The council voted 6-2 instead on Thursday to have the city press for some way to “elevate St. Petersburg” as the hometown in new stadium negotiations with the baseball team.
ST. PETERSBURG — Picking a chairperson for 2024 was easy. It was the selection of a vice chairperson that took some time at a meeting Thursday. Vice chairperson Deborah Figgs-Sanders was the only member nominated and automatically selected to run the dais next year. It’s customary for the vice chairperson to assume the role of chairperson, and the council usually tries to give every member a .
ST. PETERSBURG — A proposal to include changing the Tampa Bay Rays’ name to the St. Petersburg Rays as part of a publicly financed stadium and redevelopment deal got a rebranding on Thursday. City Council member Gina Driscoll changed the proposal to instead ask Mayor Ken Welch’s administration to “elevate St. Petersburg,” removing language about a team name change. The proposal that was .
ST. PETERSBURG — The City Council was slated to approve another $1.5 million for lawyers and consultants on the Historic Gas Plant redevelopment and a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays. But the council deferred a decision on the bulk of the money — $1.2 million for the St. Petersburg and Pinellas County’s consultant on the deal, Inner Circle Sports — so its members could get more information. .
On the last day of hurricane season, city leaders in St. Petersburg talked about areas that repeatedly see the most flooding, and ways to ease the damage from that flooding.