Evening Session — September 22, 2026 FINAL
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Alan Clendenin
5:03:39PM I would like to call this meeting of Tampa City Council to order. Clerk, would you please call the roll?
Charlie Miranda
5:03:45PM Here.
Guido Maniscalco
5:03:46PM Here.
Lynn Hurtak
5:03:47PM Here.
Naya Young
5:03:47PM Here.
Bill Carlson
5:03:51PM Here.
Alan Clendenin
5:03:52PM Here.
The clerk
5:03:52PM We have a physical quorum. I would like to get a motion to open the second public hearing for consideration of FY '27 millage rate, FY '27 budget and FY '27-31 capital improvement budget and program for the City of Tampa. Per Florida statute section 200.065, the FY 2027 final budget rate needs to be adopted by separate vote prior to adopting the operating and capital improvements budget. I have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak, a second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. I would like to recognize Councilman Miranda as finance chair.
Charlie Miranda
5:04:26PM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Item, second public hearing statement. This is the second public hearing for the City of Tampa, Florida fiscal year 2027 budget. Proposed millage rate is 6.2076 mills which is 2.30 percent more than the rolled back millage rate of 6.0680 mills. Property tax funds are used to support the General Fund operating budget and the community Redevelopment agency fund of the City of Tampa -- of the city. The General Fund includes such departments as fire rescue, police, human resources, parks, and recreation.
Alan Clendenin
5:05:01PM Thank you, before we hear the presentation from our CFO, I want to bring a couple of things to folks' attention. One, we have a couple of monitor outages. We know about it. Two monitors are out of service. I'm assuming there is one you guys see that is out as well. All the agenda items, you'll have an opportunity to speak to the agenda items after we finish the presentations. There will be one opportunity once we open up public comment. The public comment for every agenda item will be open. That will be your one and only opportunity this evening to talk to council. If there are any other questions about the agenda, I'll move on. Mr. Rogero. Councilwoman Hurtak.
Lynn Hurtak
5:05:48PM Move to approve the agenda.
Alan Clendenin
5:05:49PM Motion to approve the agenda from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilman Miranda. All in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you, Mr. Rogero.
Dennis Rogero
5:05:57PM Good evening, council. Dennis Rogero, chief financial officer. If I could have the presentation up, please. Thank you. Of course, once again, thank you for having us here to speak about the budget. I hope I make it plain and often enough, we really appreciate your interest, your proactivity and your time associated with discussing this. I would also like to thank the mayor, the chief of staff, Mike Perry, my wonderful department and the departments. This really is, from my perspective, and I hope everybody's perspective, a collective effort. A special thanks to the citizens advisory committee for their time and effort and a special, special thanks to Ms. Kopesky. Thank you, Hagar. I sure appreciate all the value you bring in our partnership. Thank you. You see leadership is here or virtual to provide information and to answer any questions. Our presentation this evening will primarily consist of responding to council motions from the first public workshop. I don't seem to have the clicker.
Alan Clendenin
5:07:15PM You don't have the clicker? Here we go.
Dennis Rogero
5:07:20PM Thank you, sir.
Alan Clendenin
5:07:21PM Like magic.
Dennis Rogero
5:07:22PM Thank you. I appreciate that. We'll move. Further to that, here is council's first motion. The second item on the agenda. I'll give everyone just a brief period of time to read about it. It centers on discussing the C.I.P., the CIT and the General Fund deferral for the next fiscal year. Of course, the chief of staff and I have met with each of you last week and beginning of this week -- well, yesterday, I suppose. And the deferral, as a reminder, of course, were driven by the specter of amendment 3 in November. We anticipate that if this amendment is successful, of course, it will have a very, very adverse impact on the General Fund revenues beginning fiscal year '28 and continuing, well, in perpetuity as far as I know. It will start out medium and escalate into very, very large decreases. Give you an example. About up to a quarter of a billion dollars over the five-year period beginning in fiscal year '28. So the recommended budget is what we viewed as a sustainment budget, maintaining the services, hunkering down and retaining funding until we see -- or saw -- what would happen with amendment four in November. Did I say amendment -- thank you. Amendment 3 in November. I don't want to think about what amendment 4 might be. Thank you. As we've shared in our briefings, there's approximately $36 million total what I'll describe as in play between the General Fund and the CIT. We'll go into that in a little more detail. You'll recall at council's request in the run up to the August 28 workshop, we provided quite a bit of detailed information to council, line items associated with what was requested, what was funded, and what remains and we'll recap a little bit of that as part of the presentation. We have hard copies here also available tonight if you'd like them. We shared some hard copies with you during our briefings, and, of course, we have hard copies if anybody wants them from the public. A great deal going on here, so we've kind of broken it down into bites. I'm working up to a summary and we'll get to it. As part of breaking it down into bites, component one is the General Fund. Of course, the general funding in play can be used for anything. It's general funding. Divided into operating and CIP as a reminder as opposed to the community investment tax, which can only be used on projects. Here, what you see is an excerpt, just an excerpt of the line item details we provided last month. Eight supplemental General Fund requests totaling a little over $35 million. Some of it CIP and I've highlighted those in yellow. And over to the far right, you see what made it into the recommended budget, less than $8 million. This is also, again, in the upper left, just an excerpt of the information we shared back in August. Please pay no attention to the gray shaded area. I just want to establish a base of what we'll continue to reference during this presentation. The bottom line is in the lower right. 31 positions requested. None were funded. Requests of all -- almost $16 million, and you see just a little over $3 million made it into the recommended budget. What you're seeing here and the totals you're seeing here are separate and apart from the supplements we just looked at. We've got supplements and we've got increases. I know heavy on the jargon, but it's necessary for us to identify and separate what's being requested and the funding source or sources for each. Those documents and excerpts that we just referenced ended up with this particular scenario. The bottom line for the General Fund you see almost $51 million was requested. And the recommended budget, $11 million made it in there. You see in red the variance or in this case, the shortfall, total shortfall of about $40 million. Over to the far right as we've shared with you, and again share with you now, what's been deferred, the funding we have -- or that City Council now has to fund any of that $40 million or anything else that's generally fund applicable is about $13.5 million. So we have quite a bit of needs, as you see. From a General Fund perspective, very little money to throw at it. As a reminder -- and here's where that $13.5 million is over the far right, as we've discussed, in contrast to our recent history of fund balances at about 23%, our fund balance right now is 25%. The difference between 23 and 25 percent is that $13.5 million. It's being retained in abeyance, again, as originally anticipated to see what happens in November with amendment 3. So that's the General Fund. Moving into component 2, and this is the community investment tax. I'll come back with a summary of both in just a moment so we'll be able to address any particular detailed questions you have. Again, an excerpt from the information shared last month, the City Council, the community investment tax. You see highlighted in yellow, also highlighted in yellow, this is germane only to fiscal year 2027. Council has the entirety of the five-year information, but can't really put that on the slide. Again, just to establish a base of what we're referencing, what we continue to reference as we go through this process. And you see TPD headquarters, aquatic repair, rail park, et cetera, et cetera. And the next slide bringing it home for the bottom right, a total deferred amount of funding being retained of a little over $22 million. Simple form that is the total for the CIT and from my perspective here is where the rubber meets the road in the totals. You see $73 million of requests as we began the budget development process for fiscal year '27. 11 million has been funded, and you see the variance there of about $62 million. To the far right, little less than half to throw at that for other needs. $35.6 million. You see in the upper left, total of 8 supplements. You recall there were over 170 line item increase requests making up how we went about developing the recommended budget. From there, based on our briefings, again, we have a great many needs. We always have a great many needs. You can see even if we didn't have amendment 3 on the horizon, we wouldn't be able to fund them all and still sustain current services and keep a 23% General Fund reserve. We wouldn't have the resources anyway. Again, I think I've mentioned we have a continuous, pretty continuous decline in property valuation growth. So we got a number of circumstances leading to the shortfall based on what we'd like. From our perspective, and, again, following our briefings, what seems like -- I will define it as realistic way to address these two discrepancies, what our needs are and the funding we have, is perhaps another workshop between now and either next month or as part of next month or until we see what happens with amendment 3. I can take council's questions.
Alan Clendenin
5:16:17PM Are you finished with your presentation?
Dennis Rogero
5:16:20PM I am, sir. At least with this particular motion. I can continue to the other motions if you'd like. It's council's pleasure.
Alan Clendenin
5:16:31PM This could drag on for quite some time unless we want him to finish and do our questions at one time. That's the way budget meetings would be handled. Finish the presentation and council would have questions based on the presentation. Let's finish with the presentation. We'll finish with the presentation and then do all the questions.
Dennis Rogero
5:16:50PM Okay. Thank you.
Martin Shelby
5:16:53PM Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. Ultimately, council, before you conclude this budget hearing, you will have to take action items on those items you choose to take action on. I just want to make that clear so the public is aware of that as well.
Alan Clendenin
5:17:09PM Mr. Rogero.
Dennis Rogero
5:17:11PM Thank you, Mr. Chair. If I could have the presentation back up. Agenda item number 3, this is the second council motion. Legal staff be requested to work with the City Council attorney and bring back an addendum based on the chair's draft resolutions. We have done that. I believe we have a product that we're all in accord with. I can answer any questions about it or we can wait until again the end of the presentation.
Alan Clendenin
5:17:38PM You want to clarify that we have the substitute.
Dennis Rogero
5:17:41PM I'm sorry, say again.
Alan Clendenin
5:17:42PM Very good. Thank you. Go ahead. Continue.
Dennis Rogero
5:17:45PM All right. Thank you.
Alan Clendenin
5:17:57PM Mr. Shelby.
Martin Shelby
5:18:00PM Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. If council has no questions about this, we can take action on this now and be done with this particular item.
Alan Clendenin
5:18:08PM We can't take action until we get public comment.
Martin Shelby
5:18:11PM Okay. That's true. What we can do is we can at least take the action of annexing the substitution for purposes of consideration.
Alan Clendenin
5:18:23PM Let's just handle it all at the same time. Let's finish the presentation. Mr. Shelby, you handed out the substitute?
Martin Shelby
5:18:35PM No. what I handed out to you was the striked-through version of a duplicative paragraph that was ultimately decided in working with Mr. Vaske who did a tremendous amount of work, I'd like to acknowledge him for this and getting this in a timely fashion, to make it even cleaner and not duplicative. When the time comes, I'd like council to accept the substitution.
Alan Clendenin
5:18:58PM Very good. Continue.
Bill Carlson
5:19:00PM Should we show this on the overhead.
Alan Clendenin
5:19:02PM Wait until we get to it.
Dennis Rogero
5:19:05PM Thank you, Mr. Shelby. I was remiss in not thanking Mr. Vaske and you. Appreciate all your efforts in bringing this home. Item number 4, again, I'll give a moment to read through it, but it centers around potential funding for the Sulphur Springs neighborhood action plan. My understanding is medians have occurred. If council is inclined to appropriate or set aside funding for this particular purpose, it would have to come from one of two places. Either from within the recommended budget, because we have a balanced budget, or it will come from the funding that we just addressed under council's first motion. CIT and/or General Fund.
Alan Clendenin
5:19:51PM What you would be looking for after you finish the presentation is a motion to --
Dennis Rogero
5:19:56PM Yes, council --
Alan Clendenin
5:19:58PM Continue.
Dennis Rogero
5:20:00PM Thank you. I'll give a moment to read through it, but it centers on holding in abeyance funding -- excuse me, pay raises for those making over $150,000 until we find out the result of amendment 3 in November. We have provided a slide for you. Make a long story short, approximates about a month. Fiscal year starts October 1st. We should know the results of the referendum. I think November 2, 3rd. That is what a month of General Fund and other funding totals for employees making over $150,000 annually.
Alan Clendenin
5:20:41PM Thank you.
Dennis Rogero
5:20:46PM Yes, sir. Agenda item number 6, again, this centers around the Mobility department and finding funds for alley assessment programs. Again, one of two sources for funding. Either replacing something that's already within the recommended budget or taking advantage of the funding being held in abeyance as we await amendment 3 that we went over just a few slides ago. That concludes my presentation, council. Thank you for the public. The website you just saw is where you can find all of the information associated with the fiscal year '27 budget and the five-year -- the recommended '27 budget and the five-year recommended capital improvement program.
Alan Clendenin
5:21:37PM This is going to be the opportunity for council on the first round of asking questions, but to summarize this, when we're finished with this we're going to require action by council on item number 3. We're going to require -- not require, but should have action on item number 4. Number 6, and 5 would be more of a discussion. 3, 4, and 6 probably require some type of council action. This is the first round. Councilwoman Hurtak followed by Councilman Viera.
Lynn Hurtak
5:22:10PM How much money will it take for agenda item 6?
Alan Clendenin
5:22:19PM Phase one and two of the alleys.
Lynn Hurtak
5:22:23PM It says identify funds for task one and two, how much was it?
Dennis Rogero
5:22:27PM Task one and two of the alley assessment program. That I do not know. I'll defer to the department.
Alan Clendenin
5:22:33PM He bounced out of his chair.
Lynn Hurtak
5:22:45PM If we have six items that we're talking --
Brandon Campbell
5:22:49PM Brandon Campbell, mobility director. I do have the task to break down on the projector. Task one was $349,000. Task two was $878,000.
Lynn Hurtak
5:22:59PM So it's one and two together is all we need, right?
Brandon Campbell
5:23:02PM That was the --
Lynn Hurtak
5:23:06PM 1.2?
