CRA — March 12, 2026 FINAL

Naya Young

9:09:23AM Thank you very much. Today for our invocation, we have Mr. Jalen Bryan, who is an 8th grade student at Franklin Boys Preparatory Academy. He is going to attend Armwood Collegiate Academy next year. He wants to attend Famu or Harvard for college. Hes a student leader on his campus serving as executive officer. He enjoys playing the saxophone and the bass drum. He has participated in the MLK parade and Tampa Bay tech battle of the bands. And he is looking forward to what the future brings. Hes joined today by his principal, Mr. Brent Williams, and one of his teachers, Ms. Kaitlyn Zimmerman. Jalen, would you lead US in the invocation, please?

Guido Maniscalco

9:10:10AM Please stand. My name is Jalen Bryan. I am 8th grade student at franklin middle magnet school. I serve as executive house officer for the house -- which represents integrity. At franklin we say integrity is doing the right thing while no one is watching, which I realize mirrors this councils efforts to serve the city. In times of great unease in our country, Lord, we look to those who serve our community to do so with constituents in mind. Father, we call you to guide these servants to their respective districts to make choices that empower and serve the people of Tampa to their greatest potential. Please allow your grace to embed in each separately in order to serve the whole. God, provide them with the strength to conceptualize what is necessary and extract from the tangling webs with which they are often presented. Father God, allow this Council to take care of themselves and their families' mental and physical health so they are better equipped to take care of our city. Father God, provide this Council with tools necessary to create an even more vibrant Tampa. Thats all I have. Sorry. [Pledge of allegiance]

9:11:47AM Thank you very much.

Bill Carlson

9:11:51AM May I say one thing? Jalen, im going to ask Darlene if she doesnt mind to take my card to you. For anybody else watching, we need more kids from Tampa to go to Ivy League Schools and the best schools in the world. Anything we can do to help you or your friends do that, its really tough to get in those schools, but Harvard, for example, there are a group of alumni and theyll coach you starting now to help you figure out how to prepare and what you need to do in high school. And then theyll interview you as you apply. You May already have lots of help. But if you dont, let me know. Im happy to plug you in. And for anybody else watching that we can help with, we also can write letters of recommendation on our letterhead if thats helpful.

Guido Maniscalco

9:12:35AM Do you want to come up for a picture? Lets all get a picture. I heard the voice of Viera so hell take over from here. Well wait for councilman Viera to walk in. I believe hes outside. There he is.

Luis Viera

9:14:18AM Roll call. Like, you mean -- oh, call for the roll. Have at IT. Maniscalco?

Guido Maniscalco

9:14:27AM Here. Clendenin?

Alan Clendenin

9:14:30AM Here.

Bill Carlson

9:14:31AM Here. Viera?

Luis Viera

9:14:34AM Here.

The Clerk

9:14:35AM We have a physical quorum.

Luis Viera

9:14:37AM We have not reviewed the agenda, correct? Lets do so, if we May. First, lets see, any comments on items 1 through 6? Anything from anybody here? Mr. Mccray. Good, sir.

Cedric McCray

9:14:56AM Cedric McCray, Tampa CRA director. Just one adjustment, if we could move item number 9 to under staff reports.

Luis Viera

9:15:03AM Yes, sir. We have a motion by board member Maniscalco, seconded by Board member Carlson. All in favor? Any opposed? Okay. Do you have a preference on that, sir? Want to take IT after 6?

Cedric McCray

9:15:16AM That would be fine.

Luis Viera

9:15:17AM Okay. Any reforms to the required approvals from staff or board members? Okay. So we will just hear them as we traditionally do. Lets go ahead and begin. Motion to approve the agenda? Motion by Board Member Maniscalco. Seconded by Board Member Carlson. All in favor? Any opposed?

Guido Maniscalco

9:15:40AM [Inaudible]

Luis Viera

9:15:43AM Yes, sir, we do. Motion by board member Maniscalco. Seconded by Board member Carlson. All in favor? Any opposed? Great. Lets go ahead and begin, if we May, with item number 1.

Guido Maniscalco

9:15:59AM Public comment first. And We have One Registered Speaker.

Luis Viera

9:16:03AM Not doing well these days. Public comment. If you are here to do public comment, please come forward. If you are here for public comment, please raise your hand so we can know. We have a couple. Go ahead, maam. Connie Burton. When you late, you get rattled.

9:16:24AM Yeah. This morning for just saying how, as a servant leader, things that we are obligated to do. One of the obligations I see always is the application for the community in which I have given over 40 years for, and thats East Tampa. Im going to await Mr. Johnson's report, but I can tell you over the 20-plus years, the residents of East Tampa have been very, very clear of the things that they know they needed. We need an economic engine. We havent gotten IT. We needed a major, all-hands-on-deck of the ability to say legacy, people that have invested in East Tampa. When nobody look in that direction, when land over there was -- now we have homes over there costing up to a quarter million of dollars. Residents living there in East Tampa now, they need a major rehab. In addition to that, to all of the time delayed when the East Tampa CAC staff bought into the fact that we were almost a city within a city and had to take up, in my opinion, major obligations that the city neglected in East Tampa. So right now as the clock spin, and we are almost to our 30-year mark in East Tampa, we still look like a divided city. We still need time to bring that part of the city up to code so people can have real dignity in living. What we need also is all of the monies that you got -- I mean, the city allocate to Nonprofits and other entities, we need real checks and balances. Because these Social Services and the ills in our community in terms of the double-digit unemployment that we have, the delinquency that we have in our community, those are solvable things, in my opinion. Lastly, as you move toward this new venture for affordable housing, I want you to keep in mind that in the State of Florida, minimum wage is about up to $15. So affordable housing for US would not be people that have the ability to have a starting salary at $61,000. That wouldnt be affordable. So lets dont play the shell game and make sure that everybody have an opportunity to fair and affordable housing in this city, and that those that make below the poverty level is not the ones that receive the least housing as you move forward. Thank you.

9:19:13AM Thank you, maam. Next, please. Julie Mcgill. If the city were a construction project, they would fail every inspection. As a contractor, before you build anything, you tend to need to know whats existing. I have studied the drainage, and I know I e-mailed each and every one of you. South Tampa has a virtual spider web of drainage culverts, swales, retention ponds that I feel were not fully investigated before you started looking at the south howard flood project. When was the last inspection done on any of these? I know that they do a couple here and a couple there, but im talking the whole southern peninsula. When was the last inspection or maintenance or pumps? Pumps, most of them arent working. We knew that during the hurricane. We need to know the method that they decided that all these drains couldnt handle the amount of water. Before spending this massive amount of money on the south howard project, we should be investigating what we already have. Were going to cause a huge disruption On Howard Avenue. All those businesses, my heart goes out to them. My heart goes out to all people in South Tampa that flooded. I do understand Parkland Estates and Palma Ceia pines have a vested interest in this. My heart goes out to them but the rest of South Tampa, all the houses I had to fix after the floods. Its a peninsula-wide, not just a certain section. What im saying is, we May already have the System In Place to help everyone. So we need to investigate that, and I hope that you do. And if you look at the e-mails or want any more from me, just let me know because ive been studying this. As a contractor, I know what im talking about. Thank you very much.

