City Council - Regular Meeting

Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Tampa City Council. Welcome back, Tampa City Council, from our break over the 4th of July holiday. Since we've been gone, we had two birthdays on council. We had Councilwoman Hurtek and we had Councilman Guido Maniscalco. And then we had this birthday from the city of Tampa yesterday. The city of Tampa was 139 years old. So happy birthday to the city of Tampa and happy birthday to Councilwoman Hurtek and Councilman Maniscalco. So good morning, everybody. I'd like to call this meeting of Tampa City Council to order, and I'd like to recognize Councilwoman Hurtig.

Today, we're just going to stand for a moment of silence before we do the pledge. And the moment of silence is for those who have lost their lives fleeing from or in custody of ICE.

Thank you. Council Member Hartkirk, would you lead us in the pledge? Thank you. Councilman Pertek, just a personal note. Thank you for those thoughts. I think all of us that have been watching these news reports have been moved deeply and especially followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. We have to remember what country we live in. Thank you. Clerk, can we call a roll?

Miranda, Maniscalco, Pertek, Young, Vieira, Carlson, and Clinton. We have a physical form.

Thank you. I'd like to get a motion for adoption of the minutes. The regular session held on June 18th and the workshop and evening session is held on June 25th. I have a motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. Approval of the agenda. Item number one, we have a request to continue to August 6th, 2026. Can I get a motion? Motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Mattescalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Item number three, request to continue to September 3rd, 2026. Motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Mattescalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Staff report and report, I understand that we do not have an administrative update. Is that correct, Chief Bennett? Correct.

OK, great. Wait. Yes, we do. Remember, I'd sent the memo on the cut through? I do remember that.

OK, so we will have an administrative update. OK. Go ahead, Chief Bennett, you're recognized.

Good morning. Welcome back, Council. John Bennett, Chief of Staff. To Councilman Vieira's point, he is accurate on the memo. However, I tend to think that they come from the administration, not from Council. So we're using that agenda item as a placeholder for your memo.

Yes, sir. And whatever time, so long as it's addressed, I don't care.

Okay, very good. So no administrative update will be addressed during the agenda item. Okay, further staff reports. Item number 82, a request from Councilman Vieira to remove from the agenda. So I'll share that as a motion. Councilman Vieira, second from... Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Council, number 86, a request to continue to the August City Council Budget Workshop. We have a motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Matys-Calford. Councilwoman Hurtado.

Yes, I just wanted to give a brief reason. I mean, this can be moved, but basically the RFQ for anything that really isn't under contract and going, the administration wants to pause. because if they don't know what's going to happen with with the uh with the amendment um to reduce property tax so uh i was told that beyond tampa fire rescue fleet and supply also there is a tpd training center that's going to be on pause for now and and the uh city council renovations we're pausing that until after november as well so anything all these big cip projects yeah yeah we're pausing okay okay so we have a motion we have a second

Which one does that fall under? Somebody grab that for me.

It's the mobility workshop, so I believe, yeah, it's the mobility and stormwater.

I think we're gonna talk about, also we're gonna talk about the order of these workshops as well.

I know, which is why I said, since it's under infrastructure and mobility, it should be the mobility and stormwater workshop.

Well, that may change.

That's gonna change for now.

Well, why don't we say it'll be continued to the mobility workshop? Yeah, that's that's. Then it'll ride with wherever the mobility lands.

Yeah. So that's that's why I did that. I didn't give a date. I said with the mobility workshop.

Yeah. Mobility workshop. It'll ride with wherever mobility lands. Okay. So we have a motion. We have a second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Item number 88. Request to continue to September 3rd. Can I get a motion? A second. Second motion. I believe it's a council. Miranda second council. Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Item number 91. A request to continue to August 6th. We have a motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. 92, request to continue to September 3rd.

So moved.

Motion from Councilman Maniscalco, second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. Item number 93, August continue to August 27th. So moved.

Second.

We have a motion from Councilman Carlson, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Item number 95, request to continue to September 17th, 2026. So moved. We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco, second from? second councilman carlson all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed eyes have it and let's go to the staff reports mr chair i apologize what item in it was it 80 or 81 continued uh we have uh no 82 86 88 i was going to say 91 92 93 and 95. thank you

I did want to say something about 95. Go ahead. Because that's the cost and steps to purchase the property connected with Marti Cologne. And I have been working on this. It's not that we're continuing it for no reason. I am working on it.

Okay. Let's go to staff reports on what we need, who we need, who, what, when, where.

Yes on 76, no on 77, no on 78.

You're on a roll. I'm going to recognize our attorney, Mr. Shelby.

Mr. Chairman, if we can, for the purposes of the public's knowledge and also for the administration who follows this subject, if we could just go through them individually and just be clear whether we wish to have staff present.

That was my plan.

Yes.

I just had an eager beaver to my right. He's rested and ready to move, that's right. Okay, so we do not have an administrative update, so no on 76. 77. No, because it's going to ride with the agenda item, is there's report. 77? No. 78? No. 79. No. No. Yeah, these are all just the technical. 80. Yes, okay. I would have been shocked if it wasn't a yes. 81. No.

I just want to say that I had I may have something to say about this. I'm just this is a lot of money and I'm I'm still wondering why we just don't hire more people. So I don't know that we need staff for it, but I just I just wanted to throw that out there so we can put that down. But I think that's a lot of money to hire extra people.

Okay, I'm gonna say no and then maybe you can talk about that during. 82, we have removed that from the agenda. 83 and 84 and 85.

Yeah, so there was nothing in on base for 83 and 85. So I would prefer that all three of them be heard together.

Okay, so I have a motion here, 83, 84, and 85 together. Is there a second? Second from Councilman Carlson. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. And so we are going to have staff for those reports. 86 is continued.

86 is continued.

That's the budget workshop.

yeah let's see 87 yes 87 yes okay 88 is continued okay 89 staff will be available if we need them okay so yes okay so yes uh 90. yes okay

Actually, I don't know. No, I don't think we need anyone for 90. I didn't think so either.

Yeah, it's just approving it. Yeah. Yes or no. Okay.

I move to approve 94.

We have a motion to receive and file all the written staff reports. Okay. Which is only one. I have a motion.

Oh, okay. Sorry.

I have a motion from Councilman Hurtick to receive and file the staff reports. A second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Okay. Yes, sir.

Wait, wait, wait. I know it's on the consent agenda. Maybe we can bring it up in public comment. But we did receive a couple of emails on 50 and 51. There were requests for continuance. That's your committee, though.

Yeah. We can talk about it.

Do you want to pull it?

We'll pull it for discussion.

Okay, so we have a motion to remove items 50 and 51 from the consent agenda. A second from Councilman Carlson. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Okay. Councilman Carlson.

I would like to do the same for 25, please. Motion to move it to the discussion agenda. Second.

Really? Okay. We have a motion from Councilman Carlson to remove item 25 from the consent agenda. Second from Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Okay. Anything else? I have a motion to approve the agenda from Councilman Maniscalco. Second. Second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you very much. Okay. We are moving right along. We are now going to... our presentation of the TOBA leadership. I'm going to recognize Councilwoman Young. Before councilwoman young speaks up. Let me announce something We had a technology upgrade to our how we interface with folks that are not in council chambers and with council So our online speakers and our staff that is listening. They may see some technical difficulties They may show that you're muted or not muted so we're just gonna have to kind of stumble through that today until they get some of those issues resolved and i just want to make sure the people that are waiting online to either speak or the folks that are staff that may be listening and will try to uh chime in on things that they may experience that throughout the meeting today um councilwoman young thank you so much that's not included in my 10 minutes is it it is not start the timer

Well, it gives me a great honor to be able to present this commendation. If I could have our TOBA members and our alumni to please stand. So as you all know, I am a graduate from the TOBA Leadership Institute class of 2024. So it gives me great honor to be able to present this commendation today to the Tampa Organization of Black Affairs. Tampa City Council proudly applauds the Tampa Organization of Black Affairs for their mission to prepare and elevate leaders within the black community by focusing on an agenda that includes political action, innovation, community, and economic development. The vision of the Toba Leadership Institute is to become top producers of innovative businesses and community leaders who are focused on building and developing sustainable black communities in Tampa Bay. Since 2020, Toba Leadership Institute has successfully graduated seven cohort classes. Graduates of Toba Leadership Institute have gone on to serve as elected officials, launch and grow businesses, advance affordable housing and community development initiatives, lead within corporations and public institutions, and provide dedicated service on nonprofit boards and community organizations. They have used their talents and influence to expand opportunity, address critical community needs, and advocate for a more prosperous and equitable Tampa. In recognition of TOBA's continued investment in developing leaders, fostering civic participation, promoting economic advancement, and inspiring service, the Tampa Organization of Black Affairs Foundation is commended for their invaluable contributions to the Tampa Bay community and for building a legacy of leadership that will benefit generations to come. It is with great pleasure and gratitude that Tampa City Council, presents this commendation on the 16th day of July 2026 to the Tampa Organization of Black Affairs.

Councilwoman Young, thank you to the Tampa City Council on behalf of the Tampa Organization of Black Affairs Board. We just appreciate you recognizing us for the work. I do want to honor our founder. Can you start with your name and your title? I'm so sorry. I was so excited. I know, I know. I'm so excited. Good morning, everyone. I'm Faith Pullen, and I am a TOBA board member. Sorry about that, but I was very excited. But I do want to thank you, thank the council, again, honor our founders who always wanted and had the vision for leadership. And I'm a graduate of TLI as well. And so again, just thank you for this honor on behalf of the board and of course the TLI board chair. I would like to turn it over to her.

Thank you. Good morning. I am Kiana Romeo, the TOBA Leadership Institute board chair. Thank you again, Councilwoman Young, and to all of you on the dais for your consummate support of the TOBA Leadership Institute. It would be remiss of me not to mention that we are here because of the vision of a woman named Corrine Collins, who many years ago had the idea for this leadership institute, and we were blessed to be able to bring this into fruition in 2020. As my fellow board member Faith mentioned, there are several different committees in TOBA, and our success is based on all of those board members and their support. And also, I want to thank our executive planning committee for all the work that you do, including our program director, Carrie Knowles, who has been a part of this journey from the beginning, so I want to just publicly acknowledge you as well. Yes, indeed. So thank you again for your support. Looking forward to graduating more people from this program. To date, we've had 100 participants and graduates who have gone on to make real impact in the community and is our goal and our focus and our mission to continue to produce leaders that are able to contribute to the city of Tampa.

I just want to say it's an honor and a pleasure. I'm sorry. My name is Carrie Knowles. I'm the program director for the TOBA Leadership Institute. From the inspiration from Corrine Collins, as Kiana mentioned, to today, it has been an honor and one of the ultimate privileges of my life to see this program grow. And I'm excited to see where it goes in the future. And I want to thank you today for taking the time to not only recognize TOBA, but the Leadership Institute as well in everything that we're doing in the community. We look forward to many more wins to come. Thank you.

Councilwoman Hurtado.

Thank you. I just want to tell you all that I am thrilled that you've created this committee. I've loved seeing what you've done. Congratulations on the 100 people graduating. There is nothing more important than grassroots organizing and leadership and teaching. So congratulations for starting that. And I wish you many, many years of success. And you'll have it, because we have a lot to do.

Councilman Carlson, I'm going to put you on the spot. Can I ask you to go back? I know. Thank you. Thank you to all of you for all you do. As my colleague said, leadership programs are really important and and we see evidence of it here. I just want to put Councilmember Young on the spot. She talks about proudly this her time in this program. And could you just for the public's sake, maybe spend 30 seconds telling about how the program personally impacted you and what you got out of it?

Oh, absolutely. So now. naya young um well so i i think it had been i went to um i think it was a like a meet and greet like a toba meet and greet and that was in 2023 i think it was councilwoman young you're supposed to address i'm sorry This is harder than it looks. I went to a meet and greet in 2023, and I was like, oh, I want to do this. I want to do this. But it's just the time. It just felt like I didn't have enough time. Things didn't align. And so 2024, and I said, okay, I think I'm just going to do it this year. I'm just going to do it. And when I tell you, one, so one, the group that I was a part of, I'm still really good friends with. We all still communicate with each other. And just what I was able to learn, I was still working in nonprofit at the time, and so I was able to really apply some of the things that I was learning in my nonprofit work and also make these awesome connections. And just learning more about leadership, being involved, different things that are going on in the city that I didn't even know about. We were definitely stretched. As CT would say. But I learned so much. And now being in this space and then having to meet the TLI, some of the cohort members that just graduated, they were coming to me and talking to me and asking me questions. I was like, man. It's really full circle, but I'm just really excited to have been a part of the program and to see all the amazing leaders that have come out of it. It's really amazing, and you learn so much. You learn so much. You gain so much knowledge, and you make great relationships and networking, and one of the things that we learn, your network is your net worth, and so having a network of

know hundreds of people um i think is is awesome so thank you just one last thing with the hundred alumni and anybody who's going through the the next classes you have an ally on city council but please remember the other six of us we're happy to help any of the folks who have gone through this program in any way we can you know our our goal is that we want to try to help the community and so if we can help folks with introductions for their network or invite them to events or whatever

you know somebody's interested about shifting careers we're happy to help them thank you thank you well thank you councilwoman young for bringing this uh proclamation the commendation to council this morning thank you ct harris for this morning for getting me out of bed at least an hour earlier than i normally do we had a little meet and greet prior to council this morning so she got me up and going this morning and so i i i had some very choice words for that when the alarm clock went off but thank you so much thank you all for showing up today i hope you enjoy the rest of your day meeting with uh with staff

uh we are now moving on to our public comment uh portion of our meeting i'm going to recognize mr shelby to read some of the rules thank you mr chairman good morning city council members of the public martin shelby city council attorney to talk briefly about the rules of decorum for today's meeting members of the public are allowed a reasonable opportunity at the beginning of today's meeting to address any item on the agenda before City Council takes official action on an item. A three-minute time limit applies to all speakers providing public comment. Speakers and members of the public are also reminded to please refrain from disruptive behavior, including making vulgar or threatening remarks or making or causing disruptive noises or sounds or displaying signs or graphics. the chair will rule out of order any person who speaks without being recognized or attempts to address the council from outside the speaker area at the podium persons failing to comply with the council's rules may also be ruled out of order and at the discretion of the chair may be removed from the chambers and city hall for the remainder of today's meeting now if you're here to speak on an item that is set for public comment you will have that item of that opportunity when the item is heard later on in the agenda and those are items listed on your agenda for public comment items sixty one through seventy five no public comment will be taken later during staff reports the time to speak on those items and the items on the consent docket are now during general public comment and finally members of city council please refrain from engaging a speaker during public comment and the public should be aware that the city council does not comment this is your opportunity to express your position thank you

Thank you very much. And so just a reminder, just so everybody understands, so we've got the speaker. If you wish to speak, you should have filled out a speaker form. If you indicated on your speaker card form that you wish to speak to on-agenda items... What in the world is that? If you wish to speak on agenda items, I will expect that when you come to the podium that you'll speak to on agenda items, because you get priority over everybody else. And then we'll follow up with that with folks that chose to speak to non-agenda items. So we're gonna start with on agenda items, and we're gonna start with Pamela Cannella on items 50 and 51. Good morning, Pamela.

Good morning, everybody.

Oh yeah, good morning.

I can turn around, I haven't started yet. Okay. Start with your name. I'm a little slow this morning. I was up late, as you probably all know.

Start with your name.

Okay. My name is Pam Cannella. I find it concerning that this administration would continue to support the South Howard flood relief project when there is no funding, our major impacts on the community, and no transparency to the viability of this project. the proposed stormwater grant would be better served to the neighborhoods if it were to be applied for a citywide cleaning of our stormwater drainage system. Our stormwater department is still working on catch-up. This needs to be the city's priority. The neglect of this cleaning has left layers of plastics, trash, waste, not only causing flooding, but leaching into our drinking water by way of our drainage pipes to outflows to Hillsborough River and the Bay. The AMI Hospital Pond in Pomacea Pines is a good example. Addressing this area and this retention pond would help with the flooding and our drinking water. Last week, I read an article on six, the new pilot program to help reduce levels of PFAS, I think it's called, the forever chemical, and the six PPDQ in our drinking water supply. This is alarming that our drinking water has high levels of both of these chemicals. This pilot program findings state that the highest concentration appear near storm water outfalls. And testing only confirms removal of 30% of this PFAS and no level is safe. And the facility would not be completed until 2032. Funding our stormwater department using grants would be a way to begin addressing both flooding and our drinking water problems. Also, what did I do with my notes? This grant on 50 and 51, I read the contract and it says being introduced today, applicants signed a compliance agreement with the state for this grant which clearly states that section 286011 of the Florida Statute must comply. Public notice entities must give reasonable notice so public can attend. No reasonable notice was given. This was kind of a surprise on the agenda thing. This resolution appears to be for a new proposal design plan for the Howard Project. They are required to give public notice. We need transparency. Thank you.

