Business View Civil Municipal - July 2023

84 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 7 “Every year, the Council allocates enough funding so we can keep up with the maintenance of our roadway system,” she adds. The city is also prioritizing aesthetics when it comes to its many roadways weaving through the city. “We are adding professional landscaping as well as medians for our road networks, and when it comes to addressing safety, we are allocating funding to provide sidewalks, made possible through our very strong program that receives state and federal grants.” The city is also undertaking its first multimodal transportation master plan, emphasizing bicycle-pedestrian safety and exploring other micro-mobility options such as eclectic bikes and scooters. “We want to energize the way we move in the city,” Zambaro explains. The city is also working on different parking solutions and is knee-deep in carrying out a parking study propelled mostly by the city’s knowledge that substantial growth is on the sun-drenched horizon for this expanding region. Yearsley points us toward another key infrastructure initiative that is both timely and essential, given the recent hurricane that led to major damage throughout parts of Florida recently. “The city has really carried out a very significant review of all our public facilities, and we’re talking not only our buildings but also our potable water system,” she comments. “We have developed a number of projects that we think are going to be potentially funded by federal infrastructure investment that we see coming our way,” Yearsley adds. From lessons learned by natural disasters to providing vital services to its valued residents, Zambaro summarizes it best. “We are ensuring that we will have a path on how