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Fort Myers Beach council trims budget, sets tentative millage at 1.15 mills
Summary
After weeks of review and public comment, the Town Council adopted a tentative budget and set a not-to-exceed millage of 1.15 mills, following staff proposals that cut programs and reallocated funds to close a $1.19 million structural deficit.
Lede The Fort Myers Beach Town Council on Wednesday set a tentative ad valorem millage rate of 1.15 mills and approved a package of budget adjustments intended to close a $1,191,000 shortfall, after hearing public complaints about a previously proposed 26% increase and deliberating multiple departmental cuts and fund transfers.
Nut graf Council finance staff laid out a plan that combines personnel and program reductions, reassignments of costs to permit and other enterprise funds, and use of loan and grant resources to balance next year’s operating budget without raising the rate to the previously advertised maximum. The council’s tentative millage vote — 3–2 — establishes the ceiling; the final rate and the budget will be adopted after a second public hearing on Sept. 24.
Body Residents used the meeting’s public-comment period to press the council on the tax proposal. “I am here to dispute the town’s previous vote and the town…
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