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End of watch January 29th, 2025. K9 Creed, USFPD. End of watch March 25th, 2025. Right. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'd like to call the meeting to order. Welcome everybody to the June 3rd meeting. Let's start over with the
microphone on. Okay. Hello again. I'd like to welcome everybody to the June June 3rd meeting of the Temple Terrace City Council. Remind you to please silence your electronic devices. And if you would please stand and join me in the invocation and the pledge. Lord, we ask you to bless our meeting
tonight. Grant us wisdom and compassion to advance the common good of all in our city. We pray in a special way for all those in our community who are sick. May they feel your healing graces in the comfort only you can provide. We pray for the members of the Florida legislature during their budget
conference this week. May they work through their differences to produce a budget that advances the good of all Flityians. Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Very good. Tonight we will start with our fun or historic fact. Uh, tonight will be presented by our finance director, Jim Ingram. I think this is the first time you've done this for us.
Yes, it is. So, very good. Well, welcome. I hope it's fun. I think it's fun. Thank you, uh, Vice Mayor Shishler for asking me to to do this. It was his pleasure. I'm sure
I have a long history in this area. In the 70s, I lived in Carolwood and Temple Terrace was that little city with the golf course beyond Bush Gardens. So, um, but in the 1980s, I got very familiar
with Temple Terrace. Uh, in fact, I've lived and worked in and around this area for over 40 years. In fact, in 1985, 40 years ago, I was driving down
56th Street to go to work at today's video, one of the first uh video stores around in this area, just south of 56th Street. Um um not on 56th Street, just
south of Bullard and Bush, right next to the old uh Subway sandwich shop, which is still there. Um, right across the street from where the CRA is now, there used to be the public shopping center.
Um, Casey's Barberh Shop, BaskinRobins. Yeah, I liked to go to BaskinRobins back then. Um, so I've seen some of the businesses have changed. Some of them have moved on. Um, some of them still remain.
But I want to talk about a little bit about some of the local government history and particularly in the um venue or the uh the category of innovation in local government. I saw that uh in our
archives the 198485 fiscal year budget and uh some of you may remember the name Pico Floyd. He was city manager. Thomas Bonfield was the
assistant city manager and director of finance and administration at that time. Uh just a couple of interesting facts. Adalorum revenues were $970,000 almost $19 million. Now the
total general fund budget was $4 million. We're 10 times that much now. By 1986, Tom Bonfield became the city manager. And I'll talk a little bit about him in a minute. But first of all,
Pico Floyd, he was an interesting character. Um, he was city manager of Savannah, Georgia in the late60s. In the 1970s, he was city manager of Clearwater and became the uh county
manager of Hillsboro County before he ended up coming here and I believe he lived here. He also taught public administration at USF. In 1979,
uh, Pico Floyd co-founded the Florida Innovation Group with Temple Terrace resident and former ICMA manager. ICMA stands for the International City and County Management
Association. Um, Bob Havick, he was a Temple Terrace resident and a man named B. Harold Farmer who was the city manager of Gainesville, Florida. And the three of them created
uh this nonprofit organization called the Florida Innovation Group. The organization sought to advance innovative ideas and technologies in local government and grew into a national organization during
the 1980s. The city of Temple Terrace was one of its many participants in Florida. Um through this participation, the city became one of the early adopters of using the internet
and became part of the first local government bulletin board where local government managers and directors could easily exchange ideas and documents. They started using this thing called
email exchange ideas and documents electronically. One of the one of the things that the innovation groups did also was uh publish some books I have one here called cost-saving ideas in local government
um printed on recycled paper as noted. That was big back then. That was innovation in 1992. Um, by the way, yes, I did work for this organization for 25 years and so that's
where my connection comes in. In fact, I helped put this book together. But, uh, on page 46, we have an example from the city of Temple Terrace. Recreation searchcharge helps upgrade
equipment. Um, it lists Temple Terrace's population as 16,000 at that time and it says it generated 15,000 to $20,000 annually of new revenue to help
pay for recreation programs. On page 40, I thought Mr. Nazario might be interested in this one. Video interviews reduce hiring costs. And it lists the contact here as Woody
Huard. You probably remember Mr. Hubard. Human resources director. Video interviews. That's innovation. So just interesting the history that city of Temple Terrace had in in this
organization and in advancing the cause of innovation in local government. Mr. Bonfield uh was city manager here for nearly 14 years. He went on to a very distinguished
career as a city manager of Pensacola and then to Durham, North Carolina, which is part of uh you may have heard the research triangle park and that area of North Carolina very hub of innovation and he was a very
successful city manager and retired from city management just a few years ago. One final note, the Florida City County Managers Association created a scholarship fund
in 1992 called the B Herald Farmer Scholarship. You might remember I mentioned his name earlier. He and Pico Floyd who was city manager in Temple
Terrace and Bob Havick were the ones that formed the Florida Innovation Group. This was a scholarship that SECMA um created awarded a young aspiring student
in the PE field of public administration. It honors and it's still on ongoing today. It honors Mr. Farmer's commitment to professional local government management and the use of innovation to
deliver uh services to Florida residents. The 1999 recipient of that scholarship is in this room tonight. In fact, he's sitting right up among you.
Our city manager, Mr. Carlos Baya. Wow. It comes full circle. Thank you. Good. Thank you, Mr. Ingram. Very interesting. Yes. Council member, a comment real quick. Uh you mentioned uh Mr. Farmer. What you didn't know is he also volunteered a lot for the arts
festival during those time periods. And one of our major category awards is named the Herald Farmer Award. So, he was a very good man in our community. So, it's hard to imagine the world before email and the internet and you
know now video conferencing and I don't I often wonder how things got done before email. I mean I was working but I don't remember how we ever got anything done but probably was much nicer. So thank you. All right. So if
you have paid it looked at our agenda um we were supposed to have mayor for a day today. that has been postponed. Uh the mayor for a day uh has taken ill and so we will do that on the 17th. So first order of business is
approval of the May 20th council meeting minutes if there is move to approve. Second motion and a second by heard council member Fernandez. Uh any discussions or corrections to the minutes? If not all those in favor say I. I.
