Please understand this information is using the best data available at this time. What this interactive search engine does is form a highly accurate preliminary roll revealing a proportionate annual fire service assessment for each assessable tax parcel in the City.

The information used for this search is from data certified to the Florida Department of Revenue in November, which will automatically update in ensuing years.

The search engine shows Tier 1 and Tier 2 of the judicially vetted Simplified Fire approach for special assessments, which is fundamentally proportionate and is required to be re-calculated annually. This simplified approach has been repeatedly determined to be fair, reasonable, and proportionate by Florida courts and uses statutorily required data developed by the local property appraiser’s office for another purpose, and is updated annually.

You can search by owner name, street address, or parcel number for all parcels in the City's proposed Fire Service Assessment. For perspective, divide the annual amount by 360 to understand the daily cost of continuous Fire Department readiness and availability for each property that the property owner is asked to share.

Keep in mind that the simplified approach, in part (Tier 1), sizes up the relative improvement value of each assessed parcel, so all parcels are in that respect assessed proportionately to the improvements on the parcel. This intentionally does not include land value. Tier 2 charges a flat $105 for every tax parcel assessed, in order fund equally among all tax parcels a portion of more fixed costs of the fire department budget each year. The two Tiers are added together to form the Fire Service Assessment. The Quick Search informs of Tier 1, Tier 2, and totals the two amounts for each Tax Parcel.

Next, there are costs associated with using the uniform method of collection. Some of these costs are fixed and some are variable. Added to the Sub-Total of Tier 1 and Tier 2 for each assessed parcel will be the following: (i) $7.50 per tax notice to defray City notice, administrative and implementation costs (includes a $1 annual processing fee to County); (ii) charges by the Tax Collector (approx. 2%); plus (iii) adjustment (4%) to account for early-payment statutory discounts involved with the uniform method of collection. Please take note that although these assessments may change from year to year on any given tax parcel due to subdivision, combination of tax parcels, development, redevelopment, demolition and the like in terms of changes in the value of improvements (determined by the local Property Appraiser), they will not change based on land value. Also, Florida law requires disclosure of the total proposed revenue to be collected by the City when using the tax bill collection process, sometimes referred to as the uniform method of collection. Accordingly, exclusive of the foregoing fixed and variable nominal amounts and adjustments described in (i), (ii), and (iii) above for any given Tax Parcel, the net proposed Fire Service Assessment revenue to be collected by the City for Fiscal Year 2025-2026 is estimated to be $6,136,466.