BY DAN HILDEBRAN
Monitor Editor
GREEN COVE SPRINGS— Clay County Commissioners authorized its purchasing department to negotiate with Foresight Construction Group for a sheriff’s office gun range on County Road 315 between Camp Blanding and Middleburg.
Director of Purchasing Karen Thomas said her staff now would try to bring a contract back to the board during its next meeting. Potential reductions to the project could decrease its $3.6 million price tag by $135,000.
Three potential changes include reducing the amount of thickness on the facility’s road, changing the proposed material on the range structures’ roofs and substituting seed for sod on some areas of the range.
Commissioners Wayne Bolla and Mike Cella restated their desire for the public to have access to the facility.
Cella added that the shared access plan would be similar to one in Indian River County. He added that Clay commissioners could hire Florida Fish and Wildlife to run the public use of the range, as is done with the facility between Palm Bay and Vero Beach.
