Weekly Brief
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12/18/25 – Consequential Agenda to Close Out 2025
The final council meeting of 2025 has no shortage of consequential votes that will resonate for years to come. From…
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12/11/25 – Final CRA and Land Use Meetings of 2025
CRA to vote on services agreement with city and final evening land use hearing of the year.
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12/04/25 – Multi-modal Impact Fee Finally Gets a Vote Along With $90+Million in Funding Requests
Additionally council to discuss TPD relying on stormwater staff for concrete barriers for special events and the effect on budget…
Look Ahead
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12/18/25 – Regular Meeting
This is a reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda. It removes legalese from the description, parses the Background…
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12/11/25 – CRA & Evening Land Use
This is a reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda. It removes legalese from the description, parses the Background…
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12/04/25 – Regular Meeting
This is a reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda. It removes legalese from the description, parses the Background…
More Stories
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Agendas: How Do Other Cities Do It?
Taking a look at how other cities handle their agendas online.
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First Thoughts On New Agenda Platform Hyland Onbase
Saturday morning I received an email with a link to the draft agenda on the new platform. I have only…
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So Really, What’s Next?
I originally started out wanting to make it easier for folks to keep up with what’s going on with the…
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Clarifications About SIRE
Reiterating why I think it’s an important topic and a thought exercise on accountability.
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Budget Questions I Hope to Get Answers to – parking fund.
$44 million dollars is being spent by parking for stuff other than staff and operations and i’ld like to understand…
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Quick Update
I edited the About page to add “I’ve decided to be more of a blog focused on decisions facing and…
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Budget Questions I Hope to Get Answers to – Fund Balance
The fund balance is basically savings as I understand it. Funds not allocated for expenses. Currently the City of Tampa…
