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- 2025 Budget Raises $125M in New County Taxes
- 2024 Budget Raises $100M in New Property Taxes
- 2023 County Budget – 13% Tax Increase in Spite of Small Millage Drop
- 2022 Budget Workshop on Tuesday, June 15
- 2021 Budget Workshop on June 16
- 2020 Budget Workshop on June 10
- Trends in the County Budget
- 2019 Budget Season Kicks off with June 12 Workshop
- First of two Public Hearings on 2018 Budget on Tuesday 9/5
- New Budget up 6.9% with Flat Millage
- Proposed sales tax hike raises discourse at Palm Beach political forum
- Tab Point of View Presented at PBCA Candidate Event
- VOTE NO on the SALES TAX
- Final County Budget Hearing This Evening 9/19
- Public Hearing Tuesday on 2017 County Budget
- First 2017 Budget Hearing on June 14 at 6pm
- Sales Tax Increase – Are the intended uses lawful?
- Sales Tax Referendum Gathering Steam
- Sales Tax Proposal Sent Back for More Info
- Increasing Sales Taxes a Bad Idea
- Final Hearing on FY2016 Budget, 9/21
- Public Hearing on the Budget – What to expect
- Maximum Millage to be set Tuesday, 7/21
- $725M County Budget Proposal Largest in History
- Let’s Be Honest about the “Biotech Cluster”
- Final Budget Hearing on 9/22
- On Oversight, Checks and Balances, and the County Budget
- First Public Hearing on 2015 County Budget
- Maximum Millage Adopted
- Maximum Millage to be Set on July 22
- 2015 Budget – Flat Millage, what’s not to like? PLENTY!
- Dodging a Bullet – No Sales Tax Referendum
- Another Go at the Sales Tax on Tuesday
- PBG Candidate Forum Synopsis
- TAB Co-hosts Forum for PBG Council Race
- Palm Beach County Commission to Rule on Children Services Council Request for Referendum on November 2014 Ballot
- Overlooking the Obvious? Observations from the Palm Tran Connection Workshop
- Taxing District Referendum To Be Set for Children’s Services Council
- Best Practices in Transportation for the Mobility Impaired
- Growing Government in Giant Steps: A County Takeover of Palm Tran Connection?
- Dark Cloud of Sales Tax Referendum Hangs over the County
- Another Attempt to Raise the County Sales Tax
- County Commission votes to penalize West Palm Beach and Riviera Beach over Inspector General Lawsuit
- County Tax Trends – Some Perspective
- County Proposes No Change to Millage, $23M Tax Increase
- Determining County Budget Growth – Why the Baseline Year Matters
- County Proposes $25.3M tax increase
- 2014 County Budget – What To Expect
- County Administrator Bob Weisman’s Outlook for 2014 Budget
- TAB co-hosts PBG Council Candidate Forum
- TAB Co-Sponsors PBG City Council Candidate Forum
- Commission and School Board Candidate Forum
- Final 2013 Budget Adopted
- October 1 Forum for County Commission and School Board
- What’s Going On with Convention Centers and HQ Hotels? Part 1 of 3
- Throwing good money after bad – Convention Center headlines from cities across the country – Part 2 of 3
- Some Background to the Mecca Farms Proposal
- A County Funded Hotel – Who Wins?
- Commissioners Cap Millage at Last Year’s Levels
- The July Budget Package – What Has Changed?
- Palm Beach County is not Wisconsin
- County Commission Forum – District 1 Primary Candidates
- TAB View of 2013 County Budget Proposal
- County Commission District 1 Candidate Forum
- BCC to Discuss $29M in Spending Reductions
- A Look at the Candidates for County Office at the Voters Coalition
- “Half Baked” Tax Proposal put back in the oven for another year
- TAB Opposes Sales Tax Increase
- BCC Briefs for April 17, 2012
- Yet Another Taxing District?
- Commission and Staff Hold Off-site Retreat
- Transparency at PBSO – the Challenger’s View
- Beyond the Local Elections – a Municipal Elections Forum
- Another decrease in valuations in 2012?
- Fire/Rescue Contract Negotiations – Back to the BCC
- County Adopts New Financial Standards
- Fire/Rescue Contract Talks Postponed for Another Month
- Fire / Rescue Contract Talks continue on Wednesday
- 2012 Millage set at 4.7815
- Call to Action – September 27 Budget Meeting
- Tax Rate Proposal Still Too High
- Budget Diet?
