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We have a special call meeting for our military adoption.

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Madam Clerk, can you please, I would like to officially call this meeting to order. May I please have the roll call?

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Mayor Barnard.

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Here.

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Mayor Pro Tem Burt.

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Council Member Blue.

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Council Member Johnson.

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Council Member Payton.

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Council Member Reeves.

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Present.

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Council Member Thomas.

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Here.

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Mayor, we do have a quorum.

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Thank you, ma'am.

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I will ask that our Councilman Reeves lead us in invocation while Councilman Payton lead

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us in the Pledge of Allegiance.

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May we all stand at this time.

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Father, we thank you for this privilege and honor that you've given us to be here and

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to represent you and your people.

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So we thank you for that opportunity.

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We pray that you will have us be discerning in our thoughts and that we will yield

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to your will and the will that's in the best interest of your people in all decisions that

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we would make today. And we'll let things things up in the precious name of Christ Jesus. Amen.

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Pleasure, ladies and gentlemen.

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To the fight of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands,

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

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Thank you so much. Next, I will ask for an approval of the agenda.

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So moved. I have a motion on the floor. Can I get a second?

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Second. We have a motion and a second. May we vote?

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Five in favor. Thank you. I'll now turn the meeting over to our city

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administrator so he can give us a rundown on our

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millage rate for this fiscal year. Thank you mayor. I'm gonna let him

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Pull up a PowerPoint real quick

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So what this is this is what we publish only this has six years

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We usually only publish five years and to start off with I wanted to point out that

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When you go back to 23 or 21

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The net digest was one billion two hundred and two million

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And then it went to one billion four hundred and seventy six million and then it went to one billion

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$829 million in 2023, $1,915 million in 2024, $1,998 million almost $99 million in 2025.

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And then we've now backslid a little bit to $1,992 million.

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And part of that is lack of growth, part of that is both the county and the city

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have bought buildings, probably some reassessments, probably some appeals in there, but what that

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means for us is in 2025 the net digest was 1,998 million, 26 it came down 6,660,684.

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So based off of that information, we're recommending the millage rate be 3.033 and that is actually

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the rollback, 3.033.

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So you are doing a full rollback and it's basically because the net digest has declined.

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Are there any questions?

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Do we have any questions from the diaries?

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Yes, sir.

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It's just clarification because when I first got here, I had to really work on getting

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this straight, and that is, when we use the word rollback, and it is a rollback, so it

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doesn't confuse folks, it's been at 3.033, it's going to stay at 3.033, and somebody

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would say, oh, well, that's not a rollback, but there's a good explanation as to why we

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call it a rollback.

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Correct.

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It meets the legal definition of rollback, yes.

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it does seem weird this is you know you have to go back to when the housing

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market fell out to see these types of numbers but I think a lot of this was

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there wasn't any growth for a year really and then you had several properties

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that were purchased by the county and the city and you take those off the

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digest and you when you don't have any growth to fill those I can tell

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you that next year there's probably between 40 and 60 homes that'll be on

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a digest so it is going to go back.

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Thank you. Yes.

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Okay. Any additional questions?

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Okay.

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There's no additional questions from the diets. I now open up our for our public hearing. I

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would like to invite our constituents up to the podium. If you are in favor of the

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3.033 um digest rollback I'm sorry the roll the millage rate rollback I will

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invite you to the podium at this time all individuals who would like to speak on

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behalf of the millage rate adoption and the millage rate rollback and are in

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favor you're welcome to the podium at this time

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Yeah, they'll actually be on

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the digest for next year.

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Yes,

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it may be more than that,

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but those are the ones I

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physically go out and count.

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Mayor, could I add to that?

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And additionally, it might be good to clarify, in other words, there may be 10 homes built

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that were approved 20 years ago.

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You see, they've already been approved.

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It's not what's necessarily coming before this as a new rezoning or subdivision.

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Would that be correct?

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That's correct.

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Most of this is in Arcadius, Infinity Park.

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Okay.

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Any additional questions? All right. Now I open it up for those not in favor of the rollback.

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You're also invited to the podium. I invite you up to the podium to speak at this time.

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Any

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constituents that are not in favor of the millage rate, you're welcome to the podium.

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Okay.

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And I would like to officially close the public hearing next

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I would ask for a motion to adopt

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the fiscal year 2026 2027 millage rate at this time there

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I'd make a motion to approve the

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rate as proposed at 3.3 3.033 of the adoption of the fiscal year 2026 to 2027 millage

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right okay I have a motion on the floor do I have a second second okay we have a

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motion to second second all right we have a motion to second may we vote five

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in

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favor all right so we have ourselves a military mayor can I can I make one

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quick comment just to just to educate for next year yes but if floss does

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pass, we won't even be having this meeting because there won't be a millage rate.

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Okay. So just to just to educate. Yes, absolutely. So that's true. And just for

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educational purposes, floss is for does not necessarily mean that property

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taxes, property tax individuals will be taxed, property owners will be taxed

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for their prior for mill for the millage right fast it means individuals who

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come on 75 shop at South Point individuals who come and shop in in the

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area that it comes to the city and then you then would that will be

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contributed to the floss floss tax and from the floss tax you could have a

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possibility to decrease or not have a millage right here at all because we

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We would not have a military rate.

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So for educational purposes,

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floss does not come from property tax,

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property owners, it comes from those

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who are shopping in our city.

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All right.

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Mayor, if I may add one thing, one other thing to it.

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This coming November, it will be on the ballot.

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So if you are in favor of what the mayor just said,

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then we're talking about floss

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And that is going to prevent us hopefully it's going to lower our property taxes if if not

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Eliminate them if you vote in favor of flossed on this coming November

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All right, and those are for educational purpose. I would now call this meeting adjourned. Thank you