[1) CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL]
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          AUGUST 17TH, 2026. MADAM CLERK, PLEASE CALL THE ROLL. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER. BARTON. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          KRAMER. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. KROL. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          PENMAN. COUNCILMEMBER. SCHULTZ. PRESENT. VICE MAYOR. 
          BLANKENSHIP. HERE. MAYOR HERE. AND COUNCIL MEMBER PENMAN HAS AN EXCUSED ABSENCE. 
          IF YOU'LL PLEASE STAND. I'M GOING TO SAY A PRAYER THIS MORNING. 
          IF YOU'LL PLEASE BOW YOUR HEADS. HEAVENLY FATHER,
THANK YOU FOR GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THE CITY, TO HAVE THIS BUDGET PRESENTED TO US. AND MAY WE BE FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE TO THE COMMUNITY,
TO THE TAXPAYERS FOR THEIR MONEY AND THEIR OUR DEDICATION AND OUR DEDICATION TO THE CITY OF
NAPLES. 
          WE THANK YOU FOR OUR STAFF WHO WORKED VERY HARD AT PRESENTING THIS BUDGET AND FOR THEIR
WORK TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE TO THE CITIZENS WHO WE SERVE. 
          I WANT TO ESPECIALLY THANK MR. YOUNG FOR HIS DEDICATION TO MAKING SURE THAT OUR FISCAL
BUDGET IS RESPONSIBLE, AND ALL THE RESPONSIBILITIES THAT HE BEARS IN RUNNING AND MANAGING THIS CITY. 
          AND MOST OF ALL, LORD, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVANT,
JESSICA. 
          JESSICA ROSENBERG HAS BEEN WITH THE CITY FOR YEARS,
BEING A DEDICATED SERVANT AND MAKING SURE THAT THE RECORDS ARE KEPT WELL, ALWAYS WITH GOOD ENTHUSIASM,
ACCURACY AND COMMITMENT TO HER WORK, AND WE BLESS HER. WE PRAY THAT SHE HAS THE BLESSINGS OF THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT AS SHE RETIRES
FROM THE CITY OF NAPLES. 
          AND WE THANK HER FOR HER DEDICATION. AND WITH THAT,
LORD, WE PRAY IN JESUS NAME. 
          AMEN. AMEN. PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE. 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. 
          THANK YOU. WELL, GOOD MORNING, MADAM CLERK. HOW DOES IT FEEL? IT FEELS GREAT. HOW MANY YEARS? 27. 27 YEARS. 
          I SHOULD PROBABLY SING THAT SONG BY BILL MEDLEY. 
          WILL HE? HE SAYS I'VE HAD THE TIME OF MY LIFE,
BUT I CAN'T SING. 
          WELL THAT'S GOOD. YES, YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH A LOT OF TRIALS AND A LOT OF GOOD TIMES,
SO THAT'S WONDERFUL TO TO SAY YOU WOULD SING THAT SONG AS YOU DEPART US, BUT WE DO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. I PERSONALLY HAVE ENJOYED ALMOST 20 YEARS OF,
OF WORKING WITH YOU, SO THANK YOU. AND WITH THAT. SETTING THE AGENDA,
MR. 
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YOUNG. NO CHANGES. OKAY. COUNCIL. ANY CHANGES? MAYBE WE SET THE AGENDA AS PUBLISHED. SECOND. 
          I HAVE A MOTION BY VICE MAYOR AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER KRAMER. 
          ALL IN FAVOR? SIGNED BY I, I, I OPPOSED. THANK YOU. 
          COUNCIL PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. NEXT IS ITEM FOUR,
THE PUBLIC COMMENT. 
          I HAVE NO PUBLIC COMMENT SLIPS. I HAVE NONE. OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. AND JUST SO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN TAKE PUBLIC COMMENT ON ANY BUDGET ITEMS AT
THE END OF. 
          THE BUDGET PRESENTATION. SO WITH THAT, WE MOVE TO FIVE AYE THE DISCUSSIONS AND REVIEW OF
THE PROPOSED 
          [5.A) Discussion and Review of the Proposed FY 2026-27 Operating and Capital Budget.]
BUDGET. MR.. YOUNG. THANK YOU MAYOR. GOOD EVENING. 
          MAYOR. MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. SO BEFORE YOU TODAY IS THE 2627 FISCAL YEAR 2627 BUDGET. 
          AND AS YOU RECALL, WE MET IN JUNE AND DISCUSSED THE MAXIMUM MILLAGE POTENTIAL OF UP TO
1.29. 
          SHOULD THE COUNCIL WANT TO CONTINUE THE PUBLIC SAFETY ENHANCEMENT PROCESS THAT WE HAD
BEGUN TWO YEARS AGO. 
          NOW, THIS BUDGET AS PRESENTED, IS PRESENTED AT 1.23,
WITH NO CHANGES IN STAFFING AND CONSISTENT WITH THE MILLAGE RATE THAT WE HAD LAST YEAR. AS WE GO THROUGH THIS BUDGET PROCESS,
WE WILL DISCUSS WHAT ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS WOULD LOOK LIKE. 
          SHOULD CITY COUNCIL WISH TO INCREASE THE MILLAGE RATE TO THE 1.29 AND CONTINUE WITH
ADDITIONAL PUBLIC SAFETY ENHANCEMENTS? 
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NOW, THAT BEING SAID, YOU KNOW, SOME GLOBAL THINGS TO THINK ABOUT AND WE'LL DISCUSS THEM
IN EARNEST AND IN HONESTY ABOUT THE HEADWINDS WE FACE RELATED TO THE POTENTIAL VOTE IN NOVEMBER FOR PUBLIC PROPERTY TAXES AND ANY REDUCTION WE COULD EXPERIENCE
BECAUSE OF THAT. 
          WE'LL HAVE DIALOG RELATED TO WHERE WE STAND AS AN OPERATIONAL THIS BUDGET AS SUBMITTED,
DOES INCLUDE UTILIZING A PORTION OF FUND BALANCE. WHILE YOU'LL SEE AS WE GO THROUGH THE PROCESS,
IT'S SIGNIFICANTLY, YOU KNOW, ADEQUATE GIVEN OUR MAXIMUM REQUIREMENTS AND WHERE WE ARE AS A CITY. AND SO WITH THOSE HEADWINDS, YOU KNOW,
WE ARE IN A BETTER PLACE THAN A LOT OF OUR COMMUNITIES AROUND US. 
          BASED ON THIS, EACH ONE OF OUR INDIVIDUAL HOME VALUES SHOULD THAT PROPERTY TAX VOTE,
YOU KNOW, BE CONTRARY TO OR INCREASE THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION AS,
AS PORTRAYED? BUT AGAIN, WE WOULD BE REMISS IF WE DIDN'T HEDGE AGAINST WHAT THAT COULD BE,
BUT IT IS PRUDENT TO HAVE HONEST AND, YOU KNOW, DIALOG RELATED TO THAT. SO YOU CAN KNOW THE ENHANCEMENTS THAT THAT ARE
POTENTIAL, WHAT THE COST AND BENEFITS OF THAT WOULD BE. AND THEN IN ADDITION TO THAT,
WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT AS WE GO THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS. 
          I'LL REMIND YOU THAT ALL CONTRACTS THIS 2627 BUDGET IS FUNDING THE LAST YEAR OF ALL
CONTRACTS FOR THE CITY. 
          SO BY THE TIME THIS FISCAL YEAR, THAT FISCAL YEAR ENDS,
ALL CONTRACTS WILL BE RENEGOTIATED. 
          AND I WOULD EXPECT THAT TO START IN EARNEST,
PROBABLY IN JANUARY. 
          SO WE'RE NOT UP AGAINST IT, YOU KNOW, LIKE WE WERE IN PREVIOUS YEARS. 
          SO I SAY THOSE THINGS TO OUTLINE ALL OF THAT FOR YOU AS YOU GO THROUGH THIS BUDGET,
LOOKING AT IT THROUGH THAT PRISM. 
          AND THEN ONCE ALL OF THE STEFAN HAS GONE, ALL THE DEPARTMENTS HAVE GONE,
WE'LL COME BACK TO THIS SEPARATE DISCUSSION TO TRY TO GET A CLEAR DIRECTION ON THE THE MILLAGE RATE AS WHETHER THE COUNCIL WILL BE RECOMMENDING OR AUTHORIZING 1.23 OR 1.29 OR
SOMETHING IN BETWEEN. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT. AND IN THE END,
YOU KNOW, YOUR STAFF, EVERYBODY ON STAFF IS COMMITTED TO DOING THE WORK THAT THIS COUNCIL NEEDS AND THE WORK THAT YOUR CITIZENS DESERVE. 
          THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT IT IS, IS AN EXERCISE TO SAY,
WHAT DIRECTION DO WE WANT TO TAKE US IN AND WHAT IS THE BEST POSITION TO BEGIN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, BUT ALSO LEADING US INTO 2028 AND BEYOND? BECAUSE THIS ISN'T ABOUT JUST GETTING TO THROUGH FISCAL YEAR 27. 
          IT'S ABOUT POSITIONING US FOR 28, 29 AND SO ON. 
          SO WITH THAT, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO STEPHAN AND THANK YOU. 
          I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU TO STAFF,
STEPHAN AND EVERYONE FOR ALL OF THE MEETINGS OVER THE SUMMER. 
          AND TO EACH ONE OF YOU FOR MEETING WITH US INDIVIDUALLY. 
          THOSE ARE BENEFICIAL CONVERSATIONS AND WE DO GREATLY APPRECIATE THAT. 
          SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER, STEPHAN, AND THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. GOOD MORNING, MR. MCCONNELL. WELCOME BACK. 
          GOOD MORNING. OKAY. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. 
          AND AS GARY MENTIONED, WE'LL BE PRESENTING TODAY TODAY,
THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2020 627 BUDGET, THE OPERATING AND CAPITAL BUDGET FOR THE CITY OF NAPLES. 
          I INCLUDED IN THE PACKET FOR THIS ITEM IS THE AGENDA MEMORANDUM PROPERTY TAX ESTIMATES BY
MILLAGE RATE. 
          FINAL CERTIFICATION OF TAXABLE VALUE. FISCAL YEAR 2627 PROPOSED BUDGET DOCUMENT AND A PDF
OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. AND TO BEGIN, JUST WANTED TO OUTLINE SOME RECENT BUDGET LEGISLATION CHANGES
THAT TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1ST OF 2027. HB 2026-161 WAS APPROVED JUNE 24TH. WITH THAT,
THE TENTATIVE BUDGET MUST NOW BE POSTED FIVE DAYS BEFORE HEARING. IT'S A SLIGHT INCREASE FROM THE PREVIOUS TWO DAY
REQUIREMENT. 
          AND IT IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH OUR CURRENT AGENDA PUBLICATION TIMELINES OF ONE WEEK. 
          ADDITIONALLY, THERE IS A NEW REQUIREMENT THAT WILL START WITH THE 2728 BUDGET TO HAVE A
BUDGET REDUCTION EXERCISE. 
          IN THAT BUDGET EXERCISE, THE CITY WOULD BE ASKED TO CONSIDER 10% REDUCTIONS FROM CURRENT
TO PROPOSED YEAR WITHOUT COMPROMISING ANY ESSENTIAL PUBLIC SERVICES, INCLUDING LAW ENFORCEMENT, FIRE SERVICES OR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS,
AND THAT EXERCISE MUST OCCUR AT LEAST 14 DAYS BEFORE FINAL BUDGET ADOPTION. 
          WHICH IS WHY BASED ON OUR EXISTING CADENCE AND BUDGET SCHEDULE,
MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT THAT REDUCTION EXERCISE OCCUR AT NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET WORKSHOP. SO BASICALLY THE EQUIVALENT OF THIS MEETING,
BUT ADDING THIS ADDITIONAL PIECE TO THAT PRESENTATION WHEN WE GET TO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET 
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ADDITIONALLY, THERE'S A REQUIREMENT FOR THE BUDGET CALENDAR TO BE PUBLISHED ON THE CITY
WEBSITE NO LATER THAN JANUARY 30TH. 
          THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT OUR, OUR CURRENT PRACTICE HAS BEEN. 
          TO POST OUR BUDGET CALENDAR, WE WILL ENSURE THAT THAT OCCURS NO LATER THAN JANUARY 30TH
FOR THE 2728 BUDGET. 
          ADDITIONALLY, THERE ARE VARIOUS PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS INCLUDED. 
          THOSE WE WE FIND ALREADY IN THE BUDGET DOCUMENT AS THE CITY OF NAPLES HAS BEEN PREPARING. 
          SO WE WILL CONTINUE TO COMPLY WITH THAT REQUIREMENT. 
          ADDITIONALLY, THERE'S A REQUIREMENT FOR PROPOSED BUDGET AMENDMENTS TO BE POSTED ON LINE
FIVE DAYS PRIOR TO ADOPTION. 
          AGAIN, SIMILAR TO THE NOTICING REQUIREMENT, YOU KNOW,
WE PUT THINGS OUT A WEEK IN ADVANCE ALREADY WITH OUR AGENDA PUBLICATION, AS YOU KNOW. AND LASTLY, THERE IS ALSO A NEW REQUIREMENT THAT A QUARTERLY SUMMARY OF
COMPENSATION FOR ALL CITY EMPLOYEES, INCLUDING THEIR JOB TITLES, NAMES AND SALARIES FOR EACH EMPLOYEE MUST BE POSTED ON THE
CITY WEBSITE. 
          AND SO TO ADHERE TO THAT REQUIREMENT, WE WOULD BEGIN PUBLISHING THAT INFORMATION IN THE
MONTH OF JANUARY. 
          ALL RIGHT. HERE, JUST WANTED TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW OF THE BUDGET SCHEDULE. 
          SO WE HAD THE MAY 18TH CIP WORKSHOP. HERE WE ARE ON AUGUST 17TH TODAY WITH THE BUDGET
WORKSHOP. 
          LOOKING AHEAD, WE HAVE TWO MEETINGS SEPTEMBER 8TH AND SEPTEMBER 16TH FOR BUDGET HEARINGS. 
          THEY'LL BOTH BE OCCURRING AT 5:05 P.M., AND THEN OCTOBER 1ST WILL BE THE START OF THE
FISCAL YEAR. 
          AND THIS SLIDE JUST SHOWS AN OVERVIEW OF THE CITY OF NAPLES ORGANIZATION CHART. 
          THE GROSS BUDGETED REVENUES IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET ARE JUST OVER $261 MILLION,
JUST UNDER TWO. 
          62. IT'S AN INCREASE OF 58.5 MILLION FROM THE 2526 ADOPTED BUDGET OF 203 MILLION. 
          INCLUDED IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET IS DEBT ISSUANCE IN THE AMOUNT OF $29 MILLION FOR FIRE
STATION TWO CONSTRUCTION. 
          AND THOSE EXPENSES ARE ALSO REFLECTED IN THIS 2627 PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          ALSO WANTED TO MAKE MENTION THAT PROSPECTIVELY LOOKING AT OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN AND
LIQUIDITY NEEDS IN MEETING THOSE THOSE PLANNED EXPENDITURES THERE IS ADDITIONAL DEBT ANTICIPATED FOR THE WATER,
SEWER AND STORMWATER FUNDS FOR THE, OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS. NOW, THIS CHART HERE WILL SHOW A COMPARISON OF 2627 PROPOSED TO THE 2526 ADOPTED BUDGET IN TERMS OF REVENUES. 
          AND IT SHOWS THE COMPARISON BY CATEGORY. AND WE JUST WANTED TO POINT OUT THAT YOU DO SEE A
DECREASE PERCENTAGE WISE UNDER AD VALOREM AND OTHER TAXES. 
          THAT'S DUE IN PART TO A SLOWING IN OUR TAXABLE VALUE TREND FOR PROPERTY TAXES. 
          IN ADDITION, THERE IS AN INCREASE YOU CAN SEE TOWARDS THE BOTTOM UNDER MISCELLANEOUS AND
TRANSFERS GOING FROM THAT 11.5 TO 20.8%. 
          AND THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE FIRE STATION TWO DEBT OF THE $29 MILLION IN DEBT PROCEEDS. 
          SO HERE UNDER EXPENSES INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS $293 MILLION OF BUDGETED
EXPENSES, WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF 52 MILLION FROM THE 2526 ADOPTED BUDGET. 
          AND INCLUDED IN THAT IS $25 MILLION IN CAPITAL AND OTHER EXPENSES. 
          AND HERE ON THIS CHART, YOU CAN SEE A SIMILAR COMPARISON FROM THE 2526 ADOPTED BUDGET TO
THE 2627 PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE. SO BY CATEGORY, YOU CAN SEE THAT PERSONNEL SERVICES MAKES UP A
SLIGHTLY LOWER PERCENTAGE THAN THE PREVIOUS BUDGET. AND THAT HAS LARGELY TO DO WITH THE INCREASE IN CAPITAL EXPENSES AND OTHER WHERE
YOU CAN SEE THE INCREASE FROM 33.1% OF 2526. 
          NOW IT'S UP TO 42.5%. THAT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH CONSTRUCTION OF FIRE STATION TWO,
BUT ALSO INVESTMENTS IN OUR STORMWATER FUND, WATER SEWER FUND, CRA, VARIOUS AREAS WHERE WE HAVE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS BUDGETED. 
          AND THIS SLIDE JUST GIVES AN OVERVIEW. WE HAD A WE HAVE A 2627 PROPOSED MILLAGE RATE OF
1.23, WHICH IS THE SAME AS THE 2526 MILLAGE. THERE IS AN EMERGENCY RESERVES INCREASE PER THE
FUND BALANCE POLICY, WHICH STIPULATES 10% OF THOSE PERSONNEL AND OPERATING COSTS FROM THE GENERAL FUND TO BE
MAINTAINED AS UNASSIGNED AS AN EMERGENCY FUND BALANCE MADE AVAILABLE IN CASE AN EMERGENCY COMES UP. 
          AND THAT'S IN ADDITION TO THE UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE REQUIREMENT. 
          SO BEYOND THAT, WE, WE ALSO HAVE PERSONNEL EXPENSES REPRESENTING A 6% INCREASE OVERALL IN
THIS BUDGET. 
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AND SO THAT HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH OUR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS. 
          OUR POLICE FIRE AND ASK ME ARE ALL GOING INTO THEIR FINAL YEAR OF THE THREE YEAR
AGREEMENTS. 
          AND HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS INCLUDED IN THIS BUDGET IS NO CHANGE. 
          WE HAVE SEEN BASED ON ACTUARIAL TRENDS, SOME INCREASES AND BASED ON WHAT THE LIQUIDITY AND
AVAILABLE FUND BALANCE IS STILL IN OUR EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FUND. THERE'S NO NEED AT THIS YEAR TO PROPOSE AN
INCREASE TO HEALTH INSURANCE RATES, BUT THAT WILL BE SOMETHING THAT WE WILL NEED TO EXAMINE IN THE COMING YEARS SHOULD THE
TREND CONTINUES. 
          AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE'LL TOUCH ON LATER ON IN THIS PRESENTATION AS WELL. THE BUDGET DOES
INCLUDE INCREASES THAT WERE APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL. 
          WATER SEWER RATES WERE INCREASED BY 3.8%, SOLID WASTE AS WELL INCREASING BY THAT 3.8%. 
          AND THAT IS BASED ON THE CPI FIGURES. STORMWATER RATE IS GOING INTO THE FIRST OF FOUR
YEARS PREVIOUSLY APPROVED BY COUNCIL. 
          THE STORMWATER RATES WILL BE INCREASING AT THE 25% RATE OVER THOSE FOUR YEARS. 
          TO HAVE THE FINANCING NEEDED TO ADDRESS THE CAPITAL NEEDS IN THE CIP,
WE HAVE SOME NOTABLE EXPENDITURES WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT WITHIN THIS BUDGET. IN TERMS OF CAPITAL, WE HAVE THE SEAWALL SETTLEMENT STILL WITHIN GENERAL FUND. 
          FIRE STATION TWO CONSTRUCTION. FLEISCHMANN PARK WATER DISTRIBUTION. 
          WASTEWATER COLLECTION. STORMWATER MULTI BASIN IMPROVEMENTS,
SWAN LAKE PUMP STATION, CRA IMPROVEMENTS. 
          ALL OF THOSE ARE INCLUDED WITHIN THE CIP. AND THEN IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET DOCUMENT. 
          ALL RIGHT. SO THIS CHART HERE SHOWS A BREAKDOWN OF A TAX BILL FOR A SINGLE FAMILY
RESIDENCE IN THE CITY. 
          YOU KNOW THIS WOULD BE THE EXAMPLE SHOWN WOULD BE A HOME WITH TAXABLE VALUE OF $1.5
MILLION. 
          THAT IS ALSO HOMESTEADED AFTER THE $50,000 REDUCTION IN VALUE OF TAXABLE VALUE FOR
HOMESTEAD AT 1 MILLION FOR 50. 
          THEN HAVE A CALCULATION OF TAXES BELOW. AND AS YOU CAN SEE,
THE CITY OF NAPLES IN TERMS OF THE DOLLAR MAKE UP ONLY $0.14 ON THE DOLLAR OF THE TOTAL TAX BILL FOR A HOMEOWNER IN THE CITY OF NAPLES. 
          AND THAT BREAKDOWN CAN BE SHOWN ABOVE. ALL RIGHT. 
          NOW, THIS CHART WOULD LOOK FAMILIAR TO EVERYONE HERE. 
          WE HAD A SIMILAR CHART THAT WE PRESENTED DURING THE JUNE MAX MILLAGE PRESENTATION. 
          AND FROM THAT TIME UNTIL NOW, THE BIG CHANGE IS THAT THE CERTIFIED VALUES CAME IN SLIGHTLY
ABOVE WHAT THE PRELIMINARY VALUES WERE SHOWING FOR THE CITY OF NAPLES GENERAL FUND. WITH THAT, WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT A FINAL TAXABLE VALUE INCREASE OF 4.37% COMPARED TO THE PRIOR YEAR. YOU CAN SEE IN THE TREND THAT IT STILL IS A SLOWING,
YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING FROM OVER 10% PER YEAR A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO TO,
TO NOW AT THE 4.37% LEVEL OVER A 20 YEAR AVERAGE. THAT BRINGS US TO ROUGHLY 5%. ALSO JUST WANT TO MAKE MENTION IN THE NOT SO
DISTANT PAST, YOU CAN SEE THERE WERE SEVERAL CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF ACTUAL TAXABLE VALUE DECLINES DURING
THE GREAT RECESSION. 
          AND SO WITH PROPERTY VALUES BEING A CYCLICAL MATTER,
YOU CAN SEE THAT WE ARE IN A DOWNWARD TREND IN TERMS OF YOU KNOW, TAXABLE VALUE INCREASES THE THE MAX MILLAGE DISCUSSION. 
          THE CITY COUNCIL HAD SET A 1.29 MAXIMUM MILLAGE RATE. 
          AND THAT WAS ALSO INCLUDED IN THE CERTIFICATION. 
