Sep 13, 2021 Special City Commission Meeting

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GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

WELCOME TO OUR SPECIAL MEETING THIS EVENING, IT IS CURRENTLY FIVE OH FIVE PM ON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13TH.

CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER BOLTON, GOOD EVENING, COMMISSIONER GELIN, GOOD EVENING, VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, GOOD EVENING AND MAYOR GOMEZ. GOOD EVENING.

IF EVERYONE WILL PLEASE STAND.

VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.

THANK YOU. THIS MEETING IS A LITTLE BIT MORE SCRIPTED THAN OUR MEETINGS TYPICALLY ARE, SO IF YOU WOULD PLEASE BEAR WITH US AS WE GO THROUGH PROPER PROCEDURE FOR THIS.

SO AS I MENTIONED, THIS IS A SPECIAL MEETING OF THE CITY OF CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC TO HOLD PUBLIC HEARINGS ON ANNUAL FIRE ASSESSMENT, ANNUAL STORM WATER UTILITY MANAGEMENT FEE ASSESSMENT, THE ANNUAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES ASSESSMENT, THE NUISANCE ABATEMENT ASSESSMENT AND THE SETTING OF THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE AND THE TENTATIVE CITY BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

THESE PUBLIC HEARINGS ARE THE CULMINATION OF AN ENTIRE YEAR'S WORK BY THE CITY COMMISSION. THE CITY MANAGER AND STAFF FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC TONIGHT, THE CITY COMMISSION HELD WORKSHOPS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, AS WELL AS A BUDGET WORKSHOP ON JULY 7, 2022 TO PROVIDE DIRECTION TO THE STAFF ON THE SUBMITTAL.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES ON THE DAIS FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION AT THE WORKSHOPS AND FOR THEIR SUGGESTIONS AS WE DELIBERATED ON STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS.

SO WE'RE ABOUT READY TO BEGIN.

[1. TR13657 FY 2022 Fire Rescue Assessment]

THE CITY OF TAMARAC HAS USED THE FIRE RESCUE ASSESSMENT SINCE 1997 TO PROVIDE SPECIFIC FUNDING FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING FIRE RESCUE SERVICES IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC, AS THE CITY COMMISSION IS AWARE OF, THE FIRE RESCUE ASSESSMENT HAS BEEN DETERMINED TO BE AN EQUITABLE AND EFFICIENT METHODOLOGY TO USE IN APPORTIONING THE COST OF FIRE RESCUE SERVICES TO IMPROVE PROPERTIES, THUS REDUCING THE OVERALL BURDEN ON THE AD VALOREM TAX RATE. THE RESIDENTIAL RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 WILL REMAIN AT THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS PER DWELLING UNIT, WITH NO CHANGE FROM LAST YEAR.

THE CITY CONDUCTED A STUDY ON THE FIRE RESCUE ASSESSMENT IN 2016 AND BASED UPON CALLS FOR SERVICE AND A FIVE YEAR BUDGET FORECAST FOR THE COST OF PROVIDING RESCUE SERVICES.

STAFF RECOMMENDS THE CITY COMMISSION APPROVED THE RATES THAT HAVE BEEN PROPOSED AND APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION AT THE JULY 14 2021 PRELIMINARY FIRE ASSESSMENT RATE HEARING AND SUBSEQUENTLY ADVERTISED FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON AUG.

15, 2021, THANK YOU, MAYOR.

THANK YOU, MR. CITY ATTORNEY, PLEASE READ THE TITLE TO THE RESOLUTION.

YES, MADAM MAYOR MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, THE RESOLUTION CITY COMMISSION, THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF FIRE RESCUE SERVICES FACILITIES AND PROGRAMS IN THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA.

RE-IMPOSING FIRE RESCUE ASSESSMENTS AGAINST ASSESSED PROPERTY LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY OF TAMARAC FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1ST, 2021 APPROVING THE RATE OF ASSESSMENT, APPROVING THE ASSESSMENT RULE, PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU, WE WILL HEAR A SHORT PRESENTATION FROM THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR, MS. CAJUSTE.

THANK YOU, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.

CHRISTINE CAJUSTE, THE DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL SERVICES, WITH ME TODAY IS JEFF STREETER, OUR BUDGET MANAGER, AS WELL AS BUDGET ANALYSTS MELISSA TAYLOR AND MICHAEL [INAUDIBLE].

THE CITY UTILIZES THE TRIM NOTICE, PER BROWARD COUNTY WE COULD NOT SCHEDULE THE PUBLIC AIRING BEFORE SEPTEMBER 12.

THE FINAL ADOPTED RESOLUTION WILL BE ACCEPTED BY BROWARD COUNTY, SENT BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON SEPTEMBER 15, WHICH IS THIS WEDNESDAY.

TR 13657 SETS THE FIRE ASSESSMENT RATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

FIRE ASSESSMENT RATES WERE ESTABLISHED ON JULY 14, 2021 AND PUBLISHED BY A TRIM ON AUGUST 12, 2021, ADVERTISED IN THE SUN SENTINEL ON AUGUST 15, 2021 AND ESTABLISHED THE FINAL FIRE ASSESSMENT RATE.

THE RECOMMENDED RATE IS 350 DOLLARS FOR A RESIDENTIAL UNIT.

THIS IS THE SAME RATE THAT HAS BEEN USED FOR THE LAST FIVE YEARS.

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HERE IS A TABULATION OF THE RATES, WHICH IS THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS FOR A RESIDENTIAL UNIT WITH THE DIFFERENT TIERS FOR COMMERCIAL, INDUSTRIAL AND INSTITUTIONAL.

AND THAT ENDS MY PRESENTATION, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU, I'M NOT SEEING ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION, SO I WILL OPEN THIS UP FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON TEMPORARY RESOLUTION NUMBER 13657.

I KNOW I HAVE A SHEET HERE WHERE TWO PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, BUT I'M NOT SURE FOR WHICH ITEM, SO I'LL JUST, WELL I TAKE THAT BACK, ONE HAS ITEM NUMBER SIX.

OK, IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NON, PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED AND I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON TEMPORARY RESOLUTION NUMBER 13657.

FOR THE MOTION GO AHEAD. OK.

I MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT TEMPORARY RESOLUTION NUMBER 13657 ESTABLISHING THE FIRE SERVICE ASSESSMENT RATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, 2ND.

THANK YOU, ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MOTION? SEEING NONE, CITY CLERK, OH, SORRY, I DID NOT SEE, COMMISSIONER GELIN.

WHAT IS THE RATE FOR 2021 AND FOR 2022? [INAUDIBLE] THE RATES ARE UNCHANGED, IT'S THE SAME RATE THAT WE HAD LAST YEAR THAT WE'RE RE-IMPOSING THIS YEAR.

THANK YOU, JUST WANTED TO HAVE THAT FOR THE RECORD, THANK YOU.

I'M JUST GOING TO ASK A FAVOR IF YOU WOULD JUST NEXT TIME PUT IT CLOSER BECAUSE IT WAS HARD TO HEAR YOU, THANK YOU.

NO FURTHER QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

SURE, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, MADAM MAYOR GOMEZ, YES, COMMISSIONER GELIN, YES, VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES, COMMISSIONER BOLTON, YES, AND COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES.

MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY FIVE TO ZERO.

THANK YOU. TEMPORARY RESOLUTION 13658, MADAM INTERIM CITY MANAGER, PLEASE READ YOUR

[2. TR13658 FY 2022 Stormwater Management Fee Assessment]

THIS ASSESSMENT IS AN EQUITABLE AND EFFICIENT METHOD OF ALLOCATING AND COLLECTING THE STORM WATER UTILITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES FEE ASSESSED COST AMONG ALL THE PARCELS IN THE CITY. THE RATE PER EQUIVALENT RESIDENTIAL UNIT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 IS ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO DOLLARS AND TWENTY SEVEN CENTS AND IS AN INCREASE OF SIX DOLLARS AND SEVENTY FOUR CENTS OR FIVE PERCENT OVER THE PREVIOUS YEAR, IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR CODE OF ORDINANCES.

STAFF RECOMMENDS THE CITY COMMISSION APPROVE THE RATE THAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED AND APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION AT THE JULY 14, 2021 PRELIMINARY STORM WATER UTILITY MANAGEMENT FEE ASSESSMENT RATE HEARING AND SUBSEQUENTLY ADVERTISED FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON AUG.

15, 2021.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU, MR. CITY ATTORNEY, PLEASE READ THE TITLE TO THE RESOLUTION.

YES MADAM MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSIONER RESOLUTION, THE CITY COMMISSION, THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF THE CITY STORM WATER MANAGEMENT UTILITY FEE WITHIN THE MISSILE BOUNDARIES TO TAMARAC FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1ST, 2021 APPROVING, CONFIRMING AND ADOPTING THE STORM WATER MANAGEMENT UTILITY FEE AND STORM WATER MANAGEMENT UTILITY FEE ROLL PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS RELATING TO THE LEVY AND COLLECTION OF THE STORM WATER MANAGEMENT UTILITY FEE ON THE ANNUAL PROPERTY TAX BILLS PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU, WE WILL NOW HEAR A SHORT PRESENTATION FROM THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR.

THE SLIDES WILL NOT ADVANCE, LEVENT, CAN WE GET SOME HELP? OK, THERE WE GO.

GOOD AFTERNOON AGAIN, MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, CHRISTINE CAJUSTE AGAIN, DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL SERVICES BEFORE YOU IS TR 13658 SAT IN THE STORM WATER MANAGEMENT UTILITY FEE, SPECIAL ASSESSMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

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THE FIRE ASSESSMENT RATE WAS ESTABLISHED ON JULY 14, 2021 AND PUBLISHED BY A TRIM ON AUGUST 12TH 2021.

IT WAS ADVERTISED IN THE SUN SENTINEL ON AUGUST 15, 2021 AND ESTABLISHES THE FINAL STORM WATER MANAGEMENT UTILITY ASSESSMENT RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

THE STORM WATER RATE IS ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO DOLLARS AND TWENTY SEVEN CENTS PER EQUIVALENT RESIDENTIAL UNIT, OR ERU'S, WHICH IS SIX DOLLARS AND SEVENTY FOUR CENT OR FIVE PERCENT GREATER THAN THE 2021 RATE, WHICH WAS ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY THREE CENTS.

THE ESTIMATED REVENUE IS APPROXIMATELY SIX POINT NINE MILLION DOLLARS, AND IT COVERS ALL THE COSTS OF PROVIDING STORM WATER, INCLUDING ADMINISTRATIVE FEES AND FEES TO BROWARD COUNTY FOR BILLING AND COLLECTION.

AND WITH THAT IT ENDS MY PRESENTATION, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, NOT SEEING ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION AT THIS TIME, I WILL OPEN UP PUBLIC HEARING FOR TEMPORARY RESOLUTION NUMBER 13658.

ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WISHING TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? NO, PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS MATTER IS NOW CLOSED.

I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON TEMPORARY RESOLUTION 13658 PLEASE.

I MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT TEMPORARY RESOLUTION NUMBER 13658 ESTABLISHING THE STORM WATER UTILITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES FEE ASSESSMENT RATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. THANK YOU.

ANY DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION? SEEING NONE, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

MAYOR GOMEZ, YES, VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES, MR. BOLTON, YES, AND COMMISSIONER GELIN, YES.

THANK YOU, MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY FIVE TO ZERO.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE ARE NOW MOVING TO TEMPORARY RESOLUTION 13659, MADAM INTERIM CITY

[3. TR13659 FY 2022 Solid Waste Assessment]

THANK YOU, MAYOR. THE CITY OF TAMARAC HAS BEEN USING A SPECIAL ASSESSMENT FOR RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES SINCE 2013.

THIS ASSESSMENT IS AN EQUITABLE AND EFFICIENT METHOD OF ALLOCATING AND COLLECTING THE RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES ASSESSED COST AMONG SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL TYPE PARCELS.

THE RESIDENTIAL RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 IS TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT DOLLARS AND SEVENTY FIVE CENTS PER RESIDENTIAL DWELLING UNIT RECEIVING CURBSIDE PICKUP, WHICH IS NO CHANGE FROM FISCAL YEAR 2021 AND INCLUDES THE COST OF RECYCLED BANK FOR RECYCLING SERVICES APPROVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION.

STAFF RECOMMENDS THE CITY COMMISSION APPROVE THE RATE THAT HAS BEEN PROPOSED AND APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION AT THE JULY 14, 2021 PRELIMINARY SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES ASSESSMENT RATE HEARING AND SUBSEQUENTLY ADVERTISED FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON AUG.

15, 2021.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU, MR. CITY ATTORNEY, PLEASE READ THE RESOLUTION.

YES MADAM MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, SAID RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES AND THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA, APPROVING THE ASSESSMENT RATE FOR RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING IN OCTOBER 1, 2021 IMPOSING A RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE COLLECTION ASSESSMENT AGAINST ASSESSED PROPERTY LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY OF TAMARAC FOR THE FISCAL YEAR BEGINNING ON OCTOBER 1, 2021 PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NOW WE'LL HAVE A SHORT PRESENTATION FROM MY FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR.

ME AGAIN, MADAM MAYOR CHRISTINE CAJUSTE, DIRECTOR, FINANCIAL SERVICES BEFORE YOU IS TR 13659 WHICH SETS A SOLID WASTE ASSESSMENT RATES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

THE SOLID WASTE ASSESSMENT RATES WERE ESTABLISHED ON JULY 14, 2021 THEY WERE PUBLISHED BY A TRIM ON AUGUST 12, 2021 AND ADVERTISED IN THE SUN SENTINEL ON AUGUST 15, 2021.

TR 13659 ESTABLISHES THE FINAL SOLID WASTE ASSESSMENT RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022. THE PROPOSED RATE IS TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY EIGHT DOLLARS AND SEVENTY FIVE CENTS PER RESIDENTIAL UNIT, WHICH IS THE SAME RATE AS LAST YEAR.

IT WOULD GARNER APPROXIMATELY FIVE MILLION DOLLARS IN REVENUE AND PROVIDES FUNDING FOR

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AND THAT ENDS MY PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU, SEEING NO QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION, I WILL OPEN UP PUBLIC HEARING ON TEMPORARY RESOLUTION NUMBER 13659.

IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? NAME, ADDRESS, OR AT LEAST A CITY IN WHICH YOU LIVE IN, IN THREE MINUTES PLEASE.

DARCY SCHILLER, KPIT, KING'S POINT.

I'M GOING TO ASK THE COMMISSION TO PLEASE CHECK WITH THE WASTE SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICES ABOUT RECYCLING.

MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY DO NOT RECYCLE AND WITH CLIMATE CONTROL BEING WHAT IT IS, I THINK THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT TO RECYCLE, THEY SHOULD DO SO AS WELL.

AND I WOULD ASK THE COMMISSION TO LOOK INTO THAT.

THANK YOU. IF THERE'S NO ONE ELSE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK, PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED, AND I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON TEMPORARY RESOLUTION NUMBER 13659.

I MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT TEMPORARY RESOLUTION NUMBER 13659, ESTABLISHING THE RESIDENTIAL SOLID WASTE SERVICES ASSESSMENT RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. THANK YOU.

I AM NOT SEEING QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

MAYOR GOMEZ, YES, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES, VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES, COMMISSIONER BOLTON, YES, AND COMMISSIONER GELIN YES, MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY FIVE TO ZERO.

