City Council — May 21, 2026 FINAL

Alan Clendenin

9:04:41AM You see there are six of us. The 7th will be arriving shortly. He's running behind in the New Tampa traffic. Shhhh ... And the sound of hush fell all over the world. Good morning, I would like to call this meeting to order. I would like to recognize Councilman Guido Maniscalco for our invocation.

Guido Maniscalco

9:05:01AM Thank you very much. So it's my honor and privilege today, it truly is to welcome ralph fox. Ralph, recently graduated with honors from st. lawrence catholic school I believe last night, right? Where he was recognized with the saint don bosco diligence award from the saint Barbara math excellence award, the principal's book award, and the campus ministry award. During his time, he was actively involved in campus ministry, the school newspaper, and student council. He also serves as altar server at st. paul catholic church. In august, he will be attending Jesuit High School as a member of the class of 2030. Ralph currently aspires to pursue a career in law with plans to study diligently and one day become a successful attorney. He is here today with his mother Nicole and is the nephew of my legislative aide Lisa and the grandson of the wonderful sonya. I hope your grandmother is watching. And would like to take a picture with us after the invocation. If we can please rise, and, ralph, take it away. Spirit, amen. Lord god, thank you for bringing us together this morning and for giving us the opportunity to serve our community. Please guide our city's leaders as they make decisions for our neighborhoods, schools, family, and future. Help them lead with wisdom, honesty, and compassion. Help us all remember to treat one another with respect even when we disagree. Allow us to listen, work together, and care for those who are struggling or in need. I also pray for the safety of our police officers, firefighters, teachers, health care workers, and everyone who works each day to make our city a safer and a better place. As a student, I hope we can continue building a community where everyone feels supported, encouraged and hopeful about the future. Help us all make decisions that benefit our community and bring out the best in one another. Amen. In Jesus name, name of the father, the son, and the Holy Spirit, amen. [Pledge of allegiance]

Alan Clendenin

9:07:27AM Do you have an official photographer with you?

9:07:33AM That's as official as it comes. Clerk, can you call the roll, please?

Charlie Miranda

9:08:06AM Here.

Guido Maniscalco

9:08:07AM Here.

Lynn Hurtak

9:08:09AM Here.

Naya Young

9:08:09AM Here.

Luis Viera

9:08:10AM Here.

Bill Carlson

9:08:11AM Here.

Alan Clendenin

9:08:12AM Here.

The clerk

9:08:13AM We have a quorum.

Alan Clendenin

9:08:15AM Thank you very much. Adoption of the minutes of the May 7, 2026 and the evening session, May 14, 2026. Motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Viera. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Martin Shelby

9:08:33AM Did you do the evening session as well?

Alan Clendenin

9:08:35AM Yes, I did. Approval of the agenda. We have several things. Why don't we knock off the request to continue item 48 to July 16, 2026. We have a motion from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Request to --

Martin Shelby

9:08:53AM Mr. Chairman, did you say item number 48?

Alan Clendenin

9:08:56AM Yes.

Martin Shelby

9:08:56AM Item 48 is a public hearing which cannot be taken up until it is opened At 10 a.m.

Alan Clendenin

9:09:07AM Nullify that vote and take it up At 10:00. Item 67, May 28, 2026 continuation. Motion from Councilman Maniscalco, second from Councilman Miranda. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Lynn Hurtak

9:09:25AM I would like to move item 68 to May 28, 2026.

Alan Clendenin

9:09:31AM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. A second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. Councilman Viera, I understand you'd like a motion to move item 58 to be combined with City Council and CRA public comment?

Luis Viera

9:09:49AM I'm sorry. What, sir?

Alan Clendenin

9:09:51AM Move item 58 to be heard after the combined City Council and CRA public comment.

Luis Viera

9:09:55AM Yes, if I may.

Alan Clendenin

9:09:57AM Thank you. Motion from Councilman Viera. A second from Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. Did you all have an opportunity to look at our proposed run of show?

Naya Young

9:10:14AM For item 66, I would like to receive and file and then later date. Item number 66 to receive and file.

Alan Clendenin

9:10:29AM After public comment. Anything else? Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

9:10:34AM You talked about the run of show, so I do have an issue with only five minutes for statements and then a second round. We may end up having more rounds. Is it okay just to say right now if we have more rounds, do we want to do just three minutes or two minutes?

Alan Clendenin

9:10:54AM It's up to whatever council -- kind of restating what the rules are. For everybody's iteration. Whatever council's will is.

Lynn Hurtak

9:11:02AM I want to put it on the record now because with the workshop, we were very stretch -- strict. I feel a feeling we'll have conversation. I want to make sure this didn't indicate that there's only eight minutes to talk about this.

Alan Clendenin

9:11:18AM How about we do this? Run through round one and two and entertain a motion after the second round, good for you, to continue?

Lynn Hurtak

9:11:26AM No, I would really prefer to have it as part --

Alan Clendenin

9:11:32AM [Inaudible]

Lynn Hurtak

9:11:33AM No, but if we don't need it, we don't have to use it.

Martin Shelby

9:11:39AM Mr. Chairman, I'm sorry. Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. I'm having trouble following your discussions. If you could please be sure -- for the purposes of approval of the agenda, what's really necessary at this point, not only does council agree, but the public has to be aware of what you are discussing. Please take the time to speak loudly so the public is understanding and transcriptions come through.

Lynn Hurtak

9:12:00AM That's totally fine. I would just like to say if needed a second or more rounds. Can I change it to that?

Alan Clendenin

9:12:10AM Does anybody have any trouble with that?

Luis Viera

9:12:14AM Mr. Chair, if I may, I would agree. Given the huge nature of this, I would, but I do think, though, that we should have a rule on how many times folks can go until they seek leave for additional ones, just for purposes of time, but I do agree we should have moderate to liberal chance but should have a limitation which we can deal with.

Alan Clendenin

9:12:37AM How about in my capacity of chair, once I feel like, if we start spinning our wheels, I'll call it.

Lynn Hurtak

9:12:44AM Fair, fair. Okay. That was my only thing.

Alan Clendenin

9:12:47AM Very good. Other than that, can I get a motion to approve the agenda and the run of show?

Lynn Hurtak

9:12:54AM We haven't gone through staff reports.

Alan Clendenin

9:12:56AM We haven't gone through staff reports yet. Mr. Shelby.

Martin Shelby

9:13:00AM I'm going to ask that you notify the public and also for the record under the approval of the agenda, you had sent out a proposed revised order of business. After it's approved, you want to do that? Okay. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

9:13:18AM Staff reports. Councilwoman Hurtak. Oh. Okay.

Martin Shelby

9:13:28AM Mr. Chairman.

Alan Clendenin

9:13:30AM Mr. Shelby.

Martin Shelby

9:13:30AM Forgive me for interrupting. Martin Shelby, City Council attorney because this is relevant to what your order of business is going to be. The question is whether you need to have staff here for items number 59 through 64, which are resolutions under staff report for the purposes of passing resolutions in excess of $3 million.

Alan Clendenin

9:13:52AM Does anybody want staff for items 59 through 64?

Lynn Hurtak

9:14:00AM One by one like we always did.

Alan Clendenin

9:14:02AM If you like. Item 59? 60? 61? 62? No, no. 64. No. okay. So no staff for items 59 through 64.

Luis Viera

9:14:23AM If I may, Mr. Chair, on item 65, I would like to perhaps we can see how we're doing after lunch, seeing if we can do a time frame just -- especially if the Fire Chief is going to be here personally, out of respect for the Fire Chief's time if we could have --

Alan Clendenin

9:14:41AM How about a motion to hear this after the 1:30 public hearing?

Luis Viera

9:14:45AM Okay. If I may, that's my motion.

Alan Clendenin

9:14:46AM Motion from Councilman Viera. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Item 65 will be heard after the 1:30 public hearing.

Luis Viera

9:14:54AM If anybody from TFR or Local 754, which is also speaking has a conflict with that, please let my office know so we can amend. Thank you.

Naya Young

9:15:05AM 66 I want a motion to receive and file and then I'm going to meet with staff at a later date.

Lynn Hurtak

9:15:17AM We can't receive and file.

Martin Shelby

9:15:22AM Actually, you can receive and file.

Alan Clendenin

9:15:24AM This one doesn't have action. Motion from Councilwoman Young and second by Councilman Maniscalco to receive and file 66 with written staff report. Ayes have it.

Lynn Hurtak

9:15:34AM I move to accept 69.

Alan Clendenin

9:15:36AM We have a motion to accept the written staff report on 69, receive and file from Councilwoman Hurtak, a second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Thank you. Let me make sure I have my notes so I can follow along as we go through. Okay. For the public -- actually, can I get a motion to accept -- sorry, accept the agenda? And the run of show. Motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Yes. A couple of announcements so that everybody up here and everybody on the second floor, the second floor is filled with people as well. Today is going to be a unique meeting. We have a City Council meeting which is in session right now. At 11:00, I'm going to hand -- on or about 11:00 or after 11:00, I'll hand the gavel to Councilwoman Young. She is the chair of our CRA, community redevelopment area board. Same seven members up here but gavel in a different meeting. We'll run the meetings concurrently. The reason we're going to do that is because item number 58, the rays agenda MOU, it has to be dealt with with council, if it passes council, also the CRA. This is how this is going to work today. The folks that are in the audience today, you should be here for our agenda items for regular City Council, which will consist of items number 3 through 44 and 59 through 64. And off agenda items. If you are in the council chambers right now or not in council chambers and you wish to speak to items 3 through 44 or 59 through 64 and any off-agenda items, you should come to council chambers because when we open up public comment, that's what we'll open up for. On or after 11:00 when we run the concurrent meetings, the City Council and CRA, we will recognize folks that are here to talk to the rays' MOU. That will happen on or after 11:00. If you're here to speak to the rays' MOU, the time to speak to that is on or after 11:00, not during the first public comment time. The first time I'll call for public comment, we'll only hear from people here to speak 3 through 44, 59 through 64 and off agenda items. Did I cover that successfully for everybody? Any further clarification I need to make?

