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Tampa Weekly: Pride Month, art, and more...

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Mayor Jane Castor, Tampa City Council, and community members celebrated the start of Pride Month by raising the LGBT Pride flag above City Hall.
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City of Tampa's 5th Annual Juneteenth Flag Raising Ceremony & Festival

Join our 5th Annual Juneteenth Flag Raising Ceremony & Festival on June 14 from 11 am to 2 pm at City Center at Hanna Avenue (2555 E Hanna Avenue). There will be entertainment, free food, and vendors. The flag-raising ceremony will begin at 11 am. This event is free and open to the public.

Note: City of Tampa offices will be closed on June 19 in observance of the Juneteenth holiday.

Special Call Meeting on Hillsborough County Community Investment Tax

Tampa City Council will host a special call public meeting on June 13 at 11 am to discuss the Hillsborough County Community Investment Tax (CIT). See the agenda at tampa.gov/citycouncil (https://www.tampa.gov/citycouncil) .

Backyard Digester Program

Food waste not only wastes food, but it wastes money and precious resources too! We are looking for residents who are committed to diverting their kitchen waste through a new, innovative program. It is available to the City of Tampa residential trash and recycling customers only. Learn more and apply here (https://www.tampa.gov/BackyardDigester) .

Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday

Stay Tampa Ready and stock your emergency kit now by taking advantage of the Disaster Preparedness Sales Tax Holiday! Qualifying items are tax-free through June 14. Visit floridarevenue.com/DisasterPrep (http://www.floridarevenue.com/DisasterPrep) for a complete list of exempt items.

Summer BreakSpot

Summer BreakSpot provides free, nutritious meals to kids and teens under 18 while schools are closed. Find a Florida Division of Food, Nutrition and Wellness's Summer BreakSpot near you at summerbreakspot.org (http://www.summerbreakspot.org/) .

Sulphur Springs Pool Shuttle to Copeland Pool

Tampa Parks & Recreation will operate a shuttle to Copeland Pool from Sulphur Springs Pool (https://www.facebook.com/TampaParksRecreation/posts/pfbid0P98sXtNGBS4b8bAZ72EstTpJ6fdEw3Xr1AMudfigyVuxDFPEttdqRbXGMPrzZWx1l) - running six days a week through August 10 (the scheduled end of operation for Tampa’s seasonal pools). All riders will need signed waivers. Children under 9 must be accompanied by a parent/guardian to swim. A parent/guardian is recommended for all minors.

Open House – A New Public Art Concept

Contribute to our city's newest public art piece right from your computer or phone! A new outdoor sculpture is coming to City Center at Hanna Avenue. For the building’s expansive outdoor plaza, the artist duo AREA C Projects has designed Open House: a large-scale sculpture that visualizes City Center as a place where plans and ideas for new homes, new businesses and new projects of all kinds begin to take form in real life. Open House visualizes these dream structures through a colorful sculpture that plaza users can move around and within. It will also incorporate a gathering of culturally & personally significant Tampa street names contributed by Tampa community members. Share your ideas today at tampa.gov/OpenHouse (http://www.tampa.gov/OpenHouse) .

Job of the Week
The Housing Department is hiring a Housing Counselor II (https://www.jobapscloud.com/Tampa/sup/bulpreview.asp?b=&R1=240516&R2=060780&R3=001) to perform tasks related to housing assistance, relocation, and foreclosure prevention programs. Establishing eligibility for low-interest loan programs, deferred payment loans, and loans from local lending institutions for owner-occupant, commercial, and/or investor-owner is more than averagely difficult. Applicants should have certification as a Housing Counselor by an accredited institution.
LAST WEEK'S HEADLINES

Boom by the Bay crowd and performers
City of Tampa announces return of Boom by the Bay with a huge waterfront fireworks display (https://thatssotampa.com/tampa-announces-return-of-boom-by-the-bay/)
That’s So Tampa
It’s totally family-friendly, and there will be live entertainment at the waterfront park throughout the day.

Tampa raises LGBT Pride flag for Pride month (https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-county/live-tampa-raises-lgbt-pride-flag-for-pride-month/)
WFLA NewsChannel 8
“They are neighbors, our friends, and our family. It is our community,” Mayor Jane Castor said.

Aerial map of South Tampa
City of Tampa will soon begin work on improving Interbay Boulevard (https://baynews9.com/fl/tampa/news/2024/06/05/interbay-boulevard-improvements)
Spectrum Bay News 9
The project, called MacDill Air Force Base Access Improvements is being done to improve access to the base and improve driving conditions on Interbay.

Shattered Black history at Tampa’s Perry Harvey Park is whole again (https://www.tampabay.com/news/crime/2024/06/04/shattered-black-history-tampas-perry-harvey-park-is-whole-again/)
Tampa Bay Times
“I never experienced this outpouring of, for lack of a better word, love,” he said.

