Clerk's Corner
The Clerk's Corner offers you a quick snapshot of what happened in the last month of St. Petersburg City Council meetings, hosted by City Clerk Chan Srinivasa.
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Ribbon Cutting: FreeFab 3D
On Tuesday, May 31, Mayor Kriseman, St. Petersburg Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Chris Steinocher, and the FreeFab 35 team cut the ribbon on their new location. FreeFab 3D is is a team of friends who have come together to design and build 3D printers. Learn more about this great St. Petersburg company
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FY 2017 City Budget Open House
Share your thoughts and priorities with Mayor Rick Kriseman, City Council Members, City Administrators and City Staff.
DATE: Tuesday, June 7, 2016
TIME: 6:00 pm
LOCATION: The Coliseum, 535 Fourth Ave. N.
City Departments represented include City Development, Public Works, St. Petersburg Fire & Rescue, St. Petersburg Police, General Government, Leisure Services, and Neighborhood Affairs. We look forward to seeing you there.
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Public Highlights for the Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and the Sunshine City
June 4 through June 11, 2016
| Saturday, June 4, 9:30 am |
Breakfast with Dali + Tour, Dali Museum Learn more here.
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| Sunday, June 5, 2:00 pm |
St. Pete Opera: La Boheme, Palladium Theater
Learn more here.
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| Sunday, June 5, 2:00 pm |
Music in the Marly Chamber Series, Museum of Fine Arts
Learn more here.
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| Monday, June 6, 5:15 pm |
Mayor Kriseman, Ribbon Cutting at St. Pete Makers, 22nd St. South
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| Tuesday, June 7, 11:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman, CREW Tampa Bay Mayor's Panel at the Economic Summit, Straz Center, Tampa
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| Tuesday, June 7, 6:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman & Deputy Mayor Tomalin, FY17 Budget Open House, Coliseum
Learn more here.
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| Wednesday, June 8, 6:30 pm |
Mayor Kriseman, Kiwanis Club Presentation of Funds for Kiwanis Park
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| Thursday, June 9, 10:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman, Ribbon Cutting at Sun Country Cleaners
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| Thursday, June 9, 7:00 pm |
Borneo's Forest Battle: Palm Oil vs. The Rainforest, Boyd Hill Nature Preserve
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| Saturday, June 11, 9:00 am |
Mayor Kriseman, Habitat Pinellas Dedication of New Home, Sponsored by and broadcast on HSN,
3425 Morris St. North
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| Saturday, June 11, 6:00 pm |
Mayor Kriseman,
2nd Saturday Art Walk 'Gallery Talk' presentation by Esteban Machado Diaz, Cuban artist having his first exhibition on U.S. soil, Morean Arts Center
Learn more here.
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Thursday, June 2
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Sunshine State News: Gun Control Advocates Wear Orange to Stop Gun Violence
Gun control advocates are wearing orange on Thursday to participate in National Gun Violence Awareness Day and the movement has made its way to Florida.
The Wear Orange Campaign was inspired by the friends of a 15-year-old Chicago high school student killed by gunfire in 2013 after performing in Barack Obama's inauguration celebration.
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Thursday, June 2
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Tampa Bay Times: Hillsborough County, city of St. Petersburg tell Tallahassee to end black bear hunt
They may not have any power to change it, but Hillsborough County commissioners took a symbolic and united stance Thursday against the state's black bear hunt..
On the other side of the bay, the St. Petersburg City Council on Thursday also passed a resolution 8-0 opposing the bear hunt. The sponsor of the measure, Council member Karl Nurse, noted the high number of mother bears killed last year that likely lead to the death of many cubs and the next generation of bears.
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Thursday, June 2 |
Tampa Bay Times: St. Petersburg's Kenwood neighborhood earns honor for its revitalization
Historic Kenwood has come a long way since its charming bungalows first captured the rehabbers' imagination a few decades ago.
But skyrocketing sale prices and eager bungalow tourists aren't the only signs of the neighborhood's success.
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Thursday, June 2 |
Tampa Bay Times: St. Petersburg takes grant applications for redevelopment area
Tuesday marked an opening day of sorts for the South St. Petersburg Community Redevelopment Area, which covers neighborhoods in Midtown and Childs Park.
The city began taking applications for grants drawing from the area's tax increment financing revenue, estimated to be about $470,000.
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Thursday, June 2 |
Tampa Bay Times: Panel weighs public artwork for St. Petersburg pier project
Although the demolished inverted pyramid was itself a work of art for some, the new pier will have something the old one did not - actual public art.
A committee appointed by the city's public art commission held its first meeting last week to determine how to spend what could be a minimum of $500,000 on artwork for the Pier District that's scheduled to open in the fall of 2018.
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Tuesday, May 31 |
The Architects Newspaper: Two firms reinvent the pier typology for a gulf-side Florida city
It takes a brave firm-and in St.
Petersburg, Florida, two brave firms-to work on a project from which West 8, BIG, and Michael Maltzan were roundly rejected.
For almost a century, the City of St. Petersburg's pier, in various
incarnations, has attracted residents and tourists to Tampa Bay. Once a fishing pier, amenities were added over time: An inverted pyramid-cum-restaurant from the 1970s, reviled at first, later became a local icon. By the late 2000s, however, the pier was deemed structurally unsound and the city moved to demolish and replace the structure via a national competition.
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