10/1/26 - Regular Meeting
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents and interactive zoning map of land use items.
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The Tampa City Council Budget Process is Still Broken…Here’s One Fix I’d Recommend
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.
Two Percent of What?
Council was told the extra reserve held for Amendment 3 is 2%, or $13.5 million. The city’s own numbers put it at 1.8 points. Two points would be $15.4 million.
9/22/26 – Final Budget Adoption Hearing w/Thursday workshops and land use applications
Council will be holding presumably the final hearing to adopt Mayor Castor’s proposed FY27 Budget Tuesday evening. Thursday, workshop items include discussion of the Charter Review Advisory Commission and their proposal for an office of Inspector General.
New Government Watchdog for Tampa?
Charter Review Advisory Commission member Bobby Creighton lays out the proposal for a Tampa Inspector General and how it compares to IG offices elsewhere in Florida.
9/22/26 - Budget Public Hearing
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents.
9/24/26 - Workshop & Evening Land Use
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents and interactive zoning map of land use items.
9/17/26 – South Howard vote, a Peregrine grant and the Tree Trust Fund ordinance
Council sits for a single regular meeting Thursday: the South Howard Flood Relief Project vote, a $595,000 State Attorney grant for TPD’s Peregrine data platform, the Tree Trust Fund ordinance, and an update on the Hope shelters.
What the state’s Ybor ‘community engagement’ money is buying
After the 2023 Ybor shooting, the Legislature funded a “crime prevention initiative … through community engagement.” So far it has bought TPD three drones and, on Thursday’s consent agenda, a $595,000 platform from a Palantir alum’s company that Florida agencies elsewhere are buying for immigration enforcement.
9/17/26 - Regular Meeting
A reimagined version of the Tampa City Council agenda including mirrored supporting documents and interactive zoning map of land use items.
The CIT Reserve Was for the Rays. Council Was Told Amendment 3.
Council asked twice why $22 million in Community Investment Tax projects were on hold. The CFO gave one reason. His deputy and his own memo gave another.
9/8/26 – First budget hearing kicks off the week
This week Council will be holding the first hearing for the adoption of the $2 billion FY27 budget Tuesday evening. They will sit as the CRA Board Thursday morning covering among other things, the Rays deal, then hearing land use cases that evening.