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YourVoiceWeekly.com VOL. 4/ISSUE 24
YOUR INDEPENDENT LOCAL COMMUNITY NEWSPAPER
Not all on board
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2016
Anne Scott addresses CRAs Patrick McCallister STAFF WRITER
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Mitch Kloorfain/chief photographer K.C. Ingram Traylor of Palm City stands in front of elected officials and candidates before they state their intentions in stopping All Aboard Florida’s attempts to run more trains through the Treasure Coast. The rally was held Saturday, April 9 at Memorial Park in Stuart.
Candidates answer publics questions Adam Laten Willson
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On April 7, Hobe Sound Chamber of Commerce invited candidates for Districts 1, 3, and 5 commission seats to a Q&A
forum at the Hobe Sound Bible College. The questions presented by moderators Blake Capps and Ralph Davino, were culled from residents through the chamber’s website and other media platforms, and addressed a range of
countywide and district-specific concerns over three rounds of questioning. Martin County’s comprehensive plan, municipal incorporation of
MARTIN COUNTY — County Commission chairwoman Anne Scott offers fishing as an analogy to dealing with Martin’s Community Redevelopment Agency, which has become an issue in this year’s County Commission races. Every fisher knows about the dreaded birds nest — when the fishing line gets knotted. “That’s what this reminds me of, the big ball of bird’s nest,” she said. Scott seemed to have dropped what could be a game change on election year politics at the March 29 regular meeting of the County Commission. She struck a conciliatory tone to supporters of the Community Redevelopment Agency, CRA, and its Neighborhood Advisory Committees. “The bathwater is gone, but the baby is still there,” she said at the meeting. Scott thought aloud a bit on the dais, seeming to suggest that it might be time to revisit whether the County Commission should continue acting as the Community Redevelopment Agency’s board. In 2012 the commission disbanded the board — along with its advisory committees — and assumed its duties. To CRA supporters, that was taken as a first strike in taking down the county’s seven commu-
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