{"id":410928,"date":"2026-09-26T02:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/410928\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T02:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T02:44:07","slug":"county-adopts-fy-2027-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/410928\/","title":{"rendered":"County adopts FY 2027 budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September 25, 2026 &#8211; The Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners Thursday adopted the fiscal year 2027 budget. According to a prepared statement, the General Fund property tax rate was reduced to 4.4989 mills. This is &#8220;its lowest level since 1989 and less than 1 percent above the full rollback rate.&#8221; To keep the budget balanced, the County had to eliminate dozens of positions, require cuts from every department under the County Administrator and reduce funding for transportation infrastructure by $1.5 million, among other decisions. For more information, <a href=\"https:\/\/pinellas.gov\/news\/bcc-adopts-fy27-budget-after-months-of-difficult-choices\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">visit this link.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/zaps\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More Zaps<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\" class=\"btn btn-aqua\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontpage<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"September 25, 2026 &#8211; The Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners Thursday adopted the fiscal year 2027 budget.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-410928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410928","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=410928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}