TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 2025, 9:00 A.M.
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9:04:38AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
9:04:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
9:04:43AM I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS TAMPA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO
9:04:45AM ORDER.
9:04:45AM AT THIS TIME, I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT AND REMEMBER ONE OF
9:04:49AM OUR COLLEAGUES, COUNCIL MEMBER FRANK REDDICK, WHO SERVED ON
9:04:54AM CITY COUNCIL.
9:04:55AM HE WAS ACTUALLY APPOINTED AT THE BEGINNING AND THEN HE WAS
9:04:59AM ELECTED IN 2011 AND REELECTED WITHOUT OPPOSITION IN 2015,
9:05:05AM SERVED UNTIL 2019, AND HE WAS CHAIRMAN OF THIS CITY COUNCIL.
9:05:08AM HE PASSED AWAY RIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
9:05:10AM HIS FUNERAL, HOME-GOING SERVICES WERE LAST WEEK.
9:05:14AM I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA SERVED WITH HIM.
9:05:17AM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA SERVED WITH HIM.
9:05:19AM I SERVED WITH COUNCIL MEMBER REDDICK.
9:05:21AM HE WAS A WONDERFUL FRIEND, GREAT COMMUNITY LEADER, COMMUNITY
9:05:24AM ASSET.
9:05:25AM I JUST WANTED TO REMEMBER HIM AND OFFER MY CONDOLENCES TO
9:05:29AM HIS FAMILY.
9:05:29AM AT THIS TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO WELCOME OUR INVOCATION.
9:05:40AM OUR GUEST TODAY IS JASON SOWELL, FOUNDER AND CEO OF CURRENT
9:05:41AM INITIATIVES.
9:05:44AM HE IS A CHAPLAIN WITH THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
9:05:47AM JASON HAS WORKED IN PASTORAL MINISTRY IN THE NONPROFIT
9:05:50AM SECTOR IN TAMPA FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS AS A CHURCH PASTOR,
9:05:53AM LAW ENFORCEMENT CHAPLAIN, AND NONPROFIT FOUNDER.
9:05:56AM HE HAS LED HIS TAMPA-BASED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION, CURRENT
9:05:59AM INITIATIVES, SINCE 2008 WITH THE MISSION OF DEALING HOPE TO
9:06:01AM LOCAL COMMUNITIES THROUGH THE LAUNDRY PROJECT, HOPE FOR
9:06:04AM HOMES PROJECT AND AFFORDABLE CHRISTMAS INITIATIVES.
9:06:06AM HE HAS ALSO BEEN SERVING AS CHAPLAIN WITH THE TAMPA POLICE
9:06:09AM DEPARTMENT SINCE 2016.
9:06:11AM JASON, IF YOU ARE HERE, COME ON UP.
9:06:12AM AND PLEASE STAND FOR THE INVOCATION AND REMAIN STANDING FOR
9:06:17AM THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
9:06:18AM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
9:06:21AM LET'S BOW OUR HEADS.
9:06:22AM HEAVENLY FATHER, THANK YOU FOR THIS DAY.
9:06:24AM THANK YOU FOR THIS GREAT CITY THAT WE GET TO BE A PART OF.
9:06:28AM GOD, AS WE THINK FOR A MOMENT ON FORMER COUNCILMAN REDDICK,
9:06:35AM WE THANK YOU FOR HIS SERVICE, FOR HIS EXAMPLE OF LEADERSHIP
9:06:40AM IN OUR CITY.
9:06:41AM WE ASK THAT YOU WOULD BRING PEACE AND COMFORT TO HIS FAMILY
9:06:45AM AND THOSE THAT WERE CLOSE TO HIM AND AROUND HIM AND MAY HIS
9:06:50AM MEMORY LINGER WITH US AS AN EXAMPLE OF LEADERSHIP AND
9:06:56AM LEADING THIS CITY WELL.
9:06:58AM THANK YOU FOR THIS, COUNCIL.
9:07:00AM THANK YOU FOR OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT LEADERS.
9:07:01AM THANK YOU FOR MAYOR AND THE STAFF AND ALL INVOLVED IN MAKING
9:07:06AM THIS CITY AS GREAT AS IT CAN BE.
9:07:08AM AS WE LOOK TO THE FUTURE, MAY WE HAVE WISDOM AS WE GUIDE
9:07:14AM THIS CITY INTO THE FUTURE.
9:07:16AM AND MAY WE BE A SHINING EXAMPLE TO THOSE AROUND US, TO OTHER
9:07:21AM CITIES OF WHAT COMMUNITY LOOKS LIKE, OF WHAT POSITIVE CHANGE
9:07:24AM IN A CITY LOOKS LIKE, AND MAY WE HONOR YOU IN ALL OF OUR
9:07:27AM DECISIONS AS WE MOVE FORWARD INTO THE FUTURE.
9:07:30AM GIVE WISDOM AND PEACE DURING THIS COUNCIL MEETING TODAY.
9:07:33AM WE THANK YOU FOR LOVING US FOR WHO WE ARE.
9:07:38AM IN JESUS NAME, AMEN.
9:07:41AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AMEN.
9:07:41AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
9:07:54AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
9:08:00AM >> CARLSON?
9:08:00AM HURTAK?
9:08:02AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
9:08:02AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
9:08:03AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
9:08:04AM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
9:08:05AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
9:08:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
9:08:08AM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
9:08:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
9:08:09AM I HAVE A MEMO RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON THAT HE
9:08:12AM WILL BE ABSENT FROM TODAY'S MEETING.
9:08:14AM MR. SHELBY, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GO OVER THE RULES AND
9:08:17AM PROCEDURES OF PUBLIC COMMENT AT THIS TIME.
9:08:21AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES, THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
9:08:22AM GOOD MORNING.
9:08:23AM MARTIN SHELBY, CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY.
9:08:25AM GOOD MORNING TO MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
9:08:26AM I'D LIKE TO VERY BRIEFLY REVIEW THE CITY COUNCIL RULES FOR
9:08:32AM THE CONDUCT OF TODAY'S MEETING.
9:08:34AM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ALLOWED A REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY
9:08:37AM DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT TO ADDRESS CITY COUNCIL ON ANY
9:08:40AM ITEM ON THE AGENDA BEFORE CITY COUNCIL TAKES OFFICIAL ACTION
9:08:45AM ON THE ITEM.
9:08:46AM IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK DURING GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE
9:08:48AM FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD AND PLACE IT IN THE BOX THAT IS
9:08:51AM OUTSIDE THIS ROOM.
9:08:52AM ONE CARD PER SPEAKER.
9:08:54AM CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED UNTIL THE START OF GENERAL PUBLIC
9:08:57AM COMMENT.
9:08:57AM EACH PERSON SUBMITTING A CARD WILL BE RECOGNIZED BY NAME TO
9:09:00AM APPROACH AND SPEAK.
9:09:01AM A THREE-MINUTE TIME LIMIT APPLIES.
9:09:03AM PLEASE PRINT LEGIBLY.
9:09:05AM NAMES THAT CANNOT BE READ WILL NOT BE CALLED.
9:09:08AM IF YOU ARE HERE TO SPEAK AT A PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH IS
9:09:10AM DESIGNATED AS A PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AGENDA, YOU WILL HAVE
9:09:13AM THAT OPPORTUNITY WHEN THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CALLED UP BY THE
9:09:18AM NUMBER ON THE AGENDA AND TO SPEAK THEN, DON'T FILL OUT A
9:09:21AM CARD, PLEASE USE THE SIGN-IN SHEET AT THE PODIUM OUTSIDE
9:09:25AM INSTEAD.
9:09:25AM IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE SEE CITY STAFF.
9:09:29AM AND SPEAKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ALSO REMINDED
9:09:32AM THAT THEY ARE TO REFRAIN FROM DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR, INCLUDING
9:09:35AM MAKING VULGAR OR THREATENING REMARKS, MAKING OR CAUSING
9:09:39AM DISRUPTIVE NOISES OR SOUNDS OR DISPLAYING SIGNS OR GRAPHICS.
9:09:42AM SPEAKERS ARE ALSO REMINDED TO REFRAIN FROM LAUNCHING
9:09:45AM PERSONAL ATTACKS AGAINST ANY CITY OFFICIAL, STAFF MEMBER, OR
9:09:48AM ANY MEMBER OF THE PUBLIC.
9:09:50AM PERSONS FAILING TO COMPLY WITH COUNCIL'S RULES MAY BE RULED
9:09:54AM OUT OF ORDER AND AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHAIR MAY BE
9:09:57AM REMOVED FROM THE CHAMBERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF TODAY'S
9:10:00AM MEETING.
9:10:01AM FINALLY, A REMINDER TO CITY COUNCIL THAT CITY COUNCIL
9:10:04AM MEMBERS SHOULD REFRAIN FROM ENGAGING A SPEAKER DURING PUBLIC
9:10:07AM COMMENT.
9:10:08AM AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT THE CITY
9:10:11AM COUNCIL DOES NOT TAKE QUESTIONS OR HAVE A DIALOGUE DURING
9:10:14AM GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:10:15AM THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS YOUR POSITION TO CITY
9:10:18AM COUNCIL.
9:10:19AM THANK YOU.
9:10:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
9:10:20AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:10:21AM CAN I GET A MOTION TO ADOPT THE MINUTES FROM DECEMBER 19,
9:10:24AM 2024?
9:10:24AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:10:25AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
9:10:27AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:10:28AM AYE.
9:10:28AM I'LL GO THROUGH THE AGENDA.
9:10:31AM WE HAVE A WALK-ON ITEM.
9:10:33AM I KNOW ABOUT WALK-ONS, BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IT'S
9:10:37AM REGARDING A HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENT.
9:10:40AM NOTHING TO DO WITH FUNDS OR ANY EXPENDITURES.
9:10:42AM WE WILL TAKE THAT UP AFTER ITEM NUMBER 3.
9:10:48AM JUST WANTED TO BRING THAT UP.
9:10:50AM MEMO RECEIVED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA THAT ITEM NUMBER 29
9:10:52AM BE PULLED FOR DISCUSSION.
9:10:54AM IT WILL BE HEARD FIRST UNDER STAFF REPORTS.
9:10:57AM YES.
9:10:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M REQUESTING THAT WE DO THAT AFTER LUNCH,
9:11:00AM IF POSSIBLE, BECAUSE WE JUST GOT A LETTER FROM THE FOREST
9:11:02AM HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION AND I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO
9:11:05AM FULLY READ IT YET.
9:11:06AM IS THAT OKAY?
9:11:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YEAH, I DON'T THINK WE'LL MOVE THAT
9:11:09AM QUICK TODAY.
9:11:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU NEVER KNOW.
9:11:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SOMEONE SAID WE WOULD BE DONE BY LUNCH,
9:11:14AM BUT I SAID NO.
9:11:16AM LET ME GO THROUGH THE STAFF REPORTS REAL QUICK.
9:11:22AM ITEM 29 IS GOING TO BE PULLED AND PLACED FIRST UNDER STAFF
9:11:24AM REPORTS.
9:11:25AM AS REQUESTED AFTER LUNCH, WHICH IS MORE THAN LIKELY GOING TO
9:11:28AM HAPPEN.
9:11:31AM ITEM 55 IS $12 MILLION ITEM.
9:11:34AM DO WE NEED STAFF PRESENT FOR THAT?
9:11:35AM NO.
9:11:36AM ITEM 56, THERE IS A WRITTEN REPORT FOR THAT.
9:11:42AM DO YOU NEED SOMEBODY HERE FOR THAT?
9:11:43AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
9:11:44AM VIRTUALLY IS FINE.
9:11:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, VIRTUALLY.
9:11:46AM OKAY.
9:11:47AM ITEM 57?
9:11:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO, WE'RE GOOD.
9:11:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OKAY.
9:11:51AM I SPOKE OFF-LINE TO STAFF ABOUT THIS, AND THEY WERE GOING TO
9:11:55AM GET ME MORE INFORMATION REGARDING INCREASING THE NUMBER.
9:11:59AM FOR 57.
9:12:00AM TO DOUBLE IT.
9:12:04AM ALL RIGHT.
9:12:08AM ITEM 57 IS A NO.
9:12:10AM ITEM NUMBER 58.
9:12:16AM WE HAVE A CONTINUANCE TO WHAT DATE?
9:12:24AM >> FEBRUARY 6.
9:12:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: FEBRUARY 6 FOR ITEM 58.
9:12:28AM DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE?
9:12:29AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I BELIEVE, MR. CHAIRMAN, THAT REQUIRES, IF
9:12:32AM WE TAKE A LOOK AT THE CALENDAR --
9:12:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A LOT OF STAFF REPORTS AND WE
9:12:36AM NEED TO WAIVE THE RULES TO ADD THAT ON THERE.
9:12:38AM FEBRUARY 6 IS FULL.
9:12:48AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: 58, HE REQUESTED APRIL 3.
9:12:50AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: NO.
9:12:51AM HE REQUESTED -- THE NEXT QUARTERLY UPDATE WAS GOING TO BE
9:12:56AM HELD ON APRIL 3.
9:12:57AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON IS REQUESTING FEBRUARY 6.
9:13:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO YOU WANT TO WAIVE THE RULES?
9:13:03AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE EVEN HAVE IT UP THERE THAT WE'RE LIMITING
9:13:05AM TO FIVE STAFF REPORTS AND WE HAVE SEVEN.
9:13:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HOW ABOUT WE PICK ANOTHER DATE?
9:13:11AM HOW ABOUT FEBRUARY 20?
9:13:18AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT HAS 7.
9:13:21AM HOW ABOUT WE DO A WRITTEN REPORT ON THE 6th?
9:13:24AM IF WE NEED --
9:13:29AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: REMINDER OF COUNCIL'S RULES, IF YOU DO A
9:13:31AM WRITTEN REPORT, YOU CANNOT HAVE STAFF APPEAR THAT DAY.
9:13:34AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, BUT THEY ARE COMING ON APRIL 3rd
9:13:38AM ANYWAY.
9:13:38AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL CONTINUE ITEM 58 TO A WRITTEN
9:13:40AM REPORT FOR FEBRUARY 6.
9:13:41AM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:13:43AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:13:44AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:13:45AM AYE.
9:13:45AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THAT DATE WAS?
9:13:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: FEBRUARY 6 WRITTEN REPORT.
9:13:49AM ITEM NUMBER 59.
9:13:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M REQUESTING TO CONTINUE THIS UNTIL JANUARY
9:13:55AM 3rd SO THAT MS. FEELEY CAN INCLUDE INFORMATION ON -- OH,
9:14:01AM I'M SORRY.
9:14:02AM DID I SAY --
9:14:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YEAH, WE NEED TO WAIVE THE RULES BECAUSE
9:14:05AM WE HAVE A LIMIT ON THAT DATE.
9:14:07AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
9:14:08AM THE ONLY REASON IS BECAUSE TOMORROW SHE IS MEETING WITH THE
9:14:14AM COMMISSION, THE FOLKS WHO ARE VOLUNTEERING TO WORK WITH IT.
9:14:21AM WE DECIDED THAT JANUARY 23rd WOULD BE BETTER.
9:14:24AM I APOLOGIZE.
9:14:25AM I DID NOT LOOK AT THAT.
9:14:27AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: JUST A REMINDER, ABBYE FEELEY WILL BE
9:14:31AM APPEARING ON THE SAME ITEM ON FEBRUARY 6.
9:14:34AM SIMILAR TOPIC.
9:14:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO YOU WANT TO BLEND IT IN?
9:14:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO.
9:14:39AM BUT HOW ABOUT THIS?
9:14:39AM I WILL PAUSE.
9:14:43AM I WILL WAIT TO MOVE THIS ITEM UNTIL THE END OF SESSION
9:14:47AM TODAY.
9:14:48AM SO I'LL HAVE A BETTER DATE.
9:14:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL HOLD 59.
9:14:51AM LET ME KNOW AT THE END OF THE DAY.
9:14:53AM ITEM NUMBER 60, MR. BHIDE WILL BE HERE.
9:14:57AM FOR 60, THAT IS A YES.
9:14:59AM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, DO YOU NEED STAFF PRESENT FOR 61?
9:15:04AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
9:15:07AM REALLY, 61 AND 62 ARE GOING TO BE TOGETHER.
9:15:13AM 63, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT'S ALREADY BEING WAIVED, BUT IF
9:15:18AM THEY WANT TO ADDRESS THAT AS WELL, THAT'S FINE.
9:15:21AM ALL THREE OF THESE CAN BE AT ONCE.
9:15:22AM 62 WILL PROVIDE THE BULK OF THE TIME, I THINK.
9:15:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: 61, 62, 63, YES.
9:15:28AM AND ALL HEARD TOGETHER.
9:15:30AM ITEM 64 WILL NOT BE HEARD.
9:15:32AM IT WILL BE ON THE MARCH 27, 2025, AGENDA.
9:15:36AM CAN WE GET A MOTION FOR THAT?
9:15:37AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, SECOND FROM COUNCIL
9:15:40AM MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:15:41AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:15:41AM AYE.
9:15:42AM AND THEN FOR THE WRITTEN STAFF REPORT, 65, 6, 7, MOTION TO
9:15:45AM RECEIVE AND FILE?
9:15:46AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:15:48AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:15:49AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:15:49AM AYE.
9:15:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: JUST TO LET FOLKS KNOW, WE WILL BE HAVING A
9:15:54AM CONVERSATION ABOUT SIDEWALKS IN I BELIEVE IT'S MARCH OR AT
9:16:00AM THE END OF FEBRUARY IN THE WORKSHOP.
9:16:02AM THIS IS NOT THE LAST TIME WE'LL BE DISCUSSING SIDEWALKS.
9:16:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN I GET A MOTION TO APPROVE THE AGENDA
9:16:06AM AND ADDENDUM?
9:16:07AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:16:09AM SECOND FROM MIRANDA.
9:16:10AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:16:10AM AYE.
9:16:11AM ANY OPPOSED?
9:16:11AM POLICE OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:16:12AM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
9:16:26AM >>LUIS VIERA: COUNCIL, IT IS MY GREAT PLEASURE TO BE HERE
9:16:28AM TODAY FOR OFFICER LEONARDO NIMO WHO IS HERE AS TAMPA POLICE
9:16:34AM OFFICER OF THE MONTH FOR JANUARY OF 2025.
9:16:38AM JANUARY 9 IS LAW ENFORCEMENT APPRECIATION DAY.
9:16:41AM I'M GLAD WE'RE DOING THIS TODAY.
9:16:43AM I KNOW SOME OF OUR FRIENDS, I WAS COMMUNICATING WITH CINDY
9:16:47AM ROBERTS, THE WIDOW OF THE LATE CORPORAL MIKE ROBERTS, WHO
9:16:51AM WORKS WITH COPS, CONCERNS OF POLICE SURVIVORS, AND I KNOW
9:16:53AM THEY WILL BE VISITING SOME POLICE STATIONS TODAY FOR LAW
9:16:55AM ENFORCEMENT APPRECIATION DAY.
9:16:57AM THEM AND THE OTHER MEMBERS OF COPS.
9:16:58AM SO WE'RE HERE FOR THIS FOR OFFICER NIMO HERE TODAY.
9:17:03AM LIKE I ALWAYS SAY, WE ALWAYS DO THIS TO REFLECT THE VALUES
9:17:06AM OF THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE AND SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT AS
9:17:09AM WELL AS OUR FIREFIGHTER OF THE QUARTER, FIREFIGHTERS.
9:17:12AM CHIEF BERCAW WILL COME AND SPEAK ABOUT THIS GENTLEMAN.
9:17:16AM >>CHIEF BERCAW: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:17:19AM IT IS MY HONOR TO PRESENT OUR OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:17:22AM WE ARE PROUD TO ANNOUNCE OFFICER LEONARDO NIMO AS OFFICER OF
9:17:28AM THE MONTH FOR JANUARY.
9:17:29AM HE IS A VETERAN LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER WITH OVER 20 YEARS
9:17:32AM OF EXPERIENCE, INCLUDING SERVICE WITH THE NYPD.
9:17:36AM OFFICER NIMO CONSISTENTLY DEMONSTRATES EXCEPTIONAL
9:17:39AM DEDICATION, AND HE TAKES A PROACTIVE APPROACH TO SERVING THE
9:17:43AM TAMPA COMMUNITY.
9:17:44AM SO HE'S KNOWN FOR HIS TIRELESS WORK ETHIC AND KEY
9:17:48AM INVESTIGATIVE SKILLS, AND HE EXCELS IN SELF-INITIATED
9:17:51AM ACTIVITY.
9:17:52AM JUST IN THE PAST YEAR, HE HAS HANDLED OVER 3,000 CALLS FOR
9:17:56AM SERVICE AND THREE-QUARTERS OF THOSE HAVE ALL BEEN
9:17:59AM SELF-INITIATED.
9:18:00AM THAT APPROACH HAS RESULTED IN NUMEROUS ARRESTS RELATING TO
9:18:05AM NARCOTIC OFFENSES, BURGLARIES, LOITERING AND PROWLING, ALL
9:18:09AM TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY SAFER.
9:18:13AM BEYOND ARRESTS THAT HE MAKES, HE ALSO TAKES A TIRELESS
9:18:16AM APPROACH IN OUR COMMUNITY POLICING.
9:18:19AM HE ADDRESSES QUALITY-OF-LIFE ISSUES.
9:18:22AM HE PATROLS THE NEBRASKA CORRIDOR AND MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE
9:18:27AM THERE BY BUILDING STRONG RELATIONSHIPS WITH THE BUSINESSES
9:18:29AM AND RESIDENTS THERE.
9:18:30AM SOME OF HIS NOTABLE ARRESTS ARE A SUSPECT THAT WAS INVOLVED
9:18:35AM IN BACK IN OCTOBER.
9:18:39AM ONE THAT HAD STOLEN A LEAF BLOWER, ACTUALLY A CONVICTED
9:18:44AM FELON.
9:18:44AM AND THEN YOU ALL KNOW THAT WE HAVE JUVENILES THAT LIKE TO
9:18:47AM BREAK INTO CARS.
9:18:49AM DURING THAT SAME MONTH, HE WAS ABLE TO IDENTIFY AND ARREST
9:18:51AM THREE JUVENILES WHO ATTEMPTED TO BURGLARIZE VEHICLES ON
9:18:55AM OCTOBER 28.
9:18:57AM AND HE ALSO ARRESTED AN INDIVIDUAL FOR BURGLARIZING A
9:19:00AM VEHICLE ON NOVEMBER 5.
9:19:01AM THIS IS ALL WHILE BEING A PATROL OFFICER AND ANSWERING CALLS
9:19:06AM FOR SERVICE.
9:19:06AM THAT TYPE OF PROACTIVITY IS NOT COMMON WHEN SOMEONE IS
9:19:10AM ANSWERING CALLS FOR SERVICE.
9:19:11AM BECAUSE OF ALL THESE SUCCESSES, ALONG WITH HIS DEDICATION TO
9:19:14AM DUTY, HIS COMMUNITY AND SAFETY, THIS IS TRULY WHY WE ARE
9:19:19AM RECOGNIZING HIM AS OUR OFFICER OF THE MONTH AND WE ARE VERY
9:19:22AM PROUD TO HAVE YOU ON OUR TEAM AND NO LONGER WITH THE NYPD.
9:19:26AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:19:30AM >>LUIS VIERA: OFFICER, BEFORE WE GIVE YOU THE PLAQUE, SIR, I
9:19:33AM KNOW THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY HERE WHO WOULD LIKE
9:19:35AM TO HONOR YOU, SIR.
9:19:39AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:19:41AM BRANDON BARCLAY.
9:19:43AM THIS PLAQUE IS FOR YOU FOR A JOB WELL DONE.
9:19:51AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:19:55AM GONZMART FAMILY AND THE 1905 FAMILY OF RESTAURANTS.
9:19:58AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR CHOOSING TAMPA AND CHOOSING TO BE
9:20:01AM HERE.
9:20:02AM THIS GIFT CARD TO ENJOY AT ANY OF OUR RESTAURANTS ACROSS THE
9:20:05AM STATE OF FLORIDA.
9:20:06AM HAVE FUN AT ULELE.
9:20:09AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO.
9:20:11AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:20:14AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:20:15AM MARY LOU BAILEY.
9:20:17AM I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF ZOO TAMPA.
9:20:18AM I SERVE ON THE BOARD THERE.
9:20:20AM I REALLY APPRECIATED YOUR STORY.
9:20:22AM THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO SERVES.
9:20:23AM WE LOVE YOU GUYS.
9:20:24AM WE'RE PRESENTING YOU WITH A BASKET.
9:20:30AM ANNUAL PASS TO THE ZOO TO ENJOY WITH YOUR FAMILY.
9:20:39AM ALSO INCLUDES ADULT ACTIVITIES IN THE EVENING, CHRISTMAS IN
9:20:41AM THE WILD AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
9:20:43AM ENJOY IT IN GOOD HEALTH.
9:20:45AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:20:46AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:20:47AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:20:51AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:20:52AM MARY.
9:20:53AM I REPRESENT THE STRAZ CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS.
9:20:56AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:20:58AM I'M GLAD TAMPA BAY IS THE RECIPIENT OF YOUR WORK INSTEAD OF
9:21:02AM NEW YORK CITY.
9:21:03AM ON BEHALF OF THE STRAZ, TWO TICKETS TO SEE A SHOW AT THE
9:21:08AM STRAZ CENTER.
9:21:12AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:21:14AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:21:16AM GOOD MORNING.
9:21:16AM CONGRATULATIONS, OFFICER NIMO.
9:21:19AM LORI OSBORNE.
9:21:20AM I'M WITH THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA.
9:21:22AM ON BEHALF OF THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA, WE THANK YOU AND
9:21:25AM APPRECIATE YOUR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION TO KEEPING OUR
9:21:28AM COMMUNITY SAFER.
9:21:29AM WE'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TO A PERFORMANCE
9:21:32AM THIS SEASON.
9:21:33AM WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE.
9:21:35AM THANK YOU.
9:21:35AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:21:40AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:21:41AM HAPPY NEW YEAR.
9:21:41AM YOU GUYS LOOK GREAT IN THOSE HATS.
9:21:44AM CHIEF, FIRST AND FOREMOST.
9:21:47AM OFFICER NIMO.
9:21:48AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:21:50AM THANK YOU ALL.
9:21:53AM WELCOME TO TAMPA.
9:21:56AM GET OUT OF THE COLD WEATHER.
9:21:58AM WE HAVE A LITTLE TRADITION AT ONE BUC.
9:22:00AM ANYBODY THAT GOES OVER AND ABOVE GETS A GAME BALL.
9:22:03AM HEARING YOUR STORY, YOU DEFINITELY GO OVER AND ABOVE.
9:22:06AM DUE TO TIMING, WE DON'T HAVE THAT GAME BALL, BUT I'LL GIVE
9:22:09AM YOU THIS AND MY CARD.
9:22:10AM THIS IS JUST A TEMPORARY ONE.
9:22:13AM YOU'LL HAVE ONE WITH YOUR NAME ON IT.
9:22:14AM YOU REACH OUT TO ME AND WE'LL SET UP A TOUR AT ONE BUC AND
9:22:18AM WE CAN EXCHANGE BALLS.
9:22:19AM YOU CAN KEEP THAT.
9:22:20AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE AND YOUR SACRIFICE.
9:22:26AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:22:29AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:22:34AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:22:35AM JILL WITECKI WITH TAMPA THEATRE.
9:22:37AM WE APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO.
9:22:38AM ON BEHALF OF OUR TEAM WE'D LIKE TO PRESENT WITH YOU A
9:22:41AM MEMBERSHIP TO OUR HISTORIC --
9:22:45AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:22:47AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:22:48AM LEO GEARY, JASON BINDER.
9:22:51AM BEHALF OF BILL CURRIE FORD, CONGRATULATIONS ON THIS AWARD.
9:22:55AM APPRECIATE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU GUYS THAT PUTS THE
9:23:00AM UNIFORM ON EVERY DAY.
9:23:01AM BEHALF OF BILL CURRIE FORD, PRESENT TO YOU A LETTER.
9:23:11AM [INAUDIBLE]
9:23:13AM GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR YOUR PERSONAL VEHICLE MAINTENANCE.
9:23:19AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:23:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHEN YOU COME UP AND PRESENT, FACE US,
9:23:25AM BECAUSE THE MICROPHONE, WE CAN BARELY HEAR WHAT PEOPLE ARE
9:23:28AM SAYING.
9:23:32AM >> JUST LIKE YOU.
9:23:35AM SAME BARBER.
9:23:36AM GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:23:37AM PETE BREVI ON BEHALF OF BUSCH GARDENS.
9:23:39AM AS I SAY EVERY MONTH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT
9:23:42AM OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND WHAT THEY REPRESENT.
9:23:43AM IT'S WELL APPRECIATED BY THE MEN AND WOMEN THAT PUT THE
9:23:46AM UNIFORM ON.
9:23:46AM TO YOU, SIR, YOU HAVE A GREAT BIO, I ACTUALLY HAVE THE
9:23:51AM PLEASURE TO WORK WITH ONE OF YOUR COUNTERPARTS.
9:23:55AM HE TALKS INCESSANTLY, ONE OF MY CAPTAINS AT BUSCH GARDENS
9:23:58AM WAS A FORMER COLLEAGUE OF HIS IN NEW YORK.
9:24:00AM HE TALKS ABOUT HOW HIGH ENERGY HE WAS AND ALL THE THINGS
9:24:03AM THAT THE CHIEF TALKED ABOUT TODAY, WHAT HE DID IN NEW YORK
9:24:06AM AS WELL.
9:24:06AM GLAD HE IS HERE.
9:24:08AM HE BROUGHT THE COLD WEATHER BUT WE'LL GET RID OF THAT
9:24:11AM SHORTLY.
9:24:11AM ON BEHALF OF BUSCH GARDENS AND STAFF, THANK YOU.
9:24:14AM FOUR TICKETS TO BUSCH GARDENS.
9:24:15AM KEN COULD HAVE GOTTEN YOU IN FOR FREE, TOO, ANYTHING WE CAN
9:24:19AM DO, WE APPRECIATE IT.
9:24:21AM >> JOHN WITH STEPP'S TOWING.
9:24:24AM WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU.
9:24:26AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:24:28AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:24:31AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:24:32AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:24:33AM LAURA TAYLOR FROM CASPERS COMPANY AND OXFORD COMMONS.
9:24:40AM PLEASE ENJOY BRUNCH FOR FOUR AT ANY ONE OF OUR RESTAURANTS.
9:24:42AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:24:48AM >> I'M AT THE END OF THE LINE.
9:24:49AM I HAVE GOOD STUFF HERE.
9:24:51AM VERY GOOD STUFF.
9:24:53AM STEVE MICHELINI, HERE ON BEHALF OF A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT
9:24:56AM FOLKS WHO WOULD LIKE TO HONOR YOU FOR YOUR DEDICATION AND
9:24:59AM SERVICE.
9:25:00AM ONE OF THEM IS YUMMY HOUSE CHINA BISTRO.
9:25:03AM THE SECOND ONE IS THE CICCIO RESTAURANT GROUP.
9:25:07AM DAILY EATS AND WATER AND FLOUR.
9:25:11AM THEY HAVE A COUPLE OF PLACES ON HOWARD.
9:25:12AM BELLABRAVA, WHICH IS OVER IN THE MIDTOWN SECTION.
9:25:17AM AND THE MEAT MARKET, WHICH IS IN OLD HYDE PARK.
9:25:22AM AND GREEK RESTAURANT.
9:25:24AM YOU HAVE YOUR CHOICE.
9:25:25AM PLEASE TAKE THESE CERTIFICATES.
9:25:27AM LETTERS SERVE AS A CERTIFICATE FOR SOME OF THEM, BUT THESE
9:25:32AM YOU HAVE TO TAKE WITH YOU.
9:25:33AM DON'T LOSE THEM.
9:25:35AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:25:36AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:25:42AM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE YOU GO, SIR.
9:25:44AM SIR, ON BEHALF OF A GRATEFUL CITY OF TAMPA AND TAMPA CITY
9:25:46AM COUNCIL, IT'S OUR GREAT PLEASURE TO HONOR YOU, SIR, AS OUR
9:25:49AM JANUARY 2025 OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:25:52AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:25:53AM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS CITY COUNCIL, YOU MAY.
9:25:56AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:25:59AM >> I'VE BEEN A CRIME FIGHTER AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER.
9:26:04AM I DO IT BECAUSE I LOVE THE JOB.
9:26:09AM I GET A LITTLE EMOTIONAL BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN A ROUGH COUPLE
9:26:13AM OF WEEKS, BUT I WILL TRY AND CONTINUE TO DO THE JOB THAT
9:26:17AM I'VE ALWAYS LOVED.
9:26:18AM IT'S GREAT TO BE RECOGNIZED FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU LOVE AND
9:26:21AM YOU'RE PASSIONATE ABOUT.
9:26:22AM THANK YOU ALL.
9:26:23AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:26:30AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.
9:26:32AM I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE.
9:26:33AM POLICE OFFICERS, ALL OF THEM, HUNDREDTH OF A SECOND TO MAKE
9:26:36AM A DECISION, YEA OR NAY.
9:26:38AM THAT'S REAL QUICK.
9:26:39AM YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE RIGHT.
9:26:41AM THAT'S THE MOST DIFFICULT PART OF THE JOB IS MAKING THAT
9:26:45AM INSTANT DECISION WHETHER I DO OR DON'T DO SOMETHING. IN
9:26:48AM YOUR CASE, YOU ARE TRAINED TO NOT ONLY IN NEW YORK BUT IN
9:26:52AM TAMPA, PEOPLE IN NEW YORK AND PEOPLE OF TAMPA ALWAYS NEED
9:26:55AM THE RESPECT OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
9:26:57AM POLICE DEPARTMENT RESPECT OF THE PEOPLE.
9:26:58AM WHAT YOUR JOB IS AND WHAT YOU'VE DONE IS AN EXTRAORDINARY
9:27:02AM JOB, NOT ONLY CATCHING THE INDIVIDUALS, BUT CONSTANTLY DOING
9:27:05AM IT DAY IN AND DAY OUT.
9:27:06AM LIKE YOU SAID, YOU GET EMOTIONAL BECAUSE IT IS AN EMOTIONAL
9:27:10AM JOB.
9:27:11AM EMOTIONAL TO YOURSELF, YOUR FAMILY, TO THE PEOPLE YOU SERVE
9:27:14AM IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, AND THAT GRATITUDE CAN NEVER BE SAID
9:27:18AM THANK YOU SO MANY TIMES, SO OFTEN.
9:27:20AM AND YOU LOOK LIKE YOU COULD PLAY A LITTLE FLANK FOR THE
9:27:25AM BUCCANEERS.
9:27:25AM THEY HAVE A GOOD QUARTERBACK.
9:27:27AM I THINK YOU CAN HIDE BEHIND THE BIG GUYS AND NOBODY WOULD
9:27:30AM SEE YOU SCORE.
9:27:31AM I THINK THEY WILL GIVE YOU A CONTRACT FOR ABOUT 15 SECONDS
9:27:34AM UNTIL YOU FUMBLE.
9:27:35AM BUT IT'S A TOUGH GAME.
9:27:37AM LIFE IS A TOUGH GAME.
9:27:38AM AND WITH YOUR CONSTANT REMINDER OF DOING THE RIGHT JOB, IT
9:27:42AM MAKES THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA FEEL A LITTLE BIT
9:27:45AM MORE AT EASE.
9:27:48AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR JOB.
9:27:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CONGRATULATIONS.
9:27:50AM THANK YOU FOR THE SACRIFICE YOU MAKE WHEN YOU PUT THE
9:27:52AM UNIFORM ON.
9:27:53AM THANK YOU TO YOUR FAMILY FOR THE SACRIFICE THEY MAKE BECAUSE
9:27:56AM YOU'RE GOING OUT AND DOING THE WORK THAT YOU DO.
9:27:58AM YOU AND I WERE ACTUALLY OUT THERE TALKING.
9:28:01AM I DIDN'T REALIZE, I KNOW McKAYLA HERE QUITE A WHILE.
9:28:04AM I ALWAYS HEARD ABOUT YOU.
9:28:05AM SHE IS VERY, VERY PROUD OF YOU.
9:28:07AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:28:09AM WELL DESERVED.
9:28:10AM WELCOME TO TAMPA.
9:28:11AM WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE YOU AS PART OF THE TPD FAMILY HERE.
9:28:14AM ENJOY ALL THE GOODIES THERE.
9:28:17AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:28:18AM >> McKAYLA IS MY OLDER DAUGHTER.
9:28:20AM I HAVE A YOUNGER DAUGHTER TOO.
9:28:23AM SHE SURPRISED ME THIS MORNING.
9:28:26AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:28:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CONGRATULATIONS.
9:28:27AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
9:28:35AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:28:36AM THERE WAS A MOTION TO REMOVE ITEM NUMBER 2 FROM THE AGENDA.
9:28:42AM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:28:44AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:28:45AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:28:46AM ANY OPPOSED?
9:28:47AM WE'LL TAKE A MOMENT AND THEN WE'LL GO INTO PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:28:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
9:29:39AM WE HAVE 13 SPEAKERS FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:29:41AM OUR FIRST SPEAKER IS BOBBY CREIGHTON.
9:29:43AM THE SECOND SPEAKER IS SARAI HURTADO.
9:29:50AM AND THEN CONNIE BURTON.
9:29:52AM GOOD MORNING, SIR.
9:29:55AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
9:29:56AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:29:57AM BOBBY CREIGHTON.
9:29:58AM I'M HERE TODAY TO TALK ON ITEM 65.
