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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 2024, 9:00 A.M.

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09:01:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN YOU PLEASE STAND?
09:01:07AM GOOD MORNING.
09:01:08AM WHAT IS YOUR FULL NAME?
09:01:15AM OKAY.
09:01:16AM THAT IS NOT ON YOUR BIO.
09:01:20AM THANK YOU.
09:01:20AM WE HAVE PASTOR CLARENCE M. NATHAN, PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN
09:01:27AM THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:01:27AM HE IS A PASTOR FOR 15 YEARS AND A GRADUATE OF SHAW
09:01:31AM UNIVERSITY,
09:01:32AM AND UNIVERSITY AND DIVINITY SCHOOL WHERE HE COMPLETED HIS
09:01:36AM UNDERGRAD STUDIES AND MASTERS OF MINISTRY AND WORKING AT
09:01:40AM FAITH SEMINARY AND CHRISTIAN COLLEGE.
09:01:42AM A PROUD MEMBER OF THE FEARLESS FOUR THAT CHANGED THE
09:01:46AM STRUCTURE OF CITY OF TAMPA GOVERNMENT.
09:01:49AM MARRIED TO CARVER CITY HOME GIRL DEIDRE, HIS WIFE OF 20
09:01:57AM YEARS.
09:01:57AM HE HAS ONE SON WHO IS CURRENTLY SERVING AS A POLICE OFFICER
09:02:01AM FOR OUR GREAT CITY OF TAMPA.
09:02:02AM WELCOME FOR THE INVOCATION.
09:02:04AM >> THANK YOU.
09:02:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PLEASE STAND.
09:02:10AM >> MOST GRACIOUS EVERLASTING FATHER GOD, WE COME HONOR TO
09:02:16AM GIVE YOU PRAISE OF THANKS GIVING FOR YOUR HIGH AND MIGHTY
09:02:21AM NAME.
09:02:21AM WE CHOOSE YOU REJOICE AND BE GLAD WITH HIM.
09:02:23AM WE INVITE AND INVOKE YOUR PRESENCE AND POWER INTO THIS
09:02:28AM COUNCIL CHAMBER MOVE AMONG THESE HONORABLE SERVANTS, DEAR
09:02:32AM GOD, AS THEY MOVE FORWARD TO LEAD THIS CITY AND LEAD THEM
09:02:36AM AND GUIDE THEM IN THE NAME OF JESUS.
09:02:37AM WE PRAY FOR OUR MAYOR.
09:02:38AM WE PRAY FOR OUR CITY COUNCIL.
09:02:40AM WE PRAY FOR THE MEMBERS OF OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, FATHER,
09:02:44AM GOD, OF THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
09:02:47AM BLESS US AS WE FORWARD AS A CITY.
09:02:51AM WE REMEMBER THOSE WERE TAKEN 23 YEARS AGO ON 9/11.
09:02:54AM WE ASK THAT YOU BLESS AND CARE FOR THE SURVIVORS AND HELP US
09:02:59AM TO CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR YOU FOR OUR HEALTH AND STRENGTH.
09:03:01AM AND ALL BLESSINGS IN THE GLORIOUS NAME OF CHRIST OUR SAVIOR
09:03:06AM AND LORD.
09:03:07AM AMEN.
09:03:07AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
09:03:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PASTOR NATHAN, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
09:03:23AM >> ONE CORRECTION ON THERE.
09:03:25AM MY MASTER'S DEGREE WAS ON THERE, BUT I AM A CANDIDATE FOR
09:03:30AM THE DOCTORAL PROGRAM.
09:03:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I SAID YOU ARE SEEKING IT.
09:03:34AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:03:35AM >> THANK YOU.
09:03:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN I GET A MOTION TO ADOPT -- CAN I HAVE
09:03:39AM A ROLL CALL FIRST?
09:03:42AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
09:03:45AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE, VIRTUALLY.
09:03:51AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
09:03:52AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
09:03:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
09:03:55AM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
09:03:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN I HAVE A MOTION --
09:04:06AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: REAL QUICKLY. BOARD MEMBER HURTAK IS
09:04:10AM APPEARING VIRTUALLY AND BOARD MEMBER VIERA WILL BE APPEARING
09:04:15AM VIRTUALLY AS WELL.
09:04:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CAN I HAVE A MOTION?
09:04:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION.
09:04:17AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND.
09:04:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:04:19AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU ARE REQUIRED TO HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM
09:04:23AM HERE AT ALL TIMES.
09:04:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AND WE DO.
09:04:25AM CAN I GET A MOTION TO ADOPT THE MINUTES FROM LAST MEETING?
09:04:28AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
09:04:29AM OKAY.
09:04:31AM AND NOW PLEASE GO OVER THE RULES FOR -- NO, LET'S COME UP
09:04:38AM AND SET THE AGENDA FOR TODAY.
09:04:40AM CAN I HAVE THE DIRECTOR COME FORWARD AND SET THE AGENDA ON
09:04:44AM TODAY'S AGENDA FOR OUR MEETING.
09:04:45AM WE HAVE A FEW THINGS TO TAKE CARE OF, GOOD MORNING.
09:04:55AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: CEDRIC McCRAY, INTERIM CRA DIRECTOR.
09:05:00AM GOOD TO SEE YOU THIS MORNING.
09:05:01AM A FEW CONTINUANCES I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT, ITEMS 8, 10,
09:05:06AM 11 AND 12, WHERE THOSE ITEMS TO BE CONTINUED.
09:05:08AM YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED A MEMO IN YOUR BOARD PACKET.
09:05:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHAT ABOUT 7?
09:05:19AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: AND 7.
09:05:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: 7, 8, 10, 11 AND 12.
09:05:25AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:05:26AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THE NEXT REQUEST TO MOVE ITEM 4 UP AFTER
09:05:35AM THE EAST TAMPA CAC REPORT.
09:05:37AM WE WERE INFORMED THIS MORNING THAT ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS
09:05:39AM WITH HR WILL HAVE TO LEAVE FOR ANOTHER APPOINTMENT.
09:05:42AM SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE THERE.
09:05:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
09:05:49AM ALL RIGHT.
09:05:50AM THANK YOU.
09:05:51AM NOW TIME FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:05:57AM ATTORNEY MASSEY, WILL YOU GO OVER THE RULES, PLEASE.
09:06:00AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YES, MA'AM, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE
09:06:03AM ALLOWED A REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE CRA
09:06:06AM MEETING TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM BEFORE THE CRA TAKES ACTION ON
09:06:11AM ITEM.
09:06:13AM A THREE-MINUTE TIME LIMIT UNLESS THE TIME FRAME MODIFIED BY
09:06:18AM A VOTE OF THE CRA BOARD.
09:06:19AM SPEAKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE REMINDED TO REFUSE
09:06:24AM FROM DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR, MAKING VULGAR REMARKS, OR MAKING
09:06:30AM SOUNDS OR SHOWING GRAPHICS.
09:06:32AM AND REFRAIN FROM LAUNCHING PERSONAL ATTACKS.
09:06:35AM CHAIR WILL RULE OUT OF ORDER ANYBODY WHO ADDRESSES THE CRA
09:06:40AM OUTSIDE OF THE SPEAKER AREA OR AT THE PODIUM.
09:06:43AM PEOPLE NOT COMPLYING WITH THE CRA RULES COULD BE RULED OUT
09:06:46AM OF ORDER, AND AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHAIR, COULD BE
09:06:48AM REMOVED FROM THE CHAMBERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE BOARD'S
09:06:52AM MEETING.
09:06:52AM SHOULD NOT ENGAGE A SPEAKER UNDER PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:06:55AM CITY COUNCIL RULES REVISED ON JUNE 6 IS IN EFFECT FOR THE
09:07:00AM CRA BOARD OTHERWISE OVERRIDDEN BY THE CRA BYLAWS.
09:07:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:07:10AM ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS TODAY?
09:07:11AM GOOD MORNING.
09:07:12AM >> GOOD MORNING.
09:07:22AM >> GOOD MORNING, CITY OF TAMPA, MY NAME IS SANDY DIEGO
09:07:26AM SANCHEZ.
09:07:27AM I AM A VOLUNTEER ON THE WEST TAMPA CITIZEN ADVISORY
09:07:33AM COMMITTEE.
09:07:33AM I'M HERE AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN WHO CARE ABOUT THE COMMUNITY.
09:07:38AM I COME TO ASK YOUR HELP TO HELP THE WEST TAMPA CRA AND ALL
09:07:42AM CRAS TO FLUSH THEIR GOALS.
09:07:44AM THE LAST TWO MONTHS, JULY AND AUGUST ITEMS HAVE MIRACULOUSLY
09:07:50AM AND ON OUR UPDATED PROJECT LIST.
09:07:52AM WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE PROJECTS, WE WERE TOLD THERE WOULD BE
09:07:55AM CITY FOLKS TO EXPLAIN THESE PROJECTS.
09:07:56AM I HAVE QUESTIONS.
09:07:57AM I EVEN E-MAILED THE MANAGER OF OUR BOARD BOARD, AND YOU THE
09:08:02AM CRA BOARD TO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ANSWERED.
09:08:04AM I ALSO ASK THAT MY QUESTION BE SHARED WITH OTHER BOARD
09:08:08AM MEMBERS.
09:08:09AM TO DATE, THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED.
09:08:10AM HOPEFULLY THE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED AT THE NEXT CAC
09:08:14AM MEETING I AM NOT SURE IF THE CRA BOARD MADE THOSE
09:08:20AM SUGGESTIONS OR THE ADMINISTRATION.
09:08:21AM THE PROJECT HAS LITTLE TO DO WITH THE GOALS OF THE CRA WHICH
09:08:26AM IS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, CONTROLLING SLUM AND BLIGHT AND
09:08:29AM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CRA COMMUNITIES.
09:08:32AM WE HAVE PROJECTS THAT HAVE DRAGGED ON FOR YEARS BECAUSE OF
09:08:37AM THE CRA WORKLOAD.
09:08:38AM THERE IS NO SENSE OF URGENCY TO HELP US FULFILL THESE GOALS.
09:08:42AM WE SEEM TO FORGET THAT WE HAVE TIME LIMITS THAT ARE STANDING
09:08:46AM OVER OUR HEADS AND TIME IS GETTING SHORTER AND SHORTER.
09:08:49AM LATELY, YOU HAVE ASKED THE MANAGERS TO PRESENT A LIST OF
09:08:53AM PROJECTS FOR EACH CRA.
09:08:55AM MAY I SUGGEST THAT THIS LIST INCLUDE THE DATE OF THE
09:08:59AM PROJECT'S INCEPTION NOT JUST THE DATE IT WENT ON THE LIST.
09:09:02AM YOU WILL SEE SOME OF THEM ARE TWO OR THREE YEARS OLD THIS
09:09:09AM WILL GIVE YOU A MUCH BETTER IDEA WHY THE PROJECTS ARE MOVING
09:09:14AM ON OR NOT MOVING FORWARD.
09:09:15AM AND I ASK YOU TO STAY ON TRACK BY REJECTING PROJECTS THAT DO
09:09:19AM NOT DIRECTLY WORK TOWARD ACCOMPLISHING OUR GOALS, AFFORDABLE
09:09:23AM HOUSING, CONTROLLING SLUM AND BLIGHT AND ECONOMIC
09:09:26AM DEVELOPMENT.
09:09:26AM THANK YOU.
09:09:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
09:09:36AM >> GOOD MORNING, CONNIE BURTON.
09:09:38AM I WANT TO JUST START OFF BY SAYING BLIGHT CULTURE IS SO
09:09:44AM IMPORTANT TO THE WHOLE WORLD.
09:09:46AM AND THIS WEEK, WE HAVE SUFFERED A TREMENDOUS LOSS INSIDE OF
09:09:53AM OUR COMMUNITIES NATIONWIDE.
09:09:55AM I REALLY WANT TO COME AND TALK ABOUT ITEM NUMBER 12, BUT YOU
09:10:00AM HAVE TAKEN IT OFF.
09:10:01AM AND I HOPE IT STAYS OFF, FOR THE SIMPLE REASON THAT THIS
09:10:05AM ORGANIZATION HAS -- OR SHOULD BE RESPONSIBLE FOR PROVIDING
09:10:12AM GUIDANCE IN HOMEOWNERSHIP AND FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, THEY
09:10:16AM HAVE TRIED TO GET THEIR BUILDING REMODELED ON HILLSBOROUGH
09:10:22AM AVENUE.
09:10:22AM BUT WITHOUT RESOURCES, THEY CAN'T GO FORWARD UNLESS THE CRA
09:10:26AM FROM EAST TAMPA CONTRIBUTE TO THAT.
09:10:28AM AND THE LAST TIME THE ASK WAS OVER $500,000.
09:10:33AM THAT IS ALWAYS REJECTED.
09:10:35AM SECONDLY, THE ISSUE OF SLUM, BLIGHT AND POVERTY.
09:10:40AM THAT IS WHAT YOUR MISSION SHOULD BE.
09:10:44AM THAT IS THE MISSION OF THE CRA GOALS.
09:10:47AM AND SO WHY ARE WE IN A CONSTANT CRY FOR TARGETED INVESTMENT
09:10:54AM INSIDE OF EAST TAMPA?
09:10:56AM WE HAVE THE RESOURCES.
09:10:57AM WE HAVE COME UP WITH GOOD IDEAS IN TERMS OF HOW THAT CAN --
09:11:03AM RESOURCES CAN BE USED TO GENERATE ONGOING INCOME.
09:11:07AM HOW THAT CAN SERVE THE REQUEST MADE BY THE -- BY THE
09:11:14AM COMMUNITY CAN SERVE AS A -- AS AN INCENTIVE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
09:11:20AM IN OUR COMMUNITY.
09:11:21AM RIGHT NOW, JUST BASED ON THE LAST VOTING STATISTICS, OUR
09:11:26AM COMMUNITIES ARE GUTTED.
09:11:27AM WE DO NOT HAVE THE AFFORDABILITY OF PEOPLE TO MAINTAIN IN
09:11:34AM EAST TAMPA AND ALL OF YOU ARE AWARE OF IT.
09:11:36AM IN THE LAND ACQUISITION, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH
09:11:45AM VOCATIONAL TECH SCHOOLS, USF, TO SO IF WE CAN DEVELOP
09:11:52AM PARTNERSHIPS BECAUSE WE KNOW THE DEVELOPERS WON'T DO IT.
09:11:55AM OUR COMMUNITY -- I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR WHAT THE
09:11:58AM REPORT IS THIS MORNING BECAUSE I HEAR A LOT OF PLANNING AND
09:12:01AM A LOT OF DREAMING, BUT IT ALWAYS JUMPS ABOVE WHAT THE PEOPLE
09:12:05AM HAVE REQUESTED.
09:12:05AM WE HAVE REQUESTED REAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE COMMUNITY
09:12:09AM THAT THE POPULATION THAT IS PRESENTLY IN EAST TAMPA WILL BE
09:12:13AM ABLE TO BENEFIT AS OPPOSED TO NEW COMMERCIAL COMING IN.
09:12:17AM THANK YOU.
09:12:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:12:20AM NEXT SPEAKER.
09:12:21AM >> MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA, I WANT TO SAY UHURU.
09:12:31AM UHURU MEANS FREEDOM IN SWAHILI, AND WE AS AFRICAN PEOPLE
09:12:36AM SHOULD ALWAYS THINK ABOUT OUR FREEDOM.
09:12:38AM WE SHOULD NEVER NOT ONE DAY IN OUR LIVES NOT BE THINKING OF
09:12:42AM OUR FREEDOM IRRESPECTIVE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN OUR SOCIETY.
09:12:45AM NOT LIKE PALESTINIANS NOT ONE DAY IN THEIR LIVES STOP
09:12:48AM THINKING OF THEIR FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE.
09:12:51AM I USE THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT
09:12:54AM IS POPULAR IN THE WORLD RIGHT THIS SECOND.
09:12:57AM BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, FOR THE LAST 824 YEARS,
09:13:01AM AFRICAN PEOPLE HAVE JUST BEEN IN THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO
09:13:10AM UNDER EUROPEAN WHITE WESTERN CIVILIZATION IN NORTH AMERICAN
09:13:15AM DOMINANCE.
09:13:15AM WE HAVE BEEN IN THE WORST-CASE SCENARIO.
09:13:17AM BUT ONE THING PEOPLE ALWAYS HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IN LIFE, THE
09:13:21AM RULING CLASS DON'T ALLOW ANY OF THE INSTITUTIONS OF COERCION
09:13:24AM TO WORRY ABOUT THE PEOPLE, THE MASSES OF THE PEOPLE.
09:13:27AM SOCIETY IS AN AUTOMATIC.
09:13:30AM IRRESPECTIVE OF WHAT IT IS, THE DISPARAGING HOUSING
09:13:34AM CONDITIONS IN EAST TAMPA, IF IT IS THE FLOODING IN SOUTH
09:13:38AM TAMPA.
09:13:39AM IF IT IS THE FLOODING IN BAYSHORE BOULEVARD, IF IT IS THE
09:13:42AM FLOODING IN HENDERSON AND DALE MABRY, THE FLOODING ON
09:13:48AM EUCLID, NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, SOCIETY IS AN AUTOMATIC AND
09:13:51AM MASSES OF PEOPLE HAVE TO LOOK OUT FOR OURSELVES.
09:13:53AM WE HAVE TO ORGANIZE AND LOOK OUT FOR OURSELVES.
09:13:55AM BUT WITH THAT BEING SAID, THE AFRICAN PEOPLE, WE HAVE IT THE
09:13:59AM WORSE.
09:14:00AM THE LAST 824 YEARS, WE HAVE EXPERIENCED SLAVERY, OCCUPATION,
09:14:04AM LYNCHING, DISPOSITION, THINK OF IT.
09:14:07AM THINK OF SOMETHING NEGATIVE.
09:14:09AM THINK OF SOMETHING HATEFUL AND WE HAVE BEEN EXPERIENCING IT.
09:14:12AM WHY SO?
09:14:13AM BECAUSE THE RULING CLASS ALLOW IT IS TO HAPPEN.
09:14:15AM THAT IS HOW THEY CONTROL SOCIETY AND DISTRACT ALL THE
09:14:20AM ECONOMICS, POLITICS AND SOCIAL STRUCTURES, THEY EXTRACT IT
09:14:23AM FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILIES ONLY AND BILLIONS OF
09:14:27AM PEOPLE ARE LEFT WITH NOTHING AND AFRICAN PEOPLE HAVE NO
09:14:29AM REPRESENTATIVE.
09:14:30AM WE HAD NO REPRESENTATIVE IN 824 YEARS.
09:14:35AM WE ALWAYS HAVE BEEN PLACED IN A POSITION WHERE WE ARE SCARED
09:14:37AM TO EVEN SPEAK OUT.
09:14:38AM WE ARE SCARED TO SPEAK OUT OF WHEN WE HEAR DISPARAGING
09:14:42AM THINGS.
09:14:42AM WHEN WE SEE LYNCHINGS.
09:14:45AM IF WASN'T BECAUSE OF OF A FEW BRAVE AFRICAN WOMEN, THEY WERE
09:14:49AM LYNCHING AFRICANS DAY AND NIGHT.
09:14:51AM NOTHING, NOTHING -- CAN'T DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
09:14:54AM YOU SEE POLICE VIOLENCE.
09:14:55AM AFRICAN PEOPLE CAN'T DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
09:14:59AM THAT INFORMATION IS COMING FROM THE TOP DOWN.
09:15:01AM WE HEAR MR. DONALD TRUMP TALKING AFRICAN PEOPLE EATING DOGS
09:15:05AM AND CATS.
09:15:06AM NORMALLY A CHINESE JOKE AND CHINESE FOOD.
09:15:09AM AND NOW AFRICAN PEOPLE EATING DOGS AND CATS.
09:15:12AM WITH NOBODY TO RESPOND.
09:15:14AM I AM GOING TO RESPOND TO THAT BECAUSE YOU CAN'T OFFEND OUR
09:15:17AM PEOPLE.
09:15:18AM THE DOGS AND CATS THAT DONALD TRUMP IS TALKING ABOUT ARE THE
09:15:22AM DOGS AND CATS AND THAT SMELL -- THAT OFFENSIVE SMELL THAT IS
09:15:26AM COMING OUT OF THE VAGINA OF MELANIA TRUMP AND DONALD TRUMP.
09:15:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU ARE OUT OF ORDER.
09:15:34AM >> OF COURSE I AM, DONALD TRUMP WAS OUT OF ORDER.
09:15:39AM I DON'T SEE YOU SCREAMING ABOUT THAT.
09:15:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
09:15:44AM I WANT, TO IDENTIFY FOR THE RECORD THAT WAS DISRESPECTFUL TO
09:15:47AM EVERYONE IN THE CHAMBER AND AS THE CHAIR, I DO NOT CONDONE
09:15:51AM THAT BEHAVIOR.
09:15:51AM THANK YOU.
09:15:52AM GOOD MORNING.
09:15:52AM GOOD MORNING, MA'AM.
09:15:54AM >> GOOD MORNING.
09:15:56AM GOOD MORNING, CITY COUNCIL.
09:16:03AM MY NAME IS AMY PATTERSON, AND I LIVE AT THE TOWERS OF
09:16:07AM CHANNELSIDE.
09:16:08AM MY PURPOSE TODAY IS TO MAKE THE COUNCIL AWARE OF THE EXTREME
09:16:12AM DIFFICULTY WE ARE HAVING GETTING THE NOISE ORDINANCE
09:16:14AM ENFORCED AT 602 CHANNELSIDE, THE ROOFTOP PARTIES.
09:16:20AM AS MANY OF YOU KNOW IN 2022, CITY COUNCIL CHANGED THE
09:16:24AM CHANNEL DISTRICT FROM AN ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT TO A
09:16:27AM RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.
09:16:28AM AS OUTLINED IN ARTICLE 3, SECTION 14-154, THE DEFINITION OF
09:16:36AM LOUD RAUCOUS NOISE EXISTS THANKS TO YOU ALL AND THE APPROVAL
09:16:42AM OF THE NOISE ORDINANCE IN '22 THAT WAS SO VERY IMPORTANT TO
09:16:46AM US THAT LIVE IN CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT THAT HELPED DEAL WITH
09:16:53AM PARK AND REC THAT WAS PROFUSELY AND HE WANT THANK YOU ENOUGH
09:17:01AM FOR THAT.
09:17:01AM THOUSANDS PEOPLE LIVE IN THE CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT.
09:17:03AM OCTOBER 23, 602 CHANNELSIDE WAS PURCHASED BY 602 RE
09:17:11AM HOLDINGS.
09:17:11AM PRIOR TO THE SALE THIS WAS AN ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
09:17:13AM THE PROBLEM IS, THE ORDINANCES THAT YOU CREATED AND APPROVED
09:17:17AM ARE BEING COMPLETELY IGNORED BEFORE RE HOLDINGS IN THE FIVE
09:17:24AM ROOFTOP PARTIES TO DATE.
09:17:25AM THE PROBLEM IS, THE ORDINANCE IS BEING COMPLETELY IGNORED
09:17:28AM DESPITE HUNDREDS OF CALLS TO TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT ON
09:17:32AM PARTY NIGHTS AND EVEN THE PETITION BY OUR RESIDENTS, 602
09:17:36AM CHANNELSIDE HAS YET TO GET ONE SINGLE CITATION.
09:17:40AM I AM MAKING YOU AWARE THE NONENFORCEMENT OF ARTICLE 3,
09:17:46AM SECTION 14-159 ENFORCEMENT AND ASKING YOUR SUPPORT TO
09:17:51AM CORRECT THE SITUATION.
09:17:51AM WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING WITH COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON WHO
09:17:57AM GRACIOUSLY AGREED TO MEET WITH US ON SEPTEMBER 24 TO RESOLVE
09:18:01AM THE ENFORCEMENT ISSUE.
09:18:02AM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK MISS DARLENE JOHNSON, WHO HAS
09:18:06AM BEEN WORKING WITH MYSELF AND OTHER RESIDENTS.
09:18:10AM SHE HAS BEEN VERY GRACIOUS AND VERY HELPFUL.
09:18:13AM PLEASE NOTE THAT I HAVE GIVEN A COPY OF THE NEXT PARTY TO
09:18:20AM THE -- I BELIEVE YOU ARE AN ATTORNEY FOR YOUR REVIEW.
09:18:23AM AND YOU CAN SEE BY THE VERBIAGE ON THAT DOCUMENT AND THAT
09:18:28AM FLYER THAT IT IS A DIRECT THREAT TO THE ORDINANCE OF THE
09:18:31AM CITY OF TAMPA AND THE CHANNELSIDE ORDINANCE AND IT IS
09:18:36AM ACTUALLY VERY VULGAR.
09:18:38AM WE APPRECIATE YOUR CONCERN AND LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING WITH
09:18:42AM YOU.
09:18:42AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE
09:18:45AM SAME DOCUMENTS THAT WERE GIVEN.
09:18:48AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ONLY ONE SET OF DOCUMENTS.
09:18:53AM THE CLERK HAS IT AND I GAVE IT TO HER TO MAKE IT A PART OF
09:18:57AM THE RECORD.
09:18:57AM >> I HAVE MORE COPIES IF THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.
09:19:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU BROUGHT COPIES FOR US?
09:19:04AM >> YES, MA'AM.
09:19:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE WILL TAKE THEM.
09:19:05AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, SIR.
09:19:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:19:07AM NEXT SPEAKER.
09:19:08AM GOOD MORNING, SIR.
09:19:20AM >> GOOD MORNING, MA'AM.
09:19:22AM GOOD MORNING, COUNCILMEMBERS.
09:19:24AM THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.
09:19:25AM MY NAME IS STEVE HERNANDEZ.
09:19:26AM I AM ALSO A RESIDENT OF THE TOWERS OF CHANNELSIDE AND HERE
09:19:30AM TO AMPLIFY WHAT MY COLLEAGUE, AMY, AND MY NEIGHBOR SAID OF
09:19:37AM GOINGS-ON OF 602 CHANNELSIDE.
09:19:41AM TO MY KNOWLEDGE, TO DATE, NO ENFORCEMENT OF THE CITY
09:19:44AM ORDINANCE REGARDING THE NOISE VIOLATIONS THAT ARE OCCURRING
09:19:47AM AT THAT LOCATION.
09:19:47AM AND I AM AT A LOSS AS TO THE REASON WHY.
09:19:50AM THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF RESIDENTS WHO ARE AFFECTED AND
09:19:54AM IMPACTED BETWEEN YOU OUR BUILDING AND THE HERON DIRECTLY
09:19:59AM ACROSS THE STREET.
09:20:00AM THE NOISE EMANATING ON THE NIGHTS OF THESE EVENTS IS
09:20:08AM OFFENSIVE.
09:20:08AM IT IS BECOMING A PUBLIC NUISANCE AND WE NEED YOUR HELP TO
09:20:12AM PUT AN END TO THIS.
09:20:13AM LET'S ALL BE GOOD NEIGHBORS.
09:20:15AM THANK YOU.
09:20:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:20:17AM >> GOOD MORNING, MY NAME IS PASTOR FRANK WILLIAMS, EAST
09:20:34AM SCOTT STREET, AND WE HAVE BEEN COMING YEAR AFTER YEAR
09:20:38AM WANTING TO HELP AND NOBODY SEEMED TO WANT TO HELP US.
09:20:41AM TONY DANIELS COMES IN HERE AND SPEAKING THE TRUTH, BUT
09:20:46AM NOTHING GIVES A DAMN, WHETHER IT IS THE TRUTH OR NOT.
09:20:50AM BUT YOU GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE STILL HUMAN BEINGS
09:20:53AM CREATED BY THE POWER OF ALL MIGHTY GOD AND WE ARE THE SAME
09:20:58AM PEOPLE.
09:20:58AM AND WILL KEEP COMING DOWN HERE UNTIL GOD CALLS US HOME.
09:21:02AM BUT YOU KNOW WHAT?
09:21:06AM I WAS READING THE OTHER DAY -- WHAT IS THAT GUY -- THE
09:21:10AM POLICE -- GEORGE FLOYD OR WHATEVER.
09:21:14AM YOU KNOW WHO KILLED -- THAT KILLED THAT POOR MAN?
09:21:18AM AND THE BLACK PEOPLE ARE STANDING UP RIGHT THERE AND THE
09:21:21AM WHITE FOLKS.
09:21:22AM AND THEY GET -- IT WAS A PUERTO RICAN GUY THAT KILLED THAT
09:21:27AM GUY.
09:21:27AM AIN'T THAT SOMETHING?
09:21:29AM NOBODY DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
09:21:30AM PUT THE MAN IN A PRIVATE PLACE.
09:21:34AM AND HE HAS BEEN FED EVERY DAY AND BEING TAKEN CARE OF.
09:21:37AM AND THEY GIVE HIM A CHECK RIGHT ON.
09:21:40AM BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, WE GOT TO UNDERSTAND, WE DON'T COME DOWN
09:21:44AM HERE TO BE HEALTHY.
09:21:48AM Y'ALL DON'T KNOW GOD.
09:21:49AM YOU THINK YOU ARE, BUT YOU ARE NOT GOD.
09:21:52AM YOU ARE LIKE ME AND PEOPLE AND EVERYBODY ELSE.
09:21:55AM DO THE RIGHT THING FOR US.
09:21:56AM DO WHAT IS SUPPOSED TO BE DONE.
09:21:58AM MY WATER HAS BEEN SHUT OFF FOR FIVE MONTHS.
09:22:00AM YOU THINK YOU ALL DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT?
09:22:04AM YOU DON'T DO A DAMN THING ABOUT IT --
09:22:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PASTOR WILLIAMS, REFRAIN FROM USING THE
09:22:10AM WORDS, THE PROFANITY.
09:22:12AM REFRAIN FROM USING THOSE WORDS.
09:22:14AM >> I WANT TO GET YOUR ATTENTION.
09:22:15AM I DON'T CARE HOW YOU BANG ON THAT THING.
09:22:18AM ONLY WAY TO GET YOUR ATTENTION BY SAYING WHAT I AM SAYING.
09:22:23AM YOU DON'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND.
09:22:25AM JUST LIKE I SAID WE ARE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF
09:22:28AM AMERICA, BUT WE ARE TREATED LIKE DOGS.
09:22:30AM AND JUST LIKE TONY DANIELS SAYS, FEEDING DOGS AND CATS IN
09:22:35AM AFRICA.
09:22:36AM I AM NOT IN AFRICA.
09:22:38AM I'M HERE IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
09:22:40AM FEEDING DOGS HERE, CATS AND ALL THAT STUFF?
09:22:45AM NO, DON'T MAKE NO DIFFERENT WHAT TRUMP SAY.
09:22:48AM IT MAKES A DIFFERENT WHAT GOD ALMIGHTY SAY AND WHAT HE IS
09:22:51AM GOING TO DO.
09:22:51AM AND YOU AREN'T GOING TO STOP ME FROM DOING WHAT IS RIGHT.
09:22:56AM I GOT TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT.
09:22:57AM BECAUSE I LOVE GOD.
09:22:59AM AND I LOVE GOD, VERY, VERY MUCH.
09:23:02AM YOU ALL GIVE GOD THE GLORY, WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT.
09:23:07AM I AM GOING TO ALWAYS -- I WILL ALWAYS GIVE GOD THE GLORY.
09:23:12AM THANK YOU.
09:23:12AM YOU CAN BANG ON THAT AS MUCH AS YOU WANT.
09:23:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
09:23:21AM IF THERE ARE ANY REMAINING SPEAK SPEAKERS, PLEASE STAND.
09:23:38AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
09:23:40AM I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS PROJECT RIGHT HERE.
09:23:42AM IS SAYS THE WORD "NEW" IN THIS.
09:23:45AM IT IS WITH THE CIP, BECAUSE IT SAYS CIP AND WE HAVE A
09:23:50AM DIFFERENT THINGS ON THE WEB SITE THAT SAYS CIP WHICH IS NOT
09:23:54AM THIS LIST.
09:23:54AM I GOT REAL CONFUSED.
09:23:56AM IF I GOT CONFUSED, I AM SURE OTHER PEOPLE GOT CONNED.
09:24:01AM IT SAID THIS PROJECT IS NEW.
09:24:03AM BUT I JUST GAVE YOU A TIMELINE FOR THIS PROJECT.
09:24:06AM HERE IS WHAT I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THIS MORNING.
09:24:08AM WHY WOULD CITY STAFF BRING A WANT IN FRONT OF THE COUNCIL
09:24:17AM BEFORE THEY BROUGHT THEIR NEEDS BEFORE THIS COUNCIL.
09:24:19AM IN JANUARY OF 2022, THE CITY OF TAMPA PURCHASED 5005 NORTH
09:24:25AM HOWARD AND 5112 NORTH ALBANY, WHICH I WAS CONFUSED IS
09:24:29AM ACTUALLY TWO LOTS.
09:24:30AM OVER EIGHT ACRES WHICH IS WHAT WE NEED FOR THE FIRE
09:24:35AM MAINTENANCE YARD.
09:24:37AM I AM JUST SAYING.
09:24:38AM AND IN OCTOBER 2022, THEY PASSED A THING FOR THE IMPOUND
09:24:42AM YARD NOT MORE THAN 2.8 MILLION.
09:24:45AM WHERE ARE THE PLANS?
09:24:46AM IT HAS BEEN TWO YEARS.
09:24:47AM SOMEBODY ALREADY GAVE THEM $2.8 MILLION.
09:24:50AM I AM SORRY, I AM CONFUSED.
09:24:52AM THEY CAME BACK A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND ASKED FOR MORE.
09:24:55AM CRICKETS.
09:24:56AM WE HAVE A NEW COUNCIL.
09:24:58AM NOT EVERYBODY WHO WAS UP HERE NOW WAS THERE THEN.
09:25:01AM IN JUNE BRAD BAIRD SUBMITTED A APPLICATION FOR A STIPE ENDS
09:25:06AM FOR THE SHORT LIST OF THE RIVERFRONT PROJECT.
09:25:12AM WE ARE PAYING FOR BIDS?
09:25:15AM ARE YOU FRICKING KIDDING ME, THAT IS ON BASE.
09:25:17AM ASKING THE CITY OF TAMPA TO CONTRIBUTE $26 MILLION TO THE
09:25:21AM RIVERWALK PROJECT.
09:25:22AM NOW I AM NOT NECESSARILY AGAINST IT, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE A
09:25:27AM WANT.
09:25:27AM WE WANT TO HAVE A RIVERWALK AND A PRETTY PLACE TO GO.
09:25:30AM I PERSONALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT IT.
09:25:33AM BECAUSE I AM NOT GOING TO WALK AROUND THE CEMENT EVERYTHING
09:25:35AM -- LIKE CHARLIE SAID TWO SEASONS, SUMMER AND CHRISTMAS.
09:25:40AM AND CHRISTMAS ISN'T THAT LONG.
09:25:42AM SO ON JULY 18, THE RIVERWALK COMES BACK FOR SECOND READING.
09:25:46AM NOW THEY WAIT A MONTH AND THEY COME TO YOU AND SAY, WE NEED
09:25:52AM $40 MILLION FOR THIS FORENSICS BUILDING.
09:25:55AM WAIT A MINUTE, YOU PUT THE WANT BEFORE THE NEED?
09:26:00AM WOULD YOU, AS COUNCIL, OR THIS CRA MADE THE SAME DECISION
09:26:04AM HAD YOU KNOWN THAT THIS $40 MILLION NEED WAS COMING UP?
09:26:08AM I WOULD ARGUE, MAYBE NOT.
09:26:10AM BUT THEY WERE HOPING LIKE HELL THAT YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN IN
09:26:15AM JANUARY OF 2022 THEY BOUGHT IN LAND AND DID THIS.
09:26:19AM BUT HERE IS WHAT GETS ME THE MOST.
09:26:21AM THIS IS WHAT REALLY RIDES MY CRAWL.
09:26:23AM I AM SORRY IF YOU CAN'T SEE THIS.
09:26:25AM THIS IS 4608 NORTH LOIS AVENUE.
09:26:29AM IT BELONGS TO CROCKETT TOWING COMPANY.
09:26:32AM WE ARE CURRENTLY PAYING THEM $10,000 A MONTH TO RENT THIS
09:26:36AM ONE-ACRE BUILDING.
09:26:38AM NOW MIND YOU -- HERE IT IS AGAIN.
09:26:41AM BUT WE OWN EIGHT ACRES OUT THERE.
09:26:43AM PLEASE, COUNCIL, ASK FOR A TOUR OF THAT PROPERTY.
09:26:46AM IS IT UNINHABITABLE?
09:26:50AM WHY ARE WE SPENDING $10,000 A MONTH WHEN WE SPENT $3
09:26:54AM MILLION, $4 MILLION TO BUY EIGHT ACRES OF PROPERTY THAT ARE
09:26:58AM ALREADY FENCED IN.
09:26:59AM I DROVE OUT TO THE PROPERTY AND LOOKED AROUND, SIX-FOOT
09:27:04AM PRIVACY FENCE WITH BARB WIRE.
09:27:09AM WHY ARE WE SPENDING $10,000 A MONTH WHEN WE ALREADY OWN
09:27:12AM THIS.
09:27:12AM MAKES NO SENSE.
09:27:14AM $40 MILLION WE WANT TO SPEND ON THIS.
09:27:16AM THANK YOU.
09:27:16AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MISS POYNOR, YOUR TIME IS UP.
09:27:21AM >> I DID NOT GET DINGED.
09:27:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I DIDN'T SEE THE RED LIGHT.
09:27:26AM >> SORRY ABOUT THAT.
09:27:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: STARTING OUT WITH A BANG THIS MORNING.
09:27:32AM START WITH THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA -- I AM SORRY, SIR,
09:27:36AM YOU DID STAND UP.
09:27:37AM >> PUBLIC COMMENT.
09:27:38AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
09:27:42AM >> I'M HERE TO ASK FOR YOUR HELP.
09:27:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
09:27:47AM >> YOU SHOULD HAVE A HAND-DELIVERED LETTER.
09:27:51AM BERT WAHL.
09:27:53AM I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF TAMPA FOR DECADES.
09:27:56AM I BEGAN THE EFFORT TO CONSTRUCT A NEW HOME WHERE I LIVE AND
09:27:59AM WENT THROUGH ALL THE NECESSARY PROCEDURES TO OBTAIN THE
09:28:03AM PERMITS AS A HOMEOWNER-CONTRACTOR.
09:28:07AM I WAS HIRED AS A CATASTROPHE ADVISOR THAT HAVE ME TRAVEL
09:28:11AM ACROSS THE COUNTRY TO ASSIST PEOPLE WITH VICTIMS OF
09:28:15AM HURRICANES OF IVAN, FRANCIS.
09:28:18AM AND VARIOUS REQUIREMENTS OF THE DUTIES OF OUR JOB.
09:28:25AM AND I WAS TAKING CARE OF MY MOTHER AND AUNT WHEN THEY HAD
09:28:30AM NOBODY ELSE TO TURN TO AND THE THE AFFORDABLE OPTIONS TO
09:28:33AM RECEIVE CARE THAT THEY NEEDED.
09:28:35AM AS A RESULT, THERE WERE OCCASIONS THAT I WAS AWAY FROM MY
09:28:37AM RESIDENCE AND CONSTRUCTION SITES FOR EXTENDED PERIODS OF
09:28:41AM TIME.
09:28:41AM BECAUSE OF THE ABSENCES MANY PERMITS AND DELAYS OF THE CITY
09:28:45AM TAKING ADVERSE ACTIONS AGAINST MY PROPERTY.
09:28:47AM BASED ON THIS HISTORY OF DELAYS, THE CITY OBTAINED A
09:28:51AM DEMOLITION ORDER IN DECEMBER 2023.
09:28:53AM AND I ATTAINED LUKE LEREAUX, ATTORNEY.
09:29:00AM HE WAS ABLE TO GET AN EXTENSION OF TIME FOR ME TO GET THE
09:29:03AM NECESSARY PERMITS TO FINISH CONSTRUCTION.
09:29:06AM APRIL 2024, CONTRARY TO ANY ASSERTIONS OF THE CITY TO MAKE
09:29:11AM FAILURE TO COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION RENDERED THE STRUCTURE
09:29:15AM UNSAFE.
09:29:16AM I PROVIDED THE CITY THAT THE PROOF THAT THIS STRUCTURE WAS
09:29:19AM SAFE.
09:29:19AM BASED ON THE AGREEMENT AGREED -- THE EXTENSION OF TIME TO
09:29:25AM COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION, WE NEVER COMPLETED -- OR APPEALED
09:29:29AM -- WE DIDN'T APPEAL THE DEMOLITION ORDER AND WE HOPE TO BE
09:29:32AM TREATED IN GOOD FAITH BY THE CITY AS WE WENT THROUGH THE
09:29:35AM CONSTRUCTION PROCESS.
09:29:36AM WHEN THE APRIL DEADLINE CAME, I FOUND OUT THAT THE ENGINEER
09:29:40AM WE HAD HELPING US WAS NOT ABLE TO KEEP UP DUE TO SERIOUS
09:29:44AM MEDICAL EMERGENCIES IN HIS FAMILY.
09:29:46AM SO I HAD MR. LEREAUX FILE FOR AN EMERGENCY STAY ON THE
09:29:51AM DEMOLITION ORDER AND THAT WAS GRANTED.
09:29:53AM THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS NOT GIVEN FREE TREATMENT BY THE CITY
09:29:58AM CONSTRUCTION.
09:29:59AM MY ENGINEER WAS TOLD MY EFFORTS WERE TOAST.
09:30:03AM AND YESTERDAY A DIFFERENT JUDGE LIFTED THE STAY AND NOTED
09:30:07AM THE DEMOLITION ORDER AND GAVE MR. LER EAUX TIME TO AMEND THE
09:30:13AM COMPLAINT.
09:30:13AM MY FEAR WHILE WE TRY TO REPRESENT THE ISSUES IN COURT THAT
09:30:17AM THE DEMOLITION ORDER WILL BE ENFORCED AND MY YEARS OF
09:30:20AM SACRIFICE WILL BE DESTROYED.
09:30:21AM I HAVE RELIGIOUSLY FOLLOWED THE STATUTES -- THE STATUS OF MY
09:30:26AM APPLICATION AND PERMIT AND THEY ARE ALL UNDER REVIEW PENDING
09:30:30AM ISSUANCE, I BELIEVE.
09:30:31AM I RECENTLY PAID THE CITY OVER $700 TO CONTINUE WITH THIS
09:30:34AM CONSTRUCTION.
09:30:35AM BASICALLY I'M HERE ASKING FOR YOUR HELP TO -- TO ENSURE THAT
09:30:41AM THE VAST AMOUNTS OF MONEY AND TIME I SPENT TO THE PROJECT
09:30:43AM ARE NOT DEMOLISHED.
09:30:45AM AND THAT SOME EFFORTS TO GET THE CITY'S CONSTRUCTION PEOPLE
09:30:49AM TO COOPERATE WITH ME AND MAKE ME FINISH THE PROJECT BE MADE.
09:30:53AM I WOULD LIKE TO REACH OUT UNLESS -- MY REQUEST IS REASONABLE
09:30:57AM AND POSSIBILITY OF ME LOSING EVERYTHING.
09:31:00AM I WOULDN'T REACH OUT IF I DIDN'T NEED YOUR HELP.
09:31:02AM I WILL STAND BY FOR QUESTIONS OR PHONE CALLS.
09:31:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:31:06AM THANK YOU, SIR.
09:31:07AM YOUR PUBLIC COMMENT TIME IS UP.
09:31:09AM NOW WE ARE MOVING ON TO STAFF REPORTS.
09:31:20AM ATTORNEY CLINTON PARIS.
09:31:22AM MR. McCRAY.
09:31:24AM >>LUIS VIERA: MADAM CHAIR, IF I MAY.
09:31:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER LUIS VIERA HAS JOINS US.
09:31:31AM >>LUIS VIERA: I AM IN MY SON'S ROOM.
09:31:34AM THE "DAWN OF THE DEAD" POSTER IS HIS, NOT MINE.
09:31:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU ALLOW IT TO BE UP THERE.
09:31:42AM YOU PAY THE BILLS.
09:31:44AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
09:31:45AM THANK YOU.
09:31:45AM PROBLEMS.
09:31:49AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MR. McCRAY.
09:31:51AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING, CEDRIC McCRAY, INTERIM CRA
09:31:55AM DIRECTOR.
09:31:55AM I HAVE THE PLEASURE OF INTRODUCING THE EAST TAMPA CHAIR,
09:32:01AM CLINTON PARIS, WHO SERVED ON THE CAC IN EAST TAMPA FOR
09:32:04AM ROUGHLY FOUR YEARS AND INVITING HIM UP NOW TO PROVIDE AN
09:32:07AM UPDATE ON THE EAST TAMPA CRA AND CAC.
09:32:13AM >>CLINTON PARIS: GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY.
09:32:14AM AGAIN, I AM CLINTON PARIS, I SERVE AS THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE
09:32:18AM EAST TAMPA CRA CAC.
09:32:20AM AND THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS MORNING'S PRESENTATION IS TO
09:32:23AM GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE HAVE
09:32:26AM ENGAGED IN.
09:32:27AM AND ALSO TO SHARE MY FINAL COMMENTS.
09:32:30AM I AM TERM LIMITED AT THE END OF THE MONTH.
09:32:33AM MY TERM WILL EXPIRE AS ONE OF THE LAST ELECTED CAC
09:32:38AM REPRESENTATIVES OF THE COMMUNITY.
09:32:39AM SO WITH THAT BEING SAID, SO THE FIRST THING I WANT TO MAKE
09:32:43AM SURE WE ARE ALL GOOD ON IS THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN
09:32:47AM AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE.
09:32:48AM THE COMPANY OF FUR WEGMAN AND BANKS WITH TRENT GREEN HAS
09:32:58AM BEEN SELECTED TO COMPLETE THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY
09:33:01AM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN UPDATE FROM THE 2004 PLAN.
09:33:04AM SO IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE GET THAT DONE AS QUICKLY AS
09:33:08AM POSSIBLE AND I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT DURING THE PROCESS OF
09:33:15AM DOING THE STRATEGIC ACTION PLAN UPDATE WHICH WAS DONE
09:33:19AM PREVIOUSLY, WE RAN INTO SOME BUDGET ISSUES.
09:33:21AM AND THE MAIN REASON WE RAN INTO BUDGET ISSUES WAS THERE WAS
09:33:25AM A LACK OF DILIGENT OVERSIGHT IN THE PROCESS OF WHAT THE
09:33:31AM CONSULTANT WAS PROVIDING.
09:33:32AM SO I CHALLENGE YOU ALL TO MAKE YOU AWARE THAT AT THE END OF
09:33:36AM THE PLAN BEING PRESENTED, YOU DON'T GET AN EXTRA BILL ADDED
09:33:40AM ON THE BACK END AS WAS ATTEMPTED IN THAT SITUATION.
09:33:44AM BUT WE STOOD FORM AT THE CAC LEVEL AND DEMANDED
09:33:49AM ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THOSE EXPENDITURES SINCE THEY WERE COMING
09:33:51AM OUT OF THE FUNDS THAT WE HAVE.
09:33:53AM THE SCOPE REQUIRES A ROBUST PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AND OUTREACH
09:33:58AM THROUGH THE COMMUNITY FORUM'S EAST TAMPA CAC MEETINGS,
09:34:02AM WORKSHOPS, MAIL AND ONLINE SURVEYS.
09:34:05AM CONTINUOUSLY, THERE HAS OPINION A DISCONNECT WITH
09:34:10AM INFORMATION AND WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH EAST TAMPA CAC.
09:34:15AM AND EFFORTS DURING MY TENURE TO BRIDGE THAT BE COMMUNICATION
09:34:18AM GAP.
09:34:19AM I WILL CHALLENGE YOU TO BE CRITICAL OF WHAT INFORMATION
09:34:22AM COMES FORWARD FOR PLAN OF ENGAGING THE COMMUNITY.
09:34:24AM IF SOMEBODY TELLS THEY ARE GOING TO ANNOUNCE IT ON THE
09:34:30AM INTERNET, THAT WON'T WORK IN THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY.
09:34:32AM IT NEEDS TO BE A ON-THE-GROUND PROCESS TO ENGAGE THE
09:34:36AM COMMUNITY AND I AM HAPPY ABOUT THAT WILL BE ACCOMPLISHED.
09:34:38AM OTHER DYNAMIC THAT WILL BE IMPLEMENTED IS THE IMPLEMENTATION
09:34:43AM PIECE.
09:34:44AM PLANS ARE GREAT.
09:34:45AM IF THE PLAN IS NOT IMPLEMENTED, THAT IS ANOTHER PART.
09:34:47AM AN OLD SAYING, WHAT GETS COUNTED GETS DONE.
09:34:52AM HAS TO BE OBJECTIVE MEASUREMENT OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
09:34:57AM PLAN.
09:34:57AM THAT WAY A CONTINUOUS MONITORING AND MAKING SURE THAT WHAT
09:35:01AM WAS SET FORTH IN PRESIDENT -- IN THE CIP PLAN WE DON'T END
09:35:06AM UP 20 YEARS LATER LIKE NOW QUESTIONING WHY MORE HAVEN'T BEEN
09:35:11AM DONE.
09:35:11AM AS THE NEW UPDATE, WE NEED TO MAP OUT MEASURING PROCESS TO
09:35:22AM KEEP UP WITH THE PROCESS.
09:35:23AM THAT NEEDS TO BE INCLUDED IN THE PLAN AND ACT AND PERIODIC.
09:35:31AM WHEN I JOINED THE CAC, IT TOOK ME SECRETARIES MONTHS TO
09:35:34AM FIGURE OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON.
09:35:36AM HISTORICAL INFORMATION WHICH WAS NEEDED TO MAKE CURRENT
09:35:40AM SITUATIONS, YOU HAD TO GO BACK AND PIECE TOGETHER WHAT MAY
09:35:43AM HAVE HAPPENED IN THE PAST AND IF YOU YOU WERE NOT ABLE TO DO
09:35:46AM THAT, IT WAS TOUGH TO MAKE GOOD SOUND DECISIONS IN THE
09:35:51AM MOMENT.
09:35:51AM PERIODIC MEASURING NEEDS TO BE IN PLACE FOR THE CRP.
09:35:55AM EAST TAMPA YOUTH PROGRAM IS ANOTHER ONE OF THE SUCCESSES I
09:36:01AM THAT BIKE TO POINT OUT AND WILLS ONE OF OUR TRAGEDIES AS
09:36:04AM WELL.
09:36:04AM THAT PROGRAM SERVICES 36 KIDS.
09:36:06AM I THINK THAT IS AN EMBARRASSMENT AND DEPLORABLE WE HAVE A
09:36:11AM BUDGET THE SUEZ -- THE SIZE THAT WE DO AND ONLY SERVE 36
09:36:21AM KIDS THROUGH THE SUMMER PROGRAM.
09:36:23AM I CHALLENGE US TO EXPAND THAT PROGRAM.
09:36:25AM THE TARGET NUMBER IS 1,000 STUDENTS.
09:36:30AM WHY I SAY THAT.
09:36:31AM I PARTICIPATED AS A KID IN TAMPA FOR SUMMER YOUTH PROGRAMS,
09:36:37AM FREE LUNCH AT THE PARK, THE FOOTBALL -- THE FLAG FOOTBALL
09:36:40AM TEAMS, YOU NAME IT.
09:36:42AM THOSE PROGRAMS MADE A DIFFERENCE AND I LIKE TO THINK I AM
09:36:45AM PAYING THAT BACK NOW, MY TAX DOLLARS I PAID INTO THE CITY.
09:36:49AM BUT I CHALLENGE THAT PROGRAM OF 36 YOUTH TO BE EXPANDED TO
09:36:52AM AT LEAST 100.
09:36:54AM ON JUNE 10 THROUGH AUGUST 2 IS WHEN THE PROGRAM WAS IN PLACE
09:36:58AM FOR THE SUMMER.
09:36:58AM AND WE ALL KNOW AN IDLE MIND LEADS TO TROUBLE.
09:37:01AM THE MORE KIDS WE CAN KEEP ACTIVE, THE FEWER KIDS THAT MAY
09:37:05AM GET TROUBLE OVER THE SUMMER.
09:37:07AM A SYMPOSIUM ON JULY 29 AT THE SUNCOAST CREDIT UNION WITH THE
09:37:14AM CORPORATE OFFICERS.
09:37:15AM TWO TRACKS FOR FIRST-YEAR AND SECOND-YEAR PARTICIPANTS.
09:37:18AM FOCUSED ON THEIR VOCATIONAL SKILLS, TRADES, SOFT SKILLS,
09:37:23AM PUBLIC SPEAKING AND JOB OPPORTUNITY AND EXPOSURE.
09:37:26AM THE JOB OPPORTUNITY EXPOSURE PIECE I THINK IS KEY.
09:37:29AM THERE SHOULD BE A COMPONENT THERE THAT CHALLENGES EVERY
09:37:32AM DEPARTMENT IN THE CITY OF TAMPA TO CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR
09:37:36AM THOSE SUMMER YOUTH KIDS TO COME OUT AND SEE THE GREAT WORK
09:37:39AM THAT IS BEING DONE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
09:37:40AM GIVE THEM EXPOSURE TO SEE WHAT JOBS ARE AVAILABLE FOR THEM
09:37:44AM IN THE FUTURE AND MAYBE MOTIVATE THEM TO BE BETTER STUDENTS
09:37:48AM AND COME BACK AND SERVE OUR COMMUNITY IN THAT CAPACITY.
09:37:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MR. PARIS, YOU WILL HAVE TO WRAP UP IN
09:37:54AM ONE MINUTE.
09:37:54AM >> THIS IS A WRAP.
09:37:55AM THIS IS A FOUR-YEAR WRAP.
09:37:57AM I AM MOVING ALONG.
09:37:58AM I WILL SPEED IT ALONG.
09:38:00AM THE EAST TAMPA HOUSING PROGRAM IS ONE OF OUR SUCCESSES AND
09:38:03AM MARKS THE REHABILITATION PROGRAM.
09:38:06AM THE -- THE HOUSING REHABILITATION, RENOVATION PROGRAM.
09:38:11AM WE RECEIVED 201 APPLICATIONS.
09:38:14AM SO WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO HELPING PEOPLE GET THEIR HOMES
09:38:17AM REFURBISHED.
09:38:18AM $420,000 EXPENDED FOR DOWNPAYMENT ASSISTANCE THAT WE NEED TO
09:38:25AM CONTINUE TO BE AGGRESSIVE AND 1,00,058 FOR THE EMERGENCY
09:38:32AM ROOF PROGRAM.
09:38:32AM WITH ALL THE RAIN IT IS SAVING PEOPLE'S HOMES AND DAMAGE IN
09:38:36AM THE HOME.
09:38:36AM I AM ALWAYS DONE.
09:38:37AM LAND ACQUISITION.
09:38:38AM ONE THING THAT IS NOT BEING MADE MORE OF IS LAND.
09:38:41AM AND WE NEED TO BUY AS MUCH LAND IN EAST TAMPA THAT WE CAN
09:38:44AM BEFORE DEVELOPERS AND SPECULATORS COME IN.
09:38:47AM AND I ENCOURAGE US TO BE OPEN-MINDED AND AGGRESSIVE WITH
09:38:51AM LAND ACQUISITION.
09:38:52AM I WANTON COMMEND STAFF IN THE LAST YEAR OR SO.
09:38:54AM THEY ARE SHOWING UP WITH REGULAR OPPORTUNITIES AND LOOKING
09:38:58AM TO BUY AS MUCH LAND IN EAST TAMPA THAT WE CAN FOR FUTURE
09:39:02AM DEVELOPMENT.
09:39:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY, MR. PARIS.
09:39:04AM >>CLINTON PARIS: 30 SECONDS.
09:39:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WOULD THE BOARD PREFER FOR HIM TO
09:39:10AM CONTINUE.
09:39:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE MADE NEW RULES AND HAVE TIME
09:39:14AM LIMITATIONS.
09:39:14AM >>CLINTON PARIS: 30 SECONDS?
09:39:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE GAVE YOU THREE MINUTES EXTRA.
09:39:19AM >>CLINTON PARIS: AS I LEAVE, ONE, I MENTIONED THE LAND
09:39:23AM ACQUISITION.
09:39:24AM I WANT TO BE CREATIVE WITH OUR YOUTH.
09:39:26AM I WANT TO ASK THAT YOU APPRECIATE THE ECONOMIC DECISIONS IN
09:39:32AM EAST TAMPA IN THE DECISIONS YOU ARE MAKING AND RESPECT THE
09:39:34AM INPUT AND COMMUNICATION THAT COMES FROM THE COMMUNITY AS FAR
09:39:37AM AS THE DECISION-MAKING.
09:39:38AM AND LASTLY, I WANT TO GIVE A THANK YOU TO THE INTERIM
09:39:42AM DIRECTOR MR. CEDRIC McCRAY.
09:39:43AM HE CAME INTO AN IMPOSSIBLE SITUATION AND REALLY STABILIZED
09:39:46AM WHAT WE ARE DOING IN EAST TAMPA.
09:39:48AM AND I WANT TO COMMEND HIM FOR THAT AND ASK YOU ALL TO
09:39:50AM CONTINUE TO SUPPORT HIS EFFORTS.
09:39:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT, MR. PARIS.
09:39:55AM APPRECIATE YOU.
09:39:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY, MR. McCRAY.
09:40:11AM JUMP TO ITEM 4?
09:40:13AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
09:40:14AM GOOD MORNING, FOR THE RECORD, CEDRIC McCRAY, INTERIM CRA
09:40:19AM DIRECTOR.
09:40:19AM THERE WAS A REQUEST BY I BELIEVE -- A MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN
09:40:23AM HURTAK TO RECEIVE THE JOB DESCRIPTION RELATED TO TWO
09:40:27AM POSITIONS THAT WERE -- WERE SLATED TO BE ADVERTISED FOR OUR
09:40:31AM AGENCIES.
09:40:32AM THE FIRST ONE IS THE COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
09:40:36AM POSITION.
09:40:36AM AND THE SECOND ONE WAS THE OPERATIONS AND CONTRACT
09:40:39AM SUPERVISOR.
09:40:39AM AND DURING OUR BRIEFINGS, YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED THE JOB
09:40:47AM DESCRIPTIONS, AND WHAT I WOULD REQUEST THAT YOU RETURN ANY
09:40:50AM COMMENTS THAT YOU HAVE TO US AS A STAFF NO LATER THAN
09:40:54AM MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.
09:40:56AM WE WILL COMPILE THAT INFORMATION AND THEN SHARE IT BACK YOU
09:41:00AM WITH.
09:41:00AM AND CAN GLADLY TAKE ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME.
09:41:04AM AND WE DO HAVE SOME FOLKS FROM HUMAN RESOURCES IN CASE YOU
09:41:08AM HAVE ANY PROCEDURE QUESTIONS THAT I MAY NOT BE ABLE TO
09:41:10AM ANSWER.
09:41:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY ONLINE BOARD MEMBERS WANT TO SPEAK ON
09:41:17AM THIS?
09:41:18AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK -- I MEAN BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
09:41:20AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
09:41:21AM THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. McCRAY, I APPRECIATE THAT.
09:41:25AM THE ONLY THING I WANT ASK IS, DO YOU FEEL THAT THESE JOB
09:41:31AM DESCRIPTIONS ADEQUATELY GIVE THE INFORMATION OR HAVE ALL OF
09:41:36AM INFORMATION THAT YOU BELIEVE IS NECESSARY TO FILL THE
09:41:39AM POSITION?
09:41:40AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
09:41:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
09:41:43AM WELL, AGAIN, I LOOKED AT THESE BEFORE, BUT I WILL LISTEN TO
09:41:48AM OTHER BOARD MEMBERS.
09:41:49AM AND MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THAT INFORMATION TO YOU BY MONDAY.
09:41:52AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THANK YOU.
09:41:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
09:41:56AM ANY OTHER BOARD MEMBERS?
09:41:58AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
09:41:59AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I KNOW WE ARE JUST TALKING ABOUT THESE TWO
09:42:02AM POSITIONS, BUT I HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT -- BE WHAT IS OUR
09:42:05AM PLAN FOR THE ATTORNEY POSITION FOR THE CRA?
09:42:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE WILL ADDRESS THAT UNDER NEW BUSINESS.
09:42:11AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I WAS GOING TO BRING THIS UP UNDER "NEW
09:42:16AM BUSINESS."
09:42:16AM I REACHED OUT TO MR. CLIFF SHEPHERD, THE ATTORNEY FOR THE
09:42:22AM FLORIDA DEVELOPMENT AGENCY.
09:42:23AM THE PRIMARY ATTORNEY ON CRAs.
09:42:25AM IF I HAVE A QUESTION REGARDING CRA ISSUES, IT IS WHO WE
09:42:29AM CALL.
09:42:29AM HE IS WILLING TO SERVE FOR OUR CRA COUNSEL.
09:42:32AM WILLING TO COME TO OUR NEXT BOARD MEETING OCTOBER 10 AND HE
09:42:38AM AND I HAVE BEEN WORKING THROUGH VARIATIONS OF THE STANDARD
09:42:42AM OF CITY AGREEMENTS.
09:42:44AM AND THAT SHOULD BE ON YOUR AGENDA FOR OCTOBER 10.
09:42:46AM SINCE YOU RAISED THE QUESTION, I TO HAVE HIS RESUME FROM HIS
09:42:52AM WEB SITE TO HAND OUT TO YOU ALL SO YOU HAVE THAT.
09:42:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, ATTORNEY MASSEY.
09:42:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN YOU LEAVE ONE ON MY SEAT AND KELLY WILL
09:43:05AM PICK IT UP.
09:43:06AM THANK YOU.
09:43:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DIRECTOR McCRAY.
09:43:08AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: WAIT FOR MORE QUESTIONS.
09:43:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO MORE QUESTIONS ON THAT.
09:43:14AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: OKAY, WE CAN MOVE ON.
09:43:16AM THE NEXT ITEM WE HAVE IS FROM THE YBOR CAC CHAIR.
09:43:21AM IT RELATES TO THE FUNDING MAJOR ARTS PROJECTS.
09:43:24AM AND I BELIEVE I DID SEE -- COME ON UP.
09:43:30AM >>RICH SIMMONS: GOOD MORNING, BOARD MEMBERS.
09:43:42AM RICH SIMMONS, YBOR CITY CHAIR.
09:43:46AM ARTS IN THE CITY.
09:43:48AM IT IS OUR ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT BUT ALSO OUR ARTS DISTRICT.
09:43:52AM WE HAVE A STRONG ARTS, TATTOO ARTISTS, MUSEUMS AN CULTURAL
09:44:00AM EXHIBITS.
09:44:00AM LAST WEEK WITH OUR CAC, A VISIT BY CORY ROBINSON THAT
09:44:06AM OUTLINED A NEW GRANT PLAN FOR ARTS IN THE CITY.
09:44:09AM EVERYBODY AT THE CAC THOUGHT THAT INFORMATION WAS WONDERFUL.
09:44:12AM WE LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH HIM ON GETTING EVERYTHING WE
09:44:15AM CAN TO DO SUPPORT THE ARTS IN YBOR CITY AND MOVE IT FORWARD.
09:44:19AM I ALSO WANT TO MENTION THE QUEST CONTEMPORARY.
09:44:23AM THEY ARE DOING EXCELLENT WORK TO PROMOTE THE ARTS IN YBOR
09:44:26AM CITY AS WELL AS THE AD HOC ARTS GROUP.
09:44:28AM CORY'S GRANT PROCESS WAS WELL RECEIVED.
09:44:32AM SOME OF COMMENTS WE RECEIVED ON THAT, MUCH LIKE WE HAD FOR
09:44:37AM INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS, SOME OF THE CONVERSATION, MAYBE
09:44:41AM STEPPING OF LEVELS -- DIFFERENT LEVELS FOR ADMINISTRATIVE
09:44:45AM REVIEW.
09:44:46AM SIMPLE GRANT FOR THE ART AT A STAFF APPROVAL AND HIRE STAFF
09:44:52AM FOR APPROVAL FOR LARGER AMOUNTS.
09:44:54AM IN THE PAST, THE YDYC SPONSORED EVENTS THROUGH SPONSORSHIP.
09:45:01AM SOME GROUPS WE SUPPORTED WITH FUNDS INCLUDE YBOR BALLET,
09:45:05AM FRENCH FEST, GASPARILLA FESTIVAL JUST TO NAME A FEW.
09:45:09AM WITH CHANGE THE LEGISLATION WE CAN NO LONGER SUPPORT THESE
09:45:13AM EVENTS AND CONCERNING FOR THE CAC.
09:45:15AM AS THESE CRA DOLLARS ARE MORE PRIORITIZED FOR BRICK AND
09:45:20AM MORTAR TYPE OF PROBLEMS.
09:45:21AM SOME THAT BECOMES A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATED WHEN WE
09:45:24AM REACH OUT AND TALK OF THE ART SCENE WITH THAT.
09:45:26AM THIS YEAR, WE WERE PREPARING TO UPDATE THE COMMUNITY
09:45:30AM REDEVELOPMENT PLAN AND STRATEGIC ACTION PLANS.
09:45:33AM AS WE KNOW, ONCE WE START PRIORITIZING THESE PROJECTS, THE
09:45:37AM MONEY KIND OF FOLLOWS WHAT THE PRIORITIES ARE.
09:45:38AM ARTS WILL BE A PRIORITY AS WE UPDATE THE CRP AND SRP THIS
09:45:44AM YEAR AN ALLOW FOR SOMETHING FOR FUNDING FOR THE ARTS IN YBOR
09:45:48AM CITY.
09:45:48AM AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, THE PERFORMANCE IN SPONSORING EVENTS
09:45:53AM IS NO LONGER VALID FOR CRA MONEY, BUT THE CAC DISCUSSED
09:45:58AM IDEAS THAT WE THOUGHT WAS BENEFICIAL FOR THE AREAS AND THESE
09:46:02AM COULD INCLUDED MURALS.
09:46:04AM WE DID A FEW IN YBOR CITY ALONG THE METAL BUILDING ALONG THE
09:46:08AM CROSSTOWN EXPRESSWAY AND YDDC HEADQUARTERS THE BEAUTIFUL ON
09:46:15AM THAT SIDE OF THE BUILDING.
09:46:16AM THE IDEAS THAT THE COMMITTEE MENTIONED PLACEMAKING, OPS,
09:46:25AM SELFIE SPOTS AS THE KIDS CALL IT.
09:46:28AM WAY TO BRING THE ART IN YBOR.
09:46:30AM GENERAL BEAUTIFICATION OF DISTRICT.
09:46:32AM GAR RACK WINDOWS.
09:46:33AM WINDOW DISPLAYS ON ALL THE PARKING GARAGES ARE FALLING A
09:46:37AM STATE OF REPAIR.
09:46:37AM THEY NEED SOME ATTENTION.
09:46:39AM THAT IS A TOPIC THAT WE MENTIONED AND TO DISCUSS AS PRIORITY
09:46:44AM TO KEEP IT BOTH AT THE CENTRAL YBOR AND THE NORIEGA PARKING
09:46:48AM GARAGE.
09:46:49AM AN INTERESTING POINT WE TALKED ABOUT WAS GRAFFITI ABATEMENT.
09:46:53AM TPD HAS ISSUES AND HOMEOWNERS AND BUSINESS OWNERS HAVE
09:46:58AM ISSUES WITH REPAIRING GRAFFITI.
09:47:01AM CODE ENFORCEMENT TAGGED FOR THIS.
09:47:05AM AND INCLUDE THE ARTISTS.
09:47:10AM LESS LIKELY TO TAG BY GRAFFITI OBJECT IF ART IS PARENTED ON
09:47:16AM AN OBJECT.
09:47:17AM TALK OF CROSSWALKS, INTERSECTIONS.
09:47:21AM THE CITY HAS DONE MANY PROGRAM WITH PAINTING CROSSWALKS AND
09:47:25AM TALKED OF INSTALLS, STATUES, PHYSICAL ART.
09:47:27AM BEAUTIFYING SIGNAL BOXES, PARKS AND GREEN SPACE AND
09:47:33AM MAINTENANCE OF ALL THESE FACILITIES.
09:47:35AM AS YOU KNOW, WE ARE PLANNING TO DO AN UPDATE TO CENTENNIAL
09:47:38AM PARK.
09:47:38AM AND I THINK THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PUBLIC ART AS WELL.
09:47:45AM IN GENERAL, WE TALKED OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND I THINK
09:47:48AM THERE IS PROPERTY THERE FOR PROPERTY ACQUISITION.
09:47:50AM WE ARE NOT SURE WHAT THAT WILL LOOK FOR, BUT CAN BE
09:47:55AM INCORPORATED FOR THE ART SCENE AS TEMPORARY RESIDENCES FOR
09:47:58AM ARTISTS, TRAVELING ARTISTS.
09:48:01AM WE KNOW THAT THE ART SPACE IS OUTSIDE OF OUR CRA DISTRICT
09:48:05AM AND WE CAN'T USE THE CRA TIF FUNDS FOR THAT BUT WE SUPPORT
09:48:10AM EVERYTHING MOVING FORWARD WITH ENTERTAINMENT AND EFFORT AND
09:48:14AM OTHER THINGS WE CAN DO THAT WILL BE SIMILAR TO THAT WITHIN
09:48:17AM THE CRA DISTRICT.
09:48:19AM DUE TO LIMITED PUBLIC SPACE IN YBOR, I THINK CAC IS OPEN TO
09:48:24AM HAVING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS TO ALLOW THESE DEALS MOVE
09:48:28AM FORWARD TO ALLOW PUBLIC ART.
09:48:29AM I THINK THAT WAS IN PLACE WE SAW WITH THE MURALS ALONG THE
09:48:33AM CROSSTOWN AND ALONG THE YCDC BUILDING AND WIDELY RESPECTED
09:48:42AM BY THE CAC.
09:48:44AM THAT IS ALL FOR THE ARTS AND LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH
09:48:47AM YOU TO CORRECT ANY IDEAS FROM THE CAC UP AND THE CRA BOARD
09:48:50AM TO FUND THE ARTS IN YBOR CITY.
09:48:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY QUESTIONS FROM OUR BOARD MEMBERS
09:48:56AM ONLINE?
09:48:56AM BOARD MEMBER CARSON?
09:48:58AM >>BILL CARLSON: FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.
09:49:00AM LONG-TIME LEADERSHIP IN YBOR CITY AND THE CREATIVE
09:49:04AM LEADERSHIP THAT YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES BRING.
09:49:06AM AS YOU KNOW, YOU TALK OF YBOR BEING THE ARTS CENTER.
09:49:13AM ARTS IS COMING BACK BECAUSE FOLKS ARE MAKING AN INVESTMENT
09:49:16AM AND RENEWED EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE ARTS.
09:49:18AM I AM SAYING EVERYTHING YOU KNOW, BUT THE PUBLIC MAY NOT KNOW
09:49:21AM WENT AWAY AND YBOR HAS MADE A DELIBERATE EFFORT TO BRING THE
09:49:26AM ARTS BACK FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
09:49:29AM WE HAVE DONE IN TWO YEARS WHAT IT HAS TAKEN OTHER CITIES 10
09:49:35AM TO 20 YEARS TO DO.
09:49:36AM AND WHEN OTHER CITIES LOOK AT US, THEY ARE IMPRESSED WHAT IS
09:49:40AM GOING ON.
09:49:40AM A NEW DEVELOPERS HAVE BEEN REALLY INVOLVED IN IT.
09:49:43AM I WANT TO SAY A COUPLE OF THINGS REAL FAST.
09:49:46AM IN ST. PETE -- SOME OF ARTISTS IN YBOR IN THE '90s MOVED TO
09:49:52AM DOWNTOWN ST. PETE AND DOWNTOWN ST. PETE HAD THEIR OWN
09:49:55AM ARTISTS AND BECAUSE OF GENTRIFICATION HAD TO MOVE TO THE
09:49:58AM WAREHOUSE DISTRICT.
09:49:59AM 10 TO 15 YEARS AGO, GENTRIFICATION AROUND THAT.
09:50:03AM ENLIGHTENED BUSINESS PEOPLE GOT TOGETHER WITH THE ARTISTS --
09:50:07AM I HELPED A SMALL BIT -- AND THEY BOUGHT UP A BUNCH OF LAND
09:50:11AM AND HAVE BEEN ADDING TO THAT LAND.
09:50:13AM THEY HAVE SPACE FOR 50 OR 60 ARTISTS AND OUTDOOR SPACE.
09:50:20AM THE CITY PARTNER WITH THE PRIVATE SECTOR TO DO THAT.
09:50:23AM AND WHAT HAPPENED IS SOME OF THE ARTISTS IN THE SURROUNDING
09:50:27AM AREAS HAVE BEEN GENTRIFIED OUT.
09:50:29AM BECAUSE THEY ARE OWN BY A NONPROFIT, NET NOT BE GENTRIFIED
09:50:34AM OUT.
09:50:34AM ARTS ARE NOT ONLY CONNECTED TO A INNOVATION ECONOMY WHERE
09:50:39AM THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST PEOPLE IN SOFT WARE COMPANIES AND
09:50:42AM DIGITAL ANALYSIS COMPANIES AND ARTISTS WANT TO LIVE AND WORK
09:50:46AM IN AN ARTIST'S ENVIRONMENT.
09:50:48AM WE SEE IN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, PLACES LIKE ST. PETE AND
09:50:54AM MIAMI AND NEW YORK AND OTHERS, DUNBAR AREA OF NEW YORK WHERE
09:51:00AM A DEVELOPER BROUGHT A BUNCH OF LAND AND PUT ARTS IN THE
09:51:03AM MIDDLE OF IT.
09:51:04AM AND THE WHOLE THING DEVELOPED AROUND IT.
09:51:06AM WE NEED THRIVING ARTS AND WE.
09:51:10AM THE POINT I WAS TRYING TO MAKE IS I HOPE WE CAN FIND -- ART
09:51:14AM SPACE THAT IS WORK AND LIVING SPACE.
09:51:16AM BUT I HOPE WE CAN FIND GALLERY SPACE AND WORK SPACE FOR
09:51:20AM ARTISTS SO SOME OF IT CAN MO OF INTO A NONPROFIT AND HELP
09:51:24AM THEM BUY A PIECE OF LAND, A BUILDING OR AN OFFICE CONDO.
09:51:28AM BUT LONG TERM, FOLKS ARE WORRIED.
09:51:30AM WE HAVE VERY ENLIGHTENED PROPERTY OWNER IT IS SOMEBODY CAME
09:51:35AM OUT TO MONETIZE IT, WE WILL LOSE THE ECONOMIC ENGINE OF THE
09:51:38AM AREA.
09:51:39AM LAST THING IS, THERE IS -- SOMEONE TOLD ME IN THE ARTS
09:51:43AM COMMUNITY IN YBOR, THERE IS A GLASS ARTIST THAT MAKES GLASS
09:51:49AM BRICKS AND SUGGESTED USING FOR SOME OF THE CROSSWALKS.
09:51:53AM AND THE POINT IS, THERE IS PROBABLY WAYS TO PUT ART AS AN
09:51:56AM ELEMENT WITHOUT MAKING IT JUST A STATUE OR A MURAL.
09:52:02AM A SMALLER ACCESS THAN SOMETHING BIG.
09:52:04AM THANK YOU.
09:52:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
09:52:07AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:52:08AM I AM LAUGHING AT MYSELF WHEN I HEARD YOUR REPORT.
09:52:11AM IT MAKES SENSE.
09:52:12AM YBOR CITY IS LIKE A FERRIS WHEEL.
09:52:14AM THE MORE PEOPLE ON IT, THE MORE PEOPLE WANT TO GET ON IT AND
09:52:18AM THE FASTER IT SPINS.
09:52:19AM WHAT I MEAN BY THAT, I WAS RAISED IN YBOR CITY.
09:52:24AM WHY DID PEOPLE LEAVE?
09:52:26AM THEY LEFT FOR MANY REASONS.
09:52:27AM FIRST OF ALL, THEY WANT TO BLAME EVERYTHING ON THE
09:52:30AM EXPRESSWAY.
09:52:30AM THAT IS HALFWAY AN EXCUSE.
09:52:32AM BUT THE CIGAR FACTORIES ALSO CLOSED DOWN.
09:52:35AM AMERICAN CONTINENTAL CLOSED DOWN.
09:52:38AM WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO WORK AT?
09:52:41AM THAT IS WHERE THE INDUSTRY WAS -- THEY HAD RESTAURANTS AND
09:52:44AM OPERATIONS AND FISH STORES WHERE YOU CAN FEED YOUR HORSE AND
09:52:48AM COW IN YOUR BACK YARD.
09:52:49AM THOSE DAYS ARE GONE.
09:52:51AM BUT YBOR CITY KEEPS REINVENTING ITSELF.
09:52:54AM FIRST TUMBLE WEEDS, PROSTITUTES AND DRUG ADDICTS.
09:52:58AM LET'S FACE IT.
09:53:00AM THEN CAME THE ARTISTS AND THEY BELT IT UP AND SOMEBODY SAID
09:53:03AM GOOD RENT WITH LOW PRICE AND WE CAN GO THERE.
09:53:06AM THEY WENT.
09:53:06AM THE ARTIST HAD TO LEAVE BECAUSE THE PRICE WENT UP.
09:53:12AM IT CONTINUES TO CHANGE AND WILL CONTINUE TO CHANGE.
09:53:14AM WHEN I SEE YBOR -- WHEN THE SHAW PROJECT IS COMPLETE, THERE
09:53:18AM WILL BE MORE RESIDENTIAL THAN ANYTHING ELSE.
09:53:20AM AND YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE THE RECOMING OF THE ORIGINAL YBOR
09:53:25AM CITY COMING BACK IN A LOT OF WAYS.
09:53:27AM YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE MUCH MORE STREET TRAFFIC --
09:53:30AM -- WHY DID WE HAVE STREET TRAFFIC?
09:53:36AM DON'T HAVE MONEY TO BUY A CAR.
09:53:37AM STREETCAR THAT WORKS, THE ONLY MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION.
09:53:41AM YOU HAVE THE NEEDS AND THE WANTS ALL TOGETHER AND SOMETIMES
09:53:44AM THEY ARE NOT IN BALANCE AND YOU ARE LIKE, WHAT AM I DOING
09:53:47AM HERE?
09:53:48AM THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING IN YBOR CITY.
09:53:51AM YOU KNOW WE WALKED 26th AND 20th JEFFERSON HENRY OLA AND
09:53:57AM EUCLID.
09:53:57AM NO ONE WAS LATE.
09:53:58AM NOW ALL THE AMENITIES COUNTY BUS, AND THE BUS IS LET.
09:54:02AM YOU HAVE THINGS THAT CHANGED, BUT THEY REALLY HAVEN'T
09:54:05AM CHANGED.
09:54:05AM JUST A NEW WAY OF SAYING HERE WE ARE.
09:54:07AM AND IN MY OPINION, IT WILL COME BACK BIG TIME, MUCH BIGGER
09:54:12AM THAN WE EXPECT.
09:54:12AM IT DIED THE SAME TIME THAT DOWNTOWN DIED.
09:54:15AM AND DOWNTOWN BEING REVIVED, THE SAME TIME YBOR CITY IS
09:54:21AM GETTING REVEALED.
09:54:21AM YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE CONNECTOR.
09:54:23AM NOW WE ARE GETTING A CONNECTOR AND WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
09:54:27AM I EXPECT IT TO BE A MUCH GREATER PLACE AND EVEN -- I HATE TO
09:54:32AM ADMIT IT -- HIGHER PRICE TO GO.
09:54:35AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS THE HARDEST THEY THINK TO DO BECAUSE
09:54:37AM NO HOUSE IS AFFORDABLE ANYMORE.
09:54:40AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
09:54:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN FOLLOWED BY BOARD
09:54:45AM MEMBER MANISCALCO.
09:54:45AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WANT TO ECHO WHAT COUNCILMAN CARLSON
09:54:49AM SAID AND BE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT TPD OF AGENDA.
09:54:51AM IN A PREVIOUS CRA, WITH THE SET-ASIDES, THE 30% SET-ASIDES
09:54:58AM HAVE EXPECTATION.
09:54:59AM I WOULD REALLY -- ESPECIALLY IN A PLACE LIKE YBOR AND HOW
09:55:02AM IMPORTANT WE PLACE ON ARTS WITH THE SPACE, WE LOOK AT
09:55:09AM CREATIVE SOLUTION AND ARTIST DISPLAY AND WORKSPACE.
09:55:13AM I THINK IF WE PURSUED THAT, IT WOULD BE AN ECONOMIC CATALYST
09:55:18AM FOR THE PROCEEDER AREA AS WELL.
09:55:20AM AND I THINK COUNCILMAN CARLSON, YOU KNOW, FREQUENTLY
09:55:24AM PROMOTES WHAT HAPPENED IN ST. PETERSBURG WITH THIS BASIS.
09:55:27AM AND I THINK IT IS DEFINITELY A MODEL THAT WE SHOULD BE
09:55:30AM LOOKING AT AND MAYBE A SMALLER SCALE THAN WHAT THEY HAVE
09:55:34AM DONE OVER THERE PAUSE OF COURSE WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF
09:55:37AM SPACES IN YBOR.
09:55:37AM YBOR IS SMALL, THE TWO DIFFERENT CRAs THERE.
09:55:45AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THIS SOLUTION FOR ART SPACES.
09:55:48AM NOT ONLY DOES IT MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE FOR THE LIVING THERE
09:55:52AM BUT ECONOMIC CATALYST THAT PROVIDES JOBS AND CULTURAL
09:55:55AM ENRICHMENT THAT WE ARE ALL LOOKING FOR.
09:55:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
09:56:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I LIKE WHAT I HEAR WITH MY COLLEAGUES UP
09:56:04AM HERE AND I AGREE WITH ALMOST EVERYTHING.
09:56:06AM ESPECIALLY WHAT BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA MENTIONED HOW
09:56:11AM EVERYTHING CHANGES.
09:56:11AM HE USED THE FERRIS WHEEL ANALOGY AND LOOKING AT IT
09:56:15AM HISTORICALLY WHERE YBOR WAS -- I HAD THIS CONVERSATION
09:56:18AM YESTERDAY WITH A GENTLEMAN IN YBOR CITY THAT YOU PROBABLY --
09:56:22AM YOU PROBABLY KNOW.
09:56:22AM AND I SAID, WHAT IS COMING TO YBOR CITY IS THE NEW
09:56:26AM RENAISSANCE AND SOMETHING THAT -- I USE THE WORD
09:56:31AM "ANCESTORS."
09:56:32AM BUT A GENERATION FROM 100-PLUS YEARS AGO.
09:56:35AM THE FIRST WAVE OF EMIGRANTS AND PEOPLE THAT BUILT YBOR CITY
09:56:40AM IS SOMETHING WE WILL BE PROUD OF.
09:56:41AM WITH THE SHUTTING DOWN OF THE CIGAR FACTORIES, THE
09:56:46AM INTRODUCTION OF CIGARETTES.
09:56:47AM THE INTRODUCTION TO HAND ROLLERS TO MACHINE ROLLERS.
09:56:51AM HE MENTIONED CONTINENTAL CAN COMPANY.
09:56:54AM THE COMPANY LEFT, THE INTERSTATE CAME THROUGH.
09:56:57AM PEOPLE LEFT.
09:56:59AM AT THAT TALKED WORLD WAR II VETERANS WHO CAME BACK FROM THE
09:57:04AM SERVICE.
09:57:04AM THEY LEFT.
09:57:06AM SOMEONE OR THEIR PARENTS SAY GO SOMEWHERE AND FIND LAND AND
09:57:11AM BUILD A HOUSE.
09:57:12AM THEY WANT TO BRANDON, EXCEPT FOR YBOR CITY.
09:57:17AM ONE GENTLEMAN SAID WE CAME BACK TO YBOR CITY 50 YEARS LATER
09:57:20AM AND WE WERE SAD AND ASKED WHAT HAPPENED?
09:57:25AM WE HAPPENED.
09:57:26AM A LOT OF PEOPLE LEFT.
09:57:27AM THE INTERSTATE DID A LOT OF DAMAGE BUT IT WASN'T EVERYTHING.
09:57:30AM WHAT IS COMING TO YBOR CITY WITH GASWORX AND ALL THE OTHER
09:57:35AM PROJECTS.
09:57:35AM IT IS SO CRITICAL.
09:57:36AM IT IS THE NEW RENAISSANCE.
09:57:38AM IN ALL THAT, THE ARTS ARE SUCH A BIG ECONOMIC DRIVER FROM
09:57:42AM ANY CITY.
09:57:43AM FROM HERE AND ANY PLACE IN THE WORLD, BUT WE HAVE TO HAVE
09:57:46AM THOSE ARTISTS.
09:57:47AM WE HAVE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE AFFORDABILITY FOR THE
09:57:50AM INDIVIDUALS TO LIVE IN THE COMMUNITY, TO ABLE TO WALK, TO
09:57:53AM NOT HAVE A CAR AND SAY I LIVE, WORK AND PLAY HERE.
09:57:56AM IT IS SO CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT.
09:57:58AM I THINK AS THE CONVERSATION I HAD YESTERDAY WITH THE
09:58:00AM GENTLEMAN, HE SAID MORALE IS LOW.
09:58:03AM WE WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU.
09:58:04AM I WOULD LIKE TO SIT DOWN AND HAVE A CONVERSATION.
09:58:07AM AND I SAID, BUT IT IS JUST GOING TO GET BETTER.
09:58:10AM WITH THE INVESTMENTS THAT ARE COMING.
09:58:12AM I KNOW THINGS ARE CHANGING, BUT ALWAYS HAVE BEEN AN
09:58:16AM EVOLUTION THERE.
09:58:16AM I TALKED TO MY MOM ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY WHEN MY GRANDPARENTS
09:58:19AM WOULD GO TO BUSINESSES IN THE 1960s.
09:58:22AM LAS NOVIDADES.
09:58:26AM THE DEL GRANA TRAVEL AGENCY.
09:58:30AM WE KNOW FRANK BECAUSE HIS OFFICES WERE THERE WHERE THE GREEN
09:58:34AM IGUANA WAS AT.
09:58:35AM AND THAT HAS CHANGED INTO.
09:58:36AM MY GRANDMOTHER WOULD TELL ME STORIES.
09:58:39AM TELL ME STORIES OF THE 1980s, TAKE A QUARTER DOWN 7th AVENUE
09:58:44AM IN THE MIDDLE OF 7th AVENUE AND HEAR IT CLINKING DOWN THE
09:58:48AM STREET.
09:58:48AM IT IS NOT LIKE THAT ANYMORE.
09:58:50AM I MEAT LADY WHO TOLD ME OF A HUSBAND WHO BOUGHT A PROPERTY
09:58:53AM ON 7th AVENUE FOR $80,000.
09:58:55AM I SAID YOUR HUSBAND BOUGHT A BUILDING FOR $80,000 IN YBOR
09:59:01AM CITY IN 1988.
09:59:02AM I HE SOLD IT.
09:59:04AM I ASKED MY FAMILY -- HE WOULD BUY REAL ESTATE -- WHY NOT BUY
09:59:09AM YBOR CITY THEY SAID BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO YBOR
09:59:14AM CITY.
09:59:14AM IT WAS NOT WHAT YOU THINK -- I DON'T WANT TO NAME -- BECAUSE
09:59:17AM SO MANY PEOPLE WHO INVESTED IN YBOR CITY AND SAID LET'S LIFT
09:59:20AM THIS PLACE UP.
09:59:21AM BUT, AGAIN, BRIGHTER DAYS ARE COMING AHEAD.
09:59:24AM IN THE CENTER OF IT ALL, THE ARTS, THE ARTS PROJECTS, THEY
09:59:29AM ARE SO CRITICAL AND IMPORTANT TO THAT -- TO BE THAT ECONOMY,
09:59:32AM TO THAT GROWTH AND THAT RENAISSANCE.
09:59:33AM THANK YOU.
09:59:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
09:59:35AM OKAY.
09:59:36AM ANYONE ONLINE?
09:59:38AM >> OKAY, THANK YOU.
09:59:39AM MR. McCRAY.
09:59:46AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING AGAIN.
09:59:48AM CEDRIC McCRAY, INTERIM CRA DIRECTOR.
09:59:50AM I WILL CIRCLE BACK TO THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
09:59:53AM FIRST OFF, LET ME SAY THANK YOU TO MEMBERS OF THE CRA BOARD
09:59:58AM WHO CAME OUT OUT AUGUST 20 FOR REBRICKING AND RIBBON CUTTING
10:00:03AM THAT WAS GREATLY APPRECIATED.
10:00:05AM WITH THE REPORT THAT YOU RECEIVED, IN AN EFFORT TO ESSENTIAL
10:00:09AM CENTRALIZE THE -- TO CENTRALIZE, THE STAFF WILL BE RELOCATED
10:00:17AM TO THE MUNICIPAL BUILDING ON THE SECOND FLOOR.
10:00:21AM THAT IS BEING BUILT OUT AND WE CONTINUE TO HAVE A PRESENCE
10:00:25AM IN THE VARIOUS CRAS AS WELL AND STATUTE WILL HAVE ACCESS FOR
10:00:29AM THE EAST TAMPA OFFICE FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT.
10:00:33AM IF WE HAVE STAFF RELATED TO THINK GRANTS OR HAVE QUESTIONS
10:00:37AM OF THE APPLICATION SO ON AND SO FORTH, WE STILL HAVE ACCESS
10:00:40AM TO THAT SPACE IN EAST TAMPA.
10:00:45AM THE PROJECT TRACKER WAS MENTIONED DURING PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:00:48AM THAT WAS REQUESTED TO BE IN PRESIDENT MONTHLY UPDATES THAT
10:00:51AM YOU ALL RECEIVED.
10:00:55AM UPDATED THAT AND PUT TOGETHER BY MISS MARTINEZ AND HER TEAM
10:01:00AM AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO THAT ON A MONTHLY BASIS.
10:01:02AM IF THEN HAS ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO
10:01:06AM CONTACT ME WITH ANY QUESTIONS.
10:01:07AM THE HOUSING REHABILITATION AND RENOVATION PROGRAM.
10:01:09AM I BELIEVE ATTORNEY PARIS MENTIONED THAT DURING HIS COMMENTS.
10:01:14AM AS OF LAST SATURDAY, WE HAD AN EVENT AT HANNA AND
10:01:19AM DISTRIBUTED 201 APPLICATIONS -- MAY BE MORE AT THIS POINT,
10:01:23AM BUT MISS PARKS AND HER TEAM HAS DONE A TREMENDOUS JOB OF
10:01:27AM ANSWERING QUESTIONS AND PUSHING THAT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AT
10:01:30AM LARGE.
10:01:31AM AND WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING THE BALL ROLLING ON
10:01:34AM THAT LATER THIS YEAR.
10:01:35AM THERE IS A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT.
10:01:41AM YOU ALL WILL BE DISCUSSING THE BUDGET.
10:01:44AM THERE WAS ONE MIEN CHANGE OR ADDITION.
10:01:47AM WE DID INCREASE THRESHOLDS FOR THE GRANTS THAT ARE OFFERED
10:01:51AM IN YBOR 1 AND YBOR 2.
10:01:54AM YBOR 1 WENT UP TO $75,000 AND YBOR 2 WENT UP TO $50,000 AND
10:01:59AM WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT WAS IN LINE WITH ALL THE GRANTS
10:02:02AM OFFERED ACROSS ALL THE CRAs.
10:02:04AM WE HAVE ONE OTHER ITEM.
