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Apopka City Council Tentative Budget Hearing for 2022/2023 Fiscal Year at City Hall on September 7, 2022 at 5:15 PM.
To view the meeting agenda visit: http://www.apopka.gov/agenda

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A

I guess and then we'll we'll do a public comment after the millage.

B

um We can do that mayor as long as everybody's okay, with the current military, where it tracks keep in mind. You can't go up it's hard to go up tonight, but you can go down.

B

um I, wouldn't recommend you go down, I the budget's balanced for where it sits so you're right mayor. If you want to go ahead and approve the mileage rate, you can do that first and nobody can do budget presentation.

A

Okay I mean is anybody everybody comfortable with the current millage rate.

C

So it's we still have the opportunity to discuss kind of how that's being allocated yeah.

A

Yeah: okay: okay, yes, okay, all right! um Anybody want to speak on the millage rate. Okay, if not um need to read this uh the script here um in accordance with the truth in millage trim requirements, the city must set the tentative millage rate and advise the property appraiser of the tended millage rate rollback rate date time in place of final budget hearing, the tentative millage rate is 4.1876, which represents a 10.87 percent increase over the rolled back rate millage rate of 3.7100.

A

The final budget hearing is scheduled for Wednesday September 14 2022 at 6 PM in the council chambers.

A

A motion to approve so got a motion by commissioner Smith. Second, second by commissioner bankson. All those in favor aye opposed motion carries unanimously. Okay, so we'll go ahead and we'll open it up for for public comment before we get into the uh to.

D

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B

Good morning, mayor can I have a question, so um do a public comment at the beginning, if you'd like as well, I think based on trim, we probably should do one at the very end after all, but just presented before you just treat just like an ordinance okay. Well, we have the public hearing and then you have any or you have your presentation. Okay,.

A

Okay, yep all right so dude. Let's do that.

B

Way. Okay. Thank you um so mayor, commissioner, this is your first public hearing. As you know, from the proposed budget hearing, we have to set two budget hearings by it. All we have one tonight and then we have one also on the 14th, which is next Wednesday at six o'clock here in City, Hall, council chambers, it will be the final budget hearing. We do adopt a final Trim and to file budget food wide budget for FY 23..

B

So I wanted to say that first of all, the first thing I want you to do is I want to go through kind of give the public an overview for those that people- those who aren't here tonight.

B

um First I want to thank the finance staff, because what you see before you tonight is something we've never had here in Apopka. It's a great thing is more transparency, so the public can go online. You can drill down to every one of these budgets. You can go all the way down to to every line and see.

B

What's in every time, it's also active what that means is, as the staff makes adjustments or Azure staff updates on um in the financials the updates on the website, so any changes that you've seen from a workshop to today are Incorporated.

B

I want to show this slide because I want you to see how we got to where we are today. If you recall, we had three budget workshops, those departments and spreadsheets that you saw are here and they are active.

B

The changes that you asked for during those work during the proposed budget, you asked me to add a training position.

B

That position has been added in this budget and if you go back to those workshops, you'll see it wasn't in the workshops, but it is now included in the first public hearing, so you'll be able to see those changes that you've asked or requested. Okay are updated and you'll see them in this live so as changes are made or updated, they become live on the website. The great part about the website and we'll go through a few, as we move through you'll be able to also look at different views.

B

Some people are interested in just over a top level. They just want to see how much is personal, how much is operating, how much of capital some people are interested in, seeing how much goes to Public Safety, how much those two utilities how much it goes to to Recreation you'll, be able to also based on your needs or based on what you'd like to see drill down to that level, which is very, very important.

B

Just data also keep in mind when we get to the final public hearing and you adopt your final measures in your budget. If you recall last year, when financed and Jessica Christine, they brought up and showed you the final budget book that had everything updated done, adopted that will also post here, and so someone will actually be able to go through and see from beginning to end how we got to where we are.

B

We've never had that capability before that's a great tool, because you're able to see what started in a workshop and where do we end in your final budget, so you'll be able to see the whole process and go through every sheet and every change so that those are two things I wanted to point out. I wanted to thank Jessica and her team can't thank them enough. As you know, we've had new software. When you have new software, it's very difficult. It takes a lot of hours.

B

A lot of time, um Jessica was um I, think that's turned into an accountant, she's.

E

Our preferment person.

B

As you know, read the team with the budget as well, so I think she's learned some nice accounting tools as well, but I have to thank the whole team. I couldn't do it without her team, as mayor stayed earlier in the in the council meeting this afternoon, primaries leaving us as you know.

B

Unfortunately, it's we're very sad because she's done a great job, but I may have said she has built a team that is so good and it's functioning and working really well that it was my job to make sure we find somebody that won't disrupt this team, somebody that would be good that can come in and keep this team on track and focused, because Vladimir has built a phenomenal team.

B

They all know your functions, they work well together and, as you know, in the budget we've given some positions, extra positions in finance so um I think it's important that we um that we highlight that I will miss her.

B

As you know, Finance is my thing: I will miss her she's done a good job, but I fully understand family comes first, so I wanted to say that first of all I make sure that we thank all our staff just because instrumental on her staff. But everybody takes all the staff the Departments had to work with them. Every Department had to be involved, putting their numbers in um because a lot of time it took a lot of meetings and it's important that we commend our staff for um for building this.

B

So I'm going to start by kind of showing you on the website for public Community as well. We had how did we get to where we are? Today? We had three workshops. We went through all our departments. They went to all vote on items.

B

We did an overall budget after Thursday Workshop do set a proposed military and proposed budget general fund budget back in July. All of the property tax owners have been noticed through the pro through the nurse or proposed property tax, um and so through the Property Appraiser's office. So we have met all the requirements to get to this point. Today so you're at your first public hearing of September, the 7th tonight, here's you'll see different you'll.

B

Have we have the budget message I'm not going to read that and go through that I'm going to go through actually a budget and all the highlights which will cover the message. But your budget message is basically just where it is. It's a message: it's a short quick overview for those people who want to actually go through and just read, hey how students find the impact of what are the most significant things that you'd find it's a high level, but it's for your reader to be able to see what happens in each fund.

B

What what change in each fund see why, at all times, that's what we're going to go through tonight. I want you to go here. I want to give you I'm going to start with the big picture and show you the whole city budget and how it's balanced and I'm going to pick I'm going to select on some of the major finds the general fund, Utility Fund and go through some of those I can show you the highlights and show you significant things that have changed within the major funds.

B

There are some smaller things like special assessment funds, I'm not going to go in a lot of detail for those unless you want to so. If we get there and it's something you want to talk about, we can go through those as well. Capital Improvement program got through five-year Capital Improvement program.

B

It is still in progress. There's a couple areas that still aren't completed, but the first year is complete, which is a year that you're adopting that's what you're you're having your budget tonight. The four years out, um Jessica and her team continue to work on building those years in a five-year Capital plan, and it should be up in the next day or two, so the format will be there, but The Five-Year Plan is a plan. That's exactly what it is. You only are adopting the first year of your plan.

B

That's what you're appropriating your budget, the other four years are actually a plan that we use for future planning and future advisors authorized members of number of positions. That's what you will see where we've added positions in the wish department or which function. So that's just a quick overview for those people who want to see hey I want to see, if you add 22 people where are they being at so you can see which departments or which function you're being at the high level.

B

So I want to start first by going through all funds from Citywide. So when you click on a website, you'll be able to see that the first picture you have, you see how it it says, see why budget review. So it shows you all. This is all of your budget picture gallery and wine, which is what you adopt: you're, not you're, not adopting one fine you're adopting the whole budget for all the funds. In one budget, you'll see you have your general fine streets, Improvement fine impacts refine. This is your transportation.

B

Your water sewer reclaim impact fees, fire police impact fees are awesome, Crews here, as well as Recreation law enforcement funds. These are your special law enforcement trust funds. They have restrictions on them. It's going to be spent for certain purposes, just find every expenditure pretty much. Every experience during these funds come back to you with a budget amendment. You see these on the consent agenda, Grant fund. We have a separate fine for our grants, so we can track our grants and keep our grants in one area.

B

um So that's what that fine? That's what we had that fund for stormwater Farm construction trash. As you know, we talked about that in the workshops that's defined for for all of your storm water assessment utility operating fund, just as defined you just approved a rate increase for the operating rates um just to find where all of those um all of that budget is included in sanitation. Fine. This is the one Josh talked about array: inclusion just approved for October 106, that's just fine.

B

The community redevelopment fund- it's already done you've, had your meeting on that the board adopted their budget. Just budget matters is exactly what that board. Was the board adopted it's supposed to included into this? We have to put it into the overall food budget, so you approve one budget for the whole city and then you have your special assessment fund. These are the fines. As you know, I mean you have some under agenda tonight.

B

You have a few of those special assessments or resolutions that have to be heard, because we have to be able to have your public hearing for the individuals that these assessments apply to. They have to be able to have a separate public hearing to be able to come and speak about these things.

B

So I'm going to go overall, so the FY 23 budget, KSF keeping Myers tentative because tonight you will adopt a chance to budget and then next Wednesday you will adopt the final budget. So it has a 12 increase over last year's budget and it's balanced. All funds are balanced at 146 million 298 297. So that is your. That's the total fear. Why budget it's a 12 increase over last year if they were called last year, our budget was 130 000, 130 million dollars.

B

Your marriage rate, which you just approved your attention to military, is at 4.1876 per thousand of assessed value. That is the same mileage rate. There's no change in the military from the military. Last year, their tax base increased 917 million dollars, one of the biggest we've ever seen. I will tell you if, if not the biggest we've ever seen, almost a billion dollars in tax increase value and value assessed value taxable, as I saw you and that generation 3.6 million dollars in additional Revenue um that increase the general fund.

B

We are using some of the unassigned reserves. Just set your reserve policy we're using 1.4 of those reserves that are in that that are in that part today, even using the 1.4 of Village Reserve, we still sit at 25 percent, so we'll balance, FY, 23 and you'll still maintain your 25 Reserve.

B

Number of positions there are 22 new positions, and this is city wide I'll go through those real quick. You have um accountant one. You have accounting clerk, you have a financial analyst, you have an HR specialist one.

B

You have six firefighters, you have a new District chief I'm. Sorry, it's going to be a division. Chief! You have a new division chief that should train Chief. That's the training position. You asked me to put into the budget. That is that position. That's your training position.

B

You have two part-time, two new part-time school crossing guards. We have a new school, so we had to add crossing guards to have a new parks worker. This is the one we talked about was going to be a the person that goes around to make sure the serious tap out make sure things are picked up. Make sure this person will be out in the community all the time. That's what that's! What your job will be to make sure things are: are tidied up and and dedicated to keeping the city clean, multiple inspectors.

B

You have two in your building fund web content and social media analysts and information technology. There's a position we're adding a GIS coordinator position, we're adding that in it you have two ms4 positions and storm wire. If you recall, we have to do that for Regulatory Compliance, so we've added those two positions in stormwater you have a new cashier and Utility Billing to provide more customer service for our utility customers and then in sanitation. You have a sanitation equipment operator that has been added, so you have 22 new positions.

B

20 are full-time and two are part-time.

B

The budget includes performance-based Merit pay up to six percent for all full-time employees.

B

I think that that is where we have. You know there was one year we had to go back to three percent. We were back at six percent. We have been for the last two years now so that that is included in the budget.

B

Also here, if you ever call me talked about raising live our position to 15 an hour that is included in this budget as well, so all of our positions will be, with the exception of some of our a few of our seasonal, which are like um flashpad and Camp people. People that work in Camp there's a amount of money in that budget that the recreation director can use to hire um certain positions that are seasonal.

B

um It only was just for a short period of time, but but who has if he has some good people, he has some discretion to be able to pay a little bit more than 13 or 14 an hour. But I've I've had a part-time positions that are regular part-time positions.

B

They will be a minimum of 15 an hour, so everybody we will have nobody under 15 an hour except a few seasonal people for camp or.

D

What they were getting or they remaining the same.

B

So your regular part-time people, which are not the only seasonal ones we really have now- are camp Camp during Camp, I'm time, Splash, Pad extra seasonal, but our regular, like our park rangers and our facilities for people that stay on regular for the whole year as a regular schedule, they will come to 15 and then will be 15 for those individuals. Now, commissioner, we talked about the seasonal, so say: I have a person that comes in a lifeguard or has a lot of experience and I want to use them for camp.

B

Well, it's hard to hire somebody for directing dollars, but Roger has in his budget appropriation where he can hire. If they have experience, you can hired it for more than 15. Maybe you hire a lifeguard for 17.

B

because that's what it takes to be competitive, so he has that ability to hire those individuals, but what I'm saying is outside of those seasonal? Everybody else will be brought to you at 15 minimum.

B

We have to be here in 26 anyway, so we're going to go ahead and get to that point now, that's included in here.

B

um There's also your pay. Your pay is based on ordinance based on population, so the budget does include a um an increase in pay for your Commissioners, based on population growth, intellectual formula that we do by ordinance will be calculated, and we will see that in their first um paycheck of the new year to include uh overtime.

B

No, unfortunately, the audience doesn't allow me.

E

Include over time, but that's something.

B

You'd like for us to bring back so, but um to keep that in mind. Another point I want to stop here and say two that in the FY 21, when we have a downturn, I elected, not to take a raise right here in my salary, as you know, mayor did not mayor does not get an increase unless you approved that increase I. Go back to my contract, based on a formula in my contract is how mines calculated, but I want you to know.

B

I I for I've I've foregone my in 21 as a way to help during the tough times that we have we'll see. I'd actually do that mayor. Everybody else has had their increases. Mayor has not had increase so I'm kind of looking to you to. Let me know if you feel this is an appropriate time, if you feel he should have, we should give him some kind of increase. It's all based on your.

B

It comes here's a set by streets, counseling, your budget, so that keep that in mind, as we move through here as that's something you want to see. Yours is based on population formula. Here's just based on the wishes of a city council. If you feel that we should have an increase. um I will revive to you to. Let me know um what you what you feel, so we should do something mm-hmm, um so Capital costs that you have in this budget. Public Safety has you have um 17 new police vehicles?

B

You have a fire engine, a new fire engine, two ambulances or in this budget parks and recreation equipment improvements, almost a million dollars there that we're putting in Information Technology improvements, and then you have Capital facility improvements which are improvements to any of our facilities or or major Capital items.

B

Three improvements. There are big street information here, as you have been in the last couple years, actually area where we continue to put a lot of resources. New traffic signals there are several in here resurfacing. That program is in here again remember we're taking a million dollars from the um rescue dollars to put again another year into our resurfacing program, because that's where we, our gas tax, has a hard time keeping up, and we want to keep our resurfacing program on schedule.

B

New sidewalks. There was some side talk about sidewalks in the last meeting, there's my introducing new sidewalks. um So we have funding for that and then also sidewalk repairs. We've put significant money in here to do sidewalk, preparers I will tell you you're going to see right now. Josh is trying to to um kind of do a little catch up a little bit here.

B

If you will before this fish, where you're in so you're, probably going to you, should see I've seen playing but you'll see that you would join some sidewalk improvements right now and some tree removal improvements now so that he can kind of get caught up. So he gets there next year. He is, can stay up with the requests that we're getting from the community, but there's money for tree removal and there's money for sidewalk repair in this budget.

B

Lots of money for those um your wired, Wastewater and reclaimed wire you're pretty much set every year based on your um Five-Year Plan, but also you heard Henry talked about those improvements, how Capital Improvements are in there and how we're paying for those and you've just recently improved the rate increase that will help pay for drugs improvements, so health insurance is up. 10 percent, you might say that's a lot, but I will tell you. Having talked with some of our neighbors, that's a really good number.

B

Ten percent is some places have seen as much as 18 and 20 percent. So we've done pretty good in this area with PRM. You know, we've beat them up a little bit. As you know, we keep saying we're going out and find a better price. If you don't do something: they've sharpened their pencils and so I think you know it's good, that's good for for us as well property Library workers, comp insurance has increased 12 percent.

B

um That is just a multiplier of based on our experience, based on, um as you know, property insurance and there's formulas relationship to calculate those. But that is a 12 increase. It's not a huge number, but it's it's an increasing now no budget for the coming year.

B

So, as you can see, in 2022 we were 130 million and 2023 is 146 million failures for 16 million dollar increase or 12, and a half percent from one year to the next.

B

So this slide shows you that you can see that the revenues the proposed budget- we were still talking- we weren't balanced, because we were supposed to remember. We were still moving. We were adding we added position, we added the training position and fire, so you can see there. We were a little out of balance on the proposed, but you can see your change of budget is currently balanced, Revenue, so expenses are currently balanced at your military.

B

Just they just I wanted to kind of show you you can kind of see where the significant increases are I'm, going to go into a general fund when I get to a general fund utility find those are the funds. I want to actually go into more of your detail. Just rolls everything up. So it's a little hard to see all of the parts and pieces, but this will show you basically how much money comes from each source.

B

You can see that we received 29 million dollars from taxes, which is our our biggest um Revenue source for city-wide, outside of user fees of 35 million.

B

So here you can see a picture, it shows you almost 20 percent of the revenues to operate the CC wide come from taxes.

B

Animal governmental is about eight percent probation special assessments are 7 million impact fees or 12 million that forming an impact fees, um 29 million of reserves you're using keep in mind that city wide, and so that shows you that those projects- you know water transportation. While we have those dollars in reserve in our bank, you know some people say: oh my gosh, you have all this money in the bank. Well, those are the dollars that we've collected impact fees.

B

We've collected to build these projects that we are that we will start ever start to build, and so a lot of times you don't finish the project. You get the impact fee when you have a permit time, but you might not start the project for six months or a year, and so that's why you see the reserve's number of reducing the reserves, because those dollars can only be used for that purpose and that's why you have a big number on every sort of side: you're, not operating revenues or 35 million.

B

Those are your user fees, so that is your like wire fees, sewer fee, your RBC, that's a big um portion of the revenue, but those are also Enterprise funds and nerd revenues running ocean Enterprise funds without any tax dollars, so governmental finds you can see here. Total governmental funds are 90 million and you can see proprietary funds, which are your Enterprise funds. There are 55 million, so your proprietary funds are going to be your wire waste wire, reclaim wire and sanitation.

B

Those are going to be your proprietary fund, but in total, at the end of the day, this is where you can see all fines balance at 146 million yeah 146 million dollars.

B

So, on the expense side, you can see here: 53 million of 146 those per personnel, 33 million goes to operating.

B

43 million goes to Capital outlay, 5.6 communities, Debt Service, that's Debt, Service C wide transfers of nine million dollars, so you have nine million dollars transferring between funds, and then you have a small other expense of 8 000. This is also a transfer. If you recall, on the stormwater. Fine, just one of our fund performed um helped with um one of your special assessments would have had a drainage that we had to help, and so this was their payment where they pay us back each year of our time. In their assessment.

B

So here's a graph- it shows you so you can see. 36 percent of the whole city budget goes to Personnel, 23 goes to operating, 30 percent goes to Capital outlay, and that service is almost four percent, so you can see kind of how weird amount goes based on expense side.

B

um So here is broken out by function, so you can see exactly how 146 million dollars goes out. You can see public work, it's 56 million dollars, Public Safety against 43 million dollars, keep in mind public works when we say Public Works, it's sanitation utilities. It's everything! It's all Transportation, it's all and transportation is a separate one, I'm, sorry at 15 million, but the 56 million represents all the public worlds.

B

Public Safety is an almost 44 million dollars. If you call last year it was 37., so you have seven million dollars more than they had Public Safety had the year before, Transportation has 15 million. You have a room with less than a couple million. More General government represent everything else that is all of your um um Finance HR I saw the other department support departments put together, Parks and Recreation eight million dollars.

B

If she transfers you see, Community Development um I need to go back because I misspoke I want to make sure I get this right. Public Services is your general government portion of services that that Public Works provides those are Street um stormwater. Those will be those funds. The public works on the top at 56 million is wired, reclaimed, wire Sanitation, that's for your your utility and your Utility side. They have to be separate because of different funds.

B

Community Development is 2.8 million. Special assessments are 171. Those are all of your special assessments, the streetlight fund. As you know, we started a streetlight find where an all-new Development coming in pays a street eye assessment um you're up to two hundred and three thousand dollars, so you can see that that would be 250 000. If we didn't have any special assessment that we would have in our streets, Improvement fund that we wouldn't be able to be able to do even less than what we're doing now. So you can see that number continues to climax.

B

We build- and this is defined that you as you're, aware of but we're doing, a study for now to come up with a streetlight assessment so that we can free up our gas tax money and our streets might into the streets.

B

So by Department we can see Public Safety as 30 percent of the overall budget. Public Works are almost 39 percent.

B

um You can see General government's 13, Transportation, 15 or 10 percent, um so on and so forth. It does show airport at zero that we're done with that. We sold the airport. We've closed the airport out, so there's no expenses, there's nothing being um going through into the airport.

B

So, at the end of the day, the whole overall free budget is balanced at 146 million dollars. So that's your total picture. It's a little tough, that's high level. I took review. I want to go now until you dive into the actual fund, so you can see what's in each fund and of course, as you know, general fund is your main operating fund of the seed.

B

um If the one where your property tax is included, so I want to go through the general fund now the same way so some of the highest in the general fund, six percent Merit pay. If you remember, we talked about longevity pay of doubling our longevity pay due to inflation due to issues that we're facing that we see coming, we wanted to be able to find a place where we could help all of our employees.

B

This will affect all of our employees based on their longevity, so it will double it on whatever you pay, which they usually receive before Thanksgiving. So this will be an added longevity pay, not bonus, but a longevity payment that they will receive. This double um to be able to kind of put some more money into the employee's pocket.

B

Yes, that's that's only full-time employees that policy is based on full-time employees, so, um as you know, also including the budget, the police department, their pay adjustments, compare your pay adjustments.

B

um They are inclusion here, which is very important. As you know, I know, I've already talked with Chief. Some he's already had this adjustment. They know what people know it's coming, it's been good for us, I think it helps. You know, I, think she's, hired two or three more and I think with them. Knowing that this is coming, it's going to be able to help us to be able to hire police officers, health insurance.

B

We talked about that 10 percent, um there's 91 increase in training dollars in this budget, so trillion dollars have gone up a big, a significant portion and, as you know, a big piece of that is in the fire department for paramedic training. So there's funding for for um to be able to help those paramedics go to school, help pay for the paramedic school.

B

Your discretionary account. If you recall, I, told you that we increased it to ten thousand. It was three so we've added 7 000 to each one of your discretionary accounts.

B

As you know, pretty much we don't those are controlled by you. We don't usually tell you how you can spend those, but we felt this was an appropriate time to give you some more funding because of some of the non-profits and things that you're experiencing and trying to help and work with. This allows you to be able to kind of help or work with the ones that you feel you want to work with.

B

um Annual debt reduction we've reduced a budget by 1.2 million of debt payment, which frees up another 1.2. It's in this budget that we're using um along those lines. It's also good to talk about right here, I'd like to talk about freeing these debt payments up will set us up for the public safety complex, we'll be ready when we issue that that we'll be ready to take on a debt payment for um that building by freeing up reset.

B

um The 18 new positions in this fund um I'm not going to go through all of them since I went through all my first one, but there are six new firefighters, your division, Chief, your trained division. Chief is in here um your GIS, Information, Technology, positioned and so on and so forth. You can see we went through those.

B

Yeah, well, here's what you're getting so you're getting a training position and I know will is going to come up and do a presentation for you on fire. We're going to let him Focus. Let him give you fire and he'll, be able to tell you in your org chart. The chief is actually going to have troops away he's. Not his oil chart he's going to have a separate position for each one. He's gonna have a trained position, which is this one, and it has another position that he has it's going to be a safety position.

B

So there's going to be one a person for each one and and will can show you that explain that to you from the Fireside.

B

um I think- and you know I'm gonna well, we'll do that, so um you have um 20 Vehicles a fire engine. We talked about these before the Ada playground, we're starting in here for the Ada playground we're trying to get a grant match, so we can do more.

B

um So we're going to use this to help with our match. Have commission um the last question we had your meeting. There were people who wanted to come so we're going to do another one, since we have that much interest, which is a good thing to get more out to see. That's something happening on me. We had to have that one in order to qualify for a grant, but we can have another one today, I think we have an interest, which is a great thing we'll have we have another one?

B

The current military is set 4.1876, um as you can see, I went over this already. A 917 million dollar increase in taxable value. That's where the big chunk of Revenue is coming from. 3.6 million is coming from there, 872 thousand dollars, or eight percent increase in sales tax revenues. That's where we today, but be careful. That's what we want to keep an eye on. That's why we watch each month to see what that number is.

B

um You can see the current year, we're sitting there doing pretty good, but we'll continue to monitor that and make sure um that we stayed close to that number. Mom communication, Services taxes up almost three hundred thousand the new fire inspection program. As you know, you approved new fire inspection fees, you're going to generate about 290 thousand dollars, um meditate ambulance fees for Medicaid the payment that you approved today in your budget um Amendment with Vladimir at the first meeting, will generate 150 000 that you'll get from.

B

Yes, yes, I'm getting, yes, the 145 000 for a plan and selling phase. You just approved your first reading of that those fees, that's a good! That's how much additional it was in every 145 000 for Extra Man best one knows: food business tax.

B

At the next meeting coming up we're going to bring you, we have an agreement it where we have this company who works with Longwood and they've, worked with alphamot we're going to go out and make sure we have all of our business tax people make sure we're not do.

