Wakulla County staff present draft update to Adopted Infrastructure Plan; public comment period closes Oct. 17

Wakulla County staff on Tuesday presented draft updates to the county’s 2025 Adopted Infrastructure Plan and opened a public hearing to collect feedback, with the public comment period scheduled to close Oct. 17 and staff planning to present a final version to the Wakulla County Board of County Commissioners on Nov. 17.

The plan, staff said, is the county’s long-range guide for prioritizing infrastructure investments and is used to support grant applications. County officials described the AIP as the primary document that helped the county secure large amounts of external funding for projects completed since 2021.

At the workshop, David (chairman) credited county staff with producing the update and said the plan has been in use since 2012. He told commissioners that, from Feb. 2021 through the plan’s cutoff date, the county completed about 160 critical infrastructure projects with a combined value of roughly $194 million. He said another $88,600,000 in projects are under construction and expected to be completed by mid next year, bringing the total since Feb. 2021 to about $282 million. He said roughly 98% of that funding came from grants and the…