          ADDITIONALLY, THE ONE POINT OUT THAT THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS BASED ON THE 1.23 MILLAGE,
WHICH IS $2.3 MILLION LESS REVENUE THAN THE 1.29 MAX MILLAGE. ALL RIGHT. IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET DOCUMENT,
THERE ARE THE MILLAGE RATES FOR 1.23 IN GENERAL FUND, AS WELL AS 0.5 FOR EAST NAPLES BAY TAXING DISTRICT AS WELL AS MOORINGS BAY
TAXING DISTRICT AT 0.0125. 
          THE CURRENT YEAR ROLLED BACK RATE FOR GENERAL FUND IS 1.2072,
AND THE MILLAGE RATE IS 1.307 FOR AGGREGATE ROLLED BACK RATE IS 1.2253, AND THE PROPOSED RATE AS A PERCENTAGE CHANGE OF THE ROLLBACK
RATE 1.89% FOR THE GENERAL FUND AT THE 1.23 LEVEL. TO YOUR RIGHT ON THIS SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE THE CHART SHOWING A HISTORY OF MILLAGE
RATES WITHIN THE CITY OF NAPLES OVER TIME. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE IN BETWEEN 2024 AND 2025, THE INCREASE TO THE 1.23 RATE FROM THE PREVIOUS
1.17. 
          AND IT'S REMAINED AT THAT LEVEL SINCE. BREAK DOWN OF PERSONNEL FOR THE CITY AS A WHOLE. 
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AND YOU CAN FIND THIS INFORMATION ALSO ON PAGE 16. 
          BUT THERE IS A YOU KNOW, VARIETY OF POSITIONS THAT YOU CAN SEE NET FOR NET,
IT ZEROS OUT IN TERMS OF POSITIONS OVERALL FOR THE CITY. 
          SO THERE ARE NO CHANGE, THERE'S NO CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF POSITIONS. HOWEVER,
THERE HAVE BEEN CONTINUING AND ONGOING EFFORTS AS YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH, TO OPTIMIZE THOSE POSITION ASSIGNMENTS WITHIN THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND THE MANY
FUNDS IN WHICH THEY OPERATE. 
          YOU CAN SEE BELOW A SUMMARY OF ALL THE FUNDS OTHER THAN GENERAL FUND,
AGAIN, LANDING AT A ZERO POSITION CHANGE FROM THE 2526 ADOPTED. 
          AND IN ADDITION, THIS CHART HERE SHOWS THE PORTION THAT WAS GENERAL FUND. 
          AGAIN, ZERO POSITION CHANGE FROM THE ADOPTED 2526. 
          AS YOU'LL RECALL, IN PAST YEARS, THE CITY HAS MADE A GOOD HABIT OF CONTRIBUTING ADDITIONAL
BEYOND WHAT THE ACTUAL REQUIRED CONTRIBUTION IS FOR THE CITY'S PENSION PLANS. 
          CITY OF NAPLES HAS THREE PENSION PLANS POLICE,
FIRE AND GENERAL. 
          MOST RECENT ACTUARIAL VALUATION REPORT REQUIRED 36.23% CONTRIBUTION RATE FOR POLICE,
29.48% FOR FIRE AND 12.76% FOR GENERAL. INCLUDED IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET WOULD BE CONTINUING A
CONTRIBUTION THAT IS ABOVE THOSE REQUIREMENTS. 
          THOUGH THE AMOUNT OF OVER CONTRIBUTION IS TAPERING SLIGHTLY LOWER. 
          AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW,
PERSONNEL EXPENSES HAVE COME INTO THE HISTORY AND ARE ALIGNED MORE CLOSELY WITH WHAT IS REPRESENTED IN THE ACTUAL EVALUATION REPORT. 
          WE FEEL THAT THE DATA LINES UP MUCH MORE CLOSELY. 
          HOWEVER YOU CAN SEE THAT WITH THIS LATEST REPORT,
THERE IS A FUNDED RATIO OF JUST OVER 80% FOR BOTH OUR POLICE AND GENERAL PLANS FIRES AT THE 85%. WE DO CONSIDER ALL THREE OF THESE PLANS AT A HEALTHY
FUNDING LEVEL THOUGH, OF COURSE, WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE CONTINUED IMPROVEMENT IN TERMS OF THAT FUNDED RATIO OVER
THE COMING YEARS WHILE ALSO MAINTAINING SOME STABILITY. 
          SO WHILE LAST OR IN THE 2526 ADOPTED BUDGET. WE HAD A 40,
40, 15. 
          MATERIALLY, WE'RE IN THE SAME PLACE IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET AIMING TO MAINTAIN A FAIRLY
CONSISTENT AND SMOOTH TREND IN TERMS OF WHAT WE'RE SETTING THAT CONTRIBUTION RATE AT MAINTAINING ADEQUATE FUNDED RATIO WITHOUT YEAR TO YEAR,
MUCH CHANGE IN TERMS OF WHAT THAT PERCENTAGE LOOKS LIKE. 
          AND SO WITH THAT WE ARE ESTIMATING AN ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTION OF $1.7 MILLION ACROSS ALL
FUNDS. 
          YOU KNOW, FOR THE, FOR THIS PROPOSED BUDGET. STEFAN MAYOR SURE. 
          SO A COUPLE OF THINGS ON, ON TWO DIFFERENT SLIDES. 
          WE'LL START WITH THIS ONE. THE LAST CONTRACT AGREEMENT,
AS YOU KNOW WE DID SOME PENSION ENHANCEMENTS AND INCLUDED ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS FROM EACH ONE OF THE UNIONS HAD TO INCREASE THE EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS AS WELL. 
          THAT WAS PART OF THE NEGOTIATIONS TO BOTH INCREASE SALARIES AND PROVIDE A BETTER PENSION
PLAN. 
          WE KNEW WE WOULD TAKE A SLIGHT HIT IN THE FUNDING RATIO,
BUT WE ALSO KNEW THAT IT WAS HIGHEST YEARS OF IT WOULD BE AT THE BEGINNING, AND THEN THE ACTUARIAL WOULD GO DOWN. I'LL REMIND YOU THAT PRIOR TO THAT CONTRACT,
WE WERE PAYING 46% FOR POLICE AND 48% FOR FIRE. 
          THAT WAS WHEN WE HAD DONE BACK IN 2019, BECAUSE WE WERE TREATING THE ACTUARIAL RATE AS A
BUDGETARY WINDFALL OR DEFICIT, DEPENDING ON WHAT THE WINDS BLEW. WE CHANGED THAT TO BE STABLE. 
          WE AVERAGED THAT OUT OVER THE LAST TEN YEARS AND CHOSE THE HIGHEST ONE. 
          THAT'S HOW WE ENDED UP WITH A BETTER FUNDING RATIO. 
          WITH THAT SAID, WE KNEW IT WAS GOING TO COME DOWN IN YOUR HIGHEST YEARS WOULD BE RIGHT
AFTER WE SIGNED THE AGREEMENT, AND RIGHT AFTER THEY TOOK INTO CONSIDERATION THE LOOKBACK PERIOD THAT WAS DONE FOR THESE
EMPLOYEES. 
          SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT IT AND YOU SEE 40 AND IT GOES TO 36,
23. 
          THAT'S FROM LAST YEAR. IT'S GOING DOWN 4% FROM THIS MOST RECENT ACTUARIAL ANALYSIS OF
REQUIREMENT. 
          THOSE TRENDS CONTINUE. NOW WE'LL BE IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THIS AGREEMENT. 
          SO ONCE WE REACH THE FIVE YEAR MARK TO STEFAN'S POINT IS WE DON'T WANT TO SEE YEAR TO YEAR
SWINGS. 
          WE WANT TO KEEP IT HOVERING ABOVE WHAT IT IS. 
          IF IT CONTINUES TO TREND DOWN IN MY RECOMMENDATION,
I WOULDN'T REDUCE ANY OF THEM IN THE FUTURE UNTIL YOU GET AROUND 90% IN FUNDING. 
          BUT YOU'RE ALSO CONTRIBUTING SIGNIFICANTLY ABOVE WHAT THE REQUIREMENTS ARE,
AND IT'S TRENDING THE RIGHT WAY, JUST LIKE IT WAS PRIOR TO THE AGREEMENT. SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT. 
          AND THEN THE LAST THING I WANTED TO POINT OUT IS WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE SLIDE AND IT SAID
6%, 
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I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE AS TO WHAT THAT IS. 
          THAT'S THE OVERALL SALARIES, THE LAST CONTRACT NEGOTIATION. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY A 4% INCREASE ON TEN ONE. THAT'S THE COST OF LIVING INCREASE TO ALL RANGES
THEY GO. 
          BUT THEN THERE WAS THE STEP PLAN THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE AND A MIDYEAR FOR MOVEMENT THROUGH
THE RANGE THAT MAKES UP THE 6%. 
          IT WAS NOT A 6% INCREASE ON TEN ONE FOR ALL EMPLOYEES,
AND IT WAS 4% ON THE COST OF LIVING INCREASE THAT TOUCHES ALL PARTS OF THE RANGES. AND THEN AT THE HALFWAY THROUGH THE YEAR OR ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY, DEPENDING ON WHICH UNION GROUP IT IS. THEN THERE'S THE ACTUAL STEP INCREASE AND OR
CORRESPONDING MOVEMENT THROUGHOUT THE RANGE THAT HELPS WITH COMPRESSION. 
          AND YOU BRING PEOPLE ON AND EVERYBODY STAYS AT THE SAME. 
          THAT WAS A PROBLEM. AND AS WE KNOW AND DEALT WITH IN THE LAST NEGOTIATION. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THOSE TWO THINGS OUT. THANK YOU. 
          THAT WAS A HUGE COMMENT THAT THE LAST COUNCIL WAS COMMITTED TO MAKING SURE. 
          SO, VICE MAYOR, YEAH, THANKS FOR THAT. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION LOOKING AT THIS SLIDE. 
          YOU KNOW, THE FIRE PLANS 85% FUNDED. THE POLICE IS 80% FUNDED. 
          BUT WE'RE PUTTING IN THE CITY'S PART IS ROUGHLY 40% ON BOTH. 
          DID YOU CONSIDER MAYBE SWITCHING THAT A LITTLE BIT AND PUTTING MORE INTO THE POLICE AND
LESS INTO THE FIRE, SO POLICE PLAN COULD TRY TO CATCH UP? YEAH, WE WE COULD. 
          BUT THE RATIONALE BEHIND WHY IT'S THERE IS TO TRY TO GET THEM SO THEY'RE FLAT. 
          AND EVEN ALL THE WAY ACROSS THERE WAS THE RATE OF RETURN. 
          IT WASN'T THE RATE OF RETURN THAT WAS ACTUALLY CAUSING PART OF WHERE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT
WAS. 
          IT WAS ACTUALLY SOMEBODY WHO HAD THE WHOLE, I BELIEVE IT WAS NON BENEFICIARY PASSED AWAY
AND WAS ACTUALLY A SURPLUS THAT YEAR OF LIKE $584,000, WHICH IS DRIVING THAT. 
          SO BECAUSE IF WE WERE TO DO THAT, I WOULD SAY IT'S AFTER THE FIVE,
YOU GET A FIVE YEAR TREND? JUST NOT YET. SO I THINK IT'S MERIT TO ANALYZE. 
          I JUST WOULDN'T DO IT YET BECAUSE THERE'S THERE WAS SPIKES THERE THAT HAVEN'T FLATTENED
OUT OVER TIME. 
          AND I THINK WE HAVE TIME FOR THAT TO BE THE CASE. 
          SO I'M OPEN TO IT. I WOULDN'T BE OPPOSED IF YOU SAID THAT. 
          I JUST IT HELPS WHEN YOU GO INTO HOW DO I WANT TO SAY THIS WHEN I GO INTO A NEGOTIATIONS
WITH POLICE AND FIRE, IT'S ALWAYS A COMPARATIVE. AND FROM THE STANDPOINT,
AND I KNOW IT'S SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT NOW, BUT REMEMBER, IT WAS 48, 46. I THINK IF YOU'RE FUNDING THEM ON THE SAME. 
          AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE DISCUSSING PENSIONS AND EVERYTHING,
THE YOU'RE HAVING ALL OF THE DISCUSSIONS ON AN EVEN PLATFORM. 
          AND SO FOR ME, I LIKE THE FIVE YEAR TREND PART. 
          LET'S SEE IF THAT ONE YEAR SPIKE THAT WE HAD IN FIRE FLATTENS IT OUT A LITTLE BIT,
BUT I'M DEFINITELY OPEN TO THAT. 
          THEY JUST HAVE FIRES, HAD A VERY GOOD RUN IN A TWO YEAR OR THREE YEAR PERIOD. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANKS FOR THAT. MAYBE LIKE YOU SAID,
YOU CAN LOOK AT IT AGAIN NEXT YEAR AFTER YOU GET PAST THE CONTRACT RENEWALS AND AND EVEN THINGS OUT. I WOULD DEFINITELY AGREE WITH THAT,
SIR. THANK YOU. OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. NOW THIS SLIDE HERE JUST SHOWS A BREAKDOWN OF THE GENERAL FUND PROPOSED BUDGET
IN TERMS OF OPERATING AS OPPOSED TO CAPITAL EXPENDITURES. 
          FROM THE OPERATING SIDE, YOU CAN SEE 67.2 MILLION ROUGHLY IN REVENUES. 
          AS YOU KNOW, AS COMPARED TO 57.1 OF PERSONNEL AND 12.7 OF OPERATING. 
          AND THAT COMES OUT TO A NET OPERATING BUDGET. 
          IT'S AT A DEFICIT OF ROUGHLY 2.6 MILLION. BELOW THAT YOU CAN SEE CAPITAL EXPENDITURES
TOTALING 4,000,583. 
          THAT INCLUDES $4.3 MILLION OF SEAWALL. BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO ALSO MAKE MENTION. 
          SO THOSE WERE FROM THE SEAWALL SETTLEMENT FOR THE VENETIAN FROM HURRICANE IRMA. 
          AND SINCE THAT TIME WE DID RECEIVE A GRANT FROM THE STATE. 
          STATE OF FLORIDA OF $3.75 MILLION IN TERMS OF AN AGREEMENT. 
          THOSE GRANT REVENUES WILL ACTUALLY BE RECEIVED,
HOWEVER, UNTIL AFTER THOSE EXPENDITURES TAKE PLACE. 
          AND SO WHILE IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET, THE GRANT REVENUES ARE STILL SHOWN IN A. 
          2526. THE TRUTH IS THAT THOSE WILL COME IN ONCE THE PROJECT COSTS ARE ACTUALLY YOU KNOW,
BORNE. 
          AND SO TRULY ALL THAT WILL OCCUR WITHIN 2627. 
          THEY ARE SHOWN IN TERMS OF FUND BALANCE IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET. 
          BUT AGAIN, THEY'RE IN THAT 2526 COLUMN. JUST JUST TO BE CLEAR ON THAT ONE. 
          THIS CHART HERE SHOWS KIND OF A COMPARISON BETWEEN WHAT THE 2526 ADOPTED BUDGET CHANGES
WERE VERSUS WHAT THE 2627 ADOPTED CHANGES ARE. AND SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A NEW REVENUE PROPERTY VALUE OF
JUST SHY OF $2 
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MILLION, OFFSET LARGELY BY PERSONNEL SERVICES,
WHICH HAVE INCREASED BY $3.3 MILLION. 
          AND VARIOUS CHARGEBACKS, YOU KNOW, HAVE CHANGED BETWEEN 2526 TO 2627 PROPOSED. 
          YOU'LL SEE EQUIPMENT SERVICES INCREASING BY 370,000. 
          THAT'S DUE IN LARGE PART TO EXPERIENCES ON THE FUEL PRICE SIDE. 
          IN MORE RECENT MONTHS, THAT HAD TO BE FACTORED INTO NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET. 
          YOU TAKE ALL OF THOSE FACTORS SHOWN ABOVE, AND COLLECTIVELY THEY COME TO GENERAL FUND
RESERVES BEING IMPACTED BY $1 MILLION. 
          AND IN ADDITION, THERE'S SEAWALL COSTS. I'VE ALLUDED TO EARLIER,
4.3 MILLION AND THE SEAWALL GRANTS, 3.75 MILLION COMING IN. AND COLLECTIVELY, ALL OF THAT COMES TO JUST SHY OF $1.6 MILLION
COMING FROM RESERVE. 
          AND I DID WANT TO MAKE NOTE THAT HEALTH INSURANCE CHARGEBACKS ARE TO BE REVIEWED AND BASED
ON ACTUAL UTILIZATION. 
          SO WHILE THIS BUDGET IS BASED ON FULL OCCUPANCY OF ALL THESE POSITIONS,
WHEN WE'RE IN BETWEEN ON CERTAIN POSITIONS, THERE WILL BE A SAVINGS THAT GETS CHARGED BACK TO THE VARIOUS FUNDS BASED ON THE VACANCIES
AND UTILIZATION OF THEIR HEALTH INSURANCE COSTS. 
          ALL RIGHT. THIS SLIDE HERE, THIS SHOWS A KIND OF COMPARES WHERE UNASSIGNED FUND BALANCE IS
PROJECTED AT A 1.23 MILLAGE RATE IN COMPARISON TO A ROLLBACK RATE OF 1.2072. AND HERE YOU CAN SEE IN THIS CHART YOU KNOW,
WITH EMERGENCY RESERVES AT ROUGHLY $7 MILLION, THAT WOULD LEAVE 22.5 MILLION IN UNASSIGNED FOR 2027 FISCAL YEAR. 
          AT THE 1.23 RATE, IT'D BE ROUGHLY 100 OR $800,000 LESS IN THE ROLLED BACK RATE SCENARIO,
WHICH YOU CAN SEE LEAVING AT A ONE 21.6 MILLION LEVEL. YEAH. THE PREVIOUS SLIDE HAD ALLUDED TO RECOGNITION OF REVENUE OF THE 3,750,000 IN THE 26 YEAR. 
          THAT IS PART OF WHAT THE ESTIMATE OF GOING FROM 26 2 TO 29 SEVEN IS. 
          AND AS STEFAN INDICATED, THAT REVENUE AND EXPENSE WILL LINE UP WITH THE 4 MILLION BY THE
TIME IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE. 
          THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE IT'S ACTUALLY ARTIFICIALLY GOING TO 2297. 
          AND THEN IT'S A PORTION OF WHAT THE, THE, THE,
THE EXPENSE HITTING IN 27 WILL DO. 
          SO I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO THINK IT WAS IT'S 3.75 MILLION OF IT IS A TIMING ISSUE. 
          I JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT. THE OTHER PART OF IT IS,
IS TWO OTHER POINTS TO THIS. 
          22 MILLION IS REALLY GOOD, BUT WE STILL HAVE PHASE THREE OF THE SEA WALLS. 
          THAT IS REQUIREMENT UNDER THAT SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT THAT COMES OUT OF THERE. SO THAT'S AN
ESTIMATED $4 MILLION THAT'S STILL BEING HELD FOR THAT. 
          SO THAT PUTS YOUR FUND BALANCE AT APPROXIMATELY 18 MILLION. 
          STILL VERY STABLE. BUT I WANTED TO AT LEAST DIFFERENTIATE THAT. 
          IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE EMERGENCY RESERVE OF THE 10% OF OF OVERALL BUDGET EXPENSES IN THE
GENERAL FUND THAT IS ABLE TO BE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO COME TO YOU HAVE DISCUSSIONS ON FUND BALANCE POLICY. BUT I JUST
WANT TO POINT THIS OUT. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THINGS WITH THE COUNTY, THIS IS THE ONE PLACE THAT IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND WE HAD TO DO DEBRIS OURSELVES,
AS OPPOSED TO THEM HANDLING DEBRIS, WHETHER IT BE HORTICULTURE OR C AND D AFTER A HURRICANE,
WE WOULD NEED THAT TO BE IN THE VICINITY OF 25 TO $35 MILLION, AND WE WOULD HAVE TO SPEND IT AND TAKE THE TIME TO GET IT BACK FROM FEMA. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT, BECAUSE THAT IS ONE AREA WHERE THAT OUR INTERLOCAL
AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY PAYS GREAT DIVIDENDS. 
          AND I JUST WANT TO MAKE A POINT ON THE RECORD FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT WEREN'T HERE. 
          BEAUTIFUL BAKER PARK. LOVE IT. BUT THAT IS WHERE OUR FACILITIES WERE FOR RECYCLING
HORTICULTURAL DEBRIS. 
          THAT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO WHEN WE ARE CHANGING OR TRYING TO THINK
ABOUT SELLING ANY PROPERTY THAT WE OWN AS A CITY, WHAT THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MIGHT BE BECAUSE WE WERE SELF-SUFFICIENT AND NOW HAVING
TO RELY ON AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. 
          SO FOR THOSE WHO ARE MOVING FORWARD AND MAKING POLICY DECISIONS,
I THINK THAT'S A CRUCIAL ONE TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHEN WE OWN OUR OWN PROPERTIES AND REALLY WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THOSE IN THE FUTURE. THANK YOU FOR THAT. 
          YES, VICE MAYOR AND GARY, JUST TO CONFIRM, ON THE FUND BALANCE,
THE GENERAL FUND BALANCE. 
          IT LOOKS LIKE ON PAGE 21 OF THE BOOKS, WE STILL THINK THIS PROJECTED FUND BALANCE IS AT
THE UPPER END OF OUR FUND BALANCE POLICY. 
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SO WE'RE STILL IN IN GOOD SHAPE. BASED ON THE CURRENT CIRCUMSTANCES. 
          WE'RE STILL IN VERY GOOD SHAPE EVEN WITH THE 4 MILLION COMING OUT. WE'RE AT 18 AND WE'RE
ABOVE THE MAXIMUM. 
          YOU HAVE A MINIMUM MAXIMUM RECOMMENDED. AND WE'RE STILL SLIGHTLY ABOVE IT. SO. YES,
SIR. THANKS. 
          YES. CRAMER. MR.. DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG TALKING ABOUT SOLID WASTE REMOVAL IN THE BAKER
PARK? HOW LONG HAVE HAS THE COUNTY TAKEN CARE OF SOLID WASTE AFTER THE MAJOR STORMS? I CAN'T, I DON'T HAVE THE AGREEMENT DATE IN MY HEAD SO I CAN GET BACK TO THEM,
BUT I DON'T KNOW, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD WHAT THE DATE OF THAT WAS,
SIR. 
          YEAH, I, I RECALL IT AFTER THE BIG STUFF, AFTER THE HURRICANES. 
          THEY'VE ALWAYS HELPED OUT AT THE VERY LEAST. I MEAN I BELIEVE THAT MAY BE THE CASE. 
          I JUST I DON'T WANT TO ANSWER FOR SURE ON A DATE WITHOUT LOOKING. 
          AND I, I MEAN, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A USING IT ALL UP PLUS A,
YOU KNOW, 8 TO $20,000 DEFICIT ON TOP OF THAT, IF THEY DIDN'T DO IT. 
          AND WHEN I LOOK AT THAT DOLLAR BILL BEING CUT UP LIKE THAT,
I MEAN, AT LEAST WE SEE WE GET SOMETHING FOR THAT. 