Martin Shelby

9:18:16AM Mr. Chairman, if I can, Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. Just a reminder that if you are here to speak on the public comment at the beginning of the meeting, which excludes discussion of the rays' MOU. Here to speak on items 3 through 44 and items 59 through 64 and off agenda topics, members of the public should fill out a general comment speaker card on the third floor. If you are here to speak on the combined CRA and City Council on item -- excuse me -- to speak during the combined City Council/cra public comment section at 11:00 or sometime thereafter, on items 58, it's item 58 on the City Council agenda and items 1 and 2 on the CRA agenda, members of the public should sign up to speak on the speaker sign-in sheets on the first floor. So please make sure that if you are going to speak, to speak, especially if you are here for the general public comment, please fill out the cards during presentation. The cards are outside. That way your name will be called. Mr. Chairman, do you want me to talk about public comment or after the presentation?

Alan Clendenin

9:19:33AM After. Just to clarify to put it in plain language what our lawyer just said, if you are here to speak to the rays' MOU we have sign-in sheets, large sheets. We'll call them in the order that you signed in on the sheets. If you are here to speak to the other items we talked about, those of you come here a lot and you know you have the cards that you fill out, identifying which items you're going to speak to or if it's an off-agenda item, I will call folks based on the cards for the folks in the room now. The last thing, once you are finished with your public comments for the first round, you don't have to go home. You can stay down stairs and watch City Council down stairs but we have to clear the chamber to allow other people to come upstairs. After we do public comment, we'll ask you to go down stairs to watch so other people can come up. That being said, I think we're ready to move on with the agenda. Councilman Maniscalco, would you like to introduce our presentation, please?

Lynn Hurtak

9:20:29AM The televisions aren't working.

Alan Clendenin

9:20:31AM Cttv, can you check the monitors in council chambers? It says there is a "check device power" error message on it.

Guido Maniscalco

9:20:43AM We have Tampa international first, right? Sir, you are number two. Again, my honor and privilege to welcome Mr. Michael Stephens, CEO of the best airport in the world, not even america, the world and I've been all around. With him is veronica cintron, VP of marketing and communications and I believe josh gillin is here. Mr. Stephens, go ahead. Director stephens, take it away. Mr. Chairman, distinguished members of the council to staff, to everyone that is gathered here this morning, good morning.

Alan Clendenin

9:21:21AM Pause one moment, Mr. Stephens. We're hearing audio from somewhere. Thank you. Sorry about that. Good morning. My name is Michael stephens. I have the distinct honor and privilege of serving as the chief executive officer of your airport, america's favorite airport, and the side job as serving as curator to a 60-foot flamingo in the middle of our terminal. That's another benefit. Named phoebe. But I'm delighted to be here with you this morning. I thank you for the opportunity to present to you some exciting news and some exciting developments at your airport. We don't have a consistent opportunity to get in front of you, so I want to be judicious with your time as I know that you have a packed agenda today. The bottom line for Tampa international is we are focused each and every day on connecting not only our region, but connecting the world to this region, to this city and everything that we have to offer. And to do that, we recognize that we have to make investments. We are growing. Everything that's happening in the City of Tampa, everything that's happening in this region is part of the reason that Tampa international continues to do so well. It is a symbiotic relationship. As a result, we are making investments to be able to stay out in front of that growth. I want to give you a few updates on what we believe is going to be a critical, transformative project for this region and for this city. I want to talk to you today about our new program, which is airside d. And I don't know if we got slides going.

9:23:00AM Audience, can you see tvs? Are they working on your side? For many of you who have flown out of airside c by order of comparison, airside c is about a 300,000-square-foot facility. This is going to be double the size. It's going to be a massive, state-of-the-art facility, a facility that is going to serve as a new international gateway for everyone that's coming to visit our region and our city. It is going to have state-of-the-art amenities. It is going to have state-of-the-art technology. It will allow you to go through customs in a seamless fashion. If you are a u.s. citizen, it will allow you to be able to clear the customs process more quickly than you ever have before. It's going to have two brand-new state-of-the-art lounges. We're going to have a delta lounge and then an international common use lounge on the mezzanine level. A brand-new customs facility, and it is going to have brand-new shopping and food and beverage options in the entire terminal, as well as on the campus. That is something that I'll talk about a little bit later. We're excited to bring this to this region and to our city. Why is this important? Because as I said, we're growing. Tampa international saw about 26 million passengers this year. In ten years, we will see approximately 10 million more, getting us up to the 36 million passenger point. And as a result, we have to prepare for that growth and development. I'm going to pause talking about airside d because they say a picture is worth a thousand words. So that means a video should be worth a million. So I want to share with you what airside d is going to look like for this region. This is a view coming into Tampa Bay, coming over our beautiful water views, looking at all of the beauty our natural beauty, our wildlife that we have to offer. We wanted to capture what this environment looks like inside of this new terminal. Beautiful pictures of downtown Tampa. Want to be able to show the elevation that's happening in our city and in our region. And that footprint is the footprint for airside d. So right now, we're in the process of going vertical. Our elevator cores are going vertical right now. They just erected the first structural steel this week ahead of schedule. The foundational footprints are going to be built out pretty soon, and then you will start seeing this terminal take shape. Now, some of the things that you'll see is that this is going to be amazing in terms of the views, from floor to ceiling glass to capture the beauty of our bay, the beauty of the sunset, all of those things this region is known for. We'll have glass jet bridges so when you get off the aircraft, you'll be able to instantly take in the Tampa Bay experience of this region. This is a view leaving the shuttle lobby going out to airside d. Here is where the magic happens. As you see the brown wood, calm down stress going through security. You see the digital displays, significant size, digital displays that will allow us to tell our story, if we have special events coming to the city, project them up there. Dolphins and things like that, jumping and reaching up to the ceiling. We can tell our story to the entire world in a way that is unique to Tampa Bay and to Tampa. The food and beverage areas are pushed out into the area where your hold areas are. That way you can look and see where your flights are coming in. If you are coming to the customs facility, unlike in airside f now where it's somewhat dark and in the basement, this is going to be bright and beautiful, full of state-of-the-art technology. This is going to speed up the process for clearing, allowing you to grab a bag and be on your way. So we are super excited to bring this new facility online to our community. We anticipate that it is going to be going live in q 1 of 2029. And this is what Tampa can expect. This is the new airside d, something that the city and this region and certainly we are at Tampa international very proud of. That is the presentation for airside d, Mr. Chairman. I want to go through just a couple small things before we conclude to talk about some of the milestones that we're going to hit here. The first milestone we have our public art program. We want to make sure that our region, the city, everyone around here is represented in the art that they see when you come through the new airside d. We also have our concessions program that is going to be going live this fall. And why is that important to this community? We want Tampa represented. We want you to come into our airport and feel like you're in Tampa, not some nondescript airport wherever in the country or the world. So it needs to look and feel like Tampa. We're very focused on making sure that we have local brands. And one of the things that I want to share, folks that are interested, and this is why we come and do the updates so we can share what's going on. Our concessions program for local businesses and companies to participate is very important to us. So if folks are interested in learning how they can participate in this program, I encourage you to take a picture of the qr code and it will take you to our concessions website. This is a part of the vision of what we're doing, and what does it mean in terms of real numbers? It means economic activity. We are anticipating about $458 million staying locally within our catchment area and our counties that Tampa international pulls from. A bunch of full-time jobs, up to 1400 jobs will be working on this program, including concessions and small business, what we've always been focused on, making sure that our businesses, our small businesses participate in everything that's going on at the airport. About $190 million, 78 million has been let to date. So we're super excited about what's happening there. Last but not least, Mr. Chairman, if I may, I've often talked about what our job is at Tampa international about connecting folks, but it is important that even though we bring people in at 600 miles an hour that they can get around and they are connected to the city and to this region. So to that end, I wanted to just share a very quick clip of a vision that I have that we are going to be leaning into as the airport, to create a multimodal facility hopefully to be able to connect from downtown to the airport. So we can start to reduce congestion and give people more mobility options in this region. So we put together this quick little video to share with you. Imagine flying into Tampa. Imagine that you are wanting to get downtown or you wanted to get somewhere else. Well, we have thought about the notion of creating an air mobility hub. That would be the train sky connect that takes you over to the air mobility center. It will have EV coming to us soon, connectivity points for potentially train or automated peoplemover that goes to downtown. Tnc, bus curbs, all of those things being able to connect people in to get them to the points that they want to go. This is a vision of an EV, staying above the traffic. From there, our vision is to be able to connect even further, perhaps across the Howard Frankland Bridge where F.D.O.T. Has already invested significant capital to create a transit corridor. That will allow us to activate pie along with Tampa international. Again, this is a vision that we have, but these are the things that your airport is leaning into so we can make sure that this is a better, more effective city. Mr. Chairman, that concludes my presentation. I would be delighted to take any questions.

9:31:33AM Thank you, Mr. Stephens. Somebody who worked at the airport in the control tower for many years and have known you for a lot of years as well, I can't tell you how happy I am that you are at the helm and leadership of Tampa international and help guiding this airport to become even better than we could have ever imagined. Thank you so much. I'm very excited about the transportation opportunities working with you along with my coworkers to ensure we get that transit options to be able to connect people from your facility to the rest of our beautiful city. Councilman Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

9:32:05AM Thank you very much. I said this is the best airport in the world. It really is. So convenient and easy, but I love the architecture of this new airside. Tampa is my first favorite airport. Dulles is my second. And specifically the twa terminal, ak, twa hotel at jfk. Not the airport. I'm talking about that. And those two, dulles and twa have the same architect. Very famous. Did the saint Louis arch as well. This is reminiscent of that. Mid century but now in the future. This is a 21st century look at how the design used to be, but in a modern way. This is exciting. I mean, we're getting more and more international flights. I mentioned that I'll be on one soon. Going through the customs process is very easy. I know it's very tedious in other airports. What airport can you say that you can run in, grab something to eat and be out of there before the free one-hour parking expires? Tampa international has that. I'm very excited and I'm glad you were here to present this. I can't wait for this to open. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.

