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Gene Brown
Mayor2025-01-01 – 2029-01-01 (re-elected November 5, 2024 per Bradenton Times election-night report; month-level start: January 2025 and month-level end: January 2029, four-year term per the Bradenton Times January 2023 swearing-in report; mayor since January 2021 per Patch, earlier service not sourced for the current-office start)
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Voice
- Meetings spoken in
- 13
- Total speaking time
- 6:34:33
- Avg per meeting
- 30:21
- Segments
- 6467
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Top issues during term (5)(Zoning)
medium↑Nov 2026[18]
Short-term rental enforcement
$100 per day in fines per property if compliance isn't achieved.
high↓Jun 2026[14]
Potential Fourth CRA District
The new CRA would generate its own redevelopment funding rather than drawing on existing city tax dollars.
medium↑Oct 2026[10]
Liquor store near neighborhood roundabout
medium↓Aug 2026[5]
Downtown sidewalk café permitting
Application fees were waived for all new sidewalk café applicants.
medium↓Jul 2026[2]
Expansion of grant eligibility to nonconforming auto businesses
Raises the maximum Redevelopment Grant match from $50,000 to $100,000 and Historic Preservation Grant from $100,000 to $150,000; no added budget impact stated.
Decisions during term (1)
Recorded while Brown was in office — not necessarily decisions they moved, spoke to, or voted on.