15:24PM WHO JUST WANT TO SHARE THEIR VOICE IN THE COMMUNITY.
2:15:27PM I WANT TO OPEN UP THE INVITATION FOR ANYONE TO JOIN US IN
2:15:31PM THESE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETINGS.
2:15:34PM THERE IS A COMMITTEE BUT THERE'S PUBLIC COMMENT INVOLVED.
2:15:37PM THERE ARE RELEVANT ITEMS.
2:15:38PM IF YOU WANT TO STAY IN TOUCH WITH WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR
2:15:41PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
2:15:41PM SO I WANTED TO OPEN UP THE INVITATION TO ANYONE WATCHING OR
2:15:46PM IF ANYONE FROM THE BOARD WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND.
2:15:48PM WE ARE GOING TO MOVE INTO YBOR.
2:15:49PM A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
2:15:50PM WE HAVE THE YCDC.
2:15:51PM THE YBOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
2:15:55PM AS YOU KNOW, THEY ARE PURSUING A SPECIAL SERVICE DISTRICT,
2:15:57PM SO WE ARE CHEERING THEM ON AND SUPPORTING THEM AND ALSO WANT
2:16:01PM TO STAY CONNECTED TO ALL OF THE AMAZING THINGS COMING ONLINE
2:16:04PM FOR THEM AS WELL.
2:16:05PM SO WE HAVE OUR MANAGER, MS. COURTNEY ORR.
2:16:09PM SHE IS VERY CONNECTED TO THE CAC, THE COMMUNITY, AND SHE'S
2:16:13PM GOING TO BE THE BEST REPRESENTATION OF THE INFORMATION
2:16:16PM TODAY.
2:16:17PM MS. ORR.
2:16:25PM >>COURTNEY ORR: ON THIS SLIDE YOU'LL SEE THE CURRENT
2:16:27PM STRUCTURE OF THE YBOR CITY CAC.
2:16:30PM WE HAVE 25 MEMBERS PLUS THE 2 ADDITIONAL EMERITUS MEMBERS
2:16:33PM WHO ARE NONVOTING MEMBERS.
2:16:36PM AND THE COLUMN THERE WITH THE 15 MEMBERS SPEAKS TO THE
2:16:41PM INDUSTRY SEATS CURRENTLY REPRESENTED AND THEN THE EX OFFICIO
2:16:45PM OFF TO THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE.
2:16:46PM WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS, WHAT WE'VE ALREADY SPOKEN ABOUT, 15
2:16:50PM MEMBERS, NOT TO GO ABOVE 15 MEMBERS WITH 5 AT-LARGE AND THEN
2:16:55PM 10 EX OFFICIO.
2:16:57PM SO WE DID MAINTAIN THE EX OFFICIO REPRESENTATIVES, WHICH WAS
2:17:00PM GREAT AND THAT'S WHAT THE CAC WANTED.
2:17:02PM THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT LOSING THAT REPRESENTATION BECAUSE
2:17:04PM IT COMPELS THE ORGANIZATIONS TO SEND A REPRESENTATIVE TO THE
2:17:07PM TABLE.
2:17:08PM ONLY THING DIFFERENT IS AT-LARGE, DON'T HAVE NAMED INDUSTRY
2:17:15PM SEATS BUT IT COULD PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THOSE WHO
2:17:19PM DIDN'T, IN THAT PARTICULAR INDUSTRY, NOW THEY CAN BE
2:17:24PM CONSIDERED.
2:17:24PM HERE ARE OUR 25 MEMBERS CURRENTLY SERVING WITH THE TWO
2:17:29PM EMERITUS THERE AT THE BOTTOM.
2:17:31PM WE ARE GETTING READY TO SHIFT INTO THE SECOND TERM.
2:17:35PM WE HAVE TWO TWO-YEAR TERMS CURRENTLY.
2:17:38PM WE'RE GETTING READY OCTOBER 1st TO SHIFT INTO THE SECOND
2:17:41PM OF THE TOTAL FOUR-YEAR TERM.
2:17:44PM THIS WILL BE ROUND 2.
2:17:46PM WE WOULD LIKE TO HONOR HAVING THEM SERVE OUT THE FINAL
2:17:49PM TWO-YEAR TERM TO TAKE THEM TO 2025.
2:17:51PM SOME WERE ALREADY COMING OFF OF THE BOARD THAT ARE MARKED
2:17:55PM 2023.
2:17:55PM SO THAT ACTUALLY THROUGH ATTRITION ALREADY IS GETTING US
2:18:00PM CLOSER TO THAT REQUESTED 15 MAX NUMBER.
2:18:04PM SO WITH NOT FILLING THE 2023 SEATS, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'RE
2:18:12PM GETTING TO THE 15 AND THERE WE HAVE THE PROPOSED EX OFFICIO
2:18:17PM MEMBERS AND INSTEAD OF EXPIRING, HAVING THEM EXPIRE IN 2025
2:18:22PM LIKE THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, WE'LL STAGGER THEM TO 2026 SO WE
2:18:26PM DON'T HAVE A MASS EXODUS OF KNOWLEDGE ALL IN 2025.
2:18:30PM WE'LL HAVE SOME PEOPLE STAY ON.
2:18:32PM HALF OF THE BOARD WILL STAY ON THROUGH 2026 AND THEN THE
2:18:35PM REPLACEMENTS THERE LISTED AS 2025.
2:18:37PM SO THIS SLIDE JUST REPRESENTS THE FINAL RESULTS WITH YBOR
2:18:47PM CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION SEPARATING FROM THE CITY.
2:18:51PM THEY WOULD THEN HAVE A SEAT ON THIS PARTICULAR CAC DIAGRAM
2:18:56PM HERE.
2:18:57PM WE WOULD HAVE THE 5 AT-LARGE AND THEN THE 10 EX OFFICIO
2:19:00PM NAMED ORGANIZATIONS.
2:19:02PM THAT CONCLUDES MY INFORMATION.
2:19:13PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
2:19:14PM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
2:19:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU FOR THIS.
2:19:16PM AND I THINK THIS SHOWS A REALLY CLEAR DEFINITION OF WHAT I
2:19:20PM WAS TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE HERE YOU HAVE A NICE COMBINATION
2:19:23PM OF CIVIC AND BUSINESS AND EVEN -- I MEAN, THERE IS A SECTION
2:19:28PM HERE FOR THE SOCIAL CLUBS.
2:19:31PM WHAT IN EAST TAMPA COULD WE PUT IN THERE?
2:19:36PM I THINK THAT IN THE FUTURE WE REALLY HAVE TO LOOK AT -- I
2:19:43PM MEAN, I WOULD SAY MAJORITY OF THIS IS BUSINESS AND I KNOW
2:19:47PM RIGHT NOW MAJORITY OF EAST TAMPA IS RESIDENTIAL.
2:19:50PM BUT AS WE TRANSITION, WE SHOULD ALWAYS BE LOOKING AT THIS.
2:19:55PM SO I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHOULD COME TO US
2:19:58PM EVERY FEW YEARS TO JUST KIND OF UPDATE.
2:20:01PM I WOULD LOVE AN UPDATE IN TWO YEARS, PERHAPS.
2:20:05PM SO I'LL MAKE THE MOTION THAT -- LET'S SEE IF IT PASSES FIRST
2:20:10PM AND THEN I CAN MAKE A MOTION AFTER THAT TO HAVE THIS COME
2:20:13PM FORWARD EVERY TWO YEARS FOR US TO REALLY LOOK AT THE
2:20:18PM CATEGORIES AND MAKE SURE IT STICKS, BECAUSE THAT'S I THINK
2:20:22PM PART OF THE PROBLEM OF WHAT HAPPENS OVERALL IS EVERYBODY
2:20:27PM JUST GOT FAMILIAR WITH THE SPACES.
2:20:29PM SO I WANT TO THANK YOU MS. ORR ABOUT REALLY THINKING ABOUT
2:20:37PM WHICH -- HOW TO CAPTURE EACH GROUP IN THE WAY THAT YOU DID.
2:20:42PM THANK YOU.
2:20:44PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
2:20:45PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ONCE AGAIN, I WANT TO APPLAUD STAFF AND
2:20:48PM EVERYONE, THE COMMUNITY LEADERS AS WELL THAT PARTICIPATED IN
2:20:52PM THIS OVERHAUL.
2:20:55PM CHANGE IS DIFFICULT, AND IT'S TOUGH TO REALLY COME IN AND DO
2:20:59PM SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
2:21:00PM I THINK YOU GUYS DID A VERY EFFECTIVE JOB IN SUCH A SHORT
2:21:04PM PERIOD OF TIME.
2:21:04PM I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT THE CRA BOARD APPROVE THE
2:21:08PM AMENDED COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE POLICY AS PRESENTED BY
2:21:10PM STAFF EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.
2:21:12PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
2:21:13PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM BOARD MEMBER
2:21:16PM CLENDENIN, SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
2:21:18PM IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
2:21:19PM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:21:25PM >>BILL CARLSON: I'LL MAKE A MOTION JUST AFTER THIS REGARDING
2:21:28PM THE YBOR CITY CHARACTERIZATION BECAUSE I PROMISED THEM I
2:21:32PM WOULD.
2:21:33PM WE'LL SEE HOW THAT GOES, TOO.
2:21:34PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ROLL CALL VOTE PLEASE.
2:21:37PM >>THE CLERK: VIERA?
2:21:38PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
2:21:38PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
2:21:40PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
2:21:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
2:21:43PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
2:21:43PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
2:21:45PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
2:21:46PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
2:21:49PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
2:21:50PM WE'RE GOING TO PICK UP BOARD DISCUSSION -- GO AHEAD.
2:21:57PM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:21:58PM >>BILL CARLSON: I'M SORRY.
2:21:59PM YEAH, I JUST WOULD, AGAIN, IN THE CASE OF YBOR AND EAST
2:22:04PM TAMPA, WHAT WE'RE GAINING IS THAT WE'RE NOT ASSOCIATED WITH
2:22:07PM SEPARATE NONPROFITS ANYMORE.
2:22:09PM SO THAT IS A HUGE GAIN FOR US JUST NOT BEING AFFILIATED WITH
2:22:12PM THOSE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS BECAUSE IT SIMPLIFIES IT LEGALLY
2:22:15PM IN ALL KINDS OF WAYS.
2:22:17PM THE THING THAT THE YBOR FOLKS HAVE ASKED ME FOR AND I'VE
2:22:23PM TALKED TO STAFF ABOUT IT, SINCE THEY ARE GIVING UP SO MUCH,
2:22:27PM THEY WOULD LIKE AS A MINIMUM TO HAVE THIS STRUCTURE.
2:22:30PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR THE YBOR CAC TO HAVE 10
2:22:34PM AT-LARGE MEMBERS, 10 EX OFFICIO AND THEN GRANDFATHER IN THE
2:22:38PM 2 EMERITUS POSITIONS TO BE SUNSET WHEN THEY ARE NO LONGER
2:22:42PM ACTIVE.
2:22:43PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
2:22:44PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SO WE HAVE A MOTION FROM BOARD MEMBER
2:22:46PM CARLSON REGARDING YBOR CITY.
2:22:48PM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
2:22:51PM ANY DISCUSSION?
2:22:53PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST TO CLARIFY THAT MOTION, THAT WOULD
2:22:56PM MEAN THAT THE POLICY YOU JUST APPROVED WOULD HAVE TO BE
2:22:58PM AMENDED.
2:23:02PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY DISCUSSION?
2:23:02PM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
2:23:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO I BELIEVE COUNCILMAN MIRANDA ASKED FOR,
2:23:11PM DO WE HAVE DATA ON ATTENDANCE ON WHAT THESE MEETINGS
2:23:13PM ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE, HOW MANY PEOPLE ATTENDED, HOW DIFFICULT
2:23:19PM WAS IT TO REACH QUORUMS AND WHAT THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCE
2:23:23PM OF DOING THIS IS.
2:23:24PM THEN I WOULD PROBABLY SAY, YOU KNOW, I THINK -- BECAUSE I
2:23:27PM SAID EARLIER IN MY CONVERSATION, MY GUT TELLS ME, CHANGE IS
2:23:32PM DIFFICULT.
2:23:32PM IT'S HARD TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS.
2:23:34PM IT LOOKS LIKE STAFF REALLY DID ITS DUE DILIGENCE, WORKED
2:23:37PM WITH THE COMMUNITY.
2:23:38PM I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE'S SOME FOLKS, BUT WE HAD THE SAME
2:23:42PM ISSUE IN EAST TAMPA, BUT THERE SEEMED TO BE GOING ALONG WITH
2:23:45PM THIS AND PROBABLY THE IMPACT ON EAST TAMPA IS MORE DRAMATIC
2:23:49PM THAN EVEN YBOR CITY.
2:23:51PM SO IF WE START WHITTLING AWAY, IT'S DEATH BY A THOUSAND
2:23:54PM CUTS, I THINK WE SHOULD KEEP GOING THE AWAY WE'RE GOING WITH
2:23:58PM WHAT WE'RE AT, NOT CHANGE IT, MAYBE VISIT ANOTHER TIME AND
2:24:01PM DO WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION?
2:24:04PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER -- DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK?
2:24:08PM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
2:24:10PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
2:24:11PM JUST REALLY QUICK ON THIS.
2:24:13PM I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO SOME OF THE FOLKS IN YBOR CITY
2:24:15PM MYSELF ON THIS PROPOSAL.
2:24:17PM I HAVE NO PRESUMPTIVE OPPOSITION TO IT.
2:24:19PM MAYBE COULD WE HAVE IT COME BACK NEXT MONTH FOR
2:24:22PM CONSIDERATION, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON?
2:24:25PM IN OTHER WORDS, IS TIME OF THE ESSENCE?
2:24:33PM >>BILL CARLSON: COULD I WITHDRAW MY MOTION AND MAKE A NEW
2:24:36PM MOTION?
2:24:38PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD STILL LIKE TO HEAR FROM MS. ORR WITH
2:24:44PM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN'S QUESTION.
2:24:52PM >>BILL CARLSON: THE CHAIR HAS BEEN THE INTERMEDIARY TO TALK
2:24:55PM TO HIS CONSTITUENTS AND HE'S TALKED TO STAFF AND THEY
2:24:58PM WEREN'T HAPPY WITH THE 15, WHICH IS WHY THEY CAME TO ME AND
2:25:01PM ASKED ME ABOUT IT.
2:25:02PM EVEN THOUGH NOT 100 PEOPLE HERE PROTESTING, IT WAS THE CHAIR
2:25:08PM REPRESENTING THEIR INTEREST THAT THEY REALLY FEEL LIKE --
2:25:12PM THEY DON'T HAVE TO GO ALL THE WAY UP TO 25, BUT THEY WOULD
2:25:15PM LIKE TO AT A MINIMUM JUST HAVE THIS.
2:25:20PM >>COURTNEY ORR: IN REFERENCE TO THE ATTENDANCE QUESTION, IN
2:25:22PM MY 8 YEARS, WE'VE NEVER MISSED QUORUM.
2:25:25PM WE'VE HAD 13 MEMBERS AT LEAST SHOW UP.
2:25:28PM THAT'S WHAT WE NEED FOR OUR 51% OF THE 25 MEMBERS.
2:25:32PM SO WE'VE ALWAYS HAD QUORUM.
2:25:34PM IT CAN RANGE.
2:25:34PM I JUST BRIEFLY GLANCED THROUGH ALL THE MINUTES ON MY
2:25:38PM COMPUTER AND IT CAN RANGE FROM 15 TO 20 PARTICIPANTS, BUT WE
2:25:42PM NEVER CAPTURE THE ENTIRE 25.
2:25:44PM LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER, THE ONLY CONCERN THAT THE GROUP
2:25:49PM HAD WAS -- WELL, WHEN WE SPOKE PUBLICLY AS A GROUP IS THAT
2:25:55PM THE EX OFFICIO REPRESENTATIVES WERE MAINTAINED.
2:25:59PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [INAUDIBLE]
2:26:05PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
2:26:07PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
2:26:09PM I WAS ACTUALLY JUST GOING TO SAY THE EXACT SAME THING THAT
2:26:11PM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA SAID.
2:26:13PM I HAVE NO PROBLEM IF WE WANT TO ADD THOSE TWO EX OFFICIO
2:26:16PM MEMBERS.
2:26:16PM I THINK THAT WHEN YOU PROMISE SOMEONE SOMETHING --
2:26:20PM >>COURTNEY ORR: YOU MEAN EMERITUS.
2:26:22PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, EMERITUS, TO GET TO 17.
2:26:25PM BUT BEYOND THAT, I FEEL LIKE YOU'VE DONE A LOT OF WORK AND
2:26:27PM YOUR STAFF HAS DONE A LOT OF WORK TO PREPARE AND I THINK 17
2:26:32PM IS A REASONABLE GOAL, BUT I WOULD NOT SUPPORT ANYTHING PAST
2:26:36PM THAT AT THIS POINT.
2:26:37PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST TO CLARIFY, I BELIEVE UNDER THE
2:26:39PM CURRENT POLICY, THE TWO EMERITUS ARE NONVOTING.
2:26:43PM >>COURTNEY ORR: THAT'S CORRECT.
2:26:44PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH, THAT WOULD BE FINE.
2:26:45PM >>COURTNEY ORR: JUST TO ADD MORE INFORMATION TO THAT, I DID
2:26:48PM REACH OUT TO FRAN COSTANTINO AND ASKED IF SHE WOULD SERVE IN
2:26:52PM AT-LARGE SEAT AND SHE ACCEPTED THAT AND FILLED OUT AN
2:26:55PM APPLICATION FOR AT-LARGE SEAT.
2:26:56PM JOE SENIOR ISN'T, DUE TO HEALTH, HE REALLY DOESN'T
2:27:02PM PARTICIPATE AT ALL, THE TWO EMERITUS POSITIONS.
2:27:06PM FRAN WE ALREADY TAKEN CARE OF BY FILLING AT-LARGE POSITION
2:27:09PM AND JOE ISN'T ABLE TO PARTICIPATE.
2:27:11PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON AND THEN HURTAK.
2:27:19PM IN TERMS OF WHO GOES FIRST.
2:27:21PM >>BILL CARLSON: IF THE TWO EMERITUS POSITIONS TAKE AT-LARGE,
2:27:24PM THIS IS THE POSITION THAT THE CHAIR IS TELLING ME, IF TWO
2:27:26PM EMERITUS POSITIONS TAKE THE TWO AT-LARGE POSITIONS, IT TAKES
2:27:29PM AWAY THE ABILITY TO GET REPRESENTATION.
2:27:31PM THE MEETINGS I'VE BEEN IN YBOR ARE PACKED FULL OF PEOPLE
2:27:34PM WHERE THERE ARE NO SEATS.
2:27:35PM I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY OF THEM ARE BOARD MEMBERS OR NOT.
2:27:38PM IT'S A VERY ACTIVE GROUP.
2:27:40PM WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE IS THAT WE GO FORWARD WITH THE MOTION,
2:27:44PM IF THAT MOTION FAILS, I'LL MAKE THE MOTION THAT BOARD MEMBER
2:27:47PM MIRANDA SUGGESTED AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT ONE.
2:27:50PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
2:27:51PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY AS WELL.
