July 30, 2026 08:13 E78

2MC Podcast Eps 78 - Back to Business

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MAK
Hey, everybody. I'm mak

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Courtney
And I'm Courtney. Welcome back to 2MC.

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MAK
We are here in the studio today.

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Courtney
We are. And we are going to talk board meeting.

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MAK
Yeah we had a big board meeting. Lots of stuff to cover, so we should get after it. We should.

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Courtney
Okay.

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MAK
All right, let's go. Woo!

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Courtney
I feel like we needed like a okay. Okay. So we had Sam Amerson come up and he spoke to our board.

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MAK
Solid waste director. Yes.

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Courtney
Yes. Okay. And he spoke to our board about the final assessment resolution for FY 27 and the solid waste assessment and the special assessment role to the tax collector.

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MAK
Okay. I don't know what you just said. That was a lot.

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Courtney
Yeah. Yeah, it was a lot. But let me tell you the small little nitty gritty.

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MAK
Of it. Break it down for me.

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Courtney
Breaking it down. So what this means is we have waste pick up. Right?

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MAK
Yes.

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Courtney
We got trash, We got bulk, we got vegetation.

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MAK
And we got an extra one.

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Courtney
Yeah. Recycling?

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MAK
Yes.

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Courtney
So you get four pickups a week.

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MAK
All.

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Courtney
All the things.

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MAK
Low. Low price?

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Courtney
Yes. Of $464.37.

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MAK
And it was a slight increase. Right. It was like about an $18 or something for the year.

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Courtney
Okay. Yes. $18 for the year increase. But honestly, I love our.

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MAK
Try to have our.

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Courtney
I love it. You know what? If they could come every day. I'd love that too.

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MAK
I love I love the service we have. And I do too. There are neighbors.

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Courtney
Who would love to have our services.

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MAK
Who don't live in Martin County. Who would love to have that?

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Courtney
Yes. So it serves 50,352 residents. I thought that was really cool. No. Yeah, that's.

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MAK
A good number.

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Courtney
And it's a total, like 208 pickups for the whole year.

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MAK
So you get one vegetation and one recycling, two, two trash.

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Courtney
And then additional bulk.

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MAK
Pickup, additional bulk. Okay. Yeah. Which is great because.

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Courtney
As amazing.

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MAK
Prior to hurricane season, now we're right in hurricane season we are. But this is your time to trim. And then you have some bulk waste that you could have picked up.

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Courtney
This is true. Right. Yeah.

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MAK
Okay.

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Courtney
Yes. Good. Yeah. So that was approved. Everything was good with that.

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MAK
And then there was a conversation about this Parks and Rec ordinance, right? Yes. A lot of public comment. About sharks. Yeah, it was good. It's. You know, I have to say, it is.

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Courtney
Shark week. Shark week.

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MAK
I know it's very appropriate that it came up this week.

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Courtney
I know I thought so, too.

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MAK
Yeah. So anyway.

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Courtney
So basically what was what this was for was our current ordinance is really that the county is mandating these things. But. Right. The state actually now.

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MAK
Right.

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Courtney
So it's mandating these things.

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MAK
Right. So it's a preemption of county rule. Home rule as we say. So the FWC manages the waterways while the county may manage the beach access. Right. The public beach access. Not in front of personal homes and stuff. Yeah. So that was a good distinction, I thought, for me when I was listening to it.

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Courtney
Yes. And so what happened with this item is the board actually did table it for now. They asked staff to go back, rework some of the language with some of the things that the public comment had brought to their attention. So it'll be back at the board meeting? Yes. I don't know when exactly.

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MAK
But we'll talk.

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Courtney
About the agenda.

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MAK
Yeah. What do we have next?

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Courtney
Okay. So this one was an adoption of an ordinance where they're amending chapter 155. Right. And that's for streets, roads and bridges. Just general ordinances relating to speed limits and delegation authority.

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MAK
And this allows, allows our public works Department to be able to apply for state and federal grants.

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Courtney
Yes. For county projects and helping how they relate to establishing speed limits and whatnot. So it's a good thing. It's getting state and federal dollars back into our community. So love that.

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MAK
Yes. We did have a presentation by Chief Fire Chief Chad Chen about potential fiscal impacts of the proposed homestead exemption.

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Courtney
We did, yes, in the board heard that and they had a good discussion on that.

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MAK
Good discussion.

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Courtney
So the next thing that we had was we had a an amendment to the zoning atlas to change the zoning classification. There's going to be it's right here.

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MAK
Oh, I was two items down. So I was like, what is she talking about? Okay.

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Courtney
So let's go. It goes from industrial district to a limited industrial district. The board did approve that, and they recommended that the applicant work with the neighbors regarding the.

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MAK
Oh, this is the Wallace and the brewhouse. Yes. Coffee? Yes. Us one. Yes.

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Courtney
And so, yeah, just that they worked together on that.

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MAK
Good neighbor.

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Courtney
That's what we do.

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MAK
Right. Yes.

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MAK
This is what I thought we were talking about. Okay. So that's why I was like, what? Like.

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Courtney
Where are you at?

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MAK
Yes. Yes. We had two pieces of property that we accepted through our through the Environmental Land Oversight Committee. Right. That. So first one was 2.7 acres.

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Courtney
Yes. Yes. And then the next one actually was ten parcels.

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MAK
Totaling.

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Courtney
Totaling 2.7. Yeah. So that just with our committee, the environmental lands, that's the sales tax at work preserving land.

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MAK
I love it, and I feel like I feel like we talk about these all the time.

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Courtney
So yeah, they are.

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MAK
Just drop a link to the information so you can see. Yeah. Yeah. See all the lands that we've.

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Courtney
It's super exciting.

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MAK
It is. It really is. I feel.

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Courtney
Like it's been almost a year, right, since we've gotten that.

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MAK
So as soon as we've gotten that, soon as that really went into effect, they had all of the all of the back work, all of the rules and regulations, and the committee was ready to go, and they just started looking at property and buying it up. That's really exciting.

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Courtney
I know, I love it, I feel like we're just after like just it being a year. I feel like we've done so much already. So I'm excited to.

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MAK
See.

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Courtney
What the future holds for that.

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MAK
Oh, nice.

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Courtney
Yeah. Well.

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MAK
Yeah, I think the future is green.

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Courtney
So that's kind of everything we had for the board meeting it. The next one is August 11th. Okay, so.

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MAK
You can't believe that. August 11th.

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Courtney
No, I can't believe we're already back to school. Is happening.

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MAK
Yes.

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Courtney
It's just.

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MAK
A lot of stuff going on.

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Courtney
Summer flew by.

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MAK
It did?

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Courtney
Yeah. All right, well, that's everything we have. We are going to put the events down in the show notes for you guys.

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MAK
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