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The City of Deltona held a workshop on July 15, 2026, to discuss the proposed FY 2026-2027 budget, including revenue estimates, operational budgets, special assessments, capital outlay, and the capital improvement program. The meeting lasted from 5:30 PM to 7:10 PM. Six commissioners were present (Commissioner Santiago absent). Finance Director John McKinney presented the budget, totaling $208,035,947, with a General Fund of $79,845,212, balanced at the rollback millage rate of 6.4948 mills.
Is on the City of Deltona website under finance under budget documents, fiscal year 2627 documents. So everything under bridge mayor is located there. Thank you. Before we get started, just for the commission, uh, we will pause after uh the presentations that you do. We'll go through the whole overview on incision one, and then when we get to two, we'll start pausing there for questions. So if everyone can just write down your questions and hold off on pushing the button when we get to that corner or to that part, I'll ask if anybody has questions and we'll continue that way. Mr. McKinney. Yes, sir. Uh so with that, I would first like to thank my staff, the finance budget team, the um deputy finance director, and all of the fiscal financial business analysts that are behind us. I do appreciate everything that they've done, as well as all the department's directors and managers that have helped to put this together along with the city manager. Point of order just for the record, Commissioner Callwell's here. Hello, sir. Okay, so you know how we did May 18th, a little bit different. So I'm doing this a little bit different, as y'all are aware. Finance staff, we kind of like to do everything in fund order. Um this year we kind of done things by topic. So I've we've put the book together, more so by topic, and we're gonna the PowerPoint is in that order as well. Okay. So today we're gonna go over um the high level overview. Previously, we spoke about capital CIP and special assessments at our workshops in May and June. This month we're speaking specifically on all the operational overview of all the major funds as well as all subfunds. We're gonna go over the fund review and operational budgets, and then we're gonna talk about the next steps of what we have to do in the month of July, August, and September. The fiscal year 27 budget overreview, the total budget is presented this evening request is 208 million, thirty-five thousand nine hundred and forty-seven dollars. The general fund is seventy-nine million eight hundred and forty-five thousand two hundred and twelve dollars. I'm happy to announce that your staff has put together a budget at the rollback rate as provided by the Volusha County property appraiser at six point four nine four eight. Even at rollback mayor and commission, we're still able to fund 20 million four hundred and six thousand one hundred and forty-nine dollars in capital improvements, eight million two hundred and ten thousand two hundred and sixteen dollars in fleet and equipment capital outlay. And as of um ten one twenty-five going into the current fiscal year, we still have an outstanding debt of 137,616. I'm sorry, 137 million six hundred and sixteen thousand, eight hundred and seventy-six dollars. Every one of these items will be talked more in detail throughout the presentation. The adoption of the annual budget. We've gone through this every presentation that I've made, Mayor. I'm just gonna hit the um final um um bullet point on this. The budget process is fluid right up until the final hearing on Monday, September 22nd. You have the opportunity to provide to the city manager and myself any changes that can be made right up to the final adoption as I stated at 6 30 on September 22nd. Budget parameters. The city manager met with all staff the early March. We were told at that time all operating budget requests are to be held at a 2% maximum increase. This was based on the February February CPI index of 1.99% over the 12-month prior period. If you go and you look at the most recent data that was released on on June 10th related to the May CPI, it was 3.9%. We did not waiver from the 2% max mayor. We also projected back in February that we would see a 5% increase in taxable value increase. That was well almost 2% less than the average that we've had over the last 10 years. I will say that I'm very, as I've said before, I'm a very conservative conservative individual. I'm glad I did because it actually came in at 3.93%, the lowest rate of increase that the city's seen in 13 years now.