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A city charter amendment

The question, word for word:

Shall the Charter be amended to provide for the City Manager, or Assistant City Manager, to appoint a mayor and two commissioners, for those appointees to appoint two additional members of the commission, and for the interim commission to call a Special Election if there is more than 180 calendar days remaining in the unexpired term(s)?

In plain English: this covers the scenario in which every seat on the Commission is vacant at the same time. As things stand, the Governor would appoint replacements. A yes vote moves that power in-house — the City Manager would appoint an interim Mayor and two commissioners, those three would pick the remaining two, and if more than 180 days were left in the terms the interim commission would have to call a special election.

The case for it is local control over local seats. The case against is handing appointment power to an administrator nobody elected. This is the only city referendum on the ballot.

A statewide property tax amendment

The Legislature placed a constitutional amendment on this same ballot during a June special session. It is Amendment 3, and it needs 60% approval to pass. In four parts, it would:

• raise the homestead exemption from non-school property taxes, now about $51,400, to $150,000 in 2027 and $250,000 in 2028, then adjust it for inflation. The $25,000 exemption from school taxes stays as it is;
• give homeowners who had no permanent residence in Florida as of December 31, 2026 a $50,000 non-school exemption at first, and the full exemption from their fifth year of exemption;
• cut the yearly cap on assessment increases on rentals, second homes and commercial property from 10% to 5%, for non-school taxes;
• and limit what cities and counties may spend property tax on to a list of uses that ends with their general operations and administration.

Why it matters here specifically. Wilton Manors adopted a general fund of about $26.4 million for this year, and property tax, about $14.8 million, is its largest source of revenue. The state estimates the city would lose about $2.1 million in 2027-28, the first budget year the amendment affects; city staff have estimated $1.8 million to $1.9 million for that year. Every candidate in this race has campaigned on affordability, infrastructure or the tax rate, and all of those positions run into this amendment. Read ourfull Amendment 3 explainer.

How we cover this race

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Corrections

October 22, 2026: An earlier version of this page made three errors about the statewide property tax amendment. It said the amendment would raise the non-school homestead exemption "from $25,000." The current non-school exemption is about $51,400: $25,000 plus a second, inflation-adjusted exemption now worth $26,411. It said the exemption would be "phased in over five years" for new residents. The amendment gives them a $50,000 non-school exemption until their fifth year of exemption, then the full amount. And it gave the city's general fund as roughly $26.7 million, the figure in the recommended budget; the budget the Commission adopted on September 24 has a general fund of $26,401,591.

October 4, 2026: An earlier version of this page said we had sent the same questionnaire to every candidate, and labeled each candidate "Questionnaire sent." We had not sent it. The claim and the labels have been removed.