FORT PIERCE — A resident’s complaint during public comment Oct. 6 prompted an impromptu discussion among commissioners and staff, offering an update on a long-delayed Lakewood Park stormwater project that is still awaiting final grant approval from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Ocala Avenue resident David Alice served as the catalyst for the project update that evening.
“I’m here to complain again about the structure on Kings Highway,” he said. “We had the drainage done, and now, it’s eight years. We’ve got a FEMA grant for this – they haven’t even started yet – and I think they need to do an audit to find out if they’ve still got the money. I really don’t want to go that way because the next time you need a FEMA grant for Fort Pierce, they’re not going to do it.”…