TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 2025, 9:00 A.M.
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9:03:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GOOD MORNING, EVERYONE.
9:03:12AM I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS TAMPA CITY COUNCIL TO ORDER.
9:03:15AM AT THIS TIME, I YIELD TO COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN FOR THE
9:03:17AM INVOCATION.
9:03:18AM WE'LL TAKE A MOMENT OF SILENCE.
9:03:21AM PLEASE STAND AND REMAIN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF
9:03:23AM ALLEGIANCE.
9:03:25AM [MOMENT OF SILENCE]
9:03:36AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:03:37AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
9:03:51AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:03:51AM ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
9:03:53AM >> CARLSON?
9:03:54AM HURTAK?
9:03:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
9:03:55AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
9:03:57AM >> HENDERSON?
9:03:57AM VIERA?
9:03:59AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
9:04:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
9:04:01AM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
9:04:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:04:03AM I HAVE A MEMO FROM THE OFFICE OF COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON THAT
9:04:06AM HE WILL BE ABSENT FROM TODAY'S MEETING.
9:04:09AM MAY I HAVE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE MINUTES FROM FEBRUARY 20,
9:04:12AM 2025 AND FEBRUARY 27, 2025 WORKSHOP AND EVENING SESSIONS?
9:04:17AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:04:18AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
9:04:20AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:04:20AM AYE.
9:04:21AM MR. SHELBY, WOULD YOU LIKE TO GO AHEAD AND READ THE RULES
9:04:25AM BEFORE I GO INTO THE APPROVAL OF THE AGENDA?
9:04:27AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES, MR. CHAIRMAN.
9:04:28AM YES, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:04:29AM GOOD MORNING, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
9:04:31AM CITY COUNCIL, MARTIN SHELBY, CITY COUNCIL ATTORNEY.
9:04:34AM DISCUSSING BRIEFLY THE PUBLIC COMMENT RULES AND THE RULES OF
9:04:37AM DECORUM FOR TODAY'S MEETING, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE
9:04:41AM ALLOWED A REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY AFTER THE CEREMONIAL ITEMS
9:04:45AM ON THE AGENDA TO ADDRESS ANY ITEM ON THE AGENDA BEFORE CITY
9:04:48AM COUNCIL TAKES OFFICIAL ACTION.
9:04:50AM NOW, YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED THAT THERE IS A BOX OUTSIDE THAT
9:04:55AM HAS SPEAKER CARDS.
9:04:56AM IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK DURING WHAT IS LABELED GENERAL PUBLIC
9:04:59AM COMMENT, FILL OUT A SPEAKER CARD AND PLACE IT IN THAT BOX,
9:05:03AM ONE CARD PER SPEAKER, PLEASE, AND CARDS WILL BE ACCEPTED
9:05:07AM THROUGH THE CEREMONIAL ITEMS UNTIL THE START OF GENERAL
9:05:10AM PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:05:10AM EACH PERSON SUBMITTING A CARD WILL BE RECOGNIZED BY NAME BY
9:05:15AM THE CHAIR TO APPROACH AND SPEAK.
9:05:17AM A THREE-MINUTE TIME LIMIT APPLIES.
9:05:19AM PLEASE PRINT LEGIBLY BECAUSE NAMES THAT CANNOT BE READ WILL
9:05:23AM NOT BE CALLED.
9:05:24AM IF YOU ARE HERE TO SPEAK AT SOMETHING LABELED ON THE AGENDA
9:05:27AM AS A PUBLIC HEARING, PLEASE DO NOT FILL OUT THE CARDS.
9:05:31AM USE THE SIGN-IN SHEET AT THE LECTERN AT THE PODIUM OUTSIDE
9:05:36AM INSTEAD.
9:05:36AM IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE DO ASK THE CITY STAFF.
9:05:39AM SPEAKERS AND MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ALSO REMINDED THAT
9:05:42AM THEY ARE TO REFRAIN FROM DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR, INCLUDING
9:05:45AM MAKING VULGAR OR THREATENING REMARKS OR MAKING OR CAUSING
9:05:48AM DISRUPTIVE NOISES OR SOUNDS OR DISPLAYING SIGNS OR GRAPHICS.
9:05:53AM PLEASE BE REMINDED THAT SPEAKERS SHOULD REFRAIN FROM
9:05:57AM LAUNCHING PERSONAL ATTACKS AGAINST ANY CITY OFFICIAL, STAFF
9:06:00AM MEMBER, OR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
9:06:03AM PLEASE DIRECT YOUR COMMENTS TO THE CITY COUNCIL AS A WHOLE.
9:06:06AM PERSONS FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THE COUNCIL RULES MAY BE
9:06:09AM RULED OUT OF ORDER AND AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHAIR, MAY
9:06:13AM BE REMOVED FROM THE CHAMBERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF TODAY'S
9:06:16AM MEETING.
9:06:17AM FINALLY, TO CITY COUNCIL, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT YOU SHOULD
9:06:20AM REFRAIN FROM ENGAGING A SPEAKER DURING PUBLIC COMMENT, AND
9:06:25AM THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE AWARE THAT CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT TAKE
9:06:28AM QUESTIONS OR HAVE A DIALOGUE WITH YOU DURING YOUR GENERAL
9:06:31AM PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:06:31AM IT'S YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS YOUR POSITION.
9:06:34AM THANK YOU.
9:06:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. SHELBY.
9:06:37AM I'LL GO THROUGH THE AGENDA.
9:06:38AM WE HAVE A REQUEST FOR ITEM NUMBER 32 TO BE REMOVED FROM THE
9:06:42AM AGENDA.
9:06:42AM THE EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.
9:06:44AM MOTION TO REMOVE ITEM 32?
9:06:47AM MOTION FROM VIERA, SECOND FROM MIRANDA.
9:06:49AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:06:49AM AYE.
9:06:50AM ALL RIGHT.
9:06:51AM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK HAS SENT A REQUEST TO CONTINUE ITEM 84
9:06:56AM UNTIL APRIL 3rd.
9:06:58AM IS THAT CORRECT, MA'AM?
9:06:59AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
9:07:01AM I HAVE A MOTION RIGHT HERE.
9:07:02AM I MOVE TO CONTINUE ITEM NUMBER 84 TO APRIL 3rd, 2025, AND
9:07:08AM TO CONFIRM THAT I WANT AN UPDATE ON THE PIPES PRESENTATION
9:07:12AM PRESENTED ON MARCH 7, 2024.
9:07:15AM YOU NEED TO REACH OUT TO COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON ABOUT HIS
9:07:18AM MOTION REGARDING BONDING AND PIPES.
9:07:20AM MINE IS JUST FOR AN UPDATE.
9:07:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE THE ITEM TO
9:07:23AM APRIL 3 UNDER STAFF REPORTS.
9:07:25AM MOTION FROM HURTAK, SECOND FROM CLENDENIN.
9:07:28AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:07:29AM ANY OPPOSED?
9:07:29AM WE ALSO RECEIVED A MEMO FROM IAN WHITNEY REQUESTING A
9:07:32AM CONTINUANCE OF ITEM 89 TO JULY 17.
9:07:35AM MAY I HAVE A MOTION?
9:07:36AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:07:37AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
9:07:38AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:07:40AM >> AYE.
9:07:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON, WE REMOVED
9:07:42AM ITEM 32.
9:07:44AM DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON IT?
9:07:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
9:07:45AM IT JUST NEEDS TO BE REMOVED.
9:07:47AM THANK YOU, CHAIR.
9:07:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PER CHIEF BENNETT THERE IS NO
9:07:50AM ADMINISTRATION UPDATE.
9:07:51AM NO STAFF REPORTS OVER $3 MILLION.
9:07:54AM HOWEVER, FOR THE STAFF REPORTS, WE HAVE A PowerPoint FOR
9:07:56AM 82, 83.
9:08:00AM WE HAVE STAFF PRESENT FOR 85.
9:08:03AM IN-PERSON REPORT FOR 86.
9:08:05AM 87 WILL BE IN PERSON.
9:08:07AM 88 WE HAVE A MEMO FROM CARL BRODY IN PERSON AS WELL.
9:08:14AM WE DO WANT MR. BRODY?
9:08:15AM YES.
9:08:16AM STAFF PRESENT FOR ALL THOSE ITEMS MINUS 89 AND 84 OF WHICH
9:08:21AM WE ALREADY ADDRESSED.
9:08:22AM CAN WE RECEIVE AND FILE THE WRITTEN STAFF REPORTS, 90
9:08:25AM THROUGH 92?
9:08:25AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
9:08:27AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
9:08:28AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:08:29AM AYE.
9:08:32AM >>LUIS VIERA: JUST FOR 83, WE HAVE TO WORK OUT SOME ISSUES
9:08:36AM ON THAT.
9:08:36AM IF I MAY HAVE THAT CONTINUED TO JUNE 26 OF THIS YEAR.
9:08:40AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: 83 IS FOR THE ROLAND PAZ NAMING.
9:08:45AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO CONTINUE TO JUNE --
9:08:50AM >>LUIS VIERA: YOU KNOW WHAT?
9:08:51AM LET ME LET OTHERS SPEAK, IF YOU DON'T MIND AND I'LL FIND
9:08:55AM ANOTHER DATE.
9:08:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: LET THE RECORD REFLECT COUNCIL MEMBER
9:08:58AM HENDERSON AND VIERA ARE HERE.
9:08:59AM >>LUIS VIERA: MAY 15th, IF I MAY.
9:09:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MAY 15th CONTINUANCE FOR 83.
9:09:05AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:09:06AM ANY OPPOSED?
9:09:07AM COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
9:09:10AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, NOT AT THIS MOMENT.
9:09:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A REQUEST TO CONTINUE ITEM 79,
9:09:15AM BUT WE CAN'T DO IT UNTIL 1:30.
9:09:18AM I WANT TO GIVE THE PUBLIC A HEADS-UP.
9:09:21AM AT THIS TIME, IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, MAY I HAVE A MOTION
9:09:23AM TO APPROVE THE AGENDA AND ADDENDUM?
9:09:25AM WE HAVE A MOTION.
9:09:26AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
9:09:27AM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:09:28AM ALL IN FAVOR?
9:09:29AM AYE.
9:09:30AM ALL RIGHT.
9:09:31AM ITEM NUMBER 1, POLICE OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:09:33AM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
9:09:57AM >>LUIS VIERA: [MICROPHONE NOT ON]
9:10:08AM -- WE DO THIS IN CITY COUNCIL TO REFLECT THE VALUES OF THE
9:10:10AM COMMUNITY WE SERVE THAT ALWAYS SUPPORTS PUBLIC SAFETY.
9:10:13AM THAT SUPPORT INCLUDES OUR POLICE OFFICERS AS WELL AS
9:10:15AM FIREFIGHTERS.
9:10:17AM I'LL LET DR. CHIEF BERCAW TALK ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL PERSON
9:10:21AM WE HONOR TODAY.
9:10:23AM >>CHIEF BERCAW: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
9:10:25AM IT IS BOTH A PRIVILEGE AND DISTINCT HONOR TO RECOGNIZE AN
9:10:28AM EXCEPTIONAL MEMBER OF THE TAMPA POLICE DEPARTMENT.
9:10:31AM OFFICER STEPHEN FILER.
9:10:39AM HE WILL BE OUR OFFICER OF THE MONTH FOR MARCH 2025.
9:10:42AM HIS OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS TO OUR DEPARTMENT'S
9:10:44AM RECRUITMENT EFFORTS HAVE TRULY SET HIM APART WHICH IS MAKING
9:10:49AM A PROFOUND IMPACT ON NEW RECRUITS IN THE FUTURE OF OUR
9:10:52AM DEPARTMENT.
9:10:53AM SINCE JOINING IN 2019, OFFICER FILER HAS DISTINGUISHED
9:10:56AM HIMSELF NOT JUST AS A SKILLED OFFICER BUT AS A BRIDGE
9:11:00AM BUILDER WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
9:11:02AM LAST YEAR HE MOVED TO THE ROLE OF POLICE RECRUITER.
9:11:05AM IN JUST ONE YEAR, OFFICER FILER HAS COMPLETELY TRANSFORMED
9:11:10AM OUR RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES, SIGNIFICANTLY ELEVATING THE
9:11:13AM DEPARTMENT'S VISIBILITY AND APPEAL ON BOTH LOCAL AND
9:11:16AM NATIONAL LEVELS.
9:11:18AM ONE OF HIS MOST NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS HAS BEEN THE COMPLETE
9:11:21AM REBRANDING OF RECRUITMENT MATERIALS.
9:11:23AM OFFICER FILER HAS TOOK THE INITIATIVE TO SCHEDULE
9:11:26AM PROFESSIONAL PHOTO SHOOTS THAT SHOWCASE THE DIVERSITY AND
9:11:30AM STRENGTH OF OUR OFFICERS TO APPEAL TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF
9:11:32AM CANDIDATES.
9:11:33AM GOING BEYOND TRADITIONAL METHODS, HE OVERSAW THE DESIGN OF A
9:11:37AM RECRUITMENT VEHICLE WRAP ENSURING A CONSISTENT AND
9:11:40AM RECOGNIZABLE BRAND ACROSS ALL PLATFORMS.
9:11:44AM IN ADDITION TO THAT, HE COLLABORATED WITH A LEADING
9:11:47AM PRODUCTION COMPANY TO CREATE A DYNAMIC RECRUITMENT VIDEO
9:11:50AM THAT HAS PROVEN ALREADY TO BE POWERFUL AND ATTRACT THE
9:11:55AM ATTENTION OF THE NEXT GENERATION.
9:11:56AM HE'S ALSO STRENGTHENED OUR PRESENCE AT COMMUNITY EVENTS,
9:11:59AM REPRESENTING TPD AT MAJOR JOB FAIRS, INCLUDING RELIANT
9:12:03AM RECRUITMENT FAIR, MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE RECRUITING FAIR,
9:12:06AM AND TAMPA BAY'S JOB LINKS EVENT.
9:12:09AM HE ALSO SPEARHEADED THE CREATION OF OUR FIRST-EVER WOMEN IN
9:12:13AM LAW ENFORCEMENT SYMPOSIUM IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL
9:12:16AM UNIVERSITIES.
9:12:16AM THROUGH HIS CREATIVE OUTREACH AND INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES,
9:12:21AM OFFICER FILER SPEARHEADED A RECRUITMENT CAMPAIGN THAT LED TO
9:12:24AM A 15% INCREASE IN OVERALL APPLICANTS AND AN IMPRESSIVE 30%
9:12:30AM INCREASE IN OUR POLICE SCHOLARSHIP APPLICANTS.
9:12:32AM THE SCHOLARSHIP, AS YOU GUYS KNOW, PROVIDES FINANCIAL
9:12:36AM ASSISTANCE AND SUPPORT WHILE ATTENDING THE POLICE ACADEMY.
9:12:39AM BEYOND HIS REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS, OFFICER FILER ALWAYS
9:12:43AM MAINTAINS A POSITIVE ATTITUDE, REMAINS DRIVEN TO ENHANCE OUR
9:12:47AM RECRUITMENT EFFORTS.
9:12:48AM SO HIS PASSION FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT, PAIRED WITH HIS
9:12:51AM COMMITMENT TO FOSTERING COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT HAS NOT ONLY
9:12:54AM ADVANCED OUR RECRUITMENT GOALS BUT ALSO HELPED US TO BUILD
9:12:58AM STRONGER BONDS WITH THE COMMUNITY AND BEYOND.
9:13:01AM FOR THOSE REASONS IT'S WHY WE'RE RECOGNIZING HIM AS OUR
9:13:03AM OFFICER OF THE MONTH FOR MARCH 2025.
9:13:06AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:13:06AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:13:11AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, SIR.
9:13:12AM BEFORE WE FORMALLY HONOR YOU, WE HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS WHO
9:13:15AM WANT TO EXPRESS THEIR APPRECIATION STARTING WITH THE PBA.
9:13:19AM >> BRANDON BARCLAY, TAMPA PBA.
9:13:23AM CONGRATULATIONS, OFFICER.
9:13:24AM WE'LL PRESENT YOU WITH THIS PLAQUE.
9:13:37AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:13:39AM I'M MARY DILLON FROM THE STRAZ CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING
9:13:42AM ARTS.
9:13:42AM OFFICER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
9:13:45AM ON BEHALF OF THE STRAZ CENTER, I WANT TO PRESENT YOU WITH
9:13:47AM THIS GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR A PERFORMANCE FOR YOU AND A GUEST
9:13:52AM AT AN UPCOMING SHOW AT THE STRAZ CENTER.
9:13:54AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:13:55AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:13:57AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:13:58AM MY NAME IS MARY LOU BAILEY, HERE ON BEHALF OF ZOO TAMPA.
9:14:01AM I SERVE ON THE BOARD THERE.
9:14:03AM I WANTED TO CONGRATULATE YOU.
9:14:05AM AWESOME STORY ABOUT ATTRACTING NEW TALENT.
9:14:08AM REALLY, REALLY COOL.
9:14:09AM MY TEENAGE DAUGHTERS AND I ARE HOOKED ON THE SERIES "THE
9:14:13AM ROOKIE."
9:14:14AM ANYWAY, IT'S FUN TO SEE YOU REAL-LIFE HEROES IN PERSON.
9:14:18AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:14:20AM PRESENTING YOU WITH AN ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP TO THE ZOO AND SOME
9:14:22AM GOODIES.
9:14:23AM IT'S FOR A FAMILY MEMBERSHIP.
9:14:26AM I'M VERY, VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT CONSERVATION AND ANIMALS AND
9:14:29AM I HOPE YOU WILL LEARN TO SHARE THAT PASSION, PARTICULARLY
9:14:32AM THE MANATEES.
9:14:33AM WE ARE A CRITICAL CARE FACILITY FOR MANATEES.
9:14:36AM I'M REALLY INTO THAT.
9:14:37AM ENJOY YOURSELVES AND THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING.
9:14:41AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:14:43AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:14:45AM GOOD MORNING.
9:14:45AM AND CONGRATULATIONS.
9:14:47AM MY NAME IS LORI OSBORNE.
9:14:49AM I AM WITH THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA.
9:14:52AM WE THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR INNOVATION AND BEING A GREAT
9:14:55AM AMBASSADOR FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
9:14:56AM RECRUITMENT IS CONSIDERABLY IN GOOD HANDS WITH YOU.
9:14:59AM ON BEHALF OF THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA, WE INVITE YOU AND YOUR
9:15:03AM FAMILY TO A PERFORMANCE, AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU.
9:15:06AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:15:07AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:15:11AM >> GOOD MORNING, OFFICER FILER.
9:15:14AM I'M GRACE GONZALEZ, HERE ON BEHALF OF THE GONZMART FAMILY
9:15:17AM AND 1905 FAMILY OF RESTAURANTS.
9:15:19AM WE WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO TAMPA.
9:15:21AM THANK YOU FOR USING YOUR SKILLS TO HELP OUR COMMUNITY.
9:15:24AM PLEASE ENJOY YOURSELF AT ANY OF OUR RESTAURANTS ACROSS THE
9:15:27AM STATE OF FLORIDA.
9:15:28AM SANGRIA, PAELLA, ENJOY YOURSELF ON THE RIVER.
9:15:33AM THANK YOU SO MUCH AND CONGRATULATIONS.
9:15:36AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:15:37AM >> LEO GEARY.
9:15:41AM BILL CURRIE FORD.
9:15:43AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:15:45AM I'VE DEALT WITH YOU A LONG TIME.
9:15:47AM YOU'RE ONE OF MY FAVORITES.
9:15:48AM >> THANK YOU.
9:15:48AM [ LAUGHTER ]
9:15:49AM I APPRECIATE IT.
9:15:51AM >> COULDN'T HAPPEN TO A BETTER PERSON.
9:15:53AM ON BEHALF OF BILL CURRIE FORD, HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM
9:15:57AM JENNIFER CURRY AND GIFT CARD AND MAINTENANCE FOR YOUR
9:16:01AM PERSONAL VEHICLE AND SOME GOODIES.
9:16:05AM I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS.
9:16:06AM RESPECT EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU THAT PUT ON THE UNIFORM
9:16:09AM EVERY SINGLE DAY AND MAKE THE SACRIFICES TO KEEP THE CITY
9:16:13AM SAFE FOR ALL OF US.
9:16:14AM TRULY APPRECIATE IT.
9:16:15AM >> THANK YOU.
9:16:16AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:16:23AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:16:24AM GOOD MORNING, CHIEF.
9:16:25AM BRIAN FORD WITH THE TAMPA BUCCANEERS.
9:16:29AM OFFICER FILER, WHAT YOU DO IS REMARKABLE.
9:16:31AM TRYING TO FIND THE BEST TALENT, THAT'S WHAT WE ALL STRUGGLE
9:16:35AM WITH.
9:16:35AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND SACRIFICE.
9:16:39AM ON BEHALF OF THE GLAZER FAMILY AND OUR ENTIRE ORGANIZATION,
9:16:43AM WE HAVE A TRADITION AT 1 BUC.
9:16:45AM ANYBODY THAT GOES OVER AND ABOVE GETS A GAME BALL.
9:16:48AM WE CAN'T HAVE A FUMBLE HERE.
9:16:51AM THAT GAME BALL IS YOURS.
9:16:53AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE AND SACRIFICE.
9:16:56AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:17:00AM >> MIKE McARTHUR, STEPP'S TOWING SERVICE.
9:17:04AM CONGRATULATIONS ON JOB WELL DONE.
9:17:06AM WELL DESERVED.
9:17:06AM SOUNDS LIKE YOU NEED TO TAKE TIME OFF.
9:17:09AM BEHALF OF TODD STEPP AND STEPP'S TOWING, GIFT CARD TO HAVE
9:17:13AM DINNER ON US.
9:17:14AM IF YOU NEED A TOW, YOU KNOW A GUY NOW.
9:17:17AM WE'VE GOT YOU COVERED.
9:17:19AM THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.
9:17:21AM YOUR SUPPORT TO THIS COMMUNITY IS UNMATCHED.
9:17:24AM WE APPRECIATE.
9:17:26AM >> THANK YOU.
9:17:26AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:17:29AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:17:30AM ON BEHALF OF THE ELLISON CONSTRUCTION, I WOULD LIKE TO
9:17:33AM PRESENT YOU WITH A GIFT CARD TO HOTEL HAYA.
9:17:37AM A PROJECT WE ARE PROUD OF AND LEFT A MARK AND INFLUENCE IN
9:17:40AM THE CITY OF YBOR.
9:17:42AM CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL OF YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE CITY OF
9:17:45AM TAMPA AND LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT YOU DO NEXT.
9:17:48AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:17:54AM >> I WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO COME TO OUR RESTAURANT.
9:18:00AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:18:04AM >> THANK YOU.
9:18:05AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:18:11AM >> MY NAME IS MARYBETH WILLIAMS.
9:18:13AM EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FRIENDS OF THE RIVERWALK.
9:18:15AM I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT YOU WITH A PERSONALIZED PAPER ON THE
9:18:19AM TAMPA RIVERWALK WITH YOUR NAME AND OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:18:22AM LOCATED JUST NORTH OF THE CONVENTION CENTER.
9:18:26AM YOU CAN ALWAYS E-MAIL ME.
9:18:28AM ALSO HAVE A FEW OTHER ITEMS FROM SOME OF OUR PARTNERS.
9:18:31AM DINNER FOR TWO ABOARD THE STARSHIP CRUISE LINES.
9:18:36AM TWO PASSES ON PIRATE WATER TAXI.
9:18:39AM TWO PASSES ABOARD THE LOST PEARL PIRATE SHIP.
9:18:44AM COUPLE OF GIFT CERTIFICATES TO TAMPA RIVERWALK RENTALS.
9:18:48AM ADULT PARTY AT SPLITSVILLE.
9:18:50AM AND $200 IN GIFT CERTIFICATES TO FLORIDA AVENUE BREWING.
9:18:54AM THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:18:55AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:19:10AM >> HERE IS ANOTHER GROUP OF THINGS TO GIVE TO YOU.
9:19:13AM FIRST, STEVE MICHELINI.
9:19:15AM I'M REPRESENTING A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE WHO WOULD
9:19:17AM LIKE TO HONOR YOU.
9:19:18AM FIRST, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT THERE IS A CONVERGENCE OF
9:19:22AM HOLY TIMES WHICH SHOULD BE FILLED WITH PRAYER AND
9:19:25AM REFLECTION.
9:19:25AM MAY THE GOD OF ABRAHAM WATCH OVER YOU AND PROTECT EACH OF
9:19:29AM THE FIRST RESPONDERS HONORED HERE TODAY, INCLUDING THE TAMPA
9:19:33AM FIRE RESCUE AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND ELECTED OFFICIALS.
9:19:36AM THE GOOD LORD SENDS MESSAGES TO ALL OF US, SOME LISTEN AND
9:19:40AM SOME DON'T.
9:19:41AM THE FIRST RESPONDERS ALWAYS LISTEN AND ALWAYS MAKE A
9:19:44AM DIFFERENCE.
9:19:45AM LISTEN TO THE WORD OF THE LORD AND YOU WILL MAKE A
9:19:47AM DIFFERENCE IN THE HONOR OF HIS NAME AND IN YOURS.
9:19:51AM THE HOLY OF HOLIES, LORD OF LORDS, MAY THE BLESSING BE UPON
9:19:55AM EACH OF YOU, GUIDE YOU IN THIS HOLY SEASON.
9:19:58AM IN HIS NAME, WE THANK YOU.
9:19:59AM GREEK RESTAURANT GIFT CERTIFICATE.
9:20:03AM YUMMY HOUSE GIFT CERTIFICATE.
9:20:06AM MEAT MARKET IN OLD HYDE PARK, GIFT CERTIFICATE.
9:20:12AM JACKSON'S BISTRO, GIFT CERTIFICATE.
9:20:18AM CICCIO RESTAURANT GROUP ON SOUTH HOWARD, GIFT CERTIFICATE.
9:20:22AM LAST, BUT NOT LEAST, BELLABRAVA IN THE MIDTOWN SECTION GIFT
9:20:29AM CERTIFICATE.
9:20:30AM ENJOY YOURSELF.
9:20:30AM KEEP THE LETTERS.
9:20:32AM YOU HAVE TO KEEP THE LETTERS AND THE CERTIFICATES.
9:20:34AM DON'T LOSE THEM.
9:20:35AM IF YOU LOSE THEM, CALL ME.
9:20:37AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:20:40AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:20:44AM >>LUIS VIERA: SIR, ON BEHALF OF A GRATEFUL CITY OF TAMPA, WE
9:20:47AM APPRECIATE YOU AND ALL OF YOUR SERVICE NOT JUST WITH TPD BUT
9:20:51AM U.S. ARMY AS WELL.
9:20:52AM WE THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR SERVICE AND JUST STANDING UP
9:20:55AM FOR US.
9:20:55AM WE MEAN THAT.
9:20:56AM THANK YOU, SIR.
9:20:57AM GOD BLESS YOU.
9:21:02AM >> FIRST AND FOREMOST, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO CITY
9:21:05AM COUNCIL FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY.
9:21:07AM THANK YOU TO MY CHIEF AND ASSISTANT CHIEFS FOR SELECTING ME
9:21:11AM FOR THIS GREAT AWARD.
9:21:12AM I DON'T WIN A LOT OF STUFF SO THIS IS AWESOME, OVERWHELMING,
9:21:15AM IF YOU WILL.
9:21:16AM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY -- THE PERSONNEL UNIT.
9:21:20AM I'LL BE A FOOL TO SIT HERE AND SAY RECRUITING IS ALL ABOUT
9:21:23AM ME.
9:21:23AM THE WORK THE PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT DOES STARTING WITH THE
9:21:26AM MAJOR ON DOWN, LIEUTENANT, CAPTAIN, MY PARTNER, I DON'T
9:21:30AM THINK HE'S HERE TODAY, AS WELL AS MY CORPORAL AND EVERYBODY
9:21:33AM HERE AT TPD, IT IS A COMMUNITY THING, IF YOU WILL.
9:21:37AM IT'S ONE THING TO SAY WHEN I BRING NEW RECRUITS IN OR NEW
9:21:40AM TALENT IN, THEY ALWAYS TALK ABOUT GOING TO THE ROAD AND HOW
9:21:44AM MUCH FUN THEY HAD AND HOW MUCH KNOWLEDGE THEY GAINED FROM
9:21:47AM OTHER OFFICERS.
9:21:48AM THAT LEAVES TESTAMENT TO THE PEOPLE WE'RE BRINGING TO THE
9:21:50AM DEPARTMENT, SHINES A GREAT LIGHT ON THE CITY.
9:21:53AM TO THE CITY OF TAMPA, I APPRECIATE YOU FOR THIS AWARD AS
9:21:57AM WELL.
9:21:57AM I BELIEVE THE CITY OF TAMPA IS THE BEST CITY IN THE WORLD.
9:22:00AM GOES WITHOUT SAYING IT REALLY IS.
9:22:03AM FOR THAT REASON, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO SEEK OUT THE
9:22:06AM BEST OF THE BEST BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THE CITIZENS OF TAMPA
9:22:09AM DESERVE.
9:22:10AM THANK YOU.
9:22:11AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:22:19AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
9:22:20AM WITHOUT AN INDIVIDUAL LIKE YOURSELF TO KEEPS BRINGING IN THE
9:22:22AM YOUNG RECRUITS WHO WANT TO DO THE BEST THING THEY CAN FOR
9:22:25AM THE CITY OF TAMPA, I WOULD LIKE TO YOU ANSWER ONE QUESTION.
9:22:28AM HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO YOUR WORK AND GO EAT AT ALL THE
9:22:32AM PLACES, RIDE AROUND IN A LIMOUSINE, GO TO THE STRAZ, GO
9:22:36AM HERE, GO THERE, CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT?
9:22:39AM >> WELL, LISTEN, I LIKE TO WORK WHEN I'M OFF, SHE CAN TELL
9:22:42AM YOU THAT.
9:22:43AM THANK YOU SO MUCH TO MY WIFE.
9:22:45AM I APOLOGIZE.
9:22:50AM I GIVE HER ALL PRAISES BECAUSE SHE IS VERY PATIENT WITH ME.
9:22:54AM I WILL BE HAVING MY COMPUTER AT DINNER.
9:23:00AM I'M VERY LUCKY TO HAVE HER AS A SUPPORT.
9:23:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, CONGRATULATIONS.
9:23:06AM THANK YOU FOR THE SACRIFICE YOU MAKE WHEN YOU PUT THAT
9:23:09AM UNIFORM ON.
9:23:09AM YOU, YOUR ENTIRE TEAM, YOUR WIFE, FAMILY, THE SACRIFICE THEY
9:23:14AM MAKE.
9:23:14AM WELL DESERVED.
9:23:15AM YOU HAVE A GREAT PERSONALITY.
9:23:17AM YOU DO A GREAT JOB.
9:23:19AM IT'S EASY TO UNDERSTAND WHY YOU GOT SELECTED AS POLICE
9:23:23AM OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:23:25AM YOU DESERVE IT VERY MUCH.
9:23:26AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:23:27AM YOU MAKE US PROUD.
9:23:27AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:23:29AM >> I WILL SAY ONE OTHER THING, CITY OF TAMPA, THE TAMPA
9:23:33AM POLICE DEPARTMENT IS HIRING, ALL RIGHT.
9:23:36AM [ LAUGHTER ]
9:23:36AM I'LL BE DOWNSTAIRS WITH INFORMATION IF ANYONE WANTS A JOB.
9:23:42AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CHARLIE, MAYBE THIS IS TAMPA CITY CAREER
9:23:45AM 2.0.
9:23:46AM WANT TO BE A TAMPA POLICE OFFICER?
9:23:48AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU GOT IT.
9:23:50AM [ LAUGHTER ]
9:23:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
9:23:51AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:23:52AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:23:52AM WE'LL WAIT A SECOND AS TPD GOES OUT AND THEN TO TAMPA FIRE
9:24:07AM FOR FIREFIGHTER OF THE QUARTER.
9:24:10AM GO AHEAD.
9:25:36AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
9:25:38AM IT'S OUR GREAT PLEASURE NOW TO DO OUR TAMPA FIREFIGHTER OF
9:25:40AM THE QUARTER FOR CAPTAIN ROBERT CREWS.
9:25:44AM AGAIN, LIKE WITH OUR FRIENDS OF POLICE, WE DO THIS TO
9:25:47AM REFLECT THE VALUES OF THE COMMUNITY THAT ALWAYS SUPPORT OUR
9:25:50AM FIRST RESPONDERS AND TO SPEAK MORE ABOUT THIS, WE HAVE HERE
9:25:55AM CHIEF BARBARA TRIPP.
9:25:56AM >>CHIEF TRIPP: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:25:58AM BARBARA TRIPP, FIRE CHIEF FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:26:01AM WELCOME THIS MORNING.
9:26:02AM I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO CAPTAIN CREWS WHO HAS BEEN
9:26:06AM PART OF TAMPA FIRE RESCUE FOR OVER 22 YEARS.
9:26:09AM IF YOU GUYS DIDN'T KNOW THIS MORNING, WE WAS OUT FIGHTING A
9:26:13AM BLAZE, THREE-ALARM FIRE.
9:26:15AM OF COURSE, THAT'S WHAT FIREFIGHTERS DO.
9:26:16AM WE TAKE CARE OF OUR COMMUNITY.
9:26:18AM WE SERVE THE COMMUNITY.
9:26:20AM WE ALSO PROTECT THE COMMUNITY.
9:26:22AM THAT'S WHAT I'M GOING TO DISCUSS TODAY OF WHAT CAPTAIN CREWS
9:26:25AM DID.
9:26:26AM CAPTAIN CREWS DEMONSTRATED EXTRAORDINARY BRAVERY DURING A
9:26:31AM HOUSE FIRE IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S RESIDENCE.
9:26:34AM EARLY MORNING HOURS ON FEBRUARY 4, CAPTAIN CREWS WAS
9:26:37AM AWAKENED BY HIS NEIGHBOR ALERTING HIM THAT HIS HOUSE WAS ON
9:26:41AM FIRE.
9:26:41AM WITHOUT HESITATION, HE TOOK IMMEDIATE ACTION TO ENSURE THE
9:26:44AM SAFETY OF THOSE AROUND HIM AND WORKED TO MITIGATE THE
9:26:48AM DAMAGE.
9:26:48AM UPON STEPPING OUTSIDE, HE SAW THAT HIS NEIGHBOR'S HOME WAS
9:26:52AM ENGULFED IN FLAMES.
9:26:54AM AFTER LEARNING THAT THE NEIGHBOR'S WIFE WAS STILL INSIDE THE
9:26:57AM HOUSE, HE ACTED WITH HEROISM AND WITHOUT HESITATION AND
9:27:01AM ENTERED THE HOME AND NAVIGATED THROUGH THE THICK SMOKE TO
9:27:07AM RESCUE HER.
9:27:07AM ONCE HE WAS SAFELY OUTSIDE -- ONCE HE SAFELY BROUGHT THE
9:27:11AM WIFE OUTSIDE, OF COURSE, HE DISPLAYED ADDITIONAL COURAGE BY
9:27:15AM GOING BACK INTO THE HOUSE TO RESCUE THE FAMILY DOG.
9:27:18AM IT WAS TWO DOGS IN THERE.
9:27:20AM STUFF THAT WE TELL THE COMMUNITY, DON'T GO BACK AND DO, OF
9:27:22AM COURSE, CAPTAIN CREWS DID THAT BECAUSE HE WANTED TO MAKE
9:27:25AM SURE TO TAKE CARE OF THE FAMILY.
9:27:27AM CAPTAIN CREWS'S ACTIONS REFLECT THE HIGH STANDARDS OF
9:27:31AM HEROISM, QUICK THINKING AND DEDICATION TO THE SAFETY OF
9:27:33AM OTHERS.
9:27:34AM HIS SELFLESS RESPONSE NOT ONLY SAVED LIVES BUT ALSO
9:27:38AM EXEMPLIFIES INTEGRITY AND COMMITMENT OF TAMPA FIRE RESCUE.
9:27:41AM HIS BRAVERY MAKES HIM HIGHLY DESERVING OF BEING HONORED AS
9:27:44AM THE FIREFIGHTER OF THE QUARTER.
9:27:46AM WE WANT TO CONGRATULATE CAPTAIN CREWS.
9:27:48AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:27:54AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, CHIEF.
9:27:55AM BEFORE WE HONOR YOU FORMALLY, SIR, YOU GET TO SPEAK.
9:28:02AM STARTING WITH MR. STOCCO.
9:28:06AM >> NICK STOCCO, TAMPA FIREFIGHTERS.
9:28:09AM CAPTAIN CREWS, WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEROISM
9:28:12AM AND DEDICATION TO THE DEPARTMENT.
9:28:14AM YOU ARE TRULY RESPECTED AND WE APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK
9:28:17AM YOU DO.
9:28:18AM ON BEHALF OF THE FIREFIGHTERS AND PARAMEDICS, WE WOULD LIKE
9:28:20AM TO PRESENT TO YOU THIS PLAQUE.
9:28:25AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:28:27AM >> GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN.
9:28:28AM MARY DILLON FROM THE DAVID A. STRAZ CENTER FOR THE
9:28:32AM PERFORMING ARTS.
9:28:33AM I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR HEROISM AND YOUR WORK.
9:28:36AM I GUESS YOUR NEIGHBORS ARE VERY GLAD YOU WERE THERE.
9:28:38AM PLEASE ACCEPT TICKETS TO UPCOMING SHOW AT THE STRAZ FOR YOU
9:28:42AM AND A GUEST AND TAKE SOME TIME OFF FOR YOURSELF.
9:28:46AM >> THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:28:48AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:28:49AM >> CONGRATULATIONS, CAPTAIN CREWS.
9:28:50AM MY NAME IS MARYBETH WILLIAMS.
9:28:52AM I AM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FRIENDS OF RIVERWALK.
9:28:54AM I HAVE A FEW ITEMS TO PRESENT YOU WITH TODAY.
9:28:57AM FIRST, WE WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT WITH YOU A PERSONALIZED
9:28:59AM RIVERWALK PAVER.
9:29:00AM LOCATED ON THE RIVERWALK JUST NORTH OF THE CONVENTION
9:29:03AM CENTER.
9:29:04AM ENGRAVED LATER THIS MONTH.
9:29:06AM WE'VE ALSO GOT TWO DINNER CRUISES TO YACHT STARSHIP.
9:29:11AM HOP ON, HOP OFF PASSES WATER TAXI.
9:29:15AM PASSES TO THE PIRATE SHIP.
9:29:18AM RIVERWALK RENTAL KAYAKING, ADULT PARTY AT SPLITSVILLE.
9:29:23AM $200 IN GIFT CERTIFICATES TO FLORIDA AVENUE BREWING.
9:29:27AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND CONGRATULATIONS.
9:29:28AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:29:32AM >> GOOD MORNING AND CONGRATULATIONS, CAPTAIN CREWS.
9:29:35AM MY NAME IS LORI OSBORNE.
9:29:37AM I'M WITH THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA.
9:29:39AM ON BEHALF OF THE ORCHESTRA, WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE
9:29:43AM AND YOUR INCREDIBLE BRAVERY.
9:29:45AM I'M JUST IN AWE.
9:29:46AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:29:47AM WE WOULD INVITE TO YOU COME AND ATTEND A PERFORMANCE WITH
9:29:49AM YOU AND YOUR FAMILY OF YOUR CHOOSING.
9:29:53AM WE REALLY, AGAIN, APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR OUR CITY
9:29:56AM IN MAKING US SAFER AND I'M SURE YOUR NEIGHBOR ADDITIONALLY
9:30:00AM FEELS SAFER.
9:30:01AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:30:04AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:30:07AM >> GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN CREWS.
9:30:08AM I'M GRACE GONZALEZ.
9:30:10AM HERE ON BEHALF OF THE GONZMART FAMILY AND 1905 FAMILY OF
9:30:13AM RESTAURANTS.
9:30:14AM WE WANT TO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SELFLESS COMMITMENT TO
9:30:16AM OUR NEIGHBORS, TO OUR COMMUNITY.
9:30:18AM THANK YOU FOR BEING THERE IN THOSE MOMENTS OF INTENSE
9:30:21AM VULNERABILITY.
9:30:22AM WE WANT TO THANK YOU WITH THIS GIFT CARD.
9:30:24AM PLEASE ENJOY YOURSELF AT ANY OF OUR RESTAURANTS IN TAMPA,
9:30:27AM ACROSS THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
9:30:30AM THANK YOU SO MUCH AND CONGRATULATIONS.
9:30:33AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:30:37AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:30:37AM MARY LOU BAILEY.
9:30:39AM I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF ZOO TAMPA.
9:30:41AM I SERVE ON THE BOARD THERE.
9:30:43AM YOU PROBABLY HEARD MY SPEECH.
9:30:44AM I WON'T REPEAT ALL THAT.
9:30:46AM I DID WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:30:48AM I GOT A RIDE FROM YOU GUYS LAST WEEK WHEN MY APPENDIX WAS
9:30:51AM ABOUT TO BURST AND I HAD TO GO IN FOR EMERGENCY SURGERY.
9:30:55AM I WAS TREATED VERY WELL.
9:30:57AM THANK YOU FOR THAT.
9:30:57AM SERIOUSLY, YOUR STORY IS REALLY GREAT.
9:30:59AM THE HERO AND BRAVERY, ALL OF YOU.
9:31:01AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:31:03AM THIS IS A GIFT BOX.
9:31:04AM MOST IMPORTANTLY, IT INCLUDES AN ANNUAL PASS TO THE ZOO.
9:31:07AM YOU CAN GO WITH YOUR FAMILY AND ENJOY THE ANIMALS AND ALSO
9:31:10AM TO OUR SPECIAL EVENTS AND THINGS COMING UP.
9:31:13AM AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:31:14AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:31:14AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:31:18AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:31:20AM GOOD MORNING, CHIEF.
9:31:21AM CAPTAIN CREWS, YOUR STORY IS REMARKABLE.
9:31:25AM LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, YOUR SACRIFICE, NOT ONLY
9:31:29AM YOU, BUT YOUR FAMILY, WHAT YOU DO EACH AND EVERY DAY.
9:31:32AM AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE A LITTLE TRADITION OUT AT 1 BUC.
9:31:35AM ANYBODY THAT GOES OVER AND ABOVE GETS A GAME BALL.
9:31:38AM ON BEHALF OF THE GLAZER FAMILY AND OUR ENTIRE ORGANIZATION,
9:31:41AM I WOULD LIKE TO PRESENT A GAME BALL TO YOU.
9:31:43AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:31:43AM APPRECIATE ALL YOU DO.
9:31:45AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:31:47AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:31:49AM LEO GEARY FROM BILL CURRIE FORD.
9:31:51AM CONGRATULATIONS, CAPTAIN CREWS.
9:31:54AM WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:31:56AM MAKING EVERYTHING SAFE FOR ALL OF US.
9:32:00AM ON BEHALF OF BILL CURRIE FORD, I WANT TO PRESENT TO YOU A
9:32:03AM HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM JENNIFER CURRY AND ALSO A GIFT CARD
9:32:09AM AS WELL.
9:32:10AM GIFT CERTIFICATE FOR YOUR PERSONAL VEHICLE, FULL FREE
9:32:12AM MAINTENANCE ON IT.
9:32:13AM GOODIES IN HERE AS WELL.
9:32:15AM CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN.
9:32:16AM APPRECIATE YOU.
9:32:17AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:32:21AM >> GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN.
9:32:23AM MIKE McARTHUR, STEPP'S TOWING SERVICE.
9:32:25AM CONGRATULATIONS ON A JOB WELL DONE.
9:32:27AM IT'S EASY, NOT EASY FOR YOU GUYS, BUT YOU GUYS HAVE THE BEST
9:32:31AM SUPPORTING CAPTAIN, THE BEST CHIEF, BEST SUPPORTING STAFF,
9:32:36AM BEST CREWS.
9:32:37AM CONGRATULATIONS AND WELL DESERVED.
9:32:39AM THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
9:32:40AM ON BEHALF OF TODD STEPP AND STEPP'S TOWING, ENJOY DINNER, A
9:32:44AM NIGHT OUT ON US.
9:32:47AM KEEP DOING WHAT YOU'RE DOING.
9:32:48AM THANK YOU.
9:32:48AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:32:52AM >> PATRICK DAVIS WITH ELLISON CONSTRUCTION.
9:32:55AM CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND YOUR STORY.
9:32:58AM IT TRULY IS AMAZING.
9:32:59AM THANK YOU FOR THE SACRIFICES THAT YOU MAKE AND FOR BEING A
9:33:02AM HERO IN OUR HOMETOWN.
9:33:03AM THANK YOU TO YOU ALL AS WELL FOR ALL THAT YOU DO TO KEEP US
9:33:07AM SAFE.
9:33:07AM BEHALF OF ELLISON CONSTRUCTION, PRESENT WITH YOU A GIFT CARD
9:33:11AM TO HOTEL HAYA.
9:33:13AM THANK YOU.
9:33:14AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:33:16AM >> I'M CHRISTINA FROM OXFORD COMMONS.
9:33:20AM LOVE FOR YOU TO COME TO OUR RESTAURANTS.
9:33:22AM WE DO HAVE OXFORD -- YOU ARE MORE THAN WELCOME TO JOIN US.
9:33:32AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:33:33AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:33:34AM THERE'S TOUGH COMPETITION AMONG THE FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR,
9:33:38AM RIGHT?
9:33:39AM YOU ARE THE FIRST OF THE QUARTER.
9:33:41AM WE HAVE TWO, THREE, AND FOUR TO GO.
9:33:44AM AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE BANQUET.
9:33:46AM YOU'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT WHO'S GOING TO GET THAT.
9:33:50AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:33:51AM I HAVE GIFT CERTIFICATES FOR YOU.
9:33:53AM BEHALF OF YUMMY HOUSE CHINA BISTRO, WE'RE GIVING YOU A GIFT
9:33:57AM CERTIFICATE.
9:33:57AM BEHALF OF THE CICCIO RESTAURANT GROUP, GIFT CERTIFICATE.
9:34:02AM JACKSON BISTRO ON HARBOUR ISLAND, GIFT CERTIFICATE.
9:34:07AM YOU'LL HAVE TO EXERCISE AFTER THIS.
9:34:09AM BELLABRAVA MIDTOWN SECTION.
9:34:11AM I THINK YOU WERE THERE THIS MORNING, RIGHT?
9:34:13AM PSOMI GREEK RESTAURANT GIFT CERTIFICATE.
9:34:18AM ALSO AT MEAT MARKET.
9:34:22AM AS I SAID EARLIER, WE GAVE YOU A SPECIAL RECOGNITION.
9:34:27AM A COPY OF WHAT I READ EARLIER FOR YOU.
9:34:30AM ENJOY YOURSELF.
9:34:31AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:34:32AM >> THANK YOU, SIR.
9:34:32AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:34:40AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:34:41AM CAPTAIN ROBERT CREWS.
9:34:45AM BEHALF OF TAMPA FIRE RESCUE REVIEW BOARD, IT'S AN HONOR TO
9:34:49AM GIVE YOU THIS AWARD.
9:34:52AM IT WAS A TOUGH VOTE, BUT THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A ONCE IN A
9:34:56AM LIFETIME TASK AT HAND SPEAKS VOLUMES AS FAR AS THE OUTCOME
9:35:01AM GOES.
9:35:01AM WELL DESERVED.
9:35:02AM DISTINGUISHED CAREER.
9:35:04AM I CAN'T SAY IT ENOUGH.
9:35:06AM THANK YOU.
9:35:07AM ON BEHALF OF THE AWARDS REVIEW BOARD, DEPARTMENT ITSELF,
9:35:11AM EXECUTIVE STAFF, CONGRATULATIONS.
9:35:14AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:35:21AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, EVERYONE.
9:35:23AM CAPTAIN, COME UP HERE, SIR.
9:35:25AM ON BEHALF OF GRATEFUL CITY OF TAMPA AND TAMPA CITY COUNCIL,
9:35:28AM WE THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO.
9:35:30AM HERE IS YOUR COMMENDATION, SIR.
9:35:32AM THANK YOU SO MUCH AND GOD BLESS YOU.
9:35:38AM >> I'M NOT REALLY ELEGANT AS FAR AS SPEECHES, BUT I WOULD
9:35:41AM LIKE TO THANK THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THIS RECOGNITION.
9:35:44AM I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY GOD AND MOST OF ALL I WOULD LIKE TO
9:35:47AM THANK MY WIFE FOR HER SUPPORT.
9:35:49AM I WOULD LIKE TO THANK CHIEF TRIPP FOR HER LEADERSHIP, ALL
9:35:52AM ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF, CHIEF DITTMAN WHO HELPED MENTOR ME,
9:35:56AM FRIENDS THAT GROWN UP THROUGH THE JOB.
9:36:01AM WITHOUT THEIR SUPPORT, I WOULDN'T BE HERE IN FRONT OF YOU
9:36:05AM GUYS TODAY.
9:36:05AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:36:07AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:36:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CONGRATULATIONS, SIR.
9:36:14AM YOUR STORY IS WHAT HEROES ARE MADE OF.
9:36:18AM YOU ARE CERTAINLY A HERO.
9:36:19AM YOU HAVE GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND.
9:36:21AM IT'S AMAZING.
9:36:22AM WHEN YOU PUT ON THE UNIFORM, ALL THE FIREFIGHTERS, CHIEF
9:36:24AM TRIPP MENTIONED IT, COUPLE OF HOURS AGO YOU WERE IN MIDTOWN.
9:36:28AM THAT COULD HAVE TURNED INTO ANOTHER CHAOTIC EVENT.
9:36:31AM AGAIN, TAMPA FIRE WAS THERE ON THE SCENE TAKING CARE OF
9:36:37AM BUSINESS.
9:36:37AM WELL DESERVED.
9:36:38AM AS MENTIONED, YOU WILL BE ONE OF FOUR THIS YEAR.
9:36:41AM YOU COULD BE FIREFIGHTER OF THE YEAR.
9:36:43AM CERTAINLY YOUR STORY IS IMPACTFUL.
9:36:46AM FOR THE PEOPLE WATCHING AT HOME, IT IS REALLY INSPIRATIONAL.
9:36:50AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:36:52AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:36:57AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL TAKE A MOMENT AS A FEW INDIVIDUALS
9:36:59AM LEAVE THE ROOM BEFORE WE GO TO ITEM 3.
9:37:02AM AFTER ITEM 3, WE'LL KICK OFF PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:37:05AM FOR ITEM NUMBER 3, MS. FEELEY, HOW MUCH TIME DO YOU THINK
9:37:50AM YOU NEED FOR THE PRESENTATION?
9:37:53AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I THINK IT'S ABOUT 12 MINUTES.
9:37:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU'LL GO THROUGH YOUR PRESENTATION.
9:37:58AM THEN I WOULD ASK COUNCIL MEMBERS AFTERWARDS, WE CAN OPEN IT
9:38:02AM UP FOR QUESTIONS AND DO LIKE A FIRST ROUND, IF YOU WISH TO
9:38:05AM SPEAK, OF FIVE MINUTES.
9:38:06AM IF THERE IS A SECOND ROUND, THREE MINUTES AND WE'LL KEEP IT
9:38:09AM ORGANIZED LIKE THAT.
9:38:10AM MS. FEELEY, YOU HAVE A PowerPoint.
9:38:13AM IT'S ON THIS SCREEN.
9:38:15AM IT WILL COME UP ON THE MAIN SCREEN.
9:38:18AM IF YOU WISH TO SPEAK AND INTRODUCE THE GENTLEMAN AS WELL
9:38:21AM THAT'S HERE.
9:38:22AM GO AHEAD.
9:38:22AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
9:38:24AM GOOD MORNING, ABBYE FEELEY, ADMINISTRATOR FOR DEVELOPMENT
9:38:26AM AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CITY.
9:38:28AM I'M EXCITED TO BE HERE THIS MORNING WITH JEFF GREEN FROM
9:38:32AM CLARION AND ASSOCIATES.
9:38:35AM AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE ENTERED INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH CLARION
9:38:38AM APRIL OF LAST YEAR TO START OUR LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
9:38:41AM UPDATE.
9:38:41AM THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE HAS NOT COMPREHENSIVELY BEEN
9:38:47AM UPDATED SINCE LATE 1980s.
9:38:49AM WE'VE DONE A SERIES OF TEXT AMENDMENTS.
9:38:52AM PRIVATE TEXT AMENDMENTS UP UNTIL A FEW YEARS AGO.
9:38:55AM AS YOU ALL DEAL WITH ON A REGULAR BASIS WITH REZONING
9:38:59AM APPLICATIONS AND SPECIAL USES, THERE ARE PARTS OF OUR CODE
9:39:03AM THAT REALLY NEED TO BE MODERNIZED.
9:39:05AM WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A DEFINITION FOR DOGGY DAY CARE IN OUR
9:39:09AM CODE RIGHT NOW.
9:39:10AM PART OF THIS EFFORT IS MODERNIZING THAT CODE AND
9:39:14AM STREAMLINING MANY OF OUR PROCESSES.
9:39:16AM WE'VE HAD A COUPLE PUBLIC TOUCH POINTS THROUGH THIS PROCESS,
9:39:19AM AND WE HAVE MORE SCHEDULED.
9:39:22AM SOME OF WERE AT MONDAY NIGHT'S MEETING.
9:39:25AM A KICKOFF MEETING IN SEPTEMBER.
9:39:26AM WE HAVE AN AWESOME TAMPA FORWARD WEBSITE WHERE WE KEEP
9:39:32AM CURRENT INFORMATION.
9:39:32AM AT EACH OF THE TOUCH POINTS THAT CLARION HAS COME TO MEET
9:39:38AM WITH THE PUBLIC, WE HAVE A FEEDBACK INSTRUMENT OF SOME TYPE.
9:39:40AM THE FIRST WAS A SURVEY.
9:39:42AM THIS TIME A FEEDBACK FORM.
9:39:44AM I'LL TURN IT OVER TO JEFF THIS MORNING WHO IS EXCITED TO
9:39:48AM SHARE WITH YOU WHERE WE ARE IN THE PROCESS AND SOME OF WHAT
9:39:50AM WE'VE BEEN HEARING AND ALSO WHAT OUR NEXT STEPS FORWARD ARE.
9:39:54AM THIS WILL SERVE AS MY MONTHLY UPDATE TO YOU THIS MORNING.
9:39:57AM I, AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR THE TIME THIS MORNING TO PRESENT ON
9:40:00AM THIS.
9:40:00AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:40:01AM COME ON UP, SIR.
9:40:03AM GOOD MORNING.
9:40:04AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
9:40:04AM >> THANK YOU.
9:40:05AM MY NAME IS JEFF GREEN, A PRINCIPAL WITH CLARION ASSOCIATES.
9:40:10AM THRILLED TO BE HERE TO SPEAK TO YOU ALTHOUGH I DID HAVE THE
9:40:14AM OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH MOST OF YOU WITH OUR PROJECT
9:40:16AM KICKOFF ABOUT A YEAR AGO.
9:40:18AM AS MENTIONED, WE DO HAVE A PRESENTATION TO SHOW.
9:40:20AM AS YOU KNOW FROM YOUR WORK AS COUNCIL MEMBERS, THE LDC IS
9:40:26AM ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE COMMUNITY.
