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Apopka City Council Final Budget Hearing for Fiscal Year 2023/2024 in City Hall on September 20, 2023 at 6 PM. To view the meeting agenda visit: https://www.apopka.gov/agenda
B
Our
fathers,
once
again,
we
come
thankful
for
this
opportunity
to
be
Servants
of
your
city
as
we
prepare
now
for
our
final
budget
here,
and
we
ask
the
Lord
if
you
would
continue
to
bless
us
Supply
us
with
God,
with
all
the
Necessities
that
we
need
in
order
that
we
can
have
a
qualitative
license
in
our
city.
These
blessings
we
ask
in
our
son,
Jesus
name,
amen,
amen,
amen,.
C
D
C
C
On
September
6
city
council
adopted
a
tentative
millage
rate
of
4.1876
for
physical
year
2023-24,
and
today
the
proposed
marriage
rate
and
budget
I
mean
on
September
10th.
The
proposed
millage
rate
and
budget
was
published
in
the
Orlando
Sentinel,
in
accordance
with
the
truth
and
millage
process
statutory
requirements,
the
city
must
adopt
a
military
prior
to
adopting
the
budget,
so
the
recommended
millage
rate
is
the
4.1876
meals
which
is
13.21
increase
over
the
rollback
rate
of
3.6991.
A
Any
questions
for
Blanche
anybody
from
the
public
wish
to
speak
on
this
matter,
not
we'll
close
a
public
hearing,
and
let
me
read
this
in
accordance
with
the
truth
and
millage
trim
requirements.
The
city
must
set
the
final
millage
rate
and
it
buys
the
property
appraiser
of
the
final
millage
rate
and
roll
back
rate.
The
final
millage
rate
is
4.1876,
which
represents
a
13.21
percent
increase
over
the
rollback
millage
rate
of
3.6991.
A
A
C
Again,
on
September
6,
the
city
council
adopted
a
tentative
budget
for
fiscal
year,
2023-24
September
10th
that
proposed
budget
summary
was
published
in
the
Orlando
Sentinel.
In
accordance
with
the
truth
in
military
statutory
requirements,
the
city
must
adopt
an
annual
Budget
prior
to
the
beginning
of
each
fiscal
year.
The
total
proposed
budget
for
All
funds
is
balanced
at
165
million
828
988.
C
D
Dr
olapopka
I
have
a
concern
that
we
just
made
a
net
profit
this
year,
a
huge
net
profit
at
the
July
meeting.
It
said:
44
million
dollars
net
profit
we're
putting
we're
saying
we're
having
a
zero
budget
which
we're
supposed
to
we're
supposed
to
be
non-profit
government,
and
we
put
all
these
monies
in
the
reserves
yet
and
a
lot
of
places
were
not
accomplishing
anything.
D
No
signs
are
being
put
up
on
the
interstate.
After
repeated
emails
and
Public
Service
posts
and
reports
and
phone
calls
saying
we
don't
have
signs
up,
it's
not
getting
done.
The
ponds
are
not
getting
cleaned.
The
reports
state
from
May
from
March
that
they're
full
of
trash
they're
not
getting
mowed
they're,
not
getting
pumped
out
and
cleaned
they're,
still
awful
from
the
inspection
in
March,
and
they
hadn't
been
cleaned
since
2018.,
and
yet
money
is
being
turned
back
from
the
public
services
department.
D
D
How
can
we
possibly
ask
for
more
ad
valorem
for
five
years?
We
have
the
money
we
can
hire
the
employees.
Oh,
the
other
answer
is:
is
we
don't
have
any
employees
to
do
it
and
I
drive
by
and
see
one
person
shoveling
another
person
with
a
tablet
in
their
handwriting
another
person
holding
a
glass
of
water
and
the
fourth
person
in
the
truck?
