Escambia County put together a wish list of projects for the state legislative delegation. According to Sonya Smith, the county’s public information manager, that list is being fine-tuned to forward to Sen. Bill Nelson, Sen. Mel Martinez and Congressman Jeff Miller:
$15,000,000 -Match to meet emergency communications mandate
$11,750,000 -Beach renourishment – hurricanes Gustav & Ike
$100,000 -School Beacon Remote Monitoring System
$1,000,000 -Intelligent Transportation System
$2,010,000 -Renovate old Escambia County Counthouse
$433,000 -Water Line replacement Main Jail
$118,000 -County Microwave sites, Building Heating, ventilating & air conditioning redundancy
$1,000,000 -Purchase 2000 acres of wetlands and endangered species habitat
$500,000 -Code enforcement help, research for clean up debris on private land
$5,000,000 -Regional Offsite Mitigation Area
$1,500,000 -Beach erosion, habitat restoration for Perdido Key beach mouse
$3,320,000 -ECAT projects
$2,000,000 -Multi-use Community Center & Disaster Response/Recovery Center
$930,000 -Wedgewood Community Center
$3,000,000 -Sewer expansion for Palafox Midtown Commerce Park
$6,000,000 -Ensley Drainage Phase II-V
$2,203,078 -Pave dirt roads
$5,000,000 -Myrtle Grove/Jackson St. Drainage
$1,500,000 -Kupfrian Park Area Drainage
$6,000,000 -Muscogee Road stormwater system
$500,000 -Bayou Chico water quality improvement
$2,700,000 -Bridge replacement (9 bridges)
Total: $71,564,078