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>> Welcome to the city of St. Petersburg City Council meeting and your elected officials our mayor Ken Welch district one hopefully And Council vice chair Brandi gabbard district 3 and not marry. Deborah big Sanders. And Council chair, Gina Driscoll. John Muhammad. And district day Richie Floyd. >> I will call to order the Nov. 3rd 2022 meeting at the St. Petersburg City Council we start with the roll call please on to marry here. Hannah what's there big Sanders here this cold air Muhammad here Lloyd Curtis year gathered here. Thank you. For patients today please join me in welcoming pastor Don were done from Christ United Methodist Church. >> The indication will be followed by the pledge of allegiance liver and please join me in standing. Good morning. Good morning ladies and gentlemen, the council brothers and sisters in Saint Pete. It's a joy to be here. We have a wonderful day ahead of us right. Will you pray with me place. You are the builder of all things so as we come together the stay help us not to allow division. But to allow generation of good plans, practical sustainable plans that will help our community be with us the stay that we have courage that we're wise and most of all we are compassionate and loving towards one another. Bless this meeting and all that are here this we ask in your name and then. The United States of America and to the Republic, which it stands. One nation under GOD. >> Indivisible with liberty and justice for all. If everyone could please remain standing as we. Recognize and honor the memory of officer gene a that's that. End of watch 11/10/1961. >> Thank you pastor warden for your beautiful indication this morning. Council members we have an agenda before us for today's meeting, I'll entertain a motion for approval for over a decade. We have a motion a second to approve the agenda. In that there's not much for discussion with the clerk please open machine for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Saying that all present council members have voted with the clerk please telling announced the votes. I'm sure the motion to move the agenda passes unanimously the council member Floyd being absent. Thank you. Council members, we have a consent agenda for us. Today, I'll entertain a motion for approval not approval. Thank you. The motion in a second to approve the consent agenda. Saying that there's no request for discussion with the fec please open the machine for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Seeing that are present council members have voted with the clerk please telling announced the votes. And chair the motion to approve the consent agenda passes unanimously with councilmember Floyd being apps thank you. Next we have open farm. >> If you wish to the City Council and subjects other than public hearing quasi judicial items listed on the agenda. You MAY sign up with the clerk. 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All raise hands will be load after each agenda item regardless of the method participation used normal rules apply. In the 3 minute time limit on comments. The requirement that any presentation material must be submitted in advance. The meeting in the rules of decorum it's like public comments is disrupted by violation of the rules of decorum the chair is authorized to accept public comments by alternative means including my email only MADAM Chair we do have some speakers. Thank you. Match grows and Noah growth, the step up to the podium state your name and address for the record, you have 3 minutes to address Council. Council members. My name's not gross I live at 3,076 when North St. Petersburg I'm I'm I'm I'm here on Saint Pete pickleball you know I grew up in Saint Pete I went to elementary school through high school here I grew up playing tennis and lots of ping Pong I still really enjoy those sports today. Several years ago I was introduced to pickleball and at that time it was you older age people playing. The past couple of years I playing quite a bit and I really enjoy it. And the number of people playing is just increasing increasing, I'm seeing lots of people my age I play with that and seeing tons and tons of college students playing now. We really You know the wait times have gotten more and more and more to are waiting more than we get to play sometimes and you know we we're requesting support from the Council on anybody else. Too increase the number of courts. To for the demands because the demand is getting higher. We have a lot of snow was coming down and it is going to be even We really request you know you all can do your best to help us get more courts. Thank you. And Kim. >> Hello my name is Noah gross I am 9 years old and my address is 3,076 way North. St. Petersburg Florida. I like to play ball with my dad and grandfather, the wait time is far too long and for us. The next who's Jill hold that. And doctor Don legroom. My name is Joe hold it, I grew up playing tennis or I love the 2050 point overlook drive, Northeast. St. Petersburg I grew up playing tennis, I played junior tennis college tennis professional tennis. I teach the noi I've been teaching and coaching for over 35 years. My kids are both pros, I met my husband on the tennis cars. We love tennis. And we love sports. I pick to pick a ball because it was obvious my tennis days were coming to an end and had 5 surgeries. They want to put in the shoulder and me. And pickleball sphon it's very popular we can see why it's the fastest growing sport. You can learn to plan a few hours. You can continue there's not much impact on the body. The paddles are very like the are very light. The court's much smaller than a tennis court. So young kids and older adults can play and cover the court much easier. Week you can play with as he said you can play with your grandparents with your kids, it's really fun. Social it's active. It's much less expensive than tennis. And skilled athletes love it too because there's so much more to learn the techniques and strategies are so much different then really any other sport. It's fun for me to see a lot of my old friends that I grew up playing tennis with now are playing pickleball around the country and that's fun. I'm not suggesting we get rid of the tennis courts. Just replace the unused tennis courts which are many with more popular pickleball courts. It's sad and embarrassing that we live in this beautiful city yet nearby cities have far superior. Pickleball public pickleball courts. They host many tournaments hotels are hard to come by it's great for the economy. And people love to watch him play pickleball it's just fun. Please provide us with more pickleball courts. Thanks. >> Good morning. My name is Done with retired pediatrician Olivia 2620 13th Street North in Petersburg year round also vice PRESIDENT Of the greater Woodlawn neighborhood Association and active socially year. i'm not going to talk about how pickleball is that most rapidly growing sport in the United States because you already know that. It is attractive to all ages, you know that it is consistent with the St. Petersburg healthy neighborhoods