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One thing I will be working on is beginning to mirror all of the supporting documents attached to agenda items. My solution to trying to Keep up with the links as the clerk updates the agenda. Clerk adds a memo to item 45, every supporting document link changes and doesn't redirect.

No wrap up post for this week, need to do some stuff under the hood and move name registrar & DNS. Site could be down briefly over the weekend while everything propagates. Council will be back Jan 8 2026, preview goes up the Monday before.

Bern's Steakhouse notifies Tampa City Council they are preparing lawsuits to prevent the South Howard Flood Relief project from moving forward.

Guess Buckhorn made it official.

12/18/25 – Consequential Agenda to Close Out 2025 From voting to approve the mayor’s nomination to replace the retiring City Attorney to the proposed changes restricting bicycle usage on multi-modal paths like the Riverwalk to the final vote on the multi-modal impact fee.

Tampa City Attorney Andrea Zelman to Retire, Mayor Nominates Scott I. Steady for Role

Turns out it’s worse than that. Any time the clerk edits the agenda the links break. They broke yesterday without it going to published. Investigating mirroring the docs on my own infrastructure to avoid the issue. No clue when/if this might be addressed.

This week's preview is up with a quick look at the final CRA the last evening land use agenda of the year. tampamonitor.com/tampa-city-c...

Gave it a URL

Bit of "news" at the end of the Tampa City Council's marathon meeting today—the mayor has floated selling "Big Blue", TPD HQ. Preliminary figure of $36 million. Ironic that council unanimously approved spending $800K on a Facilities Management Master Plan 2 week ago without discussion.

Pushed a fix to this today that fixes the archived view (just view was broken, it's been archiving). Secretly that was more what I was interested in than the current. Slowly building a database of development projects to be able to query against. For background tampamonitor.com/fyi/tracking...

Something I’ve been meaning to address is fixing the links to supporting documents between the draft agenda publishing & the final agenda. Onbase changes them so now I’ll regularly re-run the script that builds the TM version. Seems like poor architecture in Onbase but nothing else I can do.

Just pushed a small change that coincides with the new category structure. Adding the categories with the heading to give more context "Tampa City Council" "Preview"/"Agendas"/"Wrap Up" "12/04/25 - headline" Instead of what ever it is I've been doing the past 2 years.

Additionally wrote this because it has been a year and folks need to come to terms with the reality that the city's stormwater system isn't going to save them if we get hit by another Milton. tampamonitor.com/stormwater/s...

This week's preview is up First official vote on increasing impact fees along with over $90 in funding requests. tampamonitor.com/tampa-city-c...

Just made some category changes for the weekly posts. *Shouldn't* break any old links but will keep an eye out. Please let me know if you see anything weird. That said, this week's agenda is up tampamonitor.com/tampa-city-c...

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Recap from yesterday's Tampa City Council meeting. Council will be off next week in observance of Thanksgiving.

This week's preview is up. Starting to feel a little lost in doing these and questioning where to go with it. tampamonitor.com/uncategorize...

This week marked one full, consistent year of previewing council's agenda. tampamonitor.com/site-news/a-...

City Council is holding a special call workshop this afternoon to discuss the Charter Review Commission and the city's YouTube page is streaming "live" an ARC meeting from last year.

This week's preview is out tampamonitor.com/tampa-city-c...

19 was removed from the agenda "because it was a duplicate." But it wasn't a dupe.

Tampa City Council member @lynnhurtak.com was awarded the 2025 HART Transit Champion Award for her work with Route 1. Council members Viera and Clendenin from the HART Board had very kind things to say. youtu.be/9C5riHmSh0I?...

Also wanted to put some context to the turnout for the special call election. tampamonitor.com/wrap-up/lets...

This week's preview is up

I'm starting to think item 19 was a mistake. Item 26 is conspicuously similar (some budget items appear in both) and includes a summary sheet. 19 doesn't. The big thing in 19 is that it seems like the final death knell for the Community Land Trust, wiping the $50 million budgeted off the books.

The tough part of trying to review the agenda between release on Friday evening and Monday morning is not being able to ask questions. Not that my questions are always answered, but not like I can expect staff to be available over the weekend.

This week's single regular meeting agenda has been published. tampamonitor.com/tampa-city-c...

Not sure who or what triggered new subscribers today but thank you!

Normally when council has a workshop they hold new business until after the evening agenda. Obviously Clendenin wanted to send his message at 12:30pm where he would get the most reaction.

That was a helluva final discussion at Tampa City Council. Chair Clendenin talking directly at the administration and mayor through the camera complaining about the communications department not giving credit to council culminating with Carlson threatening to sue the mayor if she slanders him again.

Young won all but three precincts in the race, according to @tampamonitor.com with her strongest support coming from pockets of Tampa Heights, West Tampa, East Ybor, Seminole Heights, and the Riverbend area.

My original "model" had the split 60/40 but I didn't think she'd win by more than 5% so scaled it back. Was I ever wrong. Scott only won 3 precincts and Young won by 21 points.

Light agendas this week so preview is up now. 2nd workshop for discussing impact fee increase, Sulphur Springs Action Plan and significant changes proposed for future land use map in east Ybor. tampamonitor.com/tampa-city-c...

Playing around with election result data and used the Young/DeGeorge/Dudney percentages vs Scott with the remaining votes split 55/45 for Young. (DeGeorge and Dudney endorsed Young). It's not scientific but if Young wins, this is what the map might look like.

Light agendas this week so preview is up now. 2nd workshop for discussing impact fee increase, Sulphur Springs Action Plan and significant changes proposed for future land use map in east Ybor. tampamonitor.com/tampa-city-c...

Really productive day updating the maps on the site. Data and new feature: parcel outlines. Now when you click a location on the map, the parcel outline shows, which helps with rezoning applications to better understand the lot. Also, added future land use applications to the map for agendas.

Wrap up on Thursday's meeting. The Wheel Gets Green Light, Ethics & South Howard Flood Relief Punted Until Next Year

Creative Loafing endorses Naya Young ahead of early voting starting tomorrow. "Both candidates would bring care and attention to a seat that’s been vacant for far too long, but Young offers a chance to write a new chapter instead of living in the past."

Weird, I don't recall there being anything before council about another partnership with Related Group.

If you live in D5 and still weighing who to vote for in next week's special call election, Tampa Tiger Bay Club teamed up with TBAE to record the debate last week. watch.tbae.net/m/KHG9lyZW/t...

ICYMI

Second, a separate post about the latest activity with the South Howard Flood Relief project tampamonitor.com/fyi/south-ho...

A bit of a twofer this week. First a regular agenda preview that includes a look at the final details on the Wheel lease as well as a few other items highlighted. tampamonitor.com/tampa-city-c...

A bit of a twofer this week. First a regular agenda preview that includes a look at the final details on the Wheel lease as well as a few other items highlighted. tampamonitor.com/tampa-city-c...

In today's candidate forum, @rayroa.bsky.social asked Thomas Scott about my comments regarding experience. Scott compared being a city council member to being a heart surgeon. Which is kinda laughable but ok. Do you want someone who hasn't been in the ER in 15 years operating on you?

If you live downtown and have wanted a little garden, the city is opening a community garden located at the Whiting St Garage. Only 41 available to residents in a lottery style selection process. www.tampa.gov/news/2025-10...

This is an extremely niche tool but if you find yourself wanting to copy from the city provided transcripts of council meetings into more readable text, I whipped up a quick tool. miklb.github.io/tm-transcrip...