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Yes,
good
morning,
I
have
Nicole
from
Presbyterian
Church
in
South,
Tampa
and
she's,
a
native
of
Florida
graduated,
with
a
bachelor's
in
English,
from
Stetson
University
and
with
a
masters
of
divinity
master
of
arts
and
Christian
education
from
Union
Presbyterian
seminary
in
Richmond
and
just
recently
got
a
doctorate
of
ministry
from
Emory.
Nicole
was
ordained
as
a
teaching
Elder
minister
of
word
and
Sacrament
in
2004.
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She
served
as
associate
pastor
for
Christian
education
at
St,
Charles,
Avenue,
Presbyterian
Church
in
New
Orleans
for
two
years
prior
to
coming
diplomacy
at
Presbyterian
Church
in
2006,
where
her
Ministry
focuses
pastoral
care
and
worship
since
moving
to
Tampa
Nicole
met
and
married
Christopher
Abner,
and
they
have
three
children.
When
not
at
church.
They
can
often
be
seen
biking
to
Jerry
Joy,
which
a
lot
of
us
have
gone
to
in
between
holding
signs
across
the
street.
But
thank
you.
Your
church
has
a
great
reputation.
F
It's
been
growing
fast
and
is
a
real
highlight
of
the
community.
So
thank
you
so
much
for
coming
this
morning.
G
Holy
One
known
by
many
names,
and
thank
you
for
the
gifts,
opportunities
and
Beauties,
which
are
we
thank
you
for
the
gift
of
community
and
ask
your
blessing
to
be
upon
the
city
of
Tampa
and
the
communities
within
which
we
live,
help
us
all
to
be
good.
Stewards
of
the
vast
resources
of
this
corner
of
the
Earth
May,
honest
industry
and
sound
learning,
Mark
our
communal
life.
G
G
We
stop
and
pray
for
all
those
who
hold
office
in
the
government
of
this
city
that
they
may
do
their
work
in
a
spirit
of
wisdom,
kindness
and
Justice
help
them
to
use
their
authority
to
serve
faithfully
and
to
promote
the
general
welfare
of
the
people,
Infuse
the
council,
with
passion
and
Imagination,
and
give
to
them
the
wisdom
to
balance
compassion
and
challenge
guide.
Each
of
us,
oh
God,
to
be
good
citizens
of
this
city
and
Nation,
helping
us
to
respect
neighbors
whose
views
differ
from
ours.
G
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H
E
E
Members,
if
you
will
please
indulge
me
for
just
a
few
minutes,
Miss
Molly
Bieber.
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K
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Hey
my
name
is
Matthew
Haller
I'm,
a
middle
school,
social
studies,
teacher
and
I
run
the
student
government
for
sun
Lake,
Academy
I'm
a
little
biased.
This
is
probably
the
smartest
group
of
kids
that
you've
seen
in
all
of
Middle
School
in
the
U.S
and
so
but
I
think
you
should
get
to
know
a
little
bit
about
them.
So
if
you
guys
want
to
come
up,
say
your
name
and
great.
E
I
want
to
thank
you
all
very
much
for
being
here
today
the
old
saying
that
youth
is
our
future
I
I,
believe
no
youths
are
here
and
right
now
and
miss
people.
Thank
you
for
bringing
them
in
and
I
hope
that
you
will
take
away
something
today
that
you
are
going
to
learn
about
local
government
how
it
works,
how
it
runs
in
the
decisions
that
we
make
again.
Thank
you
all
for
being
here
today.
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E
And
I
believe
administrative
updates,
Chief
Bennett,
will
not
be
here
out.
However,
Miss
Gene
Duncan
has
been
asked
to
fill
in
for
that
administrative
update
agenda
item
number
69
I,
believe
that
is
also
going
to
stay
on
the
agenda.
Yes
file
number
excuse
me
number
70..
That
is
also
they're
going
to
be
heard
together.
T
You
know
I'm
fine
with
the
written
report.
We
can
talk
about
it,
but
that's
fine.
F
Sir
I
read
this
tap
report.
Could
we
just
continue
this
for
six
months?
Just
so
we
can
get
an
update.
Could.
E
T
F
E
F
Yes,
we
I
think
we're
going
to
vote
on
that.
Yes,.
E
There
is
a
resolution
to
that:
79
councilman
Carlson.
B
E
V
E
E
Opposed
both
both
motions
passed
agenda-
item
number
83,
councilman,
Maniscalco.
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Move
to
continue
to
May
25th
2023,
as
requested
a.
E
E
We
have
a
motion
made
by
councilman
man
of
skuck
I
seconded
by
councilman
Carlson,
all
in
favor
say
any
opposed
motion
carries
and
I
believe
agenda.
Item
number
84
has
been
asked
to
be
continued.
B
E
T
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T
Thank
you,
Mr
chair.
It's
a
real
pleasure
to
be
here
this
morning
and
talk
to
everybody
here.
I
I
wanted
to
introduce
to
city
council
and
into
just
much
of
the
city
of
Tampa.
You
all
may
have
seen
these
wonderful
folks
in
the
news
we
have
here:
Mr
Greg,
Jones
who's,
an
attorney
and
partner
with
a
law
firm,
a
reliant
and
Alvarez
he's
board
certified
in
civil
trial
law
and
is
a
very
well-known
and
respected
attorney
here
in
the
Tampa
area.
T
Mr
Jones
serves
in
many
capacities,
including
being
here
today,
but
I
think
a
capacity
that
I
have
to
mention
that
probably
informs
this
capacity.
That
he's
here
for
is
he's
also
a
deacon
at
the
Bayshore
Baptist
Church.
Where
he's
also
on
the
missions
committee,
Greg,
Mr
Jones
launched
a
non-profit
organization
by
the
name
of
cup,
which
is
coffee,
uniting
people,
coffee,
uniting
people,
offers
all-inclusive
coffee
shops
and
employs
people
of
all
abilities,
including
persons
with
intellectual
disabilities,
autism
and
different
physical
and
intellectual
challenges,
Mr
Jones
and
his
team
who's
here.
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Does
this
for
a
lot
of
different
reasons,
including
the
fact
that
about
four
out
of
five
people
with
intellectual
disabilities
are
underemployed
and
unemployed?
He
also
does
it
to
set
an
example
for
different
entities
in
the
private
sector,
as
well
as
in
the
public
sector.
Something
we'll
be
dealing
with
today,
in
fact,
in
the
city
of
Tampa,
to
make
sure
that
different
entities
are
inclusive
in
their
hiring
practices
and
hiring
people
with
special
needs
in
intellectual
disabilities,
and
he
also
does
it
in
his
group.
T
So
I
wanted
Mr
Jones
and
his
team
to
come
here
and
talk
about
the
wonderful
work
that
they
do
through
cup,
because
I'll
be
motioning
at
the
end
of
Tampa
City
Council,
to
have
the
city
of
Tampa
partner,
with
this
great
group
to
have
them
outside
on
city
property
selling,
their
coffee
to
folks
to
further
spread
their
wonderful
message
so
Greg
take
it
buddy.
Y
Thanks
councilman,
yes,
sir
good
morning,
thank
you
for
having
us
and
thank
you
for
those
kind
words.
I
want
to
introduce
my
team
here.
This
is
how
actually
part
of
our
team.
This
is
Jane.
Leveroni.
Excuse
me,
this
is
Ellie
brown,
one
of
our
first
employees,
lumpy
leveroni
who's.
Also
on
our
board,
my
wife
Laura
who's,
a
board
member
and
Lori
hunt
who's
also
on
our
board
and
Lori's
son.
Henry
is
probably
one
of
the
reasons
why
we
started
this
organization.
So
it's
not
just
me
by
any
stretch
of
imagination.
Y
This
is
a
group.
It
takes
a
team
effort,
we're
all
running
the
boat
in
the
same
direction,
so
we
say
so.
We
started
an
organization
called
cup
which
is
a
non-profit.
We've
opened
up
our
first
shop
just
down
the
street
that
embar
Collective,
which
is
a
great
building,
come
down
to
see
us
on
the
corner
of
Whiting
and
Jefferson,
Street
and
I.
Think
we
are
the
first
inclusive
Coffee
House
in
Tampa,
hopefully
more
to
come.
We
want
to
be
the
Starbucks
of
special
needs:
coffee
houses.
Y
We
are
employing
individuals,
as
councilman,
told
us
of
all
abilities
and,
and
mainly
those
with
intellectual
and
developmental
disabilities,
but
we're
we're
open
to
all.
We've
got
great
plans.
Our
goal
is
to
spread
knowledge
about
the
inclusive
disability
Community
in
Tampa,
and
we're
excited
about
this
opportunity.
I
also
wanted
to
recognize
Phyllis
Gutman
who's
here
also
from
McDonald's
Training
Center
she's
been
one
of
our
partners,
and
the
Phyllis
has
been
with
us
also
for
some
period
of
time,
so
we're
just
tremendously
excited.
Y
We
welcome
the
opportunity
that
Council
mavira
has
given
to
us
possibly
about
selling
some
coffee
out
in
front
of
the
city
hall.
Here
we've
got
plans
to
open
up
our
second
location
on
South,
Dale,
Mabry
and
El
Prado
in
June,
so
Joe
you
hopefully
be
able
to
stop
by
and
we've
got
some
plans
to
go
elsewhere
in
Tampa
down
the
road
and
we've
just
got
big
plans
to
to
develop
and
explore
and
expand
our
admissions.
So
thank
you
very
much
for
this
opportunity.
Y
I
know
you
guys
have
long
meetings
and
you've
got
to
be
caffeinated,
so
we
bring
gifts.
So
I
don't
know
who
to
give
this
to
I'll.
Give
this
to
you
Louis.
You.
Y
T
Else
Greg
want
to
speak
or
everybody
anybody
want
to
speak.
My
name
sure,
okay,
great
so
I
I
also
wanted
to
present,
if
I'm
a
Tampa,
City
Council
Commendation
to
you
guys
for
all
the
wonderful
work
that
you
have
done
and
that
you
will
continue
to
do.
You
know
Greg.
My
head
is
always
off
to
you.
I
think
you're,
one
of
those
attorneys
who
takes
on
public
service.
T
V
Y
So
if
you're
familiar
with
the
area,
there's
a
pinch,
a
penny
on
the
north
east
corner
and
actually
we're
just
the
next
block
up
between
vasconia
and
Sevilla,
there's
a
white
building
and
we
will
be
in
there
hopefully
by
the
end
of
June.
So
it's
just
actually
one
block
north
of
Dale,
Mabry
and
Al
Prado
great.
V
AA
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
already,
I'm
a
little
more
awake,
because
this
smell
is
amazing,
but
thank
you
so
much.
This
is
a.
This
is
a
fabulous
program,
a
wonderful
idea
and
I
believe
you're
having
a
fundraiser
Friday
night.
So.
Y
We
are
tomorrow
night
over
Beef
O'brady's
over
on
MacDill
and
bay
to
bay.
So
from
five
to
eight
beefs
or
excuse
me,
five
to
closing
beefs
is
going
to
donate
a
20
of
all
the
proceeds
to
cups,
so
anybody
has
a
chance
to
want
to
come
over
and
get
a
hamburger
and
whatnot.
Y
Your
support
will
go
towards
our
organization
and,
to
that
point
the
support
that
we
have
received
from
the
Tampa
area,
Community,
South,
Tampa
and
Beyond
has
been
overwhelming,
and
that
would
be
an
understatement,
so
we're
we're
extremely
fortunate
and
and
for
this
opportunity
also
so
tomorrow,
night
of
beefs
five
o'clock.
Yes,
yes,.
AA
O
Pleasure
to
be
here
with
all
your
good
folks,
I
see
your
coffee
is
made
by
the
brisk
company.
It.
Y
O
And
I
had
the
pleasure
of
going
to
school.
I
didn't
know
this
until
I
saw
the
package
with
the
founders
of
Bruce
Coffee
way
back
when
we
were
all
little
teenagers
in
high
school
in
Jefferson,
but
congratulations
to
you
and
Brett
for
doing
what
you're
doing
to
give
everybody
a
chance,
giving
them
a
leg
up,
not
a
push
down.
Thank
you
very
much.
Well,.
Y
Denise
Reddick
at
brisk
has
been
a
wonderful
partner
with
us,
and
a
part
of
our
story
is
that
we've
had
so
many
vendors
and
construction
team
and
members
and
whatnot
who
have
either
donated
their
services
or
doing
at
a
discount
for
our
cause
and
Denise
was
there
from
the
get-go.
So
we're
very
appreciative
to
have
Denise
and
brisk
coffee
with
us.
A.
E
F
This
is
a
great
idea,
thank
you
for
all
of
you
for
putting
this
together
and
please
keep
us
posted
on
how
we
can
help,
and
if
there
are
events
like
the
one
tomorrow
night
that
we
can
promote
be
sure
to
send
them
to
us,
so
we
can
post
them
and
promote
them.
Thank
you
very
much.
You.
E
Know
my
friend
I've
known
you
for
many
many
years
and
I've
learned
more
about
you
today
than
I
have
over
the
last
15
years,
you're
a
great
person,
and
this
is
a
great
organization
that
you
belong
to
and
with
and
helping
people
that
may
be
overlooked.
I.
Thank
you
for
your
courage
and
I.
Thank
you
for
this
wonderful
organization.
I
can't
wait
to
taste
something
and
it's
going
to
be
great
to
get
a
good
Cafe
called
leychee
south
of
south
of
bay
to
bay.
So
thank
you
very,
very
much
for
being
here.
B
T
Next,
if
I
may
Mr
chair
I
wanted
to
invite
Mr
Josh
Felder
who's
here,
and
we
have
a
film
a
one
minute
snippet,
if
you
will
from
a
video
that
was
on
the
Today,
show
I
think
if
it
could
play
that
briefly,
come
on
buddy.
X
AB
AD
M
T
W
O
T
So
it's
my
pleasure
to
have
here.
I
have
Phyllis
Gutman
here
with
us
from
McDonald's
Training
Center,
who
came
here
for
this
as
well
as
cup
and
Josh.
Felders
are
very
remarkable.
Young
man
he's
from
here
in
Tampa
he's
a
graduate
of
Hillsboro
High
School,
who
grew
up
here
in
the
Tampa
area
as
a
as
a
Young,
Man
Josh
was
bullied
because
of
in
part.
A
speech
impediment
that
he
had
in
different
challenges.
Josh
has
a
so-called
high
functioning
autism
or
Asperger's.
T
If
you
will
and
his
family
and
his
mom
and
dad
always
believed
in
him,
Josh
has
grown
into
a
fine
young
man
who
shows
the
world
what
he
can
do
when
he
simply
has
that
opportunity
and
boy
what
this
young
man
has
done
is
quite
remarkable
before
he
got
to
star
in
a
movie
with
Woody
Harrelson
in
numerous
other
actors,
Josh's
first
brush
with
Fame,
was
in
our
Super
Bowl
here
in
Tampa,
when
he
was
one
of
200
dancers,
dancing
out
at
the
Super
Bowl
mimicking
moves
based
on
his
Heroes
Michael
Jackson,
Chris,
Brown,
Usher
and
others,
and
for
15
years
Josh
has
been
an
ambassador
with
best
buddies
here
in
Tampa.
T
That's
how
we
met
some
years
ago
and
he
works
at
Holland
the
night
as
a
staff
member
there,
and
then
there's
that
whole
Woody
Harrelson
thing
that
happened.
So
Josh
had
an
opportunity
to
star
in
the
movie
Champions
with
Woody
Harrelson.
Who,
of
course,
is
a
real
legendary
actor
I
mean
he's
an
a-lister
movies,
No
Country
for
Old
Men,
White,
Men,
Can't
Jump,
where
the
Planet
of
the
Apes
Zombieland
movies
and
and
on,
and
on,
and
it's
directed
by
Bobby
Farrelly,
the
director
of
Heartbreak
Kid
fever
pitch
and
many
other
movies.
T
It's
a
movie
about
a
individual
who
has
a
brush
with
the
law
and
has
to
coach
a
Special,
Olympics
basketball
team
and
learns
a
little
something
about
life
and
Josh
co-stars
in
that
movie
were
very,
very,
very
proud
of
Josh
and
all
the
work
that
he's
done
in
doing
this
again
starring
in
a
movie
with
Woody
Harrelson.
You
have
really
become
an
ambassador
for
what
people
can
do
and
and
when
given
a
chance
just
to
fulfill
their
god-given
potential.
T
AD
AD
Thank
you
for
supporting
me
all
my
life.
If
you
haven't
seen
the
movie
Champions,
yet
not
a
problem
mom,
you
could
watch
it
in
theaters
or
you
can
stream
it
online.
O
Well,
I
think
your
shirt
says
it
all
you're
a
champion.
Thank
you.
I
mean
you.
You
jumped
over
every
hurdle
that
I
could
jump
over
and
you
certainly
made
it
to
the
big
tent
when
you
was
associated
with
the
movie
actors
and
that
were
just
named
Harrison
and
the
rest
of
them.
That's
a
fantastic
thing
to
do,
and
something
that
you
share
is
the
rest
of
your
life
and
I'm
sure
one
day,
hopefully
you'll
be
in
the
same
role
that
they
were
when
they
were
in
the
movie
or
it
made
an
even
greater
aspirations.
T
AD
AD
Oh
yeah,
it
was
fun
something
that
I
will
never
forget
about.
I
I
can
just
imagine
working
with
working
with
Woody
Harrelson,
so
you
know
again
thank
you
for
doing
something
that
other
people
haven't
had
a
chance
to
do.
Probably
won't
ever
get
a
chance
to
do
being
a
movie
yeah.
AA
Congratulations:
it
is
so
wonderful
to
have
a
great
representative
from
Tampa
getting
out
there
and
showing
what
this
city
is
all
about.
So
congratulations
I,
look
forward
to
watching
this
movie
and
seeing
you
and
many
more
yes,.
V
V
For
the
inspiration
this
morning,
what
a
great
way
to
start
the
day,
thank
you,
councilman
Pierre,
for
for
recognizing
this,
this
young
man,
this
what
an
awesome
experience,
what
a
you
know,
everything
that
you've
done
and
you're
young,
and
this
is
just
the
beginning.
So
congratulations
to
you
and
again,
thank
you
for
inspiring
all
of
us.
F
Carlson
yeah
I
think
almost
everybody
growing
up
wants
to
be
a
movie
star
and
you've
done
that.
So!
Congratulations!
That's
as
council
member
Miranda
said
you're
jumping
over
hurdles
that
the
rest
of
us
couldn't
jump
over.
So
congratulations
on
on
achieving
what
you
achieve
look
forward
to
seeing
you
in
this
and
others.
Thank
you.
E
Joshua
you
got
to
hang
out
with
Woody
Harrelson
yeah
I
did
man,
you
know
you
are
rising
so
quickly
on
the
ladder
of
success
and
it's
because
of
your
hard
work
and
because
you
want
to
achieve,
but
remember
that
same
ladder,
there
are
people
behind
you
wanting
the
same
type
of
success.
Remember
to
help
them
come
up
that
ladder.
Congratulations
to
you!
Congratulations
to
all
you've
achieved
and
keep
moving
forward.
Brother!
Yes,.
AE
Sure
so
for
congratulations.
First
Josh
I
have
to
say:
if
you
haven't
seen
the
movie
don't
delay.
Josh
is
actually
a
Tampa
influencer
for
other
young
people
and
individuals
with
disabilities,
he's
showing
everyone
what
can
be
done
to
possibilities
and
I
completely
agree
with
you
chair
that
he
can
help
bring
others
along
just
by
being
so
visible
in
the
public.
