Comments on: FDOT’s $20 Million In Funding For ST Engineering Won’t Hurt Local Projects

By: dishearted

dishearted — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:18:10 +0000

in DIST 5 meeting last week they were asked why the tax payer pays local options sales tax and property taxes plus other fees and not get what we deserve. doesn’t matter what they say, this is stealing from the people. its time the people stand up and put a stop to this..the people really don’t matter,and the county is showing it..

By: StraightShooter

StraightShooter — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:46:39 +0000

This smells like the 4H land deal and the soccer complex deal.

By: Wilykyote

Wilykyote — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 03:01:51 +0000

Isn’t this entity “Triumph Gulf Coast” actually some of the
money we got from the Oil Rig Exploding ?

By: Jacqueline

Jacqueline — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:50:00 +0000

Yes, they were not taken from local projects. They were taken from passenger rail projects on the east coast.
But repeatedly, Mayor Robinson has been saying that the funds were coming from a pot that could only be used for “airport projects”.
Passenger rail was not an airport project.

The question this leaves is if they could divert funds from another area to a different type of project here, WHY couldn’t FDOT have diverted the $20 million to projects already on our Transportation Planning Organizations’ priorities lists?

And how does building hangars and a tarmac beyond a fenced perimeter at the airport (for a Singapore owned company) serve the pressing public TRANSPORTATION needs.
I understand the hope of future employment and that can be debated.
But the job of FDOT is public Transportation needs.