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A special meeting of the Deltona City Commission was held on September 22, 2025, at 6:30 PM. The main agenda included adopting the final millage rate and budget for Fiscal Year 2025-2026, providing guidance on the Ordinance Review Committee, and discussing the city's purchasing policy. The meeting adjourned at 8:43 PM.
2025. If I can please have the city clerk call the roll. Commissioner Bilavasquez. Commissioner Calwell. Here. Commissioner Howington? Here. Commissioner Novick? Here. Commissioner Santiago? Here. Vice Mayor Harriet? Here. Mayor Villa. Here. This time, if I can please have Commissioner Howington lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay, we're gonna go ahead and move from the pledge to additions and deletions. Commissioner Santiago? I would like to do an addition to the uh agenda. What is your addition? Um purchasing policies revert back to the March policies. Is there a second on that? Yeah. Go ahead and then I'll give you the floor. I would like it if we could bring them back with a lot of those a lot, you know, the way that it was back in March, but there are a couple changes that I would like to see made to it if we could um specifically related to capital being allocated in its own cost center. Okay, Commissioner of Villa Vasquez. Um like to refresh my memory. What was the purchasing policy back in March when it was ex uh over $25,000? Is that what we're talking about? Finance director. Good evening, Mayor Commissioners. Um what was passed in March 3rd of this year, resolution 2025-29 was for all goods and services budgeted and capital that's line itemed in the budget. The city manager had authority to purchase his line item approval that was not budgeted was fifty thousand. Anything over a hundred thousand dollars that was for a CIP, etc. That was in any one of the capital improvement funds, was mandated to come back to commission for approval. Um Commissioner I'm Harriet. Um, all the capital is in its own cost center. So what would what what commissioner Santiago is asking that it goes back to what it was before? Yes, ma'am. Which was the amount again? Um city manager or his department has had five thousand dollar threshold authority, the city manager for items that wasn't detailed line item in the budget for goods and services or capital or exempt procurement, um, say um health insurance, etc. Then he could purchase it in any dollar amount as long as it was line itemed in the budget. Anything above that required it to come back to the city commission for approval, specifically anything related to our CIP programs, a park pavilion, um, a lift station improvement, a new city hall, all of the new fire station, all of that must come back to the commission for approval. Anything over 25,000? Anything over a hundred thousand that was not line itemed in the budget, had to come back for approval if it was a CIP, etc. Anything else not explicitly authorized by the policy was fifty thousand dollars or more.