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The
public
is
also
able
to
participate
in
this
meeting
during
public
comment
for
a
maximum
of
three
minutes
per
speaker
either
here
in
person
in
city
council
chambers
are
virtually
by
way
of
communication,
media
technology
or
cmt.
However,
the
use
of
cmt
does
require
pre-registration
with
the
city
clerk's
office.
Directions
for
pre-registration
are
included
in
the
notice
of
the
meeting
and
on
the
agenda.
I
Members
of
the
public
may
also
participate
in
quasi-judicial
matters
remotely
by
a
cmt,
but
cell
phones
and
smartphones
are
not
compatible
as
they
will
not
allow
your
camera.
When
connected,
you
must
have
access
to
a
cmt
device,
such
as
a
tablet
or
computer
equipped
with
a
camera
and
a
microphone
that
will
enable
you
to
be
seen
and
heard
by
city
council
and
all
other
participants
in
a
quasi-judicial
matter.
Can
I
please
have
a
motion
waving
city
council,
standard
rules,
a
procedure,
allow
public
comment
and
appearance
by
city,
administrative
staff
by
cot?
Thank
you.
We.
F
Have
a
motion
made
by
council
magoo
seconded
by
councilman
maniscalco,
all
in
favor,
aye
aye?
I
see
that
madam
mayor
is
on
the
line.
However,
we're
going
to
go
through
the
agenda
at
this
time.
Council
members,
we
have
nine
staff
reports
today.
Five
have
memos
two
of
the
five
are
financial
threshold,
but
need
approving.
F
One
of
the
five
number.
Seven,
I
believe,
is
asking
for
a
continuance
by
councilman
vieira
to
august
25th.
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J
That's
mr
beers,
here:
let's
hear
those
top
dollar
items
republican
know
what
they're
about
and
why
we're
doing
them.
Three
and
four
is
this
out
of
the
chairman.
F
A
F
All
right
number
five
was
asked
for
a
written
report,
but
of
course
you
would
like
to
have
the
police
chief
here.
Okay,
so
coming
back
and
saying
number
two
number:
two
chief
is
going
to
give
us
a
quick
overview
for
a
couple
things
number
three
we're
keeping
four
we're
keeping
five.
You
would
like
to
hear
from
chief
o'connor
on
that
six
seven
have
been
continued
eight.
F
Nine,
yes,
okay
and,
of
course,
ten
yep.
Okay,
we
also
have,
if
I
can,
the
addendum.
Where
did
I
put
that?
Thank
you
very
much.
I
got
it
so
much
paperwork,
a
request
for
continuance
on
item
number,
45.
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D
Oh
okay,
someone
forgot-
I
am
mayor,
jane,
castor,
very
nice,
to
see
you
this
morning,
council.
As
I
said
hello
from
dublin,
ireland,
I
am
actually
sitting
in
rapid
seven's
dublin
headquarters.
D
D
The
crafting
of
the
city
of
tampa's
2023
budget
has
been
very
thoughtful
and
inclusive,
although
arduous,
and
I
want
to
thank
each
of
you,
council
members-
for
your
collaboration
in
this
effort.
This
budget
addresses
the
many
needs
of
our
community,
but
none
more
important
than
the
current
housing
crisis.
F
D
Morning
I
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
present
our
2023
budget
titled
resilient
tampa.
This
budget
reflects
the
many
conversations
we've
had
with
city
council
about
your
priorities
and
builds
on
our
shared
commitment
to
developing
a
stronger
future
through
long-term
thinking
and
investing.
It
also
reflects
the
city's
rock-solid
financial
footing.
D
Thanks
to
the
work
that
this
city,
council,
administration
and
community
have
done
together.
Tampa
is
thriving.
Even
the
formidable
challenges
we
face
like
pressing
needs
for
more
affordable
housing
and
better
transportation
infrastructure
reflect
tampa's
success
in
becoming
one
of
america's
most
exciting
places
to
live,
work
and
play.
D
Let
me
give
you
a
report
card
from
the
residents
of
tampa
the
preliminary
results
of
our
2022
city
of
tampa
community
values.
Survey
of
1300
city
residents
revealed
a
few
important
metrics
93
of
tampa
residents
said
they
would
recommend
tampa
to
a
friend,
family
member
or
acquaintance
as
a
place
to
live.
92
percent
would
recommend
tampa
as
a
place
to
work
90
percent
as
a
place
to
raise
children.
D
D
Tampa's
economic
expansion
and
rising
property
values
are
expected
to
generate
an
additional
40
million
dollars,
including
about
8
million
dollars.
For
you
to
allocate
to
10
cra
districts,
inflation
is
driving
up
our
costs
of
delivering
services.
Just
as
it's
driving
up
everyone's
costs,
cfo
dennis
rohiro
will
get
into
the
nitty-gritty
of
our
budget
proposal
shortly.
D
I
felt
it
important
to
stand
behind
the
men
and
women
who
serve
our
residents
so
well,
while
many
people
work
from
home
through
much
of
the
pandemic.
These
men
and
women
remained
on
the
front
lines.
They
were
out
fixing
broken
pipes,
testing
our
water
collecting
our
trash
and
recycling
and
saving
lives
to
keep
us
resilient.
We
need
to
be
able
to
recruit
and
retain
the
talent
we
have.
D
D
D
I
will
aggressively
promote
housing
in
the
next
budget
too.
My
goal
is
to
create
10,
000,
affordable
housing
units
by
2027
and
I'm
proud
to
say
we
are
more
than
halfway
there.
We
understand
when
we
invest
in
housing.
We
invest
in
people
last
year.
For
the
first
time
in
history,
the
city
designated
general
fund
money
toward
housing,
affordability
and
stability
for
our
tampa
residents.
D
We
propose
doing
that
again
next
year,
with
5.5
million
dollars
in
general
fund
money
and
20
million
dollars
overall
for
housing
related
services.
That
includes
a
detailed
housing
study.
We've
discussed
with
city
council
to
better
analyze
our
existing
housing
stock
and
future
needs,
in
fact,
we're
adding
personnel
and
strengthening
the
development
and
economic
opportunity
department,
which
includes
housing
to
better
serve
our
residents.
D
D
D
Currently
we
have
90
pipes,
projects
in
the
works
worth
more
than
1
billion
and
22
of
those
have
already
been
closed
out,
both
to
cut
costs
and
to
speed
up
construction.
We
want
to
add
two
construction
crews
to
handle
routine
water
pipeline
work.
Rather
than
having
to
rely
on
private
contractors
for
mobility.
We
will
continue
to
create
premium
transit
corridors
along
the
major
transportation
spine
of
our
city.
D
This
will
connect
the
west
shore
district
to
downtown
and
downtown
to
the
university
area.
We
will
also
keep
the
momentum
going
in
modernizing
the
tampa
streetcar
system
and
extension
to
tampa
heights.
Additionally,
the
city
will
continue
to
advocate
for
fowler
avenue
to
be
a
gateway
boulevard
with
dedicated
transit
lanes
and
land
use
framework.
D
Additionally,
we're
constructing
more
than
two
miles
of
new
sidewalks
sustainability
and
resiliency
are
at
the
center
of
everything
that
we
do
in
the
next
year.
The
city
will
support
several
neighborhood
level
studies.
This
will
help
us
prioritize
issues
like
urban
heat,
coastal
protection
and
water
security.
D
D
D
The
city
of
tampa
will
continue
to
attract
new
talent
to
our
workforce.
We
will
help
connect
job
seekers
directly
with
hiring
managers
at
events
like
signing
day
and
provide
access
to
apprenticeship,
training
and
other
career
learning.
Additionally,
the
mayor's
workforce
council
will
help
us
identify
where
tampa
needs
new
workers.
The
most
we'll
also
continue
to
promote
online
resources
like
tampa
works.
D
The
city
of
tampa
remains
a
fiscally
prudent
government.
This
year,
we
will
continue
building
on
our
great
credit
ratings,
which
help
us
stretch
our
dollars,
far
wider
than
other
less
disciplined
communities.
A
crucial
part
of
that
is
maintaining
more
than
22
percent
of
our
budget
in
reserves,
a
practice
that
we
will
continue
in
23..
D
This
is
such
an
exciting
time
for
us
as
we
transform
tampa's
tomorrow.
I
appreciate
what
tampa
city
council
does
to
serve
this
wonderful
community.
I
look
forward
to
working
together
to
finalize
this
budget
and
to
continue
our
momentum
throughout
next
year.
There
is
no
limit
to
what
we
can
accomplish
together
now,
let's
bring
up
the
money.
Man
dentist
for
hero.
F
And
I
am
hoping
that
she
is
prospecting
for
some
businesses
to
start
here
in
tampa,
and
I
hope
that
she
returns
with
a
four-leaf
clover
to
give
us
good
luck
and
prosperity
in
the
next
coming
year.
As
council
knows,
we
have
a
workshop
to
discuss
proposals
with
the
administration
on
august
16th.
F
L
L
And
you
see
the
agenda
there,
we'll
begin
with
the
fiscal
year
23
recommended
budget.
Moving
on
to
our
continuing
success
in
the
grant
research
and
competitive
grant
program,
we've
got
a
good
story
to
tell
you
there
continuing
with
a
good
story.
We've
got
the
capital
improvement
program
and
closely
linked
to
that.
Our
debt
program
for
the
upcoming
fiscal
year.
L
So,
let's
dive
right
in
and
here
it
is
council
1.9
billion,
I'm
rounding,
but
1.9
billion
dollars
for
fiscal
year,
23
an
increase
of
just
under
four
percent
from
the
current
year
budget.
I'm
going
to
share
with
you
some
highlights
that
are
associated
with
those
increases.
You've
got
additional
staffing,
we've
heard
council
say
on
many
occasions
that
we
need
to
staff
up
and
you'll
see
that
reflected
in
this
budget,
including
the
housing
department,
transportation,
water,
parking
enforcement
and
planning
and
permitting
a
couple
of
other
items
contributing
to
this
increase
from
the
previous
fiscal
year.
L
The
additional
community
redevelopment
area
contributions
and
we'll
talk
a
little
bit
more
about
that
in
just
a
moment:
additional
police
fire
and
rescue
equipment,
higher
fuel
costs.
Of
course,
that
should
be
no
surprise
additional
funding
for
vehicles
as
we'll
get
into
in
just
a
minute.
We
continue
to
concentrate
on
catching
up
on
our
new
vehicles
and
vehicle
replacements.
We've
got
a
lot
of
needs
out.
L
You
see
here
the
breakout
of
the
major
funds
we're
going
to
concentrate
on
the
general
fund
and
the
enterprise
funds.
You
see
those
up
there.
They
make
up
three
quarters
of
the
budget
that,
where
most
of
our
services
are
provided
to
the
public,
and
especially
in
our
public
safety
realm
most
of
the
general
fund.
L
And
here
are
those
two
categories
on
the
left:
the
general
fund,
again
home
of
the
tampa
fire
and
rescue
department,
the
police
department,
our
parks
and
recreation
department,
the
convention
center
neighborhood
and
community
affairs
and
other
government
support
operations
on
the
right.
The
enterprise
funds
you're
familiar
with
those
those
are
our
departments
that
run
like
a
business
in
the
private
sector.
L
L
And
we've
seen
this
slide
before
we
put
this
up
here
to
note
two
important
drivers
of
our
property
tax
revenue.
Property
tax
is
our
single
largest
revenue
and,
although
it
only
I
say,
only
only
accounts
for
about
1
6
of
the
total
budget,
it's
a
big
contributor
to
our
general
fund.
Again,
the
general
fund
is
the
funding.
We
have
the
most
flexibility
with
what
we
spend
and
you
see
on
the
right.
L
We
display
the
impact
of
the
contributions
required
to
the
community
redevelopment
agencies,
the
cras
over
40
million
dollars
and
on
the
left
again,
we
reiterate
that
property
taxes
by
themselves
simply
aren't
enough
to
pay
for
our
public
safety
services.
I
don't
think
they've
been
enough
in
my
memory
and
I
don't
anticipate
they'll
ever
be
enough
to
pay
for
our
public
safety
services.
L
Breaking
down
the
general
fund
into
a
little
bit
more
detail,
I'll
highlight
some
of
the
top
increases.
Of
course,
pay
increases
at
the
top
you've
heard.
The
mayor
you've
heard
the
chief
of
staff
discuss
the
recruitment
retention
and
reward
of
our
valuable
employees
and
that'll
be
the
cost
in
fiscal
year
23
in
the
general
fund.
L
L
We
started
out
the
year
with
four
million
from
the
general
fund,
we're
cranking
that
up
to
five
and
a
half
million
about
about
a
third
percent
increase.
But,
as
you
also
heard
the
mayor
say,
that's
not
the
only
funding
going
to
housing.
We've
got
over
20
million
dollars
in
new
revenue
total
for
fiscal
year
23..
L
I
also
want
to
mention.
We've
got
the
400
000
set
aside
for
the
council's
request
on
tenant
advocacy
and
ms
travis
will
be
up
later
to
discuss
in
more
detail
the
broad-based,
encompassing
resources
that
we're
putting
and
that
we
have
put
towards
the
housing.
L
L
L
A
Seventy
three
thousand
seven
hundred
and
thirteen
dollars,
which
is
analytically
on
par
with
your
peers
on
similar
governments,
including
the
city
of
saint
pete,
in
the
city
of
orlando.
So
that
is
an
increase
recommended
in
the
budget.
It's
not
on
a
slide.
We
can
talk
about
it
further,
but
that's
what
staff,
through
additional
support
and
analysis
is
recommending
to
change
council's
base
salary
as
of
fy
23.
L
Continuing
on
with
the
general
fund
again
a
subject
very
near
and
dear
to
our
heart,
the
general
fund
balance
we're
going
to
zero
in
on
that,
and
I
I
really
can't
stress
enough
how
important
this
metric
is,
and
once
again
I
want
to
thank
council's
continuing
support
of
this
fund
balance.
These
fund
balance
levels,
as
you
can
see,
going
left
to
right.
The
amount
in
the
fund
balance
continues
to
increase
and
that's
typical,
because
it's
a
ratio
to
the
budget
as
the
budget
increases,
the
amount
will
also
increase.
L
This
is
what
we
would
expect,
and
this
is
what
we
anticipate
as
we
spend
down
the
federal
stimulus
that
contributed
to
those
high
levels
in
the
past
couple
of
years.
We're
still,
as
you
know,
well
above
our
20
policy.
Our
policy,
our
20
policy,
is
certainly
not
a
goal,
and
it's
not
a
limit.
We
continue
to
try
to
exceed
that
that
contributes
to
our
stability
and
resiliency.
L
L
Our
city-wide
position
summary
again
councils
indicated
to
us
that
you'd,
like
increased
staffing,
you
see
it
here,
we're
adding
a
total
of
70
positions.
City-Wide,
you
see
them
here,
grouped
by
strategic
goal
in
the
budget
book.
You'll
see
them
grouped
by
department,
but
they
include
housing
permitting,
as
I
mentioned,
transportation
water,
a
significant
influx
in
resources
for
the
ever
expanding
services
that
the
city
continues
to
provide
at
the
top
you'll
see
that
we're
still
well
below
what
we
were
following
the
great
recession
over
150
positions.
L
Less
than
that
and
that'll
be
a
nice
segue
into
this
chart.
Here
you
see
not
withstanding
the
the
position
increases
I
just
mentioned.
We
continue
to
reduce
our
ratio
of
employees
to
the
popul
population.
You
may
recall
that
in
the
current
year
we
were
tied
with
saint
petersburg
for
lowest.
We
remain
tied
with
them,
but
that
line
going
from
left
to
right.
You
see
that
is
a
gradual
and
planned
decline
of.
I
guess
what
we
would
call
right-sizing
our
staff.
L
L
City-Wide
health
insurance
costs.
We
we
love
showing
this
slide.
We
continue
to
do
much
better
than
the
national
trend.
We
can
be
very
proud
of
that.
I
want
to
give
credit
where
credit's
due.
We
continue
to
feel
our
wellness.
Centers
are
just
hitting
the
ball
right
out
of
the
park,
especially
during
the
pandemic,
with
covid
testing
covet
vaccinations
and
our
broad-based
wellness
program
that
endeavors
to
include
family,
not
just
employees
but
their
spouses,
their
partners,
their
children
and
you're,
seeing
it
pay
off
now.
L
L
We
continue
to
reap
the
benefits,
as
you've
heard
me
say
in
the
past,
of
a
more
proactive
and
coordinated
approach,
we've
realigned
some
resources
in
the
back
offices,
so
we're
all
singing
from
one
page,
whether
it's
the
revenue
and
finance
department,
whether
it's
the
water
department,
the
housing
department.
So
we
can
better
focus
and
leverage
our
resources
to
get
what
we
affectionately
call
other
people's
money,
and
you
see
here
we
continue
to
be
very
ambitious,
we'll
be
aiming
for
nearly
140
million
dollars
of
competitive
grants
next
year,
and
these
are
the
competitive
grants.
L
Not
the
entitlement
grants
they're,
not
just
they're,
not
just
giving
these
away.
So
we
don't
anticipate
we're
going
to
get
them
all,
but
we're
going
to
give
it
the
old
college,
try
and
again
the
more
ambitious
we
get
and
the
wider
net
that
we
cast
the
more
opportunities
we
create
for
ourselves
either
to
bolster
existing
services
or
if
we
find
an
opportunity
for
something
we
want
to
do
but
haven't
had
the
resources
to
do.
We
can
find
them
as
part
of
this
process.
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L
And
a
brief
history:
you
can
also
see
how,
since
we
ramped
up
this
program
in
2020,
we
are
reaping
the
benefits.
As
I
said,
speaking
of
70
million
dollars,
that's
how
much
we've
been
awarded
in
three
in
less
than
three
years.
You
see
what
we've
got
in
the
current
year.
We've
still
got
about
25
million
dollars
in
requests
pending.
So
I
want
to
thank
my
team.
I
want
to
thank
the
partnership
we
have
with
the
other
departments
and
in
some
instances
non-profits
in
gaining
this
funding.
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L
Moving
on
now
to
our
five-year
capital
improvement
program,
again,
a
very
significant
component
of
what
you
all
will
review,
and
here
it
is
1.9
billion
dollars,
nearly
2
billion
of
recommended
projects
over
the
next
five
years.