2:27:54PM I MEAN, THESE EMERITUS POSITIONS OR, YES, EMERITUS
2:28:01PM POSITIONS, IF THEY DON'T HAVE VOTING ROLES ANYWAY, I DON'T
2:28:05PM SEE A REASON WHY WE CAN'T JUST KEEP MS. COSTANTINO AND THEN
2:28:11PM IF -- YEAH, IF THE OTHER PERSON DOESN'T PARTICIPATE AS IT IS
2:28:17PM DUE TO HEALTH REASONS ANYWAY, THEN THEY ARE WELCOME TO, IF
2:28:20PM THEY FEEL UP TO IT, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE TO.
2:28:23PM AS THOSE FOLKS DON'T PARTICIPATE ANYMORE, THEN WE'RE BACK TO
2:28:26PM THE 15.
2:28:28PM >>COURTNEY ORR: AS AN EMERITUS MEMBER, THEY ARE NONVOTING
2:28:34PM AND FRAN WOULD REFERENCE THAT OFTEN.
2:28:36PM "OH, I CAN'T VOTE."
2:28:38PM SHE MAY APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT SHE CAN NOW BE A VOTING
2:28:41PM MEMBER AND WE CAN ALWAYS REFERENCE HER AS FORMER EMERITUS.
2:28:46PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I APPRECIATE ALL
2:28:48PM THE WORK THAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE TO COME TO THIS POINT.
2:28:52PM THERE IS A BOOK OUT THERE CALLED "WHO MOVED MY CHEESE."
2:28:56PM CHANGE IS DIFFICULT, BUT WHAT YOU PRESENTED WITH THE 15
2:29:00PM ACROSS THE BOARD FOR ME IS WHAT WORKS FOR ME.
2:29:02PM WE ACTUALLY VOTED ON IT UNANIMOUSLY.
2:29:04PM I THINK THAT WE SHOULD GIVE YBOR CITY AN OPPORTUNITY TO
2:29:07PM RECEIVE WHAT WE VOTED ON JUST NOW.
2:29:09PM THE BEAUTIFUL PART ABOUT BEING A BOARD IS THAT IF WE HAVE TO
2:29:12PM CIRCLE BACK BECAUSE THIS ISN'T WORKING, WE CAN MAKE THAT
2:29:16PM CHANGE AS NECESSARY FOR ANY OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT WE'RE
2:29:19PM SERVING AS A BOARD.
2:29:21PM BUT I LIKE THE CONSISTENCY OF WHAT WE JUST VOTED ON AND I
2:29:24PM WOULD LEAVE IT AS IS.
2:29:26PM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
2:29:28PM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
2:29:30PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
2:29:31PM IF COUNCILMAN CARLSON DISCUSSED THIS WITH THE CHAIRMAN OF
2:29:35PM THE BOARD, MR. BARBAS, RIGHT, AND HE'S SUPPORTIVE OF IT, I
2:29:40PM GIVE THAT DEFERENCE.
2:29:42PM ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, MOVING AHEAD ON IT, I'M FINE WITH THAT.
2:29:46PM I GIVE THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD THERE, CAC BOARD A
2:29:50PM REASONABLE LEVEL OF DEFERENCE.
2:29:55PM ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, MOVING IT FORWARD.
2:29:56PM THANK YOU.
2:29:59PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE'LL CLOSE AND VOTE.
2:30:02PM READY?
2:30:02PM WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:30:05PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
2:30:06PM YES, FOR THE CHANGE FOR YBOR.
2:30:12PM >>BILL CARLSON: 10 AT-LARGE, 10 EX OFFICIO, AND 2
2:30:19PM GRANDFATHERED EMERITUS THAT WOULD EXPIRE WHEN THEY ARE NO
2:30:22PM LONGER ACTIVE.
2:30:23PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARITY.
2:30:24PM WE'LL HAVE A ROLL CALL VOTE ON THIS.
2:30:24PM IT WAS SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
2:30:26PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
2:30:27PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
2:30:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO.
2:30:31PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NO.
2:30:33PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
2:30:35PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
2:30:37PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
2:30:38PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH HURTAK, CLENDENIN, AND
2:30:40PM HENDERSON VOTING NO.
2:30:43PM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU ALL.
2:30:44PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST TO CLARIFY, THAT MEANS, AND WE CAN
2:30:47PM BRING THIS BACK TO GET CONFIRMED AT THE NEXT MEETING, BUT
2:30:52PM THE CAC COMMITTEE POLICY AS PROPOSED, THE EXHIBIT A WILL
2:30:57PM HAVE TO BE CHANGED.
2:30:59PM THERE'S LANGUAGE ABOUT THE MAXIMUM 15 MEMBERS WILL HAVE TO
2:31:03PM BE CHANGED IN THAT POLICY THAT WE'LL BRING FORWARD.
2:31:06PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ADDITIONALLY YEAH.
2:31:08PM SO NOW WE'LL HAVE EAST TAMPA COMING NEXT TO DO THIS.
2:31:11PM SO ADDITIONALLY, THOSE FIVE, I WANT THE STAFF TO COME TO US
2:31:16PM AND TELL US WHAT GROUPS NEED TO BE THERE.
2:31:18PM THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I -- I MEAN, WE DID THIS FAIRLY.
2:31:23PM IF THEY ARE GOING TO ADD FIVE MORE MEMBERS, THEN IT ALSO
2:31:26PM NEEDS TO BE DONE FAIRLY.
2:31:29PM >>BILL CARLSON: MORRIS, DO WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION TO BRING
2:31:33PM BACK AMENDMENT LANGUAGE?
2:31:36PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU'D LIKE, YOU CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT.
2:31:39PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO BRING BACK
2:31:41PM TO THE NEXT MEETING AMENDING LANGUAGE TO ALLOW THIS ONE
2:31:47PM GRANDFATHERED SITUATION.
2:31:51PM >> SECOND.
2:31:53PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THERE IS A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:31:57PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
2:31:59PM DISCUSSION?
2:31:59PM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
2:32:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
2:32:02PM FRIENDLY AMENDMENT WOULD BE THAT STAFF NEEDS TO COME BACK
2:32:05PM WITH WHAT THOSE FIVE GROUPS ARE GOING TO BE, THOSE FIVE
2:32:11PM POSITIONS ARE GOING TO FOCUS ON.
2:32:12PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THE FIVE NEW ONES ARE ALL AT-LARGE.
2:32:14PM IT WOULD BE THE 10 EXISTING EX OFFICIO AND THEN THEY ARE
2:32:21PM ADDING 5 ADDITIONAL, IF I UNDERSTAND THE MOTION.
2:32:24PM SO THERE WOULD BE 10 AT-LARGE SEATS AND NOT 5 AND 2
2:32:27PM EMERITUS.
2:32:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH, I REALLY DON'T AGREE WITH THAT.
2:32:31PM SO, OH, WELL, I LOST.
2:32:34PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:32:35PM >>BILL CARLSON: WHAT I SUGGEST, ANYBODY, ESPECIALLY MY TWO
2:32:39PM COLLEAGUES TO THE LEFT, ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE ABOUT IT,
2:32:42PM PLEASE CALL THE CHAIR.
2:32:43PM HE AND HIS PEOPLE CAN'T CARRY MESSAGES BACK AND FORTH WITH
2:32:48PM US.
2:32:48PM BUT YOU CAN CONTACT THEM DIRECTLY, GO TO THE MEETINGS AND
2:32:51PM TALK WITH THEM.
2:32:52PM THERE'S A LOT OF BAD FEELINGS THROUGH SOME OF THE CHANGES
2:32:55PM WE'VE IMPOSED ON THEM IN THE LAST YEAR OR TWO AND THEY FEEL
2:32:58PM LIKE THEY ARE VERY ACTIVE AND HAVE BEEN COLLEGIAL.
2:33:01PM THEY WERE JUST ASKING FOR THIS AS A MINIMUM.
2:33:03PM I APPRECIATE US MOVING FORWARD.
2:33:05PM IF WE COULD MAKE THAT ONE TWEAK, THAT WOULD BE GOOD AND
2:33:08PM UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE ARE ONLY TWO CASES OF THIS BECAUSE
2:33:10PM THE OTHERS WERE ALL CACs ANYWAY.
2:33:13PM ALL WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS TO BRING IT IN SO WE CAN SEPARATE
2:33:16PM OURSELVES FROM THE SEPARATE NONPROFITS.
2:33:20PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
2:33:21PM SO THERE'S NO MORE DISCUSSION.
2:33:22PM IT PASSED.
2:33:23PM SO WE'RE GOOD.
2:33:25PM >> DID WE VOTE?
2:33:26PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
2:33:27PM NOW WE'RE GETTING READY TO VOTE FOR THE MOST RECENT MOTION
2:33:30PM TO BRING IT BACK, YES.
2:33:33PM IT WAS SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
2:33:35PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
2:33:38PM >> AYE.
2:33:38PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OPPOSED?
2:33:40PM >> NAY.
2:33:41PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NAY BY HURTAK AND HENDERSON.
2:33:43PM MOTION CARRIES.
2:33:49PM OKAY.
2:33:52PM IT IS RAINING.
2:33:52PM THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH, CRA MANAGERS.
2:33:54PM WE REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE ON BEHALF OF
2:33:58PM GETTING TO THIS POINT IN THIS PROCESS.
2:34:01PM I SEE A GREAT FUTURE FOR THE CRA BOARD IN WORKING WITH THE
2:34:07PM COMMUNITY.
2:34:08PM AND ALSO THE OPPORTUNITY FOR US AS WE CONTINUE TO SAY
2:34:12PM EVERYTHING HERE ON THE DAIS WHERE THE COMMUNITY CAN HEAR
2:34:15PM EXACTLY WHERE WE'RE COMING FROM.
2:34:17PM THAT'S IT.
2:34:19PM LET'S MOVE FORWARD.
2:34:21PM WE HAVE ITEM NUMBER 6 AND 7 TOGETHER.
2:34:25PM >>ERICA MOODY: YES.
2:34:26PM BOTH OF THESE ARE CONCERNING THE DOWNTOWN.
2:34:28PM I'LL READ BOTH OF THE MOTIONS AND INVITE THE URBAN CORE
2:34:31PM MANAGER, JEFFREY BURTON TO COME UP.
2:34:34PM ITEM 6, THE CRA STAFF TO REPORT ON THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT
2:34:37PM HAS BEEN COMMITTED TO DOWNTOWN WHEN THE CRA VOTED FOR
2:34:40PM VARIOUS THINGS WITHIN THE DISTRICT FOR ENHANCEMENTS TO
2:34:43PM DOWNTOWN AREA AND FOR FUTURE ADVANCEMENTS.
2:34:45PM ITEM NUMBER 7 IS FOR CRA STAFF TO ANALYZE THE POSSIBILITY OF
2:34:49PM CREATING AN OPTION TO REDUCE THE DOWNTOWN CRA MONEY AND
2:34:53PM FURTHER, THAT THIS ANALYSIS BE BROUGHT BACK FOR DISCUSSION
2:34:56PM AND IF APPROVED THAT OPTION WOULD BE ADDED TO THE DOWNTOWN
2:34:58PM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN PROCESS TO GET PUBLIC INPUT ON IT SO THAT
2:35:02PM A RESPONSE CAN BE PROVIDED BY THE PUBLIC BY 2024.
2:35:06PM I'LL PULL UP THE PRESENTATION.
2:35:09PM MR. BURTON, IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME UP.
2:35:21PM >>JEFF BURTON: SO YOU ASKED FOR AN ANALYSIS OF THE DOWNTOWN
2:35:26PM RELATED TO YOUR CURRENT COMMITMENTS.
2:35:31PM AND THESE ARE -- THIS IS WHAT YOU ASKED FOR.
2:35:37PM JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE BACKGROUND, THE CRA IS TO SUNSET
2:35:39PM IN 2043.
2:35:42PM PER 2014 COUNTY INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, THE CITY CONTRIBUTES A
2:35:46PM TOTAL AMOUNT, WHICH MEANS THE COUNTY PUTS IN NOTHING, THOUGH
2:35:51PM WITH THE WATER STREET PROJECT, THEY HAVE COMMITTED $50
2:35:54PM MILLION TO MATCH OUR $50 MILLION.
2:35:58PM SO THEY ARE INVESTING IN THE DOWNTOWN, JUST NOT THROUGH THE
2:36:02PM CRA.
2:36:02PM THE OUTLOOK INCLUDES PROJECTS TO BE CONSIDERED WITHIN THE
2:36:07PM 1983/88 REDEVELOPMENT PLAN BUT DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR
2:36:14PM POTENTIAL CHANGES GIVEN THE CURRENT REWRITE.
2:36:16PM THE NEW PLAN IS SUPPOSED TO BE OUT IN EARLY SPRING.
2:36:20PM AND WITH THAT, A MORE RELEVANT AND PROBABLY MORE ROBUST PLAN
2:36:26PM CAN BE PUT TOGETHER.
2:36:30PM THE PROJECTION, THEY ESTIMATE AN 11% INCREMENT STARTING NEXT
2:36:36PM YEAR.
2:36:36PM FOR THIS YEAR, WE HAVE THE FULL AMOUNT THAT WE ARE AWARE OF,
2:36:39PM BUT FOR EVERY YEAR AFTER THAT IT'S 11%.
2:36:45PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON HAS A QUESTION.
2:36:47PM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
2:36:48PM MAYBE THIS IS A QUESTION FOR MORRIS.
2:36:50PM CAN YOU GO BACK ONE SLIDE, WHOEVER IS RUNNING THAT, PLEASE?
2:36:53PM THE TOP LINE THERE SAYS IT SUNSETS IN 2043.
2:36:58PM I THINK ALL THE NUMBERS ARE BASED ON THAT 2043.
2:37:01PM WHAT WAS IT THREE YEARS AGO STATE LAW WAS CHANGED TO
2:37:05PM POTENTIALLY FORCE THE SUNSET OF CRAs.
2:37:09PM SO THE CITY ATTORNEY AT THE TIME CAME TO US AND ASKED US TO
2:37:13PM ARBITRARILY PUT IT ALL THE WAY OUT TO 2043 WITH THE IDEA WE
2:37:18PM COULD SHRINK IT LESS AT SOME POINT.
2:37:20PM I DON'T REMEMBER, WHAT YEAR DID IT GO TO BEFORE THEN?
2:37:23PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THAT.
2:37:26PM IT WAS A MOTION AND THERE IS A RESOLUTION WHERE THE DOWNTOWN
2:37:29PM CRA WAS EXTENDED AND THAT WAS PURSUANT TO THE 2019
2:37:34PM LEGISLATION.
2:37:35PM >>BILL CARLSON: BUT AT THE TIME AND MAYBE MY COLLEAGUES
2:37:38PM REMEMBER, AT THE TIME I WAS WORRIED ABOUT EXTENDING IT OUT
2:37:41PM THAT FAR, BUT THE ARGUMENT WAS MADE THAT THIS GIVES US
2:37:44PM FLEXIBILITY.
2:37:44PM IF WE DON'T DO THIS, THE STATE MIGHT SHUT IT DOWN EARLIER
2:37:47PM BECAUSE THEY COULD COME IN AND SAY THAT NO CRAs COULD BE
2:37:52PM EXTENDED AT THAT POINT.
2:37:53PM SO WE EXTEND IT OUT NOT THINKING THAT WE INTENTIONALLY
2:37:57PM WANTED IT TO GO TO 2043, BUT THAT WE NEEDED TO FOR LEGAL
2:38:02PM REASONS FOR THE STATE, RIGHT?
2:38:04PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THAT'S ESSENTIALLY CORRECT.
2:38:06PM I'D HAVE TO GO BACK.
2:38:07PM I APOLOGIZE.
2:38:09PM I DON'T REMEMBER WHEN IT WOULD HAVE TERMINATED PRIOR TO THAT
2:38:12PM DATE.
2:38:12PM >> 2039.
2:38:13PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: 2039.
2:38:14PM THANK YOU, JEFF.
2:38:21PM >>JEFF BURTON: THESE ARE THE COMMITMENTS THAT YOU CURRENTLY
2:38:23PM HAVE.
2:38:24PM STRATEGIC PARTNERS, THAT'S THE $50 MILLION AGREEMENT THAT
2:38:30PM YOU HAD.
2:38:31PM THERE IS A MATCH FROM THE COUNTY FOR THE SAME AMOUNT.
2:38:34PM TAMPA CONVENTION CENTER, THIS NUMBER WILL GO ALL THE WAY TO
2:38:43PM 2029.
2:38:44PM STRAZ PERFORMING ARTS, 25 MILLION, AND THERE ARE SOME
2:38:50PM NEGOTIATIONS BEING DONE THAT WE WON'T GO INTO TODAY, BUT
2:38:53PM THAT NUMBER IS ALSO OUT THERE AND WE HAVE PUT MONEY ASIDE
2:38:56PM FOR THAT ALREADY.
2:38:58PM TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART, THERE IS NOT AN AGREEMENT THAT HAS COME
2:39:04PM BEFORE THE BOARD YET, BUT YOU DID AGREE UPON A PAYMENT PLAN.
2:39:08PM >>BILL CARLSON: WE DO HAVE AN AGREEMENT.
2:39:15PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: RELATIVE TO THE TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART, THEY
2:39:18PM HAVE BEEN NEGOTIATING AN AMENDMENT TO THE LEASE AGREEMENT
2:39:21PM WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA TO EXPAND THE FACILITY.
2:39:26PM AND THAT WILL BE COMING TO YOU ALL AT CITY COUNCIL
2:39:29PM RELATIVELY SOON.
2:39:30PM >>BILL CARLSON: THAT'S SEPARATE.
2:39:31PM WE ALREADY COMMITTED THE DOLLARS.
2:39:33PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE'VE ALREADY, I THINK, ALLOCATED MONEY IN
2:39:35PM OUR BUDGET, BUT WE HAVE NOT ENTERED INTO A GRANT FUNDING
2:39:38PM AGREEMENT, WHICH IS WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IN ORDER TO REALLY
2:39:39PM FINALIZE THE GRANT.
2:39:41PM >>BILL CARLSON: I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY KNOWS WE
2:39:43PM COMMITTED THE DOLLARS.
2:39:44PM WE APPROVED THAT SEVERAL MONTHS AGO.
2:39:46PM IT'S NOT A PROPOSED PROJECT.
2:39:53PM >> THE TAMPA THEATRE, WHICH IS $14 MILLION, TOTAL OF
2:39:56PM $116.6 MILLION.
2:39:58PM WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT IN THE GRAPH IS THE INCREMENT REVENUE
2:40:02PM OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS, AND THEN YOU'RE ALSO SEEING --
2:40:09PM >>BILL CARLSON: I HAVE TO APOLOGIZE.
2:40:11PM I THOUGHT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT TAMPA THEATRE.
2:40:12PM I MIX THOSE TWO UP.
2:40:14PM SORRY ABOUT THAT.
2:40:15PM >>JEFF BURTON: BETWEEN 2024 AND 2029, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH
2:40:21PM THAT PAYMENT PERIOD THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT.
2:40:24PM PRIOR TO ADDITIONAL GROWTH THAT WAS UNEXPECTED IN THIS
2:40:27PM YEAR'S TAX BASE, AT ONE POINT THE GREEN GRAPH WAS BELOW THE
2:40:33PM RED GRAPH.