9:21:14AM Thank you, maam. We appreciate you. Next, please. Im John Shuffle, representing Gasparilla Arts, which is the parent organization for the Gasparilla Festival Of The Arts. I was here in December to tell you about this wonderful mural that we were creating in East Tampa. On the CDC building that has been dedicated in January. The mirror celebrates the significance of SIX remarkable African American women from East Tampa's history. Its incorporated ten girls from the pace center for girls. They were a part of an education part, learning about a career in the arts. They also helped paint part of the mural. And the dedication was really amazing. The girls were just overwhelmed by IT. To hear them being recognized on the stage by so many powerful people just was something they never even fathomed and they felt seen, which is something they never felt before. As board member young, you were not able to be there since IT was on a Thursday and you have meetings, but we do have a piece we want to give to you. The artist Michelle Sawyer created. Ill give IT to Darlene.

Naya Young

9:22:35AM Thank you so much.

Luis Viera

9:22:42AM Its very nice and thoughtful. Very nice. Thank you, sir. Go ahead, maam. My name is Ashley Morrow. I will be sharing tampas Black history. Today, im going to be focused on land ownership. My ipad is dead. 1862 homestead act allowed any US. Citizen or intended citizen, including women and freed slaves over 21 who had not fought against the union to claim 160 acres of public land. Applicants paid a small fee, lived on the land for five years and cultivated to gain the title. So in Tampa, near downtown, this was considered like the city at that point that red area. This was fort brooke. So IT was like military reservation. And these Black pieces of land, the Black areas were pieces of land owned by Black people. Cyrus Charles, I spoke about him being the first Black councilman. Fortune Taylor, Thomas Jackson, William J. Mcknight further out there. John Matthews, Henry Hopkins and Richard Hamilton. Thomas Jackson is actually the first one. He was right here above where oaklawn is currently now. Oaklawn is a corner, and he was above IT. That was his piece of land. Cyrus Charles and Fortune Taylor I believe -- no, William Mcknight out there towards ybor. He owned this piece of land right here. You had Cyrus Charles. This was his land grant document there. And you have Fortune Taylor who was the one that you all know. And her plan I guess was around where the barrymore straz is, I believe, and then Henry Hopkins up top. I dont know whats right there. That was his land there. Then you have Richard Hamilton and John Matthews, which Armature Works is right there on that corner. Give you all some reference. So you May be wondering about the scrub. What about the scrub? The scrub was owned by a White man named Samuel Mitchell who was granted the land because he participated in the war. This is him right here. And he was granted this land. He was a Florida volunteer in the Florida war. And this is the piece of land right here, platted out. Now, he sold to White men, and the one that I want to point out here is mugge. Robert Mugge. He actually came and spoke at the History Center last year about his ancestry. Wrote a book about him. These are the plot of lands that he sold IT to. The Black people he sold IT to. She was the trustee of another young Black girl. I havent found any documents with her name as the owner of any of the land, but her family owned a lot of the land in that subdivision. That was one of the first Black subdivisions in Tampa. Thank you all so much.

9:25:56AM Thank you, maam. We appreciate you as always. Next, please. Valerie Bullock, Ponce De Leon, college hill. I want to talk about the CRA, but first I had to send Yvette Lewis. She said good morning to everybody, NAACP, they are having a health expo on the 28th of March. Well be giving away fitbits and everywhere. You all are welcome. At the NAACP, gary high school. The mobiles in the back. I want to talk about East Tampa CRA. East Tampa CRA is so far behind the other cras. And I think one of the reasons why we are so far behind, most of the other cras, they have professionals on their seats. They have architecture. They have building. Urban planners, business people. And they are associated with business partners just like channelside. Okay. The aquarium is part of theirs. And East Tampa, we just have people off the streets and nothing wrong with everyday people because im one of them. But we do need business people on the CRA Board also, like urban planners and architects so that we can be guided into the future. Because its a very sad day. You go down 22nd street and look the same from 1970. And everywhere else I see cranes. Central park, Tampa Heights. You see people are building. I dont know what you all are doing, but if you can put a little more effort in IT and get US some economic development in East Tampa, IT would be greatly appreciated. Because we like the pretty houses but we cant buy them. The apartments you are building, we cant move in there. Most of them, no such thing as 30% no more. I see on channelside, 80, 100, 120, 140 AMI. We might as well just say helping build millionaires. The people who need help the most they are being left behind and this is a pattern in East Tampa. We need to do something to remove the barriers and to fill in the gaps. When I see people On My Street moving out of their mom house, the Daughter and the granddaughter, then I say, oh, we making progress in East Tampa. But until then, we are not making no progress. And the CRA, IT definitely need to be extended. I remember when they did the plan for 22nd street, IT havent been implemented yet. So if we got a lot of things that we would like to see built, we might need to do an extension. I would like to see 22nd street modernized like riverwalk, like waterfront and the armature works. And I really dont think im going to see IT in my lifetime. I think IT is a pattern where the Powers That Be continue to say no, no, no, we havent gotten the demographics where we want IT yet. Thank you.

9:29:05AM Thank you, maam. We appreciate you. Next, please. Were going to -- I wanted to make sure -- im surgret doss, By The Way. I wanted to give a hearty shout-out to Ms. Driskell for introducing house bill 235, which is floridas version of the crown act which gives dignity to young people who May have hair textures that dont seem to meet with the standards of some other people. Ill try to refrain because I know my honor is watching. Also, to Mr. Edmonds who presented a resolution that would allow veterans in Florida to receive dental care without having to have a 100% disability rating, and thats something very much needed. Crazy enough -- not crazy. I also want to shout-out a recent clarification that came from The Highest Court about what would constitute probable cause -- actually, reasonable suspicion for detention does not constitute probable cause for an arrest in that the necessary elements for the probable cause must all be met. Im pretty sure you probably thought quite a bit about my writing. I also wanted to speak, something came up yesterday. I was over at the 700 twiggs building and a couple of Sheriff Chronister's subcontracted people said there is actually a policy that prohibits veterans from going upstairs or people in general -- he said people in general, but that kind of left at the end of my engagement because somebody who didnt look like me, walked behind without being detained in the lobby of the 700 twiggs building. Specifically, Lieutenant Murphy said somewhere in the 88 pages of his sop as he was taken up by Mr. Cruz, I heard of them giving certain people a difficult time accessing that building. I didnt have context until yesterday. Yesterday I get there a little earlier to take care of business and I was detained in the lobby until I couldnt go to the third floor and wait at the service building, at the service entrance for the Sheriff until 9:00. Oddly enough what happened was somebody who didnt look like me went through the process and didnt get detained there. I just want to know just for clarity, im hoping the city doesnt have that similar policy that you cant go up into the waiting room and wait. Im going to find out what the details are, and ill do a proper request for that information. Beyond that, I think -- im hoping that this city does take the concerns of the East Tampa residents seriously. Shout-out, Greatest Institute Of Higher Learning in the City Of Tampa, the university of Thomas Jefferson high school.

