Updates & source dates

140 completed community projects (July 24 dashboard); 2,697 homeowner projects and 1,035 conversions (September 2026 report) → 142 completed community projects, 2,808 completed homeowner projects, 1,094 completed conversions to sewer (October 2026 report)

The County's October 2026 progress report lists the three delivery counts separately. They describe different work and are not added together. The 403 / 140 / 92 plan-status presentation remains a dated July 24, 2026 snapshot; the October report does not supply a synchronized full project-status register, so no new remainder is calculated.

October 2026 progress report, p. 1 · Source date: 2026-10-16 · Change recorded: 2026-10-24

Cocoa Beach Golf first sand layer about 60% complete; Eau Gallie dredging about 20% complete (September 2026 report) → Cocoa Beach Golf first three-inch sand layer about 90% complete; Eau Gallie dredging about 40% complete (October 2026 report)

Construction milestones from the County report. They are not measured ecological outcomes.

October 2026 progress report, p. 1 · Source date: 2026-10-16 · Change recorded: 2026-10-24

$84.7M shown as an arithmetic residual in the headline money flow → Residual removed from headline display

The residual was site arithmetic from rounded dashboard categories, not an official County balance, and was not established as available or uncommitted cash.

County dashboard record (categories) · Source date: 2026-08-17 · Change recorded: 2026-10-24

Household payback calculator with 24x/33x benefit multipliers and household-benefit outputs → Simple cost illustration: eligible spending × 0.005 (example: $10,000 → $50)

Regional economic valuations do not establish a particular household's annual return from the tax. Benefit outputs are withdrawn until a defensible methodology is documented and reviewed.

Florida Department of Revenue sales tax guidance · Source date: 2026-10-24 · Change recorded: 2026-10-24

August homeowner correction linked to the September 2026 report → Linked to the August 21, 2026 progress report

Link repair; the cited document is the August 21 report.

August 21, 2026 progress report · Source date: 2026-08-21 · Change recorded: 2026-10-24

Manatee closure correction linked to the SJRWMD seagrass release → Linked to the FWC unusual mortality event record

Link repair; the appropriate record is FWC's UME page.

FWC unusual mortality event record · Source date: 2025-03-14 · Change recorded: 2026-10-24

No statement distinguishing the county referendum from the statewide amendments → The lagoon renewal is a separate county referendum—not statewide Amendment 3. Look for its full title on your ballot.

Added to /vote/, /vote/how/, /questions/, the evidence /vote pages and the Facebook copy so readers do not confuse the county referendum with statewide Amendment 3.

Brevard Supervisor of Elections, 2026 Amendments and Referenda · Source date: 2026-10-23 · Change recorded: 2026-10-24

2,666 homeowner projects (August 21 report) → 2,697 homeowner projects and 1,035 conversions to sewer (posted September 2026 report)

The County's posted September 2026 progress report lists 140 completed community projects, 2,697 completed homeowner projects and 1,035 completed conversions to sewer. These are different measures and are not added together. The report's measurement cutoff date is not stated; it was posted before the September 18 oversight meeting.

September 2026 progress report · Source date: September 2026 report · Change recorded: 2026-09-15

Recovery page: NOAA closed the event April 30, 2022 → USFWS administrative closure March 14, 2025; event period ended April 30, 2022 (FWC record)

April 30, 2022 is the retrospective end of the event period, not a closure action. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service administratively closed the Atlantic-coast event on March 14, 2025, as recorded by FWC. Both sites now use the same wording.

FWC unusual mortality event record · Source date: 2025-03-14 · Change recorded: 2026-09-15

91 projects in progress → 92 projects in progress

Earlier site-reported figure replaced with 92 in the July 24 County dashboard snapshot. The reason for the one-project difference has not been established.

County dashboard record · Source date: 2026-07-24 · Change recorded: 2026-09-08

$535.6M collected → $539.7M collected

Earlier site-reported figure replaced with $539.7M in the August 17 dashboard snapshot. No transaction-level explanation of the difference is asserted.

County dashboard record · Source date: 2026-08-17 · Change recorded: 2026-09-08

$122.8M spent on completed projects → $119.8M cumulative expenditures, all projects

Earlier site-reported amount and label replaced. The verified category is $119.8M cumulative expenditures across all projects, not only completed projects. Why the earlier amount differs remains unresolved.

County dashboard record · Source date: 2026-08-17 · Change recorded: 2026-09-08

2,954 homeowner projects → 2,666 homeowner projects (written report)

The earlier site attributed 2,954 to a May meeting report. The August 21 written progress report states 2,666. Do not interpret this as projects being undone or invent a counting-method explanation; the discrepancy remains unresolved.

August 21, 2026 progress report · Source date: 2026-08-21 · Change recorded: 2026-09-08

October 24, 2026 editorial release: what changed

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.

Written homeowner report and outreach summary differ

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)

Financial-table corroboration

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)

The adopted plan is not the original promise

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

Money and model definitions corrected

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

Manatee event period versus closure

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

Official 2026 ballot wording and the levy expiration

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

Independent audit located

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)

Construction milestones: October 2026 report supersedes September percentages

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

What this review did not certify

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.