2:40:34PM SO WE WERE ACTUALLY NOT BRINGING IN ENOUGH MONEY, BUT
2:40:38PM LUCKILY FOR US THE ECONOMY IS GOOD, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE
2:40:42PM LOOKING AT.
2:40:43PM SO WITHOUT ADDING ANYTHING ELSE, JUST WHAT YOU'VE COMMITTED
2:40:51PM TO, THESE ARE SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE LEFT ON THE TABLE
2:40:55PM FOR YOU TO DISCUSS, IF YOU WISH.
2:40:57PM THINGS LIKE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, MARION STREET REDEVELOPMENT,
2:41:03PM LAND ACQUISITION, PURCHASING MORE LAND FOR HOUSING AND OTHER
2:41:06PM ITEMS, FRANKLIN STREET, REDEVELOP THAT.
2:41:10PM THE URBAN TRANSIT CIRCULATOR, KILEY GARDEN REDEVELOPMENT.
2:41:18PM CASS RIVERWALK INTERSECTION.
2:41:21PM SOMETHING THAT THE FRIENDS OF THE RIVERWALK WORKING ON.
2:41:24PM MacDILL STORMWATER PRETREATMENT.
2:41:26PM THAT IS A PROJECT TO PRETREAT STORMWATER GOING THROUGH THE
2:41:30PM DOWNTOWN BEFORE IT GOES INTO THE HILLSBOROUGH RIVER.
2:41:34PM JUST SOUTH OF THE SHERATON.
2:41:36PM REDEVELOPMENT GRANTS, COMMUNITY POLICING, WHICH YOU ALREADY
2:41:40PM TALKED ABOUT ONCE TODAY.
2:41:41PM THE BENEFICIAL RIVERWALK INTERSECTION.
2:41:43PM THIS IS THE DOWNTOWN PORTION OF THAT.
2:41:46PM SO YOU GO OVER, UNDER, OR AROUND.
2:41:50PM LYKES PARK TO REDEVELOP LYKES PARK.
2:41:54PM HARBOUR ISLAND, PUBLIC ART PROJECTS, HISTORIC STREETCAR, POE
2:42:04PM GARAGE, AND MAIN STREET PROGRAMS.
2:42:05PM THESE ARE ITEMS THAT HAVE NEVER BEEN APPROVED BY THIS BOARD.
2:42:05PM BUT IN LISTENING TO THE CAC AND THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP AND
2:42:09PM OTHER FOLKS, THESE ARE ITEMS THAT WE HAVE HAD IN OUR
2:42:12PM TEN-YEAR BUDGET AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AS WE WERE WRITING
2:42:14PM THE PLAN, WHICH IS CURRENTLY BEING DONE NOW.
2:42:19PM SO THESE -- THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY COST OF IF WE WERE JUST
2:42:23PM TO TAKE, TAKE THE CRA OFF LINE EXCEPT FOR PAYING OFF WHAT
2:42:29PM YOU ALREADY COMMITTED TO.
2:42:31PM BUT THE OPPOSITE OF THAT, THE BENEFIT OF THAT IS ABOUT $330
2:42:34PM MILLION OVER 10 YEARS.
2:42:38PM SO DID NOT CARRY IT ALL THE WAY OUT TO 2043, BUT YOU CAN
2:42:43PM IMAGINE WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE BECAUSE THIS CARRIES IT
2:42:45PM OUT TO 2033.
2:42:48PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
2:42:49PM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:42:50PM THEN BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
2:42:53PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SLIDE?
2:42:54PM RIGHT NOW WITH WHAT WE'VE CURRENTLY OBLIGATED, IF I'M
2:43:02PM LOOKING AT THAT CORRECTLY, INCLUDING THE OBLIGATIONS WE HAVE
2:43:06PM ABOVE, COUNCILMAN CARLSON, THE DISCUSSIONS THAT WERE MADE
2:43:12PM AND THE OBLIGATIONS MADE, TAMPA MUSEUM ART, WAS IT JUST 15
2:43:15PM MILLION?
2:43:15PM >>BILL CARLSON: I DON'T KNOW.
2:43:17PM SORRY, I WAS MISTAKEN.
2:43:18PM I WAS TALKING ABOUT TAMPA THEATRE.
2:43:20PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THAT ASK HAS NOT BEEN MADE.
2:43:22PM WE DO KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO REQUEST SOME CRA FUNDING.
2:43:27PM SO THAT'S --
2:43:28PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THEY HAVE NOT COME TO US --
2:43:31PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THAT'S NOT FORMALIZED.
2:43:33PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHAT IS THE 15 MILLION?
2:43:35PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I THINK THERE HAS BEEN CONVERSATION WITH
2:43:38PM STAFF, SO THIS IS AN ESTIMATE ABOUT WHAT THAT COST WOULD BE,
2:43:41PM AT LEAST IN ONE OF OUR DISCUSSIONS, IT MAY BE MORE.
2:43:46PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE PROJECTIONS YOU HAVE AS FAR AS
2:43:47PM PAYMENTS, IT US THAT INCORPORATE THE 116 MILLION?
2:43:52PM >>JEFF BURTON: 116 YES.
2:43:54PM THAT IS THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW YOU'RE
2:43:57PM COMMITTED TO.
2:44:01PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GO TO THE NEXT SCREEN.
2:44:03PM PERFECTLY TRANSPARENT, MY PRIORITIES IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA,
2:44:10PM THE MARION STREET, I'VE BEEN IN SEVERAL CONVERSATIONS WITH
2:44:16PM HART AND OTHERS.
2:44:17PM I THINK WE HAVE A LOT OF GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO COMPLETELY
2:44:20PM REDEFINE A NEW SECTION OF DOWNTOWN WITH A LINEAR PARK WITH
2:44:26PM VARIOUS TYPES OF AMENITIES ALONG THAT.
2:44:29PM NOW THAT WE CAN REPURPOSE THE STREET, WHICH WAS A FAILED
2:44:32PM EXPERIMENT FOR TRANSIT, NOT WORKING, SO WE CAN FIGURE OUT
2:44:35PM SOMETHING ELSE, I THINK THAT IS AN IMPORTANT GOAL TO BE
2:44:38PM LOOKING AT.
2:44:38PM THEN, OF COURSE, WOEFULLY I'M SURE THERE MUST BE OTHER MONEY
2:44:43PM IN HERE FOR HISTORIC STREETCAR BECAUSE EXPANSION OF THE
2:44:47PM STREETCAR THROUGH DOWNTOWN AND INTO TAMPA HEIGHTS IS A
2:44:50PM REALLY IMPORTANT ELEMENT AS WELL.
2:44:52PM SOME OF THE OTHER STUFF I THINK WE CAN TALK ABOUT
2:44:54PM INDIVIDUALLY, BUT I THINK BOTH OF THOSE ARE TRANSFORMATIONAL
2:44:58PM PROJECTS THAT WE NEED TO PURSUE AND LOOK AT THAT.
2:45:03PM WOULD IT BE BENEFICIAL BOTH FOR MOBILITY, BEING ABLE TO MOVE
2:45:06PM NORTH AND SOUTH THROUGH THE DOWNTOWN CORRIDORS, BIKING,
2:45:11PM WALKING, SCOOTERING ALONG MARION STREET AND A PARK-LIKE
2:45:14PM SETTING I THINK WOULD BE INCREDIBLE AND HAVING THE STREETCAR
2:45:17PM EXTEND THROUGH DOWNTOWN THROUGH TAMPA HEIGHTS WOULD BE
2:45:20PM AMAZING.
2:45:21PM TWO REALLY GOOD PROJECTS THAT THIS DOWNTOWN CRA, WE SHOULD
2:45:26PM WELL FUND AND MAKE SURE THAT IT HAPPENS.
2:45:29PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
2:45:31PM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SLIDE,
2:45:34PM PLEASE?
2:45:34PM ESPECIALLY FOR THE PUBLIC WATCHING, HE SAID THIS, BUT THE
2:45:39PM TOTAL AMOUNT FOR THE WATER STREET PROJECT WAS A HUNDRED
2:45:45PM MILLION.
2:45:46PM THAT WAS PASSED SIX, EIGHT YEARS AGO BEFORE THIS COUNCIL AND
2:45:50PM BEFORE THIS MAYOR.
2:45:51PM HALF OF IT WAS THE CITY AND HALF OF IT WAS THE COUNTY.
2:45:54PM SO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 50 MILLION AND 13 MILLION HAS BEEN
2:46:01PM PAID OUT ALREADY AND IT'S REIMBURSEMENT FOR AMENITIES.
2:46:07PM I'M TOLD BY THE SBP PEOPLE, IF WE PAY $80 A FOOT FOR A
2:46:11PM SIDEWALK, THEY PAY ANOTHER HUNDRED DOLLARS OR SOMETHING ON
2:46:13PM TOP OF THAT.
2:46:14PM THE REASON WHY THERE ARE WIDE SIDEWALKS THERE AND NICE
2:46:16PM SIDEWALKS, CRA IS NOT PAYING FOR IT BUT THEY ARE ADDING ON
2:46:19PM TOP OF IT.
2:46:20PM BUT STILL, THE PHILOSOPHY THE LAST ADMINISTRATION WAS TO
2:46:24PM SUBSIDIZE IN AND AROUND REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT.
2:46:27PM WE IN THE LAST FOUR YEARS HAVE CHANGED THAT.
2:46:29PM SO IT WILL BE UP TO THE NEW COUNCIL TO DECIDE WHAT WE'RE
2:46:32PM GOING TO DO GOING FORWARD.
2:46:33PM BUT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT CRAs, THEY ARE MEANT TO SOLVE
2:46:38PM SLUM AND BLIGHT, AND THERE REALLY OBJECTIVELY IS NO SLUM AND
2:46:46PM BLIGHT IN DOWNTOWN.
2:46:47PM IF YOU LOOK AT THE GREEN LINE VERSUS THE RED LINE, THERE IS
2:46:48PM A HUGE AMOUNT OF MONEY.
2:46:49PM THE MAYOR IS GOING TO THE PUBLIC ASKING FOR AN INCREASE IN
2:46:52PM TAXES, WHICH IS GOING TO BE A HUGE BURDEN TO EVERYONE.
2:46:54PM THEY MAY DECIDE THAT IT IS WORTH THE INVESTMENT, BUT AS THEY
2:46:57PM ARE LOOKING AT IT, THEY WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GOOD
2:46:59PM STEWARDS OF ALL OF OUR MONEY.
2:47:01PM SO AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT BIG GAP, THAT IS A BIG GAP THAT
2:47:05PM WOULD PREVENT US FROM HAVING TO RAISE TAXES IN THE FUTURE.
2:47:08PM CAN YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE?
2:47:09PM THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AS I UNDERSTAND IT, TALKING TO
2:47:14PM MS. TRAVIS, THAT WAS JUST ARBITRARILY SET AS A THIRD OF 331,
2:47:19PM CORRECT?
2:47:19PM NOBODY HAD PROPOSED THAT.
2:47:21PM IN FACT, THIS LIST, I DON'T EVER REMEMBER SEEING THIS LIST.
2:47:24PM I KNOW WHAT SOME OF THE PROJECTS ARE BUT NOBODY FROM THE CRA
2:47:27PM HAS EVER TALKED TO ME ABOUT THIS.
2:47:29PM I HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY ABOUT THE MARION STREET
2:47:31PM REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT, WHICH ON THE SURFACE, WHAT I HEAR
2:47:34PM ABOUT IS ABSOLUTELY OPPOSED TO IT.
2:47:37PM INSTEAD I THINK WE SHOULD REOPEN AS A STREET.
2:47:39PM THERE'S ENOUGH CONGESTION IN DOWNTOWN.
2:47:41PM FRANKLIN STREET HAS NOT WORKED AS A PEDESTRIAN MALL.
2:47:45PM THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK EITHER.
2:47:46PM IT'S GOING TO BE A HUGE WASTE OF MONEY.
2:47:48PM WE NEED TO LOOK AT HOW DO WE GET PEOPLE IN AND OUT OF
2:47:52PM DOWNTOWN, ESPECIALLY AS IT'S GETTING MORE DENSE.
2:47:54PM WE HAVE SO MANY RESIDENTS.
2:47:55PM NEXT WEEK WE'LL GET A BRIEFING ON HOW THE AREA AROUND THE
2:47:59PM AMALIE ARENA IS CHANGING BECAUSE WE CAN'T JUST SHUT DOWN ALL
2:48:04PM THE STREETS ANYMORE.
2:48:05PM IF WE HAVE ACCESS TO THAT STREET, YOU SEE PEOPLE ALL THE
2:48:09PM TIME TRYING TO DRIVE DOWN IT BECAUSE IT MAKES SENSE TO DRIVE
2:48:11PM DOWN IT.
2:48:13PM INSTEAD, WE SHOULD INVEST THE MONEY IN FRANKLIN STREET,
2:48:16PM MAYBE ANOTHER 25 MILLION THERE, BUT IT HASN'T WORKED SO FAR.
2:48:20PM I LIKE SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS, BUT STILL -- LET ME SEE.
2:48:28PM HERE'S THE THING.
2:48:31PM I SAY THIS OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
2:48:33PM THE REST OF THE CITY THAT'S NOT IN A CRA IS SUBSIDIZING THE
2:48:36PM CRAs.
2:48:37PM SO A LOT OF IT IS NEW TAMPA, SOUTH TAMPA, AND PEOPLE ASK US
2:48:44PM ALL THE TIME, WHY DON'T WE HAVE NICE PARKS?
2:48:47PM WHY DON'T WE HAVE NICE SIDEWALKS?
2:48:49PM WHY DON'T WE HAVE ANY SIDEWALKS?
2:48:50PM WHEN WE BUY A 4 MILLION PARK IN CHANNEL DISTRICT AND WE
2:48:54PM CAN'T FIX THE BENCHES IN PARKS IN THE REST OF THE CITY,
2:48:57PM PEOPLE COMPLAIN AND SAY WHY AREN'T YOU BEING GOOD STEWARDS
2:49:00PM OF THE MONEY?
2:49:01PM I HAVE TO SAY THE CRA ONLY ALLOWS US TO DO THAT.
2:49:05PM WE TALKED ABOUT THIS MANY TIMES, BUT IF WE'RE ABLE TO USE
2:49:08PM MONEY OUT USE IT IN A DIFFERENT WAY.
2:49:10PM COULD STILL USE IT ON THE PROJECTS IF WE WANT, BUT INSTEAD
2:49:12PM OF BEING FORCED TO USE IN A GEOGRAPHIC AREA, WE CAN WEIGH
2:49:14PM THE PROJECTS BASED ON THE ENTIRE CITY.
2:49:17PM IF WE WANTED TO, WE COULD TAKE -- JUST TO CLARIFY BEFORE
2:49:21PM MORRIS CUTS ME OFF, CRA CANNOT DECIDE WHAT TO DO WITH THE
2:49:24PM MONEY WHEN IT GOES BACK TO THE GENERAL FUND BUT CITY COUNCIL
2:49:27PM CAN PARTNERING WITH THE MAYOR.
2:49:28PM WE COULD AT LEAST FOR A SHORT TIME SET IT UP AS HOUSING
2:49:33PM BUDGET, SET IT UP AS ROADS AND COMPLETE STREETS OR SIDEWALK
2:49:36PM BUDGET.
2:49:36PM WE COULD SET IT UP AS ANYTHING WE WANT AS LONG AS WE CAN
2:49:39PM PARTNER WITH THE MAYOR AND GET THE VOTES TO DO IT.
2:49:42PM THE QUESTION IS, ARE THESE PROJECTS WORTH IT?
2:49:45PM HERE IS THE THING I TOLD ERICA THIS MORNING, I HAVE TO SIT
2:49:49PM WITH CONSTITUENTS ALL THE TIME WHEN THEIR ROADS ARE LIKE 80%
2:49:52PM FALLING APART AND THEY SAY, WHY HAVEN'T YOU PAVED THESE
2:49:55PM ROADS?
2:49:55PM THE QUESTION IS, YOU LOOK AT THE LIST AND IMAGINE YOU'RE
2:49:58PM STANDING IN A ROAD FULL OF POTHOLES AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT
2:50:00PM THAT TAXPAYER AND THEY ASK YOU, WHAT ARE YOU SPENDING MONEY
2:50:05PM ON HERE THAT'S BETTER THAN FIXING MY ROAD?
2:50:07PM OR TALK TO THOSE 50,000 PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE HOMES AND SAY
2:50:11PM WHAT ARE YOU SPENDING MONEY ON THAT'S BETTER THAN HELPING ME
2:50:14PM FIND A PLACE TO LIVE?
2:50:15PM EVEN THOUGH I LIKE A LOT OF THESE PROJECTS, I DON'T FEEL SO
2:50:19PM STRONGLY ABOUT THEM, THAT IT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE
2:50:22PM TO IGNORE EVERYTHING ELSE AND IF THE REST OF THE CITY IS
2:50:25PM SUBSIDIZING IT, DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL DISTRICT HAVE BEEN A
2:50:28PM HUGE SUCCESS IN THAT WE HAVE LOTS OF REAL ESTATE
2:50:31PM DEVELOPMENT.
2:50:32PM I'M PRO DOWNTOWN AND PRO CHANNEL DISTRICT.
2:50:34PM BUT WE HAVE TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THE MONEY.
2:50:37PM EVEN IF THE NEW TAX PASSES IN THE FUTURE, WE'LL HAVE TO PASS
2:50:39PM MORE BECAUSE NEVER WILL BE MONEY TO INVEST IN THE BACKLOG
2:50:43PM WHERE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS SPENT ALMOST NO MONEY
2:50:46PM REPAIRING ROADS OR INFRASTRUCTURE.
2:50:48PM WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST WHEN WE GET DOWN TO THE NEXT ITEM IS AS
2:50:50PM YOU ALL LOOK AT THIS LIST, PICK OUT WHAT YOU THINK WE SHOULD
2:50:53PM HAVE.
2:50:54PM LET'S SAY INSTEAD OF 117 MILLION, LET'S SAY WE CAP IT AT 150
2:50:58PM OR LET'S SAY WE CAP IT AT 200.
2:51:00PM TAKE YOUR PROJECTS FROM HERE AND STICK THEM IN THE BUDGET
2:51:03PM AND LET'S AGREE TO IT, BUT EVEN IF YOU TAKE HALF OF THIS, WE
2:51:09PM HAVE ALMOST 200 MILLION LEFT OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS, THAT'S
2:51:13PM NOT COUNTING OUT TO 2043.
2:51:15PM WHO KNOWS, THAT'S PROBABLY ANOTHER 500 MILLION OUT THERE IN
2:51:18PM THE FUTURE.
2:51:19PM THINK OF WHAT THE CITY COULD DO WITH THAT MONEY IF WE'RE
2:51:22PM GOOD STEWARDS OF IT.
2:51:24PM IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE ANYMORE WHEN THE REST OF THE CITY IS
2:51:26PM FALLING APART DUE TO NEGLECT AND LACK OF BUDGET, WHY AREN'T
2:51:30PM WE SPENDING MONEY ON THINGS NICE TO HAVE DOWNTOWN?
2:51:33PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
2:51:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I HAVE A QUESTION FOR MR. MASSEY.
2:51:37PM WE CAN'T USE CRA MONEY TO BUILD A FIRE STATION, RIGHT?
2:51:40PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: NO.
