Davis Islands Neighborhood Planning Task Force

Administrative Meeting Minutes
January 21, 2003

Present: Shelia Spicola, Dennis Cavanaugh, Charner Reese, Lee Medart, Renae Tvedt, Lorraine Smith. Terry Cullen, Rose Petrucha, and Michele Ogilvy (HCC Planning Commission),

Absent: Lisa DeVitto (Excused)

Call to Order

1. Meeting was called to order at 6:40 pm. Quorum was noted.

a. The Chair handed out copies of the items to be addressed by the Neighborhood Collaboration Groups that she had sent out to Terry Cullen and asked if anyone had anything more to add to it.
b. Chair handed out a Brochure that she had made up for input from the Task Force. What change of wording might be important? Lorraine suggested a different wording for the “Please Contact Us”. The reason for the brochure is to hand it out to people that we interview and possibly leave a hand full at Java & Cream for handouts.
c. The Chair also asked that if anyone could help her by going with her outside of the large rental units with a survey (which has to be made up yet) for an hour or two on the weekends. Try to do this before the March meeting to get more input.
d. The Chair announced that she had calls out for interviews to: Russ Versaggi, TGH, Baptist Church, DI Chamber, Gaspar Properties, Seaborn School, HCC, Chateaux Condos and will be contacting others. We are asking if they have a vision of the future of Davis Islands, give them some feedback from comments of the residents and see if they have any concerns, and asking if they have any future plans for their organizations. Lorraine suggested that we talk to the Port Authority. Dennis and Terry suggested the Yacht Club and the Bank and the real estate office here on the Islands. Dennis is talking with the businesses in the Village and trying to get a collective meeting of them. Dennis reported that most have said come back after Gasparilla.
e. The Chair showed an advert off Tomorrow Matters of a study on Quality of Life issues survey being conducted by the Planning Commission and asked if Terry would tell us something about it. This a project that the Planning Commission has started and they want to do it on an annual basis. They got a focus group from all walks of life throughout the county for the questions on that survey and they would report the findings. By keeping a basis of information from year-to-year, it will help all of us, residents too, to keep a pulse on the changes as they happen over the years.

Approval of Minutes

2. Approval of Minutes January 6, 2003. They were approved with one correction of name of Bon Air.

Discussion

The Chair turned the meeting over to Terry Cullen & Rose Petrucha.

Terry announced that there were three things they wanted to talk to us tonight about:

1.) The matrix that the commission had started on our input from the Study Circles. He said he did not want to get into it tonight because it was not complete. He predicted that he would have it finished by next week.
2.) He introduced Michele Ogilvy who is the Project Manager of Tampa Heights Planning effort, she is an anthropologist by education and she brings a very good prospective to the planning process. He has asked that Michele attend these meetings on a regular basis.
3.) Terry stated that they were looking for an overall conceptual framework for our plan. And with the consistent feedback from the residents that we think our quality of life is very good and we want to maintain it is the message they are getting. Because of that, they would like us to think of a concept called “sustainability”. Once you can create and organizing concept or principal then everything else begins to fall in place.
a. Sustainability is not necessarily the status quo. It is the physical framework that you build on further.
b. We are not thinking of major system changes.
c. From a social perspective in Tampa Heights there was a lot of desire to change socio-economics expressed. Not so on Davis Islands.
d. From a physical side of Davis Islands, everyone has been saying something that endorses something similar to what we have today.

4.) Michele talked to us on what sustainability means and gave a handout on the bases.
5.) She explained that when we are talking about slowing traffic, we are really talking about people. Where are they going, where are they coming from, etc.
6.) There was discussion on identifying systems and how they interact.
7.) Terry gave out cameras to everyone to photograph what we like about Davis Islands. The exposed film is to be returned at the next meeting, January 27.

Terry stated that the commission people are seeing a theme coming out. They are not asking us to change direction, all they are asking is that we think about the sustainability theme. We’d work on the same path that we were always trying to work on. You haven’t said that but you’re reflecting that in portraying what Davis Islands is.

8.) The Chair asked as to whether Terry had asked the City if we have to “register” all members we call the “Task Force”. It was his opinion that we didn’t have to do that. The Chair then asked if anyone had found people that said that they would like to be on the Task Force. Charner mentioned Phyllis Pacyna who said she would be interested. Shelia mentioned ____________ who said she would be interested. Lorraine commented that she felt that the original group of people that had signed up for the task force should be asked again. It was decided that we would try to get people that had been participating in some way so that they wouldn’t be starting at ground zero.
9.) The Chair then asked that the people that were assigned tasks for the March Meeting report on the status:
a. Shelia Spicola – Publicity The only new thing beside the Newspaper and the TV stations, is that we could have signs painted on benches around the Islands. They would cost $150 each. The Chair asked what was the method that most people learned about the kick-off meeting. Charner look it up and found that it was posted signs on Davis Blvd. Shelia said that she had spoken to the City and they will allow a sign on the median as you come off of the bridge as long as it is timely. It was suggested that we go with a big sign and that we could use the $250 we have from the Chamber. Dennis is to look into “sandwich” signs for the sidewalk. Renae has construction signs we could use.
By next Monday, Lorraine and the Chair will have volunteers for the meeting.

Next Meeting

The next meeting is January 27th, 6:30 pm at the Tennis Courts.

The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 pm.

Submitted by
Lee Medart, Chair Approved: ______________________

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