I. Any nays? No nays and minutes are adopted. Next is persons wishing to be heard on items not listed on the agenda or items on the consent agenda. There are forms in the back of the room for anybody who wishes to address the council. Uh there is a threeminut time
limit imposed on each speaker and we do ask that everybody come to the podium and begin with your name and city of residence. Uh our first request to speak is Mr. Loe. Good evening Mr. Loe. Good evening everybody. My name is Charles Lo in
Terrace Park. Uh tonight I'm going to be talking about something that I just noticed on the calendar. It's called um National Forgiveness Day which is dated according to the Hillsboro calendar Thursday uh June 26,
2025. Now I think we all know that it's the beginning of hurricane season. I also think we all know that it's the beginning of the second century of the city of Temple Terrace. And for those who are non-Jewish, I will inform you that today is the second day of
Shabboat. But I don't think how many uh you all know uh about National Forgiveness Day. In fact, I didn't know anything about till I saw the calendar. I was thinking, gee, you know what would be a good idea for National Forgiveness Day. Now, what would be a good idea in
my opinion for that I'm hoping to interest the city in doing is to organizing the uh houses of worship into a conference so they get everybody could talk. That would include the people that were nice enough to help you all for
River Jam. That would of course include those nice folks that came from the mosque. Uh that would of course include the Protestants and Catholics Church and of course the synagogue up in our way. The reason I think about this is because of the fact it's about all the violence
that I see. I really believe that the city of temp of temple terrace within our community can be a beam of light for in a world where there just really is too much darkness in a nation that there is too. Uh dealing hopefully a week
later would be dealing with uh our independence from prejudice and worse. Um, I was kind of hoping maybe with the technology that people were talking about would be maybe we could snap one of those pictures on the on those smartphones and send it up to the
United Nations to show it can be done. Our young children do need to have role models and they and of course now you might say, well, what do we all have in common aside from the city itself? And of course, aside from the city itself is the environment. And it's not just the
planet's en environment, but it's the human environment as well. In the future, we're all going to be dependent and we're all going to have to work together and we're all going to have to learn to do it. And it has to begin somewhere. As Dr. King uh stated sort of
I'll just add to his quote. You can judge people by the contents of their character rather than by the color of their skin. But also people should not be judged by the faith by their faith in God. So, I hope the city would be interested in doing this. I hope that
maybe we can begin our road to independence against prejudice within this community and maybe if they do something like those uh one-day passes that I would was talking about two weeks ago that the human environment in that way would be improved too that the maybe
that they help the um I I think you all get the idea. Thank you, Mr. Lo. So, I don't think our countdown timer is working at the remote locations. It's It's working there, but not over here. So, I'll I'll keep track.
We'll go back to 1985, and I'll just look at my wall. Next speaker is Lissa Hines. Good evening, Miss Hines. I actually also have um samples to just kind of help you guys go along with what I uh you can provide it to the clerk, please.
Would you reset it, please? Because she hasn't started. There we go. Uh good evening, mayor and city members. My name is Alyssa. I'm a here as a 13-year resident of Temple Terrace to discuss the possibility of truly making our city welcoming uh familyfriendly place for everyone. Recently, I noticed that
Temple Terrace Public Library's Pride Month proclamation on social media, which celebrated inclusivity, a value we can all appreciate. The library also shared book recommendations. I'm sure with the best intentions to highlight diverse stories. I'm certain the the city did not intend to promote child
pornography or pedophilia. However, my frustration is that most of these books recommended by our city included sexually explicit scenes involving minors, i.e. uh child pornography and pedophilia. However, uh which raises concerns among families,
including mine, I have handed you all a copy and some samples of the books that contain out of the respect for those watching and possibly minors listening in, I'm not going to read it aloud. Along with sample pages, I've also included letters that our state education commissioner and state attorney general have recently sent to our public school districts addressing
the unlawful access of these same books. Disturbing fact, these books that were recommending to our community are not actually even allowed in jails and prisons because of the sexual content and violence. While I appreciate the library's commitment to diversity, I believe we can promote inclusivity in ways that align with our shared goal of
protecting children and fostering a safe family oriented community. Our city has a tremendous opportunity to lead by example and we can celebrate Pride Month in occasions with content that uplifts everyone without causing concern about sexualizing children. For instance, there are many wonderful books about the LGBTQ community that focus on positive
age appropriate themes like identity, acceptance, uh aid in love and nonsexual content involving minors. By prioritizing these, we can ensure that our library remains a trusted space for families year round, including during June. I also noticed that the pride
video was removed a day after posting. I'd love to understand the city's reasoning. Was it in response to the negative community feedback concerning the content of the recommendations? It's my understanding of the Florida statute one 11223 subsection 1 and two that a city
is against the it is against the law to delete social media communications including post comments or media. Moving forward, I suggest forming a community advisory committee to review library recommendations before sharing them with the citywide. This would ensure content that reflects our values,
avoided missteps. Although having applied to our library committees in the past and being denied, I'm be happy to contribute to such a group if a seat at the table arises. I'm eager to help our city uh place in a library where everyone can feel safe included. I'm committed to working together with
Temple Terrace, a vibrant family city. I've advocated for protecting children at the c county, state, and national levels, and I'm ready to do the same here. Let's collaborate and create clear guidelines for library content, ensuring it celebrates diversity while prioritizing age appropriate material. Together, we can make the library a
beacon of unity and trust for all of our residents. Thank you. Thank you, Miss Hines. Next speaker is Kim Barish. I was close. You helped me out there. Thank you. Yeah, I tried. Thank you. Good evening, sir. No, thank you for
allowing me to speak. First time talking to people uh about issues uh so I'm a little nervous. So, um we talked about history earlier. I just want to make a comment that I'm fortunate enough to have one of the historical homes of Temple Terrace and uh my house has happened to have be the
one that the first elected mayor of Temple Terrace lived in. So, that was uh kind of nice to listen about history of the government and then be part of that. Um about a year ago, I received a bill, actually 12 months ago to May, um I
received a water bill for $1,256. Back then, it was a burden of proof on me uh to show that I didn't have a leak, if I had a leak, that I repaired it. Uh we went back and forth with the city. Um actually, I lived in the house for 30 years and I wasn't even
on the account. My wife had to start the the process. So, we ended up paying the bill over time and then we finally finished paying that bill and then my wife went to open the new bill thinking that finally we're back down to that $180
$200 bill only to get a $12,650 water bill. I took to social media right away. I was like, uh, I'm not calling the city. I'm just going to see anybody else out there. Actually, I was had a joke that I wanted to say show you a picture of a beautiful boat that I had just
bought the day before that was $150 less than my water bill. So, it was like So, long story short, um I worked with um Angela Torres um in the building department here and they talked about
the sens there was a um some notes from I guess last meeting. They talked about the census uh meters that there was a calibration error. The software was going to be addressed and that there would be extra efforts to put out to monitor these 300 and some odd 382
meters. Um the problem is my billing was not on a census meter. It was the old school meter that had crapped out no longer able to be used to bill. So they did a calculation of historical billing
and came up with this bill. So there are other meters out there that need to have that scrutiny done to the building. So I hope they kind of spread that quality assurance on to what bills go out to the customer uh regardless if it's a census
issue or whatever. Um I just would like to make sure that's extended to those customers as well. I guess that's all I really need to say and thank you guys for all your help. Thank you Mr. bearish. You'll city manager will hear from you at some point on that. Good.
