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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
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9:03:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
9:03:52AM OKAY.
9:03:58AM GOOD MORNING.
9:04:15AM WE'LL START WITH THE INVOCATION, A MOMENT OF SILENCE, OF
9:04:24AM COURSE, AND THEN FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
9:04:31AM [MOMENT OF SILENCE]
9:04:44AM THANK YOU.
9:04:45AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
9:04:53AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:04:57AM CAN I HAVE A ROLL CALL, PLEASE?
9:05:02AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
9:05:03AM >> HURTAK?
9:05:04AM CLENDENIN?
9:05:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SLEEPY BUT HERE.
9:05:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
9:05:09AM >> VIERA?
9:05:10AM MIRANDA?
9:05:10AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
9:05:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
9:05:13AM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
9:05:14AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
9:05:15AM SO, DIRECTOR MOODY, CAN YOU COME TO THE PODIUM PLEASE, SO WE
9:05:20AM CAN GET SOME ORGANIZATION OF OUR AGENDA FOR TODAY BEFORE IT
9:05:24AM IS ADOPTED?
9:05:25AM WE HAVE SOME CLEANING UP TO DO.
9:05:29AM GO AHEAD.
9:05:31AM >>ERICA MOODY: ERICA MOODY, CRA DIRECTOR HERE.
9:05:34AM A FEW ITEMS FOR THE AGENDA.
9:05:36AM WE'RE ASKING TO COMBINE ITEMS 3, 4, 5 TO ALL BE INCLUDED
9:05:40AM UNDER THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
9:05:41AM WE ARE ALSO ASKING TO CONTINUE ITEM NUMBER 8, AND THEN WE
9:05:45AM ARE ASKING FOR ITEMS 9 AND 10 TO BE FILED AND RECEIVED AS
9:05:50AM THE UPDATE REPORT.
9:05:52AM AND WE DO HAVE A WALK-ON ITEM COMING ON THE AGENDA AS WELL.
9:06:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
9:06:02AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD LIKE ON 9 AND 10, I WOULD LIKE TO
9:06:05AM VOTE TO RECEIVE AND FILE BUT THEN TO SCHEDULE THE SAME THING
9:06:08AM FOR JANUARY SO WE CAN GET AN UPDATE.
9:06:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE FOR 9
9:06:14AM AND 10.
9:06:15AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
9:06:16AM AND SCHEDULE THE SAME UPDATES FOR JANUARY.
9:06:19AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:06:22AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:06:24AM AYE.
9:06:25AM OPPOSED?
9:06:25AM MOTION CARRIES.
9:06:28AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE MOTION IS THAT A SIMILAR REPORT BE
9:06:31AM BROUGHT FORWARD AT THE JANUARY CRA MEETING.
9:06:33AM >>BILL CARLSON: JANUARY 18.
9:06:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: JANUARY 18.
9:06:36AM PROCEED, MS. MOODY.
9:06:37AM THAT'S IT, THOSE ARE THE CLEANED UP ITEMS?
9:06:40AM >>ERICA MOODY: THAT'S IT.
9:06:41AM WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHERE TO PLACE THE WALK-ON ITEM.
9:06:43AM I'M RECOMMENDING THAT WE PLACE IT AT THE END OF THE AGENDA
9:06:45AM TO ADD --
9:06:47AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE'LL PLACE THE WALK-ON AT THE VERY END.
9:06:52AM >>ERICA MOODY: THANK YOU.
9:06:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:06:54AM CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE MINUTES -- WELL, THE
9:06:58AM MINUTES FROM LAST MONTH, RIGHT?
9:06:59AM IS THAT REQUIRED THAT I NEED TO ADOPT -- APPROVE THE MINUTES
9:07:05AM FROM THE LAST MEETING?
9:07:07AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, MA'AM.
9:07:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION FOR THAT, PLEASE.
9:07:09AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
9:07:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:07:12AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:07:14AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:07:15AM >> AYE.
9:07:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:07:16AM NOW A MOTION TO -- YES, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
9:07:19AM >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK SHE ASKED TO CONTINUE NUMBER 8.
9:07:23AM SO I ONLY DID 9 AND 10.
9:07:25AM I MAKE A MOTION TO CONTINUE NUMBER 8 UNTIL DECEMBER 14.
9:07:29AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
9:07:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:07:31AM >> AYE.
9:07:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OPPOSED?
9:07:32AM MOTION CARRIES.
9:07:33AM APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA FOR TODAY.
9:07:40AM >> SO MOVED.
9:07:41AM >> SECOND.
9:07:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:07:42AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:07:44AM OPPOSED?
9:07:45AM MOTION CARRIES.
9:07:47AM GOOD MORNING.
9:07:48AM OKAY.
9:07:50AM BEFORE WE ACTUALLY GET STARTED, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE
9:07:54AM YOU TO MY VERY FIRST INTERN AS A CITY COUNCIL WOMAN.
9:07:58AM I AM SO EXCITED AND CRA BOARD CHAIR.
9:08:01AM CAN YOU PLEASE STAND UP FOR ME ERICA CLAIR?
9:08:04AM ERICA IS A UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA BULL.
9:08:07AM SHE IS STUDYING ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLICY WITH GOALS
9:08:10AM TO PURSUE LAW SCHOOL AFTER GRADUATION.
9:08:14AM LET'S WELCOME OUR INTERN.
9:08:16AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:08:16AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:08:21AM IS IT NOT WORKING OUR TELEVISION?
9:08:27AM CCTV?
9:08:47AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I'M WAITING TO MAKE SURE THE TV IS
9:09:07AM WORKING.
9:09:07AM IT'S WORKING?
9:09:20AM OKAY.
9:09:21AM THANK YOU.
9:09:21AM GOOD MORNING.
9:09:22AM GOOD MORNING, PUBLIC.
9:09:23AM WE'RE ABOUT TO START --
9:09:27AM [ENCODER DISCONNECT]
9:09:51AM SO PLEASE COME FORWARD FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:09:55AM YES, THANK YOU.
9:10:05AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:10:06AM CAN YOU HEAR ME CLEAR?
9:10:07AM JOSE CAEM.
9:10:10AM I AM A RESIDENT AND HOMEOWNER IN HISTORIC EAST YBOR CITY.
9:10:13AM FIRST TIME IN FRONT OF YOU GUYS.
9:10:15AM I JUST WANTED TO COMMENT ON MY OWN REPRESENTATION AND A LOT
9:10:20AM OF MY NEIGHBORS.
9:10:22AM LAST WEEK, WE LEARNED ABOUT A PROPOSED SPECIAL SERVICE
9:10:27AM DISTRICT THAT HAS BEEN WORKED ON FOR MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW,
9:10:31AM SIX MONTHS BY THE YBOR CITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION.
9:10:35AM IT'S BASICALLY KEEPING OUR RESIDENTS AWAKE.
9:10:40AM THE PLAN, IN OUR MINDS, IS -- CLOSE TO 2,000 RESIDENTS THAT
9:10:49AM DID NOT GET A SEAT AT THE TABLE IN THE DISCUSSION.
9:10:51AM I CALL IT A SECRET KEPT IN THE OPEN.
9:10:56AM WE ALL KNOW THE YCDC MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AND THE
9:11:00AM CRA MEETINGS ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, BUT THERE WAS LITTLE TO
9:11:02AM NO EFFORT TO BRING THIS TO THE ATTENTION OF THE RESIDENTS.
9:11:06AM LITTLE TO NO EFFORT TO SIGN US ALL UP FOR A TAX, OR MULTIPLE
9:11:14AM TAXES OR SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR AS LONG AS WE LIVE OR AS
9:11:18AM LONG AS WE OWN THE PROPERTY AND IT CARRIES ON WITH THE
9:11:20AM PROPERTY.
9:11:20AM AND THEN THE POWER OF SUCCESSION ON FIVE PEOPLE THAT DON'T
9:11:27AM EVEN REPRESENT US.
9:11:28AM ACCORDING TO THE BUDGET THAT SHE PRESENTED, THE PERSON IN
9:11:32AM CHARGE, LIZ WELCH, IT WILL BE RESPONSIBLE INITIALLY FOR
9:11:37AM PAYING ITEMS LIKE A GRANTS WRITER, $102,000.
9:11:41AM A MANAGER FOR THE SSD, $100,000.
9:11:46AM $400,000 FOR EXTRA SECURITY FOR OUR BUSINESS DISTRICT.
9:11:51AM WONDER WHY.
9:11:52AM THEY EXPANDED THE PROPOSAL TO 40th STREET, MEANING
9:11:57AM INCLUDING PEOPLE WAY OUTSIDE THE CURRENT CRA.
9:11:59AM WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND WHY THERE IS A RUSH TO GET THIS PASSED
9:12:04AM WHEN THE CRA IS BASICALLY SUNSETTING IN TEN YEARS.
9:12:08AM THERE'S NO -- I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY STUDY THAT SAYS
9:12:14AM THAT THE CRA NEEDS TO BE EXTENDED BEYOND TEN YEARS.
9:12:17AM I MEAN, I THINK IT'S TOO SOON TO SAY STUFF LIKE THAT.
9:12:20AM WHY SO LITTLE COMMUNICATION.
9:12:23AM I UNDERSTAND THEY MET OR SHE MET WITH SOME OF YOU GUYS.
9:12:25AM APPARENTLY SHE APPROACHED THREE MEMBERS OF THE DELEGATION,
9:12:30AM THE HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION, I SPOKE IN
9:12:34AM FRONT OF THEM.
9:12:35AM MY FIRST TIME SPEAKING IN FRONT OF THE DELEGATION.
9:12:39AM I DIDN'T KNOW WHO THE REPRESENTATIVE WAS.
9:12:41AM I GOT ONLY 60 SECONDS AND I WAS THERE.
9:12:46AM I ASK YOU TO SEE THE VIDEO.
9:12:48AM THEY WERE SHOCKED THAT THE COMMUNITY DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING
9:12:50AM ABOUT THIS.
9:12:51AM AND THEN WE WERE LIED TO.
9:12:53AM THEY SAID THE MEETING WAS INFORMATIONAL.
9:12:55AM YOU CAN SEE IT ON PAPER, AND THEY TOLD THE RESIDENTS THAT
9:12:59AM THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO EVEN NOTIFY US.
9:13:01AM LIKE, WHAT?
9:13:02AM THAT'S JUST CRAZY AND OUTRAGEOUS.
9:13:05AM I KNOW THIS MOMENT IS ON HOLD.
9:13:08AM WE DON'T WANT ANY PART OF IT IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM.
9:13:11AM I JUST WANTED TO INFORM YOU GUYS.
9:13:13AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOU DO.
9:13:15AM APPRECIATE IT.
9:13:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:13:16AM NEXT SPEAKER.
9:13:21AM >> HI.
9:13:22AM I'M JAMES WILSON.
9:13:23AM BEEN A MEMBER OF THE EAST YBOR CIVIC ASSOCIATION.
9:13:28AM VERY ACTIVE FOR 15 YEARS.
9:13:30AM BEFORE THAT, I WAS IN PORT TAMPA WITH JILL BUFORD FOR 10, 12
9:13:35AM YEARS, CIVIC ASSOCIATION DOWN THERE.
9:13:37AM AND THEY FLEW TWO MEMBERS AND ME TO TALLAHASSEE TO OPPOSE
9:13:42AM THE EMULSION BILL.
9:13:45AM WE DIDN'T WANT A HUNDRED TRUCKS GOING RIGHT THROUGH
9:13:47AM INTERBAY, RIGHT THROUGH PORT TAMPA.
9:13:49AM I LIVE IN YBOR, AND I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS A WEEK AGO.
9:13:53AM AND I WAS FLOORED.
9:13:54AM EVERY NEIGHBOR I TALKED TO THEY ARE AGAINST IT.
9:13:58AM AND NEIGHBORS ACROSS THE STREET, TEDDY AND CHUCK, THEY ARE
9:14:01AM BOTH HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SCHOOLTEACHERS, SO THE ROOF WAS
9:14:04AM BLOWN OFF LAST YEAR.
9:14:05AM IT WASN'T TWO HURRICANES.
9:14:07AM IT WAS A WIND BLAST.
9:14:09AM I MENTIONED, TOLD THEM ABOUT THIS AND HE ABOUT FLEW OFF THE
9:14:12AM COUCH.
9:14:13AM HE SAYS HE DOESN'T WANT TO PAY ANOTHER TAX.
9:14:16AM THEY ARE HAVING A HARD TIME AFFORDING WHERE THEY ARE AT.
9:14:19AM BEING HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SCHOOLTEACHERS.
9:14:21AM SO I OPPOSE THIS.
9:14:25AM EVERYBODY I TALKED TO HAVE OPPOSED IT.
9:14:27AM THAT'S JUST WHAT I WANT TO SAY.
9:14:29AM APPRECIATE YOUR HELP AND CAN HELP US NOT REALLY SET IT ON
9:14:34AM THE TABLE BUT JUST GET RID OF IT, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
9:14:37AM THANKS.
9:14:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
9:14:41AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:14:44AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:14:45AM THIS IS CHRIS VELLA IN DISTRICT 5, IS 33605, I LIVE IN YBOR
9:14:51AM CRA.
9:14:51AM I DO AGREE TO SOME OF THE POINTS OF THE PREVIOUS SPEAKERS.
9:14:56AM I THINK THAT THE COMMUNICATION BEHIND THIS WAS REALLY SOUR.
9:14:59AM IF YOU GUYS RECALL, I WAS UPSET WHEN THE PARTNERSHIP WANTED
9:15:04AM TO EXTEND THEIR CRA COVERAGE OVER TO YBOR.
9:15:06AM THEY WOULD HAVE DELEGATED THE TYPE OF FUNDING THAT WE WOULD
9:15:09AM NEED AND THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLANS
9:15:12AM OR IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE WANT, THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED IN THE
9:15:14AM MEETINGS.
9:15:15AM AND SO I THINK THIS IS REALLY ABOUT CONTROL AND HOW YOU CAN
9:15:20AM USE THE FUNDS AND HAVE DIRECT REPRESENTATION OF THAT.
9:15:26AM I THINK SSDs ARE GREAT TOOLS, I THINK THAT WE JUST NEED TO
9:15:30AM HAVE A MORE GROUND-UP APPROACH.
9:15:32AM I THINK THE IDEA OF DISCUSSING MORE FUNDING IS NEEDED.
9:15:37AM NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE GENTLEMAN BEHIND ME, BUT WE'VE
9:15:41AM ALL FILLED OUT SURVEYS, PUBLIC SURVEYS WHERE WE WANTED
9:15:44AM SPECIFIC THINGS IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, WHETHER IT BE PAINT ON
9:15:47AM STREETS OR MAYBE NEW AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
9:15:50AM IT TAKES MONEY TO GET THOSE THINGS.
9:15:52AM I MEAN, YOU COULD SEE WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE MAYOR TRYING TO
9:15:55AM PUSH THAT 16% TAX HIKE.
9:15:57AM BUT THE REALITY IS, AND I LOOK AT BUDGET SHEETS.
9:16:00AM I KNOW ABOUT BIDS, I KNOW ABOUT RFPs AND Qs, THEY COST A
9:16:04AM LOT OF MONEY.
9:16:05AM WE NEED YOUR GUIDANCE.
9:16:06AM IF THE SSD DOESN'T WORK, WE NEED TO INTERFACE WITH YOU GUYS
9:16:09AM AND YOU GUYS HAVE TO TELL US WHAT TYPE OF TOOL KIT WE SHOULD
9:16:13AM BE STRIVING TO OUR OWN CONSTITUENTS, OUR OWN COMMUNITY, TO
9:16:19AM FIGURE OUT HOW TO BRIDGE THE GAP WITH FUNDING.
9:16:22AM IF THIS EFFORT DOES GET QUASHED, I WANT THE DISCUSSION TO
9:16:28AM CONTINUE HOW WE CAN GET MORE LOCAL FUNDING.
9:16:30AM I EXPRESSED MY IDEAS OVER TO CITY STAFF, BUT I WELCOME TO
9:16:34AM SIT DOWN WITH YOU GUYS AND TALK ABOUT HOW WE GENERATE
9:16:36AM REVENUE WITHOUT A TAX HIKE BECAUSE I HAVE A PLAN FOR THAT.
9:16:39AM THAT WORKS IN OTHER PLACES LIKE TAMPA.
9:16:41AM PART TWO OF WHY I'M HERE, THERE WILL BE DISCUSSION ABOUT
9:16:45AM USING CRA FUNDS FOR THE MODERNIZATION AND EXTENSION OF THE
9:16:48AM STREETCAR SYSTEM.
9:16:50AM I LOVE RAIL.
9:16:50AM I LOVE TRANSIT.
9:16:51AM YOU GUYS KNOW THAT.
9:16:53AM BUT I DON'T SEE THAT BEING A GOOD SUBSTANTIAL SUPPORT FOR
9:16:59AM THE CRA.
9:16:59AM SUPPORT, FOR EXAMPLE, IS BARRED BY THE CHARTER.
9:17:02AM THEY CAN'T CONTRIBUTE ANY MONEY AND HAVEN'T CONTRIBUTED ANY
9:17:05AM MONEY TO THE STREETCAR SINCE 2000, WHICH IS RIDICULOUS.
9:17:08AM SO DOWNTOWN IS REDUCING ITS FUNDS FOR CRA.
9:17:11AM CHANNELSIDE IS GOING AWAY FROM THE CRA.
9:17:13AM REALLY THE CRA IS GOING TO BE IMPACTED THE MOST IS GOING TO
9:17:15AM BE US WITH THAT STREETCAR SYSTEM.
9:17:17AM SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT, AGAIN, WE HEAR COMMUNICATION
9:17:22AM FROM YOU GUYS.
9:17:22AM WHEN YOU SAY YOU WANT AFFORDABLE HOUSING, YOU GUYS GOT TO
9:17:25AM COME TO US AND TELL US WHAT YOUR PLANS ARE.
9:17:27AM IT'S HARD FOR THE YCDC, HARD FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD
9:17:30AM ASSOCIATIONS TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE GOING TO FUND THOSE
9:17:32AM THINGS.
9:17:33AM PLEASE DON'T HAVE CONVERSATIONS IN SILO ABOUT
9:17:36AM TRANSPORTATION, ABOUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING BECAUSE, OBVIOUSLY,
9:17:39AM YOU CAN SEE HOW WELL THAT'S WORKING WITH THE MAYOR.
9:17:41AM IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU GUYS COME TO OUR MEETINGS.
9:17:43AM LET'S WORK TOGETHER.
9:17:45AM LET'S TRY TO INFORM OUR CITIZENS.
9:17:46AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:17:47AM I APPRECIATE IT.
9:17:48AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
9:17:49AM GOOD MORNING.
9:17:54AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:17:54AM WE HAVE A GREAT CITY AND WE HAVE A GREAT COUNCIL AND I'M
9:17:58AM GLAD TO BE HERE THIS MORNING AND SHARE SOMETHING REALLY
9:18:02AM GOOD.
9:18:03AM I'LL BE ADDRESSING ITEM 4, I NOTICE IT SAYS STRENGTHENING
9:18:07AM COMMUNITIES.
9:18:08AM SO HOW DO WE STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES?
9:18:12AM THE BACK STORY I'M PRESENTING, WHICH I'M SURE YOU'LL AGREE
9:18:15AM IT IS A GOOD THING FOR OUR CITY, IT STARTS WITH 1970 IN
9:18:22AM WASHINGTON, D.C., THEY CREATED PUBLIC TELEVISION.
9:18:29AM OKAY?
9:18:29AM AND IT WAS FUNDED, AND THEN A YEAR LATER, THEY CREATED
9:18:34AM NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO.
9:18:36AM OKAY?
9:18:36AM AND THEN THE QUESTION WAS, NATIONAL PUBLIC TV, NATIONAL
9:18:43AM PUBLIC RADIO, WHERE IS NATIONAL PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS?
9:18:47AM WELL, IN THOSE DAYS, NEWSPAPERS WERE VERY SUCCESSFUL, SO WE
9:18:51AM DIDN'T NEED NPN.
9:18:54AM BUT TODAY, SMALL NEWSPAPERS ARE CLOSING, 2,000 IN THE LAST
9:19:00AM TWO YEARS.
9:19:01AM THE IDEA OF LOCAL MEDIA, IN OTHER WORDS, WORKING WITH LOCAL
9:19:08AM MEDIA SO OUR COMMUNITIES CAN -- HOW WOULD YOU SAY -- WORK
9:19:17AM WITH THEIR PROBLEMS AND WORK WITH WHATEVER THEY ARE DOING.
9:19:21AM SO WE IN THE THINK TANK, I'M IN A SMALL THINK TANK CALLED
9:19:24AM CAMELOT FLORIDA, WE DECIDED AND I PICKED UP THIS PROJECT TO
9:19:30AM LAUNCH NATIONAL PUBLIC NEWSPAPERS DIGITAL.
9:19:35AM AND WE'RE GOING TO DO IT WITHIN THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES.
9:19:43AM WE HAVE 900 COMMUNITY COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES.
9:19:47AM AND MANY OF THE COLLEGES HAVE CAMPUSES LIKE HILLSBOROUGH
9:19:50AM COUNTY HAS FIVE CAMPUSES.
9:19:52AM SO THE SYNDICATION IS OUT THERE.
9:19:56AM IT'S JUST WAITING TO BE USED.
9:19:59AM THE FIRST NPN, BY WAY OF THE TIMER, I GOT AN EXTRA THREE
9:20:03AM MINUTES FOR MR. LOPEZ, SO THE IDEA OF REACHING OUT INTO A
9:20:09AM COMMUNITY WITH NATIONAL PUBLIC NEWSPAPER, WELL, WE WANT THE
9:20:13AM HEADQUARTERS OF NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS TO BE IN YBOR CITY, AND
9:20:20AM THE PERFECT PLACE WOULD BE MR. SHAW'S NEW DEVELOPMENT.
9:20:23AM AND THAT IS WHY I'M HERE TODAY, JUST TO INFORM YOU THAT A
9:20:28AM PROFESSOR AT YBOR CITY COMMUNITY COLLEGE WILL BE THE FIRST
9:20:35AM LAUNCH.
9:20:36AM SO IT'S A BETA PROGRAM.
9:20:38AM ONCE WE GET THIS WORKING, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IS ALL FIVE
9:20:42AM COMMUNITIES, COLLEGES WOULD BE WORKING WITH LOCAL
9:20:47AM COMMUNITIES AND THEY WOULD BE BASICALLY IN DIGITAL FORMAT
9:20:54AM NEWSPAPER.
9:20:55AM EACH ONE OF THOSE COMMUNITIES WOULD BE WORKING WITH -- I GOT
9:20:58AM THE EXTRA THREE MINUTES.
9:21:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CLERK SOTO, PLEASE STOP THE CLOCK.
9:21:04AM DID HE PROVIDE US WITH THE WAIVER, THE FORM THAT'S NEEDED
9:21:07AM WHEN YOU HAVE EXTRA SPEAKERS?
9:21:09AM THERE IS A PROCESS FOR THAT, CORRECT?
9:21:11AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CORRECT.
9:21:12AM >> I'M SORRY.
9:21:13AM I DIDN'T SEE THAT THERE.
9:21:14AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE BASICALLY HAVE THREE MINUTES PER PERSON.
9:21:18AM YOU CAN WAIVE THAT IF YOU WANT TO GIVE ADDITIONAL TIME.
9:21:22AM THAT'S WITHIN YOUR DISCRETION.
9:21:24AM ANOTHER MINUTE.
9:21:29AM >> MOTION.
9:21:29AM >> SECOND.
9:21:30AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: JUST A SECOND.
9:21:31AM IT WAS A MOTION, SO WE HAVE TO VOTE ON THAT.
9:21:33AM THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FOR AN ADDITIONAL MINUTE, NOT
9:21:38AM THREE, AN ADDITIONAL MINUTE, FROM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
9:21:43AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
9:21:46AM THANK YOU.
9:21:47AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:21:49AM >> AYE.
9:21:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN YOU STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE OFFICIAL
9:21:54AM RECORD.
9:21:55AM >> CORNELIUS COSENTINO.
9:21:58AM RETIRED HERE IN 1978.
9:22:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HAVE YOU SET THE CLOCK FOR THE ADDITIONAL
9:22:05AM MINUTE, JUST SO WE'RE CLEAR?
9:22:06AM JUST ONE EXTRA MINUTE, SIR.
9:22:09AM >> ALL RIGHT.
9:22:09AM SO THE END GAME WOULD BE WE WOULD HAVE A NATIONAL PUBLIC
9:22:12AM NEWSPAPER HEADQUARTERS, LIKE THE ONE NPR EIGHT BLOCKS FROM
9:22:18AM THE CAPITAL, PBS TELEVISION, ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA, OUR
9:22:23AM HEADQUARTERS WOULD BE IN OUR CITY AND THE SYNDICATION AS IT
9:22:28AM GROWS WOULD GROW OUT INTO MAYBE 1300 CAMPUSES ACROSS THE
9:22:34AM UNITED STATES.
9:22:34AM THIS IS GOOD FOR OUR CITY, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THE CREATOR
9:22:42AM CAN SUPPORT THIS, BUT BASICALLY I'M COMING HERE TO LET YOU
9:22:45AM KNOW WHAT'S IN THE MIDDLE, WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
9:22:48AM ANY WAY THAT CAN BE SUPPORTED WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
9:22:52AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:22:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
9:22:54AM NEXT SPEAKER, GOOD MORNING.
9:23:00AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:23:01AM CRA BOARD.
9:23:02AM I COULDN'T SLEEP LAST NIGHT.
9:23:07AM I WANTED TO BE REAL WITH EVERYBODY.
9:23:09AM I DON'T ALWAYS AGREE WITH CHARLIE MIRANDA, BUT I SURE DID
9:23:13AM LAST NIGHT.
9:23:14AM I THINK THAT THE ADMINISTRATION MADE A HOT MESS, AND THEY
9:23:17AM SHOULD HAVE BEEN CLEANING IT UP.
9:23:20AM INSTEAD WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME AND A LOT OF ENERGY FOCUSED
9:23:23AM ON PEOPLE'S INDIVIDUAL PAYCHECKS.
9:23:26AM YOU KNOW, THE BOTTOM LINE IS THE ADMINISTRATION MADE THAT
9:23:29AM PROBLEM, NOT YOU GUYS.
9:23:31AM AND THIS WASN'T ABOUT ONE INDIVIDUAL PERSON.
9:23:34AM IT WAS ABOUT EVERYBODY IN THE CITY.
9:23:37AM AND WE HAD A MILL INCREASE ON THE TABLE AND HAD IT BEEN
9:23:41AM PRESENTED, THIS IS WHERE THE MONEY WENT, THIS IS WHERE THE
9:23:45AM MONEY WENT IN THAT ORIGINAL BUDGET.
9:23:49AM IT DIDN'T GO TO THE THREE Ps AND THE H.
9:23:52AM IT DIDN'T GO TO PARKS.
9:23:53AM DIDN'T GO TO POLICE.
9:23:54AM DIDN'T GO TO PAVING.
9:23:55AM AND IT DIDN'T GO TO HOUSING.
9:23:57AM THIS IS WHERE IT WENT.
9:23:59AM WHEN I GAVE YOU THIS SHEET, THAT'S WHAT MR. ROGERO GAVE ME.
9:24:02AM DON'T GET MIXED UP.
9:24:04AM YES, WE HAD 54 MILLION IN PAYROLL AND ALL THOSE FOLKS WORK
9:24:10AM HARD AND THEY DESERVE IT.
9:24:13AM BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS, WE HAVE TO REMEMBER WHO MADE THE
9:24:16AM MESS, AND NOBODY SHOULD BE GETTING AGGRESSIVE OR HOSTILE OR
9:24:20AM NASTY TO ANYBODY ELSE SITTING ON THAT DAIS.
9:24:24AM I BELIEVE MR. MIRANDA WAS 100% CORRECT.
9:24:28AM THEY SHOULD HAVE COME BACK WITH AN AGENDA WITHOUT THE
9:24:30AM NONSENSE.
9:24:31AM I JUST WANT EVERYONE TO REMEMBER THAT THAT MILLAGE IS NOT --
9:24:37AM THIS IS 22 MILLION THAT THEY PUT IN A SAVINGS ACCOUNT WHEN
9:24:41AM THEY TOLD US THAT IT WAS GOING TO GO TO THREE Ps AND AN H.
9:24:45AM WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT IT'S NOT ANYBODY SITTING ON THAT
9:24:49AM DAIS.
9:24:51AM THE MAYOR WAS SWORN IN SAME DAY AS YOU GUYS WERE IN MAY.
9:24:55AM SHE HAD THREE MONTHS, FOUR MONTHS, WHATEVER, TO GREASE THE
9:25:00AM SKIDS AND TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT SHE WANTED.
9:25:03AM INSTEAD SHE FLOPPED IT UP HERE AND SAID, "THIS IS WHAT YOU
9:25:07AM GET."
9:25:07AM BUT IT WASN'T WHAT SHE SAID IT WAS.
9:25:10AM AND THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM LIES.
9:25:12AM EVERYBODY I TALKED TO, THEY WEREN'T REALLY, REALLY TOTALLY
9:25:15AM OFFENDED BY THE MILLAGE INCREASE.
9:25:16AM THEY WERE TOTALLY OFFENDED THAT IT WASN'T BEING USED FOR
9:25:21AM WHAT IT WAS SOLD.
9:25:23AM AND NO ONE UP THERE CAN MAKE A COMMITMENT TO A FIRE STATION
9:25:27AM BECAUSE A COMMITMENT WAS MADE IN 2019 FOR A FIRE STATION AND
9:25:31AM THE ADMINISTRATION MADE A LIAR OUT OF THAT COUNCIL.
9:25:35AM I'D LIKE TO ALSO POINT OUT THAT RELATED GROUP DESERVES NOT
9:25:38AM ONE PENNY OF THE FOUR AND A HALF MILLION OR FOUR MILLION
9:25:42AM DOLLARS THAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR BECAUSE NOBODY TOLD THEM TO
9:25:45AM PISS AROUND FOR TWO OR THREE YEARS BEFORE GETTING DECIDED TO
9:25:50AM BUILD SOMETHING AND THEY HAVE SHOWN THEY ARE NOT GOOD
9:25:52AM STEWARDS OF OUR FUNDS AND THEY ARE NOT VERY GOOD NEIGHBORS.
9:25:54AM THANK YOU.
9:25:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:25:56AM NEXT PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE.
9:26:02AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:26:05AM PHIL SAVARI AND MY PARTNER.
9:26:09AM BACK BEFORE YOU AGAIN AFTER LAST WEEK'S BUDGET MEETING.
9:26:12AM WE WERE ADVISED LAST WEEK DURING THE BUDGET MEETING THAT
9:26:14AM THIS WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE FORUM TO COME BACK AND TALK
9:26:17AM ABOUT CRA INVOLVEMENT FOR A GROCER AND HEALTH CLINIC THAT WE
9:26:23AM PLAN TO BRING TO THE ENCORE COMMUNITY, SOMETHING THAT WE
9:26:25AM COMMITTED TO THE TAMPA HOUSING AUTHORITY BACK WHEN WE
9:26:27AM PURCHASED LOT 12 IN THE ENCORE PD.
9:26:31AM SINCE THEN, SINCE OUR LAST MEETING, WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY
9:26:35AM CLOSELY WITH CITY STAFF TO COME UP WITH A PROPOSAL THAT WE
9:26:38AM FEEL WILL BE A WIN-WIN FOR BOTH THE CITY AND FOR US AS A
9:26:42AM DEVELOPER AND THE ENCORE DISTRICT, SOMETHING THAT WOULD
9:26:45AM ESSENTIALLY NOT REQUIRE ANY FUNDS OUT OF POCKET OR THE
9:26:49AM CURRENT CRA OR CITY COUNCIL BUDGET, BUT SOMETHING THAT WOULD
9:26:55AM POTENTIALLY BE A REBATE PROGRAM THAT WOULD HELP US TO MOVE
9:26:59AM THE PROJECT FORWARD.
9:27:00AM SO WE'RE HERE BEFORE YOU TODAY JUST TO MAKE SURE BEFORE WE
9:27:02AM GO DOWN THIS PATH EVEN FURTHER WORKING WITH CITY STAFF AND
9:27:08AM MEETING WITH THE CAC THAT THERE WILL BE CRA COMMITTEE
9:27:11AM SUPPORT FOR SUCH A PROJECT.
9:27:13AM PRIOR TO THE LAST MEETING WE HAD SENT OUT A PRESENTATION TO
9:27:26AM ALL COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
9:27:27AM WE WILL BE REVISING A PRESENTATION WITH THE CITY STAFF AND
9:27:32AM SENDING IT OUT TO YOU GUYS WITHIN THE WEEK.
9:27:43AM >> IF THERE'S ANY DIALOGUE OR QUESTIONS --
9:27:52AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: TYPICALLY THE CRA BOARD DOES NOT RESPOND
9:27:55AM TO.
9:27:56AM THIS IS JUST FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:27:58AM I THINK ONCE YOU HAVE A MORE DETAILED PROPOSAL WITH STAFF,
9:28:02AM THEN THERE WOULD BE A SCHEDULED TIME FOR YOU ALL TO MAKE A
9:28:04AM PRESENTATION TO THE BOARD.
9:28:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, ATTORNEY MASSEY.
9:28:07AM >> WE UNDERSTAND.
9:28:08AM THANK YOU.
9:28:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
9:28:15AM >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
9:28:17AM LIKE TO SAY UHURU.
9:28:20AM UHURU MEANS FREEDOM IN SWAHILI.
9:28:23AM WE AS AFRICAN SHOULD ALWAYS BE THINKING ABOUT OUR FREEDOM
9:28:27AM BECAUSE THE LAST 623 YEARS, WE HAVEN'T BEEN FREE.
9:28:30AM PEOPLE HERE IN TAMPA HAVE LOTS OF PROBLEMS, AND IT IS A
9:28:35AM GREAT DISCONNECT WITH THE AFRICAN COMMUNITY.
9:28:38AM SO WHAT YOU SEE IS BASICALLY A LOT OF DISRESPECT AND THE
9:28:42AM DISRESPECT IS SO PERVASIVE, IT'S LIKE PHENOMENALLY UNREAL.
9:28:46AM ANYWHERE BLACK PEOPLE GO, WE'RE NOT TREATED LIKE HUMAN
9:28:48AM BEINGS.
9:28:50AM ANYWHERE WE GO, WE'RE NOT TREATED LIKE HUMAN BEINGS.
9:28:54AM IMAGINE LIVING LIKE THAT FROM THE DAY YOU WERE BORN TO THE
9:28:56AM DAY YOU DIE.
9:28:57AM SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE INSIDE THE BLACK COMMUNITY EVERYTHING
9:29:00AM IS PERVASIVE.
9:29:02AM ALCOHOLISM, DRUG ADDICTION, SUICIDE, HOMICIDE, CRIME,
9:29:08AM WHATSOEVER IT MAY BE.
9:29:09AM BUT LIKE I ALWAYS SAY, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING FOR AFRICAN
9:29:14AM PEOPLE IS REPARATIONS.
9:29:16AM IF WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT REPARATIONS, YOU AIN'T TALKING
9:29:18AM ABOUT NOTHING.
9:29:19AM BIG PROBLEM INSIDE THE AFRICAN COMMUNITY RIGHT NOW IS CHILD
9:29:23AM SUPPORT, AND IT'S NOT THAT WE AS AFRICAN MEN DON'T WANT TO
9:29:27AM BE RESPONSIBLE AND TAKE CARE OF OUR CHILDREN.
9:29:30AM IT'S THE FACT THAT THEY ARE RUNNING A EUGENICS PROGRAM, THEY
9:29:34AM ARE RUNNING A GENOCIDE PROGRAM THROUGH THE CHILD SUPPORT
9:29:37AM PROGRAM.
9:29:37AM IT'S JUST LIKE THE INDIAN REMOVAL ACT, THE INDIAN ADOPTION
9:29:40AM ACTS AND ALL THOSE OTHER ACTS THAT WHITE PEOPLE CREATED THAT
9:29:46AM AFFECTS AFRICAN PEOPLE, INDIGENOUS POPULATIONS
9:29:50AM DISPROPORTIONATELY.
9:29:52AM WHAT I'VE GOT RIGHT HERE TODAY IS, I'M PUTTING IN A REQUEST,
9:29:58AM I'VE GOT A REQUEST FOR CITY COUNCIL.
9:30:08AM THAT'S A VERY SIMPLE REQUEST, AND BASICALLY WHAT IT STATES
9:30:15AM IS, AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN, GENERAL PUBLIC TAXPAYER,
9:30:20AM CONSTITUENT, OR RESIDENT OF THE CITY OF TAMPA OR
9:30:22AM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, PLEASE SEE THE ATTACHED SUMMONS OR
9:30:25AM SERVICE OF PROCESS, WHICH IS RIGHT HERE, ATTENTION, CHIEF
9:30:31AM JUDGE CHRISTOPHER SABELLA, PLEASE ASSIST ME IN LOCATE THIS
9:30:35AM SUMMONS.
9:30:36AM I, ANTHONY M. DANIEL, IS HEREBY REQUESTING THAT ALL TAMPA
9:30:39AM CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS PERSONALLY CONTACT HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
9:30:41AM CHIEF JUDGE CHRISTOPHER SABELLA AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
9:30:45AM SHERIFF CHAD CHRONISTER IN REFERENCE TO THIS PARTICULAR
9:30:48AM SUMMONS THAT WAS ALLEGEDLY SERVED UPON THE RESPONDENT
9:30:52AM ANTHONY M. DANIEL, MYSELF, ON OR OCTOBER 27, 2015.
9:30:56AM SINCE 2016, I'VE BEEN UNABLE TO LOCATE THIS SUMMONS.
9:31:00AM WELL, IT'S NOT THAT THEY ARE JUST DOING THAT TO ME.
9:31:04AM THEY ARE DOING IT TO MANY OTHER AFRICAN PEOPLE.
9:31:07AM AND THEY ARE BRINGING THESE ILLEGAL CHILD SUPPORT CASES
9:31:10AM AGAINST US, SUSPENDING OUR DRIVER'S LICENSE, PROFESSIONAL
9:31:13AM LICENSE, PASSPORTS, EVERYTHING.
9:31:14AM AND IT'S LIKE NOTHING YOU CAN DO ABOUT IT.
9:31:18AM I'M APPEALING TO THIS CITY COUNCIL TO PLEASE GET IN CONTACT
9:31:21AM WITH JUDGE SABELLA AND CHAD CHRONISTER AND FIND OUT WHERE IS
9:31:27AM THIS SUMMONS?
9:31:29AM WHO WAS IT SERVED UPON?
9:31:31AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:31:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:31:33AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:31:39AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:31:40AM KELLA McCASKILL.
9:31:41AM I'M SURE BY NOW WE ALL KNOW THAT FORBES ANNOUNCED RECENTLY
9:31:45AM THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA IS ONE OF THE GREATEST PLACES TO LIVE
9:31:47AM IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
9:31:48AM I'M GOING TO REPEAT THAT UNTIL WE BEHAVE LIKE WE KNOW THAT,
9:31:53AM ACT LIKE WE KNOW THAT.