9:40:28AM IT ESTABLISHES THE RULES THAT GOVERN HOW THE CITY CAN GROW
9:40:32AM AND DEVELOP.
9:40:33AM IN THE YEAR SINCE WE STARTED THIS PROJECT, WE HAVE TOURED
9:40:36AM THE CITY, WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE CONVERSATIONS WITH STAFF, WITH
9:40:40AM STAKEHOLDERS, SUCH AS MEMBERS OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY
9:40:42AM AND NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS.
9:40:44AM WE'VE TAKEN -- WE'VE REVIEWED YOUR COMPREHENSIVE PLANS, SOME
9:40:51AM OF YOUR OTHER PLANS AND TAKEN A DEEP DIVE INTO THE LAND
9:40:55AM DEVELOPMENT CODE.
9:40:56AM IT IS PART OF A THOUGHTFUL PROCESS TO GET YOU TO AN UPDATED
9:41:00AM LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE THAT BETTER MEETS THE CITY'S
9:41:03AM DEVELOPMENT GOALS FOR THE NEXT -- ALMOST 40 YEARS SINCE THE
9:41:08AM CODE WAS LAST UPDATED.
9:41:10AM OUR GOAL IS TO HAVE AN LDC THAT CAN SUPPORT THE CITY FOR THE
9:41:13AM NEXT 40 YEARS.
9:41:14AM AS ABBYE MENTIONED, MONDAY EVENING WE HAD A PUBLIC FORUM
9:41:18AM WHERE WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TALK WITH MEMBERS OF THE
9:41:20AM PUBLIC ABOUT THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE ASSESSMENT, WHICH IS
9:41:24AM THE STAGE OF THE PROJECT THAT WE'RE AT NOW.
9:41:26AM I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN SOME UPCOMING SLIDES.
9:41:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
9:41:30AM PLEASE SILENCE YOUR CELL PHONES.
9:41:32AM I HEAR A RADAR DINGING.
9:41:34AM GO AHEAD, SIR.
9:41:45AM >> MY GOAL IS TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF REFRESH BETTER THE OVERALL
9:41:49AM PROJECT AND LET YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE.
9:41:50AM WE'LL START WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT, INCLUDING A
9:41:52AM RECAP OF THE WORK THAT'S TAKEN PLACE SO FAR AND WHAT'S TO
9:41:56AM COME AND ALSO IDENTIFY WHAT WE THINK ARE SOME REAL KEYS TO
9:42:00AM SUCCESS FOR THE PROJECT BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE AT THE
9:42:02AM END OF THE DAY WE HAVE DEVELOPED AN UPDATED LAND DEVELOPMENT
9:42:05AM CODE THAT YOU ARE COMFORTABLE ADOPTING.
9:42:08AM NEXT I'LL TALK ABOUT THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE ASSESSMENT.
9:42:12AM IT INCLUDES OUR ANALYSIS OF THE CURRENT LDC AND
9:42:16AM RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHAT SHOULD BE INCLUDED IN AN UPDATED
9:42:19AM LDC.
9:42:20AM WE HAD THAT MEETING ON MONDAY.
9:42:23AM THE FEEDBACK FORUM IS OPEN THROUGH MARCH 24.
9:42:26AM AFTER WE GET THE FEEDBACK AND ANY PUBLIC INPUT, WE WILL
9:42:30AM HUDDLE WITH ABBYE, DETERMINE IF THERE ARE ANY CHANGES THAT
9:42:33AM NEED TO BE MADE TO THE ROAD MAP THAT WE SET OUT FOR DRAFTING
9:42:37AM THE UPDATED UDC IN THE LDC ASSESSMENT AND THEN WE WILL BE
9:42:41AM READY TO START DRAFTING.
9:42:43AM FINALLY, WE'LL DISCUSS NEXT STEPS OF THE PROJECT AND HAPPY
9:42:47AM TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
9:42:49AM WE'RE WITH CLARION AND ASSOCIATES.
9:42:52AM MID SIZE PLANNING CONSULTANT FIRM.
9:42:54AM IN OUR 33 YEAR HISTORY, WE COMPLETED AROUND 250
9:42:58AM COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES TO DEVELOPMENT CODES.
9:43:01AM OUT OF CHAPEL HILL OFFICE, WE HAVE TWO OFFICES OUT OF CHAPEL
9:43:04AM HILL OFFICE.
9:43:07AM DONE PROBABLY ABOUT A HUNDRED OR SO.
9:43:09AM ONLY A COUPLE OF THOSE HAVE FAILED TO BE ADOPTED.
9:43:12AM THAT'S BECAUSE WE TRY TO TAKE A WELL-STRUCTURED PROCESS TO
9:43:15AM GETTING YOU FROM YOUR CURRENT CODE TO AN UPDATED CODE.
9:43:19AM TAMPA IS A BIG COMPLEX CITY, AND TO MAKE SURE THIS PROJECT
9:43:25AM IS SUCCESSFUL, WE'VE TEAMED UP WITH SOME OTHER NATIONAL
9:43:29AM EXPERTS IN VARIOUS FIELDS.
9:43:31AM WE'RE JOINED BY DOVER, KOHL AND PARTNERS.
9:43:36AM THEY WILL BE WORKING WITH US ON SPECIFIC CONTENT SENSITIVE
9:43:40AM DESIGN STANDARDS FOR SOME SEGMENTS OF SOME OF THE CITY'S KEY
9:43:44AM CORRIDORS.
9:43:44AM KITTELSON AND ASSOCIATES, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING AND
9:43:48AM ENGINEERING FIRM WITH OFFICES IN TAMPA.
9:43:50AM THEY HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK WITH THE CITY INCLUDING ON THE
9:43:52AM CITY'S RECENTLY ADOPTED TAMPA MOVE MOBILITY PLAN.
9:43:58AM PLAN ACTIVE STUDIOS BASED OUT OF ORLANDO.
9:44:01AM IT IS A SINGLE PERSON CONSULTING FIRM.
9:44:03AM THEY WILL BE HELPING OUT WITH SOME OF THE ZONING DISTRICT
9:44:06AM REGULATIONS.
9:44:06AM AND WE HAVE NANCY STROUD, A LONGTIME FLORIDA LAND USE
9:44:10AM ATTORNEY.
9:44:10AM MANY DECADES OF EXPERIENCE.
9:44:12AM SHE WILL BE HELPING OUT WITH THE UPDATES TO THE DEVELOPMENT
9:44:14AM REVIEW AND APPROVAL PROCEDURES AS WELL AS ANY OTHER LEGAL
9:44:18AM ISSUES THAT COME UP DURING THE PROJECT.
9:44:19AM THROUGH THE MANY APPEALS THAT YOU HEAR AND THE ZONING CASES
9:44:25AM THAT COME BEFORE YOU, YOU ARE AT THE FRONT LINE OF
9:44:28AM UNDERSTANDING REALLY SOME OF THE CHALLENGES WITH THE LAND
9:44:30AM DEVELOPMENT CODE AND WHY THIS PROJECT IS SO NECESSARY.
9:44:34AM I'M CERTAIN YOU'VE HEARD, AS WE HAVE, FROM YOUR CONSTITUENTS
9:44:38AM ABOUT THEIR DIFFICULTIES WITH THE LDC.
9:44:40AM AS ABBYE MENTIONED, IT'S BEEN DECADES SINCE THE LDC WAS
9:44:45AM COMPREHENSIVELY UPDATED.
9:44:48AM DURING THAT TIME, ALMOST 300 SEPARATE UPDATES TO ADDRESS
9:44:54AM PARTICULAR ISSUES AS THEY ARRIVE.
9:44:56AM ONE ISSUE WITH THE PIECEMEAL UPDATES IS THEY ARE MADE TO
9:44:59AM ADDRESS DISCRETE ISSUES.
9:45:03AM OVER TIME, AS CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE, THERE HAVE BEEN
9:45:06AM INCONSISTENCIES THAT HAVE ENTERED THE CODE AND IT HAS BECOME
9:45:09AM POORLY ORGANIZED.
9:45:10AM THE LACK OF CLEAR DIRECTION IS HARD FOR STAFF WHO IS CHARGED
9:45:15AM WITH INTERPRETING THE CODE.
9:45:18AM IT IS HARD FOR LANDOWNERS WHO WANT TO USE THEIR PROPERTY.
9:45:21AM IT'S HARD FOR RESIDENTS WHO JUST WANT TO UNDERSTAND HOW LAND
9:45:24AM NEAR THEM CAN BE USED.
9:45:26AM I'M SURE IT'S DIFFICULT FOR YOU BECAUSE YOU NEED TO FIGURE
9:45:28AM OUT, ESPECIALLY IN ALL THESE APPEALS, WHAT DECISIONS SHOULD
9:45:32AM BE MADE AND WHAT'S THE RIGHT DECISION.
9:45:35AM FINALLY, THE CODE IS NOT WELL ALIGNED WITH THE CITY'S GOALS.
9:45:39AM THE CITY OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS, THE CITY HAS TRANSITIONED
9:45:42AM FROM GEOGRAPHIC EXPANSION, LOTS OF GREEN FIELD DEVELOPMENT,
9:45:46AM TO A PHASE WHERE YOU ARE REALLY SEEING A LOT MORE
9:45:49AM REDEVELOPMENT AND INFILL DEVELOPMENT.
9:45:52AM AND THE CITY IS TRYING TO TRANSITION FROM A VERY
9:45:55AM AUTO-ORIENTED FABRIC TO A CITY THAT IS MUCH MORE TRANSIT
9:45:59AM SUPPORTIVE AND SUPPORTS WALKABILITY AND MIXED USE
9:46:03AM DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS A CITY THAT IS MORE RESILIENT, BOTH
9:46:06AM IN THE FACE OF RISING WATER LEVELS AND TO NATURAL DISASTERS.
9:46:11AM SO IN OUR LONG EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH COMMUNITIES ON
9:46:16AM COMPREHENSIVE UPDATES TO DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS, ONE OF THE
9:46:19AM KEY THINGS WE'VE LEARNED IS THE IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPARENCY,
9:46:23AM MAKING CLEAR WHAT WE'RE DOING, WHAT DIFFERENT STAGES OF THE
9:46:26AM PROJECTS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN AND BRINGING THE ENTIRE
9:46:29AM COMMUNITY ALONG THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT.
9:46:33AM IT STARTS WITH HAVING A WELL-STRUCTURED PROJECT THAT AT THE
9:46:35AM START IDENTIFIES THE COMMUNITY'S GOALS THROUGH A REVIEW OF
9:46:39AM THE CURRENT CODE TO SEE HOW WELL IT MEETS THOSE GOALS AND
9:46:42AM WHAT CHANGES SHOULD BE MADE AND THEN THE DRAFTING OF AN
9:46:45AM UPDATED CODE THAT BETTER MEETS THOSE GOALS.
9:46:48AM IT INCLUDES REGULAR CHECK-INS WITH THE PUBLIC AT KEY TOUCH
9:46:52AM POINTS SO THEY ARE KEPT INFORMED AND SO THAT THEY HAVE THE
9:46:55AM OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE INPUT ON OUR ANALYSIS AND THE
9:47:00AM PROPOSED CODE AS IT'S BEING DRAFTED.
9:47:02AM DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS ARE UNAVOIDABLY TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS.
9:47:08AM ONE OF THE KEY GOALS OF THE PROJECT IS TO MAKE YOUR LAND
9:47:10AM DEVELOPMENT CODE MORE USER FRIENDLY, BUT THERE'S NO GETTING
9:47:13AM AROUND THE FACT THAT IT IS A LENGTHY LEGAL DOCUMENT.
9:47:17AM THAT'S WHY WE THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE AN ADVISORY
9:47:19AM COMMITTEE OF SOME SORT THAT IS ENGAGED THROUGHOUT THE
9:47:22AM PROJECT THAT AGREES TO PARTICIPATE AND REVIEW WORK PRODUCTS
9:47:27AM AND PROVIDE THE CONSIDERED INPUT.
9:47:29AM SO WE'RE THRILLED THERE IS AN ADVISORY TEAM FOR THE PROJECT
9:47:32AM THAT'S REALLY TOP-NOTCHED, FILLED WITH A DIVERSE GROUP OF
9:47:37AM PERSPECTIVES.
9:47:37AM WE HAVE MEMBERS OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY, ATTORNEYS,
9:47:40AM ARCHITECTS, AFFORDABLE HOUSING ADVOCATES, HOUSING ADVOCATES
9:47:43AM AND NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS.
9:47:44AM WE PRESENTED TO THEM AN EARLIER DRAFT OF THE LAND
9:47:49AM DEVELOPMENT CODE ASSESSMENT AND I THINK WE MET WITH THEM FOR
9:47:52AM A TOTAL OF FIVE HOURS OR SO AND WE GOT REALLY GREAT
9:47:55AM FEEDBACK.
9:47:55AM WE'RE THRILLED THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE PARTICIPATING
9:47:57AM THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT.
9:47:58AM FINALLY, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE CONSISTENT COORDINATION
9:48:03AM WITH STAKEHOLDERS THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT.
9:48:05AM SO THAT MEANS COORDINATION WITH YOU BECAUSE ULTIMATELY AT
9:48:08AM THE END OF THE DAY, YOU'RE GOING TO BE ASKED TO APPROVE THE
9:48:12AM UPDATED LDC.
9:48:14AM WITH NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS, THEY ARE COMFORTABLE WITH SOME OF
9:48:15AM THE CHANGES THAT ARE MADE AND WITH MEMBERS OF THE
9:48:18AM DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY.
9:48:19AM I CAN TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE AT THE END OF THE DAY THERE'S
9:48:23AM NOT GOING TO BE A SINGLE PERSON PROBABLY SITTING UP THERE OR
9:48:26AM IN THE COMMUNITY THAT IS HAPPY WITH EVERY SINGLE PROVISION
9:48:29AM IN THE UPDATED ORDINANCE.
9:48:30AM BUT OUR GOAL THROUGH THIS STRUCTURED PROJECT WITH ENGAGEMENT
9:48:34AM IS TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE THERE IS GENERAL CONSENSUS THAT
9:48:37AM THE UPDATED LDC IS A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT OVER WHAT YOU
9:48:41AM HAVE TODAY.
9:48:42AM SO THIS IS BRIEFLY AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT.
9:48:47AM THESE ARE THE FIVE MAIN TASKS.
9:48:49AM AS I MENTIONED, WE WERE HERE LAST YEAR FOR PROJECT
9:48:52AM INITIATION AND ORIENTATION.
9:48:53AM AND ALL OF THE FEEDBACK FEEDS INTO THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
9:48:56AM ASSESSMENT, WHICH I'LL DIG INTO A LITTLE BIT LATER.
9:48:59AM THIS IS THE SAME PROJECT SCHEDULE, BUT IT'S SET OUT IN
9:49:03AM SOMEWHAT OF A SCHEDULE FORM.
9:49:05AM YOU CAN SEE RIGHT NOW WE'VE PREPARED THE LAND DEVELOPMENT
9:49:08AM CODE ASSESSMENT.
9:49:09AM WE WENT OUT TO THE PUBLIC ON MONDAY.
9:49:11AM WE'LL BE ACCEPTING PUBLIC INPUT FOR SEVERAL MORE WEEKS.
9:49:16AM AFTER WE REACH CONSENSUS WITH STAFF ON ANY CHANGES THAT NEED
9:49:19AM TO BE MADE BASED ON THAT FEEDBACK WE'LL MOVE INTO DRAFTING
9:49:23AM THE UPDATED LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
9:49:25AM THAT'S REALLY THE MEET OF THE PROJECT.
9:49:27AM TO MAKE IT A LITTLE EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO DIGEST, WE'LL BE
9:49:30AM DRAFTING THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE IN THREE SEPARATE
9:49:33AM INSTALLMENT.
9:49:34AM YOU CAN SEE THE LITTLE DOCUMENT ICONS ON THAT SCHEDULE.
9:49:38AM THAT'S WHERE WE WILL BE DELIVERING THOSE PUBLIC DRAFTS TO
9:49:42AM THE CITY, PLACING IT ON THE WEBSITE.
9:49:44AM AND THEN HE WILL BE HAVING PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT AFTER EACH
9:49:48AM PUBLIC DRAFT SO THAT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC CAN REVIEW THE
9:49:53AM DRAFT, PROVIDE INPUT AND LET US KNOW WHAT THEY THINK THEY
9:49:56AM GOT RIGHT AND WHERE WE MAY HAVE MISSED THE MARK.
9:49:59AM AFTER WE DRAFTED THE CODE, WE MOVE ON TO TASK FOUR WHICH IS
9:50:03AM THE TESTING.
9:50:04AM WE WILL LOOK AT SEVERAL EXAMPLES OF DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS
9:50:07AM BEEN PROPOSED OR RECENTLY APPROVED IN THE CITY.
9:50:11AM UNDER YOUR CURRENT LDC AND REVIEW HOW THAT LAND, HOW THOSE
9:50:16AM PROJECTS COULD HAVE MOVED FORWARD UNDER THE UPDATED LDC TO
9:50:19AM SEE WHETHER OR NOT WE ARE ACTUALLY HITTING THE GOALS.
9:50:22AM UNDOUBTEDLY THERE WILL BE TWEAKS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE.
9:50:25AM AT THE END OF TASK FOUR, WE'LL LOOK AT THE RESULTS OF THE
9:50:28AM TESTING, ALL THE FEEDBACK WE RECEIVED DURING TASK THREE.
9:50:33AM WE WILL MAKE ALL THE EDITS INTO THE COMPLETE DRAFT OF THE
9:50:36AM UPDATED LDC.
9:50:38AM THAT BRINGS US UP TO TASK FIVE WHERE WE DELIVER TO YOU AN
9:50:42AM UPDATED LDC THAT'S PREPARED TO GO THROUGH THE ADOPTION
9:50:45AM PROCESS.
9:50:45AM SO, AS I MENTIONED, WE'RE AT THE STAGE OF THE LAND
9:50:50AM DEVELOPMENT CODE ASSESSMENT.
9:50:51AM I WANT TO BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT WHAT I TALKED WITH THE PUBLIC
9:50:55AM ON MONDAY.
9:50:57AM SO THE LDC IS A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW OF YOUR LAND
9:51:00AM DEVELOPMENT CODE.
9:51:01AM WE LOOK AT IT THROUGH THE LENS OF THE CITY'S LAND
9:51:04AM DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES.
9:51:05AM WHAT WE LEARNED FROM READING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, WHAT WE
9:51:09AM LEARNED FROM TALKING WITH MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, AND WHAT WE
9:51:12AM LEARNED FROM TALKING WITH YOU.
9:51:13AM WE EVALUATE HOW WELL YOUR CURRENT LDC HELPS THE CITY
9:51:18AM IMMEDIATE THOSE LAND DEVELOPMENT GOALS.
9:51:21AM WHERE IT DOES SO, WE WILL SAY THAT AND WE IN THE ASSESSMENT
9:51:26AM PROPOSE TO CARRY FORWARD THOSE PROVISIONS IN THE UPDATED
9:51:30AM CODE.
9:51:30AM WHERE WE THINK THE CURRENT CODE FALLS SHORT WE'LL NOTE THAT
9:51:35AM AND WE'LL PROVIDE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR HOW THEY CAN BE
9:51:38AM ADDRESSED IN THE UPDATED CODE.
9:51:39AM ONE OF THE MAIN SECTIONS OF THE ASSESSMENT IS AN ANNOTATED
9:51:43AM OUTLINE.
9:51:43AM THAT SETS OUT BY ARTICLE AND BY SECTION THE PROPOSED
9:51:48AM ORGANIZATION OF THE UPDATED CODE IF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT
9:51:52AM WE MAKE IN THE ASSESSMENT ARE ADOPTED.
9:51:55AM I MENTIONED EARLIER THE ROAD MAP FOR THE DRAFTING, THAT
9:51:58AM REALLY IS THE ROAD MAP.
9:52:00AM PART OF THE REASON WE GO TO THE PUBLIC AND TO COUNCIL WITH
9:52:04AM THIS ROAD MAP IS BECAUSE WE WANT TO SEE YOUR INPUT BEFORE WE
9:52:08AM HAVE WRITTEN A SINGLE WORD OF THE UPDATED CODE SO WE CAN
9:52:11AM MAKE SURE WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK AND HAVE A GENERAL
9:52:15AM CONSENSUS AS TO WHAT THE UPDATED LDC WILL LOOK LIKE, EVEN IF
9:52:19AM THERE'S NO AGREEMENT ON EVERY DETAIL.
9:52:22AM THE LDC ASSESSMENT IS ORGANIZED AROUND THESE EIGHT THEMES.
9:52:28AM TAKEN TOGETHER, THESE RECOMMENDATIONS ARE INTENDED TO RESULT
9:52:31AM IN A CODE THAT IS BETTER ORDERING, EASIER TO UNDERSTAND,
9:52:35AM INCLUDES MORE CLEAR AND PRECISE STANDARDS THAT REDUCE
9:52:39AM AMBIGUITY, HAVE A MORE EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT
9:52:43AM REVIEW PROCESS, INCLUDE UPDATED ZONING DISTRICTS THAT BETTER
9:52:47AM SUPPORT THE TYPES OF DEVELOPMENT THAT THE CITY WANTS TO SEE
9:52:50AM WITHOUT HAVING TO RESORT TO PD OR PDAs QUITE OFTEN AND
9:52:54AM BETTER SUPPORTS THE CITY'S OTHER PEOPLE.
9:52:57AM MORE HOUSING, MORE AFFORDABLE HOUSING, MORE TYPES OF
9:52:59AM HOUSING, MORE WALKABLE AND TRANSIT SUPPORTIVE MODES OF
9:53:03AM DEVELOPMENT, IMPROVED QUALITY OF DEVELOPMENT AND ENHANCED
9:53:07AM RESILIENCY.
9:53:07AM SO AS I MENTIONED, WE'LL BE ACCEPTING FEEDBACK THROUGH THE
9:53:14AM TAMPA FORWARD WEBSITE THROUGH MARCH 24.
9:53:16AM THAT'S TAMPA.GOV/TAMPAFORWARD.
9:53:20AM WE'LL HUDDLE WITH STAFF.
9:53:21AM THE GOAL IS THAT BEGINNING IN APRIL, WE'LL BE READY TO MOVE
9:53:25AM FORWARD WITH ACTUALLY WRITING YOUR UPDATED CODE.
9:53:29AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:53:29AM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU ALL MAY HAVE.
9:53:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN ASKED TO SPEAK
9:53:34AM FIRST.
9:53:35AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
9:53:36AM WE'LL KEEP THE TIMER ON FOR FIVE MINUTES FOR THE FIRST ROUND
9:53:40AM AND THREE MINUTES FOR THE SECOND ROUND.
9:53:44AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GOOD MORNING.
9:53:45AM I WANTED TO SAY I APPRECIATE STAFF AND DIRECTOR ABBYE FEELEY
9:53:48AM FOR TACKLING THIS PROJECT.
9:53:51AM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT THE CAN HAS BEEN KICKED DOWN THE
9:53:54AM STREET FOR SO LONG BECAUSE IT IS SUCH A DIFFICULT TASK.
9:53:57AM THIS IS LIKE MOVING MOUNTAINS TO REWRITE THIS CODE.
9:54:01AM THE WILLINGNESS TO TACKLE THIS PROJECT IS ADMIRABLE BECAUSE
9:54:07AM I WOULDN'T WANT TO DO THIS.
9:54:11AM THIS IS CRAZY.
9:54:12AM YOU MAY WANT TO CHECK YOURSELF BECAUSE THIS IS CRAZY TO BE
9:54:15AM ABLE TO DO SOMETHING THIS CONSEQUENTIAL AND SO DIFFICULT.
9:54:19AM AGAIN, VERY DIFFICULT TO PLEASE EVERYBODY BECAUSE IT IS A
9:54:22AM REWRITE OF LAND USE AND IT IS A BIG CITY.
9:54:24AM IT IS A COMPLICATED CITY THAT IS A MIX MATCH OF ALL KINDS OF
9:54:29AM GOOD AND BAD.
9:54:30AM TRYING TO PUSH THAT IN THE BLENDER AND COME OUT WITH GOOD
9:54:34AM WOULD BE A TOUGH TASK.
9:54:38AM I LIKE YOUR WEBSITE.
9:54:39AM USER FRIENDLY WEBSITE AND GOOD FOR THE CITIZENS TO KEEP
9:54:42AM TRACK OF WHAT'S HAPPENING.
9:54:44AM KUDOS ON THAT.
9:54:45AM I'LL MAKE A COUPLE OF STATEMENTS AND YOU KIND OF COVERED
9:54:47AM THIS.
9:54:48AM I FEEL LIKE -- I THINK THEY HAVE TO BE RESTATED OVER AND
9:54:56AM OVER AGAIN OTHERWISE THEY GET LOST IN THE STUFF.
9:54:59AM NOT GOING TO SURPRISE ANYBODY, FIRST ON MY LIST IS TRANSIT
9:55:05AM ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT.
9:55:06AM THAT IS THE FUTURE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA AND WE NEED TO BE
9:55:10AM KICKING OFF ON THAT.
9:55:11AM SECONDLY, I'LL SPEAK ON BEHALF OF A COUNCILPERSON NOT HERE,
9:55:15AM DIDN'T ASK ME TO DO THIS, IMPORTANT TO MYSELF AND HE BROUGHT
9:55:18AM UP, URBAN VILLAGES.
9:55:20AM HAVING THE LAND USE DEVELOPMENT CODE THAT WE HAVE THE
9:55:22AM OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE URBAN VILLAGES, EVERYBODY, REGARDLESS OF
9:55:25AM THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES, THEY HAVE AN
9:55:27AM OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO HAVE WHAT SOUTH TAMPA HAS OR WHAT
9:55:32AM SOMEBODY ELSE HAS WHERE THEY CAN WALK TO SERVICES,
9:55:35AM RESTAURANTS, DRY CLEANER, THINGS THAT PEOPLE EXPECT TO HAVE
9:55:38AM IN A TRADITIONAL KIND OF NEIGHBORHOOD.
9:55:41AM THESE CRITICAL INTERSECTIONS OF STREETS, ENSURING THAT THEY
9:55:46AM HAVE MIXED USE, THAT WE RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT
9:55:51AM MIXED USE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT AT CRITICAL INTERSECTIONS IN
9:55:56AM THE CITY AND IN OUR TRANSIT CORRIDORS, THAT MIXED USE IN
9:55:57AM THOSE AREAS ARE REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT AS WE DEVELOP THIS
9:55:59AM CODE.
9:56:00AM STEP-DOWN DENSITY FROM ALL OF THESE.
9:56:03AM I SAY TO FOLKS ALL THE TIME, A CAVEAT TO THIS, IF YOU LIVE
9:56:12AM WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY TO SOME OF THE TRANSIT DEVELOPMENTS,
9:56:15AM YOU'RE GOING TO BE EXPERIENCING INCREASE IN DENSITY BUT ALSO
9:56:18AM STEP DOWN DENSITY AS WE START GETTING TOWARDS THE
9:56:21AM NEIGHBORHOODS SO WE CAN PROTECT THE NEIGHBORHOODS, WHICH MY
9:56:24AM NEXT THING IS NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTION.
9:56:26AM ENSURING THAT TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE'RE
9:56:30AM PROTECTING THEM BECAUSE SINGLE-FAMILY HOUSES AND ATTACHED
9:56:33AM HOUSES PEOPLE BUY, SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT INVESTMENTS
9:56:37AM THEY'LL MAKE IN THEIR LIFE.
9:56:39AM SHOULD HAVE PREDICTABILITY.
9:56:40AM BURIED DEEP IN A TRADITIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD, RIDICULOUS LOT
9:56:45AM SPLITS, CHANGES OF USES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE NOT
9:56:48AM CONDUCIVE TO THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE INVESTED AND BUILT THE CITY
9:56:51AM OF TAMPA AND HAVE LIVED HERE YEARS AND YEARS.
9:56:54AM THEIR LIVES SHOULDN'T BE ADVERSELY AFFECTED BECAUSE SOMEBODY
9:56:59AM IS TRYING TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK.
9:57:01AM TOO MUCH ON TOO LITTLE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD.
9:57:03AM NEIGHBORHOOD PROTECTION IS REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME.
9:57:07AM DOWNTOWN CHANNELSIDE, WATER STREET, MAKE IT UNIFIED.
9:57:13AM LIFT THE HEIGHTS.
9:57:14AM MAKE THE LAND USE IN THIS DENSE URBAN AREA, MAKE IT COHESIVE
9:57:19AM SO IT ALL IS THE SAME.
9:57:22AM KIND OF SILLY.
9:57:23AM IT WAS A FAILED EXPERIMENT.
9:57:25AM WELL THOUGHT OUT AT THE TIME THINKING THEY WOULD HAVE OTHER
9:57:28AM TYPE OF LOWER DENSITY.
9:57:29AM NOT THE WAY IT IS DEVELOPED.
9:57:31AM NEED TO HAVE RULES CONFORM TO THAT.
9:57:33AM KENNEDY BOULEVARD, SAME THING.
9:57:35AM AWFUL LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO GO UP HIGHER.
9:57:38AM MAKE IT A TRUE BOULEVARD AGAIN WHICH WOULD BE GOOD FOR
9:57:41AM TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT WITH CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THE
9:57:43AM WESTSHORE BUSINESS DISTRICT, THE AIRPORT, DOWNTOWN, WEST
9:57:46AM TAMPA.
9:57:47AM IT IS A GREAT CORRIDOR THAT WE NEED TO CONCENTRATE ON, AND
9:57:50AM WE CAN DO BETTER.
9:57:51AM I THINK WITH LAND USE DEVELOPMENT, I THINK YOU GUYS CAN KICK
9:57:54AM THIS OFF AND HELP THE CITY OF TAMPA MAKE THAT INTO THE
9:57:59AM WORTHY BOULEVARD IT SHOULD BECOME.
9:58:01AM I THINK I HIT MOST OF THE HIGH POINTS FROM MY PERSONAL
9:58:03AM WANTS, NEEDS, DESIRES.
9:58:05AM I KNOW THIS HAS ALL BEEN OUT THERE, BUT I THINK YOU HAVE TO
9:58:08AM KEEP HITTING IT AND HITTING IT TO REMIND PEOPLE THESE ARE
9:58:12AM THE IMPORTANT VALUES WE'RE LOOKING FOR.
9:58:16AM THANK YOU.
9:58:17AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WON'T DISAGREE WITH MY ESTEEMED
9:58:20AM COLLEAGUE BUT I'M A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
9:58:22AM LOOK AT PAGE 5, WELL STRUCTURED PROJECT BUILT, VERY WELL
9:58:31AM MANAGED, PUT TOGETHER, VERY WELL BUILT.
9:58:34AM I HAVE SOME DISAGREEMENT WITH THAT BECAUSE TODAY'S SOCIETY,
9:58:40AM BUILDING QUICKER, BETTER, SUPPOSEDLY, BUT YOU HAVE CONCRETE
9:58:44AM FIRST FLOORS AND WOOD ON THE SECOND FLOOR.
9:58:48AM WHAT DOES THAT DO IN AN AREA THAT HAS PROBLEMS WITH THE
9:58:52AM ENVIRONMENT?
9:58:52AM AND THAT'S ALL OF FLORIDA.
9:58:55AM WHEN YOU HAVE STORMS COMING IN, WHEN YOU HAVE WATER COMING
9:58:58AM IN FROM THE STORMS.
9:58:59AM WHEN YOU HAVE THINGS THAT CAN REALLY DESTROY A HOUSE AND WE
9:59:03AM HAVE GONE THROUGH A LOT OF THIS LATELY NOT ONLY IN THE CITY
9:59:06AM OF TAMPA BUT ALL OF FLORIDA.
9:59:07AM I'M SPEAKING WHAT I SEE.
9:59:11AM THE CITY OF TAMPA HAS DONE SOMETHING DIFFERENT.
9:59:13AM WE HAVE DIFFERENT TIERS OF WATER COST.
9:59:15AM THE MORE YOU USE, THE HIGHER YOU PAY.
9:59:17AM WE'RE DOING IT SO WE HAVE CONTINUED WATER FOR A LONG PERIOD
9:59:21AM OF TIME.
9:59:21AM NOW WE HAVE 700,000 PEOPLE THAT WE'RE SERVING WITHIN THE
9:59:27AM CITY AND THE COUNTY.
9:59:30AM THAT WAS VERY DIFFICULT TO MANEUVER.
9:59:34AM SECONDLY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE COST OF ELECTRICITY, IT GOES
9:59:38AM UP LIKE ANYTHING ELSE.
9:59:40AM I WANT TO BUILD AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR SOMEONE, SOONER OR
9:59:44AM LATER THE COST OF WATER AND ELECTRICITY MAY EQUAL HALF THE
9:59:48AM COST OF THE PAYMENT OF THE HOUSE.
9:59:50AM HOW IS THAT SUSTAINABLE?
9:59:51AM HOW DO YOU SOLVE THOSE THINGS?
9:59:53AM WE'RE BUILDING SOMETHING THAT'S FOR THE PRESENT, BUT 20
9:59:57AM YEARS FROM NOW, 30 YEARS FROM NOW, WHAT DO YOU HAVE?
10:00:00AM THAT'S HOW I THINK.
10:00:02AM SO NOW WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE BUILDING ITSELF, HOW IS STRONGER
10:00:06AM BETTER IF THE SECOND FLOOR IS MADE OUT OF WOOD?
10:00:09AM WHEN YOU GO TO THIRD-WORLD COUNTRIES, THEY THOUGHT ABOUT
10:00:12AM THIS A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
10:00:14AM THEY DON'T BUILD ANYTHING THAT HAS DRYWALL.
10:00:16AM I'M NOT ANTI-DRYWALL.
10:00:17AM NOW THE DRYWALL PEOPLE HATE ME.
10:00:20AM I'M NOT ANTI-ANYBODY.
10:00:22AM WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE ROOF, DOESN'T HAVE AN EAVE 18, 24
10:00:31AM INCHES, WALLS CAVE IN.
10:00:35AM BUT THAT'S EXACTLY HOW WE REPLACE THEM.
10:00:37AM I HAVE NO DOUBT ABOUT THAT.
10:00:39AM IN MY OPINION, THAT'S NOT HOW WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM.
10:00:43AM WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HOUSING IN THE BAHAMAS, THE ISLANDS,
10:00:48AM IT'S DIFFERENT.
10:00:49AM YOU HAVE A FLAT ROOF AT AN ANGLE.
10:00:52AM NINE INCHES OF CONCRETE WITH REBAR WIRE TIED INTO THE
10:00:58AM STRUCTURE IN THE GROUND.
10:00:59AM WHEN THE HURRICANE COMES, THE EFFECT OF TAKING THE ROOF IS
10:01:02AM ALMOST NIL.
10:01:03AM INSIDE NO DRYWALL.
10:01:08AM IT'S ALL CONCRETE.
10:01:09AM LOOKS JUST LIKE DRYWALL.
10:01:12AM IF IT GETS WET, WAIT UNTIL IT DRIES AND YOU PAINT IT.
10:01:17AM THE INSURANCE WE'VE HAD HERE, THE AGENCIES, I'VE HAD FRIENDS
10:01:20AM OF MINE WHO HAVE HAD CATASTROPHES, NOT ONLY MY DISTRICT AND
10:01:24AM EVERY DISTRICT IN THE CITY, AND THE FEMA, YEAH, A LOT OF IT
10:01:27AM IS SUCCESSFUL BUT A LOT OF THEM GET TURNED DOWN FOR
10:01:30AM WHATEVER.
10:01:31AM I HAD ONE I TALKED TO YESTERDAY WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE IS A
10:01:37AM CONTINUATION OF ANOTHER THING COMING WITHOUT US REALIZING
10:01:39AM WHAT THAT IS.
10:01:40AM WE BETTER START THINKING ABOUT NOT TODAY AND TOMORROW, WE
10:01:43AM BETTER START THINKING FOR A LITTLE BIT OF THE FUTURE.
10:01:46AM IF WE THINK WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LESSER PROBLEM WITH
10:01:51AM HURRICANES, AND I'M NOT A WEATHER PERSON.
10:01:55AM I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE WEATHER.
10:01:56AM THE GULF YESTERDAY WAS THREE DEGREES WARMER THAN IT WAS THIS
10:01:59AM TIME LAST YEAR.
10:02:00AM DON'T LISTEN TO WHAT THE METEOROLOGISTS ARE SAYING ON
10:02:05AM TELEVISION.
10:02:05AM ALL THOSE ARE ON MY MIND.
10:02:07AM HOW DO YOU SOLVE THE PROBLEM?
10:02:09AM KEEP DOING THE SAME THING WE'RE DOING, THE ANSWER IS ABOUT
10:02:12AM ZERO PERCENT.
10:02:13AM WE MUST HAVE SOMETHING THAT GIVES AT LEAST AN OPTION TO
10:02:16AM SOMEBODY TO BUILD SOMETHING THAT IS NOT -- THAT'S MY FEELING
10:02:21AM TO HELP SOCIETY, NOT TODAY, BUT FOR TOMORROW, FOR MUCH
10:02:26AM LONGER TIME.
10:02:27AM THESE THINGS ARE SOMETIMES YOU TALK ABOUT SOLAR.
10:02:31AM I'LL SPEAK ABOUT IT LATER ON PRIVATELY WITH SOMEONE.
10:02:34AM WHAT I'M SAYING IS THAT SOMETHING DOESN'T WORK.
10:02:39AM SOLAR IN MY HOUSE, AND MY BILL LAST MONTH I THOUGHT IT WAS
10:02:42AM LOW, MONTH BEFORE IT WAS $22.
10:02:44AM I'LL SHOW YOU THE ELECTRIC BILL.
10:02:47AM I USE IT A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
10:02:51AM I WASH ONCE A MONTH.
10:02:54AM I WASH ONE TIME A MONTH.
10:02:57AM WHY?
10:02:57AM I USE LESS WATER AND ELECTRICITY.
10:03:00AM YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU.
10:03:02AM I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU.
10:03:04AM YOU HAVE A FINE REPUTATION.
10:03:05AM COMPANY HAS A FINE REPUTATION.
10:03:07AM NOT HERE TO QUESTION IT.
10:03:09AM I'M HERE TO QUESTION MYSELF, WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING IN THE
10:03:12AM CITY OF TAMPA TO HELP IT GET BETTER?
10:03:14AM NOT MUCH.
10:03:15AM DOING THE SAME THING WE DID YESTERDAY TODAY AND TOMORROW.
10:03:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST WANT TO REMIND FOLKS THAT TRANSIT
10:03:27AM ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT DOES NOT WORK WITHOUT TRANSIT FUNDING.
10:03:31AM THROW THAT OUT THERE.
10:03:32AM BECAUSE YOU CAN BUILD ALL YOU WANT AND IF WE DON'T HAVE THE
10:03:35AM TRANSIT, IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP.
10:03:38AM I DO WANT TO MENTION OF THE EIGHT THEMES YOU ALL TALKED
10:03:41AM ABOUT FIVE OF THEM.
10:03:43AM I REALLY HOPE YOU READ THEM.
10:03:47AM AND THIS GOES INTO THE OTHER ISSUE THAT I'VE ASKED FOR
10:03:51AM PROBABLY THREE TIMES NOW.
10:03:53AM WHEN YOU MENTION TRANSPARENCY, I HAVE ASKED OVER AND OVER
10:03:56AM AGAIN BECAUSE THE PUBLIC WANTS THIS AS WELL.
10:03:58AM VIDEOS ON THE WEBSITE.
10:03:59AM VIDEOS OF THE ADVISORY TEAM MEETINGS.
10:04:02AM VIDEOS OF THE CLARION MEETINGS.
10:04:05AM I BELIEVE IF COUNCIL HAD THE ABILITY TO WATCH THOSE
10:04:07AM MEETINGS, IT WOULD BE VERY CLEAR OR HELP THEM UNDERSTAND AND
10:04:12AM HELP ALL OF US IN THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THESE THEMES
10:04:15AM ARE AND GOALS ARE BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF WORDS AND
10:04:18AM IMPORTANT WORDS.
10:04:19AM YOU CAN'T TAKE ANY OF THEM OUT.
10:04:21AM I REALLY WANT TO MAKE SURE THE PUBLIC HAS ACCESS TO THOSE
10:04:25AM VIDEOS BECAUSE THIS IS VERY, VERY DENSE INFORMATION.
10:04:28AM THERE'S JUST NO WAY WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER ALL
10:04:31AM QUESTIONS NOW.
10:04:32AM I'M JUST GOING TO PUT IN ANOTHER PLUG TO MAKE SURE THOSE
10:04:34AM VIDEOS MAKE IT TO THE WEBSITE SO THE PUBLIC CAN REALLY SEE
10:04:38AM BECAUSE YOU HAVE UNTIL THE END OF THIS MONTH TO GIVE YOUR
10:04:43AM FEEDBACK.
10:04:44AM AND IF THE VIDEOS ARE UP, THEN I THINK THE FEEDBACK COULD BE
10:04:47AM BETTER BECAUSE 150 PAGES IS WAY TOO MUCH FOR PEOPLE TO
10:04:51AM ABSORB, BUT LISTENING TO THE PRESENTATION, WHICH I WAS AT ON
10:04:55AM MONDAY, WAS REALLY GOOD, ALTHOUGH DENSE.
10:04:58AM BUT PEOPLE COULD WATCH IT A COUPLE OF TIMES AND GET SOME
10:05:01AM INFORMATION AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK.
10:05:03AM THAT'S ALL I'M GOING TO ASK FOR, PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU GET
10:05:07AM THOSE VETOED ON THE WEBSITE.
10:05:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
10:05:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
10:05:16AM GOOD MORNING.
10:05:16AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
10:05:19AM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED IS OUR EARLIER CONVERSATIONS
10:05:21AM WITH CLARION AS A CITY COUNCIL YOU HAD INDIVIDUAL
10:05:25AM CONVERSATIONS.
10:05:26AM EVEN FOR TRANSPARENCY BECAUSE YOU KNOW WE'RE NOT REALLY
10:05:28AM ALLOWED TO TALK WITH ONE ANOTHER, MAKING THAT INFORMATION
10:05:32AM PUBLIC, THINGS ALREADY SAID.
10:05:34AM I WOULD HATE FOR THE INFORMATION TO COME OUT AND OUR
10:05:36AM CONVERSATIONS WERE NOT TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN YOU DO
10:05:40AM THAT FINAL PRESENTATION.
10:05:41AM I ALSO FEEL LIKE YOU SHOULD CIRCLE BACK TO US AGAIN NOW THAT
10:05:45AM WE'RE IN THIS PROCESS FURTHER ALONG.
10:05:46AM SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S IMPORTANT.
10:05:48AM ONE OF THE THINGS, PROTECT THE CHARACTER OF THE CITY'S
10:05:51AM RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS FROM INCOMPATIBLE DEVELOPMENT.
10:05:54AM WE AS A COUNCIL HAVE ACTUALLY AT TIMES APPROVED THINGS IN
10:06:00AM SINGLE-FAMILY HOME NEIGHBORHOODS THAT HAVE COME BEFORE US,
10:06:08AM AND IT'S REALLY UP TO US TO FIGHT FOR OR AGAINST SOME OF
10:06:11AM THOSE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENTS.
10:06:12AM I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE CODE THAT'S WRITTEN THAT DOES
10:06:18AM ADDRESS US PROVIDING HOUSING TO PEOPLE ON SINGLE-FAMILY LOTS
10:06:23AM BECAUSE I'VE TRAVELED TO ONE IN SOUTH TAMPA WHERE IT IS A
10:06:26AM BEAUTIFUL DUPLEX AND LOOKS LIKE ONE HOUSE BUT IT'S NOT.
10:06:30AM THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO ME, ESPECIALLY IN NEIGHBORHOODS
10:06:32AM ON THIS SIDE OF KENNEDY BOULEVARD.
10:06:35AM NO SHADE TO SOUTH TAMPA BUT, YOU KNOW, JUST A LITTLE BIT
10:06:38AM MORE OF THAT WHERE IT'S VERY THOUGHTFUL.
10:06:41AM ALSO, IT'S PARTICULARLY IN URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS, WE HAVE
10:06:44AM PEOPLE THAT COME BEFORE US A LOT ABOUT SMALL BUSINESSES.
10:06:49AM I HAPPEN TO OWN ONE, SO THIS IS HOW IT MAKES SENSE TO ME.
10:06:55AM I'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH MS. FEELEY AS WELL.
10:06:57AM THERE IS A SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, FOUR UNITS THAT SITS
10:07:02AM INTO A COMMUNITY THAT PEOPLE WALK TO.
10:07:05AM AND IT IS WITHIN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:07:06AM IT EXISTS FOR ME IN CARVER CITY WITH THE BARBEQUE AND THE
10:07:12AM STORE WHEN I WAS GROWING UP.
10:07:14AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE MORE OF THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE CANNOT
10:07:17AM AFFORD THESE HUGE COMMERCIAL SPACES BECAUSE WE HAVE HAD A
10:07:21AM PROJECT COME BEFORE US WHERE IT WAS MIXED USE AND THEY GAVE
10:07:26AM VERY LITTLE COMMERCIAL SPACE AND THEY CAME INTO OUR
10:07:28AM NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE'RE THINKING WE WOULD GET MORE COMMERCIAL
10:07:31AM SPACE THAT BENEFITS THE COMMUNITY AND IT REALLY DOESN'T.
10:07:34AM THAT IS SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WRITTEN STRONGLY INTO
10:07:38AM OUR CODE THAT PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THAT.
10:07:41AM AS WELL AS WHERE IT FITS INTO THE COMPATIBILITY OF THE
10:07:48AM NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE IT IS REALLY WELCOMING.
10:07:49AM FOR ME, THAT'S BASICALLY IT.
10:07:53AM I WOULD LIKE FOR THE CIRCLE-BACK CONVERSATION WITH US.
10:07:56AM I WOULD LIKE FOR WHAT COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE THINKING TO ALSO
10:07:59AM BE PUBLIC AND TRANSPARENT SO THERE ARE NO SURPRISES TO THE
10:08:05AM PUBLIC.
10:08:05AM I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE
10:08:08AM THINKING AS WELL.
10:08:09AM THAT'S IT.
10:08:09AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:08:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON.
10:08:13AM ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD?
10:08:19AM DO WE NEED A SECOND ROUND?
10:08:21AM MS. FEELEY, I'LL CONTACT YOU.
10:08:25AM SET UP A MEETING AND GIVE YOU A PHONE CALL ON MY THOUGHTS.
10:08:28AM IT IS A HUGE UNDERTAKING.
10:08:30AM THE CITY OF TAMPA HAS CHANGED.
10:08:31AM I'VE BEEN HERE MY WHOLE LIFE GOING ON 41 YEARS.
10:08:34AM WE HAVE TREMENDOUS GROWTH, TREMENDOUS POPULATION AND
10:08:39AM TREMENDOUS CHALLENGES.
10:08:40AM IT IS A BIG CITY.
10:08:41AM A LOT HAPPENS DOWNTOWN.
10:08:43AM A LOT HAPPENS IN SOUTH TAMPA.
10:08:45AM A LOT IS HAPPENING IN WEST TAMPA FROM MY NEIGHBORHOOD TO THE
10:08:48AM AIRPORT, BUT THERE IS A WHOLE OTHER AREA OF TOWN.
10:08:50AM I WANT TO SEE THE PARTS OF THE CITY THAT HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN
10:08:55AM THAT WE GET THAT INVESTMENT IN THERE TO LIFT THE COMMUNITY
10:08:57AM UP, AND THAT WE ARE A RISING CITY AND EVERYBODY GETS A PART
10:09:02AM OF THAT.
10:09:03AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:09:05AM >> THANK YOU.
10:09:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE'LL GO TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:09:07AM I HAVE TWO REGISTERED SPEAKERS AND THEN WE'LL HAVE THE
10:09:10AM IN-PERSON INDIVIDUALS.
10:09:11AM MY FIRST REGISTERED SPEAKER IS MR. MICHAEL RANDOLPH FOLLOWED
10:09:15AM BY BRANDON.
10:09:16AM GOOD MORNING, MR. RANDOLPH.
10:09:18AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:09:19AM YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES.
10:09:23AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:09:25AM MY NAME IS MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
10:09:27AM I'M WITH THE WEST TAMPA CDC.
10:09:30AM I WANT TO START OFF BY THANKING THOSE WHO WERE ABLE TO LOG
10:09:34AM INTO OUR MOST RECENT MEETING.
10:09:37AM I DO APOLOGIZE TO THE MAJORITY THAT WERE NOT ABLE TO LOG IN
10:09:43AM BECAUSE OF TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.
10:09:45AM WE WILL DO A FOLLOW-UP MEETING ON MARCH THE 28th.
10:09:49AM I ALSO WANT TO THANK JOE ROBINSON WHO GAVE AN UPDATE ABOUT
10:09:54AM THE WEST TAMPA CDC AND THE CURRENT CRA PROGRAMS AND
10:09:59AM PROJECTS, AS WELL AS I WANT TO THANK ATHENA JONES AND JANICE
10:10:04AM WILLIAMS WHO SHARED THE ROLE OF NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS AND
10:10:10AM CONCERNED CITIZENS.
10:10:14AM THE FEEDBACK I GOT BACK FROM FOLKS AROUND THE STATE AND
10:10:18AM AROUND THE TAMPA BAY AREA WAS THAT THE LOVE AND COMMITMENT
10:10:21AM SHOWN BY THE COMMUNITY WAS COMPELLING.
10:10:24AM AT THE NEXT MEETING WE WILL FOCUS ON COMMUNITY-BASED
10:10:28AM INITIATIVES AND WHAT RESEARCH SHOWS HOW IMPACTFUL A STRATEGY
10:10:35AM THIS WOULD HELP.
10:10:36AM THREE PARTS TO THE STRATEGY.
10:10:37AM THE FIRST IS MENTAL HEALTH.
10:10:40AM WE ARE FOCUSED ON CREATING AN APPRECIATION AND ACCEPTANCE OF
10:10:45AM REMOVING THE STIGMA ASSOCIATED WITH THIS.
10:10:48AM OUR MOBILIZATION STRATEGY INCLUDES CONNECTING NEIGHBORHOOD
10:10:51AM GROUPS TO FAITH COMMUNITY, BUSINESSES, BARBER SHOPS, SALONS,
10:10:58AM COMMUNITY, SCHOOLS, THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT AND SOCIAL
10:11:02AM SERVICES TO THIS INITIATIVE.
10:11:05AM DIETARY AND HEALTH INITIATIVES.
10:11:10AM THE NEXT MEETING WILL FOCUS ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
10:11:15AM GIVEN THE CURRENT CLIMATE RELATED TO JOB LOSSES FROM THE
10:11:18AM GOVERNMENT AND BIG BUSINESSES, OUR HOME-BASED BUSINESSES
10:11:24AM INITIATIVE WOULD PROVIDE SUPPLEMENTAL INCOME TO DISABLED,
10:11:29AM LOW INCOME AND -- WE'LL ALSO FOCUS ON OUR COMMUNITY
10:11:35AM ENGAGEMENT SERVICE COMING UP IN A MONTH AND QUALITY TO GET
10:11:38AM ENGAGED IN THE COMMUNITY.
10:11:40AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND FOR THOSE THAT WOULD NOT -- I DEEPLY
10:11:44AM APOLOGIZE.
10:11:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, MR. RANDOLPH.
10:11:48AM MR. BRANDON CANE, IS THE NEXT SPEAKER.
10:11:53AM NO.
10:11:53AM WE'LL GO TO IN-PERSON SPEAKER.
10:11:55AM THE FIRST SPEAKER IS REVEREND NEDDY ASTUDILLO, IF YOU ARE
10:12:00AM HERE, COME ON UP.
10:12:02AM FOLLOWED BY MR. STEVE MICHELINI AND MS. TINA ADAMS.
10:12:07AM YES, MA'AM, GO AHEAD.
10:12:10AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
10:12:10AM MY NAME IS REVEREND NEDDY ASTUDILLO.
10:12:13AM I AM HERE AS A MEMBER OF THE FRIENDS OF ED SPARK, A SEMINOLE
10:12:16AM HEIGHTS COMMUNITY THAT IN THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS HAS BEEN
10:12:19AM IN THE MIDDLE OF A CONFLICT BETWEEN A NEIGHBORHOOD
10:12:22AM DEVELOPER, CITY STAFF AND FRIENDS OF THE PARK.
10:12:24AM THE CONFLICT IS RELATED TO THE CITY APPROVAL OF A
10:12:27AM RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT WHICH IS ALLOWING THE BUILDING OF THE
10:12:31AM ROAD THAT WON'T LAST, UPKEEP WILL FALL ON THE BACKS OF THE
10:12:34AM COMMUNITY THAT HAS NOT BEEN CONSULTED FOR ITS APPROVAL THAT
10:12:37AM IN AN AREA THE LAST 50 YEARS CONSIDERED BY THE NEIGHBORS TO
10:12:41AM BE PART OF THE PARK.
10:12:42AM ON A FLOODPLAIN WHICH PERSISTENTLY FLOODS EVEN DURING RAINY
10:12:49AM DAYS.
10:12:50AM PERHAPS THE LESS FORTUNATE FLORIDA PROTECTED PALM TREES
10:12:53AM WHICH WERE CUT OUT FROM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY PRIOR TO THE PERMIT
10:12:58AM BEING SUBMITTED AND GRANTED.
10:13:01AM I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND TWO NIGHTS AGO THE PUBLIC FORUM, AND I
10:13:06AM WAS PLEASED TO HEAR RECOMMENDED CHANGES FOR THE CODE THAT
10:13:09AM WOULD ADDRESS MANY OF THE ISSUES FOR WHICH OUR COMMUNITY
10:13:13AM FINDS ITSELF STRUGGLING WITH.
10:13:15AM THE ASSESSMENT RECOMMENDS ENCOURAGING DEVELOPMENT WHERE
10:13:19AM THERE IS LOWER RISK OF FLOODING AND RESTRICTIONS ON
10:13:22AM DEVELOPMENT IN THE COASTAL HIGH HAZARD AREA.
10:13:24AM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT WILL ALLOW THE DEVELOPER TO BUILD A
10:13:27AM ROAD THAT WILL SERVICE MULTI-LOT HOUSING DEVELOPMENT IN AN
10:13:31AM AE-12 FLOODPLAIN.
10:13:34AM ALL OF THE ROAD AND 95% OF THE FIVE LOTS THE DEVELOPER OWNS
10:13:40AM ARE LOCATED IN AE-12 FLOODPLAIN, AN AREA EVERYONE IN OUR
10:13:45AM COMMUNITY SAW SIX TO NINE FEET OF STORM SURGE.
10:13:49AM SOME NEIGHBORS FEAR THIS WILL INCREASE FLOODING IN THEIR
10:13:56AM HOME.
10:13:57AM USE OF FILL CAN ALTER DRAINAGE SITES, LESSEN RAINFALL
10:14:01AM INFILTRATION, ACCELERATE RUNOFF OR DISPLACE WATER ONTO
10:14:04AM NEIGHBORING PROPERTIES AND DOWN-STREAM COMMUNITIES.
10:14:09AM ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION WHICH DIRECTLY IMPACTS OUR
10:14:12AM COMMUNITY'S PRESENT EXPERIENCE IS NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
10:14:15AM REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN APPLICATIONS.
