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The board’s unanimous decision, during a seven-hour meeting Tuesday night in Milton, doesn’t put the matter to rest. District 3 Commissioner James Calkins said he would look into having an independent “third party” investigate what went wrong. At issue was the county missing a March deadline to apply to be considered for money from the state’s Small County Outreach Program (SCOP). Schebler took responsibility for the missed deadline.
A majority of commissioners said the lapse was not worth firing Schebler, who has been with the county since 2017. A crowd of about 50 people disagreed. Speaker after speaker took to the lectern to say the episode shows a lack of leadership and transparency between the county and its residents. Schebler last month said the county had applied by the deadline but the state had run out of money, which is not guaranteed. After the April meeting, Schebler told District 4 Commission Chairman Dave Piech that he misspok
District 4 County Commissioner Dave Piech, who represents the Navarre area, has had the new Navarre bridge on his radar for the better part of the past year, but put off starting any official discussions about the project in the wake of the Pensacola Bay Bridge debacle.
Now, Piech said, it s time to start the process and get the ball rolling on a new Navarre Beach Bridge, because, as you know, you can t just have a problem with a bridge and replace it overnight. We re living with that right now (with the Pensacola Bay Bridge).
The Pensacola Bay Bridge was struck by multiple Skanska construction barges during Hurricane Sally on Sept. 16 and has been out of commission ever since due to several missing spans and other structural issues. Officials have said it should reopen to motorists the week of Memorial Day.Read more.
Santa Rosa County missed out on critical infrastructure funding for the current fiscal year because county staff failed to meet a deadline from the Florida Department of Transportation, despite multiple meetings and reminders from the state agency.
The funding program, called Small County Outreach Program (SCOP), allots $20 million each year to counties in FDOT s District 3 that have fewer than 200,000 residents. The money is intended for critical road repaving and reconstruction projects.
Out of the 16 counties in FDOT s District 3, only three are not eligible for the program because of population size Escambia, Okaloosa and Leon. Of the 13 eligible counties, only Santa Rosa did not apply for SCOP funding this year.
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