The Apopka City Council last week unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing Mayor Bryan Nelson to execute an agreement with the state for infrastructure maintenance costs totaling almost $175,000.
Under Resolution No. 2025-18, the city of Apopka has put in place a Highway Maintenance Memorandum of Agreement with the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) for the remaining term of one year. The state will pay the city $43,724.25 per quarter, which totals $174,897 per year.
The FDOT has agreements with local governments for infrastructure maintenance that sit within the local governments’ jurisdictional boundaries.
“The types of highway maintenance covered under this agreement are primarily related to ongoing maintenance tasks such as mowing and ditch maintenance,” city engineer Vladimir Simonowski said at the April 16 City Council meeting. “It also includes pothole and sidewalk repair in the road rights-of-way that fall within the project limits. The agreement does not include large tasks such as resurfacing or capacity improvements.”
The agreement does not include large tasks such as resurfacing or roadway capacity improvements because they’re capital projects covered by the FDOT, so usually smaller governments are not involved in those projects, Simonowski explained.
Per the agreement, the project limits are S.R. 436 from the Seminole County line to U.S. 441, and U.S. 441 from Benbow Court to Orange Avenue, according to a city staff report.
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