City Council — March 5, 2026 FINAL

Naya Young

9:06:31AM Well, good morning, everyone. I am very excited. This will be my first time picking someone for our invocation. I am so happy to be able to present ms. Brooklyn Winborn who will do our invocation today. She is an ambitious and bright 8-year-old second grade student at Potter Elementary. She is a dedicated student who works hard in the classroom and shows kindness and respect to her teachers and classmates every day. Outside of school, brooklyn is very active in sports. She participates in cheerleading, softball, soccer, and flag football where she demonstrates teamwork, leadership, and determination. She aspires to become a police officer so she can serve her community. She is proud to represent her school and her generation of young leaders, and she is honored to have the opportunity to speak this morning. Lets bow our heads. Dear heavenly father, thank you for the beautiful day and for bringing US together safely. Thank you for the people who serve our city and work hard to help Tampa grow and shine. Please give our mayor and City Council members wisdom to make smart decisions, courage to stand up for what is right, and caring hearts to think about everyone in our community. Children, families, seniors, and neighbors all across our city. Help them listen carefully, speak kindly and work together with respect. When challenges come, give them patience. When choices are hard, give them clarity. And in everything they do. Help them remember they are here to serve the people. Bless this meeting so IT is peaceful, productive, and positive. Bless Our First Responders, Our Teachers, Our Workers, and every family in Tampa. Help US all do our part to make our city safe, strong, and full of hope. In your name we pray, amen.

Alan Clendenin

9:08:49AM That was probably -- applause Brooklyn, can you say your name?

9:09:03AM That was probably the best invocation weve had in City Council since ive been here. [ applause Potter Elementary is one of my favorite schools. I had the opportunity to be up there several times to talk with the students up there. Congratulations. Thank you for coming this morning. Do you want to lead US in the pledge of allegiance? [Pledge of allegiance]

9:09:42AM Thank you very much, Brooklyn. Thats setting the bar high for Everybody today, im just saying. Everybody to meet that standard for the rest of the day. Lets have a roll call, please.

Charlie Miranda

9:09:54AM Here.

Guido Maniscalco

9:09:55AM Here.

Lynn Hurtak

9:09:55AM Here.

Naya Young

9:09:56AM Here. Carlson?

Bill Carlson

9:09:59AM Here.

Alan Clendenin

9:10:00AM Here.

The Clerk

9:10:01AM We have a physical quorum.

Alan Clendenin

9:10:02AM Councilman Viera is attending a funeral for a former city councilman from district 7 that was at 9:00 this morning. Thats why he is not present. We would like to get a motion for adoption of the minutes of regular session February 22, 2026 and workshop and evening sessions held on February 26, 2026 -- sorry. Regular session on February 22 and the workshop and evening session held on February 26, 2026. Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Thank you. Agenda review. Item 26, remove that from the agenda. Motion, please? We have a motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. I have a memo from Councilman Viera requesting to continue item number 70 to March 26, 2026. Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from -- motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Not only looking alike but sounding alike. March 26, 2026. Also received an e-mail, we have a walk-on item for Revenue and Finance for the financial resolution for our social action in arts funding. Approval to have the walk-on item. We could have that during administrative updates. We started making a habit of announcing our current vacancies on City Council boards and commissions. We have vacancies on the neighborhood representative of the Natural Resources Advisory Committee. A board member on the Architectural Review Commission, an alternate member on the alternate Architectural Review Commission. An Architect on the Barrio Latino Commission. A resident of the Ybor City historical district in the Barrio Latino Commission. Alternate member on Code Enforcement, slash, Public Nuisance Abatement Board. If you want additional information to see if there are qualifications for any one of the positions, they are available on the City Of Tampa website. Yes, maam.

The Clerk

9:12:06AM We also have a memo from Attorney Brody requesting that item number 17 be removed.

Alan Clendenin

9:12:11AM Item 17 removed. Motion from Councilman Maniscalco, second from Councilman Miranda to remove item number 17 per Mr. Brody. All those in favor say aye. Opposed. Ayes have IT. Fyi, the clerk notified me that we have issues with the electronic voting. So if we have a roll call today, IT will be a verbal roll call vote. Anything else on the agenda that needs to be dealt with? Staff reports. Yes, maam.

Lynn Hurtak

9:12:45AM Item number 65 is an agreement for the CRA. We havent really talked about this at the CRA. So I would like to continue this to the next regular meeting because we have a CRA meeting next week where we can talk about IT.

Alan Clendenin

9:13:05AM Thank you. We have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. A second from Councilman Carlson. Thank you. I tell you, I spent most of my day yesterday having conversations about item 65. Thank you for doing this.

Lynn Hurtak

9:13:18AM The next regular would be March 26. We do not have space. So how about April 2nd?

Alan Clendenin

9:13:26AM We have a motion to continue item 65 to April 2nd. We have a motion and second. All those in favor say Aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT.

Martin Shelby

9:13:37AM Number 65 then is off the agenda for today. That is continued.

Alan Clendenin

9:13:41AM That is continued.

Martin Shelby

9:13:41AM Thank you.

Lynn Hurtak

9:13:42AM And then I would like to pull item 66 and 67 for discussion. Im sorry. Its already there. I want Staff.

Alan Clendenin

9:13:53AM By The Way, We do have an administrative update. Chief Bennett is under the weather but We have staff for administrative update. Item 66 and 67, We do need staff, thank you. 68. No staff for 68. 69? Yes. 70? Sorry, 70 was continued.

Lynn Hurtak

9:14:21AM 71 was a draft ordinance.

Alan Clendenin

9:14:24AM Okay. So yes. Can I get a motion to receive and file item 71 and 73 -- 72 and 73? I am blanking out. Motion and second to receive and file 72 and 73. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT unanimously. Thank you. Anything else? We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco to approve the agenda. We have a second from Councilman Carlson. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Thank you very much. I need another cup of coffee. Again, Councilman Viera normally is here to do our police officer and our firefighter of the month. Councilman Guido Maniscalco is going to stand in for that this morning. Those of you that are here to provide gifts to the police officer, we have two this morning. Well do the presentations and then invite you guys up one time only for the police officers.

Guido Maniscalco

9:15:27AM Thank you very much. Its my honor today to present -- we have two police officers of the month and one firefighter of the quarter. Today, we honor the first police officer, officer Troy Combs. [ applause with me is our police chief, Lee Bercaw, dr. Chief bercaw. That will begin. Thank you.

Chief Bercaw

9:15:54AM Good morning, council. Its our honor to recognize master police officer Troy Combs as the Tampa Police Department's officer of the month for February 2026. He was on a much-needed vacation last month, so we apologize. But his personal well-being, we couldnt fly him back just for that. For more than a decade, though, he has served the Tampa Police Department with professionalism, dedication and quiet excellence. For the past four years, hes been a vital member of our special incident management unit where his leadership and preparation play a critical role into the departments most complex operations. Most recently, Mpo Combs was instrumental in reviewing and updating the trophic flow plans for the gasparilla childrens parade and day parade which you know are the two largest events for the city drawing in hundreds of thousands of attendees each year. Mpo Combs coordinates the use and deployment of logistics such as meridian barriers to keep those events safe. He also oversees the planning for all 5k runs Along Bayshore Boulevard and is currently assisting with the preparation for the 2026 ncaa mens college football basketball first and second rounds for the final four. These efforts ensure the major events are conducted safely, efficiently, and often without the public ever realizing the level of coordination required, which I can tell you is very tedious from doing the job before. In addition to event planning, Mpo Combs manages specialty vehicle training within the special incident management unit ensuring all personnel are equipped and always prepared for deployment. Early in the assignment he LED comprehensive overhaul of hurricane deployment plan, a highly detailed operation involving more than 1,000 assignments. He also contributed to the strengthening of security at special events throughout the city in response to the national threats that are Coming Our Way. Through his attention to detail, commitment to preparedness, and unwavering dedication to service, mpo Troy Combs exemplifies the standards in professionalism expected the Tampa Police Department. To some, his work May not always be visible, but its impact is undeniable, making him truly deserving of officer of the month for February. Congratulations, troy. [ applause

Guido Maniscalco

9:18:34AM Well wait until the next police officer comes up. There are a lot of gifts for both of you. Officer Troy Combs or Mpo Troy Combs, Tampa City Council is honored to recognize you for your exceptional dedication, tireless work ethic and outstanding investigative skills. Commitment to reducing crime has made Tampa a Safer Place to live and safer destination for visitors. Because of your dedication to service and commitment to excellence going above and beyond the call of duty you have been chosen for this mark of distinction as officer of the month. Tampa City Council, peers and superiors would like to commend you for your dedication and diligence. And we recognize your professionalism and commitment to keeping our city safe. For your remarkable achievements and unwavering commitments to reducing crime and enhancing public safety, the Tampa City Council is pleased to recognize you on this 5th day of March, 2026. Congratulations. [ applause as the chief mentioned, im sorry I couldnt make IT last month. I really appreciate you guys allowing me some time today to come and have me here. I also want to thank my corporal and my Sergeant for writing the award, all of TPD staff for voting me as officer of the month for February. But my job obviously is unique within the city. I dont do traditional police work. We do event planning primarily. Although from the write-up you May think that I do all the events, sounds like I do all the work, but its really a team effort. I have a whole squad of guys and girls behind me that put the events together, and not only the department staff and my squad, but we also work with all the other City departments, specifically I dont want to leave anybody out, Tampa Fire, Mobility, Solid Waste, Parks And Rec. Without all the collective effort of all the departments, the events would never be successful. So the award really goes to them also. I want to thank them for their help with everything that we do.

Alan Clendenin

9:20:27AM Thank you very much. [ applause

Guido Maniscalco

9:20:36AM Thank you very much. Dont go far. We have more. So the next officer we have that we recognize for March of 2026, that was February, is Officer Matt Bennett. Chief Bercaw. [ applause officer of the month for March 2026. His recognition is a result of responding directly to residential concerns and quality-of-life complaints. He moved beyond the standard patrol and spearheaded a comprehensive, multi-department, multiagency initiative that improved the safety and the spirit of our community. Officer Bennett personally engaged with approximately 20 local business owners, fostering vital trust and partnership needed for effective community oriented policing. By securing 8 new trespass authorizations, he empowered business owners with the legal tools necessary to proactively address loitering and criminal activity concerns on their properties. This operation LED to the trespassing of 90 individuals from private and FDOT. Properties along with 38 arrests. Officer Bennett's efforts also resulted in the seizure of a firearm and significant amount of illegal narcotics, including cocaine, fentanyl and synthetic cannabis. Through this initiative, criminals with active warrants were successfully apprehended and local delivery of illegal narcotics was disrupted, creating a safer environment for every resident. This was in the area of 50th and i-4. Im sure if anybody has been there, they have seen some of the blight that was there and the turnaround that Officer Bennett has made there. He put an all-hands-on-deck commitment to this area. He coordinated with other City departments to clear debris from the roadways and public land addressing some of the environmental concerns shared with him by the community. His tireless work ethic, community policing, and proactive leadership serve as a benchmark for excellence in the Tampa Police Department. His dedication to this initiative reflects the very best of our mission to protect and serve in partnership with our community. So congratulations. [ applause

9:23:02AM Officer Matt Bennett, Tampa City Council is honored to recognize you for your exceptional dedication, tireless work ethic and outstanding investigative skills. Your recognition is a result of responding directly to residential concerns and quality of life complaints. Because of your dedication to service, commitment to excellence and going above and beyond the call of duty, you have been chosen for this mark of distinction as officer of the month. Tampa City Council, your pierce and superiors would like to commend you for your dedication and diligence and we recognize your professionalism and commitment to keeping our city safe. For your remarkable achievements, unwavering commitment, tireless work ethic, community policing and proactive leadership, the Tampa City Council is pleased to recognize you, Officer Matt Bennett, on this 5th day of March, 2026. Congratulations. [ applause me here. This wouldnt be possible without a phenomenal staff, along with great supervisors and the officers that are with me, on the ground, making sure that these operations are successful. So without a collective group effort, this would not be possible. So I want to thank everybody. I also want to thank my beautiful wife and kids for being here and always supporting me as well. Thank you very much. [ applause

Alan Clendenin

9:24:25AM Thank you both. Its a perfect example of what IT takes to run a city and keep IT safe. Two very different stories, but both very consequential to the safety, security, and the quality of life for the City Of Tampa. On behalf of the Tampa City Council, thank you so much. I think we have a bunch of people that are wanting to recognize you from the community.

Guido Maniscalco

9:24:46AM Yes. Come on up. Brandon Barclay --

Alan Clendenin

9:24:52AM Brian Ford dropped the ball again. This is why he is in the office and not on the field. [ laughter issue a plaque to each officer for a great job. Also from busch gardens and Pete Brevi, also giving you tickets. Good morning. First off, you are both very humble. What you do each and every day and what you do for our community is unreal and the sacrifice of your family. We have a tradition at One Buccaneer Place. Behalf of the Glazer Family and entire organization, we give out game balls. Hearing both of your stories, ive got your very own. Its tough with two, so no fumbles. Officer Combs and Officer Bennett. Thank you for all you do, your sacrifice and what you do for our great city. Thank you very much. [ applause

9:25:57AM You all remember when you are talking to Face This Way. I know its kind of weird, but because of the microphone. Jill Witecki, Tampa Theatre. To repeat everything that everybody has said, thank you so much to both of you for making our community a better, safer, More Fun Place to be. On behalf of Tampa Theatre, I would like to present both of you with an annual membership to come see US at the theater and hopefully celebrate our hundredth anniversary with US in October. [ applause

9:26:26AM The performing arts people always get the microphone right. I always get in trouble for this. I like to look these guys in the face. I appreciate and respect, again, ill say IT every single time im up here. All of you guys that put the uniform on, every single day, that make the sacrifices for all of US to keep the City Of Tampa safe, I appreciate all of you. Troy, ive worked with you for a long time at Bill Currie. Matt, you too. The story with you, I met your dad before I met you. Your dad is a great guy. On behalf of Bill Currie ford, I present to you a handwritten letter from Jennifer Curry herself with a gift card as well. Matt, you too. Handwritten letter from Jennifer Curry and gift card. I appreciate you guys. Congratulations. [ applause thank you so much for your service. On behalf of the Straz Center, please accept tickets to an upcoming performance at the Straz Center with beverage coupons. I think youll get coupons for some dinners coming up. IT would be a nice evening. Thank you so much for your service. [ applause good morning, council. Grace Gonzalez, here on behalf of the Gonzmart Family and 1905 Family Of Restaurants. Mpo Combs and Officer Bennett, thank you so much for being here in Tampa and being so dedicated to our community. I know the challenges you have faced have just grown as Tampa has grown in ten years. Thank you for being here and being dedicated to serving what were doing here in Tampa. On behalf of the Gonzmart Family, I would like for you to take the gift cards, enjoy an evening at the columbia, flamenco show, thank you for everything you do. Congratulations. [ applause Mick Mcarthur, stepps towing service. Congratulations on a job well done. Thank you for your sacrifice to the city. Todd Stepp's and stepps towing, present you both with a gift card for dinner, top golf, whatever your choice on the gift card. Thank you for everything you do. And thank you very much. [ applause my name is Mary Lou Bailey here on behalf of Zoo Tampa along with -- trying to follow alans rules and Look This Way.

9:29:16AM Its not alans rules. I have so much respect for the Police Officer. I personally want to thank you because I live a block from the gasparilla parade route and things have gotten much safer for all of US that live in that area. I know IT takes a lot of people but I wanted to thank you for that. I wanted to thank you for taking on a really hard area of town and making IT safer and better for everybody. You guys are all awesome. Were presenting you each with a lovely gift basket. Mark will tell you about the animal story. Whats inside, beyond the goodies is an annual membership to the zoo for you and your family. And IT comes with the ability to come to our seasonal events like at Christmas and other times. And free parking. You can bring two guests. Hope you enjoy IT in good health and come to love animals as much as I do. Interesting Way to tell an elephant, african elephant from Asian elephant is african elephants ears are shaped like the continent of africa. Asia elephant ears are shaped like India. Wolves, you cant do anything without your pack. We thought a wolf is a good representative of that. Thank you. [ applause ID like to on behalf of the Friends Of The Tampa Riverwalk present you each with a personalized paver. Officer Combs, Officer Bennett. I wasnt sure of the spelling of your name. Text me and tell me the correct spelling. We have a personalized paver engraved for you along the riverwalk. Also, We have a variety of gift certificates in the envelope from different partners along the riverwalk for you to enjoy. Thank you again for your service. [ applause her name is Avery Bennett. Okay, Avery. Were going to help your dad here. Is that all right? We have yummy house. Do you like chinese food? [ laughter

9:31:44AM Never ask a question you dont already know the answer to. Do you like those? French fries at the meat market in Hyde Park. How about that? And how about eggs. Eggs and grits. How about going over to daily eats over there on south howard. Would that be good? And then jacksons bistro. I think this is really for mom and dad. But jacksons has all kinds of good stuff, too. I want to thank you for helping me here. This is wonderful that you can come up here and do that for me. I really appreciate IT. Now we have for officer combs -- go through the same thing. You get the same thing. You get yummy house -- laughter and jacksons bistro and also meat market. You can go have hamburgers, steak, whatever you wish. Let me just say that I greatly appreciate the Tampa Police Department and all the men and women and the rank and file. They are great, and we appreciate them and I appreciate them and the businesses do every single day. Thank you for what you do. [ applause

9:33:10AM Thank you all so much. Now were going to recognize Councilman Maniscalco for our next commendation. You can pause for a moment and let them clear. Councilman Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

9:34:27AM Thank you very much. Well, today, or this quarter, we get to honor a division chief, James Gilligan. With me is assistant chief Todd Alt to kick IT off. Todd Alt, assistant chief of operations. Im filling in for chief tripp today who could not be here. I am honored to introduce Chief James Gilligan today as he is being recognized as firefighter of the quarter. He is the shift commander on b shift. I have personally known him 28 years. This is truly an honor for me. That stated, over the years, I personally witnessed his passion, his dedication not only to the City Of Tampa, Tampa Fire Rescue and to the community as a whole. He was hired March 30, 1998, and has dedicated almost 28 years with Tampa Fire, but he has over 30 years in the fire service. Over the course of his career, he has Worked His Way up through the ranks serving as firefighter, as paramedic rescue lieutenant, fire captain, district chief, and his current position as shift commander. Hes always been one to step up and get involved. His leadership and his career reflect his longevity and commitment to the department and to the community. He has always been counted on for a leadership role, assuming command positions, numerous special events throughout the city. He regularly takes operation leads at raymond james stadium, benchmark arena and the gasparilla events as well. Throughout his career, hes been instrumental with the super bowls, any large-scale event, and the hurricanes as well. Hes also an educator. Chief Gilligan demonstrates his leadership through teaching. Hes been a constant advocate for training. Hes worked at our skills lab. He taught live fire trainings, additionally, he is an instructor at Hillsborough Community College Police Academy Program teaching first responders cpr. Long-time instructor for the community emergency response team program and the list is going on. Hes also an active member with the Regional Critical Incident Stress Management Team and that provides support for fellow responders have traumatic events. This shows his commitment to health and well-being of our personnel. He is a member of the Florida Task Force Three Team reflecting dedication to technical rescue. Hes also been a dedicated member of the Benevolent Association currently serving as treasurer. Hes been with the Benevolent Association the past ten years serving with them. As evidenced by the example provided, Chief Gilligan exemplifies criteria someone deserving of firefighter of the quarter recognition. He continuously displays his leadership, unwavering commitment to Tampa Fire Rescue, esprit de corps, both on duty and off duty. Family, most important, his family is here today. Father. Hes a father. His wife is here, and his two children and his one son we just brought on as a firefighter about a year ago now. Coming up on a year. Were trying to keep good people in the ranks there. Accumulation of all the events and all the items mentioned here. His leadership, his character, his dedication as to why he was chosen as firefighter of the quarter. Chief James Gilligan. [ applause

9:37:54AM We honor Chief James Gilligan as firefighter of the quarter for the first quarter of 2026. Tampa City Council is proud to recognize you, fire division Chief James Gilligan, for your dedicated service and remarkable leadership in mentoring your fellow firefighters. You have exemplified a tenacious dedication to Tampa fire and to the service of the citizens of our great city. Because of your dedication and service, commitment to excellence, and going above and beyond the call of duty, you have been chosen for this mark of distinction as firefighter of the quarter. Tampa City Council, your peers, and superiors would like to commend you for the dedication and commitment, and we recognize you and commend your service to the department, colleagues, and to the City Of Tampa. IT is our honor as City Council to present you as fire division Chief James Gilligan with this commendation as firefighter of the quarter on the 5th day of March, 2026. Congratulations. [ applause

Alan Clendenin

9:38:44AM Start with your name, please. And all those in attendance today. I am truly humbled by this unexpected honor --

9:38:51AM Can you start with your name, please? I am truly humbled by this unexpected honor and would like to thank you for the continued support of public safety in the City Of Tampa. Our citizens, visitors and our members deserve the support that you and city administration provide. In preparation today, for today, I asked my father what he felt was appropriate to add to todays remarks. He quoted 17th century author John Donne, no man is an island, not even a gilligan. He also spoke to servant leadership, live for others through service above self. I would not be here today if IT were not for the love and support of family and friends. Some were able to be here today in person and others in spirit. For as long as I can remember, I wanted to be a fireman or a cop or a New York jets football player. Well, the story has been written and here we are. This honor is one that I share with my personal family as well as my fire department family. I would like to take the opportunity to recognize my father James, mother Estelle, sister Carolann, my wife Danielle, son Patrick, and daughter Brianna who are here with US today. As you May notice, Patrick is following the tradition as a member of Tampa Fire Rescue as well. Brianna is currently enrolled in the rn program at USF, Go Bulls, as an alumnus myself. I was raised in a household full of love and faith, guided by the calling to take care of others above self with a compass reading of true north. Danielle and I have raised our children with the same mindset. Over the course of this career, I have been so fortunate to be surrounded by outstanding men and women who dedicate themselves to service delivery with excellence and compassion. The submission of this award was authored by my fellow chiefs on the b shift. I am not sure that I am worthy of the recognition, but im sure that the words written and the sentiments are real. I truly thank them and the awards committee, including the fire chief, for this honor and recognition. I have shared with members throughout the years that we are rewarded handsomely for our certifications and qualifications but we are judged and evaluated by our service and professionalism. Please be mindful of both. This firefighter of the quarter award is one of tradition and recognition of service. I accept this in recognition of those that have come before US, those here with US today, and those who will surely come after we are gone. I stand before you grateful and appreciative of this amazing honor. I am thankful for the love and support from family and friends. I pledge to commit to work tirelessly to ensure all of our members go home in the morning. Thank you for your time and generosity. [ applause

9:41:19AM Do you want to recognize your family? Where is your family at? Do you want to stand?

