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1. 1Call to Order – Roll Call▶ 0:00
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   Pledge of Allegiance

   Pledge of Allegiance and moment of silence for service members.

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   [00:00:13] Attorney Driscoll. Here. Thank you. If we could all stand join us in the Pledge of [00:00:17] Allegiance and remain standing for a moment of silence in honor of our [00:00:21] service men and women at home and abroad. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the

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   Moment of Silence

   Procedural moment of silence and Pledge of Allegiance.

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   [00:00:26] United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. [00:00:41] Thank you. You may be seated. Next item of the agenda is approval of the July 17th

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   Approval of July 17, 2018 Work Session and Regular Meeting Minutes

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   Council approved the minutes from the July 17, 2018 Work Session and Regular Meeting.

   • motion:Approve the July 17, 2018 Work Session and Regular Meeting Minutes. (passed)

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   [00:00:48] work session and regular meeting minutes. Approval. Second. Any discussion? All those [00:00:55] in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Like sign. Next is, motion passes.

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   Approval of July 18, 2018 Work Session Minutes

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   Council approved the minutes from the July 18, 2018 work session.

   • motion:Approve the July 18, 2018 work session minutes. (passed)

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   [00:01:02] Next is approval of the July 18th work session minutes. Move for approval. [00:01:07] Second. Discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please signify by saying [00:01:12] aye. Aye. Opposed? Like sign. Next, approval of the July 24th work session. Move for

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   Approval of July 24, 2018 Work Session Minutes

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   Council approved the minutes of the July 24, 2018 Work Session.

   • motion:Motion to approve the July 24, 2018 Work Session Minutes. (passed)

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   [00:01:19] approval. Second. Any discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor, please signify [00:01:24] by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Like sign. Motion passes. Next, approval of the July 31st work

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   Approval of July 31, 2018 Work Session and Special Meeting Minutes

   approved

   Council approved the minutes from the July 31, 2018 Work Session and Special Meeting.

   • motion:Motion to approve the July 31, 2018 Work Session and Special Meeting minutes. (passed)

   #July 31, 2018 Work Session and Special Meeting Minutes

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   [00:01:32] session and special meeting minutes. Move for approval. Second. Discussion? Hearing [00:01:44] none. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Like sign. Next,

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   Approval of August 9, 2018 Special Meeting and CIP Work Session Minutes

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   Council approved the minutes from the August 9, 2018 Special Meeting and CIP Work Session.

   • motion:Approve the August 9, 2018 Special Meeting and CIP Work Session minutes. (passed)

   #August 9, 2018 Special Meeting Minutes#CIP Work Session Minutes

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   [00:01:49] last but certainly not least, the approval of the August 9th special [00:01:54] meeting and CIP work session minutes. Move for approval. Second. Discussion? All [00:02:01] those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed? Like sign. That's the most

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9. 9Vox Pop for Items Not Listed on the Agenda or Listed on Consent Agenda▶ 2:06
10. 10.a

    Cultural Affairs Committee Minutes - June 2018

    approvedon consent

    The Cultural Affairs Committee Minutes for June 2018 were approved as part of the consent agenda.

    • vote:Approve the consent agenda, including the June 2018 Cultural Affairs Committee Minutes. (passed)

    #Cultural Affairs Committee Minutes - June 2018

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    [00:07:09] is the consent agenda. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please [00:07:18] signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, like sign. Motion passes. Next is public reading of

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11. 10.b

    Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Minutes - June 2018

    approvedon consent

    The Parks and Recreation Advisory Board minutes from June 2018 were approved as part of the consent agenda.

    • motion:Approve the consent agenda, including the June 2018 Parks and Recreation Advisory Board minutes. (passed)

    #Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Minutes - June 2018

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    [00:07:09] is the consent agenda. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please [00:07:18] signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, like sign. Motion passes. Next is public reading of

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12. 10.c

    Purchases/Payments for City Council Approval

    approvedon consent

    The consent agenda, which included Purchases/Payments for City Council Approval, was approved by voice vote.

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    [00:07:09] is the consent agenda. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor, please [00:07:18] signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, like sign. Motion passes. Next is public reading of

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13. 11.a

    Second Reading - Ordinance No. 2018-2141: Property Lease Agreement with Kazu's Sushi for Dumpster

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    Council held the second reading of Ordinance 2018-2141, authorizing a lease of city-owned property on the south side of Nebraska Avenue (west of Grand Boulevard, adjacent to a lift station) to Kazu's Sushi for the construction of a dumpster enclosure. The lessee bears enclosure costs, must meet insurance requirements, and pays a monthly lease fee. The ordinance passed on a voice vote.

    Ord. Ordinance No. 2018-2141

    • motion:Motion to approve second reading of Ordinance 2018-2141 authorizing the lease agreement with Kazu's Sushi for a dumpster enclosure. (passed)

    📍5706 Main Street📍South side of Nebraska Avenue, west of Grand Boulevard🏢Kazu's Sushi👤Ms. Manns#Ordinance 2018-2141

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    [00:07:25] ordinances. Ordinance second reading, ordinance 2018-2141. Ordinance 2018-2141, [00:07:33] an ordinance of the City of New Port Richey, Florida, authorizing the [00:07:36] lease of a portion of a certain property owned by the City and located [00:07:39] on the south side of Nebraska Avenue, west of Grand Boulevard, providing [00:07:44] authorization for execution of the lease agreement and providing for an [00:07:47] effective date. Thank you. Ms. Manns, anything? Sure, Mr. Mayor. This is a second [00:07:52] reading of this matter, and it relates to the establishment of Kazoo Sushi at 5706 [00:07:59] Main Street. The purpose of the agenda item specifically is to authorize a [00:08:06] lease agreement for some property adjacent to a lift station in the [00:08:10] parking lot adjacent to the property for the purpose of establishing a dumpster [00:08:17] enclosure, and the cost of the enclosure is to be borne by Kazoo Sushi. There are [00:08:26] also insurance requirements and a monthly lease fee paid to the city for [00:08:33] the use of that property, and we are recommending that you consider the [00:08:39] second reading favorably. Thank you. It's a public reading of this ordinance, [00:08:44] opened up for public comment. Seeing no one come forward, bring it back to [00:08:50] Council. Move approval. Second. We have a motion and a second to the [00:08:54] maker. We heard at the first reading and we're excited to have sushi business in [00:09:02] town. To the second. Deputy Mayor? No comment. Councilman? No comment. Thank you. No further [00:09:10] discussion. All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, like [00:09:14] sign. Motion passes. Next is first reading ordinance 2018-2134. Ordinance

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14. 11.b

    First Reading - Ordinance No. 2018-2134: Food Trucks Ordinance

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    Council held first reading of Ordinance 2018-2134 establishing regulations for mobile food vending (food trucks), including permitting, hours (no operation 3-5am), 3-day limits on private property, 400 sq ft limit on public property, and insurance requirements. Extensive public comment was taken with mixed views from downtown business owners; council heard concerns and indicated changes would be considered before second reading.

    Ord. Ordinance No. 2018-2134

    • direction:Ordinance 2018-2134 regulating mobile food vending was presented for first reading; council took extensive public comment and indicated further refinements would be considered. (none)

    📍6030 Oak Ridge Avenue📍6120 Missouri Avenue📍6236 Grand Boulevard📍6307 Grand Boulevard📍6379 Connywood Square📍Lafayette Street📍Wyoming Avenue🏢Boulevard Beef and Ale🏢Boulevard Lounge🏢Carl Reef🏢Cody River Brewing Company🏢Cristiano's🏢Fitzgerald's🏢Johnny Grits🏢Kazoo's🏢Ordinance 1🏢Rose's Bistro🏢Southwest Grill🏢Wells Fargo🏢White Heron Tea and Gifts👤Bob Langford👤Debbie Manns👤Gene Sullivan👤Joe Norton👤John Martin👤Joseph Carl👤Kelly Hackman👤Patricia Clay#Bike Fest#Chapter 13 Code of Ordinances - Article 12 mobile food vending#Ordinance No. 2018-2134#local music night first and third Tuesdays

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    [00:09:20] 2018-2134, an ordinance of the City of New Port Richey, Florida, providing for [00:09:24] amendment of chapter 13 of the New Port Richey Code of Ordinances pertaining to [00:09:28] licenses and business regulation, providing for a new Article 12 [00:09:31] pertaining to mobile food vending, providing definitions of terms, providing [00:09:35] for registration and permitting, providing for regulations, providing [00:09:38] penalties for violation hereof, providing for enforcement, providing for conflict [00:09:43] severability, and an effective date. Thank you. Ms. Manns? Certainly, Mr. Mayor. For [00:09:49] some time now, there has been discussion at the Council level about establishing [00:09:54] an ordinance which would regulate mobile food vending truck operations in the [00:10:00] city. In that respect, a draft ordinance was presented to you on June 19th of [00:10:07] 2018. At that time, the ordinance was tabled. And since that time, there have [00:10:15] been several changes to the ordinance, most of which were intended to relax the [00:10:21] standards to some extent by removing a number of the proposed requirements for [00:10:26] food vendors. The specific changes relate to the requirement of a site plan, [00:10:33] evidence of the owner's permission to use the property, the frequency of [00:10:39] operation, the hours of operation, the proximity to businesses, and space, noise, [00:10:45] and ancillary items. As the ordinance is drafted, a permit from the city is [00:10:52] required in order to operate as a food vendor out of a mobile truck, and there [00:11:01] are hold harmless and insurance requirements associated with that permit. [00:11:07] The way that the city attorney drafted the ordinance, there are specific [00:11:12] requirements that impact private property and others which impact public [00:11:17] property. But in both cases, there can be no operation between the hours of 3 a.m. [00:11:23] and 5 a.m. The vendor must provide for trash removal and any signs that they [00:11:30] use must be attached to their trailer. In the case of on private property, they [00:11:38] cannot be there for more than three days. They cannot obstruct handicapped [00:11:43] parking spaces or any means of ingress or egress from a building. In terms of [00:11:49] public space, it cannot be in a residential district. The area used to [00:11:58] accommodate the sale of food cannot be larger than 400 square feet, and the [00:12:06] vendor must move the trailer at the end of the day. With that, there are also [00:12:12] conditions for revocation of the permit if any of the conditions are found to be [00:12:21] untrue or not followed through with completely. This has been a difficult [00:12:28] balancing exercise for the staff, but we feel confident that the ordinance in its [00:12:37] current state protects not only our bricks-and-mortar establishments in the [00:12:44] city, but also allows for the food truck phenomenon culture to be introduced as a [00:12:55] new form of civic life in the city's downtown area. If you have any questions, [00:13:00] I'm prepared to respond to them. Very good. I'm going to open this up for public [00:13:04] comment. Anyone wishing to address Council on this issue, please come on [00:13:08] down. You could sign in and give us your name and address for the record place. My [00:13:22] name is John Martin at 6030 Oak Ridge Avenue. Looking up here, I know I'm a [00:13:28] relative newcomer to New Port Richey. I've been here since 83, and I have seen [00:13:34] the ebb and flow of the businesses here, and the streets remain the same size. My [00:13:41] concern with the food trucks, as well as the next item, which is encroaching on [00:13:46] parking spaces, is is there a strict density code for the number of these [00:13:52] food vendors who are going to be in the city at any given time? So there's not [00:13:57] everybody wants to open up a food truck, and they're crowding the streets out [00:14:03] when we already have a crisis with parking. To answer that question, that has [00:14:07] to be associated with the business. They just can't pull in and open up. [00:14:12] Okay, so the business would have to get the permit. I wasn't aware of the written guidelines so far, that's why I just wanted to... [00:14:17] So it's not it's not just pulling in and opening. Okay, good, thank you. Thank you. [00:14:23] Anyone else? You can come on down and sit on the front row if you like. I'm Joseph [00:14:38] Carl, 6307 Grand Boulevard, and I have the Carl Reef. My only question was on the food [00:14:44] trucks is, what he was saying too, if you allow a certain amount of people, or like [00:14:49] how they affiliated with, say like Ordnance One that just opened up has a [00:14:53] food truck, but then they're directly across from the restaurant right across [00:14:58] the street from there. [00:15:00] Johnny Gritz. I mean, that might affect them negatively and, you know, they're paying taxes and all in the city. [00:15:06] That's what I'm trying to figure out. How are they going to limit it? Or, you know, is there a certain amount that's going to be there? [00:15:12] I'd hate to see a bunch of food trucks come in when we're trying to, like I'm trying to do an oyster house now. [00:15:17] We're trying to expand, but that's not going to help us as far as, you know, [00:15:21] Kazoo's once opened up and I think the one right next to Kazoo's, they're working on that is going to be a restaurant. [00:15:27] And I think that might hurt those people coming in. [00:15:30] They're going to pay taxes 12 months a year over, you know, a couple of food trucks coming in. [00:15:36] I think I can answer that, too. It's limited the amount of days a week that they can be there. [00:15:41] I think it's three days and they can't come back, you know, so that alone. [00:15:45] And it's, you know, if you look at it this way, in my opinion, it's nothing different than I see Joe back there, [00:15:52] Joe Norton, he could actually cater to, you know, Ordinance One or any one of these business, too. [00:15:58] And even a pizza place could come in and cater to that business on a regular basis, even seven days a week. [00:16:06] You know, so we're trying to restrict that so it doesn't get what you're saying is they're there permanently. [00:16:12] Okay. [00:16:13] But that's what I was concerned about, the permanent, if you're going to bring, like restaurants, [00:16:17] going to discourage people from renting out and fixing the brick and mortar places up if they come downtown [00:16:23] and see eight or ten food trucks around. [00:16:25] Not to mention, you know, I've been here 27 years and we've had problems with parking, [00:16:29] and we've done nothing but eliminate parking spaces. [00:16:33] Well, we're trying to get, like in Ordinance One, they're pulling in on their property. [00:16:37] But if you get somebody like the Cody Brewing House, if they happen to want to do it, you know, [00:16:43] their business goes from Main Street to Nebraska and there's no room. [00:16:47] So we'll offer them, you know, a parking spot to put their space if they come [00:16:51] and get a permit from us to be able to bring it in. [00:16:56] Will they have, like, a number? [00:16:58] Like if every place wants to have them, are they going to allow every place to, you know what I mean? [00:17:02] You think about it, there's all these restaurants there, they're not going to bring in a truck. [00:17:05] So we're talking about, you know. [00:17:08] And actually, let me just say that this started in a business upstairs in Wells Fargo in Southgate [00:17:16] that's a call center, and they wanted to reward their employees in this call center. [00:17:23] So they brought a food truck in. [00:17:24] Well, Joey's in that back complained, well, we didn't have an ordinance at all at that time. [00:17:30] So this is to try to control it. [00:17:33] But I also know the guy in Tampa Bay, in the Tampa Bay area, [00:17:36] that schedules all these food trucks all over the Tampa Bay area. [00:17:39] He says we're a very quiet, probably not even going to be a market for years. [00:17:43] So you're going to see once in a while, you know, somebody like, you know, Ordinance One or, you know, [00:17:48] the Brewer House bring in. [00:17:50] But that's why we're trying to do a limited to help the bricks and mortar people. [00:17:54] I mean, you've told me one time, you know, if we had, you know, Bike Fest once a month, [00:17:59] you'd only be open the three days of Bike Fest. [00:18:01] But then again, you know, the people that are putting the Bike Fest on bring in alcohol, [00:18:06] you know, bring in beer and wine anyhow. [00:18:08] You know, so that's, in a sense, competition to you. [00:18:10] But we're not letting it happen every month. [00:18:12] So that's what this is kind of trying to do, is try to control so we don't have food trucks. [00:18:16] And they've got to be associated with the business. [00:18:18] Let me reiterate that. [00:18:20] That makes sense to me. [00:18:21] Yeah. [00:18:22] Thanks, John. [00:18:23] Hey, I'm excited to hear about your oyster bar, though. [00:18:25] It's the first I've heard of that. [00:18:26] Yeah, we're working on it right now. [00:18:27] We've got a steamer and everything in there. [00:18:28] Very cool. [00:18:29] Thank you. [00:18:30] Next. [00:18:31] My name is Patricia Clay. [00:18:35] I live at 6379 Connywood Square. [00:18:38] I have some concerns about the food trucks and the ordinance, [00:18:44] specifically what they were talking about, the time frames and the days, [00:18:48] consecutive days that they're being allowed in our city. [00:18:51] The ordinance states no more than three consecutive days, correct? [00:18:56] Correct. [00:18:58] But what stops them from then moving from one private location to the next one the next day? [00:19:05] They'd have to get a permit from that business that would welcome them to that business. [00:19:10] Correct. [00:19:11] Okay. [00:19:12] And then they go back to the other business again for another three days. [00:19:14] Now we've got them there for nine days. [00:19:16] And by the ordinance, they could also be open from 5.01 a.m. to 2.59 a.m. [00:19:24] I feel that this is – our city has grown so much right now. [00:19:29] I mean, it is really neat downtown. [00:19:31] You can walk downtown. [00:19:33] People talk to each other. [00:19:34] People are saying hi to each other on the street that don't even know each other. [00:19:38] That hasn't happened in years. [00:19:41] And it's because of all of our growth. [00:19:43] I understand Ordinance 1, Cody River Brewing. [00:19:45] They're wonderful places. [00:19:46] I love them both. [00:19:47] And I understand bringing in food at specific times for special occasions. [00:19:52] I don't want to see our established businesses threatened or harmed by bringing in the food trucks. [00:20:02] I was told by a discussion that the restaurants need to stand up and take notice [00:20:07] or they need to up their game. [00:20:10] And my feeling is they have upped their games. [00:20:12] They have been upping their games for over 20 years, most of these. [00:20:16] They have been here through the times when nobody wanted to go downtown. [00:20:20] They are the businesses that have kept this city alive. [00:20:22] They've brought people down. [00:20:23] They've worked with us and worked with the city councils over the years. [00:20:26] So my concern is basically the timeframe that we are looking at offering these food trucks time. [00:20:33] I would prefer to see something later in the evening from, like, 7 o'clock during the week [00:20:37] or 9 o'clock to closing on the weekends. [00:20:41] I have no problem them being there, [00:20:42] but I'm just wanting our local restaurants that have done so much for us for all these years [00:20:46] to continue with their time. [00:20:49] Thank you. [00:20:50] Thank you, Pat. [00:20:51] Anyone else? [00:20:52] Trish. [00:20:53] I'm sorry, Trish. [00:21:01] I'm Gene Sullivan. [00:21:02] I own the Boulevard Lounge. [00:21:03] I live on Lafayette Street. [00:21:05] I'm about the food truck issue. [00:21:08] I've been in the restaurant business a long time in Florida. [00:21:11] The food trucks have to get a permit from the state, the license, to handle food. [00:21:16] Only one person. [00:21:18] They don't have to understand the codes and all that things. [00:21:21] Just the one person. [00:21:23] The food truck also has to go to a licensed business where they're supposed to clean their utensils [00:21:29] and their stuff and all. [00:21:30] It's supposed to be like if I had one, I'd go to Carl Reif because he's a licensed food thing. [00:21:34] That's a state law. [00:21:36] Most of them do it at their home, which is fine if they clean it the proper way. [00:21:39] But there's nobody there to inspect these things at nighttime. [00:21:42] And not to say they're all bad, but I would say 60%, 70% of them, [00:21:46] when you go to a restaurant, I always look around. [00:21:48] Food trucks are the same way. [00:21:49] If you look in the back of them things, some are pretty nasty. [00:21:52] But like I said, I don't care if they go on their own property. [00:21:55] I'm all for it for events and things like that. [00:21:58] If nobody wants to put one on their property but to block the street or anything, I'm totally against [00:22:02] because it's bad enough now with the parking. [00:22:05] I know Jimmy pretty well, and he's thinking about not letting people park over there anymore at nighttime. [00:22:09] So there you've got about 40 parking spaces on a Friday and Saturday night you've got to come up with. [00:22:13] But anyway, just letting you know about the food trucks. [00:22:17] As long as they stay on their property, who's ever doing it, that's fine with me. [00:22:20] But if they're going to be on the streets and all, and we're not going to really bring business in town. [00:22:26] My buddy wants to buy the place next to, you've got the car reef, you've got the sushi place going in, [00:22:32] the old Italian restaurant. [00:22:34] He wants to buy that, but when I told him about the food truck situation and all, [00:22:38] that somebody can be selling Italian food off the back end of a food truck half the price, [00:22:42] why would I spend $400,000 on a building? [00:22:45] We're trying to draw people in to have nice restaurants and nice business, [00:22:48] and Main Street's looking real pretty now and everything, and we're getting there. [00:22:53] But, you know, to me it's just junkie. [00:22:56] I mean, I'm out there all the time, fellas, okay? [00:22:58] Every night, every weekend I go places. [00:23:01] It's just for events and all, it's fine, but why would you open a business? [00:23:06] You know, we need gift shops and restaurants to bring people down here. [00:23:09] Two