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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 2025, 9:00 A.M.
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9:01:40AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
9:01:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: [INAUDIBLE]
9:01:59AM MY MICROPHONE IS ON.
9:02:00AM ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
9:02:01AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
9:02:02AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
9:02:03AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
9:02:04AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
9:02:06AM >> VIERA?
9:02:06AM MIRANDA?
9:02:07AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
9:02:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: PRESENT.
9:02:09AM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
9:02:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:02:11AM ADOPTION OF THE MINUTES FROM LAST MONTH.
9:02:13AM >> SO MOVED.
9:02:14AM >> SECOND.
9:02:15AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BY CLENDENIN, SECOND BY MANISCALCO.
9:02:18AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:02:20AM >> AYE.
9:02:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION CARRIES.
9:02:21AM NOW, MR. McCRAY, LET'S COME FORWARD AND SET OUR AGENDA FOR
9:02:25AM TODAY.
9:02:25AM GOOD MORNING.
9:02:26AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING.
9:02:28AM CEDRIC McCRAY, INTERIM DIRECTOR TAMPA CRA.
9:02:33AM THE AGENDA -- I'M NOT AWARE OF ANYTHING BEING PULLED FOR
9:02:37AM DISCUSSION, WOULD GO AS PRINTED.
9:02:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THERE ARE SOME ITEMS -- THERE IS ONE THING
9:02:42AM TO BE CONTINUED -- QUITE A FEW.
9:02:45AM JUNE 8.
9:02:47AM 6, 7, 8.
9:02:49AM CAN I HAVE A MOTION FOR THAT?
9:02:50AM SECOND BY CLENDENIN.
9:02:52AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR FOR 6, 7, 8 TO BE CONTINUED?
9:02:56AM >> AYE.
9:03:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYTHING ELSE?
9:03:00AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NO.
9:03:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHAT ABOUT HERE ON COUNCIL?
9:03:03AM ANYTHING YOU WANT TO PULL FOR DISCUSSION?
9:03:05AM MOTION TO ADOPT THE MINUTES AS -- I MEAN, THE AGENDA.
9:03:14AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
9:03:23AM [INDISCERNIBLE]
9:03:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THE MOTION WAS BY --
9:03:30AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
9:03:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:03:32AM SECOND BY THIS GUY HERE, CLENDENIN.
9:03:35AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
9:03:38AM MOTION CARRIES.
9:03:39AM OKAY.
9:03:44AM NOW WE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:03:47AM WE HAVE MR. RANDOLPH ONLINE.
9:03:57AM >> THIS MORNING I WALK WITH A HEAVY HEART.
9:04:01AM WE FIND OURSELVES IN A MOMENT, ONE WHERE WE FACE CHALLENGES
9:04:06AM AND UNCERTAINTY.
9:04:08AM MANY OF US ARE FEELING STRESSED, FEAR, FRUSTRATION.
9:04:14AM IT IS TRUE RECENT EVENTS HAVE SHAKEN OUR CONFIDENCE IN THE
9:04:18AM PROGRESS WE HAVE MADE TOWARD DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND
9:04:21AM INCLUSION.
9:04:22AM BUT LET US REMEMBER THE SPREAD OF BLACK WALL STREET, A
9:04:29AM SYMBOL OF ECONOMIC PROSPERITY AND SELF-SUFFICIENCY THAT
9:04:34AM SERVES AS A POWERFUL REMINDER OF WHAT WE CAN DO WHEN WE WORK
9:04:37AM TOGETHER.
9:04:38AM WITH OVER 1.5 TRILLION -- EVERY YEAR, THE BLACK COMMUNITY
9:04:46AM HOLDS AN IMMENSE ECONOMIC PROTECTION.
9:04:50AM NOW MORE THAN EVER IT IS A TIME TO HARNESS THAT POWER TO
9:04:54AM CREATE OUR OWN DEI.
9:04:57AM WE MUST COME TOGETHER NOT AS INDIVIDUALS BUT AS A UNIFIED
9:05:02AM COMMUNITY, OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS KEEPERS.
9:05:08AM HISTORY HAS SHOWN US THAT WHEN WE FOCUS INNOVATION, WE CAN
9:05:21AM RECEIVE GREATNESS.
9:05:22AM THE OPPORTUNITY TODAY IS UNLIKE ANY IN RECENT HISTORY.
9:05:25AM TECHNOLOGY, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CREATE AN OPPORTUNITY
9:05:30AM FOR EVERYONE FROM THE HIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT TO THE COLLEGE
9:05:34AM GRADUATE TO ADVANCE INCLUSION.
9:05:40AM TIME TO MOVE FROM A CONSUMER MINDSET TO ONE OF INVESTING,
9:05:44AM MAKING MONEY WORK FOR US INSTEAD OF US WORKING FOR MONEY.
9:05:49AM CREATING A GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
9:05:51AM I SEE CONFLICT AND DIVISION AMONG US.
9:05:55AM WHAT IF WE COULD SET ASIDE DIFFERENCES AND UNITE OUR COMING
9:05:59AM TOGETHER?
9:06:00AM WE CAN TURN LEMONS INTO LEMONADE AND CREATE A LEGACY OF
9:06:08AM PROSPERITY AND EMPOWERMENT.
9:06:10AM IN THE WORDS OF THE GREAT JAMES BROWN, I'M BLACK AND I'M
9:06:17AM PROUD.
9:06:17AM THANK YOU.
9:06:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:06:19AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA IS ON HIS WAY.
9:06:24AM STUCK IN TRAFFIC.
9:06:25AM HE WILL BE HERE SHORTLY.
9:06:26AM WE WILL CONTINUE WITH PUBLIC COMMENT.
9:06:29AM THERE'S NO PARTICULAR ORDER.
9:06:30AM YOU MAY COME FORWARD, LINE UP ON THE SIDE.
9:06:33AM ARE THERE TECHNICAL ISSUES FOR US OR EVERYTHING IS OKAY?
9:06:49AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, WE CAN'T SEE ANYTHING.
9:06:53AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT'S NOT BROADCASTING.
9:06:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I KNOW.
9:06:55AM THAT'S WHY I ASKED.
9:06:56AM GIVE US JUST A SECOND AND MAKE SURE WE GET THIS ON RECORD.
9:07:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THE LARGE SCREEN TELEVISION IS NOT
9:07:32AM SHOWING.
9:07:33AM IT IS A WHITE BLANK SCREEN.
9:07:39AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:08:56AM GOOD MORNING, MS. MIMI.
9:09:00AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:09:00AM MIMI MARTINEZ, RESIDENT OF YBOR HEIGHTS AND MEMBER OF THE
9:09:04AM EAST TAMPA CAC.
9:09:06AM I'M HERE TODAY TO TALK ABOUT THE CONCERNS I HAVE FOR THE
9:09:10AM POTENTIAL OF THE CRAs BEING SHUT DOWN.
9:09:13AM AS WE KNOW, THE STATE OF FLORIDA IS ONCE AGAIN TRYING TO
9:09:17AM SHUT DOWN THE CRAs.
9:09:18AM I THINK THE BIGGEST LESSON FOR US TO LEARN FROM THAT IS NOW
9:09:22AM MORE THAN EVER WE NEED TO BE MORE EFFICIENT IN PRIORITIZING
9:09:27AM WHAT PROJECTS WE'RE GOING TO SUPPORT AND FOR THE CACs
9:09:31AM ESPECIALLY TO UNITE TO STRATEGICALLY PLAN AND ORGANIZE WHAT
9:09:36AM PROJECTS THAT WE ARE GOING TO FUND.
9:09:38AM WE NEED TO FOCUS ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
9:09:40AM WE KNOW THAT, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THROUGH SUPPORTING
9:09:45AM BUSINESSES THAT WILL BE ABLE TO CREATE JOBS FOR US.
9:09:47AM IT IS IMPORTANT THAT WE ALSO MAKE SURE THAT WE INVEST IN
9:09:51AM THOSE BUSINESSES THAT WE KNOW HAVE ALREADY ESTABLISHED A
9:09:54AM GOOD REPUTATION IN THE COMMUNITY, THAT WE KNOW THEY ARE
9:09:57AM GOING TO DELIVER ON WHAT THEY SAY THEY ARE GOING TO DO FOR
9:09:59AM THE COMMUNITY.
9:10:00AM AND IT IS IMPORTANT TO THAT WE CONTINUE TO ACQUIRE LAND SO
9:10:07AM WE GO AHEAD AND GET THAT AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
9:10:09AM WE POTENTIALLY HAVE NINE YEARS LEFT.
9:10:11AM THAT'S IT.
9:10:11AM THAT'S NOT A LONG TIME.
9:10:13AM NOW MORE THAN EVER, WE NEED THE CRA BOARD TO HELP THE CACs
9:10:17AM TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PUSH ALONG THOSE PROJECTS THAT ARE A
9:10:21AM PRIORITY, WHICH IS THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
9:10:23AM ONCE WE PUT HOUSING UP, THAT WILL STAY THERE FOREVER.
9:10:26AM ONCE WE INVEST IN BUSINESSES THAT CONTINUE TO BRING IN MORE
9:10:29AM BUSINESSES INTO THE AREA, THOSE ARE LONG-TERM INVESTMENTS
9:10:33AM WORTH WORKING ON.
9:10:34AM SO I ADVOCATE THAT YOU PLEASE SUPPORT THAT.
9:10:38AM THIS LEADS ME TO THE SANCHEZ Y HAYA BUILDING.
9:10:42AM I AM A STRONG SUPPORTER OF THAT.
9:10:45AM WE KNOW THEY ARE ESTABLISHED IN THE COMMUNITY AND WILL DO
9:10:47AM WHAT THEY SAY THEY DO.
9:10:49AM I ADVOCATE THAT YOU APPROVE MONEY TO FUND THEM.
9:10:51AM THANK YOU.
9:10:52AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:10:53AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:10:54AM GOOD MORNING.
9:11:07AM >> UHURU.
9:11:09AM UHURU MEANS FREEDOM IN SWAHILI.
9:11:12AM THE NAME IS MENTESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
9:11:14AM I WOULD LIKE TO SAY, AS I'VE SAID REPEATEDLY, THIS IS A
9:11:23AM DO-NOTHING CITY COUNCIL.
9:11:25AM AND WHAT HAPPENS WITH THAT IS ALL THE CITY COUNCILS PRIOR TO
9:11:31AM THAT THE SAME THING.
9:11:33AM NOTHING DIFFERENT.
9:11:34AM THE CITY IS ACTUALLY AN AUTOMATIC.
9:11:36AM THE CITY IS AUTOMATIC.
9:11:37AM MOST CITIES ON AUTOMATIC.
9:11:38AM THE WORLD IS ON AUTOMATIC, PERIOD.
9:11:42AM BUT WHAT IS HAPPENING IS YOU DO SEE PROGRESS.
9:11:47AM YOU DO SEE ADVANCEMENT, BUT THAT'S ADVANCEMENT BASED ON THE
9:11:50AM PEOPLE, THE COLLECTIVE WILL OF THE PEOPLE.
9:11:54AM WHAT I LIKE TO DO IS TALK ABOUT CHILD SUPPORT.
9:11:57AM HOW DO YOU GO FROM TALKING ABOUT REPARATIONS, BLACK POWER,
9:12:02AM SELF-DETERMINATION, FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE FOR AFRICAN
9:12:07AM PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT CHILD SUPPORT BECAUSE CHILD SUPPORT IS
9:12:11AM A BIG EUGENICS PROGRAM.
9:12:13AM IT IS AN ETHNICS CLEANSING PROGRAM BEING RAN THROUGH THE
9:12:18AM CIRCUIT COURTS, ALL THE STATE COURTS AND PRIVATE
9:12:22AM ORGANIZATIONS.
9:12:23AM CHILD SUPPORT IS RUINING MANY AFRICAN FAMILIES.
9:12:29AM BUT THAT'S NOT SIGNIFICANT TO WHITE PEOPLE.
9:12:31AM THAT'S NOT SIGNIFICANT TO NORTH AMERICANS.
9:12:33AM BUT I WANT TO SAY THIS ALSO, ANY PERSON, ANY MAN, I CAN'T
9:12:39AM SPEAK FOR WOMEN BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE A VAGINA, ANY MAN WHO
9:12:45AM ALLOWS THE GOVERNMENT TO GO IN THEIR CHECK WHEN THEY WORK
9:12:49AM AND DO A GARNISHMENT OR A DEDUCTION IS A COWARD, PLAIN AND
9:12:57AM SIMPLE.
9:12:57AM ANY MAN THAT ALLOWS THE GOVERNMENT TO GO IN THEIR CHECK WHEN
9:13:03AM THEY WORK, AFTER THEY WORK, THAT ALLOWS THE GOVERNMENT TO GO
9:13:08AM IN THEIR CHECK AND DO A GARNISHMENT, THAT MAN IS LESS THAN A
9:13:15AM MAN.
9:13:16AM THAT MAN IS A COWARD, A PUNK, A SISSY, NOTHING MORE, NOTHING
9:13:21AM LESS.
9:13:21AM PLAIN AND SIMPLE.
9:13:23AM CHILD SUPPORT IS ILLEGAL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
9:13:27AM THIS CITY COUNCIL NEEDS TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
9:13:30AM I STATED THIS CITY COUNCIL NEED TO CALL THE CHIEF JUDGE, ASK
9:13:33AM THEM WHAT IS GOING ON WITH THE HEARING OFFICERS OVER THERE,
9:13:37AM SPECIFICALLY HEARING OFFICER SABRINA FRYE, DAUGHTERS OF A
9:13:44AM CONFEDERACY WITCH.
9:13:47AM PULL HER RECORD AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THAT.
9:13:49AM THEY ARE RUINING BLACK FAMILIES, CHILD SUPPORT.
9:13:52AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:13:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:13:55AM NEXT PUBLIC SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:13:57AM GOOD MORNING.
9:14:02AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:14:03AM I AM JEFF JANKE, SPEAKING FOR MANY CONCERNED.
9:14:08AM MY CITY COUNCIL WOMAN IS EDUCATOR GWEN HENDERSON.
9:14:14AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ADDRESS YOUR COMMENTS TO THE BOARD, SIR.
9:14:17AM >> YES.
9:14:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHAT IS YOUR LAST NAME?
9:14:20AM >> I AM A RESIDENT AND HOMEOWNER IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
9:14:22AM THESE ISSUES -- THE ISSUES WE'RE EXPERIENCING ARE MISSING,
9:14:29AM NONEXISTING AND NON-MAINTAINED LANDSCAPING AND IRRIGATION
9:14:32AM SYSTEMS AND ISSUES ON ALL THE STREETS EXCEPT FOR MERIDIAN
9:14:40AM AND CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
9:14:42AM THIS HAS BEEN OCCURRING FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME --
9:14:46AM YEARS.
9:14:47AM THIS IS A RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CITY EXCEPT WHERE DEVELOPERS
9:14:50AM OR OWNERS HAVE AN AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OTHERWISE.
9:14:56AM AND THAT DOES OCCUR.
9:14:57AM NUMEROUS EFFORTS TO RESOLVE THIS THROUGH THE PARK AND RECS
9:15:02AM DEPARTMENT, THROUGH THE CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT COMMUNITY
9:15:05AM ADVISORY COMMITTEE HAVE NOT LED TO A SOLUTION.
9:15:11AM ONE ISSUE IS THAT THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN SOME PROPERTY OWNERS
9:15:14AM AND THE CITY CANNOT BE LOCATED AND THEREFORE THE CITY'S AREA
9:15:20AM RESPONSIBILITY CAN'T BE SPECIFIED AND IS NOT CLEAR.
9:15:24AM I'VE BEEN TOLD, ALONG WITH OTHERS WHO GO TO THE CAC MEETING,
9:15:30AM THAT THE CAC WOULD BE WILLING TO FUND THIS AND GET IT
9:15:35AM RESOLVED, BUT WE ARE FINDING THAT -- AND ALSO EXPEDITE THIS,
9:15:40AM BUT THERE ARE SOME ISSUES IN ACHIEVING THAT THROUGH THE
9:15:46AM PROTOCOL OF THE CITY OR WHATEVER.
9:15:48AM AND WE'D LIKE TO EXPEDITE THAT, HAVE IT EXPEDITED, IF
9:15:53AM POSSIBLE, BECAUSE IT'S BEEN AROUND SO LONG.
9:15:55AM IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT THAT THE CITY OF TAMPA PRODUCE AN
9:16:00AM INVITING ENVIRONMENT, ESPECIALLY FOR ALL OUR TOURISTS AND
9:16:06AM CRUISE PASSENGERS DOWN IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT AS WELL AS
9:16:09AM ITS RESIDENTS.
9:16:10AM ALL WE ASK IS THAT THE CITY SUPPORT THIS MATTER AND THE CITY
9:16:15AM COUNCIL LOOK INTO IT AND SEE IF WE CAN GET IT RESOLVED.
9:16:20AM THAT'S WHAT WE'RE ASKING.
9:16:21AM THANK YOU.
9:16:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
9:16:33AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:16:34AM ALISON HEWITT, EAST TAMPA RESIDENT AND A BUSINESS OWNER.
9:16:39AM I'M COMING TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT A COUPLE OF THINGS ON THE
9:16:42AM AGENDA.
9:16:42AM WE ARE REQUESTING PURCHASING PROPERTY TO HELP EXPAND THE
9:16:48AM GATOR BUILDING.
9:16:49AM VERY HAPPY AND THANK YOU FOR WORKING ON THAT.
9:16:51AM MY CONCERN THERE IS THAT I'M HOPING WE DO AT LEAST A MARKET
9:16:55AM ANALYSIS OR A FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS SO WE'RE NOT BUILDING
9:16:59AM SOMETHING THAT CAN'T BE MAINTAINED, THAT WE DON'T END UP
9:17:01AM WITH ANOTHER VACANT BUILDING.
9:17:03AM I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE DO SMART DEVELOPMENT.
9:17:05AM AS WE ARE DOING THE RFP, WE HAVE PUT IN THERE THAT THERE IS
9:17:08AM SOME MARKET ANALYSIS, UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE PROPOSING CAN
9:17:12AM GO THERE, STAY THERE AND BE SUBSTANTIATED WITH THE FINANCIAL
9:17:16AM VIABILITY OF THE COMMUNITY.
9:17:17AM THE NEXT ISSUE I'D LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS THE HOTEL HAYA.
9:17:24AM I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THE PROJECT.
9:17:25AM I THINK THE PROJECT IS EXCELLENT.
9:17:28AM MY CONCERN IS ABOUT PROCESS.
9:17:32AM IN YOUR PACKET ON THE PURCHASING OF THE PROPERTY, YOU WILL
9:17:35AM SEE THE CAC RECOMMENDATIONS.
9:17:38AM BUT WHEN YOU GET TO A $5 MILLION REQUEST, YOU WILL NOT SEE
9:17:42AM WHAT THE CAC SAID AND THEY HAD SOME VERY ARTICULATE
9:17:46AM CONVERSATIONS AND DEBATE ABOUT HOW TO PRIORITIZE PROJECTS IN
9:17:50AM THE COMMUNITY.
9:17:51AM AND ACCORDING TO FLORIDA STATUTE 163, THE PURPOSE OF THE CAC
9:17:54AM IS TO PROVIDE YOU WITH RECOMMENDATIONS BASED ON THEIR INPUT
9:18:01AM FROM THE COMMUNITY.
9:18:02AM I JUST THINK THAT IT CAUSES A LACK OF TRUST WHEN THE
9:18:06AM COMMUNITY PUTS IN TIME, SITS ON THE CAC, AND HAS A DEBATE ON
9:18:11AM HOW TO SPEND THE $5 MILLION AND THEN IT IS NOT REFLECTED IN
9:18:16AM THE NOTES, OR AT LEAST THE NOTES THAT WERE PUT ONLINE THAT
9:18:19AM WE WERE ABLE TO REVIEW.
9:18:20AM SO IF WE'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE EMPOWERING OUR
9:18:25AM COMMUNITY AND OUR CACs TO GO OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, TALK
9:18:27AM AND BRING THEIR OPINIONS BACK, AT LEAST PUT THEIR CAC
9:18:32AM COMMENTS IN THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT COME BEFORE YOU AS
9:18:35AM YOU'RE MAKING THE DECISIONS BECAUSE, AGAIN, AS THE FLORIDA
9:18:39AM LEGISLATURE MOVES FORWARD, IF IT PASSES IN ITS CURRENT FORM,
9:18:44AM WE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO ENCUMBER ANY MONEY AFTER OCTOBER 1 OF
9:18:48AM THIS YEAR.
9:18:49AM SO IF THAT PASSES, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE IN
9:18:52AM LOCKSTEP WORKING WITH THE CACs TO PUT AS MANY PROJECTS AS
9:18:55AM WE CAN UNDER CONTRACT BEFORE OCTOBER 1 AND WE'RE NOT ABLE TO
9:18:59AM DO ANY MORE PROJECTS, ESPECIALLY IN EAST TAMPA, WHO IS
9:19:02AM BEHIND IN DEVELOPMENT.
9:19:04AM WE'RE GOING TO REALLY HAVE TO PUT BOOTS TO THE GROUND TO
9:19:07AM MAKE SURE THAT SOMETHING OF SUBSTANCE IS HAPPENING IN THE
9:19:09AM EAST TAMPA CRA.
9:19:11AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MS. HEWITT, JUST FOR THE RECORD, YOU SAID
9:19:14AM HOTEL HAYA.
9:19:15AM IS THAT THE PROJECT THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, HOTEL HAYA?
9:19:17AM I JUST WANT HER TO SAY IT FOR THE RECORD.
9:19:20AM >> I APOLOGIZE.
9:19:21AM IT'S ITEM NUMBER 13 ON THE AGENDA.
9:19:28AM THE SANCHEZ Y HAYA BUILDING.
9:19:30AM THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO CORRECT THAT.
9:19:32AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ABSOLUTELY.
9:19:33AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:19:39AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:19:40AM MY NAME IS IVAN RIVERA.
9:19:44AM I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TODAY AS YOU SERVE AS THE
9:19:46AM CRA BOARD.
9:19:47AM TODAY I WANT TO TALK ABOUT LINE ITEM 13, SANCHEZ AND HAYA
9:19:51AM PROJECT.
9:19:51AM ACTUALLY, IT'S FUNNY, BECAUSE WE'LL TOUCH ON A LITTLE BIT
9:19:54AM ABOUT WHAT THAT CAC RECOMMENDATION LOOKS LIKE.
9:19:57AM WHEN THE CAC GOT TOGETHER, THEY LOOKED TO APPROVE A
9:20:01AM TWO-YEAR, $250,000 SUBSIDY FOR THE PROJECT.
9:20:05AM NOW, I SAT IN THE MEETING, THESE MEETINGS ARE RECORDED, THE
9:20:10AM CAC MEETING, SO YOU CAN GO BACK AND LISTEN TO THEM.
9:20:14AM ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I SAW SEVERAL CAC MEMBERS TALK ABOUT
9:20:18AM IS WHETHER THIS PROJECT IS EVEN JUSTIFIED BECAUSE IT IS YBOR
9:20:22AM CITY AND NOT EAST TAMPA.
9:20:24AM AND WHEN YOU HAVE SEVERAL CAC MEMBERS THAT HAVE THAT
9:20:27AM PERSPECTIVE OF THE HISTORIC FABRIC OF THIS PROJECT BEING
9:20:31AM YBOR CITY AND NOT EAST TAMPA, YOU START TO COME ACROSS A
9:20:35AM DIALOGUE THAT REALLY STOPS CERTAIN PROJECTS, RIGHT?
9:20:40AM WITH THAT PERSPECTIVE, NORTH YBOR RESIDENTS OR VM YBOR
9:20:44AM RESIDENTS OR HEIGHTS RESIDENTS SHOULDN'T GET THE TREE
9:20:47AM TRIMMING GRANT OR HOME RENOVATION GRANTS, RIGHT?
9:20:50AM THAT'S NOT FAIR.
9:20:51AM WE KNOW THAT.
9:20:52AM NOW, I HAVE SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS, VICE
9:20:58AM PRESIDENT, SECRETARIES.
9:20:59AM I'VE BEEN INVOLVED FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
9:21:02AM AND THROUGHOUT THOSE YEARS, THE NEWMAN FAMILY AND THIS
9:21:06AM SPECIFIC PROJECT HAVE BEEN INSTRUMENTAL IN COMMUNITY
9:21:09AM INVOLVEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT.
9:21:10AM ALAN, WHEN YOU HANDED ME YOUR BUSINESS CARD --
9:21:14AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SIR, DO NOT STATE OUR NAMES.
9:21:16AM SPEAK TO THE BOARD.
9:21:17AM >> WHEN SEVERAL BOARD MEMBERS HAVE APPROACHED ME FOR THEIR
9:21:20AM ROLE TO BE SELECTED ON CITY COUNCIL, IT IS AT THE NEWMAN
9:21:25AM FACTORY THAT YOU GUYS SHOWED UP AT.
9:21:29AM DURING COVID WHEN EVERYTHING SHUT DOWN AND THE COMMUNITY HAD
9:21:32AM NO PLACE TO MEET, THE NEWMAN FACTORY HAD A FACILITY LARGE
9:21:36AM ENOUGH FOR ALL OF US TO SOCIAL DISTANCE AND CONTINUE TO KEEP
9:21:39AM THAT COMMUNITY SPIRIT INVOLVED.
9:21:43AM THIS FAMILY HAS DONE A LOT FOR THE COMMUNITY.
9:21:46AM OUR LOCAL RESIDENTS IN PARTICULAR NEED THESE JOBS, NEED TO
9:21:49AM BE ABLE TO WALK TO THE JOBS.
