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Council takes up first reading of 15 proposed Charter amendments Thursday on a 115-item agenda that also includes more than $18 million in spending and the vote to abolish the Equal Business Opportunity Department.
This week at Council
Transcripts & video →The city draws at least three different West Tampas, and none of them line up exactly with the City of West Tampa that was its own city until 1925.
Charter Review Advisory Commission member Bobby Creighton on how Tampa’s council has been carved up since 1887, and why one council member has never represented so many people.
Items 95-109 on the 11/5/26 agenda would put 15 Charter amendments on the March 2, 2027 ballot. Each one’s summary, changed language and ballot question, in one place.
Michael Bishop
Council meets Thursday, on its week off, to approve a Rays Community Benefits Agreement whose project list is an empty page. Two members spent months saying what had to be in it. The $4.2 million it promises the city over the first five years is less than one year’s debt service on the $80 million the city is putting into the deal.
Michael Bishop
Council didn’t amend the FY27 budget. It made a wish list and shook on it. Here’s a process that would put amendments in writing, with a funding source, before the final vote.
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