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The five-fund printed total counts $6.68M of CRA payments twice.

The posted budget keeps the General Fund, utilities, stormwater and two CRA funds separate. Adding their printed expenditures also adds some payments twice.

Posted FY2026 plan · final version unconfirmed

FY2026: October 2025–September 2026 · Evidence reviewed October 5, 2026 · Source version & limitations

Per-resident figures round to the nearest whole dollar. Dollar totals retain their current precision.

CRA payments connect the General Fund to two districts.

FY2026 planned amounts. Removing identified General Fund payments to the CRA’s two area funds is a limited adjustment, not proof of a completely consolidated spending total.

  1. General FundMain operating fund
    $36.5M$35.5M revenue

    Police, fire, roads, parks, library, planning and administration. Mostly paid by property tax, other taxes and state revenue sharing.

  2. Utility FundEnterprise (self-supporting)
    $16.7M$16.8M revenue

    Water, sewer and reclaimed water. Paid by customers’ utility bills, not property tax. Includes state revolving-loan debt payments.

  3. Downtown CRARedevelopment district
    $8.8M$6.78M revenue

    Reinvests property-tax growth within the downtown district. Funded by tax-increment payments from the city, Lake County, the ambulance district and the water authority.

  4. Mountain Properties CRARedevelopment district
    $7.12M$8.31M revenue

    Reinvests property-tax growth within the Mountain Properties district. Funded the same way as the Downtown CRA.

  5. Stormwater FundEnterprise (fee-supported)
    $424K$424K revenue

    Drainage and flood-control system, paid by a stormwater fee.

How money moves between funds

In FY2026 the General Fund pays $2,646,651 to the Downtown CRA and $4,034,164 to the Mountain Properties CRA. Lake County, the ambulance district and the water authority pay a further $7,040,899 into the CRA’s two areas. Utility and stormwater funds are paid by their own customer charges.City property tax,other taxes & feesGeneral Fund$36.5MLake County &other taxing bodiesDowntown CRA$8.8MMountain Prop. CRA$7.12MCity: $2.65M + $4.03MOthers pay in $7.04MWater & sewer billsUtility FundStormwater feeStormwater Fund

Why we don’t add the funds together

Printed total, all five funds
$69,539,695
Less General Fund payments to the CRA’s two area funds, which those funds spend again
−$6,680,815
Printed spending less identified CRA payments (our calculation)
$62,858,880

Other transfers and financing flows are not fully reconciled. This adjustment removes only the identified General Fund CRA payments; it is not a fully consolidated service-spending total.

Source pages (4)

The CRA’s two areas fund different projects.

The Downtown and Mountain Properties areas have distinct funding contributors and planned expenditures. Preserve the differences between their source pages.

What is a CRA?

  1. A district is frozen in time. When a Community Redevelopment Agency is created, the taxable value of property in its district is recorded as a base.
  2. Growth is set aside. In later years, the city, Lake County and other taxing bodies pay the CRA most of the property tax collected on value above that base (“tax-increment financing”).
  3. It’s spent in the district. The CRA must spend that money on projects in its own redevelopment plan, such as roads, parks and utilities in the district.

Downtown CRA

$8.8M planned spending

This year’s plan is dominated by park and road projects inside the downtown district.

Who pays in · $5.44M in tax increment

Hatched: the City’s financing payment to this CRA. Planned final uses are listed below.

  • City of Minneola$2.65M49%
  • Lake County$2.42M45%
  • Ambulance district$223K4%
  • Water authority$148K3%

Biggest planned uses

  • Park projects$4.75M
  • Road projects$2.5M
  • Water, wastewater & expansion design$750K
  • Professional & contract services$386K
  • Land acquisition$150K
  • Staff$148K

$2,023,051 Assigned for project improvements

Source pages (4)

Mountain Properties CRA

$7.12M planned spending

Most of this year’s spending is a line printed as “Reimbursements to Turnpike.” The budget does not describe the underlying agreement.

