The whole Amendment 3 town hall is online. It is not on the page the county built for Amendment 3.

That measure is on the Nov. 3 ballot and needs 60 percent of the vote. The county’s own page puts what it would take off county government at $68.3 million in the first year and $191.60 million a year by 2032, against $426 million in property tax revenue this year. The town hall ran Tuesday evening at the county auditorium on San Sebastian View.

The recording sits on the live tab of the county’s GovTV channel, titled St. Johns County Property Tax Amendment 3 Town Hall Livestream, and the channel lists it at 1:15:09. The videos tab of that same channel carries thirty items and this is not one of them, which is where a reader would look first.

The county’s Amendment 3 page does not link it.

That page has changed since the meeting. Where it carried a block headed “Submit a Question in Advance of the Town Hall,” it now gives an email address for the budget office. The paragraph that came down with the form read that questions may be grouped, time may not allow every one to be reached on the night, and “responses to all questions will be posted on this webpage.”

The commitment is also in the county’s Sept. 23 release, which says any question not addressed at the town hall “will be answered and posted to the County’s Proposed Property Tax Amendment 3 webpage following the event.” That release puts no date on following.

There are no answers on the page tonight. One day is not late. The Tattler will report the day they appear, and the day they do not.

What was said in the room

County Administrator Joy Andrews led the meeting. News4JAX reports her telling the room the county has to “do our best to pause or avoid our new long-term commitments before we understand exactly what the revenue is going to look like after November.” It also quotes her on the amendment itself: “The impact of this issue is so magnificent one way or the other.”

By the same account she gave two worked examples of a bill. A homeowner paying about $3,400 would pay about $2,700 in 2027. One paying about $3,500 would pay about $2,100 in 2028.

County officials told residents that raising the millage rate could be an option, with limits, again per News4JAX.

Residents asked whether the programs under review would be made public. That outlet does not report an answer.

The county’s own arithmetic, on its own page

The county puts its FY 2027 property tax revenue at $426 million.

Its table of estimated losses, attributed on the page to the state Office of Economic and Demographic Research, runs $68.3 million in 2028, $136.10 million in 2029, $152.50 million in 2030, $171.20 million in 2031 and $191.60 million in 2032. The right-hand column of that table reads 16, 32, 36, 40 and 45 percent against fiscal year 2027.

The same page breaks the current property tax dollar into nine lines. The Sheriff’s Office is 31 percent. Fire Rescue and Emergency Services is 27 percent. Roads and transportation is 13 percent, and parks, recreation and libraries is 7 percent, and so is county buildings and technology.

The page says the estimates “do not determine changes to a department, program, or service,” and that any such decision would go through the county’s public budget process. It also says the county does not advocate for or against the amendment, which the county has said at every stage of this.

What is still on the clock

The amendment needs 60 percent of the vote. Election day is Nov. 3. If it passes it takes effect Jan. 1, 2027 and first appears on the TRIM notices mailed in August 2027 and the bills mailed that November.

The answers were promised to a webpage. The webpage is still there.