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Lee County sets budget tone: commissioners back flat departmental budgets, ask staff for sales-tax and Civic Center scenarios
Summary
Commissioners endorsed asking departments to submit flat budgets for next year while directing staff to prepare multiple infrastructure-sales-tax scenarios and cost options for a potential Civic Center replacement or multipurpose facility.
Lee County commissioners signaled consensus at a strategic planning workshop to ask departments to present budgets equal to the current year's spending as staff prepares for uncertain state-level changes to property-tax policy.
Finance Director Pete recommended departments submit budgets at the same dollar level as the current year and delay additions until revenue estimates…
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