TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
THURSDAY, JULY 17, 2025, 9:00 A.M.
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9:04:21AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GOOD MORNING, EVERYBODY.
9:04:22AM WELCOME TO TAMPA CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS.
9:04:24AM I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THIS MEETING TO ORDER.
9:04:26AM I WOULD FIRST LIKE TO RECOGNIZE COUNCILMAN LUIS VIERA FOR
9:04:32AM THE INVOCATION.
9:04:34AM >>LUIS VIERA: IT IS MY GREAT PLEASURE TO INVITE A WONDERFUL
9:04:36AM MAN UP HERE.
9:04:37AM PASTOR JUSTIN LAROSA.
9:04:40AM COME FORWARD, SIR.
9:04:41AM PASTOR LAROSA IS AN ORDAINED MINISTER IN THE UNITED
9:04:44AM METHODIST CHURCH, A LICENSED CLINICAL SOCIAL WORKER.
9:04:47AM HE HOLDS MANY, MANY TITLES.
9:04:49AM HE'S BEEN AT HYDE PARK UNITED METHODIST SINCE 2005 WHERE HE
9:04:53AM SERVES AS MINISTER OF DOWNTOWN SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY, DIRECTOR
9:04:55AM OF THE PORTICO.
9:04:57AM HE WAS SENT WITH A SMALL GROUP TO LAUNCH A CUTTING-EDGE NEW
9:05:00AM MINISTRY IN THE OLDEST CHURCH IN DOWNTOWN TAMPA WHICH WOULD
9:05:01AM BECOME THE PORTICO.
9:05:11AM IT INCLUDES A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE, A CAFE, HISTORICAL CHAPEL,
9:05:11AM SPACES TO MEET AND WORK AND EVENT SPACE FOR THE PUBLIC AND
9:05:11AM MANY, MANY OTHER THINGS.
9:05:12AM PASTOR LAROSA IS A WONDERFUL PERSON OF GREAT EMPATHY AND
9:05:16AM DECENCY AND IS ONE OF THE BEST GUYS I KNOW.
9:05:18AM IF YOU GUYS WOULD PLEASE STAND UP FOR THE PRAYER AND REMAIN
9:05:21AM STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
9:05:24AM >> THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR INVITING ME.
9:05:27AM THOSE WHO ARE PRAYING, LET'S BOW OUR HEADS.
9:05:29AM GOD OF MANY NAMES, WE GATHER IN YOUR PRESENCE THIS MORNING,
9:05:32AM CENTERING OURSELVES ON YOUR GOODNESS.
9:05:34AM WE APPROACH THIS DAY WITH OPEN MINDS AND GRATEFUL HEARTS.
9:05:38AM AND WE GIVE THANKS FOR OUR LIVES AND THE PEOPLE AROUND US,
9:05:41AM THE CITY, AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE.
9:05:43AM THANK YOU FOR THE ENGAGED CITIZENS, THE CITY COUNCIL, THE
9:05:46AM MAYOR, THE AIDES, AND ALL THE EMPLOYEES WHO WORK BEHIND THE
9:05:50AM SCENES TO MAKE TAMPA FUNCTION, THRIVE, AND GROW.
9:05:53AM WE GIVE THANKS FOR OUR OFFICERS AND THOSE WHO SERVE AND
9:05:56AM FIREFIGHTERS AND ALL WHO SUPPORT THEIR WORK.
9:05:59AM MAY YOU GIVE THEM ALL A SPIRIT OF WISDOM, HUMILITY AND
9:06:03AM SERVANT HOOD.
9:06:04AM WE PRAY FOR DOWNTOWN RESIDENTS AND WORKERS, INCLUDING THOSE
9:06:07AM PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO LAY THEIR HEAD.
9:06:10AM WE PRAY FOR CITIZENS WHO WILL ADVOCATE, INVEST THEIR TIME
9:06:13AM AND TALENT TO BUILD A MORE INCLUSIVE AND DIVERSE CITY AND
9:06:15AM DEAL WITH THE MANY ISSUES BEFORE US, THAT RELATE TO
9:06:18AM WONDERFUL THINGS LIKE GROWTH, INNOVATION, AND
9:06:21AM TRANSPORTATION.
9:06:21AM WE HUMBLY ASK YOU THAT YOU PROVIDE ASTUTE DISCERNMENT AND
9:06:27AM CLARITY AND DIRECTION FOR EACH COUNCIL MEMBER AS THEY
9:06:30AM PROCESS THE BUDGET AND REPORTS ON THE AGENDA.
9:06:32AM ALLOW THEIR DISCUSSIONS TO BE PRODUCTIVE AND RESPECTFUL
9:06:36AM AMIDST DISAGREEMENT.
9:06:38AM AND MAY THE FINAL BUDGET BE ONE THAT REALLY SHOWS
9:06:41AM RESPONSIBLE GOVERNING IN THE WELL USE OF PEOPLE'S DOLLARS.
9:06:46AM PLEASE CONTINUE TO BE WITH COUNCILWOMAN GWEN HENDERSON'S
9:06:50AM FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND THIS COUNCIL AS THEY REMEMBER AND
9:06:52AM GRIEVE HER LOSS.
9:06:53AM MAY YOUR GRACE, COMFORT CONTINUE TO SHOW UP FOR THEM.
9:06:58AM IGNITE US TO BE THE PEOPLE YOU'VE CALLED US TO BE.
9:07:00AM I PRAY THESE THINGS IN THE POWER OF JESUS CHRIST, AMEN.
9:07:04AM >> AMEN.
9:07:05AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, WOULD YOU LEAD US IN
9:07:07AM THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE?
9:07:07AM [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE]
9:07:24AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU ALL.
9:07:24AM ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
9:07:26AM NOT A VOTE.
9:07:30AM ROLL CALL.
9:07:31AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
9:07:33AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
9:07:33AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
9:07:34AM >>LUIS VIERA: HERE.
9:07:35AM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
9:07:36AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
9:07:37AM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
9:07:39AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:07:40AM I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE
9:07:42AM MINUTES OF THE REGULAR SESSION HELD ON JUNE 26, 2025.
9:07:45AM I HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, A SECOND FROM
9:07:48AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:07:49AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
9:07:52AM OPPOSED?
9:07:52AM AYES HAVE IT.
9:07:54AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:07:54AM LIKE TO GO THROUGH THE AGENDA FOR THE AGENDA REVIEW.
9:07:57AM THERE ARE NO ADDENDUMS.
9:07:59AM WE HAVE ITEM NUMBER 63, ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE.
9:08:02AM THERE'S NO UPDATE, CORRECT?
9:08:03AM THANK YOU.
9:08:04AM WE HAVE A MEMO FROM ADRIANA FOR $7.2 MILLION MAINTENANCE
9:08:11AM AGREEMENT WITH BILL CURRIE.
9:08:13AM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
9:08:14AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SO MOVED.
9:08:15AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: 64.
9:08:17AM IT'S A RESOLUTION.
9:08:21AM I'M SORRY.
9:08:21AM WE HAVE A MEMO FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON TO CONTINUE ITEM 65
9:08:26AM TODAY TO JULY 31st.
9:08:29AM MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN
9:08:31AM MANISCALCO.
9:08:32AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, AYE.
9:08:33AM OPPOSED?
9:08:34AM CAN I GET A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE NUMBER 66 AND 67 FROM
9:08:39AM BRANDON CAMPBELL?
9:08:40AM BRANDON IS NOT HERE TODAY, BY THE WAY.
9:08:47AM >>BILL CARLSON: THE IDEA IS THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE
9:08:49AM PRESENTING IN PERSON.
9:08:50AM BECAUSE HE'S OUT OF TOWN, THEY REQUESTED TO JUST RECEIVE AND
9:08:53AM FILE THIS ONE AND PRESENT IN PERSON THE NEXT TIME.
9:08:57AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT'S FINE.
9:08:58AM THANK YOU.
9:08:58AM I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT IF FOLKS WANT TO KNOW WHAT ROADS
9:09:02AM ARE PLANNED AND WHAT HAS BEEN REPAIRED, THE MAPS ARE ON THE
9:09:07AM AGENDA AND THEY ARE VERY EASY TO READ.
9:09:10AM I HIGHLY RECOMMEND FOLKS LOOK AT THOSE.
9:09:13AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON AND SECOND
9:09:15AM FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
9:09:18AM WE'RE RECEIVING AND FILING 66 AND 67.
9:09:21AM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
9:09:24AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
9:09:25AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
9:09:27AM OPPOSED?
9:09:27AM AYES HAVE IT.
9:09:28AM ITEM 66, A MEMO FROM ABBYE FEELEY, CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT FROM
9:09:32AM MERIDIAN TO CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
9:09:34AM ADDED TO THE CDB.
9:09:36AM IT WAS A STAFF REPORT.
9:09:37AM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE?
9:09:39AM 68.
9:09:42AM I'M SORRY.
9:09:46AM >>BILL CARLSON: THAT ONE IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE CURRENT
9:09:47AM TEXT AMENDMENT CYCLE.
9:09:48AM THEY CONFIRMED IT IS.
9:09:49AM I THINK WE CAN RECEIVE AND FILE THAT.
9:09:51AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS THAT A MOTION?
9:09:53AM MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
9:09:55AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
9:09:58AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
9:09:59AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE GOT AN INTERESTING E-MAIL ABOUT THIS.
9:10:02AM I KIND OF THOUGHT WE WOULD HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A DISCUSSION
9:10:04AM ABOUT IT.
9:10:05AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU WOULD LIKE STAFF ON IT?
9:10:07AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NOT STAFF.
9:10:09AM JUST US.
9:10:10AM WE DON'T NEED STAFF.
9:10:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE THE
9:10:12AM MEMO.
9:10:13AM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I DIDN'T PUT IN A MEMO.
9:10:16AM I'M GOING TO BE HERE FOR THAT ITEM IF THAT'S OKAY.
9:10:20AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THERE WE GO.
9:10:21AM WE HAVE STAFF FOR ITEM 68 AND 69.
9:10:24AM VERY GOOD.
9:10:25AM I WOULD LIKE TO AMEND THE AGENDA TO FLIP ITEMS 1 AND 2 SO
9:10:33AM THAT WE WILL HEAR FROM THE POLICE FIRST AND THEN WE'LL HAVE
9:10:37AM THE MAYOR'S PRESENTATION.
9:10:39AM MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
9:10:39AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:10:42AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
9:10:43AM OPPOSED?
9:10:44AM AYES HAVE IT.
9:10:45AM >>LYNN HURTAK: ARE WE GOING TO JUST ACCEPT THE STAFF REPORTS
9:10:49AM FOR THE WRITTEN STAFF REPORTS?
9:10:50AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
9:10:51AM >>LYNN HURTAK: BECAUSE I HAD ONE MENTION ON IT ON ONE OF
9:10:55AM THEM.
9:10:56AM NUMBER 71, CHIEF TRIPP'S MEMO DOES TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT
9:11:02AM ALL THE BUNKER GEAR HAS BEEN SENT OUT, BUT THERE IS STILL
9:11:08AM MORE BUNKER GEAR TO BE PURCHASED SO THAT I WOULD LIKE THAT
9:11:12AM REPORT TO STAY UNTIL THAT HAS BEEN DONE.
9:11:15AM THAT WAS COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON'S MOTION.
9:11:19AM I'M SAYING I DO BELIEVE WE NEED TO MAINTAIN THE MONTHLY
9:11:22AM REPORT BECAUSE WHILE THE MEMO SAYS THAT ALL OF IT IS OUT,
9:11:25AM ALL OF IT THAT WE HAD IS OUT.
9:11:26AM NOW WE'RE ORDERING MORE.
9:11:28AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT'S NOT INCONSISTENT WITH RECEIVING AND
9:11:30AM FILING THIS.
9:11:31AM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, BUT I HAVE HEARD FROM A COUPLE OF PEOPLE
9:11:35AM THAT PEOPLE DON'T KNOW IF COUNCIL WANTS TO CONTINUE SOME OF
9:11:43AM COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON'S MOTIONS AND I NEVER HEARD OF US
9:11:46AM STOPPING THAT.
9:11:47AM BUT THERE IS ANOTHER MOTION, THE DOWNTOWN SIGNS THAT I'VE
9:11:54AM HEARD THAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID, OH, WE HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING
9:11:57AM FROM COUNCIL ABOUT THAT.
9:11:59AM I WANT TO ADDRESS THAT LATER TODAY IN NEW BUSINESS.
9:12:03AM BUT I'M JUST SAYING, I WANTED TO SAY THAT I STILL WANT THIS
9:12:06AM REPORT.
9:12:08AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DO WE HAVE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE 70
9:12:13AM THROUGH 74?
9:12:14AM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
9:12:16AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
9:12:17AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
9:12:18AM OPPOSED?
9:12:18AM WE WILL DISCUSS THAT -- THOSE ISSUES DURING NEW BUSINESS.
9:12:22AM IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE FOR THE AGENDA THAT ANYBODY WOULD
9:12:26AM LIKE TO DISCUSS?
9:12:26AM MOTION TO ADOPT THE AMENDED AGENDA?
9:12:28AM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:12:31AM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
9:12:32AM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
9:12:33AM OPPOSED?
9:12:33AM OKAY.
9:12:35AM HERE WE GO.
9:12:37AM WE WOULD LIKE TO START WITH ONE OF THE BEST MEETINGS OF THE
9:12:42AM MONTH WHEN WE RECOGNIZE OUR POLICE OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:12:44AM RECOGNIZE COUNCILMAN VIERA.
9:12:58AM >>LUIS VIERA: HEY, COUNCIL.
9:12:59AM REAL PLEASURE TO BE HERE.
9:13:01AM LUIS VIERA HERE TO DO THE OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:13:04AM THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ALWAYS DO TO REFLECT THE VALUES OF
9:13:07AM THE COMMUNITY THAT WE SERVE IN SUPPORTING OUR FIRST
9:13:09AM RESPONDERS, OUR POLICE OFFICERS, AS WELL AS OUR
9:13:11AM FIREFIGHTERS.
9:13:12AM I'LL LET DR. CHIEF BERCAW TALK ABOUT THIS MONTH'S WONDERFUL
9:13:16AM HONOREE.
9:13:19AM >>CHIEF BERCAW: GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:13:20AM IT'S MY HONOR TO PRESENT OUR OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:13:25AM DETECTIVE HOPE DAUPHIN SERVED SINCE 2022.
9:13:35AM SHE HAS MADE A LASTING IMPACT NOT ONLY IN THE DEPARTMENT BUT
9:13:37AM IN THE LIVES OF COUNTLESS VICTIMS IN OUR COMMUNITY.
9:13:41AM HER WORK OFTEN HAPPENS QUIETLY BEHIND THE SCENES BUT ITS
9:13:44AM EFFECTS ARE LIFE-CHANGING FOR THOSE SHE SERVES.
9:13:47AM SHE HAS LED COMPLEX INVESTIGATIONS INVOLVING IDENTITY THEFT,
9:13:52AM FRAUD AND FINANCIAL EXPLOITATION.
9:13:53AM JUST TO NOTE A FEW, SHE HELPED STOP THE FRAUDULENT RELEASE
9:13:57AM OF $40,000, HER FAST WORK PRESERVED THE FUNDS AND LED TO AN
9:14:02AM ARREST IN JUST A FEW WEEKS.
9:14:05AM IN ANOTHER CASE, SHE BROUGHT JUSTICE TO A HURRICANE VICTIM
9:14:08AM WHO WAS DEFRAUDED BY UNLICENSED CONTRACTORS AFTER LOSING
9:14:13AM THEIR HOME.
9:14:14AM SHE TRACKED DOWN EVIDENCE, SPOKE TO OVER 20 PEOPLE AND
9:14:17AM HELPED PUT A STOP TO THOSE RESPONSIBLE.
9:14:19AM DETECTIVE DAUPHIN ALSO INVESTIGATED A LONG-TERM THEFT AT A
9:14:23AM LOCAL BAKERY WHERE A MANAGER HAD BEEN ALTERING RECORDS FOR
9:14:27AM YEARS.
9:14:27AM DETECTIVE DAUPHIN REVIEWED HOURS OF VIDEOS, STACKS OF
9:14:31AM DOCUMENTS AND EVENTUALLY SECURED FULL CONFESSION LEADING TO
9:14:34AM OVER 50 FELONY CHARGES.
9:14:36AM OUTSIDE OF HER CASEWORK, SHE'S TAKEN A LEAD -- A HUGE LEAD
9:14:41AM -- IN HELPING TRAIN NEW DETECTIVES, CREATING A GO-TO
9:14:44AM TRAINING MANUAL THAT'S NOW USED THROUGHOUT HER UNIT.
9:14:47AM SHE'S ALSO AN ACTIVE IN OUR DEPARTMENT FAMILY SUPPORT AND
9:14:51AM WELLNESS EFFORTS.
9:14:53AM I CAN HONESTLY SAY IT'S NOT WRITTEN HERE, WE WOULD NOT HAVE
9:14:56AM THE WELLNESS PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE FOR OUR FAMILY IF IT
9:14:58AM WASN'T FOR DETECTIVE DAUPHIN.
9:15:00AM SHE BRINGS SKILL, EMPATHY, QUIET LEADERSHIP IN EVERYTHING
9:15:04AM SHE DOES.
9:15:05AM HER WORK MAKES A REAL DIFFERENCE, NOT JUST IN THE CASES, BUT
9:15:08AM THE PEOPLE'S LIVES THAT WERE IMPACTED.
9:15:11AM IN ADDITION, ALSO TO OUR DEPARTMENT AND OUR FAMILY.
9:15:14AM SHE'S A VALUED MEMBER OF THIS DEPARTMENT, AND HER WORK DOES
9:15:19AM NOT GO UNNOTICED.
9:15:20AM IT IS WITH GREAT PRIDE AND GRATITUDE THAT WE RECOGNIZE HER
9:15:24AM EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE TODAY AND IT'S WHY SHE'S BEING
9:15:28AM RECOGNIZED AS OUR JULY OFFICER OF THE MONTH.
9:15:30AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:15:31AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:15:37AM >>LUIS VIERA: BEFORE WE HONOR YOU, THERE ARE PEOPLE IN THE
9:15:40AM COMMUNITY WHO WOULD LIKE TO GIVE YOU AND YOUR FAMILY SOME
9:15:42AM TOKENS OF APPRECIATION.
9:15:45AM >> BRANDON BARCLAY, TAMPA PBA.
9:15:49AM DETECTIVE, GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS.
9:16:01AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:16:03AM GOOD MORNING CHIEF.
9:16:04AM BRIAN FORD, CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER FOR THE TAMPA BAY
9:16:07AM BUCCANEERS.
9:16:08AM WE HAVE A LITTLE TRADITION AT ONE BUC.
9:16:12AM ANYBODY THAT GOES OVER AND ABOVE GETS A GAME BALL.
9:16:14AM I'M HERE TODAY ON BEHALF OF THE GLAZER FAMILY, OUR ENTIRE
9:16:17AM ORGANIZATION TO SAY THANK YOU.
9:16:19AM THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DO FOR OUR COMMUNITY,
9:16:22AM THE SACRIFICE, THE LEADERSHIP, THE WELLNESS COMMITTEE.
9:16:26AM THAT'S AMAZING.
9:16:26AM BUT CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:16:28AM >> MY DAD MADE SURE I TAKE THIS.
9:16:34AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DON'T FUMBLE THE BALL.
9:16:38AM >> MIKE McARTHUR, STEPP'S TOWING SERVICE.
9:16:40AM CONGRATULATIONS DETECTIVE ON A JOB WELL DONE.
9:16:42AM THE CITY IS DEFINITELY A BETTER PLACE WITH PEOPLE LIKE YOU
9:16:44AM INVOLVED IN IT.
9:16:45AM WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO FOR THE COMMUNITY.
9:16:47AM ON BEHALF OF TODD STEPP AND STEPP'S TOWING, PRESENT YOU A
9:16:51AM GIFT CARD FOR DINNER, NIGHT OUT ON STEPP'S TOWING.
9:16:54AM CONGRATULATIONS AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO.
9:16:57AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:16:59AM GOOD MORNING, DETECTIVE DAUPHIN.
9:17:00AM I'M GRACE GONZALEZ HERE ON BEHALF OF THE GONZMART FAMILY AND
9:17:04AM 1905 FAMILY OF RESTAURANTS.
9:17:05AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE IN TAMPA AND FOR DEDICATING
9:17:08AM SO MUCH TIME AND SO MUCH OF YOURSELF TO SERVING OUR
9:17:12AM COMMUNITY.
9:17:12AM WE WOULD LIKE TO SERVE YOU DINNER.
9:17:14AM PLEASE ENJOY YOURSELF OUT WITH A NIGHT OUT, ULELE, ANYWHERE
9:17:19AM YOU WOULD LIKE TO VISIT.
9:17:22AM THANK YOU AND CONGRATULATIONS.
9:17:23AM >> THANK YOU.
9:17:24AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:17:27AM LEO GEARY WITH BILL CURRIE FORD.
9:17:29AM CONGRATULATIONS, HOPE ON THIS PRESTIGIOUS AWARD.
9:17:31AM ON BEHALF OF BILL CURRIE FORD, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO
9:17:34AM MUCH FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO.
9:17:35AM AGAIN, LIKE I ALWAYS SAY, THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU OFFICERS.
9:17:41AM I RESPECT AND HONOR ALL OF YOU GUYS FOR THE WORK THAT YOU
9:17:44AM GUYS DO INSIDE THE CITY, THE DEDICATION AND SACRIFICES YOU
9:17:50AM MAKE FOR EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US.
9:17:52AM I TRULY APPRECIATE IT.
9:17:55AM ON BEHALF OF BILL CURRIE FORD, I WANT TO PRESENT TO YOU A
9:17:59AM CERTIFICATE FOR YOUR PERSONAL VEHICLE FOR SOME MAINTENANCE
9:18:02AM AND ALSO SOME GOODIES IN THERE.
9:18:05AM >> THANK YOU.
9:18:05AM THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR US.
9:18:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I KNOW IT'S AWKWARD WHEN PEOPLE ARE
9:18:09AM ADDRESSING, BUT IF YOU WOULD FACE THE DAIS BECAUSE THE
9:18:13AM MICROPHONE IS IN THE PODIUM.
9:18:14AM IF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR VOICE OUT THERE, FACE THE PODIUM.
9:18:18AM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:18:20AM GOOD MORNING, DETECTIVE DAUPHIN.
9:18:21AM MY NAME IS LORI OSBORNE.
9:18:24AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:18:25AM WHAT A GREAT JOB YOU'RE DOING NOT ONLY FOR OUR COMMUNITY BUT
9:18:29AM IT SOUNDS LIKE FOR THE DEPARTMENT AS WELL WITH THE WELLNESS
9:18:32AM PROGRAM.
9:18:32AM WELL DONE.
9:18:33AM ON BEHALF OF THE FLORIDA ORCHESTRA, WE WOULD LIKE TO OFFER
9:18:36AM YOU AND YOUR FAMILY TICKETS TO AN UPCOMING PERFORMANCE IN
9:18:39AM OUR NEW SEASON.
9:18:40AM AGAIN, WE THANK YOU SO MUCH, AND WE APPRECIATE YOU SERVING
9:18:43AM THE COMMUNITY.
9:18:50AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:18:50AM DETECTIVE DAUPHIN, CONGRATULATIONS.
9:18:51AM MARYBETH WILLIAMS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FRIENDS OF THE
9:18:54AM RIVERWALK HERE TO PRESENT YOU TODAY WITH A PERSONALIZED
9:18:57AM PAVER ALONG THE RIVERWALK TO COMMEMORATE YOUR DEDICATION TO
9:19:01AM OUR CITY AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
9:19:04AM IN ADDITION, SOME OF OUR MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS WOULD LIKE TO
9:19:07AM CONTRIBUTE AS WELL.
9:19:08AM WITHIN THIS ENVELOPE IS DINNER FOR TWO FROM YACHT STARSHIP,
9:19:11AM TWO ALL-DAY PASSES FROM PIRATE WATER TAXI, TWO COMPLIMENTARY
9:19:15AM ADMISSIONS FROM LOST PEARL.
9:19:17AM TWO COMPLIMENTARY RIVERWALK RENTALS, SPLITSVILLE, ADULT
9:19:21AM NIGHT OUT OR A BIRTHDAY PARTY FOR KIDS.
9:19:22AM FLORIDA AVENUE BREWING GIFT CERTIFICATE AND, OF COURSE, THE
9:19:25AM PAVER.
9:19:34AM >> GOOD MORNING.
9:19:34AM STEVE MICHELINI.
9:19:36AM FIRST, LET ME TURN AROUND AND BECOME MARY LOU BAILEY.
9:19:39AM I'M MARY LOU BAILEY, HERE ON BEHALF OF ZOO TAMPA.
9:19:42AM THERE SHE IS!
9:19:56AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT'S LIKE BEETLE JUICE, TURN AROUND THREE
9:20:01AM TIMES.
9:20:01AM >> I'M NOT MARY LOU BAILEY ANYMORE.
9:20:04AM >> HI.
9:20:05AM I'M MARY LOU BAILEY, THE REAL ONE.
9:20:08AM BEHALF OF ZOO TAMPA.
9:20:09AM I SERVE ON THE BOARD.
9:20:10AM I WAS SO IMPRESSED WITH YOUR STORY.
9:20:12AM WE WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR SERVING ALL OF OUR CITIZENS.
9:20:14AM I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY WHO SERVES.
9:20:16AM YOU GUYS ARE ALL AWESOME.
9:20:20AM ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP TO THE ZOO FOR YOU AND YOUR LOVED ONES AND
9:20:23AM GOODIES THAT MY FRIEND MARK WHO WORKS FOR THE ZOO PUT
9:20:26AM TOGETHER FOR YOU.
9:20:26AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:20:30AM >> THE STUFFED ANIMAL.
9:20:32AM >> HE PICKED OUT A STINGRAY.
9:20:34AM I DON'T KNOW WHY.
9:20:36AM I KNOW HE ALWAYS PUTS THOUGHT INTO IT.
9:20:39AM MAYBE WE CAN E-MAIL YOU AFTERWARDS WHY HE CHOSE STINGRAY
9:20:43AM BECAUSE HE IS VERY PARTICULAR ABOUT WHAT ANIMAL HE GIVES.
9:20:47AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WILL THE REAL MARY LOU BAILEY PLEASE STAND
9:20:50AM UP?
9:20:51AM >> I'M GOING TO REVERSE MY ALTER EGO.
9:20:53AM STEVE MICHELINI, HERE ON BEHALF OF A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT
9:20:56AM FOLKS.
9:20:58AM FIRST STATING, THE TASK THAT YOU PERFORM IS SO VITAL BECAUSE
9:21:03AM SO MANY PEOPLE ARE SUBJECT TO THOSE KIND OF PREDATORY
9:21:08AM ACTIONS.
9:21:08AM AND THEY DON'T KNOW.
9:21:09AM THEY END UP GOING TO THE BANK AND THEY TAKE OUT MONEY.
9:21:14AM A LOT OF US HAVE RECEIVED THOSE KIND OF THREATS.
9:21:16AM IF YOU DON'T SHOW UP IN 30 MINUTES, WE'RE GOING TO ARREST
9:21:20AM YOU.
9:21:20AM YOU GOT TO BRING CASH AND WE GOT TO GO TO THIS PLACE AND
9:21:25AM DEPOSIT, ALL THAT.
9:21:26AM IT'S AWFUL.
9:21:28AM ANYWAY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT SERVICE.
9:21:29AM ON BEHALF OF THE YUMMY HOUSE CHINA BISTRO, WE'RE PROVIDING
9:21:33AM WITH YOU A GIFT CERTIFICATE SO YOU CAN ENJOY YOURSELF OVER
9:21:35AM THERE.
9:21:36AM LUNCH OR DINNER.
9:21:37AM ON BEHALF OF DAILY EATS, YOU CAN ENJOY YOURSELF OVER THERE,
9:21:42AM BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER AT ANY ONE OF THEIR ESTABLISHMENTS.
9:21:45AM JACKSON BISTRO ON HARBOUR ISLAND, GIFT CERTIFICATE, LUNCH OR
9:21:50AM DINNER.
9:21:50AM AND MEAT MARKET IN OLD HYDE PARK, TAKE YOUR LETTERS WITH YOU
9:21:56AM AND DON'T LET THE CHIEF TAKE YOUR CERTIFICATES HERE.
9:22:00AM I KNOW HE LIKES SOME OF THESE PLACES.
9:22:02AM ANYWAY, CONGRATULATIONS.
9:22:03AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:22:05AM >> THANK YOU.
9:22:07AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:22:08AM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, I BELIEVE THIS IS TYPICALLY TICKETS.
9:22:11AM I DON'T WANT TO MISSPEAK TO THE STRAZ CENTER.
9:22:13AM FRIENDS AT THE STRAZ CENTER ALWAYS PARTICIPATE AND COULDN'T
9:22:17AM MAKE IT.
9:22:18AM THAT'S NUMBER ONE.
9:22:19AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: FACE THE PODIUM, PLEASE.
9:22:22AM >>LUIS VIERA: STICKLER.
9:22:23AM GOOD FOR YOU, MAN.
9:22:24AM I MEAN THAT.
9:22:26AM FRIENDS AT HOTEL HAYA.
9:22:29AM A FREE NIGHT THERE, I THINK.
9:22:30AM I WOULD ASSUME.
9:22:31AM THAT'S IT.
9:22:32AM IF I MAY, ON BEHALF OF A VERY GRATEFUL TAMPA CITY COUNCIL
9:22:39AM AND CITY OF TAMPA, THIS COMMENDATION IS FOR YOU.
9:22:41AM THANK YOU, MA'AM, FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:22:43AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:22:50AM >> DO I FOLLOW DIRECTIONS.
9:22:51AM I WILL SAY THAT.
9:22:52AM I AM HONORED AND A LITTLE OVERWHELMED WITH EMOTION RIGHT
9:22:57AM NOW.
9:22:57AM JUST THE GENEROSITY.
9:22:59AM THE BUSINESS OWNERS AND CITY COUNCIL AND OUR COMMAND STAFF
9:23:03AM AND THE CHIEF AND THE MAYOR.
9:23:05AM I'LL KEEP IT SHORT, BUT I DO LOVE MY JOB.
9:23:11AM NOT ONLY AM I HONORED, I FEEL LIKE THIS COULD BE ANYBODY IN
9:23:15AM MY DIVISION.
9:23:17AM I'M VERY HONORED TO BE IN CIB WHICH IS A GREAT PLACE AT
9:23:21AM TAMPA PD.
9:23:22AM EVERY ONE OF THEM ARE PROBABLY DESERVING OF WHAT I GOT
9:23:26AM TODAY.
9:23:26AM I'M HONORED TO WORK WITH A GROUP OF DETECTIVES THAT GO ABOVE
9:23:30AM AND BEYOND -- IT'S NOT JUST ME -- TO BRING JUSTICE TO PEOPLE
9:23:31AM WHO HAVE BEEN TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF, OUR BUSINESS OWNERS,
9:23:33AM CITIZENS OF TAMPA.
9:23:35AM BUT IF I COULD SUMMARIZE ALL MY CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS, IT
9:23:37AM WOULDN'T BE ARRESTS OR AN AWARD.
9:23:40AM IT WOULD BE FAMILY SUPPORT.
9:23:41AM WE STARTED THREE YEARS AGO.
9:23:43AM OUR PROFESSION IS A HUGE HONOR AND RESPONSIBILITY BUT THE
9:23:47AM WEIGHT OF THE BADGE CAN BE HEAVY AT TIMES.
9:23:49AM I AM BLESSED TO BE IN A POSITION TO GIVE REFERRALS AND TAKE
9:23:53AM PHONE CALLS AND BUILD RELATIONSHIPS AMONG THE FAMILY MEMBERS
9:23:56AM OF OUR OFFICERS, AND THAT WOULD BE PROBABLY WHAT I LOVE THE
9:23:59AM MOST ABOUT MY JOB.
9:24:01AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:24:03AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:24:08AM >>LUIS VIERA: I DID WANT TO SAY, NOT GOING TO RECOGNIZE HIM,
9:24:11AM BUT TELL BY THE SMILES IN THE AUDIENCE, YOU HAVE VERY PROUD
9:24:14AM FAMILY MEMBERS HERE.
9:24:15AM THAT'S IMPORTANT ABOUT FAMILY.
9:24:17AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:24:19AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:24:19AM I'LL JUST SAY IT NOW ON THE RECORD, YOU ARE ONE OF MY
9:24:22AM FAVORITE OFFICERS.
9:24:24AM DETECTIVE HOPE.
9:24:26AM THIS IS NOT THE FIRST TIME YOU'VE GOTTEN POLICE OFFICER OF
9:24:28AM THE MONTH.
9:24:29AM WHEN I SAW YOU THIS MORNING, IT'S LIKE YOU'RE GETTING IT
9:24:32AM AGAIN?
9:24:32AM BECAUSE YOU DESERVE IT.
9:24:33AM THAT'S HOW HARD YOU WORK.
9:24:36AM VERY RARELY DO WE SEE OFFICERS GETTING THIS RECOGNITION
9:24:38AM TWICE.
9:24:39AM YOUR HUSBAND IS WITH YOU.
9:24:41AM HE'S WITH THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
9:24:42AM I USUALLY SAY THANK YOU TO YOUR FAMILY FOR THE SACRIFICES
9:24:45AM BECAUSE YOU GO OUT THERE INTO THE WORLD TO PROTECT US AND TO
9:24:48AM MAKE OUR COMMUNITY A BETTER PLACE, BUT IN THIS CASE, IT'S
9:24:50AM BOTH OF YOU.
9:24:51AM THANK YOU TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY.
9:24:54AM YOU ARE A WONDERFUL PERSON.
9:24:56AM AND, AGAIN, TO GET OFFICER OF THE MONTH TWICE IS VERY RARE
9:25:01AM AND IT SAYS A LOT.
9:25:02AM EVEN THE MAYOR SHOWED UP.
9:25:04AM I MEAN, THAT'S HOW GOOD YOU ARE.
9:25:05AM [ LAUGHTER ]
9:25:05AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:25:06AM VERY WELL DESERVED.
9:25:07AM >> THANK YOU.
9:25:09AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR WHAT YOU DO FOR
9:25:11AM THE CITY, YOU AND THE BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN THE POLICE
9:25:15AM FORCE.
9:25:15AM TAMPA WE LOVE AND WE RESPECT OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.
9:25:18AM WE THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US SAFE.
9:25:20AM ONE DAY, I THINK THE CHIEF WILL COME AND TELL US ABOUT THE
9:25:23AM GREAT CRIME STATISTICS I KEEP HEARING ABOUT.
9:25:25AM WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TYPE OF TRAJECTORY.
9:25:29AM THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU DO.
9:25:30AM GRATEFUL CITY COUNCIL.
9:25:31AM THANK YOU.
9:25:32AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:25:33AM WE'RE GOING TO PAUSE FOR JUST ONE MOMENT TO ALLOW THE FOLKS
9:25:39AM FROM TAMPA PD TO CLEAR, AND THEN WE WILL CONTINUE WITH THE
9:25:43AM AGENDA.
9:26:13AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OKAY.
9:26:45AM IT'S THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN.
9:26:47AM WE GET TO WELCOME OUR DEPARTMENT HEADS IN THE FRONT.
9:26:51AM THOSE OF YOU WATCHING AT HOME, YOU SEE SOME OF THE FACES YOU
9:26:55AM SEE COME BEFORE CITY COUNCIL FROM TIME TO TIME.
9:26:57AM SOME YOU MAY NOT.
9:26:58AM DEPARTMENT HEADS FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA THAT ARE HERE WITH
9:27:01AM US TODAY BECAUSE IT IS BUDGET TIME.
9:27:04AM AND TAMPA CITY COUNCIL PER A MOTION FROM CHARLIE MIRANDA,
9:27:10AM INVITED MAYOR JANE CASTOR TO PRESENT THE FY '26 FISCAL YEAR
9:27:13AM BUDGET.
9:27:14AM I RECOGNIZE MAYOR CASTOR.
9:27:17AM >>MAYOR CASTOR: WE'RE GOING TO DO RETIREMENTS.
9:27:23AM SORRY, TONY.
9:27:24AM AND TOM.
9:27:26AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DO YOU WANT TO DO THAT?
9:27:28AM I AM FLEXIBLE.
9:27:32AM WE CAN DO THAT IF YOU WOULD LIKE.
9:27:34AM >>MAYOR CASTOR: I'M FINE.
9:27:35AM I'M FINE.
9:27:36AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:27:37AM COUNCILMAN CLENDENIN, CITY COUNCIL, AND TO THE TAMPA
9:27:42AM COMMUNITY THAT IS HERE IN COUNCIL AND THOSE WATCHING FROM
9:27:47AM HOME, I AM VERY PROUD TO BE STANDING BEFORE YOU TO PRESENT
9:27:53AM THE CITY OF TAMPA'S FY 2026 BUDGET.
9:27:59AM THIS YEAR'S THEME: GROUNDED IN PROGRESS REFLECTS THE
9:28:02AM PRIORITIES WE'VE HEARD LOUD AND CLEAR FROM RESIDENTS ACROSS
9:28:06AM TAMPA IN TOWN HALLS, NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS, AND MORE THAN A
9:28:10AM FEW GROCERY STORE CONVERSATIONS.
9:28:13AM YOU'VE TOLD US WHAT MATTERS MOST.
9:28:15AM THIS BUDGET IS BUILT AROUND THOSE VALUES: RESILIENCE,
9:28:20AM RESPONSIBILITY, EFFICIENCY, AND RESULTS.
9:28:22AM TAMPA HAS BECOME ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING CITIES IN THE
9:28:28AM COUNTRY, BUT GREAT CITIES AREN'T BUILT ON BUZZ; THEY ARE
9:28:31AM BUILT ON STRONG FOUNDATIONS -- ROADS, STORMWATER SYSTEMS,
9:28:36AM AND WATER LINES MAY NOT BE GLAMOROUS, BUT THEY KEEP OUR CITY
9:28:40AM RUNNING.
9:28:41AM WHEN WE INVEST IN THE BASICS, WE UNLOCK OPPORTUNITY,
9:28:46AM STRENGTHEN RESILIENCE, AND LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR FUTURE
9:28:49AM GROWTH.
9:28:49AM AND WE'RE STRETCHING EVERY DOLLAR TO WORK HARDER AND
9:28:56AM SMARTER.
9:28:57AM CITIES ARE OFTEN CRITICIZED FOR ADDING NEW POSITIONS TO
9:29:00AM THEIR WORKFORCE, BUT THIS MORNING, YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR
9:29:04AM ABOUT HOW THE EMPLOYEES WE'VE ADDED OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS,
9:29:08AM INCLUDING OVER A HUNDRED FIREFIGHTERS, 60 POLICE OFFICERS,
9:29:12AM IN-HOUSE PAVING AND WATER REPAIR TEAMS, AND OUR IN-HOUSE
9:29:17AM WASTE-TO-ENERGY TEAM HAVE EITHER MADE OUR CITY SAFER OR HAVE
9:29:23AM SAVED TAXPAYERS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS.
9:29:25AM A GREAT EXAMPLE OF HOW HIRING AN ENERGY MANAGER HAS SAVED US
9:29:30AM OVER $1.4 MILLION IN ENERGY COSTS.
9:29:34AM THIS BUDGET IS OUR BLUEPRINT, A PLAN TO DELIVER CORE
9:29:39AM SERVICES, MODERNIZE INFRASTRUCTURE, AND INVEST IN TAMPA'S
9:29:43AM FUTURE.
9:29:43AM WE'RE DOING IT IN A WAY THAT ENSURES WE MAINTAIN OUR
9:29:47AM NEAR-PERFECT CREDIT RATING.
9:29:49AM TAMPA HAS THE SECOND HIGHEST MUNICIPAL BOND RATING IN THE
9:29:55AM NATION, WHICH, AS YOU KNOW, SAVES OUR TAXPAYERS MILLIONS OF
9:29:58AM DOLLARS EVERY YEAR.
9:29:59AM TAMPA IS ONE OF THE SAFEST CITIES OUR SIZE IN THE NATION,
9:30:05AM AND THAT IS NO ACCIDENT.
9:30:07AM IT'S THE RESULT OF STRATEGIC INVESTMENT AND A RELENTLESS
9:30:12AM FOCUS ON PUBLIC SAFETY.
9:30:13AM THAT'S WHY EVERY SINGLE DOLLAR OF PROPERTY TAX REVENUE IN
9:30:17AM THE PROPOSED 2026 BUDGET IS SPENT ON TAMPA POLICE AND FIRE.
9:30:23AM AND IT'S BEEN THAT WAY FOR YEARS.
9:30:26AM IN 2026, WE'RE BRINGING IN 380 MILLION IN PROPERTY TAX
9:30:30AM REVENUE, AND WE'RE SPENDING 455 MILLION ON POLICE AND FIRE
9:30:37AM FOR PUBLIC SAFETY.
9:30:40AM IT'S A CLEAR REFLECTION OF OUR PRIORITIES, PROTECTING LIVES,
9:30:44AM PROPERTY, AND PEACE OF MIND.
9:30:46AM THIS IS A MESSAGE THAT WE WANT THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY TO SHARE
9:30:51AM WITH THEIR LEGISLATORS IN TALLAHASSEE.
9:30:54AM PROPERTY TAXES FUND PUBLIC SAFETY.
9:30:58AM IN TAMPA, WE SUPPORT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS, AND WE COULDN'T
9:31:01AM DO IT WITHOUT THIS FUNDING.
9:31:04AM WHEN HURRICANE HELENE AND MILTON HIT, OUR FIRST RESPONDERS
9:31:08AM ANSWERED OVER 15,000 EMERGENCY CALLS AND RESCUED HUNDREDS OF
9:31:12AM RESIDENTS FROM RISING FLOODWATERS.
9:31:17AM BUT IT'S THE DAY-TO-DAY WORK THEY DO THAT KEEPS OUR CITY
9:31:21AM STRONG.
9:31:22AM CRIME IS DOWN OVER 20%.
9:31:25AM VIOLENT CRIME IS DOWN 19%, AND HOMICIDES ARE DOWN 63% THIS
9:31:31AM YEAR ALONE.
9:31:33AM INITIATIVES LIKE THE POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE, OUR RICH HOUSES
9:31:37AM AND COMMUNITY VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM ARE MAKING
9:31:40AM NEIGHBORHOODS SAFER, NOT JUST TODAY, BUT FOR YEARS TO COME.
9:31:45AM THEY ARE MAKING THEM SAFER FOR THE YOUTH IN OUR COMMUNITY
9:31:49AM WHO ARE THE FUTURE.
9:31:50AM TAMPA FIRE RESCUE RESPONDED TO OVER 92,000 CALLS LAST YEAR.
9:31:57AM MANY OF THEM LIFESAVING MEDICAL EMERGENCIES.
9:32:00AM THAT'S WHY WE'VE PRIORITIZED THE TOOLS AND INFRASTRUCTURE
9:32:03AM THAT THEY NEED, FROM ADDING ADDITIONAL RESCUE UNITS, A PUMP
9:32:07AM TRUCK, NEW EQUIPMENT, AND TECHNOLOGY AS WELL AS OVER A
9:32:13AM HUNDRED ADDITIONAL FIREFIGHTERS.
9:32:15AM PUBLIC SAFETY ISN'T JUST A BUDGET LINE ITEM, IT IS THE
9:32:19AM BACKBONE OF OUR COMMUNITY.
9:32:21AM FOR MOST TAMPA RESIDENTS, LIFE AFTER THE HURRICANE LOOKS
9:32:27AM NORMAL AGAIN, BUT FOR TOO MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS, ESPECIALLY
9:32:31AM THOSE WHO LOST EVERYTHING, THE DEVASTATION STILL LINGERS.
9:32:35AM STORMS MAY PASS QUICKLY, BUT THEIR IMPACT LASTS.
9:32:39AM I SAW IT FIRSTHAND, HELPING FAMILIES HAUL OUT SOAKED
9:32:44AM FURNITURE AND SALVAGE WHAT THEY COULD FROM HOMES FLOODED BY
9:32:49AM HELENE AND MILTON.
9:32:50AM I UNDERSTAND THE VERY REAL FEAR THAT IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN.
9:32:54AM THAT'S WHY THIS BUDGET PUTS A SHARP FOCUS ON RESILIENCE.
9:32:59AM WE CAN'T BUILD -- OUTBUILD NATURE, BUT WE CAN PREPARE.
9:33:04AM WE'VE LAUNCHED A PUMP STATION RAPID RESPONSE TEAM AND WE'RE
9:33:08AM INSTALLING TEMPORARY GENERATORS AT STORMWATER PUMPS IN OUR
9:33:13AM MOST VULNERABLE NEIGHBORHOODS.
9:33:14AM THIS BUDGET INVESTS $11 BILLION TOWARD PERMANENT BACKUP
9:33:19AM GENERATORS THAT WILL BE INSTALLED OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS.
9:33:22AM STORMWATER CREWS ARE WORKING SIX DAYS A WEEK CLEARING
9:33:26AM DEBRIS, KEEPING SYSTEMS MOVING, AND DELIVERING ON THE BASICS
9:33:31AM THAT MATTER THE MOST DURING STORMS.
9:33:34AM JUST IN THE PAST YEAR ALONE, WE'VE REMOVED 6,800 TONS OF
9:33:39AM DEBRIS FROM OUR DRAINS AND DITCHES AND OUR STREET SWEEPING
9:33:43AM TEAM HAS PREVENTED ANOTHER 5,580 TONS FROM ENTERING THE
9:33:48AM SYSTEM TO BEGIN WITH.
9:33:51AM COMBINED, THAT'S OVER 12,000 TONS OF YARD WASTE,
9:33:55AM LANDSCAPING, AND OTHER DEBRIS.
9:33:56AM WE'VE ALREADY INVESTED 350 MILLION IN MAJOR FLOOD RELIEF
9:34:03AM PROJECTS, INCLUDING MACDILL 48 NATURE PARK WHICH SERVES BOTH
9:34:07AM AS FLOOD PROTECTION AND COMMUNITY GREENSPACE.
9:34:10AM WE FINISHED MAJOR PROJECTS IN SEMINOLE HEIGHTS AND IN SOUTH
9:34:14AM TAMPA.
9:34:14AM THESE PROJECTS HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE ALL ACROSS OUR CITY,
9:34:20AM AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE EXCITED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THOSE
9:34:23AM PROJECTS THAT ARE IN THE PIPELINE.
9:34:26AM SINCE LAUNCHING THE PIPES PROGRAM, WE'VE REPLACED OVER 62
9:34:30AM MILES OF AGING WATERLINES AND 200 MILES OF WASTEWATER PIPE.
9:34:35AM MANY OF THESE PIPES WERE OVER A HUNDRED YEARS OLD.
9:34:39AM AND IN 2026 WE'LL INVEST ANOTHER 79 MILLION INTO REPLACING
9:34:44AM THIS CRUMBLING, YET CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE THAT'S ESSENTIAL
9:34:49AM TO OUR WELL-BEING.
9:34:50AM WE'RE ALSO LEADING THE NATION WITH THE FIRST SUSPENDED ION
9:34:54AM EXCHANGE SYSTEM TO REMOVE PFAS AND OTHER CHEMICALS FROM OUR
9:35:01AM DRINKING WATER, IMPROVING SAFETY WHILE CUTTING TREATMENT
9:35:04AM COSTS.
9:35:04AM AND THANKS TO THE EFFICIENCY OF OUR IN-HOUSE WATER REPAIR
9:35:08AM CREWS, WE'VE SAVED TAMPA TAXPAYERS OVER $15 MILLION BY
9:35:15AM FIXING MAIN BREAKS OURSELVES INSTEAD OF TURNING THOSE JOBS
9:35:19AM OVER TO CONTRACTORS.
9:35:19AM AS YOU KNOW, TAMPA IS A CITY ON THE MOVE.
9:35:24AM AND WE'RE MEETING OUR TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGES WITH SMART,
9:35:27AM EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS DESPITE THE HUGE BLOW OF LOSING THE
9:35:32AM SURTAX DOLLARS SUPPORTED OVERWHELMINGLY BY TAMPA VOTERS.
9:35:36AM WE RESURFACED OVER 235 MILES OF STREETS SINCE 2019 AND BY
9:35:41AM INVESTING IN TWO IN-HOUSE PAVING TEAMS, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO
9:35:46AM DOUBLE OUR PAVING CAPACITY AT HALF THE PRICE AND COMPLETE
9:35:50AM THE JOBS IN HALF THE TIME.
9:35:53AM AND WE ARE NOT STOPPING.
9:35:55AM THANKS TO THESE TEAMS, WE ALSO REPAIRED MORE FEET OF
9:36:00AM SIDEWALK IN THE PAST YEAR THAN THE CITY HAS DONE IN THE PAST
9:36:03AM DECADE.
9:36:04AM OUR RESURFACING TEAM'S WORK WILL CONTINUE INTO THIS FISCAL
9:36:09AM YEAR.
9:36:09AM IN 2026, WE'LL CONTINUE TO BUILD OUT OUR WALK-BIKE NETWORK.
9:36:15AM WE ALREADY ADDED 56 MILES OF BIKE LANES AND THIS BUDGET WILL
9:36:18AM EXPAND THE GREEN SPINE, COMPLETE THE FIRST TWO PHASES OF THE
9:36:22AM GREEN ARTERY AND CONNECT NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE NEVER BEFORE.
9:36:26AM THESE TWO PROJECTS ALONE WILL CONNECT WEST TAMPA TO EAST
9:36:29AM TAMPA AND NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE SEMINOLE HEIGHTS, SULPHUR
9:36:35AM SPRINGS AND EAST TAMPA TO OUR DOWNTOWN.
9:36:37AM THE NEW WEST RIVERWALK WILL BE MORE THAN A SCENIC PATH AND
9:36:41AM MOBILITY CORRIDOR.
9:36:42AM IT IS THE HUB OF OUR CITYWIDE WALK-BIKE NETWORK CONNECTING
9:36:47AM TAMPA'S NEIGHBORHOODS TOGETHER AND RESIDENTS TO JOBS,
9:36:51AM EDUCATION, AND SHOPPING.
9:36:52AM IT'S ALSO AN AMENITY THAT WILL SERVE AS AN ECONOMIC CATALYST
9:36:58AM FOR WEST TAMPA THAT ENSURES PUBLIC ACCESS TO THE RIVERFRONT
9:37:03AM FOR GENERATIONS TO COME.
9:37:04AM THIS BUDGET ALSO HELPS RESTORE DOWNTOWN STREET GRID TO
9:37:09AM IMPROVE CONNECTIONS AND REDUCE CONGESTION.
9:37:13AM IT TAKES CONCRETE STEPS TOWARD THE START OF CONSTRUCTION ON
9:37:16AM THE FUTURE STREETCAR EXTENSION BY MOVING FORWARD WITH
9:37:20AM PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT FOR BOTH PROJECT AND FUNDING
9:37:24AM OPERATIONS.
9:37:24AM THANKS TO OUR PARTICIPATION IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF
9:37:27AM TRANSPORTATION'S REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE ACCELERATE, WHICH
9:37:33AM LAUNCHES NEXT MONTH, WE'RE STARTING TO SEE VIABLE
9:37:37AM CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR REGION'S TRANSPORTATION FUTURE, AND
9:37:42AM THAT INCLUDES BIG PROJECTS LIKE THE AIRPORT TO DOWNTOWN
9:37:47AM CONNECTION.
9:37:48AM AND YOU MAY HAVE HEARD THAT BRIGHT LINE PLANS TO ISSUE 400
9:37:52AM MILLION IN BONDS TO FUND PART OF THE ORLANDO TO TAMPA
9:37:56AM EXTENSION.
9:37:57AM WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THIS BRIGHT LINE EXTENSION.
9:38:01AM IT WILL FINALLY MAKE IT EASY FOR DISNEY FANS TO VISIT TAMPA
9:38:04AM BAY WHERE THE MAGIC INCLUDES STANLEY CUPS, SUPER BOWLS,
9:38:09AM BASEBALL AND SUNSETS THAT DON'T REQUIRE AN ADMISSION FEE.
9:38:14AM THE WORK IS HAPPENING.
9:38:15AM THE NETWORK IS FORMING, AND THE VISION IS COMING INTO FOCUS.
9:38:18AM WITH OVER 200 PARKS, WE'RE RAISING THE STANDARD FOR PUBLIC
9:38:24AM SPACE CITYWIDE.
9:38:25AM OF COURSE, THE CROWN JEWEL IS FAIR OAKS RECREATION COMPLEX,
9:38:30AM A 10-ACRE STATE-OF-THE-ART CAMPUS IN EAST TAMPA THAT
9:38:34AM REFLECTS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THE COMMUNITY LEADS ON DESIGN.
9:38:39AM IT WILL FEATURE A SENIOR CENTER, BASKETBALL COURT,
9:38:43AM PICKLEBALL COURTS, CLASSROOMS, WEIGHT ROOMS AND SO MUCH
9:38:47AM MORE.
9:38:48AM IT IS NEARLY COMPLETE, AND IT WILL BE A GAME-CHANGER.
9:38:51AM MAINTAINING OUR PARKS ACROSS THE CITY IS JUST AS IMPORTANT.
9:38:55AM WE'RE PROVIDING ADDITIONAL GENERAL FUND DOLLARS FOR BASIC
9:39:00AM UPGRADES AND IMPROVEMENTS AT NEIGHBORHOOD FACILITIES.
9:39:02AM AS WE ALL KNOW, HOUSING CONTINUES TO BE A CHALLENGE
9:39:08AM NATIONWIDE, BUT THIS CITY COUNCIL AND ADMINISTRATION HAVE
9:39:11AM REMAINED STEADFAST ABOUT WORKING TO PREVENT OUR FAMILY,
9:39:15AM FRIENDS, AND NEIGHBORS FROM BEING PRICED OUT OF TAMPA.
9:39:20AM HOME PRICES SURGED, AND WE ACTED.
9:39:23AM SINCE 2020, WE'VE ADDED 20,000 RESIDENTIAL UNITS, INCLUDING
9:39:29AM THOUSANDS OF AFFORDABLE HOMES.
9:39:30AM WE USED EVERY TOOL AVAILABLE, FROM ZONING REFORM TO DOWN
9:39:35AM PAYMENT ASSISTANCE, AND WE KEPT CONSTRUCTION MOVING WHILE
9:39:40AM OTHERS PAUSED.
9:39:41AM NOW RENTAL RATES HAVE RETURNED TO THE 2021 LEVELS.
9:39:47AM THAT'S PROGRESS, BUT WE DEFINITELY ARE NOT DONE.
9:39:49AM THIS FISCAL YEAR WE PROCESSED NEARLY 23,000 PERMITS
9:39:55AM REPRESENTING ALMOST $2.5 BILLION IN DEVELOPMENT.
9:40:00AM THE ARMY NAVY DEVELOPMENT WILL CREATE HUNDREDS OF AFFORDABLE
9:40:04AM AND MARKET RATE UNITS AND TRANSFORM A SURFACE PARKING LOT
9:40:09AM INTO A BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN GATEWAY.
9:40:12AM SMART GROWTH IS AT THE FOREFRONT OF OUR NEW COMPREHENSIVE
9:40:15AM PLAN AND WITH CITY COUNCIL'S LEADERSHIP, WE'LL ADD DENSITY
9:40:20AM WHERE IT MAKES SENSE ALONG COMMERCIAL AND TRANSIT CORRIDORS
9:40:25AM WHILE PROTECTING THE CHARACTER AND THE HISTORIC
9:40:28AM NEIGHBORHOODS THAT MAKE TAMPA UNIQUE.
9:40:31AM IT'S ALSO ABOUT BREAKING DOWN SILOS.
9:40:34AM THE TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT THAT WE NEED TO GROW IN A WAY THAT
9:40:38AM PRESERVES OUR QUALITY OF LIFE DEPENDS ON WHAT OUR FUTURE
9:40:43AM TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE.
9:40:45AM WE'VE BUILT NEW NEIGHBORHOODS.
9:40:49AM WE'VE MODERNIZED INFRASTRUCTURE.
9:40:51AM WE'VE OPENED NEW PARKS, CREATED HOUSING, AND MADE OUR
9:40:54AM STREETS SAFER AND MORE CONNECTED.
9:40:58AM OUR STREETCAR IS ON TRACK FOR 1.4 MILLION RIDERS THIS YEAR.
9:41:03AM OUR RAINY DAY FUND IS STRONG.
9:41:05AM OUR BOND RATING IS AMONG THE BEST IN THE NATION.
9:41:09AM AND FOR THE FIRST TIME, TAMPA'S MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME
9:41:14AM SURPASSES $70,000.
9:41:16AM TIME MAGAZINE SAYS TAMPA IS ONE OF THE WORLD'S BEST PLACES.
9:41:20AM FORBES CALLS TAMPA THE BEST PLACE TO LIVE IN FLORIDA.
9:41:24AM AND THE FINANCIAL TIMES RANKS US THE TOP U.S. CITY FOR
9:41:29AM INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS.
9:41:30AM BUT OUR GREATEST ASSET IS NOT A HEADLINE.
9:41:35AM IT'S OUR PEOPLE.
9:41:36AM IT'S IN HOW WE SHOW UP FOR EACH OTHER WHEN THINGS GET HARD.
9:41:39AM IT'S IN HOW WE WORK TOGETHER TO GET THINGS DONE, AND IT'S
9:41:43AM HOW WE MOVE FORWARD UNITED AND GROUNDED IN PROGRESS.
9:41:50AM NOW, I'M PLEASED TO BRING UP OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
9:41:55AM DENNIS ROGERO.
9:41:56AM HE'S GOING TO GO INTO GREATER DETAIL ON THE FY 2026 BUDGET
9:42:03AM FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:42:03AM COUNCIL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME THIS MORNING.
9:42:05AM I APPRECIATE IT.
9:42:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, MAYOR.
9:42:07AM DENNIS, DO YOU WANT TO PAUSE FOR A SECOND?
9:42:23AM I THINK TONY HAS SOMETHING TO DO.
9:42:25AM TONY MULKEY.
9:42:29AM TONY MULKEY SURPRISED US ALL LAST WEEK WITH A MEMO THAT HE
9:42:41AM IS LEAVING THE CITY OF TAMPA FOR BETTER GROUNDS IN PINELLAS
9:42:48AM COUNTY.
9:42:49AM TONY WAS OUR PARKS AND REC GUY AND ONE OF THE MOST GENUINE,
9:42:53AM PLEASANT PERSONS YOU COULD DEAL WITH THAT YOU POSSIBLY COULD
9:42:56AM THINK OF.
9:42:57AM YOU'VE BEEN WITH THE CITY 12.5 YEARS.
9:42:59AM WE WANTED TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY THANK YOU FOR YOUR
9:43:03AM SERVICE TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:43:04AM WE'RE REALLY SORRY TO SEE THAT YOU ARE DEPARTING.
9:43:06AM GLAD THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO FIND OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR
9:43:10AM YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY.
9:43:11AM BUT WE'RE GOING TO MISS YOU.
9:43:13AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA FIRST.
9:43:15AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU, TONY.
9:43:17AM IF I MAY CALL YOU TONY.
9:43:19AM IN MY MANY YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE, YOU ARE A SHINING STAR.
9:43:23AM EVERY TIME OUR OFFICE CALLED, IT WAS ONE PERSON THAT
9:43:26AM RETURNED THE CALL AND THAT WAS YOURSELF.
9:43:28AM YOU DID IT EXPEDIENTLY, PROFESSIONALLY, AND WITH DIGNITY.
9:43:33AM MORE THAN THAT, I CAN'T SAY BECAUSE I KNOW THE PARKS
9:43:36AM DEPARTMENT IS TOP-NOTCH.
9:43:38AM YOU GUYS TRY TO DO WHAT YOU CAN DO.
9:43:41AM MANY PARKS AND RECREATION CENTERS, THE PUBLIC IS NOT AWARE
9:43:45AM OF IT BECAUSE WE HAVE A BIG CITY.
9:43:47AM THEY ARE ALL EITHER BEING REPAIRED OR REDONE OR IN THE PLANS
9:43:50AM OF BEING REDONE AND REPAIRED.
9:43:52AM I WANT TO THANK YOU AND YOUR STAFF FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE IN
9:43:55AM YOUR 12 YEARS OF SERVICE.
9:43:56AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:43:57AM HAVE A NICE TIME IN PINELLAS COUNTY.
9:44:00AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
9:44:01AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:44:02AM IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU.
9:44:04AM YOU'VE ALWAYS BEEN VERY PROFESSIONAL, VERY POLITE.
9:44:07AM AS COUNCILMAN MIRANDA SAID, YOU ALWAYS ANSWER.
9:44:10AM AND MANY, MANY TIMES IT'S YOU PERSONALLY.
9:44:12AM WE GET A REQUEST FROM THE COMMUNITY.
9:44:14AM WE HAVE A CONSTITUENT CONCERN OR QUESTION AND YOU ARE RIGHT
9:44:19AM THERE.
9:44:19AM YOU DON'T SEND OTHER PEOPLE.
9:44:21AM YOU'RE IN THE MEETING, YOU'RE PICKING UP THE PHONE, YOU'RE
9:44:25AM ANSWERING THE E-MAIL.
9:44:26AM THANK YOU FOR ALL THAT AND WE CERTAINLY WISH YOU THE BEST OF
9:44:30AM LUCK MOVING FORWARD.
9:44:31AM I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO CONTINUE BEING SUCCESSFUL, BUT WE'RE
9:44:34AM GOING TO MISS YOU.
9:44:35AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH, SIR.
9:44:36AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
9:44:40AM >>BILL CARLSON: I SAID THIS TO YOU PRIVATELY BUT I'M VERY
9:44:42AM SAD THAT YOU ARE LEAVING.
9:44:43AM I'VE ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU THE LAST FEW YEARS.
9:44:46AM I THINK YOU HAD THE RIGHT EXPERIENCE, THE RIGHT TRAINING AND
9:44:50AM EVERYTHING AT THE RIGHT TIME.
9:44:52AM BROUGHT A LOT OF EXPERTISE.
9:44:53AM YOUR TEAM HAS DONE A GREAT JOB.
9:44:55AM YOU HAVE ALWAYS RESPONDED AND PERSONALLY RESPONDED EVERY
9:44:58AM TIME I HAD A CONSTITUENT ISSUE.
9:44:59AM THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF COMPLICATED ISSUES OVER THE LAST
9:45:01AM FEW YEARS.
9:45:03AM IN PARTICULAR WHEN HAROLD WALKER WAS ALIVE, YOU PARTNERED
9:45:06AM WITH HIM AND THE COMMUNITY TO BRING RESOURCES INTO IMPORTANT
9:45:10AM PARKS IN SOUTH TAMPA AND EVEN HELPED WITH HIS MEMORIAL
9:45:14AM SERVICE AT JACKSON PARK.
9:45:17AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:45:18AM IT'S OUR LOSS.
9:45:19AM I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO DUNEDIN.
9:45:22AM DUNEDIN'S GAIN.
9:45:23AM I'M SURE YOU'LL DO A FANTASTIC JOB AND STAYING IN TOUCH WITH
9:45:27AM YOU, SEEING THE GREAT THINGS YOU DO THERE.
9:45:29AM >>LUIS VIERA: I'LL ECHO WHAT FOLKS SAID.
9:45:31AM AGAIN, YOU DID A GREAT JOB HERE.
9:45:33AM YOU'RE ALWAYS A PLEASURE TO WORK WITH.
9:45:35AM IN DISTRICT 7, A DISTRICT THAT SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO FIGHT A
9:45:41AM LITTLE HARDER TO GET THINGS IN DISTRICT 7 AND EVERYTHING.
9:45:45AM YOU ALWAYS DID A VERY GOOD JOB LISTENING TO OUR CONSTITUENTS
9:45:50AM AND WORKING WITH US.
9:45:51AM WE APPRECIATE IT.
9:45:53AM YOU'RE ALSO A VERY GOOD PERSON.
9:45:54AM A CONSCIENTIOUS PERSON, A DECENT PERSON.
9:45:57AM WE'VE HAD PERSONAL DISCUSSIONS.
9:45:59AM I GLEANED THAT FROM THAT OF YOUR DECENCY AND CONSCIOUSNESS
9:46:04AM AND WHAT A GOOD GUY YOU ARE.
9:46:06AM YOU WILL BE MISSED.
9:46:07AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
9:46:08AM I WILL ECHO WHAT MY FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBER SAID.
9:46:13AM I'VE REALLY ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU AND YOUR TEAM.
9:46:15AM NOT ONLY HAVE I ENJOYED WORKING WITH YOU, I'VE HEARD
9:46:18AM WONDERFUL THINGS FROM YOUR STAFF ABOUT WORKING WITH YOU.
9:46:22AM I THINK THAT SPEAKS VOLUMES.
9:46:23AM SO WE ARE REALLY GOING TO MISS YOU.
9:46:25AM BEST OF LUCK AND GETTING A CHANCE TO WORK WITH THE MAJOR
9:46:29AM LEAGUE BASEBALL TEAM IS PRETTY COOL.
9:46:33AM CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU.
9:46:35AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
9:46:35AM WE'RE GOING TO MISS YOU.
9:46:36AM BUT YOU'RE NOT THAT FAR AWAY.
9:46:38AM COME OVER AND HAVE A CUP OF COFFEE EVERY ONCE IN A WHILE.
9:46:41AM TAKE CARE.
9:46:42AM >>TONY MULKEY: TONY MULKEY, PARKS AND RECREATION.
9:46:49AM I'M HUMBLED.
9:46:51AM ANYBODY THAT KNOWS ME KNOWS THAT I DON'T LIKE THE PERSONAL
9:46:55AM ACCOLADES OR ANYTHING.
9:46:56AM IT'S ALL ABOUT THE TEAM AND ABOUT THE GREAT STAFF IN PARKS
9:46:59AM AND RECREATION, THE GREAT COMMUNITY THAT WE SERVE.
9:47:02AM IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE WORKING WITH ALL OF YOU.
9:47:04AM BEEN A PLEASURE WORKING WITH ALL OF MY TAMPA COLLEAGUES AS
9:47:07AM WELL AS THE COMMUNITY AND ALL OUR GREAT TEAM.
9:47:09AM IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME HERE.
9:47:13AM WE'VE DONE A LOT OF FUN THINGS.
9:47:14AM MOMENTUM WILL CONTINUE.
9:47:16AM THERE ARE A LOT OF PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE AS OUTLINED IN
9:47:20AM MAYOR CASTOR'S BUDGET AND MOVING FORWARD SOME THINGS THAT
9:47:22AM MIGHT FLY UNDER THE RADAR BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A LOT OF
9:47:25AM LOCATIONS.
9:47:26AM I'M EXCITED TO SEE THE FUTURE IN TAMPA.
9:47:28AM I THANK YOU ALL.
9:47:29AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE.
9:47:30AM APPRECIATE IT.
9:47:31AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:47:31AM WE'VE GOT A RETIREMENT AS WELL.
9:47:38AM TOM DEA, ARE YOU BACK THERE?
9:47:40AM IF YOU ARE, COME ON UP.
9:47:42AM MR. DEA, IT SEEMS LIKE YOUR PARTNER IN CRIME JUST RETIRED
9:47:55AM YESTERDAY.
9:47:56AM HERE YOU ARE FLEEING THAT LITTLE CUBICLE BACK THERE.
9:47:59AM >> YEAH.
9:48:00AM JUST A COINCIDENCE.
9:48:03AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: 33 YEARS OF SERVICE FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:48:06AM WOW.
9:48:06AM THAT'S ABSOLUTELY AMAZING.
9:48:08AM I WANTED TO MAKE SURE, YOU ALL DON'T SEE HIM, BUT HE'S BACK
9:48:12AM IN THIS LITTLE ROOM NEXT TO COUNCIL.
9:48:14AM HE IS THE ONE THAT BASICALLY RUNS THIS SHOW.
9:48:17AM FOR THOSE OF YOU LISTENING ON YouTube OR SOME OTHER
9:48:21AM STREAMING DEVICE, IT'S BECAUSE OF THIS GENTLEMAN THAT YOU
9:48:25AM GUYS ARE ABLE TO DO THAT AND MAKES THE CITY COUNCIL LOOK AS
9:48:29AM EFFICIENT AS WE DO FOR THE PUBLIC.
9:48:30AM I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR SERVICE AND FOR
9:48:34AM THE TIME THAT I'VE WORKED WITH YOU NOW AND WHAT YOU'VE DONE
9:48:38AM BACK THERE, THE MAGIC THAT YOU GUYS PULL OFF, IT'S NOT GONE
9:48:42AM UNNOTICED.
9:48:44AM MAYBE WE DON'T TALK ABOUT IT UNTIL YOU ACTUALLY RETIRE BUT I
9:48:47AM WANT TO SAY THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:48:48AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
9:48:49AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:48:50AM I REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR 33 YEARS OF SERVICE.
9:48:53AM IN FACT, I THINK YOU INSTALLED BETWEEN LAST WEEK AND THIS
9:48:58AM WEEK, SO NOW YOU CAN HEAR ALL OF US.
9:49:01AM BEFORE THEY WERE SMALL AND YOU HAD TO BEND OVER AND SOME OF
9:49:03AM US DIDN'T WANT TO MOVE.
9:49:05AM IT'S A WONDERFUL THING THAT YOU'VE DONE.
9:49:06AM I REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN THERE WAS NO TV.
9:49:09AM THERE WAS NOTHING HERE BUT JUST AN AUDITORIUM.
9:49:12AM YOU GUYS FROM WORKING FROM THAT TIME ON HAVE DONE A
9:49:15AM FANTASTIC JOB FOR THE CITIZENS OF TAMPA SO THEY CAN
9:49:19AM UNDERSTAND WHAT THE CITY IS GOING THROUGH ON A DAILY BASIS.
9:49:21AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:49:22AM HAPPY RETIREMENT.
9:49:23AM ENJOY YOURSELF.
9:49:24AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
9:49:25AM >>BILL CARLSON: I WANTED TO ECHO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING
9:49:29AM YOU DO BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT IN FRONT OF THE SCENES MOST OF
9:49:31AM THE TIME.
9:49:31AM PEOPLE DON'T SEE HOW YOU HELP US ALL LOOK GOOD.
9:49:34AM THANK YOU FOR THAT.
9:49:35AM THROUGH COVID AND ALL THE OTHER THINGS YOU HAD TO DEAL WITH.
9:49:38AM I HOPE YOU DO SOME GREAT THINGS IN YOUR RETIREMENT FROM
9:49:41AM RELAXING TO DOING WHAT BRIAN IS DOING.
9:49:44AM I'M HAVING FUN WATCHING HIS ADVENTURES.
9:49:46AM LOOK FORWARD TO FOLLOWING YOURS AS WELL.
9:49:48AM IF YOU NEED ANYTHING IN THE FUTURE, PLEASE STAY IN TOUCH.
9:49:51AM WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING.
9:49:52AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: CONGRATULATIONS, SIR, ON YOUR
9:49:55AM RETIREMENT.
9:49:56AM THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING.
9:49:58AM YOU ARE BEHIND THE SCENES.
9:50:00AM YOU SIT THROUGH MANY LONG HOURS.
9:50:02AM PEOPLE DON'T SEE YOU.
9:50:03AM THEY SEE YOU NOW, BUT YOU MAKE THE MAGIC HAPPEN.
9:50:06AM WE'RE LOSING A LOT OF GOOD PEOPLE.
9:50:09AM BRIAN, YOU.
9:50:11AM WE JUST HAD MR. MULKEY, BUT WELL DESERVED.
9:50:15AM YOU'VE COMMITTED SO MANY YEARS HERE, AND YOU'VE DONE A LOT.
9:50:20AM AS WAS MENTIONED DURING COVID, IT WAS VERY COMPLICATED AND
9:50:24AM TRICKY.
9:50:25AM BUT THE TEAM WAS THERE DOING EVERYTHING, MAKING THINGS
9:50:29AM HAPPEN.
9:50:29AM AGAIN, WE APPRECIATE YOU AND HAPPY RETIREMENT, SIR.
9:50:32AM >> THANK YOU.
9:50:32AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN VIERA.
9:50:34AM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
9:50:35AM THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SERVICE TO THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:50:38AM AGAIN, BEING BEHIND THE SCENES IS NEVER EASY, ESPECIALLY
9:50:42AM WHEN SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND THEY GO, WHO CAN WE BLAME?
9:50:45AM THAT GUY.
9:50:46AM YOU ALWAYS DO A GOOD JOB AND ALWAYS A SMILING FACE.
9:50:49AM GOD BLESS YOU IN YOUR RETIREMENT AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR
9:50:52AM SERVICE.
9:50:52AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
9:50:52AM >>LYNN HURTAK: CONGRATULATIONS.
9:50:54AM WHAT ARE YOUR PLANS?
9:50:56AM >> TOM DEA: MOSTLY WORK AROUND THE HOUSE.
9:50:59AM MY WIFE HAS A PRETTY BIG TO-DO LIST.
9:51:02AM WE'LL DO A LITTLE TRAVELING.
9:51:04AM GENERALLY JUST RELAXING, ENJOYING MYSELF.
9:51:06AM >>LYNN HURTAK: WONDERFUL.
9:51:07AM CONGRATULATIONS.
9:51:07AM YOU HAVE COMPLETELY EARNED IT.
9:51:09AM WE REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU HAVE DONE TO BRING US TO
9:51:13AM THE 21st CENTURY.
9:51:14AM I KNOW THAT YOU ARE GOING TO BE LEAVING IN CAPABLE HANDS
9:51:18AM MOVING FORWARD.
9:51:19AM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL THE WORK YOU'VE DONE AND HOW MANY
9:51:22AM PEOPLE YOU HAVE HELPED SHEPHERD INTO THIS CAREER.
9:51:24AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT'S AMAZING WHAT COUNCILMAN VIERA SAID
9:51:27AM ABOUT THINGS GO WRONG, IT'S REALLY RARE.
9:51:30AM AND IF THINGS HAVE GONE WRONG, GENERALLY IT'S COMPLETELY
9:51:35AM INVISIBLE TO THOSE -- TO US.
9:51:38AM CONSIDERING HOW MANY MOVING PARTS THERE IS TO THE AUTOMATION
9:51:41AM AND WHAT YOU ALL ARE DOING BACK THERE WITH PRESENTATIONS AND
9:51:45AM THE AUDIO AND THE VIDEO AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU GUYS HAVE TO
9:51:48AM DEAL WITH, IT'S DAMN NEAR FLAWLESS.
9:51:51AM THAT'S NOT BY ACCIDENT.
9:51:53AM SO WE APPRECIATE THOSE OF YOU BEHIND THE SCENES THAT MAKE
9:51:56AM THIS THING HAPPEN.
9:51:57AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
9:51:59AM >> TOM DEA: THANK YOU COUNCIL.
9:52:01AM I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
9:52:02AM THAT'S OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE SURE THAT FOR THE PEOPLE WATCHING
9:52:05AM AT HOME AND ON YouTube AND ALL THE STREAMING CHANNELS THAT
9:52:09AM IF THERE ARE ANY ISSUES, THEY DON'T SEE THEM.
9:52:12AM EVERYTHING SHOULD BE FLAWLESS TO THEM.
9:52:13AM EVERYTHING SHOULD WORK THE WAY IT SHOULD.
9:52:16AM THE VIRTUAL STUFF WHEN WE ADDED THAT, YOU WERE ABLE TO
9:52:18AM COMMUNICATE WITH SOMEBODY ON THE VIRTUAL, AND THERE ARE NO
9:52:21AM ISSUES THERE.
9:52:22AM WE STRIVE TO CONSTANTLY MAKE THAT WORK AND MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
9:52:26AM I THINK IN THE 33 YEARS I'VE BEEN HERE, I DON'T THINK WE'VE
9:52:29AM EVER MISSED A FULL MEETING.
9:52:31AM WE'VE HAD A FEW ISSUES HERE AND THERE.
9:52:33AM I REMEMBER ONE TIME BACK IN THE '90s WE HAD A PIECE OF
9:52:36AM EQUIPMENT BURN OUT AND SMOKE AND WHATNOT IN THE CONTROL
9:52:39AM ROOM, AND WE HAD TO EVACUATE THE BUILDING FOR A FEW MINUTES.
9:52:43AM I REMEMBER RUNNING OUT WITH THE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT.
9:52:46AM I HAD TO QUICKLY UNSCREW THINGS AND RUNNING OUT WITH A
9:52:50AM SMOKING PIECE OF EQUIPMENT TO PUT IT OUTSIDE THE BUILDING.
9:52:53AM BUT THEN WE RESUMED THE MEETING FIVE MINUTES, TEN MINUTES
9:52:56AM LATER.
9:52:56AM I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVER MISSED A FULL MEETING.
9:52:59AM WHEN I STARTED HERE 33 YEARS AGO, I NEVER ENVISIONED THAT I
9:53:03AM WOULD STILL BE HERE TODAY AND RETIRING FROM THE CITY.
9:53:06AM I'M NOT SURE ANYBODY DOES WHEN THEY FIRST START WORKING LIKE
9:53:09AM THAT.
9:53:10AM BUT THE CITY HAS BECOME MY FAMILY.
9:53:11AM I LOVE WORKING FOR THE CITY.
9:53:13AM I LOVE ALL THE WORK I DO, INCLUDING DOING ALL THE MEETINGS.
9:53:17AM WE'VE DONE A LOT OF MEETINGS OVER THE YEARS.
9:53:21AM I THINK THE LONGEST MEETING WE EVER DID WAS AT THE TAMPA
9:53:24AM CONVENTION CENTER BACK IN 1999, BETWEEN THE MORNING MEETING
9:53:28AM ON THAT THURSDAY, THE THREE HOURS IN HERE, AND THEN MOVING
9:53:31AM TO THE CONVENTION CENTER WHICH THAT MEETING STARTED AT 1:00
9:53:34AM AND WRAPPED UP AT 4:30 IN THE MORNING.
9:53:37AM WE DID ABOUT 17.5 HOURS OF MEETINGS THAT DAY.
9:53:40AM THAT WAS A LONG DAY.
9:53:41AM BUT IT WAS VERY INTERESTING.
9:53:43AM I KNOW WE GOT A LOT OF RESPONSE ABOUT THAT.
9:53:48AM PEOPLE REALLY WANTED TO SEE ALL THE SPEAKERS AND WHATNOT.
9:53:50AM IT WAS A VERY INTERESTING DAY.
9:53:52AM OF COURSE, I COULDN'T DO IT WITHOUT MY STAFF.
9:53:55AM I HAVE A GREAT STAFF.
9:53:57AM BEHIND ME WERE A SMALL BUT VERY EFFICIENT STAFF.
9:54:00AM THEY DO A GREAT JOB, AND I WOULD BE NOWHERE WITHOUT MY
9:54:04AM STAFF.
9:54:04AM I'VE HAD GREAT STAFF PEOPLE OVER THE YEARS.
9:54:06AM GREAT SUPPORT FROM ALL THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS I'VE WORKED
9:54:09AM WITH.
9:54:11AM AND I'M VERY HAPPY TO HAVE WORKED FOR THE CITY.
9:54:15AM I'LL MISS IT A LITTLE BIT.
9:54:16AM I MAY TUNE INTO SOME MEETINGS OCCASIONALLY WHEN I'M AT HOME
9:54:20AM BECAUSE IT'S HARD TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO DOING ALL THE STUFF.
9:54:25AM BUT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO RETIREMENT.
9:54:27AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:54:27AM I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
9:54:29AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I BELIEVE COUNCILMAN MIRANDA WOULD --
9:54:31AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WAS LISTENING TO EVERYTHING YOU SAID.
9:54:33AM WHEN YOU SAID ABOUT THAT ONE MEETING, THAT NIGHT LASTED
9:54:35AM ABOUT 3 IN THE MORNING, REGARDING THE SIX-FOOT RULE IF I
9:54:39AM RECALL.
9:54:40AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR GOING THROUGH ALL THAT.
9:54:43AM THANK YOU.
9:54:44AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN FASCINATING
9:54:46AM TESTIMONY, TOO.
9:54:46AM [ LAUGHTER ]
9:54:48AM >> TOM DEA: IT WAS VERY INTERESTING.
9:54:49AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:54:50AM CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RETIREMENT.
9:54:52AM >> TOM DEA: THANK YOU.
9:54:53AM REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
9:54:54AM [ APPLAUSE ]
9:54:56AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DENNIS ROGERO, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE
9:55:00AM IN ALLOWING US TO DO THAT.
9:55:01AM THANK YOU.
9:55:10AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIR.
9:55:12AM GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
9:55:16AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE STAGE IS YOURS.
9:55:18AM I KNOW YOU WILL TELL US WE HAVE MORE MONEY THAN WE KNOW WHAT
9:55:24AM TO DO AND EXPENSES ARE DOWN.
9:55:25AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: DENNIS ROGERO, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.
9:55:29AM THANKS AS ALWAYS FOR HAVING US HERE AND ALLOWING US TO
9:55:33AM PRESENT AND ENHANCE AND EXPAND UPON WHAT THE MAYOR PRESENTED
9:55:37AM IN TERMS OF FISCAL YEAR 26 BUDGET.
9:55:40AM AS WE DID LAST YEAR, WE'RE BRINGING -- I THINK WHAT IS GOING
9:55:44AM TO BE THE NEW NORMAL NOW.
9:55:45AM WE'RE BRINGING THIS TO YOU WEEKS EARLY.
9:55:49AM I THINK THREE WEEKS EARLY THAN MOST OF THE TIME DENNIS HAS
9:55:52AM BEEN IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
9:55:53AM I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THAT BECOME THE NEW NORMAL BECAUSE I
9:55:56AM THINK IT'S BEEN VERY WELL RECEIVED, THIS EXTRA TIME TO
9:55:59AM DISCUSS, QUESTION, RESEARCH, ET CETERA.
9:56:01AM THE BUDGET THAT YOU'RE SEEING NOW WILL BE AVAILABLE ALONG
9:56:06AM WITH THE BUDGET IN ITS ENTIRETY AT NOON TODAY ON THE
9:56:09AM INTERNET.
9:56:10AM FIRST, LET ME ENSURE YOU HAVE THE PRESENTATION HARD COPY IN
9:56:15AM FRONT OF YOU.
9:56:15AM >> YES.
9:56:16AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: OUTSTANDING.
9:56:17AM IN THAT CASE, CAN I HAVE THE PRESENTATION UP, PLEASE?
9:56:20AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
9:56:28AM AND HERE IS OUR TABLE OF CONTENTS.
9:56:31AM IT'S MOSTLY TYPICAL.
9:56:33AM WE'VE ADDED A FEW THINGS THIS YEAR.
9:56:36AM FIRST, OF COURSE, WE'LL JUMP INTO THE MEAT OF IT WITH THE
9:56:39AM RECOMMENDED OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET.
9:56:42AM WE'RE GOING TO BREAK OUT SOME ITEMS FOR DISCUSSION BECAUSE
9:56:42AM THEY HAVE RECEIVED SPECIFIC ATTENTION BY COUNCIL, AND I WANT
9:56:46AM TO SHARE SOME INFORMATION.
9:56:46AM FIRST OF ALL, THE FISCAL YEAR '24 FUND BALANCE THAT WE'VE
9:56:51AM BEEN DISCUSSING.
9:56:52AM THAT'S ABOUT 11.8 MILLION IN PLAY.
9:56:56AM SOME CHANGES TO THE SOCIAL ACTION AND ARTS FUND BEING
9:56:59AM RECOMMENDED TO YOU AND ALSO CHANGES TO HOUSING FUNDING WE'RE
9:57:04AM RECOMMENDING.
9:57:05AM AT COUNCIL'S REQUEST, WE ADDED A SECTION WITH DETAIL ABOUT
9:57:08AM THE STORMWATER FUNDING HISTORY.
9:57:11AM GET INTO THAT.
9:57:11AM AND THEN, OF COURSE, AS COUNCIL IS USED TO SEEING THE
9:57:14AM CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS AND THE
9:57:17AM CLOSELY RELATED DEBT PROGRAM.
9:57:21AM WE'VE GOTTEN MORE AND MORE DETAILED AS COUNCIL KNOWS IN THE
9:57:24AM PAST IN TERMS OF OUR DEBT FUNDING.
9:57:26AM I REALLY THINK, AGAIN, IT'S LED TO A GREATER UNDERSTANDING
9:57:29AM AND DEEPER AND MORE QUALITY DISCUSSION ABOUT BOTH DEBT AND
9:57:33AM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.
9:57:36AM HERE IT IS.
9:57:40AM THE NET FISCAL YEAR 2026 BUDGET FOR ALL FUNDS IS JUST UNDER
9:57:45AM $2 BILLION.
9:57:47AM INCREASING OVER THE CURRENT YEAR DUE TO ITEMS THAT YOU'RE
9:57:53AM USED TO HEARING BY NOW, HIGHER SALARIES, COMPENSATION AND
9:57:56AM BENEFITS, HEALTH CARE COSTS, ADDITIONAL POSITIONS.
9:58:00AM OF COURSE, INFLATIONARY COSTS.
9:58:02AM VEHICLE MAINTENANCE.
9:58:04AM THE CONTINUING ADDITION TO THE COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT
9:58:06AM AGENCY FROM PROPERTY TAXES.
9:58:10AM AND CONTINUED FUNDING OF THE WATER AND WASTEWATER PROJECTS.
9:58:15AM YOU SEE HERE, AS WE ALWAYS DO A BREAKOUT OF THE MAJOR FUNDS,
9:58:20AM ESPECIALLY THE TWO WE TALK ABOUT THE MOST, THE GENERAL FUND
9:58:22AM AND THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS.
9:58:24AM AS HAS BEEN TYPICAL, THEY TAKE UP ABOUT THREE-QUARTERS OF
9:58:28AM THE ENTIRETY OF THE BUDGET.
9:58:30AM WE'LL BREAK THOSE DOWN FURTHER AS WE GO THROUGH THE
9:58:33AM PRESENTATION.
9:58:33AM THEN INTO YOUR SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS, THESE INCLUDE, FOR
9:58:36AM INSTANCE, YOUR CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, YOUR HOUSING.
9:58:40AM CAPITAL PROJECT FUNDS, OF COURSE, INTERNAL SERVICE FUNDS,
9:58:43AM THESE INCLUDE SUCH DEPARTMENTS AS FLEET MAINTENANCE, THOSE
9:58:47AM THAT SERVE CUSTOMERS INTERNALLY, THAT SERVE OTHER MEMBERS OF
9:58:52AM THE CITY.
9:58:53AM TRUST AND AGENCY FUNDS, COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCY.
9:58:57AM THIS IS FUNDING THAT DOESN'T BELONG TO THE CITY BUT WE
9:59:00AM CARETAKE IT AND ROUNDING IT OUT, DEBT SERVICE FUNDS, ANNUAL
9:59:04AM DEBT SERVICE FUND PAYMENTS.
9:59:06AM BREAKING OUT THE GENERAL FUND AND THE ENTERPRISE FUND,
9:59:11AM AGAIN, WHERE WE DIRECT A GREAT DEAL OF OUR ATTENTION.
9:59:15AM THE GENERAL FUND ON THE LEFT, YOU ALSO SEE THAT PUBLIC
9:59:19AM SAFETY TAKES UP MORE THAN HALF, ABOUT 60% OF THE GENERAL
9:59:22AM FUND IN ITS ENTIRETY.
9:59:24AM YOU'VE GOT YOUR BACK-OFFICE FUNCTIONS, ESSENTIAL GOVERNMENT,
9:59:28AM INCLUDES REVENUE AND FINANCE DEPARTMENT, HUMAN RESOURCES,
9:59:30AM TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION.
9:59:32AM THOSE DEPARTMENTS AND PERSONNEL BEHIND THE SCENES THAT KEEP
9:59:37AM THE CITY RUNNING.
9:59:38AM PARKS AND RECREATION, NICE CHUNK THERE AT OVER 10%.
9:59:43AM PUBLIC WORKS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, INCLUDING THE TAMPA
9:59:47AM CONVENTION CENTER.
9:59:49AM ALL TOLD, JUST OVER $708 MILLION RECOMMENDED FOR FISCAL YEAR
9:59:55AM 26.
9:59:56AM ON THE RIGHT AND EVEN LARGER CHUNK JUST UNDER 814 MILLION,
10:00:01AM THESE ARE THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS.
10:00:03AM AS COUNCIL KNOWS BUT WORTH REMINDING THE PUBLIC, THESE ARE
10:00:06AM DEPARTMENTS THAT WE EXPECT THEM TO RUN LIKE A BUSINESS.
10:00:09AM WE EXPECT THEM TO MAKE IN AIR QUOTES PROFIT.
10:00:13AM THE PRIMARY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THESE DEPARTMENTS AND THE
10:00:16AM PRIVATE SECTOR IS WHEN THEY MAKE A PROFIT, IT'S REINVESTED
10:00:20AM INTO THEIR FUNCTIONS IN SUPPORT OF THE CITY.
10:00:24AM AND, OF COURSE, WASTEWATER AND WATER, OVER THREE-QUARTERS OF
10:00:29AM THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS, NOT UNEXPECTED, SOLID WASTE, ANOTHER
10:00:33AM HEAVY HITTER AT JUST UNDER 17%.
10:00:36AM PARKING FUND, AS YOU KNOW, IS AN ENTERPRISE FUND, DOING
10:00:39AM VERY, VERY WELL.
10:00:40AM AND VERY SLIGHT SLIVER AT THE TOP THERE WITH OUR GOLF
10:00:43AM COURSES.
10:00:44AM THE MAYOR REFERENCED THIS SLIDE AND AT COUNCIL'S REQUEST
10:00:53AM WE'RE GOING TO HIGHLIGHT IT.
10:00:55AM THIS IS A COMPARISON OF WHAT THE CITY IS ANTICIPATED TO
10:00:59AM BRING IN PROPERTY TAXES NEXT YEAR AND WHAT WE ANTICIPATE
10:01:04AM WE'LL SPEND ON JUST POLICE AND FIRE.
10:01:06AM AS THE MAYOR SAID AND I'LL REITERATE, IT'S OBVIOUS, PROPERTY
10:01:13AM TAXES DON'T COME NEAR THE REQUIREMENT TO PAY FOR PUBLIC
10:01:16AM SAFETY SERVICES IN THE CITY.
10:01:19AM UPPER RIGHT, TOTAL PROPERTY TAX LITTLE OVER $380 MILLION.
10:01:25AM BUT, AGAIN, WE SIPHON OFF NEARLY $60 MILLION OF THAT FOR THE
10:01:29AM COMMUNITY REDEVELOPMENT AGENCIES.
10:01:30AM WE HAVE $320 MILLION TO THROW AT JUST OVER $414 MILLION FOR
10:01:41AM POLICE AND FIRE.
10:01:42AM DON'T WANT TO BEAT A DEAD HORSE BUT IT IS OBVIOUS PROPERTY
10:01:47AM TAXES DON'T MEET NEAR THE NEEDS THE ENTIRETY OF THE CITY LET
10:01:51AM ALONE THE NEEDS OF PUBLIC SAFETY.
10:01:53AM I'LL REMIND COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC THAT PROPERTY TAXES ARE
10:01:57AM OUR LARGEST REVENUE SOURCE AND CERTAINLY THE LARGEST REVENUE
10:02:00AM SOURCE IN THE GENERAL FUND.
10:02:02AM SO A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT REVENUE COMPONENT, BUT BY NO MEANS
10:02:08AM THE ONLY REVENUE COMPONENT THAT WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHEN
10:02:10AM WE WANT TO FUND THESE SERVICES.
10:02:12AM THIS YEAR, WE ALSO ADDED A SLIDE THAT INCLUDES PARKS AND
10:02:19AM RECREATION DEPARTMENT OF OVER $70 MILLION.
10:02:24AM AGAIN, IT COULD BE ANECDOTAL, AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, BUT
10:02:27AM WHEN I TALK TO MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY OR HOMEOWNER
10:02:31AM ASSOCIATIONS, TYPICALLY THERE IS A VERY, VERY BIG FOCUS ON
10:02:34AM PROPERTY TAXES, AND I UNDERSTAND WHY.
10:02:36AM I'VE MET PEOPLE WHO THINK THE ENTIRETY OF THE CITY IS FUNDED
10:02:41AM VIA PROPERTY TAXES.
10:02:42AM AGAIN THIS BRINGS IT HOME THAT THAT'S SIMPLY NOT THE CASE.
10:02:46AM WE USE MANY OTHER REVENUE SOURCES EVEN THOUGH THIS IS A
10:02:50AM VERY, VERY IMPORTANT ONE.
10:02:52AM CONTINUING WITH THE GENERAL FUND AND A SLIDE -- PICTURE THIS
10:02:57AM -- NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART ARE ANTICIPATED FUND BALANCE
10:03:01AM FOR FISCAL YEAR '26 AND OUR HISTORY OF UNASSIGNED FUND
10:03:05AM BALANCE BACK TO 2018.
10:03:08AM I'VE CONGRATULATED COUNCIL BEFORE.
10:03:11AM I'M GOING TO CONGRATULATE YOU AGAIN.
10:03:12AM THIS IS A VERY, VERY STABLE, CONFIDENT FINANCIAL PICTURE FOR
10:03:17AM THE GENERAL FUND.
10:03:18AM MY COMPLIMENTS FOR CONTINUING AND MY THANKS FOR CONTINUING
10:03:21AM TO SUPPORT THIS LEVEL OF UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE AT 23, 24
10:03:28AM PERCENT, EXCEPT, OF COURSE, AS I ALWAYS STATE FOR THOSE
10:03:32AM COVID YEARS WHERE YOU SEE A BLIP FOR 28 AND 27 PERCENT.
10:03:35AM VERY, VERY IMPORTANT, AS YOU'VE HEARD ME STATE BEFORE AND
10:03:39AM I'LL STATE AGAIN, WHEN WE GET TO THE DEBT PRESENTATION, AN
10:03:42AM IMPORTANT METRIC FOR THE CREDIT RATING AGENCIES, AN
10:03:45AM IMPORTANT METRIC FOR INVESTORS WHEN WE GO TO THE MARKET AND
10:03:51AM TRY TO SELL THE CITY'S DEBT.
10:03:53AM VERY, VERY GOOD HISTORY AND INDICATION OF WHAT OUR
10:03:56AM REPUTATION IS, A CONSERVATIVE, WELL THOUGHT OUT, LONG TERM
10:04:01AM FINANCIAL PLANNING MODEL.
10:04:03AM AS WE DID LAST YEAR AND I THINK THE NEW NORMAL, IDENTIFY IN
10:04:14AM THE GENERAL FUND THE MAJOR REVENUE COMPONENTS THAT HAD
10:04:16AM INCREASED FROM THE CURRENT YEAR TO THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET
10:04:19AM WE'RE SHARING TODAY.
10:04:20AM YOU SEE PROPERTY TAX A LITTLE OVER 26 MILLION.
10:04:26AM JUDGMENT AND FINES AT JUST UNDER 16 MILLION AND THE PRIMARY
10:04:30AM COMPONENT OF THAT AND ONE OF THE REASONS WE'VE ISOLATED IT
10:04:33AM ARE THE SCHOOL SAFETY SPEED CAMERAS THAT ARE COMING ONLINE.
10:04:37AM THIS IS A VERY NICE SIDE EFFECT BUT I WANT TO REITERATE THAT
10:04:44AM THE PRIMARY PURPOSE OF THE CAMERAS IS THE SAFETY OF OUR
10:04:47AM CHILDREN, BUT WE DO ANTICIPATE WE'RE GOING TO RECOGNIZE
10:04:49AM ADDITIONAL GENERAL FUND MONEY FROM IT.
10:04:52AM MISCELLANEOUS REVENUES, NOT A BAD COMPONENT.
10:04:56AM 6.5 MILLION.
10:04:58AM A LITTLE BIT OF UTILITY TAX IN THERE, A LITTLE BIT OF
10:05:01AM COMMUNICATION SERVICES TAX.
10:05:03AM AT THE VERY BOTTOM AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE TALK ABOUT THIS
10:05:05AM OFTEN, BUT IT'S WORTH HIGHLIGHTING.
10:05:08AM THIS IS WHAT WE AFFECTIONATELY CALL THE PILOT AND PILOF,
10:05:14AM PAYMENT IN LIEU OF TAXES AND PAYMENT IN LIEU OF FRANCHISE
10:05:17AM FEES.
10:05:18AM THESE ARE FEES -- WAS GOING TO SAY FINES -- FEES AND CHARGES
10:05:26AM THAT THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS PAY FOR UTILIZING THE
10:05:30AM RIGHTS-OF-WAY OF THE CITY.
10:05:31AM AGAIN, IF THEY ARE GOING TO OPERATE LIKE A BUSINESS AND ACME
10:05:37AM WANTS TO USE OUR RIGHTS-OF-WAY, WE CHARGE THEM.
10:05:40AM CHARGE THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS FOR THIS ALSO.
10:05:43AM INFLUX INTO THE GENERAL FUND AND IT'S NOT A BAD AMOUNT,
10:05:47AM LITTLE OVER $5 MILLION.
10:05:48AM TOTAL REVENUE INCREASES, MAJOR REVENUE INCREASES JUST OVER
10:05:55AM $53 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR '26.
10:05:59AM IF I COULD DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION BACK TO THE PROPERTY TAXES
10:06:03AM VERY QUICKLY.
10:06:04AM $26.2 MILLION, WE'LL TAKE IT.
10:06:08AM IT'S NOT BAD.
10:06:09AM IT REPRESENTS A SEVEN-ISH PERCENT INCREASE IN TAXABLE VALUE.
10:06:16AM IT IS LESS THAN WE WERE BRINGING IN JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS
10:06:19AM AGO, THOUGH.
10:06:20AM I THINK IT STANDS IN STARK CONTRAST TO THE 400 PLUS MILLION
10:06:25AM THAT IT TAKES TO FUND POLICE, FIRE, AND PARKS AND
10:06:29AM RECREATION.
10:06:30AM WE'LL GLADLY TAKE 26 MILLION, BUT THE AMOUNT OF GROWTH HAS
10:06:36AM BEEN DECREASING WHEN YOU COMPARE IT TO THE LAST COUPLE OF
10:06:38AM YEARS.
10:06:39AM ALL OF THIS I SAY BECAUSE IT LEADS TO A PRETTY CONSTRICTED
10:06:44AM BUDGET.
10:06:45AM WE'LL GET INTO MORE DETAIL WITH THAT IN JUST A MOMENT.
10:06:49AM AS WE DID LAST YEAR, AND I THINK WE'LL DO FROM HERE ON OUT
10:06:54AM ALSO, WE ATTEMPT TO MATCH THE MAJOR REVENUE INCREASES TO THE
10:06:57AM MAJOR EXPENDITURE INCREASES.
10:07:00AM I THINK THIS HAS BEEN A VERY, VERY USEFUL TOOL ALSO.
10:07:04AM AT THE TOP, NO SURPRISE, COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS AT $30
10:07:08AM MILLION IN ADDITIONAL COSTS.
10:07:11AM NEW POSITIONS OF ABOUT 4.5 FTEs.
10:07:14AM I APOLOGIZE FOR THE JARGON.
10:07:16AM FOR THE PUBLIC, FTE STANDS FOR FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT.
10:07:21AM THE BEST PRACTICE IN FINANCIAL AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
10:07:24AM IS TO GET A LITTLE BIT AWAY FROM THE TERM "POSITION" BECAUSE
10:07:28AM POSITION CAN BE FULL-TIME, PART-TIME, SEASONAL, ET CETERA.
10:07:32AM SO TO MAKE COMPARISON CONSISTENT, YEAR TO YEAR AND LOCALITY
10:07:37AM TO LOCALITY, WE TALK ABOUT FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT.
10:07:40AM 4.5 FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT SPOTS HAVE BEEN ADDED IN '26 AT A
10:07:45AM LITTLE OVER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
10:07:47AM AGAIN, YOU SEE THE CRA CONTRIBUTIONS.
10:07:49AM TECO STREETCAR INCREASED $2 MILLION.
10:07:54AM HART ROUTE 1 GONE UP JUST UNDER HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
10:07:57AM AND THEN AS WE DID LAST YEAR, WE BROKE DOWN THE COSTS
10:08:03AM ASSOCIATED WITH EITHER INCREASING THE SERVICES THAT WE
10:08:06AM PROVIDE RIGHT NOW -- OR INCREASING THE COST, INCREASING THE
10:08:11AM LEVEL OF SERVICES THAT WE PROVIDE RIGHT NOW AND THE COST TO
10:08:16AM PROVIDE NEW SERVICES.
10:08:17AM AGAIN, OUR OVERWHELMING PRIORITY IS TO MAKE SURE THE LEVEL
10:08:21AM OF SERVICE THE CITY PROVIDES DOES NOT GO BACKWARDS.
10:08:24AM DOES NOT TAKE A STEP BACK.
10:08:25AM TO DO THAT, IT'S GOING TO COST NEARLY $10 MILLION IN THE
10:08:29AM GENERAL FUND IN FISCAL YEAR '26.
10:08:32AM LITTLE OVER $2.5 MILLION FOR THE INCREASED LEVELS OF
10:08:36AM SERVICES.
10:08:37AM OF COURSE, WE HAVE THE ABILITY AND WE'LL BREAK ALL OF THIS
10:08:39AM DOWN FOR YOU.
10:08:40AM AND NEW SERVICES AT 2.5 MILLION.
10:08:43AM LAST TWO LINE ITEMS, INCREASING THE LEVEL OF SERVICE AND NEW
10:08:52AM SERVICES.
10:08:53AM IT'S A LITTLE OVER $5 MILLION.
10:08:56AM AGAIN, GREAT SCALE OF THINGS, NOT A LOT.
10:08:59AM NOT A LOT.
10:09:00AM WE HAVE NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE WHAT WE'RE
10:09:04AM DOING, NOR TO BRING ON NEW SERVICES.
10:09:07AM AGAIN, WHEN YOU THROW THAT FIVE MILLION DOLLARS AND
10:09:09AM JUXTAPOSE IT AGAINST THE MASSIVE, MASSIVE FUNDING OF THE
10:09:16AM ENTIRE GENERAL FUND.
10:09:17AM I WILL REITERATE, IT MAKES FOR A PRETTY CONSTRICTED BUDGET.
10:09:21AM MOVING INTO CITYWIDE POSITION SUMMARY, AND WE PROVIDED THIS
10:09:30AM LAST YEAR.
10:09:31AM AGAIN, I THINK A VERY, VERY VALUABLE TOOL.
10:09:33AM WE BREAK DOWN AT THE LOWER HALF OF THE CHART THE ADDITIONAL
10:09:36AM POSITIONS WE'RE REQUESTING FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026.
10:09:42AM WE ALSO PROVIDE AT THE TOP OF THE CHART, A COMPARISON TO
10:09:44AM WHAT OUR POSITION COUNT WAS AT OUR HIGH-WATER MARK IN 2007,
10:09:49AM RIGHT BEFORE THE GREAT FINANCIAL CRISIS.
10:09:53AM WE'RE STILL NINE POSITIONS OR NINE FTEs BELOW THAT LEVEL.
10:09:57AM YOU CAN SEE IN FISCAL YEAR '26 WE'RE ASKING FOR A TOTAL OF
10:10:02AM 24.5 ADDITIONAL POSITIONS.
10:10:04AM AND, OF COURSE, FROM MOST, SOLID WASTE, FLEET MAINTENANCE,
10:10:10AM FIRE TAKING UP THE BULK.
10:10:12AM AT COUNCIL'S REQUEST, WE HAVE PROVIDED A HISTORY OF
10:10:20AM ADDITIONAL POSITIONS FROM 2019 TO 2026, YOU HEARD THE MAYOR
10:10:24AM REFERENCE PORTIONS OF THIS IN HER PRESENTATION.
10:10:28AM AT THE TOP, OVER 122 POSITIONS FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
10:10:33AM I WON'T READ EACH ONE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THE OVERWHELMING
10:10:36AM MAJORITY OF CONCENTRATED IN PUBLIC SAFETY, UTILITIES, AND
10:10:40AM CONSTRUCTION SERVICES.
10:10:41AM CONTINUING WITH THE POSITION THEME, RATIO OF EMPLOYEES TO
10:10:54AM POPULATION CONTINUES TO DECLINE.
10:10:57AM IT HAS DECLINED FROM 2022 TO 2023 TO 2024 TO 2025.
10:11:04AM WE ARE NOW THE LOWEST PERSONNEL TO POPULATION RATIO AMONG
10:11:09AM OUR PEERS, JUST UNDER THE CITY OF ORLANDO.
10:11:13AM ALL OF THIS, OF COURSE, WHILE THE CITY CONTINUES TO GROW AND
10:11:18AM SERVICE DEMANDS CONTINUE TO EXPAND.
10:11:21AM I WOULD SUBMIT THIS AS YET ANOTHER PART OF OUR CONSERVATIVE
10:11:25AM FISCAL MANAGEMENT PHILOSOPHY.
10:11:28AM CONTINUING WITH COMPARISONS, NO SURPRISE HERE, OUR CITY
10:11:38AM MILLAGE COMPARISONS TO OUR PEERS, WE REMAIN AND HAVE
10:11:41AM REMAINED FOR SOME TIME, YOU SEE THE LOWEST MILLAGE OF THE
10:11:46AM FOUR CITY COMPARISON, TAMPA, ORLANDO, ST. PETERSBURG, AND
10:11:49AM MIAMI.
10:11:50AM THE COMPETITIVE GRANT PROGRAM, WE LIKE TO SHOW THIS
10:12:02AM COMPARISON EVERY YEAR.
10:12:03AM WE LIKE TO SHOW IT A LITTLE BIT LESS THIS YEAR.
10:12:06AM WE HAD A GREAT RUN.
10:12:08AM I DON'T THINK THE RUN IS GOING TO END, BUT WE HAVE OBVIOUSLY
10:12:11AM HIT A LULL IN FISCAL YEAR '25.
10:12:14AM YOU SEE ALMOST QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS IN GRANTS
10:12:18AM AWARDED SINCE 2017 AND THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THAT IN
10:12:23AM THE FIVE YEARS FROM 2020 TO 2024.
10:12:27AM I DON'T NEED TO TELL YOU SOME OF THE UNCERTAINTY ASSOCIATED
10:12:34AM WITH AWARDS COMING OUT OF THE WASHINGTON.
10:12:37AM WE STILL HAVE A VERY AGGRESSIVE APPLICATION PROGRAM, A VERY
10:12:43AM GOOD MONITORING PROGRAM, BUT IT APPEARS FEAST OR FAMINE
10:12:48AM RIGHT NOW AND THIS APPEARS TO BE A FAMINE.
10:12:50AM I'M NOT GIVING UP HOPE BY ANY MEANS AND WILL CONTINUE TO BE
10:12:54AM VERY AGGRESSIVE IN WHAT WE APPLY FOR BUT THE AWARDS HAVE
10:12:57AM BEEN PRETTY SCANT SO FAR IN FISCAL YEAR '25.
10:13:02AM IF I COULD DRILL DOWN A LITTLE TO THREE PARTICULAR ITEMS,
10:13:10AM FISCAL YEAR '24 FUND BALANCE, SOCIAL ACTION IN ARTS FUND AND
10:13:13AM THE HOUSING FUND.
10:13:15AM DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION, SIR?
10:13:17AM BETTER VIEW.
10:13:20AM UNDERSTOOD.
10:13:22AM UNDERSTOOD.
10:13:22AM FISCAL YEAR '24 FUND BALANCE, COUNCIL WILL RECALL THESE ARE
10:13:33AM THE PARTICULAR CATEGORIES WE IDENTIFIED.
10:13:35AM IN THE MIDDLE COLUMN, THE PARTICULAR AMOUNTS COUNCIL
10:13:39AM REQUESTED THAT WE ALLOCATE THE FUND BALANCE TO.
10:13:42AM FAR RIGHT, YOU CAN SEE THE MAYOR RECOMMENDED ALLOCATING THE
10:13:46AM OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF WHAT COUNCIL HAS REQUESTED TO THESE
10:13:51AM PARTICULAR CATEGORIES.
10:13:52AM A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN COUNCIL REQUESTED FOR HOUSING,
10:13:55AM FLOODING ASSISTANCE, AND ABOUT HALF OF THE REQUEST FOR
10:14:00AM RESURFACING.
10:14:00AM WHAT THAT LEAVES IN PLAY, OF COURSE, IS ABOUT $2 MILLION.
10:14:06AM AT THIS TIME, WE WOULD PREFER TO HOLD THAT IN ABEYANCE FOR A
10:14:11AM COUPLE OF REASONS.
10:14:12AM I WON'T BEAT A DEAD HORSE ABOUT THE UNCERTAINTY GOING ON IN
10:14:17AM THE ECONOMY AND THE CITY, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
10:14:19AM WE'RE VERY STRONG BUT A GREAT DEAL OF UNCERTAINTY OUT THERE.
10:14:23AM WE REMAIN IN NEGOTIATIONS WITH OUR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
10:14:28AM UNITS.
10:14:28AM FROM A RESURFACING PERSPECTIVE, WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE
10:14:32AM THAT WE DON'T IDENTIFY FUNDING WHEN WE CAN THAT CAN'T BE
10:14:37AM SPENT VERY, VERY QUICKLY.
10:14:38AM SO ALL TOLD, I BELIEVE WE'RE RECOMMENDING AGAIN A GREAT DEAL
10:14:43AM OF WHAT COUNCIL REQUESTED IN THOSE CATEGORIES THAT COUNCIL
10:14:47AM REQUESTED.
10:14:48AM SHOULD COUNCIL ACCEPT THIS AND WANT TO GO FORWARD, WE CAN
10:14:58AM HAVE A FINANCIAL RESOLUTION READY TO APPROPRIATE THE FUNDS I
10:15:00AM THINK AS SOON AS THE NEXT -- CAN WE GET THAT IN TIME FOR THE
10:15:04AM 31st?
10:15:05AM COPY.
10:15:08AM AGAIN, NOT TO GET WONKISH, BUT WE'LL HAVE TO APPROPRIATE THE
10:15:12AM FUNDING SO WE CAN SPEND IT BECAUSE IT IS HELD IN A FUND
10:15:15AM BALANCE RIGHT NOW.
10:15:16AM IN THE SOCIAL ACTIONS AND ARTS FUND, AGAIN, A CONSTRICTED
10:15:25AM BUDGET AND WE HAD TO MAKE REDUCTIONS IN THIS PARTICULAR
10:15:28AM AREA.
10:15:28AM FROM ABOUT 2 -- TWO POINT, ALMOST $3 MILLION, WE SET ASIDE
10:15:36AM SOME COMPONENTS AND ARE LEFT WITH OUR RECOMMENDATION OF $1
10:15:39AM MILLION FOR NONPROFITS.
10:15:41AM AS SOME OF YOU KNOW, WE ENVISION A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
10:15:47AM FOR EACH COUNCIL MEMBER AND $300,000 FOR COUNCIL IN THEIR
10:15:51AM ENTIRETY FOR A TOTAL OF $1 MILLION.
10:15:54AM WE HAVE EXCLUDED CITY ASSETS ON THE PRESUMPTION THAT COUNCIL
10:15:59AM WILL WANT TO CONTINUE TO FUND THOSE ASSETS AT THE SAME LEVEL
10:16:03AM IN FISCAL YEAR '26.
10:16:05AM THAT WOULD BE THE AQUARIUM, THE STRAZ CENTER, THE ZOO,
10:16:08AM ET CETERA.
10:16:09AM WE HAVE ALSO, I BELIEVE THIS WAS AT COUNCIL'S REQUEST,
10:16:12AM SEGREGATED THE DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY FUNDING
10:16:17AM OF ABOUT HALF A MILLION DOLLARS.
10:16:19AM SO IN THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET, THOSE CONTINUE JUST AS THEY
10:16:23AM ARE IN THE CURRENT YEAR.
10:16:26AM CONTRIBUTIONS TO HOUSING.
10:16:35AM AGAIN, A VERY TIGHT BUDGET.
10:16:39AM I'LL TRY TO WALK YOU THROUGH THIS.
10:16:41AM I APOLOGIZE.
10:16:41AM IT MAY BE A BIT CONVOLUTED.
10:16:44AM AT THE TOP, YOU HAVE THE FISCAL YEAR '25, THE CURRENT YEAR
10:16:48AM GENERAL FUND SUPPLEMENT TO THE HOUSING PROGRAM AT
10:16:51AM $9.7 MILLION.
10:16:53AM WE HAVE REDUCED THE GENERAL FUND COMPONENT SIGNIFICANTLY AND
10:16:58AM ARE RECOMMENDING REPLACING IT IN FISCAL YEAR '26 YOU SEE
10:17:02AM HERE FROM AN EXISTING HOUSING FUND BALANCE.
10:17:06AM WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE REVENUE AND FINANCE WORLD IS TURN THE
10:17:10AM HOUSING FUND INTO A REVOLVING FUND.
10:17:13AM ELIMINATING THE NEED TO REAPPROPRIATE THE FUNDING EVERY YEAR
10:17:18AM AND ALLOWING MORE FLEXIBILITY FOR THE HOUSING DEPARTMENT TO
10:17:22AM SPEND THAT FUNDING AS THEY NEED IT.
10:17:24AM FROM A PROCESS PERSPECTIVE, WE THINK THAT'S AN IMPROVEMENT.
10:17:28AM WHAT IT ALLOWS US TO DO IS MITIGATE THE GENERAL FUND
10:17:32AM SUPPLEMENT YOU SEE TO THE TUNE OF 5.7 MILLION.
10:17:35AM AND THEN SHOULD COUNCIL ACCEPT IT, HERE IS THE $2 MILLION
10:17:38AM FROM THE FISCAL YEAR FROM LAST YEAR'S GENERAL FUND BALANCE.
10:17:43AM AND THEN YOU SEE THE TOTAL AT THE BOTTOM FOR COMPARISON
10:17:46AM PURPOSES, WE'RE GOING FROM A LITTLE UNDER 10 MILLION TO A
10:17:49AM LITTLE UNDER 8 MILLION.
10:17:52AM SO A $2 MILLION HIT.
10:17:54AM WHAT I WOULD POINT OUT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SLIDE IS THERE
10:17:58AM ARE WHAT WE THINK AMPLE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ADDITIONAL HOUSING
10:18:02AM FUNDING IN THE FUTURE.
10:18:03AM OF COURSE, COUNCIL I BELIEVE AS THE CRA BOARD HAS MADE A
10:18:07AM COMMITMENT OF 30% I THINK IT IS IN THE CRAs AND THEN WE'LL
10:18:11AM HAVE, I THINK, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOU VERY
10:18:16AM SOON ABOUT THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT FOR
10:18:20AM DISASTER RECOVERY.
10:18:22AM A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND, COUNCIL I THINK KNOWS THIS, BUT
10:18:24AM FOR THE PUBLIC, THIS IS AN OVER $700 MILLION GRANT THAT
10:18:29AM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY HAS RECEIVED ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORMS
10:18:32AM LAST YEAR.
10:18:34AM YESTERDAY, THE COUNTY COMMISSION APPROVED THEIR PLAN TO SEND
10:18:38AM TO THE HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE IN AUGUST.
10:18:42AM IT'S UP TO HUD NOW TO APPROVE THAT.
10:18:45AM AND IT IS OVERWHELMINGLY HOUSING CENTRIC.
10:18:48AM WE DON'T KNOW YET HOW MUCH, BUT WE ANTICIPATE CITY OF TAMPA
10:18:52AM IS GOING TO GET A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF FUNDING FROM THIS
10:18:56AM GRANT, PRIMARILY FOR HOUSING PURPOSES.
10:18:59AM AGAIN, I THINK THERE'S OPPORTUNITY IN THE FUTURE, BUT EYES
10:19:03AM WIDE OPEN, I WANT TO BE VERY CLEAR, WE'RE LOOKING AT A $2
10:19:06AM MILLION REDUCTION IN HOUSING FUNDING FROM THE GENERAL FUND
10:19:10AM IN THIS RECOMMENDED BUDGET.
10:19:11AM MOVING INTO STORMWATER, AGAIN, AT COUNCIL'S REQUEST WE ADDED
10:19:28AM BOTH A 50,000-FOOT VIEW OF STORMWATER AND GOING BACK TO 2015
10:19:33AM AND 2017 RESPECTIVELY, A HISTORY OF REVENUES ASSOCIATED WITH
10:19:37AM THE TWO ASSESSMENTS.
10:19:38AM FIRST UP, I'LL PUT A PLUG IN FOR THE SERVICE ASSESSMENT RATE
10:19:44AM STUDY.
10:19:45AM WE'RE WORKING ON THAT RIGHT NOW FOR POSSIBLE IMPLEMENTATION
10:19:48AM FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2027 BUDGET.
10:19:50AM OF COURSE, WE'LL BRING COUNCIL ALONG EVERY STEP OF THE WAY
10:19:53AM AND ULTIMATELY IT WILL BE COUNCIL'S DECISION.
10:19:56AM THIS IS THE SERVICE ASSESSMENT FOR OPERATIONS AS OPPOSED TO
10:20:00AM THE IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS WHICH WE'LL
10:20:04AM GET INTO IN JUST A MINUTE.
10:20:06AM I BELIEVE YOU HEARD THE MAYOR SAID STORMWATER.
10:20:09AM INVESTED 350 MILLION IN MAKING TAMPA MORE RESILIENT SINCE
10:20:14AM 2019.
10:20:15AM I BELIEVE SHE ALSO REFERENCED INVESTING IN JUST UNDER $40
10:20:19AM MILLION OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
10:20:23AM NEW AND REPLACEMENT VEHICLES YOU SEE AS THE FOURTH BULLET OF
10:20:27AM 3.3 MILLION IN FISCAL YEAR '26.
10:20:30AM GIVE THE GENERAL FUND CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE, WE HAD AN
10:20:35AM ONGOING SUBSIDY IN THE GENERAL FUND OF $2 MILLION FOR THE
10:20:37AM STORMWATER SYSTEM.
10:20:39AM THAT INCREASED TO $3 MILLION IN THE CURRENT YEAR AND WE'RE
10:20:45AM INCREASING IT YET AGAIN TO $4 MILLION IN THE BUDGET THAT
10:20:48AM WE'RE PRESENTING TODAY.
10:20:49AM DRILLING DOWN INTO THE SERVICE ASSESSMENT, AGAIN, THIS IS
10:20:57AM FOR OPERATIONS.
10:20:58AM HERE YOU SEE THE HISTORY SINCE 2015 OF THAT ASSESSMENT,
10:21:03AM ALONG WITH THE REVENUES, ALONG WITH THE EXPENSES.
10:21:08AM STARTING IN 2015, YOU SEE IT BECAME EFFECTIVE IN 2016.
10:21:12AM YOU SEE THE BUMP THERE.
10:21:13AM WE ALSO HAD A LOAN FROM THE WATER DEPARTMENT TO DO SOME
10:21:16AM STORMWATER PROJECTS.
10:21:17AM AND AS WE STARTED COLLECTING THE REVENUE IN GREEN, FOR THE
10:21:22AM MOST PART, YOU SEE THAT THE EXPENSES HAVE PRETTY MUCH KEPT
10:21:27AM PACE.
10:21:27AM NOW, AGAIN, WORTH SAYING THAT STORMWATER CARRIES THEIR OWN
10:21:31AM FUND BALANCE AND ALSO I'LL REITERATE THAT THE GENERAL FUND
10:21:36AM CONTINUES TO PROVIDE A SUPPLEMENT.
10:21:37AM BUT A PRETTY STATIC AND LEVEL AND CONSISTENT PICTURE SINCE
10:21:44AM ABOUT 2018 OF IN-FLOWS AND OUT-FLOWS IN THE STORMWATER
10:21:51AM ASSESSMENT FUND.
10:21:52AM AGAIN, AT COUNCIL'S REQUEST, YOU REQUESTED A HISTORY OF THE
10:22:02AM IMPROVEMENT ASSESSMENT REVENUE SINCE ITS INAUGURATION IN
10:22:06AM 2017.
10:22:07AM HERE YOU SEE A NICE UPTICK UP TO ABOUT '24 WHERE WE'VE KIND
10:22:12AM OF PLATEAUED OUT.
10:22:13AM AGAIN, THESE ARE FOR THE CAPITAL PROJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH
10:22:19AM THE STORMWATER PROGRAM.
10:22:20AM MOVING INTO OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM AS WE DO, YOU
10:22:31AM SEE OUR FIVE-YEAR PLAN HERE, A LITTLE OVER $1.7 BILLION AND
10:22:37AM A LITTLE OVER $420 MILLION JUST IN FISCAL YEAR '26.
10:22:42AM NO SURPRISE AS IS TYPICAL, YOU SEE THE MAJORITY IN THE
10:22:46AM UTILITIES AND TRANSPORTATION AREAS, ALTHOUGH I WILL POINT
10:22:50AM OUT AT THE TOP THERE, THE CRA HAS A NICE CHUNK AND FIRE
10:22:54AM RESCUE, ESPECIALLY OVER THE COURSE OF THOSE FIVE YEARS TO
10:22:57AM THE RIGHT, OVER $125 MILLION.
10:23:00AM AS WE TYPICALLY DO, WE HIGHLIGHT MAJOR PROJECTS THAT WE'RE
10:23:12AM WORKING ON BOTH BY CATEGORY AND IN EACH DISTRICT.
10:23:16AM I WON'T READ THEM TO YOU UNLESS YOU'D LIKE ME TO, BUT YOU'LL
10:23:20AM SEE MANY REPEAT PERFORMERS FROM THE CURRENT YEAR AS THESE
10:23:26AM PROJECTS CONTINUE TO BE WORKED ON AND DONE.
10:23:29AM PIPES AT THE TOP.
10:23:31AM FIRE RESCUE AT THE BOTTOM.
10:23:32AM PARKS AND RECREATION, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION, FACILITIES,
10:23:44AM ESPECIALLY THE DECENTRALIZATION PLANT, 40th STREET.
10:23:48AM QUITE A FEW MOBILITY PROJECTS.
10:23:50AM AND AS WE DO EVERY YEAR, WE'VE ALSO IDENTIFIED THE MAJOR
10:23:58AM PROJECTS ON THE DISTRICT MAPS.
10:24:00AM IT'S AVAILABLE ONLINE.
10:24:05AM DISTRICT FOUR, DISTRICT FIVE, DISTRICT SIX AND DISTRICT
10:24:17AM SEVEN.
10:24:18AM AND IF COUNCIL IS READY, INTO OUR DEBT PROGRAM.
10:24:29AM AGAIN, THIS IS A NICE ONE-TWO STEP I THINK BECAUSE AS
10:24:34AM COUNCIL KNOWS AND FOR THE PUBLIC'S AWARENESS, THE DEBT
10:24:38AM PROGRAM IS TIED VERY, VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR CAPITAL
10:24:40AM IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM BECAUSE MUCH OF THE FUNDING FOR C.I.P.
10:24:44AM COMES FROM OUR DEBT.
10:24:47AM IT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS.
10:24:50AM WORTH REPEATING.
10:24:51AM YOU SAW THE MAYOR'S SLIDE.
10:24:53AM SEVEN CREDIT RATING UPGRADES SINCE 2019.
10:24:58AM CONGRATULATIONS.
10:24:59AM GENUINELY, I ALWAYS LIKE CONGRATULATING BOTH THE MAYOR AND
10:25:03AM COUNCIL ABOUT THESE VERY, VERY GOOD CREDIT RATINGS AND
10:25:06AM CONGRATULATING EVERYBODY IN THE CITY.
10:25:08AM IT TRULY IS A TEAM EFFORT.
10:25:11AM CERTAINLY ISN'T REVENUE AND FINANCE DOING IT ON ITS OWN.
10:25:16AM I'LL REMIND COUNCIL AND FOR THE AWARENESS OF THE PUBLIC, AT
10:25:18AM THE TOP, THE ISSUER CREDIT RATING IS THE EQUIVALENT OF OUR
10:25:22AM FICO SCORE, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH YOUR PERSONAL FICO SCORE
10:25:26AM AND HOW THAT GOES UP AND GOES DOWN.
10:25:28AM THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING FICO SCORE FOR THE CITY.
10:25:33AM TWO ON THE RIGHT, FITCH AND STANDARD & POOR'S HAVE GIVEN THE
10:25:37AM HIGHEST.
10:25:37AM YOU CAN GET NO HIGHER THAN AAA.
10:25:42AM THE ONE ON THE LEFT, MOODY'S -- AND WE'LL KEEP WORKING ON
10:25:43AM IT -- THE SECOND HIGHEST, DOUBLE A ONE.
10:25:46AM JUST AN OUTSTANDING CREDIT PROFILE.
10:25:49AM THEN YOU GET INTO THE DIFFERENT ISSUANCES, WATER AND SEWER
10:25:52AM BONDS FOR THE PIPES PROGRAM.
10:25:53AM NON-AD VALOREM BONDS.
10:25:55AM AGAIN, WE JUST ISSUED WITH COUNCIL'S APPROVAL A LITTLE OVER
10:25:59AM $60 MILLION, STORMWATER BONDS.
10:26:02AM UTILITY TAX REVENUE BONDS AND OUR SALES TAX REVENUE BONDS.
10:26:06AM SO WHAT THE CREDIT RATING AGENCIES DO IS, OF COURSE, THEY GO
10:26:10AM INTO EACH INDIVIDUAL ISSUANCES.
10:26:13AM AS I'VE SAID BEFORE, GOT TO KEEP EARNING IT.
10:26:18AM DON'T SET IT AND FORGET IT.
10:26:20AM WE HAVE TO PROVE OURSELVES.
10:26:22AM THEN THEY AMALGAMATE THE INFORMATION AND COME UP WITH OUR
10:26:25AM OVERALL CREDIT RATING.
10:26:26AM SPEAKING OF OUR RECENT NON-AD VALOREM DEBT ISSUANCE, THESE
10:26:35AM ARE SOME OF THE VERY, VERY POSITIVE COMMENTS THAT WENT INTO
10:26:38AM MOODY'S AND STANDARD & POOR'S RATINGS FOR THAT I THINK $66
10:26:43AM MILLION ISSUANCE.
10:26:46AM LARGE AND DIVERSE TAX BASE.
10:26:47AM WE'RE VERY, VERY FORTUNATE TO BE WHERE WE ARE WITH THE
10:26:50AM PEOPLE WE ARE.
10:26:51AM FUND AND CASH BALANCES.
10:26:55AM STANDARD & POOR'S, VERY STRONG RESERVES.
10:26:57AM AGAIN, ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE CONTINUE TO EMPHASIZE OUR
10:27:01AM FUND BALANCE AND OUR RESERVES.
10:27:03AM ROBUST LONG-TERM PLANNING PRACTICES AND POLICIES.
10:27:06AM WE TAKE PRIDE IN THE LEVEL OF FORESIGHT THAT WE HAVE IN THE
10:27:11AM CITY FROM A FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE.
10:27:13AM AGAIN, EYES WIDE OPEN.
10:27:20AM WANT TO LET COUNCIL KNOW OF POTENTIAL DEBT ISSUANCES THAT
10:27:23AM ARE COMING IN THE FUTURE.
10:27:24AM AGAIN, WE JUST ISSUED A NON-AD VALOREM ISSUANCE.
10:27:30AM WE HAVE MORE ON THE HORIZON.
10:27:32AM YOU SEE A TOTAL OF JUST OVER A QUARTER OF A BILLION DOLLARS.
10:27:36AM SOME TIME OVER THE NEXT THREE TO FIVE YEARS, WE DON'T
10:27:39AM ANTICIPATE ISSUING THESE UNTIL THREE YEARS OUT.
10:27:43AM AND YOU SEE IN THE SECOND BULLET FOR BOTH OF THESE ITEMS,
10:27:48AM TIMING TO BE DETERMINED BASED ON PROJECT SCHEDULES AND/OR
10:27:52AM SPEND-DOWN REQUIREMENTS.
10:27:53AM AGAIN, I CAN'T EMPHASIZE ENOUGH, WE DON'T WANT TO ISSUE DEBT
10:27:56AM AND BEGIN PAYING INTEREST ON MONEY THAT WE'RE NOT USING.
10:27:59AM MONEY THAT'S NOT WORKING FOR US.
10:28:02AM WATER AND WASTEWATER DEBT, AGAIN, CONTINUING THE PIPES
10:28:08AM PROGRAM.
10:28:10AM 764 MILLION SOMETIME IN THE MID FUTURE.
10:28:14AM AGAIN, BASED ON WHEN THE WATER AND WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT CAN
10:28:19AM USE THIS FUNDING.
10:28:20AM AS COUNCIL IS AWARE, PROBABLY THE MOST RECENT LARGE ONE
10:28:26AM WE'VE CONTINUED TO TALK ABOUT IS THE SOLID WASTE DEBT.
10:28:29AM AGAIN, IN THE SHORT TERM, WE'LL GET RID OF THE TWO
10:28:32AM MINI-DEBTS AND ISSUE A SOLID WASTE BOND TO ABSORB ALL OF
10:28:37AM THAT DEBT FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF DECADES.
10:28:39AM HERE YOU SEE A 30-YEAR FIXED RATE SOLID WASTE REFUNDING
10:28:43AM REVENUE BOND.
10:28:46AM WE REALLY, REALLY LIKE THIS SLIDE.
10:28:55AM COUNCIL AND THE PUBLIC HAVE SEEN A FORM OF THIS SLIDE IN THE
10:28:58AM PAST.
10:28:58AM WE WANTED TO DRILL DOWN A LITTLE BIT TO THE SHORT AND
10:29:02AM MIDTERM AS OPPOSED TO THE LONG TERM.
10:29:04AM IN THE PAST, YOU'VE SEEN A PLATEAUING AND THEN A DRAMATIC
10:29:09AM DROP IN THE NON-AD VALOREM ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE.
10:29:11AM THIS IS WHAT WE PAY EVERY MONTH FOR OUR DEBT.
10:29:16AM AS WE'VE SAID BEFORE AND AS YOU SEE IN STARK RELIEF HERE,
10:29:19AM AFTER FISCAL YEAR 2029, WE HAVE A VERY, VERY CONSERVATIVE
10:29:26AM GLIDE PATH TO FISCAL YEAR 2035 AND BEYOND.
10:29:30AM WHAT'S THAT MEAN?
10:29:30AM IT MEANS ONCE WE GET THROUGH THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS, THERE
10:29:34AM IS A GREAT DEAL OF DEBT CAPACITY FOR NON-AD VALOREM DEBT
10:29:40AM ISSUANCES, SHOULD COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR AT THAT TIME CHOOSE
10:29:44AM TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT.
10:29:46AM ALSO, QUITE A BIT OF RELIEF IN THE ANNUAL GENERAL FUND DEBT
10:29:51AM PAYMENT.
10:29:51AM THIS IS A VERY, VERY GOOD DEBT PLAN IN OUR OPINION FOR THE
10:29:57AM GENERAL FUND.
10:29:57AM AND HERE BY DEPARTMENT OR CATEGORY ARE THE ANTICIPATED DEBT
10:30:09AM ISSUANCES FOR THE NON-AD VALOREM PROGRAM.
10:30:11AM YOU SEE AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT, COUNCIL, THAT $252 MILLION WE
10:30:16AM REFERENCED EARLIER.
10:30:18AM AND WE'VE BROKEN IT UP BEST GUESS RIGHT NOW INTO THE
10:30:21AM INDIVIDUAL DEBT ISSUANCES.
10:30:23AM AGAIN, WE DON'T ANTICIPATE THIS FOR SOME TIME, BUT IT
10:30:28AM DOESN'T HURT WHEN YOU TALK, I THINK, WHEN YOU'RE TALKING
10:30:31AM NUMBERS LIKE THIS AND THE NUMBER OF PROJECTS THAT THIS
10:30:34AM ENTAILS, WHICH WE'LL GET INTO IN JUST A MOMENT TO PUT -- TO
10:30:39AM GIVE EVERYBODY THE INFORMATION AGAIN SO EVERYBODY CAN START
10:30:43AM PLANNING.
10:30:43AM AGAIN, EYES WIDE OPEN OUR PHILOSOPHY HERE.
10:30:46AM FIRE DEPARTMENT, $136 MILLION TOTAL ON THE FAR RIGHT, OTHER
10:30:52AM PUBLIC SAFETY PROJECTS.
10:30:53AM MAKING UP, AGAIN, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY.
10:30:58AM AT THE BOTTOM, YOU HAVE MOBILITY PROJECTS, ABOUT $36
10:31:01AM MILLION.
10:31:03AM SOME GENERAL GOVERNMENT PROJECTS AND PARKS AND RECREATION
10:31:07AM PROJECTS.
10:31:07AM THIS IS A 50,000-FOOT VIEW IN YOUR PRESENTATION AND ON THE
10:31:11AM NEXT FEW SLIDES.
10:31:14AM WE BREAK IT DOWN BY PARTICULAR PROJECT AND THOSE PARTICULAR
10:31:20AM DEBT ISSUANCES.
10:31:22AM I WANT TO REITERATE, WE DON'T HAVE A PARTICULAR FISCAL YEAR
10:31:25AM IDENTIFIED FOR THESE ISSUANCES.
10:31:27AM AGAIN, AS PART OF OUR LONG-TERM PLAN, WE LIKE TO PLAN THIS
10:31:32AM OUT.
10:31:32AM WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE INFLOWS AND OUT FLOWS ARE, WHAT WE
10:31:35AM HAVE TO DO AHEAD OF TIME TO GEAR UP FOR THE ISSUANCES, BOTH
10:31:38AM IN TERMS OF THE MARKET AND IN TERMS OF COUNCIL AND THE
10:31:41AM PUBLIC.
10:31:41AM GETTING AHEAD OF THE INFORMATION AND EDUCATING WHAT WE WOULD
10:31:47AM LIKE TO DO AND WHY WE WANT TO DO IT.
10:31:49AM AGAIN, I WON'T GO THROUGH THEM ITEM BY ITEM, UNLESS YOU'D
10:31:58AM LIKE ME TO.
10:31:59AM THEY ARE IN YOUR PRESENTATION.
10:32:00AM I'LL JUST HOVER ON THIS LAST SLIDE.
10:32:09AM AGAIN, WITH THE TOTALS BY PROJECT PROGRAM FOR EACH OF THOSE
10:32:13AM PARTICULAR ISSUANCES AND, AGAIN, THE TOTAL OF $252 MILLION.
10:32:18AM WRAPPING UP, HERE IS THE BUDGET CALENDAR.
10:32:31AM AGAIN, I THINK THE REVISED TIME FRAME ASSOCIATED WITH
10:32:37AM SHARING THIS INFORMATION WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE WORKSHOPS
10:32:41AM WORKED OUT LAST YEAR.
10:32:42AM I THINK IT WILL CONTINUE TO WORK OUT.
10:32:45AM WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT BE THE NEW NORMAL.
10:32:47AM I THINK COUNCIL TOO.
10:32:49AM TWO WORKSHOPS SO FAR SCHEDULED NEXT MONTH AND THEN THE
10:32:52AM PUBLIC HEARINGS IN SEPTEMBER.
10:32:53AM AGAIN, THE BUDGET WILL BE AVAILABLE AT NOON TODAY AT THIS
10:33:02AM SITE.
10:33:02AM AND A VERY BIG THANK YOU.
10:33:10AM I ALWAYS APPRECIATE YOU INDULGING US AND LETTING US GET INTO
10:33:16AM A LITTLE DETAIL ABOUT WHAT IS A VERY LARGE BUDGET, 49th
10:33:20AM LARGEST IN THE U.S. I GUESS.
10:33:21AM IT IS EXTENSIVE AND EXPANSIVE.
10:33:27AM IT'S COMPLICATED.
10:33:30AM THANKS FOR GIVING US EXTRA TIME TO GO THROUGH IT.
10:33:32AM OVER THE NEXT WEEKS AND MONTHS WE LOOK FORWARD TO GOING INTO
10:33:36AM EVER GREATER DETAIL WITH YOU AND THE PUBLIC.
10:33:38AM THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
10:33:40AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AS ALWAYS, THANK YOU.
10:33:42AM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
10:33:43AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU, TO MIKE
10:33:46AM PERRY, YOUR TEAM AND ALSO HAGAR, OUR BUDGET ANALYST.
10:33:52AM THIS IS THAT TIME OF YEAR.
10:33:54AM THIS IS NOT AN EASY TASK.
10:33:56AM JUST YOUR PRESENTATION ALONE IS LENGTHY, BUT THE BUDGET IS
10:34:01AM QUITE DENSE AND A LOT TO TALK ABOUT.
10:34:03AM I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR WORK, YOUR ENTIRE
10:34:05AM DEPARTMENT AND ALL THE TEAM MEMBERS.
10:34:07AM THANK YOU, SIR.
10:34:08AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:34:09AM YOU REMINDED ME, I'M SORRY I WAS REMISS IN NOT THANKING
10:34:13AM MS. KOPESKY.
10:34:15AM I CERTAINLY APPRECIATE.
10:34:15AM AND REMISS IN NOT THANKING THE CITIZENS BUDGET ADVISORY
10:34:17AM COMMITTEE.
10:34:18AM ABSOLUTELY.
10:34:18AM IT TRULY IS A TEAM EFFORT AND, OF COURSE, EVERYONE THAT WE
10:34:21AM WORK WITH IN THE CITY.
10:34:23AM THANK YOU.
10:34:23AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
10:34:25AM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
10:34:25AM I APPRECIATE THIS.
10:34:28AM THIS JUST GETS BETTER EVERY YEAR.
10:34:31AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, MA'AM.
10:34:34AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I APPRECIATE HOW WE'VE MODIFIED THIS.
10:34:36AM QUICK QUESTION.
10:34:38AM WE HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THE CITIZENS BUDGET ADVISORY COMMITTEE
10:34:40AM YET, HAVE WE?
10:34:41AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE.
10:34:43AM THEY TYPICALLY COME IN AS A BODY DURING THE PUBLIC HEARINGS.
10:34:47AM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
10:34:48AM DURING THE PUBLIC HEARINGS.
10:34:49AM I WANTED TO DOUBLE CHECK ON THAT.
10:34:51AM OBVIOUSLY, THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF TIME FOR QUESTIONS
10:34:55AM LATER, BUT I DID WANT TO JUST HIGHLIGHT A COUPLE OF THINGS.
10:35:04AM BASICALLY THAT THE 2024 FUND BALANCE THAT WE AGREED ON, I'M
10:35:10AM NOT PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN CHANGING THAT.
10:35:14AM ALL WE HEAR IS PAVING.
10:35:16AM ALL WE HEAR IS PAVING.
10:35:18AM I HEARD IT AGAIN LAST NIGHT.
10:35:20AM PERSONALLY -- AND I KNOW WE ALREADY APPROVED THE 500,000 FOR
10:35:27AM STORMWATER SO THAT WOULD JUST MAKE IT $3.5 MILLION BECAUSE,
10:35:32AM QUITE FRANKLY, STORMWATER REALLY NEEDS IT.
10:35:34AM THAT'S THE OTHER THING THAT WE'RE HEARING CONSTANTLY.
10:35:36AM SO I DON'T KNOW THAT I WOULD SUPPORT THAT.
10:35:40AM THEN I'M REALLY CONFUSED, THE ONLY OTHER THING, LIKE I SAID,
10:35:44AM I HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS BUT I'LL MAKE THESE TWO POINTS
10:35:47AM TODAY.
10:35:47AM THE NONPROFIT, I THOUGHT THAT WE HAD A BRAND-NEW SYSTEM
10:35:54AM WHERE PEOPLE WERE SUPPOSED TO HAVE FILLED OUT A FORM, APPLY
10:36:01AM FOR IT.
10:36:01AM NOW IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE CHANGING MIDSTREAM.
10:36:04AM I'M NOT COMFORTABLE WITH HAVING A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
10:36:09AM THAT I HAVE TO ALLOCATE BECAUSE WHAT IF SOMEBODY WANTS 150.
10:36:14AM THEN I'M NOT ALLOWED TO TALK TO THESE FOLKS WHEN I'M NOT ON
10:36:17AM THE DAIS.
10:36:18AM SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE NEXT TO IMPOSSIBLE.
10:36:21AM I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH COUNCIL AS A WHOLE LOOKING AT
10:36:24AM THAT ONE MILLION DOLLARS.
10:36:27AM AND FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, PREVIOUSLY WE HAD DONE ABOUT 4
10:36:33AM MILLION.
10:36:33AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: YES, WHEN YOU INCLUDE THE CITY ASSETS --
10:36:37AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T THINK -- WE ARE FINALLY TAKING THE
10:36:44AM CITY ASSETS OUT AND THE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY OUT.
10:36:46AM SO DID THAT ACTUALLY GO DOWN ONCE WE TAKE THOSE OUT?
10:36:50AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: IT DID.
10:36:51AM A LITTLE OVER A MILLION DOLLARS.
10:36:53AM WE CAN PARSE IT OUT FOR YOU.
10:36:55AM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WAS CURIOUS.
10:36:57AM BECAUSE I KNOW YOU SAID IT WENT DOWN BUT DIDN'T KNOW HOW
10:37:00AM MUCH.
10:37:00AM YOU SAID A LITTLE LESS THAN A MILLION.
10:37:02AM MAYBE 1.9 AND NOW IT'S 1.
10:37:05AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, GOING FROM MEMORY, THE
10:37:08AM TOTALITY OF WHAT WE IDENTIFIED IN THE CURRENT YEAR VERSUS
10:37:11AM NEXT YEAR DECREASED ABOUT 1.1 MILLION.
10:37:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: 1.1 MILLION DECREASE.
10:37:16AM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
10:37:17AM I THINK THOSE ARE THE TWO THINGS I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT RIGHT
10:37:19AM AWAY BECAUSE YOU HAD MENTIONED GETTING A FINANCIAL
10:37:21AM RESOLUTION AND I DON'T THINK I'M QUITE READY TO DO THAT YET
10:37:26AM WITH THESE RECOMMENDED AMOUNTS FOR THE FY '24 SCHEDULE.
10:37:32AM THANK YOU.
10:37:32AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN VIERA AND THEN COUNCILMAN
10:37:34AM CARLSON.
10:37:35AM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
10:37:37AM I DON'T HAVE QUESTIONS.
10:37:38AM WHEN I HAVE QUESTIONS, I'LL DEAL WITH THEM PRIVATELY.
10:37:41AM A COUPLE OF NOTES TO MAKE.
10:37:43AM I DID WANT TO SAY THIS PUBLICLY AND SPOKEN WITH FOLKS IN THE
10:37:46AM ADMINISTRATION, I WAS TOLD FOR PURPOSES AND I'LL TALK ABOUT
10:37:49AM THE NONPROFITS, THAT EVERY YEAR, THE SPECIAL NEEDS
10:37:52AM INTERNSHIP PROGRAM -- I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT AND THE GREAT
10:37:56AM DISAPPOINTMENT THAT'S BEEN SO FAR -- HAS BEEN FUNDED UNDER
10:38:01AM NONPROFITS.
10:38:01AM ACCORDING TO THAT, IT'S NOT IN THE MAYOR'S BUDGET.
10:38:04AM I WILL FIGHT THAT.
10:38:04AM I WILL CONTEST THAT.
10:38:05AM I WILL DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO MAKE SURE THAT IS TAKEN OUT OF
10:38:10AM NONPROFITS.
10:38:11AM THIS IS NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU, DENNIS, BECAUSE NOT YOUR
10:38:14AM BALL GAME.
10:38:16AM NUMBER ONE, MAKE SURE WE HIRE INTERNS.
10:38:18AM DONE THIS A COUPLE OF YEARS AND I THINK WE HAVE TWO INTERNS
10:38:20AM FROM THE PROGRAM.
10:38:22AM WE'LL BE HEARING ABOUT THAT.
10:38:23AM POTENTIALLY TAKEN OUT OF THE BUDGET ADDS INSULT TO INJURY.
10:38:27AM THE INJURY IS THE FEW INTERNS WE'VE HAD AND ALLOCATED THE
10:38:30AM MONEY AND THEN THE INSULT IS POTENTIALLY THAT.
10:38:32AM AGAIN I WILL FIGHT LIKE HELL ON THAT, OBVIOUSLY, IN TERMS OF
10:38:38AM WHAT'S HAPPENED IN THE PAST AND WHAT WE'LL DO IN THE FUTURE.
10:38:41AM SOMEWHERE OUT THERE IS ABOUT HALF A DOZEN OR DOZEN PEOPLE
10:38:43AM WITH INTELLECTUAL DISABILITIES WHO COULD BE WORKING RIGHT
10:38:46AM HERE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA AS INTERNS.
10:38:48AM THEY ARE NOT DOING IT NOW AND WE CAN'T LET THAT GO.
10:38:50AM THAT'S NUMBER ONE.
10:38:52AM NUMBER TWO IS THE HOUSING.
10:38:53AM I REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE THAT BEING IN THERE.
10:38:55AM I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT.
10:38:57AM BUT WE'VE GOT TO EXPEDITE THAT.
10:38:59AM WE'RE RUNNING SO LATE.
10:39:00AM RUNNING SO LATE ON THAT.
10:39:02AM TALK A LOT ABOUT NORTH TAMPA, THERE'S SOUTH TAMPA.
10:39:05AM SAW SOMETHING ABOUT PALMETTO BEACH.
10:39:08AM LET'S TALK ABOUT THE PEOPLE OUT THERE WHO SUFFERED SO MUCH.
10:39:11AM THEY DESERVE THIS MONEY.
10:39:12AM WE'VE GOT TO EXPEDITE THIS.
10:39:15AM RIGHT NOW PEOPLE NOT LIVING IN THEIR HOMES GOING THROUGH
10:39:18AM MISERY, GOING THROUGH HELL FROM LAST YEAR IN OCTOBER.
10:39:21AM IT'S BEEN A CONSTANT FOR THEM.
10:39:23AM WE HAVE TO EXPEDITE THIS AS IF IT WAS US AND TREAT PEOPLE
10:39:26AM THE WAY WE WANT TO BE TREATED IF WE GOT AN UNEXPECTED FLOOD
10:39:30AM LIKE HAPPENED TO SO MANY PEOPLE AFTER MILTON AND MAKE SURE
10:39:34AM WE HAVE THEIR BACKS ON THAT.
10:39:35AM I SAW SOMETHING IN THERE ABOUT THE K-BAR RANCH PARK.
10:39:38AM IS ANY OF THAT FUNDED IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET?
10:39:41AM BECAUSE IT WAS THERE.
10:39:50AM >> MIKE PERRY, BUDGET OFFICER.
10:39:55AM WE BUDGETED DESIGN MONEY IN THE '24 BUDGET, AND THEN WE HAVE
10:39:59AM CONSTRUCTION MONEY I THINK COMING IN THE '27 C.I.P.
10:40:01AM >>LUIS VIERA: SO NOTHING THIS YEAR.
10:40:04AM >>MIKE PERRY: NOTHING THIS YEAR.
10:40:05AM >>LUIS VIERA: WHY IS K-BAR RANCH THERE?
10:40:07AM IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S NOT FUNDED IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET.
10:40:12AM >>MIKE PERRY: THE LIST WE PROVIDED TO YOUR OTHER PROJECTS
10:40:13AM THE CITY IS WORKING ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY RECEIVE FUNDING
10:40:16AM IN THE UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR OR NOT.
10:40:20AM >>LUIS VIERA: I ALWAYS MAKE NOTE, AGAIN, TAKE A LOOK AT
10:40:22AM THOSE THINGS UNDER THE DISTRICT 7 BUDGET.
10:40:24AM WHEN I SAY THE DISTRICT SEVEN PERSON -- I'LL BE LEAVING IN A
10:40:27AM YEAR AND A HALF AND SOMEBODY WILL BE TAKING MY PLACE, AND I
10:40:30AM HOPE THEY HAVE A REALLY LOUD MOUTH.
10:40:32AM BECAUSE YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE THINGS THERE, YOU SEE FOREST
10:40:33AM HILLS IMPROVEMENTS.
10:40:35AM WELL, THEY JUST GOT FLOODED.
10:40:36AM I HOPE WE MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS THERE.
10:40:38AM FIRE STATION 24, IT'S TAKEN FOREVER.
10:40:43AM IT'S THERE.
10:40:44AM WE SHOULD HAVE MORE PROGRESS ON THAT.
10:40:46AM K-BAR RANCH AND STUFF IN NEW TAMPA.
10:40:52AM DISTRICT 7 IS A PART OF THE CITY OF TAMPA.
10:40:54AM BEEN BEATING THAT DRUM 8 YEARS.
10:40:56AM WE'VE GOTTEN A LOT DONE.
10:40:57AM WHENEVER I SEE THE LISTS A LITTLE BIT, THE CHIP ON MY
10:41:00AM SHOULDER JUST GETS A LITTLE BIT BIGGER ABOUT DISTRICT 7.
10:41:03AM I WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
10:41:04AM LASTLY IN TERMS OF THE NONPROFITS, I APPRECIATE WHAT
10:41:07AM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK SAID.
10:41:08AM WE HAD A DISCUSSION LAST YEAR ON TAKING A LOOK AT OUR LIST
10:41:13AM THAT WE GIVE, AND WE HAD, HAGAR DID A GREAT JOB I BELIEVE IT
10:41:18AM WAS IN LOOKING AT THE PERCENTAGE OF WHAT GOES TO DIFFERENT
10:41:21AM GROUPS.
10:41:21AM WE FOUND THAT VETERANS GET VERY, VERY LITTLE.
10:41:26AM I IDENTIFIED VETERAN ORGANIZATIONS WHICH COUNCIL I'M SURE
10:41:29AM WOULD SUPPORT AS WELL AS SOME GROUPS THAT HELP OUT PEOPLE
10:41:32AM WITH DISABILITIES.
10:41:33AM WHAT I'M GOING TO DO IS DO A MEMO THAT SUMMARIZES ALL OF
10:41:39AM THESE PROPOSED INVESTMENTS IN THESE TWO AREAS BECAUSE THEY
10:41:43AM WILL EXCEED THE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.
10:41:48AM IT'S AN INVESTMENT WE SHOULD MAKE AS A CITY BECAUSE WE
10:41:51AM IGNORED THOSE TWO GROUPS AND NONPROFITS FOR TOO LONG.
10:41:58AM MR. ROGERO, YOU ARE ALWAYS A PLEASURE AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR
10:42:02AM PROFESSIONALISM.
10:42:02AM >>BILL CARLSON: AS MY COLLEAGUE SAID, WE'LL HAVE A LOT OF
10:42:06AM TIME TO TALK ABOUT THIS IN DEPTH.
10:42:08AM INTERESTED TO HEAR WHAT THE PUBLIC HAS TO SAY TODAY AND IN
10:42:11AM FUTURE MEETINGS.
10:42:12AM IF YOU HEAR US NOT ASKING QUESTIONS, WE HAVE SEVERAL PUBLIC
10:42:15AM MEETINGS TO DO THAT IN.
10:42:16AM TO HIT SOME HIGHLIGHTS, STORMWATER IS PROBABLY THE BIGGEST
10:42:20AM ISSUE IN SOUTH TAMPA.
10:42:22AM MOST OF THE PEOPLE FLOODED WERE IN SOUTH TAMPA.
10:42:24AM YOU TALK ABOUT A TOTAL NUMBER OF $350 MILLION OVER THE LAST
10:42:29AM SEVEN YEARS OR SO, THAT'S LIKE 20, $30 MILLION A YEAR.
10:42:34AM WHEN THE BUCKHORN TAX WAS PASSED IN 2016, FOLKS WERE
10:42:39AM PROMISED THAT MAINTENANCE WAS GOING TO BE DONE AND WE SEE
10:42:41AM MAINTENANCE HAS NOT BEEN DONE IN DECADES IN MANY PLACES.
10:42:44AM THAT HAS GOT TO BE DONE.
10:42:46AM I SEE THE CITY HAS BEEN ON A BIG PR PITCH WHILE CITY COUNCIL
10:42:49AM HAS BEEN ON VACATION TO TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH THE CITY HAS
10:42:53AM DONE IN MAINTENANCE AND STORMWATER.
10:42:55AM THE REALITY IS IT HASN'T.
10:42:57AM NO AMOUNT OF PR IS GOING TO CHANGE THE FACT THAT PEOPLE CAN
10:43:00AM SEE THAT MAINTENANCE HASN'T BEEN DONE AND THAT THEIR HOUSES
10:43:04AM ARE FLOODING.
10:43:04AM WE NEED TO TAKE IT SERIOUSLY.
10:43:06AM IT'S NOT A PR PROBLEM.
10:43:08AM IT IS AN ACTUAL PROBLEM.
10:43:09AM NOT SPEAKING TO YOU, MR. ROGERO, SPEAKING THROUGH YOU TO
10:43:13AM MAKE THIS POINT TO THE ADMINISTRATION THAT STORMWATER HAS
10:43:15AM GOT TO BE A REAL ISSUE, NOT A PR ISSUE.
10:43:18AM NUMBER 2, COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK TALKED ABOUT THE SOCIAL
10:43:26AM NONPROFIT BUDGET, I DON'T THINK -- I DON'T WANT TO BE
10:43:29AM ALLOCATED HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IF WE NEED -- IF WE SET
10:43:34AM CRITERIA FOR WHAT WE NEED TO FUND IN THAT PROGRAM, COUNCIL
10:43:37AM MEMBER HENDERSON HAD SUGGESTED WE ONLY FUND ORGANIZATIONS
10:43:41AM FOR A YEAR OR TWO WHICH I THOUGHT WAS A GOOD IDEA, SO IT IS
10:43:44AM NOT A RECURRING THING.
10:43:46AM IT SHOULD BE A SHORT-TERM AMOUNT THAT WE FUND.
10:43:49AM BUT IT SHOULD BE BASED ON CRITERIA AND A SHORT-TERM BRIDGE,
10:43:53AM NOT A LONG-TERM FUNDING THING.
10:43:55AM YOU'VE TAKEN AT OUR REQUEST AND THE PUBLIC'S REQUEST, TAKEN
10:43:59AM OUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT
10:44:01AM WERE REALLY NOT NONPROFIT FUNDING WHICH IS GREAT.
10:44:04AM BUT ANY MONEY THAT WE DON'T NEED TO SPEND, IT SHOULD NOT BE
10:44:10AM A SLUSH FUND THAT CITY COUNCIL CAN ALLOCATE TO THEIR
10:44:11AM FAVORITE NON-PROFITS.
10:44:14AM IT NEEDS TO BE BASED ON NEED AND SOUND CRITERIA.
10:44:16AM CHIEF OF STAFF HAS WORKED ON THAT BEFORE.
10:44:18AM LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH HIM ON THAT AS WELL.
10:44:20AM FUND BALANCE, I'M A BROKEN RECORD, I REALLY BELIEVE YOU
10:44:23AM SHOULD GO BACK TO 2018 -- NOT 2018 -- 2010, BECAUSE WHAT IT
10:44:31AM SHOWED IS PAM IORIO HAD 150 MILLION IN THE FUND BALANCE.
10:44:36AM WHEN BUCKHORN ADMINISTRATION HANDED OFF TO US, ONLY HAD 83
10:44:40AM MILLION.
10:44:41AM DERELICTION OF DUTY AND WASTING MONEY.
10:44:44AM SHOULD NOT BE SPENDING MONEY DURING GOOD TIMES.
10:44:48AM SHOULD BE SAVING DURING GOOD TIMES AND SPENDING IN BAD
10:44:51AM TIMES.
10:44:52AM MIRACLE WHAT MAYOR IORIO DID.
10:44:55AM WHEN I STARTED IN 2019 IN SUPPORT OF COLLEAGUES, PUSHED
10:44:58AM INCREASING THE FUND BALANCE.
10:44:59AM LUCKILY ADMINISTRATION AGREED.
10:45:01AM NOW WE'RE BACK UP.
10:45:02AM THIS YEAR WE JUST HIT THE 2010 NUMBERS FOR THE FIRST TIME.
10:45:06AM IT'S A SHAME THAT WE HAD TO DO THAT.
10:45:09AM WE SHOULDN'T HAVE BURNED DOWN THAT BUDGET LIKE THAT.
10:45:11AM NOW WE'RE OPERATING AT A GOOD LEVEL AND SEEN THE RESULTS BY
10:45:14AM THE RATING AGENCIES.
10:45:16AM THEY SPECIFICALLY MENTION THAT AS A LINE ITEM THAT SOMETHING
10:45:19AM THAT CITY COUNCIL PUSHED REALLY HARD FOR OVER THE LAST FEW
10:45:22AM YEARS.
10:45:22AM THANK YOU TO THE ADMINISTRATION FOR WORKING WITH US ON THIS.
10:45:25AM YOU TALKED ABOUT THE HOUSING BUDGET GOING DOWN POTENTIALLY 2
10:45:28AM MILLION.
10:45:29AM ANYBODY INTERESTED IN HOUSING, BIG BUCKET ALLOCATED IN THE
10:45:31AM CRA.
10:45:32AM CRA MONEY BY LEGISLATION, ONE OF THE KEY AREAS THAT CAN AND
10:45:37AM SHOULD BE FUNDED AS AFFORDABLE HOUSING, THE CRA, A SEPARATE
10:45:39AM ENTITY IS HEAVILY FUNDING CRAs AND STILL TWEAKING THAT
10:45:43AM BASED ON COMMUNITY INPUT.
10:45:45AM SOUTH HOWARD PROJECT IS ONE YOU MENTIONED IN DISTRICT 4.
10:45:48AM OVERALL FLOODING IN SOUTH TAMPA AND SAID MANY TIMES, SOUTH
10:45:53AM HOWARD PROJECT, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT'S BEEN PRIORITIZED, THE
10:45:56AM WAY IT'S CONFIGURED, IT WILL NOT BENEFIT THE COMMUNITY FOR
10:45:59AM FOUR YEARS AND IT'S NOT GOING TO HELP IN A MAJOR STORM.
10:46:02AM I DON'T KNOW WHY WE SPEND 80 MILLION PLUS, 60 OR SO MILLION
10:46:05AM IN INTEREST ON A PROJECT THAT'S NOT GOING TO WORK AND
10:46:07AM DISRUPT THE CITY.
10:46:08AM WE NEED TO TAKE THE MONEY IMMEDIATELY AND DO MAINTENANCE
10:46:11AM THROUGHOUT SOUTH TAMPA AND OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY.
10:46:14AM $80 MILLION WOULD BE TRANSFORMATIVE IN DOING BASIC
10:46:17AM MAINTENANCE, PALMA CEIA PINES, PARKLAND ESTATES AND OTHERS
10:46:21AM SO WON'T FLOOD.
10:46:22AM WHY SPEND MONEY ON A PROJECT WE HOPE WORK, PROBABLY WON'T
10:46:26AM WORK, AND EVEN MORE DISRUPTIVE.
10:46:29AM WE NEED TO FOCUS ON NOT DOING WHAT WE THINK IS POLITICALLY
10:46:33AM RIGHT.
10:46:33AM WE NEED TO DO WHAT ACTUALLY IS RIGHT BASED ON SCIENCE, NOT
10:46:37AM SOMEBODY'S PET PROJECTS.
10:46:39AM THE LAST TWO THINGS THAT I HAVE TO MENTION, DO I READ THIS
10:46:44AM CORRECTLY THAT THE MAYOR IS NOT PROPOSING AN AD VALOREM TAX
10:46:48AM INCREASE?
10:46:49AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: SHE IS NOT.
10:46:49AM >>BILL CARLSON: SHE IS NOT.
10:46:50AM AND SHE'S NOT PROPOSING A ROLL BACK EITHER, BUT SHE'S NOT
10:46:54AM PROPOSING AN AD VALOREM INCREASE.
10:46:57AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: CORRECT.
10:46:57AM >>BILL CARLSON: THAT'S GOOD NEWS BECAUSE I HEARD THAT MIGHT
10:47:01AM HAPPEN.
10:47:01AM WE HAD ALSO HEARD GRAPEVINE THAT SHE WAS PROPOSING A
10:47:03AM STORMWATER RATE INCREASE, IS SHE NOT DOING THAT EITHER?
10:47:05AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: NO.
10:47:07AM >>BILL CARLSON: SO NO MAJOR INCREASES THERE.
10:47:09AM THE DEBT, I WAS TRYING TO ADD IT UP QUICKLY AS YOU WERE
10:47:12AM GOING THROUGH THE SLIDES, LOOKS LIKE A BILLION, BILLION AND
10:47:14AM A HALF IN ADDITIONAL DEBT.
10:47:15AM DO YOU HAVE THE TOTAL NUMBER ON ADDITIONAL?
10:47:17AM HOW MUCH OF THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE 1.6 BILLION THAT YOU HAD
10:47:22AM SHOWN US MONTHS AGO AS TOTAL DEBT OF THE CITY?
10:47:26AM IS A LOT OF THAT INCLUDED?
10:47:28AM FIRST OF ALL, WHAT IS THE NUMBER ON THE ADDITIONAL DEBT THAT
10:47:31AM -- YOU SAID POTENTIALLY ALLOCATED OVER THE NEXT FIVE TO TEN
10:47:34AM YEARS, SO NOT IMMEDIATE.
10:47:36AM LET'S SAY ONE AND A HALF BILLION.
10:47:37AM ONE AND A HALF BILLION ON TOP OF THE 1.6 OR IS SOME OF THAT
10:47:41AM ALREADY INCLUDED IN 1.6.
10:47:44AM ONE OF THE SLIDES YOU SHOWED WAS THE DEBT SERVICE AND THAT'S
10:47:47AM ONLY BECAUSE SOME OF THE DEBT IS OLD AND GOING TO RETIRE AND
10:47:50AM THAT ALLOWS SOME CAPACITY TO PAY.
10:47:52AM DOESN'T MEAN WE NEED TO USE IT RIGHT AWAY.
10:47:54AM BUT THAT'S WHAT FREES THAT UP.
10:47:56AM COULD YOU GIVE US JUST SOME OVERALL ADDITIONAL INSIGHT ON
10:48:00AM THE DEBT?
10:48:00AM THANK YOU FOR THE TRANSPARENCY YOU PUT IN THIS AS WELL.
10:48:03AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:48:05AM >>BILL CARLSON: DO YOU HAVE THAT ANSWER?
10:48:06AM DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE TOTAL DEBT IS?
10:48:09AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: I DO NOT.
10:48:11AM I WAS GOING TO PROVIDE IT TO YOU.
10:48:12AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MY ASSUMPTION IS THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE
10:48:14AM ANSWERED AT SUBSEQUENT HEARINGS.
10:48:16AM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
10:48:17AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: EVERYTHING IN LIFE HAS A DAY AND TIME AND
10:48:21AM PURPOSE FOR HAPPENING.
10:48:22AM I'VE BEEN HERE DURING THE GOOD TIMES AND THE REAL BAD TIMES.
10:48:27AM WHEN MAYOR IORIO TOOK OVER AND HAVE TO GIVE HER COMPLIMENT,
10:48:32AM HAD TO LAY OFF PEOPLE.
10:48:34AM TIMES WERE NOT GOOD.
10:48:35AM WHAT HAPPENS IN LIFE, YOU HAVE A REPEATING.
10:48:38AM WHAT'S HAPPENING NOW, YES, YOU STILL HAVE GROWTH.
10:48:41AM YEAH, YOU STILL HAVE SOMETHING GOING ON POSITIVELY.
10:48:43AM AND IT WILL CONTINUE THAT WAY FOR SOME PERIOD OF TIME.
10:48:47AM HOWEVER, SOONER OR LATER, YOU'RE GOING TO HIT THAT CROSS
10:48:50AM ROAD WHERE YOU'RE GOING BACK WHERE THE MONIES YOU COLLECT
10:48:57AM CANNOT EQUAL THE SUMS OF YOUR EXPENSES.
10:48:59AM THAT'S WHEN YOU HAVE A PROBLEM.
10:49:00AM I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE, INSTEAD OF US TALKING HOW
10:49:03AM WONDERFUL EVERYTHING IS, THAT WE REALIZE THAT THERE ARE SOME
10:49:06AM PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE SUFFERING BECAUSE OF THE
10:49:11AM INFLATION THAT WE HAVE AND THE COST OF LIVING WE HAVE AND
10:49:15AM NOT AFFORDABLE HOUSING THAT WE DON'T HAVE AND THINGS OF THAT
10:49:18AM NATURE.
10:49:19AM USE MYSELF AS EXAMPLE.
10:49:20AM THE HOUSE I BOUGHT IN 1968 WAS $12,400.
10:49:29AM IF I SELL IT TODAY FOR 450,000, I'M HOMELESS BECAUSE I CAN'T
10:49:35AM FIND A HOUSE FOR 450,000.
10:49:37AM WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO IS NOT BE HUMOROUS.
10:49:40AM I'M TRYING TO BE FACTUAL.
10:49:43AM BESIDES THAT, THE TAXES I PAID IN 1968 ARE NOT THE SAME THAT
10:49:47AM I'M PAYING IN 2026 COMING.
10:49:53AM SO WE'RE PUTTING PRESSURE ON INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE NOT HAD A
10:49:56AM RATE INCREASE LIKE SOME OF US HAVE HAD IN THE LAST 20 YEARS,
10:50:00AM THAT ARE WORKING THEIR BUTTS OFF TO MAKE ENDS MEET.
10:50:04AM I'M NOT HERE TO BE A PREACHER.
10:50:06AM I'M TELLING YOU THE FACTS THAT I'M NOT TALKING TO YOU.
10:50:09AM I'M TALKING TO EVERYBODY.
10:50:10AM DON'T TAKE IT PERSONAL.
10:50:12AM I KNOW YOU WON'T.
10:50:13AM I'VE KNOWN YOU A LONG TIME.
10:50:15AM YOU ARE A STRAIGHT INDIVIDUAL AND DO EVERYTHING RIGHT.
10:50:16AM BELIEVE ME.
10:50:17AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:50:18AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU HAVE TO BE COGNIZANT OF THE FACT,
10:50:23AM BUCKHORN DID, GRECO DID, I'M WORRIED ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING
10:50:27AM NOW.
10:50:28AM WHAT WE'RE DOING NOW IS SETTING THE PERIMETERS OF WHAT WE
10:50:32AM BELIEVE THE FUTURE WILL BRING.
10:50:33AM BUT THAT FUTURE SOMETIMES DOESN'T TELL YOU THE TRUTH, EVEN
10:50:38AM THOUGH FACTUAL LOOKS LIKE IT IS WONDERFUL, WE DON'T KNOW
10:50:41AM WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THIS COUNTRY.
10:50:42AM I BELIEVE THE GENERAL POPULATION IS AT EDGE ABOUT SO MANY
10:50:46AM THINGS.
10:50:47AM EVERY TIME YOU LOOK AT TV, THERE IS A WAR, THREAT YOU, BOMB
10:50:51AM YOU, KILL YOU, DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO HURT YOU, EVERY TIME
10:50:55AM YOU LOOK AROUND THE STREETS, ALL THE KIDS WANT TO DO IS LOOK
10:50:58AM AT LITTLE COMPUTER AND MAKE BELIEVE TELLING YOU ALL THE
10:51:01AM FACTS.
10:51:01AM IF YOU ARE A DOCTOR, YOU DON'T WHICH WAY TO GO BECAUSE YOU
10:51:04AM ARE PRESCRIBING MEDICATION BUT ON YOUR TV OR CELL PHONE,
10:51:08AM DRINK THIS, CURE YOUR DIABETES.
10:51:11AM BUNCH OF PEOPLE DOING IT, INCLUDING PEOPLE ON TV GETTING
10:51:13AM REVENUES FROM IT.
10:51:15AM WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH US?
10:51:16AM SO CONFUSED IN THIS LIFE THAT WE DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY IS
10:51:20AM RIGHT AND WHICH WAY IS WRONG.
10:51:22AM THAT'S THE PROBLEM WE HAVE AS HUMAN BEINGS.
10:51:24AM NOT ABOUT YOU, NOT ABOUT US, NOT ABOUT THE PEOPLE IN THE
10:51:27AM AUDIENCE OR PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, IT'S WHAT
10:51:29AM IS HAPPENING TO THIS COUNTRY.
10:51:30AM I CANNOT TELL YOU THAT WHATEVER WE BUILD TO HELP STORMWATER
10:51:35AM AND KEEP THE FLOOD FROM HAPPENING IS ENOUGH TO STOP WHAT'S
10:51:39AM COMING.
10:51:40AM YOU KNOW WHY?
10:51:40AM BECAUSE I CAN'T TELL YOU WHAT'S COMING.
10:51:44AM YET, WE DON'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT NATURE.
10:51:46AM THIS COUNCIL TURNED DOWN 5-2 JUST TO PUT A PARK IN TO PUT
10:51:51AM SOMETHING THAT WE WANTED IN IT, WHICH WAS SOLAR.
10:51:56AM AND IT TURNED IT DOWN.
10:51:58AM WE ASKED FOR IT AND TURNED IT DOWN.
10:52:00AM SO I'M TELLING YOU, ALL OF US, AND THIS WHOLE COUNTRY, YOU
10:52:06AM BETTER WATCH OUT.
10:52:07AM BETTER LOOK OUT WHAT YOU DO AND HOW YOU TREAT NATURE BECAUSE
10:52:11AM NATURE IS THE ONE DOING THE THINGS TO US THAT WE'VE DONE TO
10:52:13AM THEM.
10:52:14AM SEEN THE HURRICANES AND TORNADOES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
10:52:18AM PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN FLOODED ARE FLOODED.
10:52:21AM SOME AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN FLOODING, FLOODING AGAIN.
10:52:24AM HUNDRED AND SOME PEOPLE DIED IN A LITTLE TOWN IN TEXAS.
10:52:28AM AIN'T THE ONLY ONE.
10:52:29AM IT'S ALL OVER THE COUNTRY.
10:52:32AM STILL HERE TALKING ABOUT -- ELECTIONS.
10:52:35AM I DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT ELECTION.
10:52:36AM YOU EITHER WIN OR LOSE WHEN YOU SEEK OFFICE.
10:52:38AM THAT'S IT.
10:52:39AM YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ANY DIFFERENT THAN YOURSELF.
10:52:41AM WHAT I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU IS IT'S UNDERSTANDABLE WHAT
10:52:44AM WE'RE DOING.
10:52:45AM LET'S UNDERSTAND THAT EVERY DOLLAR IS GOING TO THE RIGHT
10:52:48AM PLACE FOR THE RIGHT PURPOSES, FOR THE GENERAL POPULATION,
10:52:51AM NOT FOR US, BUT FOR THE GENERAL POPULATION, TO MAKE SURE
10:52:54AM THAT WE GET THINGS DONE RIGHT, THAT EVERYBODY HAS A CHANCE
10:52:57AM TO DO SOMETHING TO BETTER THEMSELVES AND THEIR FAMILY.
10:53:00AM AND THAT TAKES A WHOLE LOT.
10:53:01AM TAKES A LOT MORE THAN A GOVERNMENT TO HELP SOMEBODY GET UP.
10:53:05AM I'M JUST TELLING ALL OF US, BE COGNIZANT OF THE FACT.
10:53:09AM LOOK TO YOUR LEFT AND LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT BECAUSE WE'RE ALL
10:53:12AM IN THE SAME BOAT.
10:53:13AM THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING.
10:53:15AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THANK YOU, SIR.
10:53:16AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE A QUESTION AND RESERVING ANYTHING
10:53:18AM ABOUT FY '26 FOR THE SUBSEQUENT HEARINGS WE'RE GOING TO
10:53:23AM HOLD.
10:53:24AM MY CONCERN IS ABOUT THE 2024 FUND BALANCE COUNCIL REQUEST
10:53:26AM THAT, IT WASN'T JUST A REQUEST.
10:53:29AM CAN YOU GIVE ME SOME BACKGROUND ON THIS?
10:53:31AM YOU BROUGHT THE FUND BALANCE TO US.
10:53:36AM WE REAPPORTIONED THAT MONEY AND BY COUNCIL'S DECISION AND
10:53:42AM SOMEHOW SOMEBODY OUTSIDE OF THIS COUNCIL DECIDED THEY DIDN'T
10:53:45AM LIKE OUR DECISION AND NOW THEY ARE BRINGING DIFFERENT
10:53:48AM FIGURES TO US.
10:53:49AM I WAS GOING TO WAIT FOR YOUR ANSWER BUT I'M ABSOLUTELY
10:53:56AM DISGUSTED THAT THIS HAS OCCURRED.
10:53:59AM THAT SOMEBODY IN THE OTHER BUILDING HAS DECIDED THEY ARE
10:54:01AM GOING TO CUT PAVING IN HALF AFTER THIS COUNCIL DECIDED TO
10:54:04AM SPEND THIS MONEY THIS WAY WITHOUT ANY COMMUNICATION.
10:54:07AM ONE THING I DON'T LIKE IS BEING SURPRISED.
10:54:10AM I RAN ON A BUDGET OF REPAVING THE STREETS.
10:54:13AM I'VE BEEN PUSHING THIS FROM DAY ONE.
10:54:16AM WE ALL REACHED A COMPROMISE BECAUSE NOBODY GOT WHAT THEY
10:54:19AM WANTED WHEN WE REAPPORTIONED THE MONEY.
10:54:21AM AND THEN TO BE SURPRISED TODAY WITHOUT ANY COMMUNICATION,
10:54:24AM WITHOUT ANY PHONE CALLS THAT YOU'RE CUTTING THE PAVING
10:54:27AM BUDGET IN HALF, I'M SPEECHLESS.
10:54:29AM HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?
10:54:32AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY MISUNDERSTANDING, BUT
10:54:38AM IF I CAN START --
10:54:39AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WAS GOING TO LET YOU DO THAT BUT THEN MY
10:54:41AM TEMPER GOT AWAY FROM ME.
10:54:44AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: I APOLOGIZE FOR ANY MISUNDERSTANDING BUT IF
10:54:47AM I COULD WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS AND PERHAPS WE'LL
10:54:49AM UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAME TO WHERE WE ARE AT.
10:54:52AM THIS IS FUNDING, OF COURSE, LEFT OVER FROM THE PRIOR FISCAL
10:54:54AM YEAR.
10:54:54AM UNTIL COUNCIL -- UNTIL THE MAYOR BRINGS COUNCIL A REQUEST TO
10:55:00AM APPROPRIATE THIS FUNDING, IT IS UNSPENDABLE.
10:55:03AM IT REMAINS IN A FUND BALANCE.
10:55:05AM AND THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT RIGHT NOW.
10:55:08AM THIS, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, WAS VIEWED AS THE MECHANISM FOR
10:55:12AM THAT.
10:55:13AM COUNCIL WOULD LIKE THIS FUNDING LEFT OVER FROM LAST YEAR IN
10:55:17AM THESE PARTICULAR CATEGORIES, THE MAYOR IS RECOMMENDING
10:55:20AM ALMOST ALL OF IT FOR THOSE PARTICULAR CATEGORIES AS YOU SEE
10:55:24AM THERE.
10:55:24AM AND THIS WOULD BE THE MECHANISM FOR COUNCIL TO SAY, YES,
10:55:28AM BRING US A FINANCIAL RESOLUTION TO APPROPRIATE THIS FUNDING.
10:55:31AM THIS FUNDING DOES NOT EXIST YET IN ANY OF THESE CATEGORIES
10:55:37AM FOR SPENDING.
10:55:38AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WAS IT JUST A CIRCUS SHOW THE LAST TIME
10:55:40AM COUNCIL MADE A DECISION?
10:55:42AM WHAT THE HELL DO I CARE THE MAYOR WANTS WHEN IT IS THE CITY
10:55:45AM COUNCIL'S DECISION HOW TO APPROPRIATE THE MONEY?
10:55:47AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: I UNDERSTAND YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND I'LL
10:55:50AM DEFER TO LEGAL, BUT I DON'T BELIEVE IT IS CITY COUNCIL'S
10:55:52AM DECISION TO APPROPRIATE THE FUNDING.
10:55:54AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHOSE DECISION IS IT?
10:55:56AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: IT IS THE DECISION OF THE MAYOR TO BRING IT
10:55:58AM FORWARD FOR COUNCIL --
10:55:59AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SHE DOESN'T SPEND MONEY THAT'S NOT
10:56:01AM APPROPRIATED.
10:56:02AM WE HAVE TO APPROPRIATE THAT MONEY.
10:56:03AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: EXACTLY.
10:56:04AM AGAIN, WE VIEW THIS AS THE MECHANISM FOR THAT, TO GET US TO
10:56:08AM A POINT COUNCIL CAN APPROPRIATE --
10:56:10AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW DID THIS GET CHANGED?
10:56:11AM IT HAPPENED AT A PREVIOUS MEETING.
10:56:15AM THE ADMINISTRATION CAME BEFORE US.
10:56:17AM YOU CAME BEFORE US AND TOLD US WE HAVE THIS MUCH MONEY IN
10:56:19AM UNSPENT MONEY.
10:56:20AM AND THIS IS WHAT WE WANT YOU TO REAPPROPRIATE THIS MONEY.
10:56:24AM THIS COUNCIL IN GOOD FAITH MADE A DECISION AND VOTED ON A
10:56:30AM RESOLUTION TO SPEND THAT MONEY.
10:56:31AM NOW WHAT I'M HEARING, THE ADMINISTRATORS SAYS, WE UNDERSTAND
10:56:36AM YOU MADE THAT DECISION, WE DON'T LIKE THAT DECISION SO WE
10:56:38AM WANT ANOTHER BITE AT THE APPLE.
10:56:40AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: I DISAGREE WITH THAT RECOLLECTION.
10:56:42AM I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED, SIR.
10:56:46AM >>BILL CARLSON: THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED ON STATION 24 WHERE
10:56:52AM COUNCILMAN VIERA MADE A MOTION, ALLOCATE WHAT WAS 11
10:56:55AM MILLION.
10:56:56AM THIS TIME LAST YEAR, YOU SAID WE DIDN'T SPEND THE MONEY.
10:57:01AM SPENT IT ON SOMETHING ELSE.
10:57:02AM BY CHARTER, THE ADMINISTRATION DOESN'T HAVE THAT AUTHORITY.
10:57:04AM I'M TIRED OF THE ADMINISTRATION BLAMING US THAT WE'RE TRYING
10:57:06AM TO TAKE OVER THE POWERS AS MAYOR.
10:57:08AM WE'RE TRYING TO DEFEND THE POWERS OF CITY COUNCIL AS DEFINED
10:57:12AM BY THE CHARTER AND APPROVED BY THE PEOPLE.
10:57:13AM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE DOES NOT HAVE THE RIGHT.
10:57:16AM DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO DO A LOT OF THINGS THEY INTERPRET
10:57:19AM THEY CAN DO.
10:57:20AM ONCE WE ALLOCATE THE BUDGET, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE CAN'T JUST
10:57:23AM TAKE IT AWAY.
10:57:24AM I DIDN'T TALK A LOT ABOUT ROAD REPAIR, IT IS NUMBER ONE OR
10:57:27AM NUMBER TWO THROUGHOUT OUR WHOLE CITY.
10:57:29AM OUR ROADS ARE IN HORRIBLE SHAPE.
10:57:31AM NEVER SEEN ROADS ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD THAT LOOK AS BAD AS
10:57:33AM OUR ROADS.
10:57:34AM IT'S DISGUSTING.
10:57:38AM THE COMPROMISE WE AGREED TO LAST YEAR AND THE YEAR BEFORE
10:57:41AM WERE SMALL COMPROMISES.
10:57:42AM WE NEED 40, $50 MILLION A YEAR.
10:57:45AM COMPROMISE BY ADDING ANOTHER 5 MILLION.
10:57:46AM WE MEDIA TAKE THIS SERIOUSLY.
10:57:48AM THE PEOPLE THAT MOVED HERE THAT HAD PRIVATE EQUITY COMPANIES
10:57:51AM AND MANAGING BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, A LOT OF THEM ARE MOVING
10:57:54AM BACK WHEREVER THEY CAME FROM BECAUSE THEY ARE DISGUSTED WITH
10:57:57AM THE ROADS, DISGUSTING WITH FLOODING AND DISGUSTED WITH OUR
10:57:59AM PARKS.
10:58:00AM WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, LET'S FIX THE
10:58:03AM ROADS, FLOODING AND PARKS AND MAKE SURE WE KEEP OUR PEOPLE
10:58:06AM SAFE.
10:58:08AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I DON'T LIKE SURPRISES.
10:58:11AM I THINK THIS COUNCIL HAS BEEN VERY CLEAR.
10:58:14AM HONESTLY, REPAVING ROADS IS PART OF OUR STORMWATER AS WELL.
10:58:16AM IT IS A CRITICAL PART ON HOW WE SHED WATER OFF OF OUR
10:58:20AM PROPERTIES.
10:58:20AM THE FACT THAT CUT IN HALF.
10:58:23AM A DECISION THAT WAS JUST MADE WEEKS AGO.
10:58:26AM IT JUST BLOWS MY MIND.
10:58:27AM BEFORE I HAND OFF TO COUNCILMAN MIRANDA, I WANT TO REMIND
10:58:30AM THE AUDIENCE, I LOVE YOU ALL AND APPRECIATE THE ENERGY.
10:58:32AM BUT NO SNAPPING FINGERS.
10:58:34AM NO CLAPPING.
10:58:35AM NO VOICE-BACKS FROM THE AUDIENCE.
10:58:38AM YOU'LL HAVE YOUR OPPORTUNITY DURING PUBLIC COMMENT TO
10:58:41AM EXPRESS YOUR VIEWPOINTS.
10:58:42AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I REMIND MY COLLEAGUES THIS IS A
10:58:45AM PRESENTATION.
10:58:46AM HAPPY FOR THE COMMENTS.
10:58:50AM BUT IT SOON BECOMES THE COUNCIL'S BUDGET WHEN IT IS HANDED
10:58:53AM TO US TO PASS SO WE CAN MAKE THE CHANGES.
10:58:56AM THERE SHOULD NOT BE AN ARGUMENT.
10:58:57AM WE CAN DO IT LEGALLY WITHOUT NO PROBLEM AND THEN THERE'S NO
10:59:00AM MORE CONVERSATION.
10:59:02AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MAYBE I'M CONFUSED WHAT WE DID A FEW WEEKS
10:59:07AM AGO.
10:59:07AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I UNDERSTAND THAT.
10:59:08AM I'M NOT DEBATING WHAT YOU SAID.
10:59:09AM I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SAID.
10:59:11AM THIS COULD BE CORRECTED WITHOUT ANY LEGAL OR ANY FUSS.
10:59:16AM ONCE THEY HAND IT TO US, IT IS NO LONGER THE
10:59:18AM ADMINISTRATION'S BUDGET.
10:59:19AM IT IS THE COUNCIL'S BUDGET.
10:59:20AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: VERY GOOD.
10:59:21AM THANK YOU.
10:59:21AM ANYBODY ELSE?
10:59:23AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: SIR, AGAIN, APOLOGIES FOR ANY
10:59:27AM MISCOMMUNICATION, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I THOUGHT I WAS VERY
10:59:29AM CLEAR THAT THIS WAS A MAYORAL DECISION.
10:59:31AM I'M SORRY THAT MESSAGE DID NOT CARRY FORWARD.
10:59:35AM IT IS NEVER MY INTENTION TO SURPRISE ANYONE ON COUNCIL OR
10:59:38AM THE PUBLIC.
10:59:39AM BUT MISCOMMUNICATION HAPPENS AND MISUNDERSTANDING HAPPENS.
10:59:43AM I APPRECIATE YOUR PERSPECTIVE.
10:59:47AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
10:59:48AM >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK WE NEED TO GET TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
10:59:50AM ONE MORE QUESTION, THE MAYOR AND SOME OF THE COUNTY
10:59:53AM COMMISSIONERS LAST FEW DAYS HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOW
10:59:55AM ESSENTIALLY A DONE DEAL THAT THE RAYS ARE BRINGING A STADIUM
10:59:58AM HERE OR NEW OWNERS OF THE RAYS BRING THE STADIUM HERE.
11:00:01AM IS THERE SOMEWHERE IN THE BUDGET FOR THE CITY TO APPLY
11:00:04AM MONEY?
11:00:04AM WE ALL SEE HOW TIGHT THE BUDGET IS?
11:00:07AM IS THERE A BUDGET THE MAYOR HAS SET ASIDE FOR A RAYS
11:00:10AM STADIUM?
11:00:11AM >>DENNIS ROGERO: THERE IS NOT.
11:00:12AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:00:14AM COUNCIL REQUEST IS GOING TO TAKE A FIVE-MINUTE BREAK AND
11:00:18AM WE'LL COME BACK WITH PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:00:20AM FIVE MINUTES REAL TIME, NOT COUNCIL TIME.
11:00:23AM SO 11:05.
11:00:25AM [RECESS]
11:00:27AM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
11:13:14AM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: HERE.
11:13:14AM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
11:13:14AM >>THE CLERK: VIERA? CARLSON? CLENDENIN?
11:13:17AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
11:13:18AM >>THE CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
11:13:19AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
11:13:20AM WE'LL MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:13:21AM MR. SHELBY.
11:13:23AM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YES, MR. CHAIRMAN, GOOD MORNING.
11:13:25AM GOOD MORNING MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, MARTIN SHELBY, CITY
11:13:28AM COUNCIL ATTORNEY, HERE TO TALK TO YOU BRIEFLY ABOUT THE
11:13:31AM RULES FOR PUBLIC COMMENT AND THE DECORUM FOR TODAY'S
11:13:36AM MEETING.
11:13:37AM WITH REGARD TO PUBLIC COMMENT, YOU'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO
11:13:39AM SUBMIT CARDS OUTSIDE FOR GENERAL PUBLIC COMMENT AND ONE CARD
11:13:44AM PER SPEAKER.
11:13:45AM EACH PERSON SUBMITTING A CARD WILL BE RECOGNIZED BY NAME TO
11:13:48AM APPROACH AND SPEAK.
11:13:49AM A THREE-MINUTE TIME LIMIT APPLIES AND PLEASE PRINT LEGIBLY
11:13:53AM BECAUSE NAMES THAT CANNOT BE READ WILL NOT BE CALLED.
11:13:55AM IF YOU ARE HERE TO SPEAK ON SOMETHING ON THE AGENDA THAT'S
11:13:58AM BEEN DESIGNATED AS A PUBLIC HEARING, YOU WILL HAVE TIME TO
11:14:03AM SPEAK TO THAT ITEM AT THE TIME OF THE PUBLIC HEARING AND USE
11:14:08AM THE SIGN-IN SHEET THAT'S OUTSIDE INSTEAD OF THE PUBLIC
11:14:13AM SPEAKER CARD.
11:14:14AM IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE, PLEASE SEE THE CITY STAFF.
11:14:16AM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ALLOWED A REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY
11:14:21AM AT THE BEGINNING OF TODAY'S AGENDA TO ADDRESS ANY ITEM ON
11:14:24AM THE AGENDA BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL TAKES OFFICIAL ACTION ON
11:14:28AM AN ITEM.
11:14:29AM AGAIN, IF IT'S SOMETHING SET FOR STAFF REPORTS OR SOMETHING
11:14:32AM ON THE CONSENT DOCKET, THE TIME TO SPEAK TO THAT IS NOW.
11:14:37AM A THREE MINUTE TIME LIMIT APPLIES, AS I SAID.
11:14:40AM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC ARE ALSO REMINDED TO PLEASE REFRAIN
11:14:44AM FROM DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR, INCLUDING MAKING VULGAR OR
11:14:47AM THREATENING REMARKS OR MAKING OR CAUSING DISRUPTIVE NOISES
11:14:50AM OR SOUNDS OR DISPLAYING SIGNS OR GRAPHICS.
11:14:54AM SPEAKERS ARE ALSO REMINDED TO REFRAIN FROM LAUNCHING
11:14:58AM PERSONAL ATTACKS AGAINST ANY CITY OFFICIAL, STAFF MEMBER, OR
11:15:01AM MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC.
11:15:02AM THE CHAIR WILL RULE OUT OF ORDER ANY PERSON WHO SPEAKS
11:15:05AM WITHOUT BEING RECOGNIZED OR ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL
11:15:08AM FROM OUTSIDE THE SPEAKER AREA AT THE PODIUM.
11:15:11AM PERSONS FAILING TO COMPLY WITH THE COUNCIL RULES MAY ALSO BE
11:15:15AM RULED OUT OF ORDER AND AT THE DISCRETION OF THE CHAIR MAY BE
11:15:18AM REMOVED FROM THE CHAMBERS FOR THE REMAINDER OF TODAY'S
11:15:21AM MEETING.
11:15:22AM NOW, FINALLY, PLEASE NOTE THAT CITY COUNCIL SHOULD REFRAIN
11:15:28AM FROM ENGAGING A SPEAKER UNDER PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:15:31AM AND THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE AWARE THAT CITY COUNCIL DOES NOT
11:15:34AM TAKE QUESTIONS OR HAVE A DIALOGUE WITH YOU DURING AGENDA
11:15:38AM PUBLIC COMMENT.
11:15:40AM THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO EXPRESS YOUR POSITION.
11:15:43AM THANK YOU.
11:15:43AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, MR. SHELBY.
11:15:45AM ALSO LET THE RECORD REFLECT THAT COUNCILMAN CARLSON IS
11:15:48AM PRESENT.
11:15:49AM WE'RE GOING TO DO ONLINE FIRST.
11:15:50AM WE HAVE ONE SPEAKER, MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
11:15:53AM MICHAEL RANDOLPH, ARE YOU ON?
11:15:55AM >> YES, GOOD MORNING.
11:15:56AM MY NAME IS MICHAEL RANDOLPH.
11:16:00AM I AM WITH THE WEST TAMPA CDD -- WEST TAMPA CDC.
11:16:05AM TODAY I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE ROME YARD PROJECT AND
11:16:10AM UPDATE SPECIFICALLY THE WEST TAMPA TECHNOLOGY.
11:16:18AM IN DOING SO I WANT TO HONOR THE LATE COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON
11:16:20AM THAT PUT SO MUCH INTO THIS PROJECT AND GIVE A COUPLE OF
11:16:26AM SECONDS OF SILENCE IN THAT PARTICULAR RESPECT.
11:16:28AM THANK YOU.
11:16:28AM THIS PROJECT WAS BORN FROM A GROUNDBREAKING COMMUNITY
11:16:35AM BENEFIT AGREEMENT, BRINGING TOGETHER THE CDC OF TAMPA, TAMPA
11:16:38AM HOUSING AUTHORITY, AND THE WEST TAMPA CDC IN A POWERFUL,
11:16:43AM PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP.
11:16:45AM I CALL IT THE DREAM TEAM, LOCAL LEADERSHIP FOCUS ON
11:16:52AM INCREASING DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
11:16:55AM OUR TRAINING CENTER WILL BE AMONG THE FIRST BILL CONSTRUCTED
11:17:01AM UNDER THE ROME YARD PROJECT.
11:17:03AM BOTH THE OPERATIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND TRAINING HUB.
11:17:07AM TODAY, I'M PROUD TO ANNOUNCE UPDATES ON WEST TAMPA
11:17:12AM TECHNOLOGICAL CENTER.
11:17:13AM FIRST, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CURATING 30 PLUS COMMUNITY BASED,
11:17:19AM JOB BASED, HOME BASED JOBS.
11:17:22AM EACH WILL BE EQUIPPED WITH ARTIFICIAL POWER TO RUN IT.
11:17:28AM SECOND, THE CREATION OF 80 NEW TECH JOBS, ARTIFICIAL TECH
11:17:36AM JOBS.
11:17:36AM THIS IS FOCUSED ON HIRING DIRECTLY FROM THE LOW-INCOME
11:17:40AM NEIGHBORHOODS TO CREATE A DIGITAL -- TO END THE DIGITAL
11:17:44AM DIVIDE.
11:17:45AM FINALLY, PREPARE FOR TECHNICAL LITERACY, WHICH FOCUS AWAY
11:17:51AM FROM THE IDEA OF CONSUMERISM TO INVESTMENT, COVERING EXCESS
11:18:00AM BUILDING, GENERATIONAL GROWTH.
11:18:01AM TO SUSTAIN THIS PROJECT, ADOPTING WHAT IS KNOWN AS COMMUNITY
11:18:08AM COMPACT AGREEMENT.
11:18:09AM AND RECIPIENTS WHO DO GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO START THE
11:18:15AM BUSINESS, DO PAY PACK THE COMMUNITY PLUS 10% OF THE SERVICES
11:18:19AM THAT WE PROVIDE.
11:18:21AM THIS IS AN EARNED INCOME MODEL THAT PROMOTES ACCOUNTABILITY
11:18:26AM AND KEEPS THE INITIATIVE.
11:18:30AM WHAT'S MOST IMPORTANT, THE BUDGET FOR THIS PROJECT IS
11:18:33AM $280,000.
11:18:35AM 80% OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STAFF, THAT 285 IS 45
11:18:48AM PRODUCTIVE IN WHAT WE WOULD DO IF WE HAD LIVE EMPLOYEES.
11:18:53AM LIVE EMPLOYEES, TALKING ABOUT $650,000.
11:18:55AM THIS RESULTS IN HIGH EFFICIENCY PROGRAMMING THAT BOOSTS
11:19:02AM EQUITY, BUILD WEALTH AND --
11:19:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, MR. RANDOLPH.
11:19:09AM NEXT SPEAKER IS ARIEL DANLEY, FOLLOWED BY BISHOP MICHELLE B.
11:19:14AM PATTY.
11:19:17AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:19:18AM TO OUR DISTINGUISHED COUNCIL MEMBERS -- MY NAME IS ARIEL
11:19:20AM AMIRAH DANLEY.
11:19:24AM GOOD MORNING TO OUR DISTINGUISHED COUNCIL MEMBERS, I WOULD
11:19:26AM LIKE TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SAY THANK YOU TO THE CITY
11:19:28AM OF TAMPA, THE MAYOR, THE AIDES, THE STAFF, THE RESIDENTS,
11:19:32AM CHIEF BERCAW, CHIEF TRIPP, AND ALL OF THE FIRST RESPONDERS
11:19:37AM THAT CARRIED MY MOTHER OUT WITH DIGNITY AND EVERY KINDNESS
11:19:40AM THAT HAS BEEN SHOWN TO MY FAMILY SO FAR.
11:19:42AM MY NAME IS ARIEL AMIRAH DANLEY, AND THE HONORABLE
11:19:46AM COUNCILWOMEN GWENDOLYN HENDERSON IS MY MOTHER.
11:19:49AM NOW, TO NEW BUSINESS, THE FUTURE OF OUR FAIR CITY, BECAUSE
11:19:52AM EVERY NEIGHBORHOOD DESERVES TO FEEL LIKE IT IS PART OF
11:19:54AM TAMPA'S HEART.
11:19:55AM I'VE SPOKEN TO DOZENS OF RESIDENTS, BUSINESS OWNERS, AND
11:19:58AM COMMUNITY LEADERS IN DISTRICT 5 FROM EAST TAMPA TO SULPHUR
11:20:01AM SPRINGS, FROM YBOR TO WEST TAMPA, DOWNTOWN, ALL THE WAY TO
11:20:05AM PALMETTO BEACH.
11:20:07AM DID I SAY EAST TAMPA?
11:20:08AM DID I SAY PALMETTO BEACH?
11:20:10AM LET ME SAY IT AGAIN.
11:20:12AM EAST TAMPA AND PALMETTO BEACH, I'M REPEATING MYSELF BECAUSE
11:20:16AM TOO OFTEN THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS ARE ASKED TO WAIT TO MAKE DO
11:20:21AM WITH LESS.
11:20:22AM TODAY, I'M SIMPLY SAYING WE CAN DO BETTER.
11:20:25AM MAYOR CASTOR IS CORRECT IN SAYING TAMPA'S GREATEST ASSET IS
11:20:30AM ITS PEOPLE.
11:20:30AM LET THE SUPPORT OF THE PEOPLE TAKE THE LEAD.
11:20:32AM MY NEIGHBORS, THE SOULS WHO OCCUPY OUR STREETS HAVE BEEN
11:20:36AM CLEAR WE'RE ASKING FOR THE BASICS.
11:20:37AM FIX OUR STREETS AND SIDEWALKS, FUND HOME REPAIRS, AND KEEP
11:20:43AM PEOPLE HOUSED.
11:20:44AM MAKE HOUSING ATTAINABLE, DEVELOP THE CITY THOUGHTFULLY,
11:20:48AM INVEST IN THE YOUTH AND LIGHTING AND PUBLIC SAFETY.
11:20:50AM LIGHT UP THE YBOR CORRIDOR.
11:20:51AM ILLUMINATE WEST TAMPA AND EAST TAMPA, COLLEGE HILL, AND
11:20:54AM HIGHLAND PINES.
11:20:54AM FAMILIES WITH DECADES OF UNDERINVESTMENT NEED INFRASTRUCTURE
11:20:57AM AND HOUSING REHAB THAT IS REAL BECAUSE IT'S URGENT.
11:21:01AM YBOR, DOWNTOWN, AND CHANNELSIDE DISTRICT, WE NEED BETTER
11:21:04AM FLOOD PROTECTION AND REAL SUPPORT FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.
11:21:07AM THESE ARE NOT JUST ENTERTAINMENT ZONES.
11:21:09AM THEY ARE HOME TO WORKERS, FAMILIES, AND COMMUNITY.
11:21:11AM THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HYDE PARK AND YBOR OR WEST TAMPA
11:21:15AM ISN'T THE PEOPLE.
11:21:16AM IT'S THE INVESTMENT.
11:21:17AM AND THAT'S A CHOICE WE CAN CHANGE.
11:21:21AM SULPHUR SPRINGS ALREADY GAVE YOU A PLAN.
11:21:24AM OPEN YOUR HEARTS AND FUND THE PROGRESS.
11:21:24AM RESTORE THE POOL, NOT A PATCH JOB.
11:21:27AM DIG IT UP, BUILD IT RIGHT.
11:21:29AM PROTECT THE SPRINGS.
11:21:29AM ADDRESS THE BLIGHT.
11:21:30AM IN WEST TAMPA AND PALMETTO, ANY INVESTMENT ALONG WATERFRONT
11:21:34AM MUST INCLUDE PEOPLE WHO HAVE LIVED THERE THE LONGEST BECAUSE
11:21:37AM THEIR SACRIFICES ARE WORTH INVESTING IN.
11:21:42AM INVEST IN OUR LONG-TERMS GOALS.
11:21:42AM PROTECT THE TREE FUND, MANICURE THE TREES, TRANSPORTATION,
11:21:45AM IMPROVE MOBILITY IN THE URBAN CORE.
11:21:48AM PRIORITIZE OUR STORM INFRASTRUCTURE.
11:21:49AM IT'S NOT A QUESTION IF STORMS LIKE HELENE AND MILTON WILL
11:21:53AM FIND US AGAIN.
11:21:54AM THE STORMS ARE COMING WITHOUT A DOUBT.
11:21:55AM LET'S NOT SETTLE FOR PATCHWORK.
11:21:57AM LET'S SET THE NATIONAL STANDARD FOR WHAT CAN BE DONE.
11:22:00AM SUPPORT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS.
11:22:01AM GIVE THEM A RAISE.
11:22:02AM MAKE THEM FEEL APPRECIATED.
11:22:03AM LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, MAKE THE YELLOW JACKETS
11:22:06AM WHOLE.
11:22:07AM LET'S GIVE THEM A BEAUTIFUL HOME BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAVE NOT
11:22:10AM FORGOTTEN THEM.
11:22:11AM WHEN WE ONLINE SHOP, WE OFTEN GET TO A SCREEN THAT SAYS,
11:22:15AM WOULD YOU LIKE TO CONFIRM THIS PAYMENT?
11:22:17AM WELL, THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN, AND WE WOULD LIKE TO PUSH THE
11:22:20AM BUTTON.
11:22:20AM THANK YOU.
11:22:21AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, ARIEL.
11:22:23AM NEXT SPEAKER, BISHOP MICHELLE B. PATTY FOLLOWED BY BILL
11:22:27AM TRUETT.
11:22:27AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:22:28AM I'M BISHOP MICHELLE B. PATTY.
11:22:30AM I'M HERE TO SPEAK ON THE BUDGET.
11:22:33AM THE BOUNDARIES DO NOT STOP FOR SOUTH TAMPA AT GANDY.
11:22:39AM SOUTH TAMPA GO ALL THE WAY TO MACDILL AIR FORCE BASE, ALSO
11:22:43AM TO PORT TAMPA.
11:22:48AM GERMAN STREET.
11:22:49AM KISSIMMEE, ON AND ON.
11:22:50AM PEOPLE THERE LOST THEIR HOMES.
11:22:51AM THEY ARE DEVASTATED.
11:22:54AM THEY CALL ME BECAUSE THERE WAS NO COMMUNICATION COMING OUT
11:22:58AM OF CITY HALL TO TELL THEM WHAT CAN BE DONE, WHAT CAN HAPPEN,
11:23:03AM WHAT THEY CAN GET THEIR NEEDS FROM.
11:23:05AM SO THEY NEED BETTER COMMUNICATION.
11:23:07AM THEY NEED HELP.
11:23:08AM WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT EAST TAMPA, THE TREES, SHE ALREADY
11:23:14AM SAID WELL, I WON'T GO BACK OVER THAT.
11:23:17AM THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT LIVE OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CRA
11:23:20AM THAT ARE SENIOR CITIZENS WHO ARE ON A FIXED INCOME WHOSE
11:23:25AM HOMES ARE BEING DESTROYED AND THEY CAN'T GET ANY HELP.
11:23:29AM WE NEED TO MAKE THOSE PROGRAMS ACCESSIBLE TO THESE PEOPLE.
11:23:31AM ALSO, YOU TALKED ABOUT THE NONPROFITS.
11:23:35AM I'M GLAD TO HEAR ABOUT THE NONPROFITS, BUT THEY NEED TO BE
11:23:39AM RESPONSIBLE.
11:23:40AM THEY NEED TO DO THE WORK.
11:23:43AM THEY NEED TO SHOW WHERE THEY HAVE DONE THE WORK.
11:23:46AM MOST OF ALL, THEY NEED TO DO AN AUDIT.
11:23:49AM AUDIT SHOULD BE DONE SHOWING WHAT THEY HAVE DONE WITH THE
11:23:52AM TAXPAYERS' MONEY.
11:23:53AM TAXPAYERS WERE PUSHED TO THE LIMIT WHERE WE DON'T HAVE ANY
11:23:57AM MONEY, BUT WE STILL BELIEVE IN SAFETY.
11:23:59AM WE BELIEVE IN FIRE.
11:24:02AM WE BELIEVE IN ALL THESE NECESSITIES.
11:24:05AM WE BELIEVE IN THEM.
11:24:06AM BUT WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO JUST SQUANDER OUR DOLLARS AWAY
11:24:10AM BECAUSE THEY THINK NO ONE IS LOOKING.
11:24:12AM ALSO, WE KNOW THAT WE DON'T HAVE A COUNCILPERSON SITTING
11:24:16AM HERE FOR DISTRICT 5 RIGHT NOW, SO WE'RE ASKING EACH ONE OF
11:24:21AM YOU ALL TO MAKE SURE THAT DISTRICT 5 IS NOT OVERLOOKED.
11:24:27AM YES, WE HAD FLOODS OVER ON DAVIS ISLANDS.
11:24:29AM DAVIS ISLANDS, A LOT OF PEOPLE FEEL LIKE THEY ARE RICH.
11:24:32AM BUT WHEN YOU HAVE THAT DEVASTATION, IT'S DEVASTATING TO LOSE
11:24:37AM EVERYTHING THAT YOU OWN.
11:24:38AM I'M A NATIVE OF TAMPA, BORN AND RAISED HERE, JULY THE
11:24:41AM 22nd, NEXT WEEK, I BE 72 YEARS OLD.
11:24:45AM I'VE SEEN THE TRAIN TRACKS PULLED UP OFF OF ROME THAT NEVER
11:24:48AM WAS BEFORE WHEN WE WAS LIVING THERE.
11:24:50AM THAT AREA HAD ALWAYS FLOODED OUT, BUT NOW THAT WE ARE
11:24:53AM BUILDING THESE NICE, FINE HOMES AND CONDOS, WE'RE ABLE TO
11:24:57AM INVEST IN CERTAIN AREAS NOW THAT WE HAVE THE MONEY.
11:25:00AM WE WANT YOU TO CONTINUE TO REALLY LOOK AT THAT BUDGET,
11:25:05AM QUESTION THE BUDGET, AND MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF TAMPA, ALL OF
11:25:10AM TAMPA IS INCLUSIVE WHEN YOU SAY "I DO" TO THAT BUDGET.