9:41:31AM Welcome to Tampa City Council. Congratulations. Mr. Maniscalco, would you like to recognize our guests? 754 in the house. Public, City Staff and most importantly the Gilligan Family today. IT is truly an honor to stand up here next to a Chief, a gentleman and awesome human being. Just shy of 15 years ago, my first -- try to hold back any tears. Just shy of 15 years ago, my first day on the job I was thankful enough to be under the wing of Chief Gilligan as my first captain for two years. IT was truly an honor to work under his leadership and his expectations. He held the highest standard, and he expected everyone to know the rules, follow the rules and follow the guidelines. But he also did the same. Some of his -- captain at the fire station with firefighters to make sure the rules are followed and not one would file a grievance against him. Thats what he lived by. He also did just that. He didnt just talk the talk, he walked the walk. Most importantly at 21 years old, being in a fire station and being young, he took me under his wing and taught me life experiences as well as some others here part of the crew in the back. This is truly an honor to be here and to honor Chief Gilligan on something so well deserved for the type of person and leadership that hes instilled in Tampa Fire Rescue to give back to this community. Chief, IT is an honor and the Gilligan Family and patrick and danielle, congratulations. [ applause on behalf of Busch Gardens, four complimentary admission tickets to enjoy with you and your family. For all your efforts at raymond james stadium. Your leadership, your dedication, and making raymond james stadium a place that we all can prosper and come to for big events. Without what you and your team do, IT just doesnt happen. But today, its all about you. Excellent speech. I didnt expect anything less coming from you. On behalf of the Glazer Family and our entire organization, I want to thank you and your family for the sacrifice you put out each and every day and the leadership and the mentoring and what you do. So we have a little game ball with your name on IT. We cant fumble IT. I only have one. But thank you very much. [ applause I cant step away without asking the jets? [ laughter ill leave IT with that. Im Mary Lou Bailey here again on behalf of Zoo Tampa and its board of directors. What a story. You are involved in so many things clearly going above and beyond. Can I tell you are very disciplined, which is something I greatly respect. I want to thank everyone for serving, the family that supports you. Awesome. We have annual membership and goodies. Annual membership to the zoo for you and your family and two guests. I hope you enjoy IT in good health. Thank you for everything you do. You are awesome. I dont have much trivia about a red fox. We just got two red foxes at the zoo. They are darn cute. Come and see US. [ applause MaryBeth Williams, executive director of Friends Of The Tampa Riverwalk. Chief, thank you for your service. Behalf of Friends Of The Riverwalk, we would like to present you with a personalized engraved paver along the riverwalk. Additionally, there are a variety of gift certificates from some of our partners with restaurants and attractions along the riverwalk for you to enjoy with your family. Thank you for your service. [ applause Jill Witecki, Tampa Theatre. Chief Gilligan, clearly you have found your calling. Thank you for bringing that passion, that dedication, that knowledge for the benefit of our community. On behalf of Tampa Theatre, I would like to present you and your family with a gift membership so you can come see US for a film, live show, maybe a three-hour tour. [ applause good morning, council. Mary Dillon, Straz Center For The Performing Arts. On behalf of Straz Center, Chief, thank you so much for your work in our community. Please accept tickets for upcoming performance and guest, friend, family. Thank you. [ applause Mike Mcarthur, stepps towing service. Congratulations for a job well done. Thank you for everything you are doing for the community. Your passion and story after 28 years on the job is refreshing. I really thank you for everything you do for our community. On behalf of Todd Stepp's and stepps towing, present a gift card. I have to say, jets -- laughter

9:47:00AM Keyword there is "was." And 1905 family of restaurants. Thank you for being here in Tampa and for sharing your leadership and sharing your integrity with Tampa. Thank you. We want to you enjoy yourself, you and your family. Thank you for your sacrifices. Please enjoy lunch, dinner at neighborhood restaurants and relax. Congratulations. I was going to ask Brianna and Patrick to come up, but they are too big. Its not like Avery. Avery is a little girl. Anyway, we appreciate you and your family. On behalf of a variety of different businesses, were going to provide you with your choice, breakfast, lunch or dinner over at the yummy house and crg, jacksons bistro, and meat market over in old Hyde Park. Again, we appreciate everything that you do every single day. And you ought to change the motto to Tampa Fire Rescue to "ever ready." [ applause

Guido Maniscalco

9:48:19AM Thank you very much. Congratulations.

Alan Clendenin

9:48:20AM Thank you very much. Congratulations on all. Were going to allow the room to shift a little bit and bring some other people up for the next commendation. By The Way, if you caught the three-hour tour, both of yours started with one nine.

9:49:07AM Now I would like to recognize Councilwoman Young for another special presentation.

Naya Young

9:51:31AM Good morning.

9:51:35AM Good morning, council. So this morning is truly an honor and privilege to celebrate the ladies of Beta Sigma Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated. I was practicing because I was not going to mess that up. For their 106 years of excellent scholarship, community service and sisterhood since the chapters beginning in March of 1946, this remarkable sisterhood has remained committed to uplifting communities and empowering women and creating a legacy that continues to inspire generations. So IT gives me great honor to be able to present this commendation this morning. Beta Sigma Zeta of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated, since its chartering on March 9, 1946, Beta Sigma Zeta of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated has distinguished itself as a public service organization committed to addressing the challenges facing african americans in the broader community. Over the years, the chapter has maintained a strong presence throughout the Tampa community through outreach and service partnering with organizations such as the NAACP and the spring of Tampa Bay, while also working in conjunction with the Tampa Housing Authority to support community events and initiatives that benefit local families and residents. The chapter also played a pivotal role in the chartering of the University of South Florida's Alpha Eta chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated. Annual chapter projects include elder care, adopt a school, Christmas with the zetas, blue and White Feeding Tampa Bay, and first responders recognition, as well as providing scholarships to high school seniors in Hillsborough County. Beta Sigma Zeta Chapter has received numerous awards at the state, regional, and international levels in recognition of its commitment to service and community impact. This chapter is comprised of a diverse and talented membership ranging from those who are just beginning their post-collegiate journey to seasoned members whose experience continues to provide guidance, leadership, and support to the sisterhood in their community. The City Council of the City of Tampa is honored to present this commendation and joins the Beta Sigma Zeta Chapter of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Incorporated in celebrating 106 years of sisterhood in 2026 and 80 years of service as a chapter while continuing to uphold the principles of scholarship, service, sisterhood and finer womanhood. [ applause did you want to say anything? [ laughter

Alan Clendenin

9:54:30AM I see two very familiar faces standing behind you. I think you should bring them up front and introduce them. Come on. Tonya, Suling. I didnt realize this group would be so quiet. You see IT every day here.

9:54:59AM We do. We will continue to support and help and reach out, even though We are a huge international organization, Zeta has over 800 chapters worldwide. And they have done things like build wells in countries where they dont have clean water, so people have clean water. Done stuff with schools. Here, We not only work with the spring, We have American Red Cross, the March Of Dimes with the preemies program, va with the veterans. So We are some busy folks, even the ones of US that are supposed to be retired. I think im still working. But thank you for this honor. We do IT because We love people and We love Tampa.

9:55:50AM Thank you very much. [ applause can you state your name for our record?

9:55:59AM Thank you so much. Thank you all so much. I know that Suling and Tonya and I see Fran back there. Very happy you guys here today. Honored to have you in the room and appreciate your service. Thank you so much. [ applause

9:56:23AM Very nice. Very good. Swanky. Thank you so much. Now you guys go get your picture taken. 9 pm. Tickets are $85. This is to support the Chapter as well as -- I dont know if you all, the house was torn down in August of last year. So were in the process of rebuilding. Any support to US would be greatly appreciated.

9:57:10AM Suling, The Clerk would like to have You state your name first before You present. [ laughter

9:57:19AM Thank you.

9:57:21AM I would now like to recognize our administrator for development and economic opportunity, Abbye Feeley.

Abbye Feeley

9:57:28AM Good morning, Council. Abbye Feeley, administrator of development and economic opportunity. Im here this morning with Jeff Greene of Clarion And Associates. Well give a brief 15-minute update on the land development code update that you are aware. Ive been coming to you monthly to share with you the progress that weve been making in updating our code. We have several goals in making that update, including streamlining the code so that its more understandable and predictable, more predictable development for our city, also modernizing IT to really address where we are today as a city and moving forward with our development. The code is coming in three installments. The first installment just went out on February 17. And this week, we had a public meeting Monday night at the hanna center. We had over 52 online participants and close to 50 participants in the audience. IT was a really great meeting. A lot of very passionate citizens with US there, including consultants and developers. Councilwoman Hurtak was with US that night, which we were so glad to have her there as well. One of the things that weve been committed to is ensuring that we have a lot of public touch points during this process, be IT public meetings as well as online opportunities to receive feedback. We know that was of great importance, and that we experience that during the comp plan update. We, too, are committed to doing that as the land development code. In addition to the public meeting we had with Jeff and his team Monday night at hanna, well also be rolling out some neighborhood-level meetings as well in the next few months. As I mentioned, the installment comes in three parts. This allows for a multitude of touch points. IT allows for a multitude of feedback opportunities from the public. So that we really are ensuring. And what we have, the first installment is a draft. Jeff will talk a little bit about that. Nothing is set in stone. Were working through this. There are opportunities. I also know Jeff met with many of you yesterday, which is another one of our commitments that we have touch points with Council on this, as its so critical that we really bring all the threads together as we move this forward, really for our community. As you all know, too, and we keep in the periphery is that senate bill 180 issue and some of the more restrictive issues. So I think were very cognizant of the timing and ensuring that what were bringing to you is in alignment to be passed and to then go in effect. This morning, ill turn IT over to Jeff. We do have a presentation. If Cttv could please bring that up for US and well be here for any questions afterwards. Thank you very much.

Alan Clendenin

10:00:17AM Good morning, sir. Start with your name, please. My name is Jeff Greene, with Clarion And Associates. Mr. Chairman, Members Of Council, thank you very much for the opportunity to present to you. Its a big milestone in this project to actually provide you with the first -- with the draft of the first of three installments of the updated Ldc. I was here presenting on the Ldc assessment exactly 52 weeks ago today. Its taken US a little bit longer to get here than We would have liked. If you saw the 411 page draft on the website, there was a lot of work that went into that and We wanted to make sure that We got IT right. So just brief summary of what im going to talk about. Especially since there May be people watching who havent kept up. Ill give a brief background about the project, how We got to where We are today and the current status. And then ill talk a little bit about installment one of three of the updated Ldc on The City's website. Well talk about not only whats in installment one but importantly whats not in installment one, because all those installments are going to be critical to the future land use code. Well talk about the new Zoning Districts that are included in installment one as well as the updated use regulations and the other regulations that support the updated code. At the end, ill talk a little bit about whats coming next but also leave room for any questions that Council members May have. As Abbye just mentioned and ill get through this quickly, the Ldc has not been comprehensively updated in many decades. Obviously, IT is amended continuously, but its done in a piecemeal fashion. What you have today is an ordinance thats not particularly well organized. There are a number had of internal inconsistencies, and its not really well aligned with The City's preferred form of development. So this project is really an opportunity to look at the Ldc, identify what works well, identify what doesnt work well, and to make the changes that are necessary to better support The City's land use vision. Just briefly, We are with Clarion, a planning consultant firm with offices in chapel hill, North Carolina and denver, Colorado. In our 34 years, weve helped more than 250 communities successfully complete comprehensive updates to their development codes. Including several communities in Florida. We are joined with a number of subconsultant teams that lends particular expertise to our team. Dover, Kohl And Partners, they are award-winning town planning firm. They are helping US out with some corridor design standards that well be introducing later in the project. Kittelson And Associates, a transportation engineering firm that has done a lot of work with The City, worked on the Tampa moves plan. Plan Active Studio is a planning firm in orlando that has helped out with some of the district standards. And Nancy Stroud, who is a well regarded Florida attorney with decades of land use experience who is helping out with the updates to the development review and improvement procedures. We have shown you this schedule before. This is the overall schedule of the project. As Abbye mentioned, little megaphones down below show, We have made sure that there are touch points throughout the project, from the very beginning when We were gathering information in task one, through to the Ldc assessment where We identified, synthesis of everything We learned in phase one. All of the priorities of The City, what worked well in the current code and what doesnt work well. IT also laid out a road map for the drafting of the updated Ldc. Thats where We are right now. Phase three, We are in the drafting phase. The reason We do IT in three installments as Abbye mentioned is to provide you with additional touch points. So that members of the public and Council will get to see installment one, installment two, and installment three. And then during that phase four, well have an opportunity to see the entire consolidated code which will include the feedback that We received during the installment one public engagement period. IT also provides US the opportunity to give the public slightly more manageable chunks of code. Now, the draft is 411 pages, which is a lot. But its less than the entire code would be. So as I mentioned, the Ldc assessment, which I presented about a year ago, there are eight key goals listed there. We tried to address a lot of those in the draft Ldc. One of the key priorities in the Ldc assessment that you can see throughout this installment one is the desire for a more user friendly, better organized, easier to use set of development regulations. As We go through the specifics of installment one, ill show you some of the places where weve tried to do that. The Ldc assessment proposed an outline of how the updated Ldc should be organized. Thats what you see on the screen here. There are nine separate articles. Installment one includes these three articles. Article 3 Zoning Districts, article 4, the use regulations. These are some of the key regulations that regulate how Development Takes Place in The City. We also include some of the definitions in article 9 as well as those rules of measurement that are relevant to the district and use regulations. Zoning Districts, establish minimum setbacks, they establish maximum building heights. And weve gone ahead and included the rules for how you measure height, how you measure the setbacks in article 9. But there will be a lot more definitions to come as We draft the remainder of the code. So there is a lot thats not included in installment one. I want to emphasize that. Because there are pieces of installments two and three that have a lot of impact on how land can be developed in The City. And they are not prepared yet. Installments two and three will include the administration procedures. So some of those revisions to the rezoning procedures, to the special use permit procedures and variances that We talked about in the Ldc assessment. A lot of the development standards are included in installments two and three. These are standards around off-street parking, around landscaping, around tree protection. All of these will be developed later in the project. So you will note that there are cross-references in installment one to the sections, but they are not ready yet. They are being drafted and obviously everybody in The Community will have an opportunity to comment. There are also some of the other regulations that apply, nonconformities, but that is land or uses that were legal when developed, but the code has changed, and so they are no longer legal. So those establish the rules for how those continue and how they need to change. Enforcement and also some general provisions. One thing I will note is that there are a number of new graphics and illustrations in the updated Ldc draft thats on the website. But We like to make sure theres general consensus around the standards that are included in the new Ldc before We take the time to dig in and make a lot of these graphics. So there are a Number Of Place-holders in there that will be filled in as drafting continues. I just want to emphasize what Abbye said. Public engagement is important. Im pleased to note that there were a lot of concerns raised about some of the proposed provisions at the meeting We had on Monday night. But everybody did seem to understand that this is a draft. This is not going to you for adoption any time soon. Theres going to be a lot of opportunity for public feedback. We understand that this is The Community's code. This is not our code. This is something that The Community needs to be comfortable with and that you need to be comfortable with. And so theres going to be -- We expect to get a lot of comments and We are listening and We are going to make changes as the process continues. So let me just take you a little bit through the articles that are included in installment one. Just provide a little high-level summary. This is a little bit of what We talked about on Monday night. One of the key elements of article 3 is an updated organization of the Zoning Districts. Not only the section in general, But The Way each zoning district is organized. The goal is to make IT more user friendly so that people can just glance at the zoning district in which they are located or in which they are considering development to understand what they can do with their property. So this is a copy of some of the zoning district regulations in your current code. So you can see IT is very heavily text based. There are some tables as well. Let me show you how were doing IT in the updated Ldc. So this is one of the residential Districts. One of the base residential Districts. Now, obviously, some of the Districts have many more regulations, like the Central Business District. So they are longer than two pages, but they all follow this very similar format. Youve got your purpose statement up top that establishes the purpose of the district. There is a concept drawing that illustrates what development in the neighborhood, in that district is intended to look like given the context. Under that is a reference to the use regulations. So weve taken all the separate sets of use regulations and consolidated them all into article 4. And below that is the dimensional table. So that establishes those key dimensional standards. Maximum height. Minimum lot width, required setbacks from the front, side, rear, and corner lot lines. On the right side, you can see a dimensional drawing that is key to the table. And the dimensional drawing is intended to illustrate based on those dimensional standards and the types of uses allowed in the district, what development in that district is intended to look like. Below that are cross-references to all of the other standards that apply in the zoning ordinance. To development in the district. So they are cross references to off-street parking standards, cross references to the exterior lighting standards. Cross-references to the subdivision standards. Everything that might play a significant role in development. Again, these are all hyperlinked so you can click on them and go there. Although, again, We havent drafted those development standards. So those hyperlinks dont take you anywhere yet. A lot of what We did is this reorganization. So the Central Business District, IT is largely reorganization to try to make IT more user friendly. We have not made a lot of substantive changes in that district or some of the other Districts. But We have made some changes in some of the other ones. So the residential and business Districts, weve done some consolidation of Districts. A couple of things that weve gotten comment on that were still thinking about, We are proposing to consolidate the RS 50 and RS 60 Districts into one residential single-family urban district and to allow some additional housing types in these Districts as well to try to address one of the other priorities in the Ldc assessment and in the plan to allow some additional housing types. There are some modest building design standards as well in that rsu district. And on the business side, We have proposed consolidating the commercial general and the commercial intensive Districts. Thats another one where We have gotten feedback about how that May not be the best idea. So thats something were going to hear from The Community and then decide what changes to make. One of the big things is there are new mixed use Districts. So there are three mixed use Districts at different scales, All The Way from neighborhood through the corridor to regional center. The goal of these Districts and including these Districts in the code is not that they be applied at the same time that the Ldc is adopted, although you May choose to do so, instead IT is another tool in your toolbox, either for the Council to apply land in areas of The Community where there is desirable for walkable, mixed use development that includes residential, nonresidential, office, commercial uses. Or its an opportunity for land donors or Developers who are coming in and want to come in with a project, its really an alternative to planned development that they can apply and that increases the level of predictability, because there are standards here that apply. The Community knows what the standards are and land can be developed in accordance with those standards. Planned development. So one of the things We heard loud and clear at the very start of this project was that people were concerned about the lack of predictability in the land use process. Part of that based on our analysis is that The City uses planned development Districts a lot. Its used not only for sort of larger projects but also for single lots in residential neighborhoods. So in order to try to address that, We are proposing a minimum two-acre size for planned developments, which addresses those issues where planned development is used on individual lots in a residential neighborhood. Im talking to some Developers, there are issues with the current code where you cant do even consistent single-family development in some of these neighborhoods on some of these lots without doing a planned development. So were going to try to make some adjustments as We get into the development standards and into the administrative procedures to make IT so that those developments can move forward under base zoning. But the overall idea is to try to reduce the use of planned development as a sort of Go-To for every type of development application in The City. Some additional changes, so weve gone ahead and consolidated the two central business Districts. Weve consolidated the channel Districts. You know theres conversation about perhaps eliminating the channel Districts and just extending the CBD. This is all a draft. We can make those changes. We have gone ahead and simplified some of the Seminole Heights Districts and weve done a lot to try to clarify some of the language. And We will continue to do so in later installments of the code. Article 4 of the use regulations. So as I think I briefly mentioned earlier, We have taken all of the separate use tables, use table for the base Districts, use table for Ybor City, for Central Business District, for Channel District, for the municipal airport district, and consolidated them all into this article 4. We also split them out into separate use tables. One for the principal use on the site, one for accessory uses, one for temporary uses, and a fourth which is a little bit unique to Tampa because of how you handle alcoholic beverages, and alcohol beverages -- alcoholic beverages use table. So this consolidates all of the separate alcoholic beverage regulations around the Districts, the alcoholic beverage uses, the Districts that are allowed in, whether s-1 or s-2 permit is required as well as some of the insurance and public safety standards included in the code. This is just a screen shot of part of the principal use table. We have reorganized. One of the things We have done, We have thoroughly updated all the uses. Where you see the yellow, those are where there are new uses or where there are changes in some of the permissions of the uses. We have reorganized the uses so that they are in this three-tiered classification system, which makes IT easier if a development comes in with a use not explicitly listed, the uses are organized in a way that the Zoning Administrator can look and see if IT fits in one of the categories because IT has similar impacts as some of the uses that are listed. On the right side of this table are references to the use specific standards. So anyone looking at a use knows exactly where to go to see, first of all, if there are specific standards that apply to that use and can find an easy cross-reference to those standards. Weve also added a new provision for adaptive reuse. This allows a limited number of additional uses generally in some of the residential Districts for those historic buildings that really cant serve a residential use, and so cant serve any sort of economically viable use unless some type of nonresidential use is allowed. So the building has to be vacant for a certain period of time. There are restrictions on the uses. They are intended to be sort of office or low-impact retail uses. Finally, article 9, definitions and rules for construction and interpretation, weve gone through, We have updated all the definitions for all the uses. Weve added new definitions for the new uses. We will be adding additional definitions as We go on. And there are some of those basic rules of construction that you need in the code. What does "day" mean? What does "May" versus "shall" mean? How do you interpret terms that are not otherwise defined in the ordinance? Again, as We had a meeting with the public on Monday, We had an initial meeting with the Great Advisory Team that The City set up a couple of weeks ago, and were going to be meeting with them on April 1st in person to get their feedback. There is an online questionnaire out there. As Abbye mentioned, were going to be working to come up with an engagement strategy to really get at those neighborhoods, to make sure that people that do have questions have an opportunity to learn about the project, to share their concerns, and to make sure that they feel like a part of this project. This is installment one and three. Installment two is administration. We are currently editing that to get IT off to Staff for their review. Hopefully this summer. Also drafting installment 3, primarily the development standards but also includes the rest of the regulations. Im happy to take any questions you might have.

