Polk County adopts multiple final assessment rates for 2025-26 following public hearings

Polk County commissioners approved a set of final rate resolutions that will place several special assessments on the 2025 tax bill. County Attorney staff recommended adoption of the resolutions after holding the required public hearings; commissioners passed the measures by voice vote with no public speakers for those items.

Assistant County Attorney Noah Milov presented the resolutions covering multiple assessment areas and MSBUs, including the Master Inwood Street Lighting MSBU (proposed single-family ERU rates: $36 Southwest, $46.12 Central, $44.09 Northern), the Skyview Utility MSBU (proposed single-family assessment $95.12 and $0.28), Island Club West ($280.88 per parcel), and the East Bimini Bay MSBU ($319.82 per parcel). The county attorney's office recommended adoption for nuisance abatement and excessive bulk-waste assessment rolls under Polk County Ordinances O8-047 and 18-016, respectively; the county also designated the assistant county attorney to certify the final assessment rolls to the tax collector pursuant to section 197.3632, Florida Statutes.

These items were discussed sequentially under the A1–A10 agenda series and approved by the board. No individual motions or vote tallies naming movers and seconders were recorded in the hearing transcript; each measure passed on a standard voice vote with the board saying "Aye" and the chair announcing the motion carries. The actions take effect as the county proceeds to certify the rolls to the tax collector as required by statute.