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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 2025, 9:00 A.M.
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9:02:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I'M CALLING THIS COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
9:02:27AM AGENCY BOARD MEETING TO ORDER.
9:02:31AM WE HAVE THE INVOCATION PRESENTED BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON
9:02:35AM THIS MORNING.
9:02:36AM >>BILL CARLSON: GOOD MORNING.
9:02:38AM I'LL INTRODUCE ROBERT PECHACEK WHO GOES BY MR. P.
9:02:46AM MR. P WAS BORN WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY AND A SPEECH
9:02:50AM IMPEDIMENT BUT PERSEVERED THROUGH PUBLIC SCHOOL DETERMINED
9:02:54AM TO SUCCEED.
9:02:55AM AFTER HIGH SCHOOL, HE JOINED THE AIR FORCE AND SERVED WITH
9:02:57AM HONOR.
9:02:58AM EVENTUALLY HE MADE HIS WAY TO TAMPA GRADUATING CUM LAUDE
9:03:02AM FROM UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA WITH A DEGREE IN SECONDARY
9:03:05AM EDUCATION.
9:03:05AM PAST TEN YEARS, MR. P HAS BEEN A DEDICATED EDUCATOR AT
9:03:09AM COLEMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
9:03:10AM THIS YEAR HE COORDINATED THANKSGIVING MEALS FOR NINE
9:03:14AM FAMILIES, ORGANIZED THE DONATION OF HUNDREDS OF TOYS AND
9:03:17AM ASSISTED WITH NEIGHBORHOOD CLEANUP EFFORTS AFTER HURRICANES
9:03:20AM HELENE AND MILTON.
9:03:21AM HIS DEDICATION TO HIS STUDENTS AND COMMUNITY WAS RECOGNIZED
9:03:24AM WHEN HE WAS NAMED TEACHER OF THE YEAR AT COLEMAN MIDDLE
9:03:27AM SCHOOL.
9:03:28AM MR. P IS AN ACTIVE MEMBER AT HYDE PARK METHODIST CHURCH,
9:03:32AM LEADS COLEMAN'S STUDENT GOVERNMENT, AND DEVOTES HIS FREE
9:03:35AM TIME TO HELPING STRUGGLING STUDENTS ACHIEVE ACADEMIC
9:03:39AM SUCCESS.
9:03:40AM I WANT TO THANK HIS PRINCIPAL AND COLLEAGUES FOR ALLOWING
9:03:43AM HIM TO GO TO SCHOOL LATE THIS MORNING.
9:03:45AM IF EVERYONE WOULD PLEASE STAND FOR THE INVOCATION AND THE
9:03:47AM PLEDGE.
9:03:51AM >> GOOD MORNING, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, ATTENDEES, AND THE
9:03:55AM PEOPLE OF TAMPA.
9:03:55AM MY NAME IS MR. P.
9:03:57AM I'M PRIVILEGED OF TEACHING ON THIS BEAUTIFUL DAY.
9:04:01AM TODAY, I STAND BEFORE YOU AS A TESTIMONY TO THOSE WHO COME
9:04:04AM BEFORE ME AND THOSE WHO HAVE PAVED THE WAY TO OFFER ME THE
9:04:07AM OPPORTUNITY TO SUCCEED.
9:04:08AM I'M REMINDED OF PAUL'S LETTERS TO THE EPHESIANS WRITES IN
9:04:12AM 6:4, FATHERS, DO NOT EXASPERATE YOUR CHILDREN BUT RAISE THEM
9:04:16AM IN THE LOVE OF THE LORD.
9:04:17AM THIS VERSE REMINDS ME WE ARE ONE LARGE FAMILY UNITED IN
9:04:21AM COMMON PURPOSE TO NURTURE, GUIDE AND UPLIFT THE NEXT
9:04:25AM GENERATION.
9:04:25AM LET US PRAY.
9:04:26AM HEAVENLY FATHER, WE ARE HERE TODAY.
9:04:28AM WE LIFT UP OUR CITY.
9:04:29AM WE ASK FOR YOUR GUIDANCE AND WISDOM FOR OUR LEADERS THAT
9:04:33AM THEY MAY WORK TO MAKE TAMPA SAFER, CLEANER, AND MORE
9:04:37AM AFFORDABLE PLACE FOR ALL THOSE WHO CALL IT HOME.
9:04:39AM BLESS OUR EFFORTS AS A COMMUNITY THAT WE MAY BUILD A FUTURE
9:04:42AM WHERE OUR CHILDREN CAN THRIVE AND ONE DAY INHERIT A CITY
9:04:48AM FILLED WITH HOPE, OPPORTUNITY, AND UNITY.
9:04:51AM IN YOUR HOLY NAME WE PRAY, AMEN.
9:04:53AM >> AMEN.
9:04:55AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
9:05:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:05:11AM CAN WE HAVE ROLL CALL, PLEASE?
9:05:18AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
9:05:18AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
9:05:20AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
9:05:20AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
9:05:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
9:05:27AM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
9:05:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO AND BOARD MEMBER
9:05:30AM VIERA WILL BE ARRIVING SHORTLY THIS MORNING.
9:05:34AM CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE MINUTES FROM THE LAST
9:05:36AM MEETING?
9:05:37AM >> SO MOVED.
9:05:38AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:05:41AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:05:42AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:05:43AM MOTION CARRIES.
9:05:46AM WE ARE GOING TO MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:05:51AM WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER ONLINE.
9:05:59AM WE NEED TO ADOPT THE AGENDA.
9:06:02AM LET'S DO THAT FIRST.
9:06:03AM WE HAVE A WALK-ON ITEM.
9:06:08AM CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO HAVE A WALK-ON ITEM FIRST FOR THE
9:06:11AM CITY OF TAMPA BLACK HISTORY COMMITTEE?
9:06:12AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:06:16AM >> AYE.
9:06:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION CARRIES.
9:06:18AM NOW, INTERIM DIRECTOR McCRAY, GOOD MORNING.
9:06:23AM LET'S SET THE AGENDA.
9:06:24AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
9:06:25AM GOOD MORNING.
9:06:26AM CEDRIC McCRAY, INTERIM TAMPA CRA DIRECTOR.
9:06:29AM THE AGENDA WILL FOLLOW.
9:06:34AM YOU DO HAVE A REQUEST FOR CONTINUANCE AS IT RELATES TO THE
9:06:38AM GASWORX CDD, SUBMITTED BY MR. TYLER HUDSON YESTERDAY
9:06:43AM AFTERNOON TO CONTINUE THAT TO MARCH.
9:06:46AM WE ALSO ARE REQUESTING A CONTINUANCE OF THE TAMPA HEIGHTS
9:06:49AM AND CENTRAL PARK UPDATES TO THE MARCH AGENDA.
9:06:54AM >>BILL CARLSON: SO MOVED.
9:06:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
9:06:57AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:06:58AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:07:02AM >> AYE.
9:07:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT'S NUMBER 1 AND NUMBER 3, MOVED TO
9:07:08AM MARCH 13.
9:07:14AM >>BILL CARLSON: IT WAS 4.
9:07:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I'M SORRY.
9:07:16AM GASWORX IS 4.
9:07:18AM NOT THE CAC PRESENTATION.
9:07:23AM EXCUSE ME.
9:07:23AM HOLD ON JUST A SECOND.
9:07:25AM IT IS NUMBER 4 AND THE AGREEMENT, THE COMMERCIAL AGREEMENT,
9:07:38AM NUMBER 5.
9:07:40AM >>LYNN HURTAK: 3.
9:07:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I CAN'T SEE IT.
9:07:42AM THE UPDATE REDEVELOPMENT FOR CENTRAL PARK IS NUMBER 3.
9:07:50AM THAT NEEDS TO BE CONTINUED TO MARCH 13.
9:07:51AM AND THEN GASWORX.
9:07:56AM 3 AND 4 ARE CONTINUED TO MARCH 13.
9:07:59AM CAN I HAVE A MOTION JUST TO GET IT RIGHT?
9:08:01AM MOTION BY CARLSON, SECOND BY MIRANDA.
9:08:04AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:08:06AM AYE.
9:08:07AM OKAY.
9:08:07AM MOTION CARRIES.
9:08:08AM NOW WE CAN GET STARTED WITH PUBLIC COMMENTS.
9:08:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MOVE TO ADOPT THE AGENDA.
9:08:14AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:08:15AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK MOVED TO ADOPT THE AGENDA.
9:08:20AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:08:21AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:08:23AM >> AYE.
9:08:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION CARRIES.
9:08:24AM NOW WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:08:35AM WE HAVE ONE PERSON ONLINE.
9:08:36AM MR. RANDOLPH IS ONLINE AVAILABLE TO SPEAK.
9:08:39AM WE CAN START WITH HIM.
9:08:47AM >> -- CDC.
9:08:49AM SINCE WE LAST SPOKE AT THE MEETING LAST WEEK RELATED TO OUR
9:08:54AM UPCOMING MEETING ON GENTRIFICATION, PUBLIC SAFETY AND
9:08:58AM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CONNECTING THE DOTS, WE'VE HAD OVER
9:09:03AM 60 RESIDENTS AND OTHERS FROM THE -- THIS WEEK WE WANT TO
9:09:10AM EXPAND IT TO INVITE PEOPLE FROM AROUND THE NATION.
9:09:12AM UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S LIMITED TO A HUNDRED SEATS.
9:09:16AM ATTRACTING PEOPLE NATIONALLY IS HOW ABLE TO DEAL WITH NO
9:09:25AM MONEY, NO WEBSITE, AND NO OFFICE, POSITION OURSELVES TO
9:09:28AM INCREASE THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL RESIDENTS FROM THE
9:09:32AM BOTTOM UP BY CREATING A PUBLIC/PRIVATE RELATIONSHIP USING A
9:09:38AM RESIDENT DRIVEN APPROACH.
9:09:40AM TWO OF THOSE PROGRAMS, THE FIRST ONE IS ARTIFICIAL
9:09:42AM INTELLIGENCE.
9:09:45AM RELATED TO EDUCATION.
9:09:47AM VIRTUAL A.I. SO THAT NO STUDENT WILL BE LEFT BEHIND.
9:09:54AM THIS SOFTWARE WOULD TEACH STUDENTS TO IDENTIFY THEIR
9:10:01AM WEAKNESSES AND STRENGTH AND HOW TO EXCEL IN SCHOOL.
9:10:06AM THERE WILL BE NO FAILING STUDENTS IN WEST TAMPA.
9:10:08AM TEACHER A.I.
9:10:09AM STARTING WITH GRADES 7 AND BEYOND WE'LL BE WORKING WITH
9:10:13AM STUDENTS TO GET A HANDLE ON THE TECHNOLOGY.
9:10:17AM THIS INCLUDES LEARNING HOW TO DEVELOP MOBILE APPLICATIONS,
9:10:20AM GAME APPLICATIONS AND BEYOND.
9:10:23AM OUR GOAL IS TO CREATE THE FIRST MILLIONAIRE OUT OF WEST
9:10:27AM TAMPA USING THIS PROGRAM.
9:10:33AM BY PROVIDING SKILLS THAT INCREASE THEIR ECONOMIC VALUE, EVEN
9:10:38AM THOSE WITH LESS THAN A NINTH GRADE EDUCATION WILL BENEFIT.
9:10:41AM THIS INITIATIVE AIMS TO ENHANCE EMPLOYABILITY.
9:10:46AM HOME-BASED INITIATIVE.
9:10:49AM THIS IS HOW WE REDUCE GENTRIFICATION BY PROVIDING RESIDENTS
9:10:52AM WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO START THEIR OWN BUSINESS AND
9:10:55AM PROVIDING THEM WITH TO DO SO.
9:11:00AM INCLUDES RESIDENTS WITH LESS THAN NINTH GRADE EDUCATION,
9:11:03AM THOSE WITH A CRIMINAL RECORD, THOSE DISABLED AND AT-RISK
9:11:06AM YOUTH AS A WHOLE.
9:11:07AM IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE WEST
9:11:09AM TAMPA CULTURAL CENTER WHICH IS THE FIRST CULTURAL CENTER,
9:11:14AM COMMUNITY-BASED CULTURAL CENTER IN THE STATE OF FLORIDA AND,
9:11:17AM OF COURSE, WE WILL TALK ABOUT BRINGING BACK THE YELLOW
9:11:20AM JACKETS HOME TO WHERE THEY SHOULD BE.
9:11:22AM THANK YOU.
9:11:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, MR. RANDOLPH.
9:11:30AM MR. KATRINA HOUSE, WE'LL HAVE YOU COME BEFORE US FOR THE
9:11:34AM CITY OF TAMPA BLACK HISTORY COMMITTEE.
9:11:35AM GOOD MORNING.
9:11:38AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:11:39AM MY NAME IS KATRINA HOUSE, THE CURRENT PRESIDENT OF THE CITY
9:11:42AM OF TAMPA BLACK HISTORY COMMITTEE.
9:11:44AM I WOULD LIKE TO FORMALLY INVITE OUR HONORABLE MAYOR JANE
9:11:48AM CASTOR, OUR CHIEF OF STAFF, THE ADMINISTRATION, ALL OF THE
9:11:52AM HONORABLE CHAIRPERSONS, OUR DISTINGUISHED SPONSORS, FAMILY,
9:11:57AM FRIENDS, MY NEW FAMILY, THE CRA TEAM, AND THE COMMUNITY TO
9:12:01AM JOIN US AS WE HOST OUR 37th CELEBRATION.
9:12:06AM OUR THEME THIS YEAR, TRAILBLAZERS LEADING CHANGE WILL HONOR
9:12:09AM A FEW INDIVIDUALS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY THAT HAVE BEEN
9:12:12AM IDENTIFIED AS TRAILBLAZERS IN THEIR FIELD.
9:12:14AM I'M EXCITED TO SHARE WITH YOU, WE HAVE A PHENOMENAL SPEAKER,
9:12:18AM DR. HILL.
9:12:20AM SHE IS -- DR. ANGELA HILL.
9:12:22AM SHE IS THE ASSOCIATE OF CLINICAL AFFAIRS AT USF HEALTH
9:12:26AM COLLEGE OF PHARMACY.
9:12:27AM DR. HILL IS A LICENSED PHARMACIST WITH CLINICAL FOCUS ON
9:12:32AM ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND RELATED DEMENTIA, RESEARCH ON
9:12:35AM BIOMARKERS, VACCINE, DISEASE-MODIFYING THERAPIES AND MEDICAL
9:12:40AM FOODS BEING INVESTIGATED TO TREAT ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.
9:12:43AM WE WOULD ALSO BE ENTERTAINED BY WHAT ABOUT MAMA, JAZZ GROUP
9:12:49AM ALONG WITH AN AUTHENTIC AFRICAN DANCE BY THE KUMBA DANCERS.
9:12:55AM WE'LL HAVE ON DISPLAY ORIGINAL ARTWORK BY FOUR LOCAL AFRICAN
9:13:00AM AMERICAN ARTISTS WHOSE WORK IS CURRENTLY DISPLAYED AT CITY
9:13:03AM HALL AND HANNA CITY CENTER.
9:13:06AM WE WILL ALSO HAVE THE PLEASURE OF HAVING IN ATTENDANCE MEN
9:13:09AM VISION WHO WILL HELP BE OUR GREETERS.
9:13:12AM THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.
9:13:15AM THE EVENT WILL BE HELD AT A NEW LOCATION.
9:13:17AM THE EXCITING TAMPA THEATRE LOCATED AT 711 NORTH FRANKLIN
9:13:22AM STREET ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17th AT 11 A.M.
9:13:26AM DOORS WILL OPEN AT 10 A.M. AND PARKING IS MADE AVAILABLE AT
9:13:30AM FORT BROOKE GARAGE, THE FIRST 600 GUESTS WILL HAVE THEIR
9:13:34AM PARKING VALIDATED ONCE THE PROGRAM CONCLUDES.
9:13:38AM OTHER EXCITING EVENTS TO LOOK FORWARD TO FROM THE CITY OF
9:13:41AM TAMPA BLACK HISTORY COMMITTEE THIS YEAR INCLUDE HOSTING OUR
9:13:44AM 10th ANNIVERSARY FOR A GOLF TOURNAMENT ON APRIL 26 AT
9:13:48AM ROGERS PARK.
9:13:49AM OUR 27th ANNIVERSARY FOR SCHOLARSHIP CEREMONY WHERE WE
9:13:53AM PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS FOR GRADUATING SENIORS LATE MAY AND
9:13:57AM ESSAYS ARE NOW BEING ACCEPTED AND WE WILL ALSO HAVE A
9:14:01AM COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND MORE.
9:14:02AM I WOULD LIKE TO THANK ONCE AGAIN TAMPA CITY COUNCIL FOR THE
9:14:06AM OPPORTUNITY TO APPEAR BEFORE YOU TODAY TO EXTEND THIS
9:14:08AM INVITATION TO THE PUBLIC.
9:14:10AM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK THE MEMBERS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA
9:14:12AM BLACK HISTORY COMMITTEE FOR ALL OF THEIR HARD WORK PUTTING
9:14:16AM THIS COMMITTEE TOGETHER AND TO THE MEMBERS WHO JOINED ME
9:14:19AM HERE TODAY IN SUPPORT OF THIS INVITATION.
9:14:21AM AGAIN, THIS INVITATION IS FREE AND IT IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
9:14:25AM AND WILL BE ON MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17th.
9:14:29AM DOORS WILL OPEN AT TAMPA THEATRE AT 10:00 A.M.
9:14:33AM COME ON OUT AND HAVE A GREAT TIME.
9:14:39AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I SAW SOME MEDALS YOU WANTED TO GIVE US.
9:14:45AM >> I DIDN'T KNOW I COULD BRING THEM UP.
9:14:46AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OF COURSE.
9:14:49AM >> I DO HAVE A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION TO EXTEND TO YOU ALL
9:14:52AM FOR ALLOWING US TO BRING THIS INVITATION TO TAMPA CITY
9:14:54AM COUNCIL.
9:14:54AM I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT TO YOU GUYS, HONORED BY US, A NICE
9:15:02AM MEDAL.
9:15:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE CAN GET READY FOR OUR NEXT PUBLIC
9:15:28AM SPEAKERS AS MS. HOUSE FINISHES UP.
9:15:31AM >> THOSE ARE AN EXAMPLE OF A TOKEN OF APPRECIATION THAT WE
9:15:34AM WILL ALSO PRESENT TO OUR HONOREES ON MONDAY.
9:15:38AM BUT WE HAVE NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO FORMALLY HONOR YOU
9:15:42AM GUYS AT ALL OF OUR EVENTS.
9:15:44AM YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN IN SUPPORT OF US.
9:15:45AM MOST OF YOU HAVE ALSO EXTENDED A PROCLAMATION TO US FROM
9:15:49AM TIME TO TIME.
9:15:49AM SO THIS IS JUST OUR WAY OF SAYING THANK YOU.
9:15:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:15:54AM >> YOU'RE WELCOME.
9:15:55AM IF ANYONE HAS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS REGARDING OUR EVENT, YOU
9:16:02AM CAN FIND IT COTBHC.ORG ONLINE OR E-MAIL US AT
9:16:10AM COTBHC@GMAIL.COM.
9:16:11AM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HERE.
9:16:13AM IF NOT, I WILL SEE YOU GUYS MONDAY MORNING.
9:16:16AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS. HOUSE.
9:16:22AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS OUR ATTORNEY ONLINE?
9:16:25AM >>CLIFF SHEPARD: HE IS.
9:16:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
9:16:28AM WE WILL CONTINUE WITH PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:16:30AM THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED IN SPEAKING, PLEASE COME FORWARD.
9:16:41AM THANK YOU, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
9:17:05AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:17:34AM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
9:17:36AM YOU KNOW, HERE LATELY WE'VE BEEN TALKING A LOT ABOUT GARAGES
9:17:41AM AND THE SIZES OF GARAGES.
9:17:48AM I REALIZED THAT WE HAVE A TECHNICAL STANDARD FOR THE CITY OF
9:17:50AM TAMPA FOR OUR GARAGES.
9:17:54AM THIS IS IF YOU COME STRAIGHT INTO THE GARAGE.
9:17:58AM IF YOU ARE DRIVING STRAIGHT INTO IT FROM THE STREET, NOT IF
9:18:01AM YOU ARE TURNING IN.
9:18:02AM SO WE'VE GOT OUR NINE-FOOT WIDE GARAGES, WHICH WE FOUND,
9:18:06AM BECAUSE WE ALL KNOW HOW WIDE YOUR CARS ARE, THAT THAT'S NOT
9:18:11AM REALLY WIDE ENOUGH TO BE ABLE TO OPEN THE DOOR.
9:18:14AM BUT WHAT'S FUNNY TO ME IS WHY ARE WE STILL HAVING
9:18:17AM DEVELOPMENTS, A TECHNICAL STANDARD CAN BE CHANGED WITHOUT A
9:18:23AM LOT OF HOOPLA.
9:18:25AM ALL IT TAKES IS YOU GUYS TO MAKE A MOTION TO CHANGE THIS
9:18:28AM TECHNICAL STANDARD.
9:18:29AM I'M TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY WHEN STAFF PRESENTED A
9:18:32AM PowerPoint TO YOU GUYS ON MARCH 7 OF 2024 AND THIS IS
9:18:37AM THEIR PowerPoint SLIDE RIGHT HERE -- I JUST SHOWED YOU
9:18:42AM GUYS THIS THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS -- THAT WE KNOW THAT NINE
9:18:46AM FEET ISN'T WIDE ENOUGH AND WE STILL HAVEN'T MADE A MOTION
9:18:49AM SINCE MARCH THE 7th OF LAST YEAR TO FIX THIS PROBLEM.
9:18:53AM WHAT I'M REALLY DUMBFOUNDED BY IS THE FACT THAT ALL THIS
9:18:59AM STUFF WAS PRESENTED AND WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WITH IT.
9:19:06AM I NOTICED THAT COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN AT ONE OF THE LAST
9:19:09AM COUPLE OF HEARINGS MADE A COMMENT ABOUT, I THOUGHT WE TOOK
9:19:12AM CARE OF THIS GARAGE ISSUE.