and Jen de. The it it's one of Crescent Lake Park is our Park. My Park. It says within bicycling distance of my house, I bicycle there every day. It is the most popular Park with popular venue for pickleball in the city of St. Petersburg although it has the poorest surface. The needs it needs assistance. The on We had at 8 o'clock we had 44. Players for 24 places on the court who in 20 people waiting. Likewise on Tue.. By 00:30am in the morning there were 34 players, they're only room for 24 said there were 10 people waiting last summer in the middle of the summer. We had over 60 players on the court waiting. You know in the in the middle of the morning. Crystal Lake is designated under the city code is a passive Park, although it has active activities within it being racket it's space and baseball. We we would really like to see and I failed to mention that during the times that we have up to 60 pickleball players. We see 0 players on the tennis courts, extremely light used. So we need more space. There are permitted they the permits space available for wreckage porch could be you I changed slightly with realigning for dual use of the tennis space show that we can pick up essentially for more. Courts will bring on edge. Likewise if they get one or more that as there is residual tennis courts could be converted to dedicated pickleball areas. When the city meets with his committees meet today to discuss pickleball and another activities like that in the park we would really like to be included in that agenda. We like to be able to have an open dialogue. So that so that we can be expressed our desires. The as Ali just mentioned the train is leaving the station on pickleball and the question is whether Saint Pete's going to be on. Thank you. Tulisa Blackshear. We have one zoom as well, Matt ok. >> Thank you MADAM Good morning to the council MADAM Chair to Lisa Blackshear personal number and and and heroes 7, 8, 0, Walters Lakeview. I'm here I wasn't going to come, but being so that I've got property tax bill in the mail yesterday I figure I come. And I see that my taxes have increased about And a $140 going to the city of St. Petersburg and a $102 going to the general fund I don't know if that's the general fund for the city of St. Petersburg where the general fund for the county. I also would like make mention of the >> Process will be or appoint 10 council member Mohammed. I wasn't here for it, but I rewatched the video and I notice that council onto their e use the structural racism study to defend why council member Mohamed should not be appointed. So I just asked for you to reach out to a principal investigator, Rick Mace years in either apologize to or because you denied this study and the report as well as the resolution to declare structural racism in our city but yet used it again someone she to defend for so. You know these are the times we live in we we've got that rhetoric that MR. Know week he sprinkled where has been sprinkle and in our chamber. MISTER Network is one of my peers, I respect him a lot but you know you've got to call a spade a spade. I will also like to commend the pickleball crew here I actually lived on Crescent Lake in 2019 in 2020, so I seen the rise of pickleball and I just want to commend you I commend and anyone who gets together and mobilizes for civic engagement for the betterment of their city and I encourage all city residents to vote no on all amendments on our ballot. Thank you. MISTER Clerk, he said we have one. We must resume. This we and I'm sure there are speakers name is Bryce Springfield Rice once you enter into the meeting space. Please unmute yourself state your name and address for the record and you have 2 minutes to address City Council. >> Yeah hi there I'm my name is for Springfield's I'm at 3, 3, 1, 6, 31st Avenue North department 2, 0, 3, And organizer with the most to say in a politics student at Princeton University. I'm just making a comment regarding historic a swing district I want to remind Council of the apartments of public ownership of the land is relevant to that project. Our city is still facing one of the worst housing crises in Florida despite a 19% vacancy rate according to the Census Bureau. For which we could probably at least benefit from a vacancy tax. I can tell you that plenty of people my family and my friends are still struggling to find safe and affordable housing here on the city they have called tone from for years. So I I heard City Council to continue to engage with the redevelopment process particularly keep in mind the permanent wealth being kept in the public rather than for profit. In for a Democratic control. You know public ownership of the land under consideration. This is an investment that if we keep it in public ownership can bring consistent returns for a city in the form of for example like from And we can also reserve space for city on social housing, not something much more permanent thing just constantly subsidizing private developments our private housing built on action maximization of everything else. So I ask you all to please work mayor Wells to ensure that the spaces left publicly owns so we can maximize public benefit and deal with the housing crisis and most effective way possible. This is what people overwhelmingly ice for when. Mayor well to consult with the public on the and this is well noted is community conversations report. List on the redevelopment Web page. And regardless of what happens so We need to use the public land that we do have to our advantage and build city on democratically directed social housing. I also want to thank the pickleball people who are I love pickleball. Thank you guys for coming out. All right. Thank you. Thank you. You have any other requests to speak we do not MADAM Chair. All right. Thank you. Council members were going to move around our agenda order a little bit. Go next to our Council committee reports of council member Gerd, us is prepared to present we'll take up item I one. Thank you MADAM Chair. Last week the co sponsored events committee convened and moved. Throughout the City Council asking for approval of 10. Events for fy 23 for those. Waving a nonprofit. One waiver of a late fee of the 10 and liquor requests for 4 of the 10 events and just a quick note, the one item. And one of them stealing the thunder just don't be quiet. The one That is asking for a not for a waiver of the late fee is they weren't sure whether we're going to make it or not so that we were waiving late fees but. >> When anything I left out no Sir that covers they're worth. >> That's of resolutions are brought before you pursuant to our process so the committee did approve the waiver of the late fee. That means 14 while and then the rest of the resolutions are at your discretion for approval. >> That you can I move for for all of them at the same time. Yes you can move approval resolutions a through f second. >> The motion and a second too. Approve item I one a through f. Do we have the d a. We update the screen here. Saying that there's no request for discussion with the clerk please open machine for voting. Members please enter your votes. Saying