Who pays in · $8.28M in tax increment

Hatched: the City’s financing payment to this CRA. Planned final uses are listed below.

  • City of Minneola$4.03M49%
  • Lake County$3.69M45%
  • Ambulance district$339K4%
  • Water authority$216K3%

Biggest planned uses

  • Reimbursements to Turnpike$4.14M
  • Road projects$1.25M
  • Professional services$1M
  • Vehicles & equipment$278K
  • Building projects$234K
  • Staff$155K

$1,183,071 Assigned: Fire Station 2 engine & equipment (p. 57) / Public Safety Complex – 2 (p. 60)

Source pages (4)
About this data

Downtown CRA: Revenue also includes $1,150,000 moved in from previously assigned funds and $185,900 interest. The four tax lines add to $5,439,355, $1 below the printed $5,439,356 total. Page 56 prints a $8,805,368 department total, $7,061 more than page 53, because personnel differs between the two pages.

Mountain Properties CRA: The assigned-funds line carries two different names on pages 57 and 60, and the two pages show different amounts for FY2022–FY2024. Page 1 shows these assignments as negatives.

Selected City and CRA uses reveal service subtotals.

Identified service lines show more than the General Fund alone. Read the coverage and reconciliation limits before treating a subtotal as a complete service total.

City + CRA · identified service uses

Follow spending across the funds

FY2026 posted plan · final version unconfirmed. These are known subtotals, not a complete citywide service inventory.

Parks & recreation

$5,566,668Identified plan subtotal · $263 per resident
Operations
$732,242
Capital outlay
$4,834,426
City and individual CRA contributions
Parks & recreation · FY2026 posted plan · selected lines
Spending fundIdentified amount
General Fund$816,668
Downtown CRA$4,750,000
Mountain Properties CRANo service line selected · not a confirmed zero
Other City fundsFull service mapping not established

Exact source lines

  • $732,242 · Parks & Recreation departments: staff and operating
    General Fund · operating
    Source pages (4)
  • $84,426 · Parks & Recreation departments: capital outlay
    General Fund · capital
    Source pages (2)
  • $4,750,000 · Park Projects (060-641)
    Downtown CRA · capital
    Source pages (1)

Roads & streets

$14,271,260Identified plan subtotal · $673 per resident
Operations
$564,445
Capital outlay
$4,706,815
Grant project · type not split
$9,000,000
City and individual CRA contributions
Roads & streets · FY2026 posted plan · selected lines
Spending fundIdentified amount
General Fund$10,521,260
Downtown CRA$2,500,000
Mountain Properties CRA$1,250,000
Other City fundsFull service mapping not established

Exact source lines

  • $564,445 · Roads department: staff and operating
    General Fund · operating
    Source pages (2)
  • $956,815 · Roads department: capital outlay
    General Fund · capital
    Source pages (1)
  • $9,000,000 · Grant expenditures (080-810)
    General Fund · one-time grant
    Source pages (1)
  • $2,500,000 · Road Projects (060-644)
    Downtown CRA · capital
    Source pages (1)
  • $1,250,000 · Road Projects
    Mountain Properties CRA · capital
    Source pages (1)
Per-resident amounts use 21,201 residents, BEBR April 1, 2025.
Population source (2)
About this data

Only final service-use lines are included here. General Fund payments into the CRA’s two area funds are not added again. Unassigned CRA uses, other funds and any remaining internal reimbursements need reconciliation before these can be called complete service totals. Utility and stormwater spending is shown separately in Utilities & debt.

What remains unassigned?

  • Reimbursements to Turnpike (Mountain Properties CRA, 030-400): $4,141,180
    Source (1)
  • Water, wastewater and expansion design (Downtown CRA): $750,000
    Source (1)

These are identified unresolved lines, not an exhaustive residual. The underlying Turnpike agreement is not established here; its payment is not assumed to be an internal City transfer.

CRA financing includes contributions from outside City government; these figures describe spending by the funds, not solely City tax funding or equal benefits throughout the City. See each CRA’s full budget and funding sources.

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