main things that will bring people in town. [00:23:12] That's it. Thank you. [00:23:13] Thank you very much. [00:23:14] Anyone else? [00:23:22] Hi. Kelly Hackman, 6120 Missouri Avenue, owner of the White Heron Tea and Gifts in downtown [00:23:29] and also the Cody River Brewing Company in downtown. [00:23:33] One concern for me, being a brick-and-mortar of two locations, is the tax situation. [00:23:39] I'm here and I pay taxes 365 days a year, and that includes a very lot of sales tax. [00:23:45] And I just am curious to know how we regulate the food trucks to ensure that when people pay tax on their food here [00:23:50] that the city's getting their money for that, because that is something that we all pay for in brick-and-mortar. [00:23:56] I'll answer that right now, too. [00:23:58] In their application, they have to get a business tax receipt. [00:24:01] And I understand that, but they also have to file monthly with the state of Florida. [00:24:04] And when they're filing, are they filing in their home county of Pinellas or Hillsborough, [00:24:08] where that county gets that money and it's not coming back to Pasco. [00:24:12] So just keep that in mind. [00:24:13] My other thing I just wanted to mention was at the brewery, we don't really see us ever doing food trucks at this point. [00:24:20] Right now we have seven restaurants that we're working with in downtown that have provided us menus. [00:24:25] And I cannot tell you how many times pizza crosses the street and tacos cross the street, [00:24:31] and the other restaurants are getting business from us. [00:24:33] So the brewery is very happy and very proud to be working with the local restaurants, [00:24:38] and we just encourage the other restaurants or other bars that don't have restaurants to do that, too. [00:24:43] The restaurants are willing to give us whatever we need as far as bar menus and that. [00:24:48] And so I think that that's one way that we've been able to help build community just in our first three weeks. [00:24:53] And I hope the other businesses will do the same. [00:24:56] Thank you. [00:24:57] I have one question. [00:24:58] You said you have pizza. [00:24:59] Do you have some of the pizza menus that are in West Pasco but not in the city? [00:25:06] No. [00:25:07] We only have Cristiano's. [00:25:08] We have Southwest Grill. [00:25:09] We have Boulevard Beef and Ale, Johnny Grits. [00:25:11] We're working on Fitzgerald's and Rose's Bistro. [00:25:14] As does Ordinance One. [00:25:15] Yeah. [00:25:16] Yeah, absolutely. [00:25:17] And that's important because, you know, if you come downtown, I can't tell you how many times at night [00:25:21] Cristiano's will walk in and go, we have a pizza for so-and-so, and we're like, they're here somewhere. [00:25:26] But that's what we really are trying to do is to help the restaurants, too, is to build and foster that community. [00:25:33] I think that's real important. [00:25:34] Yeah. [00:25:35] Like I said, these people, this gentleman that schedules food trucks, he doesn't really see a market here, quite honestly. [00:25:42] So we're going to see a few. [00:25:43] I don't either. [00:25:44] The only day that we've ever had any waylay is on a Sunday because several of the restaurants are closed. [00:25:51] But we've worked with some other restaurants that are open as well. [00:25:55] But I encourage all the bars and that that don't serve food to be able to offer those menus. [00:26:00] We have a packet that we give to everybody when they ask. [00:26:03] Great. [00:26:04] Thank you. [00:26:05] Anyone else? [00:26:06] Business breeds business. [00:26:13] Bob Langford, Wyoming Avenue. [00:26:16] I'm going to be in support of the food trucks. [00:26:23] It brings a lot of people into the downtown area. [00:26:29] This is really not competition with any of the restaurants. [00:26:33] Any of the food trucks that I've seen in downtown don't even sell the same food that the restaurants do. [00:26:42] And when somebody says that it's cheaper than the restaurants, it's not cheaper than the restaurants. [00:26:47] A lot of times it's more expensive than the restaurants. [00:26:51] As far as the sanitary stuff that Gene Sullivan brought up, that's really not an issue because they use throwaway paper products and plastic stuff. [00:27:02] So that's not even an issue. [00:27:07] But the food trucks bring a lot of folks into the downtown area. [00:27:12] And I think that's what you're trying to do is bring more people into the downtown area. [00:27:17] And it's only like one or two nights at a time. [00:27:20] And, for example, at Ordinance One, they do the same thing as Cody River Brewing. [00:27:27] They encourage the people to buy locally. [00:27:30] They have all the menus there as well, just like Cody River Brewing Company. [00:27:35] And there's pizzas and stuff coming in and out of there all the time from local businesses. [00:27:40] But I'd like to point out, too, that you have some businesses that are closed. [00:27:44] Like I'll use Rose's for an example. [00:27:48] So if there's a few hundred people coming to Ordinance One and they see Rose's and it's closed, they're likely to come back one day when they're open and try Rose's out. [00:28:00] But that hasn't been an issue either. [00:28:03] And I think that at Mr. Carl's place tonight, there might be a food truck tonight for local music night that we're all missing because we're here instead of listening to the great music that's going on downtown. [00:28:17] Okay. [00:28:18] Anyway, I think it's a great thing. [00:28:21] You're not kidding. [00:28:24] We've been friends too long. [00:28:27] Okay. [00:28:28] Anyway, I encourage you to vote in favor of that. [00:28:32] I think it's a great thing for our city. [00:28:34] And I don't see the negative stuff as some of the other folks do. [00:28:37] Thanks. [00:28:38] Thank you, Bob. [00:28:40] And Mr. Carl, one of the things we're going to bring up is a prohibition against local night on first and third Tuesdays because we're stuck here in these meetings. [00:28:50] Anyone else? [00:29:00] Well, I'm Joe Norton with Boulevard Beef and Ale, 6236 Grand Boulevard downtown. [00:29:06] I own the restaurant there for 21 years now. [00:29:11] And I wanted to talk with the food trucks. [00:29:15] Piggybacking on some of the things I've heard, the free pizza that's going out tonight, we're collecting no sales tax on. [00:29:22] The free barbecue that was going out 10 days ago, we're collecting no sales tax on. [00:29:29] If anybody thinks that that does not affect a restaurant, please stop by and talk to me. [00:29:35] I don't see how anybody cannot see that. [00:29:40] Generally speaking, I think food trucks, we could do something with them. [00:29:44] I worry about public safety. [00:29:47] Does the fire marshal check all of them? [00:29:49] I don't know. [00:29:50] I didn't see it in the ordinance. [00:29:53] We put them on the wed zone times when we have special events, people walking around drinking. [00:30:00] care of them when they're walking around a food truck. [00:30:02] When they're in my establishment, Danny's, Joe's, [00:30:05] Gene's, we're there. [00:30:07] We're just opening something up that we've got to put a [00:30:10] handle on it. [00:30:11] I don't see it in the ordinance. [00:30:12] If it is, I'm sorry. [00:30:15] I missed it. [00:30:17] I don't understand that, Steve. [00:30:18] Well, if you have, we'll say, 10 food trucks. [00:30:22] People are walking around buying beers. [00:30:23] Now you've got 15, 20, 30 people standing around a food [00:30:26] truck drinking. [00:30:27] Like an event in Simms Park? [00:30:29] Like an event on the street, not in Simms Park. [00:30:33] Keep going after that. [00:30:34] I understand that part. [00:30:34] Now you've got the police department basically have to [00:30:38] control that, wherein all of our other restaurants and [00:30:40] bars, we control that. [00:30:43] But what if the event would have people walking around [00:30:45] drinking without the food truck? [00:30:46] Right, but they're not congregating. [00:30:47] There's a big difference. [00:30:49] You have a group of people congregating around a [00:30:53] specific area. [00:30:54] That's just one thing that you need to look at, I think. [00:30:57] I didn't understand. [00:30:59] Yeah, that's what I'm saying. [00:31:00] Businesses like mine have 150 people that can sit there. [00:31:04] But there's waitresses, there's bartenders, there's [00:31:06] other staff that can keep an eye on what's going on. [00:31:09] You can see if it looks like there's going to be a problem. [00:31:11] Food truck would care less. [00:31:12] They're just putting out food. [00:31:14] Whatever's going on on the side of the food truck, that's [00:31:17] up to the police department to deal with. [00:31:21] Let's see, the three days a week shopper you had [00:31:23] mentioned, I'd love to open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, [00:31:26] or Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 6 to 9. [00:31:29] I mean, having a food truck sitting on Cavalier Square [00:31:33] where there's three or four restaurants, five restaurants, [00:31:36] that are open at night during dinner, to [00:31:38] me, just seems unfair. [00:31:40] Well, I don't see them. [00:31:41] We've leased that to Dos Sets. [00:31:43] I don't think Dos Sets is going to bring in a food [00:31:45] truck, are they? [00:31:46] No, but I'm saying in ordinance one, the case there, [00:31:48] you've got Rosie's across the street, you've got me. [00:31:50] And I spoke with Danny, and Danny wasn't able to make it [00:31:53] tonight, but he did mention to me that he's [00:31:55] totally against it. [00:31:59] One night you get chicken wings, the next night you get [00:32:01] barbecue, and who knows? [00:32:03] It really makes it difficult. [00:32:05] Just to mention the three days, I think the three-day [00:32:07] thing that we're- [00:32:08] Well, I want to have a discussion with you. [00:32:09] Yeah, I understand, but let's let him finish. [00:32:11] Chopper, please. [00:32:14] Basically, that was it. [00:32:16] The timing is wrong. [00:32:19] If we want to do them, and I spoke with Carmine at the pub, [00:32:22] if we want to do food trucks at 9 o'clock at night, Friday [00:32:25] and Saturday, go for it, but not at dinner time on a [00:32:30] Saturday night handing out free food. [00:32:34] Thank you. [00:32:34] Thank you. [00:32:34] Chopper, you wanted to respond? [00:32:36] Yeah, I think the reason we chose three days is because of [00:32:40] events like, let's say, Chasco weekend or Christmas parade [00:32:45] weekend, those types where there's an event, and that's [00:32:47] why we chose three days. [00:32:48] I don't really see people coming in Friday, [00:32:50] Saturday, and Sunday. [00:32:51] I just don't really see that happen on a regular basis. [00:32:55] At least not from the food truck people that I've talked to. [00:32:59] Anyone else? [00:33:03] Seeing no one else come forward, I'm going to bring it [00:33:05] back to council. [00:33:05] Chopper, this was your baby. [00:33:07] You want to- [00:33:08] Yeah, I think I've spoke to most of the questions people [00:33:12] have because of it, and I just didn't want the city to open [00:33:15] up and just people bringing food trucks wherever. [00:33:18] So I wanted to have an application situation, and [00:33:21] we've addressed that, and it includes insurance, it [00:33:24] includes state inspections and all that, the same thing as [00:33:28] the restaurants have. [00:33:29] So it's moved- the food trucks from- my first thoughts of it [00:33:35] is somebody throwing something in the back of a truck and [00:33:36] going down there and selling stuff. [00:33:39] It's a whole different situation now. [00:33:41] I mean, even Waffle House has food trucks now. [00:33:46] So I mean, the whole thing's grown to a level that I think [00:33:50] that we should be keeping an eye on it, which is what we [00:33:54] did with this ordinance. [00:33:55] This ordinance also is not locked into, you know, cement. [00:33:59] In my opinion, I'm kind of a little concerned about the [00:34:02] times. [00:34:02] I don't want food trucks out there at 3 o'clock in the [00:34:04] morning and there at 5 o'clock in the morning. [00:34:06] I don't want trash trucks around at 5 o'clock in the [00:34:08] morning. [00:34:09] But so- but this can be modified, and, you know, we're [00:34:13] taking a look at it, and let's run with it for a while. [00:34:15] If it doesn't- if it needs modification, that's what we're [00:34:17] here for, to come back and modify it. [00:34:18] It's just, you know, this is where we're going to start. [00:34:20] Deputy Mayor. [00:34:21] Thank you all for your input. [00:34:23] And I understand this is new. [00:34:24] And any time we try to impose something new in the city of [00:34:27] New Port Richey, as well as any other municipality, people [00:34:29] have concerns, and rightfully so. [00:34:32] I think the point that everyone's missing, this is my [00:34:34] opinion, and I believe this very deeply, is that when we [00:34:40] had food trucks out back of Ordinance 1, such as Got [00:34:43] Lobster, who is a locally- a local resident of New Port Richey, not the city, but he lives in New Port Richey, Got [00:34:49] Lobster has a Facebook following of over 1,000 people. [00:34:53] People travel all over the Tampa Bay area to events that [00:34:56] he sets up at. [00:34:57] That's just how it works. [00:34:58] He doesn't just go and set up on some street in some new [00:35:01] downtown, open the door, and hope he sells. [00:35:04] He is followed online through Facebook and through social [00:35:07] media, where places like Ordinance 1 and the Got [00:35:10] Lobster food truck correlate together and promote the night [00:35:14] the food truck is going to be there. [00:35:16] I guarantee you, and if you were there and asked the [00:35:18] people that were there on the nights of the Got Lobster food [00:35:21] truck was at Ordinance 1, and spoke to the people that were [00:35:24] there eating lobster, you would find out that these people are [00:35:27] here in our downtown because that food truck's there. [00:35:30] They're not taking business away from any of the [00:35:33] restaurant owners. [00:35:34] They are there specifically to eat a lobster roll or lobster [00:35:37] mac and cheese from the Got Lobster food truck. [00:35:39] That's why they were there. [00:35:40] The first night it was so successful, he ran out of food. [00:35:43] He brought the same amount of lobster that he brings when he [00:35:46] goes to Tarpon Springs on his, he goes there once a month. [00:35:49] Not sure what event, it's an event they do downtown. [00:35:52] Same amount of food, he sold out that night. [00:35:54] What happened when he sold out? [00:35:56] There were people waiting in line to get food that did go to [00:35:59] restaurants in our