FAC News Clips

COUNTY  Herald-Tribune  Sarasota County leaders OK medical freedom, Bill of Rights resolutions   Sarasota County is now a “Bill of Rights Sanctuary County” that guarantees a patient's rights to choose [...]

COUNTY  Fox 35  Orange County Commission funds projects for UCF, Convention Center, arts and cultural grants   ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. - Orange County has $900 million to spend.    Fox [...]

COUNTY  WLRN  Palm Beach County OK's $7.8B budget and historic property tax cut   Palm Beach County commissioners adopted a $7.8 billion budgetfollowing a public hearing last week, agreeing to cut [...]

FEDERAL   Florida Politics  There’s always a Florida angle: FEMA aid and agriculture are quiet victims in government shutdown battle   A continuing resolution proposed amid the debt showdown in Washington is [...]

COUNTY  Suncoast News  Pasco commissioners approve a budget with scaled-back tax increases   The fire tax rate will increase, but not as much as previously proposed, and commissioners agreed to [...]

COUNTY  TC Palm  See why St. Lucie County taxes are going up despite rates going down   LUCIE COUNTY — Property tax rates will likely go down further than initially [...]

FAC   Hernando Sun  FAC names Narverud to policy committees   Hernando County Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) Elizabeth Narverud has been named to the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) [...]

COUNTY  Miami-Herald  Miami-Dade’s $11.7 billion budget passes with a tax-rate cut   Raises for Miami-Dade workers, more aid for low-income seniors and spare cash for Animal Services from a scrapped [...]

FAC  City & State FL  Above & Beyond   Ginger Delegal ended up in local government through what she describes as “luck.”      County  Florida Today  Funding for sample [...]

FAC   Get the Coast  Okaloosa Commissioner Paul Mixon appointed to FAC Committee  Okaloosa County Commissioner and Vice Chairman Paul Mixon was recently appointed to the Florida Association of Counties (FAC) [...]