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

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.

We met with all the directors and they came in and talked about their project and the projects that they would like to move forward with in 2027, what initiatives, what keeps them up at night, some of the challenges and opportunities that they're faced with.

We spent about three hours

That meeting in March had a very good discussion with all department heads.

And they both recognized going into that meeting that we had some challenges looking at FY27 and 28 and a few years out.

So they were mindful of that and we did have some healthy discussions.

And then back in May, starting on May the 6th to the 13th and the 20th is where we bring all the departments back in individually.

and they give their budget request presentations to us.

We sit there, we have good dialogue about what they want to move forward with in more detail in the 2027 FY budget, what their asks are, the reasoning why they need that.

And then we ask for performance measures on some of the issues.

Response time has always been a big one.

RETURN ON INVESTMENT ON SOME OF THE DEPARTMENTS, HOW MANY, WHEN WE GET INTO DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES, WHEN WE SEE A DECREASE IN PERMITS, WE ASK QUESTIONS, WHAT'S THE TREND?

SO IT'S A VERY GOOD DIALOGUE OF QUESTIONS BACK AND FORTH OF THE BAT.

AND THEN WE ASK WHAT ARE SOME OF THE ENHANCED FUNDING THAT THEY'RE GOING TO NEED?

And as I mentioned previously, they were very mindful going in with their budgets and with clear direction working with the city manager and OMB that they had to really come in very, very lean, looking at not fluff into their budgets.

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