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Manatee delegation hearing highlights infrastructure, tax, school and social-service priorities
Summary
Manatee County legislators heard requests from city, county and regional officials and from a wide array of nonprofits and residents seeking funding or policy changes on infrastructure, transportation, education, behavioral health, veterans services and local-government authority.
Manatee County's legislative delegation used its annual local hearing on Friday to bring dozens of community leaders and nonprofit organizations before lawmakers, who heard requests ranging from dollars for water and stormwater projects to concerns about state policy changes that could affect local government authority.
Local governments and regional agencies opened the post-bill portion of the meeting. City of Bradenton officials asked for state partnership on rehabilitation of water, wastewater and stormwater systems and vertical capital projects; the Sarasota-Manatee MPO urged FDOT investment to relieve barrier-island congestion and improve bridge links; the Peace River/Manasota authority gave a construction update on pipelines and a planned reservoir; and…
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