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Good evening.

Welcome to the second public hearing on the millage and budget for 2025 fiscal year, September 26, 2024.

The fiscal year 2025.

Public here budget public hearing for the city of Miramar 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, concerns, or comments 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.

This public hearing is being streamed live at Miramar FL.gov slash commission meeting and televised on Comcast Channel 78 and ATT U versus Channel 99 for City of Miramar subscribers.

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At this time, Madam Clerk, please call the roll.

Mayor Massum.

Here.

City Attorney Gary.

Here is all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God, indivisible liberty and justice for all.

Please note there will be only one presentation to cover both items one and two.

Mr.

City Attorney, please read the title for item number one, please.

An ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Miramar, Florida, establishing and adopting the City of Miramar's ad valorum tax operating millage levy rate at 7.1172 mills, or 7.1172 per thousand dollars of taxable assessed property value for the 2024 tax year, which is 6.76% greater than the rolled back rate of 6.6663 mills, providing for con conflicts and providing for an effective date.

Chapter 200.065 2E1, Florida statutes requires that the governing body of the city shall adopt its proposed millage rate prior to adopting a tentative budget.

The city has proposed a millage rate of 7.1172 mills.

This rate constitutes a 6.76% increase compared to the rolled back rate of 6.663 mills.

The rolled back rate is the rate that would be needed to bring in the same ad valorum tax revenue as last year.

In addition, Section 200.0652D, Florida statutes requires that prior to the adoption of the millage levy, the mayor make the following public announcement.

The proposed millage rate set by the Miramar City Commission on July 10th, 2024 was 7.1172 mills.

At the bubble at the first budget hearing on September 12th, 2024, the City Commission adopted the proposed millage rate of 7.1172 mills, representing a 6.76 increase compared with the rollback rate of 6.6663 mills, which is necessary to fund the budget.

We as the governing body of the city of Miramar shall now hear a presentation from staff regarding the proposed millage rate and the budget.

An ordinance of the city commission of the City of Miramar, Florida, adopting the tentative operating and capital improvement program as the City of Miramar's final budget for the fiscal year 2025, allocating appropriating and authorizing expenditures in accordance with and for the purposes stated in said budget, accepting certain appropriations and expenditures from requiring further city commission action, authorizing budgetary control by department total for all appropriations, providing for the authorization of all budgeted employment positions, providing for the creation of balanced revenue and expenditure accounts for receipt of monies by gift, grant, or otherwise, and the management and disbursement thereof, providing that the budget hereby adopted may be adjusted or modified by ordinance, providing for the authorization to lapse all encumbrances outstanding on September 30th, 2024, providing authorization to reappropriate lapsed caps capital outlay and capital improvement encumbrances in the 2025 fiscal year and providing for an effective date.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor, Madam Vice Mayor, Commissioners, City Manager, Happy Birthday, sir, City Attorney, and City Clerk.

My name is Sean Gale, and I have the pleasure of serving as an assistant city manager on the team that leads the city of Beauty and Progress.

The presentation here before you tonight is an abridged version.

This is the fourth iteration of the presentation before you.

So this is an abridged version of that presentation, and it will highlight the differences between the first and the second reading as presented in the change memo that was sent to the city commission on Monday, September 23rd.

The presentation tonight will be co-presented by myself and assistant director of management and budget, Ms.

Carmen Dominguez, who will go over the highlights of the change memo that was sent in Monday's memo.

So this second reading tonight seeks adoption of temporary ordinance 1833 establishing the ad valorem tax operating millage rate for tax year 2024 and temporary ordinance 1832, which is a tentative operating budget for fiscal year 25.

City Commission approval is required for the establishment and adoption of the city's ad valorem tax operating millage and the adoption of the fiscal year 25 operating budget.

The city manager presents before you tonight a budget that presents fiscal transparency.

And I want to start with the QR code that's on the left.

We presented this at the last hearing, and anyone watching this meeting or sees this QR code in this presentation can scan the Cure code and be taken to the budget page where they can see all the budget presentations, the budget that we're presenting here tonight, the budget that we're operating in for fiscal year 24, and the budgets for previous years, and connect with the information to you know uh engage with the city's budget and get that information.

The budget also presents um healthy levels of fund balance as one of the philosophy, maintenance of uh quality of life for a resident, supporting infrastructure and public safety services, and maintaining uh service levels while we build efficiencies into our operation.

This slide shows the changes for for the adopted budget for fiscal year 24 and the tentative budget being presented here tonight.

And we see overall an increase of about 65 million dollars, and this is mainly driven by operations or uh salaries and benefits or CIP and vehicle replacement, as we can see the increase in the enterprise fund and the general fund, mostly attributed to operations, uh salary and benefits, CIP and vehicle replacement.

Drilling down further for the general fund, we see an increase of 28.6 million, and again, mostly attributed to salaries and benefits and or capital outlay activities.

So, where does the funding come from for general funds?

The biggest portion of the funding comes from our ad valoran property taxes at 43 percent, or permit fees and special assessments, such as our fire assessment, or other taxes, such as uh utility taxes, charges for services, and this includes ticket sales and park fees, or intergovernmental revenues, or other revenues such as transfers from grants and miscellaneous, such as interest earnings.

Where does it all go?

So, public safety consumes about 50 percent of the budget, community and culture about 20 percent, and that's our cultural services, permitting services.

Our administration stands at 12 percent, city commission, city manager, city clerk, human resources, and legal public works, about five percent, other at five percent, like post-employment benefits, and debt service stands at seven percent.

If we break the salaries and benefits down a little further, we see that employee pay is 63%, our pension for a previous workforce stands at 20%, health at 5%, payroll taxes 4%, workers' compensation, which is another benefit at 3%, and then our other benefits such as post-employment benefits stands at 5%.

Here we see as we always say our most reliable sources of revenue or ad valorum and fire assessment coming in at $131.3 million dollars, and other revenues such as charges for services, permit fees, intergovernmental revenues, and miscellaneous at $114.2 million.

Again, we can say that our most reliable sources of revenues covers our public safety, which is our mission critical activities here in the city, and then it also covers other governmental operations such as administration, community and culture, grants, public works, and debt service.

This slide reiterates the average homesteaded single-family home within the city of Miramar.

And we just heard our property appraiser gave his presentation the other day talking about the difference between our assessed value and the market value of the homes.