          YEAH. AND I POINT THAT OUT EVERY TIME I GET A CHANCE WHERE THINGS ARE WORK FAVORABLY AND
IN OUR, ON OUR IN OUR BENEFIT WITH THE COUNTY, I TRY TO ALWAYS BE HONEST AND,
AND DEMONSTRATE THAT. 
          AND I LIKE FOR OUR CITIZENS TO KNOW THAT THAT IS A BIG TICKET ITEM THAT WE WOULD WE WOULD
OUR MILLAGE RATE WOULD HAVE TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER TO RETAIN THAT. 
          THINK ABOUT IF WE HAD THOSE LAST TWO, YOU KNOW,
THE LAST THREE STORMS AND WE WERE STILL COLLECTING THAT WHERE WE WOULD BE. 
          SO IT'S A BIG DEAL. AND I FELT IT NEEDED POINTED OUT. 
          YEAH. AND I REMEMBER BEING ON SCOTT MAY BE ABLE TO ATTEST TO THIS. 
          WHEN YOU HEAR THE OTHER THE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES IN THAT WHEN YOU'RE ON THE SOUTHWEST
FLORIDA REGIONAL PLANNING AND YOU HEAR WHAT THEY'RE. 
          I MEAN, THERE'S SOME NIGHTMARE SCENARIOS ABOUT THEM GETTING THEIR BUDGETS CRUSHED BY
STORMS. AND SO AT THE VERY LEAST, WE. AND ALSO WHERE WE'RE GOING TO PUT SOLID WASTE NOW THROUGHOUT
THE STATE. 
          THAT'S A BIG PROBLEM. AND SO THIS MITIGATES ALL OF THAT FOR US. 
          WELL, WHICH IS ALSO WHY WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL LAND THAT WE HAD,
WE WERE BACK LEASING FROM THE AIRPORT THAT, THAT WE GET IT OUT OF THE LEASE. SO WE HAVE MORE LAND THAT'S HIGH AND DRY THAT WE CAN MAKE
SOME DECISIONS ABOUT. 
          YEAH. BUT REMEMBER, OUR COUNTY IS ALSO FACED WITH HAVING TO EXPAND FACILITIES FOR ALL THE
RECYCLING AND, AND HORTICULTURAL. I MEAN, THEY'RE ALSO, I MEAN,
NOTHING'S A GUARANTEE IN THAT. 
          SO YES, WE'RE THANKFUL TO HAVE THAT, BUT WE MAY NOT ALWAYS HAVE THE COUNTY'S CAPACITY
AVAILABILITY FOR CAPACITY. 
          SO IT'S JUST VERY HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          BUT THANK YOU FOR THAT POINT. OKAY. AND SO ON THIS NEXT SLIDE,
WE DO HAVE A KIND OF A BREAKDOWN OF PERSONNEL EXPENSE INCREASES BETWEEN THE VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS. 
          AND SO WITHIN GENERAL FUND, WE HAVE A POLICE MAKING UP 7.3% OF THE PERSONNEL EXPENSE
INCREASE SHOWN UP IN FIRE DEPARTMENT. THAT REPRESENTS 8.9% OF THE PROPOSED INCREASE FOR PERSONNEL. 
          COMMUNITY SERVICES THEIR PERCENT INCREASE IS AT THE 6% LEVEL. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL OTHER AREAS WITHIN GENERAL FUND THAT ACTUALLY COMES OUT TO -1.8%,
BUT COLLECTIVELY FOR THE GENERAL FUND AS A WHOLE. PERSONNEL EXPENSES ARE BUDGETED TO BE INCREASING AT 6.1% OVERALL. 
          AND JUST MAKE MENTION OF THIS. IF YOU'RE RECONCILING NUMBERS AT HOME,
YOU KNOW, THERE IS AN AMOUNT TO KEEP IN MIND IN THAT CALCULATION THAT HAS TO DO WITH A CHARGEBACK FOR FIRE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT SERVICES TO THE BUILDING FUND FOR THOSE FIRE
INSPECTIONS. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, FOR DURING PLAN REVIEW AND THAT'S $57,655. 
          THAT'S INCLUDED. WAIT, CAN YOU GO BACK? SO THAT EXPENSE INCREASE IS FOR THIS BUDGET AS PRESENTED. YES. YEAH. THE PERSONNEL EXPENSE INCREASE IS,
YOU KNOW FOR GENERAL FUND IS 6.1%. 
          THANK YOU. YEP. THE THIS SLIDE HERE SHOWS A BREAKDOWN FOR GENERAL FUND BUDGET BETWEEN VARIOUS DEPARTMENTS, AND WANT TO ALSO HIGHLIGHT THAT MORE THAN 80% OF THE PROPOSED
BUDGET, AS IN PAST YEARS IS WHAT WE CALL SAFETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE. 
          WITH POLICE AT 33%, FIRE 28%, AND COMMUNITY SERVICES AT 20% OF THIS PROPOSED BUDGET. 
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THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL 2% FOR PLANNING, WHICH YOU CAN CERTAINLY ARGUE ALSO HAS A SAFETY AND
QUALITY OF LIFE FUNCTION. 
          BELOW THAT WE HAVE CHARGEBACKS FOR SELF-INSURANCE OUR TECHNOLOGY SERVICES AS WELL AS
EQUIPMENT SERVICES THAT ARE BORN WITHIN THE GENERAL FUND THAT COMES TO ANOTHER 9%. 
          WHEN YOU FACTOR ALL THAT IN, THAT LEAVES 8% FOR OTHER EXPENSES IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET FOR
THE GENERAL FUND. 
          AND STEFAN, I'M GOING TO EXPAND ON THIS ONE AS WELL. 
          SO WE THINK ABOUT THE EXERCISE THAT THEY WANT YOU TO GO THROUGH AND CUTTING 10% OUT OF THE
BUDGET. 
          IN THE GENERAL FUND. AND, YOU KNOW, I UNDERSTAND TALLAHASSEE IN THE SENSE IS THAT THEY
WANT COMMUNITIES TO FOCUS ON WHAT MUNICIPALITIES ARE SUPPOSED TO DO. AND I UNDERSTAND THEIR THOUGHTS ON TAXES,
BUT WE ARE A MUNICIPALITY THAT REALLY FOCUSES ON THE VERY FUNDAMENTALS OF A CITY, WHICH IS PUBLIC SAFETY AND QUALITY OF LIFE WATER,
SEWER AND ENTERPRISE SERVICES. 
          ET CETERA. THAT'S WHAT WE DO. AND SO WHEN YOU SAY 10% REDUCTION,
IF YOU LOOK AT THIS POLICE AND FIRE COMBINED, IT'S 61%. THEN IF YOU TAKE THAT SAME SELF-INSURANCE TECH SERVICES,
WHICH IS OUR COMPUTERS AND EQUIPMENT SERVICES FOR GASOLINE AND SERVICE AND REPAIR VEHICLES, AT LEAST $0.60 ON THE DOLLAR OF THOSE ARE FOR
POLICE AND FIRE. 
          SO IF YOU'RE CUTTING 10% IN A $70 MILLION BUDGET,
YOU'RE CUTTING 7 MILLION. 
          AND YOU LOOK AT IT, COMMUNITY SERVICES IS 15. 
          THAT'S YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE ITEMS. WE SPENT ALMOST $3 MILLION ON PRUNING TREES. 
          WHEN YOU COMBINE THAT WITH PARKS AND PARKWAYS AND MEDIAN RESTORATION. 
          SO WHEN YOU GET THE 10%, WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE A LOT OF THINGS YOU'RE SPENDING EXTRA ON AND
YOUR GENERAL FUND, AND YOU KNOW WHAT TALLAHASSEE IS ATTACKING IN THE FIRST PLACE. 
          BUT IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT AND NOT TOUCH PUBLIC SAFETY,
WHERE ELSE YOU GO. 
          SO I JUST POINT THAT OUT IS BECAUSE NOT EVERY MUNICIPALITY IS PAINTED WITH THE SAME BRUSH. 
          AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT. WE TAKE CARE OF THE FUNDAMENTALS. 
          SO WE'LL GO THROUGH THE EXERCISE. BUT I WANTED YOU TO KNOW THE LIMITATIONS OF THAT
EXERCISE WITHOUT HITTING PUBLIC SAFETY IS BECAUSE THE NUMBERS JUST DON'T BEAR OUT THAT KIND OF VOLUME AND NOT AFFECTING THE QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES. 
          I'M JUST SAYING THAT. SO I'LL JUST SAY IT IN A NOT SO POLISHED WAY. 
          IT'S A REAL SHAME BECAUSE WE ARE FOCUSED IN ON PUBLIC SAFETY. 
          AND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE NOT FOR US TO BE PENALIZED IN A BLANKET TAX REDUCTION IS IS VERY
CONCERNING. 
          BUT THANK YOU. YES. KRAMER, I JUST WANT TO JUMP ON THAT TOO,
BECAUSE IF YOU'RE LISTENING, WE LOVE YOU, OUR REPRESENTATIVES. BUT TO SUCH A BROAD BRUSH,
WHEN PEOPLE ARE DOING IT RIGHT AND THEY GET HAMMERED BECAUSE SOME FOLKS DO IT WRONG. 
          THAT IS AND THAT HAPPENS CONSTANTLY. I WAS I WAS IN EDUCATION FOREVER AND THAT'S WHAT
WOULD HAPPEN IN EDUCATION. 
          WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO CREATE POLICY BASED ON THE BOTTOM 5%,
WHICH WHICH ABSOLUTELY STIFLES EXCELLENCE. 
          ABSOLUTELY. FIRST OF ALL, IT'S COMMUNIST. WE'RE NOT ALL THE SAME. 
          QUIT DOING IT. THAT'S ALL I GOT. THANK YOU. RIGHT. 
          AND WE'RE SPENDING MONEY ON WHAT OUR RESIDENTS WANT. 
          THEY'RE ASKING FOR THIS. SO WHAT DO WE HAVE TO TELL THE RESIDENTS? THEY CAN'T HAVE WHAT THEY WANT BECAUSE THEY'RE MAD AT SOME OTHER CITY SOMEWHERE ELSE IN
THE STATE. 
          AND IF WE'RE GOING TO GO ANOTHER STEP AND WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IS THEY'RE GOING TO START
COLLECTING FEES FOR TRANSACTIONS. 
          THEY'RE GOING TO CENTRALIZE IT AND THEN GIVE BACK TO FOLKS WHATEVER. SAME THING HAPPENED
IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM, WHICH IRONICALLY, IT'S INTERESTING. THE ONLY THING THEY EXEMPTED FROM IT WAS THE SCHOOL SYSTEMS. RIGHT, RIGHT. 
          GOOD POINT. YEAH. AND I, AND I JUST WANT TO,
YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I BROUGHT THAT UP ONLY FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF JUST GIVING OUR RESIDENTS ASSURANCE OF THE THINGS WE'RE SPENDING AND WHAT THAT PERCENTAGE IS WOULD HIT SHOULD THAT
BE THE CASE. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. AND AS YOU RECALL,
IN 2425, THE MILLAGE RATE ROSE FROM 1.17 TO 1.23. AND THAT WAS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY ENHANCEMENTS. 
          AND RECAPPING. IN JUNE, CITY COUNCIL DISCUSSED CONTINUED IMPLEMENTATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY
ENHANCEMENTS, AND THE MAXIMUM MILLAGE RATE OF 1.29 WAS SET. 
          THIS PROPOSED BUDGET IS A BASELINE. NO ENHANCEMENTS INCLUDED USING THAT 1.23 MILLAGE RATE. 
          AS IT STANDS NOW, THE TRIM AD WOULD SHOW A 1.29 RATE FOR COMPLIANCE PURPOSES WITH NO
ADDITIONAL OPERATING EXPENDITURES UNLESS DIRECTION IS RECEIVED OTHERWISE. 
          AND YOU KNOW, WE WOULD REALLY NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE WILL OF CITY COUNCIL IS IN ORDER TO
MAKE ANY CHANGES TO THE TRIM AD BEFORE IT ACTUALLY GOES INTO PUBLICATION FOR FOR ADVERTISING PURPOSES. ADDITIONAL STAFF YOU KNOW,
SHOULD ONLY BE CONSIDERED IN A CONTEXT 
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OF INCREASING THE MILLAGE RATE TO 1.29. AND THAT,
THAT GOES TO SOMETHING THAT WE'LL GET INTO A LITTLE BIT LATER IN THAT KNOWING THAT THERE ARE PRESSURES YOU CAN SEE IN TAXABLE VALUE TREND THAT WE'VE ALREADY
TALKED ABOUT SLOWING DOWN IN OUR PROPERTY TAX MARKET. 
          IN ADDITION, YOU HAVE A PROPOSED BUDGET THAT INCLUDES AN OPERATING DEFICIT. 
          WE DON'T FEEL IT WOULD BE PRUDENT TO ADD STAFF WITHOUT TAKING A BALANCED APPROACH. 
          ALSO WITH RESPECT TO RESERVES IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN. 
          SECURITY IN WHAT IT IS WE'RE PROPOSING FROM FURTHER DOWNWARD PRESSURE,
WHERE. 
          PERHAPS IT WOULD BE UNSUSTAINABLE TO ADD THOSE STAFF MEMBERS. 
          SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE DO IS SUSTAINABLE FOR THE FUTURE. 
          MAINTAINING THE LEVELS THAT WE'RE PROPOSING IN THIS BUDGET. 
          MR. RUSSELL, CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN THE TRIM ADD AGAIN,
PLEASE, THAT IT'S GOING TO BE ADVERTISED? YEAH. SO THE AS OF RIGHT NOW AND TO MAINTAIN THE OPTION TO APPROVE A MILLAGE RATE UP TO
1.29, THE ADD WOULD HAVE TO REFLECT 1.29. NOW IF A DIFFERENT RATE WERE SELECTED OR IF THERE WAS
CONSENSUS AROUND A 1.23. 
          THEN WHILE WE COULD CHANGE THE TRIM. ADD TO THAT 1.23 BEFORE IT'S PUBLISHED. 
          THAT WOULD CLOSE THE DOOR ON A 1.29 RATE WITHOUT SENDING OUT A BUNCH OF CERTIFIED LETTERS, WHICH I DON'T THINK ANYONE WOULD WANT TO GO THAT ROUTE. 
          IT WOULD BE AN ADDITIONAL EXPENSE TO THE CITY TO DO THAT. 
          NO, I WANT TO BE VERY. THAT'S WHY I WANTED YOU TO CLARIFY THAT,
BECAUSE WE NEED TO BE VERY CLEAR ON THE DECISIONS THAT WE MAKE SO WE CAN ADVERTISE IT FOR 1.29. BUT THE BUDGET IS AT 1.23 FOR THE MILLAGE RATE,
CORRECT. 
          AND THAT DECISION THAT IS TO BE MADE FOR FINAL WILL BE. 
          SO CAN I. YES. OH YES. SORRY MR. YOUNG. SO TODAY. 
          AND THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, I INDICATED WE'LL CIRCLE BACK TO THE 1.29 AND 1.23 AT THE END. 
          WE NEED TO GET CONSENSUS DIRECTION AS TO WHAT WE'RE WALKING INTO THE HEARING WITH. 
          AND BY POINT OF REFERENCE, IF YOU SAY IF WE GET CONSENSUS TODAY THAT SAYS WE'RE GOING TO
GO IN AT 1.23, AND THEN YOU CHOSE TO GO TO 1.29 BECAUSE WE ADVERTISED AT 1.23,
YOU HAVE TO SEND OUT CERTIFIED LETTERS AND ALL KINDS OF OTHER THINGS. 
          SO IF CONSENSUS IS THAT YOU WANT US TO MAKE THE AMENDMENTS TO THE BUDGET TO ADD SAFETY
ENHANCEMENT, AND WHETHER IT'S 1.29 OR ANYTHING ELSE, WE IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO GO INTO THE HEARING. 
          AND HAVING RECEIVED THAT CONSENSUS, NOW WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF A DICHOTOMY TODAY BECAUSE
A MEMBER OF COUNCIL IS, IS, IS ABSENT. AND SO BUT ULTIMATELY WE STILL HAVE TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION AND DECIDE
WHAT WE'RE GOING TO ADVERTISE AT, WHAT THAT GIVES US LIMITATIONS ON DEPENDING ON WHAT WE ADVERTISE THAT. 
          AND WE'LL DO THAT WHEN WE TRY TO GET CONSENSUS AT THE END OF THE DAY. 
          MEANING ONCE WE'VE COMPLETED ALL THE PRESENTATIONS,
THEN HAVE THE DIALOG ON THE MILLAGE RATE. 
          AND SO I WOULD SAY THAT TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITIES. 
          WE SHOULD ADVERTISE THAT WHAT WE BELIEVE IT'S GOING TO BE BECAUSE WE'RE AT A LITTLE BIT OF
A HANDICAP TODAY IN TERMS OF A FULL DAY, AS WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE THAT CONSIDERATION IN THE CONVERSATION. 
          BUT HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, A, A CONSENSUS IS REACHED REGARDLESS OF WHO'S ON THE DAIS TODAY. 
          AND WE'LL WE'LL SEE HOW THAT GOES. BUT WE WILL HAVE TO MANAGE THAT,
THAT AND THIS SECTION AND THE TRIM AD. 
          ONCE WE HAVE THAT RELIGIOUS CONVERSATION AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. AND THIS SLIDE YOU KNOW,
THERE WAS ALSO ONE OF THE ATTACHMENTS INCLUDED IN THE PACKET WITH ALL THE CERTIFIED FORMS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
REVENUE. 
          BUT YOU KNOW, THIS JUST KIND OF GIVES THE BOTTOM LINE ON THIS ROLLBACK RATE IS NOW 1.2072
AND IS ALSO THE, THE MAJORITY VOTE MAXIMUM MILLAGE ALLOWED. THAT MEANS ANY RATE ABOVE 1.2072 WOULD REQUIRE
AT LEAST FIVE OF SEVEN VOTES, AND SO ANY RATE ABOVE 1.072 UP TO 1.3279 CAN BE APPROVED WITH A TWO THIRDS VOTE, WHICH, YOU KNOW, WITH A SEVEN MEMBER COUNCIL WOULD BE THE FIVE OF SEVEN VOTES. 
          AND THAT SNIPPET BELOW KIND OF SHOWS THE THE MATH THAT GOES INTO ALL THIS. 
          NOW, THIS IS A KIND OF A, JUST A FORESHADOWING. 
          AT THE END OF THE PRESENTATION, AFTER WE'VE UNPACKED THE PROPOSED BUDGET,
THERE WILL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR POLICE AND FIRE TO DISCUSS THEIR REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL 
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PUBLIC SAFETY ENHANCEMENTS. AND THIS IS ONE OF THE SLIDES THAT YOU'LL BE SEEING AT THE
END. 
          AND THIS IS A SLIDE FOR FIRE RESCUE THAT YOU WOULD BE SEEING AT THE END,
AND THAT THEY'LL EXPLAIN THOSE REQUESTS AT THAT TIME. 
          ALL RIGHT. NOW FURTHER RECAPPING, IN JUNE, THE PRELIMINARY DATA HAD SHOWED A 1.41%
INCREASE IN TAXABLE VALUES. 
          AND NOW THE CERTIFIED VALUES SHOW AN INCREASE OF A MUCH HIGHER LEVEL AT 4.37% FOR A
GENERAL FUND. 
          ADDITIONALLY SB FOUR F, WHICH WE HAD TOUCHED ON A LITTLE BIT DURING THE MAX MILLAGE
DISCUSSION, WAS ULTIMATELY APPROVED BY THE GOVERNOR. AND THAT REMOVED THE ADJUSTMENT FOR PER CAPITA
INCOME FROM THE MAX MILLAGE LEVY CALCULATION. 
          THAT'S WHY THE ROLLBACK RATE ITSELF IS THE NEW MAXIMUM THAT CAN BE APPROVED AT A SIMPLE
MAJORITY VOTE. 
          TELL ME AGAIN ABOUT SENATE BILL F474F4F. YEAH. 
          AND JUST I'LL JUST GO BACK A COUPLE SLIDES TO EXPLAIN. 
          BUT YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THIS SLIDE. RIGHT NOW IN THIS MATH,
IT SAYS 1.2072 IS THE CURRENT YEAR ROLLBACK RATE AND RIGHT GOING RIGHT INTO THE NEXT LINE. 
          IT SAYS MAJORITY VOTE, MAXIMUM MILLAGE RATE ALLOWED. PREVIOUSLY,
THERE WAS AN EXTRA LINE BEFORE YOU GOT TO THIS LINE IN THE CALCULATION. 
          THAT WAS AN ADJUSTMENT FOR PER CAPITA INCOME INCREASES STATEWIDE. 
          AND SO THAT BASICALLY MEANT BECAUSE INCOMES HAVE RISEN BY SUCH AND SUCH PERCENT,
THAT'S THE NEW MAJORITY VOTE MAXIMUM MILLAGE. 
          THAT PART WAS WHAT WAS TAKEN OFF AS PART OF THE FOUR F. 
          ALL RIGHT. NOW THIS SLIDE HERE MILLAGE RATE SCENARIOS. 
          THIS WAS ANOTHER ATTACHMENT INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET FOR TODAY. 
          AND SO YOU CAN SEE IN THE COLUMNS ABOVE THAT WE'RE SHOWING SCENARIOS RANGING FROM 1 TO 0
SEVEN TWO, WHICH WAS THAT ROLLBACK RATE ALL THE WAY UP TO 1.29. 
          THE MAXIMUM MILLAGE RATE. AND TOWARDS THE BOTTOM BOTTOM OF THIS SLIDE AFTER YOU GET TO ALL
THE CALCULATIONS THAT ALSO FACTOR IN HOW CRA FACTORS INTO EVERYTHING YOU GET AT THE VERY BOTTOM HERE AND IN YELLOW YOU CAN SEE THAT THE ROLLBACK
RATE WOULD BRING IN $874,000 LESS REVENUE TO THE GENERAL FUND THAN THE PROPOSED 1.23 RATE. 
          AND THEN EACH 0.01 MILLAGE WOULD BRING IN AN ADDITIONAL $383,000 TO THE GENERAL FUND. 
          AND 1.29 REPRESENTS THAT $2.3 MILLION FIGURE THAT DESCRIBED EARLIER. 
          AND THAT'S CIRCLED IN RED ON THIS SLIDE. ALL RIGHT. 
          HERE WE CAN SEE A COMPARISON FOR HOME VALUES. 
          SO YOU TAKE LIKE A SINGLE SINGLE FAMILY HOME VALUED AT $1 MILLION,
$3 MILLION OR $5 MILLION. 
          AND WHAT THIS TABLE IS SHOWING IS WHAT THE DIFFERENCE WOULD BE IN TERMS OF AN ANNUAL TAX
BILL BETWEEN 1.23 AND THE ROLLBACK RATE OF 1.2072 AND THEN UP TO 1.29 AT THAT MAX LEVEL. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE FOR A HOME WITH TAXABLE VALUE OF $1 MILLION,
IT WOULD BE A SAVINGS OF $23 PER YEAR AT THE ROLLBACK RATE. 
