Blog Posts by
Ray Christman
Volume 10 – February 2023
RESTORING AND PROTECTING OUR BEACHES AND DUNE SYSTEM Hurricane Ian clean-up and recovery has been the main order of business for all of us over the last four months – individually and certainly for Naples city government. This terrible storm event affected many, many...
Volume 9 – June 2022
Dear Friends and Neighbors: Welcome to the latest edition of my Naples City Council newsletter. In this issue, I want to talk about the Naples Community Hospital (NCH) proposed Heart, Stroke, and Vascular Institute, which many of you have been hearing about. There...
Supporting Public Safety in Naples — New Police Contract Approved
From Volume 8 E-Newsletter, May 2022 On May 4, City Council unanimously approved a new three-year contract with our two Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) unions, one representing our police officers and one representing our police supervisors (sergeants). These contract...
Preserving Open Space in the Heart of Naples: The Naples Beach Hotel Conservation Easement
From Volume 8 E-Newsletter, May 2022 On May 2, City Council approved by a 5-2 vote (Blankenship, Christman, Hutchison, McCabe and Perry voting “yes” and Heitmann and Petrunoff voting “no”) creation of a conservation easement for the former Naples Beach Hotel (NBH)...