Thank you, Pam. Morris Lopez on Tampa Fire Rescue, which I'm assuming is 83, 84, and 85. Mr. Shelby? No, not 83. May I approach?

The chair mentioned technical difficulties as medium prepared.

Good morning. Start with your name, please.

Good morning, chair and council members. My name is Morris Lopez. I've been a resident of New Tampa for 36 years. I'm here today to request that council work with administration, Tampa Fire Rescue, including the fire marshal, because this relates to NFPA 1, which is emergency temporary access. You'll see on the screen here the first slide that I have. This is the block area showing the Tampa City boundaries, Station 22 and the K-Bar Ranch Parkway while it was under construction. If you look at the next slide, this is as of yesterday, this is Morse Bridge Road going into K-Bar Ranch, and you can see that it's completely paved and accessible. The next slide is the far west end, which behind this gate are the neighborhoods that are high risk right now with extended response times. As I play this, I did this for you Tuesday. This is just a flyover to show you how the road looks. This section here is even open now. People are crossing it. At this time, I'll tell you that I have some experience in road construction on the labor side and 39 years experience in public safety. Right now, this contractor has plenty of room to work and has no MOT in place. He does not have to provide emergency access at this time. This can be completed very easily with communication and coordination with the contractor so that he can work on either side of the road until it's complete and get the response times that we need. This is just a couple things that would need to be done. They just put a storm pipe in here and they'll dress this up in hardpan, but it is accessible right now for any apparatus that Tampa Fire Rescue has. The other fix would be this fence right here, simple 25-foot gates like we have at the school systems with either a Knox box key or a regular key with a master key that the units carry and also the project manager. And then finally, I'll just let you ponder on this. I don't know how much time I have left, but this is for real. Every second matters. Everything on here is true. What stands out to me is that we're still in summertime. I don't know how much time I have, but we're still in summertime and there's a lot of activity at the amenity center. That's one of the areas that are out of play there and takes long response time. So, you know, minutes matter. And I think that this needs to be done immediately so that we can help the residents and fix the problems out there with the response times. And I thank you for listening to me today.

Thank you, Mr. Lopez. Stephen Michelini, 1551.

Good morning, Steve Michelini. Chair, I had a question about you've pulled 1551 for discussion. Is it possible for me to have my... No. No. Okay, I've sent you an email, which all of you should have received. 1551 is not just a grant application for study and for surveys. It obligates you to another... 46 million dollars and under phase two which means you now have obligated to over a hundred million dollars in matching funds and the city has yet to produce the financial backing that shows you where that money is coming from it also obligates you and I'll read from this email that I provided for you that this this study area is in Parkland Estates where they want 2,450 linear feet of box culverts on West Fountain Boulevard. This is directly inside the neighborhood. You may remember the city council made a motion about this, not to run this through the neighborhood. Also on Lakeview Road, Morrison, Howard, South Howard, and Bristol, all of which you've taken positions on and said, no, don't do it. So you've also extended this to going down Alita, which is on the east side of Howard, going toward the Crosstown, which is directly adjacent to the Morrison and those other areas. None of this has ever been discussed before. The attorneys for the South Howard Business Alliance requested that all of the documents related to this project be provided. back in March and April. None of this has been provided, so there was no disclosure whatsoever, and it suddenly showed up on the agenda for an appropriation for $186,000 for study and for surveys and all of that. But if you look at the backup documents, it obligates the cities to much more, and this is a dramatic change in terms of scope and the areas that were being requested. no one has ever proposed a plan for the South Howard project as it is. And you already have appropriated $7 million for the study. Why do you need $186,000 more? It makes no sense. So what's happened with the $7 million for the study, the surveys, and all of that that were associated with the South Howard project? We still continue to contest this project. And this is another backdoor way, apparently, of adding additional areas to the study area without any investigation. And it assumes, it makes a statement, that the service area is under service by the existing system. There has been no baseline study to indicate what that service area is or the capacity of the existing system. Thank you, Mr. McLean.

Pastor Williams, you're next. You indicated you wanted to speak to on-agenda items. Pastor Williams? Pastor? You're next.

You want to stay on the side, or are you up by now? I'm not here. I'm good. All right.

Good morning, Pastor. Start with your name, please.

Good morning. My name is Pastor William, located at 1112 East Scott Street. No longer there because they run me out of there because of the color of my skin. And the only people they want there are white people, Puerto Ricans. Well, Puerto Ricans go for white anyway. I don't blame them. It's better for them to go for white. That way you get more respect than people of color. I'm good, but you know what? I brought something with me. That's basically what I want to talk about this morning. I think I got it in my pocket. But even if I ain't got it, I went and thought I'd get an upgrade on my cable. I went to a place called T-Mobile. That's one of the worst places you can get a phone for. I paid $200-something just to get the phone, thinking I'm going to upgrade it. They upgraded it all right. But they want $400-something. I ain't had a phone for a damn month. So can any of y'all look into that for me? Pastor William. And telephone ain't about nothing nowhere. That's why I come down here to speak publicly, hoping that y'all will hear me. But don't nobody want to hear me. And this good 10-cent phone I got here, thinking I could use it. That's all I ought to call no more than 10 cents. But what's the name of that company? T-Mobile. T-Mobile. T-Mobile, I don't want your money. They don't care not whether you get the service or not. And it's so sad. And you know what? People here in this audience do more for me than y'all do. And who I can send to? Can one of y'all give me a card number when I hit the street so I can call them and they'll call the police on me? They don't give a damn about people of color, but we care about ourselves, and we care about Jesus Christ. Our Lord and Savior has brought us through many years of hardship, and we're happy about that. You know what? I just thank God that we do have Jesus on our side, because if we didn't, we'd be in a world of trouble. Him damn phone, he'll ring all the time.

Yeah.

Don't want us to talk. But we've got to talk peacefully and let you all know, in regards to what color we are, give us respect. Treat us like a citizen and love us like a person. And we'll be a whole lot better off. I know this phone's going to ring me out of here, but I ain't happy about what I'm going to say. I don't like to talk about T-Mobile. You need to get rid of that company.

Thank you, Pastor Williams. Thank you.

I'm gone. Don't worry, he ain't got the rain on him.

You know I ain't raining you. Get it out.

Okay, all the rest of the speakers are off agenda items. Jose Vasquez, followed by Raya Imam. Or Riva, if you. Riva, yeah. Jose, good morning. Start with your name, please.

Good morning. My name is Jose Alexander Vasquez Figueroa. I'm a partial resident of the program Tampa Hope, located in Third Avenue. My business is inside of the business of the city of Tampa. I want to say happy belated birthday to the city councilman and woman. And I want to show you a birthday present I got too. That three break down on June 8, 2024. That damaged my vehicle and started my nightmare. I've been here for the last two years trying to explain to the city of Tampa to take care that property belongs to you. Property located 199 North 59th Street. The city of Tampa already say that's an easement, an improved rule, who give me full access to my property. And my neighbors do not wanna do what they supposed to do by the city ordinance. Co-enforcement claim mobility, this department, other department, they have to come together for week and give you a citation. Let's move forward. Last month, we got a visual meeting on the area. and the new co-enforcement department says, he say, I go to review the survey of the property, and Mr. Vasquez, if you write about the trees, we go to issue a citation. Guess what? Survey was done, I followed the case, I'm going to open a complaint, a formal complaint, and they told me, because the property belongs to the city of Tampa, City do not make a complaint against the city. So I've been here, spending my time for two years, documenting this problem, and now I understand why we got so many reports missing by the co-enforcement department. Because they don't want to put in black and white what's going on in that property. Now I'm here because now they start ping pong again. We got 54 trees planted intentional, for I cannot have a light and electricity to operate my business for the last two years while I'm being paid permits. So I want to know what we going to do to stop co-enforcement playing ping pong and make sure they respect your property and they stop the abuse against my person. I don't know if this is personal, I don't know because I speak up on the behalf of protecting your property because as a taxpayer, it's my property too. So I ask him one more time, please try to find out what's going on, why they delay this result on that property.

Thank you, Jose. Riva, followed by Ashley Morrow. Good morning, Riva.

Yes. Thank you so much. Start with your name, please. Good morning. My name is Reva Ironman, a former resident of Robles Park Village, and I'm here speaking on Zion. As you know, I come down once a month to speak on Zion. It may not be on the agenda item, but I'm trying to keep it alive. I spoke last time I spoke, I spoke what we were looking for. So today I brought you some things that give you something that you can see why we are seeking the funding that we're seeking. So that way, um, I have spoken to some of the city council leaders. Uh, I look forward to speaking to a few Mo that I can get on their agenda. Um, so I may speak with them. It is very dear and personal to me as a resident. who stayed in Robles as an advocate for the residents there. I was a resident council president. I advocate for the residents, and I'm still advocating for the residents, but I'm not so advocating for the residents. I'm advocating for all those bodies that the injustice was done as well to make it just. What we are trying to do is make the wrong right, which it wasn't your wrong, but you can make it right. So what I'm trying to say today is, for my ancestors, I will continue fighting. I will continue being that voice for those who cannot speak, but their spirits can. And I'm here representing them. Not the living, but the dead. The dead, that injustice was done to them. I'm their voice right now. Not the voice of the people who were staying there, but the voice of the people who lay there. It is very important to me, for those who have family members that's buried there, that they get the respect of the disrespect that was done to them. So I'm asking the city council to find in their hearts, their spirits, their bodies and their soul, to make a commitment to do the right thing. that was done a long time ago that wasn't right. It is very dear to me, as a person, as an African American, as a former resident, who may move back there and roll with this bill. So I make you commit to please send this through. Thank you. CHRIS RODGERS, JR.: Thank you, Reva.

Ashley Morrow, followed by Jade Scott. Good morning, Ashley.

Good morning, council. My name is Ashley Morrow and I'll be sharing Tampa's black history. So, um, it's archives awareness week. I'm pretty sure y'all know by now and y'all know, I love some archives. So I'm going to share, uh, two stories with you. One, a more popular one, uh, detailing Madam Fortune Taylor's life is in regards to her land ownership. And the second about, about priests from sacred heart in the early days who actually purchased land and sold to black people. And we learn about this through these documents. So I'm gonna show a few of them. Here is the homestead document of Madam Fortune Taylor when she acquired that land just south of the interstate and north of Tyler area. And it is eventually sold to E.A. Clark in 1878. And she sells the last portion of it in 1890. This is E.A. Clark's subdivision. And as you can see, Fortune Street is listed right here. And this was reservation of Fortune Taylor. That was probably where her house was. Now, a story that we hear a lot is that Madam Fortune made a deal with McFarland, but I don't believe that's true because she had already sold the land by 1890. The bridge was built two years later, 1892. Now, I've said that story plenty of times, but when I looked at the archives, I was like, OK, that doesn't match up, so I'm going to stop saying that. And as a local historian and people that are professional historians, it's OK to say, I was wrong. We found more information. So I would want to encourage historians to try to veer away from just going with a fantastical, romantic story just for the sake of storytelling. Tell the truth. The next one is about a Reverend, uh, Bernier who was the Catholic priest here during the 1800s, 1870s. And he actually purchased land. This was a scrub. He purchased this land right here. Where's his name? It's right here. Bernier's a lot seven and eight. And then he plotted out these eight set parcels of land and sold it to black people. And you have Catherine Carter, he sold that to her for $21. Ann Richardson sold it to her for $11. Mary, $11. Henry Blair, $11. Henry Brennan, $11. Laura Allen, $16. And Beulah Baptist Church, $21. This is the second location, actually. So the first location they got for a dollar from Thomas Jackson was a black man that owned the homesteads and land right above Oaklawn Cemetery. And that's just all of their properties. I'm trying to lay out all these archives into a document, so look forward to sharing that with everybody. Thank y'all so much for your time.

Thank you, Ashley. Very fascinating. Jade Scott, followed by Janelle Scott. Good morning, Jade.

Hey, y'all. How you doing?

Good.

Good to hear it.

Start with your name, please.

Jade Scott, is the time going?

It'll start when you.

Okay, rock on, that's fair enough. I am here to talk about and ask for, plead, beg for more funding for the Parks and Rec Community Center so that we can have greater programs for adults ages 18 to retirement age. as well as increasing marketing. I've asked for this before, and I'll probably ask for it again. But I am specifically advocating for this because I believe that the community centers really can be the center of the community. They can be a great way for people in their community to meet each other, to build those bonds that make living in Tampa so wonderful, and to really have people sort of embrace being the role of citizen and neighbor. In particular, I think that they should have longer hours as well as programs geared towards, again, adults. We have a lot of community centers that have programs for children, which is fantastic. I love kids. And we also have a lot of community centers that have programs for senior citizens, which is great. I hope to be one someday. But the adults really are an undertapped market. And they, just because they're working age, that doesn't mean that they necessarily want to have to go spend like $12 to buy a smoothie so they can justify being in a place to go play some sort of game so they can have some sort of social interaction and stimulation for the day. I took the liberty of researching what some programs are in other cities in the area, like Orlando, Clearwater, and St. Pete, and these are pretty low-cost options that can be a great place to start. So they have a pretty low barrier of entry, but they could still be fun for the community. And these programs are Things like board game night, chess nights, community book clubs, a craft night, sewing circles, movie nights, yoga, tai chi, dance classes and programs, community open mics, writing classes, mahjong nights, drawing classes, community jam sessions where local citizen musicians come in to play with each other. You know, just sort of building up that rapport. We have trivia nights, bingo. People love bingo. And bird watching clubs. And those are just, again, really cheap. Some of them, frankly, like the community jam session, no down payment at all sort of programs, but that can still be useful in things. I also took the liberty of looking up some locations that might be a good place to start. I selected five, and I chose them based on the fact that they already have programs, so they have a base that can be expanded upon. and they're sprinkled throughout the city. So, you know, they hit each of your constituents in your various districts. So Copeland, Cordelia B. Hunt, the Jackson, the Ingram, and the Forest Hill Center could be really wonderful places to start. I really do think that when we invest in our community, we can stay focused on centering the things that matter most, which are each other. So I hope you take these things with... with, frankly, an astonishing amount of enthusiasm, and I hope to see these changes reflected in the next fiscal year budget. Thanks, guys.

Thank you, Jay. Thank you so much. Go ahead.

Can you email that to us? I absolutely can.

Thank you. Janelle Scott, followed by Linda Aiken. Good morning. Can you start with your name, please?

My name is Janelle Scott, and I was recently released June 24th for an arrest that happened December 10th, 2025, where officers said that he arrested me for trespassing at 3.52, but I was already arrested at 3.40. I was arrested at 3.40 for violating the trespass warning that the trespass warning timestamp is 3.52. So how could I violate a trespass warning if I'm already arrested for trespassing? He also lied on the police report and said I was in a juvenile diversion program. I'm 42 years old. My son and I got the same birthday. Mine is 9-23-83. My son is 9-23-2001. We look just alike. I don't look 42. My son is 24 years old. He has been traumatized by having to wrestle a gun out of his big brother's hand while he hadn't shot his little brother. But if I would have been out here for him, it would never have took place in my eyes. And I also want to say that I've been advertising everything that I've been going through on Facebook. My page is in my last name first because my previous Facebook, I couldn't get the email because of me being incarcerated and things like that. Well, long story short, with the arrest, the case was dismissed. I had to represent myself because all of the public defenders in the public defender's office has a problem. They tried to get you to play let's make a deal with your life. That's what they're doing. And judges, prior to that, let me get prior to that. Prior to that, I was tooken from Grace Point on a case where a judge had me sitting in jail 99 days while my bum was actively played. So these are the things that's going on with the judicial system that's been broken. And I would like to say something about what the young lady said right here. Why we have all these graves built over black grave sites, but not one Caucasian Anglo-Saxon grave site has been found yet. to being like massacred like that in a way like that. It's like y'all just wanted us to be like, look at those black people. We'll have them sleeping in their grave. Look at them wallowing in their grave. They wallowing in their own graves. We walking over our ancestors and stuff like that's an accident. You got to have a building permit before you do anything. That system ain't changed. That structure ain't changed. So I speak on the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Change need to happen. And especially in the city of Tampa. Because the grace of God can surpass what y'all got going on. Because for one, every black person that was a slave, it was a log of it. We got their last name. We got their last name. My last name's Scott. My last name's Scott. So with that being said, this needs to be addressed. I had you on my fans page on Louise on the previous page when I was being evicted from Section 8 because I had fiberglass coming out my ventilation system and I'm rolling in the bed in it, not even knowing. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Linda Aiken, followed by Donna Morrison. Good morning, Linda.