          AND IT WOULD BE AN INCREASE TO THEIR ANNUAL TAX BILL AT SIX OF $60 TO GO FROM 1.23 TO
1.29. 
          AND JUST, YOU KNOW, WANT TO MAKE MENTION THAT THE REASON THIS TABLE VARIES A BIT FROM
PREVIOUS PRESENTATION WE GAVE IN JUNE FOR MAX MILLAGE IS BECAUSE WHEN THOSE VALUES CAME OUT CERTIFIED AT THE END OF JUNE
THEY DID, THAT DID IMPACT THE CALCULATION OF ROLLBACK RATE. 
          SO NOW IT'S GONE FROM 1.2361 DOWN TO THE 1.2072,
WHICH IS WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS BUDGET. 
          RESILIENCY FUNDING AND FINANCING IS GOING TO REMAIN A KEY FINANCIAL TOPIC FOR ALL
GOVERNMENTAL AND PROPRIETARY FUNDS. 
          IT'S JUST A STATEMENT WE FELT WAS IMPORTANT TO MAKE. JUST REMEMBERING WHY IT IS THAT YOU
SEE CAPITAL EXPENSES GOING UP EACH YEAR, AND WHAT THE FOCUS IS GOING TO CONTINUE TO, TO BE OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEAR TIME HORIZON,
AS SHOWN IN THAT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN. 
          ADDITIONAL DEBT ISSUANCE IS ANTICIPATED. AND WE ACTUALLY ARE IN THE CLOSING STEPS OF
COMPLETING THE BEACH OUTFALL FINANCING $27 MILLION ROUGHLY AMOUNT. WE'LL BE DISCUSSING THAT FURTHER ON WEDNESDAY
SEEKING AUTHORIZATION FROM CITY COUNCIL. 
          BUT ADDITIONALLY WE'RE LOOKING AT FURTHER FINANCING NEEDS CAPTURED IN THE CIP,
DEPENDING ON THE TIMING OF WHEN PROJECTS BECOME READY TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION. WE SHOWED IN THE CIP TWO TRANCHES OF $50 MILLION EACH OVER THE NEXT FIVE
YEARS FOR STORMWATER SPECIFICALLY. 
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BUT, YOU KNOW, WATER SEWER ALSO HAS NEEDS, MANY OF WHICH ARE RELATED TO THE STORMWATER
PROJECTS AND THE AMBITIOUS SCHEDULE AHEAD. 
          THERE WILL BE A RATE STUDY AS WELL PROPOSED AND DISCUSSED TODAY. 
          LATER IN THIS PRESENTATION WITH PUBLIC WORKS WHEN WE GET TO THEIR DEPARTMENT. 
          AND THIS SLIDE HERE JUST SHOWS AN OVERVIEW OF THE PRESENTATION ORDER YOU CAN SEE. 
          AND WITH THAT I WILL TURN IT OVER TO PUBLIC WORKS UNLESS THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS AT THIS
TIME. 
          YES SIR. QUESTIONS OR REQUEST. THANKS FOR ALL THIS GOOD INFORMATION. 
          I HAVE A SUGGESTION FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING TO ADD A SLIDE THAT TALKS ABOUT THE IMPACT OF
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT THREE IF IT PASSES WITH THE INCREASE IN HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION. SO PEOPLE ARE INFORMED ON WHAT THE POTENTIAL IMPACT IS. 
          AND WHILE IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY AFFECT THE CURRENT YEAR'S BUDGET,
IT WOULD, IF IT PASSES, WOULD AFFECT FUTURE YEARS. SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR PEOPLE TO KNOW THE IMPACT,
BUT ALSO KNOW WHETHER OR NOT IT AFFECTS THE YEAR THAT WE'LL BE VOTING ON AT THAT TIME. 
          ABSOLUTELY. I KNOW THERE WERE SOME CALCULATIONS THAT WERE PERFORMED ALREADY BY THE
PROPERTY APPRAISER'S OFFICE, AND WE CAN SHARE WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF IMPACTS TO THE CITY. 
          OKAY. THANKS. AND I JUST AS FAR AS REVENUE DETAIL MAYBE THIS IS FOR YOU,
MR. YOUNG, ON OUR FRANCHISE FEES, THOSE AGREEMENTS DO. 
          YOU DON'T HAVE TO GIVE IT TO ME NOW, BUT WHEN THOSE FRANCHISE FEE AGREEMENTS ARE COMING UP
FOR RENEWAL. 
          SURE. I CAN GET ALL OF THOSE IN ONE SPREADSHEET AND THEN AND THEN SO THAT WE KNOW WHETHER
THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE CAN NEGOTIATE OR HOW JUST LIKE THE FEES FOR THAT WE USE FOR PAVING OUR STREETS. THAT WOULD BE AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT. 
          CORRECT. CAN YOU. CLARIFY THAT? I THINK YOU'RE REFERENCING THE IMPACT FEES,
BUT THE IMPACT FEES. 
          YEAH. THE IMPACT FEES IS FOR CAPACITY INCREASES. 
          IT'S NOT JUST FOR IT'S NOT FOR REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OF EXISTING. 
          SO IF YOU'RE SPEAKING OF THAT 200,000, THAT,
THAT WOULD BE A, THAT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN OTHER FRANCHISE FEES. 
          IMPACT FEES ARE ESTABLISHED BY INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY. 
          SO WOULD BE TO HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT, THAT AGREEMENT. 
          BUT YEAH, IT GOES BACK TO IN MY, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE,
I, I LOOK AT IT OUR COOPERATION ON THE I DON'T WANT TO SAY THIS THE RIGHT WAY. ON THE $0.01 SALES TAX AND OTHER THINGS IS
ACTUALLY MORE BENEFICIAL THAN THE IMPACT FEES ON ROADS BECAUSE WE DON'T INCREASE CAPACITY THAT MUCH. WE'RE IN THE SENSE IS BECAUSE YOU CAN HAVE IT SITTING THERE AND THEN YOU DON'T
HAVE THE MEANS TO USE IT FOR THE PURPOSES THAT'S DEFINED. 
          SO I WOULD LOOK AT OTHER AREAS OTHER THAN THAT ONE TO GET ADDITIONAL FUNDS FROM THE
COUNTY. 
          IF IT WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION JUST BECAUSE OF THAT. 
          ONE CAVEAT IS WE DON'T EXPAND CAPACITY. WE'RE NOT WIDENING ROADS,
PUTTING IN NEW NEIGHBORHOODS AND THINGS LIKE THAT VERY OFTEN. 
          THAT'S WHY IT'S BEEN LIMITED. I JUST POINT THAT FACT OUT. 
          YES. AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED THE BENEFIT OF THIS. 
          BUT THE OTHER ONES WE DO HAVE I'M SORRY, I DIDN'T MEAN BUT BUT AS FAR AS TO YOUR POINT,
WE HAVE FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS AS IT PERTAINS TO UTILITIES. 
          WE HAVE IT FOR NATURAL GAS. I MEAN, THERE ARE ALL WE HAVE A LOT OF FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS
THAT THAT GENERATES REVENUE. 
          AND I'LL GET YOU THAT LIST WITH THE DATES OF. 
          BUT YOU WERE GOING WHERE I WAS ULTIMATELY GOING TO GO,
AND THAT WAS THAT. 
          COUNCIL HAS A BETTER UNDERSTANDING, AND WE HAVE A WORKSHOP ON THOSE IMPACT FEES OR THE
$0.01 TAX THAT YOU THANK YOU REPEATEDLY ARE HOPING TO HAVE THE COUNTY ESTABLISH OR REESTABLISH,
I GUESS. 
          YEAH, I THINK THEY'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS. THEY'RE GOING FOR TDC FUNDS THIS YEAR. 
          AND IT'S IN TERMS OF IT'S THE ELECTION IN NOVEMBER. 
          AND THAT NEEDS TO INCLUDE, YOU KNOW, SOME RECREATION,
SOME OTHER FACILITIES THEY HAVE BUT INCLUDED STORMWATER. 
          BUT THERE IS A THERE IS AN ASK FOR MARCO ISLAND IN PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS WITH THE COUNTY
MANAGER INDICATE THEY MAY BE GOING FOR JUST A GENERAL INFRASTRUCTURE SURTAX THIS NEXT NOVEMBER. AND I THINK IT WOULD BE IN OUR OUR INTEREST TO SUPPORT THAT. 
          I YOU KNOW, FROM A STANDPOINT OF LAST TIME THIS WAS DONE,
IT GENERATED AROUND $23 MILLION WITH INTEREST. 
          WE'RE PROBABLY AROUND 26 MILLION BASED ON OUR THE TIMING OF OUR SPEND. 
          AND WE PUT 13 MILLION OF THAT TO THE OUTFALL PROJECT. 
          WE DID A NUMBER OF OUR MAST ARM SPAN WIRE TO MAST ARM CONVERSIONS OUT OF THERE. 
          WE'RE GOING TO DO THE CREIGHTON TO HARBOR CREIGHTON HARBOR ROUNDABOUT TO THERE. 
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AND WITH US HAVING AN UPCOMING SIGNIFICANT CAPITAL INVESTMENT ON THE FIRE STATION AND
POLICE RENOVATIONS, ETC.. I JUST THINK IT'S IT'S A ONE PLACE WHERE YOU CAN GET GOVERNMENTAL EXPENSE ASSISTANCE
WITH SIGNIFICANT CAPITAL INFRASTRUCTURE. 
          SO THAT'S WHY I SUPPORT THAT AND RECOMMEND THAT AS A PLACE TO LOOK WITH THE COUNTY AT,
WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT MY GOAL WAS AND THAT WE HAVE A WORKSHOP ON THAT. 
          BEFORE WE GO TO ANY TYPE OF JOINT MEETING WITH THE COUNTY. 
          YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND WE'RE MOVING NOW, MR. YOUNG, TO MOVING TO THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT AND AND DOCTOR
GIORGIO MEZA. 
          GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. LET'S GET SET UP HERE. 
          OKAY. BEN COPELAND, PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. WE'RE GOING TO BE COVERING THE PUBLIC WORKS
BUDGETS TODAY. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT AND MOST OF YOU ALL ARE AWARE OF THIS,
PUBLIC WORKS COMPRISES OF FIVE FUNDS WITHIN THE ADOPTED BUDGET OR PROPOSED BUDGET, I SHOULD SAY. THE STREETS FUND, THE SOLID WASTE STORMWATER EQUIPMENT SERVICES AND WATER
SEWER. 
          AND IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING FOR NEXT YEAR,
THOSE TOTAL $104 MILLION. 
          THAT NUMBER IS NOT PUBLISHED WITHIN YOUR BUDGET DOCUMENT,
BUT IT GIVES YOU A SENSE OF MAGNITUDE OF WHAT PUBLIC WORKS REPRESENTS. IF YOU COMPARE THAT TO THE CURRENT YEAR, THE CURRENT YEAR ADOPTED BUDGET FOR 2526 IS RIGHT AT 91 MILLION. 
          THAT'S ABOUT A $13 MILLION INCREASE WHEN YOU COMPARE THE TWO BUDGETS. 
          AND AS YOU ARE AWARE ALMOST 11 MILLION OF THAT INCREASE IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE STORMWATER
CAPITAL THAT WAS PRESENTED TO YOU ALL BACK IN MAY. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT STAFFING, WE'RE NOT PROPOSING ANY NEW FTES FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          AS STEFAN MAY HAVE ALLUDED TO, BUT EARLIER THIS YEAR,
AS WE CONTINUE TO BAKE OUT THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, WE ARE REPURPOSING POSITIONS. AND SO FAR THIS YEAR,
WE'VE REPURPOSED TEN POSITIONS, WITH THE PRIMARY FOCUS BEING ON THE STORMWATER FUND, WHICH IS REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE RELATED, WITH SOME EMPHASIS ON WITH SOME EMPHASIS ON THE
STREETS FUND. 
          IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT AS WE CONTINUE TO BAKE THIS OUT,
THE UPCOMING YEARS ARE SUSPECTED TO HAVE FTE REQUESTS TO BACKFILL SOME OF THOSE POSITIONS THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY USING FOR THE REPURPOSING INITIATIVE. 
          I'M GOING TO START OUT WITH THE STREETS FUND. STREETS FUND STARTS ON PAGE 171. 
          I'M JUST GOING TO GIVE A BRIEF SUMMARY OF EACH FUND,
THE NOTABLE INCREASES, AND THEN IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE'LL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT FUND. 
          TOTAL DEPARTMENT EXPENSES FOR NEXT YEAR TOTALED JUST OVER $5.5 MILLION. 
          THAT'S ABOUT A $426,000 DECREASE FROM THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          AND I WILL REMIND YOU, THAT'S PRIMARILY ATTRIBUTED TO CAPITAL. WE HAD $1.45 MILLION
BUDGETED FOR AN INTERSECTION SIGNAL IMPROVEMENT DOWN ON GORDON AND BROAD. 
          IN ADDITION TO A $300,000 INITIATIVE FOR AN ALLEYWAY IMPROVEMENT JUST NORTH OF CENTRAL. 
          PROJECTED REVENUES ARE JUST AT $4.4 MILLION. IT'S ABOUT A HALF $1 MILLION INCREASE OR
DECREASE. 
          I'M SORRY. THE 2627 BUDGET INCLUDES $545,000 IN CAPITAL FUNDING,
$465,000 YOU'VE SEEN BACK IN MAY AS PART OF THE CIP PLAN. AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER 80,000 THAT'S EMBEDDED IN THE OPERATING
BUDGETS SPECIFIC TO TRAFFIC COUNTERS. 
          THE BUDGET DOES INCLUDE $1.5 MILLION IN RESURFACING,
ROAD RESURFACING FDOT FUNDED PROJECTS TOTAL JUST OVER $360,000. 
          THAT'S THE REIMBURSEMENTS WE RECEIVE FOR THE SIGNAL SYSTEMS AND STREETLIGHTS ALONG US 41. 
          AND THEN AGAIN, THERE'S 11.75 POSITIONS BUDGETED,
WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF THREE BASED ON THE REPURPOSING INITIATIVES. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES WITHIN THE STREETS FUND ON PAGE 178,
THEY TOTALED JUST OVER $3.3 MILLION. 
          THAT'S A $272,000 INCREASE COMPARISON COMPARED TO THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          PERSONNEL SERVICES. I HAVE AN ASTERISK NEXT TO THAT BECAUSE PERSONNEL SERVICES IS NOT
INCLUDED AS PART OF THE OPERATING EXPENSES. IF YOU'RE REFERRING TO THAT PAGE OF YOUR BUDGET DOCUMENT. BUT THEY ARE INCREASING JUST OVER $400,000 IN COMPARISON TO THE CURRENT
YEAR. 
          AND AGAIN, THAT'S ATTRIBUTED TO THE THREE ADDED POSITIONS THROUGH THE REPURPOSING
INITIATIVE. 
          CITY ADMINISTRATION FEE IS INCREASING BY ABOUT $17,000. 
          PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IS INCREASING BY ABOUT $16,000,
AND THAT HAS TO DO WITH TEMPORARY LABOR TO FILL IN VACANCIES DURING STAFF TURNOVER, IN ADDITION TO A MINOR INCREASE ASSOCIATED WITH THE MAX VIEW SOFTWARE THAT IS USED WITHIN
THE TRAFFIC OPS CENTER. 
          ROAD RESURFACING APPEARS TO BE INCREASING BY $500,000,
BUT AGAIN, THAT'S A TECHNICALITY. 
          IF YOU RECALL, LAST YEAR, THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS STAFF WAS PROPOSING $1 MILLION IN
RESURFACING. 
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CITY COUNCIL PROVIDED CONSENSUS TO INCREASE THAT TO 1.5 MILLION. 
          THE BUDGET WAS ADOPTED, AND THAT CHANGE WAS MADE AFTER THE ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET. 
          SO IT DOES SHOW AN INCREASE, EVEN THOUGH CITY COUNCIL WAS AWARE OF THE INCREASE PRIOR TO
THAT. 
          TECH SERVICES IS INCREASING JUST OVER $15,000. 
          AND AGAIN, MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT IS INCREASING BY $20,000,
WHICH IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE TRAFFIC COUNTERS THAT I REFERENCED. 
          SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE SNAPSHOT ON HOW EVERYTHING SHAKES OUT BY THE END OF NEXT FISCAL
YEAR, THE STREETS FUND IS ACTUALLY DECREASING BY $426,000,
OR 7.1% IN COMPARISON TO THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          ANY QUESTIONS ON STREETS FUND? YES, VICE MAYOR. 
          THANK YOU. SO LOOKING FORWARD, THERE'S I JUST HAVE A CONCERN WHEN WE HAVE SO MANY STREETS
THAT NEED TO BE REPAVED, BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY AND THE OUTWARD PROJECTIONS TO KEEP UP THE LEVEL OF EFFORT
THAT'S NEEDED. 
          SO WE NEED TO FIND REVENUE, OBVIOUSLY, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO
LEGISLATIVELY. 
          LET'S SEE ABOUT INCREASING THE OR HAVING A CITY ONLY GAS TAX,
OR IF WE HAVE TO WORK WITH THE COUNTY ON ON THAT. 
          I'M SURE THE COUNTY HAS A SIMILAR ISSUE BECAUSE THEY HAVE LOTS OF ROADS THEY NEED TO BUILD
AND MAINTAIN AS WELL. 
          BUT WE NEED A LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE REVENUE SOURCE TO TAKE CARE OF. 
          OUR ROADS ARE JUST WE'RE NOT KEEPING UP IT SEEMS. YEAH. AND THERE'S TWO COUPLE POINTS ON THAT. ACTUALLY THE LAST THREE YEARS WE'VE DONE VERY
WELL IN PRIOR TO THE LAST THREE YEARS, THERE WAS 750,000 A YEAR THAT WAS BEING BUDGETED. 
          WE'VE UPPED THAT. THAT'S WHY I MEAN, BETWEEN THAT AND THEN THE PERSONNEL,
WHERE WE WERE STILL HAVING SIGNS AND OTHER THINGS FROM HURRICANE IAN THAT HADN'T BEEN DONE. SO THAT'S WHY WE BOLSTERED THE PERSONNEL THERE. 
          SO YEAH, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK FOR LONG TERM. 
          I DON'T BELIEVE ACTUALLY ME AND STEFAN RESEARCHED THIS. 
          AND WHEN YOU WHEN YOU HAVE A A COUNTY LOCAL TAX,
YOU CANNOT HAVE A MUNICIPALITY HAVE ITS OWN. 
          SO THAT'S WHY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT HEADWINDS AND THE STREET FUND HAS NEVER BEEN
SELF-SUSTAINING. 
          AND I'LL REMIND YOU COMMUNICATION TAX WISE, IT USED TO GET $900,000. 
          NOW IT'S GETTING 2.5 MILLION. WE'VE ALREADY PEELED OFF 1,000,006 A YEAR IN REVENUE. 
          THE ONLY OTHER PLACE YOU CAN GO TO GET IS TO TAKE THE REMAINING 890,000. 
          THAT'S OFF TOP OF MY HEAD, AND I'LL LOOK IN A MOMENT TO MAKE SURE I'M PRETTY CLOSE,
IS THE AMOUNT THAT GOES TO THE PUBLIC SERVICE TAX AND COMMUNICATION. 
          SO YOU ONLY HAVE ABOUT 890 TO GO BEFORE YOU'RE COMPLETELY OUT OF IT. 
          SO YEAH, WE DO HAVE TO LOOK FOR ANOTHER REVENUE STREAM AND OR IT'S GOING TO BE THAT YOUR
VILLAGE HAS TO BE SUFFICIENT. 
          ALSO SUBSIDIZE YOUR STREET DEPARTMENT BECAUSE OSTENSIBLY YOU'VE DONE THAT ANYWAY BY
PEELING OFF 1,000,006 YOU WOULD OTHERWISE HAVE IN A GENERAL FUND IN YEARS PAST. 
          YEAH, I LIKE THE IDEA OF A USER FEE, BECAUSE A LOT OF THE DAMAGE BEING DONE TO OUR ROADS
IS NOT FROM RESIDENTS, IT'S FROM VISITORS, TOURISTS, IT'S FROM THE BUILDERS AND PEOPLE COMING IN TO WORK ON
CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. 
          AND IF THEY'RE PURCHASING TAX THEN PURCHASING GAS IN THE COUNTY,
THEN THEY'LL BE PAYING TAX TO HELP SUPPORT THE ROADS THAT THEY'RE USING. 
          SO I WOULD SUGGEST WE PARTNER WITH THE COUNTY TO ASK OUR LEGISLATIVE DELEGATION TO APPROVE
A GAS TAX INCREASE THAT BENEFITS THE COUNTY AND US, AND TRY TO MAKE THAT A PRIORITY FOR THIS
LEGISLATIVE SESSION, IF POSSIBLE. IF THE COUNTY'S AGREEABLE TO THAT. 
          AND I THINK WE'D HAVE TO ACT PRETTY QUICK, BECAUSE I THINK THEY'LL START COMMITTEE
HEARINGS AND STUFF. 
          SO WE NEED TO EDUCATE IF THE COUNTY AGREES WITH US AND IF WE AGREE TO START EDUCATING OUR
LEGISLATORS ON WHY WE NEED THAT AND SEE IF WE CAN GET THAT, I CAN DO THAT. AND AND THEN IN ADDITION, REVISIT THE LEGAL PART IF THERE'S ANYTHING
INDEPENDENTLY WE CAN DO. 
          RIGHT. THANK YOU. AND IS ANYONE OPPOSED TO THAT? OKAY, GOOD. THEN WE HAVE A CONSENSUS THAT WE WOULD MAKE THAT A LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY. 
          I DO THOUGH, THE QUESTION IS, IS WHAT YOU SAID,
MR. YOUNG, THAT THE BECAUSE THE COUNTY HAS A TAX,
WE CAN'T HAVE A SEPARATE TAX. 
          SO WHAT? THE LOCAL TAXES ARE RESTRICTED CERTAIN PLACES. 
          YOU CAN'T HAVE DUPLICATION OF IT. AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S AN APPORTIONMENT SHARE THAT COMES
BACK TO US IN THE REVENUE FROM THE COUNTY. 
          ON THE FIFTH AND SIXTH CENT I BELIEVE IS THE OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. 
          AND THEN THAT IS ALSO THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT LEAD TO THAT. 
          IT'S, IT'S BASED ON LANE MILES, BUT IT'S ALSO BASED ON HISTORICAL SPEND. 
          IT'S A FIVE YEAR ROLLING AVERAGE. AND SO WHEN WE,
IF YOU LOOK IN THE BUDGET, OUR REVENUES ARE PROJECTED TO BE DOWN, BUT NOT ENTIRELY BECAUSE THAT WE WERE SPENDING 750 000 A YEAR IN THE PREVIOUS FIVE YEARS. 
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BUT IT'S ALSO BECAUSE OF THE MORE LANE MILES THAT THE COUNTY GET AND THE UNINCORPORATED,
THEN IT GOES INTO THE OVERALL FORMULA. 
