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SJRWMD FY 2017-18 Final Budget <br />The District has jurisdiction over 12,283 square miles, which is approximately 21 <br />percent of the state's land area. It includes the entire St. Johns River watershed, the <br />Ocklawaha River, the northern portion of the Indian River Lagoon, Lake Apopka, and <br />the Florida side of the St. Marys River basin. The District is also home to seven <br />Outstanding Florida Springs, including Silver Springs, Silver Glen Springs, Alexander <br />Springs, Blue Spring, DeLeon Spring, Wekiva Springs, and Gemini Springs. In 2016, <br />approximately 4.95 million people resided in the District, a population that is projected to <br />reach 6.61 million by the year 2035. <br />The District's original focus on flood control has been expanded to include water <br />resource development, water supply planning, water quality protection, and <br />environmental enhancement. To meet these challenges, the District has undertaken <br />land acquisition, the Upper St. Johns River Basin Project, surface water permitting, <br />including wetlands protection, and many surface water restoration and management <br />projects. <br />Operating budgets are funded primarily with a combination of ad valorem taxes, other <br />local revenues (permit fees, interest earnings), and state appropriations from general <br />sales taxes and documentary stamp taxes on real estate transactions collected <br />statewide. <br />The District is governed by a nine -member Governing Board, each with a four-year <br />term. Under the direction of its Governing Board, the District's organization is structured <br />by divisions, offices and bureaus per an organizational realignment plan effective <br />October 16, 2015. The divisions, offices and bureaus manage and implement District <br />programs, projects and activities. <br />The District operates and maintains more than 100 major and minor water control <br />structures, including 11 spillways, three navigational locks, and approximately 300 miles <br />of levees and canals. The District owns nearly 700,000 acres of land (through transfers, <br />donations, fee -simple purchases and less -than -fee acquisitions). The District has 564.7 <br />full-time equivalent positions (FTEs) projected to be funded in Fiscal Year (FY) 2017- <br />18. The FTEs work out of three owned facilities, which include the headquarters facility <br />in Palatka, the Sunnyhill Field Office, and a service center in Palm Bay, as well as <br />leased service centers in Jacksonville and Maitland. The telephones and addresses for <br />individual service centers are listed below. <br />District Headquarters <br />4049 Reid Street <br />Palatka, Florida 32177 <br />386-329-4500 <br />Maitland Service Center <br />601 South Lake Destiny Road, Suite <br />200 <br />Maitland, Florida 32751 <br />407-659-4800 <br />Page 4 <br />Jacksonville Service Center <br />7775 Baymeadows Way, Suite 102 <br />Jacksonville, Florida 32256 <br />904-730-6270 <br />Palm Bay Service Center <br />525 Community College Parkway <br />S.E. <br />Palm Bay, Florida 32909 <br />321-409-2011 <br />