9:21:52AM I KNOW MANY SENIORS THAT DON'T HAVE CARS THAT ARE LIVING ON
9:21:57AM SOCIAL SECURITY.
9:22:00AM WHAT I WANT TO ASK TODAY IS WHEN THIS LINE ITEM COMES UP,
9:22:03AM THAT YOU PLEASE DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE, TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE
9:22:06AM CAC RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE THERE ARE EXCELLENT LEADERS ON
9:22:09AM THE CAC.
9:22:10AM I KNOW THEM PERSONALLY.
9:22:12AM BUT ALSO A PORTION OF THE CAC THAT HAVE FOUGHT THIS IN
9:22:19AM DISCRIMINATORY WAYS TO BE FRANK.
9:22:21AM I ASK FOR YOU TO DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE AND PLEASE TAKE YOUR
9:22:26AM TIME ON THAT LINE ITEM TODAY.
9:22:27AM IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE SEE THIS
9:22:30AM PROJECT.
9:22:30AM AND IT WILL.
9:22:31AM THE NEWMAN FAMILY IS GOING TO PUSH THIS THROUGH, BUT MUCH
9:22:35AM THAT WE CAN DO AS A CITY AND A COMMUNITY TO SUPPORT THEM IS
9:22:38AM IMPORTANT NOW MORE THAN EVER.
9:22:39AM I THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME.
9:22:42AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:22:43AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:22:47AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:22:49AM I'M JULIA FREEMAN, RESIDENT OF RIVERSIDE HEIGHTS.
9:22:53AM I'M ALSO HERE THIS MORNING SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF THE
9:22:56AM PRESERVATION ROUNDTABLE WHICH IS DEDICATED TO CELEBRATING
9:22:59AM AND PROTECTING THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE OF OUR COMMUNITY.
9:23:02AM WE BELIEVE THAT TAMPA'S RICH HISTORY CAN BEST BE ENJOYED IN
9:23:06AM THE BUILDINGS, BOTH GRAND AND MODEST, WHICH GRACE OUR CITY,
9:23:09AM AND THAT THE CRA HAS THE POWER TO INVEST IN THE RESTORATION
9:23:13AM OF THE SANCHEZ Y HAYA BUILDING, GIVING IT NEW LIFE TO ENRICH
9:23:16AM THE VITALITY AND ECONOMIC WELL-BEING OF THE VM NEIGHBORHOOD.
9:23:21AM THIS HISTORIC STRUCTURE HAS BEEN SADLY NEGLECTED FOR
9:23:25AM DECADES.
9:23:25AM THE TRANSFORMATION OF THIS ABANDONED BUILDING WILL CHANGE AN
9:23:29AM EYESORE INTO A PLACE OF HEALTHY ACTIVITY IN AN AREA WHICH
9:23:33AM NEEDS NEW ENTERPRISE.
9:23:34AM AS YOU KNOW, THE PURPOSE OF THE CRA IS TO ADDRESS BLIGHT AND
9:23:37AM INVEST IN PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS THAT WILL BENEFIT THE CRA
9:23:42AM AREA.
9:23:42AM AND THE FINANCIAL COMMITMENT TO THIS RESTORATION WILL BE
9:23:45AM MORE THAN REPAID IN BOTH JOB CREATION AND DRAMATIC
9:23:49AM IMPROVEMENT TO THE SURROUNDING AREA.
9:23:51AM PLEASE SUPPORT THIS REQUEST BY THE NEWMAN FAMILY WHO HAVE
9:23:54AM CONTRIBUTED SIGNIFICANTLY TO THE TAMPA -- EAST TAMPA CRA
9:23:58AM SINCE IT WAS ESTABLISHED IN 2004.
9:24:01AM THANK YOU.
9:24:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS.
9:24:03AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:24:09AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:24:10AM CONNIE BURTON.
9:24:11AM AS WE RECOGNIZE THE 60th ANNIVERSARY ON WHAT THE
9:24:19AM HISTORIANS DESCRIBE AS BLOODY SUNDAY, THE SELMA MARCH, THE
9:24:27AM MARCH FOR EQUALITY, VOTING RIGHTS, AFRICAN PEOPLE STILL FIND
9:24:32AM THEMSELVES IN THE THROES OF THAT SAME VICIOUS CYCLE.
9:24:35AM IN FACT, DR. KING SAYS THAT THE ARC OF THE MORAL UNIVERSE IS
9:24:42AM LONG BUT IT BENDS TOWARDS JUSTICE.
9:24:45AM I REALLY WISH DR. KING WOULD HAVE WENT ON AND LIVED AND BEEN
9:24:50AM MORE CONCERNED ABOUT HIS OWN PERSONAL LIFE WHEN WE TALK
9:24:53AM ABOUT THE MORAL CONSCIOUSNESS OF THIS COUNTRY.
9:24:58AM IT DEEPLY HAS BEEN BROKEN.
9:24:59AM ITEM NUMBER 15, I'M KIND OF AMAZED AS TO HOW VARIOUS CRAs
9:25:06AM CAN ENTER INTO SOME TYPE OF INTERGOVERNMENTAL AGREEMENT,
9:25:11AM CITY AGREEMENT AND THEY CAN FIND THEMSELVES WORKING
9:25:15AM TOGETHER.
9:25:15AM BUT EAST TAMPA HAS BEEN REQUIRED TO DO THE HEAVY LIFT ALL BY
9:25:21AM ITSELF.
9:25:22AM TAKE ON PROJECTS LIKE HELPING TO BUILD A POLICE SUBSTATION.
9:25:28AM HAVING TO THEN DEVELOP ITS OWN CLEAN TEAM.
9:25:32AM AS IF IT IS A CITY INTO ITSELF.
9:25:35AM THE REAL INTENT OF THE CRA THAT WAS WRITTEN AS FAR BACK AS
9:25:40AM 2004, WE HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN ABLE TO TOUCH THE REAL INTENT,
9:25:45AM AND THAT WAS THE REHAB OF HOUSES AND TO MAKE SURE THINGS WAS
9:25:51AM AFFORDABLE FOR THE RESIDENTS THAT LIVED IN THAT COMMUNITY.
9:25:53AM SO IF THE RIGHT NOW IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT AND DESANTIS
9:25:57AM MIGHT SHUT IT DOWN, THEN WHAT WOULD THE RESIDENTS IN EAST
9:26:01AM TAMPA THAT HAVEN'T GOTTEN A DARN THING BE AFRAID OF?
9:26:05AM ITEM NUMBER 13, HOW THEN, IN LIEU OF ALL THE THINGS THAT
9:26:12AM RESIDENTS IN THE EAST TAMPA CRA NEED TO DO, THEN HOUSEGUEST
9:26:19AM COMES IN AND SAY WE WANT THE BIGGEST PIECE OF THE PIE.
9:26:22AM WE WANT $5 MILLION FOR WHAT WE WANT.
9:26:24AM AND THE COMMUNITY HAS NOT GOTTEN WHAT IT NEED.
9:26:29AM THE CRA HAD A ROBUST DISCUSSION, AND THEY FELT IN THE BEST
9:26:36AM INTEREST OF THE BODY THAT THEY BE GIVEN A $250,000 FOR THE
9:26:42AM NEXT TWO YEARS.
9:26:44AM AND IF THE PROJECT WAS DEEMED AMENABLE AFTER THAT, THEY CAN
9:26:48AM COME BACK.
9:26:49AM BUT WHAT IS GOING TO BE INTERESTING THIS MORNING IS TO SEE
9:26:55AM HOW WELL YOU RESPECT THE BODY OF THE CRA AND THE CAC,
9:27:00AM VOLUNTEERS THAT COME EVERY MONTH TO BRING THE ISSUES FORWARD
9:27:05AM THAT THE COMMUNITY WANT AND ARE YOU GOING TO LISTEN TO THE
9:27:10AM WAYS IN WHICH THE COMMUNITY HAS EXPRESSED THEMSELVES AROUND
9:27:13AM THIS PROJECT.
9:27:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, MS. BURTON.
9:27:16AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:27:17AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:27:18AM VALERIE BULLOCK FROM PONCE De LEON AND COLLEGE HILL.
9:27:22AM NUMBER FOUR ABOUT THE CRA AND THE HOMEOWNERS, I HAD A GOOD
9:27:28AM IDEA ABOUT HOW WE COULD SPEND THE MONEY THAT'S JUST BEEN
9:27:31AM SITTING THERE.
9:27:32AM IF I'D BEEN IN EAST TAMPA FOR OVER 20 YEARS, I HAVE EQUITY
9:27:37AM INTO THE COMMUNITY.
9:27:38AM SO WHEN YOU ALL GIVE ME THE $50,000 TO FIX MY HOUSE, I
9:27:43AM SHOULDN'T HAVE TO GET A SEVEN-YEAR LIEN ON MY HOUSE.
9:27:46AM MAYBE MY LIEN CAN BE ONE YEAR BECAUSE I HAVE EQUITY IN THE
9:27:50AM COMMUNITY.
9:27:51AM AND I THINK THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD BE LOOKED AT.
9:27:56AM GIVE THE PEOPLE WHO NEED THE MONEY IN EAST TAMPA TO FIX THE
9:27:59AM HOUSE UP, BUT DON'T PUT A SEVEN-YEAR LIEN ON IT.
9:28:02AM I TRY TO GO UP OVER THAT.
9:28:05AM BASE IT ON HOW LONG THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN STAYING THERE.
9:28:10AM BECAUSE IF YOU CAN HELP THE PEOPLE AND THEY CAN BUILD UP
9:28:12AM THEIR HOUSE, YOU UP LIFT THEIR LIFE.
9:28:15AM AND THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT THE CRA WAS ABOUT, UPLIFTING
9:28:19AM PEOPLE ECONOMICALLY THAT WERE DISADVANTAGED FOR WHATEVER
9:28:23AM REASON IT IS.
9:28:24AM AND TO NUMBER 13, THE OLD -- WHY DO EAST TAMPA CRA HAVE TO
9:28:32AM FUND THAT?
9:28:32AM WHY CAN'T THEY DO AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT LIKE THEY ARE
9:28:37AM DOING WITH THE GASWORX AND YBOR CITY.
9:28:41AM WHY DO EAST TAMPA CRA ALWAYS HAVE TO BE USED LIKE A SLUSH
9:28:44AM FUND?
9:28:45AM AND ONE WAY HOW PEOPLE COME TO US AND SAY, HEY, THEY ARE
9:28:52AM SEEING TWO BLACK FACES, LIKE WE STUPID AND THAT IS AN INSULT
9:28:56AM TO ME.
9:28:56AM THEN THEY SAY IT'S GOING TO HELP THE COMMUNITY ECONOMICALLY.
9:29:02AM HOW?
9:29:02AM SHOW ME THE NUMBERS.
9:29:05AM I KNOW WHEN THEY WERE BUILDING TAMPA WATER WORKS, THIS PAPER
9:29:09AM HERE SAY THE ECONOMIC IMPACT EQUALS 520 MILLION.
9:29:13AM NOW, WHEN WE GIVE OUR MONEY, WHAT KIND OF RETURN ARE WE
9:29:17AM GOING TO GET BACK ON THAT?
9:29:18AM IT'S UNKNOWN.
9:29:21AM EVERYBODY SAY ECONOMICALLY, YEAH, YOU CAN HIRE TEN PEOPLE
9:29:24AM FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
9:29:25AM THAT MONEY WOULD BE BETTER SPENT ON BRINGING A MANUFACTURING
9:29:31AM PLANT TO EAST TAMPA SO WE CAN HAVE OUR OWN ECONOMIC ENGINE
9:29:37AM CREATING JOBS FOR THE PEOPLE.
9:29:40AM AND WE ARE SO SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE ACTING LIKE OUR IQ IS
9:29:45AM NEGATIVE 50.
9:29:46AM DON'T TELL US WHAT YOU ALL WANT TO DO.
9:29:49AM ASK US WHAT WE WANT.
9:29:50AM WE ARE THE ONES WHO HELD THE NEIGHBORHOOD DOWN WHEN PEOPLE
9:29:54AM WAS SCARED TO DRIVE DOWN LATE.
9:29:58AM NOW, SINCE WE GOT NEWCOMERS IN THERE, THE OLD PEOPLE IN THE
9:30:02AM NEIGHBORHOOD ARE BEING OVERLOOKED AND DISRESPECTED.
9:30:13AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:30:13AM KELLA McCASKILL, LIFELONG RESIDENT HERE IN TAMPA,
9:30:18AM ADVOCATING IN EAST TAMPA.
9:30:19AM 2004, CRAs WERE GIVEN MARCHING ORDERS THROUGH THE BIBLE
9:30:26AM THAT GOVERNS WHAT HAPPENS IN THEIR AREA.
9:30:28AM GENOCIDE, WINNING OFF A 2004 CRP.
9:30:34AM EAST TAMPA, NOT SO MUCH.
9:30:36AM NEVERTHELESS, I CAME BEFORE YOU ALL OF 2022, BEGGING YOU
9:30:42AM ALMOST, TO GRANT A PREDEVELOPMENT GRANT TO HELP LANDOWNERS,
9:30:46AM ACCORDING TO THE CRP, THEY SPECIFICALLY SAID GO TO THE
9:30:51AM EXISTING LANDOWNERS AND PROVIDE THEM OPPORTUNITY TO
9:30:52AM ELIMINATE SOME OF THE BLIGHT.
9:30:54AM AUGUST 18, 2022, YOU, THIS BODY APPROVED THAT SAID GRANT AND
9:30:58AM IT DIDN'T GET RELEASED OFFICIALLY UNTIL NOW, 2024 --
9:31:03AM RELEASED 2024, 2025 AND NOW THE CRA IS UNDER FIRE.
9:31:09AM POSSIBLE IT MAY NOT EXIST, AND YET WE DON'T HAVE VERY MANY
9:31:12AM OPPORTUNITIES PRESENTED BEFORE YOU TO MAKE SOMETHING HAPPEN.
9:31:15AM SO MOVING FORWARD IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME COLLABORATIVE
9:31:18AM EFFORTS.
9:31:19AM IT'S GOING TO TAKE YOU LISTENING TO THE PEOPLE IN THE
9:31:21AM COMMUNITY.
9:31:21AM IT'S GOING TO TAKE YOU TO GET VERY CREATIVE, SIMILAR TO WHAT
9:31:24AM YOU'RE GOING TO DO PROBABLY, I THINK LINE ITEM 15, VERY
9:31:27AM CREATIVE ON HOW YOU GET THIS MONEY SPENT GOING FORWARD
9:31:30AM BEFORE THE OCTOBER 2025 DEADLINE WHICH WILL BE CHALLENGING
9:31:33AM BECAUSE THE STAFF IS INEXPERIENCED, MANY OF THEM NEW TO THE
9:31:37AM STAFF.
9:31:37AM A LOT OF WHAT WE ARE FACING ARE CHALLENGES.
9:31:41AM I'M ASKING TO YOU GET CREATIVE.
9:31:42AM GET OUT OF THE BOX ON WHAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING BECAUSE WE
9:31:45AM CANNOT AFFORD TO LOSE THE MONEY IN AN AREA UNDERSERVED,
9:31:48AM OVERLOOKED, IGNORED, DOWN RIGHT VIOLATED THE CRP BECAUSE
9:31:53AM NONE OF WHAT HAPPENED.
9:31:56AM I'LL SAVE SOME OF THE PASSION AND FRUSTRATION THAT I HAVE IN
9:31:59AM THAT, IGNORING THAT GROUP.
9:32:00AM I REALIZE IT'S GOING TO TAKE THAT.
9:32:02AM MOVING FORWARD, I KNOW WE HAVE NEW PEOPLE ON BOARD.
9:32:05AM I HAVE A THANK-YOU CARD FOR ABBYE FEELEY BECAUSE OVER THE
9:32:08AM TIME I REALIZED SHE'S NEW TO THE ROLE.
9:32:11AM GETTING HER TO OPERATE IN NEW ROLE, OLD ROLE.
9:32:16AM SHE TOOK A LOT OF TIME WITH US.
9:32:19AM I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR HER TIME.
9:32:22AM SHE'S WORKING WITH THE COMMUNITY, WORK WITH YOU ALL, WORK
9:32:27AM WITH OTHER PEOPLE AND THANK HER FOR HER TIME.
9:32:30AM THANK THIS CHAIR.
9:32:32AM WE DON'T SEE OUR REPRESENTATION FROM EAST TAMPA.
9:32:34AM TWO WEEKS AGO, THIS CHAIR SENT REPRESENTATION FROM HER
9:32:38AM OFFICE AND SUPPORTED HOUSING EDUCATION.
9:32:41AM I DO SEE THERE ARE SOME EFFORTS TO WORK COLLABORATIVELY HERE
9:32:44AM IN THE COMMUNITY.
9:32:45AM WE'RE GOING TO NEED THAT.
9:32:46AM AGAIN, I'LL ASK YOU ALL TO GET OUT OF THE BOX.
9:32:49AM BE VERY CREATIVE ON WHAT COMES NEXT AS IT RELATES TO
9:32:52AM DEVELOPMENT IN EAST TAMPA.
9:32:54AM WE HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS.
9:32:55AM I KNOW YOU KNOW THEY ARE COMING.
9:32:57AM HOPEFULLY YOU PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THIS AREA
9:33:00AM AND WE GET SMART ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT TO COME BECAUSE IT
9:33:02AM WAS IGNORED AND OVERLOOKED.
9:33:04AM LOOK AT BOTH CRPs, BOTH WRITTEN MAY 2004.
9:33:10AM ONE IS WINNING.
9:33:11AM ONE IS NEARLY THE SAME.
9:33:12AM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
9:33:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:33:14AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE, IF THERE'S ANYONE ELSE, PLEASE COME
9:33:18AM STAND TO THE SIDE NOW.
9:33:26AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:33:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING.
9:33:28AM >> MY NAME IS FRANK WILLIAMS, PASTOR OF PARADISE MISSIONARY
9:33:33AM BAPTIST CHURCH.
9:33:35AM YOU KNOW, IT'S SO SAD THEY HAVE TO COME UP AND HOLLER WITH
9:33:40AM YOU ALL WEEK AFTER WEEK AND NEVER GET NOTHING DONE.
9:33:45AM YOU KNOW, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU CALL RETENTION
9:33:52AM PONDS.
9:33:52AM YOU ALL NEED TO FILL THOSE THINGS IN AND GIVE THEM TO THE
9:33:55AM BLACK FOLKS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE MOTHER AND FATHER RAISED,
9:34:01AM EAST TAMPA.
9:34:02AM YOU GOT ALL THEM PONDS, YOU CALL RETENTION.
9:34:07AM WHEN I ASK YOU WHAT RETENTION POND, YOU TELL ME NOTHING AND
9:34:15AM STILL DON'T TELL ME NOTHING.
9:34:17AM BECAUSE THE IDEA, WHAT'S GOING ON, WE WANT TO KEEP IT
9:34:23AM SEPARATED, WHITES FROM BLACKS AND MEXICANS.
9:34:28AM THEY TREAT US LIKE WE LESS THAN A DOLLAR.
9:34:38AM GOT TO UNDERSTAND WE WERE CREATED BY THE SAME GOD YOU WERE
9:34:42AM CREATED.
9:34:42AM WHETHER WHITE OR BLACK, DON'T MAKE NO DIFFERENCE.
9:34:45AM WE NEED TO BE TREATED LIKE PEOPLE.
9:34:50AM JUST LIKE YOU ALL TREATED.
9:34:52AM YOU ALL GAVE YOURSELF A RAISE THE OTHER MONTH, 50%.
9:34:56AM WHY DON'T YOU HELP US OUT?
9:34:58AM NOBODY SEEM TO CARE.
9:35:03AM NOBODY SEEM TO GIVE A DAMN.
9:35:04AM I HAD A LADY COME FROM OUT OF HERE.
9:35:08AM I DON'T WANT TO CALL HER BY NAME BECAUSE I'M FILING A
9:35:14AM COMPLAINT.
9:35:15AM SHE CAME TO MY HOUSE, THREE THIEVES OVER THERE.
9:35:19AM THEY WERE STEALING EVERYTHING THEY COULD.
9:35:23AM OUT OF MY HOUSE.
9:35:27AM SHE WAS GOING INTO MY BANK ACCOUNT.
9:35:29AM SHE CALLED MY DAUGHTER AND TOLD HER.
9:35:36AM BUT NOW I GOT MY SON WORKING AND HE HELPING ME OUT A LOT.
9:35:42AM THAT'S WHY I TOLD HER LAST WEEK, I NEED TO SPEAK -- BUT SHE
9:35:50AM DIDN'T WANT TO SPEAK TO ME.
9:35:52AM I'LL GET IT OUT AND TELL EVERYBODY EXACTLY WHAT TYPE OF
9:36:00AM PEOPLE SENT TO REPRESENT AND IT'S NOT RIGHT.
9:36:03AM THEY REPRESENT YOU ALL AND THEY ARE THIEVES, LIARS, CRACK
9:36:10AM HEADS AND ALL THEM KIND OF PEOPLE.
9:36:12AM YOU GOT TO UNDERSTAND, SEND SOMEBODY DOWN TO REPRESENT YOU,
9:36:19AM SEND SOMEBODY DECENT AND GOT GOOD SENSE AND KNOW HOW TO
9:36:23AM SPEAK TO PEOPLE.
9:36:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, PASTOR WILLIAMS.
9:36:31AM YOUR TIME IS UP.
9:36:32AM WE APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS.
9:36:33AM NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:36:35AM >> I GET ALL MY HELP --
9:36:37AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
9:36:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: NEXT SPEAKER, PLEASE.
9:36:38AM THANK YOU, MR. WILLIAMS.
9:36:39AM >> I GET ALL MY HELP NOT FROM HERE, BUT LADY COME WAY FROM
9:36:44AM CALIFORNIA TO HELP ME OUT.
9:36:45AM AND THAT'S SAD.
9:36:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MS. JOHNSON, PLEASE SEE IF THERE IS
9:36:56AM ANYTHING ELSE WE CAN DO FOR PASTOR WILLIAMS.
9:37:03AM >> GOOD MORNING, BOARD.
9:37:10AM MARCUS DAVIS.
9:37:11AM I WORK WITH BLUE SKY COMMUNITIES.
9:37:13AM WE ARE AN AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPER LOCATED IN
9:37:16AM ST. PETERSBURG, FLORIDA.
9:37:17AM WE JUST WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS.
9:37:19AM COUPLE OF UPDATES ABOUT THE ADDERLEY.
9:37:23AM WE HAD A RIBBON CUTTING IN NOVEMBER.
9:37:26AM WE ARE JUST ABOUT ALL LEASED UP AND VERY ACTIVE IN THE
9:37:29AM COMMUNITY, TRYING TO HOPEFULLY DO ANOTHER PHASE OF A HUNDRED
9:37:33AM UNITS DEDICATED TO THE ELDERLY.
9:37:34AM WE WELCOME YOU GUYS TO COME OUT TO SITE.
9:37:37AM WE'RE HAPPY TO GIVE TOURS TO ANY OF THE BOARD OR ANY OF THE
9:37:40AM STAFF.
9:37:41AM AND WE WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
9:37:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
9:37:45AM THAT'S THE FINAL SPEAKER.
9:37:46AM WE WILL MOVE ON TO OUR STAFF REPORTS.
9:37:48AM I'M SORRY.
9:37:51AM WHO IS GOING TO INTRODUCE OUR CAC CENTRAL PARK.
9:37:56AM >>COURTNEY ORR: GOOD MORNING.
9:37:57AM COURTNEY ORR, URBAN CORE DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
9:38:00AM I'M PROUD TO INTRODUCE THOMAS MURPHY WHO HAS BEEN A LONGTIME
9:38:04AM ADVOCATE FOR THE ENHANCEMENTS OF CENTRAL PARK.
9:38:07AM HE IS THE CURRENT CAC CHAIR.
9:38:14AM >> THOMAS MURPHY, CENTRAL PARK CAC CHAIR.
9:38:18AM GOOD MORNING, CRA BOARD.
9:38:19AM I'M HERE TO UPDATE YOU ON SOME OF THE ONGOING IN THE CENTRAL
9:38:23AM PARK BOUNDARIES.
9:38:24AM SINCE THE INCEPTION OF OUR CAC, MOST OF THE AREA COMPRISED
9:38:29AM OF VACANT LAND, PRIMARILY THE FORMER CENTRAL PARK HOUSING
9:38:33AM PROJECT.
9:38:33AM NOW WE HAVE POPULAR BUSINESSES WITH SEVERAL OPENINGS TO LOOK
9:38:36AM FORWARD TO.
9:38:37AM SOME OF THE NEW BUSINESSES COMING ARE A MEDICAL OFFICE
9:38:39AM BUILDING, BOUTIQUE GROCER, WHICH HAS BEEN A LONG TIME
9:38:43AM STANDING, CONSIDERING THAT WAS A FOOD DESERT FOR A LONG
9:38:45AM TIME.
9:38:46AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING, HOTEL, AND ADDITIONAL RETAIL SPACE.
9:38:49AM SLATED TO OPEN IN 2026 IS THE TAMPA BLACK HISTORY MUSEUM,
9:38:53AM WHICH IS GOING TO BE IN THE FORMER ST. JAMES CHURCH.
9:38:56AM THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE ONLY BUILDING LEFT STANDING AFTER THE
9:38:58AM CENTRAL PARK PROJECTS WERE DEMOLISHED.
9:39:02AM I KNOW THE HOUSING AUTHORITY SPENT A LOT OF MONEY GETTING
9:39:04AM THAT BUILDING UP TO PAR.
