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THURSDAY, AUGUST 8, 2024, 9:00 A.M.
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09:02:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
09:02:51AM WE CALL THIS CRA MEETING TO ORDER.
09:02:54AM GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
09:02:56AM FIRST THING WE HAVE TO DO IS THE INVOCATION WHICH WILL BE
09:03:06AM JUST A MOMENT OF SILENCE FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF
09:03:09AM ALLEGIANCE.
09:03:09AM [MOMENT OF SILENCE]
09:03:20AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:03:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
09:03:33AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAD A HARD TIME BUTTONING UP MY JACKET.
09:03:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
09:03:39AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAD A HARD TIME BUTTONING UP MY JACKET.
09:03:44AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I SUGGEST YOU EXERCISE.
09:03:46AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:03:47AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
09:03:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
09:03:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
09:03:52SM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:03:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HERE.
09:03:54AM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A QUORUM.
09:04:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CALL UP OUR DIRECTOR.
09:04:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN I SAY I ADOPT THE MINUTES OF THE JULY 25
09:04:08AM MEETING.
09:04:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
09:04:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO ADOPT THE MINUTES FROM LAST
09:04:11AM MEETING.
09:04:11AM SECONDED BY MANISCALCO.
09:04:13AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:04:14AM MOTION CARRIES.
09:04:15AM OKAY.
09:04:16AM AND CLEANING UP THIS ONE BEFORE WE GET STARTED.
09:04:20AM GOOD MORNING, MR. McCRAY.
09:04:23AM GO AHEAD.
09:04:23AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING.
09:04:26AM FOR THE RECORD CEDRIC McCRAY, INTERIM CRA DIRECTOR.
09:04:28AM CURRENTLY THE CHANGES THAT WE HAVE TO THE AGENDA.
09:04:31AM WE ARE REQUESTING THAT ITEM NUMBER 4 BE CONTINUED TO
09:04:35AM DECEMBER 12.
09:04:38AM >> SO MOVED.
09:04:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
09:04:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL IN FAVOR.
09:04:43AM MOTION CARRIES.
09:04:45AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NUMBER FIVE RELATED TO A MOTION BY
09:04:48AM COUNCILMAN VIERA RELATING TO THE GLAZER'S CHILDREN MUSEUM.
09:04:52AM I WANT TO INFORM YOU THAT THE GRANT PROCESS YOU APPROVED
09:04:56AM RECENTLY.
09:04:57AM THEY HAVE BEEN CONTACTED AND WE ARE ASKING THEM TO FOLLOW
09:04:59AM THAT GRANTS PROCESS SO WE WILL FORMALLY BE BRINGING THAT
09:05:02AM BACK TO YOU AT A LATER POINT IN TIME.
09:05:05AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
09:05:06AM >> SECOND.
09:05:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:05:08AM MOTION CARRIES.
09:05:09AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, AND --
09:05:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME.
09:05:12AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:05:15AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST ON THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.
09:05:16AM I SUPPORT THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM.
09:05:18AM FOR SOME REASON ALL THESE ORGANIZATIONS SAY YOU GAVE ONE X
09:05:22AM AMOUNT AND WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GIVE THE SAME AMOUNT.
09:05:26AM WHATEVER WE GIVE GOING FORWARD -- THE BIG NUMBERS ARE NOT
09:05:29AM THERE -- WHATEVER WE GIVE PEOPLE MAKE SURE IT IS
09:05:34AM PERFORMANCE-BASED AND NOT HANDING OUT BIG CHUNKS OF MONEY.
09:05:37AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: CORRECT.
09:05:38AM THAT WILL BE LISTED OUT IN THE FUNDING AGREEMENT.
09:05:41AM AND I DON'T KNOW IF ATTORNEY MASSEY WANTS TO SPEAK TO THAT
09:05:44AM OR NOT.
09:05:45AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE HAVE -- YOU ALL HAVE APPROVED AND
09:05:48AM ENTERED INTO AGREEMENTS FOR LARGE GIFTS FOR CULTURAL
09:05:53AM INSTITUTIONS IN DOWNTOWN PRIMARILY.
09:05:55AM WE HAVE DONE ONE WITH THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM WHICH WE BRING
09:05:59AM BACK IN THE FORM OF AN AGREEMENT.
09:06:00AM ALL THESE AGREEMENTS BASICALLY REQUIRE THAT THEY DO CERTAIN
09:06:04AM THINGS BEFORE THE MONEY FROM THE CRA.
09:06:07AM OUR MONEY IS REALLY THE LAST MONEY IN FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS
09:06:11AM PRIMARILY.
09:06:11AM SO WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND -- AND THIS IS PART OF THE PROCESS
09:06:15AM WHAT THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM IS ASKING US TO DO.
09:06:17AM THAT ULTIMATELY COMES TO YOU ALL FOR DECISION WHETHER OR NOT
09:06:21AM YOU FELT THAT WAS WORTHY OF THE CRA SUPPORT.
09:06:25AM NOTHING THAT MAN DATES WE SUPPORT ANY PROJECT.
09:06:28AM WHAT IS SOMETHING WITH THE BOARD --
09:06:31AM >>BILL CARLSON: WITHOUT GETTING INTO THE DETAILS OF IT.
09:06:33AM THE DECISION ON THE OTHERS WAS CERTAIN POINT IN TIME,
09:06:36AM CERTAIN POINT OF THE ECONOMY, AND CERTAIN CONDITIONS OF
09:06:39AM THINGS GOING ON.
09:06:40AM MY ONLY POINT, SOMEBODY SHOULD NOT JUST SAY, YOU GAVE X
09:06:44AM AMOUNT TO THIS ORGANIZATION SO WE NEED THE SAME AMOUNT.
09:06:47AM HERE IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO FOR THAT.
09:06:49AM INSTEAD IT IS HERE IS WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO, AND CAN YOU
09:06:53AM FUND PART OF IT, RIGHT.
09:06:54AM SO IT'S -- IT'S NOT -- THAT ANY CULTURE ON THIS INSTITUTION
09:07:00AM IS ENTITLED OR DESERVE THE SAME AMOUNT OF MONEY.
09:07:06AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: STAFF WILL WORK ON THEM.
09:07:08AM EVERYONE IS AWARE -- THE CRA DOWNTOWN BUDGET IS CONSTRAINED
09:07:14AM FOR THE NEXT FEW YEARS BASED ON COMMITMENT THE BOARD ALREADY
09:07:17AM MADE AND NOT THE SAME AMOUNT OF FUNDS AVAILABLE.
09:07:20AM AND THAT WILL BE PART OF THAT DISCUSSION.
09:07:22AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
09:07:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, ATTORNEY MASSEY.
09:07:25AM ANYTHING ELSE ON THE AGENDA?
09:07:26AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NO.
09:07:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO ADOPT THE AGENDA --
09:07:30AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ITEM 6 THOUGH.
09:07:32AM WE WANT TO ACCEPT THAT?
09:07:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ITEM 6 IS MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
09:07:37AM >> MOTION.
09:07:37AM >> SECOND.
09:07:38AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:07:40AM OKAY.
09:07:41AM MOTION TO ADOPT THE MINUTES.
09:07:43AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
09:07:46AM >> SECOND.
09:07:48AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THE AGENDA.
09:07:49AM SORRY.
09:07:49AM THANK YOU, AGENDA.
09:07:50AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:07:51AM OKAY.
09:07:52AM LET'S GET STARTED WITH OUR PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:07:54AM CAN YOU OUTLINE SOME STATEMENTS?
09:07:59AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, MA'AM.
09:08:00AM RELATIVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ALLOWED A
09:08:03AM REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CRA MEETING
09:08:06AM TO ADDRESS ANY ITEM ON THE AGENDA BEFORE THE CRA TAKES ANY
09:08:10AM APPLICATION ON ANY SUCH ITEM.
09:08:11AM A THREE-MINUTE TIME LIMIT APPLIES TO ALL SPEAKERS PROVIDING
09:08:16AM PUBLIC COMMENT UNLESS THAT TIME FRAME IS MODIFIED BY A VOTE
09:08:20AM OF THE CRA BOARD.
09:08:21AM SPEAKERS ARE REMINDED TO REFRAIN FROM DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIORS,
09:08:28AM MAKING VULGAR REMARKS, NOISES OR SOUNDS AND DISPLAYING SIGNS
09:08:31AM OR GRAPHICS.
09:08:32AM SPEAKERS ARE INVITED TO REFRAIN FROM PERSONAL ATTACKS.
09:08:36AM A CHAIR WILL RULE OUT OF ORDER ANY PERSON NOT SPEAKING
09:08:40AM WITHOUT BEING RECOGNIZED AND ATTEMPTS TOO ADDRESS THE CRA
09:08:44AM OUTSIDE OF THE SPEAKER AREA THE PODIUM.
09:08:46AM THOSE NOT COMPLYING WITH CRA RULES MAY BE RULED OUT OF ORDER
09:08:50AM AND AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHAIR WILL BE REMOVED FROM THE
09:08:53AM CHAMBERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THAT DAY'S MEETING.
09:08:55AM REFRAIN FROM ENGAGING A SPEAKER UNDER PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:08:59AM AND REMINDER THAT WE ARE SUBJECT TO THE SAME -- PRIMARILY
09:09:04AM WITH THE SAME RULES THAT ARE IN EFFECT FOR THE CITY COUNCIL
09:09:07AM THAT WERE REVISED ON JUNE 6.
09:09:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:09:11AM GOOD MORNING.
09:09:12AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ANYONE WISHING TO MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT CAN
09:09:19AM APPROACH THE PODIUM AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
09:09:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
09:09:32AM >> GOOD MORNING.
09:09:34AM CONNIE BURTON.
09:09:36AM JUST LIKE THE RULES FOR THE PUBLIC COMMENTS ARE LAID OUT, I
09:09:42AM WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST TO YOU ALL THAT YOU ALL READ THE
09:09:45AM MISSION OF A CRA.
09:09:47AM I HEARD ONE OF THE COUNCILWOMEN MENTION IT LAST WEEK THAT
09:09:53AM THE CRA MISSION WAS TO REDUCE POVERTY, DISEASE, PROVIDE
09:09:59AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:10:01AM AND THERE WAS ONE MORE, CRIME, DISEASE -- PUBLIC HOUSING AND
09:10:07AM REDUCE BLIGHT.
09:10:08AM HOW DID STREETCARS GET INTO YOUR AGENDA UNLESS IT BECOMES
09:10:13AM PET PROJECTS OF INDIVIDUALS.
09:10:14AM WHEN WE HAVE THESE ONGOING ISSUES IN OUR COMMUNITIES THAT
09:10:18AM ARE NOT BEING ADDRESSED.
09:10:19AM YOU REPRESENT THE CRA MISSION, ALLEGEDLY.
09:10:24AM SO ONE THING IN TALKING ABOUT -- WITH THIS -- I AM GOING TO
09:10:29AM LISTEN TO THE REPORT, BUT WHEN YOU ARE TALKING OF CENTRAL
09:10:33AM PARK VILLAGE, ALWAYS MENTION HEROIC WORK OF SISTER ESME MAE REED.
09:10:39AM NOT ENOUGH JUST TO HAVE HER NAME ON A BUILDING.
09:10:42AM BUT THE WORK OF ESSIE MAE REED, SOMEONE WHO WAS ABLE TO
09:10:48AM GARNISH 10,000 VOTES.
09:10:50AM A WOMAN WHO HAD NO EDUCATION.
09:10:52AM 10,000 BLACK VOTES IN THIS CITY THOUGHT SHE WOULD BE THE
09:10:56AM BEST REPRESENTATION -- REPRESENTATIVE FOR BLACK PEOPLE IN
09:11:00AM THE CITY OF TAMPA BASED ON HER WORK, FIGHTING FOR THE POOR,
09:11:06AM FIGHTING FOR BETTER HOUSING, FIGHTING FOR CHILD CARE
09:11:09AM INITIATIVES, FIGHTING FOR ECONOMICS AND JOBS FOR OUR PEOPLE.
09:11:13AM WE MISSED THE VOICE OF ESSIE MAE REED.
09:11:20AM WHEN WE SEE ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT ARE OUTLINED ON THIS
09:11:23AM AGENDA AND WE SAY, HOW DOES IT MEET THE MISSION OF THE CRA?
09:11:29AM I THINK CONSCIOUSLY YOU HAVE MADE IT WORK THE WAY YOU WANT
09:11:32AM IT TO WORK.
09:11:32AM BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE BLIGHT.
09:11:34AM WE STILL HAVE NO AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN OUR COMMUNITY.
09:11:38AM I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO CALL ATTENTION TO AN ADDRESS IN OUR
09:11:42AM COMMUNITY, 1402 EAST EMMA, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF EAST TAMPA
09:11:49AM CRA.
09:11:49AM I KNOW YOU WILL HEAR A REPORT THIS MORNING OF THE
09:11:53AM UPCOMING TELEFOX PROJECT, BUT 1402 EAST EMMA, A HOUSE IS
09:11:58AM SELLING FOR $745,000.
09:12:03AM EMMA.
09:12:04AM YOU NEED A DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE OF $149,000 AND I CAN
09:12:12AM GUARANTEE YOU THAT WORKING-CLASS PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY
09:12:16AM CANNOT GET THOSE HOUSES, HOUSES THAT ARE LOTS THAT WE TALKED
09:12:20AM ABOUT IN THE PAST THAT WE LIKE TO SEE PROMOTED TOWARD
09:12:25AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
09:12:26AM YOU ARE NOT DOING THAT.
09:12:27AM YOU JUMP FROM AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR THE POOR WHERE WE HAVE
09:12:30AM SENIORS PAYING WELL OVER 80% OF THEIR MONTHLY INCOME JUST TO
09:12:35AM LIVE.
09:12:35AM READ THE MISSION OF A CRA MOVING FORWARD.
09:12:40AM THANK YOU.
09:12:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, MISS BURTON.
09:12:43AM NEXT SPEAKER.
09:12:45AM OKAY, NEXT SPEAKER OR WE WILL CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:12:52AM GOOD MORNING.
09:12:55AM >> MY NAME IS PASTOR WILLIAMS.
09:13:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
09:13:19AM >> LOCATED 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET PARADISE MISSIONARY
09:13:24AM BAPTIST CHURCH.
09:13:25AM I AM GOING TO BE READING WHAT I GAVE TO THE COUNCIL.
09:13:30AM BUT THEY DON'T SEEM TO DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
09:13:32AM WE THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
09:13:35AM BLACK PEOPLE, BROWN PEOPLE, POOR PEOPLE, AND CHILDREN THAT
09:13:40AM GET NO RESPECT OF JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
09:13:45AM THERE ARE SO-CALLED RACIST WHITE PEOPLE, ATHEIST, KLU KLUX
09:13:52AM KLAN, NAZIS, WHITE SUPREMACISTS AND DEVIL HIMSELF.
09:13:57AM THEY MADE GOD'S PEOPLE.
09:13:59AM A PICTURE OF TAMPA UNJUST, BIAS, RACIST, LIARS, THIEVES AND
09:14:08AM THIS INCLUDES THE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, CODE ENFORCEMENT AND
09:14:12AM EVERYBODY ELSE.
09:14:12AM NOBODY WANTS TO SEEM TO WANT TO DO NOTHING FOR PEOPLE OF
09:14:17AM COLOR.
09:14:17AM WHEN YOU MAKE THESE RULES AND REGULATIONS AND LAWS AND
09:14:22AM EVERYTHING, THEY ARE NOT FOR BLACK -- COLORED PEOPLE.
09:14:25AM THEY ARE BASICALLY FOR WHITE FOLKS ONLY.
09:14:28AM NOW I TOLD MY CHURCH HERE 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET.
09:14:32AM I SOLD IT TO A GUY.
09:14:34AM AND HE IS A SPANISH DUDE.
09:14:36AM AND I DIDN'T KNOW THAT HE WAS A THIEF.
09:14:38AM HE IS -- HE IS A JAMAICAN.
09:14:41AM AND HE ACCUSED ME OF DOING THINGS -- WITH THINGS THAT HE HAS
09:14:46AM BEEN DOING.
09:14:47AM BREAKING GLASSES IN CHURCH AND EVERYTHING SINCE PUTTING
09:14:52AM CITATION ON MY DOORS AND ALL THAT STUFF.
09:14:54AM AND I WANT TO KNOW WHO GIVES HIM THE AUTHORITY TO DO THAT.
09:14:59AM WHAT?
09:15:03AM THEY LOOK AT HIM SKIN AND SAY OKAY.
09:15:06AM THEY LOOK AT MY SKIN AND SAYS IT OKAY TOO.
09:15:09AM BUT THE THING ABOUT IT, WE TRY TO JUDGE PEOPLE OR CALL
09:15:13AM ACCORDING TO THE COLOR OF THEIR 16, NOT ACCORDING TO THEIR
09:15:16AM CHARACTER AND THEIR TRADITION AND NOTHING LIKE THAT.
09:15:18AM WE JUST WANT TO DO WHAT Y'ALL HAVE BEEN DOING FOR A LONG
09:15:23AM TIME.
09:15:23AM AND YOU ARE GOING TO KEEP DOING IT.
09:15:25AM YOU ARE NOT GOING TO STOP.
09:15:27AM AIN'T GOT A HANDFUL OF BLACK FOLKS TO REPRESENT BLACK FOLKS
09:15:32AM NO MORE.
09:15:33AM WHY?
09:15:34AM BECAUSE THEY KNOW YOU AIN'T GOING TO DO A DAMN THING.
09:15:37AM THEY KNOW THAT.
09:15:38AM I AM TRYING TO DO ALL I CAN.
09:15:39AM AND I COME DOWN HERE IN A WHEELCHAIR AND NOBODY WANTS TO DO
09:15:43AM ANYTHING FOR ME TO HELP ME OUT.
09:15:45AM AND I AM AN OLD MAN AND -- AND OLD AND CRIPPLED AND
09:15:53AM EVERYTHING ELSE AND NOBODY STILL DON'T WANT TO HELP.
09:15:55AM I TOLD THEM MY WATER WAS OFF ON 3906.
09:15:59AM YOU THINK THEY SENT SOMEBODY OVER THERE TO CHECK IT OUT?
09:16:03AM THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN.
09:16:04AM IF IT IS OFF, IT OUGHT TO BE OFF.
09:16:06AM THAT IS THE RULES I HEAR THEM SAYING.
09:16:08AM CARE LESS AND I NEED A NEW ROOF ON MY HOUSE.
09:16:11AM YOU THINK -- WELL A WOMAN CAME OVER THERE AND SAID IT AS
09:16:15AM TEAM HOUSE.
09:16:16AM WE CAN'T DO NOTHING FOR A FRAME HOUSE, BECAUSE IT DON'T HAVE
09:16:20AM NO VALUABLE TO IT.
09:16:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, PASTOR WILLIAMS.
09:16:24AM >> DON'T YOU RESPOND TO ME?THE NAME OF JESUS.
09:16:31AM HENDERSON THANK YOU.
09:16:37AM GOOD MORNING.
09:16:38AM >> GOOD MORNING.
09:16:39AM >> I WILL ADDRESS THAT LATER.
09:16:41AM MY NAME IS KEELA McCASKILL, AND I'M HERE JUST TO TALK TO SOME
09:16:46AM OF THE THINGS -- I DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS CRA TODAY.
09:16:49AM I THOUGHT IT WAS CITY COUNCIL.
09:16:50AM BUT I'M HERE.
09:16:50AM SO I WILL COME TO THAT.
09:16:52AM SO I WANTED TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONCERNS WORKING IN THIS
09:16:55AM SPACE HERE IN EAST TAMPA.
09:16:57AM AS I BEGIN TO LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF HOW AFRICAN-AMERICAN
09:17:00AM PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TREATED IN A MARGINALIZED COMMUNITY.
09:17:03AM I AM REMINDED WHAT HAPPENED IN TAMPA PARK WHERE A CRA WAS IN
09:17:06AM OPERATION.
09:17:06AM YOU HAD ADMINISTRATION AND ALL OF THAT.
09:17:08AM AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN SPEARHEADED TAMPA PARK.
09:17:12AM HER FATHER BUILT THOSE PROPERTIES OVER 60 YEARS AGO FOR
09:17:15AM MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES, FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN PEOPLE.
09:17:18AM SOMEHOW SHE LOST THE FUNDING, WHATEVER WAS NECESSARY.
09:17:21AM BUT I DIDN'T SEE THE SAME EMBRACE AS YOU RUSH TO HELP DARRYL
09:17:27AM SHAW.
09:17:27AM I LOVE HIM.
09:17:27AM NO PUN INTENDED AT ALL.
09:17:29AM BUT I SAW A DIFFERENT TYPE OF ENERGY TO SUPPORT SHAW THAN I
09:17:32AM DID FROM CITY COUNCIL.
09:17:33AM MANY OF YOU WEREN'T HERE.
09:17:34AM I AM NOT SAYING IT IS YOUR FAULT.
09:17:37AM UP LOOKING AT WHAT HAPPENED.
09:17:38AM MADAM FORTUNE TAYLOR.
09:17:42AM WHAT IS LEFT OF THE 34 ACRES SHE WON, IN THE HANDS OF THE
09:17:47AM MAYOR AND ALL WE HAVE IS A BRIDGE AND SOMEONE HAD TO BEG YOU
09:17:51AM TO PUT HER NAME ON IT.
09:17:53AM I AM SEEING DISPARITY IN TREATMENT.
09:17:55AM AUGUST 2022, YOU APPROVED A REDEVELOPMENT THAT I ASKED MY
09:18:00AM CONSULTANT TO WRITE FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:18:02AM WE DON'T WORK FOR YOU AND WE ARE TRYING TO DO WHAT IS BEST
09:18:05AM WITH THE CITY.
09:18:06AM JUNE 2024, THE PROGRAM IS APPROVED.
09:18:08AM THE PROGRAM IS APPROVED WITH A WHOLE LOT OF RED TAPE AND
09:18:11AM SCRUTINY AS IF THE DEVELOPERS -- THE TREATMENT THAT I AM
09:18:14AM SEEING HAPPEN TO THE DEVELOPERS THAT ARE COMING FORTH FOR
09:18:17AM THESE PROGRAMS AND THE TREATMENT I SEE RELATED AND SOME OF
09:18:20AM THE OTHER DEVELOPERS IN THE CITY, IT IS NOT THE SAME.
09:18:23AM I AM JUST ASKING YOU AS THESE PROGRAMS GO FORWARD, I AM
09:18:26AM THANKFUL FOR DEE BACK HERE WHO HAS A TEAM WHO CAN PROBABLY
09:18:31AM PUT IT TOGETHER, BUT SOME OF THE PROCESS I HAVE SEEN FOR
09:18:34AM THESE DEVELOPERS THAT I BROUGHT TO THE TABLE PAUSE I KNOW
09:18:37AM YOU ARE NOT GOING TO LOOK FOR ME.
09:18:39AM SO I FOUND PEOPLE TO REPRESENT THESE TRANSACTIONS AND THE
09:18:42AM TREATMENT AND THE PROCESS IS SO BASIC.
09:18:44AM SO ELEMENTARY.
09:18:45AM DOWNRIGHT DISRESPECTFUL WHAT IS BEING ASKED OF DEVELOPERS
09:18:49AM AND CONTRACTORS WHO BUILD $500 MILLION AND $800 MILLION
09:18:54AM BUILDING COMING TO DO ME A FAVOR IN EAST TAMPA AND THEY HAVE
09:18:56AM TO COME TO A PREAPPLICATION MEETING WITH BASIC QUESTIONS AND
09:19:00AM THEY ARE GIVING RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE
09:19:03AM THE SAME CREDENTIALS.
09:19:04AM IT IS OFFENSIVE.
09:19:05AM IT IS EMBARRASSING.
09:19:07AM I AM ASKING YOU CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO PAY ATTENTION AND BE
09:19:10AM AMENABLE TO CHANGES AS THEY MAY COME FORWARD BECAUSE WHAT IS
09:19:13AM HAPPENING IN EAST TAMPA WITH DEVELOPMENT AND WHAT HAPPENS IN
09:19:16AM OTHER AREAS DEVELOPMENT, IT IS DISRESPECTFUL.
09:19:19AM I WILL BE SENDING YOU SOME INFORMATION ON THAT AND SHARE
09:19:21AM SOME INFORMATION IN TERMS OF TRYING TO BUILD A COMMUNITY IN
09:19:24AM TERMS OF PEOPLE.
09:19:25AM YOU JUST DON'T START WITH THE BUILDINGS.
09:19:27AM WE ARE TRYING TO BUILD PEOPLE AND COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS AND
09:19:30AM ALL OF THAT.
09:19:31AM MANY OF YOU DO NOT KNOW WHO THE GOOD ACTORS ARE.
09:19:34AM YOU ARE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE BAD ACTORS.
09:19:36AM SOME OF THAT IS BUILDING UP THE PEOPLE AND CLEANING UP THE
09:19:38AM BAD ACTORS.
09:19:39AM I WILL BE SENDING YOU INFORMATION AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO
09:19:41AM COLLABORATION AND CLEANING UP THESE BAD ACTORS.
09:19:44AM THANK YOU.
09:19:44AM >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:19:54AM I WANT TO SAY UHURU, IT MEANS FREEDOM IN SWAHILI AND WE AS
09:20:02AM AFRICAN PEOPLE ONLY SHOULD THINK OF OUR FREEDOM.
09:20:06AM ONLY GET BACK THE FREEDOM, SELF-DETERMINATION, BLACK
09:20:10AM INDEPENDENCE THROUGH A CERTAIN KIND OF ORGANIZATION AND A
09:20:16AM CERTAIN KIND OF WILL POWER AND THAT DOES NOT CONSIST OF
09:20:24AM BEGGING.
09:20:24AM THAT DOES NOT CONSIST OF BEGGING.
09:20:26AM THAT IS NOT IN THE PRACTICE OF MALCOLM X, MARCUS GARVEY,
09:20:31AM THOMAS INKARA, MAURICE BISHOP.
09:20:35AM WE CAN THROW HARRIET TUBMAN, FRED HAMPTON, HUEY NEWTON, MARK
09:20:42AM CLARK, BLACK PANTHER PARTY.
09:20:46AM THAT IS NOT IN THAT TRADITION AT ALL.
09:20:48AM IT IS NOT IN THE TRADITION OF BEGGING COLONIALISTS, BEGGING
09:20:53AM CAPITALISTS.
09:20:54AM BEGGING IMPERIALISTS.
09:20:56AM BEGGING A WHITE RULING CLASS TO DO SOMETHING FOR US.
09:21:00AM WE ARE 26% OF THIS TAMPA POPULATION.
09:21:02AM WE DESERVE 26% OF THIS BUDGET.
09:21:05AM IT NEVER HAPPENS.
09:21:06AM IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED SINCE THE CITY FORMATION IN 1855.