9:19:13AM THIS IS NOT A LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE CHANGE.
9:19:15AM THIS IS A TECHNICAL STANDARD CHANGE THAT YOU GUYS CAN ASK
9:19:19AM FOR, YOU CAN MAKE MOTIONS FOR AND HAVE THEM CHANGED IN THE
9:19:22AM TECHNICAL STANDARDS.
9:19:23AM AND THEY SHOULD BE ON EVERY SINGLE SITE PLAN THAT'S
9:19:26AM PRESENTED TO COUNCIL.
9:19:27AM AND WE ALSO, WITH THE SAME -- IN THE SAME MOTION, THEY KIND
9:19:35AM OF TRAVELED TOGETHER, WAS THE DEFINITION OF COURTYARDS AND
9:19:39AM THE AISLE-STYLE.
9:19:41AM WE NEED TO HAVE A DEFINITION OF WHAT AN ALLEYWAY IS, WHAT A
9:19:50AM STREET IS, AND THE WIDTH OF THOSE AND A DRIVE AISLE, WHAT
9:19:55AM THE DEFINITION OF THAT IS.
9:19:57AM BECAUSE IF WE'RE ALLOWING DEVELOPERS TO PUT IN DRIVE AISLES
9:20:02AM INSTEAD OF PUTTING IN STREETS BECAUSE THEY ARE PRIVATE, THEY
9:20:06AM GET TO CALL THEM WHATEVER THEY WANT.
9:20:07AM IF THEY ARE NOT WIDE ENOUGH, THEN WE END UP WITH ALL THE
9:20:10AM OVERFLOW, JUST LIKE I HAVE IN MY LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD RIGHT
9:20:13AM HERE THAT I'VE TOLD YOU GUYS ABOUT AND EVERYBODY HAS BEEN
9:20:16AM TO.
9:20:17AM WE HAVE DEFICIENT DRIVEWAYS, DRIVE AISLES THAT AREN'T WIDE
9:20:21AM ENOUGH.
9:20:22AM WE HAVE MADE 27 PARKING SPACES IN MY COMMUNITY.
9:20:25AM EVERY TIME WE WALK THE DOGS, I COUNT HOW MANY CARS ARE ON
9:20:29AM THE STREET.
9:20:30AM DOESN'T MATTER IF IT IS 7:00 IN THE MORNING OR 10:00 AT
9:20:33AM NIGHT.
9:20:33AM THERE ARE AT LEAST 8 VEHICLES SITTING ON THE STREET IN
9:20:37AM VISITOR PARKING THAT BELONG TO HOMEOWNERS BECAUSE WE HAVE
9:20:40AM DEFICIENT DRIVEWAYS.
9:20:41AM JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND.
9:20:43AM I'D LOVE TO SEE SOMEBODY MAKE A MOTION AND GET STARTED ON
9:20:46AM FIXING THIS PROBLEM.
9:20:47AM THANK YOU.
9:20:48AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:20:50AM GOOD MORNING.
9:20:53AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:20:54AM ALISON HEWITT, EAST TAMPA RESIDENT AND BUSINESS OWNER.
9:20:58AM MY COMMENTS WILL BE DIRECTED TO THE EAST TAMPA DISTRICT
9:21:03AM PROJECTS CAPITAL UPDATE.
9:21:06AM ONE IS THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLAN.
9:21:09AM THEY PRESENTED ON THE 22nd TO THE COMMUNITY, ASKING THE
9:21:13AM COMMUNITY WHAT THEY WANTED TO SEE AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND
9:21:16AM THAT NATURE.
9:21:16AM MY CONCERN IS THE CRP IS WHAT GOVERNS THE CRA, EAST TAMPA
9:21:20AM CRA.
9:21:21AM SO THERE WERE NO COMMENTS ON WHETHER OR NOT THE STRATEGIC
9:21:26AM PRIORITIES IN THE CURRENT CRP, DID THEY WORK?
9:21:29AM WERE THEY SUCCESSFUL?
9:21:30AM AND DO WE STILL WANT THEM?
9:21:31AM NOW WE SEE THAT 60% OF THE CRP WILL BE PRESENTED ON MARCH
9:21:36AM 4th, BUT WE HAVE NOT HAD A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION TO SEE
9:21:40AM THIS IS WHAT HAS WORKED SO HOW DO WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE GOING
9:21:44AM UNLESS WE PLAN IT OR TRYING TO CREATE A CRP THAT MATCHES THE
9:21:50AM SAP.
9:21:50AM THE CURRENT SAP THAT'S APPROVED DOES NOT CORRELATE WITH THE
9:21:55AM CURRENT CRP.
9:21:56AM IS IT THE PLAN FOR THE CITY TO GIVE US A PLAN OR IS THERE A
9:21:57AM PROCESS LIKE THE ORIGINAL CRP TO HAVE A TRUE ECONOMIC
9:22:01AM DEVELOPMENT PLAN?
9:22:02AM THAT'S ONE ISSUE.
9:22:04AM THE SECOND ISSUE IS THE STORMWATER PONDS.
9:22:08AM IT'S NUMBER 6.
9:22:09AM IN THE CURRENT CRP, IT STATES THAT A SYSTEMWIDE STORMWATER
9:22:13AM STUDY SHOULD BE CONDUCTED TO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT WE NEED THE
9:22:17AM AMOUNT OF SIZE FOR THE STORMWATER PLAN BECAUSE THEY WOULD
9:22:20AM LIKE TO RECLAIM SOME OF THAT LAND TO BUILD HOUSING AND
9:22:23AM COMMERCIAL.
9:22:24AM WAS THAT DONE OR ARE WE STILL GOING TO KEEP THAT STORMWATER
9:22:27AM PLAN AND THEN GO AGAINST THE CRP, WHICH THE CRP CLEARLY
9:22:31AM STATES, PLEASE CREATE ADDITIONAL HOUSING IN COMMERCIAL AREAS
9:22:34AM TO RECLAIM THE STORMWATER.
9:22:36AM THAT'S ITEM 6.
9:22:38AM AND THEN LASTLY, I HAVE A COMMENT ABOUT THE SPECIAL PROJECTS
9:22:43AM REQUEST, NUMBER 15.
9:22:46AM PAGE 15 ON THE CRP IT SAID HOW THE QUESTIONS AND THINGS THAT
9:22:52AM SHOULD BE ASKED BEFORE YOU DO A SIGNIFICANT FOR PRIVATE
9:22:57AM ENTERPRISE.
9:22:59AM THAT INFORMATION, ALL OF THAT PAGE WAS NOT PRESENTED TO THE
9:23:02AM CAC FOR THEM TO MAKE AND ASK THE QUESTIONS ON WHETHER OR NOT
9:23:05AM THAT FUNDING FALLS WITHIN THE CRP.
9:23:08AM ANOTHER QUESTION.
9:23:10AM THEY ASKED ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS AT THE CAC, BUT THIS HERE
9:23:14AM SAYS THAT IT IS NOT STARTED.
9:23:17AM NOT HAVE TO HAVE A CAC RECOMMENDATION BEFORE IT COMES BACK
9:23:21AM TO YOU, DOES IT NOT HAVE TO PASS YOU BEFORE IT GETS ON THESE
9:23:24AM PROJECT PLANS?
9:23:25AM BECAUSE WHAT YOU -- APPEARS TO SAY TO THE COMMUNITY THIS IS
9:23:30AM ALREADY APPROVED AND IT SAYS NOT STARTED, LIKE IT COULD SAY
9:23:34AM BECOME STARTED, NOT APPROVED.
9:23:36AM DOESN'T SAY STILL NEEDS TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS.
9:23:38AM IT JUST SAYS NOT STARTED.
9:23:41AM WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE HAVING CLEAR COMMUNICATION WITH
9:23:43AM OUR COMMUNITY TO MAKE SURE WE MAINTAIN TRUST AND
9:23:45AM ACCOUNTABILITY AND TRANSPARENCY.
9:23:47AM THANK YOU SO MUCH AND HAVE A GREAT DAY.
9:23:59AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:24:00AM AILEEN HENDERSON.
9:24:01AM I'M HERE TODAY AFTER A MEETING THAT WE HAD WITH THE CAC LAST
9:24:08AM WEEK.
9:24:09AM IT'S IN REGARDS TO THE 1601 EAST COLUMBUS DRIVE SPECIAL
9:24:14AM PROJECTS GRANT REQUEST.
9:24:16AM THERE WAS A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
9:24:18AM IT WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION.
9:24:19AM FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT EVERYONE ON
9:24:23AM THAT COMMITTEE WAS ON BOARD FOR THAT RESTORATION PROJECT.
9:24:27AM I JUST WANT THAT TO BE UNDERSTOOD BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S
9:24:30AM IMPORTANT THAT YOU ALL KNOW THAT.
9:24:32AM THE QUESTIONS THAT CAME INTO PLAY, AND THEY WERE BROUGHT TO
9:24:35AM US BY CITIZENS AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT AND RESPONSIBLE,
9:24:39AM ME AS A MEMBER, TO BRING THAT FORWARD.
9:24:42AM IT WAS A VERY GOOD ONE BECAUSE I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT.
9:24:46AM IT TALKED ABOUT HOW DID THIS REQUEST GET PAST THE PROCESS
9:24:50AM AND TO US FOR US TO VOTE ON IT WHEN -- IF LIQUOR SALES ARE
9:24:55AM OVER 50%, THEN A GRANT CANNOT BE GIVEN.
9:25:01AM SO MY QUESTION IS, THEY HAVEN'T EVEN BUILT IT, SO HOW DO YOU
9:25:06AM KNOW?
9:25:06AM WE'RE BEING ASKED TO GRANT MONEY FOR A RESTORATION PROJECT,
9:25:10AM WHO IS GOING TO MONITOR THAT?
9:25:12AM WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO IF THEY GO PAST THE 50% SALES?
9:25:15AM TAKE THE MONEY BACK?
9:25:16AM IT JUST DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME IN TERMS OF PROCESS.
9:25:20AM I NEEDED TO BRING THAT TO YOUR ATTENTION.
9:25:21AM IT CAME UP AT THE MEETING, AND I THOUGHT IT WAS A VERY VALID
9:25:26AM QUESTION TO ASK FOR US TO GET SOME ANSWERS ON HOW DOES THAT
9:25:28AM WORK.
9:25:29AM THE QUESTION I HAD, MOST IMPORTANTLY, WAS HOW DID WE GET
9:25:30AM HERE TO BEGIN WITH?
9:25:31AM WHY IS THIS BEFORE ME?
9:25:33AM WHAT IS THAT PROCESS?
9:25:34AM I DON'T THINK THERE WERE CLEAR-CUT ANSWERS FOR US.
9:25:36AM APPARENTLY PEOPLE MEET BUT THERE'S NO MEETING MINUTES FOR
9:25:40AM THAT MEETING AND THEN THERE IS ANOTHER MEETING AND THEN THEY
9:25:43AM DECIDE TO BRING IT TO US.
9:25:44AM I'M A PROCESS KIND OF GAL.
9:25:46AM THAT JUST DOESN'T JIVE IN TERMS OF GO OF THE IN PROCESS.
9:25:49AM JUST MY OPINION.
9:25:50AM THE OTHER THING FOR ME WHICH IS PARAMOUNT, THIS PROJECT SITS
9:25:55AM IN YBOR CITY.
9:25:56AM I DON'T CARE HOW YOU COLOR IT.
9:25:57AM I DON'T CARE WHAT THE BOUNDARIES ARE.
9:25:59AM IT IS YBOR CITY.
9:26:00AM I ASKED MR. YBOR CITY HIMSELF, JOE KING CARTER, AND 110% HE
9:26:06AM AGREES, ALTHOUGH IT IS NORTH OF COLUMBUS, YOU CAN LOOK AT
9:26:08AM THE MAP FOR THE BARRIO LATINO COMMISSION HERE WITH THE CITY
9:26:12AM OF TAMPA, AND THEY WILL TELL YOU THAT J.C. NEWMAN SITS IN
9:26:17AM NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK DISTRICT SINCE 1990 AND THE
9:26:20AM PROJECT THAT WE'RE SPECIFICALLY TALKING ABOUT SITS IN THE
9:26:23AM YBOR CITY LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT SINCE 1974.
9:26:27AM AS AN EAST TAMPA REPRESENTATIVE, WHY IS THIS BEFORE ME?
9:26:33AM I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT.
9:26:35AM I HAVE BEEN TOLD BOUNDARIES CAN'T BE CHANGED.
9:26:38AM THIS IS NOT RIGHT.
9:26:41AM ASKING FOR $5 MILLION FROM THE EAST TAMPA COMMUNITY WHERE IT
9:26:45AM CAN BE BETTER SERVED FOR A PROJECT THAT THE YBOR CITY
9:26:49AM CRAs, BECAUSE THEY HAVE TWO, SHOULD BE FUNDING IS WHERE
9:26:52AM THIS SHOULD GO.
9:26:53AM YOU ALL NEED TO BE AWARE OF THAT.
9:26:56AM I'M HERE REPRESENTING THE CITIZENS THAT WERE THERE AND THE
9:26:58AM COMMITTEE MEMBERS THAT CAN'T BE HERE BECAUSE SOME OF US HAVE
9:27:01AM TO GO TO WORK.
9:27:02AM THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
9:27:03AM I DO APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU.
9:27:04AM I HOPE WE CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
9:27:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:27:08AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:27:12AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:27:13AM MY NAME IS DREW NEWMAN.
9:27:15AM THAT'S ACTUALLY MY PROJECT.
9:27:16AM MY GREAT GRANDFATHER FOUNDED OUR CIGAR COMPANY IN 1895.
9:27:20AM IN 1953 HE BOUGHT THE CIGAR FACTORY AT 16th AND COLUMBUS.
9:27:26AM WE PROUDLY CALLED IT OUR HOME FOR THE LAST 72 YEARS.
9:27:30AM AS MS. HENDERSON NOTED, SHE'S ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.
9:27:33AM WE'RE IN THE YBOR CITY NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK DISTRICT,
9:27:37AM CITY'S LOCAL HISTORIC DISTRICT.
9:27:39AM FOR REASONS I DON'T UNDERSTAND EITHER, WE'RE IN THE EAST
9:27:42AM TAMPA CRA.
9:27:43AM AS YOU MAY KNOW, WE'VE BEEN WORKING TO RESTORE OUR FACTORY
9:27:46AM AND IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE IT IS OUR HOME TOO AND
9:27:48AM WE CARE A LOT ABOUT IT AND WE WANT TO PRESERVE TAMPA'S
9:27:51AM CULTURAL HERITAGE.
9:27:52AM WE'RE ASKING THE CRA IN GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS NOW FOR A
9:27:55AM GRANT TO SUPPORT THAT PROCESS.
9:27:56AM IT'S NOT ON THE AGENDA BEFORE YOU TODAY.
9:27:59AM INSTEAD, I'M HERE FOR TWO REASONS.
9:28:01AM THE FIRST IS TO SUPPORT WHAT MS. HENDERSON SAID, WHICH IS IT
9:28:04AM DOES SEEM AWFULLY ODD FOR US TO BE IN THE YBOR CITY HISTORIC
9:28:08AM DISTRICT AND IN THE EAST TAMPA CRA.
9:28:10AM I'M SURE THERE IS A STORY BEHIND IT BECAUSE THERE IS A STORY
9:28:13AM BEHIND EVERYTHING, BUT IF THE CITY EVER DECIDED TO ADJUST
9:28:16AM THE BOUNDARIES, I THINK IT WOULD MAKE A LOT OF SENSE AND
9:28:19AM WOULD BE HAPPY TO BE PART OF THAT PROCESS.
9:28:22AM AND THEN SECONDLY, MS. HENDERSON SAID, I ATTENDED THE CAC
9:28:26AM MEETING IN EAST TAMPA LAST WEEKEND.
9:28:29AM I LEARNED A LOT.
9:28:30AM IT WAS A REALLY GOOD EXPERIENCE.
9:28:32AM GOT A LOT OF THOUGHTFUL QUESTIONS.
9:28:34AM AND THANKFULLY, VERY GRATEFUL FOR THIS THAT THE CAC INVITED
9:28:37AM ME BACK NEXT MONTH TO BRING ANSWERS TO THOSE QUESTIONS.
9:28:41AM I'M DILIGENTLY WORKING TO GET ANSWERS AND LOOK FORWARD TO
9:28:45AM SHARING IT WITH THEM.
9:28:46AM I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR PROJECT.
9:28:50AM IF ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE HAS QUESTIONS OR WANTS TO TALK
9:28:54AM ABOUT IT, HAPPY TO STEP OUTSIDE AND ANSWER ANYTHING.
9:28:59AM ANYONE WHO IS LISTENING ONLINE, MY E-MAIL ADDRESS IS
9:29:02AM DNEWMAN@JCNEWMAN.COM.
9:29:07AM CALL, E-MAIL, HAPPY TO MEET WITH ANYONE, HAVE PEOPLE OVER,
9:29:11AM WALK THE SITE AND CONTINUE THE PROCESS.
9:29:14AM ONE THING I LEARNED GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS IS THAT THERE
9:29:16AM ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN OUR CITY WHO DEEPLY CARE ABOUT TAMPA
9:29:20AM AND WANT TO MAKE IT BETTER.
9:29:21AM AND THAT IS A REALLY GREAT THING BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF
9:29:25AM NEED, A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY AND I'M VERY HAPPY THAT WE CAN BE
9:29:28AM A PART OF THE PROCESS AND LOOK FORWARD TO COMING BACK TO YOU
9:29:31AM AT A FUTURE DATE AFTER WE GO BACK BEFORE THE CAC AND
9:29:34AM CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION AND WORK THROUGH ALL THIS.
9:29:37AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:29:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:29:45AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:29:46AM MY NAME IS KELLA McCASKILL, FOUNDER OF THE CENTER OF
9:29:50AM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ADVOCATE IN EAST TAMPA AND CONCERNED
9:29:54AM CITIZEN FOR MANY REASONS.
9:29:56AM SOME OF YOU SEEM TO HAVE TURNED A DEAF EAR TO THE PEOPLE IN
9:30:01AM EAST TAMPA THAT SERVE THE COMMUNITY OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
9:30:04AM YOU SEEM TO HAVE TURNED A BLIND EYE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN
9:30:09AM EAST TAMPA.
9:30:10AM WHAT'S CONCERNING IS THE EAST TAMPA CAC IS NEW.
9:30:12AM THE MAJORITY OF THE GROUP IS NEW.
9:30:14AM THEY HAVE BEEN PRESENTED WITH TWO MAJOR PROJECTS AND THEY
9:30:19AM HAVEN'T HAD TRAINING.
9:30:20AM THEY DON'T KNOW ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER.
9:30:22AM THEY DON'T KNOW SUNSHINE.
9:30:23AM THEY DON'T KNOW NOTHING.
9:30:24AM THEY DON'T KNOW THE PRIORITIES OF THE COMMUNITY.
9:30:26AM THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING, BUT YET A $5 MILLION REQUEST AND
9:30:30AM THE 6 TO 9 MILLION DOLLAR REQUEST IS IN FRONT OF THEM WITH
9:30:34AM ABSOLUTELY NO TRAINING.
9:30:35AM IT'S CONCERNING TO ME BECAUSE YOUR TRACK RECORD IN THE CITY,
9:30:38AM NOT YOU INDIVIDUALLY, BUT YOUR TRACK RECORD IN THE CITY
9:30:41AM CONCERNING BLACK PEOPLE AND THEIR REAL ESTATE HAS BEEN
9:30:44AM QUESTIONABLE.
9:30:45AM REMEMBER MADAM FORTUNE TELLER, JUST RECENTLY WE BEGGED TO
9:30:49AM GET A NAME ON THE BRIDGE.
9:30:51AM SHE OWNED 33 ACRES OF REAL ESTATE, BUT THE MAYOR TURNED
9:30:54AM DEVELOPER AFTER HE TOOK IT FROM HER, BECAME A DEVELOPER.
9:30:57AM ALL WE HAVE LEFT IS A BRIDGE AND HER NAME MAY NOT BE ON IT.
9:31:02AM REMEMBER TAMPA PARK, BEFORE, WHEN THOSE PEOPLE TRIED TO
9:31:05AM REHAB THOSE APARTMENTS THAT WAS BUILT BY BLACK PEOPLE FOR
9:31:08AM BLACK PEOPLE TO HAVE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, AND THEY COULDN'T
9:31:11AM GET TWO CENTS FROM THAT CRA THAT IS SITTING IN THE MIDDLE OF
9:31:15AM THAT.
9:31:15AM NO SUPPORT.
9:31:16AM BUT WHEN THE NEW DEVELOPER CAME ALONG -- AND I LIKE THE
9:31:19AM DEVELOPER, SO I WON'T SAY NOTHING ABOUT HIM.
9:31:21AM I'M TALKING ABOUT YOUR PART IN THIS INVOLVEMENT.
9:31:23AM NO SUPPORT FROM THE CRA.
9:31:27AM THAT EXISTED BUT YET WHEN THE NEW DEVELOPER CAME ALONG, THAT
9:31:30AM RESPECTFULLY DIDN'T WANT YOUR MONEY BECAUSE THEY COULD DO IT
9:31:32AM ON THEIR OWN, YOU OFFERED ALL KINDS OF ASSISTANCE.
9:31:35AM I'M CONCERNED AS A CITIZEN BECAUSE -- AGAIN, YOUR TRACK
9:31:40AM RECORD IS RIDICULOUS CONCERNING OUR PEOPLE AND THEIR REAL
9:31:45AM ESTATE.
9:31:46AM LOOKING AT CHANNELSIDE CRP WAS WRITTEN 2004 AND SO WAS EAST
9:31:51AM TAMPA.
9:31:52AM DO YOU SEE THE DISPARITY?
9:31:54AM SEEN CHANNELSIDE FROM 2004, THEY ARE WINNING FROM AN OLD CRP
9:31:58AM AND EAST TAMPA LOOKS THE SAME.
