Overview
Marianna is the county seat of Jackson County, Florida. Its FY2025-26 final budget (combined sources and uses) is $73,167,247, covering the General Fund, CRA and Enterprise Fund budgets for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2025 and ending September 30, 2026, adopted unanimously by Resolution #2025-023 at the Regular City Commission Meeting on October 7, 2025 (motion by Commissioner Williams, second by Commissioner Pettis). The prior year, FY2024-25, closed with a final budget of $73,006,077 (Resolution #2024-26, adopted unanimously October 1, 2024) — so the FY2025-26 total is $161,170 (+0.2%) above the prior year. The fund-by-fund split of the FY2025-26 total was not retrieved and is not reconstructed here.
At a glance
Headline budget
| Final budget, combined sources and uses, FY2025-26 | $73,167,247 |
| Final budget, FY2024-25 (prior year) | $73,006,077 |
| Increase over prior year | $161,170 |
| Adoption, FY2025-26 | Resolution #2025-023 |
| Adoption, FY2024-25 | Resolution #2024-26 |
Adopted unanimously at the Regular City Commission Meeting on October 7, 2025 (motion by Commissioner Williams, second by Commissioner Pettis); the FY2024-25 budget was adopted unanimously on October 1, 2024.
Source: City of Marianna, Regular City Commission Meeting minutes, October 7, 2025 (Resolution #2025-023); minutes, October 1, 2024 (Resolution #2024-26).
Breakdown
No fund breakdown is shown. Resolution #2025-023 adopts General Fund, CRA and Enterprise Fund budgets, but the fund-by-fund amounts sit in attached budgets referenced by the resolution that were not retrieved, so no split is reconstructed here and no fund figure is estimated. The funds the adopted total covers are:
| General Fund | Amount not retrieved |
| Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) | Amount not retrieved |
| Enterprise Fund | Amount not retrieved |
| Total, combined sources and uses, FY2025-26 | $73,167,247 |
Source: City of Marianna, Regular City Commission Meeting minutes, October 7, 2025 (Resolution #2025-023).
Meetings
The Marianna City Commission holds its Regular City Commission Meeting at 6:00 PM, normally on the first Tuesday of the month — the pattern in the city's official 2026 agendas and minutes (February 3, March 3, April 7, July 7, and August 4, 2026, all first Tuesdays at 6:00 PM). The March 3, 2026 agenda places the meeting in the Old City Hall Commission Room, 2897 Jefferson Street, Marianna, FL 32446. Dates do move on occasion — the August 4, 2026 minutes record the October 6 meeting moved to October 13 — so confirm against the city's posted agenda before attending. Pattern inferred from official city agendas and minutes, as disclosed here; it is not a quotation of a published meeting calendar.
Sources: City of Marianna, Regular City Commission Meeting agenda, March 3, 2026; minutes, August 4, 2026; minutes, July 7, 2026.
Regular-pattern dates — check the official calendar for changes.
Elected officials
As named in the city's official minutes and agendas: Mayor Allen Ward (mayor in the July 7 and August 4, 2026 minutes; District 3 commissioner and Mayor Pro Tem in the March 3, 2026 agenda roll call); Commissioners Travis H. Ephriam (District 1), Rick Pettis (District 2), Rico Williams (District 4), and Kenneth Hamilton (District 5). The mayor changed during 2026: the April 7, 2026 minutes show Mayor Travis Ephriam, while the July 7, 2026 minutes show Mayor Allen Ward. City Clerk Kimberly Applewhite and City Manager William Long are named in the August 4, 2026 minutes (staff, not elected officials, listed here for contact context).
Sources: City of Marianna, Regular City Commission Meeting minutes, August 4, 2026; agenda, March 3, 2026 (roll call).
Sources & notes
- Sources used (official city documents only): City of Marianna, Regular City Commission Meeting minutes, October 7, 2025 (Resolution #2025-023, FY2025-26 final budget) — October 7, 2025 minutes; minutes, October 1, 2024 (Resolution #2024-26, FY2024-25 final budget) — October 1, 2024 minutes; Regular City Commission Meeting agenda, March 3, 2026; minutes, July 7, 2026; minutes, August 4, 2026.
- Sum check: year-over-year change exact ($73,167,247 − $73,006,077 = $161,170, +0.2%). No fund split exists on this page to sum-check, because the split was not retrieved.
- Caveat (a) — fund split not retrieved: the FY2025-26 fund split sits in attached budgets referenced by Resolution #2025-023 but was not retrieved; no fund-by-fund amounts are shown and none are estimated.
- Caveat (b) — FY2025-26 millage not retrieved: the FY2025-26 final millage was not retrieved, so no millage rate is shown as the current rate and no prior-year rate is carried forward as the current rate.
- Caveat (c) — no citywide audit: no citywide ACFR exists for Marianna; only a CRA component-unit audit for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2024 exists, and it is not presented here as a citywide audit.
- What is not claimed: livability, housing, schools, neighbor-comparison, tax-dollar calculator, table search, and sales-tax tracker sections are not included: no verified Florida dataset in the project files carries Marianna/Jackson County values for them, and no figures were invented to fill them. Those sections come in Florida's standard pass from state datasets, the established pattern for archive-built pages. The Jackson County dashboard (jackson.html) and the City of Chipley dashboard (chipley.html) were used as structural models only; no figure was copied from either.
- Jurisdiction check: every document used is for the City of Marianna, Jackson County, Florida — not any namesake Marianna. The October 2026 Fort Pierce (FPUA/FPRA) agenda listing returned by one search was rejected as a different city and not used.
- 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.