09:21:10AM THEY HAVE ALL KIND OF CLOWNS THEY PUT -- THEY SAY FOR
09:21:13AM DISTRICT 5.
09:21:14AM AND THAT IS WHAT IT IS.
09:21:17AM IT IS CLOWNS.
09:21:18AM NOTHING MORE.
09:21:19AM NOTHING LESS.
09:21:20AM THEY HAVE A WAY OF DECEIVING AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:21:23AM YOU KNOW, THE BIGGEST -- ONE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST TRICK --
09:21:27AM INTERNATIONAL TRICK THEY SAY HITLER MURDERED SIX MILLION
09:21:31AM JEWS.
09:21:32AM WASN'T SIX MILLION JEWS IN EUROPE.
09:21:35AM IN THE WHOLE OF EUROPE THERE WASN'T SIX MILLION JURORS.
09:21:39AM MIGHT HAVE BEEN 30,000, 40,000 THAT GOT INJURED AND THE
09:21:44AM PEOPLE WHO GOT INJURED, THEY DON'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT THEM.
09:21:46AM BUT THAT IS HOW STRONG THE JEWISH PROPAGANDA IS.
09:21:52AM HOW STRONG THE JEWISH LOBBY IS.
09:21:56AM GLOATING BECAUSE PUT JAMAL ALAN AND SHEILA JACKSON AND CORY
09:22:04AM BUSH.
09:22:04AM HOW MANY PEOPLE THEY ARE SPENDING ON LOCAL RACES AND AFRICAN
09:22:08AM PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED AS EVER.
09:22:09AM A AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE SO CONFUSED CAN'T SEE HOW STRONG
09:22:15AM SLAVERY AND OPPRESSION IS.
09:22:16AM YOU SEE AFRICAN PEOPLE -- HUNDREDS OF AFRICANS.
09:22:20AM HUNDREDS OF ENSLAVED AFRICANS GOING TO FRANCE TO REPRESENT
09:22:24AM UNITED STATES AND OTHER PLACE NOTICE EGYPT JUMPING THE BARS
09:22:28AM LIKE MONKEYS.
09:22:29AM RUNNING THEIR HEARTS OUT.
09:22:30AM DOING DIFFERENT THINGS.
09:22:31AM SHOOTING BASKETBALL IN HOOPS LIKE MONKEYS.
09:22:34AM AND THEY SEND FLAVOR FLAV AND A BASKETBALL PLAYER TO
09:22:39AM REPRESENT THE INTEREST OF AFRICAN PEOPLE.
09:22:41AM THAT IS HOW FAR WE ARE REMOVED FROM REALITY.
09:22:46AM BUT I WANT TO SAY AFRICAN PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO GO DOWN
09:22:49AM BEGGING.
09:22:50AM WE ARE GOING TO GO DOWN FIGHTING.
09:22:51AM WE ARE GOING DOWN NAT TURNER STYLE.
09:22:54AM NO MORE BEGGING.
09:22:55AM THANK YOU.
09:22:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:22:57AM ITEM NUMBER 1, CENTRAL PARK CAC.
09:23:06AM >> GOOD MORNING, CRA DEVELOPMENT MANAGER OVER CENTRAL PARK.
09:23:14AM WE HAVE THOMAS MURPHY THE CHAIR OF THOMAS PARK CRA OF WHAT
09:23:20AM THE ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN.
09:23:21AM THOMAS MURPHY.
09:23:23AM >>THOMAS MURPHY: HEY, GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY.
09:23:25AM HOW IS EVERYBODY DOING.
09:23:26AM THOMAS MURPHY.
09:23:28AM I'M THE CHAIR OF THE CENTRAL PARK CAC HERE TO GIVE YOU A
09:23:32AM LITTLE UPDATE ON HOW THINGS ARE GOING UP IN CENTRAL PARK.
09:23:36AM ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING THINGS WE HAVE BEEN WORKING TOWARD
09:23:40AM IS GETTING OUR MEETINGS HELD DOWN IN THE DISTRICT.
09:23:42AM WE ACTUALLY HAVE BEEN HOLDING THEM DOWNTOWN WHICH IS ALWAYS
09:23:46AM BE A LITTLE CHALLENGING FOR PARKING ESPECIALLY FOR SOME OF
09:23:49AM OUR RESIDENTS WHO DO NOT HAVE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
09:23:57AM WE WILL BE HAVING OUR MEETING IN THE DISTRICT IN THE REED
09:24:01AM BUILDING AND THAT WILL BE EASIER FOR OUR RESIDENTS TO COME
09:24:04AM DOWN AND VOICE SOME OF THEIR CONCERNS AND WHATNOT.
09:24:08AM ALSO THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WILL BE INCREASED BY HOSTING
09:24:12AM IT DOWN THERE.
09:24:13AM AND SOME OF THE NEW DEVELOPMENTS THAT WE TALK ABOUT, WE WILL
09:24:17AM BE ABLE TO SEE THERE FIRST HAND FOR SOME OF OUR MEMBERS WHO
09:24:20AM MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE DOWN THERE ON A REGULAR BASIS.
09:24:23AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
09:24:26AM THAT HAS BEEN A BIG ACCOMPLISHMENT AS WELL.
09:24:28AM INITIALLY THE STRATEGIC PLAN WAS DRAFTED IN 2006.
09:24:32AM A FAR CRY DOWN ARE FROM WHERE OUR COMMUNITY IS NOW IN 2024.
09:24:39AM THE IDEAS THAT WE TURNED DOWN GOT TURNED DOWN BECAUSE NOT
09:24:44AM WORKING WITH THAT PLAN.
09:24:44AM TRENT GREEN, HAS DONE AN AMAZING, AMAZING JOB WITH HIS
09:24:50AM STUDENTS TO DRAFT THE MAPS AND WHATNOT.
09:24:52AM THIS SHOWS YOU THE BOUNDARIES HERE OF SOME OF THE THINGS WE
09:24:56AM WILL DO IN THE FUTURE.
09:24:57AM THEY HAVE DONE -- FAR SURPASSED ANYTHING I COULD HAVE
09:25:01AM IMAGINED.
09:25:01AM THIS WILL BE REALLY EXCITING AS WELL.
09:25:04AM AND THEN -- YEAH, ONE THING WE TALKED ABOUT WAS THE
09:25:08AM INCREASED WALKABILITY WITH THE GASWORX DEVELOPMENT.
09:25:11AM WE TALKED OF CENTRAL PARK BEING THE DOUGHNUT HOLE.
09:25:14AM PEOPLE LOCATING IT NORTH OF -- OR WEST OF YBOR, SOUTH OF
09:25:19AM TAMPA HEIGHTS.
09:25:19AM I THINK HAVING THE WALKABILITY FOR THAT WILL BE AMAZING FOR
09:25:23AM A LOT OF OUR COMMUNITY AS WELL TO PARTICIPATE IN THINGS THAT
09:25:27AM THE GREEN SPACE LIKE PERRY HARVEY PARK AND WHATNOT.
09:25:30AM MEACHAM FARMS, AS WELL, HOSTING A LOT OF THEIR COMMUNITY
09:25:35AM EVENTS AND THEY ARE ALWAYS WANTING TO WORK WITH THE SCHOOL
09:25:37AM BOARD TO GET FIELD TRIPS AND WHATNOT DOWN THERE AS WELL.
09:25:41AM A LOT OF GOOD THINGS WE ARE WORKING HARD FOR OVER THE LAST
09:25:45AM COUPLE OF YEARS IS COMING TO FRUITION.
09:25:48AM AND LOT 12.
09:25:49AM THE PATEL.
09:25:50AM THE PATEL LOT.
09:25:52AM I THINK YOU WERE FAMILIAR WITH THEM COMING IN CHATTING ABOUT
09:25:55AM PUTTING A MEDICAL OFFICE DOWN THERE.
09:25:57AM THEY HAD DONE THEIR PRE VAT RESEARCH THERE.
09:25:59AM AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING THIS AND THE
09:26:04AM PETITE GROCER BEING PUT DOWN IN THE ACTUAL ENCORE AREA
09:26:09AM CENTRAL PARK CAC.
09:26:10AM WE ARE FINDING SIGNAGE AGAIN SHOWING EXACTLY WHERE YOU ARE
09:26:14AM WHEN YOU ARE WALKING THROUGH DOWNTOWN INTO YBOR AND THE
09:26:19AM GASWORX THAT YOU CAN IDENTIFY YOU ARE IN CENTRAL PARK BY
09:26:22AM SPECIFIC SIGNAGE AND THAT IS REALLY EXCITING.
09:26:25AM ANOTHER THING IS THE VANDALISM DONE TO THE PUBLIC ART DOWN
09:26:30AM IN THE DISTRICT HAS ALL BEEN FIXED NOW.
09:26:33AM THE ARTIST ACTUALLY CAME IN.
09:26:37AM I SAW HIM WORKING ON THAT TIRELESSLY.
09:26:40AM AND THEY HAVE SOME PLATE GLASS OVER THAT NOW.
09:26:42AM SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN PREVENT ANYTHING LIKE THAT FROM
09:26:45AM HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE.
09:26:45AM BUT IT IS GREAT TO HAVE THAT BACK NOW.
09:26:48AM AND IT LOOKS AMAZING.
09:26:50AM SO, YEAH, ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE FOR ME?
09:26:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
09:26:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:26:59AM APPRECIATE YOUR UPDATE.
09:27:01AM ALWAYS APPRECIATE WHEN YOU COME DOWN.
09:27:03AM YOU TALKED OF THE PLAN.
09:27:04AM WHEN DO YOU THINK THAT PLAN WILL BE FINISHED?
09:27:07AM A DRAFT?
09:27:14AM >>THOMAS MURPHY: I THINK THEY ARE COMING IN SEPTEMBER 12
09:27:16AM RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER.
09:27:17AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: A DRAFT PLAN AND I NEED TO REVIEW IT.
09:27:20AM BUT, YES, WE ARE PREPARING A PRESENTATION FOR YOU ALL IN THE
09:27:23AM PROCESS.
09:27:24AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
09:27:25AM I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO READING THAT AND HOPE YOU COME BACK
09:27:27AM ON SEPTEMBER 12, YOU AND OTHER MEMBERS OF THE CAC TO SHARE.
09:27:32AM IT IS DEFINITELY TIME.
09:27:33AM YOU ALL HAVE -- YOU PROBABLY ARE THE ONE CAC -- OR THE ONE
09:27:39AM CRA DISTRICT THAT HAS SO DRASTICALLY CHANGED.
09:27:41AM I AGREE, YOUR PLAN NEEDS TO BE REWRITTEN.
09:27:44AM AND I AM VERY EXCITED TO SEE WHAT YOU ALL HAVE COME UP WITH.
09:27:49AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
09:27:52AM >>THOMAS MURPHY: AWESOME.
09:27:54AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:27:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT.
09:27:56AM MR. McCRAY.
09:27:59AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING, AGAIN, CEDRIC McCRAY, INTERIM
09:28:06AM CRA DIRECTOR.
09:28:07AM AS IT RELATES TO THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
09:28:11AM AND I KNOW WE -- DURING SOME OF THE BRIEFS, WE WERE SLATED
09:28:15AM TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS AND I WAS GOING TO ASK THAT NUMBER 7
09:28:18AM BE DISCUSSED UNDER THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT AS IT RELATES TO
09:28:22AM THE TWO POSITIONS THAT WERE DISCUSSED A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO
09:28:25AM DURING THE JULY 26th MEETING.
09:28:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
09:28:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION BY MANISCALCO.
09:28:33AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
09:28:35AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:28:36AM OKAY.
09:28:37AM SURE.
09:28:37AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: SO AS WE HAVE -- AS I HAVE BEEN IN THE ROLE
09:28:41AM NOW FOR EXACTLY TWO WEEKS, AND WANTED TO JUST KIND OF
09:28:48AM HIGHLIGHT OR BRING UP BECAUSE I KNOW THAT CRA BOARD MEMBER
09:28:54AM HURTAK ASKED A QUESTION AS IT RELATES TO THE TWO POSITIONS.
09:28:56AM I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE JOB DESCRIPTIONS AND
09:29:04AM POSTS BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IT WAS PAUSED AND FROZEN.
09:29:07AM WE WENT THROUGH THE CHANGES WITH OUR LOPE IN OUR DEPARTMENT
09:29:11AM LEAVING I BELIEVE THAT THE POSITIONS ARE NEEDED.
09:29:17AM I KNOW WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION AT SOME POINT IN THE
09:29:20AM FUTURE WHO THE INCOMING DIRECTOR AND DIRECTOR WILL BE
09:29:24AM OFFICIALLY AS I AM SERVING IN AN INTERIM CAPACITY.
09:29:28AM I AM UNDER THE UNDERSTANDING OR VIEWPOINT THAT WE MAY WAIT
09:29:33AM UNTIL THAT IS DETERMINED TO ALLOW THAT INDIVIDUAL TO SELECT
09:29:37AM WHOEVER WILL BE FILLING THOSE ROLES.
09:29:39AM BUT WE WILL YIELD WHATEVER THE PLEASURE OF THE CRA BOARD IS.
09:29:43AM AND IF WE NEED TO EFFORT THE DISCUSSION, TO ASK HR TO COME
09:29:47AM IN TO REPORT OUT ON THAT AND WHAT THAT PROCESS WILL LOOK
09:29:50AM LIKE MOVING FORWARD.
09:29:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CONTINUE YOUR REPORT AND THEN WE WILL
09:29:58AM TAKE QUESTIONS.
09:29:58AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: I AM DONE.
09:29:59AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT'S IT.
09:30:00AM YES, MA'AM.
09:30:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:30:02AM MY CONCERN ABOUT THIS IS THESE POSITIONS WERE UP AND THIS
09:30:05AM HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.
09:30:06AM I AM JUST SAYING, THESE POSITIONS WERE UP AND HALTED WHEN
09:30:13AM MISS MOODY PUT IN HER NOTICE, BUT I AM NOT SURE WHO HAD THE
09:30:17AM AUTHORITY TO DO THAT.
09:30:18AM TO ME, ONLY PEOPLE THAT HAD THE AUTHORITY TO DO THAT WAS US.
09:30:22AM THE BOARD IS THE ONE THAT MAKES THE DECISIONS.
09:30:28AM WE CONTRACT WITH HR TO DO THE WORK.
09:30:30AM I AM NOT SURE THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO STOP SOMETHING THAT
09:30:34AM THE CRA BOARD WANTS.
09:30:36AM THAT IS MY BIG CONCERN AND WHY I THINK THIS SHOULD GO
09:30:39AM FORWARD IN THAT FINDING.
09:30:40AM BECAUSE THESE ARE NOT -- THIS IS A COMMUNICATIONS AND
09:30:46AM COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PERSON.
09:30:47AM THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY SOMEONE WHO GOES -- WHO -- WHO HAS TO
09:30:51AM FIT A MOLD.
09:30:52AM SO FOR ME PERSONALLY, I WOULD LIKE FOR THOSE OF THESE TO BE
09:30:56AM OPENED AGAIN AND FOR THE PROCESS TO BEGIN.
09:30:59AM IF THE -- IF HR IS CONCERNED THAT IT WOULDN'T BE THE RIGHT
09:31:04AM PERSON, THEN MAYBE WE CAN MAKE THAT RIGHT DECISION.
09:31:08AM WE CAN BE PART OF THE HIRING DECISION ALONG WITH YOURSELF,
09:31:11AM BUT QUITE FRANKLY, I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THE HR HAD ANY
09:31:17AM AUTHORITY TO STOP -- TO STOP THIS.
09:31:19AM BECAUSE NO ONE -- I MEAN, IT'S US.
09:31:22AM I LOOKED AT THE ORG CHART AGAIN TODAY.
09:31:25AM YOU REPORT TO US.
09:31:26AM YOU DON'T REPORT TO ANYBODY IN THE CITY.
09:31:29AM SO I AM VERY DISAPPOINTED AND CONCERNED ABOUT THAT.
09:31:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
09:31:37AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
09:31:38AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:31:40AM >>BILL CARLSON: CEDRIC, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR TAKING THIS
09:31:45AM POSITION AS HR IS IN THE JOB PRESCRIPTION.
09:31:47AM A WORK OF UNUSUAL DIFFICULTY.
09:31:49AM WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT LATER.
09:31:51AM THANK YOU FOR STEPPING UP.
09:31:52AM THE CHALLENGE -- THE ONGOING -- I AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUE
09:31:57AM WHICH IS WHY I AM SPEAKING.
09:31:59AM THE CRA IS SEPARATE ENTITY.
09:32:01AM WHERE HE CHOOSE TO OUTSOURCE TO THE CITY.
09:32:05AM WE DON'T HAVE TO OUTSOURCE TO THE CITY -- BEFORE MORRIS SAYS
09:32:10AM SOMETHING FOLLOW THE CITY'S PURCHASING GUIDELINES AND HR
09:32:13AM GUIDELINES.
09:32:13AM WE DON'T HAVE TO OUTSOURCE TO THE CITY.
09:32:16AM WHAT HAPPENS IS -- AS WE LOOK AND HOW WE NEGOTIATED THE
09:32:19AM QUOTE, UNQUOTE, NEW AGREEMENT -- OUTSOURCE AGREEMENT FIVE
09:32:24AM YEARS AGO.
09:32:25AM IT CLEARLY SAYS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR REPORTS TO THE CRA
09:32:30AM WITH HR -- WITH THE HR DOTTED LINE TO THE MAYOR AND
09:32:35AM ADMINISTRATION.
09:32:36AM BUT WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN PRACTICE IS THAT THE ADMINISTRATION
09:32:39AM HAS PUT THEIR HEAVY THUMB ON SOME OF THESE THINGS.
09:32:41AM AND -- AND WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO -- TO PARTICIPATE.
09:32:45AM IF THIS WAS A SEPARATE BOARD.
09:32:47AM IF THIS WAS THE BOARD OF THE UNITED WAY OR CDC OR SOMETHING
09:32:52AM LIKE THAT.
09:32:53AM IT WOULD BE VERY PARTICIPATORY.
09:32:55AM THE HR PERSON WOULD NOT PUT OUT A JOB DESCRIPTION WITHOUT
09:32:58AM OUR INPUT.
09:32:59AM I AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUE THAT THESE POSITIONS SHOULD GO
09:33:03AM FORWARD, BUT I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE JOB DESCRIPTIONS FOR
09:33:05AM THEM.
09:33:05AM AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM.
09:33:07AM ALSO, I HAVE CONCERNS OF THE -- OF THE -- THE ARTS POSITION
09:33:13AM WHICH I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO THE ADMINISTRATION ABOUT AND I
09:33:16AM WILL TALK ABOUT LATER.
09:33:17AM FOR EXAMPLE, THE ARTS POSITION, IT WAS AGREED TO BE A CRA
09:33:21AM POSITION AND NEXT WE KNOW TEASED AS A CITY POSITION AND LAST
09:33:26AM MEETING HE WAS BLINDSIDED TO FIND OUT THAT SOMEBODY HAD BEEN
09:33:29AM HIRED.
09:33:29AM WE NEVER SEEN A JOB DESCRIPTION OR RESUMES.
09:33:32AM PERSON WAS HIRED.
09:33:33AM AND THE PERSON IS WORKING FOR THE CITY.
09:33:36AM WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE -- THAT -- THAT IN THE
09:33:41AM WEIGHTING OF HOW THESE THINGS ARE HAPPENING.
09:33:43AM YES WE ARE OUTSOURCING TO THE CITY AND THE CITY IS MANAGING
09:33:46AM IT, BUT WE NEED TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTION OF THE CRA BOARD.
09:33:50AM IF YOU TREATED US AS A SEPARATE ENTITY, WE ALL WOULD HAVE
09:33:55AM SOME INPUT TO IT LIKE THE COUNTY COMMISSION.
09:33:57AM THE COUNTY COMMISSION HAS INPUT.
09:33:59AM LAST THING I WILL SAY IS THERE HAVE BEEN LONG --
09:34:03AM >>BILL CARLSON: I HAD LONG DISCUSSIONS WITH YOUR PREDECESSOR
09:34:05AM AND NICOLE AND ALIS ABOUT MARKETING AND PR.
09:34:10AM THAT IS THE INDUSTRY I AM IN.
09:34:11AM I WORK WITH A LOT OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES OUTSIDE OF THE
09:34:13AM TAMPA BAY AREA.
09:34:14AM THE -- THE ISSUE IS THAT I -- IN MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION, IT
09:34:25AM IS BETTER FOR US TO HIRE A SENIOR LEVEL MARKETING EDUCATION
09:34:28AM PERSON AND THEN A GRAPHIC DESIGNER.
09:34:30AM WITH THAT WE CAN SAVE HUGE APPLES OF MONEY.
09:34:32AM AGAIN, THE ADMINISTRATION PUT THEIR THUMB ON IT AND TOLD THE
09:34:36AM STAFF IT HAS TO BE A $500,000 OUT TO SOURCE AGREEMENT TO A
09:34:41AM MARKETING AGENCY.
09:34:41AM THAT $500,000 WILL MAKE IT ONE OF THE BIGGER CLIENTS IN THE
09:34:50AM REGION.
09:34:50AM I THINK IT IS AN EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF MONEY.
09:34:53AM FOR $200,000 WE CAN HIRE TWO PEOPLE WHO CAN DO ALL THE
09:34:57AM THINGS WE WANT.
09:34:57AM WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
09:34:58AM IF WE NEED TO OUTSOURCE SMALLER THINGS, WE COULD.
09:35:01AM I THINK LOOKING AT, AGAIN, FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIVES OF THE
09:35:05AM CRA BOARD AND NOT THE ADMINISTRATION, WE NEED TO GET SOME OF
09:35:08AM THESE POSITIONS BACK ON TRACK.
09:35:09AM THE COMMUNITY RELATIONS POSITIONS.
09:35:12AM THE MARKETING CONDITIONS.
09:35:14AM WE NEED TO STOP THE RFP FOR THE OUTSOURCE MARKETING AGENCY.
09:35:19AM EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNT OF MONEY SPENDING THAT COULD BE SPENT
09:35:24AM ON SOMETHING ELSE.
09:35:25AM AND WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE JOB DESCRIPTION FOR YOURS.
09:35:28AM I DON'T THINK IT WILL ATTRACT PEOPLE IF WORK OF UNUSUAL
09:35:33AM DEFT.
09:35:33AM ONLY REASON IT IS DEFENSE BECAUSE THE ADMINISTRATION PUTS
09:35:36AM THEIR HEAVY IMPRINT ON IT WHICH THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO DO
09:35:41AM PER THE CONTRACT.
09:35:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
09:35:43AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
09:35:44AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST A SECOND.
09:35:48AM I DID WANT TO SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS RESPONSE.
09:35:51AM YES, THE BOARD HAS TO APPROVE THE SELECTION OF THE CRA
09:35:56AM DIRECTOR.
09:35:56AM THE WAY THE STAFF HIRING HAS BEEN HANDLED IS THE CRA
09:36:01AM DIRECTOR THEN INTERVIEWS THOSE CANDIDATES AND MAKES THE
09:36:04AM DECISION BASICALLY.
09:36:05AM THESE POSITIONS WILL REPORT TO THE CRA DIRECTOR.
09:36:13AM I DON'T KNOW THIS FOR A FACT SINCE MISS MOODY WAS LEAVING
09:36:17AM AND NO CRA DIRECTOR, WHY THOSE THINGS WERE PUT ON HOLD
09:36:20AM BECAUSE NO DIRECTOR TO MAKE THE SELECTION PROCESS.
09:36:23AM I DON'T THINK IT WAS INTENTIONAL TO GET INVOLVED IN THAT
09:36:27AM PROCESS BUT NOT SOMEONE IN THAT POSITION.
09:36:28AM I THINK THAT IS KIND OF WHAT MR. McCRAY IS SAYING.
09:36:31AM WHEN WE HAVE A PERMANENT DIRECTOR, MAKES SENSE TO INTERVIEW
09:36:38AM FOR YOU FOLKS.
09:36:38AM OBVIOUSLY IF THE BOARD WANTS TO HERE ON ITS OWN ACCORD
09:36:43AM WITHOUT A PERMANENT DIRECTOR BEING INVOLVED IN THAT PROCESS,
09:36:47AM YOU CAN CERTAINLY MAKE THAT DECISION.
09:36:48AM BUT I THINK THAT IS KIND OF HOW THINGS WORKED.
09:36:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
09:36:54AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WILL IF HE OFFICER TO HER.
09:36:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU WILL DEFER.
09:37:00AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL SAY THAT MISS MOODY HERSELF SAID IT
09:37:03AM WAS STOPPED AND SHE DIDN'T WANT IT STOPPED.
09:37:05AM AND THAT IS THE ISSUE TO ME.
09:37:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:37:08AM NOW WOULD YOU LIKE GO?
09:37:09AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
09:37:10AM I JUST KNEW OF HER RESPONSE.
09:37:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GO AHEAD, BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
09:37:15AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SOMETHING COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID.
09:37:17AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:37:22AM EXPLAIN WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THIS $500,000 -- PR CONTRACT.
09:37:27AM FILL ME IN BECAUSE I AM AT A BLANK.
09:37:29AM >>BILL CARLSON: CEDRIC CAN TELL YOU THE UPDATE ON IT.
09:37:32AM AND, AGAIN, I REALLY APPRECIATE YOU STEPPING INTO THIS ROLE.
09:37:35AM I KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS.
09:37:37AM THE -- WE -- THE -- IF YOU GO ALL THE WAY BACK, WE -- THE
09:37:45AM PUBLIC PEOPLE COME TO THE PUBLIC LICK AND SAY WHAT ARE YOU
09:37:52AM DOING FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
09:37:53AM I'M COME FROM EAST TAMPA AND SAY WHAT ARE YOU DOING.
09:37:56AM WE ARE DOING THINGS.
09:37:58AM PEOPLE DON'T KNOW IF BECAUSE WE ARE NOT COMMUNICATING.
09:38:01AM IF IT GOES THROUGH THE REGULAR COMMUNICATION PROCESS WITH
09:38:03AM THE CITY, IT COMES OUT WITH SOME OTHER LABEL OR NAME ON IT
09:38:06AM AND IT IS NOT BRANDED WELL FOR CRA.
09:38:09AM AND WE ALSO HAVE THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE IN CRA DISTRICTS
09:38:13AM WHO SAY WHY ARE WE SUBSIDIZING THIS STUFF?
09:38:16AM WHY DON'T WE GET OUR ROADS FIXED OAR PARKS FIXED AND YOU ARE
09:38:20AM DOING THINGS IN OTHER AREAS.
09:38:21AM WE NEED TO COMMUNICATE MORE EFFECTIVELY NOT TO PROMOTE
09:38:25AM OURSELVES BUT TO TALK ABOUT HOW THE CRA IS EFFECTIVELY
09:38:28AM SPENDING THE MONEY.
