CITY COMMISSION WORKSHOP on 2025-04-15 11:30 AM - Joint Workshop with Budget Advisory Board - Apr 15, 2025

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What is the purpose of the joint City Commission and Budget Advisory Board workshop?

Dean Trantalis 0:00

Members of the commission to please come to the dais and uh members of the budget advisory board to please assemble and let us begin this workshop.

Dean Trantalis 0:27

Is this my lunch? Yeah. Wow. I can't. God. Oh my God. What the heck did I order? How long is this meeting gonna last?

Yvette Matthews 0:43

That's how I feel.

Dean Trantalis 0:44

No wonder the Cisco truck was pulled up. It's had a lot to unload. Okay, great. So welcome to the City Commission uh joint meeting with the budget advisory board this um uh April fifteenth, Internal Revenue Service Day, how appropriate. Um Anyway, so uh um I would ask that the clerk please call the role of the commission. Vice Mayor Herbst Commissioner Glossman here Commissioner

Unknown 1:13

Beasley Pittman

Pamela Beasley-Pittman 1:13

here

Unknown 1:14

Commissioner Sorensen here Mayor Trentals

Dean Trantalis 1:16

here thank you so much and I see uh Mr Brown is here as chair of the budget advisory board. Mr Brown, would you like to call the role of your board? Could you speak into the microphone, please?

Unknown 1:29

Thank you, Mayor. Uh Roll call will be Melissa Milroy. Vice Chair Norby Belts here. Ross Camberera. Not present. Uh Oliver Cale.

John Herbst 1:41

Present.

Unknown 1:42

Richard D we call him Richard D, but it's Richard D. Gerardo, I believe it's a couple. Close enough, yeah. Okay. Mildred Lowe, Desirea Smith. Okay. You wanna join us on the front row? Is there room? Please. And then um Patient Petit. Not present and uh Maloka Melinda Bau Balker. Okay, thank you.

Dean Trantalis 2:14

Um you have a quorum.

Unknown 2:15

We have a quorum, thank you.

Dean Trantalis 2:16

Great. Thank you. So there are two items on the uh workshop agenda, and why don't we start with business one? This relates to a uh communication between the budget advisory board and the commission uh concerning um uh the process for vetting nonprofit applications in the budget uh process. So um wanna explain to us a little bit, Mr. Brown, as to what that what you're asking for here.

Unknown 2:46

Okay. Uh first of all, Mayor, I'd like to point out that we this past year we brought six new advisory board members out of the ten. So all six of the new members are present for their first joint workshop. So I wanna commend them for taking the participation.

Dean Trantalis 3:02

And I see some old members too who can't let go, but that's okay. Oh, but they're there for advice and consent, I understand. Thank you.

Unknown 3:17

So uh in early of January meeting in February at our BAB meeting. There was some discussion with the BAB members about what participation participating role we will have in the budget process on non for profits. Just uh if you recall back in nineteen tw or nineteen twenty one The BAB was asked to develop nineteen twenty one? I wasn't twenty twenty one. Twenty twenty one, I'm sorry. I think

Dean Trantalis 3:50

my grandparents emigrated from Greece in nineteen twenty one, but that's okay.

Unknown 3:55

Twenty twenty one. There was uh some concern by BAB members that there was a lack of transparency as it related to nonfor profits and the distribution of f funds. So they came up with and worked with the commission to have an open process for any non for profit could apply. They had uh seventy two applications that year. They did a scoring matrix with weights on what uh of those seventy two where they could narrow it down to I believe it was about thirty, they of the seventy two applications. They spent three nights during that period, nineteen or twenty twenty one, early twenty two. uh reviewing those applications. They did ten each night and they came up with the final ranking. Some of the matrix that were used for that was ma did they have matching funds, the number of people receiving a

Unknown 4:50

program from their organization as where they residence, primarily for Fort Lauderdale. In programs like the Boys and Girls Club after school program. And there were seventeen new applications added into that Recommendation of the budget. Uh it went before the city commission and it things changed. So the Some of the board members at the time and still on the board felt that It was kind of a waste of their time doing that type of process if It didn't have a lot of buy in from the Commission. So I come before you tonight with a communication that they wanted to know now that state and federal funding for non for profits is being cut back.