Motion at the City Council meeting of 2016-09-06 (vote 3): approve Resolution No. 2016-92, tentatively adopting a proposed millage rate of 5.9790 mills, for the City of Cocoa Fiscal Year, commencing October 1, 2016 and ending on September 30, 2017 Agenda item: 7 2. (a) Review of the FY 2017 Millage options and Approve Resolution No. 2016-92, tentatively adopting a proposed millage rate of 5.9790 mills, for the City of Cocoa Fiscal Year, commencing October 1, 2016 and : _ & ending on September 30, 2017. (16-378) Result: CARRIED 4-0 Moved by Brenda Warner; seconded by Mike Blake. Voted yes: Henry Parrish III, Don Boisvert, Mike Blake, Brenda Warner Recorded as unanimous.

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2023-09-12 (vote 5): Adopt Resolution No. 2023-093 adopting a tentative millage rate of 6.9532 mills, for the City of Cocoa, commencing on October 1, 2023 and ending on September 30, 2024 Agenda item: Conduct a Public Hearing on the Tentative Millage Rate and Tentative FY24 Budget and Adopt Resolution No. 2023-093 adopting a tentative millage rate of 6.9532 mills, for the City of Cocoa, commencing on October 1, 2023 and ending on September 30, 2024; Adopt Resolution No. 2023-094 adopting the FY2024 tentative budget and CIP for the City of Cocoa Fiscal Year, commencing on October 1, 2023 and end Result: CARRIED 4-1 Moved by Mike Blake; seconded by Alex Goins. Voted yes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Herbert "Rip" Dyal, Alex Goins Voted no: Lorraine Koss

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2025-09-16 (vote 2): adopt Resolution No. 2025-62 adopting a tentative millage rate of 6.9532 mills for the City of Cocoa, commencing on October 1, 2025, and ending September 20, 2026, for discussion Agenda item: 1. Conduct a Public Hearing on the Tentative Millage Rate and the Tentative FY2026 Budget and Adopt Resolution No. 2025-62, adopting a tentative millage rate of 6.9532 mills for the City of Cocoa, commencing on October 1, 2025, and ending September 20, 2026; and Adopt Resolution No. 2025 -63, adopting the FY2026 tentative budget and CIP for the City of Cocoa Fiscal Year, commencing on October 1, 2 Result: CARRIED 3-2 Moved by Mike Blake; seconded by Alex Goins. Voted yes: Mike Blake, Alex Goins, Lavander Hearn Voted no: Lorraine Koss, Patricia Weeks

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2023-09-26 (vote 3): Adopt Resolution No. 2023-101 adopting the final millage rate of 6.9532 mills, for the City of Cocoa, commencing on October 1, 2023 and ending on September 30, 2024, which is 19.3% over the rolled-back rate of 5.8285, for discussion Agenda item: Vi. Public Hearings: a Conduct a Public Hearing on the Final Millage Rate and Adopting the FY24 Budget and: Adopt Resolution No. 2023-101 adopting a final millage rate of 6.9532 mills, for the City of Cocoa, commencing on October 1, 2023 and ending on September 30, 2024; and Adopt Resolution No. 2023-102 adopting the FY2024 Budget and CIP for the City of Cocoa Fiscal Year, commencing on October 1, Result: CARRIED 4-1 Moved by Mike Blake; seconded by Herbert "Rip" Dyal. Voted yes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Herbert "Rip" Dyal, Alex Goins Voted no: Lorraine Koss

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2019-07-24 (vote 7): _ to adopt a millage rate at 5.9790 for Fiscal Year 2020, setting the First Public Hearing for September 11, 2019 and adopting the rolled back rate Agenda item: 1. Approve Resolution No. 2019-063, Establishing the Rolled-Back Rate, Adopt a Proposed Tentative Millage Rate and set the date, time, and place for the first Public Hearing to consider the FY2020 Budget. (19-328) Result: CARRIED 5-0 Moved by Don Boisvert; seconded by Alex Goins. Voted yes: Jake Williams Jr., Brenda Warner, Don Boisvert, Alex Goins, Lorraine Koss Recorded as unanimous.

