NaplesDailyNews_20180917_A1212A ❚MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2018 ❚NAPLES DAILY NEWS +
GENERAL SPECIAL REV. DEBT SERV. CAPITAL ENTERPRISE INTERNAL SRV. PERMANENT TOTAL
FUND FUNDS FUNDS FUNDS FUNDS FUNDS FUNDS ALL FUNDS
ESTIMATED REVENUES:
Taxes:
Ad Valorem Taxes $314,773,600 $54,062,800 $529,900 $0 $0 $0 $0 $369,366,300
Local Gas Taxes 0 0 0 15,700,000 0 0 0 15,700,000
Other Taxes and Franchise Fees 0 32,486,600 0 0 1,820,000 0 0 34,306,600
Licenses & Permits 229,200 28,786,700 0 24,223,800 73,800 0 0 53,313,500
Intergovernmental Revenues 54,103,500 3,564,800 1,975,000 4,500,000 108,000 0 0 64,251,300
Charges For Services 40,806,400 7,874,600 0 950,000 210,429,300 483,600 0 260,543,900
Fines & Forfeitures 392,500 1,844,300 0 0 20,000 0 0 2,256,800
Miscellaneous Revenues 9,713,000 2,492,500 17,500 29,806,700 16,161,300 15,671,600 20,300 73,882,900
Internal Service Charges 0 0 0 0 3,342,000 73,512,100 0 76,854,100
Transfer In & Other Sources 207,866,200 41,908,200 29,932,000 41,031,900 107,149,000 2,410,900 (1,000) 430,297,200
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TOTAL SOURCES $627,884,400 $173,020,500 $32,454,400 $116,212,400 $339,103,400 $92,078,200 $19,300 $1,380,772,600
Cash Balances Brought Forward 43,020,600 152,329,700 5,856,100 53,516,000 82,134,900 47,945,600 1,733,200 386,536,100
TOTAL ESTIMATED REVENUES
AND BALANCES $670,905,000 $325,350,200 $38,310,500 $169,728,400 $421,238,300 $140,023,800 $1,752,500 $1,767,308,700
EXPENDITURES / EXPENSES:
General Government $82,573,800 $19,754,400 $726,000 $14,079,600 $0 $590,900 $0 $117,724,700
Public Safety 189,594,500 36,546,200 0 1,305,200 32,031,200 540,500 0 260,017,600
Physical Environment 806,000 33,151,900 0 14,357,500 196,774,800 2,067,300 23,900 247,181,400
Transportation 359,000 48,938,900 0 37,057,300 10,023,100 2,761,200 0 99,139,500
Economic Environment 2,462,400 3,180,000 0 0 0 30,000 0 5,672,400
Human Services 13,162,000 1,084,100 0 0 0 268,900 0 14,515,000
Culture & Recreation 18,266,800 39,522,100 0 15,192,800 0 284,000 0 73,265,700
Debt Service 0 0 32,640,400 0 20,495,000 0 0 53,135,400
Internal Service 0 0 0 0 0 86,022,800 0 86,022,800
Transfer Out & Other Uses 313,860,100 33,639,000 20,700 37,697,300 88,484,100 1,041,600 0 474,742,800
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TOTAL EXPENDITURES/EXPENSES $621,084,600 $215,816,600 $33,387,100 $119,689,700 $347,808,200 $93,607,200 $23,900 $1,431,417,300
Reserves 49,820,400 109,533,600 4,923,400 50,038,700 73,430,100 46,416,600 1,728,600 335,891,400
TOTAL APPROPRIATED
EXPENDITURES
AND RESERVES $670,905,000 $325,350,200 $38,310,500 $169,728,400 $421,238,300 $140,023,800 $1,752,500 $1,767,308,700
FUND TITLE FUND TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE TENTATIVE TAX REVENUE
General Fund 001 3.5645 $314,773,621
Water Pollution Control 114 0.0293 2,587,422
TOTAL COUNTYWIDE 3.5938 $317,361,043
MUNICIPAL SERVICES TAXING and/or BENEFITING UNIT
Unincorporated Area General Fund 111 0.8069 44,208,860
Golden Gate Community Center 130 0.1862 390,318
Victoria Park Drainage MSTU 134 0.0323 1,309
Naples Park Drainage MSTU&BU 139 0.0057 8,221
Vanderbilt Beach MSTU 143 0.5000 1,345,208
Ochopee Fire Control District MSTU 146 4.0000 1,202,543
Goodland/Horr's Island Fire MSTU 149 1.2760 108,278
Sabal Palm Road Extension MSTU&BU 151 0.0000 0
Lely Golf Estates Beautification MSTU 152 2.0000 271,095
Golden Gate Parkway Beautification MSTU 153 0.5000 406,373
Hawksridge Stormwater Pumping MSTU 154 0.0398 2,804
Radio Road Beautification MSTU 158 0.1000 130,819
Forest Lakes Roadway & Drainage MSTU 159 1.3793 278,886
Immokalee Beautification MSTU 162 1.0000 383,983
Bayshore Avalon Beautification MSTU 163 2.3604 1,111,874
Haldeman Creek Dredging MSTU 164 1.0000 124,033
Rock Road MSTU 165 3.0000 44,038
Forest Lakes Debt Service 259 2.6207 529,890
Collier County Lighting 760 0.1549 871,787
Pelican Bay MSTBU 778 0.0857 584,971
TOTAL MSTU and/or BU $52,005,290
TOTAL AD VALOREM TAXES $369,366,333
BUDGET SUMMARY
COLLIER COUNTY - FISCAL YEAR 2018/2019
THE PROPOSED OPERATING BUDGET EXPENDITURES OF COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
ARE 2.3% MORE THAN LAST YEAR’S TOTAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES.