9:31:54AM ONE OF THE REASONS I CAME TODAY, I'M SURE WE'RE BEING
9:31:57AM WATCHED, MANY PEOPLE SINCE THEY HAVE BEEN WATCHING THE CITY
9:32:00AM OF TAMPA AND I'M REMINDED OF A RECENT SCENARIO WE HAD WITH
9:32:03AM ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS CONSIDERED FOR POSITION, THEY WATCHED
9:32:05AM A COUPLE OF EPISODES OF CITY COUNCIL AND DECIDED THEY DIDN'T
9:32:08AM WANT TO BE HERE ANYMORE.
9:32:09AM COULDN'T PAY THEM ENOUGH MONEY TO COME WORK WITH THIS BODY.
9:32:12AM SO I SAME TODAY BECAUSE I'M WITNESSING SOME ACTIVITY HERE
9:32:16AM THAT MAY NOT CREATE AN ENVIRONMENT CONDUCIVE FOR US TO BE AS
9:32:20AM PRODUCTIVE AS I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US BE.
9:32:23AM FORBES DOESN'T MAKE THAT TYPE OF ANNOUNCEMENT AND WE NOT
9:32:25AM LIVE UP TO THAT.
9:32:26AM WE CAN'T AFFORD THAT.
9:32:27AM I ALSO WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT NOT ONLY IS TAMPA THE
9:32:29AM GREATEST PLACE TO LIVE, BUT IT NEEDS TO BE CONSISTENT
9:32:31AM THROUGHOUT SOME OF THE OTHER AREAS IN TAMPA, EAST TAMPA,
9:32:34AM SULPHUR SPRINGS TO NAME A FEW.
9:32:36AM AS A RESIDENT, I'M GOING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE THINGS THAT
9:32:39AM I'VE WITNESSED.
9:32:40AM AS A RESIDENT, I UNDERSTAND THE ROLE OF MY CITY COUNCIL
9:32:42AM MEMBER.
9:32:43AM ON A DAY LIKE TODAY, I MISS COUNCIL MEMBER DINGFELDER HE WAS
9:32:48AM LIKE THE GRANDDADDY OF CITY COUNCIL.
9:32:50AM I MISS THAT BECAUSE WE PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE AS MUCH OF
9:32:53AM THIS.
9:32:54AM I REACH OUT TO AN INDIVIDUAL BASED ON -- I UNDERSTAND YOUR
9:32:57AM ROLES.
9:32:57AM I UNDERSTAND YOUR TIME AND WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO.
9:32:59AM WHEN I SEE SOME OR A FEW OF YOU GO OVER AND ABOVE TO INVEST
9:33:03AM IN THE RESIDENTS IN THE CITY, SOME OF YOU I CAN TOUCH YOU ON
9:33:07AM ANY GIVEN FRIDAY BECAUSE YOU MAKE THE INVESTMENT TO MAKE
9:33:09AM SURE WE'RE KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT HEALTH, FINANCES,
9:33:11AM DEVELOPMENT, WHATEVER IT IS, THE NEEDS OF THE CITY, YOU MAKE
9:33:15AM IT AVAILABLE EVERY FRIDAY, NOT ONLY THAT, ONCE A MONTH, I
9:33:18AM CAN COME HAVE COFFEE.
9:33:20AM SOME OF YOU RIDE YOUR BIKES AND WHAT HAVE YOU SO YOU CAN
9:33:24AM IDENTIFY WITH THE REST OF THE PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE CITY
9:33:25AM MAKING IT KNOWN THAT WE CAN EMBRACE, YOU MAKE YOURSELVES
9:33:28AM AVAILABLE TO THE PEOPLE.
9:33:29AM WE DON'T HAVE TO ASK YOU TO COME SOMEWHERE.
9:33:31AM YOU SHOW UP, BECAUSE THIS IS YOUR CITY.
9:33:33AM IF I GO TO ONE OF YOU, OR TWO OF YOU OR THREE OF YOU OVER
9:33:37AM ALL OF YOU, I AM COMMITTED MORE SO TO BUILD A RELATIONSHIP
9:33:41AM OR AT LEAST HAVE A MEETING WITH ALL OF YOU.
9:33:43AM BUT IF I GO TO ONE OF YOU, ALL OF YOU HAVE STRENGTH.
9:33:46AM I GO TO YOU BASED ON THAT STRENGTH.
9:33:48AM I EXPECT ONE TO BE A STRATEGIST.
9:33:50AM ONE LEGAL.
9:33:51AM ONE OF YOU WANT US TO GET ALONG.
9:33:53AM ONE IS A HISTORY BUFF.
9:33:55AM I WON'T CALL YOUR NAME.
9:33:56AM I UNDERSTAND THAT IS A NEW RULE.
9:33:58AM ALL OF YOU HAVE DIFFERENT STRENGTHS AND I COME TO YOU BASED
9:34:02AM ON THE STRENGTH.
9:34:03AM I DON'T WANT TO SEE ATTITUDE.
9:34:04AM I WILL BE COMMITTED TO MAKE SURE ALL OF YOU GET THE
9:34:06AM CORRESPONDENCE BUT I STILL WANT TO HEAR FROM THE ONE ON A
9:34:09AM PARTICULAR MATTER.
9:34:10AM THIS IS A CITY.
9:34:11AM ALTHOUGH YOU HAVE TERRITORIES YOU REPRESENT, EACH ONE OF YOU
9:34:14AM REPRESENT THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:34:15AM SO NO ONE OF YOU WILL HAVE MORE RESPECT IN ONE AREA OVER
9:34:19AM ANOTHER.
9:34:19AM ALL OF YOU REPRESENT THE CITY, AND WE COME TO YOU BASED ON
9:34:22AM THAT.
9:34:22AM WE CAN'T HELP WE TRUST THOSE MORE RELATIONAL.
9:34:26AM WE CAN'T HELP WE TRUST THOSE THAT MAKE A BIG COMMITMENT INTO
9:34:29AM THE RESIDENTS OF THE CITY.
9:34:30AM WE TRUST BASED ON WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
9:34:32AM NO PUN TO ANY OF THE OTHER CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, BUT WE COME
9:34:35AM TO YOU BASED ON THAT, AND WE THANK YOU.
9:34:37AM I HAVE A HIGH REGARD FOR PEOPLE THAT SPEND THEIR EXTRA TIME,
9:34:40AM DOLLARS AND RESOURCES, INVESTING IN NEED AS A RESIDENT OF
9:34:44AM THE CITY.
9:34:45AM MY COMMITMENT IS TO WORK WITH ALL OF YOU BECAUSE WE GET AN
9:34:48AM OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL IF WE CAN GET THE
9:34:50AM COLLABORATIVE EFFORT RIGHT.
9:34:51AM THANK YOU.
9:34:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:34:53AM GOOD MORNING.
9:34:57AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:34:58AM HAPPY THURSDAY.
9:34:58AM I AM SALLYISE LEE WITH THE VOLUNTEER MISSIONARY SOCIETY
9:35:04AM PENNY FUND.
9:35:05AM I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY SHORTLY, HOW DO YOU FEEL WHEN YOU
9:35:10AM SHARE WITH SOMEONE DEUTERONOMY 15:10.
9:35:15AM AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY, IT TAKES 42 CENTS TO MAKE A
9:35:19AM PENNY.
9:35:20AM THREE PENNIES IS $1.30.
9:35:24AM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY I'M WITH THE SISTER THERE.
9:35:30AM I WANT TO WORK UNITED, TOO.
9:35:34AM AND I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT ABOUT THE DIVERSITY OFFICER
9:35:41AM THAT HAS TIME TO TALK ABOUT RACISM, AND WE WANT TO GET TO
9:35:47AM THE BOTTOM OF RACISM AND FIND OUT WHAT MAKES US UNPRODUCTIVE
9:35:54AM BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT GOT TO THE ROOT CAUSE OF UNPRODUCTIVE --
9:36:01AM UNPRODUCTIVITY FINANCIALLY FOR SMALL BUSINESSES LIKE MY OWN.
9:36:07AM AND I WOULD LIKE TO CHALLENGE THE AUTHORITY THAT YOU ALL CAN
9:36:11AM MAKE A CHANGE AND INCLUDE THE DIFFERENT, LIKE THE PENNY FUND
9:36:18AM AND THE OTHER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.
9:36:21AM AND WE NEED YOU ALL, LIKE THE SISTER SAY, TOGETHER SO THAT
9:36:27AM WE CAN GET UNITED AND GET THINGS DONE, AND THAT'S WHAT IS
9:36:32AM HOLDING US BACK, WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE SAID BEFORE.
9:36:36AM IT'S NOT LIKE -- 5:00 IN THE MORNING.
9:36:43AM IT'S LIKE THAT WITH THE SITUATION.
9:36:45AM WE NEED TO FIND -- I WANT TO KNOW WHO THE DIVERSITY OFFICER
9:36:50AM IS.
9:36:53AM I CALLED THE CLERK'S OFFICE, BUT I DIDN'T GET AN ANSWER.
9:36:56AM BECAUSE UNLIKE THEM, I WANT HELP TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON,
9:37:01AM TOO, AND WE WORK TOGETHER ON THAT.
9:37:03AM IT'S A MUST.
9:37:05AM IF WE ARE TO BE SAVED, IT'S A MUST THAT WE DO THIS, THAT WE
9:37:09AM CAN FORM SOME KIND OF COOPERATIVE, AND WE COME TO YOU AND
9:37:14AM YOU ALL WOULD KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING.
9:37:17AM GETTING TOGETHER FOR THE BETTER OF HUMANITY.
9:37:20AM AND LIKE I SAY, IT COSTS 42 CENTS TO MAKE ONE PENNY, AND
9:37:27AM THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY, AND I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING
9:37:32AM THE DIVERSITY OFFICER WHOM OR WHOEVER SHE IS AND ONE MORE
9:37:36AM THING, GRIT DON'T QUIT.
9:37:38AM AND I WOULD NEVER FORGET THAT, AND I WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH
9:37:41AM WHOMEVER, TOO.
9:37:43AM THANK YOU FOR MY OPPORTUNITY, AND I WISH YOU ALL TAKE ME
9:37:46AM SERIOUSLY.
9:37:47AM I'VE BEEN DROPPING PENNY FUND CARDS IN THE MAIL.
9:37:52AM I HAVE RECEIVED NO FUNDS FROM ANYONE.
9:37:55AM AND I HOPE THIS WILL BE A PART OF THE FUNDING BUDGET.
9:38:00AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:38:00AM HAVE A HAPPY DAY.
9:38:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MS. JOHNSON, MAKE SURE SHE GETS THAT NAME.
9:38:12AM GOOD MORNING, SIR.
9:38:15AM >> MY NAME IS PASTOR FRANK WILLIAMS, LOCATED AT 1112 EAST
9:38:20AM SCOTT STREET.
9:38:20AM PARADISE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH.
9:38:23AM I'VE BEEN COMING DOWN HERE YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR, BUT I
9:38:30AM GET NO RESULTS.
9:38:31AM I GUESS BECAUSE OF THE COLOR OF MY SKIN.
9:38:36AM IN FACT, AT MY CHURCH, THEY PUT -- BLOCK MY ALLEY WAY SO I
9:38:43AM WON'T HAVE NOWHERE TO PARK.
9:38:45AM NOW THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE THE CHURCH.
9:38:47AM THERE'S SO MUCH GOING ON HERE IN THE UNITED STATES TOWARDS
9:38:52AM PEOPLE OF COLOR.
9:38:55AM I KNOW ONE DAY I'M GOING TO DIE.
9:38:58AM MIGHT DIE SOON BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS, BEFORE YOU ALL TRY
9:39:01AM TO DO SOMETHING FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR.
9:39:04AM APPROVAL OF THE MAYOR GETTING $2 BILLION.
9:39:11AM YOU ALL DIDN'T APPROVE THAT.
9:39:13AM I HEARD SOMETHING LIKE THAT ON TV LAST NIGHT, THAT YOU WERE
9:39:18AM GOING TO GET 2 BILLION, NOT 2 MILLION, $2 BILLION.
9:39:23AM I ASK YOU ALL FOR SOME FUNDS SO I CAN RELOCATE MY CHURCH,
9:39:32AM AND THAT WILL BE A GOOD DEED FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR BECAUSE
9:39:38AM THAT'S MOSTLY HOMELESS PEOPLE.
9:39:39AM THE WAY YOU ALL TREAT HOMELESS PEOPLE NOWADAYS, I THANK GOD,
9:39:47AM COMING AFTER ME, HEY, YOU OWE THIS MUCH MONEY.
9:39:52AM YOU OWE THIS MUCH MONEY.
9:39:53AM YOU OWE THIS.
9:39:54AM YOU OWE THESE PEOPLE.
9:39:55AM YOU OWE THESE PEOPLE.
9:39:57AM NOW THEY TRY AND TAKE MY HOME.
9:39:59AM MY RESIDENCE WHERE I HAVE BEEN IN FOR OVER 30 YEARS.
9:40:02AM BUT THEY DON'T CARE NOTHING ABOUT US.
9:40:05AM YOU WANT TO KNOW SOMETHING?
9:40:06AM YOU ALL DON'T CARE NOTHING ABOUT US EITHER.
9:40:09AM YOU'RE GOING TO GIVE THE MAYOR $2 BILLION TO PATCH UP SOME
9:40:13AM DAMN ROADS AND YET YOU WON'T GIVE ME A PENNY TO FIX UP MY
9:40:17AM HOUSE.
9:40:21AM WHEN THE INSURANCE COMPANY COMES AFTER THE HOUSE BEEN BLOWN,
9:40:25AM HALFWAY BLOWED DOWN, THE INSURANCE COMPANY GIVE ME A FEW
9:40:29AM DOLLARS AND TELL ME I NEED TO FIX UP MY HOUSE.
9:40:32AM HOW I FIX IT UP WITH THE FEW DOLLARS, GIVING A FEW PENNIES,
9:40:37AM I'M NOT ABLE TO FIX UP NOTHING.
9:40:39AM AND I CAN'T DO NOTHING MYSELF.
9:40:40AM I GOT ONE OTHER THING, INSTEAD OF YOU-ALL GIVING ME --
9:40:52AM INSTEAD OF YOU ALL GIVING ME 40 ACRES AND A MEAL, GIVE ME 40
9:40:57AM ACRES AND A CHECK, THAT WAY I CAN DO WHAT I NEED TO DO FOR
9:41:01AM MYSELF.
9:41:02AM IN THE NAME OF JESUS, GOD BLESS YOU.
9:41:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, SIR.
9:41:06AM ARE THERE REGISTERED SPEAKERS ONLINE?
9:41:09AM OKAY.
9:41:10AM SO WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH THE AGENDA.
9:41:14AM GOOD MORNING, DIRECTOR MOODY.
9:41:33AM >>ERICA MOODY: GOOD MORNING, BOARD MEMBERS.
9:41:34AM HOPE YOU GOT A LITTLE BIT OF SLEEP LAST NIGHT.
9:41:37AM WE ARE GOING TO TRY TO FLY THROUGH THIS AGENDA.
9:41:40AM WE ACTUALLY HAVE SOME HAPPY NEWS COMING UP.
9:41:42AM WE ARE EXCITED TO INVITE ONE OF OUR COMMUNITY PARTNERS,
9:41:45AM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY UP TO TALK ABOUT SOME PROJECTS THAT
9:41:47AM WERE COMPLETED IN EAST TAMPA, AND WE ARE JUST SO THANKFUL
9:41:51AM FOR THEIR PARTNERSHIP ALONG WITH FIFTH THIRD BANK.
9:41:53AM I WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THAT MOMENT TO INVITE MS. NITZA RIVERA
9:41:58AM UP WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TO PRESENT THE AWARD AND SHOW
9:42:03AM OFF EAST TAMPA.
9:42:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
9:42:10AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:42:10AM HABITAT HILLSBOROUGH HAS BUILT AND PRESERVED MANY HOMES OVER
9:42:22AM THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS IN EAST TAMPA, BUT IN THIS LAST YEAR
9:42:26AM WE PARTNERED WITH CRA AND HAVE PRESERVED -- ACTUALLY
9:42:30AM REPAIRED AND BUILT NEW ROOFS, TOTALLY NEW ROOFS ON TEN
9:42:36AM HOMES, AND WE ARE LOOKING TO CONTINUE DOING THAT WORK.
9:42:39AM SO THERE ARE SEVERAL OTHER PROJECTS UNDERWAY, BUT WE ARE
9:42:41AM MORE THAN HAPPY --
9:42:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME, CAN YOU STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE
9:42:45AM RECORD?
9:42:46AM >> TINA FORCIER, CEO WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF
9:42:49AM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
9:42:49AM BUT WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ONGOING PARTNERSHIP.
9:42:52AM AND WE ARE SO HAPPY THAT WE ARE ABLE TO ASSIST IN THE
9:42:56AM PRESERVATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
9:43:03AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:43:04AM MY NAME IS NITZA RIVERA, ALSO WITH HABITAT.
9:43:08AM I RUN THE HOME PRESERVATION PROGRAM.
9:43:10AM I AM JUST THANKFUL TO BE A PARTNER WITH THE EAST TAMPA CRA
9:43:13AM AND SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO ASSIST FAMILIES
9:43:17AM WITH MUCH-NEEDED REPAIRS.
9:43:19AM LIKE TINA SAID, OVER THE PAST YEAR, WE WERE ABLE TO HELP TEN
9:43:24AM FAMILIES REPLACE THEIR ROOFS IN THE EAST TAMPA AREA, AND
9:43:27AM WE'RE HOPING TO DO THE SAME THING THIS YEAR.
9:43:29AM JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO CEDRIC AND VANESSA WHO PUT
9:43:33AM IN SO MANY AREAS WORKING WITH US.
9:43:39AM WE HAVE A LITTLE AWARD FOR THEM FOR A TOKEN OF OUR
9:43:42AM APPRECIATION.
9:43:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CONGRATULATIONS.
9:43:43AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:43:44AM ANY COMMENTS FROM BOARD MEMBERS?
9:44:00AM MR. McCRAY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY ANYTHING?
9:44:11AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING.
9:44:11AM CEDRIC McCRAY, TAMPA CRA MANAGER.
9:44:13AM I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE FOLKS FROM HABITAT
9:44:17AM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
9:44:18AM WHEN WE WERE RECOGNIZED, IT WAS TOTALLY UNEXPECTED.
9:44:20AM GREATLY APPRECIATED AND ALL FORMULATED FROM CONVERSATIONS
9:44:25AM WITH MS. RIVERA WHEN I STARTED IN THE POSITION, AND THE AREA
9:44:29AM THAT RECEIVED THE ATTENTION WAS HIGHLAND PINES AND IT WAS AN
9:44:33AM EVENT THAT TOOK PLACE IN JANUARY.
9:44:36AM AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING TO DO SOME GOOD WORK WITH
9:44:38AM HABITAT.
9:44:39AM MOVING FORWARD.
9:44:40AM THANK YOU.
9:44:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:44:42AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
9:44:43AM >>BILL CARLSON: CONGRATS TO CEDRIC AND TEAM.
9:44:47AM CEDRIC HAS ALWAYS BEEN A ROCK STAR.
9:44:50AM GLAD YOU ALL DID THAT.
9:44:52AM THE OTHER THING I WANT TO SAY, THOUGH, AS WE TALKED ABOUT
9:44:55AM OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO FIX THE HOUSING PROBLEM, WE NEED AT
9:44:57AM LEAST $5 BILLION, PROBABLY MORE LIKE 10.
9:45:00AM AND THERE'S NO WAY THE CITY WILL EVER GET THAT.
9:45:02AM BUT THE WAY WE CAN ACCOMPLISH IT IS BY PARTNERING
9:45:06AM STRATEGICALLY WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO TAKE A SMALL AMOUNT
9:45:09AM OF STRATEGIC TAXPAYER DOLLARS AND SPREADING IT AND
9:45:14AM LEVERAGING IT WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
9:45:16AM FOUR YEARS AGO WHEN I CAME ON BOARD, THE CITY WAS ACCUSED OF
9:45:20AM ONLY PARTNERING WITH ONE OR TWO COMPANIES, AND NOW THROUGH
9:45:22AM THE HARD WORK OF FOLKS LIKE CEDRIC, WE'RE DIVERSIFYING THAT
9:45:26AM AND PARTNERING.
9:45:27AM THE GREAT THING ABOUT HAVING LOTS OF DIFFERENT FOR PROFIT
9:45:29AM AND NONPROFIT COMPANIES INVOLVED IS THAT THERE'S DIVERSITY
9:45:33AM OF THOUGHT, DIVERSITY OF PRODUCT, INNOVATION AND
9:45:35AM COMPETITION, WHICH HELPS IN THE PRICING AND IN GETTING -- IN
9:45:41AM HELPING THE DOLLARS SPREAD FARTHER.
9:45:43AM SO THANK YOU, EVERYBODY.
9:45:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:45:47AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ABSOLUTELY.
9:45:48AM YOU KNOW, I AM A HUGE FAN OF HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, AND
9:45:54AM ESPECIALLY THIS TYPE OF A PROGRAM.
9:45:55AM THIS IS WHERE I THINK SOMETIMES -- YOU KNOW, I DISAGREE WITH
9:45:58AM SOME OF THE FOLKS THAT SIT UP HERE WITH ME WITH THE
9:46:01AM SOLUTIONS AND THE LIMITED RESOURCES WE HAVE FOR HOUSING.
9:46:03AM WHAT I SEE THE ROLE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA IS EXACTLY THIS
9:46:08AM TYPE OF A PROGRAM.
9:46:09AM IT IS THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF GOOD FOR THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF
9:46:11AM PEOPLE, INCREMENTAL SUCCESS, THAT WE CAN ASSIST PEOPLE AT
9:46:14AM THE WORST MOMENTS OF THEIR LIFE OR WHEN THEY ARE IN A STAGE
9:46:18AM OF THEIR LIFE WHERE THEY NEED THAT LITTLE HAND UP, NOT A
9:46:21AM HAND OUT, BUT A HAND UP TO FURTHER THEM AND GET THEM THROUGH
9:46:25AM THOSE PHASES.
9:46:26AM AND KEEPING PEOPLE IN THEIR HOUSES IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT
9:46:29AM ELEMENT AND US AS A JUST SOCIETY.
9:46:32AM AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M COMPLETELY IN FAVOR OF.
9:46:36AM I THINK IF WE WERE ABLE TO DO THESE SMALL INCREMENTAL
9:46:39AM CHANGES, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO IMPACT THE LIVES OF THE PEOPLE
9:46:43AM THAT LIVE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA IN SUCH TREMENDOUS WAYS.
9:46:46AM AS WE'VE SEEN IN OUR PREVIOUS DISCUSSION WHEN WE'RE WEARING
9:46:50AM OUR CITY COUNCIL HAT, WE HAVE A VERY LIMITED AMOUNT OF
9:46:53AM RESOURCES AS THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:46:54AM WE'RE A BIG CITY WITHIN WHAT APPEARS TO BE A SMALL BUDGET
9:46:57AM WITH VERY LITTLE DISCRETIONARY SPENDING.
9:46:59AM BUT THAT SPENDING, WHEN WE DO SPEND MONEY, IT NEEDS TO BE
9:47:02AM SMART SPENDING.
9:47:03AM AGAIN, IT HAS TO LOOK AT THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE, BE ABLE
9:47:06AM TO PROVIDE FOR THE VULNERABLE CITIZENS, THE SENIOR CITIZENS
9:47:10AM AND THE PEOPLE, LIKE I SAY, AT RISK OF BEING HOMELESS
9:47:13AM BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO PUT ON A ROOF.
9:47:15AM THAT'S WHERE WE SHOULD BE.
9:47:16AM I APPLAUD HABITAT FOR HUMANITY AND THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY
9:47:19AM HAVE AND THE OTHER PARTNERS, AS COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID, THE
9:47:23AM OTHER PARTNERS ACROSS THE CITY.
9:47:24AM THESE ARE EXACTLY THE TYPE OF PROGRAMS THAT WE NEED TO
9:47:27AM PURSUE, AND I LOOK FORWARD FOR THE NEXT THREE AND A HALF
9:47:30AM YEARS SITTING UP HERE TO BE AN ADVOCATE FOR THESE KIND OF
9:47:34AM INITIATIVES.
9:47:34AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:47:35AM THANK YOU, EAST TAMPA CRA FOR HELPING FACILITATE THIS.
9:47:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:47:38AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.
9:47:40AM I APPRECIATE VERY MUCH, CEDRIC, FOR YOURSELF AND ALL THE
9:47:43AM INDIVIDUALS WITH YOU THIS MORNING IN MAKING SOMEONE'S DREAM
9:47:47AM COME TRUE.
9:47:48AM HOWEVER, I WANT THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND MAYBE SOMEBODY CAN
9:47:51AM TELL THE PUBLIC, NOT TODAY NECESSARILY, WHAT IT COSTS TO
9:47:54AM BUILD A HOUSE, EVEN THOUGH THE LAND MORE THAN LIKELY IS
9:47:56AM GIVEN BY SOMEONE ELSE.
9:47:57AM AND WE DON'T KNOW THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS NOT ATTUNED TO
9:48:00AM EVERYTHING.
9:48:00AM I KNOW YOU HAVE TWO STORES.
9:48:01AM ONE ON EAST TAMPA, ONE ON THE OTHER, WEST -- EAST
9:48:06AM HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE, AND THE OTHER ONE ON NORTH HILLSBOROUGH
9:48:10AM AVENUE THAT YOU CALL I THINK RESTORE.
9:48:12AM AND THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT I'M AMAZED.
9:48:15AM I LIKE TO GO OUT AND JUST LOOK AT THINGS THAT PEOPLE BRING
9:48:18AM IN BECAUSE IT REALLY IS AMAZING WHAT THEY BRING IN FROM
9:48:22AM CABINETS TO LAWN EQUIPMENT TO NAILS, TO YOU NAME IT, YOU
9:48:25AM HAVE IT.
9:48:26AM I DON'T GO TO FLEA MARKETS TOO OFTEN BECAUSE ALMOST NONE
9:48:32AM AROUND, SO YOU ARE MY NEW FLEA MARKET THAT I GO AND SPEND
9:48:35AM TIME, WONDER HOW IT GETS THERE, WHO BUYS STUFF.
9:48:39AM I MYSELF BOUGHT SOME THINGS THERE.
9:48:41AM VERY GRATEFUL.
9:48:42AM APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
9:48:43AM BUT THE PUBLIC SHOULD KNOW EXACTLY HOW YOU DO IT AND I DON'T
9:48:47AM THINK THAT'S GOTTEN OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
9:48:48AM NO ONE'S FAULT BUT IT HASN'T BEEN TRANSMITTED TO THE GENERAL
9:48:51AM TAXPAYERS OR THE CITIZENS THAT LIVE IN THIS AREA.
9:48:54AM MY ADVICE IS TO GO ON AND TELL THEM WHAT IT COSTS TO BUILD A
9:48:58AM HOUSE.
9:48:59AM TELL THEM HOW YOU DO IT AND TELL THEM HOW YOU ENGAGE SO YOU
9:49:01AM HAVE MORE OPPORTUNITIES.
9:49:02AM THAT'S ALL.
9:49:03AM THANK YOU AGAIN FOR WHAT YOU ALL DO.
9:49:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
9:49:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
9:49:08AM I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR THE AMAZING WORK AND THE
9:49:11AM PARTNERSHIP THAT HABITAT HAS DONE WITH THE CITY AND
9:49:14AM ESPECIALLY WITH THE CRA, AND I WANT TO THANK BOTH STAFF AND
9:49:18AM HABITAT FOR WORKING TOGETHER TO MAKE THIS PROJECT SO
9:49:22AM SUCCESSFUL AND WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE IT.
9:49:27AM THIS IS JUST ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE CAN HELP WITH
9:49:29AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND BASICALLY KEEPING PEOPLE IN THEIR
9:49:32AM HOMES.
9:49:32AM WE HAVE MANY DIFFERENT SOLUTIONS TO THIS, AND THIS IS ONE OF
9:49:36AM THE WAYS, AND IT'S SO WONDERFUL TO SEE HOW SUCCESSFUL IT IS
9:49:40AM SO WE CAN FOCUS OUR ENERGY ON OTHER WAYS, SO THAT THIS
9:49:45AM PROGRAM WORKS.
9:49:46AM IT IS SUCH A SUCCESS, AND I'M HOPING THAT WE CAN CONTINUE IT
9:49:50AM AND EVEN GROW IT INTO OTHER AREAS BECAUSE HABITAT WORKS IN
9:49:54AM SO MANY DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
9:49:56AM SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:49:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
9:50:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:50:01AM THANK YOU, MR. McCRAY FOR PRESENTING THIS.
9:50:05AM THANK YOU TO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR ALL THAT YOU DO.
9:50:08AM YOUR REPUTATION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF.
9:50:10AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA TALKED ABOUT THE RESTORE OVER ON
9:50:13AM HILLSBOROUGH.
9:50:13AM I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT USE IT.
9:50:15AM I'VE USED IT.
9:50:16AM I'VE GONE THERE, AND JUST A BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY.
9:50:20AM THE BENEFIT OF WHAT HABITAT DOES.
9:50:21AM YOU CHANGE LIVES.
9:50:22AM YOU LIFT PEOPLE UP, AND WE CERTAINLY APPRECIATE THE IMPACT
9:50:25AM THAT YOU MAKE ON THIS COMMUNITY, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO
9:50:28AM LONG-STANDING PARTNERSHIPS MOVING FORWARD AND CONTINUING TO
9:50:31AM DO GOOD THINGS FOR THE MOST VULNERABLE AND THE PEOPLE THAT
9:50:34AM NEED IT.
9:50:35AM SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:50:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
9:50:38AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHAIRWOMAN.
9:50:41AM YEAH, JUST WANTED TO COMMEND OUR FRIENDS OVER AT HABITAT FOR
9:50:43AM HUMANITY.
9:50:44AM I ALWAYS LIKE TO SAY THERE IS A SAYING THAT BY THE LATE
9:50:48AM JUSTICE THURGOOD MARSHALL, TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD,
9:50:52AM DREAM BREAKERS AND DREAM MAKERS AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO
9:50:55AM BREAK DREAMS AND WE CAN BREAK DREAMS THROUGH A LOT OF
9:50:58AM THINGS.
9:50:58AM BE RUDE TO SOMEBODY.
9:50:59AM PUT DOWN SOMEBODY'S ASPIRATIONS AND SAY THEY DON'T COUNT.
9:51:02AM WE CAN ALSO CREATE POLICIES THAT ARE DREAM BREAKERS.
9:51:08AM I WASN'T GOING TO TALK ABOUT FLORIDA POLITICS.
9:51:11AM BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE DREAM BREAKERS IN POLITICS,
9:51:15AM UNFORTUNATELY.
9:51:15AM FOR THE RECORD, NOBODY IN THE CITY, IN FACT, I THINK ALL
9:51:20AM SEVEN OF US HERE TRY VERY HARD TO BE DREAM MAKERS FOR
9:51:23AM PEOPLE, BUT CERTAINLY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY MAKES DREAMS FOR
9:51:27AM PEOPLE COME TRUE.
9:51:28AM THE DREAM OF HOME OWNERSHIP AND JUST BASIC DIGNITY FOR
9:51:33AM PEOPLE.
9:51:33AM IT'S OFTEN FORGOTTEN THAT WHAT IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE OF ALL
9:51:38AM TIME, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE, STANDS FOR A LOT OF THINGS.
9:51:41AM ONE OF THE THINGS IS THAT THE BAILEY BUILDING AND LOAN STOOD
9:51:44AM FOR WORKING PEOPLE BEING ABLE TO HAVE HOMES.
9:51:49AM THAT'S WHAT IT IS ALL ABOUT.
9:51:50AM BEING ABLE TO HAVE A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD SO IF YOU WORK HARD
9:51:54AM AND PLAY BY THE RULES, YOU CAN HAVE DIGNITY.
9:51:56AM AND THAT'S WHAT I BELIEVE IN, WHICH IS THAT IF YOU'RE GOING
9:52:00AM TO WORK HARD AND YOU'RE GOING TO PLAY BY THE RULES, THEN
9:52:02AM THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS IN LIFE THAT YOU ARE ENTITLED TO,
9:52:06AM THAT INCLUDES A HOUSE, THAT INCLUDES A GOOD PUBLIC EDUCATION
9:52:09AM SO THAT YOUR KIDS CAN GET AHEAD.
9:52:11AM MEANS POTENTIALLY ADVANCEMENT ON THE JOB, MEANS GOOD QUALITY
9:52:14AM HEALTH CARE.
9:52:14AM YOU GUYS STAND UP FOR ONE OF THOSE BASIC RIGHTS IN MY
9:52:18AM OPINION.
9:52:19AM THANK YOU, GUYS.
9:52:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HABITAT FOR HUMANITY, FIRST, I WOULD LIKE
9:52:22AM TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP.
9:52:27AM PLACING NEW ROOFS ON HOMES IS VERY SIGNIFICANT.
9:52:30AM I KNOW IT HELPED THOSE FAMILIES, PROBABLY MORE THAN LIKELY
9:52:34AM THEIR INSURANCE PREMIUMS.
9:52:36AM BUT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN IN A BUBBLE.
9:52:37AM I JUST HAPPENED TO BE TALKING TO CEDRIC McCRAY ABOUT THIS
9:52:42AM PROJECT, AND THE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AND HOW IT GOT
9:52:46AM STARTED IS ALSO IMPORTANT.
9:52:47AM AND I WOULD LIKE FOR MR. McCRAY JUST TO SPEAK ON THAT
9:52:51AM BECAUSE IT BEGAN WITH THE SURVEY, AM I CORRECT, MR.
9:52:53AM McCRAY?
9:52:55AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, CHAIR HENDERSON.
9:52:56AM CEDRIC McCRAY, TAMPA CRA MANAGER.
9:52:58AM WHEN I CAME INTO POSITION, WE WERE PRESENTED WITH A STACK OF
9:53:02AM SURVEYS THAT HAD GONE OUT TO RESIDENTS IN EAST TAMPA.
9:53:05AM AND SOME OF THE FOLKS WERE UNDER THE IMPRESSION THEY FILLED
9:53:08AM OUT AN APPLICATION.
9:53:09AM WHEN THEY STARTED TO CALL AND INQUIRE AND QUESTION WHERE
9:53:12AM THEY WERE IN THE APPLICATION PROCESS, I HAD TO INFORM THEM
9:53:14AM THERE WAS A SURVEY, BUT WHEN WE HAD THE CONVERSATIONS WITH
9:53:18AM HABITAT FOR HUMANITY AND WE WERE LOOKING AT A TARGETED AREA,
9:53:22AM ONE OF THE -- SEVERAL OF THE APPLICATIONS CAME FROM THE
9:53:25AM HIGHLAND PINES COMMUNITY.
9:53:27AM IF YOU ALL KNOW MA BELL OR BETTY BELL WHO WAS VERY VOCAL AND
9:53:32AM ADVOCATE FOR HER COMMUNITY, SHE AND I HAD CONVERSATIONS,
9:53:35AM CEDRIC, WE NEED HELP.
9:53:36AM WE HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS ON OUR PARTICULAR BLOCK, IN OUR
9:53:39AM COMMUNITY, THEY HAVE BLUE TARPS ON THEIR ROOFS.
9:53:41AM AND THIS IS AN AREA OF FOCUS AND WE NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE.
9:53:44AM I JUST ASK TO YOU HOLD ON, WORK WITH ME, AND THAT'S WHEN WE
9:53:47AM STARTED TO HAVE THE CONVERSATIONS WITH HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
9:53:51AM THANK YOU, MS. BELL, FOR YOUR ENCOURAGEMENT AND BRINGING IT
9:53:54AM TO OUR ATTENTION, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO DOING SOME
9:53:57AM ADDITIONAL WORK.
9:53:57AM I ALSO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CRA BOARD AND THE
9:54:01AM PREDECESSORS ON THE CRA BOARD BECAUSE YOU ALL APPROVED THE
9:54:05AM ROOFING PROGRAM LAST YEAR SO THAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO THIS
9:54:08AM WORK AND PARTNER WITH HABITAT.
9:54:10AM THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
9:54:11AM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE MEMBERS OF OUR EAST TAMPA
9:54:14AM CAC.
9:54:14AM I THANK MS. COPELAND MILLER, I SEE HER BACK THERE IN THE
9:54:19AM AUDIENCE, THEY ALSO WERE IN FULL SUPPORT OF THE
9:54:21AM RECOMMENDATION TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE ROOFING PROGRAM.
9:54:23AM THANK YOU.
9:54:30AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, BACKGROUND AND CONTACTS ARE SO
9:54:31AM IMPORTANT.
9:54:31AM WE APPRECIATE IT.
9:54:32AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:54:32AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:54:32AM DIRECTOR MOODY, ARE YOU READY?
9:54:40AM >>ERICA MOODY: ALWAYS READY.
9:54:42AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:54:44AM LIKE WE SAID, THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE WITHOUT PARTNERSHIP AND
9:54:46AM SUPPORT OF OUR AMAZING STAFF.
9:54:47AM I'M GLAD THAT WE COULD BE HERE TODAY TO RECOGNIZE THEM AND
9:54:50AM ALL OF THEIR HARD WORK.
9:54:52AM THE GENESIS OF THIS REALLY COMING OUT OF THE EAST TAMPA
9:54:54AM RESIDENTIAL ROOFING PROGRAM.
9:54:55AM SO WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ITEM.
9:54:58AM WE HAVE OUR MONTHLY CAC CHAIR UPDATE.
9:55:00AM WE HAVE MR. FRED HENRY THE III.
9:55:03AM HE IS WITH THE TAMPA HEIGHTS CAC.
9:55:04AM AND HE IS THE CO-CHAIR.
9:55:06AM SO I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE HIM UP TO SPEAK ABOUT WHAT'S GOING
9:55:10AM ON IN TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT.
9:55:14AM >> GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR, BOARD MEMBERS.
9:55:15AM FRED HENRY, VICE-CHAIR TAMPA HEIGHTS CRA.
9:55:22AM COUPLE OF QUICK UPDATES OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE CRA.
9:55:25AM WE ARE NOW AT FULL MEMBERSHIP, WHICH ALLOWS PRODUCTIVE
9:55:28AM MEETINGS, AND WE GENERALLY MEET TO THE KINDNESS OF FOLKS OF
9:55:34AM BUSH ROSS, SECOND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH AT 6 P.M.
