Welcome to the City of St. Petersburg City Council Meeting. Your elected officials are Mayor Ken Welch, District 1 and Council Chair, Hopefully Gertis, District 2, Brandi Gabbard. District 3, Mike Harding. District 4 and Council Vice Chair, LaSeth Panowitz. District 5, Deborah Fick Sanders. District 6, Gina Driscoll. District 7, Corey Gibbons Jr., and District 8, Richie Floyd. Good afternoon. We're going to call to order the May 15, 2025 City Council meeting. Clerk, could we please do a roll call? Exenders. Driscoll. Gibbons, you're. Your glory, your goddess, your Aber, Arning, Hanewas. Here. Okay, today we... Would we please do a roll call? Exanders. Drisco. Here. Givens. Here. Lower. Here. Here. Abert. Arning. Here. Here. Okay. Today we will have our invocation given by our very own Councilmember Gina Driscoll. And then please remain standing for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. Thank you. Lord, we stand here before you today full of thanks and praise for this beautiful day, and for all that you have given to us here on Earth. We humbly ask for your blessing upon our city, and its residents so that the sun can continue to shine on all, reflecting the inclusive light of your love that touches each and every one of us as we are all created by you. Today in these chambers guide our hearts and our minds in the spirit of fairness and cooperation as we conduct the business of our great city. In part, you're supreme wisdom upon our activities so that we may serve you through our service to others and your name we pray, amen. Amen. What do you do to the black of the United States of America and then to the republic for which it stands? One nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Council Member Driscoll, thank you so much for that beautiful location. Okay, council members, we have an agenda in front of us. I'll entertain a motion for approval. We have a motion and a second. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please any of your votes. Seeing this all present, council members have voted. Clerk, please tally and announce the vote. Mr. Chair, motion to approve the agenda passage unanimously with council member Gabbert being absent. Okay. Council members, we have a consent agenda. Clerk, do we have a comment on the consent agenda? No car is Mr. Chair. Okay, I'll entertain our motion for approval. We have a motion and a second on the consent agenda. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak, clerk, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please any revotes. Seeing as all present council members have voted, clerk, please tally and announce the vote. Mr. Chair, motion to approve the consent agenda passed unanimously with council member Gabri P. Hamsen. Okay, thank you. All right. 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When it is your turn to speak, you'll be unmuted and access state your name and address. Got the conclusion of your comments or when you reach your three minute time limit, you will be muted. All raise hands will be lowered after each agenda item. Regardless of the method of participation used, normal rules apply, including the three-minute time limit on comments, the requirement that any presentation materials must be submitted in advance of the meeting and the rules of the quorum. If live public comment is disrupted by violations of the rules of the quorum, the chair is authorized to accept public comment by alternate means, including by email only, and we do not have any speakers in chamber. No Zoom speakers. Okay. No speakers for open forum. Then we will move right into F1, a resolution approving a re-instatement and second amendment to the agreement for our autonomy LLC. And I think we have Celeste Davis. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Celeste Davis, Director of Arts, Culture and Tourism. Thank you, Council Chair Gertis and members of City Council. I have a report on the extension request for the Sunshine City Mosaic. So the timeline is August 16th, the Public Arts Commission approved the selection of the Sunshine City Mosaic to be designed, fabricated and installed by our autonomy, which include Laura Spencer, Alex Kaufman, and George Redkish at Sunset Park located at 7,400 Central Avenue St. Pete. On April 12, City Council approved the $50,000 agreement with our autonomy to install the Sunshine City Mosaic and there you can see how it fits into the park. On May 23rd, city pours the concrete sidewalk in preparation of the Mosaic installation. On December 20th, 2023, our autonomy asked for and was granted a 90-day extension to complete the work and submitted all required documents. On June 10th, Council approved an amendment to the agreement that extended the term of the agreement for an additional eight months and 15 days. On March 6, Council approved a second amendment for completion by May 1. March 11, have just done a compressed timeline to show all of the actions that have been taken to the city council. They will need additional time to complete the Sunshine City mosaic. Here I have just done a compressed timeline to show all of the actions that have been taken so far and to also show how we got to the May 15th request for the Second Amendment to the Autonomy Agreement. Here is a video that will show the process that autonomy is using to create the mosaic. I might ask the clerk for a little support. How do I get the video working. OK. OK. It was a time lapse that illustrated the process in the detail that was required to complete the mosaic. I have with me the members of our autonomy that will also talk about the process and the timeline. Good afternoon council. My name is Laura Spencer. I'm an artist here in the city of St. Pete, born and raised, and I am the designer and project manager for the Sunsrine City Mosaic. I'm Alex Kaufman, I'm also an artist in St. Petersburg. I'm part of the team as well. Hello, my name is George Wretchkesh, third member of the for the sons. Sons, Sons, Sons, Sons, Sidi, Mosaic. With the three of us, we are three emerging artists that really love the city and have been working on this project since August of 2022. As three emerging artists, we all work full-time jobs in the art sectors here in the city of St. Pete. Both George and Alex are employed at MGA sculpture studios. I'm a full-time freelance artist. Currently. artists, we all work full-time jobs in the art sectors here in the city of St. Pete. Both George and Alex are employed at MGA sculpture studios. I am a full-time freelance artist currently on leave from a mural project as we speak, in fact. So today we present our project to you for review and approval of our extension. As of right now, we have one final section of the 172- long mosaic, ready for assembly and ready for installation, starting June 1st. This project comprises over 800 square feet and 15,000 individual pieces of tile. So needless to say, as three emerging artists, it's a project that has been quite large and quite ambitious, but we are so excited to share this love letter with the City of St. Pete. Thank you. time chair. We'd like to ask for a deferral. Thank you. To Thank you. This time, Chair, we'd like to ask for a deferral. Thank you. To address the installation of the piece and to adjust the language in the agreement so that we will not have to come back again to have it reassessed. OK. it reassessed. Okay. Council Member Driscoll. Thank you. Thank you for this bringing this item forward. And thank you to the artists who have remained committed to this project. Through what appears to be some ups and downs. I know that often, especially when you're doing a larger project, it is difficult to anticipate the time and also the challenges that may arise. Well, I guess first could I ask why it's being requested that we differ this item? The agreement states that by May 15th all sections have to be completed, but after looking that just cannot happen by the 15th, there's a section that has to be completed on-site. Okay. There is, so in the agreement, it's in two parts. There's a section that has to be, all sections have to be completed, and then the second part is for installation. The agreement has been signed but as we went over it there are some tiles that need to be actually installed on site. I'm just trying to figure out because we've got this today and I'm just a little confused because usually when an item is deferred that's brought up before the City Council meeting starts and it's discussed so I might be missing something. I decided to keep this item on the agenda because if A of being in my district and wanting the update and two frankly I wanted to hear the report and share some of my frustration and that's why I kept it on councilmember so I'm sorry. Okay, no I thank you sir I think that's fair so now that part makes sense. The other question have actually is for the artist if we could have them come back up. First things for all you do in your incredible contributions to our city through your work. You know, I'm a big fan. Thank you so much. We really appreciate that. Yeah. This is, these are a lot, it's a lot of extensions. And so I just wanted to give you the opportunity to share whatever you'd like about what has brought us to this point. Absolutely. So this project is a combination of all of our collective time as well as the exclusive use of a very specific piece of equipment and that equipment is a water jet which is owned by MGA sculpture studio. So to give you a little background on the project we're designing this large scale mosaic Those pieces are then sent to the water jet and specifically cut out of the tile You can imagine this similar similar to working on a stained glass project. That being said, this water jet is owned by MGA sculpture studios and so our access is limited to after MGA's work hours and as long as the equipment is functional. In our very extensive timeline that is in our spec pack, you can see there are some grade out dates. And those dates are when the water jet simply was down. When MGA wasn't cutting and we weren't able to cut as well. So that put significant hindrance on the process. And then of course our two hurricanes caused quite a bit of ruckus. All three of us had very intense individual needs to help our families recover as well. Do you want to speak a little bit more to that Alex? You know, we do also understand that every time we ask for an extension, it is asking for a lot. And I think truly we were optimistic with the timeline if we just push a little harder and a little faster. And we're very close. We're practically done with it now, very minimal left. So 15,000 pieces, it happens to be a lot. And because this is a big project for us, and it's in the city we live in and we definitely want to promote it as well as we can just didn't want to skimp on quality. So time is where you have to pull from because you know it's a very specialty process. We developed this process from scratch. I reached out to a lot of other public art mosaic people that do this and no one does it like this. So, you know, like you alluded to before, there's ups and downs with the projects and, you know, we wanted to get it done and we wanted it to be the best quality possible. And that is what we're bringing. And yeah, yeah, yeah. It's a great trail. Yeah, yeah. Yes. Please. Thank you very much. Another thing to note is we are at least the two of us, like Laura mentioned, before employed full-time at the sculpture studio, where we're putting anywhere from 40 to 60 hours a week into the studio's projects, and then somehow managed to do an additional 10, 20, 30 hours a week on the mosaic. Throughout the course of the last year to year and a half, we've been diligently moving forward on the project. And like Alex alluded to just previously, we are basically 98% cut assembled and ready for install. As less alluded to just before as well with the stipulation of the on-site installation because of the length of the sidewalk and the scope of the project. And needing to get everything done and ready beforehand and get it all ready for install. We can do basically all of it except for two tiny little slivers. So when the previous agreement amendment came back to us early May I think was when and we saw that May 15 deadline to wrap the fabrication portion of the project. We knew it would be really close but we felt like we just quite couldn't hit it. So then when we spoke some more it came up to have the fabrication completed and ready for install by May 31st and then with the installation to be fully complete by July 31st. The three of us feel very strongly that that's 100% doable. We're basically ready to begin install now. There is, like we mentioned, the sidewalk