that a prison council members have voted with the clerk please telling announced the votes. I'm sure the motion to approve it and items. I one a through f passes unanimously councilmember Floyd being absent. Thank you thank you so much. Next we'll recess, a City Council and can be necessary to take up item Siri to. Steph ready for. They're staffs are here for that item. We moved to different police okay, yes, certainly all right you will. During a serie reconvene a City vice chair Gary would you like to take a few new business item h one sure thank Respectfully requesting a referral to housing land use and Transportation Committee for a presentation on the Campbell Park neighborhood plan update for City Council review and final acceptance and this referral is a staff So I so move. Second. We have a motion and second to approve item h one. Saying there's no request for discussion with the clerk please open the machine for voting. Council members please enter your votes. Saying present council members have voted with the clerk please telling announced the votes. I'm sure the motion to approve the agenda item h one. I'm sorry cleared. We need your votes aren't. Council members please re-enter your votes moving to France. And seeing the not present council members have voted with the clerk please telling announced the votes. MADAM Chair, the motion to approve a 10 item h one passes union. MISTER Harris is there an s estimated time on when. For the cra staff yeah they were in the building so it's going to be a little while ok we'll see if we do. We can just be can. Take it up later. >> Liz says she could do the presentation if we had a couple minutes but I think at that time would be the public hearings anyway when we yes, And the other items that we have our someone like that I want to read too far into our. Public hearing time. So what we're going to do is just take a very short recess for 7 minutes. And reconvene at 9.30. Well reconvene and will begin our public hearings for today. First item is item e one. Ordinance number 5.22 dash each. In Lawrence amending section 21 dash 87. The St. Petersburg city code to rename Lake with tears neighborhood Park 2 endrick Creek Park, providing findings in providing for an effective date and we do have a card and chair. >> We thank you. This is and this is an exciting day I have spent. >> I'm with the neighborhood and with the family of and rayford. Wonderful way to recognize someone who really brought the neighborhood together. Truly exemplified but St. Petersburg is all about one of the greatest ways that we can honor one of our fellow residents is by naming a park after them. And so I'm incredibly proud bring this forward. 4 our final approval today renaming the Lakewood terrace neighborhood Park 2 and drink for the park. With that I'll turn things over to Mike Jeffries our leisure services administrator morning, good morning, how's everyone today. This is a great way to. >> To start a City Council meeting. As the chair indicated, this is one of our highest. Honors to bestow on us citizens to name a public. Park after them and I can't think of a better person to naval Park out with an android for when the chair came to me and and which out a little bit about it. This made all the sense in the world. We've got some information here about MISS Trick for that I want to share with everyone. But I have to start off with. Hello neighbors. I think that's the way we would have we would have started so. We are excited to use her tagline that was the way that she created. Excitement about the neighborhood that was the way that she created a space where people felt comfortable and fell willing to share their thoughts. Their criticisms and their ideas. District for was born in 19 39 in Georgia. She dedicate over 60 years of service to pay for Medical Center, various nursing homes and as a child care provider which fits right in with parks and rec as well she she worked with the early learning coalition. This trait became a resident of the Lakewood tearsa area 1978 I can so they were so she ation because and 78 it wasn't a neighborhood Association so but it's 78 She moved into the area became a founding member of the Lakewood terrace neighborhood Association in 1996. I think it's important because we as city officials at all as elected officials we constantly hear from stakeholders and advocacy groups. Wanting different things in our city wanting different amenities in our parks we we hear that regularly. Some do it respectfully some don't some do it pure motives some don't and I'm here to tell you that MS. Trick for did all of her advocacy with pure motives and with the community at heart should gain nothing by her advocacy except just creating community for the area. And the summer of 2000 MS. Trick for started to lobby City Council to purchase several parcels that were in her neighborhood. They're on the corner of 38th Avenue South and 7th Street South. She she had some neighbors that fought her every step of the way that they were excited about a park and the neighborhood that they were concerned and district for work very very hard to move that forward and 2. Squash their concerns and show that this would be a positive for the community. She actually received letters from 2 mayors. Not our current mayor obviously but from 2 mayors that did not support this request. I think this was before our sea organization was really aware of the impact of that public spaces and you know safe Amenities really provided for neighborhoods. In 2001 the city did purchase 3 lots and I have to tell you that missed Richter was a very strategic she had this Park in this playground out into the neighborhood plan and the city comprehensive plan so she she got a tucked in there she got put into the plans so it was it was necessary to meet those plan obligations which was strategic as a 3 year process to get playground off the ground. She received final approval on 12/3/2003. So that was that was an exciting day. I do want to read I don't typically read right off of documents but I think that this last couple sensors are very important. District for was loved by all who knew her knew her. She viewed family has the most important aspect of life and we have several of her family members and friends and neighbors Association numbers here and I know that several of them would like to speak so will give an opportunity for that. She was known for her sweet demeanor, gentle spirit. She was always devoted to providing quality Cho a child care for children and her family MS. Trick for always went above and beyond for others. And here's the here's the key part never expecting anything in return and I think that's what I'm talking about when we say that we have. A citizen who moved forward and who requested thanks for a community without expecting anything in return and that's the pure motive that I that mentions so it is very exciting for us to name this park after MS. Trick for. We have the signs ready to go. We're going to do was going to be a celebration in DECEMBER. So the signs will be installed in they'll be ready. I believe some of the neighbors wanted to