Charlie Miranda

10:18:50AM Thank You, Mr. Chairman. In all my years of public service, about 30, You are the only one ever to come here and speak 20 minutes without looking at -- You must have a fantastic memory and very well versed in what You do. Thats number one. Number two, when We look at the city, less than 5% of the land available for new development. Thats a fact. Number 3, although We talk about zonings and buildings and different areas and different parts of the city and rightly so, We dont look at the real problem of moving the people around, which is how You move them around in modern time, not in yesterday time. Used to be horses. The model a ford and model t ford, became more and more. Now You have cars that You think You are in an airplane. Along with that You keep adding to expressways and bigger and better and faster and yet IT really becomes slower and slower because You have more. The more You build out, the more You have use of IT and the more You slow down. So your questions and your problems and US, US, not You, in doing the city right is to include more than just about buildings. How You transport people. Where people are coming from, from the east, west, north, south? I think they are coming from all over. They come to Tampa because We made IT a hub now, and IT used to be -- until certain things happened, bringing IT up 40, 50 years ago. IT doesnt take one administration to fix something. IT takes a whole bunch of administrations. We are at the point now where the whole bunch is here. We have done what We can and make IT what IT is. Now were going to say how do We fix what We made. I think that transportation is one of the most important things. And in my mind, were investing in something that does not work as well as IT used to. When IT used to work well, very little automobiles On The Street. And now You need something Above The Street to move the people like they do at the airport. But I know that is a different day for a different conversation. But your standards, I understand what youre saying, but how do You accommodate what youre saying if You dont have the transportation? I think a lot of that has to do with what -- I know this came up before You recently -- but whats in the updated comprehensive plan that identifies those transit-ready corridor, those areas where transit investment is desired. But also through the future land use map identifies those areas where IT would be appropriate to apply these -- that mixed use regional center district, that area where You want the highest intensity of development.

10:21:24AM If I May, I agree with You. IT used to be You live where You work and You worked where You live. That is not the case anymore. Now You come to work 20, 30 miles away and hope You can get to work in time if You leave an hour and a half early. IT adds another stress to the individuals driving, why? Because the house is no longer affordable. You have to go somewhere else to live. As far as factual -- to be complimentary to You sir. Solve a problem almost not solvable, to be honest with You. Thank You, Mr. Chairman.

Alan Clendenin

10:21:55AM I know we discussed this many times before. Im glad Councilman Carlson is back. Thats what we spoke about in our briefing. Channelside and Cdb. Ms. Feeley, do you feel you have the sense of council of the direction or do we need that discussion right now?

Abbye Feeley

10:22:13AM No, sir. I think that based on the text amendment you all just did, and I have also had a subsequent meeting with Mr. Stoltenberg and Mr. Scaglione after the CRA meeting to talk about some of those other changes and some of the needs of the district. So were proceeding with that under this update.

Alan Clendenin

10:22:35AM I know we had a little bit of discussion. Very good.

Abbye Feeley

10:22:39AM Jeff and I meet every week. Thats why I think when you say He is well versed, He is truly and his team is invested in the city and we are continually having those discussions. Hes tracking on comp plan. We keep bringing all of the pieces in to ensure we are really mindful in doing this.

Alan Clendenin

10:22:58AM Im only aware of a fraction of the meetings You have. How many hours do You actually have a day? You are meeting like with everybody all the time.

Abbye Feeley

10:23:06AM To work? [ laughter that happens at night. But I appreciate that.

Alan Clendenin

10:23:10AM Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

10:23:12AM Thank You. Just to follow on that. Thank You all for helping move that forward. The issue is that when We turn down a project, which is only two or three percent I think of the time, We get blasted by prodevelopment people who say, well, this City Council is stupid. They are listening to people who dont care and all this stuff. The issue is that We have a big city, and there are places where people want density and places where people dont want density. The purpose of this and the comprehensive plan is to listen to The Community about where they want density and where they dont. In Channel District, they want density. What weve been trying to do is enable Staff to make decisions, have Staff make decisions in downtown given to them by City Council 20 or so years ago. So why not add Channel District to that because Of The Way some people heard this before, IT was originally designed for four stories. IT doesnt make sense four stories next to 20 story buildings. That could also lead to the redevelopment of Channel District as well to allow IT to be more dense. Some of the buildings that are there that are smaller. As Water Street starts to head north as well. And then if there are other areas, which We talked about before, where IT makes sense to allow more density, lets allow IT. If The Community doesnt object, lets allow density there. Were not saying We dont want density anywhere. The Community is not saying they dont want density anywhere. They dont want IT in the middle of Hyde Park, the mid of historic district. Some activists want to tear down buildings in Hyde Park and build multistory buildings. I totally disagree with that. I think still places build multistory buildings elsewhere. We need to have a dialogue with The Community. One of the mistakes that happened with the Planning Commission process, although they had meetings with The Community, they didnt have meetings with small enough groups in the beginning. Im happy to hear You say You did neighborhoods. I recommend neighborhood by neighborhood with the Planning Commission. The more You can get to the granular level, the Planning Commission did eventually meet with groups of three or four neighborhoods at a time because there are some synergies between them. But people in the neighborhood need to define their future. If We ask them where do You want to put density, can We put a neighborhood commercial district or a transportation node or somewhere in your neighborhood, where would IT go? If We push and ask the questions, I think most neighborhoods would be reasonable, okay, You can put IT over there. That will enable US to have more density. If We just do like the Planning Commission did, instead of transit-ready development, which is pockets where We say, okay, well Make Every Street like Dale Mabry, that is a mistake because that is a Developer Way of looking at IT instead Of Planning Way of building around a Community. Last thing, I appreciate You reaching out yesterday and for the update. I appreciate You being proactive with The Community as well. Anything We can help in making that more fruitful, the better. We would love to have a hearing when this gets passed with only a handful of people in favor of IT instead of 200 people against IT. Sounds like You are on a path to do that. Thank You.

Alan Clendenin

10:26:25AM Thank you. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

10:26:26AM Thank you so much. I really appreciated Monday evenings meeting. We talked yesterday about some of the things im interested in and looking for. I just wanted to say thank you so much. I really look forward to the continuation of the community input. I think we started on a really good note. Im looking forward to doing more. Thank you so much.

Alan Clendenin

10:26:51AM Thank you very much. Appreciate. Again, I appreciate the briefings as well. Congratulations, Ms. Feeley, for continuing to move this enormous task forward. Very good. We are now going to move to the public comment. Is Mr. Randolph online? I would like to recognize Mr. Randolph, online speaker. Mr. Randolph, if you can hear me, start with your name. You have three minutes. That protects the Black political power in legal requirements. Alternate two makes the smallest change possible, more than one precinct. Three, four, five To Temple Terrace. IT does not touch West Tampa. The rural community, one of the strongest Black voting blocs in the city. IT keeps the -- Black senior citizen voters together, preserving trusted relationships with the council representative. And IT keeps Black churches unified instead of scattering them across -- congregation across districts. One, three, and four all move precincts creating unnecessary -- one, community across three districts. Weakens the Black vote. Alternate three, disrupts the Latino And Black Coalition. Alternate four uproots more than 10,000 residents from the Black sales center. None of these disruptions are required to meet the 5% -- standard. Thats why -- residents across West Tampa, East Tampa and Sulphur Springs agree. This is the math that keeps the community whole and stable. So another point, upcoming legislation, house bill 417 and house bill 160 collect the state -- policies -- and then corporation dissolution for anyone tied to those labor. They raise significant questions about civil liberties. Staying informed is very important. Again, thats house bill 1471 and senate bill 1632. Its possible if the City Council member was top -- could be arrested. Thank you very much.

10:29:53AM Thank you, Mr. Randolph. Okay. So well go to in-person public comments. Im going to start with folks that have indicated they want to speak to items on the agenda today, that are on the agenda today. Then we will move on to folks that want to speak to items that are not on the agenda. Remember, if you indicated that you want to speak to items on the agenda, your public comment should be restricted to just agenda items. First up is James Adair. Speaking to items 12 and 13. Wanted to talk today about 12 and 13, the meridian barriers. Dont know if you remember where all this started, but when IT went out to the community that we had stormwater workers working on parades, we had this big kerfuffle and then a little online awareness campaign and then a sit-down with the mayor and the mayors office. In that meeting, we talked about other alternatives to having these Jersey barriers, those are the large concrete barriers that our stormwater crews are needed to move. Instead of -- its now an option to have what is called these meridian barriers. These are much smaller, easier to move, et cetera. Did a ton of research on IT and come to find out, last gasparilla, we had over a hundred of the big concrete barriers. Theres No Way well have enough Jersey barriers to make up that gap. Before you today, is an approval for 400 and some odd thousand dollars for the Jersey barriers. Probably 16. The submitter on this did not return my call to answer that question. So, you know, well see if they will fess up. Probably 16, probably not 8. We need them. They are great. Smaller events, these things are perfect for deploying. Obviously, cars are the key issue with them. I think its incredibly important that we support this thing. Get IT done. As a wrap-up, we do have private contractors doing work to support our stormwater crews. I was a big advocate of doing IT. Right now, this is really a stopgap. I am still in favor of hiring more of our own team, but while these guys are out doing parade set-up and teardown, were overpaying for contractors, but we might as well implement IT while we have IT. You currently have a $500,000 allotment out. Half is spent. Portion of Ballast Point is done. Maybe not as fast as our own guys, but until ready to hire, IT is a solution we have. Recap, gasparilla was a two-day event. Childrens parade and day parade. Two-day set-up. Two-day teardown and two shifts for crew for each of those. Just as an awareness, were spending this Money One Way or the other. This will be a really good asset for other services as well. Thank you guys. Appreciate you.

10:32:51AM Thank you, Mr. Adair. Next speaker is Valerie.

10:32:59AM Alison Hewitt, 65 is no longer. Im moving you to the bottom of the stack and the top before the second one. 65 is no longer on the agenda. You guys go back to back. Tarah Bluma. Good morning, ms. Bluma. I wasnt able to make IT the other night -- Tarah Bluma. So thrilled to be here to speak to you. I wasnt able to make IT the other night, but I am also very concerned about our debt. We need to take -- we need to be careful about that. I think a lot of the problem comes because you were given information in dribs and drabs without a clear picture of what a final cost is going to be, and you are asked to make incremental decisions and then you feel like there is too big of a sunk cost. And we all took economics. We understand the sunk cost will be there, even when IT hurts, sometimes we have to rip off the band-aid. I would ask that you continue to press for more information before you approve money and before you make financial decisions, because more information can just help you make better decisions. In the agenda today, a few examples, item number 13, buying the meridian barricades for $427,000. I assume these are to replace the heavier barricades. Sounds like a good idea, but how many can we buy with $427,000? What is the return on the investment? Is that going to save our stormwater staff time so that they can spend more time working in actual stormwater? Maybe. Its probably a great idea, but we dont have that information. Item number 17, $49,000 for dance recitals. Sounds like a lot of money. My kids dont go to dance recitals at the straz, but IT sounds cool. IT says weve done that for 17 years. How many recitals are we paying for for $49,000? Is that a discounted rate? How much did we pay for the last 17 years? Finally, number 20, this is a second amendment to the City Of Tampa and economic modeling for light cast data. The first time I read this, IT was $15,000. I kind of breezed over IT. And then I read IT. The second time and started digging into the supporting documents, which were actually there, so I do appreciate that. Good job. But I see were already paying $30,000 a year for the light cast data and have been doing that for a while. This is an additional 15,000 so that we can post IT -- post the data on the website. Im assuming if we are paying for the data, were already putting that data and using IT in the reports that were making. Were just paying more to have IT on our website, but like Tampa Council For Economic Development I think its called already has that data on their website. So, again, you didnt get the full picture unless you really dug into the weeds that this is actually really costing US $45,000, not 15. Not a huge amount of money, ben when you are getting these things, couple thousand here, couple million there, IT does add up.

10:36:31AM Stephen Michelini on agenda item 5 followed by bakari -- speak --

10:36:45AM Start with your name. There are a couple of things. I guess they are really policy issues that should be set by this Council. Ive spoken with Carroll Ann Bennett regarding this as well. There is no justification for combining RS 50 and RS 60 into one unit. And when you do that, you have distinctively different development patterns for each of those districts. And when you combine them, you are trying to increase density at the expense of a developed and platted neighborhood. IT has huge consequences. And I can assure you that Carroll Ann cant be here today, but she asked me to express to you their vehement opposition to doing that. I think that you will have not only neighborhoods but also businesses and the residents coming forward to object to that. Combining CG and CI is another idea which really should be put aside. You dont want restaurants and small businesses adjacent to metal fabricators and machine shops and things like that. There is a reason why CG and CI are separate, and they have distinctively different functions. So that also should be removed to go back to the original zoning districts. Repair them. If theres something wrong with them, fix them. Dont create new ones that create a whole different series of problems. The reason you get so many pds is because the Council has layered so many restrictions that require City Council approval. If you remove those, then you dont have the pds. But there are things like buffering, street access. The use of parking lots that are all specifically prohibited from the staff from you allowing them to approve. So thats forcing pds throughout the whole district. Like I said, if there are problems with the individual zoning districts, fix them. Dont create new ones. If you want to add mixed use as a new category, fine. Dont care about that. But when you eliminate districts, youre talking about changing all of the zoning maps throughout the entire city. And as Mr. Miranda pointed out, most of IT is infill. You dont have large tracts of land for development. They also inserted in here form based codes, which I dont think Council has ever said they wanted that. But do you really want to try to force things that look like celebration station upon the development community and the homeowners that experience infill development? Adding codes is fine. Consolidating them is not. I appreciate your time.

10:39:38AM Thank you, Mr. Michelini. Bakari. Help me out with the last name. Followed by Alison Hewitt. First, I want to say happy anniversary to the Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, incorporated. Congratulations to Chief Gilligan, firefighter of the quarter and officer of the month. I first want to speak on 22. I understand this resolution is primarily about recovering costs that the city has already incurred. Property owner failed to maintain their lots. Support the citys need to recover the expenses. However, I would encourage the Council to consider whether there are ways to reduce the number of cases to -- that reach the lien stage in The First Place. For an example, maybe programs implemented to allow earlier assistance for elderly homeowners or financially struggling property owners where the city maybe offer a one-time assistance before enforcement costs accumulate. Maybe after the first notice the city offers a volunteer or a contract mowing service at reduced rate if the owner responds quickly. Maybe normal enforcement can proceed. Possibly short payment plan before the liens are recorded. Maybe they can enter into the 60-, 90 day payment agreement. Owners with multiple violations in a year should be maybe required to enroll in quarterly maintenance requirement. Approaches like these help the city recover costs more efficiently while also preventing small property maintenance issues from turning into long-term financial burdens for residents. Secondly, I also want to thank the Council and the men and women of the Tampa Police Department for efforts to keep our community safe. I fully support strong traffic enforcement and the work officers do every day. To that point, number 10, I reviewed the resolution regarding the purchase of four police responder vehicles under the Florida Sheriff's Association cooperative contract including two marked traffic units and two marked dui units for the Tampa Police Department. I do not have any objection to the purchase of the two traffic units. My question, however, relates specifically to the two vehicles designated as dui units. From my understanding, most of the tools used in dui enforcement such as portable breath testers, field sobriety testing equipment, body cameras, and citation systems are portable, can be used in virtually any standard patrol vehicle. The effectiveness of dui enforcement appears to rely primarily on officer training, observation, and time dedicated to enforcement rather than on a specific type of vehicle being used. Because of that, I would appreciate some clarification from the department about what operational advantages these particular dui vehicles provide, what specialized equipment would be installed in these vehicles that distinguishes them from a standard patrol unit. Are these vehicles replacing existing dui vehicles or expanding the current dui enforcement fleet? Finally, would the department be making any meaningful operational compromise of a less expensive vehicle platform use instead. My goal in asking the questions is to simply better understand how this investment improves dui enforcement and whether the vehicle configuration provides capabilities that a standard patrol vehicle could not.

10:42:58AM Thank you very much. Thank you for the input. Alison Hewitt followed by Valerie. Alison Hewitt, East Tampa resident. Thank you for pulling item number 65. IT is exceptionally concerning. In 2021, when We proposed a predevelopment and passed predevelopment, the purpose was to help property owners develop their land to be able to help them with the predevelopment cost to make them be able to be competitive in this development process. What enough front of you is after five years, We have not started predevelopment yet. And after five years, They have proposed to you five consulting contracts that have limited to no experience in developing small to medium-sized developments. One of the main purposes also is to make sure that They had a developer consultant to make sure They did the feasibility and market analysis. Dont spend the money unless We know We have a project that can be fundable. There is no one here to be able to work with the property owner to say this is the feasibility of this project. So We would be spending money on architectural pretty pictures and designs but no ability to say how you can fund IT. Again, to be good stewards of the tax dollars, you would be giving a grant that could not be funded because the project -- how this RFP goes out, IT went out and IT was due in March 6 of 2024. Here We are again in 2026. I know They took the service agreements out. But this is another reason why, after five years, youre getting something that you cannot use to be able to have systematic actual economic development for the small property owners. If you have the ones that does have affordable housing bdg, They have a hundred units plus. They dont have the areas that We have where We need to put SIX units or 20 units or ten units. They dont have the experience. If you have a family or a property owner say how can you help me and They can build a pretty picture, but theres no feasibility, theres no marketing, no developer consultant how to do a capital stack to fund IT. None of the projects expect to have hundred percent CRA financing. How do you make sure you bring the financing to the project for true development for our community? But here again, five years later, They are providing you with information for People who cannot help East Tampa develop their projects. Develop their land. Thats why I ask you to look at the service agreement because They are not even being held accountable for bringing you information five years later that cannot be used to be able to help them. So you would be putting the money into the projects that They have no feasibility, no marketing. We brought IT to you in the beginning based on Florida housing finance to help small developers really develop, make sure the projects are fiscally financeable. And what you have here does not provide that. Please strengthen your service agreement and please on Friday, We dont need this list. We need to be able to have predevelopment grants and People come to you with their project partners to be able to develop. Thank you.

10:46:12AM Valerie, I have friends that I want to buy that shirt for. Hill, thats where im from. Ill talk about number 22. Theres got to be a way for The City to work with the Homeowners instead of placing liens on their property, by trying to clean up the property and then the Homeowner got to pay them. And I want to say this, when IT come to slum and blight, The City is one of the biggest contributors. All of those lots they bought, the infill lawsuits, if you pass by some of them, they are not up to code. And they look like somebody havent mowed in like SIX years. The grass All The Way up to your neck, and then they do do IT probably once a year. If The City isnt abiding by their own rules, how can they try to push and make the Homeowners abide by the rules. Theres got to be a way that The City can work with the Homeowner. Some Kind Of Way. Just dont take the people house, put a lien on IT. I really want to talk about 39 because im confused. The City Of Tampa, they block the box to make Returning Citizens easier to get a job. Well, right here, they say they are doing a background check and give the people $75,000 for the background check. So did we block the box or did we just doing what we want to do? If you block the box, you are saying, okay, you dont have to put down you are a convicted felon or being arrested or nothing, and we still hire you. I have no problem, after the person getting hired, then you want to do a background check so you can see what was going on. I have no problem with that. But if you are going to block the box and still do a background check on me before looking at my credentials before I get hired, that doesnt make any sense. I also want to talk about East Tampa and Abbye and the guy who came up here and did the presentation. When IT comes to The City Of Tampa, IT cant be one playbook we are using for all neighborhoods. The needs for South Tampa is different from East Tampa. The needs for West Tampa is different from Hyde Park. And we have to understand that every neighborhood is unique and we need to abide by that. Because what I was hearing when he was talking, oh, were going to have subdivision in East Tampa. Youll have cdd and HOA fees. Its got to be uniform just like in riverview. The house got to look like this. Got to be painted that color. Thats not what we want and we dont want another burden. We are already paying high insurance, high taxes, and a high mortgage. Now you want to make US try to pay this. I remember when Ybor City, they started with theirs. Oh, youve got to have certain windows, certain doors. If house catch on fire, you got to build IT like this. Thats good if I have $180,000 in the bank. But if my house was the only asset I had and I was trying to keep IT, thats a bad idea.

10:49:22AM Thank you. Joe Citro, followed by Ashley Morrow. Good morning, mr. Citro. Its citro, c-i-t-r-o. For the record, 33611. I congratulate all of you on choosing wisely your appointments for the crc. Citro, c-i-t-r-o. This is an advisory committee that yourselves have hand picked. Two of you know that, that was on a past charter review committee. To send memorandums to advise this advisory committee that you are not going to hear anything on certain sections is a disservice to the people that you have chosen. Please allow this charter review to do their work. Ive been to several neighborhood committees that have been concerned about the proposed baseball stadium. Now, these people are concerned mostly about traffic. We have heard a Governor that says he wants this baseball stadium. We have heard at least two county commissioners say they want IT. And we have heard a Councilperson who has consistently said its a done deal. Three of you are members of the Tpo. Transportation Planning Organization. I myself am a member of the CAC for that committee. Now is the time to open discussions on transportation around that area. If you wait until the stadium is completed, IT will be too late. I asked you, the CAC asked you to please start discussions about transportation around this stadium now. I will see the three members that are on the Tpo Wednesday and ask for the same requests. Council, I thank you for your time.

