By Steve Plunkett
Buoyed by its recent settlement of all public records litigation by resident Chris O’Hare, the town plans to cut its legal budget for the coming fiscal year by 30 percent.
Gulf Stream will set aside $400,000 for outside leg
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By Jane Smith
Without seeing a budget, city commissioners agreed to lower the property tax rate slightly for the financial year that begins Oct. 1 while still expecting to take in an estimated $4.6 million more in tax revenues.
Delray Beach
By Mary Thurwachter
The tide is turning in Lantana, where the tax rate has remained at $3.24 per $1,000 of taxable value for 10 years. At its July 10 meeting, the Town Council set the proposed rate for 2017-2018 at $3.50.
The lone dissenter in
By Dan Moffett
South Palm Beach taxpayers will see some eye-popping numbers when they look at their town’s proposed budget for 2017-18.
But the large figures come with back-stories that help put them in perspective.
Yes, the town has listed
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge is 86 years old, essentially built-out and with a population that has stayed largely stable through the past two decades.
But this doesn’t mean the town can avoid growing pains.
Town commissioners are finding that
By Steve Plunkett
The kerfuffle over Town Manager Jamie Titcomb’s budget proposal, which prompted Ocean Ridge commissioners to call an unusual 12-day recess of their final public budget hearing, blew over in about 15 minutes when the meeting
By Dan Moffett
Ocean Ridge commissioners are waiting until the eleventh hour to approve a final budget for the new fiscal year while Town Manager Jamie Titcomb recalculates the numbers to try to correct a series of accounting errors.
This is th
By Jane Smith
City commissioners kept the property tax rate the same, but most property owners will likely pay more in taxes because taxable values increased by 7.9 percent in Boynton Beach, according to Assistant City Manager Tim Howard. Home
By Steve Plunkett
There’s a definite thaw in the cold war between the Greater Boca Raton Beach and Park District and city officials.
“There’s more of a mood of cooperation,” Steve Engel, the district’s vice chairman, said Sept. 23 after he and
By Rich Pollack
The good news is that most local government employees throughout the coastal communities of south Palm Beach County may be seeing raises in the upcoming fiscal year.
The not-so-great news is that for many of them, these raises
By Dan Moffett
With Ocean Ridge enjoying steadily rising property values and a robust balance sheet, town commissioners think they are well-positioned to spend more on repaving streets, and also spraying against mosquitoes to allay concerns about
By Rich Pollack
Highland Beach residents will see their municipal tax rate drop for a second consecutive year, after town officials gave tentative approval to a change in the operating rate from $3.50 per $1,000 of taxable value to about $3.28 per
By Dan Moffett
A strong economic tailwind is assisting Manalapan commissioners as they begin a series of budget workshops.
Property values in the town continue to climb — up 9.9 percent over last year, nearly 3 percent above the Palm Beach Coun
By Sallie James
Boca Raton homeowners will pay a slightly lower total property tax rate this year under a $625 million 2015-2016 budget that includes 70 new employees, several generous allocations to nonprofit organizations and some user fee hikes
Boca Raton officials approved a $136 million general fund budget during a final Sept. 18 budget hearing, setting the property tax rate for 2014-15 at $3.71 per $1,000 of taxable property value.
Property values have increased 5.63 percent in Boca R
By Rich Pollack
The Highland Beach Town Commission last month gave final approval to a $11.35 million general fund budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year — while at the same time holding the line on the town’s operating tax rate at $3.95 per $1,000 of
By Dan Moffett
For about as long as anyone can remember, Delray Beach has budgeted money to groups that do good work in the community — supporting organizations such as the city’s Public Library, Historical Society and the Boys & Girls Clubs of Am
By Jane Smith
Ocean Ridge and Briny Breezes residents will not have to worry about fire-rescue response times next summer, thanks to a directive given to Boynton Beach’s city manager at the city’s annual budget workshops, held July 21-22.
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By Dan Moffett
Briny Breezes is looking at a budget for the new fiscal year that is largely a mirror image of last year’s numbers.
During July budget workshops, Town Council members gave preliminary approval to keeping the current tax rate of $
By Dan Moffett
Gulf Stream town commissioners have just begun thinking about a budget for the next fiscal year, but already they are close to a consensus that they can’t afford to give taxpayers a rate rollback.
The decision to hold the line do