9:32:00AM YOU POLICE A POLICE STATION.
9:32:03AM CRIMINALIZE AND THEY PAY FOR IT.
9:32:04AM WE DO THAT AND PUT A WELLNESS CENTER THAT WAS A
9:32:08AM COMMUNITY-LED PROJECT.
9:32:10AM I'M A CONCERNED CITIZEN --
9:32:11AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
9:32:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PLEASE BE QUIET --
9:32:15AM >> I'M A CONCERNED CITIZEN BECAUSE OF THOSE REASONS AND I
9:32:20AM THINK THEY ARE LEGIT.
9:32:21AM IF YOU HAVE ANY DECENCY IN YOU, ANY MORAL COMPASS, YOU KNOW
9:32:26AM THE CONCERNS ARE LEGIT.
9:32:28AM SOME OF YOU ARE IMMATURE AND UNPROFESSIONAL ENOUGH TO NOT
9:32:32AM SUPPORT PEOPLE THAT DIDN'T VOTE FOR YOU.
9:32:34AM TO THE REST OF YOU, ONE VOTE AND MANY OF YOU HAVE
9:32:37AM ASPIRATIONS WHEN THEY ARE NO LONGER ON THE BOARD.
9:32:39AM THEY KNOW THEY ARE DONE.
9:32:41AM I'M ASKING YOU TO MAKE THIS BE A WAKE-UP CALL.
9:32:43AM WAKE UP AND PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING.
9:32:47AM BOTH CRAs, CRP WAS 2004.
9:32:52AM LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE.
9:32:53AM NOBODY IS THAT DUMB, DEAF, OR BLIND.
9:32:55AM THANK YOU.
9:33:03AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:33:05AM CONNIE BURTON.
9:33:07AM I'M HERE TO FIRST CELEBRATE A 116-YEAR HISTORY OF THE NAACP.
9:33:17AM WE ARE CELEBRATING FOUNDER'S DAY ON FEBRUARY 12th.
9:33:22AM AND IN THAT RECOGNITION, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO RECOGNIZE A
9:33:28AM YOUNG SISTER, YOUNG WOMAN THAT DIED AT THE AGE OF 44, BUT
9:33:34AM WAS 23 AT THE TIME THAT HAD ENOUGH COURAGE TO SAY AND TO
9:33:38AM BRING ATTENTION TO THE SUFFERING OF BLACK MEN IN PARTICULAR
9:33:41AM THROUGH HER LYRICS CALLED STRANGE FRUIT.
9:33:45AM SISTER BILLIE HOLIDAY.
9:33:46AM WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT, BECAUSE WE STILL SEE THE ONGOING
9:33:51AM SLAUGHTER AND BRUTALITY, WHETHER IT BE PHYSICAL OR THROUGH
9:33:56AM POLICY THAT BLACK PEOPLE IS STILL SUFFERING.
9:33:59AM HAPPY BLACK HISTORY MONTH.
9:34:00AM SO I WANT TO BRING ALSO TO THE ITEM OF TAMPA HEIGHTS, I
9:34:07AM REMEMBER IN 2020, THERE WAS A PROPOSAL BY EIGHT FOLKS, EIGHT
9:34:13AM RESIDENTS OF TAMPA HEIGHTS AT THAT TIME SAID THEY WANT TO
9:34:17AM EXTEND THE BOUNDARIES ALL THE WAY DOWN TO MARTIN LUTHER
9:34:19AM KING.
9:34:20AM GUESS WHAT.
9:34:21AM THEY HAVE SUCCEEDED.
9:34:22AM THEY HAVE SUCCEEDED.
9:34:23AM IF YOU LOOK AT NOW ROBLES PARK AND ONE STREET OVER, YOU WILL
9:34:29AM SEE HOUSES IN THAT DEVELOPMENT AT $500,000.
9:34:33AM ALL GONE.
9:34:36AM ALL SEMBLANCE OF BLACK LANDMARKS GONE IN THIS CITY AS WE
9:34:41AM CONTINUE TO PUT THIS CITY AS BEING SOMEWHAT PROGRESSIVE.
9:34:47AM I ADMIRE WOMEN WHO HAVE DONE RESEARCH ABOUT THE SPECIAL
9:34:50AM GRANT PROJECT.
9:34:51AM I WANT TO SEE HOW YOU SHOVE THAT DOWN OUR THROATS.
9:34:55AM ALCOHOL, CIGAR LOUNGE, BAR, RESTAURANT, AND THEY WANT $5
9:34:59AM MILLION FROM POOR PEOPLE.
9:35:02AM I WANT TO SEE HOW YOU DRESS THAT UP AND TELL US HOW MANY
9:35:05AM AFRO CUBANS ROLLED CIGARS AND HOW THAT WILL BE TO OUR BEST
9:35:11AM BENEFIT.
9:35:12AM I WANT TO SEE HOW WHEN YOU BOUGHT ON LAKE AVENUE AND YOU
9:35:16AM TALK ABOUT WALKABLE COMMUNITIES, YOU HAVE THE GATED BUILDING
9:35:19AM RIGHT THERE THAT CAN SERVE INTERESTS FOR OUR COMMUNITY TO
9:35:21AM HAVE TRAINING AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP, BUT THAT'S NOT THE
9:35:25AM LANDMARK FOR EAST TAMPA.
9:35:26AM YOU KNOW WHAT THE LANDMARK FOR EAST TAMPA IS NOW, GO DOWN
9:35:30AM COLUMBUS DRIVE WHERE HOUSES CANNOT EVEN BE RENTED OUT.
9:35:35AM LEASED FOR ALMOST $4,000 A MONTH.
9:35:39AM THIS IS THE STUFF YOU WANT TO SHOVE DOWN OUR THROATS.
9:35:42AM WHILE EACH OF YOU ALL HAVE YOUR OWN VISION, THE SAD REALITY
9:35:46AM IN THE BLACK COMMUNITY IS THAT WE ALWAYS START AT SQUARE ONE
9:35:50AM EVERY TIME WE GET A NEW LEGISLATOR, A NEW ACTIVIST, A NEW
9:35:56AM POLITICIAN TO TAKE US TO THEIR VISION.
9:35:59AM THEIR VISION IS WHAT THEY WANT.
9:36:00AM NOT WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANT.
9:36:04AM WE ARE SICK AND TIRED OF BEING SICK AND TIRED.
9:36:13AM >> UHURU, METESNOT.
9:36:17AM UHURU MEANS FREEDOM IN SWAHILI.
9:36:20AM METESNOT MEANS ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE.
9:36:23AM WHEN PEOPLE COME TO PUBLIC MEETING AND PEOPLE -- YOU HAVE A
9:36:26AM DOUBLE STANDARD.
9:36:27AM I WISH THEY COULD STOP MY TIME SO I COULD TALK ABOUT THE
9:36:30AM DOUBLE STANDARD.
9:36:31AM YOU HAVE POLICE OFFICERS, FIREFIGHTERS.
9:36:34AM PEOPLE YEAH, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH.
9:36:37AM BUT WHEN COMMON CITIZENS COME UP AND SAY SOMETHING AND
9:36:44AM PEOPLE WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE IT, NO, YOU HAVE DECORUM THEN.
9:36:49AM IT IS A DOUBLE STANDARD.
9:36:50AM NO MFING WAY A PERSON IS GOING TO TELL ME, NO WAY,
9:36:54AM ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY NO WAY.
9:36:56AM YOU HAVE TO TAKE ME OUT OF HERE IN HANDCUFFS JUST LIKE THEY
9:36:59AM BROUGHT US FROM AFRICA, IN HANDCUFFS.
9:37:05AM IF YOU'RE GOING TO TELL ME I CAN'T ACKNOWLEDGE SOMEBODY
9:37:08AM SPEAKING IN AN MFING POLITICAL MEETING.
9:37:10AM THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE DO.
9:37:11AM THEY SHOW APPROVAL, DISAPPROVAL IN PUBLIC MEETINGS.
9:37:16AM THEY SHOW APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL.
9:37:18AM YOU ALL WITH YOUR NONSENSE TRYING TO TREAT ADULTS LIKE
9:37:22AM LITTLE CHILDREN, LIKE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE CAME DOWN HERE
9:37:25AM FOR.
9:37:25AM LIKE WE DON'T KNOW WHY WE GOT IN OUR CARS, GOT ON A BUS,
9:37:28AM WALK DOWN HERE, CAME UPSTAIRS AND CAME IN THE BUILDING.
9:37:31AM LIKE WE LITTLE MF-IN' CHILDREN.
9:37:35AM WHAT KIND OF NONSENSE IS THAT?
9:37:38AM BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS WHAT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT IS
9:37:42AM CHILD SUPPORT.
9:37:43AM IT'S ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL AND THIS CITY COUNCIL NEED
9:37:48AM TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
9:37:49AM IT NEED TO START SOMEWHERE.
9:37:51AM YOU ALL MFERS DON'T DO NOTHING.
9:37:56AM DIDN'T DO NOTHING ABOUT PALESTINE.
9:37:59AM BUNCH OF PEOPLE MASSACRED IN YOUR FACE.
9:38:01AM COWARDS.
9:38:02AM EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU COWARDS.
9:38:05AM YOU ALL ARE SHAMEFUL, SHAMEFUL EXPECTATIONS OF A HUMAN
9:38:10AM BEING.
9:38:11AM SHAMEFUL EXPECTATIONS OF HUMAN BEINGS, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
9:38:14AM EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU.
9:38:16AM CHILD SUPPORT HAS BEEN KILLING BLACK PEOPLE.
9:38:20AM BEEN KILLING BLACK FAMILIES.
9:38:23AM IT'S BEEN MURDERING BLACK FAMILIES.
9:38:26AM DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSIONS, INCARCERATION, PURGES, WRIT OF
9:38:34AM BODILY ATTACHMENT.
9:38:36AM THAT SOUND LIKE SOME SLAVE STUFF.
9:38:39AM RUINING BLACK MEN'S LIVES.
9:38:41AM RUINING IT.
9:38:43AM RUINING THEIR FAMILIES.
9:38:45AM THAT HAS TO STOP.
9:38:47AM THIS CITY COUNCIL HAS TO DO SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING ABOUT
9:38:52AM PALESTINE.
9:38:53AM SOMETHING GOT TO COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH BECAUSE IF NOT, YOU
9:38:56AM ARE GARBAGE.
9:38:57AM AND SOMETHING HAVE TO COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH ABOUT CHILD
9:39:02AM SUPPORT.
9:39:02AM BLACK PEOPLE SCARED TO COME DOWN HERE AND YOU ARE MAKING
9:39:06AM THEM MORE SCARED TO COME DOWN HERE.
9:39:08AM YOU HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
9:39:10AM ALWAYS GOT A SCAM.
9:39:12AM YOU ALL SCAMMERS, NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.
9:39:16AM EVERY ONE OF YOU, SCAMMERS.
9:39:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:39:22AM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS RYAN HAYES, PRESIDENT OF CAIRO
9:39:27AM AND FRIENDS.
9:39:28AM BEEN COMING HERE PROBABLY THE LAST NINE MONTHS TO GAIN
9:39:32AM TRACTION AND SO FORTH.
9:39:33AM JUST BRINGING IT TO YOUR ATTENTION AT THE OLDSMAR FLEA
9:39:36AM MARKET WHERE WE HAVE RESIDED THE LAST TWO YEARS, TWO TRACTOR
9:39:40AM TRAILERS, 48-FOOT AND 40-FOOT FULL OF INVENTORY THAT'S BEEN
9:39:43AM DONATED TO US.
9:39:44AM WE'RE AT THE POINT RIGHT NOW IF I COULD PUT THIS RIGHT HERE,
9:39:51AM THEY ARE PLANNING ON EVICTING US FROM OUR TRAILERS BECAUSE
9:39:55AM OUR DEPARTMENT STORE HAS CLOSED SINCE MILTON.
9:39:58AM I HAVE OVER 24 INVOICES OF PAYING ON TIME MY MONTHLY RENT
9:40:03AM WAS $50 PER TRAILER.
9:40:05AM THE GENTLEMAN, FLEA MARKET OWNER, HAS WENT UP TO $340 PER
9:40:11AM TRACTOR TRAILER, WHICH IS COMPLETELY EGREGIOUS AND JUST
9:40:16AM SHOWING WHAT INDIVIDUALS ARE FACING BUT FURTHERMORE
9:40:18AM NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION CAN BE DISMANTLED AND DEMOLISHED DUE
9:40:23AM TO THE FACT OF THESE PREDATORIAL ACTIONS.
9:40:27AM QUITE EGREGIOUS.
9:40:28AM I REACHED OUT TO THE OWNER.
9:40:29AM HIS NAME IS GRADY PREGIN.
9:40:33AM THE PROPERTY MANAGER IS MARK JONES.
9:40:34AM I HAVE SENT THREE E-MAILS, NO CORRESPONDENCE.
9:40:36AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO RIGHT NOW.
9:40:39AM IT'S NOT AS IF I CAN HAUL THE TRACTOR TRAILERS.
9:40:44AM PUT THEM AT MY HOME.
9:40:45AM 48-FOOT AND 40-FOOT.
9:40:47AM FOR THE RECORD, YOU SEE THREE TRAILERS, HUNDRED DOLLARS.
9:40:57AM I HAVE OVER 24 INVOICES AND SO FORTH.
9:40:59AM I'M JUST TRYING TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY TYPE OF EMERGENCY
9:41:03AM FUNDING OR ANYTHING OF THAT SORT THAT I CAN HELP US
9:41:08AM REALLOCATE TO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO SAVE OUR NONPROFIT AT
9:41:12AM THIS POINT.
9:41:12AM IT'S BEEN NINE MONTHS OF US COMING HERE, NOT EVEN ASKING FOR
9:41:16AM GRANTS NOR FUNDING.
9:41:18AM JUST TRYING TO BE POINTED IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO BETTER
9:41:21AM EQUIP OURSELVES AND HAVE A SUSTAINABLE PLATFORM CONTINUOUSLY
9:41:25AM TO HELP OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY AND BEYOND.
9:41:28AM ONCE AGAIN, RYAN HAYES WITH CAIRO AND FRIENDS.
9:41:32AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
9:41:41AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:41:41AM MY NAME IS MALIK ABDULLAH, A MEMBER OF FLORIDA RISING.
9:41:47AM WHAT I'M SPEAKING OF -- WHAT I'LL BE SPEAKING ON IS NOT
9:41:59AM NECESSARILY REPRESENTATIVE OF FLORIDA RISING, BUT I AM A
9:42:02AM MEMBER IN GOOD STANDING.
9:42:03AM I THINK THE ADDRESS BY A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THAT I HEARD THAT
9:42:12AM IS APROPOS.
9:42:14AM YOU ALL SHOULD HEAR IT OR PAY ATTENTION TO IT.
9:42:18AM WE'RE ASKING YOU ALL TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT WHAT YOUR
9:42:25AM CITIZENS ARE SAYING, WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE VOTING
9:42:28AM FOR, WHOM THEY ARE GOING TO BE VOTING FOR.
9:42:32AM IT'S GOING TO AFFECT YOU ALL.
9:42:36AM I THINK IN MOST CASES, THOSE PEOPLE THAT ARE CONCERNED DON'T
9:42:43AM NECESSARILY NEED TO BE ADDRESSING YOU ALL, EXCEPT TO INFORM
9:42:48AM YOU.
9:42:49AM WE NEED TO BE ADDRESSING THE PEOPLE THAT VOTE FOR YOU ALL.
9:42:54AM LET THEM KNOW WHAT A DISMAL JOB WE THINK YOU ALL ARE DOING.
9:43:01AM I DON'T SAY FEEL.
9:43:01AM I SAY THINK.
9:43:02AM SO WHEN I LOOK AT THE RECORD, I SEE THERE ARE A LOT OF
9:43:07AM COMPLAINTS BEING LODGED IN REGARD TO THE WORK THAT YOU ALL
9:43:11AM ARE DOING.
9:43:11AM I DON'T REMEMBER THE BROTHER NAME.
9:43:15AM SPEAK ABOUT A SLAVE MENTALITY.
9:43:17AM AND HOW BLACK COMMUNITY ARE SUFFERING THE LACK OF
9:43:24AM LIVELINESS, EDUCATIONAL FACILITY, HOSPITALS, JOBS IN THE
9:43:32AM COMMUNITY, RETEACHING AND RETEACHING EDUCATING OUR PEOPLE TO
9:43:38AM THE REALITY.
9:43:42AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS APPROPRIATE FOR THIS TERM.
9:43:44AM YOU'RE NOT WHITE.
9:43:45AM WHITE PEOPLE HAVE BUILT AN ENVIRONMENT THAT'S CONDUCIVE TO
9:43:56AM WHAT THEY WANT, EXCLUDING PEOPLE OF COLOR.
9:44:00AM WHY DO YOU SAY THAT, MR. ABDULLAH?
9:44:03AM I SAY THAT BECAUSE YOU GO LOOK AT THE PRISONS.
9:44:06AM YOUNG MEN, COME OUT OF THE INSTITUTION, CAN'T GET A JOB.
9:44:13AM YOU HAVE A MAN -- I MIGHT GET ARRESTED FOR SAYING THIS --
9:44:19AM MAN LEADING THE WHITE HOUSE, 34 INDICTMENTS AGAINST HIM,
9:44:23AM DON'T SPEND A MINUTE IN JAIL.
9:44:24AM WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT.
9:44:26AM A MAN DROP A CIGARETTE ON THE FLOOR AND YOU ARREST HIM.
9:44:29AM WHY IS THAT WHITE SUPREMACY ENTITLEMENT?
9:44:33AM DON'T DESERVE THAT.
9:44:35AM YOU ARE THE CHAIR FOR THIS AFFAIR TODAY, RIGHT?
9:44:38AM MISS?
9:44:39AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YEAH, I AM THE CHAIR, SIR.
9:44:42AM >> THANK YOU, MA'AM.
9:44:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOUR TIME IS UP.
9:44:45AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
9:44:47AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:45:02AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:45:03AM MY NAME IS PASTOR WILLIAMS.
9:45:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
9:45:05AM >> LOCATED 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET WHERE MY CHURCH IS
9:45:10AM LOCATED.
9:45:11AM I COME UP HERE WEEK AFTER WEEK LISTENING TO THESE SPEAKERS,
9:45:15AM BUT NOTHING GETTING DONE.
9:45:17AM NEVER.
9:45:18AM IT'S SAD.
9:45:19AM THE MAYOR, SHE DONE INCLUDE THE BLACK FOLKS IN HER BUDGET
9:45:26AM AND GOT THAT PLACE OVER THERE CALLED THE JACKSON HOUSE.
9:45:30AM BEEN THERE FOR 20 YEARS.
9:45:32AM NOW THE CITY OWN IT NOW.
9:45:34AM YOU THINK THEY ARE DOING SOMETHING?
9:45:36AM NOT DOING A DAMN THING ABOUT IT AND WE IN TROUBLE.
9:45:40AM THE REASON WE IN TROUBLE IS NOT BECAUSE WE ARE TRYING TO DO
9:45:45AM THE BEST WE CAN OR THE BEST YOU ALL CAN, IT IS THE ZERO
9:45:49AM NOTHING.
9:45:50AM YOU ALL HAVE TO GET ON THE BALL.
9:45:56AM WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE WHAT COLOR WE ARE.
9:45:59AM WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DOING THE RIGHT THING IN THE NAME OF
9:46:03AM JESUS.
9:46:04AM THAT IS THE WAY IT IS GOING TO BE FOR ME.
9:46:06AM I'M SORRY YOU GIVE ME THREE SECONDS, BUT YOU NEED TO GIVE ME
9:46:09AM MORE TIME BECAUSE I GOT A LOT THAT I NEED TO SAY.
9:46:12AM IN FACT, I WANT TO DEDICATE A HYMN TO YOU ALL THIS MORNING
9:46:19AM FOR VALENTINE'S DAY, BUT YOU WON'T GIVE ME TIME TO DO
9:46:22AM NOTHING LIKE THAT.
9:46:24AM I WANT TO DO SOMETHING RIGHT FOR ALL OF US.
9:46:29AM YOU KNOW WHAT?
9:46:30AM I'M HAPPY TO BE HERE AS I WAS LAST WEEK OR WEEK BEFORE,
9:46:35AM WHENEVER.
9:46:36AM YOU KNOW WHAT?
9:46:37AM YOU ALL GOT TO GIVE US THE RIGHT RESPECT THAT WE GIVE YOU
9:46:43AM ALL.
9:46:43AM AND JUST DON'T THINK THAT BECAUSE YOU ALL ARE WHITE WE HAVE
9:46:46AM TO GIVE YOU RESPECT.
9:46:48AM YOU HAVE TO RETURN RESPECT TO US.
9:46:51AM WHEN THEY COME UP HERE CRYING, HOLLERING, ALL THEY DO IS
9:46:55AM RING THE BELL FOR US TO SIT DOWN.
9:46:58AM YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU AIN'T GOT TO RING BUT ONE TIME FOR ME.
9:47:02AM I'LL SIT DOWN ANYWAYS BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ALL ONLY GIVE ME
9:47:06AM THREE SECONDS, BUT I THANK GOD FOR THE THREE SECONDS.
9:47:11AM I WANT TO BLESS YOU ALL THIS MORNING WITH A NICE HYMN.
9:47:21AM NOON DAY SUN
9:47:24AM LIVING IN THE VALLEY
9:47:29AM RISING IN THE NOON DAY SUN
9:47:31AM AMEN, AMEN
9:47:34AM AMEN
9:47:38AM THERE IS JESUS IN THE VALLEY
9:47:43AM NOON DAY SUN, AMEN
9:47:47AM HAPPY VALENTINE'S TO ALL OF YOU, AND THAT'S TOMORROW, RIGHT?
9:47:59AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A FINAL SPEAKER.
9:48:11AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:48:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
9:48:13AM >> ROBIN LOCKETT.
9:48:15AM I'M COMING UP WITH A CONCERN.
9:48:16AM I AM A PART OF THE RACIAL RECONCILIATION COMMITTEE.