9:30:02AM IT IS A MOTION THAT COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK MADE.
9:30:06AM SHE ASKED A VERY GOOD QUESTION.
9:30:08AM SHE ASKED, DOES THE CITY HAVE NON-HOMESTEADED PROPERTIES
9:30:10AM WITH LIENS THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO TRANSITION INTO
9:30:14AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING?
9:30:15AM THE STAFF'S RESPONSE GENERATED THIS LIST OF SUCH PROPERTIES.
9:30:24AM SOME THINGS IMMEDIATELY WERE DRAWN TO MY ATTENTION.
9:30:27AM ABOUT ONE-THIRD OF THE PROPERTIES ON THIS LIST HAVE MULTIPLE
9:30:30AM LIENS.
9:30:30AM BUT THE LIST DOES NOT SHOW THE AMOUNT OWED PER PROPERTY.
9:30:34AM IF I WANT TO KNOW WHO OWES ME MONEY, I DON'T WANT TO LOOK
9:30:38AM FOUR PLACES.
9:30:39AM I WANT ONE PLACE SO I CAN KNOW.
9:30:41AM PERHAPS A TECH ISSUE.
9:30:42AM I HAD A VERY GOOD CONVERSATION WITH THE CITY STAFF
9:30:43AM YESTERDAY.
9:30:44AM I LEARNED THAT SOME OF THESE DEPARTMENTS ARE WORKING WITH
9:30:47AM JUST ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY.
9:30:49AM PERHAPS THIS IS A DATA MANAGEMENT ISSUE AND MAYBE THAT'S WHY
9:30:52AM WE SEE SOME OF THE OTHER PROBLEMS WHERE WE'RE NOT ABLE TO
9:30:55AM ADVANCE WITH THE CODE ENFORCEMENT AND THE WAY WE CAN REALLY
9:30:59AM LEVERAGE THAT TO HELP PEOPLE.
9:31:01AM THE STAFF FOUND THAT IT'S REALLY NOT VIABLE TO PURSUE THESE
9:31:07AM PROPERTIES.
9:31:07AM THEY SAID IT COSTS TOO MUCH IN ATTORNEYS' FEES, TAKES TOO
9:31:11AM LONG AND TOO COMPLICATED OF A PROCESS.
9:31:12AM BUT I WOULD LIKE TO POINT TO ST. PETERSBURG.
9:31:16AM IN 2016, ST. PETERSBURG IMPLEMENTED A PROGRAM WHERE THEY DID
9:31:21AM START TO FORECLOSE ON SOME OF THE MOST PROBLEMATIC
9:31:24AM PROPERTIES.
9:31:24AM WHILE IT DID COST 1.1, 1.3 MILLION IN ATTORNEYS' FEES, THEY
9:31:31AM GOT BACK $4.4 MILLION IN UNCOLLECTED FUNDS.
9:31:35AM AND ABLE TO BRING ON 235 AFFORDABLE HOUSING UNITS FROM 2016
9:31:39AM TO 2022.
9:31:40AM THEY DEVELOPED AN AFFORDABLE LOT DISPOSITION PROGRAM AS PART
9:31:44AM OF THAT PROCESS.
9:31:45AM RUNNING OUT OF TIME.
9:31:46AM I'LL SKIP MY MAP AND STRAIGHT TO THIS.
9:31:49AM THIS IS A PROPERTY NOT INCLUDED IN THE LIST.
9:31:54AM BOARDED UP, PADLOCKED, ABANDONED HOUSE.
9:31:57AM NO ONE HAS LIVED THERE FOR YEARS.
9:31:59AM THEY STILL CLAIM A HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.
9:32:01AM THAT'S WHY IT WASN'T ON THE LIST.
9:32:02AM THEY OWE ABOUT $15,000.
9:32:04AM THE CITY WANTS TO SETTLE THE LIEN FOR $260.
9:32:07AM I'M CURIOUS, IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS, THESE ARE THE MOST
9:32:11AM VULNERABLE NEIGHBORHOODS IN OUR CITY.
9:32:12AM THESE ARE THE MOST LIKELY NEIGHBORHOODS TO HAVE SPECULATIVE
9:32:16AM INVESTMENT.
9:32:17AM GOING QUICKLY BECAUSE OF THE TIME.
9:32:18AM WE NEED TO FIND A WAY TO HELP THESE PEOPLE.
9:32:20AM THIS IS A GRANT.
9:32:21AM THIS IS A GRANT EITHER TO SOMEONE WHO IS REALLY VULNERABLE
9:32:25AM AND NEEDS IT, WHICH IS GOOD AND FINE, CRITERIA AND MONITOR
9:32:28AM THAT.
9:32:29AM OR IT IS THE CITY TAXPAYER PAYING FOR SOMEBODY'S INVESTMENT
9:32:32AM TO BE FIXED FOR PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR, WHICH IS COMPLETELY
9:32:35AM UNACCEPTABLE IN MY OPINION, ESPECIALLY WHEN THESE TYPES OF
9:32:38AM PROPERTIES ARE THE MOST LIKELY TO AFFECT QUALITY OF LIFE AND
9:32:40AM SAFETY IN OUR MOST VULNERABLE NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY.
9:32:43AM SINCE I HAVE 15 SECONDS, I'LL SHOW YOU WHERE THESE
9:32:48AM PROPERTIES WERE CLUSTERED ON THE LIST.
9:32:50AM YOU CAN SEE THEY ARE IN THE POOREST, MOST VULNERABLE
9:32:52AM NEIGHBORHOODS.
9:32:52AM WE CAN DO BETTER AS A CITY, IF WE PAID ATTENTION TO THIS
9:32:55AM ISSUE.
9:32:55AM WE LOOKED AT WHAT OTHER CITIES ARE DOING TO UPDATE OUR
9:32:57AM PROCESSES.
9:32:58AM THANK YOU.
9:32:58AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
9:32:59AM NEXT SPEAKER IS SARAI HURTADO, FOLLOWED BY CONNIE BURTON AND
9:33:07AM ANTHONY DERBY.
9:33:08AM GOOD MORNING, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
9:33:10AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:33:13AM SARAI NAVA HURTADO.
9:33:14AM I AM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY STEPPING-STONES.
9:33:16AM I'M HERE TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 14, TO YOU
9:33:21AM AND THE CITY STAFF THAT HELPED US WITH THIS CONTRACT.
9:33:24AM WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR HELPING US CONTINUE TO
9:33:28AM WORK WITH THE YOUTH AND INSPIRE THEM IN SULPHUR SPRINGS.
9:33:34AM THANK YOU SO MUCH ON BEHALF OF OUR FAMILIES, STUDENTS, STAFF
9:33:37AM AND THE BOARD.
9:33:38AM THANK YOU.
9:33:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:33:39AM CONNIE BURTON, MR. ANTHONY DERBY, MS. MARYBETH WILLIAMS.
9:33:44AM GOOD MORNING, MA'AM.
9:33:44AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
9:33:46AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:33:46AM CONNIE BURTON.
9:33:49AM THE GREAT POET SISTER GWENDOLYN BENNETT WROTE A POEM
9:33:55AM ENTITLED "HATRED."
9:33:57AM I THINK IT IS AN APPROPRIATE POEM GIVEN THE POLITICAL SEASON
9:34:02AM THAT WE'RE IN AS WE WITNESS THE CONSTANT ATTACK ON DEI,
9:34:08AM AFFIRMATIVE ACTIONS AND ANY OTHER PROCESS THAT WOULD HAVE
9:34:14AM MOVED AFRICAN AMERICANS AND OTHERS FORWARD DURING PERIODS OF
9:34:18AM TIME WHEN POLICIES WERE MADE TO KEEP THEM FROM BEING ABLE TO
9:34:24AM EXPERIENCE THE AMERICAN DREAM.
9:34:26AM PART OF THE POEM ENTITLED "HATRED" IT SAYS, AGAINST THE SKY,
9:34:32AM HATING YOU SHALL BE A GAME PLAYED WITH COOL HANDS AND SLIM
9:34:38AM FINGERS.
9:34:38AM MEMORY WILL LAY ITS HANDS UPON YOUR BREASTS AND YOU WILL
9:34:44AM UNDERSTAND MY HATRED.
9:34:46AM SO AS WE RECOGNIZE JANUARY THE 8th AS WHEN LYNDON JOHNSON
9:34:52AM DECLARED THE WAR ON POVERTY, I WOULD SAY TO THIS COUNCIL, AS
9:34:57AM YOU MOVE FORWARD IN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WAYS IN WHICH YOU
9:35:01AM CAN ELIMINATE PAST HARMS, ITEM NUMBER 56, OUR COMMUNITY WANT
9:35:09AM TO KNOW, NOT JUST TO YOU GUYS, BUT HOW HAS RETURNING
9:35:13AM CITIZENS, THOSE THAT HAVE PAID THEIR IT ENTER TO SOCIETY
9:35:16AM BEING ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITHIN THIS CITY AND INFLUENCE
9:35:20AM THAT THE CITY HAS WITH ONGOING CONTRACTORS.
9:35:23AM ITEM NUMBER 57, WE DON'T WANT TO WAIT UNTIL SUNSET TO KNOW
9:35:29AM JUST HOW MANY YOUNG PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM THE
9:35:32AM SUMMIT YOUTH PROGRAM.
9:35:34AM WE WANT TO KNOW EARLY ON.
9:35:35AM BECAUSE WE BELIEVE THAT HAVING JOBS, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES
9:35:41AM IS WHAT HELPS ELIMINATE POVERTY IN OUR COMMUNITY.
9:35:45AM SO NOT ONLY FOR OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, BUT ALSO FOR THEIR FAMILY
9:35:49AM MEMBERS, ADULT MEMBERS, MALE MEMBERS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
9:35:52AM WE KNOW TALENTS AND GIFTS, LACK OF OPPORTUNITY.
9:35:59AM ALSO WITH ITEM 61, 62, 63, WE WANT TO PAY ATTENTION.
9:36:03AM WE UNDERSTAND THAT IN NORTH TAMPA, A LOT OF THE FAMILIES OUT
9:36:06AM THERE IS TRANSIENT.
9:36:09AM LIVING IN RENTAL PROPERTIES.
9:36:11AM SOME OF THEM HAVE GONE.
9:36:12AM WE ARE HOPING THAT CITY STAFF REALLY PAY DUE DILIGENCE IN
9:36:17AM TRYING TO IDENTIFY THOSE FAMILIES BECAUSE I DO RECOGNIZE
9:36:20AM THAT WHEN COMMUNITIES ARE ORGANIZED, SUCH IN SOUTH TAMPA
9:36:25AM THAT HAS BEEN CONSTANTLY COMING, TALKING ABOUT HARM AND
9:36:28AM DAMAGES THAT WAS DONE TO THEIR PROPERTY, WE DON'T WANT THESE
9:36:32AM CITIZENS AND THE RESIDENTS IN NORTH TAMPA TO BE OVERLOOKED.
9:36:36AM THANK YOU.
9:36:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
9:36:36AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:36:37AM MR. ANTHONY DERBY.
9:36:38AM MS. MARYBETH WILLIAMS.
9:36:40AM AND THEN HUMAIRA AFZAL.
9:36:44AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:36:45AM ANTHONY DERBY.
9:36:46AM BORN AND RAISED TAMPAN THAT OWNS A SMALL FAMILY BUSINESS IN
9:36:50AM THE GREAT CITY.
9:36:51AM LASTLY, I'VE HAD THE GREAT PLEASURE OF SERVING ON THE BOARD
9:36:54AM OF DIRECTORS FOR NONPROFIT CALLED FRIENDS OF THE RIVERWALK,
9:36:56AM WHICH MEANS -- SORRY, SOLE MISSION ACTIVATE, PROMOTE AND
9:37:01AM DEVELOP TAMPA'S WATERFRONT AND COME BEFORE TO YOU EMPHASIZE
9:37:03AM THE PROFOUND IMPORTANCE OF THE TAMPA RIVERWALK BOTH AS A
9:37:07AM BEACON OF THE COMMUNITY AND CRITICAL ASSET FOR ECONOMIC,
9:37:10AM CULTURAL AND SOCIAL VITALITY OF OUR COMMUNITY.
9:37:12AM SPECIFICALLY, I URGE YOU TO APPROVE FUNDING FOR THE
9:37:15AM EXPANSION OF WEST RIVERWALK, A PROJECT THAT WILL CONTINUE TO
9:37:18AM ENHANCE OUR CITY'S POTENTIAL AND ENRICH THE LIVES OF ALL WHO
9:37:21AM CALL TAMPA HOME.
9:37:22AM THE TAMPA RIVERWALK HAS ALREADY PROVEN TO BE TRANSFORMATIVE
9:37:25AM FOR OUR CITY.
9:37:27AM MORE THAN A PICTURESQUE PATH ALONG THE HILLSBOROUGH RIVER,
9:37:30AM IT IS A DYNAMIC HUB THAT CONNECTS NEIGHBORHOODS, PROMOTES
9:37:33AM TOURISM AND FOSTERS A SENSE OF COMMUNITY.
9:37:35AM EVERY YEAR, THE RIVERWALK ATTRACTS MILLIONS OF VISITORS WHO
9:37:39AM CONTRIBUTE TO THE LOCAL ECONOMY BY SUPPORTING NEARBY
9:37:41AM RESTAURANTS, SHOPS, ATTRACTIONS.
9:37:43AM IT'S BECOME A MAGNET FOR EVENTS THAT BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER
9:37:46AM SUCH AS RIVER FEST WHICH CELEBRATES TAMPA'S CULTURAL
9:37:49AM HERITAGE AS WELL AS NATIONAL EVENTS LIKE THE NFL SUPER BOWL,
9:37:52AM NCAA TOURNAMENTS AND OTHER PROVEN EVENTS THAT PROVIDE
9:37:56AM CRITICAL ECONOMIC IMPACT TO OUR CITY AND LOCAL BUSINESSES.
9:38:00AM BUT THE RIVERWALK IS NOT JUST AN ECONOMIC DRIVER, IT IS ALSO
9:38:02AM A SYMBOL OF INCLUSIVITY AND CONNECTION.
9:38:05AM IT BRINGS TOGETHER PEOPLE FROM ALL WALKS OF LIFE, OFFERING
9:38:08AM ACCESSIBLE SPACE WHERE FAMILIES, ATHLETES, AND FRIENDS CAN
9:38:12AM GATHER, WITH TAMPA GROWING AND THE NEED FOR SHARED PUBLIC
9:38:14AM SPACES, WHERE EVERYONE FEELS WELCOME IS MORE CRITICAL THAN
9:38:17AM EVER.
9:38:18AM EXPANDING THE RIVERWALK TO THE WEST RIVER AREA IS A VITAL
9:38:23AM NEXT STEP IN REALIZING ITS FULL POTENTIAL.
9:38:25AM THE EXPANSION WILL BRIDGE GAPS BETWEEN COMMUNITIES,
9:38:28AM CONNECTING NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE HISTORICALLY BEEN
9:38:30AM UNDERSERVED OR OVERLOOKED.
9:38:31AM IT WILL PROVIDE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS WITH NEW
9:38:34AM OPPORTUNITIES TO ENJOY TAMPA'S NATURAL BEAUTY WHILE
9:38:37AM ENCOURAGING HEALTHY, ACTIVE LIFE-STYLES.
9:38:40AM MOREOVER, THE WEST RIVERWALK PROJECT ALIGNS WITH TAMPA'S
9:38:43AM COMMITMENT TO SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
9:38:46AM BY ENHANCING PEDESTRIAN AND BIKE ACCESS, THE RIVERWALK
9:38:49AM REDUCES RELIANCE ON CARS, HELPING TO ALLEVIATE CONGESTION
9:38:52AM AND DECREASE EMISSIONS.
9:38:54AM ADDITIONALLY, THE PROJECT CREATES OPPORTUNITIES FOR GREEN
9:38:56AM INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WILL PROTECT OUR RIVER AND PRESERVE IT
9:38:58AM FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS.
9:39:00AM THIS IS NOT AN INVESTMENT IN INFRASTRUCTURE.
9:39:02AM IT'S AN INVESTMENT IN TAMPA'S IDENTITY, EQUITY, AND FUTURE
9:39:06AM PROSPERITY.
9:39:07AM PROVIDING FUNDING FOR THE WEST RIVERWALK IS A BOLD STEP
9:39:10AM TOWARDS CONTINUING THE MOMENTUM WE HAVE BUILT AS A CITY
9:39:14AM COMMITTED TO PROGRESS.
9:39:15AM THIS INVESTMENT IS NOT A GAMBLE.
9:39:16AM WE HAVE ALL SEEN THE IMPACT OF THE CURRENT RIVERWALK HAS
9:39:19AM PLAYED IN DOWNTOWN TAMPA'S REVITALIZATION.
9:39:21AM WE OWE THAT SAME OPPORTUNITY TO THE WEST TAMPA COMMUNITY.
9:39:24AM THIS INVESTMENT -- SORRY.
9:39:27AM AS WE LOOK AHEAD, LET'S EMBRACE THE VISION OF A CONNECTED
9:39:30AM TAMPA WHERE EVERY RESIDENT HAS ACCESS TO WORLD-CLASS PUBLIC
9:39:33AM SPACES. LET'S LEAVE A LEGACY THAT REFLECTS OUR CITY'S
9:39:36AM VALUES, UNITY, INNOVATION AND CARE FOR ALL.
9:39:39AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN CONSIDERING THIS CRITICAL
9:39:42AM INITIATIVE.
9:39:42AM TOGETHER WE'LL ENSURE THAT TAMPA RIVERWALK CONTINUES TO BE A
9:39:45AM SOURCE FOR PRIDE AND A FOUNDATION FOR --
9:39:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
9:39:48AM MARYBETH WILLIAMS.
9:39:51AM HUMAIRA AFZAL.
9:39:55AM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
9:39:57AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
9:39:58AM MY NAME IS MARYBETH WILLIAMS.
9:39:59AM AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF FRIENDS OF THE RIVERWALK, I'M HERE TO
9:40:06AM EXPRESS OUR STRONG SUPPORT FOR THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
9:40:07AM AGENCY'S ALLOCATION OF $10 MILLION TO COMPLETE THE WEST
9:40:11AM RIVER DISTRICT MULTIMODAL NETWORK SYSTEM SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS
9:40:18AM PROJECT.
9:40:18AM THIS INITIATIVE IS PIVOTAL FOR THE CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT AND
9:40:23AM ENHANCEMENT OF TAMPA'S RIVERWALK AND ITS SURROUNDING
9:40:26AM NEIGHBORHOODS.
9:40:26AM THE PROJECT AIMS TO FILL THE REMAINING GAPS OF A 12.2-MILE
9:40:31AM MULTIMODAL USE PATH ALONG BOTH SIDES OF THE HILLSBOROUGH
9:40:34AM RIVER.
9:40:37AM ENHANCING CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN DOWNTOWN TAMPA AND ADJACENT
9:40:41AM NEIGHBORHOODS SUCH AS HYDE PARK, WEST TAMPA, AND TAMPA
9:40:43AM HEIGHTS.
9:40:44AM BY PROVIDING SAFE, ACCESSIBLE MOBILITY OPTIONS FOR
9:40:49AM PEDESTRIANS AND BICYCLISTS, IT WILL SIGNIFICANTLY CONTRIBUTE
9:40:52AM TO THE CITY'S LOW-STRESS, WALK-BIKE NETWORK.
9:40:59AM KEY BENEFITS WOULD INCLUDE THE ADDITION OF A MULTIMODAL PATH
9:41:04AM SEPARATED FROM VEHICLE TRAFFIC THAT WILL OFFER RESIDENTS AND
9:41:07AM VISITORS A SAFE AND CONVENIENT TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVE.
9:41:12AM IMPLEMENTING COMPLETE STREETS AND TRAFFIC CALMING
9:41:15AM IMPROVEMENTS WILL ADDRESS AREAS WITH HIGH NUMBERS OF
9:41:19AM PEDESTRIAN AND BICYCLE CRASHES ALIGNING WITH THE CITY'S
9:41:22AM COMMITMENT TO ELIMINATE TRAFFIC FATALITIES AND SERIOUS
9:41:25AM INJURIES.
9:41:26AM ENHANCING CONNECTIONS BETWEEN COMMUNITIES, EMPLOYMENT
9:41:28AM CENTERS, AND ESSENTIAL SERVICES WILL SUPPORT ECONOMIC
9:41:32AM COMPETITIVENESS AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE.
9:41:36AM RESTORATION OF NATIVE SHORELINE WILL BOOST WILDLIFE
9:41:39AM REHABILITATION, FILTER STORMWATER RUNOFF AND INCREASE
9:41:42AM RESILIENCE TO HIGH-TIDE STORMS AND HURRICANES.
9:41:45AM FRIENDS OF THE RIVERWALK IS DEDICATED TO DEVELOPING,
9:41:49AM ACTIVATING, AND PROMOTING TAMPA'S DOWNTOWN WATERFRONT.
9:41:52AM WE BELIEVE THAT COMPLETING THIS PROJECT WILL NOT ONLY
9:41:55AM ENHANCE THE RIVER -- COMMUNITY BY CONNECTING DIVERSE
9:42:03AM NEIGHBORHOODS AND PROVIDING EQUITABLE ACCESS TO TAMPA'S
9:42:06AM WATERFRONT.
9:42:07AM WE URGE THE CRA TO APPROVE NECESSARY FUNDING TO BRING THE
9:42:12AM TRANSFORMATIVE PROJECT TO FRUITION, ENSURING A SAFE, MORE
9:42:16AM CONNECTED AND VIBRANT TAMPA.
9:42:18AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.
9:42:21AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:42:21AM HUMAIRA AFZAL, STEPHANIE POYNOR, VALERIE BULLOCK.
9:42:27AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:42:28AM HUMAIRA AFZAL.
9:42:30AM YEAH, LET'S TALK ABOUT SIDEWALKS A LITTLE BIT.
9:42:34AM LACK OF SIDEWALKS THROUGHOUT THE CITY JUST NEGATIVELY AFFECT
9:42:38AM RESIDENTS' DAILY LIVES.
9:42:40AM WE'RE CAR DEPENDENT BECAUSE IT IS NOT SAFE TO WALK AROUND
9:42:43AM WITHOUT A SIDEWALK, AND IT IS A SERIOUS SAFETY ISSUE FOR
9:42:46AM PEOPLE WHO NEED OR WANT TO WALK WHERE THERE ARE NO
9:42:48AM SIDEWALKS.
9:42:48AM THE CITY IS SLOWLY WORKING ON EXPANDING THIS.
9:42:52AM THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF COMMITMENT OF FUNDS.
9:42:55AM MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, ACTUALLY, AND AS COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK
9:42:58AM MENTIONED, THERE IS A WORKSHOP COMING UP IN MARCH.
9:43:03AM BUT ALL OF THESE EFFORTS ARE POINTLESS IF THE CITY DOES NOT
9:43:07AM GET SERIOUS ABOUT TAKING CARE OF THE SIDEWALKS THAT WE
9:43:11AM ACTUALLY ALREADY HAVE.
9:43:12AM HERE ARE SOME PHOTOS.
9:43:16AM ALL OVER THE CITY, WE HAVE BLATANT VIOLATIONS EVERY DAY THAT
9:43:20AM GO UNTICKETED, BECAUSE TICKETING IS PASSIVE.
9:43:26AM YOU HAVE TO CALL SOMEBODY AND ASK SOMEBODY TO COME OUT.
9:43:28AM I HAVE LITERALLY TALKED TO PEOPLE WHO WERE AUTHORIZED TO
9:43:30AM GIVE PARKING VIOLATIONS AND THEY SAY, NO, YOU HAVE TO CALL
9:43:33AM IN, WHEN YOU ARE STANDING THERE RIGHT NEXT TO FOUR CARS
9:43:38AM PARKED ON THE SIDEWALK.
9:43:40AM HERE IS A DOUBLE VIOLATION.
9:43:41AM SO WE GOT ILLEGALLY PARKED IN A HANDICAP SPOT AND BLOCKING
9:43:46AM THE SIDEWALK.
9:43:48AM PEOPLE DO USE THESE SIDEWALKS.
9:43:50AM THIS IS MY GRANDDAUGHTER.
9:43:52AM THIS IS MY DOG.
9:43:53AM WE CANNOT WALK ON THE SIDEWALK.
9:43:55AM ONE OF THE FEW SIDEWALKS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD EVERY SINGLE DAY
9:43:58AM IS BLOCKED.
9:43:59AM THIS HAPPENS ALL OVER THE CITY.
9:44:01AM I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT THE PARTS OF THE CITY THAT DON'T
9:44:03AM HAVE SIDEWALKS, WHERE WE DO HAVE SIDEWALKS, THEY ARE NOT
9:44:06AM TAKEN CARE OF.
9:44:08AM THEY ARE USED FOR BOATS.
9:44:09AM THEY ARE USED FOR TRAILERS, AND WE WONDER WHY OUR SIDEWALKS
9:44:14AM ARE IN SUCH BAD SHAPE.
9:44:17AM SOME OF THIS IS TICKETING VIOLATORS, SOME OF IT IS WORKING
9:44:30AM WITH CITY DEPARTMENTS.
9:44:31AM THERE ARE CITY INSPECTORS AT THESE CONSTRUCTION SITES.
9:44:34AM THERE'S NO WAY THEY DON'T SEE THE PORT-A-POTTIES ON THE
9:44:38AM SIDEWALK.
9:44:39AM TELL THE INSPECTOR THAT YOU CAN'T PUT IT ON THE SIDEWALK.
9:44:41AM THIS IS A CONSTRUCTION SITE.
9:44:43AM EVERY SINGLE DAY I WENT BY HERE, BIKE LANE WAS USUALLY
9:44:46AM BLOCKED AND THE SIDEWALK WAS BLOCKED.
9:44:48AM THESE ARE CONSTRUCTION SITES WHERE WE HAVE CITY EMPLOYEES
9:44:51AM REGULARLY VISITING, BUT THEY JUST OVERLOOK IT.
9:44:54AM WE HAVE SIDEWALKS BLOCKED IN ORDER TO INFORM DRIVERS THAT
9:44:59AM THERE'S ROAD WORK AHEAD.
9:45:01AM AGAIN, TELL OUR CITY WORKERS TO NOT PUT THE STUFF ON THE
9:45:05AM SIDEWALKS.
9:45:06AM THIS IS FREE FIXES.
9:45:09AM THIS I HAD A VERY GOOD EXPERIENCE.
9:45:10AM I TALKED TO THE CITY WORKERS.
9:45:12AM THEY WERE VERY PROFESSIONAL, VERY COURTEOUS, AND THEY SAID
9:45:14AM WE WILL NOT DO THIS AGAIN.
9:45:17AM THAT WAS A VERY POSITIVE EXPERIENCE.
9:45:18AM IT SHOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO BE ME.
9:45:20AM I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE ASKING CITY WORKERS -- I LOVE OUR
9:45:24AM CITY WORKERS.
9:45:24AM I'VE HAD GREAT EXPERIENCES BUT I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO ASK THEM
9:45:28AM NOT TO PARK ON THE SIDEWALK. GOOD GRIEF, WE HAVE LAW
9:45:31AM ENFORCEMENT AT THEIR OWN HOMES WHO ARE PARKING ON THE
9:45:33AM SIDEWALK.
9:45:34AM THESE THINGS CAN BE FIXED, BUT IT TAKES LEADERSHIP AND IT
9:45:36AM TAKES SOMEBODY ACTUALLY WANTING TO DO IT.
9:45:39AM THANK YOU.
9:45:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: STEPHANIE POYNOR, VALERIE BULLOCK, JOE
9:45:42AM ROBINSON.
9:45:43AM GOOD MORNING, MA'AM.
9:45:44AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
9:45:46AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:45:46AM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
9:45:47AM I LOVE HUMAIRA EXPOS OF DEFICIENT DRIVEWAYS WHICH
9:45:54AM CONSTANTLY COME BEFORE YOU.
9:45:55AM THAT IS A HUGE PART OF THE PROBLEM SHE JUST SHOWED YOU.
9:45:58AM I THINK IT'S VERY INTERESTING WHO ALWAYS SHOWS UP WHEN
9:46:02AM SOMEBODY OVER THERE WANTS THEM TO.
9:46:05AM THEY DON'T COME ANY OTHER TIME BUT WHEN THEY ARE TOLD TO.
9:46:08AM YOU FIGURE OUT WHO THOSE PEOPLE ARE TODAY.
9:46:10AM I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT, ONCE AGAIN, THAT THIS WEST
9:46:13AM RIVERWALK MONEY GOES AGAINST OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
9:46:18AM THIS IS THE RULES AND THE BYLAWS FOR OUR CITY.
9:46:21AM 24 SAYS THAT YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE SPENDING $26 MILLION
9:46:24AM IN THAT AREA UNLESS IT IS FOR HARDENING OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
9:46:28AM I TALKED TO A NICE LADY FROM FOREST HILLS LAST NIGHT.
9:46:32AM I ASKED THEM, WHY HAVE YOU GUYS NOT BEEN DOWNTOWN.
9:46:35AM SHE GOES, I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT IT.
9:46:38AM THEY HAVE ONLY BEEN COMMUNICATING WITH ONE COUNCIL MEMBER.
9:46:41AM I ENCOURAGED THEM TO SEND SOMETHING TO EVERYBODY LAST NIGHT
9:46:44AM BECAUSE THOSE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HURT.
9:46:45AM BUT YET WE'RE GOING TO SPEND $26 MILLION ON A VANITY PROJECT
9:46:49AM THAT SOMEBODY WANTS.
9:46:50AM SOMEBODY MUST WANT IT PRETTY DAMN BAD BECAUSE THEY KEEP
9:46:54AM COMING BACK.
9:46:54AM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT.
9:46:56AM YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A NEW CRA ATTORNEY, AND THIS IS SECTION
9:47:00AM CHAPTER 163, SECTION 370 FOR THE CRA.
9:47:04AM WHAT THIS REALLY RIDICULOUS PARAGRAPH SAYS, IF THE CITY IS
9:47:09AM GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY, THE CRA SHOULDN'T BE PAYING FOR IT.
9:47:13AM STATE STATUTES SAY THAT CRA SHOULDN'T BE PAYING FOR IT.
9:47:17AM I DON'T CARE WHAT THE CAC SAYS.
9:47:19AM STATE STATUTES, THAT IS SOMETHING CRAZY CALLED
9:47:23AM MISAPPROPRIATION OF FUNDS OR SOMETHING.
9:47:25AM SO WE NEED TO CHECK INTO THAT.
9:47:26AM ASK THE NEW CRA ATTORNEY ABOUT IT.
9:47:30AM NUMBER 25, PRIVATE INSPECTIONS.
9:47:33AM I THINK MS. HUMAIRA HAD SOMETHING INTERESTING TO SAY ABOUT
9:47:38AM THAT, LIKE 700,000 TO PAY FOR PRIVATE INSPECTIONS. WHO IS
9:47:43AM CHECKING ON THE INSPECTIONS? WE HAD PARIS STREET.
9:47:46AM THAT WAS A DISASTER.
9:47:47AM SU-1 ON MANGO STREET THAT WAS DONE AFTER THE FACT, AFTER A
9:47:50AM NEW -- A HOMEOWNER ACTUALLY PURCHASED A BRAND-NEW HOME AND
9:47:54AM IT WAS IN VIOLATION OF CODE BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T FOLLOW THE
9:47:58AM CODE.
9:47:58AM WHO INSPECTED THAT?
9:47:59AM WHO TOLD THOSE PEOPLE ON PARIS STREET OR ON MANGO THAT THEY
9:48:03AM COULD DO THAT?
9:48:04AM WERE THEY THESE INSPECTORS?
9:48:05AM WHO IS CHECKING ON THESE PROJECTS?
9:48:07AM INTERNAL AUDIT NUMBER 29, FOREST HILLS.
9:48:11AM YOU KNOW, FOREST HILLS ISN'T THE ONLY ONE.
9:48:13AM I GOT A REMINDER YESTERDAY FROM ONE OF MY FRIENDS ON DAVIS
9:48:16AM ISLAND, THEY HAD POOP IN THEIR HOUSES TOO.
9:48:20AM NOT QUITE AS MUCH.
9:48:21AM IT WAS WATERED DOWN, BUT STILL.
9:48:22AM RETURNING CITIZENS, YOU KNOW, I REALLY DON'T SAY MUCH ABOUT
9:48:25AM THIS, BUT TO BRAG THAT YOU HAVE GOTTEN LIKE A VERY SMALL
9:48:33AM NUMBER HAD OF PEOPLE EVEN PAST THE PROGRAM AND GOTTEN THEM
9:48:36AM EMPLOYED, THEY NEED TO BE EMBARRASSED.
9:48:39AM YOU'RE PUTTING 800 PEOPLE THROUGH THAT PROGRAM, AND THEY
9:48:42AM DON'T HAVE JOBS, REALLY?
9:48:44AM HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE SPENDING PER CITIZEN.
9:48:47AM JUST SAYING.
9:48:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:48:50AM VALERIE BULLOCK, JOE ROBINSON, JESSICA HEINZ.
9:48:54AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:48:55AM VALERIE BULLOCK.
9:48:56AM THIS IS A NEW YEAR.
9:48:59AM OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW.
9:49:01AM AND THAT SEEM TO BE IN THE CITY MOTTO FOR PLENTY YEARS.
9:49:05AM EVERY TIME A PROJECT COME UP, IT'S ON THE BACK OF THE OLD
9:49:08AM PEOPLE AND THE POOR PEOPLE.
9:49:10AM I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD BE SPENDING ALL OF THAT MONEY FOR
9:49:13AM RIVERWALK SIDEWALK.
9:49:14AM THAT IS FOR THE NEW PEOPLE WHO HAVE MOVED IN THE TAMPA AREA
9:49:18AM AND FOR THE TOURISTS.
9:49:20AM IT'S NOT FOR THE RESIDENTS WHO HAVE ALREADY BEEN OVER THERE.
9:49:23AM AND WE HAVE TOO MANY MORE PRESSING ISSUES THAT MORE
9:49:29AM IMPORTANT THAN A SIDEWALK.
9:49:30AM WE NEED JOBS, WE NEED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND WE ALSO NEED
9:49:38AM HOUSING.
9:49:38AM NOT AFFORDABLE, TALKING ABOUT 80% OF THE INCOME LEVEL.
9:49:42AM THAT'S SOMEBODY MAKING $100,000 A YEAR.
9:49:44AM WE NEED AFFORDABLE HOUSING TO BE LIKE 20, 30 PERCENT OF THE
9:49:48AM INCOME LEVEL.
9:49:49AM SO THE MOST VULNERABLE PEOPLE AND THE POOREST PEOPLE CAN
9:49:52AM BECOME HOUSED AGAIN.
9:49:54AM HOUSING SHOULDN'T BE A PRIVILEGE.
9:49:56AM IT SHOULD BE A RIGHT.
9:49:57AM IF WE ARE TO BE THE BEAUTIFUL CITY OF TAMPA THAT EVERYBODY
9:50:02AM WANTS POSTMARKS ABOUT.
9:50:05AM AND THE RETURNING CITIZEN, I'M ONE OF THEM.
9:50:07AM I'M THE EXPERT ON THIS MATTER HERE.
9:50:09AM THE RETURNING CITIZENS, WE SHOULDN'T JUST BE GETTING PEOPLE
9:50:14AM TRAINING.
9:50:15AM WE SHOULD ADJUST THE PROGRAM AND MAKE SURE THE PROGRAM IS
9:50:19AM ACCOUNTABLE ABOUT HOW MANY OF THE PEOPLE GOT PAYCHECKS.
9:50:22AM SO MANY TRAINING PROGRAMS GOING ON, BUT IF WE COULD SEE THE
9:50:27AM DATA, I CAN ASSURE YOU IT'S A VERY SMALL NUMBER OF THE
9:50:30AM PEOPLE THAT ACTUALLY GOT JOBS.
9:50:33AM AND THE CITY, I DON'T KNOW WHY THEY ARE SO ADAMANT.
9:50:37AM THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HIRE RETURNING CITIZENS BECAUSE IT'S
9:50:41AM MY HOUSE AND I'M TELLING MY CHILD, I'M NOT TELLING MY CHILD
9:50:45AM NOTHING, BUT I'M TELLING THE NEIGHBORS' CHILDREN TO SAY
9:50:48AM PLEASE AND THANK YOU, IT FIRST SHOULD START AT HOME.
9:50:52AM FIRST I SHOULD TEACH MY CHILDREN TO SAY PLEASE AND THANK YOU
9:50:55AM BEFORE I GO AROUND TELLING THE OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD CHILDREN.
9:50:58AM SO IF THE CITY IS SERIOUS ABOUT HIRING RETURNING CITIZENS,
9:51:01AM LET THE CITY TAKE THE LEAD AND BECOME THE MODEL THAT THE
9:51:07AM PRIVATE INDUSTRY AND OTHERS CAN FOLLOW.
9:51:09AM I SAID IT BEFORE AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN.
9:51:11AM I'D RATHER HAVE SOMEBODY STAND NEXT DOOR TO ME WHO USED TO
9:51:14AM BE TRICKING ON DRUGS, ROBBING, THAT'S REFORMED AND GOT A
9:51:19AM JOB.
9:51:19AM INSTEAD OF SOMEBODY THAT'S STILL IN THAT ACTIVE LIFESTYLE,
9:51:24AM WATCHING ME GO TO WORK AND COME BACK HOME.
9:51:26AM WE'RE ONLY AS GOOD AS OUR WORST CITIZEN IS.