Alan Clendenin

9:33:20AM Councilwoman Young. Councilman Miranda?

Charlie Miranda

9:33:25AM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to say thank you for what you've done yesterday, today, tomorrow, and thinking about the future. Also, I use a lot of your techniques in transportation, even here, when people come from the state department, I tell them we don't need an additional expressway. We need what you have at the airport in Tampa to make it movable. Buses can't move if you have 10,000 cars around them. And you guys have done it the right way for many years, and I want to congratulate all of you, all of your employees and everyone that works, you do an excellent job. Tampa is not number one, two, three, it is the only one. Thank you very much.

Alan Clendenin

9:33:59AM Councilwoman Young and then Viera.

Naya Young

9:34:01AM One, awesome presentation. And I in 2024 when I was with TOBA Leadership institute and we came to the airport and we did a tour of the airport, and during that session, that's when we were first learning about the airside d. So to see it now and to hear that now it's going vertical and all of the other things that are going to be coming online, it's like -- anytime I travel anywhere, I always, I'm in the airport and I always say, you know, Tampa international would not do this to me. I'm really excited just to see this new airside. And what it's going to bring to the city. You're doing a fantastic job. Thank you.

Alan Clendenin

9:34:47AM I think that is a new social media thing. "Tampa international wouldn't do that to you." That was a good line.

Luis Viera

9:34:56AM Very catchy. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Michael, you know, you know this, man, every time I see you in the media or see you in the paper, I see TIA or go to TIA, I'm always filled with pride for you, the amazing job you're doing, the wonderful man you are. Your journey in life and just the kind of guy you are. You are a good person. A person of strength, an army and air force veteran. You're a good dad. You're a good person. I'm just this, Tampa international airport couldn't get a better person, but it also couldn't have happened to a better person. So I just -- I have pride for you, buddy. That's all. Those kind words are greatly appreciated. Thank you so much.

Alan Clendenin

9:35:37AM Councilman Carlson.

Bill Carlson

9:35:38AM Council member Viera, phoebe would tell you not to promote tirana, Albania, and to promote tpa in Tampa instead -- for the social media folks. I want to thank you. You are doing an excellent job, Michael. We have known you for a long time. You and I sat on the Charter Review Commission, thanks to Councilman Viera who appointed you and we had a great time there. You are a leader in a lot of way in the community. I want to make sure everybody remembers the late Steve burton who in 2010 came in and helped turn around the airport. Most people don't remember, but before 2010, the director before that actually said to the media, you all can google it, that it was impossible for us to get international flights because of Orlando and miami, and that we just need to keep the landing fees as cheap as possible. As a result, the airport was declining in many ways. We were not even on the top ten list domestically anymore. We were dropping off. Steve burton and others brought in joe lopano. One of the board members at the time called him a second-round draft pick and tried to run him out of town. Fortunately, the community supported him and brought in great people like Michael and turned around the airport. It really was a turnaround situation. Even though we love the airport and the George bean created a great airport in the beginning, but what we see in front of us is an example of the great vision that you all have pushed forward, and we've added lots of international flights that the previous guy said we couldn't. We landed domestic flights, and most importantly, the customer experience has improved over the years, thanks a lot to the areas that you are in charge of, Michael. I just want to ask, moving back up the domestic list on some domestic lists, I think we're number one. Most of them, we're within two or three. We're not on the international list yet. By coincidence I flew two or three of the top airports on the international list. We can talk about this off-line, too, do you know with the new terminal, will it help us to appear on the international list? Your kind remarks. I will tell you, you and I have discussed this before. Tampa international domestically is the leading airport. That's not according to Michael. That's jd power, USA today, and a number of different indicators. But to your point, I am looking beyond that. I benchmark us against the best in the world. The istanbuls, a lot of the other airports. I believe that airside d will allow us to tell that story on the global level. In fact, my team and I will be heading to frankfurt this year for world routes. We will be promoting not only airside d, but all of the growth here in Tampa Bay. It's a collective story. And I think that's going to propel us higher on that list.

9:38:24AM Anything we can do to support you in helping achieve that goal? International, both domestically and internationally, keep telling the story. Keep talking about what's coming to Tampa and to Tampa Bay and what this airport is delivering not only in terms of service and connectivity, but as you said, the experience as well. Continue to echo that, I think that word will continue to get out and grow.

9:38:52AM That they. Thank you so much. Appreciate it.

Alan Clendenin

9:38:54AM Councilwoman Hurtak, bring it home.

Lynn Hurtak

9:38:56AM I want to echo what others have said. Obviously, I've known you since our days on the Charter Review Commission, and I really enjoyed that time with you. I don't know why our screens aren't working. Que sera. Tampa is a phenomenal airport. Incredibly lucky to have it. I wanted to talk more specifically about this project. How much is this expansion costing and who is paying for it? You know, the public may not be aware, Tampa international funds itself. While we have the ability to collect millage, i.e. property taxes, we don't and haven't since the early 1970s. So everything that we do is either revenue Bonds based on the operations that we generate.

9:39:48AM That is absolutely excellent, and you're such a wonderful regional asset. We really appreciative what you do for us. We cannot wait to continue to move this forward, 35 million. It's not even going to be ten years. So thank you.

Alan Clendenin

9:40:06AM Thank you, Michael. Thank you, council members.

9:40:09AM Thank you so much. Recognize Guido Maniscalco for our next presentation.

Guido Maniscalco

9:40:14AM Thank you very much. Next up we have from the Planning Commission, Mr. Yassert Gonzalez to discuss the newly adopted single-member district boundaries. State your name. Crown jewel of the airport for our community and again, every time I go anywhere else that I see Tampa one of the most exciting destinations and great airport. If I can get my screen. There you go. This is a required step in the redistricting process. This is the final step. It's an information item. I'm here just to confirm what has happened, which is we have gone into district of Tampa for 2026. We are going back to the timeline. When did this project began? Began sometime in October when we went live. We came to talk to you in November and said this is what we're going to do. Today, we're telling you this is what was done. We had first public hearing in February. But before that, although it doesn't say it in the slide, we do have -- we had a -- open houses which were in-person open houses in January, and also virtual open houses in February. By March, we had our second and final public hearing. Proclamation was issued by the Supervisor of Elections. Again, now we're presenting to you. Why? Why are we doing this? Why do we do this? Because it's required by law. Again, there are two sections, section 2.1 and section 5.08. Again, require every four years. This is one of the few items that the Planning Commission recommends and approves, you know, typically the Planning Commission recommending body, they actually approved this one. Again, we're trying to make the population of single member districts, 4, 5, 6, 7 more equal. We propose four, and you guys were briefed individually and collectively on four proposed alternatives. As you can see there, a lot of numbers there, but the main numbers are at the bottom. We started with a difference of around 8%, 8.36%. Proposed alternatives bring it down to less than five. Following 21st century communication guidelines, harness it for good. That's what we did with the project. A lot of discussions about redistricting at the national level, at the state level. We were able to harness that interest and generate a tremendous amount of participation. It's my second time running this project. Again, we've never seen the numbers, people that were interested in participating. Last time we did it, Councilman Miranda said, you know, that we had typically low participation in the election, low participation on this kind of project. That was not the case this time and let's hope it continues, that it's been awaken. Again, we send letters to all stakeholders, council members, NAACP, Hispanic services council, all the political bodies that had a presence in Hillsborough county got a letter or some sort of e-mail. We target individual voters that might be affected. Again, spanning the democracy here. And nearly 2,000 project website visits. We had 170 participants in the surveys. We had an online survey done. Again, legal advertisements, you name it. The materials, all the things that we've done are going to remain online. So come January, after everything, you know, this year finishes out, if you feel the need to go and check out what happened to the redistricting, all that information will be online. We have an updated map where you can click on the precinct and see all the information there. Again, and that would remain there through the next election at least. So because of, again, the staff recommendation was alternative two. It was the simplest alternative. So we wanted to, again, because so much upheaval out there, we wanted to keep things as steady as possible, one precinct change from council district 7 which according to census data is the most populous. Council district 5. We reduced the range to around 4 and that's it. That was a wrap. This is giving you what the population is afterwards. Council district 5 becomes the most populous. It was a significant move there. So what precinct move? 3, 4, 5. Starts at the corner of avenue and 30th Busch Boulevard. And that is the only move we made. Again, that's a very densely populated precinct, hence the numbers you see. This is a large-scale map of that where you can see citywide and see again only one move was made. The rest remains the same. Thanking our partners, again, I'm one voice, but this is a cast of thousands. We have planners involved, volunteering. We have you all coming to the meetings, you all giving advice, making recommendations to some community groups to come and invite us in. We also had the Supervisor of Elections office. Every step of the way in order to help us answer questions and answer our questions about the voting rolls and things like that. We had the city attorney. We had the public schools, offering their facilities. People know where schools are. Easy to bring people to schools. We also had the fabulous new city center at hanna, which is amazing. Again, we had a fabulous meeting there. Again, we would like to thank everybody. Again, compendium of all the articles we've seen. We had an incredible amount of media attention. Interviews and things like that. Again, we harness the controversy for good and I think to great effect in terms of the participation. That is all I have. Thank you. Any questions?

Lynn Hurtak

9:46:36AM Any questions?

Naya Young

9:46:41AM Thank you, yassert. Prior to being on council, I worked with yassert at the Tampa Heights civic association. You came and worked with the kids talking about urban Planning, you are amazing and I appreciate you answering. I know I had lots of questions. And just making sure that questions were answered. I watched you at the meetings talking with everybody and just thank you for making sure that everybody was involved in this process. That's all.

Alan Clendenin

9:47:12AM Thank you much for the presentation. We really appreciate it. Mr. Shelby.

Martin Shelby

9:47:17AM Yes.

Alan Clendenin

9:47:18AM You are up. Public comment.

