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>> that. >> Welcome to the city of St. Petersburg City Council meeting and your elected officials our mayor Ken Welch. >> District one Council chair. Hopefully Curtis. District 2 Randy gabbard is to 3 Mike Harding district 4 Council vice chair, Liz said Hannah with district 5 Deborah take Sanders. District 6 Gina Driscoll. Warri Givens junior and district day Richie Floyd. >> We will call to order the 8/7/2025 City Council meeting. We can do a roll call please Lloyd here notice here. And yes as well and what's her. Okay this morning we will have our invocation given by rajon zed PRESIDENT Of the universal Society of Hinduism followed by a moment of silence and then please remain standing for the pledge of allegiance we stand. >> I should be doing, but I mentioned this could cause some has ordered a 1500 bce incense going into effect in English. >> Along. Louisville that has so that hat that summit the lead in them Biden go Davis said it Delia not the out. 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MAY we be protected by GOD that maybe the notice to get that maybe what we had that with good to be good MAY have a sturdy be enlightening man all stick and that is what the us. Some knew about the summit and then Some of the most the woman on your cover of us who still has the United to you as our United you hearts MAY go to speeders to be everyone that you MAY long weather delay in unity and conquered. Sean the John the county bees bees Bisbee and pull out of. >> Thank you. Please join me in a moment of silence protected detective Herbert r Sullivan. Last call Aug. 18th, 1980. Ali is in the fall. The United States. And to the Republic for which it stands. One nation. Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. >> John thank you for that beautiful invocation thank you for joining us this morning. Ok quickly councilmembers obviously we have a full agenda today. I just wanted to give everybody a heads up we're going to keep rolling and get this thing done. So will roll through lunch if need be so I just wanted it will take a break if we if we need but just wanted to give everybody a heads up before we get started okay that being said council members we have an agenda in front of us want to take a motion for approval. We have a motion a second scene is no other council members wishing to speak clerk could you please open machine for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Seeing as all councilmembers of voting clerk please sign announce the vote. The motion to approve the agenda passes unanimously. Okay council members we have a consent agenda clerk do we have any cards. We have a consent agenda council members with approval second. We have a motion and a second for the consent agenda, seeing is no other council members wishing to speak. Clerk could you please over the machine for voting council members please enter your votes, seeing is all present council members voted clerk please telling announce the vote. MARCH air the motion to approve the consent agenda passes unanimously okay, I'm gonna throw it over legal for a second. >> Wanted to thank you for confirming Hillary Ryan who sits to my right. We're very excited to have her anytime we hire someone you hear he's a very similar. Hillary in particular has a lot of local government experiences. She's gonna we think have an immediate impact health administration health all of you. So I just wanted to let you put it into a phase. Thank you very much welcome Hillary. Thank you for being here. And thank you for joining the team. Okay we're going to open forum clerk please read the rules. You wish to address City Council and subjects other than public Harry. Rick was an additional items list and the agenda please sign up with the clerk. Only the individuals wishing to speak based on the open forum sheet only city residents owners of property. 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Andres hands will be lowered after each agenda item regardless of the method of protest mission use normal rules apply include the 3 minute time in the comments. The requirement that any presentation materials must be submitted. In advance of the meeting and the rules of decorum lifetime. The comments is disrupted by violations of the rules of decorum the chair is on. Except public comments by opportunity's including my email only and MR. Chair we do have some speakers ok let's call to the time. Thank you. First 2 speakers is Alexander. That luck and amber Woods please go to either podium. State your name address for the record you'll have 3 minutes to address Council. >> And I was in verse look of the 3.44 some Street North So come here today to ask you to pull as for the blue support for the international Holocaust remembrance alliance did working definition of antisemitism ira and ask you to pull your support for the gender that what has become a genocide in Gaza, you publicly endorsed. Shortly after Oct. 7th. So the only problem I have with I was definition of anti-semitism is bullet 0.7 8.10. Because it's a working definition they can add something on tomorrow and both 0.7 8.10 because there are a number of the bullet points will no longer be pulse point 7 in 10. Bullet point 7 says that bullet 0.7 claims it's anti-semitic for me to do. To insinuate the Jews don't have the right to self-determination but example example given is the state of Israel, the modern state of Israel was built not on communism or simply Jewish nationalism or a bilateral state with Palestinians built on Zionism with the which was a belief snow national a state with a require Jewish majority on a piece of land which Palestinians have been living on for thousands of years. Early zinus thinkers understood very well that they would have to cleanse the population in order to create the modern state of Israel which is why in 1948 anywhere from 700,002 million postings were as and cleansed off the land been goalie on the first prime minister understood this month and again understood that sileo most skin understood the story early zinus think Earth that didn't seem to understand are going to genocide or the population was the reports are 30 feet or Herschel because he thought they were intellectually and culturally inferior to Jewish people. So it's not anti-semitic to say that the modern state of Israel was formed on racism or racist endeavor because by all accounts of the people who claim who created them on a state of Israel it is racist endeavor. Bullet point number 8 says that I can expect more of Israel denied to other countries which is nonsense to the most one of those military technologically advanced countries in the er. I can expect more of that out of them that I would defer country. Bullet point number set point numbers 10 says I cannot compare contemporary Israel Israeli policy to that of the Nazis. When there's a