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Residents press council for public‑power study, more Complete Streets funding and clarification on arts grant changes
Summary
During open forum residents urged the council to fund a feasibility study for public power, ask for larger Complete Streets allocations and raised concerns that SPIFFS had been excluded from this year's cultural arts application process; councilmembers pledged to review eligibility criteria and said staff would follow up.
Several residents used the open‑forum period to press the council on three recurring themes: investigation of municipal/public power options, increased local funding for Complete Streets projects, and concerns that the Saint Petersburg International Folk Fair Society (SPIFFS) was excluded from this year’s cultural‑arts grant application process.
Marley Price urged the council to "end the Clean Energy Connection Grama and allocate those funds to a feasibility study for public…
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