09:38:29AM AND SO AS WE TALK ABOUT HOW WE DO THAT, I THINK EVERYBODY
09:38:33AM AGREED IT SHOULD BE A SEPARATE COMMUNICATION EFFORT.
09:38:40AM COLABORATE WITH THE COMMUNICATION DEPARTMENT OF THE CITY AND
09:38:42AM A DIFFERENT EFFORT.
09:38:44AM THAT IS HOW WE ENDED UP ACCOUNT CRA LOGO.
09:38:47AM WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT BEFORE.
09:38:49AM THE STAFF CAME UP WITH THE TAG LINE "STRENGTHENING
09:38:52AM COMMUNITIES" AND OTHER STUFF.
09:38:54AM ANY CRA PROJECT SHOULD HAVE SOMETHING IN IT.
09:38:57AM WHEN THERE IS A PRESS CONFERENCE, THE PRESS CONFERENCE
09:39:01AM SHOULD BE AROUND THE CRA SCHEDULE WHICH IT HAVEN'T BEEN IN
09:39:04AM THE PAST.
09:39:04AM THE CRA CHAIR SHOULD BE FRONT AND CENTER.
09:39:08AM IF THE CRA CHAIR IS NOT AVAILABLE THE VICE-CHAIR SHOULD BE
09:39:11AM FRONT AND CENTER.
09:39:13AM THE BACKDROP SHOULD HAVE A MEDIA LOGO SO THEY PICK THAT UP.
09:39:17AM THE CRA CHAIR SHOULD BE THE TOP SPEAKER.
09:39:20AM WE ALSO INVITE THE MAYOR.
09:39:21AM SOMEBODY HAS TO ORGANIZE ALL THIS IS THE THING.
09:39:24AM WHO IS GOING TO ORGANIZE IT?
09:39:26AM MY PROFESSIONAL RECOMMENDATION THAT WE HIRE INTERNALLY A
09:39:30AM SENIOR LEVEL MARKETING PERSON AND A GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND CAN
09:39:35AM ORGANIZE THAT AND OUTSOURCE IT.
09:39:36AM INSTEAD, ADMINISTRATION CAME OUT AND SAID TO THE STAFF, YOU
09:39:42AM ARE GOING TO OUTSOURCE TO A MARKETING COMPANY AND THE BUDGET
09:39:44AM IS $500,000.
09:39:46AM NOW THAT -- THE RFP HAS NOT MOVED FORWARD.
09:39:51AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NO, YES --
09:39:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: JUST A SECOND BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE MIGHT
09:39:56AM WANT TO SPEAK AND --
09:39:58AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THIS IS MY TIME.
09:40:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DON'T DO THAT.
09:40:01AM LET ME CALL ON YOU TO SPEAK.
09:40:02AM BECAUSE YOU ALREADY SPOKEN.
09:40:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN I SPEAK AGAIN.
09:40:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN, GO AHEAD.
09:40:14AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MAYBE I SHOULD ASK THE QUESTION.
09:40:16AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON REFERRED TO A $500,000 CONTRACT.
09:40:21AM DOES THAT EXIST?
09:40:24AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: SOMETHING I WAS BROUGHT UP TO SPEED ON.
09:40:26AM IT IS IN PROCUREMENT AND RFP GOING OUT OR SCHEDULED TO GO TO
09:40:31AM OUT TO PROCURE SERVICES FOR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND COVERS
09:40:35AM OUR WEB PRESENCE, SOCIAL MEDIA AND ALL THAT.
09:40:39AM THIS HAS BEEN SOMETHING IN THE HOPPER FOR QUITE SOME TIME
09:40:42AM AND COVER ALLs AND NOT JUST ONE SPECIFIC CRA DISTRICT.
09:40:47AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SOMETHING THAT WAS A BOARD POSITION THAT I
09:40:49AM AM NOT PRIVY TOO --
09:40:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME, MR. McCRAY, LET ME SPEAK TO
09:40:53AM THAT AS THE CHAIR.
09:40:54AM A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, BEA PARKS INTRODUCED TO US THE MARKETING
09:41:00AM PLAN AND LOGO, STRENGTHSING COMMUNITIES AND IS IT A WHOLE
09:41:04AM PRESENTATION.
09:41:04AM AT THAT TIME SHE INDICATED -- BECAUSE NO LONGER IN THAT ROLE
09:41:07AM OF MARKETING -- SHE WENT OVER TO HOUSING.
09:41:10AM THAT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE OUTSIDE MARKETING TERM
09:41:14AM PRESENTED TO OUR BOARD AND AT THAT TIME WE DID NOT QUESTION
09:41:17AM IT AT THAT LEVEL.
09:41:18AM MISS SEALY, DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON THAT -- I SEE YOU TO
09:41:23AM EVERY HERE NODDING YOUR HEAD.
09:41:24AM IT WAS PRESENTED TO US UNDER BEA PARKS.
09:41:28AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AND I DID MAKE SOME COMMENTS THEN.
09:41:30AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: ABBYE FEELEY, INTERIM ADMINISTRATOR OF
09:41:36AM ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
09:41:37AM YES, THAT WAS DIRECTION.
09:41:38AM THE RFP WAS DEVELOPED.
09:41:40AM THE RFP HAS NOT BEEN POSTED YET.
09:41:44AM THERE IS NO -- IT HAVEN'T BEEN AWARDED OR NEGOTIATED TO SAY,
09:41:50AM YES, IT IS $500,000.
09:41:53AM THAT I BELIEVE WAS THE AMOUNT THAT WAS PUT IN TO ALLOW UP TO
09:41:56AM THAT, BUT THE RFP HAS NOT BEEN POSTED YET.
09:42:00AM SO IF THIS BOARD WANTS TO HAVE A DISCUSSION AND TAKE A
09:42:03AM DIFFERENT DIRECTION, THAT IS COMPLETELY UP TO YOU.
09:42:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:42:08AM I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS ON THAT.
09:42:09AM ANY COMMENTS FROM THIS SIDE OF THE ROOM.
09:42:12AM ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
09:42:13AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
09:42:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
09:42:16AM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE -- FOR US TO RECEIVE
09:42:20AM THE JOB DESCRIPTIONS FOR THIS COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY
09:42:24AM ENGAGEMENT AND OPERATIONS AND CONTRACT SUPERVISOR,
09:42:28AM PREFERABLY BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING SO WE CAN MAKE SOME EDITS
09:42:32AM AND CHANGES.
09:42:32AM AND THEN PREPARE TO GO FORWARD WITH ACTUALLY PUTTING THOSE
09:42:38AM JOBS OUT.
09:42:39AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THERE A SECOND.
09:42:40AM >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
09:42:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER CARSON.
09:42:46AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:42:47AM SORRY, YOU WOULD --
09:42:51AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM JUST LISTENING.
09:42:52AM HOUSE BEING SOLD FOR $750,000.
09:42:59AM IS THAT ONE THAT THE CRA DID?
09:43:02AM OR GOING TO SOMEBODY ELSE?
09:43:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRIVATE.
09:43:05AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: PRIVATE.
09:43:07AM I CAN'T ARGUE WITH THAT, BECAUSE THAT IS PRIVATE -- BUT WE
09:43:11AM ARE NOT BUILDING A $750,000 -- I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT
09:43:15AM IS ON THE RECORD.
09:43:15AM I -- I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU SAID, BECAUSE -- BUT I HAVE NO
09:43:19AM CONTROL OVER PRIVATE ENTERPRISE WHAT THEY BUY AND SELL AND
09:43:22AM MAKE OR DON'T MAKE OR WHATEVER, BUT I APPRECIATE YOU LETS US
09:43:26AM KNOW.
09:43:26AM LET US KNOW IF WE MAKE A MISTAKE AND DO ONE FOR $750,000.
09:43:29AM I DON'T THINK THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN.
09:43:31AM 37 THE NEXT THING HERE.
09:43:33AM WE ARE TALKING ABOUT -- AND I KNOW THESE ARE ALL DIFFERENT
09:43:35AM THINGS.
09:43:35AM BUT ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS ADD UP TO IN.
09:43:38AM HIGH MIND IS THAT FOR $500,000, I CAN BUILD TWO HOUSE IT IS
09:43:42AM I HAVE THE LOT FOR SOMEBODY TO LIVE IN.
09:43:44AM AND I WILL GIVE IT AWAY TO SOMEBODY TO CREATE A LOGO OR
09:43:49AM SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.
09:43:50AM AM I CORRECT OR WRONG?
09:43:53AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: IT WILL BE MORE THAN JUST A LOGO.
09:43:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT WAS TO REALLY COMMUNICATE WHAT IS
09:43:58AM HAPPENING IN ALL OF OUR CRAS TO WE CAN BE CONSISTENT
09:44:02AM THROUGHOUT THE BOARD.
09:44:02AM IT HAS BEEN SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, YBOR CITY GETS A LOT OF
09:44:07AM INFORMATION OUT THERE IN MARKETING VERSUS DREW PARK.
09:44:09AM SO WE WANTED TO BRING EQUITY TO THE SITUATION AND
09:44:13AM UNIFORMITY.
09:44:13AM THAT IS WHAT WAS DISCUSSED.
09:44:15AM ANYWAY, SO WE CAN GET OFF ON A TANGENT.
09:44:18AM AND STAY FOCUSED ON -- WEDS A MOTION THAT DID PASS.
09:44:22AM DID YOU GET THAT INFORMATION?
09:44:24AM WE DID VOTE ON THAT.
09:44:25AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU WANT ME TO CLARIFY.
09:44:28AM JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT IT COMES TO OUR SEPTEMBER --
09:44:33AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: 12th MEETING?
09:44:36AM >>LYNN HURTAK: 12th MEETING.
09:44:38AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CAN I SUGGEST AS PART OF THE MOTION TO
09:44:43AM REQUEST HR TO BE AVAILABLE.
09:44:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT SOUNDS WONDERFUL.
09:44:49AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:44:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:44:52AM >>BILL CARLSON: CONSIDERING WE HAD PART OF THIS DISCUSSION
09:44:55AM OF MARKETING AND BRANDING.
09:44:56AM IF I MAY, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADD A
09:44:59AM DISCUSSION ABOUT MARKETING AND BRANDING STRATEGY FOR THE
09:45:03AM SEPTEMBER BOARD MEETING.
09:45:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND WITH A COMMENT.
09:45:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SEPTEMBER BOARD MEETING.
09:45:13AM NOT A WORKSHOP.
09:45:14AM WE WILL MAKE THE DECISION PRESENTED TO US --
09:45:17AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION AMONG OURSELVES,
09:45:19AM NOT ASKING STAFF TO PRESENT ANYTHING.
09:45:23AM WE WOULD HAVE A DISCUSSION OF MARKETING AND BRANDING AND YOU
09:45:26AM CAN TALK TO WHOEVER YOU WANT YOUR, YOU ADVISORS AND DECIDE
09:45:30AM AN APPROACH AND STRATEGY HOW TO DEAL WITH IT.
09:45:32AM IF THE OUTCOME IS YOU THINK WE SHOULD SPEND $500,000 WE CAN
09:45:36AM OR HIRE PEOPLE INHOUSE OR NOT DO ANYTHING.
09:45:38AM I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IS PREPARED TO HAVE A DISCUSSION
09:45:40AM TODAY.
09:45:41AM WE WOULD JUST PUT IT ON THE SCHEDULE FOR DISCUSSION AMONG
09:45:44AM OURSELVES.
09:45:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SAY THAT MOTION IN SENTENCE SO WE CAN GET
09:45:47AM A SECOND.
09:45:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I GOT A SECOND, BUT I HAVE A COMMENT.
09:45:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DISCUSSION.
09:45:54AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE ONLY THING I WILL ADD TO THAT, GET A COPY
09:45:59AM OF THE RFP THEY HAVEN'T PUT OUT YET.
09:46:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AND JOB DESCRIPTION.
09:46:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE RFP --
09:46:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU ASKED FOR THAT ALREADY.
09:46:08AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I ASKED FOR THE POSITIONS, BUT THIS IS FOR
09:46:11AM THE RFP FOR THE COMMUNICATIONS PORTION.
09:46:14AM RIGHT?
09:46:16AM DOESN'T THAT MAKE SENSE?
09:46:17AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE MOTION IS TO SCHEDULE A BOARD DISCUSSION
09:46:20AM ON MARKETING AND BRANDING FOR THE SEPTEMBER 12 MEETING.
09:46:25AM AND THEN WOULD REQUEST STAFF TO PROVIDE US RELEVANT
09:46:32AM BACKGROUND INFORMATION INCLUDING THE RFP AND PROPOSED JOB
09:46:36AM DESCRIPTION.
09:46:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SINCE NO ONE CURRENTLY IN THAT ROLE.
09:46:40AM IS STAFF PRESENTING TO US OR A PUBLIC DISCUSSION.
09:46:44AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST A DISCUSSION.
09:46:45AM THE STAFF CAN PARTICIPATE, BUT WE ARE NOT ASKING THEM TO
09:46:48AM PRESENT.
09:46:48AM WE ARE HAVING A DISCUSSION AMONG OURSELVES.
09:46:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
09:46:53AM FURTHER COMMENT BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
09:46:56AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO AMEND -- FRIENDLY AMENDMENT, TO
09:46:59AM ASK STAFF NOT TO PURSUE THE RFP UNTIL AFTER THIS DISCUSSION.
09:47:04AM >>BILL CARLSON: I ACCEPT IT.
09:47:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I ACCEPT IT -- THE SECONDER ACCEPTS.
09:47:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION.
09:47:09AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:47:10AM OPPOSED?
09:47:11AM MOTION CARRIES.
09:47:12AM OKAY.
09:47:15AM MR. McCRAY.
09:47:19AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THAT CONCLUDES THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
09:47:22AM AND WE WILL ROLL INTO THE BIMONTHLY CRA MANAGERS REPORTS.
09:47:27AM WITH THAT THE NEXT PERSON YOU WILL HEAR FROM IS MESS
09:47:30AM COURTNEY ORR.
09:47:31AM >>BILL CARLSON: MR. McCRAY.
09:47:33AM CAN I ASK A QUESTION?
09:47:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
09:47:38AM >>BILL CARLSON: SORRY TO ASK YOU THIS AND WE DON'T HAVE
09:47:40AM ANYONE ELSE TO ASK.
09:47:41AM BUT DO YOU KNOW THE STATUS OF ADVERTISING THE DIRECTOR
09:47:44AM POSITION?
09:47:46AM I THINK IT HAS BEEN POSTED.
09:47:47AM I HAVE A COPY OF IT.
09:47:48AM BUT DO YOU KNOW --
09:47:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY.
09:47:51AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I BELIEVE THAT -- AND ACTUALLY MISS HURTAK
09:47:55AM WILL BE BACK, BUT SHE HAD ASKED FOR A COPE OF WHAT WAS
09:47:58AM POSTED LAST TIME AND WANTED TO HAVE A BOARD DISCUSSION, I
09:48:02AM THINK, UNDER NEW BUSINESS ABOUT THAT POSTING AND TO MAYBE
09:48:06AM SUGGEST SOME REVISIONS TO HR.
09:48:08AM >>BILL CARLSON: OKAY, I WILL WAIT.
09:48:10AM THANK YOU.
09:48:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:48:11AM REPORTS.
09:48:12AM >>COURTNEY ORR: GOOD MORNING, COURTNEY ORR, CRA MANAGER OF
09:48:25AM CENTRAL PARK DEVELOPMENT DOWNTOWN AND TAMPA HEIGHTS
09:48:28AM RIVERFRONT.
09:48:29AM SO WE WERE BEFORE YOU LAST MONTH GIVING YOU A PRESENTATION
09:48:32AM ON THE FISCAL YEAR '25 PROPOSED BUDGET.
09:48:34AM SO WE REALLY JUST BROADLY SPOKE ABOUT THE 11 CATEGORIES THAT
09:48:40AM ARE EACH OF OUR BUDGETS WITHOUT GOING INTO ANY KIND OF A
09:48:44AM DIVE OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE ARE WORKING ON.
09:48:46AM SO THIS PRESENTATION WE ARE GOING TO GIVE IS YOU MORE ABOUT
09:48:51AM THE ITEMS THAT CRA STAFF IS BUSY WORKING ON.
09:48:56AM SO THE FIRST IS CENTRAL PARK.
09:49:00AM AND CENTRAL PARK WAS JUST PRESENTED BY THOMAS MURPHY.
09:49:04AM SO AIR LOT OF THE ITEMS WAS ALREADY COVERED AND WE ARE
09:49:10AM WORKING ON THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE THAT HAS
09:49:13AM GONE THROUGH MANY REVIEWS.
09:49:15AM AGAIN, KUDOS TO THE USF TEAM, THEY ATTENDED ALL CRA MEETINGS
09:49:21AM AND GATHERED FEEDBACK PROVIDED BY THE CACS THAT IS IN DRAFT
09:49:29AM FORM FOR LEGAL REVIEW.
09:49:30AM AND IF THERE ARE NO OTHER ADJUSTMENTS, WE ARE GOING TO BE
09:49:33AM ASKING THAT IT COMES TO YOU SEPTEMBER 12 FOR FIRST
09:49:35AM PRESENTATION OF THAT PLAN.
09:49:36AM AND THEN WE ARE STILL WORKING ON THE WAY FINDING SIGNS.
09:49:42AM THE IMAGE THAT WAS APPROVED BY THIS GROUP.
09:49:45AM SO WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH A RFQ FOR THE FABRICATION,
09:49:51AM INSTALLATION AND SIGNS IN THE FOUR AREAS THAT I REPRESENT.
09:49:55AM AND THEN THE -- AGAIN, SOME ACTIVITIES THAT THOMAS HAD
09:50:05AM ALREADY MENTIONED THAT WE RELOCATED THE CAC MEETING TO THE
09:50:09AM ENCORE TO GET MORE COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION, WE HOPE.
09:50:13AM AND THEY WORK VERY WELL WITH ME ON DRAFTING THE FISCAL YEAR
09:50:16AM '25 BUDGET AND WE COMPLETED THAT.
09:50:19AM AND THEY HAVE A VERY STRONG INTEREST IN ART.
09:50:22AM AND HAVE MENTIONED HAVING SOME SORT OF GATEWAY OR
09:50:27AM HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT ART TO SERVE AS A -- AS GATEWAY
09:50:31AM INTO CENTRAL PARK SO YOU KNOW YOU HAVE ENTERED JUST LIKE
09:50:34AM YBOR CITY HAS A LARGE ARCH ON 7th AVENUE.
09:50:37AM I AM THINKING THEY ARE THINKING THAT SOMETHING ALONG THOSE
09:50:40AM LINES WILL BE GREAT TO KNOW YOU ENTERED INTO CENTRAL PARK.
09:50:43AM WE DO HAVE ON THE BOOKS TO DO A FUTURE WALKING COMMUNITY
09:50:47AM ADVISORY COMMITTEE SO WE CAN REALLY PUT OUR EYES ON ALL THE
09:50:52AM PROGRESS MADE IN CENTRAL PARK.
09:50:53AM THE NEXT MEETINGS ON AUGUST 21 AND OCTOBER 16.
09:50:57AM THEY START AT 4:30.
09:50:59AM AND THOSE AGAIN AT THE REED AT ENCORE.
09:51:04AM MOVING INTO CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:51:07AM LITTLE BIT LONGER OF A LIST HERE.
09:51:10AM WE ARE -- WHAT WE ARE WORKING ON IS THE RIVERWALK EXTENSION
09:51:18AM STUDY, BENEFICIAL BRIDGE.
09:51:20AM WE HAVE A CONTRACT -- AN ENGINEER UNDER CONTRACT TO DO THAT
09:51:23AM STUDY.
09:51:24AM DOING AN ON-SITE VISIT AND GETTING THE WORK STARTED LAST
09:51:29AM MONTH.
09:51:29AM A LOT OF WORK IF YOU HAVEN'T DRIVEN IN CHANNEL DISTRICT, YOU
09:51:32AM WILL PROBABLY BE REROUTED WHEN YOU DO.
09:51:34AM A LOT OF WORK GOING ON -- IMPROVEMENTS ON CHANNELSIDE AND
09:51:39AM TWIGGS.
09:51:39AM YOU HAVE RECEIVED A PRESENTATION ON WASHINGTON PARK AND THE
09:51:45AM RENOVATIONS WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THERE.
09:51:47AM A RFP WILL GO OUT FOR IT FOR ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION.
09:51:53AM WE ACQUIRED 810 CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
09:51:55AM THERE IS A NEW WINDSCREEN.
09:51:57AM IF YOU ARE DRIVING CHANNELSIDE DRIVE AND SEE A LARGE CRA
09:52:03AM WIND SCREEN AT 810 AND SECURING THE SITE WILDFIRE WHAT THE
09:52:11AM CONSTRUCTION WILL BE FOR THE NEW URBAN PARK AT THAT
09:52:15AM LOCATION.
09:52:15AM YOU ARE AWARE OF THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM FUNDING AGREEMENT.
09:52:18AM THAT STILL NEEDS TO BE DRAFTED.
09:52:19AM BUT WE WILL BE PROVIDING FUNDING TO THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM
09:52:23AM HARD COSTS OF IMPROVEMENTS, $5 MILLION OVER THE NEXT THREE
09:52:27AM FISCAL YEARS STARTING IN FISCAL YEAR '25.
09:52:31AM CHANNEL DISTRICT PART OF THE WAY FINDING SIGN STUDY SO YOU
09:52:35AM WILL SEE NEW WAY FINDING SIGNS IN CHANNEL DISTRICT AND
09:52:39AM FOLLOWING THE PARK'S A.D.A. COMPLIANCE FOR PARKS STUDY OF
09:52:46AM WHERE WE NEED TO DO A.D.A. ENHANCEMENTS FOR CERTAIN PARKS
09:52:50AM THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
09:52:52AM AND COMMUNITY POLICING.
09:52:55AM THE CAC WANTED TO -- NOT THAT THERE WAS A CRIME UPTICK OR
09:53:00AM ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT THE CAC ASKED THAT WE TIE IN SOME
09:53:04AM SECURITY CAMERAS IN CHANNEL DISTRICT TO TPD'S CCTV'S
09:53:09AM SERVICE.
09:53:10AM BASICALLY A REQUEST OF DIRECTION WORK TPD TO INSTALL NEW
09:53:17AM CAMERAS IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:53:19AM WE HAVE ENHANCED LANDSCAPING.
09:53:22AM AN INTEREST OF THE CAC TO IMPROVE THE LANDSCAPING IN THE
09:53:26AM CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:53:27AM WORKING WITH PARKS, WE HAVE SOMEONE UNDER CONTRACT -- A
09:53:30AM COMPANY UNDER CONTRACT TO WORK ON THE LANDSCAPING AND MAKING
09:53:33AM SURE THAT IS LOOKING GOOD IN THE DISTRICT.
09:53:36AM PRESSURE WASHING BASED ON THE CAC REQUEST.
09:53:40AM INTENSIVE PRESSURE WASHING THAT IS DONE IN YBOR.
09:53:44AM SAME COMPANY ACTUALLY.
09:53:46AM CAC ACTIVITIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS GOING THROUGH THE FISCAL
09:53:49AM YEAR '25 PROJECT PROCESS WITH THEM.
09:53:52AM IT WAS VERY CLEAR THAT THEIR PRIORITY IS LAND ACQUISITION IN
09:53:56AM THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
09:53:57AM WORKING WITH REAL ESTATE TO IDENTIFY THOSE AVAILABLE
09:54:00AM PROPERTIES THAT CAN HE COULD INVESTIGATE.
09:54:02AM AND THEIR MEETINGS IS AT THE TAMPA BAY -- PORT TAMPA BAY
09:54:09AM BOARD ROOM.
09:54:09AM NEXT ONES ARE SEPTEMBER 4 AND OCTOBER 2.
09:54:13AM DOWNTOWN.
09:54:20AM LOGO THERE IS FOR THE GROUPS -- THE PEOPLE WE ARE
09:54:23AM SUPPORTING.
09:54:24AM AND HERE ALSO, WE HAVE A COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE
09:54:28AM THAT IS HAPPENING.
09:54:28AM YOU ALREADY RECEIVED ONE PRESENTATION.
09:54:31AM AND THEY WILL BE COMING BACK TO NEW OCTOBER FOR A FINAL
09:54:34AM PRESENTATION FOR THEIR -- FOR THAT CRP UPDATE DONE BY
09:54:39AM KITTLESON -- CONSULTANT KITTLESON.
09:54:42AM SINCE RIVERWALK HAD SPLITS BETWEEN BENEFICIAL BRIDGE STUDY
09:54:47AM IS CHANNEL DISTRICT IN DOWNTOWN.
09:54:48AM EACH OF THOSE DISTRICTS IS PUTTING A 50/50 SPLIT OF 150,000
09:54:54AM EACH TO DO THAT STUDY.
09:54:56AM STREETCAR EXTENSION AND MODERNIZATION PROJECT.
09:54:59AM THAT FUNDING REQUEST MADE BY A CRA MOTION WILL COME TO YOU
09:55:02AM TODAY.
09:55:03AM HERMAN MASSEY PARK.
09:55:07AM THAT WORK IS -- MONIES ARE SECURED TO DO WORK ON THAT.
09:55:14AM COMMUNITY CENTER IS UNDER WAY AND EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED
09:55:18AM BY LATE SUMMER AND THE FALL.
09:55:20AM TAMPA THEATRE RENOVATIONS.
09:55:21AM 14 MILLION THERE.
09:55:23AM THEY HAVE NOT DRAWN DOWN ON THAT AND OVER A FEW FISCAL
09:55:26AM YEARS.
09:55:26AM BUT THERE ARE UNDER A FUNDING AGREEMENT.
09:55:31AM UNION STATION RENOVATIONS ALSO GETTING -- MAKING PROGRESS
09:55:37AM WITH THAT.
09:55:37AM WORKING WITH FACILITIES.
09:55:39AM THE STRAZ PERFORMING ARTS CENTER.
09:55:42AM THAT FUNDING AGREEMENT AMOUNT.
09:55:44AM SO THE MONIES ARE HELD UNTIL THEY START TO DRAW DOWN ON THAT
09:55:47AM FUNDING APPROVED BY THE CRA BOARD.
09:55:50AM TAMPA MUSEUM OF ARTS.
09:55:52AM THAT IS THE TOTAL FUNDING AMOUNT APPROVED BY THE CRA BOARD
09:55:55AM THAT IS ALSO A FUND AGREEMENT.
09:55:57AM AND THEN TPD RAILS PROJECT KNOWN AS THE ARMY-NAVY SITE.
09:56:04AM AGAIN, WAY FIND SOMETHING PART OF THE OTHER TWO DISTRICTS
09:56:10AM THAT I DESCRIBED AND WILL HAVE TRANSPORTATION DOWNTOWN.
09:56:15AM AND JACKSON HOUSE ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS.
09:56:17AM THAT WAS MONEY THAT THE CRA APPROVED AND MOVED.