10:14:18AM ALL OF THE ABOVE CONCERNS AND THE INCREASING INTIMIDATIONS
10:14:20AM FROM THE DEVELOPER SUFFERED BY THOSE WHO HAVE PUBLICLY
10:14:24AM OPPOSED THE ROAD INCLUDING MYSELF IS TO THE NEED FOR PUBLIC
10:14:28AM COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT WHERE BOTH THE DEVELOPER AND THE
10:14:31AM NEIGHBORHOOD MEMBERS ARE PLACED ON AN EQUAL FOOTING OF
10:14:35AM MUTUAL SCRUTINY AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
10:14:37AM THE LACK OF CITY SUPPORT AND PERMIT APPROVAL WHERE THE ROAD
10:14:40AM DOESN'T MEET CODE AND THE APPROVAL PLAN IS FULL OF
10:14:44AM CONTRADICTIONS AND OMISSIONS LEFT THE MEMBERS CALLING THE
10:14:47AM POLICE TRYING TO FIND A SOLUTION AND FEELING FRUSTRATED
10:14:52AM WITHOUT SOLUTIONS.
10:14:56AM THE CODE WRITTEN ADVANTAGES OF DEVELOPERS.
10:15:00AM IF TODAY UNDER THE LENSES OF THE NEW CODE, I SUSPECT WE
10:15:03AM WOULD PROBABLY SEE THESE PROJECTS HALTED.
10:15:06AM THERE WOULD BE A WAY FOR NEIGHBORS TO SHARE INPUT.
10:15:09AM THE DEVELOPER WOULD BE ENCOURAGED TO BUILD HIS MULTI-LOT
10:15:11AM DEVELOPMENT WITH NO FILL AND HOUSES ON STILTS ON FRONT
10:15:15AM STREET AND EXISTING STREET ON HIGHER GROUND.
10:15:17AM THANK YOU.
10:15:18AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. STEVE MICHELINI.
10:15:20AM TINA ADAMS.
10:15:21AM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
10:15:22AM GOOD MORNING, SIR.
10:15:24AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:15:25AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:15:25AM STEVE MICHELINI.
10:15:27AM I'M HERE REALLY TO SPEAK ABOUT THE STORMWATER ISSUE.
10:15:30AM I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT MOVING PARTS TO THIS.
10:15:37AM THERE ARE OPTIONS THAT NEED TO BE EXAMINED WHICH ARE
10:15:39AM PROHIBITED BY YOUR EXISTING CONTRACT WITH KIMMINS.
10:15:44AM THEY ONLY GIVE YOU THREE ROUTES, AND ALL THREE ROUTES DIRECT
10:15:48AM THEM TOWARD HOWARD.
10:15:49AM THIS WAS DIRECTED BY STAFF IN THEIR AGREEMENT AND IT DID NOT
10:15:53AM INCLUDE YOUR MOTION THAT WAS UNANIMOUSLY MADE THAT SAID
10:15:57AM ELIMINATE BRISTOL.
10:15:59AM BRISTOL IS STILL IN THE CONTRACT FOR CONSIDERATION.
10:16:02AM LET ME SHOW YOU WHAT MAINTENANCE LOOKS LIKE ON THESE
10:16:05AM DITCHES.
10:16:06AM FLOOR TREES GROWING IN THEM.
10:16:09AM I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT NEEDS TO BE IDENTIFIED IS HOW
10:16:11AM MANY CREWS ARE OPERATING TO CLEAN THE DITCHES AND CULVERTS
10:16:14AM THAT ARE EXISTING.
10:16:16AM I UNDERSTAND THAT A NUMBER OF OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS ARE
10:16:18AM LOOKING AT THIS IN TERMS OF THE CITY DIDN'T MAINTAIN THE
10:16:23AM DITCHES AND THEY ARE LOOKING FOR SOME KIND OF COMPENSATION
10:16:28AM TO COMPENSATE THEM FOR THE DAMAGES DONE TO THEIR HOMES.
10:16:31AM YOU ALSO MADE DISCUSSIONS ABOUT AVOIDING HOWARD.
10:16:37AM THAT'S NOT INCLUDED IN THIS DIRECTION.
10:16:40AM AN AMENDMENT NEEDS TO BE MADE AND HAS TO BE MADE FROM THE
10:16:43AM COUNCIL TO ALLOW FOR OTHER OPTIONS.
10:16:45AM WE'RE NOT SAYING IT HAS TO BE DIRECTED TO ANOTHER OPTION BUT
10:16:48AM SIMPLY TO ALLOW THE OTHER OPTIONS TO BE EXPLORED.
10:16:51AM IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS YOU RECEIVED 120 PAGES OF DOCUMENTS
10:16:56AM FROM -- ONE FROM THE ATTORNEY AND ANOTHER ONE FROM THE
10:16:59AM HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION THAT WAS DELIVERED TO YOU ALL ON
10:17:02AM WEDNESDAY.
10:17:03AM THAT OUTLINES THE CONTRADICTIONS AND THE ERRORS THAT ARE
10:17:06AM INCLUDED IN THE CURRENT PRESENTATION REGARDING THE SOUTH
10:17:10AM HOWARD PROJECT.
10:17:14AM WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LISTENING TO THE ENGINEER'S
10:17:16AM REPORT, WHICH ENGINEERS ARE YOU LISTENING TO?
10:17:19AM THE ONES HIRED PRIVATELY BY THE NEIGHBORS AND BUSINESSES OR
10:17:23AM ONLY THE ONES HIRED BY THE CITY AND WERE PRESENTED TO YOU
10:17:28AM FROM PLANS OVER THREE OR FOUR YEARS OLD?
10:17:31AM THE ONLY COMMON ELEMENT HERE IS WE ALL WANT THE PROBLEM
10:17:36AM SOLVED.
10:17:36AM WE'RE NOT TRYING TO KILL THE PROJECT.
10:17:38AM LOOK AT THE OPTIONS THAT MAKE THE MOST SENSE.
10:17:41AM GET THE MAINTENANCE OUT THERE AND START RESTORING THESE
10:17:46AM DITCHES AND MAKE THEM FUNCTION AGAIN.
10:17:48AM THEY SIMPLY ARE NOT FUNCTIONAL.
10:17:50AM WHEN WE GET STORMWATER AND THE DESIGN THEY HAVE NOW, WHEN
10:17:55AM YOU GET IT THE NEW PLAN ONLY COVERS THREE INCHES OF RAIN.
10:17:58AM IT IS A SUMMER STORM.
10:17:59AM IT IS NOT A MAJOR EVENT.
10:18:02AM CURRENT DEVELOPMENT CRITERIA SAYS YOU HAVE TO DESIGN TO A 25
10:18:06AM YEAR STORM FOR PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT.
10:18:09AM THAT CRITERIA SHOULD ALSO BE IN THERE BUT IT'S NOT.
10:18:13AM NO ACCESS HAS BEEN PROVIDED IN THE CURRENT PLAN FOR
10:18:17AM OPERATIONS.
10:18:18AM THEY ARE ESTIMATING TWO TO THREE MONTHS FOR THE BUSINESSES
10:18:21AM AND HOMEOWNERS TO BE INCONVENIENCED AND SHUT DOWN.
10:18:24AM SAFETY CONCERNS ARE ALSO A PRIMARY ISSUE HERE.
10:18:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:18:28AM >> THANK YOU.
10:18:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MRS. TINA ADAMS.
10:18:31AM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
10:18:35AM VALERIE BULLOCK.
10:18:36AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:18:37AM I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO BE HEARD AND
10:18:42AM THANK YOU FOR GIVING MY NEIGHBORS, MY FAMILY, AND MYSELF
10:18:47AM HOPE, HOPE FOR A TIME WHEN OUR HOMES WON'T FLOOD AND OUR
10:18:52AM STREETS WON'T FLOOD DURING AFTERNOON STORMS.
10:18:56AM HOPE THAT WE'LL BE SAFE IN OUR HOMES.
10:19:01AM HOPE FOR A NEW AND IMPROVED INFRASTRUCTURE SYSTEM AND
10:19:05AM STORMWATER SYSTEM THAT HELPS US AND NOT DESTROYS OUR HOMES.
10:19:10AM THAT IS WHAT THE SOUTH HOWARD FLOOD RELIEF PROJECT WILL DO.
10:19:17AM ON OCTOBER 10, WE FOUND OUT, THAT WAS THE DAY WE FOUND OUT
10:19:22AM JUST HOW INADEQUATE AND OUTDATED OUR STORMWATER SYSTEM IS.
10:19:28AM NO AMOUNT OF MAINTENANCE CAN FIX IT.
10:19:31AM THAT WOULD BE NICE IF IT WOULD BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE QUICK,
10:19:36AM BUT THIS IS A BIG PROBLEM.
10:19:37AM IT'S NOT GOING TO HAVE A QUICK FIX.
10:19:39AM SO LET'S JUST GIVE THIS PROJECT ALL OF OUR ATTENTION AND ALL
10:19:46AM OF OUR RESOURCES.
10:19:48AM BUT I DON'T WANT JUST THE RESOURCES FOR MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:19:53AM I REALIZE THERE IS A LOT OF FLOODING ALL OVER TAMPA AND WE
10:19:57AM NEED TO SOLVE THIS PROBLEM.
10:19:58AM WE SHOULD ALL FEEL SAFE IN OUR HOMES.
10:20:04AM I'VE MOVED BACK INTO MY HOUSE, PROUD TO SAY.
10:20:07AM I LIVE UPSTAIRS AND I'M WORKING ON THE DOWN STAIRS.
10:20:13AM THAT'S WHY I HAVEN'T BEEN HERE TO LISTEN TO YOU GUYS.
10:20:15AM I FEEL LIKE I LEARN A LOT WITH ALL THE MEETINGS.
10:20:18AM SO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
10:20:19AM BUT I HAVE A TANGIBLE REMINDER EVERY DAY ABOUT THIS
10:20:25AM STORMWATER SYSTEM AND ABOUT THIS PROJECT.
10:20:29AM I KNOW IT'S SILLY, BUT I BROUGHT YOU ALL A LITTLE TANGIBLE
10:20:37AM REMINDER TO HELP YOU GUYS.
10:20:39AM I COULDN'T BRING IN REAL SHOVELS BECAUSE THEY WOULDN'T GO
10:20:43AM THROUGH THE METAL DETECTOR.
10:20:46AM I BROUGHT YOU SHOVELS TO HELP YOU REMEMBER THAT WE NEED TO
10:20:54AM START DIGGING.
10:20:55AM THE SOONER THE BETTER.
10:20:57AM I WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR I JUST WANT THE MOST EFFECTIVE ROUTE
10:21:00AM THAT IS THE MOST EFFICIENT, THAT IS THE MOST COST EFFICIENT
10:21:05AM BECAUSE I REALIZE THERE ARE A LOT OF AREAS THAT NEED FLOOD
10:21:08AM RELIEF.
10:21:09AM IT'S GOING TO COST A LOT OF MONEY, FROM FOREST HILLS TO
10:21:13AM PALMA CEIA PINES, TO WHAT WE JUST HEARD ABOUT IN SEMINOLE
10:21:16AM HEIGHTS TO THE WESTSHORE DISTRICT.
10:21:19AM AND EVERYBODY DESERVES YOUR HELP AND NEEDS IT.
10:21:21AM THANK YOU.
10:21:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
10:21:23AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:21:23AM MRS. STEPHANIE POYNOR.
10:21:26AM MS. VALERIE BULLOCK.
10:21:28AM MR. ABDULLAH.
10:21:45AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:21:46AM STEPHANIE POYNOR.
10:21:48AM I WANT TO APOLOGIZE.
10:21:49AM THIS SPREADSHEET I CREATED, IT IS MISSING TWO LABELS AT THE
10:21:53AM TOP OF THE COLUMN.
10:21:54AM THIS SHOULD BE THE NUMBER OF HEARINGS, AND THIS IS THE
10:21:56AM NUMBER OF HEARINGS ACTUALLY HEARD.
10:21:58AM I WENT BACK AND PULLED THE EVENING MEETINGS FOR 2022, '23,
10:22:02AM '24.
10:22:03AM WHAT I FOUND WAS 92% OF WHAT COMES BEFORE COUNCIL DURING THE
10:22:09AM EVENING MEETINGS IS APPROVED.
10:22:12AM CLARION SAID AT THE MEETING ON MONDAY NIGHT THAT CITY
10:22:19AM COUNCIL WAS UNPREDICTABLE IN THEIR DECISIONS.
10:22:23AM I WOULD ARGUE THAT 92% OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS MAKES IT
10:22:26AM VERY PREDICTABLE, THAT MOST OF THE TIME THEY GET WHAT THEY
10:22:32AM WANT.
10:22:32AM WHICH, YOU KNOW, IS -- YOU COULD ARGUE EITHER WAY.
10:22:37AM THE LDC, I WANT TO FOCUS BACK TO THE LDC AND THE COMP PLAN
10:22:41AM REVISIONS AT THE SAME TIME ARE VERY, VERY CUMBERSOME.
10:22:44AM IT'S TOO MUCH FOR A NORMAL CITIZEN.
10:22:47AM JUST LIKE COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK SAID, IT WOULD BE HELPFUL IF
10:22:50AM THE VIDEOS WERE ONLINE.
10:22:52AM I'VE LISTENED TO ABOUT HALF OF WHAT THE LDC RECOMMENDATIONS
10:22:55AM WERE BEFORE, BUT IT'S VERY, VERY DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND
10:23:00AM WHAT THE OVERLAP IS, WHERE ARE THESE THINGS -- HOW ARE THEY
10:23:05AM GOING TO FIT TOGETHER WHEN BOTH WORKS IN PROGRESS THAT ARE
10:23:08AM HUNDREDS OF PAGES LONG?
10:23:10AM ONE CONCERN I HAVE IS THE IMPLICATION THAT CITY COUNCIL
10:23:13AM SHOULD NOT BE HEARING LAND USE OR PETITIONS FOR REVIEW OR
10:23:18AM WHATEVER.
10:23:18AM AND THAT BOTHERS ME.
10:23:21AM FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD NEVER WANT IT TO BE A VOLUNTEER
10:23:23AM POSITION.
10:23:24AM IT SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN THE CHARTER, IF YOU WANT TO DO IT.
10:23:27AM YOU ARE LITERALLY GIVING AWAY YOUR JOB BY DOING THAT.
10:23:31AM IF THEY WANT TO DO IT, IF YOU WANT TO DO IT, IT NEEDS TO BE
10:23:35AM IN THE CHARTER AND IT NEEDS TO BE A HIGHER POSITION THAT
10:23:37AM REPORTS TO YOU.
10:23:38AM IF NOT, THEN DON'T BOTHER.
10:23:41AM I ALSO WANT TO KNOW AND I LOVE THAT COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON
10:23:46AM BROUGHT THIS UP, THE PROTECTIONS FOR COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES
10:23:49AM BECAUSE I'LL SHOW YOU SOMETHING LATER THAT WILL MAKE YOU GO
10:23:52AM WHAT THE --
10:23:53AM I HAD A CONVERSATION YESTERDAY WITH A NICE GENTLEMAN WHO IS
10:23:57AM IN COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.
10:23:58AM HE SAYS, WHY DO WE KEEP GIVING AWAY ALL OUR COMMERCIAL TO
10:24:01AM RESIDENTIAL?
10:24:02AM YOU'RE PREACHING TO THE CHOIR, HONEY.
10:24:04AM A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMEONE
10:24:09AM ASK ABOUT THAT ARE TOTALLY UNRELATED TO WHAT I JUST SAID,
10:24:13AM FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE SOMEBODY TO ASK WHEN IS ROME YARD
10:24:16AM GOING TO GET STARTED?
10:24:16AM THEY'VE HAD IT THREE YEARS.
10:24:19AM WE BUILT HANNA STREET AND STILL NOTHING.
10:24:22AM THE WORKSHOP PRESENTATION LAST WEEK ON THE CURRENT BONDING
10:24:26AM CAPACITY, IT WAS NOT SHARED WITH YOU.
10:24:28AM I DID THE FIFTH GRADE MATH.
10:24:31AM I E-MAILED THE HEAD OF OUR MONEY PEOPLE, AND I HAVEN'T HEARD
10:24:35AM BACK, BUT IT WAS $3.5 BILLION WAS OUR CAP FOR BONDING ON A
10:24:43AM TOTALLY DIFFERENT PAGE, 30 PAGES EARLIER, IT SAID WE WERE AT
10:24:46AM 2.8 BILLION.
10:24:48AM SO, WHAT IS THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION?
10:24:50AM THANK YOU.
10:24:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MS. VALERIE BULLOCK.
10:24:53AM MR. ABDULLAH.
10:24:54AM MR. SEAN McNAMARA.
10:25:02AM >> HELLO.
10:25:03AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GOOD MORNING.
10:25:04AM >> MY NAME IS PASTOR FRANK WILLIAMS.
10:25:07AM 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET.
10:25:09AM I CAN'T CLAIM THAT NO MORE BECAUSE YOU GUYS CAME DOWN THERE
10:25:18AM AND PUT A LOT OF CITATIONS ON THE CHURCH AND BASICALLY DONE
10:25:22AM TOOK MY CHURCH.
10:25:23AM I COME TO YOU ALL ABOUT A YEAR AGO HOPING THAT YOU ALL CAN
10:25:26AM DO SOMETHING TO HELP ME, BUT NOBODY HELPING ME.
10:25:30AM I'M GRATEFUL TO GOD THAT I'M 86 YEARS OLD.
10:25:35AM THAT'S A LONG TIME.
10:25:36AM THANK GOD.
10:25:37AM THANK YOU, HOLY FATHER, FOR YOUR BLESSING OF 86 YEARS.
10:25:42AM I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG I'M GOING TO BE HERE, BUT I'M HAPPY TO
10:25:46AM BE HERE TODAY.
10:25:47AM EVERY MOMENT OF MY LIFE IS TO GIVE GOD PRAISES AND GLORY.
10:25:53AM I HAVE A PRAYER HERE THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME FROM STEPHEN
10:25:56AM MICHELINI.
10:25:57AM OF THE HOLY TIME.
10:26:03AM WE SHOULD BE FILLED WITH PRAYER AND REFLECTION.
10:26:05AM MAY THE GOD OF ABRAHAM WATCH OVER AND PROTECT EACH FIRST
10:26:16AM RESPONDER HONORED HERE, POLICE, FIRE RESCUE, ELECTED
10:26:20AM OFFICIALS.
10:26:22AM SEND MESSAGE TO ALL OF US.
10:26:24AM SOME LISTEN, SOME NOT.
10:26:28AM FIRST RESPONDER LISTENED AND MADE A DIFFERENCE.
10:26:31AM LISTEN TO THE WORD OF THE LORD AND YOU WOULD MAKE A
10:26:33AM DIFFERENCE AND HONOR HIS NAME, THE HOLY OF HOLY.
10:26:37AM THE LORD AND HIS BLESSING BE UPON EACH AND EVERYONE AND GOD,
10:26:44AM TOO, IN HIS HOLY NAME.
10:26:46AM BROTHER STEPHEN, THANK YOU.
10:26:53AM HE RESPECT ME, KNOWING THAT I'M A MAN OF GOD AND TRY TO DO
10:26:58AM THE TRUTH.
10:27:00AM THE TRUTH DON'T PREVAIL EVERYWHERE.
10:27:02AM A LOT OF PEOPLE COULD CARE LESS ABOUT JESUS CHRIST AND GOD
10:27:08AM ALMIGHTY.
10:27:09AM MY FIRST PRIORITY IS TO LOVE GOD WITH ALL OF MY HEART.
10:27:13AM MY FIRST PRIORITY LOVE JESUS CHRIST WHO IS MY LORD AND
10:27:18AM SAVIOR.
10:27:20AM BASICALLY THIS IS WHAT I HAVE TO SAY.
10:27:23AM WE HAVE TO STOP LOOKING AT PEOPLE THE WAY THEY LOOK.
10:27:26AM WE GOT TO BLESS PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY ARE.
10:27:29AM AND THAT'S ALL I ASK, FOR GOD TO BLESS ME FOR WHO I AM.
10:27:35AM AS I JUST TOLD YOU, GOD GAVE ME A LONG LIFE.
10:27:41AM HE GAVE ME 86 YEARS ON THIS EARTH.
10:27:45AM AND I PRAY TO GOD, REGARDLESS OF WHEN HE COME HOME, I WANT
10:27:49AM TO BE HOME TO GO THROUGH THE PEARLY GATES AND JESUS CHRIST
10:27:53AM TO INVITE ME ON IN TO HEAVEN.
10:27:56AM THAT IS A GREAT BLESSING, NOT ONLY ME, BUT I WANT YOU ALL.
10:28:01AM GOD IS EXTREMELY GOOD TO ALL OF US.
10:28:04AM WE KNOW THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NO LONGER THE
10:28:08AM UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
10:28:11AM WHAT IT IS NOW CALLED A DIVIDED STATE OF AMERICA.
10:28:23AM CAN YOU GIVE ME ANOTHER THREE MINUTES?
10:28:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO, SIR.
10:28:26AM I HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE WAITING IN LINE.
10:28:28AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, PASTOR WILLIAMS.
10:28:30AM VALERIE BULLOCK.
10:28:31AM MR. ABDULLAH.
10:28:33AM SEAN McNAMARA.
10:28:36AM >> UHURU, METESNOT, BEFORE YOU START THE TIME, YOU NEED TO
10:28:42AM GET A SYSTEM WHEREAS PEOPLE CAN SIGN IN, BECAUSE YOU ARE
10:28:45AM CALLING THE NAMES ALL OVER THE PLACE.
10:28:47AM I WAS ONE OF THE FIRST ONES HERE, MY NAME IS NOT CALLED.
10:28:50AM WHY IS THAT?
10:28:51AM BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A SYSTEM.
10:28:52AM BUREAUCRACY, CITY GOVERNMENT.
10:28:54AM START THE TIME NOW.
10:28:58AM MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:29:01AM WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY IS YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SOLVE ANY
10:29:06AM PROBLEMS IN THIS CITY.
10:29:07AM YOU'RE NOT GOING TO SOLVE ANY PROBLEMS WITH FLOODING,
10:29:09AM STORMWATER, CRIME, VIOLENCE, WHATSOEVER IT MAY BE, YOU'RE
10:29:14AM NOT GOING TO SOLVE ANY PROBLEMS.
10:29:16AM POVERTY, WAR, HEALTH CARE, WHY?
10:29:18AM BECAUSE YOU DISRESPECT GOD.
10:29:22AM YOU GOT A LOT OF FOOLS COME RIGHT TO THIS COUNTER RIGHT HERE
10:29:26AM AND THEY SAY HE, HE, HE, BUT GOD IS A SHE.
10:29:29AM HOW COULD GOD BE A MAN?
10:29:31AM THAT DON'T EVEN MAKE ANY SENSE.
10:29:33AM IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY NO SENSE THAT YOU ALL ALLOW
10:29:39AM PEOPLE TO COME TO THIS COUNTER AND SAY GOD IS A HE.
10:29:42AM YOU NEED TO PASS A RESOLUTION TO BAN THAT.
10:29:44AM IF YOU COME TO THIS PODIUM, YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT GOD
10:29:48AM IS A SHE.
10:29:50AM THAT MAKES SENSE.
10:29:51AM THAT MAKES A LOT OF SENSE.
10:29:53AM IGNORANT.
10:29:57AM STRAIGHT UP IGNORANT.
10:29:58AM NOTHING MORE, NOTHING LESS.
10:29:59AM IT'S ABOUT TIME YOU GET THE WORLD GOING IN THE RIGHT
10:30:02AM DIRECTION.
10:30:03AM AND THINK PROPERLY.
10:30:05AM WHAT I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT TODAY IS NOT THAT.
10:30:10AM I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT IF YOU CAN SHOW THIS ON THE SCREEN,
10:30:14AM IF YOU CAN SEE IT, THAT'S THE PICTURES OF FOUR INDIVIDUALS
10:30:26AM THAT WAS MURDERED BY SOMEONE THEY SAY UNDER THE AUSPICES OF
10:30:35AM CHILD SUPPORT.
10:30:35AM CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.
10:30:37AM A FAMILY OF FOUR IN TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA WAS MURDERED.
10:30:42AM HEARD A BIG CASE IN TEXAS THE OTHER DAY WHERE THE BORDER
10:30:45AM PATROL GUARD MURDERED THE FAMILY OF TWO.
10:30:48AM WE KNOW OF THE OTHER CASE WHERE THE GENTLEMAN WAS SHOT AND
10:30:54AM MURDERED BECAUSE HE THOUGHT HE HAD AN OUTSTANDING WARRANT
10:30:56AM FOR CHILD SUPPORT FOR HIS ARREST.
10:30:59AM GROWN MAN.
10:30:59AM HIS DAUGHTER IS LIKE 40 YEARS OF AGE, RUNNING FROM THE
10:31:05AM POLICE.
10:31:05AM SHOT HIM IN THE BACK AND TRIED TO PLANT A TASER ON HIM, BUT
10:31:11AM IT WAS CAUGHT ON CAMERA.
10:31:13AM CHILD SUPPORT.
10:31:15AM I'M TELLING THIS CITY COUNCIL THEY NEED TO DO SOMETHING,
10:31:19AM CALL THAT CHIEF JUDGE AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS CHILD
10:31:22AM SUPPORT.
10:31:22AM IT'S RUINING THE LIVES OF MANY BLACK MEN AND BLACK FAMILIES.
10:31:27AM CHILD SUPPORT ENFORCEMENT.
10:31:29AM AND YOU GOT A WICKED WHITE KU KLUX KLAN WITCH, SABRINA FRYE,
10:31:37AM HEARING OFFICER SABRINA FRYE OVER AT THE CHILD SUPPORT
10:31:40AM OFFICE, A KU KLUX KLAN WITCH THAT SOMEBODY NEED TO GET HER
10:31:44AM OUT OF OFFICE, PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
10:31:47AM BUT LET'S UNDERSTAND, GET A SYSTEM ON HOW THAT LIST WORKS.
10:31:53AM HAVE A SIGN-IN SHEET AND CALL THE NAMES BY THAT PROCESS.
10:31:57AM THIS BUREAUCRACY ISN'T EVEN NECESSARY.
10:31:58AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
10:31:59AM VALERIE BULLOCK.
10:32:01AM MR. ABDULLAH, SEAN McNAMARA.
10:32:06AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:32:07AM VALERIE BULLOCK.
10:32:08AM I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE RESOLUTIONS 15, 16, 21, 22, 23,
10:32:15AM 24, 26.
10:32:17AM IT'S VERY HARD RIGHT NOW FOR MOST OF THE PEOPLE, NOT
10:32:22AM EVERYBODY IS FEELING IT, BUT IF PEOPLE HAVE A HOME, I'M
10:32:25AM PRETTY SURE THEY ARE DOING THE BEST THEY CAN TO TRY TO KEEP
10:32:27AM THAT HOME AND RIGHT HERE I SEE WHERE YOU ALL ARE PLANNING ON
10:32:32AM DEMOLITION OR REMOVAL OF THE PROPERTY.
10:32:35AM ALL I WANT TO REQUEST IS THAT YOU ALL DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE
10:32:38AM BECAUSE THE HOUSES THAT ARE TO BE DEMOLISHED, THOSE THREE
10:32:42AM ARE IN SULPHUR SPRINGS.
10:32:44AM SULPHUR SPRINGS, THEY ARE REALLY, REALLY HURTING OUT THERE.
10:32:48AM SOMETIME THE FUNDING DON'T BE AVAILABLE AND THEY DON'T HAVE
10:32:51AM A CRA.
10:32:52AM THE OTHER ONES ARE IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, WHICH IS PART OF EAST
10:32:56AM TAMPA.
10:32:58AM I'LL ASK THE SAME THING.
10:32:59AM PLEASE DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE AND MAKE SURE ALL FUNDING OR
10:33:04AM ALL HELP THAT THE FAMILY COULD GET, MAKE SURE THEY ARE AWARE
10:33:06AM OF THAT AND ALL THAT HELP HAVE BEEN EXHAUSTED.
10:33:10AM IF YOU GOT A HOUSE, I DON'T CARE IF IT IS FALLING DOWN, IT
10:33:13AM IS YOUR HOUSE.
10:33:15AM THE WAY THE ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT IS NOW, VERY FEW OF US WILL
10:33:20AM BE ABLE TO BUY ANOTHER HOUSE.
10:33:23AM I'M ASKING THAT THE PEOPLE MAKE THE PROGRAMS AND EVERYTHING
10:33:26AM AWARE SO THAT THE PEOPLE CAN GET HELP, IF NEED HELP.
10:33:30AM DON'T JUST VICIOUSLY SAY, OH, WE'LL TAKE THIS HOUSE, DO
10:33:34AM THIS, PLACE LIENS ON IT.
10:33:37AM THAT WILL HELP WITH THE GENTRIFICATION PROCESS BECAUSE AT
10:33:41AM THE END OF THE DAY WE ALL HAVE A CONSCIENCE.
10:33:43AM WHEN YOU GO TO BED AT NIGHT I'M PRETTY SURE IT TALKS TO YOU.
10:33:47AM ANOTHER THING I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS THE STORMWATER.
10:33:49AM I'VE BEEN TALKING WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA ABOUT THREE WEEKS
10:33:53AM NOW.
10:33:54AM ROBERT COLE PARK, ACROSS THE STREET FROM YOUNG HIGH SCHOOL,
10:33:57AM WE HAD A FISH KILL THERE ABOUT A MONTH AGO.
10:34:01AM HAD FISHES FLOATING UP IN THE WATER.
10:34:04AM IT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR A WHILE NOW.
10:34:07AM I DON'T KNOW IF SOMEBODY POURED SOMETHING IN THERE OR IF IT
10:34:11AM JUST HAPPENED.
10:34:12AM I'M NOT SURE.
10:34:13AM BUT YESTERDAY WHEN I WENT OUT THERE AND I TOOK PICTURES, ALL
10:34:18AM OF THE STORMWATER DRAINS LEADING UP TO THE SURFACE AREA,
10:34:24AM THEY ARE FULL OF FOLIAGE.
10:34:27AM YOU HAVE TREES AND BUSHES GROWING OUT OF IT AND WE NEED TO
10:34:30AM DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT, NOT ONLY DO IT HELP WITH STOP THE
10:34:35AM FISH FROM GETTING KILLED, WHO WANT TO GO OVER THERE AND WALK
10:34:40AM AND SO STANK FROM ALL THAT ALGAE IN ONE CORNER.
10:34:46AM IT'S LIKE RED TIDE.
10:34:48AM WE NEED TO LOOK INTO IT AND MAYBE SOMEBODY CAN GET WITH
10:34:51AM TAMPA, WHOEVER ON CITY COUNCIL, THE EAST TAMPA ECONOMIC
10:34:54AM DEVELOPMENT AGENCY, THAT COULD BE A JOB FOR SOMEBODY, A
10:34:59AM SMALL COMPANY.
10:35:00AM HE GOT A LAWN SERVICE COMPANY.
10:35:02AM THAT COULD BE A JOB FOR HIM AND IT'S RIGHT IN THE
10:35:06AM NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:35:07AM THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH.
10:35:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM.
10:35:09AM MR. ABDULLAH.
10:35:10AM SEAN McNAMARA.
10:35:13AM COLIN.
10:35:14AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:35:15AM TAMPA, FLORIDA, HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, THE WORLD, UNITED
10:35:21AM STATES OF AMERICA IS IN A HOSPITAL.
10:35:28AM THE PATIENT ARE THE PEOPLE.
10:35:30AM AND THIS IS -- IT'S ON LIFE SUPPORT.
10:35:37AM THE PEOPLE ARE SUFFERING.
10:35:39AM THEY HAVE BEEN POISONED.
10:35:41AM THEY HAVE BEEN LIED TO, MISDIRECTED, MISGUIDED, ECONOMICALLY
10:35:45AM DEPRESSED, LEGALLY DEPRESSED, LOCKED UP BECAUSE THEY MIGHT
10:35:53AM STAND UP AND SPEAK TO PEOPLE IN AUTHORITY THAT'S NOT
10:36:00AM LISTENING.
10:36:03AM WHAT'S YOUR NAME, SIR?
10:36:07AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: CHARLIE MIRANDA.
10:36:10AM >> I SEE IT NOW.
10:36:11AM YOU SAID SOMETHING THAT KEEP MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES OVER
10:36:18AM AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
10:36:20AM THAT DOESN'T BRING A SOLUTION, KEEPING MAKING THE SAME
10:36:25AM MISTAKE.
10:36:25AM THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.
10:36:27AM THE PATIENT IS SICK, ON LIFE SUPPORT, WE KEEP DOING THE SAME
10:36:30AM THING AND THE PATIENT KEEP GETTING SICKER.
10:36:33AM WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT ADDRESSING YOU ALL,
10:36:36AM ADDRESSING US ALL.
10:36:37AM WE NEED TO LOOK AT THIS, IF WE WANT TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE
10:36:42AM TO GET ABOVE AND BEYOND THE ILLNESS THAT THEY ARE HAVING,
10:36:47AM THEN WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE.
10:36:49AM WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS CODE AND THE FLOODING.
10:36:55AM THE EAST SIDE OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, TAMPA, FLORIDA, LET'S
10:37:04AM SAY OUT TO BUSCH BOULEVARD OVER TO 301, DOWN TO, SAY,
10:37:13AM KENNEDY AND GOING EAST TO CENTRAL, ECONOMICALLY DEPRIVED.
10:37:20AM THIS IS A DEPRIVED COMMUNITY.
10:37:23AM YOU ARE A MEMBER OF THIS COMMUNITY.
10:37:27AM YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN
10:37:31AM THIS COMMUNITY.
10:37:33AM SO THINK ABOUT WHO YOU ARE ADDRESSING, WHO YOU ARE SOLVING
10:37:36AM THE PROBLEMS FOR.
10:37:38AM THE PATIENT IS STILL SICK AND THE PROBLEM IS STILL THERE.
10:37:43AM THE QUESTION IS, WHAT DO WE DO?
10:37:44AM WHAT DO WE DO TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM?
10:37:48AM WE HAVE TO COMMUNICATE WITH THE PEOPLE.
10:37:49AM WE HAVE TO GET THE PEOPLE IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS.
10:37:52AM AND NOTHING PERSONAL TO ANY OF YOU ALL.
10:37:54AM YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD JOB.
10:37:56AM YOU GET PAID.
10:37:57AM SO YOU ALL DON'T HAVE THE SAME ECONOMIC SITUATION THAT THIS
10:38:01AM PATIENT HAVE THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
10:38:03AM SO LET'S GO TO THE PATIENT.
10:38:06AM THE PATIENT IS A COMMUNITY.
10:38:10AM YOU KNOW BETTER THAN ANYBODY, NOT ANY ONE OF US ARE ANY
10:38:13AM BETTER THAN ANY ONE ELSE, BUT THE POSITION AND POWER THAT
10:38:16AM HAVE BEEN YIELDED IS NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM.
10:38:20AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SEAN McNAMARA.
10:38:25AM >> GOOD MORNING, ESTEEMED COUNCIL.
10:38:27AM MY NAME IS SEAN McNAMARA.
10:38:29AM 317 WEST FERN STREET, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
10:38:32AM I'VE LIVED HERE SINCE 2020.
10:38:35AM LESS THAN 300 FEET FROM THE CITY PARK KNOWNS AS EPPS PARK
10:38:39AM WHICH HAS AN ENTRANCE BY THE DEAD END OF NORTH DE SOTO
10:38:42AM AVENUE AND FERN STREET.
10:38:43AM I'M HERE AS AN INDIVIDUAL AND FRIENDS OF THE PARK AND A
10:38:47AM VOLUNTEER REPRESENTATIVE OF SIX FAMILIES, FIVE OF WHOM ARE
10:38:50AM HERE IN PERSON OR ONLINE WHICH SUBMITTED A PETITION TO THE
10:38:52AM CITY IN RELATION TO THE RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT ROW-25-00247.
10:38:57AM I AM HERE THIS MORNING WITH MY NEIGHBORS BECAUSE I AM
10:39:00AM PASSIONATE ABOUT OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, ABOUT EPPS PARK AND OUR
10:39:05AM HOMES.
10:39:05AM FRIENDS OF EPPS PARK WAS FORMED TO -- AND THE NATURAL
10:39:10AM RESOURCES IN RESPONSE TO DRAMA OF STORMS DURING THE 2024
10:39:14AM HURRICANE SEASON AS WELL AS PROPOSAL OF A MULTI-LOT
10:39:16AM DEVELOPMENT AND ROAD.
10:39:17AM IN THE EARLY FALL OF 2024, A DEVELOPER PROPOSED AND
10:39:20AM SUBMITTED MULTIPLE DESIGN EXCEPTION APPLICATION TO CITY
10:39:24AM COUNCIL WHICH WOULD HAVE RESULTED IN A MULTI-LOT DEVELOPMENT
10:39:27AM AND ROAD IN THE AE 12 FLOODPLAIN ADJACENT TO EPPS PARK, THE
10:39:31AM SAME FLOODPLAIN MY HOME IS IN.
10:39:33AM APPLICATIONS WITHDRAWN AFTER OPEN COMMENT PERIOD AS RESPONSE
10:39:37AM WAS OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE, THE PROXIMITY OF THE PARK AND
10:39:41AM STORMWATER CONCERNS.
10:39:42AM AFTER WITHDRAWAL OF THE APPLICATIONS, THE AREA WAS HIT BY
10:39:45AM TROPICAL STORM HELENE AND HURRICANE MILTON.
10:39:48AM THESE STORMS FLOODED HOMES ON NORTH RIVER BOULEVARD AND FERN
10:39:52AM STREET.
10:39:54AM HOMES SIT STORM DAMAGED, VACANT OR FLOODING INCLUDING MY
10:39:57AM OWN.
10:39:58AM MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEN DISPLACED FROM OUR HOME SINCE
10:40:01AM SEPTEMBER OF 2024 AFTER FLOODING FROM HELENE FLOODED OUR
10:40:05AM HOME WITH TWO FEET OF WATER.
10:40:07AM JANUARY 2025, THE SAME DEVELOPER WHICH WITHDREW THE
10:40:10AM APPLICATION SUBMITTED THE ROAD PIECE OF THE DEVELOPMENT VIA
10:40:13AM PERMIT APPLICATION ROW-25-00247.
10:40:17AM APPLICATION SET FORTH TO PAVE AND IMPROVE EXISTING NORTH
10:40:20AM PARK ANNEX BOULEVARD RIGHT-OF-WAY FROM THE EXISTING ONE LANE
10:40:24AM GRAVEL SECTION AT 6307 RIVER BOULEVARD SOUTH TO THE
10:40:28AM CONNECTION WITH OTIS AVENUE AND MODIFY EXISTING STORMWATER
10:40:31AM COLLECTION BOX FROM CURB INLET TO TOP INLET.
10:40:34AM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY WHICH DEVELOPER SEEKS TO PAVE AND IMPROVE
10:40:38AM HAS NOT BEEN OPENED.
10:40:40AM CLOSED 75 YEARS PER THE CITY OF TAMPA'S ARCHIVE MAPS.
10:40:43AM BECAUSE IT IS CLOSED, THERE IS A DEAD END.
10:40:46AM THE FRIENDS OF THE PARK ENGAGED IN THE PROCESS EVEN THOUGH
10:40:49AM NOT A MECHANISM TO DO SO BECAUSE AGAIN THE SAME CONCERNS
10:40:52AM WERE AT ISSUE.
10:40:53AM DEVELOPMENT IN A FLOODPLAIN, STORMWATER IMPACTS AND
10:40:56AM PROTECTION OF THE PARK.
10:40:58AM IN FACT, FRIENDS OF EPPS PARK MET WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA ON
10:41:00AM FEBRUARY 7, 2025, AND STAFF AGREED THAT THIS NEWLY PROPOSED
10:41:04AM ROAD WOULD NOT LAST AND THAT THE CITY WOULD MAINTAIN IT, TAX
10:41:08AM DOLLARS WOULD MAINTAIN IT.
10:41:10AM TAX DOLLARS OF THE VERY INDIVIDUALS SITTING HERE TODAY
10:41:13AM VOICING CONCERNS AGAINST APPROVAL OF THE PERMIT.
10:41:14AM TAX DOLLARS SPENT TO BENEFIT A DEVELOPER AT THE EXPENSE AND
10:41:18AM RISK TO THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE ALREADY SUFFERING.
10:41:21AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
10:41:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:41:23AM COLIN MIXON.
10:41:24AM ANA KIRKPATRICK.
10:41:27AM MATTHEW RADECK.
10:41:29AM GOOD MORNING.
10:41:29AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:41:30AM >> COLIN MIXON.
10:41:33AM PICKING UP WHERE MR. McNAMARA LEFT OFF, MAIN CONCERNS TO
10:41:38AM THE CITY OF TAMPA ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THE APPROVAL OF THE
10:41:40AM PERMIT WERE THE CREATION OF A PAVED ROAD AND MULTI-LOT
10:41:43AM DEVELOPMENT WITHIN A SPECIAL HAZARD FLOOD AREA, CHANGE OF
10:41:47AM EXISTING STORMWATER COLLECTION RAISED BOX TO A DROP INLET
10:41:51AM WHICH DECREASES CAPACITY OF STORMWATER COLLECTION BY 60%.
10:41:55AM BASED ON THE CALCULATIONS OF A 40-YEAR STORMWATER ENGINEER
10:41:58AM BY THE NAME OF RON GIOVANNELLI, WHO SPOKE WITH STAFF ON
10:42:03AM FEBRUARY 7, 2025, PRIOR TO THE APPROVAL OF THE PERMIT.
10:42:07AM THIS CREATES AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF STORMWATER WHICH WILL
10:42:11AM UNDULY IMPACT THE SURROUNDING PROPERTIES AND AREAS --
10:42:14AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THERE IT IS.
10:42:15AM KEEP GOING.
10:42:18AM >> IMPACT THE SURROUNDING PROPERTY AREAS WITH SEVERE EROSION
10:42:21AM AND OBVIOUSLY FLOODING.
10:42:22AM FAILURE OF THE DEVELOPER APPLICANT TO ADHERE TO THE CITY
10:42:26AM STAFF'S OWN REQUIREMENT -- SORRY, THIS IS CONTINUING WITH
10:42:28AM THE CONCERNS WE RAISED TO THE CITY OF TAMPA -- DEVELOPER
10:42:31AM FAILED TO ADHERE TO THE CITY STAFF'S OWN REQUIREMENTS THAT
10:42:34AM CERTAIN ITEMS BE DONE PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF THE PERMIT
10:42:37AM SUCH AS CONFIRMATION AS TO WHETHER THERE WAS A NATURAL
10:42:40AM SPRING IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY AREA AND CONFIRMING WHETHER OTHER
10:42:43AM GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES HAVE JURISDICTION GIVEN THE
10:42:46AM ENVIRONMENTAL AND STORMWATER CONCERNS.
10:42:48AM ANOTHER CONCERN, APPROVAL OF A PROPOSED 2.16 AND 2.10
10:42:54AM RIGHT-OF-WAY IMPROVEMENT STRUCTURAL NUMBER, STRUCTURAL
10:42:58AM COEFFICIENT WHICH IS WELL BELOW THE CITY CODE, WHICH HAD A
10:43:02AM REQUIREMENT OF 2.30.
10:43:03AM ONGOING SIGNIFICANT AND FREQUENT MAINTENANCE OF THE PLANNED
10:43:07AM ROAD LOCATED ALL WITHIN THE AE-12 FLOOD AREA, WHICH WILL BE
10:43:11AM DONE IN PERPETUITY BY THE CITY OF TAMPA AT THE EXPENSE OF
10:43:14AM TAXPAYER DOLLARS, THE PERMIT, ANOTHER CONCERN, THE PERMIT
10:43:17AM AUTHORIZING A REVISED PAVEMENT SECTION CONSISTING OF THREE
10:43:21AM INCHES OF ASPHALT OVER TWO-INCH RECYCLED CONCRETE BASE WHICH
10:43:25AM IS GOING TO HARM THE ROOT SYSTEMS OF THE GRAND OAKS IN THE
10:43:28AM PARK.
10:43:29AM DESPITE THESE CONCERNS, THE PERMIT WAS APPROVED ON FEBRUARY
10:43:32AM 20, 2025, AND WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE AVENUE TO APPEAL, ADVISED
10:43:37AM NOT AN AVENUE TO REVEAL THE RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT GOVERNED BY
10:43:41AM CHAPTER 22.
10:43:42AM WITHOUT A VOICE VIA ADMINISTRATIVE APPEAL, WE LOOKED TO
10:43:46AM OTHER AVENUES.
10:43:47AM FOUND A LAW, THE DISPUTE RESOLUTION ACT, FLORIDA STATUTE
10:43:52AM 70.51.
10:43:53AM IT ALLOWS AN OWNER THAT A DEVELOPMENT -- EITHER UNREASONABLY
10:43:58AM OR UNFAIRLY BURDENS THE USE OF THE OWNER'S REAL PROPERTY MAY
10:44:02AM APPLY WITHIN 30 DAYS AFTER RECEIPT OF THE ORDER OR NOTICE OF
10:44:05AM THE GOVERNMENT ACTION.
10:44:07AM SO WE INITIATED THAT PROCEEDING.
10:44:09AM THE CITY ATTORNEY, ON BEHALF OF THE MAYOR, DENIED THE
10:44:13AM PETITION, CITING THAT THEY WOULD NOT ENTERTAIN INDIVIDUALS
10:44:16AM WHO SUBMITTED THE PETITION, THE LANDOWNERS WHO HAVE
10:44:22AM EXPERIENCED FIRSTHAND IMPACTS OF THE FLOODING.
10:44:25AM THE OWNERS APPARENTLY HAVE NO RECOURSE OR REPEAL DESPITE THE
10:44:31AM ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ON THE PROPERTY DUE TO STORMWATER
10:44:34AM REDUCTION.
10:44:34AM IMPORTANT TO NOTE IN THE STATUTE, SAYS NEEDS TO BE LIBERALLY
10:44:40AM INTERPRETED AND IT WASN'T.
10:44:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANA KIRKPATRICK.
10:44:46AM >> ANA KIRKPATRICK.
10:44:49AM THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
10:44:50AM CONTINUING OFF OF COLIN MIXON, WE DID IMPLORE THE CITY
10:44:53AM ATTORNEY WHO CONSTRUE THE ACT LIBERALLY AS TO THE DEFINITION
10:44:58AM OF OWNERS UNDER THE STATUTE WHICH ESSENTIALLY WOULD ALLOW
10:45:01AM THE CITY TO ENGAGE IN AN ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE MECHANISM AND
10:45:05AM NEUTRAL MAGISTRATE AS IT RELATES TO THE RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT.
10:45:08AM IN FACT, WE ARE MORE THAN UNHEARD ABOUT OUR CONCERNS
10:45:11AM REGARDING THE IMPACT OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
10:45:13AM THE CITY HAS IGNORED OUR CONCERNS ABOUT THE ACTION OF THE
10:45:15AM AGENT OF THE APPLICANT TOWARD ANYONE THAT VOICES OPPOSITION
10:45:19AM TO EITHER THE DESIGN EXEMPTIONS, SPOKEN ABOUT BY MR.
10:45:22AM McNAMARA OR THE RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT.
10:45:24AM I AM A FLORIDA BAR ATTORNEY, AND I ASSISTED MY NEIGHBORS AS
10:45:28AM AN INDIVIDUAL IN FINDING THIS LAW, HELPING THEM FIND AN
10:45:32AM AVENUE BECAUSE THERE WAS NONE.
10:45:34AM I ULTIMATELY COMMUNICATED WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY.
10:45:37AM MY E-MAIL BECAME PUBLIC RECORD.
10:45:39AM I RECEIVED AN E-MAIL TO MY WORK E-MAIL FOR THE AGENT FROM
10:45:42AM THE APPLICANT COPYING THE CITY ATTORNEY, MY MANAGING PARTNER
10:45:45AM OF ENTIRE 150 LAW FIRM, MY SPOUSE, COLIN MIXON'S EMPLOYER,
10:45:53AM ALSO AN ATTORNEY, AND ANOTHER PRIVATE ATTORNEY.
10:45:55AM ATTACHED A COPY OF THE RULES OF PROFESSIONAL ETHICS
10:45:58AM GOVERNING FLORIDA LAWYERS AND CALLED INTO QUESTION MY ETHICS
10:46:02AM AS AN ATTORNEY.
10:46:03AM ULTIMATELY I WAS ACTING AS AN INDIVIDUAL DURING THE ENTIRE
10:46:08AM PROCESS.
10:46:08AM I REMOVED THOSE INDIVIDUALS FROM THE E-MAIL.
10:46:10AM HE ADDED THEM RIGHT BACK ON.
10:46:13AM THIS IS ONE EXAMPLE, A MORE TAME EXAMPLE OF HIS BEHAVIOR
10:46:16AM TOWARDS ANYONE THAT HAS VOICED OPPOSITION, YET HE HAS HIS
10:46:20AM PERMIT.
10:46:21AM YET WE ARE UNHEARD.
10:46:22AM THEREFORE WE ARE HERE.
10:46:23AM WE ARE ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE WHY THE CITY
10:46:27AM OF TAMPA APPROVED THIS RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT DESPITE
10:46:29AM ALTERNATIVES AVAILABLE TO THE DEVELOPER WHO IS THE COMMON
10:46:32AM OWNER OF THE LOT THE ROAD SEEKS TO BENEFIT.
10:46:35AM THEY COULD HAVE DENIED THIS APPLICATION FOR THE REASONS THAT
10:46:37AM WE HAVE SHOWN VIA THE OTHER SPEAKERS.
10:46:40AM WE ASK CITY COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE WHETHER THE HISTORY OF
10:46:43AM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY WAS INVESTIGATED AND ADEQUATELY ADDRESSED
10:46:45AM BY CITY STAFF.
10:46:47AM SPECIFICALLY, WAS IT DETERMINED IT WAS A CLOSED
10:46:49AM RIGHT-OF-WAY?
10:46:50AM MY UNDERSTANDING THERE IS A PROCESS TO CLOSE A RIGHT-OF-WAY.
10:46:54AM WE ASK THE TAMPA CITY COUNCIL, ELECTED OFFICIALS, TO
10:46:56AM RECOMMEND THAT THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL PARTICIPATE IN THE
10:46:59AM PROCESS AVAILABLE RELATIVE TO THE RFW PERMIT, STATUTE 70.51.
10:47:06AM ULTIMATELY THE PROCESS REQUIRES THAT WE APPEAL TO OUR
10:47:09AM ELECTED OFFICIALS.
10:47:10AM THAT'S WHY WE ARE HERE BECAUSE WE RECEIVED A DENIAL FROM THE
10:47:13AM MAYOR.
10:47:14AM THIS IS ULTIMATELY A RELEVANT ISSUE HEARING FROM EVERYONE
10:47:17AM TODAY.
10:47:17AM THIS IS A RIGHT-OF-WAY ROAD THAT WOULD BE BUILT IN A
10:47:22AM HILLSBOROUGH RIVER FLOODPLAIN.
10:47:24AM YOU HEARD FROM MY NEIGHBORS THAT WERE FLOODED DURING HELENE.
10:47:28AM THERE ISN'T EVEN A ROAD HERE AT THAT POINT TO DIVERT THE
10:47:32AM STORMWATER AND ALSO WOULD CHANGE THE GREAT SYSTEM REDUCING
10:47:35AM STORMWATER CAPACITY BY 60%.
10:47:37AM ULTIMATELY WE ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO INVESTIGATE THIS
10:47:41AM ISSUE, THIS RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT SPECIFICALLY AND FOR ANY
10:47:44AM RELIEF THAT THE CITY COUNCIL CAN OFFER.
10:47:46AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:47:51AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: FOR THOSE OF YOU SPEAKING ON THIS ISSUE,
10:47:53AM IF YOU COULD TALK TO MY AIDE, I'LL HAVE HIM OUTSIDE.
10:47:56AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF YOU CAN HOLD THAT BEFORE YOU DO THAT.
10:47:59AM I WOULD HAVE A COMMENT TO THAT.
10:48:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MA'AM.
10:48:06AM MATTHEW RADECK.
10:48:08AM SANDRA PARDUE.
10:48:12AM DANA PHILP.
10:48:22AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:48:23AM MY NAME IS MATTHEW RADECK.
10:48:26AM I AM ALSO HERE AS A FRIEND OF EPPS PARK.
10:48:28AM I'LL MAKE A COMMENT ABOUT ROW 250000247, BUILDING A ROAD
10:48:35AM INTO EPPS PARK IS JUST A BAD IDEA.
10:48:37AM NUMBER ONE, THE SOIL CANNOT SUPPORT THE TRAFFIC.
10:48:40AM I WITNESS CARS AND TRUCKS GET STUCK DOWN THERE ALL THE TIME.
10:48:44AM IT'S CRAZY.
10:48:46AM MY SHOES GET WET JUST WALKING DOWN THERE.
10:48:50AM THIS PHOTOGRAPH IS FROM A SUMMER STRONG STORM HERE.
10:48:56AM THIS ISN'T A FLOOD.
10:48:57AM THIS ISN'T THE HURRICANE.
10:48:59AM THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME.
10:49:00AM I'VE LIVED THERE NINE YEARS NOW, AND I'VE SEEN THE FLOODING
10:49:04AM INCREASE DRAMATICALLY THROUGH THE YEARS.
10:49:07AM IT'S GETTING CRAZY.
10:49:09AM BESIDES ALL THAT, IF THIS ROAD IS ALLOWED TO BE BUILT, IT
10:49:13AM WILL INTRODUCE A THROUGH ROAD THROUGH THE PARK, NOT A DEAD
10:49:18AM END.
10:49:18AM IT WILL BE A THRU ROAD, TRAFFIC DRIVING THROUGH THE AREA
10:49:23AM WHERE LITTLE KIDS ARE ROLLING AROUND IN THE GRASS AND
10:49:25AM PLAYING.
10:49:26AM DOGS RUNNING, MOTHERS WITH THEIR STROLLERS.
10:49:29AM INTRODUCING A THRU ROAD THROUGH THIS PARK IS NOT A GOOD
10:49:33AM IDEA.
10:49:33AM THIS ROAD WAS NEVER OPEN IN THE FIRST PLACE.
10:49:37AM IT MAY HAVE BEEN PLATTED BACK IN 1926 OR WHENEVER.
10:49:41AM IT WAS NEVER OPENED AND SAYS SO IN ONE OF THE MAPS SHE
10:49:45AM PRESENTED BECAUSE IT'S A FLOOD.
10:49:47AM OLD-TIMERS CAN TELL YOU THERE IS A SPRING ON THE PROPERTY.
10:49:51AM IT WAS ILLEGALLY COVERED UP.
10:49:53AM THE ELEVATED PART THERE WHICH PEOPLE HAVE BEEN USING AS A
10:49:57AM PARKING LOT FOR THE LAST 75 YEARS, SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABSORBED
10:50:01AM BY THE CITY AS A PARKING ACCESS.
10:50:03AM USED TO BE A SIGN THERE THE CITY PLANTED THERE IN THE LOT
10:50:05AM THAT SAID THIS IS EPPS PARK.
10:50:07AM THIS IS WHERE THE BEGINNING IS.
