Tampa City Council - 11/05/26

in order to call this meeting of Tampa City Council to order and I would ask you all to stand for a moment in silence followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you very much. Clerk, would you please call the roll? Miranda? Here. Minniskago? Here. Hurtec? Here. Young? Carlson? Here. Clendenin? Here. We have Fiscal Corn. Thank you very much. I need a motion to adopt the minutes of the regular session held on October 15, 2026, the workshop and evening sessions held on October 22, 2nd, 2026 and the special call session held on October 29, 2026. I have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco, a second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Okay. Well, let's go for the approval of the agenda. For those of you that maybe have been following some of this that had been a request for a presentation on items 52 through 54, I would like to hear a motion to add that presentation to the December 17, 2026 meeting. I have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtec, a second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Good morning, Martin Shelby, City Council Attorney. You're holding the presentation. Are you continuing all those items today? No, we're not continuing. We're going to go ahead and pass them today, but they're going to come and explain to the public about the rate stuff. I understand. So those items do remain on your consent document. Correct. Thank you. Correct. So, wait, say that again? So, items 52 through 54 on the consent document, uh, doc. So, um, they, they had a presentation, everything, but that's also going to end December. But we're going to vote today. We're going to move it today, but they're going to come and talk and talk to everyone. I just want to make a motion to have a separate vote on it. Very good. Okay. So we will pull 52 through 54 for a separate vote. And 72 also. And 72 for a separate vote. Okay. And request from count, then this was mine. So just FYI, this is the data center. Item 77. We have a request from staff because they're not ready to continue that to November 19th, 2026. I have a motion from Councilman Carlson, a second from Councilwoman Hurtek. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. I have a request from council. I have a statement that I would like to read prior to public comment. Could I add that to the agenda? I have a motion from Councilman Hurtek. I have a motion from Councilman Carlson. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you so much. Okay. Is there any other changes to the agenda? Okay. Let's talk about staff reports. Can I ask? Councilman Carlson. There's a, um, Toba asked us to move the EBO, uh, to continue the EBO. When again, item 80. Item 80. Is Scott steady in the? They presented, you know, a few months ago, I know there's several different groups in it, um, and had a meeting with some of the Toba folks and Scott steady in his department. And, um, there was some progress made on that, but the Toba folks feel like there's additional progress they could make if they met with him again. And so you all support, uh, do you have, do you have a date? Um, my suggestion is you wait. It is a 10 o'clock public hearing at this time. So the motion would be out of order before then. Thank you so much. So we will hold that. Yeah. Dawson. Can you look up and see what he recommended date, please? I don't have my city phone with me, so I can't. Okay. Thank you very much. I have a, well, I was waiting to see anybody else. I guess, well, you're right. So I need a motion to pull 52 through 54 and 72 for separate votes. I have a motion from councilman Miranda second from councilman Carlson. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. The ayes have it. Thank you. Okay. Does anybody want to talk about staff report? Okay. Let's go. Okay. There, there is no, there is no administrative update. Is that correct? Mr. Chief? 111. We have a written report on the red light cameras. Does anybody need further information? Are there any staff here for that? Hearing none? 112. We have a written report. You still want them? Okay. Very good. I think there's some changes that might need to be. Okay. So we need staff for 112. Let's see. 113. Everybody good? Okay. No staff. None. And I have a in-person for 114. We'll have staff. And a 115 staff. Yeah. I have, I have a motion from councilman Carlson to approve the agenda with the addendum. A second from councilman Miranda. All those. I'm sorry. Councilman Maniscalco. A second from councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Aye. You know that every day that goes by, I can't tell y'all apart. I think the next seating chart, I have to separate the two of you. I'm sorry. I'm going to have to object on procedural. Shelby, did you have something to say about that? Okay. Okay. Very good. Um, so we're going to start with our accommodations and presentation. I would like to recognize councilman Miranda. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chairman, uh, honorable members of Tampa city council. It's my distinct honor today to be here and present the accommodation of police officers of the month. And, uh, we have a fantastic, I remember what the mayor said yesterday in a video that I saw with a 49th largest city in the United States of America and the lowest one in crime in the whole country. If I remember, I'm going to make sure that's a fact. So I really, I think we ought to give him a hand of applause for what these men and women have done. So we go with the presentation, uh, officer of the month, Michael Cavaniere officer of the month for November, 20, 26. And, uh, I have the chief here and the chief will make the presentation on what he's done to receive this honor. It's my pleasure to be here with all the police department, men and women who have courteously worked for the city of Tampa, not only from one day, but every day of their life, if they do what they have to do and protect the city risking their own lives chief. Good morning, council Reto and acting chief of police. We're here this morning to recognize officer Michael Cavaniere as the, uh, November, 20, 26 officer of the month for his exceptional investigative work combating child exploitation, protecting vulnerable children. Since joining the internet crimes against children squad in February of 2025, officer Cavaniere has handled more than 380 cases involving online child exploitation and child sex abuse material. Through extensive investigations and digital evidence analysis, his work resulted in 19 arrests and identification of more than 20 child victims. In June of 2026, officer Cavaniere led a high profile investigation involving a Tampa resident who used artificial intelligence to create and store child sex abuse material. His work led to the suspect's arrest and protection of the children involved in another significant case. He worked alongside state law enforcement partners to secure the arrest and conviction of offender possessing thousands of exploitative images and videos. The offender was sentenced to more than 20 years in state prison beyond his own investigations. Officer Cavaniere regularly assists following fellow investigators with complex investigations, his expertise in digital evidence, strong work ethic, and ability to work with others. Other agencies have made him a valuable member of the ICAC squad officer Cavaniere's dedication and investigative efforts have helped identify victims, bring dangerous offenders to justice and make a meaningful difference in the safety of our children throughout our community. Congratulations to officer Cavaniere on his well-deserved recognition as the November, 2026 officer of the month. First off, I just want to thank the rec thank everyone for the recognition. I wouldn't be standing here if it wasn't for everyone else in my squad, because we all did the same thing for the most part. From searching, seizing items, digital forensics, and obviously the training that goes along. So recognize them back there as well. So for that, I appreciate it. We're getting the center here. We're going to make the presentation. This is presented to you for your outstanding duties day in and day out and the recognition the chief just said about you. Thank you. My pleasure. And now we have some individuals who have been here waiting for a long time to come up and make a presentation of what they've done for so many years and so long. Hello. Christina Duran with Tampa PBA. We'd like to thank you for your hard work and dedication to the citizens and the Tampa Police Department. We'd like to present you with this flag. Thank you. And I'm also here on behalf of Busch Gardens, who would like to present you with some tickets to the park to enjoy for your dedication. Thank you very much. Thank you. Good morning, Council. My name is Jeff Howeck. I'm Vice President of Marketing for the 1905 Family Restaurants, which includes Columbia, Ulele, and Casa Santa Stefano, and our former employee here, Councilman Miranda. On behalf of the 1,700 employees and the fourth and fifth generations of the Gosmar family, we'd like to present you with this gift card to come visit us in any restaurant. And we thank you for everything you do for us. Thank you very much. Good morning, Council. Sir. They say it takes a village. And as the mother of two young girls, I'm really glad you're part of ours. So on behalf of Tampa Theater, I'd like to present you with a membership to come see us this coming year in our 100th year that we're celebrating right now. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. Good morning, Council. Gabby Palacetti from Friends of the Tampa Riverlock. We're just so grateful to have you be a part of our community. So we have a Riverlock paver in the name and dinner for two aboard Yacht Starship. Oh, wow. Thank you. That's cool. Appreciate it. Good morning, Council. Mike McArthur, Steps Towing Service. Officer, congratulations on a job well done. Thank you very much. Thank you for your service. Our city is definitely a safer place with you on the force. So on behalf of Todd, Steps, and Steps, Tony, I'd like to present you with a $100 gift card for dinner or, you know, of your choice, you and your family. So enjoy it. Thank you for everything you do. And then also Bill Curry-Ford sent over a care package for you. So please enjoy their gifts as well. And thank you for everything you do. Thank you. Thanks. Good morning, Council. Mary Dillon, Stratus Center for the Performing Arts. On behalf of Stratus Center, please accept tickets to Nutcracker. Enjoy your holiday season. Thank you. Thank you very much for your service to our community. I appreciate that. Good morning. Mary Lou Bailey. I'm here on behalf of Zoo Tampa. I want to congratulate you and thank you. Thank you. I'm here on behalf of the board who's bought you an annual membership to the zoo for you and your family. And we always include an animal. And I know Lynn always likes to know about the animals. This is a painted dog. And painted dogs are pack animals. But they're known for their fierce protection of all the cubs in the pack. So I thought that was really fitting, listening to your story about how you protect the children of our community. Thank you. Also, they're great hunters. They have an 85% success rate in getting their prey. So both qualities seem to apply to you. So anyway, thank you for your service. You're awesome. I appreciate that. Thank you to everybody in terms. Morning, Council Chief. I'm Brian Ford with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. And I just, again, want to thank you guys for giving us the opportunity to recognize some of our heroes in our community. But first, I'd like to introduce, you've heard me talk before about our progress on the field. Well, I'd like to introduce you to our biggest free agent acquisition off the field, our new Chief Impact Officer, Lauren Gestalter. And very excited to have her. You're going to see her in a lot of the events that you see me at, just trying to get our organization involved in the community. So I just wanted to, and today's a special day. I couldn't think of anything bigger than to, on her birthday, than to bring her to city council. So happy birthday, Lauren. She didn't know I was going to do that. I did not. Officer Tavernier, thank you. Hearing your story as a father is amazing. So on behalf of the Glazer family, our entire organization, our coaches, our players, thank you. We have a tradition at One Buck, anybody that goes over and above gets their own game ball. And that's what I'm here to present to you. But I'd like to thank you, your family, for your sacrifice and all that you do for our great community. So thank you very much. Appreciate it. And I mentioned that he's a big supporter at Raymond James Stadium as well. So in his off time, he's doing that. Now he's going to do the Rob Spike. I think we talked about that. No fumbles. Is it true that I heard in the street that you told the coach you need a ground game? Ah, I did. I did. I take full credit for that though. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you very much. Have a great weekend. All right. You know, it's interesting, he got subbed out already. You know, he got a replacement. It's a much better replacement. That's exactly right though. Thank you. I agree with that. Steve, you agree with which one? That's a better replacement. Steve Michelini. I'm here on behalf of a variety of different folks who'd like to honor you. Let me just say that children being targeted is a terrible, terrible thing. And we appreciate your efforts in trying to curb that. It's just, you know, as a father of three daughters and six grandchildren, I greatly appreciate that. On behalf of Jackson's Bistro, we're providing you with a gift certificate. You can enjoy yourself over there for lunch or dinner. On behalf of the meat market over in Altide Park, enjoy yourself over there for a meat at lunch or dinner. On behalf of Chicho Restaurant Group, you can enjoy yourself over there, breakfast, lunch, dinner, midnight snack. On behalf of Yummy House China Bistro, and I always say this, but it's still true, the chief likes to be invited to go to Yummy House. That was Chief Burkall, not me by the way. Anyway, congratulations and thank you very much for your service. Thank you very much. Please take the letters and the certificate with you. Okay. If you allow me one minute, I'd like to say something that happened to me this weekend. Major Richardson and his squad, I got a call about 8.15 in the morning from a neighbor in the house that I managed saying that somebody had broken into the house. So I thought I was rambled, so I went to the house and I checked it out. And sure enough, the back door was crushed down and there was somebody living inside. So I told myself, do I go in and do what I used to do in the housing projects? And I took a couple of steps and I said, you know what? I can't run as fast as I used to. That's what came in. So I come out of the house and I'm parked in the driveway and this guy opens the door, comes out with one of them racing bicycles and makes a 220 left. I get in the car and chase the guy, but at the corner of the impact, there's two cars that I couldn't get through. So I lost the guy. So finally I called the police department and, you know, it is what it is. Well, you know, you got to take chances in life once in a while. So then I called the police officers, they come in, did a fantastic job. They called the squad, they checked the house out, they put the fingerprints and this, that and the other. And I find three joints in the street inside the house, I should say. And how hungry were you two hours later? Pardon me? How hungry were you two hours later? If you know about them, that means you tried them out. But anyway, they come in and the fellow had disappeared. However, the next morning, the same night at 125 in the morning, there's a big knock on the door. I said, well, maybe this guy come to see me. But it was a police officer. I mean, a big guy. And he was telling me that they caught the guy, the guy went back in the house to get the bed that he left in there. And then the dog sniffed him out and down the street there was another empty house. So the dog found the scent to that house and they got the guy in jail. So I want to thank the police department here for what they've done, not for me, but for the whole neighborhood. They acted very professionally and they did a job well done. Thank you very much. Thank you on behalf of Tampa City Council. Thank you so much for what you do. As Councilman Miranda said, you know, protecting our children should be our number one goal in all aspects of our duties and responsibilities as public servants. And I think from now on, you should use the Papa Delta as your call sign painted dog. I think that's really, that's actually perfect. You should be referred to as officer painted dog. So we have a rule. We're not supposed to say anything except for the chair. But in this case, you know, somebody mentioned being a parent. I have three sons and two of them are still under 18. And unfortunately, every parent has to have a discussion with their kids from the first time they're exposed to any technology or the, when they're, when they go out anywhere. And, um, maybe it was scary when I was a kid, but we didn't know about it. But now you see there's so many threats to kids and unfortunately they have to grow up being taught how to protect themselves and what to look out for. Um, but that's, as everybody knows, that's still not enough because kids can still get snared. And so I could never do your job. Uh, I can't even watch a movie where something bad happens to a kid because I have kids and I could never ever do your job, but I so respect it. And I appreciate you doing that and your whole team because, um, you know, for every child out there, we need to protect them. The, the, the childhood childhood traumas lead to so many other things later in life and we should just shouldn't allow it. We should have zero tolerance for it. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you so much. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you. You guys will just be under I'll stay here if you guys will have a good one. thank you very much our next commendation we're gonna do this a little bit differently because we have a we have a party over here so the Tampa City Council proudly recognizes and honors Garrett Greco Ashley Morrow Bobby Creighton Bill Sheffino Stephen Benson Alan Cone Allison Hewitt and unfortunately Ron Christaldi Rebecca Kurt C Carlton and Kathleen Shanahan were unable to attend today but we still proudly recognize them so if you guys we recognize you for outstanding service and invaluable contributions as either a city council or mayoral appointee to the Charter Review Commission through countless meetings thoughtful deliberations and the development of meaningful recommendations they have demonstrated an unwavering commitment to strengthening our city government promoting transparency and accountability and ensuring that Tampa continues to service residents effectively and responsibly their willingness to devote countless hours share their knowledge and engage in the important work of evaluating city government reflects the very best in public service their dedication has helped shape recommendations intended to improve government operations and build a stronger more responsive city for all those who call Tampa home the Tampa City Council extends its deepest appreciation to these individuals for their exceptional dedication leadership and commitment to the people of Tampa their contributions remind us that good government depends not only on those elected to serve but also on citizens willing to give their time talents and energy to making their community better Tampa City Council on this day the fifth day of November 2026 with sincere gratitude honors their service and lasting contribution to the city of Tampa thank you so on a on a personal note as someone who was involved in the committee and the committee and the committee and the committee and so I really am very much appreciative of your talent and your dedication to guiding this committee from the beginning to the end I don't know I don't know I don't know I don't know anybody in the city of Tampa will understand how many hours you all have spent on the your own time showing up at these meetings at night and all the research that is involved the countless hours that you guys have put in Bobby for all the countless hours of time that you guys have put in it it's just it's amazing and you did it for you know of course we paid you so much money and all the research that is involved, the countless hours that you guys have put in. Bobby. Bobby. Bobby. Bobby has put in. For all the countless hours of time that you guys have put in, it's amazing. And you did it for, you know, of course we paid you so much money to be able to do this. So good expectations. But thank you very much. I really honestly, someone who has engaged in this from the very beginning, we're very appreciative of the amount of energy and effort, every single one of you, regardless of who appointed you, whether it was myself, my appointee, Garrett, or the others, I think we all are very appreciative of the work that you put in. Yeah, absolutely, 100%. Why don't you guys, let's do that now. Why don't you guys come back and you guys come back behind us, we'll do a big group photo. Okay? And then we have, do you want to do comments now? Yeah. Hold on, hold on, stop. I have other council members that would like to speak. Councilwoman Young, and then Councilwoman Herjack, then Councilwoman Menesco. Well, one, thank you for the work that you put in. Specifically, speaking to my appointee who ended up being chair of this charter committee, I want to thank you. You did a phenomenal job. And I had a first being up here, and we also had a first with you being first black woman to chair the charter committee. So congrats to you, and thank you. Thank you. I want to thank the researcher of the group, Bobby Creighton, who was my appointee. And that's why I chose him, because I knew that he would dive in and just, I gave him my old binders from when I was on the charter review commission, and he went through all of them. He just returned them to me this morning, so I can hold them for the next group. But I'm really grateful for all of you. I mean, I've heard about all the conversations you had, all the work you put into it. I talk to Bobby regularly, and I think that the city is incredibly proud of the work you've done. And I'm looking forward to the conversation today, where we're going to vote on the ordinances to start putting them on the ballot. And we wouldn't have had such robust ordinances