City Council will get update on Fire Station #5 construction at workshop

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The City Council will conduct a workshop on Wednesday, March 29, at 1:30 p.m. — right before its scheduled meeting — to get an update on the Fire Station #5 construction, as well as the project’s anticipated costs.

According to the meeting agenda posted on www.apopka.net, the Fire Department and Miller Construction will present the project’s details.

The first new one in 19 years, Fire Station #5 will be located at 1685 Firehouse Lane. It will have frontage on Jason Dwelley Parkway, which runs from Ponkan Road to Kelly Park Road on the east side of the city’s Northwest Recreation Complex.

The cost is expected to be about $1 million, and the fire department hopes to open the station by this November.

Fire Chief Chuck Carnesale and his staff are already planning for a sixth fire station that will be located near the site of where the new Florida Hospital Apopka campus is being built. That station will likely be open within the next 2-3 years.

Instead of being on the first Wednesday of April as the schedule normally calls for, the next meeting of the City Council meeting will immediately follow the workshop.

City Commissioner Kyle Becker will be out of town the first week of April accepting an award from his company. He requested that the meeting date be changed so he wouldn’t miss a meeting. The rest of the City Council approved the request.

The change means there will be only one meeting in April, on April 19 at 7 p.m.

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