The Marco Island City Council held a special meeting to discuss budget options as the September 30 deadline approaches for finalizing the city’s budget. Fox 4 attended the meeting where the assistant city manager presented three potential paths forward, but council members showed little consensus on how to proceed.
Fox 4’s Eric Lovelace explains what options were given to council:
Marco Island City Council debates budget cuts ahead of budget deadline
The council must finalize a budget by the end of September, and the purpose of the meeting was to give directions for a preliminary budget to be presented on September 8.
On August 18th, the council rejected a proposed millage rate of 1.4611 for the Fiscal Year 2026 budget. The assistant city manager outlined three options for the council:
Option 1: approve a 1.29 millage rate, which would bring in $890,000.…