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Palm Beach Gardens sets final millage at 5.0537 mills and adopts FY2026 budget
Summary
At a Sept. 18 council meeting the Palm Beach Gardens City Council adopted a final millage rate of 5.0537 mills — 6.64% above the rollback rate — and approved the fiscal year 2026 budget on final reading. Both measures passed 5-0.
The City Council of Palm Beach Gardens on Sept. 18 approved a final operating and total millage rate of 5.0537 mills and adopted the city budget for fiscal year 2026, voting 5-0 on both measures.
Ariane Panzak, the city’s finance administrator, told the council the vote at the second and final budget hearing would set the millage at 5.0537 mills, which staff said is 6.64% higher than the rollback rate of 4.7391 mills. Panzak presented the required TRIM (Truth in Millage) disclosures and said there were no changes since the first budget hearing.
The council approved Resolution 54-2025, which sets the millage rate and directs the city clerk to forward a certified copy to the Palm Beach County property appraiser and tax collector, and Ordinance 11-2025 on second and final reading, which adopts the budget for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2025 and ending Sept. 30, 2026. Both votes were recorded as 5-0.
Council members did not request changes during the hearing. Panzak confirmed the recommended millage and the budget reflected figures previously presented; no public speakers submitted comment cards on the items.
Under state TRIM guidelines, the city publicly stated the municipality name, the final millage rate, the rollback rate and the percentage change before voting. The clerk read the resolution and ordinance titles into the record before the motions and votes.
The resolution requires the clerk to transmit the certified resolution to the county property appraiser and tax collector within three days of adoption, as stated in the document read at the hearing.