11:25:16AM THANK YOU.
11:25:16AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: TRUETT FOLLOWED BY VALERIE BULLOCK.
11:25:26AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:25:27AM I'M WILLIAM TRUETT.
11:25:29AM 1005 EAST CLIFTON STREET IN HAMPTON TERRACE IN OLD SEMINOLE
11:25:33AM HEIGHTS.
11:25:34AM IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, HAMPTON TERRACE AND LAKE ROBERTA HAVE
11:25:39AM SIGNIFICANT HISTORICAL IMPORTANCE TO SEMINOLE HEIGHTS AND
11:25:42AM FOR THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:25:43AM THIS IS RELATED TO ITEM 43 LATER.
11:25:45AM IN THE EARLY 1900s, THE LAKE WAS A WATERING HOLE FOR
11:25:49AM CATTLE WHEN THE FARMERS WOULD BRING CATTLE INTO TAMPA FOR
11:25:53AM AUCTION.
11:25:54AM IN 1913, NEWSPAPER ADVERTISEMENTS TOUTED THAT LAKE HAMPTON
11:26:00AM AT THAT TIME IN A PROPOSED HAMPTON TERRACE DEVELOPMENT WAS
11:26:03AM ONE OF THE LARGEST NATURAL SPRINGS FED LAKES --
11:26:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AUDIENCE MEMBERS, CAN YOU PLEASE WITHHOLD
11:26:09AM YOUR CONVERSATION OR GO OUTSIDE BECAUSE WE CAN PICK IT ALL
11:26:12AM THE WAY UP HERE.
11:26:14AM >> I'M SORRY.
11:26:14AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IT WASN'T YOU.
11:26:17AM >> I COULDN'T HEAR WHAT YOU WERE SAYING.
11:26:19AM NATURAL SPRING LAKE.
11:26:20AM EARLY 1920s THAT LILLIAN PROBASCO AND PROBASCO REALTY
11:26:27AM BEGAN TO DEVELOP.
11:26:28AM 1924, THE FIRST MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS BEGAN.
11:26:31AM THEY BEGAN WORK ON WHAT WAS THE ONLY NATURAL SPRING FED LAKE
11:26:35AM IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:26:35AM THEY RENAMED THE LAKE AT THAT TIME TO LAKE ROBERTA AND
11:26:41AM HAMPTON DRIVE, LAKE ROBERTA TO ROBERTA CIRCLE NAMED AFTER
11:26:45AM HER DAUGHTER AT THAT TIME.
11:26:46AM MANY OF YOU KNOW CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS ARE VERY BIG IN OUR
11:26:50AM NEIGHBORHOOD.
11:26:51AM BEGAN WITH SANTA AND REINDEER BACK IN THE 1930s WITH THE
11:26:54AM FLOATS.
11:26:55AM 1940s, SOME OF THE LARGEST BASS TOURNAMENTS WERE HELD AT
11:26:59AM LAKE ROBERTA AT THAT TIME AS WELL.
11:27:00AM BUT IT WAS INTERESTING, ALSO DURING THE 1940s, FLOODING
11:27:05AM WAS A MAJOR ISSUE IN TAMPA AND LAKE ROBERTA WAS ONE OF THOSE
11:27:08AM AREAS.
11:27:09AM IN 1948, THE CITY BEGAN FLOOD RELIEF EFFORTS BY ADDING STORM
11:27:13AM INLETS AND OUTLETS TO LAKE ROBERTA.
11:27:15AM IT WAS REPURPOSED TO A STORM RETENTION POND.
11:27:18AM LAKE ROBERTA ENDURED MANY UPS AND DOWNS THE PAST 60 YEARS.
11:27:22AM WHEN I FIRST DROVE INTO MY MAYBE THAT TO LOOK AT MY HOUSE IN
11:27:26AM 2013, I RODE AROUND THE CIRCLE.
11:27:28AM MY FIRST THOUGHT, OH, THERE IS A GREENSPACE.
11:27:31AM THERE IS A LITTLE PARK.
11:27:32AM THEN I HAPPENED TO NOTICE THE SNOWMAN.
11:27:35AM IT WAS SITTING ON A FLOAT.
11:27:36AM THE LAKE WAS JUST A GREEN PEA SOUP.
11:27:42AM IT WAS THICK AT THAT TIME.
11:27:44AM SHORTLY AFTERWARDS, MANY NEIGHBORS BEGAN WORKING TOGETHER TO
11:27:48AM IMPROVE THE LAKE.
11:27:51AM HAMPTON TERRACE HAS CHANGED A LOT IN THE LAST 15 YEARS.
11:27:54AM A LOT OF NEW HOMEOWNERS.
11:27:56AM PEOPLE WITH CIVIC CONSCIENCE THAT WANT TO DO SOMETHING.
11:27:59AM WORKING WITH THE CITY, WE HAVE DONE A LOT FOR LAKE ROBERTA.
11:28:03AM TODAY, THE LAKE IS BEAUTIFUL.
11:28:04AM AND ITEM 43 COMING UP LATER TODAY, WE'RE ASKING THAT YOU
11:28:10AM WILL CONTINUE TO MONITOR THE LAKE FOR SAFETY IN THE AREA.
11:28:14AM IT IS HOME TO MANY WILDLIFE.
11:28:16AM WE ENJOY THE AREA.
11:28:17AM MANY OF THE TRADITIONS THAT CONTINUE WITH CHRISTMAS STILL
11:28:21AM HAPPENING AROUND THE LAKE.
11:28:23AM IT IS HOME TO MANY DIFFERENT SPECIES.
11:28:26AM ALSO A MIGRATORY SPOT FOR BIRDS.
11:28:29AM WE HAD SWANS FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
11:28:32AM I'M ASKING HOPEFULLY THAT YOU WILL SUPPORT THIS TODAY.
11:28:34AM THANK YOU.
11:28:34AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
11:28:35AM VALERIE BULLOCK FOLLOWED BY STEPHANIE POYNOR.
11:28:40AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:28:41AM VALERIE BULLOCK FROM EAST TAMPA AND PONCE De LEON AND
11:28:44AM COLLEGE HILL.
11:28:45AM I WANT TO PUT THIS MAP UP HERE.
11:28:47AM I HOPE EVERYBODY CAN SEE -- FLIP IT OVER.
11:28:57AM I WAS ON Facebook AND I WAS TALKING TO SOME PEOPLE.
11:28:59AM THEY KEPT SAYING THAT THEY STAY IN NORTH YBOR.
11:29:03AM NORTH YBOR, I NEVER HEARD OF THAT.
11:29:05AM WHERE IS THAT AT?
11:29:06AM THEY STARTED TELLING ME IT WAS ON 22nd STREET BY THE OLD
11:29:12AM FLORIDA SENTINEL NEWSPAPER.
11:29:13AM NO, THAT'S PART OF PONCE De LEON, COLLEGE HILL, THAT'S
11:29:18AM EAST TAMPA.
11:29:19AM LET ME DO A LITTLE RESEARCH.
11:29:21AM I WENT TO THE CITY OF TAMPA WEBSITE.
11:29:25AM THEY HAD A PAGE UP THERE.
11:29:26AM I TYPED IN NORTH YBOR.
11:29:29AM THIS MAP CAME UP.
11:29:31AM SO YBOR CITY GOES FROM DOWN THERE BY PHILIP SHORE ALL THE
11:29:37AM WAY TO MARTIN LUTHER KING.
11:29:39AM IF THAT IS NOT TRUE, THE CITY REALLY NEEDS TO TAKE IT DOWN
11:29:44AM BECAUSE IT'S AN INSULT TO ME AND SOME MORE PEOPLE.
11:29:47AM IF IT'S EAST TAMPA, IT SHOULD BE ON THE CITY WEBSITE
11:29:51AM DESIGNATED AS EAST TAMPA.
11:29:53AM AND I WAS SITTING THERE THINKING ABOUT IT, AND NOW MY MIND
11:29:56AM GOING CRAZY, OH, THIS IS WHY THEY NAMED THE APARTMENTS ON
11:30:00AM COLUMBUS DRIVE AND 22nd STREET CASA DE BECAUSE THAT IS THE
11:30:09AM AGENDA THEY ARE TRYING TO PUSH AND I THINK IT'S RATHER
11:30:12AM BACKHANDED.
11:30:13AM THE REASON WHY I'M SAYING THIS IS BECAUSE NOW IT'S TIME FOR
11:30:16AM THE BUDGET, AND WHEN THE GENTLEMAN WAS UP HERE TALKING AND
11:30:20AM HE WAS TALKING ABOUT THE DISTRICT, HE REALLY RUSHED THROUGH
11:30:23AM IT.
11:30:24AM SO I DIDN'T GET TO HEAR ANY IDEAS OF WHAT'S GOING ON IN EAST
11:30:28AM TAMPA.
11:30:29AM AND WITHOUT REPRESENTATION RIGHT NOW AND THE BUDGET IS
11:30:33AM COMING UP, I DON'T WANT US TO BE LEFT OUT.
11:30:35AM I SAID IT REPEATEDLY AND I'LL SAY IT AGAIN.
11:30:38AM EAST TAMPA NEED AN ECONOMIC ENGINE.
11:30:41AM WE NEED DISTRIBUTION CENTERS AND MANUFACTURING WAREHOUSES
11:30:45AM OVER THERE AND I KNOW DOWNTOWN HAVE THE BOARD WHERE THEY
11:30:49AM NEGOTIATE WITH PEOPLE THEY BRING IN, LIKE THEY DID WITH THE
11:30:53AM PEOPLE WHO DOT COMPUTERS.
11:30:54AM THEY BRING IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
11:30:57AM SO THAT'S WHAT WE NEED IN EAST TAMPA.
11:31:01AM I DON'T HEAR NOBODY TALKING ABOUT IT.
11:31:03AM WHEN IT COMES TO EAST TAMPA, I HEAR ABOUT THE CIGAR PLACE,
11:31:10AM THE PLACE THEY'LL REMODEL.
11:31:12AM I HEAR ABOUT THAT.
11:31:13AM I HEAR ABOUT FIRST-TIME HOME BUYERS PROGRAM BUT I DON'T HEAR
11:31:17AM NOTHING CONCERNING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
11:31:19AM THE NICE PRETTY HOUSES WE MUST HAVE A JOB TO BE ABLE TO BUY
11:31:23AM THEM.
11:31:23AM THANK YOU.
11:31:24AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PLEASE SILENCE YOUR PHONES.
11:31:26AM NEXT SPEAKER -- THE CARD SAYS POYNOR.
11:31:32AM ARE YOU CHANGING YOUR NAME?
11:31:35AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:31:36AM STEPHANIE POYNOR, OR IS IT AFTERNOON?
11:31:39AM PRETTY CLOSE.
11:31:40AM I ALWAYS LOVE BUDGET SEASON.
11:31:43AM IT'S ALWAYS SO MUCH FUN.
11:31:45AM OF COURSE, I DIDN'T LOOK AT IT UNTIL 7:30 THIS MORNING.
11:31:48AM ONE OF THE BIG THINGS I NOTICED, USED TO BE TWO STORMWATER
11:31:53AM PAGES, NOW ONE STORMWATER PAGE.
11:31:55AM ARE WE COMBINING THINGS WHERE THEY WERE SEPARATE BEFORE?
11:31:57AM I NOTICED THAT.
11:31:58AM I STARTED COUNTING HOW MANY PEOPLE WHO WORK FOR THE CITY OF
11:32:03AM TAMPA ARE MAKING OVER A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS.
11:32:06AM I'VE ONLY GOTTEN TO PAGE 30 AND THERE ARE FIVE OR SIX.
11:32:12AM YES, THEY ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS, BUT WHEN WE GET OVER A
11:32:15AM QUARTER OF A MILLION AND I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE BECAUSE IT
11:32:17AM JUST CAME OUT YESTERDAY.
11:32:19AM I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE HOW MUCH OF AN INCREASE THESE FOLKS GOT
11:32:22AM BECAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER ANYBODY BEING OVER A QUARTER OF A
11:32:24AM MILLION DOLLARS IN LAST YEAR'S BUDGET.
11:32:26AM WHEN WE GET TO THE NONPROFITS, THE ARTS, WHATEVER FUND, CAN
11:32:30AM WE MAKE A SEPARATE MEETING FOR THAT?
11:32:31AM LAST YEAR WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT THAT AND
11:32:34AM DIDN'T GET TO OTHER THINGS.
11:32:36AM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THE MAYOR TOLD ME THIS
11:32:40AM MORNING THAT WE'RE GOING TO STOP SERVICING PARADES WITH OUR
11:32:45AM STORMWATER DEPARTMENT.
11:32:46AM THAT JUST TICKLES THE CRAP OUT OF ME.
11:32:48AM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT SINCE SOMEBODY WANTED TO
11:32:50AM BRING UP MY COMMUNITY WHERE I LIVE.
11:32:53AM I LIVE SOUTH OF GANDY.
11:32:56AM I BREATHE SOUTH OF GANDY.
11:32:58AM I FED PEOPLE AFTER BOTH HURRICANES.
11:33:00AM I KEPT THE COMMUNITY CENTER OPEN FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK EVERY
11:33:04AM SINGLE DAY.
11:33:04AM SO FOR SOMEBODY TO COME DOWN HERE AND SAY THAT CITY COUNCIL
11:33:09AM AND THE CITY HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING FOR SOUTH OF GANDY, YOU
11:33:13AM NEED TO COME TO THE PLACE WHERE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE
11:33:16AM I LIVE THERE.
11:33:18AM GO BACK TO BRANDON.
11:33:20AM DON'T COME DOWN HERE INTERFERING IN CITY STUFF.
11:33:24AM IF YOU DON'T LIVE HERE, MIND YOUR BUSINESS.
11:33:26AM AND DON'T COME TALKING ABOUT WHAT I HAVE DONE.
11:33:30AM LUIS VIERA WAS WATCHING DISHES AT THE LEGION.
11:33:34AM LYNN, BILL, THEY WERE THERE.
11:33:35AM THEY CAME TO THE COMMUNITY CENTER WHERE I WAS FEEDING
11:33:39AM PEOPLE, MAKING SURE THEY HAD A PLACE TO COME AND REST AND
11:33:42AM GET AIR CONDITIONING AND CHARGE THEIR PHONES AND CHARGE
11:33:45AM THEIR EQUIPMENT AND THEN SOMEBODY WANTS TO COME DOWN HERE
11:33:48AM TALKING ABOUT THEY WERE FORGOTTEN.
11:33:51AM NO.
11:33:51AM THOSE PEOPLE WEREN'T FORGOTTEN.
11:33:53AM EVERYBODY HAS TALKED TO FOLKS ABOUT CITY COUNCIL.
11:33:55AM I'VE HAD PERSONAL CONVERSATIONS WITH JOHN BENNETT ABOUT IT.
11:33:59AM PLEASE, IF YOU LIVE SOUTH OF GANDY AND YOU HAVE A PROBLEM,
11:34:03AM CALL ME.
11:34:03AM MY NAME IS POYNOR.
11:34:06AM GOOGLE ME.
11:34:08AM YOU WILL SEE MY PHONE NUMBER.
11:34:09AM DON'T CALL PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIVE IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR HELP
11:34:13AM BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT GOING TO HELP YOU.
11:34:15AM THEY ARE TOO BUSY HELPING THEMSELVES TO THEIR OWN
11:34:18AM POCKETBOOK.
11:34:19AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
11:34:20AM CONNIE BURTON FOLLOWED BY KELLA McCASKILL.
11:34:26AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:34:27AM CONNIE BURTON.
11:34:29AM THE HIGHEST FUNDED LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY ON THE FEDERAL
11:34:35AM LEVEL IS GOING FROM $8 BILLION TO 28 BILLION.
11:34:39AM THAT'S FACT.
11:34:40AM WHEN I HEARD THIS MORNING'S BUDGET SUMMARY, I THOUGHT THIS
11:34:46AM WAS THE TWIN SISTER TO THAT.
11:34:48AM 60% OF THE ENTIRE BUDGET GOING TOWARD LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
11:34:56AM FIRE.
11:34:56AM AND THAT'S BEEN A CONTINUING PATTERN YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER
11:35:00AM YEAR AFTER YEAR.
11:35:01AM 10% ONLY GOING TO YOUTH DEVELOPMENT.
11:35:05AM WHILE WE ARE WATCHING AND WE ARE CONSTANTLY SAYING HOW WE
11:35:08AM DON'T HAVE ENOUGH HOUSING.
11:35:10AM AND YET WE ARE DEPENDING UPON THE CRA BECAUSE YOU SAY YOU
11:35:14AM HAVE THAT BUCKET OF MONEY OVER THERE NOW, BUT THE CRA HAS
11:35:18AM BEEN IN EAST TAMPA, BEEN FORCED TO DEAL WITH INFRASTRUCTURE
11:35:24AM ISSUES.
11:35:25AM JC NEWMAN CAME TO THE EAST TAMPA CRA, GOT FIVE MILLION
11:35:30AM DOLLARS FOR WHAT?
11:35:31AM INFRASTRUCTURE.
11:35:31AM AND IF YOU'RE COUNTING ON THE COUNTY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
11:35:38AM BLOCK GRANT MONEY TO FACILITATE YOUR HOUSING CRISIS, YOU GOT
11:35:44AM SOME PEOPLE NOW ON THAT COUNTY BOARD THAT DON'T GIVE A
11:35:47AM DOGGONE ABOUT WHERE PEOPLE LIVE AND SLEEP.
11:35:50AM THEY GUTTED THEIR WHOLE HOUSING PROJECT.
11:35:56AM YOU'LL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT SOME OF THIS STUFF FOR YOURSELF.
11:35:59AM WHAT WE DID ASK FOR AND WE DID NOT GET WAS THAT IN THE
11:36:03AM RACIAL RECONCILIATION PACKAGE 568, THERE WERE FIVE POINTS
11:36:10AM SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT.
11:36:11AM ONE WAS YOUTH OPPORTUNITY.
11:36:13AM FOR THE TWO YEARS, WE ASKED FOR AN INCREASE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
11:36:17AM TO HAVE JOBS WITHIN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:36:20AM I THINK ONLY ABLE TO GET TO 48.
11:36:23AM 72 WASN'T A HARD NUMBER, BUT 72 BECAME A HARD REQUEST IF
11:36:28AM PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT TO DO IT THROUGH PARKS AND RECREATION.
11:36:31AM SO WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE FUNDING MOVING FORWARD, NOT JUST FOR
11:36:36AM 72, BECAUSE WE NEED TO ADVANCE THAT.
11:36:39AM NOW WE NEED TO HAVE FUNDING THAT WOULD ALLOW 72 TIMES 2, 144
11:36:46AM FOR NEXT YEAR.
11:36:47AM WE ALSO NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE MONEY IN THE PROGRAM
11:36:51AM SO WE CAN DEAL WITH DIFFERENT HOUSING MODELS.
11:36:54AM THE MAYOR TALKED ABOUT ADUs YEARS AGO, IN THE FIRST
11:37:01AM ADMINISTRATION, AND YET WE HAVE SEEN NOTHING WITH THAT.
11:37:03AM WE WOULD LIKE TO ALSO SEE THE FIVE SUBJECT MATTERS THAT WE
11:37:08AM DISCUSSED IN THE RACIAL RECONCILIATION, MONEY SET ASIDE TO
11:37:13AM DEAL WITH ALL FIVE.
11:37:15AM PRESERVING HISTORY, ECONOMIC REDEVELOPMENT, YOUTH
11:37:18AM OPPORTUNITY, HOUSING, AND MONEY FOR RETURNING CITIZENS.
11:37:22AM IF THAT'S NOT IN THE BUDGET, THEN WHY ARE WE HERE?
11:37:26AM WE KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THINGS THAT THE PEOPLE NEED
11:37:29AM TO HAVE TO UPLIFT THEIR LIVES BUT YET IT CONTINUE TO BE
11:37:33AM IGNORED.
11:37:34AM THANK YOU.
11:37:34AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, CONNIE.
11:37:35AM KELLA McCASKILL FOLLOWED BY FREDDY TAYLOR I THINK IS THE
11:37:40AM NAME.
11:37:41AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:37:41AM KELLA McCASKILL.
11:37:42AM I ALSO WANTED TO COSIGN ON WHAT STEPHANIE POYNOR SAID, DOWN
11:37:48AM IN SOUTH OF GANDY, ALTHOUGH I'M ACTIVE IN EAST TAMPA AND
11:37:50AM WEST TAMPA, HOME IS SOUTH OF GANDY, PORT TAMPA.
11:37:52AM IN FACT, GANDY CIVIC ASSOCIATION, THAN, SOUTH OF GANDY,
11:37:56AM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, EVERYBODY WAS ACTIVE IN THAT COMMUNITY.
11:37:59AM I'M HERE TODAY SPECIFICALLY TO TALK ABOUT D 5 BECAUSE WE
11:38:06AM DON'T HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE IN THE SEAT TO TALK THROUGH THE
11:38:08AM BUDGET.
11:38:08AM I SENT RECOMMENDATIONS THAT ARE GOOD IDEAS TO SUPPORT THIS
11:38:12AM AREA AS IT RELATES TO THE BUDGET.
11:38:15AM 568, DIDN'T SEE PRETTY PICTURES OR GRAPHICS THAT TALK ABOUT
11:38:18AM 568.
11:38:20AM YOU ADMITTED THE WRONGS, DISDAIN FOR BLACK PEOPLE AND THAT
11:38:23AM RESOLUTION WAS YOUR WAY TO MAKE IT RIGHT.
11:38:26AM WOULD HAVE BEEN GREAT TO SHOW A GREAT GRAPHIC AND THE BUDGET
11:38:28AM AND THE SUPPORT AND HOW THE CITY WILL MOVE THIS FORWARD,
11:38:31AM ESPECIALLY COMING FROM THE MAYOR SINCE IT'S IN HER TIME THAT
11:38:34AM WE'RE TRYING TO DEAL WITH THIS RESOLUTION 568.
11:38:37AM SEE BUSINESS ASSISTANCE SERVICES.
11:38:38AM OUR BUSINESSES ARE NOT SCALING.
11:38:40AM THEY ARE NOT SUSTAINABLE.
11:38:42AM THEY CAN'T EVEN PARTICIPATE IN CERTAIN THINGS BECAUSE WE
11:38:44AM NEED SOME SUPPORTIVE ASSISTANCE AND BUSINESS ASSISTANCE
11:38:47AM SERVICES, PREVIOUSLY WE REQUESTED $600,000 TO BE SUPPORTED,
11:38:50AM PARTICULARLY OVER IN DISTRICT 5, TO SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES
11:38:53AM THERE.
11:38:54AM CREATIVE DOWN PAYMENT ASSISTANCE OPPORTUNITIES.
11:38:56AM WE ALREADY KNOW GIVEN UP TO HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS BUT CAN
11:39:00AM WE CREATE SOMETHING CREATIVE LIKE NONPERFORMANCE SECOND
11:39:03AM MORTGAGE HAVEN'T USED THAT APPROACH IN A LONG TIME.
11:39:07AM 39% OF HOME OWNERSHIP IN TAMPA FOR BLACK INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
11:39:11AM OF COLOR, WE NEED TO GET TO 60.
11:39:14AM THAT'S ONE WAY THEY CAN HELP US DO THAT.
11:39:17AM SEE FUNDS AND COLLABORATIVE EFFORT TO ADDRESS HOMELESSNESS
11:39:21AM IN THE NEBRASKA CORRIDOR IN THE MIDDLE OF DISTRICT 5.
11:39:24AM NEED TO SEE MORE THAN ONE EFFORT.
11:39:27AM COMBINED INITIATIVE.
11:39:28AM I SEE RIGHT NOW TPD IS USING -- I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT CAR
11:39:30AM IS CALLED, NOBODY IS IN BUT SITS IN THE MIDDLE, IT SITS ON
11:39:33AM ONE OF THE SITES I'M DEVELOPING.
11:39:35AM WE CAN DO MORE OF THAT.
11:39:36AM WE EXTENDED AN OLIVE BRANCH TO SAY, WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM
11:39:38AM THESE OWNERS THAT DOMINATES MOST OF NEBRASKA?
11:39:40AM WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM US TO HELP DO SOMETHING TO ATTACK THIS
11:39:44AM HOMELESSNESS OR RESOLVE IT?
11:39:45AM I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE A COMMUNITY NAVIGATOR FOR THE
11:39:48AM CRAs TO INTERACT BETWEEN, ALMOST AN OMBUDSMAN, TO GO
11:39:52AM BETWEEN THE CITY AND CRA TO GET THE INFORMATION COMMUNICATED
11:39:55AM AND MARKETING REPRESENTATIVE THAT GETS THE INFORMATION OUT.
11:39:58AM THERE ARE LOTS OF RESOURCES TO ASSIST HOMEOWNERS.
11:40:01AM OVER IN HOUSING, DOING AN OUTSTANDING JOB.
11:40:06AM IF I COULD GIVE THEM A GIFT, AWESOME PARTY OR GIFTS.
11:40:12AM THEY HAVE TURNED THE PROGRAM AROUND AND IT IS OUTSTANDING.
11:40:15AM THE LANGUAGE AS WE TALK ABOUT A BUDGET, WE NEED A DIRECTOR
11:40:19AM FROM YOU AS COUNCIL TO GIVE BACK TO THE ADMINISTRATION TO
11:40:23AM SAY 25% OF THAT BUDGET NEEDS TO BE SPENT WITH DISADVANTAGED
11:40:26AM SMALL BUSINESS, MINORITY OWNED, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL
11:40:29AM IT.
11:40:30AM IT NEEDS TO BE A DIRECTIVE FROM YOU, OTHERWISE THEY THINK IT
11:40:34AM IS OPTIONAL.
11:40:35AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS IT FREDDY TAYLOR?
11:40:38AM THANK YOU, SIR.
11:40:42AM >> CHAIR, COUNCIL, MY NAME IS FREDDY TAYLOR.
11:40:45AM I WAS TERMINATED FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA BY HUMAN RESOURCES.
11:40:52AM I'VE BEEN A PRODUCTIVE EMPLOYEE THAT WORKED OVERTIME,
11:40:55AM EMERGENCY RESPONSE NO WRITE-UPS, NO SUSPENSIONS IN EIGHT
11:40:58AM YEARS, NEARLY EIGHT YEARS.
11:41:00AM WENT ON ADMINISTRATIVE LEAVE TO DEAL WITH UNFORTUNATE FAMILY
11:41:03AM MATTER, BUT ONCE I RETURNED AND REQUESTED REINSTATEMENT I
11:41:07AM WAS REINSTATED ON AROUND APRIL 16, 2025.
11:41:11AM NEVER ALLOWED ME TO ACTUALLY RETURN TO MY DEPARTMENT, WHICH
11:41:17AM EXHAUSTED MY MEDICAL EXPENSES.
11:41:19AM HR HAD OTHER PLANS FOR ME.
11:41:21AM I WAS SUBSEQUENTLY BEING INVESTIGATED FOR 2020 CHARGE THAT
11:41:25AM WAS NO PROCESS IN COURT.
11:41:28AM REPEAT, NO PROCESS IN COURT.
11:41:30AM FIVE YEARS AGO, WHICH THEY KNEW THE OUTCOME OF IT BUT THEY
11:41:33AM STILL DECIDED TO LOOK INTO IT BECAUSE THEY HAD PLANS TO
11:41:37AM BASICALLY HAVE ME REMOVED.
11:41:39AM THEY INVESTIGATED 2020 CHARGE DURING THE PANDEMIC YEAR.
11:41:46AM I WAS NEVER ARRESTED BUT I WAS CHARGED WITH A MISDEMEANOR
11:41:49AM THAT WAS, AGAIN, NO PROCESS FOR THE THIRD TIME.
11:41:53AM DEPRAVED GROUP OF HR EMPLOYEES CHARGED ME WITH NEGLECT TO
11:41:58AM REPORT.
11:41:58AM ALSO, THEY FOLLOWED UP BY MORAL TURPITUDE.
11:42:02AM MY QUESTION IS, WHAT DUTY DID I HAVE TO REPORT?
11:42:06AM SECTION 7.6 IT OUTLINES AFTER AN ARREST, YOU HAVE THE DUTY
11:42:10AM TO REPORT.
11:42:11AM THERE WAS NO ARREST.
11:42:12AM ANYWAY, THERE IS NO MORAL TURPITUDE BECAUSE THERE WAS
11:42:17AM NOTHING AMORAL DONE.
11:42:19AM I'M STILL CONFUSED WHY I WAS BEING INVESTIGATED.
11:42:23AM AS A MATTER OF PRECEDENT, SIMILAR SITUATION, EMPLOYEE DIDN'T
11:42:33AM REPORT AN ARREST, HE RECEIVED A ONE-DAY SUSPENSION.
11:42:37AM I WOULD LIKE CONSIDERATION TO BE ADDED TO THE LIST OF CITY
11:42:41AM EMPLOYEES REFERRED TO THE INDEPENDENT COUNCIL.
11:42:45AM I'VE BEEN IN CONTACT WITH COUNCILMAN VIERA AS I LOOKED AT MY
11:42:49AM ZIP CODE, I THOUGHT HE WAS MY COUNCILMAN.
11:42:51AM I REACHED OUT.
11:42:53AM IT WAS TO NO AVAIL.
11:42:55AM THE SECRETARY WAS KIND ENOUGH TO TAKE DOWN MY INFORMATION.
11:43:00AM I WAS ALSO ASKED TO SPEAK WITH CITY ATTORNEY MARTIN SHELBY
11:43:06AM WHO HIS NAME IN A DISCUSSION WAS TO DISCOURAGE ME.
11:43:10AM I'M EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED BY THAT CIRCUMSTANCE BECAUSE I
11:43:15AM BELIEVE THAT MR. CARLSON AND MR. CHARLIE AND THE COUNCIL AS
11:43:19AM A WHOLE REALLY CARE AND UNDERSTAND THE ISSUES WITH
11:43:22AM LEADERSHIP IN GENERAL.
11:43:24AM BUT IT SEEMS LIKE IT IS A MERRY-GO-ROUND.
11:43:27AM I'VE BEEN TRYING TO CONTACT YOU, COUNCILMAN VIERA --
11:43:32AM [ SOUNDING GAVEL ]
11:43:32AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I'M SORRY.
11:43:33AM WE HAVE A RULE ON COUNCIL THAT YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO ADDRESS
11:43:37AM INDIVIDUAL COUNCILPERSONS.
11:43:39AM YOU'RE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO TALK ABOUT INDIVIDUAL
11:43:44AM COUNCILPERSONS.
11:43:45AM >> CAN I REPHRASE IT -- I CAN REPHRASE IT.
11:43:48AM I MADE CONTACT WITH THE OFFICE HERE, SPECIFIC COUNCIL, AND
11:43:53AM YOU ALL HAD -- CHANNEL FOX 13 HAD WOMEN ON THERE TALKING
11:43:57AM ABOUT THEIR SITUATION.
11:43:58AM BUT YOU REFERRED THEM TO INDEPENDENT COUNSEL.
11:44:03AM WHY CAN'T I GET INDEPENDENT COUNSEL IN MY SITUATION?
11:44:07AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
11:44:08AM APPRECIATE IT.
11:44:09AM MARTY GREEN, FOLLOWED BY FRED HEARNS.
11:44:31AM >> MARTY GREEN WITH THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
11:44:34AM THIS TAKE FIVE IS FOR HARASSMENT.
11:44:38AM WOULD NOT BE TOLERATED IN THE CITY OF TAMPA WITH AGGRESSIVE
11:44:43AM BEHAVIOR.
11:44:44AM I HAD ALL HANDS ON ME WITH THE DIRECTOR, THE INTERIM
11:44:48AM DIRECTOR BRANDON CAMPBELL AND ALL THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
11:44:53AM LIKE NINE SUPERVISORS AND THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNION.
11:44:56AM AND EVERYBODY THAT WAS THERE.
11:44:58AM I GOT -- I ASKED A QUESTION.
11:45:00AM MY QUESTION WAS TO BRYAN RODGER, AND HE GOT AGGRESSIVE WITH
11:45:05AM ME WHICH IS NOT TOLERATED WITH THE CITY OF TAMPA.
11:45:07AM HE GOT AGGRESSIVE.
11:45:08AM ONE OF THE SUPERVISORS HAD TO TALK HIM DOWN BECAUSE HE GOT
11:45:11AM AGGRESSIVE WITH ME.
11:45:12AM THEN HE SAID I GOT -- I ASKED WHY I WAS MOVED FROM ONE SIDE
11:45:16AM OF THE DEPARTMENT TO THE OTHER SIDE.
11:45:18AM HE TOLD ME I WAS MOVED FOR BEING AGGRESSIVE -- I MEAN,
11:45:21AM GETTING IN AN ALTERCATION.
11:45:22AM NO, THIS HAS NOT BEEN AN ALTERCATION.
11:45:25AM THAT'S WHY I CALL THE CITY OF TAMPA CANDYLAND BECAUSE HE HAS
11:45:28AM TWO EMPLOYEES THAT GOT INTO PHYSICAL ALTERCATION LIKE
11:45:31AM MANDINGO AND DJANGO AND NOTHING HAPPENED.
11:45:33AM THEY STAYED TOGETHER.
11:45:34AM I MOVE TO THE NEXT ONE.
11:45:36AM WE ARE CITIZENS PAYING FOR THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
11:45:41AM WE ARE FUNDED BY THE CITIZENS.
11:45:43AM SO MICHAEL BROWN, HE WAS USING THE CITY VEHICLE FOR HIS OWN
11:45:48AM PERSONAL REASONS.
11:45:49AM I WROTE THE E-MAIL AND ASKED HIM AND HE WENT BACK ON THE GPS
11:45:52AM AND FOUND OUT THAT HE WAS USING THE VEHICLE.
11:45:55AM AND THEN THE RESPONSE I RECEIVED BACK THAT HE'LL ADDRESS IT
11:46:02AM AND EVERYTHING I TOLD HIM WAS CORRECTLY.
11:46:05AM GOING BACK TO THIS, THE E-MAILS, WHEN I WROTE HR AND ASKED
11:46:09AM HIM, HAS IT BEEN A DISCIPLINARY ON MICHAEL BROWN, THEY TOLD
11:46:14AM ME -- THE RESPONSE WAS IT WAS NOTHING ON RECORD.
11:46:18AM SO THEREFORE HE WAS NOT DISCIPLINARY ABOUT NOTHING.
11:46:21AM THIS IS HIS SECOND TIME USING THE CITY VEHICLES FOR HIS OWN
11:46:24AM PERSONAL BUSINESS.
11:46:26AM BRYAN RODGER TOOK THE VEHICLE FROM HIM BEFORE FOR LETTING
11:46:30AM HIS WIFE USE THE VEHICLE, RUN AROUND IN A CITY VEHICLE.
11:46:33AM NOW, I AM ONE OF THE ONES THAT RUN THE PAVING EQUIPMENT.
11:46:38AM IF I'M NOT HERE, THE PAVING EQUIPMENT BARELY RUNS.
11:46:42AM THEREFORE, TO SAY THAT I RUN IT.
11:46:44AM NOW, CUTTING THAT BUDGET, WE ARE SHORT.
11:46:47AM IT TAKES 13 TO 15 PEOPLE TO RUN THAT EQUIPMENT.
11:46:50AM IT'S ONLY 7 TO 9 PEOPLE ON EACH CREW.
11:46:55AM THEREFORE, WE ARE DOWN.
11:46:56AM WE ARE SET FOR FAILURE FROM THE BEGINNING.
11:46:59AM STORMWATER, I KNOW HOW TO CONTROL EVERYTHING DEALING WITH
11:47:04AM STORMWATER RIGHT NOW.
11:47:05AM I HAVE THE BLUEPRINT.
11:47:06AM I KNOW WHAT NEED TO BE DONE.
11:47:07AM THAT'S NOT MY BUSINESS.
11:47:09AM STAY OUT OF IT.
11:47:12AM MOBILITY, CUTTING THE BUDGET.
11:47:13AM WHY CUT THE BUDGET?
11:47:14AM START FROM THE TOP, JEAN DUNCAN, BRYAN RODGER, MICHAEL BROWN
11:47:18AM AND STAFF BECAUSE HE CAN PAY THE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS
11:47:21AM FOR NOTHING.
11:47:21AM HE DON'T KNOW WHAT HE DOING.
11:47:24AM THEREFORE -- CALLING US MONKEYS.
11:47:26AM I GAVE PAPERS TWO WEEKS AGO.
11:47:28AM NOTHING DONE ABOUT IT.
11:47:30AM HR HASN'T TALKED TO ME.
11:47:32AM I FEEL OFFENDED AND I FEEL KIND OF A LITTLE AFRAID THAT
11:47:37AM BRYAN RODGER MIGHT COME IN HERE AND DO SOMETHING.
11:47:40AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:47:41AM FRED HEARNS.
11:47:46AM >> THANK YOU AND GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
11:47:51AM VERY GLAD TO BE HERE.
11:47:53AM GOING TO TOUCH ON A FEW DIFFERENT ITEMS VERY QUICKLY.
11:47:57AM YOU HEARD FROM THE CHAIRPERSON OF THE RACIAL RECONCILIATION
11:48:01AM COMMITTEE, CONNIE BURTON A LITTLE EARLIER TODAY.
11:48:06AM I ALSO SERVE ON THAT COMMITTEE OR SERVED.
11:48:09AM PLEASE, AND I KNOW YOU HAVE A LOT ON YOUR PLATE, BUT IF YOU
11:48:13AM HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY, PLEASE LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE
11:48:16AM RECOMMENDATIONS THAT THE RACIAL RECONCILIATION COMMITTEE HAS
11:48:21AM MADE.
11:48:21AM I KNOW WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME WITH ATTORNEY SHELBY AND OTHER
11:48:26AM FOLK WHO HAVE ASSISTED US, BUT THERE ARE VERY IMPORTANT
11:48:29AM RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE TAKE SERIOUSLY.
11:48:30AM WE KNOW YOU'LL TAKE THEM SERIOUSLY ALSO WHEN YOU GET THAT
11:48:35AM REPORT.
11:48:36AM THE OTHER THING, I SERVED FOR THE LAST SIX YEARS AS
11:48:40AM PRESIDENT OF THE ZION CEMETERY PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE
11:48:44AM SOCIETY.
11:48:46AM SIX YEARS, AND WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THE SAME ISSUE WE
11:48:50AM STARTED WORKING ON SIX YEARS AGO, WHICH IS CREATE A MEMORIAL
11:48:55AM SITE WHERE THERE COULD BE AS MANY AS 700 PERSONS BURIED
11:49:01AM THERE, MOST OF WHOM ARE BLACKS.
11:49:03AM SO WE ARE GOING TO BE GIVING AN UPDATE TO COUNCIL VERY SOON
11:49:12AM AS A COMMITTEE.
11:49:13AM I JUST WANT TO MENTION AS A HEADS UP, ZION CEMETERY
11:49:16AM PRESERVATION AND MAINTENANCE SOCIETY IS NOT GOING ANYWHERE.
11:49:20AM WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO WORK ON THIS ISSUE.
11:49:23AM WE THINK WE HAVE MADE SOME PROGRESS, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE A
11:49:27AM LITTLE MORE.
11:49:28AM WE'RE GOING TO BE BRINGING YOU AN UPDATE AS TO WHERE WE ARE
11:49:31AM VERY SOON.
11:49:32AM THE OTHER THING, THANK YOU.
11:49:34AM I WAS NOT HERE.
11:49:36AM I UNDERSTAND THAT THE VOTE WAS TAKEN RECENTLY BY COUNCIL AS
11:49:40AM IT RELATES TO AN AMPHITHEATER AT PERRY HARVEY PARK.
11:49:44AM THIS IS ONE OF THE MANY PROJECTS THAT COUNCILWOMAN GWEN
11:49:51AM HENDERSON HAD BEEN WORKING ON.
11:49:53AM WE HAD A RIBBON CUTTING THERE ACTUALLY IN ANTICIPATION OF
11:49:56AM WHAT'S COMING.
11:49:58AM THIS HAS BEEN AN 18-YEAR ISSUE WITH ME AND A FEW OTHER FOLKS
11:50:03AM TO GET AN AMPHITHEATER IN THE PARK SO WHEN PEOPLE HAVE
11:50:07AM EVENTS, THEY DON'T HAVE TO RENT A STAGE, WHICH IS VERY
11:50:10AM EXPENSIVE, BUT THE LONG GOAL IS TO CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR
11:50:14AM SMALL BUSINESSES TO BE VENDORS.
11:50:17AM I'VE LOOKED FOR YEARS OF WHAT'S HAPPENED AT CENTENNIAL PARK.
11:50:22AM THAT IS AN EXCELLENT MODEL.
11:50:24AM THE SAME THING CAN BE DONE ON A REGULAR BASIS, MAYBE
11:50:27AM MONTHLY, AT PERRY HARVEY PARK AND TO HAVE A PLAN TO GIVE
11:50:33AM SMALL BUSINESSES AN OPPORTUNITY TO SET UP VENDOR SHOPS IN
11:50:39AM THE PARK ON A REGULAR SCHEDULE WITH THE COOPERATION OF THE
11:50:43AM CITY PARKS AND REC, SO FORTH, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'M
11:50:49AM LOOKING FORWARD TO.
11:50:50AM THANK YOU FOR VOTING TO LOOK INTO THE AMPHITHEATER.
11:50:54AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, MR. HEARNS.
11:50:56AM HARRISON LUNDE FOLLOWED BY MENTESNOT.
11:51:03AM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
11:51:04AM MY NAME IS HARRISON LUNDE WITH VOICES OF FLORIDA.
11:51:08AM I ACTUALLY HAVEN'T BEEN UP HERE IN A WHILE.
11:51:11AM PRETTY NICE TO BE BACK UP HERE.
11:51:13AM I DID HAVE SOMETHING OFF OF THE AGENDA THAT I WANTED TO
11:51:15AM SPEAK ABOUT TODAY.
11:51:15AM IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE STILL BELIEVE TO BE VERY IMPORTANT.
11:51:18AM THREE YEARS AGO ALMOST TO THE DAY, I STOOD HERE AND I SPOKE
11:51:24AM TO THE CITY COUNCIL ABOUT A GROUP CALLED TURNING POINT USA
11:51:26AM AND HOW WHEN THEY CAME TO HOST THEIR CONFERENCE IN 2022,
11:51:29AM MYSELF AND A NUMBER OF ACTIVISTS GOT TOGETHER AND WE
11:51:31AM EXERCISED OUR RIGHT TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST THEIR CONVENTION
11:51:34AM ON ACCOUNT OF THEIR POLITICAL PLATFORM PROVING HARMFUL TO SO
11:51:38AM MANY TAMPANIANS AND SO MANY AMERICANS.
11:51:40AM OUR PEOPLE WERE MET WITH LITERAL VIOLENCE FROM ATTENDEES AND
11:51:44AM HARASSMENT FROM THEIR CAMERA CREWS, INCLUDING MYSELF GETTING
11:51:48AM PULLED DOWN THE STAIRS OF THE CONVENTION CENTER.
11:51:50AM AS A RESULT, I CAME UP HERE AND DEMANDED THAT THE CITY AND
11:51:53AM MAYOR ISSUE SOME SORT OF APOLOGY AND STATEMENT ON NOT ONLY
11:51:56AM THE CONVENTION CENTER'S PARTNERSHIP WITH THE GROUP BUT THEIR
11:51:58AM REFUSAL TO RESPOND TO VIOLENCE.
11:52:00AM I BRING THIS UP BECAUSE IT'S THREE YEARS LATER AND WE'RE
11:52:03AM BACK IN THE SAME SPOT.
11:52:04AM TURNING POINT USA, A GROUP WHO HAS OPENLY PLATFORMED HATRED,
11:52:09AM RACISM, ANTI-SEMITISM AND BIGOTRY WAS IN OUR CITY EN MASSE
11:52:13AM AGAIN LAST WEEK.
11:52:14AM I WATCHED THE EXACT SAME THING HAPPEN.
11:52:17AM EXERCISED OUR RIGHT TO PEACEFULLY PROTEST AND WE WERE MET
11:52:21AM WITH VIOLENCE AS ONE ACTIVIST KNOCKED TO THE GROUND
11:52:24AM BLEEDING.
11:52:25AM I MYSELF AND ANOTHER ORGANIZER FACING HARASSMENT FROM TPD
11:52:29AM AND OVERWHELMED WITH ATTENDEES AND SELF-PROCLAIMED
11:52:32AM INFLUENCERS WHO CAME TO HARASS AND ANTAGONIZE US.
11:52:36AM SAME LEVEL, WHILE WE'RE NOT ALWAYS GOING TO AGREE, I
11:52:38AM UNDERSTAND THE IMPORTANCE OF OUR CITY WELCOMING ALL GROUPS
11:52:41AM REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL IDEOLOGY BUT THERE HAS TO BE A LINE
11:52:44AM DRAWN SOMEWHERE.
11:52:46AM WE'RE IN A CLIMATE RIGHT NOW WHERE RISE FOR IMMIGRANTS,
11:52:49AM WOMEN, PEOPLE OF COLOR, LGBTQ+ COMMUNITY, PUBLIC SERVICES
11:52:52AM AND MORE ARE UNDER ATTACK.
11:52:54AM WHEN WE PERMIT A GROUP INTO OUR COMMUNITY WHO HAS NOW TWICE
11:52:58AM ATTACKED US, LITERALLY ATTACKED US FOR DEFENDING THOSE
11:53:01AM RIGHTS, WE HAVE TO DRAW SOME KIND OF LINE.
11:53:03AM AND WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO SAY NO TO THOSE WHO PROMOTE SUCH
11:53:08AM VISCERAL HATRED TO THOSE WHO ARE DIFFERENT AND DIVERSE.
11:53:11AM ON BEHALF OF THE ACTIVISTS WHO WERE HARMED THAT DAY AND ON
11:53:14AM BEHALF OF THOSE THAT WITNESSED HARM FROM PEOPLE WHO
11:53:17AM REALISTICALLY DON'T EVEN LIVE IN TAMPA, I AM ONCE AGAIN
11:53:21AM ASKING FOR SOME KIND OF PUBLIC RESPONSE FOR THIS EVENT, SOME
11:53:24AM KIND OF SOLUTION GOING FORWARD AND AN APOLOGY FROM MAYOR
11:53:27AM CASTOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL.
11:53:29AM BECAUSE WE CAN'T CLAIM TO BE A DIVERSE AND INCLUSIVE CITY
11:53:32AM WHEN SOME OF OUR BIGGEST DANGERS TO THAT DIVERSITY ARE
11:53:36AM GETTING SUCH A PUBLIC PLATFORM.
11:53:37AM THANK YOU.
11:53:38AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
11:53:42AM >> UHURU, METESNOT, TAMPA, FLORIDA.
11:53:45AM UHURU MEANS FREEDOM IN SWAHILI.
11:53:50AM WE AS AFRICAN PEOPLE SHOULD ALWAYS BE THINKING ABOUT OUR
11:53:54AM FREEDOM.
11:53:54AM THE CITY OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY GOVERNMENT OR CITY OF TAMPA
11:53:58AM GOVERNMENT ISN'T LOCATED AT 601 EAST KENNEDY BOULEVARD
11:54:02AM COUNTY CENTER OR 315 EAST KENNEDY BOULEVARD, CITY HALL.
11:54:07AM THE SEAT OF TAMPA BAY GOVERNMENT IS LOCATED AT 1601 SOUTH
11:54:12AM MacDILL AVENUE, TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33629, ALSO KNOWN AS THE
11:54:18AM PALMA CEIA GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB.
11:54:21AM PALMA CEIA GOLF AND COUNTRY CLUB IS A MEMBER BY INVITATION
11:54:25AM ONLY PRIVATELY OWNED ESTABLISHMENT.
11:54:28AM I PERSONALLY WOULD NOT STEP ONE FOOT ON THOSE WHITE FOLKS'
11:54:32AM PRIVATE PROPERTY BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THE SANCTITY OF
11:54:34AM PRIVATE PROPERTY FROM A COLONIALIST AND CAPITALIST
11:54:38AM PERSPECTIVE.
11:54:39AM SEVERE CONSEQUENCES FOR VIOLATING THE CODES OF PRIVATE
11:54:42AM PROPERTY OWNERSHIP.
11:54:43AM ALTERNATIVELY, THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION AND THE FIRST
11:54:48AM AMENDMENT GIVES CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS TO ALL
11:54:51AM INDIVIDUALS, HISTORICALLY, VARIOUS TAMPA MAYORS, TAMPA CITY
11:54:55AM COUNCILS AND TAMPA POLICE CHIEFS HAVE A TRADITION OF
11:54:59AM COMPROMISING OR CIRCUMVENTING CERTAIN PEOPLE'S
11:55:02AM CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS.
11:55:03AM THIS TAMPA CITY HALL IS A PUBLIC BUILDING, WHICH AT SELECTED
11:55:08AM TIMES INDIVIDUALS ARE ALLOWED THREE MINUTES TO EXPRESS THEIR
11:55:11AM THOUGHTS ABOUT AGENDA ITEMS OR THE STATE OF AFFAIRS.
11:55:15AM ON MANY OCCASIONS WHEN CERTAIN PEOPLE ATTEMPT TO ARTICULATE
11:55:18AM THEIR THOUGHT PROCESS, THEY ARE DISRESPECTFULLY INTERRUPTED,
11:55:23AM INSULTED, HUMILIATED, PROVOKED, BULLIED INTO CONFORMING
11:55:27AM THEIR THOUGHTS WOULD BE REPRESENTATIVE OF WHITE POWER, WHITE
11:55:30AM NATIONALISM AND WHITE WESTERN CIVILIZATION.
11:55:33AM I PERSONALLY HAVE FAITHFULLY ATTENDED CITY GOVERNMENT
11:55:38AM MEETINGS FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS TO SPEAK ON ISSUES IMPORTANT
11:55:41AM TO POOR AND WORKING CLASS PEOPLE.
11:55:43AM DISPROPORTIONATELY AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE.
11:55:46AM I'VE SPOKEN ABOUT ISSUES RANGING FROM TOO MANY LIQUOR STORES
11:55:49AM INSIDE OF THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITIES, POLICE VIOLENCE,
11:55:52AM NO CITY SERVICES, HOUSING, EMPLOYMENT, LACK OF YOUTH
11:55:57AM OPPORTUNITIES AND SENSITIVITY, REPARATIONS, PALESTINE,
11:56:03AM DRIVER'S LICENSE SUSPENSION, THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX,
11:56:06AM RACISM, CHILD SUPPORT, 825 YEARS OF OPPRESSION ENDURED BY
11:56:13AM AFRICA AND AFRICAN PEOPLE.
11:56:15AM 26% AND OTHER ISSUES.
11:56:16AM I WILL NOT ACCEPT AND DO NOT BELIEVE THAT ANYONE ON THIS
11:56:20AM PLANET EARTH HAS THE RIGHT OR PRIVILEGE OR OPPORTUNITY TO
11:56:23AM TELL ME HOW TO SPEAK AT A PUBLIC MEETING.
11:56:25AM I PERSONALLY WOULD NOT ALLOW MY MOTHER, FATHER, SISTER,
11:56:29AM BROTHER, CHILDREN, FRIEND, ASSOCIATE, STRANGER, INDIGENT OR
11:56:33AM WEALTHY PERSON, MARTIN LUTHER KING, OR MALCOLM X TELL ME HOW
11:56:37AM TO SPEAK AND WHEN, AND I'M NOT ABOUT TO ALLOW A WHITE
11:56:44AM HOMOSEXUAL, A GAY MAN IN CITY GOVERNMENT TELL ME HOW TO
11:56:47AM REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY OR AFRICAN PEOPLE.
11:56:50AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, SIR.
11:56:51AM STEVE SCOTT FOLLOWED BY PASTOR FRANK WILLIAMS.
11:56:56AM >> GOOD MORNING.
11:57:04AM HOW ARE YOU ALL DOING?
11:57:06AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: GOOD MORNING.
11:57:07AM >> MY NAME IS STEVE SCOTT.
11:57:09AM I'M HERE -- SOMEBODY SAY SOMETHING?
11:57:15AM I GOT GOOD EARS.
11:57:18AM I CAN'T SEE BUT I GOT GOOD EARS.
11:57:21AM MY NAME IS STEVE SCOTT.
11:57:22AM I'M HERE TO SOLVE A PROBLEM THAT I HAVE ABOUT MY PROPERTY.
11:57:29AM WHEN THE HURRICANE COME AND DESTROYED THE TREES AND STUFF,
11:57:36AM THE BACK OF MY HOUSE, BEFORE THEY PUT THE FENCE NEXT DOOR
11:57:43AM WAS A COMPANY THAT DIDN'T HAVE NO FENCE AND WE COULD HAVE
11:57:45AM THE ENTRANCE.
11:57:47AM THAT'S WHEN I CAN SEE, DRIVE INTO THE ENTRANCE TO GET BEHIND
11:57:53AM MY HOUSE AND CUT DOWN THE BIG TREE LIMB THAT THE HURRICANE
11:57:56AM DID WHEN THEY CAME.
11:57:58AM SO WE HAVE TRAILERS AND WE PUT IT ON THE TRAILER AND WE WAS
11:58:03AM ABLE TO TAKE IT TO THE CITY DUMP WHEN THE HURRICANE HIT.
11:58:09AM BUT THE COMPANY PUT THEIR FENCE ON THEIR PROPERTY.
11:58:13AM SO NOW I DON'T HAVE NO WAY OF INTEREST TO GET BEHIND MY
11:58:17AM HOUSE BECAUSE OF THAT FENCE PUT THERE.
11:58:21AM I DO HAVE A DRIVEWAY BUT IT ENDS AT MY GARAGE.
11:58:26AM I CAN'T DRIVE OR GET BEHIND MY PROPERTY BECAUSE THAT
11:58:31AM DRIVEWAY ENDS AT MY GARAGE.
11:58:37AM THERE'S NO WAY TO GET BEHIND MY PROPERTY.
11:58:39AM SO I'VE BEEN CALLING AND TRYING TO GET SOMETHING DONE ABOUT
11:58:42AM IT.
11:58:43AM ALL HE WAS TELLING ME, YOU CAN'T HAVE BUT ONE DRIVEWAY.
11:58:48AM YOU CAN'T HAVE BUT ONE DRIVEWAY.
11:58:49AM BUT I DON'T HAVE NO WAY TO DRIVE BEHIND AND DO SOME WORK
11:58:55AM WHEN THE HURRICANE COME BECAUSE THAT FENCE THAT THE COMPANY
11:59:00AM PUT UP, THERE'S NO WAY.
11:59:01AM SO I'M TRYING TO GET HELP.
11:59:04AM I'M TRYING TO GET SOME HELP WHERE I CAN BE ABLE TO GET ON MY
11:59:09AM PROPERTY DURING THE HURRICANE.
11:59:10AM NOW, THE LAST HURRICANE COME, I HAVE TO GET SOMEBODY TO COME
11:59:14AM AND HELP ME, BUT THEY HAD TO BRING IT OUT AND DRIVE IT ALL
11:59:17AM THE WAY OUT TO THE DRIVEWAY BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T GET BEHIND
11:59:20AM MY HOUSE.
11:59:21AM I'M HERE TO TRY TO GET SOME HELP.
11:59:24AM I NEED AN ENTRY TO GET ON MY PROPERTY, SOMEBODY TO GUIDE ME
11:59:30AM HOW TO DO IT, HELP ME HOW TO GET ON MY PROPERTY ON THE LEFT
11:59:35AM SIDE OF MY HOUSE.
11:59:36AM THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE FOR, TRY TO GET SOME HELP.
11:59:38AM WHO WILL I CONTACT OR WHO WOULD I TALK TO?
11:59:43AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. BENNETT, CAN YOU GET SOMEBODY FROM
11:59:46AM STAFF TO SPEAK WITH HIM?
11:59:47AM THANK YOU, MR. SCOTT.
11:59:51AM APPRECIATE IT.
11:59:55AM >> THANK YOU.
11:59:55AM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PASTOR FRANK WILLIAMS, FOLLOWED BY DARYL
11:59:59AM HYCH.
12:00:06PM GOOD MORNING, PASTOR.
12:00:30PM >> I HOPE YOU ALL GIVE ME ENOUGH TIME TO GET UP HERE.
12:00:35PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU'RE THERE.
12:00:37PM CLERK, WILL YOU RESET THE TIME TO START IT NOW?
12:01:04PM >> YOU KNOW, LEGAL STAFF IS NOT LEGAL.
12:01:16PM I CALL THEM AND SET UP AN APPOINTMENT, SECRETARY SET UP AN
12:01:21PM APPOINTMENT ONE TIME.
12:01:26PM THEY TOLD ME, THEY ARE CALLING ME 9:45.
12:01:33PM SIT THERE BY THE PHONE, 9:45, NO CALL FROM THEM.
12:01:38PM I SET UP ANOTHER APPOINTMENT WITH THEM ANOTHER TIME.
12:01:43PM YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT TIME IT WAS?
12:01:44PM THEY TOLD ME TO SET UP AN APPOINTMENT AT 1:45.
12:01:51PM YOU KNOW WHAT I DID?
12:01:52PM I SET UP AN APPOINTMENT WITH THEM 1:45.
12:01:56PM THEY NEVER CALLED ME.
12:01:58PM THE LEGAL AIDE STAFF, THEY ARE NOT ON THE JOB.
12:02:03PM JUST LIKE A LOT OF US, WE'RE NOT ON OUR JOB.
12:02:08PM I GOT SOMETHING TO READ TO YOU.
12:02:13PM I DON'T PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG BECAUSE THE FLAG DON'T
12:02:17PM DO ANYTHING TO ME.
12:02:19PM I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF
12:02:22PM AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION
12:02:27PM UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
12:02:33PM THERE'S NO JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR.
12:02:39PM YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID?
12:02:44PM THEY TOOK MY PROPERTY AWAY FROM ME.
12:02:47PM MY SON AND MY DAUGHTER HAD TO COLLECT OVER $18,000 TO KEEP
12:02:55PM ME ON MY PROPERTY.
12:02:56PM THAT'S ALL COMING FROM THESE PEOPLE RIGHT HERE.
12:03:00PM THEY DON'T GIVE A DAMN ABOUT ME.
12:03:04PM I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY BECAUSE I'M A MAN OF COLOR AND I TRY TO
12:03:07PM DO THE RIGHT THING.
12:03:08PM 1112 EAST SCOTT STREET, TOOK IT AND GIVE IT TO THE WHITE
12:03:18PM FOLKS, MY CHURCH.
12:03:19PM THEY DONE MOVE ALL MY STUFF OUT OF THERE.
12:03:23PM STOLE IT AND EVERYTHING.
12:03:24PM THEY DON'T CARE NOTHING ABOUT US.
12:03:26PM WE GOT TO CARE ABOUT OURSELVES.
12:03:28PM GOOD GOD ALMIGHTY, THAT'S MY TIME?
12:03:34PM I TOLD YOU TO LEAVE THE CLOCK ALONE.
12:03:37PM -- SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
12:03:42PM RELIGIOUS OR PROHIBITIVE FREE EXERCISE -- AND ABRIDGING THE
12:03:50PM FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND THE PRESS.
12:03:55PM RIGHT OF PEOPLE TO PEACEFULLY ASSEMBLE AND TO PETITION THE
12:03:59PM GOVERNMENT FOR REDRESS.
12:04:03PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, PASTOR.
12:04:05PM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
12:04:06PM YOUR TIME IS DONE.
12:04:07PM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
12:04:09PM >> GIVE ME A LITTLE MORE TIME?
12:04:12PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NO, I'M SORRY.
12:04:14PM HAVE A BEAUTIFUL DAY.
12:04:15PM WE'LL SEE YOU NEXT MEETING.
12:04:18PM >> THAT'S THE WAY TREAT US.
12:04:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WAITING FOR THE 10
12:04:22PM AND 10:30 PUBLIC HEARINGS.
12:04:23PM I APOLOGIZE.
12:04:24PM I WILL TELL YOU THAT WE CAN CUT YOU GUYS LOOSE BECAUSE WE
12:04:27PM ARE NOT GOING TO HEAR THOSE UNTIL AT LEAST 1:30.
12:04:30PM IF YOU WANT TO LEAVE AND COME BACK AT 1:30.
12:04:33PM WE STILL HAVE PROBABLY ANOTHER 15 MINUTES OF PUBLIC COMMENT
12:04:36PM AND THEN THE CONSENT AGENDA.
12:04:38PM >> NO JUSTICE FOR PEOPLE OF COLOR.
12:04:40PM NEVER HAVE AND NEVER WILL.
12:04:43PM WE HAVE TO KEEP COMING AND KEEP -- HE'LL MAKE JUSTICE.
12:04:52PM DID YOU ALL GET MY FLYER?
12:04:55PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE DID.
12:04:56PM READ THAT FLYER AND GIVE ME A RESPONSE.
12:05:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DARYL HYCH FOLLOWED BY ROBIN LOCKETT.
12:05:29PM >> STARTED OUT THIS MESSAGE WANTING TO SAY GOOD MORNING.
12:05:32PM NOW IT'S TIME TO SAY GOOD AFTERNOON.
12:05:33PM I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT LIST.
12:05:35PM I WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SIGN UP -- NO, OKAY.
12:05:38PM HEY, GOOD AFTERNOON, EVERYONE.
12:05:40PM DARYL HYCH.
12:05:41PM YBOR CITY SHOOTING, YOU FOUND MONEY.
12:05:49PM WHEN DEVELOPERS WERE LOOKING TO BUILD AND EXPAND THEIR
12:05:54PM LEGACY PROJECTS AND VARIOUS THINGS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF
12:05:57PM TAMPA, FINDING LAND, YOU FOUND MONEY.
12:06:03PM A LEGACY, FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION INSIDE THE CITY OF TAMPA
12:06:08PM THAT WANTED TO CONTINUE THEIR FAMILY LEGACY BY UTILIZING
12:06:15PM HISTORICAL BUILDINGS AND ARTIFACTS OF VARIOUS THINGS, YOU
12:06:19PM FOUND MONEY.
12:06:20PM YET FIVE YEARS AGO, RESOLUTION 568 WAS WRITTEN.
12:06:28PM APOLOGIES WERE GIVEN.
12:06:31PM CONSCIOUS UNDERSTANDING OF THE RAMIFICATIONS OF CORRECTING
12:06:34PM THE WRONG AND YET YOU NEVER EVEN MENTION THE MONEY.
12:06:39PM THIS REMINDS ME OF APRIL 14, 1865, WHEN THE BULLET RANG OUT
12:06:49PM IN THE FORD THEATER AT THE ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT
12:06:53PM LINCOLN.
12:06:55PM PRESIDENT LINCOLN HAD PUT IN PLACE LAWS AND THINGS TO ASSIST
12:06:59PM BLACK FAMILIES WHO HAD BEEN HURT, HARMED AND INJURED.
12:07:03PM HE OFFERED THESE BLACK FAMILIES 40 ACRES AND A MULE.
12:07:08PM AND NO SOONER THAN THE BULLET RANG OUT IN THE FORD THEATER
12:07:12PM WAS PRESIDENT JOHNSON AND THOSE WHO WERE INSIDE OF HIS
12:07:15PM CABINET WORKING TO RESCIND THAT PARTICULAR LAW.
12:07:22PM ULTIMATELY HE CAME BACK FULL CIRCLE AND SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW
12:07:25PM WHAT WE'LL DO, WE'LL CALL THEM SHARECROPPERS.
12:07:28PM WHEN I LOOK AT RESOLUTION NUMBER 568 THAT WAS ESTABLISHED
12:07:34PM SEPTEMBER 3, 2020, IT IS SYNONYMOUS TO THAT EXACT SAME
12:07:39PM SITUATION.
12:07:39PM BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR IN APRIL OF 2024, WE
12:07:45PM SWITCHED THE GAME AND CALLED IT RESOLUTION 377.
12:07:49PM AND WHEN WE SWITCHED THE GAME AND PUT IT IN RESOLUTION
12:07:52PM NUMBER 367 -- I MEAN 377, WE ESSENTIALLY PUT US RIGHT BACK
12:07:57PM INTO A SHARECROPPING SITUATION.
12:08:00PM I'M ASKING YOU, AS THE MAYOR JUST GOT DONE STATING WHEN SHE
12:08:05PM WAS DOING HER SPEECH AND SPEAKING OF THE BUDGET, THE MAYOR
12:08:08PM SAID, WE ARE A CITY ON THE MOVE.
12:08:13PM SHE SAID WE'RE A CITY ON THE MOVE.
12:08:15PM THE QUESTION I HAVE TO ASK AND THE OVERWHELMING CONCERN I
12:08:19PM HAVE IS, WAS SHE INCLUDED BLACK PEOPLE ON THE MOVE?
12:08:25PM BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE STILL SITTING STAGNANT.
12:08:28PM YOU ALL HAVE AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
12:08:31PM THANK YOU.
12:08:31PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, SIR.
12:08:33PM ROBIN LOCKETT FOLLOWED BY SURGRET DOSS.
12:08:43PM >> GOOD MORNING, COUNCIL.
12:08:44PM JUST HAVE A FEW THINGS I WANT TO TALK ABOUT.
12:08:47PM I LOOK FORWARD TO DECIPHERING WHAT WILL GO INTO THE BUDGET.
12:08:53PM OF COURSE, I'M LOOKING FOR THE YELLOW JACKETS TO BE MADE
12:08:57PM WHOLE AGAIN.
12:08:57PM I'LL BE SENDING YOU GUYS AN OUTLINE OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE
12:09:01PM SINCE I GET THE QUESTION ALL THE TIME IN REGARDS TO WHAT ARE
12:09:03PM YOU LOOKING FOR?
12:09:05PM SO IT WOULD BE AN ITEMIZED LOOK.
12:09:07PM ALSO, I'M INTERESTED IN EXACTLY WHAT SULPHUR SPRINGS IS
12:09:13PM GOING TO LOOK LIKE BECAUSE I HEARD THE VERBIAGE ABOUT
12:09:15PM SULPHUR SPRINGS.
12:09:16PM SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT THAT IS GOING TO LOOK
12:09:19PM LIKE.
12:09:19PM IT WAS SAID THIS MORNING THAT THE COUNTY IS GETTING $709
12:09:23PM MILLION FOR DISASTER RELIEF.
12:09:30PM THE CDBG MONEY, DR, THAT'S STRICTLY TO MAKE PEOPLE WHOLE
12:09:36PM FROM THE DISASTER.
12:09:38PM IT'S NOT A REGULAR HOUSING FUND.
12:09:40PM THE COUNTY HAS STATED THAT THEY ARE GOING TO SPEND, I THINK,
12:09:44PM $368 MILLION TOWARDS HOUSING, BUT THEY ARE GOING TO HANDLE
12:09:49PM THE WHOLE HOUSING FUND.
12:09:55PM SO THEY ARE NOT GOING TO DIVIDE THE MONEY UP.
12:09:57PM THEY ARE GOING TO HAVE A ONE BIG HOUSING, I DON'T KNOW, THEY
12:10:02PM ARE GOING TO HANDLE THE MONEY.
12:10:05PM THAT MONEY IS NOT SEPARATE FOR REGULAR HOUSING.
12:10:09PM IT'S JUST FOR DISASTER RECOVERY.
12:10:14PM JUST GIVING CLARITY TO THAT.
12:10:16PM A COUPLE OF PEOPLE CAME UP AND SPOKE ABOUT RESOLUTION 568
12:10:27PM AND SO FORTH.
12:10:28PM YOU SHOULD HAVE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM US.
12:10:33PM I'M NOT SURE IF WE'RE SUPPOSED TO MAKE A MOTION TO HAVE THE
12:10:36PM ADDITIONAL DAYS ADDED OR WHATEVER, BUT I LOOK FORWARD TO THE
12:10:42PM REPORT THAT'S GOING TO BE CREATED.
12:10:43PM IT HASN'T BEEN CREATED YET, OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT
12:10:47PM WE'RE GOING TO SEND TO YOU GUYS.
12:10:49PM SO THANK YOU.
12:10:50PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:10:50PM SURGRET DOSS FOLLOWED BY NAYA YOUNG.
12:10:55PM >> GOOD MORNING.
