- April 30, 2024
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The wait is almost over: Construction of the highly anticipated Seminole Woods multipurpose path is on the calendar.
The project is scheduled to enter the design and permitting phase in December, with construction on the first portion of the path slated to begin in March 2014, city officials said Tuesday.
Residents have asked for the path ever since there were two fatalities — Josefina Reid and Kirt Smith — as pedestrians in 2011 in that area.
The project is broken down into six phases, with the path — from State Road 100 to U.S. 1 — scheduled to be completed by the end of the second quarter of the 2015 fiscal year (March).
City staff at Tuesday’s City Council workshop presented a timeline of capital projects that are funded in the 2014 fiscal year.
The six-laning of Palm Coast Parkway and is set to begin in March 2014, and the construction of additional athletics fields at the Indian Trails Sports Complex are scheduled to begin in September 2014. Shoulders on Royal Palms Parkway are scheduled to be designed over the first two quarters of the fiscal year, with completion toward the end of the fiscal year (September 2014).
For a full list of projects and their timelines, go to www.PalmCoastGov.com.
City set to renew cheaper contracts with inmate work crews
They go in places many people want to go. And they do it for much cheaper. And that’s why the City Council on Tuesday was in consensus to renew contracts with the Florida Department of Corrections for two, eight-man inmate labor work crews, at an annual cost of $114,994.
Last year, each inmate crew cost $58,004, according to city documents, and so the city is expected to save about $1,014 this year.
If the city were to do the same work, it would cost between $600,000 and $700,000 in salary and benefits, Landon said Tuesday.
“Our experience with these crews have been nothing but positive,” city documents state. “They accomplish a great deal of work at very little cost to the city.”
The crews are directly supervised by officers from the Tomoka Correctional Institute, but the crews work side-by-side with city staff on projects.
The crews maintain roadways, swales and drainage ditches.
In January 2008, the city reached an agreement with the state for an eight-man crew. Three years later, in January 2011, the city amended its contract with the state to add an additional crew.