name the park and I might get this wrong. But I think they want to call it. Hello neighbor and rayford Park and he said that doesn't really flow a lot like the rest of our parks, so we've got creative so we're going to name it the and Rick for Park and then there will be a separate sign. On the property that indicates the hello neighbor and give sort of a little history on district front so we're very excited. I've talked too long. So I think we will do is will offer an opportunity to the family and the neighbors Association members to speak. >> Yes, thank you, Mike. Can parkland. We'll have 3 minutes to dress counsel please provide your name and address. It was Cochran, 4036 8th Street South. Lakewood terrace neighborhood Association. >> And rayford actually greeted me into the neighborhood when we moved in ice cream other. Is unfortunately at that time she was you know stepping do health but he had been trying to keep the community going as much as possible under her original set up. Going back and finding corporate paperwork and everything like that seen her handwriting the bylaws and everything that we file with the state was quite exciting enough saved all that. There's several members that have been part of the association said she found it and we just had the park upgraded and we're going to start our neighborhood Association meetings in 2023 there. So we really appreciate the great and the honor that we're going to be still in on her that she really helped build this neighborhood for the children. >> Any other requests to speak if you could come up and just fill out a yellow card to speak. I'm ready over here you have to listen to them so you can do it after. >> Morning Regina bows by stake my address is 2355 66 Avenue South. And I you know misses Street for its youngest daughter. And I and if I could do was stand up here, but my mom was the Our family. She loved her neighbor like she loved her family. She would do anything for us. It doesn't have a place to stay she found a place to stay. She watched all of us she did everything when I was alluding to meet with socialization. She made me do those yard Where the nose clean up the name ahead keys. She hit my kids that One of the yough going neighbors. It was even a yard sale cleanup. She was still 2 people that GOD made it it was a neighbors. And she just love to say hello neighbor. That was I'm telling you we MISS My mom that's my family that's a small part but it could My mom was the best thing of him to all of us she loved her family she loves her neighbors. This is the best thing you go can do for her I really appreciate we really appreciate it. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Okay yes Mike. I was just to 2 more things, good news for the neighborhood. The current PRESIDENT Is a strong advocate for the neighborhood as well as he talked about Park upgrades I've gotten several emails throughout the years and we've been happy to work with that Association I do also want to mention that renaming got rescheduled because of some of the hurricane then there was some some time changes the what not so I know there are others that want to participate as well that MAY be couldn't make it today so. >> Thank you so much and before we go to Council discussion there was one person who could not make it today who had and then thought that they can participate by zoom in with public hearings you have to if you're going to speak you have to speak in person. And so I just asked for them to send me. Their statements so that I could share that and it is from Corey Givens junior who is another strong advocate. For the neighborhood where he lived there and was also instrumental in helping to bring forward this park renaming. He writes I first met MISTER Raiford in 33. She was in her final term as PRESIDENT And was looking for replacements some said I was too young she saw something in me and took me under her wing and mentored me until her health no longer allowed her to. I never met a more giving woman who had such an impact on their community until I met MISTER Atef earned. She integrated our neighborhood in the early 70's and built a park so that children like me could have a safe place to play. I'm requesting that you vote to rename the Lakewood terrace Park in honor of our beloved neighbor, the lateness and Rick for it. So thank you MISTER Givens for that with that will go ahead to our Council discussion and council member fig Sanders. Thank you so much good morning, everyone. Good morning. So Mike doesn't it feel good to finally see to say yes not binding say, yes, but just to say yes. Is sitting here or an on Believe it or not a lot of this journey started with a neighborhood Association. It takes not the drive to want to be a public servant but to just have that heart of wanting to do what's best for your neighbors and your family. In that place that you call home. So I know active in neighborhood associations and I always say when I go to neighborhood associations that elected officials we don't know what we don't know. And so for advocates in Queens like MS. Drake for who made it her mission. 2 is still the fact that we're here this is our neighborhood we take pride in we need you to see us. I congratulate her family. I know her family are related to her family. But I can't stress enough the importance of our neighborhood associations but more importantly. I can't stress enough the just the support that we give because it often starts with one voice. One voice one heart and to be able to accommodate this request means so much to our history. To our legacy that we do not forget. You know because I sat around we've talked and we're trying to look at who are those torch bearers that have fought who have topped and who we need to honor to ensure that their mission does not die. And this name mean. Is huge and I want to thank you Mike Jeffries in parks in rake and the PRESIDENT Of Lake tears. Not allowing MISTER Drake for its memory to be lost. So again, thank you so much and again I am encouraging everyone's participation in your neighborhood associations and if you don't have one started one because they are valuable to the development and that I missed it by city. Thank you so much chair. Councilmember months nary. Thank you MADAM Chair. >> When I speak in public, sometimes about different issues. And then from a city councils. Members point of view, sometimes you look a building or Park or other some other facility. You see. And you know that things just didn't happen by chance. There was somebody behind. The building the park or the facility. And the story that was shared by. Mike Jeffries kind of toll part of that story about a wonderful lady that cared about her neighborhood and cared about people. And I can't think of a a higher honor that we could it's so on on a woman. That that care. And the other thing about naming a park. It allows people to share the story. About your family member. That those stories need to be shared in our community. There's a lot of good people in our city doing wonderful things. Was one of those wonderful people and I don't want that memory to be forgotten. So want