B

We've got everybody that has to pay a business tax to make sure we have them all so they're going to do that for us in order for us to make sure we have everybody included and everybody's paying their portion of their business to house, and then, of course, we use that will generate about 105 000 of um Revenue um for those businesses and then we're using 1.4 in reserves as well. To balance um it's budget sort.

C

Of question about that, the we just approved uh for 25 of reserves right which we're not funding right. We're.

B

Not funding reserves right. No, if you have 25, so we don't need to. We don't need to fund Oh.

C

I thought they just said: we had 20 percent yeah.

A

C

Up on the maybe not on this slide or on this section, but on one of the say.

F

That again, oh.

B

Yeah yeah we're using 20 of Reserve from all to funds, gotcha understood yeah, so I've got got that 20. You saw three wide 1.4 of that number. Is this number? The majority of those reserves come from Enterprise funds.

B

So you can see here, the general fund is balanced at 64 million, a little more than 64 million dollars.

B

Yeah prior year it was 58 million. So you can see you know it's almost six million dollars more than it was a year before and again 3.6 of outcomes from property tax.

B

So, where, where do where do my goal in the general farm? This is an important five. Public Safety is almost 62 percent. In Prior years we've been around 60 59 60, so you can see the percentage of dollars overall budget and general fund more of it is going to Public Safety at 62 percent. Public first is getting five percent Factor facilities, your um Fleet, no services that provide by public services to General, fine, Parks and Recreation is 7.5 million.

B

There's 1.9 transfers, General government's 9.2 and Community developments, 2.8 or 4 percent of your overall budget.

B

So expenses 66, almost 67 percent of the 63 million- goes to Personnel Services or to our employees. Operating expenses are 15 million, Capital outlays, 4 million or six and a half percent Debt Service is only 1.4 percent. This is a very important number. I want to point out again if you would call and go back just about three or four years ago. That number was three or four million.

B

If now only 925 000 a year and we'll do some more next year. So, like I said, you have set yourself up perfectly for a 55 53 million dollar building to be able to finance that billing, because you don't have a debt payment. Now you'll have a big debt payment when that comes on, but you're setting yourself up for that payment. Look like we've heard it could be anywhere from Two and a half to three and a half a million dollars a year.

B

So it's going to push back where we were, but because we have done this, we're able to take on that payment and not have to um you know, hopefully not to use a hundred dollars that we can keep free up for our services. So.

B

um So I'm not going to go through each one of these I went through these on the first one, but I showed you roughly, where we were on those so I just want I want you to achieve it's online. The public can see it. They can drill down.

B

If I want to go all the way down to the line shouldn't go all the way down to each line. Well, I want you to see that the budget is balanced um at the bottom. I want you to see that represent. Fences are zero. So it's important that we have a balance budget. We're required to have a balanced budget at the millage rate that we have so I want you to be able to see that.

B

So that's your general fund, tribe, um I, don't know mayor. Do you want me to stop here and that fire, since we're in general I'm, going to do their piece and I'll come back and.

A

Do those because I think that's really the only fund there were some some.

B

Questions significant changes to everything else, we've been pretty much and.

A

uh Come on up Will and then just give us a brief kind of overview of kind of where, where we're at and what the new budget looks like. Please, sir good.

G

Afternoon, mayor council um I apologize first of not having an actual presentation, formal one I'm, just pretty much updating you, Chief wylam was unable to attend. As far as the meeting today, he had a prior commitment and, however, he's briefed me he's updated me on the current events. I'll do my best to try to answer everything for you, I like to start off addressing Mr Diane Gail Sierra. Thank you for your support in the prior meeting for those that didn't get to watch they're, truly supportive of the fire department with everything.

G

That's happened, they've been there by our side day by day the same way we've been trying to be by their side, they've helped every single member in this department. Thank you, Commissioners. That brings the part of uh your last discussion. You guys had in uh your budget Workshop about the accident I'd like to update everybody. As far as where we're at it's been 69 days since the accident 54 days and Austin passed away, the men and women at Apopka fire department are still Mourning on their behalf.

G

I want to thank you all for your support as well. We've seen it. We hear it, the men and women understand that you want to support us in a safety manner moving forward, so we're very thankful of that currently right now. What we've started as far as within the department internally is a Austin Duran safety initiative, and this means a lot to us, but in his name on something we can't fail at it. That was a complete restructuring of our Safety Committee added new members onto it represented each individual level on there.

G

Since that day, we've had four meetings. We have another meeting set up for next week, we've been meeting more frequently than we've ever done. Our purpose behind this is during these meetings, we're trying to do a safety assessment and we're trying to look at practices within our department that have some flaws. We're reviewing some policies, we're kind of taking a step back, but I want to emphasize in order to proceed any further than what we have. We need a dedicated health and safety officer. We need somebody with your act oversight.

G

Somebody that's going to be able to guide our Safety Committee moving forward in every aspect of it to assist with a specific training officer in the development of all of our policies.

G

Another portion of this is a trailer committee. Our trailer committee has been meeting.

G

We've had a couple meetings together already, and not only are they trying to put together a department policy on trailers we're trying to identify which trailer should we use? Are we using the right appropriate trailers?

G

Obviously, we weren't with that accident that just happened and we've just taken a step back completely and we stopped our trailer operations throughout the entire department until one we find out what's safe, two that we could get complete training to all the men and women, and this is my second Focus point of not only having a dedicated training officer for this with a dedicated health and safety officer together they can roll this out to the entire department. This is something that we need just being honest with everybody here and.

A

She's saying she has the one thing on that on the trailer safety I definitely want to make sure that our Public Works and our Parks and Rec get that same training, because obviously, both those departments probably use trailers much more often than the fire department. So when you get some training put together, I'd like to make sure that we coordinate the other two departments that that and even I guess the police have a couple of trailers that would be so I. Think everybody just like we did.

A

The chainsaw training a couple of weeks ago want to make sure that all the people that are engaged in those those activities that there might be some safety issues that we're getting everybody involved. Sir.

G

Fire Administration, we started reviewing some policies. We've had to take a step back.

G

We love to provide the same level quality to all the citizens in every response area we do have, but we honestly have to take a step back. There are some individuals that have onboarded into our department that have not received the appropriate training to be doing some of these functions, and that's why I emphasize again. My biggest thing up here today is to please drive that home that we do need a dedicated training officer. We need a health and safety officer with that.

G

We can now move forward as far as implementing our current practices, new practices- everything as far as a going back to the basics of the fire department, making sure that everybody's appropriately trained on it, the Austin durian. As far as investigation with the State Fire Marshals, which we've heard that we should be receiving something very soon they've concluded their investigation. It's just a moment of them. Releasing that to us once that's there made public as far as I know, Chief is going to be updating everybody getting into the family and moving that forward.

G

To everybody, the entire Council niosh, which is National Institute of occupational safety and health, they only take on 40 of all accidents, Nationwide fatalities they reached out to us through the State Fire Marshal's Office Chief has reached out to them and they're taken as far as Austin's incident and they're going to do a thorough investigation of it. They want to provide the education Nationwide to other departments. If there is an issue and something that could have been preventable, they want to identify it and give it to every firefighter out there.

G

So that way, if we can't save another life, let's do so with this investigation and that's going to take the estimated approximately about 18 to 24 months. So they just had communication last week and they told us we're going to start moving in that direction towards you start Gathering. Some of the information, and that being said, I just want to be as transparent as possible. I know there's some rumors about the destruction of the trailer the trailer's never been destroyed.

G

The moment the accident happened after that initial investigation. It got moved and secured. It was taken out of service and moved down to facilities or to Fleet Services out there that way, niosh anybody moving forward that wants to do an investigation on it. We have it. There secured it's not at our fire station. It's been there since day, one after that investigation.

G

Thank you last week on Wednesday the State Fire Marshal's Office sent out a field representative, they came out and they did a documentation and compliance inspection of the fire department. This is something that we've had done, maybe once in the last 10 years, when they send out a field investigators, typically due to a fatality or Serious injury, which we recently had what they did is they came in for the entire day and they've reviewed all the policies they wanted to see our Hazmat Emergency Operations plan. They wanted to see near-miss documentation.

G

How do we document an accident of a firefighter records and documentation training, um our Safety Committee nodes, as far as accident injuries, a toxic substance within the fire department? May this is something that was concluded on Wednesday I still do not have an update for you on this.

G

This is another moment that we're waiting for from the State Fire Marshal's Office in the last piece of this, on top of the state on top of niosh now there's a third party consultant Chief has been meeting with multiple ages or specialized uh Services there that they offer a direct Fire Department investigation. Third party independent to review everything from health safety to our training records. How we operate um just meet the procurement rules. You got to get the quotes and get everything together.

G

I know he's completed that and that's something that's going to be moving forward with a third-party consultant.

A

We're it's going to be signed tomorrow, so.

E

We'll have that.

A

Agreement in the end tomorrow.

A

An assessment, a.

G

Third-Party consultant completely independent of the State Fire Marshal's Office, completely independent of us somebody that knows the fire service. I know one of the individuals he had talked to was a group that actually wrote the health and safety committee book as far as health and safety for the fire service. So these are individuals that that's all they specialize in they come back and they see where did a breakdown happen and identify and move forward with new policies and addressing those?

G

So that's something that he's been taking care of and trying to get three different, independent ones. As far as the quotes.

D

Okay, so my my question to you is I'm happy that you are moving forward in this direction, because safety is definitely what we all want for each firefighter. But what are we doing right now till we get there? Are you changing procedures now.

E

D

You changing that's okay, you know. Are you taking those extra steps without anyone telling you you need to do them? Yes,.

G

And that's one thing: I thought I had mentioned I'll clear it up a little bit more. We stopped all trailer operations. Okay,.

E

G

Had more than just that sand trailer I had a Hazmat trailer. We have a foam trailer, an air trailer, all those trailers there's nobody moving the trailer in the city from the fire department that was immediately stopped. Okay,.

D

So if you respond to a call- and at one point you use the trailer to get to that call whether it was an accident. How are you now answering those calls? How are you responding to them so.

G

We will not bring that trailer since nobody's trained on it. What we're doing is moving forward with our mutual Aid agreement as far as counting calling something that we've never done in our history, until we could get everything back to regular, get our training everybody's, a hundred percent, knowing what they're doing we will use Mutual Aid if we have to call the county for that help, we will do so. Okay, and this moves us forward. As far as to the two positions you heard me earlier say: we need these two positions, speaking with Chief.

G

This is something that he's gonna, there's a two-step process behind it from what he explained to me. The first part is a organizational restructuring of administration, reviewing the roles and the responsibility of each individual person in the administration. That will create an opportunity for another person. As far as to come in to be dedicated solely to training in a person dedicated solely to health and safety seeking the qualifications I know, he said, he's identified two individuals: they meet the state requirement that qualified to fill these roles.

G

He wants to add these two positions immediately and that's obviously with your blessing and making sure that we can go ahead and do so. He wants to address it formally as soon as he gets back, which should be within the next couple hours he'll be back in town moving forward. He did say as far as fire Administration would be composed of suppression, which we already had training, which would be a new addition, a dedicated health and life safety, which would be a new addition, fire inspections, EMS and also our quality assurance officer.

G

We like to move forward with that open that up to eligible qualified candidates for that, and that could be done as soon as it's already in the budget. So we're going to move forward with that with HR.

G

Last week we concluded the final step of our new hires and testing they came in did a complete EMS assessment. We did our interviews and we onboarded eight individuals of those eight two of them are paramedics. One is actually still in school. Three of them have prior firefighter service experience. One came from St Lucie County, it was 17 years, the other one came from Orange County with three years and one from Osceola County just over a year of time on that filled all the vacancies in reviewing.

G

As far as what Chief presented to you on the last session, he came forward to evade three-step process and I. I. Think it just needs to be articulated a little bit better of his goal is to put three individuals on every fire apparatus.

G

He has it broken down into three different years: three different budget years, the first year, starting with this one with six, the next buddy budget year would be 12 and then the third budget year he's asking for an additional six I, have not had the opportunity to talk to him about this number, because I think it would be actually nine on the last budget year so that we could fill all seven of our fire apparatuses with somebody on there with three individuals on that fire apparatus.

D

So will that occur this year? It.

G

D

In the news in.

G

This new budget year, the way that the proposal that he moved forward with was to ask for six so that he could put a backwards firefighter on Engine 2 and engine 3., with the commitment of a three-year program where we'd be adding on 12 next year and six or nine the following year, so that every apparatus has somebody on there and that's a it's a hard.

G

It's the hard Direction I understand his mindset of the infrastructure. We have an issue with infrastructure. Our fire stations were only designed for Ford I. Think some of you have taken visits to our fire stations. We have to do some type of retrofitting remodeling to it.

G

Only one fire station is set up with co-ed living some of our showers, the pipe in station one you guys are all aware of it as far as that's and thank you for moving forward of a public safety building. But it's to the point where it's coming right back up the drains ACS are going out. Leaks are happening at the fire stations.

