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Oviedo council weighs millage hikes, fees and assessments if Amendment 3 shifts local revenue
Summary
Council and staff reviewed options to replace potential lost revenue if a homestead-amendment passes: raise millage, adopt non-ad valorem assessments (fire fee), pursue joint stations, or make budget cuts; staff warned state revenue projections are uncertain.
City officials in Oviedo spent most of a work session laying out practical ways the city could recover revenue if statewide constitutional changes reduce property-based collections. Staff described why state economists project declines in consumption-based revenue and how population inflows only partially offset that trend.
Council members listed three broad responses: raise the millage rate, adopt fees or non-ad valorem assessments (for example a fire fee), or cut services. One staff speaker described the forecasting rationale: "They just think that their revenue collections over time will be going down, because...we've had the American Rescue Plan Act...and we've had the COVID-nineteen stimulus money passed through our economy and things like that...Where all that money is just about spent." The group also discussed rate studies, potential RFP costs, and the legal differences between millage, non-ad valorem assessments and MSTUs.