9:48:23AM OUR MEETING IS NEXT WEEK.
9:48:26AM DATA, DATA, DATA.
9:48:28AM DATA MAY NOT BE IMPORTANT TO EVERYBODY, BUT DATA IS
9:48:30AM IMPORTANT TO ME.
9:48:31AM IN ORDER FOR US TO EVALUATE, COME UP WITH A SOLUTION AND/OR
9:48:40AM A SOLUTION, I NEED DATA.
9:48:41AM I'M NOT SURE WHO THE DATA IS FLOWING THROUGH, WHO IS
9:48:47AM RESPONSIBLE FOR IT, BUT IF WE DON'T HAVE DATA TO SUPPORT OR
9:48:51AM DENY WHAT THE CONCERNS ARE, THEN WE'RE SET UP FOR FAILURE
9:48:56AM AND I DON'T WANT TO FAIL.
9:48:57AM YOU SPEND A LOT OF TIME -- LAST MONTH WAS MY FIRST MEETING,
9:49:04AM AND IT BLEW MY MIND BECAUSE, AGAIN, I'M ASKING QUESTIONS AND
9:49:09AM THERE'S NO DATA.
9:49:11AM I'M NOT SURE WHAT ROUTE TO TAKE.
9:49:15AM I DON'T KNOW, LUIS, YOUR AIDE HAS BEEN THERE, WHICH HAS BEEN
9:49:22AM VERY HELPFUL BUT SHE CAN'T DO EVERYTHING.
9:49:25AM I DON'T KNOW WHETHER IT IS THE ADMINISTRATION'S PART IN
9:49:27AM DOING IT OR PROVIDING US WITH THAT INFORMATION.
9:49:30AM I KNOW THE ADMINISTRATION CHOSE NOT TO BE A PART OF IT
9:49:34AM BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T APPOINT ANYONE TO IT.
9:49:36AM BUT THAT SHOULDN'T LEAVE US TO BE IN A SITUATION THAT WE ARE
9:49:40AM IN REGARDS TO HAVING NO DATA.
9:49:41AM AND TIMELY.
9:49:42AM THE TIME HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO I THINK AUGUST, BUT, AGAIN,
9:49:49AM WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HOUSING RIGHT NOW AND NOT EVEN FINISHED
9:49:54AM WITH IT.
9:49:55AM CERTAIN ISSUES ARE GOING TO BE IN DEPTH.
9:49:59AM CERTAIN ISSUES WILL TAKE LONGER THAN THE OTHERS.
9:50:01AM IF WE DON'T HAVE DATA, THAT IS A PROBLEM.
9:50:04AM I'M SO SERIOUS ABOUT THIS.
9:50:06AM LIKE I SAID, THE OUTLINE WAS LAID OUT.
9:50:09AM I ASKED QUESTIONS IN THE LAST MEETING FOR CLARITY, BUT WE
9:50:15AM NEED DATA.
9:50:16AM I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS IS GOING TO WORK.
9:50:18AM THANK YOU.
9:50:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:50:23AM WE'RE MOVING ON TO AGENDA ITEM NUMBER 1.
9:50:30AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:50:30AM COURTNEY ORR, CRA DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
9:50:33AM I'M PROUD TO INTRODUCE ANDY SCAGLIONE, A MAN WHO YOU KNOW
9:50:38AM VERY WELL, SO HE DOES NOT NEED A LONG INTRODUCTION.
9:50:41AM I'M PROUD TO WORK ALONGSIDE HIM AS HE LEADS THE CHANNEL
9:50:47AM DISTRICT ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
9:50:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
9:50:51AM CLERK, PLEASE SET THE TIMER.
9:50:56AM >>ANDY SCAGLIONE: OKAY.
9:50:57AM WE'RE GOING TO START OUT WITH THE WASHINGTON STREET PARKS
9:51:01AM RENOVATION.
9:51:01AM PARKS AND REC AND STAFF REVIEWING THE DESIGN CRITERIA
9:51:05AM PACKAGE.
9:51:05AM STAFF IS WORKING WITH CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION ON A DESIGN
9:51:08AM BID RFP.
9:51:11AM SECOND ITEM IS NEW SITING, NEIGHBORHOOD PARK AT 810
9:51:16AM CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
9:51:18AM GREAT BUY LOOKING BACK.
9:51:20AM IT WAS A REALLY, REALLY GOOD DECISION THAT WE BOUGHT THAT.
9:51:24AM STAFF IS WORKING WITH SOLID WASTE AND HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY
9:51:28AM EPC ON A BROWNS FIELD SITE REHAB.
9:51:32AM STAFF IS PROCURING ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES FOR
9:51:35AM COMPREHENSIVE ENVIRONMENTAL SITE ASSESSMENT REPORT.
9:51:39AM STAFF WOULD BE WORKING WITH CAD FOR A PICK OF THREE DESIGN
9:51:43AM FIRMS FOR THE PROJECT.
9:51:44AM THE THIRD ITEM, CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT INFRASTRUCTURE
9:51:48AM IMPROVEMENTS, PHASE C-1 IS TWIGGS STREET WILL BE COMPLETED
9:51:53AM BY THE END OF MAY.
9:51:55AM CAN'T HAPPEN SOON ENOUGH.
9:51:57AM THE TWO REMAINING PHASES OF THIS PROJECT ARE PHASE E-1,
9:52:03AM WHICH IS NORTH OF 12th STREET AND PHASE D, WHICH IS
9:52:07AM WHITING STREET.
9:52:08AM THESE PHASES ARE PROGRAMMED TO BE COMPLETE IN THE NEXT TWO
9:52:13AM YEARS.
9:52:14AM FOURTH SUBJECT, LANDSCAPING AND IRRIGATION.
9:52:18AM PARKS AND REC STAFF ATTEND OUR MEETING LAST WEEK.
9:52:26AM AT OUR CAC MEETING, THEY WERE VERY TRANSPARENT AND HONEST.
9:52:30AM WE HAD A VERY ENGAGED NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THEY JUST SAID WHAT
9:52:36AM THE SHORTCOMINGS ARE AND HOW WE NEED TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
9:52:41AM I APPRECIATE THE TRANSPARENCY AND THE HONESTY.
9:52:45AM CAC DISCUSSED WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN THE LANDSCAPING
9:52:49AM IMPROVEMENT IRRIGATION, AND THERE'S ONGOING CONVERSATIONS AS
9:52:51AM TO HOW WE'LL GET THAT ACCOMPLISHED.
9:52:55AM THE EXCITING NEWS, AS YOU RECALL, THERE WAS SOME LITIGATION
9:53:03AM AT 111 NORTH MERIDIAN REGARDING THE -- I CALL IT CLIMATE
9:53:09AM CONTROLLED MINI-STORAGE.
9:53:10AM YOU ALL WERE SMART ENOUGH, THANK GOD THAT YOU ALL REQUIRED
9:53:15AM THEM TO DO THE APARTMENTS BEFORE THEY DID THE MINI-STORAGE
9:53:17AM BECAUSE THEY COULD GET THE FINANCING FOR THE MINI-STORAGE
9:53:20AM AND WE WERE CONCERNED AT THAT POINT WE WOULDN'T HAVE THE
9:53:23AM APARTMENTS.
9:53:24AM WELL, WHAT'S HAPPENED IS THEY BUILT THE APARTMENTS THROUGH
9:53:29AM THE MEDIATION, CAME BACK TO YOU ALL.
9:53:32AM AND NOW WE JUST -- THE DEVELOPER WITH McKINSON, VERY, VERY
9:53:37AM LOCAL DEVELOPER OF HOTELS, VERY REPUTABLE, JOE TAGGART IS
9:53:42AM THE CFO I KNOW VERY WELL.
9:53:44AM HE MADE A PRESENTATION, McKINSON ACTUALLY MADE THE
9:53:47AM PRESENTATION TO US.
9:53:48AM THE PROPERTY AT 111 NORTH MERIDIAN AND THE STORAGE FACILITY
9:53:55AM IS NOT GOING TO BE BUILT.
9:53:57AM THEY ARE SELLING THE PROPERTY FOR A MARRIOTT DUAL HOTEL WITH
9:54:09AM ADJOINING AC HOTEL.
9:54:11AM 300 ROOMS, 13 STORIES, AND WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS
9:54:15AM BECAUSE HEADS IN BEDS IS WHAT WE WANT TO SEE.
9:54:18AM WHAT WE DON'T -- THAT'S 330 MINIMUM HEADS IN BEDS.
9:54:21AM WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO SEE IS A MINI-CLIMATE CONTROLLED
9:54:24AM FACILITY THAT YOU HAVE ONE EMPLOYEE THERE ALL DAY, THAT THE
9:54:28AM HIGHEST AND BEST USE FOR THE PROPERTY WAS NOT THAT, AND
9:54:32AM THAT'S WHY WE FOUGHT IT ALL THESE YEARS.
9:54:34AM SO VERY, VERY EXCITING ABOUT THAT.
9:54:37AM WE ONLY HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF LAND.
9:54:39AM HIGHEST AND BEST USE THEORY PREVAILS.
9:54:42AM SOMETHING SPECIAL TO ME.
9:54:47AM GREEN AREA IN PARKS.
9:54:49AM CAN'T HAVE ENOUGH.
9:54:50AM URBAN LAND INSTITUTE WHEN THEY DID THE STUDY, THIS AREA
9:54:55AM SHOULD HAVE 11%.
9:54:56AM WE'RE LESS THAN 2.
9:54:57AM WE HAVE TO CONTINUE BEING AGGRESSIVE TRYING TO BUY REAL
9:55:03AM ESTATE.
9:55:03AM AS I SAID BEFORE, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG WITH BUYING DIRT.
9:55:07AM YOU ONLY REGRET WHAT YOU DIDN'T BUY.
9:55:09AM WE ARE ACTUALLY STILL PURSUING A COUPLE OF PIECES THERE THAT
9:55:16AM WE WILL BE GETTING NEW APPRAISALS ON, ESPECIALLY ON THE A
9:55:22AM AND D AUTO WHICH WOULD CLEAN UP A BIG EYESORE, BUT AT THE
9:55:27AM SAME TIME, BEEN THERE SINCE OTHER DEVELOPMENT AND HE HAS THE
9:55:32AM RIGHT TO BE THERE.
9:55:33AM AT THIS POINT, I'LL OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS.
9:55:35AM AS YOU KNOW, CHANNELSIDE IS VERY, VERY SPECIAL.
9:55:38AM WE HAVE A GREAT RELATIONSHIP.
9:55:39AM YOU ALL HAVE BEEN VERY STRATEGIC IN PUTTING A VERY GOOD CAC
9:55:46AM BOARD.
9:55:46AM THEY ARE VERY ENGAGED.
9:55:47AM THEY SHOW UP TO EVERY MEETING.
9:55:49AM WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT RELATIONSHIP WITH COURTNEY AND CEDRIC.
9:55:53AM AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE NEIGHBORS SHOW UP AND THEY ARE
9:55:56AM VERY RESPECTFUL, BUT THEY ARE ASKING FOR THINGS TO BE DONE.
9:56:02AM I'LL OPEN IT UP FOR QUESTIONS.
9:56:04AM AS YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN INVOLVED, JUNE WILL BE 42 YEARS IN
9:56:08AM THE CHANNELSIDE AREA.
9:56:10AM WE'LL OPEN IT FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
9:56:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:56:12AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, MR. SCAGLIONE.
9:56:15AM I APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU CALLED OUT THE GREENSPACE.
9:56:18AM DEFINITELY ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT I'VE CHAMPIONED AND I KNOW
9:56:21AM OTHER BOARD MEMBERS HAVE AS WELL IN THE CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT
9:56:25AM SPECIFICALLY.
9:56:25AM YOU HIT IT RIGHT.
9:56:26AM THERE'S VERY LITTLE GREENSPACE AND VERY LITTLE
9:56:29AM OPPORTUNITIES.
9:56:30AM I WAS EXCITED TO HEAR WHAT THE YBOR HARBOR EXPANSION
9:56:36AM PROPOSED PROJECT ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE CHANNEL, THE
9:56:39AM AMOUNT OF GREENSPACE INCORPORATED THERE.
9:56:41AM HOPEFULLY THE CAC WILL WORK CLOSELY WITH THAT DEVELOPER TO
9:56:43AM ENSURE THAT GREENSPACE IS INCORPORATED IN WELL AND FITS
9:56:48AM YOU-ALL'S VISION, CAC VISION OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE AS FAR
9:56:52AM AS A MASTER PLAN.
9:56:53AM I DEFINITELY ENCOURAGE YOU WHEN THAT PROJECT MOVES FORWARD
9:56:56AM THAT WE MAKE SURE THAT GREENSPACE EXISTS.
9:56:58AM I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION.
9:57:01AM ONE OF THESE GOVERNMENT THINGS THAT HAPPENS.
9:57:02AM I SEE MY GOOD FRIEND LINDA SAUL-SENA HAD BROUGHT THIS, YOUR
9:57:07AM MONTHLY REPORT BACK IN 2008 THAT THIS WAS A MONTHLY REPORT.
9:57:12AM IS THIS SOMETHING FOR GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY?
9:57:14AM SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO AS A WRITTEN REPORT AND POSSIBLY A
9:57:18AM QUARTERLY IN PERSON OR AS NEEDED?
9:57:20AM IT SEEMS WEIRD THAT WE HAVE THIS CONTINUING SINCE 2008 AS A
9:57:24AM MONTHLY REPORT.
9:57:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
9:57:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: EVERY CAC COMES THROUGH.
9:57:31AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS IT SOMETHING THAT COULD BE A WRITTEN
9:57:34AM REPORT?
9:57:34AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I REALLY LIKE HEARING FROM THE CACs.
9:57:37AM FOR ME, IT'S VERY HELPFUL.
9:57:40AM I WOULDN'T SUPPORT A WRITTEN REPORT.
9:57:41AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW MUCH OF A BURDEN IS IT TO COME DOWN
9:57:45AM EVERY MONTH?
9:57:46AM >> IT'S ONCE A YEAR ACTUALLY.
9:57:52AM I WAS INVOLVED IN 1994 WHEN WE DID THE RENAMING OF THE
9:57:56AM STREET.
9:57:57AM LINDA SAUL-SENA WAS A BIG PART OF CHANNELSIDE.
9:58:01AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE'RE SAYING WE ONLY GET THESE REPORTS
9:58:04AM ONCE A YEAR.
9:58:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THERE ARE 8 CACs.
9:58:08AM ONE EVERY MONTH.
9:58:09AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW HAVE I MISSED THAT?
9:58:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T KNOW.
9:58:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
9:58:15AM >>BILL CARLSON: ANDY, TWO, THREE YEARS AGO, THERE WAS
9:58:18AM ANOTHER PIECE OF LAND.
9:58:20AM YOU WERE SAYING IT WAS A GOOD DECISION TO BUY THE ONE PIECE
9:58:23AM OF LAND, THE SMALL PARK.
9:58:24AM ANOTHER PIECE OF LAND THAT IS WAS $400 A FOOT.
9:58:27AM I THINK YOU AND WE AND EVERYBODY THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY
9:58:30AM EXPENSIVE AT THE TIME.
9:58:31AM DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LAND?
9:58:33AM SHOULD WE HAVE BOUGHT THE LAND BACK THEN?
9:58:36AM >>ANDY SCAGLIONE: ACTUALLY, IT IS STILL AVAILABLE AND WE ARE
9:58:38AM PURSUING IT.
9:58:40AM WE HAVE A WILLING SELLER, WHICH IS UNUSUAL IN CHANNELSIDE.
9:58:44AM SO WE ARE PURSUING THAT.
9:58:46AM >>BILL CARLSON: GREAT.
9:58:47AM >>ANDY SCAGLIONE: IT WOULD GIVE US A GREAT WINDOW FROM
9:58:50AM TWIGGS ONTO AN EXISTING LARGE PARK THAT WE HAVE.
9:58:55AM IT REALLY MAKES STRATEGIC SENSE AND GETS RID OF AN EYESORE
9:58:59AM --
9:58:59AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE OTHER THING AND THIS PROBABLY JUMPS OVER
9:59:02AM TO CITY COUNCIL AT SOME POINT, YOU ALL WERE TALKING ABOUT
9:59:06AM LINDA AND YOU.
9:59:08AM AS I RECALL, YOU ALL WROTE THE GUIDELINES FOR CHANNEL
9:59:11AM DISTRICT IN THE BEGINNING.
9:59:12AM THE IDEA ORIGINALLY, THE VISION YOU ALL HAD WAS THAT IT
9:59:16AM WOULD STEP UP FROM THE WATER.
9:59:18AM NOW WHAT WE SEE IS BECAUSE OF ALL THE EXCEPTIONS ALONG
9:59:21AM CHANNEL DISTRICT, WE HAVE SOME FOUR-, FIVE-STORY BUILDINGS
9:59:26AM LIKE PIER HOUSE.
9:59:27AM RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM PIER HOUSE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE
9:59:28AM SBP THAT WILL GO UP TO THE FAA LIMIT, AND ON THE CITY
9:59:32AM COUNCIL SIDE, I STILL WISH WE COULD EITHER INCLUDE CHANNEL
9:59:34AM DISTRICT OR PART OF IT IN THE CBD AND/OR RAISE THE HEIGHT
9:59:39AM LIMIT.
9:59:41AM TALK ABOUT THIS PRIVATELY BUT DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER THOUGHTS
9:59:43AM ON THAT?
9:59:45AM >>ANDY SCAGLIONE: ABSOLUTELY.
9:59:46AM I HAVE TO SAY LINDA AND I WERE TOTALLY INCORRECT ON THE
9:59:49AM VISION WE HAD IN CHANNELSIDE BACK 30, 40 YEARS AGO.
9:59:52AM IT WAS FIVE STORIES, THREE STORIES.
9:59:56AM WE WERE INCORRECT.
9:59:57AM YOU GOT TO GET THE DENSITY.
9:59:59AM THAT'S WHAT THEY HAVE DONE, THANK GOD THAT STARTED WITH THE
10:00:02AM TOWERS AT CHANNELSIDE.
10:00:03AM THAT REZONING, WHEN THAT HAPPENED, EVERYTHING ELSE BLEW UP.
10:00:08AM THERE SHOULD BE NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN DOWNTOWN F.A.R., WHICH
10:00:11AM DOESN'T HAVE AN F.A.R. AND CHANNELSIDE.
10:00:13AM YOU WANT THE REMAINING PARCELS, YOU WANT TO GET DENSITY.
10:00:19AM YOU ALL SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE AN F.A.R. REQUIREMENT.
10:00:23AM >>BILL CARLSON: ON THE CRA SIDE, WE COULD SUBSIDIZE
10:00:26AM SOMETHING.
10:00:26AM ON THE REGULATORY SIDE, BY LIFTING THE REGULATION, WE COULD
10:00:30AM HELP DEVELOPERS REDUCE COST, THIS IS AN AREA WHERE PEOPLE
10:00:33AM WANT DENSITY.
10:00:34AM DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO GET AN EXCEPTION
10:00:37AM TO GO FROM FIVE STORIES OR UP TO 20 OR WHATEVER IS ALLOWED?
10:00:41AM >>ANDY SCAGLIONE: CURRENTLY, AMENDMENT IN FRONT OF YOU, 10.5
10:00:45AM F.A.R., BUT, AGAIN, THERE SHOULD BE -- DOWNTOWN DOESN'T HAVE
10:00:49AM ONE.
10:00:50AM YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN HAVE ONE IN CHANNELSIDE.
10:00:52AM IT'S ANTIQUATED TO HAVE THAT.
10:00:57AM THERE SHOULD BE NO F.A.R. IN CHANNELSIDE.
10:01:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:01:03AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU COULD COME
10:01:05AM THROUGH WITH?
10:01:05AM I CONCUR WITH COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:01:08AM IS THAT SOMETHING THAT THE CAC COULD COME THROUGH WITH A
10:01:10AM RECOMMENDATION FOR ACTION.
10:01:11AM COULD THEY COME THROUGH AND MAYBE KICK IT OFF.
10:01:16AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE'VE HAD IT BEFORE COUNCIL SEVERAL TIMES
10:01:19AM AND STAFF PUSHED BACK ON IT.
10:01:21AM IF THERE IS A GROUP IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT THAT COULD PUSH
10:01:24AM FOR IT, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THERE IS A PUSH FOR MORE
10:01:27AM DEVELOPMENT AND MORE DENSITY.
10:01:28AM WE NEED MORE UNITS, ALTHOUGH THE RENTALS, PRICES ARE COOLING
10:01:32AM OFF A LITTLE BIT NOW.
10:01:33AM WE STILL NEED MORE UNITS.
10:01:35AM THIS IS AN AREA WHERE PEOPLE WANT THEM.
10:01:38AM IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT WE WOULD TELL SOMEBODY, OH, YOU
10:01:41AM CAN ONLY HAVE A FOUR-STORY BUILDING, UNLESS YOU SPEND
10:01:44AM 250,000, 300,000 TO COME BEFORE US TO ASK FOR AN EXCEPTION.
10:01:48AM ALSO, WITH THE CAPITAL MARKETS RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW HOW LONG
10:01:48AM THAT DELAYS IT AND IT PUTS THE CAPITAL AT RISK.
10:01:50AM IF THERE'S ANY GROUP IN CHANNEL DISTRICT THAT COULD COME
10:01:54AM BEFORE US AS CITY COUNCIL AND ASK US TO DO THAT, IT SEEMS TO
10:01:57AM ME BY LIFTING SOME OF THE REGULATIONS AND MAKING IT IN
10:02:01AM PARITY WITH DOWNTOWN, WHICH IS JUST ACROSS THE STREET THAT
10:02:04AM WOULD BE A LOT BETTER THAN PUMPING A LOT OF MONEY AND
10:02:07AM SUBSIDIZE SOMETHING THEY PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BY RIGHT.
10:02:10AM >>ANDY SCAGLIONE: YEAH, I THINK WE NEED TO PUT THAT ON THE
10:02:12AM AGENDA, COURTNEY, FOR NEXT MEETING.