to thank the family for coming in. And that sharing some stories about about your mom. I also want to thank our chair. For bringing this forward. This is this is something we all can be proud of in This is one of the reasons why our cities so special. So thank you for doing that Mike thank you for your leadership and thank you for the neighborhood PRESIDENT Thank you for coming in and leaving a wonderful neighborhood. Thank you MADAM Chair. All right. Thank you council member Mohamed thank you. I echo that sentiment in that list of thank You's has a. Recently written resigned neighborhood Association PRESIDENT. I understand and I have an appreciation for the sacrifices that the families make and so it resonated with me when you talk about how your mom made you do those things because I got to lose crew of super volunteers. The Starwood you know my children and my wife and so I just want to thank you because I know I know the toll that sometimes the service and the sacrifice of someone who's committed in that way. The toll it can take on families and sometimes growing up under that type of leadership. We don't really understand we don't appreciate the work that they're doing on behalf of others and how it. The facts us because like you do in all of this other stuff all these other people what about us and sometimes that gets lost. And so you grow into that I children not just recently had that experience with them starting to really appreciate the work that we do for your family for your community. And the sacrifices that they make and so in addition to all of the thanks thanks that have been given already I want to really thank you because I know supporting that type of leadership having that type of drive having that type of mission that sense of purpose and vision. It can be the family some Taha and so thank you all for the sacrifices and I'm happy to be able to vote in support of this. Thank you. >> This did take some time to to come together and it actually. Started well mistreat front is still with us friend. Can asked and asked and asked for us to get some improvements made to the park. Little did we know that we're going to be preparing it for this honor. It just makes it even more special. When we we talk about about her and what she meant to the neighborhood into the community and to the city and how many people I know her and how many people's children know her because of what she meant. I kept thinking of This poem. That really means a lot to me since my parents passed. And it makes me think of her and at just the way everyone talks about her. And part of it is says. Call me by my old familiar name. Speak to me in the easy way. But you always used. But no difference in tier tone where no forced air of Stalin tea or sorrow. As we always laugh. At the little jokes we enjoyed together. Clay. Smile thinking of me pray for me let my name be ever the household word. That it always was let it be spoken without a fact without a trace of a shadow in it. Life means all that it ever meant. It's the same as it ever was. There is absolute unbroken continuity. Why should I be out of mind because I am out of sight. I am but waiting for you. And she really won't be out of sight and certainly not out of mind. In part because we're going to have this park for everyone to go where the stories of injury for can be told for many years to come. And I'm so happy that we've all come together to create this gift for the community. Thanks to everyone, you know to make it happen. I'll entertain a motion for approval approval. We have a motion and a second to approve this item seeing that there's no further requests for discussion with the clerk please open the machine for voting. Council members please enter your votes saying present council members have voted with the clerk please telling announced the votes. And CHAIRMAN To approve the agenda item e one passes unanimously the councilmember Floyd absent. >> Thank you everyone, I'm Brian my wonderful legislative aide is here and if you guys wanted to I take a picture together to celebrate the moment. Well, yeah, if you guys if you guys want to do I would love to just captured the moment with you guys. You want to be okay. Okay so we'll take a 2 minute recess. Yes, I can jump in okay. >> And we will go ahead and move on to our next item item e 2. MISTER Curtis to have staff ready for it too. Ordinance number 5.29 dash h in orange submitting table 8 in section 27 dash 5.57 a 5. The St. Petersburg city code to modify certain commercial on compacted but continue service rates providing for severability of provisions establishing the day to be in calculating those new rates for billing purposes and provided for an effective date and we do not have any kind to mention Mabel okay, we have a motion and second to approve this item when MISTER Dress in the morning. >> Basically I'm just asking you have this ordinance go ahead have demanded so we can start with the a billing date. For this fiscal year. All right. 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Seeing none I'll present council members have voted was a clerk please tallied announced the votes. And that motion to approve and the 3 passes unanimously with councilmember Florida Hanson. >> We'll close our public hearings. Recess is City Council inconvenience the cra to take up item Siri to. Good morning. Good morning. >> Good morning crime list is only if it developed review services division. Before you to these projects that is going to be located at 2 3500 Avenue South is currently developed with a 3 story 36,328 square-foot office building service parking lot. The applicant is proposing to demolish the existing office building replace it with a 33 story building. But you are 68 swelling its 15,525 square feet of commercial space and a 323 space parking garage. Projected cost of the project is at $96 million. The subject property is located within in town redevelopment area as the redevelopment plan that was adopted in 1982. The redevelopment agency was established to implement the redevelopment plan. This is a site plan before you today. Again the proposals for a 33 story building the building block by Missouri the subject property, the ground floor of the tower will consist of residential lobby and commercial space. That will wrap around the building along 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street. There will be open space here along 3rd Street across the street is the public shopping center. Also in the university village shopping center. And rest of the garage will also come from 4 Street here, loading and service areas will occur to the rear of the building but she's to be an ally that was vacated. Flores 2, 3, 8, of the building will consist of parking as well as residential liner buildings screen the parking from the road. The 93 33th floor of the building will consist of residential units Street access into the residential lobby will occur off of 3rd Avenue South. And as I said commercial space will be accessed off of 3rd Avenue and 3rd Street South. That's the proposal a patient's before you today. The elevation on your right is actually the rear