9:31:54AM Thank you. Anyone else here in person for public comment? Okay. There being none, do we have any virtual? Lets have at IT, sir. My name is Michael Randolph. Im with the West Tampa CDC. Todays topic is on the opportunity zone expansion in West Tampa. The Federal Government is preparing what many are calling opportunity zone 2.0, A round of oz designations and investments, taking effect in 2007. The deadline is July the 1st 2026 when governments must submit nominations for the new zone. West Tampa must be part of that nomination. Along North Boulevard And Main Street, we are seeing rapid land speculation, rising displacement, and declining affordability for longtime residents. Expanding the opportunity zone To North Boulevard direct more federal incentive to the -- where vulnerability is the greatest. The expansions align with the -- parties, the CRA goals, and the commitment to the rome yard benefit agreement. IT also create a unified -- Zone Main Street To Columbus Drive. Supporting coordinated infrastructure, housing, and economic development. With the right safeguards, West Tampa can attract long-term, mission aligned capital. Cdfis, Impact Fund, and affordable housing development. Partners who work together to benefit the community as a whole instead of short-term profits. Were requesting your support along with the state and federal partners to ensure that West Tampa is included in floridas 26 oz zone nomination. This is a once in a decade to secure investment and strengthen the neighborhood without displacing people through building. Next, success in the community. Through the rezoning. Im sorry. Redistrict outcome confirmed that the West Tampa Black vote and the Board Of Black And Brown Coalition remain strong. The success was made possible with partners on east side, west side and Sulphur Springs in the West Tampa CDC together. Emergency meeting called by the West Tampa CDC to residents and the Planning Commission in the same room followed by Mass outreach campaign to inform and mobilized the community. Drive the opportunity zone effort. Shout-out to Robin Lockett for her bid state representative and proven leader and no nonsense leader as well. Thank you very much.

9:35:08AM Thank you very much, including for the endorsement.

Alan Clendenin

9:35:16AM Michael Randolph. My dogs have a job, cute and give me kisses all day. I actually have something else. Motion to move items 7 and 8 and 10-13.

Luis Viera

9:35:30AM Any discussion on that.

Alan Clendenin

9:35:37AM 7, 8, 10 through 13.

Luis Viera

9:35:40AM Do we have a second?

Guido Maniscalco

9:35:43AM Ill second.

Luis Viera

9:35:45AM Take a look, Board Members. Everybody good to vote?

Guido Maniscalco

9:35:51AM 10 through 13.

Alan Clendenin

9:35:54AM We moved 9 to staff reports.

Luis Viera

9:35:58AM Do we have a second? All in favor? Any opposed?

Bill Carlson

9:36:06AM I want to make one more comment. Next week were out on spring break, but ms. Connie has a big birthday next week with a zero at the end of IT. I wont say what IT is. Happy birthday. Thank you for your all hard work and advocacy in the community.

Luis Viera

9:36:25AM Great. Board members, well go forward to item number 1, CAC chair for East Tampa, Jeffrey Johnson. IT is my great pleasure to Introduce Reverend Dr. Jeffrey Johnson this morning. He will talk about all the wonderful things going on in East Tampa.

9:36:48AM Great. Thank You, Sir. Just so that we know, roughly how long do You think youll need for your presentation?

Jeffrey Johnson

9:36:59AM 7 to 10 minutes.

Luis Viera

9:37:01AM Give you 10, if you need a couple more -- go ahead, Sir.

Jeffrey Johnson

9:37:05AM Good morning to each of you, Mr. Chair, as well as the rest of the board members. On behalf of the East Tampa community advisory committee, I would like to provide a brief update. Allow me to go through some written points to make sure that I can highlight them about our East Tampa area. First, the highlight was, first highlight is the opportunity to attend the CRA conference in October of last year. IT was very informative about the work that we do in our cras, as well as how we can partner with our city to do extended work. The CAC is ready to move forward With The Way finding project design and implementation phase now that the board has adopted the final concept. This project is intended to improve navigation, strengthen district identity, And Support Place-making throughout the East Tampa area, so that is exciting. The CAC is also looking forward to the boards consideration of the East Tampa community redevelopment plan. The committee believes that the updated CRP will provide important framework to guide redevelopment properties -- priorities, rather, and future investments within the district. At our most recent meeting last week, The CAC unanimously recommended that the CRA Board authorize the issuance of a request for qualification RFQ for a master developer for the gator building. In fact, this is giving movement to IT, but there was also pleasure of the board to see this move a little quicker. I think based on some of the suggested recommendations, IT May still be a three-year process. And we know that that building was purchased at that around ten years, if IT goes to 2029. We definitely need to see movement quicker than that. We are moving in the right direction but definitely need support to see how that can be a quicker process so the community can see revitalization on 22nd street. The CAC also recommended that the CRA Board approve the RFP to undertake a corridor study that will lead to development of comprehensive projects and a master development plan. The goal of this effort is to align the corridor redevelopment with goals of the CRP and establish a clear strategy for how East Tampa corridors can develop over the next 8 to 13 years. I believe this comes on the agenda in May. So if you would keep a note on that to evaluate that. In addition to those planning initiatives, The CAC recently recommended two housing projects through the unit creation and conversion program, helping those who are legacy homeowners. One project involves the development of mixed use apartment complex on 34th street and 21st avenue. The second is a single-family home ownership development in ybor heights. Both projects receive support from The CAC and expected to come before the CRA Board for consideration in May. Housing continues to be a major focus within East Tampa. As of February 28 of last month, East Tampa has expanded approximately 1.14 Million in down payment assistance and approximately 2.3 Million through homeowner rehabilitation. With additional applications currently pending approval. So we are seeing families receive down payment assistance as well as some housing rehab. The CAC also continues to receive updates on additional redevelopment efforts, including the 12th and osborne and palifox and 19th properties, where requests for proposals are currently under review and expected to move forward soon. Phase one of the East Tampa infill development initiatives is also anticipated to move forward in an RFP process soon with Planning Under Way to develop in that fashion. Finally, January 6 -- interesting date -- but January, our CAC meeting, we voted for there to be the beginning of a process to have an extension of our sunset date in East Tampa. We are suggested now to end September 30, 2034, but unanimously The CAC voted to start the process for an extension to September 30 of 2039 in which extensions have been granted. We want to go through the proper channels for an extension To Take Place. I do want to share in the few minutes I have remaining and then entertain any questions as possible, there are a few residents that spoke today about the displeasure of whats happening in East Tampa. And I do hope that you will pay attention to what is being said. While some familiar faces May come, they do represent a good portion of the community that May feel disenfranchised about the lack of movement and what is happening there. They are more comfortable. They have the time to come and speak before the chambers to share the displeasure of the community. The reason why the extension is so important is because there are still several projects that are behind. Because I dont work for the city, I dont know the reason why certain things have become delayed in process. But we do know by visual presentation, looking at the East Tampa CRA compared to the other cras, there has been forward progression and movement that Has Taken Place at a Further Progressional Place than East Tampa, and that really needs to be addressed. A couple of weeks ago, I stood here and asked, I believe the last CRA meeting, that there be a town hall in East Tampa just to listen to the residents about how they feel. There are more residents than those that come here that have concerns about where we are. The bigger issue is, if we look at past -- I wont say administrations -- but those that are in East Tampa and those that represented US, we cant pinpoint one champion that says that their project is to see projects move forward in East Tampa. I think that is the difference of what the community members are saying compared to other cras, that there have been notable champions that say im going to take up this issue, to look at the blight of whats happening in the community and ensure through public and private partnerships that East Tampa becomes the community. I know ive had conversations with Mr. Mccray, and hes let me in on some conversations. Someone said today about 22nd street. Well, there are some persons there who dont want to sell their properties, but I know the city does have some suggestive maybe tactics to encourage people to sell. I implore that happens. They are a nuisance on 22nd street. There are stores that are there selling bad items. I went into one a couple of months ago, and a store that was open and a rat ran across my foot while I was in that store. This is in East Tampa. Im wondering how these stores get past health care inspections and code violations. Somebody is doing something. There are some conversations that Are Taking Place behind the scenes because there Is No Way that that would happen in South Tampa, in some other areas of the city. So there needs to be a deep dive into why citizens and the residents of East Tampa continue to Feel This Way. On behalf of my fellow colleagues that sit on the board, I believe that they are very much vested. Homeowners, business owners, and they really believe in whats going to happen in East Tampa, but were volunteers. We cannot do IT alone. And we sometimes feel as if we are the lone wolf standing in the background shouting, do you see whats happening here? Do you see what is not happening here? And then the last thing, a Fellow Committee Member wanted to talk about the Partnership, the East Tampa Partnership. Some years ago, those meetings were combined for The CAC and the Partnership, but since the restructuring of The CAC, they are no longer subcommittees and the Partnership is fizzling out. That May be a great opportunity because there is a business economic engine that can be developed in East Tampa if there is a structured design for business owners to be a part of a Partnership and definitely need the CRA Board to help facilitate that to support those businesses in the area. I believe those are all of my highlighted points about what were doing great and some things that we can do to continue to move the ball forward in East Tampa.