12:10:55PM SURGRET DOSS.
12:10:57PM MY SHIRT IS A LITTLE MORE APPROPRIATE THAN I THOUGHT.
12:11:00PM I GET A LOT OF PEOPLE -- TO THE ATTORNEY, INTERESTINGLY
12:11:05PM ENOUGH, THE ISSUE IS ABOUT ACCOUNTABILITY WHEN IT COMES TO
12:11:09PM ATTORNEYS AND JUDGES.
12:11:10PM BUT TO THE BROTHER WHO WAS SPEAKING ABOUT HIS ISSUE WITHIN
12:11:12PM THE CITY, IF YOU ARE A UNION MEMBER, I THINK IT'S VERY
12:11:16PM IMPORTANT THAT YOU TAKE THE TIME TO LEARN WHAT'S IN YOUR
12:11:19PM CONTRACT.
12:11:19PM I USED TO BE A UNION STEWARD FOR THE TEAMSTERS.
12:11:22PM I UNDERSTOOD HOW IMPORTANT IT WAS TO UNDERSTAND AND
12:11:27PM BARGAINING UNIT NEEDS TO KNOW IT AS WELL.
12:11:32PM NEED TO LEARN THE LAW BECAUSE AT SOME POINT VIOLATE YOUR
12:11:36PM RIGHTS UNDER THE LAW.
12:11:37PM NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.
12:11:39PM LET'S TALK ABOUT DOUBLE STANDARD.
12:11:41PM WHAT BLACK FOLKS COULD NEVER DO THAT WHITE FOLKS CAN DO IS
12:11:45PM ASCEND TO CERTAIN POSITIONS.
12:11:48PM LIKE, BLACK FOLKS COULD NEVER BECOME ATTORNEYS AND WALK INTO
12:11:51PM A COURT ROOM AND LIE AND EXPECT NO ACCOUNTABILITY.
12:11:55PM BLACK FOLKS CAN NEVER BECOME JUDGES AND ALLOW A LIE TO BE
12:12:00PM TOLD BLATANTLY IN FRONT OF YOU AND NOT SANCTION THE ATTORNEY
12:12:05PM WHO MADE THE MISLEADING COMMENT OR ACTUALLY THE OUTRIGHT
12:12:08PM LIE.
12:12:09PM IN MY INSTANCE, WE HAVE ATTORNEYS AND I'M GOING TO SAY THEIR
12:12:12PM NAMES.
12:12:12PM I REALLY WANT THEM TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THIS.
12:12:15PM TALKING ABOUT RAYMOND HAWS, DALE PARKER OF BANKER, LOPEZ,
12:12:22PM JOHN MUELLER BUTLER KATZ, I THINK HE IS A PARTNER THERE AS
12:12:28PM WELL.
12:12:28PM MICHAEL ROE, I THINK HE IS PROBABLY THE MOST DESPICABLE
12:12:32PM PERSON I MET IN MY LIFE.
12:12:34PM DEANNE -- TABITHA BLACKWELL.
12:12:39PM JUDGE EMILY ANN PEACOCK.
12:12:41PM OF THE 13th JUDICIAL CIRCUIT.
12:12:45PM WE ALREADY KNOW I DON'T THINK MUCH OF FORMER JUDGE HOLDER
12:12:51PM WHAT HE AND FORMER CITY EMPLOYEES FALSELY ACCUSED OF ME OF
12:12:58PM PERJURY.
12:12:59PM JUDGE PAUL HUEY WHO SAT RIGHT THERE, THE INTERESTING THING,
12:13:04PM THE WHOLE WORLD CAN GO TO MY YouTube PAGE.
12:13:06PM I FOUND OUT BECAUSE I POSTED SOMETHING ON SPEAKING BEFORE,
12:13:11PM PROFIT SHARE.
12:13:12PM WE'RE PARTNERS NOW.
12:13:13PM GO TO MY YouTube PAGE AND JUST WATCH AND LISTEN TO THESE
12:13:16PM PEOPLE LIE.
12:13:19PM LIKE MY SHIRT SAYS, NIGGA COULD NEVER EVER HOPE TO GET AWAY
12:13:28PM WITH ATROCITIES, THAT WHITE FOLKS ACROSS THE STREET.
12:13:34PM SHOUT-OUT TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA, UNIVERSITY OF
12:13:38PM JEFFERSON HIGH SCHOOL FOR NAMING THE AUDITORIUM AFTER THE
12:13:41PM LATE GREAT GWENDOLYN HENDERSON.
12:13:43PM I HAVE A TREMENDOUS AFFINITY FOR THAT INSTITUTION, EVEN
12:13:49PM THOUGH I DIDN'T GIVE THE BEST EFFORT WHEN I WAS ON THE
12:13:52PM FOOTBALL FIELD BECAUSE I JOINED THE ARMY.
12:13:54PM 40th YEAR OF JOINING THE MILITARY.
12:13:57PM VETERANS -- TAKE CARE OF THEM.
12:13:59PM YOU ALL TAKE CARE.
12:14:00PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MICHELLE.
12:14:02PM LAST BUT NOT LEAST.
12:14:04PM I SLAUGHTERED YOUR FIRST NAME.
12:14:07PM >> THAT'S OKAY.
12:14:07PM GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND FELLOW TAMPA RESIDENTS.
12:14:13PM MY NAME IS NAYA YOUNG.
12:14:16PM I'M VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE TODAY.
12:14:17PM I STAND BEFORE YOU AS A TAMPA HEIGHTS RESIDENT, ALSO
12:14:21PM DISTRICT FIVE RESIDENT.
12:14:23PM TAMPA IS GROWING EVERY DAY, AND WITH THAT GROWTH COMES
12:14:27PM INCREDIBLE DIVERSITY.
12:14:29PM DIVERSE COMMUNITIES, EACH WITH UNIQUE BACKGROUNDS,
12:14:33PM EXPERIENCES AND NEEDS.
12:14:34PM D 5 IS A BEAUTIFUL DISTRICT.
12:14:38PM WE HAVE HISTORIC COMMUNITIES THAT I WANT TO CONTINUE TO SEE
12:14:43PM THRIVE.
12:14:44PM UNIQUE STORIES FROM OUR LEGACY FAMILIES AND THOSE WHO HAVE
12:14:47PM LIVED HERE FOR MANY YEARS.
12:14:50PM THAT HISTORY IS A GUIDING LIGHT FOR TODAY'S YOUTH.
12:14:55PM WE HAVE TO HOLD THAT DEAR.
12:14:56PM THEREFORE, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE EXPANDING SUPPORT FOR OUR
12:15:00PM YOUTH.
12:15:01PM OUR YOUTH, OUR YOUTH, OUR YOUTH.
12:15:03PM OUR PARKS PROGRAMS, COMMUNITY POOLS, OUR SENIORS, AGAIN, WHO
12:15:07PM ARE GEMS OF THE DISTRICT 5 COMMUNITY.
12:15:11PM HOUSING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT JUST TO UPLIFT PEOPLE IN
12:15:14PM OUR COMMUNITY.
12:15:15PM I'VE SEEN MYSELF, THE BEAUTY THAT COMES FROM INVESTING IN
12:15:18PM OUR YOUTH AND LISTENING TO OUR COMMUNITIES.
12:15:20PM WHEN WE INVEST IN OUR YOUTH, ULTIMATELY WE ARE INVESTING IN
12:15:23PM OUR FUTURE.
12:15:25PM WE ARE BUILDING A FUTURE FOR THEM.
12:15:27PM IT'S ONLY RIGHT THAT WE CONTINUE TO INVEST IN THEM.
12:15:31PM WHEN WE LISTEN TO OUR COMMUNITIES, THAT'S HOW WE FOSTER THAT
12:15:34PM COLLABORATION.
12:15:35PM AND THAT COLLABORATION LEADS TO SHARED ECONOMIC GROWTH.
12:15:39PM SUSTAINABLE GROWTH MEANS MORE THAN JUST MANAGING
12:15:41PM DEVELOPMENT.
12:15:42PM IT MEANS CREATING OPPORTUNITIES THAT LIFT UP OUR ENTIRE
12:15:45PM COMMUNITIES.
12:15:46PM IT MEANS ENSURING THAT AS TAMPA GROWS, WE GROW TOGETHER WITH
12:15:52PM COLLABORATION AND GOODWILL GUIDING OUR PATH FORWARD.
12:15:55PM I THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR LISTENING AND THANK YOU FOR THE
12:15:58PM WORK THAT YOU DO.
12:15:59PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
12:16:00PM ONE MORE SPEAKER, RON WEAVER, PLEASE.
12:16:04PM >> LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I ARRIVE ON OCCASION OF TWINS.
12:16:09PM I HAVE TWIN GRANDSONS.
12:16:10PM I WAS RAISED BY TWO TWIN COUSINS.
12:16:14PM RONALD L. WEAVER.
12:16:16PM I RISE ON THE OCCASION OF TWINS.
12:16:22PM TWIN GRANDSONS AND I WAS RAISED BY TWO TWIN COUSINS HAVING
12:16:26PM NO BROTHERS.
12:16:27PM THE TWINS I RISE FOR ARE GEORGE AND LEONARD LEVY ABOUT WHOM
12:16:30PM IT IS POSSIBLE THAT THIS CITY, YOUR CITY, YOUR CITY COUNCIL
12:16:33PM MIGHT NAME ONE OF YOUR FUTURE MAJOR PROJECTS IN HONOR OF THE
12:16:36PM AMAZING TWINS GEORGE AND LEONARD LEVY.
12:16:40PM WHEN SOLOMON AND SIMMIE LEVY LOOKED AT THESE LITTLE
12:16:44PM IDENTICAL TWINS ON JULY 25, 1933, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
12:16:49PM DEPRESSION, I WONDER IF THEY WONDERED WHAT MIGHT THESE
12:16:50PM LITTLE TWINS DO ALONE AND TOGETHER TO CHANGE THE SHAPE OF
12:16:53PM TAMPA.
12:16:54PM THESE TWINS, LEONARD AND GEORGE LEVY -- LEONARD WENT OFF TO
12:16:58PM THE MARINES, SERVED AS A CAPTAIN, CAME OUT AS A CAPTAIN, AND
12:17:01PM HE DIDN'T INHERIT HILLSBOROUGH PRINTING FROM HIS DAD.
12:17:03PM HE WORKED AS THE SALES REPRESENTATIVE AND GREW OVER 30 YEARS
12:17:06PM TO OWN THE MAJORITY INTEREST IN ONE OF THE PREMIER COMPANIES
12:17:09PM IN ALL OF TAMPA, HILLSBOROUGH PRINTING.
12:17:13PM BUT IT WASN'T IN PRINTING THAT WE SEE LEONARD AND GEORGE
12:17:14PM LEVY CHANGED THE SHAPE AND REDEEMED ALL THE HOPES OF SOLOMON
12:17:20PM AND SIMMIE LEVY ON JULY 25, 1933 BECAUSE HE WOULD CHAIR THE
12:17:24PM TAMPA SPORTS AUTHORITY AND GET US A TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS
12:17:28PM TEAM.
12:17:28PM HE WOULD THEN, AS HE GOT THAT TEAM, TURN AROUND AND SAY,
12:17:31PM NOW, LET'S GET A SUPER BOWL.
12:17:32PM AND HE DID.
12:17:33PM THEN WE GOT THREE OR FOUR OTHERS, ONLY BECAUSE OF LEONARD
12:17:37PM AND GEORGE LEVY.
12:17:39PM LEONARD LEVY WOULD BE 1994 CIVITAN CITY OF THE YEAR.
12:17:43PM IN 1999, HE WILL HELP GET US THE NATIONAL FINAL FOUR FOR
12:17:49PM COLLEGE BASKETBALL.
12:17:50PM IN 2017 HE WILL GET US THE INAUGURAL FOOTBALL PLAYOFF GAME,
12:17:55PM CLEMSON ALABAMA HERE IN 2017.
12:17:58PM THEN HIS BUSINESS HILLSBOROUGH PRINTING WILL BE NOT ONLY A
12:18:02PM COMPANY OF ETHICS, BUT UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA WILL GIVE HIM
12:18:05PM THEIR CENTER OF ETHICS AWARD TO LEONARD LEVY.
12:18:07PM LEONARD LEVY AND GEORGE LEVY HAVE CHANGED THE SHAPE OF THIS
12:18:12PM COMMUNITY.
12:18:12PM THEY HAVE CHANGED NOT ONLY THE WORLD OF SPORTS, BUT LEONARD
12:18:16PM CHAIRED THE TAMPA VISITOR'S BUREAU.
12:18:18PM HIS WIFE LOOK SO GOOD TODAY BECAUSE CHAIRMAN LIKE LEONARD
12:18:23PM LEVY.
12:18:23PM LEONARD AND GEORGE LEVY CAME TO THIS TOWN, THEY BROUGHT THIS
12:18:27PM TOWN TO A NEW PLACE.
12:18:28PM THEY BROUGHT IT TO A PLACE OF PRIDE.
12:18:30PM THEY BROUGHT IT TO A PLACE OF INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION, AND
12:18:34PM THERE ARE DOZENS OF OTHER THINGS DONE FOR THE UNITED WAY AND
12:18:37PM THE SALVATION ARMY AND THE GREATER TAMPA CHAMBER OF
12:18:39PM COMMERCE, ALL OF WHICH REFLECTED THE FACT THAT GEORGE AND
12:18:43PM LEONARD LEVY FULFILLED EVERY HOPE OF SOLOMON AND SIMMIE LEVY
12:18:50PM LOOKING DOWN ON JULY 25, 1933, IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
12:18:54PM DEPRESSION AT THE ENORMOUS POTENTIAL OF THESE TWO IDENTICAL
12:18:58PM TWINS.
12:18:59PM I WOULD HOPE YOU WOULD NAME A FACILITY AFTER THE LEVY
12:19:02PM BROTHERS.
12:19:02PM THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
12:19:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS REQUEST FOR
12:19:08PM RECONSIDERATION OF LEGISLATIVE MATTERS.
12:19:09PM I BELIEVE WE DO NOT HAVE ONE.
12:19:11PM WE'LL GO RIGHT TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
12:19:12PM LET'S RUN THROUGH THE CONSENT AGENDA, SET THE PUBLIC
12:19:15PM HEARINGS AND THEN BREAK FOR LUNCH.
12:19:17PM PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE CHAIR, LUIS VIERA.
12:19:22PM >>LUIS VIERA: I MOVE ITEMS 3 THROUGH 8.
12:19:28PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
12:19:30PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:19:31PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, AYE.
12:19:33PM OPPOSED?
12:19:33PM AYES HAVE IT.
12:19:34PM NEIGHBORHOOD AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, COUNCILWOMAN
12:19:38PM HURTAK.
12:19:38PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MOVE ITEMS 9 THROUGH 16.
12:19:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
12:19:42PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
12:19:43PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:19:44PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
12:19:46PM OPPOSED?
12:19:46PM AYES HAVE IT.
12:19:48PM >>BILL CARLSON: COULD WE VOTE ON 19 SEPARATELY.
12:19:54PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO, PULLING 19 FOR
12:19:58PM SEPARATE VOTE.
12:20:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I MOVE ITEMS 17 THROUGH 24 WITH THE
12:20:04PM EXCEPTION OF 19.
12:20:05PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:20:07PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:20:08PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
12:20:10PM OPPOSED?
12:20:10PM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:20:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: NOW I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE FOR A SEPARATE
12:20:14PM VOTE, ITEM 19.
12:20:15PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN
12:20:17PM MANISCALCO, SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
12:20:19PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE?
12:20:20PM OPPOSED?
12:20:21PM >>BILL CARLSON: NAY.
12:20:22PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON VOTING NO.
12:20:24PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, CLERK.
12:20:26PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
12:20:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE ONE THING TO SAY ABOUT FINANCE
12:20:29PM COMMITTEE.
12:20:31PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HAVE A CLARITY THING, TOO.
12:20:32PM ITEM 27, THERE WAS AN INCORRECT MEMO ATTACHED TO ITEM 27.
12:20:38PM IT WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE, JUST FOR CLARITY, SO PEOPLE
12:20:41PM UNDERSTAND.
12:20:42PM THIS IS A SCRIVENER'S ERROR CORRECTING THE NAME OF THE
12:20:44PM COMPANY.
12:20:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ITEM NUMBER 30 IS THE LIST OF APPROVED AUDITS
12:20:52PM FOR 2026.
12:20:54PM I'M NOT PULLING THIS FOR DISCUSSION, BUT DURING NEW
12:20:56PM BUSINESS, I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS IF COUNCIL WANTS TO ADD AN
12:21:01PM AUDIT, I HAVE A SUGGESTION.
12:21:02PM WE HAVE 30 DAYS FROM THE TIME WE RECEIVE THIS AUDIT PLAN TO
12:21:06PM REQUEST ADDITIONAL AUDITS.
12:21:08PM PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU LOOK THROUGH THE LIST AND SEE IF
12:21:11PM THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD.
12:21:13PM LAST YEAR, WE ADDED TWO THINGS.
12:21:15PM ONE OF THEM IS THE CONTINUATION THAT COUNCILWOMAN HENDERSON
12:21:18PM ASKED ABOUT THE RIVER CENTER.
12:21:22PM THAT ONE IS STILL ON THERE.
12:21:24PM AGAIN, WE DID ADD TWO AUDITS LAST YEAR AND WE HAVE 30 DAYS
12:21:28PM IN WHICH TO DO IT.
12:21:29PM THINK ON IT OVER LUNCH SO WE CAN MAKE SOME DISCUSSIONS.
12:21:31PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
12:21:32PM WOULD YOU MOVE ITEMS 25 THROUGH 30, PLEASE?
12:21:34PM MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:21:38PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:21:39PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
12:21:41PM OPPOSED?
12:21:41PM MR. CARLSON.
12:21:47PM >>BILL CARLSON: ON 34, I NEED TO ABSTAIN.
12:21:50PM I'VE GOT A FORM 8B, MAKE A MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
12:21:57PM ALTHOUGH MY FIRM DOESN'T WORK ON THE ISSUE DIRECTLY, ONE OF
12:22:00PM THE CLIENTS MAY POTENTIALLY BENEFIT.
12:22:03PM I'LL ABSTAIN.
12:22:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE?
12:22:06PM OPPOSED?
12:22:06PM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, WOULD YOU MOVE ITEMS 31 THROUGH 41
12:22:13PM EXCEPT FOR ITEM 34?
12:22:15PM >>BILL CARLSON: COMMENTARY, 31 I THINK SHOULD HAVE BEEN A
12:22:17PM PUBLIC DISCUSSION.
12:22:19PM WE'LL SEE WHAT THE REPERCUSSIONS OF THIS ARE.
12:22:23PM I THINK IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN A PUBLIC DISCUSSION INSTEAD OF
12:22:25PM CONSENT.
12:22:25PM I MOVE 31 THROUGH 41 WITH THE EXCEPTION OF 34.
12:22:32PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN CARLSON, SECOND
12:22:34PM FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:22:36PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
12:22:38PM OPPOSED?
12:22:38PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, WOULD YOU MOVE ITEM 34, PLEASE.
12:22:44PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MOVE ITEM 34.
12:22:46PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
12:22:47PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
12:22:48PM ALL IN FAVOR AYE?
12:22:49PM OPPOSED?
12:22:50PM >>THE CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CARLSON ABSTAINING.
12:22:53PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MOVE ITEMS 42 THROUGH 45.
12:22:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND, AND MAY I MAKE A COMMENT REAL
12:22:59PM QUICK?
12:22:59PM THANK YOU.
12:23:00PM I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, SPOKE AT PUBLIC COMMENT, BILL TRUETT
12:23:03PM AND THE HAMPTON TERRACE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, WELL, I
12:23:07PM THINK THAT IS THE OFFICIAL NAME.
12:23:08PM ANYWAYS, BILL TRUETT AND BRIAN FRYE AND OTHERS ARE
12:23:13PM CONSTANTLY MONITORING THE QUALITY OF THE WATER IN LAKE
12:23:18PM ROBERTA AND VERY, VERY INVOLVED IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
12:23:21PM WE'VE MET RECENTLY, MR. TRUETT IN MY OFFICE AND WHAT NOT.
12:23:27PM GLAD TO SEE THIS ON THE AGENDA AND THINGS ARE MOVING FORWARD
12:23:30PM IN REGARDS TO THE WATER QUALITY MONITORING IN LAKE ROBERTA.
12:23:33PM THAT'S ALL.
12:23:37PM COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION.
12:23:38PM GET THE RIGHT ONE, YEAH.
12:23:40PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK
12:23:41PM AND SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
12:23:44PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE?
12:23:45PM OPPOSED?
12:23:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO SET ITEMS 46, 47 AND 48.
12:23:51PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
12:23:52PM MOTION TO SET ITEMS 46 THROUGH 48 FROM COUNCILMAN
12:23:55PM MANISCALCO.
12:23:55PM SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA.
12:23:56PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
12:23:59PM OPPOSED?
12:23:59PM WE ARE GOING TO BREAK FOR LUNCH, HOW ABOUT WE COME BACK AT
12:24:03PM 1:30?
12:24:07PM >>LUIS VIERA: TWO THINGS.
12:24:08PM TO LET COUNCIL KNOW, I WAS GOING TO REQUEST, WE HAVE I THINK
12:24:12PM TOMORROW FOR THE NONPROFITS SOME DOCUMENTS I WAS GOING TO
12:24:15PM REQUEST.
12:24:15PM I FEEL LIKE I'M IN COURT, BUT I WOULD LIKE A CONTINUANCE ON
12:24:19PM THAT.
12:24:20PM SOME GROUPS I'M TALKING TO MAY NOT HAVE THAT READY.
12:24:24PM I DON'T THINK AN ISSUE BUT WANTED TO SAY THAT.
12:24:26PM SECOND, I WOULD BE DAMNED TO NOT SAY THIS.
12:24:29PM SOMETHING IN PUBLIC COMMENT PISSED ME OFF ABOUT OUR
12:24:32PM CHAIRMAN.
12:24:32PM I ORDERED A BUNCH OF PRIDE PINS.
12:24:35PM I'M GOING TO WEAR IT NEXT WEEK BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO TALK LIKE
12:24:38PM THAT, WE CAN TELL THEM TO GO TO HELL.
12:24:40PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I'LL SECOND THAT.
12:24:42PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WANT TO SAY SOMETHING ELSE ABOUT PUBLIC
12:24:45PM COMMENT.
12:24:46PM I WANT TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND, LISTENING IN THE
12:24:49PM PUBLIC.
12:24:49PM THERE ARE A LOT OF PERSONNEL ISSUES, WHILE FREE TO COME TO
12:24:54PM COUNCIL FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, UNDERSTAND THIS COUNCIL IS NOT
12:24:57PM PART OF THE HUMAN RESOURCES, THE APPEAL PROCESS.
12:25:00PM IF YOU ARE REPRESENTED BY A LABOR UNION, YOU HAVE A
12:25:04PM NEGOTIATED AGREEMENT THAT YOU WORK THROUGH.
12:25:05PM IF YOU ARE NOT REPRESENTED BUT THERE IS A PERSONNEL MANUAL
12:25:09PM AND THERE'S LEGAL STEPS THAT YOU CAN TAKE.
12:25:12PM UNFORTUNATELY, THE CITY COUNCIL HAS NO ROLE IN THAT
12:25:15PM WHATSOEVER.
12:25:16PM SO WHILE YOU'RE FREE TO COME AND EXPRESS THOSE VIEWPOINTS
12:25:19PM AND YOUR THREE MINUTES OF PUBLIC COMMENT, THERE'S REALLY NOT
12:25:22PM MUCH, WE'RE NOT A PART OF THAT PROCESS.
12:25:25PM AS MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL, WE CAN'T REALLY HELP YOU IN THAT
12:25:27PM PROCESS BECAUSE WE'RE NOT PART OF THAT.
12:25:31PM >>BILL CARLSON: THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT TOLD ME, I ASSUME THE
12:25:33PM REST OF YOU, THAT THE ONLY THING WE CAN DO WHEN AN EMPLOYEE
12:25:36PM COMES TO US, BECAUSE I'VE HAD A BUNCH OF CALLS WHICH I HAD
12:25:40PM TO TURN OVER IN PUBLIC RECORD SEARCHES, BUT WHEN SOMEBODY
12:25:44PM CONTACTS US, ALL WE CAN SAY IS YOU NEED TO CONTACT HR OR
12:25:48PM CONTACT A LAWYER.
12:25:49PM AND THAT'S IT.
12:25:50PM WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE OTHER CONVERSATIONS WHICH IS VERY
12:25:53PM FRUSTRATING BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO SOLVE THE UNDERLYING
12:25:55PM ISSUES.
12:25:56PM UNFORTUNATELY, WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO.
12:25:57PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YEAH, THERE IS A PROCESS.
12:26:00PM 1:30.
12:26:01PM BON APPETIT.
12:26:04PM [LUNCH RECESS]
01:38:21PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE WE GO.
01:38:22PM OUR SMILING FACES.
01:38:24PM WELCOME BACK.
01:38:24PM THE MEETING IS BACK TO ORDER.
01:38:28PM ROLL CALL, PLEASE.
01:38:29PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HERE.
01:38:30PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HERE.
01:38:34PM >>BILL CARLSON: HERE.
01:38:34PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE.
01:38:35PM >>CLERK: WE HAVE A PHYSICAL QUORUM.
01:38:38PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
01:38:39PM THANK YOU FOR THOSE BEING PATIENT FOR US WAITING FOR YOUR
01:38:43PM BUSINESS FOR THE MORNING.
01:38:44PM APPRECIATE YOUR PATIENCE.
01:38:45PM HOPE YOU HAD A GOOD LUNCH.
01:38:46PM WE ARE GOING TO START WITH THE 10 A.M.
01:38:53PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION TO OPEN --
01:38:55PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT'S WHERE I WAS GOING.
01:38:57PM MOTION?
01:38:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION.
01:38:59PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
01:39:00PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN
01:39:04PM HURTAK AND SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:39:06PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WILL YOU CONSIDER TAKING THE SECOND READINGS
01:39:09PM BEFORE THE 10:00 HEARINGS?
01:39:11PM I AM SORRY, I THOUGHT YOU MEANT THE ACTUAL HEARINGS AND
01:39:21PM VACATIONS.
01:39:22PM MY MISUNDERSTANDING, THANK YOU.
01:39:24PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE FIRST ONE IS NONQUASI-JUDICIAL.
01:39:28PM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
01:39:30PM A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:39:32PM MR. SHELBY INTERRUPTED ME, AND I WAS UNABLE TO GET TO THE
01:39:35PM VOTE.
01:39:35PM ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF OPENING THE HEARING, SAY AYE.
01:39:40PM OPPOSED.
01:39:41PM THE HEARINGS ARE OPEN.
01:39:42PM NONQUASI-JUDICIAL AS OPPOSED TO THE NEXT ONES THAT WE WILL
01:39:47PM HAVE SWEAR IN.
01:39:51PM VAC-24-19.
01:39:58PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS.
01:40:02PM FOR ADOPTION.
01:40:05PM AND I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
01:40:07PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
01:40:10PM >> ALEX SCHALER, 400 NORTH ASHLEY DRIVE AND AVAILABLE FOR
01:40:15PM ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
01:40:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANYBODY HAVE QUESTIONS?
01:40:19PM ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC TO SPEAK ON ITEM 49?
01:40:22PM MOTION TO CLOSED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA AND SECOND BY
01:40:25PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
01:40:25PM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO READ ITEM 49.
01:40:30PM >>BILL CARLSON: SURE.
01:40:32PM VAC 24-19.
01:40:33PM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
01:40:36PM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA VACATING CLOSING, DISTANCING
01:40:39PM OR ABANDONING AN ALLEY RIGHT-OF-WAY LOCATED NORTH OF SEVENTH
01:40:43PM AVENUE, SOUTH OF OAK AVENUE, EAST OF INTERSTATE 275, AND
01:40:46PM WEST OF TALIAFERRO AVENUE WITHIN THE PLAT MAP OF OAK RIDGE
01:40:55PM SUBDIVISION IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AS MORE FULLY
01:40:58PM DESCRIBED SUBJECT TO CERTAIN COVENANTS AND RESTRICTIONS AS
01:41:02PM MORE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH HEREIN PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR
01:41:07PM VIOLATION.
01:41:07PM PROVIDING FOR DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATIONS AND REPEALING
01:41:10PM CONFLICTS, AND PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY.
01:41:12PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
01:41:13PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON AND A
01:41:16PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:41:17PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:41:18PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH MANISCALCO BEING
01:41:30PM ABSENT AT VOTE.
01:41:33PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ITEM 50.
01:41:36PM >>SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ: SUSAN JOHNSON-VELEZ, LEGAL
01:41:38PM DEPARTMENT.
01:41:39PM ITEM NUMBER 50 IS TO CORRECT A SCRIVENER'S ERROR.
01:41:46PM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
01:41:49PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS THERE AN APPLICANT?
01:41:52PM YOU ARE THE APPLICANT.
01:41:53PM OKAY.
01:41:53PM MOTION -- ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK TO THIS ITEM?
01:41:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION TO CLOSE.
01:41:59PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
01:42:00PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:42:01PM OPPOSED.
01:42:02PM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
01:42:03PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR, GLAD TO READ IT.
01:42:06PM ORDINANCE FOR SECOND READING ADOPTION AMENDING ORDINANCE
01:42:10PM 2004-14 PASSED BY THE CITY OF TAMPA JANUARY 8, 2024.
01:42:16PM REZONING PROPERTY 4905 PRICE AVENUE, CITY OF TAMPA, TO
01:42:20PM CORRECT A SCRIVENER'S ERROR SAID TO ORDINANCE, PROVIDING FOR
01:42:26PM SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
01:42:27PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
01:42:29PM SECOND FROM --
01:42:31PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
01:42:31PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MIRANDA.
01:42:33PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:42:34PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH MANISCALCO BEING
01:42:41PM ABSENT AND VOTE.
01:42:42PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE ARE MOVING ON TO THE PUBLIC HEARINGS
01:42:45PM QUASI-JUDICIAL AND REQUIRE TO BE SWORN IN.
01:42:49PM BETWEEN ITEMS 51-57.
01:42:52PM PLEASE STAND AND RAISE YOUR RIGHT HAND TO BE SWORN IN.
01:42:52PM [SWEARING IN]
01:43:05PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ITEM 51.
01:43:06PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU, CHAIRMAN AND COUNCIL, LaCHONE
01:43:09PM DOCK, ITEM 51 REZ-24-114 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 206
01:43:16PM WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE.
01:43:17PM THE REQUEST TO REZONE FROM CG COMMERCIAL GENERAL TO RM-24
01:43:22PM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY TO PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR
01:43:25PM RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED USE.
01:43:27PM SITE PLAN CHANGES WERE REQUIRED TO BE MADE.
01:43:29PM THOSE CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE.
01:43:31PM THE PLAN WAS CERTIFIED AND PROVIDED TO THE CLERK,
01:43:36PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
01:43:38PM DO WE HAVE AN APPLICANT?
01:43:45PM FOR ITEM 51.
01:43:47PM HEARING NONE.
01:43:48PM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON 51?
01:43:51PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE TO CLOSE.
01:43:52PM >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
01:43:52PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE -- SORRY, YOU HAVE
01:43:57PM TO READ IT FIRST.
01:43:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: REZ 24-114, ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR SECOND
01:44:03PM READING AND ADOPTION, ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE
01:44:05PM GENERAL VICINITY OF 206 WEST COLUMBUS DRIVE IN THE CITY OF
01:44:10PM TAMPA, MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION ONE FROM
01:44:13PM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATIONS CG, COMMERCIAL GENERAL
01:44:17PM AND RM-4, RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY TO PD, PLANNED
01:44:21PM DEVELOPMENT, RESIDENTIAL, SINGLE-FAMILY ATTACHED PROVIDING
01:44:23PM AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
01:44:24PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
01:44:25PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
01:44:28PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:44:29PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:44:31PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH MANISCALCO BEING
01:44:37PM ABSENT AT VOTE.
01:44:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, ITEM 52.
01:44:41PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
01:44:42PM LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
01:44:45PM 52 IS 25-17 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 760 NORTH NEBRASKA
01:44:52PM AVENUE.
01:44:52PM THE REQUEST TO REZONE ITS PROPERTY IN SH-CI, SEMINOLE
01:44:58PM HEIGHTS COMMERCIAL INTENSIVE TO SH-PD, SEMINOLE HEIGHTS
01:45:03PM PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR ATTACHED AND DETACHED AUTO USES
01:45:07PM ON-SITE.
01:45:07PM SITE PLAN MODIFICATIONS WERE MADE.
01:45:10PM THOSE CHANGES HAVE BEEN MADE, AND THEY WERE PROVIDED TO THE
01:45:14PM CLERK, AND I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
01:45:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, LACHONE.
01:45:18PM ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
01:45:19PM IS THERE AN APPLICANT?
01:45:20PM ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK FOR ITEM 52?
01:45:24PM MOTION TO CLOSE BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
01:45:25PM SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:45:27PM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, READ ITEM 52.
01:45:31PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: FILE NUMBER REZ 25-17.
01:45:35PM ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
01:45:38PM ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY OF 7602 NORTH NEBRASKA AVENUE IN
01:45:45PM CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED
01:45:50PM AS SH-CI TO SH-PD, ATTACHED AND DETACHED PROVIDING AN
01:45:58PM EFFECTIVE DATE.
01:45:59PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:46:01PM SECOND FROM --
01:46:02PM >>LUIS VIERA: SECOND.
01:46:03PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:46:05PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH MANISCALCO BEING
01:46:11PM ABSENT AT VOTE.
01:46:12PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, ITEM 53.
01:46:15PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
01:46:16PM LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
01:46:18PM ITEM 53, REZ-25-34 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED 3305 WEST
01:46:26PM OAKELLAR, TO REZONE FROM RS-50, RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY
01:46:30PM TO PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT FOR RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY
01:46:33PM DETACHED USE AND SITE PLAN MODIFICATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE, AND
01:46:39PM THE PLAN HAS BEEN CERTIFIED AND PROVIDED TO THE CLERK.
01:46:42PM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
01:46:45PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, ANY QUESTIONS?
01:46:48PM IS THERE AN APPLICANT?
01:46:50PM KEVIN, ONLINE?
01:47:01PM KEVIN, GOING ONCE -- ANYBODY FROM THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO
01:47:07PM SPEAK ON THIS ITEM?
01:47:08PM WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
01:47:10PM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:47:11PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:47:12PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:47:14PM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
01:47:19PM >>BILL CARLSON: 53, RIGHT?
01:47:23PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: 53, YES.
01:47:25PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE FILE NUMBER REZ-24-34.
01:47:29PM ORDINANCE SECOND READING AND ADOPTION PROPERTY IN THE
01:47:33PM GENERAL VICINITY OF 3305 WEST OAKELLAR AVENUE IN THE CITY
01:47:40PM OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED AS SECTION 1,
01:47:44PM ZONING DISTRICT RS-50 TO PD, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
01:47:48PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:47:51PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH MANISCALCO BEING
01:47:55PM ABSENT AT VOTE.
01:47:56PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, 54, PLEASE.
01:47:59PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: THANK YOU.
01:48:01PM AGAIN, COUNCIL, LaCHONE DOCK, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
01:48:04PM ITEM 54 IS REZ-25-38.
01:48:08PM PROPERTIES 102 AND 106 SOUTH DALE MABRY HIGHWAY.
01:48:12PM REQUEST TO REZONE THE PROPERTY FROM PD PLANNED DEVELOPMENT
01:48:16PM WHICH ALLOW FOR THE RETAIL OF A DRIVE-THRU TO PD DRIVE-THRU
01:48:21PM FOR CLINIC USE.
01:48:22PM SITE PLAN CHANGES THAT WERE READY TO BE MADE BETWEEN FIRST
01:48:25PM AND SECOND READING AND SOME OF THOSE CHANGES WERE LIFTED ON
01:48:28PM THE STAFF REPORT.
01:48:29PM BUT IN ADDITION TO THOSE, COUNCIL, YOU MAY RECALL AT THE
01:48:32PM FIRST READING, ON JUNE 12, THE APPLICANT WAS DIRECTED TO
01:48:36PM WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY.
01:48:37PM THE APPLICANT DID MEET WITH THE COMMUNITY, AND THEY HAVE
01:48:40PM ADDED TO THE SITE PLAN AN EIGHT-FOOT WALL ALONG THE SOUTHERN
01:48:45PM BOUNDARY OF THE SITE.
01:48:46PM AND THEY WILL HAVE LANDSCAPING OUTSIDE OF THAT WALL.
01:48:49PM SO THAT CHANGE WAS MADE IN ADDITION TO THE OTHER CHANGES
01:48:53PM REQUIRED ON THE STAFF REPORT.
01:48:55PM THE PLAN HAS BEEN CERTIFIED AND PROVIDED TO THE CLERK.
01:48:58PM AND I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
01:49:00PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
01:49:00PM COUNCIL HAVE QUESTIONS?
01:49:02PM APPLICANT?
01:49:04PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, KAMI CORBITT WITH THE LAW FIRM OF HILL,
01:49:08PM WARD AND HENDERSON.
01:49:09PM WE APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT AT FIRST READING, AND WE TOOK YOUR
01:49:13PM DIRECTION AND MET BACK WITH THE COMMUNITY ON JUNE 25.
01:49:15PM THERE WAS AN ON-SITE MEETING WITH BAY CARE EXECUTIVES AND
01:49:19PM MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY.
01:49:20PM AND THERE WAS A DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW TO HANDLE THE SCREENING
01:49:23PM ON BOTH THE SOUTHERN AND EASTERN BOUNDARY.
01:49:25PM AND I WOULD LIKE TO APPROACH AND PROVIDE COUNCIL WITH LARGE
01:49:29PM COPIES OF WHAT WE PRESENTED.
01:49:30PM AND I WILL ALSO ASK KATHLEEN KEEN TO COME UP AND WALK YOU
01:49:36PM THROUGH WHAT WE ARE PROPOSING.
01:49:37PM >> HI, KATHLEEN KEEN FROM DHB.
01:49:55PM I WILL WAIT A MOMENT FOR EVERYBODY TO GET A COPY.
01:49:58PM WELL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS LAST TIME.
01:50:10PM WE DID TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT THE PLAN TO SEE WHAT WE COULD
01:50:13PM TO DO MEET COUNCIL'S COMMENTS.
01:50:15PM AND WE DID MEET WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD ON JUNE 25th FOR
01:50:24PM NUMBER OF OPTIONS AND SCREENING THAT WILL HAVE THE PLAN THAT
01:50:28PM IS IN FRONT OF YOU ON THE SCREEN.
01:50:29PM WE CONSIDERED A NUMBER OF SCREENING OPTIONS WITH VARIOUS
01:50:32PM LOCATIONS.
01:50:32PM BOTH LANDSCAPING TREATMENTS AND A WALL.
01:50:34PM AND ULTIMATELY, WHAT WE SETTLED ON WITH -- IN CONJUNCTION
01:50:39PM WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHAT IS SHOWN ON THE PLAN IS A
01:50:41PM WALL ALONG THE SOUTHEAST CORNER ROUGHLY WHERE I AM OUTLINING
01:50:46PM RIGHT NOW.
01:50:46PM THAT WALL IS A TOTAL OF EIGHT FEET IN HEIGHT.
01:50:49PM IT IS A SIX-FOOT WALL, BUT THAT WALL IS LOCATED IN A
01:50:53PM LOCATION THAT IS TWO FEET HIGHER BECAUSE OF THE BERM.
01:50:56PM SO WE ACCOUNT FOR THE TOTAL OF EIGHT FEET.
01:50:59PM BUT I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT'S CLEAR.
01:51:01PM THAT WALL IS LOCATED DIRECTLY ALONG THE INTERNAL CIRCULATION
01:51:05PM ROADWAY.
01:51:06PM THE REASON FOR THAT THAT THE RESIDENTS COULD HAVE A VIEW OF
01:51:09PM THE OPEN SPACE AREA.
01:51:10PM BUT THEN HAVE THE WALL TO BUFFER FROM THE AMBULANCE DROP-OFF
01:51:15PM FROM THERE.
01:51:15PM WE ARE ALSO PROVIDING A HEDGE AND LANDSCAPING ALONG THE
01:51:18PM WALL.
01:51:19PM THAT ACTUALLY RUNS FURTHER TO THE WEST ALONG RAWLINGS
01:51:24PM STREET.
01:51:24PM YOU CAN SEE THE DARKER STRIP.
01:51:26PM AND FURTHER TO THE NORTH PAST THE WALL TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
01:51:30PM LANDSCAPING AND SCREEN.
01:51:31PM NOT ONLY FROM THE AMBULANCE DROP-OFF AREA BUT TO THE
01:51:35PM DUMPSTER LOCATIONS AS WELL.
01:51:37PM IN ADDITION, WE ARE LOOKING TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF
01:51:40PM LANDSCAPING ALONG THE SOUTHERN PROPERTY BORDER THAT BORDERS
01:51:46PM RAWLINGS STREET.
01:51:47PM IT IS IN THAT VIEW LINE OF THE RESIDENCES.
01:51:49PM ALL OF THOSE PLANS -- ALL OF THOSE CHANGES HAVE BEEN
01:51:53PM INCORPORATED ON TO THE PLANS THAT YOU SEE TODAY, AND WE DID
01:51:56PM ALSO PREPARE SOME RENDERINGS OF THE VIEW SO THAT COUNCIL AND
01:52:03PM THE NEIGHBORHOOD COULD SEE HOW THE VIEW WOULD BE DISGUISED
01:52:11PM OF THE AMBULANCE DROP-OFF AREA AND THE PROPOSED CHANGES TO
01:52:15PM THE PLAN ITSELF.
01:52:16PM THE WALL WE ARE PROPOSING TO SET UP IS SIMILAR TO THE WALL
01:52:22PM ON THE EASTERN PROPERTY LINE RIGHT NOW AND AS I NOTE,
01:52:27PM CLEANING UP THE WALL IN THE EASTERN PROPERTY LINE.
01:52:30PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
01:52:32PM COMMENTS?
01:52:33PM THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
01:52:37PM SEEMS TO BE A GOOD PROJECT.
01:52:39PM DEFINITELY IMPORTANT.
01:52:41PM >> GREAT.
01:52:43PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO SPEAK
01:52:45PM TO THE ITEM?
01:52:47PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE TO CLOSE.
01:52:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND FROM.
01:52:50PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND.
01:52:50PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:52:52PM OPPOSED.
01:52:53PM RECORD YOUR VOTE, PLEASE.
01:52:55PM READ IT, 54.
01:52:57PM WHO IS UP.
01:52:59PM LUIS.
01:53:01PM I AM IN THE SAME PLACE YOU ARE.
01:53:04PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU VERY MUCH, CHAIRMAN.
01:53:12PM 102 AND 106 SOUTH DALE MABRY HIGHWAY IN THE CITY OF TAMPA,
01:53:22PM FLORIDA, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
01:53:27PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: APPRECIATE PUTTING THE FILE NUMBER ON
01:53:30PM THE CASE SO IT IS DIRECTED TO IT.
01:53:32PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
01:53:38PM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:53:40PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:53:41PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH MANISCALCO MISSING
01:53:55PM AT VOTE.
01:53:56PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: ITEM 55 IS 24-44 FOR THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT
01:54:02PM 2509 NORTH 54th STREET.
01:54:04PM THE REQUEST IS TO REZONE THE PROPERTY FROM RM-16,
01:54:09PM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY TO RM-18, RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY.
01:54:13PM EUCLIDIAN REQUEST SO NO SITE PLAN AVAILABLE FOR THIS REQUEST.
01:54:18PM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
01:54:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS?
01:54:22PM HEARING NONE IS THERE AN APPLICANT.
01:54:30PM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:54:31PM SECONDED FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
01:54:33PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE, OPPOSED.
01:54:34PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
01:54:35PM >>LYNN HURTAK: FILE NUMBER 25-44.
01:54:39PM ORDINANCE FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
01:54:42PM ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 2509
01:54:48PM NORTH 54th STREET IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, MORE
01:54:51PM PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM DISTRICT
01:54:54PM CLASSIFICATION RM-16 RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY TO RM-18
01:55:00PM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
01:55:03PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SECOND.
01:55:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION AND A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
01:55:07PM MIRANDA.
01:55:07PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:55:08PM >>CLERK: SOMETHING NEEDS TO -- MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY.
01:55:27PM >>LACHONE DOCK: ITEM 56, REZ-25-47.
01:55:31PM LOCATED 2511 WEST SAINT ISABEL STREET.
01:55:37PM FROM PD, PLANNED DEVELOPMENT TO RS-50 RESIDENTIAL
01:55:42PM SINGLE-FAMILY.
01:55:43PM THIS REQUEST IS BEFORE YOU FOR SECOND READING AND AVAILABLE
01:55:49PM IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
01:55:50PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HEARING NO QUESTIONS.
01:55:52PM IS THERE AN APPLICANT?
01:55:53PM NO APPLICANT?
01:55:59PM ANYBODY FROM PUBLIC WISHES TO SPEAK.
01:56:01PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE TO CLOSE.
01:56:03PM >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
01:56:05PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:56:06PM OPPOSED.
01:56:07PM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
01:56:08PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: FILE NUMBER 56, ORDINANCE REZ-25-47,
01:56:14PM ORDINANCE FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
01:56:16PM ORDINANCE REZONING PROPERTY IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 2511
01:56:20PM WEST SAINT ISABEL STREET IN THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, MORE
01:56:24PM PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT PD
01:56:28PM LAND DEVELOPMENT TO RS-50 RESIDENTIAL SINGLE-FAMILY
01:56:31PM PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
01:56:33PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
01:56:36PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:56:38PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH COUNCIL MEMBER
01:56:45PM MANISCALCO MISSING AT VOTE.
01:56:46PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ITEM 57.
01:56:49PM >>LaCHONE DOCK: ITEM NUMBER 57, FILE NUMBER REZ-25-03.
01:56:56PM FROM 614 EAST 7th AVENUE FROM RM-24, RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY
01:57:05PM TO CN COMMERCIAL NEIGHBORHOOD.
01:57:07PM AND THIS IS EUCLIDIAN AND NO SITE PLAN ASSOCIATED.
01:57:10PM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
01:57:12PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANY QUESTIONS?
01:57:15PM APPLICANT.
01:57:15PM >> ALEX SCHALER, 400 ASHLEY DRIVE.
01:57:17PM HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE.
01:57:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANYBODY HAVE QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT?
01:57:22PM ANYBODY WISH TO SPEAK FOR ITEM 57.
01:57:24PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: MOVE TO CLOSE.
01:57:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND.
01:57:27PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA AND
01:57:30PM SECONDED FROM HURTAK.
01:57:31PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
01:57:33PM OPPOSED.
01:57:33PM >>BILL CARLSON: FILE NUMBER REZ-25-03.
01:57:42PM ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR SECOND READING AND ADOPTION.
01:57:45PM ORDINANCE IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF 614 EAST 7th AVENUE AND
01:57:51PM THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA, AND MORE PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED
01:57:53PM IN SECTION 1 FROM ZONING DISTRICT CLASSIFICATION RM-24
01:57:57PM RESIDENTIAL MULTIFAMILY TO CN.
01:57:59PM MOTION AND A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
01:58:02PM PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.
01:58:03PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY WITH MANISCALCO BEING
01:58:09PM ABSENT AT VOTE.
01:58:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, 2:00 AND TIME FOR THE 10:30
01:58:13PM A.M. PETITIONS TO VACATE PUBLIC HEARINGS ON LEGISLATIVE
01:58:16PM MATTERS.
01:58:17PM MOVE ON TO ITEM 58.
01:58:29PM >>EMMA GREGORY: GOOD AFTERNOON, EMMA GREGORY WITH THE LEGAL
01:58:34PM DEPARTMENT.
01:58:34PM TO APPROVE THE CITY'S USE OF ITS OWN SERVICE EMPLOYEES FOR
01:58:38PM THE WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT PROJECT.
01:58:40PM THIS IS A STATUTORY PROCESS UNDER SECTION 25-520.
01:58:45PM WE SENT OUT THE NOTICE FOR THIS ON MAY 25 AND SET THE PUBLIC
01:58:56PM HEARING BEFORE THIS AND COMPLIED WITH THE STATUTORY NOTICE
01:59:00PM PROCESS.
01:59:01PM DURING THIS PUBLIC HEARING, I WILL ASK COUNCIL TO MAKE SURE
01:59:05PM THAT THERE IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ANY QUALIFIED CONTRACTOR OR
01:59:09PM VENDOR TO HAVE A REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY TO PRINT EVIDENCE
01:59:12PM REGARDING THE PROJECT AND THE ACCURACY OF -- EXCUSE ME, OF
01:59:16PM THE CITY'S ESTIMATED COST TO THE PROJECT.
01:59:18PM THAT IS PART OF THE STATUTORY PROVISION FOR THIS.
01:59:22PM SO I BELIEVE THERE IS A WATER DEPARTMENT REPRESENTATIVE
01:59:31PM ONLINE.
01:59:31PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SOMEONE FROM WATER ONLINE?
01:59:34PM >>EMMA GREGORY: IN CASE YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
01:59:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DOES COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OF THIS?
01:59:41PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE.
01:59:43PM NOT THE CASE WHERE ONE CONTRACTOR WENT DEFAULT OR SOMETHING?
01:59:49PM >>EMMA GREGORY: YES, THIS IS JUST --
01:59:51PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SHE HAS ANSWERED IT.
01:59:53PM THANKS.
01:59:53PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR COUNCIL, PASS THE
01:59:59PM RESOLUTION?
02:00:00PM >>EMMA GREGORY: YES, BUT WE NEED TO GIVE ANY QUALIFIED
02:00:03PM CONTRACTOR OR VENDOR REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT
02:00:06PM EVIDENCE OF THE CITY'S ESTIMATED -- ESTIMATED COST.
02:00:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHAT WILL THAT LOOK LIKE FOR ACTION FROM
02:00:12PM COUNCIL?
02:00:14PM OPENING IT UP TO THE FLOOR, I AM ASKING -- RIGHT NOW.
02:00:22PM IT HAS BEEN NOTICED.
02:00:23PM ANYBODY WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TO 58, INCLUDING THE ISSUES THAT
02:00:27PM THE REPRESENTATIVE JUST DISCUSS?
02:00:30PM HEARING NONE.
02:00:31PM A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
02:00:34PM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
02:00:36PM >>EMMA GREGORY: THERE IS ALSO A RESOLUTION SUBMITTED ALONG
02:00:39PM WITH THIS.
02:00:39PM SO I WOULD ASK THAT THE RESOLUTION BE APPROVED.
02:00:42PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK
02:00:45PM AND SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
02:00:46PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:00:47PM OPPOSED.
02:00:47PM SOMEBODY LIKE TO MOVE THE RESOLUTION.
02:00:49PM MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
02:00:52PM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:00:54PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:00:54PM OPPOSED.
02:00:55PM RESOLUTION PASSED.
02:01:00PM 59.
02:01:01PM >>EMMA GREGORY: THANK YOU.
02:01:10PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ASK THE CLERK TO SHARE THE ELMO SCREEN,
02:01:18PM PLEASE.
02:01:18PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. SHELBY, FOR THESE HEARINGS, DO THEY
02:01:21PM HAVE TO BE SWORN IN?
02:01:23PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: NO, THE DETERMINATION HAS BEEN MADE.
02:01:26PM THESE ARE LEGISLATIVE MATTERS.
02:01:28PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS, LAND DEVELOPMENT.
02:01:42PM APPLICANT IS TERESA MACNEIL, AND THE PROPERTY IS AT 5815
02:01:50PM INTERBAY BOULEVARD.
02:01:52PM PROPOSED VACATING REQUEST FOR A PORTION OF GREEN AVENUE AND
02:01:59PM UNNAMED AND UNPLATTED BOULEVARD SOUTH OF 4TH, EAST OF FIRST
02:02:05PM AVENUE AND WEST OF ELKINS AVENUE.
02:02:08PM APPLICATION FILED APRIL 26, 2024.
02:02:11PM DRIVEWAY IS CURRENTLY UNIMPROVED, AND WAS CREATED BY
02:02:17PM SUBDIVISION PLAT.
02:02:17PM 6622 SQUARE FEET.
02:02:21PM HERE IS THE AERIAL VIEW PROPOSED VACATING REQUEST IS IN
02:02:25PM YELLOW HERE.
02:02:28PM THE APPLICANT'S PROPERTY IS IN RED.
02:02:30PM AND INTERBAY BOULEVARD HERE.
02:02:42PM AN ATLAS SHEET.
02:02:45PM THE CITY OF TAMPA'S ATLAS SHEET TO SHOW THE CURRENT REQUEST
02:02:51PM OF HOW IT RELATES -- HOW IT WAS PLATTED.
02:02:53PM THIS IS THE REQUEST.
02:02:54PM YOU CAN SEE IT IS PART OF MULTIPLE PLATS.
02:03:03PM THIS IS THE STREET VIEW LOOKING NORTHWEST FROM INTERBAY
02:03:06PM BOULEVARD AND THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THIS RIGHT-OF-WAY
02:03:10PM HERE.
02:03:11PM STAFF HAS NO COMMENTS.
02:03:20PM NATURAL RESOURCES MUST FILE TO CHAPTER 27.
02:03:23PM TREE PRESERVATION AND SITE DESIGN FOR ANY IMPROVEMENTS OF
02:03:27PM ADJACENT TREES IN THE VACATED AREA.
02:03:29PM THAT CONCLUDES HIGH PRESENTATION.
02:03:31PM I AM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
02:03:33PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANY QUESTIONS?
02:03:35PM IS THERE AN APPLICANT FOR ITEM 59?
02:03:47PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL MEMBERS.
02:03:49PM I AM THE APPLICANT, THERESA MACNEIL.
02:03:51PM AND THE REASON I AM SEEKING THIS VACATION TO BUILD MY MODEST
02:03:56PM FOREVER HOME IS THAT HAS TAKEN ME THREE YEARS TO GET HERE.
02:03:58PM APPRECIATE YOUR TIME FOR THIS CONSIDERATION.
02:04:02PM I AM TRYING TO MAKE MY PROPERTY COMPARABLE TO MY NEIGHBORS
02:04:06PM AND MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
02:04:06PM SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE CONSIDERATION.
02:04:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT IS?
02:04:12PM ANYONE IN THE PUBLIC WISHES TO SPEAK FOR ITEM 59?
02:04:16PM YES, SIR?
02:04:20PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, MY NAME IS DANIEL WELDON, AND I ACTUALLY
02:04:26PM LIVE NEXT DOOR TO THE PROPERTY.
02:04:27PM AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW, THE OWNER IS A REALTOR.
02:04:29PM THEY HAVE OWNED THE PROPERTY FOR OVER THREE YEARS.
02:04:32PM TO GET THIS PIECE OF LAND IS TO MAKE MORE MONEY.
02:04:36PM THEY TOLD ME THAT ONCE THEY OWN THE CITY'S PIECE, THAT THEY
02:04:41PM WILL BE ABLE TO DIVIDE THE ENTIRE PROPERTY UP INTO TWO
02:04:44PM SEPARATE PROPERTIES, WHICH MEANS THEY ARE GOING TO MAKE A
02:04:47PM LOT MORE MONEY.
02:04:47PM I PROPOSE THAT THE -- THAT THE PORTION THAT IS OWNED BY THE
02:04:54PM CITY BE OPEN TO PURCHASE BY ANYONE.
02:04:56PM OBVIOUSLY, FOR ME, IT WILL GIVE ME OVERFLOW PARKING AREA, AND
02:05:02PM I AM RIGHT NEXT TO WHERE THAT TRIANGLE IS.
02:05:04PM SO THAT WOULD BE A BETTER THING TO SEE IF YOU OPEN IT UP FOR
02:05:09PM SALE TO THE COMMUNITY.
02:05:09PM AS I SAID WHEN THEY FIRST BOUGHT IT, THEY SAID THEY WOULD
02:05:19PM TEAR IT DOWN AND START BUILDING A NEW HOME WITHIN A YEAR.
02:05:22PM THAT NEVER HAPPENED AND AS OF TODAY, THEY HAVE DONE NOTHING
02:05:24PM THERE.
02:05:25PM I HAD TO CALL THE POLICE MULTIPLE TIMES BECAUSE VAGRANTS,
02:05:33PM HOMELESS PEOPLE HAVE BROKEN INTO THIS ABANDONED HOUSE.
02:05:36PM THEY BROKE IN MULTIPLE TIMES.
02:05:38PM I HAD TO CALL MULTIPLE TIMES.
02:05:39PM I HAVE A WIFE AND TWO DAUGHTERS.
02:05:41PM AND I AM VERY CONCERNED ALL THE TIME WHEN THEY ARE THERE
02:05:44PM ALONE.
02:05:45PM ALSO, THERE WAS A GENTLEMAN WHO WAS PASSED OUT IN THE YARD
02:05:50PM FOR HALF A DAY BEFORE THE POLICE COULD GET THERE AND COME
02:05:53PM OUT.
02:05:53PM SO IT HAS BEEN A DANGER.
02:05:59PM MY PEST CONTROL PEOPLE HAVE TOLD ME THAT THE INFLUX OF
02:06:03PM RODENTS I HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH, THE RATS, THE SNAKES, THE
02:06:07PM RACCOONS -- WHICH I HAVE PICTURES OF THOSE THINGS.
02:06:11PM THE POINT IS, ALL THAT STUFF IS DIRECTLY RELATED TO THAT
02:06:15PM HOUSE.
02:06:15PM MULTIPLE OPENINGS IN THE HOUSE FOR THOSE KIND OF ANIMALS TO
02:06:19PM GET IN THERE.
02:06:20PM THE NEIGHBORS TO THE EAST OF ME HAVE TALL TREES -- I DON'T
02:06:23PM HAVE A TALL TREE FOR THAT REASON.
02:06:25PM I KNOW WHERE THEY GET UP AND GO INTO THE HOUSE.
02:06:27PM THEY BOTH HAD TO HAVE EXTERMINATORS COME AND REMOVE ANIMALS
02:06:32PM OUT OF THEIR ATTICS.
02:06:34PM SO SUMMARIZING, I THINK THE CITY SHOULD NOT ALLOW THIS.
02:06:37PM THE OWNER DOESN'T CARE ABOUT THE NEIGHBORS.
02:06:40PM THEY ARE THE CITIZENS OF TAMPA BAY.
02:06:43PM AND THEY ARE DIRECTLY IMPACTED BY THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION.
02:06:47PM THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
02:06:48PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANY QUESTIONS.
02:06:59PM >>BILL CARLSON: COULD WE ASK STAFF TO WEIGH IN ON THE
02:07:02PM QUESTION -- COULD STAFF JUST EXPLAIN THE RIGHTS THAT OTHER
02:07:08PM NEIGHBORS MIGHT HAVE WITH REGARD TO A PROPERTY LIKE THIS
02:07:11PM JUST SO THAT'S ON THE RECORD.
02:07:13PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
02:07:22PM CITY DOESN'T OWN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY THAT IS ASKED TO BE
02:07:27PM VACATED.
02:07:28PM JUST HAS A PUBLIC INTEREST.
02:07:29PM AS FAR AS REVERTING THE FEE OWNERSHIP ONCE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY
02:07:32PM INTEREST IS VACATED.
02:07:33PM IF SO, USUALLY IT REVERTS BACK TO ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNERS
02:07:37PM IN THE PLAT.
02:07:38PM BUT THE CITY DOESN'T GET INVOLVED WITH HOW THE REVERSION OF
02:07:43PM THE CITY-OWNED PROPERTY GOES.
02:07:46PM BUT THE CITY DOESN'T OWN ANYTHING THERE.
02:07:48PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I UNDERSTAND WITH ALLEYS, IF YOU VACATE
02:07:54PM THE ALLEY.
02:07:54PM EACH OWNER GETS ONE-HALF OF THE ALLEY.
02:07:58PM >>ROSS SAMONS: IN MOST CASES.
02:08:00PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN YOU PUT UP THE PLAT AND SEE THIS
02:08:02PM PROPERTY AND HOW IT RELATES TO THE ADJACENT PROPERTIES.
02:08:05PM >>ROSS SAMONS: HANG ON ONE SECOND.
02:08:23PM IN THIS SITUATION IN THE PAST, THE WHEN THE PLATS WERE
02:08:27PM PLATTED.
02:08:27PM THERE WAS A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND SOME OVERLAP WITH THE
02:08:30PM CORNERS OF THESE PLATS AND POSSIBILITY THAT THE SURVEYORS IN
02:08:34PM THE PAST HAVE USED DIFFERENT POINTS OF COMMENCEMENT,
02:08:36PM STARTING POINTS TO START THEIR MEASUREMENTS.
02:08:38PM AND I THINK THAT IS WHAT CAUSED THIS OVERLAP.
02:08:41PM YOU CAN SEE THESE BOLD GRAY LANE ARE PLAT BOUNDARIES.
02:08:46PM SO YOU HAVE ONE HERE.
02:08:48PM AND YOU HAVE ANOTHER HERE.
02:08:49PM SO THIS AREA HERE, THE CITY IN THE PAST -- THESE ARE ALL
02:08:59PM VACATING IN THE PAST IN DIFFERENT AREAS.
02:09:01PM BASICALLY TO CLEAN THE AREA UP SO PEOPLE WILL HAVE THE
02:09:05PM PROPERTY LOT DIMENSIONS TO BE ABLE TO DEVELOP.
02:09:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN YOU PUT THE OTHER -- WHEN YOU SHOW THE
02:09:11PM EXISTING HOUSE AND THE LOT LINES.
02:09:14PM >>ROSS SAMONS: YES.
02:09:15PM WHEN THIS FIRST CAME ABOUT, THIS PROPOSED VACATING REQUEST,
02:09:19PM THE ORIGINAL REQUEST WAS OBVIOUSLY HOW YOU CAN SEE THEIR LOT
02:09:25PM LINES ARE CURRENTLY BECAUSE OF THE WAY THEY WERE PLATTED AND
02:09:28PM HOW THEY ARE -- HOW THE RESTRICTIONS READ.
02:09:32PM THEY ARE LOOKING TO CLEAN THAT UP WITH THE VACATION.
02:09:35PM IN MY OPINION, IT WOULD GIVE THEM THE ABILITY TO DO THAT
02:09:45PM THEN THEY WOULD HAVE A ODD-SHAPED LOTS.
02:09:49PM IF YOU BUILD ANYTHING NEW WITH THE ZONING REQUIREMENTS
02:09:52PM BRINGS UP ISSUE TOO, IN MY OPINION.
02:09:54PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WOULDN'T IT MAKE MORE SENSE TO HAVE THE
02:09:57PM LINE TO INTERBAY AT THAT POINT?
02:10:00PM >>ROSS SAMONS: CORRECT.
02:10:01PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW WOULD THAT HAPPEN?
02:10:03PM >>ROSS SAMONS: IN MY OPINION, IF THIS VACATING WERE APPROVED
02:10:08PM -- I CAN'T GET INTO -- BUT THEY -- IT WOULD BE A CIVIL ISSUE
02:10:12PM OF THEM WORKING WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS TO TRY AND PURCHASE
02:10:20PM THAT FROM THEM AND ITS TOLD IN THE PAST THEY ARE IN CONTACT
02:10:24PM WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS AND THEY ALREADY ARE PLANS -- PLANS OF
02:10:28PM HOW THE LOTS WILL LOOK IN THE FUTURE.
02:10:31PM I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WILL HAPPEN NOW, BUT THAT IS THE ONLY
02:10:34PM WAY.
02:10:34PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHO OWN THIS PROPERTY NOW?
02:10:36PM >> THIS IN YELLOW, AND IT IS A PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:10:39PM >>RON WIGGINTON: IF I MAY, RON WIGGINTON FROM THE LEGAL
02:10:43PM DEPARTMENT.
02:10:44PM AT THIS POINT, WE ARE NOT SURE WHO OWNS IT, BUT THE STATE OF
02:10:47PM FLORIDA HAS A RIGHT-OF-WAY INTEREST PURSUANT TO AN OLD PLAT.
02:10:50PM IT WAS A RIGHT-OF-WAY BEFORE IT WAS VACATED.
02:10:52PM I THINK THIS IS REMNANT OF ONE OF THE PREVIOUS VACATING.
02:10:58PM AN AWKWARDLY SHAPED LOTS.
02:11:00PM AS FAR AS US MAKING A DETERMINATION WHO WILL ACQUIRE IT OR
02:11:03PM DIVIDE IT UP, A PRIVATE PROPERTY MATTER FOR THEM TO
02:11:07PM DETERMINE BETWEEN THEMSELVES AND NOT THE CITY.
02:11:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IF THIS COUNCIL TODAY WERE TO GRANT THE
02:11:12PM VACATION, WHAT HAPPENS TO THE OWNERSHIP OF THAT PROPERTY?
02:11:16PM >>RON WIGGINTON: STILL THE SAME AS IT WAS YESTERDAY.
02:11:18PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE ARE NOT GIVING ANYBODY --
02:11:20PM >>RON WIGGINTON: WE ARE NOT GIVING ANYBODY FEE INTEREST AT
02:11:22PM ALL.
02:11:22PM WE ARE RELINQUISHING OUR RIGHT-OF-WAY INTEREST WHICH IS AN
02:11:26PM EASEMENT.
02:11:26PM YES, SIR.
02:11:27PM THANK YOU.
02:11:28PM >>BILL CARLSON: ONE FOLLOW-UP THING BEFORE YOU LEAVE.
02:11:33PM THE NEIGHBOR ALSO MENTIONED THAT -- IS THAT -- HE BELIEVES
02:11:36PM THEY MIGHT SPLIT THIS INTO TWO LOTS.
02:11:39PM JUST FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES, WOULD THAT REQUIRE THEM TO
02:11:43PM COME BACK TO COUNCIL OR ARE THEY ALREADY ENTITLED?
02:11:47PM >>RON WIGGINTON: I AM SURE THEY HAVE TO CLEAN UP THAT TITLE
02:11:49PM BEFORE THEY SPLIT LOTS BECAUSE THAT IS STILL IN LIMBO.
02:11:52PM AS FAR AS SPLITTING -- I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU CAN SPLIT IT UP
02:11:56PM EAST AND WEST, DIAGONAL BASIS AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS WIDE
02:11:59PM ENOUGH TO SPLIT INTO TWO SEPARATE LOTS.
02:12:01PM >>BILL CARLSON: WILL THEY HAVE TO COME BACK BEFORE COUNCIL
02:12:04PM IN A SEPARATE -- NOT PART OF THIS.
02:12:06PM >>RON WIGGINTON: NOT A PART OF THIS AT ALL.
02:12:08PM >>BILL CARLSON: ANOTHER PUBLIC HEARING.
02:12:10PM >>RON WIGGINTON: I WOULD PRESUME SO AS FAR AS LAND USE IS
02:12:13PM CONCERNED, ZONING AND DETERMINATION OF PROPERTY LOT LINES.
02:12:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR STAFF?
02:12:20PM ACTUALLY --
02:12:25PM [INAUDIBLE]
02:12:33PM THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY FOR REBUTTAL.
02:12:36PM >> MAY I RESPOND.
02:12:38PM THANK YOU.
02:12:38PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: STATE YOUR NAME.
02:12:40PM >> TERESA MACNEIL, THE APPLICANT FOR THIS VACATION.
02:12:46PM FIRST OF ALL, IT IS NOT POSSIBLE TO SPLIT THE LOT, BECAUSE
02:12:49PM MY LOT IS ONLY 90 FEET WIDE.
02:12:52PM I ALSO ALREADY DONE THE PROCESS, AND WE ARE STILL JUST
02:12:56PM WORKING OUT THE DEEDS AND THE DESCRIPTIONS, BUT I ALSO DID
02:13:01PM THE PROPERTY LINE RECONFIGURATION WITH MY NEIGHBOR ON THE
02:13:05PM WEST.
02:13:05PM SO THAT IS ALREADY IN THE WORKS WITH THE CITY.
02:13:08PM THEY HAVE ALREADY APPROVED THAT.
02:13:09PM THIS IS SORT OF THE LAST PIECE OF THE PUZZLE FOR ME TO
02:13:19PM BASICALLY SQUARE OFF MY LOT.
