Ralph Boza - Building Automation Technician
Jose Dominguez - Application Analyst
History
Collier County was created in 1923 from Lee County. It was named for Barron Collier, a New York City advertising mogul and real estate developer who had moved into Southwest Florida and established himself as a prominent land owner. He agreed to build the Tamiami Trail for what was then Lee County (Lee, Collier, Hendry, Glades & Charlotte Counties) in exchange for favorable consideration with the state legislature to have a county named for him.
Geography
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,305 square miles (5,970 km²), of which, 2,025 square miles (5,246 km²) of it is land and 280 square miles (724 km²) of it (12.13%) is water. This makes Collier county the largest county in the state of Florida. Virtually the entire southeastern portion of the county lies within the Big Cypress National Preserve. The northernmost portion of Everglades National Park extends into the southern coastal part of the county.
Collier County is the sole county in the Naples-Marco Island Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Miguel Caraballo - Building Automation Technician/AutoCAD talks with Nick Springate
Frank Sanchez - Facilities Service Writer