Good morning.

Start with your name, please.

Linda Aiken. 1211 South Gunby in Hyde Park in Tampa. So we have a three-part presentation, and I'm asking because I'm part three. May I defer to Kathy and then Donna and then me?

Okay. I have Donna. I have Kathy. Okay. You want Donna? Yes. We'll do that. Go ahead.

Okay. Thank you.

Okay. Start with your name, please.

Kathy Durden, 1820 West Richardson Place in Tampa. Good morning, members of city council, and thank you for the opportunity to speak today. We're here because of the redevelopment of Swan Park represents a once in a generation opportunity to create a public space that serves the diverse needs of South Tampa. not just for today but for decades to come. We support investing in this park. We support new amenities, improved accessibility, beautiful landscaping, and creating a destination the community can be proud of. Our concern is not whether the park should be improved. Our concern is whether the planning process has been broad enough to ensure the investment reflects the needs and priorities of the entire community. Many people may not realize that this park was once a home of a thriving city-operated community art center. It operated alongside basketball courts, a playground, and a dog park, coexisted for years. The art center was extremely popular and classes were filled to capacity with long waiting lists. After years of deferred maintenance, the building developed severe termite damage and mold. Portions were closed, classes continued, but the facility was ultimately shuttered and the students and instructors were ensured that the city intended to renovate or replace the facility. Instead, the building remained closed for more than nine years while the park became increasingly underutilized. Two years ago, it was finally demolished. Our programming was located to the JCC where demand now exceeds capacity. Residents have reported waiting more than three years to enroll in classes. For many, in the Tampa Arts community when the redevelopment of the Swan Park came along, it seemed like an ideal opportunity to restore what the neighborhood had lost. Over the past years, my colleagues and I have met with city staff, city council members, representatives of the mayor's office, Parks and Rec, neighborhood associations, and community leaders to discuss this possibility. Throughout these conversations, we were consistently told that meaningful public engagement would occur before any redevelopment plans were put forward. Unfortunately, that level of engagement never materialized. Neighborhood meetings were scheduled and then canceled. Communication became increasingly limited, and many inquiries from us, the arts community, went unanswered. Then, last week, a public meeting was held with limited notice immediately following the 4th of July holiday. Many concerned neighbors were out of town and unaware. Two concept plans were presented, none of which included an art center, despite years of discussion. Most importantly, when the public survey after the meeting was provided, it invited residents to comment on the amenities provided, not what the community needs and what people want. We believe that this project is important and it deserves a broader public conversation before decisions are made.

Thank you. Donna Morrison, followed by Linda Aiken. Good morning, Donna.

Morning.

Start with your name, please. I don't know if you can see that.

Hi, I'm Donna Morrison. So why does this matter? The question before us isn't simply whether to build a park. The question is whether the investment addresses one of Tampa's greatest unmet recreational and cultural needs. Fortunately, we don't have to guess. The city's own Parks and Rec master plan identified visual arts as the recreation activity with the highest unmet need. The city's own Parks and Rec's master plan showed that 34% of Tampa's households reported a need for visual art opportunities, well above the national average. The master plan also identified community arts programming, public art, cultural engagement, and support for local artists as priorities for the city's future. These findings confirm what many of us have experienced firsthand for years. South Tampa has no operated art center. Think about that for a minute. The city operates more than 190 parks. The city has 16 dog parks, approximately 80 playgrounds, numerous athletic facilities, yet there is not one municipal art center serving South Tampa. The few city-supported art facilities elsewhere in Tampa are small, operate with limited programming, and have lengthy waiting lists. Our own privately owned and run nonprofit organization, Tampa Regional Artists, operate from a one-room historic schoolhouse of 1,100 feet. We are one room with three parking places. Every class is full. We cannot expand to meet this demand. As a result, I regularly recommend that Tampa residents travel to Bradenton, Sarasota, St. Pete, Clearwater, Dunedin, because we don't have the facilities to help them. Bradenton offers an excellent example. Although its population is only a fraction of Tampa's, it recently partnered with the private sector to create a beautiful 28,000 square foot facility. that has become a cultural and economic powerhouse for the community. For years, many of us have suggested that Tampa explore a similar public-private partnership. We have even offered to help raise private funds. This doesn't have to be an either-or decision. A thoughtful, designed arts center could easily coexist with playgrounds, courts, trails, green space. This park is large enough to accommodate both. This map here shows what the city or Parks and Rec presented last week. It's the entire park. It's still showing all this green space. This black box is the space that an art center would take up in the middle of that space.

Thank you, Donna. Linda Aiken, followed by Mr. Hayes. Hello again, Linda. Start with your name again.

Good morning. Linda again.

Full name for the record.

Linda Aiken. That's how they document stuff. Thank you. So we have a better vision. I'd like to conclude by discussing the opportunity before us. This park is bordered by the Salmon Expressway, busy roadways, and large expanses of asphalt. While outdoor recreation is important, Florida's increasingly hot climate makes year-round use of outdoor activities more challenging every year. The proposed plan relies almost entirely on outdoor activities. Instead of duplicating facilities, we have an opportunity to provide something South Tampa does not currently have. because many of those facilities already exist nearby. An art center would be open every month of the year. It would serve children, seniors, veterans, working adults, families, and individuals with disabilities. It could host after school programs, senior programs, veterans art therapy, partnerships with hospitals, community meetings, cultural events, art exhibitions, and educational workshops. It would become a community gathering place. not just for recreation, but for education, healing, creativity, and civic life. Most importantly, it would benefit every demographic in our community. At last week's meeting, which was mentioned, residents were told that approximately $8 million has been allocated for the project, the Swan Park project, that should move quickly because funding could be uncertain. Respectfully, decisions about a community asset of this importance should not be driven by urgency alone. The community deserves the opportunity to help shape a vision that reflects the broadest possible public benefit. Specifically, we ask this city to conduct meaningful community engagement with residents, arts organizations, neighborhood groups, and other stakeholders, to evaluate the feasibility of incorporating a community arts center into the redevelopment, as Donna mentioned, and explore public-private partnerships that could leverage private fundraising while maximizing the city's investment. This project has a potential to become one of Tampa's signature community spaces. Let's make sure we seize this opportunity to build not simply another park, but a destination that reflects Tampa's creativity, diversity, and aspirations. Thank you for your time, your service, and your thoughtful consideration.

Thank you so much, Mr. Hayes, followed by Robin Lockett. Robin says no, okay.

and rising good morning city councilwoman city councilman you got a friend down there that's sort of the always always with me uh... i just want to start off with saying uh... within our community uh... i want to send my condolences and positive energy and vibrations to the young father that was killed in west tampa and i want to highlight this moment with just for individuals to not be so quick to give non-accurate information, especially within our community. There was a lot of erroneous and grave follies going around of being blamed, put on a TPD about an officer killed this young man and just someone from the community. I just wanted to come up here and speak behalf of that. Once again, I want to acknowledge the family. Um, and I hope that their transition come baby, uh, their transition is met with grace. Uh, the second thing, Cairo come baby 10 years old, uh, tomorrow. And we're going to give a back to school community drive of the weather permits at Cypress beach. We are going to be giving away a plethora amount of items starting from 9 00 AM until it probably showers down on us. This is, we are not a checkbox agency. Doesn't matter if you're coming from St. Pete, Sarasota, Bradenton, whatever zip code, If you come, you're going to receive about $80 to $100 of brand-new goods. And I got a little flyer for our back-to-school, a fourth annual rough and back-to-school drive.

On the very top of the Wolf, there's a little dial. You can go out and see the whole flyer. Is that? No. There we go. Perfect.

And what we do, this is our fourth one. We're allowing other businesses and other nonprofits to partner with us. We're doing a dollar for dollar match as well. Again, straightforward. Everything's brand new, name brand goods and so forth. And I wanted to give acknowledgement to the gentleman that just left out. That was a very... authentic story and I just wanted to acknowledge him for getting up here and having the courage to talk about his own disparities and so forth. Once again, Mr. Hayes, also known as Mr. Ruff with Cairo and Friends, and thank you all council members and women for allowing individuals to sign the cards. It was raining, traffic was bad. There was probably a dozen individuals that didn't get here on time. I just want to highlight that. Thank you very much for that opportunity.

We can control a lot of things that can't control the weather.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Have a good one, Mr. Colonel. Very good.

Bye, Cairo. Happy birthday, Cairo. Say thank you very much.

Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Come on, let's save it for a little while. That was good. Very good.

Okay, Surgit Das, you're going to bring it home. You're the last in-person public speaker. Surgit, are you still here? There you are, back there. Good morning, sir.

Hey, good morning. My fault. I was actually expecting Robin to get up here and run off for a little while. I wanted to give you all something. Not at all. Here, you see the...

I typically don't wear this, as you all know, but I was doing it a little bit before I came in here.

But I always do represent the greatest institution of Ohio learning, and this is a temper. My name is Shagret Doss. And oddly enough, And a question spawned this document that you all have, and it's crazy. And I understand the uphill battle. But I was actually doctored at the United States Supreme Court. So we're up and running. But the question is, who owns stolen property, the thief or the victim? Because that's what caused this whole malaise here. Now, I understand that being a pro se litigant going to the United States Supreme Court is an uphill battle. I'm not myopic by any means whatsoever. I don't even need them to give me cert. I just need them to review the case, which kind of involved with the gentleman, uh, wish he hadn't left about an improper arrest because that's what started the whole thing with me. And for the people who are listening, and I really wish the guy had stayed around here, I'm guaranteeing that his story was correct because that happened to me. A police officer of the city of Tampa falsely accused me of a crime that he claims was told to him by a former sitting judge. And I know I can't litigate the case here. I'm not even trying to. But what I would like for people to do is to take some inspiration because it's about the fight. It's about... not laying down to anything. And I hope this gentleman who had his unfortunate circumstance can find somebody who will represent him in his cause. I suffered the same set of circumstances. And they offered me a deal on the last day after the Florida Supreme Court sent the judge in from outside of the county to hear my case after being prosecuted in this county for seven months under a charge for something I did not at all, which kind of goes back to that Fourth Amendment malicious prosecution issue that I raised and the Eleventh Circuit struck it down without giving a proper analysis. of the underlying charge. And there was binding precedent for it, but they didn't do it. And the other issue is the intra-corporate conspiracy issue as to whether or not the judge, the cop, and the sheriff belong to the same entity, which we know they don't. Those are three different jurisdictions. And of course, something that should make a lot of people, grab a lot of people's attention, the issue of absolute judicial immunity and whether or not it applies. I want everybody who's out here to also keep in mind that democracy is a participation sport. And typically, I am wearing the garb of the United States Army, which I don't regret having spent my time there. I'm proud of my military service. Today I was doing some other things and I happened to be wearing a shirt that represents the greatest institution of higher learning in the city of Tampa and an institution that gave me the motivation and the drive to complete that task, the University of Thomas Jefferson High School. Thank you, Mr. Doss. That heat is terrible, boy.

Who's online? Is it Stephanie?

Both are online. Okay. We have two online speakers, and then after those two, that will conclude. Roxy Lackman. Roxy, are you online? Can you unmute yourself, please? And just a reminder, for those of you that are listening online, we did upgrade our system over the weekend, and there may be some technical difficulties with the online. Roxy, if you hear me, can you hear me? Muted.

Can you hear me now?

There we go. Hey, Roxy, good morning. Can you start with your name, please? Great.

Yes, there was a little difficulties there. Thank you. Thank you. So, good morning. And first of all, quick note, I really enjoyed Jade Scott's suggestion for the senior adult programs at the community centers, as well as the South Tampa ladies who want to... get an art center going. Fabulous expansions to our park services, so I do hope you heed those requests. I'm here with a simple question. I am wondering why the brand new, beautiful Fair Oaks Community Center, where the grand opening was celebrated, what was that, about 10 months ago, May 6th, there's still no listed fees for public rentals of the indoor space. I've personally been calling since early June, and every time that I inquire, I'm trying to host an event in October, and I'm told that the city council has not yet approved the rental fees. So I have also been told that the city temple officials, there have been some internal events that have been hosted there. So I know the space is ready. And I think it's time for the beautiful new space to be filled with local residents for the gathering. So I hope those fees can get listed. Anyway, thank you for your time and consideration. And I'm very sorry I could not join you in person today. But I'm happy that the new tech is up and running. Thank you.

Thank you, Roxy, and I'm sure you've got seven council members taking note of your comments. The last speaker registered, last but not least, Stephanie Poynter.

Good morning, Stephanie Poynter. All the speeding ticket profits should go, for the school zones, should go strictly to the sidewalks surrounding the schools, not anyplace else. Flock sucks, but it is what it is at this point. Signs should be posted that tickets will be offered throughout the entire school day, not when you just see students on the street. And it wasn't discussed before, but I believe the ticket written from a police officer is over $500 for speeding in a school zone. We need throughout all of our committees throughout the entire city, NRAC, the Veterans Committee, of budget committee blah blah blah on and on and on. There needs to be uniformity in the way that members can be removed with or without cause. There needs to be and I don't understand how any members of City Council can in good conscience appoint somebody for two three four years when they know that their term expires in a year. There should be a way that people should be able to put their elected officials to be able to put their own representatives in those seats. Number 94. I find it very interesting that the documents from Reftalis are dated this month when we've had those documents for a considerable amount of time. I know that I met with staff members in the last six months and they had that data then. And I'm very, very concerned that the construction services and land development department have used up all of their backup fee, all of their backup money, all of their reserve funds to pay the difference. And I'm very concerned that the citizens of Tampa are paying out of pocket for developers to get their work done by the city staff. That's that's unacceptable. Last but not least is the Howard Avenue project. Everyone in that room should be offended by that project because it is going to eat up every single solitary remaining dollar of our stormwater assessment. That means if we want another stormwater project, we're going to be paying more money out of pocket. Nobody has proven at this point that this is a project that's going to be successful and that it's going to provide ample protection for the people that they say that it's going to protect. If they just clean out the stormwater gutters instead of spending five weeks a year working on parades, then maybe we could get this stuff done easier. All right. Thank you very much. Have a good day.

Thank you, Ms. Poynter. Enjoy wherever you're at. Okay. That concludes public comment. Thank you so much. We're moving on to board and administrative appointments. We have three this morning. Item number four is surely there. She is on right on cue. I'd like to recognize our wonderful clerk, Shirley Fox Knowles.

Good morning. Shirley Fox knows city clerk. I would like to. present Jerry Hosey, attorney, vying for the position of member of the Historic Preservation Committee.

Thank you. He's behind the other side there. Good morning, Jerry. Start with your name, please. I'm Jerry Hosey. Very good. Did you want to make any remarks or just introduce yourself?

Yeah, like she said, I am an attorney. I practice condo HOA law, but before you get the pitchforks out, I promise, don't hold it against me. But yeah, I'm applying for a position for the Historic Preservation Commission. I moved to the city about eight and a half months ago and immediately fell in love with it. Wanted to contribute to the development of it and tried to figure out how to do that. So I researched it, found the Historic Preservation Commission, spoke with Fernandez and put an application in. I have experience as an attorney. Attorney for the last four years. Part of that job is for architectural review, stuff like that, finding clients on things of that nature. And while I know that other boards deal directly with that more so, most of our clients will tell you that the reason they want to put these restrictions in place or in place is more because protect the identity of their communities, which I believe historic preservation is similar to. In addition to that, I am taking my PhD in history currently, and when I focus more on the American Revolutionary Era, there are classes that we're taking, especially in the fall, doing more preservation issues, particularly with digital history and things of that nature. And I think that, you know, with my experience, that I can help contribute to the city and help make it a better place for everyone here, and I hope you guys... Agree.

