During a discussion of depressed roads and streets and potholes, Lee County Commissioner Frank Mann told members of the Lehigh Community Council that millions of dollars are spent annually of Lehigh roads.
“And this year, we have passed a budget to award $1.3 million in road improvements just to Lehigh Acres. That’s up from a million spent last year,” Mann told the council in the April meeting.
“The $1.3 million is earmarked in the budget recently passed for the new fiscal year. This year’s million dollars has been doled out to repair Lehigh area streets and repair potholes,”, Mann said.
“In the new budget, we are going to also start later this year are the improvements for Homestead Road,” he continued.
Homestead Rd cost has increased from 21 Million to 26 million dollars.
Mann reminded members of the size of Lehigh and said there is a master plan for road work throughout the community.
Mann noted, along with Yasin, that demolition was scheduled to begin within the next few weeks of a bank building next to Murphy Gas on Lee Boulevard.
The spot will the site of Culvers, a new restaurant chain.
“There is a significant flag pole there and they want to offer it to the community to be located in the so-called nickel sign area,” he said.
The area is known for the “Welcome to Lehigh” sign.
“What they need is for someone to come and take the flagpole down before the building is demolished,”, he said. “The American Legion has promised to store the flagpole, but someone is needed with knowledge of how to pull up a flag pole that may be buried in enough cement to keep it standing.”
Flags of the nature being discussed must be lowered at night if they are not illuminated by lights. Who is going to pay for the lighting had not been decided when it was brought up several months ago.