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HEART presents FY26 budget to Temple Terrace; charter amendment to raise transit millage could come back to city
Summary
Hillsborough Area Regional Transit (HEART) presented its proposed FY2026 operating budget ($125.2M), capital budget ($74.5M) and five-year capital plan, and told the City of Temple Terrace the agency may return seeking member-approval of a charter amendment to raise a 0.5 mill transit levy toward 1 mill.
HEART (Hillsborough Area Regional Transit) representatives told the Temple Terrace City Council they are seeking input on the agency’s preliminary FY2026 operating and capital budgets and the five-year capital plan and clarified that the presentation this evening was informational, not an action item.
Scott Drangle, HEART executive director, introduced interim CFO Loretta Kirk and Melanie Williams, HEART’s director of budgets and grants, who presented the numbers. Williams described a proposed operating budget of $125,221,631, a proposed capital budget of $74,463,155, and a combined FY26 proposal of $199,684,786. She said proposed operating revenues assume a 0.5 mill ad valorem (property) levy projected conservatively at 95% of collections…
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