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County greenlights Restore Act procurement; $7.5 million grant to expand coastal park facilities and RV capacity
Summary
Nueces County approved procurement steps for a $7.5 million RESTORE Act award to expand coastal park facilities including RV sites and amenities; county staff said the work must be completed by February 2027 and will be bid under public procurement rules.
Nueces County officials told the commissioners court they are ready to move forward with procurement to implement a $7.5 million RESTORE Act grant for coastal parks improvements, including enlargement of RV pads and new amenities at IB McGee and Padre Island facilities.
Scott (coastal parks director) told the court he wrote the original funding application in 2016 and the county received the award in 2018. "It took me this is no exaggeration. It took me 3 weeks, 7 days a week to write this thing. And out of all the applications that received in bucket 1, which is what this is of the Restore Act, there were over 3,000,000,000 applicants and applicants that were received and…
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