THE TENTATIVE, ADOPTED, AND / OR FINAL BUDGETS ARE ON FILE IN THE OFFICE OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED TAXING AUTHORITY AS A PUBLIC RECORD.
September 17, 2018 ND-2113039
PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLIC NOTICE
NOTICE OF PROPOSED TAX INCREASE
The Collier County Board of County
Commissioners has tentatively adopted a measure
to increase its property tax levy.
Last year’s property tax levy:
A. Initially proposed tax levy...........$ 349,360,410
B. Less tax reductions due to
Value Adjustment Board and
other assessment changes ............$ (7,659)
C. Actual property tax levy.............$ 349,368,069
This year’s proposed tax levy......$ 368,836,443
All concerned citizens are invited to attend a
public hearing on the tax increase to be held on:
September 20, 2018
5:05 p.m.
at
Collier County Government Complex
W. Harmon Turner Building, Building F
County Commissioners Boardroom, 3rd Floor
3299 Tamiami Trail East
Naples, Florida
A FINAL DECISION on the proposed tax
increase and the budget will be made at this
hearing.
September 17, 2018 ND.2113040
There’s a bumper crop of squirrels in
New England, and the frenetic critters
are frustrating farmers by chomping
their way through apple orchards,
pumpkin patches and corn fields.
The varmints are fattening them-
selves for winter while destroying the
crops with bite marks.
Robert Randall, who has a 60-acre
orchard in Standish, Maine, said he’s
never seen anything like it.
“They’re eating the pumpkins.
They’re eating the apples. They’re rais-
ing some hell this year. It’s the worst
I’ve ever seen,” he said.
Evidence of the squirrel population
explosion is plain to see along New
England’s highways, where the critters
are becoming roadkill.
Last year, a bumper crop of acorns
and other food contributed to a larger-
than-normal squirrel population this
summer across the region, said Rob
Calvert, a wildlife biologist from the
New Hampshire Fish and Game De-
partment.
This summer, there’s not as much
food, so the squirrels are looking for nu-
trition wherever they can find it, in-
cluding farms, Calvert said.
New England is home to both red
and gray squirrels. Known for their
bushy tails, the rodents are a common
sight in city parks and backyards, and
people enjoy watching their frenetic
movements.
They eat everything from beechnuts
and acorns to berries and seeds – and,
apparently, apples, peaches, high-bush
blueberries, pumpkins and gourds. In
New Hampshire, squirrels have been
raiding corn fields, dragging away ears.
“It is crazy. You see squirrel tails ev-
erywhere,” said Greg Sweetser, who
has a boutique apple orchard in Cum-
berland Center, Maine. In the past, he
said, squirrels have sometimes nibbled
on apples that had fallen to the ground.
But this season they’re skittering into
the trees, scurrying to and fro, and
making their mark.
Oftentimes, they take a single bite,
then move on. But a single bite is all it
takes to ruin fruit.
In Vermont, where the harvest is just
beginning in earnest, farmers are keep-
ing a watchful eye because rodent dam-
age has been a growing problem for its
apple producers, said Eric Boire, the
president of the Vermont Tree Fruit
Growers Association.
The good news for farmers is that
boom years for both acorns and squir-
rels are uncommon. Thus, it’s likely
populations will return to normal soon.
The fact that squirrels are hustling to
find food and getting run over in prodi-
gious numbers on highways suggests
the culling already has begun, Calvert
said. As hungry as the squirrels are, it’s
unlikely that they’ll inflict massive eco-
nomic damage.
“Every year in farming, there’s
something that we’re dealing with,”
said Margie Hansel, an owner of Han-
sel’s orchard in Maine.
A glut of squirrels
chomping up crops,
driving farmers nuts
David Sharp
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Squirrels have moved on from their
usual walnuts and acorns, venturing
into apple orchards and corn fields.
ROBERT F. BUKATY/AP