downtown. [00:36:00] They got overflow business as a result. [00:36:03] The inside of Ordinance 1 was so busy, people couldn't get a [00:36:06] beer, people got frustrated, left, and went to other [00:36:09] establishments and got a beer or a mixed drink because they [00:36:11] don't sell liquor at Ordinance 1. [00:36:13] I think that's a point everyone's missing, is that [00:36:15] these are strategically planned events with the food [00:36:19] trucks that are advertised online. [00:36:22] And it brings people to our downtown. [00:36:24] It's not taking, this is my opinion, it's not taking away [00:36:27] from our businesses, it's bringing people to our [00:36:30] downtown that haven't been here in years or had never been [00:36:33] here and saying, whoa, I had no idea this was going on. [00:36:37] In my opinion, this is a positive for the [00:36:39] city of New Port Richey. [00:36:40] I truly, truly believe that. [00:36:43] Not that I don't take your concerns into consideration. [00:36:45] They're valid concerns. [00:36:47] But to tell me that there's a line of people that got lobster [00:36:51] food truck when they were there or at the taco truck [00:36:53] that just happened to be coming downtown and eating at [00:36:55] one of our restaurants and saw the food truck and left, I'm [00:36:58] not buying it. [00:36:59] They advertise online. [00:37:00] They're very strategic when they do it. [00:37:02] They're successful with correlating with the food [00:37:04] truck and the business, and they get people downtown. [00:37:06] That's the bottom line, in my opinion. [00:37:08] It's a positive, and I'm going to vote in favor of it. [00:37:11] Mr. Allman. [00:37:13] Yeah, I think that I just have one question or two. [00:37:19] I think what we heard a lot was limitations of time, and I [00:37:23] know I shared with you all the Gainesville ordinance. [00:37:26] I don't know who looked through it or what you called [00:37:29] from it, but in the city of Gainesville, the owner of our [00:37:34] Main Street Landing was approached with food trucks [00:37:37] and had the same sense of loyalty to the restaurants [00:37:41] that were in the buildings that he owned and leased to. [00:37:44] And between the restaurants and the promotional side, [00:37:49] they came to some compromise. [00:37:53] I know that this isn't the same as it started out to be. [00:37:56] There have been some modifications based on [00:37:58] feedback that's come to the city council, so I think the [00:38:01] ordinance has been improved to bring to us. [00:38:05] The only thing I would say is that I see from time to time [00:38:08] where there are food truck events. [00:38:10] I don't know whether they're competitions, but sometimes [00:38:12] they'll be like a food truck rally, for lack of a better [00:38:16] word, and I don't see any provision that would provide [00:38:19] for that kind of thing. [00:38:21] And I also see that there should be, as was the case [00:38:24] with the bank which started this, and the comments made by [00:38:28] Councilman Davis that this is not going to be such a big [00:38:31] thing, that we might not be too sheepish to put some term [00:38:36] limits to say no business can hold more than four food truck [00:38:41] events a year. [00:38:43] I mean, to allow it to be done regularly, I think, is part of [00:38:48] the complaint that I'm hearing, folks that are out [00:38:50] there every day. [00:38:52] It started out as a way to award employees in public [00:38:57] shopping center. [00:38:58] I know that the Chesco Fiesta has looked at that in the past [00:39:02] to try to put food trucks out for those events, consistent [00:39:07] with what Councilman Davis has said. [00:39:08] When there's an event, maybe that's a time period. [00:39:12] We can say that food trucks, because of the load of the [00:39:16] public coming into the city and the fact that we do have [00:39:18] the security because events are reviewed by the police [00:39:22] department, we have security, that those events are kind of [00:39:25] like a pretty optimal opportunity for them to be here. [00:39:31] I will support the motion on first reading and continue to [00:39:35] take comments before we get to second reading. [00:39:37] But for my part, I'm just tossing out that we might want [00:39:41] a provision that will allow for us to have a limited number of [00:39:44] food truck rallies so we can attract those food truckies [00:39:49] into town, as you mentioned, Councilman Starkey, who do [00:39:52] follow it. [00:39:53] Because it is a trend, and it is bringing new people into [00:39:56] our city, and I see and agree with that. [00:40:01] I question whether we should put some term limits on how [00:40:04] often this can occur. [00:40:05] Councilman Murphy. [00:40:07] Yes, I like the concept of the food trucks, and I think they [00:40:11] do have a positive impact. [00:40:12] I think what it boils down to is balance. [00:40:15] We just have to make sure we're not getting too much of [00:40:17] one thing that's hurting other things. [00:40:20] So I think that's what we have to really battle with. [00:40:24] We talked about the hours of operation. [00:40:28] Why did we set it up that way? [00:40:29] Was there a reason behind that? [00:40:31] We actually had more restrictive hours, and it was [00:40:33] at the request of Councilman Davis that we amend the hours. [00:40:38] OK. [00:40:39] And then, as far as the three consecutive days, is that [00:40:44] something that we need to look at as far as, or are we going [00:40:47] to see that someone was at a place for three consecutive [00:40:50] days, and they go to apply for the next day for three days [00:40:52] somewhere else? [00:40:54] I mean, are we going to be able to catch that and stop [00:40:57] that from happening, so they end up being there? [00:41:00] That would not be restricted under the current version of [00:41:04] the ordinance. [00:41:05] You could move from one location to another. [00:41:07] You can't be in the same location for three consecutive [00:41:11] days, but if there's a day in between, you can come back for [00:41:14] another three and then skip a day and another three. [00:41:17] If I may just address your concern there. [00:41:19] Once again, it's strategic marketing. [00:41:21] They don't just come and set up at a given corner in the [00:41:24] city and stay open for three days. [00:41:26] They're going to come sell out, get a demand for that [00:41:29] food truck, so when they come back next month for Locals [00:41:31] Tuesday or for another event that's set up, there's already [00:41:34] a demand to have that food truck. [00:41:36] They don't just come up and camp out and hope to sell. [00:41:39] That's not how these food trucks are successful. [00:41:41] It's my opinion, but it's strategic marketing. [00:41:45] As far as the three-day thing, there's a food truck on 54 [00:41:48] that the commissioners addressed. [00:41:49] Pasco County just approved food trucks. [00:41:52] That doesn't move. [00:41:53] It's in front of a drive-through beverage barn, [00:41:56] and it hasn't moved in years. [00:41:58] I think that's a concern, personally, with the three [00:42:00] days, but I don't think that you're going to have a food [00:42:03] truck come and sell out one night and say, hey, we did [00:42:05] pretty good yesterday. [00:42:06] Let's go back. [00:42:08] They plan these strategically. [00:42:09] They're affiliated with businesses downtown, and I [00:42:12] said this during one of the many numerous previous [00:42:15] discussions we've had on this, is that a lot of successful [00:42:18] restaurants that sell very, very good food also own food [00:42:21] trucks, because they do so well. [00:42:23] Their restaurants, they send food trucks out to events. [00:42:26] One of my favorite seafood restaurants is Rusty Belly's [00:42:29] in Tarpon Springs. [00:42:30] They have a food truck trailer that they send out to events, [00:42:32] and they sell their food at events. [00:42:34] So I just think we have to remember, it's not just [00:42:37] someone just setting up for three days and [00:42:38] crossing their fingers. [00:42:40] It's strategic marketing, once again, and they plan these [00:42:42] events, advertise them. [00:42:43] People come out because of what they read online. [00:42:46] The current situation that we've got right now is that [00:42:52] with the absence of an ordinance, there is literally [00:42:57] no restriction whatsoever. [00:42:59] So if somebody wanted to set up a food truck and stay 365 [00:43:05] days a year on the backlot of Ordinance One, [00:43:08] they probably could. [00:43:11] In my discussion with Ms. Manns about that, and she [00:43:15] didn't remember, but the bull sat on Grand Boulevard for [00:43:19] years and made one parade or two parades [00:43:21] and then sat there. [00:43:22] Well, a food truck could really sit there for the whole [00:43:25] time, too, at this particular event. [00:43:27] Because we have no restrictions right now [00:43:29] whatsoever. [00:43:31] I had an interesting conversation with Mr. [00:43:38] Cristiano, who has the pizza place, and he made the point [00:43:47] that the issue was not the competition downtown, the [00:43:51] other restaurants, or anything downtown. [00:43:56] The problem that he ran into was when we have somebody [00:44:01] running a big event in Sims Park, because they do bring [00:44:05] food trucks, or in the case of Chasco, it's food tents. [00:44:10] And the people then migrate to the park. [00:44:14] They disappear off the sidewalks in the downtown, and [00:44:17] it hurts everybody that's downtown. [00:44:21] He likes Chasco, but he did his analysis of it, and the [00:44:28] two days involving parades, he was gangbusters. [00:44:31] He was slammed the whole time. [00:44:33] But when he looked at the whole nine-day period, he was [00:44:35] up a total of $200, which means basically he got slammed [00:44:41] on two Saturdays and just had nothing for [00:44:46] the intervening week. [00:44:47] And to my way of thinking, if we have the occasional food [00:44:54] truck that shows up on Railroad Square or somewhere, [00:45:00] in the immediate downtown, particularly if, as the Deputy Mayor pointed out, if they're [00:45:05] bringing their own following with them to come in and exposing the other restaurants [00:45:16] and the other businesses in the downtown, that's a good thing. Far better than what [00:45:22] we have historically had with some of the events where the people never get down there [00:45:27] at all. So my thought is we ought to give it a try. I am concerned about how frequently [00:45:34] they'd be. I think this ought to be something that's occasionally and not a regular thing. [00:45:42] Again, because we've got a lot of restaurants downtown. We've got Johnny Grits, we've got [00:45:47] Rose's, we've got Boulevard Beef. Hopefully we'll have Kazoo's and a new place next to [00:45:53] them. And we've got a lot of good places for people to go downtown now. I don't want [00:46:03] to see them hurt, particularly not with competition that's just rolling in and sort of squatting [00:46:12] without paying any taxes or doing anything else to support the community. But on a trial [00:46:17] basis, I don't have any problem trying this. I just wanted to know if Matt was finished. [00:46:24] Thank you. No, I mean, I'm fine with moving ahead with it the way it is. I think maybe [00:46:29] we should really, I mean, and I'll defer to Councilman Davis about the hours. I mean, [00:46:36] basically you might as well say 24 hours a day with the way it is set up now. I mean, [00:46:40] we could maybe a little bit look at it. And then as far as the consecutive days, I mean, [00:46:48] as long as it's not a problem, I guess there's no harm in that. I guess if it does become [00:46:53] a problem, then we can readdress it. I've heard a lot of talk. Do we have anybody that [00:46:59] wants to make a motion? Move for approval. Second. To the maker. I'll just leave you [00:47:04] with this. If there was any doubt, if I had any feeling that bringing in these food trucks [00:47:11] the way they've been brought in, and if there was any doubt in my mind that they would have [00:47:16] a negative effect on our brick and mortar businesses, I would not be in favor of this [00:47:21] ordinance. I truly believe they are not going to. I think they're just going to have a positive [00:47:25] effect on the current businesses and our downtown. It's going to bring people downtown that normally [00:47:31] would not be here. And I don't, I just can't see how that's a negative. I'd like to, if possible, [00:47:39] Jeff, amend it to start at 8 o'clock and not 5 o'clock in the morning. 8 in the morning? Yeah, [00:47:45] because right now we got it at 5, right? If you want. I mean, that's fine. They can't even serve [00:47:51] beer downtown until 8 o'clock in the morning. There's not going to be food trucks here at 5 [00:47:54] in the morning or 8 in the morning. So if you want a minute to eat, I'm absolutely fine with that. [00:47:59] And I think the idea that they had it to 3 is just closing time, let them clean up and finish up. [00:48:05] Councilman Murphy? No, I'm good. Councilman Altman? I just haven't heard anybody reply to addressing the idea of [00:48:13] food truck events or food rallies, if that comes up. I think maybe by the next second reading we [00:48:19] might do a little check-in on that. Tell me how that would be handled. Well, in the current ordinance on [00:48:24] private property, there's no restriction on the number that can be on the property. So you could [00:48:30] have, you could on private property hold some type of a rally. I would think if one of the groups [00:48:37] that has events, and I've lost her, Ms. Duchant was in the audience a few minutes ago. If Main [00:48:47] Street were to want to organize a special food truck rally on Railroad Square, you know, that [00:48:54] would be within the purview of what we would do with a special event application. Or if another [00:49:01] organization wanted to try their hand at a smaller seafood festival and invite seafood food trucks to [00:49:08] a certain area, I see that as a positive as well. In fairness to Ms. Duchant, I just committed [00:49:14] her to looking at food truck rallies while she was out of the room. But I, you know, and I'm going to say [00:49:27] this, I consider this one of a number of things that we're considering trying out, and if it has [00:49:35] adverse effects or doesn't work, I'm going to be one of the first people to say we ought to revisit it. [00:49:41] You'll probably be the first person to hear about it. I know I will be the first person to hear about it. [00:49:46] Call the question. Okay, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, like sign. Motion [00:49:55] passes. Next is first reading of Ordinance 2018-2142. Ordinance 2018-21, before that, do we, could we

