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Key Colony Beach adopts FY2025–26 budget, sets millage at 2.82%
Summary
On Sept. 18, 2025 the Key Colony Beach City Commission adopted the FY2025–26 budget and set a final millage rate of 2.82, with commissioners recording a unanimous roll‑call approval. Commissioners reported an average property tax increase of 6.5%.
The City Commission of Key Colony Beach adopted the city’s final budget for Oct. 1, 2025–Sept. 30, 2026 and set the final millage rate at 2.82 during a public hearing held Sept. 18, 2025 at Marble Hall. Vice‑Mayor Doug Colonell chaired the meeting; Mayor Freddie Foster attended remotely.
Commissioner Tom Harding reported no substantive changes to the financials beyond wording updates and told the commission the proposal reflects “an average tax increase of 6.5%, and a proposed millage rate increase from 2.76% to 2.82%,” which the record calculates as a 2.17% increase in the millage. Harding also stated there were no changes to the stormwater or wastewater budgets. The commission posed no questions.
Vice‑Mayor Colonell read Resolution 2025‑10 to adopt the final millage rate and Resolution 2025‑11 to adopt the final budget. The meeting record shows the motions as: "Motion made by Commissioner Harding to approve. Commissioner Diehl seconded the motion." Both measures were approved on a roll‑call vote recorded as unanimous. The written minutes record the hearing as adjourning at 5:12 p.m.
The adopted resolutions set the city’s revenue and levy for the coming fiscal year; the record does not specify an effective date beyond the resolutions’ language that they provide for an effective date. Public comment was not received at the hearing.