2:51:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE HERE $136 MILLION FOR AFFORDABLE
2:51:44PM HOUSING OVER A 10-YEAR PERIOD.
2:51:47PM COULD WE, LET'S SAY GOING BACK TO WHAT I MENTIONED EARLIER
2:51:51PM ABOUT BIG BLUE, SAY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT RELOCATES TO
2:51:54PM ANOTHER FACILITY AS HAS BEEN CONSIDERED, BUT THAT BUILDING
2:51:58PM CANNOT BE REHABBED.
2:51:59PM IT'S COST PROHIBITIVE.
2:52:01PM LET'S SAY WE DEMOLISH.
2:52:05PM COULD WE SAY WE'LL BUILD A 20-STORY STRUCTURE, 19 OF THOSE
2:52:11PM STORIES ARE GOING TO BE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
2:52:14PM THE BOTTOM FOUR WILL BE A FIRE STATION.
2:52:16PM THE CRA PAYS FOR THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING PART IN PARTNERSHIP
2:52:20PM WITH THE CITY SINCE WE ALREADY OWN THE LAND.
2:52:22PM THE GENERAL FUND WOULD PAY FOR THAT FIRE STATION ON THE
2:52:26PM BOTTOM FLOOR.
2:52:27PM TO CIRCUMVENT, YOU CAN'T BUILD A FIRE STATION, PARTNERING,
2:52:32PM THE GENERAL FUND IS PAYING FOR THE FIRE STATION ON THE FIRST
2:52:35PM FLOOR AND THE CRA IS PAYING FOR THE HOUSING UPSTAIRS, WOULD
2:52:37PM THAT WORK?
2:52:38PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THAT'S PROBABLY FEASIBLE.
2:52:40PM I BELIEVE MR. STOCCO BROUGHT THIS UP WHEN I WALKED OUTSIDE,
2:52:44PM BUT I THINK HE BROUGHT UP THE POLICE SUBSTATION 3
2:52:49PM HEADQUARTERS.
2:52:50PM THAT WAS PARTIALLY PAID FOR WITH CRA DOLLARS BECAUSE THERE
2:52:55PM ARE CRA OFFICES THAT WERE PART OF THAT.
2:52:57PM SO THAT WAS A COMBINATION DEAL THAT PARTLY CAME OUT OF THE
2:52:59PM GENERAL FUNDS AND PARTLY CAME OUT OF THE CRA FUND.
2:53:02PM WE'VE DONE THAT BEFORE, SO THAT WOULD BE A POTENTIAL VIABLE
2:53:06PM OPTION, I THINK.
2:53:07PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
2:53:08PM VERY GOOD.
2:53:08PM THAT ANSWERS MY QUESTION.
2:53:10PM THANK YOU.
2:53:10PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
2:53:11PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
2:53:12PM A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS, IF I MAY.
2:53:14PM I HEARD YOU TALK ABOUT THE STRAZ FUNDS AND YOU SAID
2:53:17PM SOMETHING ABOUT NEGOTIATIONS.
2:53:21PM DID I MISHEAR THAT?
2:53:23PM >>JEFF BURTON: NO.
2:53:24PM IT IS A SIGN OF THE ECONOMY RIGHT NOW AND INFLATION.
2:53:26PM FOR THE AGREEMENTS YOU'VE MATTERED, MONEY IS A LITTLE TIGHT
2:53:32PM TO COME BY.
2:53:33PM SO THERE'S SOME EXTENSIONS --
2:53:38PM >>BILL CARLSON: MADAM CHAIR.
2:53:38PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME.
2:53:39PM HOLD ON.
2:53:40PM LET HIM FINISH.
2:53:42PM >>BILL CARLSON: HE'S MISREPRESENTING WHAT WAS DISCUSSED.
2:53:45PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
2:53:46PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HE CAN STILL --
2:53:48PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD ASK ERICA TO GET UP AND TELL THE
2:53:51PM TRUTH.
2:53:51PM THIS IS ABSURD.
2:53:53PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MR. BURTON, I WOULD LIKE FOR HIM TO FINISH
2:53:56PM WHAT HE WAS SAYING, AND THEN IF YOU WANT TO REDIRECT AND SAY
2:54:00PM SOMETHING, ADMINISTRATOR DRUMGO, PLEASE DO SO.
2:54:10PM >>JEFF BURTON: ALL I'M SAYING IS THE $25 MILLION IS LOCKED
2:54:12PM IN.
2:54:12PM WE'VE BEEN SETTING MONEY ASIDE, AND ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS
2:54:15PM WAIT FOR THE STRAZ AND TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE
2:54:20PM CONTRACT.
2:54:23PM >>LUIS VIERA: THE MATCH.
2:54:23PM OKAY, GREAT, BECAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING WAS WHEN WE VOTED ON
2:54:24PM THAT, THAT OUR COMMITMENT WAS LOCKED IN, AND THAT'S ALL I
2:54:27PM WAS INQUIRING ON.
2:54:28PM JUST GOT MY CURIOSITY GOING, SO TO SPEAK.
2:54:34PM >>JEFF BURTON: WE BUDGETED FOR THAT AND BUDGETED THIS YEAR
2:54:37PM ALSO.
2:54:37PM >>LUIS VIERA: GREAT.
2:54:38PM AND THAT -- THE PROJECTION YOU SHOWED WHEN YOU TALKED ABOUT
2:54:42PM THE 15 MILLION OR SO FOR TAMPA THEATRE -- OR, NO, 14 MILLION
2:54:47PM FOR TAMPA THEATRE, I THINK IT WAS 15 MILLION FOR MUSEUM OF
2:54:51PM ARTS, 25 FOR STRAZ, THAT'S OVER TEN YEARS, COMMITMENTS OVER
2:54:54PM THE NEXT TEN YEARS, WAS IT?
2:54:56PM >>JEFF BURTON: NO.
2:54:57PM THOSE ARE STRETCHED BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE YEARS.
2:54:59PM >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY, GOOD.
2:55:00PM BECAUSE I SEE TEN DOWN THERE.
2:55:01PM LET ME ASK YOU SOMETHING.
2:55:02PM I SEE WITH REGARDS TO SOME OF THE POTENTIAL SPENDING
2:55:05PM PRIORITIES OVER ON THE NEXT PAGE, IF I MAY, I'VE TALKED A
2:55:08PM LOT ABOUT -- I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO MAKE A MOTION ON THIS
2:55:11PM BECAUSE I COULD HAVE SWORN THAT I HAD COMING BACK TO US
2:55:16PM DISABILITY ACCESSIBLE PARKS FOR CRAs.
2:55:21PM MAYBE I MISSED IT ON FUTURE AGENDAS, BUT WE DO HAVE CURTIS
2:55:24PM HIXON PARK HERE USED BY A LOT OF FOLKS.
2:55:27PM I DON'T BELIEVE, AND MAYBE I'M WRONG, THAT THERE'S ANY, ALL
2:55:32PM ABILITIES EQUIPMENT THERE, MAJOR ACCOMMODATIONS FOR KIDS WHO
2:55:36PM MAY HAVE SENSORY CHALLENGES, PHYSICAL CHALLENGES, ET CETERA,
2:55:40PM ET CETERA, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT FOR PROJECTS AND
2:55:44PM PROGRAMS.
2:55:45PM I BROUGHT THAT UP WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT STRAZ TWO YEARS AGO
2:55:48PM AS SOMETHING THAT I'D LOVE TO SEE IN DOWNTOWN.
2:55:51PM AGAIN, I DON'T REMEMBER WHO SAID IT.
2:55:54PM I'M A LITTLE SICK SO I'M SLOWER THAN USUAL TODAY.
2:55:57PM BUT I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS LIST CAME ABOUT, BUT DO WE NEED A
2:56:00PM MOTION TO ADD THAT ON THIS LIST?
2:56:05PM >>JEFF BURTON: I WOULD SAY IF YOU WANT THINGS TO HAPPEN IN
2:56:07PM THE DOWNTOWN AND OTHER CRAs, THE BEST FIRST PLACE TO START
2:56:11PM IS WITH THE PLAN.
2:56:12PM MAKE IT VERY CLEAR IN THE PLAN.
2:56:14PM THAT GIVES THE BOARD, THE ATTORNEY, AND STAFF THE ABILITY TO
2:56:17PM REALLY WORK ON THINGS LIKE THAT.
2:56:20PM HAVING PARKS THAT ARE DEDICATED COMPLETELY FOR ACCESSIBILITY
2:56:23PM IS A WONDERFUL THING, AND YOU'RE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF HAVING
2:56:26PM THAT DONE.
2:56:27PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY.
2:56:28PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: TWO THINGS.
2:56:30PM I BELIEVE YOU DID MAKE THAT MOTION.
2:56:31PM I THINK THERE WAS A RESPONSE AND I THINK THERE WERE CRA
2:56:34PM FUNDS TO BE SET ASIDE FOR THAT PURPOSE AND ALL THE CRAs.
2:56:38PM AT LEAST -- MR. DRUMGO MAY BE ABLE TO RESPOND TO THAT.
2:56:42PM THIS LIST IS NOT AN OFFICIAL LIST.
2:56:44PM IT IS JUST A, HERE'S WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT KIND OF LIST,
2:56:50PM BIG PROJECT WISE.
2:56:51PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME, AS THE CHAIR, I WANT TO SAY
2:56:53PM THAT BOARD MEMBER HURTAK WANTS TO SPEAK AND THEN IF THERE'S
2:56:57PM ANYONE ELSE, WE'LL GO BACK AND REDIRECT TO BOARD MEMBER
2:57:00PM CARLSON.
2:57:00PM HE DID ASK ALIS DRUMGO TO COME UP.
2:57:04PM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, ARE YOU OKAY WITH THAT, BECAUSE YOU
2:57:06PM WERE NEXT?
2:57:07PM YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND SPEAK.
2:57:09PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH, IF I COULD GET THE SLIDE BEFORE AGAIN.
2:57:12PM WHILE I UNDERSTAND ABOUT WANTING -- THAT WE COULD HAVE SPENT
2:57:20PM THIS MONEY ELSEWHERE, THIS IS MONEY THAT THE CRA IN THE LAST
2:57:24PM FOUR YEARS HAS ALLOCATED.
2:57:25PM I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHY THIS MONEY, WHY DO WE DO THIS IF WE
2:57:34PM THINK IT CAN BE BETTER SPENT ELSEWHERE?
2:57:37PM WHILE I'M A LOVER OF THE ARTS, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO
2:57:40PM WOULD SAY I WOULD RATHER HAVE HAD PAVING FOR $25 MILLION.
2:57:44PM RIGHT NOW, WE DON'T HAVE TO APPROVE THE 15 MILLION FOR THE
2:57:47PM TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART.
2:57:48PM WE COULD TAKE IT AND GO TO PAVING.
2:57:51PM BUT I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THAT'S REALLY WHAT YOU WANT TO
2:57:58PM HAPPEN.
2:57:58PM I THINK THAT THERE IS VALUE IN ALL OF THESE THINGS.
2:58:04PM THESE THINGS WOULD SIMPLY NOT BE FUNDED IF THE DOWNTOWN CRA
2:58:08PM DIDN'T EXIST.
2:58:09PM WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY.
2:58:09PM WE JUST DON'T.
2:58:11PM I BELIEVE THAT THERE ARE STILL THINGS THAT WE CAN DO IN OUR
2:58:16PM DOWNTOWN CORE THAT ARE VALUABLE.
2:58:18PM PLEASE GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE.
2:58:20PM LAND ACQUISITION.
2:58:26PM I'M GUESSING THAT THAT $54.5 MILLION IS CLOSE TO WHAT IT
2:58:31PM WOULD COST TO BUY THE POLICE STATION.
2:58:37PM >>JEFF BURTON: THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AS IT CURRENTLY SITS ON
2:58:39PM THE TAX ROLLS AROUND 30 MILLION.
2:58:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
2:58:43PM THEN WE HAVE A LITTLE MORE MONEY TO PLAY WITH.
2:58:45PM >>JEFF BURTON: AS A PUBLIC USE.
2:58:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, YES.
2:58:47PM PURCHASING IT FOR 30 MILLION AND BEING ABLE TO DO --
2:58:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, BIG BLUE?
2:58:53PM >>GWEN HENDERSON:
2:58:54PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
2:58:54PM THE REASON WHY WE WOULD BUY BIG BLUE AS THE CRA, THE CRA
2:58:59PM COULD BUY IT FROM THE CITY FREEING UP $30 MILLION TO BUILD A
2:59:04PM NEW POLICE STATION.
2:59:05PM WE WOULD BUY -- WE WOULD BUY THE LAND FROM -- WE WOULD BUY
2:59:17PM THE BUILDINGS FROM THE CITY, GIVE THE CITY $30 MILLION,
2:59:21PM BUILD THEIR POLICE STATION.
2:59:23PM THEN THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING MONEY IS USED TO BUILD
2:59:26PM AFFORDABLE HOUSING ON THAT SITE.
2:59:28PM I UNDERSTAND.
2:59:32PM AND I UNDERSTAND THAT MR. CARLSON DOESN'T LIKE TO MOVE MONEY
2:59:34PM LIKE THAT, BUT I THINK IT'S A VALUABLE WAY TO GO ABOUT IT.
2:59:38PM I'M JUST SAYING I SEE YOUR VISION AND WHY YOU PUT THE
2:59:41PM NUMBERS WHERE THEY ARE.
2:59:42PM MY ONLY OTHER RANDOM QUESTION THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH
2:59:46PM THIS.
2:59:46PM KILEY GARDEN REDEVELOPMENT, DO WE OWN THAT PARKING GARAGE OR
2:59:49PM JUST OWN THE GARDEN ABOVE IT?
2:59:53PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE OWN ONE LEVEL OF THE PARKING GARAGE
2:59:55PM IMMEDIATELY UNDER -- ONE LEVEL.
2:59:57PM WE OWN ONE LEVEL AND TWO-LEVEL PARKING GARAGE, BOTTOM LEVEL
3:00:00PM IS OWNED BY THE OWNER OF I'LL SAY THE BEER CAN BUILDING, THE
3:00:06PM OFFICE TOWER.
3:00:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S WILD.
3:00:09PM HOW DO WE SPLIT A PARKING GARAGE?
3:00:11PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE OTHER LEVEL IS OWNED BY US BUT LEASED
3:00:14PM TO THEM UNDER A LONG-TERM LEASE, AND THEN THE PARK IS OWNED
3:00:17PM BY THE CITY IN FEE.
3:00:19PM THAT'S THE OWNERSHIP STRUCTURE.
3:00:21PM IT TOOK ME ABOUT 30 DAYS AS A YOUNG LAWYER GOING THROUGH ALL
3:00:25PM THE AGREEMENTS TO TRY TO FIGURE THAT OUT.
3:00:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THOSE 30 DAYS
3:00:29PM BECAUSE YOU WERE ABLE TO GET A QUICKER ANSWER NOW.
3:00:33PM SO THANK YOU.
3:00:34PM SO THAT $11 MILLION, I MEAN, THAT PARKING STRUCTURE NEEDS TO
3:00:37PM BE COMPLETELY REDONE, AND I WILL JUST SAY I READ A STUDY
3:00:42PM RECENTLY ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF NEW CARS AND HOW THAT WILL
3:00:47PM AFFECT PARKING STRUCTURE.
3:00:48PM I'M NOT AT ALL IN FAVOR OF SAVING OLD PARKING STRUCTURES.
3:00:52PM I BELIEVE THEY NEED TO BE REBUILT BECAUSE OF THE WEIGHT OF
3:00:55PM WHAT'S COMING.
3:00:56PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THIS IS BECOME INTERESTING.
3:00:59PM WE HAVE GONE AROUND.
3:00:59PM EVERYONE HAS SPOKEN EXCEPT FOR MYSELF AND BOARD MEMBER
3:01:02PM MIRANDA.
3:01:03PM DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY, BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA?
3:01:05PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: -- VERY INTERESTING BECAUSE IT'S TRUE
3:01:09PM WHAT THE COUNSELOR MASSEY SAID ABOUT THE STRUCTURE, I DON'T
3:01:13PM THINK I WAS HERE WHEN THAT WAS DONE.
3:01:15PM I'M NOT SURE, BUT I DON'T THINK I WAS.
3:01:17PM BUT THERE IS SOMETHING -- ONE FLOOR AND NOT THE OTHER AND
3:01:20PM THE OTHER ONE YOU DO.
3:01:22PM IT HAD A LOT OF FLOODING PROBLEMS IN THE PAST.
3:01:24PM I REMEMBER THAT.
3:01:25PM I WAS HERE FOR THAT.
3:01:26PM SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT STRUCTURE IS.
3:01:28PM WHEN YOU LOOK AT TELEVISION, ANYTHING THAT'S OF AGE AND GETS
3:01:31PM A LOT OF WATER AND CHANGES TEMPERATURE, I DON'T CARE IF IT'S
3:01:35PM MADE OUT OF STEEL OR WHATEVER IT IS, IT WILL ROT AND IT WILL
3:01:39PM CAUSE PROBLEMS.
3:01:40PM WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING NOW AT THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF AMERICA,
3:01:44PM IT'S IN SAD SHAPE ALL OVER THE UNITED STATES.
3:01:46PM SO I DON'T THINK THOSE STRUCTURES ARE GOING TO LAST A LONG
3:01:50PM TIME, BUT THEY HAVE TO BE LOOKED AT BY PEOPLE THAT KNOW WHAT
3:01:54PM THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT, ENGINEERS OR WHATEVER THAT WE HIRE.
3:01:57PM I THINK IT'S TIME THEY LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE THINGS BECAUSE
3:01:59PM WE CERTAINLY DON'T WANT A CATASTROPHE IF WE KNOW ABOUT IT.
3:02:03PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AT THIS POINT, OUT OF RESPECT FOR BOARD
3:02:05PM MEMBER CARLSON WHO WANTED TO INTERJECT A QUESTION, HE ASKED
3:02:10PM FOR DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR DRUMGO TO COME UP.
3:02:13PM BEFORE YOU SPEAK, DRUMGO, BECAUSE I DO REALIZE THAT YOU SIT
3:02:16PM ON THE BOARD FOR THE STRAZ.
3:02:18PM WOULD THIS BE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST FOR YOU TO HAVE THIS
3:02:21PM CONVERSATION?
3:02:22PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: I DO NOT BELIEVE SO.
3:02:24PM I WON'T SAY ANYTHING --
3:02:27PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IN THE MIDST OF WHAT MR. BURTON WAS
3:02:30PM SAYING, THE CLARITY FOR THAT, FOR US AND THE PUBLIC WOULD BE
3:02:35PM IDEAL AT THIS POINT.
3:02:35PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: FOR THE RECORD, ALIS DRUMGO, DEPUTY
3:02:39PM ADMINISTRATOR FOR DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
3:02:40PM I ALSO SIT ON THAT BOARD WITH BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
3:02:44PM YES, THE STRAZ WILL BE BACK BEFORE YOU AT SOME POINT IN
3:02:50PM OCTOBER WITH AN UPDATE.
3:02:53PM BUT THE COMMITMENT WE HAVE IN PLACE, IT IS A LOCK AND WE'RE
3:02:56PM OKAY THERE.
3:02:57PM I DON'T KNOW WHAT ADDITIONAL DETAIL OR QUESTIONS NEED TO BE
3:03:00PM FLESHED OUT HERE.
