HTCA and Continued Efforts To Organize A Hampton Terrace Neighborhood Organization For City Recognit
The Tampa NRO confirmed that if the HTNA organization did not complete elections by May 18, HTNA would not be recognized by the City as representing Hampton Terrace, and the City would accept application from any group that wished to organize a neighborhood organization. While HTNA did hold one neighborhood meeting, a picnic where it presented their slate of officers, no neighborhood election was held by May 17, 2010. Subsequently, a group of neighborhood residents formed a steering committee called the Hampton Terrace Civic Association (HTCA), and submitted to the Tampa NRO a letter of intent describing their plans to form a neighborhood organization for City recognition to represent Hampton Terrace. The NRO deemed these plans acceptable, and offered consultative and logistical support of this effort as per its common practice (e.g., informational mailings to neighborhood property owners).
On May 25, the NRO requested a meeting between their office and the City's Chief of Staff, and the leaders of the HTNA organization and members of the HTCA steering committee . The meeting was precipitated, according to NRO communications, by a vitriolic HTNA email campaign challenging the City's positions on the matter of organizing a Hampton Terrace neighborhood organization. In this meeting the City's reaffirmed its position that the HTNA organization failed to meet expectations as per city guidelines ('How to Form A Neighborhood Association, version 2007' ). City records indicate these discussions continued for 3 or more meetings.
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