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Good evening, everybody, good evening. If we could please make our way to our seats so we can begin. Thank you very much.

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Welcome, welcome, everyone, to the town of Cutler Bay's budget hearing. Today is Tuesday, September 8, 2026.

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If Mr. Town Clerk, can you please take attendance. Council Member Lord. Yeah. Council Member Duncan. Here. Council Member Marra bears. Here.

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Mayor, Mayor Callahan, Mayor Mayor Bonn.

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We have a quorum.

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Thank you, Mr. Clerk.

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If you can please rise and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which

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it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Now if you can please all remain standing, I do have a somber announcement.

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our mayor is unfortunately not here with us today.

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His father Ed Mierbott passed away this morning.

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So I would like for all of us standing to provide a moment

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of silence in his honor.

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Thank you all very much.

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Okay, so we're gonna go ahead and open up the floor

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for public comments before we get into our proclamation.

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If there's anybody in the public

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that would like to speak, please line up here.

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Mr. Clerk, do we have anybody in the queue?

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No, one in the queue.

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Okay. Thank you so much. Okay. So we're going to go ahead and move forward with our first item,

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which is a proclamation here. That's why a lot of you are here. I'll take a moment of personal

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privilege here and then I'll open it up to my fellow council. Here in the town of Cutler Bay,

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we've been incorporated for 20 years before that. We were of course Cutler Ridge and we've always

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been a community of service. We've always been a community of people that are supporting each other,

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whether it be through teachers, firefighters, police, first responders, and one of those

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individuals tragically gave his life in the line of duty on September 11, 1994, and that

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was Lieutenant Dewey Henry.

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And it was brought to my attention, and I met with Gil and some of the members here of

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the fire department of the fire union about his legacy and how you have the the Dewey scholarship

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the Dewey Henry scholarship and how that has provided so many immense opportunities for

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young individuals who have parents who have you know caregivers loved ones that that are

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in service and continue to kind of provide that type of support.

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And I thought to myself, what an amazing opportunity to honor and recognize the service and the legacy of the tenant Dewey Henry.

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He passed away, of course, September 11th, which is a date in and of itself in infamy.

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And unfortunately, because of that, it has a tendency to be overshadowed from time to time.

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But in the town of Color Bay, I wanted us to ensure that we will forever honor his legacy,

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his memory, and do so with his family and his brothers and sisters in the department.

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So that was really the onus for wanting to do this, really wanting to celebrate his life

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and his honor.

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And thank you all for coming out today to celebrate with us and to honor him as well.

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So I'll open them up to my fellow council members if they have anything.

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Council member lord.

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Thank you.

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Um, I was so pleased that we were actually going to do this proclamation today.

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One, it is the week of September 11th, which happens to be, unfortunately the day,

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Lieutenant Henry passed away and it's also the week that we have Patriots day and it's just a great

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time for us to finally recognize his service to us, right?

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In preparation for that, first I put out the invitation to everybody, please come, you

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know, please honor this gentleman who gave the ultimate sacrifice to our community.

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But I also remembered some statistics that I think are super important.

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I knew that we would have a lot of people here.

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So I went back and I pulled the annual report that Chief Gidala presented to us in February

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of this year.

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And I think it's important that we recognize how lucky Colour Bay is to have the fire

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individuals working in town that we have.

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One of the comments was that we have a response time that's below industry standards here in

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Colour Bay in the year prior to the report.

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there are 777 businesses that were inspected by the fire department. And that's significant

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because that's 177 businesses that our residents go to or maybe work at. And so I was really pleased

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to see that, but mostly I was in plea, please, because I recognize most of you from the community.

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And we have such a good partnership that in January of 2025, the fire department brought one of their

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trucks to color based senior high to do demonstrations so you know I'm highlighting here the amazing

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relationship that we have with the fire department largely because I'm the proud daughter of a

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first responder right my father was career military police there were many nights we didn't know

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if he was going to come home I was pleased and pleased to say he always did but our first responders

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most of you here, you guys are the backbone to our emergency services.

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Lieutenant Henry was the backbone to our emergency services.

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And for that, I want to thank you all for letting me take a few minutes of your time

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for allowing me to recognize Lieutenant Henry, but also to recognize you guys.

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So thank you.

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Thank you, Councilmember Lord.

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One point before we move on to Councilmember Ramirez, we do have our state representative

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and former firefighter Omar Blanco in the house.

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Thank you for attending.

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Council Member Mera's.

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Council Member Duncan.

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Let me just clarify real quick.

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Our representative hasn't retired yet.

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We're not going to, we're going to,

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not going to let it retire for a long time from the department and also from the

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house and appreciate you showing up and then being here and I always like talking to you.

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I want to say, obviously the incident was, was horrible.

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But I do have to, I reached out to the crew, rain Rogers, Al Phillips, Shane Dawson, and Lieutenant

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Dewey Henry. Why didn't reach out to him? But I mean, in his honor. And never did get

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a response from Wayne. Al was supposed to be here. He got tied up in his travels. So he

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will not be here tonight. He did say that he would be able to make the thing tomorrow.

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34 for our firefighter reunion which I love and I can't wait to that but then I did get to speak

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to Shane Dawson and and I think it's important to recognize the crew okay because it affected

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the people that are there a lot but it also affected this department and it changed the way

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some sometimes how we do things and sometimes it's a bad accident that actually makes this more safe

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in the long run down the road.

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Dewey was a firefighter's firefighter, you know, I did not get a chance to ever work with

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him, but I did have a relationship with his daughter forever.

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I've known Celeste God back when I was handsome, which was way back decades ago, but Celeste

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and I have been family friends for a long time and I appreciate you actually taking the

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making the effort to get down here because I know it wasn't easy for you to do.

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She had some friends that had some medical issues that came up unexpectedly.

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So for her to be here was just a big, a big squeeze on my heart and I absolutely

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appreciate that. All the rest of you guys coming, you know I've worked with all of

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you guys. Every single one of Jason Richards was in my fire class, you know.

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I had to help him through. Not really. The guy scored a 98 or 99 on the

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exam, which nobody does, but the guy's awesome, so he's a second in charge.

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We'll mind me if I arrest him. Appreciate it. Steve Durin, always good to see you.

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Our photographer, Eric Goodman, the guy's everywhere. Love him to death, so all you guys

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are in my heart. You always will be, and anytime you need me, you know, I'm a phone call

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away. So let's get this ball rolling. Thank you. Please join me on down front, and we

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would like to invite the family up as well as the family up for the proclamation and we'll

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everybody out for pictures. Thank you.

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Come this way.

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Representative Blanco, would you like to come say a few words?

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I'm here.

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And then walk around.

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Thank you.

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You got it, buddy.

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Good evening, everyone.

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As Rick Ramirez said, Councilman Ramirez said,

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and thank you all for doing this.

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I think one of the things that are important in the fire services

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is remembering those that came before us and paved the way

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and made the job safe for all of us.

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You know, I got hired after Dewey's past, but you know, the one thing I remember was,

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I went around the fire stations, and I talked to the guys who had been on for many, many

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years, and they would always talk about the brotherhood, the sister of the fire service.

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And the example they used one time was when Dewey passed, he was building a home for his family.

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And the house was under construction for some time.

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And so let's, I got you here, but what was amazing is after he passed,

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the fire family came together and put his house together for his family.

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That is the magic of what, you know, this job entails and puts together,

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is the ability for us at our very most difficult time for all of us to come together

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and to be there for one another, and I would go around and telling this story to

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stations to people about why it's important that we stick together, why we support

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work together, and one day I'm happened to be at station 52, where Celeste worked

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for many years, and I'm telling the story as Celeste is kind of sitting to my side

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and I panned over and I go, wait, Celeste, yes, of course you know this story better

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than anybody else. And she says, Omar, that story is absolutely true. She goes,

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but the real magic behind that story was they got the house done in a week.

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Am I right? You remember that? Yeah and so you know there's what I get

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chills before the funeral, right?

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Absolutely. Before I lay them to rest and all that

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else I'm sure you want to say but I just want to say it's such an honor and thank

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you Gil and everyone here the local and the department for remembering Dewey.

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very special Rick I appreciate you doing this here in the in the the town of

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color bay and everyone PJ thank you and Susie but thank you so much thank

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you for everybody who took the time to be here and God bless you Celeste and

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your beautiful family will always have doing our hearts thank you thank you okay

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so now I'll go ahead and read the proclamation that was signed by our Mayor

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Mayor Bond whereas the town of color bay honors with pride America's fallen

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fire heroes and believes it is important to preserve the memory of those who have given

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their lives in service to others.

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And whereas, on September 11th, 1994, Lieutenant Dewey F. Henry made the ultimate sacrifice

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while courageously battling a warehouse fire in South-Dade.

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And whereas, Lieutenant Henry's death is a solemn reminder of the extraordinary courage, dedication,

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and selflessness demonstrated by firefighters and emergency responders who routinely place

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their own lives at risk to protect our community. And, whereas, Lieutenant Henry served the

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Miami-Dade County Fire Rescue Department for over 30 years and was stationed at Station

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34 in Cutler Bay. And, whereas, many described him as a man's man, always ready to help, always

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keeping his men safe, always serving with honor and distinction, and always demonstrating

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and unwavering commitment to his duties.

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And whereas, Lieutenant Henry was a superman to his family,

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his firefighters, and his community,

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and shall be remembered for his courage,

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selflessness, and commitment to protecting the lives of others.

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And whereas, Lieutenant Henry is memorialized

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at the National Fallen Firefighters Memorial

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in Emmett'sburg, Maryland,

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and at the IAFF Fallen Fighters Memorial

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in Colorado Springs, Colorado,

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as well as locally at Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Station 34 in Cudder Bay, Florida,

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where a memorial was built by his fellow firefighters and,

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whereas, Lieutenant Henry's legacy lives on through the

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Dade County Association of Firefighters Charities incorporating,

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who provides the Lieutenant-Duey Henry Memorial Scholarship

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to assist the children of Metro-Dade firefighters

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local 14-03 charity members, and,

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Whereas, the town recognizes the profound sacrifice made by Lieutenant Henry, and extends

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its deepest respect and gratitude to his family, fellow fighter fighters, colleagues,

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and all who continue to honor his memory.

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Now therefore, be it resolved that our Mayor Tim Mirbat, Mayor of the town of Cutler Bay,

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by virtue of the authority vested in Him and on the

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Name the week of September 7th, 2026. Lieutenant Dewey Henry Weak. Thank you.

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Ladies and gentlemen, ladies and gentlemen, if we can, one last thing, one last thing before we move on to our actual budget hearing, as soon as they take the picture here, we'll have Mrs. Dewey Henry provide a few remarks.

