Daytona Beach, FL - Tonight (February 19th), commissioners are expected to accept a grant that will help reimburse the city for a seawall. They are also set to discuss a possible property exchange between the city and Habitat for Humanity.
That grant, known as a Florida inland Navigation District grant (FIND) can help the city of Daytona Beach fund the design, permitting and bidding of the Riverfront Park Seawall replacement that runs from Orange Avenue to International Speedway Boulevard.
It may also reimburse the city with up to $50,765 for design services.
City leaders are also expected to discuss a property exchange that could develop more affordable housing in Daytona Beach. That agreement would be between the city and Habitat for Humanity of Greater Volusia.
According to the agenda item, the exchange involves two city-owned parcels found off of Alabama Street in the Madison Heights neighborhood in exchange for one Habitat owned parcel off of Aberdeen and North Street near Sunnyland Park.
The item also states that these parcels will help support the opportunity to develop around five to six new homes on Aberdeen in hopes of improving the community.
Also on tap for commissioners is a discussion regarding an emergency contract related to an improvement project on Ballough Road.
This request will contract 4C's Trucking and Excavation in Bunnell for emergency work that will replace around 1,100 feet of a two-inch water main with a six-inch main. The work was requested on an emergency basis as the current main is "past its useful life," according to the agenda.
This work will also help the city maintain grant funding from the Florida Department of Transportation Suntrail Program.
The total cost for the project listed on the agenda is $118,337.50, which is supposedly available in a fund specifically earmarked for Ballough Road development.
Other companies have quoted the city between $294,700 and $724,860.
The agenda also shows that the city is requesting approval for another emergency expenditure, this time for repairs on a 36-inch sewer pipe at the Westside Regional Water Reclamation Facility.
Last October, city workers were investigating an underground leak in the vicinity of the headworks structure. There, they found several hairline cracks in the top of that 36-inch pipe. Because of heavy on the top of the pipe, the pipe ruptured spilling sewage.
Repairs – which were carried out by PC Construction, a Vermont-based company – were quoted at $191,867. The agenda says the funds are already available in the Water and Sewer Renewal & Replacement 5% Fund.
