{"id":4202,"date":"2025-10-15T06:50:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/4202\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T06:50:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:50:38","slug":"st-pete-council-member-proposes-new-city-flag-variations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/4202\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete council member proposes new city flag variations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014\u00a0A St. Pete City Council Member is proposing the city fly two new flags at city facilities during appropriate times of the year.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Council Member Gina Driscoll has proposed two new city flag variations<br \/>\n<br \/>The flags are called the harmony flag and the history flag<br \/>\n<br \/>The proposal will be discussed at the next St. Pete City Council meeting<\/p>\n<p>They feature the city seal laid over the progressive pride rainbow and Black history colors.<\/p>\n<p>Council Member Gina Driscoll said the idea for the variations came from out of state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got the idea from some action that was taken earlier this year in Salt Lake City,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The flags are called the harmony flag and the history flag.<\/p>\n<p>This proposal comes after the rainbow street mural and \u201cBlack History Matters\u201d mural <a href=\"https:\/\/baynews9.com\/fl\/tampa\/news\/2025\/08\/30\/2-men-arrested--accused-of-blocking-fdot-crews-from-painting-over-mural\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were covered by the state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>However, Driscoll said she\u2019s had this idea for a while.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hurt a lot of people,\u201d she said. \u201cMaybe these flags won\u2019t fix everything, but I think it can bring a new sense of what St. Petersburg means to the people that live here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum News reached out to Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019 office to find out how they feel about this proposal.<\/p>\n<p>They sent a statement that said, \u201cThere is already a flag that recognizes \u2018all people,\u2019 it\u2019s called the Florida Flag.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spectrum also reached out to the artist who designed the flags, Andrea Pawlisz.<\/p>\n<p>She sent this statement: \u201cIt was important to design these flags to continue to recognize all the people and to validate artists as a part of this city that we call the city of arts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is on the agenda at the next St. Pete City Council meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting is on Thursday and begins at 3 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014\u00a0A St. Pete City Council Member is proposing the city fly two new flags at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2287,4628,115,596,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,835],"class_list":["post-4202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-local-politics","tag-matt-lackritz","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}