10:02:06AM IN REVIEW COUNTY AGREEMENT -- SERVICES AGREEMENT -- THE
10:02:11AM INTERIM POSITION IS FOR A PERIOD OF 90 DAYS.
10:02:14AM SO AT SOME POINT, WE WILL HAVE TO DISCUSS THAT PROCESS AND
10:02:18AM WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE MOVING FORWARD AND THIS CONCLUDES THE
10:02:26AM DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
10:02:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: QUESTIONS.
10:02:28AM ANY QUESTIONS ONLINE?
10:02:30AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK FOLLOWED BY BOARD MEMBER CARSON.
10:02:34AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION.
10:02:35AM I WANTED TO SAY PUBLICLY THAT EARLIER THIS WEEK, WE HAD A
10:02:40AM MEETING WITH SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY SAID -- WHO TOLD US -- IT
10:02:44AM WAS COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC, THAT THEY WERE INCREDIBLY -- THEY
10:02:48AM HAD GOTTEN FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT THESE NEW
10:02:50AM EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR GRANTS AND THE HELP FROM THE STAFF HAS
10:02:54AM BEEN AMAZING.
10:02:55AM AND THAT THE FOLKS WHO GOT THE HELP IT SO MUCH, THEY ARE
10:03:00AM HOPING TO BE ABLE TO SHARE IT WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES.
10:03:03AM I JUST WANTED TO SHARE THAT.
10:03:04AM IT IS ALWAYS NICE TO HEAR THAT WHAT YOU WORKED SO HARD ON IS
10:03:09AM GETTING GOOD RECEPTION.
10:03:11AM SO I WANTED TO, AGAIN, THANK STAFF PUBLICLY FOR THAT AND
10:03:15AM CONGRATULATIONS.
10:03:16AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:03:18AM >>BILL CARLSON: CEDRIC, AT THE BEGINNING YOU MENTIONED THE
10:03:21AM PROJECT LIST.
10:03:22AM AND I THANKED YOU PRIVATELY AND I WILL THANK YOU PUBLICLY
10:03:28AM WITH THE NEW FORMAT, IT IS VERY HELPFUL.
10:03:32AM THE PRESENTATIONS EVOLVED IN THE FEW YEARS BUT THE MOST
10:03:36AM HELPFUL FORMAT THAT YOU CAN LOOK AT.
10:03:38AM THANK YOU FOR ALL THE CHANGE THAT HAPPENED.
10:03:40AM THANK YOU FOR BRINGING STABILITY THROUGH THIS TRANSITION AND
10:03:44AM GOOD MANAGEMENT SO WE CAN CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD.
10:03:46AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THANK YOU.
10:03:48AM THANK YOU, CRA BOARD MEMBER HURTAK FOR THAT.
10:03:53AM WE HAVE REALLY FOCUSED ON OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE ASPECT WITH
10:03:56AM THE RESTRUCTURING OF THE GRANTS PRO PROGRAM.
10:03:59AM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL THE MAN INJURIES AND
10:04:01AM SUPERVISOR WHO HAVE A HAND IN THAT AND THE STAFF AS WELL TO
10:04:04AM MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE MAKING CONTACT WITH THE APPLICANTS
10:04:07AM THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS AND TRYING TO STAY AHEAD OF ANY
10:04:10AM QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS THEY MAY HAVE SO WE CAN HAVE SOME
10:04:16AM SUCCESS STORIES AND CUT RIBBONS AND DO GROUNDBREAKINGS IN
10:04:21AM THE NEAR FUTURE.
10:04:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
10:04:24AM BOARD MEMBER.
10:04:25AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CLENDENIN WHAT IS THE STATUS.
10:04:30AM ARE WE WORKING WITH HUMAN RESOURCES TO PUT A --
10:04:36AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ARE WE DISCUSSING THE CRA DIRECTOR
10:04:40AM OPINION.
10:04:41AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CRA DIRECTOR DESCRIPTION.
10:04:44AM THE LAST MEETING YOU HAD COMMENTS ON THAT DESCRIPTION.
10:04:49AM I RECEIVED COMMENTS FROM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:04:51AM I HAVE HER CHANGES IN A RED LINE FORMAT THAT I CAN HAND OUT
10:04:56AM TO YOU ALL TODAY, BUT I THINK ONCE THAT GETS FINALIZED, WE
10:05:00AM NEED TO ADVERTISE.
10:05:01AM THAT WILL BE THE FIRST STEP.
10:05:05AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE NOT SLIPPING
10:05:08AM BEHIND ON THAT.
10:05:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THE DEADLINE WAS RIGHT AFTER LABOR DAY
10:05:11AM THAT HE ASKED FOR THOSE CHANGES SO HE IS GOING TO GO WITH
10:05:14AM WHAT HE ALREADY RECEIVED.
10:05:15AM WE HAVE IT ALREADY.
10:05:18AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: GOOD MORNING, ABBYE FEELEY.
10:05:19AM I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE SET A DEADLINE.
10:05:23AM I THINK THERE WAS A DEADLINE SET BY YOUR OFFICE, CHAIRWOMAN,
10:05:27AM BUT I AM STILL HEARING DISCUSSION THAT MAYBE OTHER MEMBERS
10:05:31AM VICE PRESIDENT LOOKED AT IT.
10:05:32AM IF WE WANT TO GO AHEAD AND SET THE DEADLINE.
10:05:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE ALREADY SET THE DEADLINE.
10:05:38AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: WE ARE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND PUBLISH.
10:05:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK DID PROVIDE FEEDBACK
10:05:43AM TO OUR OFFICE THAT HAS BEEN AGAIN TO THE ATTORNEY AND HE IS
10:05:47AM CLEANING UP SOME OF THE LANGUAGE THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY USED.
10:05:56AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I PROVIDED THE CLEANUP LANGUAGE.
10:06:00AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I KNOW THERE WAS DISCUSSION ON THE TWO OTHER
10:06:03AM POSITIONS AND FINAL COMMENTS DUE CONTINUE TO MONDAY.
10:06:05AM IF THERE IS DISCUSSION THAT THEY WOULD LIKE A COUPLE OF
10:06:09AM DAYS, BUT WE DO WANT TO GO AHEAD AND GET THAT PUBLISHED AND
10:06:12AM MOVING FORWARD.
10:06:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:06:20AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE ONLY THING I ASK THAT WE SEE THE EDITED
10:06:24AM VERSION AND APPROVE IT.
10:06:25AM WE CAN SAY WE WANT THE CHANGES BUT I WANT A CHANCE TO SEE
10:06:28AM THAT FINALIZED DOCUMENT LOOK LIKE BEFORE IT GOES OUT.
10:06:32AM THAT IS THE JOB OF THE BOARD.
10:06:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOVING THAT -- THE RED STRIKE-THROUGHS
10:06:42AM INDICATE WHAT IS COMING OUT.
10:06:43AM AND YOU CAN DETERMINE THAT THAT WAY.
10:06:46AM WE SHOULD NOT EXTEND IT FOR ANOTHER MONTH FOR THAT REASON.
10:06:49AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S NOT WHAT I AM SAYING.
10:06:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OH, OKAY.
10:06:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM SAYING ALL GET A CHANCE TO LOOK AT IT
10:06:56AM AND IF YOU WANT TO PUT MONDAY AS THE DEADLINE TO MAKE ANY
10:06:59AM ADDITIONAL CHANGES TO THE RED-LINE VERSION, THAT THAT WOULD
10:07:03AM BE IT.
10:07:03AM BUT THAT WOULD BE -- BECAUSE, YOU SAID -- MR. MASSEY, IF YOU
10:07:08AM HAVE GIVEN IT TO THE ADMINISTRATION, IF THE ADMINISTRATION
10:07:11AM WANTS TO MAKE CHANGES, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THOSE
10:07:13AM CHANGES ARE BEFORE WE APPROVE IT TO GO OUT INTO THE PUBLIC.
10:07:17AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY COMMENT ON THE
10:07:19AM ADMINISTRATION REGARDING.
10:07:20AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEN AGAIN MONDAY, WHEN YOU GET ALL OF THEM,
10:07:24AM SEND AN E-MAIL TO US, AND WE CAN JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE
10:07:28AM APPROVE OF -- I MEAN, I WOULD LIKE A CHANCE TO LOOK AT IT
10:07:31AM BEFORE IT GOES OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
10:07:33AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:07:36AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO MONDAY IS THE DEADLINE FOR SUGGESTED
10:07:40AM CHANGES AND THEN --
10:07:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO, WE ALREADY HAD THAT DEADLINE.
10:07:44AM THAT DEADLINE WAS AFTER LABOR DAY.
10:07:46AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT'S WHY I'M CONFUSE WHAT WE JUST SAID.
10:07:49AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE ALREADY HAD THE SUBMISSION DEADLINE.
10:07:51AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THIS DOCUMENT IS THE FINAL DOCUMENT.
10:07:54AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, WITH THE RED HIGHLIGHTS.
10:07:56AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THESE CHANGES.
10:07:58AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, DO YOU -- DID YOU GET THAT PART?
10:08:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SHE DID.
10:08:03AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MAYBE SLOW, BECAUSE I MISSED IT.
10:08:07AM >>LYNN HURTAK: APPARENTLY I WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO MADE EDITS.
10:08:12AM BUT IF THE ADMINISTRATION IN ANY CHANGES AND MR. MASSEY SAID
10:08:15AM THERE ARE NO CHANGES, SORE IF THIS IS THE FINAL, FINAL,
10:08:19AM THEN, OKAY.
10:08:19AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT WASN'T UP TO THE CITY STAFF TO MAKE
10:08:24AM ANY CHANGES.
10:08:24AM NOT HR, IT WITH AS NOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.
10:08:27AM IT WAS OUR RESPONSIBILITY, BECAUSE WE ARE THE DECIDERS OF
10:08:32AM THIS.
10:08:32AM THIS THESE ARE THE CHANGES.
10:08:33AM IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, SAY SO BY MONDAY.
10:08:36AM AGREED?
10:08:40AM BOARD MEMBER CARSON.
10:08:41AM >>BILL CARLSON: DO YOU JUST -- WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE
10:08:46AM ANOTHER -- IF WE WAIT TO VOTE AGAIN, IT WILL BE ANOTHER
10:08:48AM MONTH.
10:08:49AM YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD TO MAKE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THIS WITH
10:08:51AM THE MARK-UPS?
10:08:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU ALL NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
10:08:57AM >>BILL CARLSON: I JUST READ IT TWICE.
10:08:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
10:08:59AM SO HOW ABOUT --
10:09:02AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HE WILL MAKE A MOTION TO ACCEPT THESE
10:09:04AM EDITS AS A FINAL DOCUMENT.
10:09:05AM >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
10:09:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: A MOTION TO ACCEPT THE RED LINE CHANGES
10:09:10AM FOR THE JOB DESCRIPTION FOR THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
10:09:14AM DIRECTOR.
10:09:16AM ANY DISCUSSION?
10:09:18AM CAN I GET A -- WHO GAVE THE SECOND.
10:09:22AM CARLSON GAVE THE SECOND.
10:09:23AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
10:09:24AM OPPOSED?
10:09:25AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: BETTER BE UNANIMOUS, YOU ONLY HAVE FOUR.
10:09:28AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE HAVE TWO FACES STARING AT US.
10:09:32AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK VOTED NO.
10:09:37AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I VOTED YES.
10:09:38AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:09:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: AYE.
10:09:40AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CLARIFYING COMMENT I WILL MAKE.
10:09:43AM IF I RECEIVE ANY INPUT FROM THE ADMINISTRATION REGARDING
10:09:47AM THESE CHANGES, I WILL ADVISE ALL OF YOU ALL.
10:09:49AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OF COURSE.
10:09:50AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:09:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA, DID YOU HAVE YOUR
10:10:01AM HAND UP TO SAY SOMETHING, SIR?
10:10:03AM YOU ARE ON MUTE.
10:10:04AM OKAY.
10:10:07AM THANK YOU.
10:10:07AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS NUMBER 5 RELATES
10:10:18AM AND THE CONVERSATION OF THE BOARD HAVING DISCUSSION RELATING
10:10:22AM TO THE COMMUNICATIONS RFP THAT WAS SLATED TO BE ADVERTISED
10:10:27AM AND JOB DESCRIPTIONS THAT WERE PROCEEDED TO YOU ALL.
10:10:31AM AND I -- AT THIS TIME, I GUESS YOU ALL WANTED TO HAVE AN
10:10:34AM OPEN CONVERSATION RELATED TO COMMUNICATION POSITIONS.
10:10:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY, CAN YOU ADDRESS?
10:10:44AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: BEFORE WE GO INTO A LONG DISCUSSION THIS.
10:10:46AM I WANT THE BOARD TO REALIZE THAT AS STATUTE, ALL THE CRA
10:10:51AM FUNDS CAN BE USED FOR IS TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION OF SLUM
10:10:55AM CLEARANCE AND COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES.
10:10:57AM THAT IS IT.
10:10:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NOT BRANDING STRATEGY.
10:11:08AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CORRECT.
10:11:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THAT.
10:11:10AM IT WAS A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CARSON.
10:11:13AM DO YOU WANT TO ADDRESS IT SINCE IT IS THE MOTION.
10:11:15AM >>BILL CARLSON: I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT LEGAL ARGUMENT
10:11:17AM WITH HIM.
10:11:18AM I DISAGREE WITH THAT.
10:11:19AM WE WILL ASK THE NEW ATTORNEY AND WE WILL GO THROUGH THAT.
10:11:22AM ANYWAY, THE ISSUE HERE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS MY
10:11:28AM BUSINESS.
10:11:29AM AND $500,000 IS AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THIS AGENCY
10:11:35AM TO SPEND IF WE ARE GOING TO OUTSOURCE IT.
10:11:37AM AND ESPECIALLY IF WE ARE NOT GOING TO INCLUDE BRANDING
10:11:40AM STRATEGY, IT SHOULD BE LIKES $200,000.
10:11:44AM WHAT WE ARE ASKING FOLKS TO DO.
10:11:46AM WE HAVE A LOGO.
10:11:47AM WE NEED FOR THEM TO SET UP SOME SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS AND
10:11:51AM PROMOTE THOSE.
10:11:52AM WE NEED THEM TO SEND OUT PRESS RELEASES AND ORGANIZE PRESS
10:11:56AM CONFERENCES, OTHER MEDIA EVENTS, PUT UP SIGNAGE.
10:12:00AM BUT NONE OF THAT TAKES MORE THAN A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSANDS
10:12:05AM OF DOLLARS A YEAR.
10:12:06AM ALL OF THAT IS CONSISTENT.
10:12:08AM BEYOND THAT, BRANDING AND COMMUNICATION THAT HAS TO DO WITH
10:12:11AM EACH -- EACH OF THE INVESTMENTS.
10:12:13AM YBOR CITY IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN EAST TAMPA AND EVEN PARTS
10:12:16AM OF YBOR AND PARTS OF EAST INTEREST DIFFERENT THAN OTHERS.
10:12:19AM THOSE ARE JUST TWO.
10:12:21AM AND WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH EVEN -- TO
10:12:30AM COMMUNICATE WITH PROJECTS, UNIQUE WAYS TO COMMUNICATE IN
10:12:36AM OUR DISTRICT AND HELP PROMOTE REDEVELOPMENT AND TALK OF
10:12:40AM BRANDING OR THE CHARACTER OF A COMMUNITY HELPS ATTRACT
10:12:46AM REDEVELOPMENT AND THAT HAS TO BE INCLUDED IN THIS AND WE CAN
10:12:48AM ARGUE THE LEGAL ASPECTS OF IT LATER.
10:12:50AM WHAT I WOULD HAVE DONE IF $500,000.
10:12:53AM I WOULD TAKE $200,000 AND PUT IT IN THE BASIC COMMUNICATION
10:12:57AM OF THE CRA.
10:12:57AM IF I HAD $300,000 MORE, I WOULD HERE DIFFERENT FIRMS THAT
10:13:02AM SPECIALIZE IN THE DIFFERENT AREAS AND IDEALLY THEY WOULD BE
10:13:05AM LOCATED IN THE DIFFERENT AREA AND BETA TEST IT WITH MAYBE
10:13:08AM YBOR, EAST TAMPA, WEST TAMPA IF I HAD THREE AND SEE IF IT
10:13:13AM COULD ROLL OUT.
10:13:14AM IF WE CAN'T DO, CERTAINLY SHOULDN'T HAVE A BUDGET OF
10:13:19AM $500,000.
10:13:19AM THE RFP IS WELL WRITTEN -- HAS EVERYTHING WE NEED, IT VERY
10:13:24AM WELL-WRITTEN IT.
10:13:26AM TO GIVE IT TO THE IN-HOUSE PEOPLE.
10:13:28AM AND IN DISCUSSION WITH THE QUESTION THAT WAS DISCUSSED
10:13:31AM EARLIER, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE HIRE A FERN WITH
10:13:35AM COMMUNICATION EXPERIENCE, NOT MEDIA EXPERIENCE.
10:13:37AM THEY MAY HAVE MEDIA IN THE PAST BUT COMMUNICATION
10:13:41AM EXPERIENCE.
10:13:42AM A WHOLE DIFFERENT SKILL SET.
10:13:44AM MEDIA YOU ARE USED TO WRITING OR PRODUCING A STORY.
10:13:47AM WHAT WE NEED FOR PEOPLE TO THINK OF THE COMMUNICATION
10:13:50AM STRATEGIES AND ADVISE US THE BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH
10:13:53AM THE COMMUNITY.
10:13:54AM FOR EXAMPLE, THE REBRICKING OF YBOR CITY.
10:13:57AM WE THINK OF IT A POSITIVE.
10:13:59AM INVESTORS IN YBOR THINK OF IT AS A POSS TOUGH.
10:14:03AM AS IT WAS ROLLED OUT IN THE COMMUNITY SAYING WHY ARE YOU
10:14:08AM WASTING MONEY ON TEARING APART A PERFECTLY GOOD ROAD.
10:14:12AM AND A COMMUNICATION STRATEGIST WOULD THINK THROUGH THAT
10:14:16AM BEFORE THEY SEND IT OUT.
10:14:17AM ANYWAY, IF WE CAN GET THE RIGHT COMMUNICATION STRATEGIST.
10:14:24AM AND IF WITH WE HAD A MORE JUNIOR POSITION THAT WILL BE
10:14:28AM PROBABLY LESS THAN 80,000.
10:14:29AM IDEALLY THE EARN WOULD BE A GRAPHIC DESIGNER ALSO.
10:14:32AM TWO PEOPLE THAT WOULD COST LESS THAN $200,000, THEN WE DON'T
10:14:36AM NEED TO OUTSOURCE ANYTHING.
10:14:38AM IF WE OUTSOURCE, WE DON'T NEED TO OUTSOURCE $500,000 AT THIS
10:14:43AM TIME.
10:14:43AM IF WE ARE GOING TO CONTINUE WITH THE OUTSOURCING I SAY SET A
10:14:48AM BUDGET FOR $200,000 OF THE COMMUNICATION OF CRA AND WHAT
10:14:54AM NEEDS TO BE DONE BEYOND THAT.
10:14:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:14:57AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HATE TO SOUND LIKE A CURMUDGEON.
10:15:04AM I HAD A DIFFICULT TIME.
10:15:06AM IT SEEMS LIKE BUREAUCRATIC CREEP OR BLOAT IN A LOT OF THESE
10:15:11AM THINGS.
10:15:11AM I UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE POINTS, BUT ON THE SCALE WE ARE
10:15:15AM DEALING WITH, ADDING THE STAFF AND THE TYPE OF BUDGET WE ARE
10:15:17AM TALKING ABOUT IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME.
10:15:20AM ESPECIALLY WE HAVE -- WHAT THE CRAS ARE.
10:15:26AM AND WE HAVE -- BUT WE ARE FULLY CONTAINED WITHIN THE CITY.
10:15:30AM THERE ARE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO US.
10:15:33AM IF WE HAVE TO OUTSOURCE THE CITY RESOURCES WE SHOULD BE
10:15:37AM DOING THAT.
10:15:37AM IT JUST -- AGAIN, IT SEEMS LIKE IT IS PROPOSED.
10:15:41AM THIS HAS BEEN AN AWFUL LOT OF MONEY FOR RETURN ON THE
10:15:46AM INVESTMENT.
10:15:47AM ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
10:15:49AM AGAIN, THE SCALE OF WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
10:15:52AM AND IF WE WERE IN THE BUSINESS OF ENTERPRISE AND MAKING
10:15:57AM MONEY, I THINK I WOULD GET IT.
10:15:59AM BUT WE ARE REALLY NOT.
10:16:01AM PUBLIC SERVICE OF RENOVATIONS OF IS SOLVING BLIGHT AND
10:16:10AM ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THE AREA I DON'T
10:16:17AM SEE THE RETURN ON INVESTMENT WITH THAT MUCH MONEY.
10:16:19AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO ECHO WHAT MR. CLENDENIN SAID.
10:16:22AM I AM NOT DISAGREEING AT ALL AND IN PRINCIPLE WITH MR.
10:16:27AM CARLSON.
10:16:27AM YBOR CITY IS NOT BEING REINVENTED.
10:16:32AM IT IS REVIEWED IN ITSELF TO GET BETTER.
10:16:34AM NEVER HAD THE COMPONENTS IT AS SOON AS IT HAD THE CRA.
10:16:39AM IT WAS A VILLAGE, YOU MAY SAY.
10:16:41AM IT IS THE FOREFRONT OF EVERYWHERE -- TAMPA USED TO BE KNOWN
10:16:45AM AS YBOR CITY ONE WAY OR THE OUR.
10:16:47AM AND I AM NOT SAYING THE ONLY WAY IT WAS NO.
10:16:53AM BUT TIME SPENDING THIS KIND OF MONEY ON SOMEONE HOW GOOD IT
10:17:00AM IS, THEN WE HAVE A PROBLEM.
10:17:01AM EN VENTED ITSELF THROUGH FIVE DIFFERENT MAYORS MAKING
10:17:08AM CHALLENGES THROUGHOUT THE HISTORY OF THE CITY TO GET TO
10:17:11AM WHERE IT IS AT TODAY MAYOR POE, MARTINEZ, IO RIO, FREEMAN,
10:17:21AM ALL HAD AN INTEREST IN GETTING IT DONE.
10:17:23AM SOMEWHERE ALONG THE LINE, ALL THOSE PIECES CAME TOGETHER.
10:17:26AM AND IT DOESN'T TAKE A WEEK OR TWO.
10:17:29AM IT TAKES YEARS.
10:17:30AM BUT IT IS THERE.
10:17:32AM THEY HAD A STREETCAR
10:17:33AM THEY LOST THE STREETCAR.
10:17:35AM NOW THEY HAVE THE STREETCAR BACK.
10:17:37AM NO RESIDENTS LIVING THERE.
10:17:38AM ZERO JUST ABOUT.
10:17:39AM NOW IT IS MOSTLY RESIDENTIAL.
10:17:42AM AND WILL CONTINUE TO PROSPER IN BOTH WAYS.
10:17:47AM I HAVE A FEELING.
10:17:48AM I DON'T WANT TO SPEND THE MONEY THAT I DON'T HAVE TO.
10:17:51AM AND IF SOMEBODY CAN'T SELL YBOR, NEITHER CAN AN EXPERT.
10:17:55AM BECAUSE IT IS ALREADY SELLING ITSELF.
10:17:58AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:17:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:18:02AM ANY BOARD MEMBERS ONLINE WANT TO FEEDBACK ON THAT?
10:18:07AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA FOLLOWED BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:18:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU ARE ON MUTE.
10:18:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO, WE CAN'T HEAR YOU.
10:18:21AM NO, SIR.
10:18:21AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:18:25AM WHILE YOU WORK OUT YOUR VOLUME ISSUES.
10:18:28AM THANK YOU.
10:18:29AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT WHILE I -- I
10:18:33AM UNDERSTAND AND I AGREE THAT I THINK A HALF MILLION DOLLARS
10:18:37AM IS PROBABLY TOO MUCH, I DISAGREE WITH THE FACT THAT WE CAN
10:18:42AM NECESSARILY STAY IN CITY HOUSE FOR THIS.
10:18:48AM BECAUSE PART OF THE REASON WE ARE BRINGING THIS UP IS PEOPLE
10:18:50AM WOULD BE UPSET NOT KNOWING WHERE CRA DOLLARS ARE BEING SPENT
10:18:54AM AND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CRA DOLLARS AND CITY DOLLARS
10:18:59AM AND A PART OF I BELIEVE THE REASON THAT BOARD MEMBER CARSON
10:19:04AM BROUGHT THIS UP TO BEGIN WITH IS -- WE DIDN'T HAVE SIGNS
10:19:08AM SHOWING WHAT A WE ARE SPENDING MONEY ON WHILE WE ARE A PART
10:19:18AM OF THE CITY, WE ARE A SEPARATE ENTITY AND ONLY CAN SPEND
10:19:21AM MONEY ON CERTAIN ISSUES.
10:19:23AM I DON'T NECESSARILY SEE IT AS BLOAT TO ADD PEOPLE TO -- TO
10:19:28AM THE CRA STAFF.
10:19:29AM I THINK THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE PEOPLE ARE ASKING THIS
10:19:34AM MONEY IS GOING TOWARD WHAT AND WE ARE ABLE TO SHARE THAT
10:19:38AM STORY BECAUSE WE BASICALLY HAVE BEEN ABLE TO GET THE CITY TO
10:19:42AM DO THAT.
10:19:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
10:19:49AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA, DO YOU HAVE YOUR MICROPHONE?
10:19:54AM SO YOU ARE REALLY NOT AT THE MEETING.
10:19:57AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GET YOUR SON TO COME IN AND FIX IT FOR
10:19:59AM YOU, OLD MAN.
10:20:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARSON, ANOTHER COMMENT?
10:20:07AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST TO BE CLEAR.
10:20:08AM NOT MY IDEA TO HOLD THE RFP.
10:20:12AM I AM OKAY IF WE KILL THAT.
10:20:15AM MY UNDERSTANDING THAT IT CAME FROM ANOTHER ADMINISTRATION.
10:20:22AM I ALWAYS WANTED TO TAKE IT IN-HOUSE.
10:20:24AM IF YOU WANT TO TAKE IT TO ZERO, THAT IS FINE.
10:20:26AM I AM SAYING SHOULDN'T SPEND $500,000.
10:20:29AM WE SHOULD SET GOALS FOR BEHAVIOR CAPACITY WE HAVE AND ONE OF
10:20:32AM THEM IS TO INFORM PEOPLE.
10:20:33AM PEOPLE COME TO US FROM EAST TAMPA AND SAY THEY DON'T KNOW
10:20:37AM WHAT WE ARE DOING AND DON'T THINK WE ARE DOING ANYTHING.
10:20:41AM WE NEED SIGNS FROM CAN THAT SHOW THAT THINGS ARE BEING DONE.
10:20:46AM ANOTHER THING, WE HAVE TO ATTRACT INVESTMENT AND YBOR IS WAY
10:20:50AM AHEAD OF SOME OTHER AREAS BUT WE NEED TO HELP WITH
10:20:53AM COMMUNICATION WITH THAT.
10:20:54AM I -- TO ME, IT WILL BE GREAT IF WE HANDLE IT WITH OUR OWN
10:20:58AM STAFF.
10:21:01AM OUTSOURCE IT TO THE CITY FOR THE LAST FIVE, SIX YEARS I HAVE
10:21:05AM BEEN HERE.
10:21:05AM IT HAS NOT WORKED AT ALL.
10:21:06AM THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT AGENDA THAN WE HAVE OUR UNIQUE
10:21:15AM CONSTITUENCY AND DO IT IN AWAY THAT IS EFFECTIVE.
10:21:18AM A LOT OF TIME WHEN COMMUNICATION GOES UP, IT HAS BEEN MESSED
10:21:22AM UP BECAUSE THEY TAKE THE CITY'S POINT OF VIEW.
10:21:24AM NOT THE CRA'S POINT OF VIEW.
10:21:26AM I DON'T WANT TO DEAL WITH THE -- WITH THE ISSUES THAT ARE --
10:21:29AM THAT COME UP.
10:21:30AM I AM NOT HAVING THE RIGHT STRATEGY BEHIND COMMUNION CHASE.
10:21:33AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:21:36AM I THINK YOU ARE ON.
10:21:37AM >>LUIS VIERA: CAN YOU HEAR ME ON?
10:21:40AM THANK YOU, BRIAN.
10:21:40AM OKAY, NO I -- YEAH, THIS APPEARS TO HAVE REACHED A
10:21:45AM RESOLUTION.
10:21:45AM I -- YOU KNOW, IT'S FUNNY, I ALWAYS APPRECIATE THE -- THE
10:21:52AM IDEA HERE.
10:21:53AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON HAS A PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND IN THIS
10:21:59AM AREA AND APPRECIATE THAT, BUT I GO TO THE SIDE OF THINKING
10:22:02AM -- I DON'T WANT TO SAY A SOLUTION IN SEARCH OF A PROBLEM,
10:22:05AM BUT IN OTHER WORDS, DOWN THE JUSTIFY THE AMOUNT OF TAX
10:22:09AM DOLLARS BEING REQUESTED IN THERE.
10:22:10AM WE INEVITABLY WILL GET QUESTIONS AS ELECTED OFFICIALS.
10:22:14AM AND THERE ARE THINGS THAT COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN SAID THAT THE
10:22:18AM CITY STAFF CAN RESPOND TO AND WE CAN RESPOND TO.
10:22:23AM AND ATTORNEY MASSEY'S OPINION WHICH OBVIOUSLY I AM GOING TO
10:22:30AM AND SOME LEVEL OF DEFERENCE.
10:22:37AM AND IT HAS REACHED A DECISION.
10:22:40AM THANK YOU, STAFF, FOR HELPING ME WITH MICROPHONE.
10:22:44AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: CLEAR OPINIONS FROM THE FLORIDA OPTION THAT
10:22:47AM WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO USE CRA DOLLARS TO MARK IT.
10:22:50AM NOW HE BELIEVE PART OF WHAT THIS POSITION AND RFP WAS ISSUED
10:22:55AM FOR THAT WE HAD SOMEONE EN TERMLY HELPING TO PRODUCE REPORTS
10:22:59AM REQUIRED BY STATUTE.
10:23:02AM INFORMATION THAT WAS REQUIRED AND DISTRIBUTE THOSE THINGS
10:23:04AM AND THAT IS WHAT THAT RFP IS FOR.
10:23:06AM I DON'T KNOW IF $500,000.
10:23:08AM THAT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF MONEY FOR WHAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO
10:23:11AM DO, BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN REPORTING REQUIREMENTS THAT ARE
10:23:14AM REQUIRED MANDATED BY BOTH THE SPECIAL DISTRICT ACT AND THE
10:23:19AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT ACT THAT WE NEED TO PUT ON ANNUALLY
10:23:28AM AND ALL OF THEM HAVE TO BE ON OUR WEB SITE AND OUT THERE IN
10:23:32AM THE COMMUNITY AND PART OF WHAT THIS POSITION IS SUPPOSED TO
10:23:34AM DO.
10:23:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:23:43AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: VERY QUICK.
10:23:45AM I WAS THINKING OF WHAT I WANT TO SAY, I AM LOOKING AT THIS
10:23:49AM AS A CAMPAIGN POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW BECAUSE I NEVER RAISE
10:23:52AM A LOT OF MONEY.
10:23:53AM WHATEVER I DO OR WHATEVER THE FOLKS THAT I WORK WITH, WHAT
10:23:56AM THEY DO WORKS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'M HERE.
10:24:00AM BUT I WORK ON SHOESTRING BARE BONES BUDGET.
10:24:05AM IF I DON'T HAVE TO SPEND MONEY, I TRY NOT TO SPEND MONEY.
10:24:10AM DO IT MYSELF.
10:24:11AM DO IT IN-HOUSE.
10:24:12AM WHAT I HAVE SEEN IS FROM THE CITY'S PERSPECTIVE, THE CITY OF
10:24:15AM TAMPA, A MAJOR EVENT LIKE THE BOOM BY THE BAY, IT IS
10:24:17AM EVERYWHERE.
10:24:18AM SOCIAL MEDIA.
10:24:19AM YOU HEAR ABOUT IT REPEATEDLY.
10:24:21AM MAKE SURE PEOPLE COME OUT.
10:24:22AM EVENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE AT CURTIS HIXON PARK.
10:24:28AM GASPARILLA IS A MAJOR THING THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS FROM HERE
10:24:32AM TO OUT OF STATE.
10:24:33AM SO MANY PEOPLE COME HERE FOR IT.
10:24:35AM DO A BETTER JOB FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA PERSPECTIVE TO SAY
10:24:38AM THIS IS WHAT IS HAPPENING.
10:24:39AM WHEN I SAY BARE BONE SHOESTRING BUDGET.
10:24:44AM PUT A SIGN UP, YOUR CRA DOLLARS AT WORK.
10:24:47AM WHAT IS THE CRA?
10:24:48AM A SEPARATE FUNDING SOURCE.
10:24:51AM LIKE THE BRICKS IN ABORTION CITY.
10:24:53AM I MADE A MISTAKE OF LOOKING AT THE SOCIAL MEDIA COMMENTS AND
10:24:55AM IT IS LIKE, PAVE THE STREETS?
10:24:57AM SOUTH TAMPA.
10:24:58AM WHY DON'T YOU DO MONEY IS RESTRICTED IN YBOR CITY TO DO
10:25:05AM THESE THINGS.
10:25:06AM WE NEED THESE THINGS OVER HERE.
10:25:08AM MONEY IS RESTRICTED IN THESE AREAS.
10:25:12AM THE POINT IS, WE DON'T HAVE TO USE OUR MONEY.
10:25:16AM BETTER RESOURCES NOT WITH CRA, BUT SAY THIS IS HOW THE CITY
10:25:22AM OF TAMPA FUNCTIONS.
10:25:22AM 2007 TWO, WE ARE BOARD MEMBERS OF THE CRA.
10:25:26AM TONIGHT WE WILL BE THE CITY COUNCIL.
10:25:28AM AND I AM NOT BASHING EVERYBODY.
10:25:33AM WHEN WE WANT TO GET A MESSAGE OUT, WE GET THE MESSAGE OUT.
10:25:36AM CAMPAIGNING WE KNOCK ON DOORS AND PEOPLE WIN ELECTIONS WIT
10:25:41AM VERY LITTLE MONEY.
10:25:42AM YOU NEED A MILLION -- I HEARD THIS FROM THE FIRST CAMPAIGN I
10:25:45AM RAN.
10:25:45AM YOU NEED THIS TO WIN.
10:25:47AM WELL, I HAD THIS AND I HAVE WON.
10:25:49AM POINT I AM MAKING IT, YOU DON'T REASON IS TO SPEND A FORTUNE
10:25:57AM YOU DON'T NEED THIS CONSULTANT OR MANAGER TO GET THE MESSAGE
10:26:02AM OUT.
10:26:03AM WHEN WE WANT TO WICK.
10:26:06AM A NEWSPAPER PICKS UP A STORY.
10:26:09AM WALLET HUB SAYS TAMPA IS RANKED WHATEVER.
10:26:12AM THE TAMPA BAY TIMES SAID SUCH AND SUCH.
10:26:16AM EARNED MEDIA.
10:26:18AM YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR IT MOST OF THE TIME I AM JUST
10:26:23AM SAYING.
10:26:23AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID I DON'T CARE IF WE GET THE RFP.
10:26:27AM DO WE NEED TO SPEND THIS MONEY WHEN WE CAN DO A BETTER JOB
10:26:31AM FROM WITHIN?
10:26:33AM WHEN YOU WANT SOMETHING, YOU FIND WAYS TO -- TO ACHIEVE YOUR
10:26:36AM GOAL WITHOUT ALL THE CRAZINESS IN PLAY AND HAVING TO THROW
10:26:40AM AWAY MONEY.
10:26:41AM MR. MASSEY MENTIONED, THE CRA IS VERY CLEAR IN HIS
10:26:46AM INTERPRETATION OF HOW MONEY IS TO BE SPENT.
10:26:48AM I THINK WE NEED TO DO A BETTER MARKETING JOB BE FROM WHAT WE
10:26:51AM HAVE ALREADY AND TAKE IT FROM THERE.
10:26:53AM THANKS.
10:26:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:26:56AM LET ME JUST SAY SOMETHING AS BOARD CHAIR.
10:26:59AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO ME IS THAT WE ARE
10:27:03AM IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CRA RULES AND REGULATIONS.
10:27:05AM THAT IS THE PRIMARY GOAL.
10:27:08AM AND YOU WANTED TO SAY SOMETHING, MR. McCRAY?
10:27:11AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, CHAIR HENDERSON, THANK YOU.
10:27:15AM I WANT TO SHARE THAT THE ESPECIALLY PETITION US IT OF
10:27:18AM THE RFP WAS TO ASSIST.
10:27:19AM IF YOU REMEMBER OVER THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF TO TWO YEARS,
10:27:25AM MISS PARKS AS SERVED AS OUR COMMUNICATION PERSON.
10:27:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHO DID YOU SEE SHE WORK FOR, THE CRA?
10:27:34AM CORRECTED?
10:27:35AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: CRA.
10:27:36AM SHE WAS IN-HOUSE BUT DIFFICULT FOR HER TO MULTITASK AND
10:27:40AM HANDLE ALL THE COMMUNICATION ACROSS ALL OF OUR CRA AREAS AND
10:27:44AM THERE WERE -- THERE WERE OTHER CACS AND CRAs' REPORT ARE
10:27:51AM PARTICIPANTS AND VOLUNTEERS THAT SAID WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE
10:27:54AM THE SAME THING THAT ANOTHER CRA WHEN IT COMES TO
10:27:56AM COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH WHICH WAS SOMEWHAT MORE ROBUST
10:28:00AM THAN THE OTHER CRAs TO CREATE A LEVEL OF EQUITY.
10:28:04AM THE IMPETUS OF THE RFP TO SERVICE EVERYONE ACROSS THE BOARD.
10:28:09AM THERE ARE SEVERAL PROJECTS RELATED TO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
10:28:13AM THAT WE WILL BE DOING IN LINE WITH THE -- WITH THE POLICIES
10:28:17AM THAT YOU ALL APPROVED LAST YEAR.
10:28:19AM AND, YOU KNOW, SO, TO HAVE AN ENTITY TO HAVE AS WE LOOK
10:28:24AM FORWARD TO DOING OUR ANNUAL REPORT AND OTHER INFORMATION
10:28:27AM SHARING, IT WOULD BE -- IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE THE
10:28:31AM ENTITY IN PLACE THAT WE CAN FARM THAT INFORMATION TO AND
10:28:34AM ACTUALLY HAVE SOME CHECK-INS WITH -- TO COMMUNICATE WHAT IS
10:28:39AM GOING ON ACROSS THE CRAs.
10:28:41AM HE WILL TELL YOU THAT WE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH MR. SMITH AS
10:28:44AM IT RELATES TO HOW WE CAN BETTER WORK TOGETHER.
10:28:48AM AND I THINK WE HAVE TAKEN POSITIVE STEPS.
10:28:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHO IS MR. SMITH, MR. McCRAY?
10:28:55AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: ADAM SMITH.
10:28:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OH, OKAY.
10:28:59AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: IN AUGUST, THE BRINGING, SOME OF THE FORMAT
10:29:04AM WAS DIFFERENT AND BASED ON THE CONVERSATION AND SUGGESTIONS
10:29:06AM FROM MEMBERS OF THE CRA BOARD.
10:29:07AM SO WE ARE IMPROVING THAT RELATIONSHIP AND THANK YOU TO SMITH
10:29:19AM AND HOLDEN FOR GET THAT WORD OUT.
10:29:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MISS FEELEY.
10:29:23AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: CAN I PIGGYBACK ON SOME OF WHAT MR. McCRAY
10:29:27AM SAID.
10:29:27AM THIS RFP DID COME THROUGH THAT DIRECTION TO GET DEDICATED
10:29:31AM RESOURCE FOR CRA-WIDE COMMUNICATIONS.
10:29:34AM AND HEARING COUNCIL'S DISCUSSION THIS MORNING, A COUPLE OF
10:29:37AM THOUGHTS COME TO MIND.
10:29:38AM ONE IS, IF YOU THINK IT IS TOO MUCH.
10:29:41AM I THINK THAT IS WHAT WAS GOING OUT FOR REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL
10:29:45AM UP TO MUCH.
10:29:47AM IF THAT IS IT NOT THE DESIRE -- THAT AMOUNT CAN BROUGHT
10:29:52AM DOWN.
10:29:52AM ALSO AS ALSO DISCUSSED THAT PATH OF USING THE RFP CAN GO
10:29:58AM AWAY AND WE CAN LOOK AT PUTTING POSITIONS ON DEDICATED
10:30:02AM POSITIONS AS HAVE BEEN RAISED BY THIS BOARD AND DIFFERENT
10:30:10AM AREAS, SHARED REMEMBER SOURCES, SOMETIMES IT IS NOT CLEAR
10:30:14AM WHO THOSE POSITIONS ARE SERVING AND ENSURING THAT THE FUNDS
10:30:17AM SUPPORTING THEM ARE DIRECTLY SPENT WITHIN THE CRA.
10:30:22AM SO I THINK YOU HAVE YOU A COUPLE OF OPTIONS HOW YOU WOULD
10:30:25AM LIKE TO PROCEED AND GETTING THIS DONE MISS PARKS HAS MOVED
10:30:32AM TO HOUSING AND LEADING THAT EFFORT.
10:30:33AM WITH THE TEAM, THERE IS NOT A DEDICATE RESOURCES SERVING
10:30:37AM THIS CAPACITY OR EVEN COULD BE ALTERED TO SERVE IN THE
10:30:41AM DIRECTION THAT YOU ARE REACHING TO GO IN THIS COMMUNICATIONS
10:30:48AM REALM.
10:30:49AM THAT BEING SAID, I THINK YOU HAVE OPTIONS AND I WANT TO MAKE
10:30:52AM PROGRESS ON THIS WHICHEVER WAY THE BOARD HAS PLEASURE TO
10:30:55AM MOVE FORWARD TODAY.
10:30:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I REMEMBER DISTINCTION INSTINCTUALLY THE
10:31:00AM CONVERSATION.
10:31:00AM BECAUSE WHY DOES YBOR CITY GET ALL OF THIS MARKETING AND
10:31:04AM OTHER CRAS DO NOT.
10:31:05AM SO THIS WAS WHAT WAS PRESENTED AT THIS TIME.
10:31:07AM ATTORNEY MASSEY, YES.
10:31:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAD MY HAND UP.
10:31:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU KNOW WHAT, I APOLOGIZE, BOARD MEMBER
10:31:17AM HURTAK.
10:31:18AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:31:18AM BECAUSE THAT IS KIND OF WHAT I WANTED TO SAY WAS THE ENTIRE
10:31:24AM IMPETUS OF THIS WAS ONE CRA WAS PAYING FOR THIS AND I
10:31:29AM BELIEVE IT WAS IN THE SIX-FIGURE RANGE.
10:31:31AM SO IF WE HAD DONE SIX FIGURERS FOR ALL EIGHT CRAs, WE WOULD
10:31:37AM BE SPEND A LOT MORE MONEY.
10:31:38AM NOT THAT I DISAGREE.
10:31:40AM I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO SPEND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS BUT IN
10:31:46AM ADDITION.
10:31:47AM IF YOU LOOK AT THE ITEMS IN THIS -- ON BASE.
10:31:50AM THERE ARE TWO POSITIONS AND THE JOB DESCRIPTIONS THAT KIND
10:31:55AM OF GO ALONG WITH THIS AND I THINK THAT IS AN AREA WHERE WE
10:31:58AM CAN START THE ROLE OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
10:32:04AM AND THE ROLE OF DIGITAL SUPPORT COORDINATOR.
10:32:07AM MAYBE WE CAN MODIFY THOSE A BIT TO HANDLE MORE
10:32:11AM COMMUNICATION.
10:32:11AM BUT ATTORNEY MASSY IS NOT WRONG, THERE IS A LOT OF
10:32:14AM COMMUNICATION.
10:32:14AM BY "COMMUNICATION" WE MEAN REPORT WRITING THAT IS REQUIRED
10:32:19AM BY THE STATE.
10:32:19AM AND A LOT OF WHAT MISS PARKS WAS DOING, NO ONE IS DOING IT
10:32:25AM RIGHT NOW AND INSTEAD PEOPLE ARE GIVEN MORE WORK TO DO AND
10:32:28AM THAT IS JUST NOT FAIR OR ACCEPTABLE.
10:32:32AM WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO GET ANOTHER PERSON WHO CAN FOCUS ON
10:32:36AM THIS AND AS WAS SAID BEFORE, SHE -- WHILE -- I MEAN, DID A
10:32:42AM VERY GOOD JOB, BUT EVEN THEN IT WAS TOO MUCH AND EIGHT
10:32:46AM DIFFERENT CRAs SHE WAS TRYING TO PLEASE.
10:32:49AM LOOKING AT THESE TWO POSITIONS AND NEIGHBOR MODIFYING THEM
10:32:53AM AND SEE HOW WE TURN THEM BOTH TO COMMUNICATION A BIT MORE I
10:32:56AM THINK WILL BE INCREDIBLY HELPFUL.
10:32:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:32:59AM ATTORNEY MASSEY AND THEN BOARD MEMBER --
10:33:03AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I APOLOGIZE FOR INTERRUPTING CONVERSATION.
10:33:07AM I THINK WHAT THE BOARD NEEDS TO FOCUS ON IS IF THE SERVICES
10:33:11AM SHOULD BE DONE IN-HOUSE, OUTSOURCED OR A COMBINATION OF
10:33:15AM THEM.
10:33:15AM ONE THING I WOULD CAUTION THE BOARD INSTEAD OF TALKING IN
10:33:19AM TERMS OF BRANDING AND MARKETING.
10:33:23AM YOU ARE TALKING OF COMMUNICATION AND REQUIRED REPORTING THAT
10:33:26AM IS REALLY WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
10:33:28AM NOT BRANDING AND MARKETING.
10:33:30AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CORRECT.
10:33:31AM WITHIN THE CRA RULES.
10:33:34AM BOARD MEMBER CARSON, YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION.
10:33:38AM >>BILL CARLSON: ONE THING I WANT TO VERY RESPOND TO AND WE
10:33:40AM WILL TALK ABOUT THE BRANDING THING ANOTHER TIME.
10:33:42AM THIS CAN'T BE A COMPLIANCE JOB.
10:33:45AM THERE IS -- WE NEED PROACTIVE COMMUNICATION WITH
10:33:48AM CONSTITUENTS.
10:33:49AM TALKED ABOUT PUTTING SIGNS UP.
10:33:52AM SOMEBODY HAS TO GOT TO DO THAT.
10:33:54AM COME UP WITH THE IDEA, HAVE IT PRODUCED AND SOMEONE HAS TO
10:33:57AM PUT THE SIGN UP.
10:33:58AM BASIC THINGS.
10:33:59AM MAY NOT BE A COMPLIANCE ISSUE BUT HAS TO BE DONE SO THE
10:34:03AM COMMUNITY KNOWS.
10:34:04AM I THINK THIS CAN BE HANDLED IN-HOUSE.
10:34:07AM I ALWAYS SAID -- IT IS NOT OUR IDEA TO TAKE IT OUTSOURCE.
10:34:11AM I UNDERSTAND KIND OF WHERE IT CAME FROM, BUT WE DON'T NEED
10:34:14AM IT, ESPECIALLY WITH THE BUDGETS WE HAVE RIGHT NOW.
10:34:16AM WE HAVE TWO OR THREE POSITIONS IN THE BUDGET RELATED TO
10:34:22AM COMMUNICATION.
10:34:22AM MISS PARKS WAS -- WAS A GREAT PERSON THAT WAS PUT IN A
10:34:27AM POSITION THAT DIDN'T MATCH THE SKILL SET ALSO.
10:34:35AM IN HOUSING SHE IS PHENOMENAL AND GETTING WAY BEYOND WHAT HER
10:34:40AM PAY -- YOU I HAVEN'T SEEN HER RESUME BUT FROM WHAT I CAN
10:34:45AM TELL NOT 20 YEARS OF COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
10:34:47AM WHICH IS WHAT WE NEED FOR THE SENIOR LEVEL COMMUNICATION
10:34:50AM PERSON.
10:34:51AM SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE ARE NOT JUST HIRING SOMEBODY TO
10:34:53AM FILL A BOX AND SOMEBODY -- BUT WE NEED TO HERE THAT -- IN
10:34:57AM THE CASE OF MISS PARKS, A SUPERSTAR IN THE HOUSING AREA AND
10:35:01AM WE LOOK FORWARD FOR WORKING WITH HER ON THAT.
10:35:03AM ANYWAY, I KNOW WE DON'T REASON IS TO DO THAT, BUT I WANT TO
10:35:07AM MAKE A MOTION TO AFFIRMATIVELY THANK STAFF FOR PUTTING
10:35:10AM TOGETHER THE RFP AND MAKE A DECISION AT THIS TIME, WE WOULD
10:35:13AM NOT LIKE TO OUTSOURCE OR UTILIZE THE RFP.
10:35:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
10:35:19AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION TO AMEND.
10:35:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
10:35:27AM I SAW YOUR HAND.
10:35:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:35:30AM WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND TO THAT -- OR MAYBE THIS IS A
10:35:33AM SECOND MOTION, BUT TO TAKE THOSE TWO JOB DESCRIPTIONS THAT
10:35:36AM WERE ATTACHED TO THIS ITEM AND POSSIBLY WORK WITH STAFF TO
10:35:42AM MOD FEE THEM TO FIT WHAT WE NEED WILL McCRAY.
10:35:51AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
10:35:52AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DOES THAT -- WOULD THAT BE ABLE TO SATISFY
10:35:56AM WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR?
10:35:57AM OR WOULD WE NEED A THIRD POSITION ON TOP OF THESE TWO?
10:36:01AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: I THINK THE TWO WILL BE A GOOD START.
10:36:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:36:06AM DO YOU BELIEVE WE NEED TO MODIFY ANY OF THE JOB DESCRIPTIONS
10:36:10AM TO GET THAT DONE?
10:36:11AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: MAYBE ONE OF THEM WILL NEED TO BE TWEAKED A
10:36:15AM LITTLE BIT.
10:36:15AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:36:17AM >>BILL CARLSON: DIDN'T WE COVER IT UNDER NUMBER 4.
10:36:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THESE ARE NUMBER 5, DIFFERENT JOBS.
10:36:25AM >>BILL CARLSON: IF WE REJECT IN RFP WE ARE REJECTING THOSE
10:36:28AM TWO POSITION AS SOON AS.
10:36:29AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NO.
10:36:30AM >>BILL CARLSON: MAYBE WE CAN THANK STAFF AND ARE JECT
10:36:36AM THIS RFP AND SEPARATELY MAKE A --
10:36:39AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I THINK YOUR MOTION COVERS BOTH.
10:36:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: STATE YOUR MOTION AGAIN.
10:36:43AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR THE BOARD
10:36:47AM TO AFFIRMATIVELY THANK STAFF FOR ALL THE TIME THEY PUT
10:36:50AM TOGETHER ON THIS.
10:36:51AM AND TO MAKE THE DECISION FOR NOW WE ARE NOT GOING TO UTILIZE
10:36:57AM THE RF IFP AND OUTSOURCE.
10:37:00AM AND A SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:37:02AM OKAY, SO ARE YOU ACCEPT SOMETHING THE AMENDMENT?
10:37:05AM OR ARE YOU WITHDRAWING --
10:37:07AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WAS SUGGESTING SHE MAKE A SEPARATE MOTION.
10:37:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM GOING TO MAKE A SEPARATE MOTION.
10:37:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
10:37:14AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:37:16AM MOTION CARRIES.
10:37:17AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:37:19AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION -- MR. McCRAY,
10:37:22AM HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO MODIFY THAT JOB DESCRIPTION?
10:37:29AM I AM ASSUMING YOU ARE TALKING OF THE SOCIAL MEDIA JOB
10:37:33AM DESCRIPTION.
10:37:40AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: I WILL ASK FOR AT LEAST TWO WEEKS.
10:37:42AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN WE GO FORWARD IN POSTING THE -- THE FIRST
10:37:49AM ONE.
10:37:51AM THE COMMUNICATION DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR AND WAIT TO DO THE
10:37:56AM DIGITAL MEDIA SUPPORT COORDINATOR UNTIL THAT IS UPDATED WITH
10:38:00AM MORE COMMUNICATIONS LANGUAGE?
10:38:02AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
10:38:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:38:09AM I MOTION THAT WE BRING THE DIGITAL SUPPORT ADMINISTRATOR.
10:38:13AM THAT MR. McCRAY AND HIS TEAM EDIT THAT JOB DESCRIPTION AND
10:38:17AM BRING IT BACK TO US IN OCTOBER, BUT MOVE FORWARD TO THE
10:38:20AM OTHER POSITION TO BE PUT OUT.
10:38:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: LISTED IN THE RFP AS IS.
10:38:29AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT IS NOT IN THE RFP.
10:38:31AM IT IS A SEPARATE PORTION.
10:38:33AM IT IS NOT PART OF THE RFP MAST FAST THERE IS TWO -- APART
10:38:37AM FROM THE RFP, TWO OPEN POSITIONS BEING PROPOSED BY STAFF.
10:38:41AM AND SO SHE IS WANTING US TO GO AHEAD AND POST ONE OF THE
10:38:46AM POSITIONS AND HOMELAND THE OTHER FOR YOU TO REVIEW THE
10:38:48AM DESCRIPTION.
10:38:48AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
10:38:50AM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:38:54AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AS LONG AS IT WAS DISCUSSING AND THE
10:38:58AM MOTION BY MR. CARLSON AND MANISCALCO.
10:39:01AM PASSED BY THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY.
10:39:03AM IF IT IS, I AM FINE.
10:39:05AM IF NOT, I AM NOT.
10:39:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT IS NOT PART OF THAT?
10:39:09AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO.
10:39:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DID THE MOTION GET A SECOND FOR BOARD
10:39:13AM MEMBER HURTAK'S MOTION FOR THE WHICH ONE WILL BE UNDER
10:39:21AM REVISION.
10:39:22AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE ONE UNDER REVISION IS THE DIGITAL MEDIA
10:39:25AM SUPPORT COORDINATOR .THAT NEEDS TO BE MORE FOCUSED ON
10:39:28AM COMMUNICATION.
10:39:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
10:39:31AM A SECOND FOR THAT?
10:39:33AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WILL SECOND.
10:39:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SECOND FOR DISCUSSION.
10:39:35AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:39:37AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'M LOST, DAZED AND CONFUSED.
10:39:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ELIMINATED THE RFP.
10:39:44AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ARE WE TALKING OF FOUR POSITIONS?
10:39:49AM >>LYNN HURTAK: TWO.
10:39:49AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: TWO NEW ON TOP -- SO I HAVE THESE LIST OF
10:39:53AM VACANCIES.
10:39:55AM THE POSITIONS THAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT INCLUDED IN THIS?
10:39:59AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, THEY ARE.
10:40:00AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NOTHING HERE LISTED FOR DIGITAL AND WHAT
10:40:02AM IS THE OTHER ONE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT?
10:40:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THESE WERE IN OUR PACKET, Y'ALL.
10:40:08AM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR.
10:40:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I UNDERSTAND BUT THROUGH ALL THIS
10:40:12AM CONVERSATION, I HAVE LOST TRACK WHAT WE ARE ADDING.
10:40:15AM IS IT JUST ME?
10:40:17AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE ARE NOT ADDING ANYTHING.
10:40:18AM THESE WERE IN --
10:40:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT IS RIGHT HERE.
10:40:23AM DIGITAL MEDIA SUPPORT COORDINATOR.
10:40:26AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AGAIN, THESE ARE NOT THESE VACANT
10:40:28AM POSITIONS UP HERE.
10:40:29AM WE GOT -- WE GOT THESE POSITIONS.
10:40:32AM AND THEN THIS IS DOWN HERE.
10:40:34AM BUT THESE -- THESE ARE -- RIGHT NOW A CRA COMMUNICATION
10:40:37AM ENGAGEMENT MANAGER THAT IS VACANT.
10:40:39AM ARE ANY OF THESE POSITIONS THAT?
10:40:46AM >>BILL CARLSON: THAT IS THE SENIOR POSITION AS I UNDERSTAND
10:40:48AM IT.
10:40:49AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW MANY POSITIONS ARE WE TALKING ABOUT?
10:40:53AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN YOU SHOW US -- MAYBE OUR ADVISOR CAN
10:40:56AM TELL US ON THE LIST -- AND SHOW THE LIST ON THE OVERHEAD.
10:40:59AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: WHAT WAS PROVIDED IN THE INFORMATION THAT
10:41:02AM YOU RECEIVED SEPARATE AND APART FROM THE RNP WERE TWO
10:41:06AM POSITIONS RELATED TO COMMUNICATION, OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT.
10:41:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE ARE TALKING A TOTAL OF FOUR POSITIONS.
10:41:13AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: JUST TWO.
10:41:14AM AND WE RECEIVED THAT INFORMATION FOLLOWING OUR MEETING WITH
10:41:17AM MR. SMITH.
10:41:18AM AND THAT WOULD ESSENTIALLY, POTENTIALLY FILL THE -- THE
10:41:25AM CONVERSATION RELATED TO CRA BOARD MEMBER CARSON WITH THE TWO
10:41:28AM POSITIONS AS IT RELATES TO THAT, A DIGITAL MEDIA STAFF
10:41:31AM PERSON AND THE COMMUNICATIONS ENGAGEMENT.
10:41:34AM SO THOSE ARE THE TWO POSITIONS THAT -- THAT YOU ALL HAVE
10:41:37AM LISTED THERE IN YOUR PACKET.
10:41:39AM >>BILL CARLSON: ALL SHE IS DOING AFFIRMING THE THE TWO
10:41:44AM POSITIONS ASKING ONE TO BE ADVERTISED NOW AND THE OTHER ONE
10:41:47AM --
10:41:48AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THE DIGITAL POSITION BE UPDATED.
10:41:52AM AND YOU SECONDED IT.
10:41:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BECAUSE NO ONE IS DOING THE COMMUNICATION
10:41:56AM WORK THAT MISS PARK IS DOING.
10:41:57AM IF WE DON'T HAVE SOMEONE DOING THAT, WE ARE SIMPLY ADDING
10:42:01AM THAT WORK TO POSITIONS THAT ALREADY EXIST AND THOSE PEOPLE
10:42:04AM ARE ALREADY WORKING THEIR JOB.
10:42:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OUR BUDGET ANALYST WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK.
10:42:16AM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: HAGAR KOPESKY, CITY OF TAMPA BUDGET
10:42:20AM ANALYST.
10:42:21AM PREPPING FOR THIS, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME ADDITIONAL --
10:42:24AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THROW THAT UP ON THE ELMO.
10:42:26AM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: WELL, IT HAS --
10:42:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: LET HER DO HER THING, MR. CLENDENIN.
10:42:31AM >>HAGAR KOPESKY: ADDITIONAL JOB DESCRIPTIONS INCLUDED,
10:42:36AM SPECIFICALLY THE CRA COMMUNICATION AND ENGAGEMENT MANAGER
10:42:39AM AND THEN THERE WAS A CRA CONTRACTS AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
10:42:43AM I THINK THE DIALOGUE RIGHT NOW -- THE IMMEDIATE DISCUSSION
10:42:45AM HAS TO WITH THESE TWO POSITIONS OPEN.
10:42:49AM COMMUNITY DIGITAL COORDINATOR AND COMMUNITY SUPPORT
10:42:54AM COORDINATOR.
10:42:55AM MY POINT WAS, HAVING A DIALOGUE OF NEEDS AND WHAT WE HAVE IN
10:43:00AM THE BUDGET, A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE
10:43:03AM OTHER POSITIONS EXIST AND DO THEY FALL INTO SUPPORTING THIS
10:43:07AM PARTICULAR EFFORT.
10:43:08AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
10:43:09AM THAT IS MY -- YOU JUST HIT THE NEAL ON THE HEAD.
10:43:12AM AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW IF WE ARE IN A MOTION THAT WE ARE
10:43:18AM TALKING OF THE THE TWO MANAGER LEVELS.
10:43:20AM AND HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH ENGAGEMENT.
10:43:25AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: RATHER THAN WORKSHOP, MAY I MAKE A MOTION
10:43:28AM --
10:43:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU ARE RECOGNIZED, BOARD MEMBER
10:43:32AM CLENDENIN.
10:43:32AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHEN WE WORKSHOP -- I MEND AMOTION TO
10:43:37AM CONTINUE THIS TO THE NEXT MEETING BECAUSE -- I DON'T KNOW IF
10:43:40AM IT IS PRODUCTIVE TO DO THIS AT THIS POINT.
10:43:42AM WEB HAVE SUBSEQUENT BRIEFS AND BETTER INFORMED WE ARE AT
10:43:50AM MAKE A BETTER DECISION WITH MORE INFORMATION.
10:43:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:43:54AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OBVIOUSLY IT SOUNDS LIKE PEOPLE WILL NEED
10:43:57AM MORE TIME WITH THIS.
10:43:58AM I WILL AMEND MY MOTION TO CONTINUE THIS.
10:44:00AM THESE TWO POSITIONS.
10:44:03AM BUT IN THE INTERIM TO HAVE MR. McCRAY AND HIS STAFF MODIFY
10:44:08AM THOSE POSITIONS TO WHAT HE BELIEVES WILL BE NECESSARY TO
10:44:12AM HANDLE COMMUNICATIONS FOR THE CRA.
10:44:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MAYBE WE CAN ASK STAFF FOR THE -- WHAT DO
10:44:23AM YOU CALL IT, THE SERVICE AGREEMENT.
10:44:25AM THERE IS A SERVICE AGREEMENT FOR COMMUNICATION, RIGHT, FOR
10:44:30AM CRA?
10:44:31AM ISN'T THERE A COMMUNICATION SERVICE AGREEMENT?
10:44:33AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: A GENERAL SERVICES AGREEMENT ABOUT --
10:44:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FOR COMMUNICATION?
10:44:37AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: DOESN'T DEAL DIRECTLY WITH COMMUNICATION,
10:44:41AM CITY SERVICES IN ALL DIFFERENT AREAS.
10:44:43AM AGREE GENERIC CONTRACT.
10:44:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT.
10:44:48AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: PART OF YOUR AGENDA TODAY.
10:44:50AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE LAST THING ON OUR AGENDA.
10:44:53AM >>BILL CARLSON: MADAM CHAIR.
10:44:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARSON.
10:44:56AM >>BILL CARLSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, CAN YOU SIMPLY MAKE A
10:45:00AM MOTION TO ADD TO NEXT MONTH'S AGENDA AN ITEM TO SEEK
10:45:03AM APPROVAL ON THOSE TWO POSITIONS.
10:45:07AM WE DON'T HAVE AN ITEM TO CONTINUE.
10:45:08AM IF YOU PUT THEM ON THE AGENDA, WE CAN DISCUSS IT.
10:45:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL WITHDRAW MY CURRENT MOTION AND MAKE
10:45:16AM THE MOTION TO PUT THE TWO POSITIONS FOCUSED ON DEVELOPMENT
10:45:19AM AND COMMUNICATIONS.
10:45:22AM CURRENTLY, THEY ARE THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
10:45:26AM AND THE DIGITAL MEDIA SUPPORT COORDINATOR.
10:45:29AM I ASK THAT STAFF MODIFY THOSE TO INCLUDE COMMUNICATION AND
10:45:34AM BRING THEM TO OUR OCTOBER MEETING, BUT MEET WITH US
10:45:39AM INDIVIDUALLY PRIOR TO THAT TO EXPLAIN THE STRATEGY.
10:45:42AM >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
10:45:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY DISCUSSION ON THAT?
10:45:46AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY WHERE WE ARE AT,
10:45:49AM MADAM CHAIR.
10:45:49AM THE BOTTOM PART OF THE THREE SAYS "COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
10:45:53AM COORDINATOR."
10:45:54AM AND TALKS OF THE FUNDING AND WHERE IT IS COMING FROM.
10:45:56AM 100568, THE NUMBER GIVEN TO IT, ALREADY ASSIGNED TO SOMEONE
10:46:02AM WITH A CERTAIN SALARY.
10:46:03AM WHO IS GOING TO PAY FOR THE SALARY OR WHAT?
10:46:08AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE -- THESE WOULD BE CRA POSITIONS THAT
10:46:11AM WILL BE FUNDED BY THE CRA.
10:46:12AM NOT COME OUT OF THE CITY BUDGET.
10:46:14AM I THINK THE QUESTION IS WHETHER YOU WANT TO MOVE FORWARD
10:46:16AM WITH THESE POSITIONS OR NOT.
10:46:18AM AND WHETHER THE JOB DESCRIPTION NEEDS TO BE TWEAKED OR
10:46:22AM ALTERED OR MODIFIED.
10:46:24AM THAT IS WHAT WE ARE WITH YOU GO WE ARE TALKING ABOUT.
10:46:26AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE OTHER TWO I DON'T FIND.
10:46:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE POINT OF THIS MOTION TO BRING FORWARD IT
10:46:31AM AND TALK ABOUT IT NEXT MONTHS AND STOP TALKING ABOUT IT NOW.
10:46:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
10:46:34AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
10:46:35AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:46:37AM >>LYNN HURTAK: AYE.
10:46:38AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION CARRIES.
10:46:43AM DID YOU GET A SECOND ON THAT, MISS SOTO?
10:46:47AM BOARD MEMBER CARSON.
10:46:48AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD THINK -- I WOULD LIKE FOR CLARITY
10:46:51AM AND I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY MORE TIMES THIS WILL BE --
10:46:56AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MAYBE THE LAST TIME WE SEE THEM.
10:46:58AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ASK MORRIS
10:47:01AM TO SEND US BEFORE HE LEAVES MAYBE A ONE-PAGE DOCUMENT
10:47:05AM DESCRIBING WHAT HE BELIEVES ARE THE LIMITS TO WHAT THE CRA
10:47:13AM CAN DO IN TERMS OF COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING.
10:47:16AM AND HE CITED SOME CASE LAW.
10:47:18AM IF HE CAN PUT THAT IN THERE.
10:47:19AM AND THEN -- BUT AT LEAST WE HAVE THAT ON RECORD.
10:47:23AM WE HAVE HIS WARNING.
10:47:25AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: NOT ONLY MY WARNING.
10:47:28AM BUT YOUR NEW CRA ATTORNEY ISSUED AN OPINION LETTER AS THE
10:47:35AM ATTORNEY TO SAY THE SAME THING.
10:47:36AM I WILL PROVIDE HIS LETTER TO ALL THE REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES
10:47:38AM AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OPINION.
10:47:40AM I CAN DO THAT HENDERSON HEN OKAY, THANK YOU.
10:47:42AM YOU DON'T NEED A MOTION FOR THAT, DO YOU?
10:47:45AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
10:47:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FOR HIM TO PROVIDE IT?
10:47:48AM YOU WANT HIM TO PROVIDE THAT?
10:47:51AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM SURE HE WILL.
10:47:52AM COHEN HENDERSON HE SAID HE WANTED HIM TO WRITE A ONE-PAGE
10:47:56AM SUMMARY.
10:47:57AM >>BILL CARLSON: A MOTION TO ASK THE CRA ATTORNEY CONTINUE TO
10:47:59AM PROVIDE --
10:48:00AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
10:48:02AM >>BILL CARLSON: -- INFORMATION REGARDING THE LIMITS WHAT WE
10:48:04AM CAN DO WITH COMMUNICATION.
10:48:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SECOND BY MIRANDA.
10:48:07AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:48:08AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:48:09AM UP ASK THAT THAT BE FOLDED INTO THE LAST MOTION SO WE ARE
10:48:13AM TALK OF COMMUNICATION AND AS ONE ITEM IN OCTOBER.
10:48:18AM IS THAT OKAY?
10:48:19AM >>BILL CARLSON: I AM NOT ASKING IT TO BE ON THE AGENDA, JUST
10:48:22AM THAT HE SEND IT TO US SO WE CAN LOOK AT IT.
10:48:25AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:48:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SO WHY DOES THAT HAVE TO BE A MOTION.
10:48:29AM WHY CAN'T HE GIVE IT TO US.
10:48:30AM >>BILL CARLSON: HE CAN, BUT I ALREADY MADE A MOTION.
10:48:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I THINK.
10:48:33AM BUT I AM MAKING A MOTION --
10:48:36AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: I AM HAPPY EITHER WAY.
10:48:37AM YOU WILL GET THE INFORMATION, I PROMISE.
10:48:39AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WAS TRYING TO GIVE HIM A CHANCE TO
10:48:41AM DISAGREE AND -- TO PUT THAT ON THE RECORD.
10:48:45AM I AM GOING -- I AM GOING TO USE THAT.
10:48:47AM IF THIS OTHER ATTORNEY HAS SIMILAR THOUGHTS, I WILL USE THAT
10:48:50AM TO TALK TO MY OWN ATTORNEYS TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY THINK THE
10:48:54AM LIMITS ARE, BECAUSE I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS FIGURE
10:48:58AM OUT, SURE, THERE ARE BOUNDARIES OF WHERE WE CAN GO.
10:49:01AM BUT WE NEED TO FIND OUT WHAT WE CAN DO WITHIN THAT.
10:49:04AM WE KNOW WE CAN PUT UP A SIGN WITH A CRA LOGO AND ARE THE
10:49:10AM LIMITS THAT WE CAN DO IS WHAT I AM INTERESTED IN.
10:49:12AM IF SOMEBODY SAYS YOU CAN'T DO MARKETING, WHAT DOES THAT
10:49:16AM MEAN?
10:49:17AM IF IT SAYS YOU CAN'T RUN AN ADD TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO BUY
10:49:21AM PROPERTY IN YBOR CITY.
10:49:23AM IF THAT IS PROHIBITED WE KNOW WHAT THE LIMITS ARE, AND WILL
10:49:27AM LIKE TO KNOW SPECIFICALLY.
10:49:29AM IF YOU THINK BRANDING, WE DON'T NEED TO PUT A CRA LOGO UP.
10:49:34AM WHAT DOES BRANDING MEAN AND THE LIMITS AND IF THAT EXISTS,
10:49:38AM WE WILL LOOK AT IT.
10:49:39AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY, THANK YOU.
10:49:41AM MOVING FORWARD.
10:49:43AM DID WE TAKE A VOTE ON THAT?
10:49:45AM WE DID.
10:49:46AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
10:49:47AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:49:50AM FOR THIS COMMUNICATION TO COME FROM THE ATTORNEY.
10:49:51AM THANK YOU.
10:49:52AM OKAY.
10:49:53AM NUMBER 6.
10:49:54AM ITEM NUMBER 6.
10:49:56AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: I WOULD LIKE TO BRING FORWARD MR. EVAN
10:50:00AM JOHNSON.
10:50:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: INTERIM PLANNING DIRECTOR.
10:50:05AM >>EVAN JOHNSON: THANK YOU.
10:50:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO KIDS.
10:50:09AM NO BABY SITTING.
10:50:10AM >>EVAN JOHNSON: SHE MAY BE HERE THIS EVENING FOR THE EVENING
10:50:16AM MEETING.
10:50:16AM EVAN JOHNSON, I MAY HAVE SOME SLIDE TO GUIDE THE
10:50:26AM CONVERSATION.
10:50:26AM THIS IS MY FIRST TIME USING THE ELMO.
10:50:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU ARE DOING A GOOD JOB.
10:50:32AM >>EVAN JOHNSON: I AM NOT GOING TO EYE.
10:50:34AM I ASKED PEOPLE WHAT TO DO.
10:50:35AM IT IS ALWAYS A GOOD START TO ASK FOR EXPERT ADVICE.
10:50:38AM I WAS -- THE REQUEST FOR THE BOARD WITH AS TO COME BACK AND
10:50:41AM GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE ARMY NAVY ROYAL LOT RPF PROCESS.
10:50:48AM FOR THOSE -- IT HAS BEEN A WHILE SENSE WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT
10:50:51AM THIS ON A PUBLIC FORUM --
10:50:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I CAN'T SEE IT.
10:50:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HOW DOES THAT WORK FOR OUR MEMBERS
10:51:01AM ONLINE?
10:51:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE CAN SEE IT NOW.
10:51:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:51:04AM >>EVAN JOHNSON: IT HAS BEEN A FEW MONTHS SINCE WE WERE HERE
10:51:08AM LAST TALKING OF THIS PARTICULAR RFP.
10:51:10AM THOSE WATCHING ON TV AND THOSE AS A REMINDER IN THE
10:51:14AM AUDIENCE, THE SITE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS BASICALLY FOUR
10:51:16AM ACRES RIGHT HERE.
10:51:17AM IT IS IN GREEN ON THIS IMAGE.
10:51:20AM AN ACRE OF IT WAS PURCHASED BY THE CRA.
10:51:23AM THAT IS THE ARMY NAVY STORE THAT IS STILL OUT THERE -- NOW
10:51:28AM THE BUILDING.
10:51:29AM TO THE RIGHT IS A RED AREA LABELED AS THE ASHLEY DRIVE
10:51:33AM RECONFIGURATION WHICH IS A VERY -- VERY BASIC WAY TO TALK
10:51:38AM ABOUT A VERY IMPORTANT GRANT WE RECEIVED -- THE CITY
10:51:41AM RECEIVED FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THROUGH RECONNECTING
10:51:44AM COMMUNITIES, TO MODIFY THE RAMP COMING OFF THE INTERSTATE,
10:51:47AM TO ESSENTIALLY BRING THE ROAD DOWN TO THE GROUND, TO GRADE
10:51:51AM SOONER.
10:51:51AM AND TO INCREASE THAT EAST-WEST CONNECTIVITY.
10:51:54AM REALLY A TRANSFORMATIVE IMPROVEMENT HAPPENING IN THIS AREA.
10:51:59AM OTHER ITEMS I WANTED TO POINT OUT, WE HAD A POTENTIAL
10:52:04AM STREETCAR EXTENSION.
10:52:05AM THAT WAS IN THE NEWS RECENTLY AS FAR AS MOVING FORWARD WITH
10:52:08AM THOSE DISCUSSIONS.
10:52:08AM THAT WILL BE COMING DOWN FLORIDA AVENUE -- SORRY, TAMPA
10:52:12AM STREET.
10:52:13AM AND ULTIMATELY WILL BE PASSING RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE FRONT
10:52:18AM DOOR OF THIS PARTICULAR REDEVELOPMENT SITE.
10:52:19AM ALSO IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT HART HAS -- THE BRT PROPOSAL,
10:52:24AM WHICH, YOU KNOW, THAT THEIR CONCEPT, THEY HAVE A STOP RIGHT
10:52:28AM AT ROYAL STREET.
10:52:28AM THAT WOULD ALSO SOMETHING THAT THE BRT WILL CONNECT TO THE
10:52:32AM AREA.
10:52:32AM LAST COUPLE OF THINGS I WANT TO POINT OUT RIVERWALK TO THE
10:52:37AM WEST HERE.
10:52:38AM ALSO WE HAVE IMPORTANT CULTURAL CENTERS WITH THE STRAZ AND
10:52:42AM THE JOHN GERMANY LIBRARY AND MARION STREET TO THE WEEKS TWO
10:52:47AM BLOCKS WHICH IS HART'S MAJOR TRANSIT CENTER FOR THE ENTIRE
10:52:52AM SYSTEM.
10:52:52AM NOT ONLY OPPORTUNITY IN THIS AREA FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT
10:52:54AM ALSO COMPLEXITIES AROUND PLANNING FOR IT.
10:52:57AM AND I WANT TO GIVE THAT CONTEXT AS I MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE
10:53:01AM SLIDES.
10:53:01AM SO THIS IS REALLY SIMILAR TO A SLIDE YOU ALL SAW WHEN I WAS
10:53:05AM LAST HERE, BUT JUST A QUICK KEY PROJECT ELEMENTS.
10:53:09AM THE DOWNTOWN CRA PLAN IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING UPDATED.
10:53:13AM I BELIEVE YOU A ALL WILL BE SEEING IT IN THE NEXT MONTH OR
10:53:17AM TWO AND NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU ARE CONSISTENT WITH THAT.
10:53:20AM HOUSING IS KEY.
10:53:21AM SERVING A VARIETY OF INCOME LEVELS, WHETHER THAT BE MARKET
10:53:24AM LEVEL OR DIFFERENT LEVELS OF AFFORDABILITY.
10:53:28AM THIS IS ONE OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES WHERE TAMPA STREET IS
10:53:32AM A D.O.T. ROADWAY.
10:53:33AM BETWEEN THE WORK GOING ON WITH ASHLEY AND THE FACT THAT WE
10:53:36AM OWN THE FRONTAGE ON TAMPA STREET ITSELF, THIS IS A VERY BIG
10:53:41AM OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE SOME VERY NICE URBAN DESIGN ELEMENTS
10:53:44AM IN THAT PART OF DOWNTOWN WHICH HAS BEEN NEGLECTED FOR SOME
10:53:47AM TIME NOW.
10:53:48AM NOT TO BRING UP COMMUNITY BRANDING ELEMENTS AGAIN, BUT THAT
10:53:53AM IS GOING TO BE PART OF THE REQUEST THAT WE SEND OUT, BECAUSE
10:53:56AM ULTIMATELY BY THE TIME THIS IS DONE, A SIGNIFICANT NUMBER OF
10:54:00AM UNITS AND AN NEIGHBORHOOD -- AN URBAN NEIGHBORHOOD WITHIN
10:54:04AM THE DOWNTOWN.
10:54:04AM AND THE -- THE DEVELOPMENT CRITERIA.
10:54:09AM WE DISCUSSED THESE AT OUR LAST PRESENTATION, AND SO I AM
10:54:12AM JUST GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH AND GIVE YOU A LITTLE IDEA OF
10:54:15AM WHERE WE ARE AT WITH THE UPDATES.
10:54:18AM SO FOUR MAIN CATEGORIES THAT OUR CURRENT DIRECTOR IS
10:54:25AM STRUCTURED AROUND IS, FIRST, HOUSING AFFORDABILITY.
10:54:28AM AS OUR MINIMUM NUMBER OF UNITS THAT IS CURRENTLY BEING
10:54:31AM DISCUSSED WAS 750.
10:54:33AM AND THAT IS WHAT WE BROUGHT UP LAST TIME DURING OUR
10:54:36AM DISCUSSION WITH YOU ALL.
10:54:37AM THE AFFORDABILITY REQUIREMENTS WHEN WE TALKED TO YOU ALL, WE
10:54:42AM WERE GIVEN DIRECTION TO MAKE SURE WE INCREASED THE
10:54:46AM PERCENTAGE WE WERE ASKING FOR.
10:54:47AM IT IS A DRAFT, BUT RIGHT NOW WE HAVE -- WE ARE AT 50%
10:54:52AM SET-ASIDE AND THOSE ARE BROKEN DOWN RUN 80 AND 140.
10:55:00AM I BELIEVE THE ROME YARD WAS 60 AND PETITION?
10:55:04AM GOT A LITTLE MORE THAN 60 IN THEIR FINAL AGREEMENT AND WHERE
10:55:07AM THE RFP WAS LISTED AS WELL.
10:55:10AM SUSTAINABILITY ELEMENTS.
10:55:12AM CERTIFICATION OF THE BUILDING, THAT COULD BE LEED, ENERGY
10:55:18AM STAR CERTIFICATION, MAKING SURE THAT THE BUILDINGS ARE
10:55:20AM DEFINED AS EFFICIENT AS POSSIBLE.
10:55:22AM ALTERNATIVE POWER GENERATION.
10:55:24AM AGAIN, THAT CAN BE SOLAR, INTEGRATED INTO THE SITE.
10:55:28AM POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES.
10:55:29AM A LOT OF WEIRD BLOCKS AND SHAPES OF THE SITE ITSELF.
10:55:33AM SO WE THINK THERE MAY EVEN BE SOME OPPORTUNITIES FOR IN SOME
10:55:36AM OF THE LEFTOVER PARCELS FOR PIECES FOR SOME -- SOME SOLAR IF
10:55:41AM EVEN JUST FOR DEMONSTRATION OF DOWNTOWN.
10:55:43AM TREE PROTECTION IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE IMPORTANT.
10:55:47AM AS YOU ALL KNOW, YOU DEAL WITH THOSE ISSUES A LOT AND THE
10:55:52AM PUBLIC REALM DESIGN, THAT URBAN DESIGN THAT I MENTIONED ON
10:55:55AM THE PREVIOUS SLIDE.
10:55:56AM MORE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE MOBILITY IMPROVEMENTS
10:55:59AM THEMSELVES, I THINK THE BIGGEST CHALLENGE WILL, NOT ONLY THE
10:56:02AM STREETCAR AND HOW IT NEEDS TO BE INTEGRATED AND HOW WE
10:56:07AM INTERACT WITH IT, BUT THEN BRINGING IN POTENTIAL FOR BRT
10:56:13AM CONNECTION.
10:56:13AM AND IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE THAT IS NEEDED MORE THAN JUST
10:56:16AM ANOTHER BRT BUS STOP?
10:56:18AM SOME OTHER LEVEL OF AMENITY THAT WE COULD BE CONSIDERING AS
10:56:21AM PART OF THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS AS SOON AS AND SO WE HAD
10:56:24AM SOME CONVERSATIONS WITH HART.
10:56:26AM AND WE CERTAINLY WILL TALK TO THEM AGAIN BEFORE WE FINALIZE
10:56:29AM AN RFP TO MAKE SURE WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE WITH THE IDEAS.
10:56:33AM AGAIN, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO -- WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE
10:56:36AM HOUSING AFFORDABILITY ELEMENT, WE'RE REALLY NOT TRYING TO
10:56:38AM HEM IN ANY PROPOSER, DEVELOPER TO TOO SPECIFIC A PROPOSAL.
10:56:41AM WE REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE FLEXIBILITY AND CREATIVITY AS
10:56:46AM MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
10:56:47AM THE LAST PART OF THE CRITERIA I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT
10:56:49AM ABOUT, THE OTHER COMMUNITY USES.
10:56:52AM CURRENTLY, THE DRAFT SPEAKS TO NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES OR
10:56:58AM RETAIL.
10:56:59AM HOPEFULLY FOCUSED ON SOME OF THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY
10:57:03AM BEING BROUGHT IN, THOSE WHO MAY NEED THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING

10:57:07AM AMENITIES.
10:57:08AM BUT ALSO ARTS HOUSING.
10:57:10AM THIS IS PROBABLY NOT THE BEST WAY TO SPEAK ABOUT LIKE A
10:57:13AM CONSERVATORY TYPE HOUSING.
10:57:16AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN BROUGHT THIS UP AT OUR LAST MEETING
10:57:18AM WHEN I WAS HERE TO PRESENT, AND ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE HAVE
10:57:21AM TALKED ABOUT SO FAR IS NOT NECESSARILY REQUIRING IT, BUT
10:57:28AM TRYING TO FIND WAYS USING THROUGH THE SCORING SYSTEM OR
10:57:31AM OTHERWISE TO INCENTIVIZE SHOWING SOME LEVEL OF
10:57:36AM DORMITORY-STYLE OR WHATEVER TYPE HOUSING FOR SERVICE OF ART
10:57:42AM INSTITUTIONS DOWNTOWN.
10:57:43AM I THINK YOU WERE EVEN TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT EARLIER
10:57:45AM IN THE YBOR CRA, THAT IDEA OF LIKE HOW CAN YOU PROVIDE
10:57:49AM HOUSING FOR SOME OF THESE ARTIST PERFORMERS THAT MAYBE EVEN
10:57:52AM JUST COMING THROUGH.
10:57:53AM THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE WORKING ON LANGUAGE TO
10:57:56AM INCENTIVIZE THAT BUT DIDN'T WANT TO REQUIRE IT OUTRIGHT, PER
10:57:58AM SE.
10:57:59AM AGAIN, HOUSING IS REALLY THE ONLY ONE WE'RE TRYING TO DRAW A
10:58:03AM PRETTY BOLD LINE AROUND.
10:58:04AM ONE LAST SLIDE FOR YOU THIS MORNING BEFORE QUESTIONS.
10:58:08AM OUR NEXT STEPS.
10:58:09AM WE HAVE HAD, AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD QUITE A LOT OF
10:58:14AM LEADERSHIP AND STAFFING CHANGES OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS.
10:58:18AM AND PARTLY BECAUSE OF THAT, I AM WORKING WITH DEPARTMENT