elevation elevation on your left will be elevation along 3rd Street. The proposed text or the building will be contemporary in style the facade will feature floor to ceiling glass wraparound balconies awnings changes and building materials as well as the change the playing of the building. The tower will be finished with smu's Taco and glass railings the parking garage will be screened by residential units in a perforated metal screen system through full-featured distinctive crown element. It is some of the other elevations, the one that will be on the right hand side is a visible the fore Street and the elevation of the left-hand side is what you'll see from 3rd Avenue South. The parking garage again will be screened. By some residential units in this location of the garage and the remainder of the garage will be screened and perforated metal system. This is just a rendering of the building again looking North. The redevelopment plan does require that the cra review and evaluate proposal for consistency with the plan. The plan does include design development guidelines to ensure compatibility between the types of uses and the developments that are desired in the downtown rose project which was reviewed by staff and found to be consistent with the following compliance with the land development code developments of I design elements include trees. Canopy Street furniture enterese to building in scale with human dimensions the development will provide appropriate actual right to the area. Parking structure sell provide for a decade if a side. Open space will be directly linked to the pedestrian system open related activities of the building and the buildings on the block. Infill development to create a sense of place and identity and all new developments that building scale mast within the surrounding areas, development shall be consistent with the permitted uses as well as development intensity you should be guided by the r lines. Land use and zoning district. There's another view looking Excuse me Northeast. You can see the shopping center in the background. This is the commercial frontage along 3rd Avenue with respect to compliance with the land development code subject property is located within the dc one zoning district. Multifamily commercial uses are permitted with unlimited floor area ratio. The proposed development has a proposed floor area ratio 7.0. Staff determined that the proposed development is in compliance with zoning district regulations and is therefore consistent and comply with the plan. Here's another rendering looking Northwest. The proposed building will fund with both older newer developments in the redevelopment area. Those building height placement massena consistent with other an existing proposed developments Satan prove muntz will include a 10 foot wide sidewalks Street trees landscaping open green space bicycle parking in the dream system. But a string of treatments will also contribute to a walking experience. Here's a side of your of the long what was alleyway which is not the service corridor looking at some of their open spaces Wells are proposed are to be applied to the building. The existing downtown develop and it does contain a variety of buildings hypes the bill inform relationship of this building is consistent with others within the redevelopment district. Other buildings of similar size do include the building directly north of this which is that 3, 3, 4, 2nd Avenue South. That a 24 story residential building. Almost complete. We have wanted one for Street South located west of the subject property. And that is a multifamily development, the existing University shopping center of course is also located to the east as well as the cvs is located south of this property. The building designed it can take into consideration. The relationship of the newer developments except with the older developments by creating a continuous Street edge integration of open space as well as adding landscaping concealing the parking garage. These are just some of to the top of the tower as well as about a view showing some of the night use of the other parking garage will be screened. Staff does recommend approval the test for the resolution finding that the proposed 33 story building with 268 willing it's 15,525 square feet of commercial space and a 323 space parking garage. It's consistent with the redevelopment plan thank you and the applicant in the representative are here today All right, thank you. We have any requests for public comment. Don mastery. My name is Don mastery my address is 200 Central Avenue and I'm representing the applicant in this matter who is requesting your approval that this project is consistent with the intown redevelopment plan the project is a redevelopment of the property that had been used for an office and a large surface parking lot. The office Billy is totally vacant now and it's a 33 story building with 268 dwelling units 15,525 square feet of commercial space in 323. Parking spaces in a parking structure. In town redevelopment plan requires you as a cra to evaluate the development proposal and to ensure that it is can state use and design are consistent with the intown redevelopment plan. I think MR. Moelis cause report as well as is the staff report curly confirms that it's consistent with the in town redevelopment plan and in addition the zoning for the site is the c one in the dc one district permits. Multifamily dwellings with an unlimited data and unlimited time. The project is located in the residential area of the intown redevelopment plan and is adjacent to the core area. The redevelopment plan. The continued development of residential projects is heavily emphasized in the end of it in town redevelopment plan in order to achieve the plan's goal of having 24 hour work and living environment downtown and this will lead to that the project complies with and for others the purposes of both the ours and the comp plan and we have set forth in our application approximately 2 pages of design review criteria that we feel are consistent with City Council resolution. 