9:55:37AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE IS PROFESSOR TRENT GREEN
9:55:41AM WITH THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
9:55:44AM AND COMMUNITY DESIGN IS PROVIDING URBAN AND COMMUNITY
9:55:46AM RELATED DESIGN SERVICES, PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, GRAPHIC
9:55:50AM INFORMATION AND RELATED PLAN DOCUMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH
9:55:53AM UPDATING THE TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT COMMUNITY
9:55:56AM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
9:55:57AM THE CRA PLANS WILL BE COMPLETED WITH COMMUNITY INPUT AND IN
9:56:00AM ACCORDANCE WITH FLORIDA STATUTE 163 PART 3 AND CITY OF TAMPA
9:56:05AM IMAGINE 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
9:56:07AM THE FINAL PLAN DOCUMENTS WILL ALSO INCLUDE RECOMMENDATIONS
9:56:11AM AND PROPOSED INITIATIVES THAT WILL INFORM THE COMMUNITY
9:56:13AM REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY BOARD OF DIRECTORS, CRA BOARD, AND THE
9:56:17AM CITIZEN ADVISORY COMMITTEE CAC AND PRIORITIZING AND
9:56:20AM ALLOCATING FUTURE TAX INCREMENT FINANCE FUNDS, TIF, THE
9:56:25AM PROPOSED BUDGET COST OF THIS PROJECT IS $96,800.
9:56:29AM JULY 6th OF THIS YEAR, NOTICE TO PROCEED WAS ISSUED.
9:56:33AM AUGUST 8, PROGRESS MEETING WITH PROFESSOR GREEN AND CRA
9:56:37AM STAFF AND OCTOBER 17 OF THIS YEAR, WE'RE SCHEDULED TO MEET
9:56:40AM WITH THE CAC TO PRESENT A PROJECT UPDATE.
9:56:43AM WE HAVE A NICE PROJECT WE'RE LOOKING AT ON WATER WORKS PARK.
9:56:50AM WE'RE WORKING WITH VISION ZERO MOBILITY DEPARTMENT ON
9:56:56AM OPTIONS FOR IMPLEMENT A SAFETY TRAFFIC CALMING SYSTEM AT THE
9:56:59AM CORNER OF THE EXIT RAMP AT 275 TO AVOID ACCIDENTS AND
9:57:07AM SPEEDING ISSUES BEEN GOING ON THERE FOR A WHILE.
9:57:10AM WE HAVE APPROVED $75,500 APPROVED FROM THE FISCAL YEAR 2023
9:57:15AM BUDGET.
9:57:16AM AUGUST 15th OF THIS YEAR MOBILITY PRESENTED FINDINGS AND
9:57:19AM OPTIONS.
9:57:20AM THE CAC REQUESTED A DETAILED BREAKDOWN OF SUBMITTED COSTS OF
9:57:25AM $495,400 FOR OUR NEXT CAC MEETING TO SEE WHERE COSTS ARE
9:57:32AM INVOLVED TO IMPROVE THAT.
9:57:34AM ANOTHER PROJECT IS WAY FINDING SIGNAGE.
9:57:37AM THAT IS A CONTRACT, 22-D AS IN DAVID DASH 1101.
9:57:43AM CAC APPROVED FUNDING FOR JOINT PARTICIPATION IN THE WAY
9:57:46AM FINDING STUDY.
9:57:47AM THAT'S ALL THE SIGNAGE AROUND TAMPA.
9:57:50AM $5800 APPROVED FROM OUR FISCAL YEAR 2023 BUDGET.
9:57:55AM ARCHITECTURE PLUS INTERNATIONAL INC. WILL CONDUCT THE STUDY
9:57:58AM AND DOCUMENT THE VISITOR DESTINATIONS WITHIN THE ADJACENT TO
9:58:01AM THE DOWNTOWN CHANNEL DISTRICT, CENTRAL PARK AND TAMPA
9:58:04AM HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREAS.
9:58:07AM IT WILL ALSO PROVIDE LOCATIONS AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS FOR
9:58:11AM WAY FINDING SIGNAGE.
9:58:13AM MAY 1st, THE COMPANY COMPLETED PHASE ONE OF THE ANALYSIS.
9:58:17AM ON JUNE 30th OF THIS YEAR PHASE TWO PROGRAM WAS COMPLETED.
9:58:21AM AUGUST 24th, PHASE THREE CONCEPT DESIGN WAS PRESENTED AS
9:58:25AM PART OF THE WORKSHOP ATTENDED BY PROJECT TEAM STAKEHOLDERS.
9:58:29AM OCTOBER 17 OF THIS YEAR SCHEDULED TO MEET WITH CAC AND
9:58:32AM PRESENT A PROJECT UPDATE.
9:58:35AM LASTLY, WE HAVE AN -- ROUNDABOUT WORKING ON FOR A WHILE,
9:58:39AM WEST PALM AVENUE AND NORTH HIGHLANDS BOULEVARD.
9:58:41AM CAC APPROVED FUNDING FOR PUBLIC ART, LIGHTING AND LANDSCAPE
9:58:46AM AT THIS ROUNDABOUT.
9:58:47AM $200,000 IS THE AMOUNT OF FUNDING AVAILABLE FOR THE PROGRAM
9:58:51AM IN 2023 FISCAL YEAR BUDGET.
9:58:54AM THE CAC AND CRA CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE CITY'S ART
9:58:57AM DEPARTMENT FOR PROCUREMENT OF ARTWORK.
9:58:59AM SO THAT'S STILL EARLY, BUT WE'RE WORKING ON IT.
9:59:02AM ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT, HAPPY TO ANSWER IN ANY WAY I CAN.
9:59:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:59:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'M SURE YOU'RE ALREADY AWARE OF THIS
9:59:11AM BECAUSE I KNOW F.D.O.T. DOES A GREAT JOB OF BRIEFING.
9:59:16AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK AND COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO AND MYSELF
9:59:18AM WERE IN THE TPO MEETING DISCUSSING THE MOBILITY ENHANCEMENTS
9:59:21AM THAT ARE GOING TO CONNECT THE WATER WORKS PARK AND TAMPA
9:59:25AM STREET AND INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS.
9:59:28AM CONGRATULATIONS ON GETTING THAT.
9:59:29AM THAT'S ALL COVERED BY F.D.O.T., SO NOT COMING OUT OF OUR TAX
9:59:33AM MONEY OR CRA MONEY.
9:59:34AM IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT IMPROVEMENT TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
9:59:37AM >> WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO PARTNERING WITH F.D.O.T. ON THIS
9:59:40AM PROJECT AS WELL.
9:59:40AM WE WANT TO GET IT IMPROVED AND GET IT GOING.
9:59:43AM IT NEEDS DONE, AND WE'RE FOCUSED ON GETTING THAT COMPLETED.
9:59:48AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYONE ELSE?
9:59:48AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT.
9:59:51AM >> THANK YOU.
9:59:51AM NICE SEEING EVERYBODY.
9:59:52AM THANK YOU.
10:00:06AM >>ERICA MOODY: HELLO AGAIN.
10:00:07AM THIS IS ITEM NUMBER 3, THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT, 3, 4, AND 5
10:00:11AM WILL ALL BE HEARD TOGETHER UNDER THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
10:00:14AM I WILL TRY TO KEEP IT SHORT.
10:00:15AM WE'LL HAVE A LONGER DIRECTOR'S REPORT IN OCTOBER AND
10:00:18AM NOVEMBER, BUT WE'LL TRY TO KEEP TODAY BRIEF.
10:00:21AM I ALSO WANTED TO TALK ABOUT A FEW MORE OTHER MISSION MOMENTS
10:00:24AM THAT WE'VE HAD.
10:00:26AM WE WORKED SO HARD THAT WE'RE ALWAYS ON TO THE NEXT ONE, BUT
10:00:29AM WANTED TO BACK TRACK A LITTLE BIT AND JUST SHOWCASE THAT WE
10:00:32AM HAD A RIBBON CUTTING FOR FOUR NEW HOMEOWNERS ALONG WITH THE
10:00:36AM TAMPA CDC, AND THAT WAS DONE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CRA.
10:00:39AM WE HAD A FEW OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS PRESENT AND JUST WANTED TO
10:00:41AM READ SOME INVESTMENT THAT WE DID THERE.
10:00:41AM THE EAST TAMPA CRA PROVIDED $183,000 ON THE FRONT END OF
10:00:48AM THIS HOME OWNERSHIP PROJECT TO CONNECT THE HOMES TO SEWER
10:00:51AM AND WATER, WHICH THEN IMPROVED THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:00:54AM SO THAT WAS A BIG INVESTMENT ON THE FRONT END AND THEN ALSO
10:00:57AM WHEN THE HOMEOWNERS WERE READY TO CLOSE, WE ASSISTED THEM
10:01:01AM WITH DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE AND ACTUALLY GOT TO MEET THE
10:01:03AM FAMILIES THAT WERE MOVING IN.
10:01:05AM SO THAT WAS A GREAT MOMENT AND THAT HAPPENED ON JULY 15th.
10:01:09AM THEN ALSO A MORE RECENT ACCOMPLISHMENT, CELEBRATION THAT
10:01:12AM WE'VE HAD IS A GROUND BREAKING AT THE KID MASON COMMUNITY
10:01:16AM CENTER.
10:01:16AM WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT FOR DOWNTOWN.
10:01:18AM WE HEARD AMAZING SPEECH BY SENATOR ARTHENIA JOYNER AND JUST
10:01:24AM REALLY A GREAT PROJECT GETTING OFF THE GROUND.
10:01:26AM WE INVITE EVERYONE TO FOLLOW OUR PROGRESS AND COME TO THE
10:01:29AM RIBBON CUTTING.
10:01:30AM THE CRA HAS INVESTED $2 MILLION TO REVITALIZE THE KID MASON
10:01:35AM COMMUNITY CENTER.
10:01:36AM THAT WILL INCLUDE RENOVATING THE RESTROOMS, THE KITCHEN,
10:01:39AM TEACHING AREAS, PLAYGROUND, YARD AREAS, REPLACE WINDOWS,
10:01:43AM MAKE IT HURRICANE SAFE AS WELL AS THE EXISTING FLOORING AND
10:01:47AM OTHER RENOVATIONS.
10:01:49AM I KNOW WE ARE AWARE OF IT, BUT I WANT TO SHARE IT WITH THE
10:01:51AM PUBLIC AND LET THEM KNOW SOME OF THE GREAT THINGS HAPPENING
10:01:54AM IN THE TAMPA CRA.
10:01:55AM MOVING ON, WE ARE KNEE-DEEP IN AGENCY RESTRUCTURE.
10:02:00AM SO WE HAVE RELOCATED OUR STAFF BASED ON THEIR WORK GROUPS.
10:02:04AM SO PREVIOUSLY IT WAS BASED ON DISTRICT AND NOW WE ARE
10:02:07AM ASSEMBLING OUR WORK GROUP.
10:02:08AM SO WE HAVE OUR GRANTS TEAM BUILDING.
10:02:10AM SO OUR GRANTS TEAM HAS ALL MOVED TO THE YBOR OFFICE AND THEY
10:02:14AM ARE ALREADY COLLABORATING AND CROSS SHARING GRANTS SO IT
10:02:17AM WON'T JUST BE SILOED PER DISTRICT.
10:02:19AM WE'LL USE OUR SKILLS AND REALLY CROSS SHARE THAT.
10:02:23AM THAT WAS A BIG MOVE.
10:02:24AM WE ALSO WENT THROUGH ALL OF OUR PAPER WORK AT THAT TIME,
10:02:27AM ARCHIVED OUR INFORMATION AND HAVE EVERYTHING UP TO DATE.
10:02:30AM WE HAVE THE GRANTS TEAM IN YBOR.
10:02:31AM OVER IN THE EAST TAMPA OFFICES WE HAVE ALL OF THE CRA
10:02:34AM MANAGERS.
10:02:34AM SO THE MANAGERS ARE COLLABORATING EVERY SINGLE DAY, TALKING
10:02:37AM ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THEIR DISTRICT, CROSS-SHARING
10:02:41AM INFORMATION AND ABLE TO ASSIST EACH OTHER ON THAT LEVEL.
10:02:43AM OVER AT THE TAMPA MUNICIPAL OFFICES, THAT'S WHERE I AM.
10:02:48AM WE ALSO ARE BUILDING OUR ADMINISTRATIVE TEAM SO WE HAVE OUR
10:02:52AM ADMIN SYSTEM AND CREATING STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES AND
10:02:57AM REALLY JUST MAKING SURE THAT ALL OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE
10:03:00AM FUNCTIONS ARE GOOD.
10:03:01AM WE ALSO HAVE OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM THERE.
10:03:03AM THOSE ARE OUR HEAVY HITTERS WHERE THEY ARE OVERSEEING REALLY
10:03:06AM BIG INVESTMENT PROJECTS.
10:03:08AM I'M REALLY EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE HAVE PROMOTED FROM
10:03:11AM WITHIN.
10:03:12AM WE HAVE A ROCK STAR.
10:03:13AM HER NAME IS MELISSA MARTINEZ.
10:03:15AM SHE WAS A PROJECT MANAGER.
10:03:16AM NOW SHE IS OUR SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER, AND SHE IS REALLY
10:03:19AM EXCITED ABOUT THE ROLE AND JUST AN ABSOLUTE ROCK STAR.
10:03:23AM SHE'S ALREADY DOING ALL OF THE AUDITING OF OUR PROJECTS,
10:03:26AM VENDORS, AND OUR GRANTS, WHICH I'LL SPEAK MORE ON IN A
10:03:30AM SECOND.
10:03:31AM COMPREHENSIVE GRANT AUDIT.
10:03:34AM SO THE TAMPA CRA CURRENTLY HAS 18 GRANTS THAT WE ADMINISTER,
10:03:39AM DIFFERENT ONES PER DISTRICT, SO WE ARE LOOKING AT EVERY
10:03:42AM SINGLE DETAIL OF THE GRANT, FROM THE APPLICATION TO THE
10:03:45AM RESTRICTIONS, TO THE MATCHING REQUIREMENTS, TO THE UTILIZING
10:03:48AM TO SEE IF THERE'S REALLY A NEED IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS
10:03:51AM NEW GRANTS THAT WE CAN PROPOSE AND BRING TOWARDS THE BOARD.
10:03:55AM THAT'S JUST TAKING A LOT OF TIME TO SEE THE DETAILS OF EVERY
10:03:58AM SINGLE GRANT, KIND OF WHERE THE RED TAPE IS AND WHERE WE CAN
10:04:02AM STREAMLINE AND MAKE THINGS MORE EFFICIENT.
10:04:04AM WE'RE ABOUT 70, 75 PERCENT COMPLETION WITH THAT GRANT AUDIT.
10:04:08AM I'M EXCITED TO BRING BACK SOME RECOMMENDATIONS TO REALLY
10:04:11AM STREAMLINE, MOVE FORWARD AND GET GRANTS OUT THE DOOR.
10:04:14AM GRANTS IS WHAT'S AVAILABLE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
10:04:16AM WE HAVE PROJECTS, BUT OUR RESIDENTS, OUR BUSINESSES, OUR
10:04:20AM HOMEOWNERS, THAT'S WHO CAN APPLY FOR THE GRANTS AND REALLY
10:04:23AM UTILIZE THE RESOURCES.
10:04:24AM SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SELLING THEM, WE'RE
10:04:26AM COMMUNICATING, AND THAT THEY ARE BEING UTILIZED BECAUSE WE
10:04:29AM DON'T WANT GRANTS AND MONEY TO SIT THERE AND ZERO PEOPLE TO
10:04:32AM APPLY.
10:04:32AM SO WITH THAT, WE PUT A CONSULTATION LINK ON OUR WEBSITE SO
10:04:37AM YOU CAN EASILY BOOK A CONSULTATION WITH ANYBODY ON THE TEAM
10:04:42AM AND TALK ABOUT IDEAS, WHERE YOU LIVE, WHAT A CRA IS, WHAT
10:04:45AM GRANTS WE COULD STACK AND MATCH WITH YOU, SO WE ARE JUST
10:04:47AM TRYING TO OPEN UP THE TRANSPARENCY, BE MORE ACCESSIBLE, SO
10:04:50AM IF YOU WANTED TO BOOK THROUGH THE CONSULTATION LINK ONLINE,
10:04:54AM THAT IS THERE RIGHT NOW.
10:04:56AM AND ANOTHER ACCOMPLISHMENT THAT WE'VE DONE IS BRING ALL OF
10:04:58AM OUR CAC MINUTES ONLINE, TOO.
10:05:02AM GOT AN E-MAIL FROM A CAC MEMBER AND SHE WAS ABLE TO PULL ALL
10:05:05AM THE INFORMATION WITHOUT NEEDING TO ASK FOR IT.
10:05:08AM THAT WAS A LITTLE WIN THAT WE CELEBRATED AS WELL.
10:05:10AM THOSE ARE THE MAJOR DIRECTOR UPDATES.
10:05:22AM WE'LL START TO MOVE INTO ITEM 4, BUT I WILL PAUSE FOR ANY
10:05:25AM QUESTIONS REGARDING SOME OF THE THINGS JUST DISCUSSED.
10:05:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:05:32AM FOLLOWED BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:05:33AM >>BILL CARLSON: I JUST WANTED TO COMPLIMENT YOU FOR THE
10:05:35AM RADIO PROGRAM YOU DID ON SATURDAY.
10:05:37AM I SAID THIS TO YOU PRIVATELY, BUT I WANTED TO SAY IT
10:05:37AM PUBLICLY.
10:05:41AM YOU HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE LINED UP, AND IT WAS A GREAT
10:05:43AM REPRESENTATION OF THE CRA AND THE KIND OF PROMOTION THE CRA
10:05:46AM NEEDS TO MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC KNOWS THEIR MONEY IS BEING
10:05:48AM SPENT WELL.
10:05:49AM THANK YOU.
10:05:50AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I ALSO WANTED TO THANK YOU.
10:05:52AM IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE HUMMING ALONG.
10:05:54AM I KNOW YOU'RE PUTTING IN A LOT OF HOURS AND YOUR TEAM IS
10:05:59AM REALLY WORKING HARD.
10:06:01AM THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATES.
10:06:02AM IT'S JUST VERY EXCITING.
10:06:04AM I FEEL IT IN YOUR PRESENTATION, BUT IT ALSO IS INFECTIOUS.
10:06:09AM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.
10:06:12AM IT'S A GREAT WAY TO START THE DAY.
10:06:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:06:14AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU'RE MAKING IT LOOK TOO EASY.
10:06:17AM YOU'RE JUST MAKING IT LOOK TOO EASY.
10:06:19AM YOU GOT TO LEARN HOW TO BE A BUREAUCRAT.
10:06:24AM CONGRATULATIONS.
10:06:26AM GOOD JOB.
10:06:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYONE ELSE?
10:06:28AM OKAY.
10:06:29AM LET'S MOVE ON.
10:06:32AM >>ERICA MOODY: THANK YOU, THANK YOU.
10:06:33AM MY MOTTO IS TO MAKE IT LOOK EASY BUT THERE ARE SO MANY HOURS
10:06:38AM SPENT UP AT NIGHT AND I COULD RETURN THE COMPLIMENT TO YOU.
10:06:42AM I KNOW ALL THE HARD WORK YOU PUT INTO THE CITY AND TO YOUR
10:06:45AM CONSTITUENTS.
10:06:45AM IT IS A WORK OF HEART AND PASSION.
10:06:48AM IT IS HARD WORK BUT WORTH IT AND WE'RE HERE FOR IT.
10:06:51AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:06:51AM WE'LL START TO MOVE INTO THE MISSION, VISION, AND GOALS.
10:06:54AM I'LL ASK T & I TO BRING IT UP OR I WILL FIGURE OUT
10:06:58AM TECHNOLOGY ALONG THE WAY.
10:06:59AM BUT THIS IS REALLY TYING UP A BOW AROUND SOME OF THE THINGS
10:07:04AM THAT WE DISCUSSED IN OUR LAST MEETING.
10:07:06AM SO IN OUR LAST MEETING IN AUGUST, I PRESENTED THE MISSION,
10:07:09AM VISION, AND OBJECTIVES FOR THE TAMPA CRA.
10:07:14AM AND LISTENED TO YOUR FEEDBACK.
10:07:15AM I ALSO ENGAGED WITH OUR STAFF MORE JUST SO WE CAN ALL BE
10:07:19AM PART OF OUR WHY THAT WE TALK ABOUT.
10:07:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME, BOARD MEMBER MOODY.
10:07:23AM I THINK THERE IS A TECHNICAL ISSUE.
10:07:25AM CCTV, THE BOARD MEMBERS CANNOT SEE THE PRESENTATION ON OUR
10:07:30AM SCREENS.
10:07:30AM THANK YOU.
10:07:47AM WE SEE IT, SIR.
10:07:48AM THANK YOU.
10:07:52AM >>ERICA MOODY: WE'RE LOOKING TO FINALIZE THE MISSION,
10:07:54AM VISION, AND OBJECTIVES IN THIS MEETING SO THEN WE CAN START
10:07:58AM TO MOVE FORWARD.
10:08:00AM WE'RE DEVELOPING KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND REALLY
10:08:02AM CREATING A PROGRAM MATRIX.
10:08:03AM SO I AM EXCITED TO START ROLLING THIS OUT AS WE MOVE ALONG,
10:08:07AM AND REALLY LOOKING AT OUR GRANTS, OUR ACTIVITIES, OUR
10:08:11AM OUTPUTS, AND THEN GETTING INTO LONG-TERM OUTCOMES.
10:08:14AM SO WE'RE REALLY EXCITED TO SET THE FOUNDATION THROUGH OUR
10:08:16AM MISSION, VISION, AND GOALS SO WE CAN START TO MOVE INTO
10:08:19AM OBJECTIVES, MEASURABLES, AND METRICS AND ALL OF THAT WILL
10:08:22AM HOLD US ACCOUNTABLE AND ALSO BE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC SO
10:08:27AM WE CAN ENGAGE AND CONTINUE OUR GOOD WORK AND MAKE A GREAT
10:08:30AM IMPACT.
10:08:30AM SO WITH THAT, I'LL GO THROUGH OUR PRESENTATION.
10:08:33AM ANYTHING HIGHLIGHTED IN YELLOW IS A CHANGE THAT WE MADE
10:08:36AM BASED ON THE BOARD'S FEEDBACK.
10:08:38AM SO WE TALKED ABOUT STRENGTHENING COMMUNITIES.
10:08:43AM THE EXAMPLE OF THE POWER OF PARTNERSHIP TODAY IS A GREAT
10:08:46AM DEMONSTRATION OF HOW WE STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES THROUGH
10:08:48AM PARTNERSHIPS.
10:08:50AM THE DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD WAS AROUND ENHANCING AND
10:08:53AM ATTRACTING DEVELOPMENT.
10:08:56AM WE ARE COMMUNITY FOCUSED.
10:08:57AM INSTEAD OF ATTRACTING DEVELOPMENT, WE WANT TO FOCUS ON
10:09:01AM DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES AND CREATE THRIVING, INCLUSIVE
10:09:04AM NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ENHANCE QUALITY OF LIFE AND FOSTER
10:09:05AM ECONOMIC GROWTH.
10:09:06AM THAT STARTS TO INVITE SOME OF OUR KEY OBJECTIVES THAT WE'LL
10:09:09AM GET INTO.
10:09:11AM THE ONLY CHANGE FROM LAST MEETING WAS DEVELOPING COMMUNITIES
10:09:14AM RATHER THAN ATTRACTING DEVELOPERS.
10:09:15AM HERE WE HAVE HIGHLIGHTED, SO WE FOCUSED ON REDEVELOPMENT
10:09:23AM EFFORTS.
10:09:23AM WE WANTED TO TIE IN OUR MOTTO HERE TO STRENGTHEN COMMUNITIES
10:09:27AM IN AN EQUITABLE, DIVERSE AND SUSTAINABLE WAY.
10:09:31AM AFTER A CLOSER LOOK, WE THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT IN
10:09:33AM OUR VISION AND IN OUR MISSION TO SHOWCASE DIVERSITY AND
10:09:38AM EQUALITY AND EQUITY.
10:09:40AM SO THAT'S WHY WE FOLDED IT IN HERE SO THEN WE CAN BE HELD
10:09:43AM ACCOUNTABLE TO DOING SO.
10:09:45AM WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.
10:09:48AM THIS WAS PREVIOUSLY THE OBJECTIVES FOR THE CRA.
10:09:52AM AND I LIKED THEM BECAUSE I SEE THEM AS RESPONSIBILITIES TO
10:09:54AM OUR CONSTITUENTS AND TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF OUR FUND.
10:09:58AM SO INSTEAD OF GETTING RID OF THEM, WE REWORDED THEM TO BE A
10:10:01AM COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITY.
10:10:03AM WE ARE HERE.
10:10:04AM WE EXIST BECAUSE OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WE HAVE COMMITMENTS
10:10:07AM AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO THEM.
10:10:08AM SO WE JUST KIND OF REWORDED THIS, AND WE'LL WRITE THIS AS
10:10:13AM COMMITMENT AND KIND OF OATH TO THE COMMUNITY, IF YOU WILL.
10:10:15AM WE JUST ADDED ECONOMIC AND PUBLIC BENEFITS JUST TO BRING THE
10:10:21AM PUBLIC IN ON THAT.
10:10:22AM WE HAVE OUR FOCUS AREAS.
10:10:27AM WE JAZZED IT UP A LITTLE BIT MORE.
10:10:28AM THE ONLY THING WE CHANGED WAS CONNECTIVITY.
10:10:31AM SO WE TALKED ABOUT TRANSPORTATION, AND WE THINK OF VEHICLES
10:10:34AM WHEN WE TALK TRANSPORTATION, BUT WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT
10:10:37AM CONNECTING NEIGHBORHOODS AND PEOPLE TOGETHER, AND THAT'S
10:10:39AM THROUGH ALL MULTIMODAL FORMATS.
10:10:42AM SO, YES, THAT'S WHY WE CHANGED IT TO CONNECTIVITY, AND WE
10:10:46AM CAN FURTHER EXPLAIN THAT AS WE GET INTO OUR TRANSPORTATION
10:10:49AM AND STREETCAR DISCUSSIONS.
10:10:51AM THEN WE BROKE DOWN OUR PROPOSED GOALS.
10:10:58AM SO THESE GOALS ARE REALLY THE BASELINE OF WHAT WE MEASURE
10:11:01AM EVERYTHING TO.
10:11:02AM SO WHEN PEOPLE COME TO US, WE WILL GIVE THEM OUR GOALS AND
10:11:06AM SAY TELL US WHICH GOALS YOU'RE MATCHING FOR THE CRA.
10:11:09AM SO THAT IS WHY IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE WANT TO FOCUS
10:11:12AM ON THE HOME OWNERSHIP GAP, WHICH IS THE 80% AMI, AND THOSE
10:11:16AM ARE THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE REALLY WANT TO ENGAGE WITH, TO
10:11:19AM INVEST IN THESE UNDERINVESTED COMMUNITIES AND PEOPLE.
10:11:22AM SO WE WANT TO SEE 80% AMI AND WE WANT TO SEE IT FOR HOME
10:11:26AM OWNERSHIP.
10:11:28AM YOU'LL SEE THAT HIGHLIGHTED.
10:11:29AM AND THEN WE ALSO ADDED A NEW GOAL.
10:11:31AM THIS IS AROUND TEMPORARY AND EMERGENCY HOUSING OPTIONS TO
10:11:34AM STABILIZE COMMUNITIES AND REDUCE THE PERCENTAGE OF H AND T
10:11:40AM HOUSING AND TRANSPORTATION COSTS.
10:11:42AM WE DO RECOGNIZE THAT RENTAL IS NEEDED FOR EMERGENCY,
10:11:44AM TRANSITIONAL, BUT ULTIMATELY WE WANT THAT TO BE THE PATH TO
10:11:47AM HOME OWNERSHIP.
10:11:48AM SO WHAT I DID IS I LOOKED AT THE HOUSING NEEDS ASSESSMENT
10:11:52AM THAT'S ALMOST COMPLETE.
10:11:53AM THE GOALS OF THE CITY, AND MAKING SURE THAT THE CRA IS TYING
10:11:56AM INTO THE OVERARCHING GOALS OF THE CITY, AND THAT'S HOW WE
10:11:59AM CREATED THIS GOAL.
10:12:00AM THEN WE HAVE CONNECTIVITY.
10:12:06AM WE HAVE COMPLEMENT, BECAUSE AS MUCH AS WE WOULD LOVE TO DO
10:12:10AM IT ALL, WE ARE BASED ON PARTNERSHIPS.
10:12:11AM SO WE NEED TO PARTNER WITH CITY DEPARTMENTS, WITH PRIVATE
10:12:15AM PARTNERS, AND REALLY COMPLEMENT THE WORK THAT IS BEING DONE.
10:12:18AM SO WE COMPLEMENT THIS RELIABLE AND INTEGRATED PUBLIC TRANSIT
10:12:22AM NETWORK SYSTEM AS WELL AS YOU'LL SEE PROMOTE A SMART,
10:12:26AM SUSTAINABLE AND ECOFRIENDLY TRANSPORTATION WITH THE GOAL OF
10:12:29AM REDUCING COST BURDEN ON THE TRANSPORTATION FRONT JUST AS
10:12:32AM MUCH ON THE HOUSING FRONT.
10:12:35AM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WE REALLY GOT INTO THIS ONE.
10:12:39AM I'M WORKING CLOSELY WITH OUR DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC
10:12:41AM DEVELOPMENT, MR. JAVIER MARIN, AND WE REALLY WANT TO FOCUS
10:12:46AM ON GROWING ENTREPRENEURSHIP, SUPPORTING SMALL BUSINESSES, SO
10:12:49AM WE ARE COLLABORATING AND WE PROVIDE THESE GOALS TOGETHER AND
10:12:54AM REALLY TO SUPPORT NEW AND EXISTING BUSINESSES.
10:12:56AM TO ACCESS THIS CAPITAL GRANT FUNDING AND WE ALSO ADDED
10:13:00AM TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THE LEGAL JARGON
10:13:04AM CAN SOMETIMES TURN PEOPLE AWAY AND SEEM A LITTLE
10:13:07AM COMPLICATED.
10:13:07AM BUT WE WILL SIT SIDE BY SIDE WITH APPLICANTS AND HELP THEM
10:13:12AM FILL OUT THE APPLICATION.
10:13:13AM THAT LINKS INTO OUR CONSULTATION BOOKING ON OUR WEBSITE AND
10:13:16AM WE DO WANT TO PROVIDE THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO NAVIGATE
10:13:19AM THE RESOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE AND POSSIBLE.
10:13:20AM WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT PROVIDING INCENTIVES THAT LEVERAGE
10:13:24AM PRIVATE FINANCING TO ENCOURAGE ENTREPRENEURSHIP, SMALL
10:13:28AM BUSINESSES AND JOB CREATION, JUST LIKE WE SAID, WE WANT TO
10:13:31AM WORK WITH THE BUSINESSES AND WE ALSO WANT TO SCALE UP
10:13:33AM BUSINESSES IN THE CRA.
10:13:35AM SO WE HAVE A SCALE-UP INITIATIVE THAT WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON.
10:13:38AM AND THEN WE JUST ADDED COMMUNITY GATHERING SPACES TO THE
10:13:43AM LAST ONE.
10:13:43AM QUALITY OF LIFE WAS PRETTY CLEAR.
10:13:51AM BUT WE REALLY WANT TO DEVELOP THIS SENSE OF COMMUNITY WHERE
10:13:53AM NEIGHBORS KNOW EACH OTHER, WHERE WE CAN RELY ON EACH OTHER
10:13:56AM FOR THAT SOCIAL SUPPORT.
10:13:58AM WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING COMPLETELY ALONE, BUT WE DO WANT TO
10:14:01AM BUILD NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES WHERE WE KNOW OUR
10:14:03AM NEIGHBORS, WE FEEL CONNECTED TO WHAT'S GOING ON, SO REALLY
10:14:06AM JUST FOCUSING ON THAT COMMUNITY EFFICACY.
10:14:08AM WE ALSO ADDED TO ACCESS ESSENTIAL NEEDS AND RESOURCES, SO WE
10:14:14AM WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT ARE COMING INTO
10:14:16AM THE CRAs ARE ACTUAL NEEDS OF THE COMMUNITY AND NOT JUST
10:14:20AM OTHER PEOPLE'S IDEAS COMING IN.
10:14:22AM SO THAT'S WHY WE ARE GOING TO BE DATA DRIVEN IN OUR
10:14:25AM DECISIONS AND INVESTMENTS.
10:14:27AM SO THAT WE KNOW THAT THERE'S ACTUALLY A DEMONSTRATED NEED IN
10:14:30AM THE COMMUNITY AND THAT WHAT WE ARE DOING IS SUPPORTING THAT
10:14:33AM NEED.
10:14:33AM SO JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR HERE AS WELL.
10:14:36AM THEN WE HAVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
10:14:40AM WE DIDN'T MAKE ANY EDITS HERE.
10:14:42AM WE HAD A CONVERSATION OF SHOULD COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BE A
10:14:45AM GOAL, BE AN OBJECTIVE, AND I HAVE STOOD ON THIS THAT, YES,
10:14:50AM WE ARE FOUNDED TO WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY ADVISORY
10:14:54AM COMMITTEES TO WORK WITH OUR RESIDENTS AND TO HAVE THEM BE A
10:14:57AM PART OF THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS AS WELL AS THE OUTREACH
10:15:00AM AND COMMUNICATION TO MAKING IT ACCESSIBLE, LETTING THE
10:15:03AM PUBLIC KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING, HOW THEY CAN UTILIZE IT, AND
10:15:06AM WE PRETTY MUCH JUST LEFT THESE AS-IS.
10:15:09AM THIS IS WHERE WE ALSO PUT OUR CLEAR MEASURABLES, INDICATORS,
10:15:13AM AND WE WANT TO HAVE THAT COMMUNICATION WITH THE PUBLIC OF
10:15:14AM WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HOW WE'RE MEASURING OURSELVES AND THEN
10:15:17AM ALWAYS KIND OF LEAVE THAT AS A WORKING DOCUMENT TO WHERE WE
10:15:20AM CAN FLUCTUATE WITH THE COMMUNITY AND GROW ALONG WITH THEM AS
10:15:24AM THEIR PRIORITIES AND NEEDS CHANGE.
10:15:26AM SO WE HAVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AS ONE OF OUR GOALS.
10:15:29AM SO WE DID KEEP THAT ONE.
10:15:30AM AND THIS IS THE PRESENTATION.
10:15:33AM SO THIS IS KIND OF FINALIZING OUR MISSION, VISION AND GOALS
10:15:36AM FOR THE TAMPA CRA, WHICH WILL THEN BE THE BASELINE FOR
10:15:39AM DEVELOPING ALL OF THESE MEASURABLES.
10:15:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY COMMENTS?
10:15:43AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:15:46AM >>BILL CARLSON: I CAN'T TELL WHETHER YOU HAVE THE TEACHER
10:15:52AM EYE WHERE YOU CAN SEE OUT YOUR PERIPHERAL VISION OR NOT.
10:15:56AM THANK YOU, YOU AND YOUR TEAM.
10:16:01AM ANYBODY WHO WAS HERE FOUR YEARS AGO KNOWS THIS IS A RADICAL
10:16:04AM SHIFT FROM WHERE WE WERE FOUR YEARS AGO.
10:16:06AM BEFORE FOUR YEARS AGO, THIS WAS LIKE A SLUSH FUND FOR
10:16:12AM SUBSIDIZING DEVELOPERS.
10:16:14AM AND THAT'S ONE STRATEGY THAT CAN BE ARGUED, BUT WHAT YOU'VE
10:16:18AM JUST PRESENTED IS THE OUTLINE IT IS A STRATEGIC PLAN WE'VE
10:16:21AM BEEN ASKING FOR FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
10:16:23AM IN THE BEGINNING, THE GUTS -- THE BEGINNING GUTS OF IT.
10:16:27AM IT IS THE BEGINNING OF A NEW MODEL FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
10:16:32AM TAMPA.
10:16:33AM AND THIS IS THE MODEL THAT HAS WORKED IN MANY OTHER CITIES.
10:16:36AM IT'S THE MODEL THAT CHANGES THE NUMBERS THAT WE SHOWED IN
10:16:41AM TAMPA'S SCORECARD.
10:16:46AM IT'S GOING TO -- USING THIS MONEY EFFECTIVELY TO IMPLEMENT A
10:16:50AM NEW MODEL FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND FOCUSING ON PEOPLE
10:16:53AM AND NEIGHBORHOODS IS GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MOVE THE
10:17:00AM NUMBERS AND WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.
10:17:02AM SO THE OTHER THING I'VE HAD LONG CONVERSATIONS WITH ALIS AND
10:17:07AM NICOLE, AND I THINK -- AND I HAVEN'T MET THE NEW ECONOMIC
10:17:11AM DEVELOPMENT GUY, BUT SOUNDS LIKE I WOULD AGREE WITH HIM 100%
10:17:14AM ON WHAT HE THINKS AS WELL.
10:17:16AM SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO MEETING WITH HIM.
10:17:18AM I MET WITH THE MAYOR AGAIN YESTERDAY AND SAID WE'VE GOT AT
10:17:21AM THE CITY THIS BUDGET IS WHAT 80 MILLION OR SOMETHING.
10:17:25AM WE'VE GOT A SMALL PETRI DISH TO EXPERIMENT WITH THIS, BUT IN
10:17:32AM IMPORTANT AREAS WHERE WE CAN MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE, EAST
10:17:34AM TAMPA, WEST TAMPA, WE CAN REALLY MOVE THE NEEDLE AND SHOW
10:17:37AM RESULTS FROM THIS LIMITED AMOUNT OF MONEY.
10:17:39AM BUT WITH THE $2 BILLION BUDGET WITH OUR OTHER HATS ON, WE
10:17:42AM CAN REALLY CHANGE THIS CITY.
10:17:43AM AND IF WE, STEAD OF OUTSOURCING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO
10:17:47AM EXCLUSIVE GROUPS LIKE THE EDC, IF WE FOCUS ON REAL,
10:17:51AM IMPACTFUL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
10:17:53AM CITYWIDE, OUR NUMBERS WILL BE OFF THE CHART AND TAMPA
10:17:57AM REALLY, TRULY WILL BE ONE OF THE BEST CITIES IN THE WORLD.
10:18:00AM THANK YOU.
10:18:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
10:18:03AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:18:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:18:05AM I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR THIS.
10:18:09AM AND I THINK THE PART THAT STANDS OUT TO ME IS WHERE YOU SAID
10:18:11AM THAT IF PEOPLE WANT TO COME AND PARTNER, THEY'LL HAVE TO
10:18:14AM POINT TO WHERE THIS FITS IN.
10:18:17AM AND I THINK THAT THAT IS A REALLY GOOD WAY TO FOCUS OUR
10:18:22AM ENERGY AND OUR TIME.
10:18:23AM SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE THOUGHT THAT WENT INTO
10:18:27AM THAT AND THANK YOU AND YOUR TEAM'S HARD WORK ON THIS.
10:18:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NUMBER 5.
10:18:37AM >>ERICA MOODY: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
10:18:39AM NUMBER 5 SHOULD BE RELATIVELY QUICK.
