On September 12, 2024, the Miramar City Commission held a public hearing to adopt the fiscal year 2025 millage rate, fire protection assessment, tentative budget, and stormwater assessment. The meeting began at approximately 5:00 PM (the transcript shows "Good evening" and the meeting was called to order after a brief preamble). No members of the public registered to speak either in person or virtually. The commission unanimously approved a millage rate of 7.1172 mills (6.76% above the rollback rate), reimposed the 100% fire protection assessment, approved the first reading of the $400 million budget (an increase of $19.3 million from FY2024), and approved the stormwater assessment rate of $120 per equivalent residential unit (ERU) with no increase.
Any debris determined to be contractor generated waste will not be collected. Debris generated by a hired contractor should be removed by the contractor working at your home. Good evening. The fiscal year 2025 fire protection assessment and budget public hearing of the City of Myanmar is now called to order. An opportunity was given to the public to email the city clerk prior to the public hearing with any questions, comments, concerns on items we will hear on this evening's agenda. Any person may be heard by the city commission through the chair and upon registering pursuant to the published notice for not more than three minutes on any proposition before the hearing unless modified by the chair. The public hearing is being streamed live at Miramar FL.gov slash commission meeting and televised on Comcast Channel 78 and ATTU versus Channel 99 for all subscribers. As of September 12th at 4:30 p.m., no members from the public have registered to participate virtually in this meeting. If someone has registered later than this time and would like to speak, they can raise their hand and at the appropriate time, our IT staff will unmute their mic to allow them to speak. Please be sure to mention your name and address for the record prior to addressing the commission. All comments submitted will be included as part of the record for this meeting and will be considered by the city commission prior to any action taken. At this time, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Commissioner Colburn? Yeah. City Manager Dr. Virgin. City Attorney Norris Weeks. Here. This would constitute a millage rate that is 6.76% above the rollback rate of 6.6663 mills and is necessary to fund the budget. The city manager will now explain the specific purposes for which advalorum tax revenues are being used. And we will then hear a presentation from staff regarding the proposed millage rate. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, Mr. Mayor Commission. Each year we are mandated to provide a balanced budget for approval and adoption. The budget is a comprehensive document which outlined how funds will be expended to provide the level of service for our residents and our businesses, while at the same time develop capital programs and projects. An increase of 19.3 million dollars from fiscal year 2024. This budget represents the city's continued path towards growth, community service, infrastructure improvement, and economic development. You see somewhere here right now, I saw him. Okay. And also assistant director, who has been very instrumental. Ms. Carmen Menenges in this effort. I I really want to take a minute, Mr. Mayor, to thank particularly the assistant director, uh, Mrs. Carmen during this process. She has worked tirelessly. Um the director has been in and out, and Ms. Carmen has really took up the mantle and worked unwavering to get us to where we are tonight. And I'm really indebted to the level of service and commitment she has given during this process, and of course, her staff, but particularly I want to point out to her. Um, also I wanted us to thank the department heads, directors who continue to work and have worked tremendously hard to make sure our budget will reflect what the intent of this will of the commission is so that the public funds are used to provide the best quality of service for our residents and our business. Um, in closing, um, I want to thank the entire employees of the city of Merrimaw, what one thousand two hundred employees thereabout will continue to be the wheel that drives us, and a lot of times they are the unsong heroes, but their work, their effort to let to having us get into this this place where we can present to the commission for his the first reading of the millage and the fire assessment fee and later on for the second reading. It's tremendous. And at this moment, I'll ask ACM Gale as the Senate Madagale to make the presentation for this one. Thank you very much. Before we have our presentation, there will be one presentation by staff for items number one, two, and three. Uh, Mr. Mayor, do items number two and three need to be read into the record before I do the presentation. Okay, we can do that as well.