Latest Headlines
- One Injured In Highway 29 Collision Involving Transit Bus With Seven Passengers
- Century Commits Quarter Million Dollars In Expenditures Not On Agenda During Final Minutes Of Meeting
- McDavid Woman Charged With Methamphetamine, Cocaine and Fentanyl Possession
- One Injured In Highway 29, North Tate School Road Crash
- Century Town Clerk Out On Leave; Town To Hire Temp Interim Clerk
- Shutout Win For Tate Baseball As They Honor ‘84 National Champ Aggies
- Tates Boys Tennis Are District Runner-ups; Two Tate Girls Finish Second
- Scruggs Goes 3-4 As Northview Beats Neal 9-1
- New Playground Equipment Added At Harvester Homes Park I In Cantonment
- Godwin and Hernandez Named EREC Scholarship Winners
$438 Million: New Budget Year Begins Today For Escambia County And Century
October 1, 2016
It’s the first day of a the new budget year for both Escambia County and Century.
Escambia County
The fiscal year 2016-2017 budget for Escambia County is $434 million — $million higher than last year and up $78 million over 2013.
About one-fourth of the budget will go toward crime — $55.5 million to the Sheriff’s Office and $46.5 million to the county’s corrections department. Public Safety will receive $43 million, $26 million to public works, $25.4 million to human resources, $19.5 million to the landfill and solid waste, $19 million to Neighborhood and Human Services, and $12.7 million to ECAT.
Escambia County’s property tax, or millage rate, is unchanged 6.6165 The county fireĀ tax increases from $100 to $125 to staff additional fire stations south of Nine Mile Road with paid personnel.
Century
Century has a $3.75 million budget for fiscal year 2016-2017 — down from a $5.1 million budget last year that included about $2.2 million in grant income and expenditures.
The ad valorem millage rate increased 0.9005 to 0.9732 for the new fiscal year, a 9.84%.
Comments