10:50:11AM THIS HAS ALL CHANGED.
10:50:12AM ANOTHER THING, THIS ROW APPLICATION SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED
10:50:18AM WITHOUT SEEING THE WHOLE PLAN.
10:50:20AM THERE IS A CLUSTER OF HOMES HE'S TRYING TO PUT HIGH DENSITY
10:50:25AM INTO A SINGLE-FAMILY HOME NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:50:29AM WHY SHOULD THIS BE CONSIDERED PIECEMEAL?
10:50:32AM WHY DOES ANYONE WANT TO PUT A ROAD THERE?
10:50:35AM THERE HAS TO BE A REASON FOR IT.
10:50:37AM YOU NEED TO CONSIDER THE WHOLE PLAN AS A PLANNED
10:50:40AM DEVELOPMENT, NOT JUST SOME LITTLE ROAD SO HE CAN CIRCUMVENT
10:50:44AM REVIEW BY SUBMITTING ALL OF THESE THINGS PIECEMEAL.
10:50:47AM I WILL ALSO NOTE THAT THE PARCEL OF LAND IN QUESTION WAS
10:50:51AM ADDRESSED AS 325, 327 AND 329 WEST FERN STREET BECAUSE THE
10:50:57AM PARK IS TOO SWAMPY TO BUILD A ROAD.
10:50:59AM HE APPLIED TO HAVE THE ADDRESSES CHANGED TO A NONEXISTENT
10:51:04AM ROAD.
10:51:04AM IS MY TIME UP?
10:51:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU STILL HAVE ABOUT 25 SECONDS.
10:51:08AM >> I'LL TOUCH ON ANOTHER THING ANA SAID ABOUT THE BEHAVIOR
10:51:14AM OF THE MAIN APPLICANT FOR THIS DOVETAIL DEVELOPMENT AND
10:51:18AM WHATNOT.
10:51:18AM I CAN'T EVEN WALK DOWN THROUGH THE PARK WITHOUT SUFFER A
10:51:23AM BARRAGE OF INSULTS AND CHILDISH REMARKS BY THIS MAN.
10:51:28AM THANK YOU.
10:51:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SANDRA PARDUE.
10:51:31AM DANA PHILP.
10:51:32AM GOOD MORNING, MA'AM.
10:51:38AM >> I'M SANDRA PARDUE.
10:51:40AM THANK YOU FOR HEARING ME.
10:51:42AM WE HEARD A VARIETY OF ISSUES THIS MORNING FROM THE PEOPLE
10:51:45AM BEHIND ME.
10:51:46AM MOST OF THEM IF YOU SCALE THEM IN COMPARISON TO MY ISSUE,
10:51:50AM THEY HAVE ELEPHANT ISSUES, WHALE ISSUES, HIPPO ISSUES.
10:51:53AM I HAVE A GNAT ISSUE THAT I NEED TO ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT.
10:51:56AM IF I CAN GET MY PICTURE UP HERE, I'LL SHOW YOU SOME
10:52:01AM PICTURES.
10:52:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MA'AM, WE CAN SEE IT.
10:52:04AM >> IT'S KIND OF DIM.
10:52:05AM THESE PICTURES WERE TAKEN ONE MORNING EARLIER THIS WEEK ON A
10:52:09AM 30 MINUTE WALK AROUND THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:52:11AM EVERYTHING YOU'LL SEE IN THIS PICTURE IS ONE OF THE GNATS
10:52:14AM I'M TALKING ABOUT.
10:52:15AM THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE TO US
10:52:19AM AROUND TOWN.
10:52:20AM MANY OF THEM SEEM TO ARRIVE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AS THEIR END
10:52:24AM POINT AND DESTINATIONS.
10:52:27AM THEY LAY THERE AND STAY THERE.
10:52:28AM THE FIRST ONE I SHOWED YOU SAT ON THE SIDEWALK FOR SEVEN
10:52:31AM DAYS BEFORE IT WAS REMOVED.
10:52:33AM THERE IS A PROCEDURE AND A PROCESS FOR DEALING WITH THIS.
10:52:36AM THE PROCEDURE AND THE PROCESS ISN'T WORKING.
10:52:39AM I'M HERE TO ASK YOU TO LOOK INTO IT.
10:52:42AM YOU ARE THE LEGISLATIVE BODY.
10:52:43AM YOU DON'T HAVE THE DAY-TO-DAY ADMINISTRATION OF SOLVING
10:52:47AM THESE ISSUES, BUT YOU DID APPROVE THE FUNDS -- NOT THE FUNDS
10:52:51AM BUT THE CONTRACT THAT GOT THESE THINGS INTO THIS SITUATION.
10:52:54AM I NEED YOU TO PLEASE SEE WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT TAKING THESE
10:52:58AM GNATS OFF OF OUR STREETS.
10:53:01AM LIKE I SAID, IT'S A GNAT PROBLEM, BUT THE BIG PICTURE IS
10:53:05AM ALWAYS MORE COMPELLING AND INVITING WHEN YOU TAKE CARE OF
10:53:07AM THE SMALL DETAILS.
10:53:09AM AND YOU NEED TO TEND TO THEM.
10:53:11AM THAT'S JUST THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE.
10:53:14AM IF YOU'LL PLEASE HELP US OUT WITH SEEING WHAT WE NEED TO DO
10:53:18AM TO MOVE SOME OF THE SITUATION INTO A BETTER PROCESS SO THAT
10:53:22AM PARTICULAR PART OF EVERYONE'S NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE WHOLE
10:53:24AM CITY, BECAUSE I'VE SEEN THEM EVERYWHERE, TOO, NOT JUST MY
10:53:28AM NEIGHBORHOOD.
10:53:29AM AS I DRIVE AROUND THEY ARE LAYING HERE, THERE AND
10:53:31AM EVERYWHERE.
10:53:32AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR REMOVING THE MOTORCYCLES -- NOT THE
10:53:34AM MOTORCYCLES BUT THE SCOOTERS AND MOTORIZED BIKES AND GETTING
10:53:39AM THEM BACK IN THE CORRALS WHERE THEY BELONG.
10:53:42AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:53:42AM DANA PHILP.
10:53:43AM HUMAIRA AFZAL.
10:53:45AM JOHN McDONALD.
10:53:48AM >> I'M DANA PHILP, 328 WEST FERN STREET.
10:53:53AM I WAS AN ALTERNATE IN CASE SOMEBODY COULDN'T SPEAK.
10:53:58AM BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN SAID FROM
10:54:00AM THE FRIENDS OF EPPS PARK IS TRUE AND CORRECT AND THE ENTIRE
10:54:04AM COMMUNITY IS IN OPPOSITION OF THIS.
10:54:06AM THANK YOU.
10:54:06AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MA'AM.
10:54:09AM HUMAIRA AFZAL.
10:54:11AM I SAW HER BUT SHE STEPPED OUT.
10:54:13AM I'LL KEEP THE CARD HERE ON THE SIDE.
10:54:20AM JOHN McDONALD, ARE YOU HERE?
10:54:21AM COME ON UP, SIR.
10:54:24AM FOLLOWED BY MR. VASQUEZ AND MS. ROBIN LOCKETT.
10:54:31AM >> HELLO.
10:54:40AM JOHN McDONALD.
10:54:42AM RESIDENT, CITIZEN, DOWNTOWN TAMPA.
10:54:45AM I LIKE WHAT THE YOUNG LADY SAID.
10:54:48AM SHE SAID "GNAT PROBLEM."
10:54:50AM SO I HAVE A GNAT PROBLEM.
10:54:52AM SOME OF YOU MIGHT HAVE DONE THIS WHEN YOU WERE YOUNGER, PUT
10:54:58AM THESE BASEBALL CARDS ON YOUR BICYCLE.
10:55:03AM MADE THE BIKE GO VROOM, VROOM.
10:55:10AM GUESS WHAT, THAT IS MY GNAT PROBLEM.
10:55:12AM THAT'S WHAT THEY ARE DOING TODAY.
10:55:12AM IT'S LOUD, OFFENSIVE, RUDE.
10:55:20AM IT'S A DISCOURTESY.
10:55:21AM IT'S A BREAKING OF THE FLORIDA LAW, COUNTY LAW, AND CITY
10:55:21AM LAW.
10:55:22AM WE HAVE STATUTES THAT SAY THIS IS ILLEGAL.
10:55:25AM IN 2023 CITY RECORDS SHOW THAT WE DID WRITE ONE CITATION FOR
10:55:29AM NOISE ORDINANCE FROM A MUFFLER.
10:55:32AM I'D LIKE TO ENCOURAGE CITY COUNCIL TO PLEASE ASK AND SUPPORT
10:55:37AM LAW ENFORCEMENT TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT THIS AND START WRITING
10:55:41AM CITATIONS BECAUSE PROBABLY RIGHT NOW OUT FRONT WHILE PEOPLE
10:55:45AM ARE TRYING TO WORK, THIS NOISE IS CRACKLING IN THE
10:55:49AM BACKGROUND OF THEIR CONFERENCE CALLS, ZOOM CALLS.
10:55:53AM AGAIN, A GNAT PROBLEM.
10:55:55AM CITY OF TAMPA HAS SOME FLASHING LIGHTS DOWN IN YBOR SAYING
10:55:59AM NOISE ORDINANCE, RADIOS, ET CETERA.
10:56:01AM THERE'S ONE OTHER SIGN DOWN BY MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE -- OR
10:56:05AM ON BAYSHORE.
10:56:07AM AND IT'S LEANING.
10:56:11AM NOT RELEVANT.
10:56:13AM BUT COLLIER COUNTY, DOWN SOUTH OF US, HAS ESTABLISHED A TASK
10:56:19AM FORCE.
10:56:19AM IF YOU GOOGLE COLLIER COUNTY NOISE ORDINANCE TASK FORCE, I
10:56:26AM FORWARDED THIS TO SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS, JUST TO LISTEN TO
10:56:30AM WHAT THEY HAVE DONE.
10:56:31AM WE DON'T HAVE TO REPEAT THE WHEEL.
10:56:34AM HAND IT OVER TO WHOMEVER WILL TAKE OVER THE TASK FORCE AND
10:56:38AM WRITE CITATIONS, PUT SIGNS UP AND START TO DO AS THEY HAVE
10:56:42AM DONE.
10:56:43AM THEY GO BACK ONCE THEY HAVE WRITTEN A CITATION, THEY GO TO
10:56:46AM THE MECHANIC WHO INSTALLED IT AND GIVE THEM A FINE AS WELL.
10:56:51AM THE TASK FORCE IS SENDING OUT LETTERS TO THE MECHANICS
10:56:55AM SAYING BE AWARE WHAT YOU'RE DOING IS ILLEGAL.
10:56:58AM AGAIN A NUISANCE.
10:57:00AM GNAT-SIZE PROBLEM.
10:57:02AM IT'S UNHEALTHY IN OUR ENVIRONMENT.
10:57:04AM I THINK WE NEED TO CREATE A COMMON COURTESY OR AT LEAST
10:57:08AM ENTHUSIASTICALLY IMPRESS THAT A COMMON COURTESY IS AN
10:57:13AM OLD-FASHIONED THING LIKE TO SEE BACK.
10:57:16AM THE NOISE IS VERY OFFENSIVE.
10:57:18AM PLEASE GO TO THE YouTube.
10:57:19AM SORRY MY TECH BRAIN DIDN'T WORK AND COULD HAVE HAD IT HERE
10:57:23AM AND LISTENED TO.
10:57:25AM ADD IT TO YOUR TO-DO LIST AND THANK YOU.
10:57:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:57:28AM JOSE VASQUEZ AND MS. ROBIN LOCKETT.
10:57:32AM GOOD MORNING, SIR.
10:57:33AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
10:57:34AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:57:35AM MY NAME IS JOSE VASQUEZ.
10:57:37AM RESIDENT OF 2222 NORTH 64TH STREET, BUSINESS LOCATED AT 1924
10:57:45AM NORTH 59th STREET.
10:57:47AM THE REASON I'M HERE TODAY, LAST MEETING JUNE 9, WHEN I
10:57:51AM PRESENT MY ISSUE.
10:57:52AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA ASKED ME IF I COULD PROVIDE SOME
10:57:57AM INFORMATION OR EVIDENCE ABOUT THE PROPERTY TO BE
10:58:00AM INVESTIGATED.
10:58:01AM FROM THAT DAY I'M WAITING 30, 45 DAYS TO SEE IF CODE
10:58:07AM ENFORCEMENT, MOBILITY, TRANSPORTATION DO SOMETHING IN THE
10:58:10AM AREA.
10:58:10AM NOTHING HAPPENED.
10:58:11AM TODAY I'M BRINGING EVIDENCE.
10:58:13AM THIS IS THE DEED WHEN THE CITY OF TAMPA BOUGHT THE PROPERTY
10:58:18AM IN 1973.
10:58:20AM THIS IS THE EVIDENCE ABOUT PROPERTY APPRAISER SAY THE
10:58:28AM ADDRESS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA AND GIVING A DESCRIPTION ON THE
10:58:32AM VALUE OF THE PROPERTY, $120.
10:58:34AM TREE FALL ON TOP OF MY -- YOU CAN SEE THE COMMUNICATIONS.
10:58:44AM WRONG ADDRESS.
10:58:45AM WRONG INFORMATION.
10:58:46AM NO MATTER WHAT THE ISSUE OVER SIX, EIGHT, NINE MONTHS.
10:58:52AM THIS IS THE TICKET OPEN.
10:58:56AM RELATIVE TO THE CITY OF TAMPA ABOUT THE DEBRIS AND
10:59:01AM EVERYTHING.
10:59:02AM TRANSPORTATION REVIEW SUPPOSED TO REVIEW THE FENCE.
10:59:06AM ANOTHER CASE RIGHT HERE FROM 1999 LOCATION.
10:59:09AM MY POINT IS I BRING YOU A NOTE ABOUT ALL THE CASES BEEN OPEN
10:59:17AM FOR THE LAST EIGHT OR NINE MONTHS.
10:59:21AM ALL THIS BECAUSE THE PROPERTY, 1999 NORTH 59th STREET,
10:59:29AM THESE TWO GENTLEMEN TAKE OVER AND NEED LEGAL ACCESS TO THE
10:59:35AM BACK OF MY PROPERTY.
10:59:36AM NOW I HEAR A LOT OF PEOPLE GIVE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE
10:59:39AM PROBLEMS.
10:59:40AM I UNDERSTAND THAT.
10:59:41AM I'M NOT HERE TO BRING A PROBLEM.
10:59:43AM I BRING YOU A SOLUTION.
10:59:45AM LAST SIX MONTHS I'VE BEEN CLEANING THE PROPERTY, PICKING THE
10:59:50AM DEBRIS UP AND OPEN A TICKET FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA TO PICK IT
10:59:54AM UP.
10:59:55AM MY LAST TICKET WAS OPEN LIKE YOU SEE, 225 AND THEY SUPPOSED
11:00:04AM TO COME UP AND PICK UP MARCH 4.
11:00:11AM THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN.
11:00:12AM AND THE FUNNY PART IS MY NEIGHBOR -- BECAUSE I DO THIS
11:00:18AM CLEANING, CALLED THE CITY OF TAMPA POLICE.
11:00:22AM AND I AM UNDER INVESTIGATION BECAUSE THEY WANT TO CHARGE ME
11:00:24AM WITH CRIMINAL MISCHIEF BECAUSE I PLANTED EIGHT TREES, TWO IN
11:00:28AM FRONT OF MY -- LEGAL RESIDENCE.
11:00:31AM I HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMOVE IT BECAUSE HE BLOCKED IT.
11:00:35AM CODE ENFORCEMENT OPENED A CASE AND THE TREES COST $5,000.
11:00:40AM WHO HAS THE RIGHT TO PLANT THAT KIND OF AMOUNT OF TREES
11:00:43AM INSIDE THE CITY OF TAMPA PROPERTY WITH NO PERMISSION.
11:00:45AM NO PAPERWORK, ETC., ETC.
11:00:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
11:00:50AM >> YOU ARE WELCOME.
11:00:51AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NO?
11:00:52AM I DON'T SEE HUMAIRA AFZAL.
11:00:56AM THAT WILL CONCLUDE PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:00:58AM MR. SHELBY, REGARDING ITEM 78.
11:01:01AM I WILL ASK THAT WE MAKE A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING
11:01:04AM WHEN WE GET TO IT.
11:01:05AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIRMAN.
11:01:08AM YOU CANNOT OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
11:01:10AM IT HAS BEEN MISNOTICED.
11:01:11AM YOU HAVE TO REMOVE IT FROM THE AGENDA.
11:01:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OPEN ALL THE PUBLIC HEARINGS TO COVER
11:01:16AM EVERYTHING.
11:01:16AM WE HAVE A MOTION TO REMOVE ITEM 78.
11:01:19AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO MOVED.
11:01:20AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT WAS MISNOTICED.
11:01:21AM WE RECEIVED AN E-MAIL FROM THE ATTORNEY OR THE
11:01:24AM REPRESENTATIVE.
11:01:24AM SO WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
11:01:26AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK MADE THE MOTION.
11:01:28AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN SECONDED IT.
11:01:31AM ITEM 78 WAS TAKEN OFF THE AGENDA.
11:01:34AM LET ME JUST MARK THAT.
11:01:35AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, WOULD YOU MIND --
11:01:39AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIRMAN, JUST FOR THE SAKE OF CLOSURE.
11:01:42AM IF I CAN JUST ADDRESS SOME OF THE COMMENTS RELATIVE TO A
11:01:45AM RIGHT-OF-WAY PERMIT THAT WAS ISSUED AS THE PEOPLE -- MEMBERS
11:01:50AM OF THE PUBLIC HAVE STATED.
11:01:51AM JUST A REMINDER TO COUNCIL, I DON'T KNOW IF IT HAS BEEN
11:01:55AM DISTRIBUTED TO ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING
11:01:59AM IS THAT COUNCIL HAS RECEIVED COMMUNICATIONS REGARDING THE
11:02:03AM SITUATION OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY ROAD PERMIT ISSUE ADJACENT
11:02:10AM TO EPPS PARK.
11:02:11AM JUST A REMINDER, COUNCIL, I HAVE BEEN ADVISED BY THE CITY
11:02:16AM ATTORNEY, WHO HAS ALSO BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH MEMBERS OF
11:02:18AM THE COMMUNITY, AND PERHAPS EVEN THE APPLICANT, I DON'T KNOW,
11:02:23AM BUT I JUST WANT TO REMIND COUNCIL THAT IF YOU WISH TO HAVE
11:02:30AM ANY INQUIRIES, I SUGGEST YOU TALK TO THE CITY ATTORNEY'S
11:02:34AM OFFICE ABOUT THAT RATHER THAN TALK TO THE PARTIES, BECAUSE
11:02:38AM COUNCIL SHOULD REFRAIN FROM DISCUSSING A MATTER THAT EITHER
11:02:42AM I -- EITHER IS OR COULD VERY WELL BE A SUBJECT OF A MATTER
11:02:48AM OF LITIGATION.
11:02:48AM I WANT TO BRING THAT TO YOUR ATTENTION.
11:02:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU.
11:02:51AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. SHELBY.
11:02:53AM ITEM NUMBER 4 IS REAPPOINTMENT BY THE MAYOR OF SEAN PATTERSON
11:02:58AM FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS BOARD OF THE CITY OF TAMPA IN THE
11:03:00AM INDUSTRIAL RIGHTS POSITION.
11:03:02AM MOTION TO APPROVE BY COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:03:04AM SECONDED BY COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
11:03:05AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:03:06AM OPPOSED?
11:03:09AM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, YOU ARE PUBLIC SAFETY CHAIR.
11:03:12AM >>LUIS VIERA: I MOVE.
11:03:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE ITEM 5-12.
11:03:17AM A MOTION.
11:03:17AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:03:19AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:03:20AM OPPOSED.
11:03:21AM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
11:03:25AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. CHAIR, CAN I SAY SOMETHING OF ITEM 32
11:03:28AM BEFORE WE VOTE -- SORRY, 33.
11:03:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NUMBER 33?
11:03:34AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
11:03:35AM THIS IS ON OUR CONSENT AGENDA ITEM.
11:03:38AM IT IS VOTING ON A PERMIT FOR OUR TAMPA PRIDE PARADE AND
11:03:43AM FESTIVAL.
11:03:43AM I THOUGHT IT WAS APPLICABLE DURING THESE TIMES IN OUR
11:03:47AM COUNTRY AND STATE WHEN SO MANY PEOPLE DO NOT VALUE DIVERSITY
11:03:51AM AND INCLUSION WITH OUR COMMUNITIES.
11:03:55AM AND I WANTED TO REMIND FOLKS THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA, WE
11:03:58AM STILL DO.
11:03:58AM THIS IS A CITY THAT VALUES BLACK HERITAGE AND HISTORY.
11:04:03AM WE HONOR DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
11:04:06AM WE HAVE MANY EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY HONORING OUR
11:04:10AM COMMUNITY.
11:04:10AM WE HONOR OUR HISPANIC AND LATIN COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE
11:04:15AM CITY WITH FESTIVALS AND EVENTS.
11:04:16AM WE HONOR WOMEN.
11:04:18AM WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH.
11:04:19AM IN FACT, COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK SPOKE AT ONE.
11:04:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MUSLIM --
11:04:25AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I AM GETTING TO THEM ALL.
11:04:27AM LAST WEEK, WE PASSED A RESOLUTION HONORING AND SUPPORTING
11:04:30AM OUR MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN HONORING RAMADAN.
11:04:33AM WE HAVE MANY -- AND COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA HAS BEEN A BIG
11:04:36AM ADVOCATE, AND MYSELF AS WELL, FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN THE
11:04:40AM STATE OF FLORIDA AND HONORING THE INCLUSIVITY AND OUR
11:04:44AM CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY.
11:04:46AM FOR THE MUSLIMS.
11:04:48AM LIGHT THE MENORAHS FOR HANUKKAH.
11:04:52AM FOR OUR JEWISH PEOPLE.
11:04:53AM FOR OUR CHRISTIANS, WE HAVE A CHRISTMAS PARADE, AND WE HAVE
11:04:56AM CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS AND CHRISTMAS TREES THROUGHOUT THE
11:04:59AM CITY.
11:04:59AM THIS IS A CITY THAT VALUES EVERY ELEMENT OF THE PEOPLE THAT
11:05:02AM LIVE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA INCLUDING OUR PROUD AND
11:05:05AM OUTSTANDING MEMBERS OF THE LGBTQ COMMUNITY.
11:05:08AM AND I HOPE YOU ALL JOIN EVERYONE FOR THEIR PRIDE EVENT ONLY
11:05:13AM MARCH 29 IN YBOR CITY.
11:05:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:05:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NEIGHBORHOOD AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, ITEMS
11:05:22AM 13-35 WITH THE REMOVAL OF 32.
11:05:24AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:05:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
11:05:29AM MIRANDA.
11:05:29AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MOVE ITEMS 36-48.
11:05:33AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:05:35AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:05:36AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, YOU ARE WITH FINANCE.
11:05:38AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE ITEMS 49-51.
11:05:41AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:05:43AM SECOND?
11:05:43AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND.
11:05:44AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:05:45AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, YOU ARE THE VICE-CHAIR OF
11:05:48AM DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
11:05:49AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE ITEMS 52-68.
11:05:53AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:05:54AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:05:56AM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:05:58AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:05:59AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, MOBILITY AND ASSET MANAGEMENT.
11:06:04AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOVE ITEM 69.
11:06:06AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:06:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: VERY GOOD.
11:06:08AM MOTION AND A SECOND.
11:06:09AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:06:10AM ITEM NUMBER 70, PETITION FOR REVIEW FOR MAY 1, 2025.
11:06:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SO MOVED.
11:06:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: 301 E. KENNEDY, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33602.
11:06:21AM MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
11:06:23AM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:06:24AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:06:25AM WE MADE A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARINGS.
11:06:28AM LET ME JUST CHECK.
11:06:29AM WE OPENED ALL PUBLIC HEARINGS REGARDING --
11:06:32AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL MOVE TO OPEN PUBLIC HEARINGS.
11:06:35AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:06:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:06:38AM SECONDED FROM MIRANDA.
11:06:39AM ALL THE 10 AND 10:30 A.M.
11:06:42AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:06:42AM OPPOSED?
11:06:43AM WE HAVE THE -- WE HAVE A 1:30 HEARING LATER ON.
11:06:46AM ALL RIGHT, ITEM NUMBER -- LET ME SEE.
11:06:49AM THESE ARE -- THERE ARE TWO NONQUASI-JUDICIAL.
11:06:54AM IF YOU ARE HERE TO SPEAK ON ANY OF THESE PUBLIC HEARINGS AT
11:06:57AM 10 AND 10:30, PLEASE RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND, AND WE WILL YOU
11:07:05AM IN.
11:07:05AM IF YOU ARE GOING TO SPEAK.
11:07:06AM [SWEARING IN]
11:07:11AM >> I DO.
11:07:11AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:07:13AM START WITH ITEM NUMBER 71. ANYBODY HERE FROM THE CITY TO
11:07:21AM SPEAK ON 71?
11:07:22AM IF NOT, I WILL ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:07:24AM YES, MA'AM.
11:07:25AM ARE YOU HERE FOR 71?
11:07:27AM >> I AM.
11:07:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SWORN IN.
11:07:30AM COME UP.
11:07:31AM >>EMMA GREGORY: EMMA GREGORY, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
11:07:33AM EXCUSE MY SLIGHT TARDINESS.
11:07:35AM WE ARE HERE FOR THE SECOND READING OF THE PEDICAB ORDINANCE.
11:07:41AM COUNCIL DID NOT HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON FIRST READING.
11:07:43AM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR TODAY, I'M HERE FOR THEM
11:07:46AM ALTHOUGH SLIGHTLY LATE.
11:07:47AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:07:50AM ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON ITEM 71.
11:07:52AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. CHAIR, THERE WAS A SETTLEMENT DURING
11:07:56AM THE FIRST VOTE, AND I REVIEWED THE RECORDING, AND I AM
11:07:59AM FAMILIAR AND PREPARED TO VOTE.
11:08:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION TO CLOSE.
11:08:02AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOTION.
11:08:04AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND.
11:08:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:08:06AM OPPOSED?
11:08:08AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, READ 71.
11:08:09AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF I HAVE ENOUGH TIME.
11:08:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: LUNCH IS AT NOON.
11:08:13AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU FOR THE ITEM, 71, E 2025-8
11:08:19AM CHAPTER 25, UNANIMOUS.
11:08:21AM CLENDENIN BEING ABSENT AT VOTE.
11:08:23AM ORDINANCE BEING PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION,
11:08:27AM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA OF FLORIDA RELATED TO PEDICAB
11:08:31AM AND NONMOTORIZED VEHICLE REGULATION.
11:08:34AM REVISION TO THE CITY OF TAMPA CODE ORDINANCE AMENDING 25-4,
11:08:34AM DEFINITIONS.
11:08:39AM AMENDING SECTION 25-48, PERMIT TYPES.
11:08:41AM AMENDING SECTION 25-60, RESERVED.
11:08:43AM AMENDING SECTION 25-61, NONMOTORIZED VEHICLE - PERMIT
11:08:48AM REQUIRED, ONE PERMIT FOR EACH PERMIT AND OPERATION TO BE
11:08:50AM ATTACHED TO EACH VEHICLE.
11:08:52AM AMENDING 25-62, SAME, AMENDING FOR PERMIT; APPROVAL, DENIAL
11:08:58AM OF APPLICATION; APPEAL PERMIT FEES.
11:09:04AM SECTION 25-63, ADHERENCE TO PLAN SUBMITTED IN APPLICATION REQUIRED.
11:09:08AM AMENDMENTS TO PLAN, MODIFICATIONS TO PLAN BY TRANSPORTATION
11:09:11AM MANAGER.
11:09:16AM AMENDING 25-64, SAME, REMOVAL OF PERMITS; LOST, DESTROYED PERMITS
11:09:18AM NONTRANSFERABLE, REPLACEMENTS AND SUBSTITUTIONS, DORMANT
11:09:22AM PERMITS.
11:09:23AM AMENDING 25-65, SAME, DRIVER'S PERMIT REQUIRED, INSURANCE
11:09:28AM AND DENIAL OF ISSUANCE OR DENIAL OF PERMITS REQUIRED,
11:09:28AM APPLICATIONS; QUALIFICATIONS; ISSUANCE OR DENIAL OF PERMIT;
11:09:34AM DURATION AND RENEWAL.
11:09:34AM REVOCATION OF PERMITS.
11:09:36AM DISPLAY OF PERMITS AMENDING SECTION 25-65, SAME.
11:09:40AM AMENDING SECTION 25-66, SAME, BUSINESS TAX.
11:09:40AM AMENDING 25-67, SAME, LIABILITY INSURANCE REQUIRED.
11:09:46AM FORM, AMOUNT OF COVERAGE, APPROVAL.
11:09:48AM AMEND AND RENUMBERING SECTION 25-187 TO SECTION 25-60,
11:09:57AM NONMOTORIZED VEHICLES. PROVIDING FOR REPEAL OF ALL
11:10:00AM ORDINANCES TO OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH,
11:10:05AM PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING A EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:10:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:10:11AM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:10:12AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:10:15AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH HENDERSON
11:10:20AM NOT BEING PRESENT AT VOTE AND CARLSON ABSENT.
11:10:30AM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:10:35AM FILE NUMBER, VAC-25-03.
11:10:41AM A VACATION OF A PORTION OF MARIE AVENUE, SOUTH OF KENNEDY
11:10:47AM BOULEVARD, SOUTH OF EAST STREET, EAST OF DALE MABRY HIGHWAY
11:10:50AM AND WEST OF STERLING AVENUE.
11:10:51AM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:10:54AM >> TRUETT GARDNER, 400 EAST ASHLEY DRIVE, AND HERE TO ANSWER
11:11:00AM ANY QUESTIONS.
11:11:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. PRESSMAN, YOU ARE PART OF IT?
11:11:04AM ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TO ADD?
11:11:07AM >> NO, SIR.
11:11:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYONE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 72?
11:11:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE.
11:11:12AM >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND.
11:11:21AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
11:11:23AM >>LUIS VIERA: NUMBER 7, VAC-25-03, ORDINANCE BEING
11:11:29AM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING, ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
11:11:33AM TAMPA, FLORIDA, CLOSING AND DISCONTINUING AND ABANDONING A
11:11:36AM PORTION OF MARIE AVENUE RIGHT-OF-WAY LOCATED NORTH OF
11:11:39AM KENNEDY BOULEVARD, SOUTH OF NORTH B. STREET, EAST OF DALE
11:11:44AM MABRY HIGHWAY, WEST OF STERLING AVENUE WITHIN THE PLAT OF
11:11:47AM PALMERE SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, HILLSBOROUGH
11:11:50AM COUNTY, FLORIDA, MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 2, TO
11:11:54AM CERTAIN COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS AS MORE
11:11:57AM PARTICULARLY SET FORTH HEREIN PROVIDING FOR ENFORCEMENT AND
11:12:00AM PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION, PROVIDING FOR DEFINITIONS
11:12:05AM INTERPRETATION AS REPEALING CONFLICTS PROVIDING FOR
11:12:08AM SEVERABILITY.
11:12:08AM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:12:10AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND SECOND.
11:12:11AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH CARLSON BEING
11:12:15AM ABSENT.
11:12:16AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE QUASI-JUDICIAL HEARING.
11:12:19AM EVERYONE WAS SWORN IN FROM MY UNDERSTANDING SO FAR EXCEPT
11:12:22AM THE VIRTUAL VOTES ON 77 AND 74.
11:12:26AM ITEM NUMBER 73.
11:12:30AM >>SAM THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:12:33AM ITEM NUMBER 37, REZ-25-05.
11:12:37AM TO REZONE THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 201 NORTH DALE MABRY
11:12:43AM HIGHWAY IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FOR PD TO PD PLANNED
11:12:49AM DEVELOPMENT, STOREFRONT, RESIDENTIAL, OFFICE BUSINESS AND
11:12:53AM PROFESSIONAL RETAIL SALES SHOPPERS FOODS RESTAURANTS AND
11:12:56AM PERSONAL SERVICES.
11:12:58AM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:13:00AM >> TRUETT GARDNER, 400 NORTH ASHLEY DRIVE.
11:13:03AM HERE WITH TODD PRESSMAN.
11:13:04AM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE.
11:13:06AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK?
11:13:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE.
11:13:12AM >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND.
11:13:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:13:14AM OPPOSED?
11:13:15AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:13:16AM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
11:13:17AM WOULD YOU MIND READING 73?
11:13:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FILE NUMBER REZ-25-03, ORDINANCE BEING
11:13:29AM PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION, AN ORDINANCE OF
11:13:32AM THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, VACATING, CLOSING, DISCONTINUING
11:13:35AM AND A PORTION OF MARIE AVENUE RIGHT-OF-WAY LOCATED NORTH --
11:13:40AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WRONG ONE.
11:13:41AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE ARE ON 73.
11:13:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SORRY.
11:13:47AM I APOLOGIZE.
11:13:48AM I DIDN'T MARK IT OFF ON MY DELETE.
11:13:50AM I HAVE A LITTLE SYSTEM.
11:13:51AM IT DIDN'T WORK TODAY.
11:13:52AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE.
11:13:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR CATCHING THAT.
11:13:55AM I APPRECIATE THAT.
11:13:57AM I MOVE FILE NUMBER REZ-25-05 ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR SECOND
11:14:01AM READING AND ADOPTION.
11:14:02AM ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 201
11:14:07AM NORTH DALE MABRY HIGHWAY IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, MORE
11:14:11AM PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT
11:14:15AM CLASSIFICATION PD TO PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, STOREFRONT,
11:14:20AM RESIDENTIAL, OFFICE, BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL, RETAIL
11:14:24AM SALES, SHOPPERS' GOODS, RESTAURANT AND PERSONAL SERVICES.
11:14:28AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:14:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:14:32AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH CARLSON BEING
11:14:40AM ABSENT AT VOTE.
11:14:41AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:14:42AM ITEM NUMBER 74.
11:14:43AM >>STEPHANIE POPE: GOOD MORNING, STEPHANIE POPE, DEVELOPMENT
11:14:47AM COORDINATION.
11:14:47AM ITEM NUMBER 74 IS REZ-24-47.
11:14:51AM THIS ITEM IS REZONING REQUEST FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
11:14:54AM 2010 EAST POWHATAN AVENUE.
11:14:57AM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE FROM SEMINOLE HEIGHTS RESIDENTIAL
11:15:00AM SINGLE-FAMILY TO SEMINOLE HEIGHTS MULTIFAMILY.
11:15:03AM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:15:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS.
11:15:07AM MA'AM, ARE YOU MARTHA VELASQUEZ?
11:15:11AM >> YES.
11:15:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU WERE SWORN IN.
11:15:13AM NO QUESTIONS.
11:15:14AM MA'AM, COME ON UP AND YOU CAN PRESENT.
11:15:16AM >> OKAY.
11:15:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COME CLOSER --
11:15:19AM >> CLOSER?
11:15:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:15:24AM >> HERE IF YOU HAD ANY QUESTIONS.
11:15:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD.
11:15:30AM >> I'M HERE FOR 2010 EAST POWHATAN AVENUE.
11:15:34AM I WILL SAY THAT IT LOOKED BETTER THAN IT DOES NOW AFTER WE
11:15:39AM GET THE APPROVAL.
11:15:46AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT?
11:15:47AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:15:49AM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:15:50AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:15:51AM OPPOSED?
11:15:52AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:15:53AM NO.
11:15:53AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA?
11:15:55AM 74.
11:15:57AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ITEM NUMBER 7, MR. CHAIRMAN, FILE
11:16:01AM NUMBER REZ-24-47, ORDINANCE FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
11:16:05AM AN ORDINANCE REZONINGS PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF
11:16:10AM 2010 EAST POWHATAN AVENUE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AS
11:16:15AM SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION SH-RS, SEMINOLE
11:16:20AM HEIGHTS RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY, AND SH-RM, SEMINOLE
11:16:24AM HEIGHTS RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:16:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:16:29AM SECONDED.
11:16:34AM >>CLERK: MOTION APPROVED WITH CLENDENIN AND CARLSON BEING
11:16:44AM ABSENT AT VOTE.
11:16:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM NUMBER 75.
11:16:47AM >>STEPHANIE POPE: STEPHANIE POPE, DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:16:51AM NUMBER 75, REZ-24-09.
11:16:56AM THE PROPERTY IS 3916 WEST ALVA STREET TO REZONE FROM CG
11:17:03AM COMMERCIAL GENERAL TO PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR VEHICLE SALES
11:17:05AM AND LEASING.
11:17:05AM REVISIONS HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED AND PLANS TO THE CLERK'S
11:17:10AM OFFICE.
11:17:10AM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:17:14AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:17:16AM >> I AM RAY HAJIAN.
11:17:19AM I AM THE OWNER OF 3916 WEST ALVA.
11:17:25AM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:17:26AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYONE TO SPEAK?
11:17:27AM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:17:30AM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:17:31AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE 75, REZ-24-90, ORDINANCE PRESENTED
11:17:42AM FOR SECOND READING AN ADOPTION.
11:17:44AM ORDINANCE IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 3916 WEST ALVA
11:17:49AM STREET IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, TAMPA, FOR SECTION 1 FOR ZONING
11:17:53AM DISTRICT CG TO PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT, VEHICLE SALES AND
11:17:57AM LEASING.
11:17:58AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:18:00AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH CARLSON BEING
11:18:05AM ABSENT.
11:18:05AM >> THANK YOU.
11:18:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ITEM NUMBER 76.
11:18:10AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:18:13AM REZ-24-96.
11:18:16AM REZONING OF 3212 MARLIN AVENUE FROM RS-60 TO RS-50.
11:18:26AM RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY.
11:18:27AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:18:29AM I SEE NONE.
11:18:29AM STATE YOUR NAME.
11:18:32AM >> AILEEN ROSARIO, REPRESENTING THE CLIENT FOR 3212 WEST MARLIN.
11:18:38AM I'M HERE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:18:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYONE IN THE AUDIENCE WISHING TO
11:18:42AM SPEAK FOR 76?
11:18:43AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE.
11:18:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:18:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: FILE NUMBER REZ-24-96 ORDINANCE PRESENTING
11:18:53AM FOR SECOND READING ADOPTION OF ORDINANCE REZONING 3212 WEST
11:18:59AM MARLIN AVENUE IN CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, MORE PARTICULARLY
11:19:02AM DESCRIBED AS ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RS-60, TO RS-50
11:19:09AM RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY.
11:19:10AM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:19:12AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
11:19:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:19:16AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH CARLSON BEING
11:19:20AM ABSENT.
11:19:20AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THIS ONE HERE -- THERE HAS GOT TO BE A
11:19:24AM MISPRINT.
11:19:25AM A MEMBER OF COUNCIL CAN'T VOTE AND MAKE THE MOTION FOR THE
11:19:30AM SAME ONE FOR THE FIRST READING.
11:19:32AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WAIT A MINUTE.
11:19:33AM THAT IS A GOOD -- YOU ARE ALL RIGHT.
11:19:41AM I FORGOT WHO READ 77 BECAUSE IT WASN'T CARLSON.
11:19:46AM CAN WE STILL VOTE ON IT TODAY AND CORRECT IT?
11:19:48AM THAT IS A GOOD, GOOD CATCH.
11:20:07AM >>SAMUEL THOMAS: SAM THOMAS, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
11:20:10AM ITEM NUMBER 77, REZ-25-08.
11:20:22AM THIS IS TO REZONE THE PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 5200
11:20:29AM SOUTH MANHATTAN AVENUE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:20:31AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE SOME REGISTERED WHO WILL BE SPEAKING.
11:20:35AM >> ONLY IF THERE ARE QUESTIONS.
11:20:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU COME UP AND PRESENT.
11:20:39AM GO AHEAD.
11:20:40AM >>CLERK: I WILL MAKE THE CORRECTION VERY QUICK.
11:20:43AM CARLSON WAS ABSENT, AND CLENDENIN AND HENDERSON MOVED THE
11:20:48AM ORDINANCE ON FIRST READING.
11:20:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SCRIVENER'S ERROR.
11:20:52AM >> KAMI CORBETT WITH THE LAW FIRM OF HILL, WARD AND
11:20:57AM HENDERSON.
11:20:57AM I HAVE TWO QUICK EXHIBITS TO SHOW TO YOU.
11:21:00AM I WILL SHOW THEM ON THE ELMO BUT WILL PASS THEM OUT.
11:21:04AM THE FIRST ONE JUST SHOWS THE AREAS WHERE WE MADE THE CHANGES
11:21:10AM ON THE REVISION SHEET.
11:21:11AM AND SPECIFICALLY, IN ADDITION TO WHAT STAFF ASKED US TO DO,
11:21:16AM WE ACTUALLY ADDED THE DIMENSION TO THE GARAGES WE PRESENTED
11:21:19AM TO YOU.
11:21:19AM WE KNEW THAT WAS IMPORTANT TO THE DISCUSSION.
11:21:21AM SO WE WENT AHEAD AND MADE THOSE CHANGES BETWEEN FIRST AND
11:21:25AM SECOND READING EVEN THOUGH THEY WEREN'T ON THE REVISION
11:21:27AM SHEET.
11:21:28AM THE SECOND ONE THAT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU IS THE CALCULATION
11:21:33AM -- REVISED PARKING REGULATION.
11:21:36AM EVEN IF YOU COUNTED THE INTERIOR GARAGES AS ONE-CAR GARAGES
11:21:41AM WE EXCEED PARKING BY 25% STILL.
11:21:43AM WE HAVE DEMONSTRATED THROUGH OUR PRESENTATION AT FIRST
11:21:46AM READING THAT WE ARE CONSISTENT AND COMPATIBLE WITH THE
11:21:48AM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN IN YOUR LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE AND
11:21:51AM RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR APPROVAL.
11:21:53AM AND OUR CONSULTANTS ARE AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
11:21:56AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
11:21:57AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN?
11:21:59AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I APPRECIATE THAT CLARIFICATION, I DID
11:22:02AM OBSERVE THAT DURING THAT, AND I THINK I MADE A NOTE OF THAT
11:22:05AM THAT YOU ARE ABLE TO MEET THE MINIMUM PARKING MINIMUMS EVEN
11:22:08AM IF THAT GARAGE WAS COUNTED AS A SINGLE-CAR GARAGE BECAUSE
11:22:13AM YOU HAD DRIVEWAY SPACE.
11:22:14AM AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE CITY WITH GARAGE STANDARDS, WE
11:22:17AM WILL TAKE THAT INTO ACCOUNT AS WELL THAT FOLKS WHO ARE
11:22:19AM USING.
11:22:20AM AS LONG AS THEY ARE MEETING THE MINIMUM PARKING STANDARDS IN
11:22:22AM A VARIETY OF WAY, THAT WILL BE PERMISSIBLE.
11:22:25AM APPRECIATE THE CLASSIFICATION AND CLARIFICATION ON THE PLAN.
11:22:29AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. SHELBY.
11:22:32AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I CAN, INQUIRE OF STAFF.
11:22:36AM WHAT YOU HAVE PRESENTED TO US AND PUT INTO THE RECORD, ARE
11:22:40AM THESE ON THE CERTIFIED SITE PLANS THAT HAS BEEN FILED BY THE
11:22:43AM CLERK?
11:22:44AM >> THE REVISIONS.
11:22:46AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WHAT YOU PASSED OUT.
11:22:48AM >> THIS COLORIZED VERSION IS NOT, BUT BASED ON THE CERTIFIED
11:22:52AM SITE PLAN IN THE RECORD THAT MR. THOMAS HAS.
11:22:55AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WITH THE DIMENSIONS, THAT'S CORRECT?
11:23:00AM >> WITH THE DIMENSIONS, YES.
11:23:02AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT THE CERTIFIED SITE
11:23:05AM PLAN REFLECTS THESE DOCUMENTS.
11:23:06AM >> YES, IT DOES.
11:23:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:23:10AM YES, MA'AM.
11:23:10AM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:23:11AM >> YES, MA'AM, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
11:23:55AM >> GOOD MORNING, STEPHANIE POYNOR.
11:23:58AM GLAD THAT THE APPLICANT FIXED THE GARAGES.
11:24:03AM I THINK THAT WAS THE HONORABLE THING TO DO.
11:24:05AM THE ENCROACHMENT ON OUR INDUSTRIAL LAND SOUTH OF DALE MABRY
11:24:10AM HIGHWAY HAS GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE IT IS ABSURD.
11:24:12AM I JUST GAVE YOU A SPREADSHEET.
11:24:14AM ALL OF THE BIG DEVELOPMENTS -- EVERY TIME I GIVE YOU A LIST
11:24:17AM OF THE BIG DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE COME IN SOUTH OF GANDY,
11:24:21AM WEST OF DALE MABRY HIGHWAY, SINCE I STARTED.
11:24:24AM SINCE THE LAST COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, LET'S PUT IT THAT WAY,
11:24:29AM 217 ACRES OF LAND THAT WAS NOT RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY HAS
11:24:34AM BEEN CONVERTED TO RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY.
11:24:39AM WHEN WE HAVE -- WE HAVE THIS INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT REPORT
11:24:43AM FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION STAFF AND SAYS THIS CAME OUT TO
11:24:49AM IN 2020, LOST 790 ACRES OF INDUSTRIAL LAND.
11:24:54AM A LOT WHAT WAS ON THAT LIST -- THIS PINK LIST -- WAS
11:24:58AM FORMALLY INDUSTRIAL LAND.
11:24:59AM THAT WAS IN 2020.
11:25:00AM WE HAVE LOST AN ADDITIONAL 100 ACRES OF INDUSTRIAL LAND
11:25:07AM SINCE THEN.
11:25:08AM THESE ARE COMMERCIAL CORNERS.
11:25:09AM THE APPLICANT WHEN THEY GOT UP THERE AND SPOKE AND SAID, OH,
11:25:13AM IF WE PUT A GAS STATION ON THIS CORNER, THERE WILL BE 580
11:25:17AM TRIPS.
11:25:17AM YOU KNOW WHAT THOSE 580 TRIPS WOULD BE, 580 CITIZENS WHO
11:25:22AM ALREADY LIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY WHO HAVE TO DRIVE NORTH OF
11:25:25AM GANDY TO GET TO A GAS STATION.
11:25:27AM WE WOULD LOVE A GAS STATION.
11:25:29AM THERE ARE ACTUALLY POSTS ABOUT IT ON FACEBOOK THAT WE ARE SO
11:25:32AM DISTRAUGHT THAT OUR NEIGHBORS WERE LIKE, WE WOULD LOVE TO
11:25:35AM HAVE A GAS STATION THERE.
11:25:36AM I KNOW THAT SOUNDS CRAZY.
11:25:38AM I KNOW YOU GUYS THINK THAT I ONLY GET UP HERE AND COMPLAIN.
11:25:41AM I SUPPORTED TWO LARGE DEVELOPMENTS, WHICH IS UNUSUAL, ONE
11:25:45AM BECAUSE THEY PUT AFFORDABLE IN THERE.
11:25:46AM A GAS STATION.
11:25:48AM I HAVE SUPPORTED SEVERAL RESTAURANTS, COFFEE SHOPS.
11:25:52AM YOU NAME IT, ANYTHING BUT RESIDENTIAL.
11:25:56AM AND YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT EVEN IF IT IS A DECENT PROJECT
11:26:00AM -- BECAUSE I AM NOT GOING TO TELL YOU THIS IS A GREAT
11:26:03AM PROJECT.
11:26:03AM EVEN IF THIS IS A DECENT PROJECT, I HAVE TO COME UP AND SAY
11:26:06AM WE DON'T HAVE A GAS STATION.
11:26:08AM I LIVE IN A FOOD DESERT.
11:26:09AM I LIVE IN A FOOD DESERT.
11:26:12AM LET ME SAY THAT ONE MORE TIME, I LIVE IN A FOOD DESERT AND
11:26:15AM HERE WE ARE AGAIN GIVING AWAY OUR COMMERCIAL SPACE, OUR
11:26:19AM INDUSTRIAL SPACE FOR MORE RESIDENTIAL FOR AN AREA THAT DOES
11:26:25AM NOT HAVE A GAS STATION.
11:26:25AM THESE UNITS COST THEM -- THIS IS WHAT THEY TOLD ME.
11:26:31AM I DIDN'T -- WE ASKED THEM WHAT IS THE COST.
11:26:33AM THEIR COST IS $450,000 WITHOUT THE DIRT.
11:26:38AM WITHOUT THE DIRT!
11:26:41AM NO TELLING WHAT THEY PAID FOR THE PROPERTY.
11:26:43AM YOU GUYS FOUND UNANIMOUSLY THIS WAS A GOOD PROJECT, AND IT
11:26:47AM SHOULD BE PASSED.
11:26:48AM I WOULD QUESTION -- NONE OF YOU ASKED OF PUTTING ANY
11:26:54AM COMMERCIAL IN THIS PROJECT.
11:26:55AM WHY NOT?
11:26:57AM THIS IS A TRANSPORTATION CORRIDOR.
11:26:59AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
11:27:00AM >> THANK YOU.
11:27:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYONE ELSE HERE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT?
11:27:04AM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:27:05AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ADDRESSING THE PUBLIC COMMENT ON
11:27:07AM THE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY.
11:27:08AM YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS WE NEED TO HAVE
11:27:11AM THAT KIND OF DISCUSSION AS WE MOVE FORWARD AS A CITY.
11:27:13AM THE CITY OF TAMPA IS EVOLVING AND CHANGING AND WE ARE -- YOU
11:27:18AM KNOW, WE LOOK AT THE MAP OF WHAT THE CITY OF TAMPA LOOKED
11:27:21AM LIKE.
11:27:23AM LONG AND LINEAR GOING FROM HISTORICAL PORT TAMPA GOING UP
11:27:27AM TO PASCO COUNTY IN THE NORTHEAST.
11:27:29AM WE ARE BECOMING MUCH MORE URBANIZED IN A MUCH MORE
11:27:33AM RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITY.
11:27:33AM NOT THAT WE ARE LOSING INDUSTRIAL IN OUR AREA.
11:27:36AM THE AREA IS SHIFTING.
11:27:37AM YOU GO OUT TO 301 AND YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE REDEVELOPMENT
11:27:41AM PROPERTIES AROUND THE PROPERTY THAT ARE NOT NECESSARILY IN THE
11:27:44AM CITY PROPERTY BUT WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
11:27:45AM SO ALL OF THESE INDUSTRIES AND THIS PROPERTY IS SHIFTING OUT
11:27:50AM OF WHERE PEOPLE ARE LIVING TO THOSE AREAS.
11:27:52AM THEY ARE STILL PROVIDING JOBS.
11:27:54AM IT IS JUST -- JUST A REALIGNMENT.
11:27:56AM I THINK THAT IS ONE THING TO CONFER.
11:27:58AM THE OTHER THING IS WHILE I AGREE WITH -- I MEAN I WOULD
11:28:02AM LOVE TO SEE US -- WE JUST TALKED WITH THE CLARION REPORT OF
11:28:05AM LAND DEVELOPMENT AND ENCOURAGING COMMERCIAL PROPERTY.
11:28:07AM PROBLEM IS A LOT OF US IS PERSONAL PROPERTY.
11:28:10AM WE DON'T OWN THE PROPERTY, SO WE CAN'T -- AS SOMEONE WHO
11:28:14AM DOESN'T OWN A PIECE OF PROPERTY.
11:28:15AM WHY DON'T WE PUT A GROCERY STORE THERE.
11:28:17AM WELL, I CAN'T DICTATE.
11:28:19AM IT IS PERSONAL PROPERTY.
11:28:20AM PERSONAL PROPERTY RIGHTS WHAT GOES ON THAT PIECE OF
11:28:24AM PROPERTY.
11:28:24AM IF SOMEBODY WANTED -- SOUTH OF GANDY AND BUY A PIECE OF
11:28:28AM PROPERTY AND OPEN UP A GAS STATION, I AM SURE IT
11:28:31AM WILL BE AMICABLE WITH THAT IF IT IS ON THE RIGHT PIECE OF
11:28:35AM PROPERTY.
11:28:36AM SOMETHING WE HAVE TO CONSIDER.
11:28:37AM I HEAR THINGS ALL THE TIME LIKE THE DOG TRACK.
11:28:40AM GO UP THERE AND REDEVELOPMENT THE DOG TRACK.
11:28:42AM WE DON'T OWN A DOG TRACK.
11:28:44AM A PRIVATE PERSON GOES AND OWNS THAT DOG TRACK.
11:28:48AM I CAN'T GO UP THERE AND TAKE HER PROPERTY.
11:28:50AM ALL THESE THINGS -- ALWAYS SOUNDS GREAT AND WE LIKE TO
11:28:53AM PONTIFICATE ABOUT THAT IN CONVERSATIONS OVER COFFEE OR A
11:28:57AM COCKTAIL, BUT THE REALITY IS PEOPLE OWN THEIR OWN PROPERTIES
11:29:00AM AND HAVE CERTAIN LAND RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES AND WHAT
11:29:03AM WE HAVE TO MAKE OUR DECISION WHEN WE VOTE ON THIS STUFF.
11:29:05AM WHILE I AM EMPATHETIC WITH THE LACK OF GROCERY STORES AND
11:29:11AM THOSE TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENTS.
11:29:12AM WE HAVE TO BALANCE THAT WHEN WE MAKE THESE DECISIONS.
11:29:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON, MIRANDA.
11:29:18AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: GO AHEAD.
11:29:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
11:29:21AM I APPRECIATE THE PUBLIC COMMENT REGARDING THIS.
11:29:24AM I HAPPEN TO LIKE THIS PROJECT.
11:29:25AM IT IS NOT OVERDONE.
11:29:26AM BUT THAT IS SOMETHING TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION, THE
11:29:29AM COMMERCIAL SPACE AND INDUSTRIAL SPACE AND HOW WE, YOU KNOW,
11:29:35AM LOOK AT WHAT IS BEING PRESENTED BEFORE US.
11:29:37AM I DO APPRECIATE THAT.
11:29:39AM THIS ONE JUST SEEMS IDEAL TO ME BECAUSE ONE OF THE BIGGER
11:29:43AM ISSUES WAS THE FIGHT FOR THE GARAGES AND THE -- THE
11:29:47AM DEVELOPER IS OBVIOUSLY LISTENING TO THAT, BECAUSE IT IS
11:29:50AM IMPORTANT.
11:29:50AM AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS FIXABLE.
11:29:54AM THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST CLEAR EXAMPLES THAT IT WAS VERY
11:29:57AM INTENTIONALLY DONE BECAUSE OF PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:30:00AM SO I DO APPRECIATE THAT ONE.
11:30:01AM BUT I WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT.
11:30:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:30:06AM MA'AM, DO YOU HAVE REBUTTAL?
11:30:09AM >> KAMI CORBETT, AGAIN.
11:30:10AM JUST BRIEFLY.
11:30:11AM EVERYTHING IN REAL ESTATE IS LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION,
11:30:14AM RIGHT.
11:30:14AM AND SO THE MARKET IS REACTING TO THIS MIXED USE LAND USE
11:30:19AM CATEGORY.
