On Thursday, June 26, Mayor Kriseman was joined by Deputy Mayor Kanika Tomalin, City Council Member Darden Rice, and City LGBT Liaison Robert Danielson and St. Petersburg Police LGBT Liaison Markus Hughes Kriseman to raise the Pride Flag over the City Hall grounds for the first time ever. The flag will proudly fly for the duration of the St. Pete Pride festivities this weekend.

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

Mayor Kriseman will be on vacation the week of June 30.

Deputy Mayor Tomalin

Monday, June 30, 6:30 pm	Pier Public Input Session, Lake Vista Rec. Center 1401 62nd Avenue South
Wednesday, July 2, 6:30 pm	Pier Public Input Session, JW Cate Recreation Center 5801 22nd Avenue North

Of Note

Tuesday, July 1	Mayor's Budget Submitted to City Council
Friday, July 4	Independence Day Please Note: city offices will be closed.

In The Media:

June 24, 2014

Tampa Bay Times: St. Petersburg EMS contract deal reached, but others remain

County commissioners unanimously approved a three-year deal with St. Petersburg on the funding of emergency medical services.

While Tuesday's deal at least temporarily quiets the battles with that city over EMS funding, it leaves unresolved money issues with the other 17 cities and fire districts that provide first-response EMS.

June 24, 2014

Tampa Bay Times: Tampa and St. Petersburg mayors say cities' futures are linked

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman and Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn have known each other since the early 1990s, bonding over policy discussions at the Democratic Leadership Council, a Bill Clinton-era bastion of the moderate, pro-business side of the party.

Buckhorn was an assistant to then-Tampa Mayor Sandy Freedman. Kriseman hadn't been elected to anything yet.

June 24, 2014

Tampa Bay Times: St. Pete Pride expands with more days, bigger acts, new night parade

Already one of the largest celebrations of gay pride in the United States, St. Pete Pride is getting even bigger in a year of firsts.

The biggest change is the first night parade on Saturday, with the St. Petersburg mayor in attendance for the first time. Pride also expands to four days, with a kickoff party Thursday and a concert on Friday by Mary Lambert, the Seattle singer-songwriter whose work on the Macklemore and Ryan Lewis gay rights anthem Same Love soared to the top of the charts worldwide. It ends with a festival on Sunday.

June 25, 2014

Bay News 9: Mayor Kriseman to march in St. Pete Pride Parade

St. Petesburg Mayor Rick Kriseman will be the first mayor in the city's history to march in the annual Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Parade.

The parade kicks off at Georgi's Alibi on 31st Street North on Saturday at dusk.

June 25, 2014

Suncoast News: Suncoast mayors boost public transit

Four area mayors, including Rick Kriseman of St. Petersburg and Bob Buckhorn of Tampa, talked up the benefits of well-funded public transit Tuesday, but the audience did not lack its usual critics.

A proposed penny-per-dollar sales tax increase to fund a sweeping public transit overhaul in Pinellas County is seen as a cure to local gridlock that will attract a younger workforce to some and a waste of

June 26, 2014

Creative Loafing Tampa Bay: Let the sun shine

"I've been the ghostwriter at City Hall for 30 years," says Robert Danielson, marketing director for the city of St. Petersburg. In that role, one of his duties is to write proclamations on subjects like National Drinking Water Week.

But the LGBT Pride Month proclamation, which Mayor Rick Kriseman read at a June 12 City Council meeting - that one was different.

June 26, 2014

Tampa Bay Times: In a first, rainbow flag raised over St. Petersburg City Hall

St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman presided over the raising of the gay pride flag Thursday morning at City Hall.

The rainbow flag will be flown in front of City Hall for most of the weekend, and the mayor himself will attend the June 28 parade.

June 26, 2014

St. Petersburg Tribune: St. Pete raises rainbow flag to usher in LGBT festival

For the first time in the city's history, a rainbow flag flies over City Hall.

Mayor Rick Kriseman hoisted the symbol of LGBT pride this morning to usher in the St. Pete Pride parade and festival and related events taking place this weekend.

June 26, 2014

Tampa Bay Business Journal: Big stars expected at Blue Ocean Film Fest in St. Pete

A film festival that featured "Titanic" filmmaker James Cameron, Prince Albert II of Monaco and "Battlestar Galactica" actor Edward James Olmos in past years will make its St. Petersburg debut this fall.

Blue Ocean Film Festival & Conservation Summit, a celebration of movies, art and ocean advocacy, is scheduled Nov. 3-9.

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