A new tool from Brizaga turns Amendment 3 from a talking point into a number: for your tax bill, and for the city and county budget behind it.

A Lot of Talking Points, Not Much Data

Amendment 3 is on Florida’s November 2026 ballot, and if you’ve followed the debate, you’ve probably noticed something: there are a lot of talking points, and not much data. It’s called a tax cut. It’s called a budget hole. Both are true, and neither one tells you what it actually means for your tax bill, or for the city and county government that depends on it.

So we built a tool to find out. It’s called PropertyTaxImpact.com, and it does one thing: it turns Amendment 3 into a number, address by address and jurisdiction by jurisdiction, using public property records and published budgets instead of estimates or talking points.

What the Site Does

Enter your address, and the tool pulls your parcel’s assessed value straight from your county property appraiser’s roll. There’s nothing to type or estimate: it shows what Amendment 3 would save you, next to what it would cost the city and county government that serve you. If you’d rather not share an address, you can go straight to your city or county and see the same government-level numbers without a personal estimate attached.

Every jurisdiction page breaks the loss down the same way: the estimated dollar impact for 2027 and 2028, what share of that government’s General Fund it represents, and a full line-by-line breakdown of what’s in that General Fund, largest first. Some pages carry a Verified mark, which means that government’s own finance office checked our budget figures against what it reported to the state and confirmed they match.

Why We Built It

At Brizaga, resilience is the core of what we do: how a community handles shocks and stressors, and whether it keeps functioning and recovers from them. That work is usually about storms, flooding, and heat. But a community’s finances face shocks too, and they come from a few different directions: a local decision, like a millage cut a city council makes on its own; a shift in the economy, like a swing in property values a budget didn’t expect; or a new law, handed down from somewhere the local government doesn’t control, that it has to absorb anyway.

Amendment 3 is the third kind. No individual city or county chose it, and it lands differently everywhere depending on how much of that government’s budget rests on the tax it would reduce. Nobody had put a number on that gap, jurisdiction by jurisdiction, in a way an ordinary resident could look up.

We’re not on either side of the amendment, and we’re not telling anyone how to vote. We’re also not the last word on what a government would actually cut to close its own gap: that call belongs to the elected officials who make it in public, not to a model. What we believe is that residents and the officials who represent them make better decisions when the data behind a question like this is public, specific, and easy to find, rather than left to competing soundbites. So we built the calculator we wished existed, and we’re giving it away.

How We Built It

Every figure on the site traces back to a public source: each county’s property tax roll from the state Department of Revenue and county property appraiser, adopted millage rates, and each government’s own audited financial statements and budget filings. We calculate the tax change for every homesteaded parcel individually, roll those changes up to the city and county level, and measure the total against the same General Fund that property taxes actually support. Before we ever ran the model on this year’s numbers, we calibrated it against certified tax rolls, where it reproduces the certified countywide totals to within 0.4% and every individual city to within 2%.

None of that makes the model a substitute for the officials who actually decide a budget. It’s a starting point for the conversation, not the last word in it. Our Methodology page covers the full data sources and what the model does and doesn’t capture, and we invite every government on the site to check our figures against their own; some already have.