if it weren't for the conversations that you all had. So thank you so much for your time. And I really hope this isn't the last time that any of you serve on a city board or venture onto something else, because it clearly, hopefully the bug has bitten, and that you'll have more that you can offer the city, we have plenty of boards and commissions that are always looking for incredibly talented people, and all of you fit that bill. So thank you. And councils. Somebody knows about that. Councilman Mazzaka. So the last charter review commission was spectacular, and this is as good, if not better. You're all wonderful. I know all of you, some better than others, you know, like Garrett's grandfather who officiated my wedding, you know what I mean? So pretty close there. My appointee, Stephen Benson, is here. Great guy. Great family. Bobby Creighton, you're just brilliant. Mr. Shofino, you're awesome. Mr. Cohn, you're great. The chairwoman, you did an awesome job. Allison Hewitt. I mean, I can't say enough wonderful things. Thank you for all the work that you put in. This is a volunteer position. You worked for months tirelessly, because it's not easy. And we're very grateful that you took the time and put yourself out there and said yes to doing this, because it's not about us. It's about the whole city and the future of the city. So we really, really appreciate you. Thank you. This is – the commendation is a small token of appreciation for the time and effort that you put in. Very meaningful work. So thank you very much. Thank you. Councilman Carlson. Yeah, the last Charter Review Commission was fantastic, because two of us were on there. If you say so yourself. I won't say it's better or worse. I'm not going to thank every one of you, but I think I talked to each of you along the process, and it was great to hear all your different perspectives. And the thing I really like about it is you all have different perspectives, and probably each of us didn't agree with you all the time. And that's what we wanted. We wanted the diverse interests and thoughts of the community to come together, and the discussions led to, I think, a great product. My appointee was Bill Shefino. I appointed him because he is a former Florida bar president, and many of the issues that we've had in the city the last few years have gone around legal issues and what the Florida bar would say. And although he wasn't representing the Florida bar, I wanted to get that perspective and his perspective of what he would have done. And he's also the leader of a law firm here. Just his hourly billing rate would have been something that the city couldn't afford to do, so we got your service for free. And the same thing with the rest of you. All your time is incredibly valuable, and if we had to pay, it would be really worth it. The other thing is, Ashley stepping up as chair, I don't think you knew Robert's Rules. I mean, you're a historian and a photographer. I don't think you knew Robert's Rules, and you didn't know about the charter, but before it even started, and I think all of you did this, you jumped in and studied it, and I listened to many of the meetings, and you did an outstanding job. And so I think the advantage of sitting on a committee like this is you stretch yourself and you learn new things. And you've already proven that you've been a great, all of you have proven you've been great leaders in different ways. Ashley showed that she can only be a leader in history and photography, but now she's also a a leader in running a smart group like this, so thank you all. Now is picture time. See, now you're politicians. Now you're going to think of it. Oh, I'm not. I'm not. You're going to think of it. You're going to think of it. Quick. Here. Here. Here. Here. I've got it. Here. Here. Here. I've got it. Here. Here. I've got it. I've got it. I've got it. Yeah, I've got it. It could have. It's been put. How long now? You just heard. It could have. No. Yeah. This is my board- This is my board. here. I'm going to stand in my front of a chair. I am. Good. All right. Thank you guys. Thank you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I'd like to recognize Councilman Maniscalco for our next two. Good morning, everyone. These are comments on behalf of Sue, Lynn, Lucas, Harris, our wonderful, wonderful teammate here who's not here but wanted me to read these comments. She says, And I am grateful to the City Council for recognizing them today. Tanya and Darsh, congratulations on this well-deserved recognition. And most importantly, thank you for always being willing to step up when I need you. And that's on behalf of Sue, Lynn. Congratulations. Thank you very much for all your work. Thank you, Council, for the recognition and, wow, Sue, Lynn, great speech. I really appreciate it. And I just wanted to say this was such an intellectually fulfilling experience for me. And to be supported by, I would like to say, the greatest department in the City of Tampa was really, truly such an honor. And to be with such great decision makers and to learn from them was definitely an experience that I will remember for a lifetime. And just in general, I'm very grateful. Thank you. Hey, Darsh, you're incredible. You know, we enjoyed you when you were behind the wall over here. But really happy to see you grow and be more successful as you continue. I can't wait to see where you end up in a few years. You've got nothing but just blue sky in front of you. So thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Now I'd like to recognize Councilman Miranda. Getting his steps in. Chairman, honorable member of the Council, it's my indeed pleasure to represent the City of Tampa, Tampa Bay Water, for many years. And I want to say that I've never had a better leader at Tampa Bay Water than Chuck Gardner, the general manager, who is here today, along with Michelle Strom, the chief of staff, and Kathleen Eiland, who is the administrative strategist. And let me tell you something. We produce 82 million gallons of water in the City of Tampa. They do a little over 200 million a day. So that alone tells you, and I don't know how many miles they have, a pipeline that they had to put throughout the counties from North Newport, Ritchie, down all the way down to South Hillsborough County, and they do a fantastic job. These are the individuals that run it. They do a fantastic job. And I'm going to say no more because they know all the information. Chuck Gardner. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Thank you for having me here today. My name is Chuck Cardin. I'm the general manager of Tampa Bay Water, as Charlie Miranda just told you. Our agency was formed in 1998 by the member governments that we serve, including Hillsborough County, Pasco County, Pinellas Counties, and the three cities, Newport, Ritchie, St. Petersburg, and the City of Tampa. And as Councilman Miranda said, he has served on the Tampa Bay Water Board for many, many, many years and has done a wonderful job representing the city and their interest. Since my last update last year, we have been very busy expanding our water supply system to ensure we meet future demands. I'm supposed to have a PowerPoint loaded up. There we go. Ask and you shall receive. CTTV, he's telling us that's the wrong one. What's that? I don't believe so. Wing it. Yes. No pictures today. No pictures. Imagine it in your head. During our water year, 2026, it just ended September 30th, we supplied the members with an average of 202 million gallons a day. Of that, the City of Tampa purchased 6.53 million gallons a day. So, generally, that's a higher number than in the past. Sometimes we do not supply any water to the City. It is, your self-supplies up to 82. But I'll show you a slide here in a minute. It's going to show you the growth and the demands, and that number will increase over the years. Our system includes 13 well fields, which include two water intakes to supply it. We have a desalination plant, and we have a 15 billion gallon reservoir and 21 points of connection that we serve our members. We have been, over the last year, closely monitoring the drought conditions that have been present for a while. And based on our recent rainfall and the improved river flows, we have moved from a stage 3 drought, a severe drought, to a stage 2 as of November 1. And the region just received about 6 1⁄2 inches in October, which is almost 4 inches above normal for that month. It never really rains during the times that we've been getting the rain. So, that all being said, the great news is, as of this morning I woke up, we had 14.99 billion gallons in the reservoir, which means it is full. And mid-July, we were around 2.1 billion. So, just to give you an idea of how far we came in so little, generally I don't count on any rains after October 1. And so, we're usually done filling it by October 1, and here we got full. So, everything is very good in that regard. Our desal plant's been running for the last year and a half straight through. We usually rest it sometimes during the year, but we didn't have a chance over the drought conditions. So, it's been averaging about 12 million gallons a day. We supply all the water to all the members 24 hours, 7 days a week, and we charge everyone the same wholesale rate of $2.66 per 1,000 gallons. We also use a blend of three sources of water that we sell. That includes groundwater, surface water, and the desal, and they all vary in cost. And so, the desal is the most expensive. The groundwater is the cheapest. And that way, as we blend them in the different percentages, we can provide that $2.66 to our members, which is a very affordable cost. The budget we're in right now, our production is to have 57% be the groundwater and the rest remaining between the desal plant and the river, our surface plant. The growth projections for the next 20 years are for Hillsboro and Pasco County to be our largest growth, including the city of Tampa. So, I told you earlier, you purchased about 6.53 million gallons a day, and that's a pretty big number, but that number is going to be increasing over the next several years because of the growth that you are experiencing here in the city. Right now, our active CIP budget includes basically three major projects. That includes we are expanding our surface water treatment plant. We're adding a fifth train. Our plant in the city's plant is almost identical in the process, and so I know you've done a lot of work expanding your plant or modifying it, upgrading it, keeping it up to speed. Our plants are very similar. We use similar waters. And so, we learn from each other, and we talk a lot between the two plants. So, we're expanding our plant. It will now be 145 million gallons a day, which will yield about 12.5 million to the future, future demands. We also approved a designer to start working on a new wellfield in South Hillsboro County. That is something that is an innovative project where we are using a combination of buying permits from private, third-party individuals, and also we'll be able to use reclaimed credits. Hillsboro County currently puts reclaimed water, treated reclaimed water down into wells, and we are working on getting a permit. And if we buy those credits from them, we could turn that into fresh drinking water inland. The wellfield is about three or four miles from where they're injecting the reclaimed. The other project we're working on is a pipeline. It's 26 miles, and it will leave our surface water treatment plant in Brandon and head all the way down to the Balm area. And that will serve a very fast-growing South Hillsboro County area. We just started work in March. We had to acquire 205 parcels, and we're working very hard putting in the microtunnels. We've got seven out of the 17 done, and we're doing open trench. I believe they're about 15% along the way. So, that pipeline will be in service at the end of 2028. Also, I want to talk a little bit about the future. At Tampa Bay Water, we have the unequivocal obligation to always provide the water our members need. So, there is a very robust planning cycle that we go through. It's called the Master Water Plan. And so, we do this planning every five years, and basically, we look at future demands and project out. And then, we start brainstorming different projects and different supplies that could come online. Currently, we have six projects that we selected to go to feasibility, and that is from the 2023 Master Water Plan. So, we're completing that. The board will be asked to select several projects or one project for the future to get us through 2033. At the same time, at our last board meeting, the board approved a task to start the 2028 Master Water Planning Cycle. And that will carry us beyond the 2033 timeframe. And so, of the six projects, three of them have surface water components, and the other three have groundwater components to them. So, we'll be looking at those and bringing them back to our board next year, and then we will be starting on the design and construction of the next projects. The water that we provide meets or surpasses all the local, state, and federal standards. And as those standards change, we have to take proactive steps to always meet these regulations. So, the last time I presented to you, EPA had just issued new regulations that have taken effect in 2029, including the PFAS rules and regulations. We already meet the new standards, but there are three connection points in Hillsborough counties with us that are slightly above the new regulations. And so, we've been also studying not only the PFAS treatment, but also reducing total organic carbon in our system. And just last April, our board approved moving forward for some design of the treatment at five different sites. It's three for PFAS reduction and two for total organic carbon reduction. So, we're just starting that work effort in order to make those deadlines. We continue to work very closely with the staff of all our member governments, and we have very open and transparent discussions about all water topics. And I mentioned earlier, we had the year-long drought. City of Tampa shares a lot of similarities with their plant, your plant, and our plant. And so, we were on a phone call every Thursday. My staff, including myself, got on a phone call weekly during the height of the drought with Rory and his staff, and we coordinated very closely, worked with each other, and helped each other. So, it was a great effort, and I want to thank Rory and his staff and all the cooperation we got, and we worked very good together. So, I just wanted to mention that before I close here, and I'll be happy to take any questions. The original 1998 operation when Tampa Bay Water and Tampa merged to work together to make it better. Tampa Bay Water is composed of Pasco County, Hillsborough County, and Pinellas County, the city of Newport, Ritchie, and the city of Tampa, and the city of St. Petersburg. And the gentleman to his left, immediate left, where he's sitting, is Roy Jones, who's responsible for all these conversations that we've had, or he's had anyway, with Tampa Bay Water, make sure that everyone in those three counties had the ability to turn on the faucet and get water. And Roy Jones has got a fantastic job in not only doing that, thinking we're in the future and changing the operation at the water plant, how to make it more efficient and much better, less cost. So, both of those gentlemen are really the ones that are responsible in the city of Tampa for making the step going forward to make sure that everyone in the city of Tampa has water. It's not an easy job from the head of Tampa Bay Water, from the head of the city of Tampa Department, and that's Brad Baird, to the gentleman who runs the plant. It is a very intense job. It's a job at 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. You cannot make a mistake, and I want to thank all three of you for doing that. Thank you very much. I really appreciate the update. It's always good to know what Tampa Bay Water is up to. The one thing I didn't hear you mention was anything about conservation as we go through this. So, could you talk a little bit about what Tampa Bay Water is doing to try to incentivize its member governments to conserve? Yes, that's a very good question, and I thank you for bringing that up. The program I'll refer to that we have at Tampa Bay Water is called WaterWise, and it's in conjunction. We work with the Southwest Florida Water Management District. They supply some of the monies for us, and basically it involves 12 different rebates that we offer to the customers to incentivize them to change out their appliances, sprinkler heads, even large industrial projects, and we offer incentives and rebates. Our goal is to save 3.8 million gallons a day by the year 2032, and we started the plan in, I think it was 2020. We rolled it out at a very unopportune time during the COVID just started, but we got to a slow start, and we're almost close to 1.5 million gallons a day saved. And what we like to tell the board is we'll take it and the savings versus not building something and show them how much cheaper it is. Right now we're showing them to save the water we have, it's like 66 cents per thousand, and those six projects that we're studying to have the board select, the cheapest one is like $4 per thousand. So you can see how not building something is the cheapest way to go, and so we are very, very cognizant and wanting to make sure conservation is a big part of everyone's mindset. Councilman Carlson. Yeah, I think everybody knows because it was publicized eight years ago. I was involved in, as a consultant with Tampa Bay Water in the beginning of Tampa Bay Water, and, you know, a couple of the staff members here were involved way back then in the creation of it. And, you know, Ed Taranchuk, Steve Seibert, Jerry Maxwell, were you on the board back in 98? I've been on the board since 1927. 1898. And when? Yes, I was. Anyway, I mean, it is recognized as one of the best examples of regional cooperation in the world. It's the only example of regional cooperation that we have in the Tampa Bay area. There have been several attempts like TBARTA, Tampa Bay Partnership, others, but this is the only one that is really accomplishing something, and there's real collaboration going on, and folks rely on each other. And so, you know, thank you to all the people that helped put that together way back when. And I just want to ask you a couple of technical questions. You said you are using the desal plant now. People still think that it's not operating. What kind of MGD do you use a day, and what can you go up to? What's the capacity? Well, right now we're at 12 million gallons a day, and right now I think the year we're budgeting is to run for 11. We use all three sources in conjunction at different times of the year, so it can produce at its max right now at 20, and we are adding two more trains to it right now, so that will take it up another five. And so it will be in less than a year here up of a total design of 25 million gallons a day, but we're using it at 12 right now. And you mentioned the wholesale rate you have is like 265, and then can you just tell what the cost is per 1,000 gallons for groundwater versus the desal? Yes, sir. Years ago I started it. We called it the simple principle of 1, 2, 3, $1 for groundwater, $2 for surface, and $3 for desal. It's not the same anymore. Desal is more in the 5 and up range, and surface water is in the upper $2 range for 1,000. And groundwater is between $1 and $2, $1.50 or so. Still relatively you can get the sense of between desal and groundwater. Yeah, I mentioned to folks from here, when I went on vacation to Singapore over the summer, I visited the public works people, and you remember in 1999 the Singapore prime minister came over and we showed him the desal plant or the plans for the desal plant in Tampa because we had the cheapest price in the world back then. But they built three of them, and what they told me is they hardly ever run them either, even though they really don't have much of their own water sources. They built reservoirs. But it's because of the cost per 1,000 gallons. It's so expensive that you don't run them much. I just want to explain that to the public because they don't see. The last thing is how much is the city contracted to pull? Because I know sometimes you've had to go above that. And then the last question before they cut me off, the alternative to toilet to tap is similar to the Hillsborough County's proposal, though, to deep well injections, and then you'll try to get SWIFT my credits. Could you or Brad tell us the status of that? How much do you think Tempe Water might be willing to pay the city per 1,000 gallons of credit you might get? Yeah, the first part of the question, the city is not obligated if they can self-supply up to 82 million gallons a day. And so projections back in 1998 showed that it was going to be fine until a certain year. And so I think we're talking about 11 million gallons a day in a few years, 10 years from now, that the city will have to buy from us just because of growth. You'll be at 92 or 93 million gallons a day is your average take. So we're putting that in our plans. It's in our plans when we're building these new projects or how much Tampa is going to need. I know you guys are renewing your permit at the same amount of 82. And so the excess water will come from Tampa Bay Water. The other question you have on reclaimed in the deep well injection, I would probably ask Brad to give you more details on your project. But it's similar, I believe, to what Hillsborough is doing. Before he answers that, could you just tell us to put in context, compared to City of Tampa has a special situation because of the river, could you tell everybody what the context is, 11 MGD for the city, what is St. Pete, Clearwater, Newport-Ritchie, not Clearwater, St. Pete, Newport-Ritchie, Pinellas-Hillsborough, what are they buying? Yeah, the largest customer is Hillsborough County, and they take about almost 50 million gallons a day, and they're the largest. And Pasco is creeping up on them. They're at, I think, 30 or so. And Pinellas' today is pretty stagnant. They've actually lost over the years. They used to be 60 million gallons a day. Now they're around less than 50 from us. So that, in context, there's some years that Tampa hasn't even purchased water. On a rainy year, your rivers are flowing and your demands are down. You don't need any water from us. But that's why we were created, and that's why I believe the city of Tampa joined, is they knew they would need the water from us at some point, and it's been working very well for us, I believe. All right. Thank you. Oh, I'm sorry. You added something. Brad Baird, Administrator of Infrastructure and Mobility. So we, the status of the recharge project at Hooker's Point or the Howard F. Curran AWT plant, it's on schedule. We actually took bids on the wells on Tuesday. I haven't had a chance to review those yet. But we are proposing to drill five wells on site at about 1,200 feet deep each, which would provide, we hope, water credits for the future. This project is to comply with Senate Bill 64, where we need to eliminate the discharge of that plant by January 1, 2032. And like I said, we're on schedule to do that. But the initial modeling has shown that at a minimum we would produce 20.7 MGD of water credits that, of course, we would have discussions with Tampa Bay Water to provide water for the region. And that would be further inland in eastern Hillsborough County. I just want to congratulate Brad and Rory and the team and also the Tampa Bay Water people they're working with. The original Toilet Tap whatever project, there were several different names, official names for it. But it was going to cost the city and ratepayers a lot of money. This one, you heard we might need 11 MGD years into the future. If we can sell 20 or more MGD, that means we're going to make a profit. And Tampa Bay Water will process and take care of it, sell the excess to somebody else. But we will have access to that supply. And we might even – we'll either be able to keep our rates neutral or reduce them because of that. So I think hats off to the staff for coming up with a much less expensive solution that will benefit our ratepayers. And I do want to mention thank you to MacDill Air Force Base, because they drilled a well one to two years ago, I believe. And that gave us the idea that we may have the same geology, same hydrogeology at Hooker's Point that MacDill has. So that got us going in that direction. I'll just want to close that up. Thank you. I'll try to, sir. If I can, Mr. President of Tampa Bay Water, I'm going to call you that. You've done a fantastic job. Explain the decel in detail how much pressure the water's got to go through. They tell me the size of a human hair. One-fifth of the size of a human hair. One-fifth. And what happens – you've got to put the water through there in one of the processes. Yeah. So there's three easy steps, right? I'm going to say easy steps. You take the water out and you take the color out, and you take everything out of it on its way in pretreatment to just leave only salt and water. And then you pressurize that at that stage up to close to 1,000 PSI. And those are huge horsepower motors, and they take a lot of electricity. And that's generally what your cost is, to push 1,000 PSI through these little pores, one-fifth of the size of a hair, and traps the salt behind it, and the drinking water goes through. And thanks again, because the public is not understanding. There are now, because you're explaining it to them, how it is, how difficult it is to produce that type of water, and how difficult – that's why it's costlier. The next thing is I want to thank Mayor Greco in his past. When he was mayor, what he did was ASR, Aquifer Storage and Recovery. It was Greco who worked with the council members then to put that in. There's about seven or eight wells that they dug way back 30 years ago, whatever. And they do that during the rainy season. They produce more water than the plant, and they put it underground-treated, and when they need it, they pump it back up and retreat it and send it out. So that was Mayor Greco that thought of that and worked on others that he's got to be remembered for. And the pyramid of receiving water, if there's a real bad drought, Tampa's not on the top. It's one of the bottom ones because we produce our own water. The others have no water, so they have to be treated first. Am I correct in saying that? No. And I want to thank you for all that. I really appreciate what you've come for today and how you educated me and the rest of us and the public. And it's not an easy thing to do. It's very difficult to produce water, produce water for three counties and areas of millions of people, and I want to thank you for that. Well, thank you. Thank you, sir, and thank you guys for what you do for the day. Thank you. I appreciate it. Okay. I want to thank council for giving me the opportunity to read the statement that I wrote. It's sometime between 2 and 4 this morning. So I want to take a few minutes to talk about something that's been bothering me concerning the charter review and the charter amendments. We've all heard the mayor tell this council more times than I can count that we need to stay in our lane. She's never been shy about reminding us what she believes our responsibilities are and where our authority ends, where apparently that advice only goes one way. Recently, I requested copies of communication between the mayor's political director and members of city council concerning the charter amendments we're considering today, and what I received was pretty revealing. The mayor's political director was sending documents to individual council members criticizing several of the proposed amendments. But here's what really concerns me. These communications weren't sent to the entire city council. They were directed to selected members. I know for a fact, because I didn't receive them, and I've confirmed that at least other council members didn't receive them either. As many as three of the seven of us sitting on council were left out, and it doesn't stop there. The records show that even among the council members who received these communications, the information was not identical. Different members received different versions with different arguments and different financial estimates concerning the very same charter amendments. Some materials were even placed in sealed envelopes and hand-delivered. I find that particularly troubling. Why wasn't the same information shared to all seven council members? And why were different versions sent to different members? I have serious concerns that this was a deliberate effort to influence individual council members by selectively controlling the information they received. And after speaking directly to the mayor, I confirmed that the political director was acting under her specific direction. So this simply wasn't a staff member acting independently. The mayor was directing these communications. Now, I have absolutely no problem with the mayor disagreeing with these amendments. That's her right. But I do have a problem when the information is selectively distributed to individual council members, particularly when some of this information is misleading or incomplete. For example, council members were given estimates suggesting that additional council staffing could cost nearly a million dollars. But those figures were based on hypothetical positions, not what's actually in the proposal. We were warned that allowing council to override certain executive orders could jeopardize emergency management without fully addressing what the proposed amendment actually says. And we were told that creating an independent inspector general would simply duplicate the work of our existing audit department without adequately distinguishing between routine auditing and independent investigatory authority. Those are issues worth discussing, but let's have the discussion openly with accurate information instead of distributing different arguments to different council members behind the scenes. The Charter Review Commission did a lot of work, and I appreciate that work, but its recommendations aren't the final word. This council has its own responsibility under the charter to consider amendments, and the mayor has a role in the process as well. But there's a sequence to that process, and I believe we ought to respect it. What bothers me the most is the double standard. We've all sat here and listened to the mayor tell us to stay in our lane, but apparently it comes to something she doesn't like. Those same standards don't apply. I'm not suggesting the mayor can't express an opinion. Of course she can. But there's a difference between openly expressing opposition and directing an effort to influence individual council members by selectively providing different information before we've finished our deliberation. If the mayor has concerns, bring them forward. If there are legal questions, let's get the answers. And if there's a disagreement, let's have it out here in the open where the public can hear it. I don't think that's asking too much. These charter amendments aren't about any one mayor or any one council. They're about how the city is governed for years to come. And ultimately, if these amendments move forward, it's not us. It's the voters of Tampa who will decide if they want them. It's the voters. I've heard the mayor tell this council to stay in our lane more times than I can count. Under the charter, our role is legislating budget and policy. The mayor's role is implementing it, not attempting to manipulate individual council members to the exclusion of others, behind the scenes and outside of the sunshine, because the charter doesn't have one set of rules for the council and another for the mayor. Thank you. Okay. Our next agenda item is... Mr. Chair. Mr. Chair. Can I address the city council? No, sir. Not at this time. It's not an agenda item to be discussed. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Councilman Carlson. I'm confused now. I'm not true. I'm not sure they're not true. I'm just saying that the city attorney on both sides, he should be allowed to say something. I don't know what something is. I'm not being argumentative. No, there's a time and place when we get to the charter amendments. We're going to get to public convent. Could you do us a favor and give us a copy of that so we can look at it over lunch? Yes. Can I get a legislative aid, Sam? I watched it in the back. Okay. Sam or Sebastian, can I come out and get these documents from him? Okay. And I'll distribute. Okay. Public comment. So remember the public comment at the beginning of this meeting. Thank you, Mr. Stead. I appreciate you. The first public comment is on agenda items, on agenda items only. If you were here to speak to on agenda items, you should have filled out one of these cards and reflecting your name and which agenda items you're speaking to. If it's off agenda items, we'll get to that later in the program. Okay. Our first public speaker is Stephanie Hopkins. Stand by one moment, please. Councilman Carlson, I'd like to recognize you for the continuation of the idea. I think they would like to move it to December 17th or any time thereafter. 80? What number? 80. 80. 80. Okay. I have a motion to continue item number 80 to December. Let me just double check. Item number 80 is the EBO ordinance. Can we pick a later date? I think the preference is March. That's the feedback I got. Let me get the motion on the floor and then I'll recognize you. Okay. Councilman Carlson, give me the motion with the date. I move to continue item number 80 to March 4th. I have a motion to continue item 80 to March 4th from Councilman Carlson. Is there a second? Second from Councilman Hurtek? It is. Okay. Mr. Brody, would you like to comment? Absolutely. Thank you. Carl Brody from Legal. I need to just provide a couple of clarifications. Current status of the ordinance is that any programs or opportunities we have that benefit women and minority businesses are currently suspended. So they're not receiving those. If we can use the wolf real quick. Yeah, it's up. All right. So what does that mean if we don't move forward with this ordinance? That means that our small local businesses are stuck with 2008 numbers. So any PCARD purchases are limited to $2,000. The ordinance would increase that to $5,000, more opportunities for small local businesses. Any projects will be limited to 2008 levels at $300,000 instead of being increased to $500,000. And you see we have each general category for which the firms can participate in the sheltered market. Sheltered market means they don't have to fight against the big firms. It gives them more opportunities to be successful, more opportunities to grow. What's not there is that the threshold to be a small local business is also increased. That means the more successful small local businesses will have more opportunities to be able to bid against each other and not against the big firms, allowing them to grow more. The important thing is, though, that... Instead of a full presentation, if you could just narrow it on the continuation. Just a quick presentation. Just a quick note. But the important thing to note is that if we don't move forward with this, what we're doing is just relegating the small businesses to old 2008 standards in terms of the funding available, which is not the goal of any of us in terms of addressing both minority women and small businesses and benefiting their opportunities. And legally, there's nothing that we can do about this. I've sent you memos before. SB 34 is not changing. The legislature is the only group that can change that, and the new legislature that's coming in is not different than the old legislature that was there before. The president's not changing. We've got two and a half more years with the same president, same rules there. So we won't be able to move anything. We won't be able to make any changes to benefit small, minority, and local businesses. It was a guy. I think he's on my side. He said, move forward on this thing. That's all I have to say. Thank you. I know there's some other people who might want to speak, but I'll let you control your meeting. This is just on a continuance, so we're going to just have council discussion. So I have a motion and I have a second. Does any council would like to discuss this? Councilwoman Hartzik? I just want to say that if we could divide it between helping our small businesses and focusing on what the administration, the national administration is doing, I might be more willing to support it. I'm not supporting it just because I don't think it's the right thing to do. Okay, I'm going to support the continuation, even though I understand where we are. But I think on the political side, we did have an election, and there is a little bit of a changeover, so we'll let things settle out. And I think by March 4th, we should have a good direction of where the politics are in the state. So I think that might be a good idea. Councilwoman Young, then I'll go back to you, Councilwoman Young. We're not going to have public comment on our public hearing. No, no, no. Joe, this is a continuation. No, but I want to talk about the continuation. He did. It's a public hearing. It's a public hearing. I have a against. He does speak on the continuance. Okay, so this is how we're going to do it. I'm going to motion to open the public hearing. Is that the motion for Councilwoman Young, second Councilwoman Hartzik? All those in favor, say aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. We're going to have, we'll go ahead and why don't we do this. Let's have, even though it's not required, let's have a public comment because I know a lot of y'all showed up. So out of respect for those of you who showed up today, if you would come just line up against the wall if you want to speak continuation, continuation only, please line up against the wall, start with your name, and you'll have three minutes. Mr. Chairman, if I can. Mr. Shelby. Yes, Martin Shelby, City Council Attorney. Just for the purposes of the record, the public hearing being open to incorporate the discussion that you had, the dialogue you had with Mr. Brody as part of that for the purposes of the record. And also, I don't know whether Council had yet determined or announced the date, time, and place of that continuance. I was out of the room. Thank you. Okay. I don't need him. Joseph? Joseph, start with your name. Yes, sir. Joe Robinson, a minority business in the city of Tampa since 1990, continuously certified with the city, helped revolve and get involved with all of the changes in that. Here's my problem and why this needs to be continued. Besides, if you can get the elbow on somebody on inside there. It's up. Okay. Does it show this here on my phone? Okay. Okay. That is, what I'm saying is this needs to be continued. Why? Because in my professional opinion and experience on this, it does not comply with the DEI prohibitions. It does not, and which will take effect on January 1st, Senate Bill 1134, Chapter Number 2643, Florida Statute 125.595, Florida Statute 166.04971, and Florida Statute, that's 287.139. That's a local government DEI prohibition. This EBO is violated, and Ms. Young, you know this, because you were at the hearing when we went to the FRA when these slides were presented. We need to make sure we vet that it does comply before it moves forward, not because of what Tober's saying. I agree with them, too. But I'm concerned that if you pass this and go forward, even when you get all the Tober resolved, if it doesn't meet the DEI statute, individual people that voted on it can be removed from office because of an automatic call of misfeasance by the governor's office. And I don't want you to get there, not with the way things are now. So I'm cautioning you so you don't have plausible deniability, because I'm telling you in a public hearing that this EBO process, because it's got a lot of words in there that shouldn't be used, it's got a lot of prefaces that are violating the statute, and come January 1st, all of these things will be implemented. Any contracts that the city has will be null and void if it's got anything that has the DEI in it, okay? Every vendor is going to have to certify that they don't have DEI in their corporation before they can even get a contract from a government agency. So I'm here to tell you, I'm on your side. I ain't agreeing with all that, but it's the law, okay? And I don't want Utmire, who done been elected, to come down here. So I'm just telling you, make sure when we continue it, that your attorney, make sure that they see that it's also in compliance with the DEI law that takes effect January 1st, okay? Because that's a problem if they don't. So you don't have plausible liability anymore, because I just told you on public record. Thank you, Mr. Robinson. And Stephanie, thank you for your patience. I appreciate you sticking with us on this. Start with your name, please. Stephanie Hopkins, City Council appointed EBO, Wimby Community. I am, at this moment, will remove myself from the capacity of speaking on behalf of the committee, I am speaking to each and every one of you as a small business owner and a black woman. This continuance does what for me, does what for other minority women. We are causing a disparity amongst our own. We have ebbs and flows in life. Just because the laws have changed for this moment in time doesn't mean that it will always be the same. The residents contributed to the 2045 vision of Tampa's plan. City Council adopted that vision July of 2022. Its theme includes two clear commitments. One, a diverse economy provides opportunities for everyone. And two, all residents have equitable access to a high quality of life and opportunity, regardless of background. Regardless of background. Regardless of background. Those words describe what Tampa said it wanted to build. As you consider the future of the WIMBY program today, my question is simple. How will your decision carry that vision forward into meaningful opportunities for qualified businesses, including women and minority businesses, to compete for city contracts? And what is your continuance policy? Do you have one? And why are we continuing this? Those are my questions as well. Thank you. Thank you, Stephanie. Next speaker. My name is Pastor Frank Williams. Is this public comment or public hearing? Y'all got me lost today. This is only about the continuation of item 80. What did he say? 80. So, this is just talking about the continuation of item number 80. Well, I see your question. Is this public? This is this issue. Hmm? Just that issue. We're just talking about the EBO ordinance. So, they're public hearing? It's not public hearing for anything, but only the EBO ordinance. Yeah, this is not general public comment. You're talking about me confused. It's not public hearing. Yeah. What is it? Valerie, you want to help him out? This is about something on the agenda about their business. You don't have a small business. We're going to talk. Yeah. When they call us up here, it's not our time. Valerie, help you out. Isn't that my time? No, not yet. It's not public comment. Thank you. Thank you, Pastor. I thought he'd get quite a lot of things. Mr. Ransom, with your name, please. Yes, sir. My name is James Ransom, and thank you, council members, for always taking our calls and our messages and our conversation. We met with the mayor. We met with the city attorney. The assistant city attorney. We met with staff from procurement in the EBO office. We've just talked among ourselves and done our own research and shared things with everyone. Here's what we understand. Yes, there was a former U.S. Attorney General, Pam Bondi, who sent a threatening memo around the country to government organizations, and the Attorney General of Florida and the governor of Florida, who's no longer governor, as of this, the middle of November. We've got a whole new legislature in D.C., but here's the situation. The SME program, it loses the targeting of advocacy for the underrepresented groups of people who are taxpayers and voters that live in Hillsborough County and have businesses. It loses that. It also reduces the access to contracts because those companies are competing as larger, more well-funded organizations. Anything we do to roll back or step away from what should have been better enforced in the previous status of the city MBE EBO program is going in the wrong direction. And so when we say the staff can never, ever support anything that pushes further away from fairness, equity, and diversity, which we think are good words in our community, and the attorney is dealing with what the threat is of someone coming to take someone's job, what about the lady who spoke earlier? She may or may or may not understand that the SME program is going to water down being more definitive and intentional about spending money with underrepresented people in the community who have businesses. We could never support anything other than that. Now, we've given the staff, the attorney, a whole lot of opportunity to look at what might be alternative ways and options to do this situation, to not violate the law and not discriminate against anyone, any black-owned company, other minority-owned business, or women-owned business, or any other affected, previously protected group of people. We need to find a better way. And the SME program is not a better way. This ordinance is not a better way. They need to step back. And today, this morning, at 3 o'clock this morning or so, we sent some more information to everyone. Look at this situation differently. And we think the continuance will give you time and give them time to come back if they think they need to move forward with an ordinance that addresses more, ways to make it better. So with that, we appreciate the city council taking this action. And we think that the continuance, notwithstanding the possibility of some type of threat, if you have a threat, we'll stand with you. Because you stand with us, we're going to stand with you. And thank you for your time. Thank you, Mr. President. All right. Next public speaker. Did any of y'all want to? Anybody else on this item? Okay, that ends public comment on the continuation of item number 80. Okay, is there any further council discussion? Okay, motion to continue item number 80 to March 4th, 2027. Those in favor, say aye. The ayes have it unanimously. Thank you so much. Okay, that being said, let's go on to general public comment. I'm sorry, on agenda item public comment. Thank you for that correction. On agenda item public comment. If you are here to speak, once again, if you're here to speak to on agenda item public comment, you should have filled out one of these cards. I'm going to call them in the order that they're stacked here. The first one is Stephanie Poynter. After Stephanie, it'll be Emily Hensdale, followed by Rich Simmons. Morning, Ms. Poynter. Start with the name, please. Good morning, Stephanie Poynter. First of all, I want to say, Councilman Clandon, please submit your letter for the record and submit the public records that you pulled as well. Please put those in the record for everyone to see. Number four through six, I'm still wondering why the mayor is appointing anybody for more than six months after the end of her term. She won't be here. The next person should be able to appoint them. When Dana Crosby Collier came with the changes, she only mentioned pulling people off committees for absenteeism. There are people on committees that you don't agree with what they're doing, and you want to be able to remove them. You guys have investigated that in the past, and Mr. Shelby has said, no, you cannot remove them. So we need to change that. It needs to be changed, and it needs to be in the code. The next thing, $10,000 a month to rent the JCC, I would think that that money would be better spent improving the Hyde Park, which other people want to name other things, but anyway, and working on getting the arts moved into that particular area. Number 21, $150 bat house. I love the Garden Club. I think they're fabulous, and I think it's interesting that this is in the agenda. It's in City Council for $150, but Mr., whatever his name is, that wants to do all the work at Hyde Park, adjusted trees at Swan Pond on his own money and his own time and bragged about it on emails and public records, and I never saw it come before City Council. Who gave him permission to adjust trees on that property? It's not his property. It belongs to the city. Number 57, as a property manager, I can tell you right now that 95% of what is advertised in the rental market is on Zillow and Apartments.com. Why is the city paying for a program to advertise? It's ridiculous. It's free. Okay. If it's free, then I don't care. Let's see. No, I couldn't get into it. Number 65, getting that property, an easement for a stormwater project on Gandy, why isn't it in the CIP? If we're purchasing property to do it, or getting property to do it, I want to know what's going on with that. The ground lease for related group, they better not be pushing back. They have been slackers long enough and not getting stuff done. It's time for them to get it done. It was approved the same time as Hannah Street, and we see Hannah Street's been full for years. Number 112, all the proceeds from the school cameras should go to school safety, not public safety, not fire, not any of that. It needs to be spent at our schools. Our kids have to walk to school up to two miles away from school. Those children need to be protected. We keep having sidewalk issues. If I had a dollar for every time I get an email from Carol Ann screaming bloody murder at J.C. Hudgens for approving another sidewalk waiver in Virginia Park, man, if I were him there, I would never approve a sidewalk waiver. I wouldn't do it. Thank you, Stephanie. Emily Hinsdale, followed by Rich, followed by Frank Williams, Pastor Williams. Good morning, Emily. Start with your name, please. Good morning. Emily Hinsdale with Sidewalk Stompers. This afternoon, when you were all no doubt exhausted by the rest of the agenda and just want an app, you will hear item 112, a staff report on a draft ordinance amendment on how to designate funds from automated school zone speed cameras. The good news is this should be an easy item to hear, to amend, and to vote to the next step in this process of getting better safety for Tampa's children. This draft ordinance amendment follows a council motion from August to ensure that city funds accumulated from school zone speed camera penalties are used to make the roads safer through improvements like properly marked school zones, crosswalks, ADA-compliant crossings, sidewalks, speed humps, and similar infrastructure. Please move this item forward to the public hearing stage. However, before you do, I am asking that you first make two critical adjustments to the language included in your original agenda packet. I believe you have received an updated amendment. Add the word mobility before infrastructure-focused initiatives. This focuses funds on transportation infrastructure like sidewalks, crosswalks, and speed bumps. It avoids diverting funds towards special projects not directly related to safe routes to school. Adding grades K-12 before the word schools. This focuses on children's needs. It avoids diverting funds towards educational facilities not related to children. The final language should read, All funds retained by the city under this law shall be allocated for administration of speed detection systems in school zones and for mobility infrastructure-focused initiatives related to public safety near grades K-12 schools. Sidewalk Stomper says email due to this amended language. I believe you already have it with you. You will also hear these amendments later this afternoon during the staff report. Please support this edited version of the draft ordinance amendment for schools, camera, speed zone funds and move this issue forward to the first public hearing as soon as possible. Thank you. Thank you, Emily. Rich Simmons. Start with your name, please. Good morning, Council. Rich Simmons, 2702 West St. Isabel. I'm here to speak on agenda item number 113, which are short-term rentals, the ordinance that has been adopted by Hillsborough County and it should be coming for you for the city of Tampa. I understand there's a legal brief that should be in your packet today. I'm here to ask you to strongly consider this. I think this bill passed by, ordinance passed by Hillsborough County is sound. It does a lot of good things to help protect our neighborhoods. As you know, Tampa, generally speaking, is more dense than Hillsborough County. And as a resident that lives nearby to an Airbnb, a short-term rental, I can tell you that they're problematic. You know, there's been excessive trash, there's been excessive noise, parking all over, anywhere they can find a place. Minimum rentals of one night happen quite frequently that I'm aware of. And this ordinance, I think, does a lot of good things. It makes the rental longer and it holds the owners and operators, which aren't always the same, accountable. This gives us, the residents, some protections and a way to process any complaints through code enforcement or other means available. So, when it comes before you, I'd like to have your support to pass this ordinance and to have the City of Tampa pass this ordinance for the betterment of our neighborhoods. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Simmons. Just for clarification, today was just a written staff report. The business will be continued at a different meeting. Okay. The ordinance. I understand. Thank you very much. Pastor Williams, would you like to speak to on-agenda items? Followed by Sir Gret Doss. This is, if you're speaking to something that's on the agenda. I'm doing public comment. Yeah, so Pastor Williams, are you speaking with something that's on the agenda? Yes, too. Yes? Okay. You got it? You got it. Sir Gret, you're up after Pastor Williams and then Joe Robinson. Is Joe, are we still here? Yeah. Pastor Williams. I have this thing all messed up now. I don't know what's going on. Pastor, it's about items that we're hearing on the agenda. Is there a public comment now? A public comment will come later in probably about 45 minutes or an hour. The general public comment. Do you want to speak about anything on the agenda? No, I don't want to speak about nothing on the agenda. I don't want to speak about something that happened to me. Okay. Yeah, that'll come during the second part of public comment. I'll call you then, okay? So you can take a seat and I'll find that. Mr. Dawes. You said 45 minutes. Huh? Send me to get the hell out of these people. I think we all do passers. If I did it for him, I'd be fair. Thank you, sir, for your patience. I appreciate that. No problem. I'm patient, man. I'm a little taken back by what you brought up a little while ago, but I want to stay on a cigarette doll. I'm a veteran, everybody knows. I'm getting back from vacation, so I'm a little bit disoriented. But I want to be on items 109, 104, and 95. And because of what you just said about, and by the way, I want to do a public records request under Chapter 119 of the Florida Statutes regarding whatever the letter was that was disseminated to each and every one of you all. And it ties right into the reason that we need to have an Inspector General who's independent, not under HR or under any other office, so that when these kind of things come up, the public has the teeth to come and get whatever is going on, because I'm a little bit taken aback by this. And because otherwise, I know the agenda is written to be heard today. I believe you are going to deal with the Inspector General and having an independent one. If possible, also, since we're up here and I'm up here now, and it's hard for me to get my mind off of that, especially after what I just went through with the Supreme Court and the fact that the city's attorneys didn't even take the time to respond to my writ. They had that right legally, we all know, but the fact that they didn't and they waived it, it bothers me. And a lot of what I went through with the city is because so much stuff goes on and we don't find out about until later on, the Inspector General would have made it impossible to have kept 7,000 emails away from me while you all were actively prosecuting me across the street over there. I also want to speak to these other contracts, particularly the $529,000 that you all have for this drone leasing thing. I think the people need to see a little bit more about that. That's bothersome to me. And also having systems within the city that look up information about the city's residents. Not enough people out there, and I'm speaking to the public, actually. I know you all are going to do what you want to do with the public. You all need to understand that the onus of our government is on us, and I'm vested in this thing. I'm vested until the casket drops in even further because I have children and grandchildren. And I'm going to speak to a little bit more, but I want that document that was disseminated to you all from whoever it was. If I had to write it down on paper, I want the documents, no matter where they came from, especially whatever the mayor had to say that undermines the idea of an independent Inspector General. I'll be back in a little while. Shout out to the greatest institution in Highland and the city of Tampa, the University of Thomas Jefferson High School. Thank you, Mr. Doss. Joe Robinson, followed by Valerie Bullard. And that will conclude our in-person speakers on agenda items, and I do have someone online as well. Mr. Robinson. Joe Robinson, speaking on item number 72, Sam Yard graduated from high school. Listen, this problem, Rome Yard, it's been going on. Rome Yard has several phases that's going on. This is one phase, one here, and this is a ground lease. Why is this ground lease before you today? Well, it's in District 5. It's in West Tampa. You go over and look at Rome Yard, you'll see structures coming out the ground. You'll see that it's being developed and it's moving forward, unlike most people say it's not any activity. Well, this is activity. The reason that this lease agreement is in front of you now is because they're going after probably somewhere around $20 to $24 million from the state of Florida to try to help pay for the projects that they're doing at Rome Yard. So in order to turn in that application now, because there's a deadline for the application to be submitted, they have to have a ground lease to show that they've got the authorization to build and move forward. There's several agreements that are going to keep coming up until Rome Yard is completely built out. It's several phase projects. This is part of the community benefit agreement that we had got from them. So I'm here to support it, number one, because I'm in West Tampa. I happen to be the chair of the West Tampa CI advisory committee. I stay in West Tampa. I've been involved with this Rome Yard thing and been accused of nonsense even when I sat on the selection committee, you know, trying to throw me to the curve. But we're here today because the community wants to keep the project moving forward. If they can get some money, because they said they're not going to get any city money, and they don't. But a ground lease means they're going to pay some money based on the number of units whenever they get the project to a certificate of democracy. They start paying like they're paying now on some of the projects that they're doing over at Rome Yard. The city gets a check. Staff knows that. So I'm here to say, hey, I'm here to support this moving forward. I'm glad you pulled it so that it can be talked about. But I'm here to say let's keep moving forward because if we don't, they will miss an opportunity to get about $20 or $24 million. I'm quite sure they'll come up here and tell you that if the item comes up and you call them up here to speak with related. So I'm here to say let's move this forward. It's a major project in District 5. It's moving very well. People are starting to see things occur. And it's an affordable housing issue. These are talking about getting funds to keep moving. It's affordable housing, which Rome Yard is going to provide. And they need an opportunity to have this ground lease in place to make an application to the state to get $24 million to keep building Rome Yard. So that's why I sure that's all I had to say. Thank you, Mr. Chair, for recognizing. Thank you, Mr. Robinson. I appreciate it. Valerie, good morning. Good morning, Valerie Bullock. I'm here to talk about 55 and 56. I want to know where's the accountability at? When it comes to giving the organizations and the nonprofit the funds, I help a lot of people. I call Tampa Housing Authority, and it's no help there. I did St. Vincent de Paul, and one person got some help. But I got a problem when one organization is getting all of this money, and it's like we're putting all our eggs in one basket. And I don't see the people getting help. I'd be on the phone call. I'd be on the phone making the call like it's me. And you really get to run around. I called the health department. They told me they're just a referrer services. But I see a lot of programs, but I don't see the individuals who need the help getting the key to an apartment. So I'm concerned about the accountability. Do we know the ratio of how many people they have helped? Is anybody following up on that? Are we just giving these organizations funding and the people aren't getting help? If the money's for people with HIV, then those are the people that need to be getting the apartments. And from my, when I tried to help people, it was to no avail. Everybody got a waiting list. They'll tell you, call, echo. They refer you to somebody else. I'd like to see the numbers, but this much money, how many people did you get housing for? Was it anybody from Borough Park, 29th Street? Where the HIV rate is the highest. And I also want to talk about this rental assistance program. I hope this is not the same company who rented last year, because I know it came out on a Tuesday or Wednesday. You can get on the phone at 9 o'clock and they'll answer the phone and say, we don't have no more funding. We met our quota. We need accountability for these programs. I'm pretty sure when y'all do the paperwork for them, you really want to get help to the people. But from my experience with working with people, it's very few getting help. Now, if you know somebody who work at the program, they'll help you because you know somebody. And it shouldn't be like this. It should be John Q. If I'm off the street and I need help, I should be able to get help. Will y'all please investigate these programs and look at the numbers and see if it's really working and who's getting help. Thank you. Thank you, Valerie. Okay, I've got Aaron. Aaron, unmute yourself, please. Your name. Hello. This is only for agenda items this round, so I understand you want to speak to agenda items. Start with your name, please. Council members, good morning. My name is Aaron Pickern. I'm going to speak on agenda items 8 and 9. On September 17th, Deputy Chief Diaf-Liz told you peregrine. Aaron, pause for a moment. This round of public comment is only for agenda items. I know what I'm saying. This has to do with items 8 and 9, I promise. Yeah, save your off agenda item lines for the next round of public comments. No, it's all together. They are all linked together. Yeah. I already spoke to the clerk about it, and I've got to be okay to speak. Yeah, you can speak to on agenda items now, but anything that's off agenda items, we have to wait until the next round. You can't do it all at 9. Okay, I understand. This is on agenda. Okay, very good. Thank you so much. Okay, thank you. On September 17th, Deputy Chief Eric DeFelice told you peregrine is not a camera surveillance system. You asked if it had anything to do with ICE. The answer was it does not. On October 15th, Council Member Hurtek said she was told Tampa could opt out and keep it internal. Then you approved it 4 to 1. Here is what you approved. Peregrine merges records from different systems into one person dossier. Its own patent says machine learning decides which records are the same person, then builds a merged record and keeps the original. What is in one? Address, phone, date of birth, race, height, weight, eye color, flags, four records combined into one person. It maps people, places, vehicles, and events in a network that reveals hidden connections, including known associates and family. In Tampa, it plugs into dispatch, police records, Axon body camera video, and TPD employee data. $595,000 through January, 2028. And it comes with the AI. Tampa program program. The contract is a concern, collect officers' questions, and the AI's answers. Turning on our data is barred unless the city authorizes it in writing. One signature opens that door. Now count the doors you were told stay closed. Door one asked about 287G. The answer was pursuant to any lawful order. We would have to comply with it. Door two, the contract allows our data go to one or more third parties under a separate written agreement between Peregrine and the city. Door three is today's item. Number nine, $152,364.59 in federal homeland security money for Versitim Opsintel. The city's grant forum says it shares intelligence with federal agents on the same systems Peregrine plugs into. Three doors, you were told it had nothing to do with ICE. You were told it could stay internal. If safeguards had true intent, the city would buy software that cannot do these things. Instead, you bought software that can and left the limits of paperwork that changes with a signature. That is why I am asking Deputy Chief DeFelice to resign. Either he did not understand what he presented or he described it differently than its maker does. Item eight is sold as counter drone. The agreement lists covert cameras, GPS trackers, wiretap equipment, and cell site simulators. It never mentions drones. Pull items eight and nine from consent. You were told what Peregrine is not. Now you know what it is. Do not wave the next two through. Thank you. Thank you, Aaron. Okay. Is there anybody else for on agenda? Okay. That concludes public comment. We're moving to board and administrative appointments. Is Carly Puello Poulet or Dominique Cajal or Tommy Whitehead in the audience? Give them the opportunity to speak with the one. Okay. Hearing none. Can I get a motion to approve items four, five, and six? I have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. Second from Councilman Carlson. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed. The ayes have it unanimously. Thank you. Councilwoman Hurtick. I just wanted to speak before we approve the public safety committee items because it was brought up in public comment about item 16, which we are not actually approving anything that has already been approved. We're just moving some money around because of Gatsby rules. So we've already approved it. We're not approving something again. We're just moving money around. Thank you for the clarification. Okay. On to the consent. I asked. Is there any? I did as well. Request for public consideration of legislative matters. Hearing none. Okay. Consent agenda. Okay. Councilman Hurtick. I don't know if there's any desire to pull eight and nine based on what we heard from public comment or for just for clarification later or not. Okay. So I'll move to pull eight and nine. So we'll need staff for that during staff reports. Okay. Councilman Miranda, would you please move item seven and then 10 through 16. We have to approve them. We have to vote on that. Oh, I'm sorry. Oh, I'm sorry. She seconded. Motion from Councilman Hurtick, second from Councilman Young to pull items eight and nine for a separate vote in discussion. That'll come back when we get to that agenda item. So Councilman Miranda, all those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. The ayes have it. Thank you. Councilman Miranda, would you move seven and items 10 through 16? I move item number seven in public safety committee, seven and 10, and then 11 through 15. 16. 15. 16. The other page. Okay. I have a motion. Councilman Miranda, second from Councilman Hurtick. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Councilman Young, would you move 17 through 33? I move item 17 through 33. I have a motion from Councilwoman Young, second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Thank you. Councilman Maniscalco, would you move items 34 through 49 and item, we're just for clarification, item 47 as a substitute resolution. All right. I move items 34 through 49 with a substitute for item number 47. I have a motion. Councilman Maniscalco, second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor, say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. The ayes have it. Thank you so much. And finance committee. Councilman, Miranda, stand by. Is there a staff to discuss items 52 through 54? Yeah, there's a problem. They should be coming downstairs. Well, I had informed. Mr. Shabu, would you just like to speak to it? I mean, you want to speak in their stead? I can speak in their stead if you wish. I just want you to know, Mr. Chairman, based on your direction to me, I emailed the attorneys in the legal department that when these items are called up, you'd like them to be able to address it. If you want to hold them to have them come down or if you'd like me to address it. Are you here for 52 through 54? No, it's Ms. Lee and... Just for counsel's information, it was brought to my attention earlier in the sidebar conversations you heard with the attorneys that there is a legal issue with the language or something that's... If I can... Then I might as... You have a choice, Mr. Chairman. Would you rather me discuss it or would you rather hold it for the attorneys? Let's clarify what's going on. Then let's do it right now then. Okay. And I'm willing to do that and that's fine. It was brought to my attention that with regard to items 52, 53, and 54, you have decided you wanted to continue the presentation to December 3rd. Is that correct, Mr. Chairman? I believe that's it, yes. And I stalled long enough to... You talk about good and your delays. You remember this, right, Marty? Straight. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Start with your name, please. I'm McGregory, Legal Department. Thank you for your understanding. We were coming down and apologies for the delay. So these... This is items 52, 53, and 54. I also have Beth Lee from the attorney's office with me. These... So apologies for the delay. I thought these would be coming up during staff reports. So we do have... Well, maybe we don't have staff here. But the idea here was that these items would be coming before you today for staff to present the upcoming proposed rate changes in response to legislation that passed in the last session. We are asking that the presentation be allowed to go forward, but that the vote, any vote on the resolutions be continued to December 17th so that we can ensure that we're in compliance with notice provisions. So can I make a motion to move items 52 through 54 to staff reports so they can present? Mr. Shelby, I thought there was more issues than that. Do... Does... This was originally brought to you as a particular items on the consent agenda. Then what happened was there is a PowerPoint presentation. There's a desire by the staff to want to make the PowerPoint presentation. Do you want them separated or do you want the whole kit and caboodle... Together. On the 7th... It can't be done today because there is a notice issue. Again, yeah, I know. That's not what I'm saying. I just asked for them to move the presentation for items 52 through 54 to staff reports. Well, no, what he's saying is that there is a notice issue. So... It can't be moved today. I know we can't move it. Let's move the whole package. Move the whole package. Oh, okay. That's what I'm suggesting. Move the whole package, 51, 52... Excuse me, 52, 53, and 54 to staff reports on the 17th... So moved. ...of December, 2027 and at that... 2026. And at that point, you'll have the presentation and have the ability then properly noticed to be able to be moved on that date. Okay. So I have a motion from Councilwoman Hurtschak. To continue items 52 through 54 to December 17th, 2026 under staff reports. I have a second from Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Move 50. Okay. 51. Thank you very much. Too little, too late. Sorry. I have a motion from Councilman Miranda to move items 50 and 51. Is there a second? Second. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Councilman Carlsson, would you move 50 through 71? I have a motion from Councilman to second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor, ayes have it. Would somebody... Would you want a separate vote or do you want to... Can you move 72 or are you going to vote again? Okay. So can I get Councilman Young, would you move item 72? I move item 72. I have a motion from Councilman Young. Second. Second from Councilman Maniscalco. Roll call, please. Miranda. Yes. Maniscalco. Yes. Hurtek. Yes. Young. Carlson. Yes. Clendenin. Yes. Motion passes with Carlson. Voldino. Thank you. Mobility, Councilman Hurtek. Yes. I moved items 73 through 75. Second. Okay. I have a motion from Councilman Hurtek. I have a second from Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. We've already opened the 10 o'clock public hearings. No, I believe you've only opened. I'm sorry. Moved to open the 10 a.m. You opened. Oh, that was your motion to open all of them or just number 80? Well, let's do it again. A motion. I have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco. A second from Councilman Hurtek to open the 10 a.m. public, all 10 a.m. public hearings. All those in. And 1030 public hearings. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. The ayes have it. Item number 78. I'll say I'm this available for nation. Thank you, sir. File number BAC 26-17 for second reading and adoption. I'm available if you have any questions. Thank you. Does Council have any questions? No. Very good. Is there an applicant that wants to speak? Just here to answer any questions. Appreciate your approval. Thank you, Mr. Milligan. Thank you for your brevity. Did you guys want to speak as well? These are the owners, the petitioners. They don't have anything to add. Okay. Very good. Is there anybody in the public who wishes to speak to this item? Yes. Okay. Very good. You'll have a chance for a bottle, of course. I guess we do have a presentation coming. Very good. Okay. Come on forward and start with your name, please. My name, just a time to start right now. My name is Gus Weekly. I reside at 2502 West Palm Drive. I've been there for about 30 years. It is my home. The reason I'm doing this presentation today is just to clarify my position and understand all the positions. So we object to the entire alley being closed, but not to the part to the west of our property. There are three homes to the west of 2502 West Palm that would like to have that, that would like to have the alley closed. So the alley has been used as part of ingress and egress since the home was built approximately a hundred years ago. These two were designed together. Alleys and homes in old neighborhoods were essentially designed to work together. So if the vote is to close the entire alley, I object. The 2502 is not abandoned. It has no intent of being abandoned and is used for ingress and egress on a daily basis. Now, Petitioner and I have been in constant contact regarding closing the alley for the three houses to the west of 2502. And in fact, on October 18, 2026, at his request, I signed a notarized affidavit that he drafted and sent to me, it should be part of the record from the first meeting, which is part of the reason I didn't attend the first meeting. It says in relevant point, I understand that my alleyway located behind the following properties is being considered for formal vacation by the city of Tampa, 2512, 2510, and 2504. In relevant part, it also says that the closing doesn't affect my property at 2502 West Palm Drive. So I just wanted to clarify that it was a partial closure, not a total closure. The alley at 2502 is absolutely not abandoned. It's used daily by us, by Jeffrey Hardin, who lives in the detached garage behind. It's used by the city of Tampa Sanitation to take out not only our garbage, but also the garbage from the 12 townhomes or so across the alley. And there are about 20 residents there. Their cans and bins are across from the detached structure. It's also used for visitors, deliveries, the police and fire rescue also, as well as maintenance on both our property and that across. And one final point, the legal description. And looking at the legal description in the petition, it appears to include our legal description for 2502 West Palm Drive. That was never the intent. And we object to having our legal description added. And that part of the alley, as we said, is not abandoned. So we have no objection to closing a part of it behind the three houses. However, if this is an all or nothing, we would object to closing all of it. And perhaps we can find a less restrictive alternative. But thank you for your time. Yeah. Sorry. Augustine Smythe, Weekly III. And I go by Gus Weekly. Great. Thank you. Excuse me, counsel. Can I get him to identify? I just want him to identify where his house is. Yeah. My wife is here to speak, too. And she has some. To just show. We live right here in this house. I also have an affidavit. Start with your name, please. I'm sorry. That's OK. My name is Melissa Weekly. I have an affidavit from the garage apartment resident. Who do I? Do you want to speak to that? Are you going to state for the record what that is? That is an affidavit from Mr. Jeffrey Hardin, who lives in the detached garage, which is located here. And so he parks behind that garage. My name is Melissa Weekly. I am a resident of 2502 West Palm Drive. As others have commented at the previous hearing and just now, the alley next to our home is our only access to our driveway. We use it for ingress and egress. This is also evidence in the photo of our home, as you can see. That has already been put into evidence. I have an affidavit from Mr. Hardin. He lives in the detached garage. He parks behind it, so that's his access to his parking. In addition, the city of Tampa does use the alley twice a week to get garbage from not just 2502, but the townhomes across the alley. They have a designated area where they keep their bins. If that changed, the bins would have to go onto the street. This is a street with no sidewalks on either side, so that would all be in the street, which I think would be a safety issue. It's a busy street with both foot traffic and regular traffic. This is one of the streets that has the crosswalk across Bayshore, so we do get a lot of foot traffic. I agree with the petitioners that their portion of the alleyway is fine for the city of Tampa to vacate, but the portion next to our home is not. It's utilized on a daily basis by us and used weekly by the city of Tampa. If the request is to close not only the portion behind petitioner's home, we would not object, but if it includes the alleyway next to our home, which is lots 1 and 2, and as previously stated, that was in the legal description, so that's why we're just hearing an abundance of caution, we would have to object. For those reasons, we would ask that the petitioner's request be denied. I do thank you for your time and your consideration. Thank you. Is there anybody else in the public that wishes to speak to this item? Hearing none, I would like a staff, could you please come and provide, I know you had the first presentation, but could you provide clarification, one, on the weekly's residence, what this application, what part of the alley is involving, and kind of give us just a little refresher. Ross Samus, available information. I am going to show you an aerial view. The person on the corner, or the folks you're speaking, objecting to, are here, and this is included. This is the area that's included in the legal description currently with the ordinance, is the area in yellow. Any other questions? Does the council have any further questions? If not, I'll go to rebuttal. Councilman, her name. Is there a way we can change that? I'm going to get to that. It's possible, but it would take, definitely take a continuance of this ordinance, because we'd have to change the legal description, but it would take, you know, a transportation department reviewing it again to see. So would that go back to first? Yeah. No, I don't think it should go back to first, in my opinion, just because it's all already been noticed for the entire thing, and you're just cutting that down. It wouldn't be necessarily asking for more, but less. Okay, I believe I have someone else. Did you want to say something? Okay. Okay, then I'm going to move on to rebuttal. Mr. McAleen. I've talked to the petitioners. They have no objection to excluding that portion. Let me show you what they're talking about. Their concern is down here, and this portion has already been vacated. This is what it looks like behind their house, so there's no traffic that's going through here. It's been walled off, and it's obstructed by trees and everything else, but that's not this portion, which is open, and they do use a portion of that alley for access, and they have no objection to changing the legal description to exclude that portion from being part of the petition. Mr. McAleeny, during the public comment on this, can you leave the diagram back up there, please? During the public comment, they referred to the townhouses and rubbish collection. Would closing it at that lot line that is where the first, yeah, that circle number two, where the two is, would that restrict rubbish collection from whatever that unit is on the north side? No, it's up here. This is what they were talking about, am I correct? Correct, yes. It's the first house to the west. Yeah, it's this portion here. So if it's vacated up to the rear property line on this parcel, then we're fine. So the folks that came up and submitted the weeklies, that would eliminate all of your concerns? Correct. And the applicant, you're agreeable to work with staff to make this amendment? Mr. McAleeny? Yes. Okay, counsel on her side. So I'll motion to continue this item, vacation, or file VAC 26-17 to, how about, would November 19th be enough time? So to November 19th at 10 a.m. public hearing at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, Florida, 336-02. I have a motion. I have a second, Mr. Shelby. Third floor. November 19th, counsel doesn't start until 11 o'clock, and you will also have all of the second readings. Yeah, I think this, but this is a quick one. If it's fixed, we don't have any of this jargon. We're just moving. We can't be 10 o'clock when we don't start until 11 o'clock. You don't start. Okay, then fine. Whenever the public hearings are for that week. We will work with staff to get the correct legal description before that, and I guess we have to do that by next week, right? Yes. Yeah. And it's up to the applicant to make that change to the legal description. Okay, I'll get with Ross to fix that. Okay. Steve McElhaney. I'm sorry. Ron Wiginton, legal department. I apologize. Yeah, thank you. Mr. Shelby. May I recommend 1.30 then, please? Sure. 1.30. Because at 11 o'clock you'll be swearing at a new council member and then doing all the second readings. So change the time to 1.30. Okay. Not to complicate things. Is there any reason why not just go December 3rd? Okay, fine. December 3rd. Make it simple. That's fine. Okay. Okay. So you restate the motion. Yes. The motion I move to have this at 11. Okay. This is at 10. So just throwing that out there. So we're moving it to December 3rd. Does that change it to 11 as well? No. It should be 10. Okay. So December, I make a motion to move item VAC 26-17 to December 3rd, 10 o'clock, City Council Chambers, 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, Tampa, Florida, 3-602, 3rd floor. I have a motion from Councilman Herjack, 2nd Councilman Maniscalco. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? I have it. Could I get the neighbors to put on the record that they have removed their objection, please? I'll acknowledge that as chair that I asked the applicant, I'm sorry, I asked the neighbors if they were agreeable to that arrangement and they – Well, based on if it's just the legal issue, yes. It's the only thing – Oh, yeah. I can't have you speaking from the wall. So go ahead. Do you want to reopen the public hearing? I said let's reopen the public hearing. I have a motion from Councilman Maniscalco, 2nd from Councilman Randall. All those in favor say aye. Oh, you never closed it. That's true. Well, okay. So go ahead. So the only issue with any of this was – I'm sorry. My name is Augustine Smyth-Weekly III. I reside at 2502 West Palm Drive. I go by Gus. The only issue or objection was to make sure that we had the legal description correct, that we weren't inadvertently closed, and the alley was – in our area was closed. And so once that is amended – So the answer is yes. You're okay. Once that's amended and I see it, then I can remove my objections. So how about this? I recommend that between now and December 3rd that you get together with him to make sure that he sees the changes and that he okays them, and then maybe write a little letter that says that, that you can email to all of us, and that way we'll know. That's exactly right. Perfect. And I would not want to remove an objection for something I have not seen yet. It's like answering a complaint. I would do the same thing. Okay. Now we are – Steve, unless there's something really critical, we are spiraling out. I just want to show that we're planning to change it to this line right here. Exactly. Which is the rear of his property. Exactly. Okay. So this issue has been continued to the 10 o'clock public hearing on December 3rd. So if you want to just ask what verify, if you're here on the 10th, you can hear it all again for the second time. We'll be in communication to make sure it's a quick process. Okay. Very good. Okay. Great. Thank you, counsel. We have put that one to bed. Thank you. Boy, this is it. It's a complicated day. Item number 79. Can I say – yes, sir. I was going to say this on the other one, too, but I was absent. I reviewed the – Oh, sorry. Very good. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Good morning, counsel. I'm a Gregory Legal Department. This is the second reading of a proposed ordinance amending section 22-308, which deals with sight triangles and vision lines for pedestrian safety, et cetera. We had our first reading on October 15th, and I'm here, and Brandon Campbell, mobility director, and Adam Purcell are here for any questions. Does counsel have any questions? Hearing none. Is there anybody in the public who wishes to speak to this item? Can I get a motion to close? I have a motion to close. Councilman Maniscalco. Second of Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilman Carson, you are here. Are you ready to vote? Would you please read item number 79? Move file number E2026-8, CH22, ordinance being presented for second reading, adoption ordinance of the state of Tampa, Florida amending the city of Tampa code of ordinances, chapter 22, article 3, division 3, section 22-308, tree, shrubbery, et cetera, obstructing vision of drivers of motor vehicles declared in violation, providing for severability, providing effective date. I have a motion from Councilman Carlson, second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote. Motion passes unanimously. Second hearing and adoption will be held on December 3rd at 10 a.m. This was. This was second. This passes. Sorry. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. And who is this Louis Fiera that was on that screen? Okay, item number 80. I'm sorry, 81. 81. Hello there. Good morning. Rebecca Jones, Leo Department. This is the second reading of an ordinance granting a franchise agreement to the Robles Park affordable housing developer. This is just granting the franchise for a stormwater pipe to cross North Avon Avenue. Thank you. Is there anybody in the public who wishes to speak to this item? Hearing none, can I get a motion to close? Motion to close, Councilman Maniscalco. Second for Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? The ayes have it. Councilman Young, would you please read item 81. File number DA 26-26530, ordinance being presented for a second reading and adoption, an ordinance granting to Robles Park, LLC, Robles Park Village Development Group, LLC, RPV, parcel D, LP, its successors, and assigns a non-exclusive franchise to use a portion of North Avon Avenue in the city of Tampa to construct, access, and maintain stormwater improvements and prescribing the terms and conditions under which said non-exclusive franchise may be exercised, providing for separability, providing an effective date. Thank you. I have a motion from Councilwoman Young. I have a second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Okay, the next 10 o'clock public hearings are quasi-judicial. If you're here to speak or testify on behalf of any of these, please stand, raise your right hand, and be sworn in by our clerk. Very good. Item number 82, staff. Good morning, Council. For the record, Christopher DeMond's development coordination. Agenda item 82 is REZ 26-60. This item is a rezoning request for property located at 1605 Waters 4th. The request is a rezoned from YC2 to YC9 for residential multiple family. Revisions have been completed and certified plans have been submitted to the clerk's office. This is before you for second reading today, and I'm available for any questions. Does Council have any questions? Gary Nunn, applicant. Good morning, Councilman. Madison Brennan, Foreign General of Ashley Drive. I'm here on behalf of the applicant. All required revisions have been addressed between readings, and I'm here to answer any questions you may have. Does Council have any questions? Councilwoman Herter, do you have a question? I was just going to motion. Okay. Is there anybody in the public who wishes to speak to this item? Gary Nunn, I have a motion to close from Councilman Maniscalco. Second, Councilwoman Herter, second, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed, aye, second. Councilwoman Herter. File number REZ 26-60 ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption and ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 1605 North Waters Court in the city of Tampa, Florida, and more particularly described in section one from zoning district classification, YC2, Ybor City Historical District residential to YC9, Ybor City Historical District. Second. Site planned controlled residential multiple family providing an effective date. I have a motion, Councilwoman Herter, second, Councilwoman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Please record your vote. Okay. Thank you very much. Um, we'll see. I have for, for, yeah, but for bookkeeping, um, I want, how many in the audience are still here that are going to request to speak in non-agenda item public comment? Can you raise your hand? I understand. One, two, three. Sir, I have an agenda. Yeah, I understand. Okay. Case number 92, I think. Very good. Yeah. Okay. Let's see how we go here. Okay. Very good. I think we'll be, I think we'll be fine. If we have to, abbreviated lunch, we have to have a brief lunch. Yeah. Item number 83. Staff. Good morning, Council Brea Dixon development coordination. Item number 83 is REZ 26-65. This item is a rezoning request for the property located at 4911 East 10th Avenue. The request is a rezoned from RM Residential Multiple Family to CI Commercial Intensive. I'm available if you have any questions. Thank you, Council. Any questions? Hearing none. Anybody in the public? Hearing none. Is anybody in the public? Motion closed. Motion closed. Motion closed. Councilwoman Hurtec. Second Councilman Miranda. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. I have it. Councilman Maniscalco. Move to reopen. Applicate. You're online. Is this item 85? 83. 83. 83. Have you been sworn in yet? Please raise your right hand and be sworn in bar clerk. I'm Annie Finn. 4911 North East 10th Avenue from Tampa Breeze LLC. Ma'am, do you swear and affirm the testimony you're about to provide the truth and nothing but the truth? Yes. Thank you. Is there anything you'd like to add to the record before we take the vote? No. Okay. Thank you very much. Motion closed. Motion closed. Second Councilman Maniscalco. Second Councilwoman Hurtec. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Aye. Second Councilman Maniscalco. Please read this. Thank you. I have an ordinance being presented for second reading adoption ordinance for zoning property in the general vicinity of 4911 East 10th Avenue in the city of Tampa, Florida. One from zoning district classification RM 24 residential multifamily to CI commercial intensive providing an effective date. Second. Thank you. I have a motion Councilman Maniscalco. Seconded Councilman Miranda. All those in favor. Officer, please report your vote. Motion passes with Hurtec. Sorry. With Young being absent. I vote. Thank you. Item number 84. Good morning Council Brea Dixon Development Coordination. Agenda item number 84 is REZ 2674. This item is a rezoning request for the property located at 2009 North Armenia Avenue and 2342 with sorry Walnut Avenue. The request is a result from PD plan development and PD plan development to CG commercial general. I'm available if you have any questions. Council have any questions hearing on applicant? Do you have anything you'd like to add? No, sir. Just here to answer questions. Thank you. Is there anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? We're closed. I have motion closed for Councilman Miranda. Second Councilman of Scalcol. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. I have it. Councilman Miranda. Would you please read item 84. Thank you, Chairman. I remember 84 REZ 26-74. Orders being presented for second reading and adoption. In order to rezoning property general vicinity of 2009 North Armenia Avenue and 2342 Walnut Avenue in the city of Tampa, Florida. More particularly described in section one from zoning districts classification PD plan development and PD plan development at CG commercial general providing an effective date. Thank you. I have a motion of Councilman Miranda. Second from? Second. Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote. Motion passes with Young and Carlson being absent. I vote. Thank you. Item number 85 staff. Good morning, Council. Once again, Brea Dixon development coordination. Agenda item number 85 is REZ 26-78. This item is a rezoning request for the property located at 3209 North 22nd Street. The request is to rezone from CG commercial general to PD plan development, pharmacy and retail sales, convenience goods, and shoppers goods. Revisions have been completed and certified plans have been submitted to the city's clerk, the city's clerk office. I'm available if you have any questions. Council, I have any questions? Hearing none. Applicant, do you have anything to add? No, sir. I respectfully request your approval. Thank you. Is anybody in the public who wish to speak to this item? Hearing none. Motion opposed. Motion opposed. Councilman Masiaco. Second from Councilwoman Hurtek. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Normally you're right. All those in favor say aye again. Aye. Opposed. We have it. Councilman Carlson, would you read item number 85, please? Move file number REZ 26-78 ordinance being presented for second reading adoption ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 3209 North 22nd Street in the city of Tampa, Florida. More particularly described in section one from zoning district classification CG commercial general PD plan development, pharmacy and retail sales, convenience goods and shoppers goods providing effective date. Second from Councilman Carlson. Second from Councilman Miranda, please record your vote. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you. Thank you. Councilman. Thank you. Item number 86. Staff for 86. Okay. Is there an applicant here for 86? Let's just wing it on our own then. Second reading. Councilwoman Young, would you leave it to item 86? Oh, I'm sorry. Is there anybody in the public who wishes to speak to the side? You are, yes. Yeah. Hearing none. Okay. Christopher, would you like to present this just for the record? Yes. I'm going to fill in for Brea on this one. Item number 86 is REZ 2682. This item is a rezoning request for property located at 620 West Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The request is to rezone from RS 50, residential single-family roll. This is a Euclidean rezoning, so there's no elevations or site plans to provide. It's before you for second reading, and I'm available for any questions. Council have any questions? Hearing none. Still no applicant. Hearing none. Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Seeing none. Motion to close. Councilor Menescovo. Second from Councilor Moran. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. Ayes have it. Councilor Almond Young. File number REZ-26-82. Ordinance being presented for second reading and adoption in ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 620 West Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in the city of Tampa, Florida and more particularly described in section one from zoning district classification RS 50 residential single-family to CG commercial general providing an effective date. Thank you. I have a motion from Councilwoman Young and second from Councilman Maniscalco. Please record your vote. Motion passes unanimously. Thank you very much. Item 87. Again, for the record, Christopher DeMoss, Development Coordination. Item 87 is REZ-2685. This is a rezoning request for property located at 5510 and 5400 South West Shore Boulevard. The request is a rezoning from commercial intensive to planned development for daycare and nursery facility, air-conditioned storage, and all commercial intensive uses. Provisions have been completed and certified plans have been submitted to the clerk's office. I'm available for any questions. Council have any questions? Hearing none. Applicant, if you are online and you wish to ask. Oh, you're here. And you've been sworn in, correct? Snuck up on me. Alex Taylor, 400 North Ashley Drive. Nothing further to add on this one, but happy to answer any questions. Any questions? Hearing none. Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item? Motion to approve. Hearing none. I have motion closed. Councilwoman Hertek. Second from Councilman Menescapa. Councilman Menescapa. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. I have it. Councilwoman would you read the ordinance and if it passes in the resolution. Yes. REZ-26-85. Ordinance being presented for second regaining and adoption. An ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 5510 and 5400 Southwest Shore Boulevard in the city of Tampa, Florida and more particularly described in section one from zoning district classification, CI commercial intensive to PD planned development, daycare and nursery facility, air conditioned storage and all CI uses providing an effective date. Second. Thank you. I have a motion. Councilwoman Hertek. Second from Councilman Menescapa. Please record your vote. Motion. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. I have a motion. Councilman Miranda. Second from Councilman Menescapa to move the resolution. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed. To the record Christopher DeMonache, Development Coordination. Item number 88 is REZ 2687. This item is a rezoning request for property located at 2101 West Hillsborough Avenue. Request is a rezoned from plan development along for retail sales to plan development for a drive-in restaurant use. Revisions have been completed and certified plans have been submitted to the clerk's office. I will also note that at the October 8th, 2026 meeting, Council directed the applicant to coordinate with the neighbor located at 2101 West Mohawk Avenue. As well as the family's ABA therapists to determine if any additional measures are required to mitigate the project's impacts I can add to the record that the addition of a six-foot masonry wall along the entirety of the north property line was requested by the by Council for the applicants communication with the neighbor an ABA therapist and eight-foot Privacy and sound deadening wall was recommended and accepted by the applicant and is reflective on the revised plan Council also directed the applicant to provide enhanced landscape buffering in conjunction with the with the wall along the north property line and Lastly the driveway along North Albany shall be left and right turn in and right turn out only Left turn out is prohibited. All of these items are reflected on the certified plan This is before you for second reading and I'm available for any questions. It's gonna have any questions hearing an applicant Alex Shaler 400 North Ashley Drive crystal my thunder. We did talk to the neighbor and we made those changes They'd requested the eight-foot masonry wall, which we were happy to do We're providing three staggered rows of trees as well along the northern property line And we did add a note to the site plan committing to no amplified outdoor sound Dutch Bros does all of their ordering on iPads But in the future if there were to be another drive-in restaurant that ended up going there They won't be able to have speakers outside Thank you very much. Anybody in the public wish to speak to this item hearing none Councilman Maniscalco second councilman Miranda councilman Maniscalco All those in favor say aye aye opposed I say aye councilman Maniscalco, please read this I have an ordinance being presented for a second reading and adoption ordinance rezoning property in the general vicinity of 2101 West Hillsborough Avenue in the city of Tampa, Florida And what particularly described in section one from zoning district classification PD plan development the PD plan development restaurant drive-in providing an effective date Thank you. Please record your vote. I have a motion councilman Maniscalco second councilman Miranda. I'll please record your vote motion passes unanimously Thank you And for those of you that are waiting we're gonna hear one more than ready public comment And if we get through public comment a reasonable time we may hear a couple of the items 90 91 and 92 but maybe maybe not Item number 89 staff. Thank you. Mr. Chairman again for the record Christopher DeMoss development coordination item number 89 is are easy 2699 this is a resorting request for property located at 1728 East 2nd Avenue as well as 1704 1720 and 1722 East 3rd Avenue the request is a rezoned from YC 6 and YC 9 to YC 9 to allow for retail sales Shoppers goods and all commercial general uses provisions have been completed and certified plans have been submitted to the clerk's office This is before you for second reading and I'm availing you for any questions Council have any questions hearing none applicant Alex Taylor for under North Ashley drive nothing further to add on this one But have you answered questions? Thank you much any questions hearing none as you may the public wish to speak to item 89 So I got closer comes to Minnesota seven council Miranda. All those in favor say aye aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. Opposed. I have a council Miranda 89. Thank you Mr. Chairman item number 89 found number are easy twenty six dash ninety nine Or is being presented for second reading adoption and owners rezoning property in the general vicinity 1728 East 2nd Avenue 1 7 0 4 1 7 2 0 and 1722 East 3rd Avenue in the city of Tampa Florida more particularly scribe in section one from zoning district classification YC dash 6 YBOR City has just recall historic district community commercial and YC 9 YBOR City site plan controlled and YC 9 YBOR City historic district site plan Controlled retail sales shopping goods And all GC uses providing an effective date. Yeah, we can you start again from? YC 9 YBOR City YC 9 YC YC YBOR City site plan control And all CG uses providing an effective date. Thank you, sir. I have a motion of council Miranda at the second council of Maniscalco Please record your vote motion passes unanimously. Yeah, okay. We thank you very much clerk. Okay. Well, we're gonna pause now for our off-agenda item public comment and Pastor Williams since you were here earlier, I'm gonna recognize you first if you'd like to speak good morning pastor Williams Thank you for your patience start with your name, please my name is pastor William I definitely need something to speak to y'all about You're sent some people over to my house. I don't know who they were Anyway, they stole what they wanted out of there and told me I had to move everything out of the house And I've been moved out of the house for not by six months alone Nobody did nothing about it. I didn't nobody put a roof on it. Nobody could cut my water on And I'm just like I've been out of the house and nobody want to help A man like me I guess all because I'm a colored man But you know what? I'm gonna keep praying keep trusting in God Everything gonna be all right whether y'all have been there. I'd be glad to go to the graveyard I'd be happy. I'd be treated more when I'm in heaven than I am here God bless you. Do the right thing for people and don't look at the color of their skin. God bless you Can one of the legislative aides coordinate with city staff do so with social services to thank you Thank you. Thank you very much. No, we thank you pastor Williams. Okay, very good Um next speakers are going to be stephanie corner pointer followed by Joe's she trips she true david sinclair and Stephanie pointer, please hear item number 90 these ladies for item number 90 was here They were here for the last hearing when the applicant did not show up So they shouldn't have to wait until after lunch their neighbors Any anyway, um We had a meeting with mobility about the inner bay project on monday. There's some good changes and there's some not so good changes I'm, very very concerned that they don't want to put any trail or sidewalk on the south side of inner bay, which is They've built a thousand apartments there on the south side since This project was started five years ago Not okay and 400 of them are going to be affordable Which means that we're going to have kids walking the two miles to school i've already checked All of the schools around there are less than two miles from that stretch of road Um, the elections are over candidates pick up your signs I want the city to end staff picking up political signs During early voting and until three days after the elections Give everybody three days and find the crap out of them I bet you a dollar that you only have to do that one election and then you don't do it again for three or four more Elections because the word will be on the street that the city is going to find you for leaving them out But for them to pick up hundreds of signs during early voting is absolutely irresponsible for our environment Who's paying this person to come and pick about and I mean literally south of gandy at least 200 signs disappeared for both sides Somebody came through and took them all for both sides. They didn't end up at lowry park I don't know where they went, but we need to stop that it's irresponsible for our earth Um, and i'd like to know who's paying the four dollars and 30 cents a gallon for them to drive around and do it Um, but I honestly believe that that's just it's there's something wrong with that. We should not be At the local level the closer they are to your home the closer those candidates are to your home The harder it is for people to get name recognition and those signs promote name recognition People have to go and look i'm not going to tell you that I know anybody who's going to vote based on a sign But they're going to see a name and they're going to learn more about it if they actually want to be an educated voter So we need to leave the signs alone And not be out jerking them out during the middle of campaign season. I know that somebody took one of miss young's Signs from out in front of a constituent's house because she had put it in In between the sidewalk in the road when she was running and the guy wouldn't even give it back to her when she asked him for it So, please make a motion and let's go ahead and get this put in writing where staff is no longer stealing signs I'm, sorry, but that's theft During the election season and I realize it's a rule and i'm going to the county after we get this in place for them Because I spent two hours on sunday on monday night putting out signs because vanessa lester Took them all up because she was afraid they were going to get stolen. Thank you Joe citro david sinclair followed by michelle for mr citro start with your name You have three thank you for pronouncing it correctly this time. I do appreciate that Joseph for how many years joseph citro for the record three three six one one The voters have spoken tuesday amendment three passed i'm asking this council to go back and revisit The 2027 fy budget see how it will be affected by amendment three more particularly The 35 million that will be lost the first year because of amendment three and how it will affect The proposed stadium and the ability for the city of tampa to pay for it and other things that the citizens of tampa desire I want to talk about a statement that was read earlier that same type of statement That was made can also go along to the women and men that served on the charter review commission There were statements made to them telling them what was going to be heard by council What wasn't going to be heard by council? What was not going to be presented to council that independent body? Under our charter can do Whatever they want when they talk about the chart and present it to city council city council can reject anything They say well, they could pass it on to the voters But for someone to make a statement about what the mayor said earlier and still write a memo telling this Independent body what they can and cannot do to be critical. Yeah, so I thank you very much Good morning. My name is david sinclair I'm going to speak briefly about the unaffordable electric rates in our community. I am the president of lulac council 7259 Lulac is the league of united latin american citizens We are the co-sponsors of a town hall meeting this evening to which I will invite you all It's titled power and perspectives the energy dialogue It is about invitation to the community You are invited to ask direct questions to our invited guests the representatives of tampa electric company And we are going to ask questions about the unaffordable Electric rates in our community you are invited to come because we are all are suffering Under the electric rates as customers. We are suffering from the Electric burdens that are unacceptable in our community. It will be tonight thursday november 5 At 6 30 pm in the barksdale center at 1801 north lincoln avenue in tampa as public officials you are offered the opportunity To participate and listen and ask questions in our energy dialogue It will be most beneficial to the community and to all of us. Thank you so much. Thank you, david Miss shellaburger you're next come on up start with your name, please My name is cynthia shellabarger I stand before this council today during open public comment to enter a vital permanent accountability Record regarding the true state of political representation and progressive ethics in the city of tampa This body was elected on a clear mandate to protect working-class neighborhoods defend public infrastructure and uphold Absolute transparency therefore it is a profound betrayal of those exact values to watch our city-wide district 4 representative Actively campaign as a fiscal conservative watchdog while executing actions that systematically dismantle our local community on may 26 this representative Hosted a high-profile mayoral campaign kickoff event at penny rustica in south tampa Before a crowded room of elite donors his speech explicitly pitched a version of invisible good government and resident prosperity He stood at that podium and explicitly criticized Prior administrations for wasting taxpayer funds on expensive shiny pet projects Arguing instead that city dollars must be fiercely disciplined and restricted to fixing basic neighborhood roads And essential infrastructure yet the hypocrisy reaches staggering heights when you look at the actual voting record True fiscal watchdogs do not volunteer 80 million dollars of public city money to enrich a private billionaire sports zones franchise Especially when the project could have been executed through the county alone without costing our city coffers a single cent True neighborhood champions do not look our local working-class students in the eye Promise a 99.9 percent chance of a no vote to protect them and then flip to a yes To secure a cross over dark money account for a mayoral bid because of that swing vote 27 000 community college students are being uprooted from permanent classrooms this january and scattered into rented corporate office spaces While our local tax dollars are forced to absorb an unfunded unbudgeted multi-site student shuttle bus crisis A representative who sells out our public higher education infrastructure for corporate back channels is a pino A progressive in name only we demand this council stop practicing political theater Hold the district four seat accountable and protect our public assets Oh, and amend that three just just amend that three passed just like we warned Good luck with that. Thank you. Ashley morrow jade scott. Go ahead start with your name, please. Yep. Thank you. Good morning My name is ashley morrow and i'll be sharing tampa's black history We're about to step into the 20th century But before we do I want to take a minute to look back at what we've talked about over the past year It's been a year that we've been I've been coming up here Tampa has a rich black history It goes back further than central avenue further than uh, madam fortune taylor I stayed in the 1800s as long as I did because I wanted to let it bake I wanted y'all to hear these names more than once and start to see how their stories connect soon You'll hear some more familiar names. We talk we will talk about blanche armwood the longshoreman Perry harvey senior and junior You can still see some of these names on schools buildings and parks around tampa And when we get to those stories, I want you to remember the people who came before them They were their heroes and these um, sorry and they Deserve to be remembered that way. That's why i'll keep reaching back and saying names Like thomas mcknight cyrus charles and madam fortune taylor It's why I made a point to talk about Mary r tanner the black woman who witnessed the lynching of arthur st Claire in hernando county and came to tampa to give a sworn affidavit on what she saw I wanted um, I want us to remember the afro cubans that shaped the culture That is radiating from this city. I do not speak the officer. I do not speak their language But I know that the story that story was amazing I also want us to remember the seminoles the black seminoles And the black people who escaped enslavement and built communities in florida in the 1800s The u.s government forcibly removed seminoles and black seminoles from fort brooke Tampa we know how to tell a story about pirates I want us to know how to tell this story as well It happened here and it deserves to take it deserve its place in tampa's history And how tampa remembers it some of you all have called or emailed me um the public About topics that I should be covering or haven't covered. I appreciate that A year and three minute little talks. I can't cover everything, but i'm trying to be Intentional with the stories that I do cover So, yes, we're moving into the 20th century and from time to time I'll reach back and bring back up those names that I mentioned before and even more Um in my last 20 seconds. I just want to bring back up parking Um We need to validate parking for the people that come in here to speak at city council Those that come and participate at hillsborough county I guess they're public comments So anybody that's coming in here to do their civic duty Their parking should be validated how we figure out how to do it. I'm not the smart one that figures that out Y'all are so thank you Mr. Doss followed by isabella muller followed by todd randolph and then we have two. Mr. Doss I'm back up here again. So and i'm still chagret doss and I appreciate this I'll try to stay on point And this is of course city business and how my supreme court case tied to This city and the need for this independent inspector general that you all are going to talk about at 1 30 today My case number was 26 5 0 7 4 was the city was named as me versus a former judge greg holder The court passed on on october 5th the city didn't answer they waived it But my dismissal was never based on the merits for anybody out there In fact, I never even had a day of discovery in any of my cases in 2016 I own properties at 517 to scanning street and brandon 2534 clairside drive 12 725 bramfield drive in riverview and 43 36 pinnaker cove in tampa Those properties are worth about a million and a half dollars today Every one of those properties were erased from my name without a day in a courtroom And don't believe me go look it up at the county property appraisers site Hell you sophisticated people can have any of your real estate people just do a toddler run chagret dos and see if any Transaction happened it took my name off those properties and this has happened in the state of florida to Now a disabled american veteran a person who's willing to give his life For the words on a parchment that many of the clowns across the street and even some of the people who are going to take these oaths Coming up swore to uphold many of our people are now in harm's way a lot of veterans risked a lot some came back some didn't and It bothers me to know that my generation dropped the ball and passing on the information to the younger generation But i'm inspired that this recent set of elections showed me that There's still promise because everybody seems to have got it right for some reason except the state of florida in some areas But we did flip I think 17 seats and that shows progress. I always shout out to the women Particularly black women who once again saved democracy from itself By showing up and bringing in and inspiring other people to vote But I want y'all to give the inspector general the teeth that that office needs And for anybody who's ever questioned Any allegations about misconduct or inappropriate behavior from the city our own chair gave you a witness As to what can go on in this city when power does not have a check and a realistic check that being said I always shout out the greatest institution of hiring in the city of champa the university thomas jeffson high school Thank you, sir. Isabella muller followed by todd randolph Hi, um, isabella muller i'm the florida organizer for food and water watch and a member of the hillsborough affordable energy coalition And i'm here today because I believe uh councilman maniscalco He has a resolution that we've been proposing to all of you on affordable energy Um, and I want to say thank you councilman maniscalco for working with us on this. We really appreciate it But we've been having conversations with all of you over the past year About this affordable energy resolution And helping to assist us in our work to push back against tico's rate hikes in tampa and hillsborough county And almost all of you have expressed to our coalition that tico's rate hikes are Imposing an extreme burden to the community members And they're negatively impacting our ability to thrive And so we've heard your concerns that this issue is outside of your control, but we all know that's far from the truth um, we have drafted this resolution that I believe councilman maniscalco has um printed out. Um, to To pinpoint specific actions that you all can be taken taking within your purview To help with the unjust utility rate hikes that we've been seen from tampa electric As well as our investor owned utilities across the state and so I want to address some of the current concerns that you've brought up to us in the past and that this is an issue that can only be seen up in tallahassee And yes, that's true. I work statewide on affordable energy reform I've been speaking with our state legislators here in hillsborough and across the state on psc and affordable energy reform But we also need our local governments to join us in this fight for example The city of tampa has lobbyists that could be helping us lobby next session for the affordable energy reform policies That we'll be pushing forward with in 2027 And then also tampa electric is expected to have a new rate increase request next year And the coalition and your constituents want assurance from you all that you'll be pushing back against this rate hike If it's deemed unfavorable to our community members And that you'll be doing everything in your power to ensure that our Financial stability is being prioritized and not just the corporate profits of these investor owned utilities And you all are also up for election next year and we just saw how galvanized voters were to elect politicians that are actually going to fight for their community members So overall we're asking you to support this resolution to show that you're going to fight for your community on something that's impacting all of us And to join us in this movement. We really just want to work with you all on this again This is a shared issue that we're all struggling with and the coalition's really looking forward to Working with you all them in the next year on this. So, um, I would be happy to talk more about this later. Thank you Hey, my name is todd randolph and as a tico bill pair. I Would urge you to please consider Adopting an affordable energy resolution. I am also on a leadership board of Sierra club and this has been in discussion and We'll be drafting a letter as a formal request from the local tampa bay group to Do uh for the city council to pass this affordable energy resolution? Uh, and you know in light of the recent elections I thought it fitting to show what tico has put into uh influencing these elections They put 5.2 million dollars in um And I just saw this from this website right there and I put in tico and I'm not you know the super slew uh investigator on on how all campaign Finance money gets moved around so we can expect it's a whole lot more but As you see in this uh result byron donalds was the top contributor um byron donalds is an avid supporter of amendment 3 along with what I can assume is many of the candidates that were supported by these packs Um, I find it very ironic that as a tico customer Uh me personally and also the largest tico customers the city of tampa being one of them that we helped finance the passing the lobbying the you know passing of amendment 3 um So that's something that actually wasn't even legal until about 20 years ago uh that was uh back in 2005 a federal law was uh were repealed which made this legal many states implemented their own laws prohibiting utility monopolies from influencing these elections but florida has not And the results are that tico may at stake and they will be aggressive in their rate hikes um the psc will be not uh installed by byron donalds and he is influenced by what is very transparent here so please consider this uh affordable energy resolution in light of the elections right now it is very pertinent we can expect aggressive rate hikes thank you thank you okay that concludes in person public comment we have two online speakers michael randolph good afternoon sir start with your name good afternoon my name is michael randolph and i'm with the uh west hamper cdc recently we have received many inquiries from those that watch us doing public comments about the community derailment corporation so to give you the information we are community-based non-profit dedicated to improving the quality of life for residents of west hamper rather than often programs alone we focus on holistic structure changes that strengthen our neighborhoods our work center around three areas economic social and physical development economically we support entrepreneurship workforce development and wealth creation socially we serve youth seniors health education and community building physically we focus on portable housing open space zoning and community development to ensure long-term sustainability we follow an earned income model that builds diverse streams of income beyond grants our newest venture the tech center will generate income from local businesses residents and expiring entrepreneurs that will result in 60 percent revenue coming from earned income and only 40 percent from grants we have received national attention on our tech center as well as inquiries from tech companies as well as banks why this matters now in 2027 three major policy changes were will affect change first florida bill 1134 plans local government from financing dei programs started january the first that put minority businesses contracting programs and community grants at risk second amendment three approved this week giving home owners a major property tax base but local governments could lose billions of dollars in revenue which may increase higher rent higher fees and further service to renters and small businesses and third the federal government's big beautiful bill reduces financial assistance financial assistance tighten health covers and affordable housing these changes will hit low-income families and local black business the hardest that's why our post matters at this time by building our own income we can keep services in west tampa no matter what policy change and finally we do support divert the related service request for ground support lease thank you very much thank you michael always good to hear from you aaron pickran please includes public this is the try to i'm going to break for lunch there's people here from the public that wish to go to item 90 so in deference to them number 90 and then if we have enough time at this how many people are here for 91 and 92 and is there any public interest in that okay item number 90 let's see how it goes ross samus development coordination presenting file number vac 26-11 the applicant is sean schumack property address is 9401 north 14th street it is a proposed vacating request to vacate a portion of banyan avenue right-of-way located north of bush boulevards south of annie street east of 14th street and west of csx railroad this application was filed march 30th 2026 the right-of-way is unimproved right-of-way was created by subdivision flat the existing right-of-way is approximately 18 043 square feet reason for the request i would like to construct a new warehouse on the property utilizing the associated right-of-way to impact that impact his site is an aerial view of the proposed vacating request in yellow here and the applicant's property in red this is the plat in which the banyan avenue was created in fairview terrace north this is bush boulevard and madison is 14th now and the reason i'm pointing this out because if you look at the city of tampa atlas sheets this shows all previous vacatings in the area and these two blocks here 9 and 12 so this is bush boulevard here and all of those all of the previous right-of-ways in those two blocks west of csx railroad have been vacated and this is the last remaining piece here of banyan and again here's 14th that runs along north csx this is a image looking south from 14th street the approximate location of the right-of-way is here staff has no objections of vacating request easement reservations are required by tico special conditions natural resources comply with chapter 27 as regards to tree preservation and site design for any improvements placed adjacent to trees in vacated area that concludes my presentation i'm available if you have any questions okay any questions okay do we have an applicant yeah come on forward please just start with your name and tell us all about it my name is sean shoemake i'm just looking for the vacancy on the easement just so we can develop our warehouse uh we already occupy all the rest of the properties moving uh south and uh the plan view is not allowing our building to go in that area without that uh it's essentially 50 feet of a setback that we're trying to apply for it's already been done moving west through the rest of the properties throughout we uh i entertain the ownership of all 14th street and i didn't even know this wasn't even done i thought this was already done prior to all the other construction development we've done throughout the years so okay great um anyone have any questions okay is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak to this item just come forward you'll have start with your name and you'll have three minutes hi my name is jacqueline obert i live across the street um from the area that he's wishing to vacate the right of way and it's a big disturbance his his business here it all started three years ago on tuesday nights they would start to sell marijuana and they would use this right away that they don't own as parking and we would park there because the parking is not big enough for our home and so they would start warehouse parties they would the smell of marijuana was so strong throughout the whole neighborhood and the parties would start at 1 a.m and they would end at 8 a.m with loud music every night they also i have pictures to show if you allow yeah you can just put them right there where they would advertise for these parties and this is the address 9403 and i i'm hoping that you deny this for what reason they want this new warehouse right in front of our house i hope it's not for this again from 1 a.m to 7 a.m you'll have rebuttal and this would go on for months from october to december three years ago this was three years ago this is a picture from our house and they constantly have these big trailers here and this right away that they don't own and it's very dusty and they threw gravel on this right away that they don't own and because it's not a good area people go and they do donuts in this gravel and all the rocks they fly into our cars across the street you can see here the donuts that they did like a week ago or two weeks ago and this is the gravel that he threw here that on this property that he doesn't own and this is a picture of a smoke shop that he also owns down the street on one of his properties so i know the time's about to be up but this is the property and this is our home right across the street from the right of way that he wants to vacate and he already owns all of these properties all the way down to the end of the block and he wants this portion and i forgot to mention also when they were doing these parties three years ago somebody presented herself as his niece and they would knock on our door at one in the morning asking to move cars from this area thank you very much thank you next public speaker please start with your name um good afternoon stephanie pointer um i i want to point out something that is extremely disturbing to me this gentleman is coming in here asking for you to vacate property that he has already built on there are structures on this easement this easement that he's asking you to give this the city to give to him i don't know about y'all but i don't build anything on anybody else's property but you know these ladies showed up last time and he and the applicant didn't show up and that's why i asked for you guys to hear this early but in my world we don't build on other people's property to include the city's property i don't know if there were any complaints made because obviously he's built on somebody else's property and these young ladies these nice ladies here just wow all night parties that's kind of interesting but i can see it happening but the bottom line is this gentleman has built on this property already it doesn't belong to him and you should not give it to him what does ross said it's 18 000 square feet 18 000 square feet that's huge why would you give away 18 000 square feet of city of tampa property to somebody who's already broken the rules and built some crap on there looks like a bunch of shanties from up here but i mean i don't know i don't live in that area but i'm up here to support these ladies who showed up last time and the applicant didn't so they have spent two different days sitting here waiting to speak on this item you should not give this property away it does not belong to him he cannot act like it belongs to him because it belongs to all of us everybody in this room it belongs to the city and that's the way it should stay thank you anybody else in the public wish to speak to this item start with your name please this is my aunt the owner of the property um she doesn't speak english can i interpret for her it's okay so would you please um state your name and then state your mother's name my name is jacqueline aubert this is uh eva ponson okay go ahead and then if you just go slow i want to add something this day about this property i lived 20 years in this house house and some years ago i've never seen on this property before everything that's happened now it's terrible that you give a property that's right in front of my house the owner works he doesn't live there but i know what goes on on this property and we want the city to consider that that part that that part when there's fire it's useful for the for the fire trucks they park their fire truck there because there's a hydrant there when they repair the the railroad this area is useful to put material in it in all types of things when they repair it's a small area that it's good for me to look out for my house and then putting a building there would completely cover everything in front of my house and it's terrible the sounds from the welding from this company the sounds that i hear in my house i don't know the previous owner how many years he was there i live 20 years there but it's been a terrible experience since this new owner has taken this property the city should consider that we live there he only works there if you would live there you wouldn't want to live there because of what he does there we didn't show a picture of how the rocks fly into our yard i have a picture right here from the gravel he threw on property that he doesn't own right here they fly into our cars because he threw gravel on a property he doesn't own it's not the same in person if you were to see it in person the city has to consider that we also have property and we also have a good property right here in front of this property and I want to say something more this new owner has taken property that is not his thank you thank you thank you anybody else in the public wish to speak to this item applicant would you like to uh have a rebuttal yes come on come on up start with your name please um i've here you know many times start with your name excuse me my name is sean shumake i'm the advocate um many words have been saying that i've taken private it doesn't belong to me my property actually permitted property survey it goes all the way out to the hydrant they're speaking of i'm only requesting property on the back side to entertain a building that will be replaced what's already here all the parties and all the smoke shops and all that type of stuff that was actually i didn't own those buildings at the time there was a management company that released into that i have demolished and gutted all these buildings there's no parties no nothing in that nature that's going on i've been in this place since 2002 and you know they speak about you know they look um living across the street from my facility well the house that's on the corner of the woman 14th street i own that one as well my mother lives there she lost her house in the hurricane so i wouldn't disrespect my mother in having all this nonsense there and i wouldn't be putting building directly in front of their property that they're speaking of the building would be closer to my main facility now and we would get rid of all the other nonsense and we would also chain link fence everything that is there the buildings that are the approachments that we're seeing on the yellow line the dotted lines here this isn't a real survey these are just opposed property border lines and anything that is there that's there the only thing that i've ever done is a fence line and i still entertain the same fence line that has been there since probably prior 2000s i've been there since 2002 which kind of supersedes all people living there longer than anybody i've given a lot of jobs there i do own the whole street it's all full manufacturing welding facility and i mean i probably have 40 of my people that work for me live in the neighborhood i understand the disrespect and everything that went on prior to me only those buildings outright but there's nothing there at all they're vacant properties the welding has been going on it's been going on and you know i've never disrespected anybody along those lines and if anybody went through the google maps they would see the facelift that i've even given that neighborhood and where my properties lie i take too much pride in where i'm at and the only thing that i'm trying to do is get rid of a bunch of old dilapidated buildings and put something up that's newer and cleaner and again we'd keep our all of our equipment trucks and etc in our property lines and it would stop that open area that they're saying that people are being you know kids doing donuts and what have you in that area it would no longer be open for anybody to do such and the fire hydrant would still be accepted um well with the you know county ordinances the you know the easement would be still available for the fire department so i'm just asking for behind me so we can put this building in and we can get rid of all the old uh parcels and we could continue on thank you very much okay uh can i have a motion closing councilman her tech second councilman scalco who would like to take a stab at this all those that ever was closing say aye aye opposed i seven i was going to ask a question of myself i just not uh when they showed me the thing about whatever concert they had or whatever they had there what time it was i don't know if this owner ordered somebody else owned it i don't know what time he bought it or somebody's voted to him or whatever you open the public hearing and get that answer question answered yes i'd like to over you i have a motion to reopen the public hearing a second councilman scalco um all those in favor say aye aye opposed eyes have it okay could um excuse me the the person from the the neighbor would you please bring the document up about the party that you displayed would you please put that document about the party does it have a date on it can you put that on the overhead again please just one of them and just state anyone state your name jocelyn obert thank you okay so that friday november 24th 2023 okay question thank you very much okay councilman miranda the question is sir did you own the property at that date it was another finance yeah come on up and you have to say your name again sean shoemake and uh yes sir i did own it was an owner finance so at the time they were still entertaining open leases they had already had prior before myself i just had to entertain it because that was what the owner shook hands on with me and when i fully uh purchased property outright and disclosed that room satisfied did you i just yes sir well it was an owner finance so it makes no difference did you own the property at the time but that incident happened yes sir thank you very much council carlson yeah could i ask the neighbor um um you have to come up and state your name again but could you um could you tell us in the last six months or so um have you have you heard events like that has this been going on do you have any no but i am afraid that if he puts another warehouse he will do it again because the lady who would knock on our door at one in the morning asking us to move cars off of this right of way that's public would present herself as his niece and she was the one doing these parties and she would knock on her door at one in the morning i have a question for staff if a new a new warehouse is constructed in this property under current uh rules and zoning and use of this property would these types of events be permitted by the city i i can't answer that ross sammons development coordination somebody else can yeah i'll pop up eric cotton development coordination events like that would require a temporary special event permit you're allowed to have four of those per year and because it's not a place of assembly under the building code the use a club use or a part or a bar kind of use would be allowed with approval for alcohol sales to through this office through the city council but the event the events themselves would require a temporary special event that gets processed through our office so um i don't know if eric if you this would be you would defer the um i know this is not uncommon in the city of tampa but the structures have been constructed on areas that they don't they don't have the right of way what is the status of that and what is the city's position on those structures the structures that are in that are in the public right of way structure that are in the public right away under zoning that would be under the zoning office they'd be a code violation because they're not supposed to be there you can't be on you can't be on somebody else's property whether it be public or private and um in ross sammons development nation i just wanted to clarify that the city doesn't own that right it's it's it's a right of way okay yeah i was i was thank you for that i was that that was giving me an explanation i i do think we have to bifurcate um this is about a vacation and not necessarily about some of the things but i think obviously this is a legislative matter so there's some there's some latitude there okay um did you get all the questions you want to answer yeah i mean in fact mr cotton understands that and it has nothing to do with his case but it's happened in west tampa by the coast of the stadium it's supposed to be for 100 people 2 000 people showed up and that was about a year and a half two years ago and it was h-e-l-l to clean up the place that was all over the hoyer neighborhood and and that's when i went to uh call the office and now i think that's changed you can only have a what a hundred people in an event or something like that i'm not sure what happened at the end the the event that was that took place that you're referring to was done by error by the by my yeah right but yes they you can't sell alcohol on residentially zoned property this would be different because this is non-residentially zoned property if suddenly that were to take place and i'm not congesting this has to do with that at all yes sir councilman carlson um mr cotton before you sit down or maybe somebody else knows the answer to this uh i think it was you who said if the i think you were stating a hypothetical if the property if the building went into the right-of-way then it then it would be a code violation but do we know that if this particular site has ever been cited um for that no sir uphand i wouldn't know i don't know anybody is there any way to find that out i brought sam's development nation not not to my knowledge that it hasn't been cited i do know that they currently have a permit pool to build the structure and this was the the step that they're taking to clear that does the make sure does the permit that they pulled include fencing this area to prevent incursions like the donuts and stuff that they're talking about yes i would prefer the applicant speak on that but i think from what i've seen in the past yes it does okay yeah so the permit that you have filed would would it fence out this area to prevent people from coming into that area and doing donuts and discuss yeah so sean shumake um yes and at the same time we were speaking of these parcels being built out on the easement there's none of those most of those buildings have already been demoed as well we just haven't taken our fence line further out for further construction and development until we had this executed so there is going to be a fence line yes sir it's in the permit so the concern of the neighbor too was the flying debris from the surface of this is there a plan to change that surface it'll be fenced off nobody will be able to still be gravel and rocks or it'll be a non-invasive product but they cannot no longer be any traffic in that area so that area is very i mean just on the roadway they run 50 mile an hour in that curve so they do disturb that area and it is property that i do own but i will have that fenced off in the in the new development and it's not a separate business this is just an expansion to what i have so i will house this building it'll be a continuous with sws contracting in that home it's not going to be leased out to others so so for the neighbor would step aside for the neighbor can you come up to the podium would having this area fenced and preventing people from going into that area would that alleviate your concerns no it would not alleviate our concerns because his own workers fly down that and have insulted us flying down that same curve that he's speaking of 50 miles per hour and mind then they wouldn't be able to do that right no on the road on the road in his utility trucks the noise but how would that how would the redevelopment of the property how would that change that it was a different building i'm not sure up to where what point he's saying he will extend the fence it's a large expansion i don't know up to where he would extend that fence yeah i mean this this question is for the applicant um this is for a vacation of a part of a road and i don't remember that many times that we've actually done that we do it with alleys but not roads so could you just before we close could you just make your best like 10 20 second case on why you have to do that yeah so the road was abandoned sean shumake the road has been abandoned since as far as i can tell i mean with any google maps and what have you um what i'm trying to do is set the building further back so we can ensure that we have appropriate parking for our men that work on site and we have a plan view that was sent out we were trying the building was pushed forward we were trying to just push the building back to keep working some of the noise back away from the friends of the homes and that it would be a larger length building therefore we can keep all the work under roof rather than have it in the outside work area as we do now so again we would have more of our men contained and all the eyesores if you will under roof with the additional it's about 35 to 50 feet from our fence line now back so again we're you know we're just trying to get a little bit of parking and keep our men inside and any eyesores and just everything on the roof that's what we're looking to do and fence in all open areas to protect ours thank you staff um could you please speak to what the applicant just said about the current and past historical use of that property uh ross sam is well coordination i can't speak to the past use of the property but i can speak to the building location now and his his plans to to extend into what is right of way now and also this portion of the area of those gravel that he's speaking of that is the portion that he's talking about fencing and closing off the entire property that he would own but that that is not currently a road and it can't be used as a road this all of it is not used as a road no okay i have a motion to close to councilman scott's second councilman her tech all those in favor say aye aye opposed eyes have it who wants to take a stab at this i recognize chair okay i um move item file number vac 2611 orders being presented for first reading consideration ordinance of the city of tampa florida vacating closing and discontinuing abandoning a portion of banyan avenue right-of-way located in north of bush boulevard south of annie street east of 14th street and west of csx railroad as dedicated by the platte of fairview terrace in tampa florida hillsborough county florida as more preferred fully described in section two hereof subject to certain covenants conditions and restrictions as more particularly set forth herein provided for enforcement and penalties for violations providing for definitions interpretation or appealing conflicts providing for severability providing an effective date do i have a second can i second it yeah yeah i'll second um any conversation i it just sounds like they're going to fix the problems that they've been talking about the noise will be going inside as opposed to being outside they're going to fence off so to me it seems like something that's going to improve the area and should help the neighbors my recommendation to the applicant is to be more open with the neighbors and maybe have a meeting and talk to them show them the plans a little bit and talk about what you're going to do to alleviate their concerns going forward i think that would be helpful and also my observation is we have a code enforcement sitting behind you so be a good neighbor okay so mr shelby and also council if council should choose to move this forward to second reading there would be another public hearing an adoption public hearing and you'd have an opportunity to um to have met with them by then if they wish and uh perhaps you can bring more information that might address i think building plans and stuff yeah i think that would be a good idea maybe reach out to the neighbors across the street show the building plans show what you're planning to do um and meet with them between first and second reading and i think that would be helpful yeah i wasn't aware of any of the issues we see each other every day okay so so then that's what i would do i would recommend just sitting together like just hashing out all the concerns and talking about it and showing the plans sometimes showing the plans really do help the neighbors especially the fence if you can show exactly where the fence is going to go and where your employees are going to go in so they don't have to make that curve anymore things like that that might be helpful to them so i have a motion from um chair clendenin and i seconded it um uh i guess we'll probably do a roll call for this it could be a voice okay so all in favor aye any opposed all right so to to oppose yeah roll call please young vera who who carlson miranda no miniscarco her tech yes clendenin yes motion passes with carlson and miranda voting no i'm sorry security security would you please escort this unknown uniform unknown violator uh okay we're not going to have time to get to oh wait wait wait without theory the most important part the most important part in this hearing is to let the petitioner the applicant know when the second public hearing is going to be charlene second hearing adoption will be held on december 3rd 2026 at 10 a.m in city council chambers 315 east county boulevard third floor tampa florida 33602 i was i was distracted by uh and and just just excuse me mr chairman thank you you miss us this money mr chairman okay council hold on one second i got before this gentleman leaves okay go ahead go ahead just a reminder you have the date what was it december 3rd at because just to let you know if you weren't present at a previous hearing and council may still have questions that have been unanswered um and you're absent then then then you waving you'd be waving it at your own peril so my recommendation is to be able to attend okay um it is 12 38 we need to be back in session on 30. i mean i i if we can do you want to knock this out real quick is there any objection that means a 45 minute lunch okay no objection well one sorry okay 91 let's make this quick but legal good afternoon city council uh taylor bolt with the city attorney's office i'm here to present agenda item 91 which is file number anx 26-27315 this is a petition for voluntary annexation for a property located at 1860 east fowler avenue in tampa florida uh just for the record someone please correct me if i'm wrong i believe the city of tampa has not done an annexation in about 10 years so just wanted to very quickly go over the legal requirements as that this process is largely driven by statute and not the city of tampa code so florida statute 171044 discusses the process for a voluntary annexation that is the situation where a property owner is requesting that their property come within the jurisdiction of the city of tampa the requirements in the statute are fairly straightforward the city needs to receive a petition signed by the property owner requesting annexation into the city from there staff performs a review to ensure that this annexation will not form any enclaves that it is contiguous with the current city border and that the property is reasonably compact to summarize what those three requirements really mean is that we are not creating an island that is essentially the city of tampa and then it is surrounded by collier not collier hillsborough county um and eric will be up here in a minute he will go over the property a little bit more but along with that there are some specific notice requirements that the statute requires as well that the notice be put in the newspaper which we have worked with the clerk's office to do that and we've already provided the applicable notice to hillsborough county um as well and i'm available for any questions council have any questions you did no mr shelby i do uh mr bolt i do have a question um uh on the agenda the final agenda it it does not state an ordinance or a resolution it's on the addendum it's on the addendum yeah we have we have this one and the next one on the addendum ah thank you okay okay mr cotton quickly i will do my 20 second introduction um eric on development coordination there are two before you this is the first one that's on fowler um properties is is 1860 east fowler avenue owned by university holdings ltd slash utah investment properties llc um there's a adjacent there's an accompanying cpa going forward to um as part of the one of the requirements as you can see the property the the red line here is the dividing line between the city and the county you can see the part of the building is actually in in hillsborough county's jurisdiction so the applicant um will be going through a rezone a plan amendment and a rezoning as part of this process um they've already applied for theirs um council have any questions i don't have any this is not the first one i've had you were here when we took west tampa right yeah okay hearing no questions or anybody the public wants to speak to this item hearing none can i get a a motion to close i'm most close councilman scott goes second councilwoman her check all those in favor say aye aye aye aye opposed i said councilman her check file number anx 26-27315 ordinance being presented first in consideration in ordinance of the city of tampa relating to the voluntary annexation to the city of tampa florida a municipal corporation existing under the laws of the state of florida of a certain unincorporated tracts of land in the general vicinity of 1860 east fowler avenue consisting of approximately 0.63 acres of land annexing said property to the city of tampa upon voluntary petition from the owner of such property redefining and extending the boundary lines of the city of tampa to include the annexed property providing an effective date i have a motion for councilwoman her second second councilman miranda all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed i have it 92. can i read up secondary but yeah i'm sorry second hearing and adoption will be held on december 3rd 2026 at 10 a.m in city council chambers 315 east kennedy boulevard third floor tampa florida 33602 thank you mr cotton ericott development coordination this is the second annexation before you this is for property at one six one one five one six north armenia avenue um the applicant is active is online it's bb cash sing again in the county he wants to bring it into the city he has not applied for the cpa or the rezoning yet he is aware that he will need to be doing so again this is the property you can't really see the lines but the property does this so the part that's in in the red hash is actually part of his property that's in the county he also owns the property here so he's looking to develop it under one jurisdiction here for any questions okay any questions for staff okay the applicant's online and we need to unmute him he says he's been muted by us is that is that you show me on our side no there you go okay start with your name sir good afternoon council members my name is vikassi and this is quite new to me so please bear with me my ignorance and uh questions yeah if you have nothing to add to the record we're good so do you have anything to add to the record do you no sir i'm very good okay does council have any questions of the applicant hearing none is there anything the public would wish to speak to this item see none i have a motion to close with council miranda second for council meneskaka all those in favor say aye aye opposed i have to have it council meneskaka would you read 92. thank you very much i have an ordinance being presented for first reading consideration ordinance of city of tampa relating to the voluntary annexation to the city of tampa florida municipal corporation existing under the laws of the state of florida of certain unincorporated tracts of land in general vicinity of 115 16 north armenia avenue consisting of approximately 0.23 acres of land annexing said property to the city of tampa among voluntary petition from the owner of such property redefining and extending the boundary line of city tampa to include the annex property providing effective date i have a motion to council meneskaka i have a second council miranda all those in favor say aye aye aye opposed i was having unanimously go ahead second hearing and adoption will be held on december 3rd 2026 at 10 a.m in city council chambers 315 east kennedy boulevard third floor tampa florida 33602 thank you before i go uh mayor ross you heard this if you'd like to present an annexation appeal for temple terrace we're willing to hear it thank you we we we are we are at lunch um you know let's let's come back at 145 145 145 okay 145 you