9:51:29AM SO IF WE ARE NOT GETTING RETURNING CITIZENS A JOB, GUESS
9:51:33AM WHAT THAT SAY ABOUT US.
9:51:35AM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL IS A LIE THAT WE ARE JUST GOING
9:51:38AM TO KEEP TALKING ABOUT.
9:51:39AM BUT WE ARE NOT SERIOUS ABOUT DOING ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
9:51:42AM WE HAVE TO HAVE JOBS.
9:51:46AM AND WHAT IS THE ECONOMIC ENGINE FOR EAST TAMPA?
9:51:49AM WHEN ARE WE GOING TO THINK ABOUT PUTTING A MANUFACTURING OR
9:51:54AM WAREHOUSE JOB IN EAST TAMPA.
9:51:56AM WE HAVE ALL OF THE DEVELOPERS, ALL OF THE BIG BUSINESS
9:51:58AM PEOPLE THAT THE CITY JUST GIVE BLANK CHECKS TO.
9:52:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MA'AM.
9:52:03AM JOE ROBINSON, JESSICA HEINZ, MENTESNOT.
9:52:09AM GOOD MORNING, SIR.
9:52:10AM >> JOE ROBINSON, CHAIR OF THE WEST TAMPA CRA CITIZEN
9:52:23AM ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
9:52:24AM LICENSED PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, RESIDENT OF WEST TAMPA SINCE
9:52:29AM 1962, A SLUM AND BLIGHTED AREA.
9:52:32AM AND ALSO VICE-CHAIR OF THE WEST TAMPA DEVELOPMENT
9:52:35AM CORPORATION.
9:52:35AM I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON ITEM 60, WEST RIVERWALK.
9:52:41AM WEST TAMPA RIVERWALK IS A GAME CHANGER FOR MOBILITY AND
9:52:45AM CONNECTIVITY WHERE EAST SIDE MEETS WEST SIDE.
9:52:48AM IN 1893, McFARLAND CONSTRUCTED A BRIDGE OVER THE
9:52:51AM HILLSBOROUGH RIVER TO ARCH STREET ON THE WEST SIDE OF 14th
9:52:54AM STREET ON THE EAST SIDE TO CONNECT WEST TAMPA TO EAST SIDE
9:52:57AM OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:52:58AM THE FORTUNE STREET BRIDGE NAMED AFTER MADAM FORTUNE TELLER,
9:53:03AM A BLACK WOMAN WHO SOLD PROPERTY TO McFARLAND, SAME
9:53:07AM LOCATION TODAY AND CURRENT STRUCTURE BUILT IN THE 1920s.
9:53:11AM IT WILL ACTIVATE AND TRANSFORM NEIGHBORHOODS IN WEST TAMPA
9:53:14AM THE WAY THE FORTUNE STREET BRIDGE DID IN THE LATE 1800s.
9:53:18AM WAYS THAT THE FORTUNE STREET BRIDGE DID FOR THE CIGAR BOOM
9:53:20AM IN WEST TAMPA, CHARLIE.
9:53:22AM QUOTE, IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY PEOPLE MORE SAFELY TO JOBS,
9:53:28AM SCHOOLS AND ACTIVITIES, PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE RIVERFRONT FOR
9:53:32AM GENERATIONS TO COME.
9:53:33AM FIVE MILES OF ROADWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AND CONNECTION TO
9:53:35AM WEST TAMPA COMPLETE STREETS AND SAFE STREETS WILL THRIVE
9:53:38AM WITH IMPROVED LIGHTING, LOW-STRESS BICYCLE LANES, TRAFFIC
9:53:41AM SIGNAL MODIFICATION, ENHANCED SIDEWALKS, CROSSWALKS AND
9:53:44AM OTHER CRITICAL SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN NEEDED FOR
9:53:46AM DECADES.
9:53:47AM THE WEST RIVERWALK THEY SAY, QUOTE, WILL BE NEARLY TWO MILES
9:53:50AM LONG FROM PLANT STREET TO ROME AVENUE, FOLLOWING THE WEST
9:53:53AM BANK OF THE RIVER WITH SHORELINE RESTORATION AND SAFE
9:53:56AM CONNECTIONS TO THE EAST RIVERWALK AND TAMPA'S THRIVING
9:53:59AM DOWNTOWN.
9:54:00AM HOW DID THIS ALL COME ABOUT?
9:54:01AM FIRST OF ALL, ALL OF THE WEST TAMPA COMMUNITY SUPPORTED IT
9:54:04AM AS WE DO NOW.
9:54:05AM WE WOULD NOT SUPPORT SUCH A PROJECT THAT WILL HELP ELIMINATE
9:54:08AM THE SLUM AND BLIGHTED COMMUNITY KNOWN TO BE AND TRANSFORM
9:54:12AM WEST TAMPA AS A PLACE TO WORK, PLAY, AND STAY.
9:54:15AM I REMEMBER PERSONALLY SIGNING A LETTER TO THE U.S. SECRETARY
9:54:17AM OF TRANSPORTATION ON BEHALF OF THE WEST TAMPA CRA CAC TO
9:54:21AM SUPPORT THE APPLICATION FOR $24 MILLION -- BUILD GRANT.
9:54:26AM WHEN COMPLETED NEIGHBORHOODS OF WEST TAMPA, TAMPA HEIGHTS,
9:54:29AM NORTH HYDE PARK, RIDGEWOOD PARK AND YBOR CITY CONNECTED LIKE
9:54:33AM NEVER BEFORE.
9:54:33AM QUOTE, IT WILL BE THE CENTERPIECE OF THE CITY'S WALK-BIKE
9:54:36AM NETWORK CONNECTING EAST-WEST GREEN SPINE TO SOUTH TAMPA AND
9:54:39AM SEMINOLE HEIGHTS.
9:54:40AM WEST RIVERWALK WILL IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR
9:54:42AM RESIDENTS AND MANY OTHER ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES.
9:54:46AM WOMEN, MINORITY, SMALL BUSINESS WILL BENEFIT FROM ITS
9:54:50AM CONSTRUCTION.
9:54:50AM SOME SAY STIMULATE OVER $1 BILLION IN THE NEW ECONOMIC
9:54:54AM DEVELOPMENT.
9:54:55AM THIS $66.8 MILLION PROJECT IS SUPPORTED BY -- CITIZEN.
9:55:02AM MAYOR CASTOR SAID PROVIDE SAFE CHOICES FOR PEDESTRIANS AND
9:55:09AM CYCLISTS BUT A WORLD-CLASS DESTINATION.
9:55:11AM WITH THAT, I SAY WEST SIDE IS TRULY WEST TAMPA'S TIME.
9:55:15AM THANKS -- THE CAC BOARD VOTED 8-2 TO FUND $10 MILLION OVER
9:55:26AM THREE-YEAR PERIOD OF TIME.
9:55:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:55:29AM >> WITH THAT, I HAVE TO GET BACK TO THE WEST SIDE.
9:55:31AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
9:55:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:55:33AM JESSICA HEINZ, METESNOT, ROBIN LOCKETT.
9:55:39AM >> I WOULD LIKE TO WAIT FOR THE AGENDA ITEM.
9:55:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS IT A PUBLIC HEARING?
9:55:42AM WHICH IS THE ITEM NUMBER?
9:55:53AM >> NUMBER 44.
9:56:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THOSE ARE PUBLIC HEARINGS.
9:56:02AM WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL THAT TIME.
9:56:03AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:56:04AM MENTESNOT.
9:56:07AM ROBIN LOCKETT.
9:56:08AM PASTOR FRANK WILLIAMS, JOSE VASQUEZ, MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
9:56:17AM MENTESNOT.
9:56:19AM >> UHURU, MEANS FREEDOM IN SWAHILI.
9:56:22AM WE AS AFRICAN PEOPLE SHOULD ALWAYS BE THINKING ABOUT OUR
9:56:25AM FREEDOM.
9:56:26AM ONE OF THE THINGS I LIKE TO SAY IS, IT'S A PROCESS BY WHICH
9:56:30AM THEY DETER PEOPLE FROM PARTICIPATING IN GOVERNMENT ON
9:56:33AM ANYTHING ELSE.
9:56:35AM BUT IT'S REALLY CAPITALISM AND IMPERIALISM WORKS.
9:56:39AM WHAT THEY DID, THEY HAVE A TRICK WITH THE SIGN-IN BUSINESS,
9:56:42AM SIGN-IN SHEET WHERE PEOPLE HAVE TO GIVE THEIR NAMES AND
9:56:46AM IDENTIFY THEMSELVES AND GO THROUGH METAL DETECTORS AND
9:56:49AM EVERYTHING ELSE TO SPEAK AT A PUBLIC MEETING.
9:56:51AM THAT'S TOTALLY UNDEMOCRATIC.
9:56:55AM TOTALLY UNDEMOCRATIC.
9:56:55AM AND THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, WHEN THEY WERE COMMITTING
9:57:00AM GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE AND WE HAD A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM
9:57:04AM PALESTINE AND OTHER PLACES COME DOWN TO CITY COUNCIL, THEY
9:57:08AM GOT SMART AND SAY NOW YOU HAVE TO SIGN IN.
9:57:11AM WELL, THAT IS THE TRICK THEY HAVE BEEN USING AGAINST AFRICAN
9:57:14AM PEOPLE FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
9:57:15AM IF YOU HAVE TO SIGN SOMETHING, MORE THAN LIKELY WE HAVE A
9:57:18AM CRIMINAL RECORD.
9:57:19AM WHEN THE POLICE PULL YOU, THEY SMELL SMOKE IN YOUR CAR OR
9:57:25AM YOU DIDN'T SOMETHING, THEY SMELL WEED OR SOMETHING.
9:57:28AM ALWAYS THESE LITTLE THINGS THAT KEEP AFRICAN PEOPLE, POOR
9:57:31AM AND WORKING CLASS PEOPLE FROM PARTICIPATING.
9:57:33AM BUT I WANT TO SAY THAT WE AS AFRICAN INDIVIDUALS, WE AS
9:57:40AM AFRICAN PEOPLE, WE AS OPPRESSED PEOPLE SHOULD ALWAYS, ALWAYS
9:57:45AM BE MINDFUL 37 THIS IS A NEW YEAR, AND THIS IS A YEAR 825
9:57:51AM YEARS OF BYZANTINE, OTTOMAN EMPIRE, EUROPEAN, NORTH AMERICAN
9:57:56AM AND WHITE WESTERN CIVILIZATION OPPRESSION AGAINST THE
9:58:01AM AFRICAN PEOPLE AND WE HAVE TO STOP THAT.
9:58:03AM WE HAVE TO STOP FALLING FOR THESE TRICKS.
9:58:05AM STOP FALLING FOR THE HOMELESS TRICKS.
9:58:07AM OH, HELP THE HOMELESS, DO THIS.
9:58:09AM IF YOU WANT TO HELP THE HOMELESS, HELP THEM GET A GUN PERMIT
9:58:12AM AND HELP THEM GET A GOOD EDUCATION.
9:58:16AM HELP THEM GET ENOUGH GUNS TO DO WHAT'S NECESSARY, TO DO
9:58:21AM EXACTLY WHAT'S NECESSARY TO PROTECT THEMSELVES, THEIR
9:58:24AM FAMILIES AND THEIR INTERESTS IF YOU WANT TO HELP THE
9:58:26AM HOMELESS.
9:58:26AM THIS CITY HAVE THOUSANDS OF TRICKS THAT THEY PULL ON AFRICAN
9:58:32AM PEOPLE.
9:58:32AM THIS TRICK THEY ARE PULLING RIGHT NOW WITH THIS MONEY THAT
9:58:35AM THEY ARE SPENDING ALL THIS DECORATION ON LIGHTS AND
9:58:38AM RIVERWALK AND WHATEVER, WHATEVER, WHATEVER, THEY HAVE BEEN
9:58:42AM PULLING THAT ON AFRICAN PEOPLE FOR THE LONGEST.
9:58:45AM THAT'S HOW THEY GOT THE BUCCANEERS.
9:58:46AM HEY, DO THIS, SUPPORT THIS, WE'LL DO THIS, DO THAT FOR EAST
9:58:49AM TAMPA, WEST TAMPA AND NOTHING IS DONE.
9:58:51AM WE NEED TO SEE SOME REAL SOLUTIONS.
9:58:56AM REAL SOLUTIONS.
9:58:57AM WE NEED TO SEE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN A WAY WHERE PEOPLE
9:59:00AM CAN START SEEING SOMETHING THAT THEY CAN PASS ON TO ANOTHER
9:59:05AM GENERATION.
9:59:05AM FIRST IS THEM TAKING AWAY EVERYTHING FROM AFRICAN PEOPLE.
9:59:09AM WHEN YOU GO THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOODS, YOU DON'T SEE
9:59:12AM ANYTHING WORTH EVEN LOOKING AT IT.
9:59:14AM YOU SEE IT GETTING PREPPED FOR GENTRIFICATION.
9:59:16AM THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE.
9:59:17AM NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.
9:59:19AM THEY ARE RUNNING ALL THE AFRICAN PEOPLE IN THE COUNTY.
9:59:21AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
9:59:22AM ROBIN LOCKETT, PASTOR WILLIAMS.
9:59:25AM JOSE VASQUEZ, MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
9:59:30AM GOOD MORNING, MA'AM.
9:59:31AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:59:32AM ROBIN LOCKETT.
9:59:33AM HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY.
9:59:35AM IT'S GOING TO BE A GREAT YEAR.
9:59:38AM FIRST, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IS COUNCIL HAVE THE ABILITY
9:59:42AM TO PIVOT.
9:59:44AM I'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT THE RIVERWALK FOR A WHILE NOW, 10
9:59:49AM MILLION, 26 MILLION.
9:59:50AM BUT THERE ARE MORE PRESSING ISSUES HAPPENING IN THE CITY
9:59:56AM THAT TAKES PRIORITY OVER IT.
9:59:58AM YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT THEIR PROPERTIES HAVE BEEN DAMAGED,
10:00:02AM AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN DAMAGED THAT WASN'T INTENDED.
10:00:05AM WE HAD TWO HURRICANES, AND THOSE CONNECTING AREAS, WEST
10:00:11AM TAMPA, HYDE PARK, WEST TAMPA AND TAMPA HEIGHTS, AGAIN,
10:00:17AM POPULATION IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT.
10:00:20AM AND THE PEOPLE THAT WERE ORIGINALLY IN THAT AREA, CANNOT --
10:00:25AM CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO BE IN THAT AREA.
10:00:28AM BUT THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR COUNCIL TO BE MINDFUL OF
10:00:32AM TAXPAYER MONEY AND HAVE THE ABILITY TO PIVOT.
10:00:35AM PUT IT ON HOLD.
10:00:36AM THAT'S NOTHING URGENT.
10:00:38AM BUT THE FLOODING IN NORTH TAMPA IS URGENT.
10:00:42AM THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER THINGS THAT'S URGENT.
10:00:44AM I HAD SOMETHING ELSE ON MY MIND BUT I WAS INVOLVED WITH
10:00:49AM THAT.
10:00:50AM BUT I REALLY WANT TO POINT THAT OUT IN REGARDS TO THE
10:00:53AM RIVERWALK.
10:00:54AM JUST TAKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO PIVOT.
10:00:55AM THAT'S WITH ANYTHING COMING ACROSS.
10:00:57AM IF IT'S NOT URGENT, WE HAVE TO DO SOMETHING BECAUSE PEOPLE,
10:01:02AM I'M UP HERE -- I'M HERE ALL THE TIME, AS YOU GUYS KNOW.
10:01:06AM I KEEP HEARING THE SAME OLD THING ABOUT EAST TAMPA.
10:01:10AM ALL THE TIME.
10:01:13AM SO THERE'S SOME TRUTH.
10:01:16AM YOU'RE LOOKING THROUGH THE LENS FROM THEM.
10:01:19AM THEY ARE NOT SEEING WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS HAPPENING.
10:01:23AM AND THAT IS CONCERNING.
10:01:24AM 2025, WITH ALL OF THE OTHER HATE THAT'S GOING ON IN AMERICA,
10:01:31AM AGAIN, BUILD TAMPA TO BE FOR EVERYBODY.
10:01:35AM NOBODY SHOULD BE LEFT OUT.
10:01:38AM SO WHEN YOU'RE SITTING UP THERE, YOU'RE LOOKING THROUGH THE
10:01:41AM LENS OR EVEN ATTEMPTING TO LOOK THROUGH THE LENS OF OTHERS,
10:01:44AM TAKING IN, NOT LISTENING AT THEM BECAUSE WHEN YOU ARE
10:01:48AM LISTENING AT SOMEBODY, YOU'RE SAYING, OKAY, OKAY, AND.
10:01:51AM BUT IF YOU'RE LISTENING TO THEM, YOU ARE EMBRACING WHAT THEY
10:01:54AM ARE SAYING AND YOU ARE TRYING TO REALLY UNDERSTAND.
10:01:57AM AND IT WILL POSSIBLY EVEN TAKE SOME OF YOU GUYS TO EVEN HAVE
10:02:01AM A FATHOM TO GO DRIVE AROUND AND SEE IF YOU WANT TO LIVE IN
10:02:06AM THE AREA THAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.
10:02:07AM AND THAT WILL OPEN YOU UP TO THINK DIFFERENTLY WHEN YOU'RE
10:02:11AM VOTING.
10:02:12AM THANK YOU.
10:02:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
10:02:13AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:02:14AM PASTOR FRANK WILLIAMS, JOSE VASQUEZ AND MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
10:02:21AM GOOD MORNING, SIR.
10:02:21AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:02:22AM MY NAME IS PASTOR WILLIAMS.
10:02:24AM LOCATED 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET.
10:02:27AM THAT'S WHERE MY CHURCH IS.
10:02:29AM YOU KNOW WHAT?
10:02:30AM I THOUGHT I BROUGHT IT IN.
10:02:34AM MILTON DESTROYED MY HOUSE, MY ROOF AND EVERYTHING.
10:02:42AM SOMEBODY WROTE ME A LETTER.
10:02:46AM I DON'T KNOW WHO IT WAS, BUT THEY WROTE ME A LETTER AND TOLD
10:02:49AM ME I WASN'T QUALIFIED FOR THE DISASTER MONEY OR NOTHING
10:02:56AM ELSE.
10:02:56AM I GOT THE LETTER HERE, BUT I HAVE TO DIG FOR IT.
10:03:00AM YOU KNOW WHAT?
10:03:01AM IT'S SO SAD THE WAY WHITE FOLKS TREAT BLACK FOLKS.
10:03:09AM TREAT WORSE THAN A DOG.
10:03:15AM DOG, PICK THEM UP, TAKE THEM TO A DOCTOR.
10:03:17AM LET ONE OF US GET HURT SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THEY WALK OVER
10:03:21AM US.
10:03:22AM YOU KNOW WHAT, WE GOT TO KEEP PRAYING AND KEEP TRUSTING IN
10:03:27AM GOD.
10:03:27AM WHAT'S IT DOING TO ME?
10:03:28AM IT AIN'T GOING TO STOP ME FROM TRUSTING IN GOD.
10:03:32AM KEEPING MY FAITH IN GOD.
10:03:34AM I'LL KEEP MY FAITH IN GOD UNTIL THE DAY I DIE.
10:03:37AM BECAUSE HE IS THE ONE WHO CREDIT ALL OF US TO BE HERE TODAY.
10:03:40AM WHEN BLACK FOLKS COME UP HERE BEGGING, BEGGING, SEEMS LIKE
10:03:46AM YOU ALL DON'T HAVE NO EAR.
10:03:49AM HEAR NOTHING WE'RE SAYING AND DON'T GIVE A DAMN.
10:03:52AM WHAT I HAVE TO DO, I BRING THE LETTER NEXT WEEK WHERE THEY
10:04:00AM DISQUALIFIED ME FOR GETTING DISASTER MONEY TO FIX MY ROOF.
10:04:05AM MY ROOF STILL LEAKING.
10:04:07AM MY WATER STILL CUT OFF.
10:04:09AM THERE ARE THINGS GOING ON.
10:04:11AM I'M HANDICAP.
10:04:12AM OLD SENIOR CITIZEN.
10:04:14AM NO, DON'T CARE ABOUT NOBODY LIKE ME.
10:04:19AM WE DON'T CARE ABOUT NO -- AND TALKING ABOUT THINGS THAT NEED
10:04:29AM SOME HELP.
10:04:29AM AND WE DON'T WANT NOBODY COMING BY HOUSE TAKING PICTURES AND
10:04:35AM DON'T DO NOTHING ABOUT IT.
10:04:37AM JUST TAKE A PICTURE AND TELL ME MY HOUSE IN FORECLOSURE AND
10:04:44AM ALL OF THAT STUFF.
10:04:45AM IT'S RIDICULOUS HOW YOU ALL MISTREAT PEOPLE OF COLOR.
10:04:50AM I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT MYSELF.
10:04:52AM I'M TALKING ABOUT ALL, EVERYBODY THAT COME UP HERE AND STAND
10:04:57AM UP.
10:04:57AM YOU CAN SEE WHAT COLOR WE ARE.
10:05:00AM I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.
10:05:02AM DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT FRANK WILLIAMS.
10:05:04AM HE IS A BLACK MAN.
10:05:06AM STOP LOOKING AT THE COLOR OF OUR SKIN.
10:05:12AM OUR CITIZENSHIP.
10:05:15AM WE DESERVE EVERYTHING THAT WE DESERVE.
10:05:19AM YOU KNOW WHO BUILT THIS COUNTRY?
10:05:21AM SLAVES.
10:05:23AM BLACK SLAVES BUILT THIS COUNTRY UP.
10:05:27AM THAT'S WHY IT LOOKS AS GOOD AS IT DO.
10:05:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:05:32AM >> YOU WANT ME TO SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN.
10:05:34AM YOU AIN'T GOT TO TELL ME.
10:05:36AM I'LL SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN ANYWAY.
10:05:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: JOSE VASQUEZ AND MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
10:05:43AM GOOD MORNING, SIR.
10:05:44AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:05:45AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:05:47AM MY NAME IS JOSE VASQUEZ.
10:05:49AM I'M A RESIDENT OF 2222 NORTH 64th STREET.
10:05:53AM MY BUSINESS IS LOCATED 1924 NORTH 60th STREET.
10:06:00AM I'M HERE BECAUSE I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH A PROPERTY OWNED BY
10:06:04AM THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:06:07AM MR. MARTIN, BECAUSE MY LAST CONVERSATION WITH THE TAMPA
10:06:10AM POLICE ABOUT THIS ISSUE, TOLD ME TO TAKE IT TO CIVIL.
10:06:14AM THAT IS THE REASON I AM HERE TODAY BECAUSE FOR YEARS THE
10:06:24AM CITY OF TAMPA IS THE OWNER OF THIS BLOCK RIGHT HERE ON
10:06:27AM 59th STREET.
10:06:28AM THE PROPERTY I RENTED, THE ONLY ACCESS IS THROUGH THAT ROAD.
10:06:36AM NOW, I'VE GOT TWO NEIGHBORS WHO DECIDE TO TAKE OVER THE
10:06:41AM PROPERTY THAT BELONGS TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:06:43AM THEY PUT A FENCE, ONE NEIGHBOR USED IT AS A PARKING LOT AND
10:06:47AM DUMPING TRASH.
10:06:48AM THE OTHER NEIGHBOR, WHAT HE DO, TAKE IT FENCE, RENT THE
10:06:55AM PROPERTY, MAKE PROFIT AND DO A LOT OF THINGS CAUSING
10:06:59AM FLOODING AND PROBLEMS TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:07:02AM YESTERDAY, MOBILITY WAS OVER THERE BECAUSE THEY NEED TO FIX
10:07:09AM A BRIDGE.
10:07:10AM I WISH THAT ALL OF YOU CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN TAKE A LOOK
10:07:16AM AT WHAT I EXPLAIN TO YOU.
10:07:17AM MY PROBLEM IS, THIS GENTLEMAN USING YOUR PROPERTY TO DENY ME
10:07:23AM LEGAL ACCESS TO MY ENTRY OF MY BUSINESS.
10:07:26AM I DISCOVERED THIS BECAUSE A TREE FALL ON TOP OF MY VEHICLE
10:07:31AM ON JUNE 8.
10:07:32AM THAT WAS MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT.
10:07:34AM WHEN ASKING MY NEIGHBORS, WHO IS RESPONSIBLE TO FIX MY
10:07:38AM TRUCK?
10:07:38AM THAT TREE DOES NOT BELONG TO ME.
10:07:43AM I CALL THE CITY OF TAMPA TO EXPLAIN THE PROBLEM, AND WHEN
10:07:47AM THE CREW COME, THEY TELL ME, HOLD ON, NOT SUPPOSED TO COME
10:07:51AM THIS WAY.
10:07:53AM THAT IS THE REASON I FIGURED OUT, OPENED THIS NEW PANDORA'S
10:07:58AM BOX, ASKING YOU SUPPORT TO TAKE BACK YOUR PROPERTY, WHAT IS
10:08:03AM MY LEGAL INTEREST FOR DO BUSINESS.
10:08:06AM IT IS SO SAD.
10:08:07AM TRY TO CLEAN THE PROPERTY, PUT EVERYTHING ON THE CURB.
10:08:13AM REQUIRED BY THE LAW.
10:08:14AM AND THIS NEIGHBOR -- I GOT IT RECORDED.
10:08:22AM TAMPA POLICE DO NOT WANT TO ISSUE A TICKET.
10:08:27AM MAYBE HE DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT.
10:08:28AM I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK FOR YOUR HELP AND SUPPORT TO TAKE BACK
10:08:32AM YOUR PROPERTY AND TO SEE THAT AREA.
10:08:36AM MS. GWENDOLYN, WE HAVE TO DO A LOT OF WORK.
10:08:38AM WHEN YOU SEE THE PROPERTY MAPS, YOU GOT TO SEE THE BIG
10:08:43AM COMPANIES TAKE OVER THE CITY OF TAMPA ROAD, ESPECIALLY
10:08:46AM 10th AVENUE.
10:08:48AM CONNECTING PROPERTIES AND THIS IS ILLEGAL.
10:08:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:08:51AM >> YOU'RE WELCOME.
10:08:53AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MR. VASQUEZ, IF I MAY, I BELIEVE I TALKED
10:08:56AM TO YOU ABOUT A MONTH AGO.
10:08:58AM I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS THE SAME PROPERTY.
10:08:59AM >> YES.
10:09:01AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OPERATION IS.
10:09:08AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING, YOU HAVE A LIST OF
10:09:12AM ITEMS, CAN YOU WRITE US A LETTER OF ALL THAT?
10:09:15AM I WANT TO FIND OUT WHO OWNS THE PROPERTY, FIRST OF ALL.
10:09:18AM YOU SAID THE CITY OF TAMPA OWNS THE PROPERTY, INGRESS AND
10:09:21AM EGRESS WITHOUT PAYING ANYTHING.
10:09:23AM AND YOUR PROPERTY IS RIGHT NEXT DOOR.
10:09:26AM >> IT'S AT THE END OF THE ROAD.
10:09:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I'LL GIVE YOU HIS PHONE NUMBER AND
10:09:31AM EVERYTHING.
10:09:33AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:09:34AM >> CAN YOU GIVE ME 30 SECONDS?
10:09:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL CONTACT YOU.
10:09:38AM MICHAEL RANDOLPH, ARE YOU ONLINE, SIR?
10:09:43AM HE'S NOT.
10:09:48AM THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:09:49AM WE'LL START WITH THE AGENDA.
10:09:53AM ITEM NUMBER 3 IS A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE REAPPOINTMENT OF
10:09:57AM TREVOR ROSINE BY THE MAYOR TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS BOARD OF THE
10:10:01AM CITY OF TAMPA AND THE OTHER POSITION FOR A THREE-YEAR TERM
10:10:05AM COMMENCING FEBRUARY 18.
10:10:08AM MOTION TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER
10:10:10AM HENDERSON, SECOND FROM MIRANDA.
10:10:12AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:10:12AM AYE.
10:10:13AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:10:13AM FOR THE WALK-ON ITEM, IT IS A RESOLUTION ON THE ADDENDUM.
10:10:19AM APPROVING THE EXECUTION BY THE MAYOR AND THE ATTESTATION BY
10:10:21AM THE CITY CLERK OF A LICENSE AND HOLD HARMLESS AGREEMENT
10:10:24AM BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE TAMPA PORT AUTHORITY, DBA, PORT OF
10:10:28AM TAMPA, YE MYSTIC KREWE OF GASPARILLA AND LICENSEE, IN ORDER
10:10:38AM TO ALLOW YE MYSTIC KREWE TO CONSTRUCT A TEMPORARY RETROFIT
10:10:42AM OF THE HURRICANE-DAMAGED BALLAST POINT FOR THEIR USE AS
10:10:43AM CERTAIN IDENTIFIED EVENTS, WHICH IS GASPARILLA.
10:10:44AM CAN I GET A MOTION?
10:10:45AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IT IS AN ITEM THAT THEY ARE TAKING FULL
10:10:47AM RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY DAMAGE OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT HAPPENS.
10:10:49AM THE CITY OF TAMPA CITIZENS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING.
10:10:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: EXACTLY.
10:10:52AM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:10:54AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
10:10:55AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:10:56AM AYE.
10:10:56AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:10:58AM ALL RIGHT.
10:11:00AM ITEM NUMBER 4-12.
10:11:04AM >>LUIS VIERA: SO MOVED.
10:11:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
10:11:06AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:11:08AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:11:10AM AYE.
10:11:10AM ANY OPPOSED.
10:11:11AM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
10:11:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I MOVE ITEMS 13-17 FOR NEIGHBORHOOD AND
10:11:17AM COMMUNITY AFFAIRS.
10:11:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:11:19AM HENDERSON.
10:11:19AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:11:20AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:11:21AM AYE.
10:11:22AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:11:23AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MOVE ITEMS 18 THROUGH 24.
10:11:26AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
10:11:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:11:28AM HURTAK.
10:11:28AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:11:30AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:11:30AM AYE.
10:11:31AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, 25-32 --
10:11:34AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: 25-32 WITH 29 PULLED.
10:11:37AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND FROM COUNCIL
10:11:40AM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:11:41AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:11:42AM AYE.
10:11:42AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:11:43AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, YOU ARE THE VICE-CHAIR FOR
10:11:46AM DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
10:11:48AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE ITEMS 33 THROUGH 37.
10:11:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:11:52AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:11:53AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:11:53AM AYE.
10:11:54AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:11:54AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, YOU ARE THE CHAIR OF MOBILITY AND
10:11:57AM ASSET, 38-40.
10:11:58AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOVE ITEMS 38, 39, 40.
10:12:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM CLENDENIN AND SECOND FROM
10:12:03AM MIRANDA.
10:12:03AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:12:03AM AYE.
10:12:04AM ITEMS 41, 2, AND 3 NEED TO BE SET FOR PUBLIC HEARING.
10:12:13AM SECOND FROM CLENDENIN TO SET FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS.
10:12:17AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:12:18AM AYE.
10:12:20AM >>LUIS VIERA: I WANTED TO POINT OUT TO COUNCIL, ITEMS 13,
10:12:23AM 15, 16, WE PASSED SOME REALLY SPECIAL PROGRAMS THAT I THINK
10:12:27AM WE ALL OUGHT TO BE PROUD OF.
10:12:30AM IT GIVES FUNDS TO THE GROW GROUP AND ACHIEVING SYNERGY FOR
10:12:35AM EMPOWERMENT INCORPORATED FOR THE SPECIAL NEEDS INTERNSHIP
10:12:38AM WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA, WHICH IS RIGHT NOW, WE ACTUALLY HAVE
10:12:42AM IT RUNNING AND THIS WILL FURTHER REFINE IT, $15 AN HOUR
10:12:47AM PROGRAM FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INTERNSHIPS, PEOPLE WITH
10:12:50AM INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES, AUTISM, ET CETERA, WILL BENEFIT
10:12:53AM FROM THIS.
10:12:54AM AND THAT MOVES THAT FORWARD.
10:12:55AM ITEM NUMBER 16 IS A $75,000 GRANT FOR THE PENGUIN PROJECT
10:13:00AM FROM THE NEW TAMPA PLAYERS, WHICH RUNS SPECIAL NEEDS
10:13:03AM THEATER.
10:13:04AM I KNOW SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS I'M SURE HAVE SEEN THEIR
10:13:09AM PRODUCTIONS, ET CETERA.
10:13:10AM BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT I PUSHED FOR SOME TIME AGO.
10:13:14AM I THINK THIS IS THE SECOND YEAR GETTING THIS, IF I RECALL,
10:13:18AM BECAUSE THEY NEED TO HAVE SUPPORT.
10:13:22AM THE ARTS, IF WE JUST GO FOR THE BIG SHINY THINGS WHEN IT
10:13:25AM COMES TO THE ARTS, I THINK WE'LL WIND UP IGNORING SMALLER
10:13:28AM INSTITUTIONS LIKE THIS.
10:13:29AM AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
10:13:30AM I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT FOR COUNCIL THAT THESE ARE
10:13:33AM REALLY GOOD THINGS THAT WE ALL OUGHT TO BE PROUD OF FOR
10:13:38AM PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES.
10:13:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:13:40AM LET'S GET A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARINGS FOR 10:00.
10:13:44AM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:13:46AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:13:47AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:13:48AM AYE.
10:13:50AM IT'S JUST 10:00 HEARINGS TODAY.
10:13:51AM ITEM 44 IS NON-QUASI-JUDICIAL.
10:13:54AM WE DON'T HAVE TO SWEAR FOLKS IN YET.
10:13:56AM ITEM 44, MR. MALLOY, COME UP, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME GOOD
10:14:07AM MORNING, SIR.
10:14:08AM >> COUNCIL MEMBERS, GOOD MORNING.
10:14:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD, SIR.
10:14:20AM >> THIS IS EXACTLY, COUNCIL MEMBERS, WHAT WE PRESENTED TO
10:14:22AM YOU ABOUT 30 DAYS AGO.
10:14:24AM THIS IS THE FIRST PART OF TWO APPLICATIONS YOU'LL SEE FROM
10:14:27AM US.
10:14:28AM THIS IS THE VACATING PORTION.
10:14:31AM ALL I WANT TO STRESS TO YOU RIGHT NOW IS I THINK THAT WE MAY
10:14:34AM HAVE CONFUSED YOU OR OURSELVES THE FIRST TIME AROUND ABOUT
10:14:38AM WHAT WE WERE VACATING AND WHAT WE WERE USING FOR ACCESS.
10:14:44AM THIS PART OF THE APPLICATION, WE'RE ASKING TO VACATE THIS
10:14:47AM HERE.
10:14:48AM WE CONTROL BOTH SIDES OF THE ALLEY HERE.
10:14:50AM WE WOULD BE THE BENEFIT OF THIS PART.
10:14:52AM THIS IS NOT OUR PROPERTY, SO THIS NEIGHBOR WOULD GET THIS
10:14:55AM HALF OF THE ALLEY.
10:14:56AM THIS IS NOT OUR ACCESS PROGRAM THAT WAS SO DISCUSSED
10:15:03AM VIBRANTLY LAST TIME.
10:15:05AM THIS IS JUST THE VACATING PORTION.
10:15:07AM THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO MAKE CLEAR.
10:15:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:15:09AM ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT?
10:15:10AM IS THERE ANYTHING FURTHER TO THE PRESENTATION?
10:15:12AM I SEE NONE.
10:15:15AM DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT HERE?
10:15:17AM I BELIEVE WE HAVE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE FOR 44.
10:15:19AM IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPEAK ON 44, PLEASE COME ON UP AND STATE
10:15:23AM YOUR NAME.
10:15:25AM >> MOTION TO CLOSE.
10:15:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO.
10:15:27AM OKAY.
10:15:27AM ALL RIGHT.
10:15:28AM THERE'S NOBODY REGISTERED.
10:15:29AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE FOR ITEM 44.
10:15:32AM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
10:15:33AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
10:15:35AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:15:36AM AYE.
10:15:36AM ANY OPPOSED.
10:15:37AM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, WOULD YOU READ 44?
10:15:41AM >>LUIS VIERA: I MOVE AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR --
10:15:49AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MAY I SAY SOMETHING?
10:15:50AM I CHANGED MY MIND AS THE OTHER COUNCIL MEMBER CAME IN.
10:15:53AM I WAS ASKING TO WAIT FOR MORE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
10:15:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON IS ABSENT TODAY,
10:15:57AM BUT THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE.
10:16:00AM >> WHICH ITEM?
10:16:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: 44.
10:16:03AM >>LUIS VIERA: DO YOU NEED ANYTHING BEFORE I READ IT OR ARE
10:16:05AM YOU GOOD TO VOTE?
10:16:06AM JUST MAKING SURE.
10:16:07AM >>LUIS VIERA: I MOVE AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND
10:16:10AM READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA,
10:16:12AM FLORIDA, VACATING, CLOSING, DISCONTINUING, AND ABANDONING
10:16:14AM THAT ALLEYWAY/RIGHT-OF-WAY LOCATED NORTH OF AMELIA AVENUE,
10:16:18AM SOUTH OF COLUMBUS DRIVE, EAST OF GLENWOOD DRIVE AND WEST OF
10:16:22AM NORTH BOULEVARD WITHIN THE PLAT OF RIDGEWOOD PARK,
10:16:26AM SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY,
10:16:27AM FLORIDA, AS MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 2 HEREOF,
10:16:31AM SUBJECT TO CERTAIN COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS AS
10:16:34AM MORE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH HEREIN; PROVIDING FOR
10:16:37AM ENFORCEMENT AND PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS; PROVIDING FOR
10:16:39AM DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATIONS AND REPEALING CONFLICTS;
10:16:43AM PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:16:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:16:47AM VIERA.