THANK YOU. MOVING NOW TO TEMPORARY RESOLUTION 13660, MADAM INTERIM CITY

[4. TR13660 FY 2022 Nuisance Abatement Assessment]

THANK YOU MAYOR, IN 2012, THE CITY COMMISSION ADOPTED THE PUBLIC NUISANCE ABATEMENT ORDINANCE. AS PART OF THAT ORDINANCE, THE CITY COMMISSION AUTHORIZED THE USE OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR AMOUNTS BILLED BUT UNPAID AS OF JUNE 1ST OF THE YEAR FOLLOWING THE ABATEMENT OF THE PUBLIC NUISANCE.

THE CITY ABATED FOUR PUBLIC NUISANCES BETWEEN JUNE 1ST, 2020 AND MAY 31, 2021 ON TWO PROPERTIES. THE AMOUNTS ARE DELINQUENT AS OF THIS DATE.

CITY STAFF HAS PREPARED THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS AGAINST EACH PROPERTY WITH UNSETTLED LIENS. THE TOTAL OF WHICH IS THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY TWO DOLLARS AND EIGHTY NINE CENTS TO BE COLLECTED ON THE TAX BILLS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

THIS IS THE NINTH YEAR USING THIS TYPE OF ASSESSMENT.

STAFF RECOMMENDS THE CITY COMMISSION APPROVED THE PUBLIC NUISANCE ABATEMENT SPECIAL ASSESSMENT THAT WAS APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION AT THE JULY 14, 2021 PRELIMINARY PUBLIC NUISANCE ABATEMENT ASSESSMENTS HEARING AND SUBSEQUENTLY ADVERTISED FOR PUBLIC HEARING ON AUG. 15, 2021.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU, MR. CITY ATTORNEY, PLEASE READ THE TITLE TO THE RESOLUTION.

YES MADAM MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, SAY RESOLUTION, THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA, RELATING TO THE PROVISION OF NUISANCE ABATEMENT ON CERTAIN REAL PROPERTIES BY THE CITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH CHAPTER NINE, ARTICLE TWO, DIVISION FIVE OF THE CITY'S CODE OF ORDINANCES APPROVING THE COLLECTION OF A NUISANCE ABATEMENT SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ON REAL PROPERTY THAT HAS BEEN SPECIALLY BENEFITED BY THE CITY'S ABATEMENT OF NUISANCES THEREON, APPROVING NUISANCE ABATEMENT ASSESSMENT ROLE, PROVIDING FOR CONFLICT, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WE WILL NOW HEAR A SHORT PRESENTATION FROM THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, CHRISTINE CAJUSTE, DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL SERVICES.

BEFORE YOU IS TR 13660, WHICH IS A NUISANCE ABATEMENT ASSESSMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

THE ABATEMENT RELATES TO ABATEMENT ON TWO PROPERTIES AT A COST OF ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND THIRTY FIVE DOLLARS PER ORDINANCE.

ALL NOTICES WERE PROVIDED.

TR 13660 ESTABLISHES THE FINAL NUISANCE ABATEMENT ASSESSMENT.

NUISANCE ABATEMENT ASSESSMENT WAS ESTABLISHED ON JULY 14, 2021, PUBLISHED BY A TRIM ON AUGUST 12 TWENTY TWENTY ONE.

ADVERTISING THE SUN-SENTINEL ON AUGUST 15, 2021 AND ESTABLISHES THE FINAL NUISANCE ABATEMENT ASSESSMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021.

2022, SORRY FOR 2022.

THESE ARE THE TWO PROPERTIES THAT WERE ABATED FOR A TOTAL COST OF THREE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY TWO DOLLARS AND 89 CENTS, AND THAT ENDS MY PRESENTATION.

THANK YOU, NOT SEEING ANY QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSION, I WILL OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING ON

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IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER? SEEING NONE, PUBLIC HEARING ON THIS MATTER IS NOW CLOSED.

I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON TEMPORARY RESOLUTION 13660 PLEASE.

MOTION TO ADOPT TEMPORARY RESOLUTION NUMBER 13660, ESTABLISHING THE PUBLIC NUISANCE ABATEMENT SPECIAL ASSESSMENT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 THANK YOU, DO WE HAVE A SECOND? SECOND, THANK YOU.

NOT SEEING ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MOTION, CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

THANK YOU, MAYOR GOMEZ, YES, COMMISSIONER BOLTON, YES, COMMISSIONER GELIN, YES, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES AND VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES, THANK YOU.

THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY FIVE TO ZERO.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

[5. TO2480 FY 2022 Millage Rate Ordinance]

HERE IN CITY HALL CHAMBERS.

MADAM , INTERIM CITY MANAGER, PLEASE READ YOUR STATEMENT.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TRUTH IN MILLAGE REQUIREMENTS OF FLORIDA STATUTES, THE CITY IS REQUIRED TO ANNOUNCE THE PERCENTAGE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE AND THE ROLLED BACK RATE.

AS SUCH, THE FOLLOWING IS READ INTO THE RECORD.

THE PROPOSED OPERATING MILLAGE RATE OF SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE MILLS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 IS POINT FOUR FOUR EIGHT ZERO MILLS, OR SIX POINT FIVE FIVE PERCENT MORE THAN THE ROLLBACK RATE OF SIX POINT EIGHT FOUR ONE NINE MILLS.

THAT CONCLUDES MY STATEMENT, THANK YOU, MAYOR.

THANK YOU, MR. CITY ATTORNEY. PLEASE READ THE TITLE TO TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER TWO FOUR EIGHT ZERO, PLEASE. YES, MA'AM, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION. THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA, TO ESTABLISH A LEVY AD VALOREM TAXES WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA, FOR THE TAX YEAR, 2021.

PROVIDING FOR THE LEVY OF AD VALOREM TAXES IN THE AMOUNT OF SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE MILLS, SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT EIGHT, I'M SORRY, SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE PER ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS BASED UPON THE TAXABLE VALUE OF NONEXEMPT, REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY LOCATED WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE WILL NOW HEAR A SHORT PRESENTATION FROM MY FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR, MS. CAJUSTE. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, BEFORE YOU IS TEMPORARY ORDINANCE 2480. THIS IS THE FIRST READING AND PUBLIC AREA TO SET THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, FINAL PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE ON SEPTEMBER 28TH 2021.

THE PROPOSED MILEAGE RATE IS 7.2899, WHICH PROVIDES FOR GENERAL OPERATIONS, THIS RATE EXCEEDS THE ROLLBACK RATE OF SIX POINT EIGHTY FOUR ONE NINE BY ZERO POINT FOUR FOUR EIGHT ZERO MILS, OR SIX POINT FIVE FIVE PERCENT.

THE PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE WILL SUPPORT THE GENERAL OPERATING BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 AND ONLY MAINTAINS THE CORE SERVICES THAT WE ALREADY HAVE IN PLACE.

IT PROVIDES FOR FOUR ADDITIONAL FULL TIME POSITIONS AND THREE NEW EVENTS.

AS WITH PRIOR YEARS, THIS HAS BEEN THE CASE FOR THE LAST FEW YEARS, OR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ARE BEING FUNDED BY FUND BALANCE ONLY.

IN OTHER WORDS, WE'RE RELYING ON DESIGNATED SAVINGS FOR CAPITAL EXPENDITURE.

I WILL NOW HAND OVER TO JEFF STREETER, OUR BUDGET MANAGER, WHO WILL PROVIDE YOU MORE DETAILS ON THE MILLAGE RATE.

THANK YOU, CHRISTINE. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, VICE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION FOR THE RECORD, JEFF STREETER, BUDGET MANAGER.

THIS CHART SHOWS A 15 YEARS, 15 YEARS OF CITIES TOTAL TAXABLE VALUE, INCLUDING THE CITY TAXABLE VALUE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.

AND WHAT WE'RE PROJECTING FOR FISCAL YEARS, 2023 AND 24.

ALTHOUGH IT'S NOT IN THIS 15 YEAR WINDOW, THE YEAR 2009 ACTUALLY HAD A CITY TAXABLE VALUE OF THREE POINT EIGHT EIGHT BILLION DOLLARS.

SO WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE IS HOW LONG IT TOOK THE CITY TO CLIMB OUT AND RECOVER FROM THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2001, THE FIRST YEAR IN WHICH WE GOT BACK TO THAT THREE POINT EIGHT

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SO IT'S A DECADE, A LITTLE MORE THAN A DECADE TO COME OUT OF THAT.

THIS TABLE SHOWS THE BUDGETED REVENUE AT THE VARIOUS CITY, TOTAL TAXABLE VALUES, AND YOU SEE THAT THE GROWTH FOR 2021 AND 2022 IS VERY SIMILAR, WE EXPERIENCED SEVEN POINT TWENTY EIGHT PERCENT GROWTH IN 2021.

AND WE GOT A SEVEN POINT TWENTY NINE PERCENT 2022, ONE MAJOR DIFFERENCE, HOWEVER, IN THAT GROWTH IS THAT IN 2021 FORTY TWO MILLION WAS ATTRIBUTABLE TO NEW CONSTRUCTION, AND IN 2022 ALMOST DOUBLE THAT WAS ATTRIBUTABLE TO NEW CONSTRUCTION, CLOSE TO 80 MILLION.

WHAT THAT DOES IS THAT HIGHLIGHTS AND CALLS ATTENTION TO THE IMPORTANCE OF REDEVELOPMENT FOR THE CITY. THIS TABLE SHOWS CHANGE, THE CHANGE THAT WOULD RESULT FROM THE TWENTY FISCAL 2021 BUDGET IN PROPERTY TAXES, FROM THE VARIOUS RATES THAT YOU'RE REQUIRED TO CALCULATE FOR THE MAXIMUM MILLAGE LEVY COMPUTATION.

WE ACTUALLY ADDED A EXAMPLE RATE THAT IS IN BETWEEN THE MAJORITY VOTE RATE IN THE PROPOSED TWO EIGHT NINE NINE MILLAGE RATE.

JUST A SIMPLE EXAMPLE, WE SAID, FOR INSTANCE SEVEN POINT TWO ZERO ZERO MILLS, WE WANTED TO SHOW YOU WHAT THE CHANGE IN THE BUDGET LEVEL WOULD BE AT A MILLAGE RATE OF THAT AMOUNT. UM, SO YOU CAN SEE THAT BY LEVYING SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE, THE CITY WOULD HAVE REVENUE OF TWO POINT TWO THREE FOUR MILLION DOLLARS MORE THAN THE BUDGETED LEVEL OF FISCAL YEAR 2021, AND IN EACH ONE OF THESE INSTANCES, THIS IS ONLY LEVYING FOR GROWTH. THIS IS LEVYING FOR THE GROWTH THAT YOU EXPERIENCED.

IT'S NOT INCREASING TAXES OR INCREASING THE RATE.

UM, THE OTHER RATES THAT YOU'RE REQUIRED TO CALCULATE ARE THE ROLLBACK RATE IN THE MAJORITY VOTE RATE, THE ROLLBACK RATE WOULD YIELD TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, OR APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE THAN THE BUDGETED LEVEL OF FISCAL YEAR 2021 AND THE MAJORITY VOTE RATE WOULD YIELD APPROXIMATELY ONE POINT SIX MILLION DOLLARS MORE THAN THE BUDGETED LEVEL OF 2021.

THAT EXAMPLE RATE THAT WE'RE PROVIDING WOULD YIELD APPROXIMATELY ONE POINT EIGHT MILLION DOLLARS MORE IN PROPERTY TAX REVENUE AND FISCAL YEAR 2021.

THIS TABLE, SHOWS HOW THE LEVY IS DISTRIBUTED ACROSS THE CITY, BASED ON CITY TAXABLE VALUES.

AND WHAT YOU CAN WHAT YOU SEE HERE IS THAT UM ALMOST 70 PERCENT, A LITTLE OVER 70 PERCENT PAY EITHER ZERO PAY BETWEEN ZERO AND ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE CITY IN TOTAL TAXES. THAT IS THAT EACH YEAR THAT THAT AMOUNT GOES DOWN IN WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THERE IS YOU'RE SEEING THE RESULTS OF NEW CONSTRUCTION BEING BUILT AND COMING ON AT A VALUE HIGHER THAN, YOU KNOW, HIGHER THAN A THOUSAND DOLLARS.

AND YOU'RE ALSO SEEING THE RESULTS OF PROPERTIES BEING SOLD COMING OFF, SAVE OUR HOMES AND GOING BACK ON AT A HIGHER VALUE BASED ON THE TRANSACTION PRICE.

SO THOSE TWO THINGS ARE WHAT'S MAKING MORE AND MORE PROPERTIES PAY LESS, PAY MORE AND MORE AND LESS PAYING BETWEEN ZERO AND A THOUSAND DOLLARS.

THIS IS A CHART THAT SHOWS WHERE THE CITY OF TAMARAC COMPARES TO 20 OTHER BROWARD CITIES WHEN IT COMES TO TAXES LEVIED PER CAPITA.

THE CITY COMES IN AT FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SIX DOLLARS PER CAPITA, WHICH WHICH RANKS IT EIGHTH LOWEST IN COMPARISON TO THESE OTHER 20 BROWARD COUNTY CITIES.

AND THIS IS BASED ON 2020 DATA FISCAL YEAR 2020 DATA.

HERE WE SHOW WHERE TAMARAC WOULD RANK WHEN IT COMES TO TAXES LEVIED ON THE MEDIAN SINGLE

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THAT RESULTS IN PROPERTY TAXES OF NINE HUNDRED TWENTY NINE DOLLARS AND FIFTY SEVEN CENTS, AND THAT WOULD RANK TAMARAC, THE SEVENTH LOWEST AMONG BROWARD CITIES.

OF PARTICULAR NOTE HERE, FOUR CITIES THAT ARE RANKED AHEAD OF TAMARAC IN TERMS OF LOWEST RANKING ALL HAVE A HIGHER MILLAGE RATE.

AND THAT'S BECAUSE OF THE PRINCIPLE THAT ALL THINGS BEING EQUAL, YOU CAN GENERATE LESS REVENUE FROM SMALLER TAX BASE, YOU HAVE TO MAKE UP FOR IT SOMEWHERE.

TAMARAC WOULD BE FOURTH LOWEST FOR TAXES LEVIED ON THE MEDIAN CONDOMINIUM, FOURTH LOWEST IN BROWARD COUNTY.

THE MEDIAN VALUE WAS FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND THREE EIGHTY.

AND AT SEVEN POINT TWO, EIGHT NINE NINE, THAT WOULD RESULT IN PROPERTY TAXES OF THREE HUNDRED NINETY SIX DOLLARS AND FORTY TWO CENTS, WHICH PUTS TAMARAC THE FOURTH LOWEST IN TERMS OF TAXES LEVIED ON THE CONDOMINIUM MEDIAN.

OH, ACTUALLY, LOOK AT HOW MUCH LOWER THE TAMARAC MEDIAN IS COMPARED TO COUNTY WIDE MEDIAN ON THE CONDOS, TAMARAC MEDIAN IS FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND, COUNTY WIDE, MEDIAN IS NINETY EIGHT SEVEN. SO WE'RE LAGGING FAR BEHIND, FAR BEHIND THE COUNTY MEDIAN IN TERMS OF THAT VALUE.

AND WE'RE ALSO LAGGING FAIRLY FAR BEHIND WHEN IT COMES TO SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

THE COUNTY WIDE MEDIAN WAS ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY THREE THOUSAND TAMARAC WAS ONE TWENTY SEVEN FIVE FIFTEEN.

THIS IS A TABLE THAT SHOWS THE PROPOSED OPERATING MILLAGE RATE AND HOW IT WOULD EITHER BE A DECREASE OR AN INCREASE OVER THE ROLLBACK RATE FOR ALL THIRTY ONE BROWARD COUNTY CITIES. OF PARTICULAR NOTE, HERE IS OUR NEIGHBOR TO THE NORTH, CORAL SPRINGS IS PROPOSING INCREASING THEIR MILLAGE RATE BY ALMOST 11 PERCENT OVER THE ROLLBACK RATE.

