Broward commissioners pass $9.2 billion budget, approve 5.6 millage rate

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Broward County commissioners passed a $9.2 billion budget on Tuesday and approved a flat 5.6 millage rate.

“In the over decade that I have been here, we have lowered the millage rate three times,” Mayor Mark D. Bogen said. “We have never raised the millage rate.”

Commissioner Alexandra P. Davis warned that if voters pass the state’s Amendment 3 to increase the homestead exemption, the commission will have to readjust the millage rate…

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