10:16:47AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:16:50AM IT'S GOING TO BE A ROLL CALL VOTE, A VOICE VOTE?
10:16:56AM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM VIERA.
10:16:58AM SECOND FROM CLENDENIN.
10:16:59AM VOICE ROLL CALL.
10:17:05AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
10:17:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
10:17:08AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:17:10AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO.
10:17:12AM >> CARLSON?
10:17:13AM HURTAK?
10:17:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:17:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO.
10:17:19AM >>THE CLERK: THE MOTION FAILED DUE TO IT BEING TIED.
10:17:26AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: READ THE VOTES, PLEASE.
10:17:27AM >>THE CLERK: IT'S 3-3.
10:17:30AM CLENDENIN, HENDERSON -- CLENDENIN, VIERA AND HURTAK VOTED
10:17:35AM YES.
10:17:36AM HENDERSON, MIRANDA, AND MANISCALCO VOTED NO.
10:17:38AM CARLSON IS ABSENT.
10:17:40AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIRMAN, RULE 4-C STATES THAT IF A
10:17:44AM MOTION TO APPROVE, DENY, OR CONTINUE AN ORDINANCE OR
10:17:46AM RESOLUTION OF A LEGISLATIVE MATTER, IF IT FAILS TO RECEIVE
10:17:49AM AT LEAST FOUR VOTES EITHER IN SUPPORT OR OPPOSITION, IT
10:17:52AM SHALL AUTOMATICALLY BE BROUGHT BEFORE THE COUNCIL AT THE
10:17:55AM NEXT REGULAR MEETING AS UNFINISHED BUSINESS.
10:17:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHTY.
10:18:00AM IT WILL COME BACK -- LET ME SEE WHAT THE DATE IS.
10:18:05AM JANUARY 23.
10:18:06AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IN THAT CASE.
10:18:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: FOR THE TIEBREAKER VOTE.
10:18:10AM CAN WE PROCEED WITH 45 SINCE IT IS CLOSE TO IT OR ATTACHED
10:18:18AM TO IT.
10:18:18AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MY SUGGESTION.
10:18:24AM >>CATE WELLS: CATE WELLS, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
10:18:26AM SINCE THE VACATING PETITION FAILED DUE TO A TIED VOTE, THE
10:18:31AM AREA PROPOSED TO BE VACATED IS INCLUDED WITHIN THE SITE PLAN
10:18:35AM FOR THE REZONING UNDER ITEM 45.
10:18:37AM IT WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION THAT ITEM 45 BE CONTINUED TO
10:18:41AM THE SAME DAY THAT COUNCIL WILL TAKE UP THE VACATING
10:18:45AM PETITION.
10:18:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: 44 AND 45 WILL COME BACK JANUARY 23rd
10:18:51AM AT THE NEXT REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING BECAUSE OF THE TIE VOTE,
10:18:54AM BECAUSE WE NEED TO HAVE FOUR VOTES ONE WAY OR THE OTHER --
10:18:58AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE 44 AND 45 TO JANUARY 23rd.
10:19:03AM MR. SHELBY.
10:19:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE A QUESTION FOR MS. WELLS.
10:19:06AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: ALSO, DO YOU WANT TO TAKE UP AS PART OF THE
10:19:09AM MOTION, DATE, TIME AND PLACE PLEASE.
10:19:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: 10 A.M. FOR BOTH OF THEM.
10:19:14AM 315 EAST KENNEDY BOULEVARD, THIRD FLOOR, TAMPA, FLORIDA,
10:19:17AM 33602, WHICH IS THIS ROOM, JANUARY 23rd, 10 A.M. PUBLIC
10:19:21AM HEARING.
10:19:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE A QUESTION FOR MS. WELLS.
10:19:25AM IF THIS GOES TO A DENIAL, DOESN'T COUNCIL HAVE TO COME UP
10:19:37AM WITH COMPETENT AND SUBSTANTIAL EVIDENCE TO PUT INTO THE
10:19:41AM RECORD FOR THE DENIAL AT THIS STAGE OR NO?
10:19:44AM >>CATE WELLS: I DON'T KNOW WHERE RON IS.
10:19:49AM THE VACATING PETITION IS THE LEGISLATIVE.
10:19:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SORRY.
10:19:55AM WASN'T THINKING.
10:19:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE THESE TWO
10:19:57AM ITEMS TO JANUARY 23, 10 A.M., AT THIS LOCATION.
10:20:00AM YES, SIR.
10:20:04AM >> COUNCIL MEMBERS, ANY EDITORIAL YOU CAN GIVE ME TO COME
10:20:06AM BACK AND HELP THIS CASE, I'M OPEN TO IT RIGHT NOW.
10:20:09AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MY SUGGESTION, COUNCIL, WITH REGARD TO ITEM
10:20:14AM 44, IF YOU COULD MAKE A MOTION ALONG WITH CONTINUING IT.
10:20:20AM IF IT'S A MOTION TO CONTINUE, THE HEARING SHOULD BE REOPENED
10:20:23AM FOR THAT PURPOSE.
10:20:24AM IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS TO BE RAISED ON ITEM 44, THAT
10:20:27AM WOULD BE THE TIME FOR COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON, WHO IS ABSENT,
10:20:29AM OR ANYBODY ELSE TO DO THAT.
10:20:36AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SHOULD WE ASK IF THERE'S ANYBODY ON
10:20:38AM COUNCIL THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION BEFORE
10:20:40AM WE REOPEN IT?
10:20:42AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: RIGHT NOW IT IS A 3-3 TIE.
10:20:45AM BY ACTION OF YOUR RULES, IT HAS NOT BEEN CLOSED.
10:20:54AM IT HAS TO BE REOPENED.
10:20:56AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO REOPEN.
10:20:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO REOPEN FROM COUNCILMAN
10:21:00AM CLENDENIN, SECOND FROM VIERA.
10:21:02AM VIERA, HURTAK, MIRANDA.
10:21:03AM >>LUIS VIERA: QUESTION FOR COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN, ARE YOU
10:21:07AM ASKING FOR SOMEONE TO EXPLAIN THEIR VOTE?
10:21:11AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK THE APPLICANT HAS ASKED FOR
10:21:17AM CLARIFICATION SO THEY CAN HAVE SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
10:21:20AM TO BRING TO THE NEXT HEARING.
10:21:23AM IF SOMEBODY AT THE DAIS WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE CLARIFICATION
10:21:26AM FOR THE DENIAL, MAYBE IT WOULD HELP THEM.
10:21:30AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I DON'T BELIEVE THAT IS APPROPRIATE NOW.
10:21:33AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT'S WHY I ASKED THE QUESTION BEFORE I
10:21:35AM DID IT.
10:21:36AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IT IS AFTER THE VOTE.
10:21:41AM THE MOTION TO CONTINUE, WAS IT PASSED?
10:21:43AM NO, WE DID NOT VOTE ON THE MOTION TO CONTINUE YET.
10:21:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK THE BEST THING I COULD RECOMMEND YOU
10:21:49AM DO IS GO BACK TO THE VIDEO OF THE LAST ONE AND KIND OF LOOK
10:21:53AM AT THAT.
10:21:54AM WE CAN'T GIVE ANY OTHER REASONING.
10:21:56AM SO THAT WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION TO YOU.
10:21:58AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: ALSO, COUNCIL, JUST REMIND YOU THAT THIS
10:22:01AM IS, AS MS. WELLS DID STATE, THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH A
10:22:06AM QUASI-JUDICIAL MATTER.
10:22:10AM THAT WILL HAVE TO BE ALSO TAKEN UP DEPENDING ON WHAT HAPPENS
10:22:14AM WITH ITEM 44, ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
10:22:16AM BUT THAT BEING THE CASE, I WOULD REMIND YOU WITH REGARD TO
10:22:22AM THE VICE TO AVOID ANY EX PARTE COMMUNICATIONS RELATIVE TO
10:22:26AM THE SUBJECT.
10:22:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:22:29AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO SAY WE OUGHT TO MAKE SURE WE
10:22:32AM HAVE A FULL COUNCIL.
10:22:33AM THAT WAY EVERYTHING IS DONE.
10:22:36AM HE HAS A RIGHT THEN TO APPEAL AND SPEAK TO US AS A FULL
10:22:41AM COUNCIL.
10:22:42AM MISSING ONE COUNCIL MEMBER.
10:22:43AM TO YOUR OWN BENEFIT, I WOULD SAY WAIT UNTIL YOU HAVE A FULL
10:22:46AM COUNCIL.
10:22:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:22:49AM NO.
10:22:49AM CAN WE CLOSE THE HEARING AGAIN?
10:22:52AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM VIERA.
10:22:54AM SECOND FROM MIRANDA.
10:22:55AM ALL IN FAVOR, AYE.
10:22:57AM WE REOPENED IT -- WE'RE NOT CLOSING THE HEARING.
10:23:09AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IT'S CONTINUED.
10:23:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE TO JANUARY
10:23:13AM 23rd, 10 A.M., 315 EAST KENNEDY BOULEVARD, THIRD FLOOR,
10:23:17AM TAMPA, 33602.
10:23:20AM YES, MA'AM.
10:23:29AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MS. WELLS -- ACTUALLY, NEVER MIND.
10:23:35AM I'LL HAVE TO ASK YOU OFF-LINE.
10:23:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE AND A
10:23:40AM SECOND.
10:23:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M JUST GOING TO ASK THE QUESTION.
10:23:43AM THE ORDINANCE ON FIRST READING WAS INITIATED BY THE PERSON
10:23:51AM WHO SWITCHED THEIR VOTE.
10:23:52AM DOES THAT MATTER?
10:23:54AM >>CATE WELLS: I'LL DEFER TO YOUR CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY ON
10:23:57AM RULES OF PROCEDURE.
10:23:59AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WAS IT READ AS A SECOND READING TODAY BY
10:24:04AM SOMEBODY DIFFERENT?
10:24:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:24:06AM JUST ASKING.
10:24:09AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION.
10:24:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SOMEBODY DIFFERENT.
10:24:12AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU.
10:24:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE.
10:24:14AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:24:14AM AYE.
10:24:15AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:24:15AM 44 AND 45 WILL COME BACK 10 A.M., JANUARY 23rd.
10:24:20AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:24:20AM ITEM NUMBER 46, TODD PRESSMAN IS REGISTERED REMOTELY.
10:24:26AM I DON'T SEE HIM HERE IN THE ROOM.
10:24:28AM IF YOU'RE GOING TO SPEAK ON 46 THROUGH 51 AND YOU ARE HERE
10:24:33AM IN THE ROOM, PLEASE STAND, RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND WE'LL
10:24:36AM SWEAR YOU IN.
10:24:42AM [OATH ADMINISTERED]
10:24:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS MR. PRESSMAN ONLINE?
10:24:49AM HE IS.
10:24:50AM ALL RIGHT.
10:24:50AM DID YOU SEE HIM RAISE HIS RIGHT HAND?
10:24:52AM I DON'T SEE HIM ON THE SCREEN.
10:25:01AM >>STEVE MICHELINI: MR. CHAIRMAN, I'M ALSO HERE ON THAT
10:25:03AM ISSUE.
10:25:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS THAT THE ONE THAT YOU STEPPED --
10:25:05AM >>STEVE MICHELINI: YES.
10:25:06AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD, MR. MICHELINI.
10:25:08AM 46.
10:25:08AM >>STEVE MICHELINI: THE REVISIONS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED AND WE
10:25:11AM WOULD RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR APPROVAL.
10:25:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY HERE IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES
10:25:14AM TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 46?
10:25:17AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN, SECOND FROM
10:25:21AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:25:21AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:25:22AM AYE.
10:25:23AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, MIND READING 46?
10:25:26AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: 46, FILE NUMBER REZ-24-09, ORDINANCE
10:25:31AM BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
10:25:32AM AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
10:25:35AM 4913 NORTH MacDILL AVENUE, IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
10:25:38AM FLORIDA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1, FROM
10:25:41AM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RM-24 --
10:25:44AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WAIT.
10:25:45AM YES, MS. WELLS.
10:25:46AM >>CATE WELLS: I WAS A LITTLE OFF GUARD.
10:25:49AM I BELIEVE STAFF IS AVAILABLE TO DO THE INITIAL PRESENTATION
10:25:51AM AND TO ADDRESS THE REVISIONS THAT WERE REQUIRED TO BE MADE
10:25:55AM BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING.
10:25:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN I GET A MOTION TO REOPEN THE PUBLIC
10:25:58AM HEARING?
10:25:58AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:26:00AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
10:26:01AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:26:02AM AYE.
10:26:02AM SIR, I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT.
10:26:05AM GO AHEAD.
10:26:07AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:26:09AM REVISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE TO THE SITE PLAN AS SUBMITTED ON
10:26:12AM THE REVISION SHEET AND REVISED PLANS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO
10:26:15AM THE CLERK.
10:26:16AM AS A REFRESHER, THIS ITEM IS A REQUEST FOR A REZONING FOR A
10:26:19AM PROPERTY LOCATED AT 4913 NORTH MacDILL AVENUE.
10:26:21AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY 24 TO
10:26:25AM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED.
10:26:27AM I'M AVAILABLE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:26:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:26:30AM ALL RIGHT.
10:26:31AM CAN I GET A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING?
10:26:33AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:26:35AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:26:37AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:26:37AM AYE.
10:26:38AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, I APOLOGIZE.
10:26:40AM NUMBER 46.
10:26:41AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO PROBLEM.
10:26:42AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:26:42AM ITEM 46, FILE REZ-24-09, AN ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR
10:26:47AM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY
10:26:49AM IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 4913 NORTH MacDILL AVENUE, IN
10:26:52AM THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED
10:26:55AM IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RM-14,
10:26:59AM RESIDENTIAL, MULTIFAMILY, TO PD, PLANNED DEVELOPMENT,
10:27:01AM RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY, ATTACHED, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE
10:27:03AM DATE.
10:27:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND FROM
10:27:06AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:27:07AM ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:27:10AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:27:11AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:27:12AM >> CARLSON?
10:27:12AM HURTAK?
10:27:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:27:15AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
10:27:16AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:27:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:27:19AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY AND CARLSON IS
10:27:22AM ABSENT.
10:27:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:27:24AM >> THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:27:25AM THANK YOU COUNCIL.
10:27:26AM GOOD TO SEE YOU ALL.
10:27:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR.
10:27:27AM HAPPY NEW YEAR.
10:27:28AM ENJOY YOUR DAY.
10:27:30AM >> THANK YOU.
10:27:30AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM 47.
10:27:35AM >> STEPHANIE POPE.
10:27:37AM DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:27:38AM ITEM 47 IS REZ 24-77.
10:27:41AM THIS ITEM IS A REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
10:27:44AM 4720 NORTH CLARK AVENUE.
10:27:47AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM INDUSTRIAL GENERAL TO PLANNED
10:27:50AM DEVELOPMENT FOR ALL INDUSTRIAL GENERAL USES.
10:27:53AM REVISIONS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND CERTIFIED PLANS HAVE BEEN
10:27:56AM SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
10:27:57AM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:27:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR MS. POPE?
10:28:01AM YES, SIR, MR. MICHELINI.
10:28:03AM GO AHEAD, SIR.
10:28:03AM >>STEVE MICHELINI: AS THE STAFF HAS INDICATED, THE REVISIONS
10:28:06AM HAVE BEEN MADE AND SUBMITTED, ACCEPTED AND APPROVED AND WE
10:28:10AM RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING YOUR APPROVAL.
10:28:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE -- ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT
10:28:15AM WISHES TO SPEAK ON 47?
10:28:16AM WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY VIRTUAL.
10:28:19AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:28:20AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:28:21AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:28:22AM AYE.
10:28:22AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:28:23AM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON, 47.
10:28:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOVE FILE REZ-24-77, AN ORDINANCE BEING
10:28:29AM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE
10:28:31AM REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 4720 NORTH
10:28:35AM CLARK AVENUE, IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND MORE
10:28:38AM PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1, FROM ZONING DISTRICT
10:28:40AM CLASSIFICATION IG, INDUSTRIAL GENERAL, TO PD, PLANNED
10:28:44AM DEVELOPMENT, ALL INDUSTRIAL GENERAL USES, PROVIDING AN
10:28:47AM EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:28:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION.
10:28:49AM DO WE HAVE A SECOND?
10:28:49AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:28:51AM ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:28:53AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:28:54AM >> CARLSON?
10:28:54AM HURTAK?
10:28:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:28:56AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
10:28:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:28:59AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:29:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:29:01AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY AND CARLSON ABSENT.
10:29:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM 48, MR. THOMAS.
10:29:11AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:29:13AM ITEM 48 IS REZ 24-94.
10:29:16AM THIS ITEM IS A REQUEST TO REZONE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 4107
10:29:19AM AND 4115 WEST SPRUCE STREET.
10:29:21AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT TO PLANNED
10:29:24AM DEVELOPMENT FOR RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY.
10:29:26AM REVISIONS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND CERTIFIED PLANS SUBMITTED
10:29:29AM TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
10:29:30AM I'M AVAILABLE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:29:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE GENTLEMAN?
10:29:34AM I SEE NONE.
10:29:35AM MS. SCHALER IS REGISTERED ONLINE BUT HERE.
10:29:38AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:29:39AM I HAVE NOTHING FURTHER TO ADD BUT HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY
10:29:41AM QUESTIONS.
10:29:42AM ALEX SCHALER.
10:29:44AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO
10:29:45AM SPEAK ON 48?
10:29:46AM I SEE NO ONE.
10:29:47AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:29:49AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:29:50AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:29:51AM AYE.
10:29:51AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, 48.
10:29:53AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE FILE REZ-24-94, ORDINANCE BEING
10:29:58AM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE
10:30:00AM REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 4107 AND 4115
10:30:04AM WEST SPRUCE STREET IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA AND MORE
10:30:07AM PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1, FROM ZONING DISTRICT
10:30:10AM CLASSIFICATION PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, TO PD, PLANNED
10:30:13AM DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL, MULTIFAMILY, PROVIDING AN
10:30:15AM EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:30:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:30:17AM CLENDENIN.
10:30:17AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:30:20AM ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
10:30:21AM >> CARLSON?
10:30:22AM HURTAK?
10:30:22AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:30:23AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
10:30:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:30:25AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:30:26AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:30:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:30:29AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY WITH CARLSON BEING
10:30:32AM ABSENT.
10:30:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:30:33AM ITEM 49.
10:30:35AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:30:37AM ITEM 49 IS REZ-24-107.
10:30:41AM THIS ITEM IS A REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
10:30:43AM 203 SOUTH MOODY AVENUE.
10:30:45AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM RESIDENTIAL OFFICE 1 TO
10:30:48AM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY DETACHED
10:30:51AM AND SEMI DETACHED.
10:30:52AM REVISIONS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND CERTIFIED PLANS HAVE BEEN
10:30:54AM SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
10:30:56AM I'M AVAILABLE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:30:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
10:30:58AM IS THERE AN APPLICANT?
10:31:00AM ITEM 49.
10:31:01AM MR. MICHELINI.
10:31:02AM >>STEVE MICHELINI: YES.
10:31:05AM THE REVISIONS HAVE BEEN MADE AND ACCEPTED BY THE STAFF AND
10:31:09AM CERTIFIED.
10:31:10AM WE RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR APPROVAL.
10:31:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:31:13AM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WISHING TO SPEAK ON ITEM 49.
10:31:17AM SEE NO ONE.
10:31:17AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM MIRANDA, SECOND BY CLENDENIN.
10:31:20AM >>LYNN HURTAK: FILE REZ-24-107, ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED
10:31:26AM FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
10:31:27AM AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
10:31:29AM 203 SOUTH MOODY AVENUE, IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND
10:31:33AM MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1, FROM ZONING
10:31:36AM DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RO-1, RESIDENTIAL OFFICE, TO PD,
10:31:40AM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY, DETACHED
10:31:42AM AND SEMI DETACHED; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:31:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
10:31:47AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:31:48AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:31:48AM AYE.
10:31:49AM SORRY, ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:31:52AM >> HURTAK?
10:31:53AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:31:54AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
10:31:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:31:56AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:31:58AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:31:59AM >> CARLSON?
10:31:59AM MANISCALCO.
10:32:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:32:01AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY WITH CARLSON BEING
10:32:03AM ABSENT.
10:32:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:32:04AM MR. THOMAS, ITEM --
10:32:06AM >>STEVE MICHELINI: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
10:32:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:32:08AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:32:10AM ITEM 50 IS REZ-25-11.
10:32:13AM A REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2705 AND 2708
10:32:18AM NORTH 18th STREET.
10:32:19AM REQUEST IS REZONE FROM RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY 50 TO
10:32:23AM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT STOREFRONT RESIDENTIAL, ALL COMMERCIAL
10:32:26AM NEIGHBORHOOD USES.
10:32:27AM CERTIFIED PLANS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
10:32:30AM I'M AVAILABLE IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:32:33AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM, PLEASE COME UP AND STATE
10:32:35AM YOUR NAME.
10:32:36AM >> HI.
10:32:38AM I'M HERE REPRESENTING THE APPLICANT.
10:32:40AM I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER TO ADD.
10:32:42AM THIS IS FOR THE REUSE OF THE CIGAR FACTORY.
10:32:45AM I'M HERE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
10:32:46AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
10:32:47AM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER
10:32:49AM 50?
10:32:50AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:32:53AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:32:54AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:32:56AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
10:32:58AM APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH.
10:32:58AM FILE REZ-25-11, ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING
10:33:03AM AND ADOPTION.
10:33:03AM AN ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
10:33:05AM 2705, 2708 NORTH 18th STREET IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
10:33:11AM FLORIDA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM
10:33:14AM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RS-50, RESIDENTIAL,
10:33:16AM SINGLE-FAMILY, TO PD, PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, STOREFRONT
10:33:19AM RESIDENTIAL, ALL COMMERCIAL NEIGHBORHOOD USES, PROVIDING AN
10:33:21AM EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:33:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:33:24AM CLENDENIN.
10:33:24AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
10:33:26AM ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:33:29AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
10:33:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES.
10:33:31AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:33:31AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:33:33AM >> CARLSON?
10:33:34AM HURTAK?
10:33:35AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:33:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:33:36AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY WITH CARLSON BEING
10:33:39AM ABSENT.
10:33:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT, MR. SHELBY, 51, THERE IS AN
10:33:45AM ERROR.
10:33:45AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES, AN ERROR I'LL ASK COUNCIL TO CORRECT
10:33:49AM ON THE AGENDA ON ITEM 51.
10:33:51AM AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ITEM, IT SAYS THE ORIGINAL MOTION WAS
10:33:53AM TO APPROVE BY A MOTION OF CARLSON AND VIERA.
10:34:01AM THE SECTION IN RED THAT SHOWS THE PREVIOUS VOTE OF CARLSON
10:34:03AM AND VIERA NO IS INCORRECT.
10:34:06AM IT SHOULD BE CORRECTLY STATED THAT COUNCIL MEMBERS CLENDENIN
10:34:11AM AND HENDERSON VOTED NO ON ITEM 51.
10:34:15AM I WOULD LIKE TO ASK CITY COUNCIL TO MAKE A MOTION AND A VOTE
10:34:19AM TO CORRECT TODAY'S AGENDA SO THAT IT CORRECTLY REFLECTS ITEM
10:34:24AM 51 TO SHOW THAT AT FIRST READING CLENDENIN AND HENDERSON
10:34:27AM VOTED NO.
10:34:28AM >> SO MOVED.
10:34:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:34:30AM HURTAK.
10:34:31AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:34:33AM THIS IS JUST TO CORRECT THE RECORD.
10:34:35AM CORRECT THE AGENDA.
10:34:37AM CORRECT THE AGENDA.
10:34:38AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:34:39AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:34:41AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: FOR THE RECORD, MR. CHAIRMAN, UPON THE
10:34:44AM CLERK CHECKING THE MINUTES OF THE DECEMBER 12th MEETING,
10:34:47AM IT WAS RECORDED CORRECTLY.
10:34:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OKAY.
10:34:49AM SO THE ACTUAL RECORD IS CORRECT.
10:34:52AM THE AGENDA IS INCORRECT.
10:34:53AM THEREFORE ITEM NUMBER 51 -- SORRY, MR. THOMAS AND THEN
10:34:57AM MS. SCHALER.
10:34:58AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
10:35:00AM ITEM 51 IS REZ-24-52.
10:35:04AM THIS ITEM IS A REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
10:35:06AM 205, 207, AND 209 EAST COLUMBUS DRIVE, 2301, 2303, 2307 AND
10:35:14AM 2315 NORTH FLORIDA AVENUE, 204 AND 206 EAST AMELIA AVENUE
10:35:20AM AND FOLIO NUMBER 191372-0000.
10:35:25AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY 24 AND
10:35:29AM COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE TO PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR STOREFRONT
10:35:32AM RESIDENTIAL, ALL COMMERCIAL GENERAL USES AND COMMERCIAL
10:35:34AM PARKING.
10:35:34AM REVISIONS THIS BE COMPLETED AND CERTIFIED PLANS SUBMITTED TO
10:35:38AM THE CLERK'S OFFICE.
10:35:39AM I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
10:35:41AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
10:35:41AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:35:42AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. THOMAS, IN THE FIRST HEARING I
10:35:45AM EXPRESSED CONCERN ABOUT THE LACK OF RETAIL ON THIS CRITICAL
10:35:49AM CORNER IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:35:51AM DID THE APPLICANT BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING EXPAND
10:35:54AM THE AMOUNT OF RETAIL SPACE, COMMERCIAL SPACE ON THE FIRST
10:35:57AM FLOOR?
10:35:58AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: THE COMMERCIAL SPACE HAS NOT BEEN EXPANDED.
10:36:02AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
10:36:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE?
10:36:03AM MS. SCHALER.
10:36:06AM >> ALEX SCHALER, 400 NORTH ASHLEY DRIVE.
10:36:09AM I HAVE NOTHING FURTHER TO ADD.
10:36:11AM HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS.
10:36:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT?
10:36:13AM IF NOT, ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THE
10:36:16AM ITEM?
10:36:16AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO --
10:36:18AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'D LIKE TO SAY --
10:36:21AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:36:23AM MIRANDA.
10:36:23AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
10:36:25AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:36:25AM AYE.
10:36:26AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, YOU WANTED TO SPEAK?
10:36:28AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I DID.
10:36:28AM I EXPRESSED THIS DURING THE FIRST READING.
10:36:32AM ESPECIALLY FOR THIS NEIGHBORHOOD, IT'S ASKING AN AWFUL LOT
10:36:37AM FOR AN INTENSIVE PROJECT AND THE IMPACT IT HAS ON NEIGHBORS.
10:36:41AM I UNDERSTAND THERE ARE SOME PROJECTS FOR THE GREATER GOOD
10:36:44AM THAT WE ABSORB THAT IMPACT ON NEIGHBORHOODS, BUT YOU HAVE TO
10:36:48AM BE ABLE TO GIVE SOMETHING AS WELL.
10:36:50AM HAVING REALLY AN INCONSEQUENTIAL AMOUNT OF COMMERCIAL SPACE
10:36:54AM ON THIS CRITICAL INTERSECTION THAT IS GOING TO BE A MAJOR
10:36:58AM TRANSPORTATION HUB FOR US IN THE FUTURE I THINK IS JUST
10:37:02AM NEGLIGENT FOR US TO PASS THIS WITHOUT HAVING THAT SPACE
10:37:06AM RESERVED BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT PROVIDING SPACE FOR A DRY
10:37:09AM CLEANER OR PIZZERIA, A BANK OR ANY OF THE OTHER SERVICES
10:37:13AM THAT THE NEIGHBORS WOULD WANT TO HAVE IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:37:17AM AS WE BUILD DENSITY AND THIS COUNCIL ALREADY APPROVED SO
10:37:21AM MANY HIGH-DENSITY DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THIS AREA, YMCA
10:37:25AM PROJECT DOWN THE STREET, ALL -- A LOT OF RESIDENTS ARE GOING
10:37:28AM TO COME INTO THIS AREA AND THEY ARE GOING TO REQUIRE THIS
10:37:30AM KIND OF SPACE.
10:37:31AM FOR US NOT TO RESERVE THAT SPACE AT THIS POINT I THINK IS A
10:37:34AM MAJOR OVERSIGHT.
10:37:35AM I'M GOING TO CONFIRM MY VOTE OF NO ON THIS PROJECT.
10:37:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:37:39AM I LEFT OFF WITH COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, NO.
10:37:43AM GO AHEAD, VIERA.
10:37:47AM THE RECORD SAID VIERA NO, BUT THAT WAS NOT CORRECT.
10:37:49AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR, MOVE AN ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR
10:37:52AM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
10:37:54AM ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 205,
10:37:57AM 207, AND 209 EAST COLUMBUS DRIVE, 2301, 2303, 2307 AND 2315
10:38:04AM NORTH FLORIDA AVENUE, 204 AND 206 EAST AMELIA AND FOLIO
10:38:10AM 191372-0000 IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND MORE
10:38:15AM PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION ONE FROM ZONING DISTRICT
10:38:17AM CLASSIFICATION RM-24, RESIDENTIAL, MULTIFAMILY, AND CI,
10:38:21AM COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE, TO PD, PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, STOREFRONT
10:38:24AM RESIDENTIAL COMMERCIAL, ALL COMMERCIAL GENERAL USES,
10:38:27AM COMMERCIAL PARKING; PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:38:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND FROM COUNCIL
10:38:30AM MEMBER MIRANDA, CORRECT?
10:38:32AM ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
10:38:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
10:38:37AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
10:38:38AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:38:40AM >> CARLSON?
10:38:41AM HURTAK?
10:38:42AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO VOTE NO ON THIS BECAUSE
10:38:46AM I THOUGHT ABOUT IT AFTERWARD AND I TEND TO AGREE, WE NEED A
10:38:51AM LOT MORE COMMERCIAL IN THIS CORRIDOR AND IT'S JUST -- THE
10:38:54AM PROJECT IS VERY CLOSE BUT IT'S NOT THERE.
10:38:56AM SO NO.
10:38:58AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NO.
10:38:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
10:39:03AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION IS TIED.
10:39:05AM HENDERSON, HURTAK, CLENDENIN VOTED NO.
10:39:08AM VIERA, MIRANDA, AND MANISCALCO VOTING NO.
10:39:11AM CARLSON IS ABSENT.
10:39:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS GOES TO JANUARY 23rd, MR. SHELBY.
10:39:16AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: 6-H, MOTION IN A QUASI-JUDICIAL MATTER
10:39:20AM FAILS TO RECEIVE AT LEAST FOUR VOTES, THE MOTION FAILS.
10:39:23AM IF ANOTHER MOTION IN ORDER IS NOT MADE, THE PUBLIC HEARING
10:39:26AM SHALL BE AUTOMATICALLY REOPENED AND CONTINUED TO A TIME
10:39:29AM CERTAIN AT THE NEXT REGULARLY SCHEDULED COUNCIL MEETING.
10:39:32AM WHAT IS COUNCIL'S PLEASURE.
10:39:34AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANTED TO CORRECT THE RECORD BECAUSE
10:39:36AM YOU SAID VOTED NO TWICE.
10:39:38AM COULD YOU REPEAT THAT VOTE JUST TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE
10:39:41AM RECORD CORRECT?
10:39:42AM >>THE CLERK: HENDERSON, HURTAK, CLENDENIN VOTED NO.
10:39:45AM VIERA, MIRANDA, MANISCALCO VOTED YES.
10:39:48AM CARLSON IS ABSENT.
10:39:49AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:39:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN I GET A MOTION TO CONTINUE THE ITEM
10:39:52AM TO JANUARY 23, 10 A.M., 315 EAST KENNEDY BOULEVARD, THIRD
10:39:56AM FLOOR, TAMPA, 33602?
10:39:58AM MOTION FROM MIRANDA, SECOND FROM HENDERSON.
10:40:01AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:40:01AM AYE.
10:40:02AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:40:03AM THIS WILL COME BACK BECAUSE IT IS A TIE VOTE.
10:40:06AM MR. SHELBY.
10:40:07AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY.
10:40:11AM ALSO TRAVELING WITH THAT IS A RESOLUTION APPROVING A BONUS
10:40:15AM PROVISION.
10:40:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS THAT PART OF THE MOTION?
10:40:20AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SURE.
10:40:21AM TRAVEL WITH IT.
10:40:22AM PART OF THE MOTION.
10:40:23AM IN FACT, YOU CAN'T VOTE ON THAT UNTIL YOU PASS THE OTHER
10:40:25AM ONE.
10:40:26AM IT DOES TRAVEL WITH IT.
10:40:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PACKAGE DEAL.
10:40:29AM ITEM NUMBER 52, DEANNA FAGGART IS HERE.
10:40:36AM AND CHIEF BENNETT.
10:40:43AM >>JOHN BENNETT: JOHN BENNETT, CHIEF OF STAFF.
10:40:45AM GOOD MORNING TO OUR PUBLIC.
10:40:46AM JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK COMMENTS AND THEN WE'RE HERE TO
10:40:48AM ANSWER QUESTIONS.
10:40:49AM FIRST THANKING COUNCIL FOR THE CONTINUATION OF THE FIRST
10:40:52AM READING TO TODAY.
10:40:53AM I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE FACT THAT ERIC KOPESKY WEIGHED IN
10:40:59AM WITH US AND DID SOME ANALYSIS.
10:41:01AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
10:41:01AM WE'RE HERE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS BASED ON THE MEMO AND THE
10:41:04AM BACKUP MATERIAL THAT'S BEEN SENT IN PREVIOUSLY.
10:41:08AM WOULD TURN IT BACK TO COUNCIL.
10:41:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE CHIEF?
10:41:11AM OR DEANNA?
10:41:13AM OR DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER TO ADD, MA'AM?
10:41:16AM >>DEANNA FAGGART: NO.
10:41:17AM WE'VE SPOKEN ON THIS A FEW TIMES AND SUBMITTED A MEMO WITH
10:41:20AM SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
10:41:23AM SO IF YOU'VE GOT QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY OF THEM.
10:41:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
10:41:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I ACTUALLY WANT MS. KOPESKY TO COME UP.
10:41:32AM BECAUSE MY CONCERN ABOUT THIS IS IN MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE
10:41:38AM A GOOD RECORD.
10:41:39AM I TALKED ABOUT THIS BEFORE.
10:41:42AM RIGHT NOW WE GET THE AMOUNTS -- WE GET THINGS FROM UNDER A
10:41:46AM HUNDRED THOUSAND AND WE GET A VERY GRAINY PDF THAT'S
10:41:52AM SIDEWAYS THAT'S E-MAILED TO US ONCE A MONTH.
10:41:55AM MY BIG CONCERN ABOUT THIS IS THAT WE HAVE BETTER RECORD
10:41:58AM KEEPING.
10:41:58AM I HAVE NO PROBLEM MOVING THIS FORWARD WITH THE IDEA THAT
10:42:03AM MS. KOPESKY IS GOING TO BE WORKING WITH SEVERAL FOLKS.
10:42:07AM I'LL LET MS. KOPESKY TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE BOTH
10:42:11AM WOULD WITH LIKE TO SEE ON A REPORT.
10:42:16AM >> I THINK SOME OF THAT WILL COME OUT A LITTLE LATER.
10:42:18AM CITY COUNCIL BUDGET ANALYST.
10:42:23AM THE REPORT WILL CONTINUE TO BE PROVIDED.
10:42:25AM PART OF THAT WAS VISUALLY THE QUALITY OF WHAT WOULD COME
10:42:29AM THROUGH, DIFFICULT TO READ.
10:42:30AM THAT IS AN EASY FIX.
10:42:32AM I SAY THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE NOT ACTUALLY STARTED THAT, BUT WE
10:42:35AM ARE WORKING TOGETHER TO DEVELOP WHAT THOSE PARTICULAR
10:42:38AM ATTRIBUTES WILL BE.
10:42:39AM BUT THAT IS TO ENSURE THAT NOW THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE
10:42:42AM EXPANDING THE TRANSACTION COUNT THAT COME FORWARD, THAT YOU
10:42:46AM CAN SEE VISIBILITY TO THOSE VENDORS, TO THE AMOUNTS, TO THE
10:42:46AM CONTRACT TYPES, SO WE WILL JUST ENSURE WHAT CONTINUES TO BE
10:42:54AM AVAILABLE IS GOING TO GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO
10:42:56AM CONTINUE TO HAVE OVERSIGHT OVER THE ITEMS THAT WILL NO
10:42:59AM LONGER COME FORMALLY IN FRONT OF YOU.
10:43:02AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WITH THAT, I WOULD LOVE TO ON THE APRIL 3rd
10:43:09AM AGENDA, I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE THAT COME BACK WITH THE NEW
10:43:13AM FORMAT JUST, AGAIN, TO KIND OF CLOSE THE LOOP AND MAKE SURE
10:43:17AM IT HAS ALL THE THINGS THAT I'M LOOKING FOR THAT THE REST OF
10:43:20AM COUNCIL IS LOOKING FOR TO SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE.
10:43:23AM THAT WOULD BE MY REQUEST, IF THIS WERE TO PASS, I WILL MAKE
10:43:27AM A MOTION STATING THAT, IF THAT WORKS FOR MS. FAGGART AND
10:43:34AM CHIEF BENNETT.
10:43:36AM >>JOHN BENNETT: IT ABSOLUTELY DOES.