02:13:22PM THE REASON IT HAS BEEN VACANT IS I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO
02:13:26PM BUILD IT WITH THE VACATION.
02:13:27PM WHEN I DO GET IT -- BUT IF I DO GET IT -- THANK YOU FOR YOUR
02:13:31PM CONSIDERATION.
02:13:31PM I WILL START THE PROCESS OF BUILDING AND CLEANING UP THE
02:13:34PM AREA SO MY NEIGHBOR WON'T HAVE ANY ISSUES WITH RODENTS AND
02:13:37PM ALL THE OTHER SITUATIONS THAT HAVE COME UP.
02:13:39PM I HAVE, THOUGH, NEVER PERSONALLY TALKED ABOUT SPLITTING IT.
02:13:44PM I ALSO WENT THROUGH A DIVORCE.
02:13:46PM SO THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT HAPPENED.
02:13:48PM ANYWAY, THIS IS A THREE-YEAR PROCESS.
02:13:50PM AND I AM JUST WANTING TO MOVE FORWARD SO I CAN IMPROVE THE
02:13:54PM PIECE OF PROPERTY, IMPROVED NEIGHBORHOOD, AND MAKE EVERYBODY
02:13:59PM HAPPY.
02:13:59PM SO THANK YOU, AGAIN, FOR THE CONSIDERATION.
02:14:03PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SINCE YOU MENTIONED ALL THAT, DO YOU HAVE
02:14:06PM A TIMELINE YOU HAVE BEEN WORKING ON?
02:14:09PM >> YES, I HAVE THE PLANS IN THE WORKS.
02:14:12PM AND, AGAIN, I AM JUST TRYING TO BUILD A MODEST HOME SO I CAN
02:14:15PM LIVE SOMEWHERE.
02:14:16PM IT HAS BEEN A CRAZY THREE YEARS FOR ME.
02:14:18PM SO IF I JUST GET THE GREEN LIGHT WITH THIS AND MOVE ON TO
02:14:23PM THE NEXT PHASE, THEN I CAN GET THE CONSTRUCTION HAPPENING.
02:14:26PM AND THEN IMPROVE THE LAND.
02:14:28PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: ANY WAY WE CAN PUT THAT ON THE RECORD.
02:14:31PM SO IF IT DOESN'T, IT REVERTS BACK?
02:14:35PM I AM TAKING WHAT THE PETITIONER SAID.
02:14:36PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I AM GUESSING NO.
02:14:38PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU MIGHT WANT TO HEAR FROM THE ATTORNEY.
02:14:41PM COUNCIL -- DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER TO THAT?
02:14:46PM >>RON WIGGINTON: RON WIGGINTON, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
02:14:48PM TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, YOU CAN PUT A REVERTER CLAUSE IN THE
02:14:53PM ORDINANCE DONE BETWEEN FIRST AND SECOND READING.
02:14:55PM AGAIN, IN A PARTICULAR SITUATION, I AM NOT SURE WHY THAT
02:14:58PM WOULD BE NEEDED, IF YOU WILL.
02:15:01PM BECAUSE THIS IS AN UNUSED RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:15:03PM A REMNANT OF PAST VACATINGS AND KIND OF A COMBINATION OF,
02:15:07PM YOU KNOW, THE CORNER OF THREE DIFFERENT PLATS.
02:15:09PM THAT'S WHY I AM NOT REALLY SURE IF THIS WILL BE SUITABLE TO
02:15:14PM HAVE A REVERSER AND GO BACK TO THE CITY.
02:15:17PM WE WILL HAVE TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN IT IF IT DID THAT.
02:15:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE ONLY DECISION WE ARE MAKING HERE TODAY
02:15:23PM AS COUNCIL -- JUST TO MAKE SURE I AM CLEAR -- THIS IS NOT
02:15:26PM ABOUT OWNERSHIP.
02:15:27PM THIS IS ABOUT THE CITY RELINQUISHING ITS RIGHTS ON THE
02:15:31PM PROPERTY.
02:15:31PM >> CORRECT.
02:15:33PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NOTHING TO DO WITH OWNERSHIP ON THE
02:15:34PM PROPERTY?
02:15:36PM >> NO, SIR.
02:15:36PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
02:15:39PM >>BILL CARLSON: THIS IS LIKE A SCRIVENER'S ERROR.
02:15:42PM HOW DID THIS LITTLE PIECE GET LEFT OUT?
02:15:45PM >> WITH THREE DIFFERENT PLATS GOING ON AND A LOT OF
02:15:47PM DIFFERENT RECONFIGURATION OF THE ROADS.
02:15:51PM I IMAGINE BACK IN THE DAY WHEN THEY DIDN'T HAVE GREAT
02:15:54PM SURVEYORS, THIS WAS OVERLOOKED.
02:15:57PM WE DON'T KNOW HOW THIS CAME ABOUT THIS BEING THE HIATUS
02:16:01PM INTEREST OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:16:03PM THE REMNANTS OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:16:04PM UNFORTUNATELY, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
02:16:06PM IT IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.
02:16:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANYBODY HAVE OTHER QUESTIONS?
02:16:11PM MOTION TO CLOSE?
02:16:13PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
02:16:13PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT BEFORE.
02:16:17PM >>BILL CARLSON: DOES SHE HAVE ANY -- DOES SHE HAVE A CHANCE
02:16:21PM TO REBUT WHAT HE JUST SAID?
02:16:24PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DO YOU HAVE ANY RESPONSE TO WHAT THE
02:16:26PM ATTORNEY JUST SAID?
02:16:28PM >> YES.
02:16:28PM TO MY KNOWLEDGE, THERE WAS -- SORRY, TERESA MACNEIL.
02:16:35PM THERE WERE TWO ROADS GOING THROUGH THAT ORIGINALLY.
02:16:37PM AND FOR WHATEVER REASON, THE FORMER OWNER OF THAT LAND NEVER
02:16:44PM WENT THROUGH THE FORMAL PROCESS OF VACATION.
02:16:47PM WHEN I PURCHASED THE PROPERTY, I WAS TOLD JUST SOMETHING
02:16:49PM THAT NEVER GOT DONE AND WOULD BE AN EASY PROCESS.
02:16:52PM YOU KNOW, BUT FOR ME TO TRY TO BUILD WITH -- IT'S -- IT HAS
02:16:58PM BEEN VERY DIFFICULT.
02:16:59PM SO IT WOULD HELP -- HELP ME AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD JUST TO
02:17:03PM SQUARE IT OFF SO THAT I CAN IMPROVE UPON THE LAND AND MOVE
02:17:07PM ON WITH THE NEXT PHASE.
02:17:08PM I HAVE ALREADY SUBMITTED PART OF THE PLAN TO THE CITY.
02:17:12PM I HAVEN'T SUBMITTED THE FULL THING YET.
02:17:14PM BUT IT IS -- LIKE I SAID, IT IS ALL IN THE WORKS.
02:17:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: VERY GOOD.
02:17:21PM THANK YOU MUCH.
02:17:22PM MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA -- MANISCALCO, I
02:17:26PM BELIEVE.
02:17:26PM SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:17:29PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:17:30PM OPPOSED?
02:17:32PM WHO IS NEXT -- COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:17:37PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR, MR. CHAIR.
02:17:39PM I -- THANK YOU.
02:17:40PM I MOVE FILE NUMBER VAC-24-12.
02:17:44PM ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING CONSIDERATION.
02:17:47PM CITY OF TAMPA VACATING, DISCONTINUING OR ABANDONING SWITZER
02:17:53PM AVENUE AND BOOK 4169, PAGE 1074 ARE OFFICIAL RECORDS OF
02:18:03PM HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, FLORIDA, OR AND PORTION OF GREEN AVENUE
02:18:06PM RIGHT-OF-WAY THAT LIES WITHIN THE PLAT OF BROBSTON FENDING
02:18:12PM COMPANY'S HALF-WAY ADDITION OR PLAT BOOK 2 AT PAGE 78 AND
02:18:18PM THE PORTION THAT UNNAMED AND UNPLATTED RIGHT-OF-WAY AND
02:18:22PM ABUTS INTERBAY BOULEVARD AND EAST OF 1st AVENUE AND WEST OF
02:18:27PM ELKINS AVENUE AND ARE MORE FULLY DESCRIBED IN HERE OF
02:18:32PM SUBJECT TO CERTAIN COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS
02:18:36PM MORE PARTICULARLY SET FORTH HERE IN PROVIDING FOR
02:18:40PM ENFORCEMENT AND PROVIDED AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
02:18:42PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:18:45PM AND A SECOND FROM --
02:18:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND.
02:18:47PM BUT IT IS 1st STREET NOT 1st AVENUE.
02:18:51PM >>LUIS VIERA: I APOLOGIZE --
02:18:59PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AS AMENDED.
02:19:01PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:19:02PM OPPOSED.
02:19:03PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
02:19:05PM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE AUGUST 7, 2025. 10:00,
02:19:10PM AT CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, THIRD FLOOR, TAMPA, FLORIDA,
02:19:14PM 33602.
02:19:15PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE MOST INTERESTING VACATION.
02:19:17PM ITEM 60.
02:19:31PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ASK THE CLERK TO SHARE MY SCREEN, PLEASE.
02:19:34PM ROSS SAMONS, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
02:19:38PM PROVIDING HAVE,AC-25-07.
02:19:42PM APPLICANT IS STEPHEN MICHELINI.
02:19:53PM THIS APPLICATION WAS FILED ON APRIL 26, 2024.
02:20:02PM RIGHT-OF-WAY IS APPROVED BY SUBDIVISION PLAT.
02:20:07PM AND APPROXIMATELY 6080 SQUARE FEET.
02:20:09PM I HAVE A REVIEW OF THE PROPOSED VACATING REQUEST.
02:20:21PM IN YELLOW.
02:20:22PM APPLICANT'S PROPERTY IS IN RED.
02:20:24PM SUBDIVISION PLAT OF WHICH THE ALLEY WAS CREATED.
02:20:29PM LOT 37.
02:20:30PM HERE IS AN IMAGE LOOKING EAST.
02:20:39PM THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THE ALLEY HERE.
02:20:43PM LOOKING WEST FROM NORTH McDOWELL AVENUE.
02:20:49PM APPROXIMATE LOCATION.
02:20:53PM STAFF OBJECTS TO THIS VACATING REQUEST.
02:20:57PM EASEMENTS ARE REQUIRED BY WASTEWATER.
02:21:02PM AND NATURAL RESOURCES OF TREE PRESERVATION AND SITE DESIGNS
02:21:09PM OF TREES AND VACATING THE AREA.
02:21:11PM CITY STAFF IS AVAILABLE TO SPEAK ON THOSE OBJECTIONS IF YOU
02:21:15PM HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
02:21:15PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
02:21:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW YOUR OBJECTIONS.
02:21:21PM >>JONATHAN SCOTT: JONATHAN SCOTT, MOBILITY.
02:21:32PM THE REASON THEIR VACATING WASN'T VERY CLEAR, THEY HAD ON
02:21:35PM THEIR NEW BUILD AS A REASON.
02:21:36PM IT WASN'T, LIKE, FOR A PUBLIC PURPOSE.
02:21:39PM WE SUPPORT THE COMP PLAN WHICH ENCOURAGES THE USE OF ALLEYS
02:21:44PM IN THE FUTURE.
02:21:44PM MAY NOT BE BEING USED RIGHT NOW, BUT WE ARE LOOKING AT LONG
02:21:50PM TERM ONE DAY CAN BE USED FOR SOME KIND OF CONNECTION.
02:21:52PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
02:21:54PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
02:21:56PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HOW WIDE?
02:21:58PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS, TEN FEET WIDE.
02:22:01PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I SEE THAT ALLEY WHEN I DRIVE BACK ON
02:22:05PM MacDILL AVENUE.
02:22:06PM HOW WIDE?
02:22:08PM >>ROSS SAMONS: TEN FEET.
02:22:10PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HOW MUCH, TEN FEET?
02:22:13PM >>ROSS SAMONS: TEN FEET.
02:22:15PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
02:22:17PM IS THERE AN APPLICANT?
02:22:19PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL.
02:22:21PM STEVE MICHELINI.
02:22:22PM AS STAFF HAS POINTED OUT, ITS ALLEY IS TEN FEET WIDE.
02:22:29PM I WANT TO SHOW YOU A FEW PICTURES.
02:22:44PM THIS IS THE EAST BLOCK AND RUNNING RIGHT ALONG HERE OF DEWEY
02:22:48PM AND ABDELLA STREET ALREADY VACATED.
02:22:53PM EAST BLOCK HAS BEEN VACATED LEADING UP TO THIS BLOCK.
02:22:56PM AND THIS IS THE WEST BLOCK THAT ALREADY HAS BEEN VACATED
02:23:01PM WEST OF THIS PROPERTY.
02:23:09PM THIS IS A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE EXISTING ALLEY WITH THE TREES ON
02:23:12PM IT.
02:23:12PM AS YOU NOTE FROM THE STAFF REPORT FROM NATURAL RESOURCES,
02:23:21PM THEY REVIEWED THE ABOVE-REFERENCED REQUEST WITH LANDSCAPING,
02:23:26PM TREE REMOVAL AND CHAPTER 47, AND THEY ARE ASKING FOR THE
02:23:29PM PROTECTION OF THE TREES THAT EXIST IN THE ALLEY.
02:23:31PM THIS ALLEY IS NOT PASSABLE.
02:23:33PM AND POTENTIALLY IS SEVERELY RESTRICTED.
02:23:36PM NONE OF THE HOMES -- THIS IS THE EXISTING PROPERTY IN THE
02:23:46PM ALLEY.
02:23:47PM NONE OF THE HOMES ACCESS THIS FOR ANYTHING, NOT FOR GARAGES
02:23:51PM OR ANYTHING ELSE.
02:23:52PM IT IS BLOCKED BY VEGETATION.
02:24:01PM MAINTAINED BY THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS FOR MORE THAN 40
02:24:05PM YEARS.
02:24:06PM THE CITY DOESN'T MAINTAIN IT.
02:24:07PM IT IS NOT -- IT IS NOT WHAT YOU WOULD CALL USABLE IN ANY
02:24:14PM RESPECTFUL SENSE.
02:24:15PM IT IS NOT PRACTICAL.
02:24:16PM THIS IS -- THIS IS LOT 37.
02:24:20PM AND THE PROPERTY IN HERE.
02:24:22PM IT IS TEN FEET WIDE.
02:24:25PM THE DEDICATION ON THE PLAT INDICATES WAS TO BE USED FOR
02:24:30PM UTILITIES PRINCIPALLY, THIS IS THE DEDICATION LANGUAGE THAT
02:24:34PM I PULLED AND REVIEWED THAT WITH THE RIGHT-OF-WAY DEPARTMENT.
02:24:37PM EVERY LOT IN THIS SUBDIVISION IS 98 FEET DEEP.
02:24:42PM ALL THESE LOTS ARE NONCONFORMING.
02:24:45PM BECAUSE THEY DON'T MEET THE -- THIS IS ZONED RS-50.
02:24:50PM 50 FEET OF WIDTH, BUT THEY DON'T HAVE 100 FEET OF DEPTH.
02:24:56PM IF THE VACATING IS APPROVED, THIS WILL MAKE ALL OF THOSE
02:24:59PM LOTS CONFORMING.
02:25:00PM HERE IS ANOTHER PICTURE OF -- OF THE AREA.
02:25:03PM THE PURPOSE OF THE SITE PLAN TRANSPORTATION ISSUED SAYS
02:25:17PM "WHEN PRACTICAL" TO WHERE WE SERVE THEM, BUT THE HISTORIC
02:25:21PM DEVELOPMENT PATTERN HAS ALREADY STOPPED THAT FROM HAPPENING.
02:25:23PM IT IS NOT USABLE.
02:25:24PM UTILITIES.
02:25:25PM THERE WILL BE AN UTILITY EASEMENT RESERVED AGAINST THE FOR
02:25:33PM THE ENTIRE LENGTH OR WIDTH OF THIS ALLEY.
02:25:36PM WHAT WILL REMAIN AS GREEN SPACE.
02:25:38PM APPLYING THE GENERAL.
02:25:40PM THE SPECIFIC GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF THE COMP PLAN.
02:25:44PM THEY ARE NOT INTENDED TO BE USED WHOLLY, JUST FOR THAT
02:25:47PM PURPOSE THERE TO PRESERVE ACCESS.
02:25:54PM RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE ISSUES REGARDING MAINTENANCE AND TRASH
02:26:00PM AND DEBRIS AND PEOPLE WANDERING AROUND THEIR HOUSES AND THEY
02:26:04PM WOULD LIKE TO CONTROL THAT.
02:26:05PM I HAVE A PETITION SIGNED BY NEIGHBORS WHO ABUT THE ALLEY
02:26:13PM SUPPORTING THIS.
02:26:14PM AND 3105 DEWEY.
02:26:18PM 3109 DEWEY.
02:26:21PM 3106 DEWEY.
02:26:23PM 3118 DEWEY.
02:26:25PM 3507 MANTANZAS.
02:26:29PM AS WELL AS 3107 ADARIA.
02:26:32PM 3109 ADALIA.
02:26:38PM 3115 ADALIA.
02:26:40PM THE TWO OTHER FAMILIES THAT WERE HERE EARLIER WERE
02:26:43PM SUPPORTING THIS FOR THE RECORD.
02:26:50PM THEY DID TRY TO APPROACH THE OTHER PROPERTY OWNERS IN THE
02:26:53PM AREA TO EXPLAIN WHAT WAS HAPPENING, BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE
02:26:57PM SOME CONFUSION WHETHER YOU CAN BUILD ON AN EASEMENT.
02:27:00PM AND YOU CAN NOT BUILD ON AN EASEMENT.
02:27:02PM THE GENERAL ISSUE RELATED TO THIS PROPERTY ALSO INVOLVE --
02:27:17PM THE ACCESS.
02:27:20PM IT HAVEN'T BEEN USED BY THE CITY.
02:27:22PM SERVES NO MUNICIPAL PURPOSE EXCEPT FOR UTILITIES.
02:27:26PM IT HAS BEEN MAINTAINED BY ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNERS.
02:27:30PM THERE ARE NO GARAGE OR OTHER ACCESS THAT ARE PROVIDE ALONG
02:27:34PM THE ENTIRE BLOCK, WHICH ARE 24 DIFFERENT HOMES.
02:27:36PM THE EASEMENT PROTECTS THE CITY'S INTEREST REGARDING
02:27:44PM UTILITIES.
02:27:45PM THERE ARE UTILITY POLES THERE.
02:27:47PM ALSO A SANCTUARY SEWER LINE THAT RUNS HERE.
02:27:51PM THERE IS NO INTENT HERE TO CREATE A DEVELOPMENT OF LOT.
02:27:55PM THE PURPOSE IS TO CLEAN IT UP AND ALLOW THE ADJACENT LOTS
02:28:00PM THAT ARE VACANT TO BE CONSIDERED CONFORMING AND WOULD ALLOW
02:28:04PM CONSTRUCTION OF NEW HOMES ON THE VACANT LOTS.
02:28:06PM AND WILL ALSO VEST AND MAKE THE EXISTING LOTS THAT ARE
02:28:11PM SINGLE-FAMILY.
02:28:12PM IT WOULD ALSO ALLOW THEM TO BE CONFORMING INSTEAD OF
02:28:16PM NONCONFORMING.
02:28:17PM SO ANYWAY, THAT IS THE INTENT OF THIS.
02:28:20PM I HAD ANOTHER REQUEST THAT I WILL MENTION AT THE END OF THE
02:28:25PM HEARING, BUT IT IS NOT RELATED TO THE VACATING.
02:28:27PM AND I WILL BE HAPPY TO TURN THIS IN.
02:28:32PM THIS IS THE SUPPORTING NEIGHBORS THAT ABUT THE ALLEY.
02:28:36PM HISTORICALLY, IT HAVEN'T BEEN USED.
02:28:49PM I HAVE THE PHOTOGRAPHS GOING BACK -- AS FAR BACK AS GOOGLE
02:28:54PM MAPS.
02:28:54PM IT SHOWS THAT IT IS OPEN AND USED AS GREEN SPACE.
02:28:58PM IT IS NOT BEING -- IT HAS NO MUNICIPAL PURPOSE EXCEPT FOR
02:29:09PM UTILITY ACCESS AND WILL BE ACROSS THE LENGTH AND WIDTH OF
02:29:13PM IT.
02:29:13PM I WILL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
02:29:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANY QUESTIONS?
02:29:19PM THANK YOU.
02:29:19PM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WHO WISHES TO SPEAK TO ITEM 60?
02:29:27PM WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
02:29:29PM A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
02:29:32PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:29:33PM OPPOSED?
02:29:44PM WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLICANT, THESE RIGHT-OF-WAYS ARE
02:29:47PM MULTIGENERATIONAL AND EVEN WITH TREE ON THE PROPERTY OF
02:29:52PM ABOUT 50 YEARS, BUT PROBABLY SUBSTANTIALLY LESS.
02:29:55PM AND THE OWNERS OF THE ADJACENT PROPERTIES WILL NOT BE THE
02:30:01PM SAME OWNERS THAT ARE THERE TOMORROW.
02:30:02PM WE ARE PROTECTING WITH STAFF'S ASSESSMENT.
02:30:06PM PROTECTING THESE FOR FUTURE NEEDS.
02:30:08PM PREVIOUS DECISIONS COUNCIL TO VACATE SO MANY OF OUR ALLEYS
02:30:12PM IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
02:30:14PM THE ASSETS FOR ITS CITY HAD WE NOT DONE THAT FOR THE
02:30:22PM MULTIGENERATIONAL.
02:30:22PM WHILE I GET, YOU KNOW -- I WANT THIS TODAY.
02:30:29PM BUT AS MEMBERS OF THE GOVERNMENT, WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT
02:30:32PM WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE AND PROTECT THESE ASSETS IN
02:30:35PM THE FUTURE.
02:30:35PM IT IS NOT ABOUT -- IT IS NOT ABOUT, AGAIN, THOSE PEOPLE THAT
02:30:39PM ARE THERE TODAY.
02:30:40PM 50, 60 YEARS.
02:30:42PM HOW ARE WE GOING TO DEVELOP THIS.
02:30:44PM WHAT IS THE NEIGHBORHOOD GOING TO LOOK LIKE.
02:30:45PM HOW TO ACCESS THESE AREAS.
02:30:47PM I THINK ALLEYS ARE CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE.
02:30:50PM AND WE SET THIS STANDARD UNDER THIS COUNCIL MANY, MANY
02:30:53PM TIMES, REAFFIRMED THOSE VALUES.
02:30:55PM OVERALL DISTRICTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE WE HAVE AND INSTITUTE
02:31:00PM IN OUR RULES OF WHAT IT IS LIKE TO PROTECT THE ALLEYS IN THE
02:31:04PM CITY OF TAMPA.
02:31:04PM >> HAVE WE CLOSED THE HEARING?
02:31:08PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
02:31:08PM >> SO I CAN'T RESPOND TO THAT?
02:31:11PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU CAN'T.
02:31:12PM COUNCIL DISCUSSION.
02:31:15PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I CAN ONLY SAY ALLEYS WHEN I WAS A
02:31:17PM YOUNG MAN WAS NEEDED BECAUSE CITY TRUCKS WITH ONE DRIVER,
02:31:23PM ONE WITH THE CANS AND TWO THROWING CANS FROM BOTH SIDES.
02:31:27PM THOSE THINGS ARE GONE.
02:31:29PM THEY DON'T USE ALLEYS TO PICK UP THE -- I AM SAYING WHERE I
02:31:34PM GREW UP AT.
02:31:35PM YBOR CITY.
02:31:36PM AND THEY WERE SO SMART WITH THE HOUSING PROJECTS, THEY DUG A
02:31:41PM HOLE.
02:31:41PM A NICE CONCRETE WALL AND PUT IT INSIDE SO THE GARBAGE PEOPLE
02:31:46PM HAVE TO PICK IT UP -- CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT, AND THEN PUT IT
02:31:49PM IN THE TRUCK ABOUT 30 FEET.
02:31:51PM I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY BACK INJURIES WERE REPORTED, BUT THEY
02:31:55PM HAD AT LEAST SOME.
02:31:56PM I AM JUST SAYING THAT TIMES HAVE CHANGED.
02:31:58PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANYBODY ELSE?
02:32:01PM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
02:32:02PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I WILL READ IT.
02:32:04PM ORDINANCE PRESENTED FOR FIRST READING.
02:32:12PM THE CITY OF TAMPA VACATING, CLOSING OR DISCONTINUING ITS
02:32:15PM ALLEY WAY TO THE NORTH OF ABDELLA STREET, WEST OF DEWEY STREET
02:32:25PM AND EAST OF NORTH MATANZAS, AND WEST OF NORTH MacDILL.
02:32:30PM AND ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA VACATING, CLOSING,
02:32:34PM DISCONTINUING AND ABANDONING THE ALLEY WAY PROVIDING FOR
02:32:39PM SEVERABILITY AND IF EXECUTIVE DATE.
02:32:41PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO AND
02:32:43PM SECOND BY VIERA.
02:32:44PM ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
02:32:47PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WANT TO SAY THAT I BELIEVE THAT ALLEYS ARE
02:32:50PM INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT.
02:32:51PM ONCE YOU GIVE IT AWAY, YOU ABSOLUTELY CANNOT GET IT BACK
02:32:54PM REGARDLESS AND UPSETS ME TO SEE SO MANY OF THESE ALLEYS
02:32:59PM GOING AWAY, BECAUSE IT IS SO HOT HERE NOW THAT I SEE A LOT
02:33:03PM OF MY NEIGHBORS USING THAT SPACE TO WALK -- TO WALK THEIR
02:33:07PM DOGS, TO WALK THEMSELVES.
02:33:09PM AND WE HAVE THE ABILITY -- WEST TAMPA AND THE CRA WAS
02:33:15PM PILOTING PROJECTS TO REUSE THE ALLEYS.
02:33:18PM AND IF WE GIVE THIS ALLEY UP, THIS ALLEY WILL NEVER BE ABLE
02:33:23PM TO BECOME SOMETHING THAT RIGHT NOW IS LOOKING LIKE A
02:33:28PM RENAISSANCE IN THE CITY.
02:33:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
02:33:32PM ROLL CALL VOTE, PLEASE.
02:33:34PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
02:33:35PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YES.
02:33:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
02:33:39PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO.
02:33:40PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES.
02:33:43PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NO.
02:33:45PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH HURTAK AND CLENDENIN VOTING NO.
02:33:49PM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD ON AUGUST 7, 2025
02:33:53PM AT 10:00 A.M. AT CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 315 E. KENNEDY,
02:34:01PM TAMPA, FLORIDA, 33062.
02:34:04PM >> THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
02:34:05PM ONE OTHER REQUEST.
02:34:05PM NEIGHBORS WE MET WITH HAD -- AND I WILL SHOW YOU A PICTURE OF
02:34:10PM THIS.
02:34:10PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HOW IS THIS RELATED --
02:34:13PM >> IT IS NOT.
02:34:13PM IT IS A DIFFERENT ISSUE, BUT THEY ASKED THAT THE DITCHES BE
02:34:16PM CLEANED OUT.
02:34:16PM BECAUSE DITCHES AND THE DRAINAGE ARE NOT WORKING.
02:34:20PM THE ONE IN FRONT.
02:34:21PM SO I AM JUST GIVING YOU -- I PROMISED THEM I WOULD MENTION
02:34:25PM IT.
02:34:25PM SO IT IS NOT RELATED, BUT --
02:34:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE WILL GIVE YOU THAT ONE LITTLE THING.
02:34:31PM THE ONLY THING YOU GET TODAY.
02:34:33PM [LAUGHTER]
02:34:35PM >> SO ANYWAY --
02:34:36PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU CALLED IN YOUR ONE DAILY FAVOR.
02:34:39PM >> A CONCESSION THAT I PROMISED TO MENTION IT.
02:34:41PM THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION, AND THANK YOU FOR
02:34:44PM YOUR SUPPORT.
02:34:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MY OFFICE WILL LOOK INTO THAT AND SEE
02:34:47PM ABOUT IT.
02:34:47PM >> THANK YOU.
02:34:49PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ITEM 61.
02:34:51PM >>ROSS SAMONS: GET THE CLERK TO SHOW THE ELMO SCREEN AGAIN,
02:35:04PM PLEASE.
02:35:04PM ROSS SAMONS, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION PRESENTING FILE
02:35:09PM NUMBER VAC-25-10.
02:35:11PM REPRESENTATIVE'S NAME IS MISS RODRIGUEZ.
02:35:15PM THE PROPERTY IS WEST CORDELIA STREET.
02:35:21PM TO VACATE NORTH OF CORDELIA, SOUTH OF WEST IVY STREET AND
02:35:27PM EAST OF NORTH LINCOLN AND WEST OF NORTH MANTANZAS AVENUE.
02:35:33PM THE RIGHT-OF-WAY IS CURRENTLY UNIMPROVED.
02:35:37PM EXISTING IS 8680 SQUARE FEET.
02:35:41PM THE AREA VIEW OF A PROPOSED VACATING REQUEST IN YELLOW.
02:35:47PM AND APPLICANT'S PROPERTY IN RED SUBDIVISION PLATTING THAT
02:35:57PM WAS CREATED.
02:35:58PM YOU HAVE 69.
02:36:00PM AND THE ALLEY IS TEN FEET WIDE.
02:36:02PM HERE IS A STREET VIEW LOOKING EAST FROM NORTH LINCOLN
02:36:11PM AVENUE, APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THE ALLEYWAY.
02:36:14PM THIS IS LOOKING WEST FROM NORTH MATANZAS AVENUE.
02:36:21PM APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THE ALLEYWAY.
02:36:25PM THAT IS HERE.
02:36:26PM STAFF OBJECTS TO THIS VACATING REQUEST.
02:36:28PM EASEMENT RESERVATIONS ARE REQUIRED BY FRONTIER, SPECTRUM AND
02:36:33PM TECO.
02:36:33PM SPECIAL CONDITIONS MUST COMPLY WITH CHAPTER 27 WITH REGARD
02:36:36PM TO TREE PRESERVATION AND SITE DESIGN FOR IMPROVEMENTS WITH
02:36:39PM ADJACENT TO TREES AND VACATED AREAS.
02:36:41PM I WANT TO NOTE ALSO, THAT THERE WAS CODE VIOLATIONS
02:36:47PM CONCERNING IN ALLEY AND OTHER STAFF -- OR CITY STAFF ARE
02:36:51PM AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AS FAR AS OBJECTIONS.
02:36:54PM AND ONE -- ONE POINT I WANT TO MAKE THROUGH.
02:36:59PM I ASKED MISS LISA BEFORE LUNCH, MISPLACEMENT OF AN E-MAIL OF
02:37:03PM ABUTTING PROPERTY OWNER OBJECTION.
02:37:06PM I THINK YOU ALL RECEIVED THAT EARLIER TODAY.
02:37:08PM SHE HANDED THEM OUT TO YOU AS AN E-MAIL.
02:37:11PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT.
02:37:15PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YOU MEAN LISA?
02:37:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I DIDN'T RECEIVE IT.
02:37:20PM >>ROSS SAMONS: WE DID.
02:37:22PM WE SENT -- A COLLEAGUE OF MINE AGREED TO SEND IT OUT TO --
02:37:28PM YEAH.
02:37:28PM AND I WILL -- I CAN MAKE COPIES OF THIS.
02:37:31PM BUT SHE DID EARLIER --
02:37:34PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN YOU PUT IT ON THE WOLF.
02:37:37PM >>ROSS SAMONS: A PRETTY LONG E-MAIL.
02:37:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: JUST SEND IT AROUND TO US.
02:37:44PM >>ROSS SAMONS: I WILL SEND IT.
02:37:46PM YOU WANTED TO MAKE SURE IT IS ON THE RECORD.
02:37:48PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IS THIS IN OPPOSITION?
02:37:52PM >>ROSS SAMONS: IT IS.
02:37:53PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AM INTERESTED TO KNOW THE OPPOSITION FROM
02:37:55PM YOU AND THE CODE VIOLATIONS, IF YOU COULD EXPLAIN THOSE.
02:37:58PM >>ROSS SAMONS: I ASK CITY STAFF TO SPEAK THEIR BEHALF OF THE
02:38:04PM DEPARTMENTS.
02:38:04PM JONATHAN.
02:38:06PM >>JONATHAN SCOTT: JONATHAN SCOTT, MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
02:38:14PM ONCE AGAIN, IT IS A MATTER OF THE PROPOSED USE.
02:38:17PM IT IS NOT CLEAR OF A PUBLIC USE, AND THE WHOLE IDEA OF THE
02:38:24PM COMP PLAN AND MAINTAINING THE ALLEYS, AS WELL AS -- YOU
02:38:28PM KNOW, THERE IS -- THE CITY RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:38:32PM UTILITIES AND SO FORTH.
02:38:33PM AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS HAVE OBJECTED TO IT AS WELL.
02:38:37PM SO FOR ALL THOSE REASONS.
02:38:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: AND WHAT ARE THE CODE ISSUES?
02:38:45PM OKAY, WE HAVE A CODE PERSON.
02:38:46PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, JANE PRIMEUS, CITY OF TAMPA CODE
02:38:56PM ENFORCEMENT.
02:38:56PM THEY HAVE PLACED OBSTRUCTIONS ALL THROUGHOUT THE ALLEY -- ONE
02:39:11PM OR TWO PROPERTIES THAT DON'T HAVE ANYTHING IN THE ALLEY.
02:39:13PM COMPLAINT DRIVEN AND THE PURPOSE OF MY GOING OUT THERE TO
02:39:17PM BEGIN WITH.
02:39:18PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
02:39:26PM >> WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE PICTURES.
02:39:30PM WEST CORDELIA STREET.
02:39:33PM THE FENCE RIGHT THERE.
02:39:34PM THAT IS THE ALLEY.
02:39:35PM THAT IS THE ALLEY, AND THIS IS THE INTERIOR OF THE BACK YARD.
02:39:38PM AT THE GATE LOOKING INTO THE BACK YARD.
02:39:45PM THIS IS THE ALLEY.
02:39:46PM SINCE THE ALLEY IS TEN FEET WIDE.
02:39:48PM THIS IS THE ALLEY THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY PAVED.
02:39:51PM THEY INCORPORATED THE ALLEY INTO THE BACK YARD BY PLACING A
02:39:56PM FENCE BEHIND THE ALLEY.
02:39:58PM AN OUTDOOR KITCHEN THEY PLACED IN THE ALLEY.
02:40:01PM A CLOSE-UP VIEW OF THE INDOOR KITCHEN.
02:40:04PM THE OWNER WAS THERE AT THE TIME OF THE INSPECTION, AND SHE
02:40:16PM GRANTED ME ACCESS TO HER PROPERTY.
02:40:18PM ANOTHER PICTURE OF THE BACK YARD.
02:40:20PM THIS IS APPROXIMATELY FIVE TO SIX FEET.
02:40:22PM THIS IS IN THE BACK YARD FACING THE WEST.
02:40:24PM SO THERE IS AN ADDITIONAL FOUR TO FIVE FEET THAT IS STILL
02:40:29PM ALLEY.
02:40:29PM THAT YOU CAN SEE THERE HAS BEEN QUITE A BIT OF CONSTRUCTION
02:40:32PM AND OBSTRUCTION PLACED IN THE ALLEY.
02:40:35PM THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT ALSO HAS AN ACTIVE CASE DUE TO WORK
02:40:39PM WITHOUT PERMITS BECAUSE NONE OF THIS WORK HAS BEEN
02:40:42PM PERMITTED.
02:40:43PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
02:40:45PM >>BILL CARLSON: ARE YOU ALLOWED TO SHOW US THE OBSTRUCTION
02:40:49PM OF THE ALLEYWAY?
02:40:50PM >> NOT AT THIS TIME, SIR, BECAUSE THIS IS THE ONLY CASE.
02:40:53PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANYBODY ELSE?
02:40:55PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK?
02:41:02PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
02:41:03PM SO THE BUILDING THAT IS IN THE ALLEY WILL STILL HAVE TO BE
02:41:17PM MOVED BECAUSE OF EASEMENTS?
02:41:19PM >> I DON'T HAVE TO SAY IT HAS TO BE MOVED.
02:41:21PM IT IS NOT MY DECISION.
02:41:23PM I AM STATING THE VIOLATION WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND
02:41:27PM THE MOBILITY DEPARTMENT.
02:41:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
02:41:29PM MR. WIGGINTON, DO YOU HAVE AN ANSWER TO THIS.
02:41:35PM >>RON WIGGINTON: IN PARTICULAR CASE, THIS IS UNUSUAL
02:41:38PM BECAUSE A CODE VIOLATION SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED WHEN GOING
02:41:40PM THROUGH A VACATING CONSIDERATION.
02:41:42PM THE PRIMARY FOCUS WILL BE WHETHER IT SERVE AS PUBLIC PURPOSE.
02:41:46PM HOWEVER, SINCE THIS IS SORT OF UNIQUE.
02:41:48PM A LOT OF ENCROACHMENT THAT ENCOMPASS THE ENTIRE ALLEYWAY.
02:41:55PM I WOULD SAY THIS COULD BE RESOLVED PRIVATELY, BUT SINCE
02:41:59PM PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY ASSUMING THE ENTIRE WIDTH OF THE
02:42:03PM ALLEYWAY.
02:42:03PM IT WOULDN'T -- YOU -- IT WOULD KNOCK CODE ENFORCEMENT OUT OF
02:42:07PM THE EQUATION BECAUSE NOW THEY WOULDN'T BE ENFORCING AN
02:42:11PM EASEMENT THAT THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO IF IT WAS A EASEMENT
02:42:18PM RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:42:18PM THAT IS SOMETHING TO CONSIDERED BECAUSE IF WE VACATE THIS,
02:42:21PM ANOTHER PRIVATE PROPERTY DISPUTE.
02:42:23PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THEY ASSUMED CONTROL OF THE ENTIRE ALLEY.
02:42:29PM >>RON WIGGINTON: EXACTLY.
02:42:32PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WOW.
02:42:32PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO MENTION THAT SIX, SEVEN MONTHS
02:42:35PM AGO, I GOT A CALL AT THE HOUSE FROM A NEIGHBOR.
02:42:38PM I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY GOT MY PHONE NUMBER, BUT THEY HAD IT.
02:42:41PM I THINK THEY GOT IT FROM A TRUST.
02:42:44PM KNOCKED ON THE DOOR AND GOT THE NUMBER.
02:42:46PM AND I DID GO OUT AND SEE THE ALLEY.
02:42:48PM I AM JUST SAYING IT NOW.
02:42:49PM I DON'T KNOW IF I SHOULD DISCLOSE IT OR NOT.
02:42:52PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: YOU DON'T HAVE A FINANCIAL INTEREST.
02:42:57PM THIS IS LEGISLATIVE.
02:42:58PM NOT QUASI-JUDICIAL.
02:43:00PM YOU DON'T HAVE TO PROVIDE TESTIMONY, BUT CAN REQUEST
02:43:04PM QUESTIONS RELATED TO WHAT YOU SAW, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO
02:43:07PM ABSTAIN.
02:43:07PM >>RON WIGGINTON: ONE OTHER THING IF I MAY QUALIFY AGAIN.
02:43:10PM RON WIGGINTON.
02:43:12PM BUILDING WITHOUT A PERMIT, THIS WILL NOT AFFECT THAT.
02:43:17PM THEY WILL STILL BE ACTIVE.
02:43:18PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I UNDERSTAND.
02:43:20PM IS THERE AN APPLICANT?
02:43:28PM >> HI, VICTOR MOLINA.
02:43:30PM AND I AM THE APPLICANT, AND IT IS MY MOTHER-IN-LAW'S HOUSE AND
02:43:35PM THEY DON'T SPEAK GOOD ENGLISH.
02:43:37PM NEIGHBORS ARE IN FAVOR OF GETTING IT VACATED.
02:43:40PM AS HE MENTIONED, IT WOULD NOT FIX THE CODE VIOLATIONS.
02:43:45PM THEY UNDERSTAND THEY WERE WRONG.
02:43:46PM THEY ARE NOT -- THEY WANT TO GET WELL WITH IT.
02:43:48PM THEY HAVE INVOLVE THE FENCE FIVE FEET.
02:43:51PM YOU KNOW, IF IT IS APPROVED THEY ONLY GET FIVE FEET OF THE
02:43:54PM ALLEY, NOT THE WHOLE ALLEYWAY.
02:43:57PM AND I KNOW YOU GUYS WERE CONCERNED OF THE SEWER AND THE
02:44:00PM RIGHT-OF-WAY THROUGH THE BACK.
02:44:04PM BIG TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BUT IT IS LIKE THE FRONT YARD.
02:44:07PM A RIGHT-OF-WAY IN THE FRONT AND THEY STILL HAVE TO MAINTAIN
02:44:11PM IT AND TAKE CARE OF IT PLANT THE SOD, MOW IT AND TAKE CARE
02:44:19PM OF IT.
02:44:20PM IF YOU DO SOMETHING FOR UTILITIES, YOU GUYS CAN COME AND DO
02:44:23PM IT.
02:44:23PM THE CITY CAN COME EVERYTHING THEY NEED TO DO.
02:44:25PM NOT LIKE THEY ARE BUILDING ON THE ALLEY.
02:44:29PM THEY WILL HAVE TO DEMO THE STUFF IN THE ALLEY LIKE
02:44:32PM THE PAVED, THE MARBLE AND THE OUTDOOR KITCHEN AND REMOVE THE
02:44:35PM FENCE, BUT THE SEWER AND STUFF, IT STILL NEEDS TO BE
02:44:38PM ACCESSED, WOULD NOT BE BUILT ON TOP.
02:44:40PM IT WOULD STILL BE, YOU KNOW, ACCESSIBLE.
02:44:43PM YOU GUYS CAN COME IN WHENEVER YOU NEED IT.
02:44:46PM I ALSO HAVE PICTURES -- I KNOW THAT THEY SHOWED -- JUST AN
02:44:50PM AERIAL PICTURE.
02:44:51PM I AM NOT TOO GOOD WITH THIS.
02:44:54PM BUT YOU CAN SEE THE OTHER NEIGHBORS THAT YOU GUYS WERE
02:44:57PM ASKING THAT WERE IN THE ALLEY.
02:44:58PM SO BASICALLY -- LET ME START.
02:45:07PM THIS IS THE HOUSE HERE.
02:45:08PM THIS IS WHERE SHE SHOWED THAT IT IS PAVED AND THEY PUT THE
02:45:14PM FENCE -- THIS NEIGHBOR IS IN FAVOR AS WELL.
02:45:16PM THEY LET THEM DO THE FENCE.
02:45:18PM THEY SAID I AM NOT GOING TO USE THAT PART.
02:45:20PM YOU CAN DO THE FENCE.
02:45:22PM TEN YEARS AGO.
02:45:23PM NOT SOMETHING DONE YESTERDAY.
02:45:24PM THIS PART RIGHT HERE WOULD HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, BE FENCED -- IF
02:45:30PM YOU LOOK DOWN THE ALLEY.
02:45:31PM EVERYBODY ALREADY HAS THE ALLEY -- TAKEN CARE OF THE ALLEY
02:45:34PM AND MOWING IT AND TAKING CARE OF IT.
02:45:36PM SORRY ABOUT THAT.
02:45:38PM I AM NOT TOO GOOD WITH SPEAKING.
02:45:41PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU ARE DOING FINE.
02:45:43PM AND ANYBODY CAN -- AND YOU CAN SEE THERE.
02:45:46PM THEY BUILT AS WELL.
02:45:48PM THE OTHER NEIGHBORS BUILT IN THE ALLEY, LIKE RIGHT UP TO THE
02:45:51PM ALLEY THAT YOU CAN SEE.
02:45:52PM THIS IS THE ONLY PART OF THE ALLEY THAT IS, YOU KNOW, NOT
02:45:56PM BEING USED THAT IS STILL VACANT THAT THIS NEIGHBOR MOW IT
02:46:00PM IS.
02:46:00PM THIS NEIGHBOR MOWS IT.
02:46:01PM AND THE NEIGHBORS TAKE CARE OF IT.
02:46:04PM THEY HAD TO KICK HOMELESS PEOPLE OUT AND CALL THE COPS,
02:46:07PM BECAUSE THEY HAD PEOPLE LEAVING DEBRIS AND NEEDLES AND STUFF
02:46:12PM THAT THEY WERE OBVIOUSLY -- NO ONE WANTS TO HAVE THAT IN THE
02:46:17PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
02:46:17PM SO JUST FOR YOU.
02:46:20PM THE FENCE HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 2007.
02:46:24PM WHERE YOU SEE IT IN THAT PICTURE.
02:46:26PM PRETTY MUCH ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
02:46:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANY QUESTIONS?
02:46:39PM ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM?
02:46:45PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON.
02:46:46PM I AM YUNIA MORALES.
02:46:49PM 3209 WEST CORDELIA STREET, AND I AM IN FAVOR OF US KEEPING
02:46:55PM OUR FENCE UP FOR MULTIPLE REASONS, SAFETY BEING ONE OF THEM.
02:46:59PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OKAY.
02:47:02PM ANYTHING ELSE?
02:47:03PM ANY OTHER QUESTIONS?
02:47:05PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YOU SAID YOU ARE IN FAVOR OF KEEPING THE
02:47:07PM FENCE UP.
02:47:07PM DOES THAT MEAN YOU ARE IN FAVOR OF CLOSING THE ALLEY OR
02:47:10PM LEAVING IT OPEN?
02:47:12PM >> I AM IN FAVOR -- WHATEVER IS GOING TO BE GOOD FOR
02:47:15PM EVERYBODY, I WANT THAT TOO.
02:47:16PM BUT I AM NOT GOING TO BE IN A POSITION TO MOVE MY FENCE, IF I
02:47:21PM HAVE TO MOVE MY FENCE.
02:47:22PM BUT I WOULD LIKE IT TO STAY THE WAY IT IS.
02:47:26PM IF THAT IS A POSSIBILITY.
02:47:28PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ANYBODY ELSE?
02:47:31PM CAN I ASK A QUESTION OF STAFF.
02:47:33PM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
02:47:37PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU CAN SIT DOWN NOW.
02:47:39PM >>BILL CARLSON: I DON'T KNOW IF CODE ENFORCEMENT CAN ANSWER
02:47:41PM THIS OR ANYBODY.
02:47:42PM BUT HE JUST SHOWED A MAP THAT SHOWED I THINK A BUNCH OF THE
02:47:47PM NEIGHBORS ENCROACHING ON THE ALLEY.
02:47:48PM DOES THAT MEAN THERE WERE MULTIPLE NEIGHBORS THAT DIDN'T GET
02:47:52PM PERMITS THAT MIGHT BE VIOLATING THE CODE?
02:47:54PM DO WE KNOW -- IF YOU ARE ALLOWED TO TESTIFY OR MAYBE
02:47:59PM SOMEBODY ELSE CAN.
02:48:00PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS, LAND DEVELOPMENT COORDINATION.
02:48:03PM IT IS A POSSIBILITY.
02:48:05PM THEY DO HAVE VIOLATIONS -- VIOLATIONS FROM THE ABUTTING
02:48:11PM OWNER.
02:48:11PM JUST WHAT WE HAVE ON FILE WITH WHAT CODE ENFORCEMENT HAS
02:48:15PM WORKED ON AS FAR AS COMPLAINTS.
02:48:16PM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU TALKED OF UNUSUAL CASES.
02:48:22PM EVERYBODY HAS ALREADY ENCROACHED -- THE ENTIRE ALLEY.
02:48:26PM OTHER THAN A COUPLE OF NEIGHBORS PEOPLE HAVE ENCROACHED ON
02:48:30PM IT ALREADY.
02:48:30PM I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY WOULD HAVE GOTTEN A PERMIT TO DO THAT.
02:48:33PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ALSO -- WE ARE LOOKING AT THE AERIALS.
02:48:36PM WE ARE NOT LOOKING AT SURVEYS TO SEE WHAT IS IN THE FIELD
02:48:40PM COMPARED TO PROPERTY LINES.
02:48:41PM SO WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL WITH THAT AS WELL.
02:48:43PM BUT IT DOES LOOK LIKE IT IS COMPLETELY ACROSS THE ENTIRE TEN
02:48:48PM FEET OF THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:48:49PM >>BILL CARLSON: IN TERMS OF UTILITY ACCESS.
02:48:53PM HE WAS TALKING -- THE APPLICANT WAS TALKING ABOUT -- THAT HE
02:48:57PM UNDERSTOOD THAT THEY HAD TO TEAR OUT THE CONCRETE.
02:49:00PM WHAT ARE THE RULES ABOUT PROVIDING UTILITY ACCESS TO
02:49:04PM PROPERTY.
02:49:05PM THEY ALLOWED TO PUT CONCRETE ON TOP OF IT?
02:49:08PM >>ROSS SAMONS: MOST OF TIMES EASEMENT-WISE, YES, THERE IS
02:49:11PM CONCRETE AND ASPHALT ALL OVER EASEMENTS ALL OVER TAMPA IN
02:49:17PM PARKING LOT AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS.
02:49:20PM DRIVEWAYS, YES.
02:49:21PM THAT IS NOT MORE OF THE ISSUE.
02:49:24PM ISSUE WOULD BE FOOTERS AND THAT SORT OF THING AND OVERHANGS
02:49:28PM -- BUILDING OVERHANGS YOU CAN'T GET UTILITY VEHICLES -- AND
02:49:34PM IT MAY -- I CAN'T SPEAK FOR TECO, BUT THEY HAVE CERTAIN
02:49:39PM HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS ARE, HOW CLOSE THEY GET TO THE POWER
02:49:42PM LINE AND OTHER THINGS TOO.
02:49:43PM BUT EASE OF ACCESS IS IT IS ALWAYS A PLUS FOR UTILITIES AS
02:49:47PM YOU KNOW.
02:49:48PM AND THEY -- THEY HAVE THE OPTION TO REQUEST ACCESS FROM THE
02:49:56PM FRONT OF LOTS TOO, BUT, KNOW, THAT IS A ISSUE IN THE FUTURE.
02:50:04PM CAN POSE AN ISSUE FOR UTILITIES.
02:50:06PM BUT THERE ARE OTHER WAYS -- I KNOW AS FAR AS WASTEWATER
02:50:11PM GOES, THERE ARE CERTAIN WAYS OF WORKING ON THOSE LINES
02:50:14PM WITHOUT ACCESSING THE ALLEY.
02:50:16PM SO I CAN'T ANSWER THAT.
02:50:18PM BUT THAT IS JUST MY OPINION.
02:50:21PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT YOU WANTED TO
02:50:25PM ADD?
02:50:27PM >> THANK YOU, RON WIGGINTON, LEGAL DEPARTMENT.
02:50:31PM IN OUR PROPOSED ORDINANCE, SHOULD THIS PASS, RESTRICTION
02:50:35PM THAT'S THEY CAN BUILD IN THE EASEMENT AREA AND LIMITED TO
02:50:39PM ONLY GRASS AND LOW SHRUBBERY.
02:50:41PM NO IMPROVEMENT STRUCTURES, WALLS OR BUILDINGS WHETHER
02:50:44PM PERMANENT OR TEMPORARY THAT SHALL BE LOCATED WITHIN THE
02:50:46PM VACATED RIGHT-OF-WAY.
02:50:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: IS THAT CONSISTENT WITH CITY OF TAMPA
02:50:50PM POLICY?
02:50:51PM >>RON WIGGINTON: IT VERY MUCH IS, YES, SIR.
02:50:53PM AND THAT ALSO GOES ALONG WITH THE TECO EASEMENTS, FRONTIER
02:50:58PM EASEMENT AND ALL THE OTHER EASEMENTS TO BE PRESERVED.
02:51:04PM IF PASSED, THE EASEMENT RIGHTS WILL HAVE TO BE IN THE COURT
02:51:10PM SYSTEM OPPOSED TO CODE ENFORCEMENT
02:51:14PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
02:51:16PM >>BILL CARLSON: THE PREVIOUS QUESTION LOOKING AT THE AERIAL
02:51:19PM PHOTO, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF STRUCTURES ON
02:51:22PM TOP OF THERE FROM THE NEIGHBORS ALSO.
02:51:24PM DOES THAT MEAN THAT -- THAT THE NEIGHBORS WOULD ALL HAVE TO
02:51:27PM REMOVE THOSE NO MATTER WHAT, WHETHER WE VOTE YES OR NO, THEY
02:51:32PM STILL WOULD HAVE TO MOVE IT?
02:51:39PM >>RON WIGGINTON: WE HAVE A WASTEWATER EASEMENT AND WAYS TO
02:51:43PM ACCESS THEIR FACILITIES.
02:51:44PM I AM NOT SURE THEY WILL ENFORCE THE RESTRICTION OF PLACING
02:51:47PM ANY KIND OF PERMANENT FOR TEMPORARY STRUCTURE NOTICE
02:51:50PM RIGHT-OF-WAY, BUT WE HAVE TWO OR THREE OTHER EASEMENT HOLDER
02:51:53PM WHO MAY WANT TO ENFORCE THOSE RIGHTS AND REAR THE REMOVAL OF
02:51:58PM ALL OF THOSE STRUCTURES THAT ARE IMPERMISSIBLE.
02:52:01PM IF THEY HAVE GET WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM TECO, SPECTRUM AND
02:52:06PM FRONTIER, THAT WILL BE A DIFFERENT SITUATION.
02:52:10PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
02:52:12PM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN I SEE THE E-MAIL FROM THE -- WHO HAS THE
02:52:14PM E-MAIL.
02:52:15PM AND THEN WE MIGHT HAVE MORE PUBLIC COMMENT.
02:52:24PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: OTHER THAN STAFF, ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO
02:52:29PM SPEAK TO ITEM 61?
02:52:34PM >> GOOD AFTERNOON, STEPHANIE POYNOR.
02:52:38PM I AM LOOKING AT THIS, AND THERE IS A LOT OF THINGS THAT
02:52:41PM DON'T MAKE SENSE TO ME.
02:52:42PM NUMBER ONE, WHO FIELD THE CODE ENFORCEMENT COMPLAINT?
02:52:46PM DID THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER INSPECTS IN AND FILE IT
02:52:49PM HERSELF?
02:52:50PM BECAUSE IF SHE DIDN'T, AND SOME -- A CITIZEN ACTUALLY DID
02:52:53PM THAT, WHERE ARE THEY?
02:52:55PM BECAUSE IF THEY CARED ENOUGH TO FILE A CODE ENFORCEMENT
02:52:57PM COMPLAINT, THEY WOULD CARE ENOUGH TO BE HERE.
02:52:59PM DID THEY GET NOTICED?
02:53:01PM THE SECOND THING I REALLY, REALLY -- I WENT TO A CODE
02:53:06PM ENFORCEMENT HEARING ABOUT A MONTH AGO, AND I SAW PICTURES
02:53:09PM THAT LOOKED VERY MUCH LIKE THE ONE THAT THIS CODE
02:53:11PM ENFORCEMENT OFFICER PRESENTED TODAY WHERE THE WHOLE BACK
02:53:15PM YARD WAS PAVED.
02:53:16PM AND THEN THEY PUT UP THE AERIAL, THE WHOLE FRONT YARD IS
02:53:21PM PAVED.
02:53:22PM I THOUGHT WE HAD A RULE ABOUT 50% -- NO MORE THAN 50%
02:53:28PM IMPERVIOUS SURFACE.
02:53:30PM WE HAVE A PROBLEM WHERE FLOODING.
02:53:32PM I UNDERSTAND THE NEED, DESIRE, WANT, WHATEVER.
02:53:35PM BUT I -- I JUST FEEL LIKE THERE IS QUESTIONS THAT I HAVE
02:53:39PM THAT YOU PROBABLY NEED TO BE ASKING.
02:53:42PM BUT LIKE I SAID, WHEN I WENT TO THAT ENFORCEMENT MEETING
02:53:48PM SOMEONE PULLED OUT PICTURES OF A BACK YARD AND STANDING IN
02:53:52PM THE NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR'S YARD WHEN THEY DID THIS, AND THE
02:53:56PM NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOR'S BACK YARD WAS PAVED.
02:53:59PM STANDING ON CODE ENFORCEMENT TO TAKE A PICTURE OF A
02:54:02PM DIFFERENT CODE ENFORCEMENT ISSUE.
02:54:04PM MY BIG CONCERN, WHERE IS THE PERSON WHO FILED IT IF SHE DID
02:54:08PM NOT FILE IT HERSELF, AND I WOULD HOPE THAT SOMEBODY IS
02:54:12PM LOOKING AT THE AMOUNT OF IMPERVIOUS SURFACE ON THE PROPERTY.
02:54:17PM OTHER THAN THAT, I GOT NOTHING.
02:54:19PM THANK YOU.
02:54:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THIS IS NOT WHAT WE ARE HEARING HERE TODAY.
02:54:25PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ACTUALLY, THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS E-MAIL
02:54:29PM SAYS, THE FLOODING.
02:54:35PM FLOODING IS THE ISSUE, BUT WE HAVE A NEIGHBOR WHO IS REALLY
02:54:40PM -- WHO HAS HAD FLOODING.
02:54:42PM AND WE GET FLOODING FOR 40 YEARS.
02:54:51PM WATER WILL FLOW FREELY THROUGH THE ALLEY ALLEVIATING THE
02:54:54PM SITUATION.
02:54:54PM NOW IT CAN NOT.
02:54:55PM SO I DON'T KNOW -- I THINK IT WILL BE IF MR. SAMONS PUT THIS
02:55:02PM AT LEAST ON THE WOLF FOR A MOMENT.
02:55:04PM JUST TO PUT IT INTO THE RECORD.
02:55:06PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MO MORE PUBLIC COMMENT.
02:55:16PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IF WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THIS.
02:55:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THE COUNCILWOMAN WANTS THE PUBLIC TO SEE
02:55:25PM THIS.
02:55:26PM >>LYNN HURTAK: DON'T WE GET THE APPLICANT --
02:55:32PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: AN OPPORTUNITY FOR REBUTTAL.
02:55:33PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT IS TRUE.
02:55:35PM APPLICANT, WOULD YOU LIKE TO COME UP REBUT ANYTHING YOU
02:55:39PM HEARD.
02:55:39PM >> CAN THE HOMEOWNER -- CAN THE -- HOMEOWNER -- THEY WANTED
02:55:46PM TO SAY SOMETHING.
02:55:46PM >> LET ME EXPLAIN.
02:55:51PM THE --
02:55:55PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU HAVE TO STATE YOUR NAME FIRST.
02:56:08PM >> PEOPLE NOT COMPLAIN FOR THE FLOODING OR ANYTHING FOR THEIR
02:56:11PM OWN HOUSE.
02:56:12PM EVERYBODY ON MY STREET WANT TO CLOSE THE ALLEY.
02:56:17PM FOR ME, THIS IS FOR THE ALLEY.
02:56:31PM EVERYBODY ON THE STREET WANT TO CLOSE THE ALLEY IN THE BACK.
02:56:38PM WE HAVE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR 18 YEARS.
02:56:42PM NEVER.
02:56:45PM EVERYTHING CLOSED.
02:56:45PM EVERYBODY SAY -- MY NEIGHBORHOOD.
02:56:51PM EVERYBODY HERE -- SAY EVERYBODY WANTS TO CLOSE THE ALLEY.
02:56:55PM ON CORDELIA.
02:57:01PM I DON'T KNOW WHY THE COMPLAINT.
02:57:04PM THE ALLEY OF WEST TAMPA.
02:57:08PM YOU LOOK AT EVERY ALLEY IN THE FRONT AND THE BACK.
02:57:11PM EVERYBODY USES THE ALLEY IN WEST TAMPA THE PEOPLE -- I DON'T
02:57:20PM KNOW WHY.
02:57:20PM FOR THE -- ANOTHER NEIGHBOR SAYS WHAT HAPPENED?
02:57:28PM AND NO, LOOK IN THE ALLEY.
02:57:31PM I SAY YOU CAN COME AND LOOK IN MY HOUSE.
02:57:34PM EVERYBODY USES THE ALLEY.
02:57:36PM COMING INSIDE OF MY HOUSE, IT IS COMING INSIDE, YOU LOOK
02:57:40PM AT THE PICTURE.
02:57:42PM BUT YOU CAN LOOK AT EVERYTHING -- EVERYBODY USES THE ALLEY
02:57:48PM IN WEST TAMPA.
02:57:49PM FOR ME -- FROM MacDILL, EVERYBODY CLOSE THE ALLEY.
02:57:55PM MAYBE ONE OR TWO ALLEY CLOSED AND YOU GO LINCOLN, SAME.
02:57:59PM AND GLEN, SAME.
02:58:01PM WEST TAMPA, EVERYBODY USES THE ALLEY.
02:58:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, GRACIAS.
02:58:10PM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
02:58:11PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: GOING TO ASK IF THEY HAVE A STUDY ON
02:58:15PM EVERY ALLEY -- I WAS GOING TO BRING IT UP.
02:58:17PM THIS LADY --NEVER SPOKE TO HER OF SPEAKING LIKE THAT OR ANYTHING
02:58:22PM ELSE, BUT THE PROBLEM IS, NOBODY KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED BECAUSE
02:58:28PM OF AN EXPERIENCE.
02:58:28PM HALF OF THEM DON'T SPEAK ENGLISH.
02:58:31PM THEY THINK THEY ARE IN MIAMI AND FT. LAUDERDALE AND HIALEAH
02:58:33PM -- NOT FT. LAUDERDALE BUT HIALEAH AND CUBA, AND THEY
02:58:37PM DO WHAT THEY HAVE GOT TO DO.
02:58:39PM >> AND MY HOUSE --
02:58:41PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: JUST A SECOND, PLEASE.
02:58:43PM WHAT I AM SAYING, WE HAVE TO DO A STUDY OF ALL OF WEST TAMPA
02:58:46PM AND ALL THE ALLEYS TO SHOW YOU WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT.
02:58:49PM IN FACT, MY ALLEY WHERE I LIVE AT, I BOUGHT IT FURTHER TO
02:58:54PM 1968.
02:58:55PM IS IT REALLY CLOSED?
02:58:56PM I DON'T KNOW.
02:58:56PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO CLOSE AND THEN HAVE DISCUSSION.
02:58:59PM CAN I ENTERTAIN A DISCUSSION TO CLOSE?
02:59:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SO MOVED.
02:59:03PM >>LYNN HURTAK: SECOND.
02:59:03PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
02:59:05PM OPPOSED?
02:59:07PM AYES HAVE IT.
02:59:07PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MAY I.
02:59:16PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
02:59:19PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
02:59:19PM I UNDERSTAND THAT PEOPLE MAY HAVE BOUGHT A HOUSE THAT WAY,
02:59:23PM BUT THIS IS BASICALLY SAYING --
02:59:25PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I NEVER SAID THEY BOUGHT A HOUSE THAT
02:59:27PM WAY.
02:59:27PM BUT MOST OF THEM KNEW WHAT YOU THEY DID.
02:59:30PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THIS GOES BACK TO MY VARIANCE REVIEW BOARD
02:59:34PM DAYS.
02:59:34PM JUST BECAUSE YOU DID IT, DOESN'T MEAN IT WAS LEGAL AND SAY,
02:59:37PM OH, NO BIGGIE.
02:59:38PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I DIDN'T SAY THAT EITHER.
02:59:40PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I UNDERSTAND YOU DIDN'T SAY THAT, I AM MOVING
02:59:45PM FORWARD BY SAYING THAT FOR PEOPLE TO JUST TAKE OVER AN
02:59:48PM ALLEY, EVEN IF IT HAS BEEN DONE FOR MULTIPLE YEARS,
02:59:51PM A BIGGER CONCERN IS THE E-MAIL THAT IS SITTING IN FRONT OF
02:59:55PM US FROM A NEIGHBOR ON THAT STREET WHO IS CONCERNED ABOUT
02:59:58PM FLOODING.
02:59:59PM AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT THAT IS WHAT CONCERNS ME MORE THAN
03:00:04PM ANYTHING.
03:00:05PM I AM VERY CONCERNED THAT WE ARE GOING TO CLOSE AN ALLEY THAT
03:00:11PM HELPED FLOODING.
03:00:12PM EVEN IF IT IS JUST ONE NEIGHBOR, THAT PERSON -- I JUST -- A,
03:00:23PM I AM VERY CONCERNED OF CLOSING ALLEYS.
03:00:26PM NOT ASKING PERMISSION BUT ASKING FORGIVENESS.
03:00:33PM THAT IS NOT AN EXCUSE.
03:00:35PM I AM CONCERNED OF THE WATER.
03:00:36PM IT SAYS IN THE E-MAIL THAT WATER USED TO FLOW DOWN ITS ALLEY
03:00:39PM AND NOW IT CAN'T.
03:00:41PM THAT IS WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
03:00:42PM I AM VERY CONCERNED.
03:00:43PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:00:46PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
03:00:50PM AND I SHARE COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK'S, THIS IS AN ALLEGATION
03:00:53PM WRITTEN IN AN E-MAIL THAT I PAY SOME LEVEL OF DEFERENCE, ANY
03:00:59PM WAY TO HAVE THIS PROFESSION ALLY LOOKED AT FROM THE
03:01:03PM STORMWATER DEPARTMENT IF THAT IS IN FACT TRUE BECAUSE I
03:01:07PM WOULD HATE THAT TO BE A DETERMINING FACTOR I RELY ON IN MY
03:01:10PM DECISION.
03:01:10PM AGAIN THIS INDIVIDUAL WROTE THAT E-MAIL.
03:01:12PM I AM SURE THEY BELIEVE THAT.
03:01:14PM BUT IS THAT SO?
03:01:15PM THAT --
03:01:17PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SO STAFF, ANY OBJECTIONS?
03:01:19PM BECAUSE THE CITY HAS OBJECTED TO THIS.
03:01:20PM DID STORMWATER WEIGH IN ON THIS?
03:01:26PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS.
03:01:30PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO REOPEN.
03:01:32PM >>ROSS SAMONS: ROSS SAMONS, STORMWATER REVIEWED.
03:01:38PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: DID THEY OBJECT?
03:01:40PM >>ROSS SAMONS: NO.
03:01:41PM >>LUIS VIERA: MAY I ASK?
03:01:46PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:01:47PM >>LUIS VIERA: THE QUESTION.
03:01:49PM IF STORMWATER LOOKED AT THE SCENE, AND SAYS, WITH ALL DUE
03:01:53PM RESPECT TO THIS INDIVIDUAL, THIS HAS NO BEARING OR EFFECT
03:01:55PM WHATSOEVER ON THE FLOODING, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR
03:02:00PM THAT.
03:02:00PM JUST BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T OBJECT -- BY THE WAY, IF THEY
03:02:04PM OBJECTED, OBVIOUSLY IT WOULD BE KENT WITH THIS.
03:02:07PM I JUST -- I WANT TO KNOW.
03:02:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THIS WILL COME BACK TO A SECOND AND MAYBE --
03:02:12PM >>LUIS VIERA: I HATE TO GET THEIR HOPES UP.
03:02:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: DID MISS FEELEY HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY?
03:02:21PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MISS FEELEY, YOU ARE RECOGNIZED.
03:02:23PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL.
03:02:25PM I HAVE NOT BEEN SWORN IN.
03:02:28PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: NOT QUASI-JUDICIAL.
03:02:30PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: ABBYE FEELEY, ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY.
03:02:33PM I HEAR COUNCIL'S DISCUSSION.
03:02:34PM WE JUST WANT TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION.
03:02:37PM WE WOULDN'T DO A STORMWATER ANALYSIS OR HAVE STORMWATER --
03:02:41PM STORMWATER IN THEIR VERY VIEW IS ONLY LOOKING AT WHETHER OR
03:02:45PM NOT THERE IS A PUBLIC INTEREST IN THIS ALLEY.
03:02:48PM OKAY.
03:02:49PM YOUR DISCUSSION IS HEADED DOWN A DIFFERENT PATH.
03:02:52PM THEY CAN NOT GET A PERMIT.
03:02:53PM THEY DID WORK WITHOUT PERMIT.
03:02:55PM THEY CAN NOT GET A PERMIT IN A RIGHT-OF-WAY.
