A citizen-focused look at the City’s FY2025–26 General Fund, the services it supports, and how property taxes fit into the larger revenue picture.
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.
These are the rounded departmental figures published in the supplied Kissimmee city page. They illustrate relative scale but should not be treated as a complete reconciliation of every appropriation, reserve, or transfer.
Patrol, investigations, traffic enforcement, public-safety response, and law-enforcement operations.
Fire suppression, emergency medical response, prevention, and related public-safety operations.
City management, finance, legal, human resources, purchasing, records, and citywide support.
Parks, recreation, community programs, public spaces, events, and quality-of-life services.
Roads, facilities, infrastructure maintenance, fleet support, and city operational services.
City management, finance, legal, human resources, purchasing, records, and citywide support.
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.
Kissimmee operates its own police and fire departments. This matters when comparing cities because some municipalities receive fire protection from a county or another provider.
The rounded FY2026 figure shown in the supplied city page is $40.6 million.
The General Fund budget shown is $31,241,018. The budget also describes added staffing for a 24/72 schedule and a non-ad valorem fire assessment supporting that staffing.
This is a proportional illustration based on the rounded department shares in the supplied source page. It is not a legal earmarking of property-tax dollars.
The detailed revenue lines below total exactly $111,023,045. The broader “Taxes” line includes $31,150,256 in ad valorem property taxes plus a small amount of other tax revenue.
The adopted budget shows $31,366,556 from 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 51,367-parcel assessed-value total as the denominator.
The Florida League of Cities analysis separates the homestead exemption from the Save Our Homes assessment differential. 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 Kissimmee shows that current law already shields a meaningful portion of qualifying home value through Save Our Homes and homestead exemptions. The reported combined protected share is 62.63%.
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 66.7% figure above covers every mapped residential parcel citywide, homesteaded or not. The separate homestead dataset reports 10,732 homesteaded parcels in Kissimmee with a median assessed value of $158,327. 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 62.6% of the typical homesteaded property value shown in the separate homestead dataset.
Property taxes are a major General Fund revenue source, but they are not the only source supporting Kissimmee's day-to-day services. Other taxes, state-shared revenue, fees, charges, transfers, and other legally available resources also contribute.
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.
No. Property taxes are about 28.1% of operating General Fund revenue. Transfers, intergovernmental revenue, charges for services, and other sources provide the rest.
The adopted appropriation can include reserves, fund balance, transfers, and other financing sources in addition to recurring operating revenue.
Kissimmee operates the City of Kissimmee Fire Department. The supplied budget page shows a $31,241,018 General Fund fire budget and notes staffing tied to a 24/72 schedule and a non-ad valorem fire assessment.
No. That number is the City’s current ad valorem revenue, not a forecast of what any final constitutional amendment or implementing law would remove. A precise city loss cannot be known until the proposal, exemptions, effective date, and replacement funding rules are final.
The tier file is a citywide mapped residential-parcel dataset with 51,367 parcels. The FLC homestead dataset contains only 10,732 homestead parcels. They measure different populations.