THE ONLY CITY THAT IS PROPOSING THE ROLLBACK RATE IS LAUDERDALE BY THE SEA.

AND THEY'RE GOING DOWN TO THREE POINT THREE, NINE, TWO, THREE MILLS.

AND ACTUALLY, ONE CITY, AH LAZY LAKE IS PROPOSING AN INCREASE OVER THE ROLLBACK RATE BY ALMOST 50 PERCENT.

TAMARAC'S ROLLBACK RATE OF EIGHT POINT FOUR ONE NINE AGAIN IS SIX POINT FIVE FIVE PERCENT OVER THE THE ROLLBACK RATE.

AND THIS IS HOW IT COMPARES TO SOME OF THE OTHER CITIES IN BROWARD COUNTY.

I JUST THOUGHT I'D GIVE YOU A PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT ALL THE OTHER CITIES ARE DOING, AND THIS IS BASED ON INFORMATION THAT WAS USED IN THE AUGUST 21 TERM NOTICES, SO IT'S VERY CURRENT. SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK AT THE IMPACT ON A RESIDENTIAL TAXPAYER IN TERMS OF LEVYING A SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE MILLAGE RATE OR LEVYING THE MAJORITY VOTE RATE OF SEVEN POINT ONE FOUR FIVE ZERO.

WHAT I DID HERE IS I CHOSE TWO EXAMPLES SORT OF CASE STUDIES TO LOOK AT.

THE FIRST CASE STUDY IS THE LINE HIGHLIGHTED WITH AN ASSESSED VALUE OF ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND IN THE TAXABLE VALUE OF ONE TWENTY FIVE.

I CHOSE THAT BECAUSE THAT'S CLOSEST TOO THE TAMARAC SINGLE FAMILY HOME MEDIAN PRICE, SO I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD ONE TO LOOK AT.

IF YOU LOOK AT THE THIRD COLUMN FROM THE RIGHT THAT SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN 2021 AND 2022 FOR A PROPERTY OWNER THAT WAS UNDER SAVE OUR HOMES NOW, REMEMBER SAVE OUR HOMES, THE INCREASE IS LIMITED TO ONE POINT FOUR PERCENT, SO THAT PROPERTY OWNER WOULD EXPERIENCE A SEVENTEEN DOLLARS AND EIGHTY SIX SEVENTEEN DOLLARS EIGHTY SIX CENT INCREASE FROM 2021 TO 2022 IF THE CITY WERE TO LEVY SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE.

IF THE CITY WERE TO LEVY SEVEN POINT ONE FOUR FIVE.

OH, WHICH IS THE MAJORITY VOTE RATE, THAT PROPERTY OWNER WOULD ONLY SEE A DECREASE OF SIXTY ONE CENTS.

IN A SENSE, YOU COULD SAY THAT THIS IS A REGRESSIVE TAX BECAUSE SOME OF THE MAJOR SAVINGS DON'T COME IN UNDER THE MAJORITY VOTE RATE, UNTIL YOU GET INTO THE LARGER VALUE PROPERTIES. SO IN A SENSE, THAT COULD BE VIEWED AS A REGRESSIVE TAX.

AND LASTLY, THE FAR RIGHT COLUMN SHOWS THE DIFFERENCE, THE ABSOLUTE DIFFERENCE FOR 2022 BETWEEN LEVYING SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE AND LEVYING SEVEN POINT ONE FOUR FIVE ZERO. THAT WOULD SAVE THAT TAXPAYER 18 DOLLARS AND FORTY SEVEN CENTS.

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NOW, LOOKING AT SOMETHING ON THE COMPLETE OTHER END OF THE SPECTRUM, A PROPERTY WITH A VALUE OF AN ASSESSED VALUE OF FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND IN A TAXABLE VALUE OF FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND. YOU CAN SEE THAT PERSON WOULD PAY FIFTY ONE DOLLARS AND THREE CENTS MORE IN 2022 THAN 2021 AT SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE FIFTEEN DOLLARS AND 19 CENTS LESS. IF WE WERE TO LEVY THE, IF THE CITY LEVY THE MAJORITY MILLAGE RATE, THE MAJORITY VOTE MILLAGE RATE, I'M SORRY AND THE TOTAL DIFFERENCE FOR THAT TAXPAYER BETWEEN FOR 2022 BETWEEN THE TWO MILLAGE RATES THAT'S THAT FAR RIGHT COLUMN, THAT'S SIXTY SIX DOLLARS AND TWENTY TWO CENTS.

AND FOR THAT, FOR THOSE SAVINGS, FOR THOSE TYPES OF TAXPAYERS, THE CITY WOULD BE GIVING UP SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS IN PROPERTY TAX REVENUE TO SAVE A TAXPAYER WITH A VALUE OR MEDIAN VALUE, EIGHTEEN DOLLARS AND FIFTY ABOUT EIGHTEEN FIFTY AND A PERSON WITH A PROPERTY VALUED AT FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND SIXTY SIX DOLLARS AND TWENTY THREE CENTS, WELL FIVE BUCKS A MONTH.

THIS DOES THE SAME THING, EXCEPT IT LOOKS AT IT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE ROLLBACK RATE, OR LOOK, I TOOK THE SAME TWO CASE STUDIES, THE MEDIAN VALUE AND THE HIGHEST VALUE THE MEDIAN VALUE RESULTS IN WELL THE COLUMN, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE FOR 21 TWENTY ONE VERSUS 2022 DOESN'T CHANGE, IT STAYED THE SAME, SO THAT TAXPAYER ONLY WOULD SAVE OR SEE AN INCREASE OF SEVENTEEN DOLLARS AND EIGHTY SIX CENTS.

HOWEVER, FROM THE ROLLBACK RATE, THEY WOULD GET A DECREASE IN 2022 OF THIRTY NINE DOLLARS AND TWENTY FOUR CENTS FOR A TOTAL DIFFERENCE IN 2022 BETWEEN THE ROLLBACK RATE AND THE PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE OF FIFTY SEVEN DOLLARS AND 10 CENTS.

AND THEN LOOKING AT THE THE HIGHEST VALUE ON THE TABLE, WHICH IS A FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ASSESSED VALUE IN FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND TAXABLE VALUE.

THAT PERSON WOULD HAVE A NOT A NET DIFFERENCE FOR TWENTY TWENTY TWO OR TWO HUNDRED AND FOUR DOLLARS AND SEVENTY FOUR CENTS.

AND THAT'S MADE UP OF A FIFTY ONE DOLLARS AND THREE PERCENT INCREASE FROM 2021 TO 2022 AT THE SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE AND A DECREASE OF ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY THREE DOLLARS AND SEVENTY ONE CENTS.

SO THE TOTAL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE DECREASE OF ONE POINT FIFTY THREE AND AN INCREASE, I'M SORRY, AND AN INCREASE OF FIFTY ONE DOLLARS IS HOW YOU GET THAT TWO HUNDRED FOUR DOLLARS AND SEVENTY FOUR CENTS.

FOR A TOTAL EFFECT ON THAT TAXPAYER BETWEEN LEVYING SEVEN POINT TWO, EIGHT, NINE NINE AND SIX POINT EIGHT FOUR ONE NINE AND THOSE TYPES OF TAX SAVINGS OR DIFFERENCES FROM 21 TO 22 WOULD RESULT IN THE CITY GIVING UP TWO MILLION DOLLARS OF APPROXIMATELY TWO POINT ZERO TO $1 MILLION OF PROPERTY TAX REVENUE.

SO WHAT IS KEEPING THE MILLAGE FLAT FOR THE 10TH CONSECUTIVE YEAR? MEAN, FOR VARIOUS TAXPAYERS, FOR ALL AMOUNTS BILLED AND PAID TO THE CITY.

KEEPING IN MIND THAT THE MEDIAN VALUE IS ONE, 20, SEVEN FIVE ONE FIVE, WE LOOKED AT A TAXPAYER WITH ZERO TAXABLE VALUE, THEY'D ONLY PAY THE ASSESSMENTS.

WE LOOKED AT A TAXPAYER WITH A VALUE TAXABLE VALUE OF SEVENTY FIVE THOUSAND.

THEY WOULD PAY PROPERTY TAX OF FIFTY SIX DOLLARS OR SEVENTY FOUR CENTS, PLUS THE SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY ONE DOLLARS IN ASSESSMENTS FOR A TOTAL AMOUNT TO THE CITY OF ONE THOUSAND THREE SEVENTEEN.

AND THE MEDIAN VALUE EXAMPLE THAT TAXPAYER WOULD PAY NINE TWENTY NINE IN TAXES.

AND SEVEN SEVENTY ONE IN ASSESSMENTS FOR A TOTAL TO THE CITY OF SEVENTEEN HUNDRED GOING ALL THE WAY UP TO FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ASSESSED VALUE, THAT TAXPAYER WOULD PAY THREE THOUSAND TWO EIGHTY TO THE CITY IN PROPERTY TAXES, PLUS THE SEVEN SEVENTY ONE IN ASSESSMENTS, NOW FROM THE EARLIER SLIDE THAT SHOWED THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LEVEE ACROSS THE CITY, WE NOTED THAT SEVENTY PERCENT PAID BETWEEN ZERO AND A THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE

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SO IF 70 PERCENT AND THEN FROM THE EARLIER SLIDE FROM THIS EARLIER SLIDE, WE ALSO NOTED THAT A TAXPAYER WITH THE MEDIAN VALUE.

WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, AT SEVEN POINT TWO, EIGHT NINE NINE, THOSE TOTAL TAXES ARE NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE DOLLARS NOW IN ORDER TO PAY A THOUSAND DOLLARS IN PROPERTY TAXES, THAT TRANSLATES INTO ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS OF TAXABLE VALUE.

THAT WOULD PUT THAT EXAMPLE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND IN THE ONE FIFTY.

BUT CLOSER TO THE ONE TWENTY FIVE.

SO WHAT I DID IS I LOOKED AT WHAT THE WHAT THE IMPACT WOULD BE OF EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE ASSESSMENTS, THE CHANGE TO THAT TAXPAYER AND INCLUSIVE OF THE SIX DOLLARS AND SEVENTY FOUR CENTS, IF YOU ADD THE SIX DOLLARS AND SEVENTY FOUR CENTS TO THE SEVEN DOLLARS AND EIGHTY SIX CENTS MORE THEY'D BE PAYING IN PROPERTY TAXES APPROXIMATELY 70 PERCENT OF THE TAMARAC TAXPAYERS WILL PAY TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS OR LESS MORE IN TOTAL THAN LAST YEAR UNDER THIS PROPOSED CITY BUDGET.

NOW, LET'S LOOK AT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE COIN.

LET'S LOOK AT WHAT WHAT THE CITY IS CONTENDING WITH.

HERE IS FIVE YEARS.

THE LAST FIVE YEARS OF THE CONSUMER PRICE INDEX, YOU'LL NOTE THAT THE CHANGES HAVE RANGED BETWEEN ZERO IN TWO TO THREE PERCENT, EXCUSE ME, TWO TO THREE PERCENT.

FOR ALL FIVE YEARS, FOR ALL MONTHS GOING BACK, EXCEPT IN THE RECENT LAST THREE MONTHS WHERE IT'S JUMPED TO FIVE AND FIVE POINT FOUR AND FIVE POINT FOUR, WHICH MEANS THE CITY IS GOING TO BE PAYING MORE FOR EVERYTHING IN PURCHASES.

IT'S EVERYTHING WE DO IS GOING TO COST MORE.

THE AUGUST NUMBER IS NOT OUT YET.

IT'S SCHEDULED TO BE RELEASED TOMORROW.

BUT IF THE PRODUCER PRICE INDEX, WHICH IS A MEASURE OF INFLATION FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF THE INDUSTRIES THAT PRODUCE THE PRODUCTS, IS ANY INDICATION, THE PRODUCER PRICE INDEX WENT FROM SEVEN POINT EIGHT TO EIGHT POINT THREE IN AUGUST, SO THAT MEASURE IS OUT.

THEY DID PUBLISH THAT.

SO IF THAT'S ANY INDICATION OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR THE CPI IN AUGUST, IT JUST KEEPS GOING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION.

WHAT I DID HERE IS I TOOK A LOOK AT WHAT THE CITY WOULD HAVE FOREGONE IN REVENUE.

HAD YOU DECIDED TO ADOPT THE ROLLBACK RATE FOR 2017 AND HELD IT FOR FIVE YEARS.

AND BASED ON ACTUAL CITY TAXABLE VALUES FROM THE JULY ONE CERTIFIED VALUES OF THOSE YEARS.

AND SO THE CITY WOULD HAVE FOREGONE ALMOST $11 MILLION OF REVENUE BETWEEN 2017 AND 2021.

NOW, BETWEEN 2017 AND 2021, THE CITY HAS BROUGHT ONLINE A LOT OF NEW FACILITIES, A LOT OF NEW BUILDINGS, A LOT OF NEW PARKS, FIRE STATION SEVENTY EIGHT, FIRE STATION THIRTY SIX.

BUILDINGS AND VENUES REQUIRE MAINTENANCE, THEY HAVE TO BE STAFFED.

NOBODY CAN SAY FOR SURE WHETHER OR NOT YOU WOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO STAFF THOSE AND MAINTAIN THOSE WITHOUT THAT 11 MILLION DOLLARS, BUT YOU CAN SAY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A LOT MORE CHALLENGING TO FIND A WAY TO DO IT WITHOUT THAT 11 MILLION DOLLARS.

SO FROM AN OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT, THE CITY WOULD HAVE BEEN CHALLENGED HAD IT ELECTED TO FOREGO THAT $11 MILLION.

THE BOTTOM HALF OF THIS ANALYSIS TAKES A LOOK AT WHAT POTENTIALLY COULD BE FOREGONE IF THE CITY WAS TO ADOPT THE ROLLBACK RATE FOR 2022 AND IT ASSUMES ZERO GROWTH.

SO EVEN WITH ZERO GROWTH, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE PROJECTING.

THE CITY WOULD FOREGO ALMOST TEN POINT SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS, TEN POINT SIX MILLION DOLLARS AND THAT'S WITH NO GROWTH.

SO IF THERE WAS GROWTH IN ANY ONE OF THOSE YEARS, THAT NUMBER WOULD JUST GROW.

AND LIKE I SAID, LIKE I SHOWED BEFORE, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH WHEN IT COMES TO INFLATION AND PRICE INCREASES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

SO AT THE CONCLUSION OF TODAY'S PUBLIC HEARING, THE CITY COMMISSION MUST ADOPT A TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE, BEFORE THE DISCUSSION OF THE TENTATIVE BUDGET.

AGAIN, THE MILLAGE RATE IS BEING PROPOSED AT SEVEN POINT TWO, EIGHT NINE NINE MILLS, AND THAT PROVIDES FOR GENERAL OPERATIONS AND THOSE VARIOUS THINGS THAT CHRISTINE POINTED OUT

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THIS MILLAGE RATE WAS ADOPTED TONIGHT, WHATEVER THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE IS, WILL BE CONSIDERED AGAIN AND IT WILL BE CONSIDERED AND NOT TO EXCEED RATE FOR THE NEXT PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH IS SEPTEMBER TWENTY EIGHT.

SO IT'S SEPTEMBER TWENTY EIGHT, THAT'S THE MAXIMUM, THAT'S A NOT TO EXCEED RATE.

YOU CAN ADOPT LOWER, BUT YOU CAN'T ADOPT HIGHER AT THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING, AND THE BUDGET AD WILL APPEAR IN THE SUN SENTINEL ON SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 2021, AND THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION, AND CHRISTINE AND I ARE HERE TO TAKE QUESTIONS.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

COMMISSIONER GELIN, AND WE ARE KEEPING TIME.