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I prepared this but I just, actually, everything in the plop curation, it says everything there,

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Here goes.

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I'm just going to say, you know, good evening, everyone.

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I want to begin by thanking all of you for being here tonight and continuing to remember

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and honor my dad, Dewey Henry.

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My dad was a fireman's firefighter, and he dedicated his life to serving others.

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His ultimate, he ultimately gave his life while fighting a warehouse fire, and losing him

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was something that changed our family forever.

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And there is not a day that goes by that we do not carry his memory with us.

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I became a firefighter in fallad in his footsteps, becoming a firefighter gave me a way to

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personally honor him and continue the legacy that he left behind.

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One of the hardest things about Dad is knowing that he didn't get to come home that day.

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But something important came from his sacrifice which has taught firefighters of valuable lessons

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of the dangers of entering a burning building, how important it is to make sure that the building

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is safe before upon entering the entry. His death wasn't in vain. Others learned from

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what happened to him, and those lessons have helped to make the fire service safer. This

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is something our family is very proud of. I have been retired now for seven years, so

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standing here tonight and seeing that my dad is still remembered after all these years

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means more to my family and to me than any words that I can really put together.

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One of the things that means so much to my family is the Dui Henry Scholarship,

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knowing that his name continues to help students go to college and pursue their dreams

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and is an incredible tribute to the kind of legacy he left behind.

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It is a comfort to know that his sacrifice has not been forgotten,

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not just by our family but by the community and the firefighters who continue to learn his story.

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Thank you for not forever forgetting Lieutenant Dewey Henry, our dad.

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I thought you said you missed another part.

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you all very much. That was very very touching, very moving and thank you for being able to

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to join us this evening in honoring the legacy of Lieutenant Dewey Henry.

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With that being said, we will go ahead and proceed with our scheduled budget hearing.

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If you don't have to stay for that, of course, this is...

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So, thank you all very much, please get home safely.

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Thank you, guys.

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Stay safe.

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Okay.

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Thank you all.

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We're going to go ahead and proceed with our public hearing on the budget.

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So for that, I would like to request our town clerk to please read the titles of resolutions 11 a and 11 b together item

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11 a

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A resolution of the mayor and the town council of the town of Ketler Bay, Florida adopting the proposed milled rate of the town of Ketler Bay for the fiscal year commencing October 1st, 2026 through September 30th, 2027, and pursuant to section 200.065 Florida statutes and providing for an effective date.

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11-V. A resolution of the mayor in the town council of the town of Kentler Bay, Florida adopting the tentative operating a capital outlay budget for the fiscal year commencing October 1st, 2026 through September 30th, 2027.

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and pursuant to section 200.065 Florida statutes authorizing the town manager to make expenditures

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consistent therewith and authorizing the town manager to make certain budget amendments

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within an apartment provided that the total amount of the appropriations is not changed

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and provided for effective date.

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Okay.

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Thank you very much.

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Is Robert on the line?

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I would like if we can.

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If he's on the line, let's have Robert read the proposed trim statement, please.

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Okay, the proposed milled rate of the town of Clevver Bay from fiscal year 2026-27 of $2.9143

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mills per $1,000 of assessed property value within the town of Clevver Bay is 10% greater than

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the rollback rate of $2.6494 mills per $1,000 of assessed property value. Addvalorm taxes are

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are being increased primarily to provide for operating expenditures required to maintain

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current levels of resident services, including police services, reflecting the increases

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in those costs due to current economic conditions and inflationary trends that are anticipated

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to continue in the upcoming fiscal year and for police services, reflecting negotiated union

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contract costs. Additionally, provision is being made for anticipated election costs, including

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for any runoff and or special elections and for increased debt service costs related to

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financing for the Legacy Park project.

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Thank you very much. I'd like to take this moment to

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open up for a public hearing for both 11 a and 11 b. There's anybody in the audience or online

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that would like to comment on either 11 a or 11 b now would be the time please.

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Okay Mauricio,

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Town Clerk do we have anybody in the queue? There's no one in the queue. Thank you very much.

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Is there any comments from any member of the council on 11 a or 11 b general comment council

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board. Thank you. I want to make this comment now so I don't interrupt the flow of our

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budget conversation. We did receive an unfortunate news that the Florida Recreation Development

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Assistance Program or FERTAP did not give us the grant for the two playgrounds that we

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were asking for. And not to take the thunder away from staff or our town manager, but I understand

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that we will be using the interest money from our ARPA funds, which was also a grant to make up

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the difference from the grant we didn't get from FERPA. And I just want to say thank you to our

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town manager and our staff and our parks department for pushing forward on these playgrounds. They are

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We're near and dear to my heart and there's two of them and these playgrounds will be making safe spaces for children of all abilities to play together and grow together.

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And I just I don't want to take your thunder about the news, but and I know that you'll go into it a little bit deeper when we're doing the budget, but I just wanted to thank parks and staff.

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Thank you, council member lord.

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Councilmember Ramirez, do you have anything or okay? Fantastic. Thank you. So in the

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the interest of timing, I know that we've gone through the budget multiple times here. Would you

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like Mr. Town Manager to provide an abbreviated presentation as to what the budget is, what's

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changing, so on and so forth? Sure. And thank you. Thank you, Councilmember Duncan and Councilman

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former Lord and Councilor Mayor and also for, you know, again, our thoughts and prayers

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are with Mayor Mirbotton, his family. Actually, last week, I performed the budget briefing

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with the mayor, and also vice mayor, you know, had a had a

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So, I think we've had the visioning, the two workshops, and leading up to this, it's four times that we have individually sat and looked at at these costs. So, Councilmember Nucka, yeah, I mean, I have a 110 slide PowerPoint presentation, but I will provide the abbreviated version on on those, and I might have to indulge the clerk, maybe we could skip some slides. But if we go ahead and put it on screen, provide you a quick recap. I think it's important because what I try to do with the

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town staff and the residents of Calvés. If nobody attends other budget workshop this is your first

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time. We want to provide that quick briefing and detail. So thank you. So as we mentioned today,

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it's the first budget hearing. And I think this is important where we had the first budget workshop.

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We started this journey back in June, June 17th. And even on that one there, we had the budget vision.

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We discussed a lot of our priorities. And we actually had residents of the honest. But we also had

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another 244 views online. Our second budget workshop was held on July

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the 30th. We had residents again in the audience and as well as we had another 57

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views. And then we had our third budget workshop. It just feels like it was just

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yesterday, right? August the 25th, where we introduced all the funds we had over

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53 views. Our budget hearings we adopted a resolution 2643. We set the date

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Obviously today the second budget hearing will be September 22nd. Those are state mandated.

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Location six o'clock and yes, we do apologize. We had that proclamation. So thank you,

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Councilman Duncan, for providing the comments up front, you know. That's why I think sometimes

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we get so consumed with presentation. I want to disenfranchise anybody who might want to leave and I know

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Mauricio, Tom Clerk, we have some folks online as well. So if you see somebody raise your hand,

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just a lot of snow and we'll go through there.

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So we promote our budget workshop to our e-notifications.

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We have the Color Bay newspaper, the two center pages.

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We posted our town a website.

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We have two electronic message boards,

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one on Caribbean and one on seven,

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Marlon Roto color, and soon to be,

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Franjoe and Gulf Stream.

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And then we also have, we call it open mic,

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where I have an open form with the community

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regarding what's going on in town,

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but also the upcoming budget.

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We had that at Eastridge on June 25th, Mercedes-Benz on August 7th and Cutler Bay High on August

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10th and in fact one there that's going to be tomorrow, it's going to be I'm going to

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matter Bay Academy and briefing all their teachers as well.

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Finance and transparency portal,

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as you've been following us, we have it, it's on our web page, you could look at all different

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expenditures that we have, that's what it looks like there. Quarter reports, we have our finance

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Director, we've heard from his Robert, but I mean, yes, is our finance director, been

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with us since the beginning.

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We have actually both started the same day.

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So he provides four times a year, a quarterly report, a war we are kind of give just snaps

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out of the fiscal year budget.

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And then also you could look at the latest report on our YouTube channel.

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One of the things we're very proud of is the government finance officers, GFOA Excellence

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Award, 18 consecutive years, 18 consecutive years, and the budget presentation award, which

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which is we have over seven consecutive years and then we will restart again in 2027.

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So what they would do in 20 and Resolution 2643, we set the ceiling.

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The ceiling is the maximum rate that we wanted to create based on the rollback rate which

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is 2.9143 per thousand assess value.

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We call that the ceiling rate.

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Our current rate is 2.8332.

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The resolution sets the hearing dates today and the 22nd and the times.

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Very proud of we are still the 9th lowest, 9th lowest municipality.

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I know it's a hard graft to read there, but we're very proud of that.

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The 9th lowest there because when you start looking at cities ahead of us, you've got Pynchrist

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Palmino Bay, Miami Lakes, Bell Harbor, Evan Turra, Durral, Sonny Ailes, when I have my open

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mic night meetings with residents and think about your house in one of those locations, right?

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So we're providing that great value. Our property values have gone up 6%. And you can see as we

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started recovering from back in the 2006, 2010 time, you see the property values going up.

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Very proud of our fund balance reserve savings accounts, whatever you'd like to call that there.

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We have a healthy 27.7 million dollars. We know there's going to be some hits there for the solar mediation that we talked about during the budget workshops.

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Most importantly, I think this is something that we like talking about the Truth and Millage notice, a trim notice they were mailed up by the property appraiser on August 24th.

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Setting the ceiling rate advertising, the ceiling rate, this is as the add 2.9143, announcing the meeting dates as we mentioned.

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During our budget workshops, town staff was committed to keep the military at the current

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level.

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2.8332.

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We're going to talk about that shortly there.

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Trim notice, I think a lot of times you will say, man, we're paying over $6,000 to

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cut the baton.

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No, it's really on this one here, this is an actual one that we have there.

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We blocked out the addresses there.

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You can see here the taxes to cut the base for an $85 out of a total of over $6,000.

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This particular one is in the house of Bay Shore because you can see that has a CDD all the way down the bottom and over $2,000.

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But people confuse that as it's like it's coming to the town.

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This serves as an advertisement, as I mentioned today, $9.8 to September 8.

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and Town of Cutler Bay Stormwater Utility.

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As you recall, we put it as a unified method of billing

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to $90, in fact, it was actually a 10% discount

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because if you pay your taxable before,

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you're not paying the $90.

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Before when it was on your water bill,

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you had to pay the $90.

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So there is a 10% savings there.