Alan Clendenin
5:23:08PM 12.
Lynn Hurtak
5:23:09PM 1.2. Thank you. Second question is for Mr. Rogero. So what you're saying is that 35 million, is that what's being held in the unfunded -- I'm sorry, unassigned fund balance? 35.6?
Dennis Rogero
5:23:30PM No, ma'am. The 13.5 of that 35.6 is being held in unassigned fund balance. That's the General Fund.
Lynn Hurtak
5:23:38PM What about the 22.1 from the CIT?
Dennis Rogero
5:23:42PM That is being held in CIT reserve. Community investment tax.
Lynn Hurtak
5:23:46PM Got it. I'm going to dive in. So the way to solve this one, Chair, This is your -- this is the addendum. If you want to make sure that we put the money where we want it to go, you need to find that line item and just say, the first 10 million will go to line item 59423. That would be the way I would solve it.
Alan Clendenin
5:24:15PM Instead of just paving.
Lynn Hurtak
5:24:17PM Yes. Because then you know it actually goes to the paving line item. I'm just saying. If you're concerned about it, that's what I would do. That's my personal recommendation.
Alan Clendenin
5:24:28PM Can I get Ms. Kopesky in the next short period of time to identify the line items?
Lynn Hurtak
5:24:37PM Stormwater maintenance -- well, I have a bunch of things to say, but I will go with some of the things that I want to talk about. I have some stuff to talk about with Sulphur Springs, but I'll wait until Councilwoman Young speaks. But I did want to let you know, councilwoman, that we already approved $985,000 towards sidewalk improvements in Sulphur Springs back in June. And that was to connect schools. So we already allocated that and made sure it was part of the '27 budget. I have the motion here, I'm just going to go ahead and pass that. Brandon is getting up. Does that mean the money did not get moved?
Brandon Campbell
5:25:26PM Again, Brandon Campbell, mobility director. If I understand correctly, the motion that Councilwoman Young had made --
Lynn Hurtak
5:25:35PM No. this was a motion I made.
Brandon Campbell
5:25:38PM That was actually a pass and the money has been set aside for specific sidewalk segments. I don't know if you can see the projector. It was for the primary walking corridor as well as Bird Street. If I understand correctly, the motion that Councilwoman Young brought forth was for the segments that are identified sort of in brackets on that --
Lynn Hurtak
5:26:01PM Okay. This is different money.
Brandon Campbell
5:26:03PM This is in addition.
Lynn Hurtak
5:26:03PM In addition. I just wanted to make sure that you knew about the sidewalk that we did.
Alan Clendenin
5:26:09PM Do you want to respond now? Councilwoman Young.
Naya Young
5:26:13PM My motion wasn't specifically for sidewalks. It was just toward the neighborhood action plan. But that was one of the areas that was identified when I did have the conversation.
Brandon Campbell
5:26:27PM Yes, for clarity. Let me zoom out here. There were a few different action items that were shared with me that was directed toward. And just for clarity, the sidewalk segments within that suite of action items were those that were identified in brackets. I didn't mean to suggest that those other items were excluded from your recommendation.
Lynn Hurtak
5:26:50PM So you wanted to do more sidewalks?
Naya Young
5:26:53PM I had a conversation with Abbye and lauren, and these -- out of the Sulphur Springs neighborhood action plan, these were three of the areas that were identified as where money could go towards to continue to put money towards Sulphur Springs, but towards the neighborhood action plan. If I'm hearing you correctly, Brandon --
Alan Clendenin
5:27:16PM Put two minutes back on her. Don't start it up yet. We're in dialogue.
Naya Young
5:27:21PM What I'm hearing is there is already money allocated towards sidewalks.
Brandon Campbell
5:27:28PM That's correct, yes.
Lynn Hurtak
5:27:29PM My ask for you would be because we have this money, one of the things that the community wants is to fix that manatee bridge. I think we should take the 750, add 750 more to it because they are projecting it is going to be 1.5 million and do that.
Alan Clendenin
5:27:54PM Is what we're seeing there, is the bridge --
Lynn Hurtak
5:27:58PM No, it's not.
Naya Young
5:27:59PM It's not. That's just for the parks.
Lynn Hurtak
5:28:01PM But I found the money for it. I don't have the time left. Or you gave me two more minutes. I'll tell you where I found the money. If you put -- if Ms. Scharf could come out or Ms. Kopesky could pull something for me. Could you put up the capital improvement deferral? The CIT deferral specifically. First of all, I'm going to recommend that we put all the CIT projects back in.
Alan Clendenin
5:28:40PM Zoom this in. Dennis must have printed it.
Lynn Hurtak
5:28:52PM Here's the thing. The $8 million for the macdill access -- can you point to the macdill access? The $8 million, they have told us they can't do that this year because they aren't ready to do that program. So my recommendation would be to add -- I was going to do 1.5 million, but if we already have 750 for sidewalks, if we add $750,000 to parks and rec, we can move that money there and find the 1.5 million to fix the bridge. The reason that is important to Sulphur Springs is because it brings more people to the neighborhood. And that's one of the things we're trying to do with economic impact. So I want to bring more people back to the neighborhood. Once we fix the pool, because that's undergoing, and they are fixing the underpass boardwalk. That will be done next year. And they are also going to be doing the walking path. Having that whole part done at once I think will be really important to -- I mean, to economic viability because I know they want to bring -- they have the farmer's market that they are working on. But people want to see -- people will come for that. I believe that's an economic development thing. That's what I would like to see.
Alan Clendenin
5:30:08PM Are you just talking about, because your assumption is we're putting all the money back in C.I.P.?
Lynn Hurtak
5:30:14PM We should. I'm going to fight for that.
Alan Clendenin
5:30:16PM That is a subject for discussion.
Lynn Hurtak
5:30:18PM Subject for discussion but even if we don't put it all back, moving 750 from this 8 million which we can't do this year even if we wanted to, that's what Mr. Rogero Has said, correct, that this is not ready. Okay, Mr. Campbell.
Brandon Campbell
5:30:32PM Sorry. I want to make sure that I am clear on what has been funded.
Alan Clendenin
5:30:38PM Kill the timer.
Brandon Campbell
5:30:39PM Again, these primary walking routes in the orange, little darker shade plus Bird Street. This, I believe right at about middle of this segment is the community center that was the subject of some discussion and providing a walking route to. Those bracketed segments are not currently funded. Just for clarity, if that's something --
Lynn Hurtak
5:31:03PM We could fund that and do the bridge. The way I had it, I was moving 1.5 million from that 8 million to do the Sulphur Springs bridge. We wouldn't have to touch that money.
Alan Clendenin
5:31:18PM [Indiscernible]
Lynn Hurtak
5:31:19PM No, no. I was going to take 750 from the sidewalks, but we don't have to because if Hagar puts that, if you put that other page back on, we have $8 million right now that can be moved. And we can move 1.5 million for Sulphur Springs. Can I ask one more question on this? Mr. Rogero, I'll come down. If we put this $1.5 million in there, add 1.3 for TPD headquarters because it needs the elevators fixed and then these other projects that we promised people. That borrell park has to happen. There's just no -- there's no ifs, ands or buts. We promised people the gadsden park improvements. But down here, I was told that this has already been solved.
Dennis Rogero
5:32:23PM Yes, ma'am. Footnote number 4.
Lynn Hurtak
5:32:26PM Because no construction, so we've dealt with that. Even if all of this stuff is done, that only equates to 6.3 million, we still would have money left to do the prep work for the macdill. I wanted you to take a look at that and see, that's kind of what I'm thinking for the CIT.
Guido Maniscalco
5:32:53PM Real quick. Is this correct? If we are not ready and we are deferring that $8 million for the macdill access, does that free up the money that the council member is talking about without any issues regarding what is being deferred and whatnot, it gives $8 million that we can move around.
Dennis Rogero
5:33:11PM Roughly. The only thing I would want clarification on is any of that $8 million required next fiscal year to begin that particular project. I think Director Campbell.
Alan Clendenin
5:33:27PM Macdill access. [Talking over one another]
Brandon Campbell
5:33:33PM We will not be going into construction until fiscal '28. Design is underway.
Alan Clendenin
5:33:40PM Design funded.
Brandon Campbell
5:33:42PM Yes.
Alan Clendenin
5:33:42PM Question for you. As councilwoman Hurtak's point, based on fiscal prudency you've deferred this stuff. If council decides to put this stuff -- put it back into the budget, if what we're hearing is that $8 million is now on top of everything else that you have deferred if we're not going to spend that, additional $8 million.
Dennis Rogero
5:34:05PM No. clarification that $8 million is included. If I could have the wolf back up. There is another one. The bottom in yellow, the $22 million I referenced includes that $8 million. Council has $22 million in community investment tax to decide where they would like it to go.
Alan Clendenin
5:34:27PM Reference the request and what the administration was looking for, that 22 -- if you take 8 million off of that, you have not requested -- $8 million, that is unrequested money.
Dennis Rogero
5:34:41PM Yes. For clarification, again, without getting too wonkish, fiscal year '27 numbers are simply the fiscal year '27 numbers that exist in this year's capital improvement program. It is council's pleasure as to how they would like to divide that funding.
Alan Clendenin
5:34:57PM Got it. Councilman Viera.
Luis Viera
5:35:00PM Mine is very short. Thank you, Councilwoman Hurtak, for those detailed inquiries. I made a request last meeting on the so-called special needs internship and wanting to make sure where this was in the budget, the amount drawn. Ms. McGregor and I spoke about that earlier today, I think it was. I wanted to inquire in that regard, including making sure that if amendment 3 does pass, that doesn't matter at all to the city budget, but it matters a hell of a lot to the people who benefit from it. I don't know if you needed to look for that.
Dennis Rogero
5:35:37PM It's contained -- correct me if I'm wrong --
Luis Viera
5:35:46PM And I know it is in the --
Dennis Rogero
5:35:51PM [Inaudible]
Luis Viera
5:35:52PM We have to get it out of that. That is just so fragile. Correct me if I'm wrong, there's another internship program, correct?
Dennis Rogero
5:36:00PM Yes.
Luis Viera
5:36:02PM Where is it funded? It should be funded where that is funded. I beat that drum.
Dennis Rogero
5:36:09PM Administrator Wynn knows that, unless you've got it. Janelle McGregor, director of community engagement and partnerships. I can speak to the special needs internship program which we're looking to fund at the same level as we did in fiscal year '26 to keep the consistency of that program.
Alan Clendenin
5:36:31PM Councilman Viera -- Administrator Wynn -- you know where these things are funded at, two programs?
5:36:40PM The other one. Affairs. The other internship programs are funded within workforce development.
Luis Viera
5:36:53PM Why don't we fund this special needs one in workforce development because that's what it is? When you put it in the nonprofit sector, it makes it fragile. First to go in a budget wash, right? How do we do that?
Dennis Rogero
5:37:10PM I can answer that question. No worries. It is council's pleasure. If council would like to direct that funding move to another source. Right now, we have a balanced budget. It's part of the $1 million in the Social Action and Arts Fund. We can move that, but -- how much is in there do you recall for fiscal year '27 for special needs? $76,000.
Luis Viera
5:37:39PM I motion to put $76,000 from the social network --
Alan Clendenin
5:37:43PM Can I make a suggestion? [Talking over one another] let's start a running total so we understand and then we can see what we have.
Lynn Hurtak
5:37:56PM Can I make a recommendation?
Luis Viera
5:37:58PM Yes, ma'am, please.
Lynn Hurtak
5:37:59PM Let's fund that of the extra out of -- let's fund that out of some of the money we're putting in abeyance. Only $76,000. That way it's a permanent. Because that way we don't take anything out of social action arts.
Luis Viera
5:38:16PM I'm okay with that.
Alan Clendenin
5:38:18PM Hagar, if you could help me keep a running total of the amounts and where it is -- council proposed taking the money so we can look at the bigger picture when we make a final determination.
Luis Viera
5:38:29PM I have one tiny --
Hagar Kopesky
5:38:35PM I did not hear her recommendation.
Alan Clendenin
5:38:37PM Money we're holding in abeyance --
Lynn Hurtak
5:38:40PM My recommendation is some of the money in abeyance.
Alan Clendenin
5:38:42PM 76,000 to fund out of the workforce development program. Move it to workforce development and take 76 out of abeyance and put it into workforce development.
Luis Viera
5:38:53PM Councilman Carlson has a question.
Bill Carlson
5:38:58PM I think, Mr. Rogero, if you can help us figure out how to put it as a line item that it would be in concrete so that I think his concern is that whoever is on council next, they can see it and they'll protect it, that it won't be just buried under something else.
Dennis Rogero
5:39:16PM That's exactly what we'll do is itemize each of council's recommendations do a running total and provide, if anything, what is left.
Alan Clendenin
5:39:25PM It's own cost under workforce development.
Luis Viera
5:39:28PM Thank you, sir. For purposes of the public, I want to make sure that by passing this tonight, k-bar ranch park about $8 million, puts it in the C.I.P. For next fiscal year, correct?
Dennis Rogero
5:39:39PM Fiscal year '28 which is the year after the year we're talking about.
Luis Viera
5:39:45PM Thank you.
Alan Clendenin
5:39:49PM Councilwoman Young.
Naya Young
5:39:52PM One, I want to thank you and Chief Bennett for meeting with me last week. I was going through the budget deferral list that you gave to me. I see here under workforce the rising explorer program, summer youth internship program is not funded in '27 nor is the temp intern program as well.