Martin Shelby

9:47:20AM Thank you very much. Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. Members of the public today are allowed a reasonable opportunity to address any item on the agenda before City Council takes action on the item. Now, as you heard, the rays' MOU will not be taken up and not open for public comment until after 11:00. But with regard to what's on the consent docket and with regard to the resolutions under staff reports, in excess of $3 million and items that are not on the agenda, this is your opportunity to speak. A three-minute time limit applies to all speakers providing public comment. Again, you should have filled out a speaker card and per council's rules, preference is given first to those who are speaking on agenda items. Speakers and members of the public are reminded to please refrain from disruptive behavior, including making or threatening remarks or making or causing disruptive noises or sounds or displaying signs or graphics. Please direct your comments to the entire City Council rather than individual members. The Chair Will rule out of order any person who speaks without being recognized or attempts to address council outside the speaker area at the podium. Persons failing to comply with council rules may also be ruled out of order by the chair and at the discretion of the chair may be removed from the chambers and old city hall for the remainder of today's meeting. Again, if you're here to speak on public hearings, which are items -- the 10 a.m. public hearings, items 47 through 52 and the 10:30 public hearings, items 53 and 54, those have sign-in sheets outside. You don't fill out speaker waiver cards -- not speaker waiver cards, but speaker cards. Your opportunity to speak to that is when those items set for public hearing on the agenda are called up to be able to talk to that item. Finally, City Council members, please refrain from engaging a speaker during public comment, and members of the public, please be aware that City Council does not take questions or have a dialogue with you during general public comment. This is your opportunity to express your position. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Alan Clendenin

9:49:40AM Thank you, Mr. Shelby. First up, Stephanie poynor. Again, remember, first up, on agenda items you indicated that you are speaking on agenda items. Speak to off agenda items, you'll need to -- have to have you stop and come to the end of the program. Thank you. Stephanie poynor. Number 6 and number 8, please, somebody explain to me how they are not the same damn thing. What they want to do with the Reconnection Center and the Skills Center, they are the same thing. Where have we got data that shows this is a good use of our money? Why are we reinventing the wheel? We already have erwin technical center but we want to spend the money doing the same thing over and over again. Aren't there other areas of Tampa that need to have skills training? Just saying. We keep doing the same thing in East Tampa. I love my friends in East Tampa and I think we need everything that we can get in that particular area, but when you set up three and four facilities for the same thing over and over again within a couple of miles of one another, it's ridiculous. Number 34, we have amazing land use attorneys in the City of Tampa. Why are we spending $200,000 to hire a land use attorney firm from the east coast? Number 36, I'd like to point out first, before I say something about 36, number 54, $5.5 million for Curtis Hixon Park. I'd like to point that out. That's coming. It's CRA money. It's downtown money, whatever. I don't care where it came from. They are going to get 5.5 million. We are asking for the $650,000 that was gotten from the gas company on the backs of the people who live South of Gandy to be spent in our community. That's kind of a no-brainer. 5.5 million, 650,000. Nobody should vote no on that for aj palonis park. Where is the capital improvements plan for number 42? Where is that for the Jefferson Street? Because I went online. I looked it up. I googled Jefferson Street project. There was no project. There was no plan in onbase, where is the money going? Are we just making it up as we go along? First time I've seen it. I loved the airport guy. I should know his name, but I'm not that kind of person. But the fact that he said that they get no money from our tax base really kind of resonated with me. I'm like, oh, that's wonderful. They are self-sufficient. Can somebody please explain to me why the Port of Tampa gets our tax dollars? And everybody who is in leadership at the Port of Tampa makes more money than everybody who sits on this dais, who sits in this building. Actually, as a matter of fact, many of them make more than anybody else in the City of Tampa and they are paying for it with our tax dollars. The Port of Tampa is making money for itself. Why are we supplementing? I don't get it. Last, but not least, I want everyone in this room to know that I am friends with everybody on that council. I watched yesterday seven people take a vote, and every one of those seven people no matter how they voted, they will lose votes because of it. Because many, many people pay no attention to anything that goes on in our local government on a regular basis. So one vote will make or break many people's career. Whether I like them or not, that's not fair. And it's not fair to you guys either. Thank you.

9:53:01AM Thank you, Ms. Poynor. Next speaker is Nicol Winkler, Curtis Hixon Park, item 64. Good morning. Thank you so much for your time.

9:53:19AM Start with your name. I'm sorry. I'm one of the cofounders of oktoberfest Tampa. We are entering our 17th year at Curtis Hixon Park. As you can imagine, I'm here for number 64 on the agenda. I wanted to mention that in regards to the vote, I do think that maintenance on the park is always needed, maintenance in all areas is needed, so I'm here to support maintenance. What I'm here to ask you for is your attention to leadership, coordination, and communicating with the people involved in a start date and the effective run of the project. I say that in hopes of bringing light to our event that's been happening for 17 years. We love being a part of Tampa's cultural fabric. Our event does not happen without many City departments being involved, that is Tampa Police, Tampa Fire Rescue, E.M.S., Parks Department, parking, our sales tax. We also have over 100 vendors and partners that we work with that are here locally. We have over a hundred crew members that it takes to pull off our event every single year. So as it pertains to picking an effective date for starting the project, I ask that you are aware of our event, and that hopefully we can coordinate that this start or the duration of the project as it affects Curtis Hixon Park being available does not fall on the second full week of October. We coordinate with organizations like visit Tampa Bay, Tampa international airport has been one of our sponsors in the past. There are so many people that it takes to pull off our event every single year. The mayor. We host the mayor every year that we possibly can, to celebrate the cultural fabric of our town. I want to continue that. I want to continue growing that. Over tens of millions of people that celebrate oktoberfest all over the world. Over 6 million people that attend it in Germany. This spotlight is on Tampa. And I just ask for your attention to the matter, that you don't forget us, and that you just help me in communicating with all the departments involved so that we can make our spotlight on Tampa amazing and continue what we've been doing for 17 years. Go rays.

9:56:04AM Thank you, Nicole. Appreciate it. Thank you so much. The next speaker is David phillipson. Said on agenda items but did not identify which agenda item. David? Good morning, sir. Start with your name. What I'd like to talk about is the CRA as a whole. When I was in south brooksville, which is considered the hood in hernando county, I was involved with their CRA. I was told where I lived, where I live now is an impoverished -- you know, an impoverished area, or hood. I called the City Council and they told me because of my zip code, I don't -- we don't -- the CRA does not exist where I live. One of the things I want to bring up now is recently there was a break-in next door. I see a lot of things as far as my part of town being kind of impoverished. We have public transportation. We have stores and things like that. But I'm surprised that there isn't a way you can access, you know, if you are in a CRA or if you are not online. One of the other comments I wanted to make was in regards to your comment cards. Interestingly enough, from what I got out of the county, you can sign up online. You can sign up online with the city to speak during the public comment as well. One of the things I'm looking for is an actual digital document of the card so I can bring it with me and print it out. It would be a lot easier than just coming in here and filling that out on hand. It would give me a little bit more time. Time is everything to me as far as processing and preparing for these meetings. It's not just I'm walking in spur of the moment. I don't drive. I'm handicapped. So I understand the crowds as far as the -- well, I will see you guys in two weeks.

9:59:01AM Thank you, David. Enjoy your day. Mentesnot, item 8. Good morning, sir. Uhuru means freedom in swahili. We as african people should always be thinking about our freedom. The fact of the matter is on the sign-in process it just need to be first come, first served. I don't care what you're discussing. First come, first served. I would like to speak on number 8. Number 8 say less than $20,000. Appeasement and begging. That's what they like to see african people do. Appeasement and begging. Nothing more and nothing less. That's what you're seeing here. Discussing $180 million for the rays, but they are discussing $20,000 for the hood. Appeasement and begging. You know, the most important thing inside african community, the most important subject matter, the most important subject matter inside the african community right now is pooh sheisty. None of you clowns heard of pooh sheisty. The most important conversation inside the african community is gucci man. The most important conversation inside the african community is julio foolio. Big 30. You all ain't never heard of it. African people are disconnected. They don't even have to talk about gerrymandering anymore because they just redevise and resize the districts and do what they want to do. Because african people, we aren't on that level to know about our rights and our human rights and no one looks out for us. They keep tricking us and fooling us. This $20,000 in number 8 is one of those tricks. Our youth, our young people, our adults have no hope, none. It's resignation inside the african community. Drugs, alcohol, tobacco, vaping, sexual perversion, name it, inside the african community, littered with it. That's our only hopes and aspirations. And our young kids, who can be the next Megan thee stallion. And our young kids, who can be next kodak black. That's what we're living for. And no one here is concerned about us. No one is concerned about us. The fact of the matter they are discussing $180 million for the rays, it need to be 190 because they need -- it's not enough. They need to take 10 million and set it aside for me for my pain and suffering. They are going to get what they want. But the fact of the matter is, this $20,000 that's $2,857 that can be divided between the seven of you all, you can take that $2,857.14 and stick it up your asses. Plain and simple. Stop insulting african people and our community and our heritage and our aspirations.

10:02:17AM Thank you, sir. Alvaro -- I'll slaughter your last name. The next speaker will be kella mccaskill. Good morning, sir. Start with your name, please. I am a resident of Tampa and a member of the Tampa immigrant rights committee. I am here today to demand that Tampa City Council pass an ordinance ending 287g agreement. This agreement is an irresponsible use of taxpayers' dollars and inhuman affront to the people of Tampa. 287g uses taxpayer dollars to train Tampa Police Department in federal immigration enforcement tactics, effectively allowing TPD to act as immigration enforcement. So far, $430,000 has been put to TPD's immigration enforcement training. No taxpayer dollars should have been allocated to the training to begin with. More immigration enforcement does not make our community safer. In 2025, the supreme court ruled that i.c.e. Can racially profile civilians. TPD should have no part in this. Immigration enforcement under the trump has led to a rapid increase in deaths at the hands of federal immigration enforcement, within communities, and inhumane detention centers. Ever since the murders of renee good, Alex pretti in minneapolis and keith porter in l.a., cities around the country have been demanding i.c.e. Out of our communities. People all around the country are demanding that their cities take a stand against the racist, repressive policies of trump and his lackeys like desantis. I'm here to ask that the Tampa City Council act for their constituents and take a stand against trump and desantis by ending Tampa's 287g agreement.

