Weekly Agenda Review

September 7, 2023

9/7/23

  1. Greg Spearman- commendation
  2. See #1
  3. Commendation for officer Leo Palle
  4. Walter Smith and Walter Smith III to speak on Deaf Awareness Month
  5. Nelson Construction- Seminole Heights goat rope update…. SMH
  6. Assignment of impact fees- Not really happy about this. IMPACT FEES should be spent where the IMPACTS are made! It looks like from the attached document that Tally preempted the previous ordinances
  7. It looks like the City of Tampa (COT) is contracting with a company to issues tickets?? And do public information sharing about traffic violence?
  8. $177k for maintenance of the Spidr texting system for TPD
  9. Grant receipt for $60k for ADA compliant walkway at Ben T Davis Beach
  10. See #9
  11. Workbased learning- host contract paid work based training between CoT and Tampa Bay Workforce Alliance DBA- Career Source—there is NO money amount attached, there is an increase from 192 hours to 200 hours for this program participants
  12. Special Event Code- Fight 4 Pease Mental Health Awareness
  13. Special Event Code- Viva Tampa Bay Hispanic festival
  14. Special Event Code- Bucs Treasure Chest
  15. Special Event Code- Live oaks Bike Rodeo
  16. Special Event Code- Tampa Bay Veg Fest
  17. Agreement with Matheson Tr-Gas- CPI of 9.3% supplying liquid oxygen in the amount of $1million
  18. $1 million for the rehabilitation of the Adalee Pumping station
  19. LOOKY- LOOKY—this is a form for a contract with vendors who are utilized on as needed basis YET there is NO place for the amount to be paid. There is NO accounting for work is to be done. I also think that TCC should DEMAND that the budget line item where funds are withdrawn should be included as well.
  20. Second Amendment to the contract with RTD Construction- The original contract was for $4.7 million, they added work to the project that brought the overall price up to $10.3 million.
  21. $365k of paving with Tutle Infrastructure Partners, I don’t see that any other bids were put in for this project?
  22. Moving $4.5 million from Wastewater Revenue to Operating Expenses
  23. Moving $3.6 million from Water Department reserves to operating expenses.
  24. Grate work at McKay bay contract with Serve Pro for $488k for Solid waste, without price increase.
  25. Plumbing services at McKay bay in the amount of $1.2 million this RFP saved us 39% by the bid process.
  26. Receipt of grant from Resilient Florida Program Planning- $75k
  27. Purchase of Vermeer Vacuum Excavator trailer mounted for water department $119k.
  28. Approve Vendor- Promise Network as vendor for low-income household water assistance program.
  29. Moving from Logistic Asset Management from Expenses to Capital fund $5500 (not thousands, 55 hundred)
  30. HIPAA agreement with Life Extension Clinics for the TPD voluntary Employee Prevention & Wellness Physicals $580k
  31. Movement from City of Tampa FY23 budget to $2.8 million to TFR and TPD to State of Florida Pension Contributions.
  32. Moving money around for TPD and TFR- I don’t understand the movement, it doesn’t make sense. The debit and credit columns aren’t equal.
  33. City of Tampa agreement with VRC Companies LLC for offsite records management $200k without price escalation.
  34. INTERNAL AUDIT of Wastewater Pump Station Maintenance
  35. Funding agreement with the Catholic Charities for homelss housing services for $1million dollars
  36. Funding agreement with Hillsborough Homeless Initiative for $150k for liaison services.
  37. $557k contract between the City of Tampa and Catholic Charities for Tampa HOPE for $557k
  38. City of Tampa agreement with Catholic Charities for $1.25 million- for SHIP partial funding of 17 unit townhomes for affordable housing up to 80% of AMI
  39. Release of Easement at 6220 S Dale Mabry Hwy – at Winward Estates Mobile Home park
  40. Release of Easement 4215 N Coolidge Ave in Drew Park
  41. Release of Easement 4008 E Bluff Ave
  42. Release of Easement 2913 W Bay Court
  43. Release of Easement 2808 N 16th St
  44. Release of Easement 3116 W Pearl Ave