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    First Reading - Ordinance No. 2018-2142: Sidewalk and Street Cafes

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    First reading of Ordinance 2018-2142 amending the Land Development Code to allow street cafes (in addition to existing sidewalk cafes) in the downtown zoning district, including provisions allowing alcoholic beverage consumption in approved sidewalk and street cafes, with permitting through the Development Review Committee and ADA pedestrian clearance requirements. Council heard public comment with general support and concerns about pedestrian access, alcohol/tobacco licensing, and maintenance, and approved the ordinance on first reading. Second reading scheduled for September 5th.

    Ord. Ordinance No. 2018-2142

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    [00:50:04] indicate the time of the next or the second reading, or have we identified a time for the second reading? [00:50:08] It will be in two weeks. August 21st. August 21st, I'd just like to announce that. This is the 21st. September 5th. [00:50:16] September 5th. September 5th. Two weeks. And that's true of all of these that we're doing right now, assuming they [00:50:23] pass on first reading. Ordinance 2018-2142, an Ordinance of the City of New Port Richey, Florida, [00:50:30] amending Section 7.11.14 through 7.11.20 of Chapter 7 of the Land Development Code pertaining to sidewalk cafes in the [00:50:40] downtown zoning district, providing for street cafes, providing for permitting and criteria for approval, providing [00:50:46] maintenance requirements, providing for revocation of permits, providing for amendment of Section 2.01.00 definitions to [00:50:55] for sidewalk cafes and street cafes, providing for amendment of Subparagraph 1 of Subsection C of Section 3-5 of the Code of [00:51:03] Ordinances pertaining to exceptions to the prohibition on consumption of alcoholic beverages, allowing for consumption of [00:51:10] alcoholic beverages in the street cafes, providing for severability, providing for codification, and providing an effective date. [00:51:17] Ms. Mance. In other words, Mr. Mayor, the purpose of the ordinance this evening is to include street cafes as part of the sidewalk [00:51:30] cafe guidelines, operations, and regulations. Sidewalk cafes are already permitted in the city's downtown zoning district. The [00:51:39] second part of what we're asking you to do tonight relates to the operational regulation and design guidelines, which need to be [00:51:51] modified to include for allowing alcoholic beverages within designated outdoor areas for consumption. Sidewalk cafes are permitted, [00:52:07] as I've indicated, in the downtown district, and they certainly can contribute to the vibrancy of a downtown area. In the case of our [00:52:18] proposed ordinance, we're talking about design, operation, and application. Street cafes are part of the sidewalk cafe design, [00:52:28] operation, and application, and we're, again, allowing for the consumption of alcoholic beverages at approved sidewalk and street cafes. [00:52:41] The operational guidelines are that you have to be located as an extension of an approved adjacent use. You shall not obstruct access to fire [00:52:54] department connection points and entrances and exits to buildings. And as you can see, without the regulation for sidewalk cafes, sometimes they go a [00:53:03] little rogue because they get really excited in offering amenities for their patrons, but they don't respect the clearances appropriate for the [00:53:14] Americans with Disabilities Act. In terms of construction guidelines, we also require that sufficient lighting exists, that there's a clear [00:53:27] delineation of serving areas, and that there's no signage within the sidewalk or street cafe area. The process is that an application is made to the [00:53:40] City's Development Review Committee, and the Development Review Committee reviews the application and either makes comment or accepts it and issues a [00:53:52] permit. And that sums up the ordinance, Mr. Mayor. [00:54:00] Thank you. Any questions for Ms. Manns before I open it up for public comment? In which case, I will now open this one up for public comment. Anyone wishing to [00:54:11] address Council on sidewalk and street cafes, come on down. [00:54:17] Do I need to sign in again? No, but just give us your name for the record. My name is Joseph Carl. I own the Carl Reef. The questions, I have two questions for the [00:54:36] sidewalk. We did a sidewalk cafe years ago where we had to have a certain criteria to do it. Four-foot fence around it, enclosed, and any time we're operating, have [00:54:48] somebody out there watching what's going on. I'm a little confused about this one, and let me just bring up where SIFS is at right now. I talked to the ABT agent, what [00:55:01] they did, the city gave them ordinance or gave them use of the sidewalk to go out to the parklet. So my question is how, I mean, if they close that off, how do people [00:55:14] can walk around that? Do you know, do they have to go out into the middle of the street to walk around the parklet? You know what I mean? Because what they're saying is [00:55:21] they could actually put tables on the sidewalk and the parklet. [00:55:25] I think the answer to the question is unlike what has historically been required, which is that you put a fenced area out there that totally blocks things off. The one in front of Estella's [00:55:42] are now Kazoo's being probably the worst example in the city. It almost makes the things unusable. The idea, and I've looked in ordinance and I cannot find where it says you have to have a fence. I think that's something that city managers years ago came up with. [00:56:02] They gave us a certain criteria with the fence height, being able to go around it. That was to keep the alcohol away from the regular pedestrians going by and there had to be enough room, like what you're saying at where the Mexican restaurant next to me was, they built that out in the front so you could have at least a walkway around it. [00:56:26] And the idea was to set the thing up without necessarily having to put fences up, but to still designate the area and unlike the picture that Ms. Manns just showed, maintaining the four foot ADA clearance so that people can get around it. That would allow somebody like SIP that's using a dining deck to cross the sidewalk without having to put fencing up all the way across it. [00:56:51] Right, but I mean it still impedes the pedestrians from walking down the sidewalk if they choose according to what they presented to TAMPA. [00:57:02] They would still have to have the four foot clearance. [00:57:05] That's why SIP built the parking, the parklet, the dining deck, so they wouldn't impede pedestrian traffic because we have certain sidewalks in our city that are much more narrow. If you look at the sidewalks outside Cody River Brewing Company, Ordinance 1, right along Main Street, they're huge and they're so wide, but then you have a sidewalk in front of White Heron in front of SIP that's very narrow. [00:57:23] So I think SIP's reasoning for wanting to try the dining deck, not the parklet out, was so they wouldn't impede the sidewalk, but yet still be able to let their patrons enjoy outside. That's the impression I got. [00:57:34] And I think that's the whole permitted issue is to make sure that they maintain the sidewalk passability in there. [00:57:40] And I think that's what you see if you're down on Beach Drive or if you're on Central Avenue in St. Pete, they have maintained sometimes, you know, six or eight feet of passage for the patrons between tables up near the restaurant and tables out near the edge of the parking. [00:57:58] My whole family is in Newport Region. [00:58:02] That's what their concern was that, you know, if they're doing something, people walking across there, if it's free to, you know, walk through there with baby strollers or whatever, it's a little intimidating if something's going on there. [00:58:14] And my second question is, there is an ordinance now where, like, if we close the city down like Fitzgerald does for the event, we let them, they use that property. [00:58:26] We have to have, and the chief knows, you have to have an officer there. [00:58:29] Anytime they're serving alcohol, if it's outside, if it's on city property, there has to be an officer there every minute that they're serving alcohol there. [00:58:41] And I haven't seen it. [00:58:42] Is that part of the sidewalk thing? [00:58:43] Or is that, you know, if it's not in closed air and it's in the city property like that, you know, are they, like, for parklets or the open air sidewalks, are they going to have to have a, because there is an ordinance right now saying you have to have a police officer there. [00:58:59] Can you address that for us? [00:59:00] No, there's no requirement for any kind of police presence. [00:59:03] It's just like, this is an extension of the sidewalk cafe. [00:59:08] And currently under the sidewalk cafe, alcohol can be served there. [00:59:12] And so the street cafe is just being added to that. [00:59:14] And street cafes will be able to serve alcohol as well. [00:59:18] And it's not an event, like, the best example I can try to give everybody visually is on my way here tonight. [00:59:24] And one, congratulations, Brian and Kelly, for brewing the first commercially brewed beer in Newport Ridge's history. [00:59:29] You've started serving it this weekend. [00:59:31] It's really cool to see things come to fruition. [00:59:33] We talk about bringing breweries past the ordinance, allowing them and seeing actually beers being made. [00:59:37] It's very cool. [00:59:38] But when I passed Couture Brewing Company today, there was two gentlemen out at the tables and they were, if this was a wall, they were like this because they had to be within five feet. [00:59:48] I think the purpose of this is just to allow them to bring those tables out a little, little further when there is space for them. [00:59:55] But your concern is legitimate. [00:59:58] Is there anything in here that does address. [01:00:00] That's if we have a narrow sidewalk and someone decides to put a table, and all of a sudden a mother can't bring a stroller down the sidewalk to get to the park, and that's a legitimate concern that needs to be addressed as well. [01:00:09] Yeah, the ordinance provides for pedestrian access, and you can't block the sidewalk. There still has to be pedestrian access. [01:00:16] Is there pedestrian access? Is there like a set, like at least four feet or at least five feet? [01:00:20] Four feet, that's all laid out in here, yes. [01:00:22] Okay, thank you. [01:00:24] Thank you. Anyone else? [01:00:31] I'm looking forward to the white herring out on the street, by the way. [01:00:37] I feel like I'm the one that started all this a year and a half ago. [01:00:40] Yeah, we should clarify that that's probably the first legally brewed beer in Newport, Richmond. [01:00:47] It's a lot of legal, but not commercially brewed. [01:00:52] I had actually brought this issue up, oh gosh, probably about a year, year and a half ago, because we were in downtown Safety Harbor, and when we were sitting out there at an Italian restaurant, having a glass of wine, sitting on the side of the street, how nice it was to be able to sit outside of the restaurant and enjoy the outside atmosphere. [01:01:12] Some of the groups had music in that, so it was just a really nice atmosphere, and I called the city of Safety Harbor, and I asked them for their ordinance on outside dining, and it was two sentences. [01:01:21] That's it. [01:01:24] I came back, and of course, I took lots of pictures and put them on Facebook about the dining and how, in our section of the city on Grand Boulevard, where we have very narrow sidewalks, allowing for that ADA accessibility, but still having outside dining, which is how we've been able to pull the tables away from the building that allow for the four-foot access along the building, but go in between the palm trees and the light posts. [01:01:49] It does not impede traffic. [01:01:51] It does not impede people walking on the street or riding their bikes down the street or sidewalk. [01:01:55] It doesn't impede people getting in and out of their cars, and that was the premise behind wanting to do some kind of ordinance like this so that the restaurants next to me who do serve a drink with your dinner have the opportunity to have dining outside. [01:02:11] It's a beautiful town, and I can't tell you how nice it is in the afternoon to sit out front of my store, have a cup of tea, and look at the theater. [01:02:18] It's a nice environment, and it also creates an inviting environment for people to want to walk on the street, so that's kind of how this all came up. [01:02:26] We've had a lot of people come by and just sit down at the tables for a few minutes and get up and go, but it's creating a welcoming city, and that was kind of the premise behind my wanting to have something for the restaurants to be able to have a glass of wine while I sit out there and have my steak from Beef and Ale, or whatever restaurant it is. [01:02:47] It wasn't meant to promote, it was just meant to be a very nice thing for town. [01:02:53] Naples, I know everybody's probably been downtown Naples. [01:02:57] They have their restaurants, or they have a restaurant, and then they have the walking path in the middle, and they have tables on the other side. [01:03:03] They have an issue, too, with the planners and the design of the town where you have to move the seating away from the building. [01:03:11] Our city, in some areas, is very much like that, and so I'm definitely for putting people on the street. [01:03:17] I think when people see people on the street, they want to be on the street, too. [01:03:22] It's evident by the shop and sip. [01:03:24] When people are walking downtown, everybody wants to get out of their car and see what's going on, and so I think if we allow some of the restaurants to try this and have the ability to dine outside, you might find that those restaurants do better, or they attract more people because there's people there. [01:03:40] Just my two cents. [01:03:41] Thank you. [01:03:42] Anyone else? [01:03:50] It's just a quickie. [01:03:52] If you allow these things, that's fine. [01:03:54] I mean, like I say, I go to all these places. [01:03:56] I just came from St. Pete this weekend. [01:03:58] It was nice, but make sure the business is going to stay open six to seven days a week. [01:04:06] It's not sitting out there for three or four days. [01:04:08] Business might open Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. [01:04:11] You know what I'm saying? [01:04:12] It's like the parking lot. [01:04:13] They're closed every day. [01:04:14] They're closed on Monday night and Sunday night, so that's nine times that somebody cannot park there. [01:04:23] Or if it's a shop off thing, if they're going to close up, they need to bring their stuff inside for that night or three days they're closed and then bring it back out and leave it for four days they're open. [01:04:33] You know what I'm saying? [01:04:34] Cut down on theft because we've got plenty of that and all the other little things. [01:04:39] Injuries, somebody tripping over it while it's out there, you know. [01:04:42] So if they're closed for Monday and Tuesday, bring it inside and then put it back out the rest of the week. [01:04:46] Don't leave it out all week long. [01:04:48] Kids can climb on it, fall down, sue the city, sue them, you know. [01:04:52] So I'm going to think about it. [01:04:53] They've got to be open in order to have it out there, and then bring it in at night. [01:04:56] Or if they're going to be closed a couple days, bring it in then. [01:04:59] Thank you. [01:05:00] Anyone else? [01:05:15] Joe Norton again. [01:05:17] As far as the ordinance here, I really like it. [01:05:19] I think it's a good thing. [01:05:21] The question that I have regards more alcohol and tobacco. [01:05:25] I think with the situation where Estella's was and where the old Cafe Grand was, [01:05:31] the reason that they have the gates and the fence there was alcohol and tobacco required, confined, and contained. [01:05:39] So wherever you were serving alcohol that was part of your business, [01:05:45] you had to have complete control of that environment, [01:05:48] and that required some kind of fence or gate or something like that there. [01:05:53] And what I'm wondering here is if we're going to have the sidewalk [01:05:56] and then we're going to have the tables, which I'm all for, [01:06:00] does that coincide with alcohol and tobacco, and how does that work? [01:06:05] Does this override what alcohol and tobacco demands, or how does that work? [01:06:10] Mr. Driscoll? [01:06:11] Well, every business will have to follow whatever licensing that they have, [01:06:15] but I'm not aware of anything in the state law that would prohibit these types of activities [01:06:21] and require any kind of an enclosure. [01:06:24] Oh, okay, that's great, because I know with the COP licenses it used to be that way, [01:06:28] but I'm going back to 1979 when I first started dealing with them, so many things have changed. [01:06:34] Yeah, and that's not really a restaurant type of license. [01:06:36] That's the top-end license, if you're talking about a four-cop. [01:06:39] No, actually, the two COP, that's beer and wine, and then you've got, I think, the one COP is just wine. [01:06:48] And then you also have a four-COP, which is mine, is an SRX, [01:06:54] and that's totally different than a regular four-COP. [01:06:57] So that's just a concern. [01:06:59] Like I said, I'm all for it. [01:07:00] I think it's great. [01:07:02] I think that, looking downtown, St. Pete, those are probably SRX licenses [01:07:08] because they're restaurants and they're serving out on the – and there's no containment there. [01:07:12] I do remember me having a control at a Jilly's, but that was years back, [01:07:17] and I think probably they've opened that up a little bit, [01:07:20] especially if they've got some kind of contract with the city to allow them to be out there [01:07:25] because that's going to be an extension of their premises, [01:07:28] and then they're going to have to tell the Alcoholic and Beverage that it's an extension of their premise. [01:07:34] Deputy Mayor. [01:07:35] Mr. Driscoll, just a quick question, just so everyone's clear and there's no gray area here. [01:07:39] A business such as SIP or Cody River Brewing Company that may have somebody going around taking orders, [01:07:45] are they allowed to go out on the dining deck or out to the sidewalk, [01:07:49] which is now on city property, and deliver drinks, [01:07:53] or does the patron need to go inside and get their drink and carry it outside? [01:07:56] No, no. [01:07:57] It's designed to be able to allow you to have service at the tables. [01:07:59] And that specifically allows for an extension of the premises out onto the sidewalk, [01:08:03] so if somebody comes to Joe's, they could sit on the table out front and still get served. [01:08:08] Right. [01:08:09] It contemplates that the servers will have to bring it to you. [01:08:11] It's not something where you go inside. [01:08:13] You're going to have to cross probably some areas where you can't serve to get to the areas where you can serve. [01:08:20] So that's contemplated within it, that you can cross with the beverages to get to the place where you're going to be serving them. [01:08:25] And once again, another concern we had when we first spoke about this, [01:08:28] and a lot of this came up with Ms. Hackman and then when the dining deck was installed, [01:08:32] it has to be affiliated with a business. [01:08:34] Correct. [01:08:35] So somebody that just wants to buy a 24-ounce can of beer can't just go sit on the sidewalk and drink it now. [01:08:41] It has to be associated with a restaurant or another business that's authorized to sell alcoholic beverages. [01:08:46] Okay, that's where my question came in, because I'm seeing in Section 2, Paragraph 4, [01:08:50] it said it's not an extension of the premises. [01:08:52] That's what kind of threw me there. [01:08:55] If it's not an extension of the premises, I don't know how a restaurant could serve, unless I'm reading it totally wrong. [01:09:02] I'm not an attorney, believe me. [01:09:05] the restaurant to conduct its activities or the other business to conduct its activities in the sidewalk cafe or the street cafe. [01:09:12] Excellent, that's great. [01:09:13] Okay, thank you. [01:09:14] Mr. Altman, you had a question? [01:09:16] I just think for a point of clarification, because I was back in the old days when this discussion about sidewalk cafes, [01:09:25] and it was a struggle to get them even to have allowed at the time with all of the abundance of caution with the fencing [01:09:33] and all the other things. [01:09:36] So when this is approved, this will override, I guess, or replace the requirements that some have now for fencing, [01:09:47] or will they have to do anything to let's say Rosa wanted to take her little metal fence down, she could do that, correct? [01:09:56] Yes, there's nothing currently in the ordinance that requires the fence. [01:10:01] Did we lease it? [01:10:02] I mean, it was in some kind of agreement. [01:10:04] So I'm sure folks remember that there were agreements that required the fences, [01:10:08] and whatever those agreements were that will be relaxed so no one will be held to a higher standard than this ordinance. [01:10:16] Right, and this really doesn't change significantly the restrictions currently on sidewalk cafes. [01:10:22] It really just adds street cafes to the mix. [01:10:26] There are some changes, but, yes, anyone can take advantage of, they can look at whether they need the fence now [01:10:33] and they'd like to remove the fence and make it more open. [01:10:35] That's my question. [01:10:36] This certainly allows it. [01:10:37] Thank you. [01:10:38] Any other public comment? [01:10:40] Seeing no one come forward, I'm going to bring it back to council to move for approval. [01:10:45] First reading? [01:10:46] Second. [01:10:47] We have a motion for approval and a second to the maker. [01:10:50] I think this is something that most businesses can take advantage of, so it's kind of more of an equal playing field, [01:10:56] so I think it's going to be good. [01:10:59] Looking forward to seeing every business expand its business. [01:11:03] Mr. Altman. [01:11:05] Deputy Mayor. [01:11:06] I think Ms. Hackman hit the nail on the head. [01:11:08] When people see people outside enjoying themselves, they want to join in, so this is going to be a positive for the city. [01:11:13] If I might, Brian, we've got a picture I emailed you. [01:11:16] If we could put that up on the screen. [01:11:25] This is in Ocala. [01:11:28] It was on a Sunday morning, and much to my chagrin, the restaurant was not open because I desperately needed a cup of coffee [01:11:36] when I got there. [01:11:38] They had their tables with the tablecloths and everything set out there on a Sunday morning. [01:11:43] It looked absolutely beautiful, and you can't, it's hard to tell from the picture, [01:11:47] but there is actually adequate clearance for you to walk around. [01:11:52] It did not have a fence. [01:11:54] It was just designated with planters. [01:11:57] That's the sort of thing, when I think of a sidewalk cafe, [01:12:00] something that we might have out in front of any of the businesses that have the real wide sidewalks on Main Street, [01:12:11] I could see something like that. [01:12:13] It was just very attractive, and it was very inviting, [01:12:16] and I can't tell you how disappointed I was that they were closed when I got there, [01:12:21] but just wanted to share that so that you guys could all see it. [01:12:26] And certainly, to the extent that some of our restaurants, most notably Boulevard Beef and Ale, [01:12:35] has a nice outdoor area in the back, it's very nice, but it's basically invisible, [01:12:42] and if we could lean on Joe to actually apply to put a couple tables out front, [01:12:48] that would add to the impression that there's actually something going on there, [01:12:55] and it will make that whole stretch of Grand Boulevard look like people want to be there, [01:13:02] that they're excited and they're doing stuff and stuff is happening. [01:13:06] That's the whole idea I see behind having this ordinance relaxing some of the overly restrictive requirements [01:13:14] and encouraging the sidewalk dining and the outdoor dining so we get more people out on the street, [01:13:21] or on the sidewalk at least, and make it a place that people, [01:13:27] as they're driving down Grand or driving down Main Street, say, [01:13:31] oh, wow, something must be happening, we need to stop and check it out. [01:13:35] That's the whole idea. [01:13:36] Let's get more people to stop their cars instead of just driving through town, get out and look around, [01:13:42] see our restaurants, enjoy the great food that they've got, go shop in some of our shops. [01:13:48] So I'm highly in favor of this. [01:13:52] One more comment, Mr. Mayor. [01:13:53] Yes, sir. [01:13:54] Just to Mr. Sullivan's comment about the vacant street cafe or the unused cafe sitting there unattended, [01:14:05] I think when we go for second reading I'd like to just revisit that issue to see how our loitering laws [01:14:13] and or the usage of that, if it's still out there, then does that mean I can take my lunch over there and sit at it? [01:14:23] You know, is it a non-exclusive use or is it so there's positive and negative? [01:14:32] If you like the person who's having lunch out there on it, it might be a nice thing, [01:14:36] but if you're at 3 o'clock in the morning and you've got a poker game going on out there, [01:14:40] that may be a whole other story, but how do we do it? [01:14:42] It is an exclusive use. [01:14:44] The restaurateur or the other business owner that obtains the agreement from the city has exclusive use of that, [01:14:52] and the public cannot use that area as a result. [01:14:57] So we get an indemnity agreement. [01:15:00] we get insurance, so there is protection for the city. [01:15:03] I've never heard of an issue where the tables being left unattended becomes a problem. [01:15:11] If it's possible, if it becomes a problem, maybe we can address it, but I haven't heard

