Nassau County went to its legislative delegation with its list of needs and wants that county leaders hope will obtain funding from the state authorities. Most contain infrastructure — both making it simpler to get from right here to there, or buttressing what already exists in opposition to future flooding.
“You’ve gotten native tasks, the state makes annual appropriations — a number of your native tasks are of state curiosity and state concern to facilitate state targets and goals,” County Supervisor Taco Pope mentioned. “This 12 months, working together with your workers, communication with you all as Board members, we did our greatest to combination a listing of 9 tasks, with a complete request simply over $9 million.”
The largest-dollar gadgets are the County Street 108 Extension (greater than $3 million), the Nassau County Animal Assets Middle and Campus ($1.7 million), Piney Island/Amelia River resiliency and growth mitigation ($1 million), and the Thomas Creek restoration undertaking ($1 million).
“Among the driving components to many of those tasks is the flexibility of you to match native {dollars} with state {dollars},” Pope mentioned.
Utilizing the Spring Lake drainage undertaking for instance, the $625,000 requested is a match on $625,000 that the county already allotted. It’s the same case with many of the different tasks on the checklist.
“The Piney Island undertaking is the No. 1 acquisition undertaking for the county, each on the committee stage and for the Board of County Commissioners,” Pope mentioned.
“This presents a possibility to leverage native {dollars}, working with the property proprietor who’s a keen vendor and who’s keen to work with us on the acquisition with personal, nonprofit funding, after which the state {dollars}. What we’d like to have the ability to do, identical to we talked about within the creation of the (Conservation, Land Acquisition and Administration Committee), each greenback we spend domestically, we would like to have the ability to leverage that.”
Pope added that the undertaking is an efficient, profitable one that individuals have been working to perform for the previous a number of years.
Commissioner Jeff Grey recommended upping the request for the animal sources middle. The $1.7 million recommended by county workers was to go together with the county’s current allocation of $2 million, and the mixed funds taking the undertaking as much as the purpose of building.
Along with the tasks listed, the county’s additionally on the lookout for state funding for Sundberg Street paving ($750,000), ecotourism/water entry enhancements on the Nassau River ($600,000), Amelia Island Path Part 5 ($225,000), and the Sheriff’s Work Ethics and Coaching Program ($110,000).
The Thomas Creek flood mitigation undertaking has been of particular concern to Fee Chairman Klynt Farmer since his election to the Board.
“I believe it is a actually large deal for the residents of the realm,” Farmer mentioned.
“It places in a 15-year plan in place and it will get individuals out of there. … We’re not going to have deferred upkeep to this factor for the subsequent hundred years. It’s a wise monetary resolution to place this plan in play and get these of us that dwell in these problematic areas out of that floodplain and permit them to take their households to greater floor, primarily.”
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