10:58:23AM HEADS AND DEPARTMENT LEADERS TO BRING FOLKS BACK TOGETHER TO
10:58:26AM REALLY TAKE ONE LAST DETAILED LOOK AT THE CRITERIA, THE
10:58:30AM LANGUAGE THAT WE'RE USING AND REALLY, FRANKLY, WHEN I THINK
10:58:33AM OF WHAT MOBILITY HAS BEEN DOING AND THOSE PROJECTS, IT'S
10:58:36AM REALLY JUST TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS THE STATUS OF THE DESIGN
10:58:41AM AND THE DIRECTION THAT THEY ARE GOING.
10:58:42AM THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT COME TO MIND.
10:58:45AM OBVIOUSLY, THAT WESTERN PIECE WITH ASHLEY, THERE MAY BE
10:58:48AM ADDITIONAL RIGHT-OF-WAY LAND THAT THEY MAY NARROW IT.
10:58:52AM THERE MAY BE ROOM OVER THERE, FOR MAYBE IT IS NICE SIDEWALKS
10:58:55AM THAT COULD BE ASSOCIATED WITH THE DEVELOPMENT.
10:58:57AM BUT THERE'S ALSO D.O.T. HAS GOT SOME DESIGN IN PROCESS.
10:59:01AM IT'S GOING TO TAKE A LITTLE STRIP ON THE NORTH END OF THE
10:59:04AM SITE LIKELY FOR THEIR NEW RECONFIGURATION OF THE ON/OFF RAMP
10:59:09AM AS WELL.
10:59:10AM I WANT TO GET THE LATEST, GREATEST INFORMATION FROM THOSE
10:59:12AM DEPARTMENT LEADERS SO THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THAT INCORPORATED
10:59:16AM INTO THE RFP, PARTICULARLY SINCE I'M TRYING TO CATCH UP WITH
10:59:23AM SOME OF THESE CONVERSATIONS THAT MAY HAVE HAPPENED THAT I
10:59:25AM WASN'T AWARE OF PREVIOUSLY.
10:59:27AM I'M REALLY TRYING TO WORK WITH EVERYBODY TO MAKE SURE ALL
10:59:29AM THE BOXES ARE CHECKED.
10:59:31AM THE ADVERTISEMENT FOR THE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS, ONCE IT'S
10:59:33AM ALL FINISHED AND PURCHASING HAS SIGNED OFF ON THE LANGUAGE,
10:59:38AM WITH ROME YARD, IT WAS A 60 DAY ADVERTISEMENT.