Okay, that's all the requests to speak that I have. Um, next item is a resolution amending the final site plan for the property located at 5340 East 121st. I think that's supposed to be 131st Avenue, not
121st. Um, and our planner, Malik Hall, is here to explain. Good evening, Mr. Hall. Good evening. Good evening, Mayor, City Council, members of staff, and the public. As it was mentioned, we're here today for a
site plan amendment for 5340 131st Avenue. This is an aerial of the property. It is a commercial site at the corner of 131st Avenue and North 56th Street. This is the general area map. The parcel is approximately a little
over half a acre 61. It's zone commercial general and the current use is retail office. This amendment is for two things. to add restaurant to the use and for a minor um modification to the south
elevation. The west and east elevation are remaining the same. No changes to the west and east elevation and there's no change to the north elevation. The change is adding two full-size real windows to the south elevation.
So we are adding restaurant as a permitted use for this site along with the retail and office. Retail office is existing use. We're adding restaurant. So we have retail office and restaurant as a permitted uses. And as far as the
elevation change goes, adding two fulllength real windows to the south elevation. These are the proposed conditions for the application. Just a condition of binding the application to the site plan submitted through the application
process, the site plan review process. Uh binding the application to the elevation submitted through the same process. Binding it to the section 12-380 for the site plan expiration. and as well as where codes do not conflict,
the standard land development code will apply. So just to reiterate, this amendment is to change the southside elevation to add two fulllength real windows and to add a restaurant to the permitted uses.
Thank you, Mr. Hall. Are there members of the public who wish to comment on this item? I see the petitioners representatives are here. Do you wish to say anything? You don't have to. It's up to you. You're You're welcome to if you like. I think we did. Okay, good. Council
members, are there questions? Council member Fernandez, I I have two. um in adding the restaurant use which I I don't have any opposition to but are there any requirements structurally to
the building itself like meaning u air exchange or heights built like interior heights or anything that would have needed to be different in order to have a restaurant in this space? No. Any changes necessary are handled through the building permit process for
the permits for the buildout. So any um modifications of the interior or through the buildouts for the uh unit. Okay. And then uh my only other question is about parking. Is the parking field adequate
for a restaurant use? Yes. The through the application process, the parking ratios were checked to make sure that the addition of this restaurant use would not um create a deficiency in parking. So, no deficiency in parking is created. To add to that, if there were to be other uses added to
the not other uses, if there were to be other restaurants added to this site, the parking ratio will still be checked with each addition to make sure there's no deficiency created. Okay? So just by changing this this use, we aren't
necessarily going to uh each time that use would be added that would they would need to come in front of the city to make sure that the parking was adequate. Yes. To add other uses, not to add other restaurants. So if if the council were to approve tonight um this resolution, then that
would be adding restaurant as a use. So every restaurant added after that which would be at the building permit level would be checked to make sure it does not create a parking deficiency. There's u employees in floor employees in the seating arrangement affect the required
parking for the site. So each time that's checked with each buildout and proposed um restaurant. Okay. Thank you. Other questions council members? I have one Mr. Hall. So I know a few years ago we loosened our restrictions on outdoor seating for restaurants.
Um, actually I was I was a big proponent of that because co every you know people like to sit outside. We live in a in Florida. So would our current ordinance allow outdoor seating at a restaurant in this complex? Because I I have a little
concern about that because the way the building is oriented, it's on 56th Street and the front the entrance way where the seating would be faces homes. Um, so I I I don't care if they put a restaurant in there. It doesn't bother
me at all. But if it entitles them to outdoor seating at the restaurant, then I think we have another question. So outdoor seating is reviewed by uh planning staff and it would have to meet the uh several requirements such as the
clearance for pedestrian access, ADA access and such. I don't believe the clearance is there for this site for the sidewalks. Um, but it is checked to make sure that no issues are caused at the planning and zoning review
level. I don't know if that answers your question. Do I need to Yeah. Um, it it does and it doesn't. I I I I mean I don't think that this would get approved at that level because of the small size of the impact it would have on parking and ADA access and but if this sometime
in the future they put a restaurant they decided to extend a little you know eliminate three parking spaces and cone them in like at Dunderbox and now you have an outdoor seating area. Oh, that's the case. they they would have to um amend the site plan review or amend the
site plan to even do something like that. They the existing site cannot change the exterior of it cannot change without going back through this process. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Tiny Council
Member Kravitz, just curious, is this the same building that we've had all this controversy about about the uh east facing um aesthetic presentation of it where they were supposed to do one thing and didn't quite end up doing that. Is this the same one? Yes, it was corrected
at the previous resolution. Right. Right. Okay. Just checking. Thanks. That's all. Okay, council members, if acceptable, is there a motion? A motion to approve it. Second. Motion second by council member Fernandez. Discussion on the
motion. Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I. Opposed. No. Resolution is adopted. Thank you, Mr. Hall. Thank you, councel. Next is a resolution approving adjustments to the fiscal year 2025 budget. And our finance director, Jim Ingram, is here to explain. Welcome
back. Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Ross and city council. During the first eight months of fiscal year 2025, a few additional revenues and related expenditures not included in the
adopted fiscal year 2025 budget emerged. Exhibit one contains five additional revenues and related expenditures needing an addition to the general fund budget for fiscal year 2025.
