McNees also concluded that Byrne failed to report the breach and allowed William Frazzano to take the vaccine during the city s first vaccination clinic on Jan. 22 despite Collier County EMS alerting him of the breach approximately 10 minutes before the Eventbrite link was published at 2 p.m.
Byrne alerted McNees on Jan. 28 about what happened, eight days after the incident, McNees said at a news conference Wednesday.
McNees wrote in a news release Wednesday that Byrne spoke with Frazzano and that she said she had provided the Eventbrite link to her husband believing that the link would not work until 2 p.m.
Marco Island City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to postpone the first vote of an amendment to the city s sea turtle ordinance that would have increased fines up to $5,000.
Maria Lamb, chairwoman of the coastal resources committee, said she opposes the proposed amendment because either version of the ordinance will fail if council does not assign adequate resources to enforce them.
Lamb said the city should first measure the wavelength of artificial lights along the coastline using a spectrometer it bought last year and use the data collected as evidence at code enforcement hearings.
Artificial light that shines on the beach at night can disrupt sea turtles from nesting and cause hatchlings to not be able to find their way to the Gulf of Mexico.