Very
consistent
with
the
current
plan.
I
think
I've
shared
with
you
before
we've
got
an
aggressive
capital
improvement
program
going
on.
Of
course,
the
poster
child
is
the
pipes
program,
but
it's
far
more
to
it
than
that
significant
increases
in
the
community
redevelopment
agencies,
parks
and
recreation,
the
solid
waste
department,
storm
water
and
then
again
can't
help.
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L
Water
treatment,
plant
improvements,
wastewater
improvements,
wastewater
collection,
pumping
station
again,
all
part
of
that
pipes
program
we've
had
two
debt
issuances
you'll
hear
me
talk
about
a
third
potential
debt
issuance
next
year
and
if
it
doesn't
happen
next
year,
it'll
happen
in
the
year
after
we're
doing
a
very
good
job,
as
you've
heard
us
say,
of
acquiring
the
funding
and
then
spending
the
funding
you
heard
the
mayor
discuss
it.
So
the
good
news
is
we're
bringing
in
a
lot
of
money
and
we're
spending
a
lot
of
money
for
exactly
what
we
planned.
L
Moving
to
parks
and
recreation
at
the
top
of
the
list,
the
east
tampa
recreational
complex
gandy
park,
south
and
polonius
park
improvements.
Sulphur
springs
area
improvements,
the
wayne
pappy
athletic
center
new
tampa
sports
complex
we've
got
the
veterans
memorial
at
jim,
jim
walter
excuse
me
and
hyde
park,
so
a
lot
of
stuff,
a
lot
of
things
going
on
in
the
parks
and
recreation
department.
In
this
plan.
L
Solid
waste
and
environmental
program
management
only
two
bullets,
but
a
great
deal
of
funding
and
I'll
get
into
a
little
more
detail
on
that
in
just
a
moment
as
we
discuss
some
of
the
potential
debt
issuances
we're
looking
at
headquarters,
fleet
relocation
from
the
spruce
from
the
spruce
area
and
the
mckay
mckay
bay.
Excuse
me:
waste
to
energy
facility
program
mobility,
the
multi-modal
network,
that's
associated
with
the
build
grant
the
west
river
program,
the
rome
avenue
program,
storm
water
projects,
street
resurfacing,
significant
amount
of
funding
for
mobility.
L
And
the
facilities
management
division,
the
public
safety
training
facility-
as
you
know,
that's
that's
decades
and
decades
old-
we're
the
49th
largest
city
in
the
u.s,
with
one
of,
if
not
the
best
fire
and
police
departments,
we
need
to
improve
their
training
facilities
and,
along
with
that,
the
relocation
of
the
impound
facility
for
tpd
and
fleet
maintenance
decentralization.
L
We
have
a
centralized
fleet
program
now.
We
think
we
can
gain
a
lot
of
efficiencies
and
reduce
a
lot
of
maintenance
times
by
decentralizing
that,
by
by
focusing
more
on
the
particular
service
being
provided
at
the
location
and
reducing
the
amount
of
time
it
gets
for
our
assets
to
get
to
where
they
need
to
be
repaired.
L
We've
gotten
a
lot
smarter
about
it,
and
I
think
I
think
you've
heard
very
positive
things
about
this
template.
I
know
our
departments
have
so
you'll
see
that
throughout
the
districts
extensive
storm,
water
and
street
water
or
street
flooding
work
again,
the
build
grant
and
west
river
walk
and
parks
improvements.
Again.
These
are
not
the
only
projects;
these
are
simply
the
highlights.
L
Moving
on
to
district
five,
at
the
top
of
the
list
again,
the
east
tampa
recreational
complex
again
that
comprehensive
infrastructure
program
again
the
build
grant
and
the
west
riverwalk
program
public
safety,
the
hannah
avenue
government
center.
We
continue
without
a
pace
and,
as
I
mentioned
previously,
the
sulphur
springs
area,
improvements.
L
In
district
6,
again
the
neighborhood
infrastructure
projects,
again
the
build
grant
and
the
west
riverwalk
and
rome
avenue
project
and,
of
course,
the
howard
avenue.
Well,
I
can't
see
all
the
howard
avenue
depart
police
department
offices
and
wayne
c
pappy
improvements.
L
L
We
show
this
because
it
goes
hand
in
hand
with
what
the
what
those
big
projects
you
just
saw
are
going
to
be
accomplished
with
we're
doing
big
important
projects
and
it
takes
big
money,
but
we
also
show
this
because
the
better
these
ratings
are,
as
you
heard,
the
mayor
said,
the
more
money
we
save
that
we
can
allocate
to
more
projects.
It
really
is
a
very
positive
circle
there,
the
better.
We
can
make
these
the
more
money
we
save
and
the
more
projects
that
we
can
do.
L
All
of
them,
as
I've
said
before,
are
are
high
grade
or
better,
and
you
and
the
community
should
expect
nothing
less
at
the
top.
You
see
the
rating
called
the
issuer.
Credit
rating,
that
the
closest
metaphor-
for
that
is
probably
your
personal
fico
score.
That's
how
well
the
city
of
tampa
is
doing
and
we're
doing
very
well
on
the
far
right
you
see
standard
and
poor
triple
a
that
is
the
highest
rating.
You
can
get
the
other
two
rating
agencies,
moody's
and
fitch,
have
given
us
the
second
highest
rating.
L
That
is
a
very,
very
good
fico
score
and,
as
I
said
before,
it
continues
to
be
worth
reminding
everybody
that
this
is
a
very
good
gauge,
also
of
our
financial
stability.
It's
frequently
frequently
reviewed
and
scrutinized
by
the
credit
rating
agencies,
moody's,
fitch
standard
and
pores.
They
come
in
with
a
fine,
toothed
comb
and
they
go
through
reams
of
documents,
and
they
talk
to
well
just
about
everybody
in
the
revenue
and
a
finance
department
and
many
of
the
other
departments,
and
what
do
they
find
with
this
fine-tooth
comb?
L
They
find
continuing
improvement
and
financial
stability,
so
much
so
that
you
see
on
screen
there
14
credit
rating
upgrades
since
2011.,
and
I
want
to
make
it
clear:
you
know
they
don't
just
set
it
and
forget
it.
They
come
back.
We
have
to
continue
to
justify
these
rates
and
these
ratings
and
prove
that
we
deserve
them,
and
we
do
I'll
end
this
slide
by
thanking
council.
I
wouldn't
say
it
if
it
wasn't
true.
L
I'm
going
to
give
you
a
picture
of
our
current
outstanding
debt
service,
35
years
out
to
2057
again
very
well,
planned.
We
have
some
experts
in-house
and
we
hire
some
experts
outside
to
make
sure
this
is
a
very
well-run
and
stable
plan.
The
green
line
shows
the
outstanding
debt
for
the
water
and
waste
water
departments.
You'll
see
that
labeled
as
enterprise
right
now.
L
Those
are
the
only
enterprise
funds
we
have
debt
with
the
blue
line
shows
the
debt
associated
with
governmental
that'll,
be
our
community
investment
taxes,
our
cit,
which
I'll
speak
to
in
just
a
moment.
Stormwater
the
florida
aquarium,
our
convention
center
mobility
and
facilities,
improvements
that
debt
line
that
blue
debt
line
will
be
adjusted
for
the
anticipated
debt
issuance
that
will
include
the
east,
tampa
recreation
center
and
I'll
get
into
a
little
more
detail
in
just
a
moment
on
that.
But
this
is
a
very
good
debt
profile.
L
You've
heard
me
say
it
before
nice,
smooth
decreasing
over
time,
indicating
very
clearly
that
we
have
additional
debt
capacity
for
additional
projects
for
things
that
may
arise
that
you
know
they're
not
such
a
big
priority
now,
but
who
knows
what
the
future
will
bring?
So
that's
a
very
good
debt
slide
right
there.
L
L
L
This
is
the
general
government
debt
issuance
I
referenced
earlier.
We
anticipate
at
this
time
it'll
be
about
90
to
120
million
dollars,
and
you
see
the
projects
that
will
be
included.
East
tampa
recreational
complex
fire
station
number,
24,
public
safety,
training
facilities.
I
won't
read
the
entire
slide,
but
we'll
be
bringing
this
to
you
in
the
very
near
future
and
a
reimbursement
resolution
you've
seen
these
reimbursement
resolutions
before
and
we'll
brief
you
on
them
before
we
bring
them
to
you.
L
So
we
don't
have
to
wait
for
all
of
the
logistics
and
detail
associated
with
the
major
debt
issuance,
we'll
explain
more,
but
you've
seen
it
before
again.
This
allows
us
to
get
out
of
the
starting
gate,
much
faster.
It's
a
reimbursement
resolution
you'll
hear
it
again.
You'll
hear
it
again
in
this
presentation,
because
we
have
a
few
moving
on
to
the
pipes
program
again,
a
very
significant
debt
issuance
the
third
one
for
the
pipes
program,
upwards
of
300
million
dollars
again
we're
moving
very,
very
fast
and
that's
good.
L
L
What
you
don't
want
to
do
is
hold
on
to
a
great
deal
of
debt
service
with
those
interest
charges,
while
you're
not
getting
things
done,
we're
speedy,
but
depending
on
how
fast
we
continue
to
move,
it
will
be
a
next
year
or
fiscal
year.
24
dead
issuance
but
again
all
planned
all
part
of
the
overall
20-year
nearly
3
billion
program,
and
this
will
be
a
little
over
300
million
again
we'll
we'll
telegraph.
These
and
brief
you
ahead
of
time,
but
I
do
want
to
give
you
some
insight.
L
The
solid
waste
debt
issue
we
have
a
great
deal
to
do
in
the
solid
waste
department,
not
the
least
of
which
is
relocating
that
section
from
spruce
street
we've
talked
about
that.
Before
it's
going
to
be
expensive,
you
got
the
waste
to
energy
plant
is
going
to
be
an
expensive
proposition.
You
see
200
to
200
to
and
excuse
me
220
million
dollars
again
we'll
telegraph.
It
we'll
brief
you.
It
is
our
intent
again
to
do
a
reimbursement
resolution,
so
we
can
hit
the
ground
running
and
get
the
beginnings
of
these
projects
going.
L
And
the
storm
water
debt
issuance
a
great
deal
of
work
needed
there,
also
continuing
that
neighborhood
infrastructure
project
I
discussed
earlier
you
you
are
aware
of
some
of
these
already
lamb
canal
golf
view:
estates
flooding
in
the
lower
peninsula
southeast
region,
again
a
reimbursement
resolution
we'll
bring
to
you
we'll
brief.
You
big
projects,
big
plans,
it's
going
to
take
big
money.
L
And
the
budget
calendar,
as
you
heard
earlier,
we've
got
a
budget
workshop
later
on
this
month.
Looking
forward
to
that,
please
don't
wait
until
the
budget
workshop
to
ask
any
questions
you
have.
Hopefully
it
goes
without
saying
I'm
always
available.
My
team
is
always
available.
Please
reach
out.
It
is
a
1.9
billion
dollar
budget.
It
is
by
necessity,
complex
and
expansive.
Okay,
we're
here
to
help
guide
you
through
that.
So
please
reach
out
and
then,
of
course,
we'll
be
there
at
the
budget
workshop
you
see
the
two
public
public
hearings
are
scheduled.
L
And
there
is
the
link
I
referenced
earlier.
We
can
also
send
it
to
you
where
you
have
the
budget.
You
have
those
interactive
maps.
You
have
the
detail
before
I
open
it
up
to
questions.
If
I
may,
though,
as
we're
all
aware,
it's
a
very
challenging
environment,
we've
got
global
challenges.
We've
got
national
challenges,
we've
got
local
challenges,
we're
experiencing
the
highest
inflation
in
40
years.
We
may
be
in
a
recession
as
we
speak,
I
don't
need
to
belabor
the
affordable
housing
issues.
L
But,
as
you
heard,
the
mayor
say,
as
you've
heard
me
say
before,
and
I
anticipate
you'll
hear
me
say
again:
despite
all
of
these
headwinds,
we've
got
a
very,
very
sound
financial
plan.
The
city
is
in
good
shape,
due
in
part
to
this
planning
on
debt
service.
Do
impart
to
these
rating
agencies
do
in
part
to
the
strong
general
fund
balance
to
the
management
of
the
various
departments
and
programs
by
leadership
and
their
teams
by
city
council
by
the
mayor.
L
So
we've
got
a
carefully
crafted
and
finally
balanced
budget
we're
submitting
to
you-
and
I
don't
just
mean
balanced
in
revenues
and
expenditures,
because
we
have
to
do
that
by
law.
We
don't
if
we
don't
do
that.
Someone
else
will
be
presenting
the
budget
to
you
other
than
dennis,
but
we've
got
it
balanced
here.
We've
got
it
balanced
here,
we've
got
it
balanced
here,
it's
finely
tuned,
the
tolerances
are
tight,
so
changes
in
one
area,
I'll
tell
you
ahead
of
time,
are
probably
going
to
necessitate
changes
in
another
area.
L
We
think
we've
accounted
for
the
priorities.
You've
given
us
that
the
mayor's
given
us
that
we've
heard
from
in
the
community
as
you've
heard
the
chief
of
staff
say
before
the
four
ps,
first
and
foremost,
the
public,
our
valued
personnel,
our
partners,
internal
partners,
external
partners
and,
of
course,
our
policy
makers.
We
think
we've
accounted
for
all
of
that,
but
we're
a
major
american
city
there's
a
lot
going
on
and
we
have
a
lot
of
needs.
L
As
you
know,
we
have
a
we
developed,
an
open,
gov
training
class.
Thank
you
to
those
of
you,
who've
attended.
I
hope
you
found
it
useful
again,
there's
a
lot
going
on
we're
still
here
to
guide
you
through,
but
if,
after
taking
that
class
or
even
if
you
haven't
taken
that
class
jump
in
look
around
and
we
can
answer
any
specific
questions,
I've
said
this
already
contact
me
anytime.
L
I'd
like
to
thank
you
again,
I
wouldn't
say
it.
If
it
wasn't
true,
I
I
genuinely
appreciate
your
efforts,
my
team,
the
departments,
the
mayor,
the
chief
of
staff.
It's
been
a
great
budget
year
so
far
with
a
lot
of
needs,
a
lot
of
challenges,
but
I
think
we're
in
a
very
good
spot
and
from
here
on
out
it's
prioritization
discussion
and
workshops.
F
Thank
you,
mr
rojero,
for
the
public's
information.
Councilman
vieira
will
be
here.
He
will
be
remotely
in
his
office.
He
is
still
coughing
a
little
bit.
He
felt
it
would
be
better
that
he
stayed
in
his
office,
councilman
councilmember,
how
you
doing
let
the
record
reflect
the
councilmember
vieira
has
joined
us.
Councilman
carlson
will
not
be
here
today,
as
he
is
taking
time
off
again.
F
Let's
remember
that
we're
having
a
workshop
on
the
16th
to
discuss
the
budget
and
mr
o'hara
has
said
his
office
is
open
to
any
type
of
conversation
any
council
members
would
like
to
have
with
that.
A
Thank
you
very
much,
mr
chairman,
and
thank
you,
mr
o'hara.
Yes,
your
team,
the
great
mike
perry,
everybody
that
took
part
in
putting
this
very
robust
budget
together
mayor
castro,
chief
bennett.
Thank
you
for
listening
to
me.
I
see
that
I
think
all
my
requests
were
included
in
the
budget.
Yes,
sir,
I
know
that
was
not
time
wasted.
We
sat
down,
we
talked
about
it.
You
responded.
I
appreciate
it
very
much.
A
You
know
the
city
is
growing.
We
have
a
lot
of
things
that
we
need
to
take
care
of.
It's
it's
very
complicated,
but
the
number
one
issue
that
we're
facing
right
now
is
the
housing
situation
and
people
that
are
concerned
where
they're
going
to
live.
If
they're
going
to
be
on
the
streets.
What's
going
to
happen,
I
know
that
the
mayor
has
committed
millions
of
dollars
in
this
forthcoming
budget
on
top
of
tenant
advocacy
everything
else
that
was
mentioned.
A
We
want
to
do
what's
right,
for
the
people
do
the
the
do
it
the
right
way
so
that
we
don't
offer
false
hope.
We
offer
genuine
hope
and
we
help
people
with
this
crisis
that
we're
facing
so
I'll.
Stop
there,
but
I
just
wanted
to
thank
you
and
everyone
publicly
for
all
your
hard
work
in
this.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
J
Thank
you,
mr
chairman.
This
great
presentation
is
usually
thank
you
before
the
workshop.
I
have
about
three
questions
I
want
to
ask
you
about:
one
will
be
juneteenth.
J
The
other
one
will
be
to
get
a
clear
understanding
of
the
employee's
salaries.
I
understand
about
the
atu's,
the
police
and
fire,
but
I
have
a
ton
of
letters
from
other
employees
that
are
saying
that
they're
not
included
or
their
numbers
are
not
where
the
other
unionized
people
are.
So
we'll
have
a
discussion
about
that,
because
that
concerns
me
honestly
show
that
we're
on
the
right
page
on
that
and.
J
That's
my
train
of
thought
on
the
last
one,
but
I
it'll
come
back,
but
please
you're,
obviously
gonna
schedule
an
appointment,
we'll
talk
about
three
issues.
I
want
to
talk
about.
A
I'm
gonna
echo
everyone's
thanks.
This
is
my
first
budget,
so
getting
the
first
overview
is
great,
but
I
I'm
gonna
echo
the
interest
in
salaries
for
those
not
covered
by
the
unions,
and
I
also
echo
the
interest
in
housing.
5.5
million
from
the
general
fund,
there's
20
million
from
elsewhere,
but
I
really
I
wanted
more
money,
and
so
I
I
would
love
to
get
with
you,
and
so
you
can
explain
where
that
money's
going.
So
I
expect
to
talk
about
that
quite
a
bit
in
the
workshop.
Yes,
ma'am.
M
Thank
you,
mr
chairman.
I
appreciate
everyone's
comments,
especially
yours
dennis.
Thank
you,
you're
an
outstanding
individual.
You
always
do
a
great
presentation
and
factually
you're
100
correct.