Dennis Rogero
5:40:19PM What page?
Naya Young
5:40:21PM First page.
Dennis Rogero
5:40:23PM Workforce. I see the two workforce items. Yes, you are correct.
Naya Young
5:40:28PM I was listening to Councilman Viera, how will we -- it doesn't look like we're funding any youth programs under workforce.
Dennis Rogero
5:40:41PM All I can attest to is on the budget increase sheet, again, let me clarify this, the recommended budget, again, we envision that to be a sustainment budget. Generally, if we're doing something in the current year, we're doing it next year, these are increase requests. If I think your question is how do we fund these, it would come, in my mind, either take it from someplace else or come from the $13.5 million general funding we've been discussing.
Naya Young
5:41:15PM So we have the community engagement allocation of funds for hundred summer youth leadership program. 2027. Rising sports program for high school students. That's not in 2027. And then also the temp intern program, that's not in 2027 either.
Dennis Rogero
5:41:34PM I'm sorry. So the question --
Naya Young
5:41:37PM I'm just noting that -- and then also we have the teen programming operating budget. That's not in there either.
Dennis Rogero
5:41:45PM I see. You are identifying items that have not been funded.
Naya Young
5:41:50PM Right. Should this be included in the running list?
Alan Clendenin
5:41:56PM If you want to run it and Hagar can capture.
Naya Young
5:41:59PM Absolutely.
Lynn Hurtak
5:42:01PM I brought up the same thing so I'll second it.
Alan Clendenin
5:42:03PM We're not taking motions at this point. Just have a running list. I think we need to look at the big picture once we're finished. If you would identify the areas that you feel like need to be part of the unallocated money, identify that so Hagar can capture that and then a final discussion at the end of the presentation.
Naya Young
5:42:26PM If we could add that. The rising explorer summer youth internship program and hundred --
Alan Clendenin
5:42:40PM Identify the amounts, too.
Naya Young
5:42:44PM 175 for rising explorers, and then 85,248 for summer youth leadership.
Dennis Rogero
5:42:54PM Again, council's pleasure and especially yours, ma'am, but if you'd like to mark on the copy and then we could incorporate that into the running total and the itemized list. If you don't want to read each one in its entirety.
Alan Clendenin
5:43:10PM I think for public disclosure, it's good.
Naya Young
5:43:12PM Ms. Kopesky Knows what I was talking about. I needed to point that out because everyone knows I have a huge passion for youth. I think it's important that we have both programs to be funded for our summer youth. So, two, Sulphur Springs. Brandon and Abbye, could you come and explain to me, we were talking about with the sidewalk. So I heard allocated already we have the 985,000 for sidewalks, and then when we had our meeting, Abbye, we were talking about safe routes to places, street safety was one of the items we identified. In the areas that we were looking at on the map, kind of the same to what Brandon was saying. Do we have money allocated for those areas already or not?
Abbye Feeley
5:44:11PM Abbye Feeley, administrator for development and economic opportunity. The 985 does not include the segments that Brandon had shown on the screen that are bracketed. That is over where laila's house is. The importance of that was to create a circulator system. When we talked, even getting a sidewalk on one side of the street in those areas, but right now as Brandon stated, the 985 is for the darker orange.
Alan Clendenin
5:44:44PM How much additional funding do you need to fund the bracketed sidewalks?
Naya Young
5:44:49PM That would be the 500,000.
Abbye Feeley
5:44:55PM Probably a minimum of 500. Might be a little less than that if we put sidewalk on one side of the street. And also street crossing markings and things like that.
Naya Young
5:45:11PM Put a minimum 500,000, would that be enough to cover these areas?
Brandon Campbell
5:45:15PM Yes. Again, Brandon Campbell, mobility director. Yes, I would anticipate it would. Of course, we will stretch that budget as far as we can within the neighborhood.
Alan Clendenin
5:45:23PM So for brevity, we can ask Ms. Kopesky to add 500,000 to our running total list for sidewalks in Sulphur Springs to complete that circuit?
Naya Young
5:45:34PM Where is this coming from? I think darlene gave everyone a copy. I had a meeting with Ms. Feeley and lauren about Sulphur Springs, talking about different projects to allocate funding to -- towards the Sulphur Springs neighborhood action plan. And these were the three items, the three kind of buckets that we identified. And it was a street safety housing stability and public realm. Ms. Kopesky, do you have your copy with you?
Alan Clendenin
5:46:02PM That was the green. Somebody showed it a minute ago.
Naya Young
5:46:11PM These were the three buckets identified. Came out of the Sulphur Springs neighborhood action plan. We have the minimums to the max for each area. I wanted to bring it to council to kind of get -- see what route you all think, because I was thinking at least doing the minimums for each area, because that coupled with the improvements that are happening with the parks, I think it would be really good investment in the area and in different buckets. So if that is, if the council feels that that is a good area to go, I would want to do that.
Alan Clendenin
5:46:45PM You've already discussed the 500,000 for sidewalk under the first bucket. You're looking for additional -- basically a million. 1.5.
Naya Young
5:47:01PM For Sulphur Springs.
Alan Clendenin
5:47:02PM Ms. Kopesky, could you -- the 500,000 for sidewalks, additional $1 million for the additional -- for the action plan for Sulphur Springs.
Naya Young
5:47:13PM Specifically housing stability and then public realm benefits.
Alan Clendenin
5:47:18PM Total of 1.5 for that. Very good.
Abbye Feeley
5:47:24PM I did promise to bring numbers tonight in relationship to what we've been doing with down payment assistance and owner occupied rehabilitation under our current programs. And in the past five years, we've done 24 rehabilitations in the 33604 zip code, which we understand Sulphur Springs is smaller than that zip code, but that was the easiest way for us to pull the data. 17 are complete. 7 are currently in process. Down payment assistance, we've had 52 closings over the past five years, equaling $1.675 million in down payment assistance in that area. And also, if you'll recall, we had the hurricane disaster assistance program, both ours, which we use SHIP funds for, and then the one, the additional 2 million from City Council. We assisted 13 homes equaling just over 155,000 in that area as well.
Naya Young
5:48:28PM Is that just for this year or over time?
Abbye Feeley
5:48:31PM The dpa and the rehab was over the past five years. In this year, in 2026, for rehab, we completed four, and seven are underway. So that's 11. For down payment assistance for fiscal year 26, seven closings equaling $320,000.
Alan Clendenin
5:49:00PM The 500,000 -- sorry, excuse me. The down payment assistance for the five years, how long do we track to ensure they are owner occupied?
Abbye Feeley
5:49:12PM Down payment assistance is ten years. If you sell your home within ten years, you owe us back the dpa.
Alan Clendenin
5:49:23PM We track that?
Abbye Feeley
5:49:25PM Oh, yes. We put a lura on the property for the ones that we provide down payment assistance for.
Lynn Hurtak
5:49:34PM What if the person who purchases the property starts to rent it out?
Abbye Feeley
5:49:41PM I believe that's also addressed. I think it has to be owner occupied. I don't think there is a rental election.
Lynn Hurtak
5:49:49PM I think that would be interesting to know just overall for all the housing.
Alan Clendenin
5:49:54PM Especially Sulphur Springs. Investment properties.
Lynn Hurtak
5:49:57PM They are really struggling to get actual home ownership in that neighborhood.
Abbye Feeley
5:50:01PM Correct. I can follow up with your office.
Alan Clendenin
5:50:04PM I'm a big fan of the program. I'd like to make sure it is successful for our intended purpose.
Abbye Feeley
5:50:10PM When we talked about this, just to clarify, if that additional funds were put toward that, we will still continue if occupants come in in that area outside of those funds, just like we have been doing. That's part of the reason why when we spoke, I said, oh, let's see how we've been doing within that area when our programs, our grant programs function across the city as a whole. That's the numbers I provided you with today. So we will still continue to provide those funds in the order that those applications come in knowing that we have an extra boost for directly Sulphur Springs, but we'll continue to fund those that are associated with these funds plus those that would be assisted in general as well.
Alan Clendenin
5:50:59PM Excellent. Councilman Maniscalco.
Guido Maniscalco
5:51:01PM I have a question about Social Action and Arts Fund. Do we have -- well, Ms. McGregor is in the back, tbcn and tbae included in that this year? I know there was a reduction in funding from last year. Do we have them included in this? Janelle McGregor, director of community engagement and partnerships. As council recalls earlier in August, we decided to do the pilot program, which includes an application process. That runs from September 1st through September 30. So we are still receiving applications and those allocations have not been made yet.
5:51:49PM We can do a budget amendment after -- should we approve this and if I want to put x amount of dollars to one of those two networks, you want to call them, that I mentioned, we can do that after October 1st. Once our plan is to -- once we receive all the applications to review everything, then to come to council with our proposed plan for moving forward, which will then result in a financial resolution.
5:52:18PM Okay. All right. Then what I'll do, we'll let that play out. I know there are a lot of people in the public that want to speak about this. We'll let the application process play out. Fiscal year begins in, what, five weeks, that deadline. That's what I'm going to be bringing up, tbcn funding, tbae, we have to see the applications and whatnot. I want to make sure that they are not forgotten.
Alan Clendenin
5:52:43PM I'm glad to clarify, remember we had that agreement and procedure, how the money is allocated. Applicant and everybody is evaluated at the same time. Councilwoman Hurtak.
Lynn Hurtak
5:52:52PM I'm going to go back to basically what I recommended for Councilman Viera. I believe this is workforce training. I don't believe this is social action in arts funding. I'm actually having kelly right now look for how much they have gotten in the past, and they may not get the full amount, but I really believe that's workforce training. I do not believe it is a social action in arts thing. So we talked about this before about really trying to move some of the workforce, some of this training stuff to workforce. I mean, again it may not be at the full amount, but I really believe if this is something we want to fund as a council then we put it in that. Leave you to think about that.
Guido Maniscalco
5:53:35PM I think the number was 75,000 for each one. If you want to reclassify it as workforce development, I can understand that. Then my number would be at keeping it at what it was before. If it was 75 for each one, tbcn and tbae and his.
Lynn Hurtak
5:53:55PM I would round it to 100.
Alan Clendenin
5:54:00PM Just remember, we had agreed because we have a lot of competing organizations looking for assistance from the city that you have to weigh out. It's not just whether one organization is worthy. It's how they weigh out with everybody else that's come in for assistance from the city. Just be careful what you ask for. Take from one, taking from somebody else. Councilman Carlson, you haven't spoken yet. Go ahead.
Bill Carlson
5:54:26PM Add a comment about that. Every year that I've been on council we've justified those two organizations by talking about workforce, and I'm also in favor of moving things into the departments. These two, however, were taken out just before I got on council for political reasons by the last administration. And I think to protect them, they ought to be in this fund so that City Council has a line of sight to them. Otherwise, depending on what happens after may, they could be completely cut out again for vindictive reasons.
Lynn Hurtak
5:54:59PM Which fund are you talking about?
Bill Carlson
5:55:02PM Instead of putting them in workforce, leave them in social action in arts. The idea of moving certain things to economic development and the other departments is that they -- if they are justifiable, they should permanently be in those. I agree the same thing here. However, these two were targeted because the last administration didn't like them for whatever reason, which I think is not a good reason to just angrily cut them out. I think it should be in a place protected by future city councils.
Alan Clendenin
5:55:32PM Councilman Viera.
Luis Viera
5:55:32PM Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. Yeah, we could look at potentially putting a little bit of what they get in the fund, whatever. I obviously do support them, but I'm glad Councilman Maniscalco that you brought this up. Because there is an application process and not much that we can do today based on that. So for the folks here, you know, I know we're all very supportive of you all very much so. I've committed to support you guys and even I could write a memo in support of your application to the extent that's permissible and so forth. But, yeah. I do have a question. Council, refresh my memory on this. Ybor museum. Ybor history museum. Is that included under the social action or did we put that somewhere else? It is. Okay. Great. I'll make sure, Sebastian, if you don't mind, yeah, we'll follow up on that. Thank you.
Alan Clendenin
5:56:26PM Councilman Carlson.
Bill Carlson
5:56:27PM One thing I forgot to mention. Nine years ago today I was with a group of arts leaders from st. pete in brooklyn. We went to brooklyn public tv. Just brooklyn has a 6 million -- this is nine years ago. Had a $6 million budget. They primarily use it to incubate new shows. Youtube shows and tv shows that then get picked up and syndicated. We have to think of it as workforce training, but also as an incubator. Every kid now wants to be an online star. And they can make money in it. So we can't just look at it as an expense. And we certainly shouldn't look at it as an arm of the communication department. Thank you.
Alan Clendenin
5:57:11PM Okay. If there's nobody else, then we're going to be done with this round. Really, this is where we are right now. Exhaust public comment during this round, and then we'll go to public comment. Council questions and then we'll go to public comment. Councilwoman Hurtak.
Lynn Hurtak
5:57:29PM I have a couple of questions. I don't know about you, but I've been inundated with information about swann park. I don't know if you have been as well. We're getting briefings about it. But basically, they want to leapfrog all these other parks that have been waiting. So I wanted to put that on people's horizon and just to know that we have a bunch of parks that we did fund through our extra funding of 2025. So we have a whole list of parks. I don't think kelly is here, so I'll run down and show you what we have already funded. We funded about 4.4 million. Normally I'm a little more organized. But I'm blaming chemo brain. Councilwoman Lynn Hurtak, district 3 citywide. We have 4.4 million basically. So we funded these parks and these parks to get some improvements, including the design for the yellow jackets and Cass Street underpass. That's designed for the riverwalk. So all these things are things that we did fund. And kelly, this is not your fault. This is just me being like, okay, I'll do this. These are some of the other improvements that we are -- are these the ones that we're doing this coming year, I think? No, this is the same thing as that.