D
D
D
Doesn't
mean
we
should
you're
the
ones
paying
the
taxes
too,
and
when
I
looked
at
a
piece
of
property
that
has
a
violation
on
it
from
political
sign,
billboard
being
still
up
from
last
year,
that's
been
reported,
they
have
4.34
Acres
they're
being
charged
the
same
non-adv
alarm
tax
for
storm
water,
as
I
am
on
my
0.3
Acres
doesn't
make
sense
and
a
fast
food
place
who
goes
out
every
single
day,
they're,
almost
totally
concrete
asphalt.
They
have
very,
very
just
a
few
feet
of
plant
area.
D
They
go
down
in
hose
and
use
chemicals
on
all
that
concrete
and
windows
every
single
day
for
a
couple
hours.
They
hose
down
everything
with
chemicals.
They
have
hundreds
of
cars,
go
through
there
every
day
with
leaking
gas
and
leaking
oil,
and
they
get
paid.
They
only
pay
three
times
what
I
pay
on
my
0.3
Acres
calculation,
the
the
new
formula
you'll
have
is
very
bad,
so
you
need
to
compare
your
new
ad
valorem
non-adv
alarm
tax
to
what
some
of
these
businesses
are
paying
and
what
other
people
with
larger
tracks
of
land
are
paying.
C
G
Provides
a
very
misleading
position
of
the
city
to
those
lay
people
that
are
looking
at
this.
So
can
you
talk
through
that
because
certainly
we're
not
taking
a
44
million
dollar
profit
a
year
over
year?
So
can
you
can
you
speak
to
that
talk
about
the
timing
and
the
pacing
of
expenditures
if
capital
projects
are
not
expended
or
there's
Opex
savings
throughout
the
year?
C
And
we
discussed
this
briefly
doing
your
briefing,
that
is
a
year-to-date
amount
and
everything
is
not
equal,
the
revenues
and
the
expenditures,
and
it's
not
an
annual
projection.
If
you
look
at
the
annual
projection
for
the
month
of
August,
it's
more
around
23
million
that
we
could
potentially
have,
but
that
does
not
include
our
year
in
expenses
as
well
and
to
address
what
you
just
said
in
regards
to
carry
force
with
the
major
capital
projects,
those
amounts
that
have
not
been
spent
in
that
current
year.
G
C
B
F
C
C
C
That
is
not
correct.
It's
just
the
timing,
as
you
just
meant
of
the
revenues
and
the
expenditures,
every
expenditure,
all
that
we're
in
the
month
of
August,
that
doesn't
truly
represent
where
we
stand
from
year
to
date
for
the
month
of
August
on
both
sides.
So
what
we
do
is
provide
an
annual
projection.
If
you
can
see
that
on
the
next
page
and
what
we're
projecting
on
an
annual
basis
actually
is
23
or
24
million.
And
again
some
of
those
excesses
are
in
funds
that
have
restricted
funds.
G
A
D
F
G
F
D
Yes,
I
wish
to
have
the
assessments
I
wish
to
have
the
assessments
that
are
out
there
looked
at
again
because
again,
a
4.34
piece
of
property
having
the
same
assessment
as
a
0.3
piece
of
property
residential,
does
not
make
sense
and
then
a
commercial
piece
of
property.
That's
all
concrete,
just
being
three
times
as
much
as
a
residential
that
doesn't
use
and
attract
all
that
traffic
and
all
that
pollution
and
uses
tons
of
water
flushing
the
concrete
every
day
and
chemicals
every
day
does
not
make
sense.
D
It's
illogical
there's
something
wrong
with
either
the
calculations
they
weren't
calculated
properly
and
then
that
other
one
being
a
non-homestead,
the
4.34,
it's
a
rental
from
a
company
from
out
of
state
and
not
even
a
local
resident
I'm
an
Apopka
resident
owning
it
I
mean
it.
It
just
doesn't
make
sense.
So
there's
something
wrong
with
the
calculations
or
something
you
know
it
should
at
least
be.
You
know
four
times
as
much
since
it's
you
know
more
than
four
times
the
size
of
the
property.
H
Commissioners
Mayor
Chuck
fabric,
City
Administration.