11:30:20AM AND THE MARKET IS DECIDE WHAT THE APPROPRIATE MIX OF USE IS
11:30:23AM BASED ON SORT OF THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE AREA.
11:30:27AM I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MATT McGRAW COME UP REAL QUICK AND GET
11:30:33AM FEEDBACK FROM COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL LANDS IN THIS
11:30:35AM PARTICULAR AREA.
11:30:36AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COME ON UP, SIR, WERE YOU SWORN IN.
11:30:43AM >> YES, MA'AM.
11:30:44AM MACK McGRAW, WEST NICHOLAS STREET IN TAMPA, FLORIDA.
11:30:49AM WE DID HAVE A LICENSED REAL ESTATE BROKER DO AN INDUSTRIAL
11:30:52AM AND RETAIL STUDY OF THE SITE.
11:30:54AM WE ARE OBVIOUSLY INVESTED IN IT.
11:30:56AM WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE USING THE HIGHEST AND BEST USE.
11:30:59AM HER NAME IS LAUREN CAMPBELL WITH THE ARCHER GROUP AND A
11:31:02AM TAMPA RESIDENT.
11:31:03AM I THINK FROM A RETAIL STANDPOINT.
11:31:06AM WE ARE BUILDING A SIDEWALK AND HELPING TO CONNECT UP TO
11:31:09AM GANDY AND VERY WALKABLE ALONG GANDY AND PLENTY OF RETAIL
11:31:13AM ALONG THE GANDY CORRIDOR.
11:31:14AM IN ADDITION TO THAT, A LACK OF FOOT TRAFFIC, A LACK OF
11:31:18AM VEHICLE TRAFFIC TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF RETAIL THERE.
11:31:22AM AND THAT IS ALSO SHOWN BY A PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL VACANCY RATE
11:31:27AM FOR RETAIL.
11:31:28AM WHEN WE GO TO INDUSTRIAL, IT IS EVEN -- IT IS EVEN WORSE.
11:31:31AM 55% OF THE PROPERTIES IN THIS STUDY AREA THAT WE DID -- THIS
11:31:36AM WAS IN YOUR PACKAGE FROM OUR -- THIS RECTANGLE HERE IS THE
11:31:40AM STUDY AREA WE DID.
11:31:41AM 55% OF THE INDUSTRIAL PROPERTIES ARE VACANT IN THAT AREA.
11:31:45AM JUST NOT A DEMANDS FOR IT ANYMORE.
11:31:47AM MOSTLY BECAUSE THE STREETS -- THE STREETS AROUND OUR
11:31:50AM PROPERTY ESPECIALLY DON'T DO WELL WITH A LOT OF TRAFFIC.
11:31:54AM A LOT OF HEAVY INDUSTRIAL TYPE TRAFFIC.
11:31:56AM BETTER SUITED RIGHT OFF OF GANDY, AND I THINK AN INDUSTRIAL
11:32:00AM PROJECT COMING ALONG GANDY, A NEW ONE.
11:32:03AM SO I DON'T THINK -- I DON'T THINK THAT AREAS THAT BEEN
11:32:06AM SUPPORTIVE OF IT.
11:32:07AM AS YOU TRANSITION SOUTH, IT MAKES SENSE TO START PUTTING IN
11:32:10AM THE PROJECT LIKE WE ARE PUTTING IN.
11:32:12AM THAT'S IT.
11:32:13AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYTHING FURTHER WITH THE REBUTTAL?
11:32:16AM IF NOT, WE ASK -- WE ALREADY HAD A MOTION TO CLOSE.
11:32:19AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE.
11:32:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SECOND.
11:32:22AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, BACK TO YOU,
11:32:26AM SIR.
11:32:26AM OR VIERA, BECAUSE WE SKIPPED OVER AND WENT TO VIERA.
11:32:29AM MIRANDA, GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:32:33AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR, AN ORDINANCE REZONINGS PROPERTY IN
11:32:36AM 5200 SOUTH MANHATTAN AVENUE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
11:32:39AM FLORIDA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN ZONING
11:32:42AM CLASSIFICATION CI COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE, PD, RESIDENTIAL
11:32:47AM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
11:32:48AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
11:32:52AM SECONDED FROM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
11:32:53AM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
11:32:55AM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH CARLSON BEING
11:33:02AM ABSENT.
11:33:02AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:33:04AM THAT SETTLES THE LAND USE ITEMS.
11:33:07AM WE CAN'T TO THE 1:30 WHICH IS 80.
11:33:12AM WE CAN GO TO STAFF REPORTS.
11:33:13AM I DON'T KNOW IF LORI HERNANDEZ IS AVAILABLE.
11:33:16AM LISA CHEESER RENAMING OF THE PARK.
11:33:19AM IF SHE IS NOT, WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER LUNCH.
11:33:21AM I KNOW THAT COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA HAS A FUNERAL AT 12:00 TO
11:33:26AM GO TO.
11:33:26AM SO WE CAN BE MINDFUL OF THAT.
11:33:28AM THE OTHER ITEMS ARE VIK BHIDE AND MR. ROGERO AND CARL BRODY.
11:33:33AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. BRODY IS IN THE BUILDING.
11:33:37AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN DO THAT IN A HALF
11:33:38AM HOUR.
11:33:39AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU WANT TO TAKE A VERY LONG LUNCH.
11:33:44AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SURE.
11:33:46AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE WILL BREAK FOR LUNCH UNTIL 1:30 --
11:33:49AM YOU WANT TO DO IT AT 1:00 AND PICK UP SOME ITEMS LIKE CLOSER
11:33:54AM BACK.
11:33:54AM IS THIS FOR THE LISA CHEESER PARK?
11:34:02AM >> YOU WANT IT TO BE.
11:34:04AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: KNOCK IT OUT.
11:34:05AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WHY NOT, LET'S GO.
11:34:08AM MISS LOCKET, ARE YOU GOOD?
11:34:11AM HAVE A GOOD AFTERNOON.
11:34:12AM GOOD TO SEE YOU.
11:34:14AM YES, MA'AM.
11:34:15AM WE ARE GOING TO DO ITEM 82.
11:34:21AM >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: MICHELLE VAN LOAN, REAL ESTATE
11:34:23AM DEPARTMENT.
11:34:23AM WE HAVE THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION FOR THIS ITEM.
11:34:26AM THEY GOT CAUGHT OFF GUARD TOO.
11:34:35AM SO WHILE THEY ARE BRINGING IT UP, YOU GUYS HAVE A COPY.
11:34:41AM LISA CHESSER, ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE NO MATTER WHO SHE MET, SHE
11:34:54AM WOULD HELP.
11:34:54AM AND SHE WOULD DO FOR PEOPLE IN NEED.
11:34:56AM SHE STARTED HER OWN NONPROFIT FOUNDATION.
11:34:59AM WENT OUT TO FUND RAISE TO BE ABLE TO TAKE IN DONATION AND DO
11:35:05AM MORE FOR PEOPLE THAN SHE RAN INTO.
11:35:08AM ESPECIALLY THOSE MOST AT RISK.
11:35:10AM VOLUNTEERED NOT ONLY FOR TOYS FOR TOTS BUT DID HER OWN TOY
11:35:14AM DRIVE BECAUSE TOYS FOR TOTS EARLY IN THE SEASON AND RUNNING
11:35:18AM INTO FAMILIES WHO NEEDED MORE TOYS AS THEY GOT CLOSE TO THE
11:35:21AM HOLIDAYS.
11:35:21AM HER HEART JUST WENT OUT THERE FOR ANYBODY WHO HAD THOSE
11:35:24AM NEEDS AND COULDN'T STAND THE THOUGHT OF A CHILD NOT HAVING
11:35:27AM SOMETHING AND THE GUILTY AND WHAT IT DOES FOR A PARENT
11:35:31AM KNOWING YOU CAN'T DO THOSE THINGS FOR YOUR CHILDREN.
11:35:33AM SHE HELPED PAY FOR HOTEL ROOMS FOR PEOPLE TO GET THEM OFF
11:35:36AM THE STREET OR KEEP THEM OFF THE STREET.
11:35:39AM PAID FOR INSURANCE AND RENT.
11:35:40AM SHE WAS ALWAYS GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND WHEN SHE SAW SOMEONE
11:35:43AM IN NEED.
11:35:43AM SHE WAS PART OF THE LADIES AUXILIARY.
11:35:46AM SHE SENT CARE PACKAGES TO SOLDIERS EVEN THOUGH NO LONGER IN
11:35:53AM THE LEADERSHIP AND INVOLVED, SHE STAYED INVOLVED
11:35:55AM INDIVIDUALLY AND KEPT VOLUNTEERING TO SEND THOSE PACKAGES TO
11:35:59AM OUR SOLDIERS OVERSEAS.
11:36:00AM THIS WAS A WOMAN THROUGHOUT HER OWN ENTIRE LIFE WHO NEVER
11:36:04AM STOPPED LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ALWAYS GIVE BACK TO HER
11:36:07AM COMMUNITY FOR THE GANDY COMMUNITY CIVIC CENTER AND
11:36:12AM EVERYTHING THEY DID FOR PEOPLE AT RISK IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:36:15AM IN REVIEWING OUR HER BIOGRAPHY, MISS CHESSER MET THE
11:36:21AM CRITERIA AND ALL THE OTHER CRITERIA SET IN THE ORDINANCE FOR
11:36:25AM A MAJOR ASSET RENAMING.
11:36:27AM THIS PARK -- IF WE GET THE POWERPOINT UP IS LOCATED -- OH, YOU
11:36:31AM GOT IT?
11:36:32AM THERE YOU GO.
11:36:33AM AND SO YOU CAN SEE IT THERE.
11:36:39AM IT IS JUST WEST OF THE ENTRY TO THE MacDILL AIR FORCE BASE
11:36:44AM JUST OFF OF DALE MABRY HIGHWAY OFF OF PINEWOOD AND MARKUM
11:36:50AM STREET AND THE PARK ITSELF WILL BE DONE BY THE DEVELOPER WHO
11:36:55AM IS BUILDING THE MOTEL TO THE WEST OF THIS.
11:36:57AM IF THE COUNCIL MOVES FORWARD WITH THE HONORARY RENAMING, THE
11:37:02AM DEDICATION OF THE PARK IS A COUPLE OF YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.
11:37:04AM REQUIRED BY THE DEVELOPER TO BE BUILT AS A CONDITION OF
11:37:07AM THE C.O. OF THE HOTEL, AND THAT IS IN OUR AGREEMENT.
11:37:10AM IF YOU SO CHOOSE TO MOVE FORWARD, I WOULD REQUEST A SETTING
11:37:14AM OF A DATE OF A READING OF FIRST ORDINANCE AT LEAST 30 DAYS
11:37:17AM OUT FROM TODAY SO WE HAVE TIME TO DO OUR PUBLIC POSTING AS
11:37:21AM REQUIRED BY THE ORDINANCE.
11:37:22AM AND I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
11:37:25AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: BEFORE I GO TO COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK AND
11:37:28AM MIRANDA.
11:37:29AM I HAVE HEARD NOTHING BUT POSITIVE THINGS OF THIS INDIVIDUAL
11:37:34AM FOR A LONG TIME.
11:37:34AM AND NOT A SINGLE PERSON AGAINST IT OR QUESTIONING.
11:37:38AM EVERYBODY IS LIKE.
11:37:39AM WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT?
11:37:41AM WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO DO IT?
11:37:42AM THE PEOPLE AND THE COMMUNITY ARE VERY EXCITED.
11:37:45AM THOSE WHO KNEW HER ARE VERY EXCITED.
11:37:47AM I WOULD BE TOTALLY ON BOARD TO SUPPORT IT.
11:37:50AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK AND COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:37:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:37:53AM BECAUSE COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON IS NOT HERE TODAY, I WAS -- I
11:37:57AM WAS TOLD THAT WE NEED TO SCHEDULE THIS ACTUALLY IN MAY
11:38:01AM BECAUSE OF SOME -- SOME FAMILY AND HEALTH ISSUES.
11:38:04AM SO I AM GOING TO RECOMMEND MAY 15 AS THE DATE.
11:38:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA SECONDS IT.
11:38:10AM SIR, YOU WANT TO SPEAK?
11:38:12AM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA?
11:38:13AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LIKE YOU SAID, I NEVER HEARD ANY CROSS
11:38:15AM WORDS OR ANYTHING NEGATIVE AT ALL.
11:38:17AM SO WELL DESERVED.
11:38:19AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR MAY 15 UNDER
11:38:22AM -- WELL, FIRST READING, CORRECT.
11:38:24AM MOTION AND A SECOND.
11:38:25AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:38:26AM ANY OPPOSED?
11:38:28AM YES?
11:38:29AM >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: THANK YOU, ENJOY YOUR LUNCH.
11:38:30AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IF I GET HIT BY A TRUCK THIS AFTERNOON.
11:38:34AM CAN YOU DO MY EULOGY?
11:38:37AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A VERY GOOD PRESENTATION.
11:38:38AM >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: AS WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, USUALLY WE
11:38:41AM -- WE INVESTIGATE REAL ESTATE AND LAND.
11:38:43AM WE ARE NOT USED TO DOING DUE DILIGENCE AND BIOGRAPHIES ON
11:38:48AM PEOPLE, BUT WHETHER IT HAS BEEN MR. ALESSI AND MR. McDONALD
11:38:52AM AND SOME OF THE OTHER PEOPLE TO HAVE THE PLEASURE TO
11:38:55AM RESEARCH AND GET TO KNOW, SOMETIMES POSTHUMOUSLY OF ALL OF
11:38:59AM THEIR GOOD DEEDS IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:39:00AM IT IS ALWAYS VERY HEARTWARMING.
11:39:03AM I AM ALWAYS TRULY HONORED TO COME UP HERE AND DO THESE
11:39:06AM PRESENTATIONS.
11:39:07AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:39:08AM MR. BRODY, FOR YOUR ITEM, DO YOU WANT TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER
11:39:12AM LUNCH?
11:39:12AM WHAT DO YOU THINK?
11:39:18AM >>CARL BRODY: CARL BRODY, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
11:39:19AM I DON'T THINK IT WILL TAKE -- YEAH --
11:39:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: GO AHEAD, SIR.
11:39:25AM >>CARL BRODY: I WILL USE THE ELMO.
11:39:28AM WHAT WE WILL DO -- I INTRODUCED MYSELF, RIGHT?
11:39:32AM CARL BRODY, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
11:39:34AM WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU TODAY IS A PROPOSED ORDINANCE.
11:39:37AM THIS IS NOT FINAL, BUT PROPOSITION THAT WE ARE BRINGING
11:39:40AM FORWARD FOR YOU TO CONSIDER FOR A CODE OF CONDUCT FOR OUR
11:39:46AM CITY CONTRACTORS AND VENDORS.
11:39:48AM CAN YOU -- CAN I MAKE THAT BIGGER?
11:39:52AM CAN YOU SEE THAT?
11:39:55AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ZOOM IN WITH THE WHEEL.
11:39:56AM THERE YOU GO.
11:40:03AM >>CARL BRODY: SO THIS SITUATION PROPOSED BY A COMPLAINT REGARDING
11:40:11AM THE TREATMENT OF THE CITY CONTRACTOR ACTUALLY TO ANOTHER CITY
11:40:15AM CONTRACTOR AND A SEPARATE COMPLAINT BY A CITY EMPLOYEE.
11:40:18AM THAT PERSON RECEIVED FROM A CITY CONTRACTOR.
11:40:20AM SO WE WANTED TO PUT SOME RULES IN PLACE JUST TO CLARIFY AND
11:40:24AM MAKE SURE THAT OUR CONTRACTORS AND VENDORS KNOW THAT THOSE
11:40:33AM SERVE US WHEN THEY RECEIVE A CONTRACT TO THE HIGHEST LEVEL
11:40:36AM OF ETHICAL RESPONSIBILITY.
11:40:37AM AND I WILL JUST WALK THROUGH THIS VERY QUICKLY.
11:40:40AM AND, OF COURSE, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, JUST JUMP IN.
11:40:44AM SO OUR SUBSET -- INITIALLY, WE ARE PUTTING IT IN THE WMBE
11:40:51AM ORDINANCE, 26-5.
11:40:52AM WE FURTHER IT THERE BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE CONTRACTORS THAT
11:40:55AM WE ACTUALLY CERTIFY.
11:40:56AM WMBE OR SMALL LOCAL BUSINESS IN THE CITY, YOU HAVE TO IT BE
11:41:01AM CERTIFIED AND GO THROUGH THE PROCESS.
11:41:03AM WMBE, A GROUP WITH A DIRECT RELATIONSHIP WITH.
11:41:06AM AND WE PUT IT IN THAT SECTION.
11:41:08AM SO WE ARE JUST REFERENCED IT.
11:41:10AM YOU KNOW WE WANT OUR CONTRACTOR AND VENUES TO SERVE AT THE
11:41:14AM HIGHEST LEVEL OF INTEGRITY AND ETHICAL STANDARDS.
11:41:18AM AND IN SUB B, WHAT WE DO IS WE WANT OUR CONTRACTORS AND
11:41:22AM VENDORS TO PASS THIS ON TO THEIR SUBCONTRACTORS, THEIR
11:41:27AM EMPLOYEES AND AGENTS THAT THEY KNOW WHEN THEY ARE WORKING
11:41:29AM WITH THE CITY THROUGH THE CONTRACTOR THEY HAVE TO SATISFY
11:41:32AM THESE STANDARDS.
11:41:33AM IN SUB C, PROHIBIT THREATENING LANGUAGE, THREATENING
11:41:39AM ACTIVITY.
11:41:39AM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS PRETTY MUCH IDENTICAL TO WHAT WE
11:41:43AM PROVIDE FOR -- IN OUR PERSONNEL MANUAL FOR OUR OWN CITY
11:41:47AM EMPLOYEES.
11:41:47AM SO, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO HAVE THAT STANDARD APPLY ACROSS THE
11:41:52AM BOARD.
11:41:53AM AND THEN IN SECTION D, AGAIN, WE REFERENCED IT.
11:41:57AM WE WANT ALL OF THE CONTRACTORS TO SERVE AT THE HIGHEST LEVEL
11:42:01AM OF ETHICAL CONDUCT.
11:42:02AM AND IMPORTANTLY, WE NOTE THAT -- YOU KNOW, THE OTHER PURPOSE
11:42:05AM IS THAT THESE CONTRACTORS ARE OUT THERE.
11:42:07AM PUBLIC DOESN'T REALLY KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR PUBLIC
11:42:10AM CONTRACTORS AND VENDORS AND OUR CITY EMPLOYEES.
11:42:13AM SO WE DON'T WANT MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC TO -- TO HAVE A BAD
11:42:17AM INTERACTION WITH SOME OF THESE CONTRACTORS AND HAVE THAT
11:42:22AM FALL BACK ON US.
11:42:22AM SO WE SET THIS HIGHER STANDARD FOR THEM TO COMPLY WITH.
11:42:25AM THAT IS THE BACKGROUND FOR -- OF THAT.
11:42:28AM AND THEN WE ARE GOING TO ENFORCE IT THROUGH THE MANAGER
11:42:34AM OF EBO.
11:42:34AM SHE MISS BERTHA MITCHELL HAS EXPERIENCE WITH THIS.
11:42:38AM AND THE THEORY -- THE THOUGHT IS THAT PRIMARILY, WE WANT
11:42:42AM THEM TO COMPLY WITH THESE REQUIREMENTS.
11:42:45AM IF THERE IS A MINOR VIOLATION, THERE WILL BE NOTICED OF IT
11:42:49AM THAT WE NEED TO COMPLY.
11:42:51AM IF THERE IS A MORE SERIOUS VIOLATION, WE WILL TAKE FURTHER
11:42:55AM STEPS ON IT.
11:42:55AM WE ALSO HAVE A DISPUTE RESOLUTION PROVISION.
11:42:58AM AND THIS IS ALSO IN THE ORDINANCE THAT ALLOWS THE MANAGER TO
11:43:02AM COORDINATE WITH THE CONTRACTORS TO BE ABLE TO COME TO SOME
11:43:06AM AMICABLE OUTCOME IF THERE IS DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TWO OF
11:43:11AM THEM.
11:43:12AM AND, OF COURSE, AN APPEAL PROCESS.
11:43:14AM WE THROW THE APPEAL PROCESS IN FOR DUE PROCESS PURPOSE.
11:43:17AM THAT IS REALLY QUICK.
11:43:19AM A PROPOSED ORDINANCE.
11:43:20AM IF YOU SEE ANYTHING YOU WANT CHANGED, LET ME KNOW NOW.
11:43:24AM WE CAN MAKE THOSE CHANGES AND BRING IT BACK FOR FIRST
11:43:27AM READING SOME TIME IN THE FUTURE.
11:43:28AM UH-OH.
11:43:34AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OF ALL THINGS.
11:43:35AM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
11:43:35AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:43:36AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
11:43:38AM AND MR. -- I AM LAUGHING ABOUT THAT -- POOR GUY.
11:43:41AM WHAT WAS I GOING TO SAY?
11:43:45AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS, MR. BRODY.
11:43:47AM WE HAVE MET ON THIS A FEW TIMES AND YOU ALWAYS ARE A
11:43:50AM PLEASURE TO WORK WITH.
11:43:51AM AND WE WORKED ON OTHER THINGS BEFORE.
11:43:53AM AS YOU SAID, THIS CAME ABOUT FROM A FRIEND OF MINE FROM MY
11:43:57AM DISTRICT, A VERY NICE GENTLEMAN, A GOOD MAN, WHO ENCOUNTERED
11:44:01AM SOME VERY PREJUDICE UNFORTUNATELY BEHAVIOR.
11:44:05AM AND, OF COURSE, THERE IS A PROCESS FOR THAT WHICH WE --
11:44:09AM MYSELF I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH, BUT SHOULD DO
11:44:12AM EVERYTHING WE CAN DO WITH THE TOOLS THAT WE HAVE AND THAT IS
11:44:14AM WHAT THIS IS ABOUT TO MAKE SURE CONTRACTORS KNOW THAT
11:44:17AM CERTAIN BEHAVIOR IS -- WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
11:44:22AM THAT THERE ARE ENFORCEMENT PROVISIONS AND WE WORKED WITH THE
11:44:26AM CONTRACTOR COMMUNITY AND OTHERS ON THIS.
11:44:28AM SO I WILL BE HAPPY TO REPORT THIS TO THIS GENTLEMAN, AND I
11:44:32AM AM SURE HE WILL BE PLEASED.
11:44:33AM JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK.
11:44:35AM DO WE MOTION AFTER THE --
11:44:38AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: AFTER THE DISCUSSION.
11:44:39AM >>LUIS VIERA: HOW DOES THIS WORK?
11:44:43AM THANK YOU, MR. BRODY, YOU ARE ALWAYS A GENTLEMAN.
11:44:45AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOT YET.
11:44:47AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
11:44:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:44:48AM I DO HAVE A FEW QUESTIONS.
11:44:50AM DOES IT COVER -- SO YOU SAID IT IS BEING PUT UNDER THE WMBE
11:44:56AM AND SLBE, BUT COVER ALL CONTRACTORS?
11:45:01AM >>CARL BRODY: IT DOES.
11:45:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANTED TO CHECK BECAUSE THE PUBLIC
11:45:07AM UNDERSTOOD IT.
11:45:07AM I AM CONCERNED OF THE ENFORCEMENT SECTION, BECAUSE HOW MANY
11:45:11AM VIOLATIONS ARE TOO MANY VIOLATIONS?
11:45:13AM I THINK WE NEED A LITTLE BIT MORE STRUCTURE.
11:45:16AM NOT A TON OF STRUCTURE, BUT I REALLY FEEL LIKE MORE
11:45:20AM STRUCTURE IS IMPORTANT HERE.
11:45:21AM BECAUSE, THE IDEA IS, WE ARE GOING TO BE TARGETING BAD
11:45:26AM ACTORS.
11:45:26AM IF WE KNOW ANYTHING OF THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT WE GET OF
11:45:30AM SPECIFIC CONTRACTORS IS THEY CHANGED THEIR TACTIC JUST A
11:45:33AM LITTLE BIT.
11:45:34AM I WOULD LOVE IF YOU -- I DON'T KNOW IF -- IF YOU ALL HAVE
11:45:37AM SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO ADD SOMETHING TO THAT, TO MAKE IT A
11:45:40AM LITTLE MORE -- AND I AM HAPPY TO TALK TO YOUR OFFICE ABOUT
11:45:43AM IT BETWEEN NOW AND FIRST READING, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO DO
11:45:47AM SOME TYPE OF -- I DON'T KNOW -- AGAIN, I DON'T EVEN KNOW
11:45:54AM WHAT KIND OF ENFORCEMENT PENALTIES, THREE STRIKES THING.
11:45:57AM OBVIOUSLY WOULD YOU HAVE DIFFERENT THINGS FOR SMAL
11:46:00AM INFRACTIONS VERSUS LARGER INFRACTIONS.
11:46:05AM I AM WORRIED JUST LEAVING IT TO SANCTION BASED ON THE NATURE
11:46:09AM OF THE VIOLATION ALONE WITHOUT IT AT LEAST HAVING A NUMBER
11:46:12AM IN THERE.
11:46:13AM >>CARL BRODY: THAT IS UNDERSTANDABLE.
11:46:16AM WE CAN WORK WITH SOMETHING TODAY AND BEFORE IT COMES BEFORE
11:46:20AM YOU ON FIRST MEETING.
11:46:22AM WORK WITH BERTHA MITCHELL, THE MANAGER AT EBO.
11:46:29AM AND WE WILL LOOK AT OTHER ORDINANCE AND RULES IN OTHER
11:46:32AM JURISDICTIONS TO COMPARE AND SEE IF THEY HAVE ANYTHING MORE
11:46:36AM SPECIFIC IN TERMS OF PROVIDING ENFORCEMENT.
11:46:38AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE WE CAN ALWAYS -- I
11:46:40AM WOULD LOVE TO -- FEEL FREE TO SEND ME A DRAFT OF THAT.
11:46:44AM I WOULD LOVE TO SEE THAT.
11:46:45AM I NOTICED IN THE -- IN THE MOTION ITSELF, SAID TO A
11:46:48AM DISCUSSION ON PARKING TO BE INCLUDED.
11:46:50AM AND I DO REMEMBER THAT ONE OF THE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT --
11:46:53AM I DON'T KNOW IF THIS -- IF THIS IS THIS OR A DIFFERENT -- A
11:46:56AM DIFFERENT ONE?
11:46:58AM >>CARL BRODY: IT GOT MIXED.
11:47:01AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I SAW IT IN THE MOTION AND I THOUGHT IT IS
11:47:04AM NOT HERE --
11:47:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: READY FOR A MOTION?
11:47:08AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, GO AHEAD.
11:47:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOTION THAT THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT PRESENT
11:47:12AM -- COME BACK ON MAY 15 WITH AN ORDINANCE FOR FIRST READING
11:47:17AM AND CONSIDERATION ON CODE OF CONDUCT OF CHAPTER 26-5 OF THE
11:47:24AM CITY OF TAMPA CODE FOR WMBE AND SLBE CERT TIDE CONTRACTORS
11:47:29AM WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA.
11:47:33AM PERIOD.
11:47:33AM >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND.
11:47:38AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:47:39AM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
11:47:41AM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
11:47:41AM OPPOSED?
11:47:43AM ALL RIGHT.
11:47:43AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, MR. BRODY.
11:47:45AM WE ARE GOING TO RECESS FOR LUNCH UNTIL 1:30 SINCE WE GOT
11:47:49AM THOSE ITEMS OUT OF THE WAY.
11:47:51AM THANK YOU.
11:47:52AM [LUNCH RECESS]
01:33:09AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CALL THE COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER.
01:33:11PM IF WE CAN HAVE ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
01:33:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
01:33:15PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
01:33:17PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
01:33:20PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
01:33:21PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
01:33:22PM >>CLERK: WE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
01:33:24PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:33:26PM MAY WE HAVE A MOTION TO OPEN THE 1 A.M. PUBLIC HEARINGS --
01:33:30PM OR 1:30 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING EVEN THOUGH WE ARE SOMETIMES
01:33:34PM HERE AT THAT TIME.
01:33:35PM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:33:37PM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
01:33:39PM ITEM NUMBER 79 A REQUEST FROM THE APPLICANT'S REPRESENTATIVE
01:33:43PM TO REQUEST A CONTINUANCE AND DOESN'T HAVE A DATE FOR ITEM
01:33:47PM 79.
01:33:47PM CONTINUE THAT FOR A DATE TO BE DETERMINED, IF THAT IS OKAY.
01:33:50PM CLERK EITHER APRIL 3 OR 17th.
01:34:01PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MOVE WE CONTINUE ITEM 79 TO APRIL 17.
01:34:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
01:34:07PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA TO CONTINUE THIS ITEM 79
01:34:11PM TO APRIL 17 AT 1:30 P.M. 315 EAST KENNEDY, BOULEVARD, TAMPA,
01:34:16PM FLORIDA, 33602.
01:34:18PM ALL IN FAVOR.
01:34:19PM THESE ARE QUASI-JUDICIAL HEARINGS.
01:34:22PM IF YOU WERE GOING TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER 80, PLEASE STAND
01:34:25PM AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND AND WE WILL SWEAR YOU IN.
01:34:30PM SIR, WILL YOU BE SPEAKING?
01:34:36PM >> YES.
01:34:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE GENTLEMAN THAT JUST WALKED IN, WILL
01:34:43PM YOU BE SPEAKING?
01:34:44PM >> NO.
01:34:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:34:45PM ITEM NUMBER 80.
01:34:48PM MISS CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE, IF YOU WILL KICK IT OFF AND THEN
01:34:51PM MR. COTTON.
01:34:52PM >>CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE: GOOD AFTERNOON, CAMARIA
01:34:54PM PETTIS-MACKLE FROM THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
01:34:55PM ITEM 80, THE REVIEW HEARING FOR SU 1-24-58 FOR PROPERTY AT 3127
01:35:03PM WEST OAKLAND AVENUE.
01:35:04PM THE PETITIONER IS A MR. RON FAIR AND ALESSANDRO COBEUER.
01:35:12PM I APOLOGIZE IF I MISPRONOUNCED THAT.
01:35:15PM THE REQUEST THAT STAFF REVIEWED FROM THE APPLICANT IS FOR AN
01:35:18PM EXTENDED FAMILY RESIDENT.
01:35:21PM STAFF DENIED THE REQUEST FOR A EXTENDED SINGLE-FAMILY
01:35:24PM RESIDENCE FOR THIS PROPERTY ON DECEMBER 6, 2024, BECAUSE IT
01:35:28PM DID NOT MEET THE SPECIFIC CRITERIA OUTLINED IN CITY OF TAMPA,
01:35:32PM CODE SECTION 27-1342 ,SUBSECTIONS C, FOR TWO REASONS, AND MR.
01:35:38PM COTTON WILL GO OVER THOSE DETAILS BUT DID NOT MEET THE SIZE
01:35:42PM REQUIREMENT FOR THE EXTENDED FAMILY RESIDENCE.
01:35:44PM AND THERE WAS NOT A CONFIRMATION FROM THE APPLICANT TO BE IN
01:35:50PM COMPLIANCE WITH THE -- THAT THE SPACE WOULD BE LIMITED TO
01:35:53PM FAMILY MEMBERS RELATED BY MARRIAGE, BLOOD, ADOPTION OR LEGAL
01:35:57PM GUARDIANSHIP.
01:35:58PM I PROVIDED CITY COUNCIL IN THEIR PACKET COPIES OF CITY OF
01:36:04PM TAMPA CODE SECTION 27-61, WHICH IS THE STANDARDS FOR REVIEW
01:36:08PM HEARINGS.
01:36:08PM IN CITY -- I MEAN, IN THE STAFF REPORT, MR. COTTON PROVIDED
01:36:15PM A COPY OF CODE SECTION 27-132, WHICH IS THE REGULATIONS
01:36:22PM GOVERNOR EARNING INDIVIDUAL'S SPECIFIC USES, CODE SECTION
01:36:30PM WHICH ARE THE CONDITIONS AND SAFEGUARDS.
01:36:32PM I ALSO PROVIDED THE RULES OF PROCEDURES IN THE SAMPLE MOTION
01:36:36PM REGARDING THIS MATTER.
01:36:38PM ACCORDING TO CODE SECTION 27-61 SUBJECTION J-3.
01:36:43PM CITY COUNCIL CAN CONDUCT A DE NOVO REVIEW HEARING WHICH
01:36:47PM MEANS THAT CITY COUNCIL CAN RECEIVE NEW EVIDENCE.
01:36:49PM MR. COTTON IS ON -- IS APPEARING REMOTELY IN ORDER TO GIVE
01:36:55PM AN OVERVIEW OF THE APPLICATION AND THE REASON FOR THE
01:36:59PM DENIAL.
01:36:59PM AFTER HEARING ALL THE EVIDENCE, CITY COUNCIL CAN TAKE TWO
01:37:02PM ACTIONS.
01:37:02PM CITY COUNCIL COULD EITHER AFFIRM THE DECISION OF THE ZONING
01:37:07PM ADMINISTRATOR AND, THEREFORE, DENY THE REQUEST FOR THE
01:37:09PM EXTENDED FAMILY RESIDENCE AT THAT LOCATION.
01:37:12PM OR CITY COUNCIL CAN OVERTURN THE DECISION THE ZONING
01:37:16PM ADMINISTRATOR AND, THEREFORE, APPROVE THE REQUEST BY THE
01:37:19PM APPLICANT FOR THE EXTENDED FAMILY RESIDENCE.
01:37:22PM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I WILL TURN IT
01:37:25PM OVER NOW TO MR. COTTON.
01:37:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS?
01:37:28PM NO?
01:37:28PM THANK YOU.
01:37:30PM >>ERIC COTTON: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
01:37:31PM IF I CAN SHARE MY SCREEN FOR 30 SECONDS OR SO.
01:37:34PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SURE.
01:37:35PM CAN COUNCIL SEE THE PRESENTATION?
01:37:43PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
01:37:44PM >>ERIC COTTON: AWESOME.
01:37:45PM SO AS MISS CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE IS INDICATING A PETITION
01:37:48PM FOR REVIEW SU-21-85.
01:37:52PM FOR PROPERTY AT 3127 WEST OAKLYN AVENUE.
01:37:57PM APPLICATION AS MISS PETTIS MACKLE INDICATED WAS FOR AN
01:38:01PM EXTENDED FAMILY RESIDENCE.
01:38:03PM ZONING OF THE PROPERTY IS RS-57 AT THE PARKLAND ESTATES
01:38:08PM OVERLAY DISTRICT.
01:38:09PM AGAIN FOR AN EXTENDED FAMILY.
01:38:11PM JUST A QUICK -- THE PART HIGHLIGHTED IN RED IS THE PROPERTY
01:38:15PM IN QUESTION.
01:38:15PM THIS IS A -- THE FIRST-FLOOR PLAN OF THE PROPERTY.
01:38:22PM YOU CAN SEE, A THIS IS A AN EXISTING LOCATION ABOVE THE
01:38:26PM GARAGE.
01:38:27PM AND THEY WERE GOING TO BE PROPOSING TO ADD IN A KITCHEN.
01:38:30PM WHEN YOU ADD IN A KITCHEN, IT BECOMES ANOTHER DWELLING.
01:38:34PM AND THERE ARE TWO WAYS OF GETTING -- GOING ABOUT THAT IS TO
01:38:38PM APPLY FOR AN ACCESSORY DWELLING UNIT WHICH IS NOT ALLOWED IN
01:38:42PM THIS AREA OR AN EXTENDED FAMILY RESIDENCE.
01:38:44PM ALSO AS INDICATED, A PICTURE OF THE EXISTING STRUCTURE.
01:38:50PM THE STRUCTURE IS A LITTLE OVER -- ROUGHLY OVER 1100 SQUARE
01:38:53PM FEET FOR THE EXTENDED FAMILY AREA.
01:38:56PM BY CODE, THE MAXIMUM ALLOWABLE SQUARE FOOTAGE IS 600 SQUARE
01:39:01PM FEET AND EXCEEDS THAT BY ALMOST DOUBLE.
01:39:03PM AND ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS IS, IT HAS TO BE FOR A RELATIVE.
01:39:07PM IT IS PART OF THE APPLICATION.
01:39:09PM THE APPLICANT SUBMITTED THIS STATEMENT OF NARRATIVE WHICH
01:39:13PM SAYS THE ROOM IS TO BE USED AS AN ENTERTAINMENT LOUNGE FOR
01:39:19PM THE OWNERS, JUAN AND GINA, BASED ON THAT EVIDENCE NO
01:39:25PM EVIDENCE WAS SUBMITTED THAT IT BE FOR A RELATIVE.
01:39:28PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. COTTON.
01:39:32PM STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD.
01:39:33PM >>ERIC COTTON: ERIC COTTON, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
01:39:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. COTTON, THIS AREA IS BUILT OUT AND
01:39:42PM WANT TO INSTALL KITCHEN.
01:39:46PM >>ERIC COTTON: EXISTING ABOVE THEIR GARAGE.
01:39:48PM AN EXISTING STRUCTURE.
01:39:50PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: EXISTING AIR-CONDITIONED SPACE.
01:39:53PM >>ERIC COTTON: THAT IS MY UNDERSTANDING, YES.
01:39:55PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OKAY, THANK YOU.
01:39:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ANYBODY ELSE?
01:39:58PM YES, MA'AM?
01:39:59PM >>LYNN HURTAK: LOOKS LIKE -- OKAY, THERE IS A STAIRCASE.
01:40:05PM THERE IS A STAIRCASE TO THE OUTSIDE?
01:40:08PM >>ERIC COTTON: I BELIEVE THE STAIRCASE IS SIN TERM TO THE
01:40:11PM STRUCTURE ITSELF.
01:40:12PM ACCESS THROUGH THE GARAGE ITSELF.
01:40:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
01:40:17PM OTHER ENTRANCE GOES STRAIGHT THROUGH A BEDROOM.
01:40:20PM OKAY, THANK YOU.
01:40:21PM >>ERIC COTTON: YOU ARE WELCOME.
01:40:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT'S IT FOR THE STAFF PART.
01:40:27PM WE HAVE THE PETITION.
01:40:29PM APPLICANT, COME ON UP.
01:40:31PM YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES.
01:40:32PM YOU DON'T HAVE TO USE THE ENTIRE 15 MINUTES.
01:40:35PM STATE YOUR NAME.
01:40:36PM >> RON FAIR.
01:40:37PM I AM THE OWNER AND APPLICANT HERE.
01:40:39PM SO WE WILL GO TO EXHIBIT 1 THAT WAS SHOWN BACK IN 2019.
01:40:47PM WE BUILT THE GARAGE.
01:40:49PM TIED IT TO THE HOUSE.
01:40:50PM HONESTLY, WE REALLY DIDN'T WANT THE UPSTAIRS TO NECESSARILY
01:40:55PM BE THAT BIG, BUT IT WAS THE ONLY WAY REALLY TO BALANCE THE
01:41:00PM WHOLE HOUSE WHEN WE DID THE WHOLE THING.
01:41:01PM SO WE HAD THAT ALL APPROVED.
01:41:04PM AND, YES, IT WAS APPROVED INTERNALLY.
01:41:08PM I GOT AN AGING MOTHER.
01:41:10PM SHE IS 82.
01:41:11PM I HAVE GOT AN AGING MOTHER-IN-LAW WHO IS 79.
01:41:15PM JUST BEING PROACTIVE BEFORE SOMETHING HAPPENS AND GETS FORCE
01:41:20PM UPON US.
01:41:21PM BUILDING UP THE SPACE UP ABOVE, WE WERE TOLD WE COULDN'T PUT
01:41:26PM IN AN OVEN, AND THAT WAS THE SINGLE POINT THAT WAS PUSHING
01:41:31PM THE USE OF THE KITCHEN.
01:41:33PM SO WE -- WE DID EVERYTHING WE COULD.
01:41:38PM AT THAT TIME, THE NEW ADU PROCESS AND EVERYTHING ELSE WASN'T
01:41:45PM EVEN IN, SO WE DID ALL OUR NOTICES AND EVERYTHING COMING FOR
01:41:49PM A VARIANCE JUST TO PUT A KITCHEN IN.
01:41:52PM IN THAT PROCESS, THE ADU STUFF HAPPENED.
01:41:56PM SO I WOULD LIKE TO STATE TWO THINGS WERE INCORRECT.
01:42:00PM NUMBER ONE, THIS IS UNDER -- A LITTLE OVER 900 SQUARE FEET.
01:42:06PM EVEN IF IT IS EXTENDED FAMILY, WE ARE LOOKING FOR A 50%
01:42:10PM INCREASE OVER THE 600 SQUARE FEET.
01:42:12PM THE SECOND THING THAT WAS INCORRECT IS IT SAID THAT WE
01:42:16PM DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING ABOUT FAMILY OR BLOOD.
01:42:18PM AND MR. COBLEUR WAS TOLD TO FILL IT OUT, WHICH I CONFIRMED
01:42:25PM WAS FAMILY.
01:42:25PM WE WERE CLEAR ABOUT MOTHER AND EVEN GONE BACK TO THE CITY
01:42:29PM AND TALKING TO STAFF WHO SAID, WELL, IT IS FOR MY MOTHER AND
01:42:35PM MOTHER-IN-LAW, AND THAT IS FAMILY.
01:42:37PM THE ORIGINAL RECORD HAS THAT.
01:42:40PM SO IT HAS BEEN A PRETTY FRUSTRATING AND LONG PROCESS.
01:42:44PM TO BE HONEST YOU WITH, I STILL DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND -- AND
01:42:50PM THIS IS WHAT WE DO EVERY DAY.
01:42:51PM WE ARE BUILDERS AND ENGINEERS.
01:42:53PM IF WE ARE NOT IN THE ADU, I UNDERSTAND IT HAVEN'T BEEN --
01:43:00PM COME ABOUT.
01:43:00PM WE ARE LOOKING FOR A STOVE.
01:43:01PM I EVEN PUT IN AN ELEVATOR.
01:43:03PM AGAIN, I HAVE AGING PARENTS.
01:43:05PM AND IF WE ARE TRAVELING AND MY WIFE AND I ARE STILL FAIRLY
01:43:10PM YOUNG, I DON'T WANT THEM TO HAVE TO COME DOWN THE STAIRS,
01:43:14PM STEP UP IN AND THROUGH.
01:43:15PM AND, YES, THERE IS A WALKWAY UPSTAIRS, BUT AGAIN, THAT IS
01:43:19PM WHERE WE TIED IT TO THE HOUSE.
01:43:21PM IF GOES INTO MY DAUGHTER'S CLOSET AND HER ROOM AND HAS TO
01:43:26PM GO DOWN THE STAIRS, ETC.
01:43:27PM IT IS NO JUST NOT GOING TO BE CONVENIENT FOR AN AGING
01:43:31PM PARENT.
01:43:31PM FOR THOSE REASONS, LIKE I SAID, WE HAD THE DENIAL, BUT WE
01:43:38PM BELIEVE THAT THE ADU DOES ALLOW FOR 950 SQUARE FEET, WHICH
01:43:45PM WE ARE UNDER.
01:43:46PM AND IT WAS ALREADY AN ERROR.
01:43:53PM IF THAT WOULD BE ALLOWABLE.
01:43:54PM IF WE WERE EXTENDED STAY, LIKE I SAID, IT WAS CLEAR IT WAS
01:43:58PM ALWAYS FAMILY, NOT FOR SOME AIR B&B OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
01:44:01PM AND WE ARE OVER THE SQUARE FOOTAGE AND ASKING FOR THE
01:44:05PM ADDITIONAL 50% BECAUSE IT WAS ALREADY THERE.
01:44:08PM IN CONCLUSION, I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THE CITY GRANT
01:44:19PM THIS WHETHER OR NOT IT IS UNDER EXTENDED STAY OR THAT WE GET
01:44:24PM A VARIANCE THAT IT DOES AT LEAST MATCH THE ADU EVEN THOUGH
01:44:29PM WE WEREN'T BUILDING IT AT THIS TIME TO MEET THAT CRITERIA.
01:44:33PM IT WAS ALREADY DONE.
01:44:34PM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
01:44:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:44:37PM I HAVE A QUESTION.
01:44:38PM HOW WOULD YOUR MOTHER OR MOTHER-IN-LAW ACCESS THAT SECOND
01:44:43PM STORY.
01:44:44PM ACCESS THROUGH THE GARAGE AND THROUGH THE MAIN HOUSE?
01:44:46PM OR IS THERE -- BECAUSE WHEN I LOOKED AT THE -- AT THE CARS,
01:44:50PM YOU KNOW, IN FRONT OF THE GARAGE DOORS.
01:44:53PM THERE WAS, LIKE, AN ENTRANCEWAY.
01:44:55PM A WINDOW OR DOOR TO GET YOU INSIDE.
01:44:58PM >> THERE WAS A DOOR.
01:44:59PM IF YOU WALK TO THE BREEZEWAY IN BETWEEN, THERE IS A DOOR
01:45:02PM THAT COMES IN.
01:45:02PM AND THE INTENT IS FOR SOMEBODY AGING TO BE ABLE TO DRIVE THE
01:45:06PM CAR RIGHT IN.
01:45:07PM GET OUT.
01:45:08PM GET IN THE ELEVATOR.
01:45:09PM AND GO RIGHT UPSTAIRS.
01:45:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THERE IS AN ELEVATOR.
01:45:14PM >> YES, SIR.
01:45:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT IS AN ASK.
01:45:17PM MY PARENTS -- NOT SOON, BUT THEN GETTING UP THE STAIRS WILL
01:45:21PM BE AN ISSUE.
01:45:22PM OKAY, THERE IS AN ELEVATOR.
01:45:24PM AND WHAT -- YOU KNOW, YOU ARE SAYING -- IF FAMILY -- IF THEY
01:45:30PM ARE -- MOTHER AND MOTHER-IN-LAW IS NOT FAMILY, THEN WHAT IS.
01:45:34PM WHAT PROOF WERE YOU ASKED TO SHOW.
01:45:36PM A DRIVER'S LICENSE, SAME LAST NAME?
01:45:39PM WHAT DO THEY ASK TO YOU DO.
01:45:41PM >> I WAS ASKED FOR NOTHING TO VERIFY THAT.
01:45:43PM AND LIKE I SAID, OUR INTENT WAS CLEAR FROM DAY ONE THAT IT
01:45:47PM IS ONLY OUR USE.
01:45:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: OKAY.
01:45:51PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
01:45:52PM ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS?
01:45:54PM IF NOT, I WILL OPEN IT TO THE PUBLIC FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
01:45:57PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE.
01:45:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WAIT, NOT YET.
01:46:01PM ADDITIONAL STAFF COMMENT AND REBUTTAL IF NEEDED.
01:46:04PM MISS PETTIS-MACKLE.
01:46:08PM >>CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE: CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE FOR THE
01:46:10PM RECORD.
01:46:10PM I WANT TO CLARIFY A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT MR. FAIR
01:46:13PM HAS BROUGHT UP.
01:46:13PM THIS -- AS A REMINDER, THIS WAS BROUGHT TO STAFF AS A
01:46:18PM REQUEST TO REVIEW NOR AN EXTENDED FAMILY RESIDENCE USE.
01:46:21PM NOT FOR AN ADU.
01:46:23PM ALSO, I THINK MR. COTTON BROUGHT UP ADDITIONALLY -- I DON'T
01:46:27PM KNOW IF IT AND ON THE SCREEN IN HIS POWERPOINT, BUT THIS WAS
01:46:30PM THE INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED TO STAFF AS THE BASE IS
01:46:34PM FOR THE USE OF THAT AREA.
01:46:36PM FOR THE APPLICATION FOR THIS EXTENDED FAMILY RESIDENCE.
01:46:41PM AND THAT -- AGAIN, MR. COTTON CAN CONFIRM THAT, BUT THIS IS
01:46:47PM THE INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED WITH REGARDS TO THE
01:46:49PM APPLICATION THAT IS BEFORE -- THAT WAS BEFORE STAFF.
01:46:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COMING FROM THE PLUMBER SERVICE.
01:46:57PM THE LETTER SAYS ACC SERVICES, INC.
01:47:03PM NOT THE GENTLEMAN, MR. FAIR.
01:47:05PM >>CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE: MR. FAIR IS THE PROPERTY OWNER.
01:47:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS HE ACC SERVICES?
01:47:11PM >> YES.
01:47:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IS THE QUESTION FOR THE APPLICANT.
01:47:13PM WHY DID YOU PUT ENTERTAINMENT LOUNGE AREA FOR THE OWNERS,
01:47:16PM RON AND GINA.
01:47:17PM IF YOU CAN COME UP SO WE CAN GET YOU ON THE --
01:47:26PM >> AGAIN, THAT WAS DONE AT THE DIRECTION -- AND MR. COBLEUR
01:47:32PM WILL CLARIFY THAT.
01:47:33PM THAT IS WHAT HE WAS TOLD BY STAFF TO PUT IN THAT LETTER TO
01:47:36PM VERIFY THAT IT WAS US USING AND NOT AS AN AIR B&B OR
01:47:40PM ANYTHING SUCH AS THAT.
01:47:42PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WERE YOU ASKED FOR AN AFFIDAVIT OR ANY
01:47:45PM SIGNED DOCUMENT OR STATEMENT TO SAY IT WILL BE USE FOR
01:47:50PM FAMILY.
01:47:50PM >> NO, SIR.
01:47:51PM AND CONDITIONALLY, I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM TO PROVIDING THAT
01:47:54PM OR DOING THAT.
01:47:55PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MISS CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE.
01:47:57PM THERE IS NO SECOND READING.
01:47:59PM AN OPPORTUNITY FOR HIM TO DO SO OR COUNCIL TAKES THE GAME
01:48:03PM BELL AND JUST, YOU KNOW, BELIEVES AND SAYS OKAY WHICH IS NOT
01:48:07PM -- IT IS HEARSAY AND NOT WRITTEN --
01:48:09PM >>CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE: CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE FROM THE
01:48:10PM LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
01:48:11PM SO THIS IS A DE NOVO REVIEW HEARING.
01:48:14PM SO IF CITY COUNCIL WANTS TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION WHAT MR.
01:48:18PM FAIR IS STATING BEFORE THIS COUNCIL, YOU ARE -- THAT IS WHAT
01:48:23PM THE CODE ALLOWS.
01:48:24PM BUT STAFF'S DECISION CANNOT BE CHANGED AND THEY HAVE TO RELY
01:48:29PM ON THE INFORMATION THAT WAS PROVIDED TO THEM.
01:48:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE CAN -- BEING IT IS A DE NOVO HEARING.
01:48:36PM WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ALLOW NEW EVIDENCE AND SOMETHING
01:48:38PM THAT WAS MENTIONED.
01:48:39PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
01:48:40PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WANT TO MAKE SURE.
01:48:42PM THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS -- I UNDERSTAND -- I UNDERSTAND
01:48:45PM STAFF -- ONE OF THESE SITUATIONS WHERE IT IS GOOD TO HAVE AN
01:48:49PM OPPORTUNITY TO COME BEFORE COUNCIL AND WE CAN INTERJECT
01:48:54PM COMMON SENSE WHILE STAFF HAS TO GO THROUGH THE BLACK AND
01:48:57PM WHITE.
01:48:57PM I AM INCLINED TO DENY STAFF BASED ON THE DE NOVO EVIDENCE
01:49:04PM THAT WE HEARD AND JUST WHAT WAS STATED.
01:49:06PM AND ALSO I WANT TO MAKE SURE WHEN WE DO THAT, WILL THAT --
01:49:10PM IS THAT ENOUGH TO -- FOR STAFF TO ISSUE A PERMIT TO ALLOW
01:49:14PM THIS USE?
01:49:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE JUST HAVE TO OVERTURN THEIR DECISION.
01:49:17PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANYTHING ELSE OUTSTANDING OR WILL THAT BE
01:49:20PM ENOUGH?
01:49:21PM IS IT DONE AT THAT POINT?
01:49:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IF WE OVERTURN THE DECISION, HE IS
01:49:25PM GRANTED THE PERMIT TO DO WHAT HE WANTS TO DO.
01:49:27PM >>CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE: CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE FROM THE
01:49:29PM LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
01:49:29PM I BELIEVE -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE PERMIT
01:49:32PM ASSOCIATED WITH -- WHAT HE WAS DOING.
01:49:37PM HIS PROJECT.
01:49:38PM THAT IS WHERE HE CAN PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION.
01:49:40PM ALL THAT IS BEFORE YOU WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE GOING TO
01:49:43PM AFFIRM OR OVERTURN THE ZONING ADMINISTRATOR.
01:49:46PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHATEVER IS NEXT IS NEXT.
01:49:48PM >>CAMARIA PETTIS-MACKLE: CORRECT.
01:49:49PM >>ERIC COTTON: IF I MAY.
01:49:50PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, MR. COTTON.
01:39:52PM >>ERIC COTTON: YES, THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
01:49:53PM IF THE MOTION IS TO OVERTURN THE DENIAL, I WOULD RECOMMEND
01:50:02PM THAT WILL ACKNOWLEDGE WHO THE APPLICANT WILL BE AND I WILL
01:50:05PM BE DOING AN ANNUAL INSPECTION -- A REQUIREMENT OF FAMILIES.
01:50:10PM HE WILL BE ON THAT LIST AND CONFIRM THAT THE PERSON LIVING
01:50:13PM THERE IS THE PERSON BEING APPROVED THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
01:50:15PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MR. CHAIRMAN, MARTIN SHELBY, CITY COUNTY
01:50:22PM ATTORNEY.
01:50:22PM YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC REQUEST IN FRONT OF YOU.
01:50:24PM IN ORDER TO BE AN EXTENDED FAMILY RESIDENCE STATUTORY FOR
01:50:28PM THE CODE REQUIREMENTS.
01:50:29PM THAT IS WHAT HE CAME IN UNDER.
01:50:31PM THAT IS WHAT HE IS ASKING FOR.
01:50:33PM YOU CAN NOT DO IT -- THERE IS NO ADU OPPORTUNITY AT THIS
01:50:37PM POINT IN TIME.
01:50:38PM MR. COTTON -- I DON'T WANT TO PUT WORDS IN YOUR MOUTH, MR.
01:50:42PM COTTON.
01:50:42PM YOU ARE ASKING FOR SOMETHING AFFIRMATIVE ON THE RECORDS WITH
01:50:46PM REGARDS TO WHO WILL BE IN THE UNITS AND THEIR RELATIONSHIPS
01:50:50PM THAT COMPLIES --
01:50:51PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OBJECTION TO THIS.
01:50:53PM THE APPLICANT HAS ALREADY PUT ON THE RECORD WHO HE INTENDS
01:50:56PM TO OCCUPY THIS UNIT.
01:50:57PM THAT QUESTION HAS BEEN ASKED AND ANSWERED.
01:51:00PM I THINK WE MOVE ON FROM THAT.
01:51:03PM THE TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR LAW IS WELL STATED IN LAW AND
01:51:06PM REGARD WHAT THE COUNCIL'S DECISION MADE.
01:51:08PM THE LAW IS THE LAW.
01:51:09PM LET'S MOVE ON.
01:51:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: FAIR ENOUGH.
01:51:12PM ANY PUBLIC COMMENT?
01:51:14PM NO?
01:51:14PM MOTION TO CLOSE.