03:02:58PM SOME IN ORDER TO GET AN AFTER-THE-FACT PERMIT BECAUSE AS YOU
03:03:06PM HEARD THEY WERE CITED AS WELL AND THAT WOULD COME AFTER AND
03:03:08PM THE WHOLE 50% WOULD COME IN AND THE OTHER STORMWATER
03:03:13PM ENGINEERING THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO KEEP PART OF WHAT I
03:03:16PM WITNESSED IN THOSE PHOTOS IS THROUGH THE PERMIT PROCESS.
03:03:20PM THAT CAN'T HAPPEN YET.
03:03:21PM RIGHT NOW, YOU HAVE AN IMPROVEMENT WITHIN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY
03:03:24PM THAT THEY ARE ASKING FOR IT TO BE REMOVED A RIGHT-OF-WAY.
03:03:28PM THEN THE SECOND PART OF THAT WILL BE DEALING WITH THE
03:03:30PM IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE THERE.
03:03:31PM SO WE CAN'T EVEN GET THERE.
03:03:33PM I DON'T KNOW IF WE WILL GET THERE.
03:03:35PM IF COUNCIL WERE THE FOR APPROVE THIS, IT WOULD TAKE ONE
03:03:38PM PATH.
03:03:39PM IF COUNCIL IS TO DENY IT, IT WILL TAKE ANOTHER PATH.
03:03:42PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SINCE YOU ARE HERE.
03:03:43PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: YES, SIR.
03:03:45PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CITY OF TAMPA POLICIES ON ALLEYS.
03:03:48PM THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE, THE FUTURE LANDS USE.
03:03:51PM FOR ALLEY RETENTION.
03:03:53PM DON'T WE HAVE BASICALLY A TAMPA --
03:03:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE DENIED IT.
03:03:59PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THE WEST TAMPA OVERLAY, YOUR CODE SPEAKS TO
03:04:05PM HAVING ACCESS TO THE ALLEYS AND MAINTAIN THE HISTORICAL
03:04:10PM PATTERN OF THE WEST TAMPA AREA.
03:04:12PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: CAN I ASK --
03:04:14PM >>BILL CARLSON: I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU -- AN AERIAL THAT
03:04:17PM SHOWED ALL THE NEIGHBORS HAVE STRUCTURES IN THE ALLEY TOO.
03:04:21PM WOULD IT -- YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO TESTIFY TO EACH ONE, BUT
03:04:25PM WOULD IT BE TRUE PROBABLY THAT THEY COULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN
03:04:28PM PERMITS IF THEY ARE IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY -- IN THE
03:04:31PM RIGHT-OF-WAY, ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU SAID A MINUTE AGO.
03:04:34PM IF THEY BUILT A FENCE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS ALLEY, THEY
03:04:37PM WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PERMITTED.
03:04:39PM THE PRESUMPTION WOULD BE ALL YOU HAVE THAT IS NOT PERMITTED?
03:04:43PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: CORRECT.
03:04:45PM THE OPINION THAT YOU SEE IS A CONDITION THAT IS SOMEWHAT
03:04:48PM FRESH IN THE CITY, TYPICALLY FENCING ONLY THAT PEOPLE PUT
03:04:54PM FENCING IN AND FENCES DON'T REQUIRE PERMITS.
03:05:03PM IT NOT AN IMPROVED ALLEY.
03:05:06PM PEOPLE THINK I CAN PUT ME FENCE OUT TO THE MIDDLE OR WHATEVER
03:05:09PM AND THAT THE ASSUMPTION THAT THE OTHERS ARE NOT PERMITTED IS A
03:05:17PM CORRECT ASSUMPTION, YES.
03:05:19PM A LOT OF TIME THAT STARTS WITH A CODE ENFORCEMENT MATTER, AND
03:05:23PM CODE ENFORCEMENT WILL CITE -- SOMETIMES IF THEY ARE ABLE TO
03:05:25PM CITE ALL THE IMPROVEMENTS OR PROPERTY OWNERS DOWN THE ALLEY,
03:05:30PM THEY WILL.
03:05:30PM AND THEY ASK THEM TO REMOVE THEM.
03:05:32PM IN THIS CASE -- I THINK YOU HAD A VACATING A COUPLE OF YEARS
03:05:37PM AGO MAYBE DOWN IN SOUTH TAMPA, SAME KIND OF DIFFERENCE.
03:05:40PM IMPROVEMENTS HAD BEEN MADE.
03:05:42PM ONLY WAY TO EVEN BEGIN TO START A PERMITTING PROCESS TO
03:05:46PM MAKE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS WOULD BE TO START WITH THE VACATING.
03:05:50PM BECAUSE WE DON'T LET YOU PUT IT IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY UNLESS
03:05:52PM UNFORTUNATELY CAME FOR AN ENCROACHMENT WHICH IS DIFFERENT.
03:05:56PM A FULL USE THE OF THE EVIDENCE THAT WHAT IS SHOWN THE
03:05:58PM AERIALS AND PHOTOGRAPHS THAT WERE SHOWN.
03:06:02PM I HOPE THAT CLARIFIES THE LINE OF QUESTIONING YOU WERE GOING
03:06:04PM DOWN.
03:06:05PM WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY DO THAT ANALYSIS AT THE THIS TIME
03:06:08PM BECAUSE IT IS NOT UNDER A PERMIT FOR 50% OR STORMWATER
03:06:12PM ENGINEERING.
03:06:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:06:21PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU.
03:06:22PM MY ONLY QUESTION THAT I WANT ANSWERED IS THIS.
03:06:24PM IS THE VACATING OF THIS -- IS THE CLOSING ALLEY IN ANY WAY
03:06:28PM HAVE ANY DETRIMENTAL EFFECT ON STORMWATER AND FLOODING FOR
03:06:33PM THE NEIGHBORS?
03:06:33PM THAT IS ALL.
03:06:34PM THAT'S IT.
03:06:36PM YES, MA'AM.
03:06:39PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
03:06:41PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
03:06:42PM I THINK THAT -- WHAT -- WHAT THEY ARE SAYING IS --
03:06:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THEY HAVEN'T DONE THE STUDY.
03:06:49PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THEY HAVEN'T DONE THE STUDY.
03:06:51PM BUT THE ISSUE IN -- AND -- THIS IS PROVIDING TESTIMONY TO
03:06:55PM AGREE, BUT MY -- IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD, ALL OF OUR WATER DOES
03:06:59PM GO TO THE ALLEY.
03:07:00PM SO WE KNOW ALLEYS CAN BE USED FOR STORMWATER.
03:07:04PM I THINK IT IS MORE THE PERVIOUS SURFACE ISSUE WHICH MISS
03:07:11PM FEELEY SAID WOULD BE DEALT WITH AFTER THE CODE ENFORCEMENT
03:07:16PM VIOLATIONS.
03:07:16PM SOME AND SO FORTH.
03:07:18PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I HEARD THE MOTION TO CLOSE, BUT I WOULD
03:07:22PM LIKE TO GIVE THE APPLICANT AN OPPORTUNITIES TO REBUT WHAT
03:07:24PM YOU HEARD.
03:07:24PM >> I AM VICTOR MOLINA.
03:07:26PM I'M THE APPLICANT.
03:07:26PM I WANTED TO POINT OUT A FACT.
03:07:29PM I WAS LOOKING -- I JUST READ THE E-MAIL AND SAYS THERE WERE
03:07:33PM COMPLAINTS -- COMPLAINING ABOUT THE FLOODING, BUT SAYS RIGHT
03:07:36PM HERE, NEIGHBOR AT 3219 WEST CORDELIA THAT ADDED TO PROPERTY
03:07:41PM LINE CAUSING THE WATER TO GO DIRECTLY IN THE YARD, WHICH AFTER
03:07:45PM THAT WOULD GO TO CODE ESPECIALLY BECAUSE A VIOLATION FOR
03:07:48PM BUILDING IN THE ALLEYWAY IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY THAT HAS TO BE
03:07:53PM REMOVED OR DEMOED.
03:07:56PM ONCE THAT IS REMOVED AND DEMOED, THAT FIXES THAT ISSUE BECAUSE
03:07:58PM NO ONE ELSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD HAS COMPLAINED ABOUT THE
03:08:00PM FLOODING.
03:08:02PM NO ONE ELSE.
03:08:03PM THAT IS THE ONLY PERSON.
03:08:08PM IF YOU GET IT GOING INTO A NEIGHBOR'S YARD, YOU GET A LOT OF
03:08:12PM WATER FROM IT.
03:08:13PM NO ONE ELSE'S HOUSE HAS BEEN FLOODED AND JUST WENT THROUGH
03:08:17PM HURRICANE MILTON AND HURRICANE HELENE.
03:08:20PM NOBODY COMPLAINED ABOUT THE FLOODING.
03:08:23PM I UNDERSTAND YOU WILL HAVE FLOODING IF YOU GOT WATER FLOWING
03:08:26PM FROM THE NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE INTO YOUR YARD, BUT ONCE THAT IS
03:08:29PM DEMOED AND EVERYTHING GOES INTO CODE.
03:08:37PM EVERYTHING IS BACK UP INTO CODE, THAT SHOULD FIX THEIR
03:08:40PM PROBLEM.
03:08:40PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU.
03:08:41PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: CAN I HAVE THE LETTER -- IF IT IS STILL
03:08:44PM THERE.
03:08:44PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: YOU WANT US TO READ IT IN.
03:08:47PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THAT E-MAIL THAT WAS PASSED AROUND.
03:08:51PM WE HAVE A MOTION TO CLOSE FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
03:08:54PM IS THERE A SECOND?
03:08:55PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:08:56PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:08:57PM OPPOSED.
03:08:58PM IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION?
03:09:01PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
03:09:01PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT JUST DOESN'T CHANGE THE WAY -- I -- THE
03:09:06PM EGREGIOUSNESS OF -- STILL GOES TO THE FACT THAT WE NEED TO
03:09:15PM BE SAVING OUR ALLEYS AND FOLKS ARE BUILDING ON IT WITH THE
03:09:18PM STORMWATER PROBLEMS WE ARE HAVING.
03:09:20PM ONLY A MATTER OF TIME THAT THAT AREA -- I STILL THINK
03:09:26PM REGARDLESS, WE HAVE A BUNCH OF NEW CODE ENFORCEMENT ISSUES
03:09:29PM WE NEED TO TACKLE.
03:09:30PM AND I AM VERY CURIOUS TO KNOW NOW THAT YOU HAVE THAT AERIAL,
03:09:34PM HOPEFULLY NOW THAT YOU HAVE THE AERIAL, THOSE NEIGHBORS WILL
03:09:44PM BE REQUIRED TO FIX THEIR ISSUES.
03:09:47PM BUT -- YEAH, ALL I HAVE TO SAY.
03:09:50PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WILL SAY A REITERATION OF THE LAST ISSUE
03:09:53PM WHICH I WAS ON THE LOSING SIDE OF.
03:09:55PM THE POLICY OF THE ALLEYS.
03:09:58PM IF WE DON'T, I CAN'T IMAGINE IF ANYBODY COMES FROM HYDE PARK
03:10:01PM AND VACATE AN ALLEY IN HYDE PARK WHAT WOULD YOU HEAR.
03:10:05PM JUST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WEST TAMPA OVERLAY.
03:10:08PM WE HAVE A POLICY, AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE POLICY, THROW OUT THE
03:10:13PM POLICY.
03:10:14PM BUT WE HAVE A POLICY THAT SAYS WE ARE -- THE CITY OF TAMPA
03:10:17PM WANTS TO RETAIN THESE.
03:10:18PM AND THE STRUCTURES IN THESE ALLEYS, THEY ARE TEMPORARY.
03:10:21PM I MEAN THEY ARE -- AND -- AND IN THE EYES PEOPLE, YOU KNOW,
03:10:26PM THESE THINGS EVEN IF THEY HAVE LIVE FOR A LONG RIDICULOUS
03:10:30PM PERIODS OF TIME LIKE 80 YEARS.
03:10:32PM ONCE YOU GIVE AWAY -- COUNCILMAN HURTAK SAID THAT.
03:10:34PM ONCE YOU GIVE AWAY YOUR RIGHTS, ITS CITY OF TAMPA CANNOT GET
03:10:38PM THEM BACK.
03:10:39PM THEY WILL BE GONE FOREVER.
03:10:40PM NEW HOUSES WILL BE BUILTY AND NEW TREES WILL GROW.
03:10:44PM BUT YOU WILL NEVER GET THAT BACK.
03:10:47PM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
03:10:48PM >>BILL CARLSON: I DIDN'T SAY THIS IN THE LAST CASE BUT I DO
03:10:52PM WANT TO SAY.
03:10:52PM I FEEL THE SAME WAY THAT YOU DO FOR ALLEYS.
03:10:54PM THE FIRST TWO OR THREE YEARS WHY I WAS HERE I VOTED AGAINST
03:10:58PM EVERY ALLEY VACATION.
03:10:59PM BUT THERE ARE SOME CASES WHERE IT -- START LOOK LOOKING AT
03:11:05PM IT THE FROM A CASE-BY-CASE BASIS.
03:11:14PM THERE ARE CASES THAT I VOTE IN FAVOR OF IT.
03:11:17PM WHAT I AM NOT IN FAVOR OF ARE FOLKS ASKING FOR FORGIVENESS
03:11:21PM AFTER THEY HAVE DONE THINGS THAT ILLEGAL.
03:11:23PM I CAN'T EVEN THOUGH IT IS A HUGE EXPENSE TO CHANGE THINGS.
03:11:29PM WE HAVE OUR PERMITTING PROCESS.
03:11:30PM AND FOLKS NEED TO FOLLOW THE RULES ONLY THAT.
03:11:33PM WE SHOULD NOT VACATE BECAUSE SOMEBODY BROKE THE LAW OF
03:11:37PM BUILDING SOMETHING IN THE RIGHT-OF-WAY.
03:11:38PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO?
03:11:41PM YOU SEE PAST -- OF THE ALLEY, NOT VIABLE OR THERE IS NO REAL
03:11:50PM PUBLIC INTEREST.
03:11:52PM AND I HAVE DONE THE SAME THING.
03:11:53PM OKAY.
03:11:54PM SO THE -- WHAT IS THE DESIRE OF COUNCIL?
03:11:57PM I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER HURTAK YOU WERE NEXT.
03:11:59PM I DON'T THINK YOU WILL WANT TO READ THIS.
03:12:01PM DOES ANYBODY WANT TO READ THIS?
03:12:07PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: [INAUDIBLE]
03:12:10PM -- OWNED BY THE TRUST THAT I MANAGE, IT IS ALL ON THAT
03:12:14PM STREET ON ITS OTHER SIDE.
03:12:15PM AND I NEVER BEEN NOTIFIED ABOUT ANYTHING.
03:12:18PM NO REFLECTION OF THAT.
03:12:21PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: SOMEBODY WOULD LIKE TO READ A DENIAL?
03:12:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: HOW DO WE DO THAT?
03:12:37PM LET'S SEE.
03:12:38PM MOTION TO DENY VAC-25-10, ABANDONING THE ALLEYWAY LOCATED
03:12:49PM NORTH OF CORDELIA, SOUTH OF IVY, EAST OF LINCOLN AND WEST OF
03:12:53PM MATANZAS AVENUE OF HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, TAMPA, FLORIDA,
03:13:03PM DUE TO THE FAILURE OF THE PETITIONER TO GIVE A SOLID REASONING
03:13:10PM OTHER THAN A LOT.
03:13:14PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I THINK --
03:13:16PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT DOES NOT.
03:13:18PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I CAN MAKE A LOT EASIER.
03:13:20PM >>LYNN HURTAK: AN ABUTTING ORDER WILL BE COMPLETELY CUT OFF
03:13:23PM OR SUBSTANTIALLY DIMINISHED AS A RESULT OF THE VACATING AND
03:13:28PM WE HAVE OPPOSITION FOR THAT.
03:13:29PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MR. SHELBY, YOU WANTED TO --
03:13:32PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I AM GOING TO DIRECT YOUR ATTENTION,
03:13:35PM COUNCILWOMAN, TO THE FIRST LINE, AND BASED ON THE EVIDENCE
03:13:37PM PRESENTED, DO YOU HAVE A FINDING IT IS IN THE INTEREST OF
03:13:40PM THE GENERAL WELFARE OF THIS TO VACATE THE SUBJECT --
03:13:43PM >>LYNN HURTAK: NO, THERE IS NO FINDING.
03:13:45PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: FINDING OF COUNCIL IN YOUR MOTION.
03:13:48PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES, NO FINDING.
03:13:49PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: OKAY, THANK YOU.
03:13:52PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IT WILL BE IN THE PUBLIC'S BENEFIT.
03:13:54PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: BASED ON STAFF REPORTS.
03:13:59PM >>LYNN HURTAK: BASED ON STAFF REPORTS.
03:14:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
03:14:02PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ROLL CALL, VOTE PLEASE.
03:14:05PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I AM GOING TO VOTE AGAINST THE MOTION.
03:14:07PM EVEN IF I VOTE BY MYSELF, BUT I WILL TELL YOU WHY.
03:14:10PM WE RECEIVED A LETTER THAT STATES WHAT THE MOTION IS BASED
03:14:13PM ON.
03:14:14PM WE ALSO HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL WHO LIVED THERE WHO SAID -- NOT
03:14:18PM FLOODING BY THIS NEIGHBOR'S SIDE BUT BY THE HOUSE NEXT TO
03:14:22PM HIM.
03:14:22PM WHAT AM I GOING TO BELIEVE, THIS GENTLEMAN OR THE LETTER?
03:14:26PM I DON'T KNOW.
03:14:26PM UNLESS SOMEBODY IN THE CITY WILL LOOK AT IT AND TELL US
03:14:30PM WHAT IT IS.
03:14:30PM AND THE ONLY WAY TO DO THAT IS WHEN IT RAINS.
03:14:33PM SO, HE SAYS IT IS NOT.
03:14:36PM THE LETTER SAYS IT IS.
03:14:39PM THAT'S ALL.
03:14:40PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ROLL CALL VOTE.
03:14:42PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: NO.
03:14:44PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: YES.
03:14:45PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
03:14:48PM >>LUIS VIERA: ITS'S HARD.
03:14:50PM I WILL -- I WILL VOTE YES, 51-49, YES.
03:14:54PM >>BILL CARLSON: YES.
03:14:56PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
03:14:58PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: HOW I DID KNOW I WOULD VOTE ALONE.
03:15:01PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIES WITH MIRANDA VOTING NO.
03:15:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: VERY GOOD.
03:15:06PM WE WILL MOVE ON TO 62, AND I WILL PASS THE GAVEL BECAUSE I HAVE
03:15:13PM TO STEP OUT FOR A MOMENT.
03:15:14PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE HAVE MR. VIERA, THIS IS YOUR ORDINANCE.
03:15:18PM I FEEL LIKE YOU WOULD WANTS TO DO THE HONOR.
03:15:22PM RENAMING OF THE MULTISPORTS FIELD IN HONOR OF ROLAND.
03:15:33PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I MAY.
03:15:35PM >>LYNN HURTAK: TURN YOUR MIKE ON.
03:15:37PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: JUST SO YOU KNOW, NORMALLY NOW UNTIL YOUR
03:15:41PM RULES WERE OFFICIALLY AMENDED.
03:15:43PM YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY OF PRESENTATION BY STAFF.
03:15:45PM >>LYNN HURTAK: PRESENTATION AND PUBLIC COMMENT.
03:15:48PM HI, WELCOME.
03:15:51PM >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: HELLO.
03:15:53PM GOOD AFTERNOON, MICHELLE VAN LOAN, REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT.
03:15:55PM WE HAVE THE FIRST READING OF THE RENAMING OF THE
03:15:59PM MULTIPURPOSE SPORTS FIELD AT FOREST HILLS PARK.
03:16:01PM I MADE THE ORIGINAL PRESENTATION ON MAY 22 ON THE BIOGRAPHY
03:16:05PM OF MR. ROLAND PAZ, JR.
03:16:09PM WE POSTED, PER ITS ORDINANCE, ON MAY THROUGH JUNE 13 AND DID
03:16:15PM NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT BEYOND WHAT YOU RECEIVED IN
03:16:17PM THIS ROOM.
03:16:18PM AND I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
03:16:20PM >>LUIS VIERA: IF I MAY, MADAM CHAIRWOMAN.
03:16:24PM THANK YOU, MISS VAN LOAN FOR YOUR HARD WORK ON THIS.
03:16:26PM WE HAVE GONE BACK AND FORTH AND A LOT OF THE INFORMATION
03:16:29PM AVAILABLE ON THIS GENTLEMAN YOU HAD TO GET FROM PEOPLE.
03:16:31PM AND IT JUST WASN'T, YOU KNOW, AS AVAILABLE AS IT SHOULD
03:16:36PM BE.
03:16:36PM THIS IS REALLY GOOD.
03:16:37PM WE KNOW THE PAZ FAMILY AND THEIR HISTORY IN SOUTH TAMPA AND
03:16:43PM FOREST HILL.
03:16:43PM WE KNOW OFFICER ROY PAZ, THIS GENTLEMAN'S SON.
03:16:47PM WHAT A GOOD GUY HE IS.
03:16:49PM HE IS, LIKE, THE BEST.
03:16:51PM HE IS THE BEST.
03:16:52PM HE IS A KIND PERSON.
03:16:53PM HE IS A DECENT PERSON.
03:16:58PM HE IS ALWAYS CURIOUS.
03:17:00PM I REMEMBER BACK IN 2020 AT THE CONVENTION CENTER, AND A
03:17:04PM LOT OF PROTESTERS AFTER GEORGE FLOYD AND SOME WERE
03:17:07PM RESPECTFUL, COURTEOUS, ETC.
03:17:10PM AND SOME WERE BEING VERY HAVE VERY AGGRESSIVE WITH THE
03:17:13PM POLICE THERE.
03:17:13PM AND I WOULD SAY OFFICER PAZ JUST BE A GENTLEMAN.
03:17:16PM KIND AND DECENT AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.
03:17:20PM WHEN YOU SEE HIS STORY.
03:17:27PM HIS FATHER LEAVING EARLY, DYING WHEN HE WAS A YOUNG PERSON.
03:17:32PM SPEAKS MORE OF THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT OFFICER PAZ IS AND
03:17:35PM THE TIME OF PERSON HIS FATHER WAS.
03:17:37PM THIS A GOOD THING FOR A WONDERFUL FAMILY.
03:17:40PM I WILL SAY THIS.
03:17:41PM FOREST HILLS COMMUNITY THAT SO MANY OF THEM HAVE GONE
03:17:45PM THROUGH HELL.
03:17:47PM THIS IS A GOOD THING BECAUSE PEOPLE LOVE THE PAZ FAMILY.
03:17:52PM I WILL READ IT JUST WHENEVER.
03:17:53PM I KNOW OTHERS --
03:17:55PM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
03:17:56PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
03:17:58PM SO WHEN I WENT TO VISIT MY GRANDPARENTS AT THE CEMETERY
03:18:02PM ABOUT A MONTH AGO, I DON'T KNOW WHY I NEVER NOTICED IT.
03:18:06PM BUT THE HEADSTONE NEXT TO MY GRANDPARENTS, WHERE THEY ARE
03:18:10PM BURIED, SAYS "PAZ."
03:18:12PM LOOKED AT IT. AND IT WAS ROLAND PAZ, HE PASSED AWAY '77.
03:18:18PM HERE WE ARE TALKING OF IT, AND WE ALL KNOW HIS SON.
03:18:21PM AND, YEAH, HE IS, LIKE, TEN FEET AWAY.
03:18:24PM AND I SAID, WELL, THAT IS INTERESTING.
03:18:27PM YEAH, THAT WAS IT.
03:18:30PM I TOOK A PICTURE IF YOU WANT TO SEE.
03:18:33PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ANYONE ELSE?
03:18:34PM OKAY.
03:18:39PM >>LUIS VIERA: SURE.
03:18:41PM I MOVE A -- AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF TAMPA, FLORIDA,
03:18:46PM APPROVING THE NAME OF THE MULTISPORTS FIELD AT FOREST HILL
03:18:49PM PARK IN TAMPA FOR THE HONOR OF LATE ROLAND PAZ SR. PROVIDING
03:18:55PM AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
03:18:56PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ADD THE FILE NUMBER.
03:18:58PM >>LUIS VIERA: FILE NUMBER HN25-15718.
03:19:03PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ANY DISCUSSION.
03:19:06PM WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
03:19:07PM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:19:09PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:19:10PM ANY OPPOSED.
03:19:11PM >>CLERK: MOTION CARRIED WITH CLENDENIN BEING ABSENT AT VOTE.
03:19:17PM SECOND READING AND ADOPTION WILL BE HELD AUGUST 7, 2025 IN
03:19:22PM CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, 315 E. KENNEDY, THIRD FLOOR, TAMPA,
03:19:28PM FLORIDA, 33602.
03:19:30PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU SO MUCH.
03:19:31PM YOU HAVE SUCH A FUN JOB.
03:19:32PM HERE TO TELL US ALL THE EXCITING THINGS ABOUT PEOPLE.
03:19:35PM WE NAME THEM.
03:19:37PM THAT MUST BE A VERY FUN PART.
03:19:38PM EVERY TIME YOU COME IN, WE WILL BE TALKING OF SOMETHING FUN.
03:19:46PM >>MICHELLE VAN LOAN: I WISH IT COULD BE OF SOMEONE LIVING, BUT, YES.
03:19:49PM IT DOES ALLOW ME TO BE AN INCREDIBLE PART OF THE HISTORY OF
03:19:54PM TAMPA.
03:19:54PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ABSOLUTELY.
03:19:55PM THAT IS WHAT I MEAN.
03:19:56PM WONDERFUL THAT WE ARE ABLE TO DO THAT.
03:19:58PM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
03:19:59PM OKAY, MISS FEELY.
03:20:01PM NUMBER 64.
03:20:07PM IT IS A SMALL AMOUNT.
03:20:08PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: PEANUTS.
03:20:13PM POCKET CHANGE.
03:20:15PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IT IS A MATTER OF MOVING THE RESOLUTION.
03:20:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: A MOTION TO MOVE ITEM 64 FROM COUNCILMAN
03:20:22PM MANISCALCO.
03:20:22PM SECOND FROM -- I SAW COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON FIRST.
03:20:25PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:20:26PM ANY OPPOSED?
03:20:27PM OKAY.
03:20:27PM 64 IS DONE.
03:20:29PM NOW TO 68, AND WE ARE HAVING TO UP AND DOWN AND UP AND DOWN.
03:20:37PM >>LYNN HURTAK: REMEMBER WE DID A VERY SHORT STAFF REPORT
03:20:43PM BECAUSE OF OUR LONG MORNING.
03:20:45PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: ABBYE FEELEY, ADMINISTRATOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
03:20:52PM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON AND THE JULY CYCLE AND ABILITY TO
03:20:57PM BRING BACK THE CHANNEL DISTRICT FOR INCLUSION INTO THE
03:21:00PM CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT.
03:21:02PM AND WE HAVE DONE SOME PRELIMINARY WORK ON ANYTHING THROUGH
03:21:09PM THIS.
03:21:09PM I THINK ONE OF THE MAIN IMPETUS FOR THIS WAS IN ORDER TO
03:21:14PM ADJUST THE HEIGHT TO BE THE HCA-FAA HEIGHT.
03:21:21PM AND LOOK AT PUTTING IT THROUGH THE DDR PROCESS, THE DOWNTOWN
03:21:25PM DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS.
03:21:27PM IN DOING THAT, I DID WORK WITH ERIC COTTON, OUR ZONING
03:21:33PM ADMINISTRATOR, AND WE WOULD LIKE TO PROPOSE A TWO-PART
03:21:37PM APPROACH TO THIS GOING INTO THE JULY CYCLE WILL AS YOU KNOW
03:21:40PM WE DID AWAY WITH PRIVATE AMENDMENTS.
03:21:43PM PUBLIC AMENDMENTS, THE JULY SETTLE BICYCLE, NOW JULY 15 OF
03:21:47PM 2025.
03:21:48PM SO THE FIRST PART WOULD BE TO PUT INTO THE JULY CYCLE
03:21:56PM CHANGING THE DIMENSIONAL --
03:21:58PM >>LYNN HURTAK: JUST A SECOND, THE WOLF IS NOT UP QUITE YET.
03:22:02PM THERE WE GO.
03:22:03PM IF WE CAN GET IT ON OUR SCREENS.
03:22:08PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: IN ADDITION TO THAT, A PRIVATE AMENDMENT TO
03:22:12PM INCREASE F.A.R IN THE CHANNEL DISTRICT.
03:22:19PM THREE AND A HALF F.A.R. AND YOU CAN GO TO SEVEN IF YOU BONUS
03:22:25PM AND AN AMOUNT TO GO TO TEN AND A HALF AND THEN NO MORE
03:22:28PM BONUS.
03:22:28PM IN PROCESSING THIS TEXT AMENDMENT, WE NEED TO SEE WHAT WILL
03:22:32PM HAPPEN NEXT -- THE 31ST ON THAT.
03:22:35PM AND THEN WE CAN INCORPORATE THAT AS WELL.
03:22:42PM AND THEN JUST HAVING CONFIRMATION FROM COUNCIL THAT THERE IS
03:22:45PM NO MORE BONUS IN THE CDB OR THE CHANNEL DISTRICT AREAS.
03:22:50PM THAT WILL BE THE FIRST ITEM.
03:22:52PM THE AREA DESCRIBED IN THE MOTION WAS MERIDIAN TO
03:23:02PM CHANNELSIDE.
03:23:03PM WE HAVE PROPERTY THAT IS LOCATED ALONG THE CHANNEL.
03:23:05PM SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT GOES ALL THE WAY TO THAT
03:23:08PM AREA.
03:23:09PM >>BILL CARLSON: I STRONGLY OBJECT TO BE THAT.
03:23:11PM I KNEW SOMEBODY WOULD TRY TO PUSH THIS.
03:23:14PM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
03:23:16PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: IF NOT I WILL LEAVE THIS AS CD-1 AND WON'T
03:23:24PM GO IN FOR THE REST OF THE ZONING CODE.
03:23:26PM >>BILL CARLSON: THAT AREA IS FOR THE PORT AND SHOULDN'T BE
03:23:30PM DESIGNATED -- SORRY TO RANT TO YOU THAT WAY.
03:23:32PM I DON'T KNOW WHOSE IDEA IT WAS.
03:23:34PM I KNOW WHERE THE IDEA IS COMING FROM, BUT THE COMMUNITY IS
03:23:37PM GOING TO FIGHT HARD TO MAKE SURE THAT THE PORT IS NOT
03:23:40PM REDEVELOPED.
03:23:40PM THE COMPROMISE THAT THINK OF BEEN PUSHING FOR THE MARITIME
03:23:44PM COMMUNITY PROVIDE MAXIMUM DENSITY UP TO CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
03:23:47PM AND THE PEOPLE THAT WANT TO DEVELOP THAT PORT LAND ARE BOUND
03:23:51PM AND DETERMINED NO MATTER WHAT TO DEVELOP IT.
03:23:53PM AND IT WILL NOT BE DEVELOPED.
03:23:55PM SO WHAT WE SHOULD DO IS PROVIDE THE AREA.
03:24:00PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: OKAY, THAT IS NOT A PROBLEM.
03:24:11PM >>BILL CARLSON: BECAUSE DEVELOPERS WANT TO -- I AM NOT
03:24:15PM ARGUING WITH YOU.
03:24:15PM I AM TALKING TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PUSHING THIS.
03:24:18PM BECAUSE THEY ARE GETTING PAID TO PUSH SOMEBODY'S AGENDA
03:24:21PM DOESN'T MEAN WE NEED TO DESTROY THE ECONOMY OF OUR AREA
03:24:23PM BY GETTING RIGHT OF OUR PORT.
03:24:25PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I THINK WE WERE LOOKING AT IT FROM JUST A
03:24:28PM ZONING -- JUST LIFTING THE --
03:24:31PM >>BILL CARLSON: SHOULDN'T BE.
03:24:32PM THE LAST MAYOR FORCED THE PORT TO ADD TWO 70-STORY TOWERS,
03:24:40PM AND THIS MAYOR SAID WE NEED TO FOLLOW IT WITH A PLAN.
03:24:43PM HE DID IT UNDER DURESS BECAUSE THEY THREATENED HIM, AND THE
03:24:46PM 70-STORY TOWERS WERE NOT ALLOWED DUE TO THE FAA LIMIT.
03:24:52PM IF THIS IS WHAT IS BEING PUSHED, I WILL WITHDRAW THE WHOLE
03:24:56PM THING.
03:24:56PM WE WANTED TO BUILD PARITY BECAUSE BUILDING AT HEIGHT ACROSS
03:25:01PM MERIDIAN AND ACROSS THE STREET TO BUILD FOUR OR FIVE STORIES.
03:25:05PM AGAIN I AM NOT ARGUING WITH YOU BUT THE STUPID PEOPLE WHO
03:25:07PM ARE PUSHING THIS IDEA TO DEVELOP TO THE EAST OF CHANNELSIDE.
03:25:11PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: LET ME -- LET'S GO BACK A SECOND.
03:25:15PM BECAUSE I THINK WE CAN STILL DO -- SO -- SO RIGHT NOW -- AND
03:25:21PM I DON'T WANT TO WRITE ON A FLY, BUT RECENT NOW IN CHANNEL
03:25:25PM DISTRICT, TWO ZONING DISTRICTS.
03:25:28PM CD 1 AND CD 2.
03:25:30PM THE HEIGHT GOES TO 175 FOR BOTH AND A SUBSCRIPT THAT
03:25:34PM SAYS YOU CAN GO ABOVE THAT WITH CITY COUNCIL APPROVAL.
03:25:37PM KNOW THE DESIRE -- THE FIRST DESIRE WAS TO ALLOW THAT TO
03:25:42PM BE FAA.
03:25:43PM SO THAT -- WE CAN PUT THAT INTO THIS AMOUNT AND THAT IS NOT
03:25:46PM A PROBLEM AND GETS THE FIRST PART OF THAT.
03:25:49PM THE F.A.R. IS GOING TO COME WITH WHATEVER COMES FROM THE
03:25:54PM PRIVATE AMENDMENT IN TWO WEEKS.
03:25:56PM IF YOU GO TO TEN AND A HALF, WE CAN ADJUST THE F.A.R. TO TEN
03:26:01PM AND A HALF.
03:26:01PM THAT IS ALL.
03:26:02PM SECOND PART IS MOVING THINGS TO GO THROUGH AN ADMINISTRATIVE
03:26:05PM PROCESS.
03:26:06PM IF JUST CHANGING THE HEIGHT AND THE F.A.R. IS ENOUGH FOR
03:26:11PM RIGHT NOW TO ADDRESS THE INTENT TO ALLOW DEVELOPMENT OF A
03:26:16PM SIMILAR CHARACTER TO THE CDB BECAUSE THE HEIGHT IS
03:26:21PM UNLIMITED.
03:26:21PM I THINK THAT WILL ADDRESS THAT --
03:26:23PM >>BILL CARLSON: FINE AS LONG AS WE CUT IT OFF AT CHANNELSIDE
03:26:26PM DRIVE.
03:26:26PM ARE YOU SAYING YOU WWANT TO GO EAST OF CHANNELSIDE DRIVE?
03:26:31PM THE MOTION IS TO GO TO CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
03:26:36PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I HAVE TO CREATE A DISTRICT OTHER SIDE OF
03:26:39PM CHANNELSIDE --
03:26:40PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WILL BRING OUT OF A LOT PEOPLE TO FIGHT
03:26:44PM THAT.
03:26:44PM THAT IS MARITIME LAND.
03:26:47PM AND THEY NEED TO HAVE MORE SPACE, NOT LESS.
03:26:50PM BECAUSE OF A COUPLE OF DEVELOPERS AND THEIR LOBBYISTS WANT
03:26:54PM TO DEVELOP IT, DOESN'T MEAN WE SHOULD.
03:26:56PM IF YOU CAN'T PUSH THIS FORWARD WITHOUT GOING PAST
03:26:59PM CHANNELSIDE DRIVE, THEN I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO WITHDRAW MY
03:27:04PM MOTION.
03:27:04PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: SO ON THE EAST SIDE OF CHANNELSIDE, DO YOU
03:27:08PM WANT THAT TO STAY AT 175?
03:27:11PM >>BILL CARLSON: I DIDN'T ASK FOR ANYTHING OF EAST OF
03:27:13PM CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
03:27:14PM ONLY BETWEEN MERIDIAN AND CHANNELSIDE DRIVE.
03:27:16PM THAT IS THE MOTION WE APPROVED.
03:27:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
03:27:21PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN YOU SAY --
03:27:29PM EQUAL TO DOWNTOWN?
03:27:31PM >>BILL CARLSON: I MADE A MOTION TO GO FROM CHANNELSIDE DRIVE
03:27:34PM TO MERIDIAN AND SOMEHOW -- I KNOW HOW -- BUT TO GO PAST
03:27:39PM CHANNELSIDE DRIVE, WHICH IS NOT A MOTION.
03:27:41PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: THE MOTION WAS MADE.
03:27:43PM YOU MADE IT CORRECTLY.
03:27:44PM I REMEMBER, AND I AM 100% --
03:27:47PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THING IS, IF WE CHANGE THE ZONING DISTRICT,
03:27:51PM THAT ZONING DISTRICT EXISTS ON THE OTHER SIDE.
03:27:59PM >>BILL CARLSON: WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF WE DELAYED THIS BY TWO
03:28:01PM WEEKS?
03:28:01PM MAKE THE JULY CYCLE.
03:28:05PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: ABSOLUTELY.
03:28:06PM >>BILL CARLSON: I MOVE WE CONTINUE THIS FOR TWO WEEKS.
03:28:09PM SORRY, I GOT BACK LATE LAST NIGHT.
03:28:11PM I HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT IT.
03:28:13PM YOU DIDN'T KNOW THIS WOULD BE PROPOSED TODAY.
03:28:16PM WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO CONTINUE THIS TO HAVE MORE
03:28:20PM DISCUSSION WITH MISS FEELEY.
03:28:21PM NOT UPSET WITH MISS FEELEY, BUT I AM WITH THE PEOPLE WHO ARE
03:28:28PM PUSHING TO GET RID OF OUR PORT.
03:28:29PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I JUST HAVE SOME QUESTIONS.
03:28:31PM IF YOU CAN PUT YOUR FIRST SLIDE UP BECAUSE I WAS -- AND I
03:28:34PM KNOW THERE IS A MOTION ONLY THE FLOOR, BUT I JUST HAVE A
03:28:37PM QUESTION I WOULD LIKE ANSWERED.
03:28:39PM SO THE DIRECTION ON THE BONUS DENSITY.
03:28:44PM YOU ARE SAYING IF WE WENT TO THIS FAA/HCAA LIMIT AND UPDATE
03:28:51PM THE F.A.R. IN TWO WEEKS, WE WON'T NEED THE BONUS DENSITY
03:28:57PM ANYMORE BECAUSE THE 10 WHATEVER -- IF THAT IS APPROVED, THAT
03:29:00PM WILL BE, LIKE, MEGA DENSITY AND WE WANT -- WE WOULD THEN
03:29:04PM REMOVE YOUR -- YOUR RECOMMENDATION WOULD TO BE REMOVE THE
03:29:08PM BONUS DENSITY IF WE WERE TO DO THAT.
03:29:10PM WE STILL NEED TO WAIT REGARDLESS.
03:29:13PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I BELIEVE THAT IS WHAT IS IN THE PRIVATE
03:29:16PM AMENDMENT.
03:29:16PM GO TO TEN AND A HALF FOR DISTRICT CD 1 AND 2 FOR THAT LAND
03:29:21PM USE THAT WOULD TRANSLATE INTO THE ZONING AND NO LONGER BE
03:29:25PM BONUSES IN THAT PORTION OF THE CITY.
03:29:27PM >>LYNN HURTAK: OKAY.
03:29:28PM I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY THAT BEFORE WE GO AHEAD AND GO
03:29:31PM FORWARD WITH THE -- DID YOU WANT TO --
03:29:41PM >>BILL CARLSON: CONTINUE THIS FOR TWO WEEKS WHATEVER THE
03:29:43PM NEXT REGULAR MEETING TO HAVE A CHANCE TO TALK TO MISS
03:29:45PM FEELEY.
03:29:45PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MAY BE BENEFICIAL TO WAIT UNTIL AFTER THAT
03:29:49PM BECAUSE THE NIGHT MEETING IS WHERE WE WILL HAVE THE PRIVATE TEXT
03:29:54PM AMENDMENTS.
03:29:54PM SO THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST WEEK -- FIRST AUGUST MEETING?
03:30:01PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: IF WE COULD JUST TALK OF THE JULY CYCLE MORE
03:30:04PM IN GENERAL.
03:30:09PM THE JULY CYCLE -- NORMALLY, WHAT WE DO ON A WORKSHOP DAY, WE
03:30:14PM WILL BRING IN ALL THE THINGS WE ARE CONSIDERING PUTTING INTO
03:30:17PM THE JULY CYCLE, AND I THINK A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS, THREE
03:30:20PM OR FOUR THAT ARE STATUTORILY REQUIRED BECAUSE OF CHANGES.
03:30:23PM SO THEY WILL HAVE TO GO IN THE JULY CYCLE.
03:30:26PM AND THEN WE HAD TALKED ABOUT PUTTING THE NEW BONUS INTO THE
03:30:31PM JULY CYCLE, BUT WE ARE NOT SURE WE WILL GET THERE YET WITH
03:30:37PM THE DIRECTION OF THE FUTURE LAND USE PLAN AND THE COMP PLAN
03:30:39PM IS TAKING AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE SYNTHESIZING.
03:30:45PM YOU DON'T HAVE A WORKSHOP IN AUGUST AND DEPENDIN ON THE
03:30:48PM DISCUSSION, WE WILL BRING THE CONTENTS BACK TO YOU ON
03:30:50PM THE SEPTEMBER WORKSHOP, IF YOU WILL INCLUDE IT ON THERE.
03:30:54PM AND COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON, YOU AND I CAN WORK
03:30:57PM TOGETHER AND GET THAT DONE AND GO THROUGH KIND OF -- HERE
03:31:02PM ARE THE ZONINGS THAT INTEREST IN HERE.
03:31:03PM HERE IS HOW WE IMPACT IT AND TRY TO MEET THE INTENT OF WHERE
03:31:06PM YOU WOULD LIKE TO GO.
03:31:07PM >>BILL CARLSON: I WILL MOVE TO CONTINUE IT TO THE SEPTEMBER
03:31:10PM WORKSHOP.
03:31:11PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO CONTINUE IT.
03:31:14PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: IT WILL BE PART OF THERE WITH THE JULY
03:31:18PM CYCLE.
03:31:18PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THIS WAS JUST TO BE AN UPDATE.
03:31:22PM >>BILL CARLSON: I COULD MAKE A SEPARATE MOTION AND WOULD
03:31:26PM LIKE FOR TO BE A SEPARATE LINE ITEM.
03:31:30PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MOTION TO CONTINUE UNTIL THE SEPTEMBER 25
03:31:32PM WORKSHOP WAS THE MOTION ON FLOOR.
03:31:35PM AND THE SECOND FROM MR. MIRANDA.
03:31:38PM ANY MORE DISCUSSION?
03:31:40PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:31:41PM ANY OPPOSED.
03:31:43PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: MAY I INQUIRE, MADAM CHAIRMAN.
03:31:48PM IS THE JULY CYCLE GOING TO BE ON THE 25th OF SEPTEMBER?
03:31:54PM BECAUSE I DON'T SEE IT YET.
03:31:56PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: IT IS NOT THERE YET.
03:31:59PM ASKING AS PART OF TODAY, SEEING WE HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS
03:32:01PM THAT ARE ROLLING UNTIL THAT WOULD LIKE TO BE INCLUDED IN THE
03:32:05PM JULY CYCLE THAT ARE NOT STATUTORY DRIVEN FOR US.
03:32:09PM WE NORMALLY -- THAT'S WHAT I HAD -- WE DO NORMALLY HAVE A
03:32:14PM WORKSHOP WHERE WE BRING YOU THE CONCEPTS.
03:32:18PM YOU GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK, AND WE -- GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK
03:32:25PM AND GO OUT TO THE PUBLIC.
03:32:27PM THIS FOLLOWS OUR CYCLE.
03:32:29PM JANUARY AND JULY.
03:32:32PM AND THIS WILL FOLLOW AND WILL GIVE US TIME TO WORK ON THIS
03:32:35PM AND GET THIS TO A PLACE WHERE WE CAN THEN TRAVEL FORWARD.
03:32:40PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IT NOT ON THE CALENDAR.
03:32:47PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IS WHAT I WAS SAYING.
03:32:49PM UNFORTUNATELY, THAT WORKSHOP IS PRETTY BIG -- BUT ACTUALLY NO.
03:32:57PM BECAUSE THAT IS THE BIANNUAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT REPORT AND
03:33:00PM PRESENTATION.
03:33:00PM AND I WILL -- HOW MANY WORKSHOPS ARE WE ALLOWED TO HAVE?
03:33:08PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: WHATEVER YOU CAN GET DONE BECAUSE YOU HAVE
03:33:11PM A 5:00 NIGHT MEETING.
03:33:13PM SO THE THING IS, IF THIS SOMETHING THAT IS SIGNIFICANT,
03:33:17PM OTHERWISE, YOU WOULD BE PUTTING OFF THESE AMOUNTS TO ANOTHER
03:33:20PM WORKSHOP.
03:33:27PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: BRING ME UP TO SPEED.
03:33:29PM DOES THIS NEED TO BE AT A WORKSHOP?
03:33:32PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THE NORMAL PROCESS.
03:33:33PM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN I MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE THE ITEM THIRD
03:33:38PM DOWN.
03:33:38PM SO IT DOESN'T DISRUPT THE CYCLE.
03:33:42PM >>LYNN HURTAK: DOESN'T NEED TO BE WORKSHOP, I DON'T THINK.
03:33:45PM THE STAFF REPORT.
03:33:48PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: CAN YOU READ TO ME THE MOTION?
03:33:51PM >>BILL CARLSON: THE COMMERCIAL USE OF SEAWALLS.
03:33:54PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: ANDREA WAS WORKING ON THAT, RIGHT.
03:33:58PM YES.
03:33:59PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THAT IS JUST CREATING AN ORDINANCE THAT WE
03:34:02PM WOULDN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO WORKSHOP THAT.
03:34:06PM WE CAN STAFF REPORT THAT.
03:34:07PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: WE CAN CIRCLE BACK AND LET YOU KNOW ON THE
03:34:10PM 31st WHEN WE HAVE OUR NEXT MEETING.
03:34:13PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MAKE A MOTION TO ADD THE JULY CYCLE
03:34:20PM AMENDMENT FOR THE JULY TEXT AMENDMENTS FIELDS FOR THE LAND
03:34:31PM DEVELOPMENT CODE.
03:34:32PM >>LYNN HURTAK: TO THE SEPTEMBER 25 WORKSHOP.
03:34:35PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION AND A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER
03:34:38PM MANISCALCO.
03:34:38PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
03:34:39PM OPPOSED.
03:34:39PM AYES HAVE IT.
03:34:41PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: LAST ITEM.
03:34:46PM JUST WANTED -- I HOPE YOU ALL HAD A GOOD VACATION.
03:34:49PM WE HAVE BEEN WORKING HARD ON THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
03:34:52PM YOU KNOW WE ARE IN THE DRAFTING PROCESS, AND THIS IS THE
03:34:59PM HARDEST PROCESS OF THE WHOLE UNDERTAKING.
03:35:01PM WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO REENGAGING WITH THE PUBLIC AT THE
03:35:06PM END OF SEPTEMBER AND THAT WILL BE FORTHCOMING.
03:35:10PM ITEM 61.
03:35:11PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AT ITEM 69, FYI.
03:35:21PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THAT FIRST INSTALLMENT WILL HAVE DISTRICTS,
03:35:26PM DEFINITIONS AND USES.
03:35:28PM WE ARE WORKING WITH CLARION ON THAT.
03:35:29PM PARALLEL TO THAT, AS PART OF THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE
03:35:33PM MODERNIZATION, WE ALSO HAVE BEEN LOOKING AT SOMETHING YOU
03:35:40PM TALKED ABOUT THIS MORNING.
03:35:41PM HAVING DIFFERENT TIMES OF CORRIDORS AND NODES THAT WILL
03:35:46PM SUPPORT OUR REDEVELOPMENT IN A MORE MEANINGFUL WAY.
03:35:49PM AND WE ARE NOT COMMIT TO PUNTING THEM INTO THE CODE BUT WE
03:35:57PM ARE STUDYING THEM.
03:35:58PM WE WORKED WITH THE MPO, WITH HART, WITH FDOT, WITH OUR OWN
03:36:04PM MOBILITY TEAM, PLANNING AND ZONING AND WITH INPUT FROM
03:36:08PM THE CONSULTANT, WE CAME UP WITH THREE AREAS WE ARE GOING TO
03:36:11PM LOOK AT TO SEE ABOUT DEVELOPING DESIGN STANDARDS THAT WILL
03:36:14PM SUPPORT THOSE TYPOLOGIES, AND YOU HAVE TO START STUDYING
03:36:22PM ONE TO KNOW WHEN THEY WILL BE APPLIED TO.
03:36:25PM WHEN WE LOOK AT BUSCH BOULEVARD AND OTHER -- A LOT OF TIMES
03:36:30PM REDEVELOPMENT IS BEING DRIVEN BY THE MARKET RATHER THAN BY
03:36:33PM OUR DESIGN STANDARDS.
03:36:37PM BRINGING THE CODE FORWARD FROM THE LATE 1980s.
03:36:42PM SHARE WHAT THE PRELIMINARY ARE THAT THEY WILL BE STUDYING.
03:36:47PM FIRST IS THAT FLORIDA AVENUE AND BIRD -- AND YOU CAN SEE
03:36:52PM THEY NOT ONLY LOOK AT A FOCUS AREA BUT LOOK AT CONTEXT AREA.
03:36:56PM AND A SUB CONSULTANT ON THIS IS TO ALIGN WITH WHAT WE ARE
03:37:02PM INVOLVED WITH HART RIGHT NOW AND THE SULPHUR SPRINGS.
03:37:15PM AND GOOD TO BRING IT IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
03:37:17PM THAT IS ONE.
03:37:18PM CYPRESS STREET AT MacDILL.
03:37:20PM YOU WILL SEE A FOCUSED AREA AND A CONTEXT AREA.
03:37:23PM AND THAT IS ALSO LOOKING TO COMPLEMENT WHAT HAS BEEN
03:37:27PM PROMOTED IN THE -- IN THE FUTURE LAND USE UPDATE, WHICH I
03:37:30PM KNOW MANY OF YOU WERE AT THE MEETING LAST NIGHT.
03:37:33PM AND THE LAST IS 15th AND LAKE.
03:37:36PM SO THEY ARE ALL DIFFERENT.
03:37:37PM AND THEY ARE DIFFERENT -- FDOT TYPOLOGIES.
03:37:44PM AND THEY WILL SERVE A GOOD FOUNDATION FOR US TO LOOK FURTHER
03:37:48PM AT -- IF WE DO THIS AND WHAT WE COME UP WITH AND WHAT ARE
03:37:51PM THE RIGHT STANDARDS ARE, AND THIS THEY APPLICABLE IN OTHER AREAS
03:37:55PM OF THE CITY, AND I THINK THEY ARE.
03:37:56PM THOSE CONDITIONS ARE REPLICATED IN A NUMBER OF PLACES.
03:37:59PM LASTLY, I WANTED TO TOUCH ON WITH MY UPDATE JUST QUICK.
03:38:06PM MANY ARE SAYING THAT SENATE BILL 180 DOES HAVE A
03:38:11PM LOT OF INFORMATION AT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL.
03:38:15PM AND ONE OF THE CONDITIONS IN THERE SAYS THAT YOU CAN NOT
03:38:20PM IMPOSE MORE REGULATIONS IMPACTED BY THE HURRICANES FOR A
03:38:27PM TWO-YEAR PERIOD.
03:38:29PM I KNOW SOME OF YOU REACHED OUT AND SAY, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
03:38:33PM FOR THE CITY?
03:38:34PM WE ARE WORKING WITH ANDREA AND CATE TO GET THAT TOGETHER.
03:38:40PM BUT IN THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE EFFORT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN
03:38:42PM FOR NEWS IS WE MADE A HUGE INVESTMENT IN THIS.
03:38:45PM WE NEED IT TREMENDOUSLY, AND WE ARE -- I JUST WANT TO LET
03:38:51PM YOU ALL KNOW THAT WE HAVE THAT AWARENESS THAT WE HAVE GOT
03:38:53PM THE COMP PLAN UPDATE.
03:38:55PM WE HAVE THE CODE UPDATE AND SENATE BILL 180 AND ENSURE
03:39:01PM THAT ALL OF THESE WORK TOGETHER, AND WE HOPE THEY WILL NOT
03:39:04PM DERAIL PLANS EVEN IF WE MAYBE HAVE TO SEGMENT CERTAIN
03:39:09PM THINGS.
03:39:10PM THINGS ARE GOOD TO GO AND JUST MODERNIZATION CAN GO IN ONE
03:39:15PM SECTION.
03:39:15PM THINGS THAT HAVE NEW DESIGN STANDARDS COULD GO IN SOMETHING
03:39:19PM ELSE.
03:39:19PM A LITTLE BIT OF A WRINKLE OF WHERE WE STARTED ON THIS.
03:39:23PM BUT WE ARE FULLY COMMITTED TO GETTING THIS DONE AND HAVING A
03:39:28PM NEW AND MODERNIZED CODE.
03:39:30PM I WANT TO SHARE THOSE THINGS WITH YOU TODAY.
03:39:32PM AND IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I AM AVAILABLE.
03:39:35PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILMAN MANISCALCO.
03:39:37PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
03:39:38PM I NOTICED AND YOU BROUGHT IT UP.
03:39:43PM WHEN WE TALK OF SULPHUR SPRINGS, YOU KNOW THAT AREA IN
03:39:46PM PARTICULAR, IF YOU EVEN ASK MY MOTHER, YOU KNOW THEY SPEND A
03:39:50PM LOT OF TIME IN THE '60s AND '70s IN THAT AREA, AND TELL ME
03:39:55PM WHAT BUSINESSES USED TO BE THERE, NORTHGATE OR FLORILAND.
03:40:00PM BOTH OF THEM.
03:40:01PM IN SOUTH TAMPA, THE BEGINNING OF THE -- THE CHANGE CAN OF
03:40:06PM THE PEOPLE LEAVING DOWNTOWN AND GOING INTO THE WIDE-OPEN
03:40:12PM AREAS WITH AMPLE SHOPPING, PARKING LOTS AND WHATNOT.
03:40:18PM SINCE THE 1980s, THAT CHANGED TREMENDOUSLY.
03:40:21PM WITH THE LOSS OF A MAJOR ANCHOR STORE.
03:40:24PM YOU HAVE BIG AREAS OF LANDS.
03:40:29PM YOU HAVE WHAT USED TO BE TOWER DRIVE-IN, YOU KNOW.
03:40:33PM MADE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE LIGHTS AND EVERYTHING,
03:40:37PM BUT, I KNOW, AS CANDIDATES, SOME OF US HERE WERE AT LEAST --
03:40:44PM AT LEAST ONE CANDIDATES FORUM ON BUSCH BOULEVARD AND BECOME
03:40:49PM SULPHUR SPRINGS AND TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE WILL GET
03:40:51PM INVESTMENT HERE SQUALLING A FOOD DESERT.
03:40:58PM LACK OF GROCERY.
03:41:00PM THERE IS A WALMART THERE ON BUSCH.
03:41:03PM SOMETHING.
03:41:04PM BUT SULPHUR SPRINGS.
03:41:06PM AT LEAST SINCE MY CHILDHOOD AND THE LOSS K-MART AND THE
03:41:15PM WATERS AND FLORIDA, BECAME A FLEA MARKET.
03:41:18PM BRAVO, IF THE BRAVO IS STILL OPEN.
03:41:20PM PEOPLE FEEL NEGLECTED.
03:41:23PM A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF JOSEPH ROBERTSON.
03:41:27PM HE WAS THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT.
03:41:29PM HE TELLS ME THAT SULPHUR SPRINGS IS THE POOR NEIGHBORHOOD
03:41:33PM IN THE CITY.
03:41:34PM AND I MET HIM THROUGH T.H.A.N. 15 YEARS AGO, YOU KNOW.
03:41:38PM MANY OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE PASSED AWAY.
03:41:42PM BUT THE POINT I AM MAKING LONG STORY SHORT, THANK YOU FOR
03:41:45PM LOOKING AT THIS.
03:41:46PM BECAUSE SULPHUR SPRINGS -- I HEAR ABOUT IT EVERY DAY.
03:41:49PM EVERY DAY, BECAUSE IT IS JUST -- IT IS -- I MEAN, I SAY EAST
03:41:54PM TAMPA IS THE LAND THAT TIME FORGOT BUT SULPHUR SPRINGS RIGHT
03:41:58PM THERE WITH IT.,
03:41:59PM THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AT THIS AND I LOOK FORWARD TO FURTHER
03:42:03PM DISCUSSION AND HOW TO IMPROVE THE AN AREA.
03:42:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK AND COUNCIL MEMBER
03:42:08PM VIERA.
03:42:09PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
03:42:09PM THESE THREE AREAS OF STUDY.
03:42:12PM WHEN DO WE EXPECT TO GET SOME FEEDBACK ON THANK?
03:42:20PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: I DON'T HAVE THAT SCHEDULE IN FRONT OF ME
03:42:26PM RIGHT NOW.
03:42:26PM RUNNING A PARALLEL TRACK.
03:42:28PM WHAT TIMES OF DESIGN STANDARDS WILL BE APPROPRIATE FOR
03:42:32PM INCORPORATION THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE.
03:42:38PM I CAN BRING YOU MORE INFORMATION THAT ONLY NEXT MONTH
03:42:41PM WHEN I MET WITH CLARION ON TUESDAY, THIS SECOND
03:42:51PM AUTHORIZATION CAME OUT FROM THE LARGE GROUP, AND I REALLY
03:42:54PM WANTED TO PRESENT WITH COUNCIL ON THURSDAY.
03:42:56PM AND HOT OFF THE PRESS, AND I CAN GET THAT YOU INFORMATION.
03:43:00PM >>LYNN HURTAK: WE ARE OBVIOUSLY VERY EXCITED ABOUT CONTINUED
03:43:03PM A REALLY HELPS -- I THINK WHAT IT ALSO WILL TO DO HELP THE
03:43:07PM PUBLIC UNDERSTAND MORE WHAT THE LAND DEVELOPMENT CODE WILL
03:43:09PM ACTUALLY DO.
03:43:10PM AND SO I REALLY LOVE THE IDEA OF JUST THE CORRIDOR STUDIES
03:43:15PM THAT CAN SHOW WITH VISUALS WHAT WE ARE REALLY LOOKING TO DO
03:43:19PM IN CERTAIN LOCATIONS.
03:43:20PM REALLY APPRECIATE IT.
03:43:23PM THOSE ARE THREE VERY WELL-CHOSEN SPACES THROUGHOUT THE CITY
03:43:27PM FOR VARIOUS DIFFERENT REASONS.
03:43:29PM I THINK THAT WILL BE VERY EXCITING.
03:43:32PM THANK YOU SO MUCH.
03:43:32PM I APPRECIATE THE UPDATE.
03:43:34PM AND I KNOW WE WILL GET OF THE REPORT WHEN THE FIRST COMES,
03:43:42PM WE WILL BE READY TO GO.
03:43:43PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
03:43:47PM VIERA.
03:43:49PM >>LUIS VIERA: THIS IS APPRECIATED.
03:43:52PM EXCUSE ME, I LOOK AT SULPHUR SPRINGS AND COUNCIL MEMBER
03:43:56PM MANISCALCO OF A LAND THAT TIME FORGOT.
03:44:00PM SULPHUR SPRINGS IS A LAND THAT TIME NEVER GAVE A DAMN ABOUT.
03:44:07PM NEVER ON THE AGENDA.
03:44:08PM ONE OF THE BIGGEST CHALLENGES WITH SULPHUR SPRINGS, THERE IS
03:44:10PM NO BIG CIVIC MOVEMENT THERE THAT MAKES ITS VOICE HEARD TO
03:44:16PM CITY COUNCIL AND SO FORTH, UNLESS YOU GO OUT THERETO AND PUNT
03:44:22PM IT ON THE AGENDA, RIGHT, IT IS NOT GOING TO BE PUSHED.
03:44:27PM WE HAVE THAT A LOT IN EAST TAMPA.
03:44:28PM A GREAT CIVIC CONDITIONS IN EAST TAMPA.
03:44:31PM IN SULPHUR SPRINGS, WE NEED THINGS LIKE THIS WHERE WE
03:44:35PM UNILATERALLY SAY LOOK AT ISSUES OF DEVELOPMENT IN SULPHUR
03:44:38PM SPRINGS.
03:44:38PM WHAT SULPHUR SPRINGS NEEDS AT THE ENDS, IN MY OPINION, SR.
03:44:41PM MONEY.
03:44:42PM A WHOLE LOT OF MONEY.
03:44:47PM WE NEED STATE MONEY, FEDERAL MONEY.
03:44:50PM AND SULPHUR SPRINGS NEEDS A NEW DEAL.
03:44:56PM GET THE KIDS ON THE STREETS AND HELP THE COMMUNITIES.
03:44:59PM FIX UP THE COMMUNITY CENTERS.
03:45:01PM NEXT UP ITS HOUSING.
03:45:03PM WHERE PEOPLE GO AND ENGAGE IN EXERCISE AND SO FORTH AND THAT
03:45:06PM TAKES TAKES A LOT OF GOVERNMENT MONEY.
03:45:09PM AND THE WILL FOR THAT IS JUST NOT HERE.
03:45:11PM TAKE A LOOK AT THE POOL.
03:45:13PM HOW LONG HAS THAT POOL -- I KNOW A LOT OF STRUCTURAL ISSUE
03:45:16PM THAT -- ONE OF THE BIG AMENITIES THAT SULPHUR SPRINGS HAD
03:45:20PM FROM THE CITY OF TAMPA, THE POOL, GONE, GONE, GONE.
03:45:24PM WHEN IS IT GOING TO COME BACK?
03:45:26PM WE DON'T KNOW.
03:45:27PM WE DON'T KNOW.
03:45:27PM THE BIG AGENDA FOR SULPHUR SPRINGS, REALLY, TO GET THEM BACK
03:45:33PM TO THEIR POSITION WHERE THEY WERE BEFORE THEY LOST THE POOL.
03:45:37PM THAT IS NOT GOOD.
03:45:38PM SO THIS, AGAIN, IS OBVIOUSLY A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION,
03:45:42PM AND WHAT TIME WE SPEND TALKING ABOUT IT -- MISS FEELEY, HAS
03:45:45PM NOTHING TO DO WHAT YOU DO AND THE WONDERFUL EFFORTS ABOUT
03:45:49PM THIS.
03:45:50PM BUT IT IS ABOUT THE MONEY AND INVESTING DOLLARS IN SULPHUR
03:45:53PM SPRINGS IMMEDIATELY LONG-TERM AGAINST FROM ALL GOVERNMENT
03:45:56PM PARTNERS.
03:45:56PM THIS IS A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT, AGAIN, THERE IS
03:46:00PM JUST -- A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE REALLY NEEDS TO DO TO
03:46:04PM PUT SULPHUR SPRINGS ON THE MAP FROM POLICY.
03:46:07PM I TALKED OF THINGS LIKE A CRA THERE.
03:46:09PM THERE WASN'T SUPPORT FOR THAT.
03:46:11PM WHO KNOW WHAT IS THE HURRICANE WILL HAPPEN IN THE KNEW
03:46:15PM COMMUTER -- IN THE FUTURE WITH THE CRAs.
03:46:21PM I REMEMBER A STORY -- I LOVE U.S. HISTORY.
03:46:26PM A PRESS SECRETARY OF PRESIDENT LYNDON JOHNSON.
03:46:30PM THIS WAR OF POVERTY.
03:46:32PM POOR FOLKS DON'T VOTE.
03:46:35PM HE SAID BY THE TIME THIS IS DONE, IF I DON'T GET A SINGLE
03:46:40PM THING PASSED BUT POVERTY ON THE MINDS OF PEOPLE AND TO PUT
03:46:45PM SULPHUR SPRINGS ONLY A LIST FIRST AND FOREMOST OF THE MINDS
03:46:49PM OF PEOPLE.
03:46:49PM THAT'S IT.
03:46:50PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU KNOW I LOOK AT SULPHUR SPRINGS
03:46:54PM DIFFERENTLY.
03:46:55PM ALL OF OUR ECONOMIC DIFFICULT AREAS -- SOME -- A LOT OF
03:47:04PM TIMES BEST INTENTIONS HAVE UNINTENDED BAD CONSEQUENCES,
03:47:09PM GENTRIFICATION AND OTHER ISSUES.
03:47:12PM SULPHUR SPRINGS, DISPROPORTIONATE NUMBER OF THEMES ARE NOT
03:47:15PM OWNER-OCCUPIED RENTAL AND INVESTOR PROPERTIES.
03:47:18PM I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT NUMBER IS, BUT I BELIEVE IT
03:47:23PM IS SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER AREA OF THE CITY.
03:47:27PM YOU HAVE A LOT OF RENTERS THERE, AND YOU DON'T HAVE THAT
03:47:32PM CIVIC ACTIVISM THAT YOU SEE IN OTHER AREAS OF THE SIT.
03:47:37PM IF I WAS ABLE TO SPRINKLE SOME MAGIC PIXIE DUST, IT NEEDS
03:47:42PM TO PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CITY OF THE SKILL OF THE CITY.
03:47:47PM AND WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
03:47:49PM TO EXPAND THOSE PROGRAMS.
03:47:51PM AND INTO AREAS OF SULPHUR SPRINGS.
03:47:54PM SO PEOPLE HAVE OWNERSHIP AND HAVE BUY IN AND THEY ARE
03:47:58PM INVESTED IN THE COMMUNITY.
03:47:59PM JUST PEOPLE WHO ARE, YOU KNOW, BUYING DOZENS AS INVESTIMENTS
03:48:08PM AND KEEPING THEM MINIMALLY MAINTAINED.
03:48:11PM WHAT WE CAN AFFORD TO DO AS A CITY, CONTINUE TO DOUBLE DOWN
03:48:15PM ON THE PROGRAMS WITH SULPHUR SPRINGS AND SOME OF THE OTHER
03:48:18PM AREAS.
03:48:18PM SUITCASE CITY.
03:48:20PM AND SOME OF THE PLACES THAT WE HAVE SOME ISSUES
03:48:25PM THAT ARE HISTORICALLY DEPRESSED AREA.
03:48:27PM THAT IS JUST AN OBSERVATION.
03:48:30PM I SAID THIS BEFORE, BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU ASK FOR.
03:48:36PM WE GO AND HEAVILY INVEST.
03:48:40PM I HAVE A GOOD PANEL FOR YOU.
03:48:42PM YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO AFFORD TO LIVE IN IT.
03:48:49PM WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE NEIGHBORHOODS, WORKING-CLASS
03:48:53PM NEIGHBORHOODS OR FOR SENIOR CITIZENS OR GENTRIFIED AND
03:48:57PM TURNED INTO THINGS.
03:49:00PM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
03:49:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: DO YOU WANT TO GO FIRST?
03:49:03PM YOU DIDN'T SPEAK YET.
03:49:05PM >>BILL CARLSON: I AGREE WITH THE POINT WE NEED TO HELP BUILD
03:49:08PM CAPACITY FOR -- FOR SULPHUR SPRINGS AREA TO -- TO SPEAK OUT.
03:49:14PM JUST LIKE OTHER COMMUNITIES, THERE ARE A LOT OF DIFFERENT
03:49:17PM VOICES.
03:49:17PM EAST TAMPA, THERE IS A LOT OF DIFFERENT LEADERS AND NO EAST
03:49:22PM TAMPA PLAN.
03:49:23PM PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT IDEAS WHAT THEY SHOULD DO.
03:49:26PM YOU ALL MAY SEE WITH MY COMMUNITY HAT ON, I HAD CHARLIE
03:49:31PM ADAMS SPEAKS, AND IT IS RECORDED, AND YOU CAN WATCH IT ONLINE.