          SO IT'S TWOFOLD. ONE, WHEN YOU'RE NOT SPENDING THE MONEY THAT WHEN I SAY NOT SPENDING THE
MONEY, WE SPEND WELL MORE THAN THE COUNTY SENDS US. LET ME BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT THAT. 
          BUT WHEN YOU'RE DOING A FIVE YEAR AVERAGE AND YOU'RE NOT SPENDING,
YOU'RE NOT KEEPING PACE WITH THE INCREASES. 
          I'M JUST SAYING THIS YEAR'S FIVE YEAR, THIS NEXT FIVE YEAR ROLLING AVERAGE WHEN YOU'RE
SPENDING 700 000 A YEAR VERSUS 1,000,005 WILL BE MUCH DIFFERENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF THE SHARE COMING BACK. SO IT'S NOT GOING TO RETURN AS THE COUNTY CONTINUES TO GROW TO FROM A
MALE PERSPECTIVE AND THE TOTAL DISTRIBUTION. 
          BUT IF WE'RE DEMONSTRATING, WE'RE SHOWING THE COMMITMENT AS WE ARE IN THE PAVING,
THEN THE EXPENDITURES WILL ULTIMATELY REFLECT IN THE SUM INCREASE COMING BACK. 
          BUT IT'S PROPORTIONAL. SO AND I'LL JUST PUT IT IN MY TERMS,
DON'T BE A COUNCIL IN THE FUTURE THAT SAYS, OH, IT'S OKAY, WE WON'T PAVE OUR STREETS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST. 
          AND NOW WE ARE FACED. AND THANK YOU, MR. YOUNG,
FOR YOU KNOW, PUTTING ATTENTION TO THIS AND FINDING THE MONEY FOR US TO BE ABLE TO PAVE OUR STREETS BECAUSE OUR STREETS ARE IN BAD SHAPE. 
          I MEAN, OUR BASIC STREETS, MAIN STREETS, BUT OUR SIDE STREETS ARE IN SERIOUS NEED OF
ATTENTION. 
          SO JUST WORDS TO THE WISE. PLEASE DON'T CUT. MAKE SURE WE'RE ALWAYS PAVING AS MUCH AS WE
POSSIBLY CAN. 
          IT'S A NEED. IF IT. IF IT WEREN'T, I UNDERSTAND. 
          BUT WE. WE HAD A NEED AND WE. WE IGNORED IT. SO THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT. SO DO WE NEED TO WE CAN HAVE THAT DISCUSSION DURING I THINK I HAVE I
MEAN, FIRST OF ALL, I AGREE WITH HAVING THE PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS WITH THE COUNTY MANAGER AND
WHAT THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT IT, ETC. AS FAR AS RESEARCHING TO AFFIRM WHAT I HAD SAID,
TO MAKE SURE LEGALLY THERE'S NO ITEM WE CAN DO ON OUR OWN, AND THEN TRYING TO GET THE COUNTY, WHEN I SPEAK WITH AMY IS TO TO TALK TO HER ABOUT WHAT
THEIR INITIATIVES MAY BE IN HOPES OF BOLSTERING THAT BECAUSE, AS YOU SAID, I'M SURE THEY HAVE THE SAME ISSUES WE HAVE WITH REGARDS TO THAT. 
          SO I DON'T NEED A CONSENSUS DIRECTION. I WILL,
I WILL I THINK IT'S THEY'RE VERY PRUDENT POINTS, AND I WILL TAKE THOSE INITIATIVES UP BASED ON JUST THE SHEER INTELLIGENCE OF THE MATTER. 
          IS THAT A IS THAT A FAIR STATEMENT? ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU FOR THAT. OKAY. SORRY FOR THE INTERRUPTION. 
          CONTINUE. THANK YOU. MOVE ON. WATER SEWER FUND,
PAGE 185 OF YOUR BUDGET DOCUMENTS. 
          TOTAL DEPARTMENT EXPENSES ARE JUST OVER $54 MILLION. 
          AND THE WATER SEWER FUND FOR NEXT YEAR, THAT'S ABOUT A HALF $1 MILLION INCREASE IN
COMPARISON TO THE CURRENT YEAR, WHICH IS PRIMARILY ATTRIBUTED TO THE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE. 
          PROJECTED WATER REVENUE IS AT JUST OVER 2027 POINT,
I'M SORRY, 25.7 MILLION FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          THAT'S A $3.6 MILLION INCREASE. SEWER REVENUES ARE AT $20.7 MILLION. 
          THAT'S ALMOST A $1.9 MILLION INCREASE. AND THAT'S THAT'S DUE TO A REALIGNMENT OF THE
REVENUES THAT STEFAN REFERRED TO EARLIER ON. 
          THE CPI RATE FOR WATER SEWER RATES IS PROJECTED TO INCREASE BY 3.8%. 
          THAT WAS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL IN JUNE. THE CAPITAL BUDGET INCLUDES 8.1,
$18.86 MILLION IN CAPITAL FUNDING. 
          18.52 WAS PRESENTED TO YOU BACK IN MAY. AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER 346,000 THAT'S EMBEDDED
WITHIN THE OPERATING BUDGETS ASSOCIATED WITH CAPITAL OUTLAY. 
          AND THEN WHEN YOU REFER TO THE POSITIONS, THE TOTAL FTES IN THE WATER SEWER FUND,
IT IS REDUCING BY 5 TO 108.75 AS A RESULT OF THAT REPURPOSING INITIATIVE. 
          PAGE 196 OF YOUR BUDGET DOCUMENT. THE DEPARTMENT SUMMARY. 
          THIS INCLUDES ALL SEVEN DIVISIONS. TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES IS JUST OVER $21.6 MILLION. 
          THAT'S A 1.4% INCREASE IN COMPARISON TO THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          NOTABLE INCREASES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE PERSONNEL SERVICES OF $119,000. 
          CITY ADMINISTRATION IS INCREASING BY $147,000. 
          PROFESSIONAL SERVICES IS INCREASING BY $50,000. 
          THAT'S ATTRIBUTED TO SCADA REPAIR AND PROGRAMING FOR THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT. 
          AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE, WE'VE PRESENTED THE CAPITAL BUDGETS IN THE PAST AND THERE IS A
CHLORINE BLEACH, CHLORINE GAS TO BLEACH CONVERSION. 
          THAT INITIATIVE WILL REQUIRE REPROGRAMING OF THE SCADA SYSTEMS TO ACCOMMODATE THAT
CHEMICAL CHANGE. 
          OTHER CONTRACTUAL SERVICES IS INCREASING JUST OVER $445,000. 
          THE TWO NOTABLE INCREASES WITHIN THAT SPECIFIC LINE ITEM IS $175,000 FOR AN ASSET
MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE. 
          I WILL TELL YOU, WE HAVE BUDGETED $290,000 ACROSS THE ENTIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          175 COMING FROM THE WATER SEWER FUND, $75,000 COMING FROM THE STORMWATER FUND,
AND $40,000 COMING FROM THE SOLID WASTE FUND. 
          AND WHAT THIS INITIATIVE IS, IS TO INTEGRATE ITS GIS DRIVEN. 
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BUT IT'S TO INTEGRATE THE GIS, THE SCADA SYSTEMS,
THE THE FINANCIAL SYSTEMS PROCUREMENT TO COME UP WITH A CENTRALIZED SINGLE SOURCE FOR MONITORING OUR ASSETS. AND THAT'S ANYTHING FROM REMOTE PUMP STATIONS,
PIPES, VALVES, GARBAGE CONTAINERS. 
          WE NEED TO BRING ALL THAT THROUGH UNDER ONE UMBRELLA. 
          THE SECOND, CAN I EXPAND ON THAT? SO JUST TO BE CLEAR ON YOUR CURRENT MUNIS SYSTEM,
YOU HAVE NORMAL ASSETS AND DEPRECIATION. 
          THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HAVING G. 
          I S PLATFORMS THAT YOU CAN CLICK ON YOUR UNDERGROUND PIPE AND KNOW ITS AGE,
HOW MUCH YOU'VE PUT INTO IT RECENTLY WHEN YOU EXPECT TO HAVE THOSE THAT ROADWAY NEEDING INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS,
ETC.. 
          THIS IS A MUCH MORE SOPHISTICATED AND INTEGRATED SYSTEM THAN JUST SIMPLY TAGGING ASSETS. 
          THIS IS TO KEEP THE UNDERGROUND INFRASTRUCTURE AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU HAVE OPERATIONALLY
FUNCTIONING FOR THE STORMWATER AND WATER, SEWER AND OTHER DIVISIONS TO HAVE THEM IN THE GIS BASED SYSTEM THAT YOU CAN CLICK ON AND
KNOW WHAT STATUS. 
          I HOPE I SUMMARIZED THAT WELL. SPOT ON. GOING BACK TO THAT OTHER CONTRACTUAL SERVICES LINE
ITEM, THERE IS AN INCREASE FOR TEMP LABOR OF $25,000 TO ACCOUNT FOR VACANCIES WITHIN THE
ADMINISTRATION DIVISION. 
          THE OTHER LARGER INITIATIVE WITHIN THAT LINE ITEM IS A $200,000 INCREASE FOR A FIRE
HYDRANT CONVEYANCE AND PREVENTATIVE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM. 
          CURRENTLY, THAT PROGRAM, THE WAY THAT'S OPERATED OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS,
IS THAT THE UTILITIES DEPARTMENT WILL HANDLE THE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE. 
          THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WILL HANDLE THE FLOW TESTING ASSOCIATED WITH THE ISO SUPPORT RATING. 
          THIS EFFORT IS TO PUT EVERYTHING UNDER ONE UMBRELLA TO,
TO PROVIDE THESE SERVICES FROM THE UTILITIES DEPARTMENT. 
          SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT CONVEYANCE IT'S NOT NECESSARILY,
IT'S AN INTERNAL SHIFT IN RESPONSIBILITY FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO THE UTILITY DEPARTMENT. ANOTHER $21,000 INCREASE WITHIN THIS LINE ITEM IS ASSOCIATED WITH A NEW SLUDGE
HAULING CONTRACT THAT BECAME EFFECTIVE THIS YEAR. 
          WE INCREASED ABOUT $4.50 PER TON $20,000 INCREASE ASSOCIATED WITH THE METER REGISTERS,
THE CELLULAR DATA THAT WE HAVE TO PAY FOR EQUIPMENT, SERVICES, FUEL. YOU ALL ARE AWARE OF WHAT FUEL PRICES HAVE DONE OVER THE LAST
YEAR. 
          THAT'S THE WATER SEWER FUNDS INCREASE IN TERMS OF $58,000 FOR FLEET FUEL. 
          EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE IS INCREASING, SPECIFICALLY ATTRIBUTED TO THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT
PLANT AND THE UTILITIES MAINTENANCE DIVISIONS. 
          JUST FOR GENERAL REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE SUPPLIES. 
          AND THEN THE LAST NOTABLE INCREASE WITHIN THE WATER SEWER FUND IS ATTRIBUTED TO A CHEMICAL
QUICKLIME FOR THE WATER PLANT. 
          WE HAD AN INCREASE AT THE BEGINNING PART OF THIS FISCAL YEAR. 
          THAT ACCOUNTS FOR ALMOST $71,000 IN QUICKLIME USE AT THE WATER TREATMENT PLANT. 
          SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT ALL THESE NOTABLE INCREASES THAT I'VE JUST OUTLINED AT THE END,
AND YOU TAKE THE SNAPSHOT OF WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING FOR NEXT YEAR, THE WATER SEWER FUND IS INCREASING IN TOTALITY BY ABOUT 1% IN COMPARISON TO THE CURRENT
YEAR. 
          IF I MIGHT. THANK YOU. POINT OF STRATEGIC VISIONARY APPROACH HERE. 
          SO THIS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST ENTERPRISE FUND THAT OUR CITY RUNS AND YOU'RE LOOKING AT
THESE INCREASES. 
          1.4% FOR OPERATIONS AND 1% FOR OVERALL WATER SEWER DISTRICT FUND INCREASE. 
          SO THAT IS NOT INDICATION OF NEAR FUTURE AND IMMEDIATE FUTURE AND INTERMEDIATE FUTURE FINANCIAL PROFILE. SO YOU WILL SEE WE WILL HAVE OUR RATE STUDY COMING BEFORE THIS COUNCIL
SCHEDULED. 
          AND RATE STUDY MOST LIKELY WILL IDENTIFY INCREASES MORE THAN ONE 1% AND 1.4%. 
          SO WE CANNOT SPEAK TO WHAT THOSE INCREASES MIGHT BE. 
          HOWEVER, TAPPING INTO OUR INTERNAL RESOURCES AND INTERNAL BRAINPOWER,
WE'RE LOOKING AT AND CONSENSUS BETWEEN OUR CITY MANAGER AND OURSELVES. STAFF WITHIN WATER SEWER DISTRICT IS THAT WE'RE
LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY 10% INCREASE FOR NEXT FOUR YEARS EVERY YEAR. THAT'S ABOUT 40% PLUS OR MINUS FOUR YEARS OUT,
10%, SO THAT THERE IS NO SIGNIFICANT RATE HIKE INCREASE TO OUR WATER SEWER CUSTOMERS. 
          AND THE REASON BEING, WHAT'S PRESENTED HERE IN TERMS OF CAPITAL PROGRAM AND OPERATIONAL IS
REPRESENTATIVE OF, AS BEN INDICATED, SNAPSHOT. NOW WHEN YOU LOOK AT FOUR SIX YEARS OUT,
THERE ARE THINGS THAT IN HOPPER 
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WE HAVE NOT HAD A CHANCE TO PRESENT TO THIS COUNCIL. 
          SO THIS IS LIKE FORESHADOWING WHAT MIGHT BE COMING BEFORE YOU AS MID-YEAR ADJUSTMENTS AND
OR OTHER YEARLY ADJUSTMENTS ARE WATER TREATMENT PLANT IN DIRE NEED OF IMPROVEMENTS ALL THE WAY FROM BATTLEFIELD TO
TREATMENT PROCESSES AND DISINFECTION PROCESSES, AS WELL AS DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM IMPROVEMENTS. 
          THAT ALONE ESTIMATE INTERNAL ESTIMATE IS ABOUT 60 TO $80 MILLION. 
          ENDEAVOR FOR NEXT EIGHT YEARS. AS FAR AS OUR WATER RECLAMATION,
WASTEWATER PLANT ENHANCEMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS, WE'RE LOOKING AT ANOTHER 40 TO $48 MILLION ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS AND IMPROVEMENTS. 
          THAT'S AGAIN FOR FUTURE OUTLOOK. SO RATE STUDY IS GOING TO INCLUDE SOME OF THOSE CAPITAL
PROGRAMS THAT HAS NOT BEEN INCORPORATED FOR ALL THE GOOD REASONS INTO THIS BUDGET PRESENTATION. SO I JUST WANT TO I JUST WANT TO STRATEGICALLY
HIGHLIGHT THAT 1% INCREASE OVERALL DEPARTMENT WIDE AND 1.4% INCREASE FOR OPERATIONS SIMPLY INDICATES OUR
FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, PRESENTING TO YOU WHAT WE KNOW,
BUT ALSO GIVING YOU A HEADS UP. 
          WHAT WE DON'T KNOW THAT WILL BE KNOWN VERY FAST SO THAT WE CAN PRESENT TO YOU THROUGH
MID-YEAR ADJUSTMENTS. 
          AND AS PART OF OUR NEXT FISCAL YEAR CYCLE, FOLLOWING NEXT NEXT FISCAL YEAR CYCLE AS A
FOLLOW UP TO RATE STUDIES. 
          SO I HOPE THAT KIND OF SHOWS FUTURE OUTLOOK FOR THE FINANCIALS DEALS WITH OUR WATER SEWER
DISTRICT THAT HAS TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF BACKLOG ALL THE WAY FROM PLANTS TO DISTRIBUTION COLLECTION. 
          WELLFIELDS GOING BACK 50 YEARS. MUCH NEEDED AND EXPECTED. 
          AND AGAIN, THIS INCREASE WILL DISCUSS THIS IN JANUARY. 
          I WOULD EXPECT THE RATE STUDY TO BE SIX MONTHS OUT. 
          SO JUST PRIOR TO YOUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT DISCUSSION,
I WOULD THINK THAT'S WHEN IT WOULD BE OKAY. 
          BECAUSE WE INTEND TO COME TO YOU, I BELIEVE SEPTEMBER 2ND OR SEPTEMBER 16TH FOR THE RATE
STUDY AWARD AND THEN BEGIN THAT WORK. 
          SO IT'S ABOUT SIX MONTHS AT THE LONGEST. SO THAT'S WHY I SAY MARCH,
APRIL OR BEFORE, DEFINITELY BEFORE THE CIP IN MAY. 
          RIGHT ANSWER. AND THAT'S MIDYEAR ADJUSTMENT. AND COLLIER COUNTY WATER SEWER DISTRICT,
WE WERE ABLE TO INITIATE FIRST INCREASE MID-YEAR BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE'RE NOT ON THE TAX ROLL,
WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO INITIATE SOME OF THE INCREASES PRIOR TO THE OCTOBER OF FOLLOWING FISCAL YEAR. HOWEVER, THAT TO BE ALL DETERMINED GIVEN THE RATE STUDY'S FINANCIAL OUTLOOK
WHERE WE STAND. 
          SO OUR CITY MANAGER IS RIGHT ON. AND AND I THINK SOME OF THAT,
TOO, WILL BE THE TIMING OF HOW FAR WE ARE IN DESIGN. 
          AND BECAUSE FROM A LIQUIDITY STANDPOINT, WE WERE EXPECTING TO STILL HAVE A FUND BALANCE OF
40 MILLION IN THIS FUND. 
          ITS IMPLEMENTATION OF RECOMMENDED RATES HAS THE ABILITY TO BE PROSPECTIVE,
WHICH WE'LL DISCUSS. 
          WE WILL BE DISCUSSING THAT AT THAT TIME BECAUSE OF THE TIMING OF GETTING THE DESIGNS AND
THESE CAPITAL EXPENDITURES READY FOR LIFT OFF, FOR LACK OF A BETTER EXPRESSION. YES, SIR. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFICATION. 
          THANK YOU. THAT BENEFITS FOR MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. 
          OKAY. FURTHER QUESTIONS? OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. 
          MOVING RIGHT ALONG. SOLID WASTE FUND, PAGE 225 OF YOUR BUDGET DOCUMENT. 
          THE SOLID WASTE FUND IS VERY CONSISTENT WITH THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          TOTAL DEPARTMENT EXPENSES ARE BUDGETED RIGHT AT $10.6 MILLION,
WHICH IS ABOUT A $278,000 INCREASE IN COMPARISON TO THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          PROJECTED REVENUES ARE ALSO JUST OVER $10.6 MILLION. 
          THAT'S ABOUT A $4,000 INCREASE IN COMPARISON TO THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          STEFAN ALLUDED TO EARLIER THAT THE CPI RATE INCREASE IS 3.8%,
WHICH IS APPLIED TO THE COLLECTION SIDE. 
          COLLIER COUNTY LANDFILL DISPOSAL INCREASES ARE ANTICIPATED AT 4.44% FOR RESIDENTIAL AND
JUST UNDER 2% FOR COMMERCIAL. 
          THERE'S JUST OVER $1 MILLION IN CAPITAL FUNDING SLATED FOR NEXT YEAR,
WHICH IS ALL ABOUT THE COLLECTION. 
          TRUCKS, PRIMARILY TWO LARGE COLLECTION TRUCKS AND STAFFING,
IS BUDGETED AT 29 POSITIONS, WHICH THERE ARE NO CHANGES IN STAFFING. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TOTAL DEPARTMENT SUMMARY,
WHICH IS ALL THE DIVISIONS WITHIN SOLID WASTE ON PAGE 232, TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES ARE JUST OVER $6.4 MILLION,
WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF ABOUT 2.7%. 
          PERSONNEL SERVICES ARE INCREASING ALMOST $200,000. 
          CITY ADMINISTRATION IS INCREASING JUST OVER $39,000. 
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COLLIER COUNTY LANDFILL IS INCREASING JUST OVER $46,000. 
          41 OF THAT IS ATTRIBUTED TO COMMERCIAL. THE OTHER FIVE IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE RESIDENTIAL. 
          OTHER CONTRACTUAL SERVICES IS INCREASING JUST OVER $81,000. 
          AGAIN, 40 OF THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE ASSET MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE THAT I PREVIOUSLY
SPOKE ABOUT. 
          AND THEN THE OTHER $47,000 IS ATTRIBUTED TO AN ANTICIPATED INCREASE IN A CONTRACT THAT'S
EXPIRING THIS NEXT YEAR FOR THE ROLL OFF COMPACTOR AND SELF-CONTAINED CONTAINER HAULING CONTRACT EQUIPMENT SERVICES FUEL IS INCREASING WITHIN
THE SOLID WASTE FUND BY $65,000. 
          TECH SERVICES IS INCREASING JUST OVER 10,000. 
          AND THE MATERIAL WE PURCHASED FOR DUMPSTERS I'M SORRY,
DUMPSTERS THAT WE PURCHASED, THAT MATERIAL IS INCREASING WHICH IS CONSTITUTING A $16,500 INCREASE. SO AGAIN, WHEN YOU TAKE THE SNAPSHOT LOOKING AT WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING NEXT YEAR
IN COMPARISON TO YOUR CURRENT YEAR, THE SOLID WASTE FUND IS INCREASING BY ABOUT 2.7%. 
          ANY QUESTIONS ON SOLID WASTE? STORMWATER FUND,
PAGE TWO. 
          49. TOTAL DEPARTMENT IT EXPENSES OUR BUDGET AT $29.7 MILLION FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          THAT'S A THAT'S JUST OVER A $12 MILLION INCREASE. 
          BUT IF YOU RECALL, 10.9, ALMOST $11 MILLION OF THE INCREASE WITHIN THIS FUND IS ASSOCIATED
WITH THE CAPITAL BUDGET. 
          PROJECTED REVENUE IS JUST OVER $34.4 MILLION. 
          THERE'S $11.2 MILLION IN THE STORMWATER FEES,
WHICH ACCOUNTS FOR THAT 25% INCREASE. 
          $22.6 MILLION IN GRANT FUNDING, WHICH IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE NAPLES BEACH OUTFALL PROJECT. 
          AGAIN, THE RATE INCREASE THAT'S APPLIED OCTOBER 1ST IS 25%,
WHICH WAS APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL BACK IN DECEMBER. 
          AND THEN AGAIN, THE CAPITAL FUNDING IS 26, $21.6 MILLION BUDGETED FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          THERE ARE 25.25 POSITIONS BUDGETED. THAT'S AN INCREASE OF THREE IN COMPARISON TO THE
CURRENT YEAR AS A RESULT OF THE REINITIATE OR THE REPURPOSING INITIATIVES. 
          TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES. PAGE 256. WITHIN THE STORMWATER AND NATURAL RESOURCES DIVISION
ARE TOTALING JUST OVER $2.2 MILLION FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          THAT'S AN INCREASE OF ABOUT $300,000, OR 15.3%. 
          PERSONNEL SERVICES ARE INCREASING $332,000. AGAIN,
THAT'S ATTRIBUTED TO THE THREE ADDED POSITIONS THAT WE'VE TRANSFERRED INTO THIS FUND TO ADDRESS REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE OTHER CONTRACTUAL SERVICES,
$75,000. 
          THAT'S THE STORMWATER PROPORTIONATE SHARE OF THE ASSET MANAGEMENT INITIATIVE EQUIPMENT
SERVICES REPAIR. 
          WE'RE ANTICIPATING THAT TO INCREASE BY 22.20 2500 DOLLARS. 
          THAT'S, AGAIN, THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH NEW, NEW VEHICLES THAT HAVE BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE
FUND. 
          FLEET FUEL IS INCREASING BY $25,000. SELF-INSURANCE IS INCREASING BY JUST OVER $14,000. 
          AND THE MOST NOTABLE ONE OF THE MOST NOTABLE IS THE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE LINE ITEM
INCREASING BY ALMOST $100,000. 
          THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH CLEANING THE THREE STORM STATIONS THAT RESIDE WITHIN OUR SYSTEM AT
THE TUNE OF ABOUT $25,000 PER QUARTER. 
          AND THEN THE FINAL NOTABLE INCREASE IS TECH SERVICES,
ALMOST AT $20,000 FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE OVERALL FUND, THE SNAPSHOT OF THE FUND,
AND YOU COMPARE IT TO THE CURRENT THE CURRENT YEAR BUDGET, THE FUND IS INCREASING AND THE PROPOSED REQUEST BY 68.1%,
OR JUST OVER $12 MILLION FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          ANY QUESTIONS ON STORM WATER? AND THIS FUND ALSO INCLUDES NATURAL RESOURCES,
CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT. AND HOW MANY POSITIONS DO WE HAVE IN NATURAL RESOURCES? I BELIEVE THERE IS FIVE FIVE POSITIONS. YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? CAN YOU REMIND US WHICH LAKE OR LAKES ARE SLATED TO BE CLEANED THIS YEAR? IT'S INCLUDED IN THE CAPITAL BUDGET. 
          YEP. LAKE SUZANNE IS BUDGETED IN NEXT YEAR'S REQUEST TO THE TUNE OF ABOUT $3.3 MILLION,
I BELIEVE. 
          GO BACK HERE. AND THEN IN YEAR THREE OF THE FIVE YEAR PLAN IS FOREST LAKE,
WHICH IS IN LAKE PARK. 
          AND THEN IN YEAR FIVE OF THE PLAN IS DEVIL'S LAKE AT $5.3 MILLION. 
          YEAR FIVE, YEAR FIVE, EVERY OTHER YEAR IS AN ANTICIPATED LAKE IMPROVEMENT. OKAY. THANK YOU. 
          EQUIPMENT, SERVICES. ASSUMING THERE'S NO MORE QUESTIONS. NO. 
          EQUIPMENT SERVICES FUND, PAGE TWO. 91. TOTAL EXPENSES BUDGETED NEXT YEAR ARE JUST OVER
$3.6 MILLION. 
          THAT'S ABOUT A HALF $1 MILLION INCREASE IN COMPARISON TO THE CURRENT YEAR. BUDGETED
REVENUES ARE ALSO JUST OVER $3.6 MILLION. 
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THE BUDGET DOES INCLUDE $150,000 IN CAPITAL FUNDING. 
          THOSE PICTURES OFF TO THE RIGHT SHOULD BE A REMINDER OF WHAT WAS PRESENTED TO YOU BACK IN
MAY, WHICH IS FOR SOME FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS IN ADDITION TO A SERVICE TRUCK REPLACEMENT. 
          AND THERE ARE NINE POSITIONS POSITIONS BUDGETED WITHIN THIS FUND,
WHICH IS A REDUCTION OF ONE AS A RESULT OF THE REPURPOSING INITIATIVES. 
          WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES,
AGAIN, THEY'RE APPROACHING $2.4 MILLION FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          THAT'S ABOUT A $498,000 INCREASE. CITY ADMINISTRATION IS INCREASING JUST OVER $13,000. 
          EQUIPMENT SERVICES FUEL, WHICH IS ATTRIBUTED TO THE FLEET VEHICLES THAT ARE OPERATED AND
MAINTAINED SPECIFICALLY WITHIN THIS DIVISION, IS INCREASING BY $21,000. SUBLET REPAIR IS INCREASING BY 27,500 DOLLARS. 
          TECH SERVICES IS INCREASING ALMOST $12,000. OPERATING SUPPLIES,
WHICH IS THE PARTS THAT WE PAY. 
          THAT WE PURCHASED TO REPAIR THE VEHICLES IN-HOUSE IS INCREASING BY $25,000. 
          AND THEN FLEET FUEL. THIS IS THE FUEL THAT'S PURCHASED FOR THE FLEET CITYWIDE IS
INCREASING ALMOST $400,000 IN COMPARISON TO THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          SO AGAIN, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE THE OVERALL COMPARISON FROM THE CURRENT YEAR TO NEXT FISCAL
YEAR, THE FUND IS INCREASING BY JUST OVER HALF $1 MILLION,
WHICH IS PRIMARILY ATTRIBUTED TO THE FUEL COST. 
          AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER ANY QUESTIONS? SEE, YOU'RE JUST SO THOROUGH. NO QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A BREAK. 
          SO LOOK, WE'RE GOING TO BE REALLY GOOD TO JESSICA ON HER LAST CLERKING DAY AND BE ON TIME
FOR A BREAK. 
          SO IT'S 1030 AND WE'LL TAKE A TEN MINUTE BREAK. 
          OKAY. WE'RE BACK FROM OUR SHORT BREAK FOR OUR PROPOSED BUDGET WORKSHOP,
AND WE'RE CONTINUING ON WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT. 
          MR. YOUNG. YES, MA'AM. MR. BECKMAN IS HERE TO PRESENT. 
          THANK YOU, MR. BECKMAN. GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING,
MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. 
          STEVE BECKMAN, DIRECTOR OF BUILDING SERVICES. 
          SO THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT IS AN ENTERPRISE FUND WHICH RECOVERS OUR COSTS FOR OUR SERVICES
WITH PERMIT FEES. 
          BUILDING FUND PER STATUTE CAN ONLY USE THESE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF ADMINISTRATING THE
FLORIDA BUILDING CODE. OUR PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2627 PROJECTS REVENUES OF $7,000,295 295 $485 AND EXPENSES OF $10,000,231 231 $928. I'D LIKE TO MENTION A FEW THINGS ABOUT THE $10 MILLION EXPENSE LINE. 
          NUMBER ONE. THIS FIGURE INCLUDES 1.25 MILLION. 
          THAT IS IN OUR BUDGET FOR CIP FOR THE PURPOSE OF BUILDING RENOVATIONS. 
          AND THESE FUNDS WERE MOVED FROM OUR GENERAL FUND INTO A RESTRICTED FUND PREVIOUSLY UNDER
$1 MILLION A YEAR. 
          WE WERE, WE WERE MOVING THESE FUNDS FOR THE PURPOSE OF A NEW BUILDING. 
          WE HAD A TOTAL OF 3 MILLION THAT WE'VE SET ASIDE APPROPRIATED 514,000 FOR TECHNOLOGY
ENHANCEMENTS THAT ARE UNDERWAY AND AND LEAVING APPROXIMATELY 2.5 MILLION. THAT IS THE 1.25 IS COMING FROM THAT. 
          AND WE DO ANTICIPATE POTENTIALLY RETURNING $1.25 MILLION BACK INTO THE FUND IF,
IF OUR RENOVATIONS OR WHATNOT STAY WITHIN THE BUDGETED AMOUNT OF, OF THE 1.25. AND ALSO HISTORICALLY OUR BUILDING DEPARTMENT DOESN'T
SPEND ALL OF OUR ALLOTTED EXPENSES, AND THEN ANY OF THOSE UNSPENT FUNDS RETURN BACK INTO THE FUND AT THE END OF THE YEAR. 
          THE THIRD THING I WANT TO MENTION IS, IS, IS THAT THE PROJECTIONS FOR OUR REVENUES ARE
BASED ON OUR CURRENT FEE SCHEDULE, NOT OUR NEW FEES. THAT WILL START OCTOBER 1ST. 
          THESE WERE ALL PUT TOGETHER PRIOR TO OUR OUR FEE ADJUSTMENT. 
          SO I DO EXPECT TO SEE THE DELTA A LOT CLOSER WITH REVENUE AND EXPENSES MOVING FORWARD,
PROVIDED OUR OUR PERMIT ACTIVITY REMAINS CONSISTENT. SO THIS SLIDE BREAKS DOWN REVENUES. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE, EXCEPT FOR $179,000 IN INTEREST INCOME,
ALL OF OUR FUNDS COME FROM PERMIT FEES. 
          AS YOU SEE, THE MAIN AREAS OF THE DEPARTMENT. 
          EXPENSES. PERSONNEL SERVICES ARE THE HIGHEST. 
          HIGHEST LINE ITEM IN OUR BUDGET. OUR PERSONNEL SERVICES BREAKS DOWN INTO. 
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REGULAR SALARIES, OVERTIME AND OTHER SALARIES AND EMPLOYER PAYROLL BENEFITS. 
          THE OTHER SALARIES ARE PART TIME TEMPORARY PERSONNEL THAT WE HAVE,
WHICH WE'RE ABLE TO BRING IN TO ASSIST WITH WITH WORKLOAD AND AND OUR OVERTIME, OUR OVERTIME BUDGET IN OUR LAST YEAR IN IN THIS UPCOMING YEAR,
WE HAVE BUDGETED 260,000 THIS YEAR AT 240,000. AND WE, WE PRETTY MUCH SPEND MOST OF OUR OVERTIME BUDGET BECAUSE WE OBVIOUSLY
KEEP OUR EXISTING STAFF TAKEN CARE OF, TAKING CARE OF THE SERVICES BEFORE WE GO OUT TO ANY ANY OTHERS? OUR CIP HAS TWO ITEMS. ONE IS VEHICLE REPLACEMENT AND THE OTHER ONE IS A BUILDING
RENOVATION. 
          WE DID SHIFT GEARS FROM SETTING MONEY ASIDE FOR A POTENTIAL NEW BUILDING TO RENOVATION,
BECAUSE THIS LAST YEAR, SENATE BILL 1614 CHANGED WHAT WE'RE ALLOWED TO DO WITH OUR FUNDS. 
          AND THEY CHANGED THAT FROM ALLOWING US TO BUILD A NEW BUILDING TO CLARIFY THAT WE COULD
RENOVATE AN EXISTING BUILDING, WHICH ACTUALLY IS IS A GOOD THING BECAUSE WE WILL BE ABLE TO GET THE ADDITIONAL SPACE WE
NEED RIGHT NOW FROM RENOVATING OUR EXISTING BUILDING AND A LITTLE BIT OF SPACE FOR POTENTIAL FUTURE NEEDS. 
          A LOT MORE ECONOMICALLY THAN BUILDING A NEW BUILDING. SO IN ADDITION TO BEING ABLE TO GET
THE SPACE WE NEED, GET IT SET UP MORE EFFICIENTLY, IT WILL ALSO PROVIDE FOR SOME INCREASE IN OUR SECURITY AT
THE BUILDING. 
          THIS SLIDE HERE SHOWS PRETTY MUCH OUR OUR PERFORMANCE METRICS FOR THE DEPARTMENT. 
          AND THE ONE THING I'D LIKE TO POINT OUT, IF YOU LOOK AT JUST ACROSS THE BOARD FOR THE FIVE
YEARS, THE PAST FIVE YEARS, OUR NUMBERS ARE PRETTY CONSISTENT WITH ACTIVITY. 
          YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LITTLE UP, UP AND DOWN IN THE,
IN EACH OF THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES, BUT, BUT THEY'RE PRETTY CONSISTENT. SO THIS UPCOMING YEAR,
WE EXPECT THE ACTIVITY TO REMAIN PRETTY CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW. 
          YES. MARY. YES, PLEASE. AND WE'RE AT THAT POINT WITH ANY QUESTIONS. 
          OKAY. WONDERFUL. A FEW SLIDES EARLIER, THE REVENUE FROM BUILDING PERMITS WAS GOING DOWN
FROM 7.9 MILLION TO 7.1 MILLION. 
          BUT THE SLIDE WE JUST LOOKED AT SHOWED PROJECTED PERMITS SUBMITTED AND OR ISSUED SHOWING
AN INCREASE. 
          WHY DO WE HAVE A DECREASE IN PERMIT REVENUE BUT AN INCREASE IN PERMITS. 
          IT'S A GOOD QUESTION. SO THE PERMIT NUMBERS VARY IN DIFFERENT TYPES. 
          AND YOU KNOW FROM FIXED FEES SMALL PERMITS TO OBVIOUSLY NEW CONSTRUCTION. 
          SO THERE'S A MIX IN IN THE TYPE AND THAT THAT'S CONSTANTLY CHANGING. 
          AND AND THEN SOME OF THESE PROJECTS ALSO, YOU KNOW,
ESPECIALLY THE BIGGER ONES, YOU KNOW, THEY GO ON FOR MORE THAN A PERIOD OF A YEAR. SO THERE'S,
YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME FACTORS LIKE THAT, THAT PLAY INTO, INTO, INTO WHAT THE NUMBER OF PERMITS VERSUS REVENUES OR THOSE PERMITS
LOOK LIKE. 
          ALL RIGHT. GOOD. I THINK THERE WAS AN ANSWER. I JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS. THANK YOU.
THANK YOU. 
          I HAVE A QUESTION. I HAVE VICE MAYOR AND THEN CARL. 
          SORRY. THANKS FOR THE INFORMATION AND PROVIDING THE THE METRICS. 
          DO YOU TRACK REVIEW TIME? SO THE TIME THAT IT TAKES FROM WHEN A PERMIT APPLICATION
SUBMITTED TILL YOU TURN IT AROUND WITH EITHER APPROVAL OR QUESTIONS. WE DO. AND SO CURRENTLY WE MONITOR WHAT'S PENDING ANY PERMITS IN PENDING STATUS. EVERY WEEK WE WE WILL KEEP AN EYE ON,
YOU KNOW, WHERE EVERYTHING THAT'S PENDING A REVIEW OR PENDING IN OUR PROCESS, WHERE IT STANDS FROM A TIME PERSPECTIVE. 
          ADDITIONALLY, EVERYTHING THAT GETS PUT INTO REVIEW IS ASSIGNED A FIVE DAY TURNAROUND TIME. 
          AND, AND OUR WORK, OUR WORKFLOWS. AND ON EVERYBODY'S DASHBOARD WITHIN CITY VIEW HAS IT IN
DATE ORDER. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE WORKING ON AND WHEN IT'S DUE. SO EVERY INDIVIDUAL STAFF MEMBER CAN SEE
WHAT'S ON THEIR PLATE WHEN IT WHEN IT'S I SAY DUE. 
          THAT'S OUR TARGET DATE THAT WE WANT TO HIT. SO WE,
WE SET THAT REALLY TO KIND OF KEEP US PUSHED AT, YOU KNOW, MOVING IT AS QUICK AS WE CAN. SECONDLY,
I'M GOING TO ADD WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING AS ONE OF THE ENHANCEMENTS IN OUR PERMITTING SYSTEM. AYE SOME FIELDS AND SOME. CONFIGURATION THAT WILL HAVE THE SYSTEM TRACK 
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IT BETTER AND MORE PRECISE. AS FAR AS EXACTLY HOW MANY DAYS IT'S IN OUR HANDS FOR,
YOU KNOW, OUR REVIEWS. AND THEN YOU KNOW, THAT CLOCK WILL TURN ON AND OFF WHEN IT GETS SENT BACK TO
THE OWNER TO, YOU KNOW, DO THEIR PIECE OF IT. SO WE SHOULD BE SEEING THAT ENHANCEMENT IN OUR,
IN OUR SYSTEM WHERE WE CAN, WHEN WE RUN THESE REPORTS ON, ON YOU KNOW, HOW LONG IT'S IN OUR HANDS FOR,
YOU KNOW, REVIEW A LOT MORE INFORMATION, A LOT EASIER. SO YES, WE DO. AND THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT TRYING TO,
YOU KNOW, EVEN TRACK BETTER WITH, WITH, WITH SOME MORE METRICS FOR OUR RESIDENTS. 
          YEAH, THAT WOULD BE GREAT TO START PUBLISHING AND SHARING THAT. 
          AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE, WE OFTEN HAVE PEOPLE SAY,
WHY DOES IT TAKE SO LONG TO GET THEIR PERMIT WHEN REALLY IT'S NOT THE CITY? IN MANY CASES, IT'S THE CONTRACTOR WHO'S, YOU KNOW,
TAKING MORE TIME AND RESPONDING TO THE QUESTIONS. 
          SO IT'D BE HELPFUL TO INFORM PEOPLE AND YOU MIGHT TRACK IT SEPARATELY BETWEEN RESIDENTIAL
AND COMMERCIAL OR MULTIFAMILY, BECAUSE I'M SURE THE REVIEW TIMES ARE DIFFERENT OR FOR GENERATORS OR WHATEVER,
YOU KNOW, WHATEVER THE RIGHT CATEGORIES ARE. 
          THAT WOULD HELP. I THINK PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON AND HOW RESPONSIVE THE CITY,
HOW RESPONSIVE YOUR DEPARTMENT REALLY IS. 
          INDEED. THANK YOU. AND JUST SO EVERYONE KNOWS,
IT'S A FLORIDA STATUTE, 553792 IS THE SECTION THAT PROVIDES ALL THE DIFFERENT TIME FRAMES FOR THE VARIOUS PERMIT TYPES, HOW THEY BREAK DOWN AS TO,
YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT PERMIT TYPES YOU KNOW, ARE ALLOWED, HOW MUCH TIME IN OUR HANDS, AND IT'S BETWEEN 30 AND 60 BUSINESS DAYS WHERE
WE'RE ALLOWED TO, YOU KNOW, BE PROCESSING IT. BUT WE'RE USUALLY WELL WITHIN THAT BECAUSE AGAIN,
IF WE'RE HITTING OUR FIVE DAY TURNAROUND, WHICH WE USUALLY DO WE'RE NEVER GOING TO HIT THE POINT WHERE WE RUN OUT OF TIME BECAUSE,
YOU KNOW, AS, AS THAT CLOCK TICKS, SAY SINGLE FAMILY, FOR EXAMPLE,
WE'RE GIVEN 30 BUSINESS DAYS. 
          WE HAVE IT ONCE WE PUT IT IN REVIEW, IT'S IN REVIEW FOR FIVE. 
          AND THEN IT MIGHT BE IN THE NEXT STATUS IN THE CUSTOMER'S HANDS. 
          IF IT'S REJECTED FOR SOMETHING, THAT CLOCK STOPS,
IT GOES BACK TO THE APPLICANT. 
          WHEN IT COMES BACK IN, WE'RE GIVEN FIVE MORE DAYS TO GO ON TO WHAT WAS LEFT. 
          SO IF WE USE 25 NOW, WE'RE BACK TO HAVING 30. 
          AND UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING IN THERE THAT REALLY DRAGS ON A LONG TIME,
WE'RE ALWAYS WELL WITHIN OUR TIME. 
          WE'RE WE'RE NOT. IT'S VERY RARE THAT WE DO RUN INTO WHERE SOMETHING'S SITTING IN OUR HANDS
FOR AN EXCESSIVE PERIOD OF TIME, BECAUSE OF COURSE, WE'RE ALL GOING TO HEAR ABOUT IT. 
          AND AS WE HEAR ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW, IF SOMETHING'S STUCK FOR SOME REASON,
WE, YOU KNOW, DO WHAT WE CAN TO GET IT MOVED THROUGH. 
          SO BUT I AGREE, I THINK THAT WILL HELP EVERYBODY SEE IT CLEARER. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO IF YES, I HAVE YOU ON I'LL LET CARL. 
          SO SPECIFICALLY WHAT SOFTWARE OR WHAT METHOD ARE YOU USING TO TRACK THOSE PERMITS. 
          SO THAT WILL ALL BE DONE WITHIN CITY VIEW. AND,
AND YOU KNOW, THE SYSTEM OBVIOUSLY RECORDS WHAT TIME WE GET IT, WHAT TIME IT GOES INTO WHATEVER DIFFERENT ACTIVITY IT GOES INTO. 
          SO WE'RE JUST HAVING THEM DEVELOP THE, THE FIELDS AND THE MEANS TO,
TO, TO TRACK IT IN EACH, EACH STATUS THAT IT'S IN, AND THEN DO THE MATH FOR US AUTOMATICALLY. 
          SO THAT, AS I MENTIONED, A SINGLE FAMILY HOME IS ALLOWED A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DAYS,
A GENERATOR'S ALLOWED A CERTAIN NUMBER OF DAYS BASED ON DOLLAR AMOUNT OF THE PERMIT. 
          A BIG NEW MULTIFAMILY BUILDING WITH 65 UNITS IS DIFFERENT THAN A MULTIFAMILY UNIT WITH 64
OR LESS. 
          THERE'S DIFFERENT TIME FRAMES FOR EACH OF THOSE TWO. SO FOR EACH OF THOSE DIFFERENT
PROJECTS, WHEN IT COMES IN, THAT NUMBER IS ASSIGNED TO IT AS TO HOW MANY DAYS WE GET,
AND THEN THE SYSTEM WILL TRACK IT. 
          SO IT'LL, IT'LL TELL US WE HAVE X NUMBER OF DAYS LEFT BEFORE WE WOULD TIME OUT. 
          SO IT'LL JUST KIND OF, INSTEAD OF US HAVING TO LOOK AT IT AND MANUALLY COUNT IT,
THE SYSTEM WILL JUST DO THAT BECAUSE IT HAS ALL THE INFORMATION. 
          EVERY TIME IT, IT DOES SOMETHING IN THE SYSTEM. 
          IT'S RECORDED TO THE TO THE SECOND. SO IT'LL JUST BE REALLY CAPTURING SOMETHING THAT THE
SYSTEM CAN ALREADY DO, YOU KNOW, FOR US WITHOUT US HAVING TO MANUALLY GO THROUGH AND ADD IT UP. 
          YEAH. AND JUST ON THE LINES OF EFFICIENCY, AND THEY'RE STILL NOT ADDING ANY POSITIONS FOR
MAKING SURE THAT THAT PROCESS, IS COMMUNICATED TO THE PUBLIC. IF IT GOES BACK TO PLANNING,
WHICH THAT HAPPENS. 
          CORRECT. IF IT CAN GO FROM BUILDING PERMIT BACK TO PLANNING FOR SOME REASON OR FIRE. 
          SURE. SO WHENEVER A PERMIT APPLICATION COMES IN AND WE ALL REVIEW IT CONCURRENTLY. 
