Franklin County Commissioners are applying for money to remove a number of derelict vessels from local waters.
The board has agreed to apply for a little over 215 thousand dollars to remove 15 derelict vessels.
If the funding is approved it would come from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; The vessel removal will likely be done in the fall..
The county would be required to kick in about 70 thousand dollars of its own money which it has available in its boating improvement trust fund.
Its likely the county won't get everything it wants.
There isn’t much money available; because of the demand for limited funding, it’s likely that Franklin County will get about 100 thousand dollars to remove as a many bats as it can afford to.
The board said it will also look at applying for additional money from an environmental clean-up fund to hopefully remove more of the boats.
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