All right. Hello, everyone. We're going to call the May 15th. Health Energy Resilience and Sustainability Committee to order with the clerk please call the roll. Floyd. Here. Gabber. Here's cool. Here. Given. And a witz. Here. Wonderful. We have an agenda before us. Committee members, do we have a motion for approval. Move approval. All in favor. Aye. Aye. All in favor. Aye. All in favor. Aye. And all right motion passes. We also have the March 2027th 2025 minutes. Do you have a motion for approval? Approved. All in favor. Aye right, excellent motion passes. All right, now onto our new business for today. Exciting item. We have the Integrated Sustainability Action Plan Update Part 1. And we're joined by Maven Rogers and Claude Tankersley. And Council Member Driscoll, this is your item. If you you just wanna say a couple of words. Feel free to go ahead. Thank you. The Integrated Sustainability Action Plan is something that was created not just to make a statement and put it on a shelf, but to be a living, breathing document that provides guidance for us as we move forward with city policies and planning. I thought that this would be a good time to review it together, see if there are changes that we need to make. But most importantly, see how we're doing with this plan. This will be in two parts so that today, you know, there's a lot of ground to cover here. So if we divided into two parts, we can be sure to finish in the meeting on time today. And we can pick up next time wherever we leave off today. So I look forward to hearing from you guys and seeing how we can help as you move forward. Thank you. Oh, I'm sorry, y'all can take it away. Thank you. Good morning, Councilmembers. Today, I'm excited to bring you the first update of our integrated sustainability and action plan out of two. So I wanted to kind of star and reorient us to the beginning. So this plan was published in 2019. Very much to Councilmember Driscoll's point. This is to serve as a blueprint for our current and future sustainability and resilience initiatives of the City of St. Petersburg. There is a technical report of this plan that's published online. It is about 400 plus pages containing over 70 actions and over 150 metrics. This was funded by the Bloomberg American City's Climate Challenge, and this provides as a vision for accelerator for sustainability and resilience initiatives. As you can see, we had our eternal kickoff in September 2017 and the City Council approved rule date around 2019. So what is the ISAP purpose and vision? And really to obtain this I went back into the deep documents of many, many years ago because one thing that I think is important in a purpose and vision is continuity. And I know that there's been new leadership changes throughout. So I really wanted to bring back what the purpose and vision was presented a couple years ago. So it guides the city and the community partners to implement programs and strategies that enhance our sustainability initiatives. And inform city sustainability priorities and identify areas of improvement. It is considered as part of budgeting and use with many other plans and projects. And one thing I want to mention here is the STAR Communities Rating System metric, which you see an image in the PowerPoint. That is, and this will come into play more in our updates part two. But the Star Community metric is the goals and objectives of the plan, which that metric no longer exists. It's morphed into lead for cities. So that'll be an important factor that comes up in the future. So to give a little bit of a timeline, there were multiple, so if you look at the continuation from 2019 to 2025, one thing that keeps happening is the evaluation and implementation of actions. So, you know, when I went back and did some research, we are updates to hers were in February 2022, September 2023, January 2024, and today may 2025 with a second update in July 2025. In these meetings, a few items were discussed, progress from our start community framework was one, which has now morphed into lead for cities which a city is currently pursuing at this time. Public facing dashboard for buildings and energy strategy and an annual report at the state of the city, state of the economy and working with St. Pete's stat to produce those energy metrics. It's important to know that at the very beginning of this process in 2016 our start community rating was 3 by 2019 due to this plan we were out of 4. So that's a great that's a great update there. Because the ISAP is quite a breath of a document it was actually rather difficult to figure out how I wanted to present the updates to you all today. But when looking at the ISAP, there is multiple areas of action. They break it up into eight different focus areas. So I thought it would be appropriate to focus on for today and for on the next update part two. Those areas of action that we'll focus on today are the built environment, economy and jobs, education, arts and community, and health and safety. While there were many ways I could have broken up today's presentation with over 200 metrics and many goals, I found it difficult to pick the right way, but what I decided was to build on our strengths, to focus in on areas that we are excelling in, and that the barriers that meet us. I think when we build on the things we are doing well, we can make them even better. That is not to exclude any of the other metrics or objectives that you will see today or call them less important. But for these updates, I found it to be an appropriate, it found it to be appropriate that these were updates of progress. So to give you a little bit of a breakdown of the scope of the ISAP, there are different metrics and actions and they're divided into two different sections. So if you see you have your eight action areas to the side, then you have the defined actions of the plan, so the city is going to do, and then you have the targets and objectives. The targets and objectives do not always match the actions, so therefore some of the actions do not have a quantitative data metric to it to measure. So that's something that we can bring up in updates part two and kind of have that discussion a little bit more. So in today's agenda, in the true spirit of an integrated sustainability and action plan, the sustainability and resilience office does not do it all. So I'm very happy for the collaboration that happened across the city. And it's just been really great as a new director to be able to work across these departments and say, hey, can you come present on these action areas and they were more than willing and excited to? I do want to reflect that I want to apologize for anything I missed today on this presentation because by no means does it reflect or touch on everything that the city is doing. We have been doing so much that it is hard to actually narrow down what we should talk about today. And I must admit being six months into my tenure there are things that I will I will maybe miss so that is not to reflect anything upon the city. For today's agenda we have Derek Kilborn, Met Manager Urban Planning and Historic Preservation Division, Corey Maleshka, Zoning Official, and Planning and Development Services Department, Cheryl Stacks, Transportation Manager, with Transportation and Parking Manager, Management, Brian Kaper, Managing Director of City Development Administration, and so as you can see with a variety of speakers, this is how integration happens, and Kim Lado, a Healthy St. Pete Coordinator with Parks and Rack. For this presentation I will call up the speaker and they will give there we will talk about the goals and the actions and they'll talk a little more about what they've been doing with that goal and some barriers that they've overcome or some barriers that still exist. So for the built environment the goal in the ISAP is to achieve livability, choice, and access for all people live, work, and play. So here you see the actions that are listed under built environment. We also qualify these as type of actions and status. You'll see this at the basically before we talk about any pillar area. You're more than welcome to take any of these actions and bring it to attention or have any questions on those actions But the highlighted areas will be the ones that we are covering today You will also notice that in the status there are many Actions that are ongoing this is because most of these at most of these items have to stay agile and open in order to get the response we need as we live in a world that changes daily. So a lot of these actions do have to be just ongoing. So with further delay to start the discussion, Derek Kilborn, if you want to talk about the built environment and what you all have been doing. Thank you. All right, great, thank you, Maven. Good morning, Derek Kilborn, manager for the city's urban planning and historic preservation division. Maven had asked us to come and present to you today on the built environment. And as she described to you in her introduction for the built environment, there are seven different action items, 24 target objectives. So we did provide back to her a comprehensive list of responses and she has selected some of these for us to report out to you today. I will try to be brief in my section because all of our work, whether it's in many of the comprehensive plan or in many of the land development regulations is oftentimes discussed and debated with you and committee and also through your actions as a full council. And so most of you are already familiar with the actions that have been taken. And we did try to divide some of this information related to housing. First, in the different changes that we have made to accessory dwelling units And the reason that we have focused on some of these in land use and zoning is