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I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. the I'm going to go ahead and ask the staff to come in. the I'm going to go to the other other other other other other other other other other other other other I'm sorry. the I'm going to go to the next slide. Good evening everyone. Good evening. Welcome to the first public hearing. This is September 12, 2024. It's I think exactly 5.30 p.m. This is the adoption of the Sarasota County Fiscal Year 25 proposed millages, intended budgets for Fiscal Year 2025, and the final adoption and certificate of the non-Ed Valorum Assessment Roles and assessment rates. We are going to start our evening off here with the Pledgeable Eagents, led by Commissioner Rainford. Pledge of Allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God in the visible with liberty and justice for all. We'll start our evening off with an open to the public, which is a three minute time limit per speaker, person's desire to come and items open to the public, which is a three-minute time limit per speaker. Persons desiring to common items not on the public hearing section of the agenda are directed to complete a request to speak card for the items and percent comments during the specified public hearing. Persons desiring to comment before the board on items are directed to complete a request to speak card, including the number of the agenda item or topic to be addressed and present comments during the open to the public again this being the general open to the public. I do have one card here this evening. Mr. Dwight Douglas. Good evening sir you're welcome here come on up and the microphone is incredibly flexible and there's a clock over here to judge your time and again you'll be recognized for three minutes, sir. You won't, the band will play me off. No, no, sir. OK. I've been in Sarasota County for seven years. I moved here from New York, and I love it here. This is a great county. This is a great place to live. But as I lived here, I started to realize that there were some things that I didn't quite understand. So this morning when I got up, I looked at the newspaper and there was an article on the front page about Amendment 4. And since I was so angry, I thought calm down, go to the website, see when the next meeting would be. Hello and behold, it's a budget meeting tonight. And this comment is totally focused on budget. I'll keep it simple. We have up here over $500,000 worth of government salaries that need to be responsive to the people. When I read the article, I thought to myself, is this more prone to pontification, is this being seduced by dogma, is this some sort of disconnection from real people, or is this really a disconnection from half the people that live here? Look, it's real simple. I'm kind of like a Thomas Jefferson citizen. I don't want my church and state the co-mingle. It's real simple. There's so many problems and so many things we need to achieve here. And so many ways we can make this a great county. Stop wasting time, a non-binding resolutions or theatrical political maneuvers. Some of you didn't get reelected, some of you will get reelected. But the bottom line to the whole thing is you work for the people, please take care of the people. Use your budget wisely. Thank you. Thank you. Next up, we're going to begin our evening and turn it over to the county administrator for some opening remarks. Thank you, Chair. You forward to go ahead and to the next one. As the county commission has gone through the budget process this year, the board certainly knows that for the county it's a year-round process and it starts every December with the board's strategic planning retreat and we go all the way through to the public hearings at September, which we're at the first one this evening. So for our staff, it's always ongoing, and they're constantly working on what they can do to minimize the impact on the budget, whether it's a board directed ad on a new type of approach to service or how we can save money on a contract. It's year round. So we have a lot of approach to service or how we can save money on a contract. It's year round. So we have a lot of things to highlight in this year's budget. The first is the board's direction to reduce the board's portion of the milled rate down. We have done that and I sent you a memo three or four weeks to go detailing what that was. We do have more than 250 projects that are capital and nature accomplished in this 2025 budget. And we've done the necessary things dealing with union contracts, employee compensation, as well as making sure some of our other departments that are not funded through property taxes are keeping up with what they need to be able to keep up with. I think it's important to note if you look at this trend over time that our reduction this year really puts us since 1987 when it was 0.26. Not including the voter approved legacy trail or the mosquito control debt service. And I think that has to do with how we have dealt with these things over a long period of time to be able to do that and still maintain the ratings that we do with the rating agencies. There are so many things that we took a look at, and I'm not going to go through each of these specifically, at how we accomplished that reduction. Again, that was all detailed in the memo. Some of them were, we had a better experience that anticipated on our health insurance fund, for example. So we were able to, that