Hillsborough County’s FY 16 & 17 Recommended Budget Supporting Community Prosperity
Fiscally Responsible Trends Hillsborough County, Recommended FY 16 & 17 Budget Millage rates: no increase over 23 years Cost of service: 11% lower since 2007 Funded positions: 22% less than in 2008 BOCC job rating: 70% positive Fiscally Responsible Trends
What’s going up? What’s going down? Sales tax and property tax revenue Hillsborough County, Recommended FY 16 & 17 Budget What’s going up? Sales tax and property tax revenue Area job gain: 31,000 Home sales What’s going down? Unemployment rate Foreclosure rates 30% Decrease in Street Homelessness
More community service . . . . . . Lower cost, Better outcomes Hillsborough County, Recommended FY 16 & 17 Budget More community service . . . . . . Lower cost, Better outcomes Pet Adoptions: 76% success rate Fire/Rescue: 62% response in 7 minutes Code Enforcement: 17,500 cases resolved Economic Development: over 4,000 jobs; $240 million in capital investment Consumer Protection: 469 complaints resolved; $400,000 in value recovered I
Anatomy of the Budget $376 million Budget Gears Drive Service Hillsborough County, Recommended FY 16 & 17 Budget What does the Administrator’s General Fund Budget Buy? Total Budget $4.72 Billion Citizen Services $1.83 Billion Administrator’s General Fund Budget $376 million $376 million Public Safety 5% Fire/Rescue 45% Financial Capital 7% Social Capital 26% Physical Capital 18% Anatomy of the Budget Budget Gears Drive Service
Key Budget Facts 6.2% increased taxable values Hillsborough County, Recommended FY 16 & 17 Budget Key Budget Facts 6.2% increased taxable values $2.9 million increased fees: fire rescue, ambulance transports and fire inspections. General Fund reserves held constant 15% increase in health insurance costs Total FY 16 budget increase less than 2% over FY 15 (excl. accounting adjustments)
Dedicating New Revenues Hillsborough County, Recommended FY 16 & 17 Budget Dedicating New Revenues Maintain Infrastructure, Enhance Public Safety, Intensify Economic Development, Parks, Cultural Assets, Customer Services Fees, Efficiencies, Financing Ad Valorem & Sales Taxes One-Time $
FY 16 Recommended Uses of $98.8 million in New Revenue Hillsborough County, Recommended FY 16 & 17 Budget FY 16 Recommended Uses of $98.8 million in New Revenue Insert a chart in this slide template to illustrate your topic visually, then use bullets or color to call out key findings or points from your chart in a brief format. Modest 5% increase in cash budget