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Boca Raton council adopts $772.2 million budget, keeps millage at 3.6786 mills and funds recycling pilot and public art
Summary
The Boca Raton City Council on a 4–0 vote adopted a $772.2 million fiscal-year 2021 budget and a 3.6786-mill property-tax rate, approved rebudgets totaling $2.892 million, and amended nonprofit allocations to add a $10,000 recycling pilot and $25,000 for public art.
Mayor Scott Singer led the Boca Raton City Council’s virtual final budget hearing in September 2020 and the council adopted the city’s FY2021 budget on a unanimous 4–0 roll call.
The council approved a total budget of $772,200,000, including an operating budget of $503,200,000 and a general fund (property-tax) portion of $187,300,000. City finance staff said the fiscal year runs from Oct. 1, 2020, through Sept. 30, 2021. As the ordinance language read aloud put it, “the total millage rate shall be 3.6786 mills.” Council members and staff said assessed values increased about 4.75% year over year, and presenters estimated an average $300,000 assessed home would see roughly $113 in city property taxes.
Sharon McGuire, the city’s OMB director, described rebudgets and carry-forwards from the prior year: operating rebudgets included $484,100 for the SHIP program and $715,000 for CDBG (totaling $1,199,100); capital rebudgets included $517,700 for police vehicles/equipment, $500,000 for municipal services…
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