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So what I'd like to do is this little exercise

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where we said, okay, here's last year's property value

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for this homeowner was $161,000.

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Current military rate of 2.8332,

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Townacolabay would have received $257,

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I'm sorry, $457.

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Current taxable value, property increased

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from 166 to 161 to 166,

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the ceiling military that we said was 2.91,

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that homeowner, if we stayed with the ceiling,

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would have increased property taxes

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to the Townacolabay of $27.80.

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What we're going to be proposing is keeping it the same military as we have right now, creating a new ceiling,

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where same homeowner, $166,000 assess value, and then at the current rate of 2.8332,

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that homeowner will have an increase of $14.28 from their previous year's tax bill.

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So it's $14.28.

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Any questions so far?

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I'm going to go through these really quickly.

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The first budget workshop I think was the visiting workshop was done on June 17th.

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We announced about the hearings, the impact of the Legacy Park.

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We talked about the project, the projected deficit that's something that we want to, you

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know, we talked about the cost of living COLA and the fiscal year key projects.

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As we know, the sole remediation project for Legacy Park was $12.8 million.

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We secured over $6.5 million of American rescue plant ARPA grant funds. That is a grant.

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And then we utilized the remaining $6.3 from the town unrestricted reserve fund-balanced savings accounts

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as adopted via Resolution 2504. We're total $12.8 million for the solar remediation.

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But we also created a brownfield, the voluntary cleanup tax credit, DCTCs and other acronym.

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where we've had it since the VCTs of 2021, and we have received total eligible cost,

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all the eligible expenses there for soil sampling, some legal fees, and the inspection services,

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and the hauling away, and bringing it in the new dirt, and the tax credits received.

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So what you'll see there in the eligible amount, for example, if I use 2021,

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One, we submitted a $58,000 with FTP approved.

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You get half of that current year as an issue, as a tax credit, as literally a certificate.

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But we know that the remaining 50% of that, of that $29,000, you'll receive that at the

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end.

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So when you look at this line here, we know that we have eligible credits of 1.5 million.

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what we received so far that we have sold and you've seen those at the last

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council meeting we sold it to two publics at 90 cents on a dollar seven hundred

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two three thousand dollars. So we know that we have a total of two point two

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million which is at one point five and the seven hundred two thousand combined

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that we know that we're going to recoup. If you go back a second ago we showed six

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point three million dollars from our fund balance. This two point two is going

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go back to replenish that, replenish that. So that's where it's going back to when we received

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those facts credits. But we also know that we had, and something we spoke about during the budget

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workshop, um, um, a sort of, uh, solar mediation cost, unrestrict reserves of 4.1 million dollars

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because of the timing of it, right? Because it is our fiscal year is different. So we know, and our

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projected deficit for 2627 pending the audit is 988,000.

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It could have been as high as six million.

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So we have actually turned it around that's something I think during one of the budget

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visiting sessions, Councilwoman Lorde, you know, did the math there for us there.

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I'm not going to do it all over again, and people could watch that on the video, but at the

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same time, if it wasn't for the solar mediation, if we extracted that from our project, we would

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have been in the plus 3.2 million dollars.

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And that's something we, you know, discussed during the first budget visiting workshop.

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The COLA. We have that, how you calculate the COLA, we have 2.6% and it's approximately

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$123,000. We have that resolution that we adopted and here, I want to put this statement

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very clear and we'll have some more as in the final adopted budget. We're on June 17th

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during the first budget visiting. We discussed the COLA, the deficit, and the resolution

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that adopted this 2583 does provide the council an out, where if it's because of a plan,

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use of unrestricted funds, fund-balanced reserves, we know that we were going to Legacy Park.

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Once we adopted that resolution to commit $6.3 million to Legacy Park, and then also

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Blue Pairing Park, that's going to be coming as well. So I just want to make sure that it opens

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to the public that this is, we had a discussion, the council unanimously voted to just go ahead and

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proceed with with the colo because we know that that was just that extraordinary event that we had there.

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Key initiatives that we discussed in the budget workshop,

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visioning was general government part of recreation department, public works department,

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any questions for it. I'm going to try to be brief with the recaps. All right, but most importantly,

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in the first budget visioning, we have what we call save our homes excessive property taxes that we

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talked about. What's that mean? If approved, it'll go in effect January 1, 2027.

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It provides an additional $150,000 homestead exemption, and in 2027, $250,000 exemption.

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We talked about it during the first budget visioning workshop, but I want to get to the clip notes.

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What's our impact?

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The proposed additional $150,000 homestead exemption based on the 10,294 homes that we have there be impacted.

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This is right and I want to make sure that we identify the source of four legal cities.

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Reduction for us will be two, for the town will be $2.5 million.

431
00:42:17,000 --> 00:42:26,800
$2.5 million are almost 22% reduction of what we totally collect of $11.6 million.

432
00:42:30,290 --> 00:42:35,750
Also, we have local government spending bill known as a local financial transparency and accountability act.

433
00:42:37,230 --> 00:42:39,790
That's already in effect. It's going to go into effect 2027.

434
00:42:40,890 --> 00:42:43,290
What are the effects required to budget be posted online?

435
00:42:43,650 --> 00:42:45,870
Not a problem requires quarterly employee compensation.

436
00:42:46,130 --> 00:42:49,430
We do that already in our budget, but we can handle that.

437
00:42:50,310 --> 00:42:55,370
Requires an additional annual cutting exercise, which results in posted online with 10% reduction.

438
00:42:55,990 --> 00:42:59,670
10% reduction for the town is about $30 million budget, $3 million.

439
00:43:00,030 --> 00:43:02,930
So you say with that little close, how close that gap is, $2.5 million.

440
00:43:02,930 --> 00:43:03,790
$3 million.

441
00:43:04,870 --> 00:43:07,690
Update how long the budget information must remain posted online.

442
00:43:08,110 --> 00:43:13,150
It requires counties to provide at least five days notice before budget amendment hearings.

443
00:43:13,510 --> 00:43:14,050
We do that already.

444
00:43:15,810 --> 00:43:21,090
What we did in the first budget vision session, we literally drew down into each one of these in details.

445
00:43:21,770 --> 00:43:26,130
I'm not going to bore you with all this. This is just an example of what we did in each one.

446
00:43:27,010 --> 00:43:29,810
Employee compensation. This is a new requirement.

447
00:43:30,730 --> 00:43:35,730
all the little different bullets, currently in our budget books, very transparent.

448
00:43:36,010 --> 00:43:40,490
Here's where we provide, you know, position the salary, the code of the merit.

449
00:43:40,970 --> 00:43:41,730
So we do that.

450
00:43:41,790 --> 00:43:45,130
We've got to modify it a little bit, and we just have to update it.

451
00:43:46,730 --> 00:43:47,530
The calendar,

452
00:43:49,860 --> 00:43:53,420
the ones in red are the ones that will have to, you know, do some new items

453
00:43:53,420 --> 00:43:54,120
to put the green.

454
00:43:56,140 --> 00:43:56,900
We already do.

455
00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:01,740
So, you know, again, it's something that for us, it's not a big issue because we are so

456
00:44:01,740 --> 00:44:06,900
transparent with our budget process requires a budget annual budget cutting

457
00:44:06,900 --> 00:44:09,720
exercise 10% reduction for

458
00:44:12,630 --> 00:44:16,350
us this was a snapshot you know of 2526 budget is

459
00:44:16,350 --> 00:44:21,830
a 30 million dollar budget 10% 30 million dollars and then there it kind of

460
00:44:21,830 --> 00:44:24,830
shows you there right there for the budget exercise just

461
00:44:27,200 --> 00:44:30,540
a little recap we are

462
00:44:30,540 --> 00:44:36,220
avalorum taxes accounts for approximately 39% of our total revenues so

463
00:44:36,220 --> 00:44:40,320
So unlike some other cities that it might be wholly dependent, we at least have some other

464
00:44:40,320 --> 00:44:44,140
revenue streams that come in 2.5 dollar, it will be a hit.

465
00:44:46,860 --> 00:44:49,860
And here you see it graphically in a chart, 39% Abel or in taxes.

466
00:45:01,420 --> 00:45:31,180
We also have the estimated military for departments. This is already part of our charter. We do that already. It shows the residents what each department costs as a result as a military. And you can see our police services accounts for almost 1.2, almost 1.3 mils, you know, for the police department. Summary 30 million using the town's fiscal current year, sorry, 2526, about 10%. The town would need to identify

467
00:45:31,180 --> 00:45:42,500
by $33 million, now compared to the fiscal year impact of $150,000, we know that the

468
00:45:42,500 --> 00:45:46,520
extra is will be $2.5 million, but we know that the 10% exercise from the state will

469
00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:47,620
be $3 million.

470
00:45:47,820 --> 00:45:49,280
So we're close there.

471
00:45:52,490 --> 00:45:55,750
This one's self is found to update how long the budget information was remained and posted

472
00:45:55,750 --> 00:45:56,190
online.

473
00:45:57,350 --> 00:46:02,130
We'll create a new widget, as I call it, right, as I said, right, rug, okay, widget, okay.

474
00:46:02,130 --> 00:46:10,010
And we're going to have all posted there, you know, again, it's all there and we'll just, you know, upload everything there and adopt a budget book.

475
00:46:11,550 --> 00:46:16,790
And then also here, this requires, you know, at least five day notes, we already do that already with our notices.

476
00:46:17,610 --> 00:46:25,850
You know, budget amendment hearings, you see that when we have it transparent that here's just a good example when we do the budget amendment at the end of the year that Robert Parrish for us, the finance director.

477
00:46:26,370 --> 00:46:31,210
and normally done in the month of May, Councilman he's advertised, again, website eNews, community

478
00:46:31,210 --> 00:46:36,170
newspapers, agenda summary, it has a managed memo explaining it the resolution and the exhibit A

479
00:46:37,750 --> 00:46:41,630
and you know folks who see it online posted online exactly what we're seeing here on the screen.

480
00:46:42,710 --> 00:46:50,130
Any questions so far? Yes, ma'am. It's really quick. So seeing as the proposed

481
00:46:50,130 --> 00:46:58,150
Those tax reform number is 2.5 million and in the House bill 1329 budget cutting exercise is 3 million.

482
00:47:00,330 --> 00:47:07,250
When do we start that exercise? Is there any reason why we need to wait until January? Can we maybe start looking at those numbers in October?

483
00:47:07,790 --> 00:47:10,330
Get ahead of amendment 3 in case that passes?

484
00:47:10,330 --> 00:47:11,430
My

485
00:47:15,590 --> 00:47:29,970
first reaction would be yes because I think we could probably use that as a good education process of what the impacts will be and it provides you the real sense of a definition of an exercise.

