State unfunded mandates driving the budget squeeze
Summary
Commissioners tallied roughly $133 million in state-mandated costs and revenue shifts — Medicaid, juvenile justice, FRS pension COLAs, cybersecurity, tax collector fees — and proposed sending a letter to the Tallahassee delegation to make the costs public.
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Impact analysis
About $133 million per year in mandated costs and lost revenue, including $12–13 million new this year.
Property taxpayers if the state ever picks up these costs; transparency itself benefits residents.
County residents bear these costs through property taxes while services face cuts.
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