Turner keeps increase to 1.6% mark board members had set
Sarasota County commissioners this week offered praise for Supervisor of Elections Ron Turner and his staff, along with gratitude for the efforts that Turner and his employees made to keep their proposed 2027 fiscal year budget within the 1.6% increase that the board members agreed to in August 2025 for the General Fund.
The General Fund pays the expenses of departments and the offices of constitutional officers — such as the supervisor of elections — whose operations generate little or no income to cover their costs.
A chart that county staff included in the June 16 agenda packet for the commissioners showed that Turner’s FY 2027 budget would be higher than the current one by $155,748, for a total of $9,893,224…