Rick Scott leaves Jaxport off 2014 port funding

[theduvalprogressive]

The report from the corp plays down the negatives as mentioned from their report and rebuttal from the riverkeeper. The Jacksonville Biz Journal put the numbers at around that figure in an article from last May.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/rss/article/257182/3/Dredging-plan-presentation-slated-for-Tuesday

The two-thousand job figure over twenty plus years is closer to reality should it happen. The figure is roughly 100 per year(mistyped). 100 per year is closer to realistic if one counts possible attrition, layoffs, and actual new jobs. 65,000 is a totally unrealistic figure is 46,000, 43,000, and every other number they've pulled out of the air over these past few months. 

[icarus]

Too bad, our Senator wasn't brokering the end to the standoff. We could have gotten a bigger slice of pork.


http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/10/17/senate-bill-to-end-partial-shutdown-includes-millions-to-fund-dam-project/

[mtraininjax]

Jacksonville has never been really good at throwing out large numbers, like economic impact numbers, remember the Super Bowl? The City said the economic impact was to have been blah, blah, blah and months, years after, we barely felt as if anything had changed.

I don't blame Alvin and his buddies from DC, after all they are just part of an area of leadership that has been lacking for decades. We did get funding for Mile Point, which fixes a major issue in the river/ocean. So ships can hopefully move into the port with more than a 4-hour window due to the tides and the ICW affect.

I have stated this before and now, it is more prevalent. JaxPORT would be wise to partner with Brunswick and Savannah than to hold out hope that it can OR WILL compete with Tampa / Miami. Publicly or Privately work to make it happen and help these other ports with items and commodities that are better suited for our port system. I still believe the aggregate and coal options are items we can lead the Florida and the Southeast, if we choose to do so, but if we continue to bank on the 1.2 billion dollar fairy to dredge the river, we are as dumb as the politicians who promised us a economic boom from the Super Bowl.