Tampa residents will soon pay more for trash collection. Here’s what to know.
Tampa residents will soon pay more for trash collection. Here’s what to know. (https://www.tampabay.com/news/tampa/2024/06/06/residents-soon-pay-more-trash-garbage-collection-how-way-rate-increase-explained/)
Tampa Bay Times
The city currently charges less than Hillsborough County, but more than St. Petersburg and Pinellas.

City of Tampa hosts free compost giveaway for residents (https://www.wtsp.com/article/tech/science/environment/city-of-tampa-free-compost-giveaway-residents-gardening-yard-waste/67-f0f09b64-e3fe-436a-b473-e107c6f34220)
10 Tampa Bay
Since the program started on Feb. 1, 2024, about 3,950 tons of yard waste have been composted.

Financial discipline, housing programs help couple buy first home (https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/affordable-housing-crisis/financial-discipline-housing-programs-help-couple-buy-first-home)
ABC Action News
The Knox’s home ownership was helped by a partnership with CDC of Tampa, The City of Tampa, and the Community Redevelopment Agency.

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EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT

Meet Lynisha Muldrow, Tampa Parks and Recreation Leader III at Rowlett Activity Center, has worked for the City of Tampa for 12 years. She loves having fun with her center’s kids and making a positive impact on their lives. Her Supervisor Alvin Holder said, “Lynisha has exhibited exemplary skills in all areas of our Parks and Recreation program. Her loyalty and dedication to serving the public has been outstanding. It is obvious that she believes in the mission and vision of our department. Lynisha continually displays her commitment to the department during her daily program activities with the kids and adults, her willingness to assist other employees, and her desire to accept additional responsibilities with cheerleading and Out of School Time summer trainings. Lynisha is one of the brightest lights on the North Team, and she continues to excel in all phases of the Parks and Recreation Programming Division.”

What do you like to do in your free time? Spend time with my family, my kids. They keep me busy. They do different sports, multiple sports. We’ll go to an outing like Busch Gardens, do a family fun day. When it’s just me and my husband, I try to pamper myself as much as possible: massage, nails.

What’s your favorite restaurant in Tampa? Kobé Steakhouse. It’s a hibachi grill. It’s a whole presentation, how they have to draw the people that are around them in and they are making the food in front of you. It’s entertaining, and the food is delicious.

What is your favorite meal to cook? Spaghetti. It is fast, my kids love it, and it’s quick when I get home, boom-boom. My sister be like “Y’all eat the same thing,” but if I cook something different my kids won’t eat it. If it works for them, that’s what we’re going to go with.

What’s your favorite part about your job? When I was working at Copeland, I was sitting with Coach Donna, and one of the kids that she had at the park was Nelson Agholor, the NFL player. Now he’s on the Ravens. After all those years, he still comes back and he gives. For him to still take time out of his busy schedule and how he comes and he makes sure that Coach Donna is still there, still doing good – that’s what I want. I want to make sure that I give the kids the same things that Coach Donna gave him. She must have made a great impact on him that he will always remember her. That’s what I would want. All the kids that walk through the door, I want to impact them in some kind of way to where 30 years down the line they are coming back to check on me. When I saw that – it’s real. He gave equipment, he gave basketballs, he gave footballs, he bought all the kids PDQ, some chicken tenders and fries, and a cookie. It was just so touching to me.

SPECIAL FEATURE
The Tampa Convention Center hosted nearly 20,000 visitors and military & government personnel from around the world for SOF Week 2024 - with an estimated economic impact of $12,671,955. This is an international conference dedicated to Special Operations Forces that is held in Tampa every year.
New Mural Alert! You can find this new, colorful 50 ft mural on the Pam Iorio Parking Garage (640 S. Florida Ave), painted by Nneka Jones of ** Art You Hungry? (https://artyouhungry.com/)
& entitled "Give Me My Flowers.” This piece was commissioned by the City of Tampa, Tampa's Downtown, & Gasparilla Festival of the Arts.
COMING UP THIS WEEK

Tuesday, June 11 at 10:30 a.m.
Press Conference – WASTE-TO ENERGY RETROFIT UNVEILING

Tuesday, June 11 at 6:15 p.m.
FORBICI MODERN ITALIAN 5-YEAR ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION

Thursday, June 13 at 11 a.m.
Groundbreaking - ONE TAMPA PROJECT

Friday, June 14 at 11 a.m.
CITY OF TAMPA'S ANNUAL JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL

Saturday, June 15 at 10 a.m.
3rd ANNUAL FREE KIDS FISHING CLINIC

Saturday, June 15 at 3:15 p.m.
ROC THE BLOCK INC. 4th ANNUAL JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL

Sunday, June 16 at 8:30 a.m.
JUNETEENTH 5K COMMUNITY WALK/RUN

Sunday, June 16 at 11:30 a.m.
BULLARD FAMILY FOUNDATION'S THE GATHERING - A CELEBRATION OF SUPERSTAR DADS
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