because housing affordability is oftentimes a supply demand issue. And so to the extent that we can make it easier for the city residents to build accessory dwelling units, maintain that neighborhood character because we do call ADUs invisible density. It's oftentimes hard to see, but it can help be an effective solution. So starting back following kind of the introduction of the ISAP in 2019, the city did create the neighborhood traditional mixed residential category, NTM11 which starts to move us up to an infill type category that allows multi-family developments at a small scale allowing up to four units per building and 30 units per acre. Also in 2019 we did make a number of changes to how we regulate accessory dwelling units by removing minimum unit size, reducing the minimum number of parking required, and also reducing minimum lot sizes for accessory dwelling units. That change alone qualified and additional 9,600 parcels for the addition of accessory dwelling units where they were previously prohibited. Then in 2022, we made some additional changes to expand the footprint of accessory dwelling unit city wide. So you can see in the information that we've included a breakdown of the different changes that were incorporated. Those changes alone added or qualified, again, an additional 15,000 plus parcels for ADUs. And the one number we can't quantify here is the number of corner parcels throughout the NS1. So we know at a minimum it's 15,000 plus. Next slide, please. And then continuing with ADUs in 2023, we did make map amendments implementing the new NTM1 zone in category. And so this is where we actually put the NTM1 category on the map. Most of you were involved in that process and a lot of detailed debate and discussion on that. But again, we added another 2,900 parcels citywide for that effort. Also related to affordable housing starting one year before the ISAP a key change in 2018 was to eliminate the public hearing requirement or workforce housing proposals. Some of you may remember that prior to that change any development that included workforce housing units was required to go through a public hearing process. And through that change, we were able to focus more on the urban design aspects of these developments that are coming through and not so much the income or condition of an individual that would be renting or owning there. In 2019, we amended the Downtown Center Development Bonus System to prioritize workforce housing. There is a payment in lieu of fee that is associated with that as a development bonus option to date. We know that there has been at least $7.6 million allocated through the development bonuses for these projects that are being reviewed. And then of course in 2021 we start with the state preemption, House Bill 1339. The city was very aggressive in implementing that into our own work procedures. And then in 2022, we started to see some updates and amendment to that legislation up to the implementation of the Live Local Act. We have adopted, you can advance. We have adopted and approved several projects using those state preemptions for and total so far And those four projects total 1,712 units. So the city has found that those two acts of state legislation have been very effective here in us addressing affordable workforce housing and achieving some of the goals and objectives of the ISAP plan. You can change. The other item that was included here is a response to coastal resiliency. In the city's comprehensive plan and land development regulations, some of you may recall there were limitations in the comprehensive plan about development in the coastal high hazard area due to some federal changes to those maps in 2016 the coverage or footprint of coastal high hazard area in the city of St. Petersburg more than double and So it was creating some issues for us and the city did go through a process to revisit how we were gonna address that and And some of the language in the comprehensive plan was amended to allow consideration of map amendments in the coastal high hazard area. So that was something that was allowing more flexibility. However, in exchange for those changes, there were new requirements in the land development regulations that multifamily buildings being constructed in the coastal high hazard area had to meet a higher threshold of building resiliency to improve them and defend them in pre-storm preparation and also post-storm follow-up. In addition to the building changes that were required in construction there were also hurricane evacuation and reentry plan requirements that were assigned to those new construction projects as well. So we are seeing some positive movement and coastal resiliency through those changes. And then with the next slide, finally, as again many of you have been involved with different discussions over previous years about implementing solar ready requirements, solar EV requirements, and EV parking requirements. Some of these have over time been deferred with drawn, some were actually adopted and then preempted by state legislation. You also have an LDR text amendment coming forward in the next few months that relate to additional development bonuses when we are considering residential construction. So some of those bonuses will include a bonus for implementing an EV car charging station or implementing solar ready or solar EV in your new residential construction. I think that for this part of the presentation that kind of covers what we wanted to highlight, Cory Milischa, zoning officials also here to assist really follow up questions you might have. Okay, great. Yeah, we'll ask questions while anyone is after each person's piece, so we'll go ahead and go to five-chair handwins. Thank you, Chair. And thank you for the presentation. So, you know, when I look at this and I know that you all have to deal with this all the time, you accomplish a goal on one end and you work on affordable housing, but then there are possible negative effects to our environment on the other end. And so we've talked about the positive effects of what we've done in terms of allowing more affordable housing, allowing aid to use, allowing more density. And I know I brought this up in the NTM conversations when we were going to up some the whole city and all the challenges that that presents because you have obviously with more density you have less land less place where water goes and so what I want to understand is how do you and this is for anybody who can answer this this is not for a particular person and I know it's a challenge how do you balance balance? We need affordable housing, but for us to make those policy decisions, we also have to understand, okay, what are the potential effects to our lived and built environment in terms of increasing flooding, urban island, you know, the heat effect, right? When we were talking about coastal high hazard, we talked about, okay, we need to protect coastal high hazard and there are people there that are like, you can't build more there. It's like, okay, well guess what? I live at 50 feet. And if you build out here, guess where the water's gonna go? Downhill. So, you know, it's kind of that. It's such a hard issue. issue and I want to know how this plan kind of addresses it, how you're addressing it, and what can we maybe focus on and do better to kind of meet those competing challenges if I hope I made myself kind of clear. I think you did so thank you council member for that question or vice chair for that question because we do have some challenges that are Some of those challenges are out of our hands. So as you know Stormwater regulations are through Swift mode the Southwest Florida water management district and you get a storm water permit through them We also have our own stormwater Requirements when you connect to our stormwater system. The for a for development that's an acre in size or larger, they have to go through the SwiftMud requirement of getting a permit and they have to demonstrate that whatever a dish, whatever they do on the property, that the storm water flow off the property after the development is no greater than it was before the development. So that provides us with some protections for those large developments. The challenge comes in is with the ADUs on single-family homes on small properties. If they're converting an existing garage into an ADU, they're probably not adding additional impervious space. But if they're actually building an additional impervious area, then that would increase the impervious area on that property. And there is no regulation, there's no mechanism for us to require for them to attenuate that additional stormwater flow off of that property. Any one particular single residential property that does that is frankly not going to add a whole lot of stormwater to the system but if you've got thousands of them then it could. Good. So it's a challenge that obviously it's, I mean obviously you can require certain commercial properties to mitigate right with storing their water but the majority of the properties in the city of St. Petersburg or single family properties and you can't make them do that. And just to add to that vice chair Chair, when we added the 80-U section, the NS1, we didn't change the impervious surface, we didn't increase it. So that maintained it. And it's at 60 percent and most of the districts there in NS and NS2. So likelihood is that they could be maxed out today. They do come in for permitting. We would review them. you ask what is your imper imperfect surface because you can't go above the 60 percent where you'd have to go through a variance process to do so and you know we're very hesitant because of all the current issues. NTM, most of that was either zone CRT which already had 75 percent, NTM is 75 percent. If it was NT that was