Luis Viera

9:46:12AM Thank you, Sir. We appreciate your presentation and your work. Any comments or questions by board members? Great presentation, Sir. We appreciate your service. Thank you. No questions or comments?

9:46:27AM IT would appear not. Thank you, Sir.

Alan Clendenin

9:46:30AM Man, You should give a class to everybody else that gives reports, really reflect what the Board brought back. I think You did an outstanding job.

Luis Viera

9:46:42AM Thank you, Sir. We appreciate you. Thank you very much.

Bill Carlson

9:46:51AM Just quickly, folks from East Tampa participated in the past with the plans We have done for the CRA overall. We have detailed plans, and We have ideas that should be implemented. All of that has been done interactively with the community. If for some reason -- IT sounds like you think some of IT is not -- please let US know what We can change to try to get IT done and well work on IT. Type of town hall. I know that our board members cannot be in the same space outside of the chambers to have comment. But to create a space for Residents to be able to share about how they feel because there are a lot of them that cannot get here, for them to be able to tell you what they feel needs to be done when IT comes to development. A lot of times, We have in mind what We think people want, and We never stop to really ask them. We sometimes have focus groups, but they are more or less coordinated to get to an end objective instead of saying, hey, what is IT, We are here, We want to hear from you. What is IT We can do to support the Residents better? I think that town hall would be great.

Luis Viera

9:48:09AM Thank you, Sir. Board Member Young.

Naya Young

9:48:12AM I would just say, one thing that ive always said is ive encouraged people to call my office. Plenty of times. I would continue to encourage that. As far as the Town Hall, im actually already working on that. But I would also, again, if there are issues in the community and something ive always said, we have a very open-door policy, open-phone policy. Darlene and I are in the office all the time. Ive said that to many, many residents. I cant make people call me and have a conversation with me, but im always willing to work with people that are wanting to work with me. Collaboration is a big part of what ive talked about. But you cant collaborate with someone that doesnt want to. I would encourage people to continue to reach out. Ive put IT out there multiple times. But if you dont call, then we dont get an opportunity to actually have a conversation.

Jeffrey Johnson

9:49:03AM Yeah, not to psycho analyze this, but you are absolutely correct. I think there May be some that May feel weve done that before, not before you or whatever, and they get the same result. So were dealing with a little of the history there, for years that predates many of US and those of you sitting there, of disenfranchisement in that community. I moved to East Tampa in 2004, thats 22 years ago, and many of the things seem and look the same, once again, because there hasnt been a distinct champion to say this is what im going to do. You May have a champion for Ybor City and say, hey, were going to put all of our resources here. That person will remain nameless for the great things that hes doing for Ybor City. But we havent necessarily seen that for East Tampa. I think until that happens, whether that is someone from a Private Sector or Public Sector, to say this is our duty to make sure that whatever the plans are for redevelopment and business development for East Tampa, were not going to let IT go until IT happens, and were going to hold everybody accountable. Thank you.

Luis Viera

9:50:14AM Thank you, Sir.

Naya Young

9:50:18AM Youll never know anything or whats going on if You dont call and talk. Im not saying that to You. Im saying that to anybody, because I put that out multiple times. As always, im always willing and ready to work with anybody that wants and is willing and ready to work with me. Thats my job.

Jeffrey Johnson

9:50:41AM Thank you. I know weve had conversations before. Im speaking as a broader sense for the community. I think there is just that past trauma of community hurt. We want to encourage people to push them to that, to call your office and share with the other members what their concerns are.

Naya Young

9:50:58AM Absolutely, please. I make time. If you need to get on the calendar, im saying this to you to pass on to whoever else. Come and sit down and have a conversation with Me. I completely understand as far as you know past things. I wasnt there, and there are a lot of things that predate Me. Im only been here five months. So there are a lot of things that have happened that I wasnt there for that. But what ive done, and what I have said, and what I have said to many people in the Community, I want to work. I went to middleton. Ive seen the same 22nd street. Ive seen IT. Ive asked the questions myself. But im always willing and ready to work with anybody that wants to sit down and work with Me. Im saying that on this dais because whoever watches this meeting and whoever you speak to in the Community, if they want to have a conversation with Me and have -- please, bring them to Me. Come and talk to Me. Just have a conversation. Thats all I ask.

Jeffrey Johnson

9:52:06AM Yeah, absolutely. Thank you for that.

Luis Viera

9:52:08AM Board member Carlson.