First is the A Tree program. Uh Community Development spent $19,962 to purchase a variety of trees for the tree giveaway event in March. The purchase is being funded from the
city's adopt a tree program. Two, the boat improvement grant. The city of Temple Terrace in 2021 received a $250,000 boat ramp improvement grant
from Hillsboro County. Leisure Services recently discussed with the county that we are ready to start multiple projects relating to this grant. The first project is the renovation of the dock at River Hills Park. The lowest quote for
this job was $48,41520. Third, the IPASS or also known as PD bike program. This is an initiative designed to educate the public in safe driving, walking, and biking behaviors, and to increase
compliance with traffic statutes to reduce traffic crashes that result in fatal injuries to both pedestrians and bicyclists. The city of Temple Terrace Police Department participates in this program
administered through the Florida Department of Transportation in coordination with the University of North Florida's Institute of Police Technology and Management. To date, in fiscal year
2025, the city spent $11,019 in police personnel qualifying for reimbursement. Fourth, we have the HR Wellness Program. Our medical insurance
provider, Sigma, has paid out $9,958 in the current fiscal year to help offset the city's wellness program initiative expenditures. And fifth, the FDLE drone
replacement grant. The city of Temple Terrace Fire Department received an FDLE, that's Florida Department of Law Enforcement, grant 100% match to replace a tactical drone cost and grant funds
received totaled $18,621. Exhibit two, it's a much bigger list. It contains a detailed list of fiscal year 2025 expenditures qualifying for FEMA reimbursement. These are for
expenditures related to hurricanes Milton and Helen. Although FEMA reimbursements have neither been received nor obligated, we are allowed to add these to our budget as expected revenues.
We have currently applied to FEMA for reimbursements and should start receiving within the next few months obligations to pay reimbursements. Hurricane Helen's reimburseable cost are $2,155 all within the general fund
public works. Hurricane Milton's reimburseable cost are as follows. General fund is $3,483,858. Street improvement fund is $156,230. The building fund is $9,110. Water and sewer utilities is
$222,424. Sanitation is $35,153. Fleet maintenance is $6,50. And I will just uh add that as a reminder that this does not increase our budgeted
expenditures without matching the revenue. There's no result or no difference in the net. We have equal amount of revenues, equal amount of expenditures that we're adding to the budget. And staff recommends that the
council adopt a resolution approving the adjustments to the fiscal year 2025 budget. And I stand for any questions you might have. Thank you, Mr. Ingram. Are there members of the public who wish to comment? If not, council members,
other questions? C Vice Mayor Schistler. Thank Thank you, Jim, for Mr. Mr. Jingle for sharing this. Uh, additional FEMA from Milton or is this everything? I'm sorry. Additional FEMA expenses for Milton or is this everything?
We will probably come back later before uh by the end of the year for any left over. There's still actually a few ongoing cost related um that we could get reimbursement for. That's
okay. But this is the bulk of it. Okay, that's good. Okay. Thank you, Council Member Fernandez. So, we're amending the fiscal 2025 budget, uh, which that is the budget that will expire on November I mean September 30th. Correct. That's correct. Okay. So, will we actually be
receiving these funds, do you think, or will they start paying them in between now and when that fiscal year ends? That's a little bit of an unknown, but I will say that
uh FEMA has been recently I' I'd like to say stepped up its game and being more uh responsive with our request and with turning things over. And we also have a very good staff
right now that is uh on that constantly. So, it is possible. Uh but it is FEMA so sometimes it does take it may be into the next fiscal year but we are allowed to if they obligate the money any funds
that they obligate and they say we are going to pay this we can go ahead and book that as revenue in the current fiscal year as a receivable. Okay. So um and as this is just for anybody watching these expenses this is a reimbursement
of amounts that the city has already paid out. So this will we and we paid that out of our operating funds uh you know our cash flow and this this will be reimbursing it. So these are not these
expenses have already been incurred by the city. So, this will just be an addition to our um cash flow, our funds. So, and then if it's not if if we don't receive it, which I I don't anticipate
receiving all of this by September 30th, 2025, then this will just be part whatever we don't receive as part of our our 2026 fiscal year budget. Correct. Well, it will uh flow into our revenues for 26. Yes. We actually this year we've
gotten FEMA reimbursements from Idelia and Ian storms that were two years ago receivable. So no, that's it. Okay. Uh no other questions. Is there a motion to approve?
To approve uh resolution uh approving the adjustments to the fiscal year 2025 budgets. Second. Motion to second. discussion of the motion. If not, all those in favor say I. I. I. Opposed, no nays. The resolution is adopted. Thank
you, Mr. Ingram. Next item on the agenda is a resolution approving the employment agreement between the city of Temple Terrace and Linda Seder for the position of city clerk. Um, I will walk you through uh briefly the the contract,
which is pretty straightforward. I did talk with Mrs. sader this afternoon and she had read the contract and she's fine with it. Um although she hasn't signed it yet. We have to get her electronic signature or something on it. We'll figure that out. So, um I'm not going to
read the whole thing to everybody, but uh section one deals with the duties, basically the job description of the city clerk. Section two uh regarding compensation. The only unusual part of this is that we are um giving Mrs. Seder
a $5,000 relocation bonus. However, if she does not stay for a year, she has to pay that back. It'll be deducted from her final paycheck. Um the term in section three, as you'll recall, the city manager's contract are three-year increments.