HOW MUCH IS THE CITY GETTING FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? SPECIFICALLY FOR WHAT COMMISSIONER? BIDEN GAVE CITIES ACROSS THE NATION DOLLARS, I GUESS, DIRECTLY INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH THE COUNTY. I BELIEVE WE GOT 10 MILLION, FIVE MILLION IN RECEIPT THIS YEAR, FIVE MILLION EXPECTED NEXT YEAR. ARE YOU REFERRING TO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN? CORRECT? YES. THE CITY DID RECEIVE FIVE POINT FOUR MILLION IN JUNE OF 2021 UNDER THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN. HOW IS THAT FACTORED INTO THE BUDGET? THAT IS NOT FACTORED INTO THE BUDGET FOR 2022, AS IT WAS RECEIVED IN 2021.

BUT THE EXPECTED AMOUNT FOR 2022.

I'M SORRY, ARE WE EXPECTING ANOTHER FIVE MILLION IN 2022? OK, TYPICALLY, WHEN IT COMES TO GRANT REVENUE, WHICH IS NOT ASSURED WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE A GRANT AGREEMENT THAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT.

WE DO NOT BUDGET FOR THOSE UNTIL THE CITY ACTUALLY RECEIVES IT.

OK.

THAT'S ALL I HAVE RIGHT NOW. OK, THANK YOU.

SEEING NOBODY ELSE IN THE COMMISSION CURRENTLY HAS ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO OPEN THIS PUBLIC HEARING ON TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2480.

IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER IN THE AUDIENCE? SEEING NONE.

UPON TONIGHT AT THE SECOND MEETING, IS WHAT THE FINAL MILLAGE RATE IS WILL BE.

IT'S POTENTIALLY TO BE THE SAME.

BUT IF I UNDERSTAND THIS CORRECTLY AND I'LL BE, I'LL LET THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. MADAM MAYOR TONIGHT YOU SET THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE, WHICH REQUIRES TWO ERRANDS.

SO WHAT YOU VOTE ON TONIGHT IS WHAT YOU WILL EXPECT TO ALSO APPROVE AT THE SECOND HEARING. OK, MY APOLOGIES.

THE WAY I UNDERSTOOD THE COMMENT IS THAT IF WE VOTED ON ONE SET TONIGHT, IT IS THE EXPECTED AMOUNT.

HOWEVER, IF WE HAD ANY CHANGES BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT HEARING, IT COULD ONLY GO LOWER COULD NOT GO HIGHER.

IF I'M INCORRECT, THAT IS, I'LL DEFER TO THE ATTORNEY ON THAT ONE, BUT I BELIEVE WE SET THE MAXIMUM ON JULY 14.

THE, THAT IS CORRECT, EVERY STEP OF THE PROCESS YOU ARE ESTABLISHING THE CEILING.

YOU CAN ALWAYS AT THE END OF THE PROCESS, WHICH WOULD BE THE SECOND AND FINAL HEARING, POTENTIALLY REDUCE IT, BUT YOU CANNOT GO ABOVE IT.

SO I WAS SEMI CORRECT, RIGHT? OK, WELL, TO FINISH, THE THOUGHT IS, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING UPON WHAT YOU DIRECT STAFF AND WHAT YOU VOTE ON, THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH IS THE TENTATIVE BUDGET, THEN POTENTIALLY WOULD DICTATE POTENTIAL CHANGES TO THE MILLAGE RATE AT SECOND READING OF THE ORDINANCE.

CORRECT, OK, THANK YOU.

SO DID YOU HAVE? NAME, CITY, DARCY SCHILLER, KINGS POINT, I WOULD HOPE THAT THE COMMISSION DOES ACCEPT THE INCREASE IN THE MILLAGE RATE.

WE'RE LOOKING AT ANYWHERE FROM MY UNDERSTANDING IN THE MATH THAT I HAD DONE ANYWHERE BETWEEN SEVEN TO 30 DOLLARS PER PROPERTY HOMEOWNER AND TAMARAC, AS YOU ALL KNOW, NEEDS A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE.

WE NEED STAFF, WE NEED STAFFING FOR PARKS AND RECS, WE NEED STREET WORK TO BE DONE, AND I BELIEVE THE MILLAGE RATE WILL ENABLE THAT.

AND IF YOU REDUCE THE MILLAGE RATE AND GO BACK TO WHAT IT WAS A FEW YEARS AGO, AS PER

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THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

I BELIEVE, YES, PLEASE COME ON OVER.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND AT LEAST THE CITY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO STATE YOUR ADDRESS AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES, PLEASE.

KIMBERLY TAMARAC, KIMBERLY HAYDEN, TAMARAC, KIMBERLY HAYDEN, TAMARAC SORRY.

OH, I JUST HAD A QUICK QUESTION REGARDING THE BUDGET, AS THE COMMISSIONER GELIN STATED, IF WE ARE, IF WE MIGHT RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL $5 MILLION FROM, IF WE RECEIVE AN ADDITIONAL $5 MILLION, HOW WOULD THAT BE FACTORED INTO THE BUDGET? GO AHEAD AND FINISH ASKING THE REST OF YOUR QUESTIONS, OK, BECAUSE IF THAT IS FACTORED INTO THE BUDGET, WILL WE STILL BE HELD RELIABLE BECAUSE THE CITY WOULD TECHNICALLY BE AT A SURPLUS BASED ON THE BUDGET THAT'S PROVIDED IF WE DO GET THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING FROM THE GOVERNMENT? OK, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADDRESS THAT, PLEASE? AT THE MOMENT, SINCE IT'S NOT AMOUNT RECEIVED THE BUDGET REALLY IS A PLAN OF ACTION.

IT'S A PLAN OF ACTION AND WE WE REALLY BUDGET CONSERVATIVELY TO BUDGET ON REVENUES THAT YOU ARE REASONABLY AND EXPECT TO RECEIVE IN PROPORTION TO THE EXPENDITURES THAT WE EXPECT TO SPEND BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A GUARANTEE FROM THE GOVERNMENT FOR THAT.

WE HAVE NOT FACTORED THAT FIVE POINT FOUR MILLION INTO THIS BUDGET AT THIS TIME.

THANK YOU, AND IF I RECALL YOU'RE THE BUDGET MEETING WE HAD IN THE PAST ABOUT THIS, THE USE OF THOSE FUNDS FOR THE AMERICAN RESCUE FUNDS NEEDED TO BE ON NON-REOCCURRING EXPENSES, CORRECT? THERE ARE SPECIFIC RULES AS TO THE USE OF THOSE FUNDS.

THERE IS A PORTION THAT YOU CAN OFFSET SOME RECURRENT EXPENDITURES.

FROM IF WE USE THE LOST REVENUE FACTOR, WE CALCULATED THE LAST, THE LOST REVENUE FROM THAT ONE YEAR FOR THE FIRST TRANCHE THAT WE RECEIVED AND THAT LOST REVENUE WAS $7.8 MILLION, IF COVID 19 HAD NOT HAPPENED.

SO RECEIVING THE $5.4 MILLION STILL DID NOT BRING US BACK TO PRE-PANDEMIC LEVEL IN WHAT WE WOULD HAVE HAD IN TERMS OF LOST REVENUE FROM HOUSE AND SALES TAX FROM FROM PARKS REVENUE, FROM GRANTS THAT WAS RESCINDED THAT WE DID NOT RECEIVE.

SO IT DID NOT PUT US AT AN ADVANTAGE OVER WHERE WE WOULD HAVE BEEN IF THE PANDEMIC HAD NOT HAPPENED.

SO WE HAD SAT DOWN AND THERE WAS A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT WE HAD FOREGONE BECAUSE WE WERE UNABLE TO DO THAT BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE THE FUNDING.

SO WE CERTAINLY WOULD BE COMING BACK TO THE COMMISSION TO LOOK AT THOSE THINGS THAT WERE SET ASIDE TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THOSE FUNDING CAN BE USED FOR THAT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE, OUR PUBLIC HEARING ON TWO TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2480 IS NOW CLOSED.

I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO SET THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE.

I MAKE A MOTION TO SET THE TENTATIVE OPERATING MILLAGE RATE AT SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE MILLS, WHICH IS ZERO POINT FOUR FOUR EIGHT ZERO MILLS, OR SIX POINT FIVE FIVE PERCENT MORE THAN THE ROLLBACK RATE OF SIX POINT EIGHT FOUR ONE NINE MILLS.

DO I HAVE A SECOND? I'D LIKE TO MAKE A SUBSTITUTE MOTION, TO ADOPT THE MAJORITY...

CITY ATTORNEY, WELL, LET'S WAIT TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT COMMISSIONER PLACKO MOTION GARNERS A SECOND AND THEN THE APPROPRIATE THING WOULD BE A MOTION TO AMEND THAT MOTION.

DO I HAVE A SECOND ON THE MOTION BY COMMISSIONER PLACKO? I HAVE A SECOND.

MOTION TO AMEND TO ADOPT THE MAJORITY RATE OF SEVEN POINT ONE OR WHATEVER IT WAS LISTED IN THE... SHOULD WE BE VOTING ON THAT FIRST MOTION FIRST? SEVEN POINT TWO ZERO ZERO ZERO.

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SEVEN POINT ONE FOUR FIVE ZERO.

SEEING THAT, THERE'S NO SUPPORT FOR THAT, WE WILL PROCEED WITH THE MOTION AT SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE.

ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION ON THE MOTION FOR SETTING THE MILLAGE RATE AT SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE. SEEING NO DISCUSSION, CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL.

THANK YOU, MAYOR GOMEZ, YES, COMMISSIONER GELIN, NO, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES.

VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, NO, AND COMMISSIONER BOLTON, NO.

THE MOTION FAILS THREE TO TWO.

I ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR SETTING THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE AT SEVEN POINT TWO ZERO ZERO.

AND I DO NOT HAVE THE CALCULATIONS FOR HOW MUCH OF THE ZERO POINT ZERO ZERO AND THE SIX AND THE SIX PERCENT MORE THAN THE ROLLBACK RATE AT THIS TIME, SO I NEED SOME HELP ON THAT. SECOND, MADAM MAYOR POINT OF CLARIFICATION.

SO WE ASKED FOR THE MILLAGE RATE TO BE PASSED AT SEVEN POINT TO EIGHT NINE NINE MILLS, BUT THAT FAILED.

IN A MEETING THAT I HAD WITH MS. GUNN AND THE FINANCE DIRECTOR, I PROPOSED THAT THE MILLAGE RATE BE SEVEN POINT TWO MILLS.

NOT ONLY WOULD WE REDUCE THE MILLAGE RATE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN ABOUT 10 YEARS, IT WOULD GIVE SOME RELIEF TO SOME OF THE RESIDENTS THAT THAT NEEDED.

I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS FOR A LITTLE BIT AND LOOKING AT THE TAX BILL I LOOK AT, I LOOK AT IT IN THIS WAY, THREE BOXES FOR REGULAR RESIDENTS AND FOUR BOXES FOR RESIDENTS IN CENTRAL PARK, MEADOW PARK AND HIDDEN TRAILS IN MY DISTRICT.

THREE BOXES THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT FOR REGULAR RESIDENTS ARE THE TAMARAC BOX, WHICH IS THE AD VALOREM AND THE NON-AD VALOREM TAX.

THE SCHOOL BOARD AND THE COUNTY.

SO LOOKING AT THOSE THREE BOXES, THE ENTIRE TAX BILL DOES NOT BELONG TO THE CITY OF TAMARAC. A PORTION OF IT BELONGS TO THE SCHOOL BOARD AND A PORTION OF IT BELONGS TO THE COUNTY. SO LOOKING AT TAMARAC TAXES, WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY AT THE HIGHEST TAX RATE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY.

BUT THEN THE FOURTH BOX LOOKING AT CENTRAL PARK, MEADOW PARK AND HIDDEN TRAILS ARE THOSE CDD FEES THAT ARE STRENUOUS ON THE RESIDENTS, AND IT'S NOTHING THAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT BECAUSE THAT IS SIMPLY FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS IN THEIR COMMUNITY.

SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT KEEPING TAXES FLAT, MADAM MAYOR IS NOT NECESSARILY KEEPING IT FLAT.

WE WOULD BE GETTING AN INCREASED REVENUE, AND THE IDEA IS AS PROPERTY TAXES GO UP, THE MILLAGE RATE SHOULD COME DOWN.

BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO BALANCE THAT WITH THE CPI.

BUT THE ISSUE IS THAT WE ARE SPENDING TOO MUCH AS A CITY AND I HEARD THE RESIDENTS PARTICULARLY VERY ELOQUENT RESIDENT FROM DISTRICT FOUR, I THINK HER NAME IS MS. MELDONSON AND SHE SAID THAT THE COMMISSION IS SPENDING TOO MUCH MONEY.

AND THERE ARE WAYS AND THINGS THAT WE CAN LOOK AT IN THE BUDGET TO CUT AS OUR RESIDENTS ARE GETTING A LOT OF MONEY, GETTING UP, PAYING A LOT OF TAXES, MADAM MAYOR, I THINK WE CAN PROVIDE SOME RELIEF TO THEM.

THE REDUCTION TO 7.2 00 IS NOT ENOUGH, BUT I THINK IT'S A START, AND THIS IS WHY I WANT

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SO BASICALLY COMMISSIONER WHEN I WAS ASKING FOR A MOTION FOR SEVEN POINT TWO ZERO ZERO TO BE THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE, YOUR ANSWER IS YOU ARE MAKING THE MOTION.

I WANT TO CLARIFY WHERE STAFF GOT THAT NUMBER AND WE CAN HAVE DISCUSSION ON THAT AND YOU CAN SHARE ALL THAT EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE ALREADY JUST SHARED IT.

SO I HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE FOR SEVEN POINT TWO ZERO ZERO TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATE AND MS. CAJUSTE, IF YOU WOULD, FOR THE RECORD, SO WE HAVE IT CLEAR, IF YOU CAN HELP WITH THE MILL'S RATE, WHICH IS THE PERCENTAGE DIFFERENCE, THEN THE ROLLBACK RATE SO WE CAN HAVE THIS MOTION PROPERLY PUT BEFORE THE COMMISSION.

SO THE MILLAGE RATE OF 7.2000 IS ZERO POINT THREE FIVE EIGHT ONE MILLS OR FIVE POINT TWO THREE PERCENT MORE THAN THE ROLLBACK RATE.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SO COMMISSIONER BOLTON SINCE YOU WERE SECOND, I WOULD LIKE NOW THAT IT'S CLEAR ON THE RECORD, WILL YOU PLEASE? YOU'VE MADE THE MOTION, AND I WILL NOW ASK FOR A SECOND.

I ALREADY HAD A SECOND.

MADAM, MS. COULD YOU, CAN YOU GIVE ME THE NUMBERS AGAIN SO WE CAN PROBABLY MAKE THE MOTION? THE OPERATING MILLAGE RATE OF AT 7.2000 MILLS IS ZERO POINT THREE FIVE EIGHT ONE MILLS OR FIVE POINT TWO THREE PERCENT.

.. I'M SORRY, YOU WENT A LITTLE FAST, SO 7.200 YEAH.

MILLS, WHICH IS ZERO POINT THREE FIVE EIGHT ONE MILLS, OR FIVE POINT TWO PERCENT FIVE POINT TWO THREE PERCENT MORE THAN THE ROLLBACK RATE OF SIX POINT EIGHTY FOUR ONE NINE MILLS.

OK, I MAKE A MOTION TO SET THE TENTATIVE OPERATING MILLAGE RATE AT 7.200, WHICH IS ZERO POINT THREE FIVE EIGHT ONE OR FIVE POINT TWO THREE PERCENT MORE THAN THE ROLLBACK RATE OF SIX POINT EIGHTY FOUR ONE NINE MILLS.

JUST REITERATE, PLEASE.

