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Venice adopts FY2026 budget and final tax levy; council sets 3.845-mill operating rate
Summary
The Venice City Council approved changes to the fiscal year 2025–26 budget, set the operating millage at the rolled-back rate of 3.845 mills and adopted the FY2026 budget ordinance. Two separate votes produced a 6–1 tally on the tax levy ordinance and a unanimous vote on the budget ordinance.
The Venice City Council approved changes to the fiscal year 2025–26 budget and adopted ordinances setting the city's final tax levy and official budget. The council approved a change that reduces the operating millage to the rolled-back rate of 3.845 mills, reducing budgeted general-fund revenue by $419,000; the ordinance adopting the final levy passed 6-1. The ordinance adopting the official FY2026 budget passed unanimously.
Finance Director Linda Seni told the council the only change since the Sept. 9 budget public hearing was to "reduce the millage from 3.9041 to the rollback rate of 3.845 mills," and she said that change decreases budgeted general-fund revenue by $419,000. The taxing-authority statement read at the public hearing shows the operating millage to be…
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