OCALA, FL (352today.com) – On Thursday, Marion County commissioners tentatively raised the countywide property-tax rate after cutting it last year with leftover federal stimulus money, adopting a $1.73 billion spending plan built largely around public-safety payroll.
The September 10, 2026 hearing at the McPherson Governmental Campus was the first of two required votes. Final adoption is scheduled for 6 p.m. Sept. 24 in the Commission Chambers.
The board set the combined countywide millage at 4.28, up from 4.02 this year. The general-fund rate, the levy that actually moved, would go from 3.09 mills to 3.35 mills. Commissioners had started the summer looking at 3.49…