The Lee County Long-Term Recovery Task Force hosted 19 community townhalls to hear directly from citizens on what the county could have done better to withstand and recover from Hurricane Ian. Lee County Commissioner Kevin Ruane shared the purpose of the task force with a group from the Southwest Florida Chamber of Commerce.
County releases COVID-19 after-action report. It findings are that the county generally learned its lessons from the hepatitis A outbreak of 2017 and moved quickly to respond. Recommendations generally have to do with bureaucratic internal policies and procedures.