On Thursday, May 1, Mayor Kriseman stood with St. Petersburg City Council and members of the community to announce a new Pier Working Group, and a new plan for the St. Petersburg Pier.

 
Learn more about the Mayor's plan for the St. Petersburg Pier at www.stpete.org/theNewPier
  
Mayor's Memo

Friends, 

 

Because transparency is so important, I want to share some highlights from my schedule as well as the schedule of the Deputy Mayor. We hope to see you in the Sunshine City! 
 

 

  Mayor Rick Kriseman

 

 

Mayor Kriseman

Tuesday, May 6, 6:00 p.m.Walker's Rising Star's Annual Scholarship Show
Wednesday, May 7, 11:30 a.m.Mayor's Council of Pinellas County
Wednesday, May 7, 5:30 p.m.Mayor's Youth Council
Friday, May 9, 9:45 a.m.

Walk with Northwest Elementary Students 

Friday, May 9, 11:30 a.m. 

Florida Engineering Society

  

  

Deputy Mayor Tomalin

Tuesday, May 6, 6:00 p.m.

Walker's Rising Star's Annual Scholarship Show

Wednesday, May 7, 7:30 a.m.

Chamber of Commerce Board Meeting

Friday, May 9, 10:30 a.m.Nurse Excellence Awards, Bayfront

     

               

Of Note

Monday, May 5 

Cinco de Mayo

Thursday, May 8V-E Day
Sunday, May 11Mother's Day

  

In The Media
St. Petersburg Tribune 
April 27, 2014
The St. Petersburg Tribune: Hill: Recalling the wonders of St. Pete

 

Someone asked me the other day whether I preferred the old or the new St. Pete. I replied that I love both.

 

But I have to admit that when I go downtown now it's as if I've tripped down the rabbit hole into Wonderland like Alice or somehow - without the tornado - ended up like Dorothy in Oz.

 

I keep hearing myself say to people who are relative newcomers and are either crowing or complaining about something, "When I was a kid ..." Or, "Just a few years ago ..."


Bay News 9
April 27, 2014
Bay News 9: Thousands hit St. Pete waterfront for St. Anthony's Triathlon
 

Thousands of athletes and spectators descended on the St. Petersburg waterfront this morning for the St. Anthony's Triathlon.

 

 One of the biggest events of its kind in the area, the triathlon has professional, elite amateur, amateur and notice divisions. There were even Clydesdale and Athenia divisions for men and women over 220 and 165 pounds, respectively

The St Petersburg TribuneApril 27, 2014
The St. Petersburg Tribune: Survivors speak in St. Pete to mark Holocaust Remembrance Day
 

It's been 71 years since Jerry Rawicki's life was saved by a stranger he met on the beach, yet he can still remember the way he felt as he ambled through the sand in Warsaw, Poland that day in May.

 

"I was completely despondent, not knowing if I was going to survive another hour," Rawicki said. "Outside of the Jewish ghetto I was just a vulnerable animal. It just happened to be that the stars were aligned that day and I was saved."


Tampa Bay Times
April 29, 2014
Tampa Bay Times: St. Petersburg ArtWalk now includes nearly 50 venues
 

Not too far in the past, so the local cliche goes, you could fire a cannonball almost anywhere at night in downtown St. Petersburg and not find a human target. Today, a melee would ensue, so busy have the thoroughfares near the waterfront become. But even as bustle becomes the norm with so many varied entertainment opportunities, ArtWalk, which began more than two decades ago in different form, remains the signature monthly event that prides itself on its cultural richness.


MyFOX Tampa Bay
April 29, 2014
MyFOX Tampa Bay: New push to rehab old houses in St. Petersburg

 

There are roughly 800 boarded up houses in St. Petersburg right now, and they are usually not appreciated by surrounding neighbors.

 

There used to be one behind Rose Couch's home in the Palmetto Park neighborhood.

 

"We fought with them, the police, we fought with housing, we fought with them, it was about three or four years before they even tore that house down," Couch recalled Tuesday afternoon. "It brings the neighborhood down."

 

St. Petersburg Tribune
April 30, 2014
The St. Petersburg Tribune: At-risk Pinellas sixth-graders get college scholarships
 

ST. PETERSBURG - Ian Graham sat beside his mother under the twink�ling lights of The Coliseum on Tuesday, clutching a certificate that will one day pay for his college education.

 

His mother, Javon Graham, held the folder full of contracts and requirements necessary to ensure he keeps it.  

 

"This means everything to us; it's inspiring and gives us something to look forward to," Javon Graham said.


MyFOX Tampa Bay 
April 30, 2014

MyFOX Tampa Bay: St. Pete Pier has one last shot at survivial


St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman revealed Thursday his plan for a next-generation pier.
 

Last fall, Kriseman defeated former mayor Bill Foster, the last mayor tackling the issue.

 

"The bottom line is, it's not going to be telling the public this is what you're going to have to choose from," said Kriseman.


Tampa Bay Times
May 1, 2014

Tampa Bay Times: Kriseman announces plan for selecting a new pier


ST. PETERSBURG - With the inverted pyramid rising in the background and flanked by a group of hand-picked residents, Mayor Rick Kriseman announced Thursday how he hopes to resuscitate efforts to renovate or replace the city's century-plus tradition of a downtown pier.

 

His newly released timeline makes it official that there will be no pier before 2017 - two years later than a promised campaign deadline. It's more important to get it done correctly than quickly, he said.

 

"We're going to do this the right way," he told those gathered at Spa Beach to hear his plan. "Form will follow function."


Tampa Bay Times
May 1, 2014

Tampa Bay Times Editorial: Moving forward on a new pier


The optics were perfect. With swaying palm trees on St. Petersburg's downtown waterfront as a backdrop, an optimistic Mayor Rick Kriseman, flanked by supporters and opponents of the last Pier replacement effort and every City Council member, described in broad terms Thursday his plan to build a new pier by 2017. Now the hard work begins. Kriseman is banking that a concentrated, high-profile outreach effort over the next nine months will inoculate the eventual pier choice from the type of backlash that killed the previous pier plan pushed by his predecessor. That is going to require the help and cooperation of everyone who stood with the mayor for the new effort.

 

Recycling Arrowd
Tampa Bay Times
May 3, 2014

Tampa Bay Times: St. Petersburg has a fruitful year in Tallahassee

 

Art O'Hara didn't have any expectations last fall when he asked legislators if they would help him get $122,500 to expand the Louise Graham Regeneration Center, a local nonprofit that gives developmentally disabled adults jobs in the recycling industry.

Quote of the Week

 

"By working together we can demonstrate to our citizens that the 'Sun Shines Here!"

 

Thomas Kinkel, Billing & Collections. Mr. Kinkel was instrumental in helping a St. Petersburg citizen get her water turned back on.  

 

Tweet of the Week

 


 

 
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City of St. Petersburg
 
175 5th Street North 
St. Petersburg, FL 33701 
Phone: 727-893-7201

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