Tampa City Council Members — Tampa, Florida

The Tampa City Council is the legislative branch of Tampa's municipal government, operating within a strong-mayor structure in which the mayor serves as Chief Executive Officer and the council enacts the ordinances and resolutions administered by the executive branch, as documented on the City of Tampa's City Council page (updated January 21, 2026). The council comprises seven members, each elected from one of seven geographic districts, and convenes at City Hall, located at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, Third Floor, Tampa, Florida 33602.

As of the City of Tampa's department page updated April 28, 2026, all seven seats are filled. The current members are Alan Clendenin (District 1, Chair), Guido Maniscalco (District 2), Lynn Hurtak (District 3), Bill Carlson (District 4), Naya Young (District 5), Charlie Miranda (District 6), and Luis Viera (District 7). Mayor Jane Castor — the 59th Mayor of Tampa — and all seven Council members were sworn in for new four-year terms in April 2025, according to the City of Tampa.

The City of Tampa's City Council department page, updated April 28, 2026, identifies the seven seated members representing Tampa's seven geographic districts. Alan Clendenin represents District 1 and holds the position of Chair. Guido Maniscalco represents District 2. Lynn Hurtak represents District 3. Bill Carlson represents District 4. Naya Young represents District 5. Charlie Miranda represents District 6. Luis Viera represents District 7.

The district-based structure means each council member is accountable to a defined portion of Tampa's population of 393,389 — a figure documented by the U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2023 — rather than to the city at large. This geographic design ensures that neighborhoods across Tampa's diverse urban footprint, from East Tampa to the Interbay Peninsula, are represented by a specifically elected legislator.

Tampa operates under a strong-mayor form of government, as described on the City of Tampa Mayor's Office page. In this framework, the mayor holds executive authority — directing department heads, administering ordinances and resolutions, and serving as the city's Chief Executive Officer — while the City Council functions as the independent legislative branch. The council's role is to enact those ordinances and resolutions that the executive branch then implements.

The seven-district structure divides Tampa's geography so that each member is directly accountable to a constituency within the city's boundaries. The council offices are located at City Hall, 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, Third Floor, with contact information and office hours maintained on the City Council About Us page. This separation of legislative and executive authority is a defining feature of Tampa's civic architecture, distinguishing it from council-manager cities elsewhere in Florida where a professional city manager rather than an elected mayor holds executive power.

Mayor Jane Castor, who first assumed office in 2019 and was sworn in for a second four-year term in 2025, is documented by the City of Tampa Mayor's Office as a lifelong Tampa resident and University of Tampa alumna. The council and the mayor collectively shape Tampa's municipal policy, with the council holding ordinance-making authority and the mayor holding administrative execution authority.

The Tampa City Council selects its own Chair from among the seven members. District 1 member Alan Clendenin first assumed the Chair position in May 2025 and was subsequently re-elected to the role by his colleagues, according to Florida Politics. The re-election followed an earlier period of internal tension: Florida Politics reported in 2026 that a dispute had arisen between then-Chair Guido Maniscalco (District 2) and Council member Bill Carlson (District 4), which preceded Clendenin's elevation to the Chair position. Florida Politics described Clendenin's re-election as signaling stability following that prior dispute.

The Chair's role within the council is primarily procedural — presiding over council sessions and managing the legislative agenda — while substantive policy authority is distributed equally across all seven members. The internal selection of the Chair by council peers, rather than by a separate election or mayoral appointment, reflects standard municipal practice under Tampa's governmental structure.

In April 2026, the Tampa Bay Times reported that District 4 Council member Bill Carlson announced a candidacy for Tampa Mayor in the March 2027 election. As of that reporting, eleven candidates had filed for the race. Carlson's candidacy, if he advances it while serving on the council, places his District 4 seat among those to watch as the 2027 electoral cycle proceeds.

The council also operates within a broader mayoral context that has been active in spring 2026. On May 5, 2026, Mayor Castor delivered the 2026 State of the City address from the Fair Oaks Recreation Complex in East Tampa — a facility identified in the City of Tampa's official news release as Tampa's newest community centerpiece — emphasizing investment in underground utilities, parks, and affordable housing under the theme 'Built to Last.' The address noted that one year remains in Castor's current second term.

On May 7, 2026, Mayor Castor participated in the final meeting of the federal FEMA Review Council, a body established January 24, 2025, and comprising state governors, emergency management directors, and disaster response experts, per the City of Tampa. That federal engagement reflects the intergovernmental context within which Tampa's council-mayor government operates, particularly following major weather and emergency events affecting the Gulf Coast.

Earlier, in November 2025, the City of Tampa and the Ybor City Community Redevelopment Agency responded to a vehicle crash in Ybor City on November 8, 2025, advancing street repaving and new safety measures for the district, according to the Mayor's Office news archive. Such infrastructure responses typically involve both executive-branch agencies and council-enacted appropriations or resolutions.

Tampa residents participate in the City Council's legislative process primarily through public comment periods at council meetings, direct contact with individual district representatives, and monitoring of council agendas and meeting records. The City of Tampa's City Council About Us page documents the council's physical office location at 315 East Kennedy Boulevard, Third Floor, along with contact information and office hours for the council as a whole.

Because each of the seven council members represents a specific geographic district, residents interact with the council most directly through their district's seated member. District boundaries determine representation: a resident in East Tampa falls under the purview of a different council member than one in the Interbay Peninsula or South Tampa. The district-based model is intended to ensure that localized concerns — zoning decisions, neighborhood infrastructure, park investment — reach a specifically accountable legislator rather than a generalized at-large body.

Council decisions on ordinances and resolutions affect a broad range of municipal functions. The 2025 swearing-in of Mayor Castor and all seven council members, documented by the City of Tampa, initiated a four-year term during which the council's legislative agenda is expected to address parks, arts, transportation, and infrastructure — priorities that Mayor Castor articulated at that time. Residents tracking these policy areas are served by the City of Tampa's official news releases, council meeting agendas, and the department page maintained at the City of Tampa's website.