However, the city attorney and the city clerk are this contract is just in effect until one of the parties terminates it. Section four regards termination and severance pay. There are a few minor
changes in this from the previous city clerk. Um if Mrs. Seder is terminated without cause in the first 12 months of her employment, she will receive 10 weeks of severance pay. If she is terminated
without cause after 12 months of employment, she will get 20 weeks of severance pay. If she resigns, she'll get no severance pay. Or if she's terminated for cause, then she would get no severance pay regardless of the time
period. She will get the cell phone uh stipen that eligible employees get. Um section six involves hours of work. It just says it's normally 40 hours. Section seven uh regards the city uh
obligates a minimum of two. Well, it's not a minimum. It says $2,000 annually for professional development, membership in the Florida Clerk's Association and participation in the annual meeting of the Florida Clerk's Association, which
by the way uh we have talked to her that annual conference is in Miami in July and we have asked her to attend that conference to plan on attending that. So um that will get her on the road.
Section eight involves vacation and sick leave. As is typical with the charter officers, we do seed the vacation bank um as opposed to other employees that come up come in with zero balance. And so with the charters, we've historically
seeded that. And we're doing the same for Mrs. Seder. We putting three weeks of vacation into her bank, her vacation bank. That does not apply to sick time. That's just vacation. uh and then she will acrewue vacation as
a new employee according to the same schedule that other employees acrew. Section 9 involves fringe benefits uh insurance. Uh we will also in consistent with what we do for the other charter employees, we don't we
contribute 15% of their salary into the 401A plan. That's consistent with the other two. Um, and she will also, um, be offered the same benefits of all employees, uh, the cafeteria plan and the health insurance and those type of
things. Um, and that is about it. I'm happy to answer any questions if I can. And Mr. Nazario, I'd like to thank him for his assistance and going back and forth here. And also like to uh, thank the deputy city attorney who has reviewed the contract for legal
sufficiency. So, vice mayor, I have one question. Um when we do our budgets at the end of the year at the end of at the end of the fiscal year we normally allow uh for increases for the charter employees and depending upon when their timing was
always on their anniversary date. Now I know last year we did a fix for that because some started in June so they'd have to wait a whole year before they did that. How does that? And I'm not sure. I couldn't remember exactly how we fixed that or whether that's something that needed to be part of this or was
just a general understanding. Um given given the anniversary date would be next June. Okay. um she wouldn't get anything this year, but we would change it to the we I I
believe we changed it to the um uh uh award date or the fis the new fiscal year where we gave any kind of merit increases for the chart just the charter employees. I think that's what we did too, but I don't remember how we did that. Did we just do it by by resolution or
did we just do it by this is the way we do it? I don't remember. That was the only thing that I thought was missing because potentially it could be up to two years before she would be eligible for any kind of any kind of step increase that we would give to anybody. Truthfully, I didn't go back and look at the I would have to go back and look at
the minutes. I don't really I couldn't remember exactly how he did that. I didn't think about it. Oh, so he may or he may know. I think if memory serves you when you discussed um right at the beginning of the fiscal year, you just we had the evaluations. I had my
evaluation. We just started the fiscal year because where there's a cost of living adjustment that we had October one for all employees and then there was a merit at 2%. And I believe the council had that discussion again if memory serves. I think you you decided here that I don't recall if it was by motion or consensus that you were going to do
everybody at the same time. I believe that's what I think that's what we did too because we're going to have the same issue with with city attorney also at that point. Okay. Good. I think that's what we did because I the date was one of them. I don't remember which one. The portion that was at your anniversary
date was right before the new fiscal year. So, they were never going to get much benefit from Yeah. Okay. That's the only That's the only That's the only question I had on to make sure that we don't, you know, put somebody behind two years in and any kind of increases like
that. That's all. Okay. I skipped over public comments. Are there members of the public who wish to comment on this? Okay. Well, if not, is there a motion to approve the contract move to approve the employment contract uh between the city temple terrace and
Linda Seder? Second. Any discussion of the agreement of the motion? If not, all those in favor say I. I opposed. No nays. Good. Thank you. And thank you again, Mr. Nazera, for your help. And Mr. Mueller's not here, but thank him,
too. All right. Carry over council business. Council members, carry over council business. I have one. Council member Fernandez. Um, with Sutton Hall, I know the city was uh going in and looking at the
building and filming it and going to, you know, see what they could salvage and also have a film that we can show on our YouTube channel and our TV. Can you update us on the status?
Can I ask my marketing communications officer? she come up to the podium because I'm not sure where we are with the video. It's probably in post-prouction I would imagine. Yes, we you have the Yeah. Yes, we have the video and uh we're currently working on it. It would be
it's it's very extensive and it requires voice over um by one of our staff and so you know we have to work with our schedule to be able to have this professionally done and you know something that people are going to
cherish for a while for a long time. So you know it's it's taking a little bit because of that but yes it will be available soon on all our social medias and the YouTube channel. Okay. Thank you. I just there had been some questions about Satan Hall specifically
on the and I just wanted to put that out there and and as to your other part of your question I I know that um Miss Robinson deputy director for community development who's sort of our resident historian who's probably doing voice voiceover I imagine is u uh she's been working with Dr. Weaver at Sutton Hall,
excuse me, at Florida College to work on an arrangement to salvage, you know, key elements and to and working with the Tampa Bay Historical Center trying to inquire as to like things that can be done. So that those conversations are ongoing right now. Okay. So I have a follow-up question. Um, if
we where can we display some of the items that do exist, whether they're right now in somebody's private collection or whether it's something that we're able to salvage. Um, do we have any plans for locations that things could be
displayed? So, we have uh we have display cases and that could be made available in the library. We have display cases that can made available at the rec center for example um for smaller items. Now if we're talking about a column that may in the top of a tower that's a little bit
the scale on that it's going to be a little tricky. Um, I know that we we've we've talked about creating some sort of museum space potentially even here at city hall. The day that, for example, when we move um when we create the EOC, we finally build the EOC, dispatch, will
move out to that facility, that'll open up some space immediately upon entrance into city hall. That might be an area we could have some more prominent display right at the as soon as people walk in. So, we're uh we're keeping that in the plan, I should say, sort of informally right now. That's something we'd like to
have a conversation with council about obviously. Um and then we're also contemplating uh an area to um store some of the historical artifacts that we have heard that several members of the community may have. We have yet to actually go in and archive not archive
