City Commission - public_hearing

Good evening, everyone. Welcome to our first budget hearing, September 8th, 2026. The time is now six o'clock on the dot. Madam Clerk, roll call.

John Taylor, here. Can we stand by invocation? Thank you. Madam Clerk, go ahead. I'm like...

All right, so Madam Clerk, what we'll do is we'll go ahead and read, have the attorney read the ordinances and to the record, we'll entertain a motion and a second at that time, allow you to explain, explain it, and then we'll open up a public hearing, okay? Madam Clerk, you got it?

All right, can I have a motion? Move it. Second. Second by Commissioner Santiago. Madam Manager.

One second, Mr. Harris. So this is a public hearing item. We're going to open up a public hearing. Public hearing is open. Hearing none, seeing none, public hearing is closed. Mr. Floyd.

Got it. Any questions to Mr. Floyd on the military? Mr. Mayor. Commissioner Santiago.

Yeah, that's something that we discussed in early. I'm so happy that we're not raising the middle rate. Thank God that we take that decision because we're giving some relief to the residents, the taxpayers for the great city of Polanco. But what I see is, you know, the money that we're going to receive, I think we were talking before about $1.7 million, something like that. Let me see if I'm writing down somewhere here. And my point with that is, yeah, we're going to receive a little bit more revenue for the fiscal year, but we have so much Spencer that we left before when this come out of bil

All right. Any other questions or concerns? All right. So, Mr. Floyd, and to the manager, you know, we talked about the millage rate. I'm happy that it's staying the same, but I wish we would have lowered it. And I do understand the comparison between the millage rate being 5.6 higher than the rollback rate, which gives us that cushion, one point something mil, but I wish we would have lowered it.

All right. This is a public hearing item, but can I have a motion? Second. Moved by Vice Mayor Kelly, second by Commissioner Irvin. Madam Manager.

Okay. Before you present those recommendations, this is a public hearing item. Public hearing is open. Hearing none saying none public hearing is close. What's the floor?

And Madam Manager, are you going to present the recommendation from the state? I'm sorry. No, no, he briefed it. But because he said it came from education, travel, dot, dot, dot, dot, dot. So is there a breakdown of what he actually said?

Got it. So then what you provided with us today, which is this document, what are we looking at here?

So the changes took place in Parks and Rec? Yes. And police department, Parks and Rec and the police department?

Okay, so before we attack that... do we have any questions or concerns on any other departmental budget for mr harris that's commission city manager non-departmental city clerk city attorney finance hr housing community development building and licensing code enforcement beautification um pw admin pw street public works um so water um distribution sewer meter CIP management, stormwater, town center, people's transportation, debt services, AARP. These guys are lost. I made no changes. IT, special law enforcement, law enforcement training, safe neighborhood, water sewer CIP, stormwater CIP, and

Well, no, no question, because I think that we need all that thing that we have here. The only the two points that they mentioned in before the Tallahassee request, you know, to us, don't do not give me, you know, like, or cut it out the uniform for the employments. And the education that we need for everybody, you know, working in the police department, public works, co-enforcement, I think that's necessary to have that type of service in the city for the city employees. One other thing is, I'm okay with everything. We're going to receive like $10 million left of the last year. That's how I u

I understand perfectly. No, I was just responding. Yeah, okay. My point is, okay, yeah, now we have to see very carefully. We're only going to have $71 million, you know, in our budget for the next fiscal year. And if we're going to reduce something, the dollar has to, you know, order to us. I don't know how can they don't talking about, you know, cities events, all these events that we have.

So that's one of the items that we're going to address tonight. Okay, good. I just wanted to make sure that we had no questions on the other things that were no changes.

Yeah, Mr. Mayor, the only thing is that I don't like to detouch anything about the two requirements or what they tell to us to do, you know, in this budget to cut it out, you know, the training for the employment, you know, for the city and the uniform. We need uniform. We need, you know, to make our city employment look professional in the street.

I don't like it. I don't like that recommendation from them.

All right. You got that? You got it? Well, yeah, for now I'm good. All right. So let's start with the low-hanging fruit, the easier one, the police. Those changes you can explain, and then we'll go with what the commission is probably going to dive into the longest, which is Parks and Rec. So the police department, there were a couple changes on the paper. You want to explain it really quick? Yeah.

Got it. All right. So do we have any questions for Mr. Floyd or the manager as it relates to the police department and the changes submitted?