3:03:02PM NOW I THINK WE'RE FINE WITH THAT.
3:03:05PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
3:03:05PM WE HAVE BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
3:03:08PM THEN CARLSON IF HE WANTS TO COME BACK AND REDIRECT AND THEN
3:03:12PM MANISCALCO IN ORDER OF MY TEACHER NOTES HERE.
3:03:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OBSERVATION AND STATEMENT AND THEN I HAVE
3:03:18PM TO BUG OUT FOR A FEW MINUTES BECAUSE I HAVE A MEETING I HAVE
3:03:20PM TO GO TO BUT I'LL COME RIGHT BACK.
3:03:23PM ONE, WHAT COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID, I DON'T WANT IT TO GET
3:03:29PM LOST IN ALL OF THIS DISCUSSION.
3:03:31PM BECAUSE HE PERFECTLY FRAMED THE DIRE SITUATION WE'RE IN
3:03:36PM TRYING TO FUND EVERYTHING OUTSIDE OF THE CITY THAT'S NOT IN
3:03:38PM A CRA.
3:03:39PM HE WAS ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
3:03:41PM WHEN YOU SEE THE EXAMPLES, THIS IS WHY THE STREETS IN SOUTH
3:03:46PM TAMPA AND SULPHUR SPRINGS AND NEW TAMPA AND ALL THESE AREAS
3:03:51PM NOT IN CRAs, THIS IS WHY THEY ARE IN SUCH BAD SHAPE
3:03:54PM BECAUSE WE'VE GOT ALL THIS MONEY IN THE CRAs THAT RIGHT
3:03:57PM NOW WE CAN'T SPEND ANYWHERE ELSE BESIDES THE CRAs UNLESS
3:04:02PM WE DO CREATIVE KIND OF WEIRD -- I DON'T KNOW HOW LEGALLY WE
3:04:06PM COULD DO SOME OF THOSE THINGS.
3:04:07PM I THINK STAFF WILL COME BACK TO US TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT IF
3:04:10PM THERE IS ANY LEGAL MECHANISM TO GET MONEY OUT OF THE CRAs,
3:04:14PM TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH SOME OF THESE GOALS.
3:04:16PM WHEN THEY CREATED THE CRAs, THESE CRAs HAVE BECOME
3:04:20PM INCREDIBLY SUCCESSFUL, PROBABLY MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN ANYBODY
3:04:23PM ENVISIONED THEM TO EVER BE AT THE TIME THAT THEY WERE DONE.
3:04:27PM A VICTIM OF THEIR OWN SUCCESS.
3:04:29PM BUT THIS IS WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW.
3:04:31PM IF WE CAN SUNSET THEM OR IF WE CAN PEEL THEM BACK, WHATEVER
3:04:36PM THE LEGAL POSSIBILITIES ARE, THAT'S GREAT.
3:04:38PM IF WE CAN'T, THOUGH, WE NEED TO DO THE BEST THINGS WE CAN
3:04:42PM POSSIBLY DO.
3:04:44PM I WILL SAY THAT I'M ACTUALLY SHOCKED BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON
3:04:48PM SAYING HE WANTED TO BASICALLY BUILD ANOTHER NORTH-SOUTH
3:04:51PM EXPRESSWAY THROUGH DOWNTOWN TAMPA FOR THE MARION STREET
3:04:54PM REDEVELOPMENT OF BUILDING ROADS THERE BECAUSE IN THE URBAN
3:04:57PM CORE, I'M SO MUCH MORE ABOUT MOVING PEOPLE AND NOT VEHICLES.
3:05:01PM I REALLY WANT TO BE ABLE TO -- WE NEED TO TURN INTO THAT
3:05:05PM TYPE OF A CITY WHERE WE CAN CREATE MOBILITY THAT IS NOT
3:05:09PM DEPENDENT UPON PRIVATE VEHICLES FLYING THROUGH THE CITY TO
3:05:12PM GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B.
3:05:15PM BUILDING THESE MOBILITY PROGRAMS THROUGH STREETCAR EXPANSION
3:05:19PM AND RAPID BUSES, BIKE, WALK, SCOOTER, WHATEVER, WATER TAXIS,
3:05:26PM WHATEVER WE COME UP WITH TO MOVE PEOPLE AROUND OUR URBAN
3:05:29PM CORE I THINK IS THE WAY WE GO.
3:05:31PM WHEN WE LOOK AT SOMETHING LIKE THE MARION STREET
3:05:34PM DEVELOPMENT, I HOPE TO SEE THAT.
3:05:36PM FRANKLIN STREET IS ANOTHER ONE OF THE FAILED, BEST
3:05:39PM INTENTIONS, OBVIOUSLY, A FAILED CONCEPT.
3:05:43PM ONE DAY WE'LL HAVE TO VISIT THAT.
3:05:45PM YOU LOOK AT THE LIST OF PRIORITIES OF WHAT YOU SEE DOWNTOWN,
3:05:47PM YEAH, IT WOULD BE NICE TO ACCOMPLISH ALMOST EVERYTHING ON
3:05:50PM THE LIST BUT WHAT IS THE BIGGEST AMOUNT OF GAIN WE CAN DO IN
3:05:53PM A SMALL AMOUNT OF TIME WITH THE MONEY AND THE AVAILABILITY
3:05:55PM THAT WE HAVE.
3:05:57PM I THINK MOBILITY PROGRAMS AND TRANSPORTATION PROGRAMS.
3:06:00PM I THINK THAT IS THE ANSWER.
3:06:01PM THAT SHOULD BE OUR PRIORITIES AND THAT'S WHAT WE SHOULD LOOK
3:06:03PM AT MOVING FORWARD.
3:06:04PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
3:06:06PM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
3:06:07PM JUST A SCHEDULING THING, I HAVE TO BE ON A CALL FROM 3:30 TO
3:06:12PM 3:45.
3:06:13PM I'LL STEP OUT JUST BEFORE THAT AND COME BACK.
3:06:15PM IF YOU ALL WANT TO, IT DOESN'T SEEM TO ME LIKE WE'RE READY
3:06:18PM TO VOTE ON NUMBER 7 TODAY.
3:06:20PM I COULD MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE IT TO NEXT MONTH.
3:06:23PM JUST A FEW COMMENTS, HE ALREADY STEPPED OUT.
3:06:31PM TALKING ABOUT MARION STREET VERSUS FRANKLIN STREET, I'M IN
3:06:34PM FAVOR IDEALLY OF PEDESTRIAN MALLS BUT THE CENTER OF GRAVITY
3:06:37PM IS NOT IN THAT DIRECTION.
3:06:39PM AND IF THERE WAS A DEVELOPMENT ALONG THAT CORRIDOR THAT
3:06:43PM WOULD LEND ITSELF TO CREATING ACTIVITY ON THE STREET THAT
3:06:47PM MIGHT MAKE SENSE.
3:06:48PM THERE'S ALREADY NOT ACTIVITY ON FRANKLIN STREET ENOUGH.
3:06:51PM AND MAYBE WE'LL RUN THE STREETCAR DOWN THERE, I DON'T KNOW.
3:06:54PM BUT IF WE WANT TO INVEST SOMETHING TO FIGURE OUT IF WE CAN
3:06:58PM ACTIVATE FRANKLIN STREET AGAIN, I WOULD BE OKAY WITH THAT.
3:07:02PM BUT CREATE ANOTHER PEDESTRIAN MALL THAT WILL BE EMPTY AND
3:07:04PM FAIL, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD DO THAT.
3:07:06PM WE'VE TRIED WITH FESTIVAL MARKETPLACE AND THINGS, LIKE THE
3:07:11PM ONE ON HARBOUR ISLAND AND THE ONE IN CHANNEL DISTRICT AND
3:07:13PM THESE THINGS FAIL.
3:07:14PM WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
3:07:15PM SPEND A HUNDRED MILLION TO GET PEOPLE TO INVEST AND THEN
3:07:18PM NOBODY IS GOING TO WALK ON IT.
3:07:20PM RIGHT NOW WE'RE TRYING TO DO THAT IN YBOR.
3:07:23PM IF WE HAD THE MONEY OUTSIDE OF DOWNTOWN, WE COULD SPEND IT
3:07:26PM IN A PLACE WHERE IT COULD BE ACTIVATED.
3:07:30PM A LOT OF ACTIVATION IN YBOR SOON.
3:07:33PM TO THE ART -- IF YOU COULD GO BACK ONE SLIDE.
3:07:35PM I'LL TAKE PLACE FOR AT LEAST THE STRAZ CENTER AND TAMPA
3:07:38PM THEATRE.
3:07:39PM WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT THREE, FOUR YEARS AGO, I WANTED TO
3:07:43PM MAKE A MOTION TO PUT A CAP ON DOWNTOWN AND CHANNEL DISTRICT.
3:07:46PM I TOOK THE CHANNEL DISTRICT, WENT TO A VOTE AND IT FAILED.
3:07:50PM I FAILED TO GET THE VOTES TO PUT A CAP ON IT.
3:07:52PM I HAD ON THE AGENDA TO PUT THE DOWNTOWN ONE -- CAP ON AND I
3:07:57PM FELT LIKE I DIDN'T HAVE THE VOTES SO I TOOK IT OFF THE
3:08:00PM AGENDA.
3:08:01PM TO BE FAIR IT NEVER CAME UP TO A VOTE.
3:08:04PM I DIDN'T THINK I HAD THE VOTES OTHERWISE I WOULD HAVE DONE
3:08:07PM IT.
3:08:07PM SEEING THERE'S NO SUPPORT TO PUT A CAP ON IT, THEN I PUSHED
3:08:10PM TO INVEST IN THINGS THAT WOULD HELP THE WHOLE CITY, NOT JUST
3:08:15PM PART OF THE CITY.
3:08:16PM IF WE'RE DOING SIDEWALKS IN DOWNTOWN, SOUTH TAMPA NEEDS
3:08:19PM SIDEWALKS.
3:08:19PM NEW TAMPA NEEDS SIDEWALKS, EAST TAMPA, WEST TAMPA STILL
3:08:22PM NEEDS SIDEWALKS.
3:08:23PM YBOR NEEDS SIDEWALKS.
3:08:24PM SO WHAT ARE THE THINGS THAT COULD BENEFIT US?
3:08:26PM TAMPA THEATRE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER USED BY EVERYBODY
3:08:29PM THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND THEY ARE SEEN AS JEWELS.
3:08:33PM THE LAST ADMINISTRATION DEFUNDED THEM, ATTACKED THEM, HURT
3:08:36PM THEIR ABILITY TO RAISE MONEY.
3:08:38PM STRAZ CENTER WAS LOOKING TO RAISE A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS
3:08:41PM FOR THEIR EXPANSION.
3:08:42PM CITY-OWNED PROPERTY AND THEY WERE LOOKING TO PUT IN A
3:08:45PM HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, BUT THEY SHELVED THAT PROJECT
3:08:47PM DURING COVID AND THEY WERE NOT GOING TO REACTIVATE IT.
3:08:51PM WHEN WE CAME BACK TO US AND SEVERAL OF US TALKED TO THEM, I
3:08:55PM THINK, WHAT WE DID IS WE PROPOSED PUTTING A 25% OF $100
3:08:58PM MILLION INVESTMENT.
3:09:00PM THEY ARE GOING TO INVEST 75 MORE MILLION AND PROBABLY MORE
3:09:02PM AFTER THAT IN OUR BUILDING AND WE'RE ONLY PUTTING IN 25
3:09:06PM MILLION.
3:09:06PM WE'RE GETTING A PRETTY GOOD RETURN ON IT, BUT WE KNOW FROM
3:09:10PM REAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT ORGANIZATIONS LIKE STRAZ
3:09:13PM CENTER, TAMPA THEATRE, OTHER ARTS ORGANIZATIONS ARE DEEPLY
3:09:17PM CONNECTED TO OUR ABILITY TO ATTRACT AND MAINTAIN TECH
3:09:19PM COMPANIES IN OUR AREA.
3:09:21PM TAMPA THEATRE, THERE WAS NO OPPOSITION TO THAT.
3:09:24PM IT IS A JEWEL OF OUR COMMUNITY.
3:09:26PM AGAIN, THE LAST ADMINISTRATION HAD VICIOUSLY ATTACKED THEM.
3:09:29PM AND THIS MONEY WILL ENABLE THEM TO COMPLETELY RESTORE THE
3:09:35PM MUSEUM.
3:09:35PM IF I HAD A PREFERENCE GOING BACK THREE YEARS AGO, I WOULD
3:09:39PM HAVE RATHER MOVED THE MONEY OUT.
3:09:40PM I ABSOLUTELY THINK IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SPENT ON ROADS IN
3:09:43PM OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
3:09:45PM SINCE I DIDN'T THINK WE HAD THE VOTES TO DO IT, WE DID THIS.
3:09:48PM NOW WE'RE AT A POINT WHERE THERE ARE THINGS WE COULD SPEND
3:09:51PM MONEY ON BUT IF WE HAVE TO COMPARE THAT TO EXPLAINING TO
3:09:54PM CONSTITUENTS WHY WE'RE NOT FIXING THE ROADS, WHICH IS A
3:09:57PM BASIC THING, I THINK IT'S DIFFICULT, TO THE POINT WHERE I
3:09:59PM INTERRUPTED A FEW MINUTES AGO, THE STRAZ CENTER HAS RAISED,
3:10:03PM THEY HAVE KEPT THEIR COMMITMENTS.
3:10:04PM THEY HAVE RAISED AND I'M NOT ON THE BOARD, I'M NOT IN ANY
3:10:08PM INVOLVED WITH THEM.
3:10:09PM NEVER BEEN ON THE BOARD, THEY HAVE RAISED THEIR MATCHING
3:10:11PM MONEY.
3:10:12PM WHAT'S HAPPENING IS IN THE SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES GOING ON
3:10:15PM WORLDWIDE AND THE COST OF THINGS, I THINK THEY ARE GOING TO
3:10:18PM COME BACK TO US AND ASK FOR A SMALL, MINOR ALTERATION IN THE
3:10:23PM SCHEDULE.
3:10:24PM THEY HAVE DONE EVERYTHING ELSE TO KEEP THEIR COMMITMENT.
3:10:26PM WHAT I DID NOT WANT ANYBODY TO HAVE IS THE IMPRESSION THAT
3:10:28PM SOMEHOW THEY HAVE NOT KEPT THEIR PROMISES BECAUSE THEY HAVE.
3:10:30PM THE POLICE BUILDING, WHEN WE WERE SOLD THE IDEA OF HANNA
3:10:38PM AVENUE ORIGINALLY, IT WAS 108 MILLION, AND THEN THE CITY WAS
3:10:42PM GOING TO SELL THE POLICE BUILDING AND THEY ESTIMATED 22
3:10:46PM MILLION, 24 MILLION, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
3:10:48PM AND THEN THEY WERE GOING TO SELL THAT BUILDING ON SPRUCE
3:10:50PM STREET.
3:10:51PM AND THAT WOULD BE LIKE ANOTHER 30 MILLION OR SO.
3:10:54PM I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT NUMBERS.
3:10:55PM BUT TOGETHER, THAT WAS GOING TO ADD UP TO ABOUT 40, $50
3:10:58PM MILLION WHICH WOULD OFFSET THE 108 MILLION.
3:11:02PM WHEN THEY CAME BACK TO US TO APPROVE IT -- ORIGINALLY IT WAS
3:11:04PM TWO BUILDINGS.
3:11:05PM WHEN THEY CAME BACK, THEY SAID THEY WERE GOING TO DELAY
3:11:07PM SELLING THE POLICE STATION AND DELAY SELLING THE OTHER ONE
3:11:10PM BUT I WANT TO POINT OUT TO EVERYBODY, THAT WAS JUSTIFICATION
3:11:13PM FOR HANNA AVENUE, HAD THEY NOT TALKED ABOUT SELLING THE
3:11:16PM POLICE BUILDING AND THE SPRUCE BUILDING TO MAKE UP FOR IT, I
3:11:19PM NEVER WOULD HAVE SUPPORTED IT IN THE BEGINNING.
3:11:22PM I BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD PUT FACILITIES DOWNTOWN, BUT THAT
3:11:26PM IS A REALLY IMPORTANT PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT COULD BE
3:11:29PM DEVELOPED BY THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
3:11:31PM WE COULD ASK THEM TO PUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
3:11:32PM WE COULD SUBSIDIZE THEM AND PUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
3:11:38PM WE COULD ASK THEM TO MAKE IT A TOWN CENTER, WHATEVER WE WANT
3:11:40PM BUT IT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT PLACE.
3:11:40PM WE KNOW FROM OUR INTERNAL ASSESSMENTS OF THE BUILDING THAT
3:11:44PM ITS LIFE SPAN IS NEAR FINISHED.
3:11:46PM I WOULD JUST GO BACK TO THAT.
3:11:47PM THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES IN DOWNTOWN, BUT I WOULD ASK
3:11:50PM EVERYONE TO PLEASE LOOK AT -- GO BACK TO THE NEXT LIST.
3:11:54PM AS YOU LOOK AT THIS NEXT LIST, THINK ABOUT WHAT DO YOU THINK
3:11:58PM IS AN ABSOLUTE MUST?
3:12:00PM LIKE LYKES PARK, WE HAVE TO PUT THE BENCHES BACK IN LYKES
3:12:09PM PARK.
3:12:09PM THAT'S A MUST.
3:12:09PM THAT'S NOT 1.7 MILLION.
3:12:09PM BUT THERE ARE THINGS THAT YOU ALL MAY WANT, BUT COME BACK,
3:12:09PM IF I COULD, MAYBE I'LL MOVE ITEM NUMBER 7 TO NEXT MONTH, BUT
3:12:13PM THINK ABOUT WHICH ONES -- AND AS MORRIS SAID, THIS IS NOT
3:12:16PM OUR LIST.
3:12:17PM THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I'VE EVER SEEN THIS LIST.
3:12:20PM NOBODY HAS TALKED TO ME ABOUT THE PROJECTS.
3:12:22PM THIS IS NOT A PRIORITIZATION THAT WE PUT IN.
3:12:24PM SO IF YOU HAVE IDEAS OF PROJECTS THAT YOU WANT IN DOWNTOWN,
3:12:27PM COME BACK AND LET'S GET A BALLPARK.
3:12:30PM INSTEAD OF 117 MILLION CAP, WHAT IF WE PUT 200 MILLION CAP
3:12:34PM OR 150 MILLION CAP.
3:12:36PM IF THERE'S ANYTHING EXTRA ABOVE THAT, WE HAVE TO JUSTIFY IT
3:12:40PM BY TELLING RESIDENTS THAT WE'RE NOT FIXING THE ROAD BECAUSE
3:12:44PM WE'RE PAYING FOR THESE THINGS.
3:12:47PM THAT'S WHERE I HAVE A CONCERN.
3:12:48PM IF WE CAN PREVENT TAX INCREASES IN THE FUTURE BY MOVING
3:12:52PM MONEY AND/OR MOVING MONEY INTO THINGS WE NEED.
3:12:54PM A GROUP ASKED ME THE OTHER DAY, WHY DON'T WE HAVE A CRA IN
3:12:59PM SULPHUR SPRINGS.
3:13:00PM I EXPLAINED HERE CRAs ARE ABOUT SUBSIDIZING HIGH-END
3:13:04PM HOUSING.