[…] Speaker 7: “And so I'd ask you to read that at your, at your leisure. Uh,” Attribution uncertain: “the,” Speaker 7: “the presentation really just takes what's in the budget message and presents it to you in a PowerPoint and graphic form. Uh,” […] Attribution uncertain: “uh,” […] Speaker 7: “the budget on tax rates. And so hopefully in an effort to clear up a lot of the misconception, uh, that is out there with regards to what the tax rate is. And we'll get to that later in the meeting. And so we're just going to take you through, uh, the budget presentation. Um, you guys set the tentative millage back in August. Uh,” […] “And September 24, 26 is the, uh,” Attribution uncertain: “uh,” Speaker 7: “final hearing on the budget there.” Attribution uncertain: “And” Speaker 7: “so Mrs. Bowman is going to start off and I'll jump in, uh, like I normally do.” […]

[…] “We also gave you a listing of projects that you could spend the fund balances on.” […] “Mrs. Dolphin in her correction of the editorial, the fund balances are the current fiscal year and really have nothing to do with the tax rate increase that's proposed. The tax rate increase that's proposed is specifically so that you can give pay raises to staff and most particularly to those union members as we negotiated them. And so” […] “does fund salary increases for the proposed fiscal year. The fact that the number that is the fund balance for capital is comparable is just merely coincidental or really has nothing to do with it. We are funding capital.” […] “your capital with fund balances and we are funding capital with fund balances. So, and then there, the other issue of a $24 million discrepancy.” […]

[…] Speaker 14: “instance of the, uh, Walmart distribution center there, there's a tax abatement associated with that.” […] “to the, uh, Walmart distribution center. Everybody in Florida, um, um, that's a part of a city,” Attribution uncertain: “a” Speaker 14: “part of a county, they pay, uh, the same tax rate. And so there's no difference in the tax rate, uh, that a city or a county can apply to all properties.” […] “Um, and you saw that in the examples that I sent to you guys the other day, you can live right next door to someone and your house is built in the exact same year and you can have totally different exemptions based on your personal circumstances. Generally in Florida, uh, uh, the, the two base exemptions are, I'll call them are the homestead exemptions, the first 25 and then the second 25.” […]

[…] Speaker 7: “So this is a public hearing. And at this point in time, I would like to announce” […] “is the taxing authority. The rollback rate is 5.9866 mills.” […] “of the rollback rate. And if you recall, rollback rate is the tax rate taking out new construction that would get us to the same revenue that we collected last year. The millage rate at this hearing is 6.4532 mills to be levied, which is, as the mayor noted, same as the current year tax rate.” […] “adopting the tentative millage rate of 6.4532 mills” […] “commencing on October 1st, 2022, and ending on September 30th, 2023. So at this time, public comment, and then council will need to take a motion.” Speaker 1: “Okay.” Attribution uncertain: “Do” Speaker 1: “you have any questions from Mrs. Bowman, first and foremost? I mean, we've been at workshops, et cetera, et cetera.” […]

[…] “So that was a welcome increase.” […] “with the other cities. Um, so what we do when we develop the budget and we start discussing millage rates is we see what other cities are doing. And this slide shows you, um, the comparison of the city of Coco compared to the other cities in Brevard County. And we're kind of in the middle at 6.4532 mills that is ranked based on the proposed millage rates. Um, of no Titusville. Is increasing their property tax rate. Um, Coco beach. And Melbourne are both increasing their property tax rate above what they had the previous year. Um, Cape Canaveral, um, is actually going with a rollback rate. Uh, which is kind of a surprise and Rockledge is going down. Um, so what this slide demonstrates to you is that each city is unique with their challenges that they have with where they want to go.” […]

PROPERTY TAX COMPARABLES PER ROOM Source: Brevard County Assessor Number Amounts Per Room of Rooms REAL PROPERTY PERSONAL TOTAL Tax rates are based on the city and county budgets, which change annually. The following table shows changes in the tax rate during the last several years. REAL PROPERTY PERSONAL PROPERTY YEAR MILLAGE RATE MILLAGE RATE 2021 13.2060 13.2060 2022 12.2524 12.2524 2023 12.6500 12.6500 2024 12.3260 12.3260 PROPERTY TAX RATE Source: Brevard County Assessor Based on comparable assessments and the tax rate information, the proposed subject property's projected property tax expense levels are calculated as follows. PROJECTION OF INCOME & EXPENSE (CONTINUED)

Table of Contents Income tax expense Income tax expense was $142.8 million in 2014 , com pared to $62.7 million in 2013 . The effective income tax rate, expressed by calculating income tax expense or benefit as a percentage of income before income taxes, was 36.8% and 32.1% for 2014 and 2013 , respectively. For 2014 , the effective tax rate differed from the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to state income taxes, including current year state income tax credits. For 2013 , the effective tax rate differed from the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to state income taxes, including current year state income tax credits and an adjustment to deferred state income taxes due to changes in […]

