Overview
Hardee County's Final FY26 Budget totals $203,557,655 across all funds, with the Grants fund ($76,730,403) the largest single fund. The General Fund is $49,823,574, funded in part by $23,588,608 in ad valorem taxes at a current-year operating millage of 7.9200 mills (rollback 7.6433). General Fund revenues generated total $39,776,948 before cash forward and transfers.
At a glance
Headline budget
| Total, all funds | $203,557,655 |
| General Fund total | $49,823,574 |
| General Fund revenues generated | $39,776,948 |
| Ad valorem taxes | $23,588,608 |
Source: Hardee County Final FY26 Budget.
Breakdown
All funds, FY2025-26: fund totals from the budget summary.
| General Fund | $49,823,574 |
| Transportation Trust | $30,674,555 |
| Fines and Forfeiture | $1,998,811 |
| Fire Control | $13,468,716 |
| Mining | $713,834 |
| E-911 | $1,068,030 |
| Disaster Fund | $7,128,384 |
| Tourist Development Tax | $487,500 |
| Grants | $76,730,403 |
| Capital Reserve Fund | $420,617 |
| Vandolah Utilities | $415,828 |
| Wauchula Hills Utilities | $12,842,724 |
| Solid Waste | $5,278,773 |
| Solid Waste Closure | $2,328,000 |
| Law Enforcement Trust | $177,906 |
| Total, all funds | $203,557,655 |
Source: Hardee County Final FY26 Budget.
Elected officials
The budget document is issued by the Hardee County Board of County Commissioners; no individual commissioner roster is quoted here because the extracted budget pages do not carry a verified roster. Contact the county through its official site for the current board roster.
Sources & notes
- Only source used: Hardee County, Florida, Final FY26 Budget (FY2025-2026 budget summary, official BOCC host). Final FY26 Budget.
- Sum checks: fund-table total exact (all 15 fund totals above sum to $203,557,655); General Fund ad valorem $23,588,608 at 7.9200 mills matches the millage-rate page (taxes to be levied $23,588,608).
- Flag (kept on-page): the book's page-1 expenditures table prints $203,557,657, $2 above the fund-table total used here; the fund table is used because its components reconcile exactly.
- Jurisdiction palette: no verified Florida jurisdiction palette was on file, so this page uses the neutral Hometown Numbers dark-glass theme rather than a jurisdiction color.