Bill Carlson

9:52:09AM To follow up on that --

9:52:20AM What I was going to say, if -- if -- back that up in a second. I think there are some systemic issues that we need to address that have been around a long time. What I was going to say, Councilwoman Young, if you put together a town hall, could you please have staff set IT up in a way that if its publicly noticed and we take minutes, then the rest of US can attend. There are no CRA districts in my district in South Tampa, but the folks in South Tampa look at The CRA districts as an investment. Apart from South Tampa, to be honest, the places that dont have cras are funding cras in other areas. In case anybody doesnt believe that, for example, downtown, who is paying downtowns Police And Fire? The places that dont have CRA are paying that. The Way people outside CRA districts, its an investment. What are those areas giving up? They are giving up roads with potholes, Parks that have problems and other things so they can invest in those districts. If the people in the districts arent happy, then the folks who are helping invest are not happy either. I think we all have a stake in making sure these are successful. We need to make sure that we listen to IT and want to be able to support Councilwoman Young's efforts in her district. She has great connections and is well liked in the district. Shes better connected in East Tampa than I am but I never heard any complaints about her service. The issues that ive heard in the past, and these are systemic, is that the mayors projects get fast-tracked and then the communitys projects and CRA projects get slow walked. Biggest example is the Edc, most people in the community believe is a boondoggle, total waste of money and unsuccessful. How is IT that we cant get enough money to do tree trimming and basic things like that but suddenly fast tracked is millions of dollars on a project that the Edc pushes where we should have directly gone to the community. Instead of a group from downtown to come up with their ideas about how East Tampa should be affected, we should have invested directly in organizations in East Tampa. Somehow we have a workshop coming up on protocol in the contract between The CRA and the city, but weve got to fix the systemic problem. Because all the projects of The CRA and the community across The CRA districts are getting slow-walked, where the mayors projects are getting fast-tracked. Somehow we have to build trust. The other thing is we never fixed the communication problem. Since the last meeting even, we had communication from The CRA go out on the citys communication platforms and not on The CRA platform. Im going to ask for when we have a workshop ban on the city communication department sending out any announcements on The CRA. What they should be doing is reposting the announcements from The CRA, not taking credit for everything. Its confusing the public. The public thinks that the projects in The CRA are being funded in lieu of investing in other things in the community because somebody is trying to take credit for IT. If we were Habitat For Humanity and the mayors office decided to send out press releases for US, we certainly would shut them down. No reason we continue to let them do that. Maybe as City Council we need to prohibit IT. But as The CRA, were paying for staff to do this. Were paying for services. We should not have the communication department do IT because they dont know how to communicate CRA. If we are working on a CRA project, IT needs to be clearly communicated as a CRA project from CRA channels. Thank you.

Luis Viera

9:56:17AM Thank you. Go ahead. What im going to do, lets do five minutes and three minute follow-up, just so We have order. Were still on item number 1.

Alan Clendenin

9:56:31AM Ill keep hitting this until IT resonates. When were talking about investment and specifically in East Tampa CRA, tens of thousands of people live in the East Tampa CRA. What is the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people? I think part of the problem I hear is that -- which is very different than the other cras, because the other cras are relatively homogeneous and all focused kind of in the same type of direction. Like paving of 7th avenue in Ybor City or doing these type of improvements. Water Street is trying to do. These types of projects and, of course, downtown, the cultural art center. East Tampa is a very different beast. I hate hearing the comparisons of cras because they are very different animals. And they need to be because what East Tampa needs as a CRA is to focus on the people. We dont need to focus on creating a Water Street and East Tampa CRA. If we create a Water Street and East Tampa CRA, were creating an area of unaffordability. Creating an gentrification engine. Ill keep banging this drum. Owner rehab. Keeping senior citizens in their houses. Replacing roofs. Doing small projects to actually help the people that currently live in this area so that they -- and maintaining current housing stock. We dont want to replace housing stock, because when we replace housing stock, were taking an affordable unit and turning IT into an unaffordable unit. That is the future and the benefit of maintaining East Tampa CRA for the people of East Tampa CRA. Otherwise, its a slippery slope. If we use this opportunity of a CRA to try to create what you see in some of these other districts, youre going to look back in 15 years and nobody living there is going to be there. They will be out in pasco county or out in East Tampa or east Hillsborough County. They will be pushed out. Were not going to be able to accommodate the people living there. Theres definitely an opportunity to do some home ownerships to create a balance, because balance always matters in a community. You want this number of this type of housing stock. You have to have some people that have some money so that they can create retail environments and everybody can enjoy, but we have to make sure that balance really is focused on people that live in East Tampa, period, blank, the end. Lets stop talking about what downtown is doing or what channelside is doing. Lets focus on what can East Tampa do? Lets create a little commercial district so you have a little pizza parlor, dry-cleaning shop and coffee shop that you can go to. Create some artist space, Black artists have a place to thrive in East Tampa with the culture, the students that live there can walk down there and see the artistic opportunities. Thats what I would like to see in East Tampa is making East Tampa for East Tampa. Thank you.

Luis Viera

9:59:33AM Thank you, Sir. We appreciate you, Sir. Thank you very much.

Jeffrey Johnson

9:59:36AM Were good this time?

Luis Viera

9:59:38AM Yes, Sir.

Jeffrey Johnson

9:59:40AM I appreciate all of you. Have a great day.

Luis Viera

9:59:42AM Moving forward, item number 2, CRA directors report, Mr. Mccray, go ahead, sir.

Cedric McCray

9:59:48AM Good morning again, board members. Cedric McCray, Tampa CRA director. You as customary have received the projects, grants and residential trackers. I will continue. I wanted to highlight salcines park. Anticipating ribbon cutting first or second week of April. Herman Massey, anticipated April 21st for the ribbon cutting. Had an opportunity to walk by and take a look yesterday. Speak to some of the folks conducting the work and things look very promising. Thats been a long time coming On Franklin Street. Things are moving ahead. I would like to also highlight -- we discussed this during the workshop last Friday. Thank you for those of you who were able to attend. Thought IT was very productive. But wanted to also share that we were looking because there was a motion that was made previously related to the performance standards and the services agreement. The date we were looking at was April 14. You should have received a calendar invite for that. I believe a majority have responded in the affirmative. But that location would be here in the chambers between 9 and 12 pm. Any questions?

Luis Viera

10:01:10AM Any questions or comments from board members? Thank you, Sir.

Cedric McCray

10:01:15AM All righty. There also was a request during the workshop for a walk-on item this morning. I believe Ms. Hurtak was going to be the one to introduce IT. But I have corresponded with Sotoquintana with the clerks office. And that was related to the pre-development item, item 65 on your City Council agenda last Thursday, and I know that you all have received the information, and Ms. Roshaven or I will be able to answer any questions that you all May have related to that specific item.

Luis Viera

10:01:48AM Any questions?

10:01:55AM We have a motion by Board Member Clendenin. Seconded by Board Member Maniscalco. Any discussion? All in favor? Any opposed? Thank you. Anything further, sir?

