Environmental Lands Oversight Committee meeting in Martin County to review sales tax usage

The Environmental Lands Oversight Committee in Martin County is gearing up for a meeting on Sept. 5 to review the success of the county’s half-cent sales tax, which was passed to help preserve the area’s natural beauty.

“Basically, it’s just to provide them an idea of what kinds of properties that we’re reviewing, where they are, what the major purposes and intents of the different acquisitions are, so they can learn about all these different properties and why they’ve been selected for potential acquisition and still get a chance to see and hear also who we might find as funding partners, because one of our big metrics is we’re trying to make these dollars go further,” Michael Yustin said.

That was Senior Project Manager Michael Yustin. He dived a little bit into what people can expect going in…

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