Downtown businessman John Peacock has sent the board members the below, 7-page document for discussion at our November 9th Committee of the Whole.
I believe he will be seeking the Board's "blessing" on the formation of a charter study committee.
As I have stated publicly---I'm willing to listen to what is presented--but I do not support a "strong" elected County Executive---nor am I necessarily "sold" on the idea that Escambia County needs to be a charter county.
There are plusses and minuses to both forms of county governance.
So if the committee wants to form and present options and ideas that are non-binding recommendations they can do so anytime; they don't need our permission to do so--and to request a board vote on this or a straw vote should in no way signify support for whatever such a committee pulls out of the process....
Nevertheless, I look forward to the discussion. See his proposal to start their process, below.
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Why don't you take a close look at the 12 plus Million Dollar Beach Haven Project. It was supposed to be a RESTORE project and a bunch of dreams and schemes went into it.
It involves play purties for Pensacola (City)
If it is just a sewer project why do some residents get LOST and grants other residents in the county have to have a MSBU on their property tax.
Looked it up on the search on MyEscambia
https://myescambia.com/docs/default-source/sharepoint-natural-resources-management/RESTORE/Projects/bayou-chico-water-quality-improvements.pdf?sfvrsn=fd4c8347_15
PROJECT DETAILS
Total Funding Allocated: $11,032,300
(Including five projects)
Bill Gregory Park Stormwater Project:
$2,195,000
R Street at Maggie’s Ditch Stormwater
Project: $880,000
Beach Haven Northeast Stormwater Project:
$4,992,250
Jackson Creek Stream Restoration:
$1,482,500
Jones Creek Stream Restoration: $1,482,500
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
This suite of projects will reduce sediment and
nutrient loading to Bayou Chico, reduce turbidity,
increase water clarity, and improve light
penetration for photosynthesis to enable expansion
of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) habitat.
SAV provides habitat to fish, shrimp, crabs, and
other estuarine species that were negatively
affected by the oil spill. The projects will continue
implementation of the overall restoration of Bayou "
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Escambia County and the Emerald Coast Utilities
Authority (ECUA) are working together on the
Beach Haven Drainage and Sewer Improvement
Project in District 2.
"PROJECT DETAILS
Total Project Cost: $10,497,122
Project was funded through National Fish &
Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) Grant, Florida
Dept. of Environmental Protection (FDEP) 319
Grant, Emerald Coast Utilities Authority
(ECUA) Funds, Local Option Sales Tax (LOST)
and Community Redevelopment Agency
(CRA)-50% match available for individual
sewer connections.
Status: The design for stormwater was
completed by Jehle-Halstead, Inc. in
collaboration with Escambia County
Engineering and ECUA. A public meeting was
held on 6-4-2015 on the design. Construction
bid was awarded to Phoenix Construction
Services, Inc. and should begin fall 2016.
Completion of construction is anticipated in fall
2018."
Chico and will complement or accelerate planned
restoration activities identified in the Florida
Department of Environmental Protection’s Basin
Management action Plan for the Bayou. The
projects include both stormwater treatment and
stream restoration elements, and complement a
proposed living shoreline project to be funded
under Natural Resource Damage Assessment Early
Restoration.
Lets go Brandon
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