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Money trail → Elected officers (Charter Officers)
Brevard County · appropriation · 2026

Sheriff’s Office

$220,439,187
✓ 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. 394
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 16 lines beneath this sum to this total exactly. Full report.
Share
85% of Elected officers (Charter Officers) ($258,393,190)
Retrieved
2026-10-06 — Proposed July 2026; the adopted book is “coming soon.”

Note on this line

Runs patrol in unincorporated Brevard, the county jail, court security and 9-1-1 dispatch. About $157.4 million of it is transferred from the county’s General Fund (book p. 394).

What's inside this number

LineAmountStatus
Law Enforcement — General Fund $76,097,922 ✓ Sourced
Law Enforcement — MSTU (unincorporated patrol) $36,356,443 ✓ Sourced
County Jail Complex $66,553,297 ✓ Sourced
Judicial Operations (court security) $10,540,459 ✓ Sourced
Animal Services $5,781,022 ✓ Sourced
Contracted Services $15,598,220 ✓ Sourced
Unified Communications Center (dispatch) $6,225,359 ✓ Sourced
Inmate Welfare $1,324,000 ✓ Sourced
State Forfeiture $710,680 ✓ Sourced
Second Dollar Education $35,779 ✓ Sourced
Two-Fifty Education $129,741 ✓ Sourced
Federal Forfeiture — Justice $479,641 ✓ Sourced
Federal Forfeiture — Treasury $68,782 ✓ Sourced
Crime Prevention $261,000 ✓ Sourced
Animal Services Enforcement Training $21,322 ✓ Sourced
Spay/Neuter $255,520 ✓ Sourced