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Other than the public, the residents of Florida who are now indulging in our beautiful estuaries,

 or the fishermen who make a living growing oysters and catching shrimp,

 who else are the stakeholders in this struggle?

What are the names of the major ideas that were planned to deal with this ecological problem?

  • The Comprehensive Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP) – A partnership of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, South Florida Water Management District, and many other federal, state, local and tribal partners to restore the Everglades.
  • The Comprehensive Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) –A new emphasis on planning in a shorter time frame, the CEPP reduces a 5-6 year process down to 18 months.

TALLAHASSEE, Florida (AP) - Florida voters have passed (75%) a measure that designates billions of dollars to conservation efforts over the next 20 years.  Amendment 1 will draw its funding from an existing real estate tax, and would dedicate 33 percent of it annually to conservation. That would be about 1 billion a year. About half of the money will fund Florida Forever, a conservation land purchasing program that saw its budget slashed by 97 percent since 2009 due to the Great Recession. The money was never restored after the economy rebounded.

Martin County’s Economic Council (opposed to River of Grass)

Article extracted from: Sally Swartz, who is a former member of The Post Editorial Board.  sdswartz42@att.net   4/20/2015

  Members:

  1. Chairman is Joseph W. Capra of CAPTEC Engineering Inc.

  2. Vice Chairman is Dan Carmody of Olde Florida Realty.

  3. Treasurer is Alex Beringer of Fair Wind Air Charter.

  4. Secretary is Sara Wingfield Lindgren of JP Morgan Chase.

  5. Ed Weinberg, an environmental consultant whose past reports failed to favor Martin gopher tortoises or Palm Beach County’s offshore reefs, is past chairman.

  6. The council’s at-large members include Tom McNicholas of McNicholas and Associates. His public relations firm often supports growth industry causes and clients. Until I wrote about it in a Jan. 25 column about sugar industry-supported One Florida, his firm’s website touted its success at “marginalizing” environmental groups protesting Florida Power & Light Co. projects. South Florida Water Management District paid McNicholas’ firm to put a positive spin on Lake O dumping in 2005.

  7. Dan Morris of Corsair Capital Group and Robert S. Raynes, a Gunster lawyer who often represents developers trying to win exceptions to Martin’s protective growth plan, are other at-large members.

  8. Board members also include another Gunster employee, representatives of a bank, development and construction companies, office supply, accounting and telecommunications firms and two real estate companies.

  9. So, no surprise, the Economic Council has no environmentalists. But why the deceptive emails? Especially when the council claims to support saving local waterways by sending more Lake O water south?

  10. The Economic Council’s secretary said CEO Chuck Gerardi is the only one authorized to talk about it. After three phone calls and three messages left, his secretary said he just “doesn’t have time” to explain. 

The Martin County Conservation Alliance website seeks to inform residents about development projects and Comprehensive Plan amendments which threaten our special Martin County quality of life.  We invite the public to attend our monthly meetings.  The state has severely weakened the Growth Management Act

  • ·        2015 Growth Management Forum will be March 7, SAT, from 1 - 4 pm  (I did attend)

  • ·         at the Morgade Library, 5851 SE Community Dr, Stuart, FL.

 14th  ANNUAL  CITIZENS  GROWTH  MANAGEMENT  FORUM

Stand Strong for Our River and our Martin County Difference.   elzer@gate.net  or 286-9845.  Speakers:

  • ·        Maggy HurchallaMartin Commissioner for 20 years; National Awards for Lagoon and Everglades work; acclaimed for work on the Comp Plan Protections.

  • ·        Charles Pattison –  1000 Friends of Florida – working for growth management throughout Florida.

  • ·        Virginia Sherlock, Esq. – Citizens’ attorney for our quality of life.

  • ·        Mark Perry – Executive Director of Florida Oceanographic Society, Award-Winner for his IRL work.

  • ·        Greg Braun -  Ecologist, including efforts for The Guardians of Martin County

Sponsors:

  • *          1000 Friends of Florida -- www.fof1000.org

  • *          Guardians of Martin County --  http://theguardiansofmartincounty.com/

South Florida WMD

Broward, Collier, Dade, Glades, Hendry, Lee, Martin, Monroe, Palm Beach, St. Lucie, and portions of Charlotte, Highlands, Okeechobee, Orange, Osceola & Polk

3301 GunClub Road
West Palm Beach, FL
  33406-3089
561/686-8800
800/432-2045 (Florida only)

 

URGENT -- MORE EMAILS NEEDED ABOUT SENDING CLEAN WATER SOUTH:

 Tell them the top three priorities must be:

  • • Buy the US_Sugar parcel

  • • Get CEPP authorized (planning)

  • • Finish buying land for authorized CERP (restoration) projects

Orlando Ramos-Gines
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Orlando.Ramos-Gines@usace.army.mil

Beth Kacvinsky
South Florida Water Management District
bkacvins@sfwmd.gov

Susan Ray
South Florida Water Management District
sray@sfwmd.gov

Riverkeeper

Marty Baum   Keeper@IndianRiverKeeper.org

·        St. Lucie County, Water Quality Division     lestrangec@stlucieco.org

·        2300 Virginia Avenue Fort Pierce, Florida 34982     (772) 462-2511

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Candidate:  John Xuna (also Juan and Xoán)

 P.O.Box 426, Port Salerno, FL 34992   <<-- to write to candidate or donations

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