FAC News Clips

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) [...]

COUNTY  Tampa Bay Times  Pinellas government takes another step toward move out of Clearwater   For years, Pinellas County officials have pondered whether the county’s government should move out of its [...]

COUNTY  Highlands-News Sun  County to apply for grant to harden Annex  Highlands County’s Government Annex, a building across the street from the Government Center in Sebring, has been around since [...]

COUNTY  City & State FL  Broward commission rejects proposal to study need for financial assistance for condo owners  Broward County commissioners have rejected a proposed study weighing the need for [...]