Cedric McCray

10:02:08AM Yes. I would highlight that we did host the CAC orientation this past Monday and had about 16 or 17 individuals from various cacs or cras in attendance. So IT was very successful. We had a few people that showed up that have a level of interest in serving but not actively on a community advisory committee for CRA. One item I was instructed to share with you, and I would like to submit for the record the West Tampa chair, Mr. Robinson shared a few documents that he wanted and requested be submitted for the record. The first document was minutes from the November 13, 2025, CRA Board meeting. He is highlighting item number 6 related to the approval of commercial grant policy for standard grants. So that is the first item. The second item was a document from January 22, 2020. Ethics opinion on acceptance of East Tampa tree trimming grant while serving as chair of the East Tampa community advisory committee. The third document was a memo that was sent to our CRA Board Attorney Shepard related to Ybor City CRA CAC member. IT was believed there was a potential conflict. And this memo came from attorney Tyler Hudson. Wanted to submit those three documents for the record.

Luis Viera

10:03:45AM Thank you, sir. Any questions on that from Council Members or Board Members?

Cedric McCray

10:03:53AM As IT relates to item 65 that was walked on, IT is my understanding that You all had questions or would like to discuss that at this time.

Luis Viera

10:04:02AM Any questions on item 65? Board member Carlson.

Bill Carlson

10:04:05AM I think IT needs to be presented to the public so the public knows what IT is. Only Way We described IT is as item 65. My name is Andrea Roshaven. I am an economic development specialist with The CRA commercial grants team. Im here to provide you an overview of the as-needed design assistance and development consultation for CRA commercial predevelopment grants consultant services agreements scheduled for City Council approval on April 2nd. The CRA is securing as-needed services from five local firms. Each contracted through the citys consultants competitive negotiation act process to provide architectural and engineering services expertise required to implement The CRA commercial predevelopment grant. The predevelopment grants were initially approved in June 2024 as part of the grant portfolio realignment and updates to this grant were approved by The CRA Board in November of 2025. Funding for the predevelopment grant has been included as individual line items in the approved CRA area budgets during the last two years. These firms were selected through the standard city requests for qualifications and CCNA procedures, including participation in the equal business opportunity program representative and the scoring and represent a range of sizes and experience levels, including two certified small local business enterprise firms. The consultant utilization and project assignments will be based on the predevelopment grant applications provided to The CRA and the funding is allocated annually in each area. Annual funding for this predevelopment grant is capped at -- by your CRA grants and funding policy, most recently approved in November. And the annual budget adopted by each CRA area. Based on the policy limitations, the total expenditures are expected to remain below $10 million over the three-year contract period, subject to annual budget approval and appropriations. Again, this is an as-needed contract. We were suggested to write the agreement for the maximum amount of money We expected that We could legally spend on this project, but IT will be driven by the annual approved budgets and the applications from the community for this grant. $28 Million represented in the agreement for FY '26 is money already in the approved budget. We have several property owners interested in this project and waiting for the availability of this program. Im happy to answer any questions.

Luis Viera

10:06:44AM Thank you, maam. Board member Carlson.

Bill Carlson

10:06:46AM Why wouldnt We just offer a grant to someone and they hire their own consultants? How come the city has to be involved in IT? Attorney and with the contract admin, IT was recommended that We provide this as a services grant. So its value, $150,000 value, so We can control the quality and the type of product, and We retain the ownership of the plans. One of the parts of this agreement is We need to make sure that this project, if We pay for IT, moves to a completed improvement and just doesnt sit as a plan. One of the ways to do that was for US to own the plans.

10:07:33AM I just philosophically object with this, first of all, this Administration being involved in CRA activities because they dont seem to do a good job and they seem to prioritize the projects they want rather than what the community wants. Number two, I just believe that the Private Sector can find their own consultants. The City usually gets much higher prices than the Private Sector gets. I know weve had at least one issue in the past. Im going to vote against this because I object to The City micromanaging what should be a Private Sector decision. Typically. And one of the challenges that have been expressed to US, that this is hoping to solve, is that Small Business Owners or small property owners dont typically have the cash flow or the cash availability to hire consultants on their own to be done as reimbursement basis. In this case, we can eliminate that hurdle by US paying the contractors directly through this grant.

10:08:29AM I think there has to be another solution besides having the city micromanage what should be a Private Sector decision. Thank you.

Luis Viera

10:08:39AM Thank you. Anybody else on Council or CRA? Thank you, maam.

10:08:50AM Board Member Maniscalco, seconded by Board Member Clendenin. All in favor? Any opposed?

Bill Carlson

10:08:56AM Nay.

The Clerk

10:09:00AM Motion passes with Carlson voting no and Miranda and Hurtak being absent.

Luis Viera

10:09:07AM Thank you. Go ahead, Sir.

Cedric McCray

10:09:08AM Yes, that concludes the directors report.

Luis Viera

10:09:11AM Any comments or questions for Director Mccray? We thank you as always, sir. Always a pleasure. Next We go forward, item number 3.

Cedric McCray

10:09:27AM Item 3 is -- you all have already approved the funding previously. This is just the funding agreement because of the motion that was made, anything over a million dollars would be brought to you during staff reports. The agreement as written is for $15 million over three years. And this is for work thats going to be done at the Florida Aquarium.

Guido Maniscalco

10:09:51AM So moved.

Luis Viera

10:09:52AM We have a motion by board member Maniscalco. Second by Board Member Young. Any comments or questions? All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Thank you, sir.

Cedric McCray

10:10:03AM Item number 4 is related to the funding agreement for the 701 Whiting LLC. And this item came before you all in November of last year. IT was for $4 million for 22 affordable units.

Luis Viera

10:10:19AM Okay. Any questions?

Guido Maniscalco

10:10:21AM Move to approve item 4.

Luis Viera

10:10:23AM Board Member Maniscalco made a motion. Seconded by Board Member Clendenin. All in favor? Any opposed? Next one.

Cedric McCray

10:10:31AM Item number 5 is in the East Tampa CRA, also came before you in the November 2025 meeting. Clonts Properties. IT was for $1.75 Million. Initially during the presentation, I believe IT was shared that there were going to be 12 units created. But we received an update roughly about two weeks ago. They are going to be able to do 14 units on-site and the dollar amount will not change. Were suggesting -- still suggesting the 1.75 Million.

Guido Maniscalco

10:11:05AM [Inaudible]

Luis Viera

10:11:06AM Board member Carlson.

Bill Carlson

10:11:07AM I think when we talk about affordable housing, we should say how many units at what percentage AMI. There was a recent -- I think IT was the Army Navy Yard, which said that IT was going up to 140% AMI, which market rate right now is 80% AMI, at least in parts of South Tampa. 140% AMI is, as I recall, about 146,000 for a family of four. I dont think we should be subsidizing above hundred percent AMI. Really we should not be funding above 80% AMI. I think we ought to at least disclose because there is a lot of talk about funding affordable housing. But if its 140% AMI, IT really isnt affordable housing. The term workforce housing is being thrown out. But what the community is saying they want 30 to 50% AMI, not 140%. I think we ought to just disclose IT because otherwise were going to get a lot of questions anyway. Im in favor of affordable housing. Obviously, I made the motion years ago, but anything above a hundred percent AMI ill vote against.

Luis Viera

10:12:12AM Board Member Maniscalco made a motion.

Cedric McCray

10:12:17AM Ms. Parks reminded me this is 80%. This is going to be 80% and below.