YES, SECOND BEST MAYOR HAS SECONDED THE MOTION.

I SEE COMMISSIONER GELIN IS READY TO SPEAK.

PLEASE DO SO CLEARLY INTO THE MIC SO WE CAN HEAR YOU.

I JUST WANTED TO KNOW THROUGH THE BUDGET OFFICE WHAT THAT DOLLAR VALUE, WHAT THAT REVENUE INCREASE WOULD BE FOR THE CITY? I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN CALCULATE OR IF YOU NEED TO GO BACK TO A SPREADSHEET.

ONE OF THE SLIDES ACTUALLY ADDRESSED THAT I'LL JUST PULL UP THIS SLIDE.

THE REVENUE INCREASE OVER THE BUDGETED RATE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021 WOULD BE ONE MILLION EIGHT HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND SEVENTY TWO DOLLARS.

THAT IS A LOSS OF PROPERTY TAX REVENUE OF FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND FIVE EIGHTY FIVE FROM THE SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE MILLAGE RATE LEVEL.

SO, IT'S YOU WOULD LOSE FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHT FOR FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND, FIVE EIGHTY FIVE FROM SEVEN POINT TO EIGHT NINE.

OKAY, SO THAT WOULD BE THE GAP THAT WE'D HAVE TO FILL IN TERMS OF EXPENSE REDUCTIONS, OK, AND COMMISSIONER BOLTON WHY ARE YOU CHOOSING THE SEVEN POINT TWO O VERSUS THE SEVEN POINT ONE FOUR FIVE I BELIEVE HE SHARED, SO LET'S JUST KEEP EVERYBODY'S OWN OPINIONS VERSUS CROSS OVER PLEASE.

PARDON ME. YOU TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW.

PLEASE, LET'S NOT HAVE CROSSOVER.

HE SHARED HIS OPINIONS OF WHY HE'S DOING IT ALREADY WHEN HE PRESENTED IT.

SO MY QUESTION IS WHY IS HE CHOOSING THE SEVEN POINT TWO, GENERATING ONE POINT EIGHT MILLION VERSUS SEVEN POINT ONE FOR GENERATING ONE POINT FIVE MILLION? SO THERE'S A 300000, APPROXIMATELY 300000 VARIANCE THERE.

I THINK I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING, ARE YOU THINKING THAT THE ONE POINT SEVEN FOUR IS CREATING MORE MONEY OR LESS MONEY? IT'S MORE THAN THE SEVEN POINT ONE FOUR.

SO I WAS WONDERING WHY HE WANTED TO GO WITH A SEVEN POINT TWO VERSUS THE SEVEN POINT ONE FOUR. ACTUALLY, ISN'T THE 7.2 GENERATING MORE FUNDS THAN THE SEVEN POINT ONE? THERE'S A THREE HUNDRED THOUSAND APPROXIMATELY THREE HUNDRED THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT IS GENERATED WITH A SEVEN POINT ONE FIVE ZERO AND THE SEVEN POINT TWO PLEASE.

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OK. THE REVENUE LOSS FOR THE 7.2000 MILLAGE RATE IS FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND FIVE EIGHTY FIVE. OK.

THANK YOU. DOES THAT ANSWER? YES THANK YOU. YES, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. SO IS HE PROPOSING SOMETHING NEW? NO I WANTED MORE CLARIFICATION, I WAS READING THAT INCORRECTLY, SO I'M FINE NOW.

OK, SO THE QUESTION HAS BEEN ANSWERED FOR COMMISSIONER GELIN, COMMISSIONER BOLTON YOU HAVE A NEW ITEM? YES, MADAM MAYOR, SO.

THE 7.2000 MILLS DOES NOT DRASTICALLY, ACCORDING TO THE CONVERSATION I HAD WITH MS. CAJUSTE AND YOU CAN CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG MS. CAJUSTE, IT DOES NOT DRASTICALLY IMPACT US.

IT DOES IMPACT US A LITTLE BIT, BUT NOT DRASTICALLY.

IT WOULD NOT DRASTICALLY IMPACT SERVICES AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO DO TOO MUCH OF BUDGET CUTS. IT IS A $400000 REVENUE LOSS.

IT DOES GIVE SOME OF THE RESIDENTS SOME SAVINGS, AND IT DOES SEND A MESSAGE TO OUR RESIDENTS, INCLUDING MS. MELANCIN, AND THAT CITY HALL LISTENS.

I HAVE LISTENED EACH TIME TO MS. MELVINS AND I MAY NOT RESPOND BECAUSE WE CAN'T OR WE ARE NOT.

WE SHOULD NOT.

BUT I WANT HER TO KNOW THAT WE UNDERSTAND AND SO THAT $400000 STAFF SHOULD BE LOOKING AT HOW WE COULD REDUCE OUR BUDGET.

KEEPING IN MIND WHAT RESIDENTS ARE ASKING US TO DO AND WHAT THIS IS THE COMMISSION IS ASKING US TO DO.

AND I THINK IN THE FUTURE WE CAN HAVE THAT DISCUSSION UNDER SUNSHINE, WHERE RESIDENTS ARE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE HOW WE CUT THE BUDGET.

VICE MAYOR, THE EVENTS THAT WE ADDED THIS YEAR THAT WERE NOT BUDGETED AT LAST YEAR FOR THIS YEAR, WHAT DOES THAT EQUAL TO? THE FOUR EVENTS, WELL, THE THERE'S THREE EVENTS NOW, THERE'S TWO, IT'S SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND IN ONE IN FIFTY THOUSAND.

THE BLACK HISTORY MONTH IS $78000.

CARIBBEAN HERITAGE MONTH SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS AND JUNETEENTH IS FIFTY THOUSAND.

AND HOW MUCH IS ONE TAMARAC? ONE TAMARAC IS NINETY ONE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED.

THAT'S WHAT'S BUDGETED....SO IF JUST CUT THREE OF THOSE AND JUST STICK TO ONE TAMARAC AND SAVE ALMOST THE WHOLE FOUR HUNDRED GRAND THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE SHORT OF, RIGHT.

IT WOULD BE YOU'D BE WELL ON YOUR WAY, BUT YOU'RE NOT THERE YET, YOU'D HAVE TO LOOK AT SOME OTHER ITEMS... LIKE THE REDUCTION IN SALARY AND VEHICLES AND...WELL WHAT WE DID ...THE COMMISSION, WE LOOKED AT, WE LOOKED AT FIRST, WE FIRST, WHAT WE DID IS WE TO PUT TOGETHER A POTENTIAL CUT LIST THAT GETS US TO FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED. WE LOOKED AT FIRST THE THINGS THAT WE WERE DIRECTED BY STAFF AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP TO TAKE OUT.

THE FIRST THING BEING THE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH, BECAUSE THERE WAS A CONSENSUS TO TAKE THAT OUT. THE SECOND THING WAS WAS ALL OF THE COMMISSION TRAVEL TO CHANGE THAT FROM A COLLECTIVE ACCOUNT THAT HAD ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED TO TEN THOUSAND EACH IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNT.

SO WE ZEROED OUT AND I WAS GOING TO GET TO THIS LATER IN THE BUDGET PRESENTATION.

THAT'S ONE OF THE CHANGES FROM THE PROPOSED TO THE TENTATIVE, BUT THAT'S SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED.

SO RIGHT THERE YOU'VE GOT SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED.

THEN WE LOOKED AT WHAT'S CALLED LAST IN, FIRST OUT THINGS THAT WERE ADDED OR BEING PROPOSED TO THE BEING ADDED TO THE BUDGET WITHIN THE LAST YEAR.

AND WE HAVE THOSE ON THERE, THOSE WOULD BE THE PROGRAM MODIFICATIONS.

SOME OF WHAT AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE THE AGE FRIENDLY COMMUNITY FOR FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING. AND THEN WE LOOKED AT WHAT'S CALLED NON-CORE SERVICES SERVICES THAT ARE NOT NECESSARY.

THEY'RE NOT PRIMARY TO WHAT THE CITY DELIVERS TO CITY RESIDENTS.

AND WE HAVE AN ITEM OF ABOUT, MAYBE I THINK THERE ARE SIX OR SEVEN THINGS ON THERE, MAYBE SEVEN THAT GET US TO 405900.

WHAT WE WOULD DO IS WE WOULD BRING YOU A REVISED EXHIBIT TO THE BUDGET ORDINANCE THAT REDUCES THE BUDGET BY 405900.

THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL BE PRESENTED WITH ON SEPTEMBER 28TH

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YEAH, I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS TO CUT COSTS.

SO JUST LOOKING AT THE CENSUS DATA FROM THE EMPLOYEE POPULATION, WE SPEND FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS APPROXIMATELY ON THE BENEFIT OPTION DOLLARS.

SO MOST EMPLOYEES GET ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS TO OFFSET THE COST OF INSURANCE THAT TOTALS FOUR HUNDRED AND THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS.

THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT NECESSARILY HAS TO BE OFFERED.

THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS WE CAN AND KEEP IN MIND WHERE WE WILL RECEIVE $5 MILLION FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR 2021 AND THEN AGAIN IN 2022.

SO THERE'S NO REAL LOSS THERE.

WE MAKE NINE POINT FOUR MILLION DOLLARS IN PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS FOR EMPLOYEES AND EVERY YEAR WHEN WE GIVE THREE PERCENT RAISE AND SALARIES, THAT INCREASES THE PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE EXPLORED.

EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HEALTH PLAN TOTALS FOUR POINT THREE MILLION DOLLARS.

ALL THE TIME, CITIES AND PRIVATE COMPANIES MAKE CHANGES TO EMPLOYER CONTRIBUTIONS IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE IT'S WITHIN THEIR BUDGET.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS AND AVENUES THAT THE CITY CAN CAN SAVE MONEY WITHOUT IMPACTING RESIDENTS, ESPECIALLY IN WASTEFUL SPENDING.

WE, THROUGH THE CHAIR OF FINANCE DIRECTOR, WE DID BORROW MONEY, I THINK YOU SAID FROM THE STORM WATER FUND TO PAY FOR COLONY WEST.

HOW MUCH DO WE OWE BACK ON THAT AND WHAT'S OUR PLAN TO PAY THAT MONEY BACK? CURRENTLY, THE PROJECT HAS NOT YET BEEN FINALIZED.

LAST TIME I LOOKED THE COLONY WASTE FUND HAD BORROWED 1.7 MILLION OF THE SIX MILLION AUTHORIZED FOR THE PROJECT.

THE [INAUDIBLE] YEAH, THE EXPECTATION IS THAT WE WOULD BORROW MONEY TO REPAY A STORM WATER FUND ONCE THE PROJECT IS COMPLETE.

OK, SO YOU KNOW, WE DON'T GET COMPLETE AND ACCURATE INFORMATION ALL THE TIME FROM STAFF ABOUT EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON, AND, YOU KNOW, WE'RE SHOWING CERTAIN FIGURES TO GET US TO VOTE A CERTAIN WAY, BUT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE LOOK AT THE WHOLE PICTURE BEFORE VOTING ON INCREASES TO OUR RESIDENTS, THANK YOU.

COMMISSIONER PLACKO. THANK YOU, IT APPEARS THAT STAFF HAS ALREADY LOOKED AT WHERE THERE'S $400000 WOULD COME FROM.

SO WHATEVER RELIEF WE CAN GIVE OUR RESIDENTS, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT OUR SERVICES ARE NOT CHANGED, OUR RESIDENTS EXPECT A CERTAIN LEVEL OF SERVICE. THEY'VE GOTTEN USED TO THAT.

HOWEVER, I KNOW THAT PEOPLE ARE STILL SUFFERING FROM COVID.

THERE ARE STILL INSTANCES WHERE THEY ARE AND WELL, WE SAY IT'S ONLY $25.

YOU KNOW, $25 IS STILL $25.

SO I'M PRETTY COMFORTABLE WITH WITH THE NEW RATE.

WITH THE $400000, IT APPEARS THAT THAT WE CAN MAKE THAT UP WITHOUT CUTTING SERVICES IN ANY WAY. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER GELIN, [INAUDIBLE] COMMISSIONER BOLTON, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES AND THEN I'LL SPEAK. I JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT, FOR THE RECORD, THAT STAFF'S WISH LIST FOR A BUDGET CUT IS NOT NECESSARILY MY WISH LIST FOR A BUDGET CUT.

MY WISH LIST FOR A BUDGET CUT WOULD BE TO REDUCE TRAVEL, TO REDUCE CELL PHONE ALLOWANCES AND TRAVEL ALLOWANCES AND THE COMMISSION SALARIES AND ALL OF THE WASTEFUL SPENDING THAT THE CITY'S RESIDENTS HAVE COME TO US TIME AFTER TIME TO ASK US TO REDUCE.

THOSE ARE THE ITEMS THAT I HAVE IN MIND FOR THIS FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, SO THE RESIDENTS UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE LISTENING TO THEM AND THEY'RE NOT TALKING TO A BRICK WALL. AND AT THE SAME TIME, WHEN WE ARE SAVING ON THESE, THAT THE RESIDENTS THEMSELVES CAN HAVE A RELIEF.

SO I UNDERSTAND THAT STAFF HAS ITS OWN LIST, BUT I WANT IT TO PUT ON THE RECORD AGAIN, UNDER SUNSHINE THAT MY LIST OF CUTS ARE ESSENTIALLY THINGS THAT I'VE JUST

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THANK YOU, SO BASICALLY IN THIS CONVERSATION, WE'RE GOING OVERLAPPING A LITTLE BIT OF A MILLAGE RATE AND A BUDGET, AND OBVIOUSLY, TO MAKE THE DECISION FOR THE MILLAGE RATE, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME DISCUSSION ON THE BUDGET.

I AM FINE WITH THE SEVEN POINT TWO ZERO.

IT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED WITH FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR AND OUR INTERIM CITY MANAGER. OBVIOUSLY, WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS.

WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH ALL OF US WHO'VE SEEN ASKED WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP IN THIS SITUATION. SO IT'S NICE THAT WE'RE ON THE SAME PATH FOR SOME STUFF.

HOWEVER, I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S UNDERSTOOD THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT ARE MENTIONED FROM THE DAIS THAT MAY NOT BE COMPLETELY TRUTHFUL, NOT TRUTHFUL.

BUT THEY'RE NOT THE FULL STORY, AND I KNOW YOU'LL BRING IT OUT MORE IN THE BUDGET ITEM.

THE ISSUE WITH THE MONEY BORROWED FROM COLONY WEST AND HOW THAT IS BEING THE MAXIMUM ALLOWANCE, HOW MUCH HAS BEEN OUT THERE AND ALSO HOW MUCH IS ACTUALLY BEING MADE AND HOW THE REVENUES ARE INCREASING AND BEING ABLE TO PAY BACK THAT LOAN THAT THE CITY HAS PUT OUT. SO THE RATE OF RETURN ON THAT INVESTMENT BY THE CITY HAS BEEN A GOOD INVESTMENT.

AND KNOCK WOOD, IT'LL CONTINUE TO DO SO.

I WILL PUT THIS RIGHT OUT HERE.

I AM IN NO WAY SHAPE OR FORM IN SUPPORT OF CUTTING ANYTHING OUT OF OUR HARDWORKING EMPLOYEES, COST OF LIVING INCREASES.

THEY WORK EXTREMELY HARD, THEY'VE WORKED THEIR TAILS OFF DURING THIS COVID TIME AND WE ARE A GREAT CITY.

OUR SERVICES ARE GREAT.

IN THE BIGGEST ASSET OUR CITY HAS ARE OUR EMPLOYEES.

THE MOST EXPENSIVE ASSET OUR CITY HAS ARE OUR EMPLOYEES.