10:02:14AM I CAN'T SEE NO OPPOSITION COMING FROM THE CAC ON THAT.
10:02:18AM YOU WANT DENSITY, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU HAVE REMAINING PARCELS
10:02:23AM LEFT.
10:02:24AM AND YOU READ THAT RENTS ARE GOING DOWN RIGHT NOW, THAT'S
10:02:26AM ONLY TEMPORARY.
10:02:27AM IT'S JUST BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT COMING THROUGH THE PIPELINE
10:02:32AM AT ONE TIME.
10:02:33AM WHAT'S IN THE PIPELINE RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE OF THE CAPITAL
10:02:35AM MARKETS, YOU'RE GOING TO SEE A VERY BIG SLOWDOWN COME IN TWO
10:02:40AM YEARS.
10:02:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE'LL MOVE ON WITH OUR AGENDA.
10:02:46AM [MICROPHONE NOT ON]
10:02:51AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: CEDRIC McCRAY, INTERIM TAMPA CRA
10:02:56AM DIRECTOR.
10:02:56AM JUST TO START THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT, YOU ALL RECEIVED AT
10:03:00AM YOUR REQUEST FOR MONTHLY PROJECT TRACKING REPORT.
10:03:04AM I'LL PAUSE FOR ANY QUESTIONS AT ALL.
10:03:06AM IF NOT, I WILL GO ON.
10:03:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO SAY?
10:03:14AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
10:03:15AM I HAVE A FEW THINGS.
10:03:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:03:19AM GO AHEAD AND FINISH YOUR REPORT AND THEN BOARD MEMBER
10:03:22AM CARLSON WILL GO FIRST.
10:03:23AM >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK HE JUST ASKED US IF WE HAD ANY
10:03:26AM QUESTIONS.
10:03:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HE DID ASK THAT, BUT HE WILL FINISH HIS
10:03:28AM REPORT AT THE PLEASURE OF THE CHAIR AND THEN WE WILL TAKE
10:03:31AM QUESTIONS.
10:03:31AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES, MA'AM.
10:03:32AM THANK YOU.
10:03:33AM ALL RIGHTY.
10:03:33AM I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE, AS YOU KNOW WE HAD SEVERAL
10:03:37AM VACANCIES IN OUR COMMERCIAL BRANCH TEAM LED BY MS. REED.
10:03:41AM ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS JUST RECENTLY HIRED A COUPLE, FEW
10:03:44AM WEEKS AGO, MS. KATRINA HOUSE.
10:03:46AM YOU HEARD FROM HER EARLIER.
10:03:48AM I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.
10:03:49AM ALSO MS. CELESTE LAU WHO STARTED LAST MONDAY AND WE HAVE
10:03:55AM SOMEONE ELSE ON BOARDING OFFICIALLY NEXT MONDAY, TIFFANY
10:03:59AM MITCHELL.
10:03:59AM I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT AS WE'RE BUILDING OUT OUR TEAM.
10:04:02AM WE HAD SEVERAL NEW HIRES ON THE PROJECT SIDE AND NOW WE'RE
10:04:06AM WORKING ON THE COMMERCIAL GRANTS AND LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING
10:04:08AM WITH THEM SO AS WE'RE HAVING THE GRANTS COME FORWARD, THEY
10:04:11AM ARE GOING TO BE FACILITATING AND PROCESSING THOSE TO
10:04:15AM FRUITION.
10:04:16AM OKAY.
10:04:16AM CAC ORIENTATION, I'LL SLIDE SOMETHING ON THE ELMO.
10:04:21AM AS YOU KNOW, LAST YEAR, WE HAD TWO DATES FOR ORIENTATION FOR
10:04:25AM NEW CAC MEMBERS.
10:04:26AM WE WILL DO THAT AGAIN THIS YEAR ON MARCH 10.
10:04:30AM IT WILL BE AT THE ENTREPRENEURIAL COLLABORATIVE CENTER IN
10:04:33AM YBOR CITY.
10:04:34AM WE WILL BE SURVEYING AND CONFIRMING WITH OUR CAC MEMBERS,
10:04:39AM BUT THEY ARE AWARE IT IS COMING AND IT WILL BE OPEN TO ALL
10:04:42AM CURRENT AND NEW CAC MEMBERS.
10:04:46AM WE WILL DISCUSS EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN FOR THE TWO AND A
10:04:50AM HALF HOURS RELATED TO CHAPTER 163 AND EVERYTHING THAT
10:04:54AM GOVERNS THE TAMPA CRAs.
10:04:56AM THERE IS AN ITEM THAT WILL BE COMING BEFORE YOU ON FEBRUARY
10:05:04AM 20th AS THE CITY COUNCIL RELATED TO THE INTERESTS FROM THE
10:05:08AM FISCAL YEAR 2024.
10:05:10AM I DID SHARE THIS WITH SEVERAL OF YOU DURING THE BRIEFINGS.
10:05:14AM THAT AMOUNT ACROSS ALL THE CRAs CAME TO $4.6 MILLION.
10:05:19AM AS YOU INSTRUCTED A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, THOSE DOLLARS WILL
10:05:22AM EITHER GO INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD INFRASTRUCTURE LINE ITEMS
10:05:25AM WITHIN THE RESPECTIVE CRA DISTRICTS OR DISTRICT
10:05:29AM IMPROVEMENTS.
10:05:30AM THAT INFORMATION WILL BE COMING BEFORE YOU BECAUSE IT IS A
10:05:32AM BUDGETARY ITEM AT THE COUNCIL MEETING ON FEBRUARY 20.
10:05:37AM THE OTHER ITEM THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TOUCH ON, YOU HAVE ON
10:05:41AM YOUR AGENDA THE GRANT TEMPLATE.
10:05:43AM AS WE ARE PROCESSING THOSE GRANTS, I BELIEVE YOU HAVE THE
10:05:46AM LANGUAGE IN FRONT OF YOU.
10:05:47AM IT HAS GONE THROUGH REVIEW PROCESS WITH OUR NEW ATTORNEY,
10:05:50AM MR. SHEPHARD, AS WELL AS ATTORNEY MASSEY.
10:05:53AM STAFF IS GOING TO REQUEST APPROVAL OF THE REVISED COMMERCIAL
10:05:58AM GRANT MASTER TEMPLATE AND AUTHORIZATION POTENTIALLY FOR THE
10:06:02AM CRA DIRECTOR TO APPROVE ANY NON-SUBSTANTIVE CHANGES TO THE
10:06:07AM TEXT AND ANY CHANGES THAT WOULD BE DEEMED NECESSARY THAT
10:06:11AM WOULD BE BROUGHT TO YOU DURING THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT ON A
10:06:14AM MONTHLY BASIS.
10:06:15AM I'LL STOP THERE.
10:06:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON WITH THE FIRST
10:06:22AM QUESTION.
10:06:24AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU.
10:06:25AM JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS, ON THE INTEREST, THANK YOU FOR
10:06:28AM FOLLOWING UP.
10:06:30AM YOU AND I HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT THIS TOO.
10:06:32AM FOR THE PUBLIC AND ANYBODY WHO DOESN'T KNOW ABOUT THE
10:06:37AM HISTORY OF THIS, DURING COVID, THE ADMINISTRATION ASKED THE
10:06:42AM CRA TO PUT IN $2 MILLION IN COVID RELIEF.
10:06:45AM WE SAID WE DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THE $2 MILLION WAS.
10:06:48AM THEY SAID, OH, IT'S IN THE INTEREST ACCOUNTS.
10:06:51AM WHAT WE FOUND IS THAT THEY ESSENTIALLY WERE HIDING MONEY IN
10:06:55AM THE INTEREST ACCOUNTS.
10:06:56AM I'VE ASKED THE NEW ATTORNEY, AND I MADE A MOTION AT THE TIME
10:07:01AM WHEN WE PASSED THAT IT SHOULD BE SWEPT INTO OTHER ACCOUNTS
10:07:03AM AS YOU JUST SAID.
10:07:05AM I DON'T KNOW THAT IT HAPPENED RIGHT AWAY, BUT WE'VE BEEN
10:07:07AM PUSHING FOR IT EVER SINCE.
10:07:09AM WHAT I ALSO CONFIRMED WITH THE ATTORNEY, THE FLORIDA LAW
10:07:12AM SAYS IF YOU DON'T MOVE IT, YOU HAVE TO REFUND IT.
10:07:15AM I'M NOT GOING TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT ALL THAT, BUT WE SHOULD
10:07:19AM HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THE LAW AND IT SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN
10:07:21AM SOMETHING THAT CITY COUNCIL HAD TO MAKE A MOTION ON.
10:07:24AM AND THAT WAS BEFORE CEDRIC AND ANY OF THE FOLKS WHO ARE
10:07:29AM WORKING THERE NOW.
10:07:30AM NUMBER 2 IS THAT LISTENING TO THE COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC,
10:07:33AM CEDRIC AND I HAD THIS CONVERSATION THE OTHER DAY TOO.
10:07:38AM WE'VE CREATED A NEW GRANT PROCESS.
10:07:41AM AND THE IDEA OF THE GRANT PROCESS, WHICH ERICA, ALIS AND
10:07:46AM NICOLE AND OTHERS WERE WORKING ON BEFORE THEY LEFT, THE IDEA
10:07:49AM OF IT THAT IT WOULD BE MORE TRANSPARENT, MORE EQUITABLE FOR
10:07:54AM PEOPLE TO APPLY FOR GRANTS AND THERE WOULD BE SPECIFIC
10:07:57AM CRITERIA.
10:07:57AM ONE OF THE REASONS WE DID THAT IS SO THAT THE STAFF COULD
10:08:00AM ALSO SAY NO AND THEN IT WOULD BE LESS LIKELY THAT PEOPLE
10:08:05AM WOULD JUMP OVER STAFF AND DEMAND TO COME TO THE BOARD
10:08:07AM BECAUSE THEN WE WOULD EMPOWER STAFF TO SAY, NO, YOU DON'T
10:08:10AM MEET THE CRITERIA.
10:08:11AM ONE THING -- THERE WERE TWO THINGS AT LEAST THAT WE MISSED
10:08:14AM IN THAT PROCESS.
10:08:15AM IT COULD HAVE BEEN THAT WE LOST IT IN TRANSLATION, BUT I
10:08:18AM KNOW I DIDN'T ASK FOR IT.
10:08:20AM I DON'T KNOW IF OTHERS ASKED FOR IT.
10:08:21AM ONE IS UNLIKE CITY COUNCIL, ON CITY COUNCIL, THE
10:08:25AM ADMINISTRATION CAN PUT AN RFP, GET APPLICANTS, CHOOSE AN RFP
10:08:30AM AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW THE RFP IS GOING ON UNTIL WE GET
10:08:35AM ASKED TO APPROVE THE CONTRACT.
10:08:36AM IN THE CRA, WE ARE ALSO THE DECIDING BODY.
10:08:38AM WE'RE BOTH BRANCHES.
10:08:39AM SO THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME PREVIEW PROCESS FOR US BECAUSE AS
10:08:45AM GREAT AS AN APPLICATION IS, THE ONE THAT WAS TALKED ABOUT
10:08:48AM DURING PUBLIC COMMENT, I DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT UNTIL I
10:08:51AM STARTED GETTING CALLS THIS WEEK.
10:08:52AM JUST FOR THE PUBLIC TO KNOW, ON THE CITY SIDE, CITY COUNCIL
10:08:57AM HAS NO IDEA WHAT'S COMING THROUGH THE PIPELINE UNTIL IT
10:09:00AM COMES BEFORE US FOR CONTRACT APPROVAL.
10:09:02AM ON THE CRA SIDE, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS NEW GRANT PROCESS,
10:09:06AM WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE BETTER BUT SOMEHOW WE NEED TO FIGURE
10:09:10AM OUT A PREVIEW PROCESS SO THAT CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS CAN GET
10:09:13AM AN IDEA OF WHAT'S COMING THROUGH AND MAYBE INDIVIDUAL
10:09:16AM BRIEFINGS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND MAYBE THE ATTORNEY CAN
10:09:19AM ADVISE ON THAT OR CEDRIC AND HIS TEAM CAN ADVISE ON IT.
10:09:22AM THE SECOND THING CEDRIC AND I TALKED ABOUT IS SOME OF THE
10:09:25AM CRA DISTRICTS ARE BIGGER THAN OTHERS.
10:09:27AM SO A NUMBER THAT MIGHT NOT SOUND BIG IN DOWNTOWN IS REALLY
10:09:30AM HUGE IN A PLACE LIKE CENTRAL BECAUSE THERE'S NOT THAT MUCH
10:09:34AM MONEY GOING THROUGH.
10:09:35AM SO WE PROBABLY SHOULD PUT SOME GUIDELINES DOWN AND I'M NOT
10:09:39AM GOING TO MAKE A MOTION ABOUT IT NOW, BUT WE SHOULD ASK STAFF
10:09:42AM TO LOOK AT SOME KIND OF GUIDELINES.
10:09:44AM FOR EXAMPLE, NO ONE PROJECT CAN TAKE MORE THAN 20% OR 30%
10:09:49AM PER YEAR FROM A CRA DISTRICT.
10:09:54AM BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY PROJECTS COMING THROUGH, ONE PROJECT
10:09:57AM REQUEST TO TAKE UP ALL THE MONEY IN ONE -- FOR ONE YEAR IN
10:10:01AM ONE DISTRICT.
10:10:02AM IT'S NOT ABOUT THE DOLLAR AMOUNT BECAUSE IN DOWNTOWN THAT
10:10:05AM MIGHT BE A SMALL PERCENTAGE.
10:10:07AM BUT IN A PLACE LIKE EAST TAMPA, IT IS A HUGE NUMBER.
10:10:10AM AT SOME POINT I THINK WE NEED TO PASS A REQUIREMENT TO ADD
10:10:12AM TO THE GRANT PROCESS THAT LIMITS THE PERCENTAGE PER YEAR.
10:10:16AM IT COULD BE THE MULTIYEAR DEAL, BUT AT LEAST IN ONE YEAR
10:10:18AM THERE WILL BE A LIMITATION BECAUSE NOT FAIR FOR THE CAC TO
10:10:21AM GO THROUGH ALL THE WORK OF PLANNING AND EVERYTHING AND THEN
10:10:24AM WE HAVE ONE PROJECT PER YEAR THAT TAKES UP ALL THE MONEY.
10:10:27AM THANK YOU.
10:10:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:10:30AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE ALREADY LIMIT THAT BY THE BUDGET WE PASS
10:10:35AM EVERY YEAR.
10:10:37AM SO I THINK IN EAST TAMPA, THE AVAILABLE FUNDS IN THAT IS
10:10:41AM AROUND $2 MILLION, IF I'M CORRECT.
10:10:45AM SO 1.2.
10:10:47AM SO IT KIND OF -- WE KIND OF DO THAT ALREADY.
10:10:52AM IF YOU WANTED TO DO A PERCENTAGE OF THAT PARTICULAR LINE
10:10:55AM ITEM, MAYBE.
10:10:56AM BUT I WOULD BE OPEN TO THAT.
10:10:57AM BUT WE ALREADY DECIDE HOW MUCH IS GOING TO BE SPENT IN EACH
10:11:02AM CATEGORY PER YEAR.
10:11:03AM AND IF WE WANTED TO CHANGE THAT, WE COULD.
10:11:05AM THAT'S THE ONLY COMMENT I HAD.
10:11:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER COMMENT?
10:11:08AM OKAY.
10:11:11AM I HAVE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
10:11:12AM I WANTED TO JUST STATE THAT THE APPLICATIONS FOR SPECIAL
10:11:17AM PROJECTS, AS SOON AS THEY APPLY, THAT WOULD BE ONE GREAT WAY
10:11:21AM FOR US TO FIND OUT AS A BOARD WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE ONSET
10:11:24AM OF THE APPLICATION AND PRESENTING THAT TO US SO IT WON'T BE
10:11:27AM A SURPRISE IS SOMETHING THAT I'M RECOMMENDING.
10:11:30AM AND ALSO, I WANTED TO ASK YOU ABOUT UNDER THE DIRECTOR'S
10:11:36AM REPORT WHERE YOU PROVIDE US WITH THE INFORMATION, NUMBER 7,
10:11:39AM IS THE ARMY NAVY STORE.
10:11:42AM I MADE A MOTION A COUPLE OF WEEKS BACK ASKING FOR THE SCOPE
10:11:46AM OF THAT PROJECT.
10:11:46AM THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE ENTITLED TO.
10:11:48AM WE VOTED ON THAT WHEN I FIRST BECAME A BOARD MEMBER.
10:11:55AM AND SO I FEEL LIKE THE ADMINISTRATION HAS IGNORED THAT
10:12:01AM REQUEST BUT IT WAS A FORMAL MOTION AND I RECOMMEND THAT YOUR
10:12:04AM STAFF GO BACK AND LOOK TO SEE WHAT WAS STATED ABOUT THAT.
10:12:08AM BUT I DO REMEMBER ASKING SPECIFICALLY FOR THE SCOPE OF THE
10:12:11AM PROJECT ACCORDING TO OUR PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATOR WHO IS NO
10:12:14AM LONGER WITH US.
10:12:15AM THAT PORTION OF IT WAS DONE.
10:12:19AM AND JUST KINDLY, I WANT THIS TO BE MY LAST TIME ASKING AND
10:12:24AM I'LL ASK FOR IT PUBLICLY.
10:12:26AM THANK YOU.
10:12:28AM CAN WE HAVE -- ANYONE ELSE?
10:12:31AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:12:32AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK THAT IS A GREAT IDEA ABOUT KNOWING.
10:12:36AM BOTH OF YOU TALKED ABOUT LEARNING ABOUT PROJECTS.
10:12:38AM WHY DON'T WE DO IT AS A ONCE A MONTH THING AS PART OF THE
10:12:41AM DIRECTOR'S REPORT, GETTING A WRITTEN REPORT OF ALL THE
10:12:45AM APPLICATIONS.
10:12:46AM THAT WAY WE DO HAVE KNOWLEDGE.
10:12:48AM IF WE WANT TO KNOW MORE, WE CAN SIMPLY ASK.
10:12:51AM I THINK THAT ALSO ALLOWS THE PUBLIC TO SEE WHAT'S COMING
10:12:55AM FORWARD.
10:12:56AM IF IT'S OKAY, I'LL MAKE A MOTION -- AND HELP ME WITH IT.
10:13:02AM I WANT TO MAKE A MOTION THAT ANY APPLICATIONS IN THE
10:13:10AM LARGE --
10:13:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SPECIAL PROJECTS.
10:13:11AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ANY APPLICATIONS SUPPORT SPECIAL PROJECTS BE
10:13:16AM PER CRA IN A SIMILAR FORMAT AS THE CURRENT --
10:13:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT COULD BE AN ADDITION TO THE LIST THAT
10:13:31AM WE RECEIVE.
10:13:32AM IN THAT SAME SECTION.
10:13:34AM >>LYNN HURTAK: LIKE AN EXCEL, VERY SIMILAR TO THE CURRENT
10:13:37AM PROJECTS, WHERE WE ARE -- PROJECT TRACKER.
10:13:41AM THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.
10:13:42AM TO ADD THAT -- PART OF THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT MONTHLY, EXCEL
10:13:52AM CHART THAT MIMICS THE PROJECT TRACKER FOR EACH CRA.
10:13:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:13:59AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:14:00AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:14:01AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:14:02AM MOTION CARRIES.
10:14:03AM I HAD ANOTHER THOUGHT.
10:14:11AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:14:12AM >>BILL CARLSON: ALTHOUGH IT'S WORK FOR STAFF TO PUT IT IN A
10:14:15AM SPREADSHEET, I THINK IT HELPS STAFF, BECAUSE STAFF IS IN THE
10:14:19AM DIFFICULT POSITION.
10:14:20AM I THINK I SAID THIS A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, BUT WHEN YOU'RE
10:14:23AM GIVING OUT MONEY, 90% OF THE TIME YOU'RE SAYING NO.
10:14:27AM IT HELPS STAFF TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON.
10:14:29AM MADAM CHAIR, YOU ASKED FOR INFORMATION FROM THE
10:14:31AM ADMINISTRATION.
10:14:32AM DID YOU WANT TO MAKE A MOTION ABOUT THAT?
10:14:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALREADY A MOTION.
10:14:35AM IT WAS A SPECIFIC MOTION ALREADY WHERE I ASKED FOR THE SCOPE
10:14:37AM OF THE PROJECT.
10:14:39AM >>BILL CARLSON: DO YOU WANT TO ASK IT AGAIN?
10:14:41AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
10:14:42AM I'LL GIVE THEM THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT.
10:14:46AM THIS 60-YEAR-OLD BRAIN HAD A FREEZE.
10:14:56AM THE $5 MILLION THAT WAS PRESENTED IN THE APPLICATION, I WANT
10:15:03AM TO SAY THIS PUBLICLY, JUST BECAUSE SOMEONE APPLIES AND ASKS
10:15:06AM FOR A CERTAIN DOLLAR AMOUNT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THAT IS WHAT
10:15:10AM THEY ARE GOING TO RECEIVE.
10:15:11AM IT IS FAIR FOR ANYONE TO ASK.
10:15:13AM THEY CAN ASK, BUT IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A BOARD TO DO
10:15:16AM OUR DUE DILIGENCE, TO TAKE EVERY SINGLE THING INTO
10:15:20AM CONSIDERATION, AND THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
10:15:22AM I DO APPRECIATE THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
10:15:24AM THAT'S ALSO AN IMPORTANT PIECE, AT LEAST FOR ME, TO HAVE
10:15:27AM THAT INFORMATION, TO HEAR WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS THINKING.
10:15:31AM IT'S NOT JUST THAT WE ARE ALL ON BOARD BECAUSE SOMEONE
10:15:34AM CREATED AN APPLICATION AND STARTED A PROCESS THAT WE WOULD
10:15:37AM AUTOMATICALLY APPROVE IT, DOES NOT EXIST, ESPECIALLY ON MY
10:15:40AM PART, WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK SPACES.