would have been a real savings anyway, would have added to the bottom line in the following year, but we were able to realize it now and further reduced the budget from there. So we were able to accomplish that. You know, we often get the question about, what does that mean from year over year? And last year, remember, I had to go through quite the explanation to help people understand, recognize the money that can't be grants. So year over year this year, remember, I had to go through quite the explanation to help people understand recognize the money that can't be grants. So year over year this year, it's a 3.7% increase over and above the prior year. You see that reflected in the total budget. And if you start to drill down, if you get into the next slide on what that means, first looking at capital projects. We back out the internal service funds, so that's where we're paying for things internally from an internal source. You can see it's a 2.6, and that's again, all reflecting on capital projects that are in this year, 25 budget. And that service, and this is both a combination of, we have new debt that was issued at a lower rate, but we also were able to retire some debt that was at a higher rate. So that's why you actually see almost a 6% are in our vernacular referred to as double counts, where it goes into one department, it's recognized, and then it goes into another department's recognized, because it had to get transferred. When you subtract that out, it's just under $53 million. The BCC General Fund Departments on that are about 7.4 million of that amount. The Sheriff's Office is 17.5 of that million and then non-general funds, so non-property tax funded services make up the rest at 24.4. Board, you've spent a long time working on this budget. We have a lot of work to do with the work that we have done. We have a lot of work to do with the work that we have done. We have a lot of work to do with the work that we have done. We have a lot of work to do with the work that we have done. We have a lot of work to do with the work that we have done. We have a lot of work to do with the work that we have done. Thank you, Chair. Thank you, Jonathan. We'll now call this public hearing to order. I hear by open the public hearing this evening on the fiscal year 25 budgets for Sir sort of county. Anyone who anticipates that they wish to speak this evening will need a complete request to speak card, which is found in the entry vestibule. If anyone in our audience is here for the purpose of contesting the appraised value of their property, we will not be covering that issue in this meeting. The Sarasota County Value Adjustment Board holds separate hearings for that purpose. The trim notice contains information explaining the process for property owners to use if they wish to challenge the appraise value of their property. Also this board is not authorized to consider the taxing and budget actions proposed by cities, the school board, or other independent entities that impose property taxes in Sarasota County. The trim notice identifies the scheduled dates and times of hearings to be held by each of those governing bodies. The first item on the agenda is resolution 2024-138 regarding the FY25 annual stormwater service assessment. Are there any questions of staff? Seeing none, I will now open the public hearing to take public comment on the proposed storm water resolution. Clerk, does anyone in the audience wish to comment on the storm water resolution? Seeing none, I'll close this portion of the public hearing and open the floor to board discussion or a motion. If there is a motion to be made, move to approve resolution number 2024-138. The FY 2025 annual stormwater service assessment resolution would be the motion. Chair, I'll move to approve resolution 2024-138 regarding the fiscal year 25 annual stormwater service assessment. Motion by commissioner Rainford to have a second. Second. Second by commissioner cut singer. Either want to be cared to speak to the motion. Thank you. Seeing none. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second. Second Are there any questions of staff? Seeing none, I will now open the public hearing to take public comment and proposed resolution clerk Does anyone the audience wish to comment on fire and rescue district resolution? Seeing none I will close this portion of the public hearing and open the floor for board discussion or emotion if there's a motion The motion will be to move approve move approval of resolution number 204-139, the FY 2025 annual assessment rate resolution for the Sarasota County Fire and Rescue District. Could I get a motion for such action? So moved. Motion by Commissioner Cuttsinger. That is second from Commissioner Rainford. Seconded by Commissioner Rainford would either want to be cared to speak to it. Seeing none, anything further from the board? I'll call the question. All those in favor? Signify by saying aye. Any opposed? Chair votes aye. Pass unanimously. The next item on the agenda is proposed resolution number 2024-140, adopting and certifying the non-Edvilarum assessment roles and assessment rates for fiscal year 2025. Are there any questions for staff? Seeing none for the record, we have received a total of 10 telephone calls, six online inquiries and two emails from constituents regarding the non-advalorem assessments and millage and budgets. I will now open the public hearing to take public comment on the proposed resolution. Clerk, does anyone have in the audience wish to comment on the non-advalorem annual assessments? Seeing none, I will close this portion of the public hearing and open the floor for a discussion or a motion. So move. Okay, putting that into the record, it will be moved to approve resolution number 2024-140, adopting and certifying the non-advalorem assessment roles, and adopting non-advalorem assessment rates for fiscal year 2025 Commissioner Reign for moving that forward. Do I have a second? Second. Seconded by Commissioner Cuttsinger. This will require a roll call. So clerk. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. The next motion if to move forward will not require a roll call vote. This will be to move delegate move to delegate the county administrator as an authorized agent to sign the not and the law or an assessment Rolls-cert certificate. Could I get a motion? Please so move a motion by Commissioner Rainford do I have a second second? Seconded by Commissioner cut singer either want to be care to speak to it Anything further from the board seeing none. I'll call the question all is in favor signify by saying aye I any opposed Chair votes aye passes Passes unanimously. As required by state statutes, we will now discuss the fiscal year 2025 proposed milled rates and tentative budgets and I'll turn it over to staff. This is the first required public hearing on the proposed milled rates at the tentative budget. As indicated by the transit services. Gradiously mailed to all taxpayers. The tenant of fiscal year 2025 budgets and proposed milled rates were subject to a series of budget workshops conducted throughout 2024. The proposed fiscal year 2025 milled rates were provided to the property appraiser on July 16th, 2024 in conformance with state law. The countywide millage of 3.3856 mills is 0.0525 mill lower than FY24, which is due to a reduction to the general operating millage and the voter approved debt millage to find the legacy trail extension. Millage rates that exceed the rollback rate are necessary to fund the tentative budgets for 2025. Under resolution 2024-141, the following millage rates will be adopted. 3.5937 is here the proposed aggregate millage rate of 3.8a56m is necessary to support the tentative countywide budget for fiscal year 2025, adopted pursuant to resolution number 2024-142. The proposed countywide military is comprised of the following proposed milled rates which are hereby adopted. The general operating milled of 3.228m, which is a 5.96% increase of the roll-back rate of 3.0473 mils. The mosquito control district millage of 0.0460 mil, which is a 7.23% increase of the roll-back rate of 0.0429 mil. The voted debt service millage of 0.0712m for ESLPP. The VOTE DEATH service mileage of 0.0396m for the Legacy Trail extension. The proposed mileage rates for the Advilorum District set forth below for fiscal year 2025 hours follows. Oculina State's lighting proposed mileage is 0.0570m, which is a 5.47% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.7-0 mils, which is a 5.47% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.0603. Bay Point Lighting proposed millage is 0.0642 mils, which is an 8.29% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.0700. Bay Vista Boulevard Lighting proposed millage is 0.2717 mils, which is a 12.07% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.3090. Center Gata states lighting proposed millage is 0.2280 mills, which is an 11.46% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.2575. Center Gata Woods lighting proposed millage is 0.1452 mills, which is a 9.87% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1611. Clark Road Industrial Lighting proposed Millage is 0.0686 mills, which is a 14.78% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.0805. Colonial Terrace-slash Gold and Acres Lighting Proposed Millage is 0.1852 mills, which is an 8.68% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.2028. Country Club of Sarasota Lighting Proposed Millage of zero mills, which is a zero percent no change to the rollback rate of zero. Denham Acres Lighting proposed millage is 0.1391 mills, which is an 18.08% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1698. East Park Lighting proposed millage is 0.2155 mills, which is a 7.43% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.2328. Emergency Medical Services District proposed millage is 0.6900 mills, which is an 11.99% increase over the rollback rate of 0.6161. Anglewood Lighting proposed millage is 0.0624 mills, which is a 6.45% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.0667. Forest Lakes Lighting proposed millage is 0.081010m, which is a 6.79% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.0869. Gulfgate lighting proposed mileage is 0.1723m, which is a 5.28% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1819. Gulfgate was lighting proposed mileage is 0.2313m, which is an 8.54 percent decrease under the rollback rate of 0.2529. Jacaranda West lighting proposed millage is 0.1695 mills, which is a 5.83 percent decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1800. Kensington Park lighting proposed millage is 0.2837 mills, which is a 6.83 percent decrease under the rollback rate of 0.3045. Navigable waterways maintenance proposed millage is 0.0300 mills, which is a 6.76% increase over the rollback rate of 0.0281. Nekomas East Lighting proposed millage is 0.1421 mills, which is a 10.29% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1584. Northgate