10:04:52AM Thank you, sir. Kella mccaskill followed by elvis. Kella mccaskill. This morning, I came to talk about agenda item number 65. Not really the agenda item itself but as it relates to the fire station. Not too long ago. Looking at the New Tampa, the fire station, the equipment they have there to deal with the few calls they receive per year. It doesn't matter necessarily how many calls they receive because it only takes one and could be devastating. When I think about my family in Port Tampa, my aunt, godmother, relatives are still talking about the one time the man fell off the roof because it was not adequate equipment from the fire station. I see the information and the emphasis put on agenda item 65, but I would like for you all to ask for a report to show where it makes sense to have like in an area that doesn't really receive a lot of calls, more than enough equipment, in other areas you don't. South Tampa, added so many buildings, question you can ask, how many high-rise, mixed use development, three, four, five stories exists in South Tampa from the last time you did the report? I can assure when you go down by the water and South of Gandy, a whole lot of new apartment complexes that weren't there when we looked at this the last time. Before we make decisions for just one area, ask for a report for all those areas, particularly that area because they had the most recent devastating situation and it was because of the response time. That truck, I think it had to come from three different precincts over. Get on the crosstown, make it down to Gandy to revive somebody that fell off of a roof. That's unacceptable. Before we spend too much time on one precinct, let's look at a report. Make them come with a report for all of them, for the plan for each one of them. South Tampa, New Tampa, east, all of them need the same report so we make sure we have adequate resources because the city has grown tremendously everywhere, but I know South Tampa, it has been crazy in terms of growth. And when we do that, make sure we pay attention. Right now the message is we're focused on a stadium. But we don't have adequate resources in the Fire Department. People pay taxes. They want to make sure they are safe and they pay taxes for public safety. I want you guys to put a lot of emphasis on that. Raise concerns as for the reports and do it publicly so people understand. Thank you.

10:07:12AM Thank you, kella. Elvis piggot, are you in the room? Going once, twice?

Martin Shelby

10:07:18AM Mr. Chairman, if I can. Martin Shelby, City Council attorney, how is it that you will know whether there's anybody on the second floor who needs to come upstairs? Call their name? Want to be clear.

Alan Clendenin

10:07:38AM I don't believe -- I think anybody that's speaking to these cards are here on this floor. We asked only the people for item 58 for the rays to be down stairs. Once they are finished with public comment, we're asking them to leave to clear up chairs. Angel followed by Tarah Bluma. Angel? Going once, angel murchison. M-u-r-c-h-i-s-o-n. Angel, going once, twice, gone. Tarah Bluma. I saw Tarah earlier. If you find her, let me know. Connie burton and Valerie bullock. I'll come back to Tarah if she comes back in. Elvis piggot, if you are in the building, come to the third floor. Angel murchison, come to the third floor. Presentation number one was very enlightening. What took my attention is the fact that they are carrying their own weight. Number two items expanding democracy, that's interesting when we are seeing how the maps are being drawn. Even if the maps weren't really being drawn in some areas, people have simply lost hope. Time and time again, people are raising the issues of opportunities. I see there are small buckets of monies that are being put toward nonprofits. But I would say that you take a look at how you can partner with urban vocational technical schools because our young people in our community need beyond the conversation, real skill development. And you have an opportunity with items number 60 through 64. You are moving large sums of money. $10 million, $3 million, $5 million. But what is the connection to young people, or people in East Tampa in particular that many in the community is either unemployed or underemployed that would be able to make an attachment to that. I know you work very hard to put at the hanna center a returning citizen division that is serving nothing but a resource center. Resource, pretty much like an empty job there that people are just simply walking around in circles not being connected to real jobs. I believe that this city can lead the way that if you are willing to see all tides -- however it go, with economic opportunity, then we would be able to hear from the various department leadership that's saying that these millions of dollars that you are investing inside of improving the quality of life in Tampa, it is connected to people having real jobs. My last point, that even though you are giving Monday to these smaller nonprofits, one thing that the community asks for is a vibrant summer job program. And you was able to pull yourself to finding 70 jobs, 70, which is not enough, given the chaos that can be created from a long, hot summer when young people don't have anything to do. Thank you.

10:11:16AM Thank you, connie. Valerie bullock, followed by Tarah Bluma. Good morning, Valerie. Valerie bullock, ponce de leon and college hill. I was sitting back there looking over the agenda. I started reminiscing. I was raised in college hill, went to college hill elementary school before integration, stood in line to get the cheese, canned chicken before it was lee Davis. And I look in East Tampa right now, nothing have changed except we don't get commodity food no more. Now we get food stamps. But the people lives are still the same. I'm gonna fought everybody who ever sat on that dais for that for the last 40 years. We keep giving money to the same organizations over and over. They say sign in. Give me your telephone number, your e-mail and your name. Yeah, you use my data to get more funding, but the people's lives in East Tampa have not changed. Week after week I come down here saying that 12-year-old boy, he's being enticed to go out there and sell drugs or to go out there and kill somebody because the system failed him. That 12-year-old girl, some man down the street want her to sit in his LAP for $5. The same way how it always have been. Ain't nothing changed. We keep giving money to the same nonprofit, the same organizations. What they do? They hire their family members. The money never gets to the most vulnerable person it is, that child in East Tampa, and when will it end? If not now, when? You all have the power to make changes and I'm expecting some changes to be made. When I go in West Tampa and I go in Ybor City, they hire people to pick up paper off the street to keep it clean. That same bucket of money y'all got to pay West Tampa and Ybor City, get some money out of the bucket and pay people in East Tampa to do the same. And we got the young people out here having teen takeovers, I know it's just a cry for help. We used to picket and we used to march. A few of us used to riot. So something good can be put into a negative spotlight by a few of the people. But most of the people in the teen takeover, it's a cry for help. They need jobs. When is some money going to come to East Tampa and get down to the people who need it the most? Not another organization, not another study. Not another work program. If it is, we want stipends. If we sign our name, we want some money put in our hand. And the City of Tampa need to be the leader, get with some of the business that you give money to, tell them we're going to put a community benefit agreement on this money. You got to hire three people from the city of East Tampa so that they can get apprenticeship training. This been going on too along.

10:14:30AM Thank you, Valerie. Tarah Bluma. I'm Tarah Bluma. First, I wanted to speak on items 30 and 31, the Beach Park and neptune way stormwater improvements. I'm curious what happened to the neptune way project. After a lot of digging, I was not able to uncover that. It looks like they had a $700,000 budget. And the most recent documentation I found showed that they have spent 35,000. So why -- did they not do the project or what's going on with that to have $465,000 available still in that line item to transfer over to Beach Park? On the Beach Park project, the change order says that unforeseen conflicts had caused them to spend money that they had needed to pay for actual in contract items. But it also includes $97,000 in material cost increases. I'm not picking on this contractor. I'm bringing this up to talk about GMPs. You also place a lot of stock in GMPs, yet quite frequently you approved change orders a lot that have cost increases in them. I think we're wasting a lot of time with GMPs if we're not really guaranteeing a particular price. Next, the social action in arts fund allocation. I know you all are making with Andrew a lot of improvements to this. This is more thinking about going forward. Depending on the dollar amount, some are required to submit reports already. I'd love to see those reports. They should be available and within the reports that they actually make progress on any of their objectives. We should keep that in mind before we renew support with them that they both turned in their report and that they had some results. Finally, I think it's really unfortunate that the financial review was delayed because very relevant to your decision later today is the fact that the business tax was eliminated on commercial properties and that, of course, is going to have a huge impact on CIT revenue. I heard 20%. I don't know what the actual amount that it has impacted our CIT thus far, but in order to make a good decision, I think you need all of the answers and certainly our financial health is very important to that. Thank you.

10:17:12AM Thank you, Tarah. There are three folks submitted speaker cards, but they identified that they wanted to speak to the rays' item. If they are here and they want to speak to not the rays' item, because the rays' is after 11:00, sandra sanchez, Pamela cannella and Michelle Mastrototaro. If you want to speak to something other than the rays' item, you are welcome to come up now. Pam, sandy. This morning -- but not about the rays. Pam, start with your name. My name is pam cannella. I guess I have to address this to Mr. Chair. Please, quit changing the agenda after it has gone out for the last time. Speakers can come prepared to speak at a scheduled time. Not sufficient public notice given when you are here in the city hall already. The public does need to be given notice and aware of these changes. Thank you.

10:18:33AM Thank you. Michelle? And sandy, make sure you get -- sandy, make sure you get signed up on one of the sign-in forms for item 58. Michelle, go ahead. Michelle Mastrototaro. My concerns are the 650,000 for Port Tampa area. It was actually on my road that was out of service for a long time with service lights and everything. I see there are other projects being handled than actually what really needs a lot more help. I just find that they really need to fund that money because there's so much going on. We just had a water main break last night. And the whole area is flooded. Tappan park needs beautification. It's not fair what they are doing to our area. It's almost a developer sabotage. This is not right. No one has ever stepped up to do something for that area. There are families there. There are kids that want to play. There is nothing for these kids to do. I just think they really need to give the funds, and so they can fix some stuff that's in the area and maybe even an aba park right in tappan park in the corner because my son is autistic and I would love for Luis Viera to maybe get in touch with me on doing a little activity thing in the corner because there are so many children, they are playing in the streets and there's no sidewalks. People walk on the road to get to the legion. It is booming down there. And there's nothing there. It's neglected. It looks disgusting. It looks like a desert. And I pay good taxes and I get nothing. I don't even have drainage in my area. I have a natural resource, whatever they call it, and then they built these apartments up high, 15 feet, flooded everybody on my side, everybody on commerce. 23 acres of protected mangroves. 15 feet high with brick walls. Where is that water going? Think about that. When people are voting and saying, you know, there's funding that needs to be funded in areas that are really, really vulnerable. I just hope everybody can understand that. Make it fair. Thank you.