10:18:41AM THIS IS WRAPPING UP THE DISCUSSION FROM THE CAC POLICY
10:18:45AM RESTRUCTURE.
10:18:46AM AND ALONG WITH THE CRA BYLAWS.
10:18:48AM SO WE UPDATED THE BYLAWS FOR THE CRA AND THE CAC POLICY
10:18:52AM STRUCTURE AS WELL AS THE CAC APPLICATION HERE.
10:18:55AM THE DISCUSSION LAST MONTH WAS AROUND YBOR AND ASKING FOR TEN
10:19:01AM AT-LARGE, TEN EX OFFICIOS AND TO HAVE THE TWO EMERITUS
10:19:06AM POSITIONS TO SERVE OUT UNTIL THEY CAN NO LONGER SERVE.
10:19:09AM SO WE HAVE MADE THAT CHANGE WITHIN THE POLICY STRUCTURE, AND
10:19:12AM WE ARE PRESENTING IT TODAY AS IS.
10:19:16AM YOU'LL HAVE A MEMO AND THE POLICY IN YOUR DOCUMENTS AND WE
10:19:19AM HAVE MADE THE CHANGE THAT HAS BEEN REQUESTED.
10:19:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:19:22AM ANY COMMENTS?
10:19:25AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF IT IS ACCEPTABLE, IT WOULD BE
10:19:27AM APPROPRIATE FOR YOU TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE NEW
10:19:30AM POLICY AS REVISED.
10:19:32AM >>BILL CARLSON: SO MOVED.
10:19:33AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BUT THERE'S -- ISN'T IT A DIFFERENT ITEM,
10:19:35AM THOUGH?
10:19:36AM IT'S AN ITEM COMING UP AS WELL.
10:19:39AM >>ERICA MOODY: THEY COMBINED THE ITEMS.
10:19:42AM THERE WAS AN ITEM TO REVISE IT AND THEN TO RE-PRESENT IT AND
10:19:46AM THEN WE COMBINED IT AS ONE RIGHT NOW.
10:19:49AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA SAID SO MOVED.
10:19:52AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:19:54AM IT WAS THE OTHER WAY AROUND.
10:19:55AM OKAY.
10:19:55AM THANK YOU.
10:19:56AM ALL RIGHT.
10:19:57AM YES.
10:19:58AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON MADE THE MOTION, SECONDED BY BOARD
10:20:04AM MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:20:05AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:20:07AM >> AYE.
10:20:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OPPOSED?
10:20:08AM MOTION CARRIES.
10:20:09AM DIRECTOR MOODY, THANK YOU FOR COMBINING ALL THOSE TOGETHER.
10:20:17AM I JUST WANT TO SAY YOU HAVE HIT THE GROUND RUNNING AND I
10:20:21AM REALLY DO APPRECIATE THAT.
10:20:23AM BUT I DO KNOW THAT THERE IS A TOP-DOWN APPROACH, AND I WOULD
10:20:27AM BE REMISS IF I DID NOT ACKNOWLEDGE ADMINISTRATOR TRAVIS AND
10:20:33AM DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR DRUMGO FOR GIVING YOU CLEAR DIRECTIVES
10:20:37AM AS YOU ENTER THIS NEW ROLE BECAUSE YOU ARE, YOU KNOW, ROCK
10:20:42AM STARRING IT OUT, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE LEVELS TO THIS
10:20:44AM AND YOU HAVE SOME GREAT SUPPORT ON TOP OF YOU AND THEN, OF
10:20:47AM COURSE, WHAT YOU DO UNDERNEATH YOU.
10:20:49AM SO I JUST WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AS YOU MOVE FORWARD
10:20:53AM WITH THE BUSINESS OF TODAY.
10:20:54AM THANK YOU.
10:20:57AM >>ERICA MOODY: ABSOLUTELY.
10:20:57AM THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT.
10:20:59AM THIS WOULD NOT BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THEM AND COMING ON BOARD,
10:21:02AM THEIR SUPPORT WAS A BIG REASON WHY I FELT COMFORTABLE TAKING
10:21:06AM ON THIS BIG ROLE.
10:21:07AM SO THEY HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY SUPPORTIVE AND I'M GLAD IT'S
10:21:11AM GOING WELL.
10:21:12AM THAT WRAPS UP ITEMS 3, 4, 5.
10:21:19AM WE START TO MOVE INTO ITEM 6 WHICH IS REPORTING ON THE
10:21:22AM DOWNTOWN CRA AND POTENTIAL LIMITATION OR SUNSET
10:21:24AM CONVERSATION.
10:21:25AM WE DISCUSSED THIS LAST MONTH AS WELL, AND WE'RE LOOKING TO
10:21:28AM GET TO A POINT OF CLARITY TODAY ON IT.
10:21:32AM I WILL PULL UP THE PRESENTATION, IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A
10:21:35AM MOMENT OR IF T AND I COULD BRING UP THE DOWNTOWN BUDGET
10:21:39AM ANALYSIS PowerPoint.
10:21:40AM WE HAVE THE SAME PRESENTATION AS LAST MONTH, BUT I DID WRITE
10:21:51AM NOTES AND GO BACK AND LISTEN.
10:21:52AM I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL PROPOSED
10:21:55AM PROJECTS THAT WERE DISCUSSED.
10:21:56AM WE HAVE OUR COMMITMENTS THAT WE'LL BRING UP.
10:21:59AM BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE A PROPOSED PROJECT LIST.
10:22:02AM AND THESE ARE IDEAS OF DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENTS THAT
10:22:05AM STILL NEED TO HAPPEN IN DOWNTOWN TAMPA, BUT THEY ARE JUST
10:22:09AM PRELIMINARY.
10:22:09AM SO THESE ARE ESTIMATES.
10:22:11AM THEY ARE NOT APPROVED.
10:22:12AM THEY ARE NOT LOCKED IN, BUT THIS IS WHERE WE WERE HAVING THE
10:22:16AM CONVERSATION OF THINGS THAT WE DO WANT TO SEE HAPPEN IN
10:22:19AM DOWNTOWN.
10:22:20AM I'LL HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WE DISCUSSED LAST
10:22:22AM MONTH.
10:22:23AM THIS IS THE CONVERSATION WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT LOOKING INTO
10:22:26AM BIG BLUE AS THE POLICE STATION AND POTENTIALLY THE CRA
10:22:30AM BUYING IT AND REDEVELOPING IT INTO AFFORDABLE HOUSING WITH A
10:22:34AM POTENTIAL STATION OR FIRST RESPONSE RESOURCE ON THE FIRST
10:22:37AM LEVEL.
10:22:38AM WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO CHIEF TRIPP AND STARTED THAT
10:22:41AM CONVERSATION ON WHAT IT WOULD TAKE, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE,
10:22:44AM BUT THIS IS WHERE IT WOULD HAPPEN IN THE DOWNTOWN BUDGET.
10:22:47AM WE ALSO TALKED A LOT ABOUT TRANSPORTATION, EXPANDING THE
10:22:50AM STREETCAR.
10:22:51AM IT LED US INTO CONVERSATION ON MARION STREET AND THE
10:22:54AM ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT CAN BE DONE TO ACTIVATE THAT STREET
10:22:57AM AS WELL AS FRANKLIN STREET AND GIVING THAT ANOTHER GO TO
10:23:01AM REALLY MAKE IT A PEDESTRIAN WALKWAY.
10:23:04AM WE TALKED ABOUT KILEY GARDENS.
10:23:06AM >>BILL CARLSON: DO YOU NEED TO ADVANCE THE SLIDES?
10:23:08AM >>ERICA MOODY: I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE THINGS
10:23:10AM THAT WERE TALKED ABOUT LAST MONTH AND THEN WE'LL GET INTO
10:23:13AM IT.
10:23:13AM I HAVE TWO MORE.
10:23:14AM WE TALKED ABOUT KILEY GARDENS.
10:23:16AM WE TALKED ABOUT PARK IMPROVEMENTS AND ACCESSIBILITY AND WE
10:23:19AM ALSO TALKED ABOUT HOUSING, HOUSING, HOUSING, WITH THE ARMY
10:23:22AM NAVY AND ADDITIONAL SITES FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN
10:23:25AM DOWNTOWN.
10:23:25AM SO WE'LL BRING UP THE PRESENTATION AND GO THROUGH.
10:23:30AM THESE ARE THE SLIDES THAT YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE AND WE'LL PICK
10:23:33AM UP THE CONVERSATION PRETTY MUCH WHERE WE LEFT OFF.
10:23:35AM JUST A LITTLE BIT OF THE BACKGROUND.
10:23:42AM THIS IS REQUESTED BY THE BOARD TO LOOK INTO THE COMMITTED
10:23:44AM MONEY FOR THE DOWNTOWN CRA AND ALSO POTENTIAL PROJECTS FOR
10:23:47AM THE FUTURE.
10:23:48AM AS YOU KNOW, THE REDEVELOPMENT AREA IS SLATED FOR 2043
10:23:54AM SUNSET.
10:23:54AM THERE IS AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT.
10:23:57AM 100% OF IT IS FUNDED BY THE CITY, SO IT'S NOT A COUNTY
10:24:01AM CONTRIBUTION HERE.
10:24:01AM AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE A TEN-YEAR OUTLOOK THROUGH 2033 AND WE
10:24:07AM CAN PROJECT BEYOND THAT TO 2043 AND THEN IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT
10:24:12AM TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE PLAN IS CURRENTLY BEING REWRITTEN, SO
10:24:16AM WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE.
10:24:19AM THE PERFECT TIME TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION AS THE DOWNTOWN
10:24:21AM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN IS BEING UPDATED.
10:24:24AM SO WHATEVER THE BOARD DECIDES, WE CAN FOLD THAT INTO THE
10:24:27AM PLAN WITH THE OPEN SCOPE OF WORK THAT CURRENTLY EXISTS.
10:24:30AM SO VERY TIMELY.
10:24:31AM AND THEN ALSO JUST THE PROJECTIONS ARE AT AN 11% INCREMENT
10:24:36AM REVENUE AND, OF COURSE, THAT CAN FLUCTUATE AND JUST AN
10:24:40AM ESTIMATE OVER TIME.
10:24:41AM WE TALKED ABOUT OUR COMMITMENTS.
10:24:42AM THESE ARE THE COMMITMENTS THAT ARE LOCKED INTO THE DOWNTOWN
10:24:46AM BUDGET.
10:24:46AM AS YOU SEE, WE HAVE 116 MILLION, OVER FIVE DIFFERENT
10:24:50AM PROPERTIES ABOVE, AND THAT ENDS BY 2029.
10:24:55AM YOU'LL SEE IN 2030, THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY STARTS TO OPEN UP
10:24:58AM AND ADDITIONAL PROJECTS WOULD COME ONLINE AT THAT TIME.
10:25:01AM THESE ARE THE PROPOSED PROJECTS THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.
10:25:06AM THESE ARE THE ONES THAT ARE LISTED, BUT WE HAD A LOT MORE
10:25:10AM CONVERSATION AROUND THE PROJECTS THAT I WAS PREVIOUSLY
10:25:13AM SPEAKING ON AND THAT YOU ALL CARE ABOUT.
10:25:15AM THIS IS THE INCREMENT REVENUE ANALYSIS, SO IF WE ONLY STICK
10:25:21AM TO OUR COMMITTED PAYMENTS, YOU'LL SEE THAT IF WE JUST DO OUR
10:25:24AM COMMITMENTS ALL THE WAY TO 2033, THAT BRINGS US AT $330
10:25:28AM MILLION.
10:25:30AM ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE, WE HAVE THE COMMITMENTS PLUS
10:25:34AM PROPOSED, AND THAT OPENS UP ADDITIONAL MONIES IN 2031, BUT
10:25:38AM STILL HAS ABOUT 12 MILLION UNASSIGNED FUNDS HERE.
10:25:42AM SO I'LL KIND OF BACK AWAY AND ALLOW THE CONVERSATION TO
10:25:46AM OCCUR.
10:25:47AM I CAN GO THROUGH ANY SLIDE THAT YOU WANT TO SEE AND WE CAN
10:25:49AM TALK.
10:25:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:25:53AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:25:53AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:25:55AM AND THIS IS IMPORTANT TO SEE LOOKING FORWARD.
10:25:58AM $330 MILLION IS WHAT WOULD BE AVAILABLE LOOKING TO THE
10:26:04AM FUTURE AND ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, IT HAD THE BIGGEST CHUNK
10:26:08AM WAS FOR HOUSING, 136 MILLION AND THEN WE HAVE LAND
10:26:12AM ACQUISITION.
10:26:12AM AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DISCUSSED AND TALKED ABOUT,
10:26:16AM AND I WAS BRAINSTORMING THIS MORNING OF HOW WE CAN UTILIZE
10:26:22AM THOSE FUNDS FOR HOUSING, WHAT WE HAVE EXISTING IN REAL
10:26:28AM ESTATE THAT THE CITY ALREADY CONTROLS.
10:26:30AM FOR EXAMPLE, THE ARMY NAVY SITE IS SOMETHING THAT WAS MOST
10:26:34AM RECENT, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY HERE AS THIS URBAN
10:26:39AM CORE, THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT CONTINUES TO GROW AND
10:26:41AM THE DENSITY BUILDS AND THE RESIDENTIAL GROWS, THERE'S A LOT
10:26:45AM OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING OPTIONS.
10:26:48AM THERE ARE OPTIONS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE GENERAL FUND FOR
10:26:52AM ADDRESSING FIRE STATION NEEDS.
10:26:54AM I THINK THERE'S OPPORTUNITY THERE BETWEEN DOWNTOWN AND THE
10:26:57AM CHANNEL AREA.
10:26:59AM THIS CRA BEING THAT IT HAS SO MUCH MONEY WILL CONTINUE TO
10:27:04AM GROW AND SO MUCH AVAILABILITY OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS.
10:27:08AM I MEAN, WE CAN FOCUS ON DOING SO MUCH, TAKING THE BURDEN OFF
10:27:14AM THE GENERAL FUND, UTILIZING THE CRA DOLLARS WISELY WHERE WE
10:27:18AM CAN MEET SOME OF THE MOST PRESSING NEEDS AND DEMANDS.
10:27:21AM SO THIS IS VERY PROMISING TO SEE, BECAUSE ALL I SEE BEYOND
10:27:24AM NUMBERS, I SEE OPPORTUNITY.
10:27:26AM AND THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT LATELY, OUR
10:27:30AM PRIORITIES, THE ADMINISTRATION'S PRIORITIES, AND THAT'S IT.
10:27:34AM THANK YOU.
10:27:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:27:39AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN YOU GO BACK A SLIDE, PLEASE?
10:27:42AM THOSE FIVE DON'T INCLUDE MANY OTHER SMALLER PROJECTS, RIGHT?
10:27:50AM INCLUDING TAMPA UNION STATION AND SEVERAL OTHERS.
10:27:54AM SO THOSE ARE JUST THE FIVE BIG -- YEAH, JACKSON HOUSE.
10:28:02AM TAMPA THEATRE IS ON THERE.
10:28:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FOR THE RECORD, CAN YOU ALL SAY THAT A
10:28:05AM LITTLE BIT LOUDER, PLEASE?
10:28:07AM >>BILL CARLSON: JACKSON HOUSE AND TAMPA UNION STATION AND
10:28:10AM PROBABLY OTHERS ARE NOT -- JUST THE SMALLER ONES --
10:28:13AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CORRECT.
10:28:14AM THAT LIST IS NOT TOTALLY COMPLETE.
10:28:16AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST SO THE PUBLIC KNOWS.
10:28:18AM THIS LIST WAS NOT CREATED BY US.
10:28:20AM IT WAS NOT PRIORITIZED BY US.
10:28:22AM IT WAS JUST A LIST THROWN OUT BY PREVIOUS STAFF.
10:28:26AM LAST NIGHT WE SPENT HOW MANY HOURS WAS IT?
10:28:29AM EIGHT HOURS, TALKING ABOUT NEEDS, NOT WANT.
10:28:32AM CAN YOU GO BACK TO THE NEXT SLIDE?
10:28:35AM WHETHER YOU LIKE THESE THINGS OR OTHERS.
10:28:40AM THINK ABOUT THE DISCUSSION WE HAD LAST NIGHT.
10:28:42AM LAST NIGHT WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT $45 MILLION.
10:28:45AM THERE'S 330.
10:28:46AM DID YOU FIGURE OUT WHAT THE NUMBER IS UP TO 2043?
10:28:49AM >>ERICA MOODY: IT WOULD BE OVER 600 MILLION.
10:28:51AM >>BILL CARLSON: THIS IS JUST THE FIRST TEN YEARS.
10:28:53AM AND THEN AFTER THAT.
10:28:55AM SO WE SPENT HOURS AND HOURS TALKING ABOUT $45 MILLION.
10:29:01AM LAST NIGHT WE HAD -- AND YOU DIDN'T DO THE SCHEDULE FOR WHAT
10:29:04AM IT WOULD MEAN EVEN JUST FOR NEXT YEAR, BUT THERE WOULD BE
10:29:08AM SOME EXCESS MAYBE STARTING IN THE FIRST YEAR.
10:29:11AM IF WE HAD ANOTHER 5 MILLION, WE COULD DOUBLE THE ROAD REPAIR
10:29:15AM BUDGET AND THINK ABOUT WHAT WE COULD DO WITH AFFORDABLE
10:29:17AM HOUSING OR WHATEVER.
10:29:18AM IF WE HAD ACCESS TO THE MONEY LAST NIGHT, EVEN ANOTHER 10 OR
10:29:22AM 20 MILLION, IT WOULD HAVE MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE.
10:29:24AM I WOULD JUST ASK EVERYBODY, THINK ABOUT WHAT THE TEST IS.
10:29:29AM MY OTHER TEST IS THINK ABOUT YOUR STANDING WITH HOMEOWNER
10:29:33AM AND THEY ARE SAYING, WHY IS MY ROAD FALLING APART?
10:29:36AM WHY IS THE PARK IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD FALLING APART?
10:29:38AM AND ALL THESE THINGS MAY BE IMPORTANT, BUT IF YOU'RE GOING
10:29:42AM TO INVEST IN THESE DOWNTOWN, WE'RE ALSO GOING TO HAVE TO
10:29:45AM EXPLAIN TO THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS WHY WE'RE NOT
10:29:48AM INVESTING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:29:49AM I'M WARY -- WEARY OF HAVING TO EXPLAIN TO THEM ALL THE TIME
10:29:57AM IN PART THAT THE MONEY IS TRAPPED IN DOWNTOWN.
10:30:01AM KILEY GARDENS, THERE IS A POLITICAL ISSUE THAT HAS TO BE
10:30:05AM RESOLVED THERE.
10:30:06AM I'VE GOT FRIENDS ON BOTH SIDES.
10:30:09AM I'M FRIENDS WITH KILEY GARDENS.
10:30:11AM FRIENDS WITH THE GMF AND OTHER PEOPLE.
10:30:14AM IT'S AN IMPORTANT PARK, IMPORTANT DESIGN.
10:30:18AM GMF IS I THINK THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT IN DOWNTOWN IN THE
10:30:22AM YEAR.
10:30:22AM AND THEY CAN'T OPERATE WITH KILEY GARDENS BEING A GARDEN
10:30:25AM AGAIN.
10:30:26AM SOMEBODY IN THE ADMINISTRATION HAS GOT TO RESOLVE THAT.
10:30:28AM LAST YEAR OR EARLIER THIS YEAR, THEY TRIED TO -- THE CITY
10:30:32AM TRIED TO KICK THEM TO A DIFFERENT PARK WHICH DOESN'T WORK.
10:30:35AM WE'VE GOT TO RESOLVE THAT ISSUE BEFORE WE CAN PICK SIDES
10:30:38AM BECAUSE IF WE START TO FUND THIS, WE'LL BE IN THE MIDDLE OF
10:30:41AM A BIGGER POLITICAL BATTLE BETWEEN TWO GREAT ORGANIZATIONS.
10:30:45AM MARION STREET, I FOUND OUT, AS I SAID LAST MONTH, I FOUND
10:30:50AM OUT ABOUT THE MARION STREET THING THROUGH THE COMMUNITY, NOT
10:30:52AM THROUGH STAFF.
10:30:54AM AND SO I THINK IF IT IS AN IDEA BEING DISCUSSED, WE SHOULD
10:30:58AM HAVE IT ON THE AGENDA AND DISCUSS IT AT SOME POINT IN THE
10:31:01AM FUTURE.
10:31:02AM I DON'T KNOW HOW WE WOULD GET UP THERE, BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE
10:31:05AM A RIGHT TURN IN DOWNTOWN I GUESS.
10:31:06AM BUT IF WE'RE LOOKING AT MOVING THE STREETCAR UP MARION
10:31:09AM STREET, THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN MAKING IT A PEDESTRIAN WALK.
10:31:12AM I DON'T SEE HOW WE COULD.
10:31:16AM ANYWAY.
10:31:17AM ON HOUSING, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT THE NICE TO HAVE VERSUS
10:31:20AM WHAT WE CAN HAVE, HOUSING, THEY PUT, I THINK, 30% OF THE
10:31:25AM MONEY IN HOUSING ARBITRARILY THERE.
10:31:28AM BUT AS I'VE SAID MANY, MANY TIMES BEFORE, YES, WE NEED
10:31:31AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN DOWNTOWN AND WE ARE INVESTING IN SOME,
10:31:34AM BUT WE DESPERATELY NEED HOUSING IN OTHER PLACES AND WE COULD
10:31:37AM GET WAY MORE BANG FOR OUR BUCK JUST A FEW BLOCKS AWAY.
10:31:40AM WE AS CRA BOARD CANNOT DESIGNATE THIS FOR A HOUSING FUND,
10:31:45AM BUT, FOR EXAMPLE, WE COULD SEND SOME OF IT BACK TO THE
10:31:49AM GENERAL FUND, AND THEN WITH THE COUNTY'S APPROVAL, WE CAN DO
10:31:53AM THAT AND THEN AS CITY COUNCIL, WE CAN NEGOTIATE WITH THE
10:31:55AM MAYOR TO AT LEAST IN THE SHORT RUN PUT IT INTO A HOUSING
10:31:58AM FUND AND TRY TO LABEL IT LIKE THAT FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
10:32:02AM I THINK THAT IT IS THE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE THING TO DO
10:32:08AM CONSIDERING THE CONVERSATION WE HAD LAST NIGHT.
10:32:09AM THE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE THING TO DO IS GIVE SOME OF THIS
10:32:12AM MONEY BACK TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE IT CAME FROM.
10:32:14AM ALL OF THIS -- THIS IS NOT DOWNTOWN'S MONEY.
10:32:18AM THIS IS MONEY SUBSIDIZED BY THE REST OF THE CITY.
10:32:20AM AND IF IT'S THEIR MONEY, WHY ARE WE NOT FIXING THEIR STREETS
10:32:24AM AND WHY ARE WE NOT FIXING THE PARKS?
10:32:25AM WHY ARE WE NOT BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING THROUGHOUT THE
10:32:27AM CITY.
10:32:28AM IF WE MOVE IT OUT, WE CAN CHOOSE TO PUT AFFORDABLE HOUSING
10:32:31AM WHEREVER WE WANT OR FIX ROADS WHEREVER WE WANT.
10:32:33AM SO WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST TO END IS, LIKE I SAID LAST TIME,
10:32:37AM JUST A CAP, WE CAN CAP IT AT 117 MILLION.
10:32:40AM IF YOU ALL THINK WE SHOULD KEEP SOME MONEY IN FOR DOWNTOWN
10:32:44AM HOUSING, ADD ANOTHER 20 OR 50 MILLION.
10:32:46AM IF YOU THINK WE SHOULD DO SEVERAL OF THE THINGS, ADD A
10:32:49AM HUNDRED MILLION.
10:32:49AM EVEN IF WE ADDED A HUNDRED MILLION, WE STILL WOULD HAVE MORE
10:32:52AM THAN 200 MILLION THAT WE COULD MOVE OUT AND THAT WOULD BE
10:32:56AM SEEN, CONSIDERING THE CONVERSATION LAST NIGHT, THAT WOULD BE
10:32:58AM SOMETHING WHERE WE COULD SHOW THAT WE'VE TAKEN DECISIVE
10:33:01AM ACTION AND WE'RE BEING GOOD STEWARDS OF THE TAXPAYERS' MONEY
10:33:04AM AND WE'RE BEING FISCALLY PRUDENT AND DOING OUR PART TO
10:33:08AM CONTRIBUTE BACK TO THE CITY.
10:33:10AM THANK YOU.
10:33:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA AND THEN BOARD MEMBER
10:33:12AM CLENDENIN.
10:33:12AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHAIR.
10:33:16AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
10:33:16AM OBVIOUSLY FOR ME, I'VE LONG SUPPORTED AND MAJORITY OF THIS
10:33:20AM COUNCIL HAS LONG SUPPORTED CAPPING THE DOWNTOWN CRA OR
10:33:24AM HAVING SOME METHOD BY WHICH WE, YOU KNOW, TEMPER THIS
10:33:28AM OBVIOUS ACCESS.
10:33:30AM YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE LIST, SOME OF IT IS GREAT.
10:33:32AM SOME OF IT YOU'RE LIKE, MAN, THAT WOULD BE BETTER SPENT IN
10:33:34AM NEW TAMPA OR SOUTH TAMPA, AREAS THAT AREN'T CRAs.
10:33:37AM I THINK WE ALL AGREE WITH THAT.
10:33:39AM YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT WE DO HAVE TO CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR,
10:33:43AM AND I KNOW COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN HAS BEEN SUCH A GREAT
10:33:46AM CHAMPION OF THIS, IS THE STREETCAR.
10:33:49AM I'M SURE HE'LL TALK ABOUT IT, SO I WON'T TALK ABOUT IT.
10:33:52AM BUT JUST SOMETHING TO KEEP OUT THERE.
10:33:54AM I KNOW COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN HAS DONE A GREAT JOB IN BRINGING
10:33:57AM THAT TO THE FOREFRONT AND WHATNOT.
10:33:59AM AGAIN, MY CHALLENGE IS, WE SHOULD HURRY UP AND DO THIS.
10:34:03AM WE COULD HAVE PROBABLY DONE THIS A YEAR OR TWO AGO, AND WE
10:34:08AM CONTINUE TO HAVE THINGS BEFORE US, WHETHER IT'S THE TAMPA
10:34:10AM THEATRE.
10:34:11AM I VOTED FOR THAT.
10:34:13AM WHETHER IT'S THE STRAZ CENTER, I VOTED AGAINST IT.
10:34:16AM WHATEVER IT IS, THINGS IF WE LOOK AT IT IN THE GENERAL
10:34:19AM BUDGET WE WOULDN'T SPEND THAT KIND OF MONEY ON IT.
10:34:22AM IT'S IN THE CRA, LET'S JUST DO IT.
10:34:24AM LET'S END THAT NARRATIVE LIKE NOW, AND GET THIS BALL ROLLING
10:34:28AM BECAUSE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS NEED IT, I SUGGEST.
10:34:31AM AGAIN, THESE ARE -- ALL THESE THINGS, WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL
10:34:35AM INVESTMENTS TO GREAT COMMUNITIES, BUT THEY CAN BE SPENT IN A
10:34:40AM MORE EQUITABLE WAY IF WE TEMPER THE EXCESSES.
10:34:42AM I SAY LET'S GET THIS THING ROLLING.
10:34:44AM I KNOW WE HAVE THE SUPPORT.
10:34:45AM WE HAD IT LAST TIME.
10:34:46AM WE'LL CONTINUE TO HAVE IT NOW.
10:34:48AM I KNOW THERE'S LEGAL DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN THIS AND THE
10:34:52AM CHANNELSIDE CRA AND LOOKING AT MODIFICATIONS TO THERE.
10:34:58AM THIS IS MORE OF A CLEAN MOVE THAT WE CAN DO WITH, I THINK,
10:35:01AM ONLY BENEFIT FOR US, QUITE FRANKLY.
10:35:03AM SO LET'S ROLL.
10:35:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CLENDENIN AND THEN BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:35:11AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HELLO.
10:35:11AM SO I WANT TO SAY I AGREE WITH I THINK ALMOST EVERYTHING THAT
10:35:17AM CARLSON SAID, COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID, ON A LOT OF THESE
10:35:21AM ITEMS.
10:35:24AM ON THIS LIST, I COULD -- I REALLY WANT TO FIND OUT HOW THIS
10:35:28AM LIST CAME INTO BEING BECAUSE IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY SEEM TO
10:35:32AM JIVE WITH THE VALUES OF THE PEOPLE THAT I SHARE THIS DAIS
10:35:36AM WITH, THAT ARE ON THE CRA BOARD.
10:35:39AM AND ESPECIALLY AND DEFINITELY IN A PRIORITIZATION.
10:35:41AM IF THERE IS A LEGAL WAY FOR TODAY FOR US TO MOVE THAT 136
10:35:48AM OUT OF DOWNTOWN AND PARLAY THAT IN TO SOME OF THE PROJECTS
10:35:53AM THAT COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK HAS SUPPORTED, LIKE BUILDING
10:35:56AM HOUSING ELSEWHERE TO GET -- BE ABLE TO SERVICE MORE PEOPLE
10:36:00AM AND BE ABLE TO PROVIDE HOUSING FOR MORE PEOPLE, IF THERE IS
10:36:03AM A WAY OF DOING THAT, MAN, LET'S DO IT.
10:36:05AM IF THERE'S NOT, THEN WE CAN'T.
10:36:07AM IF THERE IS A WAY OF DOING THAT, I'M ALL ON BOARD.
10:36:09AM IF WE CAN GET THAT MONEY OUT OF THE CRA AND BUILD AFFORDABLE
10:36:14AM HOUSING IN AREAS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE WE CAN GET TWO OR
10:36:17AM THREE UNITS FOR THE PRICE OF ONE DOWNTOWN, MAKES SENSE TO
10:36:21AM ME.
10:36:21AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, ON MARION, I'VE HAD INFORMAL
10:36:30AM CONVERSATIONS ABOUT MARION.
10:36:31AM HART WAS LOOKING AT DEACTIVATING, GREAT IDEA THAT JUST DID
10:36:35AM NOT WORK.
10:36:35AM THEY ARE LOOKING AT DEACTIVATING THAT STREET AS A TRANSIT
10:36:40AM CORRIDOR AND MAYBE POTENTIALLY WE COULD TAKE IT OVER.
10:36:43AM I KIND OF ENVISION THAT AREA AS GREEN MOBILITY SPINE,
10:36:46AM NORTH-SOUTH SPINE THROUGH THE CITY THAT WE COULD ACTIVATE
10:36:49AM KIOSKS AND ART SPACE AND WHATNOT, A BIG GREEN SPINE THROUGH
10:36:53AM THE CITY, BUT IT WOULD NOT BE A PART OF THE STREETCAR
10:36:56AM EXPANSION PROPOSALS.
10:36:56AM AGAIN, SOME OF THOSE OTHER THINGS, THERE'S A LOT OF DEVIL IN
10:37:03AM THE DETAILS.
10:37:04AM HISTORIC STREETCAR YOU HAVE ON THE AGENDA.
10:37:05AM WHAT IS THE 1.2 THAT'S ON THE PRIORITY LIST?
10:37:10AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE CRAs THAT ARE SERVED BY THE
10:37:12AM STREETCAR, THE YBOR CRA, THE CHANNEL DISTRICT CRA, AND THE
10:37:15AM DOWNTOWN CRA ANNUALLY CONTRIBUTE I BELIEVE I THINK
10:37:20AM APPROXIMATELY $200,000 A YEAR TOWARDS THE OPERATION OF THE
10:37:23AM STREETCAR.
10:37:23AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT IS THE OPERATIONAL COST, 1.2.
10:37:25AM VERY GOOD.
10:37:26AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE.
10:37:27AM POE GARAGE.
10:37:28AM WHY IS THAT THERE?
10:37:31AM OUR PARKING IS MAKING MONEY.
10:37:33AM WHY ARE WE SPENDING MONEY OUT OF THE CRA FOR PARKING?
10:37:37AM >>ERICA MOODY: I BELIEVE THERE'S SOME REINFORCEMENT THAT
10:37:39AM NEEDS TO HAPPEN ON THE GARAGE.
10:37:41AM MR. DRUMGO MIGHT HAVE MORE INFORMATION.
10:37:43AM IT JUST NEEDS TO BE REINFORCED --
10:37:47AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: -- SPENDING CRA MONEY WHEN WE SEEM TO HAVE
10:37:50AM AN EXCESS OF MONEY IN PARKING, UNLESS I SLEPT THROUGH THAT
10:37:53AM PART OF THE PRESENTATION.
10:38:05AM >> FOR THE PROPOSED PROJECT LIST UP ON THE SCREEN.
10:38:07AM FOR THE RECORD, ALIS DRUMGO, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR FOR
10:38:13AM DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
10:38:16AM JUST TO KIND OF LAY OUT FOR YOU SOME OF THE PRIORITIES, I
10:38:19AM KNOW THERE ARE PRIORITIES THAT YOU-ALL HAVE OPENLY DISCUSSED
10:38:21AM THAT ARE A PART OF THIS LIST, BUT THEN ALSO A LOT OF THIS
10:38:25AM ORIGINATES WITHIN THE CAC.
10:38:26AM IT'S NOT ALWAYS STAFF'S DOING AS TO COMPILE THIS.
10:38:29AM THE STAFF MEMBER THAT IS THE LIAISON BETWEEN THE
10:38:32AM ORGANIZATION AND THE CAC, THEY GO INTO THOSE MEETINGS.
10:38:35AM THEY WORK THROUGH THE BUDGETARY PROCESS, AND THAT'S HOW YOUR
10:38:38AM BUDGET IS DEVELOPED THROUGH THAT CAC.
10:38:39AM SO THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS COME FORWARD BEFORE THE BOARD AND
10:38:42AM YOU ADOPT THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS.
10:38:44AM SO IN THIS SITUATION, IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU DON'T
10:38:46AM WANT TO PURSUE GOING FORWARD, WE CAN CERTAINLY REALIGN THAT
10:38:49AM AND THIS CONVERSATION ABOUT CAPPING IS A PART OF THAT -- YOU
10:38:54AM KNOW, THIS IS HOW YOU WOULD GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
10:38:56AM BUT THEN ALSO, A LOT OF THIS, IT'S JUST CONCEPTUAL.
10:38:59AM SO WE DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO EXECUTE
10:39:03AM ON ANY OF THESE PROJECTS.
10:39:04AM IT'S JUST THESE ARE CONVERSATIONS WITH SOME KIND OF
10:39:07AM ESTIMATIONS OF WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO DO IT.
10:39:10AM IF WE WERE TO GO FORWARD OR THIS BOARD WERE TO PRIORITIZE
10:39:13AM ANY OF THESE PROJECTS, WE WOULD GO FROM CONCEPT TO TRY TO
10:39:16AM GET TRUE COSTS TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE WOULD FUND IT AND HOW
10:39:20AM THE CRA WOULD BE A PARTICIPANT AND THEN WE WOULD BRING THAT
10:39:22AM BACK TO YOU.
10:39:23AM IF YOU ALL AS A BOARD WOULD LIKE TO ELIMINATE ANY OF THESE
10:39:26AM OR REPRIORITIZE, THAT IS WHAT WE DO.
10:39:33AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK THAT IS PROBABLY A MUCH LONGER
10:39:36AM DISCUSSION THAN WE'LL BE HERE TODAY.
10:39:37AM SO THIS SEEMS LIKE SOMETHING THAT WE -- BEFORE WE SPEND ANY
10:39:37AM MONEY OR WE DEVOTE RESOURCES, I THINK THIS BOARD NEEDS TO
10:39:40AM REACH A CONSENSUS ON WHAT THESE PRIORITIES LOOK LIKE BEFORE
10:39:44AM WE SPEND MONEY.
10:39:47AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY.
10:39:47AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: LET ME ADD, RIGHT NOW, DOWNTOWN IS GOING
10:39:52AM THROUGH THE EXERCISE OF UPDATING ITS COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
10:39:54AM PLAN, WHICH THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR DOWNTOWN IS
10:39:58AM A 1980'S REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
10:40:01AM IT HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED SINCE THE 1980s.
10:40:03AM PART OF THIS WOULD BE, I THINK THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT
10:40:08AM PROJECTS ARE IDENTIFIED FOR POTENTIAL FUND IN THE FUTURE BY
10:40:11AM THE CRA SHOULD BE ADDRESSED IN THAT COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
10:40:14AM PLAN SO WHEN THAT PLAN COMES FORWARD, THAT WOULD BE THE
10:40:17AM APPROPRIATE TIME FOR YOU ALL TO DECIDE, YES, IT'S SOMETHING
10:40:20AM WE MAY BE INTERESTED IN PURSUING IN THE FUTURE AND SHOULD BE
10:40:22AM INCLUDED IN THE PLAN.
10:40:23AM NO, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THE CRA IS REALLY INTERESTED IN
10:40:26AM BEING --
10:40:27AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WAS FEARFUL THAT THIS POTENTIALLY, SOME
10:40:30AM OF THESE ITEMS COULD BE A RABBIT HOLE FOR RESOURCES, IF
10:40:35AM SOMEBODY DOESN'T SPEAK OUT.
10:40:37AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: ABSOLUTELY.
10:40:37AM YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT ON THAT, BOARD MEMBER.
10:40:39AM A LOT OF IT FOR US, WE'RE COMPILING THE LIST THAT THE CAC
10:40:43AM WOULD LIKE TO PURSUE.
10:40:45AM AS YOU ALL HAVE JUST STATED, WE'RE IN A DIFFERENT PLACE THAN
10:40:48AM WE WERE FOUR YEARS AGO.
10:40:50AM WE'VE NOW SET NEW GOALS, SET NEW PRIORITIES.
10:40:53AM IT'S OUR OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT HOW THOSE GOALS AND
10:40:55AM PRIORITIES THAT YOU'VE ESTABLISHED ALIGN WITH THE PROJECTS
10:40:58AM THAT THE CAC WOULD LIKE TO SEE GO FORWARD.
10:41:01AM I THINK UPDATING THE REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AS A WHOLE IS A GOOD
10:41:04AM JUMP-OFF POINT FOR THE REALIGNMENT OF YOUR PRIORITIES WITH
10:41:08AM THE PRIORITIES THAT ARE COMING OUT OF THE CAC AND THEN
10:41:11AM EMBEDDING IT ALL IN THE PLAN.
10:41:13AM THAT WAY YOU HAVE A CLEAR PICTURE OF THE EXPENDITURES THAT
10:41:15AM YOU'LL NEED GOING FORWARD SO THAT YOU CAN TRULY CAP AND KNOW
10:41:19AM WHAT THAT FIGURE WILL BE.
10:41:20AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YEAH, THAT ABSOLUTELY MAKES SENSE.