Thank you very much. Does the council have any questions? Hearing none, can I, I have a motion to appoint from Councilman Maniscalco, a second from Councilwoman Hurtick first. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? Mr. Shelby will bring back the resolution. Today, I'll do that today. Okay, Mr. Shelby will bring back the resolution, making it official. Congratulations. Thank you. We appreciate your good work. Okay, Ms. Fox-Knowles. Item number five. Oh, okay, it's the mayor, that's right, okay. Okay, so item number five is approving the reappointment of Kimberly Fruit. Kimberly, are you in the audience? No, we have a motion for Councilman Menescalco to approve her appointment, seconded by Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, the ayes have it. Thank you, it's unanimous. And Mr. Shelby, do we have to bring back a resolution for that one too? No, that was provided. Okay, that was a resolution, okay. Then we have another resolution, item number six for the mayor's reappointment of Anna Walrab. Are you in the audience, Anna, or not? We have a motion from Councilman Miranda approving the resolution. A second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. And just FYI, for those of you that are listening, we are working on some standardized procedures and all for future terms and how things are appointed and getting all these committees standardized. But right now, these are all very critical appointments, so we needed to move forward on these appointments. Okay.

very good so that concludes that portion we're now uh are there any requests for public for reconsideration of legislative matters hearing none councilwoman uh wasn't one of the things you oh yeah that's true to read the open boards you are right let's do that so right now we have councilwoman yeah i already have it open so we have uh and and this one we have a position for the affordable housing advisory committee for um a resident of tampa So pretty much anybody. I serve as chair of that committee, and we do a lot of really good things. So if you know anyone, and Miss Robin Lockett is also on the committee. So if anybody has any interest in housing, it's just a resident of Tampa. That's all you have to be. Particularly if you are interested in affordable housing, that would be great. Two positions for the Architectural Review Commission, one an alternate and one a public policy member. Two appointments to the Barrio Latino Commission, one for an architect and one just for a resident of Ybor City. Civil Service Board, it says just board member, so I believe that's probably at large. The Community Benefits Advisory Council, it's also an at large position. Enterprise Zone Development Agency for a commissioner, Historic Preservation for an alternate and for an urban planner, and for the Variance Review Board, the consistent arborist landscape architect urban forester.

Very good. And at least two of us up here served on the Civil Service Review Board, so it's a very interesting group. I was on the VRB. And you were on the VRB, yeah. Okay, very good. Now we're moving on to the Consents Agenda. Councilman Vieira moves item seven through eight, seconded by Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilwoman Young, would you move nine through 20, please?

I move items nine through 20.

We have a motion from Councilwoman Young, seconded by Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilman Maniscalco, would you move 21 through 31 with the exception of 25?

I move items 21 through 31 with the exception of 25.

Okay, we have a councilman from Maniscalco, second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilman Miranda, would you move 32?

I have 32 to 37.

Okay, hold on. Councilwoman Ortega, you had a question?

Yes. I just wanted to remind council that item 37 is the mayoral approved audit work plan, and we have about 30 days of which to consider adding things to that plan. There's not a lot of room oftentimes, but I do just want to remind everybody that that's something that we do have the ability to do.

Okay, I have a motion from Councilman Miranda and a second from Councilman Maniscalco to move 32 through 37. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Carlson, would you move 38 through 49? So moved. Second. We have a motion from Councilman Carlson, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Hertek, would you move 52 and 53? Yes.

I move items 52 and 53 and 54 with the substitute resolution. There we go. Second.

We have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtek, a second from Councilman Maniscalco to move 52, 53, and the substitute resolution in 54. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes. Can I get a motion to set the public hearing for 55 through 60? So moved. We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco and a second from Councilman Miranda to set the public hearings at 55 through 60. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you. Can I get a motion to open the public hearings? So moved. Second. We have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco and a second from Councilman Miranda to open the public hearings. We are moving on to item number 61. What's that?

Not yet.

Oh, all those in favor to approve, open the public hearing and say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Item number 61.

Good morning. This is Quinn Seale with Planning Commission staff. Can you hear me?

Yes.

Can we see you? Yes. Can we pump up the volume of CTV? It may be part of this WebEx upgrade, so I don't know.

Yeah, it's not letting me turn my camera on either.

Okay, go ahead. We can hear you. It's just really soft.

Okay. Quinn Steel Planning Commission staff, item number 61 is file number TACPA2519. This is a comprehensive plan map amendment to change the feature lane use designation for the subject properties from light industrial and public semi-public to public semi-public. The City Council approved this item on first reading on April 23rd, 2026, and it's back before you today for second reading consideration. That concludes my presentation.

Okay, I have a question. I know this is not quasi-judicial, but we're not seeing the staff on monitors. Is that something we have to get resolved before we get to the judicial stuff?

Yeah, OK.

So very good. Councilman, does this council have any questions? And Councilman Vieira, just to confirm, you were absent and that you've reviewed the here. OK, very good. Thank you so much. OK, is there anybody in the public that wishes to speak to item 61? We have a motion to close for Councilman Miranda. Second, Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Councilman Carlson, would you read item 61, please?

File number move file number TA CPA 25-19 ordinance being presented for second reading adoption ordinance amending the Tampa comprehensive plan future land use element future land use map for the property located at 4615 and 4801 East Fowler Avenue from light industrial LI and public semi-public P slash SP to public semi-public P slash SP providing for repeal of all ordinances and conflict providing for severability writing an effective date.

I have a motion from Councilman Carlson, second from Councilman Miranda. Please record your vote.

Motion carried unanimously.

Thank you so much. Item number 62.

Staff for item number 62. Ross Samuels, Developmental Coordination. Presenting file number BAC 23-20 for second reading and adoption. I'm available if you have any questions.

Does council have any questions on item 62? Hearing none, is anybody in the public who wish to speak to item 62? I have a motion to close for Councilman Moranis, second for Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Vieira.

Yes, sir.

Move an ordinance presented for second reading adoption ordinance city of Tampa Florida correcting a scrivener's error by amending ordinance number 2024-35 which vacated closed discontinued abandoned all rights of ways and alleyways located north of oak avenue south of palm avenue east of Tampa Street and west of Florida Avenue within the plat of Highland Park first addition subdivision the city of Tampa Hills Borough County Florida by amending exhibit a to add a small area that was inadvertently omitted from the legal description repealing conflicts providing for severability providing an effective date I have a motion from Councilman Vieira second Councilman Metta Scalco please record I'm sorry Council Miranda please record your vote

We must.

Motion carry unanimously.

OK, very good. OK, item number 63 Councilwoman Hurtick.

As I see that we have members of the Police Department here today, I would like to make a motion that 8384 and 85 be heard. Before we vote on 63. I think it will take just, you know, five minutes at best.

Okay.

Yeah, I mean, they're here.

So you want to move them out during the public hearing now?

Yes, because it's about voting on 63. This is about the school zones and the flock cameras.

Yeah.

Mr. Shelby, is that fine to do this during the public hearing?

Well, you're going to. It's not actually... If you want it to be part of the public hearing, then certainly you can.

If that's your desire.

My vote is contingent on what they have to say.

So I have a motion from Councilman Hertech to hear items 83, 84, and 85 at this point during the public hearing. I second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Okay. Ayes have it. Very good. Then we're going to move right straight to 83. Is staff ready to present for 83?

And they can all be heard together. Okay. I see.

We're here in 83, 84 and 85. So, um, if you, if you have anything to say about 83, 84 and 85, now is your time. Speak now or forever. Hold your peace.

All right. Thank you. Counsel, uh, deputy chief Patrick Messmer, Tampa police department. Yeah, we are here for, um, a couple items here. There was some motions made regarding item number 63. First I'll, um, go over item number 84, which I think is probably the, Simplest one and I know this was put into on base, but I can put it up on the projector as well That is the affidavit that was provided By red speed saying that they will not share any of the data that's captured by the cameras with flock with any other provider and that would be a Material breach of the contract and the city would be able to terminate the contract So I think that has addressed that specific issue that has come up about sharing the data with flock or sharing the data with other providers because that is something that's prohibited both by the state statute and also by the city ordinance and then item numbers 83 and 85 kind of together they're they're they're pretty much very similar talking about other potential vendors so we did have the purchasing department look at some other options for piggyback contracts there were a total of three uh... The issue with that is all of these other providers have stipulations that they will integrate their data with third parties. FLOC may not be specifically mentioned, but they do integrate with LPRs if the customer wants that. Because in other jurisdictions where the law does not prohibit that, the customers want that integration. So there are other providers out there. that we could potentially piggyback on, but you're going to still have the same issue that those providers do have the ability to integrate with third parties. But again, because the contract prohibits that, because the statute prohibits that, because the city ordinance prohibits that, whether it's Red Speed, whether it's any of these other providers, that is not going to be the case in the city of Tampa. And then, um, one of the other items was, uh, regarding, uh, procurement with a company that does not do business with flock. And our understanding with that is that to disqualify a potential vendor, just because they may have a relationship with another company would not be, um, following the city's procurement rules. So, um, that would be the answer to those particular questions, but regardless, There is going to be no integration with FLOC. There is going to be no data sharing. There is going to be no retention of the data that was captured by the LPRs, excuse me, by the cameras unless there is a violation. That is the only time that the violations are going to get processed is when the cameras do capture a violation. There is going to be no license plate reader use, no surveillance because that is prohibited by both state statute and by the ordinance. Again, we're here today just to change the list. We've already passed the contract. We already do have the ordinance that has the schools in there. We're just changing the list from the original schools to the new number of schools that has a better geographic representation. And I don't know if we have the map. I know we were asked to bring maps of the old and the new. This is the new. proposal for the cameras that came out of the speed study that was done recently. There is a larger geographic distribution than the previous cameras. You can see we have cameras up in more of them in South Tampa, more of them up in the New Tampa area, and then this was the previous study. Most of the cameras there were concentrated in the East Tampa area and in the West Tampa area. So I can try to put these, put these both there so we can see. So that's, uh, the left side is the new proposal based upon the speed study. The right side was the what's currently in the, uh, in the ordinance. Uh, there are six of those cameras that are currently in the ordinance that are still in the new proposed ordinance we have already. move forward with the permitting process to get those six cameras operational as soon as possible because, again, they are in the ordinance as it is written. So we would ask you to pass the ordinance on the second reading, and I can answer any questions anybody has.

Councilman Carlson, then Vieira.

Yeah. The original, just to reiterate something she said, the original ordinance was approved a long time ago. The contract was approved a long time ago. the I voted against the contract for some of the reasons that have been discussed but this is just as you said to expand going back to these maps is to expand to go into other areas one of the new schools happens to be one that my son goes to and I see the speeding going on around it and so we obviously need to do something and ultimately this is about speeding we have a parallel motion going through like somebody mentioned a public comment to try to make sure the money is not a slush fund for some administration but that it's designated for school safety and that will be coming back another time. I don't think it's right that these are concentrated all in East Tampa. If we care about public safety, we need to not look like we're picking on one neighborhood. We need to provide safety throughout the city. To the other point, though, about privacy, there's a general concern about overall surveillance of people. And we live in a world now where there are cameras everywhere. There are cameras pointed at us right now. It's impossible to go any place without having cameras pointed at us. But in the case of a federal or state or some other government agency subpoena, files have to be given up, as I understand it. What if somebody does not get a ticket? If they're going to get a ticket, I understand that that file will be preserved. But general video, is there somebody who could testify to what happens to the general video if it's just streaming all day long? Is that deleted, not captured? And if it's deleted, is it deleted again to make sure that a subpoena doesn't ask for an imaging of the file to make sure that it's not there? If someone has committed a crime of speeding, then it's understandable that that would be archived. But people just in general don't like having government surveil them. And so could somebody talk to the fact that If a government agency subpoenaed a whole file, would they be able to see the general population moving around, and would that be available?

Thank you, sir. Yes, the video is retained for 30 days, and that is... That's all videos, not just... Correct. Now, and I can speak, too, because I used to manage the red light camera program. The video from the camera is there for 30 days, but unless a violation occurs, those license plates of the cars in the video are not captured. So the overall video of cars driving down the road is going to be retained for 30 days. But as far as license plates actually being captured, being able to identify each and every one of those cars, that is not the case.

And after 30 days, is it possible for someone still to image it, or is it gone forever that it can't be imaged?

The only time the video is retained after 30 days is if it's associated with a violation. So after that 30-day period has elapsed, the video is purged, the video is gone.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And I appreciate the presentation and answering these questions. You know, I voted for this before. I'll continue to support it for reasons I'll briefly talk about. You know, the issue, and I know we've gotten some emails and concerns about issues involving ICE, things that have become very acute and traumatic for a lot of people in the last year and a half or so, and sympathies or ideas that I'm very sympathetic to, where you have About three quarters of a million people in this country from places like Haiti, Afghanistan, Cuba, Venezuela, who were legally protected by TPS and out of nowhere, they're illegal. They're illegal immigrants. And next thing you know, we're building alligator aquatras and making jokes about them getting chased by crocodiles. I think that's moral and that's terrible. But for me, this has nothing to do with that, thankfully. So I'm obviously very, very passionate about that. The sharing of the information is precluded by virtue of ordinance, by operation of law. That's something that I'm very, very comfortable with. I think we gotta talk about what this actually does, which is, as you said, sir, it expands it to additional schools, right? It expands it to additional schools. Now, what is the issue that is at play here? It is if you're going in a school zone during pickup and drop off during very narrowly tailored times and you're going in excess of 10 miles an hour over the speed limit. So if it's 30, you're going 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, you will not qualify for that. But if you're going 40, 41, 42, 43, you will qualify for that. And if you're going over 10 miles an hour for the speed limit in a school zone during that time, then you got it coming. Okay. And I will make no excuses for you. And I strongly support this. And I think we all should. And by the way, I get it. There's folks who talk about the nature of these cameras and privacy. And that doesn't take anything away from their sympathies on issues involving law and order. enforcement of law and public safety and so forth, I have no challenges with them as it applies to this verily narrowly tailored Florida statute. As soon as I'd heard about it when State Representative Tracy Koster had championed this in Tallahassee, I pushed to have this here in Tampa because this is a good thing. I'm glad to see that we have some new Tampa schools here, the areas of of child's where my son went freedom where my son went uh benito and other schools in utampa there is support for that so again i i do support this this is a good thing for me thank you councilman hertech

I want to say thank you so much for getting the affidavit. That was very important to me. I know we have an ordinance, I know we have state law, but the overwhelming fear of the community is high, especially because of the death that just happened in St. Augustine. Now it's coming to Florida. more visibly. So I do appreciate that. I also appreciate the study that was done to see where the speeding is actually occurring. I'm really glad this is not just going to be policing a majority minority communities and has been spread across the city. I think that's very important. We've gotten a ton of email and a lot of support for school zone cameras, but I do want to correct Councilman Vieira because from my understanding, it's running all day. Even if it's not during the school, even if it's not during like the flashing light time, it will run all day that school is in session. I just wanted to double share and make sure that was correct.

Yes, ma'am, that is correct. It runs all day during the school day. Obviously, you still have a 10-mile-an-hour buffer there. That buffer is, of course, much lower during the pickup and drop-off times. It goes up higher when the school zone is not active, but it does run all day during the school day.

um and my my only wish is quite frankly that it went down to five miles but that's just me so not instead of ten and tens tens are really a lot more but anyway thank you well i echo a few of the sentiments of my other council members one i would also like to thank you all for the affidavit thank you all for doing the another study so that we can't have the cameras across the city because we know that this is speeding in the school zones is an issue that is across the city um and so i think having it dispersed is much better um and i i said this at the last meeting but i'll also say i'll say it here again um at the at the end of the day for me it's about keeping our children safe and i with my own two eyes have seen the speeding that's happening i think we all have seen it there is speeding happening in the school zones that's there there's no if answer buts about it people are speeding But I also want to say that I still stand by that we should start thinking about, you know, we need sidewalks. We absolutely need sidewalks. I know that there's a motion coming so, you know, that we can make sure, you know, how do we make sure that funding can go towards the sidewalks that we're getting from these citations. But I think also we need to start thinking about what type of infrastructure and mobility projects can we do in these communities with the school zones, whether it be, you know, making the the lane smaller? Is it having the turning out a little bit more for cars? Just something extra because while there may be some that will get one ticket and they will learn their lesson and they're not going to speed again, there are some that have the money and they're going to keep paying it. So I think having the cameras but also having some type of infrastructure so that we can really stop cars, I still stand by that. I think we still need to pursue that. So that's it. Thank you.

councilman vera i just wanted to say thank you councilman hurtak because i've said that twice and i think somebody on social media said it's during all day i said no it's my understanding so i uh don't i feel dumb but thank you thank you okay just one quick clarification my understanding from what i recall reading it and what you just said is that it is on all day during the school hours

Is that correct? So it's not on at night and weekends. And then when school is not in session, it's not on. That is correct. Only during school hours. So in between drop off and drop, drop, drop off and pick up it's, uh, it's on, but not, not afterwards. Okay.

