Community Budget Issue Requests - Tracking Id #311FY0102

Cascades Park/Gaines St. Brownfield:� Leon County

Requester:

Craig Diamond

Organization:

Leon County Board of County Commissioners

Project Title:

Cascades Park/Gaines St. Brownfield:� Leon County

Date Submitted:

1/17/2002 11:57:53 AM

Sponsors:

Alfred Lawson, Richard Mitchell

Statewide Interest:

Implementation of the Cascades design will fulfill a 1972 Governor's order to make the site usable as a part and public open space, both for its contribution to the state office complex as well as for tis historical valuce

Recipient:

Leon County

Contact:

Craig Diamond

301 S. Monroe St.

Contact Phone:

(850) 891-8621

Tallahassee 32301

Counties:

Leon

Gov't Entity:

Yes

Private Organization (Profit/Not for Profit):

Project Description:

Funding is sought to complete the final desighn for "Segment 2" of the Cascades Greenway, which adjoins the State Capital Complex.�� Completion of the hydraulic studies and final design over next two years will allow construction of the community's highest priority project to begin as soon as local capital improvement funds become available.� The property targeted for analysis is state-owned.

Measurable Outcome Anticipated:

The Cascades Greenway Linear Park is an integral component of the "Gaines Street Redevelopment Project."� Design and construction of this protion of the Cascades Greenway will provide an anchor to the Gaines Street redevelopment initiaive and will address significant stormwater mangement deficiencies in downtown Tallassee, which includes the state office complex.� The Cascades Greenway will function as urban open space and would incorporate bicyle and pedestrian facilites and a series of stormwater treatment ponds an dconveyances.� The Greenway would complement the Gaines Street transportion corridor, which has been the highest priority project of te Tallassee-Leon County Metropolitan corridor, which has been the highest priority project for the Tallassee-Leon County Metropolitan Planning Organiztion (MPO) for the past two years.� Tully implemented, the Greenway would interconnect the Capital Complex, downtown Tallahassee, the area's two state universites, and two historical neighborhoods.

Amount requested from the State for this project this year:

$500,000

Total cost of the project:

$4,400,000

Request has been made to fund:

Construction

What type of match exists for this project?

Local

Cash Amount:

$3,900,000

Was this project previously funded by the State?

No

Is future-year funding likely to be requested?

No

Was this project included in an Agency's Budget Request?

No

Was this project included in the Governor's Recommended Budget?

No

Is there a documented need for this project?

Yes

Documentation:

Blueprint 2000

Was this project request heard before a publicly noticed meeting of a body of elected officials (municipal, county, or state)?

Yes

Hearing Body:

Leon Couty Board of Commissioners

Meeting Date:

9/18/2001