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Brevard commissioners direct staff to study millage reset to close major facility and infrastructure gaps
Summary
After a detailed budget briefing that outlined multi‑million dollar needs across facilities, roads, parks and utilities, the Board of County Commissioners voted 4‑1 to ask staff to evaluate how much a change in the general‑fund millage would raise and which critical projects it would fund.
County commissioners on March 17 asked staff to analyze how resetting the county’s general‑fund millage could be used to address a large backlog of deferred maintenance and capital projects.
At a budget workshop, county staff gave a high‑level overview of facility, public‑works and fleet capital needs, noting older county buildings, a backlog of HVAC and elevator repairs and a multi‑year list of projects that were not funded in the recommended budget. The presenter said the county manages roughly 154 buildings and 2.6 million square feet of facility space and that many assets were built in the 1970s and 1980s and…
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