Table of Contents Income tax expense Income tax expense was $142.8 million in 2014 , com pared to $62.7 million in 2013 . The effective income tax rate, expressed by calculating income tax expense or benefit as a percentage of income before income taxes, was 36.8% and 32.1% for 2014 and 2013 , respectively. For 2014 , the effective tax rate differed from the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to state income taxes, including current year state income tax credits. For 2013 , the effective tax rate differed from the U.S. federal statutory rate primarily due to state income taxes, including current year state income tax credits and an adjustment to deferred state income taxes due to changes in […]

[…] consiste d of the following: The reconciliation between the statutory tax rate expressed as a percentage of income before income ta xes and the effective tax rate is as follows: The tax effect of temporary differences that give rise to the net deferred income tax liability is presented below: (in millions) Years Ended December 31, 2014 2013 2012 Current: Federal $ 206.8 $ 96.7 $ 110.3 State 19.3 10.1 8.0 Foreign 5.8 4.6 5.1 Total current 231.9 111.4 123.4 Deferred: Domestic (89.0 ) (48.6 ) (56.2 ) Foreign (0.1 ) (0.1 ) (0.1 ) Total deferred (89.1 ) (48.7 ) (56.3 ) Income tax expense $ 142.8 $ 62.7 $ 67.1 (dollars in millions) Years Ended December 31, 2014 2013 […]

[…] consiste d of the following: The reconciliation between the statutory tax rate expressed as a percentage of income before income ta xes and the effective tax rate is as follows: The tax effect of temporary differences that give rise to the net deferred income tax liability is presented below: (in millions) Years Ended December 31, 2014 2013 2012 Current: Federal $ 206.8 $ 96.7 $ 110.3 State 19.3 10.1 8.0 Foreign 5.8 4.6 5.1 Total current 231.9 111.4 123.4 Deferred: Domestic (89.0 ) (48.6 ) (56.2 ) Foreign (0.1 ) (0.1 ) (0.1 ) Total deferred (89.1 ) (48.7 ) (56.3 ) Income tax expense $ 142.8 $ 62.7 $ 67.1 (dollars in millions) Years Ended December 31, 2014 2013 […]

[…] Rios Martinez Park, repairs at Stradley Park and the FY2027 tax rate, from a 3–2 split in July to a final rate the chair announced as unanimous. Updated with the August minutes. This article covers City of Cocoa records from 26 April 2021 to 13 October 2026. Council minutes, signed or in draft, run through the meeting of 25 August 2026. [ Draft minutes, 11 Aug 2026 (packet of 13 Oct 2026, p. 11) ; Draft minutes, 25 Aug 2026 (packet of 13 Oct 2026, p. 37) ] For 8, 9, 22 and 23 September and 13 October the archive holds agendas or packets and recordings, but no minutes. [ Meeting page, 8 Sep 2026 ; Meeting page, 9 Sep […]

[…] ; Minutes, 19 May 2026, p. 7 ] July: the tax rate At a budget workshop on 7 July the City’s consultant, Stantec, recommended no millage rate increase, a 3%

[…] then “stated that if Council goes back to the rolled-back rate then the cuts should come from Districts 3 and 4.” [ Draft minutes, 28 Jul 2026 (packet of 22 Sep 2026, p. 21) ] Whitten said it “would not be fair or ethical for him to decide which Districts are going to receive cuts,” and Weeks said that “to imply that Council doesn’t care about the employees is not true.” [ Draft minutes, 28 Jul 2026 (packet of 22 Sep 2026, p. 21) ] Goins said “Council is the boss” of the City Manager and should direct him. [ Draft minutes, 28 Jul 2026 (packet of 22 Sep 2026, p. 21) ] Hearn did not want services to “decrease […]

City budget document, fiscal year 2027: FY 2027 Adopted Budget fiscal year: 2027 section: Adopted Budget Resources label as published: FY 2027 Adopted Budget Status in the City's title: Adopted. source / agency: City of Cocoa source / page title: FY 2027 Adopted Budget pages: 362 In the document's own text: "Adopted" 286 times, "Proposed" 0 times, "Tentative" 0 times. final millage statements / quote: FINAL BUDGET HEARING 9-23-26 ...COUNCIL ADOPTED A FINAL MILLAGE OF 6.9090 final millage statements / millage: 6.9090 final millage statements / pages / 5 final millage statements / pages / 74 final millage statements / pages / 211 final millage statements / pages / 222 final millage statements / hearing date: 2026-09-23

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