Bill Carlson

10:12:26AM So ill vote yes.

Guido Maniscalco

10:12:28AM [Inaudible]

Luis Viera

10:12:29AM Second by Board Member Young. All in favor? Any opposed? Item 6.

Cedric McCray

10:12:37AM Item 6, memo submitted related to the requested monthly update for Tampa Union Station.

Luis Viera

10:12:43AM Board Member, Carlson, anything on this?

Bill Carlson

10:12:46AM No. I would ask The Mayor's advisors to get out Of The Way and let US fix this important landmark. Its falling apart. This memo is the best of the ones weve gotten. Sitting here SIX months from now, I think The Community is going to revolt and The Mayor is going to have more than just the Attorney General after her. Thank you.

Luis Viera

10:13:04AM Great. Okay. Any further comments on that? Lets go forward then to item number 9. Melisa Martinez, senior project supervisor with the Tampa CRA. Im here today to present one of the four funding requests that I have left from the previous commercial grant policy. Michelle Smith, and she is with Tampa Arts Alliance. She will do a presentation and come back for any questions. Thank you.

Cedric McCray

10:13:47AM If we can bring up the presentation, please. Good morning, chair, and good morning, CRA Board members. I am Michelle Smith, president and CEO of the Tampa Arts Alliance. We appreciate the cras partnership in advancing the Downtown Arts Center.

Luis Viera

10:14:15AM Name. How long do you think you need for time?

10:14:22AM Well give you five. Interests, they have gifted the alliance a multiyear zero dollar use of 5,000-square-foot space of prime real estate right in the heart of downtown. Right next door on the first floor. With your help, We are building a cultural asset that advances the CRP goals, provides outstanding return on your investment, stimulates economic growth downtown and benefits the entire city. Our Tampa Arts Directory in this presentation has cataloged over 200 cultural spaces in Tampa for people to visit. Located at the very center bottom is the center that We are intending to build. IT will act as a visibility amplifier for the entire arts ecosystem. We will leverage the access to high density visitors, residents, and workers in downtown to spread awareness to all of the art that is made here by people who live here. In collaboration with our downtown and citywide partners, this initiative will at times also spill into the Parks with public activations. The center aligns with the CRP goals beautifully. Lued goal number 2, promotes economic growth. The center attracts visitors to downtown and encourages cultural tourism throughout the city. Psq goal number one, quality of life and community engagement. The center serves as a welcoming, inclusive gathering space, strengthening community identity through arts programming, exhibitions, and activations. Psq goal number 3, connectivity and activation of public spaces. Activating adjacent areas such as poe plaza and lykes gaslight park with innovative arts programming. The project provides access to cultural amenities and strengthens downtown as a destination. Some visuals of the space as IT is raw right now. IT is really lovely. All of this impact is available by fully funding our special project grants request of 700,000. We are matching those funds with community support so We can start a build-out anticipating for this spring. On behalf of the Tampa Arts Alliance board of directors, thank you so much for the CRA Staff for your kind support and knowledge. Thank you to the Downtown CAC for their thoughtful inquiries and their enthusiastic endorsement of the space. And thank you to each of you CRA Board members for all your support of the arts in Tampa. We look forward to collaborating with you to create a cultural space that honors and inspires our city.

10:17:33AM Thank you, maam. We appreciate you. Maam, were you going to say something? Go ahead, please. How much time do you think youll need? Of you. You should have a package -- so the project cost is 1.4 Million. Per our commercial grant policy, we request a 50% match from the Applicant. So the staff recommendation is 700,000, but the Applicant requested a million dollars. I just wanted to explain that because its on your memo.

10:18:06AM I see various lights on. Who was first? Go ahead, Sir.

Alan Clendenin

10:18:11AM Im fully in support of this project. I think its exciting. I know like many of my fellow councilpersons, definitely support the arts. Im really excited to have that space for the community. And have the activation that you guys are planning in that space is incredible. Able to work with the landowner to be able to get IT for this opportunity. Because this is considered a commercial grant -- weird situation. Cultural asset. 700 versus a million dollar request. If there is a way of being able to grant the full request. I spoke to staff. We have the ability to reprogram to accommodate their full request of one million. I would like to pursue giving them a full million that we are asking for.

Luis Viera

10:19:00AM Make a motion, Sir?

Alan Clendenin

10:19:03AM I do. Motion to grant the full amount.

Luis Viera

10:19:05AM Thank you, sir. We have a motion by board member Clendenin. Well take IT up after comment. I anticipate IT will pass. Maniscalco, Carlson.

Guido Maniscalco

10:19:13AM Thank you very much. I walk past this spot -- I mean, its Across The Street. I walk past IT daily, almost daily. My question is, all you see is the mirror frontage. Will you be replacing the glass so people can see in or just the reflection as is existing per the design of the building? But likely due to the restrictions of the building, We will not be able to affect the glazing on the windows. However, We did recently experiment with having a neon sign, and IT is fantastic. Its high visibility. Well work with the Owners to see if We can artistically program some of the windows to get more visibility. In addition, at night, you see straight in. IT works as a wonderful advertisement piece. Our flexible display system will turn out toward the windows and be lit from below. That is a constant visibility to all the crowds going to lightning games and to the Parks to see this as a space thats activated with art.

10:20:15AM Great. I think its a wonderful spot because were in a part of downtown where you have the Police Museum Across The Street, and then you have Curtis Hixon and the Museum Of Art and the Children's Museum far away. Its walkable, but, again, for people and the Photography Museum they moved to Ybor City. So there is that gap in between. I think this is great because, first, you have high traffic Down Tampa Street, On Kennedy Boulevard. If IT is lit up at night, as you mentioned, people will see IT, people walking to games or other events. I know at one point IT was a bank, right? Bank vault that I think will be repurposed.

10:20:55AM But this is a better use. Better investment. Now that we have many more residents and visitors downtown, this is another opportunity. Again, there is the gap between the History Center and Curtis Hixon and the Museum Of Art and now you have this. IT is a wonderful addition. Im really excited to support the million-dollar request, if thats going to be taken up. But this is a very worthy investment. Im glad and thankful you brought this up. Thank you and your team.

Bill Carlson

10:21:24AM Mr. Shepard, are you on? The CRA Attorney?

Cliff Shepard

10:21:29AM Yes, im here.

Bill Carlson

10:21:30AM So one of the staff members asked if I have a conflict because I sit on the board of the Tampa Arts Alliance. I also contribute money to them. I have no business relationship with them other than I donate money. I checked with you. I checked with Martin Shelby who also checked with Marcy from City Staff. Can you just confirm, please, on the record that I dont have a conflict?

Cliff Shepard

10:21:56AM Yes, that is confirmed. You have no special private gain or loss, which is the standard, based on your voting on this matter.

