[zcaveman]

I live in Marion county and the first time I heard the term 'special assessment" was from a Sumter county person a few days ago in another post.

In Marion county, we have what is called a Villages Comm Development Maintenance. This amount is determined by our CDD representatives and placed in the budget. I goes for the roads, landscaping, flowers, etc in CDD4.

I own a ranch on a base lot. My tax amount this year was $454.06. Last year and the year before that it was $440.83. My first year it was $371.90. So it is not a big amount. IF we ever need major road repair, I would suspect that would end up in the budget and would be part of our annual CDD maintenance charge.

These budget hearings are open hearings so you can go and sit and see what gore into defining this figure.