10:59:41AM SO I WOULD SAY IT'S GOING TO BE 60 DAYS, POSSIBLY MORE, BUT
10:59:45AM I WOULDN'T EXPECT IT TO BE LESS JUST FROM OUR RECENT
10:59:47AM EXPERIENCE.
10:59:48AM SO AT THAT POINT, WE WOULD PUT IT OUT.
10:59:51AM PROPOSALS ARE GOING TO COME IN AND THEN YOU GET TO START
10:59:53AM WHAT IS A REVIEW PROCESS FIRST OF PROPOSALS.
10:59:56AM AND THIS WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF DUE DILIGENCE ON
10:59:58AM THE CITY'S PART, AS YOU'RE AWARE, TO REVIEW LEGAL ISSUES,
11:00:02AM FINANCIAL ISSUES AND THE FACT THAT FOLKS HAVE TO HAVE THE
11:00:05AM FINANCIAL CAPACITY FOR THIS TYPE OF PROJECT.
11:00:08AM AND THEN THERE LIKELY WILL BE SHORT LIST PRESENTATIONS AS
11:00:11AM WELL TO THE SELECTION COMMITTEE.
11:00:14AM SO THAT IS A PROCESS TO GET TO WHAT HOPEFULLY WILL BE THAT
11:00:16AM AWARD IN THAT CONTRACT THAT WE'LL BRING BACK TO THE CITY
11:00:20AM COUNCIL.
11:00:22AM AND WITH THAT, I'M HERE FOR QUESTIONS.
11:00:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA FOLLOWED BY BOARD
11:00:28AM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:00:28AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:00:29AM FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR UPDATE ON THE REPORT --
11:00:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME JUST A SECOND.
11:00:33AM CAN YOU TAKE THAT DOWN SO THAT I CAN SEE THE HANDS OF OUR
11:00:36AM ONLINE BOARD MEMBERS?
11:00:37AM I THINK I HEARD HURTAK SAY SOMETHING.
11:00:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH.