10:51:36AM Thank you, Mr. Citro. Ashley Morrow, my favorite three minutes, followed by Sandra Pardue. My name is Ashley Morrow. Today im not going to be sharing tampas Black history but ill be saying more of a thank you to City Council, to all the people that have been supportive of me for the past -- especially last month. Last month was very busy. But at least I was able to go out and share a lot of tampas history last month. And thats the main goal. Im going to start here. In 2020, as some of you know, im a photographer. I was out there shooting the protest. I eventually created Black Tampa historians where I would go and record Black elders in the community. I created a tribute card game. Emancipation day celebration. Fred Hearns, before I joined the History Center. I met Ms. Royster, the one that basically highlighted Madam Fortune Taylor, got the bridge. Started again, the conversation had started already but she definitely energized that conversation again. Ursula Odom. She pointed me to her. Very successful bus tour this weekend. Pointed me to Fred Hearns who brought me into the History Center who pointed me to Rodney Kite Powell who taught me a lot about digging into the archives and learning about maps. I want to take this time to say thank you. I dont want you to think I do this all myself and do all the highlights. I know you only get so many lines and so many minutes, cant include all this information. I want to say thank you to the people that I have been working with and learning from over the past few years. Returning the spotlight to these people that have put me on their platforms and I really appreciate them as well. Nina is in the room right now. Plenty of people that have also shared this history on their own platform. I really appreciate them. Tbabj is presided by Sandra Weathers. I appreciate her and her efforts to get Black journalism out. This is a thank-you to you all. I appreciate you all. You keep me going. The businesses that have hired, photography business, I appreciate you all. If you did not hire me, I -- if im not making money, I would not be up here. If I dont show up here, that means im not doing well in life. So thank you. This is my family. I appreciate my family, the morrow family. Thats my grandma. Thats me. And my great grandma lucille and Norris Morrow. Now I am filing to be a Nonprofit. Im excited about that. Over the past year, people have been trying to give me money. I have nothing to put money into. I dont need money. Well, let me buy coffee. I dont drink coffee like that. But ill create a Nonprofit -- thank you, Gregory. He puts me in contact with somebody who wants to do funding. Next one end of next March and I have a Youth Program.

10:55:03AM Congratulations. IT is our favorite three minutes. Sandra Pardue followed by John Greene. Sandra Pardue. I live in the downtown area in the river arts neighborhood district. I love living there. Im willing to enjoy all the amenities, all the good things and im willing to put up with some of the negatives. However, there is one negative that my neighbors dont want to put up with anymore and we would like you to do something about IT. That is construction noise starts some mornings at 5 am. We are asking you to think about the city codes and ordinances and fix them, amend them, do whatever we need to do to make sure we dont have construction on large or small projects that start at 5 am. The start of the project isnt always necessarily banging. Sometimes its just the backing up noises of the trucks making deliveries. So ive got a petition circulating in my neighborhood. ID like to read you a part of the petition. I e-mailed each of you a copy, or a link to the petition this morning. So if you have staff members that want to check that out, you can find IT through that link. Part of the petition says, tampas downtown river arts district and channelside district are unique areas that blend residential and business interests. These neighborhoods rely heavily on the citys commitment to maintaining a harmonious living environment. IT is the City Of Tampa's responsibility to create and maintain conditions that are in the best interest of all Residents and business people. Failing this could lead to declining health and well-being for our community. Its proven scientific -- there is proven scientific evidence that sleep disturbance creates health problems. So thats what I mean when I talk about health and safety issues. City Council and Code Enforcement need to take action by addressing our concerns. Look at the noise ordinance, and look at the changes that are going to be proposed in the near future, I hope, to help safeguard the rights of Residents and to help them enjoy their homes without the constant disruption of early morning construction. Other metropolitan areas have adopted similar policies and found balanced solutions, offering businesses ample working hours while respecting Residents' peaceful nights. Tampa should follow suit. My request is that you follow through whenever there is an opportunity to look at the noise ordinances and the codes and make sure that they are in step with today, not 15 years ago when some of them were created. Thank you so much for your time and attention. I appreciate you.

10:57:39AM Thank you, Sandra. John Green followed by Bishop Michelle B. Patty. I just want to say thanks to every and each one of you for taking up the issue for the sex toys being displayed in the stores. Specifically to Councilwoman Naya Young for pushing the issue and getting IT to the forefront.

10:58:05AM Start with your name. John, start with your name. I just had an issue with the Attorney reading the wrong statute, and I was a little confused about that. But I pulled up and IT is 847.012. Subsection 1 says knowingly means having the general knowledge of reason to know or a belief or grounds for a belief warrants further inspection or inquiry of both. Then you go down to subsection 3, a person May not knowingly sell, rent, loan for monetary consideration to a minor, subsection 3a says -- let me get IT right now -- any picture, photograph, drawing, sculpture, motion picture film, video cassette tape, on and on, in which She mentioned, right, but She forgot this piece. This is just one of the two Florida statutes that we have presented initially. So I appreciate the Attorney. Im not an Attorney, but I appreciate the Attorney looking into IT. But I just didnt think She went far enough to delve into these Florida statutes which can really put a bigger scope on these sex stores. Not only that, if we get one of these stores or two of the stores, IT would be good for the city and county at large because its happening all over. Its not just for East Tampa, Sulphur Springs. Its for the community at-large. All our kids are being harmed by this act right here and thank you.

11:00:03AM Thank you, sir. Bishop Michelle B. Patty followed by Pastor Williams. Bishop, you can start with your name and you have three minutes. Im Bishop Michelle B. Patty. I would also like to thank all of the Council members for having involvement in trying to get a handle on the situation concerning the sex toys. Councilman Miranda, we say thank you by the Code Enforcement. That is a good step in the right direction. Two days ago, there was arrest of 89 people that was trying to solicit sex from children. Whats very disturbing, one of those people was an employee at Hillsborough High School. That should be concerning to all of US. Now, when we get to the statute, as we see that evidently the councilperson did not go in-depth or far enough, but I highlighted something here that I think is very most interesting, with 847.011. The items are deemed obscene -- lets start at the top. While selling general adult novelty is not automatically a felon, a convenience store risks violating Florida statute 847.011 If the items are deemed obscene by the Community Standards. Many retailers avoid the risk by not carrying such items or by ensuring they are not in view of minors. So the community has come out and spoken loud and clear that these things, when youre seeing a sex toy that has the anatomy of a man and you can see everything, that is obscene. So all this about our first amendment right, this has nothing to do with freedom of speech. They are not making a speech. They are selling -- they are selling these products, where some of the stores have done just this, taken them out of view, taken them off the shelf, there are others. So we need to be cohesive in what laws that we can put to ensure that this is not done anywhere. Under that same statute its stated that each city, county, need to enforce an ordinance so that IT would be uniform to stop the practice of whats going on. Our children are vulnerable. They are innocent, and now these type of things make IT even more easier for Sex Offenders to manipulate our children, when our kids going to buy a piece of candy they think its all right because IT is in the convenience store. Were asking the Council to push further. Make sure you do your due diligence so that the City Of Tampa can be that next great city that ive always heard about, and we need to protect our youth. They are being preyed on by all facets of people and all walks of life. Once again to the Council, we say thank you for all that you are doing, but we need to do more.

11:03:34AM Thank you, Bishop. Pastor Williams followed by Surgret Doss. Pastor. Good morning, sir. -- used to be located at 1112 East Scott Street until the people decided to run me out of there by threats and everything. But we have to understand here, I thank God you all give me the three seconds where I can try to defend myself. Thats all im trying to do to defend myself. Im not trying to defend nobody else. I got to defend myself in order to be able to work with other people. Like I just said, were not concerned about Ybor City and belmont heights and jackson heights. Were not concerned about them at all. Only people we are concerned about most is ourselves. We want to give ourselves a raise and thats IT. We dont care nothing about the other people. Im here to tell you this morning, we should be concerned about all people. White, Black, yellow, whatever color they want to be. And be concerned about them. But we dont care. We dont care. This gentleman got up here a few minutes ago and spoke what looked like over an hour. But I dont even know what thats all about. And you dont either, I dont think. If you did, you would react. Im getting ready to hit the streets and preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thats my problem. I thank God that he give me a long life. I could go out and preach. I need to get a car from all of you all. I know the police will come run me off of there. Im a Preacher, and thats what ill be until I go to the graveyard. Im happy to be here to speak up for myself, and thanks be to God. He gave me a long life. You all pray that your God give you all a long life. And be truthful about IT. Treat people right. Thank God that we are here. I found a book here this morning. Its called City Council of Tampa in celebration of old city hall. Thank God for that. We need to look at the people. Look At The Way they have been treating people in belmont heights and jackson heights. Flood ponds, aint doing nothing about IT. Really should build a stadium and baseball stadium. Build another flood pond and we can be happy about IT. We have to understand. Thank you all for hearing me.

11:07:03AM Thank you, Pastor. Have a beautiful day. Surgret Doss followed by Robin Lockett. Good morning, Mr. Doss. Surgret Doss. At the last hearing, a Young Lady asked me why I always shout out the university of Thomas Jefferson high school. Ill get to that a little bit later on. After I address what I wanted to address last week when I was still -- was told you would push IT back to October. So I wanted to address whats going into this new code of ethics regarding whether or not and if IT will have something whether or not Tampa Police officers can covertly exchange e-mails with sitting judges during police investigations of so-called suspects. I asked because thats what happened to me in 2017 when this citys Police Department and the head of mayors security and several others, including that sitting judge colluded to falsely accuse me of perjury. Now interestingly enough, a couple of you I heard are running for mayor. What I wanted to know is if you become that mayor or just continue to turn a blind eye to what goes on or demand an internal investigation of allegations. We now know apply to several people from the City Of Tampa. Ill get back to the question the Young Lady asked me. I had great people come across my path throughout my life. Despite my personally flaws, great people along the path in my journey, my parents, today my birthday, that includes Mr. Howard, Mr. Bernie, mr. -- Ms. Robinson, Ms. Faulk and Ms. Sullivan and many of the others actually was in Mississippi. Of course, had other outstanding teachers and professors as well and too many of them to mention, Although Dr. Williams who bled over so many of -- holds a Special Place in my heart because she made me a more intense writer. I have to give a great shout-out to Coach Mack, Coach Barnes, Coach Dawson, Coach Hub, and Coach Neagle who made me a wide receiver, By The Way, and the winningest Black coach in Hillsborough County history, Nelson. The one thing I learned at the university was how to compete. How not to give up and if you get knocked down, how to get back up and keep fighting. To the Young Lady who asked that question, there is your answer. Ive been all over the world and had the opportunity to see a lot of things either through my parents' service commitment or through my own. But its because of the university that I was able to complete this on time. Anybody can look that up. Its also not my fault that either you nor your parents made sure that you got to attend the greatest institution of higher learning in the City Of Tampa, the university of Thomas Jefferson high school.

11:10:13AM Thank you, sir. Have a good day. Robin Lockett. That will conclude public comment. Robin? Good morning, Council. Im going to make this a fun statement. I attended the greatest school, Tech, Tech, Tech, Tampa Bay Tech. And we have -- the greatest school ever. Thank you. Thats IT.

11:10:45AM Thats IT. You are now my favorite public comment of the day. Thank you. That concludes public comment. Anybody in the public that is requesting reconsideration of legislative matters? Hearing none, were going to move on to the consent agenda. Councilman Viera is not there. Miranda, please move items 6-16.

Charlie Miranda

11:11:15AM I move items 6 through 16.

Alan Clendenin

11:11:17AM Thank you. I have a motion from Councilman Miranda. A second from Councilman Maniscalco. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:11:22AM Thank you. I did want to talk about item 13 really quick. I did ask about the $427,000 for the barricades. Apparently they cost around like 7,600ish dollars each, so were only getting 60 barricades. I just wanted to share that.

Alan Clendenin

11:11:43AM We have a motion and second. All in favor, Aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Thank you so much. Councilwoman Young, Neighborhoods And Community Affairs. Can you move 18 through -- 17 was removed.

Naya Young

11:12:02AM I move items 18 through 25 and 27 through 30.

Guido Maniscalco

11:12:19AM Second.

Alan Clendenin

11:12:20AM We have a motion from Councilwoman Young, a second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. We did remove -- We moved -- [inaudible]

Naya Young

11:12:35AM Got IT. Sorry.

Alan Clendenin

11:12:36AM Councilman Maniscalco, can you move items 31 through 35.

Guido Maniscalco

11:12:39AM I move items 31 through 35.

Alan Clendenin

11:12:42AM Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Encore performance by Councilman Miranda. Can you move 36 through 41.

Charlie Miranda

11:12:51AM Move 36, Mr. Chairman, through 41.

Alan Clendenin

11:12:54AM Motion from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Thank you. Development And Economic Opportunity Committee, Councilman Carlson, can you move 42 through 51.

Bill Carlson

11:13:06AM Move 42 through 51.

Alan Clendenin

11:13:08AM Motion from Carlson and second from Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Councilwoman Hurtak, Mobility And Asset Management.

Lynn Hurtak

11:13:15AM Move items 52 and 53.

Alan Clendenin

11:13:18AM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilman Miranda, moving items 52 and 53. All in favor Aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Motion to set public hearings for 54, 55, 56.

Guido Maniscalco

11:13:28AM 54 through 56 public hearings.

Alan Clendenin

11:13:31AM Motion from Maniscalco, second from Miranda. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Can I get a motion to open the 10 am. Public hearings.

Guido Maniscalco

11:13:37AM Move to open the 10 am. Public hearings.

Alan Clendenin

11:13:42AM We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda to open the public hearings. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Thank you so much. The 10:00 is non-quasi-judicial. Nobody has to be sworn in for that. Item 57.

Ross Samons

11:13:58AM Ross Samons, Development Coordination, presenting file vac-25-08. This is an ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption. And also being amended by substitute ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption. This ordinance is proposed vacating, closing and discontinuing and abandoning alleyway located North Of Swann Avenue, South Of Bay Street, East Of Brevard Avenue and West Of Magnolia Avenue. Im available if you have any questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:14:27AM Council have any questions?

Martin Shelby

11:14:32AM Just if there are any substantive differences, if Mr. Samons knows, just to inform Council.

Ross Samons

11:14:39AM There was a memo submitted from the City Attorney's Office to Council.

Alan Clendenin

11:14:48AM Applicant? Kami Corbett with the law firm of Hill Ward Henderson. Here representing the Applicant and our firm also represents the owners of 614 bay and 611 swann. Those are the office buildings that are there. You previously heard that this was at first reading passed and then what was added in between was an easement for Solid Waste and an easement, cross-access easement between the parties. Im here to answer any questions should you have any.

11:15:21AM Council have any questions? Hearing none, very good. Anybody from the public wishing to speak to item 57? Start with your name, please. I oppose the vacating of this alley. I was not able to address my opposition of this application to vacate this alley as I was -- I misunderstood and believed the vacating of the alley was also withdrawn. There is not a need to vacate this alley at this time, as there is no proposed site plan. But there is a need for the alley to be accessible for properties that now use this alley for recycle, waste, and dumpster pickup. Dumpster pickup requires a larger area. 60 feet of unobstructed length, 20 feet in width, and 23 feet of vertical clearance. This ensures the collection truck safely maneuvers for pickup container. Number two, parking for these properties on 614 and 611 swann and bay requires access through this alley for their parking. You can see here, there is the parking, there is the parking, there is the garbage. TECO and Spectrum currently use this alley and only agree to the vacating if another easement can be provided, which is not available at this time. I dont know the specifics of the agreement between the applicant and the properties, but IT seems inappropriate to vacate this alley at this time without a proposed plan in front of City Council. Again, I just want to show you, there IT is. There is another one over here. Building, alley here. Parking over here, parking over here. Trash and all recycle pickup here and Another Dumpster Way in the back. I just wanted you all to know that IT is necessary. Thank you very much.

11:17:45AM Next speaker, please. Bobbie O'brien. I live On Bay Street. I was here when IT was first passed by Council. Im here just to remind you and give you a little bit of history of that alley. This is the 1915 Sanborn map. IT shows the complete alley. IT also shows this segment here as part of an alley. Then we move to the 31 map. Here IT shows IT was cut out for miniature golf course. Believe IT or not, IT would be great if they put one back. But you still have that side alley and then the alley here. And finally, this is the Sanborn map of 1951, just to show you its part of the fabric of Hyde Park. And what im concerned about, even though I know its second reading and you all usually dont change your votes, but I wanted to just remind you of what some of the things you might end up with. We ended up with the Bank Of Tampa because there was no one regulating when IT got built in a way. This is where their dumpsters are now, right next to the sidewalk access. And they are usually full. This is an easy one. This also shows the City Crews having to Repair Magnolia Street. Two of the four streets that bound this area are brick streets, bay and magnolia. I suggest that you maybe reconsider first off maintaining the historic character of Hyde Park which means alleys. Thats where the access is not only for utilities, but for garbage. Closure of this, even though there is an easement now, future closure of this means garbage trucks on the brick streets, meaning were going to have more repairs needed. Secondly, the alley access is essential for protecting those brick streets. IT is part of the citys own codes in the historic to protect your brick streets. Protecting IT means using the alley where they have the access for garbage trucks, for parking accessibility as well. I understand that the property owners are going to want a huge block, not broken up by alley. Im just suggesting IT is part of a historic district. Please consider or reconsider. And thank you for granting the easements when you first did have the vote. And thank you very much. Its been interesting watching today.

11:20:56AM Anybody else from the public wishing to speak to this item? Hearing none, applicant, do you want rebuttal? I appreciate the individuals who are looking out for the owners of 611 and 614, but I do represent them. They are in support of the closure of this alley. This alley is not functional. This red part has been vacated since 1926. I would also like to direct your attention to the memorandum you got from Mr. Wigginton in which Solid Waste actually said there is no need or want for the easement, and IT no longer uses the alleyway for pickup, but we are providing the easement anyway. And we did provide the easements that council requested. Im happy to answer any questions.

11:21:38AM Council have any questions? Hearing none, can I get a motion to close? Motion to close from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Viera. Councilman Viera, would you like to read this item? All those in favor of closing say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Councilman Viera.

Luis Viera

11:21:50AM Yes, sir. I move an ordinance -- strike that, a substitute ordinance -- I read the substitute one, yes. Presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance of the City Of Tampa, Florida, vacating, closing, discontinuing and abandoning that alleyway located North Of Swann Avenue, South Of Bay Street, East Of Brevard Avenue, West Of Magnolia Avenue, within the revised map of packwoods subdivision, a subdivision in the City Of Tampa, Hillsborough County, Florida as more fully described in section 2 hereof subject to certain covenants, conditions and restrictions as more particularly set foreign herein, providing for enforcement and penalties for violations, providing for definitions, interpretations and repealing conflicts, providing for severability, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:22:34AM Motion from Councilman Viera. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Clerk, can you call the roll, please?

Lynn Hurtak

11:22:39AM Yes.

Luis Viera

11:22:42AM Yes.

Bill Carlson

11:22:43AM No.

Charlie Miranda

11:22:45AM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

11:22:47AM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

11:22:47AM Yes.

The Clerk

11:22:49AM Motion carried with Carlson voting no and Young being absent at vote.

Alan Clendenin

11:22:54AM Thank you very much. Item number 10 is a quasi-judicial hearing -- im sorry, 40. Im looking at 10 am. I definitely need coffee. Item number 58 and item number 59 are quasi-judicials. Actually, the rest of the 10:00 public hearings are quasi-judicial. Fur planning on speaking to any of the quasi-judicial hearings, please stand and raise your right hand to be sworn in by our Clerk. The testimony that you are about to provide is the truth and nothing but the truth?

11:23:32AM Item 58, please. For the record, Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. Item number 58 is rez 26-05. This item is a rezoning request for a property located at 4001 South Lynwood Avenue. The request is to rezone from RS 60 to RS 50. Since this is a euclidean rezoning, there are no site plans. Im available for any questions.

11:23:56AM Council have any questions? Hearing none. Applicant? Steven? Were you sworn in? Unmute yourself. Its on your end, sir. You have to unmute yourself. Hes calling in reinforcements. There you go.

11:24:32AM Can you raise your right hand, please? About to provide is the truth and nothing but the truth?

11:24:44AM Thank you. Sir. Is there anything you would like to add to your presentation? Just a request of Council that they would approve the Council.

11:24:57AM Stephen, can you state your name, please?

11:25:03AM Thank you. Is that all? Does Council have any questions for the applicant? Hearing none, anybody in the public who wishes to speak to this item? Hearing none, can I get a motion to close? Motion to close from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Councilman Carlson, can you read item 58, please?

Bill Carlson

11:25:21AM Sure. Move item 58, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 4001 South Lynwood Avenue in the City of Tampa, Florida, and more particularly described in section 1 from zoning district classification RS 60, residential, single-family detached to rs-50, residential, single-family detached, providing an effective date. This is file number rez-26-05.

Alan Clendenin

11:25:48AM Thank you. We have a motion from Councilman Carlson. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Councilman Viera, you were absent at the votes of 58 and 59, have you reviewed the hearings?

Luis Viera

11:25:58AM Yes, I reviewed these originally because I was there. Yes, Sir, I did.

Alan Clendenin

11:26:01AM Thank you. Roll call, please.

Naya Young

11:26:04AM Yes.

Luis Viera

11:26:05AM Yes.

Bill Carlson

11:26:05AM Yes.

Charlie Miranda

11:26:07AM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

11:26:08AM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

11:26:10AM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

11:26:11AM Yes.

The Clerk

11:26:12AM The motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

11:26:15AM Thank you very much. On to 59.

Christopher Demanche

11:26:18AM For the record, Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. Item number 59 is rez 26-15. This is a rezoning request for property located at 312 North Manhattan Avenue. Request is to rezone from RS 50 to RM 18. Since this is euclidean rezoning, there are no site plans and im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:26:39AM Any questions? Hearing none, Applicant. Were you sworn in?