01:51:15PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE.
01:51:17PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
01:51:18PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:51:21PM WHAT IS THE PLEASURE OF COUNCIL.
01:51:23PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I MAKE A MOTION TO OVERTURN THE ZONING
01:51:26PM ADMINISTRATOR'S DENIAL OF SU-24-85 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED
01:51:31PM AT 3127 WEST OAKLYN AVENUE.
01:51:36PM THE CRITERIA FOR A SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENCE OF MAXIMUM OF 600
01:51:43PM SQUARE FEET AND EXTENDED TO THE FAMILY MEMBERS RELATED BY
01:51:46PM MARRIAGE, BLOOD, ADOPTION OR LEGAL GUARDIANSHIP AS PROVIDED
01:51:51PM IN CITY OF TAMPA CODE 27-132 FOR THE FOLLOWING REASONS: THE
01:51:55PM APPLICANT STATED ON THE RECORD AND IN SWORN TESTIMONY THAT
01:51:58PM THE INTENDED USE OF THIS PROPERTY IS FOR RELATED IN-LAWS AND
01:52:03PM AGING RELATIVES IN ACCORDANCE WITH TAMPA CITY CODE.
01:52:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION, AND DO WE HAVE A
01:52:10PM SECOND?
01:52:11PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
01:52:12PM ANY DISCUSSION?
01:52:13PM IF NOT, I WILL ASK FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE.
01:52:15PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I AM GOING TO GO AHEAD AND VOTE NO,
01:52:21PM BECAUSE THE LETTER WAS WRITTEN FIVE MONTHS AGO AND CLEARLY
01:52:24PM SAID FOR ENTERTAINMENT.
01:52:26PM TO CHANGE IT TO NOW FAMILY IS -- HE DON'T THINK THAT IS
01:52:29PM NECESSARILY THE CASE.
01:52:30PM IF THAT WERE THE CASE, I THINK IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN
01:52:33PM WRITING FIVE MONTHS INTO HIS LETTER SO I'M GOING TO SAY NO.
01:52:37PM >>CLERK: VIERA --
01:52:42PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I CAN -- CAN YOUR MOTION BE AMENDED TO
01:52:45PM REPLACE THE TERM THAT IT IS BEING WAIVED TO THE CONDITION
01:52:49PM INSTEAD HAS BEEN MET.
01:52:50PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OKAY.
01:52:52PM AGREEABLE.
01:52:53PM I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND THAT MOTION THAT THE -- BEING WAVED TO
01:52:59PM THE CONDITION HAS BEEN MET.
01:53:00PM THE SPECIFIC CONDITION HAS -- CRITERIA FOR EXTENDED
01:53:06PM SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN MET AND NOT WAIVED.
01:53:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND ON THE MOTION IS STILL GOOD ON
01:53:13PM THAT.
01:53:13PM >>LUIS VIERA: -- YES.
01:53:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND A SECOND FROM VIERA.
01:53:19PM ROLL CALL VOTE.
01:53:20PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO.
01:53:21PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
01:53:24PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
01:53:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
01:53:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
01:53:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
01:53:31PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH HENDERSON VOTING NO AND CARLSON
01:53:36PM BEING ABSENT.
01:53:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
01:53:39PM ITEM NUMBER 85, MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
01:53:41PM I DON'T KNOW WHO WILL BE SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF MR. BHIDE
01:53:46PM REGARDING A MONTHLY IN-PERSON REPORT ON MAINTENANCE WORK.
01:53:49PM YES, SIR.
01:53:49PM PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME.
01:53:50PM >>BRIAN ROGER: BRIAN ROGER, MOBILITY OPERATIONS MANAGER.
01:53:57PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
01:53:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, BECAUSE THIS IS MY MOTION.
01:54:00PM I RECEIVED SOME INFORMATION -- MR. SHELBY.
01:54:04PM I RECEIVED INFORMATION FROM THE PUBLIC CONCERNED THIS WASN'T
01:54:07PM IN ON BASE AHEAD OF TIME.
01:54:09PM AND I DID RESPOND TO THE PEOPLE WHO REACHED OUT TO LET
01:54:12PM PEOPLE KNOW THAT IS ON MY REQUEST TO GET THE MOST UP-TO-DATE
01:54:16PM INFORMATION 37 AND THAT WILL BE ADDED TO ON BASE AFTER THIS
01:54:19PM PRESENTATION.
01:54:19PM ALL I ASK THAT YOU JUST LET US KNOW TOWARD THE END WHEN YOU
01:54:23PM EXPECT THAT PRESENTATION TO BE UP ON ON BASE SO THE PUBLIC
01:54:28PM CAN LOOK AT IT MORE CLEARLY.
01:54:29PM LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS.
01:54:30PM >>BRIAN ROGER: WE CAN HAVE THIS ON BASE AFTER THE HEARING.
01:54:33PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
01:54:34PM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
01:54:35PM >>BRIAN ROGER: I JUST --
01:54:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DID YOU STATE YOUR NAME YET.
01:54:39PM >>BRIAN ROGER: BRIAN ROGER.
01:54:40PM I WANTED TO OPEN UP BY PROVIDING SOME PERSPECTIVE ON OUR
01:54:43PM INFRASTRUCTURE THAT WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
01:54:46PM FOR PIPE, 509 MILES OF PIPE UNDERGROUND THAT WE MAINTAIN
01:54:57PM WHICH IS BASICALLY A TRIP MIAMI AND BACK --
01:55:01PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: STAND BY REAL FAST.
01:55:03PM CAN YOU MOVE THE CLOSED CAPTIONING FOR US.
01:55:06PM AND ZOOM A LITTLE BIT.
01:55:09PM IF YOU CAN MOVE THE CLOSED CAPTIONING FURTHER TO THE BOTTOM AND
01:55:14PM THEN ZOOM.
01:55:16PM OTHER WAY.
01:55:16PM >>LYNN HURTAK: PERFECT.
01:55:27PM >> AGAIN, 590 MILES OF PIPE.
01:55:30PM 186 MILES OF DITCH.
01:55:33PM ALMOST 900 OUTFALLS WITH THE PUMP STATIONS.
01:55:37PM RETENTION POND 148, YOU CAN SEE, WE HAVE A PRETTY EXTENSIVE
01:55:43PM INFRASTRUCTURE.
01:55:43PM WITH THAT IN MY DIVISION, WE HAVE 6 FULL-TIME PERSONNEL
01:55:47PM POSITIONS THAT STAFF TO FIELD OPERATIONS
01:55:51PM FOUR OR SO.
01:55:56PM BULK ARE THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND, I WILL SAY.
01:55:59PM I WANTED TO SHOW THAT TO YOU.
01:56:03PM AS WELL AS SOME OF OUR GRADING EQUIPMENT.
01:56:05PM SO FOR OUR DITCHES, WE HAVE A WHEEL EXCAVATOR INTO THE
01:56:12PM CANAL, A GRADE HAULER AND BACKHOE USED FOR THOSE OPERATIONS.
01:56:18PM POND MAINTENANCE, YOU CAN SEE IT IS AN EXCAVATOR.
01:56:23PM FOR -- OUR PIPES, STRUCTURES AND OUTFALLS OUR TRUCKS THAT DO
01:56:34PM THE INSPECTIONS, AS WELL AS STREET SWEEPER.
01:56:37PM MINI STREET SWEEPER THAT OPERATES IN THE BIKE LANES AND
01:56:43PM BIGGER STREET SWEEPERS SEVEN OF THOSE.
01:56:46PM SOMETHING TO ALSO BRING TO LIGHT IS THE OTHER SERVICES THAT
01:56:48PM THE STORMWATER OPERATION UNIT PROVIDES.
01:56:50PM SO WE ASSIST IN SPECIAL EVENTS, IMPLEMENTING TPD'S CONCRETE
01:56:55PM BARRIER WALL.
01:56:56PM BEFORE ALL THOSE EVENTS, I HAVE TO PULL STAFF OFF TO GO
01:56:59PM IMPLEMENT AND SET UP THAT BARRIER.
01:57:01PM BUT USUALLY BEFORE THE EVENT HAPPENS, BUT THEN DURING THE
01:57:05PM EVENT AND AFTER THE EVENT AS WELL.
01:57:07PM LAST CATEGORY IS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
01:57:14PM STORMWATER STAFF.
01:57:15PM HALF OF THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE CENTER THREE, WHICH I AM A
01:57:19PM CO-COMMANDER OF.
01:57:21PM SO THAT IS THE EQUIPMENT -- THE EQUIPMENT THAT I JUST
01:57:26PM OUTLINED.
01:57:27PM HERE IS JUST KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF CALLS WE GET.
01:57:31PM 2024, WE GOT 3700 CALLS.
01:57:34PM WITH THE BULK OF THOSE CALLS BEING IN AUGUST, SEPTEMBER AND
01:57:38PM OCTOBER WITH CALLS THAT MONTH.
01:57:41PM SO FOR FEBRUARY, YOU CAN -- YOU CAN SEE IT IS TONED DOWN TO
01:57:47PM THE 197.
01:57:47PM SO OBVIOUSLY THE DRIER MONTHS WE GET LESS CALLS FOR SERVICE.
01:57:52PM THE HEART OF MOTION TO BRING TO YOU WHAT WE DID IN FEBRUARY
01:58:01PM AND WHAT WE PLAN TO DO IN MARCH.
01:58:03PM THESE WERE THE NEIGHBORHOODS WE WERE IN FOR THE MONTH OF
01:58:06PM FEBRUARY.
01:58:07PM WE WERE ACTUALLY WORKING CITY WIDE.
01:58:11PM THESE ARE THE MAIN CATEGORIZED NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WE WERE
01:58:14PM IN.
01:58:14PM GRADED 1200 FEET OF DITCH, REMOVED 500 TONS OF DEBRIS AND
01:58:22PM THAT DEBRIS GETS SORTED AT OUR TRANSFER STATION AT THE PORT
01:58:26PM AND HAULED TO MANATEE COUNTY LANDFILL.
01:58:28PM WE MOW OUR PONDS ONCE A MONTH, EVERY 28 DAYS, 82 MILES A
01:58:38PM DAY, 42 MILES OF DITCH.
01:58:39PM AND SPRAY OUR PONDS FOR AQUATIC VEGETATION CONTROL.
01:58:43PM KEEPS US FROM HAVING TO HARVEST THEM LATER.
01:58:46PM OUTFALLS WITH 30 INSPECTIONS.
01:58:53PM PUMP STATIONS, WE DID THE CREEK DAM ON CURIOSITY CREEK.
01:58:57PM WE REPLACED SOME PUMPS AND MONTHLY STATIONS AND AT DOUGHNUT
01:59:04PM AND CURIOSITY CREEK.
01:59:07PM STREET SWEEPING 1400 MILES, CURB MILES AND REMOVED 250 TONS
01:59:12PM OF DEBRIS.
01:59:12PM SO FOR THE MONTH OF MARCH --
01:59:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
01:59:20PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SORRY, YOU SKIPPED THE PIPES SECTION AND THE
01:59:23PM STRUCTURES.
01:59:24PM IF YOU CAN GO BACK AND SPEAK TO THAT.
01:59:26PM >> SO PIPES, WE INSPECTED AND MAINTAINED 33,968 FEET AND
01:59:33PM REMOVED 23 TONS OF MATERIAL.
01:59:35PM AS WELL AS MAINTAIN INSPECTED 421 STRUCTURES -- DRAINAGE
01:59:42PM STRUCTURES, MANHOLES AND INLET'S.
01:59:44PM FROM MARCH, PLAN ON BEING IN VIRGINIA PARK, BAYSHORE
01:59:52PM BEAUTIFUL, BEACH PARK, PALMA CEIA, ROBLES BARK, UNIVERSITY
01:59:58PM SQUARE, FOREST HIS AND PARKLAND ESTATES.
02:00:01PM WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE OUTFALLS.
02:00:04PM THE OUT OF OUR PUMP STATIONS ARE FREE AND CLEAR AND WHEN
02:00:10PM THEY START PUMPING, THEY WILL BE DEBRIS CLEAR.
02:00:12PM AS AN OTHER, WE HAVE TWO MORE PARADES TO IMPLEMENT BARRIER
02:00:16PM WALL FOR, THE ST. PADDY'S AND THE PRIDE PARADE.
02:00:22PM FOR CALL FOR SERVICE, WE ARE A 24-7 OPERATION.
02:00:26PM ANYONE WANTING ANY ASSISTANCE FOR STORMWATER-RELATED
02:00:31PM ACTIVITIES.
02:00:32PM 813-274-3101.
02:00:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, YOU HAVE YOUR
02:00:39PM LIGHT ON?
02:00:42PM >> I'M DONE.
02:00:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THESE PICTURES ARE NICE.
02:00:44PM >> OH, I AM SORRY.
02:00:45PM >> SO I INCLUDED A HANDFUL OF PICTURES.
02:00:48PM THIS WAS OF THE PUMP STATION, SUMP PUMP REPLACEMENTS.
02:00:52PM THEY KEEP THE WET WELL DRY WHEN NEEDED.
02:00:57PM HERE IS THE CAVED-IN REPAIR.
02:01:05PM TURNS OUT MORE EXPENSIVE WHAT WE DO NORMALLY BUT YOU NEVER
02:01:10PM KNOW WHAT YOU WILL SEE WHEN YOU SEE THESE CAVE-INS SO WE HAD
02:01:14PM TO REBUILD THE ENTIRE STRUCTURE.
02:01:16PM JUST AN EXAMPLE OF THE INLET TOP THAT WAS BROKEN, LIKELY RUN
02:01:22PM OVER BY A CAR CUTTING THE CORNER.
02:01:24PM SO WE HAVE TO DEMOLISH THE EXISTING.
02:01:27PM FORM IT UP.
02:01:28PM POUR IT BACK WITH CONCRETE, AND RESTORE THE AREA AROUND IT.
02:01:37PM THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF OUR NORTH TAMPA CLEANING.
02:01:40PM KINDS OF THE MAP WE GIVE TO OUR OPERATORS.
02:01:43PM AND THEY GO OUT AND HIT ALL THAT INFRASTRUCTURE.
02:01:45PM AND THIS IS A SPILLWAY THAT WAS FULL OF DEBRIS.
02:01:49PM AND LASTLY, AN EXAMPLE OF DITCH GRADING.
02:01:57PM ON NORTH MYRTLE.
02:02:00PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
02:02:04PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
02:02:04PM AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS REPORT.
02:02:08PM I THINK PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW ESPECIALLY AFTER THE STORMS HOW
02:02:11PM WE ARE MOVING FORWARD ON THIS.
02:02:12PM AND SO I AM GOING TO START WITH -- WITH WHAT I THINK IS
02:02:17PM PROBABLY THE BIGGEST AND MOST GLARING ISSUE I SEE,
02:02:24PM ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THIS IS THE DRY SEASON AND THIS IS WHERE
02:02:29PM WE CAN GET MOST OF THE WORK DONE.
02:02:30PM I REALLY WANT TO KNOW -- WELL, YES.
02:02:32PM HOW DO WE GET YOU ALL OFF DOING PARADE DUTY AND BACK TO
02:02:37PM ACTUALLY WHAT WE REALLY, REALLY NEED FOR TO YOU DO.
02:02:40PM SO I'M GOING TO ASK FOR MAYBE -- MAYBE SOMEONE ELSE -- I SEE
02:02:45PM MISS DUNCAN THERE.
02:02:46PM BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IS PROBABLY ABOVE YOUR PAY GRADE, BUT I
02:02:49PM DO WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT TAKES -- IF IT TAKES US JUST PUTTING
02:02:55PM MORE MONEY INTO A CONTRACT WITH A COMPANY THAT CAN DO THAT
02:03:00PM WORK, BUT I WILL TELL YOU BECAUSE THIS IS THE DRY SEASON AND
02:03:06PM WE REALLY NEED TO PREPARE.
02:03:07PM I THINK IT IS WORTH ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY -- WELL, REASONABLE
02:03:12PM AMOUNT OF MONEY TO HAVE SOMEONE ELSE PUT THOSE BARRIERS IN
02:03:15PM FOR US.
02:03:15PM WHAT DO YOU THINK CAN BE DONE TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
02:03:18PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: JEAN DUNCAN, INFRASTRUCTURE MOBILITY
02:03:21PM ADMINISTRATOR.
02:03:22PM THANK YOU FOR THE QUESTION.
02:03:23PM IT IS A GOOD QUESTION.
02:03:24PM OUR CHIEF OF STAFF HAS BEEN COLLECTING COST ESTIMATES AND
02:03:27PM INFORMATION FROM THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS THAT DO SUPPORT
02:03:30PM SPECIAL EVENTS.
02:03:31PM LOOKING AT THAT VERY ISSUE.
02:03:33PM THIS IS A CHALLENGE FOR THE STORMWATER OPERATIONS GROUP AS
02:03:36PM YOU SAW.
02:03:37PM AND THAT THE HOMELAND REQUIREMENTS KEEP GETTING MORE ROBUST
02:03:42PM EVERY YEAR, EVERY SEASON.
02:03:44PM AND THAT TRANSLATES TO MORE WORK FOR OUR TEAM.
02:03:47PM THE REASON THIS TEAM IS CALLED IN, THEY HAVE THAT EQUIPMENT
02:03:50PM TO RELOCATE THOSE JERSEY BARRIERS, SPECIAL SKILLS, SPECIAL
02:03:56PM EQUIPMENT, AS YOU KNOW.
02:03:57PM OBVIOUSLY THE SIMPLE QUESTION TO ALL OF OUR PROBLEMS IS
02:04:01PM ALWAYS MONEY.
02:04:01PM BUT I DON'T WANT TO STEP ON ANY TOES OF OTHERS -- OR OTHER
02:04:06PM DEPARTMENTS, BUT IF THERE WAS AN OUTSOURCING OPPORTUNITY TO
02:04:09PM TAKE US OFF OF OUR TEAM, WE WOULD BE HAPPY TO LOOK AT THAT.
02:04:13PM BUT I KNOW THAT THE CHIEF OF STAFF IS CURRENTLY GETTING
02:04:16PM INFORMATION.
02:04:17PM AND IT IS ON THE RADAR.
02:04:18PM SO --
02:04:21PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN I ASK A FOLLOW-UP TO IT.
02:04:23PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T THINK THAT MISS DUNCAN WILL HAVE THE
02:04:28PM ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION EITHER, BUT I WILL THROW IT OUT TO
02:04:30PM AS TO -- OH -- I AM JUST NOT SURE -- OH, I LOST MY TRAIN OF
02:04:38PM THOUGHT BECAUSE YOU ASKED THAT.
02:04:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'M SORRY.
02:04:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO PROBLEM.
02:04:41PM I JUST THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO -- OH, THAT
02:04:46PM IS WHAT I WAS GOING TO TALK ABOUT.
02:04:47PM THE -- YOU KNOW, WHO IS IN CHARGE OF PUTTING ALL THIS
02:04:50PM TOGETHER.
02:04:51PM AND HOW MUCH THE -- THE PARADE PERSON IS PAYING FOR IT.
02:04:55PM AND HOW MUCH WE ARE -- AND I THINK THAT IS PROBABLY MORE OF
02:04:58PM A DENNIS QUESTION OR A CHIEF OF STAFF QUESTION.
02:05:00PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: THERE IS A SPECIAL EVENT COMMITTEE THAT HAVE
02:05:03PM LEADERS FROM THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS ON IT.
02:05:06PM AND THEN A DECISION WHO WOULD CO-SPONSOR AS THE CITY.
02:05:10PM WHAT THE EVENT PROMOTER CAN PAY.
02:05:14PM WE HAVE GOOD TRACKING FOR MOBILITY AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
02:05:17PM OUR TIME AND RESOURCES THAT WE ARE SPENDING PARTICULARLY ON
02:05:20PM THE CO-SPONSORSHIP -- CO-SPONSORSHIP EVENTS, WHERE WE HAVE
02:05:24PM AN OBLIGATION FOR TIME, RESOURCES AND MAN POWER TO PROVIDE
02:05:32PM CERTAIN MAINTENANCE, TRAFFIC AND BARRICADE SET-UP.
02:05:35PM WE HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION ON THAT.
02:05:37PM THAT COMMITTEE MAKES THE DECISION OF CO-SPONSORSHIP.
02:05:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY, WONDERFUL.
02:05:43PM AN AREA.
02:05:44PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, YOU HAVE A QUESTION AND THEN I
02:05:47PM WILL COME BACK.
02:05:48PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: JUST TO FOLLOW-UP.
02:05:50PM REFERENCE WITH THESE PARADE BARRIERS.
02:05:53PM TWO THINGS.
02:05:54PM ONE, ARE THE PEOPLE DOING -- TAKING CARE OF THE DITCHES OR
02:05:57PM THE ITEMS YOU JUST HIGHLIGHTED.
02:05:59PM ARE THIS OTHER COLLATERAL TUTTIS BESIDE THESE DUTIES THAT
02:06:04PM THEY ARE DOING.
02:06:05PM >> ANY KIND OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FUNCTION.
02:06:09PM WHEN WE GET ACTIVATED WE HAVE TO HUNKER DOWN AND PUSH ROUTES
02:06:15PM IN THOSE ZONES.
02:06:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GENERALLY, THESE ARE ONLY THE ROUTINE
02:06:19PM COLLATERAL DAMAGE?
02:06:21PM >> CORRECT.
02:06:22PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW MANY DAYS ARE SPENT DOING THOSE
02:06:24PM PARADES?
02:06:26PM >> LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, BEFORE THE RUNS, WE SPENT THURSDAY
02:06:30PM AND FRIDAY SETTING UP THE WALL.
02:06:31PM AND THEN MONDAY AND TUESDAY FOLLOWING THE RUNS PICKING IT --
02:06:35PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: FOUR DAYS PER EVENT.
02:06:37PM LOSING FOUR DAYS --
02:06:39PM >> ON THE LARGER EVENTS, YES.
02:06:41PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ARE THEY ALL -- EVERY PARADE?
02:06:43PM >> MOST OF THE PARADES.
02:06:44PM ALL THE PARADES DOWNTOWN, YES.
02:06:46PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CHRISTMAS.
02:06:48PM ALL OF THEM.
02:06:49PM >> YES, SIR.
02:06:51PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT ADDS UP WHEN YOU PUT THEM ALL
02:06:54PM TOGETHER.
02:06:54PM VERY GOOD, THANK YOU.
02:06:55PM >>LYNN HURTAK: AND OTHER THING, TOO, I KNOW, WE DID A REALLY
02:06:59PM WONDERFUL TWO-AND-A-HALF-HOUR TOUR OF BEACH PARK.
02:07:04PM HE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING YOUR TEAMS TO BE OUT THERE
02:07:07PM WITH US AND A LARGE GROUP OF NEIGHBORHOOD LEADERS AND
02:07:10PM MEMBERS.
02:07:10PM SO THAT WAS A REALLY INFORMATIONAL AND EYE-OPENING
02:07:15PM EXPERIENCE FOR ME, AS WELL AS FOR THE RESIDENTS.
02:07:18PM BUT A LOT OF -- ONE OF THE THINGS THEY TALKED ABOUT IS, YES,
02:07:22PM WE HAVE THESE PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOODS SCHEDULED.
02:07:25PM BUT WE ALSO HAVE A LOT OF REACTIVE WORK BECAUSE SOME
02:07:32PM CAVE-INS AND THINGS.
02:07:33PM IF YOU CAN TALK HOW MUCH OF YOUR WORK IS REACTIVE VERSUS HOW
02:07:38PM MUCH IS SCHEDULED.
02:07:39PM AND -- HOW WE CAN SOMETIMES GET A MISBALANCE.
02:07:43PM I KNOW THAT CAVE-INS HAVE INCREASED SINCE THE HURRICANES.
02:07:47PM SO WHAT -- WHAT -- HOW DO WE BALANCE THAT?
02:07:52PM >> WE JUST PRIORITIZE THE BEST WE CAN BASED ON WHAT COMES IN
02:07:56PM AND WHAT WE FIND.
02:07:57PM RIGHT NOW, WE -- WE WOULD ALWAYS IN AN IDEAL WORLD BE 80%
02:08:02PM PROACTIVE AND 20% REACTIVE.
02:08:05PM WE ARE PROBABLY VICE VERSA THAT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE OF
02:08:10PM HOW INUNDATED WITH CALLS AND ISSUES WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE,
02:08:14PM OUR EQUIPMENT AVAILABILITY, OUR EMPLOYEE AVAILABILITY.
02:08:19PM ALL THOSE THINGS COME INTO FACTOR WHEN THEY AFFECT OUR
02:08:24PM ABILITY TO DO PRODUCTIVE WORK.
02:08:27PM WE FAN OUT TO THE CITY TO TACKLE THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN ANY
02:08:30PM FLOOD-PRONE AREAS.
02:08:32PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK THIS GOES TO MISS DUNCAN.
02:08:35PM WE -- WE, AS A COUNCIL, ALLOCATED HALF MILLION DOLLARS MORE TO
02:08:43PM YOUR DEPARTMENT OR FOR STORMWATER DEPARTMENT TO HELP PREPARE
02:08:46PM FOR THIS STORM SEASON.
02:08:48PM I KNOW YOU HAVE A RFP GOING OUT.
02:08:52PM CAN YOU TALK TO US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT -- IF ANYONE KNOWS.
02:08:57PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: FOR DITCH REGRADING?
02:09:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MONEY WAS CHOSEN TO BE
02:09:03PM SPENT ON.
02:09:04PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: HE CAN EXPLAIN.
02:09:07PM >> WERE PURCHASING A DITCH GRADING ON THE STREET TOMORROW.
02:09:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
02:09:14PM WITH THE HALF MILLION DOLLARS TO DO THAT.
02:09:16PM HOW MANY MILES DO YOU FEEL THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO DO.
02:09:20PM AND HOW QUICKLY DO YOU THINK YOU WILL BE ABLE TO GET IT UP
02:09:23PM AND RUNNING, I GUESS.
02:09:24PM BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH PROCUREMENT.
02:09:26PM THAT TAKES LIKE 30 -- AT LEAST -- THAT IS BEING -- MAYBE 60
02:09:31PM DAYS?
02:09:32PM >> IF IT GOES OUT TOMORROW, I IMAGINE A TWO-WEEK
02:09:36PM ADVERTISEMENT AND HOPEFULLY WE GET BIDDER ON THAT.
02:09:39PM LAST TIME WE WERE SUCCESSFUL IN GETTING A SHELTER MARKED
02:09:43PM BID.
02:09:44PM WHEN WE GET THIS THING OUT ONCE WE AWARD, IT WILL COME TO
02:09:48PM CANCEL.
02:09:49PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
02:09:50PM GOING FURTHER THAN THAT.
02:09:52PM I KNOW THAT WATER, WASTEWATER, SOLID WASTE.
02:09:55PM THEY HAVE CONTRACTORS SITTING AT WAITING THAT THEY CAN PULL
02:09:59PM FROM.
02:09:59PM SORT OF -- I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS PART OF THE JOB PROGRAM OR
02:10:02PM WHATEVER, BUT WHAT CAN WE TO DO PUT SOMETHING IN PLACE FOR
02:10:07PM STORMWATER SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THE PERMIT PROCESS
02:10:11PM EVERY SINGLE TIME AND THAT WE HAVE FOLKS THAT COULD BE READY
02:10:15PM THAT IF WE GAVE A LITTLE BIT EXTRA MONEY, WHAT COULD WE TO
02:10:19PM DO MAKE SURE WE DON'T HAVE TO -- I HATE TO SAY WASTE TIME
02:10:23PM BUT SPEND TIME IN THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS GOING FORWARD.
02:10:27PM BECAUSE I FEEL -- YOU ALL HAVE BEEN WORKING TIRELESSLY AND
02:10:31PM IT IS SUPER IMPRESSIVE ESPECIALLY AFTER THESE STORMS BUT NOT
02:10:34PM ENOUGH OF YOU TO GO AROUND.
02:10:36PM >> WE HAD A LOT OF SUCCESS WITH THE FEMA CONTRACTOR THAT WE
02:10:39PM GOT -- THAT THEY GAVE US.
02:10:40PM THE COMPANY CAME IN AND THEY CLAIMED 200,000 FEET OF PIPE IN
02:10:46PM A COUPLE OF MONTHS.
02:10:47PM WE ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO THEM TO SEE IT IF THEY HAD ANY
02:10:50PM KIND OF MAINTENANCE CONTRACTS ELSEWHERE AND THEY DO.
02:10:54PM WE ARE LOOKING TO PIGGYBACK ON THOSE CONTRACTS.
02:10:57PM AND ONCE THAT CONTRACT IS AVAILABLE TO US A MATTER OF
02:10:59PM FUNDING AT THAT POINT.
02:11:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: EXCELLENT.
02:11:03PM THESE ARE GREAT SUGGESTIONS.
02:11:04PM SO HAPPY TO HEAR THAT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS.
02:11:07PM YEAH.
02:11:10PM OKAY.
02:11:10PM ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
02:11:14PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN?
02:11:16PM GO AHEAD.
02:11:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I AM REALLY INTRIGUED BY THIS -- THESE
02:11:21PM COLLATERAL DUTIES THAT YOU GUYS HAVE.
02:11:24PM SO IS YOU WE JUST TALKED OF THE PARADES.
02:11:27PM HOW ABOUT ALL THE THINGS WE DO IN THE CITY.
02:11:29PM THE GASPARILLA RUNS, YOU DO THEM AS WELL.
02:11:33PM WHEN DO YOU HAVE TIME TO MOW THE DITCHES.
02:11:35PM >> MY DIVISION IS TRANSITION OPERATION AND.
02:11:44PM I HAVE A TEAM THAT HANDLES THESE EVENTS.
02:11:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I LOVE THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE SYSTEM
02:11:51PM LOVE OUR EVENTS.
02:11:52PM I CAN'T IMAGINE -- I STARTED RUN THROUGH MY HEAD EVERY EVENT
02:11:57PM I HAVE IN THE CITY.
02:11:58PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: I CAN JUST SAY, AND BRIAN CAN CORRECT ME, THE
02:12:03PM HOMELAND SECURITY AREA THAT PULLS THE STORMWATER TEAM.
02:12:05PM BUT OUR MOBILITY -- EXCUSE ME TRANSPORTATION SIDE THE
02:12:09PM MOBILITY BUSINESS, THEY ARE WITH M.O.T. MAINTENANCE TO
02:12:14PM TRAFFIC PRODUCT CONSTANTLY EVEN AT THE STADIUM.
02:12:16PM A CERTAIN NUMBER OR THRESHOLD IF IT IS BELOWS THAT, THE
02:12:20PM STADIUM SETS IT UP.
02:12:21PM ABOVE THAT, WE SET IT UP.
02:12:24PM IT IS A CONSTANT PULL, SO TO SPEAK ON THAT TEAM AND THAT JOB
02:12:29PM WAS GOING OUT, REPAIRING SCENES, FIXING POTHOLES.
02:12:35PM GIVES US A BALANCE.
02:12:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU HEARD ME SAY IT ALL DAY LONG FROM THE
02:12:42PM DAIS OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, EVERY EMPLOYEE DO THE JOBS OF TWO
02:12:47PM OR THREE PEOPLE.
02:12:47PM CRAZY THAT YOUR PLATES ARE SO FULL.
02:12:49PM IT BLOWS MY MIND BECAUSE HAVING THE EXPERIENCE IN PRIVATE
02:12:53PM SECTOR AND EVEN IN THE FEDERAL SECTOR THE MULTITASKING GOING
02:13:00PM ON IN THE CITY.
02:13:00PM $3 OF PRODUCTIVITY FOR $1 OF SPENDING.
02:13:05PM AMAZING AND BLOWS MY MIND.
02:13:07PM I AM SURE THAT IS PART OF MY FRUSTRATION AND ALL OF OUR
02:13:10PM FRUSTRATIONS.
02:13:10PM WE SEE UNMET NEEDS AND WE SAY DARN IT, WHY AREN'T THESE
02:13:14PM THINGS GETTING DONE AND PART OF THAT ANSWER.
02:13:15PM OBVIOUSLY SOME TIME IN THE FUTURE, AFTER I AM DEAD AND GONE,
02:13:24PM HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A WAY OF HAVING -- DIVIDING UP THIS
02:13:29PM WORKLOAD SO SOME OF THE FUTURE CITY LEADERS WILL FIND MONEY
02:13:33PM TO HAVE SEPARATE DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE THE CITY IS GETTING
02:13:35PM BIGGER AND BIGGER.
02:13:36PM THE NEEDS ARE GETTING GREATER AND GREATER AND GREATER.
02:13:39PM FLOODING -- IT IS NOT GOING TO GET ANY BETTER.
02:13:41PM PROBABLY GOING TO GET WORSE.
02:13:43PM AND YOU LOOK AT THESE -- YOU LOOK AT THESE NEEDS.
02:13:46PM WE WILL HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
02:13:47PM MAYBE THERE WAS A TIME WHEN WE WERE A SMALL TOWN AND DO THE
02:13:54PM JACK-OF-ALL-TRADES.
02:13:55PM THE SHERIFF IS THE DOG CATCHER AND THE CROSSING GUARD AND THE
02:14:00PM THIS AND THAT.
02:14:00PM THOSE DAYS ARE KIND OF GONE NOW AND WE START THINKING WE
02:14:04PM HAVE TO HAVE A BIGGER -- A BIGGER PRESENCE TO BE ABLE TO
02:14:07PM ACCOMPLISH WHAT THE CITIZENS EXPECT.
02:14:08PM >>LYNN HURTAK: JUST TO PIGGYBACK OFF THAT, THAT IS WHY I AM
02:14:12PM SAYING, WE SHOULD REALLY RECONSIDER CONTRACTS FOR PARADES
02:14:16PM AND LOOKING AT WHAT WE ARE DOING AS A CITY.
02:14:18PM AND I DEFINITELY THINK WE CAN MOVE THAT FORWARD.
02:14:22PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ENOUGH SPECIAL EVENTS IN THE CITY, WE
02:14:24PM PROBABLY CAN SUPPORT THAT WITH OUR OWN GOVERNMENT.
02:14:26PM WE NEED THE PEOPLE TO DO THAT.
02:14:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IS WHAT I AM SAYING.
02:14:30PM ARE WE CHARGING ENOUGH TO DO THAT.
02:14:31PM OUR CONVERSATION GOING FORWARD.
02:14:32PM I JUST HAD NO IDEA THE VOLUME.
02:14:35PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT WAS -- IT LED ME INTO THAT WHY I DID
02:14:39PM THAT FOLLOW-UP QUESTION.
02:14:40PM I AM SITTING HERE GOING WHAT ABOUT THESE GASPARILLA RUNS AND
02:14:44PM EVERYTHING ELSE WE ARE DOING.
02:14:45PM EVERY WEEKEND, WE HAVE A SPECIAL EVENT, ART FESTIVALS.
02:14:48PM LIKE YOU SAID, THE BUCCANEERS.
02:14:50PM AND MAYBE ONE DAY WE WILL BE PLAYING -- MAYBE ONE DAY WE
02:14:53PM WILL BE PLAYING BASEBALL IN TAMPA AND CROWD CONTROL.
02:14:57PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OPENING DAY IS LESS THAN A MONTH AWAY.
02:15:01PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PLAYING BASEBALL IN TAMPA AT THE CHARLIE
02:15:05PM MIRANDA STATION.
02:15:06PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AND I WILL VOTE AGAINST IT.
02:15:08PM [LAUGHTER]
02:15:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BRONZE STATUE OF
02:15:12PM YOU OUT IN FRONT OF IT.
02:15:14PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MAKE IT OUT OF BUTTER.
02:15:16PM [LAUGHTER]
02:15:17PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: LIKE WE SAID AT THE STATE OF THE UNION
02:15:20PM SPEECH IN 1926, THE BEST TIME TO REPAIR THE ROOF IS WHEN THE
02:15:24PM SUN IS SHINING.
02:15:24PM AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL WEATHER FOR NOW.
02:15:26PM AND AS WE GO INTO HURRICANE SEASON, AND MAINTENANCE, THINGS
02:15:32PM LIKE THIS WITH THE DITCHES.
02:15:33PM WE -- YOU KNOW, THE STORMS ARE THE STORMS.
02:15:36PM THE HURRICANES WERE AN EXCEPTIONAL OCCURRENCE.
02:15:43PM DOING THIS IF WE CAN INCREASE THE MANPOWER AND BUDGET, 86,
02:15:49PM ANOTHER HALF MILLION DOLLARS.
02:15:50PM YOU DO GREAT WORK.
02:15:51PM TEAMS ARE OUT THERE.
02:15:52PM LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN SAID, FOR EVERY DOLLAR WE
02:15:56PM SPENT $3 OF PRODUCTIVITY.
02:15:58PM BECAUSE THEY ARE OUT THERE WORKING TIRELESSLY.
02:16:01PM MORE THEN THEY SHOULD, BUT WE US AS COUNCIL OF HOW TO
02:16:07PM SUPPORT AND INCREASE YOUR BUDGET AND INCREASE YOUR STAFF AND
02:16:10PM PRODUCTIVITY.
02:16:10PM THE CITY IS A BIG CITY AND A LOT.
02:16:12PM IN WEST TAMPA, YOU GOT A LOT OF DITCHES.
02:16:15PM SOUTH TAMPA, ALL OVER.
02:16:16PM BUT DOING THE -- THE GRADING AND CLEANING AND MAINTENANCE
02:16:21PM MAKES AT SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE.
02:16:25PM IN THE UPPER RAIN STORM WESTERN IT IS RAINING FOR THOSE.
02:16:28PM 30-MINUTE RAIN IN JULY, THIS WILL HELP.
02:16:30PM SO THANK YOU TO YOUR TEAM AND EVERYBODY.
02:16:34PM BECAUSE THIS VERY, VERY HARD WORK.
02:16:36PM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA AND COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
02:16:39PM >>LUIS VIERA: YOU WANT TO GO FIRST.
02:16:40PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF YOU DON'T MIND.
02:16:42PM >>LUIS VIERA: PLEASE.
02:16:43PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE DOING.
02:16:44PM A DITCH OPERATION OF ONE SECTION, TWO SECTION, THREE
02:16:49PM SECTION, FOUR SECTION.
02:16:52PM AND THOSE IN MOBILITY MAKE SURE THEY DO THE -- NOT THE DITCH
02:16:57PM CLEANING.
02:16:57PM >> WE DO DITCH CLEANING IN HOUSE.
02:16:59PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO GET TO.
02:17:02PM MANY DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE CITY THAT ARE DIFFERENT BUT ALL
02:17:06PM THE SAME OF WHAT I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT.
02:17:07PM FIRST OF ALL, WHEN YOU GO DOWN AND IT RAINS ON CYPRESS AND
02:17:10PM N. BOULEVARD, YOU CAN'T MAKE A LEFT.
02:17:12PM BECAUSE IT IS WATCHED.
02:17:13PM FOLLOW CYPRESS ALL THE WAY HEADED WEST, YOU WILL SEE THE
02:17:17PM SAME THING, WHERE?
02:17:18PM THE MAIN ONE ON DALE MABRY HIGHWAY AND CYPRESS.
02:17:21PM WHY?
02:17:24PM CYPRESS HAS FEW INLETS.
02:17:26PM WATER COMES IN FROM THE INTERSTATE HEADED SOUTH AND THE
02:17:31PM PROBLEM WE HAD THE LAST 25 YEARS.
02:17:33PM SECOND ON THE CORNER OF MacDILL AVENUE AND COLUMBUS DRIVE.
02:17:36PM MacDILL HEADED NORTH AND SOUTH.
02:17:38PM COLUMBUS DRIVE EAST AND WEST.
02:17:41PM ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE SOUTH SIDE OF SOUTHEAST SIDE, AN
02:17:47PM INLET FOR THE WATER TO DRAIN GOING DOWN WHEN IT COMES IN.
02:17:51PM HOWEVER FROM THE WEST SIDE OF THE EAST SIDE OF THE ROAD
02:17:53PM FACING NORTH, GUESS WHAT, THERE IS NO INLET.
02:17:56PM WATER STAYS THERE BECAUSE IT CAN'T GO AROUND THE CORNER AND
02:18:00PM GO UP BECAUSE IT IS UPHILL FOR THEM.
02:18:01PM ANY WAY, YOU CAN PUT A PIPE THAT BIG FROM THAT SIDE ON THE
02:18:05PM GROUND TO THE EXISTING PIPE WHERE THE INLET IS AT, WE WOULD
02:18:08PM SOLVE THAT PROBLEM WITH VERY LITTLE MONEY.
02:18:10PM I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS UNDER THE GROUND.
02:18:12PM YOU GUYS DO.
02:18:13PM I LOOKED AT THAT FOR YEARS.
02:18:14PM IT ALWAYS FLOODS.
02:18:16PM AND WILL SAVE A LOT OF HEADACHES AND PROBLEMS WITH VERY
02:18:19PM LITTLE MONEY.
02:18:19PM SECONDLY, THERE ARE DITCHES ALL OVER THE CITY.
02:18:22PM WEST TAMPA, DREW PARK, SOUTH TAMPA, WEST SHORE AND EVEN WEST
02:18:28PM SHORE BOULEVARD THERE ARE DITCHES.
02:18:29PM WHAT I AM SAYING NOT AN EASY JOB.
02:18:31PM A LOT MORE DITCHES OPINION WHEN NATURE WAS NATURE.
02:18:36PM IT TWO DRAIN.
02:18:37PM NOW HARDLY DRAINS BECAUSE TOO MUCH LEFT FOR SOMETHING ELSE
02:18:41PM AND VERY LITTLE OF NATURE.
02:18:42PM AND DREW PARK, YOU HAD DITCHES THE SIZE OF CARS ONE TIME
02:18:49PM THAT YOU COULD DRIVE THROUGH.
02:18:51PM THE SAME THING FOR SOUTH TAMPA.
02:18:52PM MOSTLY GONE NOW, BUT STILL SOME SMALL ONES.
02:18:55PM THE PROBLEM IS THE OVERGROWTH OF HUMANITY.
02:18:59PM AND WHAT IT BRINGS.
02:19:01PM THAT IS A PAYBACK WE GET FOR BEING POPULAR, I GUESS.
02:19:07PM SOME RESOLVE IN THESE THINGS AND SOME ISSUES THAT CAN BE
02:19:10PM DONE.
02:19:10PM IF YOU TRAVEL DOWN CYPRESS, RIGHT FROM ALESSI BAKE HEADED
02:19:16PM WEST, YOU WILL FIND 200 -- I AM NOT GOING TO MENTION IT --
02:19:26PM -- 100 YARDS.
02:19:27PM NOT SINKHOLES BUT THINGS THAT NEED ATTENTION AND THEY HAVE
02:19:30PM BEEN GET ATTENTION, THE PROBLEM IS THE ASPHALT -- THE
02:19:34PM ASPHALT ON TOP ARE TWO DIFFERENT THINGS AND THEY COME BACK.
02:19:37PM IT IS LIKE A BAD PLUM THAT COMES BACK IF YOU DON'T TAKE IT
02:19:43PM OUT AND HARVEST IT IN TIME.
02:19:45PM I THINK YOU ARE DOING A FANTASTIC JOB.
02:19:48PM I THINK THAT MAYBE TO DIRECT MORE TIME DURING THESE MONTHS
02:19:52PM TO DITCH CLEANING NUMBER ONE.
02:19:53PM AND THEN SEE HOW WE PUT THE WATER SOMEWHERE ELSE, NUMBER
02:19:56PM TWO.
02:19:56PM AND THEN PRAY THAT THE BAY DOESN'T CONTINUE GETTING WARMER
02:20:00PM LIKE HAS BEEN THE LAST MONTH.
02:20:02PM AND IF IT DOES, WE WILL HAVE A REAL PROBLEM DURING THE
02:20:06PM SUMMER.
02:20:07PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH WHAT YOU DO ON A DAILY BASIS.
02:20:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:20:13PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
02:20:15PM A GREAT IDEA TO HAVE THIS ON A REGULAR BASIS FOR THE OBVIOUS
02:20:19PM REASONS.
02:20:19PM I KNOW WE WILL BE HAVING A TOWN HALL IN NORTH TAMPA ON APRIL
02:20:24PM 14.
02:20:25PM AND STAFF WILL BE DOING THAT SO EVERYONE IN NORTH
02:20:31PM TAMPA CAN KNOW WHAT THE CITY IS DOING TO PREPARE FOR
02:20:33PM HURRICANE SEASON IN EVERYTHING.
02:20:34PM AND YOU KNOW I WANT TO HEAR FROM STAFF NOT ONLY ON THINGS --
02:20:41PM THE BIG BUZZ THE PUMPS AND GENERATORS.
02:20:44PM THE BIG BUS THERE.
02:20:45PM AND THE DAILY THINGS FROM BEING DONE AT INCREASED PACE.
02:20:50PM ANYTHING THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM LAST YEAR.
02:20:52PM OBVIOUSLY LAST YEAR, WE HAD AN OUT OF CONTROL STORM.
02:20:59PM TWO STORMS.
02:20:59PM BUT EVERYTHING -- EVERYTHING IS DIFFERENT AND ENHANCED FROM
02:21:03PM LAST YEAR, ETC.
02:21:04PM JUST SO THE PEOPLE CAN KNOW.
02:21:05PM THAT IS IMPORTANT.
02:21:06PM THE PEOPLE OUT THERE IN NORTH TAMPA HAVE BEEN TRAUMATIZED
02:21:10PM OBVIOUSLY.
02:21:11PM AND SO, I -- I WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT I THINK THAT IS VERY,
02:21:15PM VERY IMPORTANT.
02:21:16PM YOU KNOW WITH A LOT OF THINGS THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING LIKE I IS
02:21:20PM ALWAYS SAY, I TRUST STAFF.
02:21:21PM I DO.
02:21:21PM I AM AN ATTORNEY.
02:21:22PM I AM AN ELECTED OFFICIAL.
02:21:24PM I AM NOT AN ENGINEER.
02:21:26PM YOU KNOW, I CERTAINLY HEAR THINGS AND I MAKE MY OPINIONS
02:21:32PM KNOWN.
02:21:32PM BUT A LOT OF IT IS TRUSTING THE PROFESSIONALS TO DO WHAT
02:21:37PM Y'ALL SHOULD DO.
02:21:38PM THAT IS IMPORTANT LONG TERM.
02:21:39PM BECAUSE WE ARE TALKING OF DAY-TO-DAY FIXES.
02:21:43PM LOOKING FORWARD TO HEAR WHAT THE COUNTY -- THE COUNTYWIDE
02:21:48PM INDEPENDENT REVIEW IS GOING TO FIND WITH WHAT WE HAVE TO DO
02:21:52PM LONG TERM TO MAKE SURE WE CAN WITHSTAND STORMS AND HOW MUCH
02:21:56PM THAT WILL COST US BECAUSE THAT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT
02:21:59PM BECAUSE I HAVE A GOOD FEELING THAT SOME OF THE
02:22:01PM RECOMMENDATIONS THEY ARE GOING TO GIVE WILL COST A LOT OF
02:22:03PM MONEY.
02:22:03PM WE WILL HAVE TO HAVE A VERY GOOD DIALOGUE WITH PEOPLE ON IT.
02:22:07PM AND I THINK THAT IS VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.
02:22:09PM FROM MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THE ADMINISTRATION THROUGH OUR
02:22:14PM REPRESENTATIVES DID REQUEST THIS YEAR FUNDS FROM TALLAHASSEE
02:22:18PM FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND TO CORRECT -- I WOULD ASSUME SO.
02:22:22PM YES.
02:22:22PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: THAT'S CORRECT.
02:22:24PM AND WE CONTINUE TO WORK WITH OUR LEGISLATIVE COUNTERPARTS IN
02:22:29PM TALLAHASSEE AND FEDERAL OPPORTUNITIES.
02:22:30PM WE HAVE A LITTLE TAGLINE.
02:22:32PM OPM, THE PEOPLE'S MONEY AND WE LIVE AND BREATHE THAT
02:22:36PM LITERALLY.
02:22:37PM SO, YES, WE ARE ALWAYS OUT AND SEEKING -- TRYING TO MR. A
02:22:40PM GOOD RELATIONSHIP AS WELL THAT OFTEN TRANSLATES TO GOOD
02:22:45PM PARTNERSHIPS AND PAYS DIVIDENDS OFF.
02:22:47PM IF WE CAN GET A GOOD SHARING OF INFORMATION WITH OTHER
02:22:49PM AGENCIES.
02:22:50PM >>LUIS VIERA: GREAT.
02:22:51PM BECAUSE THE PEOPLE OUT THERE OBVIOUSLY WANT TO HELP US ON
02:22:53PM THAT ISSUE.
02:22:54PM AND SO THAT IS VERY, VERY GOOD.
02:22:56PM YOU KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN MENTIONED THE ISSUE OF THE
02:22:59PM DEPARTMENT DIVISION, STORMWATER WITH MOBILITY.
02:23:02PM I MENTIONED THAT BEFORE.
02:23:03PM I AM HAVING TALKS WITH PEOPLE IN THE DEPARTMENT ON IT TO
02:23:07PM FIND OUT WHY DO WE DO THIS.
02:23:09PM WHY DO WE DO THIS?
02:23:11PM AGAIN, I HAVE MY BACKGROUND ON IT.
02:23:13PM BUT I WANT TO HEAR FROM THE PROFESSIONALS ON IT.
02:23:15PM BUT I DO TEND TO AGREE WITH THE IDEA THAT WITH A CITY OUR
02:23:20PM SIZE, THERE IS A -- THERE IS MORE THAN REASONABLE BASIS TO
02:23:24PM SAY WE SHOULD HAVE A SEPARATE STORMWATER DEPARTMENT.
02:23:27PM BUT AGAIN, LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVE THAT PRIVATE DIALOGUE.
02:23:30PM THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW, RIGHT.
02:23:32PM AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE EXTENT THAT IS RELEVANT.
02:23:36PM AND ONE I THINK I WILL ALSO TELL PEOPLE AND I AM NOT A
02:23:39PM INSURANCE AGENT.
02:23:39PM WE WERE IN MARCH.
02:23:40PM TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR INSURANCE.
02:23:42PM I MEAN THAT.
02:23:43PM TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR INSURANCE.
02:23:45PM AGAIN I'M NOT AN INSURANCE AGENT.
02:23:46PM I AM NOT OFFERING PROFESSIONAL ADVICE OR ANYTHING OF THAT
02:23:50PM NATURE.
02:23:51PM TAKE A LOOK AT YOUR INSURANCE POLICY WHAT IS COVERED AND
02:23:54PM WHAT IS NOT COVERED.
02:23:55PM I AM IN ZONE X AND GETTING FLOOD INSURANCE.
02:23:59PM I NEVER GOTTEN FLOOD INSURANCE AND I JUST AM.
02:24:03PM SO I WOULD INDIVIDUALLY -- MY INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY ENCOURAGE
02:24:06PM PEOPLE TO TAKE A LOOK AT THEIR POLICIES NO MATTER WHERE YOU
02:24:09PM LIVE.
02:24:09PM BECAUSE IF LAST YEAR TAUGHT US ANYTHING, YOU NEVER KNOW,
02:24:12PM RIGHT.
02:24:12PM UNFORTUNATELY.
02:24:13PM BUT, AGAIN, THANK YOU DIE INS VERY MUCH FOR THIS.
02:24:16PM APPRECIATE IT.
02:24:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
02:24:18PM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
02:24:19PM >>LYNN HURTAK: AND I ALWAYS LET -- WHILE I AGREE WITH THE
02:24:22PM ACRONYM OPM, OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY.
02:24:26PM I LIKE TO THINK OF IT GETTING OUR MONEY BACK BECAUSE IT IS
02:24:29PM STILL OUR MONEY.
02:24:30PM GET MORE OF THAT TO COME BACK IN-HOUSE IS VERY IMPORTANT.
02:24:34PM HE TO -- I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T TALK ABOUT A FEW
02:24:38PM THINGS I DID LEARN WHILE I WAS AT BEACH PARK.
02:24:40PM AND I THINK THIS LAST PICTURE IS A REALLY GOOD EXPLAINER OF
02:24:48PM THAT.
02:24:48PM DITCHES ARE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:24:50PM OH, THAT IS NOT -- I AM --
02:24:54PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: JUMPING AHEAD ON US.
02:24:56PM >>LYNN HURTAK: DITCHES ARE PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:24:59PM WE -- I HAVE BEEN TOLD THAT FOLKS WHO ARE TO GET A DITCH
02:25:03PM CLEARED OUT WILL CALL AND COMPLAIN TO CITY COUNCIL OR TO THE
02:25:08PM MAYOR'S OFFICE AND SAY, YOU KNOW, MY GRASS IS GOING TO BE
02:25:12PM HURT.
02:25:12PM WELL, I AM GOING TO TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, IF YOU CALL MY
02:25:15PM OFFICE TO DO THAT, I'M NOT GOING TO BE SYMPATHETIC.
02:25:19PM NO.
02:25:19PM AND I NEED ALL OF YOU TO HAVE THE EXACT TAME OF SAME
02:25:23PM REACTION.
02:25:24PM BECAUSE WE HAVE TO CLEAN THESE DITCHES.
02:25:29PM NO LONGER ABOUT MAKING YOUR GRASS BEAUTIFUL.
02:25:32PM IT IS STORMWATER.
02:25:33PM A GOOD HALF A FOOT ON SOME OF THESE AND THE REASONS WE ARE
02:25:37PM TOLD, WELL, PEOPLE DON'T WANT THE DITCH CLEANED.
02:25:44PM IT IS PART EVER OUR YARDS.
02:25:46PM YOU HAVE MAINTAIN IT BUT IT IS OURS.
02:25:49PM CHALLENGE ALL FOLKS TO KNOW THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE CLEARING
02:25:54PM OUT DITCHES.
02:25:54PM TO GET SUPPORT MY OTHER THING WHEN I ASKED WHAT ELSE WE CAN
02:26:02PM DO.
02:26:02PM YOUR STAFF ASKED ME TO MENTION, PLEASE DON'T PUT YOUR YARD
02:26:06PM DEBRIS INTO STORM TRAINS.
02:26:08PM WHATEVER THAT MEET BE.
02:26:09PM AND I AM REALLY HOPING --
02:26:11PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ON THE STREET.
02:26:12PM >>LYNN HURTAK: -- WHAT IS IN THE STREET GOES INTO OUR
02:26:18PM SYSTEM.
02:26:18PM YOU CAN'T BLOW IN THE STREET, IT IS NOT LEGAL.
02:26:20PM HOPING OUR COMMUNICATION TEAM CAN DO SOME GREAT
02:26:24PM INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEOS ESPECIALLY AS MOWING SEASON IS STARTING
02:26:27PM AGAIN.
02:26:27PM WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
02:26:28PM TO REALLY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE NOT TO, SO THERE IS LESS WORK FOR
02:26:32PM YOU ALL OVERALL.
02:26:34PM BUT I WANT TO GO BACK TO A COUPLE OF THINGS.
02:26:37PM I KNOW THAT WE HAVE TEN SWEEPER EMPLOYEES.
02:26:41PM BUT I HAD COMPLAINTS OF NOT SEEING STREET SWEEPERS.
02:26:49PM I HAVE A CONTRACT COMING UP SOON SHOWIN HOW MANY STREET SWEEPS
02:26:53PM WE CURRENTLY HAVE AND WHAT IS THE CONTRACT I BELIEVE YOU
02:26:57PM ARE GOING TO BRING US TO LET THEY ARE MONTH.