Right. And we do work with the school board to, to get those specific hours because there are things like, uh, breakfasts and so forth. So you might have students coming to the, to the building a little bit early, but yes, during the school day itself. is when it is operational. So weekends, summertime, if there's no summer school in that specific area, they are not operational. Thank you.

Okay. That concludes the presentations on the staff reports for the three items. We are moving back to our public hearing portion of this presentation to hear item number 63. Okay. Is there a presentation for 63 or does that suffice? Come to the podium and give me an acknowledgement that suffices on the presentation for 63.

Could we just ask him to clearly tell the public what we're voting on now? So we just had another discussion about something else.

Okay, very good. Just remind us what we're voting on. Start with your name again, please, and we're hearing item 63.

Sure. Again, Deputy Chief Patrick Mess for Tampa Police Department for item number 63. We're here to make an amendment to the existing ordinance regarding the school zone speed cameras to amend the list of schools from the 13 schools from the original study to the 18 schools that is more geographically spread out through the city of Tampa based upon the newer speed study.

Thank you. Okay. Does that conclude your presentation?

Yes, sir, unless there's any other questions from council.

Thank you. Hearing no other questions. Okay. Is there anybody in the public who wishes to speak to this item? Yes. Go ahead. Come to the podium. Start with your name, please.

Morning, Council. Brock Mangus. I spoke about this at the last meeting where we had public comment. I know this is an easy button for police, less man hours spent on writing tickets, more man hours spent on violent crime and burglaries and really high value crime, which I appreciate. I will say I appreciate the affidavit from Red Speed. It's a good step for those concerned with privacy. I will maintain the only way to really ensure privacy is to make sure these cameras don't go up at all. Number two, a private firm headquartered in Illinois is profiting on lawbreakers in Tampa. doesn't sit really well with me. I will say I'm a member of Florida Digital Rights Council and a few other organizations. And just the thought process of what incentive does this firm have to actually stop speeding going on? So I will maintain that other avenues are just as important, if not more important, to stop speeders. It's like the M&M's company getting you know, sponsoring a dental convention, right? Like, what incentive do they actually have? They're making money off of this. And finally, I want to live in a neighborhood, and many of us Tampa residents want to live in a neighborhood with our family and neighbors and not with Big Brother. So I appreciate all of the work done on this and the communication. Thank you. Thank you very much. Evelyn?

Start with the name, please.

I put this here. Can you see it? I'm Emily Hinsdale and I'm here to ask for your support on this agenda item number 63, amending the city ordinance permitting school zone speed cameras to shift camera placement to a more dispersed range of schools in the city. As you all know, I am the president and founder of Sidewalk Stompers, a safe routes to school nonprofit in Hillsborough County. We design and advise on programs to support walking and biking to school. With no school buses provided for kids living less than two miles from schools in our state, walking and biking to school is a critical component of our community's transportation needs. It's important to be clear what your vote will do today. If you vote no on this item, school zone speed cameras will still be activated outside 12 schools located solely in East Tampa and West Tampa. If you vote yes, these cameras will be placed at 18 schools located in every district. So to be clear, this is not a vote on whether you like cameras or not. Any discussion or debate on this is outside of this simple issue. 12 schools or 18 schools? It's just political posturing to consider anything else at this point. This updated list is a result of a more recent speed study, the results of which have been included in your agenda packets. The results are appalling. Over 6,000 people speeding more than 10 miles over a posted school zone speed limit in one day at one school. How can we in good conscience permit this? Tampa Police Department has brought you this ordinance because in their experience as law enforcement professionals, automated cameras are the best and safest methods for enforcing speeds at schools. Unincorporated Hillsborough County has been fortunate enough to have these cameras at 28 schools for a year, with the same company that we are working with now. In just a few first months of operation, the number of vehicles speeding dropped 48%. During that same period in Tampa, thousands and thousands of drivers sped at deadly speeds past our schools. Here today, you have law enforcement professionals telling you they need this ordinance to do their jobs protecting our children more effectively. I myself am in school zones around Tampa all year, joining children, crossing guards, and school staff in experiencing traffic conditions in our city. Please listen to the experts, not to the what ifs and maybes, the social media tirades, and the I heard in the news theorizing that have confused this very simple ordinance amendment. We can have further conversation about how to use the funds collected, but today the vote is clear. Vote yes to get cameras started in the new school year, at 18 schools located in each of your council districts.

Thank you, Emily. Anybody else in the public wish to speak to this item? I have a motion to close for Councilman Escalco, second Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilwoman Young, would you please read item number 63?

Yes, I have an ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption. Ordinance of the City of Tampa, Florida, amending City of Tampa Code of Ordinances, Chapter 14, Section 14-56F, DESIGNATION OF SCHOOL ZONES BY STRIKING AND ADDING SITE LOCATION FOR INSTALLATION AND OPERATION OF SCHOOL ZONE SPEED ENFORCEMENT CAMERAS WITHIN THE CITY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU. I HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCILMAN TANIA YOUNG EXCEPT FOR COUNCILMAN MIRANDA. PLEASE RECORD YOUR VOTE.

MOTION CARRIED WITH CLINTON IN VOTE AND NO.

OKAY. MOVING ON TO ITEM 64.

Oh, we can see you now.

Yeah, we got the camera issue solved.

The CEO planning commission staff item 64 is file number TCPA 2520. This is a comprehensive plan map amendment to change the future land use designation for the subject properties from light industrial heavy industrial and public semi-public, to urban mixed-use 60 and community mixed-use 35. The City Council approved this item on first reading on June 25th, 2026, and it's back for you today for second reading consideration. That concludes my presentation.

Okay, thank you very much. Does Council have any questions? Okay, is there anyone in the public that wishes to speak to this item? Okay. I have a motion to close by council member Miranda. Second from council member Maniscalco all in favor. Aye. Any opposed? Okay. Mr. Maniscalco.

Thank you very much. I have an ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption. An ordinance amending the Tampa Comprehensive Plan Future Land Use Element Future Land Use Map for the property located at 11315 North 46th Street, 4801-4615, 4901 East Fowler Avenue, 11302 North 50th Street, and folio numbers 140139.0000 and 140510. Dot zero zero zero zero from light industrial, heavy industrial and public semi-public to urban mix. You 60 UME 60 and community mixed use 35 CMU 35 providing for repeal of all ordinances in conflict, providing for severability, providing an effective date.

Okay. I have a motion from council member Maniscalco second from council member Miranda. Please record your vote.

Motion care with clean dinner being absent at vote. Okay, excellent. Item number 65.

Quincey opening commission staff. Item number 65 is file number TACPA 2602. This is a comprehensive plan map amendment to change the future land use designation for the property located at 1701 East 2nd Avenue from light industrial to urban mixed use 60. City Council approved this item on first reading on June 25th, 2026 and it's back for you today for second reading consideration and that concludes my presentation.

Thank you. Does Council have any questions? Hearing none, does anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? We have a motion to close. Councilman Miranda, seconded by Councilman Scott. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Hurtado.

Yes, file number 65, file number TA-CPA26-02, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance amending the Tampa Comprehensive Plan future land use element, future land use map for the property located 1701 East 2nd Avenue from Light Industrial LI to Urban Mix U60, UMU60, providing for repeal of all ordinances in conflict, providing for severability, providing an effective date. Second.

Thank you. A motion from Councilman Herjack, second Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote.

Motion carried unanimously.

Thank you item number 66.

Sam is available for nation presenting. File number BAC 26-09 for second reading and adoption. I'm available if you have any questions.

Our council have any questions of staff? Hearing none. Anybody in the public wish to speak to item 66? We have a motion to close. Councilman Miranda, seconded by Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilman Miranda, would you please read item 66?

Reading and adoption. An ordinance in the city of Tampa, Florida, vacating, closing, discontinuing, and abandoning that alleyway located north of CXX Railroad, south of 7th Avenue, east of 23rd Street, west... of 24th Street as dedicated by the plot Truman's East Ybor Subdivision in Ybor City, Hillsborough County, Florida, and more particularly, Scriven Section 2 thereof, subject to certain covenants, conditions, restrictions, and more particularly, set forth therein, providing for enforcement and penalties for violation, providing for definition and interpretation, and repeating conflict, providing for severability, providing an effective date.

Thank you. I have a motion from Councilman Miranda, second from? Second. Councilman Maniscalco, please record your vote.

Motion carried unanimously.

Thank you. The next 10 a.m. public hearings are quasi-judicial. If you are here to speak with any of the items, items 67 through 75, as any of the next public hearings, please stand, raise your right hand, and be sworn in by our clerk. the clerk is occupied doing something.

I'm trying to move the panelists over so they can assume because he's the next one.

It's still pretty cool.

Okay.

Please raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm in testimony that you are about to abide?

Yes.

Yes. Thank you. And Councilwoman Hurtek, you were absent during 67 through 71. Would you review the records on those and prepare to vote?

Yes, I am.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Item number 67.

Thank you so much, Chairman and Council LaShawn Dock, Development Coordination. Item 67 is REZ 2607. This is for the property located at 4201 East Osborne Avenue. The request is to rezone the property from RS 50 residential single family to PD plan development for the use of daycare and nursery facility. Site plan changes were required to be made between first and second reading. Those changes have been made and the plans have been certified and provided to the clerk. I'm available if you have any questions.

Any questions of staff? Hearing none. Applicant? Who should speak this item here?

Nothing specifically. I'm here if you have any questions. I'm part of RGM.

Can you state your name for the record, please?

Yes, I apologize. My name is Miles Fisher. I'm an authorized representative for the rezoning at 4201 East Osborne. And I'm here if you have any questions.

Thank you. Does Council have any questions? Hearing none. Anybody in the public wish to speak to item number 67?

Move to close.

We have a motion to close from Councilman Miranda. Second from? Sarah. Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Carlson, would you please read item 67?

Move item 67, file number RZ26-07, ordinance being presented for second reading adoption ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 4201 East Osborne Avenue in the city of Tampa, Florida. More particularly, ascribed in section 1 from zoning district classification RS50 residential single family to PD plan development day care and nursery facility providing effective date. Second. Thank you.

I have a motion from Councilman Carlson, second from Councilman Miranda. Please record your vote.

Motion carried unanimously.

Thank you very much. Item number 68.

Good morning, Council. For the record, Christopher DeMange, Development Coordination. Item number 68 is REZ 2646. This is an item with a rezoning request for property located at 3705 North Darwin Avenue. The request is to rezone from RS50 to plan development for residential single-family detached uses. Revisions have been completed, and certified plans have been provided to the clerk's office, and I'm available for any questions.

Council, do I have any questions? Hearing none, applicant? Start with your name, please. Excuse me.

Good morning, Council. Fred Henry, Domain Homes. I've been sworn in. I'm here for any questions you may have.

Chair Greg Musil. Counsel, do I have any questions? Hearing none, can I get a motion? Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Chair Greg Musil. Hearing none, I have a motion to close for Councilman Moran, a second for Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Chair Greg Musil. Aye. Chair Greg Musil. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Vieira, would you please read item 68?

Move an ordinance presented for second reading and adoption. Ordinance rezoning property in general vicinity of 3705 North Darwin Avenue in the city of Tampa, Florida. More particularly described in Section 1 from zoning district classification RS50, residential single family to PD plan development. Residential single family detached, providing effective date.

Second. Thank you. I have a motion from Councilman Vier. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote.

Motion carry unanimously.

Thank you. Very good. Councilwoman Hurtek.

Not to interrupt, but we forgot to do this. So I move items 77, 78, 79, 81, and 90. Those were the ones that we didn't need staff for.

Yeah, I was actually going to get to that when we got done, but we can do that now. Sure. I have a motion to move the staff reports from Councilwoman Hurtek. A second from Councilman Beer. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Aye. Thank you so much. Okay. Item number 69.

Warning, Brea Dixon Development Coordination. Item number 69 is REZ 2651. This item is a rezoning request for a property located at 9710 and 9720 North Armenia Avenue. The request is to rezone from RO residential office to see in commercial neighborhood. I'm available if you have any questions.

Does council have any questions? Hearing none, is there an amendment? State your name, please.

Good morning, Mr. Chairman, City Council. My name is Tumai. I'm here representing the applicant, Mr. Frank Cholura. I have any questions I can answer for you, but we respectfully request your approval for adoption.

Thank you, Council. I have any questions? Hearing none, anybody in the public wish to speak to item number 69? I vote to close. I have a motion to close. Councilman Miranda, second from? Second. Councilman Veer, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilwoman Young, would you read item 69, please?

Yes. File number REZ26-51, ordinance being presented. being presented for second reading and adoption ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 9710 and 9720 North Armenia Avenue in the city of Tampa, Florida, and more particularly described in Section 1 from zoning district classification R01 residential office to see in commercial neighborhood providing an effective date.

Second. Motion from Councilman William Young and second from Councilman Vieira. Please report your vote.

Motion carried unanimously.

Thank you. Item number 70. And if I may before, let me just say, go Temple Terrace. That's where I grew up. Oh, my goodness. Item number 70, staff.

Bria Dixon, Development Coordination. Item number 70 is REZ 2653. This item is a rezoning request for a property located at 3817 and 3819 Temple Street. The request is to rezone from RM16, Residential Multiple Family 16, and CG Commercial General, to RM18, Residential Multiple Family 18. I'm available if you have any questions.

Does Council have any questions? Hearing none. Applicants? Seeing none. Is there anybody in the public who wishes to speak? Oh, online, okay.

Yeah. Hi, good morning, Council. My name is Giselle Moda, authorized agent for RZ2653. No comment here. I'm here for any questions. Thank you.

Does the Council have any questions of the applicant? Hearing none. Anybody in the public who wishes to speak to item 70? We're closed. We have a motion to close. Councilman Miranda, second from? Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Hurtek.

File number REZ26-53, ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption, an ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 3817 and 3819 Temple Street in the city of Tampa, Florida, and more particularly described in section one from zoning district classification RM16, residential multiple family, and CG, commercial general, to RM18, residential multiple family, providing an effective date.

I have a motion from Councilwoman Heretic, a second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote.

Motion carried unanimously.

Thank you. Item number 71.

Good morning. Again, Christopher DeMage, Development Coordination. Item number 71 is REZ 2586. This is a rezoning request for property located at 3101 North Nebraska Avenue. The request is to rezone from RS50 in commercial general to plan development for storefront residential commercial, allowing for all CG uses. At first reading, counsel's direction to the applicant. was to update the west and south elevations by providing more details and showing how the facades were being broken up. The applicant has provided updated elevations to staff which show varying materials used, as well as facade footprints, which indicate changes in the layouts of the facades for all sides of the building, but specifically the west and south facades. Revisions have been completed and certified plans have been submitted to the clerk's office, and I'm available for any questions.

Council, any questions? Hearing none, Mr. Michelinie.

Good morning, council. Steve Michelinie. We took the comments from council into consideration. worked with the city staff. We prepared alternate designs for them, submitted them on time, and they've been certified. We respectfully request your approval. Thank you.

Councilman, did you have a question? No, no, I have one. Okay, very good. Okay, is that it? Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item?

Move to close.

We have a motion to close. Councilman Maniscalco, second. Councilman Randolph, is there a favor to say aye? Aye. Opposed? Aye. Councilman Maniscalco.

Thank you very much. I have an ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 3101 North Nebraska Avenue in the city of Tampa, Florida. And we'll particularly describe in section one from zoning district classification RS50, residential single family and CG commercial general to PD plan developments for a front residential commercial on CG uses providing an effective date.

I motion from Councilman Matusalko, second from Councilman Randolph. Those in favor say aye. I'm sorry. Please record your vote. Sorry. Sorry.

Motion carried unanimously with VR being absent at vote.

Thank you. Thank you, Council. I think we should go to Tiny Tap for a cocktail after this. Item number 72.

