City Council — April 2, 2026 FINAL

Alan Clendenin

9:03:00AM Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Tampa City Council. Hope you guys are doing well. And happy Pre-Easter to everyone who celebrates. I would like to call this meeting to order. I would like to recognize councilwoman Naya Young.

Naya Young

9:03:20AM All righty. So, today, I am so excited. We have Pastor Sam Canchola, the Pastor of Radiant Church Heights. One of Radiant Church's 13 locations serving communities across Tampa Bay. Pastor Sam is a graduate of San Jose State University and married to Azlyn Canchola. Pastor Sam leads and serves in the Tampa Heights neighborhood proudly within District Five alongside councilwoman Naya Young where he is passionate about strengthening families, building community, and serving the city through faith in local partnership. Im also very excited to bring Pastor Sam today because he is also an awesome neighbor to myself and my family. Pastor Sam, would you lead us in the invocation please? Appreciate you guys, as naya mentioned. Great neighbor, but also just recently moving here about five years ago, I have been -- my wife Azlyn and I have been warmly welcomed by all that you have been doing. We have now considered it home, and that is now where we get to be neighbors with the young family. Very grateful for all you are doing and grateful to be here. Lets go ahead and go to the Lord and pray. Heavenly father, we thank you for the gift of this city. Your word says to seek the peace and prosperity where you have placed us. Today, we lift up Tampa before you. Thank you for every leader that is in this room who carries the weight of public trust. Would you give them wisdom that is pure, peaceable and full of mercy? Would you give them courage to do what is right even when it is difficult. Give them humility to listen well, conviction to lead justly and compassion for the people behind every policy, every budget, and every decision. Lord, I pray that you let righteousness and justice shape this city. Would you let neighborhoods flourish, let our families be strengthened, would you let businesses prosper, let schools be safe, let the vulnerable be protected, and would you let unity rise before division. Your word tells us what does the Lord require of us to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with our God. So I pray that that spirit marks every conversation in this chamber today. As we approach Easter, we thank you for the gospel truth that through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, sin does not have the final word. Darkness does not have the final word, and even death does not have the final word, because Jesus rose, there is hope for every heart and every city. So bless Tampa, bless these leaders, bless District Five and let this city be marked by peace, wisdom, and flourishing. We pray all of this in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. [Pledge of allegiance]

Charlie Miranda

9:06:43AM Here.

Guido Maniscalco

9:06:45AM Here.

Lynn Hurtak

9:06:49AM Here.

Naya Young

9:06:49AM Here.

Luis Viera

9:06:50AM Here.

Bill Carlson

9:06:51AM Here.

Alan Clendenin

9:06:52AM Here.

The Clerk

9:06:53AM We have a quorum.

Alan Clendenin

9:06:55AM Thank you so much. ID like to get a motion to adopt the minutes of the regular session held on March 26, 2026. Motion from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Lets go through the agenda. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

9:07:10AM Yes. Im removing item number 2, the ATU. Its been removed from the agenda because the ATU trustee, Richard Jackson let HR know they had not made an ATU employee of the month selection for April. My office has reached out and asked when they would be ready to resume the award presentation. As soon as I have that information, ill make a motion to correct the calendar.

Alan Clendenin

9:07:37AM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. Lets go through the agenda. I had sent out a memo asking that we pull from the consent agenda items 14 and 15. Can I get a motion to remove that from the consent agenda?

Martin Shelby

9:08:00AM Question. Do you want that placed under staff reports and do you want staff present?

Alan Clendenin

9:08:05AM I think we can just talk about that during the -- when we go to the agenda item, of items that have been pulled from the consent agenda. If they choose to be present, they are welcome to be present. Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Carlson. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. For your attention, for item 16 and 17, there is a substitute resolution that was submitted by attorney Morris Massey, just so you know. Anything else besides -- before we go to staff reports? Everybody good? Okay. Staff reports. What do we need here? Item number 25. Do we need staff for 25? No. Do we need staff for 26? Okay. Yes.

Martin Shelby

9:09:00AM 26, 27, 28.

Alan Clendenin

9:09:05AM 29. We got the memo from them.

Luis Viera

9:09:13AM Thank you for that. There is a gentleman, Eric Kaiser works for the City Of Tampa. I dont believe he was speaking on that. If hes not here to speak on that, then the memo will suffice. I certainly dont need anyone from Tampa Police Department here. I should know in a short time. Memo but no staff.

Alan Clendenin

9:09:32AM Got it. Item number 30. This is yours also with the autism. Ill say no on that.

Luis Viera

9:09:40AM Yes, Sir.

Alan Clendenin

9:09:40AM While were doing this, did you get the memo from the Clerk?

Luis Viera

9:09:45AM Yes, sir. They are in one. Absolutely. Im sorry. I meant that for 30. 29 staff reports -- strike that, the written report suffices. 30 written report suffices but I reserve the right for Mr. Kaiser should he come.

Alan Clendenin

9:09:59AM Okay. Very good. 31. In person. So yes. 32?

Luis Viera

9:10:10AM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

9:10:15AM And then the rest of them are written staff reports.

Lynn Hurtak

9:10:18AM Motion to receive and file 33, 34, and 35.

Alan Clendenin

9:10:21AM We have a motion to receive and file 33, 34 and 35 from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. Can I get a motion to approve the agenda? We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. A second from Councilman Viera. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Very good. The agenda is approved. Can I ask for councils --

Lynn Hurtak

9:10:48AM Administrative update?

Alan Clendenin

9:10:51AM I dont believe we do. Can I ask for councils permission, little bit of chairs privilege? I have a statement I would like to read into the record about something that happened.

Lynn Hurtak

9:11:04AM I yield the floor to Chair Clendenin.

Alan Clendenin

9:11:06AM Thank you so much. This is in reference to a member of the Hillsborough County Commission last week called a News Reporter and made some allegations pertaining about me and then also from the dais yesterday during the County Commission meeting repeated those allegations. I wanted to make this statement to make sure that I was perfectly clear about what my status is. So let me be absolutely clear. The recent claims made by county Commissioner Wostal accusing me of nefariously releasing documents related to the rays deal are completely false and without merit. At no point have I ever possessed physically or electronically any such documents. The allegation itself is a completely fabricated political attack designed to mislead and distract. At no point have I violated any law or ethics code. These accusations are not only baseless, they are reckless and damaging. Public officials have a responsibility to engage in honest, fact-based discourse, not to spread misinformation for political purposes. Commissioner Wostal is hereby on notice if these false allegations continue, particularly any claim that ive acted illegally or unethically, I will take appropriate legal action, including issuing a formal cease and desist. I will not allow my integrity to be undermined by unfounded attacks. I remain committed to transparency, accountability, and serving the public in good faith. Can I get a motion to receive and file that?

Lynn Hurtak

9:12:32AM I have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. A second from Councilman Miranda. All in favor?

Alan Clendenin

9:12:39AM Thank you so much. Appreciate that opportunity to set that record straight. As you can imagine, my jaw dropped to the floor when I heard that. Lets honor some Police. Councilman Viera.

Luis Viera

9:13:15AM Its a real pleasure to be here today. Tampa City Council Luis Viera. If I May, I wanted to take a point of privilege that I see here behind us, Officer Ashley Bell who is here, who is the daughter of the late Detective Randy Bell, who along with Detective Ricky Childers and Trooper James Crooks gave all in 1998 for the City Of Tampa and is a -- trooper crooks. Wanted to recognize you, maam. God bless you. Real pleasure to be here today. Luis Viera for the officer of the month. Were here -- strike that -- were here to honor Officer Darryl Mcneil for the officer of the month. We do this to reflect the values of the community that we serve that supports our first responders, including police officers. City Of Tampa is a very pro-cop area and that cuts across political lines, I believe, and that reflects this. If I May, ill have Chief Bercaw speak about the honoree.

Chief Bercaw

9:14:12AM Good morning, Council. It is an honor to come before Council to recognize our officers who are working hard every day to keep our city safe. Today, im standing before you with my command staff, including four newly promoted. Many of them are familiar to you already. The newly promoted include Deputy Chief Eric Defelice. [ applause he will be over our investigation and administration. And Deputy Chief Pat Messmer. [ applause he will be over our operations. And Major Lisa Purcell. [ applause she will be over our criminal investigations division, which is our homicide and sex crimes units. Last but not least, Major Whitney Mccormick. [ applause she will be staying in district 2. She was the captain there, and now she will be the major in district 2. Its an honor to have the command staff that I have. Our entire staff looks forward to continuing our great partnership with Council. With that, I am proud to recognize our officer, Officer Darryl Mcneil, as our April 2026 officer of the month for his exceptional professionalism and proactive leadership within our district 2 area. He works On Our Street anti-crimes squad and also on our squad team. Over the past year, Officer Mcneil identified vacant apartment units as a primary catalyst for sustained increase of local crime. He independently developed and executed a strategically operation plan to reclaim these properties. Being an officer On The Street anticrime squad, that is not an easy task to do, to formulate those plans with all that you already have on your plate. But by building strong relationships with property managers, Code Enforcement, he successfully eliminated hazardous environments and established long-term security measures that have stabilized these neighborhoods. So its not just going and taking care of business. Its ensuring that it lasts. His efforts resulted in 22 reports, multiple arrests for narcotics and trespassing and a significant reduction in calls for service. By disrupting locations, being used for narcotic activity, theft, and other criminal offenses, his initiative improved overall safety and quality of life for the temple crest area, which is near 50th and busch, if you are familiar with that area. Beyond his tactical achievements, Officer Mcneil also embodies the heart of community policing. This past holiday season, he personally funded and distributed over $1200 in Christmas gifts to more than 50 underprivileged children. Fostering that vital trust that the community that he serves to protect. Whether he is responding to a high-risk swat call-out or strengthening neighborhood bonds through his own generosity, Officer Mcneil's dedication to crime reduction and community engagement shows that he is a true guardian for the City Of Tampa and a well deserved recipient of our April 2026 officer of the month. Congratulations. [ applause

Luis Viera

9:17:37AM Thank you, chief. Officer, before we formally honor you, there are a lot of folks from the community who would like to come forward to show you small token of their appreciation. Mr. Barclay. Brandon Barclay, Tampa pba. We want to present this plaque to the Officer for a job well done. Brian Ford with the Tampa Bay buccaneers. Officer, on behalf of the Glazer Family and our entire organization, we have a little tradition at one buc. Anybody that goes over and above gets a game ball. Hearing your story, im here on behalf of the Glazer Family and our entire organization to say thank you. Thank you to you, your family, for your sacrifice and what you do, especially what you do for the kids. Congratulations and thank you. Your very own. As mr. Chair mentioned, do not fumble. Congratulations. [ applause Mary Dillon, Straz Center For The Performing Arts. Officer Mcneil. Thank you, on behalf of Straz Center, offer you tickets to a complimentary show. Please enjoy. Youll receive other benefits that you can have a meal and then enjoy your evening. [ applause good morning, Officer Mcneil. Lori Osborne. Im with the Florida Orchestra. On behalf of the Florida Orchestra, we would like to invite you and your family to upcoming performance. Thank you so much for not only keeping our city safe but truly making a difference with that community. We really appreciate it and look forward to seeing you. [ applause good morning and congratulations. My name is MaryBeth Williams. Im executive director of Friends Of The Riverwalk. On behalf of the Friends Of The Riverwalk, I have a few things to present to you. The first is a personalized paver that will be placed along the Tampa riverwalk in honor of your service. Next, a few gifts from our members. On behalf of hospitality, we have passes to pirate water taxi, yacht starship, and the lost pearl. A gift certificate From Florida Avenue brewing. And a gift certificate from splitsville. We hope you enjoy them and thank you for your service. [ applause my name is Mary Lou Bailey. Im here on behalf of Zoo Tampa. We want to show our support for all of the police. Usually Mark Haney is here with me. He picks out the animals. He picked a good one this time. Painted dog. Couple of facts. They hunt in packs just like the TPD and they have an 80% success rate of getting their prey. Lions have a 20%. We always think of lions as the big successful hunters, but the dogs are more successful. Your story is impressive. Im often here in council representing my neighborhood. I appreciate your focus on making neighborhoods safe and all of the teamwork and everybody that serves. Youre awesome. Congratulations. Inside the basket is an annual membership to the zoo. For the next year come for free, park for free, enjoy our events, enjoy the animals. Thanks again. [ applause and 1905 Family Of Restaurants. Thank you for being in Tampa, for serving Tampa. We want you to have a night off and relax at one of our restaurants. While the weather is nice, enjoy outdoor oysters at ulele, show at the columbia. Congratulations. Congratulations on winning the award. Again, every time im up here, it is an honor for me to do this every time, every month. I truly appreciate and respect each and every one of you guys --

Alan Clendenin

9:22:00AM Hey, hey, hey. The microphone is in the podium. I know its uncomfortable. We have to pick it up for prosperity on the youtube. That puts the uniform on every single day. Thank you so much. On behalf of Bill Currie Ford, I want to present you a full free maintenance on your personal vehicle. The letter that Jennifer writes, unfortunately she is out of town. Ill get that to you next week. Ill bring it to you wherever you are at. Also goodies inside the bag. Congratulations again.

9:22:35AM I already feel bad for whoever your teacher was when you were 14 years old. [ laughter Mike Mcarthur, stepps towing service. Congratulations on a job well done. Behalf of Todd Stepp and stepps towing, present you with a gift card for a night out on dinner. You deserve this. Thank you for everything you do for our city. [ applause im trainable. I dont need a tutorial to speak to the council. On behalf of meat market and old Hyde Park village, were providing you with a gift certificate. You can enjoy yourself over there for lunch or dinner. On behalf of Jackson's Bistro On Harbour Island, enjoy yourself over there, lunch or dinner. Yummy house China bistro, enjoy yourself over there, lunch or dinner. On behalf of the Ciccio Restaurant Group, providing you with a gift certificate for breakfast, lunch or dinner. The last thing is, please go and work out so you dont get overweight. But it sounds like you are busy anyway. Like to remind everyone in this holy period of time to give more and take less for yourself. It sounds like you have done that. We appreciate your service. Thank you very much. [ applause

Luis Viera

9:24:08AM Sir, on behalf of a grateful City Of Tampa and a grateful Tampa City Council and Tampa government, its our pleasure to honor you, Sir, as the officer of the month with this Tampa City Council commendation. God bless you and happy Easter. [ applause I found out about 30 minutes ago I might have to say something. I do appreciate everyone thats been here. I have been blessed, especially recently to feel like I have an abundance of what I deserve, but I appreciate everybody thats here. I appreciate my squad thats here. I really like to thank certain individual in the crowd who has been in my life for a little over a decade. He has always, whether its tough love or just straight honest leadership, hes always been -- hes been good to me and always pointed me in the right direction. He actually pointed me to this Police Department. I really want to thank him and everybody here. Sergeant Zalansky. He is the man. If you dont know him, you should. [ applause I appreciate him putting me in for this award and thank staff for finding my daily activities worthy of all this thanks and praise. Thank you. [ applause

Alan Clendenin

9:25:36AM Thank you on behalf of Tampa City Council and the City Of Tampa as Councilman Viera said for your contributions. This council is a very big supporter of Tampa PD and the men and women that serve our city. Thank you on behalf of all of us for everything you do every day. We do appreciate it. Thank you.

9:25:53AM Hey, Chief, the folks that you promoted, do you want to bring them up to the podium real quick so everybody can see them? I know you announced them all, but that would be a good thing to do. Some of us are familiar and some of us are not. Congratulations everybody. Want to introduce yourselves real quick and what your new position is. I will be the new deputy Chief over support and criminal investigations.

9:26:17AM Congratulations. [ applause Patrick Messmer. I will be the deputy chief over operations and I will be seeing you again shortly for the items on the agenda. [ applause Whitney Mccormick. Im going to be the major in District 2. [ applause my name is Lisa Purcell. Im going to be the major over the Criminal Investigations Division. [ applause

9:26:51AM Congratulations to All Four Of You. Thank you so much.

Bill Carlson

9:26:55AM One related but unrelated thing. Thank you to everyone who worked on the investigation around MacDill Air Force Base. Chief Bercaw and I were talking about it On The Way up, the community is very appreciative of everything you all do. That was particularly scary for the hardworking men and women trying to protect us all around the world. I want to thank you for helping with that. I have friends and family going in that gate every day. So thank you.

Alan Clendenin

9:27:19AM Thank you very much. Picture time. Were taking a strategic pause waiting for Charlie to come in. There he is. Waiting for you. Thank you for your patience. Can we get that door closed? I would like to recognize Councilman Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

9:30:08AM Whole Crew.

9:30:12AM Its my pleasure, Council Members, to be here today on an occasion where finance, refinance, and do the stuff that we take for granted. These are the people who do the work to keep the city running financially and mentally. Without them, you know what, we wouldnt be the city we are today. But the Revenue and Finance committee and Accounting Office have done many, many things. When you read these things, you think they come by every year just because you are in the Revenue and Finance division, you have to earn it, am I correct?

9:30:43AM Who earned it this year?

9:30:47AM So happy you said that. Thank you for that. It is a pleasure that the Tampa City Council presents a commendation to you in recognition of receiving the certificate of achievement for excellence in financial reporting from the Government Finance Officers Association Of The United States and even Canada. We might have a new President in Canada. But anyway, this certificate of achievement is the highest form of recognition in the area of government accounting and financial reporting. And this is not given away every year. Coincidentally, its got to be given by them who say you have done everything according to the rules and regulations of which you are governed by in accounting. With that, who am I going to present to?

9:31:31AM As I understand, a little bird came to see me the other day and told me you were responsible, One Of The Leaders in doing this for this years achievement and many years in the past, am I correct?

9:31:43AM Happy to say she said correct, if I would have said that, well, hes bsing with me and I dont mean Barbra Streisand. Shes humble enough not to recognize herself every year. Were doing it for her. Done a yeomans job of making sure this department keeps running not fast, equally as intelligent, all the certificates of requirements that the Accounting Office do to give this award away. This is the 37th year. Thats almost my age. Its not given just because you are the City Of Tampa. It is given because individuals like all of these behind me have had some input in making sure this city is always running on time, always running financially fiscally and has the reporting record needed to be recognized. We want to thank you and your whole department for what you have done and what you all continue to do. Each and every one of you very valuable to all of the taxpayers in the City Of Tampa. That means from the heart, thank you very much. [ applause it wasnt just me, but it was the whole effort of the team and plus we do have one who is absent, my manager, my accounting financial officer, Sabrina Mcadoo, she has also played a great role in making sure we get this award every year. Thank you, Mr. Perry, for helping us Along The Way. And everybody else, and everyone who isnt present as well, thank you. [ applause

Alan Clendenin

9:33:30AM On behalf of Tampa City Council, thank you very much. Those of you who have been with the city for more than ten years, you know the job today is at least ten times more difficult than it was. The city is rapidly expanding, budgets are expanding. The complexity of our finances has expanded. What you all do is just outstanding. I mean, to be able to manage the tremendous growth and number of changes that occurred in the city and do it so well and be recognized for the achievement is quite remarkable. On behalf of Tampa City Council, we want to thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause Charlie, you are up for the next one, too. Take a little pause for a second. I think we can kick this off. Is the consultant here for the presentation? Mr. Perry, can you kick it off?

Michael Perry

9:34:40AM Yes, I can.

Alan Clendenin

9:35:06AM Go ahead. Start with your name.

Michael Perry

9:35:12AM I lost my script. Good morning. Mike Perry, Revenue and Finance. Thank you for taking the time to recognize the accounting office. They do a tremendous amount of work. 10 million transactions a month they have to do and do it properly. Im going to introduce the water and wastewater capacity fee study. The last time we presented to Council was back in 2000. During that 2000 presentation, Council took the following actions: one, they for the first time approved a water capacity fee. They decreased the wastewater capacity fee, and they set an affordable housing capacity fee of zero, which means any house or structure that is being designated as affordable housing is not charged a capacity fee. Finally, they also establish a standard that we review these fees every five years. So this is the first review of the five-year study. Weve asked Raftelis to go ahead and conduct the study. They conducted the study. And weve briefed most of the Council members on this previously. We also went out to the development community and briefed them to obtain their ideas and suggestions. One of the areas I want to point out and Mr. Hamilton will point it out, while were requesting Council to adopt the water, wastewater capacity fee ordinance at the next meeting, the new fees will not go into effect until next year. We do that to allow the developing community to adapt and incorporate the new fees within their rate structure as they go ahead and price out -- as they go ahead and do their pricing. Ill introduce Mr. Murray Hamilton from Raftelis and then brad will wrap it up. Mr. Hamilton will go ahead and come on up. Please bring the presentation up, please.

Alan Clendenin

9:37:29AM Start with your name, please. Members of The City Council, again, for the record, my name is Murray Hamilton with Raftelis. We are a utility rate and financial management consulting firm with our Florida office just north of orlando in maitland, Florida. As Mr. Perry pointed out, we did complete a water and wastewater capacity fee study. Quite frankly, these types of studies, both for water and wastewater systems as well as municipal impact fees are probably one of the most common type of studies that our firm has been conducting lately statewide. Many of our local communities are struggling with the difficulty of ensuring that new development pays its own share in Its Own Way. So The City Of Tampa is not alone in this pursuit. In todays presentation, weve got a number of topics that we would like to discuss with you. First and foremost, the purpose and background, part of which Mr. Perry provided you just a moment ago. Were going to discuss our impact fee criteria. When I think about the water and wastewater capacity fees, were really referencing here the calculation of the charges, the manner in which The City implements that program, and the accountability of the sources and uses of those funds. So these are restricted revenue sources to the water and wastewater system and have to be used for selected purposes. Well touch on our cost methodology and our approach to the study in general and then review our existing and proposed implementation schedules. By Way of background, I think Mr. Perry pointed out, the last study was completed in fiscal year 2020. At that time, The City Council did include within that ordinance a requirement to review these fee levels at least every five years. Thats what necessitated this specific project. During that last study, The City Council found that it was appropriate to reduce the wastewater fee. And then we implemented a new fee for the water system for the very first time. The water fee -- again, because it was implemented for the first time, was phased in over a three-year period. We very specifically prepared a treatment level cost. This is for water supply and treatment, that supplied systemwide, citywide systemwide. At the time, and even today, The City does already have two existing ciac service areas already collecting a transmission fee. That relates to the downtown South Tampa and the northeast area subarea. Those ciac service locations. As it comes to our transmission capacity fee, we basically calculated a charge for all the remaining service areas of The City, the non-ciac locations. The reason for the capacity fees is to ensure that new development that create demands upon the system pay their proportionate share of the costs. As we talk about new development within The City, again, I do want to point out that it does include redevelopment within the community. A property owner always gets credit for the amount of capacity that they have previously reserved. So if it is a single-family home and it becomes a new single-family home, theres typically not a new charge thats due. They got credit for that improvement. But if we turn a single-family home into a triplex or a quad where obviously there is an increased demand on the system, an incremental charge May have to be collected. Again, thats something that the Utility System works through with those developers. The fees are used to pay for growth-related facilities and major equipment. When these programs are Put In Place, they help avoid having growth-related improvements affect existing customers. Again, I dont think it hurts to highlight what Mr. Perry said a few moments ago. Unique to The City Of Tampa, The City Council has exempted qualified affordable housing projects from paying these charges. Later on in this presentation, were going to share with you a regional comparison of other types of capacity fees related to the water and wastewater system. I think its helpful to touch on some of the reasons why the charges differ. I would suggest probably the main difference the charges differ is the frequency and timeliness of how local governments tend to update these charges. Again, unique to The City Of Tampa, you elected to adopt an ordinance that actually requires an update every five years. Not all City governments do that. Certainly, sources of supply, type of treatment that influences the types of costs that your Utility System invests in, of access and availability of grants, both historical as well as future grants that are available to fund these facilities. The life cycle of the community, whether the community is actively expanding or if its fairly mature and built out. And then certainly the age and the size and the density of a Utility System heavily affects the cost structure of these types of charges. As it relates to our impact fee criteria, first and foremost, our team is looking to be both fair and equitable. We accomplish this by establishing a link between the cost of capacity and the amount of demand that each new customer places on the Utility System. The demands are measured based on adopted level of service standards that The City Puts In Place. This is the gallons per day per capita or gallons per day per unit, if you want to think of it in that capacity. The fees cannot be used to fund capital deficiencies within the system. So we cant use it to fund renewal and replacement identified within the capital improvement program. And we certainly cannot use these revenue sources to fund operating expenses. The City is required to maintain separate accountability and sets these monies aside in restricted accounts. They are a pledged revenue, ill point out, and they do support The City's water and wastewater system in the repayment of The City's bonds. Lastly, these fees are typically adopted by ordinance. In our cost methodology and fee structure, these types of charges recover what ID like to refer to as the system cost. This was the water supply treatment level, wastewater treatment and disposal and backbone transmission. These are the level of investments that The City Funds where all customers generally benefit, both existing and future. Some of the types of costs that are excluded from the fee relate to local and on-site water distribution and collection facilities. Its not uncommon in the State of Florida that when a new development comes into a community that oftentimes those local infrastructure costs are constructed and paid for by the Developer to serve the developers project solely. So as you would imagine, those costs are excluded from our fee because they are taking on that burden themselves. In addition, we make adjustments for Grant-Funded projects, and we also exclude minor equipment and vehicles. So whats included in the proposed fees? We include the system level costs of existing assets that have available capacity to serve new growth plus any planned capacity additions. As it relates to your water and wastewater system, the capital improvement element is heavily focused on capital renewal and replacement, specifically to fund the pipes program that The City Commission approved several years ago. So within the wastewater system, thats largely capital maintenance and those costs were excluded from our proposed fees. As well talk a little bit later on in the presentation, for the water system, there was a portion of the costs that were identified to be system-level upgrades as well as expansion. And youll see that a portion of those improvements were included in our fee calculations. The fee formula is quite simple. Theres really three components. Capital costs in dollars. The capacity at the related facilities. Again, gallons per day of capacity. And then the level of service standards. Gallons per day per capita. Up to this point in time, The City has invested approximately 3 billion, thats billion with a "b," in gross water and wastewater facilities. Of which almost 60% reach that system level cost that are associated with that treatment and transmission level capacity. In calculating our proposed fees, we did reduce the cost by more than $170 million in historical grants that were received by The City. In talking with Mr. Baird, he informed us that most of those grants were received by the Environmental Protection Agency in support of The City's fourth wastewater improvement program. In calculating The City's transmission impact fee, as you May recall, weve got three benefit zones. Weve got the two existing ciac service areas, ill point out that those transmission charges within the ciac service locations are not proposed to change. Thirdly, our third benefit zone are the remaining service areas within The City, the non-ciac locations. Again, specifically we calculated a capacity fee related to those costs. Youll see that later on in our implementation schedules. As it relates to the Utility System capital improvement program, total estimates are 1.8, Again, billion dollars of proposed funding over the next five years. Again, for the wastewater system, its largely capital maintenance and those costs are excluded from the fees. And then in identifying the water system projects and working with The City's engineers, we were able to include just under $80 million of water improvements within the calculated fee structure. So, Mr. Chair, on the next several slides, this is where we get into our fee component. As it relates to the water system, again, we have our benefit areas. So we address the costs in each one of the various fee components, both treatment and transmission related. Thats what youre seeing on slide ten. What I would also like to point out is that the Florida Legislature has placed limitations On The Way and the manner in which local government can update and increase certain types of impact fees. In talking with City Staff, weve elected to apply those restrictions here to the water and wastewater capacity fees. So what youre going to see on the next several slides is a maximum charge thats allowed by Florida statute as it relates to these types of fees and a required four-year phase-in schedule. Well talk about that in a little more detail. As it relates to the water system at the top of this slide, we have the systemwide treatment costs. Again, this is applied service area wide. We have a current fee of a thousand dollars. $1020 per equivalent residential unit. If you want to think of that as single-family home, that would be appropriate. But these charges also apply to commercial developments. Calculated cost with $1,837. The statutory maximum would be limited in that right hand column to $1,530. As youll see on the subsequent slide, there is a four-year required phase-in requirement that would not start until March 1 of 2027. Again, a strategy here where City Staff wants to be able to provide developers adequate notice. In the bottom of the slide, weve got the transmission system costs by benefit area. Again, the first two areas are the ciac service locations, which really comprise about 60% of the development within The City service area. You can see that the ciac charges are not changing while the last line of this particular slide are the other service locations, the non-ciac areas, and you can see we have a recommended charge of $985, all of which would be phased in over a four-year implementation schedule as shown here on slide 11. Again, very simply, slide 11, what we tried to provide here are the individual components of the fee at the top and middle of the slide. And then bolded as bottom of the slide, we tried to add up the fees. Thats typically how the charges are collected. Again, expressed on a per residential unit basis. Our next slide moves us into the wastewater calculation. These charges are collected as a single fee on a systemwide basis. So, therefore, were going to talk about the fee components collectively. We have a current charge of $1,237 per equivalent unit. Calculated cost of 1,847. And because the calculated cost is just slightly less than the maximum charge, were recommending that The City Council consider approving our calculated fee. Again, consistent with the water system, we have a four-year phase-in requirement. And you can see that outlined for The City Council again on slide 13. To provide a 30,000-foot view of our proposed recommendations, weve tried to summarize that information for you on slide 14. I would like to highlight here that the proposed fees at the bottom of this particular slide are more than four years into the future. So these would be the calculated fees that would be implemented on or after March 1st of 2030, fiscal year '30. We did attempt -- I know its a little busy and probably a little bit small on this particular screen. We tried to provide a regional comparison as it relates to The City Of Tampa and how your water and wastewater capacity fees compare to neighboring utilities. The chart is a little bit busy. Again, we have those three benefit service areas. You can see today that on average, most of your current charges are either at the average of your neighboring utilities or slightly under. Certainly over this four-year implementation period, again, thats why this isnt necessarily fairly presented here, these are the proposed charges four years from now. Mr. Chair, I do recall that in earlier briefings, you had a few questions about The City Of Orlando. The City Of Fort Myers and The City Of Ft. Lauderdale. Again, as highlighted in this particular chart, the survey average is roughly $5,000 per equivalent connection. I can tell you, Mr. Chair, that City Of Orlando is collecting a charge of approximately 4900. So just slightly less than average. City Of Fort Myers is calculating a charge of 6700, roughly, per unit, so they are slightly above the average. The City Of Ft. Lauderdale I believe is calculating the charge just under $4,000 per equivalent unit. But I could not identify when the most recent study was concluded. In summarizing our conclusions and recommendations, we find that the existing water and wastewater capacity fees are not adequate to recover the existing and planned investments. In order to provide adequate capacity to serve the needs of new development, we believe The City Council should consider adopting our proposed fees. They would be set to not exceed the maximum statutory requirement and would be phased in over a four-year implementation period. Its been the advice of City Staff to provide an extended noticing period before the proposed fees would be implemented. And if approved by The City Council, those charges would become effective beginning on and after March 1st of 2027. Again, a four-year implementation schedule. If you dont mind, Mr. Chair, ID like to invite Mr. Baird to come. And I will stand by for questions and any comments that The Council May have. But I would like to introduce Mr. Baird.

9:53:51AM Thank you. Good presentation. Mr. Baird.

Brad Baird

9:53:52AM Thank you, Murray. Brad Baird, deputy administrator of infrastructure. In summary, this is development paying Its Own Way for treatment and transmission facilities and the capacity associated with those facilities. As Mr. Hamilton talked about, we came to the conclusion after feedback from the Development Community to phase this in over four years and beginning March 1st of 2027. So the feedback from the Development Community was the study was very well done, very thorough, and we appreciate the time that youre giving us to include these in our costs. With that, ill pause and see if we have any questions.

Alan Clendenin

9:54:49AM I think we do. Thank you, Mr. Baird. Councilman Viera, your mike was on but I think that was a leftover. Councilwoman Hurtak followed by Councilman Carlson.

Lynn Hurtak

9:54:59AM Yes. If You could go back to slide 10. You said slide ten.

9:55:13AM Please.

9:55:20AM First of all, I want to say thank you for this. This is a great study. Im very glad that the Council in 2020 set this to be every five years because this is the kind of thing we need to do to make sure that we are getting what we need to handle the infrastructure, which is so important. I want everybody to look at that first line where the calculated cost is 1800 and the max were going to get is 1500. Which basically means, who is going to pay that extra overage? Recent years, within the last three years, Put In Place these maximums as it relates to implementation of impact fees. Capacities fall in line with that scope. I cant provide a lot of insight to it. I can tell you that ultimately to the extent that those types of projects are approved, it would fall on to the ratepayers. Thats a fact.

9:56:37AM Thats what I wanted to hear and thats what I want the public to understand.

9:56:42AM Because, unfortunately, when we do this in five more years' time, the chances of these costs going up will be there. And as we go, we will be further and further behind and the ratepayers who already live here, who already put money into this, will be forced to continue to do so. Again, I really appreciate that were doing this every five years. And I think its fair and I think the Development Community appreciates when its every five years so that were not putting a bunch of money on them all at once. I really do appreciate the four-year phase-in. I think thats wonderful. But I am concerned. So I would recommend that if the public is concerned, they reach out to both their house and senate leaders and let them know that this is harming our communities. Again, your study is phenomenal. Its very clear. The presentation was wonderful. I just worry about what this does for us in the long run because this is going to make our rates have to increase for the average ratepayer. And that is my concern. It has nothing to do with you. But I just wanted to make sure that people understood that is why we cant charge the 1800. Thank you so much for this. I, again, really do appreciate it and in every area where we can put these five-year studies, I think it helps both the residents and the Development Community, but it also highlights what we need our State Representatives to do for us. Thank you.