10:41:22AM AGAIN, AS COUNCILMAN CARLSON AND OTHERS HAVE SAID, WE
10:41:25AM DEFINITELY NEED TO LOOK AT A WAY TO SPREAD THIS REVENUE
10:41:30AM STREAM BECAUSE PEOPLE LOOK, A LOT OF THE DISCUSSIONS AND
10:41:33AM E-MAILS WE RECEIVED ON THE BUDGET WAS, HOW IN THE WORLD CAN
10:41:37AM WE NOT AFFORD TO RUN THE CITY WITH THE INCREASED PROPERTY
10:41:40AM VALUATIONS, NOT UNDERSTANDING SO MUCH OF THE STUFF IS
10:41:44AM CORRALLED OUTSIDE OF OUR ABILITY TO TAP FOR THE GENERAL
10:41:47AM REVENUE.
10:41:47AM I THINK THIS IS A GREAT DEMONSTRATION.
10:41:49AM WE'VE GOT THIS MONEY, ESPECIALLY AS YOU PROJECT OUT, WE HAVE
10:41:52AM THESE COMMITMENTS AS YOU PROJECT OUT IN JUST A FEW YEARS,
10:41:57AM WHERE THOSE LINES DIVERGE, IT MAY SEEM LIKE A LONG TIME FROM
10:42:01AM NOW, IN GOVERNMENT-SPEAK, IT'S LIKE TOMORROW.
10:42:05AM WE NEED TO MAKE A PLAN LOOKING AT THAT DIVERGENT POINT SO WE
10:42:08AM CAN REGAIN THE CONTROL OF THIS.
10:42:10AM LASTLY I'LL SAY ON THE STREETCAR THING, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
10:42:13AM FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS LATER IN THE MEETING.
10:42:15AM I'LL PUT A PIN ON THAT.
10:42:18AM THAT'S DEFINITELY GOING TO BE UP THERE ON THE LIST.
10:42:21AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: LET ME JUST DESCRIBE LEGALLY HOW YOU WOULD
10:42:25AM CAP THE PERCENTAGE OF CONTRIBUTION, IF YOU WANTED TO REDUCE
10:42:27AM IT.
10:42:28AM RIGHT NOW, THE CITY PUTS THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF THE TAX
10:42:34AM INCREMENT THAT COMES INTO THE CITY PORTION OF THE TAXES INTO
10:42:39AM THE DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT TRUST FUND.
10:42:41AM AND THAT'S REQUIRED ACTUALLY UNDER THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT
10:42:45AM WE HAVE WITH HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
10:42:46AM SO WE WOULD HAVE TO AMEND THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH
10:42:48AM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY TO ALLOW US TO REDUCE THE PERCENTAGE.
10:42:51AM YOU WOULD ALSO HAVE TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE THAT WAS ADOPTED
10:42:56AM WAY BACK WHEN THE DOWNTOWN REDEVELOPMENT AREA WAS CREATED TO
10:43:00AM AMEND THE TRUST FUND.
10:43:02AM YOU SET UP A TRUST FUND AT THE TIME, SO THE COUNCIL DID, AND
10:43:05AM YOU WOULD HAVE TO AMEND IT AND SAY WE WOULD FUND IT AT A
10:43:09AM LESSER LEVEL.
10:43:10AM STATE STATUTE ALLOWS YOU TO REDUCE THAT DOWN FROM 95% OF THE
10:43:14AM TIF TO AT LEAST 50%.
10:43:17AM SO YOU CAN GO DOWN TO 50%.
10:43:19AM THAT IS THE MINIMUM LEVEL THAT, AS LONG AS THE REDEVELOPMENT
10:43:22AM AREA EXISTS, YOU HAVE TO FUND THAT.
10:43:28AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH THE
10:43:29AM LIST AND AGENDA IS, ONE, WE NEED TO HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSION,
10:43:32AM US AS A CRA BOARD, ABOUT THIS PRIORITY LIST, INCLUDE OUR
10:43:35AM SUBSEQUENT CONVERSATION WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TODAY, FIGURE
10:43:39AM OUT WHAT OUR PRIORITIES ARE AND WHAT THE DOLLAR FIGURES ARE
10:43:41AM THERE AND THEN MAKE THAT BALANCE SHEET JIVE WITH PROJECTED
10:43:47AM REVENUES.
10:43:47AM AND WHEN WE CAN REALISTICALLY MEETING THE PRIORITIES, WE CAN
10:43:51AM REALISTICALLY CAP OR SUNSET THE CRA AND STILL ACCOMPLISH THE
10:43:55AM GOALS OF REDEVELOPMENT.
10:44:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:44:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:44:02AM I THOUGHT BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:44:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HE CHANGED HIS MIND.
10:44:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
10:44:08AM NO PROBLEM.
10:44:09AM CAN YOU GO A COUPLE OF SLIDES FORWARD?
10:44:12AM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO LOOK AT THIS PROPOSED PROJECT, I
10:44:16AM FEEL THAT'S KIND OF A TIME SUCK FOR US AND IT'S NOT OUR
10:44:19AM LIST.
10:44:20AM OH, I'M SORRY.
10:44:21AM THE ONE THAT HAS THE PRETTY GREEN AND RED LINES.
10:44:26AM THERE YOU GO.
10:44:30AM THE COMMITMENTS AND WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE
10:44:34AM ABLE TO WORK.
10:44:35AM 2028 REALLY LOOKS LIKE THE END OF OUR MAJOR COMMITMENTS.
10:44:41AM I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CAPPING THE CRA TO HELP FUND AND
10:44:47AM FOCUS ON CERTAIN THINGS.
10:44:51AM I TEND TO DISAGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUES WHO WANT TO TAKE
10:44:54AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING OUT OF DOWNTOWN BECAUSE ONCE YOU TAKE IT
10:44:56AM OUT OF DOWNTOWN, YOU CANNOT PUT IT BACK.
10:44:58AM AND WE DON'T HAVE A TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM IN THIS CITY.
10:45:02AM WE WON'T ANYTIME IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
10:45:05AM THAT'S REALLY ROBUST.
10:45:07AM WHAT YOU'RE TELLING PEOPLE IS IF YOU DON'T MAKE ENOUGH
10:45:09AM MONEY, YOU CAN'T LIVE DOWNTOWN.
10:45:11AM I WHOLEHEARTEDLY DISAGREE.
10:45:13AM IT'S A FUNDAMENTAL THING AND I KNOW SOME OF US DON'T AGREE
10:45:16AM WITH AFFORDABLE HOUSING MONEY SPENDING.
10:45:18AM I STRONGLY DO.
10:45:20AM SO ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS TAKE, TO SEE THE
10:45:25AM CRP IN DRAFT AS SOON AS THAT'S AVAILABLE, E-MAILED TO EACH
10:45:31AM OF US INDIVIDUALLY JUST SO WE HAVE A CHANCE TO REALLY LOOK
10:45:33AM AT IT BEFORE IT GOES SUPER FAR IN THE CAC PROCESS AS WELL.
10:45:37AM IT'S NOT THAT -- THEY CAN DO THEIR OWN PLAN BUT I DON'T WANT
10:45:42AM IT TO GET TOO FAR WITHOUT OUR INPUT.
10:45:46AM I DON'T WANT TO WASTE ANYONE'S TIME WITH THAT, MR. DRUMGO
10:45:52AM SAYING THAT MIGHT BE TOO FAR.
10:45:53AM OKAY.
10:45:56AM GREAT.
10:45:57AM I ALSO TEND TO AGREE THAT -- MR. MASSEY, WHAT IS THE TIME
10:46:06AM FRAME TO AMEND THIS?
10:46:09AM SO YOU SAID WE'D HAVE TO TAKE IT TO HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
10:46:13AM DOESN'T SOUND LIKE WE CAN TAKE SOME MONEY OUT.
10:46:16AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: NO, NOT TOMORROW.
10:46:18AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE NEXT SIX MONTHS.
10:46:19AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF YOU WANT TO TAP IT -- THERE ARE TWO
10:46:23AM THINGS THAT YOU COULD POTENTIALLY DO.
10:46:25AM IF YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT CAPPING THE PERCENTAGE OF THE TIF
10:46:28AM THAT GOES INTO THE TRUST FUND FOR DOWNTOWN, THERE ARE TWO
10:46:32AM STEPS.
10:46:32AM WE HAVE TO AMEND THE INTERLOCAL WITH HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
10:46:34AM SO IT DOES REQUIRE SOME CONVERSATION WITH HILLSBOROUGH
10:46:36AM COUNTY.
10:46:36AM I DON'T SEE THAT TAKING A HUGE AMOUNT OF TIME BUT IT WOULD
10:46:40AM TO GO TO THEIR BOARD, COME TO YOU AS CITY COUNCIL.
10:46:43AM THEN YOU WOULD HAVE TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE TO CREATE THE
10:46:47AM TRUST FUND AS CITY COUNCIL.
10:46:48AM THOSE ARE TWO ACTIONS.
10:46:51AM I THINK THE TIME WOULD BE NECESSARY TO BE SPENT IS TO
10:46:56AM DETERMINE WHAT THAT PERCENTAGE LEVEL SHOULD BE BASED ON WHAT
10:47:00AM OUR COMMITMENTS ARE AND WHAT WE MIGHT WANT TO DO IN THE
10:47:03AM FUTURE.
10:47:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, YES.
10:47:05AM I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ACTUAL TIME.
10:47:07AM SAY WE ALREADY DECIDED WE KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE
10:47:09AM PERCENTAGE --
10:47:10AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: PROBABLY TALKING 30 TO 45 DAYS.
10:47:14AM FAIRLY QUICKLY.
10:47:14AM I DON'T THINK IT WOULD TAKE LONG.
10:47:16AM THE OTHER THING THAT YOU POTENTIALLY COULD DO IS SEEK TO
10:47:21AM TERMINATE OR SUNSET THE DOWNTOWN CRA BEFORE IT IS CURRENTLY
10:47:26AM SCHEDULED TO BE TERMINATED WHICH IS 2043.
10:47:29AM THAT WOULD REQUIRE THE PLAN TO ACTUALLY BE AMENDED.
10:47:31AM THAT IS A LITTLE MORE OF AN INVOLVED PROCESS.
10:47:34AM YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THEM TO REVIEW
10:47:36AM IT AND THEN IT HAS TO COME BACK TO THIS BODY FOR ACCEPTANCE
10:47:39AM AND THEN IT HAS TO BE DISTRIBUTED TO ALL THE OTHER TAXING
10:47:43AM AUTHORITIES SO THEY ARE AWARE OF WHAT'S GOING ON AND THEN
10:47:45AM THERE IS A PUBLIC HEARING TO ACTUALLY AMEND THE PLAN WITH
10:47:47AM YOU ALL SITTING AS CITY COUNCIL.
10:47:49AM AGAIN, IT'S LIKE A 60-DAY PROCESS WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT
10:47:55AM THERE.
10:47:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M NOT INTERESTED IN THAT.
10:47:57AM I THINK WE'RE A LITTLE FAR AWAY FROM MAKING THAT DECISION.
10:47:59AM BUT WHILE WE'RE THERE.
10:48:01AM I KNOW THIS IS A CONVERSATION ABOUT DOWNTOWN, BUT I WOULD BE
10:48:04AM REMISS IF I DIDN'T ADD CHANNELSIDE IN THERE BECAUSE WE HAVE
10:48:07AM TOO MUCH MONEY IN THAT.
10:48:08AM WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH IT, AND WE'RE BOUND TO THE IDEA
10:48:11AM OF, OH, IF WE GIVE UP THIS MONEY, IT CAN GO TO THE COUNTY.
10:48:14AM NOW YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO
10:48:18AM SEE, AND I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IF THE MONEY THAT THE COUNTY
10:48:23AM COULD GIVE, THAT WE WOULD BE GIVING BACK TO THE COUNTY, THAT
10:48:26AM THEY BE WILLING TO GIVE TO US IN KIND TO FIX SOME STREETS
10:48:31AM THEY OWN.
10:48:32AM TO TRY TO BALANCE THAT OUT, I KNOW THAT IS A LONGER POSSIBLE
10:48:37AM CONVERSATION THAT THE COUNTY CAN BE A LITTLE MORE RETICENT
10:48:43AM TO HAVE THOSE TYPES OF CONVERSATIONS, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO
10:48:46AM THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX WHEN IT COMES TO WHAT WE CAN DO TO
10:48:50AM FREE UP SOME OF THAT CHANNELSIDE MONEY, BECAUSE IF NOT,
10:48:53AM THAT'S THE ONE I'M GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON SUNSETTING BEFORE
10:48:57AM DOING ANYTHING WITH THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
10:49:01AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: TALKING ABOUT SUNSETTING CRA, CREATING NEW
10:49:03AM ONES, TRY TO DEAL WITH THE COUNTY ABOUT HOW THEIR PORTION OF
10:49:06AM THE TIF CONTRIBUTION THAT THEY ARE MAKING TO A CURRENT CRA.
10:49:11AM NOW, THOSE ARE MORE LONG AND INVOLVED CONVERSATIONS AND
10:49:13AM NEGOTIATIONS THAT MAY TAKE SOMETIME.
10:49:15AM WE'D HAVE TO SIT DOWN WITH COUNTY STAFF, REPORT TO YOU ALL.
10:49:21AM THEY WOULD BE REPORTING TO THEIR BOARD AND IT WOULD TAKE
10:49:23AM SOME TIME TO WORK THROUGH.
10:49:26AM >>LYNN HURTAK: AND THEN ONE MORE QUESTION FOR MS. MOODY.
10:49:29AM IF WE WANTED TO SIT DOWN, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE WE ALL KIND OF
10:49:33AM HAVE SOME IDEAS ABOUT PROPOSED PROJECTS AND WHAT WE WOULD
10:49:36AM LIKE TO SEE GOING FORWARD, WHAT IS A GOOD PROCESS FOR US TO
10:49:40AM DO THAT, THAT WOULD BE A LITTLE MORE -- OBVIOUSLY, WE NEED
10:49:44AM TO FOCUS ON THAT.
10:49:45AM WE NEED TO PROBABLY HAVE AN AGENDA ITEM, BUT HOW WOULD THAT
10:49:49AM LOOK?
10:49:49AM HOW DO YOU SEE THAT LOOKING?
10:49:52AM >>ERICA MOODY: THANK YOU FOR ASKING.
10:49:53AM SO THE WAY THAT I WOULD APPROACH IT IS TO WORK ONE ON ONE
10:49:58AM WITH ALL OF YOU TO DETERMINE THE PRIORITIES, THE PROJECTS
10:50:00AM YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN DOWNTOWN NOW AND IN THE FUTURE.
10:50:03AM DEVELOP UPDATED PRIORITY LIST THAT HAS THE CAC
10:50:07AM RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL AS THE CRA BOARD, AND THEN ENGAGE
10:50:10AM WITH THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN CONSULTANT AND HAVE
10:50:13AM HIM AND I MEET WITH EACH ONE OF YOU ONE ON ONE SO WE CAN
10:50:18AM INCLUDE YOU IN THE PROCESS OF THE UPDATE.
10:50:19AM SO IT'S A PERFECT TIME, THE SCOPE OF WORK HAS JUST STARTED.
10:50:23AM IT'S LOOKING LIKE IT WILL BE COMPLETE IN APRIL.
10:50:26AM I THINK WE NEED TO REFINE OUR PROPOSED PROJECTS LIST.
10:50:28AM WE HAVE THE CAC REALLY WORKING WITH THE BOARD AND THEN LET'S
10:50:32AM ENGAGE WITH THE CONSULTANT SO THEN THEY CAN FOLD THAT INTO
10:50:34AM THE PLAN.
10:50:35AM WE CAN GET SOME TRUE COST ESTIMATES AND THEN WE'LL KNOW
10:50:38AM BOTTOM LINE NUMBERS THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING AT AND THEN WE CAN
10:50:40AM WORK A TIMELINE FOR DOING THE LEGAL INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND
10:50:45AM THOSE CHANGES THAT WOULD TAKE PLACE.
10:50:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GREAT.
10:50:48AM I NEED TO MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE THAT HAPPEN OR IS THAT JUST
10:50:53AM SOMETHING WE CAN DO?
10:50:54AM I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE FOLLOW YOUR PLAN AND THAT YOU MEET
10:50:58AM WITH US AND THAT WE FOCUS ON THIS NEXT STEP FORWARD FOR
10:51:03AM CHANGING THIS DOWNTOWN CRA.
10:51:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION AND WE HAVE MORE
10:51:11AM DISCUSSION.
10:51:13AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN, YOU HAD A COMMENT.
10:51:14AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ACTUALLY IT WAS ABOUT CHANNELSIDE CRA.
10:51:18AM I THINK IT WAS INTRIGUING WHAT COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK SAID
10:51:21AM ABOUT ROADS.
10:51:22AM WHILE I DON'T SEE THE COUNTY AGREEING TO PAVE OUR CITY
10:51:25AM ROADS, BUT I THINK MAYBE WE COULD REACH AN INTERLOCAL
10:51:29AM AGREEMENT ABOUT HAVING THEM PAVE THEIR DAMN ROADS THAT ARE
10:51:33AM WITHIN THE CITY BECAUSE CLEARLY THEY ARE NOT DOING THEIR JOB
10:51:37AM BY PAVING THEIR ROADS AND WHICH HAS A GREAT IMPACT ON THE
10:51:41AM CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:51:42AM POSSIBLY WE COULD REACH AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT THAT IF WE
10:51:45AM WERE TO SUNSET THE CHANNELSIDE CRA WE COULD USE THE EXCESS
10:51:48AM MONEY TO PAVE THE DAMN COUNTY ROADS IN THE CITY.
10:51:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA AND BOARD MEMBER
10:51:53AM CARLSON AND THEN BOARD MEMBER CHAIR HENDERSON.
10:51:57AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
10:51:58AM MAN THIS CRA MEETING IS TURNING PG-13 WITH THE LANGUAGE.
10:52:01AM I'M JOKING.
10:52:02AM I THANK COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK FOR BRINGING UP THE CHANNELSIDE
10:52:06AM ISSUE.
10:52:07AM MY CONCERN WITH IT LAST TIME WAS THAT POTENTIALLY LOST
10:52:10AM MONEY, BUT IF WE CAN GET SOMETHING TO ADDRESS THAT THAT
10:52:13AM WOULD BENEFIT THE CITY THROUGH THAT IDEA, MY WORD FOR ME IS
10:52:18AM VERY IMPORTANT.
10:52:19AM I'M NOT SAYING I 100% COMMIT IT, BUT CERTAINLY MORE
10:52:23AM FAVORABLY DISPOSED TO IT.
10:52:25AM I THINK THAT IS THE MAJOR CONCERN THAT A LOT OF FOLKS HAVE.
10:52:28AM CAPPING DOWNTOWN IS CLEANER.
10:52:29AM CHANNELSIDE IS A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT.
10:52:31AM IF WE CAN GET SOMETHING LIKE THAT, GOSH, THAT CERTAINLY
10:52:35AM MAKES SENSE TO ME PROSPECTIVELY.
10:52:37AM THANK YOU.
10:52:40AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WANT TO COMMENT ON THIS ONE AND THEN
10:52:43AM SOMETIME MAYBE AFTER YOU SPEAK, MADAM CHAIR, I WOULD LIKE TO
10:52:45AM MAKE ANOTHER MOTION REGARDING MOVING THE LEGAL PROCESS
10:52:49AM FORWARD.
10:52:49AM THIS PROCESS IS GOOD BECAUSE WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE
10:52:53AM NEED TO KEEP IN THAT WILL HELP INFORM THE NUMBER.
10:52:56AM WE TALKED ABOUT THE COUNTY, I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS, SO THE
10:53:00AM PUBLIC KNOWS, THE ONLY COUNTY MATCH THAT'S LEFT IN DOWNTOWN
10:53:06AM IS THAT FIRST LINE UP THERE ON THAT CHART.
10:53:09AM THE REST OF IT THE COUNTY OPTED OUT YEARS AGO.
10:53:12AM IN THE CASE OF DOWNTOWN, NO COUNTY MATCH.
10:53:15AM DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT IT.
10:53:16AM THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS I'VE SPOKEN TO ARE SUPPORTIVE OF US
10:53:19AM PUTTING A CAP ON THIS.
10:53:20AM SO YOU ALL KNOW THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, TOO.
10:53:22AM YOU CAN GO TALK TO THEM AND TRY TO GET THEIR SUPPORT.
10:53:25AM IF THEY VOTE FOR IT, IT'S SUPPORTIVE.
10:53:27AM THEY ARE TRYING TO DO THINGS THAT ARE SHOWING THAT THEY ARE
10:53:30AM FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE AS WELL.
10:53:32AM IN REGARD TO CHANNEL DISTRICT, SAME THING.
10:53:36AM I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE COUNTY
10:53:40AM COMMISSIONERS, BUT ALSO PLEASE SPEND TIME WITH THE
10:53:43AM STAKEHOLDERS.
10:53:43AM THERE ARE A LOT OF SENSITIVITIES THERE.
10:53:45AM YOU ALL HERE BEFORE REMEMBER I BROUGHT UP THE ISSUE AND MADE
10:53:48AM A MOTION THREE YEARS AGO AND I GOT HAMMERED IN THE MEDIA AND
10:53:52AM WITH CERTAIN STAKEHOLDERS.
10:53:53AM I'VE SINCE BEEN MEETING WITH MANY OF THE STAKEHOLDERS, AND
10:53:56AM SOME OF THEM ARE OKAY GIVING UP A LITTLE, LIKE 20 OR 30%.
10:54:00AM SOME OF THEM WANT TO GIVE UP ZERO.
10:54:03AM AND TO AVOID A BIG POLITICAL DISCUSSION LIKE THE KIND OF
10:54:06AM WE'VE HAD IN THE LAST WEEK, I RECOMMEND YOU ALL TALK TO THE
10:54:08AM STAKEHOLDERS AND SEE IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO GIVE
10:54:11AM ANYTHING UP.
10:54:12AM MY PROPOSAL IF WE HAD TO DO IT TODAY WOULD BE TO TAKE 20%,
10:54:16AM BUT THERE WERE SOME POWERFUL PEOPLE AGAINST THAT.
10:54:18AM I'M CONTINUING TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS, HOPEFULLY YOU WILL,
10:54:21AM TOO.
10:54:22AM THAT'S IT ON THIS.
10:54:25AM THANK YOU.
10:54:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYONE ELSE BEFORE I SAY SOMETHING?
10:54:30AM THANK YOU.
10:54:31AM IT'S MY TURN.
10:54:31AM I'M NOT USED TO BEING LAST, BUT THAT'S OKAY.
10:54:35AM THE FIRST THING THAT I WANT TO SAY IS THAT HOUSING DOWNTOWN
10:54:41AM IS AN IMPORTANT ISSUE BECAUSE WE DON'T DECIDE WHERE THE
10:54:46AM HOUSING SHOULD BE THAT'S AFFORDABLE.
10:54:50AM PEOPLE WANT TO LIVE DOWNTOWN, AND THEY WANT IT TO BE
10:54:54AM AFFORDABLE.
10:54:55AM AND WE HAVE TO BE THE VOICE FOR THEM.
10:54:57AM SO I WOULDN'T BE SO DRASTIC AS TO MOVE MONEY SO FAST,
10:55:03AM ESPECIALLY WHEN I LOOK AT OUR COMMITMENTS.
10:55:05AM THESE AMAZING COMMITMENTS THAT WE'VE MADE IN THE AMOUNT OF
10:55:09AM $116 MILLION.
10:55:11AM THERE MAY BE OTHER PEOPLE COMING TO ASK.
10:55:17AM I'M MORE IN FAVOR OF MAYBE REDUCING IT IN INCREMENTS, BUT
10:55:24AM PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OTHERS -- FOR OTHER
10:55:30AM ORGANIZATIONS WHO MAY COME AND SAY, HEY, WHAT ABOUT US,
10:55:33AM BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN SO GENEROUS WITH OUR COMMITMENTS IN
10:55:37AM REGARDS TO THE ONES THAT ARE ALREADY LISTED.
10:55:40AM BECAUSE THE MONEY IS THERE.
10:55:41AM SO THAT'S THE HOUSING PIECE, AND THEN THERE WAS SOMETHING
10:55:46AM ELSE THAT I WANTED TO ADD, BUT CHARLIE, YOU'RE THROWING ME
10:55:49AM OFF BECAUSE I CAN HEAR YOU.
10:55:51AM THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, AND MAYBE THIS IS JUST A QUESTION
10:56:02AM FOR YOU.
10:56:02AM WORKING WITH THE COUNTY, HOW MUCH POWER DO THEY HAVE IN
10:56:09AM MAKING THIS DECISION TO SAY WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU, IF WE
10:56:15AM SAY WE WANT TO SUNSET THIS DOWNTOWN CRA, HOW MUCH POWER DO
10:56:19AM THEY HAVE IN SAYING, WELL, THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH IT.
10:56:23AM COULD THEY GIVE IT BACK TO US TO GIVE TO THE GENERAL FUND?
10:56:26AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WOULD SAY IN THIS CASE THAT REALLY IT'S
10:56:29AM MORE A FORMALITY THAN REALLY A SUBSTANTIVE ISSUE.
10:56:33AM THEY DO NOT CONTRIBUTE ANY PART OF THE INCREMENT TO THE
10:56:37AM DOWNTOWN CRA FOR THE EXCEPTION ON A PROJECT BY PROJECT
10:56:41AM BASIS, ELECTED TO CONTRIBUTE 50% OF THE COST OF THE
10:56:46AM CONTRIBUTION FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS BEING MADE BY
10:56:49AM SPP AND WATER STREET, THE FIRST LINE ITEM, COMMITMENTS.
10:56:54AM SO I DON'T SEE THIS BEING A MAJOR ISSUE.
10:56:57AM I DO THINK AS A TECHNICALITY, WE OUGHT TO AMEND THAT TO
10:57:01AM ALLOW US THE FLEXIBILITY OF REDUCING IT.
10:57:03AM IF I WERE THE COUNTY, MY ONLY CONCERN WOULD BE TO MAKE SURE
10:57:06AM THAT THE CRA HAD SUFFICIENT FUNDING SO THAT THE CITY COULD
10:57:13AM MEET THE COUNTY'S MATCH RELATIVE TO THAT ONE PROJECT.
10:57:16AM THAT WOULD BE MY ONE CONCERN IF I WERE THE COUNTY --
10:57:19AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WOULD SAY MAXIMIZING THE AFFORDABILITY,
10:57:24AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN DOWNTOWN, MAXIMIZING THAT AS MUCH AS
10:57:27AM POSSIBLE IS SOMETHING THAT I'M IN FAVOR OF.
10:57:29AM AND MAYBE IN INCREMENTS REDUCING IT, BUT NOT BEING SO
10:57:33AM DRASTIC AT THE TOP END.
10:57:35AM LET'S LOOK AT IT YEAR AFTER YEAR IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I
10:57:41AM WOULD CONSIDER.
10:57:42AM BECAUSE EVEN THE SMALLER PROJECTS, SEEING THE BIG
10:57:45AM COMMITMENTS AND THEN I'M LOOKING AT THE SMALLER PROJECTS,
10:57:47AM THESE ARE THE LITTLE FISH.
10:57:49AM AND THE HISTORIC STREETCAR, 1.2 MILLION THAT IS A SMALL ASK
10:57:55AM COMPARED TO THE THINGS THAT WE'VE COMMITTED TO, AND I WOULD
10:57:58AM HATE TO ELIMINATE SMALL PROJECTS THAT COULD IMPROVE THE
10:58:00AM DOWNTOWN AREA BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN SO GENEROUS WITH OUR LARGER
10:58:07AM ASSETS IN THE COMMUNITY, THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY.
10:58:09AM WE DO HAVE A MOTION.
10:58:13AM IS THERE FURTHER DISCUSSION?
10:58:13AM CAN YOU REPEAT THE MOTION, BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, SO THAT WE
10:58:17AM CAN FOCUS ON THE EXACT MOTION THAT WAS PRESENTED BY YOU AND
10:58:22AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON?
10:58:23AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:58:24AM IT WAS TO FOLLOW DIRECTOR MOODY'S PLAN TO REACH OUT TO ALL
10:58:30AM OF US TO FIND OUT OUR PRIORITIES, TO MELD THEM WITH THE
10:58:35AM CAC'S PRIORITIES AND THEN TO COME BACK WITH THE PERSON WHO
10:58:40AM IS LEADING THE CRP AND FURTHER REFINE OUR PRIORITIES, SO WE
10:58:45AM CAN MOVE THIS FORWARD.
10:58:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CLERK SOTO, DID YOU GET THAT?
10:58:49AM IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS?
10:58:51AM WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK,
10:58:55AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:58:57AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:58:58AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:58:58AM MOTION CARRIES.
10:59:00AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:59:04AM >>BILL CARLSON: A COUPLE OF THINGS, KEEP IN MIND THAT EVEN
10:59:13AM THOUGH THERE MAY BE CRAs IN OTHER AREAS, THOSE AREAS ARE
10:59:16AM ALSO SUBSIDIZING DOWNTOWN.
10:59:18AM AS MUCH AS SOUTH TAMPA AND NEW TAMPA ARE HEAVILY SUBSIDIZING
10:59:24AM IT, EAST TAMPA AND WEST TAMPA ARE SUBSIDIZING IT, TOO.
10:59:28AM I THINK EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS IT.
10:59:30AM I THINK WE HAVE TO BE GOOD CUSTODIANS.
10:59:35AM I SAID THIS EARLIER, I ALSO AGREE WE SHOULD HAVE SOME
10:59:37AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING DOWNTOWN.
10:59:39AM THE THING IS, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS FROM A POLICY OR EVEN
10:59:42AM A BUSINESS POINT OF VIEW, IF WE HAVE TO CREATE, LET'S JUST
10:59:45AM USE THE NUMBER 50,000 UNITS, WHAT IS THE FASTEST, CHEAPEST,
10:59:49AM MOST COST-EFFECTIVE WAY TO CREATE 50,000 UNITS?
10:59:52AM AND IF WE HAD $10 BILLION, I WOULD SAY LET'S BUILD A LOT
10:59:57AM DOWNTOWN.
10:59:58AM BUT IF WE CAN DISBURSE THEM THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND DO A
11:00:01AM COST-EFFECTIVE WAY, THE THING IS WE NEED 50,000 UNITS NOW
11:00:04AM AND CAN'T EVEN DO THAT IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS.
11:00:07AM ANYWAY, THE OTHER THING IS THAT I JUST DID A ROUGH
11:00:10AM CALCULATION.
11:00:10AM IF YOU TAKE 117 ROUNDING THAT UP, AND THAT'S THE CURRENT
11:00:16AM COMMITMENTS, PLUS THE 330 JUST THE NEXT TEN YEARS, AND THEN
11:00:22AM TAKE HALF OF THAT.
11:00:23AM SO MORRIS SAID THE MAXIMUM WE COULD TAKE IS HALF.
11:00:28AM IF WE TOOK HALF, MY MATH IS 223.
11:00:31AM SO THAT WOULD LEAVE JUST IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS, THAT WOULD
11:00:35AM LEAVE 107 MILLION EXTRA DOLLARS THAT WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE
11:00:40AM WANT WITH IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS.
11:00:42AM AND IF YOU WANTED TO LEAVE IN MORE, WE COULD DO THAT.
11:00:45AM AT 50%, WHICH IS THE MAX, WE WOULD STILL HAVE 107 MILLION
11:00:51AM EXTRA DOLLARS.
11:00:53AM BUT THAT'S NOT INCLUDING THE TEN YEARS AFTER THAT.
11:00:55AM THE TEN YEARS AFTER THAT, WE WOULD HAVE ANOTHER 450 MILLION
11:01:04AM AT LEAST, BECAUSE NOTHING IS COMMITTED AFTER THAT.
11:01:08AM WE HAVE 107 MILLION FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS AND THEN 450 TO
11:01:11AM 600 MILLION PLUS FOR THE NEXT TEN YEARS AFTER THAT.
11:01:15AM SORRY, HALF OF THAT, IF WE TOOK HALF OF IT, IT WOULD BE ONLY
11:01:19AM 223 MILLION OR 300 MILLION IF IT WAS 600.
11:01:22AM ANYWAY, WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE JUST TO GET THE BALL MOVING ON
11:01:26AM THIS IS THAT WE ASK STAFF TO COME BACK WITH THE DRAFT
11:01:31AM DOCUMENTS, AND I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE PUT 50% AS A PLACE
11:01:34AM HOLDER AND THEN WHEN THEY COME BACK WITH DRAFT DOCUMENTS, WE
11:01:37AM CAN CHANGE IT TO 60 -- I MEAN 30, OR 40, WHATEVER YOU WANT.
11:01:41AM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ASK CRA STAFF TO RETURN ON
11:01:44AM NOVEMBER 9 WITH DRAFT DOCUMENTS TO PUT A 50% CAP ON THE
11:01:48AM DOWNTOWN CRA.
11:01:50AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I'LL SECOND THAT FOR DISCUSSION.
11:01:51AM AND I APPRECIATE THAT, AND I THINK YOU DID IT THE RIGHT WAY
11:01:59AM AT THE END.
11:02:00AM 50% OF SOMETHING, NEVER USE THE SAME NUMBERS BECAUSE IT'S
11:02:03AM BASED ON THE ECONOMY.
11:02:04AM IF SOMETHING GOES TANKING DOWN, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET WHAT
11:02:07AM YOU ASKED FOR.
11:02:08AM YOU HAVE TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN.
11:02:09AM JUST SAYING 50% OF SOMETHING, I THINK IT IS THE RIGHT WAY OF
11:02:13AM DOING IT.
11:02:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YEAH, I'M GOOD WITH THAT.
11:02:20AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT IN TWO DIFFERENT INCREMENTS.
11:02:22AM SEE IT AT 25% AND 50% JUST SO THAT WE CAN, YOU KNOW, --
11:02:28AM >>ERICA MOODY: 25% --
11:02:30AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: 25% AND 50 SO WE CAN HAVE A COMPARISON IN
11:02:34AM TERMS OF THE REDUCTION IS SOMETHING THAT I WOULD BE IN FAVOR
11:02:38AM OF.
11:02:39AM >>ERICA MOODY: YEAH, YEAH, WE CAN PROVIDE DIFFERENT
11:02:42AM SCENARIOS.
11:02:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHAT DID YOU SAY?
11:02:43AM 75 -- YEAH, NOT 25, 75.
11:02:49AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:02:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:02:52AM I DISAGREE WITH MAKING THIS MOTION UNTIL WE HAVE DECIDED OUR
11:02:58AM PRIORITIES AND REALLY DONE THIS PLAN.
11:03:03AM WE ALREADY HAVE A PLAN GOING ON, A CRP.
11:03:06AM FOR ME, I CANNOT VISUALIZE WHAT PROJECTS I WANT.
11:03:11AM AND FOR ME TO EVEN CONSIDER -- 50% IS REALLY SCARY TO ME
11:03:16AM BECAUSE I DON'T -- LIKE, THIS IS VERY CONCEPTUAL THIS MAP,
11:03:21AM BUT LOOKING AT OUR PRIORITIES, NOT THIS PRIORITY LIST THAT
11:03:25AM WAS CREATED, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR A
11:03:29AM REALLY LONG TIME, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO AT LEAST SEE OUR
11:03:33AM PRIORITIES AND NOT SOMEONE ELSE'S PRIORITIES WHEN MAKING
11:03:36AM THIS DECISION.
11:03:38AM SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT, BUT I DON'T THINK ANYTHING IS GOING
11:03:40AM TO CHANGE BY NOVEMBER.
11:03:42AM WE'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ENOUGH DONE.
11:03:45AM AND, QUITE FRANKLY, WHILE I DO BELIEVE THAT WE CAN REDUCE
11:03:51AM IT, AUTOMATICALLY AND JUST SAYING WE'RE GOING TO REDUCE IT
11:03:56AM BEFORE KNOWING WHAT WE WANT TO FUND I THINK IS FISCALLY
11:04:00AM IRRESPONSIBLE.
11:04:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:04:06AM I'M SORRY.
11:04:07AM YOU'VE ALREADY SPOKEN.
11:04:10AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:04:13AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HEAR, HEAR COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:04:17AM LET'S NOT MAKE DECISIONS UNTIL WE HAVE ALL THE FACTS.
11:04:20AM AND I THINK -- AGAIN, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT HAS TO BE
11:04:24AM DONE.
11:04:24AM I SUPPORT THE CONCEPT.
11:04:25AM I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR.
11:04:26AM I ABSOLUTELY SUPPORT THE CONCEPT, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE --
11:04:30AM DON'T WASTE STAFF'S TIME, GOING THROUGH ALL THIS EXERCISE
11:04:34AM AND THEN US NOT HAVING WHAT THE ACTUAL GOALS ARE GOING TO
11:04:38AM BE.
11:04:38AM IN A PRUDENT FASHION, WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD IN IDENTIFYING
11:04:44AM THE PRIORITIES, KNOW WHAT OUR PROJECTED COSTS, ACTUAL COSTS
11:04:48AM WOULD BE.
11:04:49AM OBVIOUSLY, BY LOOKING AT THIS, 2030 IS A GOLDEN YEAR, BUT I
11:04:53AM THINK WE NEED TO BE PRUDENT WAITING FOR THIS PROCESS TO PLAY
11:04:57AM OUT.
11:04:58AM WE'VE ALREADY ASKED TO BE INVOLVED AND THE DIRECTOR IS GOING
11:05:01AM TO SEEK OUR INPUT ON PRIORITIES AND WE CAN HAVE THE GROUP
11:05:04AM DISCUSSION ONCE THAT'S DONE AND YOU COMPILE THAT DOCUMENT
11:05:07AM AND THEN WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH ALL OF THE INFORMATION.
11:05:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:05:13AM >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, THE REASON WHY I SUGGESTED IT FOR
11:05:15AM NOVEMBER IS THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION IN
11:05:18AM OCTOBER, AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH STAFF
11:05:20AM BEFORE THEN.
11:05:21AM THE NEXT MEETING AFTER THAT IS DECEMBER 14th, AND I CAN
11:05:25AM CHANGE IT FOR THAT.
11:05:26AM BUT THE THING IS THAT IT TAKES STAFF TWO OR THREE MONTHS TO
11:05:30AM DO SOMETHING, SO IF WE WAIT UNTIL OCTOBER OR NOVEMBER, THEN
11:05:34AM WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET IT UNTIL JANUARY, FEBRUARY.
11:05:37AM ALL I'M ASKING FOR IS A DRAFT.
11:05:39AM I'M NOT ASKING FOR US TO BRING IT BACK FOR VOTE, ASKING FOR
11:05:42AM A DRAFT TO SEE WHAT IT WILL LOOK LIKE BECAUSE WE'LL HAVE
11:05:45AM QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT.
11:05:46AM LET'S SAY WE LOOK AT THE DRAFT ON NOVEMBER 9, AT THAT POINT
11:05:49AM WE CAN EDIT THE DOCUMENTS HOWEVER WE WANT.
11:05:51AM WE CAN CHANGE THE PERCENTAGE.