The
movie
is
brilliant.
I
was
very
pleasantly
surprised
because
it
focuses
on
individuals
with
disabilities
that
are
adults.
AE
T
There
you
go
yeah,
that's
the
the
poster
and
it
was
funny
I
discovered.
This
I
was
in
a
movie
theater
and
I'm.
Walking
with
my
son
and
I,
see
this
poster
up
and
I
go
that's
Josh.
What's
going.
AB
T
Had
no
idea,
so
it's
it's
funny,
so
thank
you,
Council.
Thank
you.
E
AG
Morning
greetings,
my
name
is
Dominique
Cobb
I
am
a
resident
and
business
owner
in
east
Tampa
and
I'm
multi-generational
campaignian
I
am
here
today,
because
my
great
grandfather,
Herschel
Hatton,
was
a
produce
produce
Merchant
in
Ybor
City.
Also
he
paved
and
laid
brickwork
down.
Nebraska
Avenue
my
great-grandmother
Helen
Hughes.
Also
she
was
the
she
up,
kept
the
appearance,
the
homes
of
politicians
on
Bayshore
Boulevard,
my
grandmother,
Beatrice
Cole,
also
helped
in
the
seafood
industry.
If
you
lived
in
Tampa
if
you've
ate
from
Singleton,
my
family
was
a
part
of
that
today.
AG
AG
To
my
dismay,
that
was
sold
under
our
nose
and
we
do
not
know
what
is
going
to
happen
to
the
final
resting
place
for
our
loved
ones.
Today,
I
come
with
not
so
good
news,
because
I
have
a
family
friend
who
recently
suffered
a
loss
and
their
grandparents
and
loved
ones
are
supposed
to
be
buried
in
that
plot.
As
of
now,
they
are
not
able
to
get
in
touch
with
the
owners
and
the
funeral
home,
which
is
Akins.
All
they
need
is
assistance
to
find
out
if
she
can
be
buried
there.
AG
Before
the
29th,
we
have
tried
reaching
out
to
numerous
entities.
Municipalities.
There
has
been
no
hope
as
far
as
the
community
of
East
Tampa,
that
is
the
heart
of
Tampa.
If
you
were
to
do
a
landscape
and
scope,
that
is
the
heart
of
Tampa,
as
you
know,
District
Five
is
we
are
in
disrepair.
They
are
housing
crisis.
There
are
entities
that
are
meant
to
help
us
and
are
abusing
their
power.
We
need
assistance
and
to
wrap
it
up.
AG
I
I
didn't
see
that
email
and
I
did
call
one
of
the
family
members
about
that.
I
talked
to
Miss
Travis
this
morning
about
that
in
reference
to
what
needs
to
be
done.
You
know
you
when,
when
someone
expires
the
funeral
home,
if
they're
going
to
be
cremated
or
buried,
it's
called
a
burial
permit,
everyone
gets
one
and
I
think
the
issue
right
now,
a
funeral,
a
cemetery
never
closes,
never
closes,
they
may
stop
doing
burials,
but
it
never
closes
when
you've
already
purchased
a
plot
in
that
Cemetery.
I
So
a
person
purchased
a
plot.
They
get
just
like
a
purchase
receipt
of
that
plot
and
the
family
gets
that
plot.
The
cemetery,
if
it's
still
open
or
operating
whatever,
will
have
a
record
of
that
purchase
of
the
plot,
but
as
far
as
money
being
buried
cemeteries,
never
close
a
burial
permit.
So
it's
a
funeral
happen
on
Saturday,
a
beautiful.
It
goes
to
the
the
owners
of
the
let's
just
say
rest,
for
example,
before
you
pull
in
they're
out
there
waiting
you
give
them
the
barrel.
Permit
it's
done
now
in
this
case.
I
Here
I
know
it's
closed
now,
so
I
would
imagine
the
funeral
home
would
have
to
have
to
have
the
bearer
permit
and
then
just
give
that
Bearer
permit
to
the
owners
of
the
new
property.
Now
now
I
I,
don't
I
haven't
heard
about
no
actions.
Well,
I've
dreamed
about
it.
I
I,
don't
see
any
Gates
or
anything
precluding
anybody
from
going
in
there
and
what
happens
is
when
you
have
a
cemetery
that
does
not
have
its
own,
what
they
call
open
enclosures.
That
means
someone
that
digs
the
grave
and
buries
the
athletes.
I
So
normally,
when
that
happens,
when
you
go
out
to
the
country
to
know
the
Sasa,
we
have
cemeteries
all
out
there,
you
have
a
Monumental
company,
we'll
go
and
they
will
open
and
close
it
for
you
versus
another
major
company
or
entity.
So
I
think
the
key
right
now
is
I.
Think
Mr
Travis
they've
already
been
in
contact
with
the
owner.
I
I,
don't
think
access
should
be
a
problem,
because
it's
open
I
think
even
what
they're
running
into
maybe
finding
the
purchase
of
the
plot
I
think
that
might
be
the
issue,
but
I
don't
think
it's
an
issue.
I
think
the
owners
will
probably,
since
the
family
has
several
plots
there,
that
rule
whatever
should
be
just
bury
a
loved
one
and
move
on
and
into
the
future.
I
Hopefully
we'll
have
some
resolution
resolved
moving
forward,
how
these
will
be
done
with
Memorial,
Park
Cemetery,
so
that's
the
information
I
can
give
and
have
and
again
I
think
that's
what
has
to
happen
to
miss
Travis
says
she's
already
sent
a
memo
to
the
property
owner
and
I.
Think
the
funeral
home
should
be
able
to
give
the
property
owner
and
I
think
it
could
be
resolved
before
the
29th.
Thank
you.
AH
Yes,
good
morning,
I
would
just
like
to
address
the
council
and
a
few
words
from
God
on
the
Women's.
Bible
did
not
make
everything
by
my
power.
The
Lord
has
told
you
what
is
good,
and
this
is
what
he
requires
of
you
to
do.
What
is
right
to
love
mercy
and
to
walk
humbly
with
your
God
Pride
will
ruin
people,
but
those
who
are
humble
will
be
honored
and
I
would
also
like
to
say.
AH
I
would
like
to
thank
Miss
Lita
Perez
of
the
minority
Enterprises
stuck
with
me
all
doing
covid-19
getting
me
through
the
minority,
Enterprise
and
I
just
wanted
to
thank
her
for
that,
and
also
we
need
more
at
the
University
Center
that
my
hair
in
prison
all
over
that
that
was
my
grad
when
I
was
becoming
a
county.
AH
Commissioner
and
I
am
a
bona
fide
County,
Commissioner
and
I
worked
very
hard
and
that
Community,
you
can
ask
this,
commissioner
Gwen,
because
she,
the
one
that
signed
my
certificate
and
I
just
been
trying
I
had
a
great
day
with
councilman
Brothers
Alcoa,
and
we
see
the
need.
That's
in
the
community
in
my
community
that
I,
love
and
I
would
just
like
to
say
thank
you
and
I'm
waiting
for
the
call
from
Chief
Bennett,
so
we
can
uplift
our
neighborhood
even
more,
like
the
rest
of
the
great
people
that
doing
great
work.
AH
AH
You
see
Lee,
thank
you,
but
the
volunteer
missionary,
Society
Penny
fund
and
we
need
help
really
really
bad,
so
we
can
open
up
and
the
buildings
that's
sitting
there
empty
for
five
years
and
I
had
a
pre-lease
on
it
before
covet
so
I'm,
just
waiting
for
change
to
come
in
for
God
to
do
what
he
has
to
do
so
that
we
can
become
a
useful
part
of
the
community
also
with
the
rest
of
the
good
citizens
and
we
as
entrepreneurs.
We
need
the
help.
AH
AF
All
right
good
morning,
Jason
Marlow
here
to
speak
on
item
number
76.
first
off
I,
want
to
thank
councilman
Maniscalco
for
championing
this
initiative
before
Council
I
end
up
post
pandemic
America.
We
have
seen
an
exponential
rise
in
food
insecurity,
millions
of
people
across
this
country
who
thought
they
were
insulated
from
poverty
found
out.
They
were
one
accident,
one
illness,
one
unemployment
away
from
having
to
make
really
difficult
choices
between
paying
bills
and
being
able
to
afford
food
on
the
table.
AF
As
a
former
school
teacher,
I
can
personally
attest
to
like
how
useless
a
student
can
become
on
like
a
diet
of
soda
Hot,
Takis
and
Honey
Buns,
it's
vitally
important
that
we
increase
access
to
fresh,
healthy,
locally
grown
produce
in
the
community.
There
are
troves
of
data
that
exist
on
the
potential
diminished
outcomes
for
students
that
are
going
to
school
and
leaving
school
Under
fed
and
undernourished.
AF
Furthermore,
there
is
a
very
unfortunate
racial
component
to
this
there's
studies
that
show
that,
according
to
the
USDA
black
and
brown,
families
are
more
than
twice
as
likely
to
be
food,
insecure
than
white
families.
I
know
East
Tampa
has
been
clamoring
for
a
supermarket
for
eons
and
I
also
know
that
in
today's
presentation
later
that
you'll
receive
the
food
deserts
that
exist
within
the
city
of
Tampa
exist
within
the
communities
of
color
in
our
city
in
2020,
feeding,
Tampa
Bay
estimated
1.3
million
people
in
the
region
were
food
insecure.
AF
In
2021,
the
USDA
estimated
the
10
percent
of
Floridian
households
are
food
insecure.
So
this
is
a
real,
serious
issue,
but
I
know
that
by
partnering,
with
both
the
public
sector
and
the
private
sector,
a
little
bit
of
investment
a
little
bit
of
love
that
we
can
actually
have
a
positive
last
and
impact
on
this
issue.
So
so,
lastly,
again
I
do
want
to
thank
councilman
Maniscalco
for
bringing
this
forth.
I
want
to
thank
City
staff
for
the
presentation
that
I'm
looking
forward
to
seeing
this
afternoon.
AF
D
It's
good
to
see
you
all
again
for
those
of
you
who
don't
know
me:
I'm
Angela,
Alderman,
the
great
niece
of
Francisco
Martinez,
who's
buried
within
College
Hill
Cemetery
and
is
among
the
lost
I,
am
I'm
wanting
to
say
a
few
words
on
the
College
Hill
Cemetery
scam.
In
response
to
the
report
that
came
out
this
week,
I
have
a
few
questions
and
concerns
that
I
would
like
address
today.
D
There
was
a
scan
done:
February
7th
by
artiman
and
Associates
Paul
Guzzo,
with
the
Tampa
Times
reported
about
this,
as
they
were
seen
scanning
the
College
Hill
land
he
reached
out
to
the
Italian
Club
to
discuss
and
again
was
ignored.
He
also
spoke
briefly
with
someone
from
the
survey
company
I
understand
from
the
city
of
Tampa's
legal
department.
In
the
task
force
report,
The
Italian
Club
said
they
would
give
a
verbal
agreement
to
a
scan.
D
D
I
say
this
with
respect
to
the
surveyors
who
work
hard.
It
is
nothing
against
them.
It's
more
just
about
the
scan
to
detect.
I
would
like
to
add
when
the
results
come
in.
If
there
was
disturbance
of
the
land
or
the
graves
detected
in
the
GPR
scan.
I
would
like
to
request
an
already
archaeological
survey
be
conducted.
I
understand
this
is
private
property,
but
if
they
were
willing
to
scan,
could
they
not
argue
this,
which
is
what
I
asked
for
originally
again?
D
It
is
their
property
and
I
respect
that,
but
I
stress
again
the
importance
of
a
correct
scan.
If
the
result
indicates
no
disturbance
of
grapes,
I
simply
ask:
where
did
1200
bodies
go?
There
is
no
question.
They
were
laid
to
rest.
There
there's
no
question
that
is
indeed
College.
Hill
Cemetery
the
maps
prove
it.
The
historical
paper
trail
proves
it
and
the
extraordinary
research
from
Paul
Guzzo
and
the
Tampa
Times
1200
Graves
do
not
simply
disappear.
So
where
are
they?
D
I
would
like
the
Italian
Club
to
show
me
where
the
bodies
were
interred
and
Records,
indicating
where
my
great
uncle
was
moved
to
next
is
the
time
frame
of
the
results.
Was
there
a
time
frame
given
for
The
Italian
Club
to
report
back
the
results
I
have
researched
in
Zion
Cemetery
with
scanned
by
Cardinal
July
2019,
and
the
results
were
back
August
2019..
D
Another
example
of
recent
King
High
School
was
scanned
by
geovu
October
22nd
2022,
and
they
announced
their
scans
November
19th
a
month
later,
as
you
can
see,
the
results
take
around
a
month
or
so,
and
today
is
April
20th
and
they
scanned
April
7th.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank
you
or
do
I
have
a
few
more
okay,
I'm,
sorry
I'm.
D
Sorry
I
am
aware
of
the
laws,
and
this
being
private
property
and
I've
been
very
patient
with
the
process,
but
I
also
have
the
right
to
know
as
a
family
member
of
someone
buried
on
the
land
and
1200
other
Souls
that
have
no
one
to
defend
them,
for
them
to
Once
rest
again
in
peace
and
have
their
dignity
restored.
I
ask
where
are
their
rights
I
pray
that
the
world
learns
from
this
and
it
never
repeats
itself.
Thank
you.
So
much
I.
V
V
Sir,
because
I
spoke
to
a
gentleman,
I
brought
this
up
before
back
in
2019
who's
since
passed
away,
and
he
was
the
architect
right
that
designed
the
mausoleum
right
and
the
last
time
I
went
to
his
house.
I
just
went
to
see
him
and
he
started
talking
about
the
the
mausoleum
and
I.
If
I
remember,
he
said
you
know
when
they
laid
the
foundation
that
that
they
didn't
find
anything
I,
don't
know
the
gentleman
has
passed
away.
You
know
in
his
records.
Everything
is,
is
missing,
so
I'm
curious
to
know
too,
if
1200
individuals
removed.
D
B
D
My
family,
my
grandfather,
never
got
a
notice
that
his
brother
was
moved
and
he
lived
up
until
the
8th
1980s.
You
know
late
80s
90..
He
died
in
90..
So
I,
don't
that's
my
question.
If
that
that
takes
place
again,
I'm
very
grateful
that
a
scan
took
place.
I'm
not
coming
here
to
to
to
be
negative
with
that,
because
I
appreciate
Council
and
all
of
your
help
with
this.
But.
V
D
E
T
You
and
and
just
Angela,
thank
you
for
your
words
and
and
obviously
my
my
office
will
connect
you
with
the
proper
individuals
for
this,
because
you've
worked
a
lot
on
this.
So
thank
you.
AI
Thank
you
good
morning
my
name
is
Bounder
Broner
I
am
the
grandson
of
Johnny
Broner
and
I
am
actually
the
family
member
that
councilman
goods
and
Dominique
spoke
about
earlier
I'd
like
to
thank
councilman
Goose
for
contacting
me
this
morning,
as
well
as
Nicole
Travis
for
forwarding
my
emails
to
the
current
owner
of
Memorial
Park
Cemetery
I
have
my
family
members
behind
me,
my
sister
Katrina,
my
Aunt
Cynthia
and
I'm
coming
here,
because,
as
councilman
gootz
mentioned
earlier,
we
have
an
issue.
Locating
the
records.
AI
However,
I'm
trying
to
approach
this
from
a
civil
standpoint
and
I
would
just
like
the
owner
to
reach
out
contact
the
funeral
home
and
allow
them
access,
because
it's
a
normal
part
of
their
business.
When
John
Robinson
was
alive,
he
was
the
last
owner
of
the
property,
that's
exactly
what
they
did.
Akins
has
been
passed
down
from
generation
to
generation.
The
current
owner
knows
that
our
family's
been
buried
there
for
a
long
time,
so
we
have
no
issues
with
the
funeral
home
actually
conducting.
AI
AI
I
understand
that
councilman
gootz
mentioned
that
cemeteries,
don't
close
so
from
that
standpoint,
I
would
like
to
go
off
of
that
in
good
faith
and
I
would
also
allow
there
some
some
Grace
for
human
error
towards
the
owner
that
I'm
sure
that,
as
a
property
flipper,
he
may
not
have
known
his
rights
as
a
cemetery
owner.
That
being
said,
Nicole
Travis
put
me
in
touch
with
the
Florida
Department
of
funeral
Services
cemeteries
and
consumer
services.
AI
So
when
I
reached
out
to
them,
they
reassured
us
that
a
verbal
would
do
here
requesting
simply
that
we
can
move
forward
in
good
faith
with
that,
having
simply
reached
out
and
informed
him
that
hey
this
is
the
date
that
we
would
like
to
do
it
and
knowing
that
there
are
no
other
funerals
or
burials
planned
on
that
day,
we
could
go
ahead
and
proceed.
AI
So
that's
my
my
last
final
request,
and
hopefully
this
is
resolved
well
within
time.
Thank
you
for
your
time.
Thank.
E
I
Travis,
if,
if
the
new
property
owner
is
not
responsive,
maybe
we
can
get
the
Department
regulations
to
give
him
a
call.
So
he
can
be
a
shoe
with
the
process.
Truly
is
now
and
going
forward,
and
that
way
we
can
get
this
family.
I
Some
comfort
for
the
loved
one
I
know
they're
in
a
stressful
point
right
now
in
their
lives,
and
if
we
can
kind
of
come
from
any
way,
we
can
I
hope
that
this
Administration
will
reach
out
to
them
again
like
you've
done
or
they
don't
respond
and
get
the
Department
of
regulations
to
go
down
there,
because
they
will
come
up
very
quickly.
Trust
me,
I,
I,
assume
I,
know
how
they
operate.
Z
Good
morning
now,
I'm
sure
Greg,
Dawson
I'm
a
lit
again
against
the
city
of
Tampa,
two
of
your
former
officers
and
some
other
public
individuals
and
I
have
a
couple
of
cases,
but
one
particularly
pending
in
the
Middle
District
of
Florida,
where
the
city
of
Campus
is
named
as
a
defendant.
In
the
case
numbers
22,
CV,
129
it'll
be
Doss
versus
holder
at
all
and
I
guess.
The
city
might
need
money
for
other
reasons,
they
get
it
from
people
asking
for
public
records
request.
Z
So
anyway,
back
in
2017,
one
of
your
police
officers,
who
happened
to
be
the
mayor's
head
of
security,
allegedly
received
a
phone
call
from
a
local
judge
requesting
that
he
investigate
me
and
that
investigation
wasn't
an
honest
attempt
to
find
any
facts
sufficient
to
charge
me
with
felony
perjury.
It
was
essentially
an
illegal
lynching
and
by
the
way
you
don't
know
in
the
State
of
Florida,
a
perjury
conviction
can
get
you
five
years
in
prison,
so
I
wouldn't
even
be
here
today.
Z
Z
The
city
is
claiming
that
somebody
needs
to
put
461
and
a
half
hours
toward
finding
what
you
should
have
had
when
you
were
Prosecuting
me.
So
I.
Don't
think
anybody
in
here
believes
that
I
should
take
any
one
person
or
any
combination
of
people
essentially
12
hours
a
week
time
of
working
time.
Z
To
give
me
the
information
in
fact,
you're
going
to
give
it
to
me
because
I'm
entitled
to
it
under
Florida
law
and
you
can
just
go
to
check
out
chapter
119
in
the
Florida
Statutes
or
Sunshine
act,
plus
our
Governor's,
already
put
it
on
the
record.
That
Florida
is
a
Law
and
Order
State
and
I
appreciate
him
doing
that.
