Author: Michael Bishop
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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 spoke before Tampa City Council during public comment twice. Both were on the issue of SIRE/city council agenda. I spoke to the importance of the public nature of the agenda and its supporting files. The…
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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 City of Tampa by documenting council meetings. That turned out to be labor intensive and felt futile knowing the online agenda was changing. Linking to documents that were at temporary Urls seemed senseless. So I…
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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 better what it’s being spent on and how the fund balance can be used.
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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 made by the city. Opinions will be shared. I hope to continue to build tools to help analyze the data behind those decisions.“ I enjoyed doing the Liveblog and would like to use it in…
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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 has a fund balance of roughly $72M. At least projected for the end of fiscal year 2023. So, how much do we save each year? Good question. According to this page in the budget The…