Collier again could put off expensive watershed plan
Budget woes are prompting Collier County leaders to take a second look at a pledge to write plans by 2010 to manage the county’s watersheds. The county’s growth plan had required the plans by 2000, but the county missed the deadline. The county set the new deadline in 2006 under pressure from state growth regulators and environmental groups. But last week, county commissioners balked at spending $1.3 million on a second phase of a contract with a consultant to write the plans and asked county officials to retool the proposal for a vote in September.
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