11:05:52AM WE CAN DELAY IT, BUT AT SOME POINT, EVEN IF WE LIKE THE
11:05:55AM DOCUMENTS NOVEMBER 9, WE'VE GOT TO SET A DATE FOR IT TO COME
11:05:59AM BACK, WHICH WOULD BE AT LEAST ANOTHER MONTH.
11:06:01AM IF WE THINK WE NEED MORE TIME, WE CAN SAY JANUARY OR
11:06:04AM FEBRUARY, BUT AT LEAST THIS WILL BE MOVING A PROCESS AND
11:06:07AM GIVE LEGAL TIME TO DO IT.
11:06:10AM OTHERWISE WE'LL END IN FIRST OR SECOND QUARTER NEXT YEAR.
11:06:13AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: COUPLE OF THINGS, BY THE NOVEMBER CRA
11:06:16AM MEETING, ONE SUGGESTION I WOULD HAVE IS I'M HAPPY TO GO TO
11:06:20AM THE COUNTY TO SEE IF THEY WOULD BE WILLING TO CLARIFY THE
11:06:23AM INTERLOCAL TO GIVE US FLEXIBILITY TO LOWER OUR PERCENTAGE
11:06:29AM CONTRIBUTION TO ANY OF THE TRUST FUNDS DOWN TO 50% AT OUR
11:06:32AM DISCRETION.
11:06:33AM IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT AND YOU CAN DECIDE
11:06:40AM ANYWHERE BETWEEN 100% AND 50%.
11:06:43AM I'M HAPPY TO GO FORWARD WITH THAT AND TRY TO SEE WHAT, AND
11:06:47AM REPORT BACK TO COUNCIL OR TO THE BOARD AT THE NOVEMBER
11:06:50AM MEETING, IF WE CAN GET THAT CLARIFICATION DONE FAIRLY
11:06:53AM QUICKLY WITH THE COUNTY.
11:06:55AM THAT WOULD, I THINK, SPEED THE PROCESS ALONG FURTHER.
11:06:59AM THE ACTUAL AMENDMENT TO THE ORDINANCE WON'T TAKE THAT LONG
11:07:05AM TO DRAFT ONCE YOU ALL FIGURE OUT WHAT THE PERCENTAGE IS.
11:07:09AM I COULD FORM A DOCUMENT IN NOVEMBER IF THAT'S WHAT YOU ALL
11:07:12AM WANTED.
11:07:13AM UNTIL YOU'RE READY TO FIGURE OUT HOW YOU WANT TO LOWER THAT
11:07:15AM AND WE MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER LEGAL HURDLES WITH
11:07:18AM THE COUNTY, THEN REALLY WE CAN'T REALLY MOVE FORWARD WITH
11:07:21AM THAT.
11:07:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON, ARE YOU AGREEABLE TO
11:07:24AM THAT AS IT RELATES TO YOUR MOTION?
11:07:25AM >>BILL CARLSON: WELL, WHAT I PROPOSED BASED ON WHAT TWO OF
11:07:29AM YOU SAID, I -- THE MOTION WAS TO ASK CRA STAFF TO RETURN ON
11:07:32AM NOVEMBER 9 WITH A DRAFT, WITH DRAFT DOCUMENTS TO PUT A 50%
11:07:37AM CAP ON THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
11:07:38AM I ADDED BASED ON WHAT YOU SAID, MADAM CHAIR, AND TO PROVIDE
11:07:41AM SCENARIOS FOR 25% OR OTHER PERCENTAGES --
11:07:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: 75, I'M SORRY.
11:07:47AM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU WANT IT TO GO LESS.
11:07:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO, 75%.
11:07:52AM THE MATH, I WAS DOING IT THE OPPOSITE WAY.
11:07:54AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE CAN ONLY GO --
11:07:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT GOES THE OTHER WAY.
11:07:59AM IT STARTS AT 100 --
11:08:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: 75 AND THEN 50.
11:08:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S WHY IT'S 75.
11:08:06AM >>BILL CARLSON: I SEE.
11:08:06AM THEN I ALSO ADDED, AND FOR ATTORNEY MASSEY TO REPORT ON THE
11:08:10AM COUNTY'S RESPONSE.
11:08:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:08:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:08:16AM AGAIN, MY ONLY CONCERN IS THAT I HEARD FROM DIRECTOR MOODY
11:08:20AM THAT APRIL IS WHEN -- AND WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THE
11:08:23AM END OF THIS CRP PROCESS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A TAD MORE
11:08:30AM AGREEMENT.
11:08:31AM AND IF MR. MASSEY SAYS -- I LOVE THE IDEA OF REACHING OUT TO
11:08:34AM THE COUNTY AND SEEING IF THEY ARE AMENABLE, AND THEN, YOU
11:08:38AM KNOW, JUST HAVING DRAFT DOCUMENTS AVAILABLE WHEN WE'RE
11:08:43AM READY.
11:08:47AM I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT AT BEST WE CAN PROBABLY DO IN
11:08:51AM JANUARY.
11:08:51AM I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE ALL AGREEABLE ON REDUCING THE AMOUNT.
11:08:57AM I JUST THINK WE NEED TO HAVE PRIORITIES FIRST.
11:09:00AM >>BILL CARLSON: IF WE APPROVE THE DRAFT, WE CAN SCHEDULE IT
11:09:03AM FOR JANUARY, THE FOLLOW-UP.
11:09:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:09:08AM >>LUIS VIERA: JUST TO EXPLAIN MY VOTE, I'M GOING TO SUPPORT
11:09:10AM THIS BECAUSE I JUST SAID I WANT TO GET THE BALL ROLLING AS
11:09:14AM SOON AS POSSIBLE AND THIS DOES IT AND IT'S FLEXIBLE THAT IF
11:09:17AM ADDITIONAL INFORMATION COMES, IT CAN BE MOVED, THE DATE CAN
11:09:21AM BE MOVED, BUT IT GETS THE BALL ROLLING, THAT'S WHY I'LL DO
11:09:24AM IT.
11:09:24AM AGAIN, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD HAVE DONE OR WE
11:09:28AM SHOULD HAVE DONE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME.
11:09:30AM I KNOW COUNCILMAN CARLSON HAS BEEN PUSHING FOR IT FOR A
11:09:34AM WHILE AND LET'S GET THE BALL ROLLING.
11:09:37AM THANK YOU.
11:09:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:09:38AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW TIME-CONSUMING FOR STAFF DO YOU
11:09:41AM ANTICIPATE THIS BEING?
11:09:42AM >>ERICA MOODY: WE APPRECIATE THAT QUESTION.
11:09:44AM YES, IT'S VERY BUSY WITH THE RESTRUCTURE.
11:09:46AM I'M HOLDING OVER THE DOWNTOWN UNTIL WE GET AN INTERIM THAT
11:09:49AM WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
11:09:50AM WE COULD DEFINITELY STRIVE FOR NOVEMBER AND I WOULD ALSO
11:09:53AM LIKE TO BRING BACK OUR PROPOSED LIST WITH THE BOARD AND HAVE
11:09:56AM THE CONVERSATION CONCURRENTLY WITH THE DRAFT DOCUMENTS,
11:10:00AM LEGAL ADVICE AND THEN ALSO MEET WITH THE COMMUNITY
11:10:03AM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN CONSULTANT AND START BUILDING THAT LIST.
11:10:07AM WE CAN STRIVE FOR IT BUT, OF COURSE, IT WILL BE
11:10:09AM TIME-CONSUMING.
11:10:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT WAS MY QUESTION TOO.
11:10:13AM WE'VE GOT THIS CRP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT WE NEED TO GET
11:10:18AM INPUT FROM THEM AS WELL.
11:10:20AM WE CAN'T JUST OPERATE IN A VACUUM.
11:10:22AM WOULDN'T THIS BE WISER TO GIVE US A FEW MONTHS?
11:10:24AM THIS IS A PROBLEM THAT'S TAKEN DECADES TO GET TO.
11:10:28AM CAN'T WE JUST GIVE A FEW MORE MONTHS SO THAT WE CAN -- I
11:10:33AM AGREE WITH THE PRINCIPLE, BUT I THINK IF WE COULD GET A FEW
11:10:36AM MONTHS IN HERE SO WE HAVE SOME TIME.
11:10:38AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN YOU SUPPORT DECEMBER 14?
11:10:39AM THIS IS A DRAFT AND THEN WE HAVE TO COME BACK.
11:10:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF THAT IS ENOUGH TIME FOR MS. MOODY.
11:10:45AM >>ERICA MOODY: DECEMBER OR JANUARY WOULD BE IDEAL.
11:10:46AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I CAN SUPPORT THAT.
11:10:48AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I CAN SUPPORT THAT AS WELL.
11:10:50AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
11:10:50AM I CHANGE IT TO DECEMBER 14.
11:10:53AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND AGAIN.
11:10:54AM AGAIN AND AGAIN.
11:10:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER?
11:10:59AM LOOK, WE EVEN COLLABORATED WITH STAFF TO GET TO THIS POINT.
11:11:10AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
11:11:10AM OPPOSED?
11:11:11AM MOTION CARRIES.
11:11:14AM >>ERICA MOODY: GREAT.
11:11:14AM THANK YOU.
11:11:15AM I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE A GREAT PATH MOVING FORWARD.
11:11:19AM I FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT.
11:11:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I KNOW WE ARE UNDER A TIME CRUNCH.
11:11:27AM WE HAVE 45 MINUTES, MR. MASSEY.
11:11:29AM >>ERICA MOODY: IT IS 11:11.
11:11:32AM ARE WE READY TO JUMP INTO THE NEXT ITEM?
11:11:36AM ITEM NUMBER 8 TO TALK ABOUT THE RIVERWALK EXTENSION MOTION.
11:11:40AM THERE IS A MOTION THAT THE CRA STAFF WORK WITH THE CHANNEL
11:11:42AM DISTRICT CAC, THE TAMPA PORT AUTHORITY --
11:11:46AM >>BILL CARLSON: TALKING ABOUT 7.
11:11:48AM >>ERICA MOODY: I APOLOGIZE.
11:11:49AM IT IS 7.
11:11:50AM THAT WE WORK WITH STAKEHOLDERS TO LOOK INTO THE FEASIBILITY
11:11:53AM OF EXTENDING THE RIVERWALK FROM THE AQUARIUM TO ADAMO DRIVE
11:11:57AM BISECTING THE LAND BETWEEN CHANNELSIDE DRIVE AND THE WATER
11:11:59AM AND TO DEFINE ANY POSSIBLE ROLE FOR THE CRA.
11:12:02AM SO WE ARE ENGAGING WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS ON THIS.
11:12:07AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT?
11:12:09AM >>BILL CARLSON: I JUST WANT TO HELP SET IT UP.
11:12:11AM WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO SAY SOMETHING OR KEEP GOING?
11:12:14AM >>ERICA MOODY: I'LL SET IT UP AND YOU CAN EMPHASIZE IT.
11:12:19AM WHAT WE DID, WE STARTED ENGAGING WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS, A
11:12:22AM MAJORITY OF THE LAND IS OWNED BY THE TAMPA PORT AUTHORITY
11:12:25AM AND THE CITY OF TAMPA, SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE COMMUNICATE
11:12:29AM WITH THEM TO SEE IF THEY WOULD BE AMENABLE TO EXTENDING THE
11:12:32AM RIVERWALK FROM THE AQUARIUM TO ADAMO DRIVE.
11:12:35AM SO WE WANT TO MAKE THIS CLEAR, THAT THERE ARE A COUPLE OF
11:12:38AM DIFFERENT SECTIONS BEING LOOKED AT TO EXTEND THE RIVERWALK.
11:12:41AM BENEFICIAL BRIDGE IS ONE.
11:12:44AM THE DOWNTOWN AND CHANNELSIDE CRA IS CURRENTLY LOOKING INTO A
11:12:48AM DESIGN FOR BENEFICIAL BRIDGE TO BRING THE RIVERWALK FROM THE
11:12:52AM TAMPA MUSEUM TO OVER BENEFICIAL BRIDGE HEADING TOWARD
11:12:57AM SPARKMAN WHARF.
11:12:59AM THERE IS A WORKING STUDY GROUP THAT IS WITH THE PORT
11:13:02AM AUTHORITY, AND THEY ARE LOOKING INTO PICKING IT UP FROM
11:13:05AM BENEFICIAL BRIDGE AND BRINGING IT TO THE AQUARIUM, AND THAT
11:13:08AM PASSES TERMINAL 2.
11:13:10AM THEY ARE LOOKING AT THE LOGISTICS OF BRINGING THE RIVERWALK
11:13:13AM PAST THE PORT, TRYING TO KEEP IT BY THE WATER OR BRINGING IT
11:13:16AM AROUND THE WATER TO THE AQUARIUM.
11:13:17AM SO THIS MOTION IS COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM THOSE EFFORTS,
11:13:21AM AND THIS IS REALLY LOOKING AT PICKING IT UP FROM THE
11:13:24AM AQUARIUM ALL THE WAY TO ADAMO DRIVE.
11:13:26AM SO WE ARE ENGAGING ON THE WHOLE LINEAR CONNECTIVITY OF IT.
11:13:31AM THERE IS A WORKING STUDY GROUP THAT DID PUBLISH SOME
11:13:34AM CONCEPTUAL RENDERINGS.
11:13:35AM WE'RE FOLLOWING THAT CLOSELY SO THEN WE CAN SEE WHERE THE
11:13:38AM ROUTE WOULD LEAD AND THEN WHERE WE WOULD PICK IT UP AND
11:13:41AM BRING IT TO.
11:13:41AM IT'S STILL EARLY IN THE DISCUSSION ENGAGING WITH THE
11:13:44AM STAKEHOLDERS, SO WHAT WE'VE DONE TODAY IS MAP OUT THE ROUTE
11:13:48AM THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT TO BRING IT FROM THE AQUARIUM
11:13:50AM TO ADAMO AND THEN WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THE DISCUSSIONS
11:13:53AM AND THE STAKEHOLDER AND SEE HOW THE CRA CAN SUPPORT IT.
11:13:57AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:13:58AM >>BILL CARLSON: GO AHEAD.
11:13:59AM YOU'RE DOING PERFECT.
11:14:00AM >>ERICA MOODY: OKAY.
11:14:01AM I SET IT UP ALL RIGHT.
11:14:03AM WITH THAT, I'M NOT SURE IF EVERYONE HAD A CHANCE TO SEE THE
11:14:07AM CONCEPTS THAT WERE ROLLED OUT.
11:14:08AM THERE WERE FOUR DIFFERENT CONCEPTS TO BRING IT ALL THE WAY
11:14:12AM TO THE AQUARIUM.
11:14:13AM IF YOU WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION ON THAT, I WOULD BE HAPPY
11:14:15AM TO PROVIDE IT.
11:14:16AM BUT FOR TODAY, WE WANTED TO JUST SHARE -- I'M MISSING A 7
11:14:22AM TAB.
11:14:23AM WE WANTED TO SHARE THE ROUTE.
11:14:26AM AND THIS IS REALLY PRELIMINARY, AND WE'RE BRINGING THIS TO
11:14:29AM STAKEHOLDERS AND SHOWING THEM WHERE WE WOULD LIKE TO
11:14:34AM POTENTIALLY EXPAND THE RIVERWALK AND REALLY TIES INTO THE
11:14:37AM CONNECTIVITY GOAL OF CONNECTING ALL OF THE DIFFERENT GRAY
11:14:40AM AREAS IN TAMPA AND WE CAN ALL GET THERE BY FOOT.
11:14:42AM I WALK THE RIVERWALK EVERY WEEKEND, RUN IT AND WALK MY DOG,
11:14:48AM YEAH, I WILL BE A USER OF THIS.
11:14:50AM I HAVE NOT USED THE ELMO YET.
11:14:55AM JUST ONE MOMENT.
11:15:01AM SO THIS MAP SHOWS YOU THE THREE DIFFERENT SECTIONS THAT
11:15:15AM WE'RE LOOKING AT.
11:15:16AM I WANT TO CONCEPTUALIZE IT AND MAKE SURE WE'RE IN THE RIGHT
11:15:19AM LOCATION AND THEN WE CAN HAVE CONVERSATIONS ON WHAT IT TAKES
11:15:22AM TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
11:15:23AM BENEFICIAL BRIDGE IS NUMBER ONE DOWN HERE.
11:15:25AM GREEN LINE, GOOD TO GO, IT'S IN DESIGN.
11:15:28AM OVER IN THE AREA 2, THAT'S WHERE YOU HAVE THE SPARKMAN
11:15:31AM WHARF, TERMINAL 2 TO THE AQUARIUM AND THEN THE RED LINE,
11:15:36AM SECTION NUMBER 3, THIS IS THE AQUARIUM.
11:15:38AM IT PASSES BY A TERMINAL 3 AND THEN BRINGS YOU TOWARD ADAMO
11:15:42AM DRIVE IN THE YBOR HARBOR THERE.
11:15:44AM YOU HAVE CHANNELSIDE DRIVE AS THE MAIN STREET GOING DOWN AND
11:15:48AM THEN YOU HAVE THE WATERSIDE.
11:15:51AM SO THIS ROUTE SPECIFICALLY BISECTS IT BETWEEN THE WATER SO
11:15:54AM YOU CAN STILL HAVE PORT ACTIVITIES AND THEN AS THE AREA
11:15:57AM CONTINUES TO GROW AND DEVELOP, THAT WILL HAVE A PEDESTRIAN
11:16:00AM ROUTE THROUGHOUT IT.
11:16:02AM JUST WANTED TO SHARE THIS ROUTE, MAKE SURE THIS IS THE
11:16:06AM DIRECTION THAT THE BOARD WANTS TO GO AND THEN STAFF WILL
11:16:09AM CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS AND PROVIDE REGULAR
11:16:12AM UPDATES ON HOW TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN AND WHAT THE COST WOULD
11:16:15AM LOOK LIKE.
11:16:16AM I'LL PAUSE THERE FOR DISCUSSION.
11:16:24AM THAT'S PRETTY MUCH WHERE WE ARE AT.
11:16:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:16:35AM >>BILL CARLSON: THERE IS A LOT OF DEBATE AND DISCUSSION, AS
11:16:37AM YOU SAID, ABOUT THE ROUTE THAT WOULD GO AROUND SPARKMAN
11:16:41AM WHARF FROM THE AQUARIUM.
11:16:43AM WE DIDN'T ADDRESS THAT AT ALL.
11:16:45AM THE IDEA IS WE WOULD PICK THAT UP.
11:16:46AM THAT IS A SEPARATE ISSUE.
11:16:48AM THE INTEREST HERE, I'VE TALKED TO A LOT OF THE MAJOR
11:16:50AM STAKEHOLDERS AND ERICA HAS TALKED TO SOME OF THEM, BUT THE
11:16:57AM IDEA IS THAT THERE'S ONE OR TWO PEOPLE THAT WANT TO PUT THE
11:17:01AM RIVERWALK ON THE WATER TO THE RIGHT.
11:17:04AM WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN IS IT WOULD SHUT DOWN THE MARITIME
11:17:07AM ACCESS.
11:17:08AM THE CRUISE TERMINALS, AND THE OTHER ACTIVITIES CANNOT
11:17:12AM OPERATE WITH THAT AS IT IS.
11:17:13AM THE MARITIME INDUSTRY DOESN'T WANT IT ANYWHERE NEAR THE
11:17:17AM WATER.
11:17:18AM THEY WANT IT ALONG CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
11:17:20AM YOU KNOW THAT PEDESTRIAN ADVOCATES AND BICYCLE ADVOCATES
11:17:26AM WOULD RATHER HAVE IT BLOCKED IN INSTEAD OF RIGHT NEXT TO A
11:17:29AM ROAD.
11:17:30AM THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO DEVELOP THAT PROPERTY ALONG
11:17:35AM THERE.
11:17:35AM THE PROPERTY TO THE LEFT THERE IS THE PARKING LOT FOR THE
11:17:39AM AQUARIUM.
11:17:40AM ORIGINALLY, THAT WAS -- ORIGINALLY THAT AND THE CRUISE
11:17:42AM TERMINAL AREA WERE THE AQUARIUM OWNED PROPERTY, BUT IN THE
11:17:47AM LATE '90s, WHEN THE CITY TOOK OVER THE AQUARIUM, THEY TOOK
11:17:51AM OVER THE PROPERTY AND THEY SOLD THEIR PART TO THE RIGHT.
11:17:54AM IF YOU GO WAY, WAY BACK, ALL OF THIS WAS MARITIME AREA.
11:17:59AM THE PROBLEM WITH THE MARITIME COMMUNITY IS WE ONLY HAVE
11:18:01AM THREE -- WE'RE OUT OF LAND.
11:18:03AM WE'RE OUT OF MARITIME LAND.
11:18:04AM WE DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE TO GROW.
11:18:06AM THERE WAS A BIG CONFERENCE ON THIS JUST TWO DAYS AGO WHERE
11:18:08AM 200 OR MORE PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER FROM THE MARITIME
11:18:11AM COMMUNITY.
11:18:12AM THEY ARE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT GIVING AWAY THEIR ACCESS TO
11:18:14AM DEEP WATER CHANNELS.
11:18:15AM WE ONLY HAVE THREE DEEP WATER CHANNELS THAT WE NEED TO
11:18:20AM PROTECT.
11:18:20AM IF WE ALLOW THE RIVERWALK TO GO ALONG THE WATER, IT COULD BE
11:18:23AM A DISASTER FOR THE MARITIME INDUSTRY AND WE KNOW WE'LL NEED
11:18:26AM MORE INSTEAD OF LESS.
11:18:27AM I WAS JUST -- I MENTIONED THIS BEFORE.
11:18:33AM I WAS JUST IN ISTANBUL.
11:18:35AM ISTANBUL DOES THIS EXACTLY THE SAME WAY THAT I'M TALKING
11:18:41AM ABOUT.
11:18:42AM THEY HAVE A RIVERWALK.
11:18:43AM IF THEY CAN PUT IT NEXT TO THE WATER, THEY DO, WHICH WE'VE
11:18:46AM DONE MOST OF RIVERWALK ALREADY.
11:18:48AM BUT WHERE THEY ARE GOING, THEY PROTECT THEIR MARITIME
11:18:51AM INDUSTRY.
11:18:52AM WHEN THE CRUISES ARE NOT IN, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE THE
11:18:55AM WATER.
11:18:55AM WHEN THEY ARE IN, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE THE CRUISE SHIP.
11:18:57AM I'M NOT PROPOSING DEVELOPING ANY OF THE LAND THERE.
11:19:02AM THAT'S ANOTHER DISCUSSION FOR ANOTHER DAY.
11:19:04AM BUT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO DEVELOP, IT PROTECTS THE LAND
11:19:08AM THERE TO THE LEFT, BUT FOR THE MARITIME PEOPLE, IT CONNECTS
11:19:10AM THE LAND TO THE RIGHT.
11:19:11AM SO THIS IS A COMPROMISE WHICH HAS WORKED WELL IN OTHER
11:19:14AM CITIES.
11:19:15AM WHAT I SUGGEST GOING FORWARD IS THAT -- AND I CAN MAKE A
11:19:20AM MOTION ON THIS LATER, BUT WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST GOING FORWARD
11:19:22AM IS THAT STAFF SPEND THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO TALKING TO THE CAC
11:19:27AM AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS, THAT THE STAFF SPEND THE NEXT MONTH
11:19:33AM OR TWO TALKING TO CAC AND STAKEHOLDERS AND COME BACK TO US.
11:19:36AM THIS IS A CONCEPT THAT ERICA DREW ON HER COMPUTER, SO THIS
11:19:39AM IS NOT AN OFFICIAL ENGINEERING RENDERING OR ANYTHING LIKE
11:19:42AM THAT.
11:19:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YEAH, IT'S BLURRY.
11:19:44AM >>BILL CARLSON: IT IS A ROUGH CONCEPT TO SHOW PEOPLE TO GET
11:19:48AM FEEDBACK ON IT.
11:19:49AM WE'RE NOT MAKING DECISION TO GO FORWARD, DON'T EVEN KNOW IF
11:19:52AM WE CAN AFFORD TO PAY FOR IT.
11:19:54AM WE'RE TRYING TO DO PROVIDE AN ALTERNATIVE THAT BALANCES THE
11:19:57AM INTEREST OF EVERYONE.
11:19:58AM IF ERICA AND HER TEAM CAN TAKE IT OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, THEY
11:20:01AM CAN TELL US HOW LONG WE NEED AND THEN MAKE A MOTION TO BRING
11:20:04AM IT BACK AND HAVE THEM REPORT BACK TO US.
11:20:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK AND BOARD MEMBER
11:20:08AM CLENDENIN.
11:20:09AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:20:10AM I ACTUALLY LOVE THIS CONCEPT, TOO.
11:20:12AM I HAD WRITTEN DOWN THE VERY SAME THING.
11:20:14AM YOU PUT A PRETTY FENCE, WHEN YOU TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY AND
11:20:19AM YOU SEE MAJOR PORTS, THIS IS PRETTY MUCH WHAT THEY DO.
11:20:23AM HONESTLY, NOT BEING ON THE WATER FOR THE WHOLE THING, IT'S
11:20:26AM FINE.
11:20:26AM WE HAVE A RIVERWALK THAT'S MOSTLY ALONG THE WATER.
11:20:29AM I LOVE SHIPS.
11:20:30AM I HAVE A FASCINATION WITH THEM, SO I HAVE NO PROBLEM LOOKING
11:20:33AM AT COOL SHIPS WHEN I'M WALKING OR RUNNING AS WELL.
11:20:36AM AND ONE OF THE THINGS I LIKE BEST ABOUT THIS, I AM CONCERNED
11:20:38AM ABOUT THE LITTLE STRETCH BY THE FORMER BANANA DOCKS ONLY
11:20:45AM BECAUSE THAT'S VERY NARROW.
11:20:46AM AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S LIKE SOME EASEMENTS WE CAN GET
11:20:48AM TO MAKE THAT SPACE BETTER BECAUSE RIGHT NOW THERE IS A
11:20:51AM SIDEWALK THERE THAT HAS LIGHT POLES IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, AND
11:20:55AM THEN THE STREETCARS ON THE OTHER SIDE.
11:20:57AM SO IT'S NOT VERY NAVIGABLE FOR PEDESTRIANS OR CYCLISTS AS IT
11:21:01AM IS.
11:21:02AM BUT UP AT THE TOP, ACTUALLY BEFORE YOU GO LIKE MORE
11:21:08AM HORIZONTAL, THE MAP ITSELF RIGHT THERE UNDER THE SELMON IS
11:21:15AM THEA'S WALK PATH.
11:21:18AM AND IT WOULD CONNECT -- ACTUALLY, NO, UP RIGHT THERE.
11:21:21AM RIGHT THERE IS WHERE IT STARTS.
11:21:23AM AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY BEFORE YOU GET TO THAT CORNER, THE
11:21:27AM CONNECTIVITY IS RIGHT THERE AND YOU CAN GO TO THE RIGHT.
11:21:30AM NOW, IT DOESN'T GO VERY FAR, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING I KNOW
11:21:32AM THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.
11:21:34AM BUT THAT WOULD BE A REALLY WONDERFUL CONNECTIVITY TO GET TO
11:21:38AM ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT CONTINUOUS PATH TO GET -- I BELIEVE
11:21:43AM THAT YOU CAN GET TO LIKE MCKAY BAY THROUGH THERE.
11:21:46AM ALL SORTS OF THINGS.
11:21:47AM SO THIS IS A HUGE PART OF CONNECTING DOWNTOWN TO YBOR AND
11:21:57AM BEYOND FOR FOLKS WHO WANT TO USE IT RECREATIONALLY OR EVEN
11:22:02AM AS A PATH FOR BIKES TO GET TO DOWNTOWN FOR WORK.
11:22:07AM I THINK THIS IS WONDERFUL.
11:22:09AM I THINK THAT HAVING A TRAIL THAT GOES THROUGH SOMEWHAT OF
11:22:15AM OUR INDUSTRIAL KIND OF PORT AREA WILL GIVE A NICE HIGHLIGHT
11:22:18AM TO THE FACT THAT WE'RE A PORT CITY.
11:22:20AM WE DON'T THINK ABOUT THAT.
11:22:21AM AND I THINK THAT KIND OF GRITTINESS, I MEAN, DARE I SAY IT
11:22:26AM IS A LITTLE SEXY BUT LIKE THAT GRITTY PART.
11:22:31AM WE'RE A CITY THAT'S REALLY WORKING, AND WE HAVE ALL THIS
11:22:34AM STUFF GOING ON.
11:22:35AM WE HAVE A PORT AND WE HAVE HIGH-RISES AND WE HAVE THE
11:22:38AM AQUARIUM.
11:22:38AM WE'RE KIND OF ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE AND I REALLY LOVE
11:22:42AM THIS COMPROMISE, AND I THINK THAT WE COULD PROBABLY GET THIS
11:22:46AM DONE BEFORE SECTION 2.
11:22:49AM JUST GOING TO THROW THAT OUT THERE.
11:22:52AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NOTHING SAYS SEXY LIKE A CHLORINE TANK.
11:22:56AM QUESTION, MR. CARLSON --
11:22:59AM [ LAUGHTER ]
11:23:02AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [INAUDIBLE]
11:23:04AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT DEPENDS IF YOU ARE PART OF THE YBOR
11:23:06AM MAFIA.
11:23:08AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, QUESTION, YOU ALLUDED TO, AND THIS IS MY
11:23:11AM IGNORANCE.
11:23:12AM FORGIVE ME FOR LIVING HERE SO LONG AND NOT KNOWING THIS.
11:23:15AM WE START WITH THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM AND MOVE NORTH, CAN YOU
11:23:19AM HIGHLIGHT WHO OWNS THOSE PROPERTIES NOW?
11:23:22AM >>BILL CARLSON: MORRIS MAY HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE DEALS.
11:23:25AM THAT WHOLE SECTION WHERE NUMBER THREE IS, A LONG TIME AGO,
11:23:28AM THAT WAS -- ALL THAT WAS MARITIME, BUT THEN I THINK IT WAS
11:23:34AM FREEDMAN ADMINISTRATION, THE AQUARIUM BOUGHT IT, AND IF I
11:23:39AM REMEMBER CORRECTLY FOR DISCLOSURE WITH MY --
11:23:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME, YOU WANT IT PROJECTED ON THE
11:23:43AM BIG TV?
11:23:44AM CCTV, CAN YOU PROJECT IT ON THE BIG TELEVISION FOR THE
11:23:48AM PUBLIC, PLEASE?
11:23:50AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I CAN TELL YOU A FEW THINGS, BUT IT'S KIND
11:23:53AM OF OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
11:23:55AM -- FIRST OF ALL, THE AQUARIUM IS ON LAND OWNED BY THE CITY,
11:23:57AM SO THE CITY OWNS THE DIRT AND IT OWNS THE PARKING LOT THAT
11:24:02AM SERVES THE AQUARIUM.
11:24:04AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT ENTIRE NORTH-SOUTH SEGMENT --
11:24:07AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WAS JUST WAITING FOR, IF I COULD, AND THEN
11:24:11AM MAYBE YOU CAN FILL IN.
11:24:12AM THAT WHOLE SECTION WHERE NUMBER 3 IS, THE AQUARIUM PARKING
11:24:16AM LOT, YEARS AGO THAT WAS MARITIME.
11:24:18AM DURING THE FREEDMAN ADMINISTRATION, THE AQUARIUM, WHICH WAS
11:24:20AM A PRIVATE ENTITY, BOUGHT ALL OF THAT LAND.
11:24:24AM FOR DISCLOSURE, ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS
11:24:28AM OF THE AQUARIUM.
11:24:29AM THEN IN THE LATE '90s, BECAUSE OF THE BUSINESS MODEL THEY
11:24:32AM PICKED, THEY COULDN'T PAY THE DEBT.
11:24:34AM SO SOMEWHERE AROUND LATE '90s, THE CITY TOOK IT OVER AND
11:24:39AM THAT INCLUDED ALL THAT LAND THERE.
11:24:41AM SO THEN THE CITY, I THINK THE AQUARIUM PAID LIKE $4 MILLION
11:24:44AM FOR THAT WHOLE SECTION, AND THEN THE CITY TURNED AROUND AND
11:24:47AM SOLD THE EASTERN PART OF IT FOR 20 MILLION TO THE PORT.
11:24:52AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE SECTION WITH THE 3 THAT RUNS ALONG THE
11:24:55AM WATER.
11:24:55AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE INTERESTING THING, THE CITY DID NOT USE
11:24:58AM THE MONEY TO RETIRE THE DEBT FOR THE AQUARIUM.
11:25:00AM INSTEAD THE AQUARIUM HAS HAD THEIR DEBT EXTENDED.
11:25:02AM SO THAT'S A WHOLE OTHER ISSUE.
11:25:04AM THE PART TO THE NORTH -- THE PART TO THE EAST THERE, NUMBER
11:25:08AM THREE IS CONTROLLED BY THE PORT AUTHORITY.
11:25:10AM THE PART TO THE WEST, AS MORRIS SAID, OWNED BY THE CITY BUT
11:25:15AM LEASED TO THE AQUARIUM.
11:25:16AM THEY ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT WOULD BE THEIR EXPANSION AREA AND
11:25:18AM ALSO THE PARKING LOT.
11:25:19AM WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THE OTHER PART OF THE RIVERWALK
11:25:24AM PROPOSAL IS SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT THE PORT SHOULD GIVE UP
11:25:27AM TERMINAL TWO, WHICH IS ADJACENT TO THE AQUARIUM AND LET THE
11:25:30AM AQUARIUM EXPAND THERE.
11:25:31AM BUT THAT WOULD BE A DISASTROUS THING FOR THE ECONOMY, AND
11:25:35AM THEN THE IDEA WAS THE AQUARIUM WOULD MOVE THERE AND THEY
11:25:38AM WOULD DEVELOP.
11:25:38AM THE AQUARIUM HAS HAD DIFFERENT DISCUSSIONS OVER THE YEARS,
11:25:41AM BUT THE IDEA IS THAT EVENTUALLY SOMETHING MAY BE DEVELOPED
11:25:44AM IN THAT PARKING LOT, BUT THE AQUARIUM NEEDS THEIR PARKING
11:25:48AM SPACES TO SURVIVE AND NEED AN AREA TO EXPAND.
11:25:51AM THE PARTS TO THE NORTH ARE CONTROLLED BY THE PORT AUTHORITY.
11:25:53AM IF YOU GET PAST THAT LITTLE INLET, THE LITTLE WATER INLET,
11:26:00AM THAT WHOLE AREA IS INTERNATIONAL SHIP REPAIR, WHICH IS A
11:26:03AM HUGE ECONOMIC ENGINE FOR THE AREA.
11:26:07AM STRATEGIC BUSINESS FOR OUR REGION AND ABOUT 15 YEARS AGO IT
11:26:09AM WAS REZONED, DARRYL SHAW NOW HAS A CONTRACT ON IT AND I
11:26:16AM THINK THEY WILL BE COMING BACK TO US AT SOME POINT IN THE
11:26:19AM FUTURE TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN.
11:26:20AM THAT WAS ALREADY ZONED A LONG, LONG TIME AGO TO SOMETHING
11:26:24AM ELSE BESIDES MARITIME.
11:26:25AM SO THE PORT, ONCE THAT WAS REZONED, THE PORT COULD NOT
11:26:28AM AFFORD TO BUY THE PROPERTY BACK.
11:26:30AM IT WAS TOO VALUABLE.
11:26:32AM LET'S SAY IF THAT PART EVENTUALLY DEVELOPS INTO OTHER
11:26:35AM SOURCES, WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS FIGURE OUT HOW TO PROTECT
11:26:38AM EVERYTHING TO THE EAST BECAUSE THERE ARE STRATEGIC
11:26:40AM INDUSTRIES IMPORTANT FOR OUR AREA.
11:26:42AM WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE PROTECT THE MARITIME AREA.
11:26:44AM SO THIS COMPROMISE, WHAT IT DOES, IT GOES BETWEEN PORT AND
11:26:48AM CITY TERRITORY, THE NORTHERN PART THERE, AS I SAID IS PORT
11:26:51AM AND THEN IT CONNECTS TO DARRYL'S PROPERTY, WHICH IS ONE OF
11:26:54AM THE MAIN GOALS OF EVERYBODY TO MAKE SURE THERE IS A
11:26:57AM CONTIGUOUS LINK BETWEEN ALL THAT'S HAPPENING IN YBOR AND
11:27:02AM CHANNELSIDE GOING ALL THE WAY AROUND TO TAMPA HEIGHTS.
11:27:05AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BIFURCATE THE PORT
11:27:09AM OWNED PROPERTY NORTH -- WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO BIFURCATE THE
11:27:16AM PORT PROPERTY NORTH OF YORK STREET?
11:27:18AM I GET THAT WE'RE BIFURCATING BECAUSE IT LINKS THE AQUARIUM
11:27:22AM AND BETWEEN THE AQUARIUM-OWNED PROPERTY OR THE CITY-OWNED
11:27:25AM PROPERTY AND THE PORT ON THE SOUTHERN SECTION, BUT WHY
11:27:29AM WOULDN'T YOU CONTINUE UP TO CHANNELSIDE TO ALLOW THE PORT
11:27:32AM FULL UTILIZATION OF THE PROPERTY BETWEEN CHANNELSIDE DRIVE
11:27:37AM AND THE WATER?
11:27:39AM >>BILL CARLSON: IF YOU LOOK AT THE RED LINE THERE, THIS IS A
11:27:41AM BLURRY PHOTO, BUT TO THE LEFT IS THE PORT OFFICE BUILDING,
11:27:45AM WHICH HAS BEEN SLATED FOR REDEVELOPMENT.
11:27:48AM IT'S ONLY 20, 30 YEARS OLD, BUT SLATED FOR REDEVELOPMENT AT
11:27:51AM SOME POINT.
11:27:51AM THE RED LINE THAT ERICA DREW, THIS IS AN ARBITRARY LINE TO
11:27:55AM GET FEEDBACK BUT IT RUNS RIGHT THROUGH THEIR PARKING LOT.
11:27:57AM SO MOST LIKELY THEY WOULD HAVE US MOVE IT TO THE EAST A
11:28:00AM LITTLE BIT.
11:28:01AM AND I'VE TALKED TO THE PORT.
11:28:03AM THEIR BOARD HAS TO ULTIMATELY VOTE, BUT THE STAFF DOES NOT
11:28:06AM OBJECT TO SOME VARIATION.
11:28:08AM BUT THE POINT HERE IS AT LEAST WE HAVE SOMETHING ON A MAP
11:28:11AM THAT PEOPLE CAN GIVE INPUT TO AND THE PORT WILL TELL US WHAT
11:28:14AM THEY LIKE AND DON'T LIKE AND ALL THE OTHER STAKEHOLDERS WILL
11:28:17AM TELL US AS WELL.
11:28:17AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I APPRECIATE THE EDUCATION.
11:28:19AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE MARITIME COMMUNITY, THOUGH, IS VERY,
11:28:21AM VERY CONCERNED ABOUT THE RIVERWALK GOING ON THE WATER
11:28:25AM BECAUSE IT WILL DESTROY HUGE ECONOMIC ENGINE.
