WATCH: Merritt Islanders Meet Tonight to Discuss Effort to Incorporate Merritt Island as a City
By Space Coast Daily // August 14, 2023
$45,000 feasibility study is being produced by BJM Consulting Inc.
WATCH: Should Merritt Island become a city? State Rep. for Brevard, Tyler Sirois, addresses the members of The Space Coast Patriots at their monthly meeting at The Merritt Island Library to outline his reasons for not supporting the incorporation of Merritt Island.
WATCH: Should Merritt Island become a city? State Rep. for Brevard, Tyler Sirois, addresses the members of The Space Coast Patriots at their monthly meeting at The Merritt Island Library to outline his reasons for not supporting the incorporation of Merritt Island.
ABOVE VIDEO: Should Merritt Island Become a City? Space Coast Daily’s Ron Lighthall sits down with longtime Merritt Island residents Diane Locklair, Jack Ratterman, Barbara Weiler, and Liz Michelman as they present the case of why the incorporation of “Merritt Island” on Florida’s Space Coast is still a bad idea.
ABOVE VIDEO: Should Merritt Island become the City of Merritt Island?
BREVARD COUNTY, MERRITT ISLAND, FLORIDA – A group of concerned citizens from Merritt Island on Florida’s Space Coast, have organized a PAC (Political Action Committee) to study and educate themselves and their fellow residents, on the feasibility of becoming incorporated as the City of Merritt Island.
The group is called The Merritt Island Preservation Committee (MIPC) and is led in part by Marcus Harmon, who serves on the board of directors of MIRA (Merritt Island Redevelopment Agency).
The MIPC Pac went before the Brevard County Commission in February of 2023 to request that the county fund a feasibility study to look at the issue.
The Brevard County Commission approved with a 5-0 vote, a $45,000 appropriation to fund such a study.
That study is being produced by BJM Consulting Inc. and according to Harmon, it will be ready for public view within 2-4 weeks.
CLICK HERE to see the Initial Financial Projections For Incorporation of Merritt Island Feasibility Study and the letter with survey questions circulated to residents, produced by BJM Consulting Inc.
If the feasibility study shows that there is reason to let the voters of Merritt Island decide this issue, then the group would request that the proposal be placed on the Brevard ballot for voters to choose the outcome.
Such an effort has been attempted in the past, but the residents voted against incorporating.
