Tampa City Council Meetings: Schedule, Agendas and How to Watch

Tampa City Council meets on Thursdays, with regular sessions at 9:00 a.m. on the 1st and 3rd Thursdays and evening zoning sessions at 6:00 p.m. on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month.

The pattern above comes from the council's information page, which also says every council meeting is open to the public and that the council or the CRA may schedule additional meetings (City Council Information Resources). On a 2nd Thursday the same members can sit twice: in the morning as the CRA board and in the evening for zoning.

Members of Tampa City Council serve as the Community Redevelopment Agency board, which covers eight areas: Central Park, Channel District, Downtown, Drew Park, East Tampa, Tampa Heights Riverfront, West Tampa and Ybor City (City of Tampa CRA). Special Discussion and Standing Committee meetings are called as needed before a regular session and meet in the Mascotte Room (City of Tampa).

Upcoming dates appear as formal notices on the council page. In October 2026 it listed a quasi-judicial evening meeting on October 8 at 5:01 p.m. and a regular agenda meeting on October 15 at 9:00 a.m. (Tampa City Council); the notice for October 15 was posted on 10/08/2026 (City of Tampa notice).

Tampa City Council meets in the City Council Chambers on the 3rd floor of Old City Hall at 315 East Kennedy Blvd. in downtown Tampa, and since March 17, 2022 the public may also take part virtually (City of Tampa).

The council office shares the building: City Hall, 3rd floor, phone 813-274-8131, open Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Tampa City Council). Requests for a disability accommodation go to the Office of the City Clerk at (813) 274-8397 at least forty-eight hours before the meeting, citing the Americans with Disabilities Act and section 286.26 of the Florida Statutes (council information page).

For parking, the council information page points to the Fort Brooke Garage at 107 N Franklin St, entered from East Whiting Street, South Franklin Street or South Florida Avenue, and to on-street parking along East Kennedy Boulevard, East Jackson Street and North Florida Avenue (City of Tampa). Drivers showing a valid disabled parking placard or plate may use any on-street space free during City Council sessions, with no pay station or app needed.

One practical warning: the parking rates printed on the council page date from its last update on 10/01/2023 and no longer match the city's rate table. The Parking Division's table, updated 10/13/2025, lists Ft. Brooke at $3 for the first hour, $3 for each hour after and an $18 daily maximum, and downtown on-street parking at $4 for the first hour and $3 for each hour after (City of Tampa Parking Division).

Tampa City Council agendas, minutes and supporting documents are published in Agenda Online, which moved to tampagov.hylandcloud.com/251agendaonline, and saved links to the old address no longer work (Tampa City Council).

The portal's front page lists upcoming meetings for the next 60 days, and a Recent tab holds the meetings concluded in the past 60 days (Agenda Online FAQ). Older material is under the Meetings tab with a custom date range, and Agenda Online keeps City Council meetings dating back 10 years. Searches cap results at 100 items, so a narrow date range or an exact phrase in quotation marks works better.

Text search covers only part of the archive: all Tampa meeting agendas from November 2023 to the present are full text indexed, and older agendas are still being indexed (City of Tampa). Each agenda item links to a cover sheet giving the full title, background, a fiscal impact statement when one applies and the item's approval history, plus attachments such as the ordinance or contract itself. Older meetings may only offer an agenda packet, a single PDF that can run past a thousand pages.

OnBase, the cloud application behind Agenda Online, goes through routine maintenance every week, which can slow the portal or limit access for a time (Tampa City Council). Paper copies of draft, final and action agendas remain available in the Office of the City Clerk (council information page).

CTTV, the City of Tampa channel, carries regular council meetings live on Thursdays at 9:00 a.m. and replays them on Thursday evenings, Saturday afternoons and Wednesday mornings (City of Tampa).

The Tampa council replay slots are Thursdays at 6:00 p.m., Saturdays at 1:00 p.m., Wednesdays at 8:30 a.m. and Thursday through Monday nights at midnight.

Evening zoning meetings replay on CTTV on Sundays at 8:00 a.m. and on Tuesday and Wednesday nights at midnight (council information page). The channel is also streamed online around the clock, with the same programming as the cable channel (CTTV LIVE). The Office of Cable Communications answers questions about meeting video at 813-274-8217.

Channel numbers on the city's own pages disagree. The council information page still lists Channel 615 on Bright House Networks and Channel 15 on Verizon, while the newer Tampa virtual meeting page lists Spectrum Channel 640 and Frontier Channel 15 and gives (813) 274-3100 for help (City of Tampa). The streaming page is the dependable route for anyone unsure of the cable number.

Routine Tampa business rides on the consent agenda, the committee portion of the agenda, where items pass together in one motion unless a councilmember or a member of the public asks to address one (City of Tampa).

Each Tampa councilmember is assigned a committee and reviews its items before the meeting; any item pulled from the consent agenda is then taken up separately (council information page). A noticed hearing can drop off the agenda when a petition is incomplete, so the Office of the City Clerk suggests calling any time four days before the hearing to confirm it will go ahead.

State law sets the outer frame. Section 286.011 makes meetings of a city board at which official acts are taken public at all times, says no formal action is binding unless taken at such a meeting, and requires reasonable notice and promptly recorded minutes (Florida Statutes 286.011). For a Tampa ordinance, section 166.041 calls for reading by title or in full on at least 2 separate days and newspaper notice at least 10 days before adoption, and an adopted ordinance takes effect 10 days after passage unless it provides otherwise (Florida Statutes 166.041).

Quasi-judicial and legislative (plan amendment) hearings run as hybrid public hearings. Applicants and their representatives must register no later than 2 business days before the hearing, and other members of the public no later than 1 business day before, to join through video teleconferencing (City of Tampa). The separate Tampa guide on speaking at City Council covers public comment time limits and speaker waivers.

The Office of the City Clerk, led by City Clerk Shirley Foxx-Knowles, maintains the official records of the City of Tampa, including official actions of the city council (Office of the City Clerk).

The Clerk's office is at 315 E. Kennedy Blvd., Tampa, FL 33602, phone (813) 274-8397.

A records gap matters for anyone tracing a recent Tampa vote: the city is moving to a new document storage application, and during the transition the Public Access Viewer shows only results dated before June 26, 2025 (City of Tampa). Ordinances and resolutions adopted after June 26, 2025 have to be requested from the Clerk's office by email until the new system is complete.

Formal public records requests go through the city's GovQA portal, and questions about a request go to [email protected] or (813) 274-8030 (Office of the City Clerk). Agenda Online remains the quicker route for agendas and minutes from the last 10 years (Agenda Online FAQ).

Last verified: October 14, 2026, on the City of Tampa website.