03:49:37PM DAVE COLEMAN POSTED IT.
03:49:38PM BUT I HAD A ROBUST DISCUSSION.
03:49:40PM THE IDEA IS TO HAVE EXPOSURE THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND PEOPLE
03:49:45PM KNOW WHAT IS IN SULPHUR SPRINGS.
03:49:47PM HE IS ONE PERSON.
03:49:48PM HELPS CAPACITY AND DOING SOMETHING LIKE TOWN HALL MEETING.
03:49:53PM AND WE HAVE A MEETING AND CAN HAVE FOLKS SPEAK AND HAVE
03:49:57PM CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM.
03:49:58PM MY CONCERN IS THAT TAMPA HAS BEEN FOR MANY YEARS WHAT I CALL
03:50:04PM THE "EDIFACE COMPLEX."
03:50:06PM SAME THING.
03:50:07PM THAT WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE THAT DON'T UNDER SAND THE ECONOMIC
03:50:11PM DEVELOPMENT.
03:50:11PM NOT MISS FEELEY BUT PEOPLE ASKING FOR IT.
03:50:13PM DON'T UNDERSTAND.
03:50:14PM THEIR PERSPECTIVE ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT WE NEED SHINY
03:50:18PM NEW BUILDINGS THAT BENEFIT THEIR CLIENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE
03:50:20PM LOBBYISTS.
03:50:21PM AND WHAT WE DO IS WE TEAR OUT JOBS IN THE PORT WHICH ARE
03:50:27PM ESSENTIALLY IMPORTANT TO THE AREA.
03:50:30PM FOR SULPHUR SPRINGS, WE NEED JOBS.
03:50:32PM NOT SUBSIDIZED BUT JOBS.
03:50:35PM AND WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO IT.
03:50:38PM BECAUSE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOLKS HAVE TRADITIONALLY NOT
03:50:42PM FOCUSED ON THOSE AREAS AND FOCUSED ON THE UNIQUE AT TRIBUTES
03:50:50PM OF AT AREA.
03:50:52PM THE SIMPLE THING AND WITH CHARLIE ADAMS AND OTHERS.
03:50:55PM THE VERY SIMPLE THING AND OTHERS, ALL THE PARKS ARE FALLING
03:50:58PM APART.
03:50:59PM THE POOL AND THE PARK GROUND AND THE RIVERWALK THERE.
03:51:02PM THE -- THERE ARE POCKET PARKS IN NEIGHBORHOOD.
03:51:06PM IF WE JUST FIXED UP THE LITTLE POCKET PARKS, IT WILL MAKE A
03:51:11PM HUGE DIFFERENCE.
03:51:12PM ALLOCATING MONEY LIKE WE SHOULD BE, THERE IS NOTHING
03:51:16PM REALLY TO DO THERE.
03:51:17PM SO IF WE FIX THIS, THAT WILL BE A START.
03:51:20PM FIXING SOME OF THE OTHER BASIC INFRASTRUCTURE AND LISTENING
03:51:24PM TO THE COMMUNITY ON -- ON WHAT WE CAN DO.
03:51:26PM YOU MENTIONED SUITCASE CITY.
03:51:28PM UNIVERSITY AREA, CDC, HAS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF LOOKING AT
03:51:36PM THINGS FROM THE PEOPLE'S POINT OF VIEW.
03:51:37PM MEXICAN INDIGENOUS NATIVE.
03:51:39PM CZECH OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW.
03:51:44PM SO THEY GOT THEIR WORKERS TO LEARN HOW TO SPEAK THE
03:51:47PM LANGUAGE.
03:51:47PM THEY UNDERSTAND THE CULTURE.
03:51:49PM THEY ENGAGE THEM.
03:51:50PM THEY BROUGHT IN GROUPS LIKE THE FOUNDATIONS THAT INVEST IN
03:51:53PM THE ART.
03:51:54PM THEY GET RETIRED LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY TO COME AND COACH
03:52:00PM KIDS IN BASKETBALL AND FOOTBALL AND OTHER PROGRAMS AND TELL
03:52:07PM THEM NOT TO USE DRUGS.
03:52:11PM THE GOAL IS NOT TO BUILD BUILDINGS AND PLOW OVER THINGS THAT
03:52:14PM DON'T LOOK NICE.
03:52:14PM THE GOAL TO GET PEOPLE ENGAGED TO BUILD A SENSE OF
03:52:18PM COMMUNITIES TO BE MORE PROUD OF AN AREA, AND THINGS BUILD
03:52:27PM ORGANICALLY AND WE NEED TO GET TO THAT.
03:52:30PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
03:52:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SEVERAL YEARS AG, A FRIEND AND I --
03:52:37PM LIVES IN SEMINOLE HEIGHTS AND GOING THROUGH SULPHUR SPRINGS.
03:52:38PM IN HIS OPINION, HE SAID SULPHUR SPRINGS IS A TRANSIENT
03:52:42PM COMMUNITY.
03:52:42PM PEOPLE COMING TO VACATION IN THE 20s AND 30s AND WHATNOT.
03:52:46PM HE SAID YOU NEVER HAD THAT PERMANENT RESIDENCY.
03:52:49PM PEOPLE COMING IN AND OUT.
03:52:51PM I SAID PEOPLE WHO ARE MULTIGENERATIONAL THAT WILL LIVE
03:52:53PM THERE.
03:52:53PM I EVEN READ AND I NEVER FOUND PROOF THAT CARY GRANT, THE
03:52:59PM ACTOR, HAD A HOUSE IN SULPHUR SPRINGS OR WOULD VACATION IN
03:53:02PM SULPHUR SPRINGS IN THE 1930s.
03:53:03PM I KNOW CESAR ROMERO HAD A HOUSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
03:53:08PM THE HOUSE IS THERE, BUT -- I WAS JUST -- I TOLD MR. ROGERO I
03:53:15PM WAS WATCHING BATMAN MOVIE IN 1966.
03:53:19PM HE IS A BIG BATMAN FAN.
03:53:21PM ANYWAY, TO GET TO THE POINT, SULPHUR SPRINGS IS A BEAUTIFUL
03:53:25PM COMMUNITY.
03:53:25PM I SPENT A LOT OF THE TIME IN THE ROWLETT PARK.
03:53:29PM I TAKE FLORIDA AND NEBRASKA.
03:53:30PM SPRINGS THEATRE.
03:53:32PM I DON'T GO TO THE POOL.
03:53:33PM BUT I GO TO RIVER TOWER PARK.
03:53:35PM I SEE THAT -- CALL IT -- YOU KNOW THE BOARDWALK BACK THERE.
03:53:39PM I KNOW THE HISTORY OF THE AREA.
03:53:42PM I TALKED TO MY MOTHER ABOUT IT OR PEOPLE WHO REMEMBER IT.
03:53:45PM THE THING IS -- AND THIS IS A -- THIS IS MAYBE ONE OF
03:53:50PM MY FAULTS.
03:53:51PM I SEE THE BEAUTY IN -- I LOOK FOR THE BEAUTY IN BAD PEOPLE,
03:53:55PM GOOD PEOPLE, UGLY PLACES, PRETTY PLACES, BUT YOU TRY TO
03:53:58PM LOOK FOR THE GOOD.
03:53:59PM SO, AS YOU KNOW, I WALK THE RIVERWALK ALL THE TIME.
03:54:03PM THE OTHER DAY, I HAD A GREAT IDEA.
03:54:05PM I SAID I AM WALKING THE RIVERWALK, AND I SAID LIKE FORREST
03:54:09PM GUMP, I JUST STARTED WALKING AND DIDN'T STOP.
03:54:11PM I SAID I WANT TO KEEP ON WALKING TO YBOR.
03:54:15PM WALKED TO ARMATURE WORKS.
03:54:18PM I SAID I WILL WALK THROUGH THE CITY OF TAMPA.
03:54:20PM I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT KNOCKING ON DOORS CAMPAIGNING.
03:54:23PM I DID THIS DURING COVID WHEN NO TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD.
03:54:26PM I LIVE IN WEST TAMPA.
03:54:27PM AND WALKED FROM JOE'S, AND I ENDED UP IN YBOR CITY, AND
03:54:38PM I AM SEEING IT FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE THAN BEING IN A
03:54:43PM CAR, BUS OR BIKE.
03:54:44PM I NOTICED THIS DETAIL.
03:54:46PM LOOK AT THIS.
03:54:46PM LOOK AT THAT.
03:54:47PM A LOT OF BEAUTY IN THE CITY.
03:54:49PM I AM SAYING FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I HAVE A LOT OF IDEAS.
03:54:52PM AND SOME I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT TODAY, BUT I WILL TELL
03:54:56PM YOU ABOUT ONE.
03:54:56PM SO I AM ON THE BOARD OF THE TAMPA THEATRE.
03:54:59PM TAMPA THEATRE WILL BE DOING RENOVATIONS AND WILL BE SHOWING
03:55:03PM MOVIES SOON.
03:55:04PM CAN WE GO AND SEE MOVIES.
03:55:07PM CUBAN CLUB, THE CENTRO ESTURANO.
03:55:12PM MOVIES IN THE PARK LIKE CURTIS HIXON.
03:55:15PM SHOWED "WIZARD OF OZ."
03:55:18PM A POP-UP DRIVE-IN AT THE WATER TOWER AT SULPHUR SPRINGS.
03:55:22PM DO IT WHERE -- IN THE OLD-TIME DRIVE-INS.
03:55:26PM YOU PULLED UP AND A SPEAKER YOU WOULD HANG ON THE WINDOW AND
03:55:30PM MODERN DRIVE-INS.
03:55:31PM WOULD YOU TUNE YOUR RADIO TO A DIFFERENT -- I TOLD TAMPA
03:55:36PM THEATRE, DO A POP-UP SCREEN AT RIVER TOWER PARK IN THE SAME
03:55:40PM LAYOUT.
03:55:40PM HAVE CARS PULL UP LIKE AN ORIGINAL DRIVE-IN.
03:55:43PM SHOW WHATEVER MOVIE AND HAVE PEOPLE TUNE ON TO THE RADIO.
03:55:47PM PEOPLE GO THROUGH -- THAT DON'T LIVE IN SULPHUR SPRINGS AND
03:55:51PM SEMINOLE HEIGHTS AND EAST TAMPA, GO TO POPS IN THE PARK.
03:55:54PM SO MANY PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE CITY GO THERE.
03:55:56PM THEY WOULD NEVER GO TO THAT PARK OTHER THAN PASSING ON THE
03:56:00PM INTERSTATE AND SEEING TOWER.
03:56:02PM WE DO THINGS LIKE THAT.
03:56:04PM TAMPA THEATRE AND OTHER IDEAS THAT I WILL TALK ABOUT ANOTHER
03:56:08PM DAY.
03:56:08PM AND PEOPLE STARTED DISCOVERING IT.
03:56:09PM AND NOT ABOUT GENTRIFICATION.
03:56:16PM REDISCOVERING AREAS OF TAMPA AND HEY, I CAN MOVE HERE AND
03:56:22PM REINVEST.
03:56:24PM I KNOW A WOMAN WHOSE HUSBAND BOUGHT UP REAL ESTATE YBOR CITY
03:56:28PM BACK IN THE '80s MY HUSBAND BOUGHT X BUILDING ON 7th AVENUE.
03:56:34PM I TOLD MY MOM AND GO -- GRANDFATHER BOUGHT SOME REAL ESTATE
03:56:38PM -- I SAID WHY DIDN'T YOU BUY IN YBOR CITY.
03:56:41PM SHE SAID BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T -- YBOR CITY IN 1978 IS NOT
03:56:45PM YBOR CITY OF WHAT YOU SEE NOW.
03:56:47PM YOU GO TO THE COLUMBIA RESTAURANT EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT.
03:56:49PM AND WE WOULD GO HOME.
03:56:51PM IT WASN'T LIKE YOU SEE IT NOW.
03:56:52PM NOW YOU CAN'T TOUCH PROPERTY IN YBOR CITY.
03:56:55PM BECAUSE THE STORIES THAT THINK -- OH, I COULD HAVE
03:56:58PM BOUGHT THIS BUILDING FOR $80,000 GRAND 45 YEARS AGO AND NOW
03:57:02PM THEY WANT $5 MILLION.
03:57:03PM BUT ANYWAYS, SOMEONE HAD AN IDEA SAYING, HEY, YBOR CITY WE
03:57:08PM CAN BRING THAT BACK.
03:57:09PM SOMEBODY SAID I HAVE A FRIEND THAT LIVED IN HYDE PARK.
03:57:11PM HISTORIC HYDE PARK.
03:57:13PM SAID I LIVED THERE FOR FREE OFF BAYSHORE IN AN OLD VICTORIAN
03:57:19PM HOME -- EARLY 1900s BECAUSE THE OWNER SAID I NEED SOMEBODY
03:57:23PM THERE IF NOT HOMELESS PEOPLE WILL BREAK INTO IT.
03:57:25PM BLAH-BLAH-BLAH.
03:57:27PM PEOPLE TOLD ME I COULDN'T GET A LOAN TO BUY A HOUSE IN HYDE
03:57:30PM PARK.
03:57:30PM NOW A LITTLE HOUSE IN HYDE PARK $900,000, $1 MILLION.
03:57:34PM >>BILL CARLSON: YOU CAN'T FIND A HOUSE IN HYDE PARK FOR $1
03:57:40PM MILLION.
03:57:41PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: A HOUSE OFF OF HOWARD, $900,000.
03:57:48PM THIS WAS THREE YEARS AGO.
03:57:49PM BUT THE THING IS ONCE YOU SPARK INTEREST -- THIS IS NOT
03:57:53PM AGAIN -- GENTRIFICATION.
03:57:58PM MY BUDDY SAID SEMINOLE HEIGHTS IS TRANSIENT -- BOUGHT IN
03:58:04PM SEMINOLE HEIGHTS IN 2001, $909,000 ON A BIG LOT.
03:58:08PM SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
03:58:09PM THEY TORE THE HOUSE DOWN, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY SOLD BUT
03:58:12PM $750,000.
03:58:12PM A LITTLE HOUSE WITHOUT A GARAGE, YOU KNOW WHAT I AM SAYING.
03:58:15PM ESPECIALLY GOES SEMINOLE HEIGHTS.
03:58:17PM TAMPA HEIGHTS, OKAY.
03:58:19PM WHEN THE SCHOOL CAUGHT ON FIRE ON COLUMBUS DRIVE, I WENT
03:58:22PM DOWN TO SEE THE FIRE, RIGHT.
03:58:23PM POWER WAS OUT IN PARTS OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
03:58:28PM I WALKED THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND SOME OF THE MOST
03:58:31PM BEAUTIFUL ARCHITECTURE.
03:58:32PM VICTORIAN ERA, LATE 1800s, 1900s HOME.
03:58:37PM SIT ON THEIR PORCH.
03:58:40PM YOU COULDN'T AFFORD THIS.
03:58:41PM YOU TALK TO MY DAD, HE THINK THAT TAMPA HEIGHTS IS $30,000, I
03:58:46PM GO, YOU WISH.
03:58:47PM YOU WISH.
03:58:48PM SO IN -- I MEAN, WE WOULD TAKE --MLK TO TAMPA STREET TO GET
03:58:54PM DOWNTOWN.
03:58:54PM DROVE TO GET THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
03:58:57PM ARMATURE WORKS.
03:58:59PM I DROVE DOWN PALM AVENUE TO GET TO YBOR CITY.
03:59:02PM DIDN'T PAY ATTENTION.
03:59:03PM IT WAS JUST A NEIGHBORHOOD.
03:59:04PM LONG STORY SHORT --
03:59:07PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU WON'T.
03:59:08PM [LAUGHTER]
03:59:11PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I AM NOT --
03:59:14PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YOU GO DOWN THERE.
03:59:16PM YOU SIT NEXT TO EACH OTHER.
03:59:18PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I AM GOING TO FINISH WITH THIS.
03:59:20PM ALL IT TAKES IS A SPARK TO REIGNITE IN A GOOD WAY A
03:59:23PM NEIGHBORHOOD.
03:59:24PM THIS IS NOT GENTRIFICATION.
03:59:26PM THIS IS REINVESTMENT.
03:59:27PM THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE TO BUILD GENERATIONAL WEALTH.
03:59:31PM WE WANT TO YOU STAY.
03:59:32PM YOU ARE WHAT MAKES THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT HERE IS THE
03:59:34PM GROCERY STORE.
03:59:35PM HERE IS THE MIDDLE CLASS.
03:59:37PM HERE IS THE AMENITIES, THE DOCTOR'S OFFICES, WHATEVER IT IS,
03:59:44PM WE CAN DO THAT WITH EAST TAMPA.
03:59:45PM WE CAN DO THAT WITH LAND USE DECISIONS AND POLICIES WE CAN
03:59:49PM MAKE IN COLLABORATION WITH YOU AND PRIVATE INVESTMENT.
03:59:52PM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA SAID EVERY DOLLAR, EVERY -- I WILL
03:59:56PM FINISH WITH THIS -- WOULD TELL ME WHEN HE WAS MAYOR IN THE
04:00:00PM '60s THROUGH URBAN RENEWAL -- HE WOULD TALK ABOUT MODEL
04:00:03PM CITIES AND THAT IS A BLEATED NEIGHBORHOOD.
04:00:07PM A BLIGHTED NEIGHBORHOOD.
04:00:08PM GET FEDERAL FUNDING THROUGH THE JOHNSON AND NIXON
04:00:12PM ADMINISTRATION AT THE TIME.
04:00:13PM MONEY WAS COMING IN AND VERY AGGRESSIVE.
04:00:16PM WE ARE TALKING INTERSTATE.
04:00:17PM A LOT OF NEGATIVES THERE.
04:00:19PM BUT WE CAN UTILIZE THE RESOURCES WE HAVE FROM HERE TO THE
04:00:24PM FEDERAL LEVEL TO REINVEST IN THESE COMMUNITIES.
04:00:27PM NO EXCUSES IN 2025 THAT POVERTY EXISTS.
04:00:34PM PEOPLE LIVE BELOW THE POVERTY LINE.
04:00:36PM THE POOREST NEIGHBORHOODS THEM DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO FRESH
04:00:41PM FOOD.
04:00:41PM WE TAKE IT FOR GRANTED.
04:00:44PM GO TO PUBLIX.
04:00:44PM THEY DON'T HAVE A PUBLIX.
04:00:47PM BUILDING IN BIG SPACES AND OPPORTUNITY FOR US.
04:00:50PM THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO MY HISTORY TODAY.
04:00:53PM THANK YOU FOR INDULGING ME ,AND I CAN TALK FOREVER.
04:00:57PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE LOVE YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
04:01:00PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I BELIEVE IN THIS COMMUNITY AND CAN MAKE
04:01:02PM POSITIVE INVESTMENTS TO MAKE THINGS FOLLOW.
04:01:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA, CAN YOU FOLLOW
04:01:07PM THAT?
04:01:07PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: IF I FOLLOW THAT, I WILL DIE.
04:01:10PM I AM NOT GOING THERE.
04:01:11PM BUT A HISTORY OF GOING DOWN AND YOU LOOK AT THE LITTLE PARKS
04:01:16PM THAT YOU HAVE.
04:01:16PM IF YOU SEE A LOT KIDS IN THE PARK, YOU HAVE A COMMUNITY ON THE
04:01:19PM RISE.
04:01:19PM IF YOU SEE NO KIDS, YOU HAVE A COMMUNITY IN THE DECLINE.
04:01:22PM I CAN GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF WEST TAMPA BAY PARK WHICH IS
04:01:27PM TAMPA LITTLE LEAGUE.
04:01:28PM NOW OVER 300 KIDS AND COMMUNITY IS COMING RIGHT BACK TO IT.
04:01:32PM THAT'S HOW IT IS.
04:01:33PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHAT WAS THE COST OF THE REAL ESTATE.
04:01:39PM IT IS ALWAYS TO SAY I COULD HAVE BROUGHT IT THEN.
04:01:44PM REALIZE $400,000 AND $880,000 MIGHT AS WELL BEEN $4 MILLION.
04:01:48PM I WASN'T MAKE ANYTHING MONEY AND TRYING TO RAISE TWO KIDS.
04:01:51PM EVEN THOUGH IT SEEMS LIKE BASED ON THE SCALE OF TODAY, IT
04:01:56PM WAS STILL OUT OF REACH FOR MOST OF US.
04:01:57PM A LOT OF THE YBOR POLICY WAS CONTROLLED.
04:01:59PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: 15 YEARS AGO, NOW EAST TAMPA 650 WAS $990,000.
04:02:12PM I AM OUT OF COLLEGE.
04:02:13PM I HAD THE MONEY, BUT IT IS GOING TO TAKE ME YEARS TO --
04:02:16PM I AM NOT GOING -- NEED TO RENT IT OUT FOR $500 A
04:02:21PM MONTH.
04:02:21PM WHAT IS THAT LAND WORTH TODAY, $150,000, $200,000 PER LOT?
04:02:28PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
04:02:30PM >>BILL CARLSON: THE NEW $30,000.
04:02:32PM THE $30,000 IS $300,000 TO $400,000 ON THE WATER.
04:02:41PM TELL EVERYBODY ACROSS SOUTH TAMPA AND ACROSS THE RIVER YOU
04:02:44PM CAN BUY A LOT FOR LESS THAN $400,000 ON THE WATER AND YOU
04:02:48PM CAN STAND THERE AND LOOK AT THE HOUSES ACROSS THE RIVER AND
04:02:50PM THE ONES ON THIS TIDE.
04:02:52PM THEN YOU HAVE THE EDIFACE COMPLEX.
04:02:54PM AND ONLY GOAL IS TO KICK POOR PEOPLE OUT HAVE SOMEBODY LIKE
04:02:59PM BLACKSTONE, DIVIDE UP THE LOTS ALONG THE RIVER.
04:03:02PM GET THEM TO REBRAND IT.
04:03:04PM $1 MILLION, $2 MILLION HOUSES AND EVERYTHING STARTS TO CHANGE.
04:03:07PM BETTER WAY TO DO IT IS TO START WORK ON PROGRAMS.
04:03:11PM YOU PROBABLY MET THE KIDS PLAYING ON THE STREETS ALONG
04:03:18PM THERE.
04:03:18PM AND BUILD PARKS AND HAVE WHAT THE CDC HAS DONE AND BUILD A
04:03:23PM LESS OF COMMUNITY THERE AND HIM THE COMMUNITY FROM
04:03:26PM THE GROUND UP.
04:03:26PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HAVE PEOPLE FIX UP THE ITEMS.
04:03:30PM THE LAST AGENDA ITEM.
04:03:34PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: IF YOU JUST INDULGE ME ONE SECOND.
04:03:36PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WE MIGHT AS WELL.
04:03:37PM >>ABBYE FEELEY: THANK YOU.
04:03:38PM I WANT TO SAY THE ROBUST DISCUSSION ABOUT THIS IS JUST SO
04:03:42PM WONDERFUL.
04:03:42PM WE DO HAVE THE SULPHUR SPRINGS NEIGHBORHOOD ACTION PLAN
04:03:45PM PLAN GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
04:03:46PM WE ARE WORKING ON THE FRESH FOOD INITIATIVE THERE.
04:03:49PM AND AS THOSE PROGRESS, WE NEED TO ENSURE THAT WE ARE
04:03:53PM REPORTING BACK TO YOU ON THAT SO WE HAVE AWARENESS AND
04:03:58PM FOLDING ALL OF THESE THINGS IN TOGETHER.
04:04:00PM SO THAT WHEN THE REDEVELOPMENT COMES, WE PUT THAT
04:04:03PM NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE BEST POSITION POSSIBLE TO -- TO BE WHAT
04:04:06PM IT NEEDS TO BE NEXT.
04:04:07PM AND THAT IS WHERE I THINK IT LINKING IN TO WHAT WE TALKED
04:04:11PM ABOUT TODAY.
04:04:12PM SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR PERSPECTIVE AND INSIGHT
04:04:15PM ON THAT.
04:04:15PM IT WAS VERY LOVELY THIS AFTERNOON AND WELCOME BACK.
04:04:20PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: THANK YOU, MISS FEELEY.
04:04:22PM WE ARE DONE WITH THE AGENDA ITEMS.
04:04:24PM CHECKED AND RECEIVED AND FILE EVERYTHING WE NEEDED.
04:04:27PM NEW BUSINESS.
04:04:28PM LET'S GO TO COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
04:04:29PM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST A COMMENT AND THEN A MOTION.
04:04:32PM THIS MORNING, IT WAS PRESENTED TO US THAT WE WOULD EACH HAVE
04:04:35PM $100,000 NONPROFIT FUND.
04:04:38PM A FEW WEEKS AGO, I JUST THREW OUT AN IDEA THAT COUNCIL
04:04:42PM MEMBER VIERA WORKED MORE ON SULPHUR SPRINGS THAN I HAVE.
04:04:45PM HE CAN MAKE A MOTION OR SOMEBODY ELSE.
04:04:48PM IF THERE IS $700,000 THERE.
04:04:51PM WE CAN ALLOCATE THAT AS A SULPHUR SPRINGS NONPROFIT FUND AND
04:04:56PM DIRECT THAT MONEY TO GO -- I MET WITH A BUNCH OF THE
04:05:00PM NONPROFITS AS YOU ALL HAVE, AND NONPROFITS CAN CREATE THE
04:05:03PM PROGRAMS THAT GET THE KIDS AND THE FAMILIES ACTIVATED AND
04:05:06PM AGAIN A WAY OF WORKING ON THINGS FROM THE GROUND UP RATHER
04:05:09PM THAN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT.
04:05:11PM SEPARATELY, THERE ARE -- THESE ARE COMING TO ME -- I KNOW
04:05:16PM THEY USED TO COME TO YOU COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA, MAYBE THEY
04:05:19PM ARE AS WELL.
04:05:19PM BUT I HAVE GOT TWO EAGLE SCOUTS THAT HAVE RECENTLY BEEN
04:05:24PM AWARDED AND WOULD LIKE TO HAVE OFF-SITE COMMENDATION.
04:05:32PM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE AN OFF-SITE COMMENDATIONS OF RECEIVING
04:05:40PM EAGLE SCOUTS.
04:05:42PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON.
04:05:44PM SECONDED.
04:05:45PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
04:05:47PM OPPOSED.
04:05:49PM AYES HAVE IT.
04:05:50PM >>LUIS VIERA: COUPLE OF THINGS.
04:05:51PM I REQUESTED APPARENTLY NEXT WEEK -- OR THIS FRIDAY ACTUALLY
04:05:55PM IS TO DO SOME OF THAT NONPROFIT APPLICATIONS.
04:05:58PM SOME OF THE FOLKS ARE NEEDING A LITTLE BIT OF TIME.
04:06:01PM WHAT THE METHOD OF WHICH I SEEK EXTENSION?
04:06:06PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: SORRY, IS THAT AN ADMINISTRATIVE ISSUE?
04:06:09PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, I GUESS SO, I DON'T KNOW.
04:06:11PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I AM NOT FAMILIAR WITH SPECIFIC GRANTS.
04:06:15PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINK IT IS IN THE -- MISS McGREGOR
04:06:23PM DEPARTMENT.
04:06:23PM >>LUIS VIERA: A MOTION REQUESTING FOR AN EXTENSION THAT I
04:06:29PM WILL TAKE TO THEM.
04:06:30PM >> A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA AND SECONDED BY COUNCIL
04:06:34PM MEMBER MANISCALCO FOR A ONE-TIME EXEMPTION.
04:06:40PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: APPLICATION FOR --
04:06:43PM >>LUIS VIERA: NONPROFIT FUNDS.
04:06:45PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
04:06:46PM OPPOSED.
04:06:47PM AYES HAVE IT.
04:06:48PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, COUNCIL.
04:06:50PM A COUPLE OF REALLY QUICK ONES --
04:06:53PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
04:07:00PM >>LUIS VIERA: ERIC KAISER, ONE OF OUR INTERN WHO WILL SPEAK
04:07:04PM OF THIS AUTISM REPORT, DOCUMENTS THAT FOLKS CAN GET IF THEY
04:07:06PM ON THE SPECTRUM.
04:07:09PM GET TO LAW ENFORCEMENT LETTING THEM KNOW THEY ARE ON THE
04:07:13PM SPECTRUM.
04:07:13PM MULTIPLE STUFF GOING ON AND PUSH IT BACK TO AUGUST 28 WHEN
04:07:21PM WE ARE OPEN.
04:07:23PM THAT IS UNDER STAFF REPORTS BECAUSE HE IS A CITY OF TAMPA
04:07:26PM WORKER.
04:07:27PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
04:07:29PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
04:07:35PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
04:07:36PM OPPOSED.
04:07:37PM >> LUIS VIERA: LOOKING TO BUILD 56,000-SQUARE-FOOT COMMUNITY
04:07:43PM CENTER IN TAMPA FOR THE HOUSING FOR THE INTELLECTUALLY DISABLED.
04:07:48PM INVITE CLAYTON CLEMENS.
04:07:50PM I AM ON THEIR BOARD TO COME ON AUGUST 28, PLEASE, FOR TEN
04:07:54PM MINUTES WITH DISCUSSION.
04:07:56PM FIVE FOR HIM, FIVE FOR COUNCIL.
04:07:58PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: UNDER COMMENDATION AND PRESENTATIONS.
04:08:00PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
04:08:01PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND IT.
04:08:05PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
04:08:09PM SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
04:08:11PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
04:08:12PM OPPOSED.
04:08:12PM AYES HAVE IT.
04:08:14PM >>LUIS VIERA: NEXT WEEK, A NUMBER OF MOTIONS WITH REMINDERS
04:08:18PM OF A CHANGE-UP IN MOBILITY, STORMWATER AS WELL AS PARKS.
04:08:23PM A LOT OF THINGS HAPPENING AND I WOULD LIKE TO DO INTERNAL
04:08:26PM BECAUSE PART 8 OF STATION 24 AND I DON'T WANT THAT.
04:08:31PM THE HARRISON BOONSTOPPEL ALL ABILITIES PARK RENAMING THAT
04:08:39PM INCLUDES THE PLAQUE THAT WAS REQUESTED FOR THE LATE MR.
04:08:43PM BOONSTOPPEL BECAUSE MRS. MULKEY IS NO LONGER HERE.
04:08:52PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION AND A SECOND.
04:08:54PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
04:08:55PM OPPOSED.
04:08:57PM >>LUIS VIERA: AT LEAST I AM CORRECT, THE $2 MILLION
04:09:01PM REQUESTED FOR FLOODING VICTIMS FOR HOUSING ASSISTANCE IS
04:09:04PM GOING TO BE IN THE BUDGET AS IT I UNDERSTAND IT AS PROPOSED
04:09:07PM BY THE MAYOR.
04:09:08PM SO I MOTION FOR THE ADMINISTRATION TO REPORT BACK IN TWO
04:09:12PM WEEKS, AND THE JULY 31 OF THE TIMELINE MAKING THE FUNDS
04:09:16PM AVAILABLE FOR HOMEOWNERS NEED.
04:09:18PM WE ARE LATE TO THE PARTY.
04:09:19PM NOT A PARTY.
04:09:20PM A TIME OF SUFFERING AND EVERYTHING FOR SNAKE AND WE NEED TO
04:09:25PM GET THIS DONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
04:09:27PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: REAL QUICK.
04:09:28PM I HAVE OF A MOTION OF THIS AS WELL.
04:09:29PM REALIZE WE HAVE TO GET A RESOLUTION FROM THE ADMINISTRATION
04:09:33PM FOR THOSE FUNDS SO THE FUNDS HAVE -- COUNCIL HAS TO PASS A
04:09:37PM RESOLUTION.
04:09:38PM AND I WILL HAVE AN AMOUNT-TO-THAT AS WELL.
04:09:41PM >>LUIS VIERA: MAY I?
04:09:45PM IF YOU NEED TO TAG ON TO MINE FOR NOT OVERDOING THE NUMBER
04:09:50PM OF REPORTS.
04:09:50PM I AM FINE WITH THAT.
04:09:52PM ONCE WE DO THE RESOLUTIONS, WHAT ARE THE MONIES WILL BE
04:09:56PM AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE.
04:09:57PM >>LYNN HURTAK: CAN I -- I HAVE SOMETHING THAT -- THAT GOES
04:10:00PM ALONG WITH THAT.
04:10:01PM I MEAN, HAVE WE ACTUALLY EXPENDED THE OTHER $3.2 MILLION?
04:10:08PM >>LUIS VIERA: WE HAVE NOT.
04:10:09PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I THINKING THAT IS SOMETHING WE CAN CERTAINLY
04:10:11PM ASK FOR NOW TO FIND OUT WHERE WE ARE IN THAT PROCESS.
04:10:14PM I DON'T DISAGREE WE NEED TO DO THAT, BUT LET'S FIND OUT
04:10:24PM WHERE WE ARE.
04:10:25PM >>LUIS VIERA: I CAN TELL WHERE YOU WE ARE AT.
04:10:26PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
04:10:28PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR, THANK YOU.
04:10:29PM COUPLE OF THOSE FUNDS HAVE NOT BEEN EXTENDED.
04:10:33PM THE REASON WHY I AM PUSHING WITH THIS THREE MILLION THAT
04:10:41PM PRECLUDES A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM BENEFIT.
04:10:42PM THESE FUNDS ARE NOT.
04:10:44PM TONS OF WORKING-CLASS AND MIDDLE-CLASS PEOPLE WHO ARE
04:10:49PM SCREWED WORK FOR THESE DOLLARS.
04:10:50PM THAT'S WHY I SAY THAT.
04:10:51PM BECAUSE OF ALL THE STRINGS ATTACHED TO THEM.
04:10:53PM >>CLERK: ARE WE ASKING FOR A STAFF REPORT.
04:10:58PM FYI, WE WILL HAVE FOUR ITEMS SCHEDULE --
04:11:05PM >>LUIS VIERA: I THOUGHT IT WAS FIVE FOR SOME REASON.
04:11:07PM OKAY, HOW ABOUT THIS.
04:11:08PM WE WILL DO A WRITTEN.
04:11:10PM AND I WILL TALK ABOUT IT AT MOTION TIME.
04:11:13PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AGAIN, WILL IT BE APPROPRIATE BECAUSE WE
04:11:18PM DON'T HAVE A RESOLUTION.
04:11:18PM GETTING THE RESOLUTION AND ASK FOR THAT?
04:11:22PM >>LUIS VIERA: WAIT A SECOND.
04:11:23PM ASK TO MR. CHAIRMAN OR MISS SULING.
04:11:28PM IS ONE OF THOSE ITEMS A PRESENTATION FROM ERIC BECAUSE I
04:11:31PM JUST REMOVED THAT.
04:11:33PM SO WE FIT.
04:11:36PM NOT STATUS ON MAKING IT HAPPEN, BUT STATUS WHEN WE
04:11:42PM APPROVE THE RESOLUTION, AND CAN WE GET THESE DOLLARS OUT.
04:11:44PM WHAT KIND OF SYSTEM WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PUSHING THESE
04:11:48PM DOLLARS OUT.
04:11:48PM BECAUSE, AGAIN, THESE WILL NOT BE CONSTRAINED BY FEDERAL
04:11:56PM GUIDELINES ON WHO WANTS WHAT.
04:11:58PM MORE INCLUSIVE.
04:11:59PM I UNDERSTAND WANTING A RESOLUTION, BUT I THINK THE TIMETINE
04:12:03PM IS APPROPRIATE.
04:12:04PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN VIERA.
04:12:05PM SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
04:12:07PM >>LUIS VIERA: LAST MOTION, IF I MAY.
04:12:12PM THIS IS ON ITS DISABILITY INTERNSHIP COMING FOR US.
04:12:17PM BUT I WANT A RESOLUTION -- NOT A RESOLUTION, BUT A MOTION
04:12:20PM STATING AS FOLLOWS: THE DISABILITY INTERNSHIP.
04:12:28PM APPROPRIATED FOR A FEW HUNDREDS DOLLARS AND WITH INTERNS
04:12:32PM IN THE CITY OF TAMPA.
04:12:34PM I BELIEVE WE HAD TWO.
04:12:35PM I BELIEVE WE HAVE TWO.
04:12:36PM AND I AM VERY -- I WAITED TO SPEAK PUBLICLY ABOUT THIS
04:12:40PM BECAUSE THIS ISSUE IS VERY, VERY EMOTIONAL TO ME, AND I TRIED
04:12:44PM TO DEAL WITH THIS ON THE BACK END AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, BUT
04:12:47PM IT IS OUT AND COMING TO US IN A FEW WEEKS.
04:12:49PM SO MY REQUEST IS THAT WE HAVE BEEN FUNDING THIS THROUGH THE
04:12:53PM SOCIAL ACTION FUNDS.
04:12:54PM AND I WAS TOLD THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE IN THE BUDGET BECAUSE
04:12:56PM UNDER SOCIAL ACTION FUNDS AND ITS UP TO COUNCIL.
04:13:00PM AN INTERNSHIP SHOULD NOT BE UNDER SOCIAL ACTION.
04:13:04PM MY REQUEST IS THAT CITY COUNCIL STATES THAT THIS FUND SHOULD
04:13:07PM COME OUT OF THE GENERAL BUDGET.
04:13:09PM WHY IS THIS -- SHLL WHY ARE WE GOING TO DEAL WITH THESE
04:13:11PM LIMITATIONS -- BY THE WAY, IF WE APPROPRIATE THE MONEY, WILL
04:13:16PM IT GO IN TO WORK.
04:13:19PM WE HAVE TWO INTERNS AND ANOTHER LEVEL OF FRUSTRATION.
04:13:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: SECOND.
04:13:23PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I HAVE A QUICK QUESTIONT.
04:13:27PM IF WE ALLOCATED MONEY OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WHERE IS
04:13:32PM THE LEFTOVER MONEY?
04:13:33PM >>LUIS VIERA: WHAT I DID -- AND I ALWAYS TRY TO ACHIEVE
04:13:37PM INSTEAD OF PUBLIC CONFLICT LOOK AT MEDIATION AND COMPROMISE.
04:13:41PM WE ARE POTENTIALLY GIVING THE FUNDS AWAY TO ORGANIZATIONS
04:13:45PM LIKE THE McDONALD'S TRAINING CENTER, A MOTION THAT I MADE
04:13:49PM SOME TIME AGO.
04:13:50PM PURPOSE OF THIS WAS NOT A SUBSIDY TO THESE ORGANIZATIONS, TO
04:13:54PM MAKE THE CITY OF TAMPA STAKEHOLDER AND PEOPLE WITH
04:14:00PM DISABILITIES TO BE PAID $15 AN HOUR UNDER AN INTERNSHIP PROGRAM.
04:14:04PM SOME OF THE FUNDS HAVE GONE THAT WAY AND WAITING TO SEE HOW
04:14:09PM MUCH IS LEFT OVER.
04:14:10PM THAT IS A VERY GOOD QUESTION.
04:14:12PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER CHARLESTON.
04:14:15PM >>BILL CARLSON: A GREAT IDEA AND SOMETHING THAT IS A GREAT
04:14:19PM PROGRAM THAT WE NEED TO BUILD ON.
04:14:20PM AGAIN, ABOUT BUILDING COMMUNITY AND BUILDING THE PEOPLE OF
04:14:25PM THE COMMUNITY AND HAVING THIS ON ITS RESUME AND EXPERIENCE
04:14:29PM IS INVALUABLE.
04:14:30PM SOME OF US GET FULL-TIME JOBS.
04:14:32PM HOW ABOUT TO MAKE IT PERMANENT.
04:14:34PM WHAT IF WE SET IT UP AS -- I KNOW WE HAVE TO WORK WITH THE
04:14:38PM ADMINISTRATION, BUT WHAT IF WE SET IT UP AS A FUND.
04:14:46PM COMING FROM THE OTHER DIRECTION.
04:14:48PM >>LUIS VIERA: THAT IS WHAT MY MOTION GOES FOR, SIR, TAKE OUT
04:14:52PM OF THE SOCIAL ACTION FUND THAT MAKES IT TEMPORARY AND FIND A
04:14:58PM WAY TO GO IN THE GENERAL PUBLIC WHICH IS PERMANENT.
04:15:01PM I SAID I DON'T CARE IF WE GET THIS DONE BY LEMONADE STAND,
04:15:08PM BUT THAT IS THE CHALLENGE.
04:15:09PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: QUESTION.
04:15:10PM I HEARD EVERYTHING YOU SAID AND WILL BE KNEE-DEEP IN THE
04:15:13PM BUDGET SYSTEM.
04:15:14PM SOMETHING THAT WE RUN INTO IN ALL THE BUDGET WORKSHOPS.
04:15:18PM >> IT IS.
04:15:18PM BUT I WANT A POSITION OF THE ADMINISTRATION.
04:15:20PM AGAIN, WILL YOU GO OUT WITH ME?
04:15:22PM CHECK YES OR NO.
04:15:23PM I WANT A YES OR NO ON THIS WHICH IS AUGUST 7 TO BRING A REPORT.
04:15:29PM THEY WILL MOVE THOSE FUNDS FROM THE SOCIAL ACTION FUND
04:15:32PM TO THE GENERAL FUND.
04:15:33PM IT CAN BE UNDER THE --
04:15:38PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: FY '26 MONEY?
04:15:41PM >>LUIS VIERA: FROM HERE ON OUT, FROM HERE TO ETERNITY.
04:15:45PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: WHEN WE DO THE BUDGET --
04:15:49PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE SAYING.
04:15:51PM >>BILL CARLSON: I THINK WE NEED TO NOW BECAUSE WITH THE FIRE
04:15:53PM STATION HE HAS BEEN PUSHING FOR A LONG TIME, AND IT IS NOT
04:15:57PM HAPPENING.
04:15:58PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: HERE IS MY QUESTION.
04:15:59PM WE GO INTO THIS BUDGET CYCLE AND GO INTO THE WORKSHOP, AND
04:16:05PM WE ARE GOING TO ALLOCATE AN X NUMBER OF DOLLARS IN
04:16:09PM THIS CATEGORY.
04:16:10PM NOT IN THE SOCIAL ACTION FUNDS.
04:16:15PM EVEN IF WE DO THAT, WE STILL CAN'T FORCE THEM TO SPEND IT.
04:16:19PM >>LUIS VIERA: I KNOW.
04:16:20PM BUT MAY I.
04:16:21PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: YES.
04:16:22PM >>LUIS VIERA: COUPLE OF THINGS.
04:16:24PM NUMBER ONE, THEY GET THEIR POSITION.
04:16:27PM AND NUMBER ONE, WE HAVE TO DEAL WELL IT.
04:16:30PM ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION BECAUSE STEP ONE, NUMBER ONE,
04:16:33PM KEEPING THIS ON THE AGENDA.
04:16:34PM SO THAT IS ALL THAT HI WANT.
04:16:36PM ARE THEY WILLING TO GET THIS FROM THE GENERAL BUDGET
04:16:39PM OPPOSED TO SOCIAL ACTION, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT IS NOT IN THE
04:16:44PM BUDGET.
04:16:44PM IF IT WAS IN THE BUDGET, WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD.
04:16:47PM THAT IS ANOTHER QUESTION.
04:16:48PM >>BILL CARLSON: GOES BACK TO OUR GOALS.
04:16:51PM A COMPLEX WITH PRETTY NEW BUILDINGS.
04:16:56PM THIS MORNING THE FIRST TIME I HEARD THE MAYOR SAY WE NEED TO
04:16:59PM FOCUS ON -- ONE OF THE SUCCESSES WAS MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD
04:17:04PM INCOME.
04:17:04PM SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN IN THE TAMPA SCORECARD FOR SIX
04:17:08PM YEARS.
04:17:08PM PER CAPITA INCOME.
04:17:10PM FOCUS ON NUMBERS LOOK THAT, THE WAY YOU.
04:17:14PM THE WAY YOU BECOME -- THE WAY YOU HAVE THE NUMBERS IS NOT
04:17:17PM JUST TO HAVE RICH PEOPLE WHICH IS WHAT THE POLICY HAS BEEN
04:17:20PM TODAY.
04:17:20PM WE ARE GOOD AT MAKING MILLIONAIRES BUT NOT GOOD AT BRINGING
04:17:23PM PEOPLE UP LIKE ST. PETE DID.
04:17:25PM WE NEED TO LOOK AT IT AND SEE WHAT ARE THE CATEGORY OF NEXT
04:17:29PM COULD BE EARNING MORE MONEY THAT ARE NOT FULFILLING THEIR
04:17:32PM FULL CAPACITY.
04:17:33PM THIS IS A GROUP -- NOT A BIG GROUP, BUT A REALLY IMPORTANT
04:17:37PM GROUP THAT WE NEED TO HELP TO MOVE UP.
04:17:39PM AND WE SEE HOW PRODUCTIVE THESE FOLKS ARE WHEN IT IS GIVING
04:17:43PM THE FIRST STEP.
04:17:44PM SO -- AGAIN, OUR GOAL HAS TO BE ECONOMY AND ECONOMIC
04:17:49PM DEVELOPMENT, NOT REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT.
04:17:51PM IF WE DO THAT, WE WILL MAKE THE COMMUNITY VERY SUCCESSFUL.
04:17:55PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
04:17:57PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I MEAN, I AGREE WITH YOU.
04:17:59PM I ALSO THINK -- MY FIRST THOUGHT OF THE MEDIAN INCOME, I WAS
04:18:03PM CONCERNED.
04:18:03PM THE PROBLEM IS PEOPLE THAT CAN'T -- CAN'T AFFORD TO LEAVE
04:18:11PM HERE ARE LEAVING AND GOING OUT TO THE COUNTY.
04:18:13PM THIS IS GOING ON.
04:18:14PM HEARING IT FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE IS GOOD, BUT MY INITIAL
04:18:19PM THOUGHT WAS, THAT IS NOT GOOD.
04:18:22PM BECAUSE WE ARE BASICALLY LEAVING OUR POOREST CITIZENS BEHIND
04:18:27PM BECAUSE THEY CAN NO LONGER AFFORD TO LIVE HERE.
04:18:29PM THAT IS WHAT WE HEAR FROM PUBLIC COMMENT.
04:18:31PM WHAT WE HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY.
04:18:33PM QUITE FRANKLY, I BELIEVE IT HAS A LOT TO DO WITH OUR
04:18:37PM DECLINING CRIME NUMBERS BECAUSE PEOPLE CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE
04:18:45PM HERE ANYMORE.
04:18:45PM AND UNFORTUNATE BYPRODUCT AND WE HAVE BEEN TALKING OF WAYS
04:18:53PM TO BRING FOLKS -- TO KEEP PEOPLE HERE AND BRING PEOPLE BACK.
04:18:56PM AND I THINK -- I DON'T KNOW, I JUST --
04:18:59PM >>BILL CARLSON: GO TO TAMPASCORECARD.COM.
04:19:02PM I DEVELOPED THAT WITH A BUNCH OF TOP ECONOMISTS IN THE
04:19:05PM STATE, AND PEOPLE THAT HAVE AN EDIFACE COMPLEX DON'T LIKE
04:19:09PM IT.
04:19:10PM BUT IF YOU LOOK AT IT WORKING WITH USF ECONOMISTS AND
04:19:15PM OTHERS, TEASED OUT PER CAPITAL INCOME WHAT IS THE
04:19:17PM DIFFERENCE.
04:19:18PM REASON THE PER CAPITAL INCOME IS HIGHEST BECAUSE WE HAVE AN
04:19:22PM UNUSUALLY HIGH NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO ARE MILLIONAIRES AND
04:19:25PM MAKING MORE THAN $200,000 A YEAR.
04:19:27PM WHY?
04:19:28PM BECAUSE THE GOAL FOR AT LEAST THE LAST 15 YEARS IS TO HELP
04:19:31PM MILLIONAIRES TO MAKE MORE AND TO HELP REAL ESTATE
04:19:34PM DEVELOPERS.
04:19:35PM THE REASON WHY FOLKS CAN'T AFFORD TO LIVE HERE IS THEY ARE
04:19:39PM GETTING SQUEEZED OUT BECAUSE OF DEVELOPMENTS GOING ON
04:19:42PM BECAUSE THAT IS THE GOAL AND NOT HELPING PEOPLE.
04:19:44PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA HAS A MOTION.
04:19:50PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IF I CAN ADDRESS COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA SO I
04:19:53PM AM CLEAR FOR THE PURPOSE OF WHAT YOU ARE SUGGESTING FOR A
04:19:55PM WRITTEN REPORT FROM THE ADMINISTRATION.
04:19:57PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
04:19:58PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: I WANT TO BE ABLE TO ARTICULATE IT SO THAT
04:20:02PM THE CLERK.
04:20:03PM I WANT TO -- IF I CAN PHRASE IT AND YOU TELL ME --
04:20:07PM >>LUIS VIERA: YES, SIR.
04:20:07PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: APPLIES NOT ONLY TO THIS SUBJECT WHICH IS
04:20:10PM YOUR TOPIC, BUT IT IS YOUR PURPOSE, TO LEARN THE
04:20:19PM ADMINISTRATION'S POSITION ON THE EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS TO
04:20:22PM SUPPORT COUNCIL'S INTENDED PURPOSE ULTIMATELY.
04:20:26PM >>LUIS VIERA: SPECIFICALLY NARROWLY TAILORED THE INTERNSHIP
04:20:31PM PROGRAM TOP PUT IT OUT OF THE SOCIAL NET WORK.
04:20:36PM AND FOR THE GENERAL FUND.
04:20:40PM >>MARTIN SHELBY: IRRESPECTIVE OF WHERE THE POT OF MONEY,
04:20:44PM ADMINISTRATION SUPPORTS THAT EXPENDITURE FOR THAT PURPOSE.
04:20:48PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
04:20:50PM SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
04:20:52PM >>LUIS VIERA: AUGUST 7.
04:20:55PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: AYES HAVE IT.
04:20:56PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
04:20:57PM >>LYNN HURTAK: THANK YOU.
04:20:59PM JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS.
04:21:00PM FIRST OF ALL, I DID WANT TO SAY KIND OF TO COUNCILMAN
04:21:13PM CARLSON POINT.
04:21:13PM THIS IS WHERE WE HAVE THE DISCUSSION TO SPEND THE MONEY TO
04:21:16PM BUILD.
04:21:16PM THIS WILL BE MY THIRD THING.
04:21:18PM WE NEED TO START IN THE CIP.
04:21:21PM DO WE WANT TO SPEND MONEY ON BUILDING OR SPEND MONEY ON
04:21:25PM PEOPLE.
04:21:25PM AND I THINK THAT SHOULD BE OUR GUIDING QUESTION AS WE LOOK
04:21:29PM THROUGH THAT BUDGET CYCLE.
04:21:30PM I THINK THAT IS A GOOD POINT.
04:21:32PM SECONDLY, I HAVE BEEN HEARING MURMURINGS THAT -- THAT THE
04:21:37PM LARGE FORMAT DIGITAL MEDIA THAT THE STAFF IS NOT SURE WE
04:21:42PM WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THAT.
04:21:42PM AND I WANT TO CONTINUE WITH THAT.
04:21:46PM IT WAS COUNCIL MEMBER HENDERSON'S MOTION, AND I AM STILL
04:21:49PM VERY INTERESTED IN IT.
04:21:50PM AND I DON'T -- I JUST WANTED TO.
04:21:58PM >> I THINK IT WAS ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS SHE WAS PUSHED
04:22:03PM BEFORE SHE PASSED.
04:22:04PM BUT THE SECOND THING IS MODERN CITIES ARE USING THIS.
04:22:07PM I CAME BACK FROM A WHOLE TRIP IN ALL THESE DIFFERENT CITIES.
04:22:10PM EVERYBODY IS USING THIS.
04:22:13PM I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE SEEN THIS CHINESE TECHNOLOGY, THE
04:22:16PM LITTLE SQUARES.
04:22:17PM WE ARE NOT TALKING ABOUT BILLBOARDS AND -- YOU KNOW THE
04:22:21PM FOLKS WHO PUSHED TO GIVE A COUPLE EXCLUSIVE AGREEMENTS
04:22:26PM DOWNTOWN DON'T WANT COMPETITION IN DOWNTOWN, BUT THAT'S NOT
04:22:29PM WHAT IT IS.
04:22:29PM IMAGINE ON FRANKLIN STREET, IF IT WAS TASTEFULLY USED IN
04:22:34PM TERN WAYS.
04:22:34PM THE -- THE DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP IS GOING TO COME BACK AND
04:22:38PM RECOMMEND A PROCESS THAT IS UNIQUE TO TAMPA.
04:22:41PM WE DON'T WANT TIMES SQUARE.
04:22:43PM WE -- OF COURSE WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING LIKE THAT, PICCADILLY
04:22:46PM IS PROBABLY TOO BIG ALSO.
04:22:48PM BUT CITIES THAT HAVE SMALLER THINGS.
04:22:52PM PLACES LIKE DUBAI.
04:22:55PM EVERY STORE HAS IT.
04:22:57PM YOU FEEL LIKE YOU ARE IN SOME KIND OF FUTURISTIC SCIENCE
04:23:01PM FICTION MOVIE BECAUSE EVERYBODY HAS HUGE ONES, SMALL ONES
04:23:06PM THAT COVER DOORS AND WINDOWS IN FRONT OF STORES.
04:23:09PM SO WE JUST NEED A POLICY OF HOW TO YOU DEAL WITH IT AND
04:23:12PM APPLY IT.
04:23:13PM SHOULDN'T BE GIVEN EXCLUSIVES TO A COUPLE OF FOLKS.
04:23:17PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I AGREE.
04:23:18PM THAT'S WHY I WANTED TO BRING IT UP AND SAY, YEAH, I AM STILL
04:23:22PM INTEREST IN IT.
04:23:23PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I AM GLAD YOU ARE, AND WE SHOULD PURSUE
04:23:27PM IT AND MOVE FORWARD.
04:23:28PM YOU KNOW, I MEAN, GROWING UP, YOU WATCH MOVIES LIKE "BACK TO
04:23:33PM THE FUTURE, PART TWO."
04:23:35PM 2015, HOW FUTURISTIC THE WORLD LOOKED, AND WE LOOK HOW
04:23:40PM BEHIND WE ARE, AND TEN YEARS AHEAD OF THAT.
04:23:41PM I AM GLAD THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT UP.
04:23:43PM AND WE CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION.
04:23:44PM THANK YOU.
04:23:45PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER VIERA.
04:23:47PM >>LUIS VIERA: THANK YOU, MR. CHAIRMAN.
04:23:48PM MY THING GOING FORWARDS WITH THIS.
04:23:51PM THAT COUPLE OF THINGS.
04:23:53PM I KNOW PEOPLE AGREE TO THIS AND NOT A POINT OF DISTINCTION.
04:23:57PM MY THING IS, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT LIVE DOWNTOWN
04:24:00PM AND MAKE SURE THAT WE, YOU KNOW, HAVE THE STAKEHOLDERS BE
04:24:05PM TALKED TO, THE RESIDENTIAL STAKEHOLDERS.
04:24:07PM NOT JUST COMMERCIAL AND SO FORTH.
04:24:08PM AND WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL OF THE PARTIES TO THIS ISSUE
04:24:13PM GET A PLACE AT THE TABLE, A VOICE AT THE TABLE.
04:24:16PM AND THAT -- IT IS SOMETHING THAT SHIPS CAN LARGELY SAIL IN
04:24:21PM THE SAME DIRECTION BECAUSE I DO THINK THERE IS PRIVILEGE AND
04:24:28PM GOING FORWARD AND THAT ARE MY THOUGHTS.
04:24:31PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I EXPECT THE 25th DISCUSSION TO STILL OCCUR.
04:24:34PM AND MY LAST THING IS, I -- I SAID -- I TOLD YOU THIS
04:24:39PM MORNING THAT I WANTED TO TALK OF THE AUDIT THAT -- THAT IS
04:24:43PM PLANNED FOR THIS YEAR.
04:24:44PM AND I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I LOOKED AT THE LIST, AND I DIDN'T SEE
04:24:48PM ANYTHING HAVING TO DO WITH STORMWATER.
04:24:51PM SEEMS ALL THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT.
04:24:52PM LAST AUDIT DONE ABOUT STORMWATER IN 2019, AS WELL AS THE
04:24:57PM POST AUDIT REVIEW AND THEN SOME OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE
04:25:02PM INVENTORY, AND I HAD THEM TALK TO MISS COPESKY BECAUSE WE
04:25:07PM DID ASK TO COMPILE SOME OF THAT DATA.
04:25:14PM TALKING ABOUT AUDITS, I AM INTERESTED IN A STORMWATER AUDIT.
04:25:20PM AND I WANT EVERYBODY TO HAVE A CHANCE TO LOOK LIEU THE
04:25:22PM INFORMATION.
04:25:23PM SINCE WE ONLY HAVE 30 DAYS, I WOULD LOVE FOR IT TO BE
04:25:26PM PART OF DISCUSSION AT OUR NEXT MEETING.
04:25:29PM >> SECOND.
04:25:30PM >>LYNN HURTAK: TO REALLY DISCUSS BETWEEN THE
04:25:32PM ADMINISTRATION AND US WHAT -- WHAT CAN WE STUDY THAT WILL
04:25:39PM GIVE US -- THAT WILL GIVE US SOME INTERESTING INFORMATION.
04:25:42PM I TALKED -- WE TALKED TO CHRISTINE ALREADY AND THIS IS WHERE
04:25:47PM WE GOT THIS INFORMATION.
04:25:48PM I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE A TON OF ROOM FOR THIS.
04:25:50PM I HAD CHIEF BENNETT REACH OUT TO ME BEFORE -- BEFORE
04:25:54PM AFTERNOON SESSION TO SAY, HEY, WE MAY BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH
04:25:58PM THIS ANOTHER WAY.
04:25:59PM EITHER WAY, WE NEED TALK ABOUT IT AND FIGURE OUT WHAT ITEMS
04:26:04PM WE NEED TO LOOK AT.
04:26:06PM I WAS DISAPPOINTED TO NOT SEE STORMWATER.
04:26:12PM >>BILL CARLSON: CAN'T YOU ASK FOR HER TO BE PRESENT.
04:26:17PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IN OLD BUSINESS -- CAN WE SCHEDULE SOMETHING
04:26:20PM IN OLD BUSINESS?
04:26:21PM I MOTIONING TO HAVE A DISCUSSION THAT INCLUDES STAFF ABOUT
04:26:25PM -- INCLUDING STORMWATER AUDIT IN THE OLD BUSINESS FOR --
04:26:34PM >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
04:26:36PM >>LYNN HURTAK: -- JULY 31.
04:26:37PM >>BILL CARLSON: SECOND.
04:26:38PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK.
04:26:40PM IT WAS COUNCIL MEMBER CARLSON WHO BEAT YOU TO THE SECOND.
04:26:43PM MOTION BY COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK AND SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN
04:26:56PM CARLSON.
04:26:56PM >>LYNN HURTAK: IT IS A BUSY DAY, BUT SINCE THIS IS OLD
04:26:58PM BUSINESS, MY HOPE IS THAT BY THEN AS WELL WILL BE A DECENT IDEA.
04:27:02PM WE ALL KNEES TO COME WITH SOMETHING WE WANT TO SEE.
04:27:05PM ALSO MISS COPESKY IS GOING TO -- ON THAT DAY -- ISN'T THAT
04:27:10PM WHEN YOUR REPORT IS DUE?
04:27:11PM HER REPORT ABOUT -- WE ASKED HER TO -- IT IS AS WRITTEN
04:27:18PM REPORT, BUT TO CREATE SCHEDULES REFLECTING THE EQUIPMENT AND
04:27:22PM SERVICE TUESDAY SUPPORT MAINTENANCE ACTIVITIES ALONG WITH
04:27:27PM THE ASSOCIATED AGE FOR EACH ASSET AND A SUMMARY OF
04:27:31PM STORMWATER.
04:27:32PM IF YOU HAVE TO -- IF YOU HAVE TO PUT IT INTO THE ON BASE BY
04:27:40PM TOMORROW OR NEXT WEEK, YEAH, SHE HAS TO HAVE IT IN ON BASE
04:27:44PM NEXT WEEK.
04:27:45PM WILL HAVE TO E-MAIL IT TO ALL OF US.
04:27:47PM WILL ASK HER TO E-MAIL IT TO ALL OF US.
04:27:50PM >>BILL CARLSON: INSTEAD OF ASKING FOR STAFF ASK FOR MISS
04:27:55PM GLOVER.
04:27:55PM >>LYNN HURTAK: MISS GLOVER OR ANY STAFF THAT MIGHT BE
04:27:59PM INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING.
04:28:00PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: A MOTION FROM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK AND
04:28:02PM SECONDED FROM CHARLOTTE.
04:28:02PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
04:28:03PM OPPOSED.
04:28:04PM AYES HAVE IT.
04:28:05PM ANYTHING, COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO?
04:28:09PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: I HAVE NOTHING.
04:28:10PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
04:28:12PM COUNCILWOMAN HURTAK, WILL YOU TAKE THE GAVEL, PLEASE.
04:28:17PM >>LYNN HURTAK: YES.
04:28:18PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I RECOMMEND THE MOTION THAT THE
04:28:22PM ADMINISTRATION TO PRESENT A FINANCIAL RESOLUTION AT THE JULY
04:28:27PM 31 MEETING TO RESTORE THE $2.5 MILLION TO STREET RESURFACING
04:28:34PM FOR THE 2024 ALLOCATED FUND BALANCE FOR A TOTAL OF $5
04:28:38PM MILLION AND THE FUND BALANCE REQUEST THAT CITY COUNCIL HAD
04:28:41PM PREVIOUSLY FORWARDED.
04:28:46PM >>LYNN HURTAK: FOR THE FY 2024.
04:28:48PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: THANK YOU FOR COUNCIL MEMBER CHAIRMAN
04:28:53PM CLENDENIN FOR FIGHTING FOR THIS.
04:28:54PM I GET COMPLAINTS AND WE ALL GET COMPLAINTS.
04:28:57PM AND JUST PAVE THE ROADS.
04:29:00PM PAVE ITS ROADS.
04:29:02PM A LOT GOING ON IN THE CITY AND THE BIGGEST REQUEST THAT I
04:29:06PM GET, PLEASE PAVE ME STREET.
04:29:07PM YOU SEE THE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY TAXES PEOPLE PAY AND THE HOUSE
04:29:10PM SHE IS LIVE IN AND IT IS A MESS ALL OVER THE CITY.
04:29:18PM NOT JUST RICH AND POOR.
04:29:20PM I AM GLAD YOU BROUGHT IT UP AND LOOK FORWARD IN IMPROVING
04:29:24PM THE QUALITY OF OUR ROADS.
04:29:25PM IT IS ALWAYS WHAT I HEAR EVERY DAY
04:29:27PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I LOOK FORWARD 2012 AS WELL AS WE LOOK TO
04:29:30PM THE NEXT FISCAL YEARS AS WE GO THROUGHOUT BUDGET THAT WE
04:29:33PM DON'T SETTLE ONLY THE BUDGET AS WELL, BUT WE CONTINUE --
04:29:36PM THIS COUNCIL HAS DONE A REALLY GOOD JOB OVER THE LAST COUPLE
04:29:39PM OF YEARS OF INCREASING IT.
04:29:41PM AND HAS NOT GONE UNNOTICED.
04:29:43PM GET THE COMMENTS STARTING TO SEE PAVED LEADS TO HAVEN'T BEEN
04:29:46PM PAVED IN DECADES.
04:29:47PM WE CAN'T TAKE THE FOOT OFF THE GAS.
04:29:49PM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
04:29:51PM >>CHARLIE MIRANDA: SOMEBODY ELSE'S BUDGET.
04:29:53PM WE GET IT, IT IS OUR BUDGET.
04:29:55PM WE ARE GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY WITHOUT ANYBODY'S HELPS.
04:30:01PM >>LYNN HURTAK: COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
04:30:02PM >>BILL CARLSON: I SAID THIS MORNING, BUT THE $2.5 MILLION IS
04:30:07PM REALLY IMPORTANT.
04:30:08PM BUT THAT IS, LIKE, ONE TWO ROADS.
04:30:11PM WE NEED $50 MILLION AND WE NEED $2 BILLION.
04:30:18PM FIGHTING FOR SCRAPS.
04:30:20PM IT SHOULD BE A NO BRAINER AND THE ADMINISTRATION SHOULDN'T
04:30:25PM FIGHT US.
04:30:26PM AN ARGUMENT FOR ANOTHER DAY.
04:30:28PM >>LYNN HURTAK: I WILL PUT MY TWO CENTS IN.
04:30:30PM COUNCILMAN MIRANDA IS RIGHT.
04:30:31PM IT IS OUR BUDGET.
04:30:33PM WE DON'T HAVE TO BUILD BUILDINGS.
04:30:34PM PAVE ROADS.
04:30:40PM WHAT WE DECIDE TO DO.
04:30:41PM DO WE BUILD BUILDINGS AND HELP PEOPLE.
04:30:43PM AND I THINK THAT IS A REALLY GOOD QUESTION AS WE GO INTO
04:30:47PM THIS BUDGET CYCLE.
04:30:49PM HOW DO WE WANT OUR CITY TO LOOK?
04:30:52PM AND I DON'T BELIEVE, JUST FOR ME, THIS MORNING, LOOKING AT
04:30:55PM IT THE, THE CLARIFYING THING THAT WAS -- WE HAVE BEEN
04:30:59PM BUILDING A LOT.
04:31:00PM BUT MAYBE IT IS TIME TO -- YOU KNOW, THE COUNTY COMMISSION
04:31:05PM GOT RID OF ALL OF ITS SOCIAL ACTION ARTS FUNDING.
04:31:09PM HOW CAN WE REALLY TAKE $1.5 MILLION AWAY?
04:31:14PM I FEEL LIKE WE HAVE TO FIND SOMETHING.
04:31:17PM BECAUSE NOWHERE ELSE FOR PEOPLE TO GO.
04:31:19PM PEOPLE ARE GOING TO START COMING US TO BECAUSE THEY HAVE
04:31:22PM LOST MONEY WITH THE COUNTY.
04:31:23PM AND WE MAY NOT HAVE AGES FOR EVERYBODY, BUT I KNOW THAT SOME
04:31:28PM THINGS IN THE CITY, WE MIGHT HAVE TO -- HAVE TO HELP.
04:31:32PM COUNCILMAN CARLSON.
04:31:34PM >>BILL CARLSON: JUST ONE THING.
04:31:36PM SO MANY COMMENTS.
04:31:38PM THINGS THAT SHOULD BE DONE.
04:31:39PM FOR EXAMPLE, HANNA AVENUE.
04:31:41PM WHAT IS IT, 30 OR 40% OF THE BUILDING IS STILL EMPTY.
04:31:46PM I ASKED THE QUESTION, HOW MUCH OF IT ARE YOU SUBLEASING.
04:31:50PM THEY SAID WHAT IS THAT?
04:31:51PM PEOPLE IN THE PRIVATE SECTOR ARE SHOCKED.
04:31:54PM I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH WE CAN GET FOR THAT, BUT AT LEAST
04:31:58PM $200,000 AND $300,000.
04:31:59PM THINK OF WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THAT IN A COMMUNITY LIKE
04:32:03PM SULPHUR SPRINGS AND EAST TAMPA.
04:32:04PM THINK OF THE JOB PROGRAMS WE CAN GET.
04:32:07PM WE NEED TO ITS SMART HOW WE RUN OUR CITY.
04:32:11PM >>LYNN HURTAK: ABSOLUTELY, AGREE.
04:32:13PM I HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR AND -- YES?
04:32:18PM [INAUDIBLE]
04:32:19PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: I WOULD SAY PUT IT ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
04:32:22PM >>LYNN HURTAK: A MOTION FROM CHAIR CLENDENIN AND A SECOND
04:32:27PM FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MANISCALCO.
04:32:28PM ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.
04:32:29PM AYE.
04:32:30PM ANY OPPOSED?
04:32:32PM >>GUIDO MANISCALCO: MOVE TO RECEIVE AND FILE.
04:32:34PM >>ALAN CLENDENIN: MOTION TO RECEIVE AND FILE FROM COUNCIL
04:32:36PM MEMBER MANISCALCO AND SECONDED FROM COUNCIL MEMBER MIRANDA.
04:32:38PM WE ARE ADJOURNED.
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