10:21:19AM Thank you, Michelle. Angel murchison, did he come back into the room? No? okay. Now we're going to off agenda items. Aileen Henderson followed by ray reed. Start with your name, please. I want to preface this by saying I know all you care. I know you care. I know you do. What I don't believe is that nothing can be done. That's what I don't believe, especially when the state statute is on our side. And to hear that there is an interpretation challenge is so false because if you read the statute, it's clear. If the possibility of human remains exists, that's the language. It doesn't say dig till you hit bones, which is the clause put into the permit that was approved for the colon cemetery development of homes. That is not what our state statute says. I heard things about it's not substantiated, the gpr. I gave you and the city attorney and everybody else, an e-mail from the Division of Historical Resources from the State of Florida. Someone who is in this industry who does this for a living, who specifically said in the e-mail in writing, and they never do that, based on this gpr, archaeological study needs to be done. I gave you a letter from state representative fentrice driskell asking you to stop and do your due diligence. It's evidence after evidence. I recently gave you the tax rolls. 1990, it says it was used as a cemetery, not it was. Not it is. But it is used as a cemetery. And now I've given you over a thousand unmarked graves at marti colon cemetery. Never had this much evidence before. Never had this much support before from the state. Here we sit with a sign posted that he's going to build houses. Guess what, it might not just be two. We heard it might be four. There are possible human remains there. I'm asking you to do your due diligence. This is West Tampa's history. We're getting ready to do something massive in West Tampa. This bright shiny new penny that I know will go through. What are we going to do about our history? What are we going to do for those voiceless people who built Tampa to bring us to where we are today to do what we're going to do with this new shiny penny? I know something can be done. I'm now at a point that I am begging, save those people. Save West Tampa's history. Save Tampa's history. Thank you all.

10:24:52AM Thank you, Aileen. Mr. Reid Followed by ashley morrow. Ray. After ashley, ct Harris. Good morning, sir. Start with your name and you'll have three minutes. One of Mr. Miranda's Constituents. I just have some pieces of paper here. City attorney.

10:25:29AM Over here. Time. First page is 1984 small article from the Tampa tribune that they are selling -- and it says marti cemetery area north of columbus. If you go back and read the newspapers, newspapers.com, most of your aides have it, you will see they are finding black headstones there, brought in under contract to manage the cemetery. The city sells it off for commercial development. I will tell you shoot me dead god if I am wrong, that's the black cemetery and the bodies are still there. Okay. Second, 1895, 1896, city clerk starts publishing a notice, woodlawn cemetery developed in 1888 and turned it over to undertaker to run. One loven green. City clerk puts out a notice in the newspaper, would you please get a shovel and dig up your loved ones from the alleys and walkways of woodlawn but a loven green for years never remitted any money back to the city, if you read newspaper articles. He also kept no records of who had what plot. If you look at the city's burial registry online, family search, thanks to the mormons, you'll see that 1896, all the stuff, activity happens for cemeteries that was opened in 1888. If you look online at the burials there by year, see in 1896 after they dug up all these people, people put in there and undertakers, that there is a huge public in -- reed who bought that cemetery called marti, former West Tampa cemetery, started working for the very same undertaker, loven green when he loved to Tampa. Quickly put out his own shingle and 1901 bought the cemetery. In 1906 got a contract with the county for all the indigent burials. Anybody dying at the poor farm as well as any unclaimed body, anyone in Hillsborough county, that marti cemetery is full of his commercial contract burials, not just cubans and not just afro cubans or west tampaens. People from all over Hillsborough county are there. The spreadsheet will confirm that. Lastly, one page, I hope you take a look, if everybody thinks, oh, we've got good records, these are the undertakers and funeral homes. These are ones that we don't.

10:28:19AM Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. Ashley morrow. Good morning, ashley. My name is ashley morrow. I'll be sharing Tampa's black history. Please save the marti colon cemetery. There are black bodies underneath there. I wish he put the little newspaper articles up here. Today, I wanted to focus on black Tampa in the 1880s and 1890s, a period where we really begin to see black people trying to define themselves and freedom. When we look at the newspapers from that time, we see conversations that still sound familiar today. Articles criticizing black women because their daughters were no longer being trained strictly for domestic labor. Public debates over whether the terms negro or colored should be used as the black identity. At the same time we see black people creating joy, community and social life through picnics, clubs, and organizations. One picnic location being the springs as described here. If you are wondering where that place is, it is the body of water near armature works, now known as ulele springs renamed in 2006, the citizens of Tampa, white citizens, did not favor Mr. James Magbee, a white man, by the way. That's another story when we get to who and why Tampa named certain things after people. But these gatherings mattered. Black people were building community in the public during a time when freedom itself was still being negotiated. We also see black people stepping into leadership positions here in Tampa. Armwood served as one of the city's first police black officers alongside three others. Joseph a. Walker served on the City Council. Earlier, black councilman like sigh res Charles -- sorry, after like cyrus Charles and henry bromick. Politically, many black residents aligned with republican party, which newspapers today -- I mean, during that time openly called the negro party. Democrats at the time were described as the party of aristocrats while republicans were seen as the party of laborers and working people. That political climate came black republican clubs and fraternal organizations like the land of flowers, but what fascinated me the most was the disagreement. In one article, the lodge attempted to position itself. The name of the lodge was the land of flowers. It was ran by a George sheehy. Old black money right there. In the one article, the lodge attempted to position itself as the spokesperson for the Tampa's black community. Another organization speaks for all black people and said that it said that you do not speak for us, basically. We want the community to speak for itself. I feel like that's woven into Tampa's dna as the community comes out and speaks for itself. Civics tonight.

10:31:40AM Ct Harris followed by Citro. My name is ct Harris. I am not speaking on a particular agenda item. You know that already. More importantly, I stand before you to discuss what we are witnessing with these youth takeovers that is bigger than policing. It is a regional issue that requires a multi-municipal approach between our local legislative bodies, City Council, and county commissioners which has to be rooted in prevention, mentorship, mental health support, recreation, economic opportunity and civic engagement. While you all are preparing for the upcoming budget, because I know those talks are being had, I challenge you all to consider ensuring what our city needs and that we are funding the best public use of our dollars to what will benefit our great city, not our friends, allies, our popularity, but the citizens of this great city. Our communities need to be funded and we need to ensure the funding that's going to those organizations is effective, not repetitive. Moreover far too often we wait until the youth are arrested before we intervene. We cannot arrest our way out of hopelessness. We must create spaces where our young people feel seen, heard and connected before the streets become their outlet. They have pressures we may not know anything about, and especially when they are going to school while teachers are hanging nooses around black baby dolls' necks. At the same time, we cannot ignore what is happening across the south with the continued erosion of voting rights through egregious gerrymandered maps that disproportionately impact communities of color, especially african americans. Democracy only works when people have fair access to representation in the power of their vote. I encourage everyone that's listening this morning to stay engaged, stay informed, and please vote. Local government matters. There will be an election March 2, 2027, our vote is our power. Let us not be silenced and let your vote count. The people are truly in charge. Lastly, I would like to personally invite every member of the City Council to sip civics politics after dark hosted at 7th and grove curated by myself ct Harris and Candace cohen. Broadcast by honorable ashley. This is a space created to bring community, culture, and civic engagement together so people can connect directly with leaders and better understand the issues shaping our city. Also, please save the colon cemetery. I have a lot of time left. Thank you for my time. I yield my time.

10:34:17AM Thank you, ct. Citro. 33611. My grandfather always taught me, question authority, but when you do, do it with respect. I'm questioning the events that happened two weeks ago. At this very podium when our city clerk asked for a nomination for chair. It was painful to watch for seconds until the city chair had to nominate themselves. We understand there are three people running for higher office. But those three people should have nominated someone. Then when the vice-chair came around, two people rejected it. And whether people know it or not, there was a third person nominated and seconded, but Robert's rules were not adhered to. That person did not get a response -- give a response to whether they wanted that position or not. Instead, we heard one of the council members say, well, if nobody wants it, I'll take it. It's a tough job. When that council member is running for mayor, which is going to be a 24/7 job. This is not a good look. This is actually an embarrassment to the citizens of Tampa and to the city itself. Respectfully, those actions two weeks ago were an embarrassment to this city. Thank you, council members.

10:35:59AM Thank you. Joe Robinson followed by jade Scott. Giddyap. Can you see that? Get this focused. Okay. This is your lesson today, for this afternoon in a few minutes. Opportunity zones 2.0, money and CRAs. Second slide, opportunity zone. Opportunity zone is economic distressed urban or rural community identified by certain local, state and federal quantities. We have several of them in the city. How do they get money? Millionaires. People that have stocks, Bonds, mutual funds, crypto currency, collectibles, art, cars, they have to pay capital gains tax and want to save paying tax to the IRS. This is how you get money for your CRA. This is how you get stuff in your community benefit agreement. Eligible opportunity zones. Look what it says. Affordable housing can be used for. Market rate housing. Mixed use development. Commercial real estate. Industrial real estate. Venture investments. Growth investments, but no country clubs. No racetracks, no gaming. None of that, Charlie. Here is the list that the Governor Will make. Look very closely. Look real closely at number 2 rank in yellow. What is it? Hillsborough College Drew Park CRA. Number 2, opportunity zone so opportunity fund, so billions, in atlanta, one billion dollars, as the conference said last week that I attended. Finally, here is a map. Look at the purple. What is that purple? That is Drew Park, Tampa stadium, the yankees, down, all the way down boyscout, all purple, all eligible, all in that census tract that's ranked number two. That will get approved by the governor. Billions of dollars to be generated in a CRA, slum and blighted area. With that, I'll give you why I have the cowboy thing on. I want to get into the karaoke contest that you all having. My home is Montana. I wear a bandanna, my pony is gray, whatever the weather, we travel together, with foot in the stirrup, I would gallup all day with that, I'll say I will be back to talk about economic development, community benefit on the next one. That's all I got.