Sometimes
you
make
a
mistake,
but
I
don't
catch
it,
however,
and
reviewing
all
these
things
when
you
talk
about
housing
and
so
forth,
and
so
on,
there's
another
factor
of
housing
that
comes
with
responsibility,
no
one's
addressed
just
because
we
built
a
house
and
just
because
we
call
it
affordable
how
really
affordable
is
it
number
two?
M
M
M
Why
is
it
that
we
don't
think
out
of
the
box
and
I'm
sure
you
might
already
thought
of
this
about
having
some
type
of
a
system
within
the
city
of
tampa's
preview
of
saying
you
not
we're
not
going
to
force
you
to
do
these
things,
but
these
are
the
things
that
may
be
acceptable.
If
you
want
to
do
it,
electricity
usually
runs
in
a
house
between
100
to
200
a
month.
M
So
if
you
install
it
when
you're
building,
I
would
imagine
you
can
get
a
better
price
than
you
can
if
you're
solid,
when
you're
not
building
because
you're
doing
one
house
at
a
time,
if
you've
got
fiberglass,
you
might
get
a
discount
and
I'm
just
throwing
these
things
out.
That's
number
one
number
two:
why
is
it
that
all
houses
that
we
built
have
eaves.
M
M
M
M
Why
don't
we
start
a
some
type
of
a
program
where
we
have
architects
draw
something
to
see
who
has
the
best
housing
without
eaves
that
way
they
whoever's
buying
those
houses
can
get
a
a
lower
rate
on
the
insurance.
M
M
When
you
go
pay,
that's
number
one
number
two,
however,
number
two
may
not
be
too
friendly
to
the
city,
because,
usually
when
you
do
that
those
taxes
that
you're
collecting
and
so
forth,
and
so
on,
that
are
added
on
to
electric
bill
or
whatever
gas
or
whatever
you
use.
That
also
goes
down.
M
M
And
it's
then
back
on
solar.
I'm
sure
I
brought
this
up
before,
but
we
have
to
do
something
in
the
canals
to
put
solar
panels
to
reduce
the,
especially
in
close
to
the
water
plant,
to
reduce
the
amount
of
evaporation
that
you
have
on
water,
an
open
body
of
water
like
a
reservoir,
we
usually
do
use
10
to
50
percent
every
single
day
on
evaporation.
M
So
what
I'm
saying
is
why
don't
we
start
something
to
do
that
on
our
canals
on
a
reservoir,
so
that
a
the
evaporation
is
much
less
than
10
or
15
percent?
And
you
save
six
seven,
whatever
millions
of
gallons
a
day,
you
can't
reuse
again
for
the
public,
you
don't
have
to
buy
water
at
during
times.
Possibly
are
you
pushing
that
button?
Mr
chairman
councilman.
M
Seconds
all
right,
thank
you,
sir,
and
and
I
I
just
want
to
see
something
done-
that
everybody
can
use
not
only
in
affordable
housing.
A
house
has
been
built
for
20
years
that
has
a
capable
roof
of
holding
it.
They
can
apply
anyone,
that's
going
to
build
something
or
buy
something
or
even
a
landlord
is
going
to
do
something
do
something
to
the
tenants
that
he
has
can
do
that.
So
these
are
the
things
that
I
always
look
at.
M
I
I
and
I
that's
the
way
I
think-
and
so
I
just
like
to
see
if
it's
possible,
I'm
not
saying
you
have
to
do
it,
it
would
be
advantageous
if
we
had
a
some
type
of
a
program
to
help
the
people
help
themselves,
not
believe
in
everything
we're
going
to
do
so
that
they
have
the
right
to
say,
choose
or
not,
shoot
we're
not
saying
you
got
to
do
it,
but
if
you
don't
do
it,
I
don't
know
how
long
you're
going
to
live
in
that
house
because
the
way
wages
are
they
don't
keep
up
with
prices
of
anything.
M
When
you
look
at
electric
cars-
and
you
start
buying
them
you're
going
to
realize
you
pay
a
lot
more
for
them,
you
do
for
something
that's
combustible.
However,
you
get
a
much
longer
use
of
the
car,
and
certainly
your
expenses
on
fuel
and
oil
changes
and
replacement
of
the
radiator
you're
going
to
save,
because
you
don't
have
any
so.
These
are
the
things
that
I
try
to
extend
myself
to
personally,
and
I
try
to
share
it
with
others
to
start
doing
something
to
help
yourself.
M
N
Thank
you,
mr
chair
and
mr
rogero.
Thank
you
for
your
presentation.
Like
others
have
said,
you're
you're,
always
a
pleasure
to
work
with.
I
remember
first
working
with
you
in
the
fiscal
year
18
budget
in
2017
and
you're
always
diligent
and
a
professional,
and
always
appreciate
you,
and
I
appreciate
all
the
people
sitting
behind
you
as
well,
who
help
to
make
our
city
run.
N
Department,
heads
and
others
just
know
that
you
are
all
appreciated,
and
I
appreciate
you,
you
know
one
of
the
things
that
I
see
here
is
we're
addressing
an
ongoing
storm
and
then
a
future
storm
in
this
budget.
The
the
future
potential
storm,
of
course,
of
fiscal
havoc.
We
don't
know,
what's
going
to
happen
with
the
economy,
people
mention
the
r
word
recession
a
lot.
We
don't
know
what's
going
to
happen,
so
it's
good
to
be
fiscally
sensible.
N
In
a
time
when
you
know
we
can
use
funds
for
reserves,
etc,
etc,
because
we
don't
know
what
the
future
holds,
but
we
know
that
there
always
are
going
to
be
necessities
in
the
future
that
have
to
be
funded,
regardless
of
what
happens
with
regards
to
the
present
storm.
That
others
have
have
mentioned
with
affordable
housing.
It's
good
to
see
funds
in
that
we
can
have
a
a
a
discussion
on
that,
etc.
N
This
is
a
large
overview
of
the
budget,
so
we'll
get
a
little
bit
more
into
the
weeds,
I'm
glad
to
see
also
the
fire
station
24,
something
that's
very,
very
important.
You
know
this
council
and
this
city
have
gotten
behind
the
idea
of
a
public
safety
master
plan
where
we
take
a
look
at
all
of
our
city,
see
where
our
present
deficits
are
see
where
our
future
deficits
are
and
having
that
long-term
vision
with
both
police
and
fire.
N
I
think
the
the
biggest
critical
deficit
that
we
have
through
our
city
obviously
is
with
fire
stations.
So
I
know
we'll
have
a
a
very
good
discussion
on
that.
But
again
I
just
wanted
to
thank
everybody
behind
you
and
you,
sir,
for
your
professionalism
and
for
all
your
hard
work.
We
appreciate
you.
Thank
you.
Thank.
L
F
Sir,
mr
o'hara
you've
heard
nothing
but
great
things
from
council
members
and
I
too
thank
you.
Thank
you
for
the
great
job
that
you
have
have
done
for
us
on
this
budget
presentation,
and
I
look
forward
to
working
with
you.
You
and
I
have
had
many
conversations
on
what
I'm
looking
for
out
of
this
budget
housing,
not
long
term,
but
what
we
can
do
as
soon
as
possible.
Number
two,
our
workforce
you've
heard
me
many
many
times
saying
we
need
more
we're
more
people
coming
to
this
city.
F
We
need
more
workforce,
permitting
inspections,
fire
police
because
through
a
tuition
attrition
excuse
me
we're
having
people
leaving
retiring
and
whatnot,
and
it
seems
to
me
that
it's
starting
to
be
middle
management
in
everything
and
we
need
to
keep
those
positions
filled.
F
F
A
We
felt
that
it
was
responsible
in
working
with
the
office
of
community
engagement
to
have
a
representative
here
from
janelle's
office
for
every
meeting.
That
way
when
there
is
public
comment
that
requires
some
immediate
action.
They
can
be
triaged
and
work
with
immediately,
so
janelle
is
going
to
have,
particularly
today
mr
frank
crum
available.
A
So
if
anything,
surfaces
from
public
comment-
because
I
know
council
is
limited
in
the
engagement
for
public
honor,
especially
when
there
may
be
so
many
of
them
on
so
many
critical
things,
but
right
in
the
hallway,
we
can
take
that
information
triage.
It
figure
out
what
we
can
do
and
at
least
refer
or
handle
those
things
immediately
on
behalf
of
council
and
the
city
and
hopefully
that
level
of
service
will
continue,
and
I
want
to
thank
janelle's
office
and
osea's
office
for
for
bringing
that
opportunity
forward.
F
Thank
you
chief,
and
thank
you,
mr
crump,
for
taking
on
this
bishop.
Yes,
councilwoman
hertag.
A
I
want
to
say
thank
you
for
that.
I
I
love
the
idea
of
having
someone
here
that
can
take
that
information,
and
I
know
also
they
have
these
for
folks
to
pick
up.
This
is
the
housing
hotline
number
and
some
flyers
that
to
make
sure
you
share
with
the
community.
So
if
you
don't
have
time
to
stop
and
give
your
information
today,
that
will
be
available.
F
A
F
And,
ladies
and
gentlemen,
before
we
start
there
is
also
people
waiting
downstairs
to
give
public
comment.
So
after
you
give
your
public
comment,
would
you
please
exit
out
through
these
doors
so
that
we
may
allow
other
people
to
come
in
and
give
their
comment?
I'm
going
to
ask
that
when
you
speak,
please
give
your
name
and
if
you
are
a
citizen,
a
resident
of
the
city
of
tampa
miss
burton.
H
F
H
And
so
the
reason
why
I
wanted
to
hear
present
with
me
this
morning,
because,
as
we
are
talking
about
comprehensive
plans
that
are
going
to
expand
for
maybe
up
into
2045-
and
we
are
dealing
with
this
budget
this
morning,
I
am
of
the
impression
that
people
are
not
still
hearing
the
dire
need
of
this
community.
H
We
cannot
talk
about
a
5.5
million
dollar
budget,
a
set-aside
of
funding
for
housing
when
that
is
the
most
greatest
issue
of
today
number
one
tampa
hillsborough
county
is
number
one
in
recidivism
of
people
coming
from
prison
and
turning
around.
Basically,
because
why
can't
find
jobs
can't
find
housing,
and
so
they
might
be
part
of
the
population?
That's
on
the
lower
lower
bar,
but
right
now
people
that
have
section
8
vouchers.
H
H
Anything
of
that
sort,
because
you
know
why
developers
are
not
interested
in
that,
and
so
I
don't
want
to
accuse
the
administration
or
europe.
You
guys
have
just
been
deep
pocket
in
the
hands
of
developers,
but
this
is
a
capitalist
society
and
so
whether
revenue
and
profit,
that's
where
the
interest
lies,
we're
hoping
that
that
budget
be
reworked
and
that,
if
you
have
listened
to
us
for
the
past
two
or
three
years
more,
then
housing
will
be
top
priority,
not
just
in
conversation
but
with
more
funding.
Thank
you.
Thank
you,
mr
burton.
O
Uhuru
means
freedom
in
swahili
and
we
say
we
as
african
people
should
always
be
thinking
about
our
freedom.
One
thing
you
have
to
know
about
politicians
and
dealing
with
african
people.
Politicians
are
pimps,
none
more
nothing
less,
and
you
hear
the
way
they
treat
the
people
a
two
billion
dollar
budget:
five
million
dollars.
They
talk
about
housing,
everybody
in
here-
oh
my
sincere
apologies.
O
Everyone
here
is
lined
up
about
housing
and
five
million
dollar
insult.
That's
what
that
is
what
they
say
and
then
they
say
they
got
20
million
or
30
million
on
the
side
somewhere,
but
a
two
billion
dollar
budget,
1.9
billion
dollars.
But
the
fact
of
the
matter
is
we're
26
percent
of
this
population.
O
We
africans
in
this
city
of
tampa
is
26
of
this
population.
So
we
want
520
million
out
of
the
budget
plain
and
simple.
I
don't
care
what
we
do
with
it.
If
we
bought
bear
ice
cream
twerk
with
it
whatsoever
whatsoever,
we
did
with
it
it's
our
business,
so
we
have
to
start
there
and
we
have
to
start
retroactively
and
what
we're
owed
in
reparations
for
this
city.
You
have
to
talk,
reparations.
O
O
The
problem
is
exactly
how
the
ruling
class
organize
society
in
order
to
keep
all
the
wealth
resources,
ingenuity,
medicine,
land
materials,
environment,
technology,
space
exploration
and
everything
else
for
themselves.
The
problem
is
eleven
percent
of
the
white
population
in
the
world
using
and
taking
for
themselves.
Eighty
one
percent
of
the
world's
resources.
The
problem
is
an
eighteen
percent
pay
increase
that
this
city,
seeing
police
and
fire
got
last
week.
That's
one
of
the
problems
where
they
do
that
at
where
you
get
18
increase
in
your
job
or
walk.
Just
like
that,
it
don't
happen.
O
The
problem
is
them
willing
to
use
any
type
of
force
to
run
the
world
military
minds
in
the
form
of
business
people,
corporate
executives,
church
leaders,
teachers,
physicians,
little
old,
ladies
lgbt
right
wing,
left
wing,
white.
Moderates,
moderates
white
nationalists,
abortion
rights,
anti-abortion.
The
problem
is
capitalism.
O
The
problem
is
capitalism
reinventing
itself
from
from
from
serfdom
to
chatter
slavery,
to
wage
ownership.
To
now
high
technology,
that's
what
they're
doing
capitalism
reinventing
itself
and
the
problem
for
us
as
african
people
is
reparations.
The
problem
isn't
having
a
1.9
billion
dollar
budget
and
say
5
million
insult
for
people
dealing
with
housing.
You
can
go
outside
and
see
what
the
housing
situation
is
like
people
sleeping
on
the
sidewalk
that
we've
seen
on
our
way
here
to
city
council.
That's
deplorable,
absolutely.
J
Good
morning,
city
council,
chloe
coney,
I
live
2303
bandy
drive,
that's
in
the
county,
but
I
have
built
enough
houses,
apartments,
gotten
people,
jobs
and
children
to
college.
I
was
raised
in
west
tampa,
so
I
know
about
the
urban
core.
Okay.
So
again.
First
of
all,
I
want
to
thank
you
city
council,
for
your
vote
last
week
to
allow
the
citizens
to
vote
to.
Let
them
speak
to
let
their
voice
be
heard.
J
I
commend
all
of
you
and
thank
you
city,
councilman,
orlando
goose,
for
starting
that
okay,
so
I
I
tipped
my
hat
off
all
to
you
because
see
when
we're
talking
about
recession
and
the
great
recession
that
I
have
worked,
the
last
50
years,
we've
never
been
in
a
time
where
the
whole
world
was
shut
down
with
kovic
with
kovic,
and
we
know
who
was
hit
the
hardest.
It
was
the
poor,
low
income
and
moderate
people.
They
took
the
blood
of
this.
J
So
I'm
saying
that.
Thank
you,
because
you're
not
worried
about
a
lawsuit,
you're
worried
about
the
people.
The
people
themselves,
I'm
standing
here,
because
enough
is
enough.
I
get
enough
calls.
I
got
family
members
that
may
be
out
on
the
street
because
their
rent
is
increasing.
You
know
all
the
problems,
so
we
can't
sit
around
here
and
do
nothing.
We
cannot
do
nothing
so
again,
city,
council,
you
are
doing
what
is
right
and
we
can
say
that
we
look
at
cities
like
washington,
dc
and
new
york.
They
have
rent
control,
but
developers
still
building
houses.
J
So
we
know
it
could
be
done
and
again
we
know
laws
can
be
changed.
All
we
have
to
do
is
look
at
role
versus
wade
and
we
know
that
the
laws
can
be
changed.
So
we
can't
change
this.
We
heard
representative
diane
hart
last
week,
said
work
with
us
in
tallahassee.
J
I
believe
that
they
will
hear
our
cry
in
tallahassee,
if
not
like
you're
doing
here,
let
the
people
vote
and,
like
I
like
to
say
what
you're
doing
you're
saving
lives
for
those
seniors
that
are
sitting
out
here,
that
you've
heard
them
speak
you're,
saving
them
from
going
homeless
to
the
mothers
that
have
to
live
in
motels
and
don't
have
anywhere
to
stay
and
most
of
all,
one
of
my
saddest
and
I'm
in
with
this
case,
is
where
mothers
and
children
are
in
cars
and
dying.
So
again,
let's
save
lives.
And
again
I
commend
you.
A
Yes,
good
morning,
my
name
is
david
sinclair,
8434,
pebble
circle.
I
live
in
the
county,
however,
I'm
here
today
representing
lulac
the
league
of
united
latin
american
citizens,
I'm
the
deputy
council,
the
deputy
director
of
the
local
lulac
council,
I'm
here
to
read
the
statement
of
our
local
council
to
the
city
council
here
in
tampa.
A
P
Good
morning
my
name
is
craig
birchfield,
I'm
a
resident
of
the
city
of
tampa,
I'm
here
as
a
member
of
the
tampa
tennis
union
and
also
the
party
for
socialism
and
liberation.
I'm
also
here
in
solidarity
with
my
comrades
and
fellow
community
members
calling
for
action
on
housing
and
abortion.
P
I
think
it's
important
to
acknowledge.
There
are
two
groups
of
people
that
are
often
represented
that
are
only
represented
in
this
room,
because
these
two
groups
have
very
different
interests
on
each
of
these
issues
on
one
hand,
there's
the
ruling
class
landlords
developers,
bosses
and
business
owners
and
politicians
and
police
that
protect
their
interests.
P
On
the
other
hand,
there's
us
the
working
class
who
have
had
to
beg
the
council
to
scrounge
up
an
ounce
of
political
will
to
take
action
for
our
interest
time
and
time
again.
I
do
want
to
acknowledge
that,
with
the
exception
of
councilman
carlson,
the
council's
decision
to
start
the
process
of
putting
rent
control
on
the
ballot
is
appreciated.
P
P
We
can't
afford
to
not
be
militant
about
these
issues,
because,
right
now
the
working
class
of
tampa
faces
multiple
crises,
the
greed
of
the
ruling
class
prices
us
out
of
our
homes
and
forces
us
to
make
impossible
choices
about
which
bills
to
pay
the
ruling
classes
need
for
a
domestic
labor
supply
and
their
fascist
ideology
threatens
our
bodily
autonomy
and
access
to
health
care.