G

This is where, if we want to move in this direction- and we will do anything that you want- we need to also make that a priority with adding the people we have to retrofit some of these fire stations. We have to fix the infrastructure if you said tomorrow, let's add an additional firefighter, we don't have any space for them. Station five, which is our newest station, was at capacity on day one at one point: we had eight firefighters at station as station five.

G

The only way we accomplished that was using our computer room and putting a bunk bed in there. If we want to move forward, we got to move forward in the right direction and I. Think Chiefs. Plan of the three years is up to you. If you want to continue on that path to three years, if you want it faster, that's fine, but we have to also include the infrastructure behind it.

G

We have to be able to put it up to date where we could bring in an additional person in their sleeping quarters, for them from bedding to I knew it sounds very simple, but just a chair at the table, all of our tables were designed for four people.

G

I mean we're at that point where okay, we want to expand and we want to grow. We want to add people to it. We have to include that infrastructure into it as well.

G

So if you didn't like the three-year commitment- and you want to do a one-year commitment- that's up to you- how you want us to move forward the national level as far as for firefighters is for the minimum standard for that and that's something that we should be set in as our goal.

D

G

Any questions on his three-year plan.

D

D

I mean we're moving forward in the direction of safety and I really do understand what you're saying about we just don't have the infrastructure within the firehouses in order to accommodate the extra bodies. Is that what you're saying and obviously, when Mr Duran read the letter from his son I mean when he got hired? He also felt like he didn't, have a space that was his own.

D

um He was living out of his the trunk of his car, and um so how do we? We could do it yeah.

D

You're doing all the right things as far as procedures and having the training officer and the safety officer, but that's your specialty so guide us tell us. How can we help you to get that goal in your Firehouse, because I I don't know? That's not my expertise, but I feel that all the other things that we need in order to have the safety. In order to do this, what the goal we're trying to reach tell us what you need in order to retrofit your financials.

G

So right now we would need 18 firefighters to move forward with three people on an engine that takes care of the Manpower part, and that's also within our limits of people being offered PTO vacation days. It is minimum Staffing, but means that it affords a third person on each individual apparatus and then we'd also need funds as far as retrofitting some of these stations immediately. As far as that, we could bring in beds. I know that might not have been in the budget which needs to be.

G

It needs to be included, and it all depends on how fast you want us to get there. We could do this all this budget year. Just we need your direction on that. How much you're willing to afford us to move forward and.

D

D

When needs and obviously I didn't think about them, because we were just thinking of personnel, you know training, we didn't think about the you know the physical uh you know beds and space, um so I I, just don't know um how do we move forward with that? So I I'm asking that you know Owens chief administrative office? What how do we kind of move forward with that? Because we're not talking about? We seem to be kind of satisfying the personnel with uh we're dealing with the procedures, but we never talked about the actual infrastructure. Well,.

B

I think commercial: if, if we're going to talk infrastructure, we're gonna have to get an architect we'll have to get information numbers on what would take to expand these stations it's going to take time. That would take a lot of time and then you have to put you have a cost.

B

To that you know: do you build a whole new station, or do you retrofit the ones you have if you want to make patients bigger, that's a massive project in itself, so um you know, if that's a direction that we're going to go and we need to.

B

We need to start studying that now and looking at those buildings and finding out what is that going to cost us to do you know you can get three four two three and four were not built for um discount staff, and so we have to have a place to put them.

B

um If you, if we do hire more staff, you have to have a place to put them. So I think this is like, like Cleveland saying, and you guys have a plan, you have to have a vision. You have to have a plan of how are you going to? Where are you going to put them? When do you hire them?

B

um You know: what years do you hire them? So I think you have to have a plan to make sure you have everything in place. It doesn't make sense to bring in all these people and stack them on top of each other in a fire station.

B

um That's a hazard in itself, that's not safe. No, no! So we have to come up with a plan on figuring out if we're all going to add to the Personnel to the stations. How do we um you know? How do we retrofit those stations?

B

You know, and maybe there is a way to do it, where we don't have to build massive or understand stations rights, maybe there's something we can do internally, I I, don't know it would take somebody an architect or somebody give us that information to make sure we have all the living cores and the number of occupancy right illustration.

B

So um so I think that's just something, that's something we have to start studying. We need to start reviewing that and starting that now.

D

B

If that's the direction, we're going telling.

D

Me that at station five is already that coming.

G

D

In station five, because.

G

That's we could Rachel fit as far as the computer room and add an additional bedroom there. How.

D

Many can we did before station five. We.

G

Had at one time up to eight there, how many do.

D

You have now seven.

G

D

And they are comfortable. Yes,.

G

No, it's a beautiful station as far as.

D

The inside, as far as.

G

The many it's awesome, what you guys provided us there, it's beautiful and I, wish all the other stations were that way.

D

And the new Station House that we're getting six well, it also accommodate seven or.

G

Eight for it's set up from my understanding, was the same identical plan, meaning that the plan that we used at five was the same one that was going to be utilized at station six now I say that to bring it to your attention, I'm not saying this explained up here because I our biggest point is: we need the three people. We need the safety aspect of it right, but at the same time I don't want to come up here and tell you hey, just give us the Manpower and not give us anything else.

G

I'm also coming forward asking you for additional funds for that and we'd like to move forward as fast as possible with it. Our goal internally should be as a city to adapt to having four firefighters on every apparatus.

G

I know we can't do that immediately. We can't do that tomorrow, but the first step was to get us to three and three years might be too long. One year might be better for you, but that's something where I want to throw this out there before it's too late as a hope that we could actually come up with a plan as far as allocating some funds. For that.

A

F

Again, some of this we're just hearing as far as the needs for facilities to even bring these circles on so you know give us Clarity, give us numbers.

G

We know for a fact for Manpower: we need 18 additional firefighters that would get us to the three.

F

Yes, sir, what does that.

F

This is a very valid reason to utilize reserves yeah. This is a this is the whole point of that. So that's what we need to do and again you know like she said we we depend on you to tell us, because we don't know that part. Yes, sir, we do care about you and care about the force and you couldn't be prouder in the city of both our police and fire, but again that helps us to then understand. Okay.

F

This is what it's going to take to get us there and I do have one question as well: um Mr Duran again, thank you. Thank you. He had mentioned about a mentor program. Is that something that these two positions that we're hiring, that the safety will be able to help Institute so.

G

F

Last week they put their main focus.

G

They put together a safe or separate from the Safety Committee. It was a mentorship committee, and this was individuals from newly hired to seasoned. Individuals have been here almost 20 years and it was great to see as far as the outcome I only got the update of the actual meeting itself. I didn't participate in it, but it shed a lot of light.

G

Everything Austin wrote in that email, I, remember being 20 years old here too feeling that same way and it's a another identifiable area where we failed at that I failed at that I felt those same feelings. Every firefighter has probably gone through that same feeling.

G

Now do I say something: do I not and that's why that mentorship committee is so big, but it needs a direct oversight of it and it needs to have, as far as a health and safety officer being part of that, that training officer being part of that somebody that's in charge of training that they could go to where they don't feel hey, I'm, going to bother this person or do I say something to them.

G

No, that's their sole job is to train these individuals, make sure that they feel comfortable make sure that they're confident in what they're doing before we release them onto calls so I think that's going to be a huge factor to it. Adding those two positions.

D

So you you recently announced.

D

In that firefighters, Within, yes,.

H

D

Have their names and congratulations to Sean Knapp Cody, Bennett, Nicholas, Elrod and Dwight Ashton, so they're now moving up in rank correct? Is there a specific training for them, because now they're going to be the leaders that are going to train those behind them so.

G

There was a plan in place, but I think at this point once you add that new position to it all plans in place needed in a sense, stop let's reevaluate it and put something together. That's worthwhile, not something where somebody has to meet the quota. There's no direct oversight who signs that person off. Let's get somebody that's dedicated to that. Okay and I think that everything needs to be reviewed completely. Give these people full Reign on being able to fix, and these deficiencies identify them and move forward with them.

D

So how are you moving forward with establishing the two priority positions that um we are saying that we need the safety and the training Chief.

G

Has already identified who they are? He wants to personally move forward as far as addressing it with them. He's that, from my understanding, how conversations with them, but to formalize as far as their promotion into these two positions and that's something that he would do when he gets back.

C

G

Or reclassification as far as it would honestly be a promotion because it is a different rank, it would be moving up to division. Chief is what he had asked for. Okay, I know, there's a correction as far as on the slide, he said District chief on there, but District Chief would be separate. There would be a line individual only 24 hours. The division Chief would be there Monday to Friday to see all the shifts through and be able to train with them and the house safety as well.

A

Commissioner, Smith.

I

A

I

Have a couple questions um we're talking about the state, training officer and the estate officer and the training officer? Do we have a a deadline as to when these positions be filled.

G

I

G

Has it down from the update he gave me of October 1st that they would be in position on October 1st.

I

On October 1st, yes, sir, okay, all right, then my next question is uh we're hearing about the facilitar's needs. In order for these additional firefighters, we know that our city is growing at a rapid Pace. Yes, sir I would hate to see us retrofit the fire stations so that we can have three firefighters on a on the engine when three years from now, we may need four. So why not?

I

If we're going to retrofit, let's do it for the for plan and for the future, so we're gonna have to come back and rehash this all over again.

G

um I agree: that's what I was saying set the goal for four: that's the minimum National Standard set it now for four work on three get us to that level. But I'll fit your stations.

I

Yes, we're gonna we're gonna, retrofit I think we need to do it with four in mind so that as we grow, the the ability to grow is in place, and uh so that's that's the way. That's the way, I look at it and I think that's what we need to to look forward to doing. If, if this is what we're going to do, then we need to plan accordingly and invest taxpayers dollars wisely, rather than investing now for three and then three years later we come back now we need room for four.

I

So let's do the whole thing. Okay,.

A

Mr Lester so.

C

Your presentation is a severe disconnect from your counterpart. Two weeks ago, I heard a lot of needs tonight, uh refreshing to hear, um took a lot of notes. I have a lot of questions or at least comments. Overall, the um you guys did a safety assessment through the new Safety Committee uh or no.

G

We're just reviewing current policies that stood out to everybody that.

C

G

One of the key things that we looked at was what's existing with risk management from the city. That's a quarterly meeting that he was telling you about where they come over. Quarterly we've expanded upon that now. It's not only just quarterly is any time that anybody identifies anything via. We have a job form system, they send in see something say something they put a chat form together. We review it as a committee, and what can we identify? What can we stop? I mean we've from snakes how to actually remove a snake.

G

This is training that we got 10 15 years ago, we're going back to it, we're going to partner up with a critical control to establish a formal training. Once we get this training person in place on October 1st, that's one of the routes that we're moving in and training with them. On top of the new hires new hires are set to start on October 10th.

C

Okay, then, through that uh I guess the Safety Committee were there, you said: we've taken out trailers completely. Yes, sir.

B

C

Other services have we removed.

G

Currently, right now the trailer were notified as far as that nobody's to move any trailers. At this time we had what were called rescue packs rescue packs, where a small self-contained breathing apparatus kind of like a SCUBA tank, but instead of being on your back, it's actually right there on your chest, and that would be in place for somebody that was a being the safety for somebody, that's a vehicle into the water and one of our members.

G

We always we've moved recently or not recently, a couple years ago to top water rescue only we do not do any submersion if a vehicle submerged underwater we're calling the County if it was not witnessed if it was longer than 30 minutes, it's deemed a recovery, and at that point it's the sheriff's office. They come in with their sonar, they've assisted Us in the past. With that, we do not put anybody in that safety situation there. Those tanks had not been hydroded in years, so this is something that has to be re-certified every five years.

G

Those are being shipped off to the manufacturer to get rehydrated on that plus the training. We should not be putting anybody else on a die pack that has been trained on it, and that was one of the services that we didn't reduce. There I told you about the trailer operations and another key one was the shot team special hazards. Operation team is something that our members once they reach a level of independent courses that they're taking they apply to that group.

G

They test for that group and they're the two individuals that are assigned to the squads, because our Tower position has already been tested for they're, formerly a lieutenant and they're an engineer there. These are for the squad vehicles, one of the concerns where the experience of some of the members of the shot team. How long have they been on? We have a x-firefighter, that's been here 19 years and we have a firefighter that's been here two years.

G

The one that has 19 years has several years of experience, pulling the trailer, hauling stuff life experience behind it. Did they meet the qualification for the shot team? Yes, were they put on the shot team because they're qualified for it through the parameters? Absolutely so what was taken away was the title of the shot team. We still have the same members same certification, just the districts were advised, which is on duty commander of the day, puts the most qualified person that you have in that position. A firefighter on that Squad.