11:00:42AM THIS IS MY MOTION.
11:00:45AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:00:47AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT.
11:00:48AM WE'VE OWNED THAT LAND THERE FOR YEARS.
11:00:50AM AND THE PROBLEM THAT I SEE IS THAT THE LONGER WE HOLD IT,
11:00:57AM THE LESS SOME PEOPLE HAVE A PLACE.
11:01:00AM AND YOU'RE RIGHT ABOUT FINDING OUT WHAT THE POTENTIAL
11:01:03AM STREETCAR EXPANSION IS GOING TO BE FROM HART.
11:01:05AM HOWEVER, HOW MUCH IS THAT GOING TO COST AND WHEN IS IT
11:01:10AM COMING ON THE DRAWING BOARD AND WHEN IS IT GOING TO BE
11:01:13AM BUILT?
11:01:13AM WE CAN'T WAIT FOREVER FOR AN ANSWER FROM OUR BOARD, HART TO
11:01:18AM FIND OUT WHAT THE POTENTIAL TIME IS, WHAT EXTENSION TIME
11:01:22AM THEY NEED AND WHAT THE MONEY, AND NOW THEY ARE GOING TO FUND
11:01:24AM THAT STREETCAR.
11:01:25AM IT'S INCUMBENT ON US TO KEEP BUILDING FOR WHAT WE NEED, AND
11:01:31AM THAT'S AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
11:01:32AM I'M NOT SAYING TO ELEVATE AND PROCEED WITHOUT DOING WHAT
11:01:36AM YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE DOING, NOT SO.
11:01:38AM BUT WHAT I'M ASKING YOU TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THIS
11:01:41AM PROJECT ON THE DRAWING BOARDS SO PEOPLE HAVE A PLACE TO
11:01:48AM LIVE.
11:01:49AM IRREGARDLESS OF WHAT HART WILL DO.
11:01:51AM A TRAIN, THAT'S WHAT IT IS, A STREETCAR IS A TRAIN GOING AT
11:01:54AM A SLOW RATE, CAN ALWAYS BE DESIGNED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE

11:01:59AM STREET AND HAVE SOME LAND LEFT OVER SO YOU CAN HAVE YOURSELF
11:02:02AM A PLACE FOR PEOPLE DURING THE SEASON THAT WE HAVE, WE USED
11:02:05AM TO HAVE TWO SEASONS IN TAMPA, CHRISTMAS AND SUMMER.
11:02:09AM NOW YOU HAVE RAIN AND HEAT.
11:02:10AM AND THAT'S THE WAY IT IS.
11:02:12AM AND THE PROBLEM WE HAVE IS WE HAVEN'T TAKEN CARE OF NATURE
11:02:15AM AND NEVER WILL.
11:02:16AM WANT TO GET SOMEWHERE QUICKER, FASTER, BETTER, CHEAPER
11:02:19AM PRICE.
11:02:19AM NATURE IS NOT CHEAP.
11:02:20AM IT'S EXPENSIVE, AND WE HAVE TO FIX NATURE.
11:02:22AM I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
11:02:25AM MY ADVICE, GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW TO BUILD BECAUSE THAT
11:02:28AM LINE MAY OR MAY NOT COME IN THE NEXT TEN YEARS.
11:02:31AM THANK YOU.
11:02:31AM >> IF I MAY, I JUST WANTED TO SAY I ABSOLUTELY AGREE.
11:02:35AM JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, I WASN'T IMPLYING THAT WE WOULD WANT
11:02:38AM TO WAIT FOR THAT.
11:02:39AM WE CERTAINLY WANT TO MAKE SURE WE AT LEAST HAVE THE
11:02:41AM CONVERSATION AND ARE ACCOUNTING FOR IT IN ANY DISCUSSION WE
11:02:44AM HAVE.
11:02:44AM I ABSOLUTELY AGREE WITH YOU.
11:02:46AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU.
11:02:48AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'LL START WITH ANSWERING SOME OF
11:02:53AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.

11:02:54AM THE STREETCAR IS ACTUALLY MORE OF A CITY CONSTRUCTION
11:02:57AM PROJECT, NOT HART.
11:02:59AM WE WORK THROUGH HART BECAUSE THEY ARE A FLOW-THROUGH
11:03:01AM ORGANIZATION, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THE CITY IS DOING.
11:03:04AM I HAVE TO SAY I BELIEVE WE ARE ON A PACE THAT WE SHOULD
11:03:07AM START RIDING THE STREETCAR AND PROPOSED EXTENSION WITHIN
11:03:11AM FIVE OR SIX YEARS.
11:03:12AM THE RFP IS OUT NOW.
11:03:14AM IT'S MOVING FORWARD.
11:03:16AM THE STREETCAR IS MOVING FORWARD.
11:03:17AM THERE ARE SOME CHALLENGES BUT SOME SOLUTIONS.
11:03:20AM I THINK THE ADMINISTRATION AND VIK ARE DOING A GOOD JOB IN
11:03:23AM PRESENTING THAT PROGRAM.
11:03:24AM ON THE HOUSING COMPONENT, AS YOU BROUGHT UP, I'VE BEEN AN
11:03:29AM ADVOCATE.
11:03:30AM THE STRAZ IS A CITY-OWNED ASSET, AND WE'RE INVESTING A LOT
11:03:33AM OF MONEY INTO THAT ASSET.
11:03:34AM THE CONSERVATORY IS AN IMPORTANT PART.
11:03:37AM ONE OF THEIR CHALLENGES, JUST LIKE WE HAVE HOUSING
11:03:39AM CHALLENGES EVERYWHERE IS HOUSING FOR THE STUDENTS THAT ARE
11:03:41AM GOING TO THE CONSERVATORY THERE.
11:03:44AM THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR A LOT OF ASSET.
11:03:45AM I THINK THEY WANT TO HOUSE 20 PEOPLE, AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO
11:03:51AM ALL BE INDIVIDUAL UNITS.
11:03:53AM BUT I THINK WE DO NEED TO HAVE A SET-ASIDE BECAUSE OF THE

11:03:56AM PROXIMITY, THERE'S NO OTHER OPPORTUNITY.
11:04:00AM THIS WOULD BE A MISSED OPPORTUNITY IF WE DON'T GET THIS IN
11:04:03AM THIS PROJECT.
11:04:04AM WE'RE ONLY TALKING HOUSING LIKE 20 PEOPLE AND LESS UNITS
11:04:08AM THAN THAT OF 750, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A SET-ASIDE TO BE
11:04:13AM ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THAT.
11:04:14AM AGAIN, WE'LL NEVER HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THIS AGAIN,
11:04:17AM TO BE ABLE TO HAVE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THE STRAZ AND
11:04:21AM THEIR NEEDS AND TO BE ABLE TO ENHANCE THAT EXPERIENCE.
11:04:25AM ALSO, THE DEMOGRAPHIC THAT IT BRINGS TO DOWNTOWN AS FAR AS
11:04:28AM THE MIX OF FOLKS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ENCOURAGE, THESE WILL
11:04:32AM ALL BE YOUNG PEOPLE, SO THAT ACTUALLY ADDS SOMETHING AS
11:04:36AM WELL, SOMETHING TO THE COMMUNITY.
11:04:38AM I DEFINITELY DO WANT TO SEE THAT AS A REQUIREMENT THAT WE
11:04:40AM HAVE A SET-ASIDE FOR THOSE UNITS SO THAT, AGAIN, IT'S REALLY
11:04:44AM A STATISTICALLY SMALL NUMBER OF WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
11:04:48AM 750.
11:04:49AM THE OTHER THING IS ON THE SIDEWALKS, I THINK WE TALK ABOUT
11:04:52AM TREE RETENTION AND ALL, ENSURING THE PROJECT HAS THE TYPE OF
11:04:57AM STANDARD PROJECTS THAT WE SEE IN THE DEVELOPMENTS THAT WE
11:04:59AM SEE DARRYL BRINGING FORWARD AND SEE HAPPENING IN TAMPA
11:05:01AM HEIGHTS, SO IT CAN ACCOMMODATE TREES, SO SIDEWALKS ARE WIDE
11:05:06AM ENOUGH THAT WE CAN HAVE TREE PLANTINGS ALONG THIS.
11:05:09AM I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE MUCH MORE LIVABLE COMMUNITY AND
11:05:13AM WALKABLE ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE INVESTING IN THAT ASHLEY STREET

11:05:16AM PROJECT OF BRINGING THAT STREET DOWN AND HAVING AN EAST-WEST
11:05:19AM CONSECUTIVE, IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU HAVE CONSECUTIVE, IF
11:05:22AM IT'S NOT REALLY GOOD AND WALKABLE AND PEDESTRIAN FRIENDLY.
11:05:25AM I WOULD DEFINITELY WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THOSE NEW
11:05:27AM STANDARDS OF SIDEWALKS, THAT 12-FOOT SIDEWALK TO BE ABLE TO
11:05:31AM ACCOMMODATE TREES.
11:05:31AM THANK YOU.
11:05:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MR. JOHNSON, BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:05:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:05:39AM I'M NOT SURE -- I THINK THERE WAS AN ISSUE LEGALLY ABOUT
11:05:45AM BEING ABLE TO DO SET-ASIDES FOR A PARTICULAR INSTITUTION,
11:05:49AM BUT I WILL LEAVE THAT TO MR. MASSEY.
11:05:51AM BUT I THINK WHAT WE COULD DO IS LOOK AT SINGLE RESIDENT
11:05:54AM OCCUPANCY DEFINITELY AS SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE
11:05:58AM OR AT LEAST I WOULD LIKE TO SEE BECAUSE THAT KIND OF DOES
11:06:01AM THE SAME THING.
11:06:02AM BUT MY QUESTION IS TO MAKE SURE THAT IN THIS PROPOSAL THERE
11:06:08AM IS LANGUAGE ABOUT THE ABILITY TO PUT THIS IN A CLT OR TO
11:06:13AM MAKE IT PERPETUALLY AFFORDABLE.
11:06:19AM MR. JOHNSON, DO YOU HAVE --
11:06:22AM >> CURRENTLY, THE DISCUSSION THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING WOULD BE
11:06:25AM SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID WITH THE ROME YARD, WHICH WAS 50
11:06:28AM YEARS MINIMUM.
11:06:29AM I WOULD SAY THERE IS -- IT'S 50 YEARS FOR ALL THE RENTALS
11:06:35AM AND I BELIEVE THERE IS A SMALL COMPONENT OF POTENTIAL FEE

11:06:38AM SIMPLE TOWNHOMES.
11:06:40AM THOSE WOULD BE I THINK A MINIMUM OF 15 WITH SOME RESELL
11:06:44AM REQUIREMENTS.
11:06:45AM BUT, NO, RIGHT NOW IT'S 50 YEARS IS WHAT WE HAVE.
11:06:49AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH, I HONESTLY DON'T THINK THAT'S ENOUGH.
11:06:53AM FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, THIS IS OUR LAND, AND THE GOAL OF
11:06:56AM THIS IS TO HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
11:06:58AM SO I BELIEVE IT SHOULD BE IN PERPETUITY OR THE ABILITY TO GO
11:07:03AM INTO A COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, ONE OR THE OTHER.
11:07:07AM AND I THINK THAT IF WE AREN'T DOING THAT, THEN WE AREN'T
11:07:09AM FOLLOWING THE MANDATE OF THE CRA.
11:07:14AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON, DID YOU WANT TO SAY
11:07:16AM SOMETHING?
11:07:17AM FOLLOWED BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:07:20AM >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, JUST ON THAT POINT, YOU ALL -- THE
11:07:27AM CITY IS DOING A GREAT JOB OF PRESENTING THIS TO THE CRA
11:07:29AM BOARD, ALTHOUGH WE HAVE TWO HATS.
11:07:31AM THIS IS THE CRA BOARD AND YOU ALL ARE PROVIDING A LOT OF
11:07:34AM TRANSPARENCY ON THIS.
11:07:35AM SO I APPRECIATE THAT.
11:07:37AM WHEN WE GET TO THE END OF IT, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE DEFINE
11:07:40AM WHAT IS THE CRA'S ROLE.
11:07:42AM I THINK OF THE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE LAND, THERE IS ONE
11:07:44AM SMALLER PIECE OF IT THAT WAS BOUGHT BY THE CRA.
11:07:47AM SO OUR CRA BOARD INFLUENCES OVER THAT PIECE.

11:07:51AM AND THEN IN THAT PIECE, WHAT SHE SAID IS RIGHT.
11:07:54AM LIKE WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE NOT ONLY FOLLOWING THE LAW,
11:07:57AM IF THERE IS A WAY WE CAN EXCEED IT, GREAT.
11:07:59AM CRA DOESN'T HAVE NECESSARILY INFLUENCE OVER EVERYTHING.
11:08:02AM AND THE SAME THING IN TERMS OF STAFF.
11:08:03AM THIS IS A CITY-LED PROJECT WITH CITY STAFF.
11:08:08AM CRA -- I THINK THE CRA'S LIMIT OF INVOLVEMENT SHOULD BE JUST
11:08:11AM TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY IS ADHERING AND DEVELOPER'S ARE
11:08:15AM ADHERING TO THAT RULE.
11:08:17AM WITHOUT GOING THROUGH DETAILS, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF
11:08:20AM CONCERNS IN THE PAST ABOUT RFPs THAT WERE HANDLED AND
11:08:25AM DEVELOPERS HAVE SAID, LOOK, IF THE CITY PUTS OUT AN RFP FOR
11:08:28AM 30 DAYS, THAT'S NOT ENOUGH TIME.
11:08:29AM IT JUST SHOWS THEY'VE ALREADY GOT SOMEBODY IN MIND.
11:08:32AM THERE ARE SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF THAT WHERE THE PRIVATE SECTOR
11:08:35AM FEELS LIKE LAND WAS SOLD BELOW MARKET VALUE OR THAT THE CITY
11:08:39AM HAD BEEN TALKING TO ONE DEVELOPER FOR A LONG TIME.
11:08:42AM SO YOU SAID 60 DAYS.
11:08:44AM I WAS GOING TO ASK THAT, AT LEAST 60 DAYS.
11:08:47AM 90 DAYS BETTER BECAUSE IT'S VERY EXPENSIVE FOR THE
11:08:50AM DEVELOPERS TO PUT TOGETHER THESE PROPOSALS.
11:08:52AM I KNOW YOU'VE HAD CALLS OVER TIME, BUT THERE'S BEEN SOME BAD
11:08:59AM INFORMATION BEEN GIVEN OUT BY SOME OF YOUR PREDECESSORS
11:09:05AM ABOUT HOW THIS INFORMATION I SHOULD SAY BY PRIOR EMPLOYEES,
11:09:09AM ABOUT HOW THIS WOULD GO FORWARD.

11:09:11AM SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THERE'S PLENTY OF TIME THAT A
11:09:14AM DEVELOPER CAN RESPOND.
11:09:15AM WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WHATEVER CONVERSATIONS HAVE HAPPENED
11:09:17AM WITH ANY DEVELOPERS IDEALLY THEY WOULD BE -- THEY WOULD BE
11:09:21AM MADE PUBLIC AND THAT EVERYBODY KNOWS IT'S REALLY OPEN TO
11:09:26AM EVERYONE.
11:09:28AM AND THE WAY IT'S SET UP AND THE WAY IT'S COMMUNICATED.
11:09:34AM AND THEN IN THE CRITERIA, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT IT
11:09:37AM DOESN'T ONLY APPLY TO ONE COMPANY, AND THAT'S BEEN ONE OF
11:09:42AM THE ACCUSATIONS FROM OTHER DEVELOPERS IN THE PAST.
11:09:45AM THERE'S LOTS OF PRIVATE SECTOR MONEY THAT WANTS TO COME INTO
11:09:48AM TAMPA TO INVEST IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND MIXED USE.
11:09:51AM AND WE NEED TO MAKE SURE IT'S OPEN TO EVERYBODY, THAT IT'S
11:09:54AM FAIR TO EVERYBODY.
11:09:55AM AND IF WE END UP PICKING SOME OF THE SAME FIRMS WE WORKED
11:09:58AM WITH BEFORE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO SHOW A REALLY GOOD CASE
11:10:01AM AS TO WHY THAT HAPPENED.
11:10:02AM THAT'S ALL.
11:10:03AM THANK YOU.
11:10:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA, DID YOU WANT TO SAY
11:10:07AM SOMETHING?
11:10:07AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:10:10AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM.
11:10:10AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:10:12AM I GO BACK TO THE IDEA OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN DOWNTOWN

11:10:17AM TAMPA, AND WE'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS PREVIOUSLY ON CERTAIN AREAS
11:10:22AM OF TAMPA, WHY ARE WE GOING TO PUSH AFFORDABLE HOUSING HERE.
11:10:26AM IT'S BEEN SAID BEFORE, I THINK IT MAY HAVE BEEN COUNCILWOMAN
11:10:28AM HURTAK.
11:10:30AM I DON'T RECALL.
11:10:30AM WHICH IS THAT HAVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND ACCESSIBLE
11:10:33AM HOUSING IN A PLACE LIKE DOWNTOWN TAMPA THAT'S GETTING TO BE
11:10:37AM BEYOND UNAFFORDABLE FOR 97% OF FAMILIES IN TAMPA IS A REAL
11:10:41AM MORAL STATEMENT THAT A GOOD AND DECENT CITY DOES AND SAYS
11:10:46AM THAT WHEN YOU HAVE A PLACE THAT HAS -- THAT IS KNOWN FOR
11:10:50AM MORE AFFLUENCE AND YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A CITY-FUNDED ASSET
11:10:54AM THAT FUNDS HOUSING FOR WELDERS, ELECTRICIANS, NURSES,
11:10:59AM TEACHERS AIDE, TEACHERS, COPS, FIREFIGHTERS, ET CETERA.
11:11:04AM PEOPLE WORKING IN SERVICE INDUSTRIES, ET CETERA, A RANGE OF
11:11:07AM INCOME, I THINK THAT IS A VERY, VERY GOOD MORAL STATEMENT TO
11:11:11AM HAVE.
11:11:12AM AND I WANT US TO MAKE SURE TO KEEP OUR EYE ON THE BALL 100%,
11:11:16AM THAT THAT'S THE ISSUE BEFORE US IS THAT ALL OF THESE UNITS I
11:11:20AM THINK SHOULD GO TO INDIVIDUALS AS THEY WILL BE, THAT SERVE
11:11:26AM AS A MORAL STATEMENT HERE FOR THE CITY.
11:11:28AM BECAUSE, AGAIN, IT'S SOMETHING TO TAKE A PIECE OF PROPERTY
11:11:31AM IN THE CITY OF TAMPA AND DOWNTOWN TAMPA THAT'S WORTH SO MUCH
11:11:34AM MONEY AND THEN TO USE IT FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE HAVING TROUBLE
11:11:37AM MAKING ENDS MEET, THAT IS A MORAL STATEMENT THAT I APPLAUD.
11:11:41AM SO I THINK THIS IS A GREAT IDEA THAT -- I KNOW WE ALL DO

11:11:46AM FULLY SUPPORT.
11:11:47AM SO THANK YOU.
11:11:49AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO FOLLOWED BY BOARD
11:11:51AM MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:11:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE.
11:11:54AM I AGREE WITH KEEPING THIS IN PERPETUITY, KEEPING IT
11:11:59AM AFFORDABLE FOREVER, ESSENTIALLY.
11:12:01AM IT'S INTERESTING LOOKING AT THIS MAP, BECAUSE AS THE
11:12:04AM INTERSTATE CAME THROUGH DOWNTOWN, DOWNTOWN DIED AND PEOPLE
11:12:08AM WENT OUT INTO THE SUBURBS.
11:12:09AM THE MALLS CAME UP.
11:12:11AM BRITTON PLAZA, ALL THE BIG AREAS WITH PARKING.
11:12:14AM YOU FIGURED THE INTERSTATE, THIS MAJOR ARTERY WOULD FEED
11:12:17AM INTO DOWNTOWN, BUT IT DIED, AND NOW WE'RE COMING BACK MORE
11:12:20AM THAN HALF A CENTURY LATER.
11:12:23AM IT'S INTERESTING TO SEE THE RECONFIGURATION OF ASHLEY DRIVE
11:12:26AM BECAUSE THAT IS A BARRIER.
11:12:28AM IT DOESN'T CUT OFF DOWNTOWN BECAUSE YOU HAVE MORE ON THE
11:12:30AM OTHER SIDE BEFORE YOU GO INTO WEST TAMPA WITH THE FORTUNE
11:12:33AM STREET BRIDGE.
11:12:34AM AND NOW WE'RE GOING BACK TO THAT.
11:12:36AM WE'RE RECONFIGURING THOSE BLOCKS.
11:12:41AM THE FACT OF HAVING HOUSING AFFORDABILITY, AS DOWNTOWN IS
11:12:45AM COMING BACK AND PEOPLE ARE MOVING BACK, AND WE SEE THE
11:12:47AM GROWTH, WE SEE THE DENSITY, I WISH I COULD LIVE DOWNTOWN.

11:12:51AM I HAVE A FRIEND OF MINE THAT LIVES AT THE ADDITION, WHICH IS
11:12:54AM THE ADDITION.
11:12:55AM IT'S DIFFERENT.
11:12:56AM $16,000 A MONTH IN RENT.
11:12:58AM I'LL TELL YOU A STORY ONE DAY.
11:13:02AM YOU'RE SPENDING $16,000 A MONTH.
11:13:05AM HE'S A BACHELOR, WHATEVER.
11:13:06AM HE GOES, THIS IS WHERE EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE.
11:13:08AM I CAN'T EVEN -- THAT'S A CAR.
11:13:11AM THAT'S AN EDUCATION.
11:13:12AM ANYWAYS, IT'S CRAZY THE AMOUNT OF MONEY AT HERON, THE
11:13:19AM ADDITION, AT OTHER PLACES DOWNTOWN.
11:13:20AM WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WORKING IN THIS AREA?
11:13:23AM COUNCILMAN VIERA MENTIONED ALL SORTS OF DIFFERENT JOBS.
11:13:26AM WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE IN THE SERVICE INDUSTRY?
11:13:27AM PEOPLE THAT KEEP THESE PLACES ACTIVE, THEY NEED A PLACE TO
11:13:30AM GO.
11:13:31AM AND THAT DEMAND, AS LONG AS WE HAVE THIS DENSITY AND GROWTH
11:13:33AM INTO DOWNTOWN AGAIN, THAT DEMAND IS ALWAYS GOING TO BE
11:13:35AM THERE.
11:13:36AM WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TO NEED THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE
11:13:39AM WORKING THAT NEED A PLACE TO LIVE THAT CANNOT AFFORD A CAR,
11:13:43AM THAT MAY TAKE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, BUT LOOK AT WHAT'S
11:13:46AM COMING.
11:13:47AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN SAID IT.

11:13:49AM THE STREETCAR IS COMING.
11:13:51AM THE STREETCAR COMES WHEN IT ARRIVES.
11:13:54AM I SEE THE POTENTIAL EXPANSION AND EXTENSION HERE.
11:13:57AM IT'S GOING TO BE TOUCHING THOSE AREAS.
11:13:59AM PEOPLE WILL NOT NEED A CAR.
11:14:01AM THEY WILL NOT NEED TO RELY ON A BICYCLE OR TO WALK BECAUSE
11:14:05AM THEY HAVE OTHER MEANS OF TRANSPORTATION AND YOU HAVE BRT AND
11:14:08AM THE BUS ROUTES AND EVERYTHING THAT ARE FEEDING IN THIS
11:14:11AM FLORIDA, TAMPA STREET AREA.
11:14:14AM THIS IS EXCITING.
11:14:15AM IT'S EXCITING BECAUSE WHEN YOU OWN A PROPERTY, YOU'RE THE
11:14:17AM KING OR THE QUEEN.
11:14:19AM AND WHEN WE HAVE CONTROL OF THIS PARCEL, ONCE WE GO OUT TO
11:14:23AM THAT RFP AND AS COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON SAID, PUT IT OUT
11:14:27AM THERE, ADVERTISE IT, WE WANT ALL SORTS OF PEOPLE.
11:14:30AM WE WANT IT TO BE A FAIR PROCESS AND WE WANT TO GET THE BEST
11:14:33AM BIDDER TO BUILD THE BEST PRODUCT BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING
11:14:35AM THAT IS TRANSFORMATIONAL AND MULTIGENERATIONAL.
11:14:39AM WE SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS A LONG TIME AGO, BUT THINGS WERE
11:14:42AM DIFFERENT A LONG TIME AGO.
11:14:43AM NOW WE ARE FACING A HOUSING CRISIS.
11:14:46AM WE ARE FACING ALL SORTS OF STUFF, AND THIS IS SUCH A
11:14:51AM WONDERFUL INVESTMENT THAT WE'VE MADE.
11:14:52AM I BELIEVE IT WAS $5.5 MILLION WHEN WE PURCHASED THIS PARCEL.
11:14:57AM >> I DON'T RECALL WHAT THE AMOUNT WAS.

