FAC News Clips

COUNTY  Fort Myers Weekly  Lee commissioners award $89.25M in grants for affordable housing projects   The Lee County commissioners voted recently to award $89.25 million to eight affordable housing development [...]

FAC   Highlands News Sun  Two commissioners named to FAC committees   Two Highlands County commissioners have been appointed as policy leaders on various Florida Association of Counties’ committees.    [...]

COUNTY  WUWF  U.S. plan doubles the acres designated as critical habitat for manatees in Florida   The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Monday announced a plan to more than [...]

COUNTY  Positively Osceola   Osceola County Approves Higher Mobility Fees to Support Transportation Infrastructure Amid Rapidly Growing Development   The Osceola County Board of Commissioners voted 4-1 on Monday to [...]

FAC  Alachua Chronicle  Cornell reappointed to NACo Environment, Energy and Land Use Committee  ALACHUA COUNTY, Fla. – Alachua County Commissioner Ken Cornell was recently reappointed to the National Association of [...]

COUNTY  WFSU  A Florida county may turn a ship into the world's largest artificial reef   A Florida county is in talks to acquire a storied but aging ocean liner in a [...]

COUNTY  WFTV  ‘Drownings are preventable’: Seminole County first responders receive drowning prevention training  SANFORD, Fla. — Summer is winding down, but the work of first responders in Seminole County never [...]

COUNTY  Citrus Chronicle   Citrus County’s future Is a group effort  Citrus County just won one of only three awards given by the National Association of Counties for excellence in [...]

WTSP  Gov. Ron DeSantis grants $2.8 million for Citrus County development   The money came from the state's Job Growth Grant Fund.    Spectrum News  Volusia County helps nonprofits with [...]

Lake Okeechobee News   County commission honors Junior Olympians   OKEECHOBEE — Lake O’ Elite Athletics members were honored by the Okeechobee County Commission at their Aug. 29 meeting.    [...]