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Flagler County narrows legislative wish list; asks for design funding, seeks fixes to SB 180
Summary
County staff reviewed last year’s state requests and asked commissioners to prioritize a smaller set of legislative and funding asks by early September, including design money for large infrastructure projects and a policy fix to Senate Bill 180 affecting floodplain code.
Flagler County staff on Monday asked the Board of County Commissioners to narrow its state legislative priorities and to identify top requests by the first week of September so the county’s unified delegation package can be finalized.
Holly Obanese, the county’s library director who is coordinating the legislative program, reviewed last year’s items and said the delegation process this fall is compressed. “We only have till January,” she told the commissioners, adding staff already have contacted municipalities for their priorities. Obanese said the county will continue to show “skin in the game” — a local match or other contribution — for funding requests the county wants the legislature to consider.
The request-for-direction matters because several large projects discussed during the review would be heavy lifts as full construction requests. Commissioners and staff suggested scaling some asks to request design or study money rather than full…
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