10:43:38AM WE'RE ALL ABOUT THE TRANSPARENCY.
10:43:40AM I HAVE ASKED DEANNA'S OFFICE THAT IN THE CURRENT STATE,
10:43:45AM ANYTHING THAT REACHES 95,000, GETS A SPECIFIC MEMO JUST SO
10:43:50AM YOU DON'T SEE US BUMPING UP TO THE CEILING WITHOUT
10:43:52AM ADDITIONAL TRANSPARENCY.
10:43:53AM SO WE WOULD CONTINUE TO SCALE THAT WITH THE NEW AMOUNT.
10:43:57AM AGAIN, I'VE SAID ON THE RECORD AND I APPRECIATE COUNCIL
10:44:00AM UNDERSTANDING THIS IS TRYING TO BALANCE TRANSPARENCY AND
10:44:03AM ACCOUNTABILITY WITH WORKLOAD AND STAFF AND MODERNIZE THE
10:44:06AM NUMBER AFTER 25 YEARS, I THINK IT IS A GREAT BALANCE AND
10:44:10AM WE'RE HAPPY TO GET THE REPORT THAT COUNCIL NEEDS.
10:44:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: GREAT.
10:44:13AM I'M NOT GOING TO WAIT UNTIL APRIL FOR MY FEEDBACK.
10:44:16AM I WILL BE WORKING AND I HOPE THAT COUNCIL WILL ALSO BE
10:44:20AM WORKING IN THE INTERIM.
10:44:21AM BUT I JUST THOUGHT THAT IT WOULD BE GREAT TO BRING IT SO THE
10:44:24AM PUBLIC CAN SEE WHAT THAT FEEDBACK LOOKS LIKE AND MAKE SURE
10:44:27AM THAT IT MIGHT BE AVAILABLE SOMEWHERE FOR PEOPLE TO SEE AS
10:44:31AM WELL, NOT JUST US AS COUNCIL MEMBERS GETTING AN E-MAIL, BUT
10:44:34AM WHERE COULD THAT BE AVAILABLE FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE ON THE
10:44:38AM MONTHLY BASIS AS WELL.
10:44:40AM AGAIN, THAT'S SOMETHING I THINK WE CAN ALL WORK ON TOGETHER
10:44:42AM BY THE APRIL 3rd MEETING.
10:44:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
10:44:51AM WHO WOULD LIKE TO READ THIS?
10:44:53AM MR. SHELBY, THERE'S NO PUBLIC COMMENT, CORRECT?
10:44:57AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: LEGISLATIVE MATTER.
10:44:58AM THE SECOND READING IS WHERE YOU TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:45:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:45:02AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOVE FILE E 2024-8, CHAPTER 2, ORDINANCE
10:45:07AM BEING PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING CONSIDERATION.
10:45:09AM AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, REGARDING
10:45:12AM BIDDING AND CERTAIN CONTRACTS, AMENDING SECTION 2-276, CITY
10:45:16AM OF TAMPA CODE, TO EXEMPT FROM CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL ALL
10:45:20AM PURCHASES REQUIRING AN EXPENDITURE OF LESS THAN $200,000,
10:45:27AM AMENDING SECTION 2-277, CITY OF TAMPA CODE, TO AUTHORIZE THE
10:45:30AM DIRECTOR OF PURCHASING TO ADMINISTER PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT
10:45:33AM CONTRACTS ESTIMATED TO COST LESS THAN $200,000, PROVIDING
10:45:36AM FOR SEVERABILITY, REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
10:45:39AM HEREWITH, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:45:41AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:45:43AM CLENDENIN.
10:45:43AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:45:45AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:45:45AM AYE.
10:45:46AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:45:52AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU DON'T NEED A ROLL CALL VOTE ON THAT
10:45:54AM ONE.
10:45:55AM SORRY FOR INTERRUPTING.
10:45:59AM BUT THAT YOU DON'T NEED A ROLL CALL VOTE.
10:46:00AM THAT WOULD BE A VOICE VOTE.
10:46:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YEAH, IT IS A VOICE VOTE.
10:46:03AM IT'S NOT QUASI-JUDICIAL.
10:46:12AM >> WE ALREADY PASSED IT.
10:46:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO YOU HAVE THE --
10:46:17AM >>THE CLERK: SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD ON
10:46:20AM FEBRUARY 6, 2025, AT 10 A.M. AT OLD CITY HALL LOCATED AT 315
10:46:25AM EAST KENNEDY BOULEVARD, THIRD FLOOR, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33602.
10:46:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
10:46:29AM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK HAS A MOTION.
10:46:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:46:32AM I WOULD LIKE STAFF TO COME BACK ON APRIL 3.
10:46:38AM IT IS AN OPEN DATE.
10:46:41AM TO BRING AN UPDATED LIST INCLUDING -- AND TO WORK WITH
10:46:50AM MS. KOPESKY TO CREATE AN UPDATED LIST OF THE NEW FORMAT THAT
10:46:56AM WILL SHOW PURCHASES OF LESS THAN $200,000.
10:47:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:47:02AM HURTAK.
10:47:03AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:47:05AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:47:05AM AYE.
10:47:06AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:47:07AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:47:09AM ITEM NUMBER 53.
10:47:11AM IS THERE ANYTHING FURTHER TO ADD OR IS -- MR. VASKE?
10:47:17AM >> JUSTIN VASKE, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
10:47:19AM JUST A REMINDER, THIS IS AN ORDINANCE THAT IS AMENDING
10:47:22AM SECTION 2-280 OF THE CITY CODE REQUIRING THAT WORK ORDERS
10:47:26AM MAY BE -- MAY NOT BE ISSUED TO A SINGLE PROVIDER OF
10:47:30AM PROFESSIONAL SERVICES EXCEEDING 200,000 IN THE AGGREGATE PER
10:47:33AM FISCAL YEAR WITHOUT CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL AND INCREASING THE
10:47:37AM THRESHOLD AMOUNT FOR CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL OF WORK ORDERS
10:47:40AM FROM 100 TO 200,000.
10:47:42AM THAT'S ALL.
10:47:43AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:47:44AM YES, MA'AM.
10:47:44AM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ 53?
10:47:49AM SORRY FOR JUMPING OVER.
10:47:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO, IT'S FINE, CHAIR.
10:47:52AM I MOVE FILE NUMBER E2024-8, CHAPTER 2, ORDINANCE BEING
10:47:57AM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING CONSIDERATION.
10:48:00AM FIRST READING.
10:48:01AM THANK YOU.
10:48:02AM FIRST READING CONSIDERATION.
10:48:03AM AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AMENDING CITY OF
10:48:06AM TAMPA CODE CHAPTER 2, ARTICLE V, DIVISION 3, PURCHASES AND
10:48:12AM CONTRACTS, SECTION 2-280 REQUIRING THAT WORK ORDERS MAY NOT
10:48:16AM BE ISSUED TO A SINGLE PROVIDER OF PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
10:48:20AM EXCEEDING $200,000 IN THE AGGREGATE PER FISCAL YEAR WITHOUT
10:48:26AM CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL AND INCREASING THE THRESHOLD AMOUNT
10:48:29AM FOR CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL OF WORK ORDERS FROM 100,000 TO
10:48:35AM 200,000, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT,
10:48:39AM PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
10:48:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:48:43AM HENDERSON.
10:48:43AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:48:45AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:48:46AM AYE.
10:48:47AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:48:54AM >>THE CLERK: SECOND HEARING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD ON
10:48:56AM FEBRUARY 6, 2025, AT 10 A.M. AT OLD CITY HALL, LOCATED AT
10:48:59AM 315 EAST KENNEDY BOULEVARD, THIRD FLOOR, TAMPA, FLORIDA,
10:49:03AM 33602.
10:49:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:49:05AM >>THE CLERK: JUST FOR THE RECORD, MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY
10:49:07AM WITH CARLSON BEING ABSENT.
10:49:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:49:10AM WE ARE DOING SO GREAT ON TIME.
10:49:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M VERY SORRY, BUT I HAVE A MODIFICATION TO
10:49:16AM MY MOTION.
10:49:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS IS THE PREVIOUS MOTION?
10:49:19AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, MY PREVIOUS MOTION.
10:49:22AM THE PART I FORGOT TO SAY WAS A WAY TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC
10:49:27AM MONTHLY.
10:49:27AM I ALSO WANT TO BE ABLE TO SEE HOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE DOING
10:49:30AM THAT.
10:49:32AM CAN I ADD ON TO THAT?
10:49:33AM MR. SHELBY, HOW DO I FIX THIS?
10:49:36AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MOTION TO AMEND.
10:49:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE A MOTION TO AMEND TO INCLUDE THE WAYS
10:49:44AM THAT STAFF IS GOING TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC MONTHLY.
10:49:49AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I'M NOT A LAWYER, BUT I THINK WE REOPEN
10:49:52AM THE HEARING AND PUT ALL IN THE ORIGINAL MOTION.
10:49:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO.
10:49:56AM WE DON'T HAVE TO CLOSE THE HEARING.
10:49:57AM IT IS FIRST READING.
10:49:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT WAS AFTER THE MOTION.
10:50:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: LEGISLATIVE.
10:50:02AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO AMEND WITH A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:50:04AM CLENDENIN.
10:50:05AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:50:06AM AYE.
10:50:06AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:50:07AM ALL RIGHT.
10:50:09AM WE GO TO STAFF REPORTS.
10:50:11AM HOWEVER, IT'S 10:51.
10:50:13AM FOR ITEM NUMBER 29, IT WAS MENTIONED TO BRING THAT UP AFTER
10:50:17AM LUNCH SO MORE PEOPLE COULD TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.
10:50:22AM >>LUIS VIERA: I FORGOT ABOUT THAT.
10:50:24AM THAT'S FINE.
10:50:25AM I KNOW VIK IS HERE FOR THAT.
10:50:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO YOU WANT TO HOLD IT UNTIL AFTER
10:50:30AM LUNCH?
10:50:31AM >>LUIS VIERA: MR. BHIDE, A COUNCIL MEMBER WANTED IT AFTER
10:50:34AM LUNCH.
10:50:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SO HERE IS THE THING.
10:50:44AM IT LOOKS LIKE WE WILL BE DONE POSSIBLY BEFORE LUNCH.
10:50:48AM HOW ABOUT THIS?
10:50:48AM IF WE CAN GET THROUGH THE REST, IF WE CAN HAVE A FIVE TO TEN
10:50:52AM MINUTE RECESS THAT I CAN LOOK OVER IT.
10:50:55AM SINCE THIS IS COMING BACK TO US --
10:50:58AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU DON'T WANT TO COME BACK AFTER LUNCH?
10:51:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF WE DON'T NEED TO, WHY?
10:51:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HEY, I'M FINE WITH IT.
10:51:05AM I DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS A TIME SENSITIVE ISSUE AFTER 1:00
10:51:11AM FOR FOREST HILLS TO LOOK AT IT.
10:51:13AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO.
10:51:14AM I TALKED TO FOREST HILLS LAST NIGHT, THEY'LL HAVE TO WATCH
10:51:17AM THE RECORDING ANYWAY BECAUSE EVERYBODY IS WORKING.
10:51:19AM MY ISSUE IS I REALLY JUST WANTED TO BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH IT
10:51:23AM QUICKLY.
10:51:24AM SINCE THIS IS COMING BACK TO US SHORTLY ANYWAY, IT'S ALSO
10:51:29AM COMING BACK LATER.
10:51:30AM THIS WAS KIND OF JUST -- ANYWAY.
10:51:33AM I'M FINE IF AFTER WE GET THROUGH THE REST OF THIS, IF I CAN
10:51:36AM JUST HAVE FIVE TO TEN MINUTES TO LOOK OVER IT.
10:51:38AM I THINK ALL OF US SHOULD.
10:51:40AM THEN WE CAN FINISH BEFORE LUNCH, WHICH WOULD BE SOME SORT OF
10:51:44AM MAGIC.
10:51:44AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO YOU WANT TO START WITH 29 NOW?
10:51:49AM >>LYNN HURTAK: LET'S FINISH EVERYTHING.
10:51:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THIS IS NOT ON THE AGENDA, BUT THIS IS
10:51:54AM FOR MR. SHELBY.
10:51:57AM FOR 20 YEARS OF SERVICE, A FEW MONTHS AGO.
10:52:00AM WHAT WAS YOUR ANNIVERSARY DATE?
10:52:02AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: JUNE 15.
10:52:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU WERE HONORED A FEW MONTHS AGO WITH
10:52:06AM OTHER CITY EMPLOYEES I BELIEVE.
10:52:08AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I WAS MENTIONED?
10:52:10AM THAT'S FUNNY, I WASN'T THERE.
10:52:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I KNOW.
10:52:13AM I HAVE THIS PIN OF 20 YEARS OF SERVICE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO
10:52:17AM PRESENT TO YOU -- WE WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT TO YOU.
10:52:21AM I WAS GOING TO GET YOU A GOLD WATCH WITH ENGRAVING ON THE
10:52:24AM BACK.
10:52:24AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I'LL WAIT.
10:52:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: BUT ALL WE COULD DO WAS THE PIN.
10:52:28AM WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR 20-PLUS YEARS OF SERVICE TO THE
10:52:31AM CITY COUNCIL.
10:52:31AM CONGRATULATIONS.
10:52:32AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN, THANK YOU,
10:52:33AM COUNCIL.
10:52:34AM I'M HONORED.
10:52:35AM I'LL TAKE IT NOW.
10:52:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL START WITH ITEM 55.
10:52:42AM $12 MILLION CONTRACT.
10:52:44AM MS. COLINA --
10:52:46AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIRMAN, WE HAD TWO ITEMS THAT WE
10:52:49AM DON'T HAVE TO HAVE STAFF REPORTS, 55 AND 57.
10:52:54AM DID WE MOVE THOSE?
10:52:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I'M GETTING TO THEM RIGHT NOW.
10:52:57AM 55, IT WAS A NO. WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE 55.
10:53:07AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:53:08AM ALL IN FAVOR, AYE.
10:53:10AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: 57 IS A REPORT TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
10:53:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM 57 WAS TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
10:53:17AM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE BY COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN AND
10:53:21AM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
10:53:22AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAD A QUICK QUESTION.
10:53:25AM DURING THE AGENDA, SOMEONE SAID THAT WE ARE INCREASING TO
10:53:28AM 73.
10:53:30AM I WAS CONFUSED.
10:53:32AM WHAT EXACTLY HAPPENED?
10:53:33AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I SPOKE TO TONY MULKEY, OVERSEES THE
10:53:38AM PROGRAM.
10:53:41AM I WAS AT A CHRISTMAS PARTY BACK IN DECEMBER AND SPOKE TO AN
10:53:44AM INDIVIDUAL WHO HAD ASKED ME ABOUT SUPPORTING INCREASING IT
10:53:47AM TO 72 OR INCREASING THE NUMBER OF SUMMER YOUTH.
10:53:50AM I SAID I WOULD SUPPORT THAT.
10:53:51AM SO I BROUGHT THAT UP TO TONY MULKEY WHO WOULD DO MORE
10:53:55AM RESEARCH ON IT.
10:53:55AM BASICALLY I ASKED, IS IT A MATTER OF MONEY?
10:53:57AM HOW DO WE GET THERE, SINCE JANUARY, WE HAVE PLENTY OF TIME
10:54:02AM BEFORE THE SUMMER BEGINS SO WE CAN GET THE BALL ROLLING.
10:54:05AM HE WAS GOING TO REACH OUT TO MS. WYNN AND GET MORE
10:54:09AM INFORMATION AND GET BACK WITH ME.
10:54:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:54:11AM THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN THE CONVERSATION I HAD WITH MS. WYNN
10:54:14AM DURING MY PREP MEETING.
10:54:15AM I WANTED TO BE SURE.
10:54:16AM I'M WILDLY IN SUPPORT OF IT.
10:54:19AM I DIDN'T THINK WE WOULD BE ABLE TO THIS YEAR.
10:54:22AM I THINK IT IS A GOOD THING AND SHOULD LAUD THAT.
10:54:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: TO CLARIFY SINCE I MADE THE REQUEST, THE
10:54:29AM SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM, ALTHOUGH ISOLATED FOR
10:54:33AM PARTICULAR REASONS IN EAST TAMPA WHEN IT WAS UNDER THE CRA,
10:54:35AM NOW THAT IT IS A CITY -- UNDER THE CITY'S BUDGET IN A
10:54:39AM DIFFERENT CAPACITY, WE DO HAVE TO OPEN IT UP TO THE ENTIRE
10:54:44AM COMMUNITY OF YOUNG FOLKS WHO MAY BE INTERESTED.
10:54:47AM SO TO LOOK AT AN INCREASE PROVIDES US WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO
10:54:52AM STILL MAINTAIN A LEVEL OF SUPPORT FOR WHAT IT WAS ORIGINALLY
10:54:55AM INTENDED.
10:54:56AM I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT COMMENT PUBLICLY.
10:55:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHAT I TOLD MR. MULKEY WAS, I REMEMBER
10:55:02AM WHEN I WAS 13 YEARS OLD, MY PARENTS DIDN'T GIVE ME AN
10:55:05AM ALLOWANCE.
10:55:06AM MY GRANDMOTHER AT THE TIME WAS THE BOSS.
10:55:08AM I WOULD BEG HER TO JUST WORK ON THE WEEKENDS, DO WHATEVER I
10:55:12AM COULD BECAUSE HAD A LITTLE BUSINESS.
10:55:14AM I THINK IT MADE ME A BETTER PERSON BECAUSE IT KEPT ME BUSY
10:55:18AM ON THE WEEKENDS.
10:55:19AM I WAS 13, 14, 15 YEARS OLD.
10:55:21AM ALLOWED ME TO SAVE SOME MONEY.
10:55:22AM AS I SAY, AS IT SAID, WHAT IS IT, IDLE HANDS ARE THE DEVIL'S
10:55:28AM WORKSHOP?
10:55:30AM I THINK IT BUILT A FOUNDATION FOR ME.
10:55:32AM ANYWAYS, IF WE CAN DO THAT, MY STORY IS NOTHING COMPARED TO
10:55:38AM THIS.
10:55:38AM BUT IF WE CAN RETCH OUT TO THE COMMUNITY AND OFFER YOUNG
10:55:41AM PEOPLE OPPORTUNITIES, NOT EVERYBODY GOES TO COLLEGE.
10:55:45AM THEY MIGHT WANT TO WORK RIGHT OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL.
10:55:47AM MY BROTHER-IN-LAW IS A PERFECT EXAMPLE.
10:55:49AM HE DIDN'T GO TO COLLEGE.
10:55:50AM HE WENT RIGHT INTO CONSTRUCTION.
10:55:51AM HE AND MY SISTER HAVE A GOOD LIFE.
10:55:54AM THE POINT I'M MAKING, IF WE CAN REACH OUT TO A BIGGER GROUP
10:55:58AM OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND OFFER THEM OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP BUILD
10:56:00AM THIS FOUNDATION, I THINK IT WILL BE A HAND UP IN BETTERING
10:56:04AM THEIR FUTURE.
10:56:05AM SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT WE CAN DO IN EXPANDING
10:56:09AM THIS PROGRAM AND MOVING FORWARD.
10:56:11AM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE FOR 57?
10:56:13AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
10:56:16AM MIRANDA.
10:56:16AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:56:17AM AYE.
10:56:17AM ITEM NUMBER 56, COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, THAT WAS YOUR ITEM.
10:56:28AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
10:56:29AM IF MS. McKENZIE WAS GOING TO BE SPEAKING VIRTUALLY.
10:56:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS MS. McKENZIE ONLINE, AVAILABLE NOW?
10:56:37AM >>BRENDA McKENZIE: YES, CAN YOU HEAR ME, COUNCIL?
10:56:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
10:56:40AM GO AHEAD.
10:56:41AM >>BRENDA McKENZIE: FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS BRENDA
10:56:43AM McKENZIE, DIRECTOR OF WORKFORCE PARTNERSHIPS.
10:56:46AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CAN YOU TURN YOUR CAMERA ON?
10:56:47AM IT IS JUST A BLANK SCREEN.
10:56:50AM >>BRENDA McKENZIE: YES, I SEE THAT.
10:56:52AM I APOLOGIZE.
10:56:54AM I PROMISE I AM HERE.
10:57:03AM I'M NOT SURE HOW TO FLIP THE CAMERA.
10:57:05AM NO, IT IS NOT COVERED.
10:57:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: BECAUSE IT'S NOT A PUBLIC HEARING, CAN
10:57:13AM WE JUST LISTEN TO HER VOICE?
10:57:14AM ALL RIGHT.
10:57:15AM GO AHEAD, MA'AM.
10:57:17AM IT'S OKAY.
10:57:17AM >>BRENDA McKENZIE: THANK YOU.
10:57:18AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
10:57:19AM I AM HERE TO PROVIDE AN ANNUAL REPORT ON THE NUMBER OF
10:57:24AM RETURNING CITIZENS BEING HIRED.
10:57:26AM WITH COUNCIL'S GUIDANCE, WE STARTED THE PROGRAM, IT WAS
10:57:29AM APPROVED WITH THE LAST BUDGET YEAR.
10:57:32AM IN THE PROGRAM, WITH ABE BROWN MINISTRIES, THEY WERE ABLE TO
10:57:37AM ENLIST 253 INDIVIDUALS INTO THE PROGRAM.
10:57:42AM OH, BRIAN IS HERE.
10:57:43AM COME ON IN.
10:57:44AM I CAN'T FLIP THE CAMERA.
10:57:45AM THEY WERE ABLE TO ENLIST 253 INDIVIDUALS.
10:57:49AM OF THAT, 207 COMPLETED MANDATORY SIX-WEEK PROFESSIONAL
10:57:53AM DEVELOPMENT COURSE.
10:57:55AM OF THAT, 164 HAVE BEEN ALREADY EMPLOYED.
10:57:59AM THIS IS NOTABLE BECAUSE IT IS A 12-MONTH PROGRAM THAT
10:58:03AM INDIVIDUALS ARE ASKED TO SIGN UP FOR WITH ABE BROWN.
10:58:08AM THE FACT THAT THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO PLACE 79% OF THE
10:58:12AM INDIVIDUALS BEFORE THE END OF THE 12-MONTH PERIOD IS PRETTY
10:58:16AM IMPRESSIVE.
10:58:16AM I'M HERE FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT COUNCIL MAY HAVE.
10:58:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
10:58:20AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:58:21AM MS. McKENZIE, I WANTED TO THANK YOU, OBVIOUSLY.
10:58:27AM WE'VE WORKED TOGETHER ON THIS FOR SOME TIME.
10:58:29AM THIS WAS ORIGINATED WITH A JOINT PROGRAM THAT WE DID WITH
10:58:34AM COMMISSIONER GWEN MYERS TO DO A JOINT COUNTY AND CITY
10:58:39AM RETURNING CITIZENS PROGRAM.
10:58:44AM WE SHOULD ALL BE VERY PROUD OF THAT EFFORT.
10:58:47AM EVERY YEAR IN THE UNITED STATES, I BELIEVE THE NUMBER IS
10:58:49AM ABOUT 750,000 PEOPLE LEAVE THE PRISON SYSTEM.
10:58:53AM WE KNOW THAT WITHIN THREE YEARS, ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OF THEM
10:58:56AM WILL REOFFEND AGAIN.
10:58:58AM THAT'S JUST CRIPPLING SOCIAL FAILURE ON OUR PART, LOCALLY,
10:59:03AM STATE OF FLORIDA, THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.
10:59:04AM AND THAT'S OBVIOUSLY A NATIONAL NUMBER.
10:59:08AM AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS REALLY NEED TO BE INVOLVED ON THIS
10:59:12AM ISSUE.
10:59:13AM IT'S A MATTER OF EQUITY.
10:59:14AM IT'S A MATTER OF JUSTICE.
10:59:16AM IT'S A MATTER OF FAMILY, AND IT'S ALSO A MATTER OF
10:59:19AM PREVENTING CRIME.
10:59:20AM IT'S SOMETHING THAT AFFECTS MANY, MANY FAMILIES ACROSS
10:59:24AM INCOME SPECTRUMS, POLITICAL SPECTRUMS, ET CETERA.
10:59:28AM I BELIEVES IT WAS BRIAN STEPHENSON FROM THE EQUAL JUSTICE
10:59:32AM INITIATIVE WHO ONCE SAID WE'RE ALL BETTER THAN THE WORST
10:59:35AM MISTAKE WE'VE EVER DONE IN OUR LIFE.
10:59:37AM WE'RE ALL BETTER THAN THE WORST THING WE'VE EVER DONE.
10:59:39AM I THINK THAT'S VERY, VERY TRUE.
10:59:42AM FOR US TO TAKE A STAND ON THIS AND TO GO FORWARD WITH IT I
10:59:47AM THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT.
10:59:48AM THERE ARE TWO THINGS THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE.
10:59:50AM I AM ACTUALLY MEETING WITH ABE BROWN MINISTRIES ON THIS.
10:59:52AM MS. McKENZIE AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT THIS.
10:59:55AM I'D LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN START WORK ON NOW THAT
10:59:59AM WILL REALLY BE UP AND RUNNING TOWARDS THE END OF THIS
11:00:02AM ADMINISTRATION AND BE IN FULL THROTTLE FOR THE NEXT
11:00:05AM ADMINISTRATION, WHICH WOULD BE AN OFFICE OF RETURNING
11:00:08AM CITIZENS FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:00:10AM A FORMAL OFFICE UNDER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT ALLOWS
11:00:15AM GUIDANCE FOR RETURNING CITIZENS IN OUR CITY TO CONNECT THEM
11:00:18AM TO SERVICES, TO CONNECT THEM TO JOB OPPORTUNITIES, ET CETERA
11:00:22AM AND TO LISTEN TO THEIR VOICES AND THE VOICES OF THEIR
11:00:26AM FAMILIES ON ISSUES THAT ARE RELEVANT TO THEM AND TO MAKE
11:00:29AM PERMANENT THIS PROGRAM INVESTMENT THAT WE DO.
11:00:32AM I KNOW IT GOES THROUGH CONTRACTING, THE SECULAR ARM OF ABE
11:00:36AM BROWN MINISTRIES FIRST GOT IT.
11:00:38AM WHOEVER GETS IT, THE COUNTY I BELIEVE DID THE CONTRACTING,
11:00:41AM TO MAKE THAT PERMANENT IN THE BUDGET EVERY SINGLE YEAR AS
11:00:44AM SOMETHING THAT'S EXPECTED AND INCREASED BECAUSE WE NEED TO,
11:00:48AM AGAIN, WORK ON THE ISSUE OF RETURNING CITIZENS.
11:00:52AM IT'S AN ISSUE WHERE UNFORTUNATELY YOU GET SOME PUSH-BACK
11:00:55AM SOMETIMES FROM SOME PEOPLE ON IT WHO ARE NOT, WITH ALL DUE
11:00:59AM RESPECT, VERY THOUGHTFUL ON THE ISSUE.
11:01:00AM PEOPLE GO, WHY ARE YOU INVESTING IN PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN TO
11:01:03AM PRISON?
11:01:04AM WELL, THOSE ARE OUR PARENTS.
11:01:06AM THOSE ARE OUR BROTHERS AND OUR SISTERS AND OUR NEIGHBORS.
11:01:08AM FELLOW CONGREGANTS WHO COME TO CHURCH, SYNAGOGUE, MOSQUE,
11:01:14AM TEMPLE AND WORSHIP WITH US.
11:01:16AM AND THEY ARE PEOPLE WHO DESERVE RESPECT AND DIGNITY AND
11:01:20AM THEIR FAMILIES DESERVE RESPECT.
11:01:21AM I THANK YOU FOR THIS.
11:01:22AM I THINK IT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
11:01:26AM I SEE IT, THANK GOD SOMEBODY RAISED IN CHURCH AND BELIEVES
11:01:30AM IN SECOND CHANCES.
11:01:31AM I DO.
11:01:31AM AGAIN, WE'RE ALL BETTER THAN THE WORST THING WE'VE EVER
11:01:34AM DONE.
11:01:35AM I HOPE THAT WE CONTINUE TO WORK ON THIS.
11:01:37AM I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THE OFFICE OF RETURNING CITIZENS
11:01:40AM SOMETIME SOON.
11:01:42AM BUT, AGAIN, BY THE WAY, LAST THING, OUR RACIAL
11:01:46AM RECONCILIATION COMMITTEE IS DEALING WITH THE ISSUE ALSO OF
11:01:49AM RETURNING CITIZENS.
11:01:50AM I KNOW THAT WE HAVE THE MEETING COMING UP NEXT WEEK ON
11:01:55AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND EVERYTHING.
11:01:57AM THAT WILL BE AN ISSUE THAT THAT COMMITTEE TAKES ON AS WELL.
11:02:02AM AGAIN, REALLY IMPORTANT ISSUE.
11:02:03AM I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU, MA'AM, FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS.
11:02:06AM WE APPRECIATE YOU.
11:02:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:02:08AM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:02:09AM NO, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING YOU SAID.
11:02:12AM THE ISSUE I HAVE WITH THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM IN THE
11:02:16AM UNITED STATES IS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SERVE THEIR SENTENCE,
11:02:18AM THEY ARE RELEASED AND IT IS ENDLESS ROADBLOCKS, IT SEEMS TO
11:02:22AM GET READJUSTED AND GET BACK INTO SOCIETY.
11:02:25AM IT'S LIKE WHY PUNISH PEOPLE AND TALK ABOUT REHABILITATION IF
11:02:28AM IT'S BASICALLY A LIFE SENTENCE ESSENTIALLY, BECAUSE IT IS
11:02:33AM THAT STIGMA THAT THEY'LL CARRY WITH THEM.
11:02:37AM I MET PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS WHO HAVE BEEN IN PRISON.
11:02:39AM IF THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TOLD ME THEIR STORY, I WOULDN'T HAVE
11:02:43AM GUESSED.
11:02:43AM THEY ARE GOOD, PRODUCTIVE PEOPLE.
11:02:44AM ONE GENTLEMAN, HE WAS -- I THINK HE ROBBED A CONVENIENCE
11:02:50AM STORE AS A TEENAGER AND SERVED ABOUT 12 YEARS IN PRISON.
11:02:54AM HE WAS RELEASED.
11:02:55AM HE TOLD ME HIS STORY.
11:02:56AM HE SAID THAT WHEN HE WAS RELEASED, HE TRIED TO GET A JOB AND
11:02:59AM PEOPLE JUST LAUGHED AT HIM WHEREVER HE WENT.
11:03:02AM SO HE STARTED HIS OWN CLEANING BUSINESS.
11:03:04AM HE'S VERY SUCCESSFUL.
11:03:05AM HE GOT MARRIED.
11:03:06AM HE RAISED A FAMILY.
11:03:07AM AND HE'S NEVER GOTTEN IN TROUBLE AGAIN.
11:03:10AM PEOPLE MAKE MISTAKES.
11:03:12AM PEOPLE DESERVE SECOND CHANCES.
11:03:14AM I CONSIDER MYSELF A CHRISTIAN.
11:03:17AM WHEN I GO -- YES, I'M NOT PERFECT.
11:03:20AM DECISIONS I MAKE AREN'T PERFECT, BUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT
11:03:23AM FORGIVENESS, I THINK IN THIS CASE, WE SHOULD APPLY IT.
11:03:27AM I THINK IN THE UNITED STATES WE'RE RANKED NUMBER ONE OR TOP
11:03:30AM RANKED IN NUMBER OF INCARCERATED CITIZENS PER CAPITA.
11:03:34AM I HAVE TO VERIFY THAT FACT.
11:03:36AM WHAT'S THE POINT OF PUNISHMENT IN THE NAME OF REHABILITATION
11:03:42AM WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO KEEP THEM PUNISHED FOREVER?
11:03:44AM I THINK THIS IS A VERY GOOD STEP.
11:03:47AM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA TALKED ABOUT AN OFFICE FOR RETURNING
11:03:51AM CITIZENS, BECAUSE PEOPLE GET OUT OF JAIL, PEOPLE GET OUT OF
11:03:54AM PRISON, AND THEY ARE HERE, GO, YOU'RE FREE.
11:03:57AM THEY MAY NOT HAVE A FAMILY TO GO TO.
11:03:58AM THEY MAY NOT HAVE A SUPPORT SYSTEM.
11:04:00AM THEY MIGHT NEED SOMETHING BASIC LIKE A DRIVER'S LICENSE, ID,
11:04:04AM WHATEVER IT IS, AND THEN, OF COURSE, PEOPLE THAT ARE WILLING
11:04:07AM TO GIVE THEM OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP THEM READJUST AND GET
11:04:11AM HIRED AND WHATNOT.
11:04:13AM I APPRECIATE COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA BRINGING THIS UP AND VERY
11:04:17AM SUPPORTIVE.
11:04:18AM YES, MA'AM.
11:04:19AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:04:19AM I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY.
11:04:23AM I THINK IDEALLY IT CAN BE VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DO WITH
11:04:27AM HOUSING WHERE WE ARE A CENTRAL LOCATION, BUT THEN WE CAN
11:04:31AM CONNECT WITH SOME OF OUR EXCELLENT PARTNERS THAT DO THE
11:04:36AM WORK.
11:04:36AM SO I APPLAUD THIS IDEA.
11:04:38AM I THINK IT'S WONDERFUL.
11:04:42AM WHILE WE HAVE GONE -- WELL, WE HAVE DONE SOMETHING WE STILL
11:04:47AM NEED TO DO MORE.
11:04:48AM WE STILL NEED TO ALWAYS STRIVE TO GET MORE PEOPLE THROUGH
11:04:50AM THE PROGRAM, MORE PEOPLE EMPLOYED.
11:04:53AM NOW WE HAVE THIS ECONOMY WHERE WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO FIND
11:04:59AM PLACES FOR PEOPLE TO BE EMPLOYED.
11:05:00AM I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY OUR NEXT GOAL.
11:05:04AM BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE.
11:05:06AM AND WE CAN SEE YOU NOW.
11:05:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:05:10AM HAVE THEIR VIERA I WANTED TO ESPECIALLY GIVE A SHOUT-OUT TO
11:05:13AM ONE OF MY FAVORITE GROUPS IN TAMPA, ABE BROWN MINISTRIES.
11:05:16AM I HAD THE PLEASURE OF SEEING REVEREND ABE BROWN PREACH WHEN
11:05:21AM I WAS A KID.
11:05:23AM I'M MEETING SHORTLY, ROBERT BLUNT WHO IS THE LATE REVEREND
11:05:27AM BROWN'S SON-IN-LAW WHO IS A GREAT GUY.
11:05:30AM MEETING WITH JOE PROVASCO FROM THE JCC AND WITH DEE JONES
11:05:34AM WHO IS AN ATTORNEY AND DEAR FRIEND OF MINE WHO I LOVE A LOT.
11:05:39AM THEY HAVE A GOOD GROUP OF PEOPLE THERE.
11:05:41AM ALWAYS SAY IF JESUS WAS ON EARTH, HE WOULD BE VOLUNTEERING
11:05:44AM AT ABE BROWN MINISTRIES.
11:05:45AM THAT'S MY OPINION.
11:05:47AM WANTED TO GIVE THEM A SHOUT-OUT.
11:05:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT.
11:05:49AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:05:49AM 57, 58, 59 WE MOVED THOSE ALONG.
11:05:54AM ITEM NUMBER 60, MR. BHIDE.
11:05:56AM THE RIVERWALK.
11:06:00AM AND THEN 61, 2, 3.
11:06:05AM AND COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA'S ITEM.
11:06:08AM >>VIK BHIDE: GOOD MORNING, CHAIR, GOOD MORNING COUNCIL.
11:06:10AM HAPPY NEW YEAR.
11:06:11AM VIK BHIDE, DIRECTOR OF MOBILITY HERE TO ADDRESS ITEM 60.
11:06:16AM MOTION MADE BY COUNCILMAN VIERA TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON WHAT
11:06:20AM WE HAVE DONE TO SECURE ADDITIONAL FUNDING TO AUGMENT THE $24
11:06:25AM MILLION BUILD GRANT THAT THE CITY RECEIVED IN SUPPORT OF THE
11:06:29AM WEST RIVERWALK PROJECT.
11:06:31AM ITS FORMAL NAME IS MUCH LONGER.
11:06:36AM I CAN'T REMEMBER IT, BUT IT IS THE WEST RIVERWALK PROJECT.
11:06:40AM STRICTLY, AS IT RELATES TO THE UPDATE, I'LL PROVIDE THE
11:06:46AM NUMBERS AND WHERE WE'RE AT, ALL OF THAT.
11:06:49AM THE PROJECT, OF COURSE, HITS UPON JUST ABOUT EVERY ASPECT OF
11:06:55AM STATED GOALS BY BOTH THE COUNCIL AND THE ADMINISTRATION
11:06:57AM RELATIVE TO SAFETY, MOBILITY, AFFORDABILITY, QUALITY OF
11:07:02AM LIFE, AND CONNECTIVITY OF TAMPANIANS TO JOBS, NOT TO MENTION
11:07:07AM THE FACT THAT WE'RE BUILDING AFFORDABLE HOUSING WHERE THIS
11:07:11AM FACILITY IS PROPOSED AND CONNECTING TO MANY OTHERS.
11:07:15AM IN ADDITION TO THE $24 MILLION BUILD GRANT, WE DID, AS I
11:07:25AM MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, REQUEST THE WEST TAMPA CRA FOR $10
11:07:28AM MILLION.
11:07:29AM WE WENT THROUGH THE PROCESS ESTABLISHED BY THE CRA BOARD,
11:07:33AM WHICH IS ALSO THIS BODY, PRESENTED TO THE WEST TAMPA CRA
11:07:38AM CAC.
