{"id":869,"date":"2026-09-13T17:01:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/corey-givens-jr-st-petersburg-city-council-district-7\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:17","slug":"corey-givens-jr-st-petersburg-city-council-district-7","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/corey-givens-jr-st-petersburg-city-council-district-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Corey Givens Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Givens Jr. is the St. Petersburg City Council, District 7. 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 7 covers the historically Black neighborhoods of south St. Pete, including much of the area around the Gas Plant\/Tropicana Field redevelopment site.<\/p>\n<p>Term ending January 2029; not on the ballot in 2026<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>First elected in 2024 and sworn in January 2, 2025, succeeding John Muhammad, who had been appointed to the seat in October 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corey Givens Jr. is the St. Petersburg City Council, District 7. 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 7 covers the historically Black neighborhoods of south St. Pete, including much of the[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":870,"menu_order":408,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-869","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/869","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\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}