11:26:44AM Please raise your right hand. About to provide is the truth and nothing but the truth?

11:26:53AM Thank you. Anything you would like to add for the record? I was going to say, my name is Gisele Mota. Im the authorized agent for rez 26-15 at 312 manhattan. We appreciate the finding of consistency across all departments of the City Staff, and we encouraged to receive the unanimous approval of City Council at first reading. Im available for any questions. Thank you.

11:27:16AM Does Council have any questions? Hearing none, anybody from the public wishing to speak to item 59? Motion to close from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Councilwoman Young, would you like to read 59, please?

Naya Young

11:27:31AM File rez-26-15, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption. An ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 312 North Manhattan Avenue, in the City of Tampa, Florida and more particularly described in section 1 from zoning district classification RS 50 residential, single-family to RM 18, residential multifamily, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:27:53AM We have a motion from Councilwoman Young. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Mr. Shelby, did you want to say something?

Martin Shelby

11:27:59AM Its 312 north manhattan.

Naya Young

11:28:02AM 312 north manhattan.

Alan Clendenin

11:28:05AM Clerk, please call the roll.

Luis Viera

11:28:07AM Yes.

Bill Carlson

11:28:08AM Yes.

Charlie Miranda

11:28:09AM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

11:28:09AM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

11:28:11AM Yes.

Naya Young

11:28:12AM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

11:28:13AM Yes.

The Clerk

11:28:14AM Motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

11:28:16AM Thank you. Item number 60.

Christopher Demanche

11:28:18AM For the record, Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. Item number 60 is rez 25-125. Rezoning request for property located at 5215, 5301 and 5311 West Tyson Avenue. The request is to rezone from planned development to planned development to allow for residential multiple family, single-family attached, retail sales, which includes special goods, convenience goods, shoppers goods and lastly marina. Revisions have been completed and certified plans have been submitted to the clerks office. Im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:28:52AM Council have any questions? Hearing none, applicant. Annie Barnes, Stearns Weaver Miller, 401 East Jackson Street. Im available if you have any questions.

11:29:03AM Thank you. Council have any questions of the applicant? Hearing none, anybody in the public who wishes to speak to the item. Seeing none, motion to close from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. All in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:29:14AM Yes, file rez 25-125, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption. An ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 5215, 5301 and 5311 West Tyson Avenue 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, single-family attached, retail sales, specialty goods, convenience goods, shoppers goods, and marina, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:29:49AM We have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak, second from Councilman Miranda. Clerk, would you call the roll, please?

Bill Carlson

11:29:56AM Yes.

Charlie Miranda

11:29:57AM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

11:29:57AM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

11:29:59AM Yes.

Naya Young

11:30:00AM Yes.

Luis Viera

11:30:01AM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

11:30:02AM Yes.

The Clerk

11:30:03AM The motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

11:30:04AM Item number 61.

Christopher Demanche

11:30:06AM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Again, for the record, Christopher Demanche, Development Coordination. Item number 61 is rez 25-97. This is a rezoning request for property located at 3105 East Columbus Drive, 3001, 3003, 3004, 3007 and 3010 east 15th avenue. This request is to rezone from RM 16 and planned development to planned development for residential, multiple family. Revisions have been completed and certified plans have been submitted to the clerks office. Im available for any questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:30:39AM Council have any questions? Applicant? Street. Available if you have questions.

11:30:49AM Any questions for the applicant? Hearing none, anybody in the public who wishes to speak to item 61. Seeing none, motion to close from Councilman Miranda, second from Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Councilman Maniscalco, would you move -- would you read 61. If IT passes, move the resolution.

Guido Maniscalco

11:31:05AM Thank you very much. I have an ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 3105 East Columbus Drive and 3001, 3003, 3004, 3007 and 3010 east 15th avenue in the City of Tampa, Florida and more particularly described in section 1 from zoning district classification RM 16 residential, multifamily and PD, planned development to PD planned development, residential, multifamily, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:31:31AM We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. A second from Councilman Miranda. Clerk, call the roll, please.

Charlie Miranda

11:31:35AM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

11:31:37AM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

11:31:37AM Yes.

Naya Young

11:31:38AM Yes.

Luis Viera

11:31:40AM Yes.

Bill Carlson

11:31:41AM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

11:31:42AM Yes.

The Clerk

11:31:43AM Motion carried unanimously.

Guido Maniscalco

11:31:49AM ID like to go ahead and move the resolution.

Alan Clendenin

11:31:51AM Motion to move the resolution associated with 61 by Councilman Maniscalco. Seconded by Councilman Miranda. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. That concludes our 10 am. Public hearings. Well move on to our administrative update.

Martin Shelby

11:32:05AM Martin Shelby, City Council attorney, in keeping with past practices, if the clerk can confirm number 68 does not require staff, but that is the revolving loan, if you would like to move that at this time.

Lynn Hurtak

11:32:21AM Motion to move 68.

Alan Clendenin

11:32:28AM Got IT. Motion to move item 68 from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Thank you.

Martin Shelby

11:32:35AM Thank you, Council.

Alan Clendenin

11:32:36AM Administrative update. After that, well hear the financial resolution. Kelly Austin, director of human resources here on behalf of chief of staff who is under the weather today. Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak with you. As Council is aware, we were negotiating with the Iff on a collective bargaining agreement and those negotiations concluded on February 2nd. After that process, the Iff has to go out solicit and educate their members and then they take IT out for a vote. They are in the process of voting right now. Their last voting is tomorrow, and will conclude at 3:30. In speaking with President Stocco yesterday, they were very confident. They had a good turnout. They do believe IT will be a favorable result. So anticipating that, we are asking Council if IT would be okay to add that onto the March 12 evening meeting agenda to present that for councils approval for ratification. And the reason that wed like to bring IT forward on the 12th, as you know, Council has spring break, and some of the components of the collective bargaining agreement go into effect April 1st. This would give US time to build any components we need to in the system, make sure IT works appropriately, get the pay rates loaded and all of those things so that IT is seamless and IT does go into effect April 1st for those bargaining unit members. The only process thing I would ask Council would be okay with is I believe the agenda information has to usually go in Friday by noon. I wouldnt feel comfortable submitting IT until that vote is actually closed and President Stocco calls me and says that theyve got an agreement. If IT would be okay, Attorney Johns has said she would work with the City Clerk's Office first thing Monday morning. I already have the collective bargaining agreement pretty much ready to send to Council and we also have an executive summary. First thing Monday morning we would be prepared to send that to you, but we wouldnt be able to do IT Friday.

11:34:39AM Ive been working closely with the Administration on this. This is part of making the Firefighters whole if this passes. Also procedure. We dont want to get in front as they are voting on the contract, so we worked out an informal deal that we make the coordination on Monday morning, but they are here -- Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

11:34:58AM Like to move to waive the rules to enable HR to submit the documents on Monday instead of Friday.

Alan Clendenin

11:35:03AM We have a motion and second. All in favor, Aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT.

Guido Maniscalco

11:35:07AM May I make a motion then to set this on the March 12 evening agenda immediately after the commendation.

Alan Clendenin

11:35:14AM Were not doing that yet. IT is a protocol thing. Im working with the Clerk's Office on Monday to do that because We dont want to get in front of the vote. I do think you need to make a motion to actually add IT to the agenda for March 12.

11:35:35AM I thought we were going to handle IT as an informal walk-on.

Martin Shelby

11:35:39AM If theres no objection by Mr. Stocco representing the Union, if we know that, and if theres no objection by the Administration and on councils recommendation, Ms. Johns' recommendation, I would agree that is probably the best practice with regard to notice to the public.

Alan Clendenin

11:35:55AM Just different than what Chief Bennett had discussed with me. He didnt want to get in front of the unions vote.

Martin Shelby

11:36:03AM I dont believe thats anybodys intention.

Rebecca Johns

11:36:05AM If IT doesnt go through for some reason, we can remove IT from the agenda.

Martin Shelby

11:36:12AM Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. Just also, that gives the opportunity for notice to the public and before you move IT and adopt IT, because IT is a final action, youll have to give the public the opportunity to come, if that is their desire.

Alan Clendenin

11:36:24AM I get IT. Again, the reason why, one of my background in labor, and Chief Bennett reaching out to me to ask that, thats why -- I think we were proceeding extra level of cautiousness on protocol with the Labor Union and still wanting to keep them whole and keep the administration, give them the latitude they need to get Everything In Place to implement the changes.

Martin Shelby

11:36:46AM I was in on the call. At the time, IT did seem that was the practice that would be adopted.

Rebecca Johns

11:36:51AM I have not spoken to Him about that. If that was your conversation with Him, then you can --

Alan Clendenin

11:36:57AM Why dont we hold this vote and you guys coordinate with the Chief and find out -- and The Union and find out what the plan is.

Martin Shelby

11:37:04AM As long as theres no objection, we can come back.

Bill Carlson

11:37:08AM I dont like IT when the Administration walks on items. I would much rather the public get a chance and with apologies to The Union or the Negotiators in advance, we can always pull this off. But for the public sake, I think we should try to avoid walk-ons.

Rebecca Johns

11:37:22AM Do you want me to get in touch with him and come back today?

Alan Clendenin

11:37:25AM Lets hold this until after lunch. At least were all clear. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:37:29AM I agree with Councilman Carlson. I just think we should set IT and then we can always take IT off if IT doesnt pass, but I agree, The Public as soon as possible needs to be aware of IT, to be on the agenda with the background information.

Martin Shelby

11:37:44AM My understanding is that the draft agenda would be released tomorrow, am I correct in that?

The Clerk

11:37:52AM That is correct. This would be my recommendation. I can work with Rebecca Johns on language to put on the agenda for the title. That would be in the background, but work on a title so IT would appear on the draft and then that would avoid any numbering issues as well.

Rebecca Johns

11:38:09AM If we know by 4:00, I dont think the draft agenda comes out before then. So I can get in touch with Suling immediately as soon as we know whether to put IT on the agenda or not.

Alan Clendenin

11:38:22AM Councilman Maniscalco, can we take the motion? A Motion To Place the language that the Clerk will work on to hold the Number And Place on the agenda, the language, and then when we know, fill in the background information.

Guido Maniscalco

11:38:37AM Motion now or after lunch?

Alan Clendenin

11:38:39AM Seems consensus to go.

Guido Maniscalco

11:38:41AM The motion Is To Place this -- would IT be the collective bargaining agreement with the Fire Union on the May 12 evening agenda -- sorry. Im waiting for summer. On the March 12 evening agenda right after the commendation that we have already listed.

Alan Clendenin

11:39:03AM We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

11:39:07AM Suling, anything else that we need to say so that you can put draft or whatever on there?

The Clerk

11:39:13AM Not at this time. [Inaudible]

Alan Clendenin

11:39:18AM Also, the clerks office is working much more closely with the chairs office on these agenda items. So were communicating closely on these things. Very good. Anything else? Now we get part b. All those in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Part b. Administrative update b. Partnerships. Thank you so much for the opportunity, Chair, and Council, to speak about the Social Action And Arts Fund, also known as Saaf. A quick update on whats Taken Place so far in advance of the financial resolution that youll also hear shortly. Over the past few years, weve had several very dedicated employees who have worked very meticulously on top of their regular duties to disburse and manage millions of dollars to our local nonprofits. Recently, we centralized the Saaf program under the community engagement and partnerships portfolio so that we can increase our efficiencies and be able to not only assist our internal colleagues but to make sure those agencies that were supporting are getting the level of service that they deserve as well. So in addition to centralizing the Saaf program in community engagement and partnerships, we also have a dedicated program coordinator, Andrew Elman, a familiar face to all of you who youll hear from shortly as well. With this centralization also comes added quality assurance. So now with that program coordinator and having just one point of contact for all the organizations, well be able to come back to Council as a body to share in good faith how these invested dollars are being put to use and making sure they are being used to leverage and improve the quality assurance for the people in the communities that we serve. So were very excited about this opportunity to work with these nonprofits. Many of them, we already work alongside them, and just, again, being able to come back to Council and to the public with a report card, so to speak, of how the dollars are being invested and put to work for the people in the communities that we serve. IT is something we are definitely looking forward to as well. I would also like to bring up my team member, Andrew Elman, who is going to share with you the next steps pending the approval of the financial resolution. Thank you. Partnerships. There will be a resolution coming in front of you guys later today. That will finalize the list of all of the organizations under Saaf for fiscal year 2026. That will include 58 organizations totaling $1.5 Million broken into three tiers. Tier one is $10,000 and under. Which is a one-time payment. Tier 2 is 10 thousand and one dollar to $24,999 being quarterly payments. Tier 3 anything over $25,000 also being quarterly payments. Im available if you guys have any questions. Thank you very much.

Guido Maniscalco

11:42:48AM Thank You for all your hard work. I know Our Office reached out to You regarding certain nonprofits. You are always responsive. We miss You here and glad to see You again. Best of luck to You. Youre doing a great job.

Alan Clendenin

11:43:03AM He does not speak for all of US. [ laughter Andrew wouldnt know what IT was like if I was saying something nice. Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

11:43:12AM Its good that we never had a proper good-bye party for You. You ate my cake. [ laughter

Alan Clendenin

11:43:25AM Were going to move right into adopting the financial resolution. Probably not popular for saying this. The process --

Martin Shelby

11:43:34AM Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. I just confirmed with the clerk, there is nothing for you to vote on. She does not have a copy of the resolution. IT would be later today.

Alan Clendenin

11:43:43AM They havent -- They didnt submit IT?

Martin Shelby

11:43:47AM No. Thats my understanding. I asked The Clerk. The Public is not aware of IT.

Alan Clendenin

11:43:52AM IT was a Walk-On.

Martin Shelby

11:43:54AM Even if IT is a walk-on, have to have a presentation and the public should have an opportunity. Something we can cure easily if there is an issue. The other thing is, I just wanted to ask, I just asked the Clerk if she has anything filed and she said no. My suggestion theres nothing for you --

The Clerk

11:44:11AM [Inaudible]

Martin Shelby

11:44:17AM 717 pm. There is something that You have that youre able to accept. Okay.

Alan Clendenin

11:44:25AM Do you have a copy of IT or need to borrow mine? I apologize.

Martin Shelby

11:44:31AM The Clerk will be able to take IT. Based on the conversation that was held a couple of meetings ago when there was the additional allotment of money to several of the organizations and the addition of two organizations, I believe.

Alan Clendenin

11:45:04AM I think Everybody is concerned about the general fund money and table of dollars more than the text. This is page one of two I believe.

11:45:22AM You All should have received that in your e-mail last night.

Bill Carlson

11:45:28AM Just to add to what she said, we spent two hours or so talking about this before and the public also weighed in. This is not a new list. This information reflects what was presented by Ms. Kopesky during a previous council meeting.

Alan Clendenin

11:45:44AM I want to say, again, as we start looking towards FY '27, this started off really strong in councils intent and then kind of spiraled out of control. In the end. I think we need to be more -- striking at strategic goals of the city. Councilman Carlson spoke to this numerous times as well. As we look into FY '27 and what were supporting, I think we also have to make sure these nonprofits, people that we have historically supported understand that just because -- will in future dates, because I think -- weve all received those e-mails that people are surprised that they didnt get funding. So somehow, if I could ask your department, one of you all to reach out to anybody that were providing funding, let them understand this is only one fiscal year, and IT does not imply that future support or funding by the City Of Tampa and that next year, whatever that process will be, IT will be. But -- I dont want anybody to be surprised. Nobody likes to be surprised. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:46:51AM I just wanted to while were on the subject, just remind folks that we are going to have a City Council workshop session about this on May 28, just really about how -- a discussion of strategy. Not funding specific organizations, but how we do a strategy. So I think were all looking forward to that conversation. IT is a good time now to go ahead and get your ideas and thoughts and ducks in a row. I know we can talk to in Elman about that and Ms. Kopesky, leading up to that, to have a really robust discussion. So looking forward to that. I agree.

Alan Clendenin

11:47:29AM Very good. Any other comments? Councilwoman young.

Naya Young

11:47:33AM Just to say I have worked a Nonprofit many years so I am a strong supporter of Nonprofits and the work they do. Im looking forward to that meeting because I think, you know, you want -- when you are working a Nonprofit, you want to see, okay, how am I filling in the gaps of what the city or county cant do. We were always looking at, okay, where is the gap and how can We fill that in? We always, always have our backup and plan b because We know that funding is not always guaranteed. Although I will say as a Nonprofit executive committee funding is always a great thing to have. But I think IT will be really good, robust conversation. And -- so im just happy that We are funding our Nonprofits. I know all these on the list provide a lot of services in our city and our community with our youth, whether IT is with our seniors, so many different things. So I think this is a really good thing that were doing as a city. I appreciate US for doing this.

Alan Clendenin

11:48:33AM Thank you. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:48:34AM I just want to move the resolution.

Alan Clendenin

11:48:36AM We have a motion to move the financial resolution from Councilwoman Hurtak. A second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have IT.

The Clerk

11:48:45AM Motion carried with Carlson being absent at vote.

Alan Clendenin

11:48:48AM Thank you. I think we have time -- this should be a quick one. 71. Carl Brody.

Carl Brody

11:48:58AM Good morning. Carl Brody from Legal. I have before you today a draft -- and this is just the proposed draft ordinance. I want to be clear. I did work with Councilman Viera some on putting some language together for Veterans Affairs Committee. But as you know, because of the sunshine law, I cant work with each of you and have IT done as a collaborative. Thats what today is for. Just for you to see kind of the outline of what we believe would be an effective ordinance that would provide or create a Veterans Affairs Committee, which would be primarily responsible for ceremonial activities. But also be able to coordinate with the other veteran organizations in the community and bring more awareness to veterans for the city. This is kind of a good time for US to talk and figure out what language -- how you think IT should be structured.

Alan Clendenin

11:49:58AM This is submitted in our e-mail just like two days ago, right? Didnt we get this already? Have you e-mailed this to US?

Carl Brody

11:50:07AM Yes. IT was provided previously.

Alan Clendenin

11:50:10AM I didnt know if IT was just me. Im confused because I was expecting that We would just have a motion to accept the draft.

Carl Brody

11:50:22AM Thats also an option.

Alan Clendenin

11:50:24AM I didnt know if you anticipated there is more work to be done from staffs perspective.

Carl Brody

11:50:30AM Not from staffs perspective. Just to make sure that all the members of council are comfortable --

Alan Clendenin

11:50:36AM Are members of Council comfortable with this?

Luis Viera

11:50:41AM This is great. I think this is marvelous. My vision was to have something kind of like we have the Hispanic Advisory Board, African American advisory board, something like this. And especially, like you said, for ceremonies. Because years ago, the city would kind of defer to the County on a lot of these things, I think, purple heart day, Memorial Day and so forth. I think we ought to have our own. Nothing separate from the County, about you in addition to what the County does. I go to the County things as well. I think they are all wonderful. But to have a board that is appointed by Council that does this, I think is great, so that we can kind of take the lead in doing these either in the courtyard or wherever IT might be. I know in September we will be having the Lieutenant Baldomero Lopez statue coming to water with, very excited about that. Maybe get the committee up and running by then. I know a lot of good people who would want to be a part of IT. I support this, and this is wonderful. So thank you.

Alan Clendenin

11:51:44AM Would you like to move that?

Luis Viera

11:51:46AM If I May, I move.

Alan Clendenin

11:51:48AM Marty Shelby.

Martin Shelby

11:51:51AM The motion would then Be To Place this on a future agenda. What is the next available date.

11:51:58AM Can we do IT by the 2nd?

Carl Brody

11:52:01AM Absolutely. That would be for first reading.

Alan Clendenin

11:52:05AM We have a motion from councilman Viera To Place this on the April 2nd agenda, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT. Thank you very much. Okay. We are done early. I dont think we can accomplish anything else before lunch. At 1:30, be prepared for a review hearing, and then the rest of the staff reports. I anticipate hopefully. Hopefully we will be out early. We are going to be at lunch until -- lets get hear a little bit early, 1:25. Just a few minutes early. 125. 125. [ sounding gavel were at lunch. [Lunch recess]

01:31:17PM Being well-fed. Welcome back to Tampa City Council. Call the roll.

Charlie Miranda

01:31:24PM Here.

Guido Maniscalco

01:31:26PM Here.

Lynn Hurtak

01:31:27PM Here.

Naya Young

01:31:31PM Here.

Bill Carlson

01:31:32PM Here.

Alan Clendenin

01:31:34PM Here. We have a quorum.

01:31:38PM A motion to move the City Council public hearings. Council Member Carlson sent an e-mail that he had an emergency he had to respond to and will not return to council this afternoon. He is absent.

Lynn Hurtak

01:31:58PM Motion to reschedule file number SU 125-59-c to April 16, 2026 at 1:30 pm., 315 E. Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, Florida 33602.

Alan Clendenin

01:32:14PM Thank you. That motion is due to a misnotice and could not be heard and scheduled for April 16, 2026, 1:30 pm. At --

Lynn Hurtak

01:32:25PM I already did. Alan Clendenin: he was pointing at you like you missed something. What?

Martin Shelby

01:32:35PM Wait, I am sorry.

Alan Clendenin

01:32:36PM A motion from councilwoman Hurtak. Seconded from council member Maniscalco. All in favor, say aye. Opposed, the ayes have IT. That is enough of yous.

Martin Shelby

01:32:47PM Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

01:32:49PM Thank you. We will go on to item number 62. If you are here to speak to item 62, please stand, raise your right hand and be sworn in by our Clerk. [Swearing in] thank you, yes, maam.