Alan Clendenin
5:59:12PM This is a Dennis printed copy. We can't read it.
Lynn Hurtak
5:59:16PM Sorry, here. This is the same thing. But this is what we've already funded. And I want to make sure that we are not going to stop anything from happening by funding the swann park. So I guess that's my question for Mr. Rogero. Everything that we're already funding, we're not going to be taking away. Is there anything in the C.I.P. For swann park or Hyde Park improvement? Isn't it Hyde Park improvement?
Dennis Rogero
6:00:02PM Hyde Park improvements I think is the name. It's on swann so it gets called swann park. In the recommended C.I.P., that particular park is identified I believe starting in fiscal year '28. Again, there has been discussion, though, about, as you said, accelerating it because if I'm not mistaken, we have the opportunity for some in-kind or maybe even cash funding from other sources to help mitigate the cost associated with the park. Make a long story short, we have a number of options if we want to do that. We can pull available balances from other parks projects and/or, again, we can use some of the $22 million of the CIT funding that we've talked about.
Lynn Hurtak
6:00:49PM As far as the East Tampa rec center goes, we have a bunch of money still left in that. Do we plan on using all of it? Right now there is a $2.6 million open balance.
Dennis Rogero
6:01:05PM 2.6.
Lynn Hurtak
6:01:06PM There are $479,000 of open p.o.s, and there's still a half million in grant funding. Mike Perry, deputy chief financial officer. We have not closed out the East Tampa recreation park, so that's why there is a large amount there. My understanding is part of that balance will be shared savings with the contractor under the terms of the contract. So until we can bring back the final closeout document, we have to keep those monies within the budget.
6:01:37PM So my question is, if there is money left in the East Tampa rec center, I noticed that on the deferrals is some East Tampa recognize center programming. Can we move that money to programming? Or is that solely for construction?
Dennis Rogero
6:01:59PM I would say, and perhaps mike knows more detail, it would depend on the funding source. If the funding source was solely for projects, we could not do that.
Lynn Hurtak
6:02:08PM That's right. Some of that is bonded.
Michael Perry
6:02:12PM I'm assuming since programming, that is an operating expense funded by the General Fund.
Lynn Hurtak
6:02:17PM Thank you. I just thought I would ask. The other one I wanted to bring up was stormwater funding. We have underfunded this year's stormwater by $3 million, and that's maintenance. Mr. Rogero Showed it, and I'm trying to see if I can find --
Alan Clendenin
6:02:45PM Mr. Rogero, do you have the stormwater funding?
Dennis Rogero
6:02:47PM I can put it on the wolf.
Lynn Hurtak
6:02:49PM Yeah, it was part of what you showed for -- and that's what made me think of it.
Alan Clendenin
6:02:57PM Scroll out so we can see the line identifiers.
Lynn Hurtak
6:03:00PM It's page 3 -- or page 4. Yeah, right there. You see the 7 million that was requested and the recommended budget was 4. Now, I did have Ms. Scharf dig into this after I saw this total. It's actually only about a million. The request was for more, but if we put a million dollars more into the stormwater services, that would lead our maintenance back up to where it needs to be from last year. I'm just throwing that out there. From '26. I think what we have seen is that it's working. Stormwater maintenance is working, and I don't think we should stop that. That's just a recommendation.
Alan Clendenin
6:03:44PM Without objection, let's ask Ms. Hagar to add 1 million to stormwater maintenance. Where would that money come from?
Lynn Hurtak
6:03:50PM General Fund.
Dennis Rogero
6:03:52PM General Fund.
Lynn Hurtak
6:03:53PM Remember, we fund some with General Fund every year.
Alan Clendenin
6:03:55PM I understand. I want to make sure we have a common understanding of what we're looking at.
Lynn Hurtak
6:03:59PM Okay. That's it.
Alan Clendenin
6:04:00PM Councilman Miranda.
Charlie Miranda
6:04:01PM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. In fact, there is another problem, not a problem, something that has to be addressed in the Wells wood area. Yeah, they have a great ball field. Looked at that with Councilwoman Hurtak. 2966 line item for the West Tampa park, which is the little league and stuff in that area, that side of the area. However, mendenhall drive, there is a church about the size of this office right here, not quite this big, and I've toured it once, toured it twice with Mr. Fowler and others, and some of the neighbors that live there, and they want something done with that because they have nowhere to go. Wells wood does not have a civic center for adults. They have some for kids, a lot of park area. I'm looking at it, so I want to make sure, not in the budget, make sure I get with Mr. Rogero and take somebody from the mayor's office to look at that, because that has been like that. Bought like 20 some years ago and never been touched. The building is solid, solid. It's built with cement block on the inside and bricks on the outside. Take a tank to knock that thing down. However, the inside needs complete restoration and some of the outside has no air-conditioning, has nothing there because abandoned for 20 some years. Tell you right now, fight like hell to get that thing done. Put it somewhere -- I'm telling you right now.
Dennis Rogero
6:05:23PM Do we have an anticipated or estimated amount?
Charlie Miranda
6:05:26PM I'll get with you guys later.
Alan Clendenin
6:05:29PM This sounds like a post this meeting kind of conversation because it's still not fully developed.
Charlie Miranda
6:05:34PM I understand.
Alan Clendenin
6:05:35PM Sounds good.
Charlie Miranda
6:05:36PM Make sure Wells wood is not left out.
Alan Clendenin
6:05:38PM Got it. Councilwoman Young.
Naya Young
6:05:43PM Going back to the 4.4 million that council allocated from surplus funding for Parks and Recreation, there is about, I think it was about 85,000 for Jackson Heights. I'm looking in the deferrals and I see the acoustic panels for Jackson Heights gymnasium and perimeter fence for Jackson Heights artificial turf field. Are these two items separate from the 85,000 in improvements we were already allocating for Jackson Heights?
Dennis Rogero
6:06:16PM That's my understanding, yes. But just to clarify, can you identify which page?
Naya Young
6:06:23PM You all don't like to use page numbers.
Dennis Rogero
6:06:25PM I'm sorry?
Naya Young
6:06:27PM That is page one, two, three.
Dennis Rogero
6:06:37PM I believe it's separate.
Alan Clendenin
6:06:39PM Above and beyond.
Dennis Rogero
6:06:41PM Yes.
Naya Young
6:06:42PM Okay. That was my question. Just wanted to be sure.
Alan Clendenin
6:06:45PM Very good. Is that all for the questions? I'm going to open up public comment if there are no other questions. Hearing no other questions, okay, just for the public, I want to make sure you understand that this is public comment for the FY 2027 millage rate. The FY 2027 budget, and FY 2027 through FY 2031 capital improvement budget and program. This is public comment for any one of those items or above and nothing more and nothing less. You have the opportunity to speak to council on those items alone. If you would like to speak to those items, please stand up against the wall here to our left, to your right, and you'll call up one at a time. Some of you may not be familiar, when you speak, you speak to council, which is this way, not that way, because there is a microphone embedded in the podium. When you start, you always start with your name and a green light will come on. When the green light comes on, you have three minutes. 30 seconds left, you have a yellow light. It will ding and yellow light will come on. When the red light comes on, you have to stop, even if you are mid sentence, mid syllable, mid everything, you have to stop. We're going to start with public comment, again, restricted to only those items. Since I know a lot of you guys are going to talk about the same thing, you don't have to use all three minutes -- you can say I agree with what the other person said. We see your t-shirts. If you would start with your name please and you'll have three minutes. My name is antonia mccutcheon. I am the executive director of Tampa Bay community network. I sincerely thank you for allowing me to speak tonight and for everything you do for our community. Our community media center has existed since 1983 and today we are the only public access television station left in Florida, but we are much more than a tv station. We are a successful workforce training organization and a place where people from every background are given a voice and an opportunity. We offer approximately 35 classes in video production, editing, podcasts, av technology, acting, a.i. Media, and a.i. Ethics and much more. We give students hands-on experience, connect them with employer partners, and help them build careers. Because of this past year's funding cuts, we now have more than a hundred people waiting for training, and we are growing. Recently, the Tampa Bay workforce development partner sent us a proposal to help train media students from 36 high schools. We also provide studio equipment, technical assistance, production services and channels to nonprofits, small businesses and community organizations. Our students train by working on these programs. Every Friday, tbcn broadcasts live from congregation schaarai zedek so members who cannot attend in person remain part of the community. Please do not take that away from them. Tbcn awarded through nonprofit awards. Last Friday, we were named a finalist for nonprofit of the year by the Temple Terrace chamber of commerce. Today, we learned that the community innovation collaborative, which we cofounded, won the 2026 tbbc Tampa Bay award. There is a reason for that. Tbcn goes above and beyond. We are a force in the community and a hub for media and innovation. In April, we plan to hold Tampa's first-ever media con, connecting the community with innovation. But none of this can happen if we do not survive. We respectfully ask the city to restore our full annual funding of $208,000, sorry, I have to say that. Doing my due diligence. Grant funding has become extraordinarily difficult to secure. Many grants are on hiatus, offer less or have become fiercely competitive. If SAAF does not have enough funding available, please explore other opportunities. Without city funding, we will not make it through the year. I refuse to give up on tbcn or the people who depend on us. I'm asking you to not give up on us either. Please support our sister station tbae. Their educational arts program serves many groups throughout our community, from the bottom of our hearts, thank you for listening and helping us keep tbcn alive.
6:11:27PM Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Start with your name. My name is kenny sims. I'm a pga of america golf professional, community advocate, and founder of commodore golf services. I'm an hbcu grad and I earned my mba at the University of South Florida. Throughout my 40-year career with the Tampa Sports Authority and my time with the pga of america reach foundation, I've seen firsthand what happens when a community invests in organizations that create opportunity, develop people, and bring people together. I'm here tonight to ask council to stand with the Tampa Bay community network. Tbcn needs help with your support. Tbcn is more than a public access television station; it's a community media center that provides accessible media resources, production opportunities, training that help Tampa Bay residents tell their stories, develop valuable skills, and participate more fully in their community. Their mission is to Elevate Tampa Bay's diverse community by nurturing meaningful connections, amplifying voices, driving civic engagement, empowering individuals through media and workforce development opportunities. That mission is important because local voices matter. Empowering communities matters. I know that first hand. I recently launched a podcast called the hidden gems with the golf twins, focused on people, programs, and organizations that use golf to transform lives and strengthen communities. What I was -- when I was looking for a home for a podcast, I chose tbcn. I chose tbcn because I believed in what they were doing, an organization that understood the power of storytelling, community engagement, and giving people a platform to share their experiences. That personal experience has given me even a great appreciation for the value tbcn provides to our community. That is why I am asking council to continue its financial support for tbcn and work with tbcn to identify sustainable funding path that protects these community services. I want to be clear. I'm not asking the city to do this alone. I'm spearheading a community fund-raising effort with the goal of raising $50,000 for tbcn. I'm putting my own relationships, reputation, money behind this effort because I believe this organization is worth investing in. Because private funding and public support can work together. I'm asking this council to be a partner to help ensure tbcn has the stability it needs to continue to provide accessible media, training, workforce development opportunities, and a platform for Tampa residents.
6:14:35PM Thank you.
6:14:36PM Just to remind you guys, you really don't have to take all three minutes. We heard your presentation. You heard council discuss this. If you agree with what was previously said, you can say, hey, I agree this and here to support tbcn. You don't have to use your whole three minutes so we don't have to be here until midnight. Start with your name, please. You have three minutes. My name is Scott. I am a business owner here in Tampa. I'm here in support of tbcn. I started my career with the public access station that no longer exists in clearwater. We have a great program here, the last one in the state. This is something that not only should we not be talking about not funding, we should be proud of. And we should be putting whatever we can behind. Thank you.
6:15:23PM Thank you for your brevity. Appreciate it. It's noted. Next speaker, please. Start with your name. You have three minutes. My name is becky atoll. I'm a film and television director and creative consultant with tbcn. I first came to tbcn many years ago when I decided I wanted to pursue filmmaking. I took tbcn's video production classes and that training introduced me to many different skills and opportunities within film and television. It opened a door for me into an industry that can otherwise feel very difficult to access. Later I had the opportunity to produce and technically direct a television program called the Tampa native show. Celebrating Tampa and its rich heritage that ran on tbcn for years. These opportunities led to even more amazing career opportunities that never would have happened without tbcn. The same mission is what I see tbcn continuing today. Giving Tampa residents access to training equipment and opportunities in the media. Public funding allows tbcn to continue providing these opportunities to Tampa residents who might not otherwise have access to them. We're building a workforce, creating opportunities and helping people turn their interests and abilities into real careers. Thank you for your consideration and for supporting tbcn.