09:56:20AM THE MONEY IS THERE WHEN MOBILITY NEEDS TO ACCESS THAT
09:56:25AM FUNDING AND DEBT SERVICE FOR THE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE TAMPA
09:56:30AM CONVENTION CENTER.
09:56:31AM AND $14 MILLION I HAVE THERE FOR SPV INFRASTRUCTURE
09:56:36AM IMPROVEMENTS BECAUSE A $50 MILLION AGREEMENT, BUT IT IS A
09:56:38AM BALANCE OF ABOUT $14 MILLION OF WHAT STILL SHOULD -- IS TO
09:56:42AM BE PAID OUT FOR THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS.
09:56:45AM AND THEN WE EXPECT, ALONG WITH THE UNION STATION
09:56:49AM RENOVATIONS, A PIECE OF ARTWORK OR A MEMORIAL MONUMENT.
09:56:57AM AND THAT -- THOSE MONIES ARE KEPT ASIDE FOR THAT PROCESS TO
09:57:02AM START.
09:57:02AM AND OUR A.D.A. COMPLIANCE, THE PARKS THAT WILL BE -- WILL
09:57:09AM BE BROUGHT UP TO COMPLIANCE.
09:57:11AM AND FRANKLIN STREET.
09:57:17AM YOU HEARD BEFORE OF THE TAMPA PARTNERSHIP'S EFFORT TO WANT
09:57:21AM TO REVITALIZE FRANKLIN STREET.
09:57:24AM SO THAT IS SCHEDULED TO COME TO YOU IN OCTOBER.
09:57:28AM THE TAMPA DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP WILL PRESENT TO YOU THEIR
09:57:32AM STUDY THEY HAVE ALREADY CONDUCT LAND COME ALONG WITH A
09:57:37AM FUNDING REQUEST.
09:57:38AM AND THE COMMUNITY MEETINGS ARE IN T-MOB 5:30.
09:57:46AM NEXT ONCE ARE SEPTEMBER 3 AND OCTOBER 1.
09:57:50AM NEXT IS TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT.
09:57:53AM THAT ALSO -- AT USF.
09:57:56AM THE USF TEAM HAS BEEN DOING THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
09:58:00AM UPDATE FOR THAT DISTRICT.
09:58:01AM TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT AS WELL AS CENTRAL PARK WILL BE
09:58:06AM COME TO YOU SEPTEMBER 12.
09:58:07AM TAMPA HEIGHTS, THEY ARE THEIR STRONG INTEREST IS ARTS.
09:58:12AM SO THEY HAVE TALKED SINCE I CAME ON BOARD FOR THESE
09:58:16AM DISTRICTS, SINCE I HAVE BEEN THERE, HOW MUCH THEY WANT
09:58:20AM ROUNDABOUT ARTWORK PLACED IN THOSE TWO LOCATIONS PALM AND N.
09:58:24AM BOULEVARD AND HIGHLAND.
09:58:26AM AND WE WILL BE WORKING WITH THE ARTS DEPARTMENT TO -- AND
09:58:29AM THE CAC AND THE COMMUNITY TO DETERMINE WHAT SCULPTURE OR
09:58:33AM WHAT ARTWORK WILL BE BEST SUITED FOR THE TAMPA HEIGHTS
09:58:39AM RIVERFRONT ROUNDABOUTS.
09:58:40AM ARTS AND CULTURE DISCUSSION PLANNING THAT IS ON THEIR RADAR
09:58:45AM AND WHAT THEY WANT TO DIVE INTO.
09:58:47AM WE MEET AT THE BUSH LAW ENFORCEMENT, NEXT ONES 12 AND 15.
09:59:01AM THAT CONCLUDES THE REPORT.
09:59:03AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK AND CARLSON.
09:59:07AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM EXCITED OF THE PLANS YOU TALKED.
09:59:11AM WHATEVER THE PRESENTATION IS, BUT ALSO THE PLAN ITSELF, THE
09:59:16AM BACKGROUND INFORMATION.
09:59:17AM OFTENTIMES THAT DOESN'T MAKE IT TO ON BASE.
09:59:20AM SO THAT I CAN AND WE CAN LOOK AT IT BEFORE THE PRESENTATION.
09:59:25AM IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO GET THAT BACKGROUND.
09:59:27AM SO THAT IS MY ONE REQUEST FOR BOTH THE CENTRAL PARK AND THEN
09:59:33AM THE TAMPA HEIGHTS FOR NEXT MONTH, BUT THEN THE DOWNTOWN FOR
09:59:36AM OCTOBER.
09:59:37AM AND THEN I HAD A QUESTION OF THE ARMY-NAVY.
09:59:41AM LAST I HEARD THE RFQ WAS READY TO GO OUT.
09:59:45AM WHAT -- HOW ARE WE THERE?
09:59:48AM >> YEAH.
09:59:49AM CAN SOMEONE TALK TO THAT?
09:59:55AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: GOOD MORNING, ABBYE FEELEY.
09:59:57AM I AM NOT SURE HOMOCIDE IT IS READY TO GO OUT.
10:00:01AM IT IS IN A DRAFT FORM.
10:00:04AM IT IS UNDER REVIEW RIGHT NOW BY BOTH EMERGENCYING AND THE
10:00:11AM LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
10:00:11AM I AM MEETING WITH MR. JOHNSON FROM THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT
10:00:15AM TO GO OVER SOME COMMENTS AND CHANGES THAT DO NEED TO BE MADE
10:00:18AM IN TERMS OF WHAT IS BEING REQUESTED.
10:00:22AM AND AMIs FOR UNITS, ETC.
10:00:25AM BUT IT -- I WOULD SAYS IT PROBABLY 7075% OF THE WAY THERE,
10:00:32AM BUT I THINK IT DOES NEED FINAL TWEAKS.
10:00:34AM EVAN IS SERVING AS THE POINT OF CONTACT OR LEAD GOING OUT.
10:00:39AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL, THANK YOU.
10:00:41AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I WAITING FOR A TIMELINE ON THAT AS WELL.
10:00:44AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
10:00:46AM I MAY ASK EVAN TO COME PRESENT US TO IN SEPTEMBER.
10:00:50AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SEEING THAT BEFORE IT
10:00:53AM GOES OUT?
10:00:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, I THINK THE BOARD REALITY NOW NOW -- AT
10:00:57AM LEAST ME PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT RFQ BEFORE IT
10:01:01AM GOES OUT, YES.
10:01:02AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: OKAY.
10:01:04AM >>BILL CARLSON: MADAM CHAIR.
10:01:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I ALREADY CALLED ON YOU.
10:01:10AM >>BILL CARLSON: I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
10:01:12AM ON THE ARMY-NAVY PROJECT, I THINK ONE OF THE DISCUSSIONS
10:01:17AM SAID -- MAYBE WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS OFF LINE TOO, BUT THE
10:01:22AM DISCUSSION WE HAVE, WHAT IS THE SPECIFIC ROLE OF THE CRA.
10:01:25AM THIS IS -- I HAVE SAID BEFORE, WE ARE PROVIDING THE LAND,
10:01:28AM AND WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WHATEVER GOES ON IT FOLLOWS
10:01:31AM THE LAW REGARDING CRA LAND MONDAY.
10:01:36AM BUT BESIDE THAT, I DON'T SEE THE CRA AS PROJECT MANAGERS
10:01:41AM AND A SEPARATE CONVERSATION FOR ANOTHER DAY.
10:01:43AM A CITY CONTRACT, AND PUTTING LAND IN.
10:01:45AM AND WE NEED TO DEFINE ROLES.
10:01:47AM THE OTHER THEY THINK, SET DRECK, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT THE
10:01:51AM UPDATES ARE EXCELLENT AND EVOLVED OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS.
10:01:54AM ONE CATEGORY I WOULD RECOMMEND YOU ADD SOMETHING HOUSING
10:01:57AM SINCE WE ARE PUTTING SO MUCH MONEY ON HOUSING AND THE STATED
10:02:01AM THING IN THE FLORIDA STATUTE.
10:02:03AM I NOTICE THE ARMY-NAVY IS UNDER INFRASTRUCTURE.
10:02:06AM SINCE WE HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE COME BEFORE US ASKING WHAT DO
10:02:09AM WE DO WITH HOUSING.
10:02:10AM IF IT IS UNDER HOUSING CATEGORY, IT WOULD SHOW WE ARE DOING
10:02:14AM -- AND SAME THING FOR SOME OF THE OTHERS.
10:02:16AM KIND OF RANDOMLY GOING THROUGH.
10:02:18AM ON THE FRANKLIN STREET PROJECT, DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH
10:02:21AM -- WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO ASK FOR?
10:02:28AM >> YES, THEIR FUNDING REQUEST WILL BE $6 MILLION.
10:02:30AM LOOKING AT THE CASH FLOW, I WAS PREDICTED '25, '26 AND '27,
10:02:38AM $2 MILLION EACH FISCAL YEAR.
10:02:40AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT IN A MINUTE.
10:02:42AM I WANTED TO GET A BALLPARK.
10:02:44AM RANDOMLY GOING THROUGH THE SLIDES.
10:02:46AM ON SBP, IT IS $15 MILLION FOR US.
10:02:50AM BUT HOW MUCH IS LEFT OF THE COUNTY MATCH.
10:02:52AM $100 MILLION TOTAL.
10:02:54AM THE COUNTY'S MONEY STILL FLOWS THROUGH US, RIGHT.
10:02:59AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: WE BASICALLY APPROVE THE REQUEST AND THE
10:03:01AM COUNTY COMPENSATES ON A DOLLAR-FOR-DOLLAR BASIS.
10:03:05AM >>BILL CARLSON: $15 MILLION IS LEFT ON THE COUNTY MATCH AS
10:03:08AM WELL?
10:03:09AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES.
10:03:10AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST FOR A DISCLOSURE.
10:03:12AM ON THE ART STUFF.
10:03:13AM AS MORRIS ALWAYS REMINDS ME ORDINANCES OF HOW THE CITY
10:03:16AM HANDLES PUBLIC ART, BUT I THINK WE HAVE GOT TO -- ESPECIALLY
10:03:20AM WHEN WE HAVE AN ARTS PERSON, OVERLAY CRA REQUIREMENTS.
10:03:24AM THE PUBLIC ART COMMITTEE MEETS IN THE PUBLIC, BUT, FOR
10:03:27AM EXAMPLE, I THINK THAT ANY PROPOSED ART SOLUTIONS SHOULD GO
10:03:36AM TO THE CACS SO FOLKS HAVE INPUT ON THEM MAYBE A DISCUSSION
10:03:43AM FOR ANOTHER DAY AND HAD DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS FROM ERICA
10:03:48AM BEFORE.
10:03:48AM AND THE WORLD WAR II MONUMENT OR SCULPTURE AT TAMPA UNION
10:03:53AM STATION.
10:03:53AM WE APPROVED THAT THREE YEARS AGO.
10:04:00AM AND THERE IS A WHOLE PROCESS AS WE WAIT TO TAMPA UNION
10:04:11AM STATION, IT WILL BE THREE TO FOUR YEARS.
10:04:13AM ENCOURAGE THAT PROCESS TO MOVE FORWARD AND WE ALLOCATED THAT
10:04:16AM MONEY TWO OR THREE YEARS AGO.
10:04:17AM MASSEY PARK, I KNOW DOWNTOWN NEIGHBORHOODS ARE CONCERNED
10:04:23AM THAT.
10:04:23AM DELAYED FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS BECAUSE OF QUESTIONS OF THE
10:04:31AM PROPERTIES AROUND IT.
10:04:32AM DO YOU KNOW WHEN THEY WILL BE FINISHED.
10:04:34AM >>COURTNEY ORR: GETTING READY TO COMMENCE.
10:04:36AM THE ART SCULPTURE IS COMPLETED AND THE FUNDING NEEDS TO BE
10:04:40AM MOVED IN ORDER TO GET STARTED IN THE CONSTRUCTION AND THE
10:04:46AM FUNDING THAT WE MOVED WAS THREE MONTHS AGO.
10:04:48AM >>BILL CARLSON: ANY IDEA -- BALLPARK WHEN IT WILL BE
10:04:52AM FINISHED SO WE CAN TELL THE NEIGHBORHOODS?
10:04:56AM >>COURTNEY ORR: LET ME LOOK AT MY PROJECTS.
10:04:58AM >>BILL CARLSON: WHILE YOU ARE LOOKING AT THAT.
10:05:09AM MAKE SURE I GO THROUGH SO I DON'T RUN OUT OF TIME.
10:05:12AM DOWNTOWN WITH SEVERAL SUB NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:05:16AM THEY PROBABLY HAVE GIVEN YOU INPUT INTO BRANDING FOR THEM
10:05:19AM AND CAME UP WITH SOME LOGOS.
10:05:22AM I HOPE IF WE DO BRANDING IF CHANNEL DISTRICT IS PART OF A
10:05:26AM DOWNTOWN REBRANDING, I HOPE THERE IS SOME SEPARATE
10:05:30AM IDENTIFICATION OF CHANNEL DISTRICT AND OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS
10:05:38AM SO SUB BRANDING INITIATIVES.
10:05:40AM >>COURTNEY ORR: WE WORKED WITH THE PARTNERSHIP AND SEVEN
10:05:43AM NEIGHBORHOODS INTO OUR WAY FINDING SIGNAGE SO WE ALREADY
10:05:46AM AGREED TO THAT.
10:05:47AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE LANDSCAPING IN CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:05:49AM PLEASE JUST CONNECT WITH HARBOUR ISLAND.
10:05:52AM I KNOW WE DON'T GO INTO THAT AREA BUT A SMOOTH TRANSITION
10:05:56AM BECAUSE THEY CONTROL THE LANDSCAPING ON THE OTHER SIDE.
10:05:58AM AND THE LAST THING IS THE -- THE DOWNTOWN PARKING APP AND
10:06:03AM SIGNAGE THAT VIK AND MOBILITY WOULD LIKE.
10:06:06AM IT SEEMS TO ME THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS NICE TO HAVE BUT
10:06:10AM NOT NECESSARY.
10:06:10AM SO IF WE ARE TRYING TO MOVE THAT MONEY INTO ROAD REPAIR IN
10:06:15AM THE CITY BUDGET, IT SEEMS LIKE THAT WOULD BE A REASONABLE
10:06:18AM THING FOR THE CRA TO PAY FOR.
10:06:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:06:23AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MADAM CHAIR.
10:06:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DID YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO THAT QUESTION?
10:06:31AM I APOLOGIZE.
10:06:32AM >>COURTNEY ORR: YES, BOARD MEMBER, THE RFP FOR CONSTRUCTION
10:06:39AM CLOSED JUNE 25.
10:06:40AM SO THE RFP HAS BEEN -- YEAH, IT HAS BEEN AWARDED SO A
10:06:46AM CONSTRUCTION OF CONSULTING SERVICES FIRM THAT HAS BEEN
10:06:49AM CONTRACTED.
10:06:49AM SO I WILL HAVE TO GET BACK WITH YOU ON -- ON THE START DATE
10:06:53AM AND COMPLETION DATE.
10:06:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA FOLLOWED BY BOARD
10:06:58AM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:07:00AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH MADAM CHAIR.
10:07:02AM I LOOK AT THE NUMBERS CITED FOR A.D.A. ACCESSIBILITIES.
10:07:06AM I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR WHEN I SAY THAT I MEAN THAT THE CRA
10:07:10AM SHOULD HAVE ACCESSIBLE PLAYGROUNDS.
10:07:12AM NOT JUST TO ACCESS THE LAND, BUT CHILD IN A WHEELCHAIR CAN
10:07:19AM BE USED.
10:07:19AM THAT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT FOR ME AND THE BOARD AS VOTED
10:07:25AM FOR THAT AT TIME.
10:07:25AM ARE WE DOING THAT?
10:07:29AM WATER WORKS PARK, DO THEY HAVE A PIECE OF EMPLOYMENT
10:07:34AM EQUIPMENT THAT A CHILD IN A WHEELCHAIR CAN USE?
10:07:39AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I BELIEVE IT IS FOR UPGRADING THE
10:07:41AM PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT IN THE PARKS IN THE CRA TO MAKE IT MORE
10:07:45AM ACCESSIBLE OF FOLKS.
10:07:46AM THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING OF THAT.
10:07:47AM >>LUIS VIERA: IN PARTICULAR -- AND THANK YOU FOR THAT, MR.
10:07:50AM MASSEY.
10:07:51AM IN PARTICULAR, I AM LOOKING AT WATERWORKS AND CURTIS HIXON.
10:07:55AM THOSE ARE BIG PARKS THAT -- I LIVE IN HUNTER'S GREEN.
10:07:59AM I USED TO TAKE MY SON TO CURTIS HIXON PARK A LOT WHEN HE WAS
10:08:04AM YOUNGER.
10:08:04AM THAT WAS PARKS USED BY FOLKS FROM ALL OVER THE CITY.
10:08:07AM THOSE TWO PARKS IN PARTICULAR TO THE BEST OF YOUR KNOWLEDGE
10:08:14AM HAVE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT THAT CAN BE USED BY A CHILD IN A
10:08:18AM WHEELCHAIR IF YOU GUYS KNOW?
10:08:20AM >>COURTNEY ORR: I DO NOT HAVE THAT ANSWER RIGHT THAT THE
10:08:23AM MINUTE.
10:08:23AM BUT I CAN FIND OUT.
10:08:25AM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY -- I CITE THESE TWO PARKS.
10:08:27AM MY VISION IS TO HAVE EVERY PARK NOT JUST TO BE ACCESSIBLE IN
10:08:30AM TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO REACH THE LAND, BUT WHILE YOU ARE GET
10:08:33AM THERE, TO BE ABLE TO HAVE EQUIPMENT THAT A CHILD IN A
10:08:37AM WHEELCHAIR WHO IS NOT MOBILE, ETC., CAN USE IS -- I -- MAY I
10:08:42AM MAKE MOTION?
10:08:46AM I MOTION AND -- I WILL HAVE THIS COME BACK IN DECEMBER.
10:08:50AM AND IF YOU ALL NEED MORE TIME, THAT IS FINE.
10:08:52AM THANK YOU, BOARDMEMBER MIRANDA, TO HAVE A REPORT COME BACK
10:08:57AM ON THESE TWO PARKS IN PARTICULAR ON -- ON WATERWORKS PARK
10:09:03AM AND ON CURTIS HIXON PARK IN PARTICULAR, ON -- ON WHEELCHAIR
10:09:08AM ACCESSIBLE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT.
10:09:11AM AND NUMBER ONE ISN'T THERE.
10:09:12AM NUMBER TWO, WHAT CAN WE TO DO GET SOMETHING THERE AS SOON AS
10:09:16AM POSSIBLE IN PARTICULAR FOR THOSE PARKS.
10:09:18AM THOSE ARE BIG PARKS THAT -- THEY ARE IN WONDERFUL LOCATIONS
10:09:21AM IN THE SENSE THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE GO TO AND USE.
10:09:24AM AND I THINK THOSE PARKS IN PARTICULAR WILL BE VERY IMPORTANT
10:09:27AM FOR THAT.
10:09:28AM SO THAT IS MY MOTION.
10:09:29AM AND, AGAIN, IF YOU NEED MORE TIME, LET ME KNOW.
10:09:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY BOARD MEMBER
10:09:36AM VIERA.
10:09:36AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER CARSON.
10:09:39AM ANY DISCUSSION?
10:09:40AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
10:09:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:09:43AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION FOR THE NEXT
10:09:45AM SUBJECT -- PART OF THE ONE THAT I WAS TRYING TO GET
10:09:49AM RECOGNIZED FOR.
10:09:49AM PERRY HARVEY BARK AT $708,000.
10:09:52AM AND OTHER A.D.A. COMPLIANCE, $20,000, $30,000.
10:10:00AM DISPARITY OF INVESTMENT.
10:10:03AM WHAT WE ARE ACTUALLY DOING WITH THAT MONEY.
10:10:04AM I THINK THAT WILL BE A NICE INFORMATIVE BRIEFING AS TO WHAT
10:10:08AM THE PLAN IS FOR THAT.
10:10:09AM WHY -- WHY THOSE TWO PARKS ARE $178,000.
10:10:14AM AND THESE OTHER PARKS ARE SO SMALL.
10:10:16AM IS IT BECAUSE THEY ARE BUILT OUT?
10:10:18AM AND I ALSO REMEMBER THAT PERRY HARVEY PARK WITH AS SO NEW.
10:10:22AM HOW IN THE WORLD WAS IT NOT BUILT IN A.D.A. COMPLIANCE.
10:10:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DOESN'T HAVE SPRINKLERS ALSO.
10:10:29AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: PERRY HARVEY PARK WAS ORIGINALLY DONE IN
10:10:33AM THE '90s.
10:10:34AM AND SOME OF THE UPGRADES THAT THE NEWER PARKS HAVE ENJOYED
10:10:39AM PERRY HARVEY PARK LAGGED BEHIND MAY BE PART OF THE REASON.
10:10:42AM I THINK IN DECEMBER, IT WILL BE HELPFUL TO HAVE PARKS AND
10:10:45AM MAYBE FACILITIES HERE TO BREAKDOWN THAT INFORMATION FOR THE
10:10:48AM BOARD.
10:10:51AM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY.
10:10:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
10:10:53AM >>LUIS VIERA: WE GET BRIEFED ON THAT TWICE A YEAR HOW THE
10:10:57AM PARKS ARE DOING.
10:10:58AM I THINK IN CRA IN REGULAR CITY COUNCIL, I BELIEVE, BUT, YES,
10:11:02AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN ONE THING THAT CAUGHT MY EYE WHEN I
10:11:04AM SAW $10,000.
10:11:05AM WHAT'S UP WITH THAT.
10:11:07AM YEAH, SO THAT -- AGAIN, I CITE THESE TWO PARKS.
10:11:11AM AND OBVIOUSLY WANT IT IN EVERY PARK, BUT THESE TWO PARKS IN
10:11:14AM PARTICULAR JUST CAUGHT MY EYE.
10:11:16AM >>COURTNEY ORR: I JUST HAD A THOUGHT.
10:11:18AM AND THAT IS SPLIT OVER A FEW FISCAL YEARS.
10:11:21AM SO YOU WILL SEE $10,000 MAY SEEM LIKE A LOW NUMBER, BUT IT
10:11:25AM IS -- IT IS GREATER THAN THAT, BECAUSE IT IS JUST SPLIT OVER
10:11:29AM ABOUT FOUR FISCAL YEARS.
10:11:30AM AND WE HAVE THAT BREAKDOWN THAT WE CAN PROVIDE.
10:11:33AM AND IT IS INFORMATION THAT IS PROVIDED BY THE PARKS
10:11:36AM DEPARTMENT.
10:11:36AM HOW MUCH THEY NEEDED FROM THE CRA IN ORDER TO DO THEIR --
10:11:41AM THEIR REQUESTED ENHANCEMENTS.
10:11:42AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THEY ARE CONTRIBUTING
10:11:45AM FROM CITY MONEY TOO.
10:11:46AM >>COURTNEY ORR: OURS IS SPLIT OVER SEVERAL YEARS.
10:11:51AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GOOD TO KNOW.
10:11:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION ON THE FLOOR -- DO YOU WANT TO
10:11:58AM SPEAK AGAIN?
10:11:59AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM.
10:12:00AM MY MOTION CONTEMPLATES IF NOT THE EQUIPMENT THERE,
10:12:07AM CONTEMPLATES MAKING IT A PRIORITY FROM THIS DAY FORWARD.
10:12:10AM I DON'T WANT DECEMBER AND WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING TO MOVE
10:12:14AM IT FORWARD.
10:12:15AM IF YOU FIND OUT THERE ISN'T ANYTHING THERE, LET'S TALK OF A
10:12:18AM PLAN OF ACTION TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
10:12:20AM THANK YOU.
10:12:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:12:23AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS THERE A -- I THINK THIS IS FOR PARKS.
10:12:26AM MAYBE FOR A MEETING TO TALK TO PARKS -- THERE IS AN
10:12:29AM ASSESSMENT WE CAN LOOK AT ALL OF THESE PARKS?
10:12:35AM >>LUIS VIERA: MAY I.
10:12:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:12:38AM >>LUIS VIERA: WE GET BRIEFED ON THAT TWICE A YEAR.
10:12:41AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ACCESSIBILITY?
10:12:44AM >>LUIS VIERA: WE GET BRIEFED ON THAT ALREADY.
10:12:48AM THESE TWO CAUGHT MY EYE OF THE LOCATION IN THE CITY.
10:12:51AM I AGREE, SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO LOOK TO AT CITYWIDE.
10:12:54AM BUT A MOTION TO COME BACK TWICE A YEAR.
10:12:58AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK I HAVE A HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT.
10:13:01AM TO LOOK WITH MY OWN EYES.
10:13:03AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: LET ME JUST ADD --
10:13:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY.
10:13:06AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: MY RECOLLECTION WHEN YOU APPROVED DOLLARS
10:13:12AM FOR ENHANCEMENT TO CITY PARKS FOR THE CRAS TO UPDATE THEIR
10:13:18AM PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT TO BE MORE ACCESSIBLE.
10:13:20AM PART OF THAT THAT THE PARKS DEPARTMENT HAVE A PLAN FOR
10:13:24AM UPGRADING ALL THE CITY PARKS AND SPREAD OVER A HUGE NUMBER
10:13:27AM OF YEARS BECAUSE OF THE DOLLAR AMOUNT.
10:13:29AM AND WHAT THE CRAS WERE DOING MAKE IT OCCUR MORE QUICKLY IN
10:13:38AM THE CRAs, BUT PARKS NEED TO BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION TO
10:13:41AM TELL YOU WHAT IS HAPPENING AND KIND OF WHAT THE PLAN IS AND
10:13:43AM HOW THE CRA FUNDING IS INTEGRATING WITH WITH WHAT THE PARK
10:13:46AM IS DOING WITH THE FACILITIES.
10:13:47AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA AND
10:13:54AM SECONDED BY MIRANDA.
10:13:54AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
10:13:55AM MOTION CARRIES.
10:13:56AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:13:58AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: BACK TO -- I GUESS ABBYE FEELEY.
10:14:01AM ON THE ARMY-NAVY SITE.
10:14:04AM A REMINDER THAT IN OUR DISCUSSION, THE -- THEY WERE SUPPOSED
10:14:08AM TO COME AND HAVE INDIVIDUAL MEETINGS WITH ALL OF US PRIOR TO
10:14:11AM THE RFP THAT OUR WANTS, NEEDS AND DESIRES WERE AT LEAST
10:14:17AM WORKED THROUGH.
10:14:17AM THAT WAS PART OF THE IOU ON THAT PROJECT BEFORE THE RFP WENT
10:14:22AM OUT.
10:14:22AM IF YOU CAN REMIND EVERYBODY THAT THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO
10:14:25AM HAPPEN.