02:26:59PM >> BRIAN ROGER, MOBILITY.
02:27:03PM WE HAVE SEVEN SWEEPS AND LEASE THOSE.
02:27:06PM THAT CONTRACT IS THE LEASE AGLEAM FOR THE MACHINES.
02:27:11PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE WILL BE RENEWING.
02:27:13PM DO YOU HAVE ANY NEED TO LEASE MORE THAN THE SEVEN THAN WE
02:27:16PM LEASE RIGHT NOW.
02:27:18PM >> NOT AT THIS TIME.
02:27:20PM WE ARE ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH OUR 60-DAY GOAL OF GETTING OUR
02:27:25PM ROUTES DOWN.
02:27:25PM WE ARE BEHIND BECAUSE OF THE STORMS AND WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE
02:27:27PM OF RELIEF SEASON.
02:27:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IN YOUR PIE GRAPH, SAYS 43 STORMWATER FIELD
02:27:34PM EMPLOYEES.
02:27:35PM I KNOW YOU HAVE THREE ZONES.
02:27:36PM HOW MANY ARE IN EACH ZONE?
02:27:39PM >> EIGHT TO TEN FOLKS.
02:27:40PM WE HAVE A CITY WIDE CONSTRUCTION TEAM THAT DOES MICRO
02:27:47PM PROJECTS.
02:27:47PM ONE PARTNERSHIP HERE.
02:27:49PM A TRENCH GRADE HERE AND THERE.
02:27:51PM THEY ACTIVELY WORK ON THOSE AND REACTIVES.
02:27:54PM >>LYNN HURTAK: TEN PLUS TEN PLUS TEN ARE ONLY 30.
02:27:58PM THE 13 ARE THE HOT SPOT.
02:28:02PM >> WE WILL HAVE TO SEE HOW WE ORIENT AND RESIZE THE TEAMS.
02:28:06PM THREE ZONES WITH TEN TO 12 MOWS.
02:28:11PM THEN FOR CONSTRUCTION.
02:28:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: FOR CONSTRUCTION.
02:28:14PM I AM SIMPLY GOING TO ASK, HOW MANY PEOPLE DO WE NEED TO
02:28:19PM HANDLE BOTH THE REGULAR MAINTENANCE AND REACTIVE.
02:28:22PM WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE MORE FTEs OR DO YOU THINK CONTRACTORS
02:28:28PM CAN HANDLE IT?
02:28:29PM >>JEAN DUNCAN: IF I CAN JUMP IN.
02:28:30PM I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO ANALYZE THAT AND GIVE YOU A MORE
02:28:34PM EXACT ANSWER THAN RIGHT ON THE SPOT.
02:28:36PM TALK TO IT RECENTLY.
02:28:38PM WE ARE DRIFTING FROM OUR 80/20 WHICH IS OUR INDUSTRY
02:28:42PM STANDARD.
02:28:42PM WE WOULD LIKE TO ANALYZE AND GIVE YOU A SORT OF DATABASE
02:28:46PM ANSWER IF THAT IS OKAY.
02:28:48PM OBVIOUSLY FTEs AND CONTRACTORS LIKELY OF WHAT WE WILL NEED.
02:28:56PM WE NEEDED TO SAY WHAT WILL BE BEST AND HOW MUCH.
02:29:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHAT I WOULD LOVE FOR TO YOU TO DO.
02:29:03PM HAVE KELLY REACH OUT TO YOU WITH A GOOD MOTION AND A
02:29:05PM TIME HOW LONG IT TAKES TO FIGURE THAT OUT AND COME BACK TO
02:29:08PM US.
02:29:08PM SO YOU CAN WORK WITH MY OFFICE.
02:29:10PM THEN WHENEVER YOU COME UP WITH A DATE, WE CAN COME FORWARD,
02:29:13PM BECAUSE WE NEED TO BE TALKING ABOUT IT NOW BEFORE BUDGET
02:29:16PM SEASON.
02:29:16PM THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A PRIORITY FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA AND THE
02:29:20PM CITIZENS OF TAMPA.
02:29:20PM AND WE HAVE GOT TO GIVE IT ITS DUE.
02:29:22PM THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU DO.
02:29:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
02:29:26PM IF YOU WANT TO CLOSE IT OUT.
02:29:28PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A GOOD SEGUE WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY.
02:29:31PM I HAD CASUAL CONVERSATIONS WITH THE MAYOR OF THE REALIGNMENTS.
02:29:36PM AND BECAUSE WE TALK ABOUT MOBILITY AND HAVING WAY TOO MUCH
02:29:40PM ON THE MILLAGE -- HAVING TOO TOUCHDOWN ON THE PLEAT AND ARE
02:29:45PM YOU GUYS ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN MAYBE LOOKING AT REALIGNMENT
02:29:50PM RIGHT NOW?
02:29:50PM ANYTHING HAPPENING ACTIVELY?
02:29:53PM I THINK SEGUEING ON WHAT COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK SAID.
02:29:57PM I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WOULD BE TO A MOTION.
02:29:59PM BUT BECAUSE WE ARE GOING INTO BUDGET, POSSIBLY BETWEEN SOME
02:30:03PM KEY COUNCIL FOLKS AND THE ADMINISTRATION AND SOME OTHER
02:30:07PM FOLKS, MAYBE WE NEED TO HAVE SOME PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS
02:30:11PM SOONER RATHER THAN LATER ABOUT LOOKING AT THAT AND HOW WE
02:30:15PM CAN BUDGET FOR IT COMING UP IN THE NEXT FY.
02:30:18PM SO IF WE FIND THIS IS A CITY PRIORITY NEED AND REACH A
02:30:26PM CONSENSUS OF AREAS AND SHIFT IT TO THIS BECAUSE THE GRAVITAS
02:30:32PM OF THE HURRICANES WE JUST EXPERIENCED WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER
02:30:37PM VIERA HAS BEEN HITTING ON SO HARD.
02:30:39PM ISSUE WITH FIRE STATION SAFETY.
02:30:41PM ALL OF THESE THINGS.
02:30:42PM WE KIND OF -- AS WE ARE PUSHING TOWARD BUDGET SEASON, IF WE
02:30:45PM CAN TAKE THOSE TYPES OF ISSUES, ROLL IT INTO THESE ISSUES
02:30:50PM AND ALL EQUALLY IMPORTANT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO ACCOMPLISH
02:30:53PM THAT.
02:30:53PM BECAUSE YOU ARE STARTING TO CRAFT BUDGET GOALS AS WE SPEAK.
02:30:59PM MAY BE A GOOD TIME TO HAVE THE MEETING OF THE MINDS.
02:31:02PM IT IS NOT TO DOABLE WITH OUR CURRENT BUDGET STREAMS.
02:31:10PM AND MAYBE WE CAN HAVE SOME PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS.
02:31:12PM I AM SURE SEVERAL OF US WILL BE HAPPY TO BE PART OF THOSE
02:31:15PM TYPE OF DISCUSSIONS TO TRY TO MAKE IT HAPPEN.
02:31:17PM SO SOONER THAN LATER.
02:31:20PM I THINK IT AS GOOD IDEA SPITBALLING FROM THE DAIS, I THINK
02:31:26PM IT IS A GOOD IDEA.
02:31:27PM WE TALK ABOUT HOW DO WE GET THESE THINGS DONE QUICKER.
02:31:30PM THE FIRE STATIONS DONE QUICKER AND GET THESE STUFF DONE.
02:31:35PM PUTTING TOGETHER THE BUDGET.
02:31:36PM MAYBE STUFF WE CAN'T AFFORD NEXT YEAR AND TRY TO PRIORITIZE
02:31:40PM THIS THING COMING UP.
02:31:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:31:42PM ALL RIGHT.
02:31:44PM ITEM 86 AND 87 GO TOGETHER.
02:31:48PM WE HAVE MR. ROGERO.
02:31:51PM HE IS TELEPORTING OVER.
02:32:00PM LOOK AT THAT.
02:32:00PM IS HE SMILING AND LAUGHING.
02:32:09PM >> IT WILL BE WONDERFUL ARE YOU DOING THAT FOR ME A?
02:32:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL RIGHT, MR. ROGERO.
02:32:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU.
02:32:31PM GO DOWN THE POLE.
02:32:32PM DID YOU AND MIKE PERRY COME DOWN THE BAT POLE.
02:32:35PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: ASKED FOR IT.
02:32:47PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: START WITH 86 AND 87.
02:32:49PM >> I WILL START WITH 87 AND, IF YOU DON'T MIND, CIRCLE BACK TO
02:32:53PM 86, DENNIS ROGERO, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.
02:32:57PM GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL.
02:32:59PM ITEM 87 STATES, WE ARE PREPARED TO DISCUSS ANY NUMBER OF
02:33:02PM THINGS UNDER -- UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THIS ITEM, FOR
02:33:06PM INSTANCE, THE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FROM OUR DECEMBER 19
02:33:14PM PRESENTATION FROM LAST YEAR.
02:33:15PM WE PROVIDED A MEMO WITH RESPONSES.
02:33:18PM WE ARE PREPARED TO ANSWER THAT.
02:33:20PM WE RECEIVED SUPPLEMENTAL QUESTIONS.
02:33:22PM WE WILL BE PREPARED TO ANSWER THOSE.
02:33:24PM WE CAN SHARE OUR LATEST HURRICANE FINANCIAL PICTURE FROM THE
02:33:27PM TWO -- TECHNICALLY THREE STORMS LAST YEAR.
02:33:30PM AND WE CAN ALSO -- I KIND OF GOT THE IMPRESSION THAT THIS IS
02:33:35PM THE HIGHEST PRIORITY OF COUNCIL AT THIS TIME, ADDRESS THE
02:33:38PM FUND BALANCE.
02:33:39PM CARRY FORWARD FROM FISCAL YEAR 2024.
02:33:42PM IT IS UP TO YOU.
02:33:42PM WE ARE PREPARED TO START WITH THE FUND BALANCE IF THAT IS
02:33:46PM COUNCIL'S MEASURE.
02:33:48PM I AM GETTING A -- YES, LET'S DO THAT THEN.
02:33:51PM IF I CAN HAVE -- AND THERE IT IS.
02:33:53PM PRESENTATION UP, PLEASE.
02:33:54PM IT HAS BEEN THREE MONTHS SINCE OUR PRESENTATION ON THE
02:33:59PM GENERAL FUND FINANCIALS, AND YOU RECALL IT LOOKED LIKE THIS.
02:34:02PM BACK THEN, WE HAD A PRETTY GOOD ROUGH PICTURE OF WHAT WAS
02:34:06PM GOING ON.
02:34:07PM AND JUST TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORY, VERY POSITIVE.
02:34:10PM ALMOST $24 MILLION OF REVENUES DOING BETTER THAN ANTICIPATED
02:34:14PM AND EXPENDITURES DOING -- WELL, TECHNICALLY BETTER THAN
02:34:19PM ANTICIPATED TOO.
02:34:19PM WE SPENT LESS.
02:34:21PM BUT STILL PRETTY TIGHT ON BOTH THOSE.
02:34:24PM LESS THAN 2% FOR EACH OF THOSE ITEMS.
02:34:26PM TYPE VERY, VERY POSITIVE.
02:34:28PM AND OF THAT 20 -- ALMOST 24 MILLION DISCUSSED.
02:34:35PM WE SHARED YOU WITH THE DECEMBER PRESENTATION.
02:34:37PM WE WERE GOING TO NEED A COMPONENT OF THAT TO REACH THAT
02:34:40PM MAGIC 23% FUND BALANCE -- UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE LEVEL
02:34:48PM ABOUT $11 MILLION OR 12 MILLION AT THAT TIME.
02:34:51PM YOU TAKE $11 MILLION, $12 MILLION, YOU ARE LEFT WITH GOOD --
02:34:54PM STILL GOOD, BUT SUBSTANTIALLY LESS.
02:34:57PM IN THE NEARLY THREE MONTHS, WE CONTINUE TO CLOSE OUT THE
02:34:59PM NUMBERS AND REMAIN TO THE BALANCES OF THE GENERAL FUND, RISK
02:35:03PM FUND, ETC., ETC.
02:35:04PM THERE BEING EXTERNALLY AUDITED BY AN INDEPENDENT CPA FIRM
02:35:11PM LITERALLY AS WE SPEAK AS THEY ARE EVERY YEAR.
02:35:13PM BUT WE ARE VERY, VERY CONFIDENT IN THE FIGURES WE HAVE DON'T
02:35:21PM ANTICIPATE THAT THE EXTERNAL AUDITOR WILL MAKE ANY CHANGES.
02:35:24PM WHAT WE ARE SHARING YOU WITH IS HOT OFF THE PRESSES AND
02:35:27PM BARRING ANY CHANGES FROM THAT EXTERNAL AUDITORS IS WHAT
02:35:34PM YOU AND THE PEOPLE WILL SEE ON OUR FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
02:35:39PM I WOULD LIKE TO WALK COUNCIL AND PUBLIC THROUGH THE OVERARCHING,
02:35:43PM AGAIN 50,000-FOOT VIEW OF FUND BALANCE AND BREAK IT DOWN
02:35:48PM SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR AND EVEN MORE DETAILED SO
02:35:52PM WE CAN GET TO A POSITION WHERE COUNCIL KNOWS WHAT IS THEY
02:35:55PM HAVE, QUOTE, UNQUOTE, GOT TO WORK WITH.
02:35:57PM HERE YOU SEE IT.
02:35:58PM THIS IS PURE FUND BALANCE.
02:36:00PM LITTLE OVER 200 TO 2 MILLION CARRIED OVER FROM LAST YEAR.
02:36:06PM BEING LOOKED AT.
02:36:07PM YOU SEE THE DATE YESTERDAY.
02:36:08PM WE ARE VERY, VERY CONFIDENT THAT THIS NUMBER IS NOT GOING TO
02:36:12PM CHANGE.
02:36:12PM AND THEN YOU SEE AN ITEMIZATION OF OUR OBLIGATIONS PRIMARILY
02:36:20PM OUR OBLIGATIONS BUT AT THE TOP, OUR HIGHEST PRIORITY.
02:36:23PM I GATHER IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE COUNCIL'S HIGHEST PRIORITY
02:36:27PM ALSO MAINTAINING THAT 23% HISTORICAL FUND BALANCE.
02:36:32PM OVER ON THE RIGHT, HOW MUCH THAT TAKES FROM THE PURE FUND
02:36:36PM BALANCE, $149 MILLION.
02:36:37PM AS WE TALKED ABOUT -- EXCUSE ME.
02:36:39PM AS WE TALKED ABOUT -- I DON'T WANT TO GET TOO WONKISH AND
02:36:47PM LEAD EVERYONE DOWN THE WRONG PATH.
02:36:50PM AS WE TALKED ABOUT IN DECEMBER, $11 MILLION OR $12 MILLION
02:36:55PM MORE THAN LAST FISCAL YEAR.
02:36:57PM $149 MILLION AT IT, WE GOT.
02:37:00PM OTHER OBLIGATIONS.
02:37:01PM HEALTH CARE, $10.1 MILLION THAT WE NEED TO ASSIGN FROM FUND
02:37:06PM BALANCES IN ORDER TO KEEP TO ARE MAINTAIN 70-DAY RESERVE.
02:37:16PM STATE MINIMUM 06-DAY RESERVE.
02:37:19PM 70-DAY RESERVE, $10.1 MILLION.
02:37:22PM PREVIOUS CLAIMS WE STILL OWE FROM THE SETTLEMENT THAT i WILL
02:37:26PM GET INTO IN JUST A MOMENT.
02:37:29PM PURCHASE ORDERS FROM LAST FISCAL YEAR.
02:37:32PM CITY COUNCIL MOTIONS MADE.
02:37:33PM THE ONLY ONE THAT COMES -- WE CAN GIVE YOU AN ITEMIZATION,
02:37:37PM BUT THE ONE TO THE TOP OF MY MIND IS THE YBOR ARTS SPACE.
02:37:41PM HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
02:37:42PM A NUMBER ITEMS THAT CITY COUNCIL REQUESTED AND WE
02:37:49PM EXPEDITED TO THE TUNE OF A LITTLE OVER $3.5
02:37:52PM MILLION.
02:37:53PM TWO PORTIONS OF THE DUBOIS SETTLEMENT.
02:38:00PM BULK OF IT WE TOOK OFF $9 MILLION.
02:38:04PM ON THE HOOK THIS YEAR FOR $3 MILLION AND ANOTHER $2 MILLION
02:38:07PM NEXT YEAR.
02:38:08PM AND A MINUTE MALL AMOUNT ASSOCIATED WITH INVENTORIES THAT
02:38:12PM UNDER FUND BALANCE GUIDELINES ARE SIMPLY NOT SPENDABLE.
02:38:20PM NOT 90.
02:38:22PM 80%, 176 MILLION.
02:38:26PM I REMIND COUNCIL THAT PROBABLY NOT NECESSARY IS '23
02:38:32PM UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE IS ACTUALLY VITAL TO MAINTAIN OUR
02:38:36PM EXCELLENT CREDIT SCORES.
02:38:37PM JUST SO COUNCIL KNOWS, THOUGH, THE $149 MILLION FIGURE, THAT
02:38:43PM IS ABOUT $20 MILLION MORE THAN OUR POLICY.
02:38:45PM SOME 20% WILL BE ABOUT 130ISH.
02:38:50PM SO RIGHT OFF THE BAT, WHAT WE ARE SHOWING YOU HERE IS
02:38:54PM CONTINUING THAT VERY FIRM FUND BALANCE POSITION AND $19
02:39:05PM MILLION TO $20 MILLION.
02:39:06PM I WILL REMIND THE PUBLIC.
02:39:09PM OUR POLICY IS 20% BUT WE HAVE BEEN SO FAR ABOVE THAT FOR SO
02:39:15PM LONG NOT WHAT THE POWERS-AT-BE LOOK AT.
02:39:19PM THAT LEAVES US SUBMIT A VERY HEALTHY $26 MILLION, NICE AND
02:39:28PM STRONG.
02:39:28PM STRONGER THAN WE LEFT IT IN DECEMBER, BUT WE HAVE TALKED
02:39:31PM ABOUT ANY NUMBER OF OTHER PRIORITIES AND RISKS OVER THE LAST
02:39:36PM COUPLE OF MONTHS EXCUSE ME.
02:39:39PM AND I WILL SHOW THAT RIGHT NOW.
02:39:43PM ANY NUMBER OF ITEMS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT PAVING AND
02:39:47PM RESURFACING.
02:39:48PM COUNCIL HAS CONTINUED TO IDENTIFY IT AS A PRIORITY.
02:39:51PM WE HAVE -- THIS IS WHERE WITH WE ARE CIRCLING BACK TO ITEM
02:39:55PM NUMBER 86.
02:39:56PM ADDITIONAL STORMWATER FUNDING HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
02:39:58PM THIS WILL ARE OUR RECOMMENDATION.
02:40:00PM YES, THANK YOU.
02:40:01PM I APOLOGIZE.
02:40:03PM WE ARE HANDING OUT THESE -- THESE SLIDES RIGHT NOW.
02:40:06PM I APOLOGIZE.
02:40:07PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THESE ARE THE SAME SLIDES THAT YOU ARE.
02:40:11PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, SIR, YES.
02:40:13PM AND THEN -- SORRY.
02:40:15PM I WILL WAIT UNTIL YOU ALL GET IT.
02:40:23PM THE PRESUMPTION ON MY PART, I THOUGHT YOU WERE FOLLOWING
02:40:26PM ALONG.
02:40:27PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU HAVE JOKES.
02:40:28PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: I ACTUALLY DID -- YOU WERE FOLLOWING ALONG --
02:40:31PM I MEAN FOLLOWING ALONG ON THE HARD COPY.
02:40:34PM FLOODING ASSISTANCE OF $1 MILLION HAS BEEN SURFACED ALSO
02:40:43PM THEN THE NEXT TWO ITEMS, SETTING SIDE FUNDING FOR THE
02:40:46PM ADVERSE IMPACTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HURRICANES.
02:40:48PM YOU HAVE PROPERTY TAX ADVERSE IMPACTS.
02:40:50PM WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO BE?
02:40:52PM THE SHORT ANSWER -- AND I WILL GET INTO MORE DETAIL IN A
02:40:55PM MINUTE IS, WE DON'T KNOW.
02:40:57PM WE ANTICIPATE THERE WILL BE IMPACTS IN THE KERR YEAR AND WE
02:41:04PM WILL HAVE CURRENT IMPACTS IN 2026.
02:41:06PM I WILL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
02:41:10PM INSURANCE INCREASES FROM A MACRO PERSPECTIVE.
02:41:17PM NOT ONLY HURRICANES HERE BUT THE WILDFIRES IN CALIFORNIA.
02:41:19PM ANYBODY WHO KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT THIS ANTICIPATES THERE WILL
02:41:22PM BE AN ADVERSE IMPACT ASSOCIATED WITH INSURANCE INCREASES.
02:41:26PM RIGHT NOW WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH THAT WILL BE TRUE TO
02:41:35PM HAVE ADDITIONAL FUNDING OVER AND ABOVE OUR UNDERSIGNED 23%.
02:41:39PM THAT IS A QUESTION THAT WE WILL DISCUSS.
02:41:41PM AND REPLENISHING THE FUNDING, THE EMERGENCY FUNDING WE USED
02:41:45PM FOR THE TWO HURRICANES.
02:41:46PM ONE HURRICANE HIT US IN FISCAL YEAR '24.
02:41:49PM OTHER HURRICANE HIT US IN FISCAL YEAR '25.
02:41:53PM IF IT IS COUNCIL'S PLEASURE, WE WILL HAVE ADDITIONAL
02:41:57PM INFORMATION REGARDING THE HURRICANES EVER HURRICANES WHERE
02:42:00PM YOU WILL SEE WE USED $14 MILLION OF THAT EMERGENCY FUNDING.
02:42:03PM SO, AGAIN, FROM KIND OF A BIG PICTURE POINT OF VIEW, $26
02:42:11PM MILLION TO IDENTIFY BASED ON COUNCIL'S PRIORITIES WHERE YOU
02:42:16PM WOULD LIKE TO BEGIN.
02:42:17PM AND I DON'T ANTICIPATE THAT COUNCIL IS GOING TO BE READY TO
02:42:20PM MAKE A DECISION RIGHT NOW.
02:42:21PM I UNDERSTAND WE ARE SHARING THIS INFORMATION YOU WITH RIGHT
02:42:24PM NOW.
02:42:24PM WE ARE MISSING A MEMBER.
02:42:25PM BUT IF NOTHING ELSE, I THINK IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO ABSORB THE
02:42:30PM INFORMATION AT SOME POINT PRIORITIZE WHERE YOU WOULD LIKE
02:42:37PM THE FUND BALANCE TO END UP.
02:42:38PM I CAN QUESTIONS NOW OR CONTINUE A LITTLE BIT WITH TALKING
02:42:44PM ABOUT THE AD VALOREM REVENUE.
02:42:45PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HURTAK, CLENDENIN AND VIERA.
02:42:49PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WOULD LOVE TO HEAR MORE ABOUT THE HURRICANES
02:42:53PM TOO.
02:42:53PM IF YOU HAVE ANY SLIDES.
02:42:55PM BECAUSE I THINK THAT -- I THINK WE ASKED A QUESTION OF
02:43:00PM REIMBURSEMENT AND HOW MUCH WE HAVE SPENT AND HOW MUCH -- DO
02:43:04PM WE HAVE THOSE NUMBERS?
02:43:06PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: WE DO, AND WE HAVE A POWERPOINT
02:43:09PM PRESENTATION FOR YOU ALSO.
02:43:10PM IN FACT, MR. PERRY CAN PASS IT OUT TO YOU NOW.
02:43:14PM IF COUNCIL IS OKAY WITH IT, I WOULD AT LEAST PUT A PIN IN
02:43:18PM THIS FUND BALANCE AND GET INTO THE HURRICANE PRESENTATION.
02:43:20PM BUT I CAN BE FLEXIBLE DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO
02:43:24PM TALK ABOUT RIGHT NOW.
02:43:25PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT IS ONE OF MY QUESTIONS.
02:43:27PM SO I WILL WAIT FOR THAT.
02:43:28PM >> THANK YOU.
02:43:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE OTHER WAS -- I SUPPORT THE 23%.
02:43:33PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU.
02:43:34PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HEARD YOU SAY THIS BEFORE, "OUR POLICY."
02:43:38PM WHERE DOES THAT POLICY COME FROM?
02:43:42PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: OUR INTERNAL POLICY.
02:43:43PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: JUST AN IMAGINARY THING.
02:43:47PM FROM NOW ON, CAN WE SAY OUR POLICY IS 23%?
02:43:51PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: WE COULD.
02:43:52PM AND, AGAIN, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS.
02:43:54PM IS IT -- THE ONLY RISK OF THAT IS.
02:43:58PM IF YOU ARE THE CREDIT AGENCY, YOU ARE NOT --
02:44:01PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN YOU PUBLISH THAT 23% TO THE RATING
02:44:04PM AGENCY?
02:44:05PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: IT IS PART.
02:44:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NOT ONLY INTERNAL BUT EXTERNAL.
02:44:11PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: MAYBE I MISCOMMUNICATED.
02:44:17PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE DIDN'T HIT IT.
02:44:24PM YOU SAID IT WASN'T COMMUNICATED EXTERNALLY, AND THEN I UNDERSTOOD.
02:44:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:44:27PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:44:29PM WHEN TALK OF USING ANY FUNDS.
02:44:31PM I WOULD BE REMISS AND A FAILURE OF PEOPLE WHO WILL SUFFER SO
02:44:34PM MUCH IN THE CITY IF I DIDN'T TALK OF GIVING ADDITIONAL FUNDS
02:44:37PM FOR PEOPLE WHO LOST EVERYTHING IN A HURRICANE.
02:44:38PM WE APPROPRIATED $3.5 MILLION MORE OR LESS FOR THAT.
02:44:42PM AND -- AND I GOT A GOOD FEELING THAT MONEY IS GOING TO DRY
02:44:46PM UP VERY SOON.
02:44:47PM REALLY, REALLY SOON.
02:44:48PM AND IF WE DIDN'T APPROPRIATE A PORTION OF THIS TO THAT, I --
02:44:54PM I THINK THAT WOULD BE A REAL MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE
02:44:56PM WHO HAVE GONE THROUGH HELL AND THEY ARE BEGGING US TO
02:45:00PM THROW SOME ICE CUBES ON THEM, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
02:45:03PM THAT IS REALLY IMPORTANT AND GOT TO BE PRIORITY.
02:45:06PM I BELIEVE THE FUNDS ARE GOING TO BECOME AVAILABLE TOWARD THE
02:45:09PM END OF MARCH.
02:45:10PM A LOT OF THINGS HAVE HAD TO HAPPEN IN THE MEANWHILE, BUT,
02:45:14PM AGAIN, WE TALKED ABOUT THINGS -- SOME OTHER THINGS THAT
02:45:17PM COUNCIL HAS FUNDED I THINK OF THE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE
02:45:25PM FUND.
02:45:26PM HELPING OUT PEOPLE.
02:45:27PM IT IS MARCH.
02:45:27PM THIS HAPPENED OCTOBER 10 -- OCTOBER 9 AND OCTOBER 10.
02:45:31PM THEY STILL ARE NOT BACK IN THEIR HOMES AND STILL NEED
02:45:35PM ASSISTANCE.
02:45:36PM A LOT OF THESE PEOPLE WHEN THEY GO ON THE SYSTEM TO GET
02:45:40PM THOSE FUNDS MAY NOT GET FUND.
02:45:43PM THEY ARE CAPPED AT $20,000.
02:45:44PM I THINK A ROBUST AMOUNT IF WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT THAT IS.
02:45:49PM AGAIN, I DON'T THINK THIS SOMETHING WILL BE IN DISPUTE.
02:45:52PM A COUNCIL WHERE EVERYBODY HAS GOOD HEARTS AND WANT TO HELP
02:45:54PM PEOPLE AND SO FORTH.
02:45:55PM I AM NOT TALKING OF SOME MASSIVE PERCENTAGE OF IT AND
02:45:58PM ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE.
02:46:00PM ADDING ANOTHER MILLION OR SOMETHING TO THAT I THINK WILL
02:46:03PM MAKE SENSE.
02:46:04PM IF YOU PUT IN OTHER MILLION DOLLARS TO THAT YOU WILL HELP.
02:46:07PM I CAN DO THE MATH ON THE SPOT BUT HELP A LOT OF PEOPLE.
02:46:11PM A SAYING IF BY GOING A FEW FEET, IT WILL HELP YOU WALK A FEW
02:46:15PM MILES.
02:46:15PM I WILL GO THOSE COUPLE OF FEET, I THINK, AS A COUNCIL, WE
02:46:25PM SHOULD GO THROUGH THOSE FEET.
02:46:26PM WE ARE IN MARCH AND HAVEN'T DISPERSED THE FUNDS FOR THE
02:46:31PM HURRICANES, HURRICANES IN OCTOBER.
02:46:32PM WE WILL GET FEDERAL FUNDS.
02:46:34PM THEY WILL GO THROUGH THE COUNTY.
02:46:35PM WE DON'T KNOW HOW THEY WILL BE UTILIZED.
02:46:37PM ARE A LOT OF THEM GOING TO INFRASTRUCTURE?
02:46:40PM REMEMBER THESE ARE FUNDS IF WE APPROPRIATE IT CAN BE
02:46:43PM AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW -- RIGHT NOW.
02:46:44PM WHEREAS, IF I WAIT FOR FUNDS THAT AREN'T GOING TO BE
02:46:47PM AVAILABLE FOR A WHILE, PEOPLE WILL CONTINUE TO BE HURTING
02:46:50PM AND CONTINUE TO GO THROUGH HELL.
02:46:51PM SO I WOULD STRONGLY ENCOURAGE COUNCIL TO SUPPORT MEASURES
02:46:57PM LIKE THAT.
02:46:57PM BY THE WAY, THE FLIPSIDE IS.
02:47:00PM BLACK AND WHITE AND ALWAYS GRAY.
02:47:01PM THE GREATER THIS IS, WHAT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT IN
02:47:05PM TALLAHASSEE, TALKING OF A LOT OF MEASURES RIGHT NOW TO LIMIT
02:47:09PM OUR ABILITY TO COLLECT REVENUE ALL THE WAY FROM GETTING RID
02:47:12PM OF PROPERTY TAXES TO READING DIFFERENT THINGS ON ROLLBACK
02:47:17PM RATES AND THINGS LIKE THAT CAN SERVE TO SIGNIFICANTLY HAMPER
02:47:22PM US AND WE NEED TO BE RESPONSIBLE WITH THAT.
02:47:23PM AND TALKING ABOUT A MEASURE OF THIS TO GO WITH PEOPLE WHO
02:47:26PM ARE STILL SLEEPING ON COUCHES, OF FRIENDS, STILL CRYING
02:47:30PM EVERY NIGHT.
02:47:31PM STILL GOING THROUGH HELL FOR ME IS JUST THE RIGHT THING TO
02:47:34PM DO AND DOESN'T CONFLICT IN ANY WAY TO FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY.
02:47:38PM I AM SURE I AM PREACHING TO THE CHOIR.
02:47:45PM BUT IT IS THE RIGHT THING TO DO.
02:47:47PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
02:47:47PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:47:50PM LOOKING AT WHAT YOU HAVE FROM NIMA AND FTED.
02:47:54PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HE HAVEN'T AGAIN THE PRESENTATION YET.
02:47:56PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: PARDON ME?
02:47:58PM I WANT TO GET AHEAD OF HIM.
02:48:00PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: WELL, YOU HAVE SUCCEEDED.
02:48:02PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: KEEP GOING.
02:48:03PM I WILL WAIT.
02:48:04PM NO PROBLEM.
02:48:04PM I WANT TO MAKE SURE I AM SCHOOLED RIGHT.
02:48:06PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: UNDERSTOOD.
02:48:08PM THAT IS THE FORTHCOMING PRESENTATION.
02:48:10PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: LET'S TALK OF THE 2024 HURRICANE PUBLIC
02:48:13PM ASSISTANCE.
02:48:13PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: CAN I HAVE THE HURRICANE PRESENTATION?
02:48:24PM ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
02:48:26PM AND, AGAIN, YOU SEE IDENTIFIED AS PUBLIC ASSISTANCE TO
02:48:33PM DIFFERENTIATE FROM MANY OTHER COMPONENTS OF FUNDING.
02:48:37PM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA ANNOUNCED THE COMMUNITY BLOCK GRANT FOR
02:48:42PM DISASTER RECOVERY WHICH IS IN PLAY RIGHT NOW.
02:48:44PM LITTLE OVER 700 MILLION, AS YOU STATED COUNCILMAN, TO
02:48:48PM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY.
02:48:48PM AND WE, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE COUNTY AND THE OTHER TWO
02:48:54PM MUNICIPALS -- MUNICIPALITY ARE TASKED WITH AN ACTION PLAN
02:49:03PM AND EARLY ON IN TERMS OF HOW IT IS GOING TO BE SPENT.
02:49:07PM THIS IS THE PUBLIC ASSISTANCE.
02:49:09PM REIMBURSEMENT TO THE LOCALITIES FOR -- FOR DAMAGE ASSOCIATED
02:49:13PM WITH THE HURRICANES.
02:49:14PM SO THAT IS WHY WE HAVE GONE OUT OF OUR WAY TO IDENTIFY IT AS
02:49:19PM WHAT WE AFFECTIONATELY CALL P.A.
02:49:22PM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT IS.
02:49:28PM CAN I GET THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
02:49:34PM THERE WE GO.
02:49:35PM THANK YOU.
02:49:36PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
02:49:37PM A QUICK REFRESH ON THE PROCESS.
02:49:43PM MANY, MANY PLAYERS.
02:49:44PM AND WILL TAKE A LEAD IN REVENUE AND FINANCE AND WITH THE
02:49:47PM PURCHASING DEPARTMENT.
02:49:48PM CONTRACTED WITH WHITT O'BRIAN, A WELL-KNOWN EXPERT CONTRACTOR
02:49:52PM IN THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT.
02:50:01PM SELECT MANAGERS AND MR. REMER, OUR SUSTAINABILITY AND
02:50:06PM RESILIENCY OFFICER WENT OUT OF THE WAY TO SAY THAT BECAUSE IT
02:50:15PM IS A WEB AND WILL BE MORE COMPLICATED WITH THE OTHER FUNDING
02:50:18PM SOURCES.
02:50:18PM WE ARE HAPPY TO HAVE THE MONEY BUT LITTLE COMPLEX WITH
02:50:22PM SEARCHING AND DISTRIBUTING THE FUNDING.
02:50:24PM REPAIR AND REMEDIATION OF CITY FACILITIES IS ONGOING.
02:50:28PM IT WILL KEEP ONGOING.
02:50:30PM GORILLA IN THE ROOM, I GUESS, WAS THE DEBRIS REMOVAL.
02:50:34PM EVERYBODY IS AWARE THAT WE DID A GREAT JOB.
02:50:38PM WE RECEIVED A GREAT DEAL OF FUNDING FOR THAT WHICH I WILL
02:50:41PM SHARE YOU WITH IN JUST A MOMENT, BUT BY NO MEANS WILL
02:50:44PM IT END FOR SOME TIME IF OUR EXPERIENCE IS ANY INDICATION.
02:50:48PM YOU MADE IT COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA WORKING CLOSELY WITH FEMA
02:50:54PM AND THE FDEM, THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY
02:50:59PM MANAGEMENT, AND MANY DIFFERENT PLAYERS AT SO MANY DIFFERENT
02:50:59PM LEVELS. AND WE HAVE DONE IT BEFORE.
02:51:03PM WE HAVE DONE IT BEFORE EITHER WITH PREVIOUS HURRICANE
02:51:07PM REIMBURSEMENTS AND DONE IT BEFORE WITH THE AMERICAN -- WHAT
02:51:11PM DOES IT STAND FOR, AMERICAN RECOVERY.
02:51:15PM WE CAN DO IT.
02:51:16PM WE ARE VERY ADEPT AT IT, BUT WE CAN DO IT AGAIN AND SOME OF
02:51:23PM IT IS REFRESHED FOR COUNCIL BUT FOR THE PUBLIC.
02:51:27PM WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN AND WITHIN OUR OWN PROTOCOLS AND
02:51:29PM POLICIES FROM A PROCUREMENT PERSPECTIVE.
02:51:32PM A LOT OF Ps IN THAT SENTENCE.
02:51:34PM BY AND LARGE, FEMA AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL LOOK AT
02:51:37PM YOU -- FIRST OF ALL, DID YOU ADHERE TO YOUR OWN POLICIES.
02:51:42PM IF YOU DID AND YOU DO, A BIG LEAP FORWARD CUTTING THROUGH
02:51:46PM RED TAPE AND RESISTANCE.
02:51:48PM YOU SEE WE HAVE IDENTIFIED -- MAYBE THIS IS PROBABLY MORE
02:51:51PM THAT BE YOU WANT TO KNOW.
02:51:53PM BUT YOU SEE HERE, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE LOCALIZE THE
02:51:57PM DAMAGE AND THE DOLLARS TO THE STORM WHEN WE CAN.
02:51:59PM HELENE AND MILTON HIT SO CLOSE TOGETHER THAT IT GOT A LITTLE
02:52:04PM -- IT GOT A LITTLE NEBULOUS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE -- WITH THE
02:52:08PM DEBRIS.
02:52:08PM BUT ALSO, YOU SEE HERE IN THAT LAST BULLET, WE DON'T WANT TO
02:52:12PM MUDDY UP OR INTERFERE WITH THE DEPARTMENT'S OPERATING
02:52:15PM BUDGETS.
02:52:15PM BECAUSE THE CITY IS STILL RUNNING, RIGHT.
02:52:18PM WE HAVE MISSIONS TO COMPLETE.
02:52:19PM SO WE KEEP IT SEPARATE AND APART FROM A ACCOUNTING
02:52:23PM PERSPECTIVE THAT ALSO ASSISTS US GREATLY WHEN INEVIDENTLY,
02:52:27PM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT COMES IN A YEAR OR TWO LATER AND
02:52:30PM AUDITS EVERYTHING WE DID AT THE STORM RECOVERY INCEPTION.
02:52:39PM NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
02:52:40PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH I SPECIFICALLY WON'T GO THROUGH THIS
02:52:46PM PARTICULAR SLIDE, BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU A FEEL FOR HOW
02:52:50PM COMPLEX AND COMPLICATED THIS PROCESS IS A LOT OF FUNDING.
02:52:57PM FEDERAL FUNDING FOR EVERY NUMBER OF LOCALITIES, CITIES,
02:53:03PM COUNTIES, STATE, ETC.
02:53:06PM GREAT SENSE OF BUREAUCRACY.
02:53:12PM A GREAT HISTORY AND WILL HAVE VERY GOOD TERMS WITH THIS.
02:53:16PM BUT THERE IS A LOT TO IT THAT WE INTENTIONALLY TRY TO KEEP
02:53:19PM IN THE BACKGROUND.
02:53:20PM AND IN TERMS OF COST SHARING.
02:53:25PM THE IDENTIFICATION OF COSTS.
02:53:27PM OF COURSE, YOU SEE THAT WE HAVE PROVIDED AND RECEIVED
02:53:30PM INITIAL DAMAGE ESTIMATES.
02:53:33PM WE CONTINUE TO UPDATE THOSE AS MORE INFORMATION BECOMES
02:53:36PM AVAILABLE.
02:53:37PM FEDERAL AND STATE REIMBURSEMENT INSURANCE CLAIMS AND THE
02:53:41PM LOCAL MATCH, WHICH I WILL GET INTO -- I WILL GET INTO RIGHT
02:53:45PM NOW, I GUESS, THIS TERMS OF THE COST SHARING.
02:53:48PM GENERALLY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL PROVIDE THREE
02:53:51PM QUARTERS, 75%.
02:53:52PM REMAINING 25% GENERALLY THE STATE WILL PROVIDE HALF OF THAT,
02:53:56PM WHICH LEAVES THE CITY ON THE LOOK HOOK FOR 12.5%.
02:54:01PM YOU SEE THE EXEMPTION, THE GLARING EXCEPTION.
02:54:04PM THE THANKFUL GLARING EXCEPTION IN TERMS OF DEBRIS REMOVAL
02:54:07PM 100% REIMBURSABLE.
02:54:10PM THAT IS A BIG PLUS.
02:54:12PM EMERGENCY PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR THAT FIRST 120 DAYS, THE
02:54:16PM FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WILL TAKE UP 100% OF THAT.
02:54:18PM AND YOU GET TO THAT 75/25 SPLIT.
02:54:23PM AND THE DAMAGED CITY INFRASTRUCTURE AT THE VERY BOTTOM.
02:54:26PM SO TYPICALLY BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE, THE CITY IS ALWAYS
02:54:30PM GOING TO HAVE TO FIND US SOMETHING.
02:54:32PM PART OF OUR JOB IS MITIGATING THAT "SOMETHING" IS GOING TO
02:54:37PM BE AND IF TRULY DOES TAKE EVERYONE'S INVOLVEMENT.
02:54:40PM NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
02:54:42PM I WILL GIVE THE FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY A GREAT
02:54:51PM DEAL OF CREDIT FOR PARTIAL PAYMENT YOU SEE HERE.
02:54:54PM WE HAVE REQUESTED THREE EXPEDITED PROJECTS.
02:54:57PM FIRST MILTON CATEGORY A DEBRIS.
02:55:01PM WE REQUESTED $60 MILLION.
02:55:04PM AND WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED NEARLY $30 MILLION.
02:55:06PM UNPRECEDENTED IN MY EXPERIENCE WORKING IN GOVERNMENT IN
02:55:10PM FLORIDA FOR LONGER THAN I WOULD CARE TO ADMIT.
02:55:12PM KUDOS TO THEM.
02:55:17PM THEY TURNED IT AROUND VERY, VERY FAST OPPOSED TO OWING US
02:55:22PM WHICH IS PRETTY MUCH HOW IT HAS GONE IN THE PAST.
02:55:24PM US HAVING TO FLOAT THE MONEY.
02:55:30PM THEY GAVE US COLD HARD EARNED CASH.
02:55:34PM KUDOS TO THEM IN AND MILTON WITH CATEGORY B, REQUESTED 10
02:55:39PM MILLION AND WE HAVEN'T GOT ANYTHING LEFT, AND HELENE
02:55:44PM CATEGORY B.
02:55:45PM GREAT A BIT OF TURN-AROUND TIME.
02:55:50PM I DON'T KNOW IF THEY INTEND TO DEDICATE THAT TEMPLATE.
02:55:56PM THEY VIEW IT AS VERY SUCCESSFUL.
02:55:58PM TIME WILL TELL IF THEY WILL TURN AROUND THESE OTHER REQUESTS
02:56:01PM AS FAST BUT WE HAVE $29 MILLION.
02:56:08PM THE NEXT BULLET, CONSTANT COMMUNICATION WITH FEMA.
02:56:12PM WE HAD OUR EXPLORATORY KNOWN CALLS SHORTLY AFTER THE
02:56:16PM HURRICANES.
02:56:16PM THE RECOVERY SCOPING MEETINGS AND THEY WILL COME DOWN NEXT
02:56:23PM MONTH AND VISIT WITH CITY STAFF IN THEIR ENTIRETY.
02:56:26PM THEY ARE COMING DOWN LOOKING AT OUR INFORMATION ALREADY, BUT
02:56:30PM NEED TO PUT THEIR EYES ON EVERYTHING -- TO THE AS LEAST A
02:56:33PM GOOD SAMPLING OF EVERYTHING THAT WHICH SUBMITTED TO THEM
02:56:38PM THAT IS DAMAGED.
02:56:38PM NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
02:56:40PM HERE WE GO INTO THE COLD HARD NUMBERS AS TO THE END OF LAST
02:56:46PM MONTH.
02:56:47PM YOU SEE HERE, WHEN WE USE THE $14 MILLION IN OUR EMERGENCY
02:56:51PM RESERVES, OKAY.
02:56:52PM THAT WAS THE $7 MILLION LAST YEAR AND THE $7 MILLION THIS
02:56:57PM YEAR.
02:56:57PM FEMA AND FDEP REIMBURSEMENT FOR BUDGETING, $92-PLUS MILLION.
02:57:04PM YOU SEE THE ACTUAL, IT IS ABOUT A THIRD OF THAT.
02:57:07PM WELL, MUCH LIKE FINANCING AND PROJECTS AND CONSTRUCTION,
02:57:12PM REIMBURSEMENT FOR DESTRUCTION ALSO TAKES TIME.
02:57:15PM AND SOME OF THIS IS SIMPLY A PROJECTION OF WHEN THESE
02:57:20PM REIMBURSEMENTS WILL HAPPEN.
02:57:21PM WHEN WE WILL ACTUALLY HAVE TO FLOAT CASH OPPOSED TO
02:57:24PM BUDGETING WHAT WE THINK WILL HAVE TO MAKE DUE WITH.
02:57:27PM AND YOU SEE A TOTAL OVER $106 MILLION.
02:57:31PM BUT LITTLE LESS THAN HALF OF THAT IN ACTUALS RIGHT NOW.
02:57:38PM YOU SEE AT THE BOTTOM WE ARE FLOATING.
02:57:40PM FLOATING $10 MILLIONISH.
02:57:42PM AT THE VERY BOTTOM, EXCUSE ME, $22 MILLION OF PURCHASE
02:57:47PM ORDERS OUTSTANDING.
02:57:48PM SO WE WILL BE FLOATING TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WHICH IS
02:57:56PM NOT UNANTICIPATED AND MANY LOCALITIES ARE DOING THE SAME
02:57:59PM THING.
02:58:00PM YOU HEARD ME MENTION BEFORE AND READ THAT THE CITY OF ST.
02:58:02PM PETE, FOR INSTANCE, TOOK OUT A 50 ODD MILLION DOLLAR LOAN
02:58:06PM IN LIEU OF FLOATING THE $50 ODD MILLION DOLLARS.
02:58:11PM STILL AT THIS TIME, WE STILL DO NOT ANTICIPATE THAT WE WILL
02:58:14PM NEED TO FINANCE THIS.
02:58:15PM WE HAVE THE LIQUIDITY, AGAIN.
02:58:18PM ANOTHER REASON FOR A VERY, VERY STRONG.
02:59:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE INVOICES THAT WE ARE EXPECTING TO
02:59:31PM COLLECT.
02:59:31PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THEY.
02:59:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOT A $10 MILLION SHORTFALL THAT IS
02:59:35PM ANTICIPATED.
02:59:43PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE ARE SAYING THE SAME
02:59:46PM THING.
02:59:46PM I HAVE NO IDEA.
03:00:41PM IT -- IS IT A CONCERN?
03:00:46PM ABSOLUTELY.
03:00:46PM AS YOU HEARD MANY TIMES.
03:00:48PM WHAT I CAN SAY IS FEDERAL AND DISMANTLING THAT ORGANIZATION
03:01:07PM IN ITS ENTIRELY.
03:01:08PM I COULDN'T -- I COULDN'T TELL YOU WHETHER THAT MEANS ALSO
03:01:11PM DISMANTLING OR GETTING RID OF ALL REIMBURSEMENT FUNDING
03:01:21PM ASSOCIATED WITH IT FROM WHAT ITSELF MAY BE VIEWED BY SOME AS
03:01:28PM UNNECESSARY DURING THE REIMBURSEMENT MONEY.
03:01:35PM BUT.
03:01:50PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LIKE AT THOSE NUMBERS AND I CAN'T REALIZE
03:01:55PM COME WE ARE NOT GETTING SOME DAYCARE WOMEN YOU WITH PUT IN
03:02:02PM MUCH MORE.
03:02:02PM >> ASKED TO RECOVER FOR CDBG.
03:03:03PM THAT IS ALSO POTENTIALLY VULNERABLE FROM A FEDERAL
03:03:06PM PERSPECTIVE.
03:03:06PM WE JUST DON'T KNOW WITH THE COUNTY AND THE OTHER
03:03:20PM MUNICIPALITIES, WE ARE --
03:03:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THE FUNDS FROM MILTON.
03:03:44PM BASICALLY NEED TO TAKE $14 MILLION OUT OF THAT.
03:05:11PM >> SO TO GET US TO THE 23%.
03:05:13PM THAT IS --
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3:08:48PM >>LUIS VIERA: -- VERSUS THE CITY OF TAMPA.
3:08:51PM I WOULD SAY, THOUGH, THAT WITH ANY FUNDS WE GET THAT
3:08:53PM MOBILITY TALK TO COUNCIL MEMBERS BECAUSE WE, JUST LIKE
3:08:58PM OBVIOUSLY LIKE THE MAYOR, WE KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR
3:09:01PM OWN COMMUNITIES AND ESPECIALLY, AGAIN, CITYWIDE AS WELL AS
3:09:05PM DISTRICT PEOPLE, BUT ESPECIALLY DISTRICT FOLKS.
3:09:08PM I THINK THAT'S SO IMPORTANT IN TERMS OF HOW YOU'RE GOING TO
3:09:11PM USE THOSE FUNDS AND IDEAS FROM US.
3:09:15PM AGAIN, WE KNOW WHAT WE HEAR FROM PEOPLE.
3:09:17PM AND THERE ARE OBJECTIVE FINDINGS THAT PEOPLE IN MOBILITY
3:09:21PM OBVIOUSLY HAVE, BUT ALSO I THINK WHAT YOU HEAR FROM THE
3:09:23PM COMMUNITY IS ALSO VERY, VERY IMPORTANT AS WELL.
3:09:26PM AND, YES, MA'AM, YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING.
3:09:32PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED A LIST OF WHERE IT'S
3:09:34PM GOING.
3:09:34PM THEY DECIDED THAT FOR US.
3:09:35PM I FORWARDED IT TO YOU ALL WHEN I GOT IT FROM THE TPO.
3:09:39PM BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE ANY RULE TO ARGUE.
3:09:43PM >>LUIS VIERA: LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, I DID SEE THAT, BECAUSE I
3:09:46PM SAW THAT THERE WAS A PORTION OF, I THINK IT WAS BRUCE B.
3:09:48PM DOWNS -- STRIKE THAT, ON BRUCE B. DOWNS, FOWLER TO BEARSS.
3:09:56PM I WAS GOING TO SEE IF ANY OF THAT, THAT WAS KIND OF MY WAY
3:10:00PM OF SEEING IF THAT COULD BE REVISITED.
3:10:05PM THINGS I'M HEARING IN NEW TAMPA AND NORTH TAMPA, IT IS NOT
3:10:10PM THAT SECTION THEY ARE LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF DISTRICT 7.
3:10:13PM UNFORTUNATELY, AGAIN, I DO WISH WE WOULD HAVE BEEN TALKED TO
3:10:18PM ON THINGS LIKE THAT.
3:10:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: TALK TO YOUR STATE LEGISLATOR.
3:10:22PM >>LUIS VIERA: I KNOW.
3:10:22PM BELIEVE YOU ME.
3:10:23PM BUT IN TERMS OF WHERE THOSE FUNDS, AGAIN, TO THE EXTENT THAT
3:10:26PM FUNDS ARE GOING TO GO TO THE CITY OF TAMPA, RIGHT, THAT WE
3:10:30PM CAN BE A PART OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
3:10:32PM I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, IN TERMS OF WITH THE
3:10:34PM ADMINISTRATION, MOBILITY AND SO FORTH.
3:10:36PM BUT AGAIN, GOING BEYOND WHAT YOU ARE HERE FOR, BUT BRINGING
3:10:39PM UP THAT ISSUE AS A SIDE ISSUE.
3:10:40PM I SAW THAT LIST AND I WAS LIKE, WHAT?
3:10:43PM I MEAN, I HEAR ABOUT ROADS ALL THE TIME AND NORTH TAMPA AND
3:10:47PM 30th IS BEING DONE, NORTH BOULEVARD IS BEING DONE, BUT NEW
3:10:50PM TAMPA BOULEVARD, FINISHING OFF TAMPA PALMS BOULEVARD, NOT
3:10:54PM BEING TOUCHED THERE.
3:10:55PM THE AMOUNT OF DISCONNECT IS GREAT.
3:11:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DOES THAT COMPLETE 87 AND GO TO 86?
3:11:11PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE GAP, CLEARLY WE'VE HAD THE
3:11:14PM EXPENDITURES FOR THE HURRICANES, ALL THE EXPENDITURES,
3:11:20PM FUNDING THIS, WAITING FOR THE REIMBURSEMENT.
3:11:23PM ARE WE ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL?
3:11:27PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, IF I COULD ADD A LITTLE DETAIL
3:11:30PM ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
3:11:31PM AGAIN, I'M OVERSIMPLIFYING A LITTLE BIT.
3:11:38PM AGAIN, THIS IS ONE OF THE STRENGTHS OF HAVING SUCH A FIRM
3:11:42PM FUND BALANCE.
3:11:43PM WE WILL, FOR INSTANCE, DEBRIS REMOVAL.
3:11:47PM WE WILL PULL FUNDING AS APPLICABLE FROM NON-GENERAL FUND
3:11:51PM FUNDS.
3:11:52PM BUT WITH THAT STRONG FUND BALANCE AND OUR LIQUIDITY, WE CAN
3:11:55PM AFFORD TO SIMPLY FLOAT THESE EXPENDITURES AS OPPOSED TO,
3:12:00PM AGAIN, FINANCING AND INCURRING THE INTEREST EXPENSE
3:12:04PM ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
3:12:05PM WILL IT COST US -- I'M SORRY.
3:12:07PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW LONG CAN WE KEEP THAT UP BEFORE IT
3:12:10PM ACTUALLY STARTS HURTING?
3:12:12PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: IN OUR PROJECTIONS, SO FAR IT HASN'T
3:12:15PM REACHED THAT IT WILL START HURTING PART YET BECAUSE OF THE
3:12:17PM TIMING OF THE EXPENSES AND, AGAIN, IT'S A BIT OF AN EDUCATED
3:12:22PM GUESS, THE ANTICIPATED TIME FRAME OF THE REIMBURSEMENT.
3:12:26PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO WE GO INTO HURRICANE SEASON, WE HAVE A
3:12:28PM HURRICANE IN SEPTEMBER AND WE STILL HAVEN'T GOTTEN
3:12:31PM REIMBURSEMENTS, IT'S GOING TO START HURTING.
3:12:34PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: SAY AGAIN.
3:12:36PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SAY WE HAVE ANOTHER HURRICANE IN
3:12:37PM SEPTEMBER.
3:12:38PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES.
3:12:39PM I IMAGINE, AGAIN, DEPENDING ON THE SEVERITY OF THE HURRICANE
3:12:42PM AND THE DAMAGE, WE MAY REACH THAT TIPPING POINT THAT YOU
3:12:45PM DESCRIBE.
3:12:45PM OF COURSE, IF WE DO, OR IF OUR PROJECTIONS SHOW THAT WE
3:12:49PM WILL, WE'LL BRING IT TO THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL'S ATTENTION.
3:12:52PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OKAY, THANK YOU.
3:12:53PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
3:12:54PM ITEM 86, THE LAST ITEM OF THE DAY.