Bill Carlson

9:58:28AM I agree with that. Please contact your legislators. As Brad said, The Public has told us loud and clear that they want development to pay for itself, if new buildings or houses are going to be built, they want the cost of that to be shared. You just talked about the limitations of that. I wonder, though, can you tell The Public what this will save in terms of the ratepayer fee? In your projections -- just trying to talk about the benefit to The Public so that the regular rate-paying Public. If we dont implement this, how much more are they going to have to pay in their rate? And how much will this save the Average Person? If the proposed fees are implemented, by year four, they would generate about one and a half to two million dollars a year in additional revenues for the Water And Wastewater System, which in part would go to help support the capital improvement program and to fund the existing bonds that have already been issued. And we anticipate that in future years well have to continue to issue some additional bonds based on what weve identified.

9:59:45AM Just talking about year four, million and a half, if we did not have this, how much would we have to increase -- System. Your annual revenues are over $300 million a year. This is more of form over substance as it relates to your utility System.

10:00:05AM If We were just trying to hit the numbers exactly, how many more dollars a month would We have to raise?

10:00:12AM Maybe a dollar a month? Probably less. Again, you have a very robust water and wastewater system. Triple a rating, strong fiscal position. I dont think that that position hangs on the City Council's decision as it relates to these fees. Again, I think its a matter of practice and form to be able to communicate to our utility customers that we are holding new development accountable and they are paying their proportionate share. I dont want to overstate the equation that if we dont do something, there is an unexpected rate consequence.

10:00:54AM Okay.

Alan Clendenin

10:00:55AM Very good. Councilman Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

10:00:57AM Thank You, Mr. Chair, and thank You to You and Your Company Raftelis. Ive been in water -- im not a mayor, but appointed me to Tampa Bay Water along with Brad Baird and others. Your rate is certainly acceptable because not overbearing. However, that being said, I remember when our budget, just to repair pipes underground in the City Of Tampa was 30 to 35 million dollars a year. Pipe break today, same pipe fix it, two days later, breaks again same pipe. Thats when the Pipes Program started at $2 a month on wastewater and water. You see that on your billing. They say it is a water bill. No, it is a bill of many other things. But water is included in it. $2 and $2. Now every year or so we raise it by a dollar. If I remember now, it is at $8 and $8 because the Pipes Program continues to go for 22 years when it started from then to now. However, we are looking at because of the cost installation going in, Pipes Program is not bonded. Paying on a cash basis. That program sooner or later is going to run out of money because the cost and collection are not meeting up to each other. Sooner or later an adjustment made or something else. Bonding, maybe not. Maybe something else to go away from the bonding thing and save a little money. However, do You really save money? If You bond something for 30 years, You know exactly what your payments are going to be and what your income is. When You do it Our Way, You know what your money collection is but dont know what the payment is because cost installation. If You do that, what is the cost of material in year one versus year 30 or 32, whatever it takes. Thats never included in the cost, which should be. Im sure You do that mathematically and You know what the real cost is at the end. Bonding, yes, You pay more, but You also get quicker and better results because it goes project a to project b on a straight line, not up and down. Thank You for what You do. This is coming every five years and we certainly appreciate Your Company. Like I said earlier, from all the discussions ive heard of different companies, Your Company, never heard something negative.

Alan Clendenin

10:03:11AM Thank you again. I think that was an outstanding report. Probably one of the better reports ive seen. Very well done, comprehensive and I appreciate the information. We will come back and be present for that.

10:03:34AM Thank you so much. We are now moving on to public comment. Mr. Shelby.

Martin Shelby

10:03:40AM Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good morning, City Council, Members Of The Public, Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. Here to talk briefly about the rules of decorum in public comment for todays meeting. Members Of The Public are allowed a reasonable opportunity to address any item on the agenda of the City Council before official action is taken. Now, you will have had the opportunity to speak at general public comment by filling out a speaker card and placing it in the box outside the chambers, one card per speaker. Each person submitting a card will be recognized by name to approach and speak. Please note per City Council rules preference is given to those who want to speak on agenda items first. A three-minute time limit applies to all speakers. Please print legibly. Names that cannot be read will not be called. If you are here to speak at items set for public hearing -- and I dont have that right in front of me. Lets see what numbers those are.

Alan Clendenin

10:04:42AM I dont have anybody with a card on that yet.

Martin Shelby

10:04:44AM If You are here to speak on items set for public hearing on the agenda, those items will be called up individually when we approach on the agenda --

Lynn Hurtak

10:04:57AM 19 through 21.

Martin Shelby

10:04:59AM 19 through 21. If you are here on items 19 through 21, you dont have to fill out a card but there is a sign-in sheet outside. Please Place your name and the item number for the public hearing on the agenda. Now, speakers and members of the public are also reminded, please refrain from disruptive behavior, including making vulgar or threatening remarks or making or causing disruptive noises or sounds or displaying signs or graphics. Direct your comments to the entire City Council, please, rather than to individual members. The Chair will rule out of order any person who speaks without being recognized or attempts to address the council from outside the speaker area at the podium. Persons failing to comply with councils rules May also be ruled out of order and at the discretion of The Chair May be removed from the chambers for the remainder of todays meeting. If you are here to speak on items set for public hearing, as I said, fill out -- excuse me, sign your name on the sign-in sheet. Finally, City Council members should refrain from engaging a speaker under public comment, and the public should be aware that City Council does not take questions or have a dialogue during general public comment. This is your opportunity to express your position. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

10:06:16AM Thank you, Mr. Shelby. We have a relatively short agenda today. Im going to try to get us out by lunch, which May be a little delayed lunch. Ill try to do that. In order for that to happen, we need to make sure we abbreviate our comments and really push through and dont waste a lot of time. Those of you here to speak from the public, you get your full three minutes but you dont have to use your full three minutes. If you agree with something somebody said, you can say, hey, I agree with what such and such said. We have two ears. Two online speakers. Well hit them last this week. Well move to on you in-person folks. Zion Cemetery, number 16, Jeraldine Williams, followed by Reva Iman. Jeraldine, are you here? As a member of the Zion Cemetery --

10:07:19AM Start with your name, please. Member of the Zion Cemetery Maintenance And Preservation Board. As a member of that board I am before you to say thank you on behalf of My Great, Great Grandmother whose remains were interred at zion cemetery in 1912. She and approximately another 799 souls are there. We are pleased that action is being taken so we can look forward in their behalf to their resting in peace. Thank you very much.

10:08:08AM Thank you. Very good. Reva. Followed by Daryl Hych. My name is Reva Iman. As a former resident of robles park village as well as a citizen of Hillsborough County, im also the Vice-Chair of the board spoke about. I appreciate each and every last one of you. Those throughout the city who have taken the time and effort at this point for what has happened, what is going to happen and what the future May be. As the advice chair, im also asking, We need $8 million to complete Zion cemetery. Not just the cemetery as a memorial. This is something that the city will forever be grateful for. This City Of Tampa holds a great deal that other going on here and something that Tampa is great. We also plan to put a Genealogy Center there. Those who visit the City Of Tampa, those in the City Of Tampa and surrounding have the opportunity to come and look up your family, who you May not know but have the opportunity to learn. Its not just a memorial. Its educational and its good for everyone that wants to know their background and family history. So as the Vice-Chair, and I know that you are doing great things, and great things will come. I just want to leave with you, $8 million will help us complete what We want to do for the City Of Tampa, not just for Zion, because this is history in the making. And you will be history in the making because all these other cities, finding these cemeteries built. We are the leading city that everyone is looking at. We are the leading city, and We take lead on great many things in the City Of Tampa. I would like to complete that by helping us complete what We are trying to do at Zion for $8 million to complete it. Its not only for the community. Its for anyone have stake, any family out there, the history, that they can come to the Genealogy Center and do the research. Thank you.

10:10:32AM Thank you very much. Daryl, followed by Pam Cannella. Daryl Hych. Item number 22, the Veterans Advisory Committee Board, I am asking that the city, the two guys consider the fact that the City Of Tampa and the State of Florida is full of veterans. There should really be no reason for this committee not to be saturated with veterans. Nearly 100% veterans. May have gold star family members who May want to participate in it, but I highly encourage you to make this board with veterans. With that being said, as I was driving over here this morning, I was thinking about the term, make America great. I thought about this and said to myself, America is great. America is great because I would have never served 28 years in the United States Navy if I didnt think America was great. We wouldnt also have sitting on the daises the youngest and one of the only African American personnel in the City Government, ms. Naya young if America wasnt great. We also would not have had the only Black american president Barack Obama if America wasnt great. The only other persons and only people who would think America is not great would be weak men and women who believe that they are losing their footing in society. So because of that, they say make America great again. But im reminded of the fact that America is great. America is a place that everyone look upon and say, I want to get here. Ive never seen anybody cross the borders to go over to any other country and risk their lives if America wasnt great. So my only question and concern that I keep thinking about with Local Government and all the state legislatures and things coming down, why have no one decided to challenge the systems on the local dei situation? Why has no one took a legal position and stood ten toes down, hey, were not going for this in the City Of Tampa? Why have no one in City Government or in the legal system said, you know what, im going to stand in the gap for resolution number 568 because I believe in that. Why have no one decided to say, you know what, im going to lay all on the line for these purposes. Only answer I can come up with is because its not my monkey. Its not my zoo. It does not affect me. It does not Affect The Way I live, walk, breathe, talk, think, do things. It does not affect me. So because of that, theres no reason for me to put myself in the fight. Because every day I wake up and I look in the mirror, I see an African American Black man standing ten toes down fighting these systems by myself. Where is the Legal Systems at? We should be challenging all these things instead of sitting and watching.

10:13:51AM Thank you, Daryl. No applause. No clicking fingers either. Pam followed by David. Feeling better? Youre walking better. I feel good. Tell me again. My name is Pam Cannella. Two months to hurricane season. Tampa is not prepared. Again, our existing stormwater system has been neglected. For new projects, events, and barricades, and no contracted help for in-house crew to catch up. Again, they need funding. Someone needs to look into the budget money for contracted help, for this cleaning and maintenance. The city will be held accountable this time if there is another repeat of 2024 flooding. This administration has shown a willful disregard for state and local mandated maintenance standards of our infrastructure. These safety obligations, when ignored, put the public safety at risk. I just want to show where it says here where we have contractors, but we dont. The City Of Tampa's post has a misrepresentation of the truth. Stormwater cleaning is not getting done. There are no contractors to clean the stormwater pipes. No contractors doing cave-in repairs. When I ask why, im told no funding. And im still waiting for the trash to be removed from the AMI hospital pond, the zom pond and the swann pond. Thats still there. Mobility flyers in our mobility website, City Of Tampa. Has a solution. The solution is Add Additional Street sweepers. With Additional Street sweepers, we could increases productivity. With additional personnel. Then it goes on to say the answers. This department aims to enhance and support a high standard of living for the Residents Of Tampa by offering a thorough responsive environmental safe, efficient, cost-effective stormwater maintenance program. Well, I dont know when thats going to happen. Im still waiting. To elevate the quality of service by improving the overall performance of stormwater maintenance. Old saying, actions speak louder than words. I want to see it done. To enhance the citys reputation by establishing benchmarks for infrastructure, ditch, we know when its done. The Residents know when its done. We dont need surveys or reports. Here is the best part. To achieve this goal, we would need additional funding through budgeting. That is the best one. Or here it comes, raising the stormwater assessment fee. Thats not an option. Thank you.

10:17:33AM David, followed by citro. My name is David Moss Cornell. I am the founder and secretary of the Highland Pines Committee On Homelessness. Last week, you had the pleasure of meeting our president in training, Mr. Raymond Johnson. He is my voice when we shall go to the NAACP of which I am a lifetime member for ten years. He will be my voice, and he is an African American. We belong to district 5. We, the people, the citizens, and the constitution of these United States of America we follow under the first amendment and so do the homeless. We have laws in these United States of America and laws in the constitution of the State of Florida. Should any homeless person violate them, they should be justly locked up or dispersed. That is the law of these states of Florida and probably the state of the United States of America, too, the constitution is not that much different. Now, our committee had a conversation about first amendment right freedom of assembly. At 7401 East Broadway Avenue in Tampa, Florida, 33619, there is a mobil gas station, a public piece of property to the right of it. Now, there is where some homeless gather. Next to it is a fire hydrant. The fire hydrant is not centrally located in the center of the mobil gas station. But this would be a Great Place for the homeless to gather as an experiment Monday through Friday. Hence I ask -- one moment, please -- I ask that this be brought before the agenda. I request that this committee have a place in highland pines as an experiment Monday through Friday, on public land at capacity 15 homeless individuals where a sign is posted up there. So if they break the law there, they should leave. And be dispersed. But if they are there, according to the laws of the State of Florida and the United States of America, then they have every right to take care of business. Thats my request to be put on the agenda before this honorable council. Have a good day and happy Easter.

10:20:35AM Thank you, David. Citro, followed by Ashley Morrow. Good morning, council. My grandfather used to say to me, if we can send a man to the moon, how come we cant fill in the blank. Fast-forward 50 years later, we got Artemis Ii circling our planet. If we can send a man and a woman to the moon, how come we cant have better transportation? I was at the citizens advisory committee for the Transportation Planning Organization last night. And before you is going to come a proposal for a Tri-County Mpo, metropolitan planning organization. It was laid out in front of us on how this was going to be structured. The City Of Tampa is the epicenter, the hub for transportation, land, sea, and air. This new Tri-County Mpo is going to bring in major funding for the Tampa Bay area. I urge you to check out how the structure will be set up so that the City Of Tampa will get its just rewards. And to also make sure that our transportation needs are taken care of. Our population doubles every day from 7 am. To 7 pm. People come into our city from hillsborough, east hillsborough, pinellas, pasco, polk, hernando, sarasota. For work, the arts, sporting events, cruise lines, importing, exporting. And with the Tri-County Mpo, they are going to want to build more roads to get into our city. That will help them get into our city. But the surrounding neighborhoods, the surrounding residents are going to be more affected By This Road building than helping the people getting into our city. Lets fast-forward to West Tampa. I was at a neighborhood association meeting where they were expressing their concerns about the possibility of a new stadium. The rays want it. The Governor wants it. Hillsborough County commissioners want it, and we still have a person on this council thats saying its a done deal. The conversation needs to start now, Council Members, on transportation in and around dale mabry and Tampa Bay Boulevard. And the first three organizations that I would call on would be the Tampa Police Department, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, And The Highway patrol, just to see how we can move cars in and out of that area. Hopefully you three that are on the tpo will recommend rail. Thank you.

10:23:48AM Ashley Morrow. Followed by Carroll Ann Bennett. My name is Ashley Morrow. I will be sharing tampas Black history. In the 1870s, as Tampa was still developing, Black families were building lives on the edges of town. They were homesteading land, forming community. They were organizing. Tampa even had a Black Militia as ive shared with you before. But outside of Tampa, that same level of stability did not always exist. 1877, just north of here, hernando county, a Black man by the name of Dave James married a White woman, ms. Day. And that one act of marriage set off an entire change of events. The newspaper picked it up. During this time, newspapers had power. They were read cover to cover and they didnt just inform, they signaled. This is what happened. Now, pay attention to the names on the screen, because theyll see them again. Remember those names. Because according to the newspaper, these men went to Dave James' home and they were fired upon. A shoot-out followed. Several of the men saxon, rhodes, Mcintosh, were wounded. And then were told that the very next day, Dave James contacted the judge, who was one of the people that went to the home, he contacted them and asked them to come to the house so he could apologize for firing on them first. This is what the newspaper reported. Now, why would he do that? Or is that version of the story that made it to the print because that was the story that they needed as a mob in approaching this mans home to protect this White woman? But the story doesnt end there because a young Black woman named Mary James, the report by Mary R. James -- sorry, Mary R. Tanner, she comes to Tampa and writes an affidavit. And on the affidavit, she explains that she was actually with this man Named Arthur St. Clair. And Why Arthur St. Clair is important because he is the one that married the Black man to the White woman. And they end up escorting the White man -- sorry, the Black man and the White woman out of brooksville, but somebody had to pay because F.e. Saxon was Walter Saxon's brother. We talked about who the saxon family was, starters of the ku klux klan in central Florida so somebody had to pay. Next week, ill talk about Mary R. Tanner's story when she came to Tampa and then to key west and reported on the incidents. Thank you.