10:14:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: RIGHT.
10:14:26AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: ABBYE FEELEY.
10:14:28AM THANK YOU.
10:14:28AM I WILL LOOK INTO THAT.
10:14:29AM I THINK THE COMMENT MADE BY COUNCILMAN CARLSON WAS, WHAT IS
10:14:35AM THE ROLE OF THE CRA?
10:14:36AM AND I DID WRITE THAT DOWN.
10:14:37AM AND I KNOW IT IS A LAND DISPOSITION WITHIN THE CRA THAT
10:14:43AM REQUIRES THE RFP.
10:14:44AM AND WE WILL GET THOSE SET UP ONCE, I THINK, YOU AFFORD US
10:14:50AM THE OPPORTUNITY TO JUST FINISH THE DRAFT SO WE CAN COME AND
10:14:53AM MEET WITH YOU WITH -- TO GET THAT INPUT.
10:14:55AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK IT WAS PART OF -- IF I RECALL,
10:14:59AM PART OF THAT DYNAMIC CONVERSATION WAS, THAT WE ARE GOING --
10:15:02AM THEY WERE GOING TO COME IN AND HAVE THE PRELIMINARY MEETINGS
10:15:06AM WHEN DRAFTING THAT WEARING THE CRA OR CITY COUNCIL HAT.
10:15:09AM WHICH HAND IS IN WHICH POT AT ANY GIVEN MOMENT.
10:15:13AM I THINK IT WILL BE VALUABLE.
10:15:15AM BECAUSE ALWAYS BETTER TO HAVE THE INPUT ON THE BEGINNING
10:15:18AM THAN THE END.
10:15:19AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: UNDERSTOOD, THANK YOU.
10:15:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I HAD IN MY NOTES SUPPOSED TO COME TO US
10:15:28AM THIS SUMMER.
10:15:28AM WHO IS THE INTERIM PLANNING DIRECTOR.
10:15:30AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: EVAN JOHNSON.
10:15:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION TO HAVE HIM COME AND REPORT ON
10:15:34AM THE STATUS OF WHERE IT IS.
10:15:36AM YOU SAID THAT?
10:15:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL HAPPILY NEW AT IN A MOTION.
10:15:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DO THAT SO I DON'T HAVE TO GIVE AWAY MY
10:15:43AM GAVEL.
10:15:43AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE WILL GO AHEAD AND ASK FOR THAT UPDATE FROM
10:15:46AM MR. JOHNSON ON SEPTEMBER 12.
10:15:50AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
10:15:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, ALL.
10:15:52AM ANY DISCUSSION?
10:15:54AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
10:15:54AM MOTION CARRIES.
10:15:55AM THANK YOU FOR THAT.
10:15:56AM YEAH, BECAUSE I COULD HAVE SWORN THAT -- I HAD A
10:15:59AM CONVERSATION WITH ALIS DRUMGO THAT IT WAS VERY CLOSE.
10:16:02AM AND WE -- THAT IS HOUSING.
10:16:04AM SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE STAY ON TOP OF THAT BECAUSE IT IS
10:16:07AM ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION.
10:16:08AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:16:09AM INTERCOASTAL WATERWAY GOOD MORNING, AGAIN, CEDRIC McCRAY.
10:16:13AM WEARING MY DREW PARK HAT AND EAST TAMPA HAT AT THIS POINT IN
10:16:19AM THE MORNING.
10:16:20AM >> GET THE PRESENTATION BACK UP?
10:16:23AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
10:16:24AM A LOT OF WHAT DREW PARK'S FOCUS IN THE PAST YEAR WAS
10:16:28AM IMPROVING THE MOBILITY, CONNECTIVITY AND SAFETY
10:16:30AM IMPROVEMENTS.
10:16:31AM AND THEY HAVAL THE CAPE AND MADE THEIR RECOMMENDATIONS, AND
10:16:36AM YOU ALL APPROVED BACK IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR TO -- TO FUNDS
10:16:42AM THE MOBILITY CONNECTIVITY AND SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS
10:16:46AM AND SOMETHING THEY WORKED WITH A CONSULTANT OVER A PERIOD OF
10:16:49AM TIME UNDER THE PREVIOUS MANAGER AND HAD DECIDED TO GO AHEAD
10:16:53AM AND ALLOCATE FUNDING TO THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.
10:16:56AM AND WE ARE WORKING WITH OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT TEAM, MISS
10:17:00AM MARTINEZ AND HER -- HER TEAM TO BRING THOSE INTO FRUITION.
10:17:04AM LANDSCAPE AND STREETSCAPE SAFETY AUDIT IMPROVEMENTS THAT
10:17:08AM WERE SELECTED AS WELL.
10:17:09AM AND ONE OF THE REQUESTS THAT THEY HAD.
10:17:11AM AND YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THIS FROM WHEN PRESENTED BACK IN
10:17:17AM MARCH WAS RELATED TO A NEIGHBORHOOD POCKET PARK.
10:17:19AM THERE IS A LOT THAT THE DREW PARK CAC AND CRA ACTUALLY HAVE
10:17:27AM OWNERSHIP OF.
10:17:27AM AND WE ARE WORKING WITH PARKS AND REC RIGHT NOW TO DEVELOP A
10:17:31AM -- A DESIGN, A FOOTPRINT AND THAT WAS THE PREVIOUS PICTURE
10:17:35AM THAT WE SAW FROM ONE OF THE PRESENTATIONS.
10:17:37AM AND WE WILL BE -- WHEN WE HAVE THE NEXT MEETING, WE WILL
10:17:41AM HAVE SOME ENGAGEMENT WITH THE DREW PARK CAC WHAT RELATES
10:17:45AM WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND PARKS AND RECREATION PLANS
10:17:48AM MOVING FORWARD.
10:17:49AM THERE WAS A FACADE GRANT, I BELIEVE, FOR FENCING.
10:17:52AM AND YOU MAY SEE LEAD ON THERE.
10:17:55AM AS WE HAVE ESTABLISHED A NEW GRANTS PROCESS.
10:17:58AM WE ARE ACTIVELY HAVING CONSULTATIONS WITH VARIOUS BUSINESS
10:18:02AM OWNERS AND RESIDENTS THROUGH THROUGH THE VARIOUS CRAs.
10:18:07AM SO DREW PARK HAD ONE LEAD OR ONE CONTACT WITH A BUSINESS
10:18:10AM OWNER.
10:18:11AM TO DATE.
10:18:13AM SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES -- AND THIS WILL BE REFLECTED WHAT
10:18:19AM THE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS ARE AND THE AMOUNTS.
10:18:21AM AND AS I STATED, YOU ALL APPROVED THE REQUEST IN THEIR
10:18:26AM RECOMMENDATION THROUGH JUNE 13 MEETING UPCOMING MEETING
10:18:33AM DATES AND TIMES LISTED HAPPY THAT HCC IS WORKING WITH US.
10:18:41AM CHALLENGE WITH THE LOCATIONS, BUT THEY HAVE BEEN VERY
10:18:45AM ACCOMMODATING TO US HENDERSON ANY QUESTIONS?
10:18:55AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:18:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO SAY IT BECAUSE -- PLEASE MAKE SURE
10:18:58AM THERE IS AN A.D. A. COMPLIANT PORTION TO THIS -- TO THIS
10:19:03AM PLAYGROUND SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS ALL OVER
10:19:05AM AGAIN.
10:19:05AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: WILL DO.
10:19:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MR. MIRANDA.
10:19:13AM OKAY.
10:19:16AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: MOVING ON TO EAST TAMPA.
10:19:19AM FAMOUS GATOR BUILDING.
10:19:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FAMOUS GATOR BUILDING.
10:19:24AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THE SUMMER YOUTH SYMPOSIUM THAT TOOK PLACE
10:19:27AM JULY 29.
10:19:28AM WE HAD SOME OF THE STUDENT PARTICIPANTS THERE ABLE TO ATTEND
10:19:32AM AND A COUPLE OF OUR CAC MEMBERS AND SOME ELECTED OFFICIALS
10:19:35AM THERE ALSO THAT WERE PRESENT AND GREATLY APPRECIATED THEIR
10:19:39AM PARTICIPATION.
10:19:40AM ON THE BOTTOM LEFT, THE EAST COMPANY CAC VOTED TO FORGO
10:19:46AM THEIR AUGUST MEETING TO HOLD A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND
10:19:48AM VISIONING WORKSHOP RELATED TO THE FOX PROPERTIES.
10:19:53AM I BELIEVE MISS BURTON ALLUDED TO THAT DURING HER COMMENTS IN
10:19:58AM PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:19:59AM WE HAD A CROSSSECTION OF FOLKS THAT ARE THERE AND HAVING
10:20:02AM OPEN DISCUSSION OF WHAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE PLACED ON THE
10:20:05AM SITE AND WHAT THE FEEDBACK WAS AND REPORTING BACK ONCE THE
10:20:08AM SURVEY IS CONCLUDED AT -- HE BELIEVE IT IS AUGUST 22.
10:20:12AM AND THEN WE WILL REPORT THAT INFORMATION BACK OUT TO THE CAC
10:20:20AM AND RECOMMENDATIONS AS THE CRA.
10:20:27AM THE FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH ON 12th AND OSBORNE.
10:20:31AM WE ARE LOOKING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH DEMOLITION ON THAT SITE
10:20:35AM AND GET IT CLEARED.
10:20:36AM WE HAVE HAD A COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND ENVISIONING SESSION
10:20:40AM BACK IN APRIL, AND WE WILL BE BRINGING THAT INFORMATION BACK
10:20:42AM TO THE IN EAST TAMPA CAC IN OCTOBER.
10:20:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD.
10:20:46AM WE ARE GETTING READY FOR OUR COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY
10:20:55AM UPDATE.
10:20:56AM YOU APPROVED THE FIRM WORK ON THIS AND IRONICALLY PROFESSOR
10:21:02AM GREEN IS INVOLVED IN THIS.
10:21:02AM AND USF WILL HAVE A HAND IN THE BUILD-OUT OF THE
10:21:08AM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AND PART OF THE FIRST IT RAILINGS IN
10:21:12AM 2004-2005 TIME FRAME.
10:21:14AM ALMOST COMING FULL CIRCLE AND MOVING FORWARD WHEN IT RELATES
10:21:17AM TO THE STUDY WE HAVE IN EAST TAMPA.
10:21:19AM I DID MENTION FAITH BAPTIST CHURCH.
10:21:28AM AND IT WAS APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL FOR FENCING.
10:21:31AM AND THE VENDOR IS ON BOARD.
10:21:33AM AND HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE THAT COMPLETED SOME TIME IN
10:21:38AM OCTOBER.
10:21:38AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: EVERYTHING TAKES SO LONG.
10:21:50AM A YEAR.
10:21:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EVERYTHING.
10:21:53AM A YEAR.
10:21:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEY AT LEAST HAVE THAT.
10:21:56AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: WE HAVE BEEN IN CONSTANT CONTACT WITH PARKS
10:22:00AM AND RECREATION AND WE KNOW WE HAVE A FEW MEMBERS IN OUR
10:22:03AM COMMUNITY THAT SERVE ON THE CAC AND CONSTANTLY REMINDING AND
10:22:07AM INQUIRING ABOUT THAT.
10:22:08AM YES, HOPEFULLY THE FENCING WILL BE COMPLETED SOME OF TIME
10:22:11AM EARLY MID-OCTOBER.
10:22:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:22:16AM EVEN WHEN IT WAS DAMAGED -- THE COMMUNITY WAS ON TOP OF THAT
10:22:19AM AND CAME OUT AND REPAIRED IT.
10:22:21AM WE ARE MAKING PROGRESS.
10:22:22AM I AM PLEASE.
10:22:23AM THANK YOU, MR. McCRAY.
10:22:25AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: PARKS HELPED TO FACILITATE THAT AND I ALSO
10:22:31AM RECEIVED PHONE CALLS AND MEALS OF THE DAMAGE WHEN THE CAR
10:22:34AM RAN INTO THE FENCE.
10:22:35AM SO KUDOS TO PARKS AND RECREATION, AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD
10:22:38AM TO BRINGING THAT PORTION OF THE REFENCING TO CONCLUSION IN
10:22:45AM THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.
10:22:45AM ALSO TALKED OF THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PEACE WITH THE PAL
10:22:49AM FOX PROPERTIES.
10:22:50AM WE ALSO -- ON NORTH 22nd STREET, I KNOW THAT CRA BOARDS
10:22:54AM MEMBER MANISCALCO HAD A VESTED INTEREST IN THIS OF
10:22:59AM ALLOCATION OF THE $1.5 MILLION IN FY '25.
10:23:05AM ON-SITE MEETING WITH PARKS AND RECREATION STAFF.
10:23:07AM STORMWATER AND OUR CRA STAFF.
10:23:10AM I BELIEVE THAT MEETING WAS ON JULY 30 IN THE MORNING TO JUST
10:23:14AM KIND OF DISCUSS RESPONSIBILITIES AND RENDERINGS TO BE DONE
10:23:22AM AND FIT AND HAVE A RANGE SO -- IF IT IS GOING WITH THE BARE
10:23:27AM BONES 1.5 AND IF WE FIND ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO INCREASE WHAT
10:23:30AM THE -- WHAT THE UPGRADES WILL BE, WE WILL DO THAT ALSO.
10:23:34AM AND THEN WE TALKED TO A NUMBER OF POSSIBILITIES TO HELP
10:23:38AM ENHANCE THE ACCESS FOR THE SURROUNDING NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:23:41AM SO MORE TO COME ON THAT.
10:23:45AM MISS ORR MENTIONED ROUNDABOUTS ON EAST 34th STREET.
10:23:51AM THERE ARE ROUNDABOUT THAT ARE PRESENT AND SELF-DISCUSSIONS
10:23:55AM PREVIOUSLY, THREE, FOUR YEARS AGO, AND WE WILL BE WORKING
10:23:59AM WITH PUBLIC ART TO NAVIGATE THAT SPACE AND TRY TO GET
10:24:03AM SOMETHING IN THOSE ROUNDABOUTS WITHIN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
10:24:06AM GATOR BUILDING -- WE ARE STILL ACTIVELY TO ACQUIRE
10:24:13AM PROPERTIES AROUND THE LOCATION.
10:24:15AM AND I HESITATE TO SAY MORE THAN THAT.
10:24:19AM BECAUSE IF I DO --
10:24:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OF COURSE.
10:24:22AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: RIGHT.
10:24:22AM YES.
10:24:23AM THANK YOU ATTORNEY MASSEY.
10:24:25AM AND TO COUNCILMAN VIERA'S.
10:24:26AM AND I THINK WE ALREADY DISCUSSED THE A.D.A. COMPLIANCE.
10:24:30AM SO, YES, THAT IS SPREAD OUT OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS AND WE
10:24:34AM WILL COMMUNICATE WITH PARKS AND REC TO TRY TO HEAL THE THE
10:24:37AM TWO PARKS THAT YOU MENTIONED A FEW MOMENTS AGO.
10:24:39AM EMERGENCY ROOFING GRANT IS MOVING.
10:24:42AM I BELIEVE WE HAVE 20 MORE ON THE LIST TO COMPLETE.
10:24:45AM AND SO THAT -- THAT IS GOING WELL.
10:24:47AM AND HAD ONE FACADE GRANT.
10:24:50AM AS IT RELATES TO THE LEADS, WE HAVE 12 LEADS AND OR
10:24:55AM PREAPPLICATION MEETINGS RELATED TO BUSINESSES IN EAST TAMPA.
10:24:58AM SO THE WORD IS OUT.
10:25:00AM AND SO I WANT TO COMMEND MISS REED AND HER REED FOR MOVING
10:25:07AM THAT AND THE LEVEL OF CUSTOMER SERVICE HAS BEEN PHENOMENAL.
10:25:11AM I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY POSITIVE -- NEGATIVE COMMENTS.
10:25:15AM THEY HAVE ALL BEEN POSITIVE WITH THE ENHANCED GRANTS
10:25:18AM PROCESS.
10:25:19AM AND MOST OF THIS IS STUFF THAT I HAVE TOUCHED ON PREVIOUSLY
10:25:24AM AS IT RELATES TO THE ARTS MEETING AND VISIONING AND THE
10:25:29AM UPCOMING MEETING FOR THE EAST COMPANY CAC.
10:25:40AM I WOULD LIKE TO ADD WE PUT APPLICATIONS TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD
10:25:43AM IN EAST TAMPA THAT ARE CYCLING ON.
10:25:45AM I BELIEVE OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER TIME FRAME.
10:25:48AM AND WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED ON THAT.
10:25:49AM AND WE HAVE RECEIVED A FEW APPLICATIONS.
10:25:52AM AND WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME MORE.
10:25:53AM WE WILL BE MAKING ANOTHER PUSH WITH THOSE -- THE
10:25:58AM NEIGHBORHOODS THAT YOU ARE DESIGNATED TO SUPPLY AN APPLICANT
10:26:03AM MOVING FORWARD.
10:26:03AM ANY QUESTIONS?
10:26:08AM HENDERSON BEFORE BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, WHETHER IS THAT
10:26:12AM WROUGHT IRON GATE FOR WEST TAMPA.
10:26:19AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SALCINES PARK.
10:26:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SALCINES PARK.
10:26:27AM I LIKE TAMPA.
10:26:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WITH THE CHURCH DEMO, HOW CLOSE ARE WE TO
10:26:31AM GETTING THAT DONE.
10:26:34AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: WE HAD -- MISS MARTINEZ AND I HAD
10:26:36AM CONVERSATIONS.
10:26:37AM THERE WAS AN AWARD GIVEN TO A VENDOR THAT HAS BEEN SELECTED.
10:26:42AM AND WE WERE POSSIBLY LOOKING AT DOING AN EMERGENCY
10:26:45AM PROCUREMENT TO -- FILLING OUT THE FORM -- THE NECESSARY FORM
10:26:50AM TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE FORWARD.
10:26:51AM WE DON'T HAVE A DEFINITE TIME FRAME.
10:26:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IS AN A.S.A.P. THING.
10:26:57AM I KNOW THE COMMUNITY IS STRUGGLING WITH FOLKS USING THAT
10:27:00AM AREA.
10:27:00AM AND I KNOW IT IS CONSTANTLY HAVING TO BE RESECURED.
10:27:08AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: WE ARE GOING THROUGH THE EXPENSE OF
10:27:10AM SECURING THE WINDOWS AND DOORS ON THE BOTTOM.
10:27:15AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: MR. McCRAY HAS BEEN ADVISED HOW TO DO THAT
10:27:19AM PROCESS.
10:27:19AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
10:27:20AM SO THE COMMUNITY KNOW THAT IS HAPPENING AND I WANTED TO TALK
10:27:25AM OF THE 34th STREET ROUNDABOUTS FOR A MINUTE.
10:27:27AM ART IS WONDERFUL, BUT WHEN WE ARE LOOKING AT ART, WE ALSO
10:27:31AM NEED TO LOOK AT THE TURNING RADIUS ON THAT.
10:27:34AM BECAUSE THE PROBLEM -- FOLKS KEEP MOWING DOWN THE SIGNS ON
10:27:37AM THE SIDE.
10:27:38AM SO I AM A LITTLE CONCERNED PUTTING ART THERE WITHOUT FIXING
10:27:42AM THAT ROUNDABOUT TO SOME DEGREE, MAYBE BRINGING IT IN A
10:27:46AM LITTLE BIT SOMEHOW.
10:27:48AM THE TURNING -- IT IS VERY DIFFICULT.
10:27:49AM I DON'T REALLY -- I DON'T WANT TO THROW GOOD MONEY AFTER
10:27:54AM SOMETHING THAT COULD EASILY BE, I MEAN, HIT.
10:27:58AM THOSE ARE REALLY TIGHT.
10:28:00AM SO I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO LOOK AT OVERALL.
10:28:04AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: MODIFICATION OF THAT YOU NEED MOBILITY
10:28:08AM INVOLVED IN BECAUSE THEY WERE INVOLVED IN THE DESIGN.
10:28:11AM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF THAT, ASK FOR MOBILITY.
10:28:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GREAT.
10:28:15AM MY RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE TO GET MOBILITY INVOLVED IN THAT
10:28:17AM BECAUSE I AM SURE THEY ARE THERE AT LEAST EVERY OTHER WEEK
10:28:20AM REPLACING A SIGN OR FIXING A SIGN.
10:28:22AM BECAUSE IT -- I NEVER PASS WHEN THERE ISN'T A SIGN WITH AN
10:28:27AM ISSUE.
10:28:27AM JUST REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE FIXING THE ENTIRE
10:28:37AM ISSUE AND NOT JUST LANDSCAPING AND ART WHICH WILL BE LOVELY
10:28:44AM BUT HIT THE WHOLE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM.
10:28:47AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, MA'AM.
10:28:48AM HENDERSON ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
10:28:50AM MISS THROWER.
10:28:51AM >>BRENDA THROWER: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
10:28:57AM BRENDA THROWER.
10:28:58AM I AM THE WEST TAMPA AND YBOR CITY DEVELOPMENT MANAGER AND
10:29:02AM HAPPY TO BE WITH YOU TODAY.
10:29:03AM I AM GOING TO LEAD YOU THROUGH WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH WEST
10:29:05AM TAMPA.
10:29:06AM AND THANK YOU CHAIR HENDERSON FOR BRINGING UP A PRETTY
10:29:11AM PICTURE IN THE TOP LEFT THERE ON WEST COMPANY.
10:29:14AM THAT IS SALCINES PARK.
10:29:17AM THIS GIVES YOU A FLAVOR OF THE PICTURES AND THE FLAVOR OF
10:29:21AM SOME OF THE ACTIVITY HANG IN WEST TAMPA THERE IS A LOT OF
10:29:25AM FOCUS ON PARKS NOW.
10:29:26AM AND I WILL GO RIGHT INTO THE SLIDES BECAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT
10:29:29AM OF STUFF GOING ON.
10:29:29AM FIRST OF ALL, STUDIES DONE THAT Y'ALL ARE PROBABLY AWARE OF.
10:29:34AM AL LEEWAY STUDY STUDY DONE RECENTLY THAT WAS CONCLUDED.
10:29:39AM WENT TO THE CAC AND THEY IDENTIFIED TEN ALLEYS THEY WANT TO
10:29:42AM FOCUS ON FOR IMPROVEMENT.
10:29:44AM LITTLE BIT OF EXPANSION ON THAT CONTRACT THAT THEY ARE GOING
10:29:47AM TO BE WORKING NOT ONLY WHY THE ALLEYS BUT WITH THE
10:29:49AM BUSINESSES THAT ARE ADJACENT TO THOSE ALLEYS.
10:29:51AM THE PARKING STUDY WAS COMPLETED AND WE ARE ACTUALLY
10:29:54AM UTILIZING IT.
10:29:55AM SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS WE HAVE IS ESPECIALLY IN SOME OF
10:29:58AM THE PARK PROJECTS AS WE MOVE IT TO INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS.
10:30:01AM SALCINES PARK IS UNDER WAY RIGHT NOW.
10:30:05AM THEY ARE ALMOST WITH COMPLETION ON THE DESIGN PLANS.
10:30:09AM RAY PARK IS MOVING RIGHT ALONG AS WELL.
10:30:11AM THAT IS WHERE WE ARE NOT ONLY LOOKING AT DOING PARKING --
10:30:17AM APPLYING SOME OF THE PARKING RECOMMENDATIONS BUT ALSO A
10:30:20AM PRETTY SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN THAT PARK.
10:30:22AM ALSO A NEW BUILDING WILL BE GOING IN THAT PARK.
10:30:26AM IT IS VERY EXCITING.
10:30:27AM THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN INVOLVED WITH IT.
10:30:30AM FREEDOM PARK.
10:30:31AM WE ACQUIRED A PIECE ON MANY STREET THERE.
10:30:33AM IT IS A PARK -- WELL, IT WAS A PIECE OF PROPERTY, LET'S JUST
10:30:37AM SAY.
10:30:37AM IT IS -- UNDERGOING A COMP PLAN CHANGE.
10:30:41AM BECAUSE IT WAS A COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL-35 DESIGNATION AND WE
10:30:44AM NEED TO MOVE IT TO A RECREATIONAL/OPEN SPACE GOING THROUGH
10:30:49AM PLANNING COMMISSION THAT IS COMING UP THIS MONTH ON THE 12th
10:30:52AM AND WILL BE COMING BACK TO Y'ALL AS CITY COUNCIL ON THE
10:30:55AM 29th.
10:30:55AM A LAND USE CHANGE THERE.
10:30:57AM ALSO AN ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT GOING ON.
10:30:59AM WORKING WITH THE TERM TO MAKE SURE THAT THE SOIL HAS BEEN
10:31:02AM ASSESSED AND THERE IS CLEANING THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE AND
10:31:05AM THAT WILL HAPPEN.
10:31:05AM MAIN STREET.
10:31:07AM SOME MOVEMENT HERE.
10:31:08AM WE ARE GOING TO START THE QUICK BUILD PROJECT.
10:31:11AM THE CAC APPROVED MOVING FORWARD WITH MOBILITY ON IT.
10:31:15AM THE SECTION FROM ARMENIA TO DELAWARE.
10:31:18AM IT WILL START TO TAKE SHAPE, LET'S JUST SAY.
10:31:20AM THE FIRST OF A TRANSFORMATION FOR MAIN STREET, WHICH WILL
10:31:24AM INCLUDE SOME ON-STREET PARKING AND SOME BEAUTIFICATION WE
10:31:31AM ARE HOPING TO GET THAT DONE BEFORE THE CONFERENCE AND TAKING
10:31:34AM THE BUS DOWN THAT WAY WHICH WE WILL TALK TO YOU LATER.
10:31:38AM FREEDOM PARK.
10:31:43AM AND THIS IS THE PARK AND THE CROSS STREETS.
10:31:45AM I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU, IF I CAN, POSTCARDS THAT
10:31:50AM WENT OUT.
10:31:50AM WE DID A SURVEY RECENTLY.
10:31:52AM SO YOU WILL SEE BEFORE YOU, THIS IS A POSTCARD THAT WENT OUT
10:31:58AM TO ALL OF THE RESIDENTS, TENANTS, EVERYONE WITHIN WEST TAMPA
10:32:04AM CRA.
10:32:04AM IT WAS ALSO -- A ONLINE SURVEY.
10:32:07AM AS YOU CAN SEE A QR CODE ON IT SO AN ONLINE SURVEY AS WELL
10:32:15AM AS A POSTCARD WITH A DROP BOX WITH THE HILLSBOROUGH
10:32:18AM EDUCATION FOUNDATION WHICH IS THE BUILDING WHERE WE MEET.
10:32:21AM SO I HAVEN'T TABULATED EVERYTHING, BUT WE ARE TRYING
10:32:25AM TO GET A SENTIMENT TO SEE IF THE COMMUNITY WANTS TO
10:32:28AM OPEN UP THOSE FOUR STREETS WHICH INCLUDES WEST PALMETTO,
10:32:33AM WEST CHERRY, PINE STREET AND WALNUT STREET.
