Lee County Commissioners Tuesday unanimously appointed deputy County Manager Dave Harner as manager and voted to negotiate a contract for a new county manager with the announced July 31 retirement of current County Manager Roger Desjarlais.
The Lee County Board of County Commissioners inched forward on April 18 as the elected board continues to determine the fate of the Lee Count Civic Center compl
Some hurricane shelters in Southwest Florida will be getting major upgrades that will increase their ability to handle Category 5 storms, the most dangerous and potentially catastrophic hurricanes.
The state Department of Economic Opportunity has awarded more than $16 million in grants to make improvements to buildings in Lee and Collier counties to increase their ability to withstand major hurricanes.
The grants include funds to increase the hardening of two of the region s largest shelters so they can tolerate winds of 170 mph and more safely shelter some 7,000 people.
Hurricanes with winds over 157 mph are considered Category 5 storms, the most dangerous, by the widely cited Saffir-Simpson scale that rates storms by intensity.