has the two long portions and then the little center medallion. And just by the nature of the mosaic process and the length of everything, we have to leave out just a very small sections on either side of the center medallion so that we can physically lay all of the rest of the tile including the center and then based on as built real dimensions once everything's in place have a Handful of pieces to cut afterwards so we can make sure everything fits correctly There's no way I'm all open ears if we can you know have a different way to install those portions, but over the length of say 90 feet or so on either side, small adjustments would just be impossible to predict ahead of time. So we need to lay 99% of the piece in place and then take some measurements based on the gaps that exist so we can kept the remaining pieces and get all that squared away. So again, we all feel very strongly by July 31st, which is the most recent agreement that's 100% doable. The main stipulation was the May 15th thing that was the reason we were not able to sign the most recent agreement. Okay, thank you. Your detailed explanation gives us an inside look at just how complicated a project like this is. And I applaud you for really stretching yourselves as artists to do something that's a little different. And I understand that when you have that piece of equipment, that water jet, I get that because Mark needs it to, you know. Well, does anyone say that anything that's doing, anything worth doing is worth doing well? Sometimes that takes more time than what you planned. And so, you know, I support this because I do understand the reality of the project and the challenges that it can pose. At the same time, I'm really anxious to celebrate this. The completion. So are we. So are we. So are we. Yeah. And I mean, I look forward to that. I do wonder because we're getting into summer, we're getting into rainy season. And so I do wonder if there's some merit to looking at this to ensure that this is the last extension. How do you feel about if we were to approve this today? How confident do you feel about completion by that date, given, you know, given mother nature is going to do what she wants to do. For sure given our Florida weather we have definitely considered this heavily and the three of us have already discussed our installation process. The installation process we should be laying all the thin set tile all 64 sections with thin set in place and then we will have two teams of grouters come in and help to grout the mosaic as we're going. So simultaneously, we will be laying, then grouting. We'll lay that center section before we're even done grouting. Alex will have already cut these pieces that we need to place and sit to. So the entire project should be moving in a flawless manner over the course of a three to five weeks. So ideally we think we should have it wrapped up in about five weeks, but that's why the generous extension to July 31st is helpful to us because again, if it rains, that puts a damper quite literally on our ability to install it in place, right? You have to consider this is similar to any sort of construction project. If you were to lay tile in your backyard or in your home It is contingent on the weather and the surface Preparation so the sidewalk is ready and good to go We just need to make sure we don't get hit with one of those five o'clock torrential Florida downpours as it were right right and is all of the water jet work completed at this point or All but what we need to wait until so we have one final section that is in the process of being cut right now we've divided up the entire project into nine different sections we are on our ninth center medallion section right now this is being cut as we speak and by the end by the May 31st we will have it all assembled and ready for installation June 1st. Okay, okay. So there's no issue with that part at this point. I'll say confirmed. If there was a catastrophic issue, that's again something that that knock on wood as much as we can. But we are full steam ahead. George is actually the kind of mechanic of the water jet. So that's his baby, his truck. It's the heavy cross to bear that he has to carry. But she's in good shape, she's perin, and we're in a good spot for cutting. So we feel thoroughly confident that we'll be able to hit our July 31st deadline. I'm 100%. OK, that's great to hear. Thank you. Given this, I don't really see a need for deferral, but I'm interested in hearing what my colleagues said to say. Thank you, Chair. Yeah, you're welcome. It's my understanding that if we reinstate this agreement as of today, they would be in default of the agreement, because they have to have begun installation as of today. That's why they need to change the date. They need to change the date. They need to amend the original agreement to bring the installation dates back to us. Because otherwise, they'd have to leave here and go start installation. And finish today. Yes. That's why my recommendation was to defer. I hadn't thought about that part. Yeah, the completion date in the reinstated agreement is what they want. The problem is if we gave them this along with the reinstatement, they'd be in default as of today. Exactly. Yeah. So. This gives the administration the opportunity to bring the whole thing back to us with the new installation date along with the July 31st completion deadline. And in meantime, the work in. If I may, James Corbett City Development Administrator, thank you for the opportunity to bring this before you. It's unfortunate that we weren't able to show the time lapse. I think you all can probably appreciate the intricacy of all the tiles that have to be cut and put into this. One other issue, I'm looking at Councilmember Hannah Whits because you know what's in the contract is important. We want to modify the language as it relates to the May 31st date because as it states currently even in this restate and I apologize for the manner in which this came about I was this was brought attention today. Obviously, this is not the way that we would like to do things. But the way that under the design and fabrication, it says that all pieces would be designed and fabricated by make 31st and we just heard that that is not the case. So we need to reword the language to make it clear that all pieces with the exception of these few pieces that have to be done once they're on site and you know look at the as-built condition so I want to make sure that the language and the agreement reflects what actually will happen as far as the completion date the July 31st we actually gave 30 days more than what we were told they felt like they needed so I think we're good there, but as has been mentioned before, we wanna make sure one, the agreement reads exactly like what's going to happen, but also that there we can eliminate or avoid any possibility of having to bring this back. When we bring it back, we want it to be the final time and the last time we talk about it is when we're all there looking at it being revealed. So part of it is just we need to make the legal language match what's actually going to happen. Did you do that? Yeah, absolutely. All right, think it well, I'm just going to say whoever discovered this or brought it up, and it is never fun. And it is not fun for us because someone else's emergency becomes our emergency. And we're stuck with this. I'm also looking at, if you're bringing it back, our next city council meeting is June 5th. And I wanted to make sure that that is going to allow for continuation of work. That's not going to present its own challenge because that's a few weeks away. And what happens in the meantime? And that could be a question for the City Attorney's Office. So right now the current agreements terminated by virtue of the term ending in January. Now performance is still continuing so the way that the case law works on that is that we're still, even though that agreement technically terminated, as long as the parties continue to perform, we're still under the same terms and conditions of that initial agreements. So there is, as I understand, a desire for that performance to continue, I think a subsequent amendment can be prepared that memorializes the party's intent for the deadline to be extended until what the parties have agreed to between the city and autonomy. And so that's what will be presented in June and encapsulates the new term and understanding that the parties have been performing in the absence of an agreement between January and that June dates and so that we have contract documents that provide a totality of terms for performance to date and through the end of performance. I apologize if that was belated but please let me know if that doesn't answer your question. Well, I think I followed and I understand. All right. Thank you. This is such a beautiful project. I mean, I can't wait to see it when it's finished. So let's finish. Thank you, Chair. Thank you. Councilmember Fick Sanders. Thank you. Thank you. First of all I think presentation and I think I am well first of all I am really confused because I was reading the resolution and I'm trying to figure out we had the grand scheme of the project when we went into to agreement the first time, right? Nothing has been added. No. Okay. So we knew what we were in for when we signed on with the original date, right? Okay, and then we extended Made made another extension There was a 90-day extension within the original agreement that autonomy exercised Okay, so now I and I keep hearing May 15th, May 15th. Where is this May 15th coming from? The May 15th date is in the, because it's May 31st that we are proposing, Ben, can you answer the May 15th date? I can't speak to a May 15th date. The operative date that I'm aware of is May 31st. Yes, but I'm looking at it. I keep hearing May 15th. What is May 15? Okay, because I kept looking. I was like, I don't see a May 15th and what the relevance of May 15th is. I think the artist might have referenced May 15th as when they felt that they would complete the last section. I'll see it on the notes. Okay, so talk to me about the $50,000. How is that working? Our autonomy has received $40,000, $20,000 to initiate the agreement and then 20,000 once the design was finalized. So what's outstanding is $10,000. Okay. So I don't mind granting the extension. First of all, let me be clear with that. But what I do mine is the process in that setting precedent. So I hope that we remember this when other artists or other things come to play that will provide the same grace. We're going to have to. If we are side stepping our own documents that says something to me, and I'm not sure when we found out what but what if they don't finish by July 31st. I'll defer. I mean it would be in default of the agreement and part of what I'm proposing is as we make this change to the language related to the fabrication we want to to make sure that we're completely clear in an agreement with the artist that the July 31st is the absolute latest. If we feel like that needs to be adjusted to ensure that we eliminate the possibility of having to come back and ask for another amendment, then I will take that in consideration and quite frankly with the comments that we made concerning rain and other things I think it will be prudent for us to go ahead and adjust that date before we come back. Because I wouldn't approve another extension. I was. So my thing is I agree with the extension. Not a problem with that. And we've already paid money upfront, but we knew what we were in for. I heard a lot of certainty, uncertainty. We're barring the weather, barring the rain. Excuse me. If we've already added those possibilities in that date of July 31st, yes. Yes. Okay. So there will be no need for us to come back after July 31st. There should not be, but I think that it would be wise for us to adjust the date before we come back to beyond July 31st. The original date, I think the artists would agree that they were maybe very optimistic on the fact that things would go all as planned and they maybe didn't anticipate the machinery not working in other factors because it is such an involved process which is why I think the video, the time lapse video would really kind of help you understand how involved it is. But from the original agreement, I think that the artist believed that they would be able to make that date. Clearly, it was an overly optimistic goal. And my plan before we come back is to bring for something that can realistically be done with no additional extensions. I would agree that I also have no desire to bring additional amendments to this and we would love to see the artwork complete. Okay, so when you come back, what data are you looking to take it past your life 31st? Do you have an estimate? I don't want to just say something right now. I'd like to talk it through with the artists to make sure that we're account for any. So is there any stipulation at the date that we approve on bringing it back? If it doesn't make it that they not get the remainder of the funds, how does that work? Well, they can only get the funds if they complete the project. So the project is not completed. They won't get the final payment. OK. Okay. All right. I was just looking at all of the extensions and was just Wondering about the precedence we're setting and I just want us to remain mindful That this is something that we're setting a precedence about because I do understand Changes things happen things happen. Okay. Thank you so much for that. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, by sure animals. Thank you. Well, I had the one like person that had pressed the button. And then you said you're gonna defer, which was the right call, because this isn't ready. And so one on one's would have probably been good on this for future reference to kind of give council an idea of what's happening. And that may have helped kind of clear up some of the questions you had here. I know I asked for the, we should have had the contract from the get-do. You guys took care of that and you provided us a contract. So that way we understand what's going on. But I do want to say to the artist, you cannot wait to the last minute. When there is a date in a contract and you want to ask for extension you do not ask for extension on if it's 60 days if it's 90 days you don't do it on the night you just don't neither here nor anywhere whatever other contract you're signing you just never do that because you cannot guarantee that you're gonna get that extension and you don't have time time then to do the things you need to. So it's wise to go back, figure out exactly how much time you're going to need, including the contingency time, and bring us an agreement that we can all agree on without any further extensions, because you've had ample time to do this. And the problem that you have is, when you're asking for extensions, after the fact, the other party loses faith as to what's happening. And we want to have faith that you're going to get it done. And that's the problem. There has to be communication, and everyone has to be on the same page. So that's just my two cents. I think we've spoken enough about this. Thank you, Chair. Thank you. OK, just quickly, first, James brought this to me and offered to totally take it off the agenda. I wanted to keep it. And so please, some of the confusion is definitely on me because I wanted the opportunity to hear this and to speak with the artist. I did have a meeting set with them and then I ended up having 103 fever and couldn't go. So part of this is certainly on me with some of the confusion and deferring. So please grant me some grace there because this is an important project. I think generally and very, very specifically the district one. So any grace you're willing to give, please do. So I totally agree with both Council Member Driscoll and Council Member Hanowitz. This is an awesome project and I'm so pumped to have this in District 1. We do not have anything like this and it drives me bonkers to drive by it and see a bare sidewalk in the middle of a park knowing that we've been waiting for this. And so I know it drives you nuts too. And I know that things happen. But when I look at this timetable, and this was the frustrating part to me, and I know it just didn't seem like there was a whole lot of backup. There was almost three and a half months where essentially no water jet could be usable. Then you add another month, one month later. You know, there are, I know that everybody has different things and you know, but it's like team not available out of town. Like when you're when it's late, that's very frustrating to me. I get that you have jobs. Trust me, I get it. I have to. I totally understand it. But also, I struggle, and this is back to council or vice chair, Hanoots, you made a commitment. We have to stick to the commitment. So this has been frustrating for me. Now Now I want to make sure that you can complete it. I'm super excited. There is nobody will be smiling larger than me when we reveal this thing in District one. And so please do not let my frustration downplay how excited I am and the work that you've done and it's beautiful and all of those things I would echo everything Councilmember Driscoll said except like we've got we have to be better than this and so I hope I know I learned some lessons here and so hopefully we all did so I thank you let's get the dates right we. I have full faith that we're gonna put a new agreement in place. And let's get this thing done. Council member Floyd. Thank you. Something, thank you chair, something came to mind for me. Sure, my colleagues have already expressed frustration and excitement. The one thing I'll say about that is Mosex, one of my favorite art forms, so I'm excited a lot for that reason and I love the park that it's going in. But yeah, I have the same frustration, I want to see it get across the finish line. But actually I wanted to bring up, and I'm probably going to do a poor job of asking this, because I can't remember the terminology, but this is not a normal public arts project, correct? Like there's uniqueness here in that it wasn't associated with the public works, and it was specifically for local artists, or am I misremembering? So it's my understanding that the committee wanted to use local artists and emerging artists. mm-hmm. Okay, and then what was the funding mechanism for it? Was it associated with the public or public works project? The funds came out were taken from the public art, 1901, the public arts fund. Was it associated with a specific public works project though? Because that's often how it goes down. No, nothing in my research showed that it was directly related to a specific public works project. OK, OK. So those two things are unique. And I want to see us do more. We've had discussions about this. I want to see us give more opportunities to local artists. I want to see us look to put art in places that aren't necessarily associated with the Public Works Project. So one of the reasons why I brought up tweaking the ordinance and which we're working on, we had since we're in the sunshine, we had some delays because there were some state preemption. We were worried about over legislative time session. Yes, sorry, lost that word for a second. Although that's wrapped up now, so we're going to get back to it and hopefully we'll see it soon. Anyway, OK, I just couldn't remember how unique this was, because what I want to see is us move in a direction where we do more like things that focus on local artists and focus on our outside of public works projects. And I just wanted to make sure that there was nothing structural here going on With the way that we went about it, but it sounds to me like you know, it's just a unique situation for this piece and Now that I feel comfortable knowing that that's the case so I'm not concerned about having to reassess anything in the future I think we're on the right path. So thank you for answering those questions. Just wanted to make sure I had my head wrapped around it. Thank you, Chair. Thank you. Okay, legal, do we need to have a specific date on the deferral or can just defer until the administration is ready to bring it back? Either one. So you can, based on your manual, you can establish a date certain or it can be to defer it until after a certain thing has occurred, which could be administration concludes their discussions with the artist and prepares a necessary amendments. Okay, thank you very much. Council member, Driscoll. Thank you. Can you commit to June 5th? We can certainly, we just need to talk to the artist, make sure we get the right date, and we have the right language. How did that work? Because we are talking about time. So it sounds like there's not a whole lot to discuss, and this is a few weeks away. But I'd like to have some certainty as to when we'll be able to get this brought back to us. back to us. So I would I would really like it if we could establish June 5th as the return date. Yes. Based on what's left to do, the conversations I need to be had, I'm confident that we can have this back by June 5th. That's great. Thank you. I'll make a motion to defer this item, item F1 to the June 5th 2025 City Council meeting. Second. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Just quickly again, council members, thank you for your grace, administration. Same to you. Thanks for putting up with me and, you know, I had a learning experience today too. All right. No other council members wishing to speak? Clerk, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please enter your votes. Council member Horry. Seeing this all present, council members have voted. Clerk, please tally and announce the vote. Mr. Chair, motion to defer agenda item F1 to the June 5th council meeting. As is unanimously with council member Garrett being absent. Okay, we're gonna move on to F2O resolution authorizing the mayor to and approve the sale of the Portland Departments. And I think we've got Mark Van Lue joining us. Good afternoon, Mark. Afternoon, Chair, council members. Here today to request approval of the sale of the Portland Department project. Have a brief presentation here for you. Just looking at the timeline of the sale, we received notice on February 10th of this year of the intent of the current owner to sell the Portland Departments. Portland is a 68 unit affordable apartment property located in downtown St. Pete. I've got some more information on that in a moment. In the units are a mix of one, two, and three bedroom and are restricted to tenants earning 60% or less of very immediate income. Seven of those units are restricted to 35% or below. The proposed buyer for this project is Sunrise Affordable Housing Group. They specialize in acquisition, rehabilitation, and management of affordable housing, multi-family projects. experience with light tech projects, low-income housing tax credit projects, section eight contracts, project-based vouchers, and other affordable components designed for both families and seniors. If this, when this deal closes, this would be their fourth affordable housing deal in Florida and the second in Pinellas County. The terms of the sale, Sunrise is currently under contract to acquire the Portland in partnership with Pinellas County Housing Authority, whereby the Housing Authority will acquire the land fee simple and will ground lease the project back to Sunrise on a 99-year term. And the Pinellas County Housing Authority will also operate as the management agent and provide resident services to the tenants. The business plan that sunrise has is to hold the property as is, and within the next few years, pursue a recent indication of the light text credits through tax exempt bonds and likely through tax exempt bonds and 4% tax credits and then initiate a substantial rehabilitation of the property to preserve and extend its useful life and to extend the affordability restrictions and Sunrise is funding the purchase the $8 million purchase with equity from its balance sheet. A new senior loan plans to to assume the existing subordinate loans from the city of St. Pete and all loans given the ground lease will be lease hold mortgage. Brief timeline the project was initiated in 2009 when the initial agreement was signed with the city. The project completed construction I believe in 2011 and went online. In 2018 was the first sale of the property to the current owner. In 2020 there was a transfer of membership interest so the current ownership entity transferred principal membership interest and that was approved by council in 2020 and that brings us to the current sale here in 2025. You're not familiar the project is on 3rd Avenue North, just northwest of Merrill Lake at 8th street north. And, oops, I think I'm, and this is a street level view of the building. view of the building. So as associated with this associated with this sale, the buyer requests the assignment by current owner and assumption by the buyer of the city's ship and L. Half loans approval of the transaction that's required by the workforce housing bonus density andensity and Intensity Agreement dated in 2009. The assignment by current owner and the assumption by buyer of the Workforce Housing Bonus Density and Intensity Agreement. The assignment by current owner and assumption by buyer of that certain declaration of restrictions