An independent look at New Port Richey city government happenings. We're reading 604 public meetings, 6,729 agenda items, and 76,860 budget lines so you don't have to. Records back to 2015. Most recent meeting: Tue, Jun 2, 2026.
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On first reading, City Council approved Ordinance No. 2026-2355, updating which nonprofits can pour at events held on city property.
The change loosens, or at least reshapes, the rules governing nonprofit alcohol permits at venues like Sims Park and Peace Hall. Council member Altman pushed back on the scope, asking for "some guardrails" and arguing that when the city foots the bill for an event, "we should…
Fresh: budgets, spikes, and decisions in motion.
On May 5, City Council passed Ordinance No. 2026-2339, locking in a renewed franchise deal with Clearwater Gas.
On second reading, City Council approved Ordinance No. 2026-2356, vacating a section of High Street between Aspen Street and Grand Boulevard.
On May 5, the City Council approved Ordinance No. 2026-2357, giving up a strip of public right-of-way along Grand Boulevard.
Altman appeared 14 times in the past 90 days, against an expected 0.5 at his lifetime pace.
Patterns, recurring topics, and long-running relationships.
New Port Richey's budget grew from $56,025,840 in FY16-17 to $101,460,210 in FY25-26, an 81.1 percent jump across ten fiscal years. The city now spends roughly $45 million more each year than it did less than a decade ago. Where did it go, and what drove the climb?
Six outside entities account for 533 mentions across the city's public meeting record, with Pasco County alone clocking 135.
Six unpaid advisory boards account for 298 references across a decade of city records, with the Land Development Review Board (LDRB) leading at 83 and the Cultural Affairs Committee close behind at 63.
The downtown park has drawn 321 separate mentions across 214 distinct public meetings spanning 10.7 years, making it one of the most discussed locations in the city's records.
The line item, parked under account code 4006 in the Community Redevelopment Agency Fund, is among the largest single allocations in this year's budget.
New Port Richey publishes thousands of pages of public records every year: agenda PDFs, video transcripts, budget books. They're technically open but can be complicated to digest. We scraped them, indexed them, and surface what's actually changing.
The bodies covered: City Council; the Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA), which funds redevelopment from property-tax growth in a defined district; the Land Development Review Board (LDRB), which reviews zoning and site-plan changes; and Work Sessions, the council's pre-meeting briefings without formal votes.