6:16:43PM Thank you. Start with your name, please. Thank you for your time and attention. I'm clinton willsap on behalf of the foundation for community driven innovation in support of tbcn. Weed a fcdi consider tbcn a cherished community partner who brings a wealth of deeply valued and community enrichment and economic development to Tampa. Our media saturated world, tbcn stands out as an accessible, inclusive skill building resources with proven track record spanning 30 years. Since its inception, tbcn has unwaveringly amplified the voices, vision and stories of Tampa's innovators, movers, shakers and history makers. No other platform levels the playing field like tbcn, bringing audiovisual production skills, development from camera skills, video editing, podcasting and more within everybody's reach. Increasing workforce and economic impact and community connectedness. As a community partner, tbcn is a linchpin of community innovation collaborative initiative serving as the public media artery connecting several local nonprofits in addition to fcdi and maximizing our collective community impact in far-reaching ways. Tbcn uplifts and connects Tampa at the most fundamental level and is a local and state institution that Tampa would be a lesser city and poorer community without. As a sister nonprofit, we are proud to add our voice of support for Tampa Bay community network for all the amazing work they do and for the irreplaceable and immense added value they bring to Tampa.
6:18:17PM Thank you. Next speaker, please. I just came here to tell you thank you, City of Tampa for supporting this valuable resource for so many years. Thank you.
6:18:34PM Thank you for your brevity. Appreciate it. Noted. Next speaker. Member service manager of tbcn. And I have the opportunity to stay in Sulphur Springs and Jackson Heights. I grew up in both of those. And there is nothing like this. People come from both of the areas because we are the closest. And we can provide them opportunity with starting a dream that they never thought that they could ever achieve. And that's giving them a voice to give them a dream and give them workforce opportunities, help create resum s, give them the opportunity to make their voice loud and give them the opportunity to show themselves on tv. Something people never thought they could do from both of those areas. I want to say thank you also for keeping us alive. Tbcn also gave me the opportunity to give back to the community. So we made a platform that every year we do something, give back to the community, toys, clothes, and shoes. It matters. As soon as the hurricane hit, those areas came right to us for those resources. We're just asking that you still keep us alive. Thank you.
6:19:35PM Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is la toya hux. I am a tbcn graduate. I've been shooting video for people for many years, but tbcn I got connected to them with a person from work. Going through their life challenges -- tbcn has given me the opportunity to not only grow and to build relationships around the city, but I have been able to shoot in the community with the city of Temple Terrace, the Tampa Bay food, metropolitan ministries -- excuse me, fund-raising and allowing me to launch my own media company now. Video programs are usually around $30,000 a year. That's not reachable for a lot of us. Tbcn is a community resource very important to a lot of us. Because of it, I'm on the path of self-sufficiency through my own passion. I ask you to support tbcn. It gives us opportunity and opens doors for us to give back to the community. Thank you.
6:20:40PM Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. My name is joel wynkoop. Here to speak on behalf of Tampa Bay community network. I have a huge relationship with tbcn dating back to 1997. Made a huge impact in my life first viewing on tv using their resources to further my career as actor. Took all the courses offered. I took classes on video production, editing, sound, hosting, everything you need to tackle the business. I learned it all from tbcn. Applied everything I learned from tbcn to my acting profession. You might say tbcn has enhanced my acting career. Worked with tbcn, donating my time to help them and bringing their message to the community. I donated my time with movies, anything to help tbcn. I taught acting for them to the viewers and in person. And I have hosted countless live events to help them with their services. Tbcn has so much to offer the community to shut-ins and all viewers. It would be a shame to cut off their funding for tbcn. So many people depend on tbcn. Live events, public addresses, community events, community help, teaching people skills they can use to get jobs. Free services, video production acting classes. Education for classes, people's views, education for public and again it would be a shame to cut off the funding for tbcn. I thank you all for your time. Please do not terminate their funding. They need it, you need it, and the community needs it. Thank you very much.
Lynn Hurtak
6:22:08PM Thank you. Next speaker, please start with your name. My name is dora Taylor. I am the director of operations at Tampa Bay community network. I see firsthand what tbcn means to the people who walk through our doors. Many of our students come to us looking for direction and opportunity or simply someone who believes in them. We give them hands-on training, real production experience and connections that can lead to employment. We do not teach people how to use equipment. We help them discover what they are capable of doing. Tbcn is a family and our students and community members depend on us. Losing the organization would mean losing opportunities that may not exist anywhere else for the people we serve. Please restore tbcn funding and help us continue changing lives. We have so much more work to do and we cannot do it without the city's support.
6:22:56PM Thank you very much. Next speaker, please start with your name. Production manager at Tampa Bay community network. One of the things we're proud of is tbcn's commitment to giving people in our community hands-on experience with media and technology. We recently developed an av technology program where people can learn about audio video production and technology that goes into putting on professional events and production. Ryan counsel from Ryan staging has worked with us and seen firsthand what we are doing at tbcn and the students he created through the program. Rather than just stand here telling you how great we are, I'll play a video from Ryan -- well, the audio.
6:23:41PM You can put it right -- oh, just the audio. Just wanting to take a brief moment to offer my support for the Tampa Bay community network, tbcn, as there is deliberation and as you guys are in the process of discovering the viable, the necessity of having an organization like this. It's right in the name. Community. We have a strong market in Tampa Bay. A number of our shows, concert tours coming through, sporting events, they take place in the Tampa Bay area. It's been a great opportunity for us to extend our reach into the Tampa Bay area to recruit new talent and individuals trying to grow diversely in this market, in this industry. Antonia and the team there, over the last few months, just about a year now, have positioned and prepared some up and coming talent to grow and to not only serve in our industry directly but to continue to expand the skill sets across the board. You want to continue to support organizations that do that. That's just one of the things I'm really big about community, local community support, and opportunities to grow and build from within. Hope you guys will take this into great consideration as you guys go about your deliberations. Have a wonderful, wonderful day. God bless. Thank you so much for the chance to speak.
6:25:29PM Thank you very much. I just want to remind people in the audience that the acoustics in this room are very, very good. So if you are talking, we can hear you. So if you have a conversation that you need to have, please take it outside. Thank you. Next speaker. Our students.
6:25:53PM Good to know. Thank you very much. Next speaker, you have three minutes. Please start with your name. My name is hope carissa, a resident of Sulphur Springs and also the president of Sulphur Springs neighborhood association. I just want to say thank you for allowing me to speak today. First, let me just say, I am so happy about the updates that I heard earlier in the meeting. Thank you, thank you, thank you. That makes me know that our concerns are not falling on deaf ears. I just want to ask for you all to continue to invest in Sulphur Springs consistently, annual investment and make this a priority, particularly as we move forward with the Sulphur Springs neighborhood action plan. This plan has already identified more than 80 plus recommendations, including priorities for safe routes, housing, public spaces, transportation, parks and rec and long-term neighborhood investments. But I also want to emphasize Parks and Recreation, especially the work that's going to save and preserve Sulphur Springs pool, I just want to give a special shout-out to ted. Thank you for your continued partnership. We know this hasn't been easy, but we understand that progress is being made. The pool is more than a facility. It's part of the neighborhood's history, identity, and quality of life. As the city continues evaluating the future of the pool, I encourage council to keep Sulphur Springs at the table and consider the pool as part of a broader neighborhood investment because it not only serves Sulphur Springs, but the rounding communities. And because Sulphur Springs does not have a CRA, I believe we need to be intentional about creating predictable annual investment into the neighborhood. It doesn't necessarily have to come from one source, but it can come from parks and rec funding, capital improvement, Planning, house programs, grants, transportation funding, and other available resources. The neighborhood already has a plan and a road map, and we want to make sure that this doesn't just sit on the shelves. We need now to have consistent investment to turn that plan into an action. I encourage the city to establish Sulphur Springs as an ongoing annual investment priority so we can make a meaningful progress year after year. Thank you for your time.
Alan Clendenin
6:28:10PM Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Warren gibson. I'm a former student of tbcn. I've been there about two and a half years. When I retired from my previous position, wanted to do something different so I found them. And I don't even live in Hillsborough county. Since then, I've gotten opportunities to do some work in movies. I handle different things that they have taught me to use. Am I an expert in everything? No. but I get better every time I do it. I appreciate them being there. Very kind and I wish they would do it to more of the people. Thank you.
6:28:51PM Thank you very much. Next speaker, please. Steve Michelini. First, let me start with the alleys issue. You have a number of technical standards, zoning issues, mobility issues that need to be looked at at the same time that you're going through the alley study. So I wouldn't forget that. It would require some time to change those codes. The second thing is, I can't even imagine reducing the maintenance budget for stormwater. It is unfathomable to me when you've heard from all over the city the needs for our maintenance. I just can't imagine it. The third thing, you were advised that you should not shift money that was collected from throughout the city for a single project, and yet you did it anyway. You're not supposed to be shifting that money. One of the council members asked the CFO last week about the remainder of the funds in the stormwater fund. He said there was $30 million. What he didn't tell you was, under oath, they have sworn there's no money for five years. All of the money is used up. And I would strongly recommend that you ask him to come back and state on the record clearly that there is no money left for five years in the stormwater assessment fee. Again, another thing that is unconscionable. Out of that $30 million, 15 million, as I understand it, is for debt. The $15 million that's remaining will be directed toward the South Howard project. Again, another issue that you should not be considering, and certainly not favorably. We met with and as I said to you with sworn testimony, not a matter of me just saying it. We have the transcripts, we distributed them to you, and when the councilman asks for a very clear answer, he got an answer very softly that there is no money for five years, and then when another council member asked what was it, and he put a chart up on the screen that showed $30 million without any clarification, and without understanding or without telling you there's no money. Taking $4 million or $3 million out of the maintenance, taking the $30 million and then telling you, leading you to believe that there was money left in that account when there's not, shifting money that you're not supposed to. The enabling legislation does not allow that to happen. I urge the council to be looking very closely at those funds and the testimony that's being given to you. It doesn't match what they say under sworn testimony. Thank you.
6:31:39PM Thank you. Next speaker, please. Start with your name. My name is Charlie Adams. I'm director of the springs market, which is a food initiative in the Sulphur Springs community. Thank you all for having me this evening. I wanted to mention a few things in regards to having clarity, accountability, continued investment in Sulphur Springs community. Thank you for keeping Sulphur Springs funding commitment in place. We ask that the city continue to protect the funds in the Sulphur Springs pool, park, pedestrian bridge, walking board and under the 275 bike loop. The bridge repair estimated at $1.8 million. We need a clear funding plan, construction, timeline, and reopen date. I want to come up here and personally thank Councilman Bill Carlson, defines leadership, style of leadership in regards to clarity. And ensuring that the community is informed about decisions that are made. In regards to the e-mails that Councilman Lynn Hurtak received, you shared that information with me personally, and I was able to share with the community. Councilwoman Naya Young, you worked very swiftly. I called you Sunday morning when you were at church, praise god, and you answered my text and made sure you went to the proper department to speak with the people that was responsible for having these conversations, and you made sure that there was clarity from end to end. Everyone was on the same page. The meeting ended 20 minutes early. That typically never happens. I just want to speak to your style of leadership and what we need for the future not only just Sulphur Springs, but the City of Tampa. So thank you. Councilman Bill Carlson, that's not an official endorsement for your run --
6:33:54PM I've got to stop you. You are not supposed to address individual. I let you run, but you address council as a whole. Thank you. Moving forward with neighborhood action plan, we ask that we expand own dream -- sorry, program, and allocate three to five hundred thousand to attract a full grocery store in the area and commit 1 million to the zero improvement along Nebraska Avenue from the river to busch. Thank you for your time.
6:34:32PM Thank you, Mr. Adams. Next speaker, please. Start with your name. I am here to support Tampa Bay community network. I'm not a part of Tampa Bay community network. I'm a local attorney. I've been practicing in this community for over 24 years. I primarily practice in criminal defense, so I understand how important it is to support our community. I am speaking on behalf of the members of tbcn specifically the director, the executive director, and my sister who is dora Taylor, who is the director of operations. I know everyone has spoken, so I don't need to reiterate what they have all said but I think it's important that we understand that what they are seeking is the full support, the full amount that was given to them previously. Because without that, they will not survive. They will be out of jobs and the station will be shut down. I understand and I've heard what everyone here has said about your support for tbcn, and I appreciate that. I am here on their behalf because I have seen and seen the work that they have done and how they have grown over the past 20 years that my sister has worked for them and all of the community involvement and the trainings and teachings they have done that's so important to the community. I hope you guys realize the amount that is needed to continue their support because as they stated previously, without that support by the end of this year, they will have to shut down. I just want to reiterate and ask that you give them that full support they need to continue doing the amazing work they do, which is one of the last stations we have in the State of Florida thank you.
