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The City of Miramar held its second public hearing for the Fiscal Year 2027 budget on Monday, September 28, 2026, at 5:01 PM. The meeting included adoption of the millage rate, final budget, five-year Capital Improvement Program, and the comprehensive pay plan, along with a presentation on the strategic plan engagement results. The commission voted on each item, and a public comment period was provided.
All right, we're ready. Everybody ready? Good evening. The second public hearing of the fiscal year 2027 budget for the city of Miramar is now called to order. An opportunity was given to the public to email the city clerk prior to this 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 Miramarfl.gov slash commission meeting and televised on Comcast Channel 78 and ATT Uverse Channel 99 for all Miramar subscribers. As of September 28th at 430 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 of Miramar Commission prior to any action taken. At this time, Madam Clerk, please call the roll. Mayor Masson. Here. Commissioner Chambers. Commissioner Sherizard present. Commissioner Colburn. Here. City Manager Dr. Virgin. Here. City Attorney Powell. Here. City Attorney Gary. Here. Let us all rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay, item number one, please. Item number one. An ordinance of the City Commission of the City of Miramar, Florida, establishing and adopting the City of Miramar Advilarm tax operating millage levy rate at 7.1172 Mills, or $7.11 per thousand dollars of taxable assessed property value for the 2026 tax year, which is five point eighteen percent greater than the rollback rate of six point seven six six six six six six six four mills, providing for conflicts and providing for an effective date. Florida statutes requires that the prior that prior to the adoption of the millage levy, the mayor shall make the following public announcement. The city has proposed the millage rate of 7.1172 mills. This would constitute a millage rate that is 5.18% above the rollback rate of 6.764 mills and is necessary to fund the budget. The city manager will now explain the specific purposes for which advalorm 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, Commissioner and staff. As stated, the City Mail the millet rate of 7.1172 will be held firm. We have not increased the milled rate over the past number of years. But before I bring um our budget director to make the presentation, I want to take this opportunity to thank the budget department, um, Mr. Raphael, Sam Miguel, and his team. Uh could you stand so we can you can be recognized the budget department, all the members? They have done uh Mr. Mayor tremendous job. Um we all know that the process starts in February and um pretty much no let off for them up to this point. In addition to that, I also want to thank the entire city and the department head who have worked tirelessly to make sure we have this budget that is before us um today. And I'm proud to say that the budget that we present we're presenting today, which we presented in the first reading we're presenting now, is a budget that will sustain the city's um development and future development.