11:07:41AM THEY DID APPROVE.
11:07:42AM THEY ASKED A LOT OF QUESTIONS, A LOT OF GOOD QUESTIONS, AND
11:07:45AM THEY DID APPROVE THE $10 MILLION FUNDING AT THEIR LEVEL,
11:07:51AM 8-2-1, ONE PERSON ABSTAINED BECAUSE THAT BOARD MEMBER DID
11:07:56AM SHOW UP AFTER THE PRESENTATION, SO HENCE THAT VOTE.
11:08:00AM NO I TO THAT, OUR GOVERNMENT RELATIONS TEAM HAS BEEN WORKING
11:08:06AM REALLY HARD IN COLLABORATION WITH CONGRESS WOMAN KATHY
11:08:12AM CASTOR, WHO IS ALWAYS THERE TO SUPPORT US.
11:08:16AM THEY HAVE PUT IN FOR A $4 MILLION EARMARK.
11:08:20AM THE CONGRESS WOMAN'S OFFICE PUT IN FOR A $4 MILLION EARMARK
11:08:24AM THROUGH THE FEDERAL BUDGET FOR THIS YEAR.
11:08:28AM AS WE SPEAK, BRANDON CAMPBELL, WHO OVERSEES OUR
11:08:31AM TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, IS WORKING WITH OUR GOVERNMENT
11:08:35AM RELATIONS TO REQUEST ANOTHER EARMARK THROUGH THE STATE
11:08:38AM LEGISLATURE THIS TIME.
11:08:39AM THEY WILL BE TAKING UP SESSION SOON AS WELL.
11:08:44AM SO WE'RE ASKING FOR 4 MILLION.
11:08:47AM NOT SURE HOW MUCH WE WILL GET AS I'M NOT PRIVY TO THE
11:08:51AM PROCESS WITH THE LEGISLATURE.
11:08:53AM BUT I BELIEVE THERE'S SOME SIGNIFICANT VARIABILITY DEPENDING
11:08:59AM ON CONSIDERATIONS.
11:09:00AM I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF OTHER OPPORTUNITIES ON
11:09:05AM TOP OF THAT THAT LEVERAGE CITY FUNDS BUT ALSO IN THE CONTEXT
11:09:12AM OF OTHER OPPORTUNITIES.
11:09:13AM THE CST WAS PASSED EARLIER THIS YEAR.
11:09:16AM THAT IS A POTENTIAL CONSIDERATION.
11:09:20AM OF COURSE, THAT'S CITY FUNDS ULTIMATELY.
11:09:22AM AND THEN THERE IS FORTHCOMING INFORMATION, WE'RE AWAITING
11:09:28AM DETAILS ON THE SURTAX DOLLARS THAT WERE COLLECTED AND SOME
11:09:33AM PORTION OF THAT WILL BE ALLOCATED TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:09:36AM IT'S NOT NEARLY ENOUGH RELATIVE TO OUR POPULATION, BUT IT'S
11:09:40AM WHAT IT IS.
11:09:41AM AND WHAT THAT WILL HELP IS HELP US ADVANCE A WHOLE BUNCH OF
11:09:46AM PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE IN THE PIPELINE POTENTIALLY ALLOWING
11:09:49AM US TO LEVERAGE CITY FUNDS THERE AS WELL.
11:09:54AM THOSE ARE OPPORTUNITIES.
11:09:55AM THOSE AREN'T FUND SOURCES.
11:09:58AM I'D LIKE TO CLARIFY.
11:09:59AM AT THIS TIME, I WILL BE HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:10:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:10:02AM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
11:10:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BASICALLY YOU'RE SAYING THAT WITH THE SURTAX
11:10:07AM -- BECAUSE WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT PROJECTS ARE DOING, AND THE
11:10:10AM CITY OF TAMPA IS ONLY GETTING SEVEN OF THOSE.
11:10:12AM IT'S NOT VERY MUCH MONEY.
11:10:14AM I WOULD SAY IT'S LESS --
11:10:16AM >>VIK BHIDE: 21, 22 MILLION, SOMEWHERE --
11:10:18AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT IS A VERY SMALL AMOUNT OF MONEY COMPARED
11:10:20AM TO THE AMOUNT THAT WE'RE GETTING BACK AS A COUNTY WHICH I
11:10:23AM BELIEVE IS 150 MILLION.
11:10:24AM I THINK -- WELL, I'M GOING TO SAY I WOULDN'T SUPPORT TRADING
11:10:34AM THAT SURTAX MONEY ONLY BECAUSE CITIZENS HAVE BEEN VERY CLEAR
11:10:38AM THAT THEY WANT MORE PAVING.
11:10:41AM SO I DON'T THINK THAT MOVING THE SURTAX OR TRADING THE
11:10:46AM SURTAX MONEY AND PUTTING IT TOWARD A RIVERWALK PROJECT IS
11:10:51AM THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
11:10:52AM IF WE HAVE TO USE IT IN MOBILITY AREAS, IT SHOULD BE FOR
11:10:55AM THAT OR ABSOLUTELY STORMWATER.
11:10:57AM RIGHT NOW WE'RE ABOUT TO TALK IN THE NEXT THREE ITEMS ABOUT
11:11:02AM STORMWATER.
11:11:02AM I ABSOLUTELY CANNOT IMAGINE PUTTING A PENNY OF CITY DOLLARS
11:11:08AM TOWARD ANYTHING -- ANYTHING OTHER THAN STORMWATER AND
11:11:12AM REHABILITATION UNTIL THOSE NEEDS ARE COMPLETELY MET.
11:11:15AM AND I'M JUST SPEAKING FOR MYSELF, BUT I TRULY BELIEVE THAT I
11:11:19AM WILL HAVE SOME AGREEMENT THERE.
11:11:21AM I THINK IT'S WONDERFUL THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE TO TRY TO
11:11:24AM GET SOME OF THE EARMARKS.
11:11:25AM DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA OF WHEN YOU WILL HEAR ON EARMARK ISSUES?
11:11:30AM >>VIK BHIDE: I DO NOT.
11:11:32AM THAT IS A FUNCTION OF THE BUDGET PROCESS BOTH AT THE STATE
11:11:35AM AND FEDERAL LEVELS.
11:11:36AM AND I DON'T THINK THAT QUESTION HAS A CLEAR ANSWER RIGHT
11:11:40AM NOW.
11:11:41AM BUT TO THE SURTAX MONIES, I'D LIKE TO CLARIFY, IT COMES WITH
11:11:46AM VERY CLEAR CONDITIONS THAT THOSE MONIES CAN ONLY BE SPENT ON
11:11:49AM THE LIST OF PROJECTS THAT WAS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
11:11:51AM FORTHCOMING MORE DETAIL, BUT THAT'S WHY I SAID IT IS AN
11:11:55AM OPPORTUNITY, NOT A FUND SOURCE BY ANY MEANS.
11:11:58AM CRA MONIES, OF COURSE, NEEDLESS TO SAY CAN ONLY BE SPENT
11:12:02AM WITHIN THE CRA FOR THE VISION THE CRA PUTS FORTH THROUGH
11:12:07AM THEIR MASTER PLAN.
11:12:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:12:12AM I HAD ONE MORE QUESTION.
11:12:13AM IT JUST ESCAPED ME.
11:12:16AM I'LL HAVE TO COME BACK.
11:12:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA AND CLENDENIN.
11:12:18AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF I MAY ASK ABOUT THE FUNDING, YOU HAVE
11:12:22AM 24 MILLION IN GRANTS ALREADY APPROVED.
11:12:25AM >>VIK BHIDE: CORRECT.
11:12:26AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: 10 MILLION FROM THE CRA IN WEST TAMPA,
11:12:28AM ABOUT 3 POINT SOME MILLION FOR THREE YEARS.
11:12:31AM >>VIK BHIDE: COMING UP FOR VOTE NEXT WEEK.
11:12:34AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: CERTIFIED YOU CAN GET 38 MILLION OUT OF
11:12:39AM THE 50 PLUS MILLION.
11:12:41AM AND THEN YOU'RE LOOKING FOR OTHER FOUR FROM THE FEDS, IF
11:12:46AM POSSIBLE, AND ANOTHER FOUR SOMEWHERE ELSE, GIVE YOU 42
11:12:49AM MILLION.
11:12:50AM YOU HAVE MAYBE POSSIBLY 42 OR 10 MILLION SHORT OF THE GOAL
11:12:58AM OR SOMETHING IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, AM I CORRECT?
11:13:01AM >>VIK BHIDE: IF ALL GOES WELL, YES.
11:13:03AM LAST 8 MILLION, THE FEDERAL AND STATE REQUESTS, ARE STILL
11:13:07AM UNCERTAIN.
11:13:08AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THOSE MONIES, TELL ME HOW THAT WORKS.
11:13:13AM I'M ALL FOR TRANSPORTATION, ALL FOR DOING WHAT WE HAVE TO DO
11:13:17AM FOR THE ROADS.
11:13:18AM I'M ASHAMED TO SAY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT SCREWED THE CITY OF
11:13:21AM TAMPA, DISTRIBUTION BACK ON THE REBATE FROM THE MONIES THEY
11:13:25AM COLLECTED FOR THAT PERIOD OF TIME THAT WAS IN THE HUNDREDS
11:13:29AM OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS AND END UP WITH WHAT?
11:13:30AM 21 MILLION.
11:13:32AM THAT'S ASHAMED THE WAY IT IS, BUT THAT'S THE WAY IT IS.
11:13:37AM THEY POUND THEIR CHEST ON WHAT THEY DO FOR US BUT DON'T
11:13:42AM POUND THE CHEST TO TELL YOU THE TRUTH.
11:13:44AM THAT'S JUST ME TALKING TO YOU, AMONG THE OTHER PEOPLE THAT
11:13:47AM ARE LISTENING.
11:13:48AM I'M NOT AGAINST ANYTHING OR FOR ANYTHING, BUT THESE MONIES
11:13:53AM THAT ARE COMING IN UP TO NOW HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH PAVING.
11:13:57AM >>VIK BHIDE: CORRECT.
11:13:58AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NEVER USED FOR PAVING BEFORE, WERE THEY?
11:14:02AM >>VIK BHIDE: NOT THE SURTAX FUNDS.
11:14:04AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: -- PAVING NOW, DON'T YOU?
11:14:06AM >>VIK BHIDE: CORRECT.
11:14:07AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE CITY HAS TAKEN OVER THE PAVING OF
11:14:10AM STREETS, AM I CORRECT?
11:14:11AM >>VIK BHIDE: PARTIALLY.
11:14:12AM WE'VE INCREASED OUR CAPACITY, YES.
11:14:14AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: GETTING MORE AND MORE INVOLVED.
11:14:16AM >>VIK BHIDE: CORRECT.
11:14:17AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU CUT THE COST OF PAVING BY A LOT, I
11:14:20AM THINK.
11:14:21AM >>VIK BHIDE: YES, WE HAVE.
11:14:23AM BY A HUNDRED PERCENT WHEN WE DO IN-HOUSE PAVING.
11:14:25AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IN-HOUSE PAVING.
11:14:27AM I KNOW THAT THAT MONEY IS ALREADY STARTING TO BE SPENT
11:14:31AM BECAUSE I'M SEEING ROADS BEING PAVED IN DIFFERENT PARTS OF
11:14:34AM THE CITY.
11:14:35AM >>VIK BHIDE: THAT IS CORRECT.
11:14:37AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I SEE MORE AND MORE SCRAPING BEING DONE,
11:14:40AM SO I ASSUME MORE PAVING COMING, SCRAPING STREETS, THEY ARE
11:14:44AM GOING TO PAVE THE ROAD.
11:14:44AM I SAW THAT JUST YESTERDAY ON ARMENIA -- I MEAN ON MAIN
11:14:49AM THROUGH WEST TAMPA ALL THE WAY ACROSS WHERE VERY WELL DONE,
11:14:53AM BY THE WAY.
11:14:53AM THE LIGHTS WERE WALKING.
11:14:55AM STOPPED YOU FOR A FEW MINUTES UNTIL THAT PART WAS DONE, AND
11:14:58AM YOU WENT RIGHT THROUGH WHEN IT WAS FINISHED.
11:15:00AM WHOEVER IS DOING IT IS DOING A VERY GOOD JOB OF MAKING SURE
11:15:04AM THAT IT'S TIMELY AND ROADS KEEP OPENING AND TRAFFIC KEEPS
11:15:08AM MOVING.
11:15:08AM I WANT TO THANK YOU AND YOUR STAFF FOR DOING THAT.
11:15:10AM THERE IS A NEED HERE -- PEOPLE DO THINGS FOR CRAZY THINGS OR
11:15:17AM THINK THEY ARE CRAZY, BUT THEY ARE NOT CRAZY.
11:15:19AM THEY ARE JUST GIVING UP.
11:15:21AM WHEN YOU COME FROM THE HOOD, AND THAT'S WHERE I COME FROM,
11:15:27AM YOU HAVE VERY LITTLE HOPE THAT YOU'LL GET OUT.
11:15:30AM YOU HAVE DISPARITY.
11:15:32AM IN THIS AREA THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, THAT IS A MEDIUM TO LOW
11:15:37AM INCOME AREA, AM I CORRECT?
11:15:39AM >>VIK BHIDE: THAT IS CORRECT.
11:15:40AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF THIS WAS TO HAPPEN, THEN THE RIVERWALK
11:15:44AM EXTENDED THROUGH UP TO WEST TAMPA WILL HAVE THE VISIBILITY
11:15:48AM OF PEOPLE WHO VERY LITTLE, TOO OF A BEAUTIFUL RIVERWALK TO
11:15:52AM WALK ON, IF THEY WANT TO GO ALL THE WAY, THEY COULD GO TO
11:15:55AM BALLAST POINT WHICH IS QUITE A DISTANCE.
11:15:58AM YOU HAVE TO BE IN SHAPE TO WALK THAT AMOUNT OF MILES, ABOUT
11:16:02AM SIX OR SEVEN MILES.
11:16:03AM WITHOUT THAT, THEY HAVE NO HOPE TO DO THAT.
11:16:08AM IF I WAS LIVING THERE AND DIDN'T HAVE THE FUNDS TO DO A LOT
11:16:11AM OF THINGS BUT I HAD THE RIVERWALK NEXT TO ME, I COULD WALK
11:16:15AM OR STROLL WITH MY KIDS OR WHATEVER AND ENJOY THE SAME THINGS
11:16:18AM THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING.
11:16:22AM PEOPLE ARE COMING TO TAMPA, SOMETHING NOT INVOLVED IN THE
11:16:24AM FUNDING.
11:16:25AM PEOPLE COME TO TAMPA, STAY IN A HOTEL AND THEY USE THAT
11:16:27AM RIVERWALK ON A DAILY BASIS.
11:16:29AM TAMPA IS NO LONGER THE TAMPA THAT I LIVED IN WHEN I WAS A
11:16:32AM KID.
11:16:32AM FOR WHATEVER REASON, IT BECOME MORE OF A VACATION AREA.
11:16:39AM THE AQUARIUM, ZOO TAMPA, BUSCH GARDENS, TO ALL THE
11:16:43AM AMENITIES.
11:16:44AM SPORTS SOMETIMES INCLUDED.
11:16:50AM YOU HAVE SOMETHING YOU CAN UPLIFT LIFE.
11:16:53AM NO ONE HERE HAS TALKED ABOUT WHAT THE VALUE OF THAT IS.
11:16:57AM THEY TALK ABOUT GOING TO JAIL BUT THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT
11:17:00AM AMENITIES THAT WILL KEEP YOU OUT OF JAIL.
11:17:02AM THAT'S ALL I GOT TO SAY.
11:17:04AM THANK YOU.
11:17:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN AND VIERA.
11:17:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. BHIDE, COULD YOU GIVE US AN UPDATE OF
11:17:11AM WHERE WE ARE IN THE PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION PHASES OF WEST
11:17:15AM RIVERWALK.
11:17:16AM >>VIK BHIDE: DESIGN ALREADY COMMENCED AFTER THE CONTRACT WAS
11:17:19AM APPROVED BY COUNCIL LAST YEAR.
11:17:21AM DESIGN IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY.
11:17:24AM WE EXPECT CONSTRUCTION TO BEGIN LATE THIS YEAR.
11:17:28AM THAT'S JUST BECAUSE OF THE DESIGN PROCESS.
11:17:31AM WE HAVE MOSTLY SECURED THE EASEMENTS NEEDED TO CONSTRUCT THE
11:17:37AM RIVERWALK WITH A COUPLE OF EXCEPTIONS, SPECIFICALLY AROUND
11:17:42AM UT.
11:17:43AM I THINK THAT ITEM IS COMING UP SOON AS WELL.
11:17:47AM BUT OTHER THAN THAT.
11:17:48AM AND THEN WE'RE WORKING WITH THE DEVELOPER, RELATED GROUP,
11:17:52AM THAT IS ON THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE PROJECT NEAR KENNEDY
11:17:57AM BRIDGE, AND THEY ARE GOING TO BUILD RIVERWALK SEGMENTS BY
11:18:01AM THE TWO TOWERS THEY ARE BUILDING IN THE AREA.
11:18:04AM ALL TOLD, THE PROJECT IS ON SCHEDULE AND ON TARGET.
11:18:08AM THERE ARE A FEW ROUTINE ITEMS AS PART OF ANY PROJECT LIKE
11:18:12AM THIS THAT WE ARE WORKING ON.
11:18:16AM SO THAT'S REALLY THE UPDATE ON THAT.
11:18:18AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: JUST TO CONFIRM, THE RIGHT-OF-WAYS,
11:18:23AM COUNCIL IS ALREADY AWARE OF THE UT, WHICH WILL COME BEFORE
11:18:26AM COUNCIL.
11:18:27AM AND THEN JUST THAT SOUTH OF KENNEDY SECTION WITH THE RELATED
11:18:32AM GROUP AND POTENTIALLY THE WFLA BUILDING.
11:18:35AM I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
11:18:37AM ALL THE REST OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY HAS BEEN SECURED.
11:18:40AM >>VIK BHIDE: CORRECT, YES.
11:18:42AM I THINK NINA, WHO IS OUR PROJECT MANAGER, WHO IS ALSO HERE
11:18:45AM WITH BRANDON, JUST TEXTED ME THAT WE EXPECT 60% DESIGN BY
11:18:49AM THE END OF THE MONTH.
11:18:51AM ARE WE AHEAD OF SCHEDULE?
11:18:54AM >> CERTAIN SEGMENTS.
11:18:56AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OKAY.
11:18:57AM VERY GOOD.
11:18:58AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:18:58AM I APPRECIATE IT.
11:18:59AM >>LUIS VIERA: I LIKE TO ASK QUESTIONS, NOT TO TAKE UP
11:19:05AM COUNCIL TIME, ET CETERA.
11:19:06AM I KNOW WE ALL LIKE TO DO THAT IN TERMS OF ASKING QUESTIONS
11:19:08AM BEFORE, HOW MUCH DOES DESIGN COST, IF YOU KNOW?
11:19:13AM >>VIK BHIDE: IT'S USUALLY ABOUT 20 TO 25 PERCENT, IF NOT
11:19:16AM MORE.
11:19:17AM DO YOU HAVE A BALLPARK FIGURE?
11:19:20AM >> [INAUDIBLE]
11:19:21AM >>VIK BHIDE: IT'S DESIGNED AND INSPECTION IS PROBABLY GOING
11:19:27AM TO BE ABOUT 10 MILLION, 10, 11 MILLION.
11:19:31AM THOSE COSTS HAVE GONE UP.
11:19:32AM >>LUIS VIERA: WE ALREADY STARTED THE PROCESS.
11:19:34AM >>VIK BHIDE: CORRECT, YES.
11:19:36AM >>LUIS VIERA: QUESTION FOR YOU.
11:19:37AM -- YOU MAY HAVE SAID THIS ALREADY, WHAT IS THE GLOBAL BUDGET
11:19:40AM OF THIS?
11:19:40AM AND THEN $24 MILLION FROM THE FEDS.
11:19:43AM WHAT IS THE GLOBAL BUDGET?
11:19:45AM >>VIK BHIDE: 52 MILLION AND 57 WITH CONTINGENCY.
11:19:50AM SO FAR THAT'S THE INFORMATION WE HAVE.
11:19:55AM >>LUIS VIERA: AGAIN, FOR ME, THE BIG MOVER AND SHAKER ON
11:19:59AM THIS IS THE FACT THAT WE'RE GOING TO GET SO MUCH OF THIS
11:20:01AM FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
11:20:03AM I'M GLAD THAT COUNCILMAN MIRANDA MENTIONED THE IDEA THAT
11:20:07AM IT'S WEST TAMPA THAT WE'RE HELPING OUT HERE.
11:20:10AM THIS IS WEST TAMPA.
11:20:11AM AND I DON'T WANT ANY POLITICAL NARRATIVE OUT THERE THAT THIS
11:20:15AM WILL BE SOMETHING FOR RICH PEOPLE.
11:20:16AM GO TO WEST TAMPA, OKAY.
11:20:18AM YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT IS A WORKING CLASS, BLUE COLLAR
11:20:24AM AREA, WHOLE BUNCH OF FOLKS THERE.
11:20:26AM I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT TO SAY AS WELL.
11:20:28AM I KNOW THERE ARE GOING TO BE EFFORTS, ET CETERA, TO TALK
11:20:32AM ABOUT DIVERTING THIS MONEY AND PUTTING IT THERE.
11:20:35AM BIG THING, NUMBER ONE, IF WE ALREADY STARTED ON IT AND PUT
11:20:38AM IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS POTENTIALLY ON THIS, THAT KIND OF
11:20:40AM MAKES THAT NOT AN ISSUE IN EVERYTHING.
11:20:44AM WE ARE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT, NOT NECESSARILY
11:20:46AM STORMWATER, BUT HELPING PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUFFERED FROM
11:20:51AM HURRICANE MILTON.
11:20:52AM I MADE A MOTION FOR THIS IN EARLY OCTOBER AFTER MILTON.
11:20:56AM IT DIDN'T GO ANYWHERE.
11:20:57AM NOW WE'RE BRINGING IT BACK.
11:20:59AM THE ADMINISTRATION IS HELPING.
11:21:01AM I APPRECIATE THAT 110%.
11:21:03AM I KNOW COUNCIL WILL BE SUPPORTIVE, BUT I DON'T SEE A
11:21:05AM CONNECTION BETWEEN THESE TWO.
11:21:07AM I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR.
11:21:08AM AS SOMEBODY THAT NOW HAS LIKE A PART-TIME JOB BEING OUT IN
11:21:13AM NORTH TAMPA HELPING PEOPLE, AS THEIR COUNCIL MEMBER, THERE'S
11:21:17AM NO CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN THESE TWO.
11:21:19AM BECAUSE IF WE START TO TALK ABOUT THE RIVERWALK, I'LL BRING
11:21:22AM UP THE STRAZ CENTER AND BRING UP THE TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART AND
11:21:25AM CRA, I'LL GO, HEY, GUYS, WE SPENT $50 MILLION ON THESE TWO
11:21:32AM PROJECTS.
11:21:33AM $50 MILLION ON THESE TWO PROJECTS.
11:21:35AM INSTEAD OF MAKING THEM FIVE YEARS, WHY DON'T WE STRETCH IT
11:21:38AM OUT TO MAKE IT EIGHT YEARS AND SAVE FOUR, FIVE MILLION
11:21:42AM DOLLARS A YEAR AND THEN CAP THE CRA AND THEN USE THAT MONEY
11:21:45AM FOR THESE PROJECTS.
11:21:46AM IS THAT A LITTLE BIT FANTASTIC TO PROPOSE?
11:21:48AM ABSOLUTELY.
11:21:50AM JUST AS FANTASTIC AS WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
11:21:53AM MY POINT IS, THESE ARE NOT THE THINGS I TALKED ABOUT.
11:21:58AM STRAZ CENTER, MUSEUM OF ART.
11:22:00AM $50 MILLION.
11:22:02AM $50 MILLION WE SPENT ON THOSE TWO PROJECTS.
11:22:05AM AGAIN, PROJECTS HAVE A LOT OF WORTH.
11:22:07AM I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD THINGS THERE, ET CETERA.
11:22:09AM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS FOR WEST TAMPA THAT HAS AT LEAST
11:22:12AM $24 MILLION COMING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT.
11:22:15AM THERE ARE A LOT OF DISTINCTIONS THERE.
11:22:19AM A LOT OF DISTINCTIONS THERE.
11:22:21AM THAT'S ALL.
11:22:21AM BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO SEE IF WE CAN GET ANY ADDITIONAL
11:22:24AM DOLLARS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON THIS.
11:22:26AM THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.
11:22:28AM I WILL CLOSE BY SAYING AGAIN THAT KATHY CASTOR HAS BEEN A
11:22:32AM MEMBER OF CONGRESS I THINK SINCE '07.
11:22:35AM ELECTED IN '06.
11:22:36AM TO ME, THERE'S NOBODY THAT FIGHTS BETTER FOR HER HOMETOWN
11:22:39AM THAN KATHY CASTOR.
11:22:40AM AND THIS IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT.
11:22:43AM THAT'S ALL.
11:22:43AM THANK YOU.
11:22:43AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
11:22:45AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:22:48AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SHE'S ALREADY SPOKEN.
11:22:49AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I DIDN'T SEE YOUR MIKE ON.
11:22:51AM SORRY.
11:22:52AM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON, GO AHEAD.
11:22:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I DID TURN IT ON LATE BECAUSE I FIGURED
11:22:59AM EVERYONE ELSE WAS DONE.
11:23:00AM THANK YOU, MR. BHIDE, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
11:23:04AM I THINK FOR ME I WANT TO KEEP IT SIMPLE AND BRIEF BECAUSE I
11:23:08AM KNOW THIS WILL COME UP AGAIN.
11:23:11AM IT'S JUST WEST TAMPA'S TURN.
11:23:16AM IT'S ABOUT THE DECISIONS MADE BY THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CAC.
11:23:20AM IT WAS A VOTE OF 8-2, AS JOE ROBINSON SAID THIS MORNING, THE
11:23:24AM LEADERSHIP OF THAT COMMUNITY DOING WHAT'S RIGHT, LOOKING AT
11:23:29AM OUR VISION ZERO AND SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS IS WHAT WE
11:23:32AM WANT AND THIS IS WHERE WE'RE GOING.
11:23:36AM THE FUNDS THEY VOTED TO SET ASIDE, $10 MILLION OVER THREE
11:23:39AM YEARS IS VERY REASONABLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU LOOK AT, WE
11:23:42AM CAN'T GO OUTSIDE OF OTHER CRAs, KIND OF LIKE THE STRAZ AND
11:23:45AM DOWNTOWN WHERE IT WAS $50 MILLION.
11:23:47AM I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT.
11:23:48AM A LOT OF MONEY IN THE CRA AND DOWNTOWN.
11:23:51AM SO WE DID ALLOCATE THAT.
11:23:53AM I HAD TO GET THERE WITH THIS.
11:23:54AM THIS IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
11:23:56AM WITH THE ROME YARD DEVELOPMENT THAT'S UNDERWAY, WHERE WE AS
11:24:00AM A BODY ENSURED AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
11:24:04AM SO THAT ALONE LETS YOU KNOW THAT THE BENEFITS TO THIS
11:24:07AM COMMUNITY IS EXTREMELY DIVERSE.
11:24:10AM MARKET RATE, AS WELL AS AFFORDABLE.
11:24:12AM AND IT EXTENDS INTO A COMMUNITY.
11:24:14AM AND THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
11:24:16AM WE HAVE A LOT OF DIFFERENT AREAS TO COVER AS A CITY WHEN IT
11:24:20AM COMES TO OUR BUDGET.
11:24:21AM SO THIS PARTICULAR SET ASIDE AND THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE TO
11:24:26AM GET WEST TAMPA HERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY THAT BENEFITS
11:24:30AM EVERYONE.
11:24:31AM IT IS NOT A VANITY PROJECT.
11:24:32AM IT IS INFRASTRUCTURE.
11:24:34AM AND IT HAS BEEN WELL THOUGHT OUT, NOT JUST ONLY BY US IN
11:24:37AM TERMS OF OUR SUPPORT, BUT BY THE COMMUNITY ITSELF.
11:24:41AM WEST TAMPA DESERVES A RIVERWALK, AND THAT EXTENSION, NOT
11:24:45AM ONLY FOR THE SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE, BUT HEALTH AND
11:24:49AM SAFETY AND JUST SO MANY OTHER THINGS TO HAVE A BEAUTIFUL
11:24:53AM SPACE.
11:24:53AM IT ALSO JUST HAPPENS TO BENEFIT THOSE WHO VISIT THE TAMPA
11:24:56AM BAY AREA AS WELL.
11:24:58AM BUT THIS IS A COMMUNITY-BASED INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECT THAT
11:25:02AM DESERVES TO SEE COMPLETION AND DESERVES OUR SUPPORT.
11:25:06AM I'LL JUST LEAVE IT AT THAT.
11:25:08AM THANK YOU.
11:25:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
11:25:09AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHEN DO WE HAVE TO HAVE THE MONEY SETTLED
11:25:12AM BEFORE WE START BORROWING?
11:25:16AM >>VIK BHIDE: I WOULD DEFER THAT QUESTION TO REVENUE AND
11:25:19AM FINANCE.
11:25:20AM BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS WHEN THE GRANT WAS APPROVED BY
11:25:26AM COUNCIL, THAT ALSO CAME WITH A PRESENTATION AND AGREEMENT
11:25:30AM THAT COUNCIL IS ALSO APPROVING OR CONSIDERING FUTURE DEBT
11:25:36AM PROCEEDS TOWARDS IT.
11:25:37AM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF MR. ROGERO HAPPENS TO BE LISTENING AND CAN
11:25:40AM HOP ON AND EXPLAIN IT, I GREATLY APPRECIATE IT.
11:25:43AM I'M SORRY.
11:25:45AM I DIDN'T SEE YOU, MR. PERRY.
11:25:47AM OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS ALREADY APPROVED.
11:25:49AM WE ALREADY APPROVED THE MONEY FOR IT.
11:25:51AM I'M JUST SAYING I THINK IT IS A POOR USE OF MONEY.
11:25:54AM I SAID IT THEN, I'LL SAY IT NOW AND SAY IT AGAIN AND AGAIN
11:25:57AM AND AGAIN.
11:25:58AM BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF DEBT WE HAVE TO GO INTO TO DO THIS.
11:26:01AM I'D RATHER GO INTO DEBT FOR ACTUAL PROJECTS, ESPECIALLY
11:26:04AM AFTER HURRICANE MILTON.
11:26:06AM I THINK THIS WILL BE SHOWN TO NOT BE A GOOD WAY TO SPEND THE
11:26:12AM CITY'S MONEY, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE AS WHEN WE APPROVED IT, WE
11:26:16AM WOULD HAVE TO BORROW, INCLUDING INTEREST, $52 MILLION.
11:26:19AM I THINK THAT IS A POOR USE OF CITY MONEY.
11:26:23AM IF WE GET ALL OF THESE THINGS, GET THE 10 MILLION FROM THE
11:26:26AM CRA, GREAT.
11:26:27AM THEN WE ONLY HAVE TO BOND AND SPEND $32 MILLION.
11:26:31AM STILL WAY TOO MUCH MONEY.
11:26:32AM IF WE HAPPEN TO GET THE $8 MILLION EARMARKS, THAT WOULD BE
11:26:36AM GREAT.
11:26:38AM BUT WE'LL SEE.
11:26:40AM I KIND OF HESITATE TO BELIEVE THE STATE WILL EVER GIVE THE
11:26:43AM CITY ANYTHING BUT WE'LL SEE.
11:26:46AM I JUST WANT TO KNOW AT WHAT POINT DO WE HAVE TO START
11:26:51AM BORROWING MONEY FOR THIS.
11:26:53AM >> MIKE PERRY, BUDGET OFFICER.
11:26:56AM I THINK THE LAST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT IT, LAST JANUARY WE
11:27:00AM DID THE DEBT PRESENTATION.
11:27:02AM WE WERE TALKING ABOUT ISSUING BONDS.
11:27:04AM A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAPPENED, NAMELY THE CIT RENEWAL WAS
11:27:09AM APPROVED.
11:27:09AM NOW WE HAVE 10 MILLION COMING FROM THE CAC.
11:27:14AM -- STATE GRANT.
11:27:15AM INSTEAD OF GOING OUT THERE AND ISSUING A BOND WHERE WE WOULD
11:27:19AM GET THE LUMP SUM OF MONEY, WE START PAYING THE INTEREST ON
11:27:22AM THAT, WE'RE GOING TO DO A LINE OF CREDIT INITIALLY.
11:27:26AM WHAT THAT MEANS, JUST LIKE THE LINE OF CREDIT YOU APPROVE
11:27:30AM FOR SOLID WASTE, WE ONLY DRAW THE MONEY THAT WE NEED.
11:27:32AM AND THAT GIVES US THE FLEXIBILITY TO SAY, OKAY, WE GOT 4
11:27:36AM MILLION FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
11:27:39AM WE CAN GO AHEAD AND REAPPLY THE FEDERAL FUNDS TO THE PROJECT
11:27:42AM AND NOT HAVE TO BORROW THE FUNDS.
11:27:44AM WE COME BACK AT THE END OF FEBRUARY FOR OUR BOND CAPACITY
11:27:48AM BRIEFING.
11:27:48AM AND WE'LL HAVE A MORE THOROUGH BRIEFING ABOUT OUR PROCESS
11:27:52AM AND PHILOSOPHY AT THAT TIME.
11:27:53AM HOPEFULLY THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.
11:27:56AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SORT OF.
11:27:58AM BUT, I MEAN, THE LINE OF CREDIT, HOW LONG IS THE LINE OF
11:28:01AM CREDIT FOR?
11:28:02AM >>MIKE PERRY: ABOUT FIVE YEARS.
11:28:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHAT DO WE OWE ON THAT WHILE WE HAVE THE LINE
11:28:06AM OF CREDIT?
11:28:07AM WHAT IS THE INTEREST ON THAT?
11:28:09AM >>MIKE PERRY: IT DEPENDS ON THE TERMS.
11:28:11AM GENERALLY, LIKE WITH THE SOLID WASTE LINE OF CREDIT THAT YOU
11:28:15AM APPROVED ON DECEMBER 19, THAT WAS A VARIABLE RATE.
11:28:19AM AND THE VARIABLE RATE STARTED OUT AT 4.4%.
11:28:24AM AGAIN, IT'S MUNICIPAL BOND RATES TIED TO -- THEY USED TO DO
11:28:32AM LIBAR.
11:28:33AM AND NOW THERE IS A NEW RATE AND IT'S REALLY COMPLICATED.
11:28:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I FIND THIS IS NOT IN THE SAME CONVERSATION
11:28:40AM AS SOLID WASTE BECAUSE SOLID WASTE IS AN ENTERPRISE FUND AND
11:28:43AM THIS IS NOT.
11:28:44AM THIS IS USING GENERAL FUND DOLLARS.
11:28:45AM EVEN OPENING A LINE OF CREDIT, I WANT THE PUBLIC TO
11:28:51AM UNDERSTAND THAT OPENING A LINE OF CREDIT DOESN'T MEAN THAT
11:28:54AM IT'S FREE UNTIL WE ROLL IT INTO A BOND.
11:28:57AM WE'RE STILL PAYING EXTRA MONEY ON THAT.
11:29:00AM >>MIKE PERRY: THAT IS CORRECT.
11:29:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD LOVE TO KNOW WHEN THIS COMES BACK
11:29:05AM NEXT TIME WHAT THAT LINE OF CREDIT IS OR RATHER WHAT THAT
11:29:09AM INTEREST RATE IS AND HOW MUCH WE WOULD BE PAYING IN THAT
11:29:11AM FIVE-YEAR TIME.
11:29:13AM EVEN IF WE'RE PULLING OUT MONEY AS WE NEED IT, WE ARE STILL
11:29:17AM -- WE STILL HAVE DEBT AND IT WOULD BE INTERESTING BECAUSE WE
11:29:21AM HAVE SO MANY OTHER NEEDS, I DON'T SEE ME AT LEAST SUPPORTING
11:29:26AM USING CIT DOLLARS TO DO THIS.
11:29:29AM SO I THINK THAT WE HAVE FIRE STATIONS THAT WE DESPERATELY
11:29:34AM NEED.
11:29:35AM ALL THAT CIT MONEY NEEDS TO GO TOWARD GETTING US UP TO DATE
11:29:39AM ON THAT.
11:29:41AM ANYWAY I'M BEATING A DEAD HORSE.
11:29:43AM YOU ALL ALREADY APPROVED IT.
11:29:45AM I JUST THINK THIS IS A BAD USE OF MONEY.
11:29:46AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:29:47AM THANK YOU, MR. BHIDE.
11:29:48AM >>VIK BHIDE: THANK YOU.
11:29:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM NUMBER 61, 2, 3, MS. FEELEY IS
11:29:56AM HERE.
11:29:57AM AND WE'LL WRAP IT UP WITH ITEM NUMBER 29.
11:29:59AM >> CAN I HAVE THE ELMO ON, PLEASE?
11:30:07AM >>MIKE PERRY: MIKE PERRY, BUDGET OFFICER FOR 61.
11:30:11AM I APOLOGIZE.
11:30:12AM DENNIS IS FEELING UNDER THE WEATHER AND HE ASKED ME TO FILL
11:30:14AM IN.
