By Dan Moffett
Despite having a hefty list of unresolved issues, the South Palm Beach Town Council has signed off on a rollback of the property tax rate for the 2019 budget year.
Council members have agreed to drop the current millage from $4 per $1,
By Dan Moffett
Despite opposition from southern neighbors and second thoughts among some residents, South Palm Beach is setting aside more money to pay for a controversial groin project that would stabilize the town’s eroding beaches.
In fact, South
By Rich Pollack
Faced with a probable 8.6 percent increase in fees for fire service provided by a neighboring community, Highland Beach commissioners set a tentative maximum operating tax rate of $3.12 per $1,000 of assessed value, slightly higher t
By Dan Moffett
Problems caused by rising seas are forcing rising expenditures to seep into the Ocean Ridge budget.
During the next fiscal year, town commissioners are considering spending roughly $125,000 on new stormwater infrastructure for the flo
By Steve Plunkett
Commissioners of the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District and the city’s parks director used unanticipated savings on health care costs and some financial sleight of hand to come up with a fiscal 2018 budget proposal with whi
By Rich Pollack
As town property values rise to a record high, Highland Beach residents are likely to see their tax rate drop for the third consecutive year.
Town commissioners late last month set a maximum operating tax rate for the 2017-2018
By Steve Plunkett
The short era of the Greater Boca Raton Beach & Park District’s rubber-stamping the city’s proposed parks budget appears to be over.
Craig Ehrnst, one of the district’s new commissioners, led the first assault. The city
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 fin
By Dan Moffett
Recurring accounting problems in Ocean Ridge’s budgets have strained relations between Town Manager Jamie Titcomb and the Town Commission.
So much so that the commission approved a proposal from Commissioner Steve Coz to chan
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
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
