Weekly Agenda Review

March 27, 2022

TCC has a Special called Agenda this week! I missed it originally. AS ALWAYS- this is for information purposes- do with it as you like! #1- preapproving consulting services? IDK how I feel about this one? #3 - Public Safety Master Plan presentation-- I asked a year ago--- I'll ask AGAIN-- Why are there NO PUBLIC SAFETY IMPACT FEES?? (simple explanation- little area of Tampa has added Thousands of apartments- doubling our dwelling units- we have 1 fire station to service these- 5 years ago we had only 3 apartment complexes with more than 2 floors, now we will have 12!! Not to mention DOUBLING our dwelling units!) #4- See PowerPoint in the group, reduction of parking minimums downtown. (I'd like to see the offset cost for developers go directly to transit) #5 Senate Bill 620- Geee- If the local governments make rules that hurt a business, they get to sue them! https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2022/620 #7-8 South of Gandy issues- reporting back. #10-11- Hannah Street-- lots of questions...reading through the documents only makes me pause again for more questions. I don't know enough about it to really go into details. You evaluate for yourself. I'd recommend starting with the 6 page memo from "Grimes and everyone" in SIRE, then look at the documents submitted by the city. You decide. #13- Littering #15-- Directors and Officers insurance. Why doesn't the city already have this? #16- Working on the TCC schedule to get backlogs cleared out. In 2000- the city had 300k citizens, 2020- the city had 400k citizens... and we get more every single week! We don't have enough housing! Maybe it is time to bump TCC to a full time job! Pay them like they are full time employees! --- For those of you who don't know, TCC is part time, making an average of $53k per year. Most of the folks you see are making WELL over double that. TCC has been doing business the same way for nearly 20 years even though they are well over 25% more citizens and _______ insert 2000 budget here and FY2022 Budget 1.8 Billion. A City can't grow that much and continue doing business the same way. It's time for a change.