Less than one month after Manatee County commissioners finalized the fiscal year 2026 budget, Florida CFO Blaise Ingoglia announced they had “overspent” $112.4 million in fiscal 2025.
Commissioner Jason Bearden said CFO Sheila McLean certainly didn’t give him that impression during the recent budget meetings. Manatee County’s fiscal 2026 budget was approved Sept. 22.
“I was struggling to cut $3 million from a billion-dollar budget,” Bearden said.
Bearden, along with Commissioner Bob McCann, advocated for a larger cut to the millage, but in the end, Bearden settled for a reduction of .05 mills.
McCann was the lone vote against the millage and the overall budget. He told the East County…more
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