What
you
have
it
for
you
is
the
rate
assessment
for
the
McCoy
Village
neighborhood
improvement
district,
and
this
district
is
to
take
care
of
the
Retention
Ponds
that
were
abandoned
by
the
HOA
and
to
make
sure
that
we
bring
them
into
ms4
compliance.
H
Commissioners
just
for
clarification,
City
staff
does
not
maintain
these
ponds.
These
are
ponds
that
were
been
abandoned
by
the
HOAs
I
have
a
contractor
Brightview
that
comes
in
and
cuts
the
ponds,
we're
still
responsible
for
the
inflow
of
the
structure,
be
it
the
pipe
going
into
the
pond,
but
traditionally
all
our
ponds
have
always
been
maintained
by
the
HOAs.
So
what
happens
when
the
HOA
goes
under?
H
They
get
abandoned
and
we
get
the
calls,
and,
unfortunately,
when
you
have
a
code
enforcement
case
and
there's
nobody
to
go
after,
it's
left
to
us
to
come
up
with
a
solution,
and
this
is
our
solution.
So
we
can
maintain
and
cut
the
pods,
and
we
also
part
of
the
the
assessment
is
to
do
engineering
studies
from
time
to
time
to
make
sure
we
stay
in
compliance
with
our
ms4
permit.
A
H
Chuck
Rapid
City
Administration.
This
is
for
a
assessment
to
the
Martin
Place
phase,
one
neighborhood.
This
Pond
was
built
back
in
the
1980s,
the
HOA
abandoned
it.
It's
got
growth
in
it
and
so
forth.
So
this
is
to
try
to
get
it
cleaned
up
and
put
in
the
future
upkeep
and
it's
being
assessed
back
to
the
property
owners
that
would
have
been
originally
responsible
for
the
main
maintenance
of
the
pond
and
the
amount
is
set
at
180
dollars.
A
F
H
Assessment
you
see
before
use
for
the
level
Terrace
area
of
the
city.
Again,
this
was
another
retention
Pond
that
was
abandoned
by
the
HOA
and
went
into
disrepair.
The
city
has
been
going
in
cleaning
it
up,
and
this
is
to
take
over
and
continue
maintenance
of
that
pond,
so
we'd
keep
it
cutting
brought
up
to
date.
There
is
also
to
be
a
future
engineering
study
to
make
sure
there's
no
underlying
structural
problems.
A
Any
questions
for
Chuck
any
buy
from
the
public.
We
should
speak
on
this
matter,
not
we'll
close.
The
public
hearing
look
for
motion
to
adopt
resolution.
2023-23
got
a
motion
by
commissioner
Becker
second
by
commissioner
Smith.
All
those
in
favor
aye
all
opposed
motion
carries
unams
next
up
resolution.
2023-24.
H
Commissioners
mayor
this
is
for
the
street
lighting
assessment
for
the
Meadowlark
development
within
the
city.
It
was
originally
passed
as
the
resolution
of
the
code
property
because
they
did
not
have
a
name
at
that
point,
so
I'm
just
making
that
clarification.
So
you
understand
we're
setting
the
rate
at
132.25
cents.
A
Any
questions
for
Chuck
any
buy
from
the
public.
We
should
speak
on
this
one
now,
we'll
close
the
public
hearing.
Look
for
a
motion
to
adopt
resolution
2023-24.
so
moved
got
a
motion
by
commissioner
Nesta
second
by
commissioner
Becker.
All
those
in
favor
aye
all
opposed
motion
carries
unanimously
next
up
resolution.
2023-25
resolution.
H
A
Any
questions
for
Chuck
anybody
from
public
wishes
to
speak
on
this
matter.
If
not
we'll
close,
the
public
hearing
look
for
a
motion
to
adopt
resolution
2023-25.,
so
move
got
a
motion
by
commissioner
Smith.
Second,
second
by
commissioner
Nesta,
all
those
in
favor
aye
all
opposed
motion
carries
unanimously
next
up
resolution.
2023-26
resolution.