9:39:06AM THAT'S GOING TO BE VERY EXCITING.
9:39:07AM THE MUSEUM WILL OFFER A BLACK HISTORY BOOK CLUB,
9:39:10AM ENTERTAINMENT, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMING AND BLACK HISTORY
9:39:13AM WALKING TOURS.
9:39:14AM SOME OF THE EXISTING BUSINESSES, I WENT DOWN AND TOOK SOME
9:39:17AM PICTURES FOR YOU ALL.
9:39:18AM MEACHAM FARMS.
9:39:24AM NOT SURE IF YOU HAVE GONE DOWN TO MEACHAM FARMS BUT THEY ARE
9:39:30AM EXPANDING QUICKLY.
9:39:31AM THEY SOURCE FROM SMALL BUSINESSES MAKING PRODUCTS EASILY
9:39:34AM ACCESSIBLE TO TAMPA RESIDENTS.
9:39:36AM THEIR FIELDS PRODUCE HUNDREDS OF POUNDS OF PRODUCE EVERY
9:39:39AM MONTH.
9:39:39AM THEY HOST EDUCATIONAL FIELD TRIPS REGULARLY THROUGHOUT THE
9:39:42AM SCHOOL YEAR WHERE THEY TEACH STUDENTS ABOUT WHERE THEIR FOOD
9:39:45AM COMES FROM.
9:39:46AM ALSO A SNAP AND EBT 50% OFF PROGRAM THROUGH FRESH ACCESS
9:39:50AM BUCKS, FEEDING FLORIDA THAT GIVES SNAP RECIPIENTS SEVERAL
9:39:54AM HUNDRED DOLLARS OF FREE FLORIDA PRODUCE EVERY MONTH.
9:39:57AM THEIR BEES ARE PRODUCING A LOT OF HONEY THAT THEY SELL.
9:40:02AM AND THERE ARE BEE TENDING WORKSHOPS REGULARLY.
9:40:07AM THEY HAVE NEW CHICKS DOWN HERE ON THE FARM.
9:40:10AM ADDITIONAL BUSINESSES WITHIN THE CRA BOUNDARIES ARE THE YBOR
9:40:14AM YOGA STUDIO, DOJO BREAD COMPANY, SAUNDERS LIBRARY AND URBAN
9:40:20AM LOCKS AT TAMPA PARK, FORMER KNOWN AS TAMPA PARK PLAZA.
9:40:24AM FRESH BREAD AND COFFEE.
9:40:33AM THE LIBRARY IS ONE OF TWO AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH
9:40:35AM LIBRARIES IN THE STATE.
9:40:37AM WE'RE VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE THAT IN OUR CITY AND
9:40:40AM NEIGHBORHOOD.
9:40:41AM FUR KIDS.
9:40:43AM NO KIDS FOR ME.
9:40:44AM JUST PETS.
9:40:45AM FUR KIDS IS A GOOD ONE.
9:40:46AM LOCALLY OWNED PET DAY CARE, KENNEL FREE BOARDING AND DAYTIME
9:40:50AM PLAY AND TRAIN CENTER THAT RECENTLY OPENED ON NEBRASKA
9:40:52AM WITHIN OUR BOUNDARIES AS WELL.
9:40:54AM TAMPA PARK PLAZA HAS BEEN RENAMED AS URBAN LOCKS AT TAMPA
9:40:59AM PARK.
9:41:02AM TRUE VEGAN CREAMERY.
9:41:04AM LOCALLY OWNED AND DAIRY FREE DESSERTS ON THE GO.
9:41:10AM THERE ARE STILL A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES IN THE VACANT
9:41:17AM COMMERCIAL SPACE.
9:41:18AM THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF A BUILDING VACANT A LONG TIME THAT
9:41:23AM THEY ARE GIVING A FACE-LIFT TO.
9:41:26AM A LOT OF THEM WILL BE IN THE ENCORE SECTION.
9:41:28AM APPROXIMATELY 3,000 SQUARE FEET OF RETAIL SPACE AVAILABLE
9:41:32AM FOR BUILD-OUT.
9:41:33AM FUTURE TENANT CAN DESIGN THE SPACE TO FIT THEIR NEEDS.
9:41:36AM TRIO APPROXIMATELY 3,000 SQUARE FEET OF RETAIL SPACE
9:41:39AM AVAILABLE FOR BUILD-OUT.
9:41:41AM ACROSS FROM PERRY HARVEY PARK AND OUTDOOR SEATING AREA GREAT
9:41:45AM FOR A RESTAURANT.
9:41:46AM TEMPO AT ENCORE, THIS IS THE ONE WE'RE REALLY TRYING TO GET
9:41:50AM HAS ABOUT 5,000 SQUARE FEET OF RETAIL SPACE.
9:41:53AM HAS WITHIN IT 3,000 SQUARE FOOT PERFORMANCE SPACE DESIGNATED
9:41:58AM FOR A PERFORMING ARTS THEATER.
9:42:00AM WITHIN THE THEATER SPACE IS A MEZZANINE.
9:42:02AM REQUESTING THAT THE ADJACENT SPACE BE A RESTAURANT.
9:42:06AM LASTLY, I'LL SHOW THE NEW DEVELOPMENT THAT IS ON NUCCIO
9:42:10AM PARKWAY ACROSS FROM WHERE THE TAMPA PARK APARTMENTS WERE.
9:42:16AM THERE IS AN EXAMPLE OF THE NEW SPACE AVAILABLE AS WELL.
9:42:20AM ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU HAVE REGARDING CENTRAL PARK
9:42:24AM OR THE BOUNDARIES OR ANYTHING GOING ON?
9:42:26AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY COMMENTS?
9:42:27AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK AND BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:42:29AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
9:42:31AM THIS WAS A NICE UPDATE.
9:42:32AM IT'S NICE TO SEE THE FOCUS ON BUSINESSES.
9:42:37AM WHAT EXACTLY ARE YOU ALL -- DO YOU HAVE A STRATEGY FOR
9:42:40AM TRYING TO PULL BUSINESSES IN?
9:42:43AM >> SO A LOT OF THE SPACES HAVE BEEN AVAILABLE FOR A LONG
9:42:46AM TIME.
9:42:46AM THE HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS KIND OF SPECIFIC GUIDELINES ON
9:42:49AM WHAT CAN GO IN THOSE SPACES.
9:42:51AM THAT'S WHY I WAS SAYING WITH THE THEATER SPACE, THAT'S KIND
9:42:54AM OF THE CAVEAT WHERE THEY REALLY NEED TO HAVE THAT PERFORMING
9:42:57AM ARTS THEATER IN THERE, KIND OF LIKE A STAGEWORKS.
9:43:00AM WE TALKED WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY AT OUR MEETINGS PLENTY
9:43:04AM OF TIMES TO SEE WHAT THEY ARE DOING AS FAR AS GETTING
9:43:07AM BUSINESSES IN THERE, NEW BUILDINGS BUILT AND THESE HAVEN'T
9:43:10AM BEEN FILLED YET.
9:43:12AM I KNOW THEY HAVE A COMMERCIAL AGENT THEY WORK WITH.
9:43:15AM MET THEM.
9:43:16AM TOURED THE SPACE.
9:43:17AM NOT SURE WHAT THE HOUSING AUTHORITY HAS FOR MARKETING FOR
9:43:21AM THOSE SPACES.
9:43:22AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I REALLY APPRECIATE THE UPDATE.
9:43:24AM A LOT OF TIMES WE GET THESE TYPE OF UPDATES AND IT IS A
9:43:27AM REPEAT OF THINGS, SELF-EVIDENT.
9:43:31AM THIS WAS REALLY KIND OF FILLING IN THE GAPS THAT ARE MAYBE
9:43:35AM NOT SO SELF-EVIDENT.
9:43:36AM I APPRECIATE THAT YOU BROUGHT THIS SIDE OF THE DEVELOPMENT
9:43:41AM OF THE CRA TO THE ATTENTION OF THE BOARD.
9:43:42AM THANK YOU.
9:43:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: JUST A COUPLE OF REMARKS FROM ME.
9:43:47AM THE THEATER SPACE, I KNOW THEY HAVE RECEIVED A COUPLE OF
9:43:50AM RFPs THEY HAVE REJECTED.
9:43:53AM HOPEFULLY YOU ALL CAN WORK WITH THEM TO LOOK AT SOME
9:43:56AM REVISION OF THAT SO THEY CAN GET A WIN AND GET SOMEONE IN
9:43:59AM THERE BECAUSE I KNOW THEY RECEIVED A VERY GOOD PROPOSAL THAT
9:44:01AM THEY DID NOT ACCEPT.
9:44:03AM ALSO, THE JOHNSON HOUSES, YOU HAVE NOT MENTIONED THAT.
9:44:06AM WE PURCHASED THAT PROPERTY OVER A YEAR AGO.
9:44:08AM THAT UPDATE SHOULD BE PRESENTED TO US RIGHT NOW.
9:44:12AM I'M KIND OF DISAPPOINTED THAT WE DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT
9:44:16AM THAT.
9:44:16AM MAYBE THAT'S ON US.
9:44:19AM IS IT WITH THE HOUSING AUTHORITY?
9:44:20AM WE PURCHASED IT AND THE HOUSING AUTHORITY IS GOING TO
9:44:22AM REDEVELOP IT?
9:44:25AM >> WE TALKED TO DAVID HOLLIS ABOUT THAT.
9:44:28AM I THINK THEY HAD TO PLAY AROUND WITH DIFFERENT IDEAS BASED
9:44:31AM OFF OF THE CONDITION OF THE HOMES.
9:44:32AM THEY TOYED AROUND WITH HAVING IT BE COMMERCIAL SPACE AND
9:44:36AM RESIDENTIAL.
9:44:36AM I BELIEVE WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO DO FOR ONE OF THE
9:44:38AM PROPERTIES IS GOING TO HAVE LIKE A LOCAL COFFEE SHOP OR
9:44:42AM MEETING AREA FOR ONE OF THEM.
9:44:43AM FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, I BELIEVE THEY ARE GOING TO CONTINUE
9:44:46AM TO DO A BUILD-OUT ALONG THAT SAME SECTION OF THE PROPERTY TO
9:44:49AM HAVE SIMILAR STYLE HOMES IN THERE TO MAKE IT LOOK NOT JUST
9:44:53AM LIKE TWO HOUSES.
9:44:55AM I THINK THEY DID A LAND SWAP.
9:44:57AM THEY ARE WORKING ON IT.
9:44:58AM THE UPDATE IS THERE'S NO UPDATE.
9:45:00AM BUT THEY HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THAT AND GETTING THE PLANS
9:45:03AM TOGETHER FOR DOING WHAT THEY ARE GOING TO END UP USING THE
9:45:08AM HOMES FOR.
9:45:08AM I ASK EVERY MEETING TOO.
9:45:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WELL, AGAIN, THIS IS PUBLIC COMMENT, YOU
9:45:14AM KNOW, AN OPPORTUNITY.
9:45:15AM FOR ME AS THE DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE THAT IS ACTUALLY
9:45:19AM BECOMING UNACCEPTABLE, A TIMELINE AND PLAN VERY SPECIFIC IS
9:45:23AM SOMETHING YOU ALL SHOULD BE REQUESTING.
9:45:25AM I'M ASKING THAT OF THE MANAGER AS WELL.
9:45:29AM MAKE A MOTION TO RECEIVE DETAILED COMMUNICATION REGARDING A
9:45:32AM TIMELINE BECAUSE THEY HAVE BEEN SITTING ON IT OVER A YEAR.
9:45:35AM >> ABSOLUTELY.
9:45:35AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYONE ELSE?
9:45:36AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:45:37AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I THINK YOU RAISED A GOOD POINT.
9:45:41AM I WOULD KIND OF LIKE TO GET AN UPDATE FROM THE HOUSING
9:45:44AM AUTHORITY ABOUT WHERE THEY ARE AS FAR AS STATUS ON A LOT OF
9:45:47AM PROJECTS.
9:45:47AM WE'RE INVESTING THAT AND TRYING TO BALANCE OUT THE NEEDS.
9:45:51AM I'D LIKE TO GET A COMPREHENSIVE REPORT FROM THEM.
9:45:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THAT'S INTERESTING.
9:45:55AM A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT HAPPENS IN THE CITY.
9:45:59AM WE AS A BOARD AND AS A COUNCIL SHOULD, WHEN WE'RE APPROVING
9:46:03AM THINGS, WE SHOULD GET A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION REGARDING
9:46:06AM HOW LONG THINGS ARE GOING TO TAKE BECAUSE EVEN TODAY WITH
9:46:10AM THE MENTION OF THE GATOR BUILDING IN PUBLIC COMMENT, WE'VE
9:46:14AM BEEN WORKING ON THAT FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND IT DOES TAKE
9:46:18AM TIME.
9:46:19AM BUT WHERE WE'RE GOING AND HOW WE GET THERE SHOULD BE
9:46:21AM SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD EXPECT TO HEAR FROM THOSE
9:46:24AM PRESENTING TO US.
9:46:24AM BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE UPDATES.
9:46:26AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
9:46:28AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:46:29AM I DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
9:46:30AM I WANTED TO REMARK THAT YOUR PRESENTATION, YOU'RE OBVIOUSLY
9:46:34AM NOT JUST VERY WELL PREPARED BUT INVESTED IN YOUR COMMUNITY.
9:46:39AM YOU DON'T GET PAID MUCH TO DO THIS.
9:46:41AM YOU DON'T GET PAID ANYTHING, RIGHT?
9:46:43AM I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK YOU DO
9:46:47AM AND EVERYBODY IN THE ORGANIZATIONS THAT REPRESENT OUR CRAs
9:46:50AM DO BECAUSE THAT'S IMPORTANT.
9:46:51AM JUST SAYING THAT.
9:46:52AM I KNOW ALL OF US APPRECIATE THAT.
9:46:55AM >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:46:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ABSOLUTELY, MR. MURPHY, AGREED.
9:47:00AM HOPEFULLY YOU DIDN'T TAKE THAT ANY OTHER WAY ON THE
9:47:04AM DIRECTION FOR THE THINGS THAT SHOULD MOVE FORWARD.
9:47:07AM I APPRECIATE YOU.
9:47:08AM INTERIM DIRECTOR CRA MR. McCRAY.
9:47:14AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING, AGAIN.
9:47:15AM JUST COMING BACK WITH THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT.
9:47:17AM THANK YOU, MR. MURPHY, FOR HIS PRESENTATION.
9:47:20AM INCLUDED IN THE DIRECTOR'S REPORT WAS THE TRADITIONAL
9:47:24AM TRACKER FOR OUR SPECIAL PROJECTS AND ALSO THERE WAS COMMENT
9:47:30AM LAST MONTH RELATED TO RECEIVING INFORMATION ON THE
9:47:33AM COMMERCIAL GRANTS AND UPDATES THAT WAS ALSO INCLUDED.
9:47:38AM THAT WAS A DOCUMENT WE DID HAVE INTERNALLY AND SHARING WITH
9:47:41AM OUR CACs BUT WE WILL MONTHLY PROVIDE THAT TO THE BOARD AS
9:47:45AM WELL FOR YOUR REVIEW AND EDIFICATION.
9:47:48AM THE OTHER ITEM I WOULD LIKE TO HIGHLIGHT THAT WE DID CONDUCT
9:47:56AM OUR ANNUAL ORIENTATION FOR CAC MEMBERS.
9:47:59AM WE HAD SEVERAL NEW MEMBERS OF OUR CACs THAT YOU ALL
9:48:02AM APPOINTED RECENTLY AS WELL AS SOME FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN ON
9:48:06AM FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.
9:48:08AM THE INFORMATION WAS RECEIVED.
9:48:10AM OUR NEW ATTORNEY, ATTORNEY SHEPHARD, SPOKE AT LENGTH ABOUT
9:48:14AM SUNSHINE AND CONFLICTS OF INTEREST, AND WE DID HAVE SEVERAL
9:48:19AM QUESTIONS DURING THE SESSION AND I ALSO RECEIVED QUESTIONS
9:48:23AM FROM SOME OF THE FOLKS AFTER THE SESSION ON MONDAY.
9:48:27AM I THINK IT WAS VERY BENEFICIAL TO JUST COVER SOME OF THE CRA
9:48:32AM 101 FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM OR PHRASE AND TO DISSEMINATE
9:48:36AM THAT INFORMATION TO THE CAC MEMBERS MOVING FORWARD.
9:48:39AM I WILL PAUSE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
9:48:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
9:48:44AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
9:48:45AM I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A REQUIREMENT THAT MAYBE WE OFFER THAT
9:48:51AM CLASS TWO OR THREE TIMES, BUT WE MAKE IT A REQUIREMENT
9:48:54AM WITHIN SIX MONTHS OF BEING APPOINTED THAT YOU NEED TO ATTEND
9:48:57AM ONE OR AT LEAST HAVE A VIDEO AND SOMEHOW SHOW THAT YOU
9:49:02AM WATCHED THE VIDEO.
9:49:04AM I THINK THAT IS VERY CRITICAL.
9:49:05AM WE HAVE TO TAKE A YEARLY REFRESHER OF THAT INFORMATION OF
9:49:13AM SUNSHINE AND ALL OF THAT, IMPORTANT INFORMATION.
9:49:16AM IT IS A FOUR-HOUR COURSE WE HAVE TO DO EVERY YEAR.
9:49:19AM I REALLY THINK THAT IS IMPORTANT.
9:49:22AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING ABOUT THAT GOING FORWARD.
9:49:24AM I FORGOT TO MENTION IT TO YOU DURING OUR BRIEFING.
9:49:26AM I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PROJECT
9:49:30AM TRACKER OR THE INQUIRY TRACKER.
9:49:35AM IT WAS REALLY VERY INTERESTING TO SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE
9:49:37AM INQUIRED IN THE DIFFERENT CRA AREAS.
9:49:40AM I REALLY DO APPRECIATE THAT.
9:49:42AM THE PUBLIC CAN TAKE A LOOK AT IT.
9:49:45AM IT'S NEAT TO SEE WHERE THINGS ARE GOING, HOW MANY PEOPLE HAD
9:49:49AM AN INQUIRY.
9:49:50AM I THOUGHT THAT WAS VERY INTERESTING.
9:49:51AM IT TELLS ME THAT INFORMATION IS GETTING OUT INTO THE
9:49:54AM COMMUNITY, SO I WANT TO CONGRATULATE YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR A
9:49:57AM GOOD JOB THERE.
9:49:58AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THANK YOU.
9:49:59AM WE APPRECIATE THAT.
9:50:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
9:50:03AM THANK YOU, MR. McCRAY.
9:50:04AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NEXT I WILL CALL UP MS. ORR TO DISCUSS THE
9:50:08AM CRA GREENSPACE ACQUISITION PLAN.
9:50:12AM >>COURTNEY ORR: GOOD MORNING AGAIN.
9:50:13AM COURTNEY ORR, CRA DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.
9:50:16AM THIS IS JUST AN UPDATE ON THE GREENSPACE LAND ACQUISITION
9:50:20AM REQUEST THAT WAS MADE.
9:50:23AM WE'RE WORKING WITH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT TO ANALYZE THEIR
9:50:26AM CITYWIDE PARK ASSESSMENT AS WELL AS PRESENTED A VISUAL TO
9:50:32AM YOU THAT WAS PROVIDED TO YOUR AIDES YESTERDAY MORNING THAT
9:50:35AM SHOWS WHERE THE CITY -- THE CRA BOUNDARIES ARE AND WHERE THE
9:50:40AM CITY PARKS ARE AND THE COUNTY PARKS AS WELL.
9:50:42AM SO THAT'S JUST TO VISUALLY HELP US IDENTIFY WHERE THE GAPS
9:50:47AM ARE AND WHERE PARKS COULD BE NEEDED.
9:50:50AM AFTER WORKING WITH PARKS AND DETERMINING POTENTIAL
9:50:54AM OPPORTUNITIES, WE'LL WORK WITH THE REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT TO
9:50:58AM FIND OUT ABOUT LAND ACQUISITION, IF THERE ARE PARCELS
9:51:02AM AVAILABLE.
9:51:03AM BUT ALSO KEEPING IN MIND WHAT ARE THOSE ADJOINING USES NEXT
9:51:06AM TO THOSE PARCELS SO WE'RE NOT DISRUPTING ANYTHING, BUT THE
9:51:13AM BALL IS ROLLING AND I WANTED TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THAT
9:51:16AM THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARD THIS GREENSPACE ACQUISITION PLAN.
9:51:20AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
9:51:21AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT WAS MY MOTION, I APPRECIATE YOUR
9:51:24AM WRITTEN REPORT.
9:51:24AM THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AT THAT.
9:51:26AM OF COURSE, OBVIOUSLY, A LOT OF THAT INTENT WAS THE CONCRETE
9:51:30AM JUNGLE THAT WE KNOW OF CHANNELSIDE.
9:51:33AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MS. ORR, MY ONE PARTICULAR COMMENT,
9:51:37AM BECAUSE IT IS SO LARGE, IF WE COULD GET A PROFESSIONAL MAP,
9:51:40AM LIKE THE ARCHITECTURE BLUEPRINT, THAT WOULD BE REALLY NICE.
9:51:45AM INSTEAD OF MOVING YOUR SCREEN AROUND ON THE MONITOR, IT'S A
9:51:48AM LITTLE BIT CHALLENGING.
9:51:50AM HOLISTIC APPROACH FOR ALL OF US THAT MAYBE COULD BE HOUSING
9:51:53AM OR OFFICE, BUT IF THAT'S POSSIBLE TO GET THAT PRINTED, THAT
9:51:57AM WOULD BE REALLY GREAT.
9:51:58AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:51:59AM >>COURTNEY ORR: YOU'RE WELCOME.
9:52:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ABSOLUTELY.
9:52:02AM ANY OTHER COMMENTS?
9:52:02AM LET'S KEEP THIS PARTY -- I MEAN CRA MEETING GOING.
9:52:08AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: GOOD MORNING AGAIN.
9:52:10AM THE NEXT ITEM IS RELATED TO CRA DISASTER FUNDING.
9:52:13AM I BELIEVE A MOTION WAS MADE BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
9:52:18AM I THINK SOME OF THAT MAY HAVE BEEN REMEDIED WITH THE
9:52:22AM ALLOCATION OF FUNDING FOR OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY A FEW
9:52:25AM WEEKS AGO OR LAST MONTH WHEN YOU-ALL HAD THAT DISCUSSION.
9:52:29AM AS A CRA, WE BROUGHT FORWARD WAIVERS TO YOU ALL FOR BUSINESS
9:52:32AM OWNERS THAT ARE -- HAVE NOT, MAYBE NOT HAVE SUBMITTED AN
9:52:36AM APPLICATION FORMALLY YET, BUT WE HAVE LANGUAGE THAT YOU ALL
9:52:39AM APPROVED LAST YEAR THAT PRECLUDES THEM FROM PULLING PERMITS
9:52:44AM PRIOR TO BEING APPROVED FOR A SPECIFIC GRANT.
9:52:47AM YOU ALL HAVE GRANTED THEM A WAIVER TO ALLOW THEM TO FIX A
9:52:52AM ROOF OR SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.
9:52:53AM WE ARE WORKING WITH BUSINESS OWNERS AND RESIDENTS TO DO THAT
9:52:57AM AS WELL.
9:52:58AM ON THE HOUSING SIDE, I'M PRETTY SURE AS WE HAVE RELEASED THE
9:53:03AM APPLICATIONS LAST YEAR RELATED TO THE REHAB PROGRAM AND YOU
9:53:08AM APPROVED IN JANUARY TO BE PUT IN PLACE ACROSS ALL THE
9:53:10AM CRAs, I'M ALMOST CERTAIN THAT SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT HAVE
9:53:13AM APPLIED HAVE SUFFERED SOME STORM DAMAGE DURING THE STORM
9:53:18AM SEASON BACK IN OCTOBER AND SEPTEMBER.
9:53:20AM WE ARE ALSO WORKING WITH ANOTHER CITY DEPARTMENT TO APPLY
9:53:24AM FOR A GRANT AND FOR TREE TRIMMING SERVICES IN POST-DISASTER
9:53:31AM STORM.
9:53:31AM THAT REQUEST WILL BE FOR $250,000 WITH EVERYTHING THAT'S
9:53:36AM GOING ON IN THE LEGISLATURE AND FEDERALLY, I'M NOT EXACTLY
9:53:41AM SURE HOW THAT WILL FALL, BUT WE ARE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD
9:53:43AM WITH THE APPLICATION TO PROCURE FUNDS AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL
9:53:46AM KEEP OUR FINGERS CROSSED THAT THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE I KNOW WE
9:53:50AM RECEIVED SEVERAL CALLS.
9:53:51AM MS. PARKS AND HER TEAM ON THE HOUSING SIDE RELATED TO TREE
9:53:55AM TRIMMING SERVICES AFTER THE STORMS.
9:53:57AM THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WE ARE CURRENTLY EITHER DOING AND WILL
9:54:00AM BE DOING TO ASSIST RESIDENTS WITHIN THE CRA BOUNDARIES.
9:54:03AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
9:54:04AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
9:54:05AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIRWOMAN.
9:54:08AM THANK YOU FOR THAT, MR. McCRAY.
9:54:10AM ONE THING, IT'S ALWAYS HARD TO GET A BALANCE ON THIS WHICH
9:54:14AM IS OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF THE FLOODING THAT HAPPENED, FOR
9:54:17AM EXAMPLE, WAS IN NON-CRA AREAS, SOUTH TAMPA, NORTH TAMPA, AND
9:54:22AM EVERYTHING.
