The School District of Manatee County board members have expressed concern over what seems to be a new charge from the Manatee County tax collector.
The district has been charged $1,499,943.50, or 2% of the $74,977,174.64 that the district received from October 2024 through June 2025 from the 1 mill referendum that was approved by voters. The charge is called a “commission” that is allowed by state law. It is the first time that the Manatee County tax collector had issued the charge.
Tax Collector Ken Burton said the school district’s voter-approved millage should have been triggering a 2% commission charge for the county since the special tax was approved in 2018 and then extended in 2021…