at 65 percent so it did increase a little bit. We do have the drainage ordinance that does get triggered that gets reviewed under clause division engineering and capital improvements for developments with more than four dwelling units. So in NTM if you do have four, you're fine, but if you have more than that you will have to do some antinuation or treatment on site. A lot of the commercial properties once you start redeveloping or touching it, they do trigger stormwater so all the downtown big buildings, you don't see it but they're all underground bolts. You know they're trapping some of that water that previously did not trap. That water contained it on site or treat it or attenuation. And so we do have some of that so the the redevelopment actually is bringing a lot of these sites into compliance, especially when they were paved. One instance is in historic Kenwood over on year, in 31st, that was all paving. And now that was redeveloped and a lot of green spaces added. Stormwater treatment or attenuation was added. So they actually brought that, say far more in compliance and has a lot of housing. And also, if local doesn't exempt people from compliance with our requirements for impervious surface or drainage. Right. Good. Yeah, if I could just add to that, I think those are great points Corey and Good Morning Council members. And one thing I just wanted to add is a council members know that we have a lot of different plans in the city, right? We have ISAP, which we're discussing today. There's a lot of other plans. I think the administrators are really doing a very good job on this. Council members know that we have a lot of different plans in the city, right? We have ISAP, which we're discussing today. There's a lot of other plans. I think the administrators are really doing a very good job on staying top of those plans and staying in touch with them and not just putting them on a shelf and leaving them there. So I want to make that point. But to go to your point, I think one of the areas where we deal with that the best is in the Comprehensive Plan. And that's something that we actually don't talk about that that much. And we have a long history in St. Petersburg of planning and comprehensive. is where we deal with that the best is in the comprehensive plan. And you know, that's something that we actually don't talk about that that much. And we have a long history in St. Petersburg of planning and comprehensive planning that goes back quite a ways. If Mr. Gilborn could give you some of that background if you want, but you know, the comprehensive plan itself talks about goals for impervious and pervious surface throughout the city. And we want to stay in touch with that plan. And that's kind of the guiding overarching plan for this type of discussion. No, and I appreciate that. I just, well we're having a discussion, we're focusing on the good. I want to understand, you know, give a bigger picture. There is always a give and take. You gain something, you may lose something on one and those are policy decisions we all have to make. Don't get me wrong, but it's important because when we have these discussions with citizens, I have to explain to them, well, they're concerned about development and how that impacts the flooding and how all these pieces fit together. And so there are lots of plans. There are more plans that I can think of because I can't keep up with all the plans. But my point is I know that we have a comprehensive plan. I know that we're doing the ISAP work and I want to make sure that with all these changes that's the public understands that this is at the forefront of our minds when we are making these decisions. It's not just affordable housing. We have to think about the environment. We have to think about the density and the impacts to our storm water system and where that water goes when we're making all these decisions and we may be gaining something on one side but we may be losing something else on the other side. So that was kind of what I want the conversation to kind of lead us to. That's a great point and Clawed I wasn't very very involved in the original I-Sept, but I would imagine in this particular situation, this is really more about the need for affordable housing related to transportation, and avoiding environmental impacts due to car travel and things like that, and that if we have people living and commuting from Paris or Hillsborough County, that's a lot more environmental impact. And if they can live five minutes from their employer in St. Petersburg. So I assume that that's the basis of this being in the ice of. Yes. Yes. Good point. Right. I mean, there's 248 goals. I can't list the broad that may be part of it. I just can't go there and list all the goals. That's true. I assume part of it is also making sure that we keep our trees and making sure we have green space and all that. So I'm just saying that this is all combined. But thank you, Kier. That was kind of my question. All right. Wonderful. I do have a follow up from that. I mean, theoretically, if we're doing something like adding an ADU or just impervious space to a single family lot, that could impact their stormwater tier and they would have to pay more and fees that would then be able to be used to upgrade the stormwater system. So I think that there's, in my mind, there was a balance struck with a plan like that as well. Yes. Okay. Okay. All right. Just making sure. Okay. Anyone else for this? Part of the conversation? Okay, thank you very much. I don't think I have anything, I appreciate it. I think as we were seeing this, a lot of other things came to mind that we're doing as well, that match this, but I appreciate the update. Okay, so we can move on to the next section. Great, and we're just gonna stay on built environment for just a couple more slides. So housing and community development is currently racking up technical assistance from the American Council for an energy efficient economy. We were awarded technical assistance to help expand our energy efficiency opportunities and current rehabilitation programs for rental housing. So what that kind of looks like is they, so we've been, AIS has prioritized recommendations to us. The original plan was to provide us with a recommendation report, but AIS offered additional assistance, which included providing a prioritization of the recommendations from their analysis of the city. That will be coming in June 2025, the final copy of that. The rebates for affordable residential rehab program has been expanded citywide. The city of St. Petersburg has allocated funding to allow more residents to take advantage of the rebates to help increase the supply and quality of affordable housing in St. Pete. Eligible homeowners in St. Pete can apply for funding to make specific building improvements to the residential properties including structural repairs, roof replacement, electric plumbing upgrades, window door replacement, HFAC replacement, insulation upgrades, kitchen bath upgrades, and constructing an accessory dwelling unit. Funding is providing the form of a rebate of up to 40% for the pre-approved construction value. Funds can be used to cover part of the actual cost of materials and labor. So this is something that they've been working I think for the last past year or so ACE, to try to identify these areas of opportunity. So one of the things that they're working on as part of their deliverables, it's a landlord engagement memo. So how do we get the word out to the landlords? So they know about these efficiency upgrades and these credits that they could be receiving. That will be on housing and community development. They do plan on presenting their finals, final report to the hers committee when that comes there. And why this did not actually have a goal in the ISAP plan, I felt that it would be necessary to talk about this because it's such this policy, this ordinance number 359H, has really changed the structure of how we build new buildings and how we're improving our existing buildings and so basically this ordinance the effective date was January 24th 2019 this requires the city and new construction that all buildings meet lead certified requirements and any new qualified city infrastructure projects shall be designed and constructed to achieve the current vision gold standard award. So USGBC, Leap for Cities is really just a metric framework that I'm sure all of you all are familiar with but to familiarize the public to really make sure that you're building to the most energy efficient standard as possible. An envisioned certification is much like that except for infrastructure. So making sure that our infrastructure that we're installing is energy efficient and helps conserve natural resources as much as possible. Since that policy has been enacted, we do have seven buildings that are officially lead certified. That is the Water Resources Administration Building, Fire Station 7, number seven and eight, Shore Acres Recreation Center, the Sanitation Building, which we are waiting to see back if that solar installation will be net zero. We're hoping, so that is a big deal for us. Water Resources Environmental Lab and the Police Chaining Facility. In progress, we actually have six buildings that are going to be lead certified or going through that process right now. That will be fire station number two, the Obama main library, the Southwest, Northeast, and Northwest Water Relec Reclamation Facility Operations and Maintenance Buildings, and Water Resources Equipment Shop Building. The police headquarters is Green Globe Certified, and we received our first Envision Award this year for our Northwest Water Reclamation Facility. So I thought that would be an important part to address just to show that as we bring on our new buildings, they're