G

It doesn't have to just be the ones that were labeled for the shy if we have somebody that might be better qualified for them, for that position, go ahead and put them on the squads that day, this will come back into place with proper training, with a dedicated person overseeing all the training and increase some of the requirements. As far as for the shot team, what does it take to get? Keep you on the shot team? Do you have to have X amount of years of experience?

G

That's something that could be added to it, but all this just needs to be reanalyzed.

C

Okay, um let me see here so and just because I want to make sure there's no ambiguity here. We're we're hiring.

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Guess promoting a.

C

Separate training officer and promoting a separate health and safety- yes, sir, so what's happening to their positions that they're leaving them.

G

One is a new position, so we would have to hire from the bottom. It happens as a firefighter as far as it trickle effect as far as further promotions to get that person where they were at the other individual from the reclassification. My understanding is that the administrative positions are reclassified to allow one person to be able just to do that where it would not cost the city am I correct on that an individual position: okay,.

C

All right um and then quality assurance wasn't that a is something along those lines. Don't we have that position still open? Yes, sir, do we have a deadline for that being filled? It's.

G

Immediate, as far as uh this is something that should have been done a long time ago for me, I I, certainly I serve to benefit the most from it, an EMS division. Just one person is unheard of having the key way.

G

Not only does that identify Trends, we could identify issues that we have going on and now, with a team of a health safety officer, we had in a training officer, we could put in place real formal training based off of our everyday calls that we're seeing so QA officer is somebody that we want to move forward with and somebody that's qualified for it. Somebody has done this job that has the experience how they, through the last year, I've been talking to different individuals, letting them know hey.

G

This position might be coming up as soon as it comes up I'll, let you know from other agencies to other Healthcare facilities. As far as hey, we really want somebody that is determined to turn the system around somebody that is that's their sole Focus point on, is empowering our members and identifying what issues that they might be encountering. Okay,.

C

So my concern is that we're we're funding a lot of these positions and we're not getting filled so I I, know October. 1St is a deadline that that we're putting or that has been put on, training and health and safety, but there needs to be something put on the QA person as well. We need to be actively motivated for that and um let.

G

Me see Joe if you don't mind me calling on you as far as with our HR here we could put that out tomorrow.

C

So that's not! The QA is not out right now.

G

No sir, that's what the holdup has been. It wasn't now and then Chief identified an individual that was going through a situation and wanted to offer it to them that was later on and that individual has now returned back to shift. So that position is available and.

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C

To be I, I think just logically readily available and open I I can't believe that that's so.

I

The individual that he thought wanted position now that he's back. He doesn't want the position. No.

G

It wasn't that he wanted the position. Chief was trying to put it out there. He was going through a terrible situation at home.

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G

And he wanted to the point that he was even confused of what direction he was going to go. Do I even go back to work. Do I give my full Focus to my family, and that was something that he offered to him when he went through this. It was unknown to me afterwards. It was like wow. That's really awesome as far as that, because that other individual, we all care for, accommodates.

I

Yes, yeah and I said, but now that he's back.

G

Now we can move forward as far as he does now he's made it work so far with his family. He just recently came back to shift I want to say as early as last week, if I'm not confused, maybe at the most a week and a half he's been back. So this is a recent thing that he moved forward with of coming back on shift and that position is available.

G

So we could fill that as soon as I could get something to HR and have that out tomorrow for the public.

C

Yeah I think that that's something that absolutely needs to happen immediately um in reference to the Staffing itself, the 612 six, you said we need 18, total firefighters, that with that, though, we have huge capex for retrofitting our current fire stations having gone too many of them last week, either they're too small, there's so much more work. That needs to be done. They need to be knocked down and just started over um I. Don't want to to commissioner Smith's point I want to plan for the future.

C

Obviously, but I also don't want to wait for this. We can't wait for three five. Four. We can't wait for another year. We really can't that's not an option. We need to be filling these, our need now and we'll figure out how to where they things live. At my house, I'll figure it out. We can figure this out.

C

um We need to hire them, though, so, and we'll work on making sure they're, comfortable and and safe in their own at each station and get to that point where they do have their own separate rooms similar to station five. What an incredible station um your guys's gym there is incredible: I was jealous of that, um so I I think we really should just.

C

I I don't understand why we can't get to the 18 firefighters now open those positions up, do what we need to do and then start getting the quotes and all that for each station to be retrofitted correctly I, don't see why we can't do that. I think that's an easy, easy.

G

Fix to do I mean every man and woman out. There would appreciate that it's an additional barrier of safety get into your call with two people, and now we have other trucks arriving, but there's a chance. That might not happen. So we could get there with three right now and obviously set our goal in the future. For four: that's the direction we need to go in well,.

C

Let's I I mean that would be what I would want to do moving forward, let's figure out how to get the 18 now and we'll start on those quotes to start retrofitting or or adding on or whatever we need to do to each station to make it work. This isn't impossible. We can figure this out. So let's do it. That's all I have.

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um We had I remember the young group that came on with him. I actually have his photograph when they was all swung in. um It was a lot of trauma for them. What are we doing to help those surviving Young firefighters that were with him on that day, but they were also came out? Okay, for some reason, I have his father on this.

D

I was actually here, I think when he was sworn in um and I had that photo and, of course, I know two of them personally that have been traumatized by and I'm just concerned with their mental about it. What are we doing to.

G

Help them so currently we have one individual, that's in charge of our peer support, but the entire department is a great resource for peer support. We have people that are just not dedicated to that that are assisting in helping and finding Avenues with it. When I say that we have that one person that's doing the peer support. A lot of that stuff is private to the point that I'll be honest with you, I don't even know what's going on. If there is anything going on behind the scenes.

G

My understanding, that is, there was there's some claims that have been filed with workers comp, but to that point, I don't get any I'm not privileged to it and I want to support them. If they don't want to come out and say anything is going on, that's fine, but as long as they're getting the help and having you that Avenue, but the biggest thing that you guys are doing with that health safety officer.

G

Is that there's a direct point of contact, there's somebody that is evaluating, seeing what's going on and can reach out to that person in a formal aspect of getting them more help? Not somebody is sharing multiple job duties. You've identified one person for that and they're not having to ping pong between other stuff. They can focus in on the men and women.

I

Let me ask you with our our Clinic, um you know like when they have incidents like this to take place in the school they bring in a mental health person to accommodate. We can do that.

A

We had a gentleman from UCF.

G

Oh okay, yeah Lieutenant major is the person that set it up as far as in with Lieutenant Beasley as well. They've identified with UCF restores and had people come in as far as to talk to every firefighter that was involved, talk to all the chefs, but there's so much help out there. That's just unknown of and what I mean by that is people don't know how to get to it.

G

The resources exist, but if we could dedicate a person to this, they will know every in and now who to call what phone number to do, instead of it being our first time, every time that we have a situation where somebody needs additional help mentally with it and.

A

So sometimes they want inside help, and sometimes they want outside help. So they've got the access to both inside and outside. Okay.

A

People. Thank you, sir appreciate it.

B

All right, so that's General. If I'm, that's all in your general fund, you see all those expenses you've seen everything about us in a general fund, so I want to do a couple. Other things I want to show you big things that are significant um and then we also have tonight. Don't forget. We have special assessments, I, don't know if we have any. We may have come home already, I'm, not sure, but we do have your special assessment resolution that you have to hear as well tonight.

B

So on the street side on the streets, fine, your major capital and your streets. Fine is your 1.8 for Street resurfacing in accordance with your um Street assessment plan that we did. If you recall, we had the street assessment plan that will be coming back to you after everybody's adopted.

B

That will come back to you, so you can see the the second year streets and also what the community, what um Public Works has gone through and found other streets based on what we've heard from from our community and based on that plan, where they fall so you'll see that um sidewalks we've talked about that you're standing for sidewalks um a truck in here there's also a speed hunt program and through recall this was seven fifty thousand dollars. We talked about Hamlin to put 75 because she has some other um things.

B

We do have 75 in the budget 50 here, but there is 75 in the line item for her budget right. So let's just get here so it will be updated about 75. But if you remember, Pam wanted additional 25 and we so we were able to find that your asphalt roller is in here um that is going to be bought the asphalt machine. So now we have the road that goes with it, so we can do um potholes and fit some of our bigger sections of a road in-house and then your backhoe.

B

We had to replace the motor on the back. Backhoe Revenue in this fund is only 108. 000 is all gas tax went up as you can see, it does not keep up. If, if not, if my clip up with resurfacing, that's why we've added another million dollars from the rescue keep in mind, that's going to run out and we're not going to have those dollars. So this is another issue you need to be thinking about. How do we continue that resurfacing program if we don't have any dollars here in the in the gas tax?

B

Now we are talking about the street lie assessment and, like we talked about, if we get a street eye assessment city-wide that will free up a big chunk of money that will be able to use for resurfacing.

B

That's one of the reasons why we want to do that program so, but but it's important to keep that in mind as well, so you can see that the streets fund is balanced at 6 million, a little more than six million dollars in revenue and six million dollars in expenses.

B

So it's balanced at um by accident a little more than six million dollars and that's what Street's fine and that's a seven percent increase over last year. It also include some tree trimming. Sidewalk repair.

B

um Traffics are um signs, there's money in here for signs for striping. So all of those programs, the funding, is still available for all those programs going forward.

B

Impact food funds real fast I'm, going to pick just a couple of the big ones. Transportation is one of the big ones in this one. It's a 14 increase from last year or 8.5 million dollars is balanced at you. Have Harmony Road Extension, there's some additional funding for harming real extensions.

B

um Ocoee Apopka Road widening, um there's Maya in there to be able to help with with um portions of that, as we keep in mind that we're doing a hand with developer. So some of this was you know, they'll put their portion and we'll do our portion traffic lights as Pam gets those development, Kelly Park widening we're going to be studying. Kelly Park, widening new signals, um 441 signal Improvement.

B

As you know, I'm Bradshaw, that's an intersection where we're looking at putting up a new um traffic light, Vic, Road and Leicester, it's already under construction, but this is some additional construction to finish that out, because of those prices have come out a little higher than what what we've estimated so there's some funding to finish that one Sam Sandpiper realignment and new signal. She has construction modes in here for that intersection, which we'll start that I'm not designed. So this will be able to put funding for construction, um Park, Avenue and fit intersection.

B

Just saw Improvement designs. If you notice here, we don't have a walk crosswalk here, we're looking at putting a crosswalk here at Park and fish. What's everything we have coming in so she's going to do design for that um new trails, design construction? So she put some money in here for some additional trails to connect they're doing the one with a CRA, but this will provide additional funding. So we can do improvements and make some connections for trails in other areas outside the CRA new sidewalks design, construction.

B

You can see we have six hundred thousand dollars this system. Might we're going to be able to help us to use for new sidewalks that we've talked about and Pam's reviewing knows which Public Works, and so they won't be able to come back with a plan. But we have funding to be able to add some new sidewalks um in certain places so um to consider that impact fees are showing at 15 increase for residential and 35 increase in commercial. In.

A

That sidewalk didn't include the big Grant. We've got no.

B

That's a chapter.

A

Another million dollars there, we have a million dollars that.

B

We have there in our crafter podcast CRA area, we're putting over by a million dollars in improvements in all those sidewalks. That's a separate! That's a grant that we received during different funds.

B

um I'm going to kind of I'm going to do fire because our fire and police are very similar.

B

As you know, we are getting ready to start to design a public safety complex and if you recall from your presentation, Your Design was over four million dollars just to design that building so we're using a couple million from each one of these funds to help do that design for that building, um because we have to get that started. As you know, I can see such designs. We take 12 to 14 months to design it and then come back and we'll do construction.

B

That will give us time also to to put the financing together to come to you and and bring you your financing package um for that construction. Business.

B

You'll see groundbreaking for six soon. This is for the actual Public Safety complex. The new 53 million dollar complex that you'll have a.

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B

Station one and police department will all and and um the EOC and dispatch and I.T will all go into that building brand new and it will be just like well, it was you saw, it was just time for fire to house all the equipment for fire, so it was, um and that's what this will be here. This will be designed and you'll get to see this.

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B

Come back and go see the design before we go to construction, so you'll get to see everything in the design um of this building.

I

And while they're in the design phase, since we were talking about this additional firefighters, can we make sure that that's included at this time doing that design.

B

um Commissioner, we have we recently just hired two architects that were putting on board so I think what we do, it might be. A good idea is to have them kind of give us a review of our stations to give us an estimate of what and what would look like designing estimate. What would look like to expand those stations or build new stations keep in mind.

B

Some of those stations are built on small eyes too I know so well, it's going to take somebody's not have to actually it's going to take a a good, personal architect to come in and review your footprint with your space. There's restrictions on how many people you have in that building. It works in a fire department too. You want to have so many in that space. So it's a that's a process, and that will take you.

B

You have to have a professional design before you can do construction I mean sometimes you know we beat ourselves up because we're like well we're just adding our building we're adding our slide. Why do I have to have a design you can't build? You can't do construction get permits if you don't have designs and design from design to one of your biggest pieces.

