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recommendation in the General Fund . Director Brown revealed several additions to the budget that were made subsequent to the Workshop : ( 1 ) $ 92 , 539 related to the hiring of a new stormwater employee to oversee the enforcement and educational components of Ordinance 2013 -012 (the fertilizer ordinance) , and associated expenses ; (2) $ 100,000 for a lobbyist to help effect the sale of the Vero Beach Electric Utility to Florida Power and Light (FPL) ; and (3 ) around $ 150,000 to increase the operating hours of the GoLine Transit System . I 5 . AD VALOREM FUNDS AD VALOREMMILLAGEANDAD VALOREMBUDGET GENERAL FUND Director Brown announced that the proposed millage rate is 3 . 2620, 6 . 14% above the rollback rate of 3 . 0733 , and the proposed budget is $ 70, 920, 776, 0 . 6% or $ 417 , 152 above the current budget . The FRS rate increase impacted the Constitutional Officers ' Budgets by an estimated $ 1 million, and the Board of County Commission budget by $ 195 , 000 ; total increases to the Constitutionals ' budgets were about $ 2 . 2 million. He reported that the Board of County Commissioner' s overall budget declined approximately $ 800,000 or 5 . 5 % , and that the fund balance usage is being reduced from $ 1 . 8 million in the current year to $ 900, 000 in the upcoming fiscal year, in accordance with the recommendation to phase out the usage of the reserves . Commissioner Solari mentioned that the Press Journal had misreported the County' s fund balance for the General Fund as $24 million, whereas it is presently $48 million. He explained that the Motion he had made at the Preliminary Budget Hearing of September 11 , 2013 was to take the excess of the 20% fund balance threshold (established in the County' s fund balance policies) , and use an additional $ 1 million of that to lower the proposed millage rate. September 18 , 2013 3 ff 1 4 4 PG 369 Final Budget Hearing