10:32:36AM CLOSED SINCE 1980.
10:32:38AM YOU CAN SEE IT LOOKS LIKE IT SHOULD BE A STREET, BUT IT WAS
10:32:40AM CLOSED OFF.
10:32:41AM WE ARE TRYING TO SEE WHAT THE COMMUNITY WOULD LIKE TO SEE
10:32:46AM AND IF THEY WOULD LIKE IT OPENED UP OR NOT.
10:32:48AM THAT IS THE QUESTION ON THIS SURVEY, AND I WILL HAVE THE
10:32:51AM RESULTS COMING IN -- ACTUALLY BEING CLOSED OUT THIS WEEK
10:32:55AM TOMORROW.
10:32:55AM WE LEFT THE ONLINE VERSION OPEN A FEW -- AN EXTRA WEEK.
10:33:01AM AND WE WILL HAVE THOSE RESULTS AND TAKING IT BACK TO THE CAC
10:33:05AM GRAND THAT, WE WILL BRING IT BACK TO YOU.
10:33:07AM IF THAT BECOMES A POSITIVE, WE WILL MOVE FORWARD WITH A
10:33:10AM PROJECT THAT WILL INCLUDE OPENING UP THOSE STREETS.
10:33:13AM MOVING ALONG.
10:33:14AM PUBLIC ART.
10:33:15AM ALWAYS AN INTEREST IN WEST TAMPA.
10:33:17AM THERE IS A LOT -- THEY HAD A LOT OF PLAN ABOUT IT.
10:33:20AM WE HAVE HAD A PRESENTATION -- SOME INTERACTION WITH THE NEW
10:33:24AM ARTS PERSON AT THE LAST MEETING SO MORE COMING OUT ON PUBLIC
10:33:28AM ART AND SOME IDEAS FOR THAT.
10:33:29AM I KNOW ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT THEY WANTED WITH AS TO
10:33:37AM REALLY TO WRAP THE UTILITY BOXES AND THE PROJECT FIRST ONE
10:33:40AM ON THE LIST.
10:33:41AM PARKS COMPLIANCE.
10:33:42AM YOU WILL BE REALLY HAPPY CRA BOARD DIRECTOR VIERA.
10:33:49AM INTEREST FREMONT, JULIAN B. LANE, RAY PARK, FREEDOM
10:33:56AM AND SALCINES.
10:33:57AM ALL OF THAT WILL BE GETTING UPGRADES.
10:33:59AM AND THE BOTTOM IS THE FACADE GRANTS -- SORRY, THE COMMERCIAL
10:34:05AM GRANTS.
10:34:05AM THE COMMERCIAL GRANTS IS WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON WITH
10:34:08AM COMMERCIAL GRANTS.
10:34:08AM THE OLD GRANTS ARE TRANS SIGNATURES INTO THE NEW GRANTS AND
10:34:14AM THE ACTIVITY WE HAVE TO DATE.
10:34:15AM WE HAVE 12 LEADS.
10:34:17AM THAT IS EVERYTHING FROM INTERNAL TO EXTERNAL REQUESTS FOR
10:34:22AM PROJECTS.
10:34:22AM THOSE WILL BE COMING TO YOU WHEN WE GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
10:34:25AM AND HERE IS JUST A SUMMARY OF WHAT IS GOING ON IN WEST
10:34:28AM TAMPA.
10:34:28AM SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES.
10:34:29AM THE CAC IS VERY ACTIVE.
10:34:31AM AND THEY GIVE A LOT OF RECOMMENDATIONS.
10:34:34AM SO YOU CAN SEE KIND OF THE TIMELINE WHERE WE ARE HAVING
10:34:39AM RECOMMENDATIONS AND ACTIVITIES.
10:34:40AM WE DID MANAGE TO MOVE THEIR MEETING TO THE THIRD TUESDAY OF
10:34:44AM THE MONTH AND IT IS WORKING OUT VERY WELL.
10:34:46AM THIS THEY MEET -- THEIR NEXT MEETING AUGUST 20 AND MEET AT
10:34:51AM 5:30 ON THE THIRD TUESDAY OF THE MONTH.
10:34:54AM THAT CONCLUDES WEST TAMPA.
10:34:55AM WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO MOVE ON TO YBOR?
10:34:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:35:00AM >>BRENDA THROWER: AND YBOR.
10:35:01AM WE CAN MOVE ON.
10:35:03AM HERE IS YBOR.
10:35:04AM TO END OUT THE PRESENTATION OF THE MANAGER'S REPORT.
10:35:08AM I THOUGHT I WOULD SHOW YOU AN ACTION SHOT, OKAY.
10:35:10AM THAT IS WHAT IS GOING ON.
10:35:12AM YOU ARE PROBABLY GOING, OH, MY GOSH, I WILL GET ALL THESE
10:35:15AM CALLS FROM BUSINESSES ROAR RIGHT.
10:35:17AM THEY WERE WELL AWARE OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
10:35:20AM THIS IS THE FIRST THING THEY DO WHEN THEY START TO PREPARE
10:35:24AM THE STREET FOR THE BRICKS.
10:35:25AM LUCKILY IT DOESN'T TAKE VERY LONG AND THEY CAN USUALLY GET
10:35:29AM THIS DONE IN JUST A FEW HOURS.
10:35:30AM BUT THIS IS THE MILLING.
10:35:31AM THE PORTION ON THE SECOND BLOCK OF 7th AVENUE.
10:35:34AM WE HAVE ALREADY COMPLETED THE FIRST BLOCK.
10:35:37AM SO WE ARE ON NUMBER TWO.
10:35:38AM AS WELL THE PICTURES SHOWING SIGNAGE IMPROVEMENTS ON THE
10:35:45AM SOUTH YBOR AREA AND REDOING THE SIGNS AND IMPROVING THEM AND
10:35:48AM THE PICTURE ON THE TOP IS ABOUT THE YES TEAM.
10:35:51AM VERY ACTIVE TEAM WE HAVE OUT THERE DOING A LOT OF WONDERFUL
10:35:54AM THINGS AND WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY.
10:35:55AM SO IF WE MOVE INTO SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES HERE THAT WE HAVE
10:35:59AM BEEN WORKING ON, WE HAVE DONE THE FLOODING STUDY.
10:36:02AM COMPLETED IT.
10:36:03AM WE HAVE A PLAN.
10:36:03AM IT IS JUST A LITTLE MORE COMPLICATED THAN JUST STAYING
10:36:06AM WITHIN THE CRA.
10:36:08AM THIS FLOODING ISSUE THAT IS HAPPENING IN THE YBOR SOUTH AREA
10:36:12AM REALLY INVOLVES A PROJECT THAT WE ARE WORKING ON STORMWATER
10:36:16AM ON AND IT IS MORE INVOLVED AND THE PIPE NEEDS TO BE BROUGHT
10:36:20AM DOWN THROUGH YBOR HARBOR.
10:36:23AM AND IN THE MEANTIME, THEY ARE WORKING ON INTERIM SOLUTIONS
10:36:27AM WITH THE MANHOLE COVERS.
10:36:28AM THEY WERE POPPING OUT DURING FLOODING TIMES AND ABLE TO MULL
10:36:32AM THEM DOWN.
10:36:33AM THEY ARE NOT HAVING THAT PROBLEM ANYMORE AND THEY ARE VERY
10:36:37AM RESPONDING TO THE COMMUNITY.
10:36:38AM THE CIP PLAN WILL BE NEXT ON THE LIST AND WE NEED TO UPDATE
10:36:43AM THAT FOR YBOR ONE AND TWO.
10:36:46AM BRINGING.
10:36:47AM THAT IS PROJECT IS UNDER WAY.
10:36:49AM A LITTLE COST OF THE FIRST TWO BLOCKS.
10:36:51AM WE HAVE A LOT OF INTEREST IN THE COMMUNITY TO KEEP MOVING ON
10:36:54AM THAT PROJECT AND THAT IS WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO.
10:36:57AM DISTRICT SIGNAGE.
10:36:58AM AGAIN, I HIGHLIGHTED PICTURES ON THAT AND GOING ON AND
10:37:03AM WORKING TO IMPROVE THOSE SIGNS.
10:37:04AM CENTENNIAL PARK.
10:37:06AM WE ARE CONTINUING TO SEE MONEY THERE.
10:37:07AM WORKING WITH OUR CONTRACT ADMIN TO IDENTIFY SOME
10:37:11AM CONSULTANTLESS TO START THAT PROCESS.
10:37:13AM SO THAT IS REALLY IN THE INFANCY STAGE.
10:37:17AM PUBLIC ART -- ONE OF THE THINGS WE ALL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY
10:37:20AM AND WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY DO IS REALLY DO SOME ACTIVITY WITH
10:37:23AM THE GARAGE BOXES.
10:37:24AM THAT IS SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK TO DO.
10:37:26AM ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT PUBLIC ART, IT IS NOT IN OUR PLAN
10:37:30AM THE WAY WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT IN OUR PLAN SO WE WILL BE
10:37:33AM ADDING THAT UP WHEN WE DO THE CRP UPDATES.
10:37:38AM THE PARKS -- A.D.A. COMPLIANCE.
10:37:40AM ESSENTIAL TELL Y'ALL PARK AND EAST YBOR PARK.
10:37:44AM THOSE MONEY ALSO BE FOR IMPROVEMENTS OF ACCESSIBLE EQUIPMENT
10:37:47AM THERE.
10:37:48AM MOVING TO COMMERCIAL GRANTS, FACADE.
10:37:50AM THAT HAS REALLY BEEN THE NUMBER ONE PROGRAM THAT THE
10:37:53AM COMMUNITY HAS EMBRACED AND UTILIZED.
10:37:56AM THAT IS TO TRANSITION INTO THE NEW PROGRAMS AND HAPPY TO
10:38:02AM REPORT 11 LEADS, INQUIRES FROM BUSINESS OWNERS ABOUT THE NEW
10:38:09AM PROGRAMS.
10:38:09AM AND THEN, OF COURSE.
10:38:10AM I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE YES TEAM.
10:38:12AM THEY ARE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT TO YBOR.
10:38:15AM VERY EMBRACED BY THE COMMUNITY AND JUST AFTER THE STORM THAT
10:38:18AM JUST HAPPENED ON MONDAY, THEY WERE OUT THERE AT THE CRACK
10:38:20AM MUCH DAWN GETTING THE PALM FRONDS THAT FELL OVER 7th AVENUE
10:38:24AM AND HELPING OUT.
10:38:26AM THEY HELPED INSTALL THE BUSINESS SIGNAGE THAT HALLS HELPED
10:38:30AM WITH THE PROJECT -- THE 7th AVENUE BRINGING PROJECT.
10:38:34AM WE HAVE DISTRICT IMPROVEMENTS WE ARE DOING.
10:38:36AM EVERYTHING FROM PRESSURE WASHING TO TREE MATE CONTINUES INTO
10:38:41AM LAMPPOSTS.
10:38:42AM WE HAVE MONEY THAT WE ARE ALWAYS DOING THOSE TYPE OF
10:38:44AM ACTIVITIES AND COMMUNITY POLICING.
10:38:46AM ANOTHER IMPORTANT PROGRAM.
10:38:47AM WE HAVE BOTH THE ENHANCED PROACTIVE SQUAD FROM TPD THAT
10:38:51AM WORKS THE EVENING SHIFTS INTO THE EVENING HOURS, AS WELL AS
10:38:54AM ENHANCED CODE ENFORCEMENT.
10:38:56AM AND HERE IS JUST OUR SIMILARLY SHEET.
10:38:59AM SOME OF THE -- AGAIN, ANOTHER ACTIVE GROUP.
10:39:04AM THEY TOOK A BREAK IN JULY AND DECIDED NOT TO HAVE A MEETING.
10:39:08AM THE YDC, INC. MET INSTEAD AND OPERATING AND INVITE ME TO
10:39:16AM THEIR MEETINGS AND THEY ARE ACTIVE AND THEY ARE MAKING
10:39:18AM RECOMMENDATIONS.
10:39:19AM AND THEIR MEETINGS ARE ON THE LAST TUESDAY OF THE MONTH --
10:39:23AM IS IT LAST TUESDAY OR FOURTH TUESDAY.
10:39:26AM DEPENDS ON THE CALENDAR.
10:39:27AM BUT THEIR NEXT ONE IS COMING UP AUGUST 27.
10:39:30AM AND THAT CONCLUDES YBOR CITY.
10:39:32AM ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS?
10:39:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN AND THEN BOARD
10:39:38AM MEMBER CARLSON IS NEXT.
10:39:39AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WAS IN YBOR CITY AND I OBSERVED THE
10:39:41AM BRINGING AND IT IS SPECTACULAR.
10:39:46AM >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
10:39:46AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GREAT JOB THEY DID.
10:39:49AM REFRESH MY MEMORY, WHO IS DOING THE BRINGING?
10:39:53AM >>BRENDA THROWER: WHO IS DOING IT?
10:39:54AM IT IS CALLED CWR CONTRACTOR.
10:39:58AM A CITY-WIDE CONTRACTOR AND UTILIZING A SUB -- THE SUB IS --
10:40:02AM I WOULD SAY HE IS THE BRINGING SUBCONTRACTOR FOR A LOT OF
10:40:06AM PROJECTS.
10:40:06AM ELSE VERY FAMILIAR WITH YBOR.
10:40:07AM HE HAS DONE -- JAMES VANDEL, HE HAS DONE PROJECT ALWAYS
10:40:15AM OVER.
10:40:15AM EVER.
10:40:16AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WAS WATCHING AND AMAZING JOB AND THE
10:40:20AM QUALITY OF THE WORKMANSHIP.
10:40:21AM EXCITED TO SEE THE PROJECT MOVE FORWARD.
10:40:24AM >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
10:40:26AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I APPRECIATE WHAT IS BEING DONE IN YBOR
10:40:29AM CITY.
10:40:29AM IT WAS CLEAN.
10:40:30AM THE CLEAN TEAM.
10:40:31AM IT LOOKED GOOD.
10:40:32AM I HAVE BEEN THERE A COUPLE OF TIMES OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF
10:40:35AM WEEKS.
10:40:35AM EVERY TIME I AM THERE, IT LOOKS AMAZING.
10:40:38AM >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
10:40:39AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GREAT JOB.
10:40:40AM LOOKING FOR THE BRINGING TO BE COMPLETED.
10:40:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:40:45AM YOUR TURN.
10:40:45AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
10:40:47AM THE BRICKS ARE BEAUTIFUL.
10:40:51AM AS WE DISCUSSED BEFORE, THERE IS A LOT OF UNWANTED
10:40:54AM CRITICISM.
10:40:55AM IF WE HAD OUR COMMUNICATION PEOPLE, WE COULD PUSH BACK ON
10:41:00AM SOME OF THAT.
10:41:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE CAN PUSH BACK -- WE CAN STILL PUSH
10:41:04AM BACK.
10:41:04AM >>BILL CARLSON: I AM PUSHING BACK ALSO, BUT RECOMMENDATION
10:41:07AM THAT NEEDS TO BE MADE ABOUT -- THE BIGGEST CRITICISM IS, WHY
10:41:13AM ARE YOU SPENDING MONEY ON BRICKS INSTEAD OF FIXING MY ROADS.
10:41:17AM I THINK THAT IS BETTER HANDLE BY THE CRA OR THE CITY.
10:41:24AM ALTHOUGH INDIVIDUAL BOARD MEMBERS CAN PUSH BACK AND WE ALL
10:41:27AM DO, BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY MUCH THE CITY OR THE CRA TO
10:41:29AM COMMUNICATE ON SOME OF THESE THINGS.
10:41:31AM IT'S NOT ALL PROMOTIONAL.
10:41:33AM ANYWAY, BOTTOM LINE THE BRICKS ARE BEAUTIFUL AND IT IS
10:41:38AM JUSTIFIED AND WE WORKED ON THAT PROJECT FOR A LONG TIME AND
10:41:43AM HEARD FROM THE COMMUNITY FOR A LONG TIME WE SHOULD GET IT.
10:41:46AM THE MOST IMPORTANT THING I HEARD IS COMPLIMENTS FROM PEOPLE,
10:41:50AM BUSINESSES IN YBOR THAT YOU ALL -- THAT YOU ALL ESTIMATE A
10:41:53AM LONGER TIME FRAME THAN IT HAS ACTUALLY TAKEN.
10:41:56AM SO THEY ARE VERY APPRECIATIVE THAT THEY ARE MOVING FASTER
10:41:59AM THAN THEY PROJECTED.
10:42:00AM SO I THINK THAT -- AT LEAST FOR THE BUSINESSES, YOU ALL SET
10:42:04AM EXPECTATIONS AND IT SEEMS TO BE MOVING FASTER AND THEY ARE
10:42:08AM APPRECIATIVE OF THAT.
10:42:08AM LAST THING IS -- ART, YOU HAVE PUBLIC HART.
10:42:11AM YOU TALK OF WINDOW DISPLAYS.
10:42:14AM WE CAN MEET WITH MORRIS LATER AND TALK ABOUT THIS.
10:42:16AM BUT I WOULD TRY TO FIND A PROJECT OR DEFINITION THAT DOESN'T
10:42:19AM MEET THE CITY'S PUBLIC ART PROCESS, BALLS THEN IT GOES
10:42:23AM THROUGH A COMMITTEE AND ALL KINDS OF BUREAUCRACY AND KINDS
10:42:27AM OF LEGAL ISSUES.
10:42:28AM INSTEAD -- I MEAN YOU CAN CALL IT EDGE OCCASIONAL DISPLAY OR
10:42:33AM WHATEVER.
10:42:33AM SO MANY ARTS GROUPS IN YBOR THAT WE CAN EASILY GIVE ONE OF
10:42:36AM THEM A GRANT AND ASK THEM TO DO SOMETHING THERE.
10:42:38AM A PHOTOGRAPH ART MUSEUM AND WHATEVER.
10:42:41AM SO -- IT DOESN'T -- IT IS NOT THE SAME AS BUILDING A
10:42:45AM SCULPTURE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROUNDABOUT.
10:42:47AM CONTINUING BE SOMETHING THAT IS SHORT TERM.
10:42:50AM AND WE CAN EVEN ROTATE THE GRANT AMONG DIFFERENT NONPROFITS
10:42:54AM IN YBOR CITY TO -- TO --
10:42:59AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THERE CAN BE OPPORTUNITIES.
10:43:00AM THE GARAGE IS A CITY FACILITY.
10:43:07AM BUT THE WINDOW BOXES CAN BE MAILED AVAILABLE FOR VARIOUS ART
10:43:12AM GROUPS IN YBOR FOR DISPLAYS.
10:43:13AM THERE ARE POSSIBILITIES TO WORK ON THAT AS WELL.
10:43:18AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
10:43:20AM >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
10:43:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
10:43:22AM >>BRENDA THROWER: WONDERFUL.
10:43:23AM SO I HAVE ONE MORE -- ONE MORE REPORT.
10:43:26AM DO YOU WANT ME TO MOVE FORWARD?
10:43:28AM THIS IS ABOUT THE CONFERENCE COMING.
10:43:30AM CAN I TAKE FEW MOMENTS TO SHARE.
10:43:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SURE.
10:43:33AM >>BRENDA THROWER: THERE WE GO.
10:43:34AM SO AS Y'ALL HAVE HEARD AND KNOW, WE HAVE THE FLORIDA
10:43:38AM REDEVELOPMENT ANNUAL CONFERENCE THAT WILL BE HERE OCTOBER 22
10:43:41AM TO THE 23.
10:43:42AM AND I WOULD LIKE THIS TIME JUST TO HAND Y'ALL A COPY OF THE
10:43:47AM BROCHURE, BECAUSE I WANT YOU ALL TO SEE IT.
10:43:49AM THANK YOU SO MUCH AND I WANT TO THANK INTERIM DIRECTOR
10:43:59AM McCRAY.
10:44:00AM HE LEFT THIS TO ME TO REPORT SINCE I AM THE PRESIDENT.
10:44:03AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
10:44:04AM THANK YOU, DIRECTOR.
10:44:06AM BUT I WANT TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL, WE HAVE THE CONFERENCE
10:44:09AM COMING HERE IN OCTOBER.
10:44:10AM IT IS GOING TO BE AT THE TAMPA MARRIOTT WATERSIDE.
10:44:13AM THIS A CONFERENCE THAT BRINGS TOGETHER ALL THE CRAs
10:44:17AM THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF FLORIDA, NOT ONLY PRACTITIONERS BUT
10:44:22AM ELECTED OFFICIALS.
10:44:22AM THEY ARE ALL I BELIEVE VITAMIN AND A WONDERFUL ENVIRONMENT.
10:44:25AM IT IS A LEARNING ENVIRONMENT.
10:44:26AM I HOPE THAT YOU CAN MAKE IT OR SCHEDULE IT INTO YOUR
10:44:35AM SCHEDULE TO ATTEND.
10:44:36AM OUR STAFF WILL HELP WITH REGISTRATION.
10:44:37AM YOU CAN COME TO ALL OF IT.
10:44:39AM YOU CAN COME TO PART OF IT.
10:44:40AM THERE IS ONE DAY THAT KICKS OFF CALLED A CRA BOARD TRAINING.
10:44:45AM A SESSION THAT IS DESIGNATED NOT FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS AND
10:44:49AM PRACTITIONERS.
10:44:51AM WONDERFUL BECAUSE YOU CAN MEET PEOPLE IN OTHER CRAs AND
10:44:54AM LEARN ABOUT THAT.
10:44:54AM IT ALSO SATISFIES YOUR ETHICS REQUIREMENT IF YOU NEED TO
10:44:58AM MAKE SURE YOU ARE CHECKING THAT BOX.
10:45:00AM WE HAVE BOARD TRAINING.
10:45:01AM ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY IS THE TOURS.
10:45:06AM THREE MOBILE TOURS.
10:45:08AM TWO OF THOSE WILL BE IN TAMPA.
10:45:09AM THE FIRST ONE -- I WILL TALK OF THE TAMPA ONES FIRST.
10:45:12AM A STREETCAR RIDE AND A WALKING TOUR FROM DOWNTOWN
10:45:18AM CHANNELDISTRICT TO YBOR WITH A SHOUTOUT TO CENTRAL PARK.
10:45:24AM NOT ON THE STREETCAR BUT WE WILL TALK ABOUT THEM.
10:45:26AM COUPLE OF STOPS ALONG THE WAY.
10:45:28AM THE STREETCAR -- WE CAN'T STOP EVERY STOP BECAUSE THAT WILL
10:45:33AM INTERRUPT THE LINE.
10:45:34AM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PART OF THAT, LET US KNOW AND WE CAN
10:45:37AM PUT A RESERVE SEAT ON THAT OR AS WELL IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO
10:45:41AM SPEAK.
10:45:41AM ANOTHER TOUR, THE REDEVELOPMENT BUS TOUR LEAVE THE.
10:45:44AM MARRIOTT WATERSIDE GO UP THROUGH THE RIVERFRONT, SHOWCASING
10:45:49AM TAMPA HEIGHTS INTO WEST TAMPA.
10:45:51AM IT WILL BE STOPPING OFF AT THE WEST RIVER DEVELOPMENT.
10:45:55AM DOING A LITTLE WALKING TOUR.
10:45:56AM HOPEFULLY THAT STREET ALONG MAIN STREET WILL BE DONE AND
10:46:00AM TAKE IT UP THROUGH -- GOING NORTH ON HOWARD AND THEN
10:46:03AM SHOOTING OVER ON COLUMBUS TO GO TO EAST TAMPA.
10:46:06AM AND IN EAST TAMPA, THERE WILL BE SOME HIGHLIGHTS AS WELL.
10:46:10AM WANT TO STOP AT THE SKILLS SENTER AND THE CEMETERY.
10:46:17AM AND PROVIDING THE OFFICE ON 22nd STREET SEEING THE GATOR
10:46:21AM BUILDING AND WE WILL END AT THE J.C. NEWMAN CIGAR FACTORY.
10:46:25AM THAT WILL GIVE A WHOLE FLAVOR FOR THAT TOUR.
10:46:27AM AND THEN THE LAST TOUR WILL BE DUNEDIN.
10:46:33AM THE OUT-OF-TOWN TOUR.
10:46:35AM WE USUALLY INCORPORATE ONE OF THOSE.
10:46:38AM FOR THE SMALL TOWN COMMUNITIES TO SEE A SMALLER CRA AND SEE
10:46:42AM HOW THEY OPERATE.
10:46:43AM THAT WILL BE A BUS LEAVING THAT MORNING.
10:46:45AM THE WEST -- OTHER OPPORTUNITIES.
10:46:47AM WE HAVE WELCOME REMARKS THANK YOU CHAIR HENDERSON GIVING THE
10:46:54AM WELCOME REMARKS TO ONE OF THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS, SHANE
10:46:58AM PHILLIPS, A HOUSING EXPERT FROM CALIFORNIA WHO WILL BE
10:47:01AM COMING IN.
10:47:01AM RICHARD GONZMART THAT WILL KICK OFF THE CONCERT -- SORRY,
10:47:12AM THE CONFERENCE ITSELF.
10:47:14AM AND THE AWARDS BANQUET.
10:47:16AM WE PUT IN SEVERAL AWARDS ACROSS ALL OF THE OUR CRAS.
10:47:20AM WE DON'T KNOW IF WE WON YET.
10:47:22AM WE WILL HAVE BANQUET.
10:47:23AM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME.
10:47:25AM WE HAVE A TABLE AND LITTLE BIT OF A DRESSY EVENT AND WE
10:47:29AM WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU AND OF ON FRIDAY, A BREAKFAST WITH
10:47:33AM EXPERTS.
10:47:33AM A BREAKFAST WHERE WE HAVE TABLES SET UP WITH DIFFERENT
10:47:36AM TOPICS.
10:47:36AM IF YOU WANT TO ENGAGE, LEAD A TOPIC.
10:47:39AM EVERYTHING FROM AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO TRANSPORTATION TO
10:47:45AM EXPANDING YOUR CRA.
10:47:47AM ALL KIND OF TOPICS THAT WE PUT OUT ON THE TABLES.
10:47:51AM LAST BUT NOT LEAST, PRICELESS NETWORKING.
10:47:55AM LEARNING AND SHARING AMONG OTHER CRAS ACROSS STATE.
10:47:59AM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE THERE, WE WANT YOU THERE.
10:48:02AM IT IS IN OUR BACK YARD.
10:48:04AM PROUD THIS YEAR TO BE BRINGING THIS CONFERENCE TO TAMPA.
10:48:06AM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, LET ME KNOW.
10:48:09AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM.
10:48:10AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:48:12AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:48:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:48:14AM I -- I HAVE BEEN BOTH YEARS I HAVE BEEN ON THE BOARD AND A
10:48:22AM FABULOUS CONFERENCE.