11:14:59AM FOUR SOMETHING SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT.
11:15:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: BUT IT IS SOMETHING WE CONTROL.
11:15:03AM IT IS OURS TO PROVIDE A PUBLIC BENEFIT FOR HOUSING THAT IS
11:15:08AM SO NEEDED AND NOTHING -- I APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENTATION.
11:15:13AM I RESPECT YOU VERY MUCH.
11:15:14AM I KNOW YOUR BACKGROUND.
11:15:16AM YOU KNOW THE HISTORY.
11:15:17AM YOU KNOW PLANNING.
11:15:20AM AGAIN, THIS IS VERY GOOD.
11:15:21AM THANK YOU.
11:15:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY, YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING
11:15:24AM AND THEN BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:15:25AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: PRICE FOR ARMY NAVY SITE ABOUT 4.5 MILLION.
11:15:29AM SPENT ABOUT ANOTHER MILLION FOR THE BILLBOARD SITE ADJACENT
11:15:32AM TO IT.
11:15:33AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT'S AN INVESTMENT THAT WHAT WOULD IT BE
11:15:37AM TODAY?
11:15:38AM $10 MILLION PARCEL?
11:15:39AM WITH THE WAY REAL ESTATE IS AROUND HERE, YOU NEVER KNOW.
11:15:41AM WE BLOCKED IT IN.
11:15:42AM WE HAVE IT.
11:15:43AM IT'S IN OUR CONTROL.
11:15:43AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: SINCE THE ARMY NAVY SITE AND BILLBOARD SITE
11:15:46AM WAS PURCHASED WITH CRA DOLLARS, AT LEAST THAT PORTION OF THE
11:15:50AM PROJECT NEEDS TO BE USED IN A MANNER THAT'S CONSISTENT WITH

11:15:53AM THE STATUTE AND THE PLAN.
11:15:58AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THAT.
11:16:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT'S WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF WHAT WE'RE
11:16:04AM SUPPOSED TO BE DOING, AND THIS IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE.
11:16:06AM THANK YOU.
11:16:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PERFECT SEGUE.
11:16:10AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON SAID IT AND NOW REITERATED THAT THE
11:16:14AM PORTION OF THE CRA PURCHASES IS ONLY A SMALL PORTION OF THE
11:16:17AM PROPERTY.
11:16:17AM THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE LAND THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
11:16:19AM REDEVELOPING THE CITY OWNED PROPERTY, NOT CRA OWNED
11:16:22AM PROPERTY.
11:16:23AM SO OUR FLEXIBILITY EXISTS.
11:16:24AM IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHERE THAT FOOTPRINT IS.
11:16:27AM THERE IS A LOT OF FLEXIBILITY ON THE PARCEL WHICH IS ALSO
11:16:29AM EXCITING.
11:16:30AM PEOPLE HAVE TO REALIZE, AND I THINK THIS IS PART OF OUR
11:16:34AM BRANDING OR OUR DISCUSSION OF WHAT THE EXPECTATIONS ARE AND
11:16:37AM SETTING EXPECTATIONS, WHEN WE SAY AFFORDABLE HOUSING, I
11:16:42AM THINK THAT MAY MEAN SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO A LOT OF
11:16:44AM DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
11:16:45AM BUT I THINK, GENERALLY SPEAKING, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS
11:16:47AM PROJECT.
11:16:48AM IT'S ABOUT WORKFORCE HOUSING.
11:16:49AM DOWNTOWN, THIS IS MAYBE ONE MILE AWAY FROM NORTH BOULEVARD

11:16:54AM COMPLEX.
11:16:54AM SO WE ALREADY -- WE HAVE A LOT OF HOUSING THERE, AFFORDABLE
11:16:58AM HOUSING THAT'S BEING CONSTRUCTED AND MORE COMING AS WE'RE
11:17:01AM SPEAKING.
11:17:02AM SHOVELS ARE IN THE GROUND.
11:17:03AM IT'S NOT LIKE THERE IS A VACUUM OF PROJECT THAT THE CITY HAS
11:17:07AM BEEN MOVING FORWARD AS FAR AS HELPING FOLKS TO PROVIDE
11:17:11AM HOUSING IN THIS AREA.
11:17:13AM WORKFORCE HOUSING IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, BUT, AGAIN, THIS
11:17:17AM SHOULD BE A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT THAT PROVIDES THE FABRIC
11:17:21AM OF THE CITY OF DOWNTOWN, THE CITY OF TAMPA AS MUCH AS WE
11:17:26AM POSSIBLY CAN.
11:17:27AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, AGAIN, WE TALK ABOUT THE 750, I'M
11:17:30AM ASSUMING THAT UNIT INCLUDES TRYING TO GET TO THE MAXIMUM
11:17:32AM DENSITY THAT WE CAN ALLOW THAT IS FEASIBLE.
11:17:37AM WE WANT THIS TO BE A DENSELY POPULATED AREA.
11:17:40AM AGAIN, WITH THE AMENITIES THAT WE NEED AND THAT WALKABILITY.
11:17:43AM AGAIN, I WANTED TO BRING IT HOME THAT THIS IS JUST A PIECE
11:17:47AM OF THE PROPERTY IS CRA.
11:17:49AM THE REST OF IT IS CITY SO IT WILL BE FASCINATING TO WATCH
11:17:53AM THAT DEVELOPMENT.
11:17:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:17:54AM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA, FOLLOWED BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK AND
11:17:56AM THEN CARLSON.
11:17:58AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LET HURTAK GO ON.

11:18:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HIS LIGHT WAS ON.
11:18:03AM SO IT'S OKAY.
11:18:03AM YOU CAN GO.
11:18:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HE HAS SPOKEN BEFORE --
11:18:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT IS TRUE.
11:18:09AM THAT'S FINE.
11:18:10AM YOU CAN GO.
11:18:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SO THE ISSUE WITH THIS IS, YES, SOME OF IT IS
11:18:16AM CRA AND SOME OF IT IS CITY.
11:18:19AM AND THERE'S NO WAY THAT YOU CAN BUILD -- OR RATHER, IT IS
11:18:22AM VERY DIFFICULT TO BUILD AN ALL AFFORDABLE.
11:18:26AM THAT IS NOT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.
11:18:27AM WE KNOW THAT THERE WILL BE MARKET RATE TO HELP PAY FOR IT.
11:18:30AM WE UNDERSTAND THAT.
11:18:31AM THAT MAKES SENSE.
11:18:32AM BUT I WAS CONCERNED WITH ONE THING THAT MR. JOHNSON SAID
11:18:36AM ABOUT POSSIBLE TOWNHOMES, AND I HIGHLY DISAGREE WITH THAT.
11:18:44AM AS BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN MENTIONED, THIS IS IN THE CBD.
11:18:49AM WE SHOULD BE DOING THE ABSOLUTE MOST DENSITY THAT WE'RE
11:18:52AM ALLOWED BASED ON AIRPORT HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS.
11:18:58AM AND I DON'T THINK TOWNHOMES IN DOWNTOWN ARE AN APPROPRIATE
11:19:01AM USE OF THAT.
11:19:02AM SO I HOPE THAT'S NOT A PART OF THE RFP.
11:19:08AM >> YEAH, IF I MAY, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU WERE FINISHED.
11:19:11AM NO, I WAS MERELY SPEAKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT TOWNHOMES ARE

11:19:14AM A PART OF THE ROME YARD DEVELOPMENT.
11:19:18AM THAT WAS THE WAY IN WHICH -- THAT WAS THE SMALL PORTION THAT
11:19:20AM THEY HAD FOR FEE SIMPLE OWNERSHIP WAS A NUMBER OF THOSE.
11:19:25AM AND THAT'S ALL.
11:19:26AM I WAS NOT IMPLYING THAT WE WOULD HAVE TOWNHOMES AS PART OF
11:19:29AM THIS DEVELOPMENT.
11:19:30AM I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.
11:19:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING.
11:19:32AM THAT IS BASICALLY WHAT I WAS JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT.
11:19:35AM I DON'T THINK THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH HAVING FOR-SALE THINGS
11:19:37AM WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT.
11:19:40AM BUT DEFINITELY AS WAS STATED EARLIER, DENSE AS POSSIBLE
11:19:45AM WITHIN THE RESTRICTIONS THAT ARE GIVEN BY THE AIRPORT.
11:19:51AM SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:19:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:19:54AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
11:19:56AM I JUST WANT TO SAY AGAIN, THIS IS ABOUT AN OPPORTUNITY THAT
11:20:02AM WE HAVE ONLY ONCE TO MAKE SURE THAT THE MOST THAT WE CAN GET
11:20:05AM FOR AFFORDABLE HOUSING IS THERE.
11:20:08AM NO DOWNTOWN OR NO DEVELOPMENT CAN SURVIVE UNLESS THEY HAVE
11:20:13AM INDIVIDUALS THAT CAN WORK AND WALK AND COME HOME.
11:20:17AM AND THIS IS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BRING BACK.
11:20:20AM DOWNTOWN HAD THE SAME THING AS YBOR CITY IN A WAY.
11:20:23AM THEY USED TO HAVE GROCERY STORES CLOSE BY JUST A BLOCK OR
11:20:26AM TWO ON THE EAST SIDE OF FLORIDA AVENUE.

11:20:28AM THEY HAD EVERYTHING.
11:20:30AM AND THROUGH THE DIFFERENT CHANGES OF LIFE, NEW DEVELOPMENT
11:20:34AM BRITTON PLAZA AND NORTH GATE AND SO FORTH, THEY CAME ABOUT.
11:20:37AM NOW, PLACES THAT WERE REDEVELOPED THAT BROUGHT THE DEMISE OF
11:20:41AM YBOR CITY DOWNTOWN, THEY THEMSELVES ARE GOING OUT OF
11:20:43AM BUSINESS BECAUSE THE MALLS CAME IN.
11:20:45AM NOW THE MALLS ARE GOING OUT OF BUSINESS BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE
11:20:47AM AMAZON.
11:20:48AM SO YOU HAVE THE WHOLE THING TURNING LIKE A WASHING MACHINE.
11:20:51AM PUT YOUR CLOTHES IN, YOU CAN WASH THEM ALL.
11:20:53AM WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS THAT WE HAVE TO DO IT RIGHT THE
11:20:57AM FIRST TIME.
11:20:57AM WE DON'T HAVE A SECOND CHANCE.
11:20:59AM AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DO IT RIGHT, LOW EXPENSIVE, BUILD
11:21:04AM IT YOURSELF.
11:21:05AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:21:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU'RE WELCOME.
11:21:06AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON, DO YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING?
11:21:09AM >>BILL CARLSON: THREE QUICK THINGS.
11:21:10AM IF YOU SAID THIS, I APOLOGIZE, BUT HOW ARE YOU DEFINING
11:21:15AM AFFORDABLE?
11:21:15AM IS IT 80% AMI?
11:21:19AM >> THE WAY IT IS RIGHT NOW IN THE DRAFT WAS BASICALLY UNDER
11:21:23AM 80 WOULD BE A CHUNK.
11:21:25AM I WANT TO SAY IT WAS 30% AND THEN 80 TO 140 WOULD BE THE

11:21:30AM OTHER CHUNK.
11:21:30AM YOU WOULD HAVE AN UNDER 80 TRANCHE, IF YOU WILL, AND THEN
11:21:34AM SOMETHING THEY COULD DO AT 80 AND 120.
11:21:36AM WE GOT A PROPOSAL FOR EVERYTHING UNDER 80% AMI, THAT WOULD
11:21:41AM BE FINE.
11:21:42AM IT'S JUST THAT THAT'S HOW IT IS CURRENTLY WRITTEN.
11:21:44AM >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO PUT
11:21:49AM INCENTIVES TO MAKE IT ALL BELOW 100, BUT DEFINITELY NOT GO
11:21:54AM ABOVE 140.
11:21:58AM THE OTHER THING IS THAT JUST TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S
11:22:01AM ALL FAIR.
11:22:03AM HOW WILL YOU DEAL WITH ANYBODY WHO CONTROLS ADJACENT
11:22:06AM PROPERTY?
11:22:07AM WILL THEY HAVE AN ADVANTAGE OR ARE YOU JUST GOING TO MEASURE
11:22:10AM IT BASED ON THE MERIT OF THE PROPOSAL THAT GOES ON THIS
11:22:13AM FOOTPRINT?
11:22:14AM >> THAT IS A QUESTION I COULD NOT ANSWER DIRECTLY AT THIS
11:22:19AM TIME.
11:22:19AM I WOULD ASSUME THAT IN THE EXPERIENCE I'VE HAD DOING THESE
11:22:22AM TYPES OF RFPs IT WOULD BE VERY MUCH FOCUSED ON THE
11:22:25AM PROPERTY ITSELF.
11:22:26AM >>BILL CARLSON: I DON'T HAVE ANY KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WHAT'S
11:22:29AM GOING ON IN THAT AREA.
11:22:30AM SINCE THIS HAS BEEN OUT FOR A LONG TIME, SOMEBODY COULD HAVE
11:22:33AM ASSEMBLED LAND OR CONTRACT OPTIONS ON LAND AND THEY COULD BE

11:22:36AM READY TO GO AND SAY, WELL, WE HAVE AN ADVANTAGE BECAUSE THIS
11:22:38AM IS ONLY GOING TO BE A SMALL PART OF THE PROJECT.
11:22:41AM I THINK IT SHOULD BE MEASURED JUST ON THE FOOTPRINT.
11:22:44AM THE LAST THING IS THAT WHETHER IT'S THE STREETCAR, BUS OR
11:22:47AM AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE, WHATEVER, I LIKE THE IDEA THAT WE'RE
11:22:52AM MAKING DEVELOPMENTS TRANSIT READY.
11:22:55AM WE'RE NOT WAITING FOR THE TRANSIT TO COME WHICH PEOPLE
11:22:59AM USUALLY REFER TO AS TOD.
11:23:01AM MIGHT BE A MISUSE OF IT.
11:23:03AM WE'RE MAKING IT TRANSIT READY.
11:23:04AM WE'RE READY, WE'RE GOING TO BE PLUGGED INTO IT, WE'RE
11:23:07AM PREPARED AND WE'LL MAKE SURE IT WORKS.
11:23:08AM THANK YOU.
11:23:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
11:23:10AM THANK YOU.
11:23:10AM I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING.
11:23:13AM THE FINAL INTERDEPARTMENTAL REVIEW, FIRST OF ALL, LET ME SAY
11:23:17AM THANK YOU BECAUSE I'VE BEEN BUGGING YOU ABOUT THIS SINCE I
11:23:20AM SIGNED THE CONTRACT FOR THE PURCHASE OF THE PROPERTY.
11:23:23AM SO I APPRECIATE THAT.
11:23:26AM JOE ROBINSON IS IN MY HEAD, IMPLEMENTATION, IMPLEMENTATION.
11:23:29AM THE INTERDEPARTMENTAL REVIEW TIMELINE, WHEN IS THAT?
11:23:36AM >> I WILL SAY THIS.
11:23:37AM I BELIEVE I HAVE A MEETING THAT THANKS TO THE AMAZING
11:23:42AM ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, I BELIEVE I HAVE A MEETING WITH

11:23:45AM SEVERAL OF THE SENIOR FOLKS IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS.
11:23:48AM I'M HOPING THAT OUT OF THAT I WILL GET SOME FINAL DIRECTION
11:23:52AM AS FAR AS MODIFYING THE FINAL RFP LANGUAGE.
11:23:56AM I DO HAVE SOMETHING ON THE CALENDAR AS FAR AS US GETTING
11:23:59AM TOGETHER AND COLLABORATING AND REALLY WORKING THROUGH IT
11:24:01AM ALL, BUT ONCE I GET THROUGH THAT DISCUSSION, I'LL KNOW
11:24:05AM EXACTLY HOW MUCH LONGER IT WILL TAKE.
11:24:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALSO, I JUST WANT TO READDRESS THE REQUEST
11:24:09AM FOR PROPOSAL ADVERTISEMENT.
11:24:12AM IT WAS LOOSELY STATED THAT PROCESS WHERE WE MAY SHOW
11:24:16AM FAVORITISM TO SOMEONE, AND -- I KNOW YOU ARE IN AN INTERIM
11:24:19AM ROLE, SO IS MS. FEELEY FOR THE PUBLIC AS WELL AS FOR MYSELF.
11:24:23AM CAN YOU JUST SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE RFP PROCESS?
11:24:28AM IS THERE EQUITY IN THAT?
11:24:29AM HOW DO WE GO ABOUT DOING THAT TO GET AS MANY PROPOSALS AS
11:24:34AM POSSIBLE?
11:24:35AM >> YES, MA'AM.
11:24:36AM I THINK THERE IS THE BASIC LEVEL OF COMMUNICATIONS THAT'S
11:24:39AM GOING TO HAPPEN VIA OUR PURCHASING DEPARTMENT, LISTING IT ON
11:24:44AM THE WEBSITE, PUTTING IT OUT.
11:24:45AM THERE'S GOING TO BE, I WOULD ASSUME THAT WITH A PROJECT LIKE
11:24:48AM THIS WE WOULD HAVE ADDITIONAL LEVELS OF OUTREACH TO LET
11:24:51AM FOLKS KNOW.
11:24:52AM I KNOW MY EXPERIENCE LIKE WORKING IN PINELLAS COUNTY, THAT'S
11:24:56AM SOMETHING WE WOULD DO IF IT IS A PROJECT LIKE DEVELOPMENT

11:24:59AM PROJECT LIKE THIS.
11:24:59AM I WILL SAY THAT ONCE IT'S IN THE PURCHASING HOPPER AND ONCE
11:25:04AM THAT BECOMES AN ADVERTISED RFP, THERE IS A CONE OF SILENCE.
11:25:09AM YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO TALK TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS OR
11:25:14AM FRANKLY ANY -- LIKE IF YOU ARE ON THE COMMITTEE, YOU CAN'T
11:25:16AM TALK TO OTHER COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
11:25:17AM IT IS A VERY CONTROLLED AND STRUCTURED PROCESS TO ENSURE
11:25:19AM THAT EVERYBODY HAS THE SAME INFORMATION, THE SAME ANSWERS TO
11:25:24AM THE SAME QUESTIONS, AND THAT ALL THE INFORMATION IS COMING
11:25:26AM THROUGH ONE SOURCE OR ONE PERSON AT PURCHASING.
11:25:30AM THAT'S TYPICALLY HOW THOSE WORK.
11:25:32AM AND THEN AT THE END OF THE PROCESS, YOU STILL CANNOT, IF
11:25:38AM YOU'RE A SELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBER, WENT THROUGH THIS WITH
11:25:41AM THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, IF YOU'RE A SELECTION COMMITTEE
11:25:43AM MEMBER, EVEN AFTER YOU HAVE DONE THE PRESENTATIONS, EVEN
11:25:46AM AFTER YOU HAVE DONE WRITTEN REVIEW OF THE PROPOSALS, YOU
11:25:49AM STILL ARE UNDER THAT CONE OF SILENCE UNTIL IT BECOMES
11:25:52AM OFFICIAL WITH A NOTICE OF INTENT TO AWARD ESSENTIALLY.
11:25:57AM THEN IT BECOMES PUBLIC.
11:25:58AM AT THAT POINT, WE'RE HAVING CONVERSATIONS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE
11:26:02AM HAVING MORE OPEN CONVERSATIONS BECAUSE YOU'VE SELECTED
11:26:04AM SOMEBODY.
11:26:05AM WITH THAT BEING SAID, I THINK IN THIS INSTANCE THERE'S GOING
11:26:10AM TO BE AN ENGAGEMENT APPROACH THAT HAPPENS.
11:26:14AM I THINK WE NEED TO WORK ON HOW IT WORKS ONCE -- WHETHER WE

11:26:18AM DO PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AT SOME POINT WITH SOME OF THESE
11:26:20AM IDEAS.
11:26:21AM I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CERTAINLY NEED TO TALK
11:26:23AM ABOUT FOR OUR COMMUNICATION STRATEGY.
11:26:26AM YES, IT IS VERY CONTROLLED THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS ONCE THE
11:26:29AM RFP IS OUT.
11:26:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EVEN PRIOR TO THE CONE OF SILENCE, EVERY
11:26:33AM TIME WHERE OUR CITY STAFF ENCOURAGES PEOPLE TO APPLY FOR
11:26:37AM RFPs, IS THAT OUR POSITION TO DO THAT?
11:26:40AM >> I HAVE NOT DONE ANY OF THAT.
11:26:45AM I WILL SAY THAT I THINK THAT OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM, ONCE
11:26:51AM IT IS OUT THERE, I THINK THAT IS -- THERE IS SOME STRATEGY
11:26:55AM THAT CAN BE TAKEN PLACE.
11:26:56AM WE KNOW PLAYERS IN THE COMMUNITY, WE KNOW PLAYERS THAT COULD
11:27:01AM GET THAT DISTRIBUTION, BUT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S DONE IN
11:27:02AM A TRANSPARENT WAY.
11:27:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ATTORNEY MASSEY, YOU WANT TO ADD TO THAT?
11:27:08AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS.
11:27:08AM BECAUSE THE PROPERTY IS WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN CRA, IN ADDITION
11:27:10AM TO WHAT PURCHASING WOULD NORMALLY DO OR WHAT WE WOULD
11:27:13AM NORMALLY DO FOR ANY REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL, THESE MUST BE
11:27:16AM ADVERTISED IN NEWSPAPERS OF GENERAL CIRCULATION IN
11:27:20AM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
11:27:20AM ROME YARD, I KNOW THAT WE ADVERTISED IN TWO OR THREE
11:27:23AM DIFFERENT PLACES.

11:27:24AM SO I WOULD SUSPECT WE WOULD DO SOMETHING SIMILAR HERE.
11:27:27AM THE OTHER THING I WOULD SAY IS A PROJECT OF THIS SCALE AND
11:27:30AM MAGNITUDE POTENTIALLY I THINK WILL DRAW A LOT OF INTEREST
11:27:33AM FROM A LOT OF DIFFERENT FOLKS.
11:27:35AM I DON'T THINK YOU'LL HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH GETTING QUALIFIED
11:27:38AM DEVELOPERS INTERESTED IN RESPONDING.
11:27:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:27:42AM ANY MORE QUESTIONS?
11:27:44AM ANYONE ONLINE?
11:27:46AM QUESTIONS?
11:27:46AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:27:48AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: JUST A STATEMENT.
11:27:49AM SOMETHING THAT CAME UP EARLIER.
11:27:51AM AS WE'RE DEVELOPING THE PROJECT, I THINK MIXED INCOME LEVEL
11:27:55AM IS VERY IMPORTANT TO THE VIABILITY.
11:27:57AM WE HAVE TO HAVE MARKET RATE.
11:27:59AM I THINK THAT IS THE DIRECTION THAT YOU'RE GOING.
11:28:00AM I THINK THAT ESPECIALLY WE HAVE TO HAVE A MIX TO BE ABLE TO
11:28:04AM MAKE THESE THINGS VIABLE.
11:28:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
11:28:09AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:28:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO APPROVE.
11:28:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO MOVE APPROVAL AND A SECOND.
11:28:17AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: QUICKLY, BEFORE YOU DO THAT.
11:28:19AM ONE ITEM UNDER REQUIRED APPROVALS THAT WAS CONTINUED.

11:28:22AM ITEM NUMBER 11.
11:28:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCEPT 10 AND 11 AND 12.
11:28:27AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: ITEM NUMBER 11, THERE WAS NOT A DATE
11:28:29AM CERTAIN TO WHICH IT WOULD BE CONTINUED TO.
11:28:31AM DO YOU HAVE A DATE --
11:28:33AM >> NOVEMBER 14.
11:28:34AM >> SO MOVED.
11:28:35AM >> SECOND.
11:28:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DO WE NEED TO DO THAT SEPARATELY?
11:28:44AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: THE CONTINUATION ITEM WE NEEDED CLARIFIED
11:28:46AM SEPARATELY.
11:28:46AM YOU CAN MOVE THE REQUIRED APPROVALS FOR 9, 13, 14, AND 15
11:28:51AM ALL TOGETHER IF YOU WOULD LIKE.
11:28:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: 9, 13 --
11:28:56AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: 9, 13, 14, 15.
11:28:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHO WAS THE SECOND BY?
11:28:59AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, YOU'RE RECOGNIZED.
11:29:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:29:05AM I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT IF YOU HAD A QUESTION ABOUT
11:29:08AM THE SERVICES AGREEMENT, THAT WAS ITEM NUMBER 13.
11:29:13AM I DID NOT GET A CHANCE TO GIVE MY WRITTEN FEEDBACK TO MR.
11:29:16AM MASSEY, BUT THAT'S BECAUSE I DIDN'T REALLY HAVE ANY
11:29:19AM FEEDBACK.
11:29:20AM I THOUGHT IT LOOKED GOOD.
11:29:22AM I JUST WANTED TO THANK HIM FOR THAT.

11:29:24AM THAT WAS A LOT OF WORK TO FIX UP.
11:29:25AM SO THANK YOU.
11:29:26AM WHEN LOOKING THROUGH THE BUDGET, SAME BUDGET THAT WAS
11:29:31AM PRESENTED.
11:29:32AM I'M OKAY WITH PASSING THESE.
11:29:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:29:35AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
11:29:36AM ANY OPPOSED?
11:29:37AM MOTION CARRIES.
11:29:40AM OKAY.
11:29:41AM WE HAVE NEW BUSINESS.
11:29:50AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NEW BUSINESS, NONE.
11:29:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU RAN A GREAT MEETING.
11:29:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:29:56AM I'LL JUST RECEIVE THAT.
11:30:04AM >>BILL CARLSON: WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE MEETING, WE CAN'T
11:30:07AM TALK TO EACH OTHER OUTSIDE OF THIS ROOM.
11:30:09AM IT'S NECESSARY FOR US TO BE ABLE TO -- I THINK WE'RE HEARING
11:30:14AM ISSUES THAT WE HEAR FROM THE PUBLIC AND ALL DIFFERENT
11:30:16AM PERSPECTIVES.
11:30:17AM SO IT'S HELPFUL.
11:30:18AM THANK YOU.
11:30:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYONE ONLINE NEW BUSINESS?
11:30:21AM >>LUIS VIERA: NO, MA'AM.
11:30:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I ACTUALLY HAVE SOMETHING JUST TO GO OVER

11:30:26AM QUICKLY THE PRESENTATION OF MR. MASSEY IS LEAVING US.
11:30:32AM HIS DEPARTURE.
11:30:34AM HE WILL GIVE US ABOUT 60 DAYS OF HIS TIME, MAYBE A LITTLE
11:30:37AM BIT MORE, AND I JUST WANT TO SAY I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING
11:30:40AM THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR US IN THIS ROLE.
11:30:43AM I KNOW THAT IT IS VERY TAXING, BUT YOU WENT OUT AND YOU
11:30:50AM FOUND -- YOU DIDN'T FIND HIM.
11:30:52AM YOU ALREADY KNEW MR. SHEPARD.
11:30:54AM AND YOU'RE PRESENTING HIM TO US.
11:30:55AM HE WILL BE AT THE BOARD MEETING.
11:30:56AM CAN YOU JUST ADDRESS THAT FOR THE PUBLIC AS WELL AS FOR US?
11:30:59AM HE'LL BE HERE NEXT MONTH.
11:31:01AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: MR. CLIFF SHEPARD.
11:31:03AM I HANDED OUT TO YOU HIS BIO.
11:31:05AM ATTORNEY FOR THE FLORIDA REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY.
11:31:07AM HE'S ALSO THE ATTORNEY FOR SEVERAL CRAs IN THE STATE,
11:31:10AM INCLUDING FORT MYERS.
11:31:11AM I BELIEVE LAKE WALES.
11:31:14AM ANYWAY, HE IS PROBABLY THE PREEMINENT CRA EXPERT IN THE
11:31:17AM STATE.
11:31:19AM AND HIS OFFICES ARE IN MAITLAND BUT HE TRAVELS THROUGHOUT.
11:31:23AM HE'S HAPPY TO BE HERE AT OUR BOARD MEETINGS THAT WE WANT HIM
11:31:26AM HERE PHYSICALLY.
11:31:27AM HE CAN ALSO ATTEND REMOTELY IF THAT WORKS, BUT HE WILL BE
11:31:31AM HERE PHYSICALLY ON THE 10th OF OCTOBER.

11:31:33AM I WILL ALSO HAVE ON THE AGENDA FOR THE 10th OF OCTOBER A
11:31:36AM CONTRACT FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION TO RETAIN HIM AS YOUR
11:31:40AM COUNSEL.
11:31:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:31:41AM ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT?
11:31:45AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THERE'S NOBODY LOCAL THAT HAS THIS LEVEL
11:31:48AM OF EXPERTISE?
11:31:50AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: NO.
11:31:50AM THIS IS A GOVERNMENT JOB.
11:31:53AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I GET IT.
11:31:54AM MAITLAND --
11:31:56AM >>MORRIS MASSEY: YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FIND SOMEONE IN A
11:31:57AM PRIVATE LAW FIRM WHO DOES THIS TYPE OF WORK.
11:32:00AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I-4 IS SUCH A MESS.
11:32:03AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WELL, WE JUST GOT TO GET BETTER ABOUT --
11:32:06AM MAYBE WE COULD HAVE A BUTTON OR SOMETHING FOR THE PEOPLE
11:32:10AM THAT COME ONLINE.
11:32:11AM OKAY.
11:32:13AM THAT'S IT.
11:32:14AM THIS IS MEETING IS ADJOURNED.
11:32:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
11:32:16AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
11:32:17AM SECONDED BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:32:20AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
11:32:21AM >> AYE.
11:32:21AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
11:32:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MEETING ADJOURNED 11:32.

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