# Where Your Tax Dollars Go — Aventura FY 2026/27 Budget Explorer

> An interactive explorer for the City of Aventura's adopted FY 2026/27 operating and capital budget (October 1, 2026 - September 30, 2027), built by Public Communicators Group from the published budget book and cross-foot validated against its printed totals. Every figure below is generated from the same data file the page renders, so it is safe to quote.

## The headline figures

- Total budget: $69,053,652 net across all funds ($71,646,837 gross, $2,593,185 of interfund transfers eliminated), down 2.49% from the FY 2025/26 amended budget.
- General Fund: $56,874,432. Day-to-day operating spending across all funds: $57,347,669, up 0.38% from the same amended budget.
- Property tax rate: 1.7261 mills, unchanged for 31 consecutive years.
- Certified taxable value: $14,302,092,302, up 0.8%, including $7,204,972 of new construction.
- Property tax revenue budgeted: $24,002,500 ($23,452,500 of this year's taxes plus $550,000 of prior years' taxes collected late). Staffing: 198 full-time and 8 part-time positions (202 FTE).

## What a resident actually pays

- Aventura keeps about 10 cents of every property-tax dollar; the rest goes to other taxing authorities.
- The full FY 2026/27 bill inside city limits is 16.7154 mills, of which the city's own operating levy is 1.7261.
- 2nd-lowest city tax rate, counting operating and voter-approved debt millage, among Miami-Dade County's 34 municipalities and the unincorporated area. Source: Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser, 2026 proposed millage rates.
- A homesteaded home assessed at $500,000 pays the city about $774 a year at 1.7261 mills; the dashboard's calculator covers the homestead, senior, veteran, widow/widower, blind and total-disability exemptions and can fill in an assessed value from a street address.

## The six largest of 13 departments (FY 2026/27, all funds)

- Police: $29,692,542
- Public Works / Transportation: $9,904,375
- Community Services: $6,007,193
- Community Development: $5,095,781
- Non-Departmental: $2,391,540
- Arts & Cultural Center: $1,875,655
- All 13 departments together: $61,528,474. Adding $4,423,023 of capital reserve set aside for future projects and $3,102,155 of debt service gives the $69,053,652 net budget; the $71,646,837 gross budget also counts $2,593,185 of transfers between funds.

## The six largest revenue sources (FY 2026/27, all funds)

- Property Taxes: $24,002,500
- Utility & Local Taxes: $11,530,000
- Intergovernmental: $8,655,876
- Charges for Services: $7,937,285
- Franchise Fees: $5,318,500
- Licenses, Permits & Impact Fees: $5,050,000
- All sources together: $71,646,837, the gross budget ($62,494,161 of it from the six above).

## How the budget was adopted

- The City Commission held two public hearings in September and adopted this budget and the 1.7261-mill tax rate on September 15, 2026. It takes effect October 1, 2026. Agendas and meeting recordings: https://www.cityofaventura.com/AgendaCenter. City Clerk: 305-466-8901.

## Capital plan

- Five-year capital improvement program FY 2026/27-2030/31: $24,573,367, of which $4,911,427 is budgeted in year one.
- By category over five years: Drainage & Flood Control $5,000,000; Equipment & Vehicles $6,286,230; Technology $5,116,727; Parks & Beautification $3,956,970; Public Buildings $3,412,275; Transportation $801,165
- A new home for Don Soffer Aventura High School: Construction costs are not in this budget because they are not known yet.

## Caveats an accurate answer should carry

- Adopted by the City Commission on September 15, 2026. The budget takes effect October 1, 2026.
- The tax calculator is an estimate, not a bill. The Miami-Dade Tax Collector's bill governs.
- Rates for the other taxing authorities are their proposed FY 2026/27 rates; each authority sets its own final rate at its own public hearing, so a final bill can differ slightly.
- Save Our Homes is not modelled: the calculator asks for assessed value precisely because the cap is already reflected in it.
- Figures are shown as published. Where the printed book contains rounding, printed totals govern.
- This dashboard is a summary of the City's published budget document, not the document itself.

## Sources

- [City of Aventura Operating and Capital Budget, Fiscal Year 2026/27 (adopted September 15, 2026)](https://www.cityofaventura.com/Archive.aspx?ADID=539)
- [City of Aventura budget archive (all years)](https://www.cityofaventura.com/Archive.aspx?AMID=37)
- [Miami-Dade County Property Appraiser, 2026 proposed millage rates](https://www.miamidadepa.gov/resources-pa/library/reports/millage/2026-proposed-millage-rate-table.pdf)
- [City of Aventura](https://www.cityofaventura.com)
- [Every budget line item across all funds, FY 2023/24 to FY 2026/27 (CSV)](https://publiccommunicators.com/Aventura/Budget/FY26-27/data/downloads/line_item_detail.csv)
- [Operating and capital spending by department, FY 2023/24 to FY 2026/27 (CSV)](https://publiccommunicators.com/Aventura/Budget/FY26-27/data/downloads/all_funds_expenditures_by_department.csv)
- [Revenue by fund, FY 2023/24 to FY 2026/27 (CSV)](https://publiccommunicators.com/Aventura/Budget/FY26-27/data/downloads/all_funds_revenues_by_fund.csv)
- [All 48 capital projects with five-year amounts, one row per project and funding source (CSV)](https://publiccommunicators.com/Aventura/Budget/FY26-27/data/downloads/capital_projects_5yr.csv)
- [Budgeted positions by department, ten years (CSV)](https://publiccommunicators.com/Aventura/Budget/FY26-27/data/downloads/staffing_history.csv)
- [Proposed FY 2026/27 city millage rates for Miami-Dade County's 34 municipalities and the unincorporated area (CSV)](https://publiccommunicators.com/Aventura/Budget/FY26-27/data/downloads/millage_comparison_miami_dade.csv)

## Languages

- English: https://publiccommunicators.com/Aventura/Budget/FY26-27/
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