2021 dash 25. And that will show if they're consistent with those it's consistent with the intown redevelopment plan. The project is also consistent and with other buildings in the general area in fact as well as right what was formally announced the buildings are urban scale with pedestrian Henri and its surface level features including let me in France, a screening of the parking garage and ample finish ration and transparency and improvements and the public around with then foot wide sidewalks Street. Street trees landscaping and bicycle parking and the pedestrian or in goals of the intown redevelopment the plan are met by the ground floor design on all 4 sides and the including the entrances to the commercial space you can enter the building from 3rd Street for Street and 3rd Avenue South. This project does not result and displacing any residents there. >> The building is vacant. Thank you Sir. Do not have any more cards to approval. Second. Thank you we have a motion in us. Approve this item. I know that this a separate issue from what we're voting on today. But I do want to learn more about the. 4th Street entrance the in gress egress. As we move forward. That was one thing that stood out to me and I I'd love to learn more about How that's going to work on that Street. And just a just a heads up. So let's follow up on that all right, thank you have a motion a second to approve this item and saying that there's no further requests for discussion with the clerk please open the machine for voting. Council members please into your votes saying that a PRESIDENT Council members have voted with the park police telling announced the votes. MADAM Chair motion to approve item c 2 passes unanimously councilmember Floyd being apps. >> Thank you will now adjourned as the Syrian reconvene as City Council and take a report I didn't have one. >> Typically known to be brief but I'm here today to explain a complicated item too so hopefully I won't go as long as MISTER Mori well here is bringing up the presentation, I'll just introduce that besides myself we also the ceo of Pinellas community Foundation with a stun gun Cooley and Jocelyn Howard who will be the senior program officer for our programs with the Pinellas community Foundation. So we're here before you today to ask for your approval of a contract with Pinellas and Pinellas community Foundation and includes 2 components. One of those components is a coordinated neighborhood social service hub. And the other is a shared services organization which I might also call the administrative backbone. This administrative support organization can support any nonprofit in the city as well as those organizations participating in the hob the services were competitively procured back in JULY an evaluation committee selected to offer an office and the contract will award 8.5 $8 million and will run through DECEMBER of 2026. Many of you already know the great work that the Pinellas community Foundation has done. They also have provided similar services to Pinellas County through the cares funding program at the beginning of covid they distributed more than million and a matter of months and currently are managing $19 million and allocations for the county. For their capital improvement program for nonprofits the strings you see listed here are the reasons why the evaluation committee selected the Pinellas community Foundation for this award. So what problem are we trying to solve with the social service hubs as you know arpa funding was intended to ensure that traditionally underserved communities are meaningfully impacted to alleviate the consequences of the pandemic and to improve the health and safety of neighborhoods. This also aligns with mayor Welch's pillars for progress. So what specifically are we going to solve through this allocation. We know that people's mental health has been impacted by the pandemic and that the rates of anxiety and depression have increased, we also saw all covid 19 amplify problems and are already strained behavioral health services, such as shortages and clients not having that access to participate and telehealth programs. As you can see here the cdc reports that 40% of adults in the us are struggling with mental health or substance abuse across the country that means we all know multiple people impacted by this problem whether they talk about it or not. But what does that look like in Florida and what does it look like as we quote unquote return to normal. As the pandemic evolves. You MAY think that there would be less concerns with anxiety and depression. But you can see here by this household pulse survey by the United States census that shows that is simply not true. As of recent as AUGUST of 2022, Florida is still one of the highest ranking states where symptoms of these disorders are reported at us 40%. This venn diagram shows the importance of neighborhood based intervention services, we know there are key to address the barriers of accessing services expecially when there's an increased ignorant and communities of color to access those services for mental health. We also know that communities of color were just a portion disproportionately impacted by covid 19 and they're often essential workers. All of this has led to increased negative outcomes and social determinants of health for underrepresented communities. As a reminder arpa funded services must support our residents from qualified census tracks and or those under 65% area median income. This allocation that you're considering today is designed to address the center of this venn diagram through culturally competent trauma informed wrap around services that means citizens where they're at. So this slide shows you a little bit about the Corps project design the funds provided to pcf will allow them to competitively procure a lead agency who will then host neighborhood based community conversations to determine the needed services and the locations of our hubs all hubs will have these 3 core components culturally competent and tremendous for mental health counseling an outreach component to ensure people in the community know about the service is available and where they're located and an organization that will provide additional wraparound support the families and he will support those families and individuals to present at think about those access issues that we mentioned earlier when we talked about the challenges in our community. Those most in need aren't reading the city's social media to know about the supports available. But when a trusted shorts or shows up at their door and talks and real talk to them, we know it makes a difference. We learned that during cares there are Vick should and Prevention funding. Citizens did not respond to Flyers and other materials that stated are you facing eviction but they did respond when somebody knocked on their door and asked them are you late on your rent. One someone presents for mental health support other challenges like economic distress are often discovered and the navigation and case management is designed to address these issues. We are simply talking about information referral here. This project is designed so that someone can hold their hand through applying for food stamps online using a computer at the location or even driving them to the food bank to ensure they have food to eat. It's that advocate who can talk to trusted partners and make things happen when someone's been hitting brick walls. The program also has financial assistance available. If gaps are identified and there is no funding that can address that immediate need. I think it's also important to note that trauma presents its face in many ways if someone shows up for financial assistance or navigation services. The professionals at the site will be trained to identify if the root cause is not a lack of financial Acura men, but instead trauma and refer them directly to mental health services offered in the same location. So this the Corps project designed with additional services added one based on neighborhood needs each neighborhood hub will be informed by the community it serves and the services offered will be responsive to the needs that residents