>> Good evening, everyone, thank you all so much for being
here we're going to get started if some members of the public
would like to take their seats.
And we'll go ahead and get started tonight, we're
reconvening our board meeting a summit County Board of County
commissioners meeting from earlier today to address the
fiscal year, 2324 tentative millage rates and budget.
Good purpose of tonight's hearing is to present the trim
rates the tentative millage rates and budget for fiscal
year 2324 and to allow for public comment before we begin
though tonight the public should be reminded that this
Board of County commissioners does not have control over the
taxes levied or the budgets of the school board and the water
management District, the property appraiser the tax
collector or any of the cities and Seminole County any
questions that are regarding your assessed property
valuation should be addressed to our property appraiser David
Johnson who is here tonight with us.
David stanway he's he's always the most popular man of of the
of the evening.
>> And turned over to they're in great force the county
manager to move us to the post. Thank you chairman and
commissioners and welcome everyone so tonight we're here
for that the first of 2 public hearings on the FY 2324 budget
that are required by Florida statute. If you need
information for public hearings for the city's the school board
and any other taxing authorities in Seminole County
they can be found on your trim notice or just see one of our
staff people and they'll be able to assist you.
The purpose again at tonight's meeting is to present to the
public the tentative budget for the FY 2324 a year and that
pose millage rate the change from the rollback millage rate
and by the state's definition, the rollback millage rate is
the rate when applied to next year's tax base excluding the
new construction that will generate the same revenue that
was raised in the previous year.
In just a few minutes, I'll turn it over to our Office of
Management and Budget director Tim Jax who will be presenting
our fiscal year 2324 budget and proposed millage rate
just breathe some brief comments on tonight's a budget
that I would like to highlight the general fund recommended
budget is based on a millage rate of 4.8 7, 5, 1, and we've
had that millage rate for quite some time. The millage rate
will generate an additional 21.8 million in ad valorem tax
revenues for fiscal year, 24.
The tentative budget also includes an additional 15 full
time positions spread out between the Fire Department
water utilities and courts. This budget does to demonstrate
that the city skews me that the county I I do that from time to
time that the county's enterprise fund water sewer and
solid waste funds are are financially sound.
It also provides additional investments for the deferred
maintenance of our facilities and equipment and
infrastructure that we discussed in our budget work
sessions and specifically focus on a roof and hvac replacements
it also includes improvements to our Park facilities, the
private golf course trails in the sports complex and finally
we've been able to keep our reserves in the general fund of
approximately 16 million or about 20% of the budget
operating revenues, which is on target with our reserve policy.
I want to publicly commend our senior staff for their
cooperation throughout the budget process, this was my
first budget with Seminole County that has resulted in the
tentative budget being considered tonight. I also want
to applaud all County staff or the willing and assistance to
search for efficiencies expand the work effort and offered
their total support as we make adjustments to the way we
provide services to the future to our residents. So at this
time, I'd like to turn it over to our management and Budget
director Tim Jax to discuss the FY 2324 millage rate and budget
and after his presentation chairman then we can open up to
the public for public comment. Thank you any questions.
The ticket.
All right Mister Jacques thank you chair, and commissioner
symptom of the checks with the Office of management budget
in accordance with Florida statute in truth, the mileage
requirements, the FY 2023 24 budget was developed based on
the military shown here.
The first COLUMN shows the current white 23 adopted rates,
the second COLUMN shows the rollback rate which would
provide the same amount of ad valorem tax revenues excluding
new construction.
The next COLUMN shows the FY 24 proposed tentative millage
rates and the final COLUMN shows the percentage of the
tentative millage over the rollback rate
as you can see the FY 24 tentative rates are the same as
the current FY 23 adopted rates and these are also the same
rates that were approved by the board at the July 25th BCC
meeting and these are the rates that were submitted to the
residents and the notice of proposed property taxes that
were mailed out in August.
I will now read the race into the record.