SO IN ORDER FOR OUR CITY RESIDENTS TO GET WHAT THEY NEED AND PROCESS, WE NEED PEOPLE TO WORK HERE. AND I PRETTY MUCH BELIEVE THAT IF WE START HURTING OUR EMPLOYEES WHEN CPI IS GOING UP AT 5.4 PER MONTH AND WE DON'T EVEN GIVE THEM THE BASIC THREE PERCENT THAT IS ALREADY BEEN CONTRACTED FOR THEM, THEY'RE GOING TO WANT TO LOOK ELSEWHERE.

AND WE'RE GOING TO LOSE SOME REALLY GOOD EMPLOYEES.

AND OUR CITY IS ALREADY RUNNING AT A DEFICIT OF EMPLOYEES.

IN MY OPINION, WE NEED MORE EMPLOYEES THAN WE DO NEED THE FIVE OF US UP HERE.

SORRY. SO I DO NOT THINK THAT WOULD BE A SMART BUDGET ITEM ON OUR BEHALF.

I THINK WE CAN GET RID OF SOME OF THE EVENTS PEOPLE DON'T MOVE TO CITIES PURELY FOR HOW MANY EVENTS CAN THE CITY PUT ON AND HOW MANY EVENTS WITH THE CITY OF TAMARAC PUT ON, SO PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE PLACE CAN COME.

WE HAVE GREAT EVENTS, WE HAVE GREAT PARKS, WE HAVE GREAT FACILITIES, WE HAVE GREAT SERVICES, AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE CONTINUE TO DO WITHIN OUR MEANS. AND I WILL SUPPORT THIS SEVEN POINT TWO ZERO ZERO ZERO.

AND WHEN WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ITEMS TO DECREASE OUT OF THAT BUDGET, I REPEAT MY DESIRE TO REDUCE THE TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS DISCRETIONARY FUND.

I'D LIKE TO GO BACK TO THE ORIGINAL AMOUNT, BUT IF NOT, SOME KIND OF COMPROMISE FROM THERE TO HELP WITH THAT BUDGET, PLEASE.

SO THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS AT THIS POINT IN TIME.

CITY CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL ON THE MOTION OF SETTING THE OPERATING TENTATIVE OPERATING MILLAGE RATE AT SEVEN POINT TWO ZERO ZERO ZERO MILLS, WHICH IS POINT THREE FIVE EIGHT ONE MILLS, OR FIVE POINT TWO THREE PERCENT MORE THAN THE ROLLBACK RATE OF SIX POINT EIGHT FOUR ONE NINE MILLS.

THANK YOU, MAYOR GOMEZ, YES, COMMISSIONER GELIN, YES, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES, VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES.

AND COMMISSIONER BOLTON, YES.

YES, THE MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY FIVE TO ZERO.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

WE ARE NOW MOVING TO TEMPORARY ORDINANCE 2481.

[6. TO2481 FY 2022 Budget Ordinance]

HERE IN CITY CHAMBERS, MADAM INTERIM CITY MANAGER, PLEASE READ YOUR STATEMENT.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. THE TENTATIVE OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 IS TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE TO TWENTY ONE.

THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE.

TEN DOLLARS. TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE MILLION THREE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE THOUSAND TEN DOLLARS. TEN, WHICH IS THIRTY THREE MILLION FOUR HUNDRED EIGHTEEN SIX HUNDRED AND NINETEEN THOUSAND MORE THAN THE AMENDED BUDGET OF ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY SEVEN MILLION NINE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SIX THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED AND NINETY ONE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021.

THE TENTATIVE GENERAL FUND BUDGET, WHICH IS THE PRIMARY FUND FOR PROVIDING GOVERNMENTAL

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IN ADDITION, THE FINANCIAL POLICIES ARE INCLUDED AS PART OF THE ADOPTION OF THE ANNUAL BUDGET, THESE FINANCIAL POLICIES ARE AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR LONG TERM FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR THE CITY. THESE POLICY SET PARAMETERS FOR OPERATING MANAGEMENT, INCLUDING ESTABLISHING RESERVES FOR SPECIFIC PURPOSES, ESTABLISHING ACCOUNTS MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL PLANNING POLICIES, AND ESTABLISHING POLICIES ON ECONOMIC RESOURCES.

THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU, MR. CITY ATTORNEY. PLEASE READ THE TITLE TO TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER TWO FOUR EIGHT ONE.

YES, MADAM MAYOR MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.

IT'S AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISSION OR THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA, ADOPTING THE OPERATING BUDGET, REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES, THE CAPITAL BUDGET AND THE FINANCIAL POLICIES FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2022 PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU.

WE'LL HEAR A SHORT PRESENTATION FROM THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DIRECTOR, MS. CAJUSTE. GOOD EVENING AGAIN MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION, CHRISTINE CAJUSTE, DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL SERVICES, BEFORE YOU IS TR TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER 2481, WHICH IS OUR BUDGET ORDINANCE.

THIS IS THE FIRST PUBLIC AIRING.

THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE ON SEPTEMBER 28TH, 2021, DUE TO THE MILLAGE THAT WAS JUST ADOPTED AT 7.200 THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT IS PRESENTED AT THE SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE.

HOWEVER, IT WILL BE AMENDED TO REFLECT A NEW TOTAL THAT REDUCES THE BUDGET BY FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND FOR OUR SECOND BUDGET HEARINGS, SO THIS WILL BE AS AMENDED FOR OUR SECOND BUDGET HEARING ON SEPTEMBER 28TH.

THE BUDGET WAS DEVELOPED.

IT STARTED IN JANUARY OF 2021, WHERE WE LOOKED AT OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS AND BETWEEN JUNE, MARCH AND JUNE, STAFF UPDATED ON FORECASTS IN ALL OUR 2022 NUMBERS AND THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 2022 AND OUR FORECAST FOR 2023 AND 2024 ON JULY SEVEN, 2021, THE BUDGET WORKSHOP WAS HELD AND [INAUDIBLE] MENTIONED WAS PROVIDED AN UPDATE ON THE PROPOSED 2022 BUDGET.

WE EVALUATED OUR REVENUE AVAILABILITY CURRENT AND FUTURE, AND WE EVALUATED THE FUTURE IMPACT ON CURRENT YEAR'S DECISIONS.

SADLY, FY 2022 PROCESS WAS BEING UNDERTAKEN UNDER THE SAME BACKDROP OF COVID 19, WHICH IS STILL ONGOING, WE HAVE A LOT OF CONFIRMED CASES.

THE MILLAGE RATE RECOMMENDED WAS RECOMMENDED TO REMAIN FLAT.

THAT IS NOW 7.200, THE MILLAGE RATE WAS EXPECTED TO ONLY MAINTAIN OUR CURRENT SERVICES.

WE WILL BE ABLE TO DO THAT AT SEVEN POINT TWO 00, AND THE CAPITAL PROJECTS, AS I MENTIONED EARLY EARLIER, ARE ONLY BEING FUNDED FROM OUR SAVINGS AND WE HAVE SOME PROJECTS THAT ARE ELIGIBLE FOR SURTAX FUNDING.

WHEN WE DID OUR BUDGET FOR 2021 AND 2022, WE HAD SOME DELAYS AND CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT WAS NECESSARY AS OUR AUSTERITY MEASURES FOR THE LOST REVENUE THAT WE STILL HAVE CONTINUING INTO 2022.

AND WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO HAVE JEFF STREETER GIVE YOU ALL THE DETAILS OF THE PROPOSED BUDGET. THANK YOU, CHRISTINE.

FOR THE RECORD, JEFF STREETER, BUDGET MANAGER.

FOR 2022 WE STILL HAVE SOME AUSTERITY MEASURES IN PLACE THAT WE INSTITUTED IN 2021 VACANT POSITIONS ARE TO REMAIN MAINLY UNFILLED.

CERTAIN POSITIONS WILL BE EVALUATED BASED ON NEED IN AVAILABLE FUNDING AS IT BECOMES AVAILABLE. MINIMAL NEW POSITIONS WERE APPROVED FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, 2022 BUDGET, NO RE-CLASSIFICATIONS OR CHANGES WERE APPROVED FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, 2022 BUDGET AND THE NEW POSITIONS ARE FOUR NEW, CRITICALLY NEEDED FULL TIME POSITIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND.

AND YOU HEARD ABOUT THOSE AND THE DETAILS OF THOSE WERE GIVEN TO YOU AT THE JULY SEVEN

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AND THERE'S A SOFT BAN ON TRAVEL AND TRAINING THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE FOR 2021.

THAT STAYING IN THE BUDGET FOR 2022 BECAUSE WE STILL BELIEVE MOST DEPARTMENTS CAN CONDUCT THEIR TRAINING ONLINE VIA ZOOM.

THOSE TYPES OF TRAINING CLASSES, NOT IN-PERSON, NOT IN-PERSON CONFERENCES.

THEREFORE, NO TRAINING REQUIRES HOTEL AIRLINE TRAVEL AND ALL THE EXPENSIVE THINGS THAT GO ALONG WITH THAT. AS A REMINDER, THE NEW POSITIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND ARE YOU HAVE ONE NEW FULL TIME SPECIAL EVENTS SUPERVISOR IN PARKS AND REC.

YOU HAVE ONE NEW FULL TIME BUILDING MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN IN PUBLIC SERVICES, FACILITIES MANAGEMENT AND ONE FULL TIME GROUNDSKEEPER IN PUBLIC SERVICES GROUNDS MAINTENANCE DIVISION. AGAIN, DETAILS OF THOSE WERE SHARED AT THE WORKSHOP.

I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THEM BRIEFLY.

OH, ALSO, THERE'S A POSITION IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES TEAM LEADER. NOW ANOTHER THING THAT OCCURRED AT THE WORKSHOP IS IT WAS DECIDED THAT A POSITION THAT WAS BEING PROPOSED FOR THE STORM WATER MANAGEMENT FUND TO FOCUS ON KEEPING LITTER OUT OF THE CANALS BE MOVED UP TO 2021.

SO THAT WAS REMOVED FROM THE BUDGET.

WE LEFT THE MONEY IN THERE BECAUSE THERE'S A COUPLE OF REASONS.

ONE IS THE INFLATION FACTOR.

THE OTHER IS THAT WE WANTED TO HAVE ENOUGH SALARY IN WAGES IN LIGHT OF A NEW UNION CONTRACT THAT'S BEING NEGOTIATED FOR FPD.

THIS CHART SHOWS THE CHANGES BETWEEN THE PROPOSED BUDGET IN THE TENTATIVE BUDGET THAT'S BEFORE YOU TONIGHT, AGAIN CHRISTINE MENTIONED THAT WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BRING YOU ON THE 28TH, BASED ON THE VOTE YOU JUST TOOK ON THE MILLAGE RATE IS A BUDGET THAT'S REDUCED BY AT LEAST FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE DOLLARS ON THE 28TH.

SO THAT 221,385,010 IS GOING TO COME DOWN BY FOUR OH FIVE FIVE, EIGHTY FIVE OR MORE, AND THAT WILL BE REFLECTED IN A REVISED EXHIBIT TO YOUR ORDINANCE.

SO THE EXHIBIT THAT HAS THE DETAILS OF ALL THE FUNDS WILL BE ADJUSTED THAT WILL BE AMENDED AND THAT'LL BE WHAT YOU ULTIMATELY VOTE ON, ON THE 28TH.

SO WE HAD SOME INDIVIDUAL CHANGES IN THE GENERAL FUND, BUT THAT NETTED OUT, WE HAD SOME INCREASES, SOME DECREASES, AND I'LL GIVE YOU THE DETAIL OF THOSE A LITTLE LATER IN THE PRESENTATION. BUT THE NET EFFECT THAT THAT WAS NO CHANGE TO THE GENERAL FUND, KEPT THE GENERAL FUND THE SAME. THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUND INCREASED.

THAT'S AN INCREASE DUE TO WE GOT A NEW, WE GOT A NEW ESTIMATE FOR SHIP FUNDING.

THE SHIP FUNDING ESTIMATE WENT UP BY ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TWELVE DOLLARS, SO WE INCREASED THE BUDGET BY THAT.

THAT'S THE ONLY CHANGE IN THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS.

AND THEN WE HAD TWO SMALL TWO CHANGES IN THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS.

ONE WAS IN UTILITIES.

UTILITIES GOT A BETTER ESTIMATE.

LET ME BACK UP IN 2021, THEY CONDUCTED A RISK AND RESILIENCY STUDY, AND OUT OF THAT STUDY CAME A RECOMMENDATION FOR CERTAIN PROJECTS TO MITIGATE RISKS.

AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE A REAL SOLID ESTIMATE OF WHAT THE COST OF THOSE WERE GOING TO BE AT THE TIME WE BROUGHT YOU THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

SINCE THEN, THEY FIRMED UP THAT ESTIMATE AND THEY WANTED TO INCREASE IT BY ABOUT ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS.

THE OTHER INCREASE IN THE ENTERPRISE FUNDS IS JUST A CHANGE IN THE COLONY WEST BUDGET.

AND THAT'S AS A RESULT OF RECEIVING THE BUDGET FROM COLONY WEST.

WE DIDN'T HAVE THEIR BUDGET YET WHEN WE BROUGHT YOU THE PROPOSED BUDGET, NOW WE DO, AND IT'S GOOD NEWS. WE CAN INCREASE IT BECAUSE THEY'RE OPEN AND THEY'RE MAKING MORE REVENUE AND IT'S ALL GOOD.

SO SOME OF THE INDIVIDUAL CHANGES THAT ARE IN THE GENERAL FUND WE UM THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE UPDATED, WELL, FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE WE RECEIVED THE JULY ONE CERTIFIED VALUES AND THAT RESULTS IN AN INCREASE IN PROPERTY TAX REVENUE OF SEVENTEEN THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED FORTY TWO DOLLARS. THEN WE THE STATE DEPARTMENT, I'M SORRY, THE DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE PUT OUT NEW ESTIMATES FOR SOME OF THE REVENUES THAT THEY

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AND THE ESTIMATE THAT WE HAD FOR HALF SINCE TAILS TAX THAT WENT DOWN ONLY BY THREE, I ONLY MISSED BY THREE THOUSAND DOLLARS.

I THINK THAT'S PRETTY CLOSE, I'M GOING TO TAKE CREDIT FOR THAT, SO AND THEN WE HAD CHANGES TO THE LOCAL OPTION FUEL TAX, THAT ESTIMATE WAS AN INCREASE OF EIGHT THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TEN DOLLARS.

OTHER ADJUSTMENTS END UP IN A NET DECREASE.

REVENUE ADJUSTMENTS END UP IN A NET DECREASE OF 105,620.

THE FIRST BEING A DECREASE TO NUISANCE ABATEMENT FINES AND FEES OF ONE THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED SEVENTEEN DOLLARS.

WE HAD FIVE THOUSAND ESTIMATE IN PROPOSED BUDGET, AND THAT ALIGNS WITH THE ASSESSMENT RESOLUTION THAT YOU JUST PASSED.

THE BROWARD COUNTY MASS TRANSIT REVENUE IS GOING TO INCREASE EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS, PER THE RECENT ILA AMENDMENT THAT WAS BROUGHT TO THE COMMISSION, I BELIEVE IT WAS AT THE LAST MEETING IN AUGUST THAT YOU ACTED ON THAT AND PARKS AND REC WANTED TO INCREASE THAT REVENUE LINE ITEM.

BASED ON THAT ILA AMENDMENT, THEY ASKED ME TO DO AN INCREASE OF EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS.

AND JUST TO BALANCE EVERYTHING OUT TO A NET INCREASE OF ZERO FOR ALL THE CHANGES, THE APPROPRIATION FROM FUND BALANCE COMES DOWN ONE HUNDRED TWELVE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED THREE DOLLARS. WHICH IS GOOD.

