CEDAR KEY WELL REPRESENTED AT
LEGISLATIVE GATHERING IN BRONSON
2025 January 10
LEGISLATIVE GATHERING IN BRONSON
2025 January 10
Nearly twenty Cedar Keyans took part in the Levy County Legislative Delegation meeting in Bronson on Tuesday, January 7, from 1 to 3 pm, at the Levy County Commission Auditorium, 310 School Street.
The legislators, Chad Johnson and Stan McClain, came to hear the needs and concerns of Levy County representatives of higher education, school board, elected officials, constitutional appointments, special districts, and citizens. Johnson, State Representative for Florida House District 22, and McClain, State Senator, representing Levy County.
Hear, they did. The Cedar Key Water and Sewer District and the Waccasassa Water and Wastewater Cooperative representatives spoke to the need for regional efforts to provide potable water and proper disposal of wastewater in Levy County, focusing upon the W3C potential pipeline. They thanked the Suwannee River Water Management District and state and federal officials who have made the project viable. Representatives included: Joe Hand, Zim Padgett, Robert Partin, Johnathan Ferguson, Mike Borelli, John Rittenhouse, Sue Colson and Robert Beltran.
They listened further. City of Cedar Key Mayor Sue Colson spoke briefly about the island’s rent difficulties: Hurricane Idalia, Dock Street fire, Hurricane Milton, and Hurricane Helene. She thanked them for all the assistance after each event and intimated that she would see them again.
Cedar Key Aquaculture Association representative Joey Cannon requested that legislators do all they can to support the recently hard-hit aquaculture farming in Cedar Key. He also requested that they support the W3C pipeline as that project will help ensure the cleanliness of the waters upon which aquaculture depends.
In the audience, supporting water personnel and the City of Cedar Key were Rosie Cantwell, Joyce DeHaan, Nita Cox, Jeff Webb, and Mandy and Frank Offerle.
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