City Commission - public_hearing

and get our seats and end our conversations out there before we start our meeting. You can also go ahead and close those outer doors back there. That would be great. Fantastic, thank you. Okay, let's go ahead. Oops, hold on a second. Got to put my glasses on. There we go. Let's go ahead and call this meeting to order, the Special City Commission EMS Taxing District meeting, City of Pompano Beach, for Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026, at 6 p.m., our second budget hearing. Let's go ahead and call this meeting to order. If everybody can please silence their cell phones or put them on vibrate durin

Mayor Hartin. Here. And just for the record, Commissioner Perkins is on her way. All right. If we can please rise for the invocation followed by the Pledge of Allegiance. Father, give us wisdom to consider this budget on behalf of the residents of our city. Do the best we can to. come to an agreement that serves all the needs and does your will. In your son's name we pray, amen.

Thank you very much, appreciate that. All right. Mr. Harrison, any changes to our agenda tonight? Great. Can I get a motion approving the agenda as printed?

Moved and seconded. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion carries unanimous. Thank you for that. All right. That takes us up to a public hearing portion of the meeting. Final adoption of the proposed millage rates and proposed budgets of the City of Pompano Beach for fiscal year 2026-2027. I think I'll turn it over to you, Mr. Waters, at this point in time. Should we go ahead and start with item one, considerations? I'll do a brief presentation, Mayor. That's fine. Just take your time.

Very good. Thank you for that, Mr. Waters. Appreciate that. Are there any questions of Mr. Waters at this point in time for the Commission?

Okay. Well, thank you for that presentation. Appreciate it. At this point in time, let's go ahead and take just a 10-minute recess.

All right, I've got 624 to reconvene this meeting. All right, that takes us up to considerations. Item number one is a resolution.

Very good. Thank you for that. This is a public hearing. Is there any input from the public on this item? Please come forward. Just name an address for the record. Limit your comments to three minutes.

Thank you, sir. Further input from the public? Seeing none, public input closed. Commission discussion. Vice Mayor.

Thank you. So this is a 3.59% increase over the rollback rate, which would be if we were collecting the same amount of ad valorem property taxes as we collected last year. Correct. And that's how you look at it and how the trim notices and how this is written. But the general operating millage rate which is what we spend most of our time on here, we did decrease by half a percent this year, half a percent last year, and half a percent the year before. So, yes, this slide. So that, combined with our GeoBond debt service being spread over a larger tax base each year as the tax base grows, reduce

at least get our millage rate down for the third year in a row so um thank you thank you for the commission discussion seeing none let's go ahead and call the roll mayor before i call the roll i just wanted to make note that commissioner perkins was present oh yes yes i'm here and she she will be voting on the record thank you commissioner pheasant yes

Thank you, sir. This is a public hearing. Is there any input from the public on this item? Please come forward, just name an address for the record, and please limit your comments to three minutes.

Very good. Thank you, Mr. Savarese. Further input from the public?

Thank you, sir. Further input from the public?

Thank you. Further input from the public? Seeing none, public input closed. Commission discussion. Questions? Commissioner Fessick.

Thank you. Again, Mr. Waters, thank you and your team for walking us all the way through this process. And I know that it has been challenging for you as we had a lot of hits come our way with all of a sudden money allocated and then money There were new bills coming through that we had to quickly find other methods of making appear almost out of thin air, I think, for you. So thank you for all of your work. You guys have been very great at getting, I think, a lot of us. I know I've seen emails come through. Whenever we've had questions, you've been great about trying to get us as complete ans

Very good. Further commission discussion? Seeing none, let's call the roll.

Mayor Hartin. Yes. Item number three is a resolution.

THANK YOU FOR THAT. THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING. IS THERE ANY INPUT FROM THE PUBLIC ON THIS ITEM? Seeing none, public input closed. Commission discussion. Questions? Commissioner Fessick.

Thank you. I just wanted to reiterate, I know that we had the loss in funds for the Bowery County, all of our paving projects, et cetera. And so I think, just want to refresh memory, that was about $1.4 million.

Okay. And so I've been talking with some staff members, and we've been trying to find ways where we can rob Peter to pay Paul. And, of course, for the sake of working through this, do you find there may be an opportunity for an amendment to put money back into our paving projects to ensure that we're sort of back on track with our paving projects?

Thank you. So I just want to make sure I put it on record so that my fellow commissioners can understand what I've been contemplating as well. And I would welcome it as an amendment, but I just wanted to make sure so we can all kind of work towards the same goal. It came to my attention that our Our paving contract expires in April of 2027, and we have a pretty good rate with our pavers at the moment. And, of course, you know that the cost of asphalt is petroleum, and the cost of petroleum has gone a lot higher. And so I was asking staff if there's any way that we could try to possibly, even a

Be good for the commission discussion. Seeing none, let's call the roll.

Yes. Item number four is a second reading of an ordinance.

Moved and second for discussion. Good evening, Ms. Sinego.

Thank you for that. This is a public hearing. Is there any input from the public on this item? Seeing none, public input closed. Commission discussion. Questions? Commissioner Fessick.

Just so everybody's clear, we talked about this last time, and it's Mr. Waters. And I just want to say thank you for everything you're doing, and we're glad to have you full time. Thank you.

Very good. Further commission discussion? Seeing none, let's call the roll.

Yes. This meeting is adjourned. We will go ahead and recap. Commence meeting as the EMS Taxing District, Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at 6.49 p.m. Public hearing, final adoption of the proposed millage rate and proposed budget of the Emergency Medical Services District for fiscal year 2026-2027. Mr. Waters, any presentation?

Just for the record, this is Item 1, a resolution. Moved and seconded. Thank you. Very good. Mr. Waters?

Very good. Thank you, sir. This is a public hearing. Is there any input from the public on this item? Seeing none, public input closed. Commission discussion. Questions? Being none, let's call the roll.

Mayor Hart. Yes. Item two is a resolution.

Thank you. This is a public hearing. Is there any input from the public on this item? Seeing none, public input closed. Commission discussion. Mr. Waters, I'd like to say thank you to you and your entire staff. And Mr. Harrison, of course, the entire city is part of this process, and thank you for the seamless, smooth performance. Thank you so much. Anything further? Seeing none, let's call the roll.

Any heartburn? I think it's worth a discussion.

I think it's a lot of people. Yeah. Thank you.

We'll bring it to you. Okay. Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Harrison. This meeting is adjourned.