The waves are terrible in Cocoa Beach ayway....

 

Hey Cole- all great questions. But, they are all outside of my ability to answer without doing the research and reading necessary.

All of the COCOA Beach financial transaction should be disclosed in the Cocoa Beach annual report. 

All the BREVARD County financial transaction should be disclosed in the BREVARD County annual report. 

As for the Minuteman project, it's disclosed in the annual report. I can't quote the pages off hand. But it has to do with funding priorities. If you look at the report the project has a lot of input from multiple government agencies. Which is again outside of my ability to answer. But, you remember when the fuel truck burned on the overpass of Courtenay on 528? How fast that got repaired. It came from a special emergency fund setup by FDOT for such occurrences. It bypassed all normal channels for roadways funding processes.

Not to be snarky, that is why some people are called investigative journalists and others reporters. I'm neither one. Was just pointing RC and you to some links that might help get you started with answering your questions.

Most, but not all government activities are in the public trust domain. Unfortunately, in many cases the data is not easily accessed even by the people who should be able to access it easily. So, you will probably have to do some work to get the facts about your questions.

 

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Thanks Dab, just thought I'd ask.

This stuff should be easy to find, but it's not.

I do know we used the contractor that built the new fire station to do the road improvement. I hope the were cheap.

With any luck, the proposed sports deal for the stadium fell through, considering that five years of our tourist tax was also included in the funding.

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I was right.

It can be aggravating to get the data. But, it's public.

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thanks for the info



Edited: 05/24/2016 at 02:15 PM by Kimo63

Speaking of tourism tax dollars, Brevard has about $10M of them set aside for the "Mid Reach Project'', which is a boondoggle of a ''beach project''.

The FDEP reports that the beaches in that area are getting wider by themselves. Has Florida ever done a beach project on a beach that is already getting wider?

That money should be spent on Indian River Lagoon projects....

get it while you can a-holes its all underwater in 80yrs anyways

Meter at the street I surfed today is already broken!

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Brother, when you get a minute, could I get a list of the words that trigger these fits?


Hey. Where are we going? (And what are we doing in a hand-basket?)