Palm Bay's $15 Million Cut Target Survives the Revenue Test. Now Comes the Hard Part.
Palm Bay, FL – Two months ago, this publication ended its May 13 budget workshop coverage with three numbers to track. The first was whether the $15 million reduction target would hold once staff had actual revenue projections instead of placeholders. Tuesday night, City Manager Matthew Morton showed up with the receipts.
The answer is yes. Morton presented three millage scenarios built on real property digest data from the Brevard County Property Appraiser, walked the Council through a line-by-line breakdown of where $15 million in cuts would come from, and then recapped a fiscal year’s…
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