10:26:59AM Thank you, Ashley. We always enjoy your presentation. Carroll Ann Bennett followed by Tiffany Poole. My name is Carroll Ann Bennett. Im here to talk to you last week, sidewalks came up. There was a proposal to close the loophole so that if theres no sidewalks nearby, its not an exemption. I want to explain to you how we got to where we are today, particularly in relationship to culbreath bayou. 2020, sidewalk stompers and walk bike Tampa presented a wonderful presentation to City Council. And wanted the code changed to eliminate the loophole of if theres no sidewalks. They wanted to delete it. They said because right now we have full City blocks with no sidewalks, even though every residence has been rebuilt. So in 2021, They did amend the sidewalk code, but the staff said we cant eliminate that loophole. We need some flexibility for the rare occasions, for neighborhoods like culbreath bayou, quite frankly. But They assured us that it was going to be used very, very rarely, and that it would not be used within a half mile, no exemptions within a half mile of schools, something stated to you all. They also put in there as a caveat, no -- if theres no additional development nearby. Well, theres no official legal interpretation of no additional development nearby. Which gives the City the leeway to interpret it very, very liberally. You can interpret that according to your goal. Is your goal more sidewalks or is your goal less sidewalks? Well, obviously, this is the active permits in the City. If you want more sidewalks, you would say theres nowhere in the City where theres no additional development nearby. So no one should be able to use that loophole. If your goal is no more -- if your goal is to have more sidewalks. So it was quite the surprise to myself and other people when we found out that the City was interpreting it in such a way that the loophole for no sidewalks and no additional development nearby was being used more often than every other loophole combined. About two-thirds of the time, that was the loophole that was being presented. They went so far as to say people who had sidewalks on their site plan could take them off. So when I asked about it, They said, are there active building permits in the area? Another very subjective thing, simultaneously, simultaneously is not long term. It is short term. But the biggest problem came when They didnt even interpret it and there were sidewalks nearby. These had sidewalks and yet They approved the loophole. Here is my favorite, sidewalk on both sides and yet They approved the loophole. They are not even enforcing it when it doesnt qualify. If They cant be entrusted to enforce it properly, and if They cant interpret it to get more sidewalks, thats why we are where we are today.

10:30:21AM Thank you, Carroll Ann. I appreciate it. We sit next to each other, every time, im going to confuse you every once in a while.

Charlie Miranda

10:30:30AM There is a difference.

Alan Clendenin

10:30:32AM I dont know which one got insulted.

Charlie Miranda

10:30:34AM I didnt say that.

Alan Clendenin

10:30:39AM Tiffany, followed by Stephen Michelini. Good morning.

10:30:55AM We can see it. I am a mother of a minor child that is a citizen of Tampa, and we are proud citizens of Tampa. There is a problem with TPD. My Son does ride a bike. He has an e-bike. He owns an ultra-b, if you know what that is. He likes wheelie, yes. The report is not matching. My Son and his friend was, as the report say, observed two African American males was observed on Bayshore, as they say, District 3. They start in District 1, and District 3 they ended up searching my children. Had their hands up. 12 and 15 years old. If you can imagine that. Patting them down without their mother. And the grandparent was in the house. So I have a serious problem, you guys, that im going to keep marching on about, if I have to stand by myself. My Child is 15. He helps fix bikes, e-bikes for kids in the neighborhood. He loves to cut lawn for elderly. He assembles furniture for the elderly. He is a good kid. For him to get -- I dont want to call it attacked, but this report is not matching what the Lieutenant told me over the phone. He even know that. His name is Lieutenant Houston. He was with the District 1. However, some of the stuff did match up, but my thing is why eight cops? If you can see the little strip, eight cops on two children. Help me -- help me, please. Help my, help me from not being emotionally -- now My Child has to seek counseling. Already had a talk with him years ago about youre not the same. Youre not the same! My Black skin, im sorry to make this racial. Because the other child was Hispanic. He was not Black at all. This report is false. And it only have two officers' names on here. I have asked for body cam because this does not match. Not eight cops on here. They jumped out at My Child, on my parents' property. Knock on my door. My Mom was in the house. How did this happen? Yall help me, please. But im going to keep on. Ill be back down here. I thank you for your attention.

10:33:45AM Sebastian or any of the Legislative Aides, can you come out and get tiffanys contact information for us please? Somebody will meet you to get your contact information.

10:33:56AM Stephen Michelini. Before we recognize you for speaking, I need to send you to handwriting school. No Way in the world I could interpret Steve Michelini.

Lynn Hurtak

10:34:08AM I got it right away.

Alan Clendenin

10:34:09AM She did.

10:34:17AM Correct. That is terrible. Start with your name, please. A couple of things have happened that I want to bring your attention to. This notice was sent out a few days Ago Regarding Street closures on south howard. And the Council very specifically excluded the water and the Pipes Program from stormwater. You had a long discussion about it, and You said You werent going to do that. What this has done is combine the stormwater issue with the Pipes Program. We also had an agreement with the Mobility department --

10:35:14AM You just answered it. Hey, Adam. Hi, Adam. You are special. Im not that techy. Sorry. I need a couple of extra seconds here. Anyway, there was an agreement with mobility That With Street closures, except for emergencies, were going to be coordinated with the businesses and the homeowners. That didnt happen. There also was a provision in there, required notice through the Mobility department and the Right-Of-Way Permitting Department, this didnt happen either. What happened was they piggybacked stormwater onto a pipes program. There was no notice and they are scheduled to Start This Street closure this weekend. Routing traffic around. This is a big weekend for people, dining. It isnt correct and they never should have combined the pipes program with the stormwater program after the admonishment and the discussion That Took Place with City Council. One other issue, and I know this is sensitive to you, Mr. Chairman, regardless of who the speaker is, they dont deserve to be attacked personally by City Staff, which happened over the weekend. What I present to you is factually based regarding south howard and the stormwater project. It is not conjecture. It is based on applications that have been submitted by the city and are, in fact, registered with the state and SWFWMD. So when an individual in the communications department attacks me and says basically hes paid. Therefore its not valid. They are paid. The City Staff is paid. Some of them are making $200,000 a year. It doesnt make their comments any less valid or mine less valid. It has to do with what are the facts. I would appreciate an apology from the communications. I dont think im going to get it, but ID appreciate it. Thank you.

10:37:30AM Thank you, Mr. Michelini. James Adair followed by Robin Lockett. Mr. Adair. Good morning.

10:37:56AM As Councilman Maniscalco said -- lets go. Wait, hold on. Unmute and turn some volume up. Steve, this is how its done, buddy. Thats just sitting in the City Of Tampa on a lot doing nothing. We bought this thing in 2020, SIX years old and basically paying to maintain it and it doesnt do anything. Now, the City Of Tampa bought or is purchasing additional generators just like this one that are going to go out and get deployed in areas that have stormwater lift stations to get the water from in the basin out to a river or whatever so that people dont drown, basically. Thats what they are going to do. A lot of money has been spent on it. But we have this one generator thats just been sitting there and hasnt been doing a thing. I want to kind of let you see the size and the scope of this generator. Its a monster. That is standard picture. And then here is the purchase price. And then here is kind of the proof that its never done anything. Its never gone anywhere. You need a certain kind of truck to tell it, lower hitch than what is normal on these trucks, I guess. How do you get it somewhere? Its not that hard. Somebody just needs to know, oh, we have a generator. We can do something with it. Its just sitting there. Here is the vehicle inventory in city works that shows that this things exist. Its size. Its big. And then here is the service record. Just sort of sitting there. Right? It costs thousands of dollars on a repair and a couple hundred bucks. This is outrageous, sad, this thing could have been used to turn on some of the lift stations after the storms so some of the people didnt sit in their houses for ten days with water halfway in their house. But I would rather try to figure out how to crowdsource what we can do with it. I started thinking through and googling, like, where is the lift station, where is wastewater, whatever it is? I kind of came up with dead ends. I know a lot of city employees watch these videos and they watch in City Council meetings. So in your departments, right, if you are Tampa PD or Emergency Catastrophe Department, whatever, do you have a use for this large thing that you could borrow? Because as it just sits there, its not doing anything. Its dying. If it doesnt get used, it goes away. Message me, you know how to do that, you can find me. Lets figure out some ways that this thing can be used. Its probably going to end up being a backup generator for one of the brand-new ones we bought anyway. End of the day, sat there SIX years. It never left the lot. I assume the wheels still work. But at the end of the day, lets find a solution. Internet, do your thing -- thank you, appreciate it.

10:41:05AM Robin Lockett followed by Valerie Bullock. Candidate Robin Lockett. Thank you. I cant find my darn -- good morning, Council. Robin Lockett, candidate for State House District 63. I wanted to thank you guys for working things out for Zion Cemetery. Its been a long time, and were able to move forward. We still have a Long Way to go, but im thankful that we can at least make this first step. So Zion and everything that you have Put In Place for the yellow jackets. That is very important. Im so appreciative of that, that it is your full intent to make sure the yellow jackets are made whole. Two things I want to thank you guys for. Zion Cemetery, the first step has been made, so we can continue. As weve identified, we will need money for that genealogy center. And the second thing is yellow jackets. So thank you. Im looking for my phone.

10:42:24AM I tried calling, went straight to voice mail. Its turned off because it went to voice mail. Valerie, followed by -- Valerie Bullock, from ponce de leon, College Hill Projects. I want to that you can about 19, 20, 21. For number 19, the new apartments, condos, whatever they are building, I think it will be like SIX three-bedrooms and this is the second reading for the zoning to be passed. But I dont get it. They already built the apartment. Why are we doing zoning now? I thought you do zoning before they start building. So maybe im correct. I dont know how it go, but that seems to be a little backwards to me. And little pickup stick houses, thats exactly what they look like. If one catch on fire, it might even burn down middleton school. But I think we need to look into that because ive asked several people, and they said that the zoning should be done before the building. And I go over there every day and take pictures and talk to whoever is there. So if we can do stuff without zoning being approved, I might as well go on and do my own deck and screen it in if I dont need approval. And on number 20, I got a problem with the resolution. When it was the first reading, I thought we read it and then read the second time. But now weve got a resolution up here about a Aquino Property Management. Aquino Property Management, they have a lot of discrimination complaints against them. So I dont see how the city involved with the managing of the property. Why did that resolution have to go in there? That sounds like it is a little dictatorship to me.

10:44:33AM This one is a public hearing. That would be the time to talk about it. Okay. Ill talk again.

10:44:39AM Carroll Ann -- Stephanie. Its not going to get old. How was your evening yesterday, Stephanie? Good morning. Stephanie Poynor. Ive given you a speech that I made last year about rome yard. Go figure. Number 4 and number 23, the water capacity fees, its funny because that gentleman is like, oh, minuscule. Last two years, even if we call multifamily only two units, that would be $1.8 Million that the City Of Tampa has left on the table. Just in the last two years for single-family and multifamily if we call multifamily two units. So thats 1.8 Million. Thats a lot of money in my world. Anyway, Veterans Board for number 22, ive been a spouse for almost 30 years. I am not a veteran. I know about being -- I know about being married to a veteran, but this board, if its going to be called a Veterans Board, it needs to be a Veterans Board. As a matter of fact, my veteran at home told me yesterday, he said any more than eight or nine people on a board is a waste of time because theres too many people to get anything done. I dont Like The Way it is staggered either if you read it. Number 26 through 28, the Forensics Lab, neighbors are begging for sidewalks. They are begging for streets. They are begging for stormwater improvements. But yet, I mean, I went to the Forensics Lab in my little crazy brain, it cant be any more than about 2,000 square feet now. The rest of it will all be warehouse. But well spend $40 million on it. I dont care what anybody says. Cheaper than that, it will come out to 40, trust me. I need ten minutes to talk about rome yard, but since I cant, I will be short and sweet. This is the original contract for the rome yard project. ID like to point out, first of all, it was approved 1436 days ago. 1436 days. Thats a long fricking time in my world. This is part of the original contract, page 22, where we are selling to related group each town house property for $2500. But They can sell those properties for up to 200% AMI. Which is over $200,000. A year. Annually. Okay? Yet They are here begging you for more time. And They already went back to the West Tampa CAC begging for more money, but yet They are sitting on their behinds and not getting anything done. How many people are still without housing because They are being lazy and not getting it done? Also, in this contract on page 26, it says They have 180 days to do all the environmental due diligence. Were at 1436 days, folks. This contract says repeatedly that the City Of Tampa can cancel it if They are not doing what They are supposed to be doing. Why in the hell would we give them an extension? I mean, seriously. Its in the document that I gave you, the old, the last speech. But here is the other nifty piece of information. They started with phase three. Guess what, phase one is where the Cba is supposed to be done. They have not done anything for the community-based agreement, which should have been done first. You need to make them do it now, not later.

10:48:08AM Thank You, ms. Poynor. Q. Do we have both public speakers on line? Michael Randolph, You are first. You have three minutes. Michael Randolph. Start with your name, please. You have three minutes. My name is Michael Randolph. I am with the West Tampa CDC. Today im here to talk about the rome yard project and community benefit agreement. As a matter of fact, the first phase of the rome yard project will include the community benefit agreement. For the last months, we talked about the technology, wealth building and job creation center. Today we want to talk about the job creation. Next week well talk about how were going to fund the project. West Tampa, a new economic, job creation. The West Tampa CDC is building a permanent community rooted economy using ai. To transform West Tampa from a neighborhood at risk to a community ownership. Lets talk about the key strategic. First, jobs. Preparing residents for 60 plus career path and showing that our workforce lead the economic resolution. Second, income stabilization. Supporting 40 plus community-based businesses and e-commerce models to provide supplemental income and should I say need to include helping people with the cost of inflation and raising rent. Job multiplier effect. As these businesses grow to scale, they are hiring locally, creating a cycle of growth for neighborhoods, jobs. Next, equity development. Marginalized voices to ensure that the community not outside interests, are primary benefits of both. Finally, in the city, going to love this, fiscal strength. Generating new city tax revenue for business licenses and tax sales. Schools and infrastructure raising funds. Finally, our wealth building displacement strategy. Residents from consumers to owners of physical assets, creating a financial shell against gentrification. Thank You for giving me the opportunity to speak, and we do fully support Zion Cemetery and hope that You will bring it to the light and fund them because it is an economic strategy as well.

10:51:08AM Thank you, Michael. Appreciate your input. Adriana Rodriguez. Good morning, my friend. Mr. Rodriguez. Unmute yourself, please.

10:51:28AM Good morning. Start with your name. Adrian Rodriguez, Tampa, lifelong resident and native. When I last spoke remotely, February 5th, I wasnt able to see council members during comments. I was told one member was looking at his cell phone and turning away. That sends a message of disinterest. I respectfully ask that while im speaking council members give this issue full attention to this critical situation. I would like to speak on colon cemetery. The original cemetery was built over and erased in the 1980s. Continuing to use that name does not reflect the reality. After discovery of zion cemetery, city officials stated and here are quotes, we have to make sure this never happens again. We owe it to these families to protect these sites. This is a lesson for the City Of Tampa. So I ask, was that just lip service? Because here we are now facing the same situation again. Were trying to prevent history from repeating itself and to stop another historically significant burial ground from being ignored or erased. I was told by Mr. Shelby that this issue is outside the scope of Tampa City Council. Respectfully, that is not correct. Florida statute 872 protects burial sites. Recent updates strengthen those protections specifically for abandoned and unmarked cemeteries like this. These laws exist to prevent exactly what were seeing today. And you do have the power to act, council. You can pause construction. You can delay permitting. You can call for further review and investigation. Citys Building Official JC Hudgison already has this information. This is not hypothetical. This is happening now. The question is not whether you can act. The question is will you? If the city meant what it said after zion that this must never happen again, then this is the moment to prove it because we owe it to the families, owe it the history, owe it to the people of Tampa to ensure colon cemetery is not another failure to protect what matters. Richard Gonzmart and City Of Tampa on a land swap deal pertaining to zion cemetery. Thank you, richard, for always doing the right thing, unlike others. I also encourage the city to reach out to Patrick Thorpe and other landowners with -- to explore similar land swaps and protect these sites. Our history is far more important than unchecked development. 394 days, Tampa will have a mayor that listens to the community -- will have a mayor listens to the community, cares about our history, the Black communities, and works with Tampa City Council, not against them. 394 days until baby jane leaves office. Hang in there, Tampa. Have a great day, council.

10:54:24AM Thank you, maam. That concludes public comment. Thank you very much. Is there any requests from the public for reconsideration of legislative matters? Hearing none, were moving on to the consent agenda. Councilwoman yuck, would you move items 5 and 6?

Naya Young

10:54:41AM I move items 5 and 6.

Alan Clendenin

10:54:44AM Motion from Councilwoman Young. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Maniscalco, would you move items 7 and 8?

Guido Maniscalco

10:54:52AM I move items 7 and 8.

Alan Clendenin

10:54:54AM Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Miranda, would you move items 9 and 10.

Charlie Miranda

10:55:02AM Yes, Sir. I move items 9 and 10 on Finance Committee.

Alan Clendenin

10:55:05AM Motion from Miranda and second from Maniscalco. All in favor, Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Two things for you, Mr. Carlson. Would you first move items 11 through 13?

Bill Carlson

10:55:14AM Im going to recuse myself from item number 12 because a Client that My Company does business with May be related to the project. Ill move 11 and 13.

Alan Clendenin

10:55:24AM We have a motion from Councilman Carlson to move 11 and 13. Second from Councilman Miranda. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Charlie Miranda

10:55:31AM Move item 12.

Alan Clendenin

10:55:32AM Motion from Councilman Miranda to move item 12, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Bill Carlson

10:55:40AM Can we have them call it?

Alan Clendenin

10:55:42AM Please call the vote with him recusing himself. Item number 12.

The Clerk

10:55:49AM Item 12 passes with Carlson recusing.

Martin Shelby

10:55:53AM Sorry, abstain?

Bill Carlson

10:55:58AM Whatever word you want.

Martin Shelby

10:56:01AM Actually, its abstain.

The Clerk

10:56:08AM Motion passes with Carlson abstaining.

Alan Clendenin

10:56:10AM Sorry, I LED you down that path. Councilman Carlson, would you move item 16 and 17, the substitute motions, please resolutions.

Bill Carlson

10:56:17AM So moved.

Alan Clendenin

10:56:20AM We have a motion from Councilman Carlson. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Lynn Hurtak

10:56:26AM I move item 18.

Alan Clendenin

10:56:27AM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. A second from Councilman Maniscalco moving item 18. All those in favor, aye. Ayes have it.

Lynn Hurtak

10:56:34AM I make a motion to open the 10 and 10:30 public hearings.

Alan Clendenin

10:56:37AM Motion to open 10 and 10:30 public hearings. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Bill Carlson

10:56:48AM I was absent on 19 but I reviewed the file.

Alan Clendenin

10:56:52AM Councilman Viera, you were absent on 20, and you are ready to vote? Very good. Item number 19. Staff. I have not been sworn in this morning.

10:57:10AM We see you now. Can you put it up on the Public Monitors as well, please? Start with your name, sir. Christopher, start with your name.

Christopher Demanche

10:57:20AM Sorry. I have not -- Mr. Chairman, Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. I have not been sworn in.

Alan Clendenin

10:57:27AM Im sorry, we need to swear you in. Anybody here for the public hearings, would you stand, raise your right hand and be sworn in?

The Clerk

10:57:39AM Do You swear or affirm that the testimony You are about to give is the truth and nothing but the truth?

Alan Clendenin

10:57:45AM Thank you. Start with your name again.

Christopher Demanche

10:57:47AM For the record, Christopher Demanche with Development Coordination. Agenda item number 19 is rez 25-126. This item is a rezoning request for property located at 4102 north 22nd street. The request is to rezone from CG to planned development for residential single-family attached. Revisions have been completed and certified plans have been submitted to the clerks office. Im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

10:58:12AM We had a concern in public comment, as mentioned, that this was already constructed project, can you please give the scope and scale of the project and why it is being rezoned?

Christopher Demanche

10:58:25AM Yes, Mr. Chairman. This is a request to change the rezoning, the zoning for the site from commercial general to planned development. There are approximately four single-family attached dwelling units that are proposed for this site. The units have vehicular access from East Ida Street while the front door for unit 4 is along 4102 north 22nd street. Are there any specific details, Mr. Chairman?

Alan Clendenin

10:58:57AM -- if there was already construction on the project. Is there an Applicant present for this? The Applicant is here. We can talk to them about it.

Christopher Demanche

10:59:18AM Okay.

Alan Clendenin

10:59:19AM Come forward. Could you provide clarification about your request? Could you provide clarification about your request? There was a Person In The Public that spoke about this project this morning during public comment and said that there was already construction on the project and why are we rezoning now. Nothing going on.

10:59:41AM Start with your name, please.

Martin Shelby

10:59:46AM Can take public comment when the time comes about the project.

Alan Clendenin

10:59:49AM I understand. While presenting the project, wanted clarification.

10:59:58AM Anything else to add?

11:00:01AM Anybody in the public who wishes to speak to the item. Hill. The property name will be summer set on Genesis. Here is what they already built. This is from what I took on Monday. I have been back by there, but I took pictures on another phone. They definitely have started. As a matter of fact, they already put the installation stuff on it also. I have witnesses. I called Mrs. Byrd and she came around there with me and I went inside the property and talked to the man. I asked him, do you all do hiring. He told me no, hes not the owner, I asked him that, too. He said he was not the owner. But definitely building up there. You can see the pickup sticks. Thats what we started calling it. Pickup sticks. It already have the insulation on the outside. The wrap. [Phone ringing] its a building there already.

11:01:25AM Anybody from the public wish to speak on the item? Connie Burton. The property, if 4102 north 22nd street is not the pickup stick items that we witnessed on 22nd street, I would say I apologize. But there is construction being done at the corner of 22nd street and 41st. My concern, and our concern is that we see a lot of fast-moving projects going in East Tampa right now. And then we look at the agenda. The agenda is talking about having a public hearing regarding the second reading. So things are not matching up. We want real transparency. We cannot ask the residents not to start on projects that has not been approved. And then we see people, developers coming in, moving their projects as if its a done deal. I would say somebody from the City Of Tampa need to get out there and see, and the people in the community is calling it the pickup stick project. Because thats all we see is a bunch of wood. And now every day you go through there, you see one or two people working on that project. I want to know where is the site manager, where is the City Of Tampa inspectors on that project, and that the community is not just bamboozled because people are now willing to see projects that just almost like stamped and approved and run through East Tampa. Thank you.

11:03:03AM Thank you, Connie. Anybody else in the public? Hearing none, Applicant, can you come back forward? You only get one bite at the apple. Applicant, would you come forward, please? Can you address those concerns that were just expressed? Talking about another property.

11:03:28AM Start with your name again. I think they are confused because there is nothing going on on that lot at all. This is the corner of Ida and 22nd. Theres nothing going on on that lot right now. I dont know what the confusion is.

11:03:44AM Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Anything else? Any other questions? No? Motion to close from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Carlson, would you read 19, please?

Bill Carlson

11:04:00AM Ill move it and support it assuming what he just said is true. If new evidence arises -- this is the second reading. File rez-25 -- move file rez-25-126, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 4102 north 22nd street in the City of Tampa, Florida and more particularly described in section 1 from zoning district classification CG, commercial general, to PD, planned development, residential, single-family, attached, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:04:33AM We have a motion from Councilman Carlson. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote.

Charlie Miranda

11:04:52AM If I May add something?

Alan Clendenin

11:04:54AM Its closed.

Charlie Miranda

11:04:56AM After we vote then.

Lynn Hurtak

11:05:28AM Can we speak? It seems like Someone is having difficulty.

Alan Clendenin

11:05:34AM Its closed. Cant provide more testimony.

Lynn Hurtak

11:05:41AM I want to open and reconsider it.

Alan Clendenin

11:05:43AM We have a motion to reopen the hearing --

Lynn Hurtak

11:05:46AM Not reopen the hearing.

Alan Clendenin

11:05:50AM A motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Was it a second from councilman Miranda? All those in favor, aye. Opposed? He was first.

Charlie Miranda

11:05:57AM I just want to say our evidence in voting, heard of the Developer, not even the right address. Nothing, no bearing of anything but raw land. Its based on that evidence that im voting. Im sure the Council is, too, One Way or the other.

Lynn Hurtak

11:06:11AM Same thing. We just have the evidence thats in front of us. So, yeah, I agree --

Charlie Miranda

11:06:21AM He did that under oath.

Alan Clendenin

11:06:24AM Councilman Carlson, your light is still on. Okay. Very good. Can I get a motion to close? Motion to close from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Do we need to read this again? No. Okay. We had the motion from Councilman Carlson. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote again, please.

The Clerk

11:06:52AM Motion passed unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

11:06:53AM Thank you. Item number 20. Staff?

Christopher Demanche

11:06:57AM Thank you, again, Mr. Chairman. For the record, Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. Item 20 is rez-25-129. This item is rezoning request for property located at 2707 east 22nd avenue unit number 1. Request is rezone from RM 16 to planned development for residential single-family semi detached uses. Revisions have been made and certified plans submitted to the clerks office. Im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:07:25AM Council have any questions? Hearing none, Applicant. I have been sworn. I have no comments to add but im here for questions.

11:07:35AM Thank you. Council have any questions of the Applicant? Hearing none, anybody in the public wishing to speak to item 20? Start with your name, please. Aquino Property Management LLC. They have a lot of discrimination complaints. And I understand that the City, you have to have a private business partnership, but I dont understand why agreement was put in there specifically for them. Is the City management business now?

11:08:09AM Thank you. Anybody else in the public wishing to speak to this item? Hearing none, can we get a motion to close? You want to rebut? Applicant. I dont have any knowledge about their management practices but we think on the merits we met the code with the application. Respectfully request your approval. Thank you.

Bill Carlson

11:08:35AM Marty, to comment, made in public, is that evidence we could use in our decision or not?

Martin Shelby

11:08:45AM Well, for the purpose of a bonus provision agreement, the answer to that is no, as long as it is consistent with the competent substantial evidence that supports the rezoning and the decision to approve a bonus provision agreement, I dont believe its appropriate for your decisions. If there are other concerns, just as if there are other concerns with any other case, that May require you to make inquiries of staff, you could still do so. I know Ms. Johnson Velez is here. She has no additional comments on that. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

11:09:22AM Did that satisfy you?

Bill Carlson

11:09:24AM Yeah, I think the point is the issues brought up by Ms. Bullock could be addressed outside of this hearing.

Alan Clendenin

11:09:30AM Motion to close from Councilman Viera. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Viera, would you read item 20.

Luis Viera

11:09:37AM Yes, sir, I move ordinance presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 2707 east 22nd avenue unit 1 in the City of Tampa, Florida and more particularly described in section 1, from zoning district classification RM 16, residential, multifamily, to PD, planned development, residential, single-family, semi-detached, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:09:58AM We have a motion from Councilman Viera, second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote.

The Clerk

11:10:04AM Motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

11:10:07AM Councilman Viera, would you move the resolution?

Luis Viera

11:10:09AM I hereby move.

Alan Clendenin

11:10:10AM Motion from Councilman Viera to move the resolution attached to item 20. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:10:19AM My Legislative Aide just let me know that Abbye Feeley gave us a call and let us know shes going to send someone out to look at the property just to double check and make everyone feel better.

Bill Carlson

11:10:32AM Did you hear that, ms. Bullock?

Alan Clendenin

11:10:35AM Item number 21, Staff.

Christopher Demanche

11:10:38AM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, for the record, Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. Item number 21 is rez-26-32. This is a rezoning request for property located at 110 South Boulevard. The request is to rezone from planned development to planned development for residential, multiple family, and parking off-street commercial. Revisions have been completed, and certified plans have been submitted to the clerks office. Im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:11:03AM Christopher, the changes to the landscaping plan, was that done between first and second?

Christopher Demanche

11:11:09AM It was done, Mr. Chairman. Staff confirmed the Applicant submitted revised plans. We inspected digital plans first, and then they provided printed plans, which were inspected again.

Alan Clendenin

11:11:21AM Thank you very much. Applicant? Nothing further to add but happy to answer any questions.

11:11:29AM Thank you. Council have any questions? Anybody in the public here wishing to speak to the item? Hearing none, can I get a motion to close? Motion to close from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Viera. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Naya Young

11:11:44AM Item 21, file rez-26-32, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption. An ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 110 South Boulevard, in the City of Tampa, Florida, and more particularly described in section 1 from zoning district classification PD, planned development, to PD planned development, residential, multifamily, parking off-street commercial, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:12:12AM We have a motion from Councilwoman Young. A second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote.

The Clerk

11:12:24AM Motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

11:12:25AM Councilwoman young, would you please move the resolution.

Naya Young

11:12:28AM Resolution approving -- oh, move the resolution.

Alan Clendenin

11:12:32AM Councilwoman Young moves the resolution. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. We are moving right along. Item number 22.

Carl Brody

11:13:00AM Carl Brody, Legal Department. Here to present the first reading for the proposed ordinance to create a Veterans Affairs Committee. The committee is basically for the purpose of providing ceremonial activities to create greater awareness in the community of veterans. And also to coordinate with the different veteran communities and organizations in the city. When we put this ordinance together, we did a survey of relatively similar ordinances throughout the country, other cities and counties have. And this is the result. Im here for any questions if you have any.

Alan Clendenin

11:13:37AM Councilman Viera.

Luis Viera

11:13:38AM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to thank you, Mr. Brody, for your work on this very much so. Weve worked on this for a while. My idea was im out of here in October, and I typically do a lot of these patriotic and Memorial Day things out of city hall and so forth. And I want to make sure that this continues. That I think having a Veterans Advisory Board certainly does that as well as other things. This is something very important. As folks said today in public comment, we are a City Of Tampa that is very patriotic and we love our veterans. We have probably about 125, 130,000 veterans I think it is in Hillsborough County, which is a great number. We have many, many in the City Of Tampa. There was one little change I wanted to make. Its funny because somebody mentioned this in public comment. I agree with this, can we do this between first and second reading, under membership it says membership shall consist of veterans, and then it has different groups, can we change that to veterans or gold star family members? Is that something that can be done?

Carl Brody

11:14:44AM We can change that in between.

Luis Viera

11:14:47AM That will be a request ill make for this. I think that makes sense. We had discussed this. I believe Ms. Poynor had spoken about it. I know her husband, Colonel Poynor, wonderful man, very good person with very good taste in music. We talk about music sometimes. I think that makes sense. I thank you for this. I think this is going to be really, really great. I see this being a permanent part of our city civic culture like the African American advisory board. Hispanic Advisory Board, Asian Pacific Advisory Board and so forth. I think this is going to be great. Thank you again for your work, sir.

Charlie Miranda

11:15:28AM Second.

Alan Clendenin

11:15:29AM Thank you. We have -- I guess -- well get to that in a second. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:15:37AM Councilman Viera, thank you for changing that, but I still am concerned. I dont think its a wrong thing at all to have gold star member families, but I do believe we need to cap it at a number. Because what were to happen if it becomes -- I mean, just because you never know. It could end up being more families than veterans. And I think that was the overall issue. So maybe one veteran family from Council and one from the Mayor. Or something like that I think would take the concern of those who spoke today. I thought made sense. I appreciate the change. But maybe just saying a certain number of families so that we can really focus on veterans like they talked about.

Luis Viera

11:16:36AM Sure. Yes, maam. Im willing to, if Council is amenable to this, if we have 13 people that we can say no more than four positions go to a Gold Star Family.

Lynn Hurtak

11:16:47AM Perfect.

Luis Viera

11:16:48AM Im fine with that.

Lynn Hurtak

11:16:50AM Thats my only concern. I do appreciate what folks said today. And We have so many Veterans that We will be able to fill those positions with just the Veterans themselves.

Luis Viera

11:17:02AM It will be -- if I May, Mr. Chair, one Council Member gets to pick and then the Mayor has SIX. Well go through that, go through the folks that you know. I know who my pick is. Very nice gentleman. So there you go. I will say this, and Council knows this, which is that its important for us to make sure -- our veteran population is extremely diverse. They come from all different backgrounds. All different socioeconomic backgrounds. They are christians, jews, muslims, nonbelievers, Black, White, straight, gay from all over and we want to make sure we have a veteran population -- or strike that, a board population that reflects the diversity of our wonderful veteran population.

Alan Clendenin

11:17:45AM Can we do that with nine? 13 seems like a big committee.

Luis Viera

11:17:51AM If I May, I think that is fine. I believe thats about the number We have now for existing boards. You are always going to get at meetings two or three who have concurrent commitments that preclude them from being as involved. If We put it down to eight, it will really be five. Whereas if We do it to 13, it probably will be ten.

Alan Clendenin

11:18:11AM Im thinking 9.

Luis Viera

11:18:13AM I like 13, and this is why. It gives the Mayor a chance to appoint a good number. Because a lot of people who dont go through us can also go through the Mayor and I think thats great. Again, youll always get two or three people who are not going to be involved. If you do nine, thats really SIX or seven. I think that also having a good number, again, our veteran population is extremely diverse, philosophically in Every Which Way. If you get that 13, whatever number it is around there, I think it gives you a good pool to go fishing from, if that makes sense.

Alan Clendenin

11:18:48AM Councilman Miranda, did you want to speak?

Charlie Miranda

11:18:50AM I want to second it. I understand what hes saying about the ratio and so forth. Hes right, some people cant show up every meeting for one reason or another.

Alan Clendenin

11:18:58AM We have two people that May be the next Mayor of the City Of Tampa sitting here. What do you guys think? I am not running.

Lynn Hurtak

11:19:09AM I will say that, again, I mean, if 13 doesnt work, we can always change it. If he modeled it based on other committees. And I will say, though, that one thing I do like, when there is a committee where each Council Member appoints a person, I always find that im a little more attached to that committee, meaning I try to reach out to my person, whether or not they respond is up to them. But I at least try. In that regard, I do understand and like his proposal. And with all the changes with only four, im happy with that.

Alan Clendenin

11:19:54AM Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

11:19:55AM Yeah, I dont care whether its 9 or 13 as long as City Council has 7. I think every committee going forward and I wish this was in the charter, I think every committee going forward should have one for each Council Member. Council represents the diverse interests of the community, and if we end up with less than seven, we end up essentially with zero because then we dont know where the applicants come from. And So This Way we have the assurance that were representing all the community.