coming on as energy efficient and renewable whenever is possible. So I'm going to stop there for that one. Yeah, your councilman will go ahead. Thanks if you can go back. Can you talk more about the challenge with Envision because we've achieved it before? I mean, it was actually a really big deal and we were building the pier. Yes, yes. So it's just a challenge and that it's not easy to get. That's the point we're trying to make is know, you have to really show that you've earned the Invision Award, it's not just handed out, or to it is. Exactly. Okay. That's the good kind of challenge. Yeah, yeah, that's right. Okay, thank you. Go ahead, Council Member Gives us. Thank you, Maven, thank you, Cloud. I appreciate you all. If we can back up to, I think it was live 15, where we talked a little bit about the ACE program. So I have questions regarding identifying those areas of opportunity. Have we collaborated with other codes, excuse me, other departments like possibly codes to look at some linkancies there, maybe see which properties have violations, and kind of use that as a starting point just an idea. I don't think that was sought up, but I will bring it up. Thank you. Yeah, I think that is an Administrator's Foster's area and she has codes compliance. She also ran the ERA2 program and we got a lot of information from that on zip codes where people are, you know, hurting the most significantly. So we can certainly have her follow up with you, but she is incredible at targeting areas that need the most assistance. Yeah, and I'd love to, you know, work with her, especially in my district, at outreach, maybe engaging some of those property owners a lot of times, and I would take this approach, either neighborhood association, the faith-based community, a lot of times that's where you'll find those people who may not know a lot of times people just don't know. People perish in their homes perish, a lot of times people just don't know. People perish and their homes perish from a lack of knowledge. I also wanted to talk a moment about the match. I think I heard you correctly. It's a 40% match, is that correct? Where's that different program? No, this is a rebate up to 40%. All right. Thank you. approve construction value. Thank you, ma'am. I appreciate that. Thank you, jerk. All right. Anyone else? Wonderful. Go ahead. Okay. Great. And to our next action area, Health and Safety, the vision for that is to strengthen communities to be healthy, resilient, and safe places for residents and businesses. We'll cover five actions in this presentation today. So I'd like to thank Kim Lato, the Healthy St. Pete Coordinator, in our Parks and Recreation Department, and she will take it away from here. Hi, thank you for having me here today. So everything we're talking about pertains to our first goal here, which is the implementation of the city's health and all policies approach. This approach is collaborative in nature and integrates health considerations into decisions across many sectors to improve health and promote health equity. And so it recognizes that areas like housing, transportation, food access, education, and public safety significantly impact our health outcomes. A health and all policies approach really aims to shine a light on health promotion and put a health promotion lens on the creation of our projects, programs, policies, across all cities departments. So I have, as you'll see, a few key cross-departmental accomplishments, which many of you are very familiar with and worked on. Our ordinance banning, smoking and vaping in parks and beaches are complete streets implementation plan which Cheryl will allude on our urban agricultural land development regulations and I wanted to touch on our healthy food action plan which this planning effort was completed in 2014 with funding from the American Rescue Plan Act. It's being operationalized by healthy St. Pete and our health planner. Our health planner is working on strategies to support local access to food and improve food security and strengthen neighborhood health and wellness. And as part of the Healthy Food Action Plan, we'll talk a little bit more about the Community Food Grant Program, which also just launched that our health planner overseas. Another key accomplishment I wanted to point out was our community assistance and life program or call. It launched in 2021 and is operationalized by our Gulf Coast JFCS in partnership with the St. Petersburg Police Department and why this is important in a connection to health and all policies as it integrates, it's the integration of health and the public safety and criminal justice. It unites public safety with mental and behavioral health providers and it creates that shared ownership that we're all looking for a shared value of health and well-being in the community. The call program also addresses the social and community conditions that influence health by reducing stigma and criminalization through respectful, supportive responses and fosters trust with our public institutions. Without challenges, we wouldn't grow. The health and all policies approach does have a few challenges and really it's about all of us working in unison and quantifying what we're doing to address the social determinants of health. That's a complex issue and crosses a lot of sectors. However, the good news is as we're sitting here today, our city departments, administration and council continue to prioritize community health which is critical to our forward progress in this area. A next step we're taking our health planner is working in partnership with our Child's Park Neighborhood Association and other nonprofit agencies. It's a collaborative partnership intended to empower residents to re-examine and refocus goals from previous neighborhood plans and bring that back to the neighborhood so the neighborhood could decide on moving forward. Next slide. Another snapshot goal I'd like to talk about is a wonderful program providing incentives to helpfulful food retailers and underserved areas. This goal really works to advance our administrative goals and health, equity, economic vitality, environmental sustainability, and improved food access. We recently launched in partnership with the St. Petersburg Free Clinic, the Healthy Neighborhood Store Program, or Fresh Pace, as it's entitled. Its Fresh Pace is a retail-level program that works with small business owners to offer healthy food options, and proves store conditions to offer those healthy options at affordable prices. Currently, there are six stores participating in the Fresh Shrecks.Program, the RayJacks Meat and Food Market, the Lakewood Market, Lake View, sorry, Market, Yara Food Market, Midtown Supermarket, Three Brothers Market, and Taste of the Islands Marketplace. Central to this program is Business and Resident Adoption. Our partner, the St. Petersburg Free Clinic, has interviewed over 100 potential store owners investing a significant amount of time into listening to owners to establish trust and transparency and ensuring that engagement is deeply rooted in the community. Happy to report the data collected from surveys of residents taking part in the program. 95% of responded that they were able to purchase foods from this fresh-paced store that supported their dietary needs. And 97 of survey respondents reported that 97% of survey respondents reported that they would recommend this store to others based on the availability of fresh produce and healthy food. And that's a win. Another really big win in this program comes from a story that the St. Pete Free Clinic is now featuring, if you go to their website. It's about a gentleman named Michael who went to a fresh-paced store screening, along with offering healthy affordable options. screening events and engagements events and Michael ended up taking a test, a glucose test for diabetes and showed that he had diabetes. Pretty badly, he didn't know that. And it quite literally could have saved his life. So that connection to medical services is also vital for this program. Next steps in this endeavor, the Healthy Neighborhood Store Program is funded through FY25. The St. Petersburg Free Clinic is looking along with Healthy St. Pete and partnership to expand a cohort of work with the store owners so that they can better connect with each other and leverage buying power in the future. Just really need to build the rapport with the store owners so that they can better connect with each other and maybe leverage buying power in the future. Just really need to build the rapport with the store owners first before we. And also this program is included in the proposed FY26 budget. Okay, this program. Next slide. Lastly, the goal I want to talk about is implementation strategies in line with our food systems working group in the urban agriculture area. We talked a little bit about the Healthy Food Action Plan, but the Healthy St. Pete Division is working in the area of access, increasing education and knowledge around food and food skills through our Fresh Rec Stop program. Some of you are aware we have produce in 12 locations across the city, not just recreation centers, but we have a new location at our North Shore Aquatic Center. We're working in partnership with the FreshRex.program with the Jordan Park Neighborhood Association, senior living facilities and adult centers to increase healthy food options and preparation skills in those areas. And we are really excited. We launched a new Healthy Bites recipe book curated by our community health specialist, Chef Garrett, train chef and has nutritional background and certifications. And it actually caught the eye of the Penells County Health Department and their Minority Health Program. And as a result, they've asked us to print 4,000 more copies to distribute