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Resident urges Aransas County to back Little Bay restoration grant application
Summary
At a March 19 special meeting, a local resident asked the Aransas County Commissioners Court to pass a resolution supporting an application to the Texas Water Development Board for funds to restore Little Bay, citing a master plan, scientific reports and an estimated $8 million channel cost; the court did not act that day.
Mr. Gillery, identified in the transcript as a resident who addressed the court, asked Aransas County to adopt a resolution supporting an application to the Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) before the TWDB’s April 15 application deadline.
He told the court he had recently met with Vanessa Shroner and learned about a competitive TWDB program he said totals about $2 billion and applies to 59 communities along the Gulf Coast; he said the program would amount to roughly $30 million per community by his calculation and that about half of the…
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