The project
About Burg's Eye View
Why this exists
What St. Petersburg's council, committees, and commissions decide, about your street, your water bill, your neighborhood, is all public record. But it's scattered across agenda PDFs, video archives, and meeting minutes that take hours to piece together. Most people find out about a change only when it's too late to weigh in.
Burg's Eye View closes that gap: the City's own public record, made readily accessible and easily digestible.
Who's behind it
Burg's Eye View is an independent, resident-run project, run as a for-profit LLC. It is not affiliated with, run by, or endorsed by the City of St. Petersburg. The work is to make the data and records from our City readable and easier to reference when you need information.
It's built and edited by Brad Falbo, a St. Petersburg resident. The project started from a simple frustration: decisions that reshape a community shouldn't be buried in bureaucracy and require hours of research to digest.
Nobody draws a salary from it: the reporting is done on volunteered time, and donations go to the costs behind it — public-records fees, hosting the site, the analysis work, and taking the city to court when a record that should be public has to be pried loose.
Where the information comes from
Everything that will be published here is built from the City's own records: documents obtained through public records requests under Chapter 119, Florida Statutes.
Source data is available for public view; if not readily on the website, please reach out and request a copy.
How AI is used here
Software, including AI, does the heavy lifting: parsing thousands of pages of data, sorting transactions, drafting first passes, and flagging what deserves a closer look. That efficiency is how a project run on volunteered time reports in a timely manner.
Human verifications occur at every possible step in the process of the reports. Nothing is published here that a person has not read and checked first.
Corrections
Spot an error? Email info@burgseyeview.com with what's wrong and a link to the page.
What's next
This site is under construction; the full-featured website will be up and running soon. See Development, Meetings, Spending, Records, Advocacy and Search for what's on the way.