JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The city moved one step closer to making repairs to a collapsed portion of Liberty Street at Coastline Drive.
The area collapsed into the St. Johns River more than two months ago. It was the second collapse of the road over the past three years.
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The original collapse, which happened in April 2012, was never fixed.
The first collapse was determined to be the fault of a contractor using a 12-ton crane to clean the Berkman Plaza's windows, but the city allocated $750,000 for those repairs. Repair work was set to start on that when the latest collapse happened.
On Tuesday, City Councilwoman Lori Boyer introduced an emergency bill that would reallocate money from that $750,000 to move ahead with a necessary assessment of the damage from the second collapse.
Boyer's emergency bill would earmark $250,000 from the original repairs appropriation specifically to drop the debris from the second roadway collapse into the river. That step is required before an evaluation can be completed on the condition of the rest of the piling structure near the collapse.
The Public Works Department presented a request for the fund transfer last week to the Special CIP Committee, which voted to approve the transfer.
The full council will vote on Boyer's emergency bill in two weeks.