The general countywide millage of 4.8 7, 5, 1, Mills is 9.4 3%
above the rollback rate of 4.4 5, 5, 1, noticed
the fire rescue him St. You mileage, 2.7 6, 4, 9, Mills is
9.3 3% about the rollback rate of 2.5 2, 8, 9, Mills.
The unincorporated rodents to mileage of 0.1 1, 0, 7, Mills
is 8.8 5% about the rollback rate of 0.1 0, 1, 7, Mills.
And the tentative aggregate millage rate for all BCC taxing
districts of 6.8 6, 1, medals. His 9.0 0% about the current
aggregate rollback rate of 6.3 1, 7, 8, miles
that concludes our presentation of the mileage.
>> Are there any members of the public who wish to address the
tentative millage rates
any forms.
I said, I'll let the record reflect that there are no
members of the public who wish to address the tentative
millage rates is there a motion to adopt the fiscal year,
2324 tentative millage rates as presented.
>> Most about the fiscal year, 2324%, of mileage rates as
presented here this evening.
>> There's a motion by zembower I think it was a second by her
was Lee, a commissioner Constantine I'm so sorry for a
second by commissioner Constantine is there any
discussion.
All those in favor say aye aye aye any opposed motion passes
unanimously.
And on the budget Mister Texas.
>> Now we're going to present the tentative County what
budget.
The total Tenet County wide budget is 1 million 71
1 million 338 thousand 637 dollars for all funds balance
between revenues and expenditures.
This includes 44 million dollars in first public hearing
adjustments that are detailed on page 14 of your document.
Those adjustments include an additional 3.2 million dollars
in revenues, an additional 60 million a new Grant
agreements.
10 million dollars in urban transport and 15 million
dollars and fund balance adjustments.
This chart by service areas shows that public safety
physical environment and transportation make up 75% of
the county's total expenditure budget,
public safety includes our Fire Department and sheriff's office
physical environment is the water utilities and solid waste
services. Transportation includes road construction,
drainage traffic engineering
and general government costs include our constitutional
officers facilities, maintenance planning and our
self-insurance activities
also I make a note for the record that there's a fund
balance adjustment of 8 million dollars in our 3rd generation
infrastructure, sales tax fund.
The document shows an adjustment of that money going
into 9 individual projects for the final adopted budget we're
going to put that money into reserves and then come back to
the border in the year based on project needs.
>> Whether any members of the public who wish to address the
budget
okay,
Mister Horvath
this is not your first rodeo, so you know name name and
address for the record and you'll have 3 minutes.
>> Good evening, madam chair commissioners John were vast
1004 Bedford drive or Park Florida. And as it tells you
that some of the Seminole County but I don't want to part
mail address. So come on in here in my contacts to
I think this is my story of the 50's budget hearing and I
looked at the budget a billion dollars. I remember was a half
a million half a 1 million 500 thousand dollars
an hour left it's time that we also have an increasing
population around 480,000 people that just means a lot of
goods and services that need to be done for them, it said are.
The question of the station 39, I was looking at 2
website and then the they have really any reports going back
to 2010 and I saw that station 39 was listed in 2010 is being
proposed now understand as strong as chief early in the
ground has been broken so it took 13 years to get it done,
but I tell people if you look at the records were not Russian
think and 23. Haha too many EU mission is now. 20's and
station joins rain I was involved with that I come in to
70's when it was some local fire departments. So I know how
will that not only is and hopefully next year to have a
new station government because the county added on a it
designed for the day standers we have male and female
firefighters and their cause.
They were the bison friends of is it that the.
I'm glad the county's people and I'm seeing some of the
city's no equipment aerial trucks are you know first of
all you sponsored Remus
I understand in looking at the budget
was that I saw that he had been there for a county in the
office.