11:28:29AM WE'RE ALREADY GOING TO LOSE INTERNATIONAL SHIP REPAIR.
11:28:32AM THEY MAY BE RELOCATED, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL, BUT WE'RE OUT OF
11:28:35AM LAND BEYOND THAT.
11:28:36AM SO WE NEED TO PROTECT WHATEVER MARITIME LAND WE HAVE.
11:28:41AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
11:28:42AM I THINK THAT LOCATION IS GREAT FOR A WALMART.
11:28:44AM I'M JOKING.
11:28:45AM [ LAUGHTER ]
11:28:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CENSOR COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:28:51AM [ LAUGHTER ]
11:28:51AM I WANT TO THANK COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON FOR BRINGING THIS UP.
11:28:56AM THIS IS HUGE, SHOULD IT COME TO FRUITION, WHICH I THINK IT
11:29:00AM WILL, AND I SEE HOW THIS MAKES SENSE AND I UNDERSTAND THE
11:29:05AM CONCERNS OF OTHER STAKEHOLDERS.
11:29:06AM AND I WANT TO APOLOGIZE.
11:29:08AM THERE WAS SOME CHATTER WHILE YOU WERE TALKING AND WE WERE
11:29:11AM SAYING, WHO OWNS THE AQUARIUM AND WHO, JUST TO CLARIFY, I
11:29:14AM DIDN'T MEAN TO BE DISRUPTIVE, BUT WE SEE HOW IMPACTFUL THE
11:29:21AM RIVERWALK HAS BEEN AND HOW POPULAR IT HAS BEEN.
11:29:25AM I REMEMBER WHEN MY MOTHER SAW IT.
11:29:27AM MY MOM STOPPED COMING DOWNTOWN DECADES AGO.
11:29:31AM AFTER THE 1970s, IT CHANGED.
11:29:33AM I BROUGHT HER DOWN HERE FOR A MOTHER'S DAY WEEKEND.
11:29:36AM WE HAD BRUNCH, WHATEVER, AND SHE SAW THE RIVERWALK FOR THE
11:29:39AM FIRST TIME AFTER WE DID LIKE THE KENNEDY EXPANSION AND
11:29:42AM FURTHER.
11:29:42AM AND SHE'S LIKE, WOW, WHAT A WAY TO INTRODUCE PEOPLE OR
11:29:46AM WELCOME PEOPLE TO TAMPA WHEN THEY COME AND VISIT.
11:29:49AM SO THE FURTHER EXTENSION OF THIS GOING INTO GASWORX, YBOR
11:29:52AM CITY, THE GROWTH IN WATER STREET AND DOWNTOWN, IT'S GOING TO
11:29:58AM BE -- IT IS A JEWEL AND IT'S GOING TO FURTHER EXPAND THERE
11:30:04AM WHILE ALSO RESPECTING MARITIME PROPERTIES AND THE PORT AND
11:30:08AM EVERYTHING SO WE CAN ALL WORK TOGETHER, BUT AT THE SAME TIME
11:30:11AM CONTINUE INVESTING IN OUR COMMUNITY.
11:30:13AM I THINK THIS IS REALLY GREAT AND I LOOK FORWARD TO -- I KNOW
11:30:18AM IT'S NOT EASY.
11:30:19AM I SAW AN ARTICLE SOMEWHERE.
11:30:20AM NOT AS EASY AS YOU THINK EXPANDING THE RIVERWALK, BUT I
11:30:23AM THINK WE CAN GET THERE AND IT WILL CONTINUE BEING A BENEFIT
11:30:27AM TO THE COMMUNITY.
11:30:29AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
11:30:30AM ANYONE ELSE?
11:30:30AM ITEM NUMBER 8 IS CONTINUED TO DECEMBER 14.
11:30:34AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I MAKE A MOTION?
11:30:36AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR, GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:30:39AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST -- WHAT DATE DO YOU THINK WOULD MAKE
11:30:42AM SENSE TO COME BACK FROM COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT?
11:30:44AM >>ERICA MOODY: THANK YOU FOR ASKING.
11:30:46AM I'M MAPPING IT OUT.
11:30:47AM I REALLY WANT TO GET THE INTERIM INVOLVED IN THIS ONCE WE
11:30:50AM GET THE CRA MANAGER FOR DOWNTOWN.
11:30:52AM IF DECEMBER WAS ACCEPTABLE TO YOU, I'D LIKE TO COME BACK IN
11:30:55AM DECEMBER AFTER WE SPEAK WITH THE STAKEHOLDERS, GET THE
11:30:57AM BUY-IN.
11:30:57AM >>BILL CARLSON: DO YOU THINK THAT IS ENOUGH TIME?
11:31:00AM >>ERICA MOODY: I DO, IF NOT WE CAN TALK AND MAP OUT NEXT
11:31:03AM STEPS TO GET TO ACTUAL CONCEPTUAL DRAWINGS THAT ARE BETTER
11:31:05AM THAN MY ATTEMPT.
11:31:07AM >>BILL CARLSON: THIS IS TO GET FEEDBACK FROM THE PUBLIC, NOT
11:31:09AM TO PROPOSE OUR INVOLVEMENT YET.
11:31:10AM BUT I WOULD LIKE TO MOTION TO ASK CRA STAFF TO RETURN ON
11:31:13AM DECEMBER 14 TO PRESENT COMMUNITY AND CAC FEEDBACK ON THE
11:31:16AM PROPOSED RIVERWALK EXTENSION FROM THE AQUARIUM TO ADAMO
11:31:19AM DRIVE.
11:31:21AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
11:31:22AM WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON, SECONDED BY BOARD
11:31:24AM MEMBER HURTAK.
11:31:25AM ALL IN FAVOR?
11:31:27AM >> AYE.
11:31:27AM >>LUIS VIERA: ANY OPPOSED?
11:31:28AM OKAY.
11:31:29AM YES, SIR.
11:31:30AM ANYBODY ELSE?
11:31:30AM ANY OTHER THOUGHTS OR DISCUSSIONS ON ITEM NUMBER 8?
11:31:33AM -- OR 7, EXCUSE ME.
11:31:36AM MOVING FORWARD, WE HAVE ITEM NUMBER 8.
11:31:39AM MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO PLEASE CONTINUE THAT TO DECEMBER 14?
11:31:42AM WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO, SECONDED BY
11:31:45AM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:31:45AM ALL IN FAVOR?
11:31:46AM ANY OPPOSED?
11:31:47AM OKAY.
11:31:50AM NUMBER 9, PLEASE.
11:31:53AM >> CONTINUED THAT.
11:31:54AM >>LUIS VIERA: PARDON ME.
11:31:55AM NUMBER 11, CRA BOARD MEMBERS TO SPEND ONE HOUR TO DISCUSS
11:31:58AM TRANSPORTATION OPTIONS.
11:32:03AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I INTENDED TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM, BUT
11:32:05AM AFTER GETTING NEW INFORMATION FROM MOBILITY, I DECIDED TO
11:32:08AM HAVE A BRIEF DISCUSSION AND HOPEFULLY THIS WILL GO BRIEF
11:32:10AM BECAUSE I THINK EVERYBODY HERE IS IN SUPPORT.
11:32:14AM WE'VE HAD A LONG-STANDING PROPOSAL TO EXTEND THE TAMPA
11:32:17AM STREETCAR SYSTEM FROM ITS EXISTING TERMINUS IN DOWNTOWN
11:32:22AM TAMPA UP FLORIDA AVENUE AND THEN BACK DOWN TAMPA.
11:32:25AM INITIALLY THE PROPOSAL WAS TO TURN AT PALM -- I'VE BEEN IN
11:32:30AM MANY DISCUSSIONS WITH HART AND OTHER CITIZEN ADVISORY GROUPS
11:32:34AM AND STAKEHOLDERS, THAT IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO GO ALL THE WAY
11:32:38AM UP TO AMELIA RIGHT BEFORE COLUMBUS BECAUSE HART USES
11:32:41AM COLUMBUS AS EAST-WEST CONNECTOR AND IT TURNS IT INTO A TRUE
11:32:45AM TRANSPORTATION OPTION.
11:32:45AM THIS IS SOMETHING I THINK IS REALLY A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR
11:32:51AM DOWNTOWN AND TALK ABOUT TRANSIT AND PEOPLE MOVING FROM POINT
11:32:54AM A TO POINT B.
11:32:55AM WHEN WE ACT AS A CITY COUNCIL AND A LAND USE BOARD, WE'RE
11:32:59AM CONTINUOUSLY IMPROVING -- APPROVING PROJECTS, DENSITY IN
11:33:05AM THESE AREAS, TAMPA HEIGHTS AND DOWNTOWN, WE ARE REDUCING
11:33:10AM PARKING MINIMUMS, BUT WE'RE MISSING THIS TRANSPORTATION
11:33:13AM MODE.
11:33:14AM IN CONVERSATIONS WITH VIK FROM MOBILITY, THEY ARE ACTUALLY
11:33:18AM READY TO GO AND DO THIS, IF THEY GOT THE COMMITMENT FROM THE
11:33:23AM CRA.
11:33:23AM WHAT THEY NEED RIGHT NOW IS A COMMITMENT FOR $5 MILLION TO
11:33:26AM COMPLETE THE DESIGN ELEMENTS OF THIS, BUT FOREWARNED -- OH,
11:33:33AM BY THE WAY, THE MATCHING FUNDS STILL EXIST, BUT THEY WILL BE
11:33:36AM UP FOR RENEWAL NEXT SUMMER.
11:33:38AM WE EITHER HAVE TO START USING IT OR WE RUN THE RISK OF
11:33:40AM LOSING THEM, WHICH I THINK WOULD BE MALFEASANCE.
11:33:43AM BUT WE START THIS PROJECT, WE'LL BE ABLE TO CONTINUE AND
11:33:45AM SECURE THEM.
11:33:46AM THE MATCHING FUNDS, BY THE WAY, ARE INFLATION PROOF.
11:33:49AM GROWS WITH INFLATION.
11:33:50AM WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THAT AS WELL SO WE'RE IN GOOD
11:33:53AM SHAPE WITH THAT.
11:33:53AM RIGHT NOW WE NEED A COMMITMENT FROM THE CRA TO COMMIT $5
11:33:56AM MILLION FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE DESIGN AND BUILD OF THIS
11:33:59AM PROJECT.
11:34:00AM LONGER TERM, SPREAD OVER MULTIPLE YEARS, WE'RE GOING TO COME
11:34:03AM BACK TO THE CRA.
11:34:04AM IT'S GOING TO BE CUMULATIVE, LOCAL MATCH 45 MILLION
11:34:08AM CUMULATIVELY TO BE ABLE TO BUILD A STREETCAR SYSTEM TO
11:34:12AM EXTEND FROM THE SOUTHERN PART OF DOWNTOWN ALL THE WAY
11:34:14AM THROUGH DOWNTOWN, NORTH DOWNTOWN, TAMPA HEIGHTS, DAMN NEAR
11:34:17AM INTO WEST TAMPA, CONNECTIVITY FOR WEST TAMPA BECAUSE WE'RE
11:34:21AM GETTING CLOSE TO THE PROJECTS THAT WERE CONSTRUCTED ALONG
11:34:24AM THE RIVER WAY UP THERE AND ALL OF THESE GREAT IDEAS THAT ARE
11:34:27AM BEING BANDIED ABOUT.
11:34:29AM RIGHT NOW, WE NEED A COMMITMENT FOR $5 MILLION.
11:34:33AM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT THIS CRA BOARD APPROVE $5
11:34:38AM MILLION TO SUPPORT THE DESIGN-BUILD AND MOVE FORWARD WITH
11:34:42AM THE STREETCAR.
11:34:44AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND FOR DISCUSSION.
11:34:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE COMMENTS BY BOARD MEMBER
11:34:48AM MANISCALCO AND THEN WE'LL ADDRESS COMMENTS ON YOUR MOTION.
11:34:53AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO, BOARD MEMBER
11:34:55AM HURTAK.
11:34:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU WOULD NEED TO EXTEND IT TO MARTIN
11:34:58AM LUTHER KING AND HABANA OR MACDILL TO ACCOMMODATE.
11:35:07AM IN ALL SERIOUSNESS, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR CHAMPIONING
11:35:09AM THIS.
11:35:09AM YOU TALKED ABOUT IT DURING THE CAMPAIGN.
11:35:11AM YOU TALKED ABOUT IT SINCE DAY ONE HERE.
11:35:13AM I TOTALLY SUPPORT THE STREETCAR EXTENSION.
11:35:15AM I USE IT A LOT.
11:35:16AM I'VE USED IT A LOT.
11:35:18AM I'M ON THE STREETCAR BOARD.
11:35:19AM I HAVE THE HONOR OF BEING THERE.
11:35:23AM YOU KNOW, WHEN THE STREETCAR WAS TAKEN UP IN 1946, AND THAT
11:35:27AM IS A SUPER LONG DISCUSSION, WE LOST A BIG OPPORTUNITY, AND
11:35:30AM THAT WAS POST WORLD WAR II AND IT WAS FOCUSING ON ROAD AND
11:35:34AM INTERSTATE CONSTRUCTION, WHICH CAME IN THE '50s AND LATER
11:35:37AM ON AND DIVIDED COMMUNITIES AND DESTROYED A LOT.
11:35:40AM THE FOCUS WAS ON AUTOMOBILES.
11:35:42AM AND NOT JUST SUSPENDED THE STREETCAR SERVICE, BUT THEY
11:35:47AM PULLED UP THE TRACK OVER THE NEXT FEW DECADES, WHICH TO ME
11:35:50AM GAVE THE MESSAGE OF WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT NOBODY EVER
11:35:53AM COMES BACK TO THIS IN THE FUTURE, NOT JUST PAVE OVER THE
11:35:57AM STREETCAR TRACKS, IT'S PULL THEM UP TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T
11:35:59AM REVISIT THIS.
11:36:00AM BUT IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE COMING FULL CIRCLE.
11:36:03AM THE STREETCAR WAS INITIATED IN THE LATE 1800s.
11:36:06AM I GIVE A LOT OF CREDIT TO HUGH McFARLAND, FORMER CITY
11:36:10AM ATTORNEY FROM 1890.
11:36:11AM I KNOW WE'RE GOING WAY BACK AND THE FATHER OF WEST TAMPA OR
11:36:14AM ONE OF THE FOUNDING FATHERS IN CONNECTING THROUGH THE
11:36:17AM FORTUNE STREET BRIDGE, NOW THE MADAME FORTUNE TAYLOR BRIDGE,
11:36:19AM CONNECTING WEST TAMPA AND DOWNTOWN WITH THE STREETCAR AND
11:36:22AM WITH THE CONNECTION.
11:36:23AM HOWEVER, GOING INTO THE HISTORY THING, WE SEE THE DENSITY,
11:36:28AM THE GROWTH IN RESIDENTIAL IN DOWNTOWN.
11:36:31AM WE SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CHANNEL AREA, THE CHANNEL
11:36:35AM DISTRICT AND WATERS STREET, AND WE SEE THE RENAISSANCE OF
11:36:39AM TAMPA HEIGHTS.
11:36:39AM WE SEE THE RENAISSANCE OF SO MANY COMMUNITIES THAT THIS
11:36:43AM WOULD BE SUCH A BENEFIT TO THE COMMUNITY, SUCH A WISE
11:36:46AM INVESTMENT IN MY OPINION WHERE YOU'RE TAKING THE STREETCAR
11:36:51AM UP, YOU SAID TO AMELIA.
11:36:53AM SO YOU'RE APPROACHING COLUMBUS DRIVE.
11:36:56AM >> THE STREET RIGHT BEFORE COLUMBUS.
11:36:59AM COLUMBUS IS MUCH MORE COMPLICATED.
11:37:01AM YOU'VE GOT SPACE THERE AND ACTUALLY REAL ESTATE THERE WE
11:37:04AM COULD USE AS A CONNECTIVITY POINT TO AN EAST-WEST CORRIDOR
11:37:07AM THAT RUNS ALONG COLUMBUS WHICH WOULD GET INTO EAST TAMPA,
11:37:10AM WHICH COULD GO ALL THE WAY TO THE AIRPORT.
11:37:12AM COLUMBUS HAS A LOT OF EAST-WEST CONNECTIVITY.
11:37:15AM AND THAT'S IN HART'S LONG-RANGE PLAN.
11:37:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AND YOU HAVE THE TRAFFIC VOLUME ON TAMPA
11:37:23AM AND FLORIDA.
11:37:24AM THOSE ARE MY CORRIDORS.
11:37:25AM I STAY OFF THE INTERSTATE.
11:37:26AM I LIKE TO USE TAMPA STREET, MARTIN LUTHER KING, FLORIDA
11:37:30AM AVENUE, HILLSBOROUGH AVENUE.
11:37:31AM AND THEN MY OTHER SHORTCUTS.
11:37:34AM BUT I THINK THIS IS A WORTHY INVESTMENT.
11:37:37AM THIS IS LONG OVERDUE.
11:37:40AM I KNOW A GENTLEMAN THAT WILL BE COMING HERE LATER THIS
11:37:43AM AFTERNOON BROUGHT BACK THE STREETCAR TWO DECADES AGO.
11:37:48AM IT WAS A LOT CHEAPER THEN.
11:37:50AM I KNOW MAYOR IORIO EXPANDED IT TO, IS WHAT IS IT, WHITING
11:37:55AM STATION, AND IT WAS $10 MILLION TO GO FOUR BLOCKS OR $20
11:37:59AM MILLION FOR -- SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
11:38:01AM IT WAS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE COST TODAY.
11:38:05AM I KNOW COUNCILMAN MIRANDA MADE THE SECOND ON THE MOTION.
11:38:07AM I AM TOTALLY IN SUPPORT.
11:38:09AM I THINK AS WE INVEST IN TRANSIT, THIS IS A VERY WORTHY
11:38:13AM INVESTMENT.
11:38:15AM AGAIN, THE DENSITY ALONG THOSE CORRIDORS AND THE CONTINUED
11:38:18AM DENSITIES THAT WILL COME AND THE RIDERSHIP NUMBERS.
11:38:21AM I KNOW WE'VE HAD NO FARES DUE TO GRANTS ON THE STREETCAR
11:38:24AM NOW, BUT I THINK THAT HAS ALLOWED US TO SPARK FURTHER
11:38:28AM INTEREST IN THE STREETCAR FROM PEOPLE THAT ARE USING IT AND
11:38:30AM WE SEE RIDERSHIP NUMBERS GOING UP AND UP AND UP AND THEY
11:38:33AM WILL CONTINUE UP.
11:38:34AM VERY GOOD.
11:38:35AM I'M GLAD TO SUPPORT IT.
11:38:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:38:40AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ONE THING I WOULD LIKE TO WARN YOU ALL, IF
11:38:43AM THIS MOVES, IT'S FINE, BUT WE NEED TO WATCH HOW WE SPEND THE
11:38:46AM MONEY.
11:38:46AM WE CANNOT SPEND CRA DOLLARS OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE
11:38:49AM CRA.
11:38:49AM THAT IS THE ONE LIMITATION WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT, WE MAY
11:38:52AM BE ABLE TO SPEND SOME.
11:38:55AM THE BULK MAYBE BY THE CRA, PART, I'M NOT SURE WE CAN SPEND
11:39:00AM ALL OF THE CRA DOLLARS.
11:39:01AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: RIGHT NOW THE $5 MILLION DOWNTOWN.
11:39:02AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT.
11:39:04AM THANK YOU.
11:39:05AM I ACTUALLY WANTED TO TALK TO, I THINK DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR
11:39:09AM DRUMGO MIGHT BE ABLE TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THIS.
11:39:12AM A, I THINK IT'S REALLY IRONIC THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
11:39:15AM CAPPING THE CRA AND THEN -- OR THE DOWNTOWN CRA AND NOW WE
11:39:18AM HAVE THIS GIANT PROJECT.
11:39:20AM IT'S NOT THAT I DON'T SUPPORT IT.
11:39:22AM I JUST FOUND THAT KIND OF FUNNY.
11:39:24AM I'M HOPING THIS IS RUBBER WHEEL BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE
11:39:29AM MONEY TO FUND AN ACTUAL EXPANSION.
11:39:34AM AND THEN I WANTED TO ASK DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR DRUMGO, WE
11:39:39AM HAVE TO STOP THIS AT 275.
11:39:41AM WE ONLY HAVE A FEW REAL BLOCKS TO DO, THAT THE CRA CAN PAY
11:39:46AM FOR.
11:39:47AM HOW ARE WE GOING TO FUND THE REST OF IT, WHICH IS THE BULK
11:39:51AM OF IT TO GO UP FLORIDA AVENUE?
11:39:55AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: FOR THE RECORD, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR ALIS
11:39:57AM DRUMGO.
11:39:58AM I THINK WHAT YOU'RE ASKING IS FOR THE CRA TO BE A CONDUIT OR
11:40:02AM A CATALYST TO GET TO A GREATER PROJECT, RIGHT?
11:40:04AM I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE A COLLABORATION WITH OUR MOBILITY
11:40:07AM TEAM TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT THE REST OF THE PROJECT, TO LOOK
11:40:09AM AT OTHER FUNDING SOURCES.
11:40:11AM BUT, I MEAN, YOU-ALL ARE EXACTLY RIGHT, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE
11:40:15AM HAVE LIMITATIONS BASED ON THE BOUNDARIES OF THE
11:40:17AM REDEVELOPMENT AREAS.
11:40:19AM AND SO WE WOULD HAVE TO EXPLORE HOW TO LEVERAGE THOSE
11:40:23AM DOLLARS.
11:40:23AM THAT'S WHAT CRAs DO ACROSS THE STATE, RIGHT?
11:40:26AM THEY EITHER DO PILOT PROJECTS OR THEY DO A PORTION AND THEN
11:40:31AM THE OTHER ENTITIES COME IN BEHIND IT TO MAKE SURE WE GET TO
11:40:34AM AN END GAME ON THE PROJECT.
11:40:36AM IT REALLY DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF PROJECT, THE VALUE AND
11:40:38AM THOSE ARE THINGS THAT ARE REAL UNKNOWNS FOR US AT THIS TIME.
11:40:42AM >>LYNN HURTAK: JUST TO CLARIFY, TAMPA HEIGHTS CRA DOES NOT
11:40:46AM RUN UP THERE.
11:40:49AM IT JUST DOESN'T.
11:40:50AM IT STOPS AROUND 7th.
11:40:51AM SO THERE'S VERY LITTLE ACTUAL THAT THE TAMPA HEIGHTS CRA
11:40:56AM COULD CONTRIBUTE.
11:40:59AM AND THIS IS MY BIG CONCERN AFTER LAST NIGHT IS I THINK IT'S
11:41:03AM GREAT TO SPARK IT.
11:41:05AM I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH IT.
11:41:06AM I'M OBVIOUSLY VERY SUPPORTIVE OF TRANSIT.
11:41:09AM I'M 100%.
11:41:12AM I JUST WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S NEXT BECAUSE 5 MILLION-DOLLAR
11:41:15AM ONLY GETS YOU TO 75.
11:41:17AM IS THERE A PROPOSITION TO MAYBE JUST GO TO 275 INITIALLY AND
11:41:24AM BACK DOWN?
11:41:24AM BECAUSE WE CAN'T GO ANY FURTHER WITH THE DOLLARS WE HAVE.
11:41:28AM WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO SPEND ANY MONEY OUTSIDE OF 275 AS OUR
11:41:33AM NORTHERN BOUNDARY.
11:41:35AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: OUTSIDE OF THE CRA.
11:41:36AM AGAIN, THE BULK OF THE FUNDING FOR THE TAMPA HEIGHTS
11:41:39AM RIVERFRONT, IT GOES TOWARD THE CDD.
11:41:42AM I WOULD SAY THAT'S THREE FOURTHS OF THE DOLLARS SO THERE ARE
11:41:45AM LIMITATIONS.
11:41:45AM WE WOULD REALLY NEED TO SIT DOWN AND MAP OUT WHAT YOU'RE
11:41:49AM ASKING US FOR, THE SAME WAY ABOUT THE WHOLE CHANNEL
11:41:52AM DISTRICT, THAT ALIGNMENT.
11:41:53AM FOR US, IT'S GETTING A SKETCH, GETTING A DIAGRAM OF WHAT YOU
11:41:56AM ALL ARE ASKING US FOR AND EVALUATING HOW IT ALIGNS WITH THE
11:42:01AM REDEVELOPMENT AREAS AND THEN WHERE THOSE IMPACTS WOULD BE
11:42:03AM AND THEN FINANCIALLY BEING ABLE TO SEE WHAT AVAILABLE FUNDS
11:42:07AM WOULD BE ABLE TO SUPPORT AN OVERALL PROJECT.
11:42:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:42:12AM MY ONLY OTHER QUESTION IS, DOES THIS CONNECT TO THE PLANNED
11:42:15AM BRT?
11:42:18AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: I CAN'T SPEAK TO THAT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.
11:42:21AM I WOULD HAVE TO TALK TO VIK BHIDE ABOUT THAT, OUR
11:42:24AM TRANSPORTATION DIRECTOR, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT THE INTENT
11:42:26AM HERE IS TO HAVE BRT ALONG THOSE NORTH-SOUTH CORRIDORS THAT
11:42:30AM WOULD LINK UP TO THE SERVICE AREAS.
11:42:33AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: IF I COULD SUGGEST, MAYBE WHAT THE CRA
11:42:36AM BOARD MAY WANT TO DIRECT CRA STAFF TO DO IS TO MEET WITH THE
11:42:40AM CITY'S MOBILITY STAFF TO SEE WHAT THE CRA -- HOW THE CRA CAN
11:42:45AM PARTICIPATE AND MOVE THE PROJECT FORWARD TO THE DESIGN STAGE
11:42:51AM AND FURTHER.
11:42:51AM IT WILL HAVE TO BE A COLLABORATION, BUT WE CERTAINLY
11:42:54AM PARTICIPATE AND BE A BIG PART OF IT.
11:42:56AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH.
11:42:57AM I WOULD LIKE THEN TO MAKE A MOTION ONCE WE PASS THIS ONE TO
11:43:02AM DO THAT AND THEN INCLUDE HART AS WELL.
11:43:05AM I THINK COMING -- AGAIN, THIS IS I THINK WHERE YOU, MR.
11:43:11AM DRUMGO, COME INTO PLAY BECAUSE YOU CAN HAVE THE CRA PIECE
11:43:14AM BUT ALSO THE PIECE OUTSIDE WITH MOBILITY.
11:43:17AM BECAUSE THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT, BUT I REALLY WANT TO MAKE
11:43:20AM SURE THAT WE'RE NOT OVERPROMISING TO CITIZENS THAT WE CAN
11:43:24AM ONLY GO SO FAR WITH THIS MONEY AND THEN WE OBVIOUSLY DON'T
11:43:28AM HAVE ANY MORE MONEY TO GIVE THIS PROJECT.
11:43:30AM SO WHAT'S NEXT?
11:43:33AM THANK YOU.
11:43:35AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: ABSOLUTELY.
11:43:36AM WE'RE HERE TO RECEIVE DIRECTION FROM THE BOARD ON GOING BACK
11:43:39AM AND WORKING WITH MOBILITY TO ACHIEVE THAT.
11:43:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:43:42AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YEAH, I WOULD ACTUALLY SAY THERE ARE, AND
11:43:44AM I STILL THINK WE NEED TO DELVE INTO EXACTLY HOW WE CAN,
11:43:49AM BECAUSE THIS STREETCAR EXTENSION IS GOING TO SERVE US, YBOR
11:43:53AM CITY, CHANNELSIDE, DOWNTOWN, TAMPA HEIGHTS, AND BEYOND, BUT
11:43:57AM IT TOUCHES A LOT OF CRAs, THE STREETCAR, AND THE CITIZENS
11:44:01AM WITHIN THOSE CRAs, THAT THIS PROPOSAL WOULD SERVICE.
11:44:04AM YES, IT WOULD CONNECT WITH THE PROPOSED BRT.
11:44:06AM BUT I THINK THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ELEMENT.
11:44:09AM WE HAVE MATCHING FUNDS THAT PAYS 75% OF THIS SITTING THERE
11:44:16AM WAITING FOR.
11:44:16AM IT'S FREE MONEY.
11:44:18AM AGAIN, I FEEL IT WOULD BE MALFEASANCE OF US NOT TO FIND THE
11:44:21AM MONEY TO PAY FOR IT.
11:44:22AM I THINK THE CRA, SPECIFICALLY THE DOWNTOWN CRA, IS FLUSH IN
11:44:26AM SOME WAYS, ESPECIALLY AS WE PROJECT OUT.
11:44:28AM THE $5 MILLION IS FOR DESIGN-BUILD TODAY, BUT THE REST OF
11:44:31AM THE MONEY I SPOKE ABOUT, WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH THE 45
11:44:34AM MILLION, CAN BE AMORTIZED OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS.
11:44:36AM IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE TO COME UP WITH TODAY.
11:44:39AM SO THAT CAN BE AMORTIZED OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS.
11:44:42AM SO WE CAN FIND, AGAIN, THE GREATEST AMOUNT OF GOOD FOR THE
11:44:45AM GREATEST AMOUNT OF PEOPLE, THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT WE CAN
11:44:47AM SPEND, AMORTIZED OVER A PERIOD OF YEARS AND THE RETURN ON
11:44:51AM THE INVESTMENT, BECAUSE I THINK WE HAVE TO LOOK -- YOU LOOK
11:44:55AM AT OW TRANSFORMATIONAL A COUPLE OF KEY ELEMENTS IN
11:44:57AM CHANNELSIDE WERE.
11:44:58AM WE HAD A MAYOR, ASPIRATIONAL, AND PUT IN AN AQUARIUM IN A
11:45:04AM DILAPIDATED, CHARLIE SAID, X-RATED VIDEO STORES AND
11:45:09AM EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WAS IN THAT AREA, AND JUST NOT THE
11:45:14AM PRETTIEST AREA OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:45:15AM WE BUILT A STREETCAR FROM YBOR CITY THROUGH THAT AREA AND
11:45:20AM BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN INVESTMENT HAD FOLLOWED.
11:45:23AM I THINK AS WE LOOK, AND WE HAVE THIS, REALLY, YOU LOOK AT
11:45:28AM DOWNTOWN, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT ON THE SOUTH SIDE
11:45:32AM OF DOWNTOWN.
11:45:33AM WE'RE GETTING A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT IN AREAS OF TAMPA
11:45:35AM HEIGHTS, BUT THIS IS WHERE WE NEED TO BE BUILDING OUR
11:45:38AM DENSITY.
11:45:39AM SO IF WE TALK ABOUT SMART LAND USE AND WE TALK ABOUT PUTTING
11:45:42AM PEOPLE WHERE WE REALLY WANT THEM TO BE AND NOT ENCROACHING
11:45:46AM ON THESE TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOODS, THIS IS THE KIND OF
11:45:48AM INFRASTRUCTURE WE HAVE TO SUPPORT AND DEVELOP SO THAT WE CAN
11:45:51AM HAVE THAT RETURN ON THE INVESTMENT BECAUSE I GUARANTEE YOU
11:45:53AM THAT WE BUILD THE STREETCAR AND THE WAY IT'S ENVISIONED,
11:45:58AM THAT IT WILL RETURN A HUNDRED OR 500-FOLD THE AMOUNT OF
11:46:04AM MONEY BACK INTO THE TAXPAYER POCKETS THROUGH RETURN ON
11:46:06AM INVESTMENT THROUGH TIF BECAUSE OF THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
11:46:11AM THIS WILL SPUR ALONG THIS RAIL.
11:46:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I 100% AGREE WITH YOU.
11:46:14AM MAY I?
11:46:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
11:46:16AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I 100% AGREE WITH YOU.
11:46:18AM I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SPENDING THE MONEY
11:46:20AM CORRECTLY, BECAUSE IF IT'S $5 MILLION FOR DESIGN-BUILD, THAT
11:46:24AM DESIGN-BUILD CAN ONLY GO UP TO 275.
11:46:26AM WE CAN'T USE THAT 5 MILLION TO FURTHER THE DESIGN-BUILD.
11:46:32AM I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE AWARE OF THAT --
11:46:37AM >> [INAUDIBLE]
11:46:39AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE CAN ONLY GO AS FAR AS THE CRA'S LIMIT.
11:46:43AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: -- DESIGN-BUILD SERVICES ALL THE CRAs.
11:46:46AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT THE CRAs.
11:46:47AM WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE AREA NORTH THAT IS NOT IN A CRA.
11:46:50AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A SUBSTANTIAL PART OF IT IS.
11:46:53AM I BELIEVE WE CAN PAY FOR THE DESIGN-BUILD.
11:46:55AM WE CAN BE CREATIVE THROUGH, BECAUSE, AGAIN, THIS IS
11:46:59AM IMPACTING ALL THE CRAs.
11:47:02AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, I AGREE.
11:47:04AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PROVIDING SERVICE TO YBOR, DOWNTOWN --
11:47:07AM >>LYNN HURTAK: AGAIN, THAT'S NOT MY QUESTION.
11:47:09AM MY QUESTION IS, WE CAN ONLY USE THE DOWNTOWN CRA FUNDS
11:47:15AM WITHIN THE BORDERS OF THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
11:47:17AM SO MY QUESTION IS, IF THIS MONEY IS GOING TO THE
11:47:21AM DESIGN-BUILD, HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE WHEN THIS CONNECTS TO
11:47:28AM OTHER CRAs AND AREAS THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE CRA?
11:47:31AM THAT IS WHERE I'M HAVING A HARD TIME.
11:47:33AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE DINGED FOR
11:47:38AM USING MONEY OUTSIDE OF A CRA.
11:47:40AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: THAT'S UNDERSTOOD.
11:47:41AM I THINK IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND HOW THE
11:47:43AM LIMITATIONS OF THE BOUNDARIES IMPACT THE DESIGN-BUILD.
11:47:46AM WHAT WE CAN DO IS WE'VE LOOKED AT PERCENTAGES OF STUDIES AND
11:47:49AM WE CAN LOOK AT A PERCENT PROPORTIONATE TO WHAT'S INSIDE THE
11:47:53AM CRA.
11:47:53AM ONCE WE MAP OUT THE AREA THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO STUDY, WE
11:47:58AM COULD SAY THAT 70% OF THIS PARTICULAR DESIGN-BUILD IS WITHIN
11:48:03AM THE REDEVELOPMENT AREA BOUNDARIES, AND THEN FROM THERE, WE
11:48:05AM CAN FIGURE OUT WHAT PORTION PROPORTIONATE TO THAT AMOUNT
11:48:09AM EACH CRA WOULD PAY AND WE COULD LOOK AT OUTSIDE FUNDING
11:48:12AM SOURCES TO PAY FOR THE GAP, THAT COULD EITHER COME THROUGH
11:48:14AM MOBILITY OR SOME OTHER GRANT FUNDING SOURCES.
11:48:17AM WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO EXPAND ALL THOSE CRA DOLLARS TO
11:48:20AM GET TO THAT ULTIMATE DESIGN CONCEPT.
11:48:22AM BUT YOU ARE ACCURATE.
11:48:23AM SO WE WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ANY GAP IS COVERED BY
11:48:26AM ANOTHER FUNDING SOURCE.
11:48:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:48:29AM THAT'S REALLY -- I WANTED TO MAKE SURE, 100% SUPPORT THIS
11:48:33AM BUT I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO BELIEVE THAT THIS IS LIKE NOW,
11:48:36AM WE'LL HAVE A FULL DESIGN-BUILD WITH THIS 5 MILLION BECAUSE
11:48:39AM IT CAN ONLY BE USED IN THE DOWNTOWN CRA.
11:48:43AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: IT CAN BE A JOINT SCOPE AND A JOINT PROJECT
11:48:46AM TO GO OUT AND DO IT.
11:48:47AM AGAIN, WE NEED THE DIRECTION AS TO WHAT THE BOARD WOULD LIKE
11:48:51AM TO SEE US DO.
11:48:52AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:48:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:48:54AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:48:55AM >>BILL CARLSON: ALIS, THANK YOU FOR GETTING THROUGH THAT.
11:48:58AM IN TERMS OF THE PERCENTAGE, I DON'T HAVE A MAP IN FRONT OF
11:49:01AM ME, BUT LET'S SAY THE LENGTH, IF YOU DO PERCENTAGE BY
11:49:05AM LENGTH, IT MIGHT BE THAT THIS IS ONLY 30% WITHIN THAT
11:49:08AM BOUNDARY, BUT IF YOU DID IT BY COST, I BET IT'S 70%.
11:49:12AM CAN YOU ALL JUST LOOK AT IT IN DIFFERENT WAYS TO FIGURE OUT
11:49:15AM THE PERCENTAGE?
11:49:15AM BECAUSE IF YOU DID IT BASED ON PERCENTAGE COST OF THE
11:49:18AM EVENTUAL PROJECT, IT MIGHT BE THAT YOU COULD GET A BIGGER
11:49:22AM PERCENTAGE OF IT PAID BY THE CRA.
11:49:24AM THE OTHER THING I WANT TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW, THIS IS NOT
11:49:28AM SOMETHING THAT MY COLLEAGUE HAS JUST DROPPED ON US.
11:49:33AM THE $5 MILLION NUMBER IS NEW, BUT THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT
11:49:36AM PARTICIPATING SOME SMALL EXTENSION OF THE STREETCAR IS
11:49:38AM SOMETHING WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
11:49:40AM SO I THANK HIM FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD, BUT I DON'T WANT
11:49:42AM THE PUBLIC TO THINK, ESPECIALLY AFTER THE DISCUSSION LAST
11:49:45AM NIGHT, THAT WE'RE JUST SUDDENLY THROWING MONEY AROUND WHEN
11:49:48AM LAST NIGHT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT CUTTING COSTS.
11:49:50AM ALSO, THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE OPPOSED TO EXTENDING
11:49:57AM THE STREETCAR AND THEY THINK IT IS A WASTE OF MONEY.
11:50:01AM TO THOSE FOLKS, I WOULD SAY THIS IS PAYING FOR PLANNING AND
11:50:03AM CONCEPTING.
11:50:04AM IT'S NOT PAYING FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE YET.
11:50:07AM SO IT'S JUST TAKING IT FORWARD TO LOOK AT IT AGAIN.
11:50:10AM FOR FOLKS WHO MAY THINK WHY ARE YOU SPENDING THIS $5 MILLION
11:50:15AM INSTEAD OF PAVING MY ROADS, THIS IS THE PROBLEM WE WERE
11:50:18AM TALKING ABOUT EARLIER THAT THIS MONEY IS TRAPPED INSIDE THE
11:50:20AM CRAs.
11:50:21AM IF WE COULD MOVE IT OUT, WE MIGHT MAKE A DIFFERENT CHOICE.
11:50:24AM THERE ARE SEVERAL THINGS THAT ARE ON THAT, MAYBE MOST OF THE
11:50:26AM THINGS THAT WERE ON THAT CAPITAL LIST BEFORE, HAD WE BEEN
11:50:29AM ABLE TO MOVE THE MONEY OUT, I WOULDN'T HAVE VOTED FOR SOME
11:50:31AM OF THOSE OR ALL OF THEM.