6:36:00PM Thank you very much. Ms. Poynor, start with your name, please. Stephanie poynor. Let's start with the fun stuff. Here's the project for Interbay, macdill, they keep changing the name to make it more, I guess, impressive to other people. I'm trying to figure out why htnd, whatever the firm is who has the contract has 500 people working for them but they can't move forward. Because one guy quit, maybe? I don't know. The numbers for this project are kind of misleading because it's $8 million in the CIT but only 2.8 here. If I go back to the original RFQ, RFP, whatever it is, it was supposed to be 1.2 million. Now, they are supposed to be doing some stormwater abatement with this and doing something with the ditches on both sides of the road. I would like to point out that we had three feet of water at Interbay and manhattan after milton. But yet we can't figure out how to fund this project that we've been working on since '21. I mean, I walked the street with them in '21. I would also like to point out, somebody brought up swann park, there's 17 parks and rec plans. It's not in here. Why are we sneaking up with swann park -- I don't get it. I don't agree with it. Now, I do want to put out to you that when I pulled my little list of unassigned funds, whatever you want to do with it, there are five unassigned funds in the Interbay mobility district. Now, I tried to look and see where Sulphur Springs lies mobility district-wise because there's $1.6 million sitting in the Interbay district. Why can't we still move forward with that? Why do we have to take it out of the CIT? It is not an $8 million project. Mr. Perry told us that last Friday at the citizens budget meeting. Why is it in there as an $8 million project? Are we going to wait around until it is $8 million because it was 1.2 in '24? The other thing is, closing ditches, I just want to know why we're not moving forward in the whole we can't do this. Also another project that was supposed to take place right there on the corner, and staff told me that it was canceled by macdill because macdill would not allow them on the land. Well, that was a lie, because the land they needed to use for the two lanes belongs to the city. It's in front of fire station 19 and the park next door to it. I don't really understand what all is going on. But when you've got the money in the Interbay transportation district to do most of this work, why would it be put on the back burner. And $9 million in increases in our -- you've doubled the density in our community. You have also still, we don't have a permanent red light at the corner of tyson and Westshore, which was needed in 2006, not 2026. 2006 before you doubled the dwelling units. I have to ask that these --
6:39:16PM Thank you, Ms. Poynor.
6:39:20PM Thank you, Ms. Poynor. Does council have any additional questions? Remember, in our first public hearing, we talked about the 250 for the investigations for council. After consulting with Ms. Kopesky and based on existing funding we can do that with 200. Only need an additional 200. I need to get Ms. Kopesky to add that to the list. Ms. Kopesky, do you got that? That being said, I understand Councilwoman Hurtak you have some motions and then I'll give you the gavel to do my motion.
Lynn Hurtak
6:39:56PM I have one motion because I was asked by Mr. Perry to clarify my motion from last time. So this is my motion about the HART route 1. In addition to the 1.35 million allocated for increased frequency for route 1 for the 2027 calendar year, I move to include an additional 55,000 to cover the full cost of the increased frequency and an additional 95,000 to HART for marketing of route one and other high frequency HART routes. That would bring total funding to 1.5 million.
Alan Clendenin
6:40:29PM That's coming from General Fund money?
Lynn Hurtak
6:40:32PM Yes, we already decided that last --
Alan Clendenin
6:40:35PM Just for clarification. Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Any discussion? Hearing none --
Charlie Miranda
6:40:41PM I will be voting for it, but City of Tampa is no longer the transit business. Back in the '70s when they took it over and hartline came. That's hartline problem. I'm willing to facilitate and help but won't be doing it in the future.
Alan Clendenin
6:40:55PM Very good. I have a motion and second. All in favor, aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you very much.
Lynn Hurtak
6:41:00PM And then I did want to bring up the special workshop that Mr. Rogero Recommended. I looked at the calendar, and if we wanted to do it before October 15, the 5th and the 6th is a Monday and Tuesday, 12 and 13th are mondays and tuesdays. Ms. Scharf, if you could bring me my personal phone.
Alan Clendenin
6:41:21PM Can we put a pin on that for one second.
Lynn Hurtak
6:41:23PM I'll let people look at it. But the dates that I found that were open are the 5th and 6th, Monday and Tuesday and the 12th and 13th, which is a Monday and Tuesday of the next week if we wanted to do it before the 15th. I'm sorry Ms. Lucas Harris, did I not ask you and should have, but this literally came to me last minute.
Alan Clendenin
6:41:43PM Maybe by the time we finish this discussion, we can do that.
Lynn Hurtak
6:41:46PM I wanted to bring it up now so that if any of those dates don't work, that maybe our aides can work behind the scenes.
Alan Clendenin
6:41:53PM The 5th does not work for me.
Lynn Hurtak
6:42:07PM I think we can do it during the day.
Civil Service Board has a meeting October 5 at 12
6:42:09PM 30 and no telling how long it will last. It's been noticed.
Alan Clendenin
6:42:18PM Let's not make that decision now.
Martin Shelby
6:42:23PM Just a reminder that if people need to check their calendars, that motion does not have to be made tonight. It could be made Thursday, for instance.
Alan Clendenin
6:42:32PM I'll put a pin on it at this moment. Ms. Kopesky, would you please come to the podium, please, with the numbers that you've accumulated? Your running list. Could you please state for the record and for the council the numbers that we've thrown at you throughout the meeting and sources of money.
Hagar Kopesky
6:43:02PM Hagar Kopesky, City Council budget analyst. Can everyone see that?
Alan Clendenin
6:43:16PM Scroll out a little bit.
Luis Viera
6:43:20PM That was 76, not 86, I believe.
Alan Clendenin
6:43:24PM Maybe move the computer over just a bit because we're missing -- on the Sulphur Springs side.
Lynn Hurtak
6:43:35PM That is the edge of her computer.
Hagar Kopesky
6:43:37PM I hear you. Remember, we're doing this in real time so you're right. Just to be clear, Councilman Viera, I did change that accidentally. I'm adding in the temp intern. That's what I was trying to do.
6:44:00PM Right.
Alan Clendenin
6:44:04PM Hold that question. Do that after this.
Hagar Kopesky
6:44:41PM There's two. Councilman Viera is the first line. Then we had Councilwoman Young go through a few items that were on specifically the rising explorers, 175. There was also a deferral on the summer youth leadership program of 85,278. Those are both in workforce. And then at the very bottom, the one I just added, there actually was temp intern. We basically took that whole group of three and included it on the list. Then we addressed in Sulphur Springs coming from, again, the General Fund was the combination of the housing and then the program start, I use the acronym here. And then Councilwoman Hurtak, you had talked about the million dollars for stormwater maintenance. That is General Fund. This is maintenance. Just reminding everyone maintenance, not capital. And then the 200,000, the chair just described that. And then corrections for the marketing component and full funding for HART. That total 150, but the grand total of all that, I know you did a deduction, give me a minute.
Lynn Hurtak
6:46:09PM Do I have a clarifying question. I thought that Councilwoman Young asked for 1.5 to include the sidewalk as well.
Hagar Kopesky
6:46:15PM I'll get over to the CIT in a minute. I only wanted to give you a flavor for the total related to just General Fund. 2.7 million.
Alan Clendenin
6:46:27PM 2.7 General Fund. Got it.
Hagar Kopesky
6:46:31PM Over on the right here, you will see the bridge for 1.5. That is CIT eligible, and then the street safety, originally may have talked about it as sidewalks, but it's broader. That is the total of the 2 million coming from CIT.
Alan Clendenin
6:46:48PM Councilwoman Hurtak.
Lynn Hurtak
6:46:48PM My clarifying question is, that's also -- we need to put the stuff back in from the CIT itself.
Alan Clendenin
6:46:57PM We need to go through those line by line to see if that's what we're going to do, right?
Lynn Hurtak
6:47:01PM The CIT is only a few things and mostly park projects. I can't imagine we wouldn't want to fund parks.
Alan Clendenin
6:47:08PM I don't know. You just went after a park.
Lynn Hurtak
6:47:10PM No, I just asked why. That park wasn't on a list of things coming forward.
Alan Clendenin
6:47:20PM I'm with you. I agree with you. I'm going to bat for the parks.
Lynn Hurtak
6:47:24PM Absolutely. I'm going about for all the parks. What I'm saying with swann, we had other parks waiting and we're absolutely not going to push that park ahead of the other parks that have been worked on for years.
Alan Clendenin
6:47:38PM They are not taking funding for those parks.
Lynn Hurtak
6:47:40PM No, not yet. I just wanted to clarify that. That's why I asked the questions. I wanted to make sure it didn't come from this year's funding.
Alan Clendenin
6:47:49PM Only thing left on CIT park funding? What is the total?
Lynn Hurtak
6:47:53PM $1.3 million for upgrades for the Tampa Police Department, and elevator. There's no way, I know that we're trying to do stuff with big blue. A, we can't afford it. B, we have to fix their elevators. What I wanted to add was the 1.5 million for the bridge, which Ms. Kopesky put on the other sheet. What we're doing is adding back in the TPD Police Department, the parks and rec, and that's it because the t & I for public safety was already added back. Oh, I'm sorry. TPD requested that the project be canceled for the elevator modernization? Did I get that right?
6:48:35PM Okay. Never mind. 1.3 goes away and that basically funds the bridge.
Alan Clendenin
6:48:40PM Is the rest of the CIT only park funding? Mr. Perry, can you come up and talk? Let's go down line by line. For transparency and public.
Lynn Hurtak
6:48:53PM The public facilities we have no option of. That is the lightning, bucs, yankees. We have to pay that.
Alan Clendenin
6:49:01PM Unfunded.
Michael Perry
6:49:01PM Mike Perry, deputy chief financial officer. I just want to point out that we've had the discussion about the $8 million down in South Tampa, which obviously we do not need, so, Mr. Chair, that's where your five million dollars from resurfacing is probably going to get funded from. If we keep parks within parks, then that's fine, but just keep in mind we can't spend all the money in parks. We have transportation requirements also.
Alan Clendenin
6:49:34PM Okay. That's part of that addendum that we have, fund all this stuff, too. I've got 20 million in that just for parks.
Lynn Hurtak
6:49:52PM Question, which addendum that has 20 million?
Alan Clendenin
6:49:56PM Item number 3. Why don't we dispense of that? We have a substitute amendment that Justin wrote because it was a redundant paragraph. Can I get a motion to adopt the substitute amendment? Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Carlson. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Hurtak.
Lynn Hurtak
6:50:22PM I was going to say I prefer to have the actual line item, but I'll say yes.
Alan Clendenin
6:50:29PM Mr. Shelby.
Martin Shelby
6:50:31PM I take it you're on number 3.
Alan Clendenin
6:50:34PM Yes. We just approved it.
Martin Shelby
6:50:36PM Do you want to make a motion, I guess, would the word be annex?
Alan Clendenin
6:50:42PM We haven't gotten to that yet. We have approved the substitute amendment. That's all we have done. We have not attached it yet. I wanted to get that housekeeping out of the way. Ms. Kopesky, did you get the line items for those? Councilwoman Hurtak wanted to make sure instead of just paving it was clearly identified.
Hagar Kopesky
6:51:10PM Hagar Kopesky, City Council budget analyst. This would be from fund 31400 department 243000 and project number 1002350 which is the resurfacing project.
Alan Clendenin
6:51:26PM Can I get a motion to strike paving and insert those cost codes? Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilwoman Young.
Martin Shelby
6:51:34PM Strike it from what?
Alan Clendenin
6:51:36PM The addendum.
Martin Shelby
6:51:37PM The addendum is going to be as it's written right now. Annexed to the ordinance.
Alan Clendenin
6:51:41PM Instead of paving, striking the word --
Martin Shelby
6:51:44PM You can't amend it on the fly by motion at this point in time, at least I do not think so.
Alan Clendenin
6:51:50PM Why can't I?
Martin Shelby
6:51:52PM It is going to be attached to the ordinance and presented to the mayor to sign it. The question is, when will those changes be made?
Alan Clendenin
6:52:00PM Right now.
Justin Vaske
6:52:03PM Justin Vaske, Legal Department. What I would recommend is I get the exact numbers, where it says pavings, I put parentheses, the budget line items, that way we kind of know --
Alan Clendenin
6:52:15PM Very good.
Justin Vaske
6:52:17PM I need the numbers.
Martin Shelby
6:52:18PM My question is, when will that be finalized and attached to the ordinance?
Alan Clendenin
6:52:22PM Tonight when we make the motion to adopt it. When we make the motion to adopt the addendum.
Martin Shelby
6:52:27PM I think it has to be submitted to the clerk.
Alan Clendenin
6:52:31PM No, we've -- Mr. Shelby, we have a document submitted in onbase. We are making a motion to amend that by inserting, based on Justin's recommendation.
Martin Shelby
6:52:44PM First of all, the document isn't submitted in onbase. The document is a substitute in physical possession.
Alan Clendenin
6:52:51PM Council adopted the substitute amendment. We are amending that substitute amendment by inserting behind paving a cost center in parentheses.
Martin Shelby
6:52:59PM What has to happen at this point in time, in order for it to be adopted as presented, it has to be amended tonight at the hearing and it has to be accepted by council at the clerk and attached physically --
Alan Clendenin
6:53:14PM That's what we're doing.
Martin Shelby
6:53:15PM No, you're not, because where is it?
Justin Vaske
6:53:20PM Legal Department. They are essentially directing me to go make the change.
Martin Shelby
6:53:25PM You'll be able to come back tonight before it is adopted with the actual document.
Alan Clendenin
6:53:34PM I don't understand why we are disconnected here.
Martin Shelby
6:53:37PM Well, I wanted to know that you are making the amendments, and he'll have to come back.
Justin Vaske
6:53:45PM Just for clarity, where it says paving, I'm putting parentheses that line item and numbers.
Alan Clendenin
6:53:51PM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilwoman Young. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Justin for making those amendments. Appreciate it. We look forward to that coming back. I need a motion to adopt the changes that Ms. Kopesky had shown on her monitor from -- we'll dot General Fund and CIT separately. Is that good? Anybody else have discussion on that? Councilwoman Hurtak? Councilman Maniscalco, you had something.
Guido Maniscalco
6:54:21PM Regarding the 150,000. I wanted to add -- well, we talked about social action funding, specifically tbcn and tbae. Tbae as workforce development, and we heard people from public comment as to why that applies. I would like to move those two, yes, we talked about the application process, but after that clarification, move those two items into workforce development at $75,000 apiece. You said 150 divided by two.