9:54:22AM BUT ALSO MAYBE LOOKING AT PEOPLE WHO MAYBE COULDN'T AFFORD
9:54:26AM TO LIVE IN THEIR HOMES ANYMORE AND WE HAVE 30% OF OUR CRA
9:54:30AM FUNDS GOING TO AFFORDABLE HOUSING.
9:54:33AM IT'S A BALANCE.
9:54:34AM ONE OF THE THINGS, ONE OF THE REASONS WHY I THOUGHT IT WAS
9:54:36AM SO IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY TO INVEST AND CONTINUE TO INVEST
9:54:39AM IN POST-STORM ASSISTANCE FOR PEOPLE IN HOUSING IS TO KEEP
9:54:43AM PEOPLE IN THEIR HOMES BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE
9:54:47AM ECONOMIC CHARACTER OF A LOT OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS, A LOT OF
9:54:50AM WORKING CLASS NEIGHBORHOODS CHANGE.
9:54:51AM BUT FOR PEOPLE WHO OFTEN RENT, FOR EXAMPLE, OR MAYBE PEOPLE
9:54:55AM IN APARTMENTS, TIMBERFALLS OFF 113th STREET, TO MAKE
9:55:01AM PEOPLE AWARE OF CRA PROGRAMS FROM THAT 30% WHO MAYBE CAN'T
9:55:04AM AFFORD TO STAY OR COULDN'T STAY, SOME OF THAT I GUESS IS
9:55:09AM BEYOND US IN THE SENSE THEY MOVED IF THEY ALREADY HAD TO
9:55:12AM MOVE BECAUSE THIS HAPPENED IN OCTOBER.
9:55:13AM IN OTHER WORDS, TO THE EXTENT IT CAN BE DONE, LETTING PEOPLE
9:55:17AM KNOW OF THE PROGRAMS POTENTIALLY.
9:55:18AM I CAN GET WITH YOU OFF-LINE FOR SOME OF THESE APARTMENTS AND
9:55:21AM EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.
9:55:23AM BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR MEMO.
9:55:24AM IT WAS REALLY GOOD AS ALWAYS.
9:55:26AM YOU ALWAYS DO GREAT WORK.
9:55:27AM THANK YOU, SIR.
9:55:29AM YOU'RE THE BEST.
9:55:30AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: THANK YOU.
9:55:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANYONE ELSE?
9:55:32AM WELCOME BACK.
9:55:41AM >>COURTNEY ORR: COURTNEY ORR, DEVELOPMENT MANAGER FOR THE
9:55:44AM URBAN CORE.
9:55:44AM I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE THE U.S. TEAM WHO HAS BEEN WORKING ON
9:55:48AM UPDATING THE CENTRAL PARK AND THE TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT
9:55:52AM CRPs.
9:55:54AM THEY HAD A LOT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL
9:55:57AM MONTHS AND HAVE TAKEN THAT IN TO DEVELOP THE COMPONENTS OF
9:56:00AM THE UPDATED CRP.
9:56:02AM THEY ARE GOING TO DESCRIBE THOSE COMPONENTS TO YOU.
9:56:06AM WE WANTED THIS PRESENTATION TO OCCUR PRIOR TO REQUESTING
9:56:09AM ADOPTION OF THE UPDATED CRP SO YOU HAVE A CHANCE TO REVIEW,
9:56:15AM ASK QUESTIONS AND THEN SOMETIME IN PROBABLY APRIL OR MAY
9:56:19AM TIME FRAME WE WOULD REQUEST ADOPTION OF THE UPDATES.
9:56:21AM I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE PROFESSOR TRENT GREEN WHO WILL
9:56:27AM INTRODUCE HIS TEAM GIVING THE PRESENTATION TODAY.
9:56:29AM WE'LL RUN THESE BACK TO BACK, CENTRAL PARK AND TAMPA
9:56:32AM HEIGHTS.
9:56:33AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ABSOLUTELY.
9:56:38AM >> GOOD MORNING, MADAM CHAIR, CRA BOARD MEMBERS, TRENT
9:56:42AM GREEN, PROFESSOR OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN UP AT USF.
9:56:46AM I HAVE WITH ME TODAY TWO OF MY RESEARCH ASSISTANTS WHO ARE
9:56:51AM WORKING ON BOTH OF THE CRA PLAN UPDATES.
9:56:53AM TWO OF THE LAST REMAIN OF SIX.
9:57:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GOOD MORNING, LADIES.
9:57:10AM >> I SEE CENTRAL PARK IS UP, SO WE'LL START WITH THAT ONE.
9:57:27AM AS YOU KNOW, THESE UPDATED ARE THE FIRST UPDATES THAT HAVE
9:57:30AM BEEN DONE SINCE BOTH OF THESE CRAs WERE ESTABLISHED, BOTH
9:57:35AM OF WHICH ARE THE SMALLEST CRAs IN THE CITY.
9:57:38AM CENTRAL PARK CRA -- HERE ARE THE MAPS TO SHOW YOU THE
9:57:57AM BOUNDARIES.
9:57:57AM WHICH HAVE NOT CHANGED, OF COURSE.
9:58:02AM AND THEN THE PURPOSE OF THE CRA WAS TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE
9:58:11AM SINCE THE PLAN WAS INITIALLY ADOPTED IN 2006, UPDATE THE CRA
9:58:15AM PLAN EVERY FIVE YEARS, REQUIRED BY CHAPTER 163 OF PART 3 OF
9:58:20AM THE FLORIDA STATUTES.
9:58:21AM AND THEN TO KEEP THE CENTRAL PARK CRA PLAN UP TO DATE,
9:58:26AM CURRENT AND RELEVANT TO THE EVOLVING ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
9:58:29AM CONDITIONS AND AS PART OF THE CITY.
9:58:30AM THE SCOPE, OF COURSE, IS TO PROVIDE AN ASSESSMENT OF THE
9:58:39AM PAST REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES, PROVIDE AN UPDATE OF THE
9:58:43AM CURRENT REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES AND THEN IDENTIFY FUTURE
9:58:46AM REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES THAT STILL EXIST WITHIN THE
9:58:49AM CENTRAL PARK CRA BOUNDARIES.
9:58:53AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:58:54AM THE CENTRAL PARK CRA PLAN IS IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH CHAPTER
9:59:00AM 163, PART 3 OF THE FLORIDA STATUTES.
9:59:03AM TAMPA'S IMAGINE 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, AND PLANNING
9:59:12AM INITIATIVES PREVIOUSLY ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:59:15AM OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WAS A TIERED APPROACH,
9:59:20AM WHICH INVOLVED COMMUNICATION AND ATTENDANCE WITH CAC MEMBERS
9:59:25AM AND MEET-INS AS WELL AS DELIBERATIONS AND WORKSHOPS.
9:59:29AM CITY OF TAMPA DEPARTMENT CONSULTATIONS AS WELL AS
9:59:34AM STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS AND COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS IN PERSON AND
9:59:38AM ONLINE SURVEYS.
9:59:43AM >> SO THESE TWO MAPS GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE PHYSICAL
9:59:47AM CONDITIONS IN THE CENTRAL PARK CRA, BACK IN 2003, PRIOR TO
9:59:52AM THE ESTABLISHMENT OR ADOPTION, RATHER, OF THE PLAN.
9:59:57AM AND WHAT IT SORT OF LOOKS LIKE TODAY.
9:59:59AM THIS IMAGE ON THE RIGHT IS DATED BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT MORE
10:00:03AM CONSTRUCTION ALONG THE EASTERN EDGE WITH THE GASWORX
10:00:06AM DEVELOPMENT.
10:00:07AM THIS MATRIX SORT OF SHOWS THE COMPLETED REDEVELOPMENT
10:00:16AM PROJECTS IN THE CENTRAL PARK CRA SINCE INCEPTION.
10:00:20AM WE'VE CATEGORIZED THESE IN TERMS OF RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT,
10:00:26AM INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, BOTH INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AS
10:00:29AM WELL AS OPEN SPACE PROJECTS AND AMENITIES.
10:00:32AM THIS IMAGE SORT OF SHOWS WHERE THE REMAINING REDEVELOPMENT
10:00:44AM OPPORTUNITIES ACTUALLY ARE IN THE CENTRAL PARK CRA.
10:00:47AM AGAIN, THIS IS A LITTLE BIT DATED BECAUSE THERE IS
10:00:50AM CONSTRUCTION ON THE EASTERN EDGE OF THE ENCORE DEVELOPMENT
10:00:55AM AS WELL AS FURTHER SOUTH -- SECOND PHASE OF THE GASWORX
10:01:02AM PROJECT BUT IT'S WELL UNDERWAY.
10:01:04AM UP TO THE NORTH, THAT TAN AREA, THAT IS THE REMAINDER OF THE
10:01:11AM CENTRAL PARK APARTMENTS.
10:01:12AM AND THEN FURTHER NORTH UP INTO THAT TRIANGULAR AREA NEXT TO
10:01:16AM THE INTERSTATE, THOSE ARE VACANT OR UNDERUTILIZED
10:01:19AM PROPERTIES, SEVERAL OF WHICH WE'VE IDENTIFIED AS
10:01:23AM OPPORTUNITIES FOR REDEVELOPMENT, PARTICULARLY ALONG THAT
10:01:26AM WESTERN EDGE OF NORTH NEBRASKA, WHICH IS WHAT MR. MURPHY
10:01:33AM REFERRED TO A MOMENT AGO.
10:01:36AM THIS JUST SORT OF SHOWS YOU AGAIN WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING WITH
10:01:45AM THE ENCORE DEVELOPMENT AND THE NUMBER OF PARCELS THAT MOST
10:01:50AM -- WELL, PARCEL 8, PARCEL 10, PARCEL 8 HAS BEEN BUILT ON.
10:01:56AM PARCEL 12 IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND HOPEFULLY PARCEL 10 WILL
10:02:01AM BE UNDERWAY SOON.
10:02:03AM AND THE POSSIBILITY OF DOING SOMETHING RIGHT AT THE CORNER
10:02:06AM OF CASS AND NEBRASKA ON PARCEL 13.
10:02:09AM SO THESE IMAGES ALSO SHOW, AGAIN, SORT OF THE SCALE AND THE
10:02:15AM MASSING THAT'S BEING ENVISIONED FOR THE BUILD-OUT OF THIS
10:02:19AM AREA.
10:02:19AM THESE ARE WHAT SOME OF THE BUILDINGS MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
10:02:30AM I BELIEVE THE GASWORX CONDOMINIUMS ARE COMPLETED AT THIS
10:02:38AM POINT.
10:02:38AM THIS MATRIX ON THE LEFT SORT OF GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF THE
10:02:50AM RANGE OF DIFFERENT BUILDING TYPES THAT COULD BE BUILT IN THE
10:02:54AM CENTRAL PARK CRA ON THE REMAINING VACANT AND UNDERUTILIZED
10:03:02AM PROPERTY.
10:03:02AM AND THESE ARE SOME SAMPLE IMAGES THAT GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF
10:03:07AM THE SCALE OF WHAT COULD HAPPEN THERE.
10:03:10AM WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE GOOD TO SORT OF INCLUDE THIS IMAGE TO
10:03:18AM GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE OVERALL MASSING THAT'S LIKELY TO
10:03:22AM EVOLVE IN THIS PART OF THE CITY.
10:03:25AM BOTH IN THE CRA AS WELL AS WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED IN THE
10:03:31AM GASWORX PROJECT ACROSS THE NUCCIO PARKWAY.
10:03:41AM >> WE HAVE COMPILED AND ITEMIZED ACTIVITIES BASED OFF OF THE
10:03:46AM ANNUAL CRA ACTIVITIES REPORT.
10:03:48AM AND THIS ALLOWED US TO IDENTIFY AND ASSESS REDEVELOPMENT
10:03:53AM TRENDS THROUGHOUT THE CENTRAL PARK CRA.
10:04:00AM >> THIS LAST MATRIX SORT OF SHOWS HOW WE TOOK YOUR PRIORITY
10:04:08AM CRITERIA AND ROLLED THEM INTO WHAT WE'RE CALLING KEY
10:04:12AM PERFORMANCE INDICATORS OR METRICS TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW
10:04:17AM REDEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY IN THE PAST MEETS YOUR CRITERIA
10:04:21AM TODAY.
10:04:22AM SO I'LL LET IESSA TALK ABOUT THE POLICY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR
10:04:27AM EACH ONE OF THESE IF WE DID MAKE SOME.
10:04:28AM >> THE FIRST ONE IS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE CENTRAL PART
10:04:33AM CRA, MANY BUILDINGS HAVE BEEN UNDERTAKEN.
10:04:40AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: EXCUSE ME.
10:04:40AM HOW MUCH TIME ARE YOU GOING TO NEED FOR YOUR PRESENTATION?
10:04:44AM HOW MANY SLIDES.
10:04:45AM >> THIS IS THE LAST ONE.
10:04:47AM WE DO HAVE TAMPA HEIGHTS.
10:04:49AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AND THAT'S FINE.
10:04:50AM >> IN ADDITION, TO WHAT'S ALREADY BEEN UNDERTAKEN,
10:04:54AM ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL AND MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT SHOULD BE
10:04:56AM ENCOURAGED TO PROVIDE MORE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVING COMMERCIAL
10:05:00AM USES AND LOCAL JOB OPPORTUNITIES ALREADY BEING UNDERTAKEN IN
10:05:06AM THE PRESENTATION WE PREVIOUSLY SAW.
10:05:08AM ATTAINABLE HOUSING, THERE ARE SOME AFFORDABLE UNITS IN THE
10:05:11AM ENCORE DEVELOPMENT AS WELL AS IS ELDERLY HOUSING, BUT THE
10:05:15AM TIF FUND EXPENDITURES SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED TO ACQUIRE
10:05:22AM VACANT AND UNDERUTILIZED PROPERTY AS HAS BEEN DONE AND PUT
10:05:26AM ASIDE FOR AFFORDABLE AND MIXED INCOME HOUSING OR MIXED USE
10:05:29AM DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS AN AFFORDABLE UNIT COMPONENT.
10:05:34AM ADDITIONALLY, GRANTS, TAX CREDITS AND OTHER FINANCIAL
10:05:36AM STRATEGIES CAN BE USED TO FACILITATE CONSTRUCTION OF
10:05:38AM AFFORDABLE AND WORKFORCE HOUSING IN THE CRA AND ALSO
10:05:41AM REGULATORY AND OTHER CONSTRAINTS THAT HINDER STREAMLINED
10:05:44AM REVIEWS AND APPROVAL OF PROCESSES OF AFFORDABLE WORK HOUSE
10:05:50AM PROJECTS IDENTIFIED.
10:05:50AM OTHER SUBSIDIES, DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES AND OPPORTUNITIES
10:05:53AM FOR INCLUSION OF WORKFORCE HOUSING IN THE UNITS MARKET RATE
10:05:56AM RESIDENTIAL IN THE CRA SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED.
10:05:59AM CONNECTIVITY, THE SAFETY, WE SHOULD BE PROVIDING ADDITIONAL
10:06:05AM ENHANCED PEDESTRIAN FEATURES AT THE KEY CORNERS OF THE CRA.
10:06:11AM REDEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ENCOURAGED AT INTERSECTIONS OF EAST
10:06:14AM CASS STREET AND NEBRASKA AVENUE AND NUCCIO.
10:06:19AM THE PROPOSED BRIGHTLINE TRAIN STATION AND INCORPORATE SMALL
10:06:26AM SCALE GATEWAY PLACE MAKING AND PEDESTRIAN ENHANCEMENTS ALONG
10:06:28AM NORTH NEBRASKA AVENUE AND EAST 7th AVENUE AND EAST PALM
10:06:32AM AVENUE TO FACILITATE GREATER CONNECTIVITY BETWEEN TAMPA
10:06:34AM HEIGHTS AND YBOR CITY.
10:06:35AM FOR THE QUALITY OF LIFE WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO IMPLEMENT
10:06:39AM SMALL SCALE PUBLIC REALM, PUBLIC ART AND PEDESTRIAN FEATURES
10:06:43AM LIKE THOSE IDENTIFIED IN THE CAC AND COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS TO
10:06:47AM COMPLEMENT WHAT'S GOING ON ALREADY IN REDEVELOPMENT AND
10:06:50AM CONTRIBUTE TO UNIQUE IDENTITY AND SENSE OF PLACE AND IMPROVE
10:06:53AM LIVABILITY AND WELL-BEING OF RESIDENTS.
10:06:56AM COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, WE HAVE FOLDED THAT INTO OUR PROCESS
10:06:59AM AND WE HAVE NO FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS.
10:07:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ANY COMMENTS ON THIS PORTION OF THE
10:07:04AM PRESENTATION FROM THE BOARD?
10:07:05AM I JUST HAVE ONE.
10:07:08AM I REALLY APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT WE SHOULD ENCOURAGE THE
10:07:12AM MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT IN THIS COMMUNITY AS WELL.
10:07:15AM HOPEFULLY YOU'LL BE SAYING THAT FOR TAMPA HEIGHTS AS WELL
10:07:18AM WHEN WE ARE CONSIDERING PROJECTS BECAUSE THAT INFORMS THE
10:07:24AM COMMUNITY THAT THERE ARE THINGS FOR THEM, WALKABLE, AND
10:07:26AM THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.
10:07:27AM I'M GLAD YOU ALL POINTED THAT OUT AND IT WAS REPRESENTED IN
10:07:30AM YOUR REPORT.
10:07:31AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:07:34AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE'VE HAD LONG DISCUSSIONS ABOUT THIS, BUT I
10:07:38AM RECOMMEND YOU REPLACE PUBLIC ART WITH ART ACTIVATION.
10:07:41AM PUBLIC ART BY ITSELF IS A VERY SPECIFIC, BUREAUCRATIC
10:07:45AM PROCESS THAT THE CITY HAS TO GO THROUGH.
10:07:47AM ART ACTIVATION IS SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAT'S
10:07:50AM EASIER TO ACCESS.
10:07:51AM WHICH CAN INCLUDE CONVINCING ART GALLERIES TO MOVE IN AND
10:07:59AM PERFORMANCE, DANCE PERFORMANCES AND OTHER THINGS BESIDES
10:08:06AM JUST PUBLIC ART.
10:08:06AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I LIKE THAT, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:08:08AM NOW WE'LL MOVE TO TAMPA HEIGHTS.
10:08:10AM MS. SOTO, CAN YOU SET THE TIMER FOR THIS PORTION OF THE
10:08:17AM PRESENTATION?
10:08:18AM JUST FOR EFFICIENCY.
10:08:39AM >> ROLLING RIGHT INTO THE TAMPA RIVER HEIGHTS CRA PLAN
10:08:43AM UPDATE, HERE YOU CAN SEE SOME AREA MAPS.
10:08:49AM SHOW YOU ON THE LEFT WHAT THE AREA LOOKED LIKE WHEN THE CRA
10:08:52AM PLAN WAS ADOPTED.
10:08:54AM THIS WAS AFTER, OF COURSE, A LOT OF CLEARANCE HAD BEEN DONE.
10:08:58AM THE OLD POLICE STATION SITE AS WELL AS SOME OF THE OTHER
10:09:03AM PROPERTIES THAT WERE IN THE AREA AND, OF COURSE, ON THE
10:09:07AM RIGHT, YOU CAN SORT OF SEE IT RELATIVE TO THAT SORT OF
10:09:13AM NORTHERN BEND OF THE HILLSBOROUGH RIVER AND, OF COURSE,
10:09:16AM TAMPA HEIGHTS COMMUNITY JUST TO THE EAST OF THAT.
10:09:21AM AGAIN, THE PURPOSE OF THE CRA IS A PLAN UPDATE.
10:09:26AM SAME AS CENTRAL PARK CRA PLAN, TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE
10:09:32AM STATUS OF THINGS, REDEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE AREA.
10:09:35AM SINCE THE PLAN WAS ADOPTED AND THE SCOPE OF THE CRA PLAN
10:09:43AM UPDATE IS ESSENTIALLY THE SAME AS WELL.
10:09:49AM >> THE TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT CRA PLAN IS IN FULL
10:09:52AM COMPLIANCE WITH ALL APPLICABLE REQUIREMENTS OF CHAPTER 163,
10:09:57AM PART 3 OF THE FLORIDA STATUTES.
10:09:59AM IT'S ALSO IN COMPLIANCE WITH TAMPA'S IMAGINE 2040
10:10:03AM COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, CITY OF TAMPA ZONING AND PLANNING
10:10:07AM INITIATIVES ADOPTED BY THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:10:09AM OUR COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY, AGAIN, WE USE THE TIERED
10:10:17AM APPROACH WHICH INVOLVED AREA STAKEHOLDER INTERVIEWS,
10:10:19AM COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS AND ONLINE SURVEYS AS WELL AS IN PERSON
10:10:25AM MEET AND ATTENDANCE WITH THE TAMPA HEIGHTS CAC.
10:10:28AM AS WELL AS CITY OF TAMPA DEPARTMENT CONSULTATIONS AND OTHER
10:10:34AM COMMUNITY MEET-INS.
10:10:37AM >> THESE MAPS GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE PHYSICAL CONDITIONS.
10:10:42AM AGAIN, ON THE LEFT, WHAT THINGS SORT OF LOOKED LIKE IN 2002
10:10:47AM AND THEN AN AERIAL IMAGE OF JUST LAST YEAR.
10:10:50AM OF COURSE, THESE ARE CERTAINLY CHANGING QUITE A BIT IN THIS
10:10:54AM CRA.
10:10:55AM AS YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE A LONG-STANDING DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT
10:10:58AM WITH ONE ENTITY WHO ACTUALLY CONTROLS THE REMAINDER OF THE
10:11:04AM DEVELOPABLE PROPERTY WITHIN THE TAMPA RIVERFRONT HEIGHTS
10:11:10AM CRA.
10:11:11AM THIS IS A MATRIX SORT OF SHOWING THE COMPLETED REDEVELOPMENT
10:11:15AM PROJECTS WITHIN THE CRA FOR COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT,
10:11:20AM RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT, INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT,
10:11:23AM INFRASTRUCTURE, PUBLIC OPEN SPACE, AS WELL AS PARKING.
10:11:27AM THIS IMAGE SORT OF SHOWS YOU THE REMAINDER OF THE LAND THAT
10:11:35AM COULD BE DEVELOPED IN THE TAMPA HEIGHTS RIVERFRONT CRA.
10:11:39AM IT TOTALS APPROXIMATELY ABOUT 20 ACRES.
10:11:47AM IT IS STILL A LOT TO DO.
10:11:49AM THIS CRA IS DEVELOPING INTO, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THESE IMAGES,
10:11:55AM FROM THEIR MASTER PLAN FROM SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I DO KNOW
10:11:59AM THEY HAVE A NEW MASTER PLAN THAT THEY ARE WORKING FROM OR
10:12:01AM REVISED ONE, I SHOULD SAY.
10:12:03AM BUT IT IS TRANSFORMING THIS AREA, PARTICULARLY THE CRA INTO
10:12:07AM A MIXED USE URBAN VILLAGE.
10:12:10AM AGAIN, SOME OF THE REMAINING ENTITLEMENTS FOR FUTURE
10:12:18AM DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CRA AND THIS IMAGE ON THE RIGHT GIVES
10:12:24AM YOU AN IDEA -- THIS IS FROM AN OLDER MASTER PLAN, AN IDEA OF
10:12:30AM WHAT THINGS COULD LOOK LIKE.
10:12:32AM AGAIN, THE RANGE OF BUILDING TYPES THAT COULD BE BUILT WITH
10:12:39AM A LOT OF THE VACANT LAND WITHIN THE REMAINING YEARS OF THE
10:12:44AM CRA ITSELF, AS THE DEVELOPER PROCEEDS WITH THEIR PHASED
10:12:50AM DEVELOPMENT FOR COMPLETING THE OVERALL MASTER PLAN.
10:12:53AM AND THEN SOME OF THE TYPES OF BUILDINGS, IMAGES, RATHER,
10:12:58AM SOME OF THE TYPES OF BUILDINGS THAT COULD BE BUILT THERE AS
10:13:01AM WELL.
10:13:01AM AGAIN, ANOTHER THREE-DIMENSIONAL DIAGRAM THAT SHOWS YOU WHAT
10:13:06AM IS PLANNED OR PROPOSED, BOTH IN THE CRA AS WELL AS ADJACENT
10:13:11AM TO IT ON THE EAST AND ACROSS THE RIVER IN THE WEST RIVER
10:13:16AM DEVELOPMENT WHICH IS -- MOST OF THIS IS PRETTY MUCH DONE
10:13:19AM NOW.
10:13:22AM >> AGAIN, WE COMPILED AND ITEMIZED ACTIVITIES FROM THE CRA'S
10:13:27AM ANNUAL ACTIVITY REPORT.
10:13:28AM THIS ALLOWED US TO IDENTIFY AND ASSESS PAST AND CURRENT
10:13:35AM REDEVELOPMENT TRENDS IN TAMPA HEIGHTS.
10:13:42AM >> THESE ARE THE ECONOMIC -- THE KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
10:13:49AM AND THE ASSESSMENT OF THEIR STATUS.
10:13:51AM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, THE FIRST ONE, CONSTRUCTION HAS BEEN
10:13:55AM UNDERWAY, PROJECTS HAVE BEEN COMPLETED, BUT THERE'S STILL A
10:14:00AM WAYS TO GO SO THERE ARE NO RECOMMENDATIONS AT THIS TIME FOR
10:14:03AM THAT OBJECTIVE.
