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WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — A $1.75 million check will be presented Friday to Pasco County for a funding bill passed during the 2025 Florida Legislative Session.
The funding will be used to build a 5-foot wide sidewalk between Curley Road/SR54 and Wells Road, where three local schools are located.
State Senator Danny Burgess pushed for the funding bill after learning of an effort by a Pasco County eighth-grader to have the sidewalk built.
Weightman Middle School’s Joshua Patrick said he attended local meetings, met with local leaders and even launched social media pages to push for the sidewalk, after noticing dozens of kids walking and biking to school, at risk from the busy traffic on Curley Road.
“I noticed kids walking through drainage ditches, through mud, dodging cars on the side of the road, and that’s just unacceptable,” said Patrick. “You need to be able to get to school safely and that’s not a safe thing. You are walking to class covered in mud and water, or you, a kid could have got hit by a car, and never want that to happen.”
Construction of the sidewalk is already underway, and it will be completed in the coming months.
A check to help with funding of the sidewalk will be presented outside of Weightman Middle School on Friday.
Patrick has been invited to attend the presentation.
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Jason Lanning
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