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Sarasota County outlines 2025 priorities: stormwater department, wastewater upgrade and $411 million for hurricane recovery
Summary
Sarasota County’s 2025 highlights emphasize a newly established stormwater department, conversion of the Bee Ridge Water Reclamation Facility to advanced treatment, a new Fire Administration Building, a NACo award for mosquito management, UF/IFAS community programs, and more than $411 million in federal recovery funds directed through Resilience RQ.
Sarasota County released a narrated summary of 2025 accomplishments that emphasized investments in stormwater management, wastewater treatment, hurricane recovery and conservation. An unidentified speaker in the county presentation said the year’s work is meant to strengthen resilience and service delivery across the community.
The presentation said the county’s population in 2025 was 479,027 residents and referenced the county’s land area in the narration (transcript shows the area figure as “5 75 square miles,” which is unclear in the transcript). “In 2025, the County is home to 479,027 residents,” the narrator said.
Among the major operational changes, the county officially established its own stormwater department in 2025.…
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