Camaria Pettis-Mackle

01:33:08PM Pettis-Mackle from the Legal Department. Item number 62 is file number fdn-25-156-c to consider a recommended order with a petition for review for fdn-25-156 for the property 4312 West Laurel Street. A Hearing Officer conducted a review hearing on December 5, 2025, pursuant to City Of Tampa code section 27-61, subsections j-c. That Hearing Officer filed a recommended order granting a petition and approving a legal nonconforming use of the property located at 4312 West Laurel Street. I have provided a copy of the recommended order previously, and you also have a copy before you for this hearing in order to take your next action. And now pursuant to code section 27-61, we are at the phase where City Council should take action regarding the recommended order. Code section 27-61, subjection J-1-E-III gives the provisions and actions that City Council can take regarding the recommended order. City Council can adopt the recommended order as final, reject the recommended order or to modify the recommended order. 27-61 goes on to state that the City Council May not reject or modify any findings of fact reached by the Hearing Officer and gives some exceptions. If City Council determines that a finding of fact is not based on competent, substantial evidence contained in the record or that a finding of fact does not comply with the essential requirements of law, City Council May remand the matter back to the Hearing Officer. And lastly, code section 27-61 goes on to say if City Council rejects or modifies a conclusion of law, IT must state with particularity in the final order the reasons. IT must make a finding that is -- that its substitution of a conclusion of law is as or more reasonable than that which was rejected or modified. Regarding this matter, as I previously stated, the de novo hearing Already Took Place. This is only before you to consider the recommended order, which you have in your possession. The City Of Tampa did not file a request for oral arguments or exceptions regarding this matter. So I will turn IT over to Mr. Shelby if you have any questions but you have the recommended order before you. And I previously provided the record regarding this matter.

Alan Clendenin

01:36:01PM Mr. Shelby.

Martin Shelby

01:36:03PM Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. I want to affirm everything that Miss Pettis-Mackle states with review 27-61. You will not be hearing from anybody other than what you heard procedurally because, again, there are no exceptions to this recommended order, and there is no request for oral argument. So my suggestion is that having the opportunity to review the order and then again you heard the options that you have with regard to taking action on IT. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

01:36:35PM Thank you. Do you understand? The first time you have done this.

Naya Young

01:36:41PM Yes.

Martin Shelby

01:36:44PM For everybodys benefit, this -- and Miss Mackle can certainly augment this. This is a process that the code allows to bypass having a de novo hearing before the City Council. Is that correct, for final -- well, for final decision. IT ultimately goes to a Hearing Officer?

Camaria Pettis-Mackle

01:37:05PM A Hearing Officer conducts the de novo hearing.

Martin Shelby

01:37:08PM Hearing Officer conducts the de novo on a former decision.

Camaria Pettis-Mackle

01:37:13PM Correct.

Martin Shelby

01:37:14PM I want to be clear. Thank You. This is the process that obviates the need within the code to go through the findings fact and the conclusions of law. Those have all been provided for You in the form of a letter with a conclusion and a recommendation. So your choices are to accept IT, accept the recommendation or reject the recommendation, or if You modify IT, certain parameters that we can go through, but IT is very limited as to what You can do with wanting to change the recommendation and return with a different order. So my suggestion would be, if You havent had the opportunity to read this now previously, my recommendation would be that You take a few minutes to do that to have a level of comfort, and if You have any questions, answer them. What You have before You is something that no exceptions have opinion field to the order and no request for an oral argument before City Council. So that being the case, City Council can open IT up on their own, and I certainly would not have a recommendation because there is nothing upon which to base the recommendation on. So I am not going to pass judgment on that. But if You have any further questions, I will be happy to answer them.

Alan Clendenin

01:38:35PM Explain in plain language what the Council Person who havent gone through this before. What this means if you reject or adopt, what that means in plain language.

Martin Shelby

01:38:46PM Well, in this case, You want to be specific to this case?

Alan Clendenin

01:38:50PM Yes.

Martin Shelby

01:38:51PM In this case, the recommendation shows that the Petitioner -- I am quoting from IT. Met its burden of proof a duplex was lawfully approved for the City for over 70 years. The Hearing Officer recommends the City Council approve the petitioners request and reverse the citys denial of the petitioners request to certify the legal nonconforming use of the property as a duplex. And if you have any questions as to what that means, we will talk about that, but basically, IT is to reverse a decision by the zoning administer and grant the property in question as a legal nonconforming use. Got IT? Council member Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

01:39:51PM I am thinking about myself. I got this right now. I dont know about other council members. Im going to digest and make the decision. They had IT for how long?

Martin Shelby

01:40:07PM Actually, Council, in all fairness, and You should know about this and maybe we need to change the process in order to be briefed on IT, but what happens is when this is even first set by City Council on the agenda where You actually set hearings for review attaches the order and in the back-up material. IT also shows up in the hearing for the agenda review under the agenda for that number in on base. What this is doing for those Council members -- and if we do need to have a briefing in advance of this to discuss this privately, I am going to take that under advisement and perhaps we can do this so You are not in a position where You are going to be presented with this for the first time. IT May mean changing the process maybe with the code.

Charlie Miranda

01:41:07PM Im not going to Vote One Way or the other. I havent read IT and to digest IT and read IT in 15 minutes would be a concept of treason on both sides of the issues. I havent read this or digested this. And I am supposed to vote on IT.

Alan Clendenin

01:41:24PM Council Member Viera first. Council Member Viera?

Luis Viera

01:41:31PM I will say perhaps --

Charlie Miranda

01:41:33PM I am not objecting to IT. I am saying what I am saying.

Luis Viera

01:41:36PM I will say maybe perhaps -- this isnt on you, Marty, because you wouldnt know, but IT would be good to let Council Members know something like this we have an order and what you do with IT, and talk about IT just before. Like nothing -- no ball was dropped or anything of that nature. If City Council Members -- Council Member Miranda, maybe hear from the parties each.

Martin Shelby

01:42:06PM Here -- I have to share with You and the first time Council Member Young has been facing this. Things that came in the past and Mr. Chairman, there used to be a time when there was no discussion and You had to go forward. Perhaps there was oral argument. But in case, there is none. But You actually -- the last time this was heard, You actually gave the Council an opportunity.

Alan Clendenin

01:42:39PM I am going to see if we can get past this point.

Martin Shelby

01:42:42PM Your intention --

Alan Clendenin

01:42:45PM Why dont we cut to this chase where Mr. Shelby was going. What I would like to do is take a short break of ten minutes to allow folks that have not had the opportunity to review the documents to review those documents. And we will reconvene at 1:53 pm. So you can review these documents, and we will reconvene at 1:53 pm.

Lynn Hurtak

01:43:06PM We have to stay here to read them?

Alan Clendenin

01:43:09PM You dont have to stay here. But You have to be back by 1:53.

Martin Shelby

01:43:18PM I will make myself available individually. Sunshine Law is you cant talk amongst yourselves. Please do not. I will make myself available if you have any questions.

Alan Clendenin

01:43:27PM 155.

Charlie Miranda

01:43:32PM I am not questioning your motive, Mr. Chairman, but you mean to tell me you are going to sit each individually and go over ten minutes, which will be an hour and a half.

Martin Shelby

01:43:44PM I have a feeling that the order speaks for itself, and if You have any procedural questions, I will be happy to answer them for You. I have read IT and pretty straightforward and pretty clear.

Alan Clendenin

01:43:55PM I read IT.

Lynn Hurtak

01:43:57PM We had them.

Alan Clendenin

01:43:59PM I was mostly concerned of Councilwoman Young because she havent gone through one of these hearings before, and I asked Marty Shelby to provide a little bit more information, because a lot of this stuff that is new to her. These things that come up every once in a while.

Martin Shelby

01:44:15PM Does not happen often for Council, and IT does happen and a different process than what you normally have a de novo hearing.

Alan Clendenin

01:44:23PM Magistrate had that.

Martin Shelby

01:44:25PM Magistrate had that.

Alan Clendenin

01:44:28PM Now that we talked a little more, you get your request. 155 pm. Read at will. [Recess]

Charlie Miranda

01:55:52PM Here.

Guido Maniscalco

01:55:54PM Here.

Lynn Hurtak

01:55:55PM Here.

Naya Young

01:55:57PM Here.

Alan Clendenin

01:55:58PM Here.

Clerk

01:56:00PM We have a physical quorum. City Council has an opportunity to review the magistrates recommended order granting a petition approving legal nonconforming use. What is the will of council?

Guido Maniscalco

01:56:13PM Nothing for the Petitioner to say?

Alan Clendenin

01:56:16PM You could have three things. See them on front of your screen right there. One Person on Council has to say one of those three things.

Martin Shelby

01:56:25PM Any questions that you wish to have from me procedurally I will be anticipate to answer them, Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. You can not take public comment.

Alan Clendenin

01:56:37PM This is IT.

Lynn Hurtak

01:56:38PM Do we need to close?

Martin Shelby

01:56:41PM You never opened a public hearing.

Alan Clendenin

01:56:43PM Go ahead and make a motion.

Guido Maniscalco

01:56:46PM Motion to close the public hearing.

Alan Clendenin

01:56:51PM Motion to close from Council Member Maniscalco. Seconded. Council Member Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

01:56:56PM I would like to make a motion to adopt the recommended order as final. To clarify, the recommended order says that City Council approve the petitioners petition.

Luis Viera

01:57:11PM Second.

Guido Maniscalco

01:57:12PM Reverse The City's denial of the request to certify the legal nonconforming use.

Alan Clendenin

01:57:18PM Or say adopt the recommended order as final.

Lynn Hurtak

01:57:21PM Well --

Alan Clendenin

01:57:25PM Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

01:57:26PM Add in the address 4312 West Laurel Street so we know what we are talking about.

Alan Clendenin

01:57:32PM For future reference. We will go ahead and take IT. Keeping IT simple is best.

Martin Shelby

01:57:37PM Actually, accurate is best.

Alan Clendenin

01:57:41PM Pick and choose the pieces of IT because we May miss something.

01:57:45PM A motion from Council Member Maniscalco. Seconded from Council Member Viera. Roll call vote, please.

Luis Viera

01:57:51PM Yes.

Clerk

01:57:54PM Carlson is absent.

Charlie Miranda

01:57:56PM I am going to vote yes and use IT for something else later on.

Guido Maniscalco

01:58:00PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

01:58:01PM Yes.

Naya Young

01:58:02PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

01:58:03PM Yes.

Clerk

01:58:04PM Motion carried unanimously with Carlson being absent at vote.

Alan Clendenin

01:58:10PM Thank you, conclusion of the public hearings. Staff report, 66.

Lynn Hurtak

01:58:16PM And 67.

Alan Clendenin

01:58:17PM And 67 together. You are right. Who is here from Staff to present 66 and 67? There she is. I think you are on mute still. You are still on mute. Oh, there you go. Now talk. No. Can you tell which side IT is on? Okay. No. IT is your PC. Miss Colina.

Adriana Colina

01:58:57PM Do you hear me now?

Alan Clendenin

01:59:14PM We got you.

Adriana Colina

01:59:15PM Perfect. I apologize. On my end IT showed muted -- unmuted. Good morning, Chairman Clendenin and members of City Council, Adriana Colina, director of Logistics and Asset Management. Im here on 66 and 67. Requesting your approval of the guaranteed maximum price GMP for the centralization project. Im here to answer any questions that you May have.

Alan Clendenin

01:59:45PM Council have any questions? Hearing 66 and 67. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

01:59:50PM Yes. We got an e-mail at 10:30 last night about this. Because I asked during my prep meeting -- well, I highlighted IT. Thats why I am sending -- whoops, sorry. Yeah. So I highlighted what was sent to US last night, and Miss Sharp has a copy to put up on the Wolf for the public to see. I went back and looked at the CIP that We approved in September, and very clearly IT showed IT was a $12 million project, in September. Now all of a sudden, IT has risen a third of price. And in addition -- so I dont know why IT has been raised a third, but more importantly, how We are going to get that money is to bond another $7 million. So I am -- I am uncomfortable with this. I am not voting for IT because $18 million for -- I mean, did the scope change on this? You are muted again. And then -- yeah. Its up on the screen.

Adriana Colina

02:01:00PM Can you hear me now? Im not sure what is going on, and I so apologize. A couple of things I wanted to mention. You mentioned September. Please keep in mind that IT was an estimate until We received a guaranteed maximum price. When We entered into this process, which was actually in July of 2022, which is when the RFQ is designed and advertised a range of $14 million to $17 million. That was an estimate. Fast forward to where We are today and a lot has happened. Tariffs has impacted the Construction Industry greatly. Right now, I can tell you steel is up 50%. Aluminium is up 50%. Copper is up 40%. And so are other materials. In addition, Immigration Reform has impacted US greatly. In Florida, IT has affected the construction prices 38% of immigrants make up Construction Industry in Florida. Nationwide, that number is only 24%. That has impacted our industry. And then lets talk about the hurricanes that occurred in 2024. Materials became scarce for a lot things and drove the cost up greatly, as has insurance. So all of those things fast forward to when We received the guaranteed maximum price from our design build team in December. This is when We got this number of the $16 million -- or the $16.3 Million. I will tell you when We were working with them and We received what the number looked like, We value engineered this project greatly. We went from a two-story building that was going to house -- the second story was going to house training because We needed a place for heavy equipment, training to occur. And that has gone away. A one-story building, and We are moving the module -- HR is training out of 34th street there. We were initially looking at 20 ways to service our heavy equipment because We are servicing water. We are servicing Mobility. Er is servicing contract admin out of that site. And also services other general fund equipment. Because they cant come to Hannah. Another 180 pieces of equipment. We have reduced that from 20 days to 10 days. Sharing office space with Mobility. So at no point were We just trying to pass on costs. We have value engineered. And achieved savings in many areas just trying to keep the cost realistic, but does not exempt what is going on in the world, and this is truly where We are today.

Lynn Hurtak

02:03:54PM Thank you. Sounds like the scope of work has changed quite a bit. So im actually going to ask that you meet with each of US individually to brief US on this project and bring IT back to US. This is just -- I dont -- I am not -- I am not okay with approving this right now. I am also going to ask the Finance Group to find out what we can do to not bond this, because I am not going to bond $7 million more dollars -- I mean, for me. I am speaking for me. I really believe we need to stick within the budget we had. I am sorry IT took so long to get to this point, but, I mean, the scope of work obviously has been reduced. So then I am also concerned of growing into IT. So personally, I would like to continue this until we have the ability to talk to each Council Member separately for a briefing. How is April 16 for everybody?

Adriana Colina

02:04:57PM Can I just say one more thing? When the guaranteed maximum price was received, that was in December of 2025 that price is good for 60 days. When we look at the holidays, and we look -- we were able to get on the calendar. This is where we are right now. And we are already outside of the time. We did speak with Jp Morgan, and they were willing to hold with that price, and they told US that copper has increased. Just from last week, fuel prices have gone up $.27 A gallon. The number will continue to go up. Scope has not changed, I can tell you that. We have value engineered and happens on all projects just to keep IT -- just to keep the cost down. But the scope was to house fleet and to work on fleet. Scope was for mobility storage. Scope was for HR training, and that all has not changed. I am happy to talk to you later, but I want to go on the record and let everybody understand we are not looking at $16.3 Million, IT will be more.

Lynn Hurtak

02:06:04PM $184 Million.

Adriana Colina

02:06:07PM The total cost. We did the design. That is already paid for, but $16 million is the biggest chunk, $16.3 Is for the construction and I want to lock in. $18 million in the total part. We already paid the design part, but this is just for the construction, and the costs will also go up. I dont want to come across --

Lynn Hurtak

02:06:35PM Sorry You didnt choose to meet with US to tell US of this giant increase in price, but that -- We cant know that. We are literally with what is in front of US right now. And this is just too much of a change. I am not comfortable -- I am not going to approve IT. I dont know what You all think, but I am not going to vote for this.

Alan Clendenin

02:06:57PM I hear your concern, Councilwoman Hurtak, generally I would agree, but what Miss Colina say every day we see IT in the news and our own pocketbooks, and we see when we go to Publix. The economy is just terrible I think the point is. This is the cost, and we approve the design-build as opposed to an RFP. If this is the cost, this is the cost. The choice is, do we need this or not need this? Because --

Lynn Hurtak

02:07:30PM Administration believes we need everything.

Alan Clendenin

02:07:32PM My question to Council and to You. If You dont feel like we need the Fleet Maintenance decentralization process, and we dont need the services provided by this asset, I think the vote would be clear. Then, I would agree that, yeah, then You would want to reject IT. But if You feel like we are going to need those services, I dont -- especially with what is going on in the middle east and everything else, I dont prices to go down.

Lynn Hurtak

02:07:58PM But I expect them to stay within their means.

Alan Clendenin

02:08:01PM Again, we dont control the international market.

Lynn Hurtak

02:08:04PM You dont have a problem with bonding, but I do.

Alan Clendenin

02:08:07PM I have a huge problem with bonding certain things. I dont have a problem with generational bonding.

Lynn Hurtak

02:08:13PM You will tell me what You dont agree with bonding for. Give me one thing You wont bond.

Alan Clendenin

02:08:19PM Air conditioning for the Convention Center.

Lynn Hurtak

02:08:22PM Not a bondable issue. I am not supporting this because this Is Just Way too much money, and I think They need to bring the scope down even more to fit into the budget that They have been given. Sorry, the budget They promised the Citizens.

Alan Clendenin

02:08:36PM Then what happens --

Adriana Colina

02:08:40PM IT was an estimate. That is an important part of IT. An estimate and subject to different changes, and here is where We are. I also want to remind everyone that this is part of -- when We talk of the Solid Waste relocation, this site, The Clark Avenue site, is part of that, because IT is right next to Solid Waste, and IT is included in that parcel. So if We have stay, We have to stay. But understand that is part of the property and the parcel We are talking about in that location.

Luis Viera

02:09:11PM A question.

Alan Clendenin

02:09:14PM Council member Viera.

Luis Viera

02:09:15PM I know Councilwoman Hurtak is talking about in April. We are in what -- March 5. Would -- would a week potentially address your concerns?

Lynn Hurtak

02:09:27PM Unfortunately, We have a completely packed schedule the next regular council meeting. We dont have room to put this on the agenda.

Luis Viera

02:09:34PM I, for the record, will be willing to waive the rules if Miss Colina can speak to IT again. Because if they have that 60-day guarantee starting in December, I dont want to tempt fate with that, but if another week -- do you think if we were -- hypothetically, if we were to waive the rules and give you a chance to meet with folks that want to meet with you in the next week, will that further put US at risk, beyond 60 days? Will the additional week expose US?

Adriana Colina

02:10:08PM Answer is yes. I spoke to the Contractor, and They said IT already gone up $55,000. And They were wanting to try to hold to that, but cost had already gone up $55,000 when I told them We were going on March 5. So I will have to take that from our contingency and affects the project. IT is going up. Their costs are going up. They are not going to eat the costs. I am happy to speak with each of you. I will come before you in every stage of this process. And We come before you with this as well. And just as soon as We have information, We will share IT with you, but the price is going to go up unfortunately. I -- I have already tried. IT has gone up.

Luis Viera

02:10:52PM Thank you, maam.

Alan Clendenin

02:10:54PM Okay. So this is decision time. Item 67 is a resolution. Anybody would like to read the resolution? Whats that? IT is a resolution. Move the resolution. Anybody want to move the resolution, 67.

Guido Maniscalco

02:11:15PM What about 66?

Alan Clendenin

02:11:17PM 66 as well.

Guido Maniscalco

02:11:19PM I will move the resolution for 66.

Alan Clendenin

02:11:21PM A motion from council member Maniscalco. Do we have a second?

Charlie Miranda

02:11:24PM Providing -- am I voting for providing we get from Miss Colina's department how chronologically IT happened and what the costs are. Was that an estimate at the time you did -- whoever did the handling of this was IT an estimate or a price guarantee at that time?

Adriana Colina

02:11:44PM The $16.3 Million now is a guarantee. IT will not exceed that. Estimate prior to US receiving this from the contractor Design-Build Team was an estimate. So this is a guarantee.

Charlie Miranda

02:11:58PM Then elevate for IT, but I got to know that -- and I am not doubting you one word, but just for the record, for The Public, I will want that know how IT happened and why IT happened and so forth and so on. And I would just recommend that not only in your department but other departments in the cities that are doing -- facing these same items, including buying automobiles or whatever. I saw two trucks today for $211,000, which I dont know what kind of trucks, fords. Over $100,000 now for a car, a pick-up. Not if IT is a four ton or whatever IT is. But these things have got to be more closely -- not gathered but of what you are buying. A car. What kind of car? What is the need for IT? That kind of stuff. I think we are entitled to that. The Public is entitled to that. In fact, if you want to be like me, dont buy a new car. Go to the auction, buy four cars, you get the fifth one free. That is how I do IT, but I dont run the city. I am not afraid of taking a car with 8,000 or 10,000 miles on IT.

Alan Clendenin

02:13:12PM We have a motion and a second.

Martin Shelby

02:13:16PM I know what Council Member Miranda is requesting. But once you approve this, you authorize the Mayor to sign IT, and there is no going back. Irrespective of what you learn, gain, or hear after this vote, if you choose to vote for IT today, then -- then you lose -- then you lose jurisdiction.

Alan Clendenin

02:13:35PM That is the expenditure, but the bonding is not.

Martin Shelby

02:13:38PM The bonding is not. Ultimately, if You were presented with that issue, You will have to address that.

Lynn Hurtak

02:13:43PM We will have to bond that because We dont have any more money.

Alan Clendenin

02:13:47PM Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

02:13:49PM Obviously, this will pass, and I am incredibly disappointed, but why did IT take You until now? Why didnt You meet with each of US right after December 11 once You got IT? I mean, I am holding this project, this design-build project. Why didnt You come to US and individually brief US on the increase?

Adriana Colina

02:14:12PM My apologies. Again, IT wasnt an increase. IT was an estimate that we were working with prior. And I do had a briefing with you yesterday or the day before whatever IT was, and I did bring IT up at that time. And I did not do individual briefings. IT is not what I have done because IT has not come up to be an issue during the great eight updates. I can certainly do that moving forward, if you would like.

Lynn Hurtak

02:14:39PM Yes, I would. Because, again, this came out in December. You had plenty of time to tell US about IT, to get any feedback, and to share what You have done. I really shouldnt have to wait -- and I did talk about IT during my briefing. And I did ask where is the money coming from, and I didnt get that feedback until 10:30 last night. Therefore, I didnt see IT until this morning, which means I didnt know we were going to have to $7 million more dollars to make this work. That is my issue. Thank You.