that was signed and recorded in 2010. The subordination of the Declaration of Restrictions, workforce housing bonus density intensity agreement, and the ship and L-half loans to the first mortgage lender, the buyer is attempting to assume the loan that exists with the primary lender, but if that does not go through, then they will bring in new primary financing and extend the maturity dates of the ship and L-half loans from August 1st of 2045 to August 1st of 2070. An administration recommends approval. I'm available for questions and we also have representatives from both the current owner and the prospective buyer of the project should they be needed for answering any questions. Okay. Thank you. Vice Chair Hanowitz. Thank you, Chair. And thank you, Mark, for the presentation. So are the attorneys here? Good. I would like to ask you some questions. Good afternoon and thank you for your service. My name is Haley Sawyer. I'm with Strinsweaver Law firm and we represent the buyer Sunrise Affordable. Thank you. And so in looking at this, so there are a lot of assignments but then you get to the subordination portion of it. So the subordination is not just the right of repayment obviously it's covenants that have to do with other issues affordability and so on and so forth. So explain to me I guess why does affordability have to be knocked out if there is a potential closure? Why would that be a requirement? Yeah, so I just want to clarify the intent here. The intent isn't to wipe out the affordable restrictions. Sunrise is acquiring the project as discussed in the presentation. They plan to do tax credit recentication down the road in a couple years. And as part of that, actually additional affordable restrictions will be placed on the property. Regarding the subordination component, I think there's a few different elements here. So one, we have the subordination of the city's current mortgage. And then two, we have two different restrictions that are in favor of the city affecting the property. The first being the declaration of restrictions that was recorded and required in connection with the ship and LHAF loans and the second being this density workforce housing agreement. with regard to the first, the declaration of restrictions. I wanna highlight that the city entered a subordination agreement with a seller's current lender, I think in 2020, pursuant to which the city agreed to subordinate that declaration of restrictions. And additionally, that declaration of restrictions was amended. And in that amendment, there's language expressly providing the city consents to the subordination of that agreement to a new first mortgage. Separately, I wanna address the workforce housing density agreement, and I want to note that further conversations have been had with buyers lender here, which is key bank, and as well as with the city, specifically the city attorney Isabella, sobel. And the main concern for key bank with the support and nation, well actually with the workforce density agreement, is that there's language in there providing that the property cannot be transferred without the city's consent. So here, key bank is fine with the affordability restrictions remaining in place, but what they need some help from the city with is this provision restricting transfer of the property and the event of a foreclosure. Okay. So now I turn to other attorneys. So as a ballot, he made a couple of points as to the density workforce agreement and the Declaration of Restrictions and some of the issues that have risen because they're there in terms of the bank. So what is our position regarding that? And the fact that we agreed to some of that subordinate those declaration of restrictions previously. I wanna hear about that and I wanna hear about the workforce part. Hello, good afternoon. Is the ball of sobel assistant city attorney? What Miss Sawyer did her summary is correct. I will say that the city has never explicitly subordinated any workforce bonus intensive agreement pursuant to article V, chapter of chapter 17.5 of our code. Speaking to some of Haley's points regarding the lender's issues with the transfer. The transfer issues, I will say this was something that came a very last minute and we looked at our code and in our code it requires city approval, administrative approval approval of any transfer of title of a property that is subject to our workforce housing bonus density and density agreement so that it's something to keep in mind that we are we're bound by our code as it was written today. So we're not able to to provide flexibility on that. I think that we could it is possible to to contract in a way that we could still abide by our code but that is the situation that we're in at this time. Okay. Because when I look at this and I see these subordinations, and the most important thing obviously, if you're in the affordable housing space, is to affordability in all these things in place. I understand there are times that they may have to foreclose something and you give up supporting your right of repayment. There are all these things, but everyone that goes into this space understands this. And so I want to make sure that we're not doing anything that puts those things at risk. I mean, there were basically bargains that were made. That's why they got the density, the workforce bonuses and all these things. And now we are subordinating kind of everything we got and I don't want that to disappear. Yes, I completely understand the concern. And I think the main point here and what we're asking for now and what we've gotten our lender comfortable with is entering in some sort of agreement between the city and the lender by which in the event of foreclosure, which hopefully doesn't happen, but in the event it does and Keybank needs to take title to the property, those workforce housing units remain as workforce housing units, but they need the ability to take title to the property. That's the security of their loan, right? So I think we have a collective goal and understanding and you've come to an agreement. Now I understand, but there is a little heartburn when it comes to this. And so I just wanna make sure that we're on the same page and obviously legal's on the same page on this, but this is not typical for us as my understanding. Not with the density bonus agreement, that's correct. So this is not typically what we do in terms of this. So I just wanted to put that on the record and get your statements on the record in terms of what we can expect to happen with that. Yeah, and to that point, in theory, if they did foreclose and that workforce housing bonus was wiped, they would actually be in violation of the zoning code because that agreement is what allowed the increased density at the property. So the lender is not even incentivized to wipe it out. I think, you know, I just want to highlight that point to it too. I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Legal, do you have anything to say on that point? I mean, on its face, that's correct, but there would probably be some arguments that it's illegal, non-conformity, or grandfathered use at that point. And I don't know how we'd go about lopping off a couple floors to get it back into compliance. It would, that's an uphill battle from our standpoint as the city and enforcing that. Nobody wants to be there. Nobody wants to be there. That's right. OK. Well, if legal's so good with this, I'm fine with it, but I want to make sure that we all knew where we were and got certain things on the record. Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Floyd. Thank you. I guess kind of going off of that, sales of affordable housing complexes we had discussions, I don't know a year or two ago about them being done administratively. So I was going to ask like what was so unique about this because I was struggling to wrap my head around it. But we had that discussion a little bit. But it did look like Mr. Van Lue, you were approaching the microphone. So I would love to hear your thoughts on all of this as well. Sure. I just wanted to make clear that while I realize there are bigger things at play here, we need to get an understanding of what is the city's policy and procedure when it comes to the sale of properties. And when it comes to the subordination, especially of restrictions, this case is mitigated quite a bit by the structure of the deal and the fact that the housing authorities going to own the property and ground lease it to the buyer for 99 years. Obviously the housing authorities mission and reason to exist is to provide affordable housing and it's their intention to provide that affordability over that 99-year period, which is longer than the current restrictions would provide. In addition, the workforce housing density bonus agreement that's in place provides for 30 years of affordability, but it allows for affordability up to 150% of AMI. And what's proposed here is a much deeper affordability over that much longer time period. So I do think in this particular case those things are mitigated by all of that. But I do agree that we need to understand going forward how to look at these deals and how to structure these deals and where we don't have wiggle room. Right. Hopefully that's helpful. Thank you. Yeah, that is helpful and I appreciate it. Yeah, you bring me some comfort knowing specifically around the housing authority being involved. I only had one other thing. There was a point that you had a bullet point that you had bolded about the maturation of the ship loan and the other loan and I just wondered if you could speak to that you seemed to have highlighted it. Yeah so currently those loans are actually loans that are being repaid. The ownership of the Portland over the years has been great at making those payments they They've paid down a significant portion of that debt. That debt would have gone through, I was a 2045, I believe I had on there. Yeah. And so the buyer is asking for those loans to be extended, the maturity dates to be extended to align with the new financing for the deal, so that it works better when they do the recindication of the tax credits in a few years. So they would like to extend that to August 1st of 2070. What it will mean for the city is the remaining remainder of those funds will take longer to be paid back. But it will be paid back well before the 99 year affordability period would be up and are other terms that maintain affordability on the project. So while it will mean we'll get paid back a little bit slower, it isn't going to negatively impact anything in terms of restrictions or anything. And those are no interest loans, I think. Yes. Okay, but I'm assuming the position is that allowing that as part of this overall agreement fine because we are, you know, there's other benefits here that we're going to receive. Okay. Yes, you should agree. I would agree. I would Yes. I'm nodding your head. Yes. All right. Cool. Thank you. Just wanted to make sure I understand. Thanks. Council members. I'm going to entertain your motion for approval. Well, we'll chair. Yes. Sorry. If I may. Yes. Sorry to interject. I do believe that there is a potential here for the City to gain additional protections with respect to the affordability period not being subordinated. The affordability period that's in the workforce housing density bonus agreement only. So it was kind of brought up by the attorney earlier and I think that if know if you wanted to explore that we could We'd be happy to have that discussion with you now Okay, I I mean I think any any time we could not subordinate that I think we'd like that to be a part of the discussion Is that yeah, so a couple just procedurally a couple options on how to do that you could I said, hold off on voting and vote later in the meeting on this item. It gives us an opportunity to confer with the attorney and potentially give you some specific different language in the resolution or elsewhere. You could authorize our office to you could approve it as is. Authorize our office to have subsequent discussions make any changes that improve the city's position Either way you want to do it if you want the specifics let me considering the public hearings You know don't start until five if you wanted to hold off and let us have that discussion if you wanted specific language or an answer we can do it today or you just tell us go forth and conquer. As long as it improves the agreement to do it, whatever you want. Council members, I certainly take your feedback. Obviously, I trust our legal department to move forward in the city's best interests. So voting on it and giving them to do that, or if you want to bring it back later. Councilor, or