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16. 11.d

    First Reading - Ordinance No. 2018-2143 Amendment to Restricted Personal Service Uses

    approved

    Council passed on first reading Ordinance 2018-2143, which expands the definition of 'instant loan store' to include vehicle title lending and increases the separation requirement between restricted personal service uses from 500 to 1,000 feet in C-2 commercial zones. Council also directed staff to bring back a separate ordinance through the Land Development Review Board to consider removing tattoo parlors from the restricted personal service uses list.

    Ord. Ordinance No. 2018-2143

    • motion:Approve Ordinance No. 2018-2143 on first reading, amending separation requirements for restricted personal service uses to 1,000 feet and adding definition of instant loan store. (passed)
    • direction:Direct staff to bring back through the Land Development Review Board a separate ordinance considering removal of tattoo parlors from the restricted personal service uses definition. (passed)

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    [01:15:15] of anything to this point about that. [01:15:17] Thank you. [01:15:18] Any other discussion? [01:15:19] We have a motion and a second on the floor. [01:15:22] All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [01:15:24] Aye. [01:15:25] Opposed, like sign. [01:15:27] Motion passes. [01:15:29] Next is First Reading Ordinance 2018-2143. [01:15:32] Ordinance number 2018-2143, an ordinance of the City of New Port Richey, Florida, amending [01:15:36] sections 7.08.06 and 7.09.07 of Chapter 7 of the Land Development Code pertaining to [01:15:43] separation requirements for restricted personal service uses in the C-2 commercial, general [01:15:49] and highway commercial zoning districts, providing for an increase in the separation of said [01:15:53] uses from certain uses and each other to 1,000 feet, providing for amendment of section 2.0 [01:15:59] 1.00 definitions, to amend the definition of restricted personal service uses, to add [01:16:05] instant loan store thereto, and to add the definition of instant loan store, providing [01:16:10] for severability, providing for codification, and providing for an effective date. [01:16:14] Ms. Manns. [01:16:15] Yes, sir, Mr. Mayor. [01:16:18] In March of 2016, the City established an ordinance that identified restricted personal [01:16:27] service uses, and they were defined as commercial uses such as blood plasma centers, body-piercing [01:16:35] establishments, check-cashing stores, instant loan stores, day labor establishment, pawn [01:16:42] shops, tattoo parlors, and the cultivation, processing, or dispensing of cannabis. [01:16:49] The purpose this evening is to amend that ordinance in two respects. [01:16:56] The first relates to definitions, and we would like to add a definition for an instant [01:17:03] loan store. [01:17:05] That is, pardon me, we do have instant loan stores, but we're expanding the definition [01:17:13] of that so that we can include a category for instant loan stores where people aren't [01:17:24] getting loans. [01:17:25] What they're doing instead is signing over the title to their vehicle for cash. [01:17:32] That's a different form of lending, still predatory in nature, and we believe should [01:17:40] be part of the distancing requirements that we have because the concentration of these [01:17:48] types of uses do have a negative image on the City in terms of economic decline, and [01:17:58] it also is an impediment to positive economic development efforts. [01:18:03] I've got just a short PowerPoint presentation relating to this form of commercial blight. [01:18:13] To begin, the contributing factors to commercial blight are vacant buildings, neglected properties, [01:18:22] lack of appropriate sign regulations and or enforcement, outdoor storage and display, [01:18:27] and also a concentration of problematic uses. [01:18:31] As you can see from some of the photos provided, we do have a concentration principally on [01:18:37] US 19, and the consequences of commercial blight are that property values drop, crime [01:18:48] and illegal activities increase, the safety of a community is threatened, and it serves [01:18:53] as a strong deterrent, as I indicated, to economic investment. [01:18:59] Because of this, we are proposing that these uses be minimized to adjudicate some of their [01:19:10] adverse impacts. [01:19:12] One of the ways that we as cities do that is we adopt ordinances that prevent and abate [01:19:17] blight, and we revitalize vacant and abandoned properties through an active economic development program. [01:19:30] We can skip this. [01:19:31] I've already talked about what the restrictive personal service uses are. [01:19:35] Can you go back though? [01:19:36] Yeah, sure. [01:19:37] Let's do that. [01:19:39] When we adopted the ordinance in March of 1986, these were the types of uses that were [01:19:47] identified as restrictive. [01:19:49] When? [01:19:50] March of 2016. [01:19:51] Oh, I see. [01:19:52] Eighty-something. [01:19:53] No, I voted on that. [01:19:54] Sorry. [01:19:55] Sorry, no, I just misheard you. [01:19:58] Okay. [01:19:59] And we added the cultivation, processing, and dispensing of cannabis once we amended [01:20:06] our land development code to provide for that additional use. [01:20:11] Can I just interrupt while we're here? [01:20:13] Yeah, sure. [01:20:14] I'm going to, well, I'll wait for public input, but just for my colleagues. [01:20:17] I voted in favor of this ordinance when we passed it, but the one type of business that [01:20:24] I didn't feel and I still don't feel should be in here is tattoo parlors. [01:20:28] I think tattoos are extremely mainstream. [01:20:31] I don't think they contribute to commercial blight. [01:20:35] We get everyone's opinion after Ms. Manns does her presentation. [01:20:37] We get public input, but I don't have a problem with tattoo parlors. [01:20:42] I didn't then, and I don't now. [01:20:45] Thank you for letting me know. [01:20:46] All right. [01:20:47] Next slide, please. [01:20:48] The appropriate distance between restricted personal uses. [01:20:56] Our current ordinance is 500 feet. [01:21:00] What we are proposing this evening is a distance requirement of 1,000 feet, and I do have maps [01:21:07] in front of you this evening that show the delineation between 500 and 1,000 feet, and [01:21:16] the matter was considered by the Land Development Review Board at a meeting on July 19th of [01:21:22] 2018. [01:21:23] They voted in favor of this ordinance, which again does one thing. [01:21:29] It expands the definition of instant loan stores. [01:21:33] Secondarily, it increases the distancing requirement from 500 feet to 1,000. [01:21:39] The reason that we are recommending the additional spacing is based on the size of some of the [01:21:46] commercial properties on U.S. Highway 19 in particular, where the scale and lot are so [01:21:56] large that you actually could be just one neighbor away, and that's not an appropriate [01:22:04] restrictive distance. [01:22:08] And that's the slide, and it's just not very good, which is why in addition to displaying [01:22:17] it, I wanted to provide you the maps at your places, and I'm prepared to respond to any [01:22:22] questions that you might have in relationship to this ordinance. [01:22:27] Thank you. [01:22:28] We'll open it up for public comment. [01:22:30] 1,000. [01:22:32] Seeing no one come forward, bring it back to Council. [01:22:37] I just have a question about the marijuana dispensing places. [01:22:42] I thought we discussed that they were merely pharmacies and that wouldn't apply to this. [01:22:47] They aren't. [01:22:48] They are no longer in the restricted personal use. [01:22:50] Okay. [01:22:51] Well, I will back up Mr. Starkey's desire to remove the tattoo shops. [01:23:01] I know they have become mainstream. [01:23:04] I've seen them in Bryson City, which is a high tourism area where you have two or three [01:23:08] of them close to each other. [01:23:12] I don't particularly find it attractive to not be able to see, you know, much more than [01:23:19] art on somebody, but, you know, it is art, and there's a lot of very artistic tattoos. [01:23:28] So I'm okay with removing the tattoos. [01:23:31] I don't know how we do that, but I would side with you on that, sir. [01:23:38] I was looking for input from my colleagues around the tattoos partners. [01:23:42] Why don't you just make a proposal to remove this without the tattoos? [01:23:47] Let me interrupt you there because I think we would have to start that regulation back [01:23:52] through the Land Development Review Board. [01:23:54] I'm a little concerned about changing the definition to remove something because it [01:23:59] will remove the restrictions on distance and all of those other things, so I believe that [01:24:03] we should go back and revisit that as a separate ordinance, and if there's a consensus to proceed [01:24:08] in that direction, we can do so. [01:24:09] Does everyone okay to send it to LDRB? [01:24:13] Yeah, well, why don't we dispense with this first, and then I'll make a motion to approve [01:24:17] the recommended ordinance number 2018-2143 on first reading. [01:24:25] Second. [01:24:26] Motion and second to the maker. [01:24:28] I would just like to ask that consideration be given to have the staff look into modifying [01:24:36] the codes as necessary and bringing back to us that separate issue. [01:24:43] Right. [01:24:44] Second. [01:24:45] Now, when this, not to go back in time, but when this first came to us and we passed this, [01:24:53] there was, I believe, or not a lot of opposition that I heard personally saying that you can't [01:24:57] regulate who owns a business and what type of business and where it's owned, but as a [01:25:02] city, it's quite common to do so with municipalities and certain districts throughout counties [01:25:06] and municipalities, correct? [01:25:08] Well, in this particular case, you're talking about just certain types of businesses and [01:25:12] where they can be located. [01:25:13] In proximity to each other, right? [01:25:14] Yes. [01:25:15] We don't want to pawn shop every other building on 19th. [01:25:16] Correct. [01:25:17] And that's kind of the purpose behind this, and we do have the authority and the right [01:25:20] to do so. [01:25:21] Right. [01:25:22] Councilman Davis. [01:25:23] Nothing. [01:25:24] Councilman Murphy. [01:25:25] Good. [01:25:26] Yeah, I think this is good to take up, and I don't have strong feelings about tattoos. [01:25:35] I don't have any myself. [01:25:37] My son, however, does, so if we want to revisit that as a separate item, I have no problem [01:25:45] doing that. [01:25:47] No further discussion. [01:25:48] All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [01:25:51] Aye. [01:25:52] Opposed, like sign. [01:25:54] We will bring back an ordinance through the LDRB on the removal of the tattoo parlors [01:25:58] from the restricted use definition then.