Alan Clendenin

02:15:16PM Well, again -- council member Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

02:15:19PM I heard the word "bonding" four or five times from different individuals. You are damned if You do, and damned if You dont, and let me tell You why. You bond for 30 years, stays at interest rate at the same rate. You do this and that, and money will be stay at the same interest rate for 30 years. Maybe or maybe not. What does IT cost You if You dont have the money and bond IT. Same product 30 years from now could cost You more what You will lose and make in bonding. Prices are going to go up. A gallon of milk when I was a kid was a quarter. Now $4 or $5 depending on where You go. Is the salary the same, no. 30 years from now when You buy something, pay for IT at the end of 30 years, You dont say its an inflationary aid, like what we are talking about on this item. This pen -- felt pen or whatever You want to call IT in 30 years will cost more than double than what IT costs today. If You dont believe me, look at the market price of everything. IT is what IT is. I am not for bonding or against bonding. But I look at IT, when I borrow money, I will pay IT off, and my product will worth double of what I pay for. That is what I do.

Alan Clendenin

02:16:32PM Miss Colina, can you explain for my clarification what are the consequences to the city? If we chose not to move forward with this project? Just period. Not move forward with the project, what negative consequences will result from that decision?

Adriana Colina

02:16:48PM So, again, as part of the property attached to The Spruce Street, the Solid Waste relocation project. So that footprint there will be reduced significantly. And then the building that the team is currently servicing our heavy equipment out of right now was built in 1977. And I am not sure if any of you have been there, IT needs significant work for them to continue operating out of that. IT is very outdated. So that will be a cost as well.

Alan Clendenin

02:17:21PM So we wont able to get roi and the return on the property because we are counting on production. And we will have to reinvest in that building. Okay, thats good. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

02:17:36PM I would love to be able to tour that, and We are not allowed to do tours anymore.

Alan Clendenin

02:17:41PM I think we will hear about that later ap motion from council member Maniscalco -- did you want to speak?

Naya Young

02:17:47PM I just -- I just wanted to say because I -- I understand watch Councilwoman Hurtak is -- her concerns with this. And I think -- maybe this is a motion or a conversation that we need to have as a Council moving forward, you know, because I have been noticing that we have, you know, prices and things that go up. And a lot of that is contributed to cost of things going up because of tariffs or whatever is happening internationally. So, again, I dont know what -- if IT is a bigger -- a broader discussion that we need to have. Maybe is some of our larger scale project or is little bit more transparency with Administration when they see that there is a possibility that something is going to go up due to -- you know, something that is happening international so we know and that we can be a little more, you know, fiscally responsible. Because, I mean, I, myself, I dont like to have any debt either. I know that is definitely at the topic of conversation. And I also understand with Miss Colina what the projects are. I see both sides, but I would like to see US maybe just in the future if we see there is going to be price escalations because of what is happening to just kind of let US know so we can kind of stay informed as well. So I wanted to put that out there.

Alan Clendenin

02:19:16PM I think to restate what Miss Colina said, pretty much all you have our projects that We pay attention to the verbiage and the estimates and the gross maximum price that come out of these things. Until the gross maximum price number comes out, everything is on table and incredibly important with these projects and where We are at right now. We have the south howard flood project coming up. We dont have a gross maximum price on that. We screen all the details yet and the figures, if they work or if they dont. Pivotal on that. Final document that get in the hands. And finally, is that are dotted and the ts that are crossed. Gross maximum price doesnt come out until the end. Yes, maam?

Lynn Hurtak

02:20:04PM I will says IT probably time to see how many more projects We really can handle. Because that -- that is why We talked about the CIP. Why We talked of bonding on Tuesday. And IT is -- its going to get nothing but worse. And We are considering that property tax decrease that is happening. We cant -- yeah.

Alan Clendenin

02:20:26PM Okay. A motion and a second. Roll call, please.

Guido Maniscalco

02:20:31PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

02:20:34PM No.

Naya Young

02:20:35PM Yes.

Luis Viera

02:20:38PM Yes.

Charlie Miranda

02:20:40PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

02:20:44PM Yes.

Clerk

02:20:45PM Motion carried with Hurtak voting no and Carlson being absent at vote.

Alan Clendenin

02:20:50PM Who wants to move item 67.

Guido Maniscalco

02:20:53PM So moved.

Luis Viera

02:20:54PM Second.

Alan Clendenin

02:20:56PM Do roll call.

Charlie Miranda

02:20:58PM Yes.

Guido Maniscalco

02:21:03PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

02:21:04PM No.

Naya Young

02:21:06PM Yes.

Luis Viera

02:21:11PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

02:21:14PM Yes.

Clerk

02:21:14PM Motion carried with Hurtak voting no, and Carlson being absent at vote.

Alan Clendenin

02:21:20PM Very good. Thank you so much. We are now moving to item 69.

Luis Viera

02:21:25PM May I ask a question? I wasnt here. On item -- where was IT? The Public Safety Master Plan. Was that continued to March 26?

Lynn Hurtak

02:21:49PM Yes, You asked for IT.

Alan Clendenin

02:21:50PM We did what You asked US to do.

Luis Viera

02:21:53PM Thank you, guys. I appreciate you. Good morning or good afternoon. Assistant Chief Ruth Cate of the Tampa Police Department. And Richard Mutterback from CAD. And John from Wilder Architects to update you on this project. Last time, We were here in Council, We reported We were in the permitting phase, and that We were finishing up and ready to go to bid with this project. Since then We have put IT out to bid, and We have three contractors that have bid -- there We go. -- that have bid on this project so We have Kokolakis to take this contract on our behalf. And We hope that Council will agree with US and award the contract to them. So, as you May know, this started out as design-build and went out. We have actually two funding points for this, two pockets of money. We are so excited that has come back with considerably lower than what We expected IT to be, and We are ready to go to work on this project. So you want to give some of costs? Okay. So what are the costs? I think that is what everybody is most concerned about. So back in 2016, this -- there was a bank note that came to US and about a $2.6 Million that came from Solid Waste. I know We are seeing a lot of the work come from the project that is on 34th street involving the wastewater energy with Solid Waste. Tampa Police Department was displaced because of that. That is why We have this project. We were -- We have property purchase for US 5005 north howard. Between the purchase of the property and the design, We have spent approximately $7 million thus far. We are asking for the completion of project to be done. We will only need about $29 million more, which is considerably left. And Kokolakis came down at $21 million. What We need for committed things like furniture, and the tmi infrastructure will account for remaining $7 million, and that brings US up to $29 million. Plus the 3% contingency that We need in case of any unforeseen costs. Thats where We are at with this project.

Alan Clendenin

02:24:49PM Council Member Miranda, your light is on.

Charlie Miranda

02:24:54PM Stop and go with the car, but I am not with the car.

Alan Clendenin

02:24:58PM Council Member Maniscalco. Then councilwoman Hurtak.

Guido Maniscalco

02:25:02PM Without any hiccups, how long to do construction and how long will IT take? And come back on the 16th, and start shoveling the next day.

02:25:16PM Do you have a completed -- an estimated completion date or no? Finish the building. Tmi Infrastructure and the finishing of the pond May take up to SIX months longer and not much more. That is just a little bit.

02:25:35PM Ribbon cutting in 18 months after You begin construction?

02:25:41PM Prices you are showing. Kokolakis at $21.7 Million and an additional $7 million.

02:25:52PM Everything. No extra costs or extra surprises further beyond that?

02:25:59PM Guaranteed maximum price or stem. Will we have the same discussion like before where there is a budget resolution where we need another $5 million or $10 million, anything like that?

Richard Mutterback

02:26:11PM Richard Mutterback, director of contract administration. This is not a GMP because that is a design-build. This was as hard bid specification put out advertised, and these three contractors came back with these prices. This order to make any changes, they will have to do a change order in order to add anything to this.

Guido Maniscalco

02:26:34PM Okay. What about the rent that we are speaking to, I believe, IT is crocketts? $10000 a month. What happens now that IT is not an impound lot and the changes that come in? Times. We will still need to occasionally impound cars. Any bills associated with this will have to be played to crocketts, but we will not occupy the property with people here. Our employees will all come over to the new location, and through attrition, we will probably not need as many employees. I know we wont, but so we will be able to have less employees.

02:27:16PM Original idea of an impound lot will not be there. On a smaller scale, you can do IT but not the impound lot. I can give you an example. Our crime worked some prostitution stings. We can impound those cars. $500 of the city ordinance is what We collect. We can now -- what they have done is they come pay US. The lien We have on the car, its $500. They play crocketts. We are not housing those cars. We dont have to do that anymore and saves a lot of space.

02:27:56PM Since you are saving a lot of space, I know trees would be removed. Are those trees going to be preserved? Is IT too early to ask? Actually, there are two parcels of land. Original impound lot was about four acres. Overall, the two parcels are eight acres. Northern part is almost four acres. We do not take out those trees. There are some trees. We had an Arborist come out for our parking lot and the pond. There will be some trees removed, but the majority of the trees will stay.

02:28:30PM Okay. Last question regarding stormwater. Will -- are you -- The Way IT will be built, does that -- does the stormwater investments that We are making is that enough to handle what We need for -- you are talking eight acres. I mean, is IT going to be sufficient? That stormwater pond goes All The Way north into the other part of the land. And if We do that at a later date, and decide We want to develop that, IT will accommodate that.

02:29:07PM Thank you very much.

Lynn Hurtak

02:29:09PM I was next.

Charlie Miranda

02:29:11PM I yield to the former --

Alan Clendenin

02:29:13PM He had his light on. Thought He changed his mind.

Lynn Hurtak

02:29:16PM So how will the 30 paved large parking spots be used? We will use those for our large vehicles like our -- our command post and some of the larger vehicles that We have, our van. We also will use them for any high-valued vehicles that We have to store there are used -- for evidentiary purposes. Those spaces are very large. A normal parking space is about nine feet wide, and that is what they are supposed to be. But in reality, We can squeeze a lot into those. Because whatever We put there will not have to be moved for evidence reasons, but IT wont be for -- for the impounding of, like, its prostitution cars or the -- or the cars that We take for parking division because they were booted and owe US so as much money. That is the majority of the cars We have, but once State Attorney says there is no more value in holding this car as evidence, and We will move that over to a private vendor.

02:30:21PM How will the new enclosed garage space be utilized outside of the two vehicle evidence bays? Two will have lifts. Those are to process the cars. And then we dont have any lifts right now. We formally had lifts on 34th street, but a lift to bring the car up for processing of the evidence and looking to see where they have concealed IT, anything that is inside of there. Examine the car. Additionally, garage space is used right now in our Police garage that has a lot of room for our forensic vans. A lot of sensitive equipment in there that cant be exposed to light. And then when the Forensic Technicians return, and we dont want them carrying the evidence into the rain. IT will be under cover like they are now with headquarters.

02:31:15PM Okay. Going on what Council Member Maniscalco asked, an impound lot will no longer be on this site. How much space is available to build on that space that was dedicated -- that was originally dedicated to the impound lot? If you want to build something else in the future, how much more land is available for that? The trees.

02:31:42PM You said some of that is for stormwater, but how much is left, trees or no trees. Do an exact measurement for You, but the whole parcel up there is four acres. Maybe -- I dont think that stormwater possible on the north part takes up more than half the acre.

02:32:06PM Three and a half acres to build.

02:32:11PM That is fine. And council member Maniscalco already asked about the stormwater. What you are saying is that the stormwater could accommodate the building that we are building, plus the -- anything we built on the three and a half acres? Built to accommodate and should we build in the future on the three and a half acres.

02:32:38PM Okay. So IT is big enough.

02:32:40PM So you are saying We are still going to be renting -- We are still going to be renting from crocketts. How much are We expecting? Because right now $10,000 a month. What are We expecting IT to be in the future? Average tow bill is at the time. We roughly -- being at crocketts is cost neutral to US because our average bill for a tow truck and everything is up to about $10,000, im told by Mr. Schmid.

02:33:19PM I dont understand. Paying $10,000 a month and the whole point US so We werent paying $10,000 a month. How are We going to stop paying other people to hold stuff. If We are putting all our money to be paying into this, We shouldnt have to be paying any impound fees any more. IT is $10,000 because We are holding the cars.

02:33:59PM At crocketts. If there is a car We have to hold, maybe IT is the Parking Division, this car has $14,000 worth of parking citations, and We are holding that car until they pay IT off. Then We are responsible for that bill. And maybe if they never pay IT off, then We go with forfeiture and get our money back.

02:34:24PM I would love when you bring back the final, if you could kind of work to figure out what that projection would be monthly. There has to be a way to project what you anticipate spending on that. So I would love to know what the Department anticipates because you can project how many cars you can hold within a year. How We got to this $10,000 number to begin with knowing how much land We needed. So I would love a projection. Obviously, IT will not be perfect, but a projection what We plan to spend per month. I can tell you that two mondays ago, We had 60 cars. Then they did a prostitution sting, and We have 100 cars and getting rid of them. We dont have months like that. So there will be -- yeah, IT depends, you know, crime is down. So hopefully those costs continue to go down.

02:35:20PM Maybe just look at the last couple of years. See how IT has gone and see what we might. Because, again, there are just goes toward what we are trying to do. I appreciate that. So Wilder Architecture is serving as the project manager? Why are we using an architect as a project manager? Here with US anymore. This project was first done under Logistic Asset Management. I am a police officer who can give you a kilo of cocaine on a reverse case and arrest that john, but I cant tell you how this build a project. So I defer to my expert here, mr. -- well, Wilder, Mr. Thompson. And he tells me this is what -- Chief Kate, this is what you should do. This is the best practices. This is -- we are on line here.

02:36:17PM I am just curious.

Richard Mutterback

02:36:19PM When we put this out here for Project Manager, I mean, IT goes out to our Architecture And Engineering Firms who do and --

Lynn Hurtak

02:36:30PM They were chosen?

Richard Mutterback

02:36:32PM Yes, They have the availability, yes.

Lynn Hurtak

02:36:34PM We found out -- heard from public comment of the new barriers that were purchased or were purchasing, the 60 new big, heavy barriers. So I asked, where are we going to store these? I was told they will be stored here at in New Howard Avenue site. Where? Where we going to store stuff like that? That.

02:36:59PM Part of the 30 paved large parking spots. Right now, they are being stored near -- at the Training Facility.

02:37:07PM Okay. One last question about the numbers again. So IT is $21.7 Million to build. $7 million spent for land and design.

02:37:20PM Total is $27 million -- or $29 million. Thats IT, all We are spending? We spent $7 million so far, but, remember, there is part of the project that is the owner fees that We will be paying, like the allowance for furniture. Moving the furniture. Relocation of evidence. We do have to work with the bicycle storage, permitting fees, and the tni. That doesnt go under Kokolakis part. So that is --

02:37:58PM What we are saying, how much is that then?

02:38:04PM So $21.8 Million plus $7 million, plus $7 million.

02:38:11PM And thats pretty much the $40 million we have projected.

02:38:17PM We only got $5 million off of this? We had design-build. And now We put IT out. So in order for IT to be built, We were asking for the $40 million for IT to be built. We already have encumbered the money for what We have done so far. So You will be getting back -- a little -- $11.6 Million.

02:38:46PM Thats right, Mr. Perry started at a total $48 million.

Michael Perry

02:38:52PM Thats correct, Mike Perry, Revenue and Finance. $48 million project. We are coming in doing last-minute reconciliations with items to be bought by the city, etc. So we estimate that the total project will be between about $33 million to $36 million. So when we come back to you, with the GMP, we will have all those numbers finalized. Good thing is -- well, we will actually present you a financial resolution to reduce the budget to the project to answer Mr. Maniscalco's question.

Lynn Hurtak

02:39:32PM Thats great. Bringing this back in April?

Michael Perry

02:39:36PM Whenever you approve the GMP. We will have the financial resolution with that.

Lynn Hurtak

02:39:41PM When do you expect to get the GMP?

Richard Mutterback

02:39:45PM Again, no GMP. This is bid. Kokolakis is the firm. Waiting for US to award this probably. By ordinance, we have to bring IT twice, 14 days in between. Second meeting this month being the 26th, then April 2, not 14 days in between that and May be some scheduling conflict so we originally planned to bring IT on the 26th, but the second reading for the actual award on April 16 but now April 2 due to scheduling.

Lynn Hurtak

02:40:19PM What you are saying looking at $22 million for the build instead of the $40 million?

Richard Mutterback

02:40:24PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

02:40:25PM Is that is what You are coming up to US. Not a guaranteed maximum price. Just the build.

Richard Mutterback

02:40:31PM The budget itself thats accomodates the soft cost. Budget portion there.

Lynn Hurtak

02:40:37PM Only thing I also would like to see is some sort of guarantee for the $7 million build-out. Because I dont want this project to ends in 18 months and You come and say, well, actually, We need 10. Some of that money accounts for the refrigerator and stuff. If We can safely remove those and repurpose those, You will get money back. I dont foresee coming and saying I need $3 million for furniture or storage equipment or anything. That shouldnt ever happen. Yeah.

02:41:15PM I just want to say thank you so much for the work you put into this. And to be able to take almost $13 million off what we estimated is really wonderful. So congratulations.

Alan Clendenin

02:41:26PM Also on the buildout, we are not using a contractor for that. So we are not having to pay an overage fee or management fee. We are doing much of that ourselves. Refrigerators. City of Tampa Purchasing Department for those things?

02:41:46PM We are not having to pay a contractor premium because We have In-House People to do that stuff?

02:41:54PM Not using our own people. Council member Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

02:41:57PM Thank you very much. I dont know IT very well. That center field or right field did Drain That Way and flooded. I dont know if you have that same problem there or not on the -- on southeastern portion of the property. I dont know if IT still drains or still stays without drainage. Because last time I saw IT, IT was kind of wet. I am not aware of IT.

02:42:27PM If You have different types of cars there, I would imagine once a while a Dog will come in to sniff so nothing inside the wheel well. You will not take a guess, for whatever means, You have for a Dog to sniff IT out. Different cars have different crimes for different things. Al view of car has -- with what is inside the car.

02:43:03PM Guarantee to build does not include things like furniture. Im not into that. What You have to do when You set up your department, setting all the intricate whatever You pick up In The Street that You have You have to show as evidence in the future. You have to have that and a special area located where nobody can get in other than the Person With The Key.

02:43:25PM These are things you have to do sure the case, whatever the case will be. One, two, three, four. All in order so Somebody can say I object because of this, that and the other.

02:43:39PM These are the things we are solving to get the City Of Tampa back on record. Orlando has IT. We have ours in, what, paper boxes.

02:43:52PM Of IT gets wet, the evidence is gone. IT catches fire, its evidence is gone. To make sure that your crime has dropped, and You have done a magnificent job. Kudos -- not just You but everybody in the Department, the Chief, and the new hires from yesterday. This at times save You a lot of money because You must be running something and doing something that You are not doing now, and I am not Privy-To-All that. Thank You very much for being here.

Alan Clendenin

02:44:26PM I will close IT up. I have been a little skeptical of this project from day one mostly because of cost and the budget implications and knowing we have an impending issue with Big Blue and relocation. One last question, how many employees after this relocation, how many employees at Big Blue?

02:44:50PM With that being said, I am much more agreeable to the project. I know IT is frustrating for You and everybody else involved, and We are trying to manage the needs in the city. And IT is difficult. Trying to keep all balls up in the air, and IT is difficult with rising costs and all these unknowns out here. So I appreciate You sticking with US. And thank You for working through the process and getting the bids in that are -- that are relatively reasonable considering the scope of the project. So thanks. Appreciate that. Look forward to You coming forward with the resolution and getting that on our calendar. And I think We are done with this now. Are We good?

02:45:30PM Thank you, all. That concludes our regularly scheduled program. We are done with our regular business. And We are now down to new business. I am going to start with council member Viera.

Luis Viera

02:45:43PM Yes, sir. Two quick ones, if I May. Did everybody get the invitation on Sunday evening for the Ramadan event?

Lynn Hurtak

02:45:51PM I will be there.

Luis Viera

02:45:52PM I was asked to do -- why I pulled Mr. Shelby up, either a resolution or commendation; therefore, IT would be easier to do a commendation. I want do a commendation for the month -- I believe IT is Muslims for democracy and fairness for their muslim heritage and Ramadan event, and we are all presented.

Martin Shelby

02:46:17PM Off-site then.

Luis Viera

02:46:19PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

02:46:20PM Motion from council member Viera. Seconded from Councilwoman Hurtak. All in favor, say aye. Opposed. The ayes have IT.

Luis Viera

02:46:26PM Thank you, Council. I am going to pass this out. Background on this. I wont make the motion today, but I will urge everybody to take a look. "Tampa Bay times" article with Amanda, who is a cuban immigrant booted from our country while pregnant and attorney Sam Bedowy took on her case pro bono, and this is, like, amazing. I want you all to see the case background before, but this is heartbreaking. And we should definitely honor that. But I will get that, if I May.

Alan Clendenin

02:47:00PM Do you remember our rules on City Council?

Luis Viera

02:47:04PM Commendations?

Alan Clendenin

02:47:09PM Have to do with City Business.

Luis Viera

02:47:10PM A lot of cubans here. But, if I May, I do also have a motion -- where is this? Mr. Chair, can I go back after the board member Young --

Alan Clendenin

02:47:23PM Refer to Council Member young.