10:14:05AM FOR ATTAINABLE HOUSING, THERE IS AN ONGOING NEED FOR
10:14:08AM AFFORDABLE ATTAINABLE WORKFORCE HOUSING IN THE CRA.
10:14:11AM CURRENTLY ONLY MARKET RATE HOUSING IS PLANNED.
10:14:13AM TO DATE NOTHING HAS BEEN BUILT.
10:14:16AM AFFORDABLE HOUSING SHOULD BE ENCOURAGED IN CRA TO APPROVE
10:14:18AM LOCAL HOUSING -- COMPLY WITH STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS AND MEET
10:14:21AM CITY OF TAMPA AFFORDABLE HOUSING OBJECTIVES AND AVAILABLE TO
10:14:25AM FRIENDS SHOULD BE PRIORITIZED AND GRANTS AND TAX CREDITS,
10:14:29AM OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED AND EXPLORED FOR
10:14:31AM REGULATORY RELIEF TO SUPPORT INCLUSION OF AFFORDABLE UNITS
10:14:35AM AND MARKET RATE BUILDINGS IN THE CRA.
10:14:37AM REGARDS TO CONNECTIVITY, OPPORTUNITIES SHOULD BE IDENTIFIED
10:14:40AM FOR EXPANDING CONNECTIVITY INTO THE CRA FROM THE NORTH AND
10:14:43AM THE EAST WITH NEW PUBLIC BROWNFIELD FEATURES DESCRIBED IN
10:14:47AM THE CITY'S WALK-BIKE PLAN.
10:14:50AM COORDINATION WITH THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
10:14:52AM SHOULD BE MADE TO IMPLEMENT ADDITIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY AND
10:14:54AM CONNECTIVITY FEATURES ALONG NORTH TAMPA STREET.
10:14:57AM HART SHOULD BE COORDINATED WITH IN THEIR PLANS FOR TECO
10:14:59AM STREETCAR EXTENSION AND STATION STOPS ADJACENT TO THE CRA.
10:15:03AM FOR THE QUALITY OF LIFE, ADDITIONAL SMALL SCALE PUBLIC REALM
10:15:06AM MEASURES SHOULD BE IMPLEMENTED WHICH HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED IN
10:15:08AM THE CRA WORKSHOPS SUCH AS WAY FINDING, PLACE-MAKING, PARK
10:15:12AM ENHANCEMENTS, VITALITY, A SENSE OF PLACE, LIVEABILITY AND
10:15:15AM SUPPORT ONGOING REDEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENT A PUBLIC ART
10:15:19AM FEATURE THROUGHOUT THE CRA TO ENHANCE ITS GENERAL CHARACTER,
10:15:22AM PLACE BRAND AND OVERALL VISUAL IDENTITY AND FOR COMMUNITY
10:15:26AM ENGAGEMENT WE HAVE FOLDED THAT INTO OUR PROCESS AND WE HAVE
10:15:28AM NO FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS.
10:15:31AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:15:32AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON.
10:15:36AM >>BILL CARLSON: THANK YOU FOR THE WORK ON THIS.
10:15:37AM IN BOTH OF THESE, I WOULD ASK YOU TO GO BACK TO THE
10:15:41AM STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE DID FOR THE CRA.
10:15:44AM WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
10:15:48AM HAVING AN OUTPUT GOAL WHICH IS TO BUILD BUILDINGS AND
10:15:52AM INFRASTRUCTURE AND THE OUTCOME GOAL, WHICH IS IMPROVE, AS
10:15:55AM YOU SAY QUALITY OF LIFE.
10:15:57AM QUALITY OF LIFE IS NOT MEASURED IN TERMS OF SIDEWALK MILES
10:15:59AM OR BICYCLE LANE MILES.
10:16:01AM IT'S DETERMINED IN TERMS OF ITS ACTUAL IMPACT ON PEOPLE.
10:16:07AM SAME THING WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
10:16:08AM IT SHOULD ULTIMATELY BE MEASURED IN TERMS OF PER CAPITA
10:16:12AM INCOME.
10:16:13AM MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME, ESPECIALLY IN AREAS GENTRIFYING.
10:16:17AM HOW DOES IT AFFECT THE FAMILIES THAT HAVE BEEN THERE A LONG
10:16:21AM TIME?
10:16:22AM ONE OF THE MISTAKES TAMPA HAS MADE FOR A LONG TIME IN THE
10:16:25AM PAST IS TO BE FOCUSED ON WHAT I CALL THE EDIFICE COMPLEX.
10:16:29AM THAT THE GOAL IS JUST BUILDINGS.
10:16:31AM YES, 163 TALKS ABOUT PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE AND HAS SOME
10:16:35AM LIMITATIONS ON THAT BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CAN'T BE
10:16:37AM FOCUSED ON THE OUTCOME WHICH IS HOW DO WE IMPROVE PEOPLE'S
10:16:42AM LIVES.
10:16:43AM AN EXAMPLE IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT SPATIALLY WITH THE LAND
10:16:47AM THAT ARMATURE WORKS CAN DEVELOP, WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE
10:16:50AM EXPERIENCE OF THE TAMPA HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD INTERFACING
10:16:53AM WITH THOSE SPACES?
10:16:56AM HOW WILL THEY AND THE NEW RESIDENTS, HOW WILL THEY BENEFIT
10:16:59AM FROM THE SPACES AND THE INTERACTIVITY?
10:17:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: KIND OF DOUBLING DOWN ON WHAT COUNCILMAN
10:17:09AM CARLSON SAID, YOU HAVE REALLY INTERESTING THINGS DEVELOPING
10:17:12AM AROUND THE CRA THAT ARE NOT INCLUSIVE.
10:17:14AM HAVING THAT RELATIONSHIP VIA AGAIN NOT NECESSARILY THE
10:17:18AM LENGTH OF SIDEWALKS, BUT THE VALUE ADDED IN THE SIDEWALKS AS
10:17:23AM FAR AS WALKABILITY, THE WIDTH, INTERCONNECTIVITY TO THE
10:17:28AM PROPOSED STREETCAR EXTENSION AND THEN YOU HAVE THE PUBLIX
10:17:31AM GROCERY STORE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CRA, HAVING THAT
10:17:37AM RESIDENT INTERCONNECTIVITY TO THOSE ADJACENT NEIGHBORHOODS I
10:17:39AM THINK WILL BE REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THE CRA IS SO
10:17:42AM CONFINED AND SO LIMITED.
10:17:44AM BUT THE IMPACT IT COULD HAVE ON FUTURE RESIDENTS LIVING
10:17:47AM WITHIN THOSE BOUNDARIES AND, OF COURSE, THE ADJACENT
10:17:49AM NEIGHBORHOODS IS GOING TO BE CRITICAL TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF
10:17:51AM TAMPA.
10:17:52AM I APPRECIATE YOU ALL LOOKING OUTSIDE OF THAT SMALL BOX.
10:17:54AM THANK YOU.
10:18:00AM >> [INAUDIBLE]
10:18:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OKAY.
10:18:03AM MOVING ON TO ITEM NUMBER 9.
10:18:08AM KICK THIS OFF, BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:18:10AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:18:12AM APPRECIATE THAT.
10:18:13AM THIS DEALS WITH THE FARE-FREE STREETCAR.
10:18:18AM THERE ARE INTERNAL HART BOARD ISSUES WITH THIS.
10:18:23AM I KNOW MR. WILLITS IS HERE.
10:18:24AM JUSTIN IS HERE WITH HART.
10:18:29AM THE ISSUE WAS THAT THERE WAS A DISPUTE BETWEEN HART --
10:18:32AM SHOULDN'T SAY DISPUTE -- DISAGREEMENT BETWEEN HART AND THE
10:18:35AM CITY OF TAMPA AS TO ONGOING COSTS FOR KEEPING THE STREETCAR
10:18:45AM FARE-FREE.
10:18:48AM SO WE WERE TASKED WITH SPEAKING WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
10:18:51AM ABOUT COMING UP WITH A COMPROMISE ON HOW THE CITY COULD
10:18:54AM ASSUME THESE FUNDS.
10:18:56AM I DON'T BELIEVE THERE IS WILL ON THE HART BOARD FOR MAJORITY
10:19:00AM VOTE.
10:19:00AM I DON'T BELIEVE FOR HART ASSUMING THAT RESPONSIBILITY.
10:19:04AM SO MR. WILLITS CAME UP WITH AN IDEA ON TAKING A LOOK AT A
10:19:06AM FUNDING ALLOCATION THAT WAS BEING MADE FOR BUS SHELTERS,
10:19:15AM WHICH COULDN'T BE GOTTEN TO THIS YEAR.
10:19:15AM MOVING THOSE FUNDS BECAUSE, AGAIN, THE BUS SHELTERS COULDN'T
10:19:19AM BE DONE UNTIL NEXT YEAR, AS A TEMPORARY SOLUTION.
10:19:22AM I DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ON THE FUNDS THAT WERE ALLOCATED
10:19:25AM HERE.
10:19:25AM MAYBE JUSTIN OR SOMEONE FROM STAFF CAN ANSWER THIS.
10:19:30AM APPEARS TO BE LESS THAN WHAT I UNDERSTAND WAS ALLOCATED FOR
10:19:33AM THIS.
10:19:33AM THAT WAS SORT OF THE COMPROMISE THAT WAS REACHED.
10:19:37AM I KNOW THIS MEMO SORT OF MEMORIALIZES THINGS GOING FORWARD.
10:19:42AM THIS IS A TEMPORARY -- THIS IS VERY, VERY TEMPORARY.
10:19:46AM ALL THIS DOES IS PUSH THIS ISSUE OFF A LITTLE BIT MORE.
10:19:50AM MR. McCRAY OR JUSTIN, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL WANTED TO
10:19:52AM SPEAK.
10:19:54AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: TAMPA CRA DIRECTOR.
10:19:58AM I'LL INVITE MS. ORR AND MS. THROWER UP.
10:20:01AM THEY WERE CLOSING TO IT WORKING WITH THEIR CACs.
10:20:04AM TO YOUR POINT, COUNCILMAN VIERA, THIS IS SOMEWHAT OF A
10:20:08AM BAND-AID, THE FUNDING ALLOCATED AND RECOMMENDED BY THE
10:20:11AM CACs WILL ONLY TAKE US TO THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR.
10:20:16AM A SUGGESTION WOULD BE TO HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS AS WE'RE
10:20:19AM APPROACHING BUDGET SEASON TO SEE WHAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO DO
10:20:23AM MOVING FORWARD IF WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE SERVICE
10:20:29AM AT THAT RATE.
10:20:35AM >>COURTNEY ORR: DEVELOPMENT MANAGER FOR DOWNTOWN.
10:20:37AM I JUST WANTED TO MENTION AFTER THE MOTION WAS MADE AT THE
10:20:42AM LAST MEETING, WE IMMEDIATELY STARTED WORKING WITH JUSTIN AND
10:20:45AM HIS TEAM TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE COULD MAKE THIS WORK.
10:20:49AM THEY CAME TO EACH OF OUR CACs, DOWNTOWN, CHANNEL DISTRICT,
10:20:53AM AND YBOR TO PROVIDE A PRESENTATION.
10:20:58AM THE PREMISE WAS THAT THE $700,000 THAT WAS HELPING THAT FREE
10:21:04AM FARE OPTION AVAILABLE TO THE RIDERS EXPIRED.
10:21:09AM SO WE WERE TRYING TO MAKE UP THE $700,000 THAT WOULD
10:21:14AM CONTINUE TO KEEP THE FARE FREE FOR OUR VISITORS AND
10:21:17AM RESIDENTS.
10:21:17AM WE SPLIT THAT INTO THIRDS.
10:21:21AM 233,000 FROM CHANNEL DISTRICT.
10:21:24AM 233,000 FROM DOWNTOWN.
10:21:27AM 234 YBOR PAID AN EXTRA THOUSAND, 234 FROM YBOR.
10:21:35AM THAT WOULD CUMULATIVELY MAKE UP THE 700,000 TO ALLOW THE
10:21:40AM FARES TO BE FREE UNTIL SEPTEMBER OR WHATEVER THE NEXT PLAN
10:21:46AM IS.
10:21:47AM BUT FOR NOW, WE WERE ABLE TO GET CONSENSUS FROM EACH OF
10:21:52AM THOSE CACs TO REALLOCATE FUNDING TO MAKE THAT FUNDING
10:21:59AM POSSIBLE.
10:22:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH HART TO DO
10:22:02AM THAT.
10:22:02AM MS. THROWER, DO YOU WANT TO ADD TO THAT?
10:22:04AM >>BRENDA THROWER: THANK YOU.
10:22:05AM BRENDA THROWER, YBOR CITY CRA MANAGER.
10:22:09AM THE ONLY THING I'LL ADD, THERE WAS CONFUSION ABOUT THE HART
10:22:13AM BUS STOP MONEY, THE ONLY BUDGET THAT ACTUALLY HAD ALLOCATED
10:22:17AM FUNDS IN THEIR FY '25 BUDGET WAS YBOR ONE.
10:22:20AM SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT YOUR SHEET THERE AND ALL THE
10:22:24AM REALLOCATIONS, YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE IS A REALLOCATION OF
10:22:27AM $100,000 ALREADY IN FY '25 THAT'S GOING TOWARDS THIS FUNDING
10:22:32AM REQUEST TODAY.
10:22:33AM THE OTHER BUDGETS DIDN'T HAVE IT IN THERE YET, BUT THERE WAS
10:22:37AM A PLAN THAT HART WAS WORKING ON WITH THE CITY THROUGH OUR
10:22:41AM SPECIAL PROJECTS TO COME FORWARD WITH THAT ASK.
10:22:44AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:22:45AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:22:48AM >>LYNN HURTAK: FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, THEY NEED 1.4 MILLION,
10:22:54AM NOT THE 700 MILLION.
10:22:56AM I'M CURIOUS, IF THE CACs HAD ANY RECOMMENDATIONS ON OTHER
10:23:02AM PLACES TO FIND THE MONEY.
10:23:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THIS IS FOR US.
10:23:09AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
10:23:09AM I'M ASKING OUR CRA MANAGERS.
10:23:13AM >> YES.
10:23:13AM SO AT THE YBOR CITY CRA MEETING, WHICH WAS THE FIRST GROUP
10:23:17AM THEY CAME TO, THERE WAS THAT DISCUSSION.
10:23:20AM THERE WAS ONE -- TWO OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS THAT SAID WHAT
10:23:23AM ABOUT THE PORT AUTHORITY OR OTHER ENTITIES THAT COULD HELP
10:23:26AM SUPPORT THIS EFFORT.
10:23:28AM THAT WAS JUST TOSSED OUT THERE.
10:23:31AM THEY WERE JUST LOOKING AT THEIR OWN COFFERS OF WHAT THEY
10:23:33AM COULD SUPPORT.
10:23:35AM WE ACTUALLY GIVE ABOUT 1.5 MILLION FROM TAMPA CRA EVERY
10:23:38AM YEAR.
10:23:38AM WE'VE BEEN GIVING -- THIS IS A DOUBLE ASK THIS YEAR.
10:23:42AM IF YOU LOOK BACK ON YOUR PRESENTATION, YOU SEE WHAT THE
10:23:45AM CURRENT SUPPORT HAS BEEN FOR YEARS ON THE STREETCAR.
10:23:48AM SO EACH OF THE DISTRICTS HAVE BEEN GIVING A LITTLE BIT,
10:23:50AM ABOUT -- IT'S GIVE OR TAKE, BUT EACH CRA IS GIVEN ABOUT
10:23:56AM $500,000 A YEAR.
10:24:00AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK THAT'S REALLY MY QUESTION.
10:24:01AM BECAUSE WE GOT AN E-MAIL TO THAT EFFECT SAYING, HEY, WHY
10:24:05AM AREN'T WE GETTING SOME PARTICIPATION FROM OTHER ENTITIES
10:24:12AM THAT MIGHT BENEFIT FROM THE STREETCAR?
10:24:14AM SO I WAS WONDERING IF YOU'RE PLANNING OR RATHER I GUESS I'M
10:24:18AM ASKING IF YOU'RE GOING TO PLAN TO HAVE ANY CONVERSATIONS
10:24:22AM WITH SOME OF THE ENTITIES THAT RECEIVE BENEFITS FROM THIS.
10:24:31AM >> I THINK THE REAL -- JUSTIN WILLITS, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING
10:24:34AM AND SCHEDULING FROM HART.
10:24:36AM I THINK THE REAL QUESTION IS FOR THS AND HOW THEY PLAN TO
10:24:41AM FUND THE STREETCAR NEXT YEAR.
10:24:42AM THS IS ACTUALLY THE ONE THAT MAKES THE REQUEST, BECAUSE THE
10:24:46AM CITY IS SUPPOSED TO FUND.
10:24:48AM THS HAS WORKED WITH THE CRA ALL THESE YEARS TO FIND MATCHING
10:24:52AM FUNDS.
10:24:53AM I WOULD SAY THAT QUESTION IS REALLY FOR THS AND THE CITY TO
10:24:56AM DECIDE HOW THEY WANT TO FUND THE STREETCAR, NOT NECESSARILY
10:24:59AM FOR HOW THE CRA WOULD WANT TO DO IT.
10:25:02AM IF YOU ALL WANT TO CONTINUE TO DO IT, THAT IS THE PLEASURE
10:25:04AM OF THE BOARD AND THE CRA BOARD, BUT REALLY IT'S A QUESTION
10:25:08AM DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS OF THE CITY, AND THIS IS HELPING
10:25:12AM ADDRESS THAT SHORTFALL FOR THE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AND SOME
10:25:15AM OTHER THINGS.
10:25:16AM AND WE'RE COMFORTABLE.
10:25:20AM THE SHORTFALL WAS PROJECTED TO BE 1.3.
10:25:23AM THAT WAS A PLAN, RIGHT?
10:25:24AM SO WE BUDGETED FOR THAT.
10:25:26AM THE PROJECTION RIGHT NOW WE FEEL IS GOING TO COME IN UNDER
10:25:28AM THAT.
10:25:29AM WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH THE 700,000, FILLING THAT GAP AND
10:25:32AM GETTING US INTO PLANNING FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
10:25:36AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I'M GOING TO ASK, BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO, I
10:25:39AM KNOW YOU SIT ON THAT BOARD.
10:25:42AM CAN YOU SPEAK TO WHAT THAT BOARD IS WILLING TO DO, THE OTHER
10:25:45AM ENTITIES THEY ARE WILLING TO TALK TO TO TRY TO GET SOME
10:25:47AM FUNDING?
10:25:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, YOU MENTIONED 1.3
10:25:52AM MILLION, BUT ESTIMATES OR THE REAL NUMBERS ARE COMING IN A
10:25:55AM LITTLE BIT UNDERNEATH.
10:25:56AM YOU WERE SAYING 700,000 IS THE NUMBER THAT IS COMFORTABLE TO
10:26:02AM CONTINUE IT FOR THE FARE FREE FOR AT LEAST ONE MORE YEAR,
10:26:06AM ALLOW US TO START PLANNING FOR NEXT YEAR, RIGHT?
10:26:09AM >> GET US THROUGH THE END OF THIS FISCAL, YES, SIR.
10:26:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MS. THROWER, YOU HAD MENTIONED THAT YBOR
10:26:17AM ONE WAS CONTRIBUTING TO THIS.
10:26:19AM HOW MANY CRAs CONTRIBUTE --
10:26:21AM >>BRENDA THROWER: SORRY.
10:26:22AM THAT IS CONFUSING.
10:26:23AM THERE ARE FOUR CRAs CONTRIBUTING TO THIS.
10:26:25AM YBOR ONE, YBOR TWO, CHANNEL DISTRICT, AND DOWNTOWN.
10:26:28AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: ARE THEY EQUALLY SPLIT?
10:26:32AM 25, 25, 25, 25% EACH?
10:26:35AM >>BRENDA THROWER: NOT QUITE.
10:26:37AM IT'S MORE ONE-THIRD.
10:26:38AM WHAT HAPPENS IN YBOR ONE AND TWO IS WE SPLIT IT 80/20
10:26:41AM BECAUSE THE STREETCAR GOES MORE THROUGH YBOR ONE, BUT IT
10:26:44AM TOUCHES, GOES THROUGH YBOR 2.
10:26:46AM WE'VE DONE THAT FOR YEARS.
10:26:48AM OUT OF THE ONE-THIRD SPLIT, LET'S JUST SAY 225,000, WE HAVE,
10:26:54AM AND IT IS IN YOUR CHART, YBOR ONE GIVES 188,000 A YEAR.
10:27:00AM THAT IS THE BASE.
10:27:01AM AND THEN 37,000 COMES FROM YBOR 2.
10:27:04AM SO WHEN WE WERE GIVEN THIS ASK FOR THE 700,000, WE DID THE
10:27:08AM SAME SPLIT.
10:27:10AM DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
10:27:12AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IT GOES INTO DOWNTOWN, THE WHITING
10:27:14AM STATION.
10:27:15AM WE TALKED ABOUT EXPANDING IT FURTHER NORTH.
10:27:17AM ANOTHER DISCUSSION TO TAKE IT TO PALM AND EVERYTHING.
10:27:19AM IN ORDER TO MAKE IT WORK, MY QUESTION IS, CAN WE LOOK AT THE
10:27:27AM DOWNTOWN CRA WHICH IS MOST FLUSH WITH CASH, DON'T WANT TO
10:27:32AM SAY FLUSH WITH CASH BUT HAS MORE OPPORTUNITY OF AVAILABLE
10:27:37AM DOLLARS TO MAKE UP THAT SHORTFALL, CONSIDERING WE'RE LOOKING
10:27:41AM AT THE FUTURE OF EXPANDING THE STREETCAR WHICH WOULD BENEFIT
10:27:44AM MORE OF DOWNTOWN AND GO INTO TAMPA HEIGHTS.
10:27:47AM IN ORDER TO MEET THAT 700,000 AND NOT BURDEN YBOR AND NOT
10:27:52AM LOOK AT THE OTHER ONES THAT YOU'VE MENTIONED, CAN WE MAKE
10:27:56AM THAT ASK INSTEAD OF -- I DON'T KNOW.
10:27:58AM I'M TRYING TO MAKE IT WORK.
10:28:00AM >>BRENDA THROWER: RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE ALL THREE CACs
10:28:02AM SUPPORTING THIS AND THEY ARE FINE WITH THIS FISCAL YEAR WITH
10:28:04AM THE SPLIT.
10:28:06AM AS A MATTER OF FACT, I THINK THAT'S REALLY HOW IT'S SOLD
10:28:08AM AMONGST THEM BECAUSE THEY ALL KNEW THEY WEREN'T THE ONLY ONE
10:28:11AM INVOLVED IN THIS.
10:28:13AM AGAIN, WE HAVE BEEN SUPPORTING THE STREETCAR FOR MANY, MANY
10:28:16AM YEARS.
10:28:16AM THIS WAS JUST AN ADDITIONAL ASK.
10:28:18AM BUT THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED IN THE FUTURE.
10:28:23AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: IF YOU LOOK AT THE RIDERSHIP, IT IS
10:28:26AM CONTINUOUSLY GOING UP.
10:28:28AM YES, NOTHING FREE IN LIFE.
10:28:29AM IT'S COMING FROM SOMEWHERE.
10:28:30AM I USE THIS AT THE TPO, IT'S ABSENT OF FARES.
10:28:37AM IT'S NOT JUST TOURISTS THAT USE IT.
10:28:39AM BECAUSE WHEN I USE IT, WHICH IS OFTEN, IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF
10:28:42AM EVERYBODY.
10:28:42AM YES, YOU GO DOWN TO GRECO PLAZA, PEOPLE FROM THE CONVENTION
10:28:45AM CENTER, THE HOTELS.
10:28:46AM I SEE PEOPLE FROM YBOR COMING OFF IN THE CHANNEL AREA OR
10:28:50AM PEOPLE FROM DOWNTOWN.
10:28:51AM LIKE WHAT I'LL DO, I'M PARKED HERE AND I WANT TO GO TO YBOR
10:28:55AM ON A FRIDAY EVENING WITH MY FRIENDS, I'LL MEET THEM VIA
10:28:59AM STREETCAR.
10:29:00AM I'M NOT PAYING FOR THE PARKING THERE, WHICH, YES, TWO HOURS
10:29:03AM FREE IN SOME LOTS, THE CITY LOTS, BUT I'M NOT GIVING
10:29:06AM SOMEBODY TEN BUCKS TO PARK.
10:29:09AM PEOPLE ARE USING IT FOR WORK, PEOPLE THAT ARE LIVING,
10:29:12AM WORKING, THEY ARE USING IT.
10:29:13AM IT'S ALWAYS BUSY.
10:29:14AM I HAVEN'T SEEN, MAYBE 7 IN THE MORNING EARLY ON IT MIGHT BE
10:29:19AM LIGHT, BUT IT'S CONSTANTLY PACKED.
10:29:21AM THE USE IS THERE.
10:29:22AM THE DESIRE IS THERE.
10:29:23AM THE SUPPORT FROM THE CACs WITHIN THE AREAS IS THERE.
10:29:27AM THE MONEY IS THERE.
10:29:28AM I UNDERSTAND BECAUSE OF THE GRANT AND NOT HAVING THE GRANT,
10:29:33AM I'VE HAD OTHER DISCUSSIONS AT THE STREETCAR MEETINGS.
10:29:35AM WHAT IF WE WENT BACK TO A FARE AND MADE IT A DOLLAR.
10:29:38AM NOW THAT WE HAVE SO MUCH MORE RIDERSHIP, WILL IT BALANCE IT
10:29:42AM OUT?
