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Altamonte Springs commission approves $770,000 settlement in Little Wekiva River repair dispute
Summary
The City Commission approved a $770,000 settlement with contractor Intercounty to resolve litigation over delayed riverbank repairs on the Little Wekiva River after a judge found the city's liquidated-damages clause unenforceable.
The Altamonte Springs City Commission voted Dec. 3 to accept a $770,000 settlement to resolve a lawsuit tied to repair work on portions of the Little Wekiva River.
Mike Sasso of Sasso and Sasso, P.A., the city’s outside counsel in the matter, told the commission that Intercounty was hired to install erosion-control gabions and that work was subcontracted to a firm identified in the transcript as Brownies Septic. Sasso said the project ran ‘‘158 days late’’ and that the contract’s liquidated-damages clause called for $3,645 per day, producing $575,910 in assessed liquidated damages. "We negotiated a resolution of that $719,000 claim for $209,000 — $209,400 to be…
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