No
one
gets
to
disregard
the
laws
that
our
legislature
has
put
in
place
so
I'm
here,
hoping
that
I
can
convince
you
all
to
get.
Whoever
is
responsible
to
get
me.
E
AJ
I'm
not
familiar
with
the
the
exact
item
but
under
state
law
and
and
we
under
our
public
right.
We
have
a
public
records
office
and
we
do
and
we're,
and
we
do
charge
for
staff
time
if
it
for
Extraordinary
requests
that
require
additional
staff,
time
or
special
special
type
of
services
and
trying
to
retrieve
all
the
records
so
that
that
is
standard
operating
procedure.
And
that
and
we
are
allowed
to
do
that
under
state
law.
Z
I
I
Because
I,
don't
I,
see
something
wrong
here.
A
lot
longer
I
understand
how
how
sometimes
you
know
we
become
victims
when
you
have
a
certain
kind
of
skin
care
hate
to
say
that.
But
you
know
the
bottom
line
is
I.
I
want
to
get
this
information,
I'd
probably
be
gone,
but
I
know
several
colleagues
will
be
here
and
that
needs
to
be
looked
into,
because
you
can't
tell
me
I'm
a
police
officer
a
long
time
they
keep
records.
So
Jim
will
give
her
give
her
your
name,
sir,
and
hope
we
can
address
that.
I
AK
AK
Why
do
they
have
horror
Retention
Ponds
in
East
Tampa,
when
they
ought
to
fill
them
all
up
and
be
a
be
a
housing
deaf
of
people
that
can't
afford
these
expensive
home
y'all
got
up
and
they'd
rather
put
a
retention
Pond
there
than
to
build
a
home
after
homeless
people
to
whatever
but
I've
been
to
them.
On
the
talk
about
that,
I
want
to
talk
about
what
the
Bible
gives
me
tell
me
to
tell
you
John
14.,
let
not
your
heart
be
troubled.
AK
AK
Believe
in
God
believe
also
in
me,
this
Jesus
talking
in
My
Father's
House
of
many
mentioned.
If
it
were
not
so
I,
would
have
told
you
so
and
if
I
go
to
prepare
a
place
for
you,
I
will
come
again
and
receive
you
unto
myself,
that's
where
I
am
there.
You
should
be
also
and
whether
I
go.
You
know
the
way
time
I
said
unto
it
to
him
Lord.
We
know
not
whether
that
good
and
how
can?
How
can
we
know
the
word
quick
Jesus
said
unto
him
this
is
Jesus
talking.
AK
I
am
the
way,
the
truth
and
the
life
no
man
coming
unto
the
father.
But
by
me,
if
you
had
known
me,
you
should
have
known
my
father
also.
You
know
why
I
come
over
here
and
I
would
like
like
to
read
this
Christmas
for
many
years
20
by
20
years
ago,
maybe
longer
than
that
yeah
bought
me
from
reading
the
Bible
in
city
council.
They
bothered
me
from
praying
in
the
city
council,
but
you
know
what
I
talked
to
God
about
it.
You
know
what
God
Said
frankly
asking
the
wrong
people
talk
to
me.
AK
I'd
rather
talk
to
God
than
talk
to
y'all,
because
you
all
don't
seem
to
want
to
get
nothing
done
for
people
of
color,
but
I'm
gonna
have
to
come
down
here
come
down
here
with
my
my
stand,
stand
up
kept
them
to
keep
me
up,
but
nobody
seem
to
care
now
now
I'm
at
my
church
over
there
on
the
level
12
East,
Scott,
Street,
they're,
trying
to
close
it
down,
and
but
you
know
what
they
closer
down.
I
had
to
go
back
to
the
streets
and
preach
again,
but
I
want
to
tell
y'all
something.
AK
AJ
AL
And
just
so
that
you
are
aware,
this
is
a
federal
lawsuit,
that's
in
front
of
Judge
Charlene
Honeywell
in
federal
court.
We
are
in
the
discovery
process
and
as
a
part
of
the
discovery
process,
you
can't
just
get
free
records.
So
if
it's
going
to
take
any
extraordinary
amount
of
time
to
get
the
records
that
Mr
Doss
is
asking
for
and
I
haven't
looked
at
his
new
requests,
he
sent
a
public
records
request
first,
when
he
should
have
been
operating
within
the
confines
of
the
actual
lawsuit
itself.
AL
The
discovery
rules
he
just
I
believe
yesterday
sent
an
actual
Discovery
request
and
I
have
the
opportunity
to
look
at
that.
But
even
if
that
new
request,
that's
been
sent
through
the
proper
channels.
Basically,
there
are
a
lot
of
records
that
he's
asking
for.
He
is
required
to
bear
the
cost
of
any
extraordinary
request.
If
he's
just
asking
for
a
police
report,
that's
five
or
ten
Pages,
that's
something
we
turn
over
without
any
issue.
AL
I
Well,
we
thank
you
for
running
down
here,
giving
us
a
little
more
explanation
on
it,
but
I
still
think
ten
thousand
dollars
a
lot
of
money
for
some
records,
though,
but
again,
hopefully
we
you
we
can
get
the
general
what
he
needs
and
the
city
can
get
what
they
need
and
we
can
move
on,
but
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
he
did
get
hurt
because
I
mean
to
me.
I've
raised
the
eyebrow
with
my
colleague
here:
that's
a
lot
of
money
for
some
public
records.
So
again,
hopefully
we
can
get.
It
worked
out.
AL
Well,
let
me
just
for
the
record,
since
we
are
in
federal
litigation
and
judge.
Honeywell
is
in
charge
of
the
case.
If
he
has
an
issue
when
we're
in
a
lawsuit,
you
bring
those
issues
to
the
judge
for
her
to
resolve
and
not
city
council,
so
that
would
be
the
proper
channel
to
get
his
lawsuit
related
issues
resolved
is
the
federal
judge.
I
AL
E
AM
Good
morning
my
name
is
Michael
landog
and
I'm,
with
the
West
Tampa
Community
Development
of
Corporation.
Today,
I
want
to
talk
about
an
upcoming
meeting
on
May,
the
8th,
it's
titled
Health
Public
Safety
and
social
economic
development,
the
state
of
health
of
African,
Americans
and
West
Champion.
It's
the
holistic
and
nationalistic
approach,
creating
a
healthier
African-American
community
in
West
Tampa.
As
you
know,
African
American
suffer
more
diabetes.
AM
Officially
accepted
because
of
Health
It
suffers.
The
health
Public
Safety
initiative
combines
these
initiatives
to
increase
the
health
in
West
Tampa.
When
we
talk
about
health
and
hope,
Public
Safety,
we
deal
with
bangers
little
people
know
that
you'll
die
you're,
making
you
more
aggressive
drinking
sodas
sugar
and
things
of
that
nature,
because
your
spiritual
would
have
violent
intensity.
The
other
thing
is
what
we
call
Innovation
intergenerational
trauma,
which
affects
the
DNA
as
well
as
the
psychic.
AM
AM
What
effects
does
the
violence
have
on
Health
in
West
Tampa,
and
what
effects
of
General
Health
have
on
West
Tampa,
because
this
affects
the
dog
in
that
respect,
we're
going
to
partnership
with
high
schools
and
health
clinics
to
design
a
strategy
that
reduces
the
the
four
numbers,
as
it
relates
to
health
as
part
of
our
health,
Public,
Safety
and
social
economic
initiative.
AM
We
want
to
create
an
opportunity
for
folks
in
West
Hampton
to
be
more
healthier.
That
means
you
can
go
to
work.
It
also
means
that
you
can
live
in
a
better
environment.
I
can't
talk
about
the
environment
more
than
what
Mr
Walter
Smith
stuff
about
either
involvement
affects
Health
he's
an
expert
he's
going
to
be
part
of
the
team
to
talk
about
our
health
initiative.
I
want
to
thank
everybody
for
giving
an
opportunity
to
present
what
we're
talking
about,
I
think
the
health
Public
Safety
and
socioeconomic
development.
These
thoughts
should
be
connected
again.
AM
E
Thank
you,
councilman
Miranda,
there's
one
thing:
we
need
to
clear
up:
I
apologize.
You
are
ahead
of
the
finance
committee
agenda.
Item
number
51
has
been
asked
to
be
continued
until
May
4th.
Would
you
make
that.
E
E
AN
Good
morning,
good
morning,
chair
good
morning,
Council
Dennis
Rogero,
Chief,
Financial,
Officer
I've
had
the
opportunity
to
brief
many
of
you
most
of
you
on
this
item.
Thank
you
again
for
your
time.
This
is
a
request
by
the
Tampa
Preparatory
School
to
issue
approximately
13
million
dollars
in
conduit
debt
for
construction
of
a
new
science
building
and
other
Renovations.
As
Council
knows,
it's
called
a
conduit
debt
issuance
because
the
city
is
simply
a
pass-through
or
conduit
for
the
action.
As
a
result,
there'll
be
no
Financial
nor
legal
liability
on
the
part
of
the
city.
AN
The
city
is
not
responsible
for
the
debt
Tampa
prep
is
Council
will
also
recall.
We've
done
other
similar
projects
in
a
public
purpose
perspective
for
other
entities.
We've
provided
a
memo
to
you
with
additional
detail.
Some
of
the
recent
examples
were
The
Moffat,
Cancer
Center.
Excuse
me
and
the
University
of
Tampa
again
we've
provided
a
memo
to
council
with
additional
detail
I'm
here,
along
with
the
legal
department
and
Mr
Plummer,
the
head
of
Tampa
prep.
To
answer
any
questions
you
may
have
councilman.
AN
AN
I
You
know
we
get
calls
and
emails
about
the
situation.
I
would
just
say
in
the
future,
maybe
with
the
the
memos
that
come
out
in
regards
to
these
a
little
bit
more
detail,
so
the
public
will
know
exactly
why
we're
doing
it.
You
know
they'll
understand
what
the
city's
benefit
is
or
what
benefit
we
get
and
what
the
benefit
of
purposes
of
the
incident
is
asking
for
us
to
do
this
favor
for
him.
I
think
that
would
have
cut
down
a
lot
of
the
chatter
of
worldwide
City
money,
how
we
pay
this
bag.
I
AN
O
E
O
You
very
much
for
being
here.
I
really
appreciate
it,
but
yes,
sir,
as
you
stated,
it
doesn't
add
anything
to
us,
we're
not
going
to
be
responsible
for
the
13
million
dollars
and
I'm
not
talking
about
this
entity.
The
school,
of
course,
you'll
talk
to
any
entity
that
we
do
this,
for
it
has
to
be
that
they're
responsible
for
the
debt,
not
us,
and
if
something
goes
wrong,
we're
not
responsible
for
being
held
liable.
AN
F
Yeah,
you
just
said
it
two
or
three
different
ways,
but
just
want
to
remind
everybody
that
it
doesn't
cost
us
anything
and
it's
not
we're
not
liable.
So
can
I.
Ask
you
another
question
when
yes,
sir
I,
don't
remember
what
was
in
on
the
space
before
Tampa
prep
used
to
be
on
the
South
Side,
and
then
they
moved
across
the
street.
What
was
is
this?
Is
it?
Are
they
leasing
Parkland
from
us?
What's
the,
or
is
this
city
land
that
they're
on.
AN
F
E
O
And
we
were
just
asked
to
be
driving
by
asked
me
what
was
here
before
this
was
here
and
see
if
I
remember,
that
was
Phillips
field
on
one
side
there
to
the
to
the
west
side
and
Hawk
Plymouth
to
the
east
side,
and
they
were
fact
Phillips
three
were
the
first
I
think
NFL
field
game
or
something
that
was
played
there
and
back
in
the
50s
or
early
60s.
I
forget
what
it
was.
AJ
Maybe
I'm
wrong,
but
that's
what
I
remember
growing
up
I
think
you
may
be
right:
Mr
Miranda,
but
before
Tampa
prep
bought
the
property
it
was,
it
had
become
privately
owned
property.
It
was
actually
a
development
of
regional
impact
that
a
private
developer
had
gotten
approval
for
and
they
abandoned
it
and
sold
the
property
to
Tampa.
Oh.
F
AO
AN
AO
A
persistent
City
attorney
as
this
is
an
IRS
required
test
for
hearing
there's
some
details.
I
want
to
read
into
the
record.
Okay!
Thank
you.
This
is
a
public
hearing
on
the
proposed
issuance
of
the
city
of
Tampa
Florida
Florida
Revenue
Bond
Tampa
prepare
preparatory
school
project
series
2023
in
an
amount
not
to
exceed
13
million
dollars.
AO
City
council
authorized
the
holding
of
this
hearing
at
its
regular
meeting,
held
on
April
6
2023
notice
that
this
hearing
was
published
in
the
city's
website
commencing
on
April
10
2023..
The
proceeds
of
the
bond
will
be
loaned
by
the
city
of
Tampa
loaned
by
the
city
of
Tampa
to
Tampa
Preparatory
School,
a
Florida
non-profit
Corporation
here
and
after
a
return
referred
to
as
the
borrower.
The
borrower
currently
owns
and
operates
a
private
school
known
as
Tampa
Preparatory
School
serving
students
in
grades
6
through
12..
AO
The
proceeds
of
the
bond
will
be
used
by
the
borrower
to
One
Finance,
the
costs
of
a
new
thirty
thousand
square
foot
science,
administration
building
and
the
revenue
renovation
of
approximately
fifteen
thousand
square
feet
of
space.
On
the
first
floor
and
second
floor
of
an
existing
classroom.
Building
and
two
pay
certain
costs
of
issuance
of
the
bond
the
project
will
be
located
at
the
borrows
exist.
Borrower's
existing
campus
at
727,
West,
Cass,
Street,
Tampa,
Florida
I'll,
be
owned
and
operated
by
the
borrower.
AO
The
bond
shall
be
payable
solely
from
the
revenues
of
the
borrower,
pursuant
to
the
to
a
financing
agreement
and
other
financing
documents
to
be
executed
among
the
city,
the
borrower,
borrower
and
truest
Bank.
The
bond
is
to
be
privately
placed
with
truest
Bank
due
evidence.
It's
loan
for
the
benefit
of
the
borrower.
Neither
the
bond
or
the
interest
they're
on
shall
be
an
indebtedness
of
a
pledge
of
the
taxing
power
or
any
other
revenues
of
the
city,
Hillsborough
County,
the
State
of
Florida
or
any
other
political
subdivision
or
agency
thereof.
AO
The
bond
will
be
a
special
and
limited
obligation
of
the
city
pays
sole
payable
solely
from
the
loan
payments
made
by
the
borrower.
This
public
hearing
is
required
by
section
147
F
of
the
internal
revenue
code
of
1986,
as
amended.
Anyone
wishing
to
be
heard
on
the
issuance
of
the
bond
or
the
nature
or
location
of
the
project,
as
described
in
the
public
notice,
will
now
be
given
opportunity
to
speak.
That.
E
AP
Good
morning
Council,
my
name
is
Kevin
Plummer,
head
of
school
Tampa
preparatory
school
here
with
my
colleague,
Mr
Jaime,
Marquez
who's,
our
interim
Director
of
Finance
and
operations.
There's
a
there's,
many
opinions
about
our
school
and
sadly
not
many
people
have
actually
been
there
as
many
as
I
would
like.
But
I
wanted
to
just
give
you
a
couple
of
facts
this
morning
about
our
school
Tampa
prep
was
founded
in
1974..
It
is
3801
alumni
and
currently
serves
705
students
with
130
employees.
AP
Student
body
represents
30
different,
zip
codes
of
the
Tampa
Bay
Region,
with
more
than
510
students
coming
from
Tampa.
We
also
serve
students
from
Brandon
Lutz
Riverview,
Apollo,
Beach,
Lithia,
St,
Petersburg,
Temple
Terrace
Odessa,
Valrico,
Wesley,
Chapa,
thonotasa,
Landa,
Lakes,
Ruskin,
Clearwater,
Gibsonton,
Tarpon,
Springs,
Palm,
Harbor
and
Safety
Harbor,
we're
known
for
our
students,
kindness,
our
commitment
to
diversity,
Equity
inclusion
belonging
our
arts
and
providing
an
excellent
education.
Athletically
we've
won
more
than
60
state
championships
and
one
National
Championship.
AP
We
are
as
committed
to
the
813
and
the
720,
as
you
may
ever
find.
Additionally,
this
project
is
a
27
million
dollar
statement
to
the
future
of
Education,
a
building
with
the
aspiration
to
model
the
direction
of
science
instruction
for
the
next
20
to
30
years,
where
Partnerships,
with
the
USF
motani
College
of
Medicine
the
center
for
the
Advanced
Medical
learning
simulation,
Tampa,
General,
Hospital,
Advent,
Health,
Bay,
Care,
Health
Systems
in
Moffett,
are
being
developed
and
will
Thrive.
AP
This
project
is
a
job
Creator
and
will
create
more
than
400
jobs
for
Tampa
over
the
next
16
months.
The
bell
went
off
so
I
will
just
close
what.
W
O
Oh,
it
was
a
I
believe
that
was
the
first
preseason
playoff
professional
game,
not
playoff
game,
but
a
preseason
game
that
was
done
in
Tampa
and
it
was
brought
over
I
think
by
the
the
brothers
and
that
had
the
print
shop
and
the
wanted
me.
The
lapel,
pins
and
stuff,
like
that.
Wonderful
guys.
W
O
Brothers
Levy,
brothers
and
I
think
that
the
big
guy
forget
his
name.
I
used
to
call
him
just
big
guy
because
he
was
big
yeah,
but
they
I
think
they're
the
ones
that
started
that
movement
to
bring
the
first
preseason
game
football
game
were
there
and
there
was
also
the
state
championship
that
I
saw
Larry
Smith,
which
is
a
running
back
at
at
Robinson
and
Larry.
O
Smith
I
think
was
his
name
who's
the
quarterback
and
the
team
from
Miami
that
came
was
a
starting
quarterback
being
Larry
Rentz
and
Larry
winch
went
on
to
be
the
quarterback
at
the
University
of
Florida
and
Tampa
was
beating
him
to
the
last
10
or
15
seconds.
When
Larry
rents
kicked
about
a
35
field
goal
to
beat
him
by
two
points,
but
I
was
there
and
I
enjoyed
that
and
that's
why
I
lost
all
my
hair
and
the
excitement.
AQ
I
like
it
in
regards
to
this
I
just
want
to
know
what's
the
process
and
in
regards
to
other
entities
but
having
a
relationship
with
the
city
as
a
conduit.
What's
the
process
of
that
and
can
anyone
do
it
because
I
didn't
know
that
the
city
Partners
like
this
and
assist
so
what's
the
processing?
Can
anyone
can
other
entities
have
the
same
privilege
yep.
AN
Yes,
thank
you
Council
Dennis,
raher,
Chief,
Financial
Officer.
Yes,
the
the
process
is
includes.
Excuse
me
what
we're
going
through
right
now.
Typically,
it's
for
a
public
purpose
in
partnership
with
a
non-profit
organization
and
again,
we've
done
them
in
the
past.
AN
If
I
can
offer
a
few
examples
that
may
you
know
shed
some
context:
The
Volunteers
of
America
of
Florida
Bay,
Care,
Health,
The,
Academy
of
Holy
names,
the
Pepin
Academy
Lowry,
Park
Zoo,
so
a
non-profit
will
come
to
us
trying
to
issue
debt.
That's
tax
exempt
the
attraction
of
a
tax
exempt
debt
issuance
is,
if
you're
an
investor,
you
don't
pay
federal
taxes
on
that
interest.
So
you
get
your
return
and
you
don't
pay
taxes
on
it.