those but document and figure out what what what are we talking about? how big is the collection and things like that. And so, um, once we are able to do that, I think we have some opportunities for storage and then again will be the display space. I think it might line up in terms of timing because the EOC we
built has to build by February into February of 2027. So, these things might kind of play out over the next couple years. In the meantime, again, small items we can put in the in those displays at those existing facilities. Perfect. Good. Council member Chambers,
also on that, the U city has been given permission by the Tampa History Museum to have a display area at their museum for two months, and I know Miss Robinson's working on that display along with others in the community. Okay, other council business. Council member
Kravitz, I wanted to suggest a field trip. Everyone likes field trips. So I was thinking maybe we could work on our communication by going to Starbucks downtown or Burger King at some point in the future. It could be properly noticed. So no sunshine violation. Maybe I've always hoped and believed in
personal connection. I think that's really important reaching people in that way. Is there anyone who's interested in uh taking me up on that? Like putting out a like a town kind of a town hall or like a neighborhood meeting? Yeah, chiefly where we could talk though about just outside of this
formal setting. I've uh gotten the idea from people who are on other boards on the county level. So that was the inspiration for this. I thought it might be nice to to break out of this mold and just kind of meet each other as people with the proper notice of course and also with the required sunshine law
rules. I had no issue. Yeah. A variation of coffee with the cops or something like that. There you go. Mr. Sh, if it would be similar to a town hall as long as it's properly noticed,
then you can meet as a group as it needs to be within the city limits though. It would be appropriate if we went downtown. I mean I I have no objection to having a a city event where people can come and
talk to us informally as well. So you're talking about us or are you talking about the public? Well, we can't exclude the public. No, I know I'm saying it was if you're talking about just the five of this meeting is one thing as opposed to a town hall situ scenario. This is where
I was hoping it would I'm sure we would properly notice it and we might attract members of the public, but that wouldn't be the primary purpose. Of course, they could come if they would like to and watch us have coffee or eat a burger or whatever it may be. I just But the primary purpose is to to be able to connect with each other outside of this
formal setting. That was my idea. Schedule it. So, should I make a motion? Anyone object? Do we need a motion? Do we need a motion? Well, it would be a special meeting. So, I guess we would need a motion. Council
or city manager? That's fine. Just for clarification. So, that council member Kravitz, are you is it a meeting with an agenda or is it is it I'm just we're going to work with you to make it happen if that's what council wants to do, but I'm just trying to get an understanding of how we would notice it as to what it
would be if there's something you wanted to cover or is it just an open conversation about whatever city business people may want to talk about? Uh my my understanding is that it would be a field trip. So I don't I don't think it requires an agenda. I think it
just requires notice. But No, it does require an agenda. Yep. Then the agenda would be to uh work on our communication a field trip to to Starbucks. You said Starbucks. Sure. Okay. Or Burger King if anyone would prefer. I like Burger King,
too. So we can't very good coupons for them. We can't do this tonight. We could start this tonight, but we we have to schedule a special meeting in a regular meeting. So, we would have to know the date and time in order to do that. So, we would have to do that at
the next meeting to actually schedule it. Okay. And I I think following up on the city manager's questions and and how we notice this, is this supposed to be the public coming and sitting and observing
all of you talking to each other or is this involving participation of the public and getting into the conversation? That was my question. It sounds like everybody's supposed to just watch you all have coffee. Well, that
that might be a byproduct, but that wasn't my my goal. My goal was for us to just talk. And, you know, judging by what public participation usually is, I'd be surprised if anyone turns up, but you never know. But I think if we could limit it to just us talking without the
public having a right to speak and that were permissible, that would be more in line with my proposal. But, you know, if someone else has a differing opinion, I'm fine hearing it. have a strong opinion on it one way or another. I doubt anyone will come,
frankly. I'm I'm looking at you. Um I I know I mean I've taken official field trips with TPO and other board. I mean, I know they can be done, but I've never done anything like this. So, I'm I mean, as long as it's above
board, I just don't want to read about us in the right Tampa Times, right? I I I think that as as long as we have we we know what the purpose of it is and we advertise it accordingly and notice is
given it can be done as a special meeting. I don't know about picking Starbucks or Burger King. It see I don't if lots of people came it's they're not going to fit. So it's going to need you know our town halls are usually done at
the country club. There's plenty of room. So, um, or like, uh, we could meet at the country club. I don't have a problem with that. Um, my thought about, um, Starbucks and Burger King is that they're both ADA compliant, which I believe is a Sunshine Law
requirement. You would have to take minutes, too. Yeah. I I don't know what we're going to talk about. I think there's not uh might not be such a strong minutes requirement on that, but I could be mistaken. Anyway, I'm sure someone will be able to
find a good venue. Don't don't get hung up on Starbucks or Burger King. Those were just my thoughts. I I just have a question. I mean, is it possible as the special meeting to basically have an open forum where the council can can talk
informally, but also the public can interact with the council informally versus a town hall where we're usually sitting at a desk or, you know, the the table in the front of the room and maybe taking questions. Um, that, you know, I'm familiar with
that format. Is it possible to have a more informal special meeting? It is as long as you decide ahead of time what the format of this is going to be with the town hall purposes so that the citizens can ask questions and
receive answers. Again, this is sounding more like an invitation to coffee where the public the public can and should be able to show up if all of you are present and to just really sit and
listen to you all share coffee. Okay, second option. Couldn't we do this much like we do the budget meetings at the library conference room and set a rectangular
table up and have the public I mean that's a city building. It's open to the public. They don't have to buy anything to be there. Um and we can spring for the coffee ourselves and just get somebody to
deliver some coffee. Could could we do it there? It's I have no problem with it legally, which is seems to me like that's perception wise that's more of a public I mean that's a city building
that's open to the public anyway, right? And there's room in there for the five of us to sit around a table and the public can sit like they are here. I like that idea and it's not endorsing any particular business and and they can hear everything that's said. I mean, if
we're huddled up at a table in Starbucks, they they might be there at the next table, but they can't hear right the side conversations that are going on. They may not be able to hear that in that setting. They would be able to hear everything. Whatever everyone's comfortable with,