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17. 11.e

    First Reading - Ordinance No. 2018-2144: Dumpster Enclosure Ordinance

    approved

    Council passed first reading of Ordinance 2018-2144, amending the city code to require dumpsters to be screened on all four sides (adding a gate on the front) rather than three. Business owners would have 90 days after second reading to comply, and staff acknowledged the existing three-sided requirement had not been enforced.

    Ord. Ordinance No. 2018-2144

    • motion:Motion to approve first reading of Ordinance 2018-2144 requiring four-sided dumpster enclosures with a gate. (passed)

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    [01:26:00] In deference to the fact that we've been going almost 90 minutes, let's take a 10-minute [01:26:05] break, and we'll come back at 25 till. [01:26:15] Next item is first reading of Ordinance 2018-2144. [01:26:21] Ordinance 2018-2144, an ordinance of the City of New Port Richey, Florida, providing [01:26:25] for amendment of Article 3 of Chapter 10, Sections 10-58 and 10-60 of the New Port Richey [01:26:31] Code of Ordinances pertaining to garbage cans and dumpsters, revising the definition of [01:26:35] dumpsters, providing for screening of dumpsters on all sides, providing repeal of Section [01:26:40] 10-64 pertaining to nonconforming dumpsters, providing for conflicts, severability, and [01:26:46] effective date. [01:26:47] Ms. Manns. [01:26:48] As the City Attorney indicated, the purpose of this ordinance is to establish a requirement [01:26:53] for a gate to be instituted to surround a dumpster on all four sides. [01:26:59] This originally was brought up at your meeting on July 17th. [01:27:04] The City's current ordinance only requires that it be surrounded on three sides, so it [01:27:10] is an addition of a gate. [01:27:13] And if this ordinance is approved at second reading, we are providing business owners [01:27:20] with a 90-day period of time to bring their dumpster enclosure into compliance. [01:27:25] Very good. [01:27:26] Open this up for public comment. [01:27:30] Seeing no one come forward, bring it back to Council. [01:27:32] Move for approval. [01:27:33] Second. [01:27:34] To the maker. [01:27:35] Just so the audience and people watching are clear, we currently have an ordinance in force [01:27:39] that requires you to have a barrier around three sides of the dumpster. [01:27:43] Unfortunately, as a city, we have not been enforcing that, and we have dumpsters just [01:27:47] thrown in parking lots up and down 19 all throughout our downtown, and they look horrible. [01:27:52] So we're now going to start enforcing the current ordinance, and we're also going to [01:27:55] – if this passes both readings, we're going to require the property owners to have [01:27:59] a gate on the front, which hides the dumpster and hopefully beautifies our city. [01:28:03] To the second. [01:28:06] No, I just think it's going to definitely make it look a lot better than having an ugly [01:28:10] dumpster and having it all covered on four sides with a gate. [01:28:15] Just to make things look a lot better. [01:28:17] Mr. Davis, I believe you were the second. [01:28:19] Second. [01:28:20] Well, I just want to say that we take care of our own trash cans at home to beautify [01:28:23] our own property, so why can't we ask our business to do the same thing? [01:28:27] Very good. [01:28:28] Mr. Allman. [01:28:29] It's good. [01:28:31] And I think this will look nice. [01:28:34] If there's no further discussion, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [01:28:37] Aye. [01:28:38] Opposed, like sign. [01:28:40] Motion passes. [01:28:41] Next, bid award, James E. Gray Preserve Urban Trails Project. [01:28:43] Ms. Manns. [01:28:44] Yes, sir. [01:28:45] Mr. Mayor, this bid award is for the James E. Gray Preserve Urban Trails Project.

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18. 12.a

    Bid Award - James E. Grey Preserve Urban Trails Project

    approved

    Council awarded a bid to Right-of-Way Contracting, LLC for the James E. Grey Preserve Urban Trails Project in the amount of $677,515, including deductive change orders of $101,673, bringing the construction cost to $575,842. The project is funded through a $200,000 Recreational Trails Program grant and Penny for Pasco funds across two fiscal years.

    • motion:Approve the bid award to Right-of-Way Contracting, LLC for the James E. Grey Preserve Urban Trail Connector in the amount of $677,515, including deductive change orders of $101,673. (passed)

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    [01:28:56] It is to right-of-way contracting, LLC. [01:29:01] The bid amount is $677,515, and there's a deductive change order in the amount of $101,673. [01:29:14] And Ms. Smith is prepared to present the agenda item to you this evening. [01:29:18] Very good. [01:29:19] Ms. Smith. [01:29:20] Thank you. [01:29:21] Before you tonight, as the city manager indicated, is a bid award for right-of-way contracting, [01:29:25] LLC, for the James E. Gray Preserve Urban Trails Project. [01:29:29] The city received a $200,000 Recreational Trails Program grant for the construction [01:29:33] of parking areas, a shell entrance drive, eight-foot-wide walking and also biking trail [01:29:40] with connections, a bridge, a five-foot walking trail with connections, that's to the original [01:29:46] parcel, signage, and landscaping. [01:29:50] Invitations to bid were advertised, and three contractors submitted bids with right-of-way [01:29:54] contracting, LLC being the lowest bidder at $677,515. [01:30:00] Staff then reviewed the packet and is recommending the following deductions. [01:30:05] A reduction in the owner's allowance for project contingencies, [01:30:11] defer landscaping to the end of the project, [01:30:14] and utilize a portion of the remaining funds from the owner's allowance. [01:30:17] And the Public Works Department indicated that they could install the shell entrance drive. [01:30:21] With these deductions, that then brings the construction cost down to $575,842. [01:30:29] Funding for this project would cross over two fiscal years. [01:30:32] $415,000 is budgeted in the current fiscal year, [01:30:36] which includes $215,000 for Penny for Pasco funding [01:30:41] and $200,000 from the Recreational Trails Program grant. [01:30:45] The remaining $160,842 will be budgeted in fiscal year 18-19 as part of the capital improvement project [01:30:53] and will be funded through Penny for Pasco funds also. [01:30:57] The recommendation before you tonight is to approve the bid award for right-of-way contracting LLC [01:31:03] for the James E. Gray Preserve Urban Trail Connector in the amount of $677,515, [01:31:11] which includes deductive change orders, in the amount of $101,673. [01:31:19] Thank you. [01:31:20] Open it up for public comment. [01:31:23] Seeing no one come forward, bring it back to Council. [01:31:27] Second. [01:31:28] We have a motion and a second. [01:31:29] To the maker. [01:31:30] Yeah, this is the project been applied for. [01:31:33] We got a grant. [01:31:34] It helps to tie the pedestrian and bicycle traffic from our city directly into the park [01:31:40] without having to go through outside the city limits and into, is it East Gate area, [01:31:51] which is a suburban street. [01:31:55] So I think it's a great opportunity to also link into the bicycle trail opportunities [01:32:03] as Rowan Road has a lot of vacant land on it, [01:32:07] and I know there have been some long-range plans potentially to see bicycle traffic [01:32:12] get all the way out into Starkey from there. [01:32:15] So I think it's a great link, [01:32:17] and thanks to Councilman Phillips and the previous council for having the foresight [01:32:22] to acquire this property so we can do it. [01:32:26] Second. [01:32:27] It's going to be great for our city. [01:32:29] Let's get it moving. [01:32:30] Deputy Mayor? [01:32:31] Oh, well said. [01:32:32] Councilman Nolan? [01:32:33] Nothing. [01:32:34] Councilman Davis? [01:32:35] Am I correct? [01:32:36] You were on council back when the city bought the first batch of the Grape Reserve? [01:32:44] I had five terms in council trying to get that property, [01:32:47] and we finally did get the grant for the initial Grape Reserve, yeah. [01:32:51] And we got the extra piece, [01:32:52] so it's going to be really nice having that second entrance and everything in there. [01:32:57] If there's no further discussion, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [01:33:01] Aye.

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19. 12.b

    Resolution No. 2018-12 Library Improvement Project Grant

    approved

    Council adopted Resolution 2018-12 authorizing submittal of a $500,000 state grant application to the Florida Department of State's Division of Library Information Services Public Library Construction Grant Program, which requires a 50% match (already budgeted across FY18-19 and future years). Two members of the public spoke in support. Councilman Hoffman raised concerns about committing to specific capital improvements before council review; staff confirmed the specific slate of improvements would return to council for approval if the grant is awarded.

    Ord. Resolution No. 2018-12

    • motion:Motion to approve Resolution 2018-12 authorizing submittal of the state library construction grant application. (passed)

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    [01:33:02] Opposed, like sign. [01:33:03] Motion passes. [01:33:04] Next, Resolution 2018-12. [01:33:06] Resolution 2018-12, a resolution of the City Council of the City of New Port Richey, Florida, [01:33:10] authorizing the submittal of a state grant application by the library director [01:33:14] and the subsequent appropriation of City of New Port Richey funds [01:33:17] from the Florida Department of State's Division of Library Information Services [01:33:21] Public Library Construction Grant Program. [01:33:27] Ms. Manns? [01:33:28] Mr. Mayor, members of the council, [01:33:30] the grant application has been prepared by Ms. Spygart, [01:33:36] and the grant application is in the amount of $500,000. [01:33:41] The funding considerations that the state takes into account [01:33:46] in determining whether or not your grant is successful is community need, [01:33:52] the type of library building, and a project narrative, [01:33:55] which has been submitted on how the project will contribute to improve services for the community. [01:34:03] The grant requires a 50% match. [01:34:07] We have budgeted $200,000 in the 2018-19 fiscal year [01:34:12] and an additional $400,000 in future years. [01:34:16] So if this grant is received, we do have the funding available to match it. [01:34:24] We are not required to accept the whole grant if we determine that we don't have need for it. [01:34:31] But at this point, we wanted to put our best foot forward [01:34:34] and ask for maximum funding consideration. [01:34:37] Thank you. [01:34:38] Open it up for public comment. [01:34:44] Ms. Hook, if you would sign in and give us your name and address for the record. [01:34:51] Good evening. [01:34:52] My name is Joan Nelson-Hook. [01:34:53] I live at 7210 Jasmine Drive. [01:34:57] I waited all night for this. [01:35:03] Currently, I'm chair of the Library Advisory Board, [01:35:06] and I'm just here to lobby, cheerlead, whatever, [01:35:10] for the acceptance or your approval for this grant. [01:35:14] We have come so far in this city. [01:35:16] We have a gorgeous rec center. [01:35:18] We have a wonderful park. [01:35:21] Now the trails is being completely funded, [01:35:26] and now it's time to bring the library into the 21st century. [01:35:30] We do have a need to lighten and brighten and modernize that library. [01:35:35] It's used by so many citizens in the city and the county, [01:35:39] and I just strongly urge you to consider this grant. [01:35:44] Thanks. [01:35:45] Thank you. [01:35:47] Bob Langford, Wyoming Avenue. [01:35:53] I'm the vice president of the Friends of the Library, [01:35:57] and I would encourage you also to help the library move forward. [01:36:04] As you're aware, the library is a great point of history in the city of New Port Richey. [01:36:13] It was once located right down next to where Ordinance 1 is now and for years, [01:36:19] and so it's moved to where the old schoolhouse is next door. [01:36:25] And so it's evolved, and it keeps on getting more use and more use all the time. [01:36:30] So I would encourage you to vote to help the library expand its services. [01:36:37] Thank you. [01:36:38] Thank you. [01:36:39] Anyone else? [01:36:41] Seeing no one else come forward, bring it back to council. [01:36:45] Move for approval. [01:36:46] Second. [01:36:47] We have a motion and a second to the maker. [01:36:49] It doesn't hurt to ask, right? [01:36:50] I hope we are successful. [01:36:52] If anybody wants to give us 50 percent to do anything, I'm for it, number one. [01:36:56] And number two, I think some of you have heard before that for me to be in a library, [01:37:03] my mother wouldn't be rolling over a grave, she'd be on a rotisserie. [01:37:07] So if there's a reason for you guys to do it and get me to go to the library, God bless you. [01:37:13] Councilman Hoffman. [01:37:15] I have a little bit different spin on this. [01:37:17] I was actually a city councilman in that building when it was June Botner, [01:37:23] who we named a little spot after there, who was our longtime city clerk, [01:37:28] had trouble breathing as a result of the condition of that old school building. [01:37:33] I know that the building was preserved. [01:37:38] Three of the four sides of the building were preserved for the purposes of keeping the original bricks. [01:37:44] And I know that there have been plans to expand, [01:37:49] and I also know that we've just got a report telling us what we might want to do. [01:37:55] So I don't know when the application is due, [01:38:00] but I would suggest that we've got some big capital improvement items that have been introduced to us. [01:38:09] I don't want the fact that we didn't take comments about them to mean approval of all of those projects [01:38:19] until we get a chance to see, again, as I mentioned, the city's capability, its revenues. [01:38:24] We haven't looked at the entire Penny for Pasco fund as a whole. [01:38:31] So I guess there's a motion on the floor. [01:38:35] When is the grant due, and will we see what particular improvements are going to be identified in that grant? [01:38:42] Because they may or may not be improvements that I've even had a chance to discuss before we do something major. [01:38:50] Ms. Mannes, could you address that? [01:38:52] Thank you, Mr. Mayor. The grant application has been submitted. [01:38:57] It is a grant that allows us to submit the resolution of support after the original grant has been submitted. [01:39:07] We will hear in September of 2018 whether or not the grant application is successful, [01:39:15] and at that time we would need to make a commitment as to specific improvements that we'd like to implement. [01:39:22] So we have flexibility in the improvements that we take up. [01:39:25] I know there was talk about putting a wall so you can't hear upstairs noise. [01:39:30] I know there was talk about expanding the desk downstairs and a variety of improvements, bathroom improvements, which are needed. [01:39:39] I just very much want to impress on you, city manager, [01:39:43] and to have the city council engaged in the actual products that are being proposed and submitted, [01:39:52] the receipt of a report without us having a chance to talk about it. [01:40:03] It sounds like we'll have our opportunity to give some direction as to what we will do. [01:40:07] If you'll allow me, Mr. Mayor, in response, the report was submitted to you so that you would have it in advance of a public presentation, [01:40:16] which will be made to you. [01:40:18] And the specific slate of improvements is something that we will need you to approve before we go forward with the project. [01:40:26] Okay, thank you. [01:40:28] Thank you. [01:40:30] As Ms. Hook said, this is greatly needed for the library, and let's hope we get the grant. [01:40:37] I'm with Councilman Davis on this one. [01:40:39] If somebody wants to match our dollars, I'm all for seeing if we can get them to do it. [01:40:45] If there's no further discussion on this item, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [01:40:49] Aye. [01:40:50] Opposed, like sign. [01:40:51] Motion passes. [01:40:53] Now we have a three-minute report from the Economic Development Department.