11:50:32AM I THINK THE FIVE PRIORITIES WE HAVE IN THE CITY ARE THE
11:50:37AM THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT LAST NIGHT, BUT THIS IS THE CRA NOT
11:50:40AM THE CITY, AND WE CAN ONLY USE THE MONEY WITHIN THOSE AREAS.
11:50:44AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK MENTIONED RUBBER WHEEL.
11:50:49AM IF WE DO RUBBER WHEEL, I THINK WE AT LEAST NEED TO ACQUIRE
11:50:54AM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY AND DO IT IN A DEDICATED LANE.
11:50:57AM THAT MAYBE IS A HUGE PART OF THE COST ANYWAY.
11:51:01AM BUT WE NEED TO GO AHEAD AND RESERVE THE SPOT.
11:51:05AM EVERY CITY TELLS US THAT IF THEY COULD GO BACK IN TIME, THEY
11:51:09AM WOULD BUY PROPERTY AND HOWEVER EXPENSIVE IT IS, IT'S GOING
11:51:12AM TO BE MORE EXPENSIVE IN THE FUTURE.
11:51:13AM IF WE ENDED UP PUTTING BRT OR SOMETHING ELSE THERE, WE NEED
11:51:17AM A DEDICATED LANE.
11:51:18AM THE LAST THING IS THAT WHEN THE UNDERSECRETARY OF U.S.D.O.T.
11:51:21AM WAS HERE A FEW MONTHS AGO, I SPENT A LITTLE BIT OF TIME WITH
11:51:26AM HIM, AND HE SAID THEY ARE VERY EAGER TO FUND PROJECTS IN
11:51:31AM TAMPA, SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE MOVE AS FAST AS WE CAN
11:51:35AM WHILE THERE'S FRIENDLY ADMINISTRATORS THERE THAT CAN
11:51:39AM POTENTIALLY FUND PROJECTS LIKE THIS BECAUSE WE MIGHT NOT
11:51:41AM HAVE TO FUND THEM ALL OURSELVES.
11:51:42AM THANK YOU.
11:51:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:51:44AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:51:45AM I, AGAIN, WANTED TO SALUTE COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN FOR THIS.
11:51:49AM I WAS TALKING TO A NEW ELECTED OFFICIAL, RELATIVELY NEW, A
11:51:51AM FEW DAYS AGO, AND I WAS SAYING MY ADVICE IS ALWAYS TO, AS AN
11:51:55AM ELECTED OFFICIAL, PICK FOUR, FIVE, SIX ISSUES THAT YOU FEEL
11:51:58AM VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT AND HIT THEM HARD.
11:52:01AM AND IT'S OBVIOUS COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN THAT THIS IS SOMETHING
11:52:04AM THAT YOU'RE VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT, MASS TRANSIT.
11:52:06AM I REMEMBER HAVING PEOPLE TALK TO ME ABOUT THIS, THE RECENT
11:52:11AM BUDGET PROPOSED BY THE ADMINISTRATION AND WISHING IT HAD
11:52:13AM MORE MASS TRANSIT, PARTICULARLY FOR STREETCAR AND ISSUES
11:52:16AM LIKE THAT.
11:52:17AM SO IT'S GOOD TO SEE THAT THIS ADDRESSES THAT.
11:52:19AM THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
11:52:21AM AND WITH COUNCILMAN CARLSON MENTIONED THE ISSUE OF GRANTS
11:52:25AM FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, RIGHT NOW THEY ARE VERY
11:52:28AM FRIENDLY.
11:52:28AM ONE OF THE BIG CHALLENGES I HEAR IN TALKING TO FOLKS AT THE
11:52:31AM FEDERAL LEVEL, INCLUDING MY CAPACITY AS THE HART BOARD
11:52:34AM CHAIR, IS THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE FUNDS FOR MATCHING GRANTS.
11:52:37AM AND, OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE VERY UNDERMINED BECAUSE OF HALF A
11:52:42AM BILLION DOLLARS THAT'S SITTING UP IN TALLAHASSEE RIGHT NOW
11:52:47AM IN OUR CAPACITY TO BE ABLE TO BUILD ON THAT THROUGH A TAX
11:52:51AM THAT CAN'T SEEM TO GET THROUGH.
11:52:53AM WITH THAT, WE COULD LEAP MOUNTAINS IN TAMPA AND HILLSBOROUGH
11:53:00AM COUNTY.
11:53:00AM WITH THAT, WE'LL HAVE TO DO IT WITH MUCH LESS, AND WE CAN'T
11:53:02AM TAKE THAT MONEY AND TURN THAT SINGLE INTO A TRIPLE.
11:53:07AM UNFORTUNATELY WE'RE STRUGGLING JUST TO GET TO FIRST BASE
11:53:08AM RIGHT NOW.
11:53:09AM THANK YOU.
11:53:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.
11:53:11AM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
11:53:11AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:53:13AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ON THE RIGHT-OF-WAY, ACTUALLY, I HAVE GOOD
11:53:15AM NEWS.
11:53:15AM F.D.O.T. HAS ALREADY GOT RIGHT-OF-WAY ON FLORIDA.
11:53:18AM THEY ARE ACTUALLY MOVING FORWARD WITH BUILDING THOSE
11:53:21AM DEDICATED LINES, BUT I THINK THIS IS WHY IT'S SO CRITICAL TO
11:53:24AM HAVE THIS DISCUSSION TODAY AND MOVING FORWARD, BECAUSE AS
11:53:26AM THEY MOVE FORWARD, WHAT WE DON'T WANT THEM TO DO IS KIND OF
11:53:29AM LIKE WHAT WE HAVE WITH STORMWATER AND STREET PAVING, YOU
11:53:33AM DON'T WANT TO BUILD SOMETHING AND THEN HAVE TO GO BACK AND
11:53:36AM RETROFIT IT BECAUSE THE VAULTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT IS
11:53:40AM REQUIRED FOR STREETCAR.
11:53:41AM AS WE BUILD THESE, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IT ALL WORKS IN SYNC
11:53:45AM WITH WHAT F.D.O.T. IS CURRENTLY DOING, AND THAT IS ON THE
11:53:47AM FLORIDA PORTION OF THIS CORRIDOR.
11:53:49AM I GUESS I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT.
11:53:53AM I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT.
11:53:54AM GOOD RETURN ON THE INVESTMENT.
11:53:55AM THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS, IF WE HAD A CHANCE TO BUY APPLE
11:53:58AM STOCK 20 YEARS AGO, WE ALL WOULD HAVE.
11:54:01AM AND I THINK THIS IS THE SAME THING.
11:54:02AM THERE'S NEVER A GREAT TIME, BUT THIS IS THE RIGHT TIME.
11:54:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY BOARD
11:54:11AM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:54:12AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:54:16AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
11:54:18AM ANY OPPOSED?
11:54:19AM MOTION CARRIES.
11:54:22AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:54:23AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:54:25AM I WANT TO DO MY FOLLOW-UP MOTION FOR MR. DRUMGO TO COME BACK
11:54:30AM AND EXPLAIN LIKE HOW WE'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THAT EXPANSION,
11:54:33AM LIKE WHO OWNS WHAT PART OF IT, INCLUDING THE DIFFERENT
11:54:37AM CRAs AND HART AND THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
11:54:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HOW MUCH TIME WOULD YOU LIKE TO GIVE HIM?
11:54:44AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HOW MUCH TIME WOULD YOU NEED FOR THAT?
11:54:56AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: I APOLOGIZE.
11:54:57AM I'M TRYING TO GET SOME CLARITY ON WHEN THE PREVIOUS MOTION
11:55:00AM WAS REQUESTED TO COME BACK.
11:55:01AM DID WE HAVE -- JANUARY WORKS FOR ME.
11:55:08AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DECEMBER IS GETTING KIND OF FULL.
11:55:10AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: YES, YES.
11:55:11AM JANUARY IS GOOD.
11:55:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD SAY JANUARY 18.
11:55:16AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: THANK YOU.
11:55:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN YOU STATE THE FULL MOTION FOR OUR
11:55:20AM CLERK, PLEASE?
11:55:20AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:55:21AM AGAIN, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK MR. DRUMGO AND ANY APPROPRIATE
11:55:26AM STAFF TO COME BACK AND EXPLAIN HOW WE'RE GOING TO PAY FOR
11:55:29AM THIS EXPANSION, WHO OWNS WHICH PART OF IT, THAT INCLUDES
11:55:33AM MOBILITY AND A DISCUSSION WITH HART AND POSSIBLY THE OTHER
11:55:38AM CRAs TO COME BACK JANUARY 18.
11:55:39AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DO I HAVE A SECOND?
11:55:40AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:55:43AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
11:55:44AM >> AYE.
11:55:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OPPOSED?
11:55:45AM MOTION CARRIES.
11:55:47AM OKAY.
11:55:49AM >> MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
11:55:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
11:55:51AM IT'S 11:55.
11:55:53AM WE'RE GOING TO GO TO LUNCH --
11:56:02AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE DIDN'T DO THE APPROVALS.
11:56:04AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO --
11:56:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I AGREE, BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WAS
11:56:10AM RESPECTING YOUR TIME.
11:56:11AM SO ARE WE FINISHED WITH EVERYTHING AND NOW WE'RE ON TO
11:56:16AM CONSENT.
11:56:16AM LET ME GET TO MY PAGE HERE, APPROVALS.
11:56:20AM HERE WE GO.
11:56:22AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: BY MOTION OF THE BOARD, YOU CAN MOVE ALL
11:56:24AM THE REQUIRED APPROVALS IN ONE MOTION.
11:56:30AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE ITEMS --
11:56:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU NEED TO BE RECOGNIZED BY THE CHAIR,
11:56:33AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:56:33AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:56:42AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE ITEMS 12, 13, 14, 15.
11:56:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE CONSENT ITEMS PRESENTED -- MOTION
11:56:50AM BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN, SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:56:53AM ANY DISCUSSION?
11:56:53AM YES, ATTORNEY MASSEY.
11:56:56AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: GO AHEAD AND VOTE.
11:56:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
11:56:58AM ANY OPPOSED?
11:57:01AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: TWO OTHER THINGS REAL QUICKLY, THERE IS A
11:57:03AM WALK-ON ITEM TO EXTEND THE CONDITIONS -- SATISFACTION DATE
11:57:09AM FOR THE STRAZ FUNDING AGREEMENT, OCTOBER 1, 2023 TO DECEMBER
11:57:13AM 1, 2023.
11:57:14AM THAT WAS A WALK-ON.
11:57:16AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SO MOVED.
11:57:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE TO DISCUSS THAT ONE.
11:57:23AM THAT ONE IS JUST NOT THAT EASY.
11:57:24AM GO AHEAD AND PRESENT IT, THE WALK-ON ITEM.
11:57:33AM >>ERICA MOODY: NO PROBLEM.
11:57:34AM I CAN SPEAK ON THE WALK-ON ITEM.
11:57:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FOR THE PUBLIC.
11:57:38AM GO AHEAD.
11:57:38AM >>ERICA MOODY: SO THIS WALK-ON ITEM IS REGARDING THE STRAZ
11:57:42AM AGREEMENT.
11:57:42AM THIS IS TO GIVE A 60 DAY TIMELINE EXTENSION FOR US TO WORK
11:57:46AM OUT THE CONTRACTS, SEE WHERE THE PROJECT IS AT.
11:57:50AM ORIGINALLY, THE ESTIMATES -- THE ESTIMATES ARE COMING BACK
11:57:53AM HIGHER THAN ORIGINALLY PROJECTED SO WE ARE WORKING WITH THEM
11:57:55AM TO BRING THE PROJECT WITHIN THE ORIGINAL BUDGET SCOPE, AND
11:57:58AM WE'RE ASKING THAT THEY'LL COME BACK AND PROVIDE A PROJECT
11:58:01AM UPDATE AND ANY ASKS AT THAT TIME IN NOVEMBER, ON NOVEMBER 9,
11:58:07AM THE CRA MEETING.
11:58:08AM THIS IS 60 DAYS SO WE CAN WORK WITH THEM TO GET THAT SORTED
11:58:11AM OUT AND BRING BACK TO YOU IN NOVEMBER.
11:58:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:58:14AM YES, DEPUTY ADMINISTRATOR DRUMGO.
11:58:19AM >>ALIS DRUMGO: IF I MAY, THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE SPACE
11:58:22AM TO SPEAK, CHAIRWOMAN.
11:58:23AM THE CONDITION PRECEDENT IN THE AGREEMENT.
11:58:26AM SEVERAL OF THEM INCLUDE HAVING PERMIT DRAWINGS.
11:58:29AM I DON'T WANT TO INSULT ANY OF YOU BY SAYING THIS, BUT
11:58:33AM PULLING TOGETHER A PROJECT AND DEVELOPING A CAPITAL STACK TO
11:58:36AM FUND THE PROJECT IS A VERY DIFFICULT THING TO DO, ESPECIALLY
11:58:38AM IN THIS MARKET TODAY.
11:58:39AM SO THE PREVIOUS CRA BOARD AGREED TO THIS CONTRACT, AND SO
11:58:45AM FOR US AS STAFF, WE WANT TO KEEP YOU IN CONTRACT.
11:58:47AM THAT'S WHY THIS IS IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY, JUST TO KEEP THIS
11:58:51AM AGREEMENT IN PLACE AND LOCKED IN TO ALLOW FOR IT TO GET TO
11:58:54AM WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO.
11:58:55AM RELATIVE TO THE STRAZ, THEY HAVE RAISED THE DOLLARS
11:58:58AM NECESSARY TO MEET THE FUNDING COMMITMENT.
11:59:00AM THAT'S ONE OF THE CONDITIONS PRECEDENT IN THE AGREEMENT.
11:59:03AM THEY HAVE MET THAT, AND THERE ARE ABOUT, I WOULD SAY 10 OR
11:59:06AM 11 OTHER CONDITIONS, AND SOME OF THEM INCLUDE HAVING PERMIT
11:59:08AM DRAWINGS.
11:59:09AM YOU REALLY CAN'T GET THE PERMIT DRAWINGS UNTIL YOU KNOW WHAT
11:59:11AM YOU'RE GOING TO BUILD.
11:59:12AM IN THAT EVALUATION PROCESS OF UNDERSTANDING YOUR MATERIALS,
11:59:16AM WHICH HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY INFLATION, SUPPLY CHAIN, THINGS
11:59:19AM OF THAT NATURE, IT GETS VERY DIFFICULT TO BUILD OUT THAT
11:59:22AM PROJECT.
11:59:23AM IN ADDITION, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT FINANCING A PROJECT, THE
11:59:25AM COST OF MONEY IS GOING THROUGH THE ROOF.
11:59:28AM SO THOSE THINGS THAT ARE NOT FUNDED BY THE CONTRIBUTION THAT
11:59:32AM THE CRA HAS ON THE TABLE AND THOSE DOLLARS THAT HAVE BEEN
11:59:35AM RAISED BY THE STRAZ, THEY HAVE TO GET THAT CAPITAL STACK IN
11:59:39AM THE RIGHT PLACE RELATIVE TO THEIR MATERIAL COSTS TO THEN PUT
11:59:43AM FORTH A GOOD SET OF CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS TO BRING THAT
11:59:45AM FORWARD TO YOU.
11:59:46AM SO, REALLY, WE'RE TRYING TO SUPPORT THEM AS THEY GET THE
11:59:50AM PROJECT ALIGNED TO GET IT OUT OF THE GROUND.
11:59:53AM I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION.
11:59:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES, BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:59:56AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IN THAT CASE, I MOVE FOR THE 60 DAY
11:59:59AM EXTENSION.
12:00:00PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AND THERE IS A SECOND.
12:00:01PM YES, BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
12:00:13PM >>LUIS VIERA: I WANT TO EXPLAIN MY VOTE.
12:00:15PM I CALLED UP A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE STRAZ CENTER
12:00:18PM YESTERDAY.
12:00:18PM I HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT THE CENTER.
12:00:21PM HEARD IT TWO DAYS AGO AND HEARD ABOUT IT AT CITY COUNCIL AND
12:00:27PM DIDN'T HEAR THE SPECIFICS, CERTAIN LEGAL REPERCUSSIONS IF
12:00:30PM THE EXTENSION ARE NOT GRANTED.
12:00:32PM I WANT TO BE CLEAR WITH MY INTENT AND VOTE.
12:00:35PM WHEN I VOTE AS I DO, I AM NOT DOING IT TO QUOTE JERRY
12:00:40PM MAGUIRE, WHO IS COMING WITH ME.
12:00:41PM I AM NOT DOING THAT.
12:00:42PM I VOTED AGAINST THIS WHEN THIS CAME UP A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO
12:00:45PM AND I STAND BY MY VOTE.
12:00:47PM I TOLD THE GOOD FOLKS AT THE STRAZ CENTER WHO DO AMAZING
12:00:50PM WORK AND WE ARE LUCKY TO HAVE THEM IN TAMPA THAT I THOUGHT
12:00:54PM THE ORIGINAL $15 MILLION WAS MORE THAN ENOUGH LIKE THE TAMPA
12:00:56PM MUSEUM OF ART AND JUST LIKE WE WOULD DO WITH OUR FRIENDS AT
12:01:00PM THE TAMPA THEATRE, ETC.
12:01:02PM AND WIND UP TAKING BETWEEN 35% TO 45% OF THE BUDGET IN YEAR
12:01:08PM FIVE AND THE CRA AND A FIVE-YEAR COMMITMENT.
12:01:11PM I INDICATED AND IN THE MY STATEMENT AND THE PAPER USE FOR
12:01:18PM IDEAS LIKE THE STREETCAR AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING, ETC.
12:01:21PM CONSISTENT WITH THAT, I CAN'T SUPPORT THE EXTENSION.
12:01:24PM AGAIN, I WANT TO BE VERY, VERY CLEAR, I AM NOT URGING PEOPLE
12:01:28PM TO VOTE IT DOWN.
12:01:28PM I KNOW THAT WE HAVE, I THINK FOUR VOTES ON HERE TO VOTED FOR
12:01:34PM IT.
12:01:34PM I AM NOT URGING ANYONE TO FLIP THEIR VOTE.
12:01:38PM I WANT TO BE CONSISTENT WITH WHATEVER THE ORIGINAL VOTE WAS.
12:01:40PM I THINK THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
12:01:41PM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRPERSON.
12:01:44PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
12:01:46PM I WANT TO COMMENT ON THIS ONE BECAUSE THE CONCERN FOR ME ON
12:01:49PM LEARNING THE $25 MILLION WAS JUST A LOT OF MONEY.
12:01:51PM UP DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF BLIGHT
12:01:56PM BECAUSE IT WAS NOT BLIGHT.
12:01:57PM I UNDERSTAND WHY IT WAS DONE.
12:01:59PM IN TERMS OF THE CONTRACT EXTENSION, I DON'T LIKE IT.
12:02:03PM WHAT I WOULD PREFERRED TO HEAR TODAY AS A WALK-ON ITEM
12:02:07PM INSTEAD OF SPEAKING IN GENERAL IS EXACTLY WHAT THEY DO HAVE
12:02:10PM PREPARED.
12:02:11PM THEIR COMMUNITY BENEFIT AGREEMENT, FOR EXAMPLE.
12:02:13PM LIKE SOMETHING COULD BE BROUGHT TO THE TABLE TO SAY THIS IS
12:02:16PM WHAT WE HAVE DONE.
12:02:17PM IF THEY RAISED THE MONEY, YOU KNOW, MAYBE -- IF THAT IS TRUE
12:02:21PM AND IT IS REALLY ALL ABOUT JUST CONTRACTS, THEN THEIR LOAN
12:02:26PM AGREEMENTS THAT WE HAVE.
12:02:27PM NOW THAT THEY HAVE RAISED THOSE FUNDS, THAT INFORMATION
12:02:30PM COULD BE SHARED WITH US.
12:02:31PM A LITTLE MORE TRANSPARENCY.
12:02:33PM THAT IS WHY I AM NOT GOING TO SUPPORT IT IN TERMS OF A VOTE
12:02:37PM OF EXTENDING THE CONTRACT.
12:02:38PM BECAUSE I DO FEEL LIKE THERE COULD HAVE BEEN MORE
12:02:41PM INFORMATION BROUGHT ALONG WITH JUST IT BEING A MEMO AND
12:02:44PM ADDED TO OUR AGENDA WITHOUT PROVIDING DETAILS OF WHAT THEY
12:02:47PM ACTUALLY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED CONTRACTUALLY.
12:02:51PM OKAY.
12:02:52PM SO WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR.
12:02:55PM WHO DID THAT MOTION?
12:02:58PM BOARD MEMBER -- CARLSON AND MIRANDA.
12:03:01PM WHICH ONE?
12:03:03PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: MIRANDA MADE THE MOTION.
12:03:06PM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN SECONDED IT.
12:03:11PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO EXTEND THE
12:03:13PM CONTRACT OF THE STRAZ THROUGH DECEMBER BY -- DECEMBER 1,
12:03:18PM 2023 BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:03:20PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
12:03:22PM LET'S -- CLENDENIN.
12:03:24PM THANK YOU.
12:03:24PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU CAN GIVE IT TO CARLSON.
12:03:29PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: LET'S DO A ROLL CALL VOTE.
12:03:33PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET ME SAY THIS.
12:03:34PM COSTS NO MONEY TO EXTEND SOMETHING.
12:03:36PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:03:38PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
12:03:39PM AGREED.
12:03:40PM BUT THEY COULD HAVE SHARED WHAT THEY COULD HAVE DONE.
12:03:43PM LET'S DO A ROLL CALL VOTE.
12:03:45PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
12:03:46PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
12:03:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
12:03:49PM >>LUIS VIERA: NO.
12:03:50PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
12:03:52PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
12:03:53PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
12:03:54PM >>CLERK: MOTION PASSED WITH VIERA AND HENDERSON VOTING NO.
12:03:58PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
12:03:59PM OKAY, SO THAT THE END OF THE AGENDA?
12:04:02PM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE -- WE HAVE NEW BUSINESS.
12:04:05PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I DO WANT TO RAISE ONE BEFORE YOU MOVE ON
12:04:12PM AND DON'T WANT TO USE THE B WORD.
12:04:15PM THE BUDGET, BECAUSE THE MILLAGE RATE, YOUR BUDGET AS A CRA
12:04:19PM NEEDS TO BE REDUCED.
12:04:20PM AND I AM ASSUMING IT WOULD BE REDUCED BY THE SAME -- YOU
12:04:24PM WOULD HAVE THE SAME BUCKETS, SAME PERCENTAGE AND JUST REDUCE
12:04:28PM THOSE AMOUNTS.
12:04:29PM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IS THE DESIRE OF THE BOARD.
12:04:32PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
12:04:37PM >>LYNN HURTAK: DO WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION?
12:04:39PM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WOULD LIKE YOU TO MAKE A MOTION.
12:04:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MAKE A MOTION TO REDUCE THAT.
12:04:45PM I AM JUST FOLLOWING WHAT THE ATTORNEY IS ASKING US TO DO.
12:04:48PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: TRUE, BUT THIS IS UNDER NEW BUSINESS.
12:04:52PM LET'S JUST START.
12:04:54PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T HAVE ANY NEW BUSINESS.
12:04:56PM I AM SIMPLY USING MR. MASSEY'S --
12:04:59PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WANT TO GO IN ORDER.
12:05:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SOMEONE ELSE CAN MAKE THE MOTION.
12:05:04PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
12:05:06PM DO YOU HAVE ANY NEW BUSINESS, MR. MIRANDA?
12:05:11PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY VERY BRIEFLY, ASK FOR OUR CRA STAFF
12:05:14PM TO MEET WITH OUR FRIENDS AT THE URBAN LEAGUE, MR. STANLEY
12:05:17PM GRAY AND OTHER FOLKS OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
12:05:20PM I WAS SPEAKING TO HIM A MONTH AGO AND I PROMISED TO DO IT
12:05:25PM LAST TIME, SO I WILL DO IT NOW.
12:05:26PM I DON'T THINK YOU ALL NEED TO REPORT BACK.
12:05:28PM BRANDON IF YOU ARE LISTENING, IF YOU COULD PLEASE FOLLOW UP
12:05:32PM WITH OUR FRIENDS AT CRA STAFF AND MR. GRAY.
12:05:35PM AND WE CAN FOLLOW UP ON DISCUSSIONS.
12:05:37PM NO NEED TO CLOG THE AGENDA.
12:05:38PM THANK YOU.
12:05:39PM THANK YOU, GUYS.
12:05:40PM THANK YOU.
12:05:40PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY NEW BUSINESS?
12:05:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO, MA'AM.
12:05:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NO, MA'AM.
12:05:49PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
12:05:53PM >>BILL CARLSON: I HAVE TO PICK UP MY KIDS AT 4:30 SO I MAY
12:05:56PM BE A FEW MINUTES LATE.
12:05:57PM I HAVEN'T MADE A MOTION OF THE COFFEE SHOP IDEA?
12:06:02PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
12:06:03PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WILL EXPLAIN IN REAL FAST AND MAKE A
12:06:06PM MOTION TO SEE WHAT YOU THINK.
12:06:07PM I SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING TO ERIKA, MAYBE ALIS, NICOLE
12:06:12PM AND I HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT AN TALKING TO PEOPLE IN THE
12:06:15PM COMMUNITY.
12:06:15PM THE SECRET OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE FUTURE AND DEVELOPING
12:06:18PM COMMUNITY ARE THESE NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS,
12:06:20PM TRANSPORTATION PEOPLE CALL THEM NODES.
12:06:22PM SO IF WE MADE AN INVESTMENT ON A CORNER THAT IS POTENTIALLY
12:06:28PM GOING TO BECOME A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT, WE CAN
12:06:32PM SPARK DEVELOPMENT AROUND THAT AREA.
12:06:33PM I TALKED TO SOME OF THE DEVELOPERS WHO -- NONPROFIT DEVELOP
12:06:37PM WHO WERE LOOKING TO DEVELOP IN DIFFERENT PLACES AND LOOKED
12:06:40PM AT DIFFERENT HE PLACES WHERE THESE NODES MIGHT GO AND
12:06:44PM NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.
12:06:45PM AT THE SAME TIME, THE CRA STAFF NEEDS TO MOVE INTO AN
12:06:48PM OFFICE.
12:06:48PM AND IT IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT THAN HANNA AVENUE.
12:06:52PM AND SO -- THEY ARE LEANING TOWARD SOMETHING IN EAST TAMPA.
12:06:56PM SEVERAL PEOPLE HAVE SHOWN ME PLACES IN EAST TAMPA WHERE A
12:06:59PM NEIGHBORHOOD COMMERCIAL DISTRICT COULD GO.
12:07:01PM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK EAST TAMPA NEEDS IS A COFFEE
12:07:04PM SHOP WITH AN INCUBATOR SPACE.
12:07:07PM A LOT OF ENTREPRENEURS IN EAST TAMPA AND PEOPLE OUTSIDE EAST
12:07:10PM TAMPA THAT WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT ENTREPRENEURS, BUT NOTHING
12:07:13PM LIKE A BLIND TIGER OR AN OXFORD EXCHANGE THERE.
12:07:18PM SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS -- SO I -- WHAT I THINK WE
12:07:22PM SHOULD DO IS LOOKING AT POSSIBILITY OF INVESTING OR
12:07:28PM CO-INVESTING AND RENTING A BUILDING THAT SOMEONE ELSE WILL
12:07:30PM PUT IN A THREE-, FOUR-STORY BUILDING THAT WILL BE LEASED TO A
12:07:35PM COFFEE SHOP WITH INCUBATOR.
12:07:37PM THE MIDDLE COULD BE LEASED SPACE OR AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND
12:07:41PM WHERE THE CRA OFFICE WILL BE.
12:07:43PM I WOULD LIKE -- JUST A CONCEPT RIGHT NOW, BUT I WOULD LIKE
12:07:46PM TO MAKE A MOTION TO ALLOW CRA STAFF TO RETURN ON SEPTEMBER
12:07:53PM 18 TO PUT IN A BUILDING WITH A COFFEE AND INCUBATOR SPACE IN
12:07:57PM EAST TAMPA.
12:07:58PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
12:07:59PM WE HAVE A MOTION.
12:08:00PM THERE IS DISCUSSION.
12:08:00PM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
12:08:03PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINKING IT IS A BRILLIANT, COUNCILMAN
12:08:06PM CARLSON.
12:08:06PM I TOTALLY SUPPORT YOUR CONCEPT OF THESE LITTLE COMMERCIAL
12:08:10PM AREAS IN TOWNS TO BUILD A SENSE OF COMMUNITY.
12:08:12PM WOULD YOU -- AND -- HONESTLY BECAUSE -- I AM SURPRISED BY
12:08:17PM IT, BUT WILL YOU BE WILLING TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO AMEND
12:08:23PM PURSUING A CONCEPT OF A DESIGN-BUILD TO INCLUDE ARTISTS
12:08:29PM WORK-LIVE DISPLAY CASE.
12:08:31PM PART OF MY VISION IN EAST TAMPA IS CREATING A PLACE THAT
12:08:35PM EMPHASIZES BLACK ARTISTS.
12:08:37PM AND I THINK THE CONCEPT WITH A COFFEE SHOP AND AFFORDABLE
12:08:41PM HOUSING AND DOING A MIX MODAL WILL BE A CATALYST FOR WHAT I
12:08:48PM THINK YOUR VISION IS OF CREATING YOUR OWN LITTLE DOWNTOWNISH
12:08:53PM COMMERCIAL DISTRICT WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AND I THINK, AGAIN,
12:08:56PM HAVING THAT ARTIST SPACE WILL BE -- AND WITH -- WITH
12:08:59PM AFFORDABLE HOUSING ASPECT OF ARTISTS -- AFFORDABLE HOUSING I
12:09:03PM THINK WILL BE IMPORTANT.
12:09:04PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
12:09:05PM >>BILL CARLSON: I CAN ADD WITH POSSIBLE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
12:09:11PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WITH ARTISTS SPACE.
12:09:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL SUPPORT ON A DIFFERENT CORNER.
12:09:18PM HE IS LOOKING TO GET A SMALLER BUILDING GOING.
12:09:20PM I WILL SUPPORT A SEPARATE MOTION.
12:09:22PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I CAN STRIKE THAT.
12:09:23PM BUT SOMETHING FOR PEOPLE TO START THINKING ABOUT BECAUSE I
12:09:27PM THINK IT WILL ALSO BE A CATALYST PROPOSAL FOR THE COMMUNITY
12:09:29PM AND MAYBE WE CAN PURSUE THAT IN CONJUNCTION TO, NEXT TO, AND
12:09:33PM THINKING OF HOW THE DESIGN-BUILD LOOK.
12:09:36PM START SECURING PROPERTY.
12:09:38PM AT LEAST WE HAVE THAT IN OUR HEADS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE
12:09:40PM ARE LOOKING AT.
12:09:41PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WAS CALLING -- ANYONE ELSE?
12:09:46PM I WAS CALLING CEDRIC McCRAY UP BECAUSE HE IS THE FRONT LINE
12:09:50PM OF THE COMMUNITY IN TERMS OF STRATEGIC PLANNING AND WHAT
12:09:53PM THEY WANT.
12:09:54PM I REMEMBER US TALKING OF A PARTICULAR AREA ON 2nd STREET.
12:10:00PM AND SO I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT IN THE CONVERSATION BECAUSE I
12:10:03PM DON'T WANT, YOU KNOW, THE BOARD MEMBERS TO THINK THERE
12:10:06PM AREN'T PLANS FOR HOW THE COMMUNITY SEES THEMSELVES REGARDING
12:10:10PM THIS.
12:10:11PM AND 22nd IS A GREAT HISTORICAL STREET.
12:10:14PM CAN YOU EVEN SPEAK ON THAT IN TERMS OF THIS COMMERCIAL
12:10:16PM INCUBATOR SPACE.
12:10:18PM AND ENTERTAIN ME OF THE POSSIBILITY OF EVEN A BOUTIQUE
12:10:23PM LITTLE GROCERY STORE COULD BE A PART OF IT IN.
12:10:28PM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD EVENING, CEDRIC McCRAY, EAST TAMPA
12:10:34PM MANAGER.
12:10:35PM THERE IS AN AREA WE ARE TRYING TO GET PARCELS.
12:10:38PM WE CLOSED ON ANOTHER PARCEL TWO WEEKS AGO AND THANK YOU TO
12:10:42PM REAL ESTATE FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE IN THAT WORK.
12:10:44PM I BELIEVE THAT IS KIND OF THE AREA THAT WE ARE TALKING
12:10:46PM ABOUT.
12:10:47PM AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OTHER PIECES THAT WE NEED TO GET TO
12:10:51PM BE AGGRESSIVELY WORKING TO TRY TO SECURE THOSE AND HAVE ONE
12:10:57PM CONTIGUOUS PIECE ON NORTH 22nd.
12:11:01PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR THAT.
12:11:02PM SHED LIGHT.
12:11:04PM THANK YOU BOARD MEMBER CARLSON FOR CARING SO MUCH OF EAST
12:11:09PM TAMPA AND MOVING FORWARD INCUBATOR SPACES.
12:11:11PM VERY POPULAR THROUGHOUT OUR CITY AND I THINK THAT WILL BE A
12:11:15PM GREAT BENEFIT TO THE AREA.
12:11:16PM IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION ON THIS?
12:11:19PM OKAY.
12:11:19PM SO WE HAVE --
12:11:22PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CALL THE QUESTION.
12:11:23PM >> IF I MAY, MADAM CHAIR, IF I MAY, I HEAR THE DISCUSSION AS
12:11:30PM WELL.
12:11:30PM THE CRA DOES OWN PROPERTY ON THAT CORNER WHICH WILL BE
12:11:35PM ADEQUATE FOR THAT USE.
12:11:36PM BUT THE MORE FEEDBACK WE GET FROM YOU ALL AND THE MORE, I
12:11:40PM WOULD SAY, ADD TO THAT, IT MAKES IT MORE CHALLENGING BECAUSE
12:11:43PM OF THE RESTRICTIONS OF THE SITE.
12:11:44PM WE HEARD A GROCER OR BOUTIQUE GROCER.
12:11:49PM WE HEARD OF THE COLLABORATIVE SPACES.
12:11:51PM WHEN WE GO BACK TO EXPLORE COLLABORATIVE DESIGN BECAUSE WE
12:11:57PM NEED CLARITY WITH BE LOADS AND REQUIREMENTS.
12:12:00PM STICKING WITH WHAT THE BOARD MEMBER SAID.
12:12:03PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: JUST A COMMENT AND DESIRE.
12:12:06PM NOT PART OF THE MOTION.
12:12:08PM >>ALIS DRUMGO: WE NEED STAFF TO HAVE CLEAR DIRECTION TO
12:12:12PM CROSS THAT WITH FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY OF THE DIET.
12:12:16PM AND WE CAN ACCOMPLISH THAT FAIRLY EASY.
12:12:19PM APPRECIATE THAT.
12:12:20PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
12:12:24PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WAS CAREFUL NOT TO MENTION ANY SPECIFIC
12:12:28PM SITES BUT LEAST FOUR OR FIVE PLACES THAT WILL BE GREAT FOR
12:12:32PM THIS, OR MAYBE MORE.
12:12:33PM AND THE COMMUNITY CAN GIVE INPUT WHERE THEY THINK IT IS.
12:12:36PM AND, YES, OTHER PROJECTS LIKE -- ASSEMBLING PIECES AROUND
12:12:40PM SOME OF THESE GOING ON FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
12:12:42PM I THINK -- TO -- BUT I DON'T -- I DON'T WANT TO BISECT ANY
12:12:49PM PROPERTY OWNERS AND DEVELOPERS AND PAY OUT HUGE AMOUNTS OF
12:12:52PM MONEY.
12:12:52PM THE MORE OPEN, WE CAN LEAVE IT RIGHT NOW.
12:12:55PM THE OTHER THING AND BRING IT UP FOR ANOTHER MOTION IS
12:12:59PM SEPARATE DAY.
12:13:00PM FOLKS ARE ASSEMBLING SOMETHING NEAR A COMMERCIAL DISTRICT.
12:13:04PM WE PROVIDE FACADE GRANTS.
12:13:06PM WE MAY WANT TO PROVIDE DESIGN GRANTS BECAUSE SOME OF THE
12:13:11PM RENDERING ARE NOT TO THE QUALITY THAT FOLKS WOULD GO INTO IF
12:13:15PM NOT TOO MUCH MORE MONEY WITH A BETTER DESIGN.
12:13:17PM THE COMMUNITY WOULD HAVE BUILDINGS THAT THEY WOULD BE VERY
12:13:21PM PROUD OF.
12:13:22PM SOMETIMES PEOPLE INTO PLACES LIKE EAST TAMPA AND TRY TO DO
12:13:25PM IT AS CHEAPLY AS POSSIBLE.
12:13:27PM MAKE SURE THAT DESIGN IS SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE WILL BE PROUD
12:13:30PM OF 100 YEARS FROM NOW.
12:13:33PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY SOMETHING DIRECTOR
12:13:38PM MOODY?
12:13:39PM >>ERICA MOODY: NO, WE ARE AT A GOOD POINT.
12:13:41PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHEN IS THIS COMING BACK.
12:13:43PM >> JANUARY 18.
12:13:46PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
12:13:48PM ALL IN FAVOR.
12:13:49PM OPPOSE?
12:13:50PM MOTION CARRIES.
12:13:50PM OKAY, SO I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE -- CAN I GET A MOTION FOR USES
12:13:54PM TO HAVE STAFF ROLL BACK THE BUDGET TO THE CURRENT MILLAGE.
12:14:00PM MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:14:02PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
12:14:04PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
12:14:05PM OPPOSED?
12:14:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
12:14:09PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE BY BOARD
12:14:11PM MEMBER MANISCALCO.
12:14:12PM EXCUSE KNEE.
12:14:13PM YES, CLERK SOTO.
12:14:15PM >>CLERK: THE MOTION --
12:14:22PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: APOLOGIZE.
12:14:23PM LET'S VOTE ON THAT OFFICIALLY THOUGH.
12:14:25PM WAS -- WAS IT A REPORT?
12:14:29PM IT WAS A MOTION.
12:14:29PM >>LUIS VIERA: JUST A MOTION, YES.
12:14:34PM WE DIDN'T MOVE ON THAT?
12:14:36PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE DID NOT.
12:14:37PM I THOUGHT IT WAS A REPORT --
12:14:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DO WE NEED THAT IN A MOTION.
12:14:41PM CAN'T WE REQUEST --
12:14:43PM >>LUIS VIERA: MIGHT AS WELL.
12:14:44PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DO YOU WANT IT TO BE A MOTION?
12:14:46PM WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
12:14:48PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
12:14:50PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
12:14:51PM OPPOSED.
12:14:52PM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
12:14:56PM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:14:58PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
12:14:59PM WE ARE ADJOURNED.
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