Overview
Sebring's FY2025-26 adopted budget totals $69,753,891, with the Utilities Fund ($34,606,290, 50%) the largest fund and the General Fund at $21,908,755. The final millage is 6.35 mills, a 6.61% increase over the 5.9565 rollback rate. Capital outlay ($35,567,115, 52% of appropriations) dominates the appropriations-by-category table, which sums exactly to the stated total.
At a glance
Headline budget
| Total adopted budget, FY2025-26 | $69,753,891 |
| General Fund | $21,908,755 |
| Utilities Fund | $34,606,290 |
| Final millage | 6.35 mills |
| Rollback rate | 5.9565 mills |
| Adopted (second reading) | September 17, 2025 (Resolutions 2025-19 and 2025-20) |
| Fiscal year | October 1, 2025 – September 30, 2026 |
Breakdown
Estimated revenues and appropriations by fund, FY2025-26. Flag: the six fund figures sum to $69,733,891, $20,000 below the book's stated $69,753,891 total; the stated total is used.
| General Fund | $21,908,755 |
| Truist Memorial Park | $29,801 |
| Infrastructure | $8,731,705 |
| Utilities | $34,606,290 |
| Solid Waste | $3,081,000 |
| Golf Course | $1,376,340 |
| Total, as stated in the book | $69,753,891 |
Appropriations by category, FY2025-26. The eight category figures sum exactly to $69,753,891.
| Personnel services | $19,025,098 |
| Operating expenses | $11,277,295 |
| Capital outlay | $35,567,115 |
| Interfund transfers | $2,345,038 |
| Contingency | $726,303 |
| Debt service | $274,204 |
| Other uses | −$83,686 |
| Reserve for capital | $622,524 |
| Total | $69,753,891 |
General Fund revenues by source, FY2025-26. The nineteen source figures sum exactly to $21,908,755.
| Ad valorem taxes | $7,057,337 |
| Local option gas taxes | $452,000 |
| Utility service taxes | $1,965,000 |
| Communications services taxes | $530,000 |
| Local business tax | $51,000 |
| Franchise fees | $1,256,000 |
| State revenue sharing | $1,406,978 |
| Interest & other earnings | $525,000 |
| Rents & royalties | $153,000 |
| Miscellaneous | $80,037 |
| Contributions from enterprise funds | $1,250,000 |
| Fund balance brought forward | $1,623,858 |
| Police (department revenues) | $531,648 |
| Code enforcement | $130,000 |
| Fire | $4,243,936 |
| Building | $451,961 |
| Planning & zoning | $10,000 |
| Cemetery | $36,000 |
| Recreation | $155,000 |
| Total General Fund revenues | $21,908,755 |
General Fund appropriations by department, FY2025-26. The fourteen department figures sum exactly to $21,908,755.
| Admin & finance | $2,647,693 |
| Police | $7,013,475 |
| Code enforcement | $245,598 |
| Fire | $7,815,703 |
| Building | $451,961 |
| Planning & zoning | $265,938 |
| Public Works: administration | $1,278,561 |
| Public Works: streets & roads | $934,393 |
| Public Works: buildings & grounds | $312,679 |
| Public Works: vehicle maintenance | $5,000 |
| Public Works: parks & beaches | $243,106 |
| Max Long Complex | $611,445 |
| Contributions, grants & aids | $79,750 |
| Alum treatment plant | $3,453 |
| Total General Fund appropriations | $21,908,755 |
Elected officials
Mayor and City Council (per the budget book cover): Mayor John Shoop; Council President Josh Stewart; Pro Tempore Harrison Havery; Roland Bishop, Lenard Carlisle and Rebekah Kogelschatz. City Clerk/Treasurer Kathy Haley, CMC; City Administrator Scott Noethlich.
Sources & notes
- Only source used: City of Sebring, Adopted Budget FY2025-2026 (mysebring.com; Resolution 2025-20 adopting the budget and Resolution 2025-19 setting the millage, both passed on second reading September 17, 2025). Sebring Adopted Budget FY2025-2026.
- Sum checks: appropriations-by-category figures sum exactly to $69,753,891; General Fund revenue sources sum exactly to $21,908,755; General Fund department appropriations sum exactly to $21,908,755.
- Flags: (1) basis shift — the inventory record's FY2024-25 audit figures (General Fund revenues $16,659,579; expenditures $18,439,611) are not used; the page rests on the FY2025-26 adopted book actually retrieved; (2) the fund-comparison table's six figures sum to $69,733,891, $20,000 short of the book's stated $69,753,891 — the stated total is used and the gap is disclosed.
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