A special Escambia County Board of County Commissioner workshop will take place Monday, January 11 to discuss overall goals and objectives for RESTORE Act dollars.

The workshop begins at 1 p.m. at the Kugelman Center for Telecommunications, in the Jean & Paul Amos Performance Studio, at Pensacola State College, located at 1000 College Blvd., Bldg. 23 in Pensacola. Individual projects will not be selected for funding during this workshop, but commissioners will discuss general priorities for what they would like to accomplish with RESTORE funding.

Initial project review for the first round of funding totaling $10.6 million is currently being conducted by the RESTORE Advisory Council, who is tasked with drafting a multi-year implementation plan to present to the Escambia County Board of Commissioners for approval.

Projects not funded in this cycle will be eligible to apply for future funding through an additional $59 million in direct component funding available to Escambia County, with approximately $4 million released annually over 15 years by the U.S. Treasury Department. The funding for the county’s multi-year plan is just one of the many sources of funding associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill.