Canal payment plan gets first approval by Longboat commission

Canal payment plan gets first approval by Longboat commission

The vote that was years in the making was unanimous at Monday’s Longboat Key Town Commission meeting.“This isn’t a conversation that started last week or last year or last decade. It’s actually been much longer than that,” Town Manager Howard Tipton said before a discussion on canal dredge funding began once again at Town Hall.Canals were last dredged in 2003, and conversations about establishing a way to fund a continuous dredging program for t…