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Originally Posted by Goldwingnut
Yes, the cost of everything continues to rise, so $1.5M, depending on the level of work to be done is no longer unreasonable, this is one of the reasons why we have the R&R funds in the SLAD & RAD budgets. After 15 years of heavy play and usage, there will be a need for refurbishing the courses, the companies can only do so much before nature wins. And yes, all of this work is competitively bid.
Glad to see you’re an engineer, NOT, there’s a lot more that goes into stabilizing the island shoreline than just “dumping rock”. The island is CDD property not the county so the CDD/PWAC is responsible for the cost, not the county. There is and never has been anything wrong with the bridge, the issue is island shoreline erosion.
The traffic light at Colony is a project from 10 years ago. The horse is dead, stop beating it.
All of these projects are competitively bid work, so the money goes to whoever was most responsive and had the best bid. Your obvious insinuation is that the “developer” is getting the money and you would be wrong. The developer owned companies rarely bids on work for the district government or county projects, they have more than enough work in house to keep them busy, they don’t need to chase low bid work. The largest expenditure by the District and CDD governments with the Developer is for IT services and maintaining the tee time system, and even this is a very small percentage of the total budgets. Yes, it was all competitively bid.
The county does not do golf cart/multimodal paths and doesn’t fund these project (traffic light) and doesn’t fund work on property they don’t own/have responsibility for (the island resentment - it’s NOT the bridge).
Taking a little time to educate one’s self would go a long way in answering your own questions, but then again, finding answers wasn’t the point of your post now was it, it was more about stirring up an issue where one doesn’t exist.
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This forum occasionally can be very useful to get accurate, fact-based information, like the above answer. Thank you. And, it’s good to see some reminders to resist stirring a pot. Seems like that is the new, emerging American activity in many circles of discussion.Thanks to all of the researchers, those who serve in local government, and the problem solvers (regardless of political persuasion), who put in a lot of hours with little, or no recognition. That’s what made America a great country, IMHO. I have no connection to Gold Wing Nut other than I occasionally read, and review, his good work and contributions to the community. I always learn something useful.