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    Economic Development Director gave a status report covering the recent shopability analysis with Mr. Gibbs, grant program progress ($242K completed, $224K in process), updates on Hacienda windows/construction, Lakeside Inn, Aldi financing delays, business incubator marketing, and the ACA site's federal Opportunity Zone designation. No formal action was taken; the report was informational.

    • direction:Council to schedule a work session with Reagan Weiss and his marketing team, preferably on a Monday or Wednesday, to discuss a city marketing plan. (none)

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    [01:40:56] Thank you very much, Mayor. [01:41:01] About two weeks ago, we conducted a shopability analysis. [01:41:04] We brought Mr. Gibbs back in to do a shopability analysis primarily for the benefit of the city understanding how it can evolve. [01:41:15] It was very much an independent study and for the benefit of a lot of our store owners. [01:41:21] We conducted a total of four focus groups, which were truly excellent. [01:41:25] We had a great diversification of individuals that did a good job providing some really good input. [01:41:32] We received a draft of that report and should have it available for you by Friday. [01:41:39] We're currently going to be working on the long-time common economic development brochure. [01:41:46] The city has evolved quite a bit. [01:41:47] We feel that we have some really good content to communicate, [01:41:50] and we're currently putting that together, and also a community development brochure. [01:41:56] The grant program, we've completed $242,000 in projects so far this year with another $224,000 in what we call work in process. [01:42:07] There was a big amount to roll over from the prior year, and we're going to be rolling some over to make the budget for next year. [01:42:13] A good example of some of those grant programs is Boulevard 6236 Grand Boulevard, which is Andrina's building, Boulevard Beef & Ale Awning. [01:42:25] A really great product of the grant program was 6538 Massachusetts to East Ritchie Square. [01:42:33] The business owner there took full advantage of the program. [01:42:36] They were entitled to a $10,000 grant. [01:42:38] Then they turned around and went to eat. [01:42:40] At least four of the businesses there upgraded their signs also. [01:42:43] We were able to pick up a few business licenses as a result of that also. [01:42:47] We are working with Kazoo's, and they continue to work inside there. [01:42:52] Another good example of the grant program is between 5800 Main Street and Fitzgerald. [01:42:58] Those two property owners got together there so that can be concreted, so that's a lot more attractive presentation there. [01:43:04] That program helped that. [01:43:06] Then there's a building that was on the marker for a while. [01:43:10] I like to call it just up from 1500. [01:43:15] The presence of the grant program enticed somebody to purchase that building. [01:43:19] Actually, there were several bidders on that, and it's, I guess, what they call a former dentist's office. [01:43:25] So we've been talking to the owner about possibly improving that site also. [01:43:30] So the program is very effective and certainly brings investment capital to the city. [01:43:35] Rice Nutrition, according to the owner there, mid-September is what they're planning on opening. [01:43:42] It has something to do with the timing of the contractors, and that's a revelation that we got. [01:43:46] They are working on it right now and should be moving along fairly fast. [01:43:51] Aldi's, I did get a hold of AG Development, and they told me that they're still working on the financing for that. [01:43:57] That's their biggest challenge is that they're having a hard time, not primarily with the Aldi site, [01:44:04] but there are several other properties that we've been in active conversation for many months with, [01:44:10] and they're trying to put together the financing package on that, and that's what's holding that project up. [01:44:17] We're advertising the business incubator on LoopNet and CoStar. [01:44:20] We're trying to lease it out at $10 a square foot. [01:44:23] The goal there is to kind of hold that property as a placeholder because so much is evolving in the downtown, [01:44:29] and I guess the consensus is that we'll bring greater value at some point down the future [01:44:33] and provide future councils the opportunity to really figure out what to do with that strategic asset that Sarah's acquired. [01:44:41] We have talked to two prospective tenants, but, again, I have conversations with the city manager, [01:44:46] and, again, we want it to be a real benefit to our businesses downtown in terms of who we bring there. [01:44:53] The ACA site, if you're not familiar, you've probably heard me talk about the fact that the U.S. Department of Treasury [01:45:00] it as an opportunity zone. That basically makes the land more valuable for capital [01:45:05] investment and it's part of the recent tax law there and basically it allows [01:45:14] investment capital to come to that site and if they hold their investment for [01:45:19] 10 years the capital gains tax-free or they can roll in and defer their capital [01:45:24] gains and other projects into that location and again I'm working closely [01:45:28] with the city manager on some strategies to try to bring that to [01:45:31] fruition. We think it's a very attractive strong site now that's given the fact [01:45:37] that it's classified by the federal government as what we call an [01:45:40] opportunity zone very similar to enterprise zones. Hacienda windows are in [01:45:46] production they're quite sturdy okay and very heavy because they're steel [01:45:54] windows and weeks the date for them to be installed is January 11th they could [01:46:01] possibly occur earlier there what will happen there is the windows will [01:46:04] actually work or arrive and then the glass is inserted into the windows it [01:46:08] doesn't come with glass that happens on site these are very high-end windows and [01:46:13] the company that's doing I just learned had manufactured windows for some of [01:46:19] Frank Lloyd Wright's properties mainly falling waters in Pittsburgh. SPS the [01:46:27] contractor in the site will be painting in all the infill currently we're [01:46:30] completely done on the first floor in terms of the bucking the tolerance is a [01:46:34] quarter-inch we've had to work really closely with them to make sure that [01:46:37] those tolerances are very accurate and we've had some challenges there we've [01:46:41] rectified those challenges and have secured that building even more so you [01:46:45] will be seeing once all the buckings done there that they're supposed to be [01:46:49] basically painting in those to make a little bit more attractive until we get [01:46:52] the windows in. Doors are arriving soon they're being manufactured and the [01:46:57] transoms are prepared so things are moving along very well to Hacienda. [01:47:01] Lakeside Inn has their full-time employee there his name is Derek he has [01:47:05] moved into town if you want to see how talented is he built that fence from [01:47:10] scratch in a photo okay and that fence primarily adds greater security to the [01:47:15] property and Bender has actually completed the the final phase of the [01:47:23] Hacienda in terms of room counts to be 40 40 rooms that there's like five rooms [01:47:28] that are double Queens and so I just talked to Jim today he's very pleased [01:47:32] with the plans and so we do have some fairly strong conscience of how the [01:47:37] Hacienda will look when it opens. We've closed out the small matching grant [01:47:45] program which was the patio the structural beam and the historic [01:47:49] stairway which is completely so beautiful that we've completely blocked [01:47:52] it off we don't want anybody using the stairway the craftsmanship on it is just [01:47:56] really excellent and we have received another grant it's a 2018 small [01:48:03] 2019 small matching grant we call this a stucco grant I'm largely due to the [01:48:07] fact that once the windows were in we apply for this grant because there [01:48:10] simply wasn't enough funding to be able to do the windows and doors and so this [01:48:16] grant is to shell out the building and the timing of that will be such that [01:48:19] when the windows finally go in all world designs will come in and if we complete [01:48:24] the stucco or complete the shelling out of the building and we're hoping to have [01:48:29] this what we call a special category grant and this one here closed out [01:48:33] hopefully by April and then Mr. Gunderson will proceed with this project [01:48:38] thank you very much. Are you taking pictures during these phases? We have tons [01:48:45] yeah because that's one of the requirements for the Division of Historic Resources they [01:48:48] have to take a lot of pictures. Thank you. So yeah we have tons of them. Thank you. Any other [01:48:53] questions? In that case we're to communications and reports. Councilman [01:48:58] Davis would you like to go? Yeah I went to the League of Cities conference this [01:49:03] past weekend and I wasn't as pleased with the program as I was last year. Last [01:49:10] year I was double double booked in some of the events that I went to but they [01:49:16] there was such a high concentration on this home rule I mean they spent three [01:49:21] quarters of one day on the whole home rule I mean even till they had a pep [01:49:25] rally and I'm like you know a pep rally well anyhow I mean I think at this level [01:49:29] we don't need pep rallies but it was just a concentration and I think we're [01:49:35] all aware of what it is and and you know the mayor's has done a lot with that so [01:49:40] the other thing that was controversial I would say is a vacation [01:49:49] rental and what we can do with it and I talked a little bit to Debbie about this [01:49:54] today is when we get complaints about the vacation rentals that we [01:50:00] make sure that they're logged in if people come and you know keep records of [01:50:06] it let's just say keep records and use code enforcement and that's about the [01:50:10] main two things that I got out of it is you know don't blow it off keep records [01:50:14] of it and make code enforcement important in the events. I went to a [01:50:19] telecommunications seminar and I think that we're right there on that [01:50:24] no problems with that we're we're well of it and a couple other ones that I [01:50:30] went to I think we're doing fine it was interesting to talk to people in other [01:50:35] communities of course and see where they're going in this home rule you know [01:50:40] they want to cookie cutters cookie cut us and we're not anything like any other [01:50:46] city so you know we hear that up here like well they do it in another [01:50:50] so but but I think you just need to pay attention and maybe talk to your [01:50:54] representatives that you know you're not into this you know your state [01:50:58] representatives you're not into this home rule thing and then the other thing [01:51:02] is I saw a picture up here and one of the presentations where we were the [01:51:06] Argus building that building is in foreclosure right now so we've got an [01:51:14] pending foreclosure and I've been in communication with the attorney [01:51:18] representing the owner and they are putting together a plan to repair the [01:51:22] facade and do the work that's required some of the cleanup has been done more [01:51:26] needs to be done and that's what the court case is about we'll get it done [01:51:30] through that court case up there in your neighborhood the largest old largest [01:51:36] largest building yes it's on us-19 yeah it's owned by a company called oak trace [01:51:40] development and is there a timeline that you're looking at do you think I expect [01:51:45] something to I expect them to provide a plan to rehabilitate the facade anytime [01:51:51] now I just sent an email to their attorney and if I don't get that in [01:51:54] short order then I'll proceed to get a court order if I need to to get that [01:51:58] done so we were on top of them there there were some air conditioners on the [01:52:03] roof when I went out there to inspect it with the property owner I told him those [01:52:08] had to be taken off the roof and they got them off the roof the next day so [01:52:12] they're starting to wake up a little bit and get it done and I knew filing [01:52:17] this case would get it going so that's what that's what it's all about so we'll [01:52:20] get it done through this case there's no question in my mind well I'm very [01:52:26] pleased with the first readings we had on several ordinances this evening and [01:52:30] that they passed there's there's just a lot of cool things happening in New Port Richey right now I was driving driving through my neighborhood last week and I [01:52:38] saw a mom on a golf cart waiting to pick her kids up at the bus stop and I just [01:52:42] thought oh so cool like five years ago who would have thought you'd see [01:52:44] something like that in New Port Richey but we need to get the word out we have [01:52:49] to get the word out we I think we have to engage in a marketing plan with [01:52:53] professionals and know what they're doing Miss Manson I met with Reagan Weiss [01:52:56] and his team there's a proposal here although it's short in nature in my [01:53:01] opinion Reagan is a very dynamic individual he started a marketing [01:53:06] company on top of his general contracting company that he's a co-owner [01:53:10] with he already does a lot of free marketing for the city he loves he's [01:53:14] passionate about our city he had input in the first video that was done with [01:53:19] Mario what was the name of production company slipped my mind my network one [01:53:25] which I thought you know it was a great start for a video he's working on video [01:53:29] with some of his partners they are jail video of kayakers going through the [01:53:34] river I saw a short excerpt that was on them Facebook but to really get the word [01:53:38] out it's going to take money if it's alright with my colleagues I would like [01:53:42] to schedule a work session with Reagan and his team and where he can present to [01:53:47] all of us in person and have a more laid-back atmosphere in the way of a [01:53:52] work session preferably on a Monday or Wednesday that soccer practice on [01:53:55] Tuesdays and Thursdays so I miss every other soccer practice currently with [01:53:58] Tuesdays on Tuesdays which is fine but a Monday or Wednesday would would be [01:54:01] better for me just so we can get to know him get to know what his ideas are [01:54:06] verbally I'm sure they can show us some audio clips and video clips of what [01:54:10] their team's currently done and his part what his partners have currently done [01:54:13] and then as a consensus we can kind of come together and think give direction [01:54:19] miss man's as to whether or not we're comfortable with he and his team if we

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