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North Port board starts debate on Environmental Protection Fund use; defers allocation decisions until budget details arrive
Summary
Board members debated whether mitigation and enforcement fees in the Environmental Protection Fund should be spent on trees, land purchases or habitat restoration; members favored defining spending "buckets" rather than fixed percentages and asked staff to return with budget tracking details before making formal recommendations.
The North Port Environmental Advisory Board opened a substantive discussion on Monday about how the city's Environmental Protection Fund should be used but took no final votes.
The chair introduced the item as a conversation starter and said the fund, which receives mitigation fees, inspection fees and enforcement fines, should be directed toward the intended purpose of repopulating trees or buying land. "These funds are raised when trees are removed, and I think we should make sure that they go back to repopulating," the chair said.
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