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>> Well I think even for the month. >> Good afternoon. We'll call the word. The Sept. 3rd meeting the St. Petersburg City Council. We begin with the role. Thank you Mister Clerk. Our invocation this afternoon will be given by vice chair. Gina Driscoll will be followed by the pledge of allegiance to men please remain standing as we remember 2 fallen. Police officers. The rice in place. >> Thank you chair. Yeah, he's joining me in prayer by their cost. We begin by giving it a great present the only day and for all the last thing that you get in that anything for an hour and a war. Say if I'm joy every day for your many black thing we're grateful to your eye. And he goes I honor him before. But you here today. Laura many people are pouring in for a very troubling time. And we have the rest of Europe. It wasn't for lack of a point of our city work day and night to serve. Fire fire. Police got there. Storm water and sanitation crew. Our parking and transportation yeah. Our city employee. The mayor at the time right for black he recorded. You were it turned out to the wider home and when it, everybody is a. Laurie probably yeah, you can I think you're crazy today. We May 30 per hour if you meet other, and it's great city and your name we pray >> Council vice chair for school. Please join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance. Which it stands. One nation. Please remain standing as rude. Remember 2 fallen. Police officers. Constable ever Adolphus George end of watch Sept. 16th 19 8. An officer Charles Lee Eustis and the watch Sept. 24. 1967. Thank you vice chair to school for. >> Very touching that indication. Very appropriate for us. City buildings are closed to the public do that covid 19 emergency. Meeting location. The meeting location has been change from in-person to virtual meetings. I means of communications media technology pursuant to executive or 26 to 9. Issued by the governor on March, the 20th twenty-twenty an executive order 2030 issued by the mayor on 7/8/2020. It buys that at all times the charity authority and discretion to reorder it and I. The rules of decorum or violent to the point of just a fraction of the meeting to alter the means by which public comment. It's the media. The city clerk will now playing the rules for public comment during the open form a period of the agenda. In this virtual meeting. The City Council received public. Comments during open form and an agenda item with limited exceptions consistent with Florida law. All the issues discussed under open form but the limited to issues related to the city of St. Petersburg government. Only city resident owners of property in the city. Only a businesses in the city for their employees in the peak and are open for. If you wish to address City Council you May have an e-mail to state dot clerks. I think he does or but your name address agenda item number comment. 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But a pup and the presentation that you would be submitted in advance of the meeting and the rules of decorum it is live public comment disrupted by violation of the rules of decorum it sure is authorized to accept public comment. Alternate 8 including by a male only. >> Thank Men of color. Council members we have an agenda before us there was a minor change to see the cb 9 which is the bmt report. It should which they should be a Aug. The 13th 2020. We'll be receiving Aug. 27th report at the Sept. 10 meeting. Those are the other only changes since absent a Come Entertain a motion to approve the agenda. >> Never proven true book. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the agenda. See no request to speak with the clerk please call. >> The big Sanders. We should pass a human. >> We have a consent agenda before us. Mister Clerk do we have any cards or emails on the consent agenda. >> Mister Chair we do not have any hands rings in the new funding for the consent agenda. >> They'll entertain a motion to approve the consent action. >> So my vote. >> We have a motion and a second to approve the consent agenda. Seeing no requests to speak with clerk please color. >> Motion passes. We'll go to open form. Mister Clerk do we have any speakers for open. >> Mister Chair, I do not see you reasoning and when the attendees. And there are no e-mails with its own home as well. We'll then move to reports and we'll take up each one of covid 19 update and. If you bring ever holding armor team management. Manager. In the meeting please. >> Good afternoon ever pop. Good afternoon. There is making sure my phone back connected with Mike audio lock. I'm good afternoon. Thanks for having me it's a pleasure to see you all today. Chain if you could pull up the presentation. All right so this is today's Kobe report. This is for data on from yesterday Sept. 3rd at 11:00am okay next. But the are going to look at the trend. Today presentation I try to make it up focused more on to the evolution of of covid 19 and and what we're seeing though. And some people May be a little different and some people. May have been taken out, but if you have any questions and I'm happy to answer about both a wider thing just over 633,000 cases. With 11,501 death. In Florida President. So that orange bar, grab the top is new cases by day you'll see there and just a couple days ago that outlier as new cases that's a lot higher and that will get you updated down from quest lab of test every dated back to April. They just wasn't reported to be a wage. The patients got those 3 bill if the data with a reported to They were all reported on that day. That's why you see that outlier there. The bottom graph is the death by day. So you can see as a steady trend of decreased however, I'm just don't forget that is usually a several 2 weeks lag in depth reporting so as mean you know move on we'll see distort plea document it back and to those states that even though we we do still see a decrease statewide and if the trend of daily that report. In in just to give you an idea too. This is an 8% increase in cases since we met 2 weeks ago. And. Just as a reference when we met 2 weeks ago it was a 42% change in cases so the rate of increase is definitely shrinking. Now County total cases that we just broke the 20,000 mark this week we have 20,080 cases. I think yesterday. Again the orange graph here shows are our new cases by date. This it's a 5% increase since we talked to 2 weeks ago and again at the point of reference. I mean we presented 2 weeks ago it had been a 34% increase. But again we're seeing that rate go down. I know Nick and changes and good cases by race or cases by the city. And this has been holding pretty steady same with age distribution of cases. I mean they County why we have 665 deaths and local over that data and another slide. This is the cumulative cases by day. So again you can see you know where we are really started biking in cases, beginning of June. It reached a fever pitch around beginning mid July and since then we've started to see a decrease of that red line that you see spanning is 14 day average it at that for that day. So we're right now where we stand is about where we were mid June or so. In Pinellas County we're averaging 80 cases a day that are too weak average. Last updated maybe 2 weeks ago we were averaging a 130 cases a day. Again at the trend that we want to see. That decrease thing. St. Petersburg cases by day. And again you will have the trend line there in the green, so it is decreasing if it is being pretty steady out. Right now we're averaging about 27 cases a day in Saint Pete. Few weeks ago or average was 45 cases a day now we're seeing the trend going the right direction and currently right now think people have 8,134 total cases. You're talk about percent positivity a lot enough because that really is our best metric and that's why a prison on it every weekend here in America. You know percent positivity update. Percent to get back under 5% feel that red dotted line. So this is our daily percent positivity for the last 2 weeks then and every single day we've been under that 5% mark so I think that the huge win for us. You know, and you know we haven't reached the finish line by any means and you know this just a reason for us to keep going, but this is definitely a. If we can talk about trends of this is our rolling 2 week average 4%. Positivity they're just not looking at it by day. This is a 2 week average for each day. So would mean that last time 2 weeks ago we had just dropped under that 5% goal line. And ever since then has really been decreasing. Yesterday we actually drop below 3%. After today's numbers came out I think we're sitting right at 3%. But again you know we're we're doing really Everybody hard work is really paying off right now. So this is the best data. Personnel County we have 655 total. It is a cumulative from the beginning of I am not you know that it's day by day from beginning of covid 19 you'll see that the same places the case of crimes May be shipped in just a little bit to get right. The dotted line is the average 7 day average of death. So we are seeing those lower again if you look toward the right side of the graph some of those May be lower right now just because the deaths are reported yet. We do continue to see a downward trend. I do think it's important to know Pinellas County right now has a 3% death rate thought of all of our. No cases of covid 3% that rain. Florida is to percent that we do have a higher death rate. This is definitely a concern and something we're watching something we're trying to you know mitigate you know we bring the case numbers down we believe the death also go down. We're in a conference call with County partners on Wed. In the medical examiner's office was on and he did mention how he was seeing. Let's all if you will coming through you know his office those definitely a positive. Trend that they're saying as well so we're we're not out of the woods, you know any deaths of many. But we're trending in a better direction. So long-term care facilities. This is at the Cape is officially back. So on the left side is saying that out of all the cases in Pinellas County 17% of them. All right the philae tie-in. 83 1% of the general population. On the right side is. Of covid 19 this is saying on of all the deaths in South County. 70% of the art facility. 30 for 30% in general population. They can definitely see you know we definitely have a problem with. The death rate in our facilities so 17% are affected, but they make up 70% of our our total deaths. Talk about health care capacity. The current covid hospitalizations right now 137 in the county. This is a fluid number it's a real time so ask patients are admitted and discharged is number changes. This is a snapshot in time of when we pulled it, I mean it has been for the most part steadily decreasing since we began tracking the metric in July it's leveled out. Drew lock it for the most part we haven't seen a lot of movement on it. But it it has been a steady decrease and down about 44 a lot time. We reported out. This is the primary diagnosis of covid 19. Photo Ben availability and this is another one that you know seem to be pretty consistent lately we'll see you know like son and debt from time to time, but it seems to level back out around that 20 to 25%. Maybe up to 30% mark from time to time. So for Pinellas County 26% that availability and think it is 24% that availability. Neither icu beds. 13% in Pinellas County 12% in Saint Pete. Again it's been fairly consistent between 1020%. The last several weeks, you know You know peaks and valleys here and there. And then you know each update. I show you where data transfer these there are 4 markers that we want to see improvement on each week. So the upper right is emergency department that but those are down 26.5%. Influenza-like visit to the er is down 4.3%. The upper right is new cases, those have decreased by 27%. And the percent positivity decreased by 16% fell all 4 of those markers. Are heading in the right direction. Interapt talked to a couple other what I'm seeing is still locked the testing I'm happy we still are able to do up to 1200 Tech today. And we're averaging now probably around 300 or so to test the day though tend to capacity. I mean by people to come out. We're also doing antibody testing out there. Hours them happy to open it. Hill Tue. Through Sat. 11:00am to 07:00pm. There's no changes in operations now, but you know there there are conversations happening between the county and the state level to the landscape a tough thing we'll probably be after covid changes. Does it feel less people in the demand for testing. Isn't there is much they May start scaling back to meet that demand and be ready to write back to the challenges and when it happened. There's also. Strategy happening there on. You know when we get the vaccine how we're going to be a mass vaccination you know drive-thru and walk up and things like that it was looking at places that May be testing sites now and how we can transition into acting. If that's needed. Another part it no goal back in session. We have you know 55,000 is 13,000 teachers and staff, better obviously that can pose a concern so attend the school board is monitoring that closely. I know they have. Working to strike teams as monitoring the cases daily. Today I haven't heard anything people greatly affected. By active cases, most people I know there's someone off send them off of the back in but. By and large have heard of anything significant. And then last but no. The division of emergency management for the state had an emergency order that list. Something that Haitian restrictions and the long-term care facility. So it's not completely lifted where anybody can come in and be anyone. There are certain restrictions still there and you know precautions that are mandated but there they are allowing exceptions for. Loved water then and others to come visit. Those that are in the facilities. All right and happy to take any questions that you have. >> Thank Amber for the presentation. You don't see any questions right now I I didn't you mentioned vaccinations I read the article in the paper today. Who's going to take the lead on on the vaccination issue is that the county or. The be partnership with the department. You know the the Florida Department of Health. In Pinellas at the Public health authority. We'll have Then obviously no be working very closely with County emergency management. The things involved in a lot of those cars Alton, a you know operational coordination call though it will be a partnership just like testing has been a partnership. You know everyone's going to be needed to bring an operation like that to fruition. But the deal which will be the lead on the vaccine. >> Ice your trust. >> Thank you here and thank you the fda I could you repeat that feat and I I I in the Senate and only in and I know they fear for. >> The hospital bed availability. Yeah, I mean on one of the lie. 26% and then again this is the point in time though it May be different if we were up on the fight up right now. But when we pulled it was 26% County wide that availability. Okay if you're in my heart for and the kid. You know I don't know that there is a normal and target in a fairly I heard the question. Act before and there really is no target and you know we. The health care system listen to the hospital I talked to the hospitals in a regular basis to see won theirs in a starkly issues but their lead. You know overcrowding that lack of bed. It is a bath and we just haven't heard that lately. But as far as I know there's no. Target or normal that a fairly. >> You're welcome and want one last Amber. People that testing done at the Mahaffey when can they expect results. I I I think the goal is to between 2448 hours. But does it work still seeing. >> Pretty regularly 24 to 48 hours. They've instituted down they're symptomatic and asymptomatic patients and the symptomatic will take priority that still regardless of symptoms are not working 24 to 48. Very consistently. You remember we were having issues that you know councilmember Foster got it before. People like getting there they're having issues with the portal so with there working really hard with the staff down there doing some extra training to make sure you know there's you know minimal to no. Airs on information taken so we can make sure that everybody gets those results. And a timely manner. >> Well thank you thank Again for further detail reports in keeping us up to speed on. Everything that's going on with with covid 19. I like we're all the trend lines are going I continue to urge everybody does keep doing their part. Thank thank you amber. We'll move on e So I read item c 3, 4, and the 5 were I pulled off the consent agenda by council member Rice councilmember a stud you want to introduce. We just want to go after. >> Just briefly the reason why we need to pull these items from the consent agenda. As I thought it was a good opportunity to highlight. And some of the the things that were that were committed to that were. Paying for that's a part of our commitment to improve water resources and I would be good to discuss this in context of our discussion later tonight. On our rate increases in our budget so. >> Now I see our water resources. Director John pound charts in the meeting afternoon. John you have the floor. Thank you thank you Council chair and thank Councilwoman Rice for bringing this forward we have 3 tumor companion They are. Cure in place lining contract items. Item e 3 and e 4. And then we have and Annie. Arctic engineering item. The 5. Reading for your consideration item e 3. Is approving 3 year blanket. Purchase agreement within technologies llc bld services llc and Ellen k pipe renewal llc for sanitary. Priority area c ipp that security in place by for fiscal year 20. For the water Reese's water resources department and an estimated cost fiscal year 20 of thousand. With an estimated 3 year total. Not to exceed thousand. And at that event is all right Council and the clerk now read o 3 in 4 together forward for your approval. And so or is it me or is approving a 3 year blanket purchase agreement but sa k construction, llc Ellen k pipe renewal llc and beyond the services llp llc we're sanitary annual see I pp lining for fiscal year 20 for the water resources department, an estimated for fiscal year 20 of $3,465 thousand. With an estimated 3 year total not to exceed thousand. These 2 projects together. Total 7 million. $215,000 and citywide and I and I priority area. Hi renewal. To cure in place pipe whining. >> This is the final 43%. Our million obligation under consent order for this fiscal year. So we're bringing in the last 43% of our consent order obligation here to you today for your approval for fiscal year 20. This well ensure not only our compliance a consent order but the continued gains that we have seen and ensuring the reduction in foreign infiltration into our system. Ensuring that the pipes. Our rehabilitate rehabilitated in a way that reduce as failures and subsequent roadway failures underneath those And ensure the longevity of the system and the assets that are about them. And we ask for your approval for these items. >> Thank you for the report. John I want to say good afternoon to our public works administrator talked Tankersley whose join the meeting also going to see a club. John can I don't see any other questions can you talk to us a little bit maybe review. Some of Here is the city that Orangeburg pipes. In in the court. I have served a manly private laterals do we have any. Hi relying that it's addressing need what I want my problem that we have. >> Now so the the Arbor pipes were in the late 50's through the 60's and into the early They You know dropped as a as a material for. For Water pipes. In the end the early 80's. But they are primarily a private lateral part. We have no Orangeburg hikes with him. The public wastewater system as you're probably aware the system is. Consists of both privately owned and publicly owned pipes. And there is almost as Pipes in our system on the private property as there is in the public property. We are doing everything that we under consent order to address the public side. The Orangeburg laterals that you speak of. Yes, they are a private property issue that. Requires private property to address. So under the consent order and and thank you for giving us some of the metrics of the consent order. B amount of pie. Reminding that we. Are ordered to do by the state on dec consent order is $16 million a year. >> That is directed $60 million a year. Increased annually over the term of the consent order by the consumer Price index. So we're just over $60 million this year. >> Well thank you thank you for the report. I'll entertain a motion on. Both resolutions or. E 3 and e 4. >> I move approval. >> We have a motion and a second to approve. Agenda items e 3 and e 4. Mister Carter we have any speakers on these items or in emails. Thank you. Mister Can we have a >> Centers. Also passes unanimously councilmember get here. >> We're enemy fire. >> Item p 5 is approval of the First Amendment to an architect and engineering agreement between the city of St. Petersburg Florida and blackened Beach corporation. Dated Feb. 28. 2019 this is an amendment to that for any to provide continued project administration final design permitting and Invision assessment, including application package and preparation related to the north East water reclamation facilities electrical distribution system improvements project an amount not to exceed 2 million $75,926. Providing that the total contract amount shall not exceed $2,263,106 authorizing the city's Attorney's office to make non substantive changes to the First Amendment and authorizing the mayor or his designee to execute the First Amendment and providing an effective date. Staff does ask for approval. This project design improvements at our North East water reclamation facility. The electrical improvements that are are being designed here. Or are improvements to a facility that has electric whole quitman. Switch gears transformers that date back. To the 1960's. The maintenance staff that I have worked there. Are working a very condition. Making sure all of this very. Old and outdated electrical is still in a condition to be able to not only during normal power operations when we great power. But also during power failures when they have to go to on-site power generation. Equipment that switches between those power. Scenarios called a switch here. To tell an anecdote. That in order to operate that is a a 50's 60's vintage switched year and in order to operate that. They they use a very long wooden pole. So the term I wouldn't touch that with a 10 foot pole comes into mine here with that. They actually a 10 foot pole that they have to use try switch that so that. Nobody gets injured. That is you know that the basis of of this on electrical improvement know we have a very old system there. We need to make sure that it's reliable and that our staff are safe and operating. >> Question Councilman Right here for. Just wanted to point out at Chairman Mountain areas that has the psa committee last week heard I very good update on the work at the Northeast plant. For anyone who's watching this now he wasn't familiar with that discussion. It was very helpful in getting an idea where we are and where we are in the timeline of this very important project. So just and that's why I think you John polisher and I'm critical of this item. >> Motion a second to approve the resolution. Council member I said I psni those were improvements to the north Northwest plan. Now That's why some slowing up now ok, thank you. So I'm glad you told a story about the electrical switching what needs to be done out there or planned what I my first came on City Council it by the early and all the sewer discussions that we're having. I took a tour of. Our plants, including the Northeast plant. And I was shown by the plant operator. That. Hold that you're talking about and what the plant operator needs to do if. There's a power failure at the plant and you can just imagine being out there in the plant. In stormy condition, lightning when and you're going into this electrical room which is very antiquated in your pulling out this. It's about a 4 foot wouldn't all in your son sticking it into a so annoyed and you need to what a lot of forcing it to Mike move to switch to change our shores. You know it's very antiquated backwards and dangerous. A job like that unless it was you know an emergency condition and we have to keep the plant operating so I'm glad you're elated that story just kind of goes to show that you know we we invest a well in our quick month. But it does get old and it needs to be updated. On today and this is going to be part of our discussion that later on this afternoon. When we take up the majority. We have a motion in a second to approve the resolution. Seeing no other requests to speak before we have anybody from the public. What what's to speak on this topic. >> You're welcome Mr. I was just asking if we anybody from the public that wanted to speak on this topic in emails. >> ok thank real quick. >> Motion passes unanimously passed number never. >> Councilmember rising. It is your race stands out from previously. >> Yes and number. Ok, thank you. I will move to new business and council member su. You have you have the floor. >> This is a request to refer to the psni committee discussion about potentially patients for new and improved replacement shelters. Psta does match 50%. The cost of these new shelters. I realized Chris we don't have it in the budget today but budgets can change and it's an important issue that we've been working on for a while so I move approval to refer this to ps I thank you. >> We have a motion. We have a motion and a second. >> Motion passes unanimously passed and the government action. Thank you Mister Clerk at council member take Sanders had this notice your hand this raise. >> No no no not your fault I couldn't find it for whatever reason the pace a little and you see I have a quick question for council member, I said maybe we'll discuss this a psni. With d shelters and I have the conversation with Mister Miller can we please make no to have conversation in regards to the maintenance it goes along with those shelters because we have a longstanding issue with the maintenance of those shelters in the trash and everything that goes along with this I just want to make sure we don't get to have their compensation. You're absolutely right and we will. Thank you. >> Very good point councilmember big Sanders. Council members will will go to f to a council member never had this to step out of the meeting but. >> She's. She said we can go and just move forward with her a new business item. It pertains to office space development in the city of St. Peter are. In the action desired. States for respectfully requesting or girl to psni are or relevant committee discussion on office space development throughout the city of St. Petersburg requesting a report that would provide target target specific age employment center or activities center to include the total of all projects that are coming online their location and any research. Protections available. But the impacts of covid 19 office space. I need going forward. If I could I don't see other any other requests to speak. The way the council member. Never. Quest did this it would set to ps. Yes, and I or any other relevant just opened things up I'd like to refer to a committee of the whole meeting. I did just so that every a council member weigh in on the on the topic we do have some time on the that made the whole meeting the schedule per hour October, the 24. So I would like to to me the whole meeting that would be okay with the eu council member writes you made the motion. Yes, that's fine. >> Was it you councilmember fix. Sanders that seconded the motion. And second I know that >> It was me. And I okay. Thank you councilmember really wrong. I mean any any other any further discussion. Well the clerk please call. >> And passes unanimously with temps in the rear never bring up. >> We moved to 3 in this is a request coming from me to respectfully request. They go to give us an update. On the upcoming charter review Commission. At our September 24 2020 made or we. We have a motion in a second. On the new business item. For the request to speak with her please call the roll. >> We can pass sitting there in the past would never agree. >> We'll move to achieve one. >> cfo standing in line. >> Mister Chair, I'm trying to see if you all mean once you're >> And a charity which I did. I can do a an intro or you could like. That would be great. >> This item is. The result of a request for proposals that. >> Securing financing in the amount of $3 million. Rain came back very attractive very attractive great. The one that we selected is that one hour 0.9 5. Extremely efficient opportunity for. Finance the acquisition of that. And we can answer any additional question the council might have but we could review this and the s and p. Came up on the Aug. 27 the f and g meeting in the resolution passed unanimously in. Over questions were answered. There are any requests to speak on this resolution. And I'll entertain a motion. Never motion a second to. Resolution that's before us. There's no body from the public. That wants to speak on the item we have a role. >> Motion passes union. Mister Clerk will go to a g 2. A resolution from the hearse committee ice, your trust. >> We're 4 minutes from the I 20 that 2020 meeting of the hour committee hearing During that meeting that committee. The union that plea he admitted The party has made. It is headed. Thank you for your I got me for help I think here for. Kelly thank you I 84 healthy thing here for it would need to develop the car. I'm the nation as a whole I will. This is all the cup. Which will be or if any as we were the program, the future. You have a resolution. The party. >> We have a motion a second to approve the resolution. Christina I see you have your hands up did you have any comment. >> Mister Chair and if you're just joining the meeting Mr. Machar. >> All right very good. Yeah. I met her chair. I need to be in a very small needed. She is a revelation from the time that we know it May be he's a lot. Now in your people is why is there a question about whether or not it initial. It changed a little bit of that were made it clear that it is not. As an independent. Barely anyone if I could. I hear thank you. >> Good to see you Christina thank you for your hard work on this. We have a motion in a second to approve. Mister Clerk it there's no one from the public that wishes to speak on this item we have >> We can pass to humans. City Council that's going to do it for the gender until 5 oh one when we began our. Public hearings. City Council will go into a recess at this time and will reconvene at the I want. And as a group. >> There are no dm. The sunshine in saying he is. Say this say. >> even top the latest in a Thank you fans. You can get to safety in the spot you can do that. A brief second. >> And as a group. >> as a a. There are no dm how the sunshine in saying he is. Say this say. And skies are gray. >> Good afternoon. Everyone will bring City Council back in session. I get to council members to turn their cameras on. We are what we have more on. A public hearing and take up. I want him in amendment to the. 3920 20 annual action plan. Mister Johnson go after them. >> Members of City Council and deputy Dave. I come before you this afternoon as that you amend the fiscal year 3920 20 annual action plan to accept. Emergency solutions Grant funding from the us Department of Housing and Urban Development. And to approve a supplemental appropriation to our k the funds. Next why. Chair. The city is program to receive. $2,902,139 in emergency solutions Grant. Next right. At least. We provided a notice of funding availability to alert the public. Are going to receive. So its funds and that the meeting would be held at city with city Council on July September. We did this on July 8. $104,499. The okay to funds will be used to administer the course and oversight of the program to implement it. 1 million. 185,714 will be used on Boeing rental assistance. And utility 611,926 will be available to nonprofits to implement projects. The probe dead. And prepare for and respond to covid 90. Next right. 5 agencies applied for the one million the funding is proposed to be allocated. It is recommended to go. $25,627 for operating costs. Catholic charities 250,002 implemented or continue rapidly rehouse. Directions for living. $600,000 to rapidly re house the homeless. Sent this in the fall. 257,464 hotel and motel vouchers. And again Saint Vincent de Paul for than 78,083 directed me really helps the homeless. Next right. We are going to continue the rental and utility Program that is currently underway. 1.1 8, 5, million dollars. Will be allocated 500,000 to Catholic charities. Direct rental utility assistance. 500,000 to bully sentence for directly into utility assistance. And 92,008 57 each to Catholic charities and Boley sevens to deliver the programs or all 5 intake of the applicants. That's why. Are there any questions referring to. The pope is here you and I would like to also say that the administration recommends the us. You will crew. The amendment will be annual action plan and be supplemental appropriation to accept so it's windy. >> Thank you. Mister Johnson for the presentation. We do have a us someone from the public has their hand. And the rains. Is that true that's because we're in the mix. >> Members of the public that want to speak on. Except in this cramped in the amendment to the annual action plan. >> Should we do have one hearings but my we do. Just last for that phone number before we bring them in. >> We'll hear from the public and then we'll go to council members. >> With us for phone numbers, 1, 7, Once you enter to the meanings based things that your name and address for the record. You have 3 minutes to address City Council. 1, 7, 7, afternoon. This is I can't be is that your name and password. >> And but not all the sheet moving get 5, 9, 5 bass 19 should not be insane. Good afternoon, everybody and thank you for your time giving me an opportunity to speak. I am a citizen and just went up in just a moment though the Toyota. I have both 10 and have they talked to convince where they just can't. i'm not looking couldn't repay I have lived in my all put over 25 years. The most here because it was affordable. My husband passed away, and I am by a single family household. Much if we don't know, I'm not able to move I'm trying to just survive. I have a sister here this is Michael knees my bottom you mind body and got a bridge to his overnight lead on this for months. My body is saying it May have been on or maybe it's 8 cut the cost and continue to pay the bills. It comes to cut. The costs might become a thing that he claimed water and garbage pickup down to once a week. Some time ago that happened relying on the North major people bought my are going. I don't cut anymore. It watered down there. I have no cable. I keep a c in Michael a given day green in the state. I do in cold water to keep myself school. They tied it coming. Now don't has a lot of construction going to be a modern more money. Both the questions. He's had some consideration for fixed income fixed income household and the long term said the sense of saying they don't spend who has lived here. My kids and pay the taxes had something tied meant. Thank you. >> Or do we have any other speakers for I want. >> We do not Miss This year. >> Thank you go to council member gap. You have a whole. >> Thank you chair. So Joshua thank you for the presentation. About the presentation dime. Fully in favor of the I guess the question that I have it is more current ministration. I had asked that question covid 19 update that we had I was curious to know it looks like as of today there are only about Tina petition last on the fighting chance and that needs to be reviewed are completed. And I'm curious to know when Council will find out if there is any out let can that money that maybe then we can talk about how we use to bolster these programs that that money would be going in. Are we anticipating there could be anything really left. >> And I know that stepped in. But as you point out councilmember gather we are wrapping up the. We are evaluating what resources could potentially be available and how those well beaten Floyd we have not reached a plea. But I think we will in the near future. Report back to Council the bill ability of those out. We recommend that those be. And we will have further information on that they're not final fighting chance time. Report at least 10 to 4 feet. Final meeting of this month. >> ok very good. Thank you chair and I will go ahead and this pro ball. >> Have a motion in a second yeah to approve the resolution that council member off the road. >> I just wanted to. Draw everyone's attention to a couple of things that I think i've already confirmed with Mister Curtis. You know one of the things that we often hear in the community. >> Is that that. Saint Pete has a harder time getting dollars out because of our. Paperwork and barriers. The Pinellas County government when it was initially working with cares funding. And many requirements to overcome in order to receive that funding. And change that to provide it attestation form where made it a little bit easier said that extend have to have as much paperwork. I said that to Mister Curtis recently to see if that's something we could implement my understanding is that we're already doing that. I see Mister John said shaking his head, yes, so I just wanted to call attention to that because it's often stated communication and community where harder when paperwork. I also wanted to mention many of you May have seen that yesterday the cdc put out an order halting evictions until the end of the year. I know our legal aid society's are still analyzing that order to understand what it means when I get that analysis all shear that with others and lastly I would mention that has the homeless leadership alliance we had been working to come up with the way to understand how we could get dollars. To those who have been those impacted and him a historically had received a less resources in our community. Obviously there's some challenges around that. With federal funding that we're not singling out one group such as people of color to assist with the issues. We were doing a lot of data analysis to overlay. Covid impact re eviction impact Ray poverty rate things like that. Locally and then the Urban Institute just put out one for the entire United States with all of those layers on top of each other, so I know all of these providers that are in this particular package have received that. I'm assuming are contracts are already written we can incorporate that in but I don't think it would be a bad idea to. You know Britain back to folks attention to make sure that those who do. I May be most impacted would pray be prioritized in some way whenever. Possible using that data that has recently then shared. So those are comments and information from my colleagues more than anything my last piece legal I just want to verify that I'm ok though one this particular package and so that's about conflict is my partner works at directions for living it hasn't been a conflict. But I want to verify that again before a registered at tonight. Ok thank you chair, thank you. >> Thank you councilmember Foster. So we have a resolution on the table to accept Emergency solutions grant from. And approved a substantial amendment to the f y 1920 annual action plan. Saying no a request to speak. What are police called. >> Motion passes meant. >> We'll move to I too have 0.21 utility rates. >> We have 3 different ordinances will the clerk please read the title of the Correct that has been reported. >> On to the 4.2 dash age and or its related to sanitation weight and charges. And when the chapter 27 section 27 dash 5, 7, of the 8 ph for city code and many rate in charges for sanitation services. Providing for severability a provision provided an explanation of what struck fruit and underlined establishing date to begin calculating you wait for building purposes only purposes and providing an effective date. Would you like me to read the next one there. Yes can you read all 3 things. Against number 4, 4, 1, dash age. It borders relating to Chile raid. And then the chapter 27 that section 4, 0, 5, being one 2. I think he did for city code and then in the stormwater utility fee and we need to care rate structure speed for single family residential parcel. Providing for severability provision provided an explanation awards short for you and your line establishing a date for to begin calculating new rates for building purposes and providing for an effective date. Ordinance number 4 or 0. And or its related to Chile rates and charges. And then a chapter 27 that section 27 Daschle 49 27 dash 2040 to 8 27 dash 0.44 state. 27 dash 0.46, the 27 dash 2, 8, 3, a 27 dash 2 84 8 and 27 dash. She was 84 d. I think Petersburg city code. I mean they embody charges for water services and many whole Stillwater so this charge it for the city of Gulfport and many Bay involving charges for irrigation only account. When the monthly charge for commercial water only accounts. I mean Bay in Bonn charges for water wastewater service. I mean anything wastewater service charges for wholesale customers, providing for severability a provision. Provided explanation awards truck for a friend or ally. If that wasn't a date to begin calculating your way for billing purposes and providing for an effective date. >> No we have a a presentation I want to welcome a public. Administrator a car can currently. Mister Tankersley or you wouldn't be making the presentation. Yes Sir I'll be making the and there will be others joining me at the appropriate slights okay you have a full. Thank you Mister Chair. Today the administration is going to be recommending that Council unanimously approved the utility rate ordinances for 4 to rage. For for one age and for 4, 0, age. Next slide please. Why we even people ask is why we even have water sewer storm water and sanitation to London's because we tend to take clean water and sanitation program. We rarely think about it unless something goes wrong. So out of sight out of mind. But clean water and sanitation saves lives. Including this year, a 165 million people per year. Worldwide die from lack of clean water sanitation. This is the equivalent of wiping out the entire us population every 2 years. Arguably clean water and sanitation while the number one public health achievement of the past 200 years. Clean water and sanitation are essential public services and yet all of this we hate to pay for it because it's counter to we see clean water falling from the skies are fleeing, so it's hard to understand where we have to pay to have water and recreation water. But every dollar we spend on clean water and sanitation. Returns $5 in Hell's and quality of life benefits. Next slide. We are fortunate here to have a centralized water and sewer system in which water and sewer pipes to and from directly to the home businesses. This is less expensive and safer than the alternatives that is used in many other parts worry or perhaps water maybe trucks to the House in store on site and sewers treated on site the septic tanks or other means. Remember here in Saint Pete, we cannot use individual Wells for drinking water because the salt water intrusion under our pnc so therefore we provide value by providing direct water and sewer and sanitation services to our customers. Next slide please. We have historically underfunded and underinvested in our utilities. As we had provided for him as a share of this line. Our history rate, the toy already increases has not been the best. I was the last 33 years, 27 of the last 33 years or sanitation rates were held artificially euro was 0% rate increases. For 18 o the last 30 years or storm water rates were held artificially low. With 0% rate increases. We all want and he clean water and sanitation, but we don't like to pay for. For many communities, it was a point of pride to never raise utility rates. All the while the utilities fell apart, due to neglect. Next slide please. As I mentioned we all were looking for communities with the lowest utility rates and communities often competed with each other to race to the bottom have the lowest rates around. You've heard the expression a rising tide lifts all boats well, a falling tide lowers all those and his race to the bottom as we competed with other communities that have the lowest rates around. Men that are funding did not keep up with the natural cost of inflation. On this graph and you notice the green line represents what the rates would have been starting in 1990 and increasing every year based on just the rate of inflation. The red line is what we actually raise the rates for the last 30 years. This has resulted in a gap. In the 2020 utility rates that if we had been raising the rates at the rate of inflation or it could be till the race would be $40 a month more than they currently are. So even with the aggressive rate increases we've had for the past 4 years. You can see. We barely made a dent. In closing the gaps. Next slide please. All those years of artificially low utility rates have resulted in 1.4. Billion dollars with a b in underinvestment of our utilities. One example that underinvestment was discussed today during our Council meeting where we discussed a project that we're pursuing the Northeast water reclamation facility. To upgrade or 1950's advantage electrical equipment. This equipment is sold. So out today and so dangerous. Our staff have to use that 10 foot long wooden pole just operate. Those switches so that they do not get injured. It's going to take us a long time to play catch-up and to eliminate the decades of neglect. Next slide. Please. So if we want to meet our customer service expectations. We want to prevent or utilities from feeling even further. If we want to continue to protect public health and the environment. Then we must recover from our past underinvestment we cannot afford to contain under invest and we cannot afford to continue to keep our rates artificially low. Next slide please. Increase mess that we're proposing bringing to you today or actually lower than what we had anticipated. 6 months ago. As you know every year we go through a raid houses where we look 10 years into the future. So last year we were assuming that this year we be asking for rate increases as shown in Macomb that starts off with the word initial we had been assuming that we be bringing those rates to you this year. But at the start of our rate analysis 6 months ago the pandemic it and we realized that we needed to do our best to try to find a balance. So that we can continue to improve our investments but trying to find a way to provide some short-term relief. And so the rate adjustments that we are asking for prineville today are those that are shown in the column that says proposed and you'll see those rates are lower than what we had anticipated we would be bringing to you today. Next slide please. But we did not get to these proposed race easily. Next slide please. We spent the past 6 months finding ways to keep those increases as low as possible while at the same time, not jeopardizing our utility systems. We analyzed dozens of scenarios. We have some areas that allowed 0 rate increase. We sought to balance the needs of the rape Air Force and the needs of the system. But because we have so under invest in systems for so many decades, the system it's really hard. We postpone those projects that could be delayed without endangering the viability of the system. We have to check with the debt to cash ratio is 6040 and so the fifty-fifty that we're proposing to move forward to so that we can provide the short-term rate really. Next slide please. So we already have left some money on the table so to speak. So if you look at the column, this is an initial that would have been the revenues that we would have them bringing in and we brought to you be adjustments that we had anticipated, but we're bringing you different just once those that are proposed and this is our proposal are less and as you can see that we're proposing million less in revenue and we had initially anticipated. Next slide please. So what would the typical customer utility bill look like. We have 4 different tiers for stormwater side over 4 different utility bills. Let's assume their utility bill covers 4,000 gallons, water and sewer service that's the average for the city. Some people use less than that some people use more but if you're using 4,000 gallons of water and sewer and you're in the tier, one of the storm water. Race that your bill was proposed to go up by about $6. If we had move forward next slide please. With what we initially thought we're going to be bringing to you that rate increase would have been $7.73 so you can see already on the typical bill we're already providing the short term relief for this next fiscal year. Next slide please. For a stair to utility bill we're proposing an overall bill increase of $6.10. Next slide please. But if we had gone with what we had originally suggested it would be more like $8 and $0.30. Next slide please. For tier 3 we're proposing is 6 tolerance $0.67 per month increase. Next slide please. Rather than the $9 and $0.7 that would have been under the initial proposal. Next slide please. And filing for tier for proposing a $7.44 cent average utility bill increase. Next slide please rather than the $10 and $0.22 it would have been if we'd gone with those initial race. Next slide please. So again as you can see. If you look at the college's says initial proposed and now 0 one of the questions has been brought to us is what what would be the impact. If we went to the 0% rate increase this year what would that impact to be. Well as I've already discussed. We've are less quote unquote left for $104,200 thousand on the table by I'm going to propose race traveling initial rates. If we were to go to 0 rate increases this year. Then be short 14.7 $6 million in revenue that we need to operate our system. So what does that impact look like. Next slide please. So if we keep utility rates the same we do not increase the retail rates and we will continue to under invest in our utility system at the rate of 14.7 $6 million for the next year. It will also require us to find an additional million in reductions and utility expenses for the next year. It puts us at risk of violating our consent order which means that if we were violent or consumer we are at risk of fines. We were put it risk of falling further behind a required system improvements. For the money that we borrow which would increase the borrowing and debt costs. We risk an increase in system failures an increase in maintenance and operation costs. We would have to reduce operating costs and reduce the level of service and then we would also risk failing to achieve a twa accreditation and the Masters study objectives that the council and administration have a great we're going to pursue. Next slide please. So how are you till he's funded well most of our utilities are funded by utility rates. So if you look at the slide under fiscal year 20 you'll see that things such as debt. Not discretionary Spence's labor and capital projects paid with cash are all funded by utility rates. But there are other things that we used to fund capital projects. We borrow money using bots and for our fiscal year, then we would use that foreign money to construct some of our capital improvements. We are also now he's in $9 per year from the pay for. To to find some of our capital. Next slide please. So the body of projects are not driven by race in the year that we do is projects they will become part of the race in future years as the debt from those bonds are wrapped into our overall debt as you can see from this graph next slide please. So again in fiscal year 21. We have certain projects and certain things that are funded by rates. Certain things that are funded by bonds and certain things that are funded by pay for Pinellas so he went with a 0% retail rate increase that would affect those items that are funded by the race. Next slide please. We talked earlier about debt and non-discretionary spending regrettably debt and non-discretionary spending are not going to remain the same for fiscal year 21 as they work the school year 20. They're going up. By million. Again the debt is going up because we borrowed money last year to build some of our projects. But the non-discretionary costs are also going up. Next slide please. And these monstrous claw costs include things such as the Tampa Bay water. The fees that are passed through to the customers. The landfill tipping fees from the county that are passed through to customers. We also have utility bills that we have to pay and we're anticipating over million power bills next year. We have to cool equipment and technology replacements under the non-discretionary costs. Also insurance and claims and so these are costs that we cannot. Next slide please. So we must cover the million increase in those non-discretionary costs with finding cuts to the labor and or cash. Next slide please. But we have already reduce the cast capital from fiscal year 20 by 6.9 million. And we feel that we've reduced it by the amount that we can without going any further we work of further, we put ourselves at risk of being in violation of our consent order and falling further behind. Next slide please. So we need to cut an additional million from the labor or cash capital. If we go to a 0% retail rate increase for fiscal year 21. Next slide please. So we have 2 scenarios about how we would reduce these costs. So there you one includes one million. Capital improvement postponed indefinitely to replace the sanitation facility. It also includes $9 million for labor induction for the elimination of 79 utility employees, these are employees who are currently employed. The city of St. Petersburg and if we have to cut back $9 million because of the 0% rate increase. We would have to lay off 79 existing city employees. Robert is talk about the next slide to talk to you about what this would mean in terms of art sanitation services. Next slide please. Thank you Mister Tankersley good evening, a City Council. As Mister Tankersley looking at a scenario for a 0% return rate increase for sanitation this year. We have 2 different scenarios. We also have to consider that if we did move to a 0% rate increase this year that would be very unlikely that we would be able to make up that rate increase in future years and to compound in we would be looking at a significant. Deficit over the life of the rate study which is a 10 year period. As Mister Tankersley mention for us in scenario, one we would postpone construction of the new sanitation facility. This particular side is focusing on the reduction of services that we would also seen insert Haitian. We anticipate that we would have to drivers to conduct a special suites in the South St. Petersburg cli they also participate pre and post Oak little nap. So we'll have a reduction of that service. We would recommend an eightyear-old control program and also potentially position who helps with Grant applications special projects. And the management study implementation that we went through recently next slide please. >> When we talk about the impact other services for our storm water services if we went to a 0% retail rate increase. And we had to lay off some of our employees we would see an increase backlog pipe repairs. This means we would see increased flooding events. We'll also see more road depressions that because 5 is those pipes failing. We would have to completely 19. The service that we provide are we and claim the drains dishes in the city. These are people that physically go down into ditches with hand tools and clear those dishes out by hand we would have to completely eliminate that service. We would have to reduce the amount of times that we met had a There's ditches to once every 2 years. We would also have to reduce early management program by 10%. And as you know this year we seen some significant Lake impacts seeing impacts and are our girls singing back so you I the jungle a we would have to cut back on the removal of aquatic invasive plants, the removal of an overgrowth the cat tails and fish kills. And then next slide please then on the water resources side you might see an increased back pipe repairs. Which means he had a slower response time for customers with water main breaks and so they be without water for longer. We would most likely have larger source bills which means a larger fines because we can't read respond to it as quickly. And again we would have more and larger road. Depressions we also have to reduce our customer dispatch from operating 24 hours 7 days a week. Only 5 days a week. 8 hours a day. You see a significant delay service connections as we try to deal with the existing connections and not catch up to the News Service connections. And we would fail to meet the requirement for our consent order inspect in clean or sewer lines as required. Now again, Rob Curtis is going to talk about the impact of his facility sanitation next slide please. >> So this is stationary with the reduction of 7 staff members and sanitation and then for going construction of the new sanitation facility. I think you that the facility is reaching the end of its useful life it's almost 50 years old at this point. And we've been experiencing increased maintenance costs related to h v a c electrical. In addition the sanitation complex is a savvy oc and we are concerned that the facility in its current condition is really not an appropriate facility for said you see some construction of sort of sanitation facility is a priority for us. Under this scenario we would have to look at indefinitely postponing next slide please. Thank you Mister Garner's. So that was an area one where we reduced one 0.5 million cast capital projects and 9 million in labor costs. So there you have to put all of the burden on labor costs were we would eliminate million in labor. Which is the equivalent night he threw the existing city employees who would lose their jobs and become unemployed. I'll let Mister Garza's again discussed on the next slide. The difference between scenario to in Syria, one for sanitation services, next slid