Jim Riviere

In dollars, a new community center at Mackle Park made sense Thursday when it came before Marco Island City Council’s budget subcommittee. Realistically, the Smokehouse Bridge may outstrip all other requests in the city’s 2013 capital projects budget.

Monday, Marco Island city building inspectors learned they would have a new boss as of June 2. Marco Island City Manager Jim Riviere met with staff and explained a new collaboration he worked out with Collier County's building department. The ...

The score Tuesday for saving Tommie Barfield Elementary’s tennis courts was love-nothing. Bryan Milk, Marco Island community affairs director, told the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee the city plans to remove the two courts’ nets, take down city signs and ...

On Thursday, Erik Brechnitz, chairman of Hideaway Beach’s Tax District Board, told his group there was a glimmer of hope for funds to prevent a disaster at the gated community’s 5000 and 6000 high-rise condominiums. On Friday, that hope was ...

After more than six months, “red shirt” representatives from Olde Marco won’t sit at City Council meetings and speak their minds during public comment. On Monday, Marco Island City Councilors approved Collier Boulevard street lamps for the Olde Marco District ...

City Manager Jim Riviere hopes some last steps he is taking will finally separate the city’s utility company operations from running day-to-day city government. One of those steps reassigned Patricia Bliss and removed her from the city finance director position. ...

After City Manager Jim Riviere and his wife drove around Marco Island, they came to the conclusion the city looks pretty good. “I think the island is beautiful right now,” he told the Beautification Advisory Committee on Wednesday. Riviere made ...

A team tasked with uncovering how $4 million seemingly disappeared from the city’s ledgers, gave its report Monday to Marco Island’s City Council. City Manager Jim Riviere appointed staff representatives who studied the deficit and presented the report. While creating ...

Boaters are hoping Marco Island leaders will finally cut ties to their anchoring ordinance that became unenforceable when a state law passed three years ago.

In recent weeks, a program to educate volunteers as city beach docents received the approval of Jim Riviere, Marco Island’s city manager. The decision was made in conjunction with input from Bryan Milk, community affairs director, and Police Chief Don ...

Olde Marco residents were stunned by Marco Island City Council’s pass on resolving their displeasure with streetlights in their area. A motion on Monday to replace Bald Eagle Drive’s newly installed taller poles with the type on Collier Boulevard failed ...

Six months after former Collier County Sheriff Don Hunter was sworn in as Marco Island's police chief, the question of how is he doing, is joined by another – how long will he be doing it?

Generally, the governmental bodies at the local level do their work without being noticed by the great majority of the citizens on whose behalf they toil – until something happens to get the citizens up in arms.

Just as on your birthday, you are really just one day older, not a year all at once, the transition from Dec. 31 to Jan. 1 is just another page off the calendar. But it is the last page, and ...

It has been said that everyone has their own agenda.