B

um You know, because even with the public safety complex I almost fell on my chair when he told me that it's gonna be four million dollars for the district design it I'm like. Oh, we can build two more stations right, but.

I

Yeah, that's what I'm saying while they're.

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Design can they go ahead and incorporate for additional Personnel while.

B

They're willing, nestling and yesterday some wine.

I

B

Yeah, it will be in this one.

E

B

Right definitely, foreign.

B

There's no grants. I will tell you this. We are. We are really beating up Chief, um while I'm in um Chief McKinley. We are beating up everybody for Grants because we're trying, if we we don't care. If you want to give us five million for design, because you want to give us 2 million to go to our 53 million, we don't.

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B

We're hearing there may be some so I will tell you they are really working hard trying to beat down everything, that's hand to see if we can't get some help with this building, because it's one of the biggest buildings we've ever built, so they are working hard, um try to find some help. So you know if we every little bit, we have if um less strain on our impact Fusion our our um debt, that we have to issue.

B

Utility impact fee- these are Big I'm, just gonna hide some of the big ones. You've heard these from the workshop, but we have the Northwest expansion for um the plant, the the tank that we're building digestion of 1.5 million District grant that we're getting from um federal government from.

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B

Office, so this was a Mr, some great help and she was able to provide for us or help us with um there's some high-speed pump additions. There's um golden gem construction and climb water treatment plants or wire plants and gross embarker were having to do well replacement and big addition to go further into the aquifer.

B

So this is a compliance issue. So, as you know where- and if you recall, we um were funding Park to impact fees, because where I'd use impact fees for capacity Improvement and we're using part of the function from operating from current rates, because people that currently use that users to provide service to them as well, so we're trying to do everything we can to make sure we have good use of both of our funds. So it doesn't put a burden off of one on one or the other so so hard.

B

So and here you can see impact fees, 50 increase commercial for sure, 10 percent in water keep in mind. We have not. We built this budget before we have the impact decision you saw tonight, because we will bring you back, those impact fees and to be adopted and we've recalled. We've talked about a 90-day delay, so by the time those impact seats come out.

B

It may be halfway through this budget, so we do want to rely on those so we're using what we have and what we Project based on what we currently have So based on when those students hit, we could have some additional revenues that will help with these projects. As we move forward.

B

And then um I'm gonna say I'll go you're going back, then yeah I'm going to go back. So those are the main highlights from that one. So I'm not going to go over the law enforcement finds or trust funds. Uc does all of your meetings.

B

Those are basically when the police decides who wants to be able to use those dollars for Capital, Improvements or donation ucos, because when it's fine I'm not going to go through your years only one item in there, that's a million dollars that were transferring over for Street resurfacing um from Nebraska medicine is fine, but it is a we're taking a million from here to put over into that street resurfacing fund. That's the only I am having a grant fund. Keep in mind your grants fund you'll make adjustments as we're awarded grants.

B

So, as we did award grants, you'll make adjustment should respond. Storm water, real quick. um It's only at four percent increase overall right now or 1.1 million dollars.

B

There's some money here for drainage repair, so there's a little bit of money in here for a vehicle and some drainage repair, because, as you know, we have today recently our stormwater rates. That's coming back to you real soon, but it won't take effect until the next tax year 1923. But it will come in the 24th year. But, as you know, Richard and his team are working really hard to get all the plans in place. He has to the inventory.

B

He has um the Consultants doing a review, so he'll be able to bring you all of those improvements and then, when we set those rates, you'll have a plan for use of those increasing those rates.

B

Utility operating fund- this is the next biggest find next to General. Fine, you can see the major cap, it's a 16 increase overall or almost 31 million dollars in this time. Just does include the rate increase that you recently adopted. Those rates have we have to have those rates like we talked about a community talks about in order to make these payments um you'll see. There's vehicles in here there's lift station.

B

He talks about renewal, replacement, keeping up with those wire main renewals and replacement and remember what he said just fund is for existing infrastructure that we're having to maintain the infrastructure.

B

The impacts we found was for new big construction, but, like I, talked about the wells for Plymouth Regional and Northwest Recreational Complex storage- we're using some of these funds in this one to help and find it from your impact fee together to build a project for improve the projects, because we're allowed to use impacts refund for Capital enhancements based on capacity, so they can use all of the money, we're making sure it's fair between our rate payers and our developers.

B

So that's why you'll see a project might be a percentage of it in this line, a percentage of it in that fund to make sure each person pays Their Fear, so nobody's paying more than they should be um four hundred thousand dollars in utility revenues from the eye, as you've heard, he talked about that those are included here. That's new Revenue going forward and then the registrator to recently adopted began. October 1 is included in this fun in this fund.

B

So you can see this fund is balanced at 30 million.

B

um There is that servicing? That's fine I wanted to kind of tell you that as well. If you look down here, you'll see that that was 130 thousand dollars an hour at 1.2.

B

If you remember he talked about, we can use a portion of just utility operating fund to pay for debt on the on the Wastewater Plant, because we have existing customers that are using it. So they can pay a portion of the debt, and then we have impact fees that can be used to pay a portion of the debt because we expanded the Wastewater system for a new development as well.

B

So he and he gave us those numbers from his study to make sure that the rate payers aren't paying any more for the plant than they should be versus a development making sure development is paying for for their portion of that debt as it come on in Impact fees.

B

This also includes from a Debt Service, um the 800 000. You talked about that's in this fund. That's why it had an impact on one of the reasons I had an impact on the Wastewater of it was because we have that debt service in this fund um that we're having to pay as well, and we can't pay that we can't do actually uh to the impact we can't use impact fee for that because it's not been used.

B

You can't use impact fees on that unless you're actually up is running and new developments connected and using it. So, that's why you see that, but you can see just fine as balanced as well um at for almost 31 million dollars and then sanitation fund I think this is the last one. I wanted to go over the big fun um Josh talked about this. It's up to 21 big increase in this fund.

B

um Seven million dollars total 18 in fuel cost. um You know it's tough It's hard to control, but, as you heard, um he has to increase share.

B

um He has his new operators he's had a new position for growth um and then he has his trucks. These are his normal trucks and he adds just outside of the ones that we had to fire with that's a different allocation coming from the rescue knife. These are just his normal Capital to keep up with truck replacement.

B

One of the things I want to point out here that he pointed out is very important. I think it's a very good service. We're adding to some of our citizens is the pup truck that was just like. If you remember, he talks about it's a smaller truck, so he can get in those areas and and pick up garbage where he can't turn around his big truck.

B

There's some areas are just the roads are too narrow, too small and you can't see struggles turning around the big truck, so this is a small truck that will allow him to be able to take those tight areas and not have to damage or have issues. He also can use this for smaller projects. If I have a small pickup something's happening, I need to do a small pickup, he doesn't have to run the big truck. He can run a small truck to do small um small Duty.

B

So this is a good Improvement that we've added, because we have. We have several areas in our population. You know Alleyways or small areas where it's hard getting a big truck down through there. So this is a addition that he had and then six percent. As you know, all rates have been increased by six percent in this fund.

B

um Based on uh the study that you saw uh an exhaust spot uh resolution, you brought to the Earth today, so you can see this fund's also balanced, um so everything so you can see all funds are balanced, um I'm not going to go through special assessments or very small funds you're, particularly additionally, those housing developments. Chuck has some new ones that he's bringing on, and he has to have a hearing for you this evening.

B

um So you'll see you'll, hear those you'll see. Those I will tell you this, though, and I have to give Chuck about credit. This is not an easy job. You know it's tough, dealing with people. Sometimes when you tell them hey we're gonna, have to assess your property because we're going to clean up your property for you or help you people don't like that, all the time. It's a little. It's a little rough, but he's been very successful with that.

B

As you know, you're starting to see in some of these communities some of the developments where we don't have homeowners associations that the pawns are getting kept up and mode defenses are being maintained, he's done a really good job. Working with these people and um and these are separate funds, so we can show them. You know all the major opinion we're putting right back into your neighborhood, so you can see it everything's transparent. It's on the website, so um I have to say he's um he's done a really good job.

B

If there's something we started years ago, but we never really implemented. We talked about doing it, but we never implemented it so, but he's done a really good job with that and you're going to see some new ones tonight coming up where we have some places where we've had some Retention Ponds own by HOA have never been maintained today they have, they have been cleaned um and he's.

B

Maintaining those um so you'll see that when he comes this evening so and that helps that helps with all of our communities, you know I mean so um it's a it's almost a service we provide really I mean we provide a special assessment, but somebody has to maintain it and so, um and it's very important that we're transparent. That's why you have your hearing tonight so that the public can see what we're we're taking your assessment about, where we're giving it back to it stays in that fund.

B

So with that being said, I'll go back to the front side. So, overall, your budget is balanced at 146 million dollars. At your Miller's way of 4.18 um seven chips, all the positions are funded. The Transportation safety position you had is funded all of your fire improvements. That was a big number I know it's a big number. We were able to do it this year, which that was important to be competitive in the police department.

B

I think we're going to see significant Improvement here our abilities to be able to hire, because we were able to do that. um You have the six firefighters coming on. You have a plan. They have a plan for a future plan on adding firefighters, I. Think it's important that, depending you know, we have future.

B

What we're looking into the future will depend on how our revenues look, how how your property taxes look I, hope we have another year like we've had this year, um because that's what's going to take it's going to take those kinds of Revenue generation to add positions and add into the future. So hopefully um you know we'll continue to see that we can development. We have coming on board people always say you know how to create. Where can we get the dollars?

B

There's really it's very tough in the general fund, if you're a property tax um or reserved I have only two places, you really can get big dollars.

B

I will say: I have to recommend your staff and you as being very good, Financial, um very, very responsible and that you've allowed us to increase those user fees, as you saw they add up, they may only create a million dollars or a million and a half at the end of the day, but also it takes some of the burden off of the actual taxpayer for services that, if we're providing the services, you can pay for that service.

B

So it's a user fee that by increasing these user fees, the people who are using those sources are paying for that fee. Instead of having to supplement with property tax. I will tell you several over the last few years by doing that, we have really freed up to where we can use the tax dollars more in certain places like Public Safety and things like that.

B

um Analystees all of those fees, fire inspection fees, their user fees, so by increasing those and also helped because those that create dollars that can come in and go right back to fire department. So I think it's important that we continue to monitor those fees, look at all user fees and stay on top of user fees, as you know, when your comedy dips or user future dip 2.

B

So it's kind of it's it's all tied together, but I think it's important that we continue to watch those and monitor those um I've heard some of the stuff you've said tonight. So I think what you know we can do I. Think fire has a big task to have them. I think they need to start getting longer, training and safety person and quality control, because I'm hired, let's see, I'm hired, let's see I'm on let's get through that process, because that's important step one. We have to go through that process.

B

First, let's get through that process. Let's get the new position, tired that we have coming on. Let's look at our stations and see what what will have to be done. What will that look like? What will it because, at the end of the day, that's a bit confused of it, a big big piece of it and so um based on Renovations based on expansion? You know something very important that we have that number. What's that number? What are we looking at?

B

So we can plan to make that make those changes um so I think that's that's kind of where we go I think that's where we're headed I think this is a good budget and everybody got something in this budget I know. Sometimes our Public Works people think oh Public Safety got everything we didn't get anything no. They we were able to give them some things as well for facilities, improvements that we need to make and we need to do.

B

Street improvements are important, sidewalks I think you know we were able to fund those, um so I think we've touched just about every service and everything that we have from a funding standpoint.

B

Just keep your fingers crossed with the economy, stays pretty good for us, because I think that's going to be the issue that will actually determine where we go um and I think you should be commended street lights. I know, commissioner, Smith you're a big proponent of this, like the street life study, is now getting underway.

B

The stormwater study you have is underway actually making sure these fines and these fees are proper and collected properly, to be able to fund those functions, so we don't have to use other dollars from a general fire or other places to find those. Those issues so I think that that we're in a good spot it'll be interesting to see how we can go through next year in 23.. We'll continue to monitor State revenues. After All State revenues are a very big reflection of some of the other dollars.

B

If the State dollars do this, sometimes our user fees do that we're hearing from some developers are starting to slow. So we'll continue to monitor that and see where how you know um how what kind of impact that has on us, but I will tell you. We've looked at every rate. We've looked at every fee. We will continue to look at them and make sure that we are keeping them up in line with our neighbors and make sure they're helping to cover the cost um of our programs. We've looked at Recreation fees.

B

Writer continues to watch those and mine for those he has some new fees he's established and gone through, and it's important that he review those very well and go through those. After all, you have to be careful with those impress yourself: I have Recreation business if you're, not careful, but this budget is built to be able to do all of our programs and there's a lot of capital Improvement in this budget as well.

