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St. Pete Beach proposes five‑workshop budget calendar and stronger finance review role
Summary
Finance Director Devin Schmidt proposed a multi‑session FY2026 budget calendar with a finance budget review committee to improve transparency and community engagement; commissioners flagged a dates discrepancy and praised the committee approach.
Devin Schmidt, St. Pete Beach finance director, presented a proposed FY2026 budget calendar that would replace a single lengthy retreat with five shorter workshops and a defined role for a finance budget review committee.
Schmidt told the commission the calendar and committee are intended to increase transparency and community engagement across the budget process and to produce iterative recommendations for the commission. Under the…
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