Delivery counts updated to the County's October 2026 progress report (142 completed community projects; 2,808 completed homeowner projects; 1,094 completed conversions to sewer, counted separately). The 403 / 140 / 92 plan-status presentation is retained as a dated July 24, 2026 historical snapshot with no new remainder calculated. The $84.7M arithmetic residual was removed from the headline financial display. The household payback calculator and its 24×/33× benefit multipliers were withdrawn in favour of a cost illustration (eligible spending × 0.005). Pumping and ocean-exchange explanations were aligned across both sites. Two source links in this log were repaired (August homeowner correction → August 21 report; manatee closure → FWC record). A site edit is not a new County measurement.
" }, { "title": "Written homeowner report and outreach summary differ", "html": "The August 21 written progress report lists 2,666 completed homeowner projects and 905 septic-upgrade reimbursements processed. The County's August outreach summary reports 3,127 homeowner projects and 910 septic upgrades. The definitions, counting basis or timing behind these differences have not been reconciled. This site uses the written report's figures with its date; it does not infer that projects were undone or that the outreach totals supersede the report.
August 21, 2026 SOIRL progress report · August 2026 citizen oversight meeting highlights (outreach summary)
" }, { "title": "Financial-table corroboration", "html": "Cumulative actual expenditures across all projects, not spending only on completed projects. The August financial tables, Table 17, corroborate the rounded dashboard amount with $119,794,009 in cumulative actual expenditures.
County financial tables, Table 17 (August 21, 2026)
" }, { "title": "The adopted plan is not the original promise", "html": "403 projects in the current adopted plan. Homeowner projects are reported separately. The plan has evolved over time; this is not the original 2016 project count or a statement that all 403 were scheduled for completion by 2026.
Arithmetic remainder outside complete and in-progress categories, not an official County status. It does not establish that these projects are cancelled, stalled, unfunded or scheduled for any particular year. County record
" }, { "title": "Money and model definitions corrected", "html": "Value associated with work in progress. Not independently established as an executed-contract or legally committed total. Site arithmetic residual from rounded dashboard categories. Not a County-certified cash balance, surplus, available appropriation, or uncommitted-funds total.
Annual nitrogen estimates and one-time removal are kept separate. Modeled benefits are not direct measurements of lagoon-water improvement. County record
" }, { "title": "Manatee event period versus closure", "html": "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service administratively closed the Atlantic-coast Florida manatee Unusual Mortality Event on March 14, 2025. The retrospectively defined event period ran December 1, 2020 through April 30, 2022; its 1,392 cases comprise 1,255 carcasses and 137 rescues, not 1,392 deaths. FWC reports that Atlantic-coast mortality returned to expected levels; habitat concerns and monitoring continue. The event period and the closure date are different, and closure does not establish full habitat or forage recovery.
NOAA event-period record · Formal closure record
" }, { "title": "Official 2026 ballot wording and the levy expiration", "html": "Brevard County voters decide the renewal on November 3, 2026. The existing lagoon half-cent sales tax expires December 31, 2026. The ballot proposes continuing the same half-cent rate for another ten years. The Supervisor of Elections has published the official referendum; earlier notices that the wording was pending have been retired. Verified September 15, 2026.
Official referendum · Florida DOR surtax expiration table
" }, { "title": "Independent audit located", "html": "RSM's May 6, 2026 internal audit reported no observations or exceptions in the work it tested. The audit covered June 1, 2025 through January 31, 2026 and included collections, sampled expenditures and procurement compliance. It did not verify every dollar, every project, cost-effectiveness or ecological results. Sampled financial compliance does not establish ecological effectiveness.
RSM audit report (May 6, 2026)
" }, { "title": "Construction milestones: October 2026 report supersedes September percentages", "html": "The County's October 2026 progress report describes the Cocoa Beach Golf first three-inch sand layer as about 90% complete (60% in the September report) and Eau Gallie dredging as about 40% complete (20% in September). Sykes Creek dredging is in bidder pre-qualification. The September report's completed seeding of 24 million native clams across eight acres near Titusville stands as a dated milestone. These are implementation milestones; a seed count is not a survival estimate, a construction percentage is not a water-quality result, and a three-inch layer at one project does not establish a universal cap thickness.
October 2026 progress report · September 2026 progress report
" }, { "title": "What this review did not certify", "html": "October 24, 2026 review: public pages and selected desktop interactions were reviewed; backend, full mobile and performance checks were part of implementation testing. The local evidence and research inventory was structurally checked. That is not a fresh source-by-source verification of every research paper, historical project status or cost. Existing record-level dates and limitations still apply. No claimed ecological gain is attributed entirely to SOIRL.
" } ], "ballot_distinction": { "text": "The lagoon renewal is a separate county referendum—not statewide Amendment 3. Look for its full title on your ballot.", "ballot_title": "Renewal of the Save Our Indian River Lagoon Half-Cent Sales Tax", "amendment_3_title": "Increased Homestead Exemption; Lower Cap on Increases in Non-Homestead Property Assessments", "source_url": "https://www.votebrevard.gov/Election-Information/2026-Amendments-and-Referenda", "source_label": "Brevard Supervisor of Elections, 2026 Amendments and Referenda", "verified": "2026-10-24" } }, "metrics": { "project_status.total": { "value": 403, "display": "403", "unit": "projects", "date": "2026-07-24", "type": "administrative", "source": "current_plan", "definition": "403 projects in the current adopted plan. 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