A sourced, citizen-focused guide to Clermont's FY2025–26 General Fund, public-safety services, and local property-value data.
The General Fund is the City's main operating budget. The figures below show recurring General Fund revenue, the FY2026 adopted spending plan, property-tax revenue, and the share of recurring General Fund revenue provided by property taxes.
Clermont's adopted General Fund spending plan totals $69,027,184. The detailed department figures below are presented at the level published in the source page; many smaller lines are rounded. Percentages below show each line’s share of the listed department spending.
Fire suppression, emergency medical response, prevention, and related public-safety operations.
Patrol, investigations, traffic enforcement, public-safety response, and law-enforcement operations.
Roads, facilities, infrastructure maintenance, fleet support, and city operational services.
Parks, recreation, community programs, public spaces, events, and quality-of-life services.
Fire suppression, emergency medical response, prevention, and related public-safety operations.
Planning, development review, permitting, inspections, zoning, and community growth management.
Facilities, fleet, maintenance support, infrastructure upkeep, and operational support services.
Facilities, fleet, maintenance support, infrastructure upkeep, and operational support services.
City management, finance, legal, human resources, purchasing, records, and citywide support.
Facilities, fleet, maintenance support, infrastructure upkeep, and operational support services.
Technology systems, communications, cybersecurity, and digital service support.
City management, finance, legal, human resources, purchasing, records, and citywide support.
Parks, recreation, community programs, public spaces, events, and quality-of-life services.
Fire suppression, emergency medical response, prevention, and related public-safety operations.
City services and operating functions supported through the General Fund.
City services and operating functions supported through the General Fund.
City management, finance, legal, human resources, purchasing, records, and citywide support.
City services and operating functions supported through the General Fund.
Facilities, fleet, maintenance support, infrastructure upkeep, and operational support services.
City management, finance, legal, human resources, purchasing, records, and citywide support.
City services and operating functions supported through the General Fund.
Planning, development review, permitting, inspections, zoning, and community growth management.
City services and operating functions supported through the General Fund.
City services and operating functions supported through the General Fund.
City services and operating functions supported through the General Fund.
The Police Department is funded directly through Clermont's General Fund and is the second-largest displayed department line at about $18.3 million.
Clermont operates its own municipal fire department. The FY2026 plan also establishes city-operated ALS transport capacity, reducing sole reliance on county ambulance availability when Clermont units are the closest appropriate response.
This proportional view applies displayed department shares to a hypothetical $100 of General Fund spending. It is not a legal earmark of each property-tax dollar.
Published General Fund revenue totals $58,474,830. Property taxes are the largest source.
The adopted budget shows $28,307,540 from Ad Valorem Taxes, the largest revenue source shown.
This section groups mapped residential parcels into assessed-value ranges reported in the supplied property data. Assessed value is the value used as the starting point for taxable value after Florida assessment limits and exemptions. The ranges help residents see how many properties fall at or below, and above, the $250,000 threshold being discussed.
Each bar shows the share of residential parcels in that assessed-value range. The percentages use the 26,645-parcel assessed-value total as the denominator.
The Florida League of Cities reports Clermont-specific averages for Save Our Homes and homestead exemptions. Unlike the assessed-value distribution above, these figures describe homesteaded parcels and the protection provided by Save Our Homes and existing homestead exemptions.
The published homestead data for Clermont shows that current law already shields a meaningful portion of qualifying home value through Save Our Homes and homestead exemptions.
Only a small share of homestead value is already protected under current law.
The published city-level homestead figures above show the measured effect of Save Our Homes and existing exemptions before any proposed reform.
Understanding the difference between market value and assessed value is important when discussing Florida property taxes. Market value represents the estimated selling price of a property under current market conditions. Assessed value is determined by the County Property Appraiser using Florida law and is the basis for calculating taxable value after assessment limitations, such as Save Our Homes, and applicable exemptions are applied.
Proposed homestead-exemption changes would affect the assessed or taxable value of qualifying homesteaded properties, not the property's market value. Assessed value therefore provides the more useful measure for showing how many residential properties fall above or below the $250,000 threshold.
Picture 4 typical homes in this city. Roughly this many already sit at or under a $250,000 assessed value:
The 49.9% figure above covers every mapped residential parcel citywide, homesteaded or not. The separate homestead dataset reports 11,693 homesteaded parcels in Clermont with a median assessed value of $234,110. Because the two sources cover different parcel populations, this page does not present an exact homestead-only count by value tier.
A large share of parcels falling below the threshold does not translate dollar-for-dollar into the same share of city property-tax revenue disappearing. Revenue effects depend on taxable value, exemption eligibility, final legal language, phase-in rules, and replacement funding—not parcel count alone. Current-law protections already shield about 17.0% of the typical homesteaded property value shown in the separate homestead dataset.
Property-tax revenue is deposited into the General Fund along with other unrestricted revenue. Together, those resources support many core municipal services. Other operations are financed through utility rates, assessments, grants, impact fees, debt proceeds, or other dedicated funds and generally cannot be treated as interchangeable General Fund money.
A responsible year-over-year comparison must use the same fund definition and the same adopted-budget basis in both years. The figures already verified on this page establish the FY2026 operating picture, but they do not always provide a comparable citywide FY2025 total.
Spending can be reduced, but the practical question is which services, positions, contracts, projects, or maintenance cycles would change. This page does not label spending as necessary or wasteful without a separate operational or performance review.
Fire suppression and emergency medical services are operated by the City of Clermont. The FY2026 plan also adds city-operated ALS transport capacity.
No. Property taxes are 48.4% of General Fund revenue, while utility, capital, impact-fee, debt, pension, CRA, and other funds may be accounted for separately and may be legally or practically restricted.
The GIS tier file describes residential parcels associated with the city, including parcels that are not qualifying homesteads. The FLC figure is specifically the number of homestead parcels.
No. A specific dollar-loss estimate would require assumptions about eligibility, taxable-value removal, implementation, millage, behavioral changes, and future law. The prior modeled figure has been removed.
Not necessarily. Save Our Homes can cause assessed value to remain substantially below just or market value for a qualifying homestead.
General Fund revenue, appropriations, department structure, and fire/EMS operating model.
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Median assessed value, average Save Our Homes differential, exemption percentages, and official homestead parcel count.
GIS-derived just-value and How Residential Properties Are Distributed by Assessed Value. Both columns total 26,645 mapped residential parcels.