486
00:47:31,050 --> 00:47:42,750
It's going to be some hard decisions that will be made, but at least the residents and the council and our staff will know exactly what that is going to look like.

487
00:47:43,430 --> 00:47:50,050
that's going to look like. So it'll put a lot of additional work and effort by us, but

488
00:47:50,050 --> 00:47:56,350
I think that it'll be good because we kid, like we always do, you know, videotape

489
00:47:56,350 --> 00:48:01,250
our meetings, and that could be, hey, these are the facts. I know a lot of different cities

490
00:48:01,250 --> 00:48:06,390
are doing their own different campaigns, but I think for us, let's use that exercise

491
00:48:07,010 --> 00:48:16,250
as our campaign. As I mentioned before, the 10% exercise, three million, the $150,000 increase to

492
00:48:16,250 --> 00:48:23,290
the property exemption is 2.5. We're right there. So we'll accept that as a challenge because I

493
00:48:23,290 --> 00:48:30,570
think that we could probably provide additional information by then. But there's going to be some

494
00:48:30,570 --> 00:48:35,530
tough decisions that people will see. And those are the facts. Not what could happen. This what will

495
00:48:35,530 --> 00:48:39,190
will happen. How about that, right? Is that what will happen here? And there's going

496
00:48:39,190 --> 00:48:43,790
to be some some tough decisions that we could talk about collectively in October before

497
00:48:43,790 --> 00:48:48,150
folks get the education part before they go and vote on that. At least what happens

498
00:48:48,150 --> 00:48:52,770
in color. Right. And thank you for that. I think it's a really great idea because part

499
00:48:52,770 --> 00:49:00,730
of it is educating on what may or may not be taken away, unfortunately. And also we set

500
00:49:00,730 --> 00:49:06,330
the bar very high with everything we do. So let's get ahead of it and be prepared and

501
00:49:06,330 --> 00:49:10,150
and let our residents have a fuller understanding of amendment three.

502
00:49:11,110 --> 00:49:16,230
We will work closely with a finance director and I know there's just some other things

503
00:49:16,230 --> 00:49:20,510
we've been talking about in terms of some investment policies that we're you know talk about later in

504
00:49:20,510 --> 00:49:26,250
our September 16th meeting but but nothing's going to change by doing October versus January. How

505
00:49:26,250 --> 00:49:29,130
about that. So my as well, you know, get that, you know,

506
00:49:32,930 --> 00:49:33,050
well,

507
00:49:33,050 --> 00:49:37,870
thank you for that. My question is, I know that we have a healthy

508
00:49:37,870 --> 00:49:42,390
fund balance because of our fiscal responsibility and, you know,

509
00:49:42,510 --> 00:49:44,590
thank you to you and the staff and, you know, over the years,

510
00:49:44,790 --> 00:49:50,530
continue to rise at rise. What is your estimate on the amount that's

511
00:49:51,470 --> 00:49:57,250
kind of set aside that's uncovered that you prepared that we're

512
00:49:57,250 --> 00:50:11,090
Preparing for in the coming year because I know that we have some projects and stuff that is going to eat up some of that so I want the residents to be aware that this isn't just sitting there for us to write a check, you know, we have money that's set aside for certain projects.

513
00:50:12,970 --> 00:50:15,030
You must be looking at my notes for my segue here.

514
00:50:15,030 --> 00:50:27,710
Because I think it's very important, if you recall, several months ago, Mayor Mirabot requested that we develop an investment strategy.

515
00:50:28,650 --> 00:50:39,430
But I think more importantly, and I know Councilman Lowell, we've spoken about this before, doing some of my previous open mics almost like a year ago, we made a couple of decisions.

516
00:50:39,430 --> 00:50:41,430
Right, important decision. I think it's important to talk about this.

517
00:50:41,610 --> 00:50:49,590
It's important. It's just one. We made a decision of going what we call option three for legacy park municipal complex, 49.9 million dollars.

518
00:50:49,930 --> 00:50:52,770
We know that we have a bond for 37 million.

519
00:50:54,970 --> 00:51:00,370
Four million of that was already for what I call it, the planning, you know, the permitting one, what have you, right?

520
00:51:00,830 --> 00:51:04,430
We have not drawn down on the bond proceeds yet.

521
00:51:05,490 --> 00:51:11,570
So we've been absorbing some of that 4 million from our fund balance so that we could go ahead

522
00:51:11,570 --> 00:51:14,150
and reimburse us when the bond is drawn down.

523
00:51:15,450 --> 00:51:19,790
While waiting to draw down that bond, a couple of things have happened, right, interest rates

524
00:51:19,790 --> 00:51:20,190
have fallen.

525
00:51:20,890 --> 00:51:25,370
Property balance has gone up, so not going to be very lucky, right.

526
00:51:25,970 --> 00:51:31,270
In between that, the council, we presented the council for what we call the gap financing

527
00:51:31,270 --> 00:51:37,270
with TD bank that we were able to negotiate with our financial advisor in our town attorney's office

528
00:51:37,270 --> 00:51:44,610
that we have very favorable 20 year, 4.16% interest, no prepay penalty.

529
00:51:45,270 --> 00:51:53,290
So now we have enough money on here on this side to build the $49.9 million complex.

530
00:51:54,230 --> 00:51:58,370
And I cringe because we never accounted for that $12.8 million for short mediation.

531
00:51:58,370 --> 00:52:04,190
right? None of us did. We understand that. But we want to make sure that we had a no further action

532
00:52:04,190 --> 00:52:10,030
claim. Could we have gone a little bit cheaper? Sure, but then you would have restrictions on

533
00:52:10,030 --> 00:52:14,630
that property forever, literally like putting a liner on the piece of property. And also certain,

534
00:52:14,730 --> 00:52:20,590
how do I find out that tree root doesn't go through it? Right? So we said we're going to go ahead

535
00:52:20,590 --> 00:52:25,550
and go down seven feet and bring in seven feet of dirt. That's what we have right now. So

536
00:52:25,550 --> 00:52:30,830
So that was done with remediation project, the 6.5 million dollars from ARPA and the 6.3

537
00:52:30,830 --> 00:52:36,190
from savings that we know at least 2.2 for now is being reimbursed from the voluntary

538
00:52:36,190 --> 00:52:37,090
income tax credits.

539
00:52:37,530 --> 00:52:41,710
So we know that our goal is to hopefully get that program to reimbursed as much as we can.

540
00:52:41,870 --> 00:52:43,290
We apply for the EPA grant.

541
00:52:43,450 --> 00:52:46,450
We spent a lot of time and effort and money on that, but we did not get it.

542
00:52:46,790 --> 00:52:50,410
We did not get that grant, but the very competitive grant now I understand why, right?

543
00:52:50,410 --> 00:52:57,210
All right, so now that we have secured the funding to build the legacy parking

544
00:52:57,210 --> 00:53:02,150
minister complex, we go back to, you know, where Miribu was talking about in terms of our

545
00:53:02,150 --> 00:53:05,510
investment strategy, right? Because now we have that 27 million. We know it's going to take a

546
00:53:05,510 --> 00:53:10,170
couple hits because of the solar mediation. What we're doing now, and we're actually working

547
00:53:10,170 --> 00:53:17,010
on this right now with our financial advisor and Robert Adario, finance director and our town council,

548
00:53:17,010 --> 00:53:23,670
So, sorry, Tony's office is developing that investment strategy because you got to have

549
00:53:23,670 --> 00:53:24,210
that balance.

550
00:53:24,790 --> 00:53:27,830
We have a strong double A2 bond rating.

551
00:53:28,750 --> 00:53:30,390
You don't want to go below a certain threshold.

552
00:53:30,770 --> 00:53:36,890
We also know, and it's part of a budget presentation, that we have a 17% minimum for our

553
00:53:36,890 --> 00:53:37,770
fund balance.

554
00:53:38,250 --> 00:53:42,670
Well, that's 17% equates almost like, and you'll see it in the report, almost like 4.5.

555
00:53:43,370 --> 00:53:43,970
We have 27.

556
00:53:44,550 --> 00:53:52,450
So we want to make sure that right now, literally, they're working overnight to try to get something for first reading for September 16th meeting.

557
00:53:53,030 --> 00:53:58,390
So kind of like stay tuned because we want to make sure that what our financial advisor, we know what is that?

558
00:53:58,790 --> 00:54:01,270
What is that ultimate amount?

559
00:54:01,950 --> 00:54:04,210
Well, we know 17% the coverage 4.5.

560
00:54:04,450 --> 00:54:06,190
Okay, well, we have plenty above that.

561
00:54:06,390 --> 00:54:12,930
But then what is the savings account that Moody's in Wall Street is going to tell you that you must have as a financial stability?

562
00:54:13,690 --> 00:54:17,690
That's the reason why we went all the way back to our get fit plan, right?

563
00:54:17,770 --> 00:54:19,510
Many of you were on the council for the get fit plan.

564
00:54:19,650 --> 00:54:22,910
That was a get flip plan, but I call it a brave plan.

565
00:54:23,630 --> 00:54:29,630
Get fit to stop depending on our fund balance, raising the military, you know, that's not

566
00:54:29,630 --> 00:54:30,510
a very popular group.

567
00:54:30,510 --> 00:54:34,630
But now we're seeing the benefits of that with the property balance going up.

568
00:54:34,930 --> 00:54:36,850
Now like in 2006, the property balance went down.

569
00:54:39,360 --> 00:54:44,320
So it's a long explanation that I think that we're going to develop that strategy so that

570
00:54:44,320 --> 00:54:50,440
we know what is the minimum we should not go below for the bond rating. Anything above that,

571
00:54:50,600 --> 00:54:54,880
what the mayor has proposed and we'll have to get discussed out of the public council together,

572
00:54:55,840 --> 00:55:02,860
is that delta above that, what to invest in it. And there was three categories that the mayor

573
00:55:02,860 --> 00:55:10,080
was proposing. It was for environmental cleanup, capital improvements, and you're going to get me on

574
00:55:10,080 --> 00:55:14,760
there wasn't. But there was another one on Robert, if you could help me with that one and try

575
00:55:14,760 --> 00:55:20,260
to remember. Let me discuss land acquisition. Land acquisition. Yes, land acquisition. Correct.

576
00:55:20,500 --> 00:55:24,640
Those are the three. Because I remember the famous line that I make any more land, right? Those three.

577
00:55:24,840 --> 00:55:29,380
And we have proven what we've done with that capital improvement. You see that, right? You see in

578
00:55:29,380 --> 00:55:34,520
land acquisition, biggest property owner on our color road, over 28 acres and soil remediation.

