Good evening.

The meeting of the Miramar City Commission is now called to order.

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

Here.

Commissioner Chambers.

Here.

Commissioner Sharazard.

Present.

Yeah.

Commissioner Edwards.

City Manager Dr.

Virgin.

Here.

City Attorney Powell.

Let us all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States.

At this time, we do have recognition and a commemoration list of bereaved Myanmar City employees.

Who lost a mother?

And we'll also keep in our thoughts and our prayers any other condolences that we are experiencing in the city of Myanmar, um, in our county, state, and around the country.

Let's have a moment of silence.

Thank you.

We do have one modification to tonight's agenda.

Item number 10 has been continued to the next March 4th Commission meeting.

Item 10 has been continued to the March 4th agenda.

On to presentations.

Our first presentation will be a property taxes update by our very own Broward County property appraiser, Marty Keir.

Hello, sir.

Welcome.

Good evening.

Good evening, Mr.

Mayor.

Thank you so much for having me today.

I really appreciate it.

And uh before I just quickly talk about uh just kind of my thoughts as to where the property tax uh proposals are going.

I want to, of course, thank you all.

Uh I believe that this is such a fantastic city.

You all do a great job.

Uh, you'll be very proud, I think that my oldest daughter is about to become a null.

So it's uh is absolutely so I'm very proud of that.

Uh and I do want to let you know that I think that out of all of our 31 cities, Myanmar's staff is just one of the easiest and best to work with.

Uh every single week, you all are kind enough to provide us uh all of the permits and things so we can put things on the tax roll, and you have been so helpful in allowing our office to be here in Miramar and to get the word out for owner alert and how we can help uh people save money in their property taxes.

And so I appreciate y'all just so so very much.

And with that said, Mr.

Mayor, I appreciate you all inviting me today just to kind of talk about what's going on with property taxes up in the state legislature.

And I think this is very important because as you know, whatever vote our legislators make and put on the ballot will be by far the most consequential vote I think they'll ever take.

And the reason being is because it can drastically change the way that local government collects its revenue and it can drastically change the way that you all provide services uh to our residents.

Also, whenever they put something on the ballot, uh it's been my goal to kind of educate the public as to what's in the proposed amendments, because then the public, all of us, when we go and vote, it's gonna be the most consequential vote that we'll ever take if we decide to amend the Constitution or not.

And so what I was hoping to do, Mr.

Mayor, is just quickly talk about how we got here for the public, uh, where we are, uh, my conversations recently with people up in leadership in Tallahassee, and then I was hoping to just quickly go through uh some of the proposals that the Florida House has put through.

Now, as you know, there's no guarantee anything's gonna make the ballot.

There's no guarantee that the proposals from the Florida House are gonna make the ballot, and something entirely different could make the ballot.

But I wanted to go over these proposals because they're the only concrete ones that are there at this time, and I think they painted a really good snapshot as to what could feasibly be on the ballot and the impacts uh it can have for our residents, both with their savings and loss of revenue to local governments.

Uh but for the residents, you may remember, about a year ago, some random person from North Florida got very mad about his property taxes.

So we tweeted property taxes are horrible, we got to get rid of them.

And it just so happened that the governor saw that tweet and retweeted it.

And when the governor retweets something, it kind of starts a very big conversation over something.