DUNEDIN – The city could cut 18 full-time positions from its fiscal 2009 budget to make up for an expected $2.6 million revenue shortfall. In an interview today, City Manager Robert DiSpirito said the city has everything it could to prevent having to lay off any employees. The amount of property tax revenue the city will lose next fiscal year to state-mandated property tax rate cuts is so large, however, he will be forced to recommend staff reductions, DiSpirito said. ...more

June 26, 2008

The city council Thursday approved Mayor Rick Baker's recommendation to select an Arlington, Va.-based company for the potential redevelopment of Tropicana Field. ...more

June 20, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG - The city council today approved Mayor Rick Baker's recommendation to select an Arlington, Va.-based company for the potential redevelopment of Tropicana Field. ...more

June 19, 2008

Less than 50 cents a month. That's how much extra city residents and business owners would have been paying under a proposal to increase the annual street-lighting fee by 22 percent this year. ...more

June 19, 2008

City council members are planning to increase street-lighting fees this year by about 22 percent to keep Pasco County's largest city illuminated at night. ...more

June 17, 2008

Mayor Rick Baker is recommending a Virginia-based developer to transform Tropicana Field and its parking lots into a massive mixed-use community of shops, restaurants, offices, hotels and residences. ...more

June 14, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG -- Mayor Rick Baker is recommending a Virginia-based developer to transform Tropicana Field and its parking lots into a massive mixed-use community of shops, restaurants, offices, hotels and residences. In a memo today to the city council, Baker said he concurs with the recommendation of his staff to select Archstone-Madison over the Tampa Bay Rays' preferred developer, Houston-based Hines Interests. ...more

June 13, 2008

Residents will get their first look at a final plan and map of a future neighborhood of mixed residential and commercial uses, pedestrian-friendly walkways and public green spaces. ...more

June 11, 2008

ST. PETERSBURG The city council this morning rejected a hastily proposed ballot measure for November that could have blocked the Tampa Bay Rays' plans for a $450 million downtown stadium. ...more

June 5, 2008

It was a small increase, but an increase just the same. Faced with rising energy costs to keep New Port Richey illuminated at night, city staff had recommended the city council raise the street-lighting fee by 22 percent. ...more

June 5, 2008