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Brevard County · appropriation · 2026

County departments (Board agencies)

$2,091,272,699
✓ Sourced

This number is cited to a source document, and its arithmetic re-adds to the dollar (it cross-foots, or it is counted inside a total that does).

Source
Brevard County Operating and Capital Budget, Proposed FY2026-27 (budget book)
Source locator
p. 22
Layer
appropriation — Layer one: what Board of County Commissioners (5 districts) authorized to be spent. What was actually spent is layer two (audit and treasurer reports); which vendor got which check is layer three (check register).
Checked
Cross-foots ✓ — the 25 lines beneath this sum to this total exactly. Full report.
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86% of all county appropriations ($2,425,831,993)
Retrieved
2026-10-06 — Proposed July 2026; the adopted book is “coming soon.”

Note on this line

The departments that report to the County Manager and the Board. Amounts are the July proposal, from the county’s own line-item spreadsheets.

What's inside this number

LineAmountStatus
Board of County Commissioners $2,349,060 ✓ Sourced
Budget Office $723,575 ✓ Sourced
Central Services Office $7,834,268 ✓ Sourced
County Attorney Office $2,425,920 ✓ Sourced
County Manager Office $1,562,125 ✓ Sourced
Emergency Management Office $17,731,733 ✓ Sourced
Fire Rescue Department $187,110,301 ✓ Sourced
General Government $142,518,688 ✓ Sourced
Housing and Human Services Department $52,778,890 ✓ Sourced
Human Resources Office $116,760,095 ✓ Sourced
Information Technology $9,867,552 ✓ Sourced
Library Services $35,160,261 ✓ Sourced
Mosquito Control $15,784,685 ✓ Sourced
Natural Resources Management Department $634,983,525 ✓ Sourced
Parks and Recreation Department $97,273,942 ✓ Sourced
Planning and Development $129,078,327 ✓ Sourced
Public Safety Office $6,164,833 ✓ Sourced
Public Works Department $161,074,096 ✓ Sourced
Solid Waste Management Department $145,863,570 ✓ Sourced
Space Coast Government Television Communications Office $562,458 ✓ Sourced
Tourism $77,900,085 ✓ Sourced
Transit Services $38,840,204 ✓ Sourced
UF Brevard County Extension Services $1,308,389 ✓ Sourced
Utility Services Department $204,054,691 ✓ Sourced
Valkaria Airport $1,561,426 ✓ Sourced