TM has been storing the agendas in machine readable format since September so we cooked up a script to look for all agenda items mentioning staff report appear/submit/etc and parsed out the motion makers for a count and to generate the tables for each member.
One of the sources of friction between the mayor and council has been "staff time" in particular to written and in person staff reports. TM has analyzed the last 6 months of council motions for all staff reports.
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TM has reached out to the admin for comment. Developing story as they say.
Hurtak recently filed to run for mayor in 2027. Council member Young, who has filed to run for her seat, was not aware of any changes with her planned ride-a-longs.
At the end of today’s meeting Council member @lynnhurtak.com shared that the mayor had told her she’s no longer allowed to tour/visit/ride-a-long with city staff during “campaign season.” Which is a new policy. Chair Clendenin motioned to request mayor to rescind policy; passed 6-0 Carlson absent.
In a bit of a surprise from a city council that claims to be all about transparency and holding the administration accountable, they just approved a financial resolution for I’m not exactly sure how much for non-profit funding the public had never seen. Apparently sent to council at 7pm last night
New feature in progress. Agenda supporting documents are now mirrored. Stay tuned.
Tampa Monitor is running behind schedule this Monday, weekly preview still in the works. In the meantime you can read a hot take on the budget and the importance of the upcoming budget discussion.
Today’s post is delayed until late morning.
I've contemplated ways I can continue to grow the site without paywalls and useless ads. I'm trying an experiment with a single "Community Sponsor" for either the newsletter or the website. Or both. If your organization or business has interest, please reach out.
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And second, took the opportunity to add interactive charts to the site for this piece, also from Jasmin, looking at the PAC setup for former Mayor Bob Buckhorn as he plots another run for city hall.
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First, redistricting. I've added an interactive map to compliment Jasmin's piece from Creative Loafing.
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In lieu of previewing the workshop agenda this week, taking a step back to catch up some on other things the Tampa Monitor has worked on and some articles of interest to regular readers.
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A lot of discussion about council's rules. We keep a copy handy for days like this.To our knowledge these are current. a PDF version is linked.
Text from the proposal "RedSpeed meets all of the County's camera technology requirements and is the only vendor utilizing lane-specific, high resolution (3000x5000 pixels, 30 frames per second), video cameras in combi-nation with infra-red (IR) illuminators to maximize the number of violations successfully captured and prosecuted. RedSpeed is proud to offer Flock ALPR and is the only vendor that integrates Flock ALPR into its system so that Flock ALPR is processing RedSpeed camera images.This also means no extra poles, cameras, infrastructure and solar panels cluttering the roadway."
Page 34 of the proposal, in the same paragraph they note "meets all of the County's camera technology requirements" they note the Flock ALPR integration."
Did they confuse GA law here too?
not to mention "significant support to Florida Legislature" as it considered protections to students over last 3 years. They lobbied for the bill that allows these cameras it sounds like. But ok, the Flock stuff was for GA.
They call the information in the proposal cited in the piece "unfortunate confusion" and that the language was meant for Georgia law, not FL. However just below the section they emphasize the Flock integration, they note their "unmatched Florida expertise" and working with FDOT on permit rule making
A memo was sent from TPD Chief Bercaw to council in response to reactions from the piece published this week about the Flock camera integration with the school zone speed cameras.
Post has been updated.
Tampa City Councilwoman Naya Young files for re-election www.cltampa.com/news/tampa-c...
“Integrated Flock means RedSpeed’s cameras are feeding the Wing System for enforcement synergy. “
Do you want the possibility of ICE to have access to live streams from school zones?
Full preview of this week's agenda
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New: Tampa City Council to vote on joining Hillsborough County in installing Flock integrated speed cameras in school zones
while you were watching the game, I published an analysis of the proposed agreement to try and separate rhetoric from specifics.
Approving the CRA services agreement has been delayed a few times as Council/Board member Carlson attempts to make modifications, including offering a substitute agreement. I wanted to know what specifics he was proposing so I deconstructed the two agreements to find the differences.
A look at this week's regular council agenda including budget discussions and 2 votes on park renovations.
Wrap up on last week's SoHo Flood Relief project is up.
Funding questions still remain.
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