579
00:55:34,820 --> 00:55:37,860
You've seen that unfortunately. You know, we're going to see that as well in venture parks. So

580
00:55:37,860 --> 00:55:41,140
So it's a long space, but I think it's very important because that is the foundation.

581
00:55:41,940 --> 00:55:45,700
We're now at that point to say, what is our investment strategy?

582
00:55:46,300 --> 00:55:53,360
So now we could then increase revenues on our interest income as well without going below

583
00:55:53,360 --> 00:55:59,940
threshold and increasing, maintaining our double a to bond rating, possibly getting a triple

584
00:55:59,940 --> 00:56:00,600
a bond rating.

585
00:56:00,740 --> 00:56:05,620
That's your credit score that will pay off at the end before we draw down the bond.

586
00:56:05,620 --> 00:56:08,660
Because once we draw down that bond that's it's going to be in tax bill

587
00:56:09,100 --> 00:56:14,100
So we've been waiting for that to make sure and right now we've been kind of like surviving with those funds

588
00:56:14,100 --> 00:56:17,060
That in order to draw down you're going to see that coming up pretty soon

589
00:56:17,060 --> 00:56:22,760
We've already approved what we call guarantee master in price number one for $12.8 million for the termination

590
00:56:23,840 --> 00:56:30,280
We approved a GMP number two, which is the second work order for all the underground utilities approximately $11.8 million

591
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:34,620
That's what you see going on right now and the third one you're going to see coming up here

592
00:56:34,620 --> 00:56:41,980
hopefully in September or late October is the vertical building portion of it and then that

593
00:56:41,980 --> 00:56:46,440
will be the guarantee maximum price for that project. So I know it's a long answer but I think

594
00:56:46,440 --> 00:56:48,760
it was important to kind of walk through the process there.

595
00:56:50,980 --> 00:56:53,180
Okay, great, thank you. So the second

596
00:56:53,180 --> 00:56:59,900
budget workshop recap we discussed again with House Bill but we also introduced how to read the

597
00:56:59,900 --> 00:57:03,760
budget books and worksheets. I think it's very important for the public to understand how to read

598
00:57:03,760 --> 00:57:04,900
the budget book and the work sheets.

599
00:57:05,520 --> 00:57:07,200
The milled rate ceiling discussion,

600
00:57:07,900 --> 00:57:10,520
the trim notice explains and the co-occal aces again,

601
00:57:10,760 --> 00:57:12,520
and then we preview the stormwater utility funds.

602
00:57:13,780 --> 00:57:14,980
And I'm not gonna bore you with this.

603
00:57:15,080 --> 00:57:18,100
You've seen this before, the resolution set in the hearing dates.

604
00:57:18,900 --> 00:57:21,340
The trim notice, we've gone through this exercise.

605
00:57:21,980 --> 00:57:26,860
We're proposing, at least for this actual property,

606
00:57:27,040 --> 00:57:29,240
an extra $14.28 increase.

607
00:57:30,420 --> 00:57:31,480
We're still the ninth lowest.

608
00:57:35,780 --> 00:57:44,120
So you can see the theme there, even if you missed our first budget vision, we want to go back and recap that in our second as well as a third.

609
00:57:46,790 --> 00:57:53,470
2.91 will create a surplus 3.1 million, 3.1 million, town staff recommending 2.8332.

610
00:57:54,270 --> 00:58:00,250
It will reduce at 3.1 by $352,000, we still providing a budget of 2.8 million dollars surplus.

611
00:58:00,250 --> 00:58:06,510
plus. In anticipation, footnote, in anticipation, we know that storm is coming. The storm that's coming

612
00:58:06,510 --> 00:58:11,830
is going to be that budget cutting exercise. And if the property bills are there, if not worst case,

613
00:58:11,970 --> 00:58:17,970
then we have a good healthy year to start reimbursing ourselves for some of those sort of mediation

614
00:58:17,970 --> 00:58:23,850
and property acquisitions. Again, we had to take out some loans. When we did the get fit plan,

615
00:58:23,850 --> 00:58:28,150
we had to rebundle as I call it, some of our loans to acquire those lands. That's where we're

616
00:58:28,150 --> 00:58:33,750
able to acquire those pieces of property that we were able to. By the way, without imminent

617
00:58:33,750 --> 00:58:38,950
domain to willing sellers, so thank you to sellers. All right, so we have the financial impacts.

618
00:58:38,970 --> 00:58:43,270
Again, this was a big one here because now we're completing the blue herring park. It's a reduction

619
00:58:43,270 --> 00:58:50,590
of two million dollars. Yes, the pool closure. We had the pool closure as we talked about. We had

620
00:58:50,590 --> 00:58:55,370
reduction salaries there, reduction in utility bills. Town Sheriff's Department went up

621
00:58:55,370 --> 00:59:03,950
But 7%, which is $925,000, increases the retirement, health insurance, and collective bargaining.

622
00:59:04,250 --> 00:59:09,150
But since then, I could tell you that I've met with my colleagues from the managers

623
00:59:09,150 --> 00:59:11,050
from Minilakes and Palmano Bay.

624
00:59:12,050 --> 00:59:15,250
As soon as we've finished all the budget hearings, we're going to, you know, meet collectively

625
00:59:15,250 --> 00:59:20,490
with the sheriff's office to start discussing some of the overhead charges that we have.

626
00:59:20,810 --> 00:59:25,110
I mean, so you know, the way that it works with all three cities and the fun fact with

627
00:59:25,110 --> 00:59:27,190
the largest, you know, the biggest customer I call it, right?

628
00:59:27,230 --> 00:59:34,850
We're $14 million, um, with 55 officers is the, we, uh, we pay the actual payroll.

629
00:59:35,190 --> 00:59:36,410
There's no markup on that.

630
00:59:36,430 --> 00:59:38,750
It's just a lot of the items, other items are overhead.

631
00:59:38,850 --> 00:59:42,890
So we want to make sure there's some kind of cap because this year was 7%, but I want

632
00:59:42,890 --> 00:59:43,590
to make sure there's no surprise.

633
00:59:43,590 --> 00:59:45,450
Maybe it's next year could be nine, 10.

634
00:59:45,570 --> 00:59:46,790
What's the, what, what's the percent?

635
00:59:47,250 --> 00:59:48,210
Discuss the type of cap.

636
00:59:48,210 --> 00:59:51,770
So collectively, we've had that, we have that discussion and we're going to

637
00:59:51,770 --> 00:59:55,730
the next upcoming year. I call it on blue sky.

638
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,980
And you've seen this before. I think this is important that $250,000 homes to property exemption, if it goes in effect, you don't have a $5 million impact, $5 million impact, because again, you know, and what that tells you here, and what that tells you, and I think I said that during our first budget, a workshop, one of the workshops was we can see that a lot of folks stay here. You could only increase your property values up to three percent, save our homes. So you can see a lot of folks are in fact, I mean, we have over 10,000

639
01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:33,580
and homes, we got 19,000 in a couple of A, 10,000.

640
01:00:33,660 --> 01:00:35,340
You can see that those folks, I could just say,

641
01:00:35,420 --> 01:00:36,200
just by looking at those numbers,

642
01:00:36,400 --> 01:00:37,040
nobody leaves.

643
01:00:37,660 --> 01:00:38,800
They've been here for years.

644
01:00:43,120 --> 01:00:46,600
The requirements for House Bill 1329 that we talked about,

645
01:00:46,720 --> 01:00:50,160
we again, we spoke about it at our budget workshop.

646
01:00:51,580 --> 01:00:53,880
We talked about, again, the deficit,

647
01:00:54,100 --> 01:00:55,280
but here, we started introducing some

648
01:00:55,280 --> 01:00:56,860
of the pending revenues that we have, right?

649
01:00:57,260 --> 01:00:58,720
So some of the pending revenues that we have

650
01:00:58,720 --> 01:01:01,080
is various grants that land sale, voluntary cleanup

651
01:01:01,080 --> 01:01:03,020
tax credit, but we also have some

652
01:01:03,020 --> 01:01:08,020
a sole remediation expenses on restricted fund balance, legacy park and blue hurry park the two parks

653
01:01:08,020 --> 01:01:13,740
that we're cleaning up. So pending revenues, right? What are we waiting, you know, for the checks

654
01:01:13,740 --> 01:01:18,980
command? We have the Florida Community Trust $1.5 million. It has not come in yet. Everything's been

655
01:01:18,980 --> 01:01:25,380
approved, such as a matter of routing it. Coulser is reserved. This one we're in further negotiations with

656
01:01:25,380 --> 01:01:30,060
the county. We know that that's going to approximately be the price, but now we know we have to do some

657
01:01:31,460 --> 01:01:35,900
remediation of some of that soil there. So we know there's, you know, in terms of land purchases

658
01:01:36,540 --> 01:01:43,620
or land reimbursement sales, it's $3.3 million. Legacy Park. We know we have the Legacy Park

659
01:01:43,620 --> 01:01:49,600
soil remediation and also Blurring Park. But again, it's something that's being cleaned up. Both of them are

660
01:01:50,740 --> 01:01:53,320
RBCTCs, $12.8 million. The

661
01:01:55,920 --> 01:01:58,900
funding source. This chart looks familiar.

662
01:02:01,010 --> 01:02:03,950
Again, we know we're going to

663
01:02:03,950 --> 01:02:08,810
And in 26, we're going to apply for the max, which is another million dollars as well.

664
01:02:10,070 --> 01:02:15,890
And as you recall, another move that we did, and thank you to our town attorney's office

665
01:02:15,890 --> 01:02:22,570
and our outside council, Michael Goldstein, where we created our own BizRath, where now we

666
01:02:22,570 --> 01:02:26,130
kind of broke away from public and we created our own brown field before we're kind of like

667
01:02:26,130 --> 01:02:31,410
almost like a subrecipient, by breaking away, you get an extra 25% bonus at the end.

668
01:02:32,110 --> 01:02:41,490
So that that's something that we're finalizing, we just got all the approval from Durham and the application is literally up in FDEP for formal adoption.

669
01:02:43,590 --> 01:02:48,250
Blue Herring Park, we know is an expense of total $3.6 million.

670
01:02:51,320 --> 01:02:54,260
Again, it's from our unrestricted fund reserve.

671
01:02:57,870 --> 01:03:05,090
Blue Herring Park, just last year, we were able to capture all of our expenses, which is $802,000.

672
01:03:06,570 --> 01:03:10,250
And we received tax credits of 401 and if we were called during the last

673
01:03:10,250 --> 01:03:12,930
council meeting, this is the one that we're actually even negotiating the open

674
01:03:12,930 --> 01:03:16,950
market to try to even get even a little bit higher rate on return instead of

675
01:03:16,950 --> 01:03:22,010
$0.90, possibly 92 to $0.93. That's something you're gonna see coming up in October.

676
01:03:23,410 --> 01:03:25,950
And this is what it actually looks like. It's voluntary clean science, a piece of

677
01:03:25,950 --> 01:03:28,270
paper. But for us, it's cash.

678
01:03:31,020 --> 01:03:34,900
We also talked about how to read our budget book, the

679
01:03:34,900 --> 01:03:40,720
executive summary, the number of years that we have historical years all the way back to 24,

680
01:03:40,880 --> 01:03:49,420
25, 25, 26, the actual projection, the proposed military at the ceiling, 2.941, any council changes,

681
01:03:50,060 --> 01:03:58,400
the proposed budget, and also changed between budget workshops. A lot of numbers are very busy,

682
01:03:58,540 --> 01:04:02,020
but I like breaking down when people could understand it. We have a little number code there,

683
01:04:02,020 --> 01:04:09,820
the letter codes that talks about the different, what those numbers mean, and again the projected

684
01:04:09,820 --> 01:04:11,780
budget surplus there at the 2.93.

685
01:04:15,230 --> 01:04:17,490
Spoke about the different departments.

686
01:04:18,150 --> 01:04:19,130
The budget works.

687
01:04:19,250 --> 01:04:23,730
It's literally what this, what you see on the screen is what our department has used.

688
01:04:24,310 --> 01:04:26,490
So you have what we have as I was like to say.

689
01:04:28,070 --> 01:04:31,270
Again, each staff member is broken down by previous years.

690
01:04:31,270 --> 01:04:36,410
manage requests, merit, cola, salary, any question for it?

691
01:04:38,780 --> 01:04:39,740
Getting close, getting close.

692
01:04:40,040 --> 01:04:43,180
Third budget workshop, third budget workshop, we talked about the budget changes

693
01:04:43,180 --> 01:04:45,700
between the second and the first.

694
01:04:46,200 --> 01:04:48,300
We introduced now the special revenue fund.

695
01:04:48,460 --> 01:04:53,020
These are non-avlorium revenues that we have in departments that we have.

696
01:04:56,640 --> 01:04:58,180
So we also made the changes.

697
01:04:58,340 --> 01:05:01,640
There was only one change between the second and the third,

698
01:05:01,640 --> 01:05:07,700
which was in the public works department because we received a grant for $105,000 and with our match

699
01:05:08,360 --> 01:05:12,940
for US one verification and you'll see that coming through the council through the regular process

700
01:05:12,940 --> 01:05:16,500
there. But then we also introduced a special revenue fund.

701
01:05:18,840 --> 01:05:21,820
Similar, again, you see the revenues

702
01:05:21,820 --> 01:05:22,340
that come in,

703
01:05:25,120 --> 01:05:29,020
the expenditures and you'll see across, I don't know if we have the arrows there,

704
01:05:29,020 --> 01:05:32,960
there you have the arrows there for the Actuals again in 2024 so you have a lot of historical data

705
01:05:32,960 --> 01:05:33,280
there.

706
01:05:36,650 --> 01:05:42,830
We broke down each one by, like say, children's trust, environmental funds, CITT,

707
01:05:43,470 --> 01:05:50,030
transit funds. We broke down each department during that budget workshop. And again, providing

708
01:05:50,030 --> 01:05:56,770
the history. The coastal bridge preserve introduced the two acres that we keep talking about, right?

709
01:05:57,590 --> 01:06:01,390
That we were doing there. In fact, right now, what we're negotiating now with my many county

710
01:06:01,390 --> 01:06:04,990
term for the folks who are watching or folks who are in the audience, if you see that

711
01:06:04,990 --> 01:06:08,850
little sliver, where it says, my many county ill potential parts are always the northern

712
01:06:08,850 --> 01:06:09,470
part there.

713
01:06:09,870 --> 01:06:11,130
See there's like a little pathway there.

714
01:06:11,750 --> 01:06:15,170
So we're negotiating now the easement there.

715
01:06:15,370 --> 01:06:21,590
So if it's favorable condition to sell it to my many county ill program, we want to make

716
01:06:21,590 --> 01:06:25,050
sure that we secure that connection there because there's been a lot of work by the community

717
01:06:25,050 --> 01:06:25,350
there.

718
01:06:25,770 --> 01:06:30,930
And you can see it kind of like they're really light of the path that's been being created

719
01:06:30,930 --> 01:06:34,870
they're on the South Florida water management district line. So we want to make sure that we secure

720
01:06:34,870 --> 01:06:42,350
that during the business deal up front versus chasing down later. And I mentioned there that these

721
01:06:42,350 --> 01:06:47,750
are the items here. This is the item there to your to your left. It's a southern part there and

722
01:06:47,750 --> 01:06:52,330
closer cutler. Okay. And what you see there in yellow are the items that have high levels of

723
01:06:52,330 --> 01:06:59,110
arsenic. We knew that behind the property. And now we now we know how deep how much we have to go.

724
01:06:59,110 --> 01:07:02,430
this one here on that first acre there we know we've got to go all the way to the water table

725
01:07:02,430 --> 01:07:09,450
but in the other good news is for section 2, 3 and 4 you only have to go down six inches

726
01:07:10,410 --> 01:07:17,470
but if you see sections 3 and 4 there they overlap but the red line were proposing a cell

727
01:07:18,230 --> 01:07:23,130
to my money account of eels so we have to clean that up first so and again this one's this one's

728
01:07:23,130 --> 01:07:30,870
got to be similar to what we did with the veteran park. It doesn't qualify them for a brown

729
01:07:30,870 --> 01:07:36,410
field, but we will chase down the FTP now for the brown field grant. Like similar, we

730
01:07:36,410 --> 01:07:40,750
do it in veterans park. And I'm giving you a little preview. You've seen this graph before.

731
01:07:41,050 --> 01:07:44,810
We bought the park. We know it was contaminated, but we stopped the development there.

732
01:07:52,670 --> 01:07:53,110
High

733
01:07:53,110 --> 01:07:53,470
two feet,

734
01:07:57,050 --> 01:08:00,850
approximate cost of being aware from $75,000 to $85,000 according to our consultant,

735
01:08:01,350 --> 01:08:08,690
but staff was awarded a FDEP grant for a non-brown field, which is great, up to $150,000.

736
01:08:08,870 --> 01:08:11,850
What this does is that, in fact, we've been in contact with them.

737
01:08:12,470 --> 01:08:17,630
So since our last meeting, customer not gonna ask that question, we did a nice subtle nudge.

738
01:08:18,890 --> 01:08:25,070
They said we apologize, we've been overwhelmed, we do have assigned a project manager from

739
01:08:25,070 --> 01:08:31,610
the EP and we're going to be having a kickoff meeting here pretty soon. So they did acknowledge that

740
01:08:31,610 --> 01:08:35,730
and we said okay great thank you because we're going to come with another application. Also we

741
01:08:35,730 --> 01:08:42,490
talked about our cutler bay locals and again from our local option get sorry from our PTP money

742
01:08:42,490 --> 01:08:50,870
they will receive. We have almost 4.2 thousand riders in 42 hundred riders a month. Metro Connect,

743
01:08:50,870 --> 01:09:02,990
In fact, this one we're certainly monitoring at the county level because there's been some conversation at the county BCC there, both myself, Alfredo, public works director and

744
01:09:02,990 --> 01:09:10,970
engineers have met with my many county transit because my many county transit that's the that's our contractor, then they use Metro Connect.

745
01:09:11,390 --> 01:09:20,470
So if they do something to that program, we're monitoring that program and both myself, the town attorney's office, we're monitoring that because we want to make sure this is a very successful program

746
01:09:20,470 --> 01:09:26,930
to the town. In fact, Mayor Cava on several occasions said how we are the model. And even

747
01:09:26,930 --> 01:09:33,790
if now that the metric connect charges up $3.75 per ride, if you're going from a non-transit

748
01:09:33,790 --> 01:09:37,810
hub, if you're going to a transit hub in the company, which is usually the major destinations,

749
01:09:38,410 --> 01:09:43,310
it's $1.50, but then you get $1.50, because we the town through our PTP pay that fee.

750
01:09:45,940 --> 01:09:52,040
3.4 thousand riders a month. So you almost have almost 8,000 riders a month that

751
01:09:52,040 --> 01:09:59,080
movement. And what we saw there is that once we introduce Metro Connect, the circular bus numbers

752
01:09:59,080 --> 01:10:03,080
didn't go down. So it tells you to have a stable amount of folks that are doing that, but then you

753
01:10:03,080 --> 01:10:10,720
also have Metro Connect that is moving some folks around as well. Cranjaro Project, as you know,

754
01:10:10,920 --> 01:10:23,560
that is a joint participation agreement, another acronym, JPA, that's moving along. I think it's in

755
01:10:23,560 --> 01:10:30,040
the last one we did in July, so we're really on schedule, but it's amazing here, and

756
01:10:30,040 --> 01:10:35,100
just want to take a second. Only seven rain delays.

757
01:10:37,560 --> 01:10:41,220
Yeah, so only seven rain delays have been

758
01:10:41,220 --> 01:10:46,640
requested by the contracts from 2014 when we started this journey. That's amazing. So Kudos to

759
01:10:47,580 --> 01:10:52,140
Alfredo and his team, and the folks from Kimberly Horn, they meet every two, is that thing,

760
01:10:52,140 --> 01:10:56,180
right? Yeah. Every two weeks they meet every two weeks and as you know they

761
01:10:56,180 --> 01:11:00,820
provide a briefing to the council every month just like we do Lakes Park and

762
01:11:00,820 --> 01:11:06,040
then soon to be Marlon Road. Marlon Road. So this one here very interesting

763
01:11:06,040 --> 01:11:11,120
another project is a county-owned road it was part of our master plan we did a

764
01:11:11,120 --> 01:11:17,660
great job securing state appropriations $520,000 you don't thank you I know that

765
01:11:17,660 --> 01:11:30,540
Representative Blanca was here, but also Senator Kalatu. That was in 2022. Oh, we secured $520,000 and then also we secured another $545,000 for an FDOT attack grant.

766
01:11:31,340 --> 01:11:38,400
So 1.1 over a million dollars for the design, totally funded by grants.

767
01:11:38,400 --> 01:11:43,660
But then we did one up, then we started going after some of the construction phase.

768
01:11:43,960 --> 01:11:50,640
The Federal Propage 4.4, and thank you, Congressman Salazar, we secured that money, FDOT

769
01:11:51,960 --> 01:12:00,040
TAP grant, and we also recently landed another grant for the county initiative grant funded

770
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:05,120
through FDOT of 4.1 million, but that one requires a match of the town for 4.1 million.

771
01:12:05,120 --> 01:12:21,140
So right now we have over $13.6 million secured, opinion of probable cause, $24 million, the town secured over $13.6 million, the funding gaps 10.4 million, that's our ask with the county.

772
01:12:21,920 --> 01:12:26,000
That's our ask where we're in active negotiations with the county as well.

773
01:12:28,380 --> 01:12:33,580
Southwest 212 Street, another major quarter there, I call it the 4 lane to

774
01:12:33,580 --> 01:12:40,020
nowhere. If you know that street back there, do we have their 212 and 90 second

775
01:12:40,020 --> 01:12:44,780
avenue, as I always jokingly say all the time, the folks that do the donuts on

776
01:12:44,780 --> 01:12:48,620
the intersection are designing my traffic circles. So that's where exactly what the

777
01:12:48,620 --> 01:12:52,580
traffic circle is going to be. And then there also is going to be a protected

778
01:12:52,580 --> 01:12:57,040
bike lane there as well. That's what it was really great about that quarter and

779
01:12:57,040 --> 01:12:58,440
and thank you to the TPO,

780
01:12:59,060 --> 01:13:00,060
Liam McLean, her staff,

781
01:13:00,300 --> 01:13:01,680
because we actually met with them

782
01:13:01,680 --> 01:13:03,640
and did a peer review and they love the project

783
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:07,140
and enough that we were awarded a $1.5 million grant.

784
01:13:08,720 --> 01:13:09,140
You know, as well.

785
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:10,140
And that's gonna be the back edges

786
01:13:10,140 --> 01:13:11,260
to our legacy park as well.

787
01:13:14,430 --> 01:13:16,630
American Rescue Plan, we call it before it's our ARPA.

788
01:13:17,170 --> 01:13:18,910
We're very proud of when we receive the $21 million.

789
01:13:19,910 --> 01:13:21,690
$10 million was a general services

790
01:13:22,570 --> 01:13:25,270
and $11 million was a water call improvement.

791
01:13:25,450 --> 01:13:26,910
I think it's very important here for me to stop

792
01:13:26,910 --> 01:13:35,630
and say every penny that we spent, including the interest earned on the ARPA funds has come

793
01:13:35,630 --> 01:13:41,050
before this council and has been reviewed by a town attorney. So we treat that very seriously.

794
01:13:41,290 --> 01:13:48,890
We report every quarter to the federal government. And I think, I mean, to the point that you'll see

795
01:13:48,890 --> 01:13:53,850
later, a little preview, Councilwoman Lorde, possibly some new playground agreements are going to be

796
01:13:53,850 --> 01:13:59,770
through the ARPA interest. I call it a grant. Money that a grant that received that we put

797
01:13:59,770 --> 01:14:02,890
in the bank that we're getting money on the grant that we're going to use the interest to do

798
01:14:02,890 --> 01:14:08,130
something else with it. And I'll say that three times. So, American Rescue Plan,

799
01:14:09,410 --> 01:14:14,290
11 million dollars. Each one of these projects was approved by a town council. This is Bell Air.

800
01:14:14,730 --> 01:14:21,630
We tried doing it. It's a nice, you know, quick graphic. It was $988,000. It was completed on time

801
01:14:21,630 --> 01:14:22,490
and under budget.

802
01:14:26,780 --> 01:14:26,900
Oops.

803
01:14:28,240 --> 01:14:32,260
Likes by the base subbasin, these are the subbasins, the storm drain some basins.

804
01:14:32,620 --> 01:14:35,200
This one here we secured $4.7 million.

805
01:14:36,700 --> 01:14:42,440
We also received some FDEP money and some CGP grant money of a million dollars and other

806
01:14:42,440 --> 01:14:47,860
federal appropriation that we received there for it to be developed again.

807
01:14:47,860 --> 01:14:55,500
something that was designed by Arpa and the construction by others. Not

808
01:14:55,500 --> 01:14:56,200
Abelorm,

809
01:14:59,040 --> 01:14:59,920
Caramble of Art.

810
01:15:00,240 --> 01:15:23,400
This one here is a little bit interesting. We received 4.5, 4 million dollars from the EP. The contract came in, the award came in a little bit lower. We're trying to figure out how to use the rest if we can use the rest. The design was done by ARPA. The grant construction was from FTP. This one, the bid came in very, very aggressive. That's on the construction right now. If you live in the target bay, thank you for your patience.

811
01:15:25,720 --> 01:15:32,200
and then also a 207 then it says SS 87 Avenue, so it's supposed to be 85th Avenue there.

812
01:15:33,320 --> 01:15:37,540
And that one we received 500,000 dollars from a state appropriation

813
01:15:38,700 --> 01:15:43,100
and estimated pretty much 3.4 of the rest are going to be from PTP funds. So I apologize there

814
01:15:43,100 --> 01:15:45,820
it should be south with 85th Avenue, not 87th Avenue.

815
01:15:48,010 --> 01:15:51,350
Legacy Park, 16 acres, we know the programming

816
01:15:51,350 --> 01:16:00,030
the 4 and 12. Some milestones that we talked about there, 49.9 million dollars. We are now in the

817
01:16:00,030 --> 01:16:05,610
building permit stage and hopefully here within the next week we should begin all the permits.

818
01:16:05,990 --> 01:16:08,890
I want to say all the permits not only from the town but also from all different ages,

819
01:16:08,950 --> 01:16:10,490
the county, fire, etc.

820
01:16:13,620 --> 01:16:16,780
A lot of work being done out there right now. We're bringing up all the dirt

821
01:16:16,780 --> 01:16:21,160
now for the elevation of the building. As you know, that is going to be our command center. So it's

822
01:16:21,160 --> 01:16:23,980
going to be three feet above FEMA's required.

823
01:16:24,440 --> 01:16:26,040
So you see a lot of trucks going there.

824
01:16:27,440 --> 01:16:29,080
You see the truck wash station there.

825
01:16:29,940 --> 01:16:31,840
Then we also have the software update

826
01:16:31,840 --> 01:16:37,400
that we're working on behind the scenes for our Eden

827
01:16:37,400 --> 01:16:40,920
system that's going to have everybody enterprise asset

828
01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:41,440
management.

829
01:16:41,900 --> 01:16:43,440
You're going to have accounting and a partial recreation

830
01:16:43,440 --> 01:16:45,000
everybody's going to be integrated.

831
01:16:45,380 --> 01:16:49,500
Most importantly, it was $807,000 a project that

832
01:16:49,500 --> 01:16:55,540
was funded also through ARPA funds. That $10 million that was non-water quality improvements,

833
01:16:55,720 --> 01:17:03,000
that was done through that portion there. Then we also, in that budget, workshop introduced

834
01:17:03,000 --> 01:17:06,480
stormwater utility. It's its own enterprise fund.

835
01:17:09,780 --> 01:17:11,460
Kind of self-expansion with stormwater does,

836
01:17:11,620 --> 01:17:17,280
but you see it out there a lot of times. You see us matching funds through PTP or stormwater fees.

837
01:17:19,490 --> 01:17:21,210
any questions?

838
01:17:24,610 --> 01:17:30,810
So here we are for tonight's meeting, right? Again, the trim notice, it was

839
01:17:30,810 --> 01:17:39,330
advertised today. You've seen this before. What town staff is proposing is to further reduce

840
01:17:39,330 --> 01:17:44,570
the ceiling from 2.9143 to 2.8332.

841
01:17:49,850 --> 01:17:54,250
You've seen this before. The 2.9143 surplus of 3.1 million

842
01:17:54,250 --> 01:17:54,670
dollars,

843
01:17:57,190 --> 01:18:05,830
town staff is ours proposing 2.8332, further reduce it to, sorry, 2.85021.

844
01:18:07,330 --> 01:18:14,050
Now that is, that is the military at that point. We also talked about how to read the

845
01:18:14,050 --> 01:18:19,810
budget book. I'll go through this really quickly. Again, the budget book is posted on our website

846
01:18:19,810 --> 01:18:22,530
but there's also some hard copies there in the back for folks in the audience.

847
01:18:26,770 --> 01:18:27,490
The budget

848
01:18:27,490 --> 01:18:29,830
The book now is a little bit more complete than you've seen before, right?

849
01:18:29,970 --> 01:18:37,790
Because now it has a lot more tabs that has our investment, sorry, our fund balance

850
01:18:37,790 --> 01:18:42,650
reserve policy certification that both myself and Robert do at 17%.

851
01:18:44,250 --> 01:18:47,070
It also talks about the Millage Cost per Department.

852
01:18:47,210 --> 01:18:52,150
You've seen that before, individual worksheets by department.

853
01:18:52,830 --> 01:18:55,230
This is the fund balance reserve policy there.

854
01:18:55,310 --> 01:18:56,630
If you can see the fine print there.

855
01:18:56,630 --> 01:19:03,310
it would mean the 17% equates to $4.4 million or well above that. But again we want to make sure

856
01:19:03,310 --> 01:19:12,410
we secure the general obligation bond rating and then also the cost per department as per the

857
01:19:12,410 --> 01:19:17,830
charter. And then this one here introduced the same amount of years that we have in the past

858
01:19:17,830 --> 01:19:24,550
proposed. This looks familiar but now here we have significant changes from the proposed to the

859
01:19:24,550 --> 01:19:29,930
adopted budget, and then significant changes from our workshop meetings there as well, broken

860
01:19:29,930 --> 01:19:33,150
down by department, by worksheet.

861
01:19:36,400 --> 01:19:41,820
Again, this is at the 2.9143. This just gives you a snapshot

862
01:19:41,820 --> 01:19:46,840
of this department and it provides you the significant changes from fiscal year. So if you're

863
01:19:46,840 --> 01:19:51,120
going to change it from July 30th, second budget workshop and the third budget workshop. So we kind

864
01:19:51,120 --> 01:19:52,600
of tell you the journey there.

865
01:19:55,600 --> 01:19:58,180
Detailed descriptions of salaries in each department.

866
01:20:00,230 --> 01:20:06,490
detailed budget worksheets. What you have is what we use at the department heads. It shows you

867
01:20:06,490 --> 01:20:14,850
last year and the current year. And this is just the new worksheet that you have in the budget book

868
01:20:14,850 --> 01:20:24,110
there. Now, a post playground. So as we mentioned before, we had the unfortunate news that FDEP

869
01:20:24,110 --> 01:20:29,190
He heard that grant was not, program was not funded, you know, as we very well know is

870
01:20:29,190 --> 01:20:29,670
one of the Beatles.