11:30:15AM THE QUESTION IS WHAT FEMA MONIES COULD THE CITY UTILIZE TO
11:30:18AM HELP SUPPORT THOSE IMPACTED BY FLOODING?
11:30:20AM THE FEMA MONEY THAT THE CITY RECEIVES UNDER THE STAFFORD ACT
11:30:23AM IS ONLY FOR REIMBURSEMENT OF CITY EXPENSES.
11:30:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'RE BEING REIMBURSED FOR CITY EXPENSES
11:30:31AM THAT WOULD FREE UP A LITTLE BIT OF MONEY THAT WE CAN USE
11:30:34AM TOWARDS --
11:30:35AM >>MIKE PERRY: NO.
11:30:36AM AGAIN, THOSE ARE EXPENSES THAT WE SPEND SPECIFICALLY FOR
11:30:41AM HURRICANE SUPPORT.
11:30:43AM GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
11:30:46AM AS YOU'RE VERY AWARE, THREE EMERGENCY RESPONSE CENTERS THAT
11:30:49AM WE ACTIVATE DURING A STORM, FEMA REIMBURSES US FOR THE
11:30:53AM OVERTIME.
11:30:54AM SO THE REGULAR SALARIES IS HANDLED BY THE CITY.
11:30:58AM THE OVERTIME, WE SEGREGATE OUT INTO A SPECIFIC FUND, FEMA
11:31:04AM FUND IS WHAT WE CALL IT.
11:31:05AM WE KEEP ALL THE EXPENSES THERE.
11:31:07AM AND THEN THAT'S WHERE WE BRING THE MONEY ON IN.
11:31:09AM SO THEY REIMBURSE US ONLY FOR WHAT WE SPEND.
11:31:13AM AS WE GO THROUGH FOR THE DEBRIS MANAGEMENT THAT SOLID WASTE
11:31:17AM HAS DONE OVER THE PAST 60 DAYS, ALL THOSE EXPENSES ARE
11:31:21AM COLLECTED IN THAT FEMA FUND.
11:31:25AM THOSE FUNDS GO INTO THE FEMA FUND TO REIMBURSE US FOR THOSE
11:31:29AM EXPENSES.
11:31:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
11:31:33AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:31:34AM THANK YOU.
11:31:34AM I WAS GOING TO SAY, YEAH, WE'RE TAKING FROM SAVINGS FUND TO
11:31:38AM PAY AND THEN THEY ARE JUST REFILLING THE SAVINGS FUND.
11:31:43AM NO, WE CAN'T USE MONEY UNLESS WE GET OUT OF OUR SAVINGS FUND
11:31:47AM AND CAN'T DO THAT FOR VARIOUS REASONS HAVING TO DO WITH RATE
11:31:52AM AGENCIES AND ALL OF THAT FUND.
11:31:56AM >>MIKE PERRY: I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND THE LAST PART OF IT.
11:31:58AM >>LYNN HURTAK: DOESN'T MATTER.
11:31:59AM >>MIKE PERRY: HOWEVER, ABBYE WILL FOLLOW ME UP WITH WHAT
11:32:02AM SHE'S GOT.
11:32:03AM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON ITEM 61.
11:32:07AM >>LUIS VIERA: I'LL GO AFTER 62.
11:32:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MS. FEELEY.
11:32:14AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
11:32:15AM HAPPY NEW YEAR.
11:32:16AM ABBYE FEELEY, ADMINISTRATOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC
11:32:18AM OPPORTUNITY.
11:32:19AM ITEM NUMBER 62 IS IN RELATION TO FUNDS THAT WE HAVE
11:32:25AM AVAILABLE TO ASSIST IN HURRICANE INDIVIDUALS -- INDIVIDUALS
11:32:31AM IN HURRICANE, THAT WERE IMPACTED IN THE FLOODING OF THE WAKE
11:32:34AM OF HURRICANE MILTON.
11:32:35AM RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE SOME PROGRAM INCOME FROM OUR SHIP
11:32:40AM PROGRAM.
11:32:40AM WE HAVE $3 MILLION.
11:32:41AM I DID PROVIDE A SHORT WRITTEN MEMO ON THIS AS WELL.
11:32:44AM WE HAVE $3 MILLION IN SHIP FUNDS THAT WAS PROGRAM INCOME
11:32:48AM THAT WE ARE TARGETING TO USE FOR THIS.
11:32:52AM THAT PROGRAM INCOME HAS SET-ASIDES.
11:32:55AM 30% AT 50% AREA MEDIAN INCOME AND BELOW.
11:32:59AM 30% AT 80% AREA MEDIAN AND BELOW.
11:33:03AM THE REMAINING 40% COULD ASSIST ANYONE IN EITHER OF THOSE TWO
11:33:08AM GROUPS OR UP TO 140% AMI.
11:33:12AM IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE STATE SENT OUT, THEY ARE GOING TO
11:33:17AM DO SHIP DR.
11:33:18AM I KNOW YOU GUYS LOVE ALL THE HOUSING ACRONYMS, BUT SHIP DR
11:33:22AM IS DISASTER RELIEF.
11:33:24AM AND THAT SHIP FUNDS IS COMING IN AT 213,000.
11:33:28AM THAT ALLOCATION IS FORTHCOMING.
11:33:33AM I KNOW WHEN WE RECEIVED GRANT FUNDS, YOU KNOW WE BRING THOSE
11:33:37AM TO YOU AND COUNCIL MUST ACCEPT THOSE FUNDS.
11:33:39AM LASTLY, THERE WAS A NOTIFICATION THAT CAME FROM WASHINGTON,
11:33:42AM D.C. ON TUESDAY THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS ISSUING $12
11:33:47AM BILLION IN FUNDS WITH 700 MILLION GOING TO HILLSBOROUGH
11:33:51AM COUNTY.
11:33:52AM THAT CAME IN, THAT INFORMATION CAME IN LATE TUESDAY
11:33:57AM AFTERNOON.
11:33:58AM WE STARTED TALKING TO THE COUNTY WEDNESDAY.
11:34:00AM TODAY IS ONLY THURSDAY.
11:34:01AM AS TO HOW -- YOU MAY REMEMBER WHEN WE GOT ARPA FUNDS, WE
11:34:08AM PARTNERED WITH THE COUNTY BECAUSE SOMEBODY MIGHT CALL IN AND
11:34:11AM SAY, I LIVE IN TAMPA.
11:34:12AM WELL, THEY DON'T LIVE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:34:14AM THEY LIVE IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
11:34:16AM IN ORDER FOR US NOT TO DUPLICATE SERVICES AND TO ENSURE
11:34:20AM PEOPLE ARE GETTING THE HELP THAT THEY NEED, WE PUT THOSE
11:34:24AM FUNDS WITH A THIRD-PARTY COMPANY, THE ARPA FUNDS WENT WITH
11:34:28AM ERNST & YOUNG.
11:34:29AM WE'RE CURRENTLY TALKING TO A COMPANY CALLED ICF, WHICH IS A
11:34:33AM THIRD PARTY THAT WOULD SERVE AS THE CLEARINGHOUSE FOR THOSE
11:34:36AM FUNDS, SO WE'RE NOT TAKING OUR CURRENT STAFF CAPACITY AND
11:34:39AM THEN STARTING NEW PROGRAMS OR SHIFTING OUT THOSE FUNDS AND
11:34:43AM WE'RE ALSO ALLOWING FOR IT TO BE DUPLICATIVE.
11:34:46AM WHEN WE FIRST TALKED TO THE COUNTY ABOUT DOING THAT FOR THE
11:34:49AM 3 MILLION, THEY WERE DOING SOME DIFFERENT THINGS WITH THEIR
11:34:52AM SHIP MONEY.
11:34:54AM SO WE ARE NOW GIVEN THE ANNOUNCEMENT FROM TUESDAY SHIFTING
11:34:59AM GEARS AND PIVOTING A LITTLE BIT TO SEE, OKAY, NOW WHAT ARE
11:35:02AM WE DOING?
11:35:02AM THE 700 MILLION IS GOING TO BE AN ALLOCATION ACROSS CITY OF
11:35:06AM TAMPA, PLANT CITY, TEMPLE TERRACE, AND THE COUNTY.
11:35:09AM WE'RE WORKING TO FIGURE THAT OUT.
11:35:11AM AS I SPOKE OFF-LINE TO COUNCILMAN VIERA, I WANT TO MAKE
11:35:17AM SURE, MUCH LIKE YOU ALL ARE AWARE WITH OUR R-MAP PROGRAM, WE
11:35:21AM OPEN UP SOMETHING, WE DON'T WANT IT TO CRASH FIVE MINUTES
11:35:23AM AFTER IT OPENING.
11:35:24AM WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE ALL THE MECHANICS RELATED TO
11:35:27AM THE FUNDS GOING OUT IN A WAY THAT'S ENGINEERED TO ASSIST THE
11:35:33AM MOST PEOPLE IN THE MOST EFFICIENT MANNER.
11:35:35AM WE'RE WORKING ON THAT.
11:35:37AM ANY AGREEMENT FOR THOSE FUNDS TO BE DISTRIBUTED BY A THIRD
11:35:41AM PARTY LIKE ICF WILL COME BEFORE COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL.
11:35:44AM WE ARE ABLE UNDER THE EMERGENCY ORDER TO NOT HAVE TO GO
11:35:48AM THROUGH A WHOLE DEVELOP AN RFP, PUT THE RFP OUT, GET BIDS,
11:35:52AM DO THIS.
11:35:53AM WE ARE ABLE TO STREAMLINE THAT PORTION OF THE PROCESS UNDER
11:35:57AM THE EXECUTIVE ORDER, BUT THE AGREEMENT WILL STILL COME
11:36:01AM BEFORE THIS BOARD FOR APPROVAL.
11:36:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
11:36:04AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. CHAIR.
11:36:06AM THANK YOU, ABBYE, FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK ON THIS.
11:36:08AM WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THIS AND WORKED A LOT TOGETHER ON
11:36:11AM IT.
11:36:11AM I APPRECIATE YOU AND THE ADMINISTRATION FOR ALL YOUR WORK ON
11:36:14AM THIS.
11:36:14AM I CAME TO YOU ALL ABOUT THIS TWO MONTHS AGO, MONTH AND A
11:36:18AM HALF AGO, WHATEVER IT WAS.
11:36:19AM YOU ALL HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL.
11:36:23AM FOR ME POST-MILTON AND POST-HELENE, MILTON OBVIOUSLY
11:36:27AM DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECTED MY DISTRICT, NORTH TAMPA
11:36:32AM COMMUNITY.
11:36:33AM REVOLUTIONIZED THE LIVES OF PEOPLE THERE IN A TERRIBLE,
11:36:36AM TERRIBLE WAY WITH THE SUFFERING.
11:36:37AM THE SUFFERING IS FAR FROM DONE.
11:36:39AM MY MESSAGE IS THIS COMMITMENT IS GREAT AND WE'RE GOING TO
11:36:43AM CONTINUE TO SEE A DEMAND FOR MORE OF IT, FROM THE CITY, FROM
11:36:46AM THE COUNTY, FROM THE STATE, FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT,
11:36:49AM ET CETERA.
11:36:49AM BECAUSE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IF NOT ADDRESSED COULD
11:36:51AM FUNDAMENTALLY, RADICALLY CHANGE THE AFFORDABLE AND WORKFORCE
11:36:57AM HOUSING HUB OF THE CITY OF TAMPA IN NORTH TAMPA.
11:37:00AM FOR ME, THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT I'VE WANTED SINCE
11:37:04AM MILTON.
11:37:05AM NUMBER ONE IS TRANSPARENCY.
11:37:06AM IN TERMS OF WHY, WHAT HAPPENED OUT THERE HAPPENED.
11:37:09AM WE WORK WITH OUR FRIENDS ON THE COUNTY COMMISSION, AND THE
11:37:12AM CITY IS GOING TO BE MONETARILY SUPPORTING THAT FOR AN
11:37:15AM INDEPENDENT REVIEW ON THE INFRASTRUCTURE, NOT JUST IN THE
11:37:18AM CITY OF TAMPA, IN PLACES LIKE NORTH TAMPA, BUT ALSO IN
11:37:21AM PLACES LIKE TOWN N' COUNTRY, IN PLANT CITY AND IN DIFFERENT
11:37:26AM PLACES THAT WERE ZONED X.
11:37:28AM NUMBER 2 IS JUST TO KEEP AN EYE IN THE PUBLIC ON THE
11:37:32AM SUFFERING OF PEOPLE.
11:37:32AM AGAIN, I REPRESENT NORTH TAMPA IN NORTH TAMPA.
11:37:36AM VERY EASY THAT IF SOMETHING DOESN'T HAPPEN TO YOU, GO, OH,
11:37:40AM WELL, THAT'S FINISHED BECAUSE THE MEDIA IS NOT TALKING ABOUT
11:37:42AM IT NOW.
11:37:44AM IT'S STILL GOING ON.
11:37:45AM THESE PEOPLE ARE ISOLATED.
11:37:46AM THEY ARE HURTING, AND IT'S VERY, VERY DIFFICULT FOR THEM.
11:37:49AM THE THIRD IS JUST DIGNITY AND HELP FOR THESE PEOPLE.
11:37:53AM FEMA IS CERTAINLY THERE TO HELP.
11:37:56AM IT IS CERTAINLY THERE TO HELP.
11:37:57AM BUT LIKE I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE, IF FEMA IS GOING TO BUY YOU A
11:38:01AM SUIT, YOU NEED A SUIT, THEY'LL GET YOU SOCKS, SHOES, BELT,
11:38:04AM MAYBE A TIE, YOU'VE GOT TO GET THE REST.
11:38:06AM AND THAT'S NOTHING AGAINST FEMA.
11:38:10AM FEMA DOES WHAT THEY DO AND WE'RE THANKFUL FOR THAT.
11:38:12AM BUT OTHER GOVERNMENT PARTNERS HAVE GOT TO STEP IN TO HELP.
11:38:15AM I TALK TO THE STORIES OF PEOPLE OUT IN THE NORTH TAMPA AREA
11:38:21AM ARE SO COMPELLING, JUST YESTERDAY, I WAS OUT SPEAKING TO A
11:38:25AM WOMAN OF DOMINICAN DESCENT, WORKED 27 YEARS, STILL WORKS IN
11:38:30AM HOTELS CLEANING HOTEL ROOMS.
11:38:32AM LIVED IN A HOUSE FOR 13 YEARS AND SHE LOST SO MUCH, SO MUCH.
11:38:37AM I THINK OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
11:38:38AM I KNOW A NICE GENTLEMAN, VENEZUELAN REFUGEE, SINGLE FATHER
11:38:43AM WITH AUTISTIC DAUGHTER, LOST EVERYTHING IN HIS HOUSE.
11:38:47AM HE WORKS AS A CONTRACTOR.
11:38:50AM SO MANY PEOPLE WHO ARE EVERYDAY, THE WORKING-CLASS, BACKBONE
11:38:55AM OF TAMPA.
11:38:56AM ONE OF THEM AND SHE GAVE ME PERMISSION TO SPEAK ABOUT HER.
11:38:58AM SOME FOLKS MAY NOT KNOW THIS.
11:39:00AM EVERYBODY HERE KNOWS DENISE WHO WORKS IN CITY COUNCIL.
11:39:03AM DENISE LIVES IN FOREST HILLS.
11:39:05AM DENISE LOST EVERYTHING.
11:39:07AM DENISE HAD TO MOVE WITH HER SON AND HER DAUGHTER.
11:39:09AM HER SON IS IN TRADE SCHOOL NOW, TO BRANDON.
11:39:14AM DENISE IS HAVING TO PAY FOR HER HOME IN FOREST HILLS AND HER
11:39:19AM HOME IN BRANDON.
11:39:20AM CHECK WHAT SHE MAKES THROUGH THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:39:23AM IT IS A PUBLIC RECORD.
11:39:24AM NEWS AT 11.
11:39:25AM SHE CAN'T AFFORD IT.
11:39:27AM SHE CAN'T AFFORD IT.
11:39:28AM SO DENISE IS ONE OF THE MANY PEOPLE.
11:39:31AM YOU KNOW WHAT SHE'S GOTTEN FROM FEMA?
11:39:33AM ABOUT 40% OF WHAT SHE'S HAD TO SPEND SO FAR ON HER MOVING
11:39:39AM AND ASSISTANCE.
11:39:40AM AGAIN, DENISE HAS GIVEN ME PERMISSION TO SAY THIS,
11:39:44AM ET CETERA.
11:39:45AM AGAIN, THIS IS SOMETHING SO IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE WANT TO
11:39:48AM HELP PEOPLE STAY IN THEIR HOMES.
11:39:50AM I THINK OF MY FRIEND GWEN TOURIST.
11:39:53AM I MET HER AT THE COMMUNITY MEETING WE HAD FOUR DAYS AFTER
11:39:56AM MILTON IN FOREST HILLS.
11:40:00AM GWEN IS A WIDOW.
11:40:01AM HER HUSBAND HAD DIED ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF OR SO BEFORE
11:40:04AM MILTON.
11:40:05AM TAKES CARE OF HER FAMILY.
11:40:06AM SHE TAKES CARE OF HER SON CHRISTOPHER, WHO IS 33 AND HAS
11:40:10AM AUTISM.
11:40:10AM TAKES CARE OF HER GRANDSON WHO HAS AUTISM.
11:40:13AM SHE HAD A SENSORY ROOM FOR HER AUTISTIC GRANDSON IN HER
11:40:16AM HOUSE.
11:40:17AM FLOODED.
11:40:17AM SHE HAD TO SELL HER HOME.
11:40:20AM SHE'S A WORKER AT OUR PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM.
11:40:23AM WORKS AT CHAMBERLAIN.
11:40:24AM HAD TO SELL HER HOME IN FOREST HILLS BECAUSE SHE COULDN'T
11:40:27AM AFFORD TO PAY FOR SOMEWHERE ELSE AND TO PAY HER MORTGAGE ON
11:40:31AM HER HOUSE.
11:40:32AM SHE JUST MOVED OUT TO WESLEY CHAPEL.
11:40:34AM THAT'S WHAT I DON'T WANT TO SEE.
11:40:37AM WHAT WE ALL HERE DON'T WANT TO SEE BUT THAT'S WHAT WILL
11:40:40AM HAPPEN IN NORTH TAMPA, WHICH IS PEOPLE WILL BE LEAVING THEIR
11:40:43AM HOMES, PEOPLE WILL BE SELLING THEIR HOMES TO ECONOMIC
11:40:46AM VULTURES.
11:40:46AM ONE MORE MINUTE IF I MAY, SIR.
11:40:48AM WHAT'S GOING TO BE THE LONG-TERM CONSEQUENCES OF THAT?
11:40:52AM HIGHER HOUSING COSTS.
11:40:55AM ONE OF THE FEW AREAS WHERE TEACHERS, WELDERS, COPS,
11:40:58AM FIREFIGHTERS, ELECTRICIANS, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANTS AND
11:41:00AM PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR CITY COUNCIL CAN AFFORD TO LIVE.
11:41:03AM THE NORTH TAMPA AREA.
11:41:06AM FOR ME, AGAIN, MILTON -- I SAY IT A THOUSAND TIMES, HIT THE
11:41:11AM BACKBONE OF TAMPA'S WORKING CLASS.
11:41:14AM FOR ME, THIS IS STEP ONE OF WHAT WE HAVE TO DO TO HELP
11:41:17AM PEOPLE STAY IN THEIR HOMES AND TO PRESERVE AFFORDABLE AND
11:41:21AM WORKFORCE HOUSING IN THE CITY OF TAMPA BECAUSE IF WE LEAVE
11:41:24AM THIS ISSUE ALONE, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN
11:41:27AM THIS AREA WHERE THE ECONOMIC VULTURES COME IN AND HIGHER
11:41:33AM COST ON INSURANCE AND DIFFERENT THINGS FOR PEOPLE IN NORTH
11:41:35AM TAMPA COME IN, PRICING THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED THERE FOR
11:41:39AM GENERATIONS, PEOPLE LIKE OFFICER ROY PAZ WHO WE HONORED AT
11:41:45AM THE LAST TAMPA CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
11:41:47AM AGAIN, ABBYE, I REALLY, REALLY THANK YOU FOR THIS.
11:41:49AM COUNCIL, I'M SURE WE'LL GET A 7-0 VOTE FOR THIS.
11:41:52AM THIS IS JUST THE RIGHT THING TO DO, GOOD PEOPLE, WHO, AGAIN,
11:41:57AM THE BACKBONE OF TAMPA'S WORKING CLASS.
11:41:59AM THANK YOU.
11:42:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
11:42:02AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:42:03AM THE 700 MILLION IS NEWS.
11:42:04AM THAT'S REALLY EXCITING.
11:42:05AM THAT'S JUST REALLY WONDERFUL.
11:42:08AM IN THREE MONTHS, THAT'S LIKE WARP SPEED FOR GOVERNMENT.
11:42:12AM I THINK THAT'S REALLY GOOD.
11:42:13AM MY QUESTIONS BASICALLY THOUGH ARE, DO WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR
11:42:17AM THE COUNTY IN ORDER TO GET STARTED WITH THIS?
11:42:20AM OR WHEN ARE YOU BRINGING THE AGREEMENT TO US?
11:42:24AM AND HOW FAST CAN WE GET AT LEAST A HOT LINE OPEN TO GET
11:42:29AM PEOPLE TO OPEN TO GET A CASE NUMBER?
11:42:35AM I HOPE WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE COUNTY.
11:42:39AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: NO, WE'RE NOT GOING TO WAIT FOR THE COUNTY.
11:42:41AM WE'VE BEEN NEGOTIATING WITH ICF IN PREPARING THE AGREEMENT.
11:42:45AM OUR GOAL RIGHT NOW IS HAVE THAT ON THE JANUARY 23rd
11:42:48AM AGENDA.
11:42:48AM IF NOT IT WILL BE ON THE FIRST AGENDA IN FEBRUARY.
11:42:52AM WE ARE GOING BACK AND FORTH ON WHAT SOME OF THE TERMS ARE
11:42:55AM RIGHT NOW ON HOW THAT IS GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTED.
11:42:59AM AS ALWAYS, IF THE COUNTY WANTS TO COME BACK AROUND AND WORK
11:43:04AM WITH US OR USE THAT AGREEMENT IN SOME WAY OR MODIFY THE
11:43:07AM AGREEMENT WITH ICF, WHATEVER IT IS, WE CAN WORK THAT OUT
11:43:10AM TOO.
11:43:11AM BUT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD.
11:43:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: EXCELLENT.
11:43:13AM I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THAT.
11:43:14AM IF YOU WERE TO BRING IT ON THE 23rd, DO WE HAVE AN
11:43:19AM ESTIMATE FOR WHEN WE WOULD HAVE SOMETHING LIVE SO PEOPLE
11:43:23AM COULD REACH OUT?
11:43:24AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THAT'S GOING TO COME THROUGH ICF, SO I'M
11:43:27AM GOING TO NEED TO GET THAT INFORMATION.
11:43:29AM I'M HOPING BY THE FIRST OR SECOND WEEK OF FEBRUARY, WHICH IS
11:43:34AM ONLY MAYBE TWO WEEKS AFTER WE BRING YOU THE AGREEMENT.
11:43:37AM BUT WE'VE GOT TO GET THAT EXECUTED AND THEN GET THAT SET UP.
11:43:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ABSOLUTELY.
11:43:42AM I THINK THAT IS THE THING THAT I WOULD ASK FOR WHEN YOU
11:43:44AM BRING THE AGREEMENT BACK, BECAUSE IT SHOULD BE SPELLED IN
11:43:47AM THE AGREEMENT BUT SIMPLY TO MAKE IT VERY CLEAR WHAT THAT
11:43:50AM DATE WILL BE AND WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE.
11:43:54AM AGAIN, WE ARE SHARING IT WITH THE PUBLIC AS CLEARLY AS
11:43:56AM POSSIBLE SO THAT THEY KNOW THIS IS COMING.
11:43:59AM I GREATLY APPRECIATE IT.
11:44:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:44:04AM ITEM NUMBER 63, WHICH IS MS. FEELEY.
11:44:08AM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY FOR THAT.
11:44:10AM I MADE A MOTION FOR THIS, IF THIS IS ON THE FEES, THERE ARE
11:44:15AM NO FEES FOR THESE FOLKS.
11:44:18AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: CORRECT.
11:44:19AM IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING WE SUSPENDED ALL PERMIT FEES, AND THAT
11:44:24AM INCLUDES INSPECTION FEES FOR ANY WORK THAT'S BEING PERMITTED
11:44:28AM IN RELATION TO STORM DAMAGE.
11:44:30AM SO YOU COME IN AND TELL US IT IS A STORM DAMAGE PERMIT.
11:44:33AM WE GO AHEAD AND LOOK IN OUR SYSTEM BECAUSE, REMEMBER, WE
11:44:37AM PERFORMED THAT ANALYSIS RIGHT AFTER THE STORM WITH CODE
11:44:41AM ENFORCEMENT AND THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT'S INSPECTORS.
11:44:46AM SO WE KNOW ROUGHLY WHERE THAT IS.
11:44:48AM WE SAY, YES, WE SEE YOU'VE GOT THAT.
11:44:51AM AND WE'RE TAKING CARE OF BOTH THEN ANY SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE
11:44:54AM DETERMINATIONS AT THAT TIME AS PART OF THE PERMIT, BUT THERE
11:44:57AM ARE NO FEES.
11:44:58AM WE WANT YOU TO DO THE RIGHT THING, FIX YOUR HOUSE THE RIGHT
11:45:01AM WAY.
11:45:02AM BE SAFE, AND WE'RE HERE TO HELP.
11:45:04AM >>LUIS VIERA: AGAIN, I WANTED TO SAY AGAIN BECAUSE
11:45:09AM MS. FEELEY, YOU'VE WORKED A LOT ON THIS, INCLUDING DURING
11:45:12AM THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY.
11:45:14AM SO, AGAIN, I JUST WANTED TO PUBLICLY SAY WHEN I VOTED FOR
11:45:17AM YOU, THIS IS ONE OF THE REASONS I STATED BECAUSE I KNEW YOU
11:45:20AM WERE GOING TO WORK HARD ON THIS.
11:45:23AM AS A PUBLIC SERVANT, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS.
11:45:26AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THANK YOU.
11:45:29AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ALONG THE SAME LINES, THE WAIVING OF THE
11:45:31AM FEES, I HAD A COUPLE OF INDIVIDUALS CALL THE OFFICE.
11:45:34AM THEY WERE A LITTLE CONFUSED THEMSELVES BECAUSE THEY TOLD ME
11:45:38AM SOMETIME IN SEPTEMBER THERE WAS A NOTICE SENT, ANYTHING
11:45:41AM UNDER TWO FEET OF FLOODING THEY DID NOT NEED TO GET A
11:45:45AM PERMIT.
11:45:45AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THAT'S CORRECT.
11:45:46AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THEY TOLD ME THEY FIXED THAT AND NOW THEY
11:45:49AM GOT A LETTER IN THE MAIL TO HAVE TO GET --
11:45:52AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THEY GOT THE SUBSTANTIAL DETERMINATION
11:45:55AM LETTER.
11:45:55AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS.
11:45:56AM HOUSE BEEN FIXED BUT NOW THEY ARE NERVOUS BECAUSE THEY SAY
11:46:01AM NOW THEY WANT ME TO GET A CERTIFICATE TO REPAIR.
11:46:05AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: A COUPLE OF THINGS, IF I CAN ADDRESS THAT.
11:46:08AM IN TERMS OF THE SUBSTANTIAL DETERMINATION LETTER, THOSE
11:46:11AM LETTERS WENT OUT TO 1900 PROPERTIES.
11:46:14AM THOSE PROPERTIES WENT OUT BASED ON THE WINDSHIELD SURVEYS
11:46:18AM AND INSPECTIONS THAT WERE DONE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THE
11:46:21AM STORM.
11:46:21AM I HAVE SEEN EXAMPLES WHERE THE LETTERS HAVE GONE OUT AND
11:46:25AM IT'S A NEW BUILD AND THEY HAD NO DAMAGE.
11:46:27AM IF THAT'S THE CASE, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
11:46:31AM OR IF THAT IS THE CASE AND IT WAS MINIMAL, PLEASE LET US
11:46:34AM KNOW SO WE CLOSE THAT OUT.
11:46:36AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THIS WAS CLOSE TO WHERE IT WAS
11:46:38AM CATASTROPHIC, FOUR FEET OF WATER, BUT THAT WAS ON THE RIVER
11:46:42AM SIDE.
11:46:42AM THEY WERE A BLOCK IN AND GOT LESS THAN TWO FEET.
11:46:44AM THEY FIXED IT.
11:46:49AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: JUST LET US KNOW.
11:46:50AM WE HAVE AN E-MAIL ADDRESS FOCUSED COMPLETELY ON THIS CALLED
11:46:53AM FLOOD FOCUS.
11:46:55AM YOU CAN E-MAIL FLOODFOCUS@TAMPAGOV.
11:47:03AM WE JUST ALSO UPDATED ALL OF THE FAQs ON OUR HURRICANE PAGE
11:47:07AM IN RELATION TO SUBSTANTIAL DAMAGE.
11:47:10AM THE FORM, IF YOU GOT ONE, YOU REALLY SHOULDN'T HAVE.
11:47:14AM IF YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT YOUR 50% IS, WE PROVIDE A LINK TO
11:47:17AM THE PROPERTY APPRAISER SO YOU CAN GO IN AND PUT YOUR
11:47:19AM ADDRESS, IT GENERATES A LETTER.
11:47:21AM BUT WE'RE AVAILABLE TO HELP.
11:47:23AM JUST E-MAIL THAT.
11:47:25AM IT MAY BE THE CASE.
11:47:26AM THE THING IS THAT THE LAST PART TO THAT IS WE WILL GET DATA
11:47:30AM FROM FEMA SHOWING US WHO RECEIVED CLAIMS AND WHO RECEIVED
11:47:34AM AND THEN THEY ARE LOOKING TO US TO ENSURE THERE WERE
11:47:39AM PERMITS.
11:47:40AM IF THEY WENT IN AND SAID MY HOUSE WAS SUBSTANTIALLY DAMAGED,
11:47:42AM I NEED $200,000 AND THEY GOT IT, FEMA IS LOOKING FOR YOU
11:47:47AM THEN TO HAVE THE PERMIT FOR THAT WORK.
11:47:50AM THAT ALL FEEDS INTO OUR PARTICIPATION IN FIP, WHICH RIGHT
11:47:54AM NOW GIVES OUR RESIDENTS A 25% REDUCTION IN THEIR FLOOD
11:47:57AM INSURANCE PREMIUMS.
11:47:58AM WITH OUR NEW STORMWATER MASTER PLAN, OUR RATING IS
11:48:04AM ANTICIPATED TO GO FROM A 5 TO A 3, WHICH WILL THEN GIVE OUR
11:48:08AM RESIDENTS A 35% REDUCTION.
11:48:10AM SO ALL OF THESE PIECES PLAY A REALLY CRITICAL PART IN US
11:48:15AM CONTINUING TO BE A PART OF THAT AND TO REAP THOSE BENEFITS.
11:48:19AM BUT TO ALSO BUILD BACK IN A RESILIENT WAY.
11:48:22AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU.
11:48:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:48:25AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN WHAT THAT ACRONYM MEANS?
11:48:31AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM.
11:48:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:48:36AM ITEM NUMBER 29.
11:48:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN I HAVE A FIVE-MINUTE RECESS TO READ?
11:48:41AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
11:48:41AM WE WILL RECESS AND COME BACK AT 11:55 OR 12?
11:48:45AM 11:55.
11:48:47AM WE'RE IN RECESS UNTIL 11:55.
11:48:49AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
12:00:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CALL THIS TAMPA CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO
12:00:53PM ORDER.
12:00:54PM IF WE COULD HAVE ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
12:00:56PM >> CARLSON?
12:00:56PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
12:00:59PM CLENDENIN?
12:00:59PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
12:01:01PM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
12:01:02PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
12:01:03PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
12:01:04PM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
12:01:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN VIERA, YOU ASKED TO PULL ITEM
12:01:09PM 29.
12:01:10PM >>LUIS VIERA: BRIEFLY ON THIS, IS MR. BHIDE?
12:01:12PM THANK YOU.
12:01:13PM JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK QUESTIONS ON THIS.
12:01:19PM I PULLED THIS GIVEN THE OBVIOUS ISSUES THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN
12:01:23PM TAMPA OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS.
12:01:24PM THIS THING IS KIND OF A RED FLAG, SO TO SPEAK IN EVERYTHING.
12:01:29PM EVEN IF THERE'S NO THERE, THERE, IT'S GOOD TO BE TRANSPARENT
12:01:32PM ABOUT THINGS.
12:01:33PM BUT TO BE CERTAIN OF THIS, SIR, THIS REPORT IS FOR
12:01:39PM STORMWATER PUMPING SYSTEMS, NOT WASTEWATER, CORRECT?
12:01:41PM >>VIK BHIDE: CORRECT.
12:01:42PM AND BRIDGE OPERATIONS AS WELL.
12:01:45PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF YOU WANT TO EXPLAIN IT.
12:01:47PM >>VIK BHIDE: SURE.
12:01:48PM VIK BHIDE, DIRECTOR OF MOBILITY.
12:01:50PM SO THIS ITEM WAS AN AUDIT THAT WAS REQUESTED BY ME FOR AUDIT
12:01:59PM DIRECTOR.
12:02:00PM TYPICALLY THE WAY THE PROCESS WORKS, CHRISTINE WITH THE
12:02:02PM AUDIT DEPARTMENT, SHE IS THE DIRECTOR THERE, REACHES OUT TO
12:02:05PM DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS.
12:02:08PM THEY HAVE A PLAN OR A CYCLE FOR DIFFERENT DIVISIONS.
12:02:13PM AND THEY SAY, HERE IS WHAT WE ARE THINKING ABOUT THIS YEAR.
12:02:16PM ARE THERE ANY SPECIFIC BUSINESS UNITS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
12:02:19PM AUDIT?
12:02:19PM TYPICALLY WE LOOK AT WHAT ARE THOSE BUSINESS UNITS THAT
12:02:25PM REQUIRE ATTENTION AND WE BRING IT UP.
12:02:26PM SO IN 2022 OR '21, WE HAD DONE AN AUDIT OF THE PAVING TEAM
12:02:33PM AT THE TIME.
12:02:33PM IN '22, WE BUILT THE CASE FOR IT.
12:02:36PM IN '23, WHICH WAS FY '24, WE GOT, THANKS TO COUNCIL, THE
12:02:40PM RESOURCES TO BUILD A SECOND TEAM.
12:02:42PM SO THIS IS KIND OF PART OF THE SAME PROCESS.
12:02:44PM IN '23, I ASKED CHRISTINE TO TAKE A LOOK AT BRIDGE
12:02:49PM OPERATIONS AND OUR PUMPING STATION SPECIFICALLY.
12:02:54PM THE RATIONALE FOR THAT WAS WE HAD ONE PERSON RETIRE THAT WAS
12:02:59PM AN INSTRUMENTATION SPECIALIST, SKILLS.
12:03:03PM ANOTHER PERSON WE REPLACED AND LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND SOMEONE,
12:03:06PM BUT THAT PERSON DID NOT STAY WITH THE CITY FOR LONG BECAUSE
12:03:10PM THESE ARE HIGHER DOLLAR SKILLS.
12:03:13PM THIS IS INSTRUMENTATION.
12:03:14PM IT'S NOT ELECTRICAL.
12:03:15PM INSTRUMENTATION IS A LITTLE BIT HIGHER LEVEL SKILL.
12:03:18PM WASTEWATER HAS SIMILAR POSITION.
12:03:21PM AWT INSTRUMENTATION SPECIALIST AND ALL OF THAT.
12:03:25PM TYPICALLY BECAUSE WASTEWATER, WATER ARE SLIGHTLY HEALTHIER
12:03:30PM ENTERPRISES, PAY RATES FOR SIMILAR POSITIONS ARE HIGHER.
12:03:34PM THEIR POSITIONS ARE HIGHER.
12:03:35PM SO THOSE ARE THE CONSTRAINTS WE WORKED WITH.
12:03:37PM SO WE HAD FILLED THAT POSITION.
12:03:41PM AT THE SAME TIME, THAT YEAR, '23, WHAT WE DID WAS WE
12:03:48PM UP-CLASSED ONE OF THE PEOPLE IN BRIDGE OPERATIONS THAT IS
12:03:52PM REALLY GOOD AT ELECTRICAL AND INSTRUMENTATION ITEMS AS WELL.
12:03:57PM THAT WAS SO HE COULD SUPPORT THE PUMP STATION TEAM.
12:04:00PM THIS WAS AN INTERIM PLAN TO GET THIS ENTIRE BUSINESS UNIT TO
12:04:04PM IMPROVE.
12:04:05PM SO THAT WAS IN FY '24, WHICH IS 2023 WHEN THE AUDIT WAS
12:04:12PM REQUESTED AND THAT WAS DONE.
12:04:13PM PRIOR TO THAT, FY '22, AND THIS AUDIT DOES MENTION THAT, WE
12:04:19PM HAD IMPLEMENTED CITY WORKS, WHICH IS A WORK MANAGEMENT
12:04:23PM SYSTEM TO BETTER TRACK THESE TASKS AND ASSOCIATE CHECKLISTS
12:04:27PM AND THINGS LIKE THAT WITH THEM.
12:04:28PM SO THAT WAS REFERENCED IN THE AUDIT REPORT AS WELL.
