{"id":407682,"date":"2026-09-22T23:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407682\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T23:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T23:18:10","slug":"broward-commissioners-consider-proposed-8-6-billion-budget-keeping-tax-rate-flat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/407682\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward commissioners consider proposed $8.6 billion budget, keeping tax rate flat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 22, 2026 at 6:22 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 22, 2026 at 6:44 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Broward County commissioners meet on Tuesday evening to consider a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broward.org\/budget\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.broward.org\/budget\">proposed budget<\/a> of about $8.6 billion, while keeping the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.browardcdn.org\/api\/public\/content\/95869e74108f4f3c8f501aee290a3118?v=01c437c0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.browardcdn.org\/api\/public\/content\/95869e74108f4f3c8f501aee290a3118?v=01c437c0\">5.6 millage rate<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Monica Cepero, the county administrator, told commissioners that the budget includes the largest investment in public safety in the county\u2019s history. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis represents a $24 million total increase for salary adjustments for detention deputies, coupled with an additional $15 million increase for a 5.8% salary increase,\u201d Cepero said. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/K6DYFFPUINFO5NLPPWWG6P7PLA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"842\"\/>Broward budget 2027 <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The operating budget is $194.5 million higher, according to Cepero. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The capital funds include $27.7 million for the Affordable Housing Trust, which aims to increase the stock, according to Cepero. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">If commissioners pass it, the new budget will take effect on Oct. 1st.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This is a developing story. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Watch the meeting<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Linnie Supall\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/CANLLYSXDJBXDMDOXMBEIDTX.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Linnie Supall<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Linnie Supall is an Emmy nominated and award-winning journalist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 22, 2026 at 6:22 PM Updated:\u00a0September 22, 2026 at 6:44 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Broward County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-407682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407682","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=407682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}