871
01:20:32,170 --> 01:20:39,850
So this was discussed around July 15th, 2026 council meeting for the Saga Bay Park.

872
01:20:40,690 --> 01:20:44,410
But we also wanted to talk about Vellar Park tonight too, because if you know Vellar Park

873
01:20:44,410 --> 01:20:46,450
that park hasn't had a playground for several years.

874
01:20:46,990 --> 01:20:50,510
It was also both of these but removed based on safety inspections.

875
01:20:53,620 --> 01:20:56,000
We're proposing the inclusive playground.

876
01:20:56,980 --> 01:21:04,300
These are actual renderings that our parks department has gathered from the contractor.

877
01:21:05,260 --> 01:21:05,460
Okay.

878
01:21:07,660 --> 01:21:08,340
Belair playground.

879
01:21:14,760 --> 01:21:15,640
Proposed cost.

880
01:21:16,000 --> 01:21:16,780
Saga Bay playground.

881
01:21:17,140 --> 01:21:20,500
351,000 is from a contract from source well.

882
01:21:20,580 --> 01:21:21,220
And you'll see that.

883
01:21:21,280 --> 01:21:23,720
If approved, we'll have that in our October council meeting.

884
01:21:24,940 --> 01:21:25,480
The Belair park.

885
01:21:26,060 --> 01:21:27,200
$183,000.

886
01:21:29,220 --> 01:21:33,200
So you're looking at a total cost of $550,000.

887
01:21:34,060 --> 01:21:35,600
We'll propose funding sources.

888
01:21:36,400 --> 01:21:39,540
Again, $300,000 from town general fund.

889
01:21:41,440 --> 01:21:45,180
$250,000 from the American Rescue Plan Act.

890
01:21:45,940 --> 01:21:51,140
But you will see if total is $550,000.

891
01:21:52,200 --> 01:21:57,080
The $200,000 that we currently budgeted this year was not utilized

892
01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:59,060
because that was going to be our match, the furtap.

893
01:21:59,740 --> 01:22:02,560
So really what we're doing is bringing that over

894
01:22:02,560 --> 01:22:06,780
to the next budget year, increasing it,

895
01:22:07,140 --> 01:22:10,940
and then using the American Rescue Plan ARPA interest

896
01:22:11,480 --> 01:22:13,920
proceeds as that match.

897
01:22:14,260 --> 01:22:16,680
And I wanted to take advantage and do both playgrounds

898
01:22:16,680 --> 01:22:17,180
at the same time.

899
01:22:17,840 --> 01:22:20,040
We were able to negotiate some discounts

900
01:22:20,040 --> 01:22:24,720
with the contractor, because it's

901
01:22:24,720 --> 01:22:26,780
going to be to play about the same time.

902
01:22:28,960 --> 01:22:39,480
So when we spoke about this this afternoon, we said we were going to use 330,000 ARPA

903
01:22:39,480 --> 01:22:44,200
interest and then pull out 220 of general fund reserves.

904
01:22:44,780 --> 01:22:46,300
And that's how I reflect with the numbers.

905
01:22:47,040 --> 01:22:47,440
Perfect.

906
01:22:47,600 --> 01:22:47,920
Even better.

907
01:22:48,820 --> 01:22:54,200
Even better than more use of the American Rescue Plan because I know we have some more pending

908
01:22:54,200 --> 01:22:54,640
money there.

909
01:22:54,640 --> 01:23:00,520
So so Robert, what is that that number now? What do you have there instead of 315 for the total? Yep

910
01:23:01,740 --> 01:23:03,960
330 for arpa interest and

911
01:23:04,920 --> 01:23:06,880
220 coming out of general fund reserves

912
01:23:07,800 --> 01:23:13,140
Perfect. All right, Rod you got that so we'll update it. Okay. Perfect. Even better even better use. Thanks Robert

913
01:23:17,600 --> 01:23:20,220
So with with that council members, I think

914
01:23:21,120 --> 01:23:21,960
The first

915
01:23:22,780 --> 01:23:26,820
Action could be and if we could have maybe Mauricio show the resolution

916
01:23:26,820 --> 01:23:29,920
Do we have the resolution caption for the the military?

917
01:23:30,100 --> 01:23:35,860
I think the first course of action would be if there's any questions on council or from

918
01:23:35,860 --> 01:23:42,320
the audience or and then we could go through the military first sending a new ceiling and

919
01:23:42,320 --> 01:23:43,880
then moving to the budget.

920
01:23:44,280 --> 01:23:44,580
Thank you.

921
01:23:44,680 --> 01:23:45,440
Thank you Mr. Tom Andrew.

922
01:23:45,840 --> 01:23:49,020
Do we have any any questions or comments from the audience at this time?

923
01:23:50,680 --> 01:23:51,780
Do we have anybody in the queue?

924
01:23:52,780 --> 01:23:53,560
No one in the queue.

925
01:23:54,020 --> 01:23:54,660
Okay fantastic.

926
01:23:54,860 --> 01:23:55,560
Thank you very much.

927
01:23:55,560 --> 01:24:02,080
Okay, so the first thing I'd like to do is I'm sorry. Yes, go ahead, Mr. Chair. I just want to clarify that

928
01:24:02,680 --> 01:24:10,880
You have opened the floor twice for public hearing on the budget on both correct trim and on the

929
01:24:11,960 --> 01:24:19,040
Budget itself and no one has commented, but that was those were the public hearing perfect. Thank you, sir

930
01:24:19,040 --> 01:24:24,240
I would like to request a motion from one of the council members

931
01:24:24,240 --> 01:24:30,260
I'll make a motion to keep the current military of 2.8332 lowering the ceiling rate.

932
01:24:30,520 --> 01:24:34,700
Yes, I'd like to make the motion to lower the ceiling of the military to the existing

933
01:24:34,700 --> 01:24:36,600
rate of 2.8332.

934
01:24:36,760 --> 01:24:37,120
Thank you.

935
01:24:37,140 --> 01:24:37,600
We have a burst.

936
01:24:37,920 --> 01:24:38,760
Thank you very much.

937
01:24:40,160 --> 01:24:45,880
Mr. Finance Director, can you please read the updated trim statement using the military of

938
01:24:45,880 --> 01:24:47,220
2.8332?

939
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:50,580
I'm not going to read the statement.

940
01:24:50,580 --> 01:24:52,900
and I'm going to read Section 2 of the actual Rozo.

941
01:24:53,680 --> 01:24:58,300
That'll read, Section 2 will now read that the town's

942
01:24:58,300 --> 01:25:03,260
proposed millage rate for the fiscal year commencing October 1, 2026

943
01:25:03,260 --> 01:25:11,780
through September 30, 2027 is here by fixed at the rate of 2.8332

944
01:25:11,780 --> 01:25:16,540
mills for $1,000 of assessed property value within the town,

945
01:25:16,540 --> 01:25:25,600
which is 6.94% greater than the rollback rate of 2.6494 mils per $1,000 of a

946
01:25:25,600 --> 01:25:31,280
assessed property value. Thank you, Mr. Finance Director. Mr. Townquart, can you

947
01:25:31,280 --> 01:25:33,640
please take a roll call vote to

948
01:25:37,090 --> 01:25:42,290
approve Councilmember Lord? Yes. Councilmember

949
01:25:42,290 --> 01:25:48,090
Duncan? Yes. Councilmember Marins? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you very much. Now

950
01:25:48,090 --> 01:25:56,510
Now moving on to 11B, so we have this playground discussion as far as perhaps having an amendment

951
01:25:56,510 --> 01:26:02,670
to the budget itself, as we discussed where we would have $220,000 from the town's general

952
01:26:02,670 --> 01:26:10,710
fund and utilize $330,000 from the town's ARPA interest, are we in agreement that should

953
01:26:10,710 --> 01:26:15,010
be amended, that's something that we're in agreement with, or does anybody have any comments

954
01:26:15,010 --> 01:26:15,370
concerns?

955
01:26:18,610 --> 01:26:22,910
Okay, fantastic. Okay, so we are in agreement on that. Mr. Finance Director,

956
01:26:22,910 --> 01:26:26,870
can you please provide the new or revised budget total with the proposed amendment?

957
01:26:27,630 --> 01:26:35,250
Okay, so just to confirm for the playground equipment, the total is $550,000 of which we're

958
01:26:35,250 --> 01:26:40,650
we're going to use $330,000 of ARPA interest, income monies,

959
01:26:40,890 --> 01:26:45,910
and $220,000 coming out of General Fund reserves.

960
01:26:46,930 --> 01:26:47,110
Correct.

961
01:26:47,750 --> 01:26:47,930
OK.

962
01:26:49,190 --> 01:26:54,890
So for the budget resolution, the fill in the blank

963
01:26:54,890 --> 01:26:57,790
is the total budget amount, total expenditures.

964
01:26:59,030 --> 01:27:06,910
and that number is 120,278,530 dollars.

965
01:27:13,430 --> 01:27:13,770
Okay.

966
01:27:14,450 --> 01:27:15,270
Thank you very much.

967
01:27:15,590 --> 01:27:18,510
I'm looking for a motion to approve 11b,

968
01:27:18,650 --> 01:27:20,630
the tentative budget with the Discussed Amendment.

969
01:27:21,070 --> 01:27:22,970
I'm looking for a second.

970
01:27:23,130 --> 01:27:23,510
A second.

971
01:27:23,770 --> 01:27:24,390
Thank you very much.

972
01:27:24,510 --> 01:27:26,410
Mr. John Clerk, can we please have a roll call vote?

973
01:27:27,110 --> 01:27:28,030
Council Member Duncan?

974
01:27:28,350 --> 01:27:28,510
Yes.

975
01:27:29,010 --> 01:27:29,830
Council Member Mirrors?

976
01:27:30,110 --> 01:27:30,310
Yes.

977
01:27:30,710 --> 01:27:31,430
Council Member Lorde.

978
01:27:31,470 --> 01:27:31,630
Yes.

979
01:27:31,630 --> 01:27:37,410
motion passes. Thank you very much. And with that being said that is our first

980
01:27:37,410 --> 01:27:41,830
budget hearing and we will move on and update everything for our second budget

981
01:27:41,830 --> 01:27:45,430
hearing later on this month. Thank you all for attending. This meeting now

982
01:27:45,430 --> 01:27:46,310
is adjourned.