Ben Sorensen
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first heard Sep 2023
last heard 15 Sep
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It restricts the county and municipal ad valorem revenue to specific uses, which is public safety, education, infrastructure, natural resources, debt services, retirement benefits, and core operations.
It also allows local governments to increase the exemption further by general law up to all remaining assessed value.
And finally, what it does is it has a working waterfront properties assessed at current use and our save our homes portability is also maintained.
The city impact for fiscal year 2028 is estimated to be 17 million and for fiscal year 2029 is estimated to be 27.3 million.
And the path to the ballot, what we are considering doing is having a robust education and communications plan in which the city will communicate with residents what property tax does for the residents all the way to the November 3rd election day.
On January 1st, if the constitutional amendment does pass, it would be effective.
And then we would look towards the fiscal year 2028 budget and making any type of modifications and confirming with the property appraiser's office as to what we need to do moving forward.
There were some key enacted bills that affect the city out of the 250 that we followed this year.
There were about 1800 bills that were filed.
So it was a significant amount that we worked on.
The first being the local government DEI ban in which cities are barred from
FUNDING OR PROMOTING DEI INITIATIVES.
THE SECOND IS THE LAND USE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS BILL.
IT TIES DEVELOPMENT FEE FOR ACTUAL COSTS AND REQUIRES OBJECTIVE COMPILIBILITY STANDARDS.
NEXT IS THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE, WHICH IS THE FISCAL TRANSPARENCY ACT.
THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ALREADY HAVE IMPLEMENTED AND ARE ALREADY DOING, WHERE IT MANDATES EXPANDED ONLINE POSTING OF BUDGETS, QUARTERLY COMPENSATION REPORTS AND ANNUAL BUDGET REDUCTIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND WHERE THERE ARE IMPACT FEE CHANGES.
NEXT IS THE ELECTRONIC PAYMENTS FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WHERE IT REQUIRES CITIES TO ACCEPT CREDIT CARD
DEBIT EFT AND ONLINE PAYMENTS AND THE LAST ONE IS MICRO MOBILITY DEVICES SO THAT'S THE E-BIKES LEGISLATION HAD PASSED THIS YEAR WHICH CAPS E-BIKES AT 10 MILES PER HOUR NEAR PEDESTRIANS ON SIDEWALKS AND SHARED PATHWAYS.
IT ALSO CREATES A TASK FORCE FOR FUTURE RECOMMENDATIONS USING THE DATA.
Next is VertiPorts.
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