The dude was drunk and a hit and run killed the baby.

This is a great opportunity for this area.

Roads are being worked on all over the county, bridges are being replaced one by one in D5, I don’t think people would cotton to, to many more detours all at the same time.

Good Lord some people would complain if you hung them with a gold rope.

People complain we need jobs jobs, they work to bring some here and people complain side walks side walks..

and if you have to have a street light– hows this go in at dark and go to bed.

The back up at the BCC meeting said that the county has 145 bridges with the majority having outlived their useful life and needing to be replaced. Some are 50 years old or more (some ages unknown, the reports says.)

The extension of the Local Option Sales Tax IV was sold to the people as a way for Escambia County to take care of the infrastructure needs for the community.
We are not doing that. There are roads, bridges, and stormwater issues that cannot get funded.

Instead, they are betting that this $15,000,0000 use of LOST funds might bring the growth we need to later do infrastructure repair. The existing citizens are always deferred to the needs of the new business idea. (We spent $17 million+ on the OLF8 property swap on Nine Mile Rd. so far, they say.)

What they never calculate is that these projects and the new citizens that come for these jobs bring increased stress on the existing infrastructure, demanding even more funding. (new housing demands new or upgraded roads and highways, stormwater facilities, new schools, law enforcement, interstate exits, etc.)

They also don’t calculate the increased cost of building and repairing bridges and roads years from now vs. now because we are spending money on this Singapore business.

Government should do the things that are their main responsibilities first, infrastructure and public safety, and that creates the environment that makes businesses want to locate here. Stop diverting our LOST funds elsewhere!