Alan Clendenin

11:20:27AM Sounds good. Okay. We have a motion from Councilman Viera. We have public comment. Anybody in the audience wishing to speak to this item? Carroll Ann Poynor. So I made the comment because that is a comment that my husband made to me yesterday when I talked to him about it. I still think this should be Majority Veterans. I also have a huge issue with any of you saying, oh, well, if nobody shows up. Im sorry, but we have a Budget Committee. And our Budget Committee, we have expectations of attendance. So if youre going to nominate somebody who May not show up all the time, tell them to stay home. As a matter of fact, you can tell the people who show up and dont say a word for the four-hour-long meeting to stay home, too. I already discussed that with the folks who nominated that people. But with that being said, again, you know, I dont understand how you can control how many family members are on there if you are not nominating but one person. I also dont understand why the Mayor needs SIX people on this committee. You guys each get one. She can have two, four, but SIX. And did you read it? Because five of her SIX are going to be for three years and shes gone next year. I dont understand. Why does she get to nominate those people? Because The Only Way you can get rid of those people is with cause. There should be an attendance rule, as somebody who is on the Budget Committee. Nothing more irritating than not having a quorum because people dont bother to show up. That needs to be absolutely in every committee whatsoever. It doesnt say how often this committee is supposed to meet. That should be in there. Who is going to be in charge of this committee, who is going to baby sit it from the city? You have to have a babysitter. Hagar baby sits the Budget Committee. Before that it was Corencia and Marty. Its not in the ordinance. I have friends said, I dont know, I think its okay if you are a spouse. Im a 30-year spouse. 30 years spent being a military spouse but I never, ever put on that uniform. I cannot tell you what its like to be in a combat situation. I cannot tell you what its like to not be able to sleep at night because you have ptsd. I cannot make those decisions. I am not a veteran. My mother was a veteran, but I am not a veteran. So we have to take that into consideration. One or two maybe. But I dont Like The Way its set up because veterans deserve the respect of being veterans. If somebody wants to come, if they want to be a gold star, if they want to be a spouse and they want to come and contribute, fine. Thats what public comment is for. But this board is called the Veterans Board. You all can do what you want. But I dont see any veterans on this council either. I love all you all, but youre not veterans, nor am I. I can never, ever claim to be a veteran, even though ive spent the last 30 plus years with my veteran. And I spend summers with warriors sailing. Its like, ID rather spend a week with fifth graders. But have a good day. Thank you.

11:24:11AM Anybody else in the public wishing to speak to this item? Hearing none, Councilman Viera.

Luis Viera

11:24:15AM Thank you very much. Two things, and I want to say this. I know Ms. Poynor knows this. Her husband is a Retired Lieutenant Colonel. When I say families in this context, I mean Gold Star Families are only eligible for this. That is families who lost a loved one due to their military service, combat or otherwise. This is for people who lost sons and daughters in military service, not just family members. Again, thats Gold Star Families in terms of this. I think there May have been confusion. Originally it said family members, but we have taken that out. In terms of attendance, Mr. Brody that is a good point. Is that in the ordinance or can Council make that a rule?

Carl Brody

11:24:56AM No. We dont do that in ons. We have many different committees and boards, and those are always done internally by their rules, policies, their bylaws. And if they determine that there is a person that is not participating fully, then they contact either the Mayor or the City Council.

Luis Viera

11:25:13AM We can look at that. Again, im fine with it as is. I think this is great and im prepared to read it, if I May.

Alan Clendenin

11:25:36AM Go ahead.

Lynn Hurtak

11:25:36AM Thank you. I do tend to agree with the appointment that she brought up, the fact that all Council is getting is an initial one-year term and then two-year terms and the Mayor is getting all the three-year terms, and I dont think thats fair. I dont have a problem with taking it down to four members for the Mayor. Like, I really would prefer at this point maybe to get some of these ideas put together. And I understand that you say that these bylaws or whatever are created by the board, but I dont think they should be. I do tend to agree, weve had problems with boards because people dont show up to them. So I think that we do need to start putting them in the actual ordinance themselves. The ordinance is changeable by Council whenever, but the problem is, we dont have a place for this to go under. We dont have someone who is watching it. We dont know how often. So I cant go and reach out to veterans I know and ask them to be on this committee because I cant tell them how often it meets, where its going to meet, where its under. So personally, I would like to hold this for two more weeks and get more of the answers. I support this wholeheartedly, but when im going to reach out to a veteran that I know, that is the first question they are going to ask me. I apologize. I did not get the questions ahead of time. I still feel awful. I really love this and I truly support and appreciate you bringing this forward, but I want this to be a success from day one.

Alan Clendenin

11:27:20AM Entertain moving this to April 16 back to first reading?

Carl Brody

11:27:24AM If I can make one point, the ordinance specifically provides that This Group meets quarterly.

Alan Clendenin

11:27:30AM Start with your name.

Carl Brody

11:27:31AM Carl Brody, Legal. The ordinance specifically provides that this group is going to meet at least quarterly. So ive heard a couple of times that theres no standard for the number of meetings they are going to have. They are going to have at least four meetings a year, and the purpose of the ordinance is to provide a broader understanding of how this committee, or just generally, how the law will apply. You have the Committees In Place so that they can create their own specific internal rules of how they want to operate. Putting that kind of granular specifics in the ordinance is going to become overly burdensome I think for the committee and for yourselves because you dont want to have to come back every time if one of the committee members is concerned that, oh, this provision of the ordinance is requiring me to make a certain number of meetings, but doesnt clarify that if im sick, I cant make a meeting, which would result in some outcome thats codified. We dont like to put those kind of requirements, those kind of internal procedure requirements in the ordinance because you need to have some flexibility at that level.

Lynn Hurtak

11:28:55AM But I believe we can build that in. Our office will be happy to add some comments. Maybe we can go from especially most recently the Charter Review Commission has great rules for that. I believe that we need to start implementing that, because otherwise, we end up with Citizens Budget Advisory Council which has taken ten years to settle into being something. And I dont want people to not show up for this. I want this to be effective. I understand that its a committee, but I think its a committee based on what we put together, what the electeds put together, not by the power of the committee itself. I would really love to hold this for two weeks. Im not comfortable voting on it now.

Alan Clendenin

11:29:47AM Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

11:29:49AM Similar comments that I have had to the Charter Review Commission. I think that the committee should have autonomy. If we want to create an additional structure, we could maybe do it in a separate ordinance that would apply to all the committees. But they meet quarterly, if they want to meet more often, set their own rules, go ahead, and we can give advice. When I appoint someone, I want to hear what they have to say. And I might disagree with them. I often disagree with my appointees, but I like to hear what they say because they reflect the community. I would be okay if we move forward just reminding the changes. Councilwoman Hurtak suggested that we change the mayors down to four, which I agree with. Also, that we make them all one-year terms. I think I heard that. And then Council Member Viera suggested veterans and gold star families, but not others. The last thing ill say, as were getting in the weeds talking about this, I dont want to lose sight of the fact that Council Member Viera and staff, Council Member Viera especially working on this maybe three, four years, a long, long time, and it is really important insight, the veterans and current active duty Military are very, very important to our community. They are spread throughout, and they have contributed so much to our community and we need to make sure that were sensitive to them and that we make sure that we care to their needs. Business Groups in the community help with the transition from Macdill to the Private Sector because we try to keep as many people as possible here. They are already vetted by the Military. They are smart. They care about our community and country and great to keep them here. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

11:31:33AM Councilman Miranda and then Viera.

Charlie Miranda

11:31:35AM Thank you. From listening, and I agree with most of the conversation, but if it is a 13 committee, we have to do something to share it and how it works. I think the Mayor, whoever the Mayor is, has three -- one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years. Then the council members have one each, which is seven. Thats ten. And the other three are chosen by the total council. That Way you have the 13 covered. Thats my recommendation.

Alan Clendenin

11:32:03AM Councilman Viera.

Luis Viera

11:32:04AM This is the motion im going to make, if I May, which is Councilwoman Hurtak wants this two weeks, im okay with that. As a courtesy, glad for that. Tell me what you think of this, Council. Im going to ask Mr. Brody, thank you again for your hard work on this, sir, to bring this back on April 16 as follows, number one, to put inclusion of this for veterans and gold star family members, no more than four, for gold stars. Again, I dont think reach that but never know. And then --

Alan Clendenin

11:32:40AM I heard one-year terms.

Luis Viera

11:32:42AM Im fine with that. One-year terms to be reappointed.

Lynn Hurtak

11:32:48AM Can we reach out to Mr. Brody with other suggestions?

Luis Viera

11:32:51AM Absolutely, yeah, yeah.

Alan Clendenin

11:32:52AM And the composition of the committee.

Luis Viera

11:32:56AM In terms of the composition of the committee, just know this, Council, that if we have a collective appointment, what Councilman Miranda said, im fine with that. It will take time of Council to hear folks in the community, but with that, im willing to say Mayor gets three appointments, Council gets three, collectively, and then one individually. Im fine with that.

Lynn Hurtak

11:33:24AM I would rather let the Mayor have four and have Council each choose one.

11:33:34AM One alternate per each.

Luis Viera

11:33:39AM If Council wishes it, thats fine.

Alan Clendenin

11:33:42AM Let me put this in summary. Were going to continue this to April 16, back to first reading. With the understanding that well stick with the composition that You initially proposed of 7 council appointments, one each with four mayoral appointments. That was the original.

Lynn Hurtak

11:34:00AM No SIX in the original.

Alan Clendenin

11:34:01AM Sorry. Seven and four. One-year terms. And that no more -- of those seven and four, no more than four will be gold star families. Councilwoman Hurtak. Let me address the rule thing. I dont remember who said that. I think Councilman Carlson. I think it was a good idea that we establish standard rules for all committees.

Lynn Hurtak

11:34:33AM I agree with that. I dont have the brain power to put that together. Someone else can do that today. My bigger concern is the staggering. I do think that one year is not enough time to be on a committee. This is why going forward, again, this is something ID like to talk to Mr. Brody about where I do think staggered terms are important because one year is not enough time to create the consistency that is needed. So I dont have a problem with starting with one, two, and three-year staggered terms. I will even choose to be a one-year term if its an issue. But I do believe that we need to start staggering and maybe have them three-year terms, but for those of us sitting up here, we only get one or two or three randomly chosen. I dont know if im even making sense at this point. I do think we need to have three-year terms. I think its important for continuity. But I do believe at the beginning well have to stagger them. Someone will be stuck with a one-year or a two-year appointee.

Alan Clendenin

11:35:43AM I think We have Three People that are not going to be here. So I think that will automatically --

Lynn Hurtak

11:35:45AM However it works. But I do think that one-year terms are not okay. Again, thats my --

Alan Clendenin

11:35:53AM When we finish with the business, I think I would like to get a Volunteer to bring forward for business on April 16 with the proposed rules for all standing committees.

Martin Shelby

11:36:04AM Mr. Chairman, if I can, first of all, the next meeting is going to be frankly -- when is the deadline to put in things for the April 16 meeting?

Carl Brody

11:36:16AM Very soon.

Martin Shelby

11:36:19AM It will be very soon.

Alan Clendenin

11:36:22AM [Inaudible]

Martin Shelby

11:36:23AM What im saying, though, were going to have to talk about that because thats going to need direction. Are you referring to standing boards? Are you referring to boards that are decision making boards? The Mayor has a lot of committees that are not created by ordinance. This is being created by ordinance. Those that are codified? Its a greater discussion.

Alan Clendenin

11:36:42AM Well have the greater discussion. Maybe thats why we would like to get somebody to volunteer. Anyways, I have a motion from Councilman Viera to continue this April 16 back to first reading with those suggested changes. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it unanimously. Thank you. Very good. In reference to that, again, it would be good if somebody would pick up the responsibility to bring back for new business at least the proposals and try to introduce something for a standard operating procedure for committees. Okay, very good. Item number 23. Youre back, as promised.

Michael Perry

11:37:20AM Mike Perry, Revenue and Finance. Unless you have any further questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:37:25AM Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:37:26AM I was just going to move the ordinance.

Alan Clendenin

11:37:26AM Anybody in the public wishing to speak to item 23? Of course. Remember, im trying to get out by lunch. And we have a press conference at lunch. Ask him. Stephanie Poynor. I want to wholly support this. We need to do more of this within the City Of Tampa because the Citizens Of Tampa should not have paid out almost $2 million in the last few years for Developers to put in whatever they need for water, wastewater. We have a huge, huge bond thing right now thats going to come into and get rolled around in '29. Lets use this money instead of using the $2 million to pay for Developers to build something for us. Go figure. Lets use that to pay off some of that debt. Thank you.

11:38:26AM Thank you. Next public speaker. Start with your name, please. My name is Michelle Myles, a lifetime generational Hillsborough County concerned citizen and an almost 30-year city employee who passionately loves our county. Today I stand before you on personal time during water conservation month, holy week, and drought conditions to bring awareness about a Hillsborough County CPA 25-37 which in my opinion May greatly impact the City Of Tampa, Hillsborough County, and the Tampa Bay region residents' water supply.

11:39:22AM This is just about the rate increase. And it will affect -- could possibly. So please know that. On February 9, Hillsborough County Planning Commission voted that the plan -- the 7,944 acres of planned environmental community development could possibly impact -- im sorry. You threw me for a second.

11:39:56AM Ill give you extra time. Commission voted and recommended denial of hc cpa-25-37. Approximately 30 speakers were there to raise their environmental and infrastructure impact concerns. Its my understanding, despite valid objections from Board Of County Commissioners, valid objections Board Of County Commissioners, along with City Council members have the power to overrule what could be an increase in density from 704 dwelling units to almost 4,000 in eastern Hillsborough County. The reason im here today is this could affect our water supply within The City Of Tampa as this rural area is within Hillsborough River and the Tampa bypass canal location. During your lunch break, I respectfully ask that you closely read Rory Jones' state of the river update which he e-mailed last night on April 1st at 8 pm. This is no April fools joke. Should our agencies not work together closely to protect their constituents and trusting taxpayers, our natural resources are put into jeopardy. Who will be responsible to pay and provide essential water and wastewater services to a developer who knowingly does not have access to water or wastewater services. Will it be The City who is asked by the Board Of County Commissioners to provide that? What happens if they approve this, they start building, so we just go ahead and then provide them at whose cost? So in closing, I would please ask you to review the facts of hc CPA 35-25, my apologies, 37, and fact check if the details that I have just shared will negatively impact The City's citizens and our infrastructure and water within The City as well as the county and our region. I thank you for all of your services.

11:42:43AM Anybody else in the public wish to speak? [Inaudible] [microphone not on] im thinking press release right now. We have a motion to close from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Lynn Hurtak

11:43:15AM Ordinance being presented for first reading consideration, an ordinance of the City of Tampa, Florida, amending City of Tampa Code of Ordinances chapter 26, article I, section 26-31, utility rates, fees and charges and section 26-37, water capacity fee, by increasing the water and wastewater capacity fees, by removing conflicting and outdated portions of section 26-31, utility rates, fees, and charges, by repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict therewith; providing for severability; providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:44:02AM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:44:11AM I also move to receive and file -- yeah, receive items 25, 29, and 30.

Martin Shelby

11:44:25AM Thats to move the resolutions then.

Lynn Hurtak

11:44:28AM Im sorry. The resolutions. 25, 29, and 30.

Alan Clendenin

11:44:32AM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak for 25, 29, and 30, to move the resolutions.

Bill Carlson

11:44:37AM Sorry, I would like to vote on 25 separately.

Alan Clendenin

11:44:41AM Separate that out. We have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak to move item 25.

Lynn Hurtak

11:44:47AM Sure.

Alan Clendenin

11:44:47AM Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed?

Bill Carlson

11:44:51AM Nay.

Alan Clendenin

11:44:52AM Clerk.

The Clerk

11:44:55AM Motion carried with --

Martin Shelby

11:45:00AM What? I didnt hear what you said.

The Clerk

11:45:03AM Motion carried with --

Alan Clendenin

11:45:08AM Carlson voting no.

Lynn Hurtak

11:45:10AM You have to say his last name.

Alan Clendenin

11:45:13AM SIX yeses and one no from Councilman Carlson. The resolution passes.

Lynn Hurtak

11:45:20AM I move to receive and file items 29 and 30.

Alan Clendenin

11:45:24AM Motion to receive and file 29 and 30 from Councilwoman Hurtak, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Very good. Lets go to 14 and 15. I pulled it.

Lynn Hurtak

11:45:49AM What do you have to say?

Alan Clendenin

11:45:53AM I pulled those only because -- I mean, im sensitive and I know we have the briefing and empathetic with staffs position on this. Similar to public, what weve heard from public comment, these contracts have been extended multiple times. I get some extended now because of financial agreements with their finance group and required their -- stipulations required by their financial institutions that are financing the program. When is enough is enough? I think im past the point that enough is enough. Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

11:46:33AM Ive been against this contract since the beginning because I dont Like The Way its done. The Community has concerns about it. The Community -- part of The Community attitude and feeling is that this contract, this organization gets special treatment because they have a Former Mayor who is a lobbyist, and the mayors partners firm is a lobbying firm for this. There needs to be more transparency in this and should have been moving faster. If this was any other organization, the administration would have fired them by now.

