A relatively light Marathon City Council agenda opened Tuesday evening with a detailed pitch by Fishermenâs Community Hospital spokespeople for a continuation of the cityâs support for the Municipal Services Taxing Unit (MSTU) to help pay for the rebuild of Fishermenâs Hospital and led to discussions on several additional local topics.
At last monthâs council meeting, commissioners shared concerns regarding the city obtaining financial documents from Baptist Health South Florida before the May 1 deadline for the city to review and decide whether to vote to opt-in or opt-out of the MTSU. Those documents have now been received and reviewed.
The Marathon City Council on Tuesday will focus on two ordinances that involve water and irrigation within the Marathon city limits and an important review of long-sought financial documents from Baptist Health South Florida, key to the funding for the rebuilding of Fishermenâs Community Hospital.
There is also a resolution on the councilâs agenda to approve an agreement between the City and the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (DEO) providing funding for the Community Development Block Grant-Disaster Recovery Infrastructure Repair Program (CDBG), along with and a property redevelopment agreement between the City and Marlin Bay Yacht Club.
Ordinance 2021-07 proposes stringent irrigation restrictions. It was pulled from last monthâs agenda because City Manager George Garrett wanted to have a Florida Keys Aqueduct Authority representative on hand for insight and details. It is back on todayâs agenda with an FKAA speaker scheduled and is expected to be a
During a tidy, efficient, 90-minute Marathon City Council meeting on Tuesday, March 9, council members approved a variety of ordinances, but unexpectedly chose to postpone a vote on what was
The Marathon City Council meets Tuesday, March 9, to discuss several ordinances that will address trash, restaurant access for dogs, watering and irrigation, and emergency vehicles among other items and
The Marathon City Council agreed to create a hybrid model for code enforcement and continued the trash receptacle ordinance to next month, while approving the Coco Plum bridge projects and the kayak ramp on Grassy Key to move forward this month. Rotary Park will receive a facelift as well.
The council agreed to a hybrid model for code enforcement in which residents have the option to choose between a code board made up of their neighbors and friends or an impartial, law school-trained special magistrate. The vote was split, with John Bartus, Mayor Luis Gonzalez and Dan Zieg in favor of the hybrid model. Zieg said 80% to 90% of cases are resolved before ever coming to the magistrate. Bartus said the cityâs incorporation movement two decades ago had a code board comprised of citizens among its most desired goals, and a hybrid system is the âbest of both worlds.â