Move the sliders to test a millage rate, a raise, a bigger or smaller police department, or any General Fund line. Every figure starts at the proposed budget presented September 8, 2026; anything you change is shown in yellow next to the proposal.
Enter a home's net taxable value (after homestead and other exemptions) and try a city millage rate. The other taxing authorities use their 2026 proposed rates from the budget book's sample bill.
School Board 6.6230 · Miami‑Dade County 4.9677 · Fire 2.3965 · Environmental & Children's Trust 0.7209 · Library 0.2812. Actual bills also include non‑ad‑valorem assessments and the 4% early‑payment discount.
The city tax above, allocated in proportion to the General Fund operating budget (it follows any changes you make in the explorer below).
The Commission has cut the rate every year since FY 17/18 while the tax roll grew from $11.1B to $19.5B. Your slider rate is drawn as the yellow endpoint.
Total millage includes operating, debt and miscellaneous levies of each municipality. Sunny Isles Beach is the second‑lowest of 35 in the county; only Aventura's 1.7261 sits nearby, and the proposed 1.6514 would be the lowest.
Nudge any division up or down. The balance panel shows what it does to the year's draw on fund balance, and how many mills would cover the change instead.
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Personnel Services, Operating Expenses and Capital Outlay per division from the department pages. The pay slider scales the wage‑linked share of Personnel Services (salaries, overtime, FICA, retirement ≈ 88%); health, life and workers' comp are held flat.
One mill on the FY 26/27 roll yields about $18.5M after the 5% allowance, so $1M of spending ≈ 0.054 mills ≈ $27 a year on a $500,000 home.
The single largest General Fund line: $21.0M proposed, up 17.6% from the FY 25/26 adopted budget, with four added positions (85 FTE). Try a different headcount.
FY 24/25 actual, FY 25/26 adopted and projected, FY 26/27 proposed. Each FTE is costed at the department's average loaded personnel cost of $212,502 (Personnel Services ÷ 85).
Retirement contributions alone ($4.0M) exceed the department's entire operating budget ($2.6M). Software and computer‑system services grow from $106K adopted to $620K.
Runs in its own Building Fund (140), paid by permit fees rather than property taxes. The book budgets $6.22M of spending against $5.42M of revenue, closing the gap from a fund balance that has fallen from $6.3M to a projected $1.2M in two years. Try a different permit volume or staff size.
Revenue excludes reappropriated fund balance. Spending includes the administrative chargeback to the General Fund ($1.60M last year, $0.82M proposed, pending a fee study). FY 24/25 and FY 25/26 include the $1.5M–$3.7M Government Center Annex build‑out.
Restricted to building‑code enforcement under F.S. 553.80; it cannot backfill the General Fund. Personnel already exceeds fee revenue less the chargeback in the projected year.
Operating rises $276K (+36%) for the Annex: R&M building $174K, electric $50K, water $29K, insurance $35K. Capital drops from $2.14M to $27.5K with the build‑out complete. Four trainee positions removed (−$406K); two intermittent plans examiners added.
Building permits are 77% of fee revenue and are budgeted $1.0M below this year's projection; the state fee‑schedule changes take effect this year.
Personnel Services are $47.0M of the $200.98M budget, +$3.8M from last year's adopted. The pay slider in the explorer applies here too.
Cultural & Community Services jumps 8.4 → 22.0 FTE as Pelican Park, Gateway and Visitor Center staff are consolidated under it; Innovation & Technology adds 5.
$44.1M programmed this year, of which $30.0M is carried over from projects already underway. New‑year appropriations by project:
Central Island Drainage is a $75M multi‑year program ($71M projected FY 27/28–30/31); Golden Shores undergrounding has $11.0M already spent through 9/30/25.