Good morning, Chairman and Councilor Leo, Department of Development Coordination. Agenda item number 72 is AB2-2608 for the property located at 2105 West Morrison Avenue. The requests for the alcoholic beverage sales, small venue classification, beer, wine, and liquor, consumption on premises only. Site plan changes will require between first and second readings. Those changes have been completed. The plan has been certified and provided to the clerk. And I'm available for any questions.

Does Council have any questions? Hearing none. is there an applicant anybody online the applicant did email me and tell him and told me he was online yeah we've got him we're working through the new technology there you go hi colin

You have anything to add?

Good morning.

Colin Rice for the applicant. Thanks for your patience with the tech issues. Just here for any questions. Appreciate your consideration. Thank you.

Any, council have any questions for Colin? Okay, hearing none. Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? I have a motion to close. Councilman Moran, uh, Maniscalco second. Councilman Moran, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilman Moran.

Item number 72, item number 82, .

Adoption. An ordinance approving a special use permit, SU-2, for alcohol beverage sales, small venue consumption on premise only, and making law for the sale of beverage, regardless of alcohol content, beer, wine, and liquor, on that certain lot, plot, or tract of land located at 2105 West Morrison Avenue, Tampa, Florida, more particularly described in Section 3, providing that all ordinance or parts of ordinances and conflicts are repealed, repeating Orders Number 1463-A, providing an effective date.

I have a motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote.

Motion carried unanimously.

Thank you. Very good. Thank you. Take care, Colin. Item number 73.

At the moment, again, we have about a little bit of development coordination. Agenda item number 73 is AB 22609 for the property located at 1281 Ray Charles Boulevard. The request is for alcoholic beverage sales, large venue classification, beer, wine, and liquor consumption on premises and package sales, off premises consumption, Site plan changes were required between first and second reading. Those changes have been completed. A plan has been certified and provided to the clerk, and I'm available for any questions.

Chair Greg Musil? Council, I have any questions? Hearing none, is there an applicant?

Good morning, sir. Good morning. David Smith for the applicant. Just here to answer any questions. We have agreed to those hours of operation. Very good.

Any questions? Hearing none, anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Seeing none, can I get a motion to close? Motion to close with Councilor Miranda, seconded by Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Councilman Carlson.

Move item 73, file number AB2-26-09, ordinance being presented for second reading adoption ordinance, approving a special use permit SU2 for alcoholic beverage sales, large venue consumption, on-premise package sales, off-premises consumption, and making lawful the sale of beverages regardless of alcoholic content. beer, wine, liquor on that certain plot or tract of land located at 1281 Ray Charles Boulevard, Tampa, Florida, as more particularly described in Section 2, providing that all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict are repealed, providing effective date.

I have a motion from Councilman Carlson, second from? Second. Councilman Matoskalko, please record your vote. Are we missing?

Motion carried unanimously.

Exactly.

Okay, very good. Thank you so much. And item number 74, staff.

Good morning again. Leo de Bartolaven, Development Coordination. Item number 74 is AB2-2614. This is a special use to request for the properties located at 1301 East 4th Avenue, 1306 East 4th Avenue, 1302 East 2nd Avenue, and 1315 East 5th Avenue. The request is for alcoholic beverage sales, large venue classification for beer, wine, and liquor consumption on premises, and package sales off premises consumption. Site plan modifications were required to be made between first and second readings. Those changes have been made. A plan has been certified and provided to the clerk, and I am available for any questions.

Council have any questions? Hearing none, is there an applicant?

Alex Shaler, 400 North Ashley Drive, the law firm of Gardner Brewer Hudson. As Leo mentioned, changes were made to the plan. We did add the condition regarding no single-use bar lounge to the barrio market. So happy to answer any other questions, but that's it.

Very good. Any questions? Hearing none. Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Move to close. I have a motion to close. Council Moranis, seconded by Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilman Vieira, please.

Yes, sir. I move an ordinance presented for second reading and adoption ordinance for approving a special use permit SU-2 for alcoholic beverage sales, large venue consumption on premises. package sales off-premises consumption and making waffle the sale of beverages regardless of alcoholic content beer wine and liquor on that shirt and lot plot or tract of land located at 1301 east 4th avenue 1306 east 4th east 4th avenue 1302 east 2nd avenue 1315 east 5th avenue tampa florida as more particularly described in section 2 providing the all ordinances or parts or ordinances and conflict or appeal providing effective date

I motion from Councilman Vieira, second from Councilman Miranda. Please record your vote.

Motion carried unanimously.

Thank you. Item number 75. Thank you so much, Chairman and Council LaShawn Dock, Development Coordination. Item 75 is REZ 2628. This request is a request to rezone. It was a total of 55 parcels. The request is to rezone from IG Industrial General, YC1, Central Commercial Core, YC2, Residential, YC4, Mixed Use Redevelopment, YC5, General Commercial, YC6, Community Commercial, YC7, Mixed Use, and YC8, Residential, to PDA, Plan Development Alternative, for Mixed Use, Commercial Intensive Uses, and for all residential types, and to YC9, which is the Site Plan Control District. Site plan revisions were required to be made. They're required also to the design book. Those changes have been made. The plans have been certified and provided to the clerk. I'm available if you have any questions. Thank you, Sean. Anybody have any questions? Hearing none applicant.

Alex Shaler, 400 North Ashley Drive. I don't have anything further to add, but happy to answer questions if you have any.

I also have any questions. Is there anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Oh, come on. Start with your name, please.

Good morning. My name is Dennis Lopez. This is new terrain for me. And I first want to thank Eric Cotton, who was kind enough to return my call. And I spoke to him yesterday. He advised me of his second reading today. And I also would like to thank Mr. Harsh Saravana, the city clerk who I talked to this morning, who, if our citizenry receives the type of service that I did from her this morning, They would be as grateful as I am for her informing me of what was going on. This is a bit, as I said, of unusual terrain for me, but let me tell you why I'm here. The 2416 East Seventh Avenue address on Broadway is included in this development plan, and I'm not here to say that this development plan shouldn't go through at all. I think what Mr. Shaw is doing and I think the intentions that he has are very wonderful and very admirable. The residence at 2416 East Seventh Avenue was my mother and grandparents' home. When Mr. Shaw approached us a number of years ago without us offering that property for sale, In addition to that property, my mother, being the only child of two Sicilian immigrants, one from Alexandria de la Roca, one from Santo Stefano, which will tie into why I'm here, she had other properties along 8th Avenue, former rental properties. My father's business was at 2703 East 7th Avenue. Mr. Shaw offered to buy it all. My siblings and I, my two brothers and my sister, agreed I wanted to keep the home of my grandmother. Charlie's laughing. I appreciate that, Mr. Miranda. And I wanted to keep that. It had a lot of wonderful sentimental value for me. But I was outvoted by my siblings. And frankly, as I've driven by there, it pains me because I still have affection for the place. What nonetheless, several months ago I was driving by and I saw a rezoning sign. And I'm an attorney, but I don't do property law. And I called a buddy of mine who does. And he explained it was coming up for hearing. For some, I was under the mistaken impression this was going to take place in August. But thankfully, Mr. I guess I got 28 seconds. I didn't know there was a time limit. If you would indulge me for just a few more moments, please. You're shaking your head no.

You get three minutes to this part of the presentation.

OK. Looking at the site plan, it appears that this property is still intended to be single story. I don't know if they have the ability to tear it down. Can somebody tell me whether they do if it's in the historic district? Anybody? Chairman?

We don't provide testimony, but I'm sure the applicant will be able to answer that question when she comes up, because she'll have this opportunity to rebuttal.

Thank you for your time.

Mr. Chairman, I've known this family. My family has known this family for over 100 years, really. And just to clear the record, I used to buy a lot of feed when I had horses there. And when I was a little boy, my mother would let me, for 10 cents, buy a little chick, and we'd grow them in the backyard. I'm just talking about the history.

Thank you, Mr. Miranda. I want the record to reflect that I believe that casita would be best served as either a museum, as a casita, the interior, which probably no one has even looked at, is unique, that or a bed and breakfast or something of that ilk. Thank you. Thank you so much. Applicant, would you like a rebuttal?

Alex Shaler, 400 North Ashley Drive. I'm trying to pull up the historic district maps. I'm not sure if that's a landmark structure or not, so off the top of my head. We do have the design guidelines that outline certain different development standards, but we are not to the point yet where we can opine on what individual addresses will look like as part of the PDA at this point. But we can get his info and keep him up to speed.

Council have any questions? Hearing none. Anybody else in the public wish to speak to this item? Okay, can I get a motion to close? So moved. We have a motion to close. Councilor Peer, I second. Councilor Mattis-Calk, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Who left off with it? Who really voted? Yeah, so Councilwoman Young.

I'm 75 found number are easy that's 2628 ordinance be presented for second reading and adoption and ordinance resigning a total of 55 parcels of which 38 parcels are located in the people are city historic district consisting of 30.64 acres local located generally in an area bounded to the north by East 11th Avenue to the east by the Selman Connector and the CSX right of way to the south by East 4th Avenue and to the west by North 19th Street property in the City of Tampa, Florida, and more particularly described in Section 1 from Zoning District Classifications, IG, Industrial General, YC1, Central Commercial Core, YC2, Residential, YC4, Mixed Use Redevelopment, YC5, General Commercial, YC6, community commercial. YC7, mixed use. And YC8, residential to PDA, planned development alternative. Mixed use, commercial, intensive uses, and residential, all types. And YC9, site plan controlled, providing an effective date.

I have a motion from Councilman Young, a second from Councilman Vieira. Please record your vote.

Motion carried unanimously.

Thank you. Thank you. OK, we are now at a point where items that were removed from the Consents Agenda. Item number 25, 1551. So we'll hear 25 first.

25 is renewing a contract with two companies for debris cleanup after emergencies. And at least one of the, as I understand, at least one of these companies had a contract in 2023, a year before the Helene and Milton hit. And we had a lot of complaints about cleanup and debris following that. My recommendation for the sake of the community, we, City Council, don't have the power to manage these contracts, but we do have the power to approve or not approve them. My suggestion is we, and I'd like to make a motion just to continue this until the 30th and ask the staff to come back and present not to us but to the public about how we can be assured that these companies will be able to clean up more effectively next time. And secondarily, that they'll have ways to address the damage that's been done in the community. There's a lot of environmental damage that's been done. If we get the testimony, I'd like them to have time to think about it and come back. If we get the answer today, my vote is no.

Okay, I have a motion from Councilman Carlson to continue this item. Is there a second?

If I may, I'll second for discussion. My vote will be contingent on what we hear, but if it doesn't affect anything adversely for this season, I'm fine with it.

Okay, so I have a motion and I have a second. Mr. Washington, I see that you are online. Would you like to address this?

Yes. Larry Washington, Director of Solid Waves. And just to address the contract, so both our contractors, both P and J, that's still Phil from Jordan and aspirate. They have been our contractors since 2023. They won the award back in December of 2023. And to go back to hurricane Milton and. We've met actually since 2017, we've met every single deadline. that demon has set forth. I did some research back when this was mentioned at the April 16th council date. So there hasn't been any delays. Of course, during Hurricane Helene and Milton, there was a response that had to be postponed from the contractors whenever we had Milton barreling down because The contractors themselves and the subcontractors didn't want to put themselves in harm's way whenever the contractor or whenever the storms were coming. Because if they did that, then they wouldn't have been able to assist us. That's why the city of Tampa and all the forces. And when I say everybody, I mean everybody. TPD was boosting the ground as well, including Chief and myself. So we were all responding immediately afterwards. So these contractors, we definitely need them. And we're in hurricane season now. So this would adversely affect us if we were in a situation where we had to Contact them and have them assist us in the re-clean up.

Councilman Carlson. It's going to adversely affect us if we delay it by two weeks.

Just by two weeks?

If we continue this for two weeks for further discussion, would this adversely affect the contractor work you're doing?

Oh, just by two weeks? No, sir, it won't.

So my other thing is that I would like Mr. Washington to have time to think about this. I'm asking that this be presented to the public, not to us. The public's perception was that it was a disaster. And yes, Milton came barreling down. But in between, there were all kinds of problems. And Mr. Washington, to give him credit, was great at responding to constituent concerns and complaints and went in. But FEMA effectively did nothing for us. Although they had said they had staged things and and there were lots of complaints about these companies and others and instead of litigating it all now I would just like mr Washington to come back and just briefly present to us not more than five minutes about About why we're sure that this is going to work the next time and then and then my vote would be yes if we if we vote today Then my vote will be no Councilwoman Hurtado. My concern is I just want to make sure that the public is protected next time.

Councilwoman Hurtado. Can you be more specific? You just said there are all sorts of problems.

Yeah. After Helene, thousands of homes had debris in front of their homes and the folks were worried about as Milton was barreling down that going through there should have been FEMA working with these these consulting firms to go in and clear out as much as debris as possible the perception especially in South Tampa was that very little of it was taken out in advance. The other thing that happened in the second part of my motion was that some of it was put in Gadsden Park and other places where there's concerns about chemical, other kinds of environmental damage. And so we don't often have situations where we have three storms in a row. but the public doesn't want debris sitting out from their houses for six weeks. And as I said, Mr. Washington did a great job, but the perception of the public is that these firms did not do a good job. And so I'd just like him to come back and be able to have a thoughtful presentation to explain why he thinks they can do a good job. We lost Mr. Washington.

Can you see me now? My camera just went out for a reason, for some reason.

Can you see me? Yeah, there you go. We got your back.

Okay.

I can answer those questions now. Let me ask if Miranda wants to say something, and then I'll get back to you, Larry. Okay. Councilman Miranda.

Just listening to all the conversation, this was a city-wide thing. And the city, land-wise, it's got hundreds of miles land-wise. And most of us went to different areas at one time that we didn't even know we were going. some went to Palmetto Beach, some went to Davis Island, some went to South Tampa, some went to East Tampa, someone was everywhere. And it was not even coordinated, but that's the way it happened with the council members. We went everywhere, like everybody else did. So I understand what the conversation is about, but if these contractors did the job, they're entitled to get paid. This is about renewing the economy. I understand.

I'll chime in before I recognize Mr. Washington again. I will say that these were back-to-back natural disasters, and I'm not going to disparage some of our neighbors or other municipalities, but because of my involvement across the state, I can tell you that we rose way above many other municipalities and jurisdictions in the state. The performance of our solid waste and what they did would be the envy of some of the folks around the area. There's there's political, we did a better job at PR. Um, I, I know, but I mean, and I get it, I get it that what you're saying that there, because if you have trash in front of your house, you know, that's important, you know, but when you look at globally across the city and I, and I get there, you know, there's always gotta be that exception. And if you got trash in front of your house, that's a horrible thing. And you know, everybody's panicking and you got other storms coming. But I think as a, as a, as a. globally or holistically looking at the city, I think that they did a tremendous job. Again, it's not that they did a perfect job, but they did it compared with the dice that were rolled and what came up from an act of God. I mean, you just got to do what you got to do. Okay, Mr. Washington, you wanted to say something?

Yes, sir. So I want to make sure that we can take a step back and recall that during Hurricane Helene, we had a lot of flood damage. And that was something new to the city of Tampa, usually just wind damage, which is what happened during Hurricane Milton. But the flood damage, it takes the average person about a month to clear out their home. So some people had items out on the curb immediately, those that had the means, the resources, but others did not. We were cleaning up those household hazardous debris piles well into the next few months. But going back some, there was no municipality in the general area. So that's Hillsborough County, that's St. Pete, that's Pinellas. that cleaned up the entire city within those two weeks. There's no way possible. So what we did was we sent out as many troops as possible to get as much as we could up and then prepare for the next storm to hit because we weren't sure how bad it was going to be because it was coming directly for us. And then we responded correctly and abruptly as soon as that second storm passed, which was Hurricane Milton. So it's more of a understanding the differences between storms Blood damage takes a lot longer to collect. You have household debris piles that were three times the size. And then it takes twice as long to pick up those piles versus just having yard debris out, some tree limbs. My team has to take precaution when they're picking up glass and let's say drywall and all those hazards that are currently out there because they have to face that themselves when they're collecting. So our response was quick. The contractors were very efficient when they were actually here. But it takes time. And then there was storms a week or two before in South Carolina, I believe, which is where they were coming from. So they needed time to respond here to get down because there were multiple storms that were taking place that year back in 2024.