SOME OF THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT ARE BUILT INTO THE REVENUE PROJECTIONS FOR THE GENERAL FUND REVENUES. THE CURRENT ESTIMATES ARE ASSUMING ALL REVENUES FROM PARKS PROGRAMS INCREASE MODESTLY ACROSS THE BOARD.

THAT'S WHAT WE HAD IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

BUT NOW, AS YOU KNOW, THE DELTA VARIANT HAS SURFACED.

THERE'S BEEN ANNOUNCEMENTS OF NEW CANCELATIONS AND POSTPONEMENTS.

SO ACTUALLY, WHAT'S GOING TO ACTUALLY POSSIBLY HAPPEN IN 2022 FOR REVENUES COLLECTED IN COMPARISON TO WHAT WE HAVE IN THE BUDGET, THEY MAY FALL SHORT BECAUSE WE ARE HAVING MORE CLOSURES AND MORE POSTPONEMENTS.

BUT WE CAN CROSS THAT BRIDGE WHEN WE COME TO IT.

SO FOR NOW, WE LEFT THE PROPOSED REVENUES FOR PARKS AND PARKS PROGRAMS AND INCREASING MODERATELY ACROSS THE BOARD IN HOPES THAT IN 2022, THEY CAN GO BACK TO SOME IN-PERSON CLASSES AND RAMP UP IN FREQUENCY OF THE EVENTS THAT'S IN THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS.

THAT WOULD BE THE HOPE.

WELL, LET'S HOPE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS.

OH, AS FAR AS GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURE DETAIL, THE FIRST CHANGE IS, AND I MENTIONED THIS EARLIER, IS ZEROING OUT THE CITY COMMISSION COLLECTIVE TRAVEL BUDGET.

THAT HIT ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED AND EXCHANGING THAT FOR $50000, $10000 EACH BE BUDGETED IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL ACCOUNTS.

THAT WAS THE DIRECTION GIVEN TO STAFF BY COMMISSION AT THE JULY BUDGET WORKSHOP.

SO THAT'S ONE OF THE CHANGES IN THE GENERAL FUND.

THAT'S A DECREASE IN NET DECREASE OF SIXTY FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS.

THEN WE LEARNED I WAS INFORMED BY THE CITY CLERK THAT REDISTRICTING THAT WAS BUDGETED FOR 2021 WAS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN AND THEY NEEDED TO BUDGET FOR THAT AGAIN IN 2022.

SO WE'RE ADDING TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THE CITY CLERK'S BUDGET FOR REDISTRICTING IN 2022.

THE POLICE, VSO BUDGET AND PUBLIC SERVICES GOT TOGETHER AND DECIDED THERE WAS AN ITEM IN THEIR BUDGET THAT PUBLIC SERVICES COULD ACTUALLY DO THE WORK FOR, AND IT MADE MORE SENSE FOR THEM TO DO THE WORK BECAUSE.

THEY'RE BETTER EQUIPPED TO DO IT, AND THEY IT'S A CITY, IT'S TECHNICALLY A CITY FACILITY, SO 70000 OF WORK THAT'S PLANNED FOR BSO'S FACILITY IS BEING TAKEN OUT OF THE POLICE BUDGET SHIFTED OVER TO THE PUBLIC SERVICES BUDGET.

SO YOU HAVE A DECREASE IN THE POLICE BUDGET OF SEVENTY THOUSAND.

YOU HAVE AN INCREASE IN PUBLIC SERVICES FACILITY MANAGEMENT OF SEVENTY THOUSAND.

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AND WE HAVE A DECREASE RESULTING FROM IT'S A NET DECREASE OF FIFTY THOUSAND AND THAT RESULTS FROM ELIMINATING THE HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH EVENT AT A COST OF SEVENTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS AND INCREASING THEIR BUDGET FOR THE COST OF REPLACING FOUR PUMPS AT THE AQUATIC CENTER IN BETWEEN NOW AND THE PROPOSED BUDGET, PARKS AND RECS GOT AN ADJUSTED ESTIMATE FROM THE SUPPLIER OF THOSE PUMPS.

AND NO SURPRISE BECAUSE OF INFLATION IN THE COST OF PRODUCING THINGS AND THE COST OF MATERIALS. THE COST OF THOSE PUMPS IS GOING UP BY TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS, SO WE HAD INCREASED OUR BUDGET BY TWENTY EIGHT THOUSAND TO ADDRESS THAT.

LAST, WE HAVE THE NON-DEPARTMENTAL DEPARTMENT.

WE'RE ACTUALLY INCREASING THE CONTINGENCY NINETY FOUR THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED TO BALANCE EVERYTHING OUT TO A ZERO CHANGE IN THE GENERAL FUND.

THAT'S JUST AN ADJUSTMENT TO END UP WITH A ZERO CHANGE WHEN YOU COMPARE REVENUES TO EXPENSES. WHEN YOU NET OUT ALL THE EXPENSES AND ALL THE INCREASE IN DECREASES, YOU'RE ACTUALLY AT NINETY FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS MORE YOU WERE ABLE TO ADD TO CONTINGENCY, WHICH AGAIN, WITH WHAT WE WHAT WE KNOW THAT'S HAPPENING WITH INFLATION AND OTHER THINGS THAT THE CITY IS AWARE OF AS FAR AS NEW UNION CONTRACTS BEING NEGOTIATED.

IT'S A GOOD CUSHION TO HAVE IN THE CONTINGENCY GOING INTO FISCAL YEAR 2022.

AND I MENTIONED EARLIER THE SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS THAT CHANGE THERE IS AN INCREASE OF ONE SIXTY ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED TWELVE, AND THAT'S AS A RESULT OF REVISED SHIP FUNDING ALLOCATION ESTIMATE.

GOOD NEWS FOR THE CITY.

AND THE UTILITIES OPERATING FUND, WHERE WE HAVE AN INCREASE OF ONE, FORTY TWO THOUSAND ONE FIFTY. AND AGAIN, THAT'S THAT RISK AND RESILIENCY STUDY THAT UTILITIES DID AND THE INDIVIDUAL ITEMS THAT WERE RECOMMENDED TO MITIGATE RISK.

AND THE COLONY, THE INDIVIDUAL CHANGES TO THE COLONY WEST BUDGET AS A RESULT OF RECEIVING THEIR BUDGET FROM THEM WERE INCREASING EXPENSES AND OPERATING EXPENSES.

EIGHT HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THOUSAND SIX NINETY FOUR AND INCREASING CONTINGENCIES.

ELEVEN THOUSAND NINETEEN, THAT'S AS A RESULT OF BEING ABLE TO INCREASE REVENUES.

EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY ONE THOUSAND SEVEN THIRTEEN OPERATING REVENUE IS INCREASING BECAUSE COLONY WEST IS OPEN.

AND LASTLY, WE HAVE WHEN YOU ADOPT THE BUDGET, YOU ALSO ADOPT THE FINANCIAL POLICIES AND ANY CHANGES THAT ARE BEING MADE TO THE FINANCIAL POLICIES.

WHAT WE'RE CHANGING IN THE FINANCIAL POLICIES AND THAT'S THAT'S ONE OF YOUR EXHIBITS FOR THE ORDINANCE THAT'S EXHIBIT B.

YOU'LL SEE THAT THE RESERVES ARE UPDATED FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 THROUGH 2024.

AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THE RESERVES IS WE'RE REFLECTING A GRADUAL REDUCTION TO THE DEDICATED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RESERVE BASED ON ANTICIPATED DRAWDOWNS TO THAT RESERVE.

SO WE'VE BEEN TOLD THAT THERE'S GOING TO BE A NEED FOR ABOUT A MILLION AND A HALF DOLLARS IN 2022.

SO WHAT WE DID IS WE REDUCED THE RESERVE GOING INTO 2023 BY A MILLION AND A HALF AND WE WERE TOLD THAT ANOTHER ANOTHER MILLION AND A HALF COULD POTENTIALLY BE NEEDED IN 2023.

THIS IS FOR SOME OF THE INCENTIVE PROGRAMS THAT THE CONSULTANT CAME OUT WITH AND RECOMMENDED. AND I BELIEVE THERE MIGHT BE A DESIRE TO DO AN ACQUISITION, A LAND ACQUISITION OR SOME TYPE OF LAND ASSEMBLY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN 2022.

SO THAT'S PART OF THAT ONE FIVE TWO.

SO IF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT RESERVE IS NOT A REPLENISHING RESERVE, IT WAS ESTABLISHED AS A ONE TIME RESERVE AND IT WOULD IT WOULD BE REDUCED AS THE MONEY WAS USED.

SO THAT'S WHY YOU'RE SEEING A REDUCTION IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

RESERVE'S GRADUAL REDUCTION FROM FIVE MILLION, GRADUALLY DOWN TO TWO MILLION BY 2024.

AT THE CONCLUSION OF THE PUBLIC HEARING TONIGHT FOR THIS TEMPORARY ORDINANCE, THE CITY COMMISSION MUST ADOPT A TENTATIVE BUDGET.

AGAIN, ESSENTIALLY THE TENTATIVE BUDGET NOW.

THE EXHIBIT A WILL BE AMENDED.

TO SHOW AND REFLECT A BUDGET THAT ACCOUNTS FOR THE REDUCTION TO THE MILLAGE RATE.

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THE GENERAL FUND WILL BE REDUCED BY AT LEAST FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED EIGHTY FIVE DOLLARS. WELL, IN THE FINAL PUBLIC HEARING ON THAT BUDGET WILL BE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 AT 5:05.

THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION, AND CHRISTINE AND I ARE HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU.

COMMISSIONER GELIN. YOU DON'T HAVE TO REMIND ME OF THE TIME, I KNOW WHAT THE TIME LIMIT IS.

BUDGET DIRECTOR WAS THIS BUDGET COMPLETED BEFORE OR AFTER THE TERMINATION OF THE CITY MANAGER? THIS BUDGET WAS COMPLETED BEFORE THE TERMINATION.

OK, SO YOU WERE SAYING THAT WE HAVE TO ADJUST THE BUDGET TO REFLECT THE 450000 [INAUDIBLE] DECREASE RIGHT? FOUR HUNDRED FIVE THOUSAND FIVE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FIVE DOLLARS.

YEAH, 405,585, THE CITY MANAGER, HE WAS SCHEDULED TO MAKE 502,937 THIS YEAR AND WITH HIM BEING TERMINATED WITH A SALARY OF FORTY ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED ELEVEN DOLLARS PER MONTH, TIMES FOUR MONTHS, FACTORING SEPTEMBER THROUGH DECEMBER, THAT'S ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS.

AND THEN WITHOUT HIM BEING HERE FOR 2022 HE'S SCHEDULED TO MAKE $520,251 IN 2022.

THAT SALARY HAS GONE ALSO.

SO ISN'T THE FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND FIVE EIGHTY FIVE ALREADY ACCOUNTED FOR, WITH THE CITY MANAGER BEING TERMINATED.

COMMISSIONER GELIN, BECAUSE THE POSITION IS FILLED WITH AN INTERIM CITY MANAGER, THERE WILL BE SALARIES AND BENEFITS PAYABLE IN THAT POSITION BECAUSE THE POSITION IS NOT FILLED . RIGHT, BUT WOULD YOU NEED DIRECTION FROM THE COMMISSION IN TERMS OF WHAT TO BUDGET FOR? WELL CURRENTLY WE WERE BUDGETING AT THE RATE.

BUT DEPENDING ON WHAT THE CONTRACT IS WITH THE NEW COMMISSIONER, THE NEW CITY MANAGER WILL STILL NEED THE BUDGET FOR THAT POSITION.

OK, BUT WHILE IT'S BEING UNFILLED WHERE WE'RE SAVING ESSENTIALLY $42000 A MONTH? WE DO HAVE AN INTERIM.

CORRECT, BUT WE ALSO HAVE A VACANCY.

WE HAVE AN INTERIM AND WE ALSO HAVE AN INTERIM, INTERIM ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, YES, BUT AS OF THE DAY THAT THE CITY MANAGER IS NO LONGER HERE, WE'RE DOWN ONE EMPLOYEE, CORRECT? DO YOU WANT TO ANSWER THAT [INAUDIBLE]? I THINK THE, I MEAN, YES, I WOULD SAY WE'RE DOWN ONE EMPLOYEE RIGHT NOW.

SO THERE IS A SAVING SOMEWHERE, RIGHT? YEAH, BUT IT'S NOT, IT MAY NOT BE AS MUCH AS FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND MS. GUNN IS NOW ACTING AS THE CITY MANAGER.

RIGHT. ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER'S POSITION HAS NOW BEEN FILLED BY AN INTERIM BY CHIEF SALES. CORRECT.

AND CHIEF ANNISE HAS NOW TAKEN UP THE ROLE AS FIRE CHIEF.

AND THEN IT GOES DOWN THE LINE WHERE IT'S RIGHT.

IT'S BEEN BACKFILLED. OK.

OK, THAT'S FINE, THANK YOU.

AND ANOTHER QUESTION, SO WE TALK ABOUT WHAT'S BEING BUDGETED DURING THE YEAR OF THE PANDEMIC, THERE WAS NOT A LOT OF ACTIVITY GOING ON.

THE CITY DIDN'T, THE COMMISSION DIDN'T TRAVEL.

MANY STAFF MEMBERS DID NOT TRAVEL.

HOW MUCH MONEY DID WE SAVE BY THE LIMITED ACTIVITY THAT WE HAD DURING THE PANDEMIC? IF YOU NOTICED IN 2020, WE STILL HAD EXPENDITURES THAT WAS ABOUT TO MEMORY SERVICE, A LITTLE OVER TWO MILLION DOLLARS MORE THAN THE REVENUE THAT WE GENERATED BECAUSE WE HAD A DRASTIC SHIFT IN THE REVENUE THAT WE COLLECTED VERSUS OUR EXPENDITURE, WE STILL CONTINUE TO OPERATE.

BUT SAY OUR HOUSING SALES TAX WAS CUT IN HALF.

WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY PARKS REVENUE, BUT WE STILL HAD TO CONTINUE OPERATIONS.

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SO THAT'S WHY WE ALWAYS SAY THE BUDGET IS A PLAN OF ACTION.

SO YOU HAVE YOUR EXPENDITURES THAT YOU BUDGET FOR, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY MONEY.

IT'S JUST AN ALLOCATION, RIGHT? SO DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH REVENUE YOU COLLECT, YOU'RE ABLE TO FUND THOSE ACTIVITIES.

SO WE HAD TO SIT DOWN AND WE HAD TO DO OUR AUSTERITY MEASURES.

WE HAD TO CUT BACK ON TRAVEL.

YOU KNOW, WE CUT OVERTIME.

WE DID QUITE QUITE A NUMBER OF MEASURES TO KEEP EXPENDITURES DOWN.

BUT EVEN DOING THAT, OUR EXPENDITURES STILL EXCEEDED THE REVENUES THAT WE COLLECTED.

OK, AND THEN REVENUES WE EXPECT TO GET FROM NEW BUSINESSES LIKE AMAZON.

HAVE WE CALCULATED THAT TAX REVENUE? UM, NO.

OK, THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER BOLTON, WILL MS. CAJUSTE, WILL MS. GUNN BE ASSUMING THE SALARY FOR MICHAEL CERNECH? THAT'S I BELIEVE IT'S OUT OF THE QUESTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION.

OK, SO IT WOULD BE SAFE TO SAY THAT IF SHE IS NOT GOING TO ASSUME THE SAME SALARY AND BENEFITS, THEN THERE'S A SAVINGS THERE.

PLUS THERE'S A SAVINGS DOWN THE LINE AFTER ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE MOVE UP.

CERTAINLY, IF HER SALARY IS LOWER, THERE WILL BE SOME SAVINGS.

OKAY, SO THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT IN THE BUDGET.