The
dependents
of
the
ruling
class
and
the
violence
of
tpd
to
protect
their
profits
and
property
have
robbed
us
of
resources
that
could
be
enriching
and
housing
our
community.
P
The
council
has
an
opportunity
to
stand
with
the
working
class
on
each
of
these
issues
by
ensuring
that
rent
control
is
on
the
ballot
in
november,
supporting
and
allocating
funding
for
city-owned
social
housing,
tenant
protections
and
housing.
First
programs
passing
an
ordinance
to
decriminalize
abortions
and
ending
the
tyranny
of
tbd
on
our
communities
and,
most
importantly,
our
budget.
If
you're
concerned
about
community
safety,
I
saw
that
the
tpd
is
still
36
of
that
general
budget
or
whatever
it
may
be.
P
Maybe
we
should
start
taking
money
from
them
and
allocated
to
housing,
because,
as
other
people
have
said,
five
million
dollars
is
honestly
a
slap
in
the
face.
It's
not
enough,
we
don't
need
more
tanks
and
we
don't
need
more
gear
for
our
cops.
What
we
need
is
housing.
What
we
need
is
community
safety.
P
We
can
have
a
tampa
that
works
for
the
working
class,
a
city
that
we
can
truly
be
proud
of,
and
one
that
sets
an
example
for
the
rest
of
our
state
suffering
from
a
fascist
state
government,
or
we
can
continue
to
have
a
tampa
that
answers
only
to
money.
I
ask
that
the
council
show
us
continued
action,
that
you
stand
with
the
working
class
and
against
those
whose
interests
are
counter
to
our
well-being.
P
A
A
Oh,
thank
you.
We
have
several
objects
in
tampa
bay.
One
of
this
is
west
river
flats
135
unit
community
in
west
river.
A
If
the
tenant
works
with
the
with
the
office
there,
for
instance
with
florida,
my
florida,
which
expired,
I
think,
right
now
in
the
last
last
month
or
so,
then
we
could
avoid
every
single
one
who
worked
with
them
to
get
evicted.
So
we
shared
the
helpline
you
mentioned
with
our
tenants.
A
One
example
why
rents
go
up
is
just
west
river
flats,
the
property
taxes
going
up
not
on
going
up
to
by
253
624
dollars
and
74
cents
in
the
last
year.
If
I
count
that
to
the
units,
then
roughly
every
unit
pays
200
more
just
for
tax
increase,
that's
not
including
the
insurance
increase,
that's
not,
including
the
increase
we
have
in
salaries
for
our
staff
on
site,
which
we
want
and
will
always
pay
decently
the
supply.
A
I
want
to
say
something
from
my
personal
experience:
I'm
from
berlin,
germany
in
berlin,
germany.
They
introduced
a
rant
cap,
basically
a
couple
of
years
ago,
and
in
the
months
the
law
was
imp
implemented.
The
supply
was
down
by
about
sixty
percent.
I
repeat,
sixty
percent,
so
sixty
percent,
less
units
to
rent
doesn't
good,
doesn't
do
any
good
for
for
the
community
and
for
the
renters
in
this
community
and
of
course,
what
is
the
result
is
nobody
will
invest
anymore?
A
F
B
Hello,
my
name
is
peyton
hoey
and
I'm
a
resident
of
tampa
and
a
proud
member
of
the
tenants
union.
I
am
here
today
because
the
working
people
of
tampa
have
been
suffering
under
a
housing
emergency
for
almost
two
years
now
and
right
now,
we've
reached
a
turning
point.
The
city
council
has
the
ability
to
dramatically
improve
the
situation
of
tenants
in
the
city
of
tampa
by
creating
a
tenant's
advocacy
office
and
by
allowing
the
people
of
tampa
to
vote
on
rent
control,
a
rent
control
measure
to
curb
rents
in
the
city.
B
B
We
demand
the
lowest
possible
percentage,
not
a
dime,
more
than
five
percent
and
more
money
for
public
city-owned
housing
in
the
upcoming
budget.
Attendance
advocacy
office
would
also
be
an
important
step
toward
housing
justice
in
tampa,
as
too
often
do
landlords
exploit
their
tenants
with
illegal
threats
of
eviction.
I've
seen
cases
time
and
time
again,
where
tenants
don't
realize
they
can
fight
back
against
wrongful
evictions
and
unlawful
lease
termination
or
do
not
have
the
resources
they
need
to
do
so.
B
Therefore,
this
investment
in
tenant
advocacy
is
a
necessary
step
for
the
city.
If
city
council
puts
a
serious
rent
control
measure
on
the
ballot
working
class,
people
will
show
up
and
vote
for
it.
The
people
are
ready
for
rent
control
to
be
on
the
ballot,
and
the
people
are
ready
to
see
the
city
take
a
more
active
role
in
fighting
the
housing
emergency.
B
G
Hi
good
morning
my
name
is
princess
mendoza,
I'm
a
resident
of
tampa
and
I've
been
a
property
manager
for
about
13
years
here
in
the
state
of
florida.
Today
I
will
be
talking
about
the
rent
control
from
landlords.
From
the
landlord's
point
of
view,
inflation
has
not
only
affected
residents
by
being
forced
to
pay
a
higher
rent
increase
in
the
past
two
years,
but
has
also
made
a
huge
financial
impact
on
us
as
landlords
as
well.
For
example,
our
property
taxes
have
increased
over
37
percent
in
the
last
year.
G
G
Our
utility
consumption
has
gone
up
by
an
average
of
15
percent
due
to
higher
utility
rates
and
residents
lifestyle
changes.
Many
residents
have
been
working
from
home.
Therefore,
our
consumption
has
increased
considerably
in
the
past
two
years.
Our
company
understand
that
our
employees
are
also
consumers
and
have
also
been
affected
by
the
economy.
We
have
made
the
decision
to
raise
salaries,
which
also
have
caused
a
higher
payroll
cost.
G
Despite
this
cost
increases,
we
have
been
doing
all
we
can
to
help
our
residents
through
difficult
times
that
we
are,
in
our
property,
welcomed,
section,
a
residence
which,
right
now
it
makes
up
to
41
of
our
lease
units.
Over
the
last
couple
of
years,
we
have
also
worked
with
residents
to
get
them
held
from
our
florida
and
the
r3
program,
and
we
plan
to
do
the
same
with
the
city's
rental
assistance
program.
G
We
also
have
not
increased
our
rental
prices
in
the
past
five
months,
not
because
we
were
forced
by
some
government
mandate,
but
because
we
want
to
help
our
residents
tying.
Our
hands
with
rent
control
creates
uncertainty.
G
M
Good
morning
my
name
is
robert
griffiths,
I'm
a
20
year
resident
of
tampa
when
I
first
came
to
tampa
20
earth.
I'm
sorry,
35
years
ago
I
was
very
involved
with
the
bay
area
apartment
association.
I
grew
to
be
a
former
today,
a
former
president
of
the
bay
area
apartment
association
and
will
tell
you
that
the
bay
area
apartment
association
is
very
much
in
favor
of
trying
to
work
things
out
an
applicable
situation.
M
They
do
work
with
city
council.
Some
of
my
people
from
behind
me
have
actually
been
on
some
of
the
some
of
your
meetings
before
bay
area.
Apartment
association
cares
about
their
their
residence.
They
want
to
make
sure
that
things
are
all
right,
but
I
asked
city
council
to
look
at
a
few
things.
On
the
other
side,
if
you
will
of
rent
control,
rent
control
in
other
cities
has
created
some
problems.
M
If
you
look
at
saint
paul
minnesota,
it
actually
stopped
a
lot
of
the
growth
and
I
commend
the
city,
the
council,
the
mayor
for
the
growth
that
you're
trying
to
do
in
tampa.
I
think
you're
doing
a
wonderful
job
with
the
growth
you're
trying
to
bring
in
new
businesses
new
people
in
doing
that,
you
need
apartments.
M
Apartments
are
here
to
try
to
help
residents
and
try
to
work
through
these
things.
Landlords
do
have
expenses,
just
like
the
residents
do.
Landlords
have
taxes
that
increase
their
expenses
are
increased
all
the
time.
So
I
realize
there's
got
to
be
a
balance,
so
I
hope
that
you'll
look
at
things
like
sadowsky
fund
back
in
tallahassee
is
a
fund
that
has
created
a
fund
to
try
to
help
for
low-income
residents
for
for
housing,
but
yet
there's
for
years
they
took
the
money
from
sadowsky
and
took
it
and
did
other
things
with
it.
M
I
ask
you
to
look
at
tallahassee
to
try
to
help
you
in
your
growth
and
to
try
to
find
ways
to
get
your
money
that
you
need
for
your
growth
for
new
apartments.
Apartments
are
important
with
your
growth.
You
have
to
have
people
for
housing,
so
I
would
hope
that
you
look
at
tampa
bay.
Please
work
with
the
bay
area
apartment
association.
There
are
two
sides
of
every
story.
I
appreciate
your
time.
Thank
you
for
your
help.
Thank
you.
P
Hello,
my
name
is
chris
carlson,
I'm
a
city
of
tampa
resident,
I'm
a
hospital
social
worker
and
I'm
a
member
of
the
tampa
democratic
socialist
of
america.
I'm
here
to
voice
support
for
a
resolution
tampa
dsa
drafted
in
collaboration
with
council
member
hertak
regarding
decriminalizing
abortion
city-wide.
P
As
we
all
know,
the
robe
wearing
medieval
magistrates
on
the
supreme
court
have
decided
is
within
their
power
to
right
away
our
basic
rights
to
health
care
and
bodily
autonomy.
As
a
result,
the
writing
is
on
the
wall
from
tallahassee
when
it
comes
to
criminalizing
abortion.
With
the
passing
of
house
bill
5
for
many
pregnant
people
in
florida,
it's
already
criminalized.
P
I
can
tell
you
my
patients
are
scared.
My
colleagues
working
in
health
care
are
scared
and
I
am
scared.
I
am
scared.
I
am
soon
going
to
live
in
a
world
where
my
patients
won't
be
allowed
access
to
the
full
range
of
reproductive
health
care
they
need
and
deserve.
I
am
scared.
Innocent
people
will
be
thrown
in
jail.
I
am
scared.
Thousands
of
health
care
workers
will
no
longer
want
to
work
in
florida
and
I
am
scared.
P
People
are
going
to
die
guaranteed
access
to
abortion
is
a
deciding
factor
in
long-term
health,
safety
and
quality
of
life.
This
is
basic
public
health,
eliminating
that
access
is
cruel
and
deadly
enforcing
its
criminalization,
no
matter
what
tallahassee
says
or
may
end
up
saying
would
be
the
work
of
cowards.
I've
just
been
notified
that
state
attorney
andrew
warren
has
been
suspended
by
governor
ron
desantis
for
his
actions
in
in
the
city
of
tampa
in
hillsborough
county,
and
I
commend
him
for
him.
Taking
a
stand.
P
The
city
council's
support
for
this
resolution
is
the
bare
minimum,
but
it
would
signal
to
the
tampa
community
that
the
council
is
publicly
willing
to
defend
our
basic
liberties
against
those
who
are
viciously
trying
to
take
them
away.
This
resolution
also
provides
a
framework
for
something
more
something
binding
intangible.
This
is
only
a
first
step.
This
fight
is
just
the
beginning,
and
I
assure
you,
you'll
be
hearing
from
me
in
tampa
dsa
again,
thank
you
to
everybody
who
supports
this
resolution
and
thank
you
to
councilmember
hertag
for
having
the
courage
to
put
it
forward.
P
Another
thing:
every
day
I
go,
I
go
to
work
in
the
hospital
I
am
face
to
face
with
patients
who
are
homeless
or
on
the
brink
of
homelessness.
Patients
regularly
tell
me
they
feel
their
government
has
abandoned
them,
that
they
have
no
options,
that
they're
done
bouncing
from
homeless,
shelter
to
homeless
shelter,
and
they
don't
know
how
they're
going
to
carry
on
solidarity
with
everyone
here
who
is
courageously
fighting
for
better
housing
conditions
and
solidarity
forever.
Thank
you.
H
The
protection
of
human
rights
for
all
individuals
is
very
important
to
the
dsa,
and
we
declare
that
access
to
safe
and
legal
abortions
is
a
human
right.
Anti-Abortion
legislation
is
a
threat
to
the
health,
safety
and
quality
of
life
of
any
individual
who
can
become
pregnant
individuals
who
can
become
pregnant
in
many
instances,
are
already
a
marginalized
group,
and
now
for
so
many
of
them
across
this
country,
their
bodily
autonomy
has
been
taken
away
as
well.
H
H
H
A
limit
on
abortion
on
abortions
such
as
hb5,
is
dangerous,
and
that
worst
case
scenario
a
victim
cannot
terminate
their
pregnancy
in
their
own
state
unless
they
are
literally
dying
from
that
pregnancy.
I
do
not
understand
how
this
is
considered
pro-life
and
every
day.
I
question
how
this
is
happening
in
an
advanced
society
such
as
ours.
H
The
members
of
the
tampa
dsa
do
not
accept
any
limits
on
abortion
and
reproductive
health
care.
We
demand
access
to
safe
and
legal
abortions
for
all
individuals
at
any
time.
For
any
reason,
today,
I'm
urging
the
council
to
vote
on
passing
a
resolution
that
was
drafted
in
collaboration
with
mr
attack
and
that
my
fellow
dsa
members
worked
so
hard
and
did
an
amazing
job
with
recent
polls
show
that
most
floridians
support
access
to
safe
abortions,
and
I
think
your
decision
today
should
be
a
reflection
of
what
people
want.
L
P
P
Deal
with
five
or
six
housing
authorities
in
multiple
counties,
so
we're
very
familiar
with
the
programs
that
are
out
there,
the
housing
situations
that
are
occurring
and
are
concerned
as
many
as
the
citizens
in
this
room.
However,
my
question
is:
what
is
the
emergency
we
are
addressing
here?
We
have
a
declaration
for
an
emergency.
Is
that
because
rents
are
too
high?
Is
that
because
there's
not
enough
units
to
be
rented,
that
answer
ultimately
will
drive
what
you
guys
are
being
asked
to
do
here.
P
The
studies
we
have
seen
regarding
rent
control
do
not
offer
solutions
for
more
housing.
They
do
just
the
opposite.
They
reduce
the
amount
of
housing
that
is
there
just
like
many
of
these
residents.
Our
owners
of
these
homes
and
of
these
multi-family
units
are
experiencing
the
same
increases
in
milk.
Gas
insurance
costs
taxes.
P
P
P
To
encourage
people
to
bring
more
units
into
the
rental
space,
maybe
that's
an
additional
zoning
trying
to
get
a
small
multi-family,
triplex
podplex
is
impossible.
We
have
investors
lined
up.
That
would
gladly
offer
those
units-
those
are
generally
lower
income
units
just
based
on
the
size
and
necessity
of
them.
So
there
are
multiple
other
ways.
This
can
be
addressed
truly
believe
that
rent
control
is
not
one
of
them.
There
is
a
crisis
out
there,
but
let's
define
what
that
is,
so
we
can
better
define
how
we
fix
it.
R
All
right
good
morning,
council,
my
name
is
harrison
lundy.
I
live
right
outside
of
tampa,
so
not
exactly
a
resident,
but
I
am
representing
the
tampa
democratic
socialists
of
america
as
well
as
florida
for
change.
I
was
here
last
week
to
comment
on
the
tpd
raise
and
the
housing
crisis,
and
so
I'm
here
this
week
to
stress
those
things.
R
As
you
know,
you
know
many
of
us
have
been
fighting
for
this
for
several
years,
and
so
I
want
to
make
it
clear,
especially
to
the
mayor's
office.
The
decision
of
last
week
to
declare
a
housing
state
of
emergency
was
not
made
because
the
city
council
was
feeling
nice.
It
was
made
because
of
community
pressure,
and
since
nobody
on
the
council
comes
to
our
actions,
I
do
check.
R
I
guess
it's
something
to
declare
a
state
of
emergency,
but
is
that,
but
we
have
to
ask
ourselves:
is
that
really
all
we
can
do
seder
is
an
issue,
throw
our
hands
up
and
then
throw
five
million
dollars
at
the
way
like
people
were
saying,
that's
a
slap
in
the
face,
because
this
fiscal
plan
may
look
good
to
some
people,
but
us
in
the
organizing
space
know
that
we
are
capable
of
more
because
working
class
people
are
suffering.
Houseless
people
are
suffering.
R
Folks,
don't
have
the
time
to
worry
about
the
intricacies
of
a
budget
when
they're
worried
that
their
landlord
could
kick
them
out
at
any
moment
when
it
comes
to
the
quality
of
housing.
Let's
remember
where
tampa
is
geographically
it's
time
for
green
new
deal.
Union
jobs
that
transfer
more
of
our
energy
from
electric
to
solar.
R
That's
why
we
need
to
be
pushing
for
a
non-faith-based,
unconditional
community
housing
program,
much
like
what
is
being
done
in
texas
right
now.
In
certain
cities,
money
is
going
towards
housing.
So
I
guess,
let's
not
discount
that,
but
as
far
as
I
can
tell,
it
looks
like
we're
just
making
the
issues
look
pretty
as
opposed
to
making
them
gone.
R
Additionally,
I
know
myself
and
other
folks
at
dsa
are
encouraging
you
to
look
into
creating
more
ordinances
around
abortion
access.
I
know
I
myself
would
like
to
push
for
a
recreation
of
the
grace
act
like
has
been
done
in
austin
texas,
in
addition
to
housing,
community,
policing
and
more
abortion
access
remains
unclear
in
current
type
of
politics,
based
on
people
that
we
talk
to
again
on
the
ground,
we've
researched
into
other
cities
before,
and
so
it
is
time
to
address
the
issue
of
abortion,
because
no
remember
what
state
we
live
in.
R
S
Now
realtors
we
don't
have
pension
plans,
we
don't
have
401ks,
we
have
what
we
call
the
realtor
retirement
plan.
You
have
a
good
year
in
real
estate
and
you
put
a
down
payment
on
a
rental
property
and
we
hope
that
over
the
years
as
we
get
towards
retirement
that
those
rental
properties
we
purchase
will
generate
enough
income,
so
we
can
actually
get
to
retire.
S
S
If
my
tenant
gets
home
tonight
this
evening
and
their
homes
100
degrees,
I'm
going
to
take
that
call,
and
my
next
call
is
going
to
be
to
try
to
find
a
ac
company
that
can
get
out
there
and
get
that
ac
fixed
tonight.