AN
That's
great
in
exchange,
you're,
typically
willing
to
accept
a
little
bit
of
a
lower
interest
rate,
which
lowers
the
borrowing
cost
for
the
entity.
That's
doing
the
borrowing
Tampa
prep
in
this
case
will
have
a
lower
borrowing
costs
good
for
them.
So
it
really
is
often
a
win-win.
So
it's
a
public-purpose
city
council
and
the
legal
department.
Bond
Council
have
to
decide
that
it's
a
public
purpose
and,
of
course,
the
revenue
stream
to
pay
back.
The
debt
has
to
be
scrutinized.
AN
E
H
Morning,
Council
Sam
Thomas,
with
your
Planning
Commission
staff.
This
is
PA
CPA
2225,
located
at
1236
Channelside
Drive.
The
request
is
to
amend
the
future
land
use
from
heavy
industrial
to
Regional
mixes
100..
This
amendment
received
first
review
and
approval
after
March
23rd
meeting
is
back
before
you
today
for
second
reading
I'm
available
for
any
questions.
Any.
AR
I'm
just
going
to
restate
what
Sam
said
I'm
receiving
this
approval
on
March
23rd
Alex
Schaller
formed
to
North
Ashley
Drive
for
the
record,
and
we
request
your
approval
today
too.
Available
for
any.
E
C
E
P
P
This
is
for
a
request
for
a
large
venue,
and
this
is
consumption
on
premise.
Only
it's
for
beer,
Wine
and
Liquor
site
plan
modifications
were
required
to
be
made
between
first
and
second
reading.
Those
changes
have
been
made.
The
site
plans
have
been
certified
and
delivered
to
the
clerk
and
staff
is
available.
If
you
have
any
questions,
do.
N
O
B
T
Vieira,
yes,
sir
I'm
moving
ordinance
new
presenter
for
second
reading
adoption
ordinance,
approving
special
use,
permit
S2
for
alcoholic
beverage
sales,
large
venue,
consumption
on
premises
only
in
making
lawful
the
sale
of
beverages,
regardless
of
alcoholic
content,
beer,
Wine
and
Liquor
on
that
shirt
and
lot
plot
tract
of
land
located
at
5017,
East
Washington,
Street,
Tampa
Florida
is
more
particularly
described
in
Section
3,
providing
the
ordinances
parts
of
ordinances
and
conflict
or
repeal
repealing
ordinance
number
2021-2-4
providing
an
effective
date.
We.
P
Thank
you
again:
Council
lashon
dock
development,
coordination
and
Council.
This
item
is
also
before
you
today
for
second
reading
and
adoption.
This
is
a
request
for
alcoholic
beverage
sales.
The
request
is
for
a
small
venue
classification
consumption
on
premise:
only
I'm
requesting
beer
and
wine.
This
is
for
the
property
located
at
3407
and
3409
South
Dale
Mabry
Highway
site
plan.
Modifications
were
also
required
for
this
application,
those
plane
those
changes
were
made.
The
site
plan
was
certified
and
has
been
delivered
to
the
clerk
I'm
available.
If
you
have
any
questions
any.
E
K
H
V
You
very
much
I
have
an
ordinance
being
presented
for
second
reading
and
adoption
ordinance
approving
a
special
use,
permit
S2
for
alcoholic
beverage
sales,
small
venue,
consumption
on
premises
only
in
making
lawful
the
sale
of
beer
and
wine
at
or
from
that
certain
lot
where
attractive
land
located
at
3407
and
3409
South
Old,
Mabry,
Highway,
Tampa
Florida,
as
more
particularly
described
in
section
2,
providing
that
all
ordinances
or
parts
of
ordinances
in
Conflict
are
repealed,
providing
an
effective
date.
Okay,.
B
B
B
B
B
B
B
E
P
Morning
again,
Council
LaShawn
dock
development,
coordination
and
Council.
This
item
is
before
you
today
for
a
second
reading
and
adoption.
This
project
is
the
Rome
yard
project.
This
location
is
in
a
general
vicinity
of
2609
North
Rome
Avenue
and
2301
North
Oregon
Avenue.
The
request
is
to
rezone
the
property
from
NMU
35
to
PD
plan
development.
It
is
for
the
allowable
uses
of
all
NMU
35
uses,
retail
sales,
Shoppers
Goods
business,
school
and
Vocational
School
site
plan.
Modifications
were
required
to
be
made
between
first
and
second
reading.
Those
changes
were
made.
P
AS
Council
Nicole
newgebauer
401
East
Jackson
Street
at
Stearns,
Weaver
I
am
here
and
the
developers
also
here.
If
you
have
any
questions,
we're
available
and
happy
to
answer
anything,
and
we
appreciate
your
consideration.
E
AT
E
F
Yeah
just
comment
real
fast
I
said
this:
the
last
time.
Just
for
the
record,
there
were
a
lot
of
concerns
in
the
public
about
the
way
the
city
handled
the
rip
on
this
original
project,
but
I
just
want
to
state
for
anybody
watching
who
had
concerns
about
that.
This
is
a
separate
issue.
These
are
separate
issues
and
that
decision
was
made
a
couple
years
ago
and
and
was
by
the
city,
and
it's
separate
from
this,
so
I'm
going
to
support
this.
Thank
you
place
your.
AU
Good
morning,
Rebecca
John's
legal
department.
This
is
the
second
public
hearing
for
the
master
infrastructure
and
Riverwalk
agreement
for
the
Rome
yard
project.
The
first
public
hearing
was
held
last
Thursday,
April
13th.
The
developer
is
here:
if
you
have
any
questions
and
we're
here,
if
you
have
any
questions.
AS
E
B
E
Second,
we
have
motion
through
the
resolution
by
councilman
good
seconded
by
councilman
Maniscalco
councilman
Carlson.
F
Yeah
sorry
I'm
going
to
do
this
on
the
next
three
also
I
just
want
to
say
it
again
for
the
record
and
in
case
somebody
making
flyers
in
the
future
comes
back
and
looks
at
this
that
this
is
nothing
to
do
with
the
original
RFP
of
the
city
and
whatever
happened
with
that.
Rpa
is
separate
from
these
decision.
Thank
you.
AV
AU
Good
morning,
Rebecca
Jones
legal
department.
This
is
a
resolution
approving
the
Rome
yard,
mixed
use,
development,
architectural
and
design
guidelines.
Those
guidelines
were
presented
to
you
as
part
of
the
rezoning
that
was
just
approved.
Those
guidelines
are
required
to
be
approved
pursuant
to
the
land
disposition
agreement
between
the
parties
I'm.
Here,
if
you
have
any
questions
any.
E
B
E
F
E
AU
John's
Leo
Department:
this
is
a
resolution
approving
the
Rome
yard.
Mixed
use
of
the
phasing
and
timing
plan
was
an
exhibit
or
is
an
exhibit
to
the
master
infrastructure
and
Riverwalk
agreement
that
was
just
approved.
This
approval
is
required
by
the
land
disposition
agreement
between
the
parties.
Here,
if
you
have
any
questions
any.
AS
E
E
AJ
E
Motion
good
motion
to
move
the
resolution
by
councilman
Maniscalco
seconded
by
councilman
Miranda.
Any
further
comments.
F
Yes,
sir,
just
again
for
the
record
for
any
members
of
the
public
who
are
concerned
about
the
way
the
city
handled
the
original
RFP
on
this.
That
was
a
couple
years
ago.
That
decision
was
made.
This
is
about
moving
forward
with
the
project
and
so
I
support
it.
Thank
you.
W
E
E
AW
AW
This
is
a
vacating
request.
The
applicant's
name
is
Alexis
Gonzalez
senior
property
address,
2102,
West,
Hillsborough,
Avenue
I
was
making
any
requests
is
to
vacate
the
portion
of
unapproved
Albany
Avenue
lying
north
of
unimproved
Ryerson
Avenue
south
of
Hillsborough
Avenue
East
of
Howard
Avenue
and
west
of
Mendenhall
Drive.
AW
This
application
was
filed,
December
14
2022,
the
applicant
owns
property,
the
west
side
of
the
right-of-way
that
is
requested
to
be
vacated.
The
applicant's
reason
for
the
application
is
to
provide
Ingress
egress
for
a
planned
development
of
a
strip
Plaza
and
Warehouse
Street
was
created
by
subdivision.
Platt
existing
alley
is
approximately
13
250
square
feet
is
an
aerial
view,
showing
the
proposed
vacating
request.
The
Albany
person
involvement.
Requests
to
be
vacated
is
in
yellow
applicants,
property
in
red.
AW
AW
Have
no
objections,
this
vacating
request,
easement
reservations
are
required
by
Tico
special
conditions:
Financial
Resources,
let's
comply
with
chapter
27
in
regard
to
tree
preservation
and
site
design,
pretty
improvements
placed
adjacent
to
trees
and
vacated
area.
That
concludes
my
presentation.
I'm
available.
If
you.
E
C
AX
Good
morning,
Council,
the
applicant
and
owner
of
the
property.
Basically,
the
petition
I
had
to
do
the
petition,
because
the
mere
reason
I
have
two
lots
in
the
rear
of
the
property.
This
right
away
was
planted
only
half
of
a
roadway.
The
other
half
was
an
everyday
okay,
but
the
the
adjoining
Property
Owners.
So
there's
no
way
for
me
to
develop
a
road
and
accessing
my
rear
lots.
That
was
a
reason
for
the
vacating
I'll
make
the
project
more
orientation.
AX
E
AX
E
W
O
E
E
C
AW
AW
AW
AW
AW
This
is
looking
West
from
North
Boulevard,
again
an
approximate
location
of
the
street
to
be
vacated
or
proposed
to
be
thinking.
I'm.
Sorry,
staff
have
no
objections.
The
vacant
request,
easement
reservations
are
required
by
spectrum
and
Tico.
Special
conditions
include
natural
resources
and
fire
financial
resources
comply
with
chapter
27
in
regard
to
tree
preservation
and
site
design,
a
pretty
much
placed
adjacents
or
trees
in
any
vacated
area.
Any
use
of
vacated
right
away
is
conditioned
upon
meeting
all
National
Fire
Protection
Association.
AV
E
W
E
F
V
C
E
AY
E
AJ
Lawrence
Massey
legal
department,
I
thought
Mrs
ellman
would
be
here
to
present
this,
but
this
is
a
amendment
to
to
make
all
the
pronouns
in
the
charter
gender
neutral,
which
was
part
of
what
was
voted
on
several
years
ago
and
what
which
our
review
commission,
which
many
of
you
served
on
with
MS
ellman
and
me,
recommend
it.
So
that's
what
this
accomplishes.
W
E
I
believe
that
one
two
three
four
five
people
in
this
room
all
asked
for
that
to
be
changed
and
I'm.
The
price
is
taking
this
long,
any
other
comments
or
questions.
Yeah,
councilman
Vera.
Excuse
me,
I'm,
sorry,
councilman,
Carlos,.
E
W
T
And
I
and
I
again
as
councilman
Carlson,
said,
thank
everybody
who
was
on
the
commit
the
charter
commission,
including
the
folks
up
here
folks,
there
Michael
Stevens,
who
I
I,
put
on
there
and
is
a
great
guy
ordinance
being
presented
for
first
reading:
consideration
ordinance
of
the
city
of
Tampa
Florida
amending
the
city
of
Tampa
charter
in
1975
as
revised
in
order
to
implement
that
chart
of
change,
including
an
ordinance
number
2018-129
and
approved
by
a
majority
of
Voters
as
Amendment
one
in
the
March
5th
2019
election
by
revising
the
following
sections
to
remove
all
references
to
gender
section,
2.02
qualifications
limitation
on
terms
section
2.0
through
organization,
section,
2.10,
veto,
section,
2.13,
reporting
and
authentication
authentication,
section,
5.01,
A,
Department's
legal
department,
section,
7.02
budget,
section,
8.07,
conflict,
section,
10.02,
succession,
section,
10.06,
employment,
repealing
all
ordinances
or
partial
ordinances
conflict
there
with
providing
for
separability
providing
an
effective
second
motion.
V
F
C
F
Just
just
a
quick
comment,
because
the
word
gender
is
thrown
around
a
lot
just
for
anybody
watching
who
hasn't
followed
this
the
charter
as
it
was
written
in
1975.
Whether
only
said
he
and
we've
had
three
female
Mayors
since
then,
and
so
when
you
say
he
and
the
charter-
and
you
have
a
female
mayor,
it's
awkward.
So
in
many
places,
for
example,
they
just
changed
it
from
heeda
mayor,
so
it
would
be
more
accurate.
So
thank
you.
Everybody.
E
O
E
E
E
AA
Actually
I
spoke
to
Miss
Duncan
about
an
issue
where
she
was
going
to
bring
it
before
us
and
she's
decided
to
pause
on
that.
So
she
may
not
be
up
here.
AJ
Morris
Massachusetts
Department
I
saw
a
text
or
email
from
Miss
Duncan
saying
that
she
was
not
going
to
be
here
under
the
ministry
of
update
the
one
item
that
I
think
that's
not
on
the
agenda.
That
was
a
memo
to
you
all
asking
that
you
answered
thanks
to
your
Workshop
regarding
the
proposed
chapter.
Changes
to
chapter
27.
AJ
V
V
E
We
have
a
motion
made
by
councilman:
Scott
was
seconded
by
councilman
Viera,
all
in
favor,
say
aye
aye.
Any
opposed
motion
carries.
Thank
you.
Mr
Madison
agenda
item
number
69
file,
number
bzp,
23-81006.
AJ
Morris
Massey
legal
apartment:
this
is
the
grant
funding
agreement
that
you
all
approved
the
CRA
for
the
14
million
dollar
CRA
Grant
to
for
rehabilitation
and
renovation
to
the
Tampa
Theater.
Since
this
is
a
city-owned
facility,
the
auditorium
is:
the
cities
also
needs
to
be
a
party
to
the
agreement,
so
that
so
that's
the
purpose
of
the
agreement
today.
This
is
identical
to
what
you
all
previously
approved,
as
the
CRA
I
will.
Let
you
know
that
we
may
be
coming
forward
in
May
with
a
slight
Amendment
to
the
scope.
AJ
Tampa
Theater
would
like
to
add
some
projects
to
the
scope
at
that.
Then
there
it's
relatively
minor
change
that
we'll
bring
forward
in
May,
but
this
would
go
ahead
and
solidify
the
grant
agreement
for
14
million
dollars.
V
E
I
Madison,
yes,
I
know
we
approved
it
in
the
CRA.
I
just
want
to
make
sure
we're
clear.
We
always
look
to
see
you
that
we
get
something
for
our
money
and
they
did
say
they
would
recognize
the
CRA
for
giving
dollars.
AJ
Yes,
correct:
there
is
an
exhibit
to
the
grant
funding
agreement
that
states
that
they
will
recognize
the
CRA
for
for
providing
the
grant
funds
and
that
we,
you
all,
would
be
recognized
as
a
lead
donor
in
connection
with
any
projects
in
connection
with
the
update
and
and
Rehabilitation
of
the
theater.
Thank
you,
sir.
F
Yeah,
just
for
anybody
who's
watching
for
a
first
time.
This
is
cre
money
that
comes
from
the
downtown
CRA.
It
can
only
be
spent
in
downtown
and
CRA.
Money
first
is
to
be
spent
on
Summit
blight,
since
there
is
a
little
or
no
slum
and
blight
the
CRA
board,
which
is.
F
Sitting
at
Sierra
board
push
this
into
amenities
that
are
important
to
the
culture
and
history
of
Tampa
that
everybody
can
participate
and
enjoy
and
and
that
we're
proud
as
Tampa
citizens,
that
this
is
one
of
the
icons
of
our
city.
It
cannot
be.
This
money
could
not
be
spent
on
affordable
housing
or
roads
or
anything
else,
because
it's
in
the
downtown
CRA
also
I
just
wanted
to
add
that
there
have
been
a
lot
of
great
leaders
in
the
last
few
years.
F
My
colleagues
may
know
more,
but
ones
that
I
know
that
have
been
instrumental
in
Saving
and
preserving
it.
John
Bell,
who
was
here
a
little
while
ago,
Linda
salsena,
former
city
council
person
and
former
chair
Henry
Gonzalez,
a
former
chair
who
worked
on
saving
and
renovating
this
and
way
back
a
long
time
ago,
Charlie
Britton,
who
was
a
great
still,
is
around,
but
a
great
Visionary
of
the
of
Tampa
Theater
many
years
ago.
Thank
you.
E
File
number
71.
excuse
me
agenda
under.
AC
AC
If
you
recall
in
January,
we
provided
a
CIP
update
and
agreed
to
come
in
on
a
bi-annual
basis
to
keep
informing
on
key
projects,
and
so
there's
a
motion
currently
for
coming
back
on
April
27th.
There's
another
motion
to
come
back.
June
22nd
both
for
a
CIP
update,
so
Dennis
and
I
were
talking
about
the
mid-year
budget
review
that
is
usually
in
the
made
time
frame.
So
we
have
a
continuance,
that's
gone
in,
but
we
just
want
to
bring
it
to
your
attention.
AC
We'd
like
to
take
those
two
CIP
updates
and
combine
them
with
the
budget.
Mid-Year
budget
review
item
on
the
May
25th
Workshop,
so.
C
S
Under
new
business,
I
was
going
to
bring
to
council
the
fact
that
the
budget
advisory
committee
of
the
citizens,
budget
and
finance
advisory
committee
as
part
of
its
process,
would
like
to
make
its
presentation
to
City
Council
in
June
and
I'm
wondering
whether
it's
appropriate
or
better,
be
better
to
put
it
off
this
into
June.
To
have
the
discussion,
because
you're
going
to
have
members
of
the
committee
there
to
make
their
presentation
I
haven't.
We
spoke.
I
spoke
with
Mike
Perry
at
the
last
meeting
about
this
and
I.
Don't
know
whether
we
coordinated.
S
Ultimately,
if
you
want
to
have
this
in
May,
that
would
be
council's
pleasure.
That
would
be
fine,
but
just
to
let
you
know
that
I'm
going
to
be
at
the
request
of
the
the
committee
requesting
that
they
have
the
opportunity
to
make
a
presentation
relative
to
this
sort
of
stuff
in
preparation
for
the
presentation
of
the
budget
and
the
CIP
to
city
council.
So
I
just
wanted
to
bring
to
that
to
your
attention.
I,
don't
know
if
that
changes,
your
Dynamics
or
not,
or
no.
AY
AN
But
we
won't
go
into
a
lot
of
detail.
This
seems
to
be
again
two
interrelated
items
that
can
provide
counsel
and
the
public
a
nice
broad
holistic
view
of
what's
going
on
right
now
with
the
city,
but
I
think
the
timing
is
very
well
placed
for
the
June
Workshop
because
then
you'll
have
the
citizens
Advisory
board
come
in
with
the
you
know,
looking
ahead
towards
fiscal
year,
24.!
AN
O
Sherman
I
was
going
to
in
the
April
14th
citizens
budget
advisory
committee.
They
passed
a
motion
requesting
that
the
city
council
invite
the
committee
to
present
to
Council
on
June
the
22nd.
That's
our
Workshop
session
at
nine
o'clock
in
the
morning.
What
they
want
to
discuss
with
us.
That's
why.
O
F
Yeah
I
think
it's
perfect
that
they
have
a
month
to
they
can
watch
the
presentation
in
May
and
then
they
have
a
month
to
think
about
it.
The
only
thing
I
would
ask
to
try
to
prevent
some
of
the
issues
we've
had
in
the
past.
I
would
ask
maybe
CFO
Chief
staff,
others
that
sit
down
with
the
committee
before
they
present
to
us,
if
possible
or
meet
with
them.
