*Does not include Sheriff's Office, Courts and Constitutionals

Annual Property Tax revenue generated in Lehigh Acres:

• General Fund - 3.7623 mills = $29,403,554
• Unincorporated MSTU - 0.8398 mills = $6,563,300
• Library – 0.4714 mills = $3,684,139
• All Hazards – 0.0693 mills = $541,601

The following investments in Lehigh Acres reflects capital improvements (CIP) made within the last four (4) years and facilities/projects operating budgets from fiscal year 2021 to date:

• Cabio Canal Crossing at 4th and 5th St. W $389,050


• Buckingham Rd and Orange River Blvd Signal $555,626


• Buckingham Rd and Cemetery Rd Intersection Improvements Intersection Study and Design $478,800


• Joel Blvd and SR 80 Traffic Study and Conceptual Design $99,964


• Ladyfish Canal Crossing $269,016


• Lee Blvd and Gunnery Rd Intersection Improvements $404,159


• Lee Blvd and Joan Ave Signal $2,198,950


• Lehigh Irma Mast Arms $2,708,436


• Design of Orange River Blvd Sidewalk $595,797


• Bell Blvd Sidewalks $4,504,283.00


• Roadway Resurfacing $27,111,385.00


• Alico Road Connector Design $13,820,793


• Sunshine Blvd right-of-way $8912,550.00


• Road, Bridge, Canal and Traffic Maintenance $69,000,000


• Buckingham and Gunnery Roundabout Design $5,083,061.00 (paid for by a grant funding)


• Richmond Ave. Pedestrian Bridge $5,083,061.00 (paid for by a grant funding)


• Lehigh Safe Routes to School sidewalk$216,000.00 (paid for by grant funding)

• Able Canal Greenway (includes design costs for new facility) $1,015,657.00


• Frank Mann Preserve $185,533.00


• Lehigh Acres Community Pool $1,346,081.00


• Lehigh Acres Middle School (includes design and/or construction costs for park expansion, irrigation replacement and restroom remodel projects) $16,690,578.00


• Lehigh Acres Senior Citizen Center (includes construction costs for remodel project) $1,063446,.00


• Lehigh Acres Trailhead Park $339,241.00


• Veterans Park $2,114,045.00


• Veterans Academy of the Arts $169,193.00


• Veterans Park Recreation Center $2,822,165.00


• West Marsh Preserve $74,357.00

• Surface Water Management Program - Maintenance of outfall drainage and flow-ways to Lehigh Acres (Bedman Creek, Orange River and Hickey Creek) $1,973,367.00


• Well Permitting & Inspections Program - Approximately 51% of the well permits were in Lehigh Acres $2,083,745.00


• Lee County secured a $15,500,000 Florida Department of Envoronmental Protection (FDEP) grant on behalf of LAMSID for the Frank Mann Preserve Project (GS-10) as part of the $25 million Governor’s 2023-2024 budget for the Caloosahatchee River

• Major Maintenance: HVAC, Life Safety upgrades, irrigation and plumbing, pressure washing, exterior painting, asphalt parking lots, technology, miscellaneous maintenance: $440,943.73


• CIP: Design and construction of shade structures: $640,085.00


• Reserves: Purchase of land at the intersection of Milwaukee Boulevard & Homestead Road for future library site: $1,350,000.00


• Total cost of operation with materials: $10,842,000.91


• Total visitors: 961,317

• New flooring $44,518.53 for substation


• Replace 6 pumps at East County Library - $14,976


• Replace flooring in meeting room damaged from emergency exit door water at East County Library - $20,191


• Paint the exterior of the LCSO Gun Range and K-9 building - $43,781


• Concrete repairs at the baseball walking area at Lehigh Community Park - $4,300


• Install power pedestals and transformers at Veterans Park (labor only) - $20,500

• Tax Collector, Supervisor of Elections, Health Department – complete $7,052,085.00


• Clerk of Courts - the anticipated cost of this phase of the project is 3,812,770.00

• 48,850 permitting records


• 9,943 driveway permits


• Inspections salaries/fringe and operating: $10,756,201.24

• Construction of new Lehigh Acres Park & Ride Facility was completed April 23, 2025, and began operating at this location the folloowing day. Project was built on time and under budget. The initial project estimate was $6,128,698. The actual project had savings of $612,209 with the total cost: $5,517,489.00


• LeeTran continues to provide the route 110 and 515 in Lehigh Acres and has implemented a 110 express route to and from the Lehigh Acres Park & Ride and Edison Mall Transfer Center. The express service makes fewer stops, allowing faster more direct service with frequency less than an hour. Annual cost of service: $2,623,505.00


• Mobility-on-Demand* in Lehigh Acres launched March 2023 and provided nearly 7,000 trips in the first five months and 18,000 in the past year, from May 2024 through April 2025. MoD has a dedicated pick/drop-off area at the Lehigh Acres Park & Ride, where passengers may further their trip into Fort Myers via Route 110. Annual cost of service: $481,067.00


• • Due to the demand for door-to-door service within Lehigh Acres, LeeTran applied for, and was awarded, a Service Development grant for FY26 adding two additional vehicles and included a slight addition to the MoD zone encompassing the Lehigh Acres Library. Grant awarded in the amount of $901,378.00

*Microtransit or Mobility-on-Demand (MoD) is a shared-ride on-demand transportation mode like Uber and other ride hailing services that utilizes smaller vehicles and innovative technology to augment and complement traditional fixed-route transit services. MoD allows passengers to use the ULTRA on-Demand Transit application on their mobile device to request rides in a designated area at a flat rate of $3.00

• Electric - 1,617 households, consisting of 4,536 individuals, received $3,062,489.70 in electric assistance


• Water - 210 households, consisting of 511 individuals, received $156,178.92 in water assistance.


• Down Payment Assistance: 8 households, consisting of 19 individuals, received $207,690.00 in down payment/closing costs assistance


• Housing rehab: 52 households, consisting of 110 individuals, received $1,243,186.46 in housing rehab assistance


• Rent/Mortgage: 346 households, consisting of 1,137 individuals, received $1,283,684.35 in rent/mortgage assistance


• o Contracts – Funding for Non-Profit Organizations: For October 2024 to September 2025, there are 37 Partnering for Results contracts covering 50 programs and 3 State Mandated contracts. These contracts address human service needs throughout Lee County; however, there is no specific data available for the number of individuals served in Lehigh Acres.

• 15,533 enforcement cases; 41% of countywide cases.


• Enforcement salaries/fringe and operating: $5,150,261.16

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• Animal Impoundment $4,026,838.64

• Illegal dump collection and disposal: collected and disposed of 9,385 tons of material $1,475,225.77


• Lee County Sheriff’s Office detail to combat illegal dumping $50,000.00


• Recycle carts distributed $784,316.00


• Household Chemical Waste
  • Community Collection Events: $51,000.00
  • Received and collected illegally dumped material collected by Natural Resources Pollution Prevention: $228,000.00
  • Topaz Ct drop-off facility assisted 737 customers from Lehigh Acres; safely disposing of 7,319 pieces of hazardous waste and >strong>766 pieces of electronics


• Environmental Specialists dedicated to Lehigh Acres $841,825.00