          SO ALL DEPARTMENTS ARE LOOKING AT IT AT THE SAME TIME. IF ONE OR ALL THE DEPARTMENTS FAIL
OR REVIEW WHEN THEY RESUBMIT, 
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THEY RESUBMIT A FULL PLAN, SET ALL DEPARTMENTS,
REVIEW IT AGAIN TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF IT WAS ONLY PLANNING OR ONLY FIRE OR,
OR ONLY ONE DEPARTMENT OF THE GROUPS THAT FAILED, IT WILL ALL DO A CURSORY CHECK TO MAKE SURE NOTHING CHANGED THAT DIDN'T AFFECT ANYBODY
ELSE'S REVIEW. 
          SO YES, IT WOULD COME IF IT CAME BACK IN FOR ONE DEPARTMENT,
WE WOULD ALL SEE IT AGAIN. 
          OKAY. I'M NOT SURE IF THAT WAS THE QUESTION. YEP. 
          GOT IT. THANK YOU. YEAH, SURE. COMPLETE. YES. 
          OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER IN REGARD TO MISSING, MISSING OR REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES. 
          DO YOU FEEL YOU UNPERMITTED BUSINESS AS BEING A PROBLEM,
OR DO YOU HAVE A HUNCH OF HOW BIG IT COULD BE IN THE CITY? CAN YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION AGAIN? I'M SORRY. YOU KNOW,
I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT REVENUE ENHANCEMENT AND REVENUE MISSED REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES. 
          I WAS WONDERING IF UNPERMITTED WORK IN THE CITY IS A DO YOU VIEW THAT AS A PROBLEM? AND DO YOU HAVE A HUNCH OF, YOU KNOW, HOW BIG THAT COULD BE IF IT IS OR HAS THAT BEEN A
CONCERN OF YOURS? I THINK UNPERMITTED WORK IS A CONCERN EVERYWHERE. 
          I THINK OUR CITY DOES A VERY GOOD JOB AT AT CATCHING IT. 
          OUR RESIDENTS PAY ATTENTION. IN THE CONDOS, THE CONDOMINIUM BOARDS AND,
YOU KNOW, BUILDING PERSONNEL PAY ATTENTION. 
          AND, AND IT'S A SMALL TOWN. SO WE HAVE A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT STAFF THAT'S OUT THERE ON
THESE DIFFERENT PERMITS LOOKING AT THEM. 
          AND, AND YOU KNOW, WE PRETTY MUCH SEE IT. AND WHEN WE DO SEE IT,
CALL IT OUT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T CATCH EVERYTHING. 
          THERE'S STUFF THAT CAN OCCUR INSIDE A HOME THAT WE MIGHT NOT KNOW ABOUT. BUT YOU KNOW,
WE, WE DO A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF SEEING IT. AND, AND WE,
YOU KNOW, TRY TO ADDRESS IT AS, AS WELL AS WE CAN. 
          WHEN I WAS ON CODE ENFORCEMENT, WE DID CATCH AND WE HAVE A COMBINATION,
WE HAVE AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH THE COUNTY WHERE THE COUNTY DOES OUR CONTRACTOR LICENSING. AND THEY PROVIDE US WITH A STAFF MEMBER FULL TIME FOR THE CITY. 
          AND, AND THEN AGAIN, ALSO OUR, WE HAVE, WE HAVE THREE SITE COMPLIANCE GUYS THAT ARE OUT
THERE, YOU KNOW, SEEING EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW, WE'RE OUT THERE ALL THE TIME. 
          AND SO YOU DON'T REALLY VIEW IT AS ANY, ANY ISSUE. 
          PRETTY MUCH. I DON'T SEE IT AS A AS A BIG PROBLEM IN THE CITY OF NAPLES,
BECAUSE AGAIN, IT JUST WHAT'S UNIQUE TO US. 
          IT'S NOT AS BIG A PROBLEM AS IT CAN BE IN SOME OTHER JURISDICTIONS. WHAT ABOUT THE NEW
LEGISLATION WHERE 6500 IS EXEMPT FOR LIKE SHEETROCK AND THE MECHANICAL STUFF, NOT THE PLUMBING, ELECTRICAL, BUT THE NEW LEGISLATION? YEAH. THE 7500 AND UNDER 75 FOR SINGLE FAMILY ONLY. 
          I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE THAT WILL MAKE HERE. 
          YOU KNOW, SO IT'S NOTHING STRUCTURAL, MECHANICAL,
ELECTRICAL, PLUMBING OR ANY PROPERTY IN A SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA. 
          SO MOST OF OUR CITIES IN THE SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA TO START WITH. 
          AND THEN, YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT DO SOME SMALL PROJECTS WHERE FOR THE CITY,
MOST OF THAT KIND OF STUFF WE ALREADY EXEMPT. 
          BUT AGAIN, IT'S THAT BROAD BRUSH MATERIAL IMPACT THEN. 
          YEAH. I DON'T SEE IT MAKING MUCH OF A MATERIAL IMPACT. OKAY. GREAT. THANKS. 
          OKAY. THANK YOU. KRAMER. THANKS TO VICE MAYOR'S POINT REGARDING LET ME JUST ASK YOU IF THIS IS THE CASE WHEN WHOEVER PULLS THE PERMIT IS THE ONE WHO HAS
ACCESS TO THE DASHBOARD TO SEE WHERE THE PERMIT IS IN REVIEW. 
          IS THAT THE CASE? GENERALLY, YES. I MEAN, WE CAN ADD PEOPLE TO THAT AT THEIR REQUEST. 
          WE ADD OWNERS AND WE ADD INTERESTED PARTIES TO THAT. 
          AND WHO HAS TO REQUEST THAT. IT COULD BE THE YOU KNOW SO IT COMES FROM A NUMBER OF PEOPLE. 
          SOMETIMES IT CAN COME FROM AN OWNER, AN OWNER'S REP. IT CAN COME FROM THE CONTRACTOR. AND
SO IT'S BEEN MY EXPERIENCE THAT THE REALLY GOOD GUYS TELL THE OWNERS, HERE'S THE LOGIN FROM THE GET GO. AND THEN THERE'S OTHER FOLKS WHO DON'T DO THAT. 
          AND THE OWNERS AREN'T AWARE THAT THEY CAN REQUEST IT. AND NOW,
NOW WE CAN, ANYBODY CAN CREATE AN ACCOUNT TO LOG INTO THE PORTAL AND CHECK ANY ADDRESS IN THE CITY TO SEE WHAT HAS PERMITS. 
          AND YEAH, I THINK TO, TO THE VICE MAYOR'S POINT,
I THINK IT'D BE MAYBE WE SHOULD AMPLIFY THAT. 
          I DON'T KNOW MYSELF, SPEAKING TO ME. I WANTED TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT BECAUSE I KNOW IN
TALKING TO FOLKS, THEY THINK THEY DON'T REALIZE THEY HAVE THAT ACCESS AND THAT WILL,
THAT WOULD PREVENT THE WHOLE, THE CITY'S HOLDING US UP THING WHEN THEY CAN GO ON THE DASHBOARD THEMSELVES AND SEE THE
CITY'S NOT HOLDING ANYTHING UP THAT THEY'RE WAITING ON DOCUMENTATION FROM THE CONTRACTOR. 
          WHICH HAPPENS A LOT. JUST MY THOUGHTS. THAT'S WE CAN SEE WHERE WE CAN PUT SOME ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION ON OUR SITE TO INFORM OUR 
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RESIDENTS OF THAT. YEAH. THANKS FOR OUR NEWSLETTER. 
          THAT WOULD BE A GREAT PLACE TO AND EDUCATION ON THE CHANGES IN THE FLORIDA BUILDING CODE. 
          WITH THE FLOODPLAIN REGULATIONS, THERE WOULD BE TWO GREAT AREAS FOR YOU TO EDUCATE THE
COMMUNITY. 
          SO, OKAY, I'D LIKE TO ADD ONE MORE THING TOO. 
          JUST AS FAR AS SOME OF THE COMMENTS ABOUT YOU KNOW,
TIME FRAME AND WHATNOT. 
          I'M GOING TO BE BACK BEFORE YOU IN SEPTEMBER TO RENEW OUR BLITZ THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. 
          AND I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW WE ARE MAKING SOME GOOD PROGRESS ON THAT. 
          AND, AND, AND WE HAVE A BETA TESTER ON OUR WEBSITE THAT PEOPLE CAN CHECK OUT THAT WE'VE
BEEN BUILDING IT FOR SUFFICIENCY CHECK, WHICH IS THE FIRST STEP. WE'RE GIVEN FIVE DAYS STATUTORILY TO LOOK AT AN APPLICATION AND
MAKE SURE IF IT, TO SEE IF IT'S COMPLETE ENOUGH TO BRING IN OR IF THEY'RE MISSING STUFF. SO THIS IS GOING
TO BE THE FIRST STEP IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT'S SEAMLESS BEHIND THE SCENES INTEGRATED, WHERE IF SOMETHING COMES IN MISSING,
YOU KNOW, ENOUGH AND, AND, AND WE CAN SET WHAT THAT IS, GIVE IT A, YOU KNOW, A SCORE WHEN IT COMES IN. 
          AND IF IT DOESN'T HAVE A CERTAIN SCORE, IT IMMEDIATELY GOES BACK OUT. 
          AND THAT'S JUST THAT PIECE OF THE PROCESS RIGHT THERE IS GOING TO SAVE A TON OF TIME
BECAUSE A LOT OF APPLICATIONS, IT REALLY COMES DOWN TO QUALITY OF THE APPLICATION. 
          WE GET STUFF THAT, YOU KNOW, IS A PRETTY POOR QUALITY SOMETIMES. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOMETHING WHERE IT JUST THAT ONE LITTLE CHANGE RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING
OF THE PROCESS IS GOING TO MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE ON, ON HOW QUICKLY THINGS CAN GET INTO THE REVIEW AND INTO PROCESSING. 
          SO AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO SEE SOME MORE BIGGER STEPS AFTER WE IMPLEMENT THAT ONE. 
          I'M LOOKING FOR THAT TO START HAPPENING INTEGRATED AND ACTUALLY BE PART OF THE PROCESS
HERE BEFORE THE END OF THIS CALENDAR YEAR. 
          SO EXCITED ABOUT THAT. AND HOPEFULLY THAT'S GOING TO BRING SOME REALLY GAINS IN EFFICIENCY
IN OUR PERMITTING AS WELL. 
          AND WHEN WILL THE WHAT'S THE PROCESS FOR THE REMODEL OF THE BUILDING OR THE PLANT? SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE WE'VE ENGAGED A DESIGN PROFESSIONAL TO TAKE THE FIRST STEP OF
EVALUATING THE SPACE AND GIVING US SOME PRELIMINARY DRAWINGS, AND THEN WE'LL WORK UP SOME PRELIMINARY BUDGETS. 
          SO WE'RE WE'RE AT THAT STAGE RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE ACTUALLY,
I THINK, COMING IN THIS WEEK TO TO MEASURE UP SOME SPACE, THEY'VE, THEY'VE GOT THE STRUCTURAL DOCUMENTS SENT TO THEM FOR THE BUILDINGS. 
          SO THEY'RE BEGINNING TO, YOU KNOW, DRAW UP THOSE PUT SOME OF THOSE IDEAS ON PAPER SO WE
CAN SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AND THEN WHAT THE COSTS OF THAT WOULD BE. 
          AND IT'S LIKELY JUST BASED ON TIMING WITH ONLY TWO MEETING,
YOU KNOW, THE TWO MEETINGS IN SEPTEMBER WOULD PROBABLY BE THE FIRST MEETING IN OCTOBER THAT THE EARLIEST. I WOULD THINK YOU WOULD SEE THAT DOCUMENT BASED ON FINISHING PURCHASING
PROCESSES, ETC.. SO. GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. 
          THAT CONCLUDES. THANK YOU, MR. BECKMAN. THAT CONCLUDES BUILDING. 
          WE'RE MOVING. WE'RE MOVING TO POLICE MAYOR. AND WITH THAT CHIEF DOMINGUEZ IS HERE. 
          GOOD MORNING CHIEF. 
          GOOD MORNING, MR. DOMINGUEZ, CHIEF OF POLICE. 
          AND AS THE CITY MANAGER NOTED EARLIER IN THE BEGINNING,
THIS PRESENTATION IS SPECIFIC TO THE MILLAGE RATE AS WE STAND TODAY AT 11.23. AND AS I GO INTO THIS, I KNOW WE SPOKE ABOUT IT BEFORE,
BUT THIS IS ALL ALL OUR PRESENTATION HERE IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH OUR STRATEGIC PLAN AND OUR ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS. 
          IT'S VERY DELIBERATELY PLANNED TO KEEP THOSE THINGS GOING,
BOTH STAFFING, RETENTION, DEVELOPMENT OF, OF, OF OUR LEADERSHIP AND TECHNOLOGICALLY GETTING CAUGHT UP TO WHERE WE WANT TO BE AS AN
ORGANIZATION. 
          SO THIS FIRST ONE, THIS FIRST SLIDE IS IN YOUR,
IN YOUR BUDGET BOOKS. 
          I BELIEVE IT'S PAGE 115 AND THE TAKEAWAY FROM THIS ONE IS THAT WE MOVE FROM 23 MILLION TO
24 MILLION. 
          THIS SLIDE WAS IN YOUR BOOK AS WELL, PAGE 119 AND IT'S OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT. 
          AND IF YOU NOTICE, LIKE I MENTIONED EARLIER,
WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MOVE OURSELVES FORWARD WITH OUR STRATEGIC PLAN. 
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AND THIS ONE SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSED THIS. CIP SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES TECHNOLOGY AS WE MOVE
FORWARD. 
          WE'RE IMPROVING OUR TECHNOLOGY FROM WHERE WE WERE TWO YEARS AGO AND CHANGE. 
          SO THAT INCLUDES THE BODY WORN CAMERAS THAT WE INSTITUTED LAST YEAR. 
          NEW CAMERAS IN THE CARS NEW VEHICLES, REPLACEMENT OF VEHICLES,
LPR REPLACEMENTS THAT ARE ONGOING AS FAR AS HOW WE PAY FOR THEM. 
          WE ALSO HAVE TACTICAL GEAR IN HERE, WHICH INCLUDES BALLISTIC HELMET AND OTHER THINGS LIKE
THAT. 
          AND THEN THE TAC WALL. ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO EXPLAIN ON THE TAC WALL IS MOST OF YOU
ARE FAMILIAR, IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT,
BUT IT'S VERY SIMILAR TO THE EOC AND IT'S BEING ABLE TO RUN OPERATIONS OUT OF THERE. 
          AND SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO IS TO IMPROVE ITS INTEGRATED ABILITY TO HAVE BOTH,
LET'S SAY THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE HELICOPTERS FEED OUR BODY WORN CAMERAS, FEED OUR DRONE FEEDS ALL IN ONE COMMAND CENTER. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT THE TAC WALL IS, IS TO PUT MORE VIDEO SCREENS IN THAT WALL. 
          AND AS WE MOVE DOWN THERE'S A COUPLE OTHER SURVEILLANCE EQUIPMENT. 
          SO ESSENTIALLY THIS SIP IS STRONG IN BOTH TECHNOLOGY AND ENHANCING OUR CURRENT
CAPABILITIES. 
          YOU'LL FIND THESE PAGES ALSO IN YOUR BUDGET BOOK. 
          IT PRETTY MUCH EXPLAINS HOW THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS DIVIDED BETWEEN ADMINISTRATION,
WHICH IS MY AREA SPECIFIC REPORTING TO ME, OPERATIONS AND SERVICES. AND THE ONLY REAL CHANGE HERE OF NOTE IS ONE BEACH PERSON THAT WE
LOOK TO BRING ON BOARD IN APRIL IN ADVANCE OF THE PIER COMING ONLINE IN, IN MAY SLASH JULY. 
          AND THIS SUMMER, IT'S AN OVERVIEW SUMMARY OF ADMINISTRATION OPERATIONS AND SERVICES. 
          BUT I'LL BREAK THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE FOR YOU IN THE NEXT COUPLE SLIDES,
AS YOU SEE, THAT'S IN YOUR BOOK AS WELL, THE REAL CHANGES HERE ARE. 
          MOST OF IT IS PERSONNEL, SERVICES, COSTS, NEGOTIATED SALARY ADJUSTMENTS AND THOSE KIND OF
THINGS. 
          THERE IS A MOVE FROM CAPITAL OVER TO THE OPERATING BUDGET,
SPECIFIC TO AXON AND SOME BOOKS AND MATERIALS THAT WE USE FOR TRAINING. 
          SO THAT'S REALLY THE INCREASES THERE. THE NEXT ONE IS OPERATION SPECIFIC AND ALSO IN YOUR
BOOK, BUT THE REAL THE BOTTOM LINE HERE ON THIS THIS PARTICULAR SLIDE IS THE TAC WALL THAT I
MENTIONED EARLIER. 
          AND ALSO TRACKER IS AN EVIDENCE TRACKING SYSTEM. 
          THE SYSTEM THAT WE HAD IN PLACE BEFORE THE COMPANY NO LONGER SUPPORTS IT. 
          AND IT'S KIND OF DATED. AND SO THIS SYSTEM IS,
AND I WOULD USE NO DIFFERENT THAN WHEN YOU DO SELF CHECKOUT, WHEN EVIDENCE COMES IN, TAGGING IT IN, TAGGING OUT AND TRACKS IT THROUGHOUT ITS ENTIRE
LIFE ALL THE WAY TO COURT AND BACK. 
          SO IT'S A, IT IS AN IMPROVED SYSTEM. AND THEN THERE WAS SOME MOVEMENT IN THE BUDGET WHERE
YOU SEE THERE IN REGARD TO $24,000 SPECIFIC TO VEHICLES AND LPR MAINTENANCE. NEXT IS THE SERVICES BUDGET. 
          AND YOU'LL SEE IN THE, IN YOUR BOOK THERE, BUT REALLY THE BOTTOM LINE IS ON THE NEXT SLIDE
WHERE YOU CAN SEE WHERE THERE HAVE BEEN ADDED IN REGARDS TO OUR FLEET EXPANSION AND INCREASE RISING COSTS IN GENERAL. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO TRY TO PROVIDE MORE TRAINING
TO OUR DISPATCHERS. 
          AND THAT'S IT. BUT THE TAKEAWAY FROM THIS IS FOR,
FOR ME TO EXPLAIN TO YOU GUYS IS OUR STRATEGIC PLAN IS ON IN, IN IN ALIGNMENT TO WHERE WE THINK WE NEED TO BE AS AN ORGANIZATION. 
          WHEN WE STARTED THAT PLAN TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO INTERESTING ENOUGH,
OCTOBER, WHEN THE BUDGET COMES, WILL BE MY THIRD YEAR HERE. BUT WE LOOKED AT WHAT WE HAD,
WE DID A, NOT ONLY DID A WORKLOAD ANALYSIS ON WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE, BUT WE LOOKED AT ALL OUR EQUIPMENT, ALL OUR TECHNOLOGY,
EVERYTHING, AND SAID BROUGHT EVERYBODY IN. 
          AND WHERE DO WE NEED TO BE HERE IN FIVE YEARS? AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PARTS WAS OUR TECHNOLOGY TO WHERE NOW EACH OFFICER HAS THEIR
OWN LAPTOP. 
          OUR BODY WORN CAMERAS ARE JUST BIG, HUGE INVESTMENT. 
          BUT IT'S, IT'S INDUSTRY STANDARD. AND, AND ALL THE OTHER TECHNOLOGIES GO WITH THAT INCLUDE
DRONES AND, AND THE VEHICLE IMPROVEMENTS TO, TO ADD MORE TECHNOLOGY AND THOSE THINGS. 
          THERE ARE ROLLING OFFICE ESSENTIALLY. SO A LOT OF THAT INVESTMENT WAS MOVING US FROM WHERE
WE WERE TO WHERE WE WANT TO BE. 
          THAT'S WHERE THE TECHNOLOGY IS. AND WHEN IT COMES TO STAFFING,
I'M VERY GLAD TO SAY THAT WE ONLY HAVE ONE OPENING, AND THERE'S BEEN TIMES WHEN WE HAD 16 OR 20 AND THAT WAS DUE TO A MEDICAL RETIREMENT. 
          AND AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY PICKY. I MEAN,
YOU KNOW, I PROBABLY TURNED DOWN MORE PEOPLE THAN AMERICAN IDOL, 
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BUT UNTIL THEY FIT WHAT WE WANT AND WHAT WE LOOK FOR OUTSIDE OF THE NORMAL STUFF THAT
PEOPLE PUT IN FOR, WE LOOK FOR FOR SKILLS, WE LOOK FOR DEPENDABILITY. 
          WE WE LOOK FOR SOMEBODY WHO HAS UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE WANT FROM,
FROM THEM IN THIS COMMUNITY. 
          AND LASTLY, ARE THEY SELFLESS? ARE THEY GOING TO FIT OUR OUR PARTICULAR CULTURE? AND THAT'S THE OTHER THING THAT IS NOT NECESSARILY DESCRIBED IN,
IN THE NUMBERS, BUT THE NUANCE IS PROVIDING PEOPLE THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT. 
          AND CULTURE IS WHERE WE GET TO. WE HAVE THAT TYPE OF WORKFORCE THAT IS EMBEDDED WITH THE
COMMUNITY. 
          AND OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY AND BUSINESS AREAS IS PROBABLY THE STRONGEST
INVESTMENT WE HAVE. 
          AND THAT'S A PEOPLE TIME INVESTMENT. SO, AND,
BUT THAT COMES WITH TECHNOLOGY AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS AS WELL. 
          SO I'M READY FOR QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. ARE YOU GOING TO COMMENT NOW OR LATER ON THE SIX REQUESTED POSITIONS AND WHAT THEY WOULD DO SO
THAT THE PUBLIC. 
          I KNOW YOU'VE BRIEFED US, BUT FOR THE. YES. YES,
SIR. 
          I THINK THE CITY MANAGER. WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT AT THE END. 
          OKAY. YEAH. AT THE END HE'LL GO THROUGH NOT ONLY THE SLIDE THAT STEFAN HAD,
BUT ALL THE SPECIFICS OF WHAT HE WANTS TO DO WITH THOSE POSITIONS. 
          AS WE GET CLOSER TO FOCUSING ON THAT, THE MILLAGE CHANGE AND HOW THAT COULD BE UTILIZED. 
          OKAY. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? WELL, THAT WAS EASY. YES IT WAS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU'RE GETTING TO YOUR STRATEGIC
PLAN. 
          I, I MUST SAY THANK YOU FOR A DEPARTMENT THAT WAS NOT FULLY STAFFED TO TAKING IT TO FULLY
STAFFED AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A TEAM THAT IS GROWING WITH US. WE'RE MAKING SURE THAT THEIR NEEDS ARE MET. 
          SO THANK YOU. I, I WOULD I'D LIKE TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU AND AND CITY MANAGER KNOWS THIS
I, I CAME HERE OUT OF RETIREMENT. IT SOUNDS WEIRD TO SAY IT THAT WAY,
BUT I MADE A PROMISE TO THIS CITY AND TO, AND TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I WANT TO DELIVER THE BEST AGENCY IN THE COUNTRY FOR OUR
SIZE AND WEIGHT. 
          RIGHT. BUT I ALSO, I WANT TO LEAVE HERE SUCCESSION PLANNING. 
