December 19, 2002


                          DREYFUS FLORIDA INTERMEDIATE
                               MUNICIPAL BOND FUND

                Supplement to Statement of Additional Information
                                dated May 1, 2002

      At a special meeting of shareholders held on December 18, 2002,
shareholders approved amending the Fund's Agreement and Declaration of Trust to
permit the Fund's Board of Trustees, without further shareholder action, to
cause to be issued one or more additional classes of shares having such
preferences or special or relative rights and privileges as the Board may
determine, to the extent permitted under the 1940 Act.