Norm is technically correct but at the same time completely misses the point. That $5.7 million is the amount that  property taxes currently paid could be reduced. Or, the county budget could be increased by that amount (more county services) with the people currently paying property taxes not seeing the amount of taxes they pay increase at all. Take your pick: lower taxes and the same services,  or the same taxes and more services. Either way, that is a part of the way that the Navy, a national institution, shifts its costs onto local taxpayers.