What we've done

Seven years. Thirty-eight meetings. Forty-one thousand signatures.

This is the receipts page. Below is what we have actually done, year by year, since 2022 — when our record-keeping became something we were willing to put on a website. Every item below is in our public minutes. Where there is a published vote, we link the roll call.

By the numbers

The cumulative ledger, four columns wide.

184

Public meetings attended in coalition

41,000

Petition signatures collected

12,400

Volunteer hours logged

Local candidates we vetted publicly

Year by year

What we shipped, in chronological order.

The list below is not exhaustive — it is the items the Steering Committee voted, at the January annual meeting, were the ones we most wanted on the wall above the agenda table the following year.

2022

The first scorecard.

Published the inaugural Pinellas school-board candidate scorecard. Six candidates, 14 questions, three forum recordings.
Backed three ballot initiatives: county fire-rescue funding (passed), Largo charter amendment on commission terms (passed), citywide STR moratorium in Indian Rocks Beach (failed by 312 votes).
Hosted the first county-commission watchdog rotation. Twenty-six volunteers covered 31 meetings between July and December.

2023

Childcare on the agenda.

Made free childcare standard at every monthly meeting. Attendance grew 41% in twelve months.
Petition canvass for the abortion-rights amendment crossed 9,400 signatures in Pinellas County alone, exceeding our 8,000 target.
Co-founded the Suncoast Housing Roundtable after the post-Hurricane Ophelia displacement crisis.
First Spanish-language meeting interpreter contract signed. Attendance from Spanish-primary residents tripled by Q4.

2024

The short-term-rental win.

After eleven straight months at the zoning subcommittee, the Pinellas County Commission passed the whole-house STR conversion cap, 5–2. Six coalition members spoke. One wrote the amendment language adopted into the ordinance.
Recruited and vetted candidates in all seven of the targeted local races. Five won.
Published Pinellas Civics Forum series — eight events, average attendance 218.
Founded the Tech & Data team after a year of running the email list on a personal Gmail.

2025

The infrastructure year.

Crossed 2,000 active members. Annual budget grew to $84,000, all from individual donations averaging $37.
Built the rep-contact desk. 1,140 calls and emails logged in twelve months, organized by zip code, sent to commissioners with monthly tally reports.
Coastal Interfaith Council formalized as a standing program with a quarterly meeting cadence.
Election Night civic-education series ran in four library branches. Three hundred attendees across the cycle.

2026

Show up. Speak up. Stay in it.

Through May: 18,000 Amendment 4 petition signatures collected in Pinellas, on pace for 30,000 by June 15.
School-board candidate scorecards on track for July 12 publication, 60 days before the August 18 primary.
FY27 budget watchdog rotation begins August 4. Twenty-four volunteers signed up by mid-May.
Membership crossed 2,400. Twelve new working-group leads onboarded since January.

“We are not the loudest org in Pinellas County. We are the org that shows up to the eleventh consecutive zoning subcommittee meeting and takes notes. The receipts above are a record-keeping problem we solved by hiring nobody and showing up every Tuesday.” — Lena Okafor, Executive Director

The receipts only get longer if you show up.

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