NEWS & UPDATES
Pinellas County Schools Need You!!
Ongoing. (The next School Board meeting is December 12, 10:30 start, 301 4th St SW (Largo))
Want to help support strong public schools? More and more ways to do that are being uplifted every day, and we need to work together across organizations and across Pinellas County. Join us by registering here to help: create a consistent presence at School Board meetings and workshops, meet with School Board members and Pinellas Schools administrators, learn about and participate in community efforts to support our neighborhood schools, and more! If you’re working with another group to advocate for our public schools, join us so we can connect and coordinate for future pro-public education opportunities!
Resident Town Hall: Housing Promises from Past to Present
Resident Town Hall: Housing Promises from Past to Present: A screening of Rise of the Rays: A Devil of a Story and a discussion of the effects redevelopment has on community members of St. Petersburg.
Where: Enoch Davis Recreation Center, St. Petersburg
When: Tuesday, December 5th @ 6pm
Registration Link:
https://forms.gle/E41QmYwLtCE8jd6v7
Florida Needs the Right to Clean and Healthy Waters
The clean water amendment petition failed to get enough petitions to be reviews by the state Supreme Court for the 2024 ballot.
Florida Right To Clean Water is already planning to re-start the petition process for the 2026 ballot. There will be a new petition circulated when they do so please sign the amendment petition when it comes around again.
A New Ballot Measure for 2024: The Constitutional Right to Abortion Access
Breaking news this week (11/28/23):
Floridians Protecting Freedom (FPF) has announced we no longer need to collect petitions from the entire state.
Instead, we must center our collection efforts on specific Congressional Districts, where more petitions are needed to satisfy geographic diversity requirements.
As such, all efforts supporting the FPF ballot initiative have shifted to these Congressional Districts, three of which are in/near Tampa Bay (highlighted):
Dist. Major Cities
2. Tallahassee, Panama City, Crawford, Panama City Beach
3. Gainesville, Ocala, Newberry, Alachua
7. Oviedo, Port Orange, Longwood, New Smyrna Beach, Sanford
9. South Orlando, Kissimmee, St.Cloud
15. North Tampa/University, Lutz, Temple Terrace, Lakeland, Wesley Chapel
16 Bradenton, Riverview, Sun City Center, Valrico
17. Sarasota, Venice, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda
21. Port St. Lucie, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, West Palm Beach
22. Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Lake Worth
23 Boca Raton, Ft Lauderdale, Coral Springs
If you can collect petitions in any of these areas please help us get this on the ballot. Blank petitions are still available at the St. Petersburg Hub for those collecting petitions in the above areas and it is still a drop-off location.
Floridians Protecting Freedom (FPF) has announced we no longer need to collect petitions from the entire state.
Instead, we must center our collection efforts on specific Congressional Districts, where more petitions are needed to satisfy geographic diversity requirements.
As such, all efforts supporting the FPF ballot initiative have shifted to these Congressional Districts, three of which are in/near Tampa Bay (highlighted):
Dist. Major Cities
2. Tallahassee, Panama City, Crawford, Panama City Beach
3. Gainesville, Ocala, Newberry, Alachua
7. Oviedo, Port Orange, Longwood, New Smyrna Beach, Sanford
9. South Orlando, Kissimmee, St.Cloud
15. North Tampa/University, Lutz, Temple Terrace, Lakeland, Wesley Chapel
16 Bradenton, Riverview, Sun City Center, Valrico
17. Sarasota, Venice, Port Charlotte, Punta Gorda
21. Port St. Lucie, Jupiter, Palm Beach Gardens, West Palm Beach
22. Boynton Beach, Delray Beach, Lake Worth
23 Boca Raton, Ft Lauderdale, Coral Springs
If you can collect petitions in any of these areas please help us get this on the ballot. Blank petitions are still available at the St. Petersburg Hub for those collecting petitions in the above areas and it is still a drop-off location.
