On September 14, 2026, at 6:00 PM, the Hollywood City Commission held a Special City Commission Meeting for the first public hearing on the Fiscal Year 2027 budget. The meeting included a presentation by Deputy City Manager Adam Reichbach, public comment, and adoption of four resolutions related to fire rescue and fire inspection assessments, the millage rate, and the tentative budget.
Thank you. Welcome everyone. Welcome to City Hall here in the City of Hollywood. Uh it is September 14th, 2026, just after six PM. We're here for our first public budget hearing for the fiscal year twenty-seven budget. Please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you. Commissioner Hernandez. Here. Vice Mayor Caleri. Here. Commissioner Gruber. Here. Commissioner Biederman. Here. Commissioner Cantana. Here. Commissioner Shoeham. Here. Mayor Levy. Here. All right. Thank you all so much. Well, thank you for uh the whole uh city administration team who's here. Thank you from uh members of the public who are here. Uh city manager, uh happy to have your uh presentation for uh the budget recommendation. We've certainly had an opportunity to look through uh and looking forward to uh the presentation tonight. Uh thank you, Mayor, uh Vice Mayor, uh City Commissioners, and welcome uh to everyone who is here this evening for the City of Hollywood's first public budget hearing for fiscal year twenty twenty-seven. We of course appreciate uh everyone's participation as we come together to discuss and adopt our operating budget as well as set the fire inspection and fire assessment fees for the coming year. Uh it's my pleasure to introduce Deputy City Manager Adam Reichbach, who's played a key role in guiding this process. I would also like to recognize our dedicated budget team, Duncan, Nisha, Evelyn, Angenie, Bobby, Tyrone, and Lizette, whose hard work and expertise have been essential in preparing our budget uh proposal uh for the next year. Of course, as we get to this stage in the financial uh planning process, it does take a lot of thought and a lot of care over a period of months in addition to the day-to-day work uh that is underway in the city's twenty different departments and offices. We've spent a lot of time over the past several months planning and looking ahead and asking what can we do better? What do we where do we need more resources? And is there anything that we're currently doing that isn't working as well as we'd hoped? The kind of city that delivers strong quality of life today and plans for an economically resilient and sustainable future. And with that, I'll turn it over to Adam. Thank you, City Manager. Adam Reichbeck, Deputy City Manager. Um today is the first public hearing of the twenty twenty-seven budget. And I want to just share that, as I share during our behind the budget presentations that we've had over the last several weeks, the budget process is a process that had that spans the entire year. As soon as we adopt the budget for fiscal year 2027, we'll be starting the fiscal year 2028 budget process. And so today we are here for the first of two public hearings. Of course, that'll culminate on September 23rd with the final adoption of the fiscal year 2027 budget. So following today's presentation, you're going to be asked to approve a series of resolutions setting the stage for services and projects for the next for the upcoming fiscal year. As a reminder, the non-advalorum fire rescue assessment is proposed to be set at 364 dollars for per dwelling unit. That is an increase of $10 from fiscal year 2026. And this will fund approximately 97.5% of the total assessed accessible costs of providing fire rescue services here in Hollywood. For commercial properties, the per square footage amount is 49 cents, industrial seven cents, institutional 67 cents all per square foot. The non-advalorum fire rescue fire inspection assessment, sorry, per qualifying residential unit is $17.