News-Press- Interesting to hear that if we were hit by a Category 5 hurricane that the Lee County emergency operations center would be underwater in the Storm Surge! It was designed in the 1970′s for half of the Lee County population. The county commission decided on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 that it could not wait any longer to move head and replace the 34-year old emergency operations center. The cost for the project will range at about $15.3 million dollars!
The new facility will be built 8 feet higher, well above flood-waters. It will offer more than double the space for a command center and include state-of-the-art communications technology. With the county facing budget cuts, this is an unwelcome bill, but in most of the opinion a well needed one.
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