and work in partnership on programs. So that's a really great outcome. In progress now, the Community Food Grant Program, it's part of our Healthy Food Action Plan and was made possible through funding from the American Rescue Plan Act. Really the program is aimed at supporting new projects or existing projects in the area of food access, working with our local nonprofits. We were able to award $300,000 in funding to nine local nonprofit agencies and partners and some of the projects they're working on relate to take home meals for kids, food rescue and redistribution, a food hub, a mobile food pantry, several pantries in our Pinellas County schools and providing meals to seniors. And there's also a FoodRx program in there. Some of the work happening there. Another program in progress, which I'm sure you're aware of, and there's St. Petersburg Youth Farm, as it relates to this goal. It's operationalized by our Parks and Recreation Department and led by color whistle and a team of very dedicated youth workers. It has seen an undergone a huge expansion since its launch and it continues to offer innovative programming. One of the recent programs just launched was a community composting initiative and they're happy to report that over 150 residents are taking part in this program and the program has worked to reduce barriers for residents and now it's open 24 hours for residents to drop off their composting bins and this was made possible in support or through support of local shops one. A challenge in this area as it relates to the goal, its multi-selected collaboration is always a challenge, especially in food systems because it's complex and involves multiple interconnected issues. And as we talked about previously issues inadvertently impact others. Our next steps, we're gonna continue our work in the Healthy Neighborhood Store Program and neighborhood level food systems planning through our Healthy Food Action Plan. We're planning to examine and revitalize the Health, the St. Petersburg Food Policy Council. We're looking at ways when you think about the network of the work we're doing across the city and organizations looking at a way to communicate that. Better to all the work we're doing. We have programs and policies and education going on so we need to really examine the way that we communicate that with our residents. And lastly, we're aggressively pursuing diverse funding opportunities to further our impact. And that's all I have. No, I'm going to pass the baton. Well, let's do some questions on that. Yeah, because the next topic is quite different. Yeah, so we have council member Driscoll. Thank you. So tell us more about the funding because there was a good amount that was dedicated to this through ARPA funding. For instance, that was one funding source to really get this going. And I don't remember what the dollar amount was, but we had to talk about it a lot before we before we approved that So we yeah, yeah, so And this wasn't supposed to be a one and done so I want the you know funding to continue and for that to be as healthy as the initiatives that you're putting forward because you're doing because, there is some amazing work that's being done here. We want to make sure the funding comes off your list of challenges so that that's something you don't have to worry about and you can focus your energy more on connecting people with the food that they need. So tell us more about the challenges with this. Sure. So we, through the American Rescue Plan Act, we allotted approximately $535,000 to the Healthy Neighborhood Store Program, which was to implement the program, create the program from scratch, and work with our neighborhood retail owners to improve access and infrastructure in their area. Happy to say that through a lot of hard work we are able to bring on and keep on six stores. There's a lot of work that still needs to be done. It is a time intensive program. It takes consistent dedicated resources with those business owners. And there's a lot of surveying, there's a lot of paperwork, there's a lot of connections to community so that people are aware that that are living in these conditions that they have someplace to go. So that type of work to expand what they're doing now in the Healthy Neighborhood Store program will take you know a commitment, a budget commitment. We are obviously looking for outside funding. We've applied to some local grants that are taking place. The St. Petersburg clinic has also done that. But I think it would be a missed opportunity in the work in the space we're doing with the city to miss the opportunity to fund this program in the future. The work we're doing in the Healthy Food Action Plan, we had funding allotted for that, but more than half of that, the concern, I remember the conversations we had about making a plan and we wanna get the money out to the community. And so we had about $544,000 and $300,000 of that, We were able to create the community food grant program and put back into the community. Our goal with that program is to be able to fund more work and innovative strategies. We're talking about innovative strategies right now in our division related to mobile produce, which would take considerable thought and consideration in relation to zoning and ordinances, but that work to continue and to support the work of our sub-recipients in that area would take some funding from our staff or from our city budget. The crux of all of this is in relation to having a subject matter expert to guide us and that is our health planner which is on budget until the end of this year. And so critical in our forward progress and momentum in this space to solve the problems, big problems that you guys all are hearing is funding for that position. So I don't know if I went too far. I was just so lazy to lay it out so they had a better understanding. Off the top of your head, I don't know if you know this. Aside from grant funding and all of that that from the city budget. What do you have for the current budget year for FY 25? FY 25 we funded through partial FY 25 the healthy neighborhood store program. So that's $245,000. Okay, and what's your request for FY 26? So the current request would be, I'd have to look that up. What was in the original request? I believe it was another $245,000. However, interestingly enough, the contract contract period for the Healthy Neighborhood Store Program covers half of FY 25 or half of FY 26. So the initial ask of 245 would actually fund the community health planning position, the $100,000 for the Community Food Grant Program and continuation of F- through FY26 of the neighborhood store program. Okay, so basically some of this year's funding would roll over. Yes, it would roll over. Which means you could have the same ask for this year and did that make it into the operating? It is. It is still in there. Still in there. I think it needs a cleanup on the definition of what that looks like. Yes, it's still in there. Still in there. I think it needs to clean up on the definition of what that looks like. Yes, it's still in there. And are you planning to do the grant program again? Yes. That would be, that allocation would include $100,000 for the Community Food Grant Program. So what we intend to do is release another round of competitive grant processes for local nonprofit agencies to apply for funding. It may not a roll over of our continuation of funding. Yes. Okay. That's where I think we need to take a close look at doing more. And I know more is not the right, it's not our favorite word when we're talking about the budget. But here's, I mean, the reality is that on the federal level, snap is going to get cut. It's gonna take a cut. Meals on wheels is probably going to take a cut. That affects us on the local level. And we wanna make sure, I mean, the city can't make up for everything. But at the end of the day, this is going to affect our residents. And I want to make sure that we're prepared for that. And the writings on the wall right now, if you're following what's going on up there. Yeah, we're happy to continue discussion. I think we were very pleased to be able to fund it in FY 25 and the proposal on FY 26 on the healthy pace food stores. I think Mike has some creative solutions going forward that he's been talking to me about. So we can get with the offline and follow up. Yeah, and maybe look at the full program. I know you operate. I know you're doing this on a shoe string as it is. But if there is, let's say you get the full funding request for next year, you've got some roll over I'm going to go back to the next one. But if there is, let's say you get the full funding request for next year, you've got some rollover. Can you slim down in some areas to put more into this going out? Because, I mean, we could be in a really bad situation where for all of your efforts, the food and security issue could possibly get much worse. Now, mind you, of course, they're talking about this kicking in after the next election cycle. So it'll be a while before we really see this trickle down. I know isn't that convenient. But we have to plan now. And it's about making things strong so that we can weather that storm when it does come. So I just wanted to be on the record that I would be in favor of increase funding if we're able to find some additional dollars to strengthen what we already have that's working so well. Thank you for all that you're doing with this. Thank you to Carla and the same PE Farm team for your transformative work that you're doing there. And I look forward to talking with you more as you move forward with this. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Wonderful. Anyone else? Great. Thank you very much. It was very thorough and it's really encouraging to see all of it laid out in front of us like that. So thank you. Thank you and we're going to be moving on health and safety transportation in the ISAP fell under health and safety pillar. So I'm going to ask Cheryl Stacks the transportation manager for transportation and parking management division to talk a little bit about the ISAP goals as it relates to transportation. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you, everyone. The goals listed here were the ones represented within the ISAP associated with transportation investments, primarily under the umbrella of complete streets, but with specific emphasis on increasing access to public transit, increasing pedestrian access by providing additional sidewalks, and increasing our mode split such that more people are choosing alternatives to driving alone. Next slide. It's through our great partnership with PSTA that we've been able to make progress towards increasing access to public transit. Some key accomplishments include the launch of the Sunrunner, bus rapid transit service that began operations in October of 2022. To date, PSTA reports they've had over 2 million rides on the Sunrunner with 1.6 million of those rides hopping on board in St. Petersburg. So on the right side of the slide here, you'll see an excerpt from a recent FDA publication with a transit project spotlight. About the Sunrunner Project that they've produced and it estimates the economic value added to the community at $9.8 million so far. So another great accomplishment is the partnership with and the partnership of PSTA and the city is the provision of a fair buy down for St. Petersburg residents enrolled in the transportation disadvantage program such that those writers are able to access transit service and no cost to them. The city is facilitated almost 300,000 completely fair free rides for low income Stpeat residents in the first six months of this fiscal year alone. We have several joint projects with PSCA underway right now. One is the Connecting South St. Pete C.R.A. Mobility Study. We recently completed a significant outreach effort that resulted in over 300 geocoded comments on a website and suggestions on a map of the CRA that will give us a good outline identifying some future projects. The consultant team is organizing those now into specific projects and helping us to finalize recommended prioritization criteria and they'll work on that through this year. We also have efforts underway with PSTA as they prepare to launch the planned Spark service on South 34th Street. When they also implement other recommendations associated with the Connected Community Bus Network, the Spark service is a BRT-like service. It'll have limited stops, prioritized operations through traffic signal improvements, and premium amenities such as real-time totems and shelter and seating is right of what it allows. Finally, staff is working to intensify the coordination between the city, PSTA, and our micrommability providers to increase first and last mile access, as well as streamline the application enrollment processes for folks to qualify for program discounts which further increases access to transportation. Next slide. To make progress in providing other transportation elements, I'd like to highlight a few of our accomplishments through complete streets. We've been able to introduce several complete streets enhancements across the city including but not limited limited to several additional enhanced pedestrian crosswalks The picture on the top right shows a protected bike lane on Pinellas Point Drive The bottom right picture is from our West Central Street skate project that added several new crosswalks enhanced with right wing of the rapid flashing beacons The picture on the bottom left shows one of our micromobility hubs Since the ISAP was adopted, we've completely introduced a scooter share program and converted our bikes. The picture on the bottom left shows one of our micromobility hubs since the ISAP was adopted. We've completely introduced a scooter share program and converted our bike share program from coast to line and introduced all electric assist bicycles. In total we have well over 1,000 micromobility devices now available in St. Petersburg. We also have more projects underway through complete streets including continued implementation of our program plan. In fact the picture at the top left shows one of our new RFB crosswalks under construction right now in the innovation district on four streets south. We have several projects wrapping design and recently completed some neighborhood sidewalk segments on 37th street south and on 62nd Avenue south. We have projects in design, especially several that will provide a separate bike lane on 28th Street and partnership with Ford, Phenales and FDOT. Finally, staff has also kicked off the sidewalk master plan with the Council, the city council recently approved. The consultant is already working on associated data collection efforts for that program. Next slide. Some challenges of note for the group. One has been the significant cost increase in construction industry since 2020. You can see on the chart from FDOT that costs of general increase more than 40 percent since both the complete streets implementation plan and the ISAP were adopted. Further with so much local competition in the area on major FDOT projects like the Gateway Expressway and Howard Franklin Bridge, we've seen less interest in bidding from contractors on our small scale complete streets projects, particularly the sidewalk projects. Collectively, that's really impacted our ability to implement as much infrastructure as we had hoped. And even while the costs have increased, we've been working diligently to pursue grant funding to complement our city resources on the projects. It's a great strategy that lets our dollars go further, but it can also lengthen the amount of time before projects are completed. To date, we've had over $25 million in grant funding prioritized by four panelists for complete streets projects, Some of what you're underway now and others are awaiting funding programming. Next slide. Looking ahead, what are some of our next steps we intend to initiate the update to our complete streets implementation plan later this year using a part federal safe streets and roads for all funding. Pending the decision at this afternoon's city council meeting, we'd like to advance a city-wide micromobility expansion feasibility study to determine where we can increase access to our scooter and bike share programs, especially for first and last mile connectivity in various areas across St. Petersburg. We'll be continuing our progress on the sidewalk master plan in the next year, and I think that that strategy that we've developed to self-perform our neighborhood sidewalks and when that's coupled with the the sidewalk master plan and the proposed increase in capital funding for sidewalks going forward that'll go a long way toward help against make real progress and increasing pedestrian access and safety and safety and with that I can turn it back over to meN or answer questions. All right, you also remember Driscoll? Thank you. Regarding the grant funding that goes through for panelists, we just had a board meeting yesterday. And you know, looked at, you know, long range transportation plan and, you plan and the project list. And it actually had two projects on it from St. Petersburg, both of them on 22nd Street South in two different segments, to do improvements there. And in the status column it says that both of those are on hold by request from the city. They've been on there for a long time and these have been deferred multiple times and I can tell you that I asked about it in my one-on-one with wit and what I took away from that conversation was that we are not going to be able to just keep deferring this. So number one I'd like to know why it's being deferred. And number two, do we have a plan to move forward? Or are we willing to lose the potential for that funding? Thank you for the question. The opportunity to provide some clarity on that. So we had been applying, with the grant programs before Pinellas, very often they have a cap associated with them. They go up to, they used to be $2 million, now it's $3 million. So when we were looking at 22nd Street as a follow up to the Water Dooses live plan, we ended up kind of segmenting different sections of 22nd Street and applying for this much so that it, because it was about $2 million in this section, because it was $2 million. And then when FDOT started programming the funding, they had them coming in different years. And as we started some other projects on 22nd Street, what we heard pretty loudly from the community was that it's highly disruptive. So they wanted us to work with 4Pinels and FDOT to align the dollars in the funding so that it all happened in a single fiscal year so they can complete the project at one time. It's less, it'll be less disruptive to them if we can do all of the segments on 22nd Street at the same time. Design in a single year and then construct when the funding arrives, you know, in year and a half, two years later than kind of thing. So some of the reasons for our deferral request was to get that to a line to a single year and get that responsive to the community in that regard. And then the other time we asked for deferral was because we were pursuing grant funding through Safe Streets and Roads for All that would have made it so that we could do more and we would have more resources available to us to complete the project. We applied for that twice with federal highways and it wasn't successful. So now we are no longer requesting to defer the project. It's in there, it's in the, I believe we've got some funding coming in this fiscal year for design. That's coupled with some funding