by sure I handle it. Well, I think we have the attorneys here now and they can wrap it up. That's probably gonna be better for all of us. So I don't see what the big deal is for us to kind of defer the vote on this, because what happens is, then they go and things don't work out the way you think you're gonna and at least we're all here. So maybe we can defer it a little later. Council members, extenders. Thank you. And thank you for that, Jackie. So basically I'm an agreeance and I think you all have our best interests because you've heard our concerns. So if we vote on it today, you still have additional conversation to bring back to us in these regards or. There's all different ways to do it. It could just be that it doesn't come back that provided anything that we do is improving the city's position, that you're just approving it as is and then authorizing us to do that. I'd say if you ask me what typically has happened in a situation like this in the past where we have the time like we have now like councilmember Hannah it said we try to hammer it out Report back you don't need to take we can just pick this back up It's not like you have to technically defer it until later and in the agenda You could be a move on for now take up other business and give us that window to see what we can do okay Alright, alright. That's the point, Dan. Alright, well then why don't we do that? We'll give you time to work on that. We'll move on to F3 and we can do. Okay all right all right well then why don't we do that we'll give you time to work on that we'll move on to F3 and we can bring F2 back later on in the meeting would you do you want to do that before public hearing or after? We could probably I mean we should be able to do it before we'll update you and you're done your other business here on how long we think it might take. Okay great thank Thank you. Okay we're going to move to F3 a resolution authorizing the mayor to accept a grant from forward panelists. I think we have Cheryl Stax. Cheryl welcome. Thank you. Thank you. Good afternoon Cheryl Stax transportation and parking management. I'm excited to be here today to present you with this opportunity a citywide microbility expansion feasibility study. This planning study would allow us to really gain a deeper and more significant understanding of how micromobility programs could be expanded to provide more access to scooters and bike shares in St. Pete. The opportunity is provided with support from four panelists. They provided assistance programming in the past for their complete streets program and the city has been successful in being awarded funds for both planning and construction projects. Last year the program was repurposed and broadened in the types of planning and assistance that can be provided to the local governments but they continued to make $150,,000 available in that category as well as up to $3 million in the construction category. They open the call for projects last fall and conducted evaluations of the applications through this spring. Recognizing the change in the program with it broadened and less focused on producing complete streets corridors staff developed an an application to address a timely need for planning assistance. We've heard previously a desire to expand our microimbubbily offerings outside of the downtown core. And we know that the most attractive areas to do this are often our activity centers that have destinations that people would like to visit, especially via scooters and bike shares. Coincidentally, access to activity centers was one of the key evaluation criteria that Fort Pinellas uses to consider the projects for award. So we produced the map shown in this graphic here as a part of the application. So you can see where the current micromobility service area that's really for the bike share and where different activities, county-wide designated activity centers are located. So you can see a little bit of overlap, but not a lot. We'd like to consider the feasibility of expansion with mindfulness of our existing regulations as well for scooters and bicycle use. The study will include a review of our existing program to plan infrastructure keeping in mind the legal status of scooter users based on state and city regulations. As a reminder, the city's micrommability ordinance provides that they should only be operated on low-speed streets or in bike lanes. They're prohibited from use on sidewalks and on certain trails, including at the pier, and have forced parking requirements to only park the shared devices and dedicated micrability for owls. Infrastructure considerations as well as destination density, excuse me, outside of the downtown core have been key limiting factors for why we haven't expanded access previously. It's really hard for us to, we really need to take a deep look at our connected network of facilities to make sure that they can accommodate trips that get people to and from where they want to go in a way that does so legally that they can ride on the streets where they are low speed streets where they do have bike lanes where they do have these kinds of connections and so that we're not putting destinations where they would be required to ride illegally. So that's a key part of why we need to look at the infrastructure when we're thinking about where do we expand micromobility access. It'll be important for us to include market considerations in our feasibility study too. Under the current license agreements with our micromobility providers, the city does not subsidize the provision of these services. In fact the scooter operators pay the city of e and exchange for the use of our right of way. So there are service areas included in the agreements with opportunities to expand by mutual agreement. However, the market has seen consolidation in recent years and operational impacts that could increase the cost of the operators could have meaningful financial impacts that should be carefully considered when developing recommendations that would modify the service area boundaries. This could be further exacerbated from Roma and use in the provider's access programs for low income users is increased too. So having the providers at the table with us during the course of the study will be critical to his success. We don't want to change or interrupt too much of the business model that we have available to us even while we expand micrommability access. Another key element of the study will be the review of our relevant city ordinance, some of which haven't been updated in a while. Well, did I, I went too far, sorry. God, I'm so excited about this, I really am. But so one key factor is the idea of updating our relevant city ordinances. Again, some of these haven't been updated in a very long time. For the bike ordinance was last updated in 2009. And it did, was really forward thinking and establishing the framework for bike share. I mean, you think we updated in 2009, but we didn't launch bike share until 2016. So it was a while for the technology to come up with our regulatory framework. So that was really forward thinking for us. But the regulations and the bike ordinance do not account for e-bikes. The micromobility ordinance in adopted inches in 19 is where you'll find those regulations along with the regulatory framework for scooter share. So it's worth noting too that in the legislative session earlier this year, the state passed a bill that if signed into law is expected, would modify the definition of micromobility. So this study is a very timely and allowing us to consider the modifications in light of that change too, at the state level. We have had some recent success in expanding Bikeshare outside of the downtown core. This spring we work to develop new Bikeshare hubs at certain public access points along the Pinellas Trail. We did limit that to Bikeshare, given bikes generally have a longer range of trip, than the scooters, the average scooter trip is about 1.12 miles on length, whereas the average bike share trip is 1.8 miles on length. So it's a little bit longer, so let's get a little further from the core area and start serving those areas further out to the west. Today we've seen over 50 trips at these locations since they were implemented. The top three locations are listed here. I think it's very notable that the second highest location, 60 Second Street in the Pneullous Trail, is the second highest location. And that has eight trips. It's pretty far west and it's really into the neighborhood. So I feel really good that we're providing a couple people who must really need some good access that lets them get better into the downtown core and probably to some employment or recreational activities. We intend to continue to monitor the use of these locations. The study will have us also to consider to expand access and build upon this both geographically and with micrommability type scooters. So the requested council action involves the execution of a funding agreement with forward panelists for the study. The agreement would allow the city to accept funds in the amount of $120,000 for the study. It requires the city to use a consultant for the project whose professional services have already been procured by four panelists. It's anticipated that the funding agreement would also be presented to the four panelists board at their June meeting for their consideration in approval. The requested council action also includes execution of a professional services agreement with the consultant. Administration recommends executing the professional services agreement with Benish, one of the consultants available via forward panelists. They were selected based on their experience and qualifications noted here with considerable experience and regulatory and micrommability planning. In total the professional services agreement would be in an amount of not to exceed $150,000 with $120,000 coming from foreripanellis and 30,000 and previously appropriated Fiscal Year 25 funding within the transportation and parking management department. Specifically, the scope of services that Benish will perform include community engagement which will be critically important. That will be done in the form of an open house and surveys. They'll perform an existing conditions review and an expansion feasibility analysis for up to five geographic areas of the city at the city's choosing and those geographic areas aren't very limited. Right? They could be as large or broad as we need them to be as long as they kind of make sense. They'll propose recommended updates to our city regulations. They'll prepare a draft refinal report with an allowance to present those recommendations to a relevant city council committee. Finally they'll provide a final report in presentation which could include a city council presentation. It's anticipated the full study would take about 10 months to complete once the notice to proceed is provided. And there is a small allowance within the agreement that would provide funding to complete any minor relevant work that's not specified in the scope, but maybe identified as a need through the course of the study. It would only be authorized if and when it's actually needed. The action requested by administration would be the approval of the resolution presented. It would have us accept the grant through the execution of a funding agreement with four panelists, execute the press professional services agreement with Benish and other related actions as provided in the resolution that allow for the citywide micromobility expansion feasibility study. And that concludes my presentation. Thank you. Move approval. Thank you. We have a motion in a second. The only question I was gonna ask was on the last slide and why Kriston Erker wasn't wearing a helmet on his bike. But we have a motion in a second. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please enter your votes. Seeing as all present council members have voted. Clerk, please dial in and announce the vote. Mr. Chair, who would you not have F3 passes unanimously with council member Gabrett being absent? Okay, thank you. All right, we're gonna go into our new business items. We've got G1 or referral to Harris from Councilmember Driscoll. Oh, thank you. For this item, I'm respectfully requesting our referral to the Health Energy Sustainability, sorry, the Health Energy Resilience and Sustainability Committee, or any other relevant committee for an engineering staff presentation on the Basin C project. I bring this up because recently we approved the purchase of the Sock Creek property through, you know, help from our friends as part of the public works. And that project is part of the larger Basin C project. I thought it might be timely for us to do a nice review of the project because it has multiple wheels turning that all really, really improve the resilience around Lake Magori. With that, I move approval. Okay. We have a motion and a second on G1. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak, clerk, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please, any of your votes. Seeing as all present council members have voted, clerk, please tally and announce the vote. Chair, motion to approve of Jim item G. One passes unanimously. The council member, government being absent. Okay, thank you. We're going to move into G2. Council member, hearting. Thank you, Chair. Respectfully requesting a report to the City Council at a June in the city council meeting. Providing an analysis of the 2024 storm season. The report should include lessons learned and assessment of the city's response, both immediate and long term, highlighting strengths and areas for improvement and any proposed amendments to the disaster operations plan. Without a move for approval. Second. Okay. We've got a motion in a second on G2. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak clerk Could you please open the machine for voting council members please any of your votes? Councilmember Harding Seeing as all present council members are voted clerk. Please stallion and ask the vote Mr. Chair Most to approve a gen item G1 G2 passes unanimously with council member gathered being absent Okay, thank you. All right, now we're going to move into Council Committee Reports. H1, I am respectfully requesting City Council approval of a resolution authorizing the issuance of a not to exceed $47 million. Florida Public Utility Refunding Revenue Bond Series 25A, and a not to exceed $35 million. Florida utility refunding revenue bonds series 2025b. And if there's no discussion, I'll entertain a motion for approval. We do have Mr. Green here if you have any questions. Move the approval. Second. We have a motion in a second. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak. Clerk, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please any of your votes. Seeing none of the present council members have voted, clerk, please tell you and announce the vote. Mr. Chair, most of the approval of the item H1 passage unanimously with council member Gabbart being absent. Okay, thank you. Let's move into H2 by Chair Hanowitz. Thank you, Chair, respectfully requesting City Council approval to remove the following items from the PSI committee referral list that we just addressed at the last meeting. This was a discussion on the enforcement of driving without a license and potential diversion options. Any discussion on allowing mobile homes to be placed on residential properties to provide temporary housing during disaster recovery and repairs. And with that, I still move. Second. We have a motion and a second on H2. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak, Clerk, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please enter your votes. Seeing as all present council members have voted, Clerk, could you please tell you an announcement vote? Mr Chair, motion to approve a genitum, H2 passes genitum, Miss Lee, would council member requirement be absent? Okay, we're going to move into H3, Councilmember Floyd, HLUT. I respectfully requesting City Council approval to remove the following items from the Housing Land Use and Transportation Committee referral list and it's the item universal basic mobility. I am respectfully requesting City Council approval to remove the following items from the Housing Land Use and Transportation Committee referral list And it's the item universal basic mobility pilot program. It was requested by the Referrer that we remove the item I'll move approval. Second we have a motion and second on H3 seeing as no other council members wishing to speak clerk Could you please open the machine for voting? Council members please any votes. Seeing as all the president and council members have voted, clerk please tally and announce the vote. Mr. Chair, most of the approval of the agenda, H3 passes unanimously because it will be going to be absent. Okay, thank you. I'm moving right into H4 back to you, council member Floyd. So we're for this item we're respectfully requesting the approval of a resolution of proving a three year agreements with one, two year renewal option with, I'm not going to read all of this, I'm going to ask administration if they have comments before we get into it. I know that there's been some discussion on this item particularly. No, okay. All right. We're good to go. All right. Then I'm respectfully requesting approval of a resolution approving three-year agreements with two-one-year renewal options with three-year agreements. respectfully requesting approval of a resolution of approving three year agreements with two one year renewal options with We're good to go. All right, then I'm respectfully requesting a Proof of a resolution improving three year agreements with two one year renewal options with neutron holdings ink, lime and Phoenix. Oh my goodness. Do I read all of this? Yeah, that's what I'm gonna say like Yeah, there's a lot in here, but it's our scooter share program. How do you think the clerk feels sometimes? What's that? Do you think the clerk feels sometimes? Oh, I know, I mean, I know. I'm sorry. Yeah, it was the like D slash B slash A, USH comma LLC, D slash B slash A. Yeah, it was all of that. It's a little bit of a problem. Yeah, I'll move a problem. Okay, yes. Okay. We have a motion. Putting me out of my misery. Yes. Seeing that other council members wishing to speak, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please hand your votes. Seeing none of the present council members have voted, please don't announce the vote. Mr. Chair, I'm sure you'll approve of a gen out of H4 passage unanimously. The council member gathered being absent. That's what Golden State calls an assist there, council member. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. You guys are welcome. Okay. We are going to recess a city council in convene as the CRA and we're going to move into CRA2, a resolution finding the proposed plan to construct a 16 story mixed use building at 300 central Avenue consistent with the in town redevelopment plan. We've got Corey, Milishe guy I think but we went pretty fast so we'll give them a second Welcome, Corey Good afternoon Corey, Milishe good is the official with the city St. Petersburg. How are you? You can do the lights please. Thank you. Subtract property today is located at 300 Central Avenue. This property is currently developed with 11 story 37,000 square foot mix use building with ground floor commercial and residential units on the upper floors. The existing building was severely damaged by back to back hurricanes that occurred in September and October of last year. The applicants proposing to demolish the existing building and construct this 16 story building in its place. They will consist of 4,8,000 square feet as well as 74 hotel rooms and will be approximately 4,000 square feet of commercial space and the construction cost is valued at about 20 million dollars. This is the proposed overall site plan including the entire block. The proposed project will consist of a 16-story building that'll be about 170 feet to 172 feet tall., there is no onsite parking for the building. The applicant will be providing at least 74 hotel rooms and the Jayson owner at 360 Central Avenue will be one of those persons that will be at least in the parking. The hotel lobby will also be accessible from Central Avenue, as well as third avenue. This is just a blow up at the site plan. Proposed elevations before you today. The architectural style is modern. The tile will have clean and horizontal banding, excuse me, rushed out here with a facade grain sense of rhythm and balance. The slim windows, the groupings and horizontal reveals emphasize, emphasize, excuse me. I was saying once a word, oh you got it. Thank you. Look at you just being helper today. Hey, you know. What happens when you run? Excuse me, sorry about that. Also the airport height that is being proposed will exceed the 158 feet above mean sea level. So this will require approval by the airport and obtain airport obstruction permit. It's another view along Third Avenue, Third Street, excuse me. With respect to compliance with the land development regulations, the subject property is located within the DCC. A mixed use development with unlimited floor area ratio is allowed at this location. The proposed FARB4 is at 8.0. Staff determined that the proposed development is consistent with the zone district standards and therefore the redevelopment is consistent with the redevelopment plan. Another view of the lobby from Central Avenue. This is just a farther image. This is a close-up. Again, if you're across the street. And an aerial view looking down. The existing downtown development pattern contains a variety of building types, styles, heights, masses, setbacks and orientations. The building form and the relationship of the building are consistent with other development projects within the redevelopment area. Such as 200 Central Avenue, which is under construction in in this image there'll be a 41 story building 400 feet tall and that 400 central which is of course also under construction this image is 46 story building and that's going to be 515 feet tall and that's under construction again at 400 central. The building design took into consideration the relationships of the newer older buildings within the redevelopment area for consistency. Staff has find that the proposed resolution for the Proposed 16 story building, 74 hotel rooms, 4,000 square feet of commercial space, consistent with the redevelopment plan. And we subject to the staff conditions and staff does recommend approval. Thank you. Okay, we're gonna go into public comment. Sean Kelly, please approach other podiums. State your name and address. You have three minutes to address any council. Sean Kelly, I had just five, seven, five second out of yourself. I'm the attorney for the applicant and owner and I'm happy to answer any questions that council may have. Okay, thanks, Sean. Welcome. Any other cards? Anyone? Okay, we've got Council Member Driscoll. Thank you. Cory, thank you for the presentation. I want to talk, and I like this project. And it's about time. We've been waiting a long time for something new to happen here. But what we have right now is in pretty bad shape, mainly because of the storms. So I want to talk about the timeline, particularly about the demo. Because normally, if there's a demo, it has to go along with a short timeline then where something starts, right? So can you talk about how we normally do that and how we might be approaching this particular situation because it is different from some other projects. So if the building official considers this substantially damaged, which I believe he may, they do not need to have an approved site plan or plans in for construction. So that can be demoed tomorrow if the bill and official considers it substantially damaged. Excellent. And is the property owner prepared to proceed with the demo request and activity? Well, as soon as it's as soon as that, if and when that determination was made right we We're not prepared to make that decision right now because the determination hasn't been made yet Right, but I would like to update council on what we're doing to secure the site because I think that that's most important So soon after the storms is a little bit of a melee and Netting was put up on the building to keep everything safe and prevent the stuck-o from falling Subscuing storm blew that netting away. So that's why we have what we have now We've submitted permits. We submitted permits April 7th, I believe for New netting in those are under review Some of the reviews have been completed already. We're waiting on the building department review at this point So then we will have new permits to hopefully put up new netting. And that's our preference is to secure the site. If the building is deemed substantially damaged, we wouldn't really have an option, but to demolish it. We would hope that we'd have a little more time to continue this process before that happened. But if that's with the building official determines and you know we have to do what we have to do. The reason I bring up this now, I know this is a CRA item, okay, so it's a little bit different, but I bring this up now because one of the purposes of the Intense R.A. is to reduce blight. We like this particular blight to be reduced sooner than later. I appreciate that it has been