AND I THINK THAT IS THE THE POINT THAT COMMISSIONER GELIN WAS TRYING TO MAKE.

OK. SECONDLY, IN THE WORKSHOP THAT WE TALKED ABOUT TRAVEL, DO YOU RECALL THAT THE CITY MANAGER CAME UP WITH ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN THOUSAND OF TRAVEL? AND THEN I SAID TO HIM, THAT NUMBER WAS RIDICULOUS.

AND PRETTY MUCH DEMANDED THAT HE WE DISCUSSED IT AND REDUCE IT AT THAT WORKSHOP TO $50000. I DON'T SPECIFICALLY REMEMBER THE DISCUSSION, BUT I DO RECALL US BEING DIRECTED TO REDUCE THE TRAVEL FOR THE CITY COMMISSION BECAUSE YOU HAD A NUMBER OF ITEMS IN THERE, INCLUDING SISTER CITY TRAVEL AND SOME OTHER THINGS THAT THE COMMISSION THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, WITH THE PANDEMIC THAT YOU DID NOT NEED.

SO YOU DIRECTED US TO REDUCE THE TRAVEL TO TEN THOUSAND.

DOES ANY MEMBER OF THE CITY COMMISSION RECALL THAT HAPPENING? COMMISSIONER BOLTON, THE PURPOSE OF THE POLLING IS FOR WHAT? RECLAIMING MY TIME.

WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE BUDGET WAS...

RECLAIMING MY TIME. I HAVE THAT RECOLLECTION.

THANK YOU. YOU'VE GOT ONE PERSON SAYING THE ANSWER YOU'RE WISHING FOR.

OK. PLEASE. DO YOU RECALL AS WELL COMMISSIONER PLACKO? I DO. OK.

I LOOKED AT THE, DO YOU RECALL VICE MAYOR? YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO.

I CAN ANSWER, NO I DON'T.

OK, SO AT LEAST TWO PEOPLE PAY ATTENTION IN THE MEETINGS, BUT THE MINUTES REFLECT THAT COMMISSIONER GELIN AND I DISSENTED.

I SAW THE MINUTES JUST TODAY, MADAM CLERK, THROUGH THE CHAIR, CAN YOU CLARIFY WHAT, WHY THAT IS? IF I MAY THIS PLACE, YOU CAN STOP THE CLOCK, SO HE DOESN'T.

I READ THROUGH THE TRANSCRIPT AS WELL.

COMMISSIONER GELIN WAS NOT COMMISSIONER GELIN AND YOU WERE NOT IN FAVOR OF THE INDIVIDUALIZED ACCOUNTS, BUT THE CONSENSUS OF THE COMMISSION WAS TO LOWER IT TO $50000 TOTAL BETWEEN THE FIVE OF YOU.

OK, SO DO YOU RECALL ME TELLING THE CITY MANAGER THAT ONE HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS WAS WAS RIDICULOUS TOO MUCH AND THAT WE NEEDED TO REDUCE IT BACK TO $50000? IF I MAY, MADAM MAYOR.

IF YOU LIKE. THAT WAS THE INITIAL START OF THE CONVERSATION.

SO YOU DO REMEMBER ME ASKING THAT? YES, IT WAS THE INITIAL START OF THE CONVERSATION FOR THE TRAVEL BUDGET.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR PAYING ATTENTION.

ALL RIGHT. THAT'S IT.

ROUND OF APPLAUSE.

COMMISSIONER GELIN YOUR SECOND.

ARE YOU DONE OK? SO AT THIS POINT, GOING TO NOW OPEN IT UP, IT IS PUBLIC HEARING ON TEMPORARY ORDINANCE

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YOUR NAME IN THE STATE CITY WHERE YOU LIVE, PLEASE.

HELLO, MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS, NICOLE BASHUE, DISTRICT FOUR OF TAMARAC.

A MONTH AGO, I TOTALLY THOUGHT THAT THIS MEETING WAS GOING TO BE EDUCATIONAL FOR ME, THAT I WOULD HAPPILY SIT IN THE BACK AND LISTEN TO THE COMMENTS OF OTHERS AND WATCH THE PRESENTATIONS FROM CITY STAFF AND LEARN WITHOUT NEED TO COMMENT MYSELF.

AUGUST 31, THOUGH, THE COMMISSION DECIDED TO STRAY FROM THE LEADERSHIP OF THE MAYOR AND FIRE MICHAEL CERNECH WITH CAUSE, THE MAYOR OFFERED THE MORE PRUDENT COURSE OF SUSPENSION WITHOUT PAY A CHOICE I THOUGHT ALL OF YOU WOULD MAKE.

INSTEAD, YOU GRANDSTANDED AND SHOUTED, I TOLD YOU SO AND DECLARED A MAN GUILTY AS IF YOU WERE JUDGE, JURY AND EXECUTIONER.

YOU COMMISSIONERS DECIDED TO WRITE A BLANK CHECK NOT ONLY TO OUR LAWYERS, BUT TO MR. CERNECH AS WELL.

TODAY, WE DO NOT KNOW IF YOUR CHOICE WILL COST US TWO HUNDRED THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND OR MORE.

I DO NOT KNOW HOW MUCH OF A BUFFER WAS PUT INTO THE BUDGET THIS YEAR FOR LEGAL FEES, BUT I KNOW THAT IT WAS WRITTEN BEFORE THE WHOLE DEBACLE UNFOLDED AND AS SUCH FEEL THAT USE THE COMMISSION CANNOT IN GOOD FAITH PASS THIS BUDGET WITHOUT ADDRESSING THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. AND YOU GUYS JUST VOTED TO REMOVE 400000 FROM THE BUDGET IN ITS ENTIRETY, 400000 THAT I WOULD HAVE PREFERRED TO BE SET ASIDE FOR THIS ISSUE.

THE CITIZENS OF THE CITY NOR ANY OF ITS EMPLOYEES SHOULD BE PUNISHED BECAUSE YOU CHOSE THE LEAST FINANCIALLY RESPONSIBLE OPTION.

IT SHOULD BE YOUR PERKS WHICH YOU JUST CUT THAT ARE SACRIFICED TO THE FUND TO HELP COVER THE UNKNOWN COSTS FOR THIS LEGAL BATTLE.

MR. CERNECH MAY WALK FREE, GUILTY PEOPLE WALK WITHOUT CONVICTION MORE OFTEN THAN ANY OF US WOULD WANT. I AM HERE IN THIS HALL BECAUSE I DID NOT.

I WAS HERE IN THIS HALL, LAST ON THE 31ST AND DID NOT SPEAK UP AT THE TIME BECAUSE I DID NOT KNOW HOW YOU WERE GOING TO VOTE.

IF I HAD KNOWN AND THERE HAD BEEN THE ABILITY TO SPEAK BETWEEN THE END OF YOUR DEBATE BEFORE THE VOTE, I WOULD HAVE STOOD UP AND CALLED YOU ALL FOOLS THEN.

I SUGGEST YOU CONSIDER CHANGING YOUR FORMAT IN THE FUTURE FOR IMPORTANT TOPICS LIKE THIS SO THAT THE VOICES OF THE PEOPLE CAN BE HEARD.

YOU DID SO FOR THE SPORTS COMPLEX, SO THERE IS PRECEDENCE.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MS. DARCY SHILLER.

MR. BOLTON, THE SOBRIETY OF JUDGMENT USED TONIGHT ACTUALLY WAS WELL RECEIVED, AN ASTONISHING WHEN YOU SAID THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE SALARIES OF YOUR COMMISSIONERS REDUCED, AND I THINK THAT'S ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL.

IF EVERYBODY TOOK A REDUCTION IN $25000, THAT WOULD SAVE ANYWHERE FROM ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND AND I SAY ONE HUNDRED TO ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE BECAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING IS FROM WHAT I SEE, THE MAYOR IS THE ONLY ONE WHO WORKS FULL TIME.

THE INITIATIVE, WHICH IS TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS EACH YEAR, HAS GONE BY.

IT WAS THREE THOUSAND AND 5000.

I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT REDUCED BY TWENTY THOUSAND EACH.

THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER HUNDRED THOUSAND MR. GELIN. IF YOU'RE DOING YOUR MATH, THAT WOULD BE 200 TO TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND MR. GELIN. I THINK THAT YOU WOULD DO VERY WELL BEING A WALMART EXECUTIVE BECAUSE YOU LIKE TO PAY OFF THE EXECUTIVES WHILE TAKING MONEY FROM ITS EMPLOYEES.

I THINK IT'S APPALLING THAT YOU WOULD EVEN CONSIDER TAKING MONEY FROM THE EMPLOYEES OF THE CITY AT TAMARAC AND CUT THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE AND THEIR PENSION WHEN THEY BECOME A SENIOR CITIZEN.

SOCIAL SECURITY MAY NOT EXIST, SO THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOU TAKE THE HIGH ROAD AND HAVE A CUT IN SALARY BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SAYS SEVERAL YEARS AGO, THIS IS A FULL TIME JOB AND I HAVE YET TO SEE YOU DO ANYTHING OTHER THAN GO TO THE COMMISSION MEETINGS AND DON'T TELL ME YOU'RE OUT THERE IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE I'M OUT IN THE COMMUNITY AND I DON'T SEE YOU ANYWHERE.

SAME GOES TO YOU, MR. BOLTON. BUT YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING TO STAND ON THE HIGH ROAD AND I COMMEND YOU TO REDUCE SALARIES AND CAR INSURANCE, NOT CAR INSURANCE, BUT TRAVEL PAYMENT FROM SEVEN HUNDRED DOLLARS A MONTH DOWN TO MAYBE FIVE HUNDRED.

REDUCE YOUR PHONE PAYMENTS THAT MIGHT SAVE ANOTHER EIGHT THOUSAND FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS, THE JUNETEENTH THE CARIBBEAN DAY, THE BLACK HISTORY MONTH.

THAT'S TWO HUNDRED TWENTY FIVE DOLLARS RIGHT OFF THE GELIN IF YOU'RE DOING YOUR ARITHMETIC. TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE PLUS ANOTHER TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE, I

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THERE IT IS, FOLKS.

THERE'S YOUR FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND.

I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE COMMISSIONERS IN LINE WITH ALL THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS IN THIS COUNTY.

EARN A SALARY THAT'S COMMENSURATE TO YOUR JOB, NOT EARNED $50000 TO COME TO A MEETING TWICE A MONTH.

AND YOU KNOW, I KNOW SOME OF YOU DO A LOT OF COMMUNITY WORK, AND FOR THAT, I COMMEND YOU.

BUT MR. GELIN AND MR. BOLTON, I'D LIKE TO SEE WHERE YOU'RE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY BECAUSE I DON'T SEE IT.

I SAW ONE BIKE RIDE AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DO.

SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MONIES, YOU KNOW, ALLOCATED IN A DIFFERENT WAY.

AND MR. GELIN, YOU SAY THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS TO CUT COSTS.

WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? LET'S SEE. YOU DO IT ON YOUR SALARY.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

IS THERE ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WHO DID NOT SIGN UP THAT WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS MATTER, SAYING THAT THERE'S NOBODY ELSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS PUBLIC HEARING ON TEMPORARY ORDINANCE NUMBER TWO FOUR EIGHT ONE IS NOW CLOSED.

I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO SET THE OPERATING BUDGET, CAPITAL BUDGET AND FINANCIAL POLICIES FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022, WITH THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WILL BE CUTS.

I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEEDED TO BE WORKING ON THOSE PRIOR OR HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO DO THIS MS. CAJUSTE? AT THE PROPOSED SEVEN POINT TWO 00, THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET WILL BE REDUCED FROM SEVEN TO ONE MILLION SEVEN NINE TO FOUR THREE SIXTY EIGHT AND WEAR MY GLASSES IS TO SEVEN TO ONE MILLION THREE EIGHT EIGHT EIGHT HUNDRED ONE.

THE TOTAL BUDGET WILL BE REDUCED FROM TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE MILLION THREE EIGHT FIVE ZERO ONE ZERO TO TWO TWENTY NINE SEVEN TO NINE FOR TWENTY FIVE.

THANK YOU. SO I NEED A MOTION AND A SECOND, PLEASE.

SO MOVE.

SECOND.

I'VE GOT A MOTION BY THE VICE MAYOR, I'VE GOT A SECOND BY COMMISSIONER PLACKO.

JUST A CLARIFICATION MADAM MAYOR DID MS. CAJUSTE SAY THAT SHE ALREADY REDUCED THE BUDGET BASED ON THIS MILLAGE RATE OF 7.200 YES.

AS AMENDED, CORRECT.

THAT'S WHAT SHE BASICALLY JUST READ THROUGH.

SHE READ THROUGH THE NEW NUMBERS AS IF IT WAS ON SEVEN POINT TWO ZERO ZERO.

MS. CAJUSTE. MY WORD IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, PLEASE CONFIRM.

DEFINITELY NOT. OF COURSE.

PLEASE CONFIRM. YES, THE SPECIFIC ITEMS AND THAT HAS GOING TO BE CUT OUT OF THE BUDGET HAS NOT YET BEEN DETERMINED.

HOWEVER, YOUR TOTAL BUDGET WILL BE REDUCED BY FOUR OR FIVE FOUR EIGHTY FIVE TO ACCOMMODATE THE 7.200 MILLS.

SO THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET THAT YOU....

I'M SORRY, I GOT DISTRACTED BY MS. DARCY SCHILLER WALKING UP AND DOWN THE CHAMBERS.

I DON'T THINK WE HAVE A MAYOR THAT UNDERSTANDS DECORUM IN THE ROOM.

COMMISSIONER BOLTON, YOU ARE OUT OF LINE.

OK. BUT HE COULD NOT HEAR YOU.

PLEASE REPEAT IT. OK? I WAS SAYING THAT THE SPECIFIC LINE ITEMS HAVE NOT YET BEEN REMOVED.

HOWEVER, TONIGHT YOU ARE YOUR PROVIDING YOUR APPROVAL AT THE 7.2000 MILLS FOR A GENERAL FUND BUDGET OF SEVEN TO ONE MILLION THREE EIGHT EIGHT EIGHT OH ONE, WHICH IS FOUR HUNDRED AND FIVE THOUSAND FOUR EIGHTY FIVE LESS THAN THE ORIGINAL PROPOSED BUDGET OF SEVEN TO ONE MILLION SEVEN NINE TWO FOUR THREE EIGHT SIX, WHICH WAS AT THE SEVEN POINT TWO EIGHT NINE NINE MILLS. OK, THAT WAS WELL SAID AND IT CLARIFIED MORE THAN THE MAYOR COULD.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS MATTER, COMMISSIONER PLACKO, ARE YOU LIT? NO, OK.

PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. THANK YOU, AND FOR CLARITY, IT WAS VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS WITH THE MOTION AND COMMISSIONER PLACKO WITH THE SECOND, CORRECT THANK YOU.

MADAM MAYOR, YES, COMMISSIONER BOLTON, YES.

VICE MAYOR VILLALOBOS, YES.

COMMISSIONER GELIN, YES.

AND COMMISSIONER PLACKO, YES.

MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY FIVE TO ZERO.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING ON SETTING THE OPERATING MILLAGE RATE AND ADOPTING THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 WILL BE HELD ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2021 AT 5:05 P.M.

RIGHT HERE IN CHAMBERS.

I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE EXECUTIVE TEAM AND ALL THE STAFF THAT HAS WORKED SO HARD ON HELPING PUT THIS BUDGET TOGETHER AND THE CONTINUED WORK THAT YOU WILL BE DOING TO HELP US WITH THE COST THAT WE NEED TO REDUCE AND TO MY COLLEAGUES FOR BEING HERE THIS EVENING.

THANK YOU EVERYONE TO BE SAFE.

HAVE A GOOD NIGHT, MEETING ADJOURN.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.