Fort Walton Beach Landfill-Fee Entries Total $1.56 Million

Commercial and residential landfill-fee accounts record a combined $1,555,214.30 for fiscal 2025. They are two identifiable pieces of the Fort Walton Beach financial export’s Sanitation Fund—not a calculation of the entire cost of collecting garbage. [1]

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The disposal side of the ledger

The commercial landfill-fee line records $927,000 against a $928,450 budget field. The residential line records $628,214.30 against $639,250. Together, the actual fields are $12,485.70 below the combined budget fields. [1]

These descriptions identify disposal charges, but they do not supply tonnage, a price per ton, the receiving facility or the terms of a disposal contract. A larger dollar total alone cannot tell readers whether more waste was collected or the unit price changed.

Trucks and wages are separate entries

The same export records $614,332.13 in a Sanitation Fund truck account and $877,894.67 in a general-wages account. Those are selected lines, not a complete operating-cost breakdown. Benefits, repairs, fuel and accounting adjustments appear elsewhere. [1]

Customer-side entries also distinguish service fees from tipping fees. Their labels should not be treated as proof that a particular household bill paid for a specific truck or disposal invoice. The export is account-level reporting, not a transaction trail from each customer.

The question a resident can ask

The next useful comparison is cost per ton or per serviced account, supported by the disposal contract, monthly invoices, tonnage reports and customer counts. Vehicle purchase records would explain the truck entry separately.

That evidence could turn a large annual total into a service-performance question: what was collected, what disposal cost and how that cost changed. The CSV supplies the account codes needed to ask precisely.

How to check the numbers

The export is attributable to Fort Walton Beach: its FWB365 and local project labels align with city records, and its fiscal 2025 police professional-services account matches the official budget’s account code and $464,809 amount. This corroborates the city identification; it does not independently audit every figure. [2][3]

This article uses fiscal 2025 entries in the archived CSV, not a live account balance or a claim that these figures are audited final results. The file also includes 2026, but its extraction date and year-end status are not supplied.

Source accounts: 403-1360-534.52-19 (CSV row 61,842); 403-1360-534.52-20 (CSV row 61,855); 403-1500-534.64-04 (CSV row 62,988); 403-1360-534.12-00 (CSV row 61,408). [1]

Sources & archive records

Budget to Actual, All Funds, 2014–2026 — archived original CSV
Analysis of the owner-supplied Budget-to-Actual-ALL-Funds-2014-2026.csv. Values are accounting entries as exported; the file does not identify its extraction date or audit status. CSV row numbers count the header as row 1.
City of Fort Walton Beach — Budget Book 2025
Corroborates city identity through matching account 001-0800-521.31-00 and $464,809 budget; used for attribution, not as independent verification of actual amounts.
City of Fort Walton Beach — Project Dashboard
Corroborates local project and program names, including FWB365, Ferry Park and Brooks Bridge.

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