I
n his first budget cycle, Councilman Brandon Ludwig pitched two infrastructure proposals: a roughly $25,000 street striping effort he dubbed MAP — the Marking Assessment and Painting Project — targeting faded markings on Nightingale, Orchid, Lakeview and Pecan, and prioritizing a sidewalk along the Nightingale-Sunrise corridor with a placeholder of up to $100,000.
Booth said striping should become a regular part of a capital improvement plan that budgets about $200,000 a year for roads. On the sidewalk, he said the city has $45,000 budgeted for design but is in talks with Clay County about a partnership that could skip most design work and move straight to construction of the half-mile route, estimated at $100,000 to $120,000. The path would connect to a shopping center just outside city limits where a new Winn-Dixie is set to open.
“I’d much rather get $45,000 in concrete on the ground than just a design,” Booth said.