So
they
can
have
a
cool
house
and
can
sleep
and
I'll
take
that
call
for
any
urgent
maintenance
at
6,
00
pm
or
10
pm
or
2
a.m.
Any
day
of
the
week
or
the
weekend,
I
I
own
a
single
family
home
in
south
tampa
that
I
rent
for
8.75
a
month.
S
Now,
if
you
know
south
tampa
you'll
know
that's
a
very
low
rent.
But
my
tenants
are
wonderful
people,
they've
rented
from
me
for
19
years,
and
I
know
that's
all
they
can
afford
eventually
when
they
decide
to
leave
I'll,
be
able
to
raise
the
rent
and
stop
losing
money
unless
tampa
implements
rent
control.
S
The
future
is
uncertain
and
landlords
like
me,
worry
about
our
future
costs.
If
we're
constrained
by
rent
control
and
because
of
that
uncertainty
and
tampers
hot
real
estate
market,
many
small
private
landlords
may
choose
to
sell
and
that's
my
concern
with
rent
control.
There
are
thousands
of
small
landlords
in
the
city
of
tampa
and
if
they
choose
to
sell,
that's
going
to
be
thousands
of
rental
units
out
of
the
rental
inventory,
that's
going
to
help
hurt
the
very
people
we're
trying
to
help
the
people
that
want
to
live
and
rent
in
our
city.
S
P
So
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
provide
comment
this
morning
on
the
rent
control
measure,
I'm
a
senior
market
analyst
for
aln
apartment
data,
which
is
a
multi-family
data
provider
and
market
research
firm
in
the
space
I've
been
in
the
apartment
industry
for
almost
10
years,
both
in
texas
and
now
in
tampa,
and
I've
gotten
to
know
some
amazing
people
in
the
industry.
During
that
time,
not
only
at
meetings,
conferences,
trade
shows,
but
also
community
service
events
and
continuing
education
courses
where
people
are
trying
to
improve
their
skill
sets
to
to
improve
their
services.
P
It
was
inspiring
to
see
how
so
many
in
the
industry
responded
to
the
unprecedented
challenge
of
the
pandemic.
Custom
payment
plans
waived
late
fees,
helping
residents
figure
out
what
aid
may
be
available
to
them
and
how
to
access
it
and
other
measures
were
widespread
in
the
industry.
My
experience
in
this
industry
has
been
worlds
away
from
the
common
corporate
greed
caricatures.
P
The
incredible
people
that
work
in
the
apartment
industry
are
neighbors
constituents
and
members
of
the
community
who
take
pride
in
working
in
an
industry
that
does
something
as
critical
as
provide
homes
for
people,
though
explosive
rent
growth
over
the
last
year
to
year
and
a
half
has
exacerbated
a
real
affordability
issue.
This
rent
growth
has
been
fueled
by
market
forces,
well-meaning
policy
and
broader
economic
influences.
P
Widespread
inflation,
fast,
rising,
labor
costs
and
supply
chain
issues
have
led
to
delays
and
higher
costs
across
the
board.
Just
about
everything
costs
more
right
now
for
everyone,
including
landlords.
This
rent
growth
issue
has
also
not
been
unique
to
tampa
or
even
to
florida.
This
has
been
a
nationwide
problem
in
markets
with
rent
control
and
markets
without
rent
control,
a
major
supply
demand.
Imbalance
was
created
last
year
when
almost
twice
as
many
units
were
newly
leased
in
tampa
then
were
delivered.
P
In
other
words,
the
market
has
already
started
to
rebalance
itself
in
the
rush
to
just
do
something
to
solve
a
problem.
It
is
also
in
everyone's
interest
to
make
sure
the
problem
actually
gets
solved
talking
with
operators
in
rent-controlled
markets.
I
know
how
frustrated
they
are
to
keep
their
operations
even
running,
and
many
are
looking
to
exit
those
markets
which
again
reduces
supply.
Tampa
needs
to
continue
the
trajectory
of
investment
and
new
housing
development,
we're
on
and
not
copy
a
policy
that
we
know
will
send
that
investment
away.
P
P
P
P
P
P
Together,
we
have
two
beautiful
daughters
and
a
life
I
never
dreamed
of.
There
are
so
many
people
orphaned
by
addiction.
My
niece
is
one
of
them.
I
lost
my
brother
in
february.
There
are
so
many
burdens
being
carried
by
grandparents,
and
so
many
children
slipping
through
the
cracks
all
around
us.
Safety
nets
are
being
pulled
out
from
under
us,
while
more
resources
go
to
mechanisms
of
brutality,
oppression
and
exploitation
supports
for
the
millions.
Like
my
brother,
and
I
are
few
and
inadequate,
I
believe
things
happen
for
a
reason.
I
have
a
higher
power.
P
O
Good
morning,
council,
my
name
is
ditullio
gonzalez
militieri.
I
am
a
citizen
and
resident
of
the
city
I
wanted
to
make
it.
I
want
to
make
it
abundantly
clear
that
that
governor
desantis
is
a
fascist
coward
and
in
the
city
of
tampa,
fascists
aren't
welcome,
but
to
the
the
issues
of
the
hour,
housing
is
a
fundamental
human
right.
O
That's
according
to
the
un
human
rights
council,
that's
not
according
to
me,
so
I'd
like
to
begin
by
commending
city
council
for
having
the
foresight
and
the
courage
to
put
the
declaration
of
a
housing
state
of
emergency
on
the
ballot.
That
was
awesome.
O
O
A
report
in
may
said
that
housing
affordability
in
tampa
has
decreased
by
36.1
percent.
This
doesn't
have
to
be
the
case
with
rent
stabilization
measures
in
place.
The
housing
market
will
cool
while
more
affordable
housing
is
built
to
meet
the
city's
needs,
but
we
also
have
to
be
creative
in
our
search
for
solutions.
Cities
across
the
country
have
invested
heavily
in
emergency
rental
assistance
programs.
O
O
Okay,
they've
also
taken
the
bold
stance
to
seal
any
eviction
records
of
people
who
have
been
evicted
during
this
period.
I
think
that's
something
that's
worth
looking
into,
especially
as
people
are
being
displaced
during
these
tumultuous
times.
Cleveland
and
philadelphia
have
also
stepped
up
through
the
implementation
of
a
tenant
landlord
remediation
ordinance
so
basically,
before
somebody's
evicted,
there's
a
30-day
remediation
counseling
process
between
the
landlord
and
the
tenant
to
avoid
eviction.
O
That's
an
awesome
eviction,
diversionary
program
and
they've,
also
partnered
with
they've
also
implemented
cities
across
the
nation,
implemented
right
to
legal
counsel
and
partnerships
with
ngos
and
eviction
diversion
programs.
The
aforementioned
programs
have
been
able
to
function
the
way
that
they
do
through
the
unequivocal
support
of
the
biden
harris
administration.
So
you
are
not
alone
all
right.
It's
time
for
tampa
and
the
mayor
to
step
up
for
the
council
and
to
continue
stepping
up
5.5
million
for
housing.
Affordability
isn't
enough!
Thank
you.
T
Hey
how
y'all
doing
my
name
is
david
jones
and
I'm
a
resident
of
excuse
me.
My
name
is
david
johnson,
I'm
a
resident
of
north
tampa
yeah.
It
came
today
to
speak
a
bit
about
the
citizens
review
board
meeting
that
happened
last
week
where
they
put
forth
a
motion
to
recommend
that
you
all
put
forth
a
motion
to
give
them
the
right
to
subpoena
and
putting
that
on
the
upcoming
ballot.
I
think
that's
good.
T
That
board
is
built
to
give
real
police
accountability
in
our
community
and
if
that
board
is
meant
to
review
what
the
police
is
doing,
they
should
be
able
to
have
the
full
ability
to
do
so,
especially
as
we're
seeing
this
18
increase
in
these
officers,
wages
and
with
the
upcoming
cop
budget
for
this
next
year,
being
about
40
percent
of
the
general
fund
at
200
million
dollars,
especially
when
you
know
folks
have
come
in
in
these
meetings.
T
What
the
last
six
months
saying
that
the
housing,
the
housing
crisis
is
the
number
one
thing
y'all
are
saying
that
the
housing
crisis
is
the
number
one
thing
in
this
budget:
it's
only
putting
up
5.5
million
to
that
which
ends
up
amounting
to
what
one
percent
of
that
general
fund.
You
know,
that's
not
enough
to
fix
these
issues.
You
know
all
these
residents
that
have
come
up
speaking
aren't
going
to
be
residents
in
a
year.
If
this
housing
crisis
isn't
fixed,
you
know
yeah.
T
So
excuse
me
so
talking
a
bit
about
the
money
there
is
that
40
going
to
cops
there
is
the
approximate
20
000
dollar
raise
that
all
of
y'all
are
getting
with
those
salaries
going
from
around
50k
to
70k.
I
believe
they
said,
and
you
know
once
again
we're
getting
beans
from
the
city.
The
working
people
of
the
city
are
getting
beans
and
that's
not
gonna
help
us
out.
T
Somebody
else
will
speak
about
it
in
a
second,
but
our
group's
putting
forth
or
ordinance
about
the
housing
that
should
have
been
sent
to
y'all
this
last
week.
If
it
hasn't
been,
it
will
be
by
the
right
now.
T
Just
to
put
more
money
for
that
when
y'all
put
wrote
that
resolution
a
couple
months
ago,
adding
four
million
dollars
to
the
rental
assistance
program
that
it
only
ended
up
helping
what
500
people
overall
when
y'all
added
it
up
to
that
500
when
y'all
got
that
to
five
million
dollars
overall,
and
we
see
that
that
hasn't
had
the
impact
that
it
needs
to
have
to
like
really
fix
the
problem
and
attack
the
heart
of
this
problem.
T
So
yeah
just
asking
that
in
this
budget
update
that
y'all
continue
to
demand
more
money
for
housing,
yeah
yeah.
Thank
you.
Councilman.
C
A
Sir,
I
just
wanted
to
let
you
know
that
last
week
I
actually
requested
legal
to
prepare
and
present
a
draft
ordinance
to
put
the
citizen
review
board
subpoena
power
and
independent
counsel
on
the
ballot.
So
I
have
asked
for
that.
It's
coming
up
to
the
workshop
on
september
22nd
at
9
00
am
cool,
so
I
just
want
to
let
you
know.
S
Hello,
my
name
is
joe
nahava,
I'm
president
of
tampa,
and
I'm
here
on
behalf
of
the
tampa
bay
community
action
committee.
I'm
here
today
today
to
say
a
few
things
about
the
rent
control
measure.
It's
going
to
be
put
on
the
ballot
and
the
creation
of
a
tenants
rights
advocacy
office
to
you,
council
members.
I
would
say
it's
about
time
and
I
edited
the
speech
as
we
were
waiting
in
line
just
to
counter
some
of
these
lovely
landlord
whinings
and
lies.
S
The
same
sort
of
lies
were
deployed
against
the
things
like
the
minimum
wage
right
where
you
know
it
was
argued
that
if
you
force
employers
to
pay
a
living
wage,
you
know
jobs
would
disappear
right.
Well,
I
mean
that
hasn't
happened
right,
nor
would
housing
simply
just
disappear
into
the
ether.
S
If
you
approve
this
measure
besides,
what
good
is
housing
supply
if
it's
unaffordable
and
out
of
reach
to
the
vast
majority
of
working
folks
right
and
to
the
landlords
and
slumlords
here?
What
I
would
say
to
them
is
simply
what
has
been
said
to
so
many
working
class,
poor,
houseless
folks.
Why
don't
you
get
a
real
job
right?
S
If
you're
so
concerned
about
costs
and
the
people
here
watching
who
took
time
off
each
week
to
come
out,
I'd
say
that
the
reason
that
this
happened,
any
of
this
has
happened
is
because
of
you.
You
all
have
put
pressure
on
them
to
make
this
happen.
This
was
never
going
to
happen
on
its
own.
When
people
come
out
and
get
organized,
they
can
win
great
things
like
possibly
being
the
first
city
in
the
south
to
enact
any
form
of
rent
control.
S
S
We
certainly
ought
to
follow
the
example
of
cities
like
miami
who
have
leveled
the
playing
field
between
tenants
and
landlords
right
by
default,
landlords
have
more
resources,
more
legal
leverage
and
favor
in
the
court
system
to
get
their
way
and
we've
seen
what
landlords
are
capable
of
in
this
city
in
places
like
silver
oaks,
right
riding
apartments,
broken
appliances,
thuggish
tactics
and
inhumane
conditions
not
fit
for
animals,
much
less
people.
S
N
First,
I
want
to
speak
in
favor
of
the
rent
control
measure
that
will
be
on
the
ballot
in
november.
Rent
control
is
something
that
people
have
been
coming
out
here
week
after
week,
demanding
telling
us
that
telling
you
all
that
we
need
this.
This
would
have
never
happened
without
everybody
coming
out
here
every
week,
taking
time
out
of
their
day
to
push
for
this
measure
and
put
that
pressure
to
all
the
points
that
some
of
the
landlords
have
made
here
today
we
are
seeing
that
there
are
available
units
here
in
tampa.
N
There
are
plenty,
but
what
we
need
is
more
affordable
housing
units
here
in
tampa.
We
don't
need
another
midtown
in
west
tampa.
We
don't
need
another
channel
side.
We
don't
need
to
keep
tearing
down
a
neighborhood
in
temple,
terrace
and
east
tampa
to
build
these
luxury
apartments
and
right
down
the
road
from
my
house,
they're,
building
a
whole
new
apartment,
complex
in
town
and
country,
and
it's
like
this
luxury
apartment,
going
for
like
3.5
like
k
for
a
two
bedroom.
N
Like
that's
ridiculous,
that's
unheard
of
that's
not
what
we
need
more
of
here
in
tampa.
I
heard
you
all
talking
about
how
we
need
to
keep
people
in
tampa.
We
need
more
people
to
work
and
building
more
of
these
ridiculously
expensive
housings
housing,
apartments,
housing
complexes
and
condos.
That's
not
going
to
keep
people
in
tampa.
People
are
being
pushed
out
of
the
city,
and
if
we
want
to
keep
people
here
and
working,
we've
got
to
give
them
a
place
to
live
that
they
can
afford,
and
so
tempeh
community
action
committee.
N
We
drafted
up
that
ordinance
that
david
had
mentioned.
We
are
proposing
to
increase
that
five
million
dollars,
which
is
nothing
that's
just
the
same
as
last
year
I
mean,
and
that's
even
less,
because
we
won't
have
that
coveted
funding.
N
We
won't
have
that
e-wrap
fund,
and
so
it's
just
going
down
instead
of
giving
us
more
and
that's
happening
at
the
same
time
as
the
18
increase,
the
police
department,
a
police
department
that
has
time
and
time
again
shown
us
that
they
are
racist
with
the
king
of
dominique
mulkey
jonas
joseph
we
have,
they
are
being
investigated
by
a
doj
over
the
eviction
program
over
biking,
while
black
I
mean
like
they're,
not
where
the
money
needs
to
be
going.
We
are
proposing
40
million
dollars
for
housing
instead
of
that
5
million
slapped
in
the
face.
C
We're
seeing
astronomical
rent
increases
like
highest
setting
records
for
the
country
as
a
whole,
we're
seeing
higher
rates
of
evictions,
and
it's
happening
all
over
tampa.
We've
heard
from
people
in
timber
falls
from
silver
oaks
from
robles
park,
village
people
who
are
being
pushed
out
and
evicted
and
losing
everything,
and
that's
who
we
need
to
think
of
right
now.
These
are
people
who
could
be
losing
everything
we
talked
I've
heard
before
about.
We
need
to
hear
both
sides
of
this.
One
side
is
going
to
lose
everything.
C
The
other
side
is
going
to
have
a
bad
investment.
So
when
you
look
at
it
equally,
that's
what's
going
on
here,
and
so
when
you
look
at
those
two
sides,
I've
picked
a
side.
I
pick
the
side
of
the
people
who
are
at
risk
of
homelessness,
who
are
at
risk
of
losing
what
should
be
a
basic
human
right,
and
I
think
city
council
should
acknowledge
that
too,
especially
when
44
of
tampa
rents
and
isn't
affected
by
this
crisis,
we
need
to
see
actual
action.
C
We
need
a
way
for
people
to
live
in
tampa
people
who
have
lived
here
for
decades
who
have
nothing
else
to
fall
back
on
and
if
you
decide
to
go
against
the
rent
control
ordinance.
If
you
decide
to
flip
flop,
that'll
look
really
bad
to
the
residents
of
tampa
like
months
ago,
looking
at
the
tenants
bill
of
rights,
many
people
supported
that,
and
we
saw
something
similar
to
today
where
landlords
spoke
out
against
it,
but
guess
what
people
got
really
really
mad
when
that
happened,
because
they
wanted
to
see
actual
changes
happen.
C
Positive
changes
here
in
this
community,
not
just
negative
ones
of
increasing
rent.
So
I
hope
you
all
think
of
the
community
that
comes
out
here
month
after
month.
I
hope
you
take
their
needs
into
account
and
take
them
seriously,
because
this
isn't
going
away.
It's
been
happening
for
far
too
long,
I'm
happy
to
see
steps
being
made
just
keep
on
going,
and
we
will
remember
that
when
elections
come
up.
Thank
you.
T
Hello
angel
d'angelo
lifelong
resident
of
tampa,
so
we've
been
working
at
this
for
a
long
time.
Honestly,
I'm
really
really
tired,
but
I'm
hoping
that
we're
at
close
to
it.
There's
no
finish
line
here,
because
the
actual
solution
to
the
houselessness
crisis
is
houses.
I
know
that's
really
bizarre,
but
you
give
people
a
house
and
there's
no
longer
houselessness
like
it's
like.
T
If
someone's
hungry
you
give
them
food
they're,
no
longer
hungry,
it's
like
it's
a
solution,
so
maybe,
instead
of
five
million
dollars
you
put
like,
I
don't
know
a
whole
lot
more
than
that,
like
the
tampa
police
department
scandal
after
scandal
like
they
get
the
18
percent
raise.
You
can't
do
anything
about
that
right
because
the
union
contracts
are
negotiated,
guess
they
can
sell
some
equipment.