          AND WE HAVE A LOT OF GOOD BOYS AND GIRLS, MEN AND WOMEN. 
          THEY'RE, THEY'RE GETTING READY EVERY DAY. AND PART OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE WHOLE
CULTURE OF THE CITY AND HOW WE TREAT PEOPLE. 
          AND THAT'S MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING THAT DOLLARS ARE IMPORTANT. YOU GOT TO PAY BILLS,
YOU GOT TO YOU GOT TO HAVE A ROOF OVER YOUR HEAD. 
          THOSE THINGS ARE IMPORTANT. BUT CULTURE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN ANYTHING. 
          AND THAT'S ONE OF THE STRONGEST THINGS THAT WE'RE GOING TO LEAVE HERE. AND THAT'S WHAT I
KNOW WASN'T HERE TO YOUR POINT, I THINK AND SERVANT LEADERSHIP IS OUR OPERATING SYSTEM. 
          IT'S EVEN IN. IT'S NOW IN OUR GENERAL ORDERS. 
          IT'S IT'S AN ACTUAL RULE, RIGHT? THESE ARE WHAT YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE. 
          IT'S NOT A COOL THING ON THE WALL. YOU HAVE TO LIVE IT,
BREATHE IT AND EXECUTE IT. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO BE. 
          AND MY WINDOW, AS GARY KNOWS IS, IS A COUPLE OF YEARS. 
          THAT'S IT. BUT I THEY'RE GETTING READY EVERY DAY. 
          AND IT HAS TO DO WITH NOT ONLY THE SUPPORT FROM YOU ALL,
BUT FROM THE PUBLIC. 
          I MEAN, WE'RE REALLY IN A GOOD PLACE AS A COMMUNITY. 
          BUT WITHOUT GETTING TOO DEEP INTO OTHER STUFF. 
          BUT WE, EVERY COMMUNITY IS, IS AT RISK IF WE DON'T GARDEN IT PROPERLY. 
          RIGHT? SO JUST FOR THE BUDGET PURPOSES SPEAKING OF AT RISK,
WE DO HAVE SPECIAL DUTY WHICH THAT'S AN INCREASE AND IN THE BUDGET DO YOU MEAN WHICH ONE BY SPECIAL DUTY,
YOU MEAN THE OVERTIME RATE. 
          NO OVERTIME. SEPARATE. IT'S JUST SPECIAL DUTY. 
          IT WAS IT'S A IF I'M READING THIS CORRECTLY,
200% INCREASE, BUT IT'S BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT WE ARE EXPANDING OUR SAFETY WITHIN. YEAH. EVERY FOR EXAMPLE AND I THINK WE,
WE, WE'RE ON THE SAME PAGE ON THIS, FOR EXAMPLE TO USE A WORD OF LIFE STORY LAST YEAR,
IF YOU RECALL, THE BEACH IN THE SUMMER GOT A LITTLE HOT AND WE HAD A LOT OF TEEN PROBLEMS IN THE MALL AND AND ON THE BEACHES AND SEAGATE HAD A SHOOTING
AND EVERYTHING ELSE. 
          SO WHAT WE DID THIS YEAR IS PROACTIVELY, AND THAT'S THE KEY IS ON,
ON OVERTIME IS HAVE THE RIGHT OFFICERS TO WORK AND MAKE CONTACT WITH THE KIDS CONSENSUAL CONTACT IN THE SENSE THAT WE TRY TO,
YOU KNOW TALK TO THEM, WORK WITH THEM AND KEEP THE PEACE WITHOUT BEING OFFENSIVE OR OFFICIOUS WITH THEM,
RIGHT? 
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THAT'S KEY BECAUSE YOU WANT TO HAVE A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH WITH THE TEENS AS WELL. 
          YOU WANT COOPERATION. BUT THOSE ARE THE KIND OF SPECIAL EVENTS OR SPECIAL DETAILS THAT WE, WE DO. SOMETIMES WE DO IT FOR TRAFFIC. WELL,
A LOT OF TIMES WE DO IT FOR TRAFFIC BECAUSE WE KNOW, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A HOT SPOT AND, AND THAT, BUT THAT'S SORT OF PART OF MY LATER
CONVERSATION WITH YOU GUYS. 
          BUT IT'S A, IT'S ABOUT MAINTAINING NOT ONLY A GOOD GARDEN,
BUT PLANTING NEW TREES. 
          AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING. OKAY. THANK YOU. 
          NO FURTHER QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. MOVE TO FIRE. 
          YES, MA'AM. WITH THAT, WE'LL HAVE THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          CHIEF PENNINGTON. GOOD MORNING, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL PHILLIP PENNINGTON,
FIRE CHIEF. 
          OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO START OUR PRESENTATION OFF DISCUSSING SOME OF OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS
OVER THE PAST YEAR. OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE STILL WORKING WITH THE DESIGN OF FIREHOUSE TWO. 
          WE'RE ABOUT 30% THROUGH WITH THAT DESIGN PROCESS,
SO WE'RE STILL MAKING PROGRESS THERE. 
          WE'VE ALSO RECEIVED A $400,000 STATE GRANT FOR OUR HIGH WATER ENGINE THAT'S ON ORDER. 
          WE'VE ALSO ENHANCED OUR NARCOTIC SECURITY WHEN WE HAD TO CHANGE IN THE COPY PROCESS. 
          WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR TRUCKS HAVE THE SAME LEVEL OF CARE AS THE AMBULANCES IN
THE ER THROUGH COLLIER COUNTY EMS. SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE HAD TO DO WAS MAKE SURE WE HAD NARCOTICS TO GIVE PEOPLE IN
INSTANCES WHERE THEY NEED PAIN RELIEF TECHNICAL RESCUE IMPROVEMENTS. WE'VE REPLACED SOME OF THE AGING RESCUE EQUIPMENT THAT WAS
THERE. 
          AND THEN ANOTHER BIG ONE WAS OUR THERMAL IMAGING CAMERAS. 
          AGAIN, AS TECHNOLOGY CHANGES THE CAPABILITIES OF THESE CAMERAS IN ORDER FOR US TO SEE
THROUGH SMOKE AND ALSO TO FIND HOTSPOTS OF FIRES. 
          YOU KNOW, AFTER A FIRE OR WHEN WE'RE INVESTIGATING,
A SMELL OF SMOKE INSIDE A BUILDING HELPS US REDUCE DAMAGE AND FIND THESE AREAS A LOT QUICKER. SO ONE OF THE KIND OF LOOK AT WHERE OUR RESPONSES HAVE BEEN,
WE'VE KIND OF REACHED AN AREA WHERE WE'VE KIND OF PLATEAUED TO A CERTAIN DEGREE. 
          BUT AGAIN, LOOKING AROUND IS, YOU KNOW, AS WE DO WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT,
WE DO SWOT ANALYSIS, LOOKING AT WHAT SOME OF THE THREATS THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE OUT THERE,
AND THAT WOULD BE THE DENSITY AND THE CONSTRUCTION AROUND US. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD ANTICIPATE OVER, YOU KNOW,
COMING IN THE NEAR FUTURE, WE'RE PROBABLY GOING TO SEE AN INCREASE IN CALLS. 
          SO WE NEED TO ADJUST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE CAPABLE OF PROVIDING THE LEVEL OF SERVICE THAT WE
HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, PROVIDING. THIS SLIDE IS BASICALLY JUST HOW THE FIRE DEPARTMENT IS SET UP. 
          BASICALLY, YOU HAVE OUR ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF,
WE HAVE THREE BUREAUS. 
          WE HAVE OPERATIONS, WHICH IS THE BOOTS ON THE GROUND. 
          THOSE ARE THE FOLKS THAT RESPOND TO THE EMERGENCIES CALLS WHEN THEY COME IN. 
          WE HAVE OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND TRAINING BUREAU. AND THEN,
OF COURSE, WE HAVE OUR FIRE FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU. 
          SO LOOKING AT OUR BUDGET, WE'VE INCREASED BASICALLY 1.5 MILLION SINCE LAST YEAR. 
          AND THE PRIMARY CAUSES THERE IS BASICALLY SALARIES AND THAT'S ALL CONTRACTUAL. 
          THAT'S THE MAIN DRIVER THERE. LOOKING AT OUR BUDGET OVER THE YEARS,
AGAIN, JUST LIKE THE POLICE CHIEF WAS SAYING, WE'VE MADE SOME HEADWAY TO KIND OF GET OUR DEPARTMENT. 
          WHEN WE LOOKED AT THE ENHANCEMENTS PREVIOUSLY,
IT WAS LIKE, WHERE DO WE THINK WE NEED TO BE IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN OUR NOT ONLY MAINTAIN, BUT MAKE SURE WE'RE GIVING THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SERVICE TO,
TO THE CITIZENS. 
          SO THE 2627 PROPOSED BUDGET IS 20.6 MILLION. JUST ROUNDING IT OFF,
THAT'S AN INCREASE OF BASICALLY 1.7. 
          OUR LARGEST EXPENDITURE, LIKE IT PREVIOUSLY SAID WAS OUR PERSONNEL SERVICES,
WHICH IS JUST UNDER 19. 
          OPERATING EXPENSES ARE AT BASICALLY 1.7, WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF 97.5. 
          AND THE MAIN DRIVER THERE IS THE INFLATION ON ALL THE GOODS AND SERVICES THAT EVERYBODY'S
SEEING ACROSS THE COUNTRY. 
          OUR NON OPERATING EXPENSES ARE AT ABOUT 8000,
WHICH WAS AN INCREASE OF 3000. 
          PUTTING THEM ALL IN A NICE NEAT LINE FOR YOU. SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE HOW EVERYTHING ADDS UP. 
          BASICALLY AT THE END OF THE DAY, OUR INCREASE OF 1.67 IS AN 8.8 INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR'S
BUDGET. 
          HERE'S A REVIEW OF OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. AGAIN,
THE BIG ONE THERE IS THE NEW FIREHOUSE, WHICH IS THE 29 MILLION PERSONAL PROTECTIVE GEAR,
WHICH BASICALLY OUR BUNKER GEAR. 
          IT'S THE ENSEMBLE. OUR FIREFIGHTERS WEAR WHEN THEY GO INTO A STRUCTURE FIRE. 
          THAT'S 120,000. WE HAVE A NEW ENGINE COMPANY NUMBER ONE. 
          THAT'S AT 1.5 MILLION. WE'VE ALSO INVESTED 350,000 INTO PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING EQUIPMENT
AND PROPS, AND THEN MORE TECHNICAL RESCUE EQUIPMENT AT 65. 
          AND THAT COMPLETES THE FIRE RESCUE DEPARTMENT. 
          I HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, MAYOR. LIKEWISE ON THIS,
YOU'LL HAVE A FIRE ELEMENT THAT WE'LL TACKLE DURING THE SAFETY ENHANCEMENT 
          [02:10:09]
DISCUSSION ON MILLAGE. SO. ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THAT WAS EASY. THAT WAS EASY. 
          1130 NOTED. AND WITH THAT WITH THAT PLANNING IS NEXT. 
          AND AS ERICA MARTIN MAKES HER WAY UP TO PRESENT THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. 
          GOOD MORNING. GOOD MORNING. I GUARANTEE MINE WILL BE FASTER THAN PHIL'S. 
          ALL RIGHT. ERIC MARTIN, PLANNING DIRECTOR. WE HAVE THE BUDGET FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT
FOR YOU TODAY. 
          WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS THIS IS ACTUALLY A DECREASE OF ABOUT 102,000 FROM LAST YEAR'S PROPOSED
BUDGET. 
          THAT IS PRIMARILY DUE TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. 
          SO THE MAJOR DECREASE FROM LAST YEAR IS THAT WE ENCUMBERED THE MONEY FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE
PLAN PROJECT LAST YEAR. 
          AND THAT HAS BEEN SPENT. AND THAT IS COMES OUT OF THE OR DECREASES. 
          WHAT WE'RE ASKING THIS YEAR. SO THE TOTAL ASK FROM THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT IS 1.6 MILLION. 
          TOTAL OPERATING EXPENSES 338,000. SO ABOUT THE BULK OF OUR BUDGET 1.2 MILLION IS PERSONNEL
SERVICES. 
          NO CHANGE TO STAFFING REQUESTS THIS YEAR. SAME SAME NUMBER OF EMPLOYEES. 
          SLIGHT INCREASE JUST DUE TO THE STANDARD INCREASES FOR PERSONNEL SERVICES THAT ALL
DEPARTMENTS HAVE FELT THIS YEAR. 
          WE CAN, I CAN GO THROUGH THE, THE OVERALL CHANGES IN THE LINE ITEMS. OFFICE SUPPLIES WAS A DECREASE OF ABOUT 20%. OPERATING EXPENDITURES DECREASE OF ABOUT
$1,000. 
          SO ALSO 20%. PRINTING AND BINDING WAS A DECREASE OF ABOUT 13%. 
          PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. THAT'S ALSO A DECREASE OF ABOUT 13%. 
          BUT IT'S A $25,000 DECREASE. SO THAT'S PROBABLY THE BIGGEST,
YOU KNOW, LUMP SUM DECREASE THAT WE HAVE. 
          EQUIPMENT RENTAL WAS A DECREASE AND REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE IS A SLIGHT INCREASE. 
          AND THAT'S JUST DUE TO ADDITIONAL USE OF THE RENTAL EQUIPMENT THAT WE HAVE. 
          SO THAT'S JUST A BREAKDOWN OF HOW THE THE MONEY IS ALLOCATED IN OUR DEPARTMENT. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE, ABOUT 80% IS PERSONNEL SERVICES. 
          SO MOSTLY JUST SALARIES AND PERSONNEL. THIS SLIDE WILL GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF THE OPERATING
EXPENSES, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. IS THE IS THE LARGEST CHUNK. 
          SO IT IS A DECREASE FROM 432,000 TO 175 THIS YEAR. 
          175 THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR THIS YEAR IS ALLOCATED TO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT PROJECTS. 
          THE CONTINUING UPDATE OF THE DESIGN REVIEW HANDBOOK,
THE ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW AND USE OF CONSULTANTS FOR LARGE, COMPLEX PROJECTS. WE DO ALSO, I WOULD BRING INTO THE DISCUSSION. 
          WE DID DEFER THE COMP PLAN REVIEW. SO WE DO HAVE THAT IS ONGOING. 
          SO THERE WAS AN ADDITIONAL COST TO THAT. SO WE THERE IS STILL A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
REQUIREMENT FOR THAT PROJECT. 
          DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT COST IS. I DON'T OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. 
          BUT I CAN, I CAN GET THAT FOR YOU. THE NEXT IT'S A ONE. 
          HUNDRED AND 2140 INCREASE. I'LL FIND THAT NUMBER FOR YOU. 
          BUT THESE ARE THE FOUR MAJOR, THE LARGEST LINE ITEMS. SO PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE. 
          THIS IS WHERE YOU'LL SEE CITY VIEW. SO WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING WITH CITY VIEW TO
MAKE SOME MAJOR CHANGES TO THE PLANNING MODULE OF CITY VIEW. 
          HOPEFULLY TO MAKE THAT A LITTLE MORE USER FRIENDLY,
BOTH FOR OUR END AND FOR THE PUBLIC. 
          WE'VE BEEN MEETING REGULARLY WITH CITY VIEW TO MAKE THOSE CHANGES. 
          RENTAL EQUIPMENT. THERE'S A REDUCTION IN PRINTING. 
          THAT'S MOSTLY BECAUSE WE HAVE WE HAVE OUTSOURCED THE NOTICING PROCESS TO A THIRD PARTY. 
          SO IT'S CONSISTENT CITYWIDE. WE ALL CITY DEPARTMENTS USE THE SAME THIRD PARTY MAILING
SERVICE. 
          SO THAT'S ACTUALLY SAVED US MONEY. AND THEN PRINTING AND BINDING. 
          THAT IS WHERE YOU'LL SEE LEGAL ADVERTISING. THOSE ARE THE ADS THAT WE PLACE IN THE PAPER. 
          AND THEN ALSO THE SIGNS THAT WE PUT ON PROPERTIES FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PETITION. 
          PRINTING AND BINDING THE ASSOCIATED COSTS FOR NOTICING. 
          WE, WE GUESSTIMATE THAT EVERY YEAR AGAIN, WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY PETITIONS WILL BE
SUBMITTED EACH MONTH OR EACH YEAR. 
          SO WE TRY TO USE THE TRENDS FROM THE LAST YEAR. 
          BUT WE DID SEE 2025 WAS WAS A RECORD YEAR. WE HAD MORE MORE NOTICING THAN IN ANY OTHER
YEAR. 
          WE DID SEE A SLIGHT DIP SO FAR IN 2026 IN THE NUMBER OF PETITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN
SUBMITTED. 
          HOWEVER, WE HAVE SEEN IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS A UPTICK IN THE NUMBER OF PRE-APPLICATION
MEETINGS THAT HAVE BEEN SCHEDULED. 
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I THINK THERE WAS A LITTLE MARKET UNCERTAINTY AND PEOPLE WERE KIND OF HOLDING OFF ON ON
SUBMITTING THOSE PROJECTS. BUT OVER THE SUMMER AND EVEN RIGHT BEFORE THE SUMMER, WE'VE, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF PRE-APPLICATION MEETINGS. SO GENERALLY THOSE MEETINGS ARE,
YOU KNOW, A HINT AT WHAT COULD BE TO COME SUBMITTAL WISE LEGAL ADDS WE BUDGET FOR LEGAL ADS THE SAME
AS WE HAD BUDGETED IN YEARS PAST. 
          THERE IS YOU'LL BE SEEING A TEXT AMENDMENT COME BEFORE YOU. 
          I THINK YOU GOT A PREVIEW OF IT RIGHT BEFORE THE BREAK. 
          THE CLERK HAD PRESENTED A TEXT AMENDMENT TO YOU FOR ALLOWING US TO PUT LEGAL ADS ON THE
WEBSITE INSTEAD OF IN THE NEWSPAPER. 
          THOSE NEWSPAPER ADS ARE VERY EXPENSIVE. SO THERE'S A POTENTIAL THAT THAT COST WOULD GO
DOWN. 
          BUT JUST DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY, WE'RE BUDGETING AS IF WE AS IF THAT TEXT AMENDMENT WAS
NOT APPROVED AND WE WERE GOING TO DO THE SAME THAT WE DID LAST YEAR. 
          THIS IS JUST A BREAKDOWN OF THE PERSONNEL SERVICES. THIS IS THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT. 
          ALL POSITIONS FILLED AT THE MOMENT EXCEPT THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR. 
          I KNOW MR. YOUNG HAD GONE OVER IN THE ONE ON ONES. 
          WE'RE NOT CURRENTLY ADVERTISING FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR. 
          WE'RE WAITING, WAITING TO SEE ON THAT ONE. BUT WE'RE DOING WELL. 
          LIKE, LIKE I SAID, WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A DOWNTURN IN THE NUMBER OF PETITIONS THAT WERE
SUBMITTED. 
          BUT WE'LL WAIT AND SEE HOW IF THIS PICKS BACK UP AGAIN,
HOW WE STAND ON THAT ONE. 
          WE DO HAVE THE PLANNER TWO POSITION IS BUDGETED. 
          IT'S UNFILLED BY A FULL TIME POSITION, BUT WE DO HAVE THAT FILLED CURRENTLY BY A TEMPORARY
PART TIME EMPLOYEE. 
          AND THEN THIS IS JUST TO SHOW YOU THE BOTH BUILDING PERMITS AND PETITIONS THAT HAVE BEEN
SUBMITTED. 
          I DO HAVE TO EXPLAIN. SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 2026,
REMEMBER THAT THAT WAS WE ARE NOT COMPLETED THROUGH 2026. 
          SO YOU'RE ONLY SEEING THE FIRST TWO QUARTERS AND PART OF THE THIRD QUARTER REFLECTED IN
THAT LAST COLUMN ON BOTH OF THESE. 
          SO WE'RE, WE'RE TRENDING SIMILARLY TO 2025. SO THEN JUST A COUPLE OF UPDATES WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT? SO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE IS IN
PROGRESS IN JUNE OF 2026, COUNCIL DID DEFER REVIEW UNTIL THE FALL. I HAVE STARTED TO RECEIVE SOME COMMENTS. 
          THERE WAS A, I THINK YOU RECEIVED AN EMAIL FROM ME LAST WEEK. 
          THERE WAS A A DRAFT PUBLISHED THE SAME CONTENT. 
          IT'S THE SAME DRAFT THAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT WAS JUST CLARIFIED. THERE WERE SOME,
SOME BRACKETS PUT IN THERE TO INDICATE WHERE TEXT HAD BEEN RELOCATED INSTEAD OF REMOVED OR OR ADDED. BUT YES, SO WE'RE STILL IN THE PUBLIC REVIEW PHASE,
THE EXTENDED PUBLIC REVIEW PHASE AND THE COMP PLAN WILL BE COMING BACK TO YOU IN THE FALL. THE DRB HANDBOOK IS IN PROGRESS AS WELL. 
          WE HAD PUT OUT AN LOI OR A SOLICITATION FOR LETTERS OF INTEREST FOR ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE
HANDBOOK. 
          WE RECEIVED RESPONSES TO THAT. SO WE'RE CURRENTLY IN THE PROCESS OF CONTRACTING WITH A
FIRM TO PROVIDE THOSE ILLUSTRATIONS. 
          ONCE THOSE ILLUSTRATIONS ARE PROVIDED THAT DRAFT WILL COME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL AS WELL IN
THE FALL. 
          AND THEN DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS ARE UNDERWAY. 
          THERE'S A COUPLE DIFFERENT ASPECTS TO THAT. ONE IS THE CITY VIEW CHANGES THAT WE WERE
TALKING ABOUT ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE. WE ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF WORKING WITH CITY VIEW. THE OTHER WAS THE DESIGN REVIEW BOARD ORDINANCE THAT CITY COUNCIL PASSED EARLIER
THIS YEAR RIGHT BEFORE RECESS, WHICH ELIMINATED ONE OF THE TWO REQUIRED DESIGN REVIEW HEARINGS. 
          SO NOW WE HAVE ONE DESIGN REVIEW HEARING RATHER THAN PREVIOUSLY IT WAS PRELIMINARY AND
FINAL. 
          SO THAT HAS BEEN ACCOMPLISHED AS WELL. AND THAT'S THAT'S ALL WE HAVE. 
          THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS FOR PLANNING. YES VICE MAYOR. 
          GREAT WORK. SO QUESTION FOLLOWING THE COMP PLAN UPDATE AND APPROVAL,
HAVE YOU BUDGETED OR SHOULD WE BUDGET FOR IMPLEMENTING COMP PLAN CHANGES INTO THE CODE OF ORDINANCES? WE WILL YES, WE I WILL BE BACK IN FRONT OF YOU PROBABLY AT THIS TIME NEXT YEAR WITH A NEW. 
          IT'LL BE A SEPARATE PROCESS. BUT YES, WE WILL PROBABLY PUT OUT AN RFP FOR A FIRM TO DO
THAT AS WELL, BECAUSE THAT'LL BE A LARGE UNDERTAKING. IT'LL BE A MAJOR AMENDMENT