F
F
Otherwise,
there's
a
lot
of
there's
potentially
a
lot
of
politics
in
it
that
the
public
doesn't
want
to
see,
and
so
it
would
be
great
if,
if
a
lot
of
it
was
worked
out
in
advance
and
and
even
if
you
all
were
going
to
do
something
anyway
and
they
suggested
you
could
you
could
say
you
know
we
work
with
them
and
maybe
you
modified
or
made
it
better
or
something,
but
just
to
show
the
public
we're
all
working
together.
Thank
you
understood.
E
I
believe
we
still
have
a
motion
on
the
floor
made
by
councilman
her
tax
seconded
by
councilman
Carlson
about
the
CIP
on
May,
5th,
25th,
25th
forgot
to
add
the
two
all
in
favor
say:
aye
aye.
Is
there
any
opposed
motion
carriers?
Thank
you.
Thank
you
very
much.
Thank
you.
Agenda
item
number
71
file,
number
bzp,
23-81027,.
AT
Good
morning
Council
Nicole
Travis,
administrative
development
and
Economic
Opportunity,
you
saw
Miss
Kion
Henderson,
that
was
in
the
audience.
She
went
to
a
press
conference
at
tampahoe
and
is
on
her
way
back.
So
you
might
see
her
hobbling
in
here
in
a
few
minutes.
Item
number
71
is
a
ship
agreement.
Actually,
this
is
an
agreement
between
the
city
of
Tampa
and
the
Pittman
Design
Group,
providing
a
loan
of
3
million
156
500,
and
this
is
ship
funding
for
this
project.
This
project
is
10
town
homes
that
will
be
built
on
the
property.
AT
All
of
the
homes
are
for
people
that
are
80,
Ami
and
below,
and
then
60
of
those
units
have
to
be
at
50
and
Below
Ami.
The
Pitman
group
this
allowed
this
particular
project
is
a
minority
developer.
Two
of
the
three
developers
are
here
in
the
audience
with
us.
We're
really
excited
about
this
project.
The
3.1
million
dollars
also
includes
acquisition
assistance
with
acquisition
of
the
land
and
then
the
about
200
000
per
unit
in
subsidizing
the
unit
you
have
any
questions,
councilman.
V
AT
They
are,
they
are
graduates
of
Tampa,
Bay,
Technical,
High
School
and
came
back
home
after
working
in
various
other
metropolitan
areas.
I
have
a
list
of,
or
have
a
list
in
my
email
of
different
projects
that
they've
done.
If.
I
V
AT
AT
E
E
AA
You
I
want
to
say
that
I
really
love
the
design
of
these.
It
really
fits
the
character
of
Ebor,
so
I
want
to
say
thank
you
to
the
Design
Group
for
not
only
like
just
putting
something
there
but
making
sure
it
fits
in
I
love
the
way
that
there's
a
couple
two
stories
and
then
there's
a
three
story.
It's
just
a
nice
balance.
It
really
I
think
it
will
meld
in
really
well
I'm
thrilled
to
hear
that
it's
80
and
below
and
60
and
Below,
50,
50
and
Below.
AA
That's
that's
even
better.
This
is
this
is
really
wonderful
use
of
small,
smaller
but
larger
Parcels
we're
going
to
be
able
to
house
10
families
instead
of
three
so
I
think
that's
absolutely
fabulous
and
I
just
want
to
say
thank
you
and
I'm
very
excited
about
this
and
I'm
I'm
really
think
that
we
all
should
be
watching
this
carefully
so
that
we
can
replicate
it
elsewhere
throughout
the
city.
I
B
I
So
I
want
to
make
sure
that
the
CRA
is
kind
of
involved
in
this
project
per
se
of
that
area
and
kind
of
map
it
out,
because
this
is
the
time
that
we
may
need
to
go
in
there
and
start
aggressively
getting
the
CRA
to
be
able
to
clean
up
some
of
that
around
and
put
by
funds.
If
you're
going
to
put
10
brand
new
townhouse
because
see
what
I
don't
want
to
happen.
AT
AT
1.1
million
dollars
in
this
corner
and
the
rest
of
the
corner
continues
to
see
disinvestment
and
it's
not
a
strategic
influx
of
public
investment.
So
I
hear
you
a
hundred
percent
and
that's
what
we
do
as
CRA
I'm
just
going
to
ask
for
the
latitude
to
be
able
to
do
that
in
my
CRA
hat
wearing
my
CRA
hat
and
strategically
purchasing
property
you'll
see
us
starting
to
ramp
up
in
strategically
making
strategic
Acquisitions
to
protect
the
Investments
that
we're
making.
This
is
a
significant
investment
in
that
Corridor
and
we're
on
it
with
the
CRA.
O
Miranda
as
Mr
Gooch
was
explaining
it's
it's
a
corner
that
was
at
one
time
very
vibrant
and
it
used
to
be
a
little
drug
store
in
the
corner,
a
little
shopping,
and
there
was
a
garage
across
the
street
and
we're
talking
about
now.
The
the
West
Side,
the
two
empties
on
both
the
North
and
the
South.
O
If
I
recall
and
the
problem
is,
as
you
said,
it
Mr
Goods-
it's
not
going
to
be
compatible
when
you
built
these
nice
houses
to
look
to
the
other
side
of
the
street
and
see
something-
that's
not
so
nice
and
I'm,
being
very
gentle
when
I
said
not
so
nice.
So
it's
you're,
coming
up
by
yourself
to
where
you
had
like
you
said
and
do
I
know,
Miracles
that
you
can
do
and
we're
not
counting
on
Miracles,
but
I
know
you'll
get
it
done.
Thank
you
very
much
for
doing
what
you're
going
to
do.
O
F
You
talked
about
acquiring
the
land,
is
it?
Is
it
just
going
to
the
developers
are
going
to
Land
Trust?
Do
we
don't
have
the
land
trust
set
up
yet.
AT
I
AZ
I
AZ
I'll
start
dontavious
Pittman
born
and
raised
in
Tampa.
As
she
said,
she
stated
I'm
graduate
of
Tampa
Bay
Tech
I
graduated
from
Florida,
a
m
FAMU
with
the
Masters
in
with
the
bachelor
architecture,
yeah
and
then
I
got
a
graduate
degree
in
architecture
from
Florida
International.
AZ
My
experience
has
been
in
commercial
architecture,
Department
of
Defense
all
the
way
to
the
TD
Bank
we've
worked,
I've
worked
with
a
lot
of
different
entities
and
what
happened
was
my
passion
actually
brought
me
back
to
Tampa?
Once
I
saw
the
growth
when
I
left
it
was
a
little
slower,
but
when
I
came
back,
I
noticed
that
there
was
a
lot
of
change
going
on
and
we
wanted
to
be
a
part
of
it.
So
recently,
we've
been
actually
doing
some
development
in
the
area.
We
have
a
couple
of
multi-family
projects
going
on.
AZ
They
kind
of
look
similar
to
this
project
here
and
our
passion
has
been
to
provide
affordable
housing
for
that
area.
Since
we
we
grew
up
in
East,
Tampa
and
south
of
East
Tampa.
We
we
want
to
keep
some
of
the
people
in
the
community
there.
So
that's
kind
of
what's
driving
us
at
this
point.
J
Near
the
third
and
we
ran,
you
know
we
went
to
Tampa
Bay
Tech
together
they
graduated
and
attended.
You
know
family
also,
and
you
know,
study
you
know.
Architecture,
engineering
and
construction
management
and
early
is
the
age
of
25.
I
was
able
to
acquire.
You
know
multiple
properties
in
Sacramento,
Broward,
County
and
just
noticing
what
was
going
on.
You
know
working
with
him
with
the
developments
going
on
the
East,
Tampa
and
stuff,
like
that.
J
We
just
decided
to
shift-
and
you
know,
come
together
and
put
all
the
hairs
together
and
do
something
a
little
more
massive
than
you
know
what
we're
able
to
do
individually.
So
that's
basically,
basically
it
well.
I
So
this
is
a
good
start.
I
hope
that
with
the
new
Council
company
it
continues.
We
don't
regress,
but
we
keep
moving
forward
and
I'm
glad.
We
had
a
second
two
brothers
that
who
live
there,
who
understand
it
and
I
always
say
you
know
when
you
you
live
somewhere
and
you
have
the
experience.
You
understand
better
yeah
and
your
passion
is
not
about
the
money,
but
that's
one
option,
but
it's
about
the
people.
So
congratulations
to
you
and
I'm
happy
to
support
this
money.
Thank
you.
A
Good
morning
Kayon
Henderson,
Housing
and
Community
Development
manager,
I,
we
met
there's
actually
a
third
person.
Who's
missing
as
part
of
the
group
and
I
think
we
met
them.
They
were
looking
to
do
affordable
housing
on
their
own
through
some
development
and
just
kind
of
explain
what
we
do
at
the
city
and
really
wanting
to
we.
You
guys
have
said
it
and
we've
listened
work
with
some
minority
developers
who
otherwise
wouldn't
be
able
to
do
business
with
the
city.
A
So
we
had
an
open
RFP
that
allowed
different
individuals
to
apply
where
we
were
able
to
look
and
go
through
the
project
and
proposals
instead
of
having
it
to
be
more
of
an
exclusive
project
or
RFP.
It
was
more
inclusive
where
we
were
looking
to
work
with
individuals
who
were
trying
to
do
business
with
the
city.
F
Yeah,
sorry
to
believe
her
the
point,
but
this
is
a
an
important
thing
that
we've
all
been
pushing
I
know.
Council,
member
gootz
has
been
a
big
leader
on
this
in
the
last
four
years.
I
just
want
to
thank
you
guys
for
stepping
up,
and
it's
exciting
that
you're
doing
the
small
infill,
the
design,
the
sensitivity
of
the
community
we've
been
looking
for
minority
and
black,
especially
black
owned
businesses,
and
it's
great
that
you're
in
that
you're
from
the
community.
So
you
understand
it.
F
So
thank
you,
and
if
there
are
any
tips
or
ideas,
you
all
have
on
how
to
help
us
to
do
this
better
or
more
partnering
with
other
businesses
like
yours.
Let
us
know
and
thank
you
to
K
on
and
Nicole,
and
the
staff
for
taking
the
initiative
on
this,
too
sounds
great
great
job.
Everybody.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
E
T
Sorry
I'm
just
finding
the
report
here.
I
and
I
didn't
request
anybody
to
come
here
for
this
because
we
don't.
The
report
speaks
for
itself.
T
It
says
here
that
the
Tampa
Police
Department
has
partnered
with
a
crisis
center
who
has
agreed
to
apply
for
funding
through
the
social
or
action
and
arts
fund
to
potentially
provide
emergency
monetary
assistance
for
Violent
Crime
Victims.
So
what
what
I've
been
trying
to
do,
and
with
the
wonderful
help
of
city
council
and
the
administration,
is
to
see
to
it
that
the
city
can
fund
some
sort
of
a
program
that
helps
fill
the
Gap
I?
T
Guess
if
you
will
for
victims
of
crime
here
in
the
city
of
Tampa,
so
it
looks
like
you
know,
that's
coming
forward
and
I
always
like
to
you
know
just
keep
my
eye
on
things
and
I
do
that
by
having
it
come
back
to
council.
So
I
would
like
to
make
a
motion
if
I
may,
for
this
issue
of
victims
of
crime
assistance
fund
to
come
back
to
us
in
June
first
week.
Now,
let's
do
second
week
in
July
that's
available
there.
T
You
go
July
13th
for
city
council
to
look
at
working
through
the
the
Partnerships
that
were
noted
in
this
memo,
as
well
as
assisting
organizations
such
as
not
solely
this,
but
such
as
rise
up
for
peace
and
other
victims
rights
organizations.
E
We
have
a
motion
made
by
councilman
Vieira
seconded
by
councilman
Maniscalco,
all
in
favor
say
aye
is
there
any
opposed
motion
carries
nothing.
Thank
you,
sir
you're
welcome
agenda.
Item
number
73
has
been
continued
to
October
5th
gen
item
number
74
file,
number
pm,
22-77567.
E
T
Me
again
so
I
saw
the
memo
and
I
spoke
to
Chief
of
Staff
John
Bennett,
so
it
seems
to
be
going
forward.
We
got
these
funds
in
the
budget
and
I
want
to
make
sure
that
they
go
forward
as
much
as
possible.
So
what
I
was
looking
at
with
the
help
of
of
city
council
Administration
was
to
have
a
six-figure
fund
of
a
hundred
thousand
dollars
to
provide
paid
internships
of
15
an
hour
for
people
with
intellectual
disabilities
within
the
city
of
Tampa.
T
So
if
you
look
at
the
memo,
they
talked
about
organizations
like
McDonald's,
Training,
Center,
Pepin,
Etc
and
McDonald's
Training
Center.
My
brother
is
a
client
there
at
the
East
Hillsborough
County
facility
on
James
Ranch
do
wonderful
work,
and
but
what
I
want
to
see
of
this
is
to
have
specific
departments
that
have
paid
interns
within
the
city
of
Tampa
to
be
funded
at
six
figures.
So
this
is
great
and
speaking,
Administration
looks
like
it's
going
forward
so
again,
I
I
would
like
to.
If
I
may
have
this
come
forward.
T
Let's
say
the
first
week
in
June
for
a
status
update
on
where
we're
at.
E
We
have
a
motion
made
by
councilman
for
Vieira
second
by
councilman
Carlson,
all
in
favor,
all
in
favor
say
aye
aye.
Any
opposed
motion
carries
you're,
welcome,
Mr.
E
I
T
Now,
if
I
may
you're
asking
about
the
victims
of
crime
issues
or
okay
yeah,
no,
that
was
my
understanding
was
that
was
received
and
secured
in
this
year's
budget
that
we
passed
in
September
of
last
year,
where
it
came
from
I,
don't
know
so
yeah
as
it
applies
to
that
councilman
Goods
I'm,
not
sure
what
bucket
it
comes
from,
so
to
speak,
so
yeah
I'm,
not
sure
to
be
honest,.
E
BA
Morning
care
morning,
Council
Victory
mobility
department.
This
is
a
follow-up
in
the
original
motion
made
by
councilman
Carlson
seconded
by
councilman
Maniscalco
regarding
traffic
and
road
closures
relative
to
special
events
in
the
downtown
area,
particularly
South
downtown.
A
memo
has
been
updated
relative
to
the
previous
memo
that
was
submitted
and
outlines
some
considerations
and
actions
that
will
be
implemented
by
late
spring
early
summer,
just
in
time
for
the
next
special
event
season.
Of
course,
we
have
special
events.
BA
All
year
round,
we
have
been
coordinating
with
several
stakeholders,
including
the
arena
spp
and
others.
Ppd,
certainly,
and
we've
identified,
apply
reactions
to
of
which
are
immediate
by
late
spring,
and
one
is
ongoing.
So
the
two
that
we
are
going
to
address
after
listening
to
council
the
concerns
having
coordinated
with
the
community
as
well
in
recent
months,
one
is
to
look
at
ride,
share
and
find
more
and
convenient
locations
for
Rideshare
pickup
and
drop
off
on
the
east
side
of
downtown.
BA
Currently,
most
of
it
happened
in
the
west
side
off
of
flat
bridge
on
Ashley
Drive.
The
other
action
is
to
take
a
look
at
our
traffic
control
plan
and
that
includes
cones
barricades.
BA
We
do
plan
to
eliminate
a
lot
of
that,
with
the
exception
of
Morgan
Street
during
Arena
events
and
then
modify
traffic
signal
timing,
lands
which
are
being
developed
as
we
speak
to
reduce
cycle
links
and
be
focused
on
ensuring
that
any
inbound
or
outbound
patterns,
particularly
inbound,
do
not
impede
traffic
flow
for
employees
and
residents
of
downtown
as
they're,
headed
out
after
the
end
of
the
day.
So
with
that
said,
I'll
be
happy
to
take
any
questions.
Councilman.
F
Vic,
thank
you
for
all
you
do,
and
especially
for
hanging
around
to
to
discuss
this
a
little
bit,
even
though
the
presentation
wasn't
very
long.
I'm
sure
it
was
great
news
to
a
lot
of
people
in
and
around
downtown
or
people
go
through
downtown
I.
Think
the
the
downtown
plant
traffic
plan
hadn't
been
updated
in
10
or
20
years
and
since
then,
downtown
has
changed
dramatically,
especially
in
in
and
around
the
area
that
spp
has
developed.
There's
thousands
more
people
moving
through
there
constantly
and
multiple
events
I
think.
F
Last
weekend
there
were
like
five
events
at
the
same
time,
and
so
there's
concern
I
mean
we
we
as
we're
leaving
city
council
at
night
when
there's
an
event.
We
can't
leave
city
hall
because
all
the
roads
are
shut
down
and
the
barriers
are
up
and
so
removing
barriers
changing
the
timing
will
all
help
that
we
can't
we
have
a
lot
more
modern
downtown.
F
We
can't
shut
it
down
down
because
of
one
or
two
events,
the
the
only
the
other
thing
that
I
would
ask,
and
and
I
said
this
I
think
in
an
email
is:
please
talk
to
the
Harbor
Island
folks.
F
They
they
they're
very
frustrated
that
they
can't
get
it
on
and
off
and
last
weekend
because
of
the
shortage
overall
shortage
of
police
officers,
they
couldn't
they
tried
to
hire
some
additional
police
officers
to
help
with
with
some
of
the
traffic
flow
as
it
affects
Harbor,
Island
and
and
the
the
police
weren't
able
to
help,
and
so
Nicole
and
others
in
the
city
helped
during
that
situation.
But
we've
got
to
figure
out
a
way
to
to
help
the
traffic
flow
on
and
off
a
Harbor
Island.
F
They
have
only
have
two
narrow
ways
that
they
can
get
on
and
off
and
all
of
this
around
it
affects
it
and
as
it
continues
to
grow,
it's
going
to
get
worse
so
any
help
there
would
be
great
Vic.
I
I
would
like
to
bring
this
back.
It
should
I
bring
it
back
in
August
or
October.
What?
What
would
be
the
time
when
you'd
be
able
to
report
on
this
stand?
Tech
report
and
everything.
BA
August
would
work
really
well
because
by
then
we'll
be
prepared
and
real
quick
to
address
the
Harbor
Island
concern.
We
have
reached
out
to
sppus
conducting
further
analysis
and
study
and
they've
agreed
to
Loop
in
and
communicate
with
the
Harbor
Island
community.
As
the
city,
we
have
been
engaged
with
Harbor
Island
of
course.
BA
Earlier
this
year
we
had
a
meeting
with
the
community
shared
some
recommendations
that
were
made
specific
to
the
Franklin
bridge
and
the
intersection
of
water
in
Franklin
and
further
Downstream,
in
essence,
we're
looking
at
signalizing
those
locations
so
that
we
can
progress
traffic
coming
onto
and
off
of
Arbor
Island
from
Franklin
Bridge
kind
of
similar
to
the
way
we
do
on
Florida
or
Tampa
by
synchronizing
lights
at
Key,
intersections
and
pedestrian
Crossings.
F
E
BB
Good
morning,
Council
whitramer
sustainability
and
resilience
officer
I
was
pleased
to
work
on
this
item.
For
you
on
behalf
of
several
departments
and
also
working
with
the
county,
we
should
have
a
presentation
if
you
guys
could
bring
that
up.
It's.
BB
And
I'm
joined
by
my
colleague,
Monica
Petrella
Food
Systems
coordinator
from
Hillsborough
County.
Oh
thank
you
who
will
present
the
majority
of
this
presentation
and
then
I'll
follow
up
with
a
couple
of
actions
specific
to
the
city.