that's been approved from the South St. Petersburg CRA that'll support some of that, the design efforts as well. And then the construction funding is coming in a couple of years and we don't intend to ask for any further deferrals. And we do intend to move forward with improvements. I mean, we just finished the voices from the corridor exercise that gave us a really clear picture of what the current needs and desires are for 22nd Street. So I think we're well positioned to take advantage of those state and federal resources at this point in time. But that kind of explains why we were kind of deferring along the way. Thank you for that explanation. It's a relief to hear that. Yes, good. Thank you. All right, thank you. Thank you. I'll just say quickly, I appreciate the update. And there was, I think one thing that was most important on here, the cost increases, but that in combination with the federal government not as interested in funding. Some of these things, I think, are going to make our life difficult going forward. So I just wanted to uplift something that I've been thinking about lately, I have at least one new business item in on it. But just smaller scale projects, things that we can afford to fund ourselves. I know we're gonna have a conversation pretty soon about our speed hump policy and I'm interested in you know what could come out of that. But also I think there's a lot of things in the plan about like neighborhood demonstration projects. I think we can still make a lot of progress on a smaller scale while funding is a little more difficult in the next couple of years. And that's what I've been focused on and I just wanted to advocate for that in this moment as well. Thank you. I will say when we're doing the Connecting South St. Pete's here, I'm a mobility study. Part of the work that consultant is doing right now is identifying the projects and the limits of the project so that we make sure that we're not scaling them so that they're too big, nor are they too small to be impactful. So that's a real critical exercise for us. I look forward to the conversation on that program and continuing it and expanding on those efforts across the city. That sounds good. That's encouraging. All right. There's no more questions on this. So we'll go on to the next section. I will remind everyone we have, I think, seven minutes. Left scheduled in this meeting. So I'm not saying that we can't go over a little because this is our last committee. But it will eat into everyone's lunch before council. So I'm just reminding you of what the schedule is as all. Yeah, go ahead. And since we only have seven minutes left, do we want, we have the economy and jobs sections to cover and the arts and culture? And that would be what is left over. Did we want to move forward or do we wanna to stop here and talk about overall questions possibly or? No, I think we should just keep going. Just keep going. Okay, great. Let's just keep going for now. Okay, great. So the next action area is economy and jobs and by the ISAP, their mission statement is to achieve livability, choice and access for all people, for where all people live, work and play. So these areas, five different action areas we'll be covering today. Derek Kilborn and Brian Kaper have been so gracious to give us our time today. So we're going to start it out with Derek Kilborn. He's the manager of Urban Planning and Historic Preservation Division. Okay, thank you again. I'm just just gonna move really quick through these first several slides and set up Brian. First, we always want to, I think, approach sustainability resiliency with creativity, and so we had provided some of these descriptions, two maven, four in corporation here first, historic trades workforce training program. So as manager for my division, we of course handle historic preservation, and it's important to remind people that historic preservation really is the ultimate green building program. And one of the shortages that we see in the community is skilled trades people who know how to maintain repair and renovate these older historic buildings. So we have been reaching out to different construction programs locally, trying to coordinate and encourage them to create specializations that focus on historic trades. So we're just highlighting here that we are making that effort with the local schools and education institutions. Second, I know we have new business item that was recently referred regarding legacy businesses. This is an idea that we have been promoting over a number of years and it's just identifying small, locally owned businesses that have been operating in the community for many decades. That is a resiliency through business and the workforce. And so we're trying to encourage and find ways to help them continue operating. Third, implementing target business growth actions identified in the growth smarter strategy through our land use and zoning initiatives. You know that we had previously created the Employment Center II zoning category for the Northern portion of the Innovation District to help reinforce the Marine and Life Sciences effort of the Gross Martyr Strategy. And more recently, of course, we adopted the Target Employment Center local overlay at the 22nd Street Station, warehouse arts district area, not only to reinforce the workforce effort through the industrial zoning but also through the overlay the creative arts and design aspects of that. We are continuing work on the Innovation District Master Plan to the South and looking at how we can incorporate that into the earlier efforts with EC2 on the North. And then finally develop a long-term economic localization and promote by bank local campaigns. We did include a reference to the Storefront Conservation corridor overlay here because we do think it is important preserving those small storefront spaces because they are more accessible to small, locally owned businesses. Great. Thank you, Derek. Good morning. So the next action to create sustainable business recognition, promotion and development programs, some key accomplishments in this area where our Sousing Petersberg CRE Microfund program, which worked directly with small businesses on capacity building, working on a business plan and helping them move forward and then providing funding. So the funding was kind of the carrot to get them into the program, but really the key was that capacity building and the training that they learned and then that funding helped them go out and actually implement what they put in their development plan. We have the We Are St. Pete Small Business Disaster Assistance Program, which recently completed providing funds for businesses that were impacted by Hurricane Solina Milton and our St. Petersburg Main Street and CRA commercial corridor programs. So the Main Street program in of itself is a business recognition and development program for our small businesses on our commercial corridors. As Derek mentioned, we are working on a legacy business program that will be presenting to EWD Committee later this month. And a technical assistance program that we are working with the Office of Supplier Diversity and that will roll out later this year. That's really aimed at businesses that want to become certified as a SBE, a small business enterprise with the city, but might be getting hung up somewhere. There might be an issue maybe they are missing some documents or there's something that's just preventing them from getting through that certification process. So this will be a hands-on program and when they get through it, they will be an SBE by the city. Some challenges really funding and availability of staff. So especially when they are capacity building programs, it does require quite a bit of staff work. The microphone program had our entire team probably dedicating somewhere between half to all of their staff time on it. So we're looking for creative ways to partner with other organizations that might be able to assist in the implementation of these programs. We would maintain oversight of it, but maybe potentially partnering with the Urban League, or another one of those entities to help actually implement the program itself. And the next step is finalize and roll out our new business support programs at the end of this year. Next, provide training and support services to the workforce. Some key accomplishments in this area, St. Pete Works, which is our partnership with St. Pete College to provide job training and placement. The Mayors Future Ready Academy in conjunction with HR and the Mayor's Office and bringing in cadets and getting them employed with the city. And then a bully center both are after school and their summer internship program. In progress, we're working with the Chamber of Commerce on their higher program. And that effectively looks to do an asset map, identifying all of the partners in this space who is providing what type of training what services are available for our small businesses, our minority businesses, our veterans, and then making those linkages and connections. And then later this summer we will be issuing a workforce development RFP for our St. Pete Works program. So we are in our last year of that agreement. It was a five-year agreement, so we will be issuing a new RFP, which will take over, we're hoping that, I believe, the current agreement with St. Pete College ends in November, so our intent is to have this new program in place in November, so there's no loss of services. Challenges are always funding, partner coordination, corporate participation, getting our businesses to actually engage with these programs and then recruitment of our residents. Next steps complete the asset mapping study with the Chambers Higher Initiative and finalize and release that workforce RFP. And then lastly, the action to enhance business incubation and acceleration capacity in St. Petersburg. We do that at the city through our greenhouse, but we also do it in conjunction with our partners, such as Arc and the Tampa Bay Innovation Center as well as the St. Petersburg Innovation District and their Marine and Defense Technology Hub. Currently in progress, we are working with the additional service providers at the greenhouse to expand our offerings and work with additional economic development partners to provide new programs. Challenges there, again, just ongoing funding and partner coordination and the next steps really continuing to work on new offerings at the greenhouse through our additional service providers as well as work with the innovation district as they are now taking over operations of ARC and the Tampa Bay the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of the state of I know we've talked about this before. The gross martyr strategy, the target industries, data driven approach, having some plan for that. It's been very old. It's part of the ISAP in terms of targeting that industry development. Tell us where what's going on. We are phasing out of Martyr. It is quite old. It was completed in 2013. So the Pinellas County Economic Development recently did a strategic plan and they updated their industries. We intend to use some of that information, see what they were able to gather, and then refine it for St. Petersburg. We're probably going to do that internally. I've had some conversations with administration, but we do intend to just look at through location quotients and some trends, of course, what the county is doing. Revise those targeted industries, move away from growth smarter, but make sure that we're putting most of our efforts, those industries we're looking to attract, that that's really where we are most competitive in the marketplace. Okay. We had this discussion a while back in the Economic and Development Committee. And one of the concerns that I had is to make sure, A number one, we were using data that was for us. I know we were using kind of the panelists county data, but making sure that we were getting data. And not just internally, outside from others and comparing us to other areas that are like the city of St. Petersburg. And so I just, I'm putting it out there again. I know that we're using your data, but I want to make sure that besides in-house, and what we may, our own biases and our own viewpoints, it's always nice to have an outsider that has the expertise to provide a set information and context with other municipalities and how we're doing. So I'm just throwing it out there, I understand some of the challenges, but I think it's very important information because if we are targeting industries, it should be very data driven. Absolutely. So that's it. Thank you, Chair. Wonderful. Anyone else? Great. Yeah, this is a topic I think we've talked a lot about. So it's a nice update, but I appreciate it. Thank you. And we'll go on to education arts and culture as well, yeah. Okay, great. So moving on to education arts and culture, I will be presenting on that today. We'll cover three different areas. Oh you are okay, wonderful, thank you. That's a surprise and welcome Celeste. That's great. So if you actually want to introduce yourself and take it away. Celeste Davis, director of arts culture Tourism for the City of St. Pete. So for education, arts and culture, the actions are incorporate art, culture, and equity and foundational planning documents. Well, we have the draft cultural action plan, which the Arts Advisory Committee works with John Collins as a consultant to develop. That plan is scheduled to be at the Economic Workforce Development Committee meeting in July. We'll go over that. It's man access to the arts among communities of color and low income populations. We've done two key things that I think address that the level up art grant. That grant is specifically designed for arts and culture, nonprofit organizations that have budgets less than $50,000. In addition to that criteria, all of those organizations that receive that level of grant, which is just up to $2,500. It's partnered with the Greenhouse for a custom curated business program to help them in their financial business side of their organization. We have the individual artist grants, which really supports individual artists. There are going to be 40 artists that will receive $5,000 each, and it's operational, which is very significant for the arts community. It's for paints, it's for renting space, for exhibits, things like that. Weenges, we were awarded an NEA grant to 150,000 dollars to install nine asphalt murals around the city of St. Pete. Asphalt murals are known to promote safety, health and wellness in neighborhoods, and we did receive the grant but it as of now is not funded. Expand collaboration among local and regional public private and nonprofit organizations a form of partnership with the Greenhouses I shared before with the level up grant. We also have started it's been over a now, a monthly newsletter from the Department of Arts Culture and Tourism. And it creates a connection to the community for everything that's going on in the arts world in the city of St. Pete. And we've gotten lots of really positive feedback from people because it is a connector in the community. The in progress needs to be reviewed. Oh, that's just the cultural action plan. Expand access to arts among communities of color and low. Sorry, Celeste, that's in there twice. Yeah, it's an apologize, yeah. Key accomplishments, definitely the level up grant and the individual artist grant. I would add to that, we recently revamped the arts and culture the culture grant to the city of the arts grant, making it more equitable among all of the nonprofit arts organizations in the city. Wonderful. That's that's it. Okay. Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. We'll have questions on this. Go ahead, councilmember. Yeah. Just quickly. This is more for Maven. This section is called education arts and culture. Will we be receiving an update on the education elements since that's under a different off. section is called education arts and culture. Will we be receiving an update on the education elements since that's under a different office? So we have found yes we can't but we have also found that it is somewhat hard to collect the data given the different action so that's more county data so we can look into that but we have like fun head start programs Provide full day kindergarten for low. I'm just saying maybe for part two There could be an education section where we can talk about What the efforts have been that are related to ice-hub And that so dr. Brown could join us for that. Okay, great. That's all, thank you. Okay, what's your handle? Just picking, piggybacking on Council Member Triscoll's comment. Yeah, the title was Education Arts and Community in the ISAP. And this just covers this. The community part also should probably be included. Whatever is in the ISAP, I'm not, we don't have to get into weeds. I'm just saying. There's other factors that are there. And so this is just on the arts part. We are covering the education part and the community is also kind of missing. Is it all? Yeah, that's all I have. Yeah, the only thing I'll say is that we did speak, Maven, before about how education was a little trickier for us. Yeah, a little bit of conversation here would be appropriate. Still, I think, even though it is tricky. I also recognize this is a lot of information we just had put in front of us, it will be a lot of information Next time we sit down and do this as well So I think we'll do our best to get through it is how I'll tell people I Glad you've gone on to the next slide about continued iSEP goals and discussions. I think next time we're going to talk a lot. In my mind, we have split it up on things that we were really in control of versus things that are bigger and we have to work with community partners on. And so that's what we'll be having in discussion about next time. We have run out of time. We will have another in-depth discussion on, looks like July 17th. Does anyone have any final thoughts or anything they want to make sure gets brought up in that next meeting? Okay, all right. Thank you so much. I will let the group know I'm working on and very close to finalizing two additional hers meetings. One at the end of July and one in August as well because we have so much going on and they already have items attached to them. And once we get you a little bit of advice. I'm going to give you a little bit of advice. I'm going to give you a little bit of advice. I'm going to give you a little bit of advice. I'm going to give you a little bit of advice. I'm going to give you a little bit of advice. I'm going to give you a little bit of advice. I'm going to give you a little bit I know years passed, we had this committee met every month. And then I think a couple of years ago, we moved it to every other month. We're about to do our policies and procedures discussion, We might want to bring up how this is going now. I just put that in everybody's mind. But with that I appreciate everyone. There's a lot of staff members here today and the update and in-depth and it was really encouraging honestly I think next time we'll see if it's so encouraging the next conversation. But this one I do think the city's made a lot of progress. And so thank you very much for the presentation and thank you for throwing it together relatively quickly with the amount of depth that was there. But without anything else for the good of the order, we're going to call today's health energy resilience and sustainability committee meeting adjourned. Thank you. Thank you, Chair. Thanks for watching!