Thank you, Mr. Washington. Yeah, this is about explaining to, my proposal is about explaining to the public what the role, not of Mr. Washington's part, the role of these contractors in cleaning up and how we can be assured that this will be done. And so I would just call the question because

if you guys are going to vote yes anyway go ahead and vote yes i'll vote no but i i think it's worth a five minute conversation in two weeks okay i have a i have a motion on and i have a second to continue this item um what was the two weeks what's the date on two weeks july 30th july 30th we don't we don't have room we do okay we have room Okay, so I have a motion. You still have a second on this? Yeah, sure. Okay, I have a motion second to continue this. All those in favor of continuing item 25, say aye.

I have a question on the motion, if I may. Yes. Yes, sir. Councilman Carlson, I mean, what I'd be willing to vote for is if you wanted to take up, we passed this today, and then you were able to put in that on the date that you have there for a discussion on this to educate the public on what's happening and so forth.

i'd be fine with that just for the record that would be that would be a subsequent motion after this okay i think i think my thing is he already said that it doesn't affect the the the cleanup if we delay it by two weeks we have a the motion was to have mr mr washington or city staff come back to present five minutes or less at this discussion how the public can be assured that these firms will be effective in cleaning up the storms next time.

Okay, I have a motion and I have a second to continue this item for two weeks. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay. Okay, the nays have that.

Can I have a roll call so I can get everyone?

Okay, roll call please.

Vieira? No. Carlson? Yes. Miranda? No. No. Maniscalco? No. Hurtak? No. Young? Yes. And Clendenin?

No.

Okay. Motion failed with Vieira, Miranda, Maniscalco, Hurtak, and Clendenin voting no.

Okay. We have a motion to move item 25, a second from Councilwoman Hurtick. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?

I'm voting no, and I'll just tell you guys it was an absolute disaster, and it's going to be on you when these guys don't do a good job next time. Okay. Thank you.

Motion carried.

With companies that didn't do a good job last time.

I'm sorry, clerk, can you state that again?

Motion carried with Carlson voting no.

Thank you very much. Item number 50.

I have requested that these items be pulled. And the reason was we received a couple of emails and then there was some public comment regarding, if I remember in one of the emails, public participation, that there was not, if we didn't follow the rules on that. And then I don't remember off the top of my head. I know three people spoke about it. Mr. Perry, are you here to talk about these items?

So the Mr. Oh, Mr. Campbell's here as well. I didn't see him. So I guess I get just to sum up what I think councilman Maniscalco said, and I'm sure you guys have seen the public comments about the implications this has for an expansion or further commitment of the South higher flood project. So did you guys address that? You want to just get started there? Any questions? Do you want to have something you want to frame?

Yeah, I wanted to frame and just say that, uh, So I actually had Kelly call and talk to Mr. Campbell, and this is literally just helping us pay for the design.

So, again, with that frame, could you please explain to us what we're looking at in item 50 and 51?

Yes. Brandon Campbell, Mobility Director. Items 50 and 51 are related to a $186,000 grant award for the ongoing design of the South Howard project. It is supplemental funding for the effort that is already underway.

Does this design further expand what has already been approved or does it commit us to further expenditures?

No, it does not.

Okay. Thank you. For this grant, there is a match that's required, yes?

Yes, that's correct.

How much is the match?

I don't, I'd have to look at the exact number, but it is below that $7 million that we've already committed to it. So Mike, Michael might have something.

Mike Perry, DCFO. It's about $2.2 million. It's the required matching. Like Brandon already says, we already have those funds budgeted.

Okay. Councilman Carlson.

Yeah, just to further the explanation. So in this, it has the old route. Is this approving... going back to the old route or is the new route?

No, the reason for the text as written is that this grant was applied for in 2023 after the late 2022 Hurricane Ian. The project has clearly developed significantly since that time and the language in the grant application and award does not obligate us to go back to that original set of options that were considered.

And the last thing I'll say is I'm in favor of getting reimbursement from other government agencies on grants, but I'm against this project as it is. My concern from the beginning is that this did not go through a thorough scientific process to look at all the different possibilities. I'm very convinced from the engineers I've spoken to outside the market and even outside the country that what we're doing is old technology. It's a bad solution. It seems to be politically motivated, not based on science. And we know it's not going to work. And so I don't want to, I'm not voting for anything related to this project. I think the mayor should do the right thing and hit the reset button and go back and look at more innovative solutions for this. Thank you.

Thank you. Councilman Mascocca, did you want to add anything to this?

No, nothing else.

Councilman Brandon.

Are you an engineer?

Yes.

Do you think this project is going to work or not? I believe it will, yes. Thank you.

Okay, is there any further discussions on items 50 and 51?

Council Member Hurtek? I move items 50 and 51.

I have a motion to move in items 50 and 51 from Council Member Hurtek. A second from Council Member Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Nay. Okay, can we get a roll call, please?

Hurtek? Yes. Young? No. Vieira? Yes. Carlson? No. Miranda? Yes. Maniscalco? No. Clendenin? Yes. Motion carried with Young, Carlson, and Maniscalco voting no.

Okay, thank you very much. I am correct that concludes the consent agenda items that have been pulled. We have finished with our public hearings. We have left is our staff reports. We are at number 80. Let's talk fire stations. You know, I think it's been, what, two weeks since we talked about fire station. Oh, wait, council hasn't been in session for two weeks.

Yeah. Okay. Here we go. Staff. Richard Mutterbach, director of contract administration. We're here for you for bringing a design build service agreement for a guaranteed maximum price for fire station 24. We have spoke about this as as mentioned. Several times over the last 16 months. We're here. We're ready. We brought a GMP in front of you. Any questions? Chief Tripp here with me as well. I'll recognize Councilman Vieira first, then Councilwoman Hurtado.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Now, I just wanted to, I guess, acknowledge for all of us, Chief Tripp, all the firefighters, everybody, what a big, big thing this is for us. This is a big thing. This is going to finish the job on Fire Station 13, which we started six years ago, which at the time, numbers that people are sick of hearing probably, but they're damming, which is, it was one out of 23 stations, took up one out of seven calls in the city of Tampa, and Station 13 was the 54th busiest station in the United States of America. they have a huge if you walk in there a big old mural of freddy krueger when you walk in there because it's the station it was where if you work there you're not going to sleep and so that's a that's a big deal starting in 2020 i'd made a couple of motions to start talking about additional fire stations to help out with station 13 working with chief trip and firefighters and everybody we got a really quick win in 2021 we would pass funding for station 25 which would do a great job and and getting progress forward on Station 13. The statistics have improved, but Station 24 was always going to be that last piece. We had moved forward with this, I think it was in 2023. I had tried to talk about a revenue source for public safety for police and fire. Didn't pass. Fine. And then we started talking about bonding and seeing. And I brought that up because I wanted to make sure that come hell or high water, we had a funding revenue source a funding source for this and so now it's three years later we've talked a lot about the timeline in terms of how we've gotten here um i'm not going to go into that just because we've we've talked a lot about that thank you the good thing is oh i know right no let the record reflect no but it's it's it's wonderful because this is a big win that especially guys for north tampa for the bush and fowler communities this is a very very hard-working part of tampa i call it the working class backbone of tampa and this was the community that had to deal with the challenges of station 13. so this is a big big win for us and i think it's something that i know we're all going to celebrate and be very happy about so you know chief trip i thank you for your time and your patience and mr mutterback i always joke with you that when you started getting on this you were like what is this you know because you came in the middle of a big old mess but but just thank you uh very much for that and council thank you and what have you thank you everybody i just want to for reference that rest of the remarks we have two after this two more staff reports and if we are able to complete this we can actually get out here

before we break for lunch. Yeah. So we can keep our remarks brief. Councilman Hurtek, I say your life and Councilman Matuskalko.

Yes. Mine. Obviously, the nightmare on Annie Street is. Yeah, I have the T-shirt actually. Yeah. So by the way, if you didn't know, each fire station has their own T-shirt and they are for sale at the Firefighters Museum. It goes toward the Firefighters Museum. My husband has the two headed alligator from this from Station seven. He's yeah. Yeah, the neighborhood. Every time he wears it, someone in the neighborhood comments. So my question is really about the addition of the owner's contingency fee, which is $750,000. And so when we got the price of the of what this station was gonna cost like three weeks ago, maybe four weeks ago, it was 16.9 million. So I'm curious, I got an email because I asked about it during my prep meeting and I was told that it's the owner's contingency and that's normal to put in the GMP. Then if it's normal, then we need to add it as part of the whole then. It doesn't need to be something that's added. So I'm concerned about that. I don't like that the owner's contingencies are added to the GMP. I would really prefer that we stop that process, that practice, and that if you need more money, you come back to council. I'm not talking just about this fire station, but in general for projects, because I don't know how often we actually get that money back, and I think it's something that we should be talking about. So that's my statement.

Councilman, I just want to say that I'm very excited for this. Thank you for all your hard work, everybody. And I'm glad that we're voting on this while Councilman Vera is still with us because he is, you know, while you're here on council, I'm sorry, because I know, you know, come November, but you you've been a champion since day one on this. And that's it. Thank you.

Okay. Councilman Vera, would you like to move this item as resolution? We have a motion from Councilman Vieira to move item 80, the resolution. A second from Councilwoman Young. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. Chief Tripp, thank you very much. Looking forward to the groundbreaking. Okay. Item number 87. Councilman Ruddick. Okay, here we go. Let's talk about Councilman Reddick.

Good morning, Chair and Council, Michelle Van Loon, Real Estate Department. I'm here this morning in response to a request for staff to review and present on an honorary naming for the former Councilman Frank Reddick. at the Williams Park, the activity center building that is there. And if you can bring up the PowerPoint.

It's up.

I'll let them, I don't have a controller, if they can go to the next slide.

They're both not up there?

Mm-mm.

Interesting. There we go. It's up. It's up now.

The next slide has been, there's only three slides, so we should be good. Um, Mr. Reddick was born. There you go. I must be the first one using it this morning. Let me just make sure I'm good. Yes, I am. So Mr. Reddick was born in East Tampa and he devoted his life to serving his community, both in East Tampa and to the minority community in the greater city of Tampa area. He was a dedicated mentor for most of his career within the Hillsborough County School District, and he also worked with rehabilitating juveniles who had been within the juvenile justice system. He also was the CEO of the Florida Sickle Cell Association, working hard to raise awareness among especially the minority community of how many people are affected by sickle cell and support the families of people who are suffering from the disease. He also served on the Hillsborough County Hospital Authority Board The East Tampa Partnership was a great proponent and advocate for the East Tampa CRA and the community work and the community-led efforts within the CRA and the East Tampa Partnership. He was also the president of the Tampa Coalition for Change. And as you all know, he served us very devotedly here on city council for eight years. On a personal note, the 22nd street roundabout. He was the champion for that. And when there were a couple of people who brought up some issues, he really fought for that roundabout to be included as part of the 22nd street roadway improvements that we did back in the aughts parks and rec has looked at, uh, reviewed the request and they are, um, in alignment with the recommendation that the activity center at the Williams park. be named after Frankie Reddick. And I'm here to answer any questions.

Real quick. And I know he's looking down from above. Uh, I just want to thank council member Reddick for always being there for me. You know what I mean? I know he has since passed, but he was there for me at the beginning and my campaign when I first won. So I'll always be appreciative of that. And interestingly enough, the last photo that I have with councilman Reddick is at the Williams, uh, park complex. So he was a very good person and he served his city very well. And I think this is a very, um, this is very well deserving.

Thank you very much in the picture that was up there. That was the councilman when we had the grammatica brothers out there and they redid the playground and all the kids came in and helped. And he was just such a big part of a lot of the improvements that we had throughout the park system in East Tampa. Councilman Carlson, did you wish to say something?

Yeah, thank you to Councilmember Young for bringing this up and remembering him. I was friends, like many of you, with Frank Reddy for a long time. Great person, very involved in the community in many ways. He was one of the people. I was helping him behind the scenes with Council Member Capin and others. And they're two of the people that turned to me and said, hey, you need to run for office. And so I guess thank you to him for that. He, besides being on council, he was also chair two or three times, twice. And so I think we should recognize that as well. He was such a great person. And even when his health was failing in the last few months or year, he was still on the phone. He was calling me probably like the rest of you saying, hey, here's the background on this or that. And so he was, he really, really cared about the community. I think this is a great decision. Thank you.

Yeah, Councilman.

I had the pleasure of also serving with him, and our offices were right next to each other. He was a gentleman of very few words, but when he spoke, you listened.

let you have the last words off but i'll councilman yeah i was gonna give you the last word thank you mr chairman and thank you uh council member young uh for this uh vivian kitchen had called me on this to seek support and i was like of course i'm going to support this and you know i served with the late council member reddick for about two and a half years and he was always a very forceful advocate on many many things i remember um just many many times when he would bring up issues that a lot of folks wouldn't otherwise bring up. I remember one time that always stands out. We're talking about the ferry to St. Pete, and somebody was here presenting on it, and he just asked them out of nowhere. He goes, let me ask you something. How many black folks ride the ferry? And it just cut the person off, you know? But he brought up a lot of issues that people should bring up, you know, like that, for example. And so God rest his soul, and I'm glad this is happening. Thank you.

Councilman Veer, he was definitely an interesting soul and a great representative. In fact, he was a great supporter of mine on the political side of the House and I of him along with his political side of his career, as well as his work in the public and the private sector as well and with the associations that he was a part of. So a great member of the community. I thank you, Councilwoman Young, for suggesting this recognition. And I'd like to recognize you now to discuss this issue.

Well, I'm very, I'm very happy to be able to do this. I think you can tell a lot. about someone when you hear what the positive things that, you know, people say about them. And so, you know, Mr. Reddick was quite the force and an advocate for the community. So I'm glad that we were able to do this. And, you know, there are so many people throughout Tampa that have really contributed to this fabric, you know, to the city of Tampa that I hope we continue to recognize them and, you know, and give them their flowers while they are here. So I move item number 87.

It's just the staff. Oh, I'm sorry. This is just the first presentation. The staff will come back. Got it.

So Michelle Van Loon Real Estate. So we would ask that you, if it's the pleasure of City Council, to set this for first reading of ordinance for September 3rd. And then we will post it on our website for public comment as required by the ordinance.

Okay, so I'm assuming we have a motion from Councilwoman Young to accept this for September 3rd.

Yes.

A second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

Okay, I guess we have 89 now.

I have a question on the agenda, if I may, Mr. Chair. Yes, sir. We were going to hear on, I believe it was from Chief Pound of the Administration report on the KBAR cut through. When is that coming up on the agenda?

That probably would have been done when we were talking about 24.

And whatever, as long as it's not, I don't care.

So I can give a quick minor update on this. So again, Brandon Campbell, mobility director and actually Councilman Vieira and I spoke a little bit on this earlier this week just to give a quick update. I'll hand these out. I brought I brought a visual aid to put on the projector, but I wasn't sure how well it would show up, so I've got hard copies for you all. It's showing up well. Okay, good. So just to preface my statements or my update on this, this is not a City of Tampa or Mobility Department project. It is developer driven, and so sometimes the timelines on these things are subject to the contingencies and challenges that developers run into. But the extension of the K-Bar Parkway from its existing open segment on the western portion of the K-Bar Ranch redevelopment all the way over to Morris Bridge Road has been underway for some time now. This aerial that I have provided you is from Google Earth, and you can see that it's dated November of last year. And I brought that in part so that you could see from that aerial all the grading that had been completed at that time. And Brad Baird and I went out there even just last week, took some pictures, looked to see really how much progress they had done just to put some eyes on it from our perspective so that we could give you really some current relevant information. the red dot on your your sheet there that is the crossing of k-bar ranch parkway over bassett branch and the entire duration of this project that i believe is the biggest challenge that they have encountered is finding a way to get across the creek we talked some about a cut through and some sort of temporary measures to get from one side to the other that truly was the primary obstacle to getting that connection made. I'm happy to report that the contractor and the developer out there has completed the series of culverts or the bridge there to get across, and they are currently working on final compaction, getting ready for their final lift of asphalt. The item that stands between today and their final asphalt paving is the utilities testing and acceptance. Once this road is completed, it will be accepted by the city for maintenance, as well as the utilities out there. And talking to their engineer record, They don't want to get out there, pave something, have something with the utilities acceptance go wrong and then have to dig it up and repave it again. So we are working, and in particular our contract administration department is working with the developer on getting those utilities tests done. I know that Councilman Vieira and I talked this week about maybe even trying to get that expedited to this week. It looks like that's going to be next week. with the the contingency that that has to be completed they are tentatively projecting paving toward the end of this month beginning of next month so they are very close to the completion of their project and once that is all completed inspected accepted it will become a city of tampa street councilwoman hertech

Councilman Vieira, are you going to have a ribbon cutting?

