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Coconut Creek adopts 2026 budget, sets 6.8988 millage and raises fire and solid-waste assessments
Summary
The Coconut Creek City Commission on Sept. 15 tentatively adopted a 6.8988 operating millage and approved the fiscal year 2026 budget and assessment rate increases for fire rescue and solid waste to cover rising costs.
The City Commission of the City of Coconut Creek on Sept. 15 adopted a tentative operating millage rate of 6.8988 mills for the 2026 fiscal year, approved the city’s fiscal year 2026 budget and approved higher assessment rates for fire rescue and solid-waste services.
Finance Director Peter Guay told the commission the proposed operating millage “represents a 6.47% increase over the rollback rate of 6.4793, computed pursuant to state law,” and that adopting the 6.8988 rate is necessary to sustain current service levels. Guay said the millage figure was the same as the rate listed on the notices mailed to property owners in August.
The commission also moved to adopt the city’s budget for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1, 2025, and ends Sept. 30, 2026. The ordinance authorizing the budget includes standard authorizations to continue trust and grant funds, local and federal law-enforcement trust funds, the transportation surtax fund, re-appropriation of unspent economic development funds, and a specific re-appropriation of $500,000 from fund balance reserves for 9-1-1 dispatch services.
Guay said the budget process began months earlier and was guided by a March 25 strategic planning workshop. He told the commission the adopted budget “addresses our community’s needs, desires and priorities” and continues three capital priorities: Fire Station 113, police department renovations and the Main Street project.
On assessments, the commission approved a 10% increase in the fire protection assessment for fiscal year 2026. Guay summarized that the single-family fire assessment will rise from $302.96 to $333.26 and that multifamily rates will increase from $272.67 to $299.94; the adjustment was described as needed to ensure full cost recovery and to reflect annual operating cost increases and provisions in the fire collective-bargaining agreement.
The commission also approved a solid-waste assessment increase for single-family homes to $326.54 for fiscal year 2026, a 4.5% rise from the current $312.48, the finance director said. Guay told the commission the change is set to cover the cost to provide services.
All actions on the millage, budget and both assessments were presented during public hearings; no members of the public signed in to speak on these items during the meeting. Each ordinance and resolution was moved and seconded and carried on recorded roll-call votes with all voting commissioners in favor.
The budget ordinance becomes effective for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2025. Notices related to the proposed property-tax and assessment rates had been mailed to property owners in August as required by state law.
