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<DIV>Hello all;</DIV>
<DIV>I do not know if you are aware but I was a board member of Hartline in the
90’s and we agreed with Hillsborough County Commissioners to support a sales tax
for transportation and the stadium. We worked hard to speak with Hart
customers and encourage them to vote for the tax...it worked and we passed the
tax increase.</DIV>
<DIV>HOWEVER during the HCC meeting immediately after the vote, the Hillsborough
County Commissioners announced at their meeting that HART would not receive the
money they had “promised” to make transportation efficient and productive.
Commissioners Jim Norman and Joe Chilouree (sp?) were the two commissioners who
lied about the promises...in fact when I confronted both men after the meeting
they laughed and said “that’s business”!</DIV>
<DIV>I tell you this so that you do not let up on your commissioners...stay in
contact with them and do not let them out of their promises...if possible attend
a meeting and force them to specifically state where the money from the
increased tax will go.</DIV>
<DIV>If we walk together we can make this happen!</DIV>
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<DIV>Good luck!</DIV>
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<DIV>Jimmy</DIV>
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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=nfbf-tampa@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:nfbf-tampa@nfbnet.org">Barbara Gaw via NFBF-Tampa</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Saturday, October 13, 2018 8:13 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=nfbf-tampa@nfbnet.org
href="mailto:nfbf-tampa@nfbnet.org">nfbf-tampa@nfbnet.org</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Cc:</B> <A title=gawberg@verizon.net
href="mailto:gawberg@verizon.net">Barbara Gaw</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NFBF-Tampa] article from the Tampa Bay Times on
proposed Hillsborough County sales tax increase for transportation
improvements</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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Sherrill,
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<DIV>Thanks for the information. Glad to hear everything went well today,
and i’m sorry I couldn’t be there. </DIV>
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<DIV>Take care, </DIV>
<DIV>Barbara <BR>
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<DIV class=aolmail_replyHeader>On Saturday, October 13, 2018, Sherrill O'Brien
via NFBF-Tampa <nfbf-tampa@nfbnet.org> wrote: </DIV><BR>
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<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">Hello Tampa Bay
Chapter members and friends,</SPAN></P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">What a wonderful
turnout we had this morning for our successful White cane Safety Day event at
Dale Mabry and Spruce. Though the media was rightly concerned with covering
the terrible aftermath of hurricane Michael, our efforts paid off as hundreds
observed us with our canes, dogs and signs as we crossed that busy
intersection.</SPAN></P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">So on a related
note, below is an article from the Tampa Bay Times on the proposed sales tax
increase for transportation improvements, which will appear on the ballot on
November 6.</SPAN></P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d">By walking
together we can accomplish great things!</SPAN></P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN
style="COLOR: #1f497d">Sherrill</SPAN></P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d"></SPAN> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Here’s how money from a sales tax hike would
improve transportation in Hillsborough</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Widening of the Progress Boulevard bridge over
Interstate 75 is part of a $9 billion backlog in Hillsborough County
transportation projects. A sales tax</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>hike proposal that goes to the voters Nov. 6
would help pay for some of the work. [LUIS SANTANA | Times]</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Times staff </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Congestion is so bad along Bloomingdale
Boulevard in Brandon that it gets a grade of F from traffic engineers. Money
would be available if a sales tax</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>hike passes to add more turn lanes, a bus
route and pedestrian crossings. [LUIS SANTANA |
Times] </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>With the general election just 25 days away,
citizen's group All for Transportation is campaigning hard to win support for
a one percent sales tax hike</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>to pay for transportation. With the backing of
local business leaders, the group has raised more than $2 million for its
campaign. The new tax would raise</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>$276 million per year for road, trails, better
bus service and transit. [SKIP O'ROURKE |
Times] </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Congestion is so bad along Bloomingdale
Boulevard in Brandon that it gets a grade of F from traffic engineers. Money
would be available if a sales tax</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>hike passes to add more turn lanes, a bus
route and pedestrian crossings. [LUIS SANTANA |
Times] </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Congestion is so bad along Bloomingdale
Boulevard in Brandon that it gets a grade of F from traffic engineers. Money
would be available if a sales tax</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>hike passes to add more turn lanes, a bus
