Planning Board - public_hearing

Public hearing for the fiscal year budget 2026-2027. And if you will stand with me, Commissioner Burgsell will do the invocation and Commissioner Griggs could lead us in the pledge.

Thank you Lord for allowing us to gather tonight. I pray Lord that as we present this budget Lord, with clear minds. I pray tonight, Lord, that we present it to the public, and I pray that you would help us to always be physically responsible with the money they entrust us with, and just with everything. Thank you so much in Jesus' name, amen.

Amen. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

City Clerk, please do a roll call. Commissioner Burnsall? Present. Commissioner Griggs?

Here.

Commissioner Cole is here. Here. Commissioner Ayers? Here, ma'am. Mayor Hendrickson? Here.

OK, this is a public hearing with a presentation of the tentative budget for fiscal year beginning October 1, 2026. City Clerk, please read the public announcement.

Pursuant to Section 200.0652E Florida Statutes, notice the tentative property taxes for the City of Calloway, Florida term notice. The proposed ad valorem rate for the fiscal year 2026-27 was advertised to be a maximum of 2.7000 mils. This millage rate would be greater than the current rollback rate of 2.6839 mils. After reviewing revenue projections and proposed expenditure levels for the 2026-27 fiscal year, the general fund budget is balanced at a tentative rate of 2.7000 mil, which is more than the current year's rollback rate I'm sorry, by 0.0161, an increase of 0.5999%. This means 2.7000 mills is to be levied to fund the fiscal year 2026-27 budget.

Okay, going to the tentative fiscal year 2026-27 budget and county or city managers budget message. City managers.

This budget does reflect the software upgrades that the IT presented to us late. One change that we've also made is we did receive this was a reduction. They were originally asking for $12,615, which is in the current budget in front of you. We will reduce that to $7,569 for the next one. Other than that, no changes have been made. They're as discussed in the We're going to stay on track. I'm going to go ahead and reiterate again that the plans are going to be You know in light of the current property tax situation. We are prepared to stay at 2.7 we do not want to see a lot of the Things that you're seeing with some of the other cities and now some of the knee-jerk reactions that are happening and We should be able to continue to utilize grants to upscale our stuff. A lot of people don't realize we're still dealing with millions of dollars in grant funds that we have certain matches to. Those are included here in the budget. We're going to continue to utilize the grants, and that will continue to help us move forward.

anything since that was his turn to tell us. No, and I'd like to commend Adam for this being your first year and kind of trying to catch up on everything and learn Springbrook and all. I mean, you did a great job getting this budget out.

I appreciate that. It's tough.

Well, I know it is. I've done budgets myself. I know it's tough. But for you to come in, kind of jumping into it right in the middle, you did real good.

I will tell y'all, Adam put a ton of extra time into this outside of working hours so that he could familiarize himself with it. And I'm sure we're still going to continue to learn little things that has developed in this budget. That spreadsheet has been used for, I don't know how many, before I got here, there was a version of it being used. And as y'all remember, me and David brought in standardization of accounts based on Florida statute. And now we can easily see from year to year where spending is and how things are flowing. So it's very easy to be able to write the budgets if you understand every little cell on 40-something pages of spreadsheets that reference everything across the board. And Adam has fit in extremely well with staff. Everybody likes him except Tim.

Does he tell Tim no? Does he tell him no? Is he as bad about telling everybody now as our former finance director was?

No, not yet. Here's what he says. I'm going to need to look into that.

That's a nice way.

It's a nice way to stand, though. Let me look into that.

OK, that brings us up to public participation. So did anybody in the public want to speak on our budget, our three publics? Nobody wants to say anything? Okay, we will go on then to resolution number 26-09, fiscal year 2026-27, tentative ad valorem tax rate, city attorney.

This is resolution 2609, a resolution of the city commission of the city of Callaway Bay County, Florida, adopting the tentative levying of ad valorem taxes for fiscal year 2026-27 and providing for an effective date.

City Manager, do you want to say anything about this?

We're keeping it at 2.7 as promised.

Anybody else have any comment?

Nope.

And I guess, does anybody in the public, I guess we still open this up for public comment. Anybody want to comment on the anvil arm right? Okay, then we need a motion on this resolution.

Motion to approve resolution 2609. Second.

OK, we've got a motion and a second. If there's no further discussion, city clerk? Yes.

Commissioner Bertzell? Yes. Commissioner Griggs? Yes. Commissioner Pelletier? Yes. Commissioner Ayers? Yes. Mayor Henderson?

Yes. OK, we will go on now to resolution number 26-10, fiscal year 2026-27, tentative budget.

This is resolution number 26-10, a resolution of the City of Callaway of Bay County, Florida, adopting the tentative budget. We'll change that.

Yeah.

Next one will be final. This is tentative budget for fiscal year 2026-27 and providing for an effective date.

Okay, anything to say about, do we have a balance of those? As presented. Anybody up here have any comment?

Nope. We've already mentioned the two things that are going to be changing in there. So we need to have a motion to attend to the budget as amended today.

As will be amended.

Yeah, you're going

So are you making a motion to that effect? Yes. OK, so we've got a motion. Do we have a second? Second. OK, so we've got a motion and a second. If there's no discussion, City Clerk?

Commissioner Griggs? Yes. Commissioner Pelletier? Yes. Commissioner Ayers? Yes, ma'am. Commissioner Birdsell? Yes. Mayor Henderson?

Yes. So that actually brings us to the end of our agenda. We will adjourn. Thank you all for coming. Look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday. I imagine that meeting will be a little bit longer than this one.