Voters approved an amendment reducing property taxes statewide Tuesday.
Gainesville was projected to lose a minimum of $3.1 million in revenue if Amendment 1 were passed, according to the city's Web site.
"We're going to have to do more with less," Rick Bryant, Gainesville city commissioner, said Tuesday night.
This tax cut compounds a statutory cut in local government budgets enacted in 2007.
While the statewide vote in favor of the bill was 64 percent, Alachua County's was only 51 percent.
The amendment required 60 percent of the vote to pass.
Helen K. Warren, a realtor for Gainesville's Trend Realty, said that there are multiple variables in the current housing market, and this bill does not necessarily solve the problem.
"This amendment was very shortsighted," she said.
City Commissioner Craig Lowe said that although some of the city's expenditures are paid by fees that will not change, the cut will affect many city programs.
"A large percentage of them are the public safety programs," he said.
Police, fire and recreation services are some of the city's budget items that will likely be affected by the decrease in taxes, he said.