10:39:17AM I never prayed for three minutes to be over so fast in my life. Jade, start with your name, please. Three minutes and followed by Pastor Frank Williams. I sort of wish I prepared a song now. But I think I'll be able to power through. Today, I am here to advocate for my most beloved department in the city. Advocate for greater fund for adults and -- no reason to worry. Nothing sordid. I would like programs that happen later in the evening. Currently, according to the website, the recreation center that closes the latest is the cordelia b. Hunt over in Al Lopez Park. And it closes at 8. Last program starts at 6. I am a gainfully employed working adult. And I get off at 5:30. Between traffic and getting to some place, you can't really make it anywhere by 6. This kind of just, you know, creates a problem because then you can't go and participate in these later events. The Parks Department already does have some recreation centers, specifically the four art centers that do have later closing dates. They all close at 9. They have classes that run from 6 to 9 and they all exist in that sphere. And I think that advocating for greater programs centered toward adults that happen later in the evening could be a real benefit to the city as a whole. I think for a lot of reasons, but I'll try to narrow it down to the top three. Number one, people who participate in these community events have a chance to actually engage with the community. That builds a sense of civic pride and other things. It's a really wonderful thing to be able to go to the local walmart or store and see somebody you met in class and strike up a rapport, it builds that sort of community bond that really helps, you know, inoculate people against things like bigotry, despotism, and things like that. As things become more expensive, I don't know what your grocery bills look like, but mine don't look like they did several months ago. As things become more expensive, good to have outlets that can be more cost affordable and, going to a kava bar to pay $7 for a drink you don't like just to justify staying in that place. Number three, this one is for all of you. Happy community members are happy constituents and happy constituents vote in incumbents. So that's something to really look forward to on your end. As for the second part of my statement, 30 seconds, how fun, increasing the marketing would be really useful because it's one thing to fund these programs, but if you fund these and don't tell anybody, then the programs will inevitably fail and people take the wrong conclusions from that. Increasing the funding to have programs and increasing the marketing we can get a real understanding what it would actually look like for people to know these things exist and with the pilot program we can justify doing it more in the future. Again, just greater funding for the parks and rec department. Truly the crown jewel of the city. I hope to see more. Thank you.

10:42:32AM Thank you, jade. Pastor Williams. Pastor Williams, you're up. This will be our last in-person speaker for the morning comments. Then we're going to have two online speakers. If you have already spoken, I would appreciate it if you guys would relinquish your seats and go down to the second floor for the rest of the meeting and watch it on the monitors. If you've already spoken, please go down to the second floor so we can free up seats for people down stairs so they can come up. Pastor Williams, good morning. Start with your name, please. I appreciate you all letting me get up here. Is this on?

10:43:36AM Yes. Here and speak to you. I'm cripple. Halfway blind. Can't hear that good. You all don't give a damn, but I care. I got to care about myself. You know, when I see these speakers come up and speak, you look like you all turn your back on them. I wonder why. I know why. Because they are looking at the color of our skin. Bring in flyer every week and give to this lawyer. You know what he did. He looked at me and told me, give my flyer to somebody else. He don't want none of you all to have none. I wanted to give a black lady one of my flyers hoping she could do something, but she doesn't want to take something. I have my briefcase right there, give each one of you a flyer. You don't want no flyer from me because you look at the color of my skin. I told the lawyer, make sure you give flyer. He gave me back my flyer and didn't say nothing. Just say no. I'm trying to do what's right. People that come up and speak to you all, they are trying to do what is right. You all need to listen. Get an agenda for all colored people. Maybe you all would hear us. Got to understand, losing my voice. Can't speak like I used to. I give glory to god. You asked me what's my name when I first come up here. Tell you what my name, you say, oh that black frank. We don't want to hear nothing he got to say. You know what? Hear what god got to tell us one day sooner or later. I want to talk about the rays. $3 billion, I can't even count that far. $3 billion, what they gonna do, have gold streets in the stadium? It ain't worth no $3 billion. I thank you all -- $3 billion. Give me 2 billion. I'll show you what I can do with it. Go out there and have them -- that's my time.

10:46:37AM Thank you, Pastor Williams. Thank you. Have a safe rest of your day. God bless you.

10:46:42AM That concludes in-person public comment. We have two folks registered online. Michael randolph. Once again for folks listening online, this is not about item 58, not about the rays' MOU, general public comment for the consent agenda. The financial resolutions before council This morning and general public comment. Michael randolph, start with your name, you have three minutes. Youth to turn talent into income and strategy to reduce crime. Soon to be West Tampa performing arts and production center. Perform arts and production center is more than entertainment. It's a public safety engine. We use creativity, coaching, and technology to pull at-risk students away from violence and chief new opportunities. Youth learn. Video and tv production, broadcasting, digital media, and live entertainment, real skills that translate into real income. Youth also earn money by creating mobile applications, website, a.i., and web three projects proving they can make money where technology and time. Connect youth to residents, churches and local businesses who purchase their videos, commercials, graphics and social media. They choose our youth because they receive quality production. They reduce crime and they create jobs with -- we don't just create talent. Young people who once felt invisible become producers, entrepreneurs, and leaders to give back to the community. Funding from this project will come from local, state and federal partners, along with foundations and corporations that support public safety and economic opportunity. Finally, council people, in West Tampa, we believe in one principle. No one left behind and no one forgotten. Saying that, we support the West Tampa effort related to the cemetery because it is the right thing to do and no one should be left behind in West Tampa, including the dead. Thank you.

10:49:31AM Thank you, Michael. Have a beautiful day. Adrian Rodriguez. Good morning. Adrianne Rodriguez. Come off of mute.

10:49:51AM Start with your name, please. Yeah, I see Charlie is wearing black today. I hear you. Although we've been repeatedly -- let me start over. Although we repeatedly have been told that the situation moving marti colon cemetery is outside of council scope, I'm asking that these comments be entered into the public record today.

10:50:16AM Start with your name. Regarding what I believe to be failures to protect historic cemetery under Florida statute 872 -- chapter 872. 2018, Tampa Bay times article patrick thorpe openly acknowledged this land is cemetery property and that article and in subsequent public interviews, he publicly stated that he purchased portions of the cemetery in order to protect it from development and prevent homes and commercial projects from being built there. Think about that for a moment. The property owner himself publicly recognized this land as a cemetery. The property owner himself publicly acknowledged its historic significance. The property owner himself publicly spoke about preservation and protection. In one public interview, he even stated somebody had to do something to protect this. Those were his exact words. My question to the city is simple. If the owner himself publicly acknowledged this property is cemetery land requiring protection from development, then why are citizens today being treated as unreasonable for demanding caution investigation and accountability before further activity continues on or around this disputed parcel. You can't publicly describe land as a cemetery, publicly discuss preserving it from development, and then later dismiss concerns about possible graves as mere speculation. The historical record already exists. The warnings already existed. The acknowledgment already existed. This issue didn't appear in 2026. Public concern surrounding colon cemetery has existed for decades and the City of Tampa cannot ignore -- they can't claim ignorance after what happened with zion cemetery. Florida statute 872 exists to protect suspected burial grounds before disruption occurs, not after. These are not just vacant lots. These are resting places of Tampa's early pioneers, immigrants, cigar workers, black and brown families and people who help build West Tampa. I'm asking the city to stop minimizing these concerns and finally begin treating this cemetery with the dignity, caution and protection it deserves. Oh, one more thing, 346 days until Tampa can tell its current mayor, don't let the door hit ya or the good lord split ya. Thank you, council. Have a great day.

10:52:54AM Thank you, Ms. Rodriguez. That concludes our City Council normal public comment. We're now going to move to -- is there anybody in the audience that has a request for reconsideration of legislative matters? Hearing none, consent agenda. Luis Viera, please move items 3 through 5.

Luis Viera

10:53:12AM Yes, distinct honor to move items 3 through 5.

Alan Clendenin

10:53:15AM Motion from Councilman Viera. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Young, move items 6 through 20.

Naya Young

10:53:24AM I move items 6 through 20.

Alan Clendenin

10:53:26AM Motion from Councilwoman Young, a second from Councilman Viera. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

10:53:34AM I move items 21 through 31.

Alan Clendenin

10:53:37AM Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Miranda, move items 32 through 37.

Charlie Miranda

10:53:44AM Move items 32 through 37.

Alan Clendenin

10:53:46AM Motion from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Carlson, would you move items 38 through 41.

Bill Carlson

10:53:54AM So moved.

Alan Clendenin

10:53:55AM Motion from Councilman Carlson. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

10:54:01AM I move items 42 through 44.

Alan Clendenin

10:54:03AM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. A second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Can I get a motion to set public hearings for items 45 and 46? Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Viera. All those in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Can I get a motion to open the 10:00 public hearings? Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

10:54:26AM I motion to move items 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, and 64.

Alan Clendenin

10:54:36AM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. A second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Can I get that motion, Councilwoman Young, to continue item 48 now? To July 16, 2026.

Martin Shelby

10:54:50AM Date, time, and place, please.

Naya Young

10:54:53AM I move to continue item 48 to July 16, 2026, at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, Florida, 33602 At 10 a.m. public hearing.

Martin Shelby

10:55:14AM Just for the record, ta/cpa 25-19.

Naya Young

10:55:17AM Ta/cpa 25-19.

Alan Clendenin

10:55:20AM We have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak -- sorry, Councilwoman Young, a second from Councilman Miranda. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Item number 47. So everybody knows what's going to happen. We have some second readings which should go really quick. As soon as those are done, we'll go to the next schedule with the combined meeting between the CRA and City Council.

Bill Carlson

10:55:40AM Are we going to take a short break to clear everything.

Alan Clendenin

10:55:44AM If it's requested by council, we will.

Bill Carlson

10:55:46AM I think it would be a good idea, otherwise it will be loud.

Alan Clendenin

10:55:50AM Item 47. Item 47 is ta/cpa 25-18. It is a map amendment located at 3602 West Euclid Avenue. The request is to change the future land use designation from residential 20 to community mixed use 35. The amendment was approved at the April 23, 2026, hearing and is in front of you for second reading. I'm available if you have questions.

10:56:18AM Does council have any questions? Hearing none, Councilman Viera, I'm assuming your light is on to tell me that you are prepared to vote on the second readings.

Luis Viera

10:56:24AM Yes, sir, I had a great excuse. I was seeing Bruce springsteen in miami with my son.