10:15:42AM IF YOU ARE LISTENING EVERY WEEK, THAT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT
10:15:46AM TO ME, NOT ONLY AS A BOARD MEMBER BUT A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER,
10:15:49AM THE PRESERVATION OF PREDOMINANTLY, AT ONE TIME, AFRICAN
10:15:53AM AMERICAN SPACES.
10:15:54AM AND ADDRESSING THE ADMINISTRATION IN THAT CAPACITY AS I DID
10:15:57AM LAST WEEK WHEN THEY WORKED SO DILIGENTLY TO TAKE CARE OF THE
10:16:00AM INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA WITH SUCH
10:16:02AM GREAT CARE.
10:16:03AM BUT WHEN IT COMES TO OTHER SPACES AND I ASKED THIS BOARD,
10:16:07AM THIS CITY COUNCIL, THAT THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE HAVE TO
10:16:10AM CONSIDER WHEN IT COMES TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY AND
10:16:12AM IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
10:16:13AM I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT PUBLICLY.
10:16:15AM I HAD ANOTHER COMMENT AND I'M KIND OF MAD AT MYSELF I CAN'T
10:16:18AM REMEMBER IT.
10:16:19AM ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT?
10:16:20AM OKAY.
10:16:21AM CAN I GET ALSO A MOTION ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL GRANT AGREEMENT
10:16:25AM RECOMMENDATION?
10:16:27AM GO AHEAD.
10:16:28AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MOVE ITEMS 5, 6, 7.
10:16:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION FOR THE APPROVALS AND A
10:16:35AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:16:37AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:16:37AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:16:38AM MOTION CARRIES.
10:16:41AM NOW WE HAVE -- YES, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:16:46AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON SOMETHING YOU SAID, YOU
10:16:48AM TALKED ABOUT THE AFRICAN AMERICAN SPACES AND WHERE WE HAVE
10:16:50AM BEEN TRYING FOR YEARS TO FUND THE JACKSON HOUSE.
10:16:53AM BESIDES THE FEEDBACK WE'VE HAD FROM THE CAC ON THEIR
10:16:56AM PRIORITIES, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD A PRESENTATION OR
10:16:59AM DISCUSSION ABOUT HISTORIC BUILDING OR HISTORIC MEETING
10:17:02AM SPACES IN EAST TAMPA.
10:17:04AM I WOULD LEAVE IT UP TO YOU TO MAKE A MOTION.
10:17:07AM IF YOU EVER WANTED TO DO THAT, I WOULD SUPPORT HAVING
10:17:10AM HISTORIC PRESERVATION AND/OR THE COMMUNITY COME BEFORE US
10:17:12AM AND TALK ABOUT THESE IMPORTANT SPACES THAT WE SHOULD PUT AT
10:17:16AM LEAST ON OUR LONG-TERM LIST.
10:17:19AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ABSOLUTELY.
10:17:20AM IT IS MY AIM FOR US TO GET PAST JUST PUTTING UP HISTORICAL
10:17:25AM MARKERS FOR WHAT USED TO BE.
10:17:26AM I AM DEFINITELY PAST THAT.
10:17:29AM THAT IS VERY OBVIOUS IN MY PUBLIC COMMENTS ON A REGULAR
10:17:32AM BASIS.
10:17:32AM IT'S ACTUALLY KIND OF HARD FOR ME TO EVEN SIT AND ENJOY
10:17:36AM THOSE, RIGHTFULLY SO THE RECOGNITION IS THERE, BUT THE
10:17:40AM HISTORICAL SPACES ARE GONE AND NO LONGER EXISTING.
10:17:44AM EVEN DEVELOPERS ARE VERY CAREFUL.
10:17:46AM THEY NO LONGER USE, AND I GOT THIS FROM SOMEONE YESTERDAY.
10:17:51AM THEY INTENTIONALLY DO NOT USE THE WORD GENTRIFICATION
10:17:54AM BECAUSE THEY KNOW IT IS A NEGATIVE CONNOTATION.
10:17:59AM WE ARE UNDER NEW BUSINESS.
10:18:01AM WE CAN START FROM HERE, BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA, BOARD MEMBER
10:18:05AM VIERA.
10:18:05AM >>LUIS VIERA: I HAVE SOMETHING.
10:18:07AM CHAIRWOMAN, I ASKED THIS BECAUSE YOU ARE ON THE HART BOARD
10:18:14AM WITH ME.
10:18:14AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE BECAUSE IT'S YOUR DISTRICT.
10:18:19AM ARE YOU GOING TO BE MOTIONING ON THE FARE-FREE STREETCAR?
10:18:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AM I DOING THAT TODAY OR THIS AFTERNOON?
10:18:29AM THAT IS NOT A CRA.
10:18:34AM >>LUIS VIERA: IT'S CRA.
10:18:35AM THAT'S FINE.
10:18:37AM LET ME GO LAST WITH A MOTION, IF I MAY, PLEASE.
10:18:43AM I WANT TO -- MANY OF YOU ALL KNOW LIEUTENANT BALDOMERO
10:18:50AM LOPEZ, WHO WAS OUR, I THINK, ONE OF OUR FIRST MEDAL OF HONOR
10:18:57AM RECIPIENTS HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, SEPTEMBER 15, 1950,
10:19:02AM BATTLE IN KOREA, HE JUMPED ON THE GRENADE AND SAVED LIVES OF
10:19:05AM FELLOW MARINES IN THE KOREAN WAR.
10:19:08AM I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH CITY STAFF AND FORMER JUDGE E.J.
10:19:12AM SALCINES ON HAVING A PROPER MEMORIAL FOR HIM --
10:19:19AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME, BOARD MEMBER VIERA, THOSE TYPE
10:19:21AM OF MOTIONS ARE NOT MADE AT CRA.
10:19:24AM >>LUIS VIERA: THIS IS FOR CRA.
10:19:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IT IS FOR CRA?
10:19:30AM >>LUIS VIERA: IT IS.
10:19:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I APOLOGIZE.
10:19:32AM >>LUIS VIERA: SO I'VE BEEN WORKING WITH STAFF ON THIS AND
10:19:36AM WE'RE GEARING IT TOWARDS THE CRA.
10:19:37AM SO I MOTION FOR COREY ROBINSON WITH THE CRA TO WORK WITH
10:19:42AM ROBIN NIGH AND JUDGE EJ SALCINES ON A PROSPECTIVE MONUMENT
10:19:48AM WITHIN OUR CRA TO HONOR THE LATE TAMPA HERO LOPEZ.
10:19:51AM AND I WANT THIS TO BE BROUGHT BACK ON A REPORT UNDER STATUS
10:19:57AM LET'S SAY AT OUR JUNE CRA MEETING.
10:19:59AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHICH CRA?
10:20:02AM >>LUIS VIERA: SO THAT IS UNKNOWN.
10:20:04AM IT MAY BE THE YBOR CITY CRA.
10:20:06AM IT MAY BE THE WEST TAMPA CRA.
10:20:07AM THEY ARE GOING TO WORK ON THAT.
10:20:09AM SO WE DON'T KNOW YET.
10:20:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:20:13AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:20:14AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:20:16AM >> AYE.
10:20:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OPPOSED?
10:20:18AM MOTION CARRIES.
10:20:19AM >>LUIS VIERA: LET ME GO LAST WITH A MOTION, IF I MAY.
10:20:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN PASSES.
10:20:25AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK?
10:20:26AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON?
10:20:29AM >>BILL CARLSON: I DON'T KNOW WHAT MOTION YOU ALL ARE GOING
10:20:32AM TO MAKE ON THE STREETCAR, IN GENERAL I THINK IT IS THE
10:20:37AM CITY'S DUTY TO SUPPORT THE STREETCAR, BUT I THINK WE OUGHT
10:20:39AM TO HAVE A ROBUST PUBLIC DISCUSSION BEFORE WE PROPOSE ANY
10:20:43AM SPECIFIC DOLLAR AMOUNT OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
10:20:45AM LET ME MAKE THIS MOTION AND THEN I CAN EXPLAIN IT.
10:20:55AM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ASK CRA STAFF TO SPEAK WITH
10:21:01AM CHIEF TRIPP AND THE FIREFIGHTERS UNION TO DETERMINE A
10:21:05AM PROPOSED BALLPARK BUDGET FOR A DOWNTOWN FIRE STATION AND
10:21:09AM NECESSARY EQUIPMENT.
10:21:10AM ALSO TO ASK CRA STAFF TO WORK WITH THE CRA ATTORNEY SHEPHARD
10:21:13AM ON A PROPOSED AMENDMENT THAT COULD BE PROPOSED TO THE
10:21:19AM COUNTY.
10:21:19AM REQUEST STAFF TO RETURN ON MARCH 13 FOR APPROVAL OF
10:21:23AM AMENDMENT AND BUDGET TO BE PRESENTED TO THE COUNTY FOR
10:21:26AM APPROVAL.
10:21:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I'LL SECOND FOR DISCUSSION.
10:21:28AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
10:21:29AM WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:21:32AM BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO, DISCUSSION.
10:21:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ARE WE ALLOWED TO USE CRA FUNDS FOR THE
10:21:37AM FIRE STATION?
10:21:40AM >>BILL CARLSON: THERE IS A SPECIFIC EXCLUSION ON PAYING FOR
10:21:44AM BUILDINGS THAT WOULD BE IN THE CITY BUDGET.
10:21:47AM HOWEVER, THERE'S ALSO A LOOPHOLE THAT SAYS THAT YOU CAN
10:21:53AM SPEND MONEY ON ADDITIONAL PROJECTS IF YOU HAVE THE APPROVAL
10:21:57AM OF THE OTHER PARTICIPATING GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
10:22:00AM SO WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS GET AN AMENDMENT FROM THE COUNTY.
10:22:05AM IF THE COUNTY APPROVES SPENDING MONEY ON A FIRE STATION IN
10:22:08AM DOWNTOWN, WE CAN DO THAT.
10:22:10AM I THINK THE ATTORNEY IS ONLINE.
10:22:11AM HE CAN EXPLAIN.
10:22:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK HAS A COMMENT FIRST.
10:22:18AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT, PROPOSED BALLPARK
10:22:20AM BUDGET?
10:22:21AM I'M CONFUSED.
10:22:22AM >>BILL CARLSON: LET ME PUT ESTIMATE INSTEAD OF BALLPARK.
10:22:25AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OH, OKAY.
10:22:26AM BALLPARK.
10:22:28AM >>BILL CARLSON: ESTIMATING.
10:22:30AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WAS LIKE, HOLD ON.
10:22:32AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE GIST OF IT IS TO ASK THE FIRE CHIEF AND
10:22:34AM THE FIREFIGHTERS UNION HOW MUCH IT WOULD BE TO BUILD A FIRE
10:22:38AM STATION AND THE EQUIPMENT THAT GOES IN IT -- SORRY,
10:22:41AM SHOULDN'T HAVE INCLUDED THAT WORD, THAT WAS A BAD WORD.
10:22:43AM AND THEN TO ASK THE CRA ATTORNEY TO DEVELOP THE AMENDMENT,
10:22:48AM THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT THAT COULD GO TO THE COUNTY AND THEN
10:22:51AM PRESENT IT TO US AT THE NEXT MEETING AND WE'LL HEAR THE
10:22:54AM BUDGET AND WHAT WOULD BE INCLUDED AND WE'LL SEE THE
10:22:57AM AMENDMENT AND THEN WE CAN APPROVE THOSE IF WE WANT OR WE CAN
10:22:59AM EDIT THEM AND COME BACK THE NEXT MONTH.
10:23:01AM IF WE APPROVE THEM, THEN THE CRA ATTORNEY COULD TAKE THAT TO
10:23:07AM THE COUNTY ATTORNEY AND THE COUNTY ATTORNEY COULD LOOK AT IT
10:23:10AM AND DETERMINE IF THE COUNTY COMMISSION VOTED ON IT AND IF WE
10:23:13AM VOTED ON IT AND THEY VOTED ON IT, WE COULD SET ASIDE A
10:23:16AM BUDGET TO BE USED ON A FIRE STATION IN DOWNTOWN.
10:23:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU ALREADY HAD THE CONVERSATION WITH THE
10:23:22AM CRA ATTORNEY?
10:23:22AM >>BILL CARLSON: WOULD YOU LIKE HIM TO EXPLAIN.
10:23:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WOULD LIKE FOR THE PUBLIC TO HEAR THAT
10:23:27AM THERE IS CONFIRMATION ON THE POSSIBILITY OF THIS HAPPENING.
10:23:29AM >>CLIFF SHEPARD: YES, MA'AM.
10:23:31AM HAPPY TO DO THAT.
10:23:31AM THE STATUTE THAT GOVERNS HOW YOU SPEND MONEY IN A CRA IS
10:23:37AM 163.387.
10:23:41AM WITHIN THAT STATUTE, SECTION 3B SAYS, ALTERNATE PROVISIONS
10:23:47AM CONTAINED IN AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN A TAXING
10:23:51AM AUTHORITY AND THE GOVERNING BODY THAT CREATED THE COMMUNITY
10:23:53AM REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MAY SUPERSEDE THE PROVISIONS OF THIS
10:23:58AM SECTION WITH RESPECT TO THAT TAXING AUTHORITY.
10:24:00AM THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MAY BE AN ADDITIONAL
10:24:04AM PARTY TO ANY SUCH AGREEMENT.
10:24:07AM WHAT THAT LEAVES YOU ABLE TO DO IS IF YOU CAN GET THE COUNTY
10:24:11AM TO AGREE VIA INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, BECAUSE, OBVIOUSLY, THEY
10:24:15AM CONTRIBUTE TO THE TIF, THEN YOU CAN DO THINGS THAT OTHERWISE
10:24:18AM WOULD CLEARLY BE PROHIBITED UNDER THE STATUTE.
10:24:21AM THE DIFFICULTY, FRANKLY, IS USUALLY GETTING THE COUNTY TO
10:24:25AM AGREE.
10:24:25AM BUT AS I EXPLAINED TO MEMBER CARLSON, AND HAVE EXPLAINED AT
10:24:30AM VARIOUS TIMES TO OTHERS, IF YOU HAVE A GOOD ENOUGH
10:24:33AM RELATIONSHIP WHERE THE PROJECT IS MERITORIOUS ENOUGH YOU
10:24:38AM MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET IT DONE.
10:24:39AM I USED THE EXAMPLE, WHEN SPEAKING TO MR. CARLSON, OF
10:24:42AM JACKSONVILLE BEACH AND WHERE THE FORMER CRA DIRECTOR THERE
10:24:45AM WAS ABLE TO GET AN AGREEMENT WITH JACKSONVILLE, WHICH IS A
10:24:48AM CONSOLIDATED COUNTY WITH DUVAL COUNTY, AS YOU KNOW, TO BUILD
10:24:52AM -- I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT WAS A POLICE STATION OR FIRE
10:24:55AM STATION, ONE OF THOSE TWO -- AND BECAUSE THERE WAS AN
10:24:57AM AGREEMENT, THERE WAS NO ISSUE THERE.
10:24:59AM MORE RECENTLY IN FORT MYERS, ANOTHER ONE OF THE CRAs I
10:25:05AM REPRESENT, THERE WAS AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT, A COPY OF
10:25:08AM WHICH I SENT TO MR. CARLSON THIS MORNING AT HIS REQUEST, TO
10:25:12AM ALLOW MONEY TO BE EXPENDED ON MARKETING AND SPECIAL EVENTS.
10:25:16AM AGAIN, THIS IS TYPICALLY NOT AN EASY ASK, AND IT WOULD NOT
10:25:21AM SURPRISE ME FOR COUNTIES TO SAY NO.
10:25:23AM BUT IN LEE COUNTY, FORT MYERS WAS ABLE TO CONVINCE ENOUGH
10:25:27AM COMMISSIONERS TO VOTE FOR IT WITH CERTAIN CAPS THAT CAN ONLY
10:25:31AM SPEND A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONEY.
10:25:32AM HAS TO BE RELEGATED TO THE SPECIFIC CRA.
10:25:36AM IT'S ONLY SO MUCH BASED ON A PERCENTAGE OF THE OVERALL
10:25:39AM BUDGET FOR THAT CRA AND SO FORTH.
10:25:40AM BUT THEY WERE ABLE TO TAKE A NUMBER OF MARKETING EVENTS AND
10:25:45AM SPECIAL EVENTS THAT THEY WANTED TO BE ABLE TO FUND AND GET
10:25:49AM THE PERMISSION OF THE COUNTY TO SPEND UP TO A CERTAIN AMOUNT
10:25:52AM OF MONEY ON THOSE EVENTS.
10:25:54AM SO THE TRICK BEING, GETTING AGREEMENT FROM THE COUNTY, BUT
10:25:57AM WITH THAT, I ALREADY HAVE A TEMPLATE OF AN AGREEMENT WHICH,
10:26:01AM AGAIN, I FORWARDED TO MEMBER CARLSON AND CERTAINLY CAN SEND
10:26:04AM IT TO YOU ALL AS SOMETHING TO LOOK AT.
10:26:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES, PLEASE SHARE IT WITH ALL OF US.
10:26:09AM >>CLIFF SHEPARD: AND TAKE IT FROM THERE.
10:26:12AM IS IT POSSIBLE?
10:26:13AM YES.
10:26:14AM CAN IT BE DONE?
10:26:16AM WILL THE COUNTY AGREE?
10:26:17AM THAT IS THE UNKNOWN.
10:26:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT CLARIFICATION.
10:26:20AM IF YOU CAN SEND THAT TO ALL OF US, THAT IS GREATLY
10:26:23AM APPRECIATED.
10:26:23AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, YOU HAVE ANOTHER COMMENT?
10:26:29AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:26:30AM AGAIN, I KNOW THIS IS VERY BROAD, BUT I JUST SPENT EIGHT
10:26:37AM HOURS MONDAY NIGHT WITH STATION ONE DOING A RIDE-ALONG.
10:26:41AM I DON'T KNOW, FOR LACK OF A BETTER WORD, KIND OF HANGOUT
10:26:46AM ROOM WHERE THEY WATCH TV, HAVE DESKS, COMPUTERS, SMELLS LIKE
10:26:49AM A SEWER OR MOLD.
10:26:51AM IT'S BAD.
10:26:52AM IT'S LIKE REALLY BAD.
10:26:53AM STATION ONE NEEDS TO BE REDONE.
10:26:56AM WOULD THIS BE WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT?
10:27:00AM >>BILL CARLSON: YEAH, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THE STUDY THAT WAS
10:27:02AM DONE BY JOE GRECO AND THE UNION A FEW YEARS AGO SHOWS WE
10:27:07AM NEED ANOTHER STATION DOWNTOWN AND IN PARTICULAR NEAR WHERE
10:27:10AM THE GARAGE IS FOR THE PORT.
10:27:13AM SO WE COULD ADD THAT IN.
10:27:15AM THIS IS IN A WAY A TEST CASE TO SEE IF THE COUNTY WOULD DO
10:27:20AM IT.
10:27:21AM IT IS A SEPARATE AGREEMENT.
10:27:22AM IT'S NOT REOPENING THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT.
10:27:24AM IT'S AN AMENDMENT TO IT.
10:27:25AM IF SOMEBODY SAYS, WELL, NOW WE HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE MONEY
10:27:28AM IN EAST TAMPA, THAT'S NOT IT.
10:27:30AM I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT THE COUNTY COMMISSION WOULD TURN DOWN
10:27:35AM SUPPORTING THE FIREFIGHTERS.
10:27:37AM WE COULD SEE AS A TEST CASE.
10:27:38AM NEXT MONTH, AFTER WE GET THIS PRESENTATION, YOU MIGHT WANT
10:27:41AM TO ADD THAT IN AND WE COULD TRY FOR BOTH AT THE SAME TIME.
10:27:44AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OR, HONESTLY, THE EXPANSION OF STATION ONE
10:27:48AM MAY BE ABLE TO DO A LOT.
10:27:51AM ACTUALLY THAT'S WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT WHEN I WAS TALKING WITH
10:27:53AM THE FIREFIGHTERS AT STATION ONE, THE ABILITY TO ADD THE
10:27:56AM STUFF THE PORT NEEDS.
10:27:56AM I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN THAT CONVERSATION.
10:27:59AM BUT STATION ONE, I MEAN, A LOT OF THE STATIONS NEED HELP,
10:28:02AM BUT STATION ONE PARTICULARLY, IT TRULY BOTHERED ME THAT WE
10:28:05AM HAVE OUR FIRST RESPONDERS SPENDING TIME IN A SPACE THAT JUST
10:28:10AM IS NOT SAFE.
10:28:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON
10:28:14AM -- I APOLOGIZE.
10:28:15AM YOU DID HAVE A COMMENT.
10:28:16AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:28:16AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ARE YOU SURE THE STINK WASN'T THOSE BIG
10:28:20AM OLD SWEATY FIREFIGHTERS?
10:28:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DON'T ANSWER THAT, BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:28:24AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I ASSURE YOU.
10:28:28AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK MENTIONED THIS
10:28:32AM AS WELL, WE'VE HAD MANY CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THIS.
10:28:35AM CHIEF -- I SUPPORT CHIEF TRIPP AND HER AGENDA ON THIS.
10:28:42AM WE HAVE LAND AT STATION ONE.
10:28:44AM WE HAVE OPPORTUNITIES THERE TO MOVE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF,
10:28:48AM WORK ANYWHERE.
10:28:49AM DON'T HAVE TO BE AT FIRE STATION ONE.
10:28:52AM WE HAVE ENOUGH TO ADD BAYS THERE.
10:28:54AM I THINK INCORPORATING INTO YOUR MOTION THAT THAT SHOULD BE
10:28:59AM EXPLORED, WE ALSO HAVE TO BE FISCALLY PRUDENT AND
10:29:02AM CONSERVATIVE WITH OUR MONEY AND HOW WE SPEND IT AND
10:29:05AM PRIORITIZATION.
10:29:06AM WE'RE MOVING FORWARD ON FLEET MAINTENANCE.
