{"id":881,"date":"2026-09-13T17:01:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/chris-latvala-pinellas-county-commissioner-district-5-single-member\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:01:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:01:42","slug":"chris-latvala-pinellas-county-commissioner-district-5-single-member","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/chris-latvala-pinellas-county-commissioner-district-5-single-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Latvala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Latvala is the Pinellas County Commissioner, District 5 (Single-Member). County commissioners set the county property tax rate, pass the county budget and write ordinances covering unincorporated Pinellas and countywide services like transit, the jail budget, beach renourishment and tourist-tax spending. As 2026 vice chair he fills in for the chair. District 5 is a single-member seat covering mid-county around Clearwater and Largo.<\/p>\n<p>Term ending November 2028; not on the ballot in 2026<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>2026 board Vice Chairman. Former state representative, elected to the commission in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Latvala is the Pinellas County Commissioner, District 5 (Single-Member). County commissioners set the county property tax rate, pass the county budget and write ordinances covering unincorporated Pinellas and countywide services like transit, the jail budget, beach renourishment and tourist-tax spending. As 2026 vice chair he fills in for the[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":882,"menu_order":505,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-881","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/881","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\/882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}