10:29:42AM WELL, YOU HAVE TO REACTIVATE THE FAREBOXES OR GET NEW
10:29:46AM FAREBOXES BECAUSE THE TECHNOLOGY IS DIFFERENT.
10:29:48AM THAT'S IT.
10:29:49AM BUT THE WILL IS THERE.
10:29:50AM THANK YOU.
10:29:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA FOLLOWED BY BOARD
10:29:53AM MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:29:55AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:29:56AM HOW I FEEL BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO THINGS IN MY MIND, THE
10:30:02AM FERRY IS ONE OF THEM.
10:30:03AM THE STREETCAR IS THE SECOND.
10:30:06AM EVERYTHING THAT COMES AROUND GOES AROUND.
10:30:09AM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS GOING TO DO
10:30:11AM TOMORROW REGARDING ANY HELP FROM ANYTHING.
10:30:13AM AND ANYTHING IN GOVERNMENT THAT WE ASK FOR.
10:30:15AM SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A SHORTFALL, POSSIBLY SMALL, PLUS
10:30:19AM MUCH LARGER THAN WHAT I ANTICIPATE.
10:30:21AM SO WE START FUNDING THESE THINGS, ALL OF THEM AND THE
10:30:24AM GOVERNMENT CUTS US BACK, WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO?
10:30:27AM KEEP FUNDING?
10:30:29AM HOW CAN YOU DO THAT?
10:30:30AM I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT JUST THE STREETCAR AND THE FERRY.
10:30:33AM I NEVER VOTED FOR THE FERRY.
10:30:35AM I VOTED AGAINST THE STREETCAR FARE BECAUSE THAT WAS ALREADY
10:30:37AM THE NUMBER ONE AREA THAT WAS BRINGING MORE FUNDS TO THE
10:30:42AM FAREBOXES THAN ANY OTHER ROUTE -- MAYBE I'M WRONG.
10:30:45AM THAT'S WHAT I REMEMBER.
10:30:46AM SO WHAT HAPPENED HERE IS THAT INSTEAD OF BEING JUST LOCAL,
10:30:49AM THE STREETCAR -- I MEAN, THE BUSES GO EVERYWHERE OUTSIDE THE
10:30:52AM CITY LIMITS, AM I CORRECT?
10:30:54AM WHAT DOES IT COST TO TAKE SOMEBODY FROM HERE TO WIMAUMA?
10:31:00AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: IS THAT A QUESTION?
10:31:03AM IS THAT RHETORICAL?
10:31:05AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF IT'S WIMAUMA, DO YOU GO OUTSIDE THE
10:31:08AM CITY LIMITS?
10:31:10AM >> YEAH, WE'RE A COUNTYWIDE ORGANIZATION.
10:31:11AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHAT GALLS ME A LITTLE BIT IS WHEN YOU
10:31:15AM TALK TO OTHER GOVERNMENTS, WE PRODUCE 30% OF THE SALES TAX,
10:31:19AM BUT WHEN IT COMES UP TO GIVE THE MONEY, THEY DON'T GIVE YOU
10:31:22AM BACK 30% ON ANYTHING WE DO WITH THEM.
10:31:24AM I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE STREETCAR.
10:31:26AM I'M TALKING ABOUT THE ANALOGY THAT I GATHERED IN MY MIND THE
10:31:30AM LAST FEW MONTHS, THE SALES TAX THAT WENT OUT TO THE
10:31:35AM GOVERNMENT, FILED THE LAWSUIT, CAME BACK.
10:31:37AM WE PAID 30.1% OF THE MONEY AND WE'RE NOT GETTING 30.1% OF
10:31:40AM THE MONEY.
10:31:41AM YES, WE ASK FOR THE BURDEN.
10:31:43AM I DON'T KNOW IF THE COUNTY IS PARTICIPATING IN THE FREE
10:31:46AM RIDES.
10:31:46AM ARE THEY OR NOT?
10:31:48AM >> I CAN TELL YOU HART IS GETTING ZERO PERCENT AND WE'RE
10:31:51AM SUPPOSED TO GET 50 PERCENT.
10:31:53AM I DON'T KNOW WHY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SALES TAX.
10:31:56AM I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED.
10:31:57AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: WHEN YOU LOOK AT GOVERNMENT, YOU HAVE A
10:31:59AM LOT OF FLOATING THINGS THAT GO TOGETHER.
10:32:03AM JUST ONE LINE TO ONE LINE, A LOT OF THINGS TIED INTO THINGS.
10:32:06AM SO MAYBE YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT I UNDERSTAND.
10:32:09AM MAYBE I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU UNDERSTAND, SIR.
10:32:11AM WHEN YOU HAVE 30% COLLECTION IN SOMETHING, YOU ONLY GET BACK
10:32:15AM 20, THAT MEANS THAT THE MONEY I WOULD HAVE HAD TO FUND THIS
10:32:17AM THING IS NOT THERE.
10:32:19AM THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS.
10:32:19AM DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY.
10:32:22AM HAVE TO SPEND SOMEWHERE ELSE.
10:32:23AM YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF YOU WANT.
10:32:25AM >> 60% OF OUR REVENUE COMES FROM UNINCORPORATED COUNTY AND
10:32:28AM THE CITY GETS 50% OF HART SERVICE, BUT THAT IS BUS RELATED.
10:32:31AM WE'RE TALKING ABOUT STREETCAR, AND THAT IS THE CITY'S --
10:32:34AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE STREETCAR -- I'M NOT AS SMART AS
10:32:37AM MR. CARLSON ON ADVERTISING AND ALL THAT, YOU OUGHT TO HAVE,
10:32:41AM TRAVEL FIVE MILES, PAY ONE QUARTER OF THE RENT.
10:32:44AM PAY SOMETHING, GET SO MUCH BACK.
10:32:47AM IT'S GOT TO CHANGE.
10:32:48AM SOONER OR LATER THIS GOVERNMENT, WHAT I SEE COMING, ALL
10:32:55AM GOVERNMENTS, FROM WASHINGTON TO TALLAHASSEE, IS NOT GOING TO
10:32:57AM BE ABLE TO THROW MONEY AROUND.
10:32:59AM THAT'S IT.
10:33:02AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN FOLLOWED BY BOARD
10:33:04AM MEMBER CARLSON.
10:33:09AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK, DID YOU --
10:33:11AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WON'T REVISIT THE TRAUMA ABOUT HOW WE
10:33:14AM GOT HERE.
10:33:15AM THAT'S ONE THING.
10:33:16AM I DO SUPPORT THIS AS A COMPROMISE MEASURE TO MAINTAIN THE
10:33:23AM SUCCESS OF THE STREETCAR.
10:33:25AM I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE ABOUT THE SUCCESS OF THIS
10:33:29AM TYPE OF TRANSPORTATION.
10:33:30AM IF YOU HAVE A CAR ON THE ROAD, AVERAGE OF 1.5 PERSONS PER
10:33:34AM CAR.
10:33:34AM IF WE ARE SUCCESSFUL IN BUILDING TRANSIT IN THE CITY OF
10:33:41AM TAMPA, SO WE'RE TAKING FOR EVERY CAR, EVERY ONE AND A HALF
10:33:45AM PERSONS THAT TRAVELS IN THAT TRANSIT, WE'RE TAKING A CAR OFF
10:33:48AM OF THE ROAD.
10:33:49AM SO FOR OUR RESIDENTS OF HARBOUR ISLAND THAT SUFFERS THROUGH
10:33:52AM GRIDLOCK TRYING TO GET ON AND OFF THE ISLAND, CAN YOU
10:33:57AM IMAGINE IF WE DID NOT HAVE THE STREETCAR AND FOR EVERY ONE
10:34:00AM AND A HALF PERSONS THERE'S ANOTHER VEHICLE TRYING TO GET
10:34:02AM THROUGH THE AMALIE ARENA AREA OR NORTH FLORIDA WHEN WE'RE
10:34:05AM TRYING TO TRAVEL ON NORTH FLORIDA OR GETTING IN AND OUT OF
10:34:09AM YBOR CITY DURING THEIR PEAK TIMES.
10:34:11AM HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO EXPAND THE STREETCAR UP TO
10:34:14AM COLUMBUS AND THE AMOUNT OF GRIDLOCK WE'LL TAKE OFF THE
10:34:18AM STREETS, LOOK AT ALL THE UNDEVELOPED LAND IN NORTH DOWNTOWN
10:34:22AM TAMPA AND PARTS OF TAMPA HEIGHTS AND THE AMOUNT OF RESIDENTS
10:34:25AM THAT WILL COME IN THAT AREA.
10:34:27AM FOR EVERY ONE AND A HALF PERSONS, ANOTHER VEHICLE ON THE
10:34:29AM ROAD WE'RE TAKING OFF.
10:34:31AM YOU SEE THE SUCCESS IN THE STREETCAR BEING ONE OF THE MOST
10:34:34AM SUCCESSFUL STREETCARS IN THE NATION.
10:34:36AM AND WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH ROUTE ONE AND COUNCILWOMAN
10:34:40AM HURTAK BROUGHT BEFORE US AND I'M SURE SHE WILL SHARE SOME OF
10:34:44AM THE RIDERSHIP NUMBERS WE'VE SEEN WITH ROUTE ONE WITH THE
10:34:47AM FARE FREE, THOSE ARE NEW PEOPLE RIDING THE BUS NOW THAT WERE
10:34:52AM NOT RIDING THE BUS A FEW MONTHS AGO.
10:34:54AM EVERY ONE AND A HALF PERSONS, THAT IS A VEHICLE WE'RE TAKING
10:34:57AM OFF OF THE ROADS.
10:34:58AM THE FOLKS THAT DO NOT RIDE MASS TRANSIT, GUESS WHAT, YOU'RE
10:35:03AM COMPETING WITH LESS PEOPLE ON THE ROAD.
10:35:04AM THIS IS BENEFITING NOT JUST THE FOLKS SITTING IN THE SEATS,
10:35:07AM IT'S BENEFITING EVERYBODY IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:35:09AM THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE LOOK FOR CREATIVE WAYS
10:35:12AM TO MAINTAIN THE LEVELS OF SERVICE.
10:35:16AM IT'S NO LONGER WHAT IF WE DID THIS, WHAT WILL HAPPEN, WE
10:35:19AM KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING.
10:35:20AM WE SEE BY ELIMINATING THE FARES ON THE STREETCAR, HOW MANY
10:35:24AM PEOPLE THAT WE ARE PUTTING IN SEATS.
10:35:27AM GRANTED -- NOW, THE DATA IS TOO EARLY, SO I'M NOT GOING TO
10:35:31AM TAKE THIS AS A LONG-TERM ASSUMPTION BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO
10:35:31AM HAVE A YEAR TO STUDY THIS.
10:35:35AM BUT RIGHT NOW IT'S LOOKING PROMISING WITH WHAT WE DID WITH
10:35:39AM ROUTE ONE.
10:35:39AM WE'VE SEEN THE SUCCESS INITIALLY.
10:35:41AM HOPEFULLY IT WILL CONTINUE TO CLIMB.
10:35:43AM AGAIN, IT'S BEEN A VERY SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM.
10:35:47AM WE HAVE TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX.
10:35:48AM PEOPLE SPEND WAY TOO MUCH MONEY ON TRANSPORTATION.
10:35:50AM IF WE CAN ELIMINATE THE NEED TO HAVE A CAR PAYMENT, TO HAVE
10:35:55AM CAR MAINTENANCE, TO HAVE INSURANCE PAYMENTS, GOD, LOOK AT
10:35:58AM THE INSURANCE.
10:35:59AM THE PERCENTAGE OF MONEY THAT PEOPLE ARE PAYING TO GET FROM
10:36:02AM POINT A TO POINT B, GET TO DOCTOR APPOINTMENT FOR SENIOR
10:36:05AM CITIZENS, GET TO THE PHARMACY, YOUNG PEOPLE TO GET TO THEIR
10:36:08AM PLACES OF EDUCATION AND PLACES OF EMPLOYMENT, IF WE COULD
10:36:11AM ELIMINATE THAT PORTION OF WHAT THEY ARE SPENDING OUT OF
10:36:13AM THEIR MONTHLY INCOME, GUESS WHAT, THEY CAN START AFFORDING
10:36:17AM HOUSING.
10:36:17AM THEY CAN AFFORD TO LIVE IN THESE PLACES.
10:36:20AM THIS IS THE TYPE OF INITIATIVE.
10:36:22AM WHILE IT WASN'T A PERFECT WAY OF GETTING HERE, I WOULD HAVE
10:36:25AM PREFERRED LONGER RANGE PLANNING AND SOME INFORMATION SHARED
10:36:28AM UP FRONT SO WE CAN PIVOT TO THIS.
10:36:31AM THIS IS WHAT WE'LL DO THE NEXT FISCAL AND FISCAL YEARS AFTER
10:36:35AM THAT.
10:36:36AM THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO CONTINUE THESE TYPE OF PROGRAMS.
10:36:39AM THIS IS THE FUTURE OF TAMPA.
10:36:40AM UNLESS YOU GUYS WANT TO LIVE IN ORLANDO, IF YOU WANT TO
10:36:43AM CREATE AN ORLANDO IN TAMPA, THEN HAVE AT IT.
10:36:46AM IF WE WANT TO AVOID THE MESS THAT WE SEE JUST DOWN THE ROAD,
10:36:49AM THIS IS WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING.
10:36:51AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON FOLLOWED BY BOARD
10:36:53AM MEMBER HURTAK AND THEN BACK TO YOU, MR. VIERA.
10:36:59AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT ROUTE 1
10:37:02AM SOME TIME AGO.
10:37:03AM MY POSITION IS THAT HART WAS MOVED OUT OF THE CITY DURING
10:37:07AM THE MARTINEZ ADMINISTRATION WITH ITS OWN TAXING AUTHORITY.
10:37:13AM IT IS THE HART BOARD'S RESPONSIBILITY TO FUND ITSELF, NOT TO
10:37:17AM ASK THE CITY TO SUBSIDIZE.
10:37:19AM ALTHOUGH PHILOSOPHICALLY I AGREE WITH TRYING TO SUPPORT
10:37:23AM ROUTES LIKE ROUTE ONE.
10:37:24AM THE HART BOARD NEEDS TO STEP UP AND MAKE THAT DECISION, NOT
10:37:28AM THE CITY.
10:37:28AM THE AD VALOREM TAXES WE HAVE DON'T EVEN COVER POLICE AND
10:37:32AM FIRE.
10:37:32AM PEOPLE THINK BECAUSE THE PROPERTY TAXES ARE GOING UP EVERY
10:37:35AM YEAR THAT WE ARE FLUSH WITH DOLLARS.
10:37:37AM WE HAVE BEEN LUCKY THE LAST FEW YEARS TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT
10:37:40AM EXTRA WHICH WE'VE BEEN PAYING MOSTLY IN ADDITIONAL SALARIES
10:37:44AM TO PEOPLE THAT HAVEN'T HAD RAISES IN A LONG TIME.
10:37:48AM THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE EXCESS CASH.
10:37:51AM A LOT OF THINGS WE WANT TO DO WOULD BE GREAT FOR THE
10:37:54AM COMMUNITY BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY.
10:37:55AM NOW WE FOUND OUT THAT THE CITY IS ON THE VERGE OF MAXING OUT
10:37:59AM ALL OF ITS CREDIT CARDS IN TERMS OF DEBT.
10:38:01AM WE NEED TO FIGURE THAT OUT.
10:38:03AM BOARD MEMBER VIERA MENTIONED THE CITY.
10:38:07AM CAN SOMEBODY TELL US, IS THE CITY PUTTING IN MONEY OR JUST
10:38:10AM THE CRA?
10:38:10AM DOES ANYBODY KNOW?
10:38:13AM IS THE CITY PUTTING IN MONEY OR JUST THE CRA?
10:38:16AM UNLESS THE CITY IS PUTTING MONEY, IF IT IS A CRA PROJECT,
10:38:22AM UNLESS THE CITY IS PUTTING IN MONEY OR EVEN IF THEY ARE,
10:38:25AM SINCE THERE'S ALREADY CRA MONEY, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE
10:38:28AM IDENTIFY THE CRA PROJECT.
10:38:29AM WHEN THE PRESS CONFERENCE HAPPENS, THERE SHOULD BE NO PRESS
10:38:34AM CONFERENCE FOR THE CRA UNLESS IT'S SCHEDULED WITH A CRA
10:38:38AM BOARD CHAIR.
10:38:39AM THERE SHOULD BE NO PRESS CONFERENCE.
10:38:41AM I SAID THIS TWO PRIOR CHAIRS.
10:38:45AM THE CRA PRESS CONFERENCE ABOUT THE CRA OR TO EDUCATE THE
10:38:48AM PUBLIC ABOUT HOW WE'RE SPENDING CRA MONEY.
10:38:51AM WHY IS IT THAT PRESS CONFERENCES ARE BEING HELD WITHOUT CRA
10:38:55AM BOARD MEMBERS BEING INVITED OR WITHOUT SCHEDULING AROUND THE
10:38:58AM CHAIR?
10:38:59AM THE CHAIR IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON AT A CRA PRESS
10:39:05AM CONFERENCE.
10:39:06AM THE PUBLIC DESERVES TO KNOW.
10:39:07AM WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE SURE JUST LIKE OTHER PEOPLE GET
10:39:11AM SPONSORSHIP THAT THE CRA DIFFERENT DISTRICTS GET SPONSORSHIP
10:39:14AM AS WELL SO THAT PEOPLE KNOW.
10:39:16AM BECAUSE THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED AFTER HART WAS
10:39:20AM MOVED OUT BY THE GRECO ADMINISTRATION, I'M OKAY DOING THIS
10:39:24AM ON A TEMPORARY BASIS.
10:39:27AM AS BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA SAID, WE'VE GOT TO FIND NEW FUNDING
10:39:30AM SOURCES IN THE FUTURE.
10:39:31AM YOU ALL MENTIONED THE LEGISLATURE IS TRYING AGAIN TO GET RID
10:39:34AM OF CRAs.
10:39:35AM THEY ARE -- GOVERNMENT IS TRYING TO GET RID OF PROPERTY
10:39:39AM TAXES.
10:39:41AM PROPERTY TAX IS A RELATIVELY SMALL PART OF OUR BUDGET.
10:39:44AM WE CAN'T TAKE THAT SMALL PART OF OUR BUDGET AND KEEP
10:39:48AM ALLOCATING IT ACROSS ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS.
10:39:50AM CRA MONEY REALLY IS PROPERTY TAX MONEY.
10:39:52AM SO WITHOUT THE CRA, THE MONEY IS STILL THERE, BUT WE DON'T
10:39:56AM HAVE ENOUGH TO EVEN PAY A PORTION OF OUR OVERALL BUDGET.
10:40:00AM WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THIS.
10:40:02AM I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE SET UP ANOTHER TIME TO TALK ABOUT
10:40:06AM THIS, MAYBE IN CITY COUNCIL OR IN THE CRA, BUT WE'VE GOT TO
10:40:10AM FIGURE OUT DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCE FOR THIS FOR THE FUTURE.
10:40:13AM SEEMS TO BE SUCCESS THAT IT'S FREE.
10:40:15AM STATE AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT NOT GOING TO FUND IT, HOW DO WE
10:40:18AM FIGURE THIS OUT?
10:40:19AM IT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE THE WAY IT IS BECAUSE THE TOOLS WE'RE
10:40:22AM USING TO PAY FOR IT MIGHT GO AWAY.
10:40:25AM JUST WHILE I HAVE THE FLOOR, ONE LAST COMMENT, PERSONAL
10:40:29AM THING, JUSTIN, I'M INCREDIBLY SAD JUSTIN AND HIS WIFE ARE
10:40:33AM LEAVING TAMPA BAY TOMORROW.
10:40:37AM I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU YOU'VE COME HERE TO TALK ABOUT THESE
10:40:41AM THINGS AND I HAVEN'T ALWAYS AGREED WITH YOU ON SOME OF THEM
10:40:44AM BUT I KNOW THE THINGS YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED IN IN THE
10:40:47AM COMMUNITY MANY, MANY YEARS CREATING A VISION FOR TAMPA TO BE
10:40:49AM A WALKABLE, BIKEABLE, TRANSIT-ORIENTED COMMUNITY.
10:40:54AM I PERSONALLY CAN'T THANK YOU ENOUGH FOR WHAT YOU AND YOUR
10:40:57AM WIFE HAVE DONE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THIS COMMUNITY OVER THE
10:41:01AM YEARS.
10:41:01AM I HOPE YOU DON'T STAY GONE VERY LONG AND YOU COME BACK.
10:41:05AM THANK YOU.
10:41:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:41:06AM I AGREE WITH THAT.
10:41:07AM WE'VE TALKED ABOUT CERTAIN CRAs HAVING MORE MONEY BEING
10:41:19AM ABLE TO CONTRIBUTE MORE, BUT I DON'T THINK LEGALLY WE CAN DO
10:41:22AM THAT.
10:41:22AM WE NEED TO LEGALLY MAKE SURE IT'S WORKING.
10:41:26AM OUR LAWYER CAN HOP IN IF HE WANTS TO.
10:41:29AM I DON'T THINK WE COULD BURDEN ONE CRA THAT HAPPENS TO HAVE
10:41:32AM MORE MONEY.
10:41:33AM I'LL PIGGYBACK ON WHAT BOARD MEMBER CARLSON SAID, NOBODY IS
10:41:39AM TALKING ABOUT OTHER ENTITIES THAT COULD BE PAYING INTO THE
10:41:42AM STREETCAR.
10:41:43AM QUITE FRANKLY, IF IT'S BEING USED, EVEN A THIRD FOR TOURISM,
10:41:48AM TOURISM DOLLARS SHOULD PROBABLY PAY FOR SOME OF IT.
10:41:51AM WE REALLY NEED TO OPEN UP THE SCOPE, WHETHER THAT'S AT THE
10:41:57AM TECO BOARD, THE TAMPA HISTORIC STREETCAR BOARD DISCUSSIONS
10:42:02AM OR AS CITY COUNCIL.
10:42:05AM BUT WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO START TALKING IF WE WANT TO KEEP
10:42:09AM IT FARE FREE, WE NEED TO START TALKING ABOUT WHAT OTHER
10:42:13AM ENTITIES BESIDES GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES THAT ARE BENEFITING
10:42:16AM FROM IT WOULD BE WILLING TO PUT MONEY INTO IT.
10:42:20AM OTHERWISE, WE ARE GOING TO PUT A FARE BACK ON BECAUSE AS
10:42:23AM OTHERS HAVE SAID, WE JUST DON'T KNOW ABOUT A LOT OF FUNDING
10:42:27AM SOURCES GOING FORWARD.
10:42:29AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER VIERA AND THEN RETURNING TO
10:42:31AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:42:32AM MR. MIRANDA, DID YOU WANT TO SPEAK AGAIN?
10:42:34AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
10:42:35AM >>LUIS VIERA: I WANT TO AGAIN THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON
10:42:39AM THIS.
10:42:39AM THIS WAS MEANT TO BE A TEMPORARY SOLUTION TO SOMETHING THAT,
10:42:43AM AGAIN, IN SPEAKING WITH HUMAIRA, LOOK, IF YOU WANT TO
10:42:47AM PRESERVE THE CITY CRA, PRESERVE FARE FREE ON THE STREETCAR,
10:42:51AM GET IT DONE NOW, EVEN IF TEMPORARY BECAUSE IT COULD BE GOING
10:42:55AM AWAY.
10:42:56AM THOSE ARE JUST THE FACTS.
10:42:57AM YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN OPINION.
10:43:01AM FACTS.
10:43:02AM THAT'S JUST THE WAY IT IS.
10:43:05AM WITH REGARDS TO THE BOARD GETTING NOTICE, WHEN I SPOKE WITH
10:43:07AM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE ABOUT IT TWO MONTHS AGO, IT WAS AN
10:43:11AM UNDERSTANDING THEY WOULD BE BRIEFING CRA MEMBERS AND TO THE
10:43:14AM BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE -- THAT'S WHY WE'RE DEALING WITH IT I
10:43:20AM GUESS IF YOU WILL NOW.
10:43:21AM AGAIN, THIS IS A TEMPORARY SOLUTION.
10:43:22AM WE'LL LOOK AT MORE WIDESPREAD, SUSTAINABLE, LONG-TERM,
10:43:27AM PERMANENT SOLUTIONS.
10:43:28AM ALSO JOIN IN AGAIN WITH JUSTIN.
10:43:30AM WE CERTAINLY WILL MISS YOU.
10:43:32AM YOU'VE ALWAYS DONE A GREAT JOB.
10:43:35AM A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS WE'VE WORKED ON, YOU'VE ALWAYS
10:43:37AM DONE VERY, VERY WELL.
10:43:39AM WHENEVER WE MOTION FOR THIS, DOES IT NEED TO BE RETROACTIVE
10:43:45AM IN TERMS OF ANY FUNDS THAT HAVE BEEN SPENT ALREADY?
10:43:51AM >> FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR, YES, THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE WISE.
10:43:54AM >>LUIS VIERA: THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT.
10:43:56AM IN TERMS OF THE MOTION, COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN HAS ALWAYS HAD
10:44:03AM A GREAT PASSION FOR THE STREETCAR.
10:44:04AM I WOULD ASK, SIR, SINCE YOU ARE THE DUDE ON THIS, SO TO
10:44:08AM SPEAK, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE THE MOTION.
10:44:11AM BUT I WOULD DO ASK YOU DO IT RETROACTIVELY AS MR. WILLITS
10:44:16AM TALKED ABOUT.
10:44:16AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE'LL GO TO YOU, MR. MIRANDA.