12:04:33PM SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED THEN IN FY '24, AS YOU KNOW, WE
12:04:38PM ADDED THE SECOND PAVING TEAM, WHICH BEGINS TO ADDRESS SOME
12:04:41PM OF THESE STORMWATER PAVEMENT RELATED ISSUES, NOT PUMP
12:04:44PM STATION PAVEMENT RELATED, BECAUSE THERE ARE THREE ITEMS
12:04:46PM HERE.
12:04:47PM THREE RECOMMENDATIONS.
12:04:48PM ONE IS FOR BRIDGE OPERATIONS.
12:04:51PM THE SECOND IS FOR STORMWATER OPERATIONS.
12:04:54PM AND THEN THE THIRD IS FOR PUMP STATION SPECIFICALLY.
12:04:57PM SO SPEAKING TO THE PUMP STATION SPECIFICALLY AND WHAT HAVE
12:05:02PM WE DONE, EVEN BEFORE THIS AUDIT CAME OUT, BECAUSE THE AUDIT
12:05:05PM WAS INITIATED IN JULY OF LAST YEAR, 2024, AND IT WRAPPED UP
12:05:11PM IN DECEMBER 17, 2024.
12:05:14PM WE HAD THE STORMS IN BETWEEN.
12:05:17PM SO SINCE THE STORMS, WE HAVE HAD ELECTRONICS AND
12:05:23PM INSTRUMENTATION CONTRACTOR, ICON THAT WASTEWATER USES AND WE
12:05:29PM HAVE THEM AS A PIGGYBACK CONTRACT AS WELL.
12:05:31PM WE HAVE GONE TO ALL OF THE MAJOR PUMP STATIONS.
12:05:34PM WE'VE DONE THE REVIEW OF WHAT UPGRADES ARE NEEDED AND THINGS
12:05:38PM LIKE THAT.
12:05:38PM THESE ARE INSTRUMENTATION UPGRADES BECAUSE SOME OF THESE
12:05:42PM UPGRADES HADN'T HAPPENED IN A WHILE.
12:05:45PM AND THAT IS THE REPORT THAT IS GOING TO COME TO YOU ON
12:05:48PM JANUARY 30th FOR THE MOTION THAT YOU HAD MADE, COUNCILMAN
12:05:52PM VIERA.
12:05:53PM AND IT WILL KIND OF SHOW WHAT WE CAN DO.
12:05:57PM THE GIST IS A WHOLE BUNCH OF INSTRUMENTATION UPGRADES,
12:06:00PM BETTER MONITORING.
12:06:01PM SO SENSORS FOR THE WATER, BUT ALSO FOR OPERATORS, THE ICE,
12:06:06PM THE CAMERAS.
12:06:07PM BACKUP POWER, GENERATORS, AND THEN UPDATING SOME OF THE
12:06:11PM THINGS LIKE TRANSFER SWITCHES AND OTHER INSTRUMENTATION.
12:06:15PM WE'VE ALSO BEGUN UPDATING SOPs AS REQUIRED BY THIS AUDIT
12:06:21PM -- OH, SORRY.
12:06:23PM STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
12:06:24PM AND WHILE STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES ARE IMPORTANT FOR
12:06:28PM CONTINUITY AND ALL OF THAT, THEY ADDRESS THE WHAT.
12:06:33PM WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON THE HOW.
12:06:34PM THAT'S WHERE THE SKILLS COME IN AND HOW MUCH, WHICH IS WHERE
12:06:37PM THE RESOURCES COME IN.
12:06:38PM AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BRING TO YOU AS WELL.
12:06:42PM AND THAT WILL INCLUDE GENERATORS.
12:06:43PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU FOR THAT.
12:06:45PM JUST TO BE CLEAR, NONE OF THE CHALLENGES OR WHAT HAVE YOU
12:06:50PM THAT MAY BE NOTED IN THIS AUDIT, ARE ANY OF THEM RELEVANT TO
12:06:55PM NORTH TAMPA OR ANY OF THE PUMPS OUT THERE?
12:06:57PM >>VIK BHIDE: NO.
12:06:57PM >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
12:06:59PM I PULLED THIS BECAUSE I WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
12:07:02PM IT'S IMPORTANT.
12:07:05PM THE PATH THAT I'VE GONE SINCE MILTON FOR ME HAS BEEN A VERY
12:07:10PM CAREFUL ONE WHENEVER IT COMES TO FINDING ANSWERS AND
12:07:13PM TRANSPARENCY, WHICH IS I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT AS A GOOD
12:07:15PM STEWARD, AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, I DO MY DUE DILIGENCE IN
12:07:19PM HAVING TRANSPARENCY.
12:07:21PM THAT FOR ME IS WHAT THE EFFORT THAT THE COUNTY HAS BOUGHT
12:07:24PM INTO IS ABOUT WITH THE INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR AND THE
12:07:26PM REVIEW.
12:07:26PM THAT'S GOING TO TALK ABOUT AN AUDIT ON WHAT HAPPENED
12:07:29PM ET CETERA, AS WELL AS WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IN THE FUTURE.
12:07:31PM THAT'S VERY BIG.
12:07:32PM BUT I ALSO AT THE SAME TIME DON'T WANT TO SPREAD IDEAS OR
12:07:38PM RUMORS OR ANYTHING BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE HURTING RIGHT NOW.
12:07:41PM PEOPLE ARE GOING THROUGH HELL RIGHT NOW IN FOREST HILLS.
12:07:44PM GO TO FOREST HILLS, KNOCK ON DOORS, TEN DOORS, FIND FIVE
12:07:48PM PEOPLE GOING THROUGH HELL RIGHT NOW.
12:07:49PM AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT PEOPLE DON'T GO, OH, MY GOD,
12:07:53PM LOOK AT THIS REPORT, FOREST HILLS, WHATEVER, THAT'S VERY
12:07:55PM IMPORTANT TO ME.
12:07:56PM AND ALSO, I THINK A MENTION WAS MADE, IF I MAY, ABOUT A
12:08:01PM LETTER THAT THE FOREST HILLS NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION HAD
12:08:04PM SENT, I KNOW WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT WITH YOU AND YOU
12:08:07PM ADDRESSED A NUMBER OF THEIR ISSUES, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
12:08:09PM AND WE ACTUALLY, HELL, ACTUALLY HAVE A COMMUNITY MEETING OUT
12:08:13PM THERE TONIGHT AGAIN.
12:08:14PM WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT TOGETHER, ET CETERA.
12:08:18PM I KNOW BEV KEANEY OUT THERE, GOD LOVE HER, HAS BEEN DOING A
12:08:22PM GREAT JOB OF HELPING PEOPLE.
12:08:24PM SHE'S BEEN DRINKING FROM A FIRE HOSE.
12:08:26PM DRINKING FROM TEN FIRE HOSES.
12:08:28PM IT'S VERY DIFFICULT.
12:08:29PM AGAIN, I WANTED TO PULL THIS, MR. BHIDE, JUST FOR THE
12:08:32PM PURPOSES OF TRANSPARENCY, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT, AGAIN, THE
12:08:36PM PEOPLE THAT I -- THAT WE ALL CARE SO MUCH ABOUT WHO ARE
12:08:39PM HURTING, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THE RIGHT
12:08:42PM INFORMATION OUT THERE.
12:08:42PM SO THANK YOU, SIR.
12:08:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
12:08:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
12:08:47PM THE PART THAT I'M CONFUSED ABOUT IS COUNCILMAN VIERA SAYS,
12:08:52PM IS THIS RELEVANT TO THE NORTH TAMPA?
12:08:54PM AND I DON'T KNOW HOW IT'S NOT RELEVANT.
12:08:58PM >>VIK BHIDE: WELL, IT'S RELATED TO THE PUMP STATIONS.
12:09:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OH, OKAY.
12:09:01PM IT'S NOT SPECIFIC TO NORTH TAMPA.
12:09:03PM >>VIK BHIDE: NOT SPECIFIC TO ANY ONE THING.
12:09:05PM THIS WAS TO LOOK AT KIND OF THE PROCESS AROUND PUMP STATIONS
12:09:09PM AND INSTRUMENTATION AND WHAT WE NEED.
12:09:12PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WAS CLARIFIED
12:09:14PM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THE PEOPLE IN NORTH TAMPA TO THINK, OH,
12:09:16PM WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
12:09:17PM I WANTED FOLKS TO UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS A CITYWIDE ISSUE
12:09:20PM WE LOOKED AT.
12:09:21PM AND IT DOES IMPACT NORTH TAMPA.
12:09:23PM IT'S JUST NOT SPECIFICALLY NORTH TAMPA.
12:09:25PM >>VIK BHIDE: IT'S NOT SPECIFIC.
12:09:26PM THE OTHER THING I WOULD ADD TO IT, THIS WAS INITIATED IN
12:09:30PM 2023, WELL BEFORE THE STORMS.
12:09:34PM IT WASN'T IN RESPONSE TO OR IN REACTION TO.
12:09:37PM BUT WE HAVE TAKEN MEASURES EVEN IN RESPONSE TO.
12:09:43PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU ARE COMING BACK, WHAT IS THE EXACT DATE
12:09:46PM YOU ARE COMING BACK WITH MORE INFORMATION -- JANUARY 30,
12:09:53PM YOU'RE COMING BACK TO TALK ABOUT WHAT SPECIFICALLY?
12:09:55PM >>VIK BHIDE: CORRECT.
12:09:57PM THAT WILL INCLUDE -- SO THE MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA
12:10:01PM WAS, WHAT KIND OF MODERNIZATION AND WHAT KIND OF OTHER
12:10:04PM MEASURES DO WE NEED TO TAKE TO MAKE SURE OUR STORMWATER
12:10:09PM SYSTEM AND PUMP STATIONS ARE IN BETTER READINESS FOR FUTURE
12:10:13PM STORMS.
12:10:13PM SO WHAT WE'RE COMING TO YOU WITH, THE GIST IS WHAT IS GOING
12:10:19PM TO BE NEEDED, RESOURCES AS WELL AS THE HIGH-LEVEL SCOPE TO
12:10:25PM UPGRADE SOME OF THESE PUMP STATIONS?
12:10:28PM ONE, I'D LIKE TO BEGIN BY SAYING THE PUMP STATIONS ARE
12:10:33PM OPERATIONAL RIGHT NOW.
12:10:34PM A LOT OF OUR ISSUES WERE BECAUSE OF BACKUP POWER.
12:10:37PM EITHER IT NOT BEING PRESENT MEANING GENERATORS NOT EVEN
12:10:41PM BEING THERE, OR WHEN POWER WENT OUT, THE GENERATORS NOT
12:10:47PM COMING ON.
12:10:48PM SO THE IMMEDIATE STEP WE'VE TAKEN RIGHT NOW, AND THIS IS
12:10:53PM JUST TO REASSURE THE PUBLIC, IS WHEN WE GO OUT THERE TO
12:10:57PM REDUCE STORMWATER POND LEVELS TO INCREASE CAPACITY, WE WILL
12:11:01PM SWITCH TO GENERATOR POWER THEN.
12:11:03PM SO WE'RE NOT EVEN GOING TO WAIT FOR TRANSFER SWITCHES OR ANY
12:11:07PM POTENTIAL FAILURES.
12:11:08PM SO THAT IS OUR INTERIM MEASURE.
12:11:11PM WHILE WE WORK WITH THE ADMINISTRATION AND THIS BODY TO GET
12:11:15PM THE RESOURCES TO UPDATE AND ADD GENERATORS WHERE WE DON'T
12:11:20PM HAVE, UPDATE ALL OF THE INSTRUMENTATION AND THIS IS ALL OF
12:11:25PM THE LOGIC AND THE CONTROLLERS THAT DRIVE EITHER THE PUMPS --
12:11:30PM THE PUMPS THEMSELVES ARE IN GOOD SHAPE, ALL OF THEM.
12:11:32PM OR THE GENERATORS.
12:11:33PM THE GENERATORS WERE ALL TESTED BEFORE THE STORM AS WELL.
12:11:37PM LOAD TESTING.
12:11:38PM SO THE GENERATORS WERE GOOD.
12:11:39PM IT WAS THE TRANSFERRING THAT WAS A CHALLENGE AT ONE OF THE
12:11:43PM LOCATIONS.
12:11:44PM AND THIS WILL ALSO INCLUDE WHAT ELSE DO WE NEED TO DO TO
12:11:48PM KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING DURING AND BEFORE AND AFTER A STORM.
12:11:51PM SO A BETTER CONTROL SYSTEM, CAMERAS, WATER LEVEL SENSORS
12:11:55PM THAT GIVE US A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT'S GOING ON AND WHAT OTHER
12:11:59PM SYSTEMS NEED TO BE ON BACKUP POWER BEYOND JUST THE PUMPS
12:12:03PM THEMSELVES.
12:12:05PM >>LYNN HURTAK: GREAT.
12:12:05PM ADDITIONALLY, WHAT I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO BRING IS HOW
12:12:09PM QUICKLY WE CAN GET STARTED ON SOME OF THESE.
12:12:11PM SO IF WE WERE TO OPEN A LINE OF CREDIT ON THE 30th, HOW
12:12:15PM QUICKLY COULD YOU GET STARTED?
12:12:16PM SECONDLY, MS. COLINA ALWAYS TALKS ABOUT BRINGING THAT WE
12:12:25PM HAVE CONTRACTS FOR IF.
12:12:27PM IF THIS HAPPENS IN A STORM, THEN WE DEFINITELY HAVE FOLKS --
12:12:32PM WE HAVE A CONTRACT SO WE CAN START DOING DEBRIS CLEANUP.
12:12:35PM THEY BELONG TO US.
12:12:36PM THEY COME TO US FIRST BECAUSE WE HAVE A CONTRACT.
12:12:38PM IS THERE A WAY WE COULD DO A CONTRACTOR OR A CONTRACT FOR
12:12:44PM EXTRA FOLKS TO BRING IN THE PUMPS?
12:12:47PM BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE IT IS ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT OUR
12:12:51PM CAPACITY WOULD BE.
12:12:53PM IS THERE A WAY THAT WE COULD WORK WITH, I THINK YOU
12:12:55PM MENTIONED A CONTRACTOR EARLIER, IS THERE A WAY WE COULD GET
12:12:57PM A CONTRACT WITH THEM SO THAT WE HAVE THE EXTRA HANDS WE NEED
12:13:03PM WHEN A STORM STARTS SO FOLKS HAVE EYES ON THOSE?
12:13:05PM >>VIK BHIDE: WE WILL CERTAINLY LOOK AT CONTRACTS.
12:13:08PM I KNOW SOME OF THOSE CONTRACTS EXIST RIGHT NOW LIKE
12:13:13PM GENERATORS.
12:13:13PM WHAT HAPPENED AFTER MILTON, WHICH IS A CONFLUENCE OF MANY
12:13:19PM EVENTS, GETTING TO THE PUMP STATIONS THE FIRST COUPLE OF
12:13:21PM DAYS WAS THE CHALLENGE.
12:13:23PM IT WASN'T THE EQUIPMENT ITSELF.
12:13:26PM BUT, YES, WE CAN --
12:13:27PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I APOLOGIZE.
12:13:28PM I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE EQUIPMENT.
12:13:30PM I'M TALKING ABOUT THE PERSONNEL TO COME OUT BEFORE THE
12:13:32PM STORM.
12:13:33PM SO I THINK A LOT OF WHAT IS IN THIS LETTER HAS TO DO WITH,
12:13:37PM YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T START LOWERING THE WATER LEVEL SOON
12:13:41PM ENOUGH.
12:13:42PM SO IS THERE A WAY THAT WE COULD GET THOSE CONTRACTORS TO
12:13:46PM START EARLIER TO DO THAT WORK SO THAT WE AREN'T SPREAD THIN
12:13:51PM AT ALL?
12:13:52PM SO WE HAVE MORE PEOPLE THAN WE NEED?
12:13:54PM >>VIK BHIDE: WE WILL LOOK AT THE RESOURCES WE NEED,
12:13:56PM ABSOLUTELY.
12:13:57PM BUT I'D LIKE TO CLARIFY.
12:13:59PM THE LETTER HAS CERTAIN STATEMENTS.
12:14:01PM SOME OF THEM WE DID CLARIFY AFTER THE LETTER.
12:14:04PM THE LETTER IS DATED OCTOBER 16, RIGHT AFTER THE STORM.
12:14:08PM WE SUBSEQUENTLY HAD A PUBLIC MEETING CLARIFYING SOME OF THE
12:14:12PM ELEMENTS WITHIN THE LETTER.
12:14:13PM WE ALSO, TO CLARIFY ADDITIONALLY SOME OF THE CLAIMS MADE IN
12:14:18PM THE LETTER, PUT INFORMATION UP ON THE WEBSITE,
12:14:22PM TAMPA.GOV/HURRICANE, THAT ACTUALLY SHOWS SCADA PLOTS.
12:14:27PM SCADA IS THE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A LOT OF THESE PUMP STATIONS
12:14:32PM THAT SHOW WHEN STORMWATER POND LEVELS WERE ACTUALLY REDUCED.
12:14:37PM ON SOME PONDS, THEY ARE NOT REDUCED DOWN TO WHAT WE CALL
12:14:41PM TILL THE FISHES FLOP.
12:14:43PM SOMETIMES THEY ARE REDUCED BY TWO OR THREE FEET FOR ACTUAL
12:14:46PM HYDROLOGIC REASONS OR HYDRAULIC REASONS, RATHER.
12:14:51PM BUT THOSE DID HAPPEN.
12:14:52PM THOSE PLOTS SHOW YOU THAT A DAY BEFORE THE STORM, THE PONDS
12:14:57PM WERE -- LEVELS CAME DOWN.
12:14:59PM THAT'S WHEN WE'RE SAYING WHEN WE GO OUT THERE.
12:15:02PM SO THE RESOURCES WERE THERE.
12:15:03PM WE WENT TO THE STORMWATER PONDS.
12:15:05PM WE WENT TO THE PUMP STATIONS AS WELL.
12:15:06PM BUT FOR AN INTERIM MEASURE, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE ADDITIONAL
12:15:13PM PRECAUTIONS THIS TIME AROUND UNTIL WE HAVE ALL OF IT BUILT
12:15:16PM OUT.
12:15:16PM THE BUILD-OUT TIMELINE AND THE REASON I HAD MY THUMBS UP
12:15:21PM EARLIER IS BECAUSE I HAD THAT CONVERSATION WITH OUR
12:15:23PM ENGINEERING TEAM THIS MORNING.
12:15:25PM I KEPT ASKING THEM THE SAME THING.
12:15:29PM COUNCIL IS GOING TO ASK US HOW MUCH WILL IT TAKE AND HOW
12:15:31PM LONG BEFORE WE CAN GET IT ALL IN PLACE, NOT WHEN WE START
12:15:36PM DESIGN, NOT WHEN WE START CONSTRUCTION.
12:15:38PM THE BEST ESTIMATE I HAVE IS IF WE HAD THE RESOURCES AND
12:15:43PM WE'LL HAVE THE CLARITY ON THAT, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT 8 TO
12:15:46PM $10 MILLION I BELIEVE.
12:15:49PM PLEASE DON'T QUOTE ME ON IT.
12:15:51PM JANUARY 30th WILL BE THE FINAL NUMBER.
12:15:55PM IF WE HAD IT AVAILABLE NOW, IT WOULD TAKE US TWO YEARS FROM
12:15:59PM NOW TO GET THE DESIGN, SCOPING, AND INSTRUMENTATION IN
12:16:03PM PLACE.
12:16:04PM THAT'S WHAT MY TEAM IS TELLING ME.
12:16:07PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I APPRECIATE THAT'S THE LONG-TERM FIX.
12:16:11PM I THINK WE ALSO WOULD LOVE TO HEAR A SHORT-TERM FIX.
12:16:16PM I WOULD ALSO LOVE TO HAVE REVENUE AND FINANCE HERE TO TALK
12:16:20PM ABOUT LIKE HOW DO WE SIGN ON THE DOTTED LINE ON THE 30th?
12:16:25PM >>VIK BHIDE: SURE.
12:16:26PM I THINK THAT'S PART OF COUNCILMAN CARLSON'S AUXILIARY MOTION
12:16:30PM TO THIS.
12:16:31PM AND THAT WAS, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE SHORT-TERM FIXES.
12:16:34PM AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SPEAK TO IT BECAUSE SOME OF THEM ARE
12:16:37PM UNDERWAY AS WE SPEAK.
12:16:40PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
12:16:41PM I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING ALL THAT.
12:16:43PM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INDULGING ME THE FIVE
12:16:46PM MINUTES TO READ THE LETTER AGAIN.
12:16:48PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: VERY QUICKLY.
12:16:50PM THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
12:16:50PM THANK YOU, VIK, AND YOUR STAFF FOR THE EXCELLENT REPORT AND
12:16:56PM WHAT WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO TO MAKE IT BETTER.
12:16:58PM THANK COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK FOR HER INVOLVEMENT IN BEING
12:17:01PM SPECIFIC.
12:17:01PM HOWEVER, NO MATTER WHAT WE DO, IF YOU REBUILD THE HOMES
12:17:09PM DAMAGED SAME WAY THEY WERE AND SAME THING HAPPENS, NO MATTER
12:17:12PM HOW IT WORKS, BIGGER STORM, IF THAT STORM HAD COME 20 MILES
12:17:16PM NORTH, WE MIGHT NOT BE HERE TODAY.
12:17:18PM SO WHAT AM I SAYING?
12:17:20PM YOU FIX EVERYTHING TO TRY TO PREVENT IT, BUT YET WHAT YOU'RE
12:17:24PM TRYING TO FIX YOU'RE NOT DOING WHAT IT'S GOING TO DESTROY,
12:17:27PM THAT'S THE HOUSE OR THE DWELLING OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO
12:17:29PM CALL IT.
12:17:30PM WE CONTINUE TO BUILD THE SECOND FLOOR WITH WOOD WITH AN EAVE
12:17:34PM 24 INCHES OUT WHERE THE WIND CAN PICK UP THE ROOF, COLLAPSE
12:17:39PM THE WALLS AND YOU HAVE FLOODING FROM THE OUTSIDE AND
12:17:42PM RAINFALL COG IN FROM ABOVE.
12:17:45PM YOU HAVE NO CHANCE OF GETTING IT THROUGH.
12:17:48PM THAT'S WHY THE INSURANCE RATES ARE SO HIGH.
12:17:50PM I'M NOT AN EXPERT IN ZONING -- I MEAN BUILDING WITHIN THE
12:17:55PM ZONE, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE LITTLE ISLANDS, THE
12:17:58PM CARIBBEAN, LOOK AT PUERTO RICO, LOOK AT THE DOMINICAN
12:18:01PM REPUBLIC, LOOK AT CUBA, WHEN A HURRICANE -- THEY HAVE MORE
12:18:05PM EXPERIENCE IN HURRICANES THAN WE DO, THE DWELLINGS DON'T GO.
12:18:09PM THE ONES ON THE OUTSIDE AND THE COUNTY, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO
12:18:13PM CALL IT, THE LAND OUTSIDE THE CITY, THE ONES GET HIT BECAUSE
12:18:18PM THEY ARE BUILT WITH TIN AND STUFF THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THE
12:18:20PM MONEY TO BUILD WHAT THEY NEED.
12:18:22PM BUT THE CENTER OF THE CITIES SURVIVE BECAUSE THEY ARE ALL
12:18:25PM CONCRETE, REBAR IN THE CENTER, ALL ACROSS THE ROOF, ALL
12:18:29PM ACROSS THE WALLS.
12:18:30PM THE SECOND FLOOR IS THE SAME THING AND THE ROOF IS CONCRETE
12:18:34PM WITH REBAR AT AN ANGLE IT DRAINS OUT.
12:18:38PM IF IT FLOODS, AND SOME DO, THERE'S NO DRYWALL INSIDE.
12:18:43PM SO WHEN IT DRIES, YOU PAINT IT AND YOU'RE DONE WITH.
12:18:48PM IT WILL SAVE THE HOMEOWNER, LET'S SAY THE COST IS 10, 15, 20
12:18:52PM PERCENT MORE THAN THE HOUSE TO BUILD ON YOUR INSURANCE
12:18:55PM PREMIUM ALONE, YOU CAN MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE UP.
12:18:57PM WE'RE NOT THINKING OF THAT.
12:19:00PM AND THAT'S THE PROBLEM THAT I HAVE WITH THE PROCESS.
12:19:04PM IT'S GOT TO COME TO SOMEBODY, COME TO US, I'M NOT A BUILDER,
12:19:09PM NOT A CONTRACTOR, I DON'T KNOW NONE OF THAT STUFF, TO SEE
12:19:13PM HOW IT'S DONE BECAUSE I THINK WE HAVE TO CHANGE THE STYLE OF
12:19:20PM LIVING THE WAY WE DO AND GO MORE TO HELP NATURE.
12:19:22PM BECAUSE -- THE FIRES IN CALIFORNIA, THE SNOW MORE THAN EVER
12:19:27PM HAD BEFORE, ALL OVER THE AMERICA OF THE UNITED STATES, WE'RE
12:19:31PM HAVING MORE AND MORE CATASTROPHE EVERY SINGLE DAY BECAUSE WE
12:19:35PM HAVE ABUSED WHAT?
12:19:37PM THE ENVIRONMENT.
12:19:38PM AND NOBODY IS TALKING ABOUT HELPING THE ENVIRONMENT.
12:19:42PM AND WE MUST CHANGE, AND WE MUST LEAD IN THAT DIRECTION.
12:19:46PM IF NOT, I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH WE SPEND.
12:19:49PM I DON'T CARE HOW MUCH WE DO.
12:19:50PM IF THE GULF OF MEXICO OR THE GULF OF AMERICA, WHATEVER IT
12:19:54PM IS, I THINK IT IS STILL THE GULF OF MEXICO.
12:19:56PM I HOPE IT STAYS THAT WAY.
12:19:59PM THE STORMS MIGHT NEVER HAVE I SEEN SIX OR SEVEN STORMS COME
12:20:05PM OUT OF THE GULF OF MEXICO.
12:20:06PM NEVER.
12:20:07PM WHY?
12:20:10PM I DON'T KNOW WHY, BUT IT'S GOT TO BE THE ENVIRONMENT.
12:20:15PM WARMER WATER.
12:20:16PM GULF OF MEXICO WAS 2.5 DEGREES WARMER THAN THE YEAR BEFORE.
12:20:19PM IT'S LIKE GIVING YOUR CAR ANOTHER 15, 20 MILES FASTER.
12:20:26PM THAT'S THE PROBLEM WE HAVE AND WE'RE NOT ADDRESSING IT.
12:20:28PM ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE.
12:20:31PM APPRECIATE EVERYTHING AND SEE YOU ON THE 30th.
12:20:33PM >>VIK BHIDE: COUNCILMAN, I WOULD LIKE TO ADD YOU MADE A VERY
12:20:36PM VALID POINT.
12:20:37PM THE QUESTION OF BUILDING MATERIALS IS BEING DISCUSSED
12:20:40PM NATIONALLY RIGHT NOW IN LIGHT OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES.
12:20:44PM ASPHALT SHINGLES, BE IT DRYWALL, BE IT WHAT WE RATE OUR
12:20:50PM STRUCTURES FOR, NOT JUST THE HEIGHT AND THE FOUNDATIONS.
12:20:54PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: FEEL BETTER -- I'LL LET MY HAIR GROW SO I
12:20:59PM CAN LOOK LIKE MR. CLENDENIN.
12:21:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: VERY NICE.
12:21:02PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU RECOGNIZED REAL
12:21:04PM BEAUTY.
12:21:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, LIKE TO MOVE ITEM
12:21:08PM 29?
12:21:09PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES, SIR.
12:21:09PM MOVE 29.
12:21:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:21:12PM SECOND FROM VIERA.
12:21:12PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:21:13PM ANY OPPOSED?
12:21:14PM THANK YOU, SIR.
12:21:15PM SEE YOU ON THE 30th.
12:21:16PM NEW BUSINESS.
12:21:17PM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:21:18PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NONE, SIR.
12:21:20PM >>LUIS VIERA: I GOT A COUPLE.
12:21:21PM I WANTED TO MAKE A PUBLIC SHOUT-OUT.
12:21:23PM ANY KNOW LINDA HALL WITH PARKS AND REC?
12:21:25PM WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL LADY.
12:21:27PM IT WAS DECEMBER 26, HANUKKAH STARTED ON DECEMBER 25.
12:21:33PM I ALWAYS TRY TO HAVE EVERY YEAR AT THE NEW TAMPA REC CENTER
12:21:37PM A NICE HANUKKAH EVENT.
12:21:39PM THE 26th WAS, OF COURSE, THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS.
12:21:44PM MS. HALL WENT OUT THERE THE DAY AFTER CHRISTMAS.
12:21:50PM SHE TOLD ME SHE WAS GOING TO BE OUT THERE WORKING ANYWAY.
12:21:52PM SHE WASN'T GOING TO BE OUT THERE WORKING.
12:21:54PM SHE TOLD ME THAT BECAUSE SHE THOUGHT I WOULD STOP HER FROM
12:21:58PM DOING IT.
12:21:59PM SHE WENT OUT THERE TO SET UP THE HANUKKAH EVENT.
12:22:01PM WITH A COUPLE OF OTHER PARKS AND REC EMPLOYEES FOR LIKE TWO
12:22:04PM HOURS TO HELP SUPPORT PEOPLE AT 33647 HAVE A NICE HANUKKAH
12:22:09PM EVENT.
12:22:09PM I JUST WANTED TO GIVE HER A SHOUT-OUT FOR THAT.
12:22:12PM I THINK THAT'S WONDERFUL.
12:22:13PM SHE'S SO NICE.
12:22:15PM A COUPLE OF QUICK MOTIONS, IF I MAY.
12:22:18PM WRITTEN STAFF REPORT.
12:22:19PM K-BAR RANCH WE HAD PASSED FUNDS FOR DESIGN, FOR THE K-BAR
12:22:27PM RANCH PARK.
12:22:29PM THERE ARE GOING TO BE PLANS FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH.
12:22:31PM I WANT A WRITTEN REPORT FOR JANUARY 23rd ON PARKS AND
12:22:34PM RECREATION'S PLANS FOR COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND MEETINGS.
12:22:39PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
12:22:41PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:22:43PM MR. SHELBY.
12:22:44PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: SORRY TO INTERRUPT.
12:22:46PM NOT QUITE SURE.
12:22:48PM NOT SURE ABOUT THE DEADLINE.
12:22:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT'S A WRITTEN REPORT.
12:22:50PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE DEADLINE IS TOMORROW TO GET IT IN.
12:22:52PM >>LUIS VIERA: SORRY.
12:22:53PM OKAY.
12:22:53PM THANK YOU.
12:22:54PM IT'S FEBRUARY 6.
12:22:56PM AND IT'S WRITTEN.
12:23:03PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
12:23:04PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:23:06PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:23:07PM FEBRUARY 6 WRITTEN REPORT.
12:23:08PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
12:23:09PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:23:10PM ALSO A WRITTEN REPORT ON FEBRUARY 6 FROM MOBILITY ON THE
12:23:14PM STATUS OF REPAVING OF NORTH BOULEVARD.
12:23:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, SECOND
12:23:18PM FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:23:19PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:23:20PM AYE.
12:23:20PM >>LUIS VIERA: THEN I WANTED TO AMEND ON FEBRUARY 6, WE HAVE
12:23:25PM A REPORT WITH TFR ON A COUPLE OF ISSUES, INCLUDING STATION
12:23:31PM 24.
12:23:32PM I WANTED TO AMEND MY MOTION TO MAKE SURE THAT LOCAL 754 ALSO
12:23:36PM HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK AS WELL, ALONG WITH TFR.
12:23:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND FROM MIRANDA.
12:23:42PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:23:43PM AYE.
12:23:43PM ANY OPPOSED?
12:23:44PM >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S IT.
12:23:45PM THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
12:23:45PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NOTHING, SIR.
12:23:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I HAVE A COUPLE OF MOTIONS.
12:23:51PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I RECOGNIZE CHAIRMAN MANISCALCO.
12:23:52PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:23:53PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO RATIFY AND CONFIRM THE
12:23:56PM COMMENDATION PRESENTED TO THE FAMILY OF THE LATE FRANK
12:23:59PM REDDICK FORMER CITY COUNCIL MEMBER ON JANUARY 3, 2025 FOR
12:24:04PM HIS FUNERAL.
12:24:07PM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA AND I ATTENDED.
12:24:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM CHAIRMAN MANISCALCO.
12:24:10PM A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:24:11PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
12:24:13PM AYE.
12:24:13PM OPPOSED.
12:24:14PM AYES HAVE IT.
12:24:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NEXT IS I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO
12:24:17PM PRESENT A COMMENDATION OFF-SITE TO THE TOBA FOUNDATION AT
12:24:20PM THEIR 45th ANNUAL MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. LEADERSHIP
12:24:22PM BREAKFAST ON JANUARY 20.
12:24:24PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA --
12:24:29PM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, SECOND FROM -- ALL IN FAVOR, AYE.
12:24:33PM OPPOSED?
12:24:33PM AYES HAVE IT.
12:24:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WOULD LIKE TO WISH MY GREAT AUNT A
12:24:38PM HAPPY 93rd BIRTHDAY.
12:24:39PM KATARINA.
12:24:43PM HAPPY BIRTHDAY KATARINA
12:24:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SHE'S MY GRANDMOTHER'S SISTER WHO LIVES
12:24:50PM IN SICILY.
12:24:52PM SHE LIVES HERE IN LUTZ.
12:24:57PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE ONE THING.
12:24:58PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO CONTINUE THE WORKSHOP
12:25:03PM THAT'S SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 30th FOR THE STREETCAR
12:25:06PM BECAUSE I WILL NOT BE HERE TO MAY 22.
12:25:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
12:25:10PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
12:25:12PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:25:13PM ANY OPPOSED?
12:25:14PM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
12:25:17PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
12:25:18PM I'VE SPOKEN TO STAFF REGARDING MY MOTION MADE ON DECEMBER
12:25:22PM 19, 2025.
12:25:24PM IT IS THE STAFF TO PROVIDE A WRITTEN REPORT WITH THE NUMBER
12:25:26PM OF CURRENT LEASES THE CITY HAS FOR LAND AND/OR BUILDINGS AND
12:25:30PM FOR EACH THE MONTHLY COST, LENGTH OF LEASE AND USE OF THE
12:25:34PM LEASE BUILDING OR LAND.
12:25:36PM I WANT TO CHANGE MY MOTION TO CLARIFY THAT THE REQUEST IS
12:25:38PM FOR LEASES IN WHICH THE CITY IS THE TENANT, SLASH, LESSEE,
12:25:41PM AND THAT THE REPORT WILL BE PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL ON
12:25:44PM MARCH 27, 2025.
12:25:47PM REAL ESTATE STAFF REQUESTED ADDITIONAL TIME TO GATHER THE
12:25:50PM INFORMATION FROM OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND TO REVIEW DETAILS OF
12:25:52PM THE LEASES.
12:25:53PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK AND
12:25:55PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:25:56PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:25:57PM AYE.
12:25:58PM ANY OPPOSED?
12:25:58PM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK, ANYTHING ELSE?
12:26:01PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
12:26:02PM REGARDING AGENDA ITEM 59, THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE STAFF
12:26:06PM REPORT BY MS. FEELEY, I'VE SPOKEN TO MS. FEELEY AND SHE WILL
12:26:09PM PROVIDE A WRITTEN UPDATE ON JANUARY 23rd, 2025, AND WILL
12:26:13PM BE IN PERSON FOR THE NEXT LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE UPDATE
12:26:17PM REPORT ON FEBRUARY 6, 2025, WHICH IS ALREADY ON THE COUNCIL
12:26:21PM CALENDAR.
12:26:22PM IT IS THE MONTHLY REPORT.
12:26:23PM I KNOW IT SAYS THE 23rd.
12:26:25PM I KNOW IT HAS TO BE IN BY TOMORROW, BUT SHE'LL HAVE IT DONE.
12:26:28PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
12:26:30PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
12:26:32PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:26:32PM AYE.
12:26:34PM ANYTHING ELSE?
12:26:35PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO.
12:26:38PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'M SORRY.
12:26:39PM I WANTED TO RECOGNIZE THAT TODAY IS A SPECIAL DAY FOR THE
12:26:41PM UNITED STATES WITH PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER AND HIS FUNERAL
12:26:47PM BEING AT THE CATHEDRAL IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
12:26:49PM SO MUCH FOR WHAT PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER AND POST-PRESIDENCY
12:26:54PM STOOD FOR, THINGS THIS COUNCIL DEALS WITH EVERY DAY ON
12:26:57PM HOUSING, HUMANITARIAN ISSUES AND KEEPING DEMOCRACY ALIVE.
12:27:01PM THE PRECEDENT THAT PRESIDENT CARTER SET FOR PUBLIC SERVICE
12:27:05PM AND THEN ALSO THE LIFE THAT WE LEAD OUTSIDE OF THE OFFICIAL
12:27:09PM DUTIES THAT WE HAVE CAN BE SO CONSEQUENTIAL TO OUR
12:27:14PM COMMUNITY, OUR STATE AND OUR NATION AND THE WORLD THAT I
12:27:18PM THINK WE SHOULD TAKE A MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE HIS CONTRIBUTIONS
12:27:21PM AND BE THANKFUL THAT HE WALKED AMONG US.
12:27:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AMEN.
12:27:25PM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
12:27:26PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
12:27:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA WITH
12:27:29PM A SECOND FROM VIERA.
12:27:31PM ALL IN FAVOR?
12:27:31PM AYE.
12:27:32PM WE ARE ADJOURNED.
12:27:32PM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
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