Cents & Sensibility Chapter 4: Unfunded Mandates
Press release from Alachua County
With all the discussion happening across Florida about local government budgets, Alachua County is joining the conversation through this series: Cents & Sensibility: Alachua County’s Budget in Eight Chapters.
Chapter 4: Unfunded Mandates
An unfunded mandate occurs when the state or federal government requires counties to provide certain programs or services but doesn’t provide enough, or any, funding to pay for them. These unfunded mandates quietly drain millions from Alachua County’s general fund. Property taxes are the largest component of the general fund. Each year, these mandates limit counties’ ability to use locally raised revenues for locally originated programs and services. For residents, that can mean fewer community programs, service reductions, and higher taxes.
Read Chapter 4: Unfunded Mandates in full
Catch up on previous chapters
Read Chapter 3: Understanding Property Taxes in full
Read Chapter 2: What is the General Fund
Read Chapter 1: How You Shape the County Budget
Just wait until you lose millions in property tax money.
Read this chapter to see how the State could help lower property taxes almost immediately. Without
hurting counties and cities. https://new.express.adobe.com/webpage/d2vUg7msx4Ch9?fbclid=IwY2xjawNqIuBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHvWBZGlbbjgh3GPoPbuoasOoejT2rqkYcLbAlJW69wb3_uiFYjvTuva_ODxV_aem_QVoKok9cVxyMt7xKuvqZ6Q
So you like being ruled from Tallahassee by people you don’t get to elect? We are supposed to be living in a democracy Joe.