10:48:23AM BY FAR THE MOST RELEVANT CONFERENCE I HAVE BEEN THROUGH IN
10:48:26AM TERMS OF JUST BEING ABLE TO PUT INTO PRACTICE.
10:48:29AM I HAVE MET A LOT OF INTERESTING PEOPLE.
10:48:31AM I WILL 100% BE THERE.
10:48:33AM AND I WILL BE PART OF WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO BE PART OF.
10:48:36AM YOU TELL ME WHERE YOU WANT ME TO BE, AND HE WILL BE THERE.
10:48:39AM I AM HAPPY TO DO IT AND I HOPE THAT ALL OF YOU AT LEAST COME
10:48:42AM TO ONE THING.
10:48:42AM I THINK WHEN THE CRA CONFERENCE IS IN OUR CITY, WE SHOULD
10:48:48AM ALL SHOW UP.
10:48:49AM AT THIS ALREADY MADE A MOTION THAT WE DON'T HAVE A COUNCIL
10:48:55AM MEETING THAT WEEK SO WE ARE ALL FREE.
10:48:57AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, ANYONE ELSE.
10:48:59AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WANT TO GO TO THE STREETCAR THING AND I
10:49:02AM HOOKED AT 7:30 IN THE MORNING.
10:49:03AM ARE Y'ALL LOST YOUR MIND IN TAMPA?
10:49:06AM WE DON'T FUNCTION IN THE LATIN CORRIDOR AT 7:30 IN THE
10:49:12AM MORNING.
10:49:12AM >> THE TOURS ARE EARLY.
10:49:14AM BUT IT WON'T BE LEAVING AT 7:30.
10:49:16AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: 7:30 IN THE MORNING.
10:49:18AM BRENHAM WE HAVE TO CONVENE.
10:49:23AM CLENDENIN I HAVE GOT TO GO TO YBOR THE NIGHT BEFORE AND ROLL
10:49:28AM ON TO THE STREETCAR.
10:49:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
10:49:32AM >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:49:33AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE ARE AT THE END.
10:49:43AM A REQUIRED APPROVAL.
10:49:44AM ALL NOSE FAVOR.
10:49:46AM NEW BUSINESS.
10:49:46AM YES, I WANTED TO GIVE YOU SOME TIME, ATTORNEY MASSEY.
10:49:52AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THERE ARE SOME LEGAL THINGS THAT WE DO NEED
10:49:55AM TO -- I WANT TO BRING TO THE BOARD'S ATTENTION THAT WE WILL
10:49:57AM HAVE TO DEAL WITH AT THE MEETING.
10:49:59AM ONE OF WHICH IS THE UPDATE THE SERVICES AGREEMENT.
10:50:01AM I HAVE A -- I WOULD HAVE A RED LINE -- OR BLUE LINE REDRAFT
10:50:05AM SHOWING THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE TO THE CURRENT SERVICES
10:50:08AM AGREEMENT.
10:50:09AM LET ME HAND THAT OUT TO YOU ALL.
10:50:10AM AND, AGAIN, THIS IS JUST FOR YOUR REVIEW, I WOULD WELCOME
10:50:15AM ANY INDIVIDUAL COMMENT THAT YOU HAVE BETWEEN NOW AND THE
10:50:17AM NEXT MEETING.
10:50:19AM I WILL BE GLAD TO INCORPORATE ANY OF YOUR CHANGES.
10:50:22AM WE CAN HAVE A CONVERSATION AT THE NEXT MEETING, BUT WE DO
10:50:27AM NEED TO TRY TO ADOPT THE SERVICES AGREEMENT.
10:50:30AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHEN WILL YOU LIKE THESE COMMENTS?
10:50:32AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE MEETING IS THE 12th.
10:50:34AM IF I COULD GET THEM.
10:50:37AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BY THE FIRST.
10:50:38AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: BY LABOR DAY WILL BE HELPFUL.
10:50:40AM BEFORE LABOR DAY.
10:50:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXTRA CHEAT DAY.
10:50:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CALL YOU ON LABOR DAY.
10:50:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, ATTORNEY MASSEY.
10:50:58AM ONE OF YOUR LAST ASSIGNMENTS WITH US?
10:51:01AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ALSO TO REMIND AND OTHER THING BEFORE YOU
10:51:11AM GO TO NEW BUSINESS.
10:51:12AM IN SEPTEMBER, WE WILL BE BRINGING YOU FORWARD THE BUDGET FOR
10:51:15AM THE CRA FOR ADOPTION BEFORE YOU TAKE ACTION ON THE CITY
10:51:19AM BUDGET BECAUSE THE CRA BUDGET IS FOLDED INTO THE CITY
10:51:21AM BUDGET.
10:51:21AM THE CARRY OVER AMOUNTS WHAT THAT WILL BE.
10:51:30AM I ALERTED REVENUE AND FINANCE.
10:51:33AM AND THEY ARE WORKING ON THE NUMBERS.
10:51:34AM YOU WILL HAVE THAT IN ADVANCE OF YOUR SEPTEMBER MEETING AND
10:51:37AM PUBLISHING ON THE WEB SITE BECAUSE WE ARE REQUIRED TO UNDER
10:51:40AM LAW WITH THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS, WHICH IS WISH WHICH WILL BE
10:51:44AM IDENTICAL WHAT WILL BE IN THE CITY BUDGET AND THE ADDITIONAL
10:51:47AM INFORMATION THAT WILL BE PROVIDED PACK-UP FOR ANY OF THE
10:51:50AM INDIVIDUAL AREAS THAT ARE A LITTLE MORE DETAILED.
10:51:52AM AND THEN FINALLY, JUST TO ALERT ARE YOU, THE FLORIDA
10:51:57AM LEGISLATURE IN -- IN THEIR INFINITE WISDOM IMPOSED
10:52:05AM REQUIREMENTS ON THE CRA.
10:52:05AM WE ARE REQUIRED SEPTEMBER 1 FOR THE GOALS, OBJECTIVES FOR
10:52:11AM VARIOUS PROGRAMS.
10:52:12AM STAFF IS GOING TO BE.
10:52:14AM AND EFFECTIVE IN JULY.
10:52:16AM WE WILL BE QUICKLY WORKING THE GOAL AND PERFORMANCE MEASURE
10:52:22AM DOCUMENT COMING TO THE BOARD IN SEPTEMBER AND MAY NOT BE AS
10:52:26AM DETAILED AS IT GETS IN SUBSEQUENT YEARS BECAUSE WE ARE
10:52:29AM HAVING TO DO THIS ON A VERY QUICK BASIS BUT I WANT TOPPED
10:52:31AM ALERT YOU OF THOSE THINGS COMING TO THE BOARD AT THE
10:52:35AM SEPTEMBER MEETING.
10:52:36AM THE SEPTEMBER MEETING MIGHT BE QUITE BUSY CONSIDERING ALL
10:52:41AM THE THINGS WE ARE ASKED FOR AS WELL.
10:52:43AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE QUESTION OF ABOUT THAT.
10:52:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK AND BOARD MEMBER
10:52:48AM CARSON.
10:52:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE A QUESTION.
10:52:50AM IT SEEMS THAT MISS MOODY WAS PUTTING SOME OF THIS INTO PLAY
10:52:53AM ALREADY WITH -- WE ARE NOT DOING THIS OUT OF THIN AIR.
10:53:00AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: NO.
10:53:01AM FRANKLY MEAN -- WE ARE REQUIRED EVERY SPRING TO BRING
10:53:05AM FORWARD A -- YOU KNOW, AN UPDATE OF WHERE OUR PROGRAMS ARE.
10:53:09AM AND, YOU KNOW, FRANKLY YOUR BUDGET, TO SOME DEGREE, DICTATES
10:53:15AM WHAT YOUR PRIORITIES ARE.
10:53:16AM SO THE GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND PERFORMANCE MEASURES WILL BE
10:53:20AM RISING OUT OF THE BUDGET DOCUMENT.
10:53:22AM SO I DON'T THINK IT WILL BE THAT HARD TO PUT TOGETHER SOME
10:53:25AM -- SOME DOCUMENT, BUT WILL SHALL WORKING WITH MR. McCRAY,
10:53:30AM MISS THROWER AND OTHER FOLKS TO TRY TO GET SOMETHING FOR YOU
10:53:33AM ALL TO LOOK AT.
10:53:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARSON.
10:53:35AM >>BILL CARLSON: DID YOU -- SORRY IF YOU SAID THIS.
10:53:38AM BUT I DON'T REMEMBER YOU MENTIONING REPLACING UP IN A SEARCH
10:53:43AM FOR AN OUTSIDE FIRM.
10:53:45AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I MADE A CALL -- HE WAS BACK -- TALKING TO
10:53:48AM MISS THROWER THIS MORNING.
10:53:49AM AID CALL IN TO MR. SHEPHERD WHO IS THE ATTORNEY FOR THE
10:53:52AM FLORIDA REDEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION TO DISCUSS WITH HIM WHAT
10:53:54AM HE MIGHT RECOMMEND.
10:53:55AM SO WE WILL -- WE WILL BE TRYING BRING FORWARD SOME FOCUS ON
10:53:59AM SOME NAMES FOR Y'ALL TO CONSIDER.
10:54:01AM YOU WILL FIND IN THE AGREEMENT THAT I JUST HANDED OUT, I
10:54:04AM ADDED SOME LANGUAGE IN THERE SAYING WHOEVER IS THE CRA
10:54:07AM ATTORNEY IS SUBJECT TO YOUR APPROVAL.
10:54:09AM THAT ARE INDEPENDENT AND NOT AN EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY.
10:54:12AM THEN, YOU KNOW -- IN THIS -- THE CHARTER, THEY CAN'T TAKE
10:54:16AM ANY ACTION THAT WILL EMPLICATE THE CITY -- NOT THE CRA, BUT
10:54:20AM THE CITY, WITHOUT THE CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE APPROVAL.
10:54:23AM CITY ATTORNEY'S APPROVAL.
10:54:25AM VERY MUCH HOW MR. SHELBY OPERATES AS WELL.
10:54:28AM I DON'T THINK IT WILL IMPACT THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE
10:54:31AM PROGRAM.
10:54:31AM BECAUSE THAT NEEDS TO BE BUILT INTO THE DOCUMENT.
10:54:33AM YOU WILL SEE THAT IS PART OF THE AGREEMENT WELL.
10:54:36AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
10:54:37AM I HAVE NEW BUSINESS IF YOU WANT TO START HENDERSON HENDERSON
10:54:40AM ARE YOU READY?
10:54:41AM OKAY.
10:54:41AM NEW BUSINESS.
10:54:44AM OLD BUSINESS CAN GO TOGETHER.
10:54:47AM RIGHT.
10:54:47AM LET'S GO WITH YOU CARLSON.
10:54:49AM YOU WANT TO GO FIRST.
10:54:50AM >>BILL CARLSON: I DON'T CARE.
10:54:52AM IF YOU WANT TO GO --
10:54:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CHARLIE USUALLY GOES FIRST.
10:54:56AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE IT.
10:54:59AM GIVE SOME LOVE.
10:55:02AM >>BILL CARLSON: LOOKING THIS WAY.
10:55:02AM I AM OKAY IF CHARLIE WANTS TO GO FIRST.
10:55:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO, I AM GOOD.
10:55:06AM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU ALTHOUGH I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT THE ARTS
10:55:08AM AND INVOLVED IN THE ARTS.
10:55:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE DO KNOW THAT.
10:55:13AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE ARTS -- EVERY CITY OF THE WORLD, THE
10:55:16AM ARTS ARE THE BEGINNING OF REDEVELOPMENT.
10:55:18AM IN YBOR ARTS MOVED IN '70s AND '80s AND THE ARTISTS MOVED
10:55:28AM OUT NOW PART OF THE REDEVELOPMENT ST. PETE.
10:55:31AM DUNBAR AND NEW YORK BECAUSE OF THE ARTS.
10:55:35AM AND ONE WILLWOOD IN MIAMI, WE CAN GO ON AND ON AND ON.
10:55:38AM I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A STRATEGIC ARTS PERSON
10:55:42AM WORKING FOR THE CRA.
10:55:44AM WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE.
10:55:45AM WE APPROVED IT BEFORE.
10:55:46AM EVERYBODY WENT IN THE DIFFERENT DIRECTION.
10:55:48AM SINCE THE LAST MEETING HE HAD MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS WITH
10:55:51AM THE CHIEF OF STAFF OF AND HE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH MORRIS
10:55:59AM AND ANDREA AND EVERYONE INVOLVED.
10:56:01AM I HAVE A MOTION TO FIX THE ART STAFF SITUATION WRITTEN BY
10:56:04AM THE CHIEF OF STAFF'S OFFICE, SO I AM GOING TO READ IT.
10:56:06AM IT SAYS, IT IS MY UNDER STANDING THAT THE NEWLY HIRED CRA
10:56:10AM ARTS STAFF PERSON WILL BE TRANSITIONING TO A CITY STARTS
10:56:15AM STAFF PERSON UNDER THE SOLE DIRECTION OF ROB INN EN IN NYE
10:56:21AM AND THE CRA WILL BE POSTING FOR A NEW POSITION LIMITED TO
10:56:25AM ONLY CRA ARTS FUNDED PROGRAMS AND PROJECTS.
10:56:28AM BASED ON THIS UNDERSTANDING, I MAKE THE FOLLOWING MOTIONS.
10:56:31AM ONE, I WILL MOVE THAT CITY'S HUMAN RESOURCES STAFF BE
10:56:34AM REQUESTED TO DEVELOP A JOB DESCRIPTION FOR A SEPARATE CRA
10:56:38AM ARTS STAFF PERSON WORK SLOWLY ON CRA RELATED ARTS PROJECTS
10:56:43AM AND PROGRAMS A{ND WILL THE REPORT TO THE CRA DIRECTOR AND
10:56:46AM THAT THEY PROVIDE THE CRA BOARD WITH A DRAFT JOB DESCRIPTION
10:56:50AM FOR THIS POSITION FOR CRA BOARD APPROVAL FOR THE COUNTY'S
10:56:54AM SEPTEMBER 12, 2024 BOARD MEETING AND POSTING AFTER APPROVAL
10:57:00AM OF.
10:57:00AM THE SECOND MOTION PART OF THIS IS THAT I MOVE THAT THE NEWLY
10:57:03AM HIRED ARTS STAFF PERSON SHOULD CONTINUE TO WORK ON BOTH CRA
10:57:07AM AND CITY-RELATED ARTS PROJECTS UNTIL A SEPARATE CRA STAFF
10:57:11AM PERSON IS HIRED AND WILL, UNTIL TIME, WOULD, WITH BOTH
10:57:16AM MISS NYE AND THE CRA DIRECTOR.
10:57:18AM TWO MOTION AND WRITTEN BY THE CHIEF OF STAFF'S OFFICE.
10:57:22AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND.
10:57:23AM BUT --
10:57:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY DISCUSSION?
10:57:26AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:57:26AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SOMETHING OF THE DRAFT.
10:57:33AM IF THAT CAN BE ON BASE SO WE CAN MAKE CHANGES BEFORE YOU
10:57:37AM MEET SO WE CAN GET THAT MOVES.
10:57:38AM THAT IS THE ONLY REQUEST.
10:57:39AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE ONLY THING I WOULD SAY ABOUT THAT, IN
10:57:43AM ORDER TO GET THE ITEM ON BASE, IS SCHEDULING WITH THE
10:57:46AM CLERK'S OFFICE VERY AGGRESSIVE.
10:57:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HOW ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE E-MAILED.
10:57:51AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: MAY BE E-MAILED TO YOU BUT NOT PLACED --
10:57:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WEEK PRIOR TO HAVE TIME TO LOOK AT IT.
10:57:57AM I WOULD APPRECIATE IT IF YOU ADD THAT TO YOUR MOTION.
10:58:02AM FIRST MOTION.
10:58:03AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:58:09AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK WE NEED TIME TOO TALK ABOUT THESE
10:58:14AM THINGS.
10:58:14AM OUR PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS OF $500,000.
10:58:18AM I DON'T NECESSARILY DISAGREE WITH THE CONCEPT AND THE IDEA,
10:58:22AM BUT TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS
10:58:25AM MODEL WITH THE INTEGRATION, WITH THE FOLKS THAT WE HAVE
10:58:28AM WITHIN THE CITY THAT ALREADY HAVE THE SUBJECT MATTER
10:58:31AM EXPERTISE, LIKE -- I FOUND IT FRUSTRATING THAT WE HAVE A CRA
10:58:37AM DISCUSSION THAT THE CRA WASN'T UTILIZING OUR COMMUNICATION
10:58:39AM DEPARTMENT BECAUSE WE HAD THEY KNOWS MORE THAN EVERYBODY THE
10:58:47AM PEOPLE IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE MOBILITY I FOUND IT
10:58:53AM INTERESTING THAT WE ARE NOT USING THE RESOURCES AND TALENT.
10:58:56AM IN THE SAME WAY, DOES THE CRA -- IS THERE REALLY A BUSINESS
10:59:00AM -- A BUSINESS MODEL OR JUSTIFICATION TO HAVE OUR PERSON AS
10:59:05AM THE SCOPE OF THE WORK SUFFICIENT TO JUSTIFIES THE
10:59:10AM STAND-ALONE PERSON THAT WE WOULDN'T -- RATHER THAN USING THE
10:59:13AM ART PEOPLE -- WE ALREADY HAVE, WHAT, TWO OR THREE NOW.
10:59:16AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE JUST HAVE ONE REALLY.
10:59:18AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THIS WILL BE THE SECOND ONE?
10:59:20AM >>BILL CARLSON: INCLUDING THIS PERSON.
10:59:21AM CAN I RESPOND?
10:59:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YEAH, YOU MAY.
10:59:24AM YOU MAY RESPOND, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:59:26AM >>BILL CARLSON: WHAT THIS MOTION SAYS -- AGAIN, I DIDN'T
10:59:29AM WRITE THIS.
10:59:29AM WHAT THIS MOTION SAYS, THEY WILL BRING BACK A DRAFT JOB
10:59:33AM DESCRIPTION.
10:59:33AM SO AT THAT POINT, I THINK WE CAN HAVE A LONGER DISCUSSION
10:59:36AM ABOUT WHAT WE WANT.
10:59:37AM AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A LONGER DISCUSSION TOO.
10:59:39AM I WILL CHANNEL MY CHARLIE MIRANDA.
10:59:41AM I AM ALL FOR THE DISCUSSION.
10:59:43AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE -- THE POSITION THAT WE HAVE -- THE
10:59:47AM CAPABILITY WE HAVE IS MOSTLY FOCUS ON PUBLIC ART WHICH IS
10:59:52AM JUST A SMALL SUBSET OF THE ART INDUSTRY.
10:59:56AM AND WE WILL TALK ABOUT THAT LATER.
10:59:58AM THAT DEPARTMENT ALWAYS NEEDED MORE STAFF AND THEY HAD HALF A
11:00:01AM PERSON FOR A WHILE.
11:00:02AM THIS NOW -- WHAT THE CITY IS SAYING HERE IS THEY ARE
11:00:06AM COMMITTING TO CREATE A -- A PERMANENT PERSON TO ASSIST IN
11:00:10AM THAT DEPARTMENT.
11:00:11AM SO THEY ARE BEEFING UP -- THAT DEPARTMENT IS ALWAYS FOR 20
11:00:16AM YEARS HAVE BEEN UNDERSTAFFED AND THEY ARE AGREEING TO STAFF
11:00:19AM THAT UP AND BRING BACK A JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE CRA
11:00:23AM POSITION AND WE CAN DISCUSS AND DEBATE IT.
11:00:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
11:00:27AM ANY OTHER DISCUSSION?
11:00:29AM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:00:31AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE DOLLAR AMOUNT IS.
11:00:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FOR THE DIRECTOR POSITION?
11:00:38AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHOEVER THEY ARE GOING TO CHOOSE.
11:00:39AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THE ART DIRECT HER IN.
11:00:42AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: SOMETHING WILL BE DISCUSSED MAYBE NEXT
11:00:45AM MONTH WHEN YOU TALK OF THE POSTING.
11:00:46AM YOU WOULD LOOK TALKING OF THE SALARY RANGE AT THAT POINT IN
11:00:49AM TIME.
11:00:50AM BUT IT IS ANOTHER AMOUNT AND SOMETHING THAT WILL BE COMING
11:00:54AM OUT OF THE CRA BUDGET NOT THE CITY BUDGET.
11:00:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: COMING OUT OF OUR BUDGET.
11:01:01AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:01:02AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:01:04AM AND THIS IS WHY -- OBVIOUSLY WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE SALARY
11:01:08AM ISSUE -- OH, THANKS.
11:01:10AM WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THE SAL VIS ISSUE IS REASONABLE.
11:01:13AM I WILL BE SUPPORTING THIS.
11:01:14AM AND SUPPORTING IT AFTERWARDS FOR DISCUSSION BECAUSE
11:01:19AM DISABILITY PARK ISSUE.
11:01:20AM REASON I MOTION IT UNDER CRA PARKS AND CITY OF TAMPA BECAUSE
11:01:25AM WE CAN MAKE A BIG CONCENTRATED IMPACT WITH THAT AND WE
11:01:28AM OBVIOUSLY ARE.
11:01:31AM FOR A LOT OF AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN BLIGHTED, WE COULD MAKE A
11:01:34AM VERY CONCENTRATED IMPACT WITH IT.
11:01:36AM SO I THINK THE IDEA IS EVEN IF.
11:01:38AM OBVIOUSLY I DON'T WANT TO BREAK THE BANK ON IT, BUT THAT'S
11:01:42AM WHAT I WILL BE SUPPORTING.
11:01:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:01:47AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ALL PARKS WITHIN THE CITY -- ONE YOU HAVE
11:01:50AM THE STANDARD THAT YOU DID AND DILIGENT WHERE YOU ARE AT AND
11:01:54AM CONTINUED TO HAVE THE PROGRESS OF THAT ON ALL CITY PARKS.
11:01:57AM THEY HAVE TO DO IT BECAUSE THEY ARE WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.
11:02:01AM I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.
11:02:03AM I'M NOT A LAWYER, BUT IF WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT IS GOING ON
11:02:06AM IN EVERY CITY PARK.
11:02:07AM THEY, THEMSELVES, HAVE TO DO IT WHETHER THEY LIKE IT OR NOT.
11:02:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
11:02:14AM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
11:02:15AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:02:16AM ANY OPPOSED?
11:02:17AM MOTION CARRIES.
11:02:18AM OKAY.
11:02:19AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I READ ONE MORE?
11:02:21AM SORRY, ONE MORE.
11:02:22AM I MENTIONED EARLIER THAT -- SORRY, HE THOUGHT OF THIS WHEN
11:02:27AM WE WERE WORKING TODAY, BUT THERE IS A SET PROCESS BY -- BY
11:02:31AM ORDINANCE THAT GUIDES PUBLIC ART, BUT I THINK THAT WE NEED
11:02:36AM TO ADD AN EXTRA STEP FOR CRA FOR CRA APPROVAL.
11:02:39AM SO I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO CREATE A CRA POLICY THAT
11:02:45AM ANY CRA PUBLIC ART MUST BE PRESENTED OR APPROVED BY THE CAC
11:02:51AM OR CRA BOARD IN ADDITION TO ADHERING TO RELEVANT CITY
11:02:56AM ORDINANCES.
11:02:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
11:02:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY DISCUSSION ON THAT?
11:02:58AM MY -- BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:03:01AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WAS GOING TO SAY THIS AND HERE AGAIN
11:03:04AM YEARS AGO, I BELIEVE THAT SOME COUNCIL WAY BACK, 25, 30
11:03:07AM YEARS AGO HAD AN ORDINANCE THAT ANY BUILDING IN THE CITY OF
11:03:12AM TAMPA, SUCH AMOUNT OF MONEY TO GIVE 1% TO PARK.
11:03:16AM IS THAT STILL IN EFFECT?
11:03:20AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: UP TO 200,000.
11:03:21AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF THAT IS THE CITY POLICY.
11:03:24AM >>LYNN HURTAK: A STATE POLICY.
11:03:25AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: A STATE POLICY.
11:03:27AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CODIFIED IN THE CITY CODE.
11:03:29AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: DOES THAT MEAN THAT EVEN IF WE DON'T PASS
11:03:32AM IT, THEY STILL HAVE TO DO IT, BECAUSE THEY ARE WITHIN THE
11:03:35AM CITY?
11:03:36AM >>BILL CARLSON: SO THAT --
11:03:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
11:03:39AM >>BILL CARLSON: THIS IS NOT ADVOCATING FOR A BUDGET OR
11:03:42AM ANYTHING.
11:03:42AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I UNDERSTAND.
11:03:44AM >>BILL CARLSON: THIS IS SAYING IF THE CRA FUNDS SOMETHING,
11:03:47AM WE NEED CRA APPROVAL -- SORRY, CAC APPROVAL AND CRA BOARD
11:03:52AM APPROVAL OF IT.
11:03:53AM THAT'S ALL.
11:03:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY.
11:03:56AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: AGAIN, THIS WILL NOT APPLY TO ALL PUBLIC
11:03:59AM ARTS PROJECTS.
11:04:00AM IT WILL JUST BE APPLICABLE TO CRA PROJECTS.
11:04:03AM I WILL SAY INSTEAD OF CAC APPROVAL, A CAC RECOMMENDATIONS.
11:04:08AM CACS DO NOT MAKE ANY DECISIONS.
11:04:10AM YOU ALL MAKE THE DECISIONS.
11:04:12AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: RIGHT.
11:04:13AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:04:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:04:16AM YOU WANT TO TALK?
11:04:18AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I DO.
11:04:19AM I THOUGHT WE ALREADY HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH THE
11:04:22AM CONVENTION CENTER ART INSTALLATION PIECE WENT IN.
11:04:25AM MY ONLY CONCERN -- AND I THINK I USE CHARLIE AS AN EXAMPLE,
11:04:29AM OF THE SEVEN ELECTED OFFICIALS MAKING DECISIONS ON ART.
11:04:32AM I DIDN'T WANT CHARLIE MIRANDA MAKING A DECISION ON ART
11:04:36AM BECAUSE ALL HORSES.
11:04:37AM NOTHING BUT HORSES AROUND THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:04:39AM [LAUGHTER]
11:04:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HORSE AS SOON AS.
11:04:43AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO IT IS LIKE -- YOU KNOW, YOU HIRE THESE
11:04:46AM ART EXPERTS.
11:04:47AM AND SOMETIMES MAYBE IT IS NOT MY CUP OF TEA, BUT I DON'T
11:04:51AM KNOW -- I DON'T KNOW IF WE SHOULD BE MAKING DECISIONS ON
11:04:55AM ART?
11:04:55AM I THINK THE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS SHOULD BE DOING THAT.
11:04:58AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THIS BRINGS UP A LEGAL ISSUE -- WE NEED TO
11:05:05AM BE CAREFUL AND LOOK AT THIS.
11:05:06AM I FRANKLY CAN'T ADVISE YOU ALL TODAY WITHOUT THINKING THIS
11:05:09AM TRUE WITH MORE THAT WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL SETTING UP
11:05:12AM POLICIES THAT ARE CONTRADICTORY TO ORDINANCES AND
11:05:20AM PROCEDURES.
11:05:20AM IF IT DOESN'T HAVE TO GO TO THE PUBLIC ART PROCESS AND
11:05:29AM PROCEDURE.
11:05:29AM IF YOU GO THROUGH THE PUBLIC ART PROCESS OF CHAPTER 4
11:05:33AM SETTING UP A POLICY THAT CONTRADICTS WHAT THE ORDINANCE IS.
11:05:37AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE MOTION SAYS IN ADDITION TO ADHERING CITY
11:05:40AM ORDINANCES.
11:05:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:05:43AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU, I -- IT SEEMS VERY CLEARLY --
11:05:47AM CLEAR RATHER THAT WE HAVE TO APPROVE ANY FUNDING THAT
11:05:52AM THE CRA WANTS TO DO AND QUITE FRANKLY, I DON'T THINK ANY OF
11:05:57AM US WILL APPROVE SOMETHING THAT WE HAVEN'T SEEN.
11:05:59AM I'M NOT GOING TO APPROVE A THEORY.
11:06:02AM FOR ME, IT IS NOT AGAIN, I HAVE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT -- I
11:06:08AM AM A VERY OUTSIDER ART, FOLK ART, VERY OUT THERE KIND OF
11:06:15AM ARTIST.
11:06:15AM THAT IS THE KIND OF ART I LIKE.
11:06:17AM BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT I CAN'T APPRECIATE OTHER TPD OF
11:06:21AM ART.
11:06:22AM I THINK IF I KNOW THE STORY BEHIND THE ART, IF IT IS JUST
11:06:25AM HORSES -- I THINK I CAN APPRECIATE HORSES.
11:06:28AM SO I -- I THINK THAT YOU ARE -- YOU ARE SELLING US SHORT ON
11:06:34AM WHAT WE CAN APPRECIATE AND WHAT WE CAN SEE.
11:06:36AM SO I -- I --
11:06:39AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I JUST THINK POLITICIANS SHOULDN'T --
11:06:42AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT I THINK YOU SELL US
11:06:45AM SHORT AS PEOPLE WITHOUT VARIED INTEREST AND BACKGROUNDS.
11:06:48AM WE ARE ABLE TO SEE THE COMMON GOOD IN A LOT OF THE DIFFERENT
11:06:51AM THINGS WE DO.
11:06:51AM I THINK WE SHOULD TRUST OURSELVES TO BE ABLE TO SAY, THIS IS
11:06:55AM INTERESTING.
11:06:55AM NOT REALLY MY THING, BUT I THINK IT IS LOVELY, YOU KNOW WHAT
11:06:59AM I MEAN.
11:06:59AM SO -- I SUPPORT COUNCILMAN CARLSON'S MOTION.
11:07:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
11:07:06AM ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
11:07:09AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DID WE HAVE A SECOND.
11:07:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GUIDO DID.
11:07:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I DID.
11:07:14AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
11:07:16AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:07:17AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NAY.
11:07:20AM CH.
11:07:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER OPPOSED.
11:07:23AM TWO NAYS?
11:07:26AM MOTION CARRIES.
11:07:26AM HENDERSON AND CLENDENIN VOTED NO.
11:07:29AM OKAY.
11:07:30AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:07:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:07:33AM MY FIRST MOTION, I WANT TO RESCIND MY SEPTEMBER 12 MOTION
11:07:36AM FOR A LIST OF PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE BECAUSE MELISSA
11:07:40AM MARTINEZ ALREADY DOES THAT.
11:07:42AM AND SHE DOES A BEAUTIFUL JOB.
11:07:43AM AND IT IS REALLY LOVELY, BUT I MOVE TO HAVE INTERIM DIRECTOR
11:07:48AM McCRAY OR ANY DIRECTOR POST THE CRA -- IT IS CALLED THE "CRA
11:07:53AM PROJECT TRACKER REPORT" TO ON BAILS EACH MONTH UNDER THE
11:07:57AM DIRECTOR'S REPORT ON THE CRA AGENDA NOT NECESSARILY TO BE
11:08:02AM TALKED ABOUT BUT TO GET A LOOK AT WHERE THINGS ARE.
11:08:05AM I NOTE THAT IT WILL BE WAY AHEAD OF TIME, BUT GIVE US AN
11:08:08AM IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON.
11:08:09AM GIVE THE PUBLIC AN IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON.
11:08:11AM MILLS MARTINEZ ALREADY ROUTINELY BRINGS THIS TO THE CAC.
11:08:15AM THEY EXPECT IT.
11:08:16AM IT IS PART OF THEIR AGENDA.
11:08:18AM I THINK IT IS JUST FABULOUS.
11:08:19AM I CAN'T I WANT TO SHOW IT TO PEOPLE BUT THAT IS MY MOTION,
11:08:23AM TO RESCIND THE SEPTEMBER 12 AND ADD IT TO THE DIRECTOR
11:08:28AM REPORT IN THE CRA AGENDA AND ON BASE GOING FORWARD.
11:08:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
11:08:34AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:08:35AM SECOND BY MIRANDA.
11:08:37AM ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
11:08:38AM MOTION CARRIES.
11:08:39AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
11:08:40AM THEN THE SECOND THING I WANTED TO BRING FORWARD, MR. MASSEY.
11:08:44AM THESE -- THIS IS THE -- WE RECEIVED TWO WEEKS AGO THE JOB
11:08:52AM DESCRIPTION FOR THE CRA DIRECTOR.
11:08:54AM AND YOU ALL GOT A COPY OF THIS LAST -- TWO WEEKS AGO.
11:08:58AM BUT AS I HAVE GONE HOW THAT IT, THERE IS JUST DRASTIC
11:09:02AM CHANGES THAT NEED TO BE MADE TO THIS.
11:09:03AM THE FIRST IS BASICALLY THAT THEY CONSIDER THIS IS A CITY
11:09:08AM EMPLOYEE OR A -- SERVING AT THE PLEASURE OF THE MAYOR AND
11:09:13AM THE BOARD AND THAT IS NOT THE CASE INCLUDING A LOT OF
11:09:16AM THINGS, A LOT OF WORK BEING DONE FOR THE CITY.
11:09:18AM SO I -- I REALLY, REALLY WANT US TO TAKE A SOLID LOOK AT
11:09:25AM THIS.
11:09:25AM AND BRING BACK CHANGES.
11:09:28AM THIS -- JUST -- JUST FOR THE FACT THAT THIS WAS ACTUALLY NOT
11:09:32AM DONE FOR MISS MOODY.
11:09:33AM IT WAS DONE FOR THE PERSON THAT WE TRIED TO HIRE.
11:09:37AM AND, GOSH, THINGS ARE DIFFERENT NOW AND MILLS MOODY DID A
11:09:41AM WONDERFUL JOB OF BRINGING STUFF TOGETHER.
11:09:43AM REALLY CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF THIS.
11:09:45AM SO I WANT TO REITERATE AND I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THAT THE CRA
11:09:52AM BOARD BRING BACK THEIR -- THEIR SUGGESTIONS FOR THIS.
11:09:55AM I'M GOING -- I AM GOING TO PIGGYBACK ON MR. MASSEY AND ASK
11:09:58AM FOR THOSE -- ANY EDITS YOU WANT TO BE MADE TO THIS TO BE
11:10:03AM BROUGHT FORWARD ON -- RIGHT AFTER LABOR DAY SO WE CAN REALLY
11:10:07AM GO FORWARD AND HAVE A FULL --
11:10:13AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST, AGAIN, BECAUSE YOU ARE A SUNSHINE
11:10:16AM BOARD AND YOU CAN'T COMMUNICATE TO ONE ANOTHER OUTSIDE OF A
11:10:20AM MEETING.
11:10:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, BUT MR. -- THIS IS GOING TO BE SIMILAR
11:10:24AM THE WAY MR. CLENDENIN DID THE -- THE THING FOR THE BUDGET
11:10:28AM ANALYST WHERE HIS LEGISLATIVE AIDE MR. HEBERLEIN TOOK THOSE
11:10:37AM SUGGESTIONS AND PUT IT TOGETHER.
11:10:38AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE CAN SEND IT TO DARLENE, YOU ARE
11:10:40AM SAYING?
11:10:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF DARLENE WANTS TO DO THAT, THAT WILL BE
11:10:44AM GREAT.
11:10:44AM BOARD MEMBER CARSON HAS EVER OFFERED TO DO THAT.
11:10:48AM >>BILL CARLSON: IF DARLENE WILL DO IT.
11:10:50AM THAT WILL BE GREAT.
11:10:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT WILL BE LOVELY.
11:10:52AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: HELPFUL IF DARLENE WILL COMMUNICATE
11:10:58AM WITH HR.
11:10:59AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DARLENE CAN TACKLE THAT.
11:11:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: AWESOME.
11:11:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GO AHEAD.
11:11:03AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I COMMENT?
11:11:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES, GO AHEAD CARLSON CARE WENT THROUGH
11:11:07AM AND UNDERLINED SOMETHING IN EVERY SENTENCE.
11:11:09AM BUT BROAD BRUSH THINGS.
11:11:10AM THE VERY FIRST LINE SAYS "WORK OF UNUSUAL DIFFICULTY."
11:11:15AM THE REASON WHY THE POSITION IS DIFFICULT AND THE REASON WHY
11:11:18AM PEOPLE ARE SCARED TO TAKE IT IS BECAUSE THEY PERCEIVE A
11:11:21AM CONFLICT BETWEEN ADMINISTRATION AND THE CRA BOARD.
11:11:23AM WE CAN RESOLVE THOSE CONFLICTS IN THE SERVICES AGREEMENT BY
11:11:28AM BEING CLEARER AND ALSO BY BETTER DESCRIBING THIS.
11:11:30AM THIS HALLS A LOT OF ERRORS IN IT IN THE WEIGH IT IS WRITTEN.
11:11:34AM IN THE SECOND -- THE SECOND SENTENCE IT TALKS ABOUT --
11:11:39AM INCLUDES A WIDE RANGE OF REDEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC
11:11:42AM DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES.
11:11:43AM IF YOU GO BACK TO OUR STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE WROTE, WE WERE
11:11:47AM VERY CAREFUL OF CHOOSING THE WORDS, AND NOTHING FROM OUR
11:11:50AM STRATEGIC PLAN IS IN THERE.
11:11:52AM IN FACT, THE STRATEGIC PLAN SHOULD BE COPIED IN THIS.
11:11:56AM THE FIRST LINE OF THE SECOND PARAGRAPH, SUPPORT THE BOARD'S
11:12:00AM MISSION TO PROVIDE CUSTOMER SAT ORPHANING OF HIGH LEVEL OF
11:12:04AM PRODUCTIVITY AND EFFICIENCY.
11:12:05AM NOT OUR MISSION.
11:12:06AM THAT IS NOT THE MISSION STATEMENT WE WROTE.
11:12:09AM GOES ON AND ON AND ONLY.
11:12:11AM SECOND PAGE, IT SAYS, CITY, CITY, CITY, CITY.
11:12:16AM CUT AND PASTE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE.
11:12:18AM BUT NEEDS TO SAY CRA BECAUSE IT NEEDS TO BE CLEAR.
11:12:22AM AND A COPY OF THE SERVICES APRIL AGREEMENT SHOULD BE
11:12:24AM ATTACHED TOO SO CLEARLY WHAT THEY CAN DO AND CAN'T DO.
11:12:28AM THE OTHER THING IS THAT IN THE ORIGINAL SERVICES AGREEMENT
11:12:33AM THAT -- THAT I HOOKED AT FIVE YEARS AGO, AND I HELPED
11:12:36AM REWRITE IT, IT WAS ALL OF -- ALL THE THINGS THAT -- THAT --
11:12:40AM THAT THE CITY WAS SUPPOSED TO DO WERE ALL RELATED TO REAL
11:12:44AM ESTATE DEVELOPMENT.
11:12:44AM AND WE KNOW THAT -- YOU KNOW, WHAT WE ARE -- WHAT ERICA WAS
11:12:53AM FOCUSED ON THE C INSTEAD OF THE R.
11:12:56AM NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT REAL ESTATE.
11:12:57AM YOU LOOK AT THIS, IT IS ALL ABOUT REAL ESTATE.
11:12:59AM USING THE MODEL FIVE, SIX YEARS AGO NOT THE NEW MODEL IN THE
11:13:03AM SERVICE AGREEMENT.
11:13:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TAKING THAT ON
11:13:07AM BECAUSE SUCH AN IMPORTANT THING AND REALLY ALLOWS US TO PUT
11:13:11AM OUR NEW STAMP USING ALL THE STUFF THAT WE WORKED SO HARD AND
11:13:14AM MISS MOODY WORKED SO HARD AND THE CRA TEAM HAS WORKED SO
11:13:18AM HARD TO PUT INTO PROCESS.
11:13:20AM I AM VERY EXCITED BECAUSE I THINK WE WILL BE ABLE TO GET
11:13:23AM BETTER QUALITY CANDIDATES IF -- YOU KNOW, IF WE SHARE THE
11:13:27AM EXCITEMENT, PASSION AND WHAT WE ARE REALLY FOCUSING ON.
11:13:30AM I AM VERY EXCITED ABOUT IT AND EXCITED TO BRING IT BACK TO
11:13:34AM YOUR ATTENTION.
11:13:35AM MY MOTION IS THAT FOLKS BRING THEIR EDITS TO MISS JOHNSON BY
11:13:40AM -- SEND THEIR HE HAD TO ITS MISS JOHNSON BY THE DAY AFTER
11:13:44AM LABOR DAY.
11:13:44AM >> SECOND.
11:13:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NIP FURTHER DISCUSSION?
11:13:51AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:13:51AM OPPOSE?
11:13:52AM MOTION CARRIES.
11:13:53AM MANISCALCO.
11:13:54AM THE QUIET ONE.
11:13:55AM OKAY.
11:13:57AM ONE MORE?
11:13:58AM YOU ARE DONE?
11:14:00AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:14:01AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: JUST AN UPDATE WITH THE ISSUE WITH THE
11:14:04AM STREETCAR.
11:14:04AM ONE, YOU KNOW IT TAKES ALMOST A YEAR TO BUILD A FENCE AROUND
11:14:08AM A CEMETERY.
11:14:09AM IT IS JUST -- IT IS JUST MINDS BOGGLING HOW SLOW THINGS GO.
11:14:15AM THE STREETCAR SAME THING.
11:14:17AM QUITE SOME TIME WHEN THE CRA ALLOCATED $5 MILLION TO THE --
11:14:22AM TO BEGIN THE PROCESS OF THE STUDY.
11:14:24AM WELL, THE GOOD NEWS IS, NEXT WEEK, THE RFP WILL GO OUT TO
11:14:31AM UPDATE THE STUDY.
11:14:32AM WE ARE -- NOW WE HAVE TO HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE FUNDS.
11:14:35AM WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT FEDERAL TRANSPORTATION AGENCY FUNDS.
11:14:38AM SO -- TO BE ABLE TO FUND THE SAME THING.
11:14:41AM AND SO THE THINGS ARE CLICK ALONG WELL.
11:14:43AM I KNOW MORRIS HAS BUDGET IN A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS EXPANDING
11:14:48AM THE SERVICE DISTRICT.
11:14:50AM I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT IS, MORRIS.
11:14:52AM DO YOU --
11:14:53AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I HAVE NOT HAD ANY RECENT CONVERSATIONS BUT
11:14:58AM CHECK WITH MR. BHIDE.
11:14:59AM THE MAJOR THING THAT WILL BE INVOLVED WITH THAT A CONSULTANT
11:15:04AM WILL HAVE TO BE ENGAGED AND WE WILL HAVE TO SET FORTH THE
11:15:07AM JUSTIFICATION FOR ASSESSING THAT.
11:15:08AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT IS THE NEXT STEP IS TO ENSURE THAT --
11:15:12AM AS WE MOVE WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE ACTUAL ART, PUT OUT
11:15:15AM A RFP FOR THE PROJECT ITSELF.
11:15:18AM INTERESTING TO GET THAT DONE BALLS FEDERAL FUNDING AND
11:15:21AM EVERYTHING ELSE IS DEPENDENT HOW WE SUPPORT THE STREETCAR
11:15:24AM AFTER IT IS CONSTRUCTED.
11:15:26AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THAT'S CORRECT.
11:15:28AM THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT IS LARGELY OF COVERING THE OPERATING
11:15:32AM COST OF THE SYSTEM.
11:15:33AM AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I KNOW THAT REVENUE AND FINANCE
11:15:40AM AND MOBILITY ARE LOOKING AT.
11:15:42AM RIGHT NOW ONLY BUSINESSES ARE ASSESSED WITHIN THE CURRENT
11:15:45AM GEOGRAPHIC AREA AND CONVERSATION WHETHER THAT NEEDS TO BE
11:15:48AM EXPANDED AND THE DISTRICT AND ALSO THE MAKE-UP OF THE BOARD
11:15:52AM THAT WE DRAMATICALLY CHANGE AND HAVE THAT INTO IT.
11:15:55AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I APPRECIATE THAT.
11:15:57AM YOU WILL STICK AROUND FOR THAT, RIGHT?
11:16:00AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: NO PROBLEM.
11:16:01AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PEOPLE COME AND GO SO QUICKLY AROUND HERE.
11:16:04AM IT IS LIKE --
11:16:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
11:16:06AM BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
11:16:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WANT TO THANK COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN FOR
11:16:11AM HIS LEADERSHIP ON THE STREETCAR.
11:16:12AM IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT -- HISTORICAL AND TRANS FORMATIONAL
11:16:17AM ISSUE.
11:16:17AM YOU WANT TO SAY HELLO TO MRS. MARTHA VILA IN THE AUDIENCE
11:16:22AM TODAY.
11:16:23AM SHE IS HERE AND THAT'S IT.
11:16:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:16:27AM >>LUIS VIERA: I DIDN'T SEE HER.
11:16:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MISS VILA, GOOD MORNING.
11:16:35AM >> I SEE YOU EVERY WEEK ON MY TELEVISION.
11:16:38AM YOU LOOK THE SAME.
11:16:39AM IT IS HONOR FOR ME TO BE HERE.
11:16:42AM I HAVE BEEN HERE FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
11:16:44AM AND MOST OF THE TIME Y'ALL ASK MY AGE.
11:16:46AM LAST YEAR I MADE A PROMISE TO YOU THAT IF THE PARK WAS
11:16:51AM FINISHED, WE WOULD TOGETHER CELEBRATE IT AT THE PARK ON MY
11:16:56AM 90th BIRTHDAY.
11:16:57AM SATURDAY, I WILL BE 91.
11:16:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
11:17:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHAT A BLESSING.
11:17:03AM >> AN HONOR TO THANK YOU.
11:17:05AM I AM PROUD TO BE A CITIZEN OF TAMPA I AM PROUD TO BE AN
11:17:08AM AMERICAN.
11:17:08AM AND I AM PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES OF ALL THAT DEFENDED THIS
11:17:13AM COUNTRY.
11:17:13AM I ORDERED SOME LITTLE SNACKS BUT THEY HAVEN'T BEEN
11:17:18AM DELIVERED.
11:17:19AM BUT I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR ALL
11:17:23AM YOU HAVE DONE.
11:17:23AM I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN.
11:17:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH, MISS VILA.
11:17:29AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE KNEW YOU WERE THERE, I WOULD WEAR
11:17:33AM THE TIE YOU GAVE ME.
11:17:34AM A BEAUTIFUL TIE.
11:17:36AM HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
11:17:38AM HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
11:17:40AM HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
11:17:43AM HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTHA
11:17:45AM HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU
11:17:48AM AND MANY MORE
11:17:50AM >>> THANK YOU, AND GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
11:17:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:17:56AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:17:58AM SPEAKING OF MISS VILA WHO IS HERE.
11:18:01AM HE WANTED TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION ON AN
11:18:05AM IMPORTANT VETERAN ISSUE THAT I KNOW MISS VILA WOULD CARE
11:18:10AM ABOUT.
11:18:10AM YESTERDAY, WE HAD ON THE AGENDA AND IT WAS RECEIVED AND
11:18:13AM FILED THE ISSUE ON THE WORLD WAR I AFRICAN-AMERICAN SOLDIERS
11:18:18AM MEMORIAL.
11:18:18AM YESTERDAY AT COUNTY COMMISSION, COMMISSIONER JOSH WASTAL
11:18:23AM MAILED A MOTION TO APPROPRIATE UP TO $10,000 FOR THE
11:18:26AM RESTORATION OF THAT MARKER.
11:18:27AM THE GENESIS OF THAT WALLS, WE HAD A COMMUNITY CLEANUP OF
11:18:31AM MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY THAT IS HOME TO A LOT OF OUR
11:18:34AM VETERANS, MOSTLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN VETERANS.
11:18:39AM ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF AGO WHEN THE COMMISSIONER SPENT TWO
11:18:43AM HOURS TOGETHER AND WE BECAME FRIENDS OUT THERE CLEANING A
11:18:46AM CEMETERY.
11:18:46AM AND I PROPOSED TO HIM AT THE TIME THAT THE COUNTY AND THE
11:18:51AM CITY WORK TOGETHER.
11:18:52AM AND WE ARE DOING THAT ON THIS MARKER, ON THIS -- ON THIS
11:18:57AM MEMORIAL MARKER THAT IS -- GOSH, 100 -- MARKED 100 YEARS.
11:19:02AM AND YOU KNOW, COMMISSION THE COMMISSIONER HIMSELF IS A NAVY
11:19:06AM VETERAN.
11:19:07AM SO SOMETHING THAT IS OBVIOUSLY IN HIS HEART.
11:19:09AM AND I BELIEVE IN THE CITY WORKING WITH THE COUNTY.
11:19:12AM AND I WILL ALSO BELIEVE -- AND I WILL SAY IT.
11:19:16AM A REGISTERED DEMOCRAT.
11:19:18AM I AM A REGISTERED REPUBLICAN.
11:19:20AM WE DON'T AGREE ON A LOTTED THINGS, BUT WE AGREE ON VETERANS
11:19:24AM EVEN THOUGH WE ARE VERY FRIENDLY.
11:19:25AM I WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY YESTERDAY
11:19:28AM FOR DOING THAT.
11:19:29AM THE MEMORIAL MARKET IS VERY IMPORTANT.
11:19:32AM AND THERE WAS WORLD WAR I SOLDIERS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS
11:19:37AM REST THERE ETERNALLY AT MEMORIAL PARK CEMETERY.
11:19:40AM AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT KNOW, A LOT OF THOSE
11:19:43AM RETURNING THAT RETURNED HOME FOR WORLD WAR I DEMANDED THOSE
11:19:48AM RIGHTS.
11:19:48AM AND THAT IS WHERE YOU SAW A MASSIVE UPDATE IN RACIAL
11:19:53AM VIOLENCE AND LEVERAGING INCIDENTS AND ETC. AFTER WORLD WAR
11:19:58AM I.
11:19:58AM THAT PARTICULAR MARKER IS SOMETHING VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
11:20:01AM I DID WANT TO I WILL GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
11:20:05AM TO COMMISSIONER TO OUR WONDERFUL CRA STAFF, TO THE CEMETERY
11:20:10AM SOCIETY FOLKS THAT ARE WORKING WITH US ON THIS.
11:20:12AM THIS IS GOING TO BE A WIN FOR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION.
11:20:16AM A WIN FOR HISTORY.
11:20:17AM AND A WHEN FOR THIS CEMETERY THAT HAS CERTAINLY SEEN ITS
11:20:21AM SHARE OF CONTROVERSY.
11:20:25AM PLANNED McCRAY, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THAT.
11:20:28AM GIVE YOU A PUBLIC SHOUT OUT TO THE COUNTY AND THE
11:20:30AM COMMISSIONER.
11:20:31AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:20:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:20:33AM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:20:35AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO FOLLOW UP WITH COUNCILMAN VIERA
11:20:38AM SAID.
11:20:38AM NOT ONLY ONE COMMISSION, BUT ASK THE OTHER COMMISSION WHO
11:20:42AM WILL VOTE FOR IT TO SAY THANK YOU TOO.
11:20:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
11:20:47AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: BEFORE YOU DO THAT.
11:20:48AM COUPLE OF THINGS REAL QUICK.
11:20:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY.
11:20:53AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WANTED TO CHECK WITH THE CLERK.
11:20:55AM DID WE APPROVE ITEM NUMBER, THE DOWNTOWN REALLOCATION OF THE
11:20:58AM STREETCAR.
11:21:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE DID DO THAT.
11:21:01AM WE HAD THE APPROVAL.
11:21:03AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: OKAY.
11:21:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES, WE DID.
11:21:06AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE OTHER THING MR. McCRAY WANTED ME TO
11:21:09AM MENTION AND A MOTION FROM THE CLEAR OR FROM A MEMBER OF THE
11:21:12AM BOARD -- AND THIS IS SUBJECT TO FRANKLY MY REVIEW AND WE
11:21:16AM HAVE A LOT GOING ON IN SETTLEMENT, BUT IF I CAN GET MY
11:21:19AM REVIEW DONE OF BOTH THE UPDATE OF THE COMMUNITY
11:21:22AM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN FOR CENTRAL PARK AND TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVER
11:21:25AM FRONT, WITH WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THOSE -- A MOTION TO
11:21:29AM SCHEDULE FOR PRESENTATION OF THE UPDATE OF THOSE.
11:21:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:21:33AM DID YOU GET THE SECOND FROM -- IT WAS VIERA.
11:21:35AM IT WAS LOUDER.
11:21:39AM >>LUIS VIERA: I WANT TO OBJECT THAT JOHN BENNETT WALKED OUT
11:21:44AM WITHOUT A JACKET ON.
11:21:45AM YOU WEIRDED -- NO, I AM JOKING.
11:21:48AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: LOVE FOR MISS VILA.
11:21:52AM AND IT PASSED.
11:21:57AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
11:21:58AM NOW IT IS MY TURN.
11:22:00AM I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS AND
11:22:05AM CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
11:22:06AM I WASN'T FEELING WELL LAST WEEK.
11:22:08AM I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR FLOWERS.
11:22:11AM YOUR SMALL GIFTS OF APPRECIATION THINKING OF ME AT THAT
11:22:14AM TIME.
11:22:15AM SO I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.
11:22:17AM I WANT TO SAY IT PUBLICLY TO SHOW PROOF THAT WE ACTUALLY DO
11:22:22AM GET ALONG.
11:22:23AM CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
11:22:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
11:22:26AM >> SECOND.
11:22:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOOM.
11:22:27AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
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