Alan Clendenin

10:56:31AM Thank you so much. No questions, correct? Anybody in the public who wishes to speak to the item? Motion to close from Miranda, second from Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

Bill Carlson

10:56:45AM Move 47, file ta/cpa 25-18, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance amending the Tampa Comprehensive Plan, future land use element, future land use map for the property located at 3602 West Euclid Avenue from residential 20, r-20, to commercial mixed use-35, CMU 35, providing for repeal of all ordinances in conflict, providing for severability, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

10:57:12AM We have a motion from Councilman Carlson, second from Councilman Viera. Please record your vote.

The clerk

10:57:24AM Motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

10:57:25AM Thank you. Item 49.

Emily Phelan

10:57:27AM Emily Phelan, Planning Commission staff. Item 49 is ta/cpa 25-15, a map amendment located at 4304 north 26th street, 4205 north 25th street, and folio number 156781.0000. The request is to change the future land use designation from residential 10 to residential 20. This amendment was approved at the April 23rd, 2026 hearing and is in front of you for second reading. I'm available if you have questions.

Alan Clendenin

10:57:58AM Thank you. Does council have any questions? Hearing none, anybody in the audience wishing to speak to the item. Motion to close from Miranda, second from Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Somebody wishing to speak to this item? You want to speak to item 49? Please come forward and start with your name, please. Can I get a motion to reopen? Motion from Maniscalco, second from Miranda. All in favor, aye. Ayes have it. You wish to speak to item 49? I'm here to answer any questions and appreciate your consideration.

10:58:33AM Thank you. Very good. Any questions for the applicant? Did you wish to speak to item 49, sir? I'm opposing this here, building the complex by my house. We don't know what they building. They gave them a building site to build, but we don't know what they building. And we want to know what they are building before you start building anything.

Luis Viera

10:59:09AM Thank you very much, sir. I know we're on obviously second reading. Mr. Michelini, can you meet with this gentleman afterwards? The last hearing, they were here in support of this petition. This gentleman is concerned about construction, which will come up at a rezoning, which we plan to have further discussion with him regarding the exact plans and what has to happen. His property already has an r-20 designation. And we've tried to explain that as well. The whole list of properties there r-20. Going forward when the rezoning is filed, we'll be meeting with them to discuss exactly what is being proposed.

10:59:57AM You are obviously a gentleman of your word. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chair.

Alan Clendenin

11:00:17AM That concludes your rebuttal? I'm sure when Emily goes through that as well. We do plan further discussions regarding this project. Thank you.

11:00:31AM Anybody in the public wishing to speak to item 49? Motion to close? Motion to close from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Viera. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Viera.

Luis Viera

11:00:43AM I move an ordinance -- sorry, ordinance amending the Tampa Comprehensive Plan future land use amendment future land use map for the property located at 4304 north 26th street, 4205 north 25th street and folio number 156781-0000 from residential 10, r-10 to residential 20, r-20, providing for repeal of all ordinances in conflict, providing for severability, providing for an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:01:13AM Motion from Councilman Viera. Second from Councilman Miranda. Please record your vote.

The clerk

11:01:23AM Motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

11:01:24AM Thank you. Item 50.

Emily Phelan

11:01:27AM Emily Phelan, Planning Commission staff. Item 50 is ta/cpa 25-17. A map amendment located at 4216 north 26th street. Request is to change the future land use designation from residential 10 to residential 20. This amendment was approved at the April 23rd, 2026 hearing and is in front of you today for second reading. I'm available if you have any questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:01:50AM Thank you. Council have questions of staff? Hearing none, applicant, did you want to say anything on this one? Land use area, and the Planning Commission wanted it to all be consistent all the way across that area. We appreciate your consideration.

11:02:08AM Thank you very much. Any further questions from the staff? Hearing none, anybody in the public wishing to speak to item 50? Motion to close from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Young, would you please read item 50?

Naya Young

11:02:22AM File ta/cpa 25-17, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance amending the Tampa Comprehensive Plan, future land use element, future land use map for the property located at 4216 north 26th street from residential 10 r-10 to residential 20 r-20, providing for repeal of all ordinances in conflict, providing for severability, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:02:46AM We have a motion from Councilwoman Young. A second from Councilman Miranda. Please record your vote.

The clerk

11:02:57AM Motion carried unanimously. No thank you very much. We have two more public hearings. They should go quickly as well. Then we're going to have a small break so that our cttv can reset for the next meeting. When that happens, again, if you're here for the City Council and you have not signed in a sheet for CRA, I request that you go down to the second floor and sign in to speak so we can clear council chambers for folks to speak to item 58 when we combine the meetings. Here to speak on items 51 and 52, it is a quasi-judicial hearing and requires you to be sworn in. Please stand, raise your right hand and be sworn in by our clerk. [Oath administered] item number 51, please.

LaChone Dock

11:03:51AM Thank you so much, chairman and council. LaChone Dock, Development Coordination. Item 51 is ab 2-25-14, a request for alcoholic beverage sales, a small venue classification, consumption on premises only for the sale of beer, wine and liquor. This is for the property at 1724 North Nebraska Avenue. Site plan changes are required to be made. Those changes have been made. The plan has been certified and provided to the clerk. I'm available if you have any questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:04:18AM Thank you. Does council have any questions of staff? Hearing none. Applicant? Is there an applicant? This is Attorney Matthew blydenburgh here on behalf of the applicant. As Ms. Dock just went over, the request for our upgrade to an ab 2 zoning designation was provisionally approved at the April 23rd hearing. There were some concerns raised by Councilman Carlson regarding the hours of operation. That seemed to be the primary change that was made to the site plan. We have memorialized that on the updated site plans and provided to Ms. Dock and to her office. Hours of operation are now limited to 12 midnight rather than the open-ended hours of operation that were included in the original site plan to go towards two or three in the morning. We have since scaled back those hours of operation to reflect those concerns. And we've also made sure to include the waivers that were requested to make sure that everything is memorialized. But if there are any further questions, I am happy to answer along with Ms. Dock.

11:05:27AM Council have any questions? Hearing none, anybody in the public wishing to speak to this item? Motion to close from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Hurtak.

Lynn Hurtak

11:05:40AM File ab 2-25-14, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance approving a special use permit SU 2 for alcoholic beverage sales, small venue, consumption on premises only, and making lawful the sale of beverages regardless of alcoholic content, beer, wine and liquor, on that certain lot, plot or tract of land located at 1724 North Nebraska Avenue, Tampa, Florida, as more particularly described in section 3, providing that all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict are repealed, repealing ordinance number 2022-185, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:06:22AM We have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. We have a second from Councilman Miranda. Please record your vote.

The clerk

11:06:31AM Motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

11:06:32AM Thank you so much. Item 52.

LaChone Dock

11:06:36AM Thank you, chairman and council. LaChone Dock, Development Coordination. Item 52 is ab 2-26-05. This is a request for alcoholic beverage sales for a restaurant classification, consumption on premises only for the sale of beer, wine and liquor. Property located at 2507 South Macdill Avenue. Site plan changes are required to be made. Those plans have been modified. The plan has been certified and provided to the city clerk. I'm available if you have any questions.

Alan Clendenin

11:07:03AM Thank you, LaChone. Council have any questions? Hearing none, applicant? Applicant. This is the b.t. Restaurant that you approved at the last hearing. Happy to answer any questions. Otherwise ask for your approval.

11:07:17AM Council have any questions? Hearing none, anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Motion to close from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Maniscalco.

Guido Maniscalco

11:07:28AM Thank you very much. I have an ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance approving a special use permit SU 2 for alcoholic beverage sales restaurant consumption on premises only and making lawful the sale of beverages regardless of alcoholic content, beer, wine and liquor on that certain lot, plot or tract of land located at 2507 South Macdill Avenue, Tampa, Florida, as more particularly described in section 3, providing that all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict are repealed, repealing ordinance 2023-144, providing an effective date.

Alan Clendenin

11:07:54AM Thank you. We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Miranda. Please record your vote.

The clerk

11:08:03AM Motion carried unanimously.

Alan Clendenin

11:08:05AM Very good. That is going to conclude this portion of Tampa City Council. If you are here for the 10:30 public hearings, we won't hear that until after we take up the joint CRA and council meetings.

Lynn Hurtak

11:08:20AM What will we do about lunch?

Martin Shelby

11:08:25AM Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. Could you please address the issue of how long this is going to go before, if council intends to break for lunch, what is council's intention so the public is aware.

Alan Clendenin

11:08:37AM I'm going to suggest, it is now 11:10-ish. I suggest we come back at 11:25 to start this portion of the hearing. I would say we probably need to give an hour. Why don't we plan on breaking for lunch at 12:30 and go to 1:30 for lunch.

Martin Shelby

11:08:55AM Could we have a motion for that?

Bill Carlson

11:09:03AM Sorry, I have jet lag from last night. You're only leaving time for 20 or 30 people to speak.

Alan Clendenin

11:09:11AM No, no. we'll continue when we come back. We'll do the first presentations and then continue public speaking after that.

Bill Carlson

11:09:17AM There is a lot more than 30 people.

Lynn Hurtak

11:09:20AM What about the 1:30 public hearings?

Alan Clendenin

11:09:23AM Have to wait until after. We'll come back for that. Motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Maniscalco for the lunch period. All those in favor, aye. Opposed?

Martin Shelby

11:09:34AM To clarify for purposes of Planning for the afternoon, if there's still public comment at the time you break for lunch, the public comment will continue after lunch and the 1:30 public hearing --

Alan Clendenin

11:09:49AM Everything else on the agenda will follow that.

Martin Shelby

11:09:51AM Okay. Very good.

Alan Clendenin

11:09:54AM That concludes our regularly scheduled program for the morning session. Again, we have to have a break because technology has to do their thing. We'll come back at 11:25 and start our joint CRA and council meeting. Right now I'll put Tampa City Council in recess. When we come back, Tampa CRA will gavel in.

Martin Shelby

11:10:14AM Actually, no. you're going to have to pick it up to begin with. If you take a break now till 11:25. When you come back, you'll take roll but still be in session.

Alan Clendenin

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