Joe Batte

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.

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 ...

Three city councilors, the city manager and a representative of Olde Marco attended the Beautification Advisory Committee meeting Wednesday. A comprehensive lighting plan for Marco Island was tops on the agenda. Marco Island’s City Council tasked the advisory committee with ...

The Marco Island public works director took heat Monday night from City Council over natural gas plan.

At Monday’s specially called meeting of Marco Island’s City Council, two key decisions became the guiding force for ultimately setting water and sewer rates. Both outcomes were hard-fought; decided my narrow margins. The first determined the rate matrix to be ...

In uncontested elections, Marco Island’s City Council voted to move Vice Chairman Larry Magel into the top slot as chairman and Councilor Joe Batte as vice chairman. Positions were changed at the beginning of Monday’s business portion of council’s regularly ...

From the ashes of its Utility Advisory Board, Marco Island’s City Council is hoping a new Utility Advisory Committee will spring. On Monday, council took its first step toward abolishing the existing advisory board by approving, 6-0, the first reading ...

Marco Island City Councilors wanted to know what residents had to say, and on Monday, got an earful. What was advertised as a one-and-a-half hour Town Hall stretched to nearly four hours as residents quizzed council on water rates, building ...

The three-and-a-half hour meeting started at 5:30 p.m. and dabbled in a range of issues, from utility rates and zoning to parks and hospitals. Some residents said the city needs to have town halls more often

The first of item of business on the City Council agenda was the first item off the agenda. While the issue of miniature golf on Park Avenue has been discussed at Council, not to mention the Planning Board, before, some ...

Changing Marco Island’s speed limits did not go as planned for City Manager Jim Riviere. He hoped to shed more light on the topic at tonight’s Marco Island City Council meeting. “It was not a smooth implementation,” Riviere said on ...

At their meeting on Friday, the City of Marco Island Planning Board went to town. Physically, the board met, as always, in the City Council chambers downstairs from the police headquarters at the government center on Bald Eagle Drive, but ...

During a marathon, six hour budget workshop on Monday, Marco Island City Council prioritized capital improvement spending needs, considered ways to cut expenses, and set a maximum millage rate for the upcoming fiscal year. Councilors voted 5-2 to set the ...

Plans to reduce an anticipated six percent water utility rate hike could hinge on the backs of vacant lot owners. Under a proposal by city leaders and discussed among City Council members on Monday night, property owners of undeveloped land ...

The City Council voted 5-1 on Monday to hold a public hearing on Aug. 15 regarding the charging of vacant lot owners for sewer and water connections.