City sees $4.1 million in Hurricane Milton costs
Hurricane Milton may have been mostly a welcome miss for Cape Coral but is proving to be costly nonetheless.
Cape Coral City Council will consider a resolution to deal with an estimated total of $4.1 million in storm-related expenses at Wednesday’s meeting.
Interim Assistant City Manager Mark Mason said last week the amount encompasses all the expenses incurred during the emergency period related to Milton. The pre-positioned contracts include disaster management and administrative services, disaster debris, emergency food services and substantial damage inspection services. The city also had to engage to obtain services of vac trucks and generators.
Some of those requested amounts and vendors include CERES for $2,000,000 for debris removal; Tetra Tech for disaster emergency debris removal monitoring services and disaster management services for $400,000, Badger for vac trucks for $663,971; LIG Rentals for generators for $500,000 C.A.P. Government for inspectors for $150,000 and Je Payne, Inc. for inspectors for $100,000;.
Mason said they would have been looking to get approval after the fact for everything they needed to have in place and ready to go as a result of an emergency and recovery. He said expenses are reimbursable to an extent from a timing standpoint.
At the same workshop, Ilczyszyn gave an update about trash, yard waste and hurricane debris. He said they are trying to be done with the collection before Thanksgiving.
“We are looking at about six weeks,” Ilczyszyn said, adding that they had double barrel haulers and it took three months following Hurricane Ian. “We were over the 90 days to get through the second pass.”
He said by volume, they will be ahead of where they were with Hurricane Ian.
“We are looking at basically having our one and only pass done within six weeks,” Ilczyszyn said.
The 4:30 p.m. City Council meeting will be held Wednesday, Oct. 30, in Council Chambers, 1015 Cultural Park Blvd. The meeting is open to the public.