I'm glad to see that cause. I know it's kind of hard for
taxpayers to have to go to identify loved one. I thought
was gone Lucia County, but it's also where are you working with
wake County now which is still far because I know I've been
out there doing stuff up there over the years and
you need to pasta from the county because of the 4 a 1000
plus people and the shares and understand their personnel but
no deputies issue but I don't want them to fall behind and
come in one year and they need to free deputies, instead of at
a future hearing there with some other things with that
mental health Thai people are already which is Friday.
But you still need that these 2.
We show the other day with all the shootings are going on.
Statewide you know what's going to happen with that. But the
rise. I agree with the budget because it's needed to serve it
we need to keep up with the infrastructure.
Why would I want to show one the first says several large
systems of the county brought in to lift stations, 50 years
old and over here and we're going to break that and we need
to keep up with it because if you do we get mine, thank you
chair.
>> Yeah, thank you Mister Horvath up she being here are
there any other members of the public who would like to speak
on the budget the tentative budget.
I don't see any anyone else here that would like to address
the budget
is there a motion to adopt the 2324 tentative budget as
adjusted.
Commissioner Constantine top.
>> A fiscal year, 2324 move to adopt the fiscal year, 2324
tentative budget as adjusted of 1 billion 71 million $338,637
second.
>> Motion by commissioner Constantine second by
commissioner zembower is there any discussion on that item I
do have
first
I want to thank staff.
>> Mister gray. When when commissioner Lockhart and I
came on this commission back in 2018 and I think we both
realized that there was a lot of deferred maintenance.
Not only in facilities that are parks there. Yeah, you know
items that the taxpayer had paid for improvements.
That have been allowed to decay and no maintenance or
replacement and and I appreciate you know staff Tim
in your folks Lori working with our parks and Recreation people
in our facilities people
nailing down of getting some sanity
and the fact that we need to protect the taxpayers dollars
once been spent and we must maintain that
so why do it to begin with so thank you all very much I
appreciate it.
>> Anything that I would ask.
This final number was the result of a lot of work
and so could you share with us how much you cut from the
various departments budgets to get to this number.
>> Yes, and I what thank you for for saying that is you know
the budget process really goes all year kicks off in January.
But when I got here and in February they had already
started the process and since this.
>> Since this is not the first rodeo of doing the budget.
Mister Jax I told him that I would observe this year to
provide input to go through the process but really dive deep
into the to the numbers with with that Mister Jackson all
the department heads. I would say that we it is the
department's will go and they will they will look for
efficiencies but they also know what they need to operate and
then it's our job to go through that and determine what we can
forward I'm not over in overspend not that they
overspend, but it's what they actually need to to do what
they need to do and so we could
and Mister sex with a cracking around over 17 million and and
the department's and our departments. Budgets and then a
few of the CA constitutional icr clerk over there. I think
because it is by a 100. But we're working on a plan to get
you where you need you need to go so there's so we really like
to do not only the ours, but all the constitutional as well
in order to meet the needs of the community in the residence
in the business owners but yeah, we have to be a good
steward of taxpayers monies to and I know this board is very I
mean some huge priority for you all as well as for us and to
ensure that we serve the community, you know that that
reserve and so yeah we could close to 20 Million. The
initial requests. Thank you
Mister the long long answer.
>> No that's great forgot thank you madam chair is I appreciate
him and Lori and all the department heads.
My request to look at the carryforwards get that cleaned
up and get back into the general fund which was
fantastic. I think that's something that we should
not allowed to get out of control in the future about
that I think we've got a plan for that so thank you all again
for for taking that and it was extra work.
But it was time well spent to thank you.
>> Any further discussion the motion and second all those in
favor say aye aye any opposed motion passes unanimously.
Unless there's anything else to come before the board.
Yeah, remind them of that I noticed some public hearings.
I just yet we're going to do this again so we there's a
second and final public hearing to adopts the county mileage
and the budget and that is scheduled for Tuesday September
2620 23 at 5.30 again here and the county Commission chambers.
Now Commission can all right fantastic will be adjourned at
5.45