route and pedestrian crossings. [LUIS SANTANA |
Times] </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>By Christopher O’Donnell, Times Staff Writer
</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Published: October 12, 2018</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Updated: October 12, 2018 at 02:52 PM</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>BRANDON — The snarl of traffic starts early on
Bloomingdale Avenue, brake lights inching west in a blur toward Interstate
75.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Almost 50,000 vehicles travel the four-lane
road every day. Congestion is so bad that traffic engineers give it an F, the
lowest possible grade.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>There are plans for improvements — more turn
lanes, pedestrian crossings, bike lanes. A bus route could help take some cars
off the road and a two-lane</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>bridge spanning I-75 could be widened.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>But no one has come up with the money for any
of this work, or for hundreds of other transportation fixes across
Hillsborough County that now add up to</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>some $9 billion.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The latest stab at an answer comes from
a citizens group backed by business leaders grown weary of inaction by
government leaders. They’ve succeeded in</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>landing a proposal on the Nov. 6 general
election ballot to raise the sales tax by one cent on the dollar and bring in
$276 million a year for road and</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>transit projects.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>If approved, local government agencies say the
money could be used to:</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>• Resurface Tampa’s roads every 25 years
instead of every 75 years.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>• Build a mass-transit system linking the
university area, downtown Tampa and the Westshore-Tampa International Airport
area.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>• Round out a planned network of 400 miles of
bike and pedestrian trails.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>• Add 10 new routes, 150 new buses and
increase the frequency of at least four bus routes to every 15 minutes.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>• Plug roughly 500 miles of sidewalk gaps on
roads in unincorporated Hillsborough.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>• Make intersection improvements throughout
the county, including the addition of intelligent traffic signals that adjust
to real-time traffic flow.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Other priorities include adding bus and
express-bus routes in south Hillsborough, the restoration of bus routes that
were cut by the cash-strapped Hillsborough</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Area Regional Transit authority, and more
crosswalks and street lighting to make roads safer. </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>“We are always having to prioritize and
explain to people why we can’t do something now or at all," said Jean Duncan,
Tampa’s transportation and stormwater</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>director. "It would be amazing to our
residents and even people traveling through our area how many great changes
could be made to our transportation network."</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The changes don’t come cheap.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Estimates from a long-range plan by the
Hillsborough Metropolitan Planning Organization say the 30-year tax would
raise about $8 billion in its first two</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>decades. The plan, developed in 2014, does not
provide estimates for the final 10 years of the tax.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>For a household with an income that’s average
for the county, around $55,000, the proposal would mean an extra $120 per year
in taxes, according to a sales</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>tax calculator developed by the Internal
Revenue Service. Out-of-county commuters, visitors and tourists would also pay
when they spend in Hillsborough.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The citizens group, All for Transportation,
landed the plan on the ballot by collecting 77,000 signatures countywide. Most
of the money — 54 percent —</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>would be earmarked for roads, sidewalks and
trails. About 45 percent would go to bus and transit.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>But don’t expect everything to be fixed. </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The tax won’t go toward relieving the infamous
traffic jams at "Malfunction Junction," where Interstates 275 and 4 meet in
Tampa, or for backups on the</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Veteran’s Expressway — both the responsibility
of state and regional agencies.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Still, those who back the plan say the county
has to act. Some 700,000 people are expected to move to Hillsborough over the
next 30 years.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>"There is no question the downside to not
doing it will mean 500,000 to 700,000 people will move into this region and we
will have the exact same infrastructure</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>we have today that has not been maintained
adequately," said Tampa City Council member and mayoral candidate Harry Cohen.
"To me, to not go forward with</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>this is to court disaster for the entire
region."</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>• • •</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The city of Tampa has about 2,500 miles of
roads.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Its current transportation budget is about $10
million per year. </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Of that, about half is set aside for
resurfacing, enough to fix 30 miles of roadway every year.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>On that schedule, wear and tear on most roads
will go unchecked for 75 years, Duncan said. By the time maintenance crews
arrive, potholes are deeper and</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>wider, repairs more expensive.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The city’s share of proceeds from the
transportation tax would be about $33.7 million per year. That infusion of
money would boost the annual resurfacing</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>budget to $12.1 million, enough to get the
city’s roads on a 25-year maintenance schedule.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>It’s a similar story with sidewalks and bike
trails. The city’s current annual spending of $900,000 is enough for just half
a mile of new sidewalk.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The tax would boost that to about $5 million
per year. It would also provide almost $10 million annually for safety
measures like flashing crosswalks and</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>sidewalks near schools, Duncan said.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>"We would have a tenfold increase in dollars
that we could use to build more sidewalks around our schools and in our
neighborhoods," Duncan said.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Intersection improvements on Cross Creek
Boulevard, resurfacing of Himes Avenue, the widening of New Tampa Boulevard
and several other road projects could</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>also be funded, Duncan said.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Most of the tax share that’s earmarked for
roads and trails would go to Hillsborough County — about $109 million per
year.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>That’s on top of a 2016 commitment by
commissioners to spend $600 million over the next 10 years to fix roads,
bridges, sidewalks and intersections. It’s</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>unclear if the county would reallocate some or
all of that money should voters approve the sales tax hike.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The 2016 plan falls well short of the amount
needed to pay for the county’s backlog of roadwork or to meet the demands of
the fast-growing south county</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>where new subdivisions are appearing.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>If the tax passes, the county will look at
bringing forward a number of projects from its 10-year work program that were
never funded, said Public Works</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Director John Lyons.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>That could include the completion of a South
County trail that connects the Tampa Bypass Canal to Manatee County and the
addition of intelligent traffic</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>systems to Waters Avenue and Lumsden Road.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>It could also pay for the widening of 19th
Avenue in Ruskin to help address a deficit of east-west connector roads
between U.S. 41 and U.S. 301 in south</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Hillsborough.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>"We have a great backlog of work that is
unfunded," Lyons said.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>• • •</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>In past transportation referendums, rail has
been a rallying point for opponents.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>That was particularly true for the 2014
Greenlight Pinellas plan, whose $1.6 billion, 24-mile light rail service from
St. Petersburg to Clearwater was</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>derided by the group No Tax for Tracks as a
train no one would ride.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The plan proposed by All for Transportation
includes mass transit linking the university area, downtown Tampa and
Westshore, but does not commit the county</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>to rail. Instead, the plan promises only a
transit system that has its own right of way, meaning it could not be held up
by road traffic. </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Whether that would be rail, light-rail, bus
rapid transit or a combination has yet to be determined. Still, the long range
blueprint from the Metropolitan</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Planning Organization offers a few clues.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>It shows that the segment between the
university area and downtown Tampa would use an existing CSX rail corridor.
Cost estimates in the plan assume the</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>corridor will remain as rail. Adding a
passenger service to the existing line would cost $296 million and another $54
million to run for the first 10 years,</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>the plan says. Some of the funding would come
from federal and state grants.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The link between downtown and Westshore would
use track now traveled by the TECO Line Streetcar System as well as state
Department of Transportation right-of-way</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>along Interstate 275. The plan is based on
building a modern streetcar line at a cost of $456 million. It would cost $57
million to run in the first 10</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>years.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Officials stress that any transit system has
yet to be designed so no choice has been made. Whichever alternative is
chosen, HART would build and run it.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>RELATED: Tampa Bay has one of the worst public
transit systems in America. Here’s why.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>HART’s operating budget of about $70 million
is the smallest of any bus agency in a community its size in the nation. In
2017, HART was forced to redraw</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>bus routes to save money.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>The new tax would swell the agency’s funding
to about $200 million in 2019.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>HART board chairman Les Miller, also a county
commissioner, said HART will begin planning for the tax only if it passes. But
Miller expects the agency</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>would return bus service to many communities
where it was cut.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Barely served communities like Ruskin, Sun
City Center and Wimauma could see new services added.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>"We will meet the needs of what citizens
want," Miller said.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Most residents agree that congestion has
become one of the county’s most pressing problems but that doesn’t mean they
think a sales tax is the answer.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Call center manager Lindsay Graden has to sit
through four or five red lights to get onto Big Bend Road every morning. It
takes her 55 minutes to drive</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>her daughter to her private Christian school
in Brandon.</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Graden blames the congestion on the hundreds
of new homes the county has approved without increasing road capacity. </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>"The county is reactive not pro-active," she
said. "Why should we have to pay again?"</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Apollo Beach information technology
professional Cindy Hoos also plans to vote "no" on the ballot measure. But her
husband, Terry Hoos, is a firm "yes."</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>"I’m willing to pay my fair share so the roads
are the way I want them to be," Terry Hoos said. "It’s a shame it has to be a
sales tax."</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Contact Christopher O’Donnell at
codonnell@tampabay.com or (813) 226-3446. Follow
@codonnell_Times. </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>Transportation sales tax</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>$276 million per year</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>$124 million for bus and transit</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>$149 million for roads, pedestrian safety and
trails divided as follows:</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>$109 million for Hillsborough</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>$33.1 million for Tampa</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>$3.4 million to Plant City</P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal> </P>
<P class=yiv5341351575MsoNormal>$2.3 million to Temple Terrace</P>
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