Lynn Hurtak
6:54:51PM No, I thought either 100 or 150,000 dollars each is what I would want.
Alan Clendenin
6:54:58PM That is an awful lot.
Lynn Hurtak
6:55:02PM I think a hundred each then is -- I mean, for what they do.
Alan Clendenin
6:55:08PM I hate to do this on the fly. I think the conservative of going with --
Charlie Miranda
6:55:13PM Better be conservative, because what's coming, we don't know.
Guido Maniscalco
6:55:17PM I would love to give everything, but amendment 3 --
Alan Clendenin
6:55:20PM 75 each.
Guido Maniscalco
6:55:23PM Tbae, tbcn, move it from social action to workforce development.
Alan Clendenin
6:55:27PM That is coming from the same General Fund money.
Guido Maniscalco
6:55:31PM Yes, sir.
Alan Clendenin
6:55:31PM Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilwoman Hurtak. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. That has been adopted. The next will be the adoption of the items that Ms. Hagar Kopesky put up on the monitor for General Fund funding.
Lynn Hurtak
6:55:50PM So moved.
Luis Viera
6:55:51PM Clarification, if I may. Does that include the 76,000 --
Alan Clendenin
6:55:56PM Yes. Everything she showed on the spreadsheet on the General Fund money. General Fund first and then CIT. Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak I believe made the motion.
Lynn Hurtak
6:56:06PM Is there a way, Ms. Kopesky, that you could send that to the printer and I can have kelly bring it out for the clerk so that she has a physical copy?
Alan Clendenin
6:56:18PM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak --
Lynn Hurtak
6:56:19PM Make it two separate. Perfect.
Alan Clendenin
6:56:21PM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second Councilman Miranda. All in favor aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. I would like to make a motion on moving the CIT funds. Ms. Kopesky Showed on the monitor. Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Second from Councilwoman Young.
Luis Viera
6:56:37PM Question. Out of abundance of question, talking about the South Tampa park --
Alan Clendenin
6:56:42PM That's not on the table.
Luis Viera
6:56:44PM Okay, good.
Alan Clendenin
6:56:45PM This is the Sulphur Springs sidewalks and the bridge. Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak, second from Councilwoman Young. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. My recollection is complete, that is all the movements we have authorized to discuss this evening. Is that correct? Anything else that I left on the table? No. hearing none.
Martin Shelby
6:57:12PM City Council attorney --
Alan Clendenin
6:57:15PM Oh, alleys. I need to -- 1.2, 1,200,000 to fund phase one and phase two. I have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. That money is coming from, just for the record -- where is that coming from? Alleys.
Dennis Rogero
6:57:37PM Yes, General Fund.
Alan Clendenin
6:57:40PM 1.2. Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak, a second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Hurtak.
Lynn Hurtak
6:57:48PM Then I would like to remotion to reapprove the General Fund allocation because now we just added 1.2 million to that.
Guido Maniscalco
6:57:59PM Is that necessary?
Alan Clendenin
6:58:00PM I don't understand.
Lynn Hurtak
6:58:03PM Ms. Kopesky didn't have 1.2 million on the General Fund list.
Alan Clendenin
6:58:08PM Separate votes.
Dennis Rogero
6:58:11PM From our perspective, we'll consolidate.
Lynn Hurtak
6:58:15PM The reason I wanted to do that was simply for the clerk, but okay.
Alan Clendenin
6:58:18PM It was two different actions. Mr. Shelby.
Martin Shelby
6:58:21PM If I can, Mr. Rogero, just if you can, it's not only for the benefit of the clerk, but my understanding is as an agreement between the council and the administration that these motions tonight will be formalized in a financial resolution.
Dennis Rogero
6:58:37PM Yes, we like to bring City Council a financial resolution reflecting all of these motions, again, not just for accounting purposes but, again, for clarification, if there's any miscommunication or error, we can fix it.
Martin Shelby
6:58:51PM Do you have a date that you intend to do that by?
Dennis Rogero
6:58:53PM October 15 would be lovely.
Martin Shelby
6:58:55PM Thank you very much.
Alan Clendenin
6:58:56PM Thank you, Mr. Shelby. Councilwoman Hurtak.
Lynn Hurtak
6:59:00PM I would be more comfortable if I rescinded my first motion and re-did the motion to have it all together because I think that would be easier for them.
Alan Clendenin
6:59:08PM Does it matter to you?
Dennis Rogero
6:59:10PM Doesn't matter to me. Council's pleasure.
Alan Clendenin
6:59:13PM I think as long as we keep -- if I've done everything correct, speak now or forever hold your peace --
Lynn Hurtak
6:59:21PM Number 5. I'm not comfortable. I don't want to pause our --
Alan Clendenin
6:59:33PM That's what I'm saying. Just presentation. We don't have to take action on that. No action on that. Speak now or forever hold your peace. Anything else for the business? I'm going to close public comment and close council discussion on the FY '27 millage rate, FY '27 budget and FY '27-31 capital improvement budget and program. Councilman Miranda.
Charlie Miranda
6:59:56PM Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Resolution levying ad valorem tax at the rate of 6 -- [indiscernible] or 6.2076 mills upon all real and personal taxable property in the City of Tampa for the fiscal year 2027, authorizing the mayor and the city clerk to certify such millage. Providing an effective date.
Alan Clendenin
7:00:25PM Is that -- you don't have to read the rest of it? You have to read the whole thing.
Charlie Miranda
7:00:33PM To be resolved by City Council of the City of Tampa, Florida, to be resolved by the City Council of the City of Tampa, Florida. Section 1, that an ad valorem tax at the rate of 6.2076 mills to raise the amount of money as fixed operating and capital budget of the City of Tampa for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 2026 and ending September 30, 2027 for the General Fund and for the maintenance and operation of the City of Tampa, including in part of the community Redevelopment agency of the City of Tampa is hereby levied to provide by law all the real and personal property taxable for that purpose in the City of Tampa. Section 2, that the mayor and the city clerk as proper authorities of the City of Tampa are duly authorized and powered and directed to certify the property appraiser of Hillsborough county, Florida, the millage to be levied for all purposes for the fiscal year 2027 in the City of Tampa to wit, 7.62 -- 6.2076 mills which exceeds a rolled-back rate of 6.0680 mills as defined in section 200.0651 of the Florida statutes by 2.3% or 2.30% of the city -- excuse me, and to request levy of millage as set forth upon all real and personal property in the City of Tampa as above set forth in accordance with the provisions of the constitution and the laws of the State of Florida. Section three, that all proper officers of the City of Tampa are authorized to do all things necessary and proper in order to carry out and make effective the terms and conditions of this resolution which shall become effective immediately upon its adoption.
Guido Maniscalco
7:02:35PM Second.
Alan Clendenin
7:02:42PM Move the resolution.
Martin Shelby
7:02:49PM Read number 10 on page 4.
Charlie Miranda
7:02:51PM Item 10, motion to adopt the 2027 millage rate. Move to adopt the proposed millage rate of 6.2076 mills which is 2.30 percent more than the rolled back millage rate of 6.0680 mills for property tax funds which are used to support the General Fund operating budget and the community Redevelopment agency funds of the City of Tampa.
Alan Clendenin
7:03:17PM Thank you. Motion from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Clerk, would you please call the roll on the FY 2027 millage rate.
Bill Carlson
7:03:25PM Yes.
Charlie Miranda
7:03:25PM Yes.
Guido Maniscalco
7:03:27PM Yes.
Lynn Hurtak
7:03:29PM Yes.
Naya Young
7:03:30PM Yes.
Luis Viera
7:03:32PM Yes.
Alan Clendenin
7:03:34PM Yes.
The clerk
7:03:34PM The motion carried unanimously.
Charlie Miranda
7:03:37PM Item number 12 --
Martin Shelby
7:03:39PM Mr. Chairman, Martin Shelby, City Council attorney. I believe I just saw Mr. Vaske coming in. I believe what's going to have to happen is an action to attach -- we're at number 12.
Justin Vaske
7:03:56PM Justin Vaske, Legal Department. I'm still working on making the edit to the addendum. I'm working with Hagar right now.
Alan Clendenin
7:04:06PM I'll make a motion to attach the addendum.
Justin Vaske
7:04:11PM We have to substitute it because there are changes. I would suggest we take a break.
Martin Shelby
7:04:17PM And call it a break, bottom of page 2.
Alan Clendenin
7:04:20PM City Council is at break. It is right now 7:05 p.m. break until 7:15 p.m. [recess]
7:18:07PM Call to order. Clerk, would you please call the roll.
Charlie Miranda
7:18:09PM Here.
Guido Maniscalco
7:18:10PM Here.
Lynn Hurtak
7:18:11PM Here.
Naya Young
7:18:14PM Here.
Luis Viera
7:18:14PM Here.
Bill Carlson
7:18:15PM Here.
Alan Clendenin
7:18:15PM Here.
The clerk
7:18:16PM We have a physical quorum.
Alan Clendenin
7:18:18PM Thank you. While we're waiting for the document to be delivered, Councilwoman Hurtak had requested a special call workshop.
Lynn Hurtak
7:18:26PM To be clear, it was Mr. Rogero, but, yes.
Alan Clendenin
7:18:30PM Mr. Rogero had requested council, because he just loves council meetings so much, he wanted to have another.
Lynn Hurtak
7:18:38PM He's a glutton for punishment.
Alan Clendenin
7:18:40PM Councilwoman cannot do the 6th.
Luis Viera
7:18:44PM The next week is better. Can we do a day meeting?
Lynn Hurtak
7:18:52PM How about the 13th?
Luis Viera
7:19:01PM I have two events in the evening.
Lynn Hurtak
7:19:04PM We can do the day. 13th, 9:00 in the morning. We could do 9 a.m.
Alan Clendenin
7:19:12PM Motion to have a special call workshop on October 13 at 9 a.m.
Martin Shelby
7:19:17PM If we could hear from Mr. Rogero, I would like to know, considering it is a two-day turn around --
Naya Young
7:19:26PM Darlene, could you come up here, please?
Lynn Hurtak
7:19:29PM We just want to have the ideas put together. It won't be necessarily done by the 15th. It will be done before we approve the --
Alan Clendenin
7:19:42PM Let's make a motion to set that special call workshop on the 13th. We can always cancel or remove. Councilwoman Young.
Guido Maniscalco
7:19:53PM How long do you think the workshop would be? I have 11:30.
Lynn Hurtak
7:20:00PM Two and a half hours is a good amount.
Martin Shelby
7:20:02PM What is the subject? If I were to ask what the agenda would say, what is the purpose, because it has to be in the notice as well of this special call meeting.
Guido Maniscalco
7:20:13PM To discuss deferred projects.
Dennis Rogero
7:20:15PM Good evening, again. Dennis Rogero -- good evening, City Council. Dennis Rogero, chief financial officer. We could frame it, council has made some decisions tonight that remains general funding and CIT funding in play, so I would suggest that the purpose of this meeting is to allocate the remainder of those funds.
Martin Shelby
7:20:40PM FY '27? In FY '27?
Dennis Rogero
7:20:43PM Yes, sir.
Lynn Hurtak
7:20:48PM Here she is.
Naya Young
7:20:52PM Darlene.
Alan Clendenin
7:20:54PM Darlene, Councilwoman Young would like to speak with you.
Guido Maniscalco
7:20:59PM Lisa, what is the street number for the address on Nebraska?
Naya Young
7:21:05PM Are you going to the art thing? No, okay. I thought it was at 9. My group is at 9 a.m. for the art. Center economic development. Community art initiative.
Luis Viera
7:21:51PM I apologize. I scheduled this myself. Sebastian, if you are here, it's nothing with you, my friend. On the 13th I have apparently an 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at hagan's hall at st. lawrence.
Lynn Hurtak
7:22:05PM How about the 12th?
7:22:10PM Still a work day. We could do it after that. We could do like 12:30.
Luis Viera
7:22:30PM I had two mediations.
The clerk
7:22:33PM [Inaudible]
Martin Shelby
7:22:34PM They have CCNA meetings in the chambers.
Alan Clendenin
7:22:42PM Is it possible to have this discussion individually with councilpersons?
Lynn Hurtak
7:22:49PM How about the 9 a.m. on the 12th and just get it done.
Luis Viera
7:22:54PM I can do that. I had two mediations that canceled.
Naya Young
7:22:58PM I could do 9 a.m.
Alan Clendenin
7:22:59PM If anybody do the green spine, it's At 10:30.
Lynn Hurtak
7:23:04PM If we don't, it's okay. Life will move on without us at the ribbon cutting. 9 a.m. 9 a.m. on the 12th.
Alan Clendenin
7:23:12PM Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak. Is there a second for 9 a.m. special call meeting on October 12 and the council chambers is available at 9:00 in the morning. That's only going to be an hour and a half or two hour meeting. I have a motion and second. All in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.
Naya Young
7:23:38PM October 12 at 9 a.m.
Lynn Hurtak
7:23:41PM Ms. Scharf, please add that to our calendar.
Alan Clendenin
7:23:48PM Done. I just got it on my calendar. Very good. Justin back? I still don't understand why we have to have a paper copy of something we agreed to. The damn lawyers.
Lynn Hurtak
7:24:12PM Anybody have new business?
Alan Clendenin
7:24:27PM I think to myself what a wonderful world.
Luis Viera
7:24:36PM I'll say if I may, happy birthday to my nephew Michael who turns 21 today.
