{"id":857,"date":"2026-09-13T17:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/copley-gerdes-st-petersburg-city-council-district-1\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:00:52","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:00:52","slug":"copley-gerdes-st-petersburg-city-council-district-1","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/copley-gerdes-st-petersburg-city-council-district-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Copley Gerdes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Copley Gerdes is the St. Petersburg City Council, District 1. One of eight council members who write city ordinances, approve the mayor&#8217;s budget, set property tax rates and vote on rezonings and land deals. District 1 covers northeast St. Pete, and Gerdes is elected only by voters in that district but votes on everything citywide.<\/p>\n<p>Term ending January 2029; not on the ballot in 2026<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Re-elected in 2024 and sworn in January 2, 2025; served as 2025 Council Chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copley Gerdes is the St. Petersburg City Council, District 1. One of eight council members who write city ordinances, approve the mayor&#8217;s budget, set property tax rates and vote on rezonings and land deals. District 1 covers northeast St. Pete, and Gerdes is elected only by voters in that district[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":858,"menu_order":402,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-857","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_politics"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}