Naya Young

02:47:25PM Okay. So I have a few things. So I did -- recently I had -- I did a Community tour with CEO and founder of Faith Action Ministry Alliance, Pastor Johnson in grant park. And IT was awesome. The Grant Park Christian Academy. The school is located at New Testament Worship center in grant park. And Fama along with an Alliance Of Partners develop Community services dedicating to transforming their neighborhood through collaboration and Door-To-Door services. Arizona Nursing Students go out into the Community and go door to door talking with communities to see what kind of needs they have. This is how they actually get their field experience while in school. And we also -- they have -- the new education building, which they are using for mentoring services and grant park and expanding out to highland pines. They have unhoused population and teenagers that are also helping -- we were in tour. They were actually helping to keep the neighborhood clean. And IT was really amazing to see. You have seen the transformation in the neighborhood, but how the Community is working together to transform their neighborhood is really remarkable. So I was very happy to see that. And telling Pastor Johnson. I said I would love to be able to replicate this throughout our district ten, 20 times and how the Community works together. I was happy to see that. I did a tour with Carl Johnson, the owner of the Florida School Of Woodwork. The Yellow Brick Road, went to the rialto and hot tub business, robinsons. IT was neat to see that as well. Another awesome example of Community and everyone kind of working together to build up that corridor. So IT was very nice. I also went to the historic belmont heights neighborhood meeting where I shared the success of grant park. I said I would love to be able to replicate this. And the Community members that were there, they were on board as well. So IT was very nice. And I also wanted to just let Community know that I have already kind of been in conversation with Code Enforcement and other departments to address the issues that came up about the corner stores. But also just with cleaning up in the Community. IT has come to me multiple, multiple times. The Community just wants to clean up their neighborhoods. So we have been work on that. Our office has been working on that. And I heard earlier assistance with our elderly before we get to a point where we have to intervene and put liens on the homes and what we can do to prevent that. Some of things we are talking about. And three motions that I want to make. So we know that the -- that the Planning Commission has finished the Sulphur Springs neighborhood action plan. And so I want to move to make a motion for staff to give a final report on the Sulphur Springs neighborhood action plan at the May 7 City Council meeting.

Martin Shelby

02:50:38PM Have you looked at that?

Naya Young

02:50:43PM I asked Them if that date was okay, and They said yeah.

Martin Shelby

02:50:47PM This is a Staff report? Okay, thank you. Planning Commission Staff or City Staff?

Naya Young

02:50:54PM IT would be planning --

Martin Shelby

02:51:00PM You can ask for staff and determine --

Naya Young

02:51:03PM For them to determine who needs -- I put staff, but I think City Planning Department.

Martin Shelby

02:51:09PM Will IT be -- the action plan will be related to the city code? Is IT Planning Commission or the city?

Naya Young

02:51:17PM IT was Planning Commission.

Martin Shelby

02:51:19PM If IT was the Planning Commission, they would have to be invited through your office.

Alan Clendenin

02:51:26PM You can reach out to them.

Naya Young

02:51:28PM Okay.

Martin Shelby

02:51:30PM You can request Staff and then follow up with Your Office.

Naya Young

02:51:34PM That is fine.

Alan Clendenin

02:51:36PM A motion from Council Member Young. A second from Councilwoman Hurtak. All in favor, say aye. Opposed. Ayes have IT.

Naya Young

02:51:43PM I would make motion of the City Of Tampa planning department Technical Working Groups to work with requirements for a specific budget request to take the next steps on an catalyst project or program for surface based on the priority actions and needs of identified by the community of the neighborhood action plan that is provided to US by the Neighborhood Action League.

Guido Maniscalco

02:52:07PM Second.

Alan Clendenin

02:52:10PM Motion and a second. All in favor, say aye.

Naya Young

02:52:12PM I talked to them, and I told them I would make this motion, and this is coming up. My last motion, a motion for Code Enforcement to do a five- or ten-minute report of how this they are maintaining and cleaning city-own lots. Those who are not maintained, what how they can be better stew words of our property.

Alan Clendenin

02:52:34PM What was the last date --

Naya Young

02:52:36PM May 7.

Alan Clendenin

02:52:37PM Fills US up.

Naya Young

02:52:40PM We only have two on May 7.

Alan Clendenin

02:52:45PM You added three?

Naya Young

02:52:48PM I have one for them to come -- with Staff to come to give a final report on neighborhood action plan. And then I want the Planning Department and the technical. Some for that project, had the Technical Working Group -- yes, if that is not too much. Maybe they can make IT -- maybe come by.

Alan Clendenin

02:53:06PM That fills up that day. Just so people understand that.

Naya Young

02:53:10PM Is that okay?

Alan Clendenin

02:53:14PM That is fine. You beat Viera for another date.

Luis Viera

02:53:18PM Oh, no.

Alan Clendenin

02:53:20PM You IT did --

Naya Young

02:53:22PM The reason I did that is because -- We will present the plan. But I want for them to work with the actual technical working group. Out of this plan. What is feasible for US to do and how do We move to get to the next steps. Why We did IT That Way.

Alan Clendenin

02:53:37PM Motion by Councilwoman Young. Second from council member Maniscalco. All in favor, say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT unanimously. Anything else.

Naya Young

02:53:46PM I am done.

Luis Viera

02:53:47PM If I have can, Mr. Chairman.

Alan Clendenin

02:53:49PM Council member Viera.

Luis Viera

02:53:52PM This is a motion for real estate. Merely for a written report on May 7. Again, just in writing. So there is in Washington dc. A memorial to Victims Of Communism that exists. I have been working for a while with a lot of different Hispanic and vietnamese groups and a lot of people here in Tampa that come as refugees from Communist, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba, etc. Some have interest of a memorial of Victims Of Communism. I had Sebastian print out a memorial for IT. Not for funding of memorial or anything of that nay CH you are. I would anticipate we get that from tallahassee. For real estate and Parks to report on the land.

Alan Clendenin

02:54:48PM I will throw myself on the sword on this one, council member Viera. I love you. I love you just more than just about everybody, but that is so far outside of the scope of what we do on City Council.

Luis Viera

02:55:00PM No, We have -- We have all sorts of memorials. I mean --

Alan Clendenin

02:55:05PM But not something that The City -- kind of outside of the pursue of what -- I think we will rely -- revised this soon after I have came on Council because gone down rabbit hole on some of these, especially when they tier on politics and any of the hot button items.

Luis Viera

02:55:25PM I dont think that people who --

Alan Clendenin

02:55:29PM We May have some Communists in the City Of Tampa that May disagree with you.

Lynn Hurtak

02:55:33PM Are you talking of people who are victims of Communism in the united states?

Luis Viera

02:55:40PM No. People fled communist countries as refugees.

Lynn Hurtak

02:55:45PM I am not sure why we need to have monument here for that.

Luis Viera

02:55:49PM We have many folks here. My Family that came from Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, we have a ton. Unique to the Tampa experience and many people like that.

Alan Clendenin

02:56:01PM I dont know.

Luis Viera

02:56:02PM No different than if we do a memorial for different tragedies that happened throughout history whether IT is or whatever IT May be. IT is proper for cities for have memorials on things like that.

Alan Clendenin

02:56:16PM A motion from council member Viera. Is there a second? Hearing no second. Love you.

Luis Viera

02:56:21PM A second for everyone on this. Because I will call this out. I am sorry. This is garbage. I should get a second on this.

Guido Maniscalco

02:56:30PM I will give you second.

Luis Viera

02:56:32PM Thank you. Lets have a vote on this.

Charlie Miranda

02:56:34PM Killed by the American Soldiers for no reason.

Luis Viera

02:56:38PM Somebody brings IT up.

Charlie Miranda

02:56:41PM I am tired of this. I really can. I love you and everything else, but I cant continue this.

Luis Viera

02:56:48PM Not city funding for the memorial but potential spots for IT in the event we work with Tallahassee as I am talking with people there as potentially funding one.

Charlie Miranda

02:56:57PM Find out what You want to do and get the funding -- You are putting the CART before the --

02:57:05PM I am not voting against IT. I am not voting period.

Alan Clendenin

02:57:08PM We have a motion and a second. All in favor, say aye. Opposed.

Charlie Miranda

02:57:14PM I abstain.

Lynn Hurtak

02:57:16PM Nay.

Luis Viera

02:57:18PM Roll call, please.

Martin Shelby

02:57:21PM I hate to do this.

Alan Clendenin

02:57:22PM I know. Dont we have a rule?

Martin Shelby

02:57:34PM There is a law unless You have a direct financial interest, You can not abstain.

Alan Clendenin

02:57:39PM I thought You were going to talk of a rule of council -- before we can make motions.

Martin Shelby

02:57:43PM Do you have rules about that? I dont think anything applies to what council member Viera was saying. Just a reminder, if you were silent, then that counts as an affirmative vote under roberts rule.

Charlie Miranda

02:57:57PM I am not afraid to vote, but I dont like to get surprised by this.

Luis Viera

02:58:02PM How about this, if I May, as a professional courtesy, if somebody says they are surprised. I respect that, council member Miranda. How about this. I will -- is there support for this right now? But this -- this is not controversial. There is no -- there is no surprise. I have no idea why in the world this is controversial.

Alan Clendenin

02:58:22PM Just a step over the line what is within our purview. If we were -- if we were members of Congress and dealing with international issues and -- I mean, would get IT. But Council. We deal with land use, trash, water. We deal with all these things. IT is just outside of our scope.

Luis Viera

02:58:45PM We just did a commendation for muslim heritage month. Heritage of people coming from Tampa fleeing communism from other countries. IT is about the immigrant experience. IT is not controversial. Its not. I didnt think there would be any push back to this, I will be honest.

Alan Clendenin

02:59:07PM I still have a motion, and I have a second. Roll call, please.

Charlie Miranda

02:59:13PM No.

Guido Maniscalco

02:59:14PM Yes.

Lynn Hurtak

02:59:16PM No.

Naya Young

02:59:18PM Yes.

Luis Viera

02:59:21PM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

02:59:24PM No.

Clerk

02:59:24PM Motion failed due to a tie vote and lack of a majority.

Alan Clendenin

02:59:29PM I am sorry.

Luis Viera

02:59:31PM Again, thats -- that is unfortunate, Council. That is very sad. I mean that. This goes to something where people need to be educated more so on the experiences of people and how they came here. This is nothing that is controversial whatsoever. IT is not. This is not a foreign policy issue. This is an immigration issue, in terms of our immigrant experience here to Tampa and thats --

Lynn Hurtak

02:59:57PM And I -- I think that if you get some state or federal dollars to talk more about IT, and, like, to be more concrete, IT is a different story.

Luis Viera

03:00:09PM I was trying -- I dont want to interrupt you. Go ahead.

Lynn Hurtak

03:00:15PM If the Federal Government is saying, hey, yeah, we want to do this, and lets help find a location but we are not here yet.

Luis Viera

03:00:23PM I will just go to the county. Thats IT.

Alan Clendenin

03:00:27PM Do you have new business?

Guido Maniscalco

03:00:33PM Remove my motion to discuss the Council salary on September 24. I originally made this motion on behalf the Councilwoman Hurtak and duplicated. I am looking at the calendar for September 24. Council to discuss salary. So I want to remove my motion.

Charlie Miranda

03:00:51PM Second.

Alan Clendenin

03:00:52PM Thank you for looking at the calendar.

Martin Shelby

03:00:55PM What would have happened if you had two different decisions.

Alan Clendenin

03:00:58PM With this Council, IT is absolutely likely. Motion from Council Member Maniscalco. Seconded from Council Member Miranda. All in favor, say aye. Opposed. Ayes have IT.

Guido Maniscalco

03:01:09PM First I would like to say to Councilwoman Young, I like that you give updates of what you do. I think that is very good because you work very hard. And I am glad you brought up Pastor Johnson, the brother of Calvin Johnson from TPD. I have been out there. They had a law enforcement appreciation event, and IT is wonderful. I love the work that they do. So thank you. March is colorectal cancer awareness month. And someone very near and dear to my heart had to suffer, struggle and survive through that, and its importance of screening and getting tests because -- I think Council Member Viera, you might know him, Dr. Love? Yeah, Dr. Love. So he is a young physician. And he was on wedu, I believe, earlier today with Lisette Campos if you ever watch the talking of rise of patients under the age of 50. The person I mentioned was 38 year old, I believe, with a diagnosis. Important to get screened even if you dont have symptoms. Minor things. IT is just like -- you know, with prostate cancer, with so many other issues, so important to get screened, and if you can catch this early, of course survivability rises and raises up. March is live womens history month, correct. A lot of things but today I am talking of colorectal cancer awareness. Get screened even without symptoms.

Alan Clendenin

03:02:52PM Council Member Miranda.

Charlie Miranda

03:02:53PM I make a motion to hear a presentation April 26 from the citys Consultant regarding the scheduled adjustments of water-wastewater capacity fees. Further that the Tampa City Council consider an ordinance of adjustment of said fees. Second reading May 2, 2026-'27. Im sure IT will Not Take Place until some time next year.

Alan Clendenin

03:03:19PM Presentation -- I get second one will just be a second reading.

Charlie Miranda

03:03:24PM Second reading on May 7.

Luis Viera

03:03:29PM You have any questions, Madam Clerk?

Charlie Miranda

03:03:32PM First reading on April 2, and a second reading on May 7.

Alan Clendenin

03:03:40PM For the proposed rate. Just a reading. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

03:03:45PM Are we going to get a briefing before they come on April 2?

Charlie Miranda

03:03:51PM I dont know, but I can arrange IT.

Lynn Hurtak

03:03:53PM Yeah. Just basically talking of the surprise with Fleet. I would love to know ahead of time.

Charlie Miranda

03:04:00PM In other words -- I will ask them to send all the copies to come through, Council Member.

Lynn Hurtak

03:04:09PM That will be great.

Alan Clendenin

03:04:10PM A motion from council member Miranda.

Guido Maniscalco

03:04:12PM I will second IT.

Alan Clendenin

03:04:16PM All in favor. Opposed. Ayes have IT.

Charlie Miranda

03:04:18PM Second one a Revenue and Finance staff to provide a midyear review May 1, 2026 regular season for the budget.

Alan Clendenin

03:04:27PM Motion from Council Member Miranda. Seconded from Council Member Maniscalco. All in favor, say aye. Opposed? Ayes have IT.

03:04:34PM Anything else?

Charlie Miranda

03:04:39PM Thats IT.

Lynn Hurtak

03:04:40PM I am passing out an e-mail. You can read IT from the bottom. I generally do a lot of ride-alongs and visits to different departments. And basically, Kelly and I were told yesterday in a meeting with the Mayor that we are no longer going to tolerate US interrupting their work. And so Sal Ruggiero told Kelly we will not be able to do any ride-alongs and visits during, quotes, unquote, campaign season. And so -- this is just fundamentally wrong. IT is the proper duty of a represenit body to look diligently into every affair of government and to talk much about what IT sees. Because unless elected officials havent used every means of acquainting themselves of the acts and disposition of the administrative agents of the government, the county or the country must be hopeful of how IT is being served. Quote From Supreme Court justice Felix Frankfurther -- a great name -- delivering the opinion Of The Court in 1953. These words form the basis of its members of congress to visit and in the, audit and monitor on behalf of citizens how their government is operating which is basically how we as City Council members are doing for the residents of the City Council. We can not be their voice if they are not also their eyes and ears. I am proud of myself to better understand our citys largest expenditures through ride-alongs in squad cars, fire trucks, helicopters, and garbage trucks, as well as tours of Fleet Maintenance facilities, water and wastewater facilities and IT. Department. I very rarely publicize these tours because they are educational and not political in nature. I share my knowledge with community and neighborhood groups as well as use this knowledge to move forward policy. The decision by this administration to block our access City Government is anti-democratic, and I believe personally targeting me as someone who has taken these responsibilities seriously. Every ride-along has been met with appreciation of city workers who spends time and improve the system of which they work. This policy was not Put Into Place during last election cycle and clear IT is arbitrary and capricious. Intended to harm me but all of Council and all of the residents of the City Of Tampa? Thoughts?

Charlie Miranda

03:07:21PM I have been on many ride-alongs. Not recently. We caught a robber in a second floor of a grocery store. I have been with High-Ranking Police Official, and he showed me what the undercover guys were doing. I have rode along -- when Greco was mayor ask the Chairman midnight, 2:00 you are required to go. Both of US will show up wherever IT was. A killing, fire, or whatever IT was, we would show up. And that is what Government is all about. I dont understand IT and not my writing.

Alan Clendenin

03:08:00PM Council Member Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

03:08:02PM IT has been a while since I have done ride alongs with TPD and Tampa Fire. Sadly on each one. One was a pedestrian fatality on hillsborough. The Officer I was with had An Unbelievable Drive From The Causeway. Paramedics were working on the Gentleman. The man passed away. Last time with Tampa Fire Department ride along Off Florida Avenue and went into a residence. And a Young Man came home and found his mother deceased on the 03:08:35pm couch. She had been sick, and IT sticks with you. Traumatizing. The poor Young Man. You walk in. The person is there. Gave me greater appreciation of what police and fire go through. Because this is what they see day in and day out. Drug overdoses, administering narcan. All sorts of stuff. Few times that I have done IT. During a ride-along. Specific to ride-along or site visits? Are you allowed to go to a fire station and --

Lynn Hurtak

03:09:10PM I am taking IT as a no. I wanted to go along with Code Enforcement because we are hearing -- my office has been hearing tons of complaints of Code Enforcement. I did a ride along with code compliance with the building department. So I had done that first. I sat through Code Enforcement hearings at hannah city center and was going to do its Code Enforcement ride-along. Unfortunately now they really want to prevent City Council from doing city business. IT is really funny because I never talk about these. I dont politicize them at all. Now they want to make this political.

Guido Maniscalco

03:09:51PM I had somebody tell me one time that Councilwoman Hurtak is in a police car at the 7-Eleven on the corner. I said she is doing a ride-along. I live Down The Street. I said she does ride-along longs.

Alan Clendenin

03:10:06PM Not in handcuffs.

Guido Maniscalco

03:10:08PM But -- I get IT, the ride-alongs are great and really interesting. If we are allowed to visit fire stations and police stations. They will not let you in the evidence room. I dont know. This has been -- this has been said or alleged that we cant do -- if council member Viera wants to bring pastries to the Fire Department. Are we allowed to do that? We cant walk on the property.

Lynn Hurtak

03:10:39PM I dont know. That is kind of the point. This is not the issue. We as a body have to determine. I have been up in a helicopter. People keep asking what is going on. I did that and was able to talk to people about IT. I saw how our money was being spent. Now when I fund that, I dont have to ask questions about that. I know where all the money is going.

Alan Clendenin

03:11:06PM Councilwoman Young and then council member Viera.

Naya Young

03:11:10PM I will just say this. I talked about my ride-alongs, being new on council, IT has been awesome. I still have some coming up. So hopefully, we dont get any calls or e-mails, but, you know, I think -- IT has been -- I think IT is extremely helpful because you get to see the inner workings. When I went to -- we did this -- fire station number 18. When we got there, they were actually on a call, and we were able to go inside and see -- their station was built in 1950s. Had the average tile in there and went to the back to see. And Darlene was looking -- what can we to do help this fire station. We would not know that if we didnt go here. I have done my ride-along with Code Enforcement. I am have to schedule a part two, because my district is huge. A lot of area to cover. When we were out there, we got to see the people that were working. Take US into the areas. The issue with this, because -- you really get to see what people are dealing with whether IT be community members and the actual staff of how they are dealing. You arent able to know that unless you are there and able to see and experience IT with your own eyes. So my -- I am hoping that, you know, this is something that, you know what, we are not going to do that. Because -- because -- I mean -- I am speaking for me, but I think I can speak for all of US that IT helps US to see, again, where the money is going. People are saying like you are spending money on this and that. I can speak and say this is why we are doing this. I seen IT with my own eyes. This is The Only Way we can do our jobs. So I have some things coming up. I dont -- should not be receiving any e-mails or calls about that I cant do anything, because you dont -- I am very nice person. But I dont want to -- I dont want to have to be unkind. Some, please.

Alan Clendenin

03:13:21PM Point taken. Council member Viera.

Luis Viera

03:13:24PM I mean the fundamental issue isnt -- number one, we are a year from a campaign. So I dont think IT is campaign season, number one. And unless this -- and I know this isnt the case. If somebody -- I am not going to say Councilwoman Hurtak. She wouldnt do that. If somebody goes to a city employee and films a political video or what have you, thats obviously improper. No evidence that is being done. This no allegation that is being done whatsoever. And, again, we are a year away from -- you know, I filed for statehouse in April of last year. And I probably visited God knows how many fire and police stations since then. So as long as its not interfering with the function of that public servant, I see no challenge with IT. I dont. And everybody is up for election or reelection In One Way or another. And doesnt preclude US from going on ride-alongs. We have to treat whoever the person is and whoever the candidates May be, Mayor Buckhorn in 2013, Mayor Castor for 2023 for reelection. Any of US the principles that applies opposed to the original ever person. >>Alan Clendenin: I would like to make a motion that Tampa Council unanimously request that the administration rescind their position on open access to members of Tampa City Council to the facility -- City Of Tampa facilities including ride alongs. That open access ensures fiscal responsibility and transparency amongst the decision-makers of the City Of Tampa.

Guido Maniscalco

03:15:13PM I will second that. I second that. But also, as campaign season begins or -- I mean, just be aware. Dont -- I am not saying anybody would do this, but dont do political videos and stuff like that. If you have questions, go to the Unions and whatnot and Code Enforcement is different.

Alan Clendenin

03:15:36PM Run the risk of getting seen -- We wont get in trouble because you run the risk of getting the City Employee --

Guido Maniscalco

03:15:44PM Out of respect for them and a courtesy.

Lynn Hurtak

03:15:46PM What is interesting for me, all of US -- you were not there for that -- you werent either. But all of US ran for reelection and had no problem. I was able to do all the visits I wanted to during my last reelection. So interesting. But I am fascinated that you are allowed to keep yours, because you already filed for office too. So, again, that is just showing that IT is personal against me. So we will see -- we will see what happens. But I second -- or -- I have a motion from Chair Clendenin. I have a second from council member Maniscalco. Anything else? Okay. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Ayes have IT.

Alan Clendenin

03:16:32PM Okay.

Guido Maniscalco

03:16:34PM Motion to receive and file.

Alan Clendenin

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