Alan Clendenin
7:24:42PM Happy birthday to Michael.
Luis Viera
7:24:44PM Very happy birthday to David coverdale of white snake who also shares his birthday.
Alan Clendenin
7:24:52PM It's my nephew's birthday, too, by the way. His name is kai.
Naya Young
7:25:03PM I have something. My sister passed her --
Martin Shelby
7:25:08PM Her what?
Alan Clendenin
7:25:10PM Do you have any new business?
Martin Shelby
7:25:12PM There's no new business at this --
Alan Clendenin
7:25:15PM You heard new business. Not really new business. Just announcements.
Naya Young
7:25:19PM I don't today. Congratulations.
Lynn Hurtak
7:25:26PM What exactly is she studying?
Naya Young
7:25:33PM She wants to be in pediatrics. Pediatrics nursing.
Lynn Hurtak
7:25:38PM What a wonderful -- I was actually talking to my nurses about, like, how people end up where they end up. A lot of the nurses in the cancer ward came from er, just like the stress. They come there for less stress. Thought that was interesting. One of my cousins is a nicu nurse, and she lost loves it. Like, that is her jam. You find your space so that's awesome.
Naya Young
7:26:10PM Yeah, she was studying. She studied very, very hard, and apparently it's like a test where, tests like your knowledge. Depending on the concept, if you are getting them or not, it will add questions or not. She had the least amount of questions so that means she did a really good job. Shout out to my sister.
Alan Clendenin
7:26:30PM Shout out to the young sister. The young, young sister. Yes.
Naya Young
7:26:51PM It took everything in me not to get a guava pastry.
Alan Clendenin
7:27:03PM Stevedore grand opening. I had a little cup of fruit.
Naya Young
7:27:08PM It was so hard. The pastries.
Alan Clendenin
7:27:10PM It was in gasworx. Like a five star hotel in there. Beautiful. Can't we pen and ink a copy?
Martin Shelby
7:27:32PM Do you like japanese calligraphy?
Alan Clendenin
7:27:35PM Yes. Why can't we pen and opening a it if we have to have a hard copy?
Martin Shelby
7:27:41PM I guess we can. If you want it to be official and a final version, I thought it should be here any minute.
Lynn Hurtak
7:27:55PM Oh, look, we have somebody cleaning up the chambers.
Alan Clendenin
7:27:59PM Is this your full-time job? She loves me.
Naya Young
7:28:09PM It's pouring.
Lynn Hurtak
7:28:11PM Yeah, you can hear it. I think I hear him.
Martin Shelby
7:28:15PM Who?
Lynn Hurtak
7:28:17PM Is that Justin?
Martin Shelby
7:28:19PM No, that was Mr. Michelini. I have my eyes trained on the elevator.
Alan Clendenin
7:28:26PM It's not moving anywhere quickly either. It's just one blob that's kind of growing in place. It's not moving. I know, because it will mess up my hair. I didn't.
Lynn Hurtak
7:28:42PM We thought you were Justin.
Alan Clendenin
7:28:44PM But if you want to stand here, we can actually roast you.
Lynn Hurtak
7:28:51PM So true.
Alan Clendenin
7:28:59PM I know Justin, and you are no Justin. Darn it. So goes my new phone. Things that Naya can say that alan can't. [ laughter ] we can talk about how many days we have to tolerate Viera.
Luis Viera
7:29:48PM We have actually 30 more days until my last meeting.
Naya Young
7:29:53PM Can we talk about that process? How that's going to work.
Luis Viera
7:29:56PM We are going to be briefed on that.
Alan Clendenin
7:29:59PM We're still working through. The clerk has some information. I'm trying to, just so you know, I talked to Mr. Shelby about trying to preload, because, of course, minimize the disruption in the representation of district 7, how much we can accomplish ahead of time. Mr. Shelby Has got that assignment. He'll get back with us with the process sometime probably before our next meeting maybe.
Martin Shelby
7:30:22PM Yeah, this is on the agenda for the first for next week.
Alan Clendenin
7:30:30PM We're still going to kick you around. Now you're going to be in tallahassee and we have a lot more to kick around.
Luis Viera
7:30:36PM I'll have more time to practice law for a couple of months no matter what happens. Article in creative loafing on my office. I did a two hour interview there and they used a word that I never used. You'll see. It's funny.
Alan Clendenin
7:30:55PM You know what your office is going to look like in tallahassee? It's going to be just as bad as the one here.
Luis Viera
7:31:01PM I'm a democrat. They'll give me a bathroom there.
Alan Clendenin
7:31:05PM And a junior democrat. You'll be lucky if you have access to a bathroom. [ laughter ] lucky if there's not a urinal in your bathroom that everybody else is using.
Luis Viera
7:31:15PM And how.
Martin Shelby
7:31:17PM I've been informed that the document is at the printer machine. It should be any minute now.
Alan Clendenin
7:31:24PM And Justin is at home.
Martin Shelby
7:31:26PM On whatever floor he is on. 7, 8, no, probably 6. But the elevator is working. That is the good news.
Luis Viera
7:31:40PM I've never been to smashing pumpkins. I respect them a lot.
7:31:49PM Kiss in vegas.
Martin Shelby
7:31:55PM Mr. Chairman, This is going to be the most interesting transcript of a City Council.
Luis Viera
7:32:02PM Weezer, weezer, weezer. [ applause ]
Alan Clendenin
7:32:09PM All to add a parentheses. We are government, by the way. This is how long it took to add a parentheses.
Justin Vaske
7:32:17PM Justin Vaske, Legal Department. Little bit more involved with that. So what we've done is we put the fund numbers next to the sidewalk references and the --
Alan Clendenin
7:32:27PM You have a copy for the clerk?
Justin Vaske
7:32:29PM We'll be doing a substitute to the substitute, so to speak.
Alan Clendenin
7:32:34PM I have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak to accept the substitute to the substitute, and I have a second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Motion to attach the addendum to the 2027 FY 2027 City of Tampa budget? Motion from Councilman Viera, second from Councilman Miranda, all in favor, aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.
Martin Shelby
7:33:00PM For sake of clarity, did you say attach it to the budget or attach it to the ordinance?
Alan Clendenin
7:33:05PM FY 2027 budget.
Justin Vaske
7:33:08PM The budget is the ordinance. We can be clear. Attach it to the budget ordinance.
Alan Clendenin
7:33:14PM There we go. It is done. The vote has been taken. Does she need to announce that? I announced it. The vote was unanimous.
Martin Shelby
7:33:29PM That's acceptable. Thank you.
Alan Clendenin
7:33:32PM So, Mr. Finance chair, number 12, please.
Charlie Miranda
7:33:36PM Agenda item 8, I move an ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption. An ordinance adopting the budget of the City of Tampa for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026 and ending September 30, 2027, providing for the levy as provided by law of a tax on all taxable property in the City of Tampa and fixing the millage within the city, making appropriations in accordance with the provisions of said budget, authorizing and directing the mayor and city clerk as proper authorities of the City of Tampa to certify the property appraiser of Hillsborough county, Florida, the millage to be levied for all purposes for the fiscal year 2027 in the City of Tampa, providing an effective date.
Alan Clendenin
7:34:20PM I have a motion from Councilman Miranda. A second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Do we have to do roll call? Would you call the roll?
Charlie Miranda
7:34:30PM Yes.
Guido Maniscalco
7:34:31PM Yes.
Lynn Hurtak
7:34:32PM Yes.
Naya Young
7:34:34PM Yes.
Luis Viera
7:34:36PM My final budget vote, yes.
Bill Carlson
7:34:38PM Yes.
Alan Clendenin
7:34:39PM Yes.
The clerk
7:34:40PM The motion carried unanimously.
Alan Clendenin
7:34:42PM Thank you. Need a motion to adopt the FY 2027 capital improvement budget resolution. I have a motion from Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Roll call, please.
Guido Maniscalco
7:34:55PM Yes.
Lynn Hurtak
7:34:56PM Yes.
Naya Young
7:34:56PM Yes.
Luis Viera
7:34:58PM Yes.
Bill Carlson
7:34:58PM Yes.
Charlie Miranda
7:34:59PM Yes.
Alan Clendenin
7:35:01PM Yes.
The clerk
7:35:02PM Motion carried unanimously.
Alan Clendenin
7:35:05PM Can I get a motion to receive and file all documents? Motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilwoman Hurtak. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Can I get a motion to adjourn the second public hearing? Motion from Councilwoman Hurtak, second from Councilman Maniscalco, all those in favor say aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. We are adjourned. [ sounding gavel ] disclaimer: this file represents an unedited version of realtime captioning which should neither be relied upon for complete accuracy nor used as a verbatim transcript. Any person who needs a verbatim transcript of the proceedings may need to hire a court reporter. ▶ meeting video no video recording available for this meeting. The information contained in these pages represents an unedited version of realtime captioning which should neither be relied upon for complete accuracy nor used as a verbatim transcript. Persons requiring a verbatim transcript may need to hire a court reporter. © - City of Tampa (813) 274-8211
Agenda
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1. B2027-2
Second public hearing regarding the Fiscal Year 2027 Budget. (Reading of the second public hearing statement concerning the proposed millage rate.)(First public hearing was held on Tuesday, September 8, 2026 at 5:01 p.m.)
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2. B2027-2
Budget and Finance Staff to present a proposal related to the CIP, CIT and the General Fund Deferral for FY27. (Original motion initiated by Hurtak-Viera on September 8, 2026) Memorandum from City Administration transmitting a written response for said agenda item. (To be R/F)
Supporting Documents:
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3. B2027-2
Legal Staff to present an budget addendum based on the draft resolutions submitted by Chair Clendenin to the FY27 Budget. (Original motion initiated by Clendenin-Viera on September 8, 2026) Email from Martin Shelby, Council Attorney, transmitting the budget addendum to the FY27 budget ordinance. (To be R/F)
Supporting Documents:
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4. B2027-2
Staff and City Planning to present a proposal on funding to implement specific projects in the Sulphur Springs Neighborhood Action Plan. (Original motion initiated by Young-Maniscalco on September 8, 2026)
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5. B2027-2
Staff to present a proposal on the monetary amount that the City would save through the aforementioned salary increase freeze on employees earning over $150,000.00; from the start of the fiscal year until Amendment 3 is resolved. (Original motion initiated by Viera-Hurtak on September 8, 2026) Memorandum from the City Administration transmitting the monetary amount for said agenda item. (To be R/F)
Supporting Documents:
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6. B2027-2
Mobility Department to provide a report on identifying funds for tasks one and two of the alley assessment program. (Original motion initiated by Clendenin-Carlson on September 8, 2026)
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7. B2027-2
Resolution levying an Ad Valorem Tax at the rate of six and two thousand, seventy-six ten thousandths (6.2076) mills upon all real and personal taxable property in the City of Tampa for the fiscal year 2027; Authorizing the Mayor and City Clerk, to certify such millage; Providing an effective date.
Background Details
This is a resolution levying an ad valorem tax of 6.2076 mills upon all real and personal taxable property in the City of Tampa for Fiscal Year 2027. This resolution must be approved by the governing body in order to levy millage per F.S. 200.065(2). It should be noted that the property tax yield of $396,991,026 represents 95% of the certified taxable value.Supporting Documents:
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8. B2027-2
(UNAN) (Ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption) - An ordinance adopting the budget of the City of Tampa, Florida for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026, and ending September 30, 2027; Providing for the levy as provided by law of a tax on all taxable property in the City of Tampa and fixing the millage within said City; Making appropriations in accordance with the provisions of said budget; Authorizing and directing the Mayor and City Clerk, as the proper authorities of the City of Tampa to certify to the Property Appraiser of Hillsborough County, Florida, the millage to be levied for all purposes for the Fiscal Year 2027, in the City of Tampa; Providing an effective date. (Original motion to approve said ordinance on first reading initiated by Miranda-Viera on September 8, 2026)
Background Details
This ordinance adopts the Fiscal Year 2027 annual budget in accordance with requirements set forth under Florida Statutes Chapter 200 and City of Tampa Charter Article VII. Finances. It should be noted that the property tax yield of $396,991,026 represents 95% of taxable value as required under F.S. 200.065(2).Supporting Documents:
- FY2027 BUDGET ADOPTION ORDINANCE.PDF (opens in new tab)
- FY2027 RECOMMENDED BUDGET SUPPLEMENT.PDF (opens in new tab)
- Summary Sheet- COVER SHEET (opens in new tab)
- FY2027 1ST PUBLIC HEARING PRESENTATION FINAL.PPTX (opens in new tab)
- DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED BY HURTAK.PDF (opens in new tab)
- DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED BY CLENDENIN.PDF (opens in new tab)
- DOCUMENTS SUBMITTED BY BRANDON CAMPBELL.PDF (opens in new tab)
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9. B2027-2
Resolution adopting the City of Tampa Capital Improvement Budget and Program for FY2027 through FY2031; Providing an effective date.
Background Details
The City's FY2027 Capital Improvement Program contains capital improvement projects totaling $346,736,959. The City's FY2027 - FY2031 Capital Improvement Program contains capital improvement projects totaling $1,122,611,476. This resolution adopts the FY2027 through FY2031 Recommended Capital Improvement Budget and Program as required by Florida Statutes and City Charter. In addition, it adopts the FY2027 portion of the FY2027 through FY2031 Capital Improvement Projects program as part of the FY2027 Annual Budget in the amount of $346,736,959.Supporting Documents: