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The Broward County Board of County Commissioners held a workshop on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, starting at 10:00 AM, to discuss multiple public safety topics related to the Broward Sheriff’s Office (BSO). The meeting was marked by frustration over the absence of any BSO representatives, despite prior assurances. Commissioners and staff reviewed the FY26 budget appeal and FY27 adopted budget, E-911 costs, feasibility studies for law enforcement at the airport and seaport, jail facilities maintenance, and the transition of fire rescue services. The board directed staff to proceed with further studies, explore auditing options, and coordinate with municipal partners and state legislators.
Um is is uh it's let me just document it's it's twelve minutes after ten in the morning. Is any representative from the sheriff's department here? Not not security, but is there any the not our good security people here who are great or is gentlemen here, but is anybody from the sheriff's department here to talk about the budget? Um, not that we are aware of. Okay, so seeing slight yes. Actually, I text the sheriff this morning, said asked him if he was coming, said he was jammed. I could I'll read you uh uh exactly what he said. Uh give me one second. The the sheriff said, he said, no, sir, I'm swamped. I said, Can you send someone from BSO? He said, My team will be there, Colonel and CFO. It's twelve minutes after uh I'm sorry, it's thirteen minutes after ten, and the Colonel, are you here? Colonel, can you hear me in the building? Or the CFO. Uh we're we're ready to st we're starting late, actually. But we need to move forward. So let's go. Um, the f the first item on the agenda for today is the FY26 appeal and the FY twenty seventh adopted budget. Monica, do your team wanna uh or is that an ego. I can start us off if that's okay. Um and thank you, uh, Mr. Mayor and Commissioners. Um put together, you know, uh over time, um, the board has collectively um shared that they wanted to have a group uh discussion about um several topics related to BSO. Um, and at the last port Everglades budget workshop, um, in the essence of time saving. Um, one of the items that was outstanding was the discussion of the law enforcement feasibility study at Port Everglades. And so um at that workshop, um, you all um asked for us to have a separate workshop to discuss that. So in part, you're gonna hear a little bit about that today as well. So before you um, we will have um five areas that we're gonna be covering today. One we thought we'd talk about the FY26 um budget appeal and the FY27 um adopted budget um that was just adopted last Tuesday. One we thought we would talk about the FY26 um budget appeal and the FY27 um adopted budget um that was just adopted last Tuesday evening, um the E911 budget and some some things that we need to share with you there um from uh from the budgeting uh perspective. And then you're gonna see the third um bullet point there is the airport seaport feasibility study, and really it's gonna be just to highlight those things in the seaport discussion, the jails facility and fire rescue. We all can read. Let's let's go. We got it. Let's move. Thank you, Mayor. So um since um, you know, I became county administrator in 2022, you know, I have um gained uh a unique perspective um on the county's various public safety partnerships with um the sheriff's office. And so whether we're discussing 911 um call taking and dispatch or most recently the fire rescue, it has become clear um that the agreements with BSO that define these partnerships are no longer really provide the county with the ability for transparency and accountability that I keep hearing from you all for the need for financial and fiscal responsibility. Um we're gonna go through that and you're gonna hear um some of those um concerns that we have. Um and Michael is going to take the lead on some of these discussions as he has been working closely with the sheriff's office over time and through some of these issues as well. Um Michael, I'm gonna kick it off to you to give an update on on each of these subjects. We'll start with the budget appeal and adopted budget. Okay. Thank you very much, Monica.