Seminole County emergency leaders are taking steps to ensure a key hurricane response tool remains funded — even if the state stops paying for it. The platform, called WebEOC, connects public safety, logistics, operations and field teams through live dashboards, alerts, and reporting. Emergency management teams across Florida rely on it to coordinate disaster response, from requesting generators, temporary dams and other critical infrastructure.

Seminole County commissioners pushed back hard against LYNX during a budget work session this week, raising pointed questions about skyrocketing paratransit costs, a shifting funding formula and the county’s future role in Central Florida’s regional transit system.

Seminole County’s on-demand “SCOUT” micro-transit service keeps growing — but passengers say the wait times still need improvement since the transportation service first hit the road. Now, the county is hoping $1.5 million in state funding will continue to support its mission to make the service faster, more accessible and better connected for the thousands of riders who depend on it every day.

The Seminole County Property Appraiser estimates that the governor’s property tax proposal would result in a reduction of $409 million in tax revenue for the county.

Seminole County is applying for up to $10 million in federal funding for a project to improve traffic and safety at several intersections.

K-12 public schools across the Central Florida area are facing budget pressure as the state continues to allocate education funds to private and home-school students by using voucher programs.

Zebra Coalition which helps LGBTQ homeless says it missed out on critical state funding that would help with a renovation project to expand efforts to give kids a home.