So
if
you
can
go,
let's
see
the
next
slide.
Here's
the
file,
number
and
I
appreciate
you
all
continuing
this
for
a
couple
of
weeks
as
we
as
we
continue
to
collaborate
with
the
county.
So
there's
the
original
motion,
here's
the
presentation,
the
rest
of
the
outline
and
without
further
Ado.
R
Hello
Council,
my
name
is
Monica
Rochelle
I'm,
the
food
system
coordinator
for
Hillsborough
County
I
work
for
Hillsborough
County
Extension.
So
today,
I
was
asked
to
talk
about
food
deserts
in
the
city
of
Tampa,
I
kind
of
want
to
quickly
start
with
the
fact
that
the
term
food
deserts
is
actually
not
the
correct
term.
It's
a
pretty
controversial
term.
The
technical
term
is
a
low
income,
low
access.
R
You
can
abbreviate
that
to
Leela,
so
food
deserts
just
to
I
know
we're
a
quick
presentation
and
I'm
happy
to
talk
to
you
all
more
in
depth
about
anything
you
want
to
learn,
but
for
today
we'll
go
through
the
broad
Strokes.
So
food
desert
is
controversial.
It
sounds
Barren,
it
sounds
empty,
it's
lifeless
and
you
know
that
is
really
no
fault
of
those
communities,
and
so
the
term
Leela
it's
a
technical
one.
It's
measured,
and
you
know
it's
it's
it's
not
maybe
as
Buzzy
I
guess,
but
it
is
the
preferred
term.
R
R
Congressional
Port
has
a
whole
lot
of
more
information
if
you're
interested
in
learning
more
so
one
of
the
most
useful
tools
when
talking
about
Leela
and
food
insecurity
is
the
food
access
research
Atlas
And.
So
this
was
made
out
of
the
2008
farm
bill.
It
has
a
map
that
shows
Trends
from
2015
and
2019,
so
you
can
kind
of
see
how
different
trends
for
these
Lilo
communities
are
changed
over
time.
R
In
theory,
there
will
be
more
data
coming,
of
course,
that's
up
to
Congress
to
keep
funding
these
projects
and
keep
collecting
this
data
and
maintaining
these
Maps.
So
the
data
is
at
the
census
tract
level.
It
can
be
downloaded
for
County
or
state
level,
but
ultimately,
most
of
the
data
is
at
that
census
level.
So,
as
far
as
the
actual
content
of
Lila
is
concerned,
the
way
that
they
measure
access
to
a
grocery
store,
they
call
food
stores
and
it
is
a
a
outlet
that
has
over
two
million
dollars
of
annual
sales
so
automatically.
R
That
is
pretty
much
reducing
any
of
your
super
small
micro
options
and
a
lot
of
times.
That
is
because
you
can't
really
have
a
full-service
grocery
store
without
really
kind
of
getting
to
that
two
million
dollar
in
sales
line.
So
that's
just
kind
of
a
best
practice
in
the
industry
is
that
under
2
million
you
might
have
like
a
specialty
product,
but
you
might
not
have
a
full
range
grocery
store.
R
So
so
the
Lila
map
does
not
include
anything
under
two
million
dollars
and
it
mostly
focuses
on
super
centers
supermarkets
and
large
grocery
stores,
so
super
centers,
Walmart,
Supercenter
supermarkets,
or
actually
really
you
know
more
at
Costco.
Supermarkets
would
be
your
bigger
kind
of
more
Walmart
and
then
grocery
stores
would
be
like
what
we
see
in
Publix,
so
low
income
of
access.
R
So
in
order
to
be
in
to
qualify,
you
have
to
be
both
so
low
income
is
a
poverty
rate
of
20
or
greater
in
the
census
tract
so
that
entire
population,
if
over
I,
will
I
guess
that's
for
the
low
access
but
the
low
income
so
that
the
median
income
is
20
over
the
poverty
rate.
That
is
what
is
deemed
low
income.
R
Then
the
next
part
is
low
access,
and
that
means
that
at
least
500
people,
depending
on
if
you're
talking
about
Urban
or
rural
census,
tracts
or
33,
is
more
than
one
mile
from
a
grocery
store
or
in
rural
areas.
Obviously
10
miles
because
of
the
difference
in
the
communities
and
how
you
get
excuse
me
get
around.
R
The
map
will
also
have
different
ranges.
They'll
have
a
Lila
at
half
a
mile.
So
in
your
really
really
urban
areas,
you
know
that's
like
Chicago,
New,
York
City,
it's
it's!
It
makes
more
sense
to
have
it
at
the
half,
a
mile
versus
maybe
in
large,
mirror
this
mid-sized
cities
at
that
half
mile.
So
in
order
to
be
deemed
Lilo,
you
have
to
have
both
qualifications,
so
unfortunately
we
have
in
the
city
of
Tampa
a
decent
amount
of
census,
tracts
that
are
deemed
as
Leela
digging
into
the
data.
R
You
can
kind
of
start
to
see.
Some
discrepancies
like,
for
example,
you
might
say,
oh
well,
I,
know
on
the
corner.
There
is
a
a
place
where
you
can
go
and
buy
produce.
Once
again,
is
it
under
that
two
million
dollar
in
sales?
Does
it
have
a
full
range
grocery
store,
or
is
it
just
a
specialty
product
of
just
meat,
just
Dairy
Just
Produce,
and
so
this
map
is
a
very
brutally
ugly
map.
It
was
a
map
that
I
created
a
long
time
ago,
just
to
kind
of
start.
R
The
conversation
we're
working
on,
obviously
making
it
a
little
more
beautiful,
but
ultimately
all
of
the
dark,
yellow
census
tracts.
Those
are
technically
Lila
at
a
half
mile.
So
this
is
not
at
a
mile,
although
the
Leela
tracks
are
almost
identical
at
both
the
half
mile
and
the
mile,
so
yeah,
when
you
see
it,
you
kind
of
think
like
wow.
Does
all
of
City
of
Tampa
qualify
as
Leela,
and
the
answer
is
sadly.
R
Yes,
many
people
don't
know
that
in
Hillsborough,
County
I'm,
not
exactly
sure
of
the
city,
but
one
in
five
residents
is
food
insecure.
R
So
that's
a
lot
of
people
and
food
insecurity
is
more
than
just
access,
so
this
is
kind
of
the
real
part
if
in
10
years
from
now,
if
we
want
to
say
that
we
contributed
positively
to
food
security,
it's
not
just
a
matter
of
putting
grocery
stores.
It's
also
a
matter
of
being
affordable.
So
if
you
have
a
Whole
Foods
in
East
Tampa,
that
might
not
be
the
most
successful
option,
it
has
to
be
reliable,
so
farmers
markets
they
are
once
a
week,
not
in
the
rain.
R
R
So
this
is
something
that
feeding
Tampa
Bay
has
talked
about
a
lot
recently
A
lot
of
times
the
food
that
they
that
residents
are
receiving
through
these,
like
emergency
options,
don't
fit
their
cultural
needs
and
then,
therefore
they
don't
get
consumed,
and
so
once
again
it's
not
just
a
matter
of
physical
access.
It
is
all
of
these
things
kind
of
combined
together
the
map
that
I
showed
you
earlier.
The
Lila
map
does
not
reflect
all
of
these
things.
The
Lila
map
reflects
just
accessibility.
R
As
far
as
is
there
physically
a
grocery
store
there
that
qualifies
over
these
certain
measures
so
applicable
Solutions.
Each
of
these
things
has
a
community
effort
that
can
work
towards
accomplishing
better
availability,
better
affordability,
more
reliability
and
then
culturally
appropriate
too.
So,
like
I,
said,
I'm
happy
to
talk
to
all
of
you
and
more
depth
about
each
of
these
things,
but
that
would
be
an
entire
Workshop
in
itself
and
so
for
today.
R
We'll
kind
of
just
Breeze
through
but
I
do
want
to
say
that,
oh
okay,
that
this
is
something
that
we're
working
on
so
I
have
the
pleasure
of
being
the
food
system
coordinator
for
Hillsborough
County
I
work
within
Hillsborough
County
Extension,
which
is
traditionally
known
for
public
service
resource
education,
we're
very
well
known
in
agricultural
communities,
less
well-known
in
urban
areas,
but
as
the
city
changes
as
the
county
changes
and
as
extension,
kind
of
modernizes.
R
Our
services
are
related
more
to
education,
on
expanding
your
snap
dollars
how
to
make
healthy
meals
how
to
grow
your
own
food.
So
my
job
is
to
string
all
these
things
together
into
a
food
System
Program,
which
is
called
homegrown,
Hillsborough
and
so
I'm
actually
going
to
put
this
on
the
oh,
no
I,
guess
I,
don't
know
if
it
takes
away
from
the
presentation,
but
it's.
R
Okay,
so
anyways,
so
this
kind
of
gives
you
a
general
gist
of
what
what
we're
in
the
process
of
doing
right
now.
So
we
are
starting
to
do
community
engagement
and
asking
people
to
sign
up
for
a
newsletter.
The
Next
Step
would
then
be
to
activate
residents
Community
groups
to
make
plans
to
accomplish
those
other
Leela
aspects,
and
so
the
food
system
is
more
than
just
physical
access
in
urban
communities
or
rural
communities.
R
So
as
far
as
it
relates
today,
kind
of
like
one
of
the
best
things
that
U.S
city
council
can
do
is
decide
to
support
homegrown
Hillsborough
by
allocating
a
staff,
member
or
really
just
kind
of
committing
to
being
part
of
this
county-wide
effort,
as
we
kind
of
get
off
the
ground,
hopefully
launching
next
month,
you'll
start
to
see
more
more
media,
more
kind
of
structural
organization,
and
the
city
plays
a
huge
role
in
that
there's
also
other
options.
R
Of
course,
access
to
land
I
think
is
kind
of
what
prompted
this
whole
discussion
Parcels.
In
the
urban
areas
for
Community
Gardens
is
one
of
a
thousand
Solutions.
It
is
part
of
the
Mosaic
of
solutions,
and
so
I'm
excited
to
see
what
these
Parcels
look
like.
I'm
excited
to
see
where
they're
located
But,
ultimately
partials
of
land
are
for
Community
Gardens
are,
will
not
be
successful
without
the
community
aspect
of
it,
and
that's
something
that
homegrown
Hillsborough
is
working
on.
There's
also
other
tools
like
financing.
R
Earlier
today
we
learned
about
how
the
city
was
helping
Finance,
the
Tampa
prep.
The
city
can
also
do
similar
things
for
larger
million
dollar
bonds
to
ultimately
start
funding.
Some
of
these
bigger
infrastructure
projects
that
we'll
need
so
just
to
kind
of
recap:
homegrown
Hillsborough,
is
the
name
of
the
food
System
Program.
We
hope
that
the
city
will
be
an
active
partner.
We
hope
that
you
will
maybe
give
some
guidance
to
to
support
this
and
to
say
that
you
would
like
to
be
part
of
it.
R
As
of
now,
we
have
over
400
stakeholders
that
are
signed
up
to
participate
in
community
interviews.
These
interviews
will
last
throughout
the
year
we
have
four
part-time
interns
that
will
be
going
out
and
setting
his
interviews
with
various
churches,
Community
groups,
neighborhood
organizations,
obviously
traditional
food
system
proponents,
and
then
next
year,
we'll
start
to
kind
of
do
more
of
this
action
plan,
Community,
census,
prioritization
and
then
ultimately,
implementation
and
that's
kind
of
where
this
Parcels
will
come
in.
So
that
is
my
presentation.
E
Before
we
go
into
questions,
how
can
the
public
get
this
PowerPoint.
R
R
I
know
yeah
so
I
mean
the
whole
park.
I
think
that
wit
probably
has
the
whole
thing.
My
whoever
needs
to
get
it
to
disseminate
it.
They
can
email
me
they
can
call
me.
I
can
put
it
on
a
website.
Okay,.
R
AA
AA
It
is
on
sire
for
anyone
who
wants
to
go
to
it.
If
you
go
to
city
council
agendas,
it's
part
of
this
particular
item,
you
just
click
on
it
and
then
the
this
PowerPoint
will
come
up,
which
is
what
I
read
before
this.
So
I
was
so
happy
to
see
you
coming
today.
I
had
no
idea.
This
is
what
your
day
job
was.
AY
AA
You
from
the
farm
from
Meacham
Urban
Farm,
which
is
a
wonderful
example
of
a
community
farm
right
in
Urban,
the
the
Urban
Oasis,
that
is
the
city
of
Tampa.
AA
This
actually
is
incredibly
awesome
too,
because
this
goes
back
to
my
actual
day
job,
which
is
working
on
food
Security
in
in
countries
internationally.
That
absolutely
have
this
type
of
work,
so
I've
done
everything
from
seed
preservation
to
how
we
store
the
crops,
how
we
take
them
to
Market
and
then,
of
course,
what
you
were
talking
about
with
the
Homegrown
Hillsborough,
how
how
folks
can
actually
make
and
then
sell
products.
AA
So
this
is
very
exciting
that
we're
also
doing
this
here
and
I
would
love
I
I
do
know
that
Community
Gardens
are
wonderful,
but
take
an
inordinate
amount
of
work
and
really
need
someone
in
that
Community
to
own
it.
Several.
AA
Really
have
to
have
this
this
desire
to
make
that
community
garden
work,
so
I'm
happy
to
hear
that
we
have
someone
away
that
that
we're
planning
on
seeing
what
we
can
do
about
that,
but
also
how
do
we
get
reliable
food
sources,
like
you
said,
like
actual
grocery
stores,
and
things
like
that
so
I'm
very
excited
about
this
and
I
would
love
to
work
with
you
more
on
it.
Great
I.
E
I
It
into
place
I'm
just
I'm,
just
just
looking
at
what
you
have
here
and
the
councilwoman
made
mentioned
to
the
community
girl
I
love
the
idea
of
the
the
community
gardens
I
love
that
idea
and
you're
going
to
get
a
very,
very
small
percentage,
who's
going
to
get
involved.
That
concept.
People
are
fast
to
go
now,
but
to
me
I
believe
charity
starts
at
home
and
government
has
a
responsibility.
I
I
I
mean
to
me
it's
simple
I
mean,
but
what
you
got
to
want
to
do
it?
You
gotta
have
people
like
when
the
people
say
this
is
another
Avenue
government
can't
do
it
all,
but
when
you
have
certain
issues,
government
has
to
do
it.
You
know
we're
a
capitalist,
Society,
I,
get
it,
but
I
think
the
amount
of
money
that
we
throw
away
and
spend
on
things.
I.
R
Yeah,
and
so
the
good
news
is
that
they
do
so
I've
been
in
this
position
since
2019,
and
my
job
has
just
been
working
with
the
community
kind
of
understanding
where
people
are
excited
about
this
kind
of
stuff.
What
people's
needs
are,
and
so,
like
kind
of
stay
tuned,
I
know
it's
not
really
like
a
Razzle
Dazzle
answer,
but
ideally
by
the
beginning
of
next
year,
we
will
have
hundreds
of
organizations
residents
all
engaged.
The
Homegrown
Hillsborough
program
is
actually
much
more
extensive
than
what
I
was
able
to
do
here.
R
As
far
as
county-owned
grocery
stores
city-owned
grocery
stores,
there
have
been
several
Florida
municipalities
that
have
had
to
open
their
own
grocery
store
in
order
to
provide
for
the
residents
it
can
be
done.
There
are
financing
tools
that
the
city
can
help
leverage
in
order
to
accomplish
those
things.
A
lot
of
these
communities
are
already
organizing,
I'm
sure
you're
very
familiar
around
these
topics.
I
am
honored
to
say
that
I
have
like
a
specialty.
That
is
my
expertise.
I
I
AZ
B
R
Thank
you
for
the
presentation,
absolutely
and
I
think
that
Mr
riemer's
presentation
is
also
going
to
talk
about
some
of
the
applicable
aspects.
V
AS
V
You
know
parts
of
like
where
I
live,
I'm
at
Hillsborough
and
Habana
I
can
walk
to
Publix
I
can
walk
to
Dollar
Tree
and
if
I
can
walk
a
little
bit,
more
I
can
get
to
save
a
lot
and
in
between
there's
fast
food
places.
There's
I
have
access
to
fresh
food.
If
you
go
to
Hillsboro
and
you
go
east
of
the
interstate
there's
a
Walmart
and
then
there's
the
San
Juan,
which
is
very
popular.
But
beyond
that
it's
very
limited.
You
go
down.
V
Martin
Luther
King
and,
as
you
cross,
the
interstate
going
east,
it
dries
up.
A
friend
of
mine
was
here
a
couple
weeks
ago,
visiting
from
out
of
town,
and
we
went
over
to
the
end
of
to
the
city
limits
going
east
and
I.
Go
you
see
how
everything
changes
once
you
go
east
there's
the
wind
Dixie
at
Nebraska,
Martin,
Luther
King,
but
beyond
that
I'm
okay,
dries
up,
Columbus
going
east
dries
up,
whereas
the
rest
of
the
city,
there's
access
to
places
and
I
mean
food
is
just
it's
the
basic
necessity.
V
People
need
access
to
not
just
food
because
you
can
eat
fast
food.
You
can
eat
Convenient,
Food
convenience
store
food,
but
you
need
healthy,
good
food
and
that's
what
we
need
to
promote
with
that.
Also,
you
know
I
made
this
motion
regarding
identifying
the
food
deserts
which
you,
the
terminology,
is
different
as
you've
mentioned,
but
there
are
so
many
places
in
the
city
of
Tampa
where
there
is
no
access.
I
hope
that
Mr
remmer,
when
he
speaks,
will
you
be
identifying
the
plots
of
land
that
we
own?
V
That
could
be
activated
as
Community
Gardens,
for
example,
we
mentioned
Meacham
a
friend
of
mine,
he's
there
all
the
time
I've
seen
other
community
gardens
Seminole
Heights
years
ago
was
the
first
one
that
I
visited
back
in
2010
and,
like
you
said,
you
need
the
community
to
support
the
community.
Supports
is
going
to
be
there.
People
want
access
to
healthy
and
affordable
food
because
their
costs
are
going
to
be
significantly
less
when
people
grow
it.
You
know
in
that,
in
that
form,
instead
of
going
to
a
grocer
prizes
are
different.
V
V
I
mean
it's
just
wrong:
I
hope
that
you
know
again
with
Mr
remmer,
when
he,
when
he
makes
his
presentation
that
he
shows
us
where,
in
the
city
we
own
vacant
Parcels
that
are
not
being
utilized,
that
we
can
access
and
access
and
activate
to
build
these
Community
Gardens,
because
they're
successful
I've
seen
how
they
work,
but
we
need
to
do
more
of
that,
so
I'll
wait
for
that
presentation.
Thank
you
great.
O
Of
the
things
that
I
saw
on
top
of
one
of
those
servers
that
you
have
was
recycling
and
just
the
other
day,
I
forget
what
day
it
was.
But
I
was
watching
some
parts
of
a
TV
show
on
the
environment
and
it
was
an
individual
that
was
far
away
from
here.
O
I,
don't
know
what
even
country
he
was
in,
but
what
they're
doing
is
getting
plastic
and
bringing
in
from
the
ocean
from
everywhere
that
was
gathered
and
they're
recycling,
the
plastic
into
making
what
cement
blocks
okay,
cement
blocks
and
pudding
with
so
much
plastic
in
it.
The
cement
block
is
lighter
just
as
strong
and
it's
an
and
it
inhibits
the
sun
coming
in,
because
natural
so
they're
getting
the
same
things
that
were
thrown
away,
and
you
know
we're
killing
ourselves.
The
ocean
is
full
of
so
much
plastic.
O
B
O
That's
another
Avenue
that
somebody
who
wants
to
go
into
business
and
maybe
get
that
plastic
join
up
as
somebody's
making
cement
blocks
and
do
the
same
thing.
I
saw
on
television
I'm,
not
saying
I'm
going
to
do
it
because
I'm
not,
but
somebody
else
can
and
it
it's
things
that
you'll
learn
like
what
you're
doing
yourself
and
giving
a
boot
up
to
make
sure
that
things
get
up
to
get
started
and
you're
right.
That's
been
going
on
before
2010.
It
started
in
South,
Seminole
Heights
in
through
there
when
I
remember
the
the
way.
B
O
20
or
30
years
ago
it
started,
but
it
was
still
in
an
embryo
State
head,
but
now
he's
growing
a
little
bit
more.
It
will
continue
to
grow
more,
and
you
know
it's
not
only
the
food
is
also
exercise
and
problem
is
that
we
eat
too
much
food
and
we
don't
exercise
too
much.
Therefore,
you
have
a
problem.
A.
B
O
AP
O
O
T
T
This
is
that
something
the
CRA
can
have
any
involvement
in
whatsoever.
Not
to
put
you
on
the
spot,
sir
I
know
he's
got
Michael
Lewis.
It.
AJ
It
has
to
be
consistent
with
both
the
statute
and
the
plan
and
there's
nothing
in
any
of
the
plans
that
would
support
us
opening
a
grocery
store
that
doesn't
say
that
we
couldn't
look
at
potentially
amending
the
plans
we
have.
Cra
dollars
has
supported
Community
Gardens
and
several
locations,
including
Meacham,
there's
one
in
West
Tampa.
The
city
has
made
Parcels
available
to
not-for-profits
and
religious
institutions
for
Community
Gardens.
So
we
have
done
that
sort
of
thing
before
through
the
CRA.
AJ
The
CRA
could
also
and
I
think
it
has
been
in
East
Tampa,
been
used
to
help
a
simple
property
and
help
provide
economic
incentives
for
a
private
grocery
provider.
To
come
in,
that's
been
more,
the
Avenue
and
I
will
tell
you
legally.
That's
more
I'd,
be
more
comfortable
with
us
trying
to
provide
that
kind
of
support.
T
But
I
get
it
so
there
is
something
there
and
and
whatnot,
but
but
if,
if
councilman
goods
were
to
make
a
motion
from
the
the
city,
looking
at
I'd
be
glad
that
he's
not
here
but
but
I'd
be
glad
to
they
know
he
wasn't
there,
but
but
I'd
be
glad
to
support
that.
Obviously,
because
I
think
that's
a
that's
a
great
Endeavor,
whether
it's
CRA
or
city,
it's
something
that's
very,
very
necessary
and
councilman
Goose
I
was
actually
asking
Mr
Morris
Massey
about
potentially
the
CRA.
T
I
We
talked
about
that
several
times
when
I
was
on
the
CRA
board
and
the
current
cras
and
it
always
gets
shifted
someplace
else
and
I.
Don't
know
why
you
know
because
I
know
government
doesn't
involve,
but
I
think
that
you
have
to
look
at.
I
How
can
you
actually
partner
with
a
non-profit
or
somebody
else
to
be
able
to
do
some
of
these
things?
But
and
again
I've
worked
on
the
Community,
Gardens
and
they're
good
things.
Don't
get
me
wrong,
but
they're
not
going
to
solve
the
issue
that
we
have
I'm
going
to
be
candid
with
you
I'm
a
candid
person.
You
know
you
have
publics.
You
have
always
different
places.
I
was
told
a
long
time
ago
when
I
coached
ball
see
when
you
build
it.
They'll
come
like
public
bills.
I
I
get
people
in
East,
Tampa,
go
way
down
the
street
to
go
to
public,
publish
cakes,
take
them
to
the
schools,
but
publics
won't
come
to
those
communities
because
they
say
they
don't
have
a
high
educational
level.
You
know
they
don't
have
a
degree
and
all
these
type
of
things
and
a
matrix
or
whatever,
then
you
throw
at
least
Family
Dollars
and
with
all
the
Roman
noodles
and
our
communities
instead
of
just
saying.
Okay,
how
do
we
find
a
piece
of
property
that
maybe
city
or
county
owned?
I
And
then
now
you
build
it
to
where
you
can
have
prices
reasonable
for
those
people
to
come?
You've
got
your
community
garden
and
go
sell
those
fruits
that
they're
making
and
come
sell
it.
It's
like
the
market
now
we're
generating
employment,
we're
generating
communities
and
you're,
giving
communities
healthy
foods
to
get
rid
of
diabetes,
which
I
know
all
about
high
blood
pressure.
These
type
of
things
so
I
just
look
at
if
there
is
a
way
Mr
Vieira
to
where
somebody
will
listen
and
see.
AJ
Just
and
get
back
to
the
CRA
point,
this,
the
CRA
is
typically
used
to
provide
physical
improvements
to
a
community
not
to
operate
a
store
so
yeah.
What
we,
what
the
CRA
could
be
used
for,
is
to
help
assemble
property
and
to
work
with
a
not-for-profit
that
they
wanted
to
provide
a
low-cost,
grocery
or
or
food
alternative
location.
I
mean
we
certainly
could
look
at
doing
those
sorts
of
things,
but
that
really
is
the
focus
of
the
CRI.
The
CRA
is
not
set
up
to
folk.
AJ
I
Do
and
Miss
Vasquez
you
said
that
you
know:
there's
a
there's:
a
big
grocery
store
chain
out
of
Atlanta
I
tried
to
contact
them
a
couple
times
to
see
when
they
come
down
to
the
southeast
to
Florida
area,
huge,
big
change
of
stores.
You
just
got
to
find
the
right
chain
that
will
come
that
may
partner.
But
but
again
you
know
I'll
make
mention
to
Mr
McRae
in
reference
to
the
CRA
board
and
see
if
they
can
bring
that
up
again.
R
And
I
do
want
to
quickly
respond
and
just
kind
of
put
it
out
there
that
non-profit
grocery
stores
are
not
really
a
thing,
but
community-owned
co-ops
are,
and
ultimately
community
on
co-ops
are
a
way
to
start
generating
wealth
in
the
community,
as
well
as
maintaining
local
control.
Lots
of
municipalities
have
supported
co-ops,
whether
that
is
through
technical
support
providing
land.
R
You
know
having
a
place
for
people
to
hold
meetings,
there's
a
lot
of
ways
that
municipalities
can
support
grocery
co-ops.
They
take
a
while
to
kind
of
get
started,
but
they
are
once
they
get
started.
Their
attrition
rate
is
very,
very
low.
Well,.
I
I
He
got
tired
and
so
did
some
other
folks
and
they
turned
into
a
different
type
of
grocery
store.
That's
where
you
talk
about
culture
comes
into
play
and
it
didn't
sell
the
type
of
food
and
items
of
that
particular
of
that
general
area.
No
one
understood
it
and
then
it
finally
went
caught
on
fire.
I
say
that
so
I
I
do
think
they
can
work.
I
But
when
you
go
and
look
at
the
cultural
aspect,
you
got
to
have
the
right
Foods
like
Publix,
like
Walmart
these
places
and
have
them
in
those
stores,
and
they
will
Thrive
because
I
used
to
walk
across
the
street
as
a
kid
and
go
right
to
those
stores
and
buy
groceries.
You
know,
as
I
was
growing
up
so
just
just.
F
Yeah,
a
few
different
things
number
one.
This
is
the
kind
of
topic
that
we
need
to
put
on
a
workshop,
because
we
we
could
have
a
lot
longer
conversation
about
it.
I
want
to
let
you
know
we
have
is
Nicole
here.
No,
we
have
a
retreat
coming
up
planning
Retreat
for
the
CRA
coming
up
and-
and
you
may
want
to
attend
or
watch
and
during
public
comment
or
whatever
get
up
and
be
a
Content
expert.
F
That
would
because
this
is
something
that
we
obviously
should
should
look
at
more
I'm,
not
a
I'm,
not
in
favor
of
the
CRA
or
the
city
running
Grocery,
Stores
I've
been
in
government-owned
grocery
stores
and
a
lot
of
countries
and
like
Cuba,
and
they
don't
run
very
well
and
that's
you
know
people
leave
countries
to
to
come
here
to
get
away
from
that.
F
I
think
that
that
that
we
we
have
a
concept
that
the
city
council's
been
pushing
for
three
or
four
years,
which
is
the
neighborhood
commercial
districts
and
people
Germany
around
places
in
East
Tampa,
for
example,
where
they
should
go,
that
they
should
go
and
lots
of
other
places.
We've
done
a
little
bit
of
beta
test
in
South,
Tampa
and
and
West
Tampa
for
doing
some
planning,
but
we
need
to
do
this
on
a
larger
scale.
F
But
what
we
need
to
do
is
is
work
this
in
with
planning
and
Stephen
Benson
should
be
involved.
But
we
need
to
think
about
where
the
the
neighborhood
commercial
District
should
be.
What
should
be
the
node
and
kind
of
how
we
should
plan
that
out
and
then
we
should
work
with
the
CRA
to
to
either
build
and
anchor
building
on
a
corner,
or
we
should
work
partner
with
the
private
sector
or
non-profit
sector.
F
And
then,
with
just
like
with
a
lot
of
cras
investing
in
real
estate,
then
we
could
potentially
offer
subsidized
rent
to
somebody
just
like
we
do
with
affordable
housing
and
other
things.
I
I
think
we
should
start
at
least
with
something
like
duckweed,
maybe
less
the
alcohol
part
and
more
of
the
fresh
food.
F
But
you
remember
the
old
grocery
stores
a
long
time
ago
or
smaller,
and
then
they
all
became
big
I
personally
was
involved
in
the
in
the
South
St
Pete
project,
Tangerine
Plaza
with
cash
and
carry
that
became
Sweet
Bay
then
became
Walmart,
and
that
was
just
a
disaster,
because
it's
a
big
thing
that
you
have
to
subsidize
on
a
large
scale,
whereas
if
you
have
a
small
square
foot
property,
some
places
like
Boston,
Community
Capital
even
will
take
equity
in
exchange
for
or
or
some
percentage
of,
profit
in
exchange
for
lower
rent.
F
So
anyway,
the
the
point
is,
there
are
a
lot
of
a
lot
of
ideas
there
that
we
can
that
we
can
look
at,
but
I
appreciate
you
bringing
this
to
us,
and
oh,
the
last
thing,
I
want
to
say
is
I'm
really
disappointed
at
Google.
Just
now,
I'm
really
disappointed
about
the
the
term
food
desert.
F
I
can't
I
need
to
do
some
more
research,
but
I
cannot
find
online
where
it's
so
offensive
that
we
can't
use
it
anymore.
I
think
I'm,
a
branding
person
I
think
it's
a
huge
mistake
to
switch
to
Lila,
because
nobody
knows
what
it
is.
It
looks
like
food
desert's
been
around
since
the
90s
I
think
people
are
just
starting
to
kind
of
people
who
are
in
the
middle
of
it
understand
it,
but
the
public
kind
of
understands
it.
We
throw
out
a
new
term.
F
The
money
we're
gonna
have
to
spend
to
educate
people
on
a
new
term
is
gonna.
Is
gonna
hurt
the
effort,
it's
okay,
to
educate
people
that
you
can't
use
it
all
the
time
if
it,
if
it's
so
offensive
that
nobody
can
use
it
fine,
but
if
we
get
rid
of
it
completely,
it's
going
to
be
impossible
to
have
the
money
and
resource
to
educate
public
on
what
it
is,
because
so
many
years
have
been
spent.
F
Educating
people
on
that
concept
and
I
think
it
would
set
back
the
the
effort
a
lot,
because
we
don't
have
the
money
to
to
promote
this
in
the
way
we
need.
Thank
you.
BB
If
we
can
have
the
presentation
back
up
thanks,
so
just
I
did
want
to
note
that
while
it
might
not
be
in
the
CRA
planning
documents
to
support
these
types
of
efforts,
there
are
at
least
two
City
Planning
documents
that
that's
even
been
since
Department
did
contribute
to
talking
about
kind
of
nurturing
food
access
action
2.2.6
the
Brazilian
tampa
road
map
is
one
of
them
and
then
for
the
first
time
I'm
showing
a
couple
of
Snippets
from
the
forthcoming
Tampa
climate
action
and
Equity
plan.
BB
This
will
be
released,
hopefully
in
a
couple
of
weeks,
and
there
is
an
entire
chapter
on
food
and
food
access
related
to
climate.
So
I
just
wanted
to
point
those
out
to
council
Monica
mentioned
over
200
partners
that
homegrown
Hillsboro
works
with
I
just
wanted
to
give
a
shout
out
to
a
couple
of
of
kind
of
bigger
organizations
that
the
city
of
Tampa
has
worked
with
historically
and
will
continue
to
work
with.
BB
But
of
course,
there
are
many,
many
more
especially
community-based
organizations,
in
addition
to
those
that
I'm
showing
here
and
the
final
part
of
the
motion
asked
the
city
to
research,
potential
partials
and
now
the
the
motion
I
think
was
for
the
for
the
warp
of
the
Hillsborough
County
Property
Appraisers.
We
worked
with
the
city
of
Tampa
real
estate
department
on
these
remainder,
Parcels
I
do
have
an
Excel
spreadsheet.
BB
We
just
kind
of
took
a
snippet
to
show
you
all,
there's
a
list
of
about
20
that
we
think
are
are
very
good
candidates
and
then
a
list
of
about
40
that
are
potential
candidates
that
will
need
additional
research.
This
is
kind
of
what
a
couple
of
those
remainder
Parcels
look
like,
and
the
city
I
think
is
looking
at
lots
of
options
for
these
remainder
partials.
These
are
the
partials
that
we
deemed
would
not
be
appropriate,
for
instance,
for
affordable
housing
development.
BB
Their
size
was
kind
of
maybe
more
lent
more
to
a
community
gardening
in
their
weren't
trees
that
shaded
the
property.
So
we've
kind
of
just
done.
A
preliminary
cursory
review
of
these
properties.
I
will
tell
you
that
you
know
to
reiterate
what's
been
said
here
today:
these
parts
are
will
not
solve
food
access
by
by
virtue
of
community
gardening
Meacham.
As
you
all
know,
there
are
farmers
there
from
9
A.M
to
5
P.M
every
single
day.
It
is
a
full-time
job.
BB
We
work
with
the
Coalition
of
Community,
Gardens
and
other
local
community
gardening
groups,
currently
we're
facilitating
a
300
000
Grant
with
the
Coalition
of
Community
Gardens.
We
just
submitted
a
million
dollar
Grant
to
the
Environmental
Protection
Agency,
under
their
environmental
justice
program,
to
help
with
Community
gardening,
on
22nd
Street,
councilman
Goose,
that
22nd
Street,
healthy,
Street,
Healthy,
Steps
garden
and
those
are
good
efforts,
but
again
I,
don't
think
they're
going
to
solve
kind
of
the
larger
access
problem.
BB
So
we
do
have
the
parcels
available.
We
will
continue
to
research,
those
at
the
direction
of
council,
but
but
you've
got
to
have
community
support
and
engagement
around
this.
Otherwise,
you
get
a
couple
of
excited
people.
They
build
a
community
garden,
they
move
they,
they
they
become
unable
to
support
the
garden,
and
then
it
becomes
ultimately
an
eyesore
for
the
community.
BB
This
happens
at
schools
all
the
time
you
get
a
couple
of
parents
that
are
really
active
and
then
they
move
up
to
middle
school
and
then
the
community
garden
at
the
school
kind
of
goes
goes
Barren.
So
we
we
really
is
a
All
Hands
approach
here
and
that's
the
end
of
our
presentation.
BB
V
The
properties
that
you
deemed,
as
you
know,
the
possibility
the
upper
part
of
the
list
are
in
the
parts
of
the
city
that
need
it.
The
most
and
I
know
it's
not
going
to
solve.
You
know.
Community
Gardens
won't
solve
the
issue,
however,
they
have
nothing
or
close
to
nothing
or
considered
whether
we
use
a
term
or
not.
It
is
food
desert.
If,
if
you
and
I
went
out
there
right
now,
the
options
are
more
limited,
as
they
would
be
in
other
parts
of
the
city,
so
the
community
garden
requires
a
lot
of
effort.
V
Meacham
is
a
is
a
big
I
want
to
say
organize.
It's
a.
V
They
have
very
limited
options
in
certain
parts
of
the
city,
but
we
can
create
these
Community,
Gardens
or
partner
with
organizations
that'll.
Do
it
and
help
create
new
opportunities
for
people
that
are
in
that
Community.
They
can
be
proud
of
what
they're
growing
they're
helping
Aid.
The
situation
may
not
solve
the
process
or
the
problem.
However,
it's
creating
something:
that's
not
there
and
giving
people
access,
because
it
seems,
like
you,
showed
a
property
on
Shadow
lawn.
You
showed
some
of
they're
in
the
middle
of
neighborhoods.
People
can
walk
to
these
places.
V
They
don't
need
a
car.
They
don't
need
to
take
a
bus.
They
don't
need
to.
They
can
walk
there
and
get
what
they
need.
That's
healthy,
a
healthier
option
from
whatever,
whatever
else
they
that
you
know
they
they
could
be
eating,
so
I
think
every
little
bit
helps
you
know
we
have
to
start
somewhere
and
I
think
you
know
if
we're
gonna
transform
tempus
tomorrow.
That
includes
all
parts
of
the
city,
and
we
see
that
we
have
a
a
big
problem,
as
shown
on
the
Lila
Lila
map.
V
You
know
where
these
these
corridors
are
and
I
think
we
need
to
I
mean
we
have
to
start
somewhere
again
we're
not
solving
everything
but
we're
just
like
the
housing
crisis.
We're
not
going
to
be
building
10
000
units
tomorrow,
but
we're
doing
a
little
here,
a
little
there
it'll.
You
know
it
all
works
in
conjunction
for
our
success
as
a
whole,
so
councilman.
E
F
Yeah,
the
the
one
thing
that's
scarce
and
Tampa
already,
and
it's
going
to
be
more
and
more
scarce
over
the
next
10
years
is
land,
and
if
we
have
vacant
land,
it's
a
it's
a
good
idea
to
use
it
temporarily.
F
But
you
know
what
urban
areas
are
going
to
is
vertical
Gardens
like
putting
a
garden
on
top
of
a
parking
garage
or
something
like
that,
and
and
maybe
in
your
research
you'll,
you
can
find
ways
to
you
know:
Singapore
puts
them
in
community
centers
on
the
top,
but
you
you
might
have
some
ideas
that
you
could
give
us
as
the
CRA
board
in
incentivizing,
like
instead
of
giving
a
fifty
thousand
dollar
facade
Grant.
F
If
somebody
like
the
guys
who
are
here
earlier
building
a
10
unit
building,
then
we
can
say
well
we'll,
instead
of
Assad
Grant,
we'll
give
you
a
fifty
thousand
dollar
Grant
to
put
a
community
guard
on
the
roof,
or
something
like
that
so
anyway,
just
just
if
you
have
any
ideas
like
that
in
the
future.
Please
come
back
to
us
and
let
us
know
thank
you.
AA
A
couple
of
things
I
if
I
were
to
venture
a
guess,
I
would
say
for
a
parcel
of
land.
That's
been
undeveloped
to
actually
make
it
a
usable
community
garden
would
be
somewhere
in
the
range
of
like
five
to
ten
thousand
dollars,
maybe
even
more.
R
Well,
yeah
yeah
I
can
speak
on
that,
so
ten
thousand
dollars
starting
and
then
a
lot
of
Maintenance.
A
big
issue
is
access
to
water,
which
I
think
these
Parcels
you
have,
but
but
yeah
sheds
tools,
soil.
R
You
know
all
of
that,
so
10
000
is
like
roughly
the
starting
and
it
has
annual
costs
as
well
and
then,
of
course,
like
the
best
model
is
to
have
a
part-time
paid
person.
Who
is
there
and
that's
obviously
expensive,
as.
AA
Well,
yeah,
so
yeah
I
wanted
to
talk
about
the
expense
of
that,
but
one
of
the
things
I
have
been
I
watched.
AA
Meacham
grow
from
literally
like
a
lot
that
had
a
sign
that
said:
Urban
Farm
coming
soon
and
I
was
so
excited
about
it
that
we,
like
I,
made
my
poor
husband
bike
down
there
like
every
three
months
or
so
just
to
see
where
it
was
going
and
then,
when
I
ended
up
talking
to
the
folks
who
run
it,
one
of
the
things
that
they
said
would
be
most
beneficial
to
them
is
more
space
to
grow
things
that
they
can
then
sell
to
people.
AA
So
just
allowing
other
people
to
use
that
land
and
the
great
thing
about
Meacham
that
most
people
don't
know.
Is
that
they're,
a
part
of
the
EBT
program
so
and
basically
every
Community,
or
rather
Garden,
can
do
this
farm
that
they
they
basically
take
your
EBT
and
double
it
so
you're
able
to
afford
that
nutritious
locally
grown
fruits
and
vegetables.
AA
AA
It's
it's
hard
to
figure
out
where
a
good
place
to
put
some
of
this
would
be
but
I
think
from
from
this
discussion,
it
seems
that
one
of
the
great
things
we
could
do
sitting
as
a
CRA
board
is
to
look
at
some
land
and
maybe
offer
some
serious
incentives
for
one
of
the
low-cost
grocery
stores
to
come
in.
AA
AA
So
how
do
we
take
some
of
those
low
cost
opportunity
or
stores,
maybe
talk
to
them
and
figure
out
like
how
we
could
get
them
to
be
in
those
locations
as
not
not
buying
it
and
starting
it
ourselves,
because
I
lived
in
St
Pete
when
when
that
was
an
issue
with
Tangerine
Plaza,
but
what
what
can
we
do?
What
can
we
learn
from
Saint
Pete?
What
can
we
learn
from
other
areas
that
have
done
so
and
encourage
monetarily
encourage
those
stores
to
come
into
the
areas
in
where
we
need
them?.
BB
BB
So
that's
County,
School
Board
land,
and
so
you
could
see
kind
of
a
a
similarity
between
maybe
the
CRA
doing
something
like
that
as
the
county
did
so
I
I,
don't
know
how
long
that
lease
runs,
but
I
know
that
the
kind
of
the
model
that
Meacham
approached
or
the
way
they
were
able
to
secure
that
contract
was
was
offering
the
EBT
and
working
with
Encore
next
door
and
offering
their
their
food
at
a
rate
that
was
affordable
to
those
residents.
BB
I
do
want
to
also
mention
one
of
the
asks
that
Monica
made
today
was
the
council
supporting
staff
for
the
Homegrown
Hillsborough
program
and
if
I
can
just
take
one
moment
and
introduce
you
to
Kayla
Caselli,
who
is
the
new
sustainability
coordinator?
BB
She
started
with
the
city
three
weeks
ago
and
her
passion
is
food
and
she'll,
be
working
with
my
office
on
these
types
of
programs,
so
she's
a
grad
of
University
of
Florida
and
Patel
College
of
global
sustainability
and
is
just
super
super
smart
on
these
food
issues
and
she'll
be
working
closely
with
Monica
as
it
as
necessary.
So
yeah
hi,
hello,.
Q
Everyone,
thanks
for
having
me
I'm,
really
excited
to
be
working
on
this
project.
Food,
Systems
and
all
things.
Sustainability
with
the
city.
E
AA
Then
you
just
moved
here
from
Gainesville
or
in
that
area.
So
you
you
were
you
were
there,
so
when
I
think
of
farms
and
urban
agriculture
I
often
think
of
the
farmers
markets
that
gainesville's
been
doing
for
ever
and
its
own
local
grocery
store
Wards,
which
actually
buys
fruits
and
vegetables
from
gardeners
in
the
area,
and
so
that
talking
about
you
had
mentioned
that
earlier
and
I
was
thinking
that
reminds
me
of
of
of
that
store
and
how
we
could
possibly
even
do
something
like
that
and
encourage
that
here.
Yeah.
I
I
believe
you
drive
down.
I
can't
remember
the
name
of
the
store,
but
it's
a
independent
store.
It's
like
a
farmer's
market,
but
it's
a
grocery
store
too,
and
it's
packed
all
the
time
as
you
enter
into
Palmetto
City
Limits,
just
where
you
get
policy
limits.
I've
been
there
a
couple
times
visiting
some
friends
in
that
area.
Town
and
I've
been
in
that
store.
So
when
you
talk
about
these
Independents
or
markets
like
that
you're
talking
about,
they
do
work
and
I.
I
Tell
you
they're
pretty
much
packed
you
like
your
major
Publix
or
whatever
they're
they're,
pretty
much
back
every
day,
so
I
think
that's
an
idea.
We
should
start
looking
at
how
we
can
find
property
and
talking
to
these
other
people,
see
how
they
did
and
not
reinvent
the
wheel,
but
see
how
they're
doing
to
bring
the
wheel
here.
R
I
just
want
to
make
one
more
comment:
we've
talked
about
Meacham
a
lot
today.
Meacham
was
a
one
million
dollar
project
to
get
going.
So
as
we
talk
about
having
more
meachams,
that's
kind
of
the
starting
price
tag,
I
think
we
can
think
about
greenhouses,
equipment
and
then,
additionally,
their
operational
costs,
their
labor
I'm,
pretty
sure
the
farmers
are
not
getting
paid
a
little
wage
I,
don't
think
they
take
vacations
I,
don't
know
what
kind
of
healthcare
they
have.
R
So
when
we
talk
about
creating
jobs
for
food
systems
and
for
farming,
we
also
need
to
talk
about.
Is
it
a?
Is
it
on
the
more
gimmick
side
or
is
it
on
the
more
long-term
sustainable?
Truly,
you
know
a
career
kind
of
deal,
so
all
of
this
can
be
discussed
in
many
many
many
hours
more
of
detail,
I'd
be
happy
to
do
it,
but
yeah
I
just
heard
Mitchum
a
lot
today.
R
E
R
R
So
the
original
funding
from
the
ARP
is
funding
the
initial
homegrown
Hillsborough
like
implementation,
so
it's
hiring
for
part-time
interns
and
their
entire
job
is
to
go
set
up
meetings
with
stakeholders
that
want
to
be
part
of
food
system
work
and
that's
very,
very
large
and
varied,
and
that's
on
purpose
and
so
they'll
be
doing
that,
starting
in
June
and
through
the
rest
of
the
year.
R
So
if
any
of
you
would
like
to
be
interviewed,
if
you
have
any
businesses
that
you
think
would
fit
into
this,
it
doesn't
have
to
be
a
traditional
food
system,
a
stakeholder.
It
can
be
a
law
firm
that
wants
to
help
educate
their
their
employees
or
help
fund
a
community
garden
or
help
provide
legal
services
to
get
through
the
land
use
stuff.
So
anybody
in
the
county
can
play
a
role
in
this
food
system
development
this
next
year
we're
going
to
go
start
doing
those
interviews
and
that's
what
our
initial
funding
is
supporting.
R
Were
able
to
get
two
hundred
thousand
dollars
for
two
years,
and
so
we
had
400
000
for
this
project,
we're
hoping
that
we
can
maintain
that.
But
that
is
of
course
up
to.
R
Approach
it
so
yeah,
there's
lots
of
tools.
The
county
does
have
a
lot
of
assets
that
can
be
leveraged,
so
there's
a
lot
to
be
discovered
yeah.
Thank
you,
yeah.
E
Thank
you,
councilman
Mariah,.
E
R
O
T
Thank
you,
Mr,
chair,
yeah
and
so
I
mean
what
I
sense
on
this
council
is
obviously
like
a
commitment
that
would
be
very
robust
on
making
something
like
this
happen
and
I
mean.
For
me,
this
is
the
the
role
of
government.
I
mean
you
look
at
it's
the
the
basic
idea
that
there's
places
in
within
the
city
of
Tampa
places
like
Sulfur
Springs
places
like
East,
Tampa
and
others
that
that
are
whatever
you
want.
Call
the
food
deserts
where
there's
a
lot
of
hunger,
etc,
etc
and
and
government
should
intervene
to
right
that
wrong.
T
You
know
we
do
that.
For
example,
there
are
parts,
for
example,
I,
live
in
New
Tampa.
We
have
a
lot
of
parks
that
are
private,
Parks
right.
Other
parts
of
the
city
don't
have
parks
that
are
private
Parks.
So
guess
what
government
intervenes
to
make
sure
that
kids
have
a
place
to
play
in
Parks
like
East
Tampa,
Sulfur,
Springs,
West,
Tampa,
City,
et
cetera,
Etc,
you
know
we
intervene
in
that
regard.
You
take
a
look
at
a
lot
of
different
policies.
T
Where
government
does
that,
and
we
should
do
that
here-
the
varying
level
of
involvement.
I
mean
again
a
community
not
having
a
a
a
a
dignified
place
to
shop
at
for
food
is
a
sign
of
disrespect
to
that
community
and
we
should
intervene
by
by
every
means
that
we
have
and
if
it
costs
a
million
bucks
I'm.
All
for
that,
because
we
would
again,
if
I
didn't
have
that
in
my
community,
I'd
be
really
ticked
off.
AP
T
And
I'd
want
it,
and
we
should
do
that
so
again
and
any
motion
that
would
be
made.
I
know.
Councilman
Goods
has
done
so
much
work
on
this,
including
back
when
he
was
in
the
CAC
before
Council
I'll
be
glad
to
support
because
we
got
to
move
this
forward,
it
could
cost
a
million
bucks,
bring
it
on
because.
R
E
Thank
you
very
much
for
your
presentation.
Mr
emmer,
I
I!
Need
you
thank
you
personally
and
recognize
you
on
your
help
with
the
resiliency
Summit
coming
up
the
first
week
of
May
with
the
Tampa
Bay
Regional
planning,
Commission
Council.
Excuse
me,
you
you
put
forth
a
lot
of
effort
and
and
I
know
it
was
tough
but
I.
Thank
you
very,
very
much
for
having
Tampa
involved
with
that
resiliency
Summit.
Thank
you.
Thank
you.
We
are
adjourned
till
1,
30.
E
B
B
U
U
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Straddling
the
Hillsborough
River
at
Rowlett,
Park
near
the
Rogers
Park
Golf
Course,
the
dam
helps
ensure
that
the
city's
demand
for
nearly
80
million
gallons
of
water
a
day
is
met,
but
that
hasn't
always
been
the
case
when
the
dam
was
first
conceived
in
the
late
1800s.
It
had
nothing
to
do
with
supplying
rain
water
situated
at
the
outskirts
of
Tampa
accessible
only
on
foot
by
horseback
or
by
a
horse-drawn
wagon.
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The
dam
has
withstood
fires,
Bandits
bombs,
undercover
agents,
floods
and
today
the
dam
stands
near
its
original
site
with
a
story
that
coincides
with
the
story
of
Tampa's
growth
and
development,
as
Tampa
has
grown
around
it
as
late
as
1870.
Only
about
700
people
were
living
in
Tampa.
There
was
little
in
the
way
of
Commerce
in
the
area
Agriculture
and
cattle
raising
rule.
Today,
Tampa
was
an
assemblage
of
wood
frame
structures,
Sandy
streets
and
Florida
crackers.
U
U
The
first
took
place
in
1881
when
a
captain
in
the
U.S
Army
Corps
of
Engineers,
discovered,
phosphate
pebbles
in
the
Peace
River
phosphate
a
precious
commodity
then,
and
today
increases
crop
growth
and
yield
its
Discovery
near
Tampa,
ignited
a
phosphate
boom
that
led
to
nearly
200
companies
mining,
the
region
by
the
late
1890s.
The
second
significant
event
occurred
in
1884
when
Henry
B
Plant
completed
the
last
segment
of
track
that
brought
his
railroad
to
Tampa.
U
Oh
in
1886
that
need
was
met
when
a
steamed
ribbon
street
car
line
was
built
between
what
we
now
refer
to
as
downtown
and
Ybor
City,
an
emerging
cigar
manufacturing
center.
Soon,
a
second
line
was
constructed
between
Ybor
City
and
the
bedroom
community
of
Palmetto
Beach.
This
line,
unlike
the
first,
was
financed
by
individuals
who
had
no
connection
to
Tampa's
growing
cigar
industry.
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The
development
of
that
third
street
car
line
was
followed
by
conflict.
The
investors
of
the
first
line
protested,
holding
that
they
had
sole
rights
to
construct
streetcar
lines
throughout
the
city.
Their
arguments
convinced
a
judge
to
issue
an
injunction
prohibiting
Tampa
Suburban
from
constructing
any
lines
until
the
matter
could
be
settled
in
court.
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In
response,
the
investors
of
Tampa
Suburban
went
around
the
injunction
by
forming
a
new
entity,
the
consumer's
electric
light
and
Street
Railway
company
Consumers
Electric,
which
promptly
proceeded
to
build
street
car
lines
all
over
Tampa
to
service
their
growing
streetcar
operations
in
the
street
lights
that
were
starting
to
light
up
the
city.
Consumers
Electric
purchased
a
water
power
plant
situated
on
the
Hillsboro
River.
The
power
plant,
which
consisted
of
a
Timber
crib
Dam
and
a
wooden
Powerhouse
was
built
originally
to
operate.
A
sawmill
Consumers
Electric
began
using
it
to
generate
hydroelectric
power.
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The
demand
for
electricity
quickly
outstripped
the
plant's
capacity,
so
Consumers
Electric
purchased
a
new
site
Downstream
and
in
1896
began
constructing
a
new
dam
and
Power
Station.
This
site,
Downstream
of
the
original
Power
Plant,
is
where
Tampa's
current
Dam
remains,
placing
it
among
the
oldest
and
most
important
structures
in
the
city
of
Tampa.
The
dam
completed
in
1897
was
constructed
using
logs
and
a
technique
referred
to
as
cribbing.
It
included
a
120
foot,
long
Spillway,
with
a
control
gate
on
the
North
End
and
an
Earthen
embankment
in
the
back.
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The
hydropower
facilities
and
oil-fired
steam
generating
Unit
were
housed
in
a
large
wooden
frame
structure
at
the
South
End
of
the
new
dam
following
its
completion,
the
new
hydroelectric
power
plant
operated
as
intended
for
about
a
year
then
early
in
the
evening
on
December
13
1898.
The
dam
was
partially
destroyed
by
a
huge
explosion.
U
It
was
suspected
that
local,
Cattlemen
and
disgruntled
landowners
were
behind
the
attack.
The
somewhat
dormant
pool
of
water
held
back
by
the
dam
covered
some
of
the
land
previously
used
for
grazing
and,
at
the
same
time,
attracted
scores
of
mosquitoes.
Although
the
link
between
mosquitoes
and
yellow
fever
had
not
been
established
at
the
time,
locals
believed
that
the
mosquitoes
made
the
environment
unsafe
for
their
families
there's
evidence
that
Consumers
Electric
compensated
the
landowners
for
the
loss
of
pastures
for
grazing,
but
an
effective
way
to
handle
the
mosquitoes
did
not
exist.
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The
local
press
called
the
attack
on
the
dam.
The
most
cowardly
crime
ever
committed
in
the
city
or
the
county,
an
editorial
written
shortly
after
that
headline
decried,
that
the
people
opposing
the
presence
of
the
dam
were
actuated
by
a
spirit
of
Revenge
and
that
their
purpose
seems
to
be
to
block
the
wheels
of
progress,
regardless
of
the
best
interests
of
the
community,
a
2500
reward
that
would
be
about
seventy
two
thousand
in
today's
dollars
was
offered
for
the
arrest
and
conviction
of
those
responsible
for
the
explosion.
U
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The
prosecutor
for
the
state
was
Peter,
o
Knight,
a
consumer's
electric
investor
and
a
man
who
eventually
became
president
of
the
Tampa
Electric
Company
a
position
he
held
for
22
years,
whatever
the
saboteur's
motivations,
their
move
to
damage,
the
dam
proved
to
be
devastating
to
Consumers
Electric,
the
high
cost
of
building
the
infrastructure
for
the
streetcar
systems,
coupled
with
lower
than
expected
revenues
that
resulted
from
a
rate
war
between
competing
streetcar
lines
and
the
cost
of
repairing
the
damage
to
the
dam
proved
to
be
too
much.
Consumers
Electric
went
bankrupt.
U
Their
assets,
including
the
dam,
were
purchased
by
a
new
company,
the
Tampa
Electric
Company
Tico,
financed
jointly
by
Stone
and
Webster,
an
Engineering
Services
Company
out
of
Massachusetts,
and
several
prominent
Tampa
locals
as
Tampa
continued
to
grow,
Tico
maintained
and
operated
the
dam
and
power
generating
facilities
on
the
Hillsborough
River
for
nearly
20
years.
Until
the
summer
of
1916.
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on
June
28
1916,
the
damn
tender
was
making
his
usual
rounds.
When
he
observed
two
men
at
the
North
End
of
the
dam
when
he
called
out
to
them,
they
quickly
got
into
a
waiting,
boat
and
paddled
away
approaching
the
gate.
He
heard
what
he
later
described
as
a
muffled
explosion
under
the
water,
accompanied
by
a
small
amount
of
smoke
and
gases
that
smell
like
sulfur.
The
explosion
did
not
cause
any
damage
to
the
dam,
since
the
company
had
not
received
any
complaints
about
the
dam
for
a
number
of
years.
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The
motor
for
the
attack
is
unknown
for
safety,
Tico
added
a
Watchman
to
guard
the
facility
at
night.
The
added
security
helped
for
a
couple
of
months
and
all
remained
quiet
and
then
on
August
17th.
A
much
more
ominous
incident
unfolded
at
about
1am
the
dam
tender
and
the
night
Watchmen
were
taken
hostage
at
gunpoint.
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He
ignored
their
threat
and
once
released
immediately
went
to
waken
the
chief
engineer,
who
went
directly
to
the
power
station
to
put
out
the
fire,
and
meanwhile
the
dam
operators
still
captive,
heard
a
whistle
in
the
distant
night
air
one
of
his
captors
returned
the
whistle
and
then
released
the
operator
with
instructions
that
he
should
go
home.
The
Intruders
then
quickly
disappeared,
Into
the
Night,
the
just
released
Dam
operator,
ignored
his
captors
too,
and
stayed
to
help
extinguish
the
fire
before
heading
home.
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When
he
got
there,
he
discovered
that
the
telephone
wire
to
his
house
had
been
cut.
He
then
went
by
horseback
to
a
nearby
General
Store
to
place
a
call
to
his
superiors
to
alert
them
of
the
problem
by
Daybreak.
The
dam
and
Power
Station
was
surrounded
by
Tico
officials
in
local
law
enforcement,
while
inspecting
the
site.
They
discovered
a
large
wooden
box
containing
a
196
sticks
of
dynamite,
tied
to
four
fuses.
Three
of
the
fuses
fizzled
out
shortly
after
being
lit.