{"id":363352,"date":"2026-08-05T12:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363352\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T12:30:09","slug":"cape-coral-city-leaders-to-review-state-grant-for-road-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/363352\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Coral city leaders to review state grant for road safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cape Coral city leaders to review state grant for road safety<\/p>\n<p>Cape Coral city leaders will consider a nearly $19,500 state grant to fund overtime patrols and safety education initiatives without additional cost to taxpayers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/news-team\/72907159-d8fc-4d7c-b9b1-1e504a8884f1\" aria-label=\"Mercedes Martinez profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/72907159-d8fc-4d7c-b9b1-1e504a8884f1_1734039495.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Mercedes Martinez\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>CAPE CORAL, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Cape Coral city leaders are set to consider $19,452.91 in state grant funding during Wednesday&#8217;s city council meeting at 4 p.m.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">If approved, the grant would pay for extra overtime patrols focused on pedestrian and bicycle safety, along with educating people about safe driving and sharing the road.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The grant would cover these efforts through next May and would not cost city taxpayers any additional money.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Police will be able to ask for more money during the grant funding period.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cape Coral city leaders to review state grant for road safety Cape Coral city leaders will consider a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,89135],"class_list":["post-363352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-fields"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}