{"id":350433,"date":"2026-07-23T22:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350433\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T22:01:08","slug":"st-lucie-county-could-lose-63-million-in-funding-if-property-tax-goes-away-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/350433\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Lucie County could lose $63 million in funding if property tax goes away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 City leaders in<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Port%20St.%20Lucie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Port St. Lucie<\/a> review the upcoming city budget as some city council members worry about lost revenue if property taxes go away.<\/p>\n<p>Port St. Lucie hosted the summer budget workshop at the<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/Port%20St.%20Lucie%20Community%20Center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Port St. Lucie Community Center <\/a>Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>During the workshop, City Manager Jesus Merejo told the City Council the city would lose over $48 million in property taxes over the next two years if the item passes in November.<\/p>\n<p>Merejo said the city would have to eliminate $7.8 million in projects from the budget, including multiple road expansions and parks &amp; recreation projects.<\/p>\n<p>See also:<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/funeral-held-for-belle-glade-father-two-sons-killed-when-pickup-overturned-into-canal-overturned-pickup-truck-submerged-in-canal-gatro-boulevard-bodies-recovered-remembering-family-friends-loved-ones-bright-personality-big-loss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Funeral held for Belle Glade father, two sons killed when pickup overturned into canal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/topic\/St.%20Lucie%20County\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">St. Lucie County <\/a>homeowners currently pay the highest property tax in the state, according to Florida tax data.<\/p>\n<p>The city budget workshop is set to continue throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CBS12 News<\/a> plans to speak with city officials as the workshop continues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 City leaders in Port St. Lucie review the upcoming city budget as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-350433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}