By Tim O’Meilia
Manalapan streets would have new street and traffic signs, the Town Hall new air conditioners and upgraded computer software, the police a new patrol car and town employees a 3 percent raise under a preliminary budget being conside
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By Tim O’Meilia
Budget managers in eight of nine South County coastal communities can exhale.
Taxable real estate values — the stuff property taxes are made of — continues to creep back toward pre-recession levels.
Taxable property values i
By Cheryl Blackerby
Boca Raton Beach and Park District commissioners are working on a $19.5 million budget for capital improvements that will force them to make some tough decisions this summer.
One of the toughest is explaining to Boca Rat
By Tim O’Meilia
Gulf Stream town officials are girding themselves for a long battle with unhappy resident Martin O’Boyle by dipping into town reserves for an extra $100,000.
Eight O’Boyle-related suits have been filed against the town since
By Tim Pallesen
Ocean Ridge commissioners have cut back on their budget after residents objected to the tax rate increase.
Three of five commissioners were ready Sept. 10 to raise the current property tax rate of $5.25 per $1,000 of taxable property
The South Palm Beach Town Council approved a $1.75 million budget during September public hearings that will hold the tax rate at $4.32 for each $1,000 of taxable property value, the same as this year’s rate.
The town will dip into reserves for $117
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach commissioners have dipped into reserves to prevent an increase in the city property tax rate.
The decision prevents job cuts or a fire fee to make up for a $4 million shortfall in the city’s $97 million proposed operatin
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By Mary Thurwachter
The Lantana Town Council is losing its sole female voice. Vice Mayor Pro Tem Cindy Austino, who has served on the council for five years, announced at the close of the Aug. 27 meeting that she would be leaving very s
By Tim O’Meilia
Imagine unmanned drones patrolling the Manalapan shoreline or helium-filled balloons surveilling the beach or infra-red cameras spying north and south after dark along the oceanfront. However fantastic and unlikely — except perhaps
By Mary Thurwachter
Tax rates haven’t been raised in Lantana for 11 years and that won’t change this year.
Council members set the preliminary tax rate at $3.24 per $1,000 of a home’s assessed value at their July 23 meeting.
“We’ve been thr
By Angie Francalancia
Boynton Beach commissioners once again are talking about closing the city’s downtown fire station, which ran on more than half the calls in Ocean Ridge last year, to cut costs.
During budget workshops last month, Commi
By Tim Pallesen
Ocean Ridge commissioners have proposed an increase in next year’s property tax rate of 9.52 percent.
“I don’t see any way that we’re not going to raise the millage [rate],” Mayor Geoffrey Pugh said before the 3-2 commission
By Steve Plunkett
Gulf Stream town commissioners may decide to raise property taxes up to 7.1 percent for the coming budget year, mostly to rebuild reserves used last year for the underground utilities project.
Commissioners set a maximum rate
By Tim Pallesen
Delray Beach commissioners must cut $4 million from a $97 million budget proposal to avoid raising the city’s current property tax rate.
City Manager David Harden presented his proposal to the city commission July 17, recommending that
By Tim O’Meilia
The South Palm Beach Town Council set a tentative tax rate of $4.39 per $1,000 of taxable property value for next year, but promised to try to trim that figure during budget workshops and hearings this month and in September.
Th
By Tim O’Meilia
For the fourth consecutive year Briny Breezes homeowners likely will pay the maximum tax rate allowed by law — $10 for every $1,000 of taxable property value.
The tentative rate set by town aldermen after two budget workshops and a
By Steve Plunkett
The recent years of low or no tax increases appear to be over in Boca Raton.
City Manager Leif Ahnell proposed that property owners pay $3.66 per $1,000 of taxable value for the coming budget year, up 4.3 percent from this yea
By Steve Plunkett
With little discussion, Highland Beach commissioners proposed a 13.9 percent tax increase to finance renovations to Town Hall, repairs to the town’s walk path and provide increased code enforcement.
A residence valued at $500,
Call it Showdown at the Charter Change Corral.
Mayor Bernard Featherman and Commissioner Doris Trinley split sharply with Vice Mayor Ron Brown and Commissioners Dennis Sheridan and Louis Stern on how big an expense has to be to trigger a town referend