10:44:19AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO ONE IN THIS CITY HAS EVER VOTED FOR
10:44:25AM THE STREETCAR ON THE ORIGINAL VOTE.
10:44:27AM ONLY ONE, AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT PERSON.
10:44:29AM I VOTED TO PUT THE STREETCAR IN.
10:44:31AM I VOTED WITH MAYOR GRECO TO START THE STREETCAR ALL THE WAY
10:44:35AM TO YBOR CITY.
10:44:36AM IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY AND I'M GOING TO MY MIND, THOUSANDS
10:44:39AM OF VOTES I'VE TAKEN, I THINK THE COST WAS ABOUT $11 MILLION.
10:44:44AM THAT WAS THEN, MID '90s, I THINK.
10:44:46AM IF I REMEMBER THAT, I REMEMBER ALL THE WORK THEY DID, REALLY
10:44:49AM THE ADMINISTRATION.
10:44:54AM I THINK IT WAS A UNANIMOUS VOTE.
10:44:55AM I'M NOT SURE.
10:44:57AM >> NO.
10:44:57AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU FOR THE CORRECTION.
10:45:00AM MAKE TWO MISTAKES ON ONE ITEM.
10:45:02AM WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS NO ONE THOUGHT, GRECO, MYSELF, AND
10:45:08AM OTHERS RODE THE STREETCAR.
10:45:10AM YOU KNOW WHY?
10:45:11AM BECAUSE WE WERE THE OLDEST.
10:45:13AM WE HAD REGISTRY CARD.
10:45:16AM I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYONE HERE WHO RODE THE STREETCAR
10:45:18AM OTHER THAN ONE AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT PERSON.
10:45:21AM BUT TIMES CHANGE.
10:45:23AM PEOPLE LOOK FOR DIFFERENT THINGS.
10:45:24AM HOW TO TRANSFER, HOW TO MOVE, HOW TO WALK, HOW TO RIDE,
10:45:28AM WHATEVER.
10:45:28AM WE DID THIS WITH A SHORT ITEM TO TRY THIS OUT.
10:45:31AM I THINK TWO VOTES AGAINST IT, IF I RECALL.
10:45:34AM NOW WE'RE ASKING FOR AN EXTENSION OF SOMETHING THAT TWO OF
10:45:37AM US DIDN'T VOTE FOR.
10:45:38AM I DON'T KNOW HOW THE OTHER ONE IS GOING TO VOTE.
10:45:40AM I'M JUST SAYING IT HAS TO BE DONE WHERE THE PUBLIC
10:45:44AM UNDERSTANDS WHAT WE'RE DOING.
10:45:45AM I DON'T THINK THEY FULLY UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE DOING BECAUSE
10:45:48AM WE'RE DOING THE SAME LINE, MOST STREETCAR THAT HAD THE FARE.
10:45:51AM MAYBE I'M WRONG BECAUSE I DON'T SIT ON THE BOARD.
10:45:54AM IF YOU REALLY WANT TO TRY TO HELP SOMEBODY GET FREE, GO TO
10:45:58AM THE ONE NOT DOING ANYTHING.
10:46:00AM SEE HOW MANY RIDERS GETTING FREE.
10:46:02AM GUARANTEE HUNDRED PERCENT RETURN ON RIDERSHIP BECAUSE THEY
10:46:07AM DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO RIDE EITHER.
10:46:08AM THANK YOU, MADAM CHAIR.
10:46:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:46:10AM CLOSING OUT WITH BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:46:12AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: JUST A LITTLE BIT OF FACT CHECKING ON HOW
10:46:18AM IT WAS FUNDED.
10:46:19AM CURRENT LINE WHEN IT WAS IMPLEMENTED THERE IS A SERVICE AREA
10:46:22AM THAT IS DEFINED IN THE CURRENT ROUTE OF THE STREETCAR.
10:46:27AM HOW IT WAS DONE AND WHEN IT WAS FIRST CREATED IS THE
10:46:30AM BUSINESSES IN THAT SERVICE AREA.
10:46:32AM ACTUALLY, THEIR PROPERTY TAXES.
10:46:33AM THEY HAVE GOT A STREETCAR LINE ITEM ON THEIR PROPERTY TAXES
10:46:36AM THAT ACTUALLY HELP FUND.
10:46:38AM THERE IS ACTUALLY ONLY FROM BUSINESSES.
10:46:43AM THERE IS -- THERE IS A LONG-TERM PLAN FOR FUNDING THIS TYPE
10:46:49AM OF MECHANISM.
10:46:50AM IT'S A SIMILAR WAY WE SEE LIGHTS FUNDED IN HISTORIC AREAS.
10:46:57AM WE HAVE THESE AREAS THAT ARE DEFINED, GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS
10:47:01AM THAT ARE DEFINED THAT ARE SERVICE AREAS FOR THE SPECIAL TYPE
10:47:04AM OF SERVICES.
10:47:05AM WHAT LEGAL STAFF IS STARTING TO DO RIGHT NOW IS LOOKING AT
10:47:08AM PROPOSING THE EXTENSION OF THE STREETCAR IS DEFINING THE
10:47:12AM SERVICE AREA OF WHO IS ACTUALLY UTILIZING THE EXISTING
10:47:15AM STREETCAR AND THEN THE PROPOSED EXTENSION.
10:47:17AM THAT SERVICE AREA WILL BE DEFINED AND THEN A MOVEMENT TO
10:47:22AM HAVE A SPECIAL TAX DISTRICT THAT WOULD BE IN THAT AREA.
10:47:26AM THAT AREA WILL HELP FUND THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND THE
10:47:29AM FUTURE RIDERSHIP FOR NOT ONLY THE EXISTING STREETCAR BUT
10:47:34AM ALSO THE EXPANSION.
10:47:36AM THESE ARE CREATIVE WAYS THAT, AGAIN, EXPANSION WHEN FIRST
10:47:40AM CREATED.
10:47:40AM ALREADY EXISTS FOR THE EXISTING STREETCAR BUT ONLY PERTAINS
10:47:43AM TO BUSINESSES.
10:47:45AM DOESN'T PERTAIN TO RESIDENCES.
10:47:47AM BACK WHEN THIS WAS DONE, ALL THERE WAS WERE WAREHOUSES IN
10:47:51AM CHANNELSIDE.
10:47:51AM WATER STREET DIDN'T EXIST.
10:47:53AM GASWORX DIDN'T EXIST.
10:47:55AM NOBODY WAS REALLY LIVING AT THE TIME IN YBOR CITY.
10:47:59AM PROPERTIES WERE REALLY LOW INCOME.
10:48:02AM THERE WASN'T A LOT OF REVENUE.
10:48:02AM THERE WASN'T ANY BIG CONDOS IN DOWNTOWN EITHER.
10:48:07AM AS COUNCILMAN MIRANDA SAYS, ONLY RESIDENTS DOWN HERE WERE
10:48:09AM THE ONES IN THE JAIL.
10:48:11AM NOW WE HAVE THIS NEW DEVELOPMENT.
10:48:13AM A LOT OF THIS WE CAN ATTRIBUTE TO THINGS LIKE THE STREETCAR
10:48:17AM MOVING THROUGH THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:48:19AM THIS IS A SHORT-TERM MEASURE.
10:48:20AM THERE IS A LONG-TERM GAME PLAN FOR VIABILITY AND FUNDING AND
10:48:25AM TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THIS.
10:48:27AM I THINK IT IS THE TYPE OF MODEL, WE'VE SEEN WHAT THE
10:48:31AM GOVERNOR IS DOING WITH THE PROPOSAL OF PROPERTY TAXES.
10:48:34AM WE'LL HAVE TO LOOK AT MORE CREATIVE WAYS TO DO THESE THINGS
10:48:38AM AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
10:48:39AM WITH THAT, I GLADLY MAKE A MOTION FOR THE CRA BOARD TO
10:48:43AM APPROVE THE TRANSFER OF CRA FUNDS FROM THE FOUR CRAs
10:48:47AM WITHIN THE EQUIVALENT AMOUNT THAT WAS PRESENTED WHICH I'M
10:48:49AM NOT GOING TO TRY TO RE-CREATE BECAUSE THERE WAS A DOLLAR
10:48:54AM DIFFERENCE, AS PRESENTED TO THE BOARD THIS MORNING TO
10:48:56AM AUTHORIZE THAT TRANSFER FOR FISCAL YEAR '24.
10:49:02AM >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND, IF I MAY WITH RETROACTIVE.
10:49:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT'S WHY I SAID FISCAL YEAR 24.
10:49:08AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:49:09AM FOLLOWED WITH A SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:49:12AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:49:14AM ANY OPPOSED.
10:49:16AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AYE.
10:49:17AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
10:49:20AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: AYE FOR THE SECOND ONE.
10:49:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: AYE FOR NOT.
10:49:23AM MOTION CARRIES WITH BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN VOTING NO.
10:49:28AM I'M SORRY.
10:49:28AM BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA VOTING NO.
10:49:31AM THANK YOU FOR THAT.
10:49:33AM MOTION FOR APPROVALS 10 THROUGH 18?
10:49:36AM >> SO MOVED.
10:49:37AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:49:39AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:49:40AM AYE.
10:49:42AM UNDER NEW BUSINESS, BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
10:49:44AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NONE.
10:49:46AM THANK YOU.
10:49:46AM >>LUIS VIERA: I HAVE NONE.
10:49:49AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MR. WILLITS, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING.
10:49:53AM IT'S ALREADY BEEN SAID BUT WE'LL CERTAINLY MISS YOU.
10:49:57AM HOPE YOU COME BACK.
10:49:58AM YOU AND YOUR WIFE ARE FANTASTIC INDIVIDUALS.
10:50:00AM THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE.
10:50:01AM WE APPRECIATE YOU.
10:50:02AM BEST OF LUCK, SIR.
10:50:04AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
10:50:11AM >> ACTUALLY, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU.
10:50:13AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: GO AHEAD.
10:50:13AM WHILE SEAS THINKING, BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:50:21AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO.
10:50:21AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CARLSON?
10:50:23AM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST SOMETHING QUICK, IF THE LEGISLATURE
10:50:28AM ENDS CRAs, I'VE ALWAYS SAID CRAs ARE FOR LAZY POLICY
10:50:35AM MAKERS BECAUSE WE STILL COLLECT THE SAME AMOUNT OF TAXES.
10:50:38AM WE CAN REALLOCATE IT.
10:50:40AM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ASK THE CFO TO COME TO US
10:50:46AM AT THE JUNE 12th MEETING TO TALK ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF
10:50:52AM CONTINUING TO MEASURE THE EAST TAMPA CRA OR VIRTUAL CRA
10:51:00AM FUNDS IN THE EVENT THE LEGISLATURE ENDS THE CRA EARLY.
10:51:08AM SO THE IDEA WOULD BE THAT IF THEY PUT A CAP ON IT AND SAY
10:51:14AM YOU CAN'T SPEND ANYTHING MORE, WHATEVER THE MECHANISM THE
10:51:17AM CFO IS USING TO MEASURE WHAT THAT TAX INCREMENT IS INSIDE
10:51:22AM EAST TAMPA AS AN EXAMPLE, WE CAN CONTINUE TO MEASURE THAT
10:51:25AM AND THEN WE COULD HAND THAT TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
10:51:27AM THE CITY COUNCIL CAN CONTINUE TO ALLOCATE IT IN EAST TAMPA.
10:51:31AM IF THE CRA GOES AWAY, IT DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T HAVE THE
10:51:33AM MONEY.
10:51:34AM WE STILL HAVE THE SAME MONEY AND CAN STILL ALLOCATE IT IN
10:51:37AM THE SAME WAYS.
10:51:38AM THE COUNTY HAS A DECLINING SCALE OF WHAT THEY ARE
10:51:44AM PARTICIPATING IN IN OTHER PLACES.
10:51:46AM WE'RE NOT INVOLVED IN WHAT THE STATE IS GOING TO DECIDE, BUT
10:51:50AM WE CAN STILL CONTINUE TO ALLOCATE THE CITY'S MONEY IF -- AND
10:51:54AM DOWNTOWN THE COUNTY IS NOT PROVIDING ANYTHING.
10:51:56AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: OUR CRA ATTORNEY IS GOING TO TALK ABOUT
10:51:59AM SOME CRA MATTERS FROM A LEGISLATIVE STANDPOINT.
10:52:02AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
10:52:05AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK IT'S A LITTLE PREMATURE JUST BECAUSE
10:52:10AM IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET.
10:52:11AM I WOULD BE FINE TO PUT IT AS A PLACEHOLDER AND THEN TAKE IT
10:52:16AM AWAY IF IT DOESN'T HAPPEN.
10:52:18AM I ALSO DON'T WANT STAFF TO START THAT.
10:52:21AM BUT I'M ALSO NOT OKAY WITH JUST DOING EAST TAMPA.
10:52:24AM THAT'S NOT FAIR TO THE OTHER CRAs.
10:52:26AM IF WE'RE GOING TO DO ONE, WE'LL DO ALL OR WE'RE NOT GOING TO
10:52:29AM DO THEM.
10:52:31AM I DON'T THINK THAT'S FAIR.
10:52:32AM WE CAN HAVE THAT DISCUSSION AND THAT DEBATE AND THAT'S
10:52:34AM PROBABLY WHAT THE STATE WANTS US TO DO IS TO START FIGHTING
10:52:38AM ABOUT THIS.
10:52:38AM I WOULDN'T SUPPORT ONE CRA OVER THE OTHERS UNTIL I HEAR FROM
10:52:44AM THE CACs AND THE TYPES OF THINGS THEY WANT TO ACCOMPLISH.
10:52:48AM THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT GOING ON IF THEY DO AWAY.
10:52:53AM BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT JUST DOING AWAY WITH CRAs, THEY ARE
10:52:55AM DOING AWAY WITH SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICTS.
10:52:57AM WHAT YOU TALKED ABOUT FOR TRANSIT IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN
10:53:00AM BECAUSE THEY ARE DOING AWAY WITH SPECIAL TAXING DISTRICTS.
10:53:03AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PROPOSING.
10:53:04AM >>LYNN HURTAK: PROPOSING.
10:53:05AM YOU ARE RIGHT.
10:53:05AM THAT IS THE HOPE THEY HAVE.
10:53:08AM I DO SUPPORT THE IDEA OF LOOKING FORWARD.
10:53:12AM I JUST DON'T KNOW THAT WE NEED TO DO IT YET.
10:53:15AM I WOULD ONLY SUPPORT IF IT'S EVERYONE.
10:53:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ARE YOU A SECOND?
10:53:24AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, MA'AM.
10:53:25AM HERE'S WHY I'M DOING IT.
10:53:27AM I SUPPORT COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK'S STATEMENT THAT WE OUGHT TO
10:53:31AM LOOK AT MORE CRAs.
10:53:32AM I THINK THIS IS BEING DONE, COUNCILMAN CARLSON, CORRECT ME
10:53:35AM IF I'M WRONG, CURRENTLY EAST TAMPA IS THE ONE THAT'S MOST
10:53:38AM ACUTE IN TERMS OF NEED.
10:53:41AM I THINK.
10:53:42AM >>BILL CARLSON: I'M HAPPY TO INSERT THE WORD EXAMPLE.
10:53:45AM THAT'S WHAT MY INTENTION WAS THAT EAST TAMPA WOULD BE AN
10:53:48AM EXAMPLE SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO STUDY ALL OF THEM.
10:53:50AM I DON'T THINK IT IS A LOT OF WORK BECAUSE THE MEASUREMENT
10:53:54AM MECHANISM IS ALREADY THERE.
10:53:55AM THE QUESTION IS, HOW COULD YOU CONTINUE THAT IF THIS
10:53:58AM HAPPENS.
10:53:58AM SURELY, IF THEY DON'T DO ANYTHING, WE CAN CANCEL IT.
10:54:02AM YOU ALL KNOW I WOULD NOT BE IN FAVOR OF CONTINUING THE
10:54:05AM DOWNTOWN OR CHANNEL DISTRICT CRAs.
10:54:07AM WE CAN STILL SPEND MONEY IN THOSE TWO PLACES BUT WE WOULDN'T
10:54:10AM HAVE ALL THAT MONEY TRAPPED.
10:54:12AM BUT WEST TAMPA AND THE PLACES THAT NEED IT, WE COULD
10:54:14AM CONTINUE TO LOOK AT THIS.
10:54:16AM WE COULD ALSO LOOK AT SPENDING MONEY IN OTHER AREAS.
10:54:20AM THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE TO SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE
10:54:25AM CONTINUED MEASURING.
10:54:27AM >>LUIS VIERA: I SEE IT AS A PLACE HOLDER.
10:54:31AM I'M FINE WITH IT.
10:54:32AM AGAIN, THE LEGISLATURE PROPOSES ALL SORTS OF WACKY THINGS
10:54:36AM AND SOME OF THEM PASS, A LOT OF THEM PASS, MANY DON'T, THANK
10:54:39AM GOD.
10:54:40AM HOPEFULLY THIS WILL BE ONE THAT DOESN'T.
10:54:41AM BUT AS A PLACE HOLDER, IF IT DOESN'T PASS.
10:54:44AM I'LL SECOND UNDER THE IDEA THAT IF IT DOESN'T PASS,
10:54:46AM WITHDRAWN, MOVE FORWARD, THAT'S GOOD.
10:54:48AM I'M FINE WITH IT.
10:54:50AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AS FAR AS LIKE A CONCEPT AND IDEA,
10:54:54AM THROWING IT OUT THERE TO BE READY FOR IT.
10:54:57AM AS WE SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING IN WASHINGTON AND SEEING MORE AND
10:55:00AM MORE IN TALLAHASSEE, THEY ARE FLOODING THE ZONE.
10:55:03AM THEY INUNDATE US WITH STUFF AND WANT US TO CHASE THINGS,
10:55:06AM THEY WANT US TO GET DISTRACTED BY STUFF.
10:55:08AM I THINK WE SHOULD BE AWARE.
10:55:11AM I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD SPEND CITY RESOURCES.
10:55:13AM DON'T THINK WE SHOULD SPEND CRA MONEY BECAUSE POTENTIALLY
10:55:16AM WE'RE CHASING OUR TAIL.
10:55:18AM THE NEXT CRAZY THING IS COMING UP TOMORROW.
10:55:20AM THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, THREE MORE CRAZY THINGS.
10:55:22AM THIS IS THE WORLD WE'RE GOING TO BE LIVING IN FOR THE NEXT X
10:55:27AM NUMBER OF YEARS.
10:55:27AM I DON'T WANT TO NECESSARILY DEVOTE ANY RESOURCES TO IT.
10:55:30AM AGAIN, I THINK RAISING THE AWARENESS OF IT AND BEING OUT
10:55:33AM THERE, THIS IS A POTENTIAL PROBLEM, BUT LET'S NOT CHASE OUR
10:55:37AM TAIL.
10:55:43AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE REASON WHY I PICKED EAST TAMPA, YOU
10:55:44AM HEARD THE CONCERNS BY THE FOLKS IN THE COMMUNITY.
10:55:46AM WE SPENT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS GETTING ALL THE PIECES IN
10:55:49AM PLACE TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD FASTER.
10:55:51AM I SHARE FRUSTRATION THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO MOVE
10:55:54AM FASTER, BUT NOW WE ARE MOVING, AND I JUST WANT TO PROVIDE
10:55:57AM SOME HOPE THAT THERE IS SOME POSSIBILITY OF CONTINUING IN
10:56:00AM CASE THAT SITUATION HAPPENS.
10:56:03AM BUT WE HAVE ONE THING IN TERMS OF FEDERAL AS WELL, YOU ALL
10:56:08AM PROBABLY KNOW JUST A DAY OR TWO AFTER INAUGURATION, ABRUPTLY
10:56:15AM ENDED THE CIVIL RIGHTS INVESTIGATION ABOUT RENTING WHILE
10:56:19AM BLACK.
10:56:19AM THERE ARE A LOT OF CHANGES THAT WE'LL BE DEALING WITH, BUT
10:56:23AM IT IS OUR DUTY TO TRY TO PROTECT THE COMMUNITY AND HELP THE
10:56:28AM COMMUNITY TO GROW STRONGER WITH THE PLANS THAT THEY HAVE FOR
10:56:31AM THEMSELVES.
10:56:39AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE TALKED ABOUT THE GATOR BUILDING AND
10:56:41AM TALKED ABOUT THE EXPENDITURES, I THINK THE AWARENESS OF
10:56:44AM STAFF THAT TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE TO DO THESE THINGS.
10:56:47AM WE NEED TO CLOSE THESE DEALS.
10:56:49AM WE'VE GOT TO MOVE ON THE PROJECTS.
10:56:53AM LET'S LIGHT A FIRE THAT TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE.
10:56:58AM WE'VE GOT TO MAKE THE INVESTMENTS.
10:56:59AM WE'VE GOT TO DO THOSE THINGS.
10:57:01AM I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THAT PROJECT AND THE OPPORTUNITIES,
10:57:05AM THE REDEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL IN THAT AREA.
10:57:07AM HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO CLOSE THOSE DEALS.
10:57:10AM CEDRIC IS GOING TO BE ABLE TO GUIDE THAT FORWARD WITH HIS
10:57:14AM INCREDIBLE STAFF AND LET'S GET IT DONE.
10:57:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY BOARD
10:57:20AM MEMBER CARLSON.
10:57:21AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
10:57:22AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
10:57:23AM ALL THOSE OPPOSED?
10:57:27AM >> NAY.
10:57:27AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: MOTION CARRIES WITH HENDERSON AND
10:57:29AM CLENDENIN VOTING NO.
10:57:31AM BECAUSE I REPRESENT ALL OF THE CRAs EXCEPT ONE WITHIN MY
10:57:36AM DISTRICT, SO I DON'T WANT TO JUMP TO JUST SAY YES TO DREW
10:57:39AM PARK IS THE REASON WHY I'M SAYING NO.
10:57:42AM ANYTHING ELSE, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON?
10:57:44AM >>BILL CARLSON: NO.
10:57:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
10:57:45AM I HAVE A FEW THINGS.
10:57:47AM DO I HAND THE GAVEL TO YOU?
10:57:50AM FIRST OF ALL, DARLENE, ARE YOU PRESENT?
10:57:56AM YES, YOU ARE.
10:57:57AM SITTING UP FRONT.
10:57:58AM WE COMPLETED OUR INTERVIEWS FOR THE CRA DIRECTOR.
10:58:02AM WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION.
10:58:04AM WE WANT TO BE VERY TRANSPARENT REGARDING THAT PROCESS ALONG
10:58:07AM WITH MY INTERN, MS. ALEXANDRIA FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH
10:58:10AM FLORIDA IS GOING TO BE ASSISTING WITH MAKING THIS
10:58:15AM INFORMATION PUBLIC SO THAT THE BOARD CAN DECIDE HOW WE WANT
10:58:18AM TO PROCEED WITH MAKING EITHER A DECISION TODAY OR BRINGING
10:58:21AM IN THE TOP ONE, TWO FOLKS, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
10:58:25AM WE'LL GO FROM THERE.
10:58:27AM DARLENE WILL SHARE THIS INFORMATION KIND OF LIKE HOW
10:58:31AM MS. SHIRLEY DOES.
10:58:33AM THANK YOU, DARLENE.
10:58:35AM >> GOOD MORNING.
10:58:36AM DARLENE JOHNSON, LEGISLATIVE AIDE TO CHAIR HENDERSON,
10:58:40AM DISTRICT 5.
10:58:41AM JUST A QUICK RECAP, IF IT'S ACCEPTABLE, DURING THE TIME
10:58:46AM FRAME OF FEBRUARY 13 TO MARCH 6, EACH BOARD MEMBER HAD THE
10:58:50AM OPPORTUNITY TO INTERVIEW THE TOP FOUR CANDIDATES FOR THE CRA
10:58:54AM DIRECTOR'S POSITION AND PROVIDE CHAIR HENDERSON'S OFFICE
10:58:57AM WITH THEIR TOP THREE CHOICES.
10:58:59AM WHAT WE'LL DO FIRST, I WILL ACTUALLY PROVIDE THE ACTUAL
10:59:10AM CHOICES FROM EACH CHAIR MEMBER AND I'LL START WITH OUR FIRST
10:59:15AM ONE IS FROM CHAIR CLENDENIN.
10:59:21AM LET'S SEE IF WE CAN SEE IT, AGAIN, FOR PUBLIC RECORDS.
10:59:24AM THE FIRST CHOICE, CEDRIC McCRAY.
10:59:29AM SECOND, JENNIFER MATTHEWS AND THE THIRD CHRISTOPHER MOORE.
10:59:34AM OUR SECOND BOARD MEMBER, MANISCALCO, FIRST CHOICE, CEDRIC
10:59:42AM McCRAY.
10:59:44AM SECOND CHOICE, LISA NICHOLS.
10:59:47AM THIRD CHOICE, CHRISTOPHER MOORE.
10:59:50AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK'S FIRST CHOICE, JENNIFER MATTHEWS,
10:59:58AM SECOND CHOICE, CEDRIC McCRAY, THIRD, CHRISTOPHER MOORE.
11:00:02AM BOARD MEMBER CARLSON, FIRST CHOICE CEDRIC McCRAY, SECOND
11:00:10AM JENNIFER MATTHEWS, THIRD, CHRISTOPHER MOORE.
11:00:13AM CHAIR HENDERSON, FIRST CHOICE, CEDRIC McCRAY, SECOND
11:00:20AM JENNIFER MATTHEWS, THIRD, LISA NICHOLS.
11:00:24AM FOR THE RECORD, FOURTH, CHRISTOPHER MOORE.
