{"id":409798,"date":"2026-09-25T00:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409798\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T00:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T00:20:10","slug":"orange-county-leaders-approve-9b-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/409798\/","title":{"rendered":"Orange County leaders approve $9B budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Orange County leaders approve $9B budget<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790295610_237_author_avatar.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Default author avatar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Orange County leaders voted Thursday to approve a $9 billion budget.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The county commission passed the budget around 5:30 p.m. in a 6-1 vote. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The budget includes increased funding for public safety and new affordable housing. It also holds the millage rate flat, at the same rate it&#8217;s been since 2008. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">A big concern on everyone&#8217;s mind is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/article\/what-to-know-about-amendment-3-on-the-florida-ballot-get-the-facts\/73619363\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amendment 3<\/a>, the property tax vote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wesh.com\/politics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Nov. 3<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">If the amendment is passed, the county has said it would decrease the budget for next year by $165 million, which could force future cuts to community services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County leaders approve $9B budget ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Orange County leaders voted Thursday to approve a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[5337,139,141,140],"class_list":["post-409798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-content","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409798","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=409798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}