3:13:04PM THEY ARE NOT ABOUT REALLY HELPING COMMUNITIES.
3:13:06PM THE MONEY COMES IN FROM -- YOU KNOW, WE GET WATERS STREET
3:13:10PM AND THEN WE USE THE MONEY TO SUBSIDIZE THE NEXT DEVELOPMENT.
3:13:13PM BUT I ASKED THE PEOPLE, HOW MANY OF YOU THINK THAT THE 25
3:13:17PM MILLION GENERATED BY CHANNEL DISTRICT AND DOWNTOWN IS BEST
3:13:20PM SPENT IN DOWNTOWN VERSUS SULPHUR SPRINGS?
3:13:23PM AND EVERYBODY AGREED THAT IT SHOULD BE SPENT IN SULPHUR
3:13:25PM SPRINGS.
3:13:26PM IF YOU ALL WANT TO TAKE $300 MILLION AND PUT IT IN A FUND
3:13:29PM FOR SULPHUR SPRINGS OR WHATEVER, I'M FINE.
3:13:31PM I JUST DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE PAYING FOR THINGS NICE TO HAVE
3:13:34PM RATHER THAN THINGS THAT WE REALLY NEED.
3:13:43PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I GO ON QUESTIONS FROM BEFORE, I WASN'T
3:13:45PM DONE WITH MY REMARKS.
3:13:46PM IF I GO BACK IN TIME, IT'S BECAUSE I WASN'T FINISHED WITH MY
3:13:50PM REMARKS.
3:13:50PM IT'S FUNNY WITH THE STRAZ QUESTION, AS A CIVIL LITIGATOR, 20
3:13:55PM YEARS, DON'T ASK A QUESTION YOU DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO.
3:13:58PM YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING, WHICH IS KIND OF FUNNY.
3:14:01PM BUT GOING BACK TO THE DISABILITY PARKS, AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE
3:14:07PM THAT ADDED TO THIS LIST.
3:14:09PM A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO WE DID HAVE A PRESENTATION BY PARKS
3:14:13PM AND RECREATION AND CRA FOR THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE, WITH A
3:14:17PM PLAN THAT WAS MADE.
3:14:18PM I COULD HAVE SWORN THAT I HAD THAT COMING BACK BECAUSE I
3:14:21PM USUALLY HAVE THINGS COME BACK, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T HAVE
3:14:23PM THINGS COME BACK, THEN THEY GET AWAY FROM YOU, RIGHT? I
3:14:27PM WILL MOTION TO HAVE THAT COME BACK NEXT MONTH AND SEE --
3:14:30PM YES, SIR, GO AHEAD.
3:14:31PM >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
3:14:35PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: MY APOLOGIES FOR WANTING TO SPEAK TO IT.
3:14:37PM YOU ALL AS A BOARD, YOU APPROVED THAT PLAN.
3:14:39PM YOU ALREADY APPROVED THE PARKS PLAN FOR ACCESSIBILITY AND
3:14:44PM INCLUSIVE PLAY EQUIPMENT THROUGHOUT ALL CRAs.
3:14:48PM SO IF YOU RECALL, WE BROUGHT FORTH THAT LIST TO YOU.
3:14:51PM WE PRESENTED THAT WITH THE COST, APPROXIMATELY $3.2 MILLION
3:14:55PM ACROSS ALL CRAs, AND WE SHOWED YOU THE CONDENSED TIMELINE
3:14:59PM THAT THE CITY WOULD REACH IN ORDER TO INTEGRATE ALL OF THOSE
3:15:03PM ELEMENTS.
3:15:04PM SO YOU HAVE ALREADY APPROVED THAT AND WE ALREADY STARTED
3:15:07PM WORKING WITH PARKS ON THAT.
3:15:11PM WHEN YOU SAY BRING IT BACK, I HAVE TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE
3:15:14PM THERE'S ACTUALLY A TIMELINE RELATIVE TO EACH PARK AND WE
3:15:16PM LAID IT OUT ON AN ANNUAL BASIS WHEN THOSE IMPROVEMENTS WOULD
3:15:20PM TAKE PLACE.
3:15:20PM I WANT TO GATHER AN UNDERSTANDING.
3:15:21PM >>LUIS VIERA: I REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
3:15:23PM WHEN I SAY BRING IT BACK, I DON'T MEAN ANY FURTHER ACTION.
3:15:27PM JUST TO SEE HOW IT'S DOING.
3:15:31PM I'LL GIVE IT SIX MONTHS OUT, JUST SO IT STAYS IN OUR VIEW.
3:15:35PM I'LL DO THAT AT THE END.
3:15:36PM BUT WHAT YOU HAVE JUST SAID IS STELLAR AND SPECTACULAR AND
3:15:42PM WARRANTS AND PREVENTS THE THING NEXT MONTH.
3:15:45PM THERE YOU GO.
3:15:46PM YES, SIR.
3:15:48PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: TO ADD TO MR. DRUMGO'S POINT, THIS LIST,
3:15:52PM WHILE IT'S A GREAT LIST, IT'S NOT INCLUSIVE OF EVERY SINGLE
3:15:56PM THING THAT YOU ALL HAVE FUNDED.
3:15:59PM FOR INSTANCE, TAMPA UNION STATION IS NOT ON THE LIST.
3:16:02PM OVER $2 MILLION -- MILLION DOLLARS TO THE JACKSON HOUSE
3:16:06PM THAT'S NOT ON THE LIST.
3:16:07PM SO THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE NOT ON THIS LIST THAT YOU ALL
3:16:10PM HAVE ALREADY BUDGETED AND APPROVED.
3:16:13PM >>LUIS VIERA: I GET IT.
3:16:14PM ATTORNEY MASSEY, YOUR POINTS ARE VERY WELL TAKEN.
3:16:16PM THESE ARE THE TEN SUGGESTIONS, NOT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND
3:16:19PM THEY ARE SUBJECT TO LIBERAL AMENDMENTS, SO VERY WELL SAID.
3:16:22PM WHEN IT COMES TO THE CAPPING OF THE DOWNTOWN CRA, IT'S FUNNY
3:16:25PM BECAUSE MY RECOLLECTION ALWAYS WAS -- MAYBE I'M WRONG HERE
3:16:28PM -- I ALWAYS VOTED AGAINST FOR CHANNELSIDE BECAUSE THERE'S
3:16:32PM SOME UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THAT COULD COME FROM THAT.
3:16:35PM FOR THE DOWNTOWN CRA, I ALWAYS VOTED TO CAP IT BECAUSE MY
3:16:38PM UNDERSTANDING WAS THE CONSEQUENCES OF DOING THAT WOULD BE
3:16:40PM VERY, VERY LIMITED.
3:16:41PM I RECALL THAT PASSED 4-3.
3:16:44PM I COULD BE WRONG.
3:16:45PM WHO KNOWS.
3:16:46PM I'VE BEEN SUPPORTIVE OF THAT.
3:16:48PM LIKE FOLKS HAVE SAID, YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE LIST, IT'S
3:16:51PM ALMOST LIKE WE'RE LOOKING AT, HEY, LISTEN, WE HAVE THIS
3:16:54PM MONEY, WE HAVE TO SPEND IT ON THESE PROJECTS.
3:16:56PM AGAIN, I SUPPORTED DOWNTOWN CRA.
3:16:58PM I ALWAYS HAVE.
3:16:59PM I COME FROM A DISTRICT WHERE THERE ARE NO CRAs IN CERTAIN
3:17:04PM AREAS, ESPECIALLY NEW TAMPA HAVE HEARTBURN OVER THIS.
3:17:07PM I GO, LISTEN, IT'S IMPORTANT TO DEVELOP DOWNTOWN.
3:17:09PM IT'S IMPORTANT TO HAVE A RESIDENTIAL, GROWING VIBRANT
3:17:11PM DOWNTOWN THAT WE GIVE SPECIAL SCRUTINY AND ATTENTION TO,
3:17:14PM ET CETERA.
3:17:15PM BUT THERE ALSO IS SOME COMMON SENSE.
3:17:19PM I THINK THAT CAPPING IT AND CONTINUING TO LOOK AT IT AND
3:17:21PM ACTING UPON IT IF IT MAKES SENSE WOULD MAKE SENSE AND
3:17:24PM WHATNOT.
3:17:26PM WITH REGARDS TO THE STRAZ, I DON'T RECALL, AGAIN, I'M A
3:17:29PM LITTLE BIT SICK AND SLOWER THAN USUAL, WHATEVER, IN TERMS OF
3:17:33PM GOING BACK ON OUR WORD, TO THE EXTENT THAT CONTRACTUAL
3:17:38PM OBLIGATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, AGAIN MY
3:17:41PM VOTE IS WHAT IT WAS.
3:17:43PM I STAND BY IT 110%.
3:17:45PM I ALWAYS THOUGHT WE COULD USE THE MONEY ON STREETCAR,
3:17:48PM AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THINGS LIKE DISABILITY PARKS, BUT OUR
3:17:51PM BODY'S WORD IS PARAMOUNT AND PEOPLE ARE RELYING UPON THAT.
3:17:56PM THEY ARE MEETING THEIR OBLIGATIONS.
3:17:57PM JUST FOR THE RECORD, AS THE ONE DISSENTING VOTE ON THAT CRA,
3:18:01PM I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT GOING BACK ON OUR WORD AND I WOULDN'T
3:18:04PM SUPPORT THAT BECAUSE CHARACTER OF A BODY IS VERY, VERY
3:18:08PM IMPORTANT.
3:18:08PM AND IT'S NOT IN DISPUTE THAT THEY DO AMAZING WORK.
3:18:11PM AGAIN, I THINK THAT OUR -- I WOULDN'T WANT TO GO BACK ON OUR
3:18:16PM WORD OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE, JUST FOR THE RECORD.
3:18:18PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:18:19PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO AND THEN BOARD
3:18:21PM MEMBER HURTAK AND THEN HOPEFULLY ME.
3:18:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SOME INTERESTING THINGS WERE BROUGHT UP.
3:18:28PM THE CRA MONEY CAN ONLY BE SPENT -- THE DOWNTOWN CRA WITHIN
3:18:32PM THOSE BOUNDARIES.
3:18:33PM BUT THERE ARE WAYS TO GET AROUND THAT.
3:18:35PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK BROUGHT UP A GREAT POINT.
3:18:37PM I THINK THAT -- I'LL MAKE THIS INTO A MOTION -- THAT THE CRA
3:18:42PM EXPLORE BUYING THE TPD BUILDING FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA, IF
3:18:48PM YOU SAID $30 MILLION, THAT WOULD GO TO THE GENERAL FUND THAT
3:18:54PM COULD BE USED FOR A NEW POLICE STATION.
3:18:56PM I TALKED TO SOME PEOPLE, NOT IN THE ADMINISTRATION, BUT ON
3:19:00PM THE OTHER SIDE, ABOUT WHERE AND WHAT POSSIBILITIES THERE ARE
3:19:04PM FOR TPD.
3:19:07PM WE WOULD THEN AS A CRA OWN THAT -- WE BUY THAT PARCEL.
3:19:10PM WE ALREADY HAVE -- THE LAND BELONGS TO THE CITY AND THEN WE
3:19:13PM HAVE MONEY THERE TO CREATE OR BUILD THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING,
3:19:17PM WHETHER WE KEEP THAT PARKING GARAGE OR TEAR IT DOWN AND
3:19:20PM BUILD A NEW STRUCTURE BECAUSE SHOWING THE NUMBERS HERE OVER
3:19:24PM THE TEN-YEAR PERIOD, $136 MILLION FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
3:19:27PM SPRUCE STREET WAS MENTIONED, NOT IN A CRA, AND IF IT WAS
3:19:33PM MENTIONED THAT THE CITY WOULD SELL THAT PROPERTY TO OFFSET
3:19:38PM COSTS FOR HANNA, WHATEVER, I THINK THE CITY AND THIS IS A
3:19:42PM DISCUSSION FOR CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY SHOULD KEEP THAT
3:19:44PM PROPERTY.
3:19:44PM I DON'T KNOW HOW IT'S ZONED OR HOW WE HAVE TO CHANGE IT AND
3:19:47PM USE IT FOR MULTIFAMILY AND HAVE HOUSING THERE AND KEEP IT
3:19:50PM WITHIN THE CITY'S CONTROL.
3:19:52PM WITHIN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, IT'S A NEIGHBORHOOD AND
3:19:53PM RESIDENTIAL WOULD WORK THERE.
3:19:55PM FIRST, LET ME MAKE THE MOTION THAT I'D LIKE CRA STAFF TO
3:20:01PM COME BACK OCTOBER 5th TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY OF THE
3:20:07PM CRA BUYING FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA THE TAMPA POLICE
3:20:11PM DEPARTMENT BUILDING.
3:20:13PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
3:20:19PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU ALL SECOND STUFF IN ADVANCE AND IT
3:20:21PM GETS CONFUSING UP HERE.
3:20:22PM SO WE HAVE THIS MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY BOARD MEMBER
3:20:27PM MANISCALCO.
3:20:28PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
3:20:31PM DISCUSSION?
3:20:31PM OCTOBER 5th.
3:20:36PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I'M SORRY.
3:20:37PM OCTOBER 12th.
3:20:39PM AS A STAFF REPORT.
3:20:42PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AS A STAFF REPORT, NOT A CRA REPORT.
3:20:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: STAFF REPORT UNDER THE CRA --
3:20:47PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I THOUGHT CRA WAS --
3:20:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT SAYS STAFF REPORTS ON THE AGENDA.
3:20:52PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OCTOBER --
3:20:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WELL, IT'S CRA.
3:21:02PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THERE'S NOW DISCUSSION ON THIS MOTION.
3:21:06PM >>BILL CARLSON: I APPRECIATE THE CREATIVE THINKING BY
3:21:08PM EVERYBODY, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THIS WAS GOING TO BE SOLD
3:21:11PM TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND MY PREFERENCE IS THAT PARTICULAR,
3:21:15PM THAT IS A VERY VALUABLE PIECE OF PROPERTY.
3:21:18PM WE ALREADY HAD A COUPLE OF SUBSIDIZED PROPERTIES AROUND
3:21:20PM HERE.
3:21:21PM WE'RE RAISING TAXES BECAUSE WE NEED, OR THE MAYOR IS
3:21:25PM PROPOSING RAISING TAXES BECAUSE WE NEED MONEY TO BE ABLE TO
3:21:28PM FIX ROADS AND THINGS.
3:21:30PM WE'RE BETTER OFF GETTING THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
3:21:32PM THE PRIVATE SECTOR WILL PAY AND WE CAN USE THAT MONEY TO BUY
3:21:36PM A NEW POLICE STATION.
3:21:37PM THANK YOU.
3:21:38PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
3:21:39PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:21:42PM I JUST WANTED TO SALUTE THE QUICK THINKING ON THE DAIS.
3:21:45PM I THINK COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK TALKED ABOUT IT AND COUNCILMAN
3:21:49PM MANISCALCO OBVIOUSLY MAKING THE MOTION FOR THIS, IF THIS CAN
3:21:52PM WORK, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
3:21:54PM MY VIEW IS THAT FOR OUR PUBLIC SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE
3:21:58PM NEED, LET'S GET THEM HOWEVER WE CAN, IF IT'S THROUGH A
3:22:03PM REASONABLE MILLAGE INCREASE, LET'S DO IT.
3:22:06PM IF IT'S THROUGH THIS, WHATEVER IT MAY BE.
3:22:07PM SO I JUST WANTED TO SALUTE YOU ALL FOR THAT.
3:22:10PM THAT'S WONDERFUL.
3:22:11PM I'M GLAD TO SUPPORT THIS.
3:22:12PM THANK YOU.
3:22:12PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
3:22:14PM MORE DISCUSSION BEFORE THE VOTE?
3:22:15PM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK AND BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
3:22:17PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD THEN LISTENING TO BOARD MEMBER
3:22:23PM CARLSON MAKE A FRIENDLY AMENDMENT TO SAY LET'S EXPLORE THAT
3:22:26PM BUT ALSO SEE WHAT AMOUNT OF MONEY WE COULD GET MAYBE FROM
3:22:30PM THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
3:22:32PM YOUR THOUGHTS ON WHAT THE BEST WAY TO GO ABOUT THAT MIGHT
3:22:35PM BE.
3:22:38PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU'RE GETTING MORE INTO A CITY COUNCIL,
3:22:42PM CITY ADMINISTRATION ISSUE.
3:22:44PM ALSO, I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT UNDER OUR CHARTER, THE
3:22:47PM NEGOTIATION OF THAT SORT OF THING IS REALLY DONE ON THAT
3:22:51PM SIDE --
3:22:52PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
3:22:53PM THEN NEVER MIND.
3:22:57PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
3:22:58PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MY POINT IS I WANT TO MAKE SURE -- I
3:23:01PM WANT US TO MAINTAIN CONTROL OF THAT PROPERTY BECAUSE LAND IN
3:23:04PM DOWNTOWN IS SPARSE.
3:23:06PM EITHER IT IS A SURFACE PARKING LOT OR ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT.
3:23:08PM AND THIS IS IN THE CORE.
3:23:10PM I KNOW IT IS A VERY VALUABLE PIECE, BUT IT IS OUR VALUABLE
3:23:13PM PIECE AND I WANT TO MAINTAIN THAT.
3:23:15PM ALSO, THIS WILL BE A CITY COUNCIL ISSUE, ONCE WE GET THIS
3:23:22PM REPORT BACK ON THE 12th, I'LL BRING UP ON THE 19th,
3:23:25PM DEPENDING ON WHAT THE REPORT SAYS, I'LL BRING UP ON THE
3:23:27PM 19th AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING HOW WE CAN THEN UTILIZE
3:23:31PM THAT BOTTOM FLOOR, AS MENTIONED BY COUNCILMAN MIRANDA IN THE
3:23:33PM DISCUSSION WE HAD EARLIER, TO CREATE A NEW FIRE STATION
3:23:37PM DOWNTOWN.
3:23:37PM AGAIN, WE CONTROL THE PROPERTY AND I THINK IT KILLS MULTIPLE
3:23:41PM BIRDS WITH ONE STONE.
3:23:43PM WE'RE BUILDING THE HOUSING IN THE DOWNTOWN CORE, BUT WE'RE
3:23:46PM ALSO ACCOMMODATING THE REQUEST AND THE NEEDS IN THE PUBLIC
3:23:50PM SAFETY SECTOR OF ANOTHER FIRE STATION BECAUSE THINKING ABOUT
3:23:54PM WHAT WAS PROPOSED AND MORE ALS UNITS AND EVERYTHING, WHERE
3:23:58PM DO WE PUT THOSE?
3:24:00PM WE HAVE A GROWING DOWNTOWN POPULATION, A GROWING DENSITY,
3:24:05PM AND WE NEED SPACE.
3:24:06PM SO I THINK THIS WOULD -- IF ALL THE CHIPS FALL INTO PLACE, I
3:24:12PM THINK THIS WOULD WORK BECAUSE WE HAVE -- WE'RE STUCK WITH
3:24:15PM HOW WE CAN SPEND THE MONEY DOWNTOWN, AND I THINK THIS ALLOWS
3:24:19PM US TO CIRCUMVENT THE RULES WHILE USING IT FOR A GOOD PUBLIC
3:24:25PM PURPOSE.
