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County proposes $2 million recurring repair fund, budgets $1.7M for sheriff hangar lease; roofs and in‑house repairs flagged as savings
Summary
Construction and Property Management asked the county to fund a $2 million repair and maintenance decision package and told commissioners that a Pinellas County Sheriff hangar at Clearwater Airport will add about $1.7 million to FY26 costs to reach the contracted $2.3 million annual lease.
Pinellas County’s newly consolidated Construction and Property Management (CPM) department told commissioners its FY26 general‑fund budget would rise largely because of rental and lease cost increases and a proposed repair program for aging county facilities.
The department said operating and rental increases include a $1.7 million addition in FY26 to cover the remaining annual cost for the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office hangar at Clearwater Airport. That lease was negotiated in 2023 with an anticipated full cost about $2.3 million a year; the budget already contains prior year allocations of roughly $600,000 and staff said the sheriff is expected to…
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