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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.
Council wasn’t scheduled to meet this week, but a special call Thursday morning takes up the Rays Community Benefits Agreement, the vote Council Member Luis Viera wanted before he leaves office Nov. 2.
Council workshops the ethics code and the Ethics Commission Thursday morning, then takes up the comprehensive plan’s Future Land Use update that evening, the one the state has twice called void under SB 180. Also: why an ethics policy and an inspector general won’t matter much if Tallahassee keeps making the decisions.
A 99 item agenda: the $80 million Rays bond resolution, Peregrine back with its contract attached, $74 million in hurricane recovery agreements on consent, and a 1:30 Charter update with still no draft language in Onbase.
Not much on this week’s CRA and evening land use agendas. Catch up on the Inspector General series, plus council dropped the October 12 budget special call until after the November Amendment 3 vote.
Flagged items from a 67 item regular agenda with the first formal votes on proposed Charter Amendments this week. Plus a note from the editor.
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.
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.
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.
Thursday’s discussion will be dominated by the presentation and potential vote on the $92 million construction contract for the South Howard Flood Relief project.
This week it’s all about the Rays stadium vote at Thursday’s regular meeting.
Council open the week on Monday with their final budget workshop and continue their work Thursday as the CRA board in the morning with an evening land use focused agenda.
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