3:24:26PM MY MOTION WAS MADE ABOUT OCTOBER 12th AND THEN WE'LL WAIT
3:24:30PM UNTIL THEN AND TAKE IT FURTHER.
3:24:31PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
3:24:32PM WE CAN GO FOR THE VOTE.
3:24:34PM THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO,
3:24:37PM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
3:24:39PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:24:41PM >> AYE.
3:24:41PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OPPOSED?
3:24:42PM >> NAY.
3:24:44PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION CARRIES.
3:24:46PM >>THE CLERK: WITH CARLSON VOTING NO AND CLENDENIN BEING
3:24:48PM ABSENT AT VOTE.
3:24:49PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE'LL PICK BACK UP ON MANISCALCO'S VOTE.
3:24:55PM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK'S TURN TO SPEAK.
3:24:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
3:25:00PM THINKING AGAIN, WHEN IT COMES TO MARION STREET
3:25:03PM REDEVELOPMENT, I'M HONESTLY CURIOUS WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE
3:25:13PM IF WE'RE REALLY LOOKING AT STREETCAR EXPANSION, WE ALREADY
3:25:17PM HAVE THAT SPACE, WHY NOT LOOK AT EXPANDING THE STREETCAR TO
3:25:21PM MARION STREET?
3:25:22PM SO I'M GOING TO REQUEST THAT THAT COME FORWARD.
3:25:29PM I WILL PUT IT AT OCTOBER 12th, BUT IF IT TAKES LONGER --
3:25:34PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU MAY WANT TO DO THIS AS CITY COUNCIL.
3:25:36PM YOU'RE REALLY GETTING --
3:25:38PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO.
3:25:38PM THIS IS CRA MONEY.
3:25:39PM BUT THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.
3:25:42PM IF THE CRA --
3:25:44PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: GO AHEAD.
3:25:47PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: IF I MAY, AND I KNOW IT MAY FEEL LIKE THIS
3:25:49PM LOOKS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FROM WHEN I PRESENTED IT DURING
3:25:51PM THE RETREAT, BUT THIS IS VIRTUALLY THE SAME LIST OF ITEMS
3:25:55PM THAT I PRESENTED DURING THE RETREAT.
3:25:56PM AT THAT TIME I SHARED WITH YOU ALL THAT THESE ITEMS HAD COME
3:25:59PM -- THESE CAME FORWARD FROM YOUR CAC.
3:26:05PM WHEN TALKING ABOUT PROGRAMMATICALLY LOOKING AT PROJECTIONS
3:26:08PM OF PROJECT, WHILE NO COMMITMENTS, THESE ARE THINGS THE CAC
3:26:11PM RECOMMENDED THAT WE CONTINUE TO GO FORWARD WITH.
3:26:13PM WITH THAT, WITH THE MARION STREET REDEVELOPMENT, THERE'S
3:26:17PM ACTUALLY MONEY IN THE BUDGET FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR IN ORDER
3:26:20PM TO EXPLORE EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, LIKE HOW WE
3:26:26PM BETTER REPURPOSE OR UTILIZE THAT SPACE.
3:26:28PM I WANT TO SAY THAT THE FUNDING IS THERE FOR IT, BUT, AGAIN,
3:26:32PM IT'S A MATTER OF WHETHER OR NOT THE BOARD WOULD LIKE TO MOVE
3:26:35PM FORWARD WITH SEEING THAT PLAN OR THAT STUDY AND ULTIMATELY
3:26:41PM WHAT YOU DO ON THE REDEVELOPMENT SIDE.
3:26:43PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
3:26:44PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT A STREETCAR EXTENSION BE
3:26:49PM CONSIDERED FOR THAT CORRIDOR.
3:26:51PM IT SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE LESS DRAMATIC THAN ANY OTHER
3:26:56PM PLACE.
3:26:59PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: UNDERSTOOD.
3:27:00PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD.
3:27:01PM IT'S MY TURN.
3:27:02PM I'M SO GLAD YOU ARE STANDING UP THERE, MR. BURTON.
3:27:04PM YOU HEARD A LOT OF STUFF AND WE ONLY HAVE YOU FOR A SHORT
3:27:08PM PERIOD OF TIME.
3:27:09PM EVEN THOUGH WE MAKE OUR COMMENTS AND SAY WHAT WE NEED TO
3:27:12PM SAY, REBUTTAL FROM STAFF IS IMPORTANT TO ME.
3:27:15PM I DON'T THINK YOU SHOULD JUST RECEIVE IT JUST BECAUSE WE ARE
3:27:18PM UP HERE SAYING IT.
3:27:19PM THERE ARE A LOT OF THINGS THAT IF THERE'S ANYTHING YOU WANT
3:27:21PM TO CLARIFY OR COMMENT ON REGARDING THIS DISCUSSION OF YOUR
3:27:27PM PRESENTATION, THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT AND THEN
3:27:29PM I'LL MOVE FORWARD WITH WHAT I WANT TO SAY.
3:27:36PM >> OTHER THAN THE LIST WE HAVE, WHAT ALIS SAYS IT IS, IT'S
3:27:41PM BEEN DERIVED -- WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT AT GREAT LENGTH.
3:27:47PM MARION STREET, WE PUT MONEY ASIDE THIS YEAR FOR YOU TO LOOK
3:27:52PM AT IF YOU WANTED TO.
3:27:53PM IT'S UP TO YOU TO DECIDE.
3:27:56PM THE ONLY THING THAT I'LL ADD IS THAT IT'S ALL BASED ON THE
3:28:02PM PLAN.
3:28:02PM AND YOU ARE CURRENTLY IN PLANNING WITH YOUR CAC AND A
3:28:06PM CONSULTANT, AND THAT PLAN WILL BE COMING FORWARD TO YOU IN
3:28:11PM THE NEAR FUTURE.
3:28:13PM NEAR FUTURE.
3:28:15PM ALL I CAN SAY IS, IF IT'S NOT IN THE PLAN, YOU CAN'T DO IT.
3:28:19PM MAKE SURE IT'S IN THE PLAN SO THE ATTORNEY THERE WILL BE A
3:28:22PM MUCH HAPPIER ATTORNEY.
3:28:24PM NOT HAVE TO SAY NO SO MUCH.
3:28:26PM AND MAKE SURE YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT IN YOUR PLAN AND, BY THE
3:28:30PM WAY, THERE ARE STATUTORY REMEDIES FOR IF YOU WANT TO TAKE
3:28:34PM MONEY FROM THE CRA AT THE END OF THE YEAR THAT HASN'T BEEN
3:28:37PM SPENT, IT'S ALREADY IN THE STATUTE.
3:28:39PM IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE IN THE PLAN.
3:28:41PM HE KNOWS ALL ABOUT THAT AND HE CAN GUIDE YOU ON THAT.
3:28:45PM THANK YOU.
3:28:49PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SINCE I'M NEW HERE, I REALLY WANT TO SEE
3:28:53PM CENTRAL PARK ON THIS PLAN IN SOME KIND OF WAY.
3:28:57PM IT'S ITS OWN CRA.
3:29:02PM THAT DOESN'T MATTER.
3:29:03PM OKAY.
3:29:04PM I'LL LEAVE THAT POINT ALONE.
3:29:05PM THE OTHER PART THAT I WANTED TO, JUST BRIEFLY, SO MUCH SAID
3:29:08PM UP HERE EARLIER, BUT I'M GLAD THAT BOARD MEMBER CARLSON,
3:29:13PM ALTHOUGH HE'S NOT SITTING HERE RIGHT NOW, MENTIONED HOW HE
3:29:17PM GOT TO THE POINT WHERE HE RECOMMENDED THAT THE STRAZ GET $25
3:29:20PM MILLION, BECAUSE I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THAT FOR A LONG TIME.
3:29:24PM IT'S VOTED, LIKE BOARD MEMBER VIERA SAID, WE CAN'T GO BACK
3:29:29PM ON OUR WORD.
3:29:30PM IT'S A VOTE AND IT PASSED.
3:29:32PM BUT EVERYONE DOES NOT BENEFIT FROM OUR WONDERFUL ASSETS IN
3:29:36PM THIS CITY.
3:29:37PM I MUST SAY THAT.
3:29:38PM I KNOW THAT FOR A FACT BECAUSE I WROTE A GRANT TO TAKE 175
3:29:42PM STUDENTS TO THE STRAZ THEATER MYSELF AND IT WAS AN AMAZING
3:29:47PM EXPERIENCE FOR THEM.
3:29:48PM I STILL HAVE THE CARD THAT THEY WROTE ME BECAUSE THAT WAS
3:29:51PM THE FIRST TIME THEY HAVE EVER GONE THERE.
3:29:53PM THEY DO NOT COME FROM FAMILIES THAT COULD PROVIDE THEM WITH
3:29:56PM A $200 TICKET TO SEE SOMETHING AT THE STRAZ.
3:29:59PM EVERY CITIZEN IN TAMPA DOES NOT BENEFIT FROM THAT.
3:30:02PM EVEN I WHEN I WENT FOR THE FIRST TIME, I BELIEVE IT WAS
3:30:05PM PROBABLY A SACRIFICE.
3:30:07PM NEVERTHELESS, IT IS AN ASSET AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE TAKE
3:30:10PM CARE OF THOSE THINGS, BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF SOME OF OUR
3:30:15PM GREATEST NEEDS, AND THAT IS HOUSING.
3:30:18PM BUT ALSO THERE WAS THIS COMMENT MADE ABOUT HOW THE PREVIOUS
3:30:24PM ADMINISTRATION VICIOUSLY TOOK AWAY FROM THE ARTS.
3:30:29PM I DON'T NECESSARILY LIKE THE TERMINOLOGY OF HOW WE REFERENCE
3:30:32PM OUR PAST ADMINISTRATION.
3:30:33PM I WISH BOARD MEMBER CARLSON WAS HERE SO HE COULD HEAR THAT,
3:30:37PM BUT VICIOUSLY, I DON'T LIKE WHEN WE PICK UP ON TERMS LIKE
3:30:41PM THAT.
3:30:42PM JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE SAID IT DOESN'T MEAN IT IS TRUE AND I'M
3:30:46PM TRYING TO MOVE OUR COUNCIL AND BOARD AWAY FROM HAVING
3:30:49PM CONVERSATIONS ABOUT PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS, GOOD OR BAD,
3:30:53PM UNLESS IT'S AN HISTORICAL REFERENCE THAT MAKES A DIFFERENCE
3:30:55PM IN MAKING A DECISION.
3:30:57PM OTHER THAN THAT, I THINK I'LL JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT.
3:31:04PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MAY I MAKE A MOTION TO CONTINUE ITEM 7
3:31:08PM UNTIL NEXT MONTH?
3:31:10PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WILL ACCEPT THAT MOTION TO CONTINUE ITEM
3:31:12PM 7.
3:31:12PM IS THERE A SECOND ON THE MOTION?
3:31:14PM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO, SECOND BY
3:31:17PM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
3:31:18PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:31:20PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:31:20PM OKAY.
3:31:23PM THE MOTION CARRIES.
3:31:24PM DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR DRUMGO.
3:31:30PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
3:31:31PM I JUST WANTED TO TIE A COUPLE OF THINGS TOGETHER.
3:31:33PM I KNOW THAT YOU'VE HAD A LOT OF DISCUSSION, BUT FOR THE REST
3:31:37PM OF THE BOARD AS WELL, DIRECTOR MOODY JUST WENT THROUGH YOUR
3:31:42PM OBJECTIVES AND WHERE THE ORGANIZATION IS HEADED AS A WHOLE.
3:31:45PM I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T SAY TO YOU ALL THAT YOUR
3:31:49PM DOWNTOWN IS A KEY PART OF THAT AND THE OBJECTIVES THAT YOU
3:31:53PM ALL SET FORTH, THERE WILL BE OPPORTUNITIES TO PICK UP NEW
3:31:57PM PROJECTS.
3:31:57PM WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A REDEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE, WHEN YOU
3:32:00PM TALK ABOUT ALL THE THINGS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY HAPPEN WITH
3:32:03PM OUR ECONOMY IN THE COMING YEARS, THERE IS SOME UNCERTAINTY.
3:32:07PM I THINK OUR OFFICE MARKET HAS OUTPERFORMED PEER CITIES.
3:32:11PM THERE IS A REAL CHANCE AT SOME POINT YOUR CRA MAY BE A KEY
3:32:15PM VEHICLE TO EITHER PRESERVE OR TO RESCUE SOME OF THESE
3:32:19PM BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN SHOULD THEY BECOME MORE VACANT.
3:32:22PM I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT OUT THERE TO SAY YOU ALL ARE
3:32:26PM CHARTING A NEW PATH AND NEW DIRECTION AND YOU WILL CERTAINLY
3:32:29PM NEED TO FUND SOME OF THOSE INITIATIVES AS YOU CONSIDER FOR
3:32:32PM NEXT MONTH WHAT YOU DECIDE TO DO HERE WITH YOUR DOWNTOWN CRA
3:32:36PM TIF.
3:32:43PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
3:32:44PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
3:32:45PM I JUST WANT TO QUICKLY RESPOND TO WHAT MR. DRUMGO SAID.
3:32:51PM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT POINT UP.
3:32:53PM BECAUSE WE ARE IN OUR ECONOMIC SITUATION RIGHT NOW IN THE
3:32:56PM CITY OF TAMPA, WE ARE INCREDIBLY BLESSED.
3:33:00PM AND I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THE POINT THAT WE MAY
3:33:03PM NOT ALWAYS BE THIS BLESSED.
3:33:06PM IN FACT, I DO BELIEVE, I JUST READ IN THE BUSINESS JOURNAL
3:33:10PM THAT IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS OR SO, WE'LL FIND OUT WHETHER
3:33:13PM THOSE OFFICE LEASES ARE BEING EXTENDED OR NOT.
3:33:17PM WE MAY HAVE ISSUES BEFORE US BEFORE WE KNOW IT.
3:33:19PM SO I THINK MAYBE WITH THIS CONVERSATION, MAYBE A
3:33:26PM YEAR-TO-YEAR CONSIDERATION OF WHAT WE CAN DO WITH EXTRA
3:33:29PM MONEY IN THE CRA.
3:33:31PM THANK YOU, MR. DRUMGO, FOR BRINGING THAT TO OUR ATTENTION,
3:33:34PM KEEPING THAT ON OUR RADAR.
3:33:36PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
3:33:36PM ITEM NUMBER 8, DIRECTOR MOODY.
3:33:40PM >>ERICA MOODY: I HAD ONE POINT OF CLARIFICATION ON
3:33:42PM CONTINUING ITEM 7, WOULD YOU LIKE TO DISCUSS THE SAME
3:33:44PM PRESENTATION OR WOULD YOU LIKE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION?
3:33:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE SAME PRESENTATION.
3:33:54PM KEEP THIS -- NOTHING ADDITIONAL.
3:33:56PM >>ERICA MOODY: GREAT.
3:33:57PM WE'LL CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION.
3:33:59PM ITEM 8 IS REGARDING -- WE PULLED THE BUDGETS FOR THE CITY
3:34:04PM AND CRA SERVICE AGREEMENT FOR THE LAST FOUR YEARS AND
3:34:07PM INCLUDED ANY BUDGET AMENDMENTS THAT WERE INCLUDED OVER THE
3:34:10PM LAST FOUR YEARS.
3:34:13PM WE ALREADY RECEIVED AND FILED THAT.
3:34:15PM ALL THE INFORMATION IS THERE.
3:34:19PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NOW WE'RE AT CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS.
3:34:21PM DO YOU HAVE ANY CLOSING REMARKS FOR ANY OF THOSE STAFF
3:34:24PM REPORTS, ANYTHING?
3:34:25PM >>ERICA MOODY: NO, MA'AM.
3:34:26PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
3:34:27PM NOW WE'LL GO ON TO OUR CONSENT ITEMS, 9 AND 10, CAN I HAVE A
3:34:32PM MOTION?
3:34:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE 9 AND 10.
3:34:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'LL SECOND.
3:34:37PM HE SECONDS BUT I WANT TO --
3:34:40PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER
3:34:41PM MANISCALCO.
3:34:42PM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
3:34:44PM DISCUSSION?
3:34:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT $233,000, HOW MUCH
3:34:52PM ACREAGE IS THIS?
3:34:53PM >>ERICA MOODY: IT'S ABOUT FOUR ACRES TOTAL.
3:34:55PM >>LYNN HURTAK: FOUR ACRES FOR $233,000.
3:34:58PM BECAUSE THERE'S NO UTILITIES.
3:35:03PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU THINK IT'S 2010.
3:35:05PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU WOULD.
3:35:06PM WE'RE REALLY LUCKY BECAUSE, YEAH -- I FORGET WHO IS SELLING
3:35:13PM IT, REDEVELOPMENT --
3:35:15PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE CITY IS SELLING IT TO THE CRA.
3:35:20PM DEAL WITH CDBG --
3:35:22PM >>LYNN HURTAK: EITHER WAY, I JUST WANT TO THANK.
3:35:26PM I'M SO HAPPY THAT STAFF HAS FEELERS OUT EVERYWHERE, SO THAT
3:35:31PM WHEN THIS OPPORTUNITY CAME UP, THEY CAME TO US.
3:35:34PM I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THAT.
3:35:36PM THIS IS MAGICAL PROPERTY.
3:35:39PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL RIGHT.
3:35:40PM SO LET'S GO AHEAD ON AND APPROVE OUR CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS.
3:35:43PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:35:45PM OPPOSED?
3:35:46PM CONSENT AGENDA CARRIES.
3:35:50PM NOW WE'RE ON TO NEW BUSINESS.
3:35:54PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, HILLSBOROUGH
3:35:58PM COUNTY, HAS RECOGNIZED EAST TAMPA CRA WITH THE COMMUNITY
3:36:02PM PARTNERSHIP AWARD, AND I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE THEM TO THE
3:36:05PM SEPTEMBER 17th CRA BOARD MEETING TO PRESENT ON THE IMPACT
3:36:09PM AWARD AND THE SUCCESSFUL PARTNERSHIPS.
3:36:10PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:36:12PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:36:14PM MOTION CARRIES.
3:36:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO ASK THE STAFF TO PRESENT A
3:36:24PM REPORT TO TAMPA CITY COUNCIL -- I'LL COME UP WITH A DATE IN
3:36:29PM A SECOND -- ON THE PREVIOUS -- I KNOW YOU ARE VERY FAMILIAR
3:36:33PM WITH THIS.
3:36:33PM WHAT WAS FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE MAYOR'S CHALLENGE FUND, TO
3:36:36PM FIND OUT LESSONS LEARNED AND HOW WE COULD POSSIBLY BREATHE
3:36:40PM LIFE INTO THAT.
3:36:41PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU COULD MAKE THAT MOTION TONIGHT WHEN
3:36:43PM YOU'RE SITTING AS CITY COUNCIL BECAUSE THIS REALLY SHOULD BE
3:36:45PM COMING TO YOU AS CITY COUNCIL AND NOT AS CRA.
3:36:48PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WAS THINKING BECAUSE OF THE MONEY OF THE
3:36:51PM CRA.
3:36:52PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT'S OKAY.
3:36:53PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'LL DO IT AT CITY COUNCIL TONIGHT.
3:37:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: APOLOGIES.
3:37:05PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:37:06PM OPPOSED?
