Marco Island looking to sell naming rights to help fund Veterans Community Park

Councilor Jared Grifoni suggested during Tuesday's council meeting that individual or corporate sponsor dollars could either offset taxpayer contributions or purchase additional improvements. "I know there are a lot of generous people in this community that want to do it because they want to support Marco Island (and) they want to support Veterans' Community Park," Grifoni said. - Read more here: Marco Eagle, 9/7/19

Marco Island City Council approves scope of services for Veterans' Park consultant

"This is the next step in the process of finally getting Veterans Community Park built," wrote City councilor Jared Grifoni in an email to the Eagle. "This is great news for our island as this project has been essentially dormant for over 10 years."  "Once (this) is completed, then we can move to construction and that will of course needs to be funded," Grifoni wrote. "I have been in favor of using the one percent sales tax revenue to fully fund the build out which will not require raising city taxes at all." - Read more here: Marco Eagle, 8/22/19

Grifoni: Rollback rate means no tax increase for Marco Island

City Council adopting rollback means your tax rate has now decreased three years in a row. The proposed 2020 millage rate is the lowest it has been in 10 years. Never before in our island’s history has a City Council set the property tax rate at rollback three years in a row. The rate is lower now than way back in Fiscal 2011! - Read more here: Marco Eagle, 7/26/19