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Melbourne Beach · separate government · 2026

Brevard Public Schools

◐ Partial

The total is sourced, but the detail beneath it has not been ingested yet.

Source
Brevard County 2025 Millage Rates (Tax Collector’s table, posted by the Property Appraiser)
Page
1
Layer
reference — Reference material: state publications and directories that explain the numbers (millage books, salary surveys) rather than authorize or record spending.
Checked
Not independently checkable yet — no complete set of sub-lines exists in the corpus to sum against.
Docket
Issue #3 — Brevard County’s and the School Board’s budgets (in progress)
Retrieved
2026-10-06 — The 2026 table was not posted yet when checked (October 6, 2026).

Note on this line

The largest piece of most tax bills: 6.31 mills in 2025 — 3.0620 set by state law, 0.7480 by the local board, 1.5000 for buildings, and 1.0000 that voters approved for teacher pay. The district’s whole budget — $1.57 billion across five funds — is walked on brevardfl.countycommons.us, down to each school. Gemini Elementary, the public elementary school in Melbourne Beach, was allocated $3,352,442 for 2025-26.

how this line is traced

Reconstructed — and the trail stops here. To see who this money actually reached, someone has to pull records, minutes, or a check register (that's Docket #3). It often stays dark.

There's another way. If the county paid this line from a transparent, line-attributed account, it would publish its own itemized transactions — payee, amount, date — the moment each payment cleared. No request required; the dead end becomes a list. That's the idea behind receipts by rails, filed as a solution to the transparency question — read it and weigh in.