3:37:08PM MOTION CARRIES.
3:37:15PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ISN'T IT NIGHTTIME ALREADY?
3:37:18PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:37:19PM GOOD MEETING, BY THE WAY.
3:37:20PM LONG, AND YOU RAN IT SO -- WELL DONE, IF I MAY SAY SO.
3:37:26PM I MOTIONED IN CITY COUNCIL FOR STAFF TO MEET WITH THE HIVE
3:37:30PM H-I-V-E, FOR POTENTIAL PROJECTS ON DISABILITY-RELATED
3:37:36PM HOUSING.
3:37:36PM I SAID I WOULD DO THE SAME THING FOR CRA STAFF.
3:37:39PM I'D ASK THEM TO COME BACK WITH THAT.
3:37:41PM I DON'T REMEMBER WHEN I HAD IT COMING BACK IN CITY COUNCIL,
3:37:44PM BUT I'LL DO IT IN DECEMBER.
3:37:45PM AGAIN, IF YOU ALL NEED MORE TIME, WE CAN DO JANUARY,
3:37:48PM FEBRUARY.
3:37:49PM IT'S ALL GOOD.
3:37:50PM LET ME KNOW AND ALL THAT.
3:37:51PM THEN NEXT, IF I MAY, I HAD INDICATED REGARDING THE CRA
3:37:55PM IMPROVEMENTS TO PARKS AND CRAs FOR DISABILITIES, I'D JUST
3:37:59PM LIKE A REPORT ON THAT IN APRIL OF 2024, WHICH IS ABOUT SIX
3:38:03PM MONTHS FROM NOW.
3:38:04PM AGAIN, IF MORE TIME IS NEEDED, IT'S ALL GOOD.
3:38:06PM YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M SORRY.
3:38:08PM GO AHEAD.
3:38:10PM MY BAD.
3:38:10PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ARE THOSE MOTIONS?
3:38:14PM >>LUIS VIERA: LET'S DO ONE AT A TIME.
3:38:16PM I'M SORRY.
3:38:16PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PUT IT IN A SENTENCE THE FIRST ONE FOR ME,
3:38:20PM PLEASE, FOR THE COMMUNITY WHO IS WATCHING AS WELL SO NO ONE
3:38:22PM WILL BE CONFUSED.
3:38:23PM >>LUIS VIERA: THE FIRST ONE, AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE.
3:38:26PM I'M A LITTLE UNDER THE WEATHER.
3:38:28PM FOR CRA STAFF TO MEET WITH THE HIVE FOR GRANT FUNDING FOR
3:38:31PM DISABILITY-RELATED HOUSING FOR THEM TO COME BACK WITH A
3:38:34PM REPORT IN DECEMBER.
3:38:37PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
3:38:38PM THERE IS A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA, SECOND BY BOARD
3:38:40PM MEMBER MANISCALCO.
3:38:41PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:38:43PM OPPOSED?
3:38:44PM MOTION CARRIES.
3:38:45PM YOUR SECOND MOTION.
3:38:46PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM.
3:38:47PM FOR CRA STAFF TO REPORT ON THE STATUS OF THE DISABILITY PARK
3:38:51PM IMPROVEMENTS APRIL 2024.
3:38:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
3:38:56PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
3:38:59PM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
3:39:01PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:39:03PM >> AYE.
3:39:04PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MR. MIRANDA -- OH, ANOTHER ONE.
3:39:06PM >>LUIS VIERA: MOTION FOR STAFF TO REPORT ON A GRANT FUNDED
3:39:10PM BY THE CRA WITH A MATCH TO SUPPORT EQUIPMENT, INCLUDING
3:39:14PM SPECIAL NEEDS EQUIPMENT, FOR KIDS, KINGS KIDS LEARNING ON
3:39:19PM 34th STREET, ONE OF EAST TAMPA'S FINEST DAY-CARE
3:39:22PM FACILITIES.
3:39:23PM I KNOW MANY OF US HAVE TAKEN TOURS OF THERE AND JUST ON THE
3:39:27PM FEASIBILITY OF THAT.
3:39:28PM AGAIN, TO COME BACK IN DECEMBER OF 2023, IF MORE TIME IS
3:39:31PM NEEDED, AGAIN, IT'S ALL GOOD.
3:39:34PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: KINGS KID MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY
3:39:36PM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
3:39:37PM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
3:39:40PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:39:41PM >> AYE.
3:39:42PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:39:43PM OPPOSED?
3:39:44PM MOTION CARRIES.
3:39:45PM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA, ANYTHING?
3:39:48PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'D LIKE TO MAKE A POINT OF ORDER.
3:39:50PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU WOULD LIKE A POINT OF ORDER?
3:39:51PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WOULD.
3:39:52PM I THINK PART OF OUR DISTRACTION IS BECAUSE CHARLIE MIRANDA
3:39:55PM IS NO LONGER WEARING A TIE.
3:39:56PM I THINK THIS WILL BREAK IN THE CONTINUUM.
3:40:01PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [INAUDIBLE]
3:40:02PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK WE SHOULD MOVE TO CENSURE
3:40:05PM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA FOR FAILING TO WEAR A TIE THIS AFTERNOON.
3:40:09PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: DURING THE MEETING, REAL QUICKLY, AS PART
3:40:13PM OF UPDATING THE CAC POLICY, I WAS ASKED TO LOOK AT OUR
3:40:17PM BYLAWS.
3:40:18PM OUR BYLAWS HAVE NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE 2008 AND THERE'S BEEN
3:40:22PM SERIOUS CHANGES IN THE CRA LAW SINCE THEN.
3:40:24PM OUR BYLAWS DON'T REALLY READ EXACTLY THE WAY THEY PROBABLY
3:40:27PM SHOULD.
3:40:27PM I HAVE A RED-LINED VERSION OF THE CHANGES I'M PROPOSING TO
3:40:31PM HAND OUT AND WE CAN VOTE ON IT PERHAPS AT THE NEXT CRA BOARD
3:40:34PM MEETING.
3:40:35PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ABSOLUTELY.
3:40:36PM I WAS GOING TO DO IT.
3:40:37PM I REMEMBERED.
3:40:38PM I'VE HANDED THE GAVEL TO THE CO-CHAIR.
3:40:44PM WHILE HE'S DOING THAT, I WILL MAKE A MOTION.
3:40:52PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM.
3:40:53PM GO AHEAD.
3:40:53PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WANT TO MOVE THAT ALL PROGRAMS FUNDED --
3:40:59PM ALL YOUTH PROGRAMS FUNDED BY THE CRA AND MANAGED BY THE CRA
3:41:03PM STAFF BE TRANSITIONED TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY
3:41:06PM AFFAIRS UNDER DIRECTOR OCEA WYNN FOR MANAGEMENT AND FUNDING.
3:41:12PM DO I HAVE A SECOND?
3:41:15PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
3:41:15PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, MR. MIRANDA.
3:41:17PM IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION?
3:41:18PM BECAUSE I WANT TO GIVE SOME CONTEXT TO IT AS WELL.
3:41:20PM WE HAD A REALLY GREAT PROGRAM, THE EAST TAMPA PROGRAM,
3:41:27PM SUMMER PROGRAM THAT WAS LED THIS SUMMER, AND IT'S FINE THE
3:41:30PM WAY THAT IT IS.
3:41:31PM BUT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY WITH ALL OF OUR YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
3:41:35PM PROGRAMS TO BRING THEM UNDER ONE UMBRELLA, SO OUR CRA
3:41:39PM CONNECTION DO THE CRA JOB AND THEN WE HAVE THIS FUNDING
3:41:44PM HOUSED UNDER THE UMBRELLA OF ALL OUR SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT
3:41:47PM PROGRAMS FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS.
3:41:49PM NOW THAT WE HAVE WORKFORCE AS A REQUIREMENT FOR GRADUATION,
3:41:53PM THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR STUDENTS WORKING TO EARN A
3:41:56PM CREDIT FOR EMPLOYMENT.
3:42:00PM IF IT IS FUNDED IN A WAY WHERE IT'S ISOLATED TO ONE
3:42:05PM ORGANIZATION OR ONE ENTITY WITHIN THE CITY HANDLING IT, IT
3:42:09PM PROVIDES US WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP SOME OF THE
3:42:12PM POSITIONS TO GIVE THEM EVEN MORE OPPORTUNITIES TO LEARN
3:42:15PM ABOUT THE CITY, TO HAVE THEM CREATE CAPSTONE PROJECTS AND
3:42:21PM THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
3:42:22PM AND WE ARE GOING TO WORK ON THAT OVER THE NEXT SIX MONTHS,
3:42:26PM COMING MONTHS, SO THAT IT CAN BE ORGANIZED.
3:42:28PM I'M NOT SAYING THAT WE'RE GOING TO TAKE AWAY THE EAST TAMPA
3:42:31PM SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM, BUT TO HOUSE THEM TOGETHER UNDER ONE
3:42:34PM UMBRELLA OF HOW THEY APPLY AND HOW WE DEVELOP SUMMER YOUTH
3:42:39PM EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM SO WE CAN SHARE IT WITH THE ENTIRE CITY
3:42:43PM IS WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO.
3:42:44PM SO THAT'S THE REASON BEHIND IT.
3:42:47PM I REMEMBER WHEN IT WAS PRESENTED BY OUR CRA MANAGER CEDRIC
3:42:54PM McCRAY, HE INDICATED DURING THE PRESENTATION THAT HE HAD
3:42:58PM NOT HAD TIME TO SPEND AS MUCH TIME WITH THEM AS HE WOULD
3:43:02PM LIKE BECAUSE HE HAS OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES.
3:43:05PM I WANT TO TAKE THE ONUS OFF OF THAT AND TO STREAMLINE THE
3:43:09PM PROCESS WHERE WE CAN DETERMINE IF WE NEED TO HIRE TEMPORARY
3:43:13PM STAFF, SUMMER STAFF, LIKE TEACHERS WHO ARE OVER OJT
3:43:16PM PROGRAMS, SO THAT WE CAN BETTER MANAGE THAT AND LET CRA DO
3:43:19PM THE JOB THAT THEY ARE ASSIGNED TO DO.
3:43:21PM THAT'S MY POINT.
3:43:24PM BOARD DISCUSSION.
3:43:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
3:43:27PM IF YOU DON'T MIND, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THEM COME BACK NEXT
3:43:31PM MONTH AND EXPLAIN IT MORE FIRST.
3:43:34PM JUST BECAUSE HAVING SPENT SO MUCH TIME PUTTING THIS PROGRAM
3:43:41PM TOGETHER LAST YEAR, I REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE
3:43:47PM VISION THAT I HAD FOR IT IS REALIZED AS WELL.
3:43:51PM SO COULD WE ACTUALLY GET, WOULD YOU MIND HAVING SOMEONE COME
3:43:54PM AND TALK TO US ABOUT IT AND THEN VOTE ON IT NEXT MONTH?
3:43:57PM I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA IN PRINCIPLE.
3:44:00PM I WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT TO MAKE SURE THAT
3:44:04PM WHAT I PUT IN A MOTION, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE.
3:44:08PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT IS NOT LOST ON ME.
3:44:10PM THAT IS A REALLY GOOD IDEA BECAUSE IT DOES TAKE MORE
3:44:13PM COORDINATION WITH THE HR DEPARTMENT AS WELL, AS WELL AS
3:44:16PM TALKING TO EVEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS
3:44:20PM DIVISION.
3:44:20PM BUT THE GOAL IS TO LET'S MAKE CRA, CRA.
3:44:24PM LET THEM DO THEIR JOBS.
3:44:25PM AS YOU CAN SEE, THEY HAVE A LOT TO DO.
3:44:28PM AND SO TAKING THE YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM AND ALLOWING ALL
3:44:32PM OF OUR STAFF TO SUPPORT YOUTH PROGRAMS IN A WAY THAT IS
3:44:36PM OUTLINED WHERE THEY UNDERSTAND IT SO THEY CAN HAVE
3:44:40PM MEANINGFUL TIME TO SPEND WITH KIDS FOR A PARTICULAR REASON,
3:44:43PM BUT JUST DEVELOP OUR SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAM SO THAT IT CAN
3:44:47PM BENEFIT NOT JUST EAST TAMPA BUT EVEN OUR STUDENTS ALL OVER
3:44:51PM TAMPA PROPER.
3:44:53PM WHAT I'LL DO, I'LL AMEND THE MOTION FOR IT TO BE A STAFF
3:44:56PM REPORT THAT WE BRING BACK IN, LET'S SAY, REALLY DECEMBER.
3:45:00PM WE NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME.
3:45:02PM IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE OCTOBER.
3:45:03PM WE CAN SAY DECEMBER'S MEETING, WHICH IS DECEMBER 14th.
3:45:08PM WHO SECONDED IT FOR ME?
3:45:11PM >>LUIS VIERA: MIRANDA.
3:45:13PM IS THAT SECOND AMENDMENT -- STRIKE THAT, IS THE AMENDMENT TO
3:45:18PM THE MOTION OKAYED BY YOU, COUNCILMAN MIRANDA?
3:45:21PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
3:45:22PM >>LUIS VIERA: OKAY.
3:45:23PM ANY OTHER DISCUSSION?
3:45:23PM YES, SIR, GO AHEAD.
3:45:24PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK IN PRINCIPLE, I THINK THIS
3:45:27PM ABSOLUTELY MAKES SENSE.
3:45:28PM IF I WAS THINKING OF IT IN A VACUUM AND ADMINISTRATIVELY, I
3:45:34PM KEEP THIS HEAVY BURDEN OF THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET VERSUS CRA
3:45:40PM MONEY, WE'RE TRYING DESPERATELY TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET
3:45:43PM MONEY OUT OF CRA.
3:45:44PM ARE WE SHIFTING --
3:45:46PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I'M SO GLAD YOU SAID THAT.
3:45:48PM BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ALL MY NOTES IN FRONT OF ME.
3:45:50PM BUT I SAID IT EARLY, PREVIOUSLY IN A COMMENT BEFORE ABOUT
3:45:57PM THE ONUS OF US AS THE CITY, WE CAN'T DO EVERYTHING AND
3:46:01PM PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF
3:46:04PM THIS.
3:46:04PM THERE ARE ORGANIZATIONS JUST BASED ON WHO I HAVE MET WITH
3:46:07PM WHO ARE WILLING TO HELP FUND OUR EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM.
3:46:10PM THAT'S PART OF IT, NOT JUST COMING FROM THE GENERAL FUND.
3:46:13PM THE MAYOR ALREADY HAS FUNDS SET ASIDE FOR SUMMER EMPLOYMENT
3:46:16PM PROGRAMS AND SOMETIMES DON'T FILL ALL THOSE JOBS.
3:46:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'M ALL ABOUT INTERNSHIPS.
3:46:21PM AND I THINK THE CITY, THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF OPPORTUNITIES
3:46:24PM WE HAVE IN THE CITY TO HELP THE YOUTH.
3:46:25PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF I CAN INTERRUPT, ONE OF THE CHALLENGES
3:46:28PM WE HAVE AS A CRA FUNDING THESE TYPES OF PROGRAMS IS THAT WE
3:46:31PM HAVE TO TIE IT TO OUR PLAN, PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS.
3:46:36PM THAT'S ONE OF THE PROBLEMS AND COMPLAINTS OF, FOR INSTANCE,
3:46:38PM THE EAST TAMPA SUMMER PROGRAM IS THAT THEY ARE PICKING UP
3:46:40PM TRASH IN EAST TAMPA.
3:46:42PM PART OF THE REASON WHY THEY ARE DOING THAT IS THEY ARE
3:46:46PM HAVING TO FURTHER SOMETHING IN OUR PLAN.
3:46:49PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I NEEDED TO KIND OF HASH THAT OUT BECAUSE
3:46:54PM PERFECTLY IT MAKES ABSOLUTE SENSE.
3:46:56PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: REMEMBER, THERE IS A COMMUNITY MEMBER FROM
3:46:59PM EAST TAMPA THAT CAME UP QUITE A BIT TALKING ABOUT THAT.
3:47:01PM SHE EVEN REFERENCED THE STUDENTS IS SLAVES AT ONE POINT.
3:47:06PM JUST TO EVEN GET AWAY FROM THAT, THERE'S A LOT OF VALUE IN
3:47:09PM ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS.
3:47:11PM I WANT TO GO ON THE RECORD AND SAY THAT I WAS A CUSTODIAN,
3:47:14PM MY FIRST JOB WITH THE CITY.
3:47:16PM MY LEGISLATIVE AIDE, DARLENE JOHNSON, WE BOTH WERE
3:47:19PM CUSTODIANS AND LOOK WHERE WE ARE NOW.
3:47:21PM THAT IS NOT THE POINT.
3:47:24PM ANYWAY, WE CAN GO AHEAD ON AND VOTE ON IT.
3:47:27PM I WOULD DEFINITELY -- WE CAN DO THE WORK, WORKING WITH
3:47:30PM EVERYONE AND BRING BACK A REPORT IN DECEMBER BECAUSE WE DO
3:47:33PM WANT TO GET READY FOR OUR SUMMER '24 PROGRAM.
3:47:35PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM.
3:47:36PM DO YOU MIND QUICKLY SUMMARIZING IT FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON
3:47:39PM WHO JUST WALKED IN AND VOTE ON THIS.
3:47:43PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SURE.
3:47:44PM I MOVE THAT ALL YOUTH PROGRAMS FUNDED BY CRA BE LOOKED AT
3:47:48PM THROUGH A STAFF REPORT FOR US TO DETERMINE THE BEST WAY TO
3:47:51PM GO ABOUT PUTTING THEM UNDER OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY
3:47:54PM AFFAIRS PROGRAM FOR MANAGEMENT AND PUBLIC/PRIVATE
3:47:59PM PARTNERSHIP FUNDING, COMING BACK DECEMBER 14, 2023.
3:48:05PM >>LUIS VIERA: GREAT.
3:48:06PM WE HAVE A MOTION BY CHAIRWOMAN HENDERSON.
3:48:09PM A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
3:48:12PM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
3:48:13PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:48:15PM AYE.
3:48:16PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:48:16PM ANYTHING ELSE?
3:48:18PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO, THAT'S IT.
3:48:20PM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
3:48:21PM >>LUIS VIERA: I'M SORRY.
3:48:22PM OKAY.
3:48:22PM I THOUGHT -- I ESPECIALLY JUST WANTED TO SALUTE ALL OF OUR
3:48:26PM STAFF INCLUDING OBVIOUSLY MR. BURTON.
3:48:28PM GOD BLESS YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK AND EVERYBODY.
3:48:31PM ALL OF YOU ALL WORK REALLY, REALLY HARD.
3:48:34PM TODAY WAS A REALLY LONG MEETING THAT I'M MAKING LONGER BY
3:48:37PM TALKING.
3:48:38PM I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE YOU ALL.
3:48:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT'S NOT GOING TO BE LIKE THIS IN MANATEE
3:48:41PM COUNTY.
3:48:43PM WE NEED A WATER TAXI GOING TO THE CITY ANNA MARIA.
3:48:50PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE BY BOARD MEMBER
3:48:52PM MANISCALCO AND I HAVE A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
3:48:55PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
3:48:56PM OPPOSED?
3:48:56PM MOTION CARRIES.
3:48:58PM MEETING ADJOURNED.
3:49:00PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
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