We have a special call meeting for our military adoption.
Madam Clerk, can you please, I would like to officially call this meeting to order. May I please have the roll call?
Mayor Barnard.
Here.
Mayor Pro Tem Burt.
Council Member Blue.
Council Member Johnson.
Council Member Payton.
Council Member Reeves.
Present.
Council Member Thomas.
Here.
Mayor, we do have a quorum.
Thank you, ma'am.
I will ask that our Councilman Reeves lead us in invocation while Councilman Payton lead
us in the Pledge of Allegiance.
May we all stand at this time.
Father, we thank you for this privilege and honor that you've given us to be here and
to represent you and your people.
So we thank you for that opportunity.
We pray that you will have us be discerning in our thoughts and that we will yield
to your will and the will that's in the best interest of your people in all decisions that
we would make today. And we'll let things things up in the precious name of Christ Jesus. Amen.
Pleasure, ladies and gentlemen.
To the fight of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
Thank you so much. Next, I will ask for an approval of the agenda.
So moved. I have a motion on the floor. Can I get a second?
Second. We have a motion and a second. May we vote?
Five in favor. Thank you. I'll now turn the meeting over to our city
administrator so he can give us a rundown on our
millage rate for this fiscal year. Thank you mayor. I'm gonna let him
Pull up a PowerPoint real quick
So what this is this is what we publish only this has six years
We usually only publish five years and to start off with I wanted to point out that
When you go back to 23 or 21
The net digest was one billion two hundred and two million
And then it went to one billion four hundred and seventy six million and then it went to one billion
$829 million in 2023, $1,915 million in 2024, $1,998 million almost $99 million in 2025.
And then we've now backslid a little bit to $1,992 million.
And part of that is lack of growth, part of that is both the county and the city
have bought buildings, probably some reassessments, probably some appeals in there, but what that
means for us is in 2025 the net digest was 1,998 million, 26 it came down 6,660,684.
So based off of that information, we're recommending the millage rate be 3.033 and that is actually
the rollback, 3.033.
So you are doing a full rollback and it's basically because the net digest has declined.
Are there any questions?
Do we have any questions from the diaries?
Yes, sir.
It's just clarification because when I first got here, I had to really work on getting
this straight, and that is, when we use the word rollback, and it is a rollback, so it
doesn't confuse folks, it's been at 3.033, it's going to stay at 3.033, and somebody
would say, oh, well, that's not a rollback, but there's a good explanation as to why we
call it a rollback.
Correct.
It meets the legal definition of rollback, yes.
it does seem weird this is you know you have to go back to when the housing
market fell out to see these types of numbers but I think a lot of this was
there wasn't any growth for a year really and then you had several properties
that were purchased by the county and the city and you take those off the
digest and you when you don't have any growth to fill those I can tell
you that next year there's probably between 40 and 60 homes that'll be on
a digest so it is going to go back.
Thank you. Yes.
Okay. Any additional questions?
Okay.
There's no additional questions from the diets. I now open up our for our public hearing. I
would like to invite our constituents up to the podium. If you are in favor of the
3.033 um digest rollback I'm sorry the roll the millage rate rollback I will
invite you to the podium at this time all individuals who would like to speak on
behalf of the millage rate adoption and the millage rate rollback and are in
favor you're welcome to the podium at this time
Yeah, they'll actually be on
the digest for next year.
Yes,
it may be more than that,
but those are the ones I
physically go out and count.
Mayor, could I add to that?
And additionally, it might be good to clarify, in other words, there may be 10 homes built
that were approved 20 years ago.
You see, they've already been approved.
It's not what's necessarily coming before this as a new rezoning or subdivision.
Would that be correct?
That's correct.
Most of this is in Arcadius, Infinity Park.
Okay.
Any additional questions? All right. Now I open it up for those not in favor of the rollback.
You're also invited to the podium. I invite you up to the podium to speak at this time.
Any
constituents that are not in favor of the millage rate, you're welcome to the podium.
Okay.
And I would like to officially close the public hearing next
I would ask for a motion to adopt
the fiscal year 2026 2027 millage rate at this time there
I'd make a motion to approve the
rate as proposed at 3.3 3.033 of the adoption of the fiscal year 2026 to 2027 millage
right okay I have a motion on the floor do I have a second second okay we have a
motion to second second all right we have a motion to second may we vote five
in
favor all right so we have ourselves a military mayor can I can I make one
quick comment just to just to educate for next year yes but if floss does
pass, we won't even be having this meeting because there won't be a millage rate.
Okay. So just to just to educate. Yes, absolutely. So that's true. And just for
educational purposes, floss is for does not necessarily mean that property
taxes, property tax individuals will be taxed, property owners will be taxed
for their prior for mill for the millage right fast it means individuals who
come on 75 shop at South Point individuals who come and shop in in the
area that it comes to the city and then you then would that will be
contributed to the floss floss tax and from the floss tax you could have a
possibility to decrease or not have a millage right here at all because we
We would not have a military rate.
So for educational purposes,
floss does not come from property tax,
property owners, it comes from those
who are shopping in our city.
All right.
Mayor, if I may add one thing, one other thing to it.
This coming November, it will be on the ballot.
So if you are in favor of what the mayor just said,
then we're talking about floss
And that is going to prevent us hopefully it's going to lower our property taxes if if not
Eliminate them if you vote in favor of flossed on this coming November
All right, and those are for educational purpose. I would now call this meeting adjourned. Thank you