genocide in Gaza there's in the part high in the West Bank there's ethnic cleansing operations going on in southern Syria. It was a country formed on us and cleanse it, but my favorite one is the fact that the new plan for our far which has been completely leveled is a humanitarian city in which they will forced 2 million Palestinians in 2 write to ready them for population transfer that is literally the ghetto of Warsaw the get overshot a and when the Nazis created to for sort of get a were shot, but they did not simply say this we're going to do they told the Jewish Polish people, they're protecting them from anti-semitism they told a non-jewish poles people that they were protecting them because these people have type this. Every almost every genocide and Holocaust scholar on Earth Mabel both is saying that what's happening in Gaza genocide which is why I'm asking you to please support for iras working definition of anti-semitism I'm asking to pull your support for the genocide in Gaza. Good morning Council. So there's been some talk of name and I'm sorry, I'm sorry my name is amber would have meant 1024 joining part Street. So. So on talk about the mlk parade. I'm actually here to Justin look a parade a utility tied to a fast. I grew up going to the mlk parades every year. I have 5 girls they go almost every year. We slowed battle of the bands we loved it. I say that to say that. Ok parade has been going on a very long time. I think we'd be like number one in the nation for a while too as far as the level of support. But I think that we're in a a age now. We have an administration that. I think we need more than just a parade. I think it's getting way more serious than that and any money this pull from they took a parade. It should be redirected to the south side. I don't think I think we talk a lot about storm resilience. We have a storm that we would consider a storm named as it is in a storm named Trump. In the South St. Petersburg is not resilient. We're not ready. Donald Trump guy office last NOVEMBER. And we're just now talking about mlk parade. Like we didn't already see that coming. So there's a lot of other things that I'm very more important mlk parade that we have it we haven't addressed. It's far as getting a Southside ready. We have food as it so their their not only cutting food stamps. They're cutting what we can buy on food stamps in a food as it so we already can we don't have access to good food. Now we have less access to the food that we did have. So this is more things on that could possibly be do with the money. So it wouldn't kill it to re imagine the mlk weekend. Maybe some younger minds can get to it in. Re imagine it you make it more more relevant and more practical. The utility rates. I know we heard it was like $30 and up $30 around it. But we really can't afford it. And I think we'll be able to afford it lists in the coming months in the coming years. But I do think that is unreasonable to believe this is you know the rates have not gone up in a long time. So I think that the the burden should be split. Amongst the residents and the developers. They can afford it more. They knew it there is not enough when they came here, they're making a lot more money off their property. Then a property owners are. Thank you. Next speaker next speaker is Esther tonight and we do have one in JUNE. As that thank you. >> Correction Esther Cerny all right. Yeah, yeah we're carpet in a name. Good morning homes Council chair, vice chair city administrator and counter I'm sorry we need your address you know a este are signing 16 oh one. Get I'm losing my minutes behind this 16 oh one 16 Street South St. Petersburg Florida. Good morning everybody already started its. I'm going jump and the mlk parade represents more then a single day of celebration, it stands on the shoulders of local Giants reverend Enoch Davis. The Perkins family Betty wimbush doctor David t Welsh elder Jordan and Chester James senior. These leaders fought for justice inclusion and dignity right here in our city. Their sacrifices shaped the very streets we walk on today to compare the funding of the mlk parade to pride events without acknowledging the vastly different histories and access to opportunity is deeply troubling pride month been is pride month benefits from widespread sponsorship and engagement for 30 full days. The mlk parade rooted in civil rights movement has historically been confined to just one day. And often lacks the financial and structural support needed to truly honor the meeting. This is not about who deserves more it's about honoring truth we can support the lgbtq community and uplift the legacy of black leaders without pitting one struggle against the other. Also urge both council member driskell City Council and the city to look at the current parade location, returning to mlk parade to mlk junior Street that's where it began that's where it belongs in a city with a long history of racial displacement and redevelopment that often a race black PRESIDENT The geography of this parade matters. It's not just symbolic. It's historical and deeply rooted in deeply personal to those of us who still live in these communities. We aren't asking for special treatment were asking for respect restoration and the continued recognition of the movement that shape. This city. I want to say in addition when my last 30 something minutes. It's often interesting to me when we look what funding looks like. And it's always consider to look at how we view the additional funding. Why is it that it's always marginalize projects marginalized people that we view and say let's cut in that space we need to be very intentional. We need to be non-partisan and we also need to be fair mlk should not be cut. But we should relocated, thank you. Ok let's go towards and speaker. >> Our Leon when Andrew into the meeting space when I do please unmute yourself state your name and address for the record and you'll have 3 minutes to address City Council. Marling can you hear me. Yeah can you hear me I just again awesome thank you so Miley 5034 32th ave North. I just wanted to thank everyone that came to the hearse meeting last week and for keeping an open mind about the feasibility study for public power. And I'm really looking forward to hearing more on that, but I also just want to quickly address a few things that were said in the meeting. So first there was a number of drone now and it sounds like this was taken from the classroom, winter Park's conversion and then adjusting for kind of inflation and population changes. But I want to put up a population doesn't really capture the full picture. It doesn't scale like that and city actually paint plays like a really big role and not only is our density a lot higher than winter Park's, so the costs would not be the same. But our grid our infrastructure and our external connections are all really unique for our city. So that's why a feasibility study is really important so we have that transparency and where we're at and then second, I know to keep saying they can't change the rates because they're set by the state which is kind of like a really passive tone to it at that to say it that way when they're the ones that are requesting the rate increase as and that's before we even get to their operating budget which includes things like huge market pushes and lobbying against our interests and paid focus groups that they did a few months ago. And then last I'm not sure if everyone saw but a few days ago the community liaison for Duke presented a check for half a million dollars to Pinellas County to contribute to the parks. Like wow that's really generous but where do we think that money comes from it's built into our rates for them to do damage control and I just feel like your constituents deserve a lot better and so at the end of a 30 year contract. I really hope the city will do its due diligence and make sure that that's the best use of our money. I think you thank you. More speakers. We're going to close close open forum. And we're going to go into awards and presentations and we've got are talking about 2 students a sister city student ambassador program presentation we're going to bring up Celeste Davis and David Thompson to introduce the item. >> David Thompson director of government affairs with Celeste Davis director of arts culture and tourism. We are super. Honored and privileged to welcome our sister city ambassadors from our sister city of talk about to Japan, Japan. Here today, many of our council members know we have somewhat been to talk him out too that Petersburg has had a sister city relationship with talking about too. Since 1961 and we're going to be some files yesterday. Council members carvings district members were some of the most active and vocal about getting that our relationship set all those years ago as part of that relationship. We do an exchange program in which we sent 3 students to talk to my 2 for a 2 week period to learn about the culture there to share and that cultural exchange. They do a presentation in front of their City Council and accordingly the talk him out to students do ones at here in Saint Peter's are before you all so I'm just going to ask our student ambassadors from talk of and a stunning bastidas from St. Petersburg just to stand briefly so everyone can see them. And I would be remiss if I didn't acknowledge their chaperone MISTER Aoki he's filming right now by the quick wave there as well. >> For that matter what you for the students present. Welcome to the safety team, it's just an honor to welcome our. Exchange students who are here today, the relationship with talking about too is one that we are trying to renew I think councilmember gives I think you have some experience with that program as well and really you're such great representatives of both Saint Pete and talk about we want to thank you for your leadership and something that I know Council can relate to. Last August said Mayor onishi a note of support as they were encountering a typhoon and I can't pronounce the name of the typhoon. In AUGUST in the courts after we experience what we did in SEPTEMBER in OCTOBER he sent like was note of support so thank you for all that you're doing thank you to our team for supporting this exchange program and look forward to the presentation, welcome. >> So first, I is going to come up into her presentation. >> Her I love I I adds money at. Today are you to do is start to come on to the center are hallways market that reinforced that might getting pick a month says. I heard some market sells, fresh food and a large quantities. Only licensed professionals alike the restaurant's count by there. Here's a show the view there from the size might get. It have csc's that size and at the most fair housing market. I visited this market. Asked how much Iran and the For us. They stake out of luck. I was curious of 5 where our food costs from that experience made me have connected to this place. It's near is up for it so fresh for a live daily. 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This shows how for the goes and they're providing fresh for the highly learn. Thank you far as mean these might get set for its our food and local economy. I hope the city of mine. The year of the tech I'm on Sir. Maybe use our states asking for us at this market. Sala this year. >> How and move them and tell them and then to introduce Senate because it can money. It's one of the traditional class in Congo. In Miami. A double introduce from tying a long time ago and then displays throughout Japan. After that it began to be made in a unique style for each region has a two-run sty. You know region one of the main peaches was to use caught them. Kagawa from any knives had the key is facing that Combs hit the inland sea. Thanks states won climate and that code name locally produced content begin famous. I don't want to sell it and we These about code and the guy some but the us we light of 70. And then because it can money is all handmade from natural ingredients. 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These are posters from previous years created in collaboration with the local people. The festival takes place on now So and more. Each has its own style and the atmosphere. Then why did such an art festival started to be held. To understand that we need to know the history of the island. Before Japan. Economics started to grow. People lived by fishing and farming. There are a lot of truck track the cup. Way all my life on the islands developing in a unique way. However when Japan during a period the period of cannot economic growth and build more factories problems begin to appear. Some islands like to see my were used for illegal waste dumping in Mount things were destroyed. After the period of rapid economic growth, the population began to decline. To solve this problem dark festival was started. In 1992 been a safe House open the Ben us House is a unique fact I feel lucky that combines a museum hotel and arts art space located on ocean Island in Japan. It was open to connect art. In 1998. It project started. I first, yeah mean House in Japan deputies. It's a group of old houses changes change it. 2 into art by artist. Each house is different in sos, a mix of history and the more than art. In 2004 the teacher Art Museum open. To do Art Museum is an underground Museum on ocean islands. It was designed by though on though to fit in the and with the nature environment. After opening the 2 thou art Museum. The number of foreign there is increased the thing to the consider of holding and international art festival. And finally sit though to the international art festival started in 2010. That's it though did really now is some aren't it fits a bow where visitors can explore Venice to house the act. House project, the tea to art Museum. And Mary many. Tim, the body art works across different islands. So what are the effects of the art festival. First the number of people moving through the islands. In this it the inland. C in its creasing the green bar graph shows the number of people who look relocated and are in line graph we present we present the number of relocation consultation. Both number have gone up since the act. Festival began. On all these him up a close and elementary school opened again because people move through the islands. Sick on that environment improved people found out again. How special the islands are and many start. Men you started to take care of nature. There are protected. i'm sorry. To help the at environment using art. The economic got better and people's average monthly com have increased. The festival. Well Torres the area helping local businesses like hotels, restaurants and transport. Also better rose support from local people and more people moving. Hope the economic grow. Thank you for listening. David you have anything else ok we'll go to councilmember Givens. Thank you chair and thanks to each of you thank you David, thank you mayor, thank you Sir less forgiving the students this opportunity. 2 hours St. Petersburg student ambassadors 2 are visiting student ambassadors first and foremost who needs the law. Ohio. It is still nice to have you all here in the beautiful sunshine city. I remember it was the summer JUNE of 2009 mayor Baker greeted us here at City Hall in our parents in. He gave us the opportunity of a lifetime lifetime. It was an Alice Delgado Kate, she was a fellow Lakewood high school student. Heard grandfather jw Kate actually served on the City Council at one point she and I want to represent St. Petersburg and I'll never forget the beauty of the city of talk about suit. You're mountains your beaches, you museums and the hospitality. Steve Joel and I told you the other night we were together at the hangar, I'll never forget my host family I will never forget the love and the kindness that was shown to me by Fujimoto some. It was so many people that I met that I will never forget it. But I want you to know that today Jarrett week we practice joke the other night your student ambassadors today, but tomorrow your future United Nations ambassadors your future council members you future mayors. The sky is the limit so I understand this is not just another notch in your resume something to put on your letters and you know apply to college but this is something that you can really pride yourself on a cultural experience and I think the city of Saint Pete present a little boy from South Saint Pete to represent just so thank you so much, thank you chair, thank you. >> Thank you chair thank you so much for coming this morning. I just really wanted just to welcome you to Petersburg I know that you've been spending some time here councilmember given Zahn and learning you know a little bit about what it means for young kids to come to Japan and I just wanted to share quickly. My story just because it really changed my life and the from a very small town in Indiana. I don't know if you all know where Indiana is but it is far away from here. And even further away from Japan and we had a sister city as well and that really was the experience for me when I got to go to a small town called touchy if you know touchy and really just see an entirely different world view. A culture that is so welcoming and so kind of ahead of its time that really understands history and really for me I think change the trajectory of my life and so it's councilmember Givens talks about you know kind of opening up your experience is opening up your world really understanding what it means to be a global citizen, and the responsibility that we have to care for one another as cultures and so I just wanted to thank you all so much for the families that have opened up your homes to these students that really unfortunately my family never got to have anyone come in, but we have a lot of students that came to our school and then when I went back to Japan. I got to see them as well in their home towns and it really just opens up your entire view and so thank you for being brave enough to come here and spend time with us because I know when you're young and you're getting ready to go thousands of miles away from yourself from your family and your friends. It can be a little bit scary. But we hope that you have found us to be as welcoming as I know talk about who is and Japan is and look forward to hearing when our students go what their experiences and I just really want to states paths. The work that you all do to continue to have these relationships. We could not do it without all of you and your commitment so I just wanted to thank all of you, and let you know how much that we appreciate and then the last thing thank you for sharing the story about the wholesale market. Mayor we might have the idea here. We have a lot of food and security issues right and we heard about it earlier today and one of the major challenges we have is access to locally grown in Florida grown foods coming into our urban environment. So you giving us an idea there so thank you for sharing your ix. >> The water got to. Thank you chair, thank you. Well I again I know it's been said, but just spits all the family's Van both from talking about to St. Petersburg. The talking about 2 governments our administration just so thankful, I'm very sorry I couldn't be with you a couple of nights ago councilmember Givens thank you for being there for dinner but I just every time I see a presentation both from our students and the students from talking about too. Like. It blows me away what vision we had to have had in 19 61 and the closeness of the 2 cities like. The grocery store the water views, the art. The creation of art that's happening in talking about 2 and then you think of everything that's happening here and so it just blows me away every time so that students great job. Thank you for representing talking about 2 so well and just I just walk away with my heart full every time I see one of these presentations and get get to listen to you so I'm just so thankful for you councilor Givens thank you for representing Saint Pete. And I can't wait for this continued relationship and and thank you so much and congratulations for being selected it is really is an honor so thank you. >> Okay council members we're going to move into public here hearings and we're going to start with the one we've got Joe along with us. We have a motion to have a second. We have a motion a second on anyone. Seeing is no other council members wishing to speak. Could you please of the machine for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Seeing is all present council members have voted clerk please town announce the vote. MARCH air the motion. To approve agenda item e one passes unanimously with councilmember Floyd being absent thanks Joe. Okay we're going to move in the 2 we've got a presentation or resolution approving the fy 2526 annual action plan we've got dra Reese like are joining us. Good morning chair, good morning counted morning feel free to just approve me like you did to us. Okay so this morning. We are here to talk about the annual action plan process and to get approval each year. The city receipts federal grants from the community development block grant. The home investment partnership program emergency solutions Grant and all of that is from the us Department of Housing and Urban Development as well as our state revenue for property tax for the state House in this program. Those combined with our housing capital investment fund create our action plan and from that the action plan is our blueprint for the next 5 years of how we will meet our housing and community development needs. So just add lish these needs our final action plan. This is it we're on our last year for 5 years. So our final action plan was drafted through a balanced budget to receive funds that are allocated out to programs and projects through a commitment to our community. That is reflective and dedicated to improving housing stability fostering economic development and enhancing quality life for all through collaboration that strong partnership with our community. Partners and our residents all working together to meet the shared goals. Responsive and we do that through data driven strategies that are also flexible enough to be adapted to our community needs as we evolve. And we are accountable through our transparency with open communication. Some regular updates. How we got here. This is our citizen participant for this year. This was our timeline of what it took for us to get here today and all of our public notices and Oliver ads were submitted to the Saint Pete times and weekly challenger. And now for our resource us. So this year we are looking at cdbg funding that's community development block grant for 1.7 million. For 7,40691 dollars and $0.28 and our emergency solutions esg for a 157,200 and $32 for a grand total of $2.6 million. Now while you'll see over the year. Yes we did get an increase this year in our home. But we also got decreases through or cdbg enter the us g so that did result in overall 2.5 1% decrease in funding which is what we have been seen over the years is a slow decrease. But through our 2425 funding we have 6 public service programs. 6 public facility in infrastructure improvements. 2 homeless support programs. One tenant based reject resident, Linda. One tenant based rental assistance program and our city initiative programs which do include or affordable housing development. And all of that brings us to our goals for 2526. These goals before you address the identify priority needs within our annual action plan that support our 5 year plan. These include producing new in preserving affordable housing for low and moderate income and rentals. Housing and supportive service for unhoused providing public and support facilities and infrastructure. Providing economic development opportunities and providing an enhancing fair housing through our planning and administration of housing and community development activities. We are recommending approval of this year's. Thank you. >> I Kevin also you did of I just responded her got it, I'm sorry I didn't hear I wanted to I wanted to and I see you working. Okay we're going to councilmember cafferty thank you Sir. So very briefly doctors like or so on that last slide that you had up there, it's the second a 3rd line of those goals there's the new single-family home owner one and then financial assistance to homebuyers 47. Yes and you talk about the difference between those and why we don't love those together. For the. For the financial assistance, it would be that down payment for the single family that homeowner that could also include our counseling sessions that are in there that we provide we do do that through our ship funding, so it's more that. That one is more about wraparound it could be that wrapped around the axle he wrecked. And it could also be our single parent family developer incentive that we have through the cra funding that we do. So we do do that. A program for individuals that are going to develop single family owns. We provide those incentives and Phil I probably should know this after all these years, but when you say output. >> One on new single-family home owner. But that is for wrap-around services if you well. We're just going to get from one individual or is that one that would be actually building the home for that one so this would think of this is a habitat more. This one would be more of the at the full picture that one. So we're going from ground up okay. >> And then the homeless prevention 1000 persons is the output goal there can you talk a little bit about what services will be offering through that that what the programming is what we do have is true homeless prevention to and that is Catholic charities that provides that. It's a form of a rapid rehousing that they'll be touching. And we also have various other programs with in homeless prevention. That aren't just funded through here. So those could be through our social action funding now that they are also under our umbrella of housing and that could be that rapid response. It could be even. Geez I'm just trying to think. The utilities assistance, ok rental assistance that we provide okay at one time only thing the things that we're looking into we're looking at actually trying to expand the utility this year. Absolutely. All right very good bill, thank you, thank you, thank you chair, thank you by sure helps I would just say it's a shout out 2. Actually getting all this together and its annual action plan every time I see this I'm just shocked that the amount of information that's in here. >> And y'all do such a great job at organizing and getting it all together so this I wanted to do that shot out and also want to say the 2025 analysis of impediments to fair housing choice at that hash it with its own real. The and passed it, I know the draft form and once you get the final can you share that with us that would be fantastic but it is a wealth of information in here that in that demographic information for our County that I think is very helpful 12. So thank you for doing that. Thank you in a shot. The ones that truly put it on to thank you. Thank you councilor Vick centers. Thank you and thank be for this and I didn't immediately second because I did want to see the presentation so that we can see what hard work you are putting into addressing the homeless issue I do have. A quick question and I'm not sure of a solution for it. But I see that a part of our citizens participation outreach. We do. Newspaper ads and then I noticed that you mentioned a weekly challenger which is not a printed edition anymore is everything is online and so have we spoke in in regards know that Saint Pete has an authority in Pinellas housing Authority has a huge waiting list regards have we thought about expanding are notifications to other organizations to help get it out because they would get it out to the community before the electronic version of some of these newspapers they are notified everybody on our mailing list is notified if year and used it online for everybody to to me if I'm ok thank you for that appreciate it, thank you chair, thank you councilmember gets. Thank you so much My question kind of builds off councilmember food standards of specifically regarding targeted outreach. So for those folks who MAY not be on those mail or lists, I'm thinking about our faith based organizations, those community organizations that serve our seniors and those on House populations. How are we going to reach out to them how we're going to get those funds out there to them. >> I have a brand-new senior housing coordinator. It introduced as her background is community outreach. And so we are changing what we're going to be doing within our community engagement over the next year. So she is going to be working with neighborhood associations, various associations are churches community-wide is her goal is to get out there and actually time. This is the year that we need to start gathering our data for our next consolidated plan and her goal is to be in the community that is awesome I look forward to speak with her administrative costs are about her model, I'm excited to hear about I did have a question regarding marketing are we interested in doing kind of like social media campaign, I know you can run ads and you know the the councilmembers point with with things not printing these days, everybody, you know they're on their phones and everything's on your fingertips. It's under one she finishes the state plan. She's already finished or federal plan she's now on our state plan once that finishes she has a meeting with our marketing representative to do just that to do an overhaul of our Web pages and to work with them on what we can do for the next year, especially getting the word out about wanting to be in the community and speaking with community members. That is great news and I'm so happy to hear that we also are going to be offering utility assistance so thank you so much for this thank you chair, thank you. Ducks like or thanks for all the work that all the team excited for the information gathering for the new plan I would totally agree with vice chair Hannah what's on the analysis of impediments where wealth of information to like see everything around us in comparison, I just think that that was really cool to see him very helpful so. And I I'm just always so impressed with the preparation and your forward thinking on like what's the next where we're doing good how do we get better and so I just I'm very much appreciative of that so thank you for all the work and thank you to the team. Ok we've got a motion a second seeing is another council members wishing to speak clerk could you please open machine for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Seems all present council members voted court pleased to announce the vote. MARCH air the motion to approve agenda item e 2 passes unanimously. Thank you. Okay we're going to go into effect 3 and we're going to talk about our ordinance restricting the hours during which soliciting canvassing and i think that supposed to say yeah it peddling is perfect on residential property. You've got Devin had here. And yes I'm I'm getting there. You guys thought I was Russian. And this was vice chairs I will turn it over to grand jury. Thank you we could read the ordinance please. And in DECEMBER 6.12 dash age. >> An ordinance amending the St. Petersburg city code creating any subsection 17 dash 1, 6, 0, 7, restricting the hours during which soliciting can he sing and paddling is permitted on residential property and providing for an effective date and we do not have any cards on this. Ok I will turn it over to vice chair what's. Thank you chair, so this fighting came about as complaints were received in I think all of us have dealt with people knocking on a door late at night selling something and it turned out we didn't have any restrictions in terms of the times when people could come this is for commercial purposes. There are lots of exceptions obviously under the ordinance. Things of course that or charitable religious purposes and also for candidates up for public office where behalf of political party, those are all exceptions so this is only for commercial purposes had complaints regarding certain things like the solar panels in that that sort of thing so we had a that committee and we have a discussion as to what the Times were appropriate and we settled on 07:00pm we're sunset whichever is earlier until 08:00am the following day as the times when people should not be knocking on your door and these hours were basically thinking about dinner time and so Devin getting a fantastic job doing the research looking at other cities and how they handled it. And so he provided a wealth of information and also had talk with the people least department who said they would have any issues. Enforcing the Devin I don't know if there's anything for you to at at that if there are any questions that bin is here to answer them and I move approval, second. Okay we have a motion a second. >> Seeing is no other council members wishing to speak clerk could you please over the machine for voting. Council members please enter your votes, seeing is all present council members voted clerk police telling announce the vote. MARCH and the motion to approve agenda item e 3 passes unanimously. Ok thank you thank you. Dan thanks for all the work and thank and thank you vice chair for bringing that item and moving it so quickly thank you, okay we're going to go into reports council members and we've got our advanced air mobility task force and we are joined by former council member at mountain area and then we've got Brian keeper Ridge Lesniak Ed do you want to sit up here are you okay down. A movie. >> City decided we wanted to form a committee. And study this new industry that just we just witnessed and the and you look at it where we are now with this advanced air mobility task force that's kind of where we are I mean it's like it's the industry that has just started. We it's going. It's going to change our world. But we don't know that we're still trying to figure out all the different facets to it so. That's kind of how the work's going. As we begin our our our study. First step on the first light I wanted to show this is the task that you. You gave us to do we've been working our way through. Studying all of this. And the way that he gave us 9 months to do our work and. The information that you gave us was very detailed. And you also a city Council, the mayor appointed a good group of people to serve on this task force. We have a Members of the task force that are experts in advanced air mobility. And then we have some that are not that familiar with aviation and then the rest of that and we're somewhere in you. And so the way that I wanted to lead this task force was to kind of break down the job that you gave us into 3 big components and the first component is education. We need to learn about this this industry bring in subject matter experts and explain to us all the different facets This this industry. After we get through the education portion of the task force then we're going to get into making the recommendations which is going to be the heart of the report that we're going to eventually get to you and then at the end of of our our our study the last few meetings will be working on that on that final a report. We're very fortunate that we've got a a great group of smart. A good listener. Thai people that can. We have great conversations have ever ever meetings. We usually have a presentation from from a subject matter expert. And it's like a City Council committee meeting we have a 15 minute presentation. Followed by a very robust discussion. On the on the task force and everybody participates we do that I did want to mention that we had to task force members resigned the Chad the reasons so we're down to 12 task force members. I also have up there on the Our our city staff and again we're very fortunate to have a great staff support. From Brian caper Brad Pitt Pettigrew a kid brat that he always gets like that the jobs that are really difficult to do. And this is more of a fun type of a job so it's it's it's a little bit different the from what he's been doing that in the past then James Sarah, a luchar and the and then richa Richland Lesniak the airport manager I spent a lot of time to on the phone and in meetings with with rich and then Jen Chaney omen you all know it's a blessing to a City Council and she's a supporting us also and then Doug de Carlo he's a consultant that we're using who works for Advanced their air mobility a new concept that to. It is just a groundbreaking way of thinking about a new aviation component. We I've got a picture of 3 of the manufacturers that are out there and there's multiple more manufacturers and what we're seeing we're seeing in the industry is the manufacturers are pairing up with other big companies you can see but these to some of these manufacturers are paired up with major airlines and each major airline and we have 3 major airlines in the United States American Delta United. They all are paired up with one of the manufacturers. And then you see some of the cargo carriers being paired up. Fedex ups. Amazon walmart are all pairing up with them also. The faa as as of this industry continues to develop the faa is going to certify. These aircraft to start carrying passengers. And the certification date is has been slipping a little bit we think they're going to certify the first to. ev tall the electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicle in the next year or 2. And I want to just to point out there are 2 different types of vehicles, there's the one that we have up on the screen, the vertical takeoff and landing. Ev tall, but there then there's another type a conventional takeoff and landing. Aircraft and that might be certified first but the could one would take off like an airplane but with a much shorter. Runway required. The industry is predicted to grow extremely fast. It's expected to be a $30 billion industry by 2030 going to a 137 billion by 2035. And these companies that are in the business to develop these. These aircraft. Our very well capitalized and they're worldwide also. In an initial business cases are up there on the screen. Or taxi. Cargo and medical transport. When we first brought this to the economic and workforce development committee. We kind of concentrated on they are taxi in the cargo component of it. But as we study this more there's a there's a big medical transport in and see a law enforcement to capability also. This green talks about the business cases. There's also going to be some private use cases where people might buy these vehicles for recreation. The next bullet point talks about the operators look like traditional helicopters are are general aviation pilot aircraft and we the when the Certifies these they're going to have a pilot on board. But at some point in time. They're going to come a not a ton of us vehicles just if you if you think about these aircraft they're very they're somewhat similar to automobiles are getting more electric and they're they're in that we're transitioning now from. Cars with drivers but we're going to a future with cars without drivers. And they're in the automobile industry that's coming to Florida here maybe as soon as next year. This is a unique. We need we need to continue to stay this and see how it's going to affect our. Our city. This is the schedule that we have put together. Fort for the task force we've had some very very good speakers. Our first meeting was in APRIL in our meeting pace is about every 3 weeks or so but we're going from kind of a broad outline and again number in the education phase. But we've had to Of course Ridge Lesniak kicked us off. But then we brought in the former senator Jeff brandis who is a expert in this field to kind of give us a broad overview of of the industry and what what it's going to look like then we we brought some. Experts when it comes to airspace integration. And then Brent Fay on JUNE the 30th came in from the Hillsborough County aviation authority and talked about what Tampa International is doing in this space and they they. They started a little bit before we did and there quite a bit advanced, but they're taking this seriously if you go back to the previous slide and see how the airlines are paired up with these the company's you can see why Tampa international would be would want to be there. Most of these vehicles are going to be powered by electricity. So we brought in a an expert from Columbus Ohio to talk about. What the industry is looking for when it comes to how much power they're going to need what the superchargers are going to look like and those sorts of issues and then we brought in a specialist from Duke energy to talk about the issues on the ground here and how do we get the power to where we want to put different ports. And when you have election electricity, especially with electric vehicles, you have a fire component so we brought in. Chief air from Saint Pete fire rescue to kind of talk about the fire component of this. And our last meeting on on Mon.. We talked about for reports which the report discussion, those are the first 2. Issues that the mayor and City Council wanted us to look look a look at and And we had a very good meeting a very good discussion about. Reports whether it's at Albert whitted airport and some of the issues that we might want to think about both of them are worded airport and for reports around the city of St. Petersburg. Our next meeting is going to be talking about the manufacturers and we've been talking with people from our confessed because they invest in disruptive technology and that's what we're talking about here and they have a 3 people on their staff. 2 here in the United States and one in Ireland. That do a lot of work in this space so they're going to talk to us about the industry of the whole as a whole and this specific. The specifics about who's but the leaders are in the industry and where we think this technology is going to be deployed. I'm not going to go through the rest of the list, but but they they pretty much follows with the. The task that you gave us to do. Around the middle of SEPTEMBER we're going to start as we we'll start transitioning to doing a briefing on a subject. A subject matter and then we'll start getting into recommendations. It's just part of them. And then the colored meetings are the updates that you that you requested. This is a timeline that I asked Ridge to put together and the. There's a couple things I wanted to point point out. On this timeline so you've got. The 3 colors there. And you've which kind of match up with both the federal state and local local government. And you can see that the this subject is being taken very seriously by the faa and the federal government. The fdot and with the formation of this advanced air mobility task force is being taken seriously here in St. Petersburg and as far as I know we're the only city in Pinellas County that it's doing something like that like this. A couple of things that I wanted to point On on the timeline and I wanted to talk about the fdot because the fdot started. A few years ago and they have published a whole lot of information including a very detailed guide book on on this this subject and the we have to be proud that we live in a state that takes this too this technology seriously, and as is working hard to make sure it could be accepted here in the state of Florida and and there's a jobs component but with this also I'm glad the states involved the faa is is very involved also and I I just kind of put they're just to give you some context of what that but the 3 levels of government are are are doing. 2023. The city adopted the Albert wooded master plan in DECEMBER of 23 there was a demonstration at Tampa international from a company called bola of ev tall if flew around Tampa into it international. Interesting very it just it was a fascinating. A van and again that's coming to us soon. I wanted to point out on on this slide. If you see on JUNE 20 JUNE of this year. The PRESIDENT Issued an executive order on drones and. Advanced Aaron mobility and the Trump administration has been very serious, they don't want the United States too. They want the United States be a leader in this sector and they've got very aggressive timelines this executive order. Has a specific timelines for the secretary of transportation, the secretary of commerce. In other. The faa administrator, all aspects of the federal government. The 2. Push for their this technology. One of the things that they have in this 6 executive order is they've got some funding is going to be come available very very soon and that they're talking about 5 or more pilot projects throughout the United States. When we had Tampa international come before. The task force. They they asked us if we might want to consider pairing up with them to try to become a team to go after that that funding so that's something that that is is that it's out there. And then the rest of the timeline is a self self explanatory. Just mentioned when we talk about the education This city has formed a. We've got one drive with just a a whole bunch of information. On it. In richlands me act in the rest of the city staff does a very good job of compiling information to share with the task force but being who I am we couldn't have a study without binders so. I had our city staff created Binder for each one of our task force members. So that we could because there's so much information and you kind of have to distill it down. I wanted to kind of. Give them bites give the task force bites of information at a time as we go through a very complex and ever changing. Study. The binders aren't red-eye I know that was going to be a question that was going to come up. But the the everybody is. Very good and very on top of all the information that is in front of us. And then think. The other the other thing I wanted to mention at every task force meeting we have an open forum for the for the public. So far we haven't had any speaker said open for input. One of the things in the fdot guidebook that they talk about is you need robust public engagement because people are these these the devices are. Some of them are operating now. But they're going to be flying out there and people are going to have a lot of questions and we want to make sure that they the public knows at this. This is being studied and people are keeping track of what's what's going on in the skies above us. The task force is is operating very well. I anticipate us finishing our work on time. But we'll see how things things go at some Some task force meetings. Every now and then something will come up that we MAY have to get more information on. But right now I anticipate us presenting the final report on time in JANUARY of next year. So thank you very now open it up to questions to him. Thank you. Councilmember Harvey. Thank you chair. That it's great to see thank you very much. They the that the work that the city does. It is normally focused on on projects of today or or things that that we need to accomplish over the next 5 years the generally fall in the same line with what we do. We don't often look at how do we how do we improve the city with with cutting edge new technology and and just to give you background for this that was that was introduced by councilmember might night before he termed out and and he appointed an accepted the position of actually running it with the qualifications minor just a little bit he spent the 1st half of his career. As a as as a a decorated f 16 pilot. He spent the 2nd half of his career and the middle of his career as a as a pilot with United flying massive jets and then the last part of his career here in the seat that I have now raised. And so there couldn't they're actually literally could not be. So on so on better suited to lead this task force and the massive a brain power that you've amassed a look at this is phenomenal. This is one of those few projects that that wil