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increased. We then will receive the public comments. After the hearing is closed, the Board will consider any proposed amendments and calculate revised rate, if revised. We will adopt a millage rate, we will adopt a budget and announce a percent, if any, by which the recomputed millage rate exceeds rollback. We will review all the taxing funds, which include the General Fund, Transportation Fund, General Purpose Municipal Service Taxing Fund (MSTU), Vero Lakes Estates MSTU, the Fire Districts, and the various Street Lighting Districts and then review the budgets for the remaining funds. Chairman Scurlock advised that the final budget hearing on the Solid Waste Disposal District assessments will be September 22, 1988 at 1:00 P.M., and residents have until September 16, 1988 to file formal appeals on their assessments. Chairman Scurlock emphasized that there are several things that we are not -here to discuss tonight, i.e. the School Board budget or those items over which the Board of County Commissioners or Constitutional Officers have no control. We also are not here to discuss the assessed values set by the Property Appraiser, which should be discussed directly with the Property Appraiser or appealed to the Property Appraisal Adjustment Board. To fulfill legal requirements, the millage increase over rollback millage must be stated. The first millage quoted will be the aggregate millage, which is arrived at by adding all the ad valorem taxes levied by the governing body for county -wide purposes plus the ad valorem taxes levied for all dependent districts divided by the total taxable value of the county. Rollback is the millage rate which is exclusive of ad valorem taxes on new construction and annexations. Chairman Scurlock informed the audience that the aggregate millage is 7.4235; the aggregate millage rollback is 7.1634; the proposed aggregate is a 3.7% increase over rollback millage. 5 Boor F�A.n 20 SEP 14 198