Oh, yeah.

Okay. Make sure you invite us because I have. This is a big deal. Yeah, I agree.

Will there be a camera? Of course he's going to.

so make sure okay does any other questions from staff on that thank you brandon for providing me i'm really fast thank you real fast i on i want this i i wanted to again just for for council's sake because this is a new tampa issue and a lot of times we don't we don't hear on this issue just to how important this is k bar ranch is centralized to having longer response times four out of the five stations in the city of tampa the longest response times are in new tampa this is we're told the way by which we can get response times down and so when when there was appeared to be no knowledge on what was happening with this we i followed up with some folks and turned out it was substantially done when this is done this is going to be a a major movement towards reducing response times in cable ranch so this is a big deal so brandon just thank you very much for your work because i

put a lot of stuff on you going what's happening on this thing dude so thank you i thank you mr chair thank you your bravery for going all the way up there is noted thank you thank you thank you thank you we should be an accommodation thank you thank you brandon Ms. Feely, bring it home. You're the last on the agenda today.

You guys are kicking butt today. Good morning, Abby Feely, Administrator Development and Economic Opportunity. Welcome back, Council. We hope you had a good break. Today, I am providing the bi-monthly Land Development Code update. As you know, at the beginning of June, we did a series of public meetings June 1st through 3rd, and then also on June 8th. And then we participated in the June 10th THAN meeting, which was a virtual meeting. The meetings had really strong attendance. It was good, 35 to 50 people in some of them. I know Councilwoman Hertak was there all four nights. Councilman Carlson was there at one of the nights. So I think people got a good understanding good opportunity to listen, you know, as expected with this, this is a huge undertaking and the conversations were very robust conversations. They were candid. I mean the conversation, there was a level of engagement that was significant and we really appreciated everyone who participated. Um, also we had great support, um, from, um, communications with us and also land development. So everyone did a great job and the effort was moving forward. The public engagement on installment one also had a survey. We received over 1,050 responses to that survey. Clarion's working through those now. to see what those responses were and how that will feed into the public engagement portion of the code update as well. The outreach highlighted a couple areas I wanted to talk on today where some additional education is needed and we're working on that. The wedding cake which we all talk about in so much of the presentations that come to you We are working on updating that and getting that out on the website Video recording of the public meeting is out on the website now And the survey is still open and active out on the website so people can continue to comment on that We made it clear that during the land development code. It's not just installment one We're going to close it and then there's nothing else to be said so This is an iterative process, and we'll be working through that. But we're also working on updating our cake to be able to show people how all of these things work together. um we're also working on a new little zoning 101 many of you know we've we've done zoning 101 102 103 that also got wrapped into the mayor's neighborhood university last year it was a saturday morning session where we did zoning 101 and 102 and then we actually coupled it with a permitting section last year so I think when we go out and talk about the code, sometimes there's some missing pieces of just the fundamental understanding if you're not using this on a regular basis, as many of us are not. So we're continuing to develop these public information pieces that will be out on the web shortly as well. We heard a lot about preserving neighborhood character, about limiting density in many of the areas of the city. And also it was really very humbling that the effects of the hurricane are still very real for our citizens in their lives and in what the future growth of our city looks like. And being cognizant of that is very important as well. The proposal that generated the most discussion that I know you all have heard about is the consolidation of the RS 50 and RS 60 into what is being called residential single family urban. And we have shared those concerns with Clarion and we are looking at that and what those other options might be. As we heard from some members of the public, they want some of those opportunities for alternative housing stock. I think the one thing that really was getting lost in that is that the underlying land use is what generates whether or not you would be eligible for that in your zoning, not the zoning. So by putting it in the zoning, that doesn't circumvent the underlying land use, but I think some of that was getting lost and that is what, but there's also areas of that including the potential for lot splits the potential for additional intensification and in lieu of on the fly responding to that we were very intentional in providing the same information each night listening bringing back what was heard and working on clarion working with clarion on that so we are in the process process of doing that um We're continuing to refine installment one. We are also working on installment two, which is the next iteration of the process and procedures. So that will be forthcoming as well.

Thank you so much for the update. When do we expect the second section?

Staff comments are going to them this week. And then the goal is to have some working sessions with staff. We're looking at July 28th right now for Clarion to come back on a number of things. Parking, which is in installment three that they're drafting right now. So internal meeting with mobility, land development to see what has been drafted and answer some questions that Clarion has. Tree and landscape also. talk about installment two comments at the end of the month, and then typically they take the staff comments and then give us back another version. So I'm hoping August, end of August, and then after school, people are back from summer. We didn't want to be doing anything while people are out enjoying their vacations, so.

Great, so end of August sounds like a good time. First of all, I want to say thank you so much. All of the presentations were very good and I really liked what you did about listening in each one instead of changing midstream. I thought that was a really good idea because And that makes sense. So I appreciate the time you and your staff spent on going. But I do have a quick question that's not related to land development. I'm sorry, your phone is just blowing up. So I had to put it aside. It would drive me nuts. So how are we coming on the comp plan?

The comp plan, that's interesting, because in my brief with Clarion this week, they asked the same thing. Where are we in the comp plan? We were talking about AHAC yesterday. Yes. I believe per discussion I had with Lauren Vasquez of city planning, we are very close. There were like four or five comments left. FDOT had commented, and now they have kind of made their comments more advisory than actual objections. I think one of the challenges was you only have one hearing in August and they were looking at getting the state items cleared up and then looking at what that date for your adoption would be. So I can follow back with an email on that or also let you know. I know you have back to back meetings, so you'll be here again next week so we can get you an update on that.

Actually, we don't have one until the 30th, but that's okay.

The 30th. I'm a week ahead of myself. Next week's the 23rd, CRA, and night meeting.

That's absolutely fine.

I appreciate it. Yeah, I think it's very close to being eligible for adoption. Great.

Very good. Thank you, Ms. Field. I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, that concludes our regular schedule program, new business. Let me, where did Hager go? Let me start and go out of sequence a little bit. We had some discussion because this kind of cuts some stuff off just in case. We had some discussion about our budget workshops of reorganizing those to make a little bit more sense with the flow. Ms. Kapesky, could you please discuss that, please? MS. Yes.

Good afternoon. Hagar Kapesky, City Council Budget Analyst. So I had presented this slide. back when we did the priority discussion. And what I've done here and the reason it's titled revised is after having some dialogue with Revenue and Finance in consideration of the fact that the budget has now moved from the 16th to the 30th. The first workshop was going to be basically three to four days later. Louder? Okay. So what we decided is to just restructure the order of those. And so we're going to do the business departments first. So we're going to start with them in the morning on the 3rd. This is the recommendation. It's up for discussion, but this is the recommendation. move into mobility, which would cover both stormwater and transportation. And then the final one would be the big gorilla in the room, which would be general fund. And what I've done here is just reflect these four departments make up close to 60% of the cost of the general fund area. Mr. Perry and I are still having some dialogue. Could there be a couple other things that pop in perhaps if you have input? But this is going to cover the vast majority of expense. So that is what we are recommending for consideration today.

Does Council have any questions? Can I get a motion to amend? Okay. I have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtek to accept the recommendation to change those public hearings for the budget as presented by Ms. Kapesky, a second from Councilman Escalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Mr. Shelby. Does the clerk have a copy of that?

I will give that turn.

Thank you. Thank you, Ms. Kapesky.

All right, I put it down if we can have another minute. This is really just a reminder because there's going to be a lot occurring in the next two to three weeks. So this is the outcome of the discussion. And you've received this before, but it's been since March. So when we did the priority discussion, obviously there were things that were not known. specifically the vote that will come up in November on property tax. That said, we continue though to know that resurfacing and the sidewalk network is a priority. So the only reason I put this down is to point out that one of the things you had asked after that meeting was for me to work with mobility and finance to get an accounting of basically how we've been doing with the internal paving so that is very close I still they've been extremely helpful but I just need to round it out but you may see will see requests for briefings because I'd like to actually have you go through that in advance so that if there's any questions anything you're just informed already about what that looks like again just really also wanted to put this down move over towards the podium also wanted to put this down because Just to reiterate that I believe this particular area has not changed in terms of your focus. And then flipping that, again, as we approach these workshops, as we get ready to prepare, these were the comments that came directly from you. So basically a reminder. Yeah.

I appreciate that. OK. all right and another reminder i know we had some discussion about the cdbg funds um we're the what's going to happen is happening as we speak is the county commission is working on because you know this all this money flows through the county They're having to do that. Things are working with and they're kind of working with the city as a secondary side of it to get their list together. There's really no point of seven discussions until the county does their work and does that. So anticipate having discussions on the CDBG funds after the county gets done with their. with what they're doing, FYI. Okay, so I think that concludes that portion. I also want to recognize Ms. Kapesky and the work that she's doing as our analyst. I think she's really proven that it's been very helpful having that function I don't know how she's, you know, coordinating with everybody else, but she's keeping me in the loop on an awful lot of different items that we've discussed and things that we're moving through council with this budget and moving into budget season. A lot of this has been on her shoulders, and I appreciate the fact that the work that she's been doing on behalf of council working with administration staff. Okay, let's start with Councilman Carlson. Yes.

Yeah, just to add to that, it showed that the process that we went through got the right person, too, so the process worked.

Okay, new business with Councilman Carlson. None. Thank you. Councilman Vieira.

Two quick ones, if I may. So I've been working on an ordinance and going back and forth with the administration on the Public Safety Master Plan, and I move on August 6th to have first reading for said ordinance, and then on August 26th to have second reading, if I may. You've looked at the calendar. That's all good.

Yes, sir.

Yeah, and it's just for reading. I have a motion from Councilman Vieira, second from Councilman... I'm so sorry. August 6th and then second reading 26th. 27th. I apologize, 27th.

Okay, so we have a motion for August 6th and August 27th. Councilman Avira, second for Councilman Matuskako. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Does that have it? Anything else?

Sorry, Councilman, will that be put through the administration, through OnBase?

Yes, that's my understanding. Thank you. And then really quick, if I may, that a lot of us know Alex Canassi and Ben Kozik. Alex Canassi, of course, his father is Simon Canassi, is a great guy. So they actually took it upon themselves, some of you all may know this, to go to Venezuela after the terrible earthquakes, and they helped with some recovery efforts and different things like that there. They went in part because one of our firefighters sadly lost his mother in that, and just tragic, and a good man. So I'm going to motion to give these two fine individuals, Alice Canassi and Ben Kozik, who's an honorary Latino, by the way, after he goes to Venezuela, a Tampa City Council commendation. We're going to find a time to do it. Obviously, everybody will get notice of it and all that good stuff at the end of July. But it's a big deal. I mean, they they literally went with Gray Bull Rescue in this like. I thought it was a little reckless, you know, but they went and they're great. So this is an offsite. Oh, yes, sir. Yeah, that's it.

Thank you. A motion from Councilman Vieira, second from Councilman Randolph. Some people say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Thank you. Anything else? Councilwoman Young.

Okay, so I do have an update regarding the Fair Oaks, the rental opportunities. So legislative aid, Darlene spoke with our parks director, Mr. Ted Fowler, and said that rental opportunities will be available effective August 10th. so that is coming from the director so i'll you know stay on top of that and if there's any additional updates but just wanted to update because i know we heard that this morning also i have a motion i moved to make a motion to present accommodation to russell stanley jr and brian hunter on september 17 2026 to recognize their outstanding contribution in planning, coordinating, and executing positive team takeovers in the Tampa Bay community. I've attended two of them so far. We had the seven-on-seven flag football, and there was also a basketball tournament that I went to. So I went to both, and it was a lot of fun. Wanted to recognize those awesome young men. And then also. Oh, we got a vote on that one.

Oh, go ahead. I have a motion from Councilwoman Young, a second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you.

Thank you. And then I also, I'm sure we all know this gentleman. But I move to make a motion to present a commendation on October 1st, 2026, to Albert Owens, aka Buckefied, for a decade of scholarship contribution for youth in the Tampa Bay community. I had an opportunity to go to one of the scholarship presentations for his most recent scholarship recipient. Her name was Mia, and he just speaks so positively. He does a lot just on the remembrance of his mother and just being positive in the community. So I think he'd be an awesome person to recognize his contributions for years in providing scholarships to students that he is still talked to today after they have graduated college.

So I have a motion councilwoman Young, a second councilman, a scalpel. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye.

And then I promise I did take a little bit of vacation, but also, um, just, you know, updates, you know, um, the historic Sanchez, the higher building, there's a lot of progress that is being made. I think it's going to be absolutely beautiful. Um, they just left, but the Shriners international had a parade in Ybor city and they were here. Um, I also attended, it's called the Barber Strong Brotherhood, a community meeting. It was at the Skills Center talking about mental health amongst men in our community. Manifestations Worldwide had their 25th anniversary celebration and I learned so much about them that I didn't even know they have an orphanage all the way in India. that they're building. So they're doing a lot of work in the community. I went to the BAPS community open house where I got to see their beautiful temple and we learned more about their culture and their values and it was a beautiful presentation. The Buffalo Soldiers also were here and they had a parade. They are looking to come back next year. They're going to be in North Carolina but they want to come back to Tampa. And I want to thank my fellow council member, Mr. Vieira, for inviting me to the Roy Caldwell birthday celebration. That was a lot of fun. And then also I was the graduation speaker for Toba's 2026 TLI graduating cohort. So that was very nice.

Thank you. Thank you very much. Councilwoman Hurtek.

yes uh i move and i've already talked to them about this this is actually coming from uh miss feely i motion that abby feely administrator of development and economic opportunity michael perry deputy chief financial officer and their respective team members be uh appear at the september 24th 2026 city council workshop to present the findings of the rough TELUS fee study for construction services, development coordination, and historic preservation, including the study's full cost recovery analysis, provide a summary of the public input received during the August 18th, 2026 community meeting, which is obviously coming up, and facilitate a discussion regarding a balanced multi-year strategy for council's consideration to right-size the city's fees, including identifying fees appropriate for movement toward cost recovery and those that should remain below full cost recovery in recognition of their broader public benefit.

I have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtak, a second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Anything else? Councilman Maniscalco. No. Councilman Miranda.

I'm going to take Cabrera's place.

Oh, Lord, here we go. I would like to make a motion. Wait, do we need a break for lunch first?

I would like to make a motion to present Chief Lee Burkoff with an accommodation to celebrate his 30 years with the police department to be presented at his retirement ceremony August the 5th.

We have a motion from Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed?

I would like to make a motion requesting Catholic Charities and Feeding Tampa Bay to come to Council on September 17th to give an update on services being done within the city and how, under tightening resources, the city can be helpful in privatizing recurring expenses, I would like to waiver the one presentation rule that there is only one presentation and no accommodation scheduled currently.

Second. Okay, so let's do two separate issues. I have a motion to amend the council rules to provide for two presentations, seeing that there are no accommodations scheduled for that day or anything additional. I have the second count, this is September 17th. So now we have one. So, so, so we don't know. Do we have any police?

So do we have, do we have any, uh, any moved officers?

Okay. So we have a motion to waive council rules to add a, another presentation on the 17th councilwoman her tech.

Um, I would like to amend that motion and close commendations and presentations for that day as well. No more.

So we have a motion to add one more commendation to that day or presentation and with the restriction that there will be no more commendations or presentations added to the 17th. I have a second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. We're going to, and our new rules hopefully will be in effect at that point, we're going to enforce the timing on all these things too. So now I have a motion to add the presentation to the 17th. Is there a second? Second. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

And the third one, and the last one, Mr. Chairman, I would like to make a motion requesting visit Tampa Bay and Mr. David Ingram, Executive Director of the Tampa Convention Center, to come to Council September 24th, doing the workshop to present their prospective performance metrics and providing some insight forecast on the foreseeable and need for maintaining increasing activation of the center and how it supports our tourist development and Community Investment Fund for those visiting the city of Tampa.

With the 10-minute restriction, right?

It is.

Okay. So we have a motion from Councilman Miranda. I heard Vieira second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it.

I'll be taking your spot, baby. There you go.

Was that complete your presentation? Yes, sir. Your new business? Okay. That would be completing our new business. Unless anybody else has anything else, I'd like to hear a motion to receive and file. I have a motion to receive and file from Councilman Maniscalco, a second from Councilman Vieira. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Ninety-five items, and we are adjourned.

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