identify. This is designed in a way that pcf has the flexibility to add other spokes to the hub as needed. So let's say a neighborhood like child's Park is a hub location and they're struggling with air quality you've talked about that many times this year. We could add spoke for environmental justice or resiliency if located in a neighborhood where eviction rates are high legal aid could be prepared. And co located at the hub to meet residents and provide relief quickly. I know that some of you had questions previously about the capital costs included in this program and I want to assure you that hub locations will capitalize on city assets wherever possible. If you knock Davis or another center is appropriate for the services the locate there. If the church is the most appropriate place to locate they MAY located in that church and we can provide a little bit funding to allow for needs that would make that have accessible. So I know that the impact of these one-time dollars are really important to the City Council. So I want to assure you that we've done our research and want to present the science behind why we think this will work. This is based on the trauma recovery single model that was started in San Francisco in 2001. Working in the er at the time started talking about the winds they were saying and presented. They could fix the gunshot win, but they couldn't fix the other things and they that removing those barriers to health and stability, what helped them enter up the cycles of violence since 2001 this model has been implemented across the country in a number of locations and you can see just a few of those states here. The I want to also mention that evaluation is baked into Pinellas community Foundation has an evaluator as a part of their project team. And we won't be waiting till the end of our 4 years of our allocation to find out there's something that we would have done differently we'll be making changes all along the way. We also will only be opening up one hub to start and then we'll. Open up more as we learn lessons from the first one. I also want shared this image with you here this Council as well as previous councils has had a lot of conversations about the pair of aces which is adverse childhood experiences, an adverse childhood environments. We know that these things impact families and individuals for generations. Actually changing dna and producing poor health outcomes. This social service have model is designed to not only treat the issues that we see above the ground like mental health. But it also focuses on the root cause of the issues through the other service components offered your work just a few weeks ago to produce 483 new safe and affordable units. For residents that are affordable will work tandem with this design. So we talked about the shared services organization I just want to describe that a little more for you. How are we going to ensure that the organization's best serving our citizens and a culturally responsive way are the ones who will be chosen for this work not the largest organizations. A shared services organization will be to provide the administrative backbone needed so that smaller organizations can do what they do best while still being successful in managing federal dollars. The shared services organization will be the foundation for smaller community nonprofits who are closest to the issue. This slide shows the types of services that a shared service organization can offer 3 one or many vendors. The best part about this is that is that allows any nonprofit in our city, not just those in our hub services to build their administrative capacity to launch additional programs and develop readiness for funding. This organization can provide backup and support for financial services program monitoring legal needs or other types of infrastructure that grants typically do not fun. So how do we know that a shared service organization will produce are anticipated outcomes. Again pcf is here and there certainly would be excited to share with you some of their past excesses. But I wanted to give you one example of how this works through the cares funding. There was a very small nonprofit his annual revenues were under $200,000. They were able to distribute more than 17,000 meals. I'm very quickly through a neighborhood focused effort they rented you know refrigerated trailers and other things to bring food to where the people were at instead of expecting them to come to you. This organization is also designed to be sustainable by the end of arpa funding utilizing a fee for service model and economies for scale. So we know transparency and accountability for these dollars is the number one priority for I just wanted to show you a screenshots of the Pinellas community Foundation website where you can track every dollar from the fight MAY inch from the application to the finance report right on their website. This is an example of the portion of their Web site stood up for the county's money website will aired for the city. You can see here the meetings will be available where the public can watch them live if they weren't able to watch them live they can read the minutes. They look at the recordings. All of that will publicly available. Every application is posted for the public to view it's downloadable you'll see if the funding was awarded and how much and then once organizations begin to submit their finance reports. You'll see this area highlighted here come alive with every single receipt. Included as back up there will be a lot of accountability around this. In addition. We've agreed to quarterly our updates at the fm t there will be Council and that Haitians to community conversations. Another part of resolution before you ask for you to allocate dollars towards and our impact monitor their work will help identify gaps and needed services in the city and also work as a feedback loop. We'll also have an open gobs storyboard and an entire Communications plan some of you MAY have seen. I think just last week Communications rolled out kind of the explainer videos and the very beginning of that planned. So we're asking for your support for the item before you which includes both the contract with Pinellas community found that Foundation. And our but impact monitor position. And I'm here to answer any questions and as I mentioned Pinellas community Foundation is here as well. Move approval. Second. >> We have a motion a second to approve this item. Councilmember Curtis. Thank you MADAM Chair. Amy. You dug in job, Jocelyn first first off thank you for the one on one. I really spending that time and learning both about the foundation and this and this program. I think you knock this out Park. I I think you took all of the feedback from all of the members on this tie us and put together something that I think is really You know the. All the different spokes of And and going about it. At one location first to make sure that we're doing it the right way knowing also that other communities are going to be different anyway. I just think it's such a smart strategy I just I think you guys really thought through each part of this