News & Notes
Property Tax Reform: Legislative Summary
CALENDAR
July 13-17
NaCo Annual Confrence
Richmond, VA
August 1-3
FLERA Annual Conf.
Sarasota, County
August 23-24
FAC Board of Directors Retreat Meeting
Monroe County
September 26
CCC Workshop: Growth Management
Alachua County
September 26-28
FAC Policy Committee Conference & Board of Directors Meeting
Alachua County
October 25-26
Florida Forum: Part 1
Alachua County
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FAC Legislative Adovocate: Finance & Tax
The Legislature adopted a significant property tax reform plan during Special Session B that consists of two components. HB 1B statutorily rolls back property tax rates levied by counties, municipalities and independent special districts and caps them on a going forward basis, unless the caps are overridden by a super-majority vote of the governing body or by referendum. Failure to adhere to the rollback and cap will result in significant financial penalties for local governments. The other component offers a constitutional amendment to the electorate at the Presidential Preference Primary on January 29, 2008 that will provide (1) large increases to the homestead exemption, (2) a choice for existing Homesteaders to switch from the existing Save Our Homes protection to the new super homestead exemption (3) targeted tax relief for certain types of properties, and (4) a mandate that the legislature restrict property tax increases by counties, municipalities and independent special districts.
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Tell us what you think! Annual Conference Survey
Our Annual Conference at the Renaissance Orlando Resort at SeaWorld in Orange County was a huge success! If you were an Annual Conference attendee, you should have received the Conference survey via email. If you did not, there is a link to the survey below. Your feedback is very important to us. Please help us with future program planning by clicking here and participating in the survey; the survey should only take a few minutes to complete.
FLERA 2007 Annual Conference
Register today for the Florida Local Environmental Resource Agencies' (FLERA) Annual Conference, August 1-3! Visit the FLERA website at http://www.flera.org/conference.html to download the conference agenda and registration information.
Don't forget to make your room reservation by July 7, 2007 (next week!) by calling the Hyatt Sarasota at 800-233-1234. Be sure to mention you are with the FLERA Annual Conference to receive the discounted rate of $112/night. After July 7th room rates will be much higher and availability is limited!