Nassau County Record (August 14 Edition, Page 4)
Good news, Nassau County residents. The Board of County Commissioners recently approved a tentative budget and millage rate that, if put in place, will reduce the millage rate for the fourth year in a row while still maintaining a balanced budget that responsibly funds services and maintenance and invests in capital assets.
This, in part, validates that what the county has been doing is working. A concerted effort has been made to shift historic development patterns to higher quality and more compact, mixed-use community developments, minimizing the impacts of inevitable population growth while encouraging the non-residential land uses and economic development that strengthens tax rolls. After many years of mismanagement, impact fees paid by builders have been right-sized. Fully funded capital improvement plans have been developed and executed, resulting in new fire houses, parks and infrastructure improvements across the county. Multi-year budgetary practices have also been implemented.