made safe. But the area around it is still, it looks precarious. And the netting, yeah, I mean, it's a mess right there. And it's a prime corner, which is why I know this project is going to be incredibly successful and popular. But man, what we've got in front of us right now, it's got to go. So I'm just kind of looking for a plan that aligns with the intentions of the Intense CRA. We are not in a position in this meeting to put conditions on this. But know that that is a priority. I know there's a process that you're going to be going through after today. Hopefully we'll approve this. And we'll see what it looks like by the time that's done. But it's really about this demo. And then what happens between the demo and construction start? because that could be a while if you're granted the ability to demo soon. So we want that, but we also don't want a pile of dirt sitting there for the next year or two years until things get going. So, and I'm kind of looking at both you and Corey to provide some guidance. Actually not to provide guidance, because we're not deciding this today. I'm trying to get my thoughts out here as you move forward, hopefully, in the process. That I'm looking for demo sooner than later and something that is pleasant in the meantime between demo and new construction. Does that make sense? It does, and I think you're asking me to respond to. I would love for you too. Happy to do that. On the demo, we just as a team haven't discussed the timeline yet, so I don't want to, you know, missly the council or prematurely commit to something. But as I said before, if the building official makes a determination that requires us to demo the building that we really have, you know, no option. And again, we would hope that we'd have a little bit more time to get through this process before that would happen, but, you know, we'll have to do what we have to do. In terms of what happens with this site, after it's demoed before we started, the good news is that it's a small site, and that's part of what, you know, has been the challenge with this project. It's a very small site. But I think that is a positive in terms of making it look nice, right? It's not like the 400-central site that was an entire block, if that he fenced and, you know, turfed and all that. This is a lot easier to do something like that. And if that's a requirement of the cities, we're happy to talk about it. We are equally frustrated with the state of the building. We don't like seeing it that way. So we share your frustrations. We also share your optimism for the new project. We're really excited about it. We think it's going to be a great addition to that particular part of central avenue. We'll really complement the new construction, the bars and restaurants. We think it'll be a great project. But we have to remember that this situation we find ourselves in was not arguing. It was not my client's doing. It was caused by the storms, right? And unfortunately, the entire city is, I think, still dealing with the repercussions of the storm. So while we're not seeking leniency and that's you know certainly not an excuse it is sort of the reason why we are you know where we are today. Does that answer your question? Yes and I appreciate your candid response. It means a lot. That's all I have. Thank you chair. Oh and I'll move approval. Second. Okay. Thank you. Councilmember Fix Sanders. Thank you. I do support this but one of the things that bring me so much unease is parking. According to you wanting to have a long-term agreement with your next or neighbor for 23 spaces. What you're providing 74 hotel rooms and motel use housing. Where did I go apart? I do see a parking garage across the street and not to mention adding to the timeline of your demolition. Generally demolition causes parking, current parking to be blocked for safety. So we're already having issues with parking. So I think that's why it's extremely important that we have that timeline for demo and construction. So we'll see how much parking we're actually going to be losing while you're going through this phase. But again, I'm curious we're building a building with no parking. None has been required or asked of on this project. How are we expecting to continue to build for people to live, but they don't have anywhere to park? So how are we going to try to address that in the future? So there is code required parking. It's not provided off site, which is permitted in the code. So for the hotel use itself, it is one room for every four rooms. And then the retail is one for every thousand square feet, which equates to 23 parking spaces. The code does allow since the site physically cannot park on the property. But the code allows off site parking at a location within a thousand feet. That's walkable to park if they have more surplus parking. So the applicant has looked at a couple of different sites such as the parking garage directly to the south. That may be tight on parking, but they can still have a agreement with them. They're looking at McNulty's parking garage, which is within the distance as well as the parking garage or parking lot next to the Cordova. The applicant does have existing agreements with some of those garages for his existing build businesses and so this agreement goes through it's basically we call it like a parking lease goes through legal for review it's between the two parties not the city but is recorded in public record And so the parking has to be available on a continuous basis. So they cannot just all of a sudden say, I have no parking, and it's a code violation. And then they would be cited by codes for not having the required parking. Okay, so how on the negotiations for those 23 slats going? So I mean, we take care of that at basically the permit time. So right now we're're going through site plan approval at a streamline level. That's going to be one of the conditions that they have this agreement. And so prior to zoning, signing off on that, they need that agreement approved by legal and recording record. And so we have that. The applicant can kind of speak to you. We just talked about it this week and he can provide more information on that. So our first option, best option is a parking garage right next door at 360 Central. In the owner Steve John Flippbo is actually good friends with the family who own that office building. So we've been talking to them for a while. We have a draft of a parking and Grim the right now that we're slowly working on. We also, as Cory mentioned, we have an option to lease spaces in the McNulty Lofts garage where Ford garage is. And that's public parking. The owner has 17 spots there right now for a different business, but they're not required by code for that business so they could easily be used for ours for our project. And so we'd be asking the garage to increase that by six spaces to make it 23. And that garage is within the radius that the code allows for off-site parking. The third option as Corey mentioned is a service parking lot open to the public next to Cordova in and that is owned I believe owned by a cardie who runs some of the parking and garage is in in valet and we think that a Cardie would probably be doing the the valet services for the hotel anyway So using their their log for parking would make a lot of sense The preference of course, I guess that is the the garage. And so even if for some reason the adjacent garage didn't satisfy the code requirements and we had to pick up McNulty or the surface parking to satisfy the code, we could still use spaces within the tower parking garage just because it's right there and the honor says he has plenty of spaces. We understand that parking is an issue but we have options for that and we're working on those. I'll also say to put a garage on this site would probably just not work at all but I think visually it would make the block look, you know, a whole block would sort of look like a parking garage. And because of sight so small, this building would be probably 20 stories tall. It would look like a pencil on the corner there. So we wouldn't want that either. So the benefit of offside parking is we avoid that and we get a better looking building, that contributes to the character. Okay, so I was just asking about the residents that are gonna live there and what they're, you know, harder would be trying to come home in a long day and trying to find parking and, you know, go through shopping and those of that nature. Yep. How it would impact them. What's the timeframe in notifying the surrounding businesses if the current parking spaces are going to be impacted for construction. I should clarify one thing. It's a hotel. Not. Oh, not a motel. No, no frown. No motel use. Not a motel. No, no. No, no. I'm done with residents right now. Oh, OK. That's OK with that debt. Maybe less. Yes, sir. It's a more. If they travel like me with five and six lugging, you know, trying to get where I'm going, no, but that works. But what's the notification of the surrounding business system regard? Okay, well still if they travel like me with five and six lug and you know trying to get where I'm going No, but that works, but what's the notification of the surrounding business in regards to the parking? So Mocha they would have to get approval as for an MOT through the city's engineering capital improvements department to close off Any of the right away be at the sidewalk or the parking spaces and our engineering department with transportation reviews that. I can't speak specifically to the timelines that comes out of their shop. From Zoni, we'll send out what we refer to as a construction action plan. And we ask a lot of these questions of the developer, like are you closing sidewalks? Are you closing the bike, lainery, closing parking? Because we want to see how it maybe that affects the businesses. Because you do have a couple of businesses right there to the west, which includes a couple restaurants that are... closing the bike lane or closing parking because we want to see how it maybe affects the businesses. Because you do have a couple of businesses right there to the west which includes a couple of restaurants that are already impacted by the construction of two and 400. So we look at that. We brought that to the greenhouse. The greenhouse can work with these businesses as well as any other concerns that may come up. Once we get the cap approved, then it goes through the MOT process, which again, engineering transportation coordinate that. And DOT too will have to be involved because it's Third Street, which is this rate. Thank you. That was my concern, the current businesses and how close in those spots would impact them economically. Typically they enclosed right in front of their business. So, or the building, excuse me. So, but I can't speak to not seeing the layout plan at this point. They might close more of the spaces on third than on central, because they only have 40 feet of frontage on central. And most of that is a landscape island. It might only affect one or two spaces maybe. But again, square to that without seeing the layout plan yet. And thank you for that clarification. I don't know why I saw Motai used housing in here somewhere, but it's all hotel rooms. Okay. Thank you so much. Yeah, I swear to that without seeing a layout applied yet. And thank you for that clarification. I don't know why I saw MoTai used housing in here somewhere, but it's all hotel rooms. Okay, thank you so much. Those are my questions. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Council Member Givitz. Thank you so much and thank you, Cory. Thank you, team for being here. I appreciate the presentation. I'd be remiss if I didn't speak up and advocate for smart development. I'm all for development that improves our community as a appeal, visual appeal, all for eliminating light. But we need to be cognizant of one, the park and concerns. I'm glad that my colleague brought that up. That is a concern for me as well. But also, destroying our infrastructure, sewage capacity. We need to be considered of things like this as we move forward as a council, as a city. I want us to be cognizant moving forward of the fact that we have 31 story building going up at 800 second Avenue South, the 16 story building going up at 300 central out, 46 stories going up at 400 central, another 30 plus stories going up at 200 central. This is a lot. So again, I'm all for our city as it grows. Adapt into the change, but I just want us to be cognizant with smart growth slow and steady, not necessarily over development. So thank you. I appreciate that. Those are my only comments, Chair. Thank you. Just one quick comment, Chair. So just the reminder, of course, in discussion like this, you can ask some questions because this is a time where you're together as a body. But just a reminder that your vote today, the scope of it, is consistency with the plan. So normally, Michael and I keep a pretty close eye on the discussion to make sure it stays within that scope, but because today it was questions and some feedback that was not phrased in a manner that affected the vote itself. I did not intervene there, but I do feel like it was appropriate to give the reminder before the vote. Thank you. Okay. We have a motion and a second. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak, Clerk, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please enter your votes. Seeing as all present council members have voted, Clerk, please tally and announce the vote. Chair, I must to approve a genitom CRA 2 passes unanimously with Councilmember Garrett being absent. Okay, thank you. We're going to approve of a genitom, CRA2 passes unanimously with Council Member Gabrett being absent. Okay, thank you. We're going to move into CRA3, a resolution finding proposed plan to construct 231 story buildings located at 800 second Avenue South, consistent with the in-town redevelopment plan. Cora, you're up again. Yes, sir. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Council. Lights, Lights please when you get a second. All right the subject property before each today is located 800 second Avenue South. The property is currently developed with a three story 41,000 more or less square foot office building and service parking. The applicant is proposing to demolish the existing office building and service parking lot and construct two 31-story buildings with 824 dwelling units and 3,500 or 800 square feet more or less of commercial space and approximately 1,500-fifty parking spaces. The estimated cost is $225 million. This is the first floor plan showing the commercial space along Second Avenue, as well as some of the entrances coming off of Athean 9th, as well as a little surface parking that will be within the building access off a third avenue. And then you have residential lobbies, both corners along Third and Athean ML King. There is a revision to the plan where it looks like they probably will be adding some liner retail actually on third to actually screen the parking. The proposed project again will sit on top of a seven story base, vehicular ingress, like I said, is coming from eighth and ML King. There will be a 30 space, little parking area access off a third, pedestrian accessrian access to the commercial space will be from 2nd Avenue South. Pedestrian access to the lobbies will be along 3rd Avenue South and from the corner of eighths free in M. O. King. The ground floor will consist again of the 38,000, 38,000, 35,800 square feet of commercial space. This is just showing the proposed landscaping. The proposed project will of course occupy the majority of the site. We'll have perimeter open space located along all street frontages. And this image just shows you that showing on private property as well within the right away. This is an aerial view looking down at the Mennedek and the two towers and how they're separated. Flores 2 through 7 again will be parking. The A-flore will be devoted to amenity space and six dwelling units and floors 9 through 30 will consist of 8 dwelling units per floor. Flores 31 will consist of 10 dwelling units. The applicant will be dedicating 50 footer right away along second avenue which has currently been private property it was vacated some time ago. These are just some views of the building looking from the surrounding streets. Again the building is contemporary it's described by the applicants architect. The architect is defined by flowing roof lines at a vote gentle motion of ocean waves and the touch of the sky. The facade is combined glass and concrete. The colony frame the ground level, any humanistic scale to the towers and providing shade. Above the podium, each L-shaped towers located towards the exterior perimeter of the podium, leaving a large outdoor amenity area. The two towers step back from the street above the podium and do include projecting balconies and a crown feature. This is just kind of a nighttime view looking at the many space if you're hovering above the street or from a drone. This is the backside if you're over in the shopping center that is directly to the south, among third. So the IRP does include different design elements that we review for compliance, such as compliance with land development code, submit it to the CRA, development shall provide architectural rights of the area, and field development should create a sense of place. New development shall relate to other buildings in terms of scale and mass. Development shall be consistent with permitted uses within the downtown and the intensity and you shall be governed by the underlying zoning district. The subject of properties and compliance with land development code is located within the EC one district that they are proposed is 7.0. Staff determined that this isn't compliance with the code as well compliance with the plan. This is kind of a street level of you looking at the lobby area. The proposed building does fit in with older newer developments. The building will be urban with pedestrian oriented features including ground level commercial space lobby entrances, greening of the parking garage and floor-deceiling store-front windows along the front. This features also will have 10-foot white sidewalks, street trees and landscaping by school parking, ground level open space, and a new drainage system. There will also be a colony along the shops along Second Avenue providing protection from Florida's weather. The pedestrian improvements will contribute to a pleasurable walking experience. There's just another view kind of looking, you can see the colony in the lower floor, as well as the amenity space. This is what it would look like from second avenue. This is just the backside, again, if you're looking at it from the existing shopping center to the south. Again, the existing development pattern contains a variety of building types and building forms within the city. Other projects like Camden Central, which is a 15 story building, at 8555 Central Avenue, there's 400 Central, which is a 46 story building that's currently under construction. The building also took design consideration into effect when looking at the layout of the proposed building relationships with the surrounding buildings. There are actually a lot of under utilized property surrounding this one. Staff does recommend approval of the attached resolution finding that the proposed two 31 story buildings with approximately 35,800 square foot of commercial space, 824 dwelling units and 1,500 and 50 parking space consistent with redeveloped plan, subject to conditions that are in your report. Thank you. Thank you. Okay, let's go to public comment. Howe, he and burger, please go to I the podium, state your name and address for the record and you have three minutes to address it to council Kyle he in burger 6056 29th Street South I am with echelon development and I'm representing the owners interest in the project Thank Corey for his presentation and we're here to answer any questions. Okay great. Thank you. Any other cards? Okay. Okay. Councilmember Floyd. Thank you. Is this in the, within the CRA plan? Yeah. You know, staffs reviewed it. I feel comfortable with it. But goodness. It's very different from where we started here. And it does feel like a little bit of a missed opportunity that's nothing to say anything about this Development particular But I just wanted to acknowledge that thank you. Thank you Never provoked that time. Okay. We have a motion and second Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak clerk. Could you please open the machine for voting? Council members please any of your votes seeing as all present council members have voted clerk Please tally and ask the vote. Chair most of your approval to the gineim c. R8 three passes unanimously with council member Gabbert being absent okay Thank you we are going to adjourn as the c. R.A. and reconvene as the city council And I think what we're gonna do council members is we're gonna take a five-minute recess come back and do f3 And then we'll take a longer break in between F3 or F2. Excuse me, F2. Thank you. F2 and we'll come back, do that item and then take a longer break before public hearings. 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I think council members you should have the red line version with some additional language in front of you. Council members, any questions? Council member, excuse me, vice chair, handouts. Thank you chair and I just want to leak with you can just kind of walk us through it real quick and that will be probably helpful before we do our vote. Absolutely, I sure. Yes. So what we have here is, instead of subordinating the workforce housing density bonus agreement, I kind of cordoned that off and took a scalpel to it. This is more surgical where the main issue for the lender in this scenario was the ability to transfer the property and the event of a foreclosure. So that's really all they needed with respect to the workforce housing agreement. So this edit here authorizes the mayor to execute and agreement to consent to that type of transfer ahead of time So it's it's pretty limited in its scope here. Great. Great. This is wonderful. So the attorneys are This is all great work for for everyone. Thank you all for like going back there and doing this so quickly It's amazing what attorneys can accomplish and so little time sometimes Well, well,'re happy with this. Great. The affordable, the units won't be touched. They would survive and run with the land in the event of a foreclosure. That sounds beautiful. Well, thank you for your work on that. Do we have a motion yet? I move approval. Second. Okay. We have a motion in second. Legal. Thank you so much for knocking this out. Thank you for helping us guide and get here. And then thank you for your willingness to work together. Okay. We have a motion and second. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak. Clerk, can you please open the machine and vote? Council members, please enter your votes. Seeing as all the present council members have voted. Clerk, please tell you and announce the vote. 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I'm gonna go back to the next video. and I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. I'm going to do it. you you I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit more careful. I'm going to be a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. I'm going to do a little bit of the same thing. you you Okay, we will call back to order our May 15, 2025 City Council meeting and we're going to move into our public hearings. And we've got J1, J2 and J3. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak, Clerk, could you please open the machine for voting? Council members, please enter your votes. Seeing as all present council members, please enter the vote. We have a motion and a second on J1, J2 and J3. Seeing as no other council members wishing to speak, Clerk, could you please open the machine for voting. Council members please any of your votes. Seeing as all present council members have voted, please tally and announce the vote. Mr. Chair, motion to approve of the unanimous J1, J2 and J2. Miss Lee, would council member Gemart be absent. Okay, thank you. Now we're going to move into our second open form. Any speakers? Those speakers in Zoom or in Chamber? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Clerk. All right. Any announcements? Council members, any announcements? Man, we're making this easy. I do have one that I just thought I would bring up for council member Givens yesterday and our meeting each year. We've been on a rotation of purchasing a lift for our kids at Community Pools. This pool will be a child's park. It'll be installed over the next probably 90 days. So I thought you'd be excited to hear that. Thank you for sharing that, Chair. What is this? Who's somebody trying to get away with that? I'm just telling you that's my calendar. Okay, council members, Kim tried to slip it by us. It's Kim Amos's birthday. It's tomorrow. Tomorrow. So we're going to sing Kim Happy Birthday. Happy Birthday to you. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear Kim. Happy birthday to you. Okay, councilmembers, if there's nothing else for good in the order, thank you for a great day. And please enjoy your weekends. We're adjourned. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, everybody.