Time will tell the outcome of an ethics complaint one Naples City Council member filed against another, though there’s a demonstrated track record to indicate what that conclusion will be.Together, those two factors -- the time it will take to reach a resolution and the predictability of how it will turn out -- reinforce the reasons we’ve contended local public officials should devise a better way to have ethics complaints addressed more swiftly and closer to home.

The Naples City Council on Wednesday rejected a proposal to allow workforce housing within the main corridor of the city’s redevelopment district.
The proposal to amend zoning regulations to allow the housing in the redevelopment area between U.S. 41 and Goodlette-Frank Road failed after a large group of residents spoke during Wednesday’s regular meeting and asked the council to reject the changes.

BRADENTON — Manatee County resident Agatha Mantanes recently filed a complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics alleging that Manatee County Commissioner Carol Whitmore was in conflict when she voted to approve a 720-unit apartment complex in north Manatee County in early March. Whitmore’s son-in-law, Scott Rudacille, was an attorney representing the applicant.

e-mail of March 28th. In it you refer to the voluminous set of regulations set forth in FAC 62-303 “Identification of Impaired Surface Waters”. Your e-mail asserts that before a water body such as Spring Lake can be protected with protective water quality based effluent limitations on the discharge of waste waters into the lake 

State legislators are considering a bill that could redirect millions of dollars earmarked for improving "blighted" local communities.

Thank you for your e-mail of March 28th. In it you refer to the voluminous set of regulations set forth in FAC 62-303 “Identification of Impaired Surface Waters”. Your email asserts that before a water body such as Spring Lake can be protected with protective water quality based effluent limitations on the discharge of waste waters into the lake —based on the Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) (and related Waste Load Allocation (WLA)— processes of the federal Clean Water Act — the State must “meet certain data sufficiency requirements” to justify designating the water body (here Spring Lake) as “impaired”.

I am writing as to follow up on my correspondence(enclosed) with the Department relating to what are likely unlawful discharges into Spring Lake in Naples, FL (see my letter of January 17, 2017 and Mr. Iglehart’s response of February 8, 2017).

FREE event to all Collier County residents for disposal of household hazardous waste on April 1st. See the flyer for details.

Naples taxpayers could cover some costs of rebuilding the city dock after the Naples City Council agreed Wednesday to loan $6.5 million from the city’s investment pool to pay for the project.

A federal lawsuit filed against Naples by a group of residents was dismissed Monday, ending the litigation over the City Council’s approval last year of the 7-Eleven project planned near the River Park neighborhood.