3:12:56PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: 86, THAT IS THE $500,000, WE WOULD
3:13:01PM RECOMMEND THE MOST EXPEDIENT FORM OF FUNDING WOULD BE FROM
3:13:05PM THIS FUND BALANCE FROM FISCAL YEAR '24.
3:13:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: VERY GOOD.
3:13:09PM DO YOU NEED AN OFFICIAL MOTION?
3:13:11PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: I BELIEVE WE DO.
3:13:12PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK.
3:13:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'LL MOVE THE HALF MILLION TO GO FROM THIS --
3:13:20PM FROM THE UNUSED GENERAL FUND BALANCE FROM FISCAL YEAR 2024
3:13:24PM TO GO TOWARDS STORMWATER FOR PREPARATION FOR THIS YEAR'S
3:13:28PM RAINY SEASON.
3:13:29PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
3:13:32PM HURTAK, SECOND FROM CLENDENIN.
3:13:33PM ALL IN FAVOR?
3:13:33PM AYE.
3:13:35PM ANY OPPOSED?
3:13:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WHAT ARE OUR NEXT STEPS?
3:13:41PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: OUR NEXT STEPS, I THINK WOULD BE TO, FIRST,
3:13:44PM DIGEST THIS INFORMATION.
3:13:45PM WE REALLY TRIED TO -- AND I APOLOGIZE, AND YOU CAN CERTAINLY
3:13:50PM GIVE ME FEEDBACK IF WE'VE GOTTEN TOO DETAILED, BUT I DID
3:13:55PM WANT COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC TO SEE THE ENTIRETY OF THE
3:13:57PM PICTURE AS OPPOSED TO SIMPLE REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES AND
3:13:59PM THINGS LIKE THAT.
3:14:00PM I THINK THE NEXT STEP IS TO DIGEST THIS INFORMATION AND THEN
3:14:06PM COME BACK AND PRIORITIZE HOW YOU'D LIKE TO ALLOCATE THIS
3:14:11PM FUND BALANCE AND THEN WE CAN MAKE IT.
3:14:14PM WHAT YOU WON'T SEE CHANGE, AGAIN, BARRING ANY EXTERNAL
3:14:19PM AUDITOR ACTION, IS THAT TWO HUNDRED TWO POINT TWO MILLION
3:14:21PM DOLLAR FIGURE, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR US BECAUSE THAT'S
3:14:26PM GOING TO BE NICE AND CONSISTENT, WHAT EVERYBODY IS GOING TO
3:14:27PM SEE IN THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
3:14:29PM AGAIN, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE FOR THE 23%,
3:14:34PM IN WHICH CASE, AGAIN, IT IS THE 26 -- AND THE OBLIGATIONS
3:14:39PM THAT ARE REALLY NON-DISCRETIONARY.
3:14:41PM THE NEXT STEPS FOR ME WOULD BE TO DIGEST THE INFORMATION AND
3:14:44PM PRIORITIZE WHERE COUNCIL THINKS THIS FUNDING SHOULD BE SET
3:14:47PM ASIDE.
3:14:48PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION ABOUT REPLENISHING
3:14:51PM THIS EMERGENCY FUND.
03:14:56PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES.
03:14:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SO NORMALLY AN EMERGENCY FUND IS SORT OF LIKE
03:15:02PM A RAINY DAY FUND.
03:15:03PM AND FOR ONE FISCAL YEAR TO THE NEXT, WE KIND OF FLOAT IT,
03:15:06PM THE SAME $7 MILLION.
03:15:07PM BUT IN THIS CASE, WE COULDN'T FLOAT THE $7 MILLION BECAUSE
03:15:12PM WE USE IT FOR HELENE AND DEBBIE AND SO WE INCURRED AN EXTRA
03:15:17PM $7 MILLION.
03:15:17PM IF WE ARE PAYING OURSELVES BACK FOR THIS, WE WILL THEN --
03:15:22PM WOULD WE HAVE AN EMERGENCY FUND BALANCE FOR HURRICANES OF
03:15:26PM $14 MILLION?
03:15:27PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THIS WOULD NET TO, IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN,
03:15:32PM SEVEN.
03:15:32PM WILL GET BACK TO THE BASELINE SEVEN THAT WE HISTORICALLY
03:15:36PM ESTABLISHED.
03:15:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: JUST WANTED TO --
03:15:39PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: AN EXCELLENT QUESTION THAT I WISH TO
03:15:42PM CLARIFY THAT.
03:15:43PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MY ONLY QUESTION ABOUT THAT IS -- AN
03:15:49PM EXISTENTIAL QUESTION.
03:15:50PM $7 MILLION ENOUGH, BUT CAN WE MOVE IT TO $10 MILLION?
03:15:55PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: IT IS A QUESTION.
03:15:57PM THE ONLY THING I CAN GUARANTEE BASED ON THE SEVERITY OF THE
03:16:01PM STORM, IT WILL BE INADEQUATE.
03:16:03PM IT WILL BE NOTHING AND DEPENDING ON THE SEVERITY OF THE
03:16:07PM STORM, THE $7 MILLION AND THEN $20 MILLION OVER THE 20%
03:16:11PM POLICY.
03:16:12PM IS THAT ADEQUATE?
03:16:14PM IT IS ANYBODY'S GUESS.
03:16:15PM COULD WE CRANK IT UP TO 10, WE ABSOLUTELY COULD.
03:16:19PM IT IS SUCH A BIG X FACTOR WE DON'T KNOW.
03:16:24PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MY QUESTION IS HOW DO WE ARRIVE AT 7 TO BEGIN
03:16:28PM WITH.
03:16:28PM IS THAT A NUMBER THAT HANDLES THE OVERTIME FOR THE EMPLOYEES
03:16:33PM AND THE COST OF PULLING -- I KNOW WE HAVE TO PULL DIFFERENT
03:16:35PM TRAILERS AND DO THIS AND THAT.
03:16:37PM IS THAT HOW WE ENDED UP WITH THE $7 MILLION?
03:16:41PM OR JUST ARBITRARY.
03:16:42PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: AT ONE TIME IT WAS BASED ON EXACTLY HOW YOU
03:16:45PM DESCRIBED.
03:16:45PM WE DID HAVE A LONG TIMEFRAME OF NO STORMS.
03:16:48PM SO IT JUST KIND OF TOOK ON A LIFE OF ITS OWN.
03:16:51PM FROM AN OUTSIDE -- FROM AN OUTSIDER PERSPECTIVE WHETHER IT
03:16:56PM IS CREDIT RATING AGENCY, INVESTORS.
03:16:58PM THEY DO LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING SET ASIDE FOR EMERGENCIES AND
03:17:02PM TYPICALLY WHEN WE SAY EMERGENCIES HERE, WE MEAN HURRICANES.
03:17:05PM AND -- DOES IT CARRY AS MUCH WEIGHT AS THAT 23%?
03:17:10PM NO, IT DOESN'T, BUT NICE TO SEE THAT WE HAVE -- THAT THE
03:17:13PM CITY HAS THE FORETHOUGHT TO SET ASIDE SOMETHING FOR STORMS,
03:17:16PM WHETHER THAT THE RIGHT FIGURE.
03:17:19PM ABOUT ALL I CAN TELL YOU IS PROBABLY THE WRONG FIGURE, BUT I
03:17:22PM COULD TELL YOU WHAT THE RIGHT ONE IS.
03:17:24PM NEBULOUS.
03:17:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: KNOWING THAT AT ONE TIME WAS BALANCED ON THE
03:17:31PM ACTUAL COSTS OF THOSE PERSONNEL AND THE POLLING OF THE
03:17:34PM SPECIFIC THINGS WE NEED.
03:17:35PM IS THERE A WAY THAT YOU KNOW, OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS
03:17:41PM WE CAN FIND WHAT THAT NUMBER MIGHT BE?
03:17:43PM I THINK THAT WOULD BE A REALLY GOOD EXERCISE OVERALL,
03:17:46PM BECAUSE AS YOU SAID, WE HAVEN'T HAD THESE STORMS, BUT I
03:17:49PM WOULD LOVE TO AT LEAST MAKE SURE WE CAN AT LEAST PAY OUR
03:17:52PM PEOPLE WHO WILL BE GOING THROUGH THESE HORRIFIC THINGS AND
03:17:55PM DOING THE COURAGEOUS WORK OF BEING ON THE FRONT LINES.
03:17:59PM I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE CAN AT LEAST PAY THEM AND MAKE SURE
03:18:02PM THEY CAN EAT, SHOWER AND DO ALL THOSE THINGS AND HAVE POWER
03:18:05PM WHILE THEY DO IT.
03:18:06PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, THANK YOU.
03:18:07PM WE WILL RUN THAT TO GROUND.
03:18:09PM THAT WILL BE AN INTERESTING EXERCISE.
03:18:11PM JUST TO CLARIFY, OF COURSE, WHEN WE RUN OUT OF THE 7, WE
03:18:15PM WILL TAKE IT FROM THE OTHER FUND BALANCE.
03:18:17PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SURE.
03:18:18PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THAT WILL BE INFORMATIVE.
03:18:19PM WE WILL RUN IT.
03:18:20PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I APPRECIATE IT.
03:18:22PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
03:18:23PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ON THE $500,000 ANNUALLY FOR STORMWATER
03:18:28PM SUPPORT AND DITCH GRADING.
03:18:30PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THIS IS A ONE-TIME --
03:18:34PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: SAYS ANNUALLY.
03:18:35PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ONE TIME FOR THIS YEAR.
03:18:38PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ONE TIME FOR THIS YEAR.
03:18:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SAID ANNUALLY.
03:18:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YEAH, I WOULD LOVE -- I THINK WE NEED MORE
03:18:44PM THAN $500,000 ANNUALLY.
03:18:46PM WE WERE TALKING OF $500,000 TO BE USED --
03:18:49PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: TO CATCH UP.
03:18:50PM >>LYNN HURTAK: TO CATCH UP.
03:18:51PM MY INTENT IS NOT ANNUALLY.
03:18:53PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT IS ANNUALLY.
03:18:55PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WELL THEN, SO BE IT.
03:18:57PM I THINK WE ARE GOING TO NEED MORE.
03:19:00PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO IT IS WRITTEN AT THIS TIME AND CAN
03:19:02PM ALWAYS BE CHANGED IN THE FUTURE DOING LESS OR MORE.
03:19:06PM AND RIGHT-SIZING.
03:19:07PM HAVING BEEN INVOLVED IN BUDGETS IN THE FEDERAL SECTOR AND
03:19:11PM DOING THINGS LIKE THIS.
03:19:11PM A LOT OF TIME THIS TYPE OF FUNDING -- WITH THAT TYPE OF A
03:19:15PM LEVEL, COUNCIL FOLKS KNOW OVERTIME IS USUALLY A REALLY GOOD
03:19:19PM WAY OF ACCOMPLISHING ESPECIALLY FOR THE SEASONAL TYPE OF
03:19:22PM ACTIVITY EITHER THROUGH CONTRACTS KNOWING THAT THAT MAY BE
03:19:25PM THE BEST USE OF THIS IS PROVIDING OVERTIME OR HIRING
03:19:29PM TEMPORARY HELP JUST SO -- YOU HAVE SAID FIGURE OUT A WAY TO
03:19:33PM USE THAT MONEY.
03:19:33PM I THINK THAT IS HOW --
03:19:38PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES, SIR, COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:19:39PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HE IS RIGHT WE HAVE THE EXPERTISE AND YOU
03:19:42PM CAN DO IT QUICKER THAN WHEN WE LOAN IT OUT TO SOMEONE ELSE,
03:19:46PM FARM IT OUT.
03:19:46PM A HIGHER RETURN AND PAYING MORE BECAUSE IT WILL BE DONE MORE
03:19:49PM EFFICIENT AND MORE QUICKLY, BECAUSE PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW WHAT
03:19:52PM THEY ARE DOING.
03:19:53PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH OF THOSE PEOPLE IS THE
03:19:58PM PROBLEM.
03:19:58PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I UNDERSTAND.
03:19:59PM I WILL VOLUNTEER BOTH OF YOU.
03:20:01PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ONLY IF I CAN WEAR A SPEEDO.
03:20:04PM [LAUGHTER]
03:20:06PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: WOW, LOOK AT THE TIME.
03:20:08PM [GAVEL SOUNDING]
03:20:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THAT GETS A GAVEL.
03:20:12PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: MR. CHAIR, IF I CAN POSTSCRIPT -- NOT THE
03:20:15PM LAST COMMENT, BUT A COUPLE OF COMMENTS BEFORE.
03:20:18PM SHOULD COUNCIL DECIDE THEY WANT THAT $500,000 TO BE
03:20:22PM RECURRING OR RECURRING NOW AND YOU DON'T WANT IT TO BE
03:20:25PM RECURRING, WE CAN ADDRESS THAT AS PART OF FISCAL '26 BUDGET.
03:20:29PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:20:31PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I PREFER IT TO BE ON A YEARLY BASIS.
03:20:35PM BY UNDERSTAND WHY, BUT WE MAY NOT HAVE THOSE YEARS AT
03:20:39PM $500,000 THAT CAN BE USED FOR SOMEWHERE ELSE.
03:20:41PM I WILL SAY DO IT YEARLY OR AS NEEDED.
03:20:46PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: FAIR ENOUGH.
03:20:47PM THANK YOU, MR. ROGERO FOR A WONDERFUL REPORT.
03:20:51PM YOU AND MR. PERRY IS HERE.
03:20:53PM ALWAYS SUPER PROFESSIONAL.
03:20:55PM >>DENNIS ROGERO: MY OUTRO.
03:20:59PM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
03:21:00PM APPRECIATE IT.
03:21:03PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NEW BUSINESS.
03:21:05PM MR. MIRANDA.
03:21:05PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WILL TAKE THREE.
03:21:07PM I WILL TAKE MR. VIERA'S SPOT TODAY.
03:21:09PM MAKE A COMMENDATION TO THE TAMPA WATER DEPARTMENT THURSDAY
03:21:11PM APRIL 3, 2025.
03:21:13PM IT IS -- IT IS OF THE UTILITIES AND SECTION OF THE AMERICAN
03:21:17PM WATER WORKS ASSOCIATION PROCLAIMING APRIL AS CONSERVATION
03:21:21PM WATER MONTH.
03:21:22PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND.
03:21:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM --
03:21:28PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: COUNTY COMMISSION?
03:21:29PM NO, COUNCIL MEMBER.
03:21:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA AND
03:21:34PM SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
03:21:35PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WINNERS AND FINALISTS OF AMERICAN
03:21:40PM LEGION ORATORICAL CONTEST.
03:21:43PM THE DELIVERY OF THE YOUNG ARE THE VALUES THAT ARE SET FORTH
03:21:48PM IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE AWARENESS
03:21:50PM AND THE RESPONSIBILITY INCUMBENT TO EACH CITIZEN, THE
03:21:53PM EXERCISE OF PROTECTED RIGHTS.
03:21:55PM I WOULD LIKE THIS PRESENTATION TO BE MADE PRIOR TO THE START
03:21:57PM OF THE EVENING APRIL 10, 2025.
03:21:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
03:22:02PM MIRANDA.
03:22:02PM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:22:04PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:22:05PM OPPOSED?
03:22:06PM YES, SIR, ANYTHING ELSE.
03:22:07PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: LIKE FOR A COMMENDATION TO THE TAMPA
03:22:11PM WATER DEPARTMENT APRIL 17 FOR PROCLAIMING MAY 4-10, 2025 AS
03:22:15PM DRINKING WATER WEEK.
03:22:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:22:21PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:22:23PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:22:24PM OPPOSED.
03:22:25PM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:22:26PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
03:22:27PM COUPLE OF QUICK ONES IF I MAY.
03:22:29PM WRITTEN REPORT ON APRIL 3, MOTION FOR A WRITTEN STAFF REPORT
03:22:33PM ON THE CROSSWALK IMPROVEMENTS.
03:22:35PM ANY CROSSWALK IMPROVEMENTS INCLUDE A FLASHING LIGHT AND
03:22:38PM REPAINTED CROSSWALK STRIPING ACROSS TAMPA PALMS BOULEVARD AT
03:22:43PM BRUCE B. DOWNS NEAR PUBLIX TO ENHANCE PEDESTRIAN SAFETY AND
03:22:48PM SIMILAR IMPROVEMENTS ON TAMPA PALMS BOULEVARD.
03:22:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:22:53PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:22:54PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:22:55PM OPPOSED?
03:22:56PM >>LUIS VIERA: I WILL ASKED TO GIVE A COMMENDATION TO PAINT
03:22:58PM YOUR HEART OUT ON MAY 18.
03:23:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:23:02PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN.
03:23:04PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:23:04PM OPPOSED?
03:23:06PM >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT, A LOT OF YOU ALL KNOW KAREN CLAY, A
03:23:10PM WONDERFUL LADY.
03:23:10PM CONGRESSWOMAN KATHY CASTOR INVITED HER TO BE TO THE STATE OF
03:23:16PM UNION OR ADDRESS TO CONGRESS, WHATEVER THE HELL THAT WAS, BY
03:23:19PM THE WAY.
03:23:19PM SHE WENT AND SHE IS A REALLY GOOD LADY AND STARTING UP A
03:23:24PM 501-C-3 TO DEAL WITH PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES.
03:23:27PM I WANTED TO INVITE KAREN FOR A FIVE-MINUTE PRESENTATION JUST
03:23:31PM FOR HER TO TELL FOLKS WHAT HER 501-C-3 IS ALL ABOUT ON MAY
03:23:35PM 15.
03:23:35PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AND DO WE HAVE A SECOND.
03:23:37PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I CAN SECOND THAT.
03:23:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:23:44PM OPPOSED?
03:23:45PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, COUNCIL.
03:23:47PM FOUR AND FIVE, I MENTIONED HOUSING FUNDS AND $3.5 MILLION
03:23:51PM THAT WE WILL BE -- THAT WE WILL BE SEEN GOING OUT TO
03:23:53PM COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND THE END OF THIS MONTH, I WANTED A
03:23:57PM REPORT -- JUST WRITTEN -- ON APRIL 3, WHICH IS -- WHICH IS
03:24:01PM NUMBER ONE, HOW MUCH OF THOSE FUNDS ARE GOING TO BE LEFT.
03:24:04PM AND NUMBER TWO, AN INQUIRY ON WHERE WE CAN POTENTIALLY GET
03:24:09PM ADDITIONAL FUNDS.
03:24:10PM WE TALKED ABOUT THE FUND WE TALKED ABOUT TODAY.
03:24:12PM AND NUMBER TWO, WE CAN ALSO TALK ABOUT EXISTING HOUSING
03:24:16PM FUNDS AND SO FORTH THAT CAN BE GEARED TOWARD THAT.
03:24:18PM JUST AN INQUIRY FROM STAFF OF WHERE POTENTIALLY -- SO WE CAN
03:24:21PM BE FULLY INFORMED.
03:24:22PM AND APRIL 3 IS A GOOD DATE BECAUSE A WEEK AFTER THE PROGRAM
03:24:26PM BEGINS.
03:24:26PM I BELIEVE IT IS.
03:24:27PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION AN A SECOND.
03:24:32PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
03:24:34PM >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S IT, COUNCIL.
03:24:36PM I WAS TALKING TO MR. SHELBY OFF-LINE OF DOING ONE ON AFT AND
03:24:44PM SEE WHAT MOVEMENT COUNCIL HAS ON ANY OF THOSE FUNDS.
03:24:46PM LET ME GET THE LANGUAGE DOWN AND I WILL MAKE IT LATER.
03:24:48PM THANK YOU FOR THAT.
03:24:49PM A GOOD IDEA.
03:24:51PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
03:24:52PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
03:24:53PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, CHAIR.
03:24:54PM FIRST OF ALL, I WOULD LIKE TO RATIFY AND CONFIRM THE LETTER
03:24:57PM WRITTEN ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF TAMPA IN THE PASSING OF
03:25:01PM RANDOLPH THEATRE AS MYERS JR. COMMISSIONER MYERS, GWEN MYERS'
03:25:09PM HUSBAND.
03:25:10PM AND I WROTE IT ON OUR BEHALF AND IT WAS NOT CLEAR.
03:25:13PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOTION AND A SECOND.
03:25:15PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I GAVE YOU A COPY OF THAT.
03:25:16PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:25:18PM YES, MA'AM, ANYTHING ELSE?
03:25:21PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YES, THERE IS SOMETHING ELSE.
03:25:23PM FIRST I WOULD LIKE TO ASK HURTAK FOR SOMETHING FIRST BEFORE
03:25:28PM I -- WE -- OUR MAY WORKSHOP, WE ARE TO DISCUSS -- WE CAN
03:25:34PM ONLY DO FIVE THINGS, RIGHT.
03:25:36PM ONE OF THEM THAT IS ON THERE IS CITY COUNCIL SALARIES, AND
03:25:40PM THAT WAS YOURS.
03:25:41PM IF THAT CAN MOVE IT TO SEPTEMBER, WILL PROVIDE ME AN
03:25:44PM OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THIS DIGITAL SIGN MATTER.
03:25:47PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL LET YOU MOVE IT.
03:25:49PM I THINK I DID IT JUST BECAUSE I WAS THERE.
03:25:51PM BUT I KNOW YOU KIND OF SPEARHEADED THAT SO GO FOR IT.
03:25:55PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I APPRECIATE IT.
03:25:56PM I MOVE THAT WE CHANGE THE -- THE COUNCIL SALARIES DISCUSSION
03:26:00PM TO THE SEPTEMBER 2025 MEETING AN LEAVING ROOM FOR DIGITAL
03:26:04PM SIGNS WORKSHOP IN MAY.
03:26:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
03:26:09PM SECONDED FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
03:26:10PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:26:11PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: QUESTION IF I CAN.
03:26:15PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO QUESTIONS RIGHT NOW.
03:26:16PM AN IMPORTANT QUESTION.
03:26:18PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION.
03:26:19PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHAT IS THE LEGAL QUESTION.
03:26:21PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: THE LEGAL QUESTION IS DID YOU ACTUALLY ADD
03:26:23PM THE WORKSHOP FOR THE DIGITAL SIGNS OR IS IT ALREADY ON
03:26:27PM THERE?
03:26:28PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I MADE IT IN THE MOTION.
03:26:29PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: ONE IN THE MOTION.
03:26:31PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THE SALARY ONE AND REPLACE IT --
03:26:34PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BECAUSE WE ALREADY ARE FIVE.
03:26:35PM YOU ARE THROWING ME OFF, MR. SHELBY.
03:26:38PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU ARE THROWING ME OFF, COUNCIL.
03:26:40PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I FOLLOWED THE RULES BECAUSE FIVE.
03:26:42PM I ASKED HURTAK IN ADVANCE IF WE CAN MOVE ONE AND THEN MADE
03:26:46PM THE MOTION.
03:26:47PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: JUST SO YOU ARE CLEAR.
03:26:49PM THERE IS NO -- I WILL DOUBLE CHECK, NO WORD OF THE NUMBER OF
03:26:54PM WORKSHOPS, BUT WHAT NEEDS TO BE IN THE FOUR HOURS.
03:26:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THERE IS.
03:27:00PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: SAYS FIVE ITEMS.
03:27:02PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I NEED TO PROCEED.
03:27:04PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MY APOLOGIES.
03:27:05PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BECAUSE I HAVE A LOT AND THIS IS -- THIS
03:27:08PM IS A BIG DEAL FOR ME.
03:27:09PM NOW YOU KIND OF JUST THREW ME OFF A LITTLE BIT.
03:27:13PM OKAY, THAT PART.
03:27:14PM AND THEN I NEED TO -- FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU
03:27:17PM TO MY WONDERFUL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA SENIOR INTERN,
03:27:23PM ALEX.
03:27:24PM SHE TRANSCRIBED EVERYTHING THAT I SAID AT THE MEETING
03:27:27PM JANUARY 28, BECAUSE IT KEPT COMING BACK TO ME THROUGH MY
03:27:31PM LEGISLATIVE AIDE, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON
03:27:36PM WANTS.
03:27:36PM I HIGHLIGHTED SOME THINGS I WAS VERY CLEAR ABOUT REGARDING
03:27:40PM THE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT AND DIGITAL SIGNS.
03:27:43PM OKAY.
03:27:43PM WITH THAT BEING SAID, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO ADDRESS
03:27:50PM THE DIGITAL BOARD EDITORIAL THAT WAS WRITTEN WITHOUT A
03:27:55PM CONVERSATION WITH ME.
03:27:56PM I AM NOT AFRAID TO DO THAT.
03:27:57PM AND IT IS GIRL POWER MONTH.
03:27:59PM SO WHAT I WANT TO SAY IS THAT I WASN'T GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY.
03:28:03PM I DID HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH MR. HILL YESTERDAY.
03:28:06PM HE WROTE AN EDITORIAL.
03:28:08PM AND TWO THINGS I WANT TO CLEAR UP.
03:28:10PM DIGITAL POLLUTION IS DEFINITELY AN UNFAIR STATEMENT.
03:28:15PM DIGITAL MEDIA IS PROGRESSIVE.
03:28:17PM THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS.
03:28:19PM AND AN OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR CITY.
03:28:21PM I THOUGHT I WAS VERY CLEAR IN MY CONVERSATIONS THAT WE
03:28:24PM SHOULD TAKE A THOUGHTFUL APPROACH TO IT.
03:28:26PM I AM NOT RUSHING TO BLOW US UP LIKE LAS VEGAS.
03:28:29PM AND I ALSO SAID THAT.
03:28:30PM WHAT IS INTERESTING TO ME, EVEN THE INFORMATION THAT WAS
03:28:33PM PRESENTED BY STAFF.
03:28:34PM AND THEY ARE -- THEIR NEW ATTEMPT IS THEY LOOKED AT DENVER
03:28:39PM WHO HAD UNLIMITED SIGNS.
03:28:41PM THEY LOOKED AT ATLANTA WHO HAS 25 SIGNS.
03:28:44PM BUT BALTIMORE IS REALLY FALLING INTO THE CATEGORY OF WHERE I
03:28:47PM WOULD LIKE FOR US TO LAND.
03:28:49PM BUT THAT WAS NOT REFERENCED IN THIS NEW REPORT.
03:28:52PM SO I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU KNOW, THAT YOU TAKE INTO
03:28:56PM CONSIDERATION AND LOOK BACK AT EVEN THE NOTES BECAUSE I WAS
03:28:59PM VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT.
03:29:00PM DIGITAL POLLUTION, I WANTED TO ADDRESS, AND ALSO EVEN THE
03:29:04PM SAFETY ASPECT OF IT THAT MR. HILL WROTE ABOUT IN HIS
03:29:08PM EDITORIAL, WHICH IS AN OPINION, BY THE WAY.
03:29:11PM I ONLY RECEIVED ONE LETTER FROM A CONSTITUENT THAT FOLLOWED
03:29:15PM HIS ACTUAL EDITORIAL.
03:29:17PM NOT A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE COMPLAINING.
03:29:18PM ALSO AS A COUNCIL, WE HAVE A RIGHT TO COME UP WHERE NEW
03:29:21PM IDEAS.
03:29:22PM YOU KNOW, ALAN CLENDENIN WANTS THE STREETCAR.
03:29:24PM I LIKE THAT.
03:29:25PM WE HAVE A RIGHT TO BE PROGRESSIVE.
03:29:28PM WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT FOR PEOPLE TO TELL US WHAT TO DO.
03:29:32PM WE CAN DO OUR JOBS.
03:29:33PM WE WERE ELECTED.
03:29:35PM WE CAN DO OUR JOBS ON OUR OWN AND PRESENT THINGS.
03:29:38PM THE PUBLIC DOESN'T LIKE IT, THEY CAN SAY THAT.
03:29:42PM I KNOW THIS IS A LITTLE LECTURE-Y BUT I NEED TO SET IT UP
03:29:47PM FOR WHAT I'M ASKING FOR.
03:29:48PM THE FACT THAT IT IS A SAFETY ISSUE.
03:29:50PM I PRESENTED THIS IN MY COMMENCE THAT DIGITAL SIGNS ARE NOT A
03:29:54PM DISTRACTION.
03:29:54PM THE STUDIES SHOW THAT THE DISTRACTIONS ARE PEOPLE USING
03:29:58PM THEIR CELL PHONES.
03:29:59PM DIGITAL SIGN IS NOT A DISTRACTION.
03:30:01PM AND IT IS NOT POLLUTION.
03:30:02PM IT IS CONTENT, THOUGHTFUL CONTENT, AND WE HAVE AN
03:30:07PM OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT IF WE WRITE REALLY GOOD CODE.
03:30:10PM WHAT THAT BEING SAID, LET'S, YOU KNOW, GET WITH SOMETHING I
03:30:17PM CAN GO WITH -- OR SOMETHING I CAN'T DEAL WITH.
03:30:19PM THE -- CHARLIE, YOU ARE TALKING.
03:30:22PM AND IT IS DISTRACTING ME.
03:30:24PM I KNOW, BUT IT IS DISTRACTING ME.
03:30:27PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I APOLOGIZE.
03:30:30PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NO PROBLEM, SWEETIE.
03:30:32PM I MEAN, MR. MIRANDA.
03:30:34PM BECAUSE MY MENTOR WILL GET ON MY CASE OF CALLING YOU
03:30:37PM SWEETIE.
03:30:37PM SO THE TWO-YEAR TIMELINE IS UNACCEPTABLE.
03:30:41PM CLEARLY UNACCEPTABLE.
03:30:42PM SO BECAUSE I ASKED HURTAK TO MOVE THE ACTUAL -- THE ACTUAL
03:30:48PM WORKSHOP FOR CITY COUNCIL SALARIES TO SEPTEMBER, THIS DOES
03:30:53PM PROVIDE US AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO SOMETHING WHERE I CAN MAKE A
03:30:56PM MOTION NEXT WEEK TO OFFER US AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE DOWNTOWN
03:30:59PM PARTNERSHIP TO POSSIBLY WRITE -- TO -- TO WRITE GOOD DESIGN
03:31:05PM IN A 45-DAY WINDOW THAT CAN BE PRESENTED TO US IN MAY THAT
03:31:09PM WE CAN TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION AND THAT IS VERY THOUGHTFUL
03:31:12PM WHERE THEY CAN WORK WITH THE MEDIA COMPANIES AND WE ARE NOT
03:31:14PM GOING TO WAIT TWO YEARS AND GET TO A FIRST READING IN MAY OF
03:31:18PM 2026.
03:31:19PM THAT IS JUST UNACCEPTABLE.
03:31:20PM WE CAN DO THINGS A LOT FASTER THAN THAT.
03:31:22PM AND SO, OKAY, HOLD ON.
03:31:29PM I HAVE TOO MANY NOTES HERE.
03:31:32PM THE OTHER THING IS -- AND I MADE THIS VERY CLEAR IN THE
03:31:39PM JANUARY -- THE JANUARY 28 MEETING THAT -- THAT THE
03:31:44PM OPPORTUNITY TO UTILIZE THE ENTIRE CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT
03:31:47PM IS WHAT WE COULD CONSIDER ESPECIALLY IF WE ARE THOUGHTFUL IN
03:31:50PM OUR APPROACH OF NOT THE 25 THAT YOU PRESENTED WITH ATLANTA
03:31:54PM OVER 1,000 ACRES.
03:31:55PM WE ARE HALF OF THAT.
03:31:57PM AND SO 10 TO 12 SIGNS WILL BE NICE AT 500 ACRES.
03:32:02PM SO YOU -- YOU ARE ALL CREATING -- INSTEAD OF THE TWO
03:32:07PM DISTRICTS TALKING ABOUT A GATEWAY, THAT STILL DOES NOT
03:32:10PM REALLY -- THAT IS NOT INCLUSIVE OF THE ENTIRE CENTRAL
03:32:13PM BUSINESS DISTRICT AND THEREFORE NOT -- YOU ARE LIMITING
03:32:17PM OPPORTUNITIES AND I DON'T WANT TO DISCRIMINATE AGAINST
03:32:19PM ANYONE.
03:32:25PM THE PILOT PROGRAM, THAT IS THE ONE THAT I -- I -- IF WE CAN
03:32:31PM -- IF -- IF THERE IS A PILOT.
03:32:33PM NOT -- WE HAVE TO WAIT TWO YEARS.
03:32:38PM PILOT OPPORTUNITY.
03:32:40PM AND THAT IS A CITY ASSET.
03:32:43PM A CITY ASSET THAT WE CAN SAY, LET'S TRY IT ON THE CITY ASSET
03:32:48PM AND MOVE JUST THE FACT.
03:32:56PM AND PILOT MAKING.
03:32:58PM AND WE CAN DO THAT.
03:32:59PM I AM GOING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH MR. HOLLAND.
03:33:02PM I THINK HE WILL DEFINITELY SUPPORT THAT BECAUSE HE IS ONE OF
03:33:05PM THE INITIAL SUPPORTERS FROM THE VERY BEGINNING.
03:33:07PM AND I WANT TO THANK THE STAFF FOR MOVING THE NEEDLE TWO
03:33:18PM INCHES.
03:33:18PM I CAN SAY THAT.
03:33:19PM THERE ARE CLEAR COLLABORATION WITH THE NEWSPAPERS AND STAFF.
03:33:28PM THE OTHER THING JUST TO WRAP THINGS UP.
03:33:31PM THE RATION MALL IN ABOUT THE BOUNDARY IS JUST NOT A GOOD
03:33:34PM RETURN ON INVESTMENT FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN
03:33:37PM WORKING WITH OUR CITY, AS WELL AS THE BUSINESSES IN OUR
03:33:41PM CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.
03:33:42PM IT'S NOT -- YOU ARE TAKING OUT OPPORTUNITY.
03:33:45PM AND I DON'T LIKE THAT BY -- BY CREATING A GATEWAY.
03:33:49PM SO THAT IS DEFINITELY NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION.
03:33:51PM EVEN THE SIZE -- THE SIZE WHERE WE DID A DESIGN EXCEPTION OF
03:33:56PM 3800 SQUARE FEET.
03:33:58PM WE ARE ACTING FOR MAYBE A THIRD OF THAT MAYBE.
03:34:00PM CHAPTER 14-10 OF THE FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE THAT GIVES
03:34:05PM US THE FLEXIBILITY AND SIGNING.
03:34:07PM AND IT IS ALSO IMPORTANT TO DO THIS WITH A THOUGHTFUL
03:34:10PM APPROACH WITH THE ACTUAL -- YOU KNOW, SIZE OF BUILDINGS.
03:34:14PM IT JUST DEPENDS.
03:34:16PM BUT THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP, WORKING WITH THE MEDIA COMPANY
03:34:19PM AND OUR STAFF, IF THEY WANT TO, BECAUSE THEY ACTUALLY COULD
03:34:22PM WRITE CODE RIGHT NOW.
03:34:23PM WE ARE WRITING CODE RIGHT NOW.
03:34:25PM WE ARE IN THE LAST CYCLE OF WRITING CODE.
03:34:28PM IF YOU WANT TO PARTICIPATE WITH A DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP, BY
03:34:31PM ALL MEANS, LET'S TO THAT AND WE CAN MOVE THAT ALONG.
03:34:35PM I WILL MAKE THAT MOTION AND I AM LETTING YOU KNOW THIS
03:34:37PM ADVANCE NEXT WEEK AT THE CRA MEETING, I AM MAKING THE MOTION
03:34:42PM TO MOVE THIS ALONG IN 45 DAYS WHERE IS THEY CAN COME BACK
03:34:45PM WITH SOME CRITERIA THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE A DISCUSSION
03:34:51PM ABOUT AT OUR WORKSHOP.
03:34:53PM I THINK THAT IS MORE THAN ENOUGH FOR RIGHT NOW, RIGHT.
03:34:55PM YES.
03:34:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU --
03:34:57PM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN I SPEAK TO THAT?
03:34:59PM BECAUSE I GOT MORE THAN ONE E-MAIL.
03:35:00PM MAYBE THEY WERE JUST TO ME.
03:35:02PM I GOT QUITE A FEW E-MAILS.
03:35:03PM AND I WAS TRYING TO HAVE KELLY FIND MY RESPONSE SO I COULD
03:35:07PM READ IT OUT LOUD.
03:35:08PM SHE WILL COME BACK WITH IT.
03:35:09PM BASICALLY I WILL JUST -- I WILL TALK ABOUT -- I FINALLY HAD
03:35:15PM TO GO READ THE EDITORIAL AND I KEPT GETTING IT.
03:35:18PM AND I SAID I GOT TO DEAL WITH THIS.
03:35:20PM BUT MY -- MY BIG THING IS, WE ARE NOT HAVING A CONVERSATION
03:35:24PM OF WHETHER WE CAN HAVE SIGNS, BECAUSE THAT DECISION WAS MADE
03:35:27PM FOR US YEARS AGO WHEN WATER STREET WAS APPROVED THIS IS
03:35:32PM SOMETHING THAT THE CITY DID IN A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT THAT
03:35:35PM THEY WERE ALREADY ALLOWED.
03:35:36PM THIS IS NOT AN OPTION FOR US AND E-MAILED.
03:35:42PM WHETHER WE CAN HAVE SIGNS IS NOT AN OPTION BECAUSE THE CITY
03:35:45PM MADE THE DECISION FOR US.
03:35:46PM THE CITY MADE THE DECISION WITHOUT FOLLOWING THE ORDINANCE
03:35:49PM THAT WE ALREADY HAVE.
03:35:51PM THAT IS THE PART THAT FRUSTRATES ME.
03:35:52PM NOW WE ARE BEING PUT -- YOU KNOW, BEING USED AS A SCAPEGOAT
03:35:58PM FOR THIS, BUT IT ISN'T US.
03:36:00PM HONESTLY -- I MEAN, I WOULDN'T HAVE SUPPORTED THIS.
03:36:03PM I WOULDN'T HAVE SUPPORTED SIGNS.
03:36:05PM I WILL BE HONEST WITH YOU IF THIS ALREADY HAVEN'T BEEN
03:36:12PM COMPLETED.
03:36:12PM AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY OPTIONS BECAUSE THE OTHER SIGN
03:36:15PM COMPANIES WITH SUE US BECAUSE WE ALREADY ALLOWED IT.
03:36:17PM THAT IS WHAT IT IS TO ME.
03:36:19PM I WILL JUST READ IT.
03:36:25PM UNFORTUNATELY, THE CITY ALLOWED THE WATER STREET AREA TO HAVE
03:36:28PM A DIGITAL SIGN WITH THE DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT YEARS AGO EVEN
03:36:32PM THOUGH IT CONTRADICTED OUR SIGN ORDINANCES.
03:36:35PM ONE MASSIVE SIGN OF AMALIE AND ANOTHER BEING CONSTRUCTED NOW
03:36:40PM FACING WATER STREET.
03:36:41PM BECAUSE OF THAT, OUR HANDS ARE TIED.
03:36:44PM WE CAN'T TAKE THE RIGHT AWAY FROM THE WATER STREET.
03:36:47PM NO ALLOWING DIGITAL SIGNS WILL OPEN US TO LAWSUITS.
03:36:51PM ONLY OPTION IS TO DEVELOP GUIDELINES AROUND PLACEMENT AND
03:36:55PM USE THAT HAS TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE SHEER SIGNS OF THE
03:36:59PM SIGNS UP AT AMALIE.
03:37:02PM WE HAVE TO WORK WITH THE REALITIES THAT WE HAVE BEEN HANDED.
03:37:05PM THAT'S YOU WILL I WILL SAY ABOUT THAT.
03:37:07PM BECAUSE I AGREE.
03:37:08PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GLAD YOU READ THAT AND GLAD YOU EXPRESSED
03:37:12PM YOUR INITIAL THOUGHT ON IT.
03:37:13PM I LIKE THE IDEA OF US MOVING IN A DIRECTION THAT SHOWS
03:37:19PM GROWTH.
03:37:19PM AND ALSO.
03:37:27PM AND SUPPORTED BY THE KEY TAKE HOLDERS FROM THE DOWNTOWN
03:37:30PM PARTNERSHIP AND STRAZ AND THE MUSEUM AND THE AQUARIUM.
03:37:34PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CONVENTION CENTER.
03:37:37PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HE KNEW ON HIS JOB.
03:37:38PM HE LEFT IT VERY RESERVED, MY CONVERSATION WITH HIM YEAH HE
03:37:50PM DOES AND GENERATES A DIFFERENT TYPE OF REVENUE.
03:37:52PM I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS ABOUT US MAKING GOOD DECISIONS
03:37:59PM TOGETHER AN TAKES FOUR VOTES TO GET EVERYTHING DONE AND THAT
03:38:02PM IS FAIR TOO.
03:38:03PM I HAVE BEEN ON THE LOSING SIDE OF THINGS BEFORE.
03:38:06PM AND IF THAT IS THE CASE FOUGHT WITH INTEGRITY OF SOMETHING
03:38:09PM THAT I FEEL IS IMPORTANT.
03:38:10PM NO ONE PUT -- I RAN FOR THIS JOB BECAUSE I WANTED TO.
03:38:13PM EVEN THOUGH PEOPLE HAD AN ISSUE WITH THAT.
03:38:16PM I AM NOT AFRAID TO MAKE MY OWN DECISIONS.
03:38:19PM NOBODY TALKED ME INTO THIS.
03:38:21PM I AM SAYING THAT TO STAFF AND SAYING THAT TO THE TAMPA BAY
03:38:25PM TIMES.
03:38:25PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:38:28PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
03:38:29PM I WILL TELL YOU COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON, I ALWAYS TELL PEOPLE
03:38:31PM WHEN YOU ARE IN PUBLIC OFFICE, YOU HAVE TO FIGHT FOR WHAT
03:38:34PM YOU ORGANICALLY BELIEVE IN BECAUSE YOU ARE GOING TO TAKE
03:38:38PM HITS FROM A VARIETY OF SOURCES AND COULD TO TAKE HITS FROM
03:38:41PM THINGS YOU BELIEVE IN.
03:38:42PM WHENEVER WE SEE ELECTED OFFICIALS -- THINGS GET SO DAMN
03:38:46PM POLITICAL.
03:38:46PM ANYBODY WHO SERVES ON CITY COUNCIL, BUT THROUGHOUT THE
03:38:49PM COUNTRY WHO TRY TO BE SOMETHING THEY ARE NOT AND GET HIT FOR
03:38:52PM IT.
03:38:52PM MAN, THAT MUST REALLY SUCK BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT BEING WHO YOU
03:38:59PM ARE.
03:38:59PM YOU ARE GETTING PUNCHED FOR IT.
03:39:01PM I READ THE EDITORIAL.
03:39:03PM ONE OF MY MORNING ROUTINES TO READ THE TAMPA BAY TIMES AND
03:39:06PM THE WASHINGTON POST EVERY MORNING.
03:39:07PM I JUST -- WHATEVER -- WHENEVER IT CAME OUT, I THINK IT WAS
03:39:12PM MONDAY AND TUESDAY, IF I RECALL.
03:39:14PM AND MY -- MY BIG THING IS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU MENTIONED
03:39:17PM SOME OF THOSE STAKEHOLDERS.
03:39:19PM MAKE SURE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, SHOW STAKEHOLDERS HERE THAT ARE
03:39:23PM SUPPORTING WHATEVER WE ARE GOING TO DO WITH THIS ULTIMATELY.
03:39:26PM THAT INCLUDES, ALSO, RESIDENTS TO LIVE DOWNTOWN BECAUSE A
03:39:30PM LOT OF FOLKS -- YES, MA'AM LORE LIVE THERE.
03:39:32PM AND -- THE BUSINESSES.
03:39:33PM AND THE NONPROFITS.
03:39:34PM CIVIC INSTITUTIONS, AS WELL AS RESIDENTS TO MAKE SURE THEY
03:39:39PM ARE ON BOARD, BECAUSE WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO DO THAT.
03:39:41PM AND I KNOW.
03:39:42PM I AM SURE YOU AGREE WITH THAT, MA'AM.
03:39:44PM SO, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WE ARE GOING TO, I AM SURE, REACH
03:39:49PM SOMETHING WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING.
03:39:50PM WHAT I WANT TO SEE SOMETHING THAT IS MEASURED THAT TAKES
03:39:53PM INTO ACCOUNT THE DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY.
03:39:55PM I THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT.
03:40:00PM AND WE MOVE FORWARD IN A DELIBERATE AND MEASURED WAY.
03:40:04PM THANK YOU FOR YOUR THOUGHTS.
03:40:05PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCIL MEMBER CLENDENIN, ANY NEW
03:40:07PM BUSINESS?
03:40:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I DON'T HAVE NEW BUSINESS BUT I WILL TALK
03:40:10PM ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT.
03:40:11PM ONE IS I WILL PREFACE WITH -- GENERALLY -- ALMOST TWO YEARS
03:40:15PM NOW SINCE I HAVE BEEN ON COUNCIL.
03:40:17PM I RECOGNIZE THAT I AM IN A CITY WIDE SEAT.
03:40:20PM BUT I SERVE WITH FOUR PEOPLE THAT REPRESENT SINGLE MEMBER
03:40:26PM DISTRICTS.
03:40:26PM AND I ALMOST -- I REALLY -- WHEN -- WHEN THESE ISSUES COME
03:40:30PM UP THAT ARE VERY MUCH A PART OF ONE PERSON'S DISTRICT, I
03:40:33PM GIVE A LOT OF DEFERENCE TO THAT PERSON THAT REPRESENTS THAT
03:40:38PM DISTRICT.
03:40:39PM WHEN YOU WAIT THOSE THINGS OUT.
03:40:41PM WHETHER A SOUTH TAMPA ISSUE OR EAST TAMPA, DOWNTOWN, YBOR
03:40:45PM CITY ISSUE OR WEST TAMPA ISSUE OR GOD KNOWS, WE HAVE SOME
03:40:49PM ISSUES UP IN NEW THIS.
03:40:51PM AND -- AND I THINK -- I THINK THIS COUNCIL HAS GIVEN, YOU
03:40:55PM KNOW -- COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA THAT REPRESENT NEW TAMPA, A LOT
03:41:00PM OF DEFERENCE, BECAUSE HE COMES AND FIGHTS FOR THOSE ISSUES
03:41:05PM AND WE TO DO THAT AND THAT IS THE RESPECTFUL THING TO DO.
03:41:08PM WITH THAT BEING SAID, TO SAY I WAS DISAPPOINTED IN THAT
03:41:12PM TAMPA BAY TIMES EDITORIAL WOULD BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT.
03:41:16PM I WAS GOD SMACKED BY IT.
03:41:18PM IT WAS REALLY -- IT WAS REALLY OPINION I -- IT WAS REALLY
03:41:22PM INTERESTING.
03:41:22PM IT IS NOT.
03:41:23PM IT IS A SHAME THAT THAT WAS WRITTEN IN THE "TAMPA BAY
03:41:27PM TIMES."
03:41:28PM ONCE A GREAT NEWSPAPER.
03:41:30PM ONCE SHOULD HAVE BEEN HERALDED.
03:41:32PM AND NOT ALWAYS WISE OF A POLITICIAN TOP TAKE A POT SHOT AT
03:41:36PM SOMEBODY WHO OWN ASPEN, BUT -- I WAS VERY DISAPPOINTED IN
03:41:40PM THAT EDITORIAL AND I WISH MORE RESEARCH AND DISCUSSION
03:41:43PM INVOLVED BEFORE THAT EDITORIAL WAS WRITTEN, BECAUSE THIS
03:41:48PM ISSUE ON SIGNAGE IS NOT FLUSHED OUT.
03:41:51PM THIS IS STILL JUST A THEORY OR DISCUSSION.
03:41:53PM WE DON'T KNOW WHICH DIRECTION IT IS GOING.
03:41:55PM AND THING THAT THEY TOOK SOME LEAPS AND I THINK THEY TOOK
03:41:59PM SOME LEAPS FROM PEOPLE THAT WERE SPOON-FEEDING THEM.
03:42:02PM THIS -- THIS -- THIS ISSUE, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I LOOK AT IT.
03:42:07PM I AM KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, IT IS REALLY NOT NECESSARILY MY
03:42:10PM ISSUE, BUT I ALSO TRY TO INJECT -- I TAKE EVERY ISSUE THAT
03:42:15PM COMES BEFORE US AS THEY COME, ONE AT A TIME.
03:42:17PM I WEIGH IT.
03:42:17PM I WEIGH IT ALL OUT BASED ON THE EVIDENCE AND ALL THE
03:42:20PM INFORMATION WE HAVE GOT.
03:42:21PM ONLY GOTTEN THIS AMOUNTS OF INFORMATION.
03:42:24PM I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS WILL LOOK LIKE.
03:42:26PM I DON'T KNOW HOW TO VOTE ON THE FINAL PRODUCT.
03:42:28PM I WANT TO HEAR ALL THE INFORMATION.
03:42:30PM WHEN I HEAR THINGS -- WE ARE AGAINST DIGITAL SIGNS.
03:42:33PM GUESS WHAT, FOLKS, WE GOT DIGITAL SIGNS EVERYWHERE.
03:42:36PM THE CITY OF TAMPA DEPLOY DIGITAL SIGNS.
03:42:40PM THEY MAY JUST BE ORANGE AND WHITE, BUT DIGITAL TIMES TELLING
03:42:44PM YOU AN EVENT AT AN ARENA OR A STREET IS CLOSED OR WATER MAIN
03:42:50PM BROKE.
03:42:50PM AND DIGITAL SIGNS ON THE EXPRESSWAY.
03:42:52PM DIGITAL SIGNS ALL OVER THE CITY OF TAMPA.
03:42:54PM ALL OVER THE STATE OF FLORIDA.
03:42:56PM WE HAVE GOT, YOU KNOW, OUR SPORTING ARENAS, THE TAMPA BAY
03:43:04PM RAYS.
03:43:04PM MY GOODNESS, YOU CAN BE THREE MILES AWAY AND SEE THOSE
03:43:08PM SIGNS.
03:43:08PM THEY ARE ON FULL DISPLAY.
03:43:09PM BEAUTIFUL, ACTIVATED DISPLAYS THAT ARE EVERYWHERE.
03:43:12PM WE HAVE GIGANTIC SIGNS.
03:43:18PM BIG BANNERS.
03:43:19PM TALK OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
03:43:21PM IF YOU HAVE A MOTION THAT WILL WRAP THIS BUILDING ONE
03:43:24PM BIG LED SIGN.
03:43:25PM IT WOULD 100% IMPROVE THE APPEARANCE OF THE BUILDING.
03:43:30PM MONSTROSITY OF A BOMB SHELTER HE WITH NO WINDOWS WE HAVE
03:43:34PM SITTING NEXT TO US.
03:43:35PM EVERY SPECIAL EVENT.
03:43:37PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THINK OF THIS THE INCOME --
03:43:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THINK OF THE INCOME WE CAN MAKE ON THAT
03:43:42PM AND NOT BASED ON ANYBODY REALLY.
03:43:44PM WE PUT A GIANT BANNER IN THE FRONT OF THIS BUILDING
03:43:49PM ROUTINELY ON SPECIAL EVENTS.
03:43:50PM IT CAN BE A DIGITAL SIGN.
03:43:52PM IT IS NOT POINTED AT ANYBODY.
03:43:53PM AND THAT WILL BE -- IT WILL ENHANCE BEAUTY OF THIS THING.
03:43:58PM MAYBE SOMETIMES IT CAN BE FLOWERS AND BIRDS.
03:44:01PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE GO FIRST.
03:44:02PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A LOT OF THINGS TO DO AND A LOT OF
03:44:05PM INTERESTING APPLICATIONS.
03:44:06PM YOU TALK OF THE STRAZ.
03:44:07PM LOOK AT THAT, BIG CONCRETE FACADES.
03:44:09PM RIGHT NOW THERE ARE NEON LIGHTS AND STUFF ON IT.
03:44:12PM WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT AND L.E.D. SIGN.
03:44:16PM START PUTTING INTELLECTUAL HONESTY IN THIS, NOT MUCH
03:44:20PM DIFFERENCE BETWEEN L.E.D.s OR THE NEON -- THE NEON LIGHTS
03:44:24PM THAT ARE ON THE STRAZ.
03:44:25PM AND ANOTHER SIGN.
03:44:26PM BUT I THINK THE DEVIL IS ALWAYS IN THE DETAILS.
03:44:29PM SO AS YOU WORK ON THESE PROGRAMS, I THINK WE NEED TO THROW
03:44:32PM OUT THE IDEA THAT, OH, DIGITAL SIGNS ARE BAD.
03:44:36PM BECAUSE YOU ARE SOUNDING LIKE THE PERSON THAT SAYS I AM
03:44:39PM NEVER GOING TO DRIVE A CAR.
03:44:40PM WHY WOULD I DO THAT WHEN I HAVE A HORSE AND BUGGY.
03:44:45PM TIMES CHANGE.
03:44:46PM TECHNOLOGY CHANGES.
03:44:47PM I AM NOT GOING TO USE A MICROWAVE.
03:44:51PM THEY ARE RADIATING WITH ELECTRICITY.
03:44:58PM THINGS EVOLVE.
03:45:00PM HOW PEOPLE DIGEST INFORMATION CHANGES.
03:45:02PM I THINK WE NEED TO EXPLORE THIS AND LOOK HOW IT LOOKS AND
03:45:05PM SEE HOW -- WHERE WE END UP.
03:45:07PM AND -- AND WHEN IT IS ALL FLESHED OUT, WE WILL ALL MAKE A
03:45:10PM VOTE BASED ON THE QUALITY OF THE PRODUCT THAT IS PRESENTED
03:45:13PM TO US, BASED ON THE INPUT WE GET FROM THE SUBJECT MATTER
03:45:17PM EXPERTS AND THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THESE DISTRICTS.
03:45:21PM WE WILL MOVE ON AND PEOPLE WILL LOOK AT THIS AND SAY WHAT IS
03:45:25PM A SILLY ARGUMENT WE HAD.
03:45:26PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
03:45:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T HAVE ANY MOTIONS.
03:45:30PM I WILL JUST SAY THAT, YES, I THINK THE -- THE MOST DIFFICULT
03:45:35PM QUESTION HAS ALREADY BEEN ANSWERED WHETHER TO DO IT OR NOT.
03:45:37PM BUT NOW WE ARE JUST FOCUSING ON THE DESIGN.
03:45:41PM ON THE PARTICULAR DESIGN ASPECTS.
03:45:43PM AND I THINK THAT -- HONESTLY, THAT -- THAT IS A BETTER PLACE
03:45:48PM TO BE THAN HAVING THE ARGUMENT WHETHER WE ARE DOING IT AT
03:45:51PM ALL.
03:45:51PM SO I REALLY THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD.
03:45:54PM I LOOK FORWARD TO WHAT THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP AND STAFF.
03:45:59PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
03:46:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: WAIT.
03:46:02PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CHAIRMAN .
03:46:04PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: HE LOVES DOING THAT.
03:46:06PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADD TO
03:46:09PM THE END OF STAFF REPORTS ON THE END OF THE MARCH 27 REGULAR
03:46:12PM MEETING DISCUSSION OF CITY COUNCIL DECORUM AND EFFICIENCY.
03:46:20PM >> SECOND.
03:46:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION ON THE FLOOR FROM CHAIRMAN
03:46:24PM MANISCALCO.
03:46:25PM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:46:26PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:46:27PM OPPOSED.
03:46:28PM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
03:46:30PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE BY
03:46:32PM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON.
03:46:34PM SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:46:36PM AYE.
03:46:36PM WE ARE ADJOURNED.
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