B

um So with that being said, um I like I said: I think this is a good budget. um I think you know we we um we've heard from you. We know kind of what your direction is, what you're looking at and we will work towards those those issues going forward. Any.

D

Any questions for Edward I just want to thank Edward, because you have done such a tremendous job under the circumstances that you've been under personally so I just want to say thank you, um you have opened, you have an open door. I know that I get in to City Hall many times, and you no matter what you're doing you stop, and you give me the time so I just want to say thank you and knowing that these last months have been your greatest challenge with your health, but you have.

D

This has been your priority and the health and you've been managing both I. Don't know how you did it, but thank you so much for everything that you have done. Welcome.

B

Thank you very much.

A

Mr Banks, okay, it goes for that.

F

And again, just Clarity gives us Direction and that just really helps.

F

My mic hasn't been off. Somebody texting me so again, we've gotten some clarity tonight that helps us be able to look forward. The willingness is there when we have the clarity to understand. This is what we need to do so you know thank you. Mr Smith,.

A

E

I want to say thanks.

A

I

To Mr Bass or all the work that he puts in to make sure that our city is operating efficiently and to all the Departments that has played a part uh in preparing this budget uh and and I'm just uh I.

I

Don't want to leave here tonight that we've talked about retrofitting these fire stations and then we come back three months and nothing is happening so I just like to to to say that that's a priority that we need to get that done to find out what it's going to take to retrofit these fire stations in order to meet our growing demand and uh and I know. You probably won't have all that ready by our next uh city council meeting, but but at least by the first city council meeting in October.

I

Hopefully uh we would have either the architect. That's designing the new administration building, take a look at that and bring that back, and let us know what that cost is going to look like, so that we can start moving forward to getting that done. It.

A

Won't be that fast, no.

B

We have Architects on board that we can start talking to and see and get a timeline from them all.

I

B

um So we can do that, but.

I

Well, let's do this so so that so the public knows that we're serious about Public.

C

Safety, but we can get some rough numbers quickly. That's that's not impossible to do. We can definitely do that. I.

E

C

That, on my own investment properties, you can call somebody and say Here's the generalness of what I want to get done. Give me a million dollar range. Where is it going to land I? Think we can do that. Just to put our heads in the right mindset of hey, we need a budget, 15 million dollars and.

B

You can do that. I promise we're having a problem doing that, because we call someone to come looking the first thing they want if they want somebody to just give me the design. First, I can't give you a price until I know.

B

Are you adding two rooms here? Are you adding room on the back? They can't they until we have a design of what it's like a footprint where it's going to fit. What's it look like to can't really give you a number, so she got square footage. They want you to see. Now somebody can give you a number and say: hey it's 10 million dollars, but but they're still going to want to design before we can go to construction to make sure which.

C

Is fine but I think having some type of estimate of just we? We can do this I.

E

C

Don't to commissioner Smith's point: we don't need to keep kicking this kid down the road. um This isn't that hard to do and if I need to start calling contractors and and uh whoever I need to do I'm happy to do it. I think that's part of our jobs up here is to alleviate staff who's already overworked as well.

C

You know every you guys are all doing your absolute best as well, so I I think we that to Echo that sentiment it needs to be a priority and I know it's not going to be a tomorrow thing, but it does need to be we'll.

B

Get to Babylon we, we will start and get the plan together and bring you the information as quickly as we can bring it to you. Definitely I mean I, don't want to bring you a number say: 10 million dollars, because you're going to tell me well how much at which place and how many states well so I need to know will that support for on a trial? What what can well, this might even work. If this site doesn't work, we have to we're. Gonna have to figure out where we, you know where we replace stations.

C

Well, I, don't want that either to be the reason we aren't Staffing correctly either I understand we need to put them somewhere, but at the same time we need them.

C

B

Agree but keep in mind. We also can't put 10 in a building Point without occupancy for eight, so we have to be careful.

C

I mean we put our students in trailers. We can temporarily put our staff in there while we're redoing buildings. We can do this I. Think that's the thing, I understand your push, we're going to hear what you're saying, but.

B

We have to get their numbers I, you need your numbers, but you need to know what this number is and how you're going to pay for it. But we need to get a number between information. If it's the direction, you want to go.

F

That was kind of my question. I mean: can we do a a bunk house, or does it have to be tied into the station? That's the part we don't know so give us that information. If we can do something, that's quick and temporary that can move it forward. You know that's what we need to.

B

Know right well, we'll get information we'll we will get information for you.

C

We're going to have a very rough meeting this next budget meeting. If we don't have this fixed in some capacity, commissioner I don't want to get I hate, the the whole. We will get a second bite at the Apple we get, we can, we can fix. This is fixable and it is fixable sooner rather than later. I understand that it's hey, we need I, understand, there's other priorities that may be the administration you guys have, but we can do this and I'm happy to get in there.

C

I I can put my own staff on this to make it a priority. Well,.

B

Here's what I'm going to tell you you set your mail is right. If you're going to add those kind of dollars to this budget, you better, you don't have to cut. If you're going to tell me: where do you want to cut in other areas? Well,.

I

We don't want to cut it away or.

B

You can go into your reserves.

E

Right right, what.

I

B

Saying that's what and then that's what you can do, but just keep in mind that you know where you're, seeing if you borrow from those reserves, how far you go down. If we have a storm just be prepared. If I come to you and tell you, I need to borrow money for a storm, just be just be prepared, that's all I'm saying but I'd! Rather we can get you the information and show you what that number of roughly is going to be.

B

I can't promise you I, don't want to stand up here and tell you 10 million dollars when they come back and say: free sessions have to be completely built in 50 million I. Don't I, don't wanna I, don't want to tell you that so um and that may be with architect says it may say: hey station three: you got to build a big restriction, it's not affirm yet so you don't have to find a place to build a new one. We'll have to buy land, we'll have to figure out how we're going to construct it.

B

How long will it take to build it? um As you see it's taking forever to get six going, but but we can bring you information, we'll bring you information, but.

I

And I guess we we can. We can do it two ways: Health architect tell us what it's going to cost to retrofit the buildings or, if it's possible right and also give us a cost, what it's going to take to get the temporary housing I, don't like that word: bunk housing, but temporary housing until we can get it retrofitted. So if we can have those two two costs, then we can move forward from there.

B

Okay, I'll do my best I, don't know if I can do it in four days, but well I.

I

I I I I I gave you into the first the next month.

B

But we'll get you we'll get information, okay, well, I promise, we'll get information yeah.

F

My one can my one logistic question is: does it have to be tied into alarms and things like that, or is it as simple as having you know that that's the one question I would have why.

B

Wouldn't you put our employees with.

C

Architecture tell us that right, right, yeah and isn't station six or temporary station six, the equivalent of what we're talking about so.

B

This is all doable. It's the moral of the story. This is totally completely doable. Well, yeah, but I don't know, can you push Jason? Can we put extra building in the station tree? I, don't know, I have to find that out. Yes, you can put a module in there. No, you can't I mean I have to find out I understand, because you know the building department in your day is going to be the one that also is going to have to be able to say yay or nay. You can build here or not.

B

Build here, add or not so I have to make sure, but I will get you information. I will I will work on it as quickly as I can so yeah.

A

All right well we'll take public comment so.

J

I'll be the first to kick one off uh Kyle Becker I should say, commissioner, elect Kyle, Becker, uh 1388, kentler, Road I wasn't going to speak tonight, but that presentation was an eye-opener and quite a pollen. If you ask me, we've been talking about properly Staffing our fire department, not two months, not six months, not two years really for the entirety. Since we've been on Council and the idea that we could sit in these Chambers tonight, and this Administration has zero insights onto how much it would cost to retrofit our departments.

J

Even if we were able to staff to the expectations that we all want into National Fire standards to say that we wouldn't be able to quarter them and to sit here and say that we have no idea how much it would cost to be able to service those firefighters. Are we kidding?

J

This is maddening and there's and I don't quite understand the city administrator's friction when clearly you all want to do something here and it's not well. We can allocate 10 million or we could do this I'm, not sure we can't no, you, as a council, have the ability to say no. This is what we're going to do. You all cannot prioritize the acceleration of getting the capital expenditures to properly retrofit those stations if it means news stations, so be it if it meets more firefighters. Let's do it.

J

You all can work past the deficiency of this Administration not to put emphasis on knowing what it's going to cost to do. This remember it takes three votes. Three votes only and I'll see you in November. Thank you.

K

I wasn't going to speak tonight either. My name is Jeff Tire I live at 1120 leg, Drive, Apopka, Florida I'm, a retired assistant fire chief on this fire department, 32 years of service. Here, when I started in 1984, we had two people on the fire engines, it's 2022 and there's two people on the fire engines. It's time for a change. The 18 people that Chief Sanchez talked about has to happen.

K

We can't put firefighter safety and Community safety aside because of some cramped quarters. That's ridiculous! We're adding it's budgeted for six firefighters in this budget year correct and we're putting them at stations two and three correct: where are we putting them, then? What are we doing? We're adding another bed correct? Why can't we add another bed to station four five and six doesn't make sense to me. We have students that ride overnight, correct they stay at those stations.

K

They sleep in one of those extra beds, let's put a firefighter in those beds instead of a student.

K

That's the clarity that you're looking for here, you just ask for it out of bed, we're not talking about retrofitting stations. That's silly! We're talking silly now we're talking about adding one bed to each one of these stations, 18 people. If we got to go, buy a bed and a chair, let's go buy a bed and a chair, 18 people.

K

Our city, deserves this. The firefighters deserves this Austin deserves this. Let's make it happen all right.

L

Good evening Sylvester Hall 3091 Rolling Hills Lane Apopka Florida, uh first of all, I want to publicly apologize to Mr Duran for have to sit here and listen to this. His son just died. There is no greater calling than life.

L

Safety is Paramount, his son just died and we're arguing over a few dollars. We went in can't we, while we went into reserves to get that but you're saying what we're asking here for the fire department we can't get. We need to put it off and then we're only planning to be mediocre.

L

We're not planning to come up the standard is there was a greater call for action, there's no greater call than now to meet the standards, not not try to get to support it's time to meet the standards.

L

Now, I, don't listen to a lot of stuff that we talked about here tonight and like I, say: I could not be Austin father right now, because we'll have some serious issues up in here now, I said it before I said in his presence. If Austin was my father, I can't speak for him, but I have the best lawyer that money can buy and I come up here and I'll buy the city of a punk because I'm listening to all this stuff.

L

If you're going to investigate anything, if there's an accident in the street, you don't move anything, you wait till the police get there. You wait and you look at everything in real time. So, if I'm going to evaluate and I'm gonna make changes for the future, I need to see exactly what happened. You don't move it and go put it somewhere else. I need to see the state that it was in that way. I know that you're committed to Serious change.

L

I commend you for being here tonight, because if I was the mayor, there is no way in h-e-l-l. My fire chief wouldn't be here no way.

L

So what I'm saying if you want a clear picture, this is a clear picture. Safety is Paramount and we have a father. That's grieving, don't lost his son and we're worrying about money.

L

We're worried about money when we have the money sitting right there in the bank. You compare yourself to all the other counties around. Let's be the beacon, let's sit the standard, you can't clean house and you can't evaluate if you're not doing it fairly.

L

You can't clean house and you can't evaluate if you're not doing it with a heart. That's for the people. I spoke about loyalty, higher and loyalty. Staffing a few weeks ago to here, we got a guy QA, something that we just had a major.

L

We just lost a life and we put the QA job on hold till somebody that we want to get. The job can apply for it, there's I'm a hundred percent for in-house, promoting I'm 100 for it. If the person qualifies for the job that job should be posted outside, so we can get the best possible applicant period. That's how we move forward for the city of Apopka, not on loyalty, but the best person for the junk.

L

We have to do away with loyalty, hiring and loyalty staff. We have to do away with it mayor and to all the Commissioners up here. Now. It's about leadership and, as commissioner Beck select uh Becker said, forget them now, not forget them, but it's on you now you don't heard everything, so you can't say I, don't have a clear idea what's going on and if you need to go home and replay this and listen to it.

L

So you can pick up on some of the stuff you missed, because I was hit back then it was making me mad. It was making me angry. It was making me upset to have this father sit here and have to witness what's going on here tonight, so you want a clear picture. The clear picture is Mayor, it's time for leadership. Commissioner, it's time for leadership, it's time for y'all to make sure that that fire station get everything that they deserve in every safety.

L

Violation that needs to be corrected is corrected by the book by the book, regardless of how it make us look mayor. That's when you can move forward when you do the right thing in the right perspective, and we talked about this before I wish. You had a window and listen to some of the things. I said principles matter, ethics, matters, prestigious matters, rules matter, and we can go on down the list integrity.

L

But now this is a big one, your character matter, I'm gonna, see how you're going to respond to this demand. Thank you.

M

I apologize for earlier I didn't announce my name or my address. I was not aware and didn't even hear the request, so I am Mike Duran. My address is 11504 Almo Court, Clermont, Florida 34711.

