Mayor Jane Castor presented first-time homebuyer Tamara Virgil with the City of Tampa Housing Department’s first "Welcome Home Tampa" gift basket. Ms. Virgil worked with community partner Solita's House to utilize the City's Dare to Own the Dream Homeownership (DARE) program. Learn more about the City of Tampa’s Housing programs here.

Tampa Mayor Jane Castor looks back on 2020, bets on a better 2021
Tampa Bay Times
Mayor Jane Castor didn’t plan on 2020. But she said the city has survived and even thrived through a pandemic and a related economic downturn, as well as widespread protests against police brutality and racial injustice. And she’s bullish on the future of Florida’s third-largest city.

Jane Castor reminds Tampa to stay safe, ‘extinguish’ COVID-19
Florida Politics
Mayor Jane Castor wants residents to end the year in a safe manner, she urged in a Public Service Announcement ahead of New Year’s Eve.

Tampa's Sustainability and Resiliency Advisory Team Gets to Work
Bay News 9
Since taking office last year, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor has made clear that combating climate change will be a key part of her administration.

Better smelling and tasting water for Tampa? City launches pilot with high hopes
Tampa Bay Times
The city estimates it can save up to $4 million a year in chemicals used to treat the water by switching to suspended ion exchange, which is used early in the water treatment process.

Tampa continues road safety efforts to add rapid flashing beacons and protected bike lanes
ABC Action News
People who walk and bike in Tampa will see changes designed to make them feel safer in 2021, including the addition of new rapid flashing beacons, protected bike lanes, and fixed sidewalks.

COVID-19 vaccines continue to slowly roll out in Tampa Bay
WFLA NewsChannel 8
Hillsborough County will have four locations to distribute the vaccine.

Tampa addresses chronic flooding as climate challenges loom
Tampa Bay Times
Yet as dramatic as the pipe project looks, it’s only the beginning of what Tampa needs to protect itself from changing climate.

Tampa partners with Safe & Sound initiative, urges businesses to operate safely
Florida Politics
The city of Tampa is partnering with the Safe & Sound initiative to encourage local businesses to continue to operate while complying with COVID-19 safety measures.

Politicians of the Year: The Mayors
Florida Politics
Tampa’s first-term Mayor, the first openly gay woman to hold the office, was instrumental not just in shaping the virus response in her city, but in pushing through preventive policies in the early days of the pandemic that might have otherwise languished

Optimism in 2021: Tampa and St. Pete mayors sit-down for a candid conversation
ABC Action News
Both cities are similar and different in their unique ways, just like Castor and Kriseman. And, when it comes to major issues our society faced in 2020, both agree on a lot

Monday, January 4 at 9 a.m.
HILLSBOROUGH AREA REGIONAL TRANSIT BOARD MEETING

Tuesday, January 5 at 4 p.m.
THE HONORABLE NANCY C. MILLAN SWEARING IN & OATH OF OFFICE