Center Lighting proposed millage is 0.1971 mills, which is a 6.98% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.2119. North Casey K.P. ID proposed millage is 0 mills, which is a 0% no change to the rollback rate of 0. Overbrook Gardens lighting proposed millage is 0.154 mills, which is a 5.64% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1223. Oyster Bay lighting proposed millage is 0.0227m, which is a 12.02% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.0258. Philippi Gardens lighting proposed millage is 0.1193m, which is an 11.63% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1350 Pinecraft lighting proposed millage is 0.0555 mills, which is a 10.77 degree under the rollback rate of 0.0622. Ridgewood Estates lighting proposed millage is 0.2101 mills, which is a 3.00 degree under the rollback rate of 0.2166. River Forest Lighting Proposed Millage is 0.0898 Mills, which is a 10.56% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1004. Riverview Manor Lighting Proposed Millage is 0.2043 Mills, which is a 33.65% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.3079. Sarasota Springs Lighting Proposed Millage is 0.1037 Mills, which is an 8.47% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1133. Shadow Lakes lighting proposed millage is 0.1401 mils, which is a 9.85% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1554. C-S2K lighting proposed millage is 0.0059 mils, which is a 9.23% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.0065. CSDA Key Village PID proposed millage is 2.6388 mills, which is a 9.25% decrease under the rollback rate of 2.9079. Southgate Lighting proposed millage is 0.1354 mills, which is an 8.02% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1472. Southgate Ridge Lighting proposed millage is 0.2112 mills, which is a 5.84 percent decrease under the rollback rate of 0.2243. Southvenn is lighting proposed millage is 0.2095 mills, which is an 11.30 percent decrease under the rollback rate of 0.2362. Southpoint shores Lighting proposed millage is 0.0344 mills, which is an 8.27% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.0375. Sunrise Golf Club Lighting proposed mileage is 0.4047m, which is a 10.21% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.4507. Uplands Lighting proposed mileage is 0.2497m, which is an 8.70% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.2735. Venetian Gardens Lighting Proposed Millage is 0.1507m, which is a 32.42% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.2230. Venice Gardens Lighting Proposed Millage is 0.1110m, which is a 5.77% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.1178. Village green lighting proposed millage is 0.3170 mills, which is a 9.27% decrease under the rollback rate of 0.3494. Warm mineral springs lighting proposed millage is 0.2868 mills, which is an 11.43% decrease under the rollback rate. I think that got cut off. I'm the rollback rate for Warmingrow Strings is .3238. This resolution shall be in effect immediately upon adoption. The 10th of fiscal year 2025 budget totals $2 billion, $89 million, $303,625. The 10th of budget resolution resolution number, 2024-142, establishes the 10th of budget as follows. The 10th of budget of $1,719 million, $289,953, for Section 1 of the Sarasota County budget as described in Section 5.2C of the Sarasota County charter is hereby adopted for fiscal year 2025. The tentative budget of $370 million, $13,672 for Section 2 of the Sarasota County budget as described in Section 5.2C of the Sarasota County Charter is here by adopted for fiscal year 2025. Okay, are there any questions for staff before we proceed? Seeing none now will now open the public hearing to take public comments regarding the proposed county ad Valoram milled rates and section one section two of the Tundee of County wide budget. Clerk does anyone in the audience wish to comment on this section? Seeing none, I'll close this portion of the public hearing and open the floor for any board discussion. Seeing none on the board, we will move on. And the state statutes require that we approve the proposed milled rates before we approve the ten-div budget. Accordingly, we will vote on the proposed milled rate resolution. First, this will be a motion to move to adopt proposed countywide millage rates and proposed millage rates for ad valorem districts for fiscal year 2025 is presented in the resolution number 2024-141 and this will require a roll call. So moved. Second. Chair one, district one, chair Moran. Yes. District two, commissioner. Yes. District three, commissioner. Yes. District four, commissioner. Yes. District five, commissioner. Yes. This next motion will also require roll call. It will be a motion to move to adopt the tentative budgets for section one of the Sarasota County budget and the tentative budget for section two of the Sarasota County budget for fiscal years. Fiscal year 2025 is presented in resolution number 2024-142 and the clerk will do a roll call. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Great. There's no other action. The board will need to take this evening. The final public hearing is scheduled for Thursday, September 26, 2024 at 5.30 pm. In the board chambers at the administration building at 1660 Ringling Boulevard in Sarasota. We will do one more open to the public this evening. Clerk, is there any cards for a final open to the public? Seeing none, there'll be no further business. This will we will adjourn this public meeting. Thank you.