GULF COUNTY, Fla. (WMBB) – State Representative Jason Shoaf wants to bring more business into the port at the old paper mill property in Port St. Joe.
He’s filed a bill in Tallahassee that would expand the boundaries of the Port Authority and include board members from Franklin, Gadsden, and Liberty Counties.
“The bill is simply changing the makeup of the board to maintain a majority stake in Gulf County, but to bring in one seat from three other counties to be able to have skin in the game and a seat at the table. We need our neighbors and our region to buy into this. It is a regional port. It is propped up by state dollars. It is not city dollars or county dollars. It is the whole state investing in this,” State Representative Jason Shoaf said…