They
don't
need
so
many
drones.
They
don't
need
so
many
canines.
T
There's
a
lot
of
interest
in
that.
Obviously
we
need
to
put
34
million
into
the
rmap
program.
That's
a
figure
that
was
calculated
for
the
demand,
so
we
need
to
make
sure
rents
are
getting
paid
as
far
as
the
landlords
we're
asking
for
a
rent
stabilization
of
five
percent
for
one
year
after
they
just
raised
it
30
percent
the
previous
year.
If
they
go
broke
over
that
they
deserve
to
go
broke
like
come
on,
come
on.
I
better
see,
I
better
see
unanimous.
Well,
I
better
see
six
to
one
support.
T
I
also
support
the
decriminalization
of
abortion.
Abortion
is
a
human
right
and
it's
never
going
to
go
away.
The
only
thing
you
have
the
ability
to
take
away
a
safe
abortion
you're
not
going
to
take
away
abortion,
so
I
hope
to
see
that
pass.
This
is
all
democrat
board,
so
it
would
be
very
weird
if
it
didn't,
but
I
know
some
of
some
of
you
are
dinos,
I
won't
say
any
names,
but
we
need
to.
T
You
can
freeze
the
police
budget
by
the
way
you
don't
have
to
raise
it
like
there's
no
law
saying
you
have
to
raise
it.
So,
after
all,
the
scandals
they've
had
they're
under
doj
investigation
for
throwing
people,
mainly
black
people,
out
of
their
house
over
not
even
convictions,
but
charges.
Some
that
were
dropped
is
what
I
heard
so
that
doesn't
sound
like
a
department
that
needs
to
be
rewarded
with
more
money.
You
can
freeze
that
budget
and
you
can
start
coming
up
with.
T
I
think
I
I
could
give
you
so
many
solutions,
kahoots,
not
the
co-response
program
that
you've
already
implemented
one.
That's
not
connected
to
police
call
up
eugene
oregon.
I've
already
done
that
call
them
and
get
the
data
you
can
do
this.
You
can
do
this
right,
do
not
be
afraid
of
the
governor
desantis,
because
I
mean
look
stand
up
for
what's
right,
stand
up
for.
What's
right,
do
what's
right
and
don't
be
afraid.
R
Good
morning,
council,
my
name
is
mark
rosenwasser
and
tampa
has
been
my
home
for
43
years.
I've
been
in
property
management
for
45
years,
and
I
love
what
I
do,
because
I
provide
quality,
affordable
housing
to
the
residents
of
tampa
and
hillsborough
county.
My
company
has
managed
over
60
000
units
we
currently
employ
about
100
people,
all
of
whom
are
essential
workers.
Most
of
the
apartments
we've
managed.
R
The
last
15
years
have
been
workforce,
affordable,
low
income
and
section
8.,
I'm
currently
vice
chair
of
the
affordable
housing
advisory
board
to
the
hillsborough
county
commission,
where
I
work
with
councilman,
goodis
and
others
who,
like
me,
care
greatly
about
affordable
housing.
My
company
manages
two
affordable
apartment
communities
for
catholic
charities.
We
donate
10
of
our
management
fee
back
to
catholic
charities
and
I
personally
donate
a
significant
amount
to
help
fund
their
many
programs.
R
These
include
housing
assistance,
financial
assistance
for
security
for
utility
deposits,
pass-through
rents,
even
the
properties
that
we
don't
manage
and
much
more.
Our
employees
help
residents
who
need
assistance.
We
opened
our
clubhouses
to
folks
who
share
information
about
erap
and
legal
aid
organizations.
R
Our
teams
deliver
flyers
to
residents
to
get
them
to
attend
these
programs
and
learn
about
rental
assistance
that
is
available
to
them.
We've
worked
with
residents,
who've
fallen
behind
on
the
rents
rather
than
evict
them.
We
prefer
to
keep
our
residents
and
their
families
in
their
homes,
because
that's
where
they've
developed
a
sense
of
community
in
recent
years,
our
clients
have
purchased
apartments
that
were
in
poor
condition
and
with
our
assistance,
turn
them
into
quality,
affordable
apartments.
R
We've
managed
apartments
that
had
a
terrible
history
with
code
enforcement
and
restored
them
so
that
code
enforcement
problems
have
become
success
stories.
The
housing
supply
far
exceeded
the
demand.
For
many
years.
We
reduced
rents
and
gave
up
to
two
months
free
rent
to
keep
our
apartments
full.
In
recent
years,
demand
has
exceeded
supply
due
to
significant
increases
in
the
area's
population.
R
Everybody
left
florida
especially
tampa,
and
the
significant
reduction
in
the
construction
of
new,
affordable
communities
rents
have
increased
in
recent
years
because
of
significant
increases
in
operating
costs,
including
real
estate
taxes,
insurance
payroll,
our
minimum
wage
is
fifteen
dollars
at
our
company
and
utilities.
Many
of
the
communities
are
almost
50
years
old.
The
cost
of
maintaining
and
upgrading
them
is
significant.
R
Although
rent
increased
24
percent
in
2021,
the
increases
slowed
to
60
percent
last
year
and
are
projected
to
be
eight
percent
or
less
by
the
end
of
this
year.
Rents
will
continue
to
decline
as
the
housing
supply
growth
meets,
demand,
rent
control
will
slow,
rent
control
will
slow
down
construction
of
new,
affordable
housing.
A
wall
street
journal
article
dated
three
days
ago
indicated
that
rent
control
significantly
reduced
an
owner's
ability
to
maintain
a
quality
rental
housing
stock,
let
alone
improve
it.
F
C
Good
morning
my
name
is
margaret
rushing.
I
am
a
business
owner
in
tampa
and
a
supplier
partner
with
the
bay
area
apartment
association.
My
date
of
birth
is
may
3rd
1952.
I
am
70
years
old.
I
work
every
day
and
I
raise
two
granddaughters
and
two
great-grandchildren
who
are
living
with
me
right
now,
and
that
is
because
they
haven't
been
able
to
find
housing.
C
C
We
work
diligently
in
our
association
to
try
to
keep
the
funds
that
are
designated
for
affordable
housing
to
be
used
for
affordable
housing
with
our
own
money.
We
go
to
tallahassee
and
we
go
to
legislative
offices
throughout
the
year
to
try
to
keep
the
sadowski
fund
from
being
rated
and
used
for
everything
other
than
affordable
housing.
C
C
Affordable
housing
is
an
issue
not
lack
of
housing,
or
rather
lack
of
housing
all
across
the
board.
Rents
have
to
be
raised
and
have
been
raised
because
costs
across
the
board
have
been
raised.
Our
parts
as
a
service
company
and
all
of
our
constituents
in
other
areas
have
had
to
increase
their
costs
because
of
the
cost
in
parts
in
our
labor
force
and
every
other
aspect.
Throughout
this
situation,
high
costs
have
to
be
put
to
cover
the
cost
to
be
able
to
continue
to
have
housing
period.
C
K
F
G
Good
morning
my
name
is
kela
mccaskill,
I'm
a
native
of
tampa
realtor
nonprofit
organization,
and
I'm
here,
as
we
already
know,
discussing
the
affordable
housing.
I
want
to
start
off
by
saying
thank
you
for
the
increase
I
think,
for
a
year
now,
I've
been
asking
for
you
all
to
get
a
raise
you're
one
of
the
most
active
bunches
involved
in
the
community
that
I've
ever
seen.
So
I
wanted
to
see
you
because,
right
now,
your
salaries
you'll
qualify
for
you
might
qualify
for
affordable
housing.
We've
been
here.
G
Thank
you
all
for
declaring
this
an
emergency
and
getting
it
on
the
ballot,
even
councilman
carlson
for
him
being.
We
can
always
he's
consistent
and
he's
always
going
to
be
strategic
and
supportive,
even
if
he
couldn't
so.
Thank
you
for
that.
We
need
most
of
you
working
collaboratively
to
find
a
resolve
for
this.
G
It's
a
tough
place
to
be
in,
but
before
I
can
even
talk
about
it,
I'm
mad
as
hell
that
here
we
are
in
the
middle
of
a
crisis,
and
the
mayor
of
the
city
gave
us
the
same
speech
from
last
year
as
if
she's
not
seen
the
state
of
emergency
that
we're
in
you
already
told
us.
Ten
thousand
homes
was
your
effort
who
gave
you
that
information.
G
Clearly
they
didn't
do
a
needs
assessment,
because
you
gave
us
that
information
last
year
since
2017
hundreds
of
people
were
moving
here
per
day,
where
you
get
them
numbers
from
who
gave
you
that
information
make
it
public,
because
I
guarantee
you,
they
were
not
a
professional
that
gave
her
that
needs
assessment
if
she
even
had
one.
So
I'm
going
to
go
back
to
say
almost
a
year,
you've
heard
from
us
we've
come
in
here,
you've
heard
from
most
of
these
people.
G
That's
been
impacted
by
this
crisis,
I'm
too
young
to
know
what
the
outcome
going
to
be
when
they
come
back.
I
don't
even
know
what
the
impacts
will
be,
but
what
I
want
to
say
is
that
be
while
we
wait
to
hear
back
from
legal
and
if
he
gets
on
the
battle
or
whatever
I
know,
we
can't
build
our
way
out,
and
I
know
rent
stabilization
our
way
out
of
this
we've
not
necessarily
publicly
heard
from
developers
or
the
landlords
prior
to
today,
but
you
got
into
their
pockets
if
you
did
rent
stabilization.
G
What
I'm
going
to
encourage
is
that
perhaps
we
do
a
some
kind
of
board
that
works
with
you
as
we
work
towards
the
resolve,
because
the
developers
could
potentially
say:
hey,
I'm
not
going
to
build
these
affordable
apartments
anymore
or
these
apartments
anymore.
I'm
a
flip
to
condo
conversions.
We
don't
want
to
see
that
we
could
see
the
landlords
the
smaller
ones
sell
their
properties.
G
We
don't
want
to
see
that
and
corporations
we've
not
heard
from
because
what's
their
impact,
if
their
employees
can't
get
to
work
for
45
minutes
to
an
hour
with
gas
prices
being
the
way
they
are
what's
been
their
impact.
We
need
to
hear
from
everybody
to
work
towards
a
solution.
I
am
for
rent
stabilization
if
it
means
it's
a
help,
but
it's
not
the
only
thing
to
help.
Perhaps
you
can
give
some
assistance
to
these
landlords
and
developers.
G
R
Good
morning,
my
name
is
eric
garnier
director
for
the
bay
area,
apartment
association.
Thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
be
here.
I
am
not
a
tampa
resident,
but
I
do
represent
the
apartment
industry,
the
greater
tampa
bay
region,
that
includes
apartment
owners,
developers,
managers
in
both
market
rate
and
affordable.
R
Our
members
span
span
the
board,
as
it
relates
to
the
types
of
housing
that
are
provided
and
the
amounts
that
they
charge
every
day,
but
all
of
them
are
being
impacted
by
inflationary
pressures.
Today,
I
think
everybody
sees
that
day
in
and
day
out,
but
one
thing
that
I
know
that
we
can
all
agree
on
clearly
because
I've
heard
it
from
everybody
who's
spoken
up
here
is
that
we
don't
have
enough
homes.
R
We
don't
have
enough
homes
for
all
the
people
that
want
to
live
here
in
tampa
that
that
is,
that
is
where
we're
at
and
that
shortage
of
housing
has
put
us
to
a
point
where
the
prices
for
rentals
and
for
homes
for
sale
have
gone
up.
That's
pushed
those
prices
up.
R
What
I
don't
understand,
though,
is
how
rent
control
is
going
to
address
the
lack
of
supply.
That
is
at
the
root
of
all
this.
What
I,
what
we've
seen
in
terms
of
data
is
that
rent
control
will
actually
hurt
supply.
We've
seen
that
in
st
paul,
where
last
for
over
the
last
year,
the
new
building
for
multifamily
has
gone
down
82.
R
That
number
is
also
55
over
the
average
of
three
years.
So
it's
not
just
like
a
one-year
fluke.
This
is.
This
is
real
detriment
to
the
housing
supply
in
st
paul.
We've
seen
other
studies
that
looked
at
other
parts
of
the
country
that
have
instituted
rent
control
places
like
san
francisco,
where
their
changes
in
the
rent
control
law
forced
for
15
of
the
housing
supply
of
multi
small
multi-family
to
go
down.
R
These
are
real
data
points
that
are
happening
that
have
happened
in
other
parts
of
the
country
that
have
adopted
rent
control
and,
let's,
let's
also
remember,
too,
that
some
of
these
places,
like
new
york
like
san
francisco,
have
had
rent
control
for
generations
and
they
still
have
consistently
the
highest
rents
every
year
for
probably
the
last
20
or
30
years,
both
those
two
markets
every
year,
they're
woefully
undersupplied
in
housing.
So,
rent
control
isn't
the
answer
to
get
us
out
of
the
situation.
We're
in
we
need
more
housing
and
rent
control
is
going
to
discourage.
R
That
might
also
point
out
that
some
of
the
data
points
that
are
being
discussed
today
are
changing
or
have
changed.
I
think
a
lot
of
people
are
operating
on
data
from
last
year.
Data
from
last
year
is
changing
and
moving,
and
what
we're
seeing
now
today
is
a
lot
more
units
becoming
available.
The
vacancies
are
going
up
and
what
we're
likely
going
to
see
by
the
end
of
the
year
is,
if
there's
any
increases
it's
going
to
be
one
single
digit
increases
for
any
kind
of
rent.
R
That's
what
analysts
are
predicting
and
looking
at
the
market
data
today
and
telling
us
so
that's.
Those
are
important
points
to
keep
in
mind.
Lastly,
I
just
want
to
say
that
we
do
understand.
People
are
having
a
hard
time
making
end
speed.
There
are
people
in
need
and
what
we
would
certainly
support
is
direct
assistance
to
those
folks.
So,
thank
you.
Thank
you.
J
J
A
A
I
would
also
like
to
note
that
we
were
here
in
march
and
may
and
june
so
we've
been
around,
but
I
haven't
been
receiving
too
many
emails
from
anyone,
except
probably
carlson,
who
responds
pretty
fast
but
anyways
good
morning.
Council
members,
thank
you
for
the
opportunity
to
address
you
this
morning.
My
name
is
jacob
brunell
and
I
am
the
director
of
government
affairs
for
greater
tampa
realtors.
Our
association
represents
about
16
000
members
in
the
tampa
bay
area.
A
Our
association
understands
the
critical
need
for
rental
housing
and
the
need
to
expand
our
current
current
rental
housing
inventory
every
year,
our
association
and
thousands
of
realtors
across
the
state
of
florida
head
to
tallahassee
to
meet
with
our
legislators.
Year
after
year,
we
advocate
for
full
funding
of
the
cedawski
trust
funds.
This
tax
paid
on
all
real
estate
transactions,
incentivizes
local
governments
to
create
partnerships
that
produce
and
preserve,
affordable
housing.
A
A
The
primary
issues
prior
to
now
after
the
emergence
of
coven
19,
have
been
the
availability
of
affordable
housing
and
the
barriers
to
constructing
housing.
Rent
control
has
been
shown
to
increase
local
taxes,
negatively
impact
the
existing
housing
stock
and
reduce
the
future
inventory
of
affordable
housing
by
discouraging
development.
Rent
control
effectively
restricts
supply,
driving
up
housing
costs
in
may,
our
association
conducted
a
rent
control
survey
in
front
of
you
and
presented
the
facts.
A
G
G
G
G
You
stand
up
for
these
people
the
way
that
they
need
you
to
don't
slap
somebody
in
the
face
and
say
well,
you
know
I
know
it
hurts,
but
let
me
give
you
this
lollipop
you'll
be
okay!
No,
that
is
not
acceptable,
I'm
tired
of
it.
I
am
tired
of
it.
Historically
in
this
country,
black
people
are
always
told
to
wait
for
justice
always,
and
this
crisis
disproportionately
affects
black
and
brown
people.
We
know
this
whether
we
want
to
admit
to
it
or
not.
We
know
this.
G
G
This
is
something
that,
like
I've
said
before,
I
am
not
even
personally
affected
by
it,
but
there
are
way
too
many
people
out
here.
Who
are
that
look
like
me,
so
I'm
going
to
stand
up
for
them
over
and
over
and
over
again
until
this
is
resolved,
not
just
slapping
a
band-aid
on
it,
it
needs
to
be
resolved.
H
Good
morning
afternoon,
everybody
I
don't
know
but
councilman
good.
I
want
to
say
this.
First,
when
you
were
running
for
office,
you
never
heard
from
rent
control,
and
you
thought
I
was
crazy,
didn't
you
he
had
never
heard
of
it,
but
what
I
want
to
say
for
the
people
who
are
listening
that
think.
Rent
control
is
not.
These
are
people
not
talking
about
welfare
they're,
trying
to
get
themselves
together,
but
it's
hard
to
tell
someone
not
about
little
housing
when
you're
watching
corporations
take
over
the
city.
H
I
remember
west
tampa
the
railroad
track
ended
at
spruce
all
the
way
across
kennedy.
The
railroad
tracks
are
no
longer
there
we're
watching.
Condos
everything
go
up.
Nobody
once
in
west
ham
will
be
able
to
move
in
any
of
this,
but
the
people
that's
not
for
rent
control.
Again,
I
want
to
emphasize
we're
not
talking
about
welfare,
we're
looking
for
a
place
to
stay
and
make
sure
that
we
can
stay
there
and
make
homes
the
affordable
houses
and
not
affordable
houses.
A
lot
of
these
people
would
like
to
have
their
own
house.
H
They
would
love
to
have
the
yard,
they
might
even
get
one
like
miranda
and
have
the
everything
fixed
up
just
perfectly.
But
again
I
can't
imagine
anybody
talking
to.
I
went
outside
to
talk
to
the
gentleman
that
said
about
the
housing
that
he
rents
and
I
talked
to
him
and
I
explained:
do
you
know
how
history
has
been
moved?
Do
you
know
there's
nothing
here.
I
asked
him
how
long
had
he's
been
here?
I
was
born
and
raised
here
yesterday
at
70
celebrated
my
77th
year.
H
I
think
it's
ridiculous
thanks
to
watch
all
of
this
and
we
let
the
contractors
come
in
and
take
over.
A
lot
of
our
places
do
not
exist
at
all
anymore
and
I
think
for
the
people
listening-
and
this
is
the
ones
that's
listening
out-
you're,
taking
everything
away,
we're
not
looking
for
welfare,
we're
looking
to
be
independent
and
you
are
stopping
it.
We
did
this
in
rosewood
when
we
start
again
and
I
was
watching
something
in
1963.
H
They
were
calling
five
black
men.
The
conversation
has
been
the
same,
it's
time
to
change
and
please
get
the
housing
over
get
the
rent
stabilization
we'll
do
for
a
while.
It
would
help
if
we
could
wind
up
affording
our
own
homes
some
people
don't
want
to.
Some
are
retired
like
I
am,
might
not
want
to
have
a
house
again
and
just
would
enjoy
working
and
I'm
retired
from
the
state
of
florida.
I
definitely
worked
had
grandchildren
raised
them
at
all,
but
we
want
to
be
independent.
H
We
would
like
to
have
this
and
again
the
corporations
are
taking
over
with
places
it's
too
much,
and
I
can't
imagine
anyone
saying
that
we
don't
need
to
work
when
we're
watching
these
expensive
carver
city
all
up
and
down
carver
city,
condos
and
you're.
Looking
at
these
people
who
have
owned
their
homes
are
just
about
out
and
scared
to
death,
so
we
need
to
wind
up
coming
together
and
for
the
lady
to
think
we
didn't
go
to
tallahassee.
We
go
all
the
time
and
we'll
be
going.
Q
Again,
hi
good
morning,
my
name
is
carrie
mueller,
I'm
a
resident
of
st
petersburg,
and
I
wanted
to
address
your
question
about
why
landlords
have
not
been
present
earlier,
and
I
just
wanted
to
let
you
know
I
relocated
from
the
south
florida
region
about
a
year
and
a
half
ago
to
st
petersburg,
and
I
have
attended
every
single
possible
community
meeting
about
housing.
Q
I've
attended
meetings
on
how
to
distribute
the
arpa
funds,
the
45
million
dollars
that
st
petersburg
was
able
to
receive
and
a
significant
majority
of
those
funds
were
allocated
to
housing
and
that's
based
on
the
public's
input
to
prioritize
those
funds
to
address
the
housing
crisis.
So
I
do
want
to
let
you
know.
I
have
been
involved
with
that
meeting.
Q
I
have
attended
the
community
conversations
for
the
mayor
for
our
neighborhood
in
the
south
side
of
st
petersburg
and
I
currently
volunteer
up
to
15
to
20
hours
a
week
to
work
with
our
neighborhood
to
try
to
make
it
a
better
place
for
everybody
involved.
I
really
advocate
for
the
residents
of
south
st
p.
Q
I
think
we
really
need
to
focus
some
money
to
try
to
support
them,
trying
to
get
them
to
have
an
opportunity
to
be
participating
in
the
growth
in
a
positive
way,
because
I
understand-
and
I
empathize
with
people-
they
are
not
winning
they're
like
seeing
damage
and
it's
I
understand
and
empathize.
I
agree
with
their
positions,
but
I
just
want
you
to
know
that
I
have
been
trying
to
do
everything
that
I
can
to
participate
in
trying
to
find
solutions,
and
I
attend
city
council
meetings
on
a
regular
basis.
Q
I
write
city
council
and
I
think
that
we
really
need
to
work
as
a
whole
community
because
we
really
need
to
address
these
levels
at
a
state
issue
and
really
we
need
to
address
these
levels
at
a
national
issue.
This
is
a
national
housing
crisis.
In
the
past,
people
had
to
move
to
a
more
affordable
location.
Now
there
is
no
affordable
locations.
This
is
an
issue
for
our
entire
country,
as
americans,
as
working
class
people
at
all
income
levels.
Q
Q
I
have
been
yelled
at
with
a
megaphone
to
go
to
hell
landlord.
I
was
recently
told
that
I,
the
landlords,
should
not
exist
and
that
they
want
to
create
a
landlord
registry.
I
was
told
after
22
years
I
worked
as
an
engineer
building
buildings
and
infrastructure,
often
for
public
municipal
agencies
and
federal
agencies
for
the
public.
As
an
engineer
I
worked
for
22
years,
I
was
told
to
get
a
real
job,
so
I'm
doing
this
on
my
own
landlords,
we're
independent
we'd
like
to
work
independently.
Q
E
Good
morning,
my
name
is
dr
frank:
williams,
located
112,
112
scott
street.
I've
been
coming
down
here,
time
and
time
again,
but
y'all
seem
to
have
death
field.
When
I
come
up
here
and
speak,
I
want
y'all
to
know
something.
I
thank
god
for
this
beautiful
day
and
I
pray
to
god
to
bless
you
all.
Also,
although
y'all
might
hate
me,
but
I'm
not
gonna
hate
y'all,
I
don't
have
that
kind
of
heart.
E
It
was
a
young
lady
here
last
week.
That's
basically
why
I
came
back
over
here
this
week.
A
young
lady
was
over
here
last
week,
had
tears
in
the
eye
crying
because
a
landlord
had
went
up
on
a
run
and
she
had
three
children
and
she
told
me
that
they
had
put
up
put
on
our
dough
and
where
could
she
go
so?
Finally,
she
met
a
friend
that
took
her
up,
but
you
know
what
it's
so
sad
that
you
said
it
constant
something
to
understand.
E
Y'all,
don't
want
to
understand
our
position
and
you
talk
about
affordable
housing.
I
don't
know
what
I
can
afford:
affordable
housing.
We
don't
know
where
it's
going
to
start
from
I'm
on
a
fixed
income.
Y'all
can
care
less
about
me,
whether
I'm
on
the
street,
whether
I'm
in
the
bushes
or
whatever,
y'all,
can
care
less
and
they've
been
like
that
way.
Ever
since
I've
been
in
tampa-
and
I
just
want
to
thank
god
that
I'm
here
today,
I'm
old
man,
but
god
has
been
so
good
to
all
of
us.
E
E
E
E
We
all
treat
like
they
look
at
the
cover
my
skin
and
tell
me
to
get
in
the
back
of
the
line.
Anything
like
that
ever
since
I've
been
here
in
this
place
called
the
united
states
of
america.
We
don't
give
a
damn
about
certain
people.
E
H
H
C
H
We
have
been
working
around
housing
since
february,
where
have
the
developers,
the
landlords,
the
management
company,
it's
like
david
against
goliath,
and
you
still
have
the
choice
to
make
a
solid
decision
on
doing
right
by
the
people.
H
H
We
would
not
be
in
this
situation
if
they
didn't
raise
the
rent,
the
crazy
amount
that
they
have.
We
would
not
be
in
this
situation,
so
they're
coming
and
they're
making
stances
I've
heard.
There's
nice
landlords,
the
landlords
are
good
people.
We
have
slum
lords
they're
still
raising
their
rent.
H
Oh
create
more
programs
that
I
am.
I
am
so
infuriated
right
now
create
more
programs
and
assistance
why
to
fill
their
pockets
more
the
rate
the
rent
is
raising
rising
when
it's
over.
It's
still
going
to
be
up
there.
Are
they
going
to
decrease
it
when
it's
all
over
no
they're
going
to
keep
it
the
same?
H
H
K
Good
morning
my
name
is
norman
harris,
I'm
a
young
professional,
I'm
basically
here
to
educate
myself
on
issues
and
to
see
I
can
get
involved
with
these
issues
that
affect
our
community.
I
want
to
take
a
personal
privilege
to
acknowledge
a
young
man
16
years
old,
david
frazier,
who
does
not
think
this
is
boring,
but
intelligent
enough
to
want
to
learn
and
he's
shadowing
me
today.
K
I
just
want
to
acknowledge
that,
and
one
of
my
good
friends,
fran
tate,
who
is
the
president
of
the
jackson
height
neighborhood
association
in
crime
watch,
asked
if
I
would
publish
a
statement
for
her.
She
states
good
morning,
council
members.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
I'd
like
to
address
item
10
on
the
today's
city
council
agenda,
councilman
goodes.
Thank
you
for
the
motion
and
councilman
maniscalco.
K
Thank
you
for
the
sit.
Second
in
the
motion.
Councilman
manuscako,
you
are
correct.
The
people
are
crying
out.
City
council
must
take
action
to
prevent
the
citizens
of
tampa
from
facing
continuous
evictions.
We
are
decent
humans
and
we
must
help
one
another
in
whatever
capacity
that
we
can
it's
a
devastating
feeling.
I
know
firsthand.
I
spent
a
portion
of
my
vacation
last
week
assisting
my
son
and
his
dog
to
relocate
to
a
more
affordable
park
apartment,
but
you
see
he
is
one
of
the
fortunate
ones.
K
K
Therefore,
mayor
jane,
castor,
council
members
and
the
city
legal
department,
please
take
the
proper
steps
for
this
matter
to
make
the
november
ballot
allowing
the
voices
of
the
voters
to
be
heard.
Councilman
carson,
we
understand
your
point
but
as
councilwoman
hertek
stated,
the
nature
of
government
does
not
work
that
fast.
We,
the
community
out
of
desperation,
are
willing
to
take
it
to
the
ballot
box.
Thank
all
of
you
for
your
hard
work
and
have
a
blessed
day
again
that
was
published
on
behalf
of
miss
franti.
Thank
you.
E
Good
morning
I
am
reverend
willard
g
dixon.
I
have
an
office
in
in
district
five
east
tampa
and
I've
listened
to
people
express
a
situation,
that's
a
problem,
but
I
think
every
problem
can
be
solved.
So
I
want
to
have
a
workshop.
I
want
to
invite
all
of
the
council,
persons
and
all
of
the
landlord
owners,
not
the
representatives
to
come
to
with
with
the
renters
and
listen
to
them,
because
three
minutes
is
not
enough
time
to
have
any
dialogue.
E
If
you
go
to
doverville
most
of
the
places
here-
and
I
know
some
of
my
friends-
they're-
not
as
old
as
I
am
I'm
90
years
of
age-
so
I
know
the
history
of
tampa,
so
I
I
pray
that
we
come
together
as
one
and
come
up
with
a
solution.
E
E
You
have
the
power
to
make
a
difference,
and
I
thank
you
for
taking
a
bold
stand,
because
we
know
that
the
election
is
coming
up
and
if
we
get
enough
people
involved,
we
can
change
this
whole
system
because
what
it's
the
people
that
elect
the
elected
officials.
So
what
are
we
going
to
do
about
it?
We're
going
to
show
up
we're
going
to
vote
and
we're
going
to
demand
what
we
want
from
our
elected
officials,
because
every
one
of
our
elected
officials
from
the
white
house
to
the
courthouse
are
being
paid
with
our
tax
dollars.
E
So
therefore,
we
need
to
come
together
and
find
a
solution
if
we
can
send
a
person
to
the
moon
and
back
into
other
planets.
I
know
we
can
find
a
solution
about
this
rent
problem
that
we
have,
and
I
thank
you
and
lastly,
today
is
my
sister's
birthday.
I
want
to
wish
my
sister
gene
meeks,
a
happy
birthday.
J
We
can't
sometimes
get
medicine,
sometimes
we
can't
eat,
and
sometimes
we
can't
buy
clothes
that
we
might
need
and
we're
here
to
let
you
know
that
we
need
your
help
and
we
voted
for
you
and
if
you
want
us
to
vote
for
you
again,
you
need
to
help
us
other
than
that.
We
can
find
somebody
else
to
come
help
us.
But
it's
a
shame
that
I
move
down
here.
J
You've
got
to
stop
it,
we're
not
trying
to
do
anything
to
hurt
you
most
of
us
just
want
to
live.
I
just
want
to
be
retired
and
enjoy
my
life.
What's
left
of
it
and
I'm
tired
of
fighting
with
you
guys
to
have
that
kind
of
life
and
it's
getting
tiring.
It
makes
me
get
older
and
I'm
sick
of
being
older.
J
I
just
want
to
relax
and
just
live
just
a
smooth
few
minutes,
but
it's
time
for
you
guys
to
get
up
off
your
and
do
something
for
us
it's
truly
time
and
I'm
so
sick
of
the
landlords
telling
me
they
need
this.
They
need
that
hey
they
can
make
their
bills
paid.
They've
been
doing
it
all
this
time,
all
of
a
sudden
there's
a
disease
out
here.
So
everybody
raises
a
rent,
raises
gas
tax
and
all
that
stuff
enough.
You
got
to
stop
it
and
like
now.
E
And
they're
talking
about
in
august
this
month
of
going
up
on
our
rent
again
and
it's
not
right,
they
putting
notices
on
our
doors
and
letting
us
know
what
they're
going
to
do.
That's
two
times
in
a
year
they're
going
up
on
our
rent.
It's
not
even
entered
our
lease.
Yet
at
the
end,
our
lease
is
in
january,
and
it's
not
fair
to
us.
E
It's
two
of
us
and
we
can't
afford
it.
My
husband
is
sick
with
cancer
right
now,
I'm
fighting
for
medicine
for
him
that
I
have
to
pay
out
my
pockets
because
of
this,
and
I
don't
think
that's
fair
to
us
that
we
are
senior
citizens
just
want
to
retire
and
enjoy
our
life,
and
we
can't
it's
hard
and
it's
not
right.
O
Good
morning,
andy
joe
scaglioni
3802
ehrlich
road
tampa
florida.
I
grew
up
in
west
tampa
on
beach
street.
I've
been
a
landlord
for
over
38
years.
I'm
not
here
for
self-serving
reasons,
I'm
here,
because
I
care
my
rents
happen
to
be
way
below
market
and
will
continue
to
be
as
long
as
I'm
a
landlord.
O
I
never
forgot
where
I
came
from
these
good
people
have
spoken
and
their
families
and
friends
need
help
now,
but
sadly,
but
sadly,
rent
control
will
hurt
them
now,
in
many
years
to
come
after
tremendous
amount
of
due
diligence
that
I
have
done
on
rent
control.
It
sounds
good,
but
it
does
not
and
has
not
worked
in
other
cities.
O
We
need
to
incentivize
size
ways
to
create
more
affordable
housing,
not
discourage
it,
not
st,
not
withstanding.
I
feel
like
there's
a
100
percent
chance.
The
city
will
lose
in
court,
putting
rent
control
on
the
november
ballot,
not
let's
not
waste
money
in
the
legal
system.
Let's
help
these
people
in
different
ways.
Now
I
mean
now,
while
we
have
runaway
inflation,
I'm
glad
that
everybody
here
has
come
here
and
also
the
council
to
shake
things
up.
O
A
Putting
it
on
the
ballot,
I
feel.
K
That
the
solution
is
not
on
the
hands
of
developers.
A
S
I'm
in
support
of
rent
control.
Thank
you.
G
E
Good
morning
my
name
is
michael
randolph
and
I'm
with
the
west
tampa
community
development
corporation.
E
I'm
here
today
to
make
a
major
announcement
in
terms
of
a
job
for
west
tampa
and
talk
about
key
takeaways
with
the
department
of
transportation
workforce
team.
The
meeting
was
convened
by
chloe
coney,
the
ceo
of
the
community
enterprise
group,
lc
llc,
to
connect
employers
to
people
that
need
y'all
takeaways
well.
The
first
takeaway
is
that
they
are
going
to
be
making
two
billion
dollars
in
construction
jobs,
including
four
major
construction
of
projects
in
the
west
tampa
earlier.
E
This
was
done
according
to
create
hundreds
of
jobs
for
residents
in
west
canada.
The
other
thing
is
going
to
be
connect
the
nazis
to
contracts
in
order
to
get
work
with
the
department
of
transportation,
the
department
of
transportation
control,
the
bridges
the
other
component
is
going
to
increase
the
cash
flow
to
local
businesses,
as
well
as
reduce
crime
in
the
community.
E
What's
important
about
this
is
that
now,
with
all
the
bridges
that's
being
built
in
west
tampa
now,
residents
will
have
a
link
to
those
dogs.
The
cdc
is
working
with
our
department
of
transportation,
we're
going
to
be
responsible
for
working
with
the
community
to
get
at
least
100
to
200
people
high
to
do
jobs.
The
bernie
of
this
project
is
that
even
people
for
criminal
records
can
actually
get
a
job.
The
five
projects
that
the
department
of
transportation
is
doing,
including
the
franklin
square
bridge.
E
This
is
about
job
curation.
We're
happy
to
be
a
partner
of
this.
We
want
to
say
thank
corey
coney
for
her
part
in
bringing
together
the
end
of
federal
department
of
transportation,
for
seeing
the
need
to
increase
minority
businesses
in
west
tampa.
Thank
you
very
much.
G
B
Good
morning
my
name
is
alexandra
cruz.
I
am
a
representative
of
the
democratic,
progressive
caucus
of
tampa
bay.
As
president,
I
am
here
to
stress
the
impulsive
importance
of
the
housing
crisis.
As
we
all
are.
We
knock
on
doors.
We
canvass
the
community,
we
talk
about
affordable
housing
every
single
day.
The
number
one
issue
when
we
knock
on
doors.
It's
the
number
one
issue
around
the
water
coolers
are
moving.
People
are
trying
to
follow
couches
to
sleep
on,
and
you
know
I
want
to
remind
you
that
rental
properties
are
an
investment.
B
Housing
is
a
community
right.
I'm
glad
that
the
mayor
said
that
the
avenue
is
available.
You
want
to
declare
a
suite
of
housing
emergencies.
We
need
some
type
of
rent
stabilization.
There
are
professionals
who
want
a
forward
registry,
so
we
know
who
not
to
rip
from
whenever
there
are
people
and
bad
actors
out
there.
Just
like
landlords
get
to
do
background
checks
on
us.
We
should
have
that
agreement.
B
We
are
begging
for
policy
change
and
I
want
to
know
if
the
developers
and
the
landlords
are
begging
for
humanity
or
if
they're
begging
for
profit.
I
heard
someone
ask
where
we
have
been
doing
this.
I
want
to
say
we
are
working
one,
two,
three
jobs.
We
are
taking
time
out
of
the
day.
It's
been
a
three-hour
work
day
to
come
here
at
this
meeting
so
that
we
can
represent
the
people
who
we're
knocking
on
the
doors
and
talking
to
to
get
up
and
vote
every
single
day.
