Subject:
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Resolutions to adopt final millage rates and budgets for Fiscal Year 2025 (second public hearing).
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Recommended Action:
Recommended Action
Following a public hearing, adopt resolutions approving the final millage rates and budgets for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025.
• On July 16, 2024, the County Administrator delivered the FY25 Proposed Budget to the Board of County Commissioners (Board).
o The schedule of changes proposed was presented to the Board.
• The maximum ad valorem millage rates were then certified to the Property Appraiser on July 30th, 2024, for inclusion in the Truth in Millage (TRIM) notices.
• The TRIM notices were mailed to all county property taxpayers on August 19, 2024.
• The first public hearing to adopt the tentative millage rates and budgets for FY25 took place on September 5, 2024.
• The meeting has been duly noticed by the "Notice of Proposed Tax Increase” and the “Summary of Proposed Budget” legal ads, that were published in the September 15, 2024, edition of the Tampa Bay Times.
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Summary:
Summary
At this hearing, the Board of County Commissioners (Board) will consider adoption of resolutions that approve final millage rates and budgets for the various entities for which the Board is the taxing authority. The order of business and content of this Public Hearing on the Fiscal Year (FY25) 2025 Budget are mandated by Florida Statutes.
Background Information:
On July 16, 2024, the County Administrator delivered the FY25 Proposed Budget to the Board. The proposed ad valorem millage rates were then certified to the Property Appraiser on July 30th, 2024, for inclusion in the Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices. The TRIM notice sets the tentative millage rates, which are the maximum millage rates. TRIM notices were mailed to all county property taxpayers on August 19, 2024, and also contained the notice of the time and place of the first public hearing held on September 5, 2024. At the first public hearing held on September 5, 2024 the board adopted the Tentative FY25 millage rates and budget.
Notice for the second and final Public Hearing was published in the Tampa Bay Times on September 15, 2024, in accordance with Florida Statutes Section 200.065.
Fiscal Impact:
Final approval of the FY25 millage rates and budgets for County-wide, Municipal Services Taxing Units, and other taxing districts is required to comply with Florida Statutes. This will conclude the process of approving appropriations for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2024.
Staff Member Responsible:
Chris Rose, Director, Office of Management and Budget
Partners:
Constitutional Officers, Independent Agencies, and the Public
Attachments:
Resolutions Adopting FY25 Final Millages and Budgets
Schedule A - List of Millages Handout
Notice of Proposed Tax Increase
Legal Ad
FY25 Tentative Budget is available for review at Board Records and posted on the County’s internet website ()