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Fort Myers council sets millage at 6.5 mills, adopts $891.5M budget
Summary
The Fort Myers City Council on Sept. 15 adopted a 6.5-mill rate for 2025 and approved the fiscal year 2025–26 budget, with a total citywide budget figure staff described as $891,504,537. Council votes on the millage and budget were unanimous in recorded roll calls.
The Fort Myers City Council adopted its 2025 millage rate at 6.5 mills and approved the fiscal year 2025–26 budget during final public hearings on Sept. 15.
Director Tenney (S11) told the council the total budget for the coming fiscal year would be $891,504,537; council then moved and adopted Resolution 2025-115 (millage) and Resolution 2025-116 (budget) by roll call. Mayor Kevin Anderson (S2) praised staff for a decade of successive millage reductions: “this is the 10th year in a row…we have reduced the millage rate,” he said. The clerk recorded an affirmative roll call and the motions carried.
The budget ordinance lists the general fund at $183,181,044 and the utility fund at $227,561,726, among other fund totals. Council held the public hearings open for comment but closed them after no members of the public rose to speak. The council’s adoption is now a formal action establishing appropriations for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, 2025. No speaker at the hearing disputed the figures presented by staff.
Next steps: the adopted budget and millage will be executed per the effective dates in the resolutions and reflected in the city’s fiscal-year accounting.
