Ben Sorensen

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Fort Lauderdale City Commission · City Commission Joint Workshop with BAB and Conference Meeting on 2026-06-16 1:00 PM - Jun 16, 2026 · 16 Jun 2026 meeting

Thank you very much.

And now we'll move into the agenda for today's workshop.

I'll turn the floor over to our city manager, Raquel Williams, for some initial comments.

THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR.

THANK YOU, COMMISSIONERS.

I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO HIGHLIGHT OUR BUDGET ADVISORY BOARD.

THIS JOINT WORKSHOP COULDN'T HAVE COME TOGETHER WITHOUT ALL THE DILIGENCE AND HARD WORK OF EACH AND EVERY BOARD MEMBER LED BY CHAIR BILL BROWN.

And they will go into a discussion about some of the work that they've been doing and focused on over the past several months.

Then we will dive into a discussion of property taxes, as well as the preliminary budget.

So at this time, I'd like to turn it over to Chair Brown.

Thank you very much, City Manager, Chair Brown.

David, is this for the slide?

Okay, I have it here, but it's okay.

Good afternoon, Vice Mayor Sorensen, Commissioners, Bill Brown, Chairman of the Budget Committee.

Time-wise, I think our presentation, we're going to try to keep to about 15 minutes, then allow for about the city manager and her staff to talk about the proposed preliminary budget

And then we'll have some time, about 15 minutes, hopefully, to address the property tax referendum issue and the educational and how the Budget Advisory Board, working with STRATCOM, can get engaged so that we can educate the public and the community and our residents on the pros and cons of the referendum.

and keeping mindful of your time since you're starting a half hour early.

We don't want to run in too late into the conference meeting, but in order to do due diligence to cover all that material, we're trying to keep it each segment to 15 minutes if agreeable.

So let me just give you some highlights since what we've been doing as a board since this budget process back in March.

We looked at all the accomplishments from 2026 FY budget.

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