Councilman Sam Hall passed on this wish list that Al Coby sent to the Florida League of Cities and to Miller and Nelson:
Curbside Recycling (Acquisition of Containers) $1,000,000
CMP (Remediation/Sitework/Utilities/Landscaping) $18,712,824
Police Station (Expansion/Renovation) $2,365,138
Gaberonne Swamp Restoration $1,000,000
Bayou Texar Dredging $1,000,000
Airport (Parking Garage Expansion) $30,000,000
Port of Pensacola (Improvements to Berth 6) $3,4000,000
ESP (Pipe replacement) $70,000,000 [$35 million each for cast iron and bare steel]
Fire Station #6 (Replacement) $1,100,000
Communication Tower (Replacement) $1,000,000
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What exactly is a “Swamp Restoration”? Is that a joke?
Ridiculous spending. Everyting on this list is unnecessary and it is absolutley irresponsible of Coby to ask for these things.
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Well ****. I don’t see where it specified that but you are undoubtedly right. Oh well, no moral quandry exists any longer. Phew! How silly of me to think that it would be the county station………
Brian,
Read closely. This is for Penscaol (the city of), never been volunteers there.May want to retract your statements
i think there are many projects that didn’t make it on to the list…but i think the list could only be projects that could start almost immediatly. a lot of good projects would have too great of a lead time to meet the stimulus package rules (following legal requirements for bidding for design, then bidding for construction etc.)
Uh oh, now I’m conflicted…
Not too big on throwing money around but now that I see a replacement for Station 6 on the list I like it. I used to volunteer there and as that is the busiest station in the county, and one of the oldest I would like to see it happen.
But I must remain true to my convictions, I would rather see the station get built on local funds vice from “big daddy government” in DC. Of course the ‘good ole boy’ network probably won’t see it through….
On the power lines, if memory serves, a lot of Okinawa’s grid is buried and we seldom had any issue with power. Can’t speak to costs but I do know that Okinawa is almost typhoon proof. Would love to see Pensacola move in that direction.
It’s very expensive to do that and it’s actually more difficult to find a problem in the lines if it’s underground because…..it’s underground. During a storm if you have flooding or uprooted trees, the lines would have to be completely replaced in that area which takes longer than replacing an overhead line.
Has the city ever considered burying the power and telephone lines? At least in residential areas. It would really improve the look of this city. In addition it would probably reduce costs over the long run since there would be lees storm damaged lines and poles to contend with after severe weather.