B
We
are
talking
constituents
and
this
is
exactly
how
democracy
works.
The
community
can
talk
to
organizers,
meaning
the
organizers
hold
elected
officials
accountable,
and
we
are
working
hard
on
this.
Just
like
we
worked
hard
on
transportation,
just
like
we're
working
on
abortion
rights,
just
like
we're
working
on
fight
for
15
they're,
always
always
working.
Thank
you,
professor
conquest
of
tampa
bay.
That's
all.
I
have
to
say.
G
T
Good
morning
my
name
is
nathan
nagle
and
I'm
a
resident
of
tampa,
I'm
also
a
regional
manager
for
a
multi-family
company
that
has
six
communities
here
in
the
greater
tampa
bay
area.
We
employ
60
of
the
city's
great
citizens.
We
provide
apartment
homes
for
approximately
2500,
hard-working
families.
I'm
here
today
to
respectfully
express
my
opposition
to
the
rent
control
ordinance
here
in
tampa.
There
are
countless
examples
and
data
I
can
provide
that
show
reasons
as
to
why
rents
have
increased,
not
just
here
in
tampa
or
florida,
but
throughout
our
nation.
T
One
example
I
want
to
share
is
for
a
community
of
mine
here
in
the
heart
of
tampa.
This
community
saw
huge
increases
in
operating
expenses
operating
expenses
which
include
payroll
supplies,
utilities,
insurances,
taxes
and
contract
services,
such
as
security
pool
cleaning,
landscaping,
elevator
maintenance
and
much
much
more
payroll
is
up.
Nine
percent
year-over-year
supplies
26
taxes,
and
this
is
eye-opening
a
50
increase
or
766
000
year
over
year.
All
this
to
say
that
our
operating
expenses
for
just
this
one
community
saw
a
21
increase
overall
year
over
year.
T
This
is
the
same
for
many
other
apartment
communities
here
in
tampa.
As
mayor
jane,
castor
mentioned
in
her
opening
statement,
inflation
is
driving
up.
The
cost
for
everyone
and
apartment
communities
are
not
exempt
from
this.
Inflation
is
the
highest
in
40
years,
as
previously
mentioned
today.
The
answer
isn't
rent
control.
The
answer
is
addressing
inflation
and
supply.
Just
today
I
saw
in
the
news
that
disney
prices
such
as
tickets
and
merchandise
and
accommodations
are
four
thousand
percent
year
over
year,
and
the
housing
costs
are
up
19.4
for
quarter.
Two.
T
The
reason
low
inventory
this
segways
me
into
another
point,
while
inflation
accounts
for
a
large
part
of
the
rent
increases,
it
also
has
to
do
with
supply
and
demand.
It's
apparent
that
we
have
a
housing
deficiency
here
in
tampa.
What
does
economics
101
teach
us
about
supply
and
demand
when
supply
is
more
than
demand,
prices
are
low
when
demand
is
more
than
supply.
Prices
are
how
high
now,
how
did
that
class
economics
101
teach
us
to
combat
increased
pricing
as
a
result
of
high
demand
and
low
supply?
T
Well,
I
can
assure
you
it
wasn't
to
impose
pricing
control,
but
rather
to
increase
the
supply
to
meet
the
demand.
By
doing
so,
organically
pricing
will
decrease
and
stabilize.
We
don't
see
the
federal
government
imposing
price
controls
on
gas,
groceries,
goods
and
services,
interest
rates
and
much
much
more.
They
understand
that
the
economy
is
fluid
and
ever-evolving.
T
T
It's
finding
the
root
problem
and
fixing
it
putting
not
putting
a
band-aid
on
it
by
imposing
rent
control
ordinances,
you
will
stump
the
growth
of
our
city,
investors
and
developers
will
not
be
attracted
to
a
city
in
which
they
can
can't
get
a
return
on
their
investment
due
to
rent
control
measures,
so
all
the
jobs
that
come
with
new
development,
the
millions
of
dollars
in
taxes,
infrastructure
and
fees
that
the
city
is
counting
on
and
the
increased
inventory
it
will
go
away.
In
conclusion,
this
ordinance
to
impose
writing
control
is
not
the
solution.
T
G
A
Hello,
my
name
is
jean
strowmeyer,
a
53-year
resident
of
tampa,
I'm
just
going
to
go
through
the
agenda,
and
I
just
I'm
talking
about
this-
the
rent
control,
if
you
notice
who
is
for
it,
it's
socialist
for
america,
america
will
never
be
a
socialist
country.
Don't
try
to
make
it
that
way
and
they're
talking
about
the
ruling
class.
Are
the
landlords
this
one,
the
lady
beautiful
young,
lady
in
the
red,
with
the
hat.
She
has
many
many
houses.
She
said
so
she's,
also
a
ruling
class.
A
Just
so
you
know
pointing
that
out.
Let's
see,
there's
so
much
to
impact,
so
I'm
just
going
to
kind
of
go
through
what
I've
listened
to
so
far.
This
housing
advocate
program
is
just
another
agency
that
we
don't
need
this.
A
The
abortion
issue
that
was
brought
up
by
our
council,
it
shouldn't
be
here
in
in
hearing
people,
say
that
you
know
roe
v,
wade
being
being
overturned.
It
took
from
people
no.
It
took
from
people
back
50
years
ago
when
that
was
into
effect.
So
now
the
states,
which
is
what
our
constitution
is
about,
is
the
states
have
a
right.
The
states
have
their
own
rights,
that's
what
our
constitution
is
about.
That
is
what,
and
it's
not
a
democracy.
We
are
a
proudest
word,
not
democracy.
A
Republic.
Sorry,
I
just
like
blew
off
right
here.
Anyway,
let's
see
the
draft
ordinance
on
housing
emergency,
it's
just
about
power,
somebody's
going
to
gain
more
power
from
that
and
that's
what
a
lot
of
this
is
people
do
not
trust
this
government
at
all,
I'm
sorry
to
say,
but
it's
sad
you're
getting
2012.
A
We
have
police
grants.
What
was
I
going
to
say
about
that?
Oh,
why
can't
we
use
some
of
those
funds
in
a
different
way?
I
would
like
some
of
that
funds.
The
parks
14.
gaston
park
is
a
part.
That's
been
neglected
since
I've
been
here
for
the
last
30
years
in
this
very
neighborhood
can
y'all
get
some
of
that
park
money
to
gaston
park
and
let's
see
because
they
have
that-
let's
say
I'm
just
going
for
the
agenda.
I
apologize
because
I
wasn't
really
that
prepared
today.
A
I
appreciate
what
y'all
do
oh
and
it
increases
in
salary.
Now
I
do
support
that,
but
not
right
now,
while
people
are
having
problems
making
ends
meet
and
housing.
So
I
don't
think
the
any
increase
in
anybody's
salary
is
a
good
idea
right
now,
especially
when
we're
paying
for
it.
Y'all
have
a
great
day
and
be
blessed.
G
A
Hi
there
thank
you
so
much
for
being
here
today.
My
name
is
heather
calderon,
I'm
a
member
of
the
bay
area
department
association,
my
family's
lived
in
panels
county
for
over
25
years.
However,
I'm
actively
working
hillsborough,
I
spent
14
years
as
a
multifamily
manager.
I've
been
on
the
multi
family
supplier
side
for
last
16
years.
A
I
am
actively
involved
with
the
national,
affordable
housing
management
association
called
mama.
I
also
serve
on
the
faa,
affordable
housing
committee
and
participate
actively
with
habitat
for
humanity.
I
work
for
a
company
called
resman
that
provides
property
management.
Software
for
affordable
communities
back
in
2007,
our
president
and
founder
was
a
single
mother.
Working
in
multi-family
recognize
how
hard
on-site
teams
work
and
a
lot
of
them
like
her
high
school
education,
retail
hospitality,
general
workforce.
A
She
ended
up
building
this
amazing
tech
company
to
help
these
essential
workers
get
on
the
fast
track
to
promotions
an
incredible
career
path,
we're
not
the
enemy
because
of
our
commitment
to
the
affordable
housing
market.
We
have
a
deep
understanding
and
unique
perspective
of
the
long-term
effects
of
rent
control
and
that's
what
we
need
to
look
at
today.
Once
you
put
this
in
action,
it
stays
in
action,
there's
a
lot
of
emotion
around
this
issue,
but
we
need
to
look
at
what
will
actually
help
today.
A
Rent
control
on
the
surface
sounds
like
a
great
solution,
yet
it's
only
a
very
short-term
action
that
has
a
derogatory
long-term
effects
that
will
have
an
immediate
halt
on
things
like
development,
we've
already
talked
about
what
happened
in
saint
paul:
82
drop
a
new
multi-family
building
after
the
approval
of
rent
control,
and
this
was
in
2021..
A
The
national
multi-housing
council
conducted
a
survey
and
50
58
of
companies
said
they
would
avoid
cities
with
rent
control.
This
impacts
jobs
in
our
communities.
A
I
agree
that
we
do
need
to
to
focus
on
more,
do
not
need
to
focus
on
development
of
more
luxury
apartments.
The
solution
to
this
crisis
is
to
build
more
affordable
housing
and
to
work
together.
Rent
control
is
not
the
answer.
Please
protect
sadowsky,
affordable
housing
fund.
Thank
you.
So
much
for
your
time.
G
I
Hi,
my
name
is
christy
hickman
and
I
have
been
in
the
property
management
industry
just
in
tampa
bay
along
for
the
last
22
years,
and
I
have
worked
for
several
different
management
companies
and
owners,
and
our
goal
has
always
been
to
keep
our
residents
in
their
home
and
to
provide
the
best
service
and
the
best
homes
that
we
can
for
our
residents
and
over
the
course
of
the
last
even
year
we
are
seeing
such
a
downshift.
I
Our
we
did
send
out
some
pretty
high
increases
as
far
as
our
renewals
and
we
started
increasing
our
rents.
When
inflation
started
rising,
we
were
forced
to
kind
of
like
what
the
speaker
previously
had
said.
All
of
our
supplies,
our
payroll
taxes,
our
insurance,
our
utilities,
with
people
working
at
home,
more
increased
so
drastically,
so
it
kind
of
supported.
It
did
definitely
support
that
big
increase
in
our
renewals
and
our
market
rents.
I
Even
now
we're
starting
to
see
from
last
year
an
eight
percent
decrease
in
the
renewals
that
we're
sending
out
and
we're
projected
to
see
another
eight
percent
by
next
year.
I
feel
like
we're
already
on
that
downward
swing,
and
if
we
continue
with
this
trend,
we
would
not
have
a
need
for
the
rent
to
do
the
rent
stabilization
program.
I
We
would
not
need
to
impose
that
on
us,
because
that
we
still
want
to
provide
the
housing
that
we
have
been
continuing
to
provide
our
residents,
and
we
can't
do
that
if
we
can't
afford
to
keep
their
homes
and
to
keep
their
homes
intact
and
replace
things
and
pay
our
suppliers
to
help
us
when
an
ac
goes
out
or
to
keep
our
pools
maintained
and
our
lawns
maintained.
We
want
to
continue
to
do
this
for
our
residents.
I
We
do
offer
renewal
conversations
in
our
office,
I
oversee
two
communities
and
in
both
of
them
I
encourage
my
teams.
If
someone
comes
in
with
a
renewal
offer,
that's
hi
and
they
want
to
talk
to
me
schedule
the
time.
Let's
sit
down,
let's
talk
about
what
we
can
do,
they're
not
always
set
in
stone,
it
might
be
negotiable
or
maybe
there's
something
in
their
home
that
they
feel
they
would
like
us
to
fix
or
add
just
to
add
that
value.
I
We
do
not
want
to
displace
residents,
but
if
we
impose
rent
control,
we
are
going
to
lose
so
many
positions,
jobs
on
the
market.
Our
suppliers
are
not
going
to
be
able
to
keep
their
staff
because
they're
not
going
to
be
able
to
pay
them.
If
we
cut
back
on
what
we're
asking
of
them,
because
we're
imposed
with
a
five
percent
increase,
I
definitely
know
that
there
is
a
housing
crisis.
I
have
two
young
daughters
that
are
renters
and
they
are
beside
themselves
with
their
increases.
But
rent
control
is
not
the
answer.
I
G
Next
speaker
is
going
to
be
stephanie
poyner
stephanie.
If
you're
on
the
line.
Please
mute
yourself
and
you
have
three
minutes
to
speak.
B
Okay,
good
morning
castle,
I
personally
am
watching
with
my
mouth
hanging,
open
with
the
professionals
they've
shown
up
now
to
talk
to
city
council
about
their
expertise
in
housing.
They
are
the
true
experts.
They
are
pointing
out
solutions
that
should
be
considered,
but
today
should
have
happened
six
months
ago.
B
The
housing
issue
isn't
something
I
spend
a
lot
of
time
talking
about
with
council,
I
let
those
who
spend
their
time
and
energy
researching
it
lead
the
march
and
I
just
bring
up
the
rear.
I
support
the
movement
towards
problem
solving.
I
also
recommend
that
the
folks
who
have
shown
up
to
speak
against
the
plan
before
council
today
should
be
working
towards
a
better
solution.
B
Realtors
property
managers
and
others
in
the
housing
industry
need
to
be
at
the
table
working
on
a
solution,
not
just
city
staff
and
tenants.
I
think
that's
a
perfect
example
of
this.
It's
the
legal
department,
definition
of
luxury
housing
as
anything
over
a
thousand
and
fifty
dollars
per
month.
That's
absurd.
I
looked
in
mls
this
morning.
There
are
two
yes,
two
listings
at
one
thousand
dollars
a
month,
nothing
below
that
in
the
last
18
months.
B
Only
22
listings
have
been
rented
at
a
thousand
dollars
a
month
or
less
so,
and
none
are
bigger
than
a
then
a
one-bedroom
apartment.
B
So
I'd
argue
that
at
this
that
it
is
time
for
the
folks
who
are
the
professionals
in
the
housing
industry
who
have
thrown
data
and
numbers
at
you
today
to
have
a
seat
at
the
table.
We
need
to
have
a
brainstorming
session,
a
task
force
for
housing.
We
have
it
for
all
other
areas
of
the
city.
Why
aren't
these
folks
at
the
table
working
on
a
solution
as
a
landlord
and
a
property
manager?
I
understand
tax
increases
insurance
premiums.
Oh
my
god,
don't
talk
to
me
about
insurance
increases
in
repair
and
maintenance.
B
B
I
do
think
it
will
push
the
stakeholders
to
the
table
and
work
on
a
solution
with
those
who
are
struggling
with
the
need
daily,
along
with
the
folks
who
are
the
professionals,
we
need
the
professionals
at
the
table
council.
Please
invite
these
professionals,
who
are
here
to
criticize
the
process
to
work
at
the
same
table
with
us,
making
the
changes
that
we
need
in
our
city.
B
I'll,
also
note
the
cmt
is
necessary.
Today
I
have
covid.
This
is
the
second
time
in
30
days.
We
need
to
have
the
ability
to
speak
from
home
when
we
don't
feel
well
or
we've
got
other
obligations
in
our
lives.
Thank
you
very
much.
Council
have
a
good
day.
A
F
And
I
I
agree
with
that.
I
was
going
to
ask
someone
to
do
that.
We
are
approaching
a
lunch
time
and
we're
going
to
have
a
hard
stop
at
12
30.
chief.
Instead
of
calling
staff
back
I'd
like
to
go
through
the
agenda
items.
Excuse
me
the
the
items
in
which
we,
our
committees,
will
be
voting
on.
Excuse
me,
committee
reports
and
consent
agenda.
There
I
go
and
then
after
we
come
back
from
lunch,
go
ahead
and
start
staff
reports.
Is
that
all
right
with
you?
F
Yes,
sir,
is
that
all
right
with
council?
Yes,
sir,
thank
you
very
much
motion
made
by
councilman
scott
was
seconded
by
councilman
miranda,
all
in
favor
aye
any
opposed.
Thank
you.
Let's
hear
a
continuance
for
agenda
item
number.
45.
Petitioner.
Are
you
here.
M
Mclaren
I
apologize
101
east
kennedy
boulevard,
I'm
here
on
behalf
of
the
owner.
A
Of
the
building,
I
think
actually
the
petitioner
on
this
particular
issue
is
the
is
the
city
but
the
city
attorney
and
and
myself.
M
On
behalf
of
the
owner
are
requesting
a
continuance
of
this
matter
until
the
25th
of
the
month
and
ask
that
it
be
specially
set
if
possible,
and
thank
you
for
for
hearing
from
us
now
as
opposed
to
this
afternoon.
Thank
you.
I'm.
F
A
If
that's
the
earliest
available,
then
that's
when
we
need
to
do
it.
Yes,
sir,
I.
F
I
would
prefer
I
would
prefer
that,
but
then
again
the
decision
is
up
to
you.
We
want
to
do
what's.
F
And
I
thank
you:
is
there
anyone
within
chambers
that
would
like
to
speak
to
the
continuance?
Only
on
agenda
item
number
45
file,
number
hpc,
22-01-c.
I
F
F
Council,
all
right,
we
are
going
to
go
to
consent
agenda
councilman
vieira.
Can
you
read
11
through
13.
F
A
F
F
F
N
Yes,
sir,
and
and
my
agenda's
not
coming
up
on
my
other
screen
here,
could
you
please
give
me
the
number
sir.
F
That
they
are
29
through
32.
F
F
A
Yes,
sir,
mr
chairman,
I'm
here
david
mechanic
for
the
record
I
am
representing
the
applicant
on
item
38.
A
We
would
respectfully
request
your
consideration
for
that.
All
right
move
to
set
item
number
38,
de1-22-197-c.
F
I
Unless
you
want
to
waive
your
rules
and
have
more
than
two
review
hearings,
which
you
have
that
authority
to
do
so,
you
could
have
more
than
you
could
you
you
have
by
policy
a
limit
you're,
limiting
your
review
hearings
to
two
per
meeting.
N
J
F
M
Be
stepping
on
the
buttons
of
caution:
I've
filled
out
a
forum
on
a
conflict
with
this
and
there's
states
in
the
back
where
it
is,
and
it's
that
I
property
that
I
manage
is
next
order
this
and
just
an
abundance
of
cultures,
even
though
this
is
just
setting
a
date
I'll
step
out.
Okay,
okay,.