Merrill Road and Townsend Boulevard intersection improvements: $575,000
Mickler Road Widening: $330,000
Lone Star Road extension: (east of Mill Cove to Trednick Parkway): $3 million
University Boulevard complete street project (Arlington Road to Arlington Expressway) $7 million
University Boulevard/Merrill road complete street: $1 million
Traffic signal at Pulaski Road and Howard Road: $600,000
Traffic signal Airport Center Drive and Gillespie Avenue: $700,000
New Berlin Road (Cedar Point to Staratt/Pulaski Road intersection) $40 million
Cedar Point/Saw Pit Road (Industrial rebuild from New Berlin to Shark): $17.5 million
Hodges Boulevard intersections traffic signals: $2.2 million
San Pablo Parkway traffic signals: $2.4 million
Belfort Road widening (Touchton to Butler Boulevard) $7.2 million
Business owners in the Jacksonville Small and Emerging Business Program will have a path to grow their personal wealth by an unlimited amount over the next couple of years and still stay in the program that helps small businesses get a share of city contracts.
City Council agreed to that significant change during a Tuesday night meeting that saw City Council President Tommy Hazouri call for a recess when council members Ju Coby Pittman and Garrett Dennis exchanged angry barbs after Pittman accused him of using bully tactics by filing floor amendments on the JSEB bill.
Dennis objected to Pittman saying he had tried to get a city employee fired.
City council floats idea of allowing voters to decide on gas tax
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City council floats idea of allowing voters to decide on gas tax
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The proposal to double the gas tax in Duval County is raising some concerns, not only with motorists but with members of the Jacksonville City Council. Now, some members want to let the public vote on the issue.
Those concerns were part of the discussion Thursday during a special city council meeting.
The council is being asked by Mayor Lenny Curry’s administration and the Jacksonville Transportation Authority to raise the local gas tax from 6 cents a gallon to 12 cents a gallon.
Friday s Afternoon Update | 4/23/2021
$10.2 billion federal windfall has Florida lawmakers a bit flummoxed
Florida lawmakers seeking to wrap up their session on time next week have an unprecedented problem: A $10.2 billion windfall coming from Washington that they haven’t yet figured out how to spend. Roads, environmental clean-up projects and school construction projects could get more cash from the federal COVID-19 relief funds. All of those ideas have been floated by House or Senate budget negotiators trying to come to the final agreement on a spending plan that is likely to top $100 billion for the first time in state history. More from the Orlando Sentinel.
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