St. Petersburg officials continue exploring ways to express the city’s diversity and inclusivity without drawing the ire of state leadership. Many stakeholders are ready for action.

During an Oct. 23 Committee of the Whole meeting, Council member Gina Driscoll told her colleagues that if they moved high-visibility concepts forward with unity rather than disagreement, they would “arrive at a really great place” by the end of the discussion. She apologized to the community an hour later for a “Bermuda Triangle of bureaucracy” impeding those efforts.

“I was expecting that today, two months after we started this saga, something would be coming; something was imminent,” Driscoll said. “I cannot stress enough the urgency that has been communicated about responding to this.”

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