Bill Carlson

10:22:03AM Thank you. Just a comment. For a lot of reasons, including politics, I was very involved in the development Of Downtown St. Pete while Tampa was developing parallel, although ive always lived in Tampa. St. Pete started with the arts and built the buildings after. Tampa started with the buildings and now is building the arts. We had big art assets, but now were building the connectivity. And thats what has really been missing in downtown. I call the difference between hardware and software. In St. Pete they started with the software and then the hardware came. In Tampa we started with the hardware and now the software is coming. This is a really important piece of software because IT will provide connectivity not just in this facility, but with adjacent Parks, with all kinds of arts activities. Over the last few years, the CRA has invested in expanding and refurbishing the straz center, Tampa Museum of Art, the Parks around IT, Tampa theatre, Union Station, if that ever gets off the ground, the jackson house, and now this. Across The Street at Tampa city center is the visit Tampa Bay welcome center. Conceivably, theyll be able to say, hey, if youre interested in the arts, this is a gateway to talk about the arts, plus all kinds of activations and artists of all kinds that hopefully will show off the great nationally and internationally known artists we have of Tampa and also the ones that are potentially going to be known. Michelle was a leader at the Downtown Partnership, and shes been running this arts alliance for several years. She is a great visionary leader who has been able to build consensus throughout the region. I want to personally thank her for her leadership on this.

Luis Viera

10:23:44AM Thank you, Sir.

Naya Young

10:23:47AM I want to say I went to the -- I guess IT was like the open house. You can already see the vision in the space, so im really excited to see IT come to fruition. I love, IT was the meditation room or something that was there. I think this will be really awesome. Ive worked with many artists. Just continue to see these spaces come where they can display their art I think is really important. Im really looking forward to IT.

Luis Viera

10:24:18AM Thank you. Any other comments? Board member Clendenin, would this suffice for passing item 9 with a request to put IT up to a million, correct?

Alan Clendenin

10:24:30AM I move item number 9 with amending the amount awarded to $1 million.

Luis Viera

10:24:36AM I have a request that will come afterwards. Motion by board member Clendenin to pass item number 9 with additional 300,000. Seconded by board member Maniscalco. All in favor? Any opposed? Thank you, maam. One thing I was going to say, if I May, IT dawned on me, which -- you know Macdonald Training Center, right? They do wonderful art. Would you guys be amenable to having a display there for people with intellectual disabilities in artwork? I assume so. Great. What ill do, Sebastian, if you dont mind to get these nice folks in touch with Phyllis Guthman and folks at Macdonald Training Center and have a space there, I think that would be great. That would be wonderful. Like to make a part of the official item number 9, but too late. You are obviously a good person. I know youll do that. Put you in touch. Is that something you would agree to do, I assume? I cant wait to have these conversations with you all and get started. And with the community for our programming and make sure this is a resource that really serves the entire city, all of our residents.

10:25:47AM Thank you. Ill have, if I May, Sebastian, if you dont mind, give her your card, sir. Well connect you with that and set up a call. Thank you, maam. We appreciate you.

Alan Clendenin

10:25:57AM Interesting thing about this and her vision on this, youll have a living space. Going to be not just one type of art, but performance art. These things will evolve and rotate through. Always something new in the space. Thats what makes IT so exciting.

Bill Carlson

10:26:15AM One other thing. You talked about student artists and special abilities artists. There are great artists all throughout the community. The main mission of the Arts Alliance is to try to find them. So if any artists are watching this and youre not connected, or if you know of artists, I mentioned a few months ago this guy Ferry, do you know him? I knew him as a student at USF, and he was painting portraits and stuff. He had an event with a couple thousand people at the addition a couple of months ago. Hes selling his stuff all Over The Place at really high prices. You never know when -- Annika is another one, selling time magazine cover and all these great things. Dean Mitchell, so many great artists here who are selling things everywhere around the world. We really need to celebrate IT. But for the ones who are students or kind of starving artists who want to get plugged in, please contact Michelle. Cant wait to collaborate.

Luis Viera

10:27:20AM Thank you, maam. We appreciate you. Thank you very much. That finishes our agenda, correct, sir? Go ahead, sir.

Cedric McCray

10:27:31AM Good morning again. Cedric McCray, Tampa CRA director. IT was brought to my attention via e-mail that Mr. Robinson had one other document he wanted to submit for the record. IT is a memorandum through the former city attorney Andrea Zelman on October 10, 2020, related to ordinance revising the City Of Tampa ethics code to comply with the Florida constitution, Florida statutes code of ethics and letter to Mayor Castor, Ethics Commission, current practices, and to modify the citys volunteer requirements. Im told from the clerks office that the board needs to request that a motion be made to receive all four documents.

Guido Maniscalco

10:28:17AM [Inaudible]

Luis Viera

10:28:19AM Motion by Board Member Maniscalco. Seconded by Board Member Clendenin. Any discussion or questions? All in favor? Any opposed? Thank you, sir. Motion time. Board Member Carlson, anything, sir? Information reports. Board Member Clendenin? Board Member Young? Are you sure? Okay. Board Member Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

10:28:42AM All right. I made this motion at a regular meeting, but I wanted to put IT in the CRA agenda because its CRA related. This is a request by Vince Pardo who worked with the city and with the Cras. IT was for Thursday, April 9, just for five minutes. The Mayor Of Cianciana, sicily is visiting. Its part of like an italian heritage week. That Mayor has an appointment or a meeting with this Mayor, our Mayor, from 9 am. To 9:30. Its a CRA day. I would like to invite him for five minutes right after. Cant be earlier than nine because were not in session yet, but to have that Mayor just come and say hello with mr. Vince Pardo again.

Luis Viera

10:29:33AM We have a motion by Board Member Maniscalco. Seconded by Board Member Clendenin. Any discussion on this? All in favor? Any opposed? Maam, go ahead, please.

Naya Young

10:29:52AM I have some other things, but just to -- I would say these now. Just to kind of also, I want to just make sure I put out there, if you are in district 5, and you have a question, a comment, concern, or anything, call my office. Please. Please. And also, I just want to let the community know that in terms of the corner stores, Our Office already contacted Florida Department Of Agriculture And Community Services, the Division Of Food Safety, and they are already coming out, and they are going to be inspecting those stores. Weve already done that. I would also like to say in addition to that, for the corner stores, big conversation, has not stopped, we have continued to work on that, and we have our legal team that has been reviewing additional documentation that weve been receiving. And they are actually going out to visit some of those stores themselves. So I would urge you, please, to give Our Office a call, have a conversation, come and meet with me. Im always ready and willing to work with anybody that wants to and is willing and ready to work with Our Office. I have always talked about and stressed the importance of collaborating and doing things together because we cant do everything by ourselves. And im going to continue to harp on that, and im going to continue to say and express how important IT is to work with people that are willing and want to work with you. So if you have a question, comment, or concern and willing to work, because on this side, were working. Were on the work bus. So if you want to work with me, give me a call so we can do work together because there are a lot of needs in the community and I need partners and people who want to work. Thank you.

Luis Viera

10:32:00AM Thank you, maam. Anything else?

Guido Maniscalco

10:32:04AM Motion to receive and file.

Luis Viera

10:32:05AM Motion by board member Maniscalco. Seconded by -- here we are at 10:30 in the morning.

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