I'm I'm easy. Whatever. Okay. Well, guess city manager. All right. So, if we if we were to go down that direction, we can find availability between now and the next meeting. We'll determine availability if that's the direction of council to use that particular room. Provide you some some dates for you to
consider. Um I question I would have is uh is this something you'd want us to record terms of we can take minutes. Obviously, it's a public meeting. We have to take minutes, but record like we do these meetings. Um not necessarily transmitted live because we're going to be at the library. That'll be tough. But
that's another question we would have without a specific agenda. I don't I don't think so. It's you know I wouldn't say anything in Kumbaya. So it's whatever whatever makes it less and less formal. So for me no recording for sure. I think
that's acceptable. Okay. Good. Any other council business? I got one more thing. Mr. Kra. Council member, I'm going to pass this out because I can't do a PowerPoint. So, this is about um one, two, three, four. This is about and I have extra copies
here in case anyone from the public wants it. Um Oh, yeah, of course. So, this is just a thought that I had about the parking layout at um Riverside Park and the uh I had a nice chat with the city
manager and he said that we were approaching the 60 to 70% completion mark for the planning process from health. So, I thought this would be the moment to strike. Um, so I have it's it's just really a simple
adjustment and I'm not proposing that we endorse this as the final uh final layout. Um, what I would like is for Hal to provide two samples. So, one of the uh proposals from them could be the existing one that they're working on
with the parking in the actual park. And another one that they work on, a second option for us to consider would be to relocate the parking to east of the retention pond at Springdale. And I think this has a couple of benefits which I've put in
this paper here. Um, one of them is you won't have traffic going in and out of Oh, sorry. I thought you wanted to say something. That's fine. Um uh one would be that it limits traffic on um River Hills Drive. So you'd have cars
going in and out of this loop that Hal has designed and that would slow traffic down as it progresses to 56th Street. Um and with this second option, you wouldn't have that uh the traffic on River Hills would be unobstructed. Another advantage would be that this
parking is in the midpoint between downtown's pedestrian area and Riverside Park. So that was the other benefit that I saw here. And of course the the biggest benefit is that it increases the amount of available pure green space in the actual park itself. So those were
those were just a couple thoughts. I don't know if anyone has any sympathy for this. I've had a a small mockup made here just sort of what the parking might look like if it were a budding um Springdale place in the second option there. But obviously the final design would be from Hal and I have no idea what it would end up looking like or
what the practicalities would be. all those details would be for them. Um, and again, the goal is not here to say do A or do B. It's just we'd like to see A and B as options before we finalize the design for the park. Does anyone have any thoughts on that?
I I don't see any great I having been developing the other park down there, one of the biggest complaints we got was people walking across River Hills Drive to get to the park. So now you're increasing that danger and people carrying other items to go to do a picnics or not. So they're they're
crossing a major street like that. That's a downfall in my opinion. But to have have our people kayaks and canoes carrying kayaks and canoes. But giving getting the professionals to look at it, the park people to give us options. I think that's a that's a fair point.
Yeah, it's a it's a really good point. I I thought of that and you're right. pedestrian traffic is a concern. Um the the main stumbling block that I had when I thought about that though is this link up is actually already part of
our pedestrian master plan that we want people to cross river hills anyway. So it's not making that worse per se. And also if you have people parking at the Riverside Park, some of them might take the parking space there and then walk
north to downtown and that would be something that you'd be not having in this scenario. So I don't know how it would all play out in detail. I mean, I'm not a big fan of that, but I'm I'm one council member and I'm not the park professional designers and that's what they we could have them look at that.
Couple of concerns I have with this because this has been floated before. This is not the first time this idea has been floated. One is there's a lot fewer parking spaces available for if that's your only
parking. Two is we're putting in a paddle launch and there's nowhere to park and offload your canoe or kayak and drag it down to the boat launch. You're dragging you got to carry it across the street now. So, where we landed on this prior was to
build the parking lot where it's proposed. However, um the idea of putting additional parking spaces there is not a bad idea, but we've also had concerns about the people on the east side of that road that now have parking spaces
directly across from their driveway and might not like this idea a whole lot of having people parking right in right across the street from them. where we landed before in our discussions was to put the parking over
here. But if this park is a huge success and we find ourselves needing additional parking and maybe maybe the Springdale Park area is very popular and we can reduce people crossing River Hills by putting this also at the future time.
This is our land. So there's nothing that would preclude us from putting this in at the future time. We're not building anything there anyway. So that that's where we landed before on that. I mean, it's up to the council. I'm I'm not crazy about spending additional
money on the design for something that if if we know we're already kind of leaning towards doing it the other way. Um but but this idea of par of parking along and actually the parallel parking is a good idea actually. I like that. Um
take less of the park space, less intrusion. So um but I wouldn't think it's an eitheror. I would think it's maybe a both and um do the other one first and see what happens. But we always have that to to augment. That's just my two
cents. Maybe they could do three designs. H maybe they could do three designs. Well, they'll design whatever we want to pay them to design, but all that stuff cost us money to do. Um Mr. Bay, any any thoughts on this?
Um, so I I know that council member Ky he shared this with me before. I think all the concerns that have been raised here or the items that have been raised are are still valid. Um, one thing to consider that hasn't been mentioned before is that u the street parking will
be viewed as street parking and so I think natural tendency is people are going to use it for their college kids to park there or somebody you know family guests and things like that. And so the spaces on the street are more likely to be used for alternative uses, not necessarily park uses, which we
could address by signage and enforcement, but that is can be touchand go. Whereas if you have the spaces located in the park, it's a little easier. We can gate the park um and close those spaces off when it's not park hours uh so that people don't use it as a as a permanent parking lot. Um
it is correct and I apologize to Council Member Kravitz. I know he brought this up before. I was I didn't have a chance yet to to reach out to to um through director Langfeld and half to get an idea of how magnitude of cost to make these changes had alternatives. I don't have that information for you this evening. Um but there I would imagine
there will be a cost to to do this extra work. I just don't know what it is. I could report back to you at the next meeting if if that's what you would like us to do. I will also let you know that we are starting to get um pricing information uh for the park project. I I
did ask Mr. Langfeld and the half team to break it out in a certain way so I could understand, you know, if we if we needed to phase this and not this specific item, but the park design, things like that. So, we're working through that right now and I'm hoping to report that to you at some point over the next several weeks as well.
Council member Fernandez, um, for this project, it is potent, I mean, the potential is there that we would need more parking. Is there a process in this design in in the design process? Is
there anything where they can look at the space as a whole and recommend how to add parking in the future if we if we need to add parking like and you know maybe say like in the future this is where you could put some
additional parking or or you know I'm just thinking as the full the comprehensive pedestrian plan park integration all of that they they might be able to do that where
but I'm just thinking about this area. It's pretty limited in terms of the footprint. I mean, if you want to maintain if if you want to maximize your green space, there's not a whole lot to work with. Uh and which is I think what council member crab is trying to get at is what is alternative here. Um so I I
can't conceptualize right now where they might think of adding extra parking beyond the alternative that he's mentioned here. As I mentioned before to the council, there are several dozen spaces available by Waverly Terrace Apartments, which is further to the
north that are city spaces. That is public space. Um that if we wanted to, if the area really blossomed into a real, you know, high activity, you know, attractor, we would use those spaces a lot more. We'd probably sign those differently so the public is, you know,
much more cognizant that those are for everybody's use. Uh, and that would help, but that's a little bit of a distance away from here. Uh, but again, I think people will walk as I think the council member's point, people will walk if it's truly successful. Right now, carrying a kayak or canoe, it's a
different story, but if you're just, you know, meandering around, I think they'll they might park further away. Okay. Perhaps we could have a single or two or three. I don't know what the number of people who kayak is, but we could have dedicated kayak parking on the other side. They could be, you know, only for
people who have kayaks so that they don't have to cross the street with the kayak. You could do a few of those and still maybe reduce the amount of parking south of River Hills. Again, my
goal is just it's a small park. Every square foot is important. So, we've already approved this concept, though. This is a change order. Perhaps we could ask how what it might cost to
get an evaluation like this and then we can decide from there. I don't want to slow it down. I don't have an issue with the existing plan that we we have picked. I I I see your points and and the
goal. If anything, I would want to add the spaces, not either or because I see us as ultimately needing more parking in the whole area. Hopefully. Yeah.
So, this would be a change to a previous vote. So, therefore, there would need to be more than a headnod. This would have to be a motion in order to over not overturn to amend would I guess the the
pre because the council did vote to approve the concept as it is. So, I'm not getting the sense that there's a lot of interest in this, though. I Well, maybe not the way that you first conceived it, but I I do think the idea
in the future may bear some reconsideration once we get it open and see what generates. Maybe nobody brings a kayak. Maybe we have too much parking. And maybe people are walking and using the Springdale side more. I mean, I I I
wouldn't, this is just me speaking, but I this is an idea that I think might have some merit. I just don't want to give up the parking on the southside, in my opinion, to cut a fraction of the number of parking spaces and they're all across River Hills. So, like I said, I
don't think it's either or. I think this may be viable. I'm just not crazy personally about giving a change order and slowing this project down and spending more money on I liked it the way it was. Um I still like it, but I do think this idea might have some
merit. My concern is uh yeah, twofold. One would be the the impact on the park of having the parking in the actual park itself just in terms of the space. I already mentioned that. And the other one is traffic coming in and out because River Hills can get very backed up during uh certain times of day. And
yeah, but other than that, I completely understand what everyone has been saying. Council member Chambers. Yeah, thank you. Um I can't support doing away with parking on uh the other side of River Hills. The uh part of the problem with um Riverside now, the park that's
developed is there's no parking. And we've had trouble with Mr. to people parking in his property because they they're having to walk across the street. So, I I can't support limiting any spaces on the on the south side of River Hills Drive that's in the current
design. Not opposed to adding spaces up at the other place. So, that's just me. Oh, file it away as an interesting idea then. Okay. Is there other council business? Other council business? If not, is there
any new business or board reports? Today, city manager reports. I do not have anything. I have one question for you. Oh, sure. Council member Fernandez. Go ahead.
Um, I want I wondered if because we are putting a survey out at some point for the planning to um update our planning documents and there was a question about getting people interested in doing the survey and possibly offering if the
planning commission offered a gift card or something for people willing to complete the survey. I didn't know if you had an update on that. I'm going to ask Mr. Paulie. I know he and I spoke briefly about it at the last council meeting. Not sure if there's been any developments yet from the planning commission.
Good evening everyone. Greg Paulie, director of community development. And a followup to uh the question that came up a couple meetings ago. We did have a conversation with our liaison from the planning commission and without
um overcommitting an unset schedule at this point. She wasn't able to really give us much feedback as to our process. They're currently still in the in the throws of trying to complete
Tampa's comp plan. Um so they recognize that uh they want to get plugged in with us early but they really haven't had a chance to uh roll the ball too far at this point as far as we are concerned but uh we have shared some of these ideas with them um justformationally at
this point. Okay. Thank you. City attorney's report. Thank you. I've got a lean reduction to report. Uh this is for 6109 Oak Fern Court. There were two cases going back to
2019. One was for a garage door not being in good repair and overgrown grass. And the other one um it see there was some kind of a hole in the roof or perhaps just missing shingles. One of the leans had um risen to $9,100 and the
other one had risen to $3,210. the owner of the property passed away and the property then went to his daughter who did not who lived in Arizona. So she was trying to deal with this long distance. She had health
issues, was on a fixed income. This just was really an overwhelming situation for her. Um, however, uh, she has, um, gotten into compliance and, um, I believe the house is going to be going
up for sale. And the, uh, lean, um, we reduced the one lean to $1,250 and the other lean to $1,000. The city costs for each one was $250. We have received the check already
for $2,250. That's it. Thank you, Mr. Shonne. Is there other business to come before the board? If not, we'll stand ajourned. [Music]
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