##VIDEO ID:fDHuAJwG5K0## Yeah I now call to order the special session meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Tarpon Springs on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. Miss Jacobs, roll call, please. Vice Mayor Coleus here. Commissioner Eisner here. Commissioner Collins here. Commissioner DiDonato here. As a reminder, the purpose of tonight's meeting is to get additional public input regarding the fiscal 2024, 2025 budget. Item number one, resolution 2024-31. Tentatively adopting the millage rate for tax year 2024, Mr. Herring will review the procedures required by state law. Good evening, mayor, commissioners Ron Herring, finance director, Florida Statute 200.065 sets of procedures for the adoption of the millage rate and budget. The tentative millage rate must be approved before the tentative budget. The tentative millage rate for tax year 2024 is 5.37, the same as the previous year. The tentative millage rate of 5.37 is 7.71%, above the rollback rate of 4.9858. The rollback rate is the rate that would provide the same dollar amount of revenues as the previous year. The increase over the rollback rate is being used to fund personnel and operating costs, and that is the required discussion on the tentative millage rate. Thank you, Mr. Herring. Now, the City clerk will read the resolution in its entirety. Resolution 2024 Dash 31, a resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Tarpon Springs, Florida, tentatively adopting the millage rate for tax year 2024. Whereas a public hearing was held on September 4th, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. to adopt a tentative millage rate. Now therefore, be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Tarpon Springs, Florida, that one. The ad valorem millage rate for tax year 2024 of the city of Tarpon Springs is hereby tentatively established at 5.3700, a 7.71% increase over the rollback rate of 4.9858 to. The city staff is hereby directed to notify all pertinent governmental agencies of the provisions hereof, as required by law. That is the reading of resolution 2024 Dash 31. In its entirety. Thank you, City Clerk. Are there any public comments on this item? It are there any zoom comments online? And we do not have anyone in attendance at this time. Thank you. Hearing none, the chair will entertain a motion to approve resolution 202431, tentatively adopting the millage rate for the tax year 2024. So moved. Second. There are no further commission comments. Roll call please. Commissioner DiDonato. Yes. Commissioner Koulianos. Yes. Commissioner Eisner. Yes. Vice mayor. Yes. Yes Item number two. Resolution 202432. Tentatively adopting the budget. The budget for the fiscal year 2024 2025. Mr. herring will review procedures required by state law. Yes. The tentative budget for fiscal year 2025 for the city is $86,155,894, an increase of 9,733,103, or 12.7%, over the adopted budget for fiscal year 2024. The majority of the increase is related to capital expenditures, and that's a required discussion on the budget. Thank you, Mr. Herring. Now, the city clerk will read the resolution in its entirety. Resolution 2024 Dash 32, a resolution of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Tarpon Springs, Florida, tentatively adopting the budget for fiscal year 2024 2025. Whereas a public hearing was held on September 4th, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. to adopt a tentative budget. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Tarpon Springs, Tarpon Springs, Florida, that one the City of Tarpon Springs annual budget for fiscal year 20 2425 is hereby tentatively adopted to the city staff is hereby directed to notify all pertinent governmental agencies of the provisions hereof, as required by law. That is the reading of resolution 2024, Dash 32 in its entirety. Thank you, City Clerk. Are there any public comments on this item? It are there any zoom comments? And we do not have anyone in attendance at this time. Hearing none, the chair will entertain a motion to approve resolution 202432, tentatively adopting the budget for fiscal year 2024. Dash 2025. So moved. Second. If there are no further comments, please Commissioner DiDonato. No Yes. Sorry Iran. Have we gone out for any grant money on any of these projects that are going to be working on? Yes, we're actively pursuing all grant availability on all the projects. Have we received any for the current the projects that are currently on the on our list for the budget for next year? Yeah, they're still a work in progress right now. I know PJ is working on those. Right. But right now we don't have any. Correct. Okay. A lot of them come out between October and December, so we'll start hearing on some of them when the end is coming up. And we're hopeful on some of them. A friend of mine asked me to ask that question. No comment. Okay Commissioner Eisner. Thank you. It's not so much a question, but a response. While I was in Florida League of Cities, I have there's a couple of groups that, help work with our grant writers, and they work and try to get grants without, you know, any sort of money for them. But, I just haven't had a chance yet. I want to turn that over to you and to EJ as well, so that you can work with them. They are all independent. They just work with cities and that's what they do, is they get you grants. Is that the one you sent to me? I did send you one, but I have other paperwork. Okay PJ. PJ got the one you sent me, so get it. Good. Get them, get them. There were a few. There was. I think three different. Okay. She got the one you sent me, so. Okay. Sounds good. Thank you. There are no further comments. Miss Jacobs, roll call, please. Move to approve. Well, I didn't know if we counted it because John was talking. I don't want to talk, but it's already been made. So sorry. Did we have a second initially? Yeah. We did. Okay Commissioner di Donato. Yes. Commissioner Cooley. Yes. Commissioner Eisner? Yes. Vice mayor. Yes. Yes That concludes the special session. Adjourned at 6:37 p.m. We will now wait two minutes to go to the community redevelopment Agency meeting. Okay Sounds like it's coming down pretty good. Again. I now call to order the community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Tarpon Springs on Wednesday, September 4th, 2024 at 6:38 p.m. Miss Jacobs, roll call, please. Vice chair, coleus here. Commissioner Eisner here. Commissioner. Collins. Commissioner DiDonato here. The purpose of tonight's meeting is to get additional public input regarding fiscal year 2024 and 2025. CRA budget. Item number one resolution 2020 4-02 tentatively adopting the budget for fiscal year 2024 and 2025. Mr. Herring will review will review the procedures required by state law. Yes. Thank you. The procedures are the tentative CRA budget for fiscal year 2025 is $1,013,703, an increase of 123,273, or 13.8%, over the adopted budget. For fiscal year 2024. The increase is due to taxable values increasing 9.12% in the CRA, which is being put towards CRA projects, and that's the required reading for the CRA resolution budget. Thank you sir. Now the City Clerk will read the resolution in its entirety. This is the CRA resolution 2020 402, a resolution of the community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Tarpon Springs, Florida, tentatively adopting the budget for fiscal year 2024 2025. Whereas a public hearing was held on September 4th, 2024 at 6:30 p.m. to adopt a tentative budget. Now therefore, be it resolved by the Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Tarpon Springs, Florida, that section one, the Community Redevelopment Agency's annual budget for fiscal year 20 2425, is hereby tentatively adopted. Section two. The city staff is hereby directed to notify all pertinent governmental agencies of the provisions hereof, as required by law. That is, the CRA resolution 2020 402 read in its entirety. Thank you. City clerk are there any public comments on this item? I t are there any zoom comments? And we do not have anyone in attendance at this time. Thank you sir, hearing none, the chair will entertain a motion to approve resolution 2024-02, tentatively adopting the budget for the fiscal year 2024. Dash 2025. So moved. Second. If there are no further commissioner comments. Roll call, please. Commissioner DiDonato. Yes. Commissioner Culianu's. Yes, Commissioner. Eisner. Yes. Vice chair. Coleus. Yes This concludes the. The agenda adjourned at 6:40 p.m. Do you have. We're at 11 now. I know I'm saying. It is a good job. All you did on the budget. We did a good job on the budget. We can get along. Yeah You ain't going anywhere so nice. I'll make sure. Hey, make sure down there.