11:00:26AM CHAIR MEMBER MIRANDA, FIRST CHOICE CEDRIC McCRAY.
11:00:36AM SECOND CHRISTOPHER MOORE.
11:00:37AM THIRD, JENNIFER MATTHEWS.
11:00:40AM AND BOARD MEMBER VIERA, FIRST CHOICE CEDRIC McCRAY.
11:00:49AM SECOND, LISA NICHOLS.
11:00:50AM THIRD, JENNIFER MATTHEWS.
11:00:52AM FOURTH, CHRISTOPHER MOORE.
11:00:54AM ALL SEVEN BOARD MEMBERS.
11:01:00AM EACH BOARD MEMBER SHOULD HAVE A RECAP OF THE CHOICES.
11:01:08AM THESE ARE THE FOLLOWING RANKINGS.
11:01:11AM RANKED NUMBER ONE IS CEDRIC McCRAY WITH SIX BOARD MEMBERS
11:01:20AM MAKING HIM THEIR FIRST CHOICE AND ONE BOARD MEMBER MAKING
11:01:24AM HIM THE SECOND CHOICE.
11:01:26AM SECOND RANKING WAS JENNIFER MATTHEWS.
11:01:29AM AND THE THIRD WAS CHRISTOPHER MOORE.
11:01:33AM RECAP AND OVERVIEW OF ALL THE RANKINGS, OR THE CHOICES FOR
11:01:38AM THE CRA DIRECTOR'S POSITION THAT WAS PROVIDED TO CHAIR
11:01:41AM HENDERSON'S OFFICE.
11:01:43AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, DARLENE, FOR THE INFORMATION.
11:01:47AM NOW THAT WE HAVE THIS AND ONE OF THE GOALS WAS FOR US TO BE
11:01:50AM VERY TRANSPARENT WITH THE COMMUNITY.
11:01:54AM SO WE HAVE DONE THAT AND RECOGNIZING OUR SCORES PUBLICLY
11:01:56AM WITH OUR SIGNATURES.
11:01:58AM THANK YOU, ALEXANDRIA, MY INTERN, AS WELL AS MY LEGISLATIVE
11:02:01AM AIDE, DARLENE JOHNSON FOR PROVIDING EVERYONE WITH THAT
11:02:05AM INFORMATION.
11:02:05AM HOW WE PROCEED NOW IS UP TO US.
11:02:09AM WE CAN MAKE A DECISION TODAY OR IF WE WANT TO BRING BACK
11:02:11AM APPLICANTS.
11:02:13AM I'LL RECOGNIZE BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:02:17AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I DON'T THINK THAT THERE'S ANY DISPARITY
11:02:23AM IN THAT THE SIX OUT OF SEVEN RANKED OUR ACTING DIRECTOR AS
11:02:27AM THEIR NUMBER ONE CHOICE.
11:02:28AM SO I THINK IN THE INTEREST OF EFFICIENCY, WOULD IT BE
11:02:34AM APPROPRIATE TO MAKE A MOTION TO DIRECT THE CHAIR OF THE CRA
11:02:37AM TO ENTER NEGOTIATIONS WITH CEDRIC McCRAY WITH THE CITY OF
11:02:42AM TAMPA?
11:02:43AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
11:02:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE DON'T HIRE THEM.
11:02:48AM HR IS THE ONE THAT HAS --
11:02:50AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I GET THAT.
11:02:52AM SHOULDN'T SHE BE THE LIAISON SINCE SHE IS THE CHAIR.
11:02:57AM I DIRECT THE CHAIRWOMAN OF THE CRA ENTER NEGOTIATIONS
11:03:00AM BETWEEN ACTING DIRECTOR CEDRIC McCRAY AND THE CITY OF
11:03:03AM TAMPA HR DIVISION TO OFFER MR. McCRAY THE POSITION OF
11:03:09AM DIRECTOR.
11:03:09AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU.
11:03:10AM WE HAVE A MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN FOLLOWED BY A
11:03:12AM SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER MANISCALCO.
11:03:14AM IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
11:03:15AM YES, BOARD MEMBER CARLSON, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
11:03:21AM >>BILL CARLSON: I JUST WANT TO SAY I'VE KNOWN CEDRIC --
11:03:27AM WHERE IS HE?
11:03:27AM I'VE KNOWN HIM FOR A LONG TIME SINCE HE WAS WORKING WITH
11:03:36AM FRANK REDDICK.
11:03:37AM I WAS SAD HE LEFT AND HAPPY HE CAME BACK.
11:03:39AM THERE ARE A LOT OF IMPORTANT BUILDING BLOCKS THAT ERICA IN
11:03:46AM PARTICULAR, WE HAVE TO GIVE HER A LOT OF KUDOS FOR PUSHING
11:03:50AM THIS FORWARD, BUT ALSO ALIS AND NICOLE AND OTHERS WHO PUT
11:03:55AM THE BUILDING BLOCKS IN PLACE.
11:03:58AM IT'S TAKEN A LONG TIME TO GET TO THIS POINT WHERE WE HAVE
11:04:01AM THE STRATEGY.
11:04:02AM BUT I THINK WHAT CEDRIC HAS DONE, THE DIFFICULTY OF THIS
11:04:07AM POSITION IS NEGOTIATING BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE CRA.
11:04:11AM BECAUSE THEY ARE SEPARATE ENTITIES BUT RELATED AND I THINK
11:04:14AM HE'S DONE A GREAT JOB OF DOING THAT.
11:04:17AM ONE OF THE THINGS I TALKED TO HIM ABOUT, IF HE ENDS UP
11:04:20AM TAKING THE POSITION, IS WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE BUILD A CRA
11:04:22AM CULTURE WHERE PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE SUPPORT THEM AND THAT EVEN
11:04:28AM THOUGH THEY ARE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY, BECAUSE THE BUCK
11:04:30AM STOPS WITH US, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THERE IS A POSITIVE CRA
11:04:33AM CULTURE.
11:04:33AM I THINK HE CAN DO THAT.
11:04:35AM I THINK HE HAS A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE STAFF AND HE'S
11:04:40AM BEEN MANAGING PROJECTS.
11:04:42AM I WANT TO SAY JENNIFER MATTHEWS, I WAS INCREDIBLY IMPRESSED
11:04:46AM WITH HER, AS IT SOUNDS LIKE MANY OF YOU WERE.
11:04:50AM SHE UNDERSTANDS THE OUTCOMES THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT.
11:04:57AM YOU ALL KNOW IN GRADUATE SCHOOL I STUDIED UNDER PROFESSOR
11:05:01AM WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON, RACE ON CLASS AND POVERTY.
11:05:06AM SHE TOOK A WHOLE SEMINAR SERIES ON THAT AND WENT DEEP INTO
11:05:11AM ALL THAT STUFF.
11:05:12AM IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING AND EXCITING TO TALK WITH SOMEBODY
11:05:15AM WHO SPEAKS THE SAME LANGUAGE ABOUT THAT.
11:05:17AM I HOPE SHE COMES BACK TO THE CITY OF TAMPA IN SOME CAPACITY.
11:05:20AM IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO COULD FOCUS ON THE
11:05:25AM ISSUES OF POVERTY IN OUR CITY.
11:05:27AM I THINK SHE WOULD BE FANTASTIC.
11:05:28AM SHE WOULD BE GREAT IN THIS POSITION ALSO.
11:05:32AM IT WAS REALLY DIFFICULT FOR ME TO CHOOSE BETWEEN NUMBER ONE
11:05:34AM AND NUMBER TWO.
11:05:35AM BUT CEDRIC HAS DONE A GREAT JOB.
11:05:37AM I DON'T KNOW THAT I SPOKE TO LISA, BUT CHRISTOPHER MOORE
11:05:40AM ALSO IS EXCELLENT.
11:05:43AM HIS BACKGROUND IS A LOT IN DEVELOPMENT AND REAL ESTATE.
11:05:47AM I THINK RIGHT NOW WE NEED SOMEONE WHO CAN MANAGE THE
11:05:51AM RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CITY AND CRA, MANAGE A POSITIVE TEAM,
11:05:56AM WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY AND ALSO THINK ABOUT THE OUTCOMES
11:06:00AM WE'RE TRYING TO REACH IN THE COMMUNITY.
11:06:01AM THE GOAL IS NOT TO BUILD BUILDINGS.
11:06:03AM IT'S TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE FOR PEOPLE AND
11:06:07AM DISTRICTS.
11:06:07AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: YOU'RE RECOGNIZED BOARD MEMBER VIERA.
11:06:08AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:06:10AM I WANTED TO GIVE KUDOS TO EVERYBODY WHO APPLIED.
11:06:13AM I THOUGHT EVERYBODY WAS WONDERFUL AND EVERYTHING.
11:06:14AM THERE IS A SAYING, IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT.
11:06:19AM BUT IT'S NOT JUST NOT BROKE, IT'S WORKING VERY WELL.
11:06:21AM MR. McCRAY IS JUST A STELLAR PUBLIC SERVANT, A STELLAR
11:06:29AM MAN, A STELLAR PERSON.
11:06:30AM YOU KNOW, JUST LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU IN THIS POSITION
11:06:30AM CONTINUE.
11:06:30AM I THINK YOU'LL DO A GREAT JOB.
11:06:32AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, WILLIAM JULIUS WILSON.
11:06:37AM WHAT IS THAT BOOK?
11:06:38AM I REMEMBER THAT.
11:06:44AM KUDOS.
11:06:45AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I WANT TO -- AS THE CHAIR, I APPRECIATE
11:06:49AM YOU ALL BEING PATIENT WITH US IN THE PROCESS AND ALSO REALLY
11:06:53AM GIVING KUDOS TO ALL THE APPLICANTS.
11:06:56AM IT WAS WONDERFUL GETTING TO KNOW ALL OF THEM AND THEIR
11:07:00AM BACKGROUND AND EXPERIENCES.
11:07:01AM FOR THE RECORD, I WOULD LIKE THIS TO BE A ROLL CALL VOTE.
11:07:04AM MOTION BY BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN, SECOND BY BOARD MEMBER
11:07:06AM MANISCALCO.
11:07:07AM ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
11:07:11AM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
11:07:12AM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
11:07:14AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
11:07:15AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
11:07:16AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
11:07:16AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
11:07:18AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: ABSOLUTELY.
11:07:19AM YES.
11:07:20AM >>THE CLERK: MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
11:07:22AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: CONGRATULATIONS.
11:07:22AM [ APPLAUSE ]
11:07:22AM WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHARE A FEW BRIEF WORDS WITH US AT 11:07.
11:07:34AM YOU HAVE UNTIL 11:08?
11:07:36AM [ LAUGHTER ]
11:07:37AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: NO, NO.
11:07:38AM THANK YOU.
11:07:39AM GREATLY APPRECIATE YOUR LEVEL OF SUPPORT AND PATIENCE WITH
11:07:43AM US AS WE'RE KIND OF TRYING TO COMPLETE BUILDING THE PLAN
11:07:48AM YOU'VE SET FORTH.
11:07:49AM I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THE FOLKS HERE AND THE
11:07:51AM FOLKS ON THE SECOND FLOOR ON BOTH SIDES.
11:07:56AM LIKE I SAY, WE'RE LOOKING TO CONTINUE TO DO THE GOOD WORK
11:07:59AM FOR THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AREAS.
11:08:01AM THANK YOU.
11:08:01AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:08:02AM BOARD MEMBER CLENDENIN.
11:08:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WOULD YOU PLEASE -- I DON'T THINK IT
11:08:11AM REQUIRES A MOTION -- BUT WORK WITH HR.
11:08:13AM APPLICANTS THAT WERE NOT SUCCESSFUL, TO GIVE THEM TIMELY
11:08:19AM NOTIFICATION.
11:08:20AM SO MANY TIMES THEY DO NOT GET INFORMATION.
11:08:23AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: I'LL MAKE SURE WHEN I ADDRESS THAT.
11:08:25AM THANK YOU.
11:08:26AM ATTORNEY SHEPHARD, ARE YOU ONLINE?
11:08:29AM >>CLIFF SHEPARD: I AM.
11:08:30AM DO YOU WANT ME TO TURN ON THE CAMERA OR TALK?
11:08:34AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: WHATEVER IS YOUR PREFERENCE.
11:08:36AM YOU CAN TURN ON YOUR CAMERA.
11:08:38AM I THINK THAT IS THE PRESENCE OF ONE OF OUR BOARD MEMBERS.
11:08:42AM ATTORNEY SHEPHARD, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:08:45AM SET THE CLOCK FOR THREE MINUTES, PLEASE.
11:08:51AM THE UPDATES COMING OUT OF TALLAHASSEE, ANYTHING THAT YOU
11:08:53AM WANT TO SHARE REGARDING CRA LEGISLATIVELY FOR THE PUBLIC AS
11:08:57AM WELL AS FOR THE BOARD THAT YOU WANT TO SHARE WITH US AT THIS
11:09:00AM TIME?
11:09:00AM >>CLIFF SHEPARD: WELL, THE FIRST THING I WOULD SAY IS PRAY.
11:09:05AM IF YOU LIKE CRAs THIS IS NOT A GOOD YEAR.
11:09:09AM IT EXPLAINS WHY EVERY TIME I'M ASKING TO SPEAK ON THE
11:09:14AM PROJECT AT FRA AND VARIOUS OTHER PLACES, I EXPLAIN THE
11:09:17AM IMPORTANCE OF STAYING IN THE GUIDELINES SET BY THE
11:09:19AM LEGISLATURE BECAUSE THEY ARE LITERALLY ALWAYS LOOKING FOR A
11:09:22AM WAY TO END US.
11:09:23AM YESTERDAY AT 4:00, 5:00 IN THE AFTERNOON, A NEW BILL WAS
11:09:28AM FILED.
11:09:31AM I DIDN'T THINK IT COULD GET WORSE.
11:09:33AM THEY ACTUALLY MADE IT A LITTLE BIT WORSE IN THAT THEY
11:09:36AM CHANGED WHAT WAS BASICALLY A LINE IN THE EARLIER BILL THAT
11:09:41AM SAID THAT THE PROJECTS COULD NO LONGER BE INTRODUCED AFTER
11:09:46AM JUNE -- OR JULY OF 2025.
11:09:49AM INSTEAD, THEY CHANGED IT TO THE FOLLOWING LANGUAGE, IT'S
11:09:51AM VERY BRIEF.
11:09:53AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY MAY NOT INITIATE ANY NEW
11:09:57AM PROJECTS OR ISSUE ANY NEW DEBT ON OR AFTER OCTOBER 1, 2025,
11:10:02AM FOR PURPOSES OF THE SUBSECTION AND TERM NEW PROJECT MEANS
11:10:05AM ANY PROJECT FOR WHICH THERE IS NO APPROPRIATION IN THE
11:10:08AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY'S BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR
11:10:13AM SEPTEMBER 30th, 2025, OR FOR WHICH THE COMMUNITY
11:10:17AM REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY HAS NOT RETAINED APPROPRIATED FUNDS
11:10:20AM UNDER THE STATUTE FOR FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2025.
11:10:24AM SO IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY GOT IT IN YOUR BUDGET, YOU WOULD
11:10:28AM HAVE TO DO A BUDGET AMENDMENT AND YOU'D HAVE TO GET IT
11:10:32AM STARTED BEFORE THIS TERMINATION DATE, WHICH EFFECTIVELY, IF
11:10:35AM THIS WERE TO PASS, IT ENDS CRAs AS YOU KNOW THEM.
11:10:38AM NOW, I LIKE TO OFFER SOME HOPEFUL NEWS.
11:10:43AM I AM LED TO BELIEVE BY FRA LOBBYISTS AND OTHERS THAT THERE
11:10:49AM MAY BE AN ABILITY TO GET THIS PORTION, WHICH IS BASICALLY
11:10:54AM THE DEATH SENTENCE, REMOVED FROM THE FINAL BILL AND INSTEAD
11:10:58AM END UP WITH A BILL THAT SIMPLY SAYS ALL CRAs MUST
11:11:03AM TERMINATE BY 2045.
11:11:05AM THE ONLY EXCEPTION TO THAT WOULD BE WITH THOSE THAT HAVE
11:11:07AM BONDS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN PAID, IT ALLOWS THE AGENCIES TO
11:11:10AM CONTINUE TO PAY THE BONDS BUT IT STILL WOULD EFFECTIVELY SAY
11:11:15AM THAT IN OUR FUTURE CRAs WILL GO AWAY.
11:11:19AM YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE BRINGS.
11:11:23AM SAYING IT GOES AWAY AT A DATE THAT FAR IN THE FUTURE MEANS
11:11:26AM THEY COULD COME BACK AND CHANGE THEIR MINDS, BUT THIS IS NOT
11:11:28AM GOOD.
11:11:28AM I WOULD STRONGLY URGE YOU, IF YOU ARE A FAN OF CRAs, AS I
11:11:33AM AM, BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE GOOD WORK THEY DO, WHICH I DO, IF
11:11:38AM YOU REACH OUT TO YOUR LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION, EXPLAIN TO
11:11:42AM THEM THE GOD WORKS THAT HAPPEN IN CRAs AROUND THE STATE
11:11:45AM ALL THE TIME, YOU CAN ACKNOWLEDGE IT IS A FACT THAT SOME
11:11:50AM CRAs, I KNOW BECAUSE I HAVE TO TALK TO THEM ALL THE TIME,
11:11:53AM ABUSE THE PRIVILEGE OF CRAs, AND THAT'S WHY WE KEEP
11:11:57AM RUNNING OUR HEADS AGAINST THE WALL EVERY LEGISLATIVE
11:11:59AM SESSION.
11:12:00AM LITERALLY FOUND OUT ABOUT THIS ON FRIDAY OF LAST WEEK, SPENT
11:12:05AM THE WEEKEND TRYING TO DRAFT ALTERNATIVE LANGUAGE THAT MIGHT
11:12:08AM BE ACCEPTABLE TO THE LEGISLATURE, BUT RIGHT NOW, WE ARE JUST
11:12:14AM HOPEFUL AS MUCH AS WE CAN BE THAT THIS SORT OF DEATH PENALTY
11:12:19AM WILL BE TAKEN OFF THE TABLE AND WE'LL SEE HOW THAT GOES.
11:12:22AM I AM LED TO BELIEVE THAT THERE IS A REASONABLE CHANCE THAT
11:12:26AM THIS MIGHT GO AWAY, THIS PORTION OF IT THAT I JUST READ, BUT
11:12:30AM THAT THE OVERALL END OF CRAs IS PROBABLY GOING TO GET
11:12:36AM THROUGH THE LEGISLATURE THIS SESSION.
11:12:39AM AGAIN, I'VE SEEN BAD DAYS COME AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN
11:12:44AM DISAPPEAR, SO WHO KNOWS.
11:12:45AM THERE ARE A LOT OF FANS OF CRAs OUT THERE.
11:12:49AM IF YOU ARE NOT A FAN AND YOU ARE THE RIGHT PERSON IN
11:12:51AM TALLAHASSEE, THAT MAY BE ALL THAT MATTERS.
11:12:53AM THAT'S WHERE WE ARE.
11:12:54AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: THANK YOU, ATTORNEY SHEPHARD.
11:12:56AM BOARD MEMBER HURTAK.
11:12:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
11:12:58AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT UPDATE.
11:13:00AM I REALLY DO APPRECIATE YOU BEING HONEST WHILE ALSO TRYING TO
11:13:03AM SEE LIGHT BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT JUST WITH
11:13:10AM EVERYTHING GOING ON IN THE WORLD RIGHT NOW.
11:13:12AM I APPRECIATE YOUR HONESTY BUT ALSO YOUR HOPE.
11:13:16AM OUR CRA, WE DON'T HAVE ANY BONDS, DO WE?
11:13:20AM WE HAVEN'T BONDED ANYTHING.
11:13:24AM MOST OF THE STUFF WE PAY FOR IN INCREMENTS.
11:13:27AM SO THAT PART DOESN'T IMPACT US.
11:13:31AM BUT ALSO, JUST TO CLARIFY, FOR THE PUBLIC, WE ARE NOT
11:13:34AM BONDING ANY CRA MONEY.
11:13:35AM EVERYTHING WE'RE DOING, WE ARE PAY-GO.
11:13:38AM WE ARE JUST SLOWLY ROLLING.
11:13:40AM BUT ALSO, I DID -- MY OTHER QUESTION AND JUST TO EITHER, OUR
11:13:50AM LAST CRA ENDS OR CURRENTLY ENDS WHEN?
11:13:56AM >>CEDRIC McCRAY: 2043.
11:13:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: SO WE WOULD STAY WITHIN THOSE BOUNDS AS IT
11:14:01AM IS.
11:14:02AM I JUST WANT THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW THAT IF WE ARE LUCKY TO
11:14:06AM GET THIS, WE WILL BE WITHIN THE BOUNDS AND WE CAN STILL
11:14:11AM CONTINUE BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY DILIGENTLY.
11:14:14AM THAT IS ONE OF THE REASONS WHY WE CHOSE ATTORNEY SHEPHARD
11:14:18AM BECAUSE HE IS SO ABSOLUTELY UP TO DATE WITH EVERYTHING THE
11:14:21AM CRAs ARE DOING.
11:14:22AM IF YOU ATTENDED THE CAC MEETING, APPARENTLY I WAS TOLD, YOU
11:14:27AM SCARED THEM GOOD, WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE WE HAVE TO STAY
11:14:31AM WITHIN THE BOUNDS AND WE HAVE TO STAY WITHIN THE RULES.
11:14:34AM I BELIEVE OUR BOARD AND OUR STAFF HAS BEEN VERY GOOD ABOUT
11:14:37AM THAT.
11:14:38AM WE DON'T LOVE IT, BUT WE'RE DOING IT BECAUSE WE'RE PLAYING
11:14:41AM WITHIN THE RULES.
11:14:42AM I REALLY WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.
11:14:43AM WE'RE REALLY LUCKY TO BE SHEPHERDED BY SOME PEOPLE WHO KNOW
11:14:48AM EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED TO DO.
11:14:50AM I WANT OUR COMMUNITY TO FEEL SAFE AND COMFORTED IN KNOWING
11:14:53AM THAT OUR CRAs ARE DOING WHAT THEY NEED TO DO.
11:14:56AM I WANT TO THANK BOTH MR. SHEPHARD AND OUR STAFF FOR MAKING
11:14:59AM SURE THAT IS THE CASE SO WE ARE NOT ONE OF THE BAD ACTORS.
11:15:03AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER CARLSON FOLLOWED BY BOARD
11:15:05AM MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:15:06AM >>BILL CARLSON: WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS OFF-LINE, SOMETIMES
11:15:10AM SUBSTITUTE LANGUAGE IS PUT IN THAT CHANGES THE NATURE OF A
11:15:15AM BILL OR HOW IT IS EARLY ON.
11:15:17AM IF I WAS WORKING DOING LOBBYING OR ADVOCACY FOR FRA, ONE OF
11:15:22AM THE THINGS I WOULD PROPOSE IN PLACE OF THIS IS THAT EVERY
11:15:28AM CRA DISTRICT WOULD HAVE TO GO THROUGH A REEVALUATION TO SEE
11:15:32AM IF IT WOULD TODAY QUALIFY AS A CRA.
11:15:35AM THAT WOULD KEEP THE ONES WHERE THERE'S REAL NEED ALIVE BUT
11:15:39AM THE LEGISLATURE WOULD SHUT DOWN ONES LIKE DOWNTOWN TAMPA
11:15:45AM THAT SHOULDN'T CONTINUE.
11:15:48AM IT WOULD BRING MORE MONEY INTO CITIES OR COUNTIES BY
11:15:53AM ELIMINATING THE ONES THAT DON'T REALLY MEET THE DEFINITION
11:15:56AM ANYMORE.
11:15:56AM IT'S JUST A COMPROMISE THING SO COULD HAVE A WIN WHILE STILL
11:16:01AM -- LIKE THE ONES LIKE WEST TAMPA AND EAST TAMPA CONTINUE.
11:16:05AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: BOARD MEMBER MIRANDA.
11:16:06AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO THANK THE LEGISLATURE FOR
11:16:08AM FOLLOWING THE TAMPA MODEL.
11:16:10AM >>GWEN HENDERSON: FINALLY, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I
11:16:16AM WILL SAY, AT THE VERY TOP OF BECOMING THE BOARD CHAIR OUR
11:16:21AM FIRST YEAR IN OFFICE AS A BOARD, WE CLEANED UP A LOT OF
11:16:25AM THINGS UNANIMOUSLY WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION OF CRAs LIKE
11:16:30AM THE SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM THAT DOESN'T APPLY TO
11:16:36AM CRAs AND SLUM AND BLIGHT.
11:16:37AM I'M HAVING A BRAIN FREEZE.
11:16:39AM THE SPECIAL EVENTS, ACTIVITIES, THINGS THAT DO NOT HAVE
11:16:44AM ANYTHING TO DO WITH SLUM AND BLIGHT THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO
11:16:47AM BE FACING THAT CRITICISM FROM THE STATE BECAUSE WE HAVE
11:16:52AM CLEANED THOSE THINGS UP.
11:16:53AM SO THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT ON OUR BEHALF, TOO, OF BEING
11:16:57AM DILIGENT IN THAT.
11:16:58AM ALL RIGHT.
11:16:59AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
11:16:59AM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
11:17:00AM MOTION -- SO MOVED BY MANISCALCO.
11:17:05AM SECONDED BY VIERA.
11:17:06AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR?
11:17:07AM AYE.
11:17:08AM THIS MEETING IS DISMISSED AT 11:17.
11:17:11AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
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