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Orange County sets tentative millages and adopts $8.32 billion tentative budget
Summary
The Orange County Board of County Commissioners on Sept. 4 approved tentative millage rates and a balanced fiscal year 2026 budget totaling about $8.318 billion; the budget allocates more than $1.2 billion to public safety and includes further funding for housing, homelessness, and transportation.
The Orange County Board of County Commissioners on Sept. 4 unanimously approved tentative millage rates for multiple districts and adopted a tentative fiscal year 2026 budget totaling $8,318,172,170.
Kirk Peterson, director of the Office of Management and Budget, read the proposed millage rates and the percentage change from each rollback rate. He said the countywide rollback rate was 4.2068 mills and the proposed countywide millage was 4.4347 mills, a 5.42% increase over the rollback rate. Peterson also read proposed rates for a series of municipal service taxing units and neighborhood improvement districts; he reported an aggregate proposed millage of 6.9547…
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