- F-bombs Fly at Fire/Rescue Negotiations
- A Surrealistic Budget Hearing
- Call to Action – 9/13 Budget Meeting
- Bob Weisman’s Response to TaxWatch Study
- The 2012 TAB Proposal – September Update
- Florida TaxWatch Report on County Reserves, Debt, and Property Utilization
- September Budget Hearings – Some Background
- Fire Salaries Frozen in Martin County
- TAB Proposals for Charter Changes
- Little Progress in the IAFF Contract
- Two TAB Coalition Partners Organize Phonebank to oppose Tax Rate Increase
- Fire / Rescue Contract Talks Continue
- District 7 Charter Review – July 29
- Higher Tax Rates in our Future
- Next Fire/Rescue Contract Negotiation Scheduled
- Palm Beach Post Takes on Fire / Rescue Pay
- County Budget Update – July 8
- Notes and Feedback From June 30 Commission Workshop in Pahokee
- County Budget Update – July 5
- Scare Tactics
- A Commissioner Takes on “Exigent Operational Necessity”
- Exigent Operational Necessity?
- Should the Sheriff be Subject to the Ethics Ordinances and the Inspector General?
- New County Grassroots Organization becomes TAB Coalition Partner
- Genesis of a Collective Bargaining Agreement
- Reduce Govt Overhead, Not Essential Services: BOC, Constitutional Officers and particularly the Sheriff
- Marathon Session for First Budget Workshop
- BIZPAC Review:County budget a Weisman trick-expect tax increase
- The Kabuki Budget
- The TAB Proposal and the County Budget
- Conversation with a Firefighter / Paramedic
- Pension Reform – the Final Bill
- Legislative Update – 5/5/11
- Palm Beach Civic Association Sponsors TaxWatch Study
- Smart Cap – Good for the State, Good for the County
- The 2012 Budget – a Very Preliminary Analysis.
- SWA Board Selects Babcock and Wilcox
- County Votes to pay 35% of cost of Convention Center Hotel
- Pension Bills Ready for Conference
- TAB Partner Seeks Help from Cities and Towns
- Pension Reform in Tallahassee – an Update
- Today, the Taxpayer Won
- Pension Reform and Implications for Palm Beach County
- Coalition Partner Defines Mission
- Public Sector Compensation – Some Perspective
- TAB Study Referenced in Palm Beach Post Editorial
- Florida Cities, Counties Can’t Afford Promised Pensions
- Chris Christie on Public Sector Salaries
- TAB Legislative Wish-List – an Update
- FRS Pension Reform Options and their Possible Savings
- Joint BCC / Legislative Delegation Workshop
- Try out our NEW interactive District Map
- County Commission Holds Off-Site Retreat
- Palm Beach County Pay and Benefits – How Much is Enough?
- Proposed Palm Beach County Charter Review Process
- TAB Legislative Wish List
- Tax Collector VOIP Project – Necessity or Re-inventing the Wheel?
- Fire/Rescue Sales Tax Surcharge to Make a Comeback
- Commissioner Burdick Off to a Good Start
- Should Ethics Director Johnson Get a Raise?
- Volunteers Wanted for TAB “Shovel-Ready” Projects
- Will Aaronson and Marcus run again?
- PBSO Budget – A TAB Update
- Pension rules are stacked in favor of the unions
- Libertarian Party of Palm Beach County Supports TAB
- Town of Palm Beach County Budget Task Force Joins TAB Coalition
- Term Limits Unconstitutional?
- TAB Discusses Partnership with Town of Palm Beach
- New County Commission for 2011
- Both Candidates for District 2 Call for Sheriff to Open his Books
- County Commission Hikes Taxes Yet Again
- Synopsis of 9/14 Budget Hearing
- Correction
- Call to Action
- The TAB Proposal
- TAB Holds Public Meeting on County Budget
- The Story of Spending
- The Cost of the Protected Class
- A TAB Look at Fire / Rescue
- TAB Proposal for Core Services
- Why TAB – Why Now?
- TAB Proposal Summary – A Work in Progress
- TAB Opposes Referendum for Continued Levy of 0.25 mills for School Board
- An Analysis of the County Budget Proposal – I
- Where does the $56M Budget Increase Go?
- Notice of Public Meeting
- Report Waste, Fraud or Abuse to the PBC Office of Inspector General
- County Commission Should Follow Delray’s Lead (NOT)
- TAB Plan, Projects, and Timeline
- Issues in the Orange County Mayor Race
- Related News
- BCC 7/20 – Hal Valeche
- County Adminstrator Cancels Budget Workshop
- BCC 7/20 – Mike Jones
- BCC 7/20 – Shannon Armstrong
- BCC 7/20 – Michele Kirk
- Comments
- BCC 7/20 – Meg Shannon
- BCC 7/20 – Sherry Lee
- BCC 7/20 – Iris Scheibl
- BCC, 7/20 – Fred Scheibl
