Seven million almost falls through the cracks

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Inaction on seven million dollars in road-improvement money pending from the Florida Department of Transportation was one of several self-described uncomfortable topics that Commissioner Betsy Barfield raised recently at the Jefferson County Commission meeting. Barfield told the commission that she knew some people thought that she picked on them inordinately. She could not, however, in good conscience be aware of problems and not bring them up, she said.