Alan Clendenin

11:47:03AM Any other comment?

Luis Viera

11:47:10AM I would like to hear from the Entity as well as Staff on this, among other things before proceeding.

Alan Clendenin

11:47:17AM Who wants to go first? Be clear, this is the first time this phase has been extended. Phasing and timing plan has been extended three times before but for other phases. As they are going through and developing the phases, thats where they are extending it for the financing for this phase. So this particular phase, phase four, ever since the first approval on April 20, 2023, the completion date has been December of 2027. Now were extending it to September of 2028. But this is the first time, again, for this phase that this has been extended. The Developer can explain more.

11:48:00AM Potato, potato. Still accumulates into multiple extensions. Start with your name, please. Just want to clarify for the record a couple of things. The initial delays -- this has two sites. North parcel and south parcel. If you recall, when I was in front of this council previously, the north parcel had a lot of environmental challenges. It took over a year and a half just to get the approvals to clean up the site. Weve cleaned up that site and thats why we started with phase 3a. Also to clarify for the record, there were several community benefits that are part of phase 3a that are under construction now, if you have driven by the site, were already up on the 8th floor. Over 3,000-square-foot workforce training center under construction. Five live-work units, part of 3a, thats under construction. There were also some mentions about the cba and the fact that we had slipped on that. We had a 40% commitment for small and minority businesses there. Were glad to report that weve exceeded that with 52%. We also had a 40% commitment for local hires for City Of Tampa. Were at 43% on that. So this is just to align to your question, Mr. Chair, our lenders are the financing for phase four. Its a $94 million project. Its fully secured, including our investment of over $3 million into this phase. State monies is approved. Were finalizing our building permits, and well be closing next month and starting another 230 affordable housing units. Youre correct. Matter of aligning that because of the permitting and Lender. As soon as we get the permit, we close. Thats really the difference for that.

11:49:56AM Again, I kind of understand. I get what youre saying. You have to admit that this project has been -- I dont know if we would have given any other entity the kind of grace that this project has been given. I also want to point out that this Developer was the only Developer that responded to the RFP that didnt want money from the city. And a half million dollars investment from us. Part of the money was 500 and some odd dollars that went to help the homeless site. The next phase also has another contribution that helps with that, and it requires a $3 million investment on our part, too. Not only clean up the site, which, again, had a lot of challenges, but weve also had to invest our own funds in there to get this project moving and help with the other affordability.

11:50:53AM So much of the project, especially with the riverfront, and youve got this one and the other entity, another parcel downtown depending on riverwalk. So much of this with the delays of the project, its delaying bigger issues for the City Of Tampa, too. Thats part of my concern, is that its so integrated with so many other things. So were kind of -- I dont want to say hold hostage, but these projects are being delayed because of delays in this.

11:51:24AM When is the completion on that? Part of the connection to the riverwalk is part of our project. So without us being able to move forward, there would be an incomplete portion of the riverwalk. Thats part of our agreement is to help you guys finish a portion of that.

11:51:46AM Okay. I have completely lost track. Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

11:51:55AM No, no. I just wanted to say the reason why ive been against the west riverwalk, because of the conflicts of interest, public feels that the west riverwalk is a project specifically for the developer. They own three or four parcels along that section. The Mayor has had a conflict of interest on this multiple years, never disclosed it and never done anything to rectify it. The Mayor was involved in the RFP, Former Mayor was involved in it. And the public thinks that this smells. And there needs to be more light shined on all this. Not fair to other developers, not fair to the community, not fair to individuals who cant get their permits because they feel like certain companies are getting a benefit because Former Mayor and mayors partners firm are lobbying. Its not fair and they are not registering as lobbyists, By The Way, either. They are not admitting they are lobbyists. They are saying they are advocates instead of lobbyists. Weve got to clean up this unethical behavior in this administration.

Luis Viera

11:52:57AM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have a question for Ms. Johns. Remind me again, what was the continuance sought, the extension timewise? To September of 2028.

11:53:17AM And if We were to vote that down, what would happen to the project? If We were to vote this down, what would happen?

Rebecca Johns

11:53:24AM Thats more of a better question for Him.

Luis Viera

11:53:30AM Thank you. So, again, Folks, a lot of people are bringing up issues, when I say issues of the past, I dont mean issues of the past that are not relevant. Im not saying, oh, nothing is relevant. For me, the dispositive issue, do we want this to go forward? And there is a world where we approve this and then we have an update within x amount of time on the continuance in terms of what is being done to mitigate that continuance. There is a world for that.

Alan Clendenin

11:53:59AM Councilwoman Young followed by Councilwoman Hurtak.

Naya Young

11:54:04AM Two questions. The Minority Businesses that You are using, is There Any Way that a list of those businesses could be provided? We can provide a report after the meeting to your office. Not a problem.

11:54:16AM My second question, so the -- has the community benefits agreement changed at all since 2025? It is the same document? Okay.

11:54:30AM Is that possible -- my third question is, could We put in some kind of progress report if We are to agree so every, you know, I dont know, five or SIX months, so We can make sure that We are staying to date with that project timeline?

Rebecca Johns

11:54:48AM They do do progress reports, but We can add in something that We can provide it to Council or whatever. We can do that. Whether biannually or quarterly. Either-or We can do it and make sure Council gets copied on that. Again, this project is ready to close this phase. Its over $94 million and 230 units of additional affordable housing in the city.

Alan Clendenin

11:55:19AM Councilman Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

11:55:19AM Thank you. Many years ago, part of that area from north and south on the eastern side of the portion I believe of the property, it was called the rome yard. It was called the rome yard because the city used it for dump trucks and things of that nature. And the pollution came by year after year after year for many, many, many years. I had long hair then. Now its kind of not that long. That being said, thats one -- and I dont know what time it took to clean all that. Im not an expert on excavation and moving dirt and getting the requirements and the permits and all that kind of stuff. One thing I would never do is make accusations of anything, innuendos, whether there are facts or not, I dont know. But this Council Member was here when all that was going on. Ive been here, go back when Moby Dick was a minnow here in Tampa, Florida, when there was no riverwalk. Wasnt a damn thing downtown going on but drug dealing, prostitution, and empty streets. You could Cross The Street anywhere you wanted, you could do whatever you wanted because there was no one living here. That changed during the time of individuals getting together, both administratively and council members and doing things they had to do, they thought. We are number one or number two in the whole country in hotel occupancy. They dont come see me. They dont come see the council members. They dont come see the Mayor either. They come and see because this city is intrigued by individuals saying what in the world are they doing that we dont have where I live. When they come here, most of them use the riverwalk on a daily basis. That riverwalk is -- different individuals, not I, hundreds of is that worked in the city on and off in the mayors office and on and off on this council to get whats going on done. If you go back in history, the straz center was even regarded and voted down by the citizens. But one Mayor say well build it. The straz center is another gold star in the City Of Tampa. There were no museums downtown. There was skid row. The Tampa theatre was almost lost on a 4-3 vote in favor of keeping it. Tampa, downtown, ill challenge anybody on a debate. On how it was done. Why its important to keep it on. Any city over 250,000 people that does not have an active downtown is dying. Not because I said it.

Alan Clendenin

11:57:58AM Remember, this is about rome yard. Not downtown.

Charlie Miranda

11:58:02AM I started with downtown, little Spain, england and come back to Ybor City.

Alan Clendenin

11:58:07AM I know. Im trying to get us out of here.

Charlie Miranda

11:58:09AM I know. Im not that hungry. I want to finish by saying the facts are the facts. Thats what it is. Thats what im dealing with. Thank you very much for being here.

Alan Clendenin

11:58:18AM Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:58:19AM How many phases are in this development?

Rebecca Johns

11:58:24AM Five.

Lynn Hurtak

11:58:25AM How many have yet to be started?

11:58:30AM We only have one phase started. Days as soon as We get our permit.

11:58:38AM Can I then assume that every other section will also need to be continued? And im not like -- this is my last one.

Rebecca Johns

11:58:50AM I want to be clear that this happens because -- They do the phasing and timing plan before the design of the project. The first phasing and timing plan was before They got into the design. So as They design each project, you have to have a Lease In Place in order for Them to get site control in order to get financing. We do the initial lease. They then get financing. Again, the Lender comments on the lease. The Lender, the request is to extend the completion date for each one of these phases so They dont automatically go into default if They are a day late. They can complete it sooner. This is just to give a cushion for that completion date. As They go for each phase -- and this is typical with every development -- as you go phase by phase, They get financing for each phase, and things change. So, yes, They probably will be coming asking for an additional extension for each phase.

Lynn Hurtak

11:59:47AM So what I would recommend is to do them all at once. This is something that the public is just over. I think I either came in right after this approval, but I echo what my fellow council members say. I dont like continuing this because there is, I mean, a very clear understanding of preferential treatment. Parcels. The north parcel which is where phase three and phase four, and the townhomes are. That was the parcel that had the environmental challenges and the infrastructure agreement part. That part is thankfully behind us. So this phase four is in that part. That kind of closes out that section on the multifamily and then we have the townhomes. However, part of the things that were working on with the city is also that riverwalk. Because the riverwalk over behind Blake High School, its going to turn and just south of ricks on the river, its going to turn and run west through the future phases, which was originally one and two, and that is still being coordinated with your team and your professionals because you guys are working on that piece and that infrastructure has to be coordinated. The riverwalk is going to bifurcate that south parcel, and then have phases one and two on each side. Thats part of it, too. Were trying to make sure, there is a lot of different topographies. If you go there On The Road by ricks on the river, youll see it kind of where we are building already. The Road goes very down. There are a lot of things being finalized to get that going, and then well start that subsequent phase. So thats part of it. And it continues up rome yard. Once it hits rome, it will go north on rome.

Alan Clendenin

12:01:50PM Councilwoman Hurtak followed by Councilwoman Young.

Lynn Hurtak

12:01:53PM But You all knew that You were going to have these problems. You knew this site was difficult. So why did You put the completion dates so early if You knew You were going to have all of these complications? Remember, were not allowed to do due diligence during an RFP. After We were selected thats when our Engineers started doing due diligence. There was a global concept of hey, infrastructure, but were not privy to exactly all the challenges until We get on-site and started to do our due diligence with our professionals. Some of which youre encountering now with the riverwalk. Its things You have to work through when older infrastructure and things of that nature. You just got to get through it.

12:02:42PM Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

12:02:42PM Councilwoman young.

Naya Young

12:02:44PM So its my understanding that the -- can you explain to me with the community benefits agreement, is it tied to one phase or woven throughout the project?

12:02:59PM For this phase were currently working on, could you please say what part of the community benefits agreement is being implemented right now? Under construction. Im saying what is under construction now. Phase four. Whats under construction is phase 3a, the Workforce Training Center. The five live-work units and the Minority Contracting and Local Hiring. That was all part of phase 3a. There will still be in phase 4, there will be a little bit of retail, which is part of the community benefits agreement along with the Minority Hiring and Local Hiring component in phase four.

12:03:44PM Okay. I like that it is kind of woven throughout the project, but we need housing. This is all affordable housing, yes. Part of 3a and 4. Its 440, 234 and 230, 464 units, majority of which, over 80% of those are affordable housing.

12:04:17PM Say the last part again. AMI is for the units -- phase 3a, 184 units, 80% AMI and below, and phase 4, which is the one here for you now about to close, well have all 230 units below 120 percent of AMI. It all falls under the citys definition of Workforce, going from 20% of area median income up to 120% of median income. We have all types of ranges of affordable housing in there.

Alan Clendenin

12:05:08PM When does market rate, truly mixed use development? Currently under construction. And then there will be another 267 in the next two phases, the one bifurcated by the riverwalk.

12:05:26PM Very good. That conforms with the initial agreement as far as the --

Rebecca Johns

12:05:33PM Correct.

Alan Clendenin

12:05:35PM I have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco to move items 14 and 15. A second from Councilman Viera. Can we get a roll call vote, please?

Naya Young

12:05:45PM Can We include that were going to get -- I know We already get a progress report, but even more in-depth progress report as were going forward?

Alan Clendenin

12:05:54PM I think that would be a separate motion.

Rebecca Johns

12:05:57PM I do want to point out that this lease already provides that they are to provide quarterly reports for the Community Benefits. So I can change that in the lease to the Community Benefits and just an overall construction report also.

Naya Young

12:06:12PM Okay. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

12:06:13PM Youll make that change?

Rebecca Johns

12:06:16PM I will make that change.

Alan Clendenin

12:06:17PM Can that be a condition of this vote?

Rebecca Johns

12:06:19PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

12:06:20PM Very good. We have a motion -- the motion and second still good with the changes? We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Viera to move items 14, 15 with the said changes that Staff has committed to make to the lease about reporting back on those two issues. Any other questions? Roll call, please.

Charlie Miranda

12:06:41PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

12:06:42PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

12:06:43PM Begrudgingly, yes.

Naya Young

12:06:48PM Yes.

Luis Viera

12:06:49PM Yes.

Bill Carlson

12:06:49PM No.

Alan Clendenin

12:06:52PM No. Thank you very much.

The Clerk

12:06:57PM Motion carries 5-2 with Carlson and Clendenin voting no.

Alan Clendenin

12:07:02PM Thank you very much. We are moving on to -- lets see what weve got going on here. That was 14 and 15. We have left --

Martin Shelby

12:07:19PM 26, 27, 28.

Alan Clendenin

12:07:24PM Then we have fire station report and we have the Disability Internship Program. Okay. We have a press conference scheduled right now. How about we break for 20 minutes for the press conference --

I heard 12

12:07:46PM 30.

Alan Clendenin

12:07:49PM Lets keep going. Lets keep rocking. Item number 26 and 27 and 28. Lets hear those together, please. Start with your name, please. Patrick Messmer, Tampa Police Department. It looks like I started this project back in late 2021. It looks like im going to be finishing it for us. I appreciate everybodys work who has worked on this project. I appreciate councils previous unanimous votes in support of everything related to it and the comments that many Council members have made in reference to the necessity of The Howard Avenue annex. I know -- weve been in front of you guys plenty of times about this, so I dont want to regurgitate anything you already heard. I do know last month when We were in front of Council and Council member Hurtak had some requests about potential cost savings for the future in reference to the crocketts towing matter and how much the city could be saving on towing bills in the future. Just to cover that briefly, even before We contract with Crockett and had the old impound lot on 34th street, We still have to pay money to actually have the cars towed. It doesnt matter where the cars are towed. City doesnt operate a towing service. Either use one provider or rotation wrecker providers to tow the cars to wherever they are going to be towed. We did some research and the numbers based upon averages since crocketts towing had the contract with us, which I believe started in July of 2023, it comes out to about $8300 a month that the city would pay just in straight-up tow fees. So We are paying right now a straight $10,000 a month for unlimited tows, in addition to the evidence that We have stored at the crocketts facility. While We cant give a specific dollar amount, what I anticipate based upon what some other agencies have done, We will be renegotiating either the contract with crocketts or going through the Purchasing Department to decide if We want to move to a different provider. But I would say there would be a substantial cost savings because essentially what were going to be doing is providing one company the opportunity to have all of our police impounded vehicles, not the rotation vehicles. So they are going to be getting money back from that. Were not going to be renting out the facility from them anymore. Were not going to be staffing that facility. Were not going to be storing evidence at that facility. Were just going to be allowing them to tow the impounded vehicles and store them for us. There would be a contract negotiation where that rate would hopefully come down very significantly. Would not be anywhere close to $10,000 a month for that.

12:10:48PM Thank you. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

12:10:49PM Thank you so much for doing the research and the work on that. And thats something that I would like to hear about as We get further along with this project. Just kind of updates to us on that as well. I can get with your office to talk about that more going forward. I think its one of the things that should be the benefit of this. I know were also changing how We tow and why We tow and how long We hold. I do know there will be a lot of factors at play that make that decision. So thank you very much.

Alan Clendenin

12:11:28PM Its my intention to support this. In the beginning I was apprehensive but You have done a lot of value engineering and reduced the cost of this to be substantially less than initially pitched. My intention to support the project with the cost savings rolled into the project. Anybody else want to speak to this item?

Charlie Miranda

12:11:50PM No, I want to make sure, you mentioned Crockett a couple of times. I believe that is a big vendor, isnt it?

12:12:00PM Any vendors that are smaller vendors that might be able to get piece of the pie that have the property? That would have to be a separate --

12:12:11PM Bonded and insured just like anybody else. Were not talking about cars that are in traffic accidents and get taken -- We need to have our Police impounded vehicles, evidence vehicles In One Place. We cant have Detectives Trying To Drive all around the city to figure out where a vehicle might be.

12:12:33PM Where is crocketts place at? Potentially, im not saying that could never change. That is a contract. Five-year contract that does expire. And theres going to be negotiations to either renew that. Believe me, if we dont feel crocketts will be giving us a value, well get with the Purchasing Department and see if we can find other options.

12:12:55PM Thank you very much.

Lynn Hurtak

12:12:57PM Im going to go by we received an e-mail from Ms. Kopesky yesterday afternoon about the total cost. Right now, im asking for clarification and making sure that this -- I dont know, I think Mr. Perry is behind you, possibly. Hes somewhere. I couldnt see him. Hes hiding from me. From what Ms. Kopesky put together, the total project cost will be 34.2 Million with 7 million having already been spent. Does that sound about right?

Michael Perry

12:13:43PM Yes. Mike Perry, Revenue and Finance. This is something that was in the memorandum attached to the agenda. What we try to do is to do a sources and uses. So what Councilwoman Hurtak talked about, this is the $7 million when the project was known as the previously -- previously the impound lot project. You can see even part of the financial resolution, if I May talk to that, is were reducing that project amount by 175,000 current bond proceeds, and about $1.3 Million future bond proceeds to get to that $7 million. Once we pay the final purchase pos, Final bills that project will be closed. And well be concentrating on what we call the phase two up there. You can see the original $40 million --

12:14:42PM Okay. We reduce it. Again, this is to help us do the audit trail in two years when asked about the project. So you see the 1.2 Coming back into the project, but its being reduced by $14 million to revise project for a phase two of $27.2 Million. And to reaffirm Councilwoman Hurtak's comment, total project right now is at $34.2 Million.

Lynn Hurtak

12:15:09PM And the other thing, and the reason I brought this up, and my most important and interested portion is what was under that, where it says opportunities. Opportunities -- this is from Ms. Kopesky's e-mail. Where it talks about the possibility for cost savings even more as we go through this. And so she estimates that with contracted contingency, t and I equipment and specialty equipment and owner contingency, we might be able to save $2 million more. Again, this is just conjecture. Were not sure. But I am going to be -- again, I really appreciate the work that everyone has done to bring this cost down, and I am really going to be looking at contingencies here. I want to see what we can do to move it faster, to do whatever we can do to continue and to bring it down even more, because my bigger concern isnt the total cost. Its that weve already bonded for part of that 7 million, and were going to bond for a good part of this 27 million. Hopefully we can use some CIT money, but I dont think were going to get the CIT funds in time for that. Anyway I really do appreciate this. I appreciate all of the work that everyone has gone through for this. I will be supporting this today.

Alan Clendenin

12:16:32PM Can I get a motion to move the resolutions of 26, 27, 28? Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Viera. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it unanimously. 48 million -- thats good. Thanks for doing that. Item 31. Somebody from the fire, are they here? Mutterback, are you going to present?

Richard Mutterback

12:17:11PM I am not. I am here to support, but the project manager, Ken Guyette, is he not on virtually?

Alan Clendenin

12:17:21PM Ken, can you turn on your camera and make sure you are unmuted, please? Good afternoon, Everybody.

12:17:33PM I had gotten a note that You were going to mysteriously appear in front of us. Would You like to start presenting on item 31, please? Start with your name. Let me share my screen.

12:17:47PM Start with your name, please. Ken, can you hear me? Start with your name, please. Everybody hear me all right?

12:18:05PM Yes. Thank you very much. Again, my name is Ken Guyette. Senior director with Collier's Project -- owner project manager working on TFR number 24.

12:18:16PM I dont mean to interrupt You. We need to keep this as close to five minutes and no more than ten minutes. Not a problem. Well jump right into it. Essentially were giving You kind of our update as weve done in the past, going through the core team again that You see here. Nothing there has changed. Couple of updates that I want to make sure We got to. So first of all, construction documents, 90% construction documents have been completed as of the 17th of March. We have a guaranteed maximum price contract amendment which is scheduled to be delivered early on May 15, versus the originally anticipated July 26 of this year. Were going to be looking for council approval for that guaranteed maximum price in late June, which, again, is a positive shift in the schedule from our earlier anticipated September of this year. And then as far as the construction completion, looking at September 1st, 2027, substantial completion, versus October 22 substantial completion. Well continue to monitor that and look for all avenues to be able to truncate that schedule. Obviously, that is of critical importance to us. Couple other things that have happened since We last reported, We have successfully conducted two outreach sessions for the public. One was on February 21st. That was a Saturday. It was out at the Project site and well attended. It was very successful. The other was Thursday, February 26th, and that was at the Corporation, again, very successful public outreach session. Stormwater retention has been modified based on the underwater calculations that the engineers keep crunching as We continue through the design phases. As You can see on this screen here in front of You, the retention basin has been enlarged slightly from the earlier iteration. Thats due to the hundred-year storm impact calculations that the engineer had to factor in, which also now has included additional vaults underneath the pavement, which We have been able to incorporate those at cost for the vaults within the budget. So no negative budget impact there. We were able to capture all that within the covered budget. This is just, again, showing You the new floor plan. No changes to the floor plan. Again, further refinement and iteration of the floor plan that was presented at the last council update. Revised rendering. This is again, Along White Way, looking essentially northeast at the Project site. This is the southern elevation of the Project. So this is Along White Way, the southern exposure. And again, the same two views however at twilight. Lastly, looking at the schedule, so youve seen the schedule before. Again, current status bar keeps marching down as We continue to move through the phases of the Project. Youll see the items in red have been moved to show, again, positive schedule updates. Weve moved the mission of the GMP to earlier. We moved the start date to earlier. And so, again, overall positive news today on the Project and ill field any questions You May have at this point.

12:22:04PM Councilman Viera.

Luis Viera

12:22:05PM Thank you. Mr. Chairman, were leaving at 12:30, correct? Put me on a timer for two minutes. Because I could go on forever about this. Ken, I wanted to thank you very much for your hard work on this. I have a question. I just want to go through this really fast, if I May. I always think of historical recitation of this is correct because you have done a great job of coming in and putting us on the right path. I spoke to Mr. Mutterback about this -- this is something where we passed Design Funding I believe in 2023 and passed Bonding Program to the extent it was necessary in 2023. And we were told now ground breaking would occur about three years after that in September of 2026. I know youre pushing forward some of these deadlines and everything like that, what are we looking at for ground breaking right now? It was September 2026, end of September I think it was. What are we looking at now with some of your improvements, sir? About middle to late August of this year.

12:23:16PM Thank you. Councilwoman Hurtak made that motion. I thank her for that to specifically push. In the interest of time, I have nothing further to say. Again, thank you very much for this. I was at that meeting and a lot of folks were looking forward to this and this will finish the job on station 13 with 24 and 25. Thank you, sir.

Lynn Hurtak

12:23:41PM Thank you again for this update. I really appreciate it. I had one simple question because I know the Community will ask. Will you be adding these documents this powerpoint to Onbase after we finish today? Can you send that to the Clerk? Absolutely.

Alan Clendenin

12:24:00PM Hearing no other questions, very good. Thank you for showing up. That concludes the presentation on item 31. Well close that out and look forward to the next presentation in May. Internship, 32. We did get a written report. Do you still need staff?

Luis Viera

12:24:20PM They are here and I have a very quick question. They were waiting. May I have Them speak for 90 seconds to the extent They had any update for us on this?

Alan Clendenin

12:24:33PM Start with your name, please. Questions.

Luis Viera

12:24:48PM We went to the Jobs Program a couple of weeks ago. How are We doing in terms of number of Interns that were looking at getting into this program now? That We held. Were expecting at the moment three to four Interns coming on board in the next week or two based on that program. We should be pretty close to capacity.

12:25:13PM What is capacity? Anywhere four to eight.

12:25:18PM Thats great. Thank you. I wanted to thank you all. Council, Mayor Castor and the Administration, you guys, Ms. Pancho, you have a big heart for this and do a great job. A lot of people in this community admire and love you. Ms. Mckenzie, just coming in, you are the closer. You all have done a great job. I always want this to be because when I motioned for this Michael Phillips all abilities internship program. You have done something special for people who need something special for them. God bless you.

Alan Clendenin

12:25:59PM Can I get a motion to receive and file? Receive and file this written report? Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Viera. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. That concludes our old business or our agenda items.

Martin Shelby

12:26:17PM Mr. Chairman, I have to clarify one item. Actually have to clarify more than one item.

Alan Clendenin

12:26:25PM Give me a number first.

Martin Shelby

12:26:28PM 26, 27, and 28, but specifically 26. There was no notation on the agenda, however councils rules do state that if it is a contract more than $20 million, it needs to appear twice on the agenda. My understanding this is the first time this appeared on the agenda.

Alan Clendenin

12:26:50PM So in new business, can we have these come back for second reading?

Martin Shelby

12:26:55PM No. You already moved them. You have to rescind.

Lynn Hurtak

12:26:59PM Second.

Alan Clendenin

12:27:00PM Motion to reconsider -- motion to reconsider from Councilman Viera. Second from Councilwoman Hurtak.

Martin Shelby

12:27:07PM Question, 26, 27, 28?

Alan Clendenin

12:27:09PM 26, 27, 28. Motion to reconsider 26, 27, 28 from Councilman Viera. Second from Councilwoman Hurtak. All those in favor, Aye.

Martin Shelby

12:27:17PM Those are now on the floor.

Alan Clendenin

12:27:20PM The motion on the floor is to add for second reading for the resolutions for 26, 27, 28 to April 16. We have a motion from Councilman Viera. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Do you have anything else to add?

Martin Shelby

12:27:34PM No.

Alan Clendenin

12:27:36PM All in favor, Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. That concludes our regularly scheduled program. We are to new business. Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

12:27:44PM Dont forget, and I mentioned this to the rays and Marty, if the Tampa Bay rays come up with a memorandum of understanding thats binding, that is the same as a contract, so it has to be heard twice over two weeks also. Cant be a quick vote unless its just symbolic. My appointee to the Budget Advisory Committee, Brittney Lisi has tendered her resignation. I would like to make a motion to accept Tarah Bluma's application to the Budget Advisory Committee and for a resolution to be prepared and brought back for adoption on April 9. 16. Okay.

Martin Shelby

12:28:27PM If I can talk to that very, very quickly. We have two Appointees, but You dont have the resolution but You did adopt or accept them by motion previously. So there is a meeting a week from Friday, both your Appointees are now members and are invited to attend. Once the motion passes, once this motion passes, the resolution just ratifies it. So I just want You to know they have the opportunity to begin participating next Friday.

Bill Carlson

12:29:05PM I think Charlie seconded it.

Alan Clendenin

12:29:07PM This is going to be a tough yes for me. But ill do it out of deference to you.

Bill Carlson

12:29:12PM Neighborhood leader, Port Tampa neighborhood leader.

Alan Clendenin

12:29:15PM Ill do this out of deference to You.

Luis Viera

12:29:17PM May I really quick on this? I am philosophically opposed 100% to this Appointee. But I believe every person needs to have discretion in appointing. Ill be supporting under that qualification.

Alan Clendenin

12:29:30PM Ditto. Motion from Councilman Carlson, a second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Bill Carlson

12:29:42PM Thank you. I would like to submit my form 8b from earlier to receive and file.

Alan Clendenin

12:29:48PM Motion to receive recusal form from Councilman Carlson. Second from Councilman Viera. All in favor, aye? Opposed?

Bill Carlson

12:29:55PM Read this other one real fast. Im just reading what I was handed. In fiscal year '25, the city received a $650,000 settlement with the Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC. This was written in coordination with staff. As payment for a natural gas pipeline easement agreement for properties in the Port Tampa area. That funding was placed into project 1002116 small neighborhood Parks, which is a citywide capital project. I would like to make a motion to request that the Administration prepare a financial resolution reallocating the 650,000 to project 1002293 Gandy park south and aj palonis park since this compensation was for the public area lost in district 4 and given that the GMP the council approved recently for the Gandy park south aj palonis park does not provide all the amenities that were sought in the original design. This would serve to increase the ability to fund many of those items.

Alan Clendenin

12:30:57PM I think I need more information. I think this -- ask that to be placed on a future agenda so we can look at it.

Guido Maniscalco

12:31:05PM [Inaudible]

Charlie Miranda

12:31:07PM Ask the Administration to figure out what is missing, give all the facts.

Martin Shelby

12:31:16PM Would you like to that had to unfinished business, Staff report in unfinished business for this?

Alan Clendenin

12:31:26PM Can we add this to unfinished business?

Bill Carlson

12:31:29PM Yes, motion to add to unfinished business.

Alan Clendenin

12:31:32PM Motion from Councilman Carlson to add to April 16 unfinished business. Second from Councilman Viera. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Anything else? Councilman Viera?

Luis Viera

12:31:41PM Nothing.

Naya Young

12:31:42PM I have a quick motion. There is a petition, conflict of issue citys ethic code affecting CDC, Housing Authority prohibiting applying for CRA grants because they have employees sitting on CAC for the CRA. I would therefore like to make a motion for Legal Department to review and provide City Council with a written report -- addressing the conflict of interest issue in the citys ethics code as council -- conflict of interest issue in the citys ethics code at the City Council May 7, 2026 meeting. The reason this came up is because we had an issue with the CDC applying for one of the grants for CRA. Thats why im making this motion to have legal come and speak.

Lynn Hurtak

12:32:29PM Unfortunately, weve heard this before. The only answer is to have them not be on. You May wish to talk to Attorney Shepard before bringing this forward. But the answer pretty much is they cant be on it.

Naya Young

12:32:45PM I would rather them come and say that to the public.

Alan Clendenin

12:32:52PM Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

12:32:53PM I think maybe you were in the meeting, but I talked to the parties that were a part of this. Hamilton was in the meeting yesterday and said it was okay. But my thing is CRA Staff does not have the right to tell people whether they are meeting the ethics code violation or not. Only the City Attorney does. Remember, in the charter, the City Attorney not only represents City Council and the Mayor but also committee members. So the committee members have every right to go directly to the attorney. Thank you to the attorneys for weighing in. They overruled the staff person in this situation, and so I dont know if its written down anywhere, but as far as the City Attorney's office, I think its fine. I agree that this should come out into the open so that we could make sure nobody else feels afraid.

Alan Clendenin

12:33:38PM I dont think theres any harm in that motion to bring it back. Motion from Councilwoman Young, second from Councilman Carlson. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Naya Young

12:33:50PM Also, East Tampa town hall Monday April 20, fair oaks. Doors open at 6, 6:30 to 8.

Alan Clendenin

12:33:58PM Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

12:33:58PM Yes. After clearing the calendar of recurring staff reports, I spoke to Director Feeley and she requests to appear on May 7, 2026, with an ldc update and then bimonthly moving forward for a year.

Alan Clendenin

12:34:15PM We have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Is that it? Councilman Maniscalco. Councilman Miranda? I have two quick things. One, Councilman Viera, on the April 16 agenda, you have legal staff to return for ordinance for the City Of Tampa veterans committee. We already accomplished that with moving this for the second reading of the ordinance. Make a motion to remove item from staff reports.

Luis Viera

12:34:44PM Yes, Sir.

Alan Clendenin

12:34:45PM Motion from Councilman Viera. Second from Councilwoman Hurtak to remove the legal staff return on ordinance of City Of Tampa veterans committee on the April 16 meeting. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Just fyi, we have a HART board meeting next week. I plan on making a motion at a HART board, coordinated with mobility and with HART, to have HART start the transfer process Of Marion Street back to the City Of Tampa to Reengage That Street with the grid in the city. It would not restrict the bus transit, but open it up for business as usual.

Bill Carlson

12:35:21PM Did We approve that? I dont know why the City Staff are announcing that were going to do this if We havent approved it yet.

Alan Clendenin

12:35:27PM I dont know.

Bill Carlson

12:35:28PM They are announcing all over next door it will happen and We havent even Finished Franklin Street yet.

Alan Clendenin

12:35:36PM Theres nothing that were doing with it yet. Downtown Partnership is committed to do it maybe to present an overlay district. And thats it. Councilman Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

12:35:44PM I just got handed something. We should be prepared to discuss the proposed 2027 budget workshop dates this Thursday regular meeting, Finance Committee, Revenue and Finance Committee suggests August 3 would be the first workshop for General Fund. August 10 would be the workshop for Enterprise Funds, and August 17 would be the workshop for Stormwater And Mobility. They would like to put this --

Martin Shelby

12:36:09PM Time? They are all mondays.

Charlie Miranda

12:36:13PM Mondays, want it day or evening?

Alan Clendenin

12:36:19PM Why dont We do time to be announced. Set the date and then time to be announced, because We can look at a mix of day and night. I think because some of you were absent last week, We paused on this. But, truly, the times are open for discussion. I know We did things last year in a Certain Way, but I think were basically saying fresh start.

12:36:42PM Why dont we come back to the April 16 meeting with the times. Unanimous consent on setting the dates with time to be determined. Any objection? Hearing none. Motion to receive and file from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Viera. All those in favor aye. Opposed? Anybody that wants to go to the press conference, its happening now. Were adjourned. [ sounding gavel disclaimer: this file represents an unedited version of realtime captioning which should neither be relied upon for complete accuracy nor used as a verbatim transcript. Any person who needs a verbatim transcript of the proceedings May need to hire a court reporter. © - City Of Tampa (813) 274-8211