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Gov. Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency Tuesday for 49 of Florida's 67 counties — nearly three quarters of the state — after tornados tore through the Sunshine State and a "well ...
There were 29 "fiscally constrained" counties in Florida in 2023, according to the state's Department of Revenue. Most are rural and in north Florida or the interior of South Florida.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis expanded an executive order and placed additional counties under a state of emergency ahead of an incoming weather system expected to become a tropical storm and possibly ...
The two counties were divided by the Suwannee River. All of the other counties were created later from these two original counties. Florida became the 27th U.S. state in 1845, and its last county was created in 1925 with the formation of Gilchrist County from a segment of Alachua County. [1] Florida's counties are subdivisions of the state ...
Florida's state budget is funded one-third from General Revenue and two-thirds from hundreds of trust funds. [11] The General Revenue portion of Florida's state budget is funded primarily by sales tax, while local governments also have their own respective budgets funded primarily by property taxes. The annual state budget is constructed by the ...
In 2003, a committee predominantly composed of real estate developers was appointed by Governor Jeb Bush to solve Florida's water disparity. Members were selected from the lobby group Council of 100 and in a 2003 report proposed "a system that enables water distribution from water-rich areas to water-poor areas," or the transfer of water through pipelines from the state's northern regions to ...
All 318 counties studied were already on the NCDP's "risky" list, but Lee County, Florida, which includes Cayo Costa where Hurricane Ian made landfall in 2022, does not rank very high in any of ...
10 out of Florida's 67 counties currently under burn bans County-enacted burn bans in effect as of May 16, 2024. According to the Florida Forest Service, as of May 16, 10 counties are under a ...