City gets $300,000 grant for sewer system study

Lazaro Aleman ECB Publishing, Inc. Monticello officials recently signed a 25-page agreement with the Florida Department of Commerce (FDOC) that assures the city of getting a $300,000 grant for a study of a potential capital improvement project. The one-year agreement, which the Monticello City Council signed on Tuesday, Sept. 2, is effective until Feb. 21, 2026. The funding is to be used for a study to determine the feasibility of rehabilitating or replacing the sewer transmission system along U.S. 19. and its severely aged and deteriorated lift stations. The system runs from the interstate interchange to the treatment plant on Mamie Scott Drive. The funding is for phase 1 of what the