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Osceola County's $2.6 billion fiscal 2024 budget includes nearly $750 million in capital projects.
This week, the Osceola County Board of County Commissioners approved a $2.6 billion county budget for the 2024 fiscal year, which begins in October.
Prior to adding in capital projects like road expansions and new fire stations, the proposed budget stood at $1.693 billion in September when the budget-assembling process began.
Those transportation projects — the Simpson Road widening is ongoing, Partin Settlement will begin next month, and Neptune Road, Boggy Creek Road and Poinciana Boulevard are very close to starting — added $731 million to the budget.
Opening fire stations on Boggy Creek Road and Calypso Cay, replacing a Poinciana station and one on Westside Boulevard, purchasing land for a new Fire Station 81 and securing new equipment added $22.8 million. The County was recently awarded a $5.4 million Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant in order to hire more 21 positions to fill the two new stations.
Other projects included a third year of Osceola Prosper, offering county graduates of the Class of 2024 free tuition at Valencia College or Osceola Technical College, a new Partin Settlement Road bridge over Florida’s Turnpike as part of the widening project, expansion and renovations at the Osceola Correctional Facility.