M

I wanted to get everything done in the first meeting.

M

um I was afraid on time. I know, I was only supposed to have four minutes and I think I went a little bit over and I appreciate you guys, affording me that I had everything written down on the computer. What I was going to say and everything was formatted in order that I wanted it and I am so glad that everybody that was here actually had an opportunity to come up here and speak I.

M

Think I was under the impression now even into the night that this actually wasn't even open to public speaking and I'm, so glad that it was I'm kind of unaware why it isn't all the time. I don't even live here, and this was good information, so I just kind of wanted to Echo everybody kind of nailed, the anger and the frustration and the sadness that our family's been feeling.

M

M

Since June 30th, we had a witness Austin going through trying to go through recovery and we never left him for eight days. I live in Claremont I did not go home. I didn't see. My wife I went to my daughter's condo I stayed up so late and so long she had to Uber me back and forth to the hospital I. Was there long enough to take a shower and maybe even eat something Apopka fire and Orlando? Fire was unbelievable, they were bringing food and everything and the love of support was amazing. Everybody saw it right.

M

We didn't we're upstairs on the fourth floor in trauma, ICU I saw food coming up, I rarely saw anybody downstairs because I wasn't there. I didn't realize that the community had rallied behind us and behind Austin I, really truly thought. We were in it alone and, as the days were on and Austin had his highs, and he had his lows and many times we thought we were going to lose them and I called his mom at three o'clock in the morning panicking and telling her she's got to come down.

M

I think this. Is it and miraculously somehow I, don't know how he did it he pulled through and the next morning the numbers that we wanted to go up went up and the numbers we wanted to go down went down.

M

M

We never thought he would not survive. We knew that he would. Even when he got transferred to the fifth floor to CCU he was hooked to so many machines. It was impossible for us to stay. There was no room, literally no room.

M

We could stand very, very close to his bed and still be in the way of the nursing staff. It was the only times that he was ever left alone and you know again only for minutes. We stayed in the quiet room.

M

Austin went down for a CT, we had a good night Thursday night.

M

E

M

To the hospital- and they presented us with a with the wrestler's belt- and the goal was for Austin to wear this belt when he walks out like Ric Flair, it's a beautiful bell. I still have it, we kind of celebrated that night. We thought that Austin was doing very well.

M

I have a picture. We actually smiled.

M

And then Friday was just another day, and that was the end for Austin Friday night I just want you guys to know the impact when people speak from the public and know that Austin was a person, and this is not not like any other budget.

M

I. Don't believe that any.

E

M

You had ever experienced. This is not just some 2021 budget, we're trying to fix some street lights and we want to fix some sidewalks.

M

This is different. We're talking about growing up in the 80s and where Apopka is today times have changed. We talked about schools earlier times, have changed music ordinance, knocking on a door and asking a neighbor hey? Can you turn the music down and you're right? Can we do that today times have changed?

M

We've all changed. The way that we handled this budget this year needs to change and I can assure you and I visited Austin. All the time. I literally saw him that Thursday on the 30th 20 minutes, I get a phone call and he's in the hospital I literally saw him spoke with him. I hugged him, I kissed his sweaty neck and I told him be careful. Kid I still had the text to this day when he texted me back thanks.

M

Pops he's proud that I came over he's a person and he's gone, and not just him me and his mom and his sister that now grows up alone.

M

She'll get married, I hope. One day and Austin won't be there myself and her mom our day will come to an end, and his sister will have to attend that funeral by herself.

M

It's very important that we do something this year. I applaud you guys for not wanting to wait. Why fill the firehouse up I? Don't care where they sleep, they're firemen, they don't care either they don't care, they will sleep on top of the building, so I know them. I visit Austin all the time. I still go to the stations.

M

80, firefighters and at 880 have reached out to me and to your question earlier. Yes, a lot of them are getting help and they reach out to me about that too, and I applaud them. For that.

M

This is the time Austin is making history in Apopka.

M

I, don't believe this city has ever lost a firefighter in a line of duty. Austin I believe is the first. We pray he's the last.

M

He will forever be in station number one That's History now and you have the opportunity to create history. It was big. You saw the community, you saw the procession, you saw the service, you see the people to reaching out, it is big, and your decision now is big. Please find somewhere in the budget to accommodate Apopka fire. We cannot.

M

We cannot do this again. We can't, if we don't do something it'll be another father broken forever that will be standing before you or another committee.

M

D

Thank you, Mr Durant.

D

A

All right, we'll uh look for a motion to I mean we can't can't put it off. We've got to have a first reading and we can change the second reading. If there's things we want to change, but.

B

Familiar you have to vote for a budget tonight. You have to you have to give me some number or something to budget with tonight.

B

You can make adjustments between now and next week, so we can make adjustments, um but I have to have some um budget tonight, because I have to advertise that there will be a second budget hearing.

C

So can we approve this budget with an addition of fully funding 18 additional.

B

Firefighters, however, we find the money, whether it's from Reserves.

B

um What yeah you could probably do it that way, what I would prefer you do is I've not just president, because this is what we've advertised, which are direction of go back and look for this between now and the next hearing on Wednesday.

B

E

Then everybody can make.

B

Adjustments, you can adjust the budget, you can't adjust the military down, it can go up, so we won't. We won't have that, but you can tell me you can't move.

C

The roads right up approve it with the 18 firefighters budgeted in now. Why do we have to wait until the following.

B

Well, you have to give me time to go calculate so you have too many time to be able to calculate that number. So I can bring you back to number a new number. The overall budget I have to change all the schedules. My general funds to the overall budget, because I have to advertise this in the paper on Sunday, but I can change just because of whatever average. What I advertise on Sunday is.

B

We can add, you can adopt you're going to adopt the file budget next Wednesday, and that will be the number, so it can be more or less than what you. What we're at right now I'd.

C

Rather, not push it off.

B

I mean just like I said: this is not the final you're, not they're, not. You won't set the file until next Wednesday. So you can. This is 10, except so you can adopt a tentative and then you can give me directions to come back next, Wednesday with adding 18 or 12 or.

I

I understand what you're saying, because if we don't adopt it tonight, we don't know what the additional figure is tonight. So what we can do is adopt the budget as is tonight and then give you Direction at the next budget hearing to have whatever that additional cost is correct. That's correct! Okay, if that been the case, I move that we adopt a budget.

B

A

By commissioner Smith yeah.

B

No I don't know just give me a direction to bring that back. That will be an adjustment at your next hearing, whatever that.

I

Number so I need to do that before I make the motion um you can make the motion and the most emotions pass. Then we give you direction to bring back that figure. All.

B

You need to give me: is you need to adopt that budget, this budget number 146 298! That's what I need? Okay,.

I

B

Then you'll give me direction ever come back to the next meeting with that number and then you will determine if you're going to add it into the final.

D

Yeah, how many are we asking for 18 or.

B

12. I think we want 12 additional.

I

Right but I think it's six already in the budget, so we need 12 more. Yes,.

C

Are you guys agreeable to that next.

F

Week yeah I mean: can we not just say that, because we we don't have the specifics, we have to pass this as is, but that our direction is that we will not pass it next week without that included. Does that satisfy that need you know, because I don't know how else to do it? What.

B

Will happen what will happen if you have a budget now it's been presented, I have to have a vote on that budget. To advertise. That's not final! That's why I call it tentative! You will set the millage rate and the final budget next Wednesday. That's final! So next Wednesday giving me directions to bring back those 12.

B

I will bring back the number and a budget that has those 12 and all additional costs, whatever it takes to make those 12 work, and then you will have to vote on that, and that will be your final budget so.

F

That we say and you've made a motion for that I'll. Second, that with the intention that we won't pass something that doesn't include it so and.

C

Let me also say that if, if that's not presented to us and if you think today was a long weekend, it'll be a much longer meeting next week. So.

B

Well, I'm, not okay, so what will happen is I will bring you that budget back and you will either vote on it or not. Vote for that budget. So yeah.

A

C

A

Motion by commissioner Smith, the second by commissioner Banks and all those in favor.

E

A

All opposed motion carries unanimously. Okay. Next up, we've got the resolution. 2022.

I

Well, can we go ahead and give him the direction now he's.

A

I

You got it: okay,.

A

All right, Chuck.

D

N

Madam clerk, if you read the titles, please.

O

Resolution 2022-36.

H

A resolution for of the city council of the city of Apopka Florida, adopting a non-advolorum tax assessment role for the West Kelly Park, Street lighting District, providing direction to the finance director for certification and transmission of the assessment road to the Orange County tax collector in providing an effective date.

N

Mayor said, councilman Chuck fabric City, Administration. What you see before you is requests for the um by state. Such we have to have two public hearings to set the rate for this particular assessment area which have before you use the West Kelly Park District. Currently, there's one development going in there. That's the golden Orchard with two additional that'll follow through at a later date. The rate to be set for this is uh 174.05 that'll be assessed annually. It was notified on their trib notice, as well as in the local newspaper and on the city's website.

N

So the request to nine is first reading of the resolution with all Dover for adoption in the next trip council meeting.

A

N

Like from any questions.

A

Okay: okay, you need a motion to approve resolution 2022-36 some.

E

Of you got a motion. Banks.

A

And second by commissioner Smith, all those in favor.

E

A

All opposed motion, Carriage announcely next up resolution, 2022-37 a.

H

Resolution of the city council of the city, Apopka Florida, adopting avalorum tax, assess for the winding winding Meadows Street lighting District, providing direction to the finance director for certification and transmission of the assessment role to the Orange County tax collector in providing an effective date.

N

Mayor council, this is for the winding Meadows subdivision. This is on the east side of the 429 located right there at Abby Lane the rate to be set for this particular Street lighting district is 168.90 per household. It was put on the trim, notice, put a newspaper and on our website, I'll be more than happy to answer any any questions.

A

Any questions for Chuck anybody for me I just want to speak on this one, if not close the public hearing from motion to approve resolution. 2022-32Nd.

I

A

It for a second option now motion by commissioner Smith, like commissioner Velazquez all those in favor.

B

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I hope as much she carries unanimously next up resolution 2022-38.

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To the Orange County Tax Collector and providing an effective date.

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Mayor council, this is for a neighborhood improvement district which takes the level Terrace neighborhood into effect. The HOA um abandoned Itself by allowing its corporate papers to expire. There currently is no HOA they've abandoned the pawn and we're having to take it over to maintain and service. The pond I did put in your pack has a tentative budget of what the money will be spent on and I'll be more than happy to answer any questions. If you have any.

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Questions for Chuck anybody from the public. We should speak on this matter, not we'll close the public hearing, what promotion to approve resolution 2022-38 first reading and hold over for a second reading and adoption so.

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Got a motion by commissioner bankson second segment, commissioner Velazquez, all those in favor aye opposed motion carries unanimously next up resolution. 2022-39.

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A resolution of the city of.

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Apopka of the city council of the city of Apopka, adjusting an avalorum tax assessment role for the Main Avenue Villa sub subdivision, providing direction to the finance director for certification and transmission of the assessment road to the Orange, County Tax Collector and providing an effective date.

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Mayor council, this is a current uh ho or excuse me, a current neighborhood improvement district that was created in 2014. The initial um creation was to put the wall in along Main Avenue, as in the state um that wall was put in, we should be um the city Advanced. The money on on this particular neighborhood this year, we'll be meeting that obligation.

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So this is going to allow me to back that particular assessment down from the 490 to 350, which will continue to maintain the retention pods and also put some money aside for the future painting of the wall which we'll have to do about every eight to ten years. So we will we'll be reducing the rate from the initial rate of 490 to 350.

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I'll be more than happy to answer any questions. Any.

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Questions for Chuck I remember when you did that wall um we're almost coming up on 10 years or eight to.

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Ten years we are it actually, it was found. The uh neighborhood improvement district was created in 2014, so I.

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Remember when you, when um so has it been assessed to say that we need to paint that wall within the next two years? That's.

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Why I'm I've reduced that rate to allow the money to continue to add up to paint the wall and to maintain so there will be some reserves there? Okay,.

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Any other questions for Chuck anybody from public wishes speak on this matter, not we'll close. The public hearing look for a motion to approve resolution 2022-39 at first reading and hold it for a second reading and adoption. Some got a motion by commissioner Velazquez. Second, second by commissioner bison I'll lose in favor. All right proposed motion carries meals just.

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For the record mayor, I need to on the level Terrace I didn't proclaim the rate of 300 for that assessment and I just want to put that on the record for level Terrace, that the rate is 300 per household. So.

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The only thing with the with the retention upon, but we're it's a continuous maintenance for us. So how does that? How did the residents get.

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They get assessed on their tax bill, so they'll pay the fee on their tax bill under if their special assessments, okay and then we put that in a trust fund and all that money is transparent. It's only used for their particular development.

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Like we did with street fighting okay, okay, thank you very much.

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