City Commission Conference Meeting on 2025-04-01 1:30 PM

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What agenda items are introduced at the beginning of the meeting?

Dean Trantalis 0:00

Um Good afternoon everybody and welcome to the city commission meeting conference meeting this uh April first. Yes, this is real, not an April Fool's joke. And uh We are moving forward with uh uh an interesting agenda t this afternoon. And uh thank you all for being here. We all seated? Oh not yet, okay. All right. So um Hold on, let me get to the right agenda. Okay. So we have a number of presentations this afternoon and the first is gonna be with regard to getting a legislative update uh what's going on at the uh legislature which is currently in session in Tallahassee. And Daphne, you wanna give us a heads up?

Unknown 0:57

Not really.

Dean Trantalis 0:58

Yes, you do.

Unknown 1:00

Uh good after you're a lot of things

Dean Trantalis 1:01

are in flux though, right?

Unknown 1:03

Lots of things are in flux, but a lot of things are moving along. Okay. So this is our our mid session update there seems to be All right, good afternoon, Mayor, uh, Vice Mayor, Commissioners, um the Daphne Sainville, public affairs manager, wanted to give you a mid session update on what's going on in Tallahassee. Before I get into the policy bills, I want to talk money first, because we like talking about money. Um the state budget ha has been released, the preliminaries uh with the base budget from the House and the Senate. The Senate budget is looking at one hundred and seventeen point four billion dollars. The House budget is looking at one hundred and twelve point nine. billion dollars so there's about a four billion dollar four point four billion dollar difference between the two that they're gonna have to reconcile near the end of April during budget conference part of that um budget release was our appropriations projects that we put in we put in approximately eleven projects we are in play

Unknown 2:06

four seven out of the eleven. So the ones that got into one house, one well, one chamber or the other are as follows. The Galt Mile Improvement Project, we requested two million. We have five hundred oh no, we have a million in the House. Um in the Senate we didn't get into their budget, but we're working on that this week, next week. and for the remainder of session. Um we're looking to see if we can bump up to that full ask. Uh the roadway resurfacing project we requested seven hundred and fifty and in the Senate we are in the budget for seven hundred and fifty, so that's a good sign because the Senate does control the budget this year, so being in play on their side makes it much easier for the House to come up to that full amount.

Unknown 2:51

The sidewalk repair safety project, we requested seven hundred and fifty thousand. And in the Senate, we are in there for seven hundred and fifty thousand, so we are in play there, looking very good. The Los Olas safety improvement and eighty eight upgrades, which is the Los Olas Mobility Project. We are in the Senate for Five hundred thousand. Uh uh no, the house for five hundred thousand and in the Senate for one million. So there's a disconnect there and we're gonna look to bring the house up to the million dollar mark.

Dean Trantalis 3:22

What was that money intended for? Is that for the design Do you know off the top of your head?

Unknown 3:27

That is for, I believe, construction design, Milosh?

Milo Smyslorovic 3:37

Good afternoon, Milo Smyslorovic, Acting Director for Cities Transportation and Mobility Department. So the funding was actually for contraction, a portion of contraction funding for Las Solas Mobility and specifically for shops segment. We are currently working on design and uh this funding would help with contraction.

Dean Trantalis 3:53

Well, isn't the budget for construction like in the tens of millions? So what is this gonna

Milo Smyslorovic 3:57

go for?

How does the legislative update address the state budget and project funding?

Milo Smyslorovic 3:59

It is. So I believe the Trump segment only it's probably around over ten million dollars. So um ultimately we're seeking any funding opportunity that we can secure in order to advance certain aspects of the project. Okay. Thank you.

Unknown 4:17

And should we be successful in getting it in the state budget and then uh surviving the governor's veto pen, we're gonna leverage this with um funding that we're gonna request during the earmark process on the federal level. Violence interruption program um program we requested nine hundred thousand and in the house we received four hundred thousand, nothing in the Senate, we're still working on that.