CITY COMMISSION WORKSHOP on 2024-06-18 11:30 AM - Joint Workshop with Budget Advisory Board
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Fort Lauderdale City Commission
1h 36m
5 speakers
8 agenda items
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What was discussed in the opening roll call and agenda setting?
Uh good good morning everybody and welcome to the City Commission joint meeting with the Budget Advisory Board. This is a joint workshop which we will st begin or continue our conversation with regard to the twenty twenty five uh preliminary budget. I want to thank you all for being here today and I certainly want to thank the budget advisory board for coming this morning and participating in this in this uh meeting. Um would the Chair please call the uh the role of the committee? Did you come up to the podium? I know, it's a long walk.
Your comparison beyond great.
Um by the way, the microphones are very sensitive, so you don't even have to get up that close to it. Go ahead. Okay.
Um Rain Brown. There you go. There you go. Ross Camarada. No Mildred Lau. Well you have to say yes here. Okay. Okay, good. Pablo limits now. John Rodstrom. Jeremiah Carter. Absolutely. Melissa Milroy. Michael Marshall. And Mr. Lowe here. Is there a quorum? We have
a quorum. Okay, great. Mr. Clerk, could you please call the role of the city commission?
Commissioner Herbst. Vice Mayor Glasman? Here. Commissioner Beasley Pittman? Here.
Commissioner Sturman? Here. Mayor Trentals. Here. And we have full attendance with the city commission. So I'm gonna thank the uh the budget advisory board for uh uh coming today. Unfortunately we have a very odd setup. you know, working with the c with the board and the commission. Hopefully when we move over to the um to the um performing arts center uh after the break uh in August we'll be able to have um much more um a a much more user friendly and participatory friendly uh uh arrangement of chairs and so forth. Anyway, um
Jeff. It's all yours. Yes. Thank you. Good afternoon, Mayor, Vice Mayor and members of the council. Since the budget advisory met with the city commission, we have reviewed detailed information and heard presentations from each department director about operating challenges and program enhancement proposals for the fiscal year twenty twenty five budget. I would like to thank each of the departments and their hard work and commitment to this process. As at this meeting, we will hear from the city manager about the preliminary budget recommendations and the ten-year projections for key funds. This is an important part of the budget process as it allows for consideration of capacity for funding within the proposed rate structure that you will approve in July to be published on the trend notice.
Due to the recent rain event, our board was not able to meet and make formal rec recommendations regarding the millage rate and the fire assessment rate. However, BAB has historically been in favour of full cost recovery through the fire assessment fees. In addition, we have proceeded throughout the budget development process under the assumption that the Commission was not interested in increasing the millage rate as mentioned during our last joint workshop. However, if there was capacity in the budget to fund additional initiatives, there are many department requests that BABS would have supported that fell under the Commission's priorities of public safety. Infrastructure resilience. and public space enhancements.
The city manager will share the proposed budget on July 2nd, and the budget advisory board will meet with you again at a joint meeting on August twentieth to provide the board's recommendations regarding the proposed budget prior to your two public hearings that take place September third and September twelfth. Due to the rain delay, we have no further recommendations at this time as it relates to the twenty twenty five budget. And I'll be happy to answer any questions or comments. Okay, great, thank you so
much. Um is there anyone from the city commission who wishes to address the chair? Any questions regarding the budget? The preliminary information, seventy eight pages. Light reading. Well let me just say this. The fact that it's seventy-eight pages uh between you and staff, you know, it's a you it's really amazing how much work, how much time is put into this. I want to thank each and every member of the uh of the advisory board for the amount of time you put into this to try to refine numbers and to um make appropriate recommendations when we f when we finally have to make those decisions.
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Agenda
8 items
1
What was discussed in the opening roll call and agenda setting?
0:00–5:27
2
How did the City Manager present the preliminary 2025 budget and its key priorities?
5:27–12:21
3
Why did the fire assessment fee decrease and what does that mean for taxpayers?
12:21–27:24
4
What are the current homelessness and shelter‑bed initiatives and their funding?
27:24–42:55
5
How is the Mobile Integrated Health (MIH) program structured and funded?
42:55–57:29
6
What financial modeling scenarios were shown for fund balance and CRA extensions?
57:29–1:14:14
7
How are water, sewer, and stormwater rates projected to change through 2029?
1:14:14–1:28:35
8
What were the final takeaways and next steps for the budget workshop?
1:28:35–1:36:05
Speakers
5 identified
Dean Trantalis 14 min
John Herbst 7 min
Steven Glassman 4 min
Pamela Beasley-Pittman 1 min
Adam Geller
Officials recognised by voice; public commenters shown as “Speaker N” unless they state their name.
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