10:29:08AM MOVING FORWARD ON THE NEW FIRE STATIONS UP NORTH.
10:29:11AM AS COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK SAID, WE HAVE SO MANY NEEDS.
10:29:15AM WE'RE SO FAR BEHIND, DECADES BEHIND IN SOME OF THE STATIONS,
10:29:19AM RENOVATIONS, IMPROVEMENTS, ADDING BAYS.
10:29:22AM I THINK ONE OF THE BIGGEST NEEDS, IF MY MEMORY SERVES ME
10:29:26AM CORRECT ABOUT THE EXPERT TESTIMONY THAT'S COME BEFORE US,
10:29:30AM EMERGENCY RESPONSE AND SPECIFICALLY SOUTHERN PARTS OF
10:29:34AM HARBOUR ISLAND GETTING AN AMBULANCE DOWN THERE WHERE WE MAY
10:29:38AM HAVE RESPONSE TIME ISSUES.
10:29:40AM WE NEED TO HAVE QUANTITATIVE.
10:29:42AM I BELIEVE MS. LOCKETT WAS TALKING ABOUT DATA AND DEALING
10:29:46AM WITH ISSUES THAT THEY ARE DEALING WITH.
10:29:47AM I THINK IT IS THE SAME THING.
10:29:49AM DATA, WE NEED TO MAKE THE FISCAL DECISIONS BASED ON
10:29:52AM QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS AND WHAT THE ACTUAL NEED IS.
10:29:56AM I WANT TO RIGHT SET THIS CONVERSATION AND NOT BE LIMITED.
10:30:00AM I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA OF ENTERING IN THIS CONVERSATION
10:30:03AM WITH THE COUNTY, SPECIFICALLY IF WE COULD DO SOMETHING WITH
10:30:08AM MAYBE CREATING EMERGENCY RESPONSE BAY THAT WOULD BE ABLE TO
10:30:11AM SERVICE THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THIS AREA WITH MAYBE
10:30:14AM CHANNELSIDE BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE MORE ABUNDANT
10:30:19AM AVAILABLE FUNDS.
10:30:20AM LET'S LOOK AT IT.
10:30:21AM I THINK WE NEED TO RIGHT SET THAT AND LOOK AT THE DATA.
10:30:24AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA FOLLOWED BY A COMMENT
10:30:26AM FROM INTERIM DIRECTOR.
10:30:28AM AND THEN CIRCLE BACK TO YOU, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:30:31AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
10:30:32AM YEAH, I'M SUPPORTIVE OF ANY METHOD WE CAN USE TO HELP REMEDY
10:30:36AM WHAT I THINK IS A CHALLENGE WE HAVE DOWNTOWN.
10:30:40AM IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT DOWNTOWN 30 YEARS AGO, WE HAD ONE FIRE
10:30:44AM STATION THERE.
10:30:45AM WE PRETTY MUCH BUILT A CITY WITHIN THE CITY OF DOWNTOWN.
10:30:48AM THE IDEA THAT WE DON'T NEED AT THE VERY LEAST, AT THE VERY
10:30:51AM LEAST SOMETHING AKIN TO STATION 25, MEDICAL ONLY IN
10:30:56AM DOWNTOWN, GEARED TOWARDS CHANNELSIDE, I JUST DON'T SEE ANY
10:31:01AM RATIONAL BASIS IN THAT.
10:31:03AM THAT IS, WE NEED THAT.
10:31:04AM IF WE USE GENERAL REVENUE DOLLARS OR CRA DOLLARS OR WE
10:31:09AM SUCCESSFULLY FUND IT THROUGH LEMONADE STANDS, WHATEVER,
10:31:12AM LET'S GET IT DONE.
10:31:13AM IF THIS IS A WAY WE CAN HELP MOVE THAT FORWARD.
10:31:15AM MY GOAL, WHENEVER I TALK TO THE TAMPA FIREFIGHTERS, I GO BY
10:31:19AM THE TIME WE LEAVE, WE OUGHT TO DO THREE THINGS.
10:31:22AM NUMBER ONE, GET STATION 25 BUILT OR 24 BUILT FOR NORTH
10:31:26AM TAMPA.
10:31:26AM NUMBER TWO, HAVE CONCRETE MOVEMENT ON FLEET MAINTENANCE AND
10:31:30AM HAVE THE PROPERTY PURCHASED AND BEGIN ON THE CONSTRUCTION.
10:31:33AM NUMBER THREE, HAVE SOMETHING IN DESIGN CONCEPTION FOR
10:31:38AM DOWNTOWN.
10:31:39AM SO IF THIS HELPS US MOVE FORWARD AND IT'S CONSISTENT WITH
10:31:42AM THE LAW, MAYBE YOU DO IT, COUNCILMAN CARLSON, FOR
10:31:45AM FEASIBILITY, WHATEVER.
10:31:46AM LET'S DO IT.
10:31:47AM WHATEVER METHOD WE CAN, WE SHOULD GO FORWARD WITH ALL VIGOR.
10:31:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: INTERIM DIRECTOR McCRAY.
10:31:52AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: YES.
10:31:54AM ONE HOUSEKEEPING ITEM.
10:31:55AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IS IT ABOUT THIS TOPIC?
10:31:58AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NO, MA'AM.
10:31:59AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: LET US VOTE.
10:32:02AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE UNION HAS DATA, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAS
10:32:07AM DATA.
10:32:08AM WE'VE HAD LONG DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THIS TOPIC BEFORE, BUT WE
10:32:11AM WOULD ENCOURAGE THEM TO BRING IT BACK NEXT MONTH AND THEN TO
10:32:18AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK'S POINT, YEAH, THERE ARE FIRE STATIONS
10:32:23AM ALL OVER THE CITY THAT NEED HELP.
10:32:24AM FIRE STATIONS IN SOUTH TAMPA THAT DESPERATELY NEED HELP BUT
10:32:27AM THEY ARE NOT IN CRA DISTRICTS.
10:32:30AM IF WE CAN FIND A WAY TO FUND FIREFIGHTERS, THAT WOULD BE
10:32:34AM GREAT.
10:32:34AM I CHANGED -- ALSO, DON'T FORGET THIS, THE SUMMARY OF THIS IS
10:32:38AM THAT WE'RE JUST BRINGING IT FOR DISCUSSION NEXT MONTH.
10:32:41AM YOU'RE NOT VOTING FOR ANYTHING YET.
10:32:42AM CAN I READ IT AGAIN TO REFLECT THE EDITS?
10:32:45AM I CHANGED BALLPARK TO ESTIMATE.
10:32:47AM AND THEN I ADDED AND/OR RENOVATION OF STATION ONE.
10:32:50AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:32:53AM THANK YOU.
10:32:53AM >>BILL CARLSON: I'LL GIVE THE CLERK A WRITTEN COPY OF THIS.
10:32:57AM MOTION TO ASK CRA STAFF TO SPEAK WITH CHIEF TRIPP AND THE
10:33:00AM FIREFIGHTERS UNION TO DETERMINE A PROPOSED ESTIMATE BUDGET
10:33:05AM FOR A DOWNTOWN FIRE STATION AND/OR RENOVATION OF STATION ONE
10:33:08AM AND NECESSARY EQUIPMENT.
10:33:10AM ALSO TO ASK CRA STAFF TO WORK WITH CRA ATTORNEY SHEPHARD ON
10:33:14AM A PROPOSED AMENDMENT THAT COULD BE PROPOSED TO THE COUNTY,
10:33:17AM REQUEST STAFF TO RETURN ON MARCH 13 FOR APPROVAL OF
10:33:20AM AMENDMENT AND BUDGET TO BE PRESENTED TO THE COUNTY FOR
10:33:23AM APPROVAL.
10:33:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE THAT AND A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER
10:33:25AM MANISCALCO.
10:33:26AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:33:27AM >> AYE.
10:33:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYONE OPPOSED?
10:33:29AM MOTION CARRIES.
10:33:32AM YES, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:33:33AM >>BILL CARLSON: ONE OTHER QUICK THING, JUST PASS THIS DOWN.
10:33:37AM THIS IS A RECURRING ISSUE IN THE CRA THAT HAS BEEN THE
10:33:44AM SOURCE OF DIFFICULTY FOR STAFF.
10:33:47AM AND ATTORNEY -- I'LL GIVE THESE TO THE CLERK.
10:33:54AM THESE ARE TWO JOB DESCRIPTIONS.
10:33:56AM ONE FOR CRA COMMUNICATION ENGAGEMENT MANAGER AND THE OTHER
10:33:59AM FOR CRA CONTRACTS AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
10:34:02AM TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THESE WERE NOT APPROVED BY US.
10:34:07AM BUT THE LAST SENTENCE AT THE END OF THE NATURE WORK, SAYS
10:34:12AM THIS IS AN APPOINTED POSITION WITH THE EMPLOYEE SERVING AT
10:34:14AM THE PLEASURE OF THE MAYOR.
10:34:15AM I SENT E-MAILS BACK AND FORTH TO CHIEF OF STAFF AND ANDREA
10:34:21AM ZELMAN.
10:34:21AM WE MIGHT NEED TO END UP TWEAKING OUR AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY
10:34:26AM AT SOME POINT JUST TO CLARIFY.
10:34:28AM WE ALREADY VOTED THAT WE BELIEVE THAT ALL POSITIONS WITHIN
10:34:31AM THE CRA REPORT TO THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
10:34:35AM BUT IF FOR WHATEVER REASON THE CITY DISAGREES WITH THAT,
10:34:38AM THEN WE MIGHT NEED TO CHANGE THE AGREEMENT.
10:34:40AM WE COULD DO THAT WITH A COUPLE OF SENTENCES, PROBABLY.
10:34:44AM BUT IT'S NOT FAIR -- THE POINT HERE, IT'S NOT FAIR TO
10:34:47AM SOMEBODY APPLYING BECAUSE IT DOESN'T EXPLAIN TO THEM WHAT
10:34:51AM THEIR REAL CONDITION IS.
10:34:53AM YES, TECHNICALLY AT THE CITY AND THROUGH THE AGREEMENT WE
10:34:56AM HAVE WITH THE CITY, THE MAYOR CAN FIRE SOMEBODY.
10:35:01AM BUT IN REALITY, DAY TO DAY, THEY ARE WORKING FOR THE CRA
10:35:04AM PEOPLE.
10:35:05AM IF YOU GO DOWN, THEN IT SAYS EXAMPLES OF DUTIES.
10:35:08AM THIS IS UNDER COMMUNICATIONS WHICH HAPPENS TO BE AN AREA
10:35:11AM THAT I SPECIALIZE IN.
10:35:12AM SUPERVISE AND GUIDE CRA DEVELOPMENT MANAGERS AND COMMUNITY
10:35:12AM ADVISORY COMMITTEES.
10:35:18AM THAT'S SURPRISING THAT NOW THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT -- CRA
10:35:22AM DEVELOPMENT MANAGERS REPORT TO THIS CERTAIN.
10:35:24AM THAT DOESN'T SEEM RIGHT.
10:35:26AM ASSIST WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT PLANS.
10:35:29AM OKAY.
10:35:30AM MAYBE.
10:35:30AM TAKES A LEADING ROLE IN STRATEGIC PLANNING -- THIS IS SAYING
10:35:34AM THE COMMUNICATION PERSON IS TAKING THE LEADING ROLE IN
10:35:38AM STRATEGIC PLANNING.
10:35:40AM GETTING INPUT ON STRATEGIC PLANNING I CAN UNDERSTAND BUT NOT
10:35:43AM THAT.
10:35:43AM THE NEXT ONE SAYS -- TWO DOWN SAYS REPRESENTS THE CITY,
10:35:49AM COLLABORATING WITH CITIZEN BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND PUBLIC ON
10:35:52AM CITY-RELATED REDEVELOPMENT ISSUES.
10:35:55AM IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT THE CRA.
10:35:56AM THE ATTORNEY WILL CONFIRM AND THIS IS WHERE WE'VE HAD
10:36:01AM PROBLEMS WITH THE ARTS POSITION AND OTHERS AND HOUSING, THE
10:36:05AM CITY CANNOT SUBSIDIZE CITY POSITIONS WITH CRA MONEY.
10:36:09AM CRA MONEY CAN ONLY BE SPENT BY LAW ON CRA ACTIVITIES.
10:36:16AM WHAT THIS SPECIFICALLY SAYS IS CITY RELATED DEVELOPMENT
10:36:19AM ISSUES.
10:36:20AM THAT IMPLIES IT WOULD INCLUDE NON-CRA ISSUES.
10:36:24AM IT'S MISLEADING TO THE APPLICANTS BECAUSE THEY ONLY WILL BE
10:36:27AM WORKING ON CRA DEVELOPMENT.
10:36:30AM NEXT ONE, ACTIVITY SEEKS ADDITIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES TO
10:36:35AM LEVERAGE -- NOW THE PERSON IS A FUND-RAISER TOO.
10:36:39AM ANYWAY, I COULD GO THROUGH BOTH OF THESE IN HAD DETAIL.
10:36:43AM THE POINT IS, I WOULD LIKE TO -- LET ME READ MY MOTION.
10:36:48AM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ASK THE CITY HR DEPARTMENT
10:36:51AM TO STOP ADVERTISING THE CRA COMMUNICATION AND THE CONTRACT
10:36:54AM POSITIONS TO GET BOARD AND MR. SHEPHARD'S FEEDBACK ON
10:37:01AM CRITERIA AND RETURN ON MARCH 13 WITH REVISED JOB
10:37:05AM DESCRIPTIONS AND ADS FOR CRA APPROVAL.
10:37:07AM SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO DEBATE -- INSTEAD OF DEBATING ALL THE
10:37:11AM MERITS OF THIS NOW, WHAT WE WOULD DO IS JUST ASK STAFF TO
10:37:14AM TALK TO US INDIVIDUALLY AND TALK TO THE CRA ATTORNEY WHO CAN
10:37:17AM CLEARLY TELL THEM SOME OF THIS IS NOT LEGAL AND THEN COME
10:37:21AM BACK WITH PROPOSED SOLUTIONS WE CAN APPROVE AND DEBATE AT
10:37:24AM THE NEXT MEETING.
10:37:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND.
10:37:27AM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:37:28AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO EVERYTHING AND I
10:37:32AM APPRECIATE THE CONVERSATION ON ALL SIDES.
10:37:34AM AS I LISTEN TO WHAT COUNCILMAN CARLSON SAID, I START
10:37:41AM THINKING OF THE OTHER SIDE.
10:37:42AM I HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO THE MAYOR OR ADMINISTRATION ABOUT THIS.
10:37:47AM IN ALL MY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE, DOES CRA HAVE HR BY
10:37:52AM THEMSELVES?
10:37:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
10:37:53AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WE'RE LOOKING AT OPENING UP SOMETHING
10:37:55AM THAT YOU MAY NOT WANT TO OPEN UP.
10:37:57AM I'M NOT AN ATTORNEY, BUT THE ATTORNEY IS LISTENING.
10:38:01AM AND ALL THIS IS ABOUT HR.
10:38:04AM ALL THE ITEMS THAT THE CITY DOES IN CONJUNCTION WORKING WITH
10:38:07AM THE CRA AND HELPING THE CITY TURN AROUND AND BE SOMETHING
10:38:12AM MUCH BETTER THAN IT WAS FOUR, FIVE, TEN YEARS AGO AND INTO
10:38:16AM THE FUTURE, TO MAKE IT FOR EVERYONE TO HAVE A NICE PLACE, SO
10:38:21AM FORTH AND SO ON.
10:38:22AM THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT THE CITY GIVES OR APPLIES TO
10:38:26AM RECEIVING FROM THE CRA WITH THE CITY.
10:38:29AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT ALL OF THEM ARE.
10:38:30AM IF WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS, WE BETTER MAKE SURE THAT
10:38:34AM EVERYTHING THAT THE CRA EMPLOYEES AND OTHERS BENEFIT FROM
10:38:37AM THE CITY, AM I GOING TOO FAR HERE?
10:38:42AM AM I WRONG?
10:38:43AM SOMEBODY CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
10:38:45AM THE CITY GIVES CERTAIN THINGS TO THE CRA, MAYBE THAT'S WHY
10:38:50AM THIS IS WRITTEN THAT WAY.
10:38:51AM I'M NOT AN ATTORNEY.
10:38:53AM YOU SPOKE TO THE ATTORNEY.
10:38:54AM I HAVE NEVER CALLED THIS GENTLEMAN.
10:38:56AM MAYBE HE SHOULD GIVE US AN OPINION BEFORE WE GO FORWARD WITH
10:38:59AM THESE THINGS TO FIND OUT WHAT THE CITY DOES TO GIVE TO THE
10:39:04AM CRA WITHOUT ANY CALLS.
10:39:08AM >>CLIFF SHEPARD: I HAVE NO PROBLEM.
10:39:11AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I'M NOT SURE THIS IS CORRECT.
10:39:13AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE MOTION IS TO ASK HIM TO COME BACK NEXT
10:39:15AM MONTH AND BRIEF US.
10:39:16AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T LOOK LIKE
10:39:20AM WE'RE GOING IN REALLY, REALLY STRONG AND THEN ALL OF A
10:39:22AM SUDDEN YOU SLIP ALL THE WAY DOWN.
10:39:24AM I DON'T WANT TO EMBARRASS ANYONE, INCLUDING OURSELVES.
10:39:29AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK HAVING HIM COME BACK AND REPORT
10:39:32AM BUT I SUSPECT WHAT COUNCILMAN MIRANDA SAYS HAS GOT TO BE
10:39:35AM PART OF THE DIRECTION OF THIS, THIS IS KIND OF A CAN OF
10:39:38AM WORMS.
10:39:39AM IT'S A WEIRD SITUATION, BUT YOU LOOK, THE CRA IS BASICALLY
10:39:43AM CONTRACTING WITH THE CITY TO PROVIDE THESE SERVICES.
10:39:48AM BY CONTRACTING, YOU ARE GETTING HR.
10:39:51AM YOU'RE GETTING ALL THE EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS OF BEING AN
10:39:54AM EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY.
10:39:56AM THEY ARE OUR VENDOR FOR THESE PERSONNEL SERVICES, AT LEAST
10:40:04AM THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING WITH OUR AGREEMENT.
10:40:06AM AS FAR AS ACCOUNTABILITY IN REPORTING, I THINK THAT PROBABLY
10:40:12AM SHOULD BE ADDRESSED SEPARATELY.
10:40:14AM I AGREE THAT THESE POSITIONS SHOULD PROBABLY BE AT LEAST AS
10:40:19AM FAR AS CHAIN OF COMMAND AND ACCOUNTABILITY NEED TO BE MORE
10:40:23AM STRAIGHT LINED THROUGH THE DIRECTOR AND THUS TO US.
10:40:28AM IT'S MAYBE A CAN OF WORMS WE DON'T WANT TO OPEN BUT LET THE
10:40:33AM ATTORNEY DECIDE THAT WHEN IT COMES BACK TO US NEXT MONTH.
10:40:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALSO, I WANT TO SAY ULTIMATELY IT'S OUR
10:40:39AM RESPONSIBILITY.
10:40:40AM WE GET TO VOTE ON EVERYTHING AS A CRA BOARD THAT IS GOING TO
10:40:44AM COME IN OUR DIRECTION, INCLUDING THESE POSITIONS.
10:40:46AM THAT'S WHY WE TOOK OVER THE HIRING, WHICH OUR NEXT
10:40:49AM CONVERSATION WILL BE EVEN THE CRA DIRECTOR ROLE, THE
10:40:53AM SPECIFICS REGARDING THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:40:55AM WE CAN'T GET AROUND THE FACT THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA SERVICES
10:40:58AM THE PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR US.
10:41:01AM HR, EVERYTHING FALLS UNDER THEM.
10:41:04AM THEY HANDLE PAYROLL, HEALTH CARE, THEY HANDLE ALL THAT.
10:41:07AM I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO THE WEEDS OF EVERY SPECIFIC DETAIL,
10:41:10AM BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY AND WHO THEY REPORT TO AND HOW IT'S
10:41:16AM WRITTEN, I'M NOT SUPPOSED TO MAKING SURE THAT THERE'S
10:41:19AM CLARITY THERE.
10:41:20AM ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THIS?
10:41:23AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: PUT IT TO A MOTION --
10:41:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HE ALREADY HAS A MOTION.
10:41:27AM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I CLARIFY?
10:41:28AM I'M NOT ASKING TO REOPEN THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY AND
10:41:33AM THE CRA.
10:41:35AM ALL I'M ASKING RIGHT NOW IS FOR US TO LOOK AT THESE JOB
10:41:38AM DESCRIPTIONS.
10:41:40AM AS A COMMUNICATION PROFESSIONAL, IT'S COMMUNICATION
10:41:43AM ENGAGEMENT IS THE POSITION.
10:41:44AM USUALLY THAT KIND OF PERSON WOULDN'T DO FUND-RAISING, FOR
10:41:51AM EXAMPLE.
10:41:51AM THIS IS WHERE WE NEED TO -- HR DEPARTMENT, YES, GIVING
10:41:56AM SERVICES FOR FREE TO US BUT WE HAVE TO DIRECT THEM ON WHAT
10:41:59AM WE WANT AND OUR EXPECTATIONS ARE.
10:42:01AM WHY AREN'T WE HIRING A COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR?
10:42:03AM CEDRIC IS INTERIM BUT CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING CEDRIC, ERICA,
10:42:08AM WHOMEVER, HAVING 15 STAFF, WHATEVER IT IS AND NONE OF THEM
10:42:11AM REPORT TO YOU?
10:42:12AM HOW COULD YOU POSSIBLY MANAGE?
10:42:16AM BECAUSE THEY ARE CITY EMPLOYEES, THE CITY ULTIMATELY HAS THE
10:42:21AM RIGHT TO FIRE THEM, BUT THERE'S GOT TO BE SOME REPORTING
10:42:25AM STRUCTURE THAT WILL ALLOW COLLABORATION IN THE DEPARTMENT.
