Overview
Escambia County adopted a FY2025/2026 budget of $867,962,562 — the $824,440,150 proposed budget plus a $43,522,412 adjustment, the largest piece of which ($47 million) was the Local Provider Participation Fund for hospital Medicaid matching. The General Fund is $348,478,662; constitutional officers, courts and mandated expenses take $131,367,238 (37.7%) of it, including a $96,001,840 Sheriff's General Fund budget.
At a glance
Headline budget
| Adopted budget, FY2025/26, all funds | $867,962,562 |
| Proposed budget | $824,440,150 |
| Budget adjustment to adopted | $43,522,412 |
| General Fund budget | $348,478,662 |
| County-wide millage | 6.600 mills |
| Library MSTU millage | 0.3590 mills |
| Law Enforcement MSTU millage | 0.6850 mills |
| Sheriff's General Fund budget | $96,001,840 |
Breakdown
Major county revenues, adopted FY2025/26, from the budget message's 3-year projection table. These are the county's major revenue lines, not the whole $867,962,562 budget.
| Ad Valorem Tax (county-wide) | $218,590,044 |
| State Revenue Sharing Proceeds | $12,200,000 |
| State Half Cent Sales Tax | $35,100,000 |
| Electric Franchise Fees | $12,500,000 |
| Local Option Gas Tax, 4 cents | $5,100,000 |
| Local Provider Participant Funds | $127,308,292 |
| Tourist Development Tax | $21,000,000 |
| Library MSTU | $11,889,974 |
| Fire Protection MSBU Assessment | $33,127,572 |
| Bob Sikes Toll Bridge | $3,090,000 |
| Local Option Gas Tax, 6 cents | $7,815,000 |
| Ninth Cent Gas Tax | $1,610,000 |
| Seventh Cent Gas Tax | $1,400,000 |
| Constitutional Gas Tax | $3,350,000 |
| Local Option Sales Tax | $63,000,000 |
| Commercial Hauler Tipping Fees | $11,550,000 |
| Total, major revenues listed | $568,630,882 |
Elected officials
Escambia County Board of County Commissioners (221 Palafox Place, Pensacola). Constitutional officers named by office in the budget message: Sheriff (General Fund $96,001,840), Property Appraiser ($7,990,942), Tax Collector (General Fund portion $7,648,229), Supervisor of Elections ($4,402,951), Clerk of the Circuit Court ($5,717,563). Individual commissioners are not named in the retrieved budget message, so no commissioner names are listed here.
Sources & notes
- Only source used: Escambia County, Fiscal Year 2025/2026 Adopted Budget, budget message (October 14, 2025). Escambia County FY2025/26 Adopted Budget.
- Sum checks: adopted total arithmetic exact ($824,440,150 + $43,522,412 = $867,962,562); the 16 major-revenue lines sum exactly to the table's $568,630,882; the five named constitutional-officer General Fund budgets total $121,761,525 of the $131,367,238 constitutional/court/mandated total (remainder is courts and other mandated expenses).
- Jurisdiction check: document header verified as Escambia County Board of County Commissioners, Pensacola, Florida.
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