CAPE CORAL \u2014 The Cape Coral City Council is looking at a funding shift that could keep a major sidewalk project on track without costing taxpayers a dime.<\/p>\n
The Florida Department of Transportation committed $872,470 for a sidewalk project along Santa Barbara Place, designed to bring safer streets to the area.<\/p>\n
Right now, a sidewalk on one side of Santa Barbara Place stops abruptly, with more than a mile of road left before reaching Southwest 20th Street, where the project is set to end.<\/p>\n
To keep things moving, the City Council must approve an agreement with FDOT to move $170,000 from the project’s construction budget to its construction engineering and inspection budget.<\/p>\n
Both of those funds were already part of the original budget from FDOT, but the city says the construction engineering and inspection portion of the project ran into unexpected shortfalls.<\/p>\n
Rather than adding more money to the project, this shift would keep it fully funded by FDOT.<\/p>\n
If the council does not approve the amendment, the city would have to cover that $170,000 out of its own budget.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CORAL \u2014 The Cape Coral City Council is looking at a funding shift that could keep a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421772,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325,115],"class_list":["post-421771","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-collaborator_gen_stories","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421771","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=421771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421771\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}