10:42:30AM NOT AGAINST THE CITY BUT TO MAKE SURE EVERYTHING IS WORKING
10:42:32AM TOGETHER.
10:42:35AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THIS MAY HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE.
10:42:38AM BUT AS FAR AS I KNOW IN ALL MY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE, THAT
10:42:41AM HAS NEVER HAPPENED BETWEEN THE CRA AND THE MAYOR.
10:42:45AM MAYBE I'M WRONG.
10:42:46AM I CAN ALMOST ASSURE YOU THAT WE NEED THIS ATTORNEY TO CLEAR
10:42:51AM THE FACT BECAUSE THERE'S MORE TO IT THAN JUST A CONVERSATION
10:42:55AM ONCE YOU START THIS.
10:42:56AM THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO SAY.
10:42:58AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: RESTATE YOUR MOTION FOR ME, PLEASE.
10:43:01AM SOMEONE REDUCE THE NOISE.
10:43:05AM >>BILL CARLSON: MOTION TO ASK THE CITY HR DEPARTMENT TO STOP
10:43:07AM ADVERTISING THE CRA COMMUNICATION POSITION AND THE CONTRACTS
10:43:13AM POSITION AND TO GET BOARD -- AND MR. SHEPHARD'S FEEDBACK ON
10:43:20AM CRITERIA AND RETURN ON MARCH 13 WITH REVISED JOB
10:43:24AM DESCRIPTIONS AND ADS FOR CRA BOARD APPROVAL.
10:43:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION AND SECOND BY BOARD
10:43:29AM MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:43:30AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:43:31AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:43:32AM THE MOTION CARRIES.
10:43:34AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:43:39AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:43:40AM WERE YOU GOING TO MAKE THE MOTION?
10:43:47AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DISCUSS THE CRA DIRECTOR POSITION.
10:43:50AM INTERIM DIRECTOR McCRAY ALSO HAS SOMETHING.
10:43:56AM MR. McCRAY.
10:43:56AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: JUST A HOUSEKEEPING ITEM.
10:43:59AM WANTED TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION WE HAD DISCUSSIONS
10:44:01AM PREVIOUSLY PART OF THE GRANTS PROCESS RELATED TO THE
10:44:04AM PREDEVELOPMENT GRANT PROGRAM.
10:44:08AM WE HAVE NOW ADVERTISED THE RFQ FOR DESIGN ASSISTANT SERVICES
10:44:11AM AND DEVELOPMENT CONSULTATION FOR THE CRA COMMERCIAL
10:44:15AM DEVELOPMENT GRANTS.
10:44:16AM WE ARE CURRENTLY IN A CONE OF SILENCE.
10:44:18AM BUT I WANTED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.
10:44:20AM ANY QUESTIONS, CONCERNS RELATED TO THE RFQ SHOULD GO THROUGH
10:44:26AM MR. JIM GREINER WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:44:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION.
10:44:30AM DID YOU WANT TO DISCUSS SOMETHING BEFORE WE DISCUSS OUR CRA
10:44:37AM DIRECTOR POSITION PROPOSED SELECTION PROCESS?
10:44:41AM >>LUIS VIERA: YEAH.
10:44:42AM I CAN GO AFTER YOU.
10:44:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL RIGHT.
10:44:44AM YOU ALL RECEIVED A MEMO.
10:44:46AM CAN WE AT LEAST GET THE MOTION TO CLOSE THE DIRECTOR
10:44:49AM POSITION POSTING EFFECTIVE TODAY?
10:44:52AM >> SO MOVED.
10:44:53AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:44:55AM >> AYE.
10:44:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AND MANISCALCO.
10:44:58AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:44:58AM THE NEXT ONE IS THE CRA BOARD MEMBERS INDIVIDUALLY INTERVIEW
10:45:04AM SELECTED CANDIDATES TO MEET THE MINIMUM POST REQUIREMENT AND
10:45:07AM REPORT THEIR TOP THREE CANDIDATES TO THE OFFICE BY MARCH 6,
10:45:11AM IS THAT ACCEPTABLE?
10:45:11AM DO WE NEED A MOTION FOR THAT?
10:45:17AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M CURIOUS WHO IS GOING TO ORGANIZE THESE
10:45:22AM MEETINGS?
10:45:22AM WHO IS GOING TO ORGANIZE THE INTERVIEWS?
10:45:24AM WHAT IS THE TIME FRAME?
10:45:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU HAVE A WINDOW TO DO IT INDIVIDUALLY
10:45:29AM WITHIN YOUR OFFICE BETWEEN NOW AND MARCH 6.
10:45:32AM RECEIVE THE APPLICATIONS.
10:45:36AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, BUT WHEN WE DID THIS FOR MS. KOPESKY'S
10:45:43AM POSITION, COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN'S OFFICE TOOK ON THAT
10:45:46AM ROLE AND GAVE US CERTAIN WINDOWS, WORKED WITH THE APPLICANT
10:45:53AM SO THEY COULD BE AVAILABLE AND THEN WE KIND OF SLID IN.
10:45:56AM IT WAS MUCH EASIER TO DO IT.
10:46:06AM THE REASONING IS BECAUSE OTHERWISE WE ARE TAKING THAT
10:46:11AM APPLICANT, SEVEN DIFFERENT THINGS.
10:46:14AM IF WE COULD CHOOSE A DAY AND EACH OF US GET TIME IF WE NEED
10:46:19AM IT.
10:46:19AM IT MIGHT BE BETTER FOR THE APPLICANTS.
10:46:24AM THAT WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION.
10:46:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BETWEEN NOW AND MARCH 6, WE CAN SELECT ONE
10:46:29AM OR TWO DATES TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE APPLICANTS ARE
10:46:32AM AVAILABLE AND SCHEDULE IT -- OUR AIDES CAN WORK TOGETHER
10:46:36AM MAKE THAT DECISION TO MAKE SURE WE'RE AVAILABLE.
10:46:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD LEAVE IT UP TO THE AIDES TO ORGANIZE,
10:46:42AM WORK TOGETHER.
10:46:43AM IT WORKED VERY CLEARLY WITH MR. HEBERLEIN TO DO THAT.
10:46:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:46:53AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE OTHER THING THAT HAPPENED THE LAST TIME
10:46:57AM WE LOOKED FOR AN EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, NICOLE AND ALIS, I
10:47:01AM DON'T REMEMBER WHO ELSE, THEY ACTUALLY SAT IN THE ROOM
10:47:03AM DURING THE INTERVIEWS AND THEY WROTE MINUTES OR NOTES FROM
10:47:06AM THE MEETINGS.
10:47:07AM FOR WHATEVER HR PEOPLE OR LEGAL LISTENING, I DON'T KNOW IF
10:47:13AM THAT WAS A SUGGESTION OR REQUIREMENT BY HR OR LEGAL BUT IT'S
10:47:17AM A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE IT PROTECTS ALL OF US.
10:47:20AM IF THAT IS A RECOMMENDATION OF HR, WE PROBABLY OUGHT TO TRY
10:47:24AM TO FIND SOMEBODY TO SIT AS A WITNESS.
10:47:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE TOOK IT OVER.
10:47:28AM IT IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY.
10:47:30AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:47:38AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AGAIN, HR ASPECTS OF THIS, I URGE IF THIS
10:47:44AM IS AN INTERVIEW PROCESS, THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS THAT YOU
10:47:47AM CAN AND CANNOT ASK.
10:47:48AM ALL KINDS OF LAWS AND RULES FOR FOLKS WHO HAVE NOT BEEN
10:47:51AM INVOLVED IN INTERVIEWS AND HIRING AND FIRING.
10:47:53AM I WOULD URGE YOU TO CONSULT WITH HR TO HAVE THEM BRIEF YOU
10:47:57AM ON WHAT AN APPROPRIATE INTERVIEW PROCESS LOOKS LIKE.
10:48:01AM TYPES OF QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS YOU CAN EXPECT AND THE AREAS
10:48:05AM YOU CANNOT ENTER INTO.
10:48:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: REMEMBER, WE JUST REVIEWED APPLICATIONS
10:48:09AM THE LAST TIME.
10:48:10AM YOU'RE NOT REQUIRED TO TALK TO THEM.
10:48:12AM THE OPTION IS THERE FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO TALK.
10:48:14AM IT IS NOT A REQUIREMENT THAT YOU SPEAK TO THE APPLICANT.
10:48:18AM YOU CAN BASE IT ON THE QUALIFIED FIVE APPLICANTS WHO ALREADY
10:48:22AM SUBMITTED THEIR APPLICATION AND TAKE YOUR TOP THREE
10:48:24AM DECISIONS FROM THERE.
10:48:25AM IS THAT ACCEPTABLE?
10:48:27AM >> YES.
10:48:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: DOES ANYONE PLAN ON INTERVIEWING OR THEY
10:48:30AM JUST WANT TO GO WITH THE APPLICATION?
10:48:32AM OKAY.
10:48:35AM ALL RIGHT.
10:48:38AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST TO RESPOND TO WHAT BOARD MEMBER
10:48:40AM CLENDENIN SAID, IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR, I HIRE PEOPLE ALL THE
10:48:43AM TIME.
10:48:44AM I'M INTERVIEWING PEOPLE AND I TALK TO MY LAWYERS AND HR
10:48:47AM PEOPLE.
10:48:48AM CAN'T SAY I'M PERFECT AT IT BUT I HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE.
10:48:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ME TOO.
10:48:53AM YEAH, I'VE HIRED A LOT OF TEACHERS, I MEAN, SAT IN
10:48:56AM INTERVIEWS.
10:48:56AM ANYTHING ELSE?
10:48:58AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:49:01AM WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD.
10:49:05AM WE'LL HAVE OUR AIDES.
10:49:06AM FOLLOW THAT BACK UP WITH OUR AIDES, THOSE OF YOU INTERESTED
10:49:09AM IN INTERVIEWING.
10:49:10AM BUT WE AGREE TO COME BACK WITH OUR TOP APPLICANTS BY MARCH
10:49:14AM 6.
10:49:15AM CAN I HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE -- OH, YES, I KEEP
10:49:18AM FORGETTING ABOUT YOU.
10:49:19AM I APOLOGIZE.
10:49:20AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:49:24AM TRYING TO BREAK A RECORD HERE.
10:49:26AM >>LUIS VIERA: NO WORRIES.
10:49:27AM I FORGOT TO MAKE A MOTION.
10:49:29AM I APOLOGIZE.
10:49:30AM I WAS APPROACHED BY SOME FOLKS IN EAST TAMPA -- LONG STORY
10:49:35AM SHORT -- ON JOB TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR PEOPLE WITH
10:49:41AM DISABILITIES.
10:49:42AM WHAT I WANT TO DO IS A MOTION FOR FEASIBILITY, AND IT CAN BE
10:49:46AM A WRITTEN REPORT FROM OUR COUNCIL, ON CRA FUNDS TO ASSIST
10:49:51AM YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES IN JOB TRAINING AND/OR INTERNSHIP
10:49:56AM PROGRAMS IN THE CRA.
10:49:59AM AGAIN, IF WE GET A NEGATIVE REPORT ON THAT, THEN I'LL LOOK
10:50:03AM AT SOMETHING ANOTHER WAY THAT WILL BE NEXT MONTH.
10:50:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: RETURNING MARCH 13.
10:50:10AM >>LUIS VIERA: LET'S DO APRIL.
10:50:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: APRIL CRA MEETING.
10:50:15AM AND WE HAVE A SECOND.
10:50:16AM DISCUSSION BY BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:50:17AM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU ALL SEE THAT WE'VE BEEN SHIFTING FROM
10:50:22AM PROGRAMS OF GRANTS, AND THAT'S TO TRY TO KEEP THE OVERHEAD
10:50:26AM AND STAFF DOWN.
10:50:29AM JUST A RECOMMENDATION, I WONDER INSTEAD OF -- THE MOTION
10:50:32AM KIND OF IMPLIES THAT THE CITY OR CRA WOULD IMPLEMENT IT.
10:50:35AM THERE ARE A LOT OF GREAT NONPROFITS THAT DO WHAT YOU SAY AND
10:50:39AM YOU'RE PROBABLY THINKING OF SOME.
10:50:41AM MAYBE WHAT WE COULD DO IS GET A CRA STAFF PERSON TO COME
10:50:44AM BACK WITH A LIST OF NONPROFITS IN EAST TAMPA THAT PROVIDE
10:50:48AM THESE SERVICES AND TO TELL US WHAT THE DIFFERENCES ARE FOR
10:50:51AM THE PURPOSES OF DEFINING A POSSIBLE GRANT AND THEN IF WE
10:50:56AM APPROVE, AT THAT POINT WE COULD APPROVE GRANT WITH CERTAIN
10:51:00AM SPECIFICATION.
10:51:00AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
10:51:02AM I WAS GOING TO RESPOND.
10:51:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:51:08AM >>LYNN HURTAK: MY ONLY THING, I'M JUST NOT SURE WE HAVE THE
10:51:13AM ABILITY TO USE FUNDS, CRA FUNDS TO DO THAT, ESPECIALLY
10:51:19AM BECAUSE THAT IS THE WHOLE REASON WE HAD TO MOVE THE SUMMER
10:51:25AM YOUTH PROGRAM OUT BECAUSE IT DIDN'T HAVE TO DO WITH THE CRA
10:51:28AM GOALS.
10:51:31AM >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S WHY I TALKED ABOUT THE BACKUP.
10:51:34AM THIS IS SOMETHING TALKED ABOUT WITH COMMUNITY MEMBERS THAT I
10:51:36AM WOULD FIRST TRY TO SEE IF SOMETHING COULD BE DONE HERE.
10:51:40AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON TALKED ABOUT GRANTS.
10:51:42AM AGAIN, WE'LL GET A REPORT BACK ON IT.
10:51:45AM IF I WAS A BETTING MAN, I WOULD BET A CERTAIN WAY ON WHAT IT
10:51:48AM WOULD SAY.
10:51:49AM YOUR POINT IS WELL TAKEN.
10:51:53AM >>BILL CARLSON: HE COULD PROBABLY GIVE US AN ANSWER NOW
10:51:55AM WHICH PROBABLY WOULD BE NO.
10:51:57AM BUT THE ATTORNEY, HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION WITH HIM
10:52:01AM YESTERDAY.
10:52:04AM I THINK IF YOU TALK TO HIM ABOUT OTHER CASE STUDIES, THERE
10:52:07AM MAY BE OTHER CITIES THAT MAYBE PACKAGE THIS WITH SOMETHING
10:52:11AM ELSE THAT WOULD MAKE IT ALLOWABLE.
10:52:13AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR, I APPRECIATE THAT.
10:52:16AM SINCE I MADE THE MOTION, COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, I THINK YOU
10:52:18AM WERE THE LAST CRA PERSON, BECAUSE I'M VICE-CHAIR, DO YOU
10:52:21AM WANT TO CALL THE MOTION?
10:52:23AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SURE.
10:52:24AM MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA AND SECONDED BY BOARD
10:52:28AM MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:52:29AM ALL IN FAVOR?
10:52:31AM AYE.
10:52:33AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:52:34AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
10:52:34AM THAT'S TO COME BACK IN APRIL.
10:52:36AM JUSTIN WILLITS WITH HART IS HERE.
10:52:47AM THINGS GOING ON.
10:52:49AM THIS IS GOING TO BE MY MOTION, GUYS.
10:52:51AM LONG STORY SHORT, YOU ALL KNOW WITH THE STREETCAR FARE-FREE
10:52:56AM ISSUE, WE BROUGHT IT UP IN THE HART BOARD MEETING.
10:53:00AM I WAS TASKED WITH MEETING WITH THE CASTOR ADMINISTRATION TO
10:53:06AM TALK ABOUT A POTENTIAL COMPROMISE.
10:53:07AM WE HAVE A POTENTIAL COMPROMISE.
10:53:10AM WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ASKED TO VOTE ON IT TODAY BECAUSE, OF
10:53:12AM COURSE, PEOPLE WILL HAVE QUESTIONS ON IT AND SO FORTH.
10:53:15AM WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE ASKED FOR ALLOCATING TODAY.
10:53:22AM THE POTENTIAL COMPROMISE IS THAT CRA, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT
10:53:26AM THIS NEXT MONTH IF THIS MOTION PASSES, THAT CRA HAD
10:53:29AM ALLOCATED FUNDS TO HELP OUT WITH BUS STOPS.
10:53:32AM I HAD ACTUALLY MOTIONED FOR THAT.
10:53:34AM BECAUSE OF HART'S, THE NUMBER OF BUS STOPS THAT HART IS
10:53:37AM LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW, THEY WON'T BE ABLE TO GET TO THAT FOR
10:53:40AM ANOTHER YEAR.
10:53:41AM THEREFORE, THOSE FUNDS FOR THE NEXT YEAR COULD BE USED FOR
10:53:45AM THE STREETCAR, RIGHT, FOR THE NEXT YEAR.
10:53:49AM AND MR. WILLETS, DID YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING, JUSTIN, TO
10:53:53AM THAT AT ALL, IF I MAY.
10:53:57AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
10:53:58AM WE CAN DISCUSS IT WITHOUT MR. WILLETS.
10:54:01AM THIS IS OUR DECISION.
10:54:04AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM.
10:54:05AM IF ANY BOARD MEMBERS HAD ANY QUESTIONS.
10:54:07AM IF I MAY JUST TO CLARIFY, MY MOTION THEN WOULD BE BASED UPON
10:54:13AM THIS, MOTION TO HAVE A DISCUSSION NEXT MONTH ON CRA FUNDING
10:54:19AM THE FARE-FREE STREETCAR.
10:54:21AM THERE IS A PROPOSAL THAT WE HAVE COME TO WITH THE CASTOR
10:54:25AM ADMINISTRATION.
10:54:26AM WE CAN DISCUSS THAT PROPOSAL AND THIS WOULD HAVE TO INCLUDE
10:54:30AM RETROACTIVE FUNDING AS WELL, NOT A TON OF MONEY, BUT THAT'S
10:54:34AM WHERE WE ARE AT.
10:54:35AM THAT WOULD BE MY PROPOSAL FOR NEXT MONTH.
10:54:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: [MICROPHONE NOT ON] THANK YOU FOR DOING
10:54:44AM THAT.
10:54:45AM SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
10:54:47AM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA FOR DISCUSSION.
10:54:49AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHEN I HEAR THINGS LIKE NOT GOING TO BE A
10:54:53AM TON OF MONEY.
10:54:53AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS.
10:54:56AM USE THOSE DOLLARS THIS YEAR, HOW YOU SUPPLEMENT FUTURE
10:54:59AM DOLLARS IN THE FUTURE?
10:55:02AM >>LUIS VIERA: I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT AMOUNT.
10:55:09AM MR. WILLETS PROBABLY DOES.
10:55:11AM AGAIN, MY MOTION IS FOR US TO HAVE A DISCUSSION ON THAT.
10:55:16AM IT IS NOT FOR ANY SPECIFIC PROPOSAL ON IT.
10:55:20AM IT'S JUST FOR US TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION INCLUDING ON THAT
10:55:23AM PROPOSAL.
10:55:24AM WE'RE NOT PASSING ANYTHING.
10:55:25AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:55:26AM >>BILL CARLSON: ONE THING YOU MIGHT WANT TO DO IS ADD MR.
10:55:30AM WILLETS TO YOUR MOTION SO HE CAN COME BACK.
10:55:32AM THE OTHER THING IS YOU ALL WILL REMEMBER, I'M AGAINST THE
10:55:40AM CITY FUNDING HART BECAUSE HART WAS MOVED OUT OF THE CITY
10:55:43AM DURING THE MARTINEZ ADMINISTRATION AND THE TAXING AUTHORITY
10:55:46AM OF IT WENT.
10:55:49AM HOWEVER, THE STREETCAR IN ITS NEWEST FORM WAS CREATED DURING
10:55:52AM THE GRECO ADMINISTRATION, WHICH WAS AFTER THE MARTINEZ MOVE.
10:55:55AM I DON'T OBJECT TO HAVING A DISCUSSION ABOUT IT.
10:55:59AM I HOPE WE CAN BE CREATIVE ABOUT HOW WE LOOK AT IT.
10:56:03AM BUT I THINK THE STREETCAR IS DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHER
10:56:06AM SERVICES THAT HART PROVIDES BECAUSE IT WAS CREATED AFTER
10:56:10AM HART WAS MOVED OUT.
10:56:12AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND BY WHO WAS
10:56:16AM IT?
10:56:16AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:56:17AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:56:20AM >> AYE.
10:56:21AM >>LUIS VIERA: I APOLOGIZE.
10:56:22AM THAT INCLUDES MR. WILLETS COMING.
10:56:25AM MY APOLOGIES.
10:56:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: INCLUDING COMMENTS FROM HART, MR. WILLETS.
10:56:29AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:56:30AM ANY OPPOSED?
10:56:30AM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
10:56:34AM I GAVE YOU YOUR OPPORTUNITY, INTERIM DIRECTOR.
10:56:40AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: INTERIM CRA DIRECTOR.
10:56:43AM JUST SO WE HAVE DIRECTION AS STAFF, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE,
10:56:46AM ARE WE LOOKING AT ONE SPECIFIC CRA DISTRICT OR IS THIS ALL
10:56:50AM OF THE CRAs THAT THE STREETCAR MAY GO THROUGH?
10:56:55AM >>LUIS VIERA: 306 JACKSON TO YOU GUYS BEFORE AND THAT'S WHY
10:56:58AM I WAS OUTSIDE FOR A LITTLE BIT.
10:57:01AM I WILL DISCLOSE THAT IT WOULD PROSPECTIVELY BE WHERE THE
10:57:05AM STREETCAR RUNS AND THAT WOULD BE YBOR, DOWNTOWN, CHANNELSIDE
10:57:10AM PERSPECTIVELY.
10:57:10AM AGAIN, THEY WILL BRIEF YOU ON THIS.
10:57:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE BY
10:57:14AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:57:16AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
10:57:18AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:57:19AM >> AYE.
10:57:19AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION CARRIES.
10:57:20AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
10:57:21AM MEETING ADJOURNED.
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