  45. Charges for securing 3413 E 22nd Ave – owner- twenty second trust—3266.65—Surcharge of $125 for this service from the city. How much does this cost the city to process?
  46. $11k agreement with HUD and the city for training by the Tampa Office of Human Rights.
  47. Fair Housing assistance agreement between the City of Tampa and HUD to reimburse the City of it’s costs for case processing of a dually filed housing discrimination complaints by Tampa office of Human rights in the amount of $55k.
  48. Cooperative agreement award for Fair Housing assistance program between HUD and the City of Tampa for processing and intake of housing discrimination complaints $13,400
  49. Revision of Bonus agreement from 2006 for property not developed at 940 Channelside Dr- from previous laundry list of city upgrades (including 16 “affordable housing units”) to 27 affordable housing units at 80% AMI.
  50. City of Tampa cleaning up the following properties- 3724 N Whittier and 4218 N 29th St
  51. Release of Easement- 214 S Renellie
  52. Grant of Transportation Easement of 623 East 7th Ave
  53. City of Tampa agreement with Keystone Painting Inc. Furnishing Tree Grate Maintenance and Painting Sheltered Market solicitation for $129k for Ybor CRA. I always wonder why they don’t rebid when a vendor isn’t giving excellent service?
  54. City of Tampa and HCP Associates without price escalation for Marketing and media for Ybor City CRA- $100k
  55. Platt of East Commanche Townhomes- The property is located S of Commanche, North of Mohawk and East of 15th st
  56. Hosting agreement between City of Tampa and Selectron Technologies for software for use by Development and Growth Management/Construction services.
  57. Leasing parking lots to THEA in agreement with City of Tampa. – some of these have been in place since the 1970s.
  58. City of Tampa contract for temporary Traffic Labor with Personnel Solutions LLC- for $185k the bid process saved the city of Tampa 29%. What I’d like to know is…are these folks necessary for City events or for private events? If they are for private/public/non-city of Tampa events, where are the invoices billing the folks providing those events?
  59. Renewal of contract between City of Tampa nd West Florida Fence with a 5% manufacturers price escalation to $300k for mobility department
  60. Renewal between the City of Tampa and Rob Michael Inc for $450k for Streetlight pole replacement and maintenance services
  61. Petition for review for 1936 W Nassau St – scheduled for November 2, 2023
  62. Brownfield Designation for 1306 E 4th Ave 2nd hearing
  63. 2nd reading 3707 & 3709 W McKay ave - rezoning
  64. 2nd reading 2529 W Curtis St
  65. 2nd Reading 6603 S Trask PD
  66. 2nd reading 3204 W cypress St
  67. 2nd Reading 5232 S Macdill Ave
  68. 2nd reading 5604 N Church Ave
  69. 2nd Reading 3917 N Nebraska Ave
  70. 2nd reading 3119 W San Pedro
  71. Administrative UPDATE—HOW about that 5.5 Million that was promised for housing last year being moved to Housing from SOLID WASTE??????
  72. TFR and TPD to provide action plan for Public Safety Master Plan!
  73. STAFF and Construction company to appear to explain why citizens weren’t allowed to ask question about the East Tampa Rec Center??? SMH- SHAME on them!!
  74. Fred Hearns position as historian for City of Tampa
  75. Report on Senate Bill 102 from Staff
  76. Possibility of expanding the Central Business District to Channelside Drive
  77. Staff report on the surface parking in Central Business District and Ybor
  78. 7700 W Courtney Campbell Causeway- I think this is the place they were having “concerts” and that was a problem?
  79. Legal department present a draft ordinance that City Council can’t raise their salaries beyond inflation adjustment--- this should go for the MAYOR also--- we have 8 elected officials!
  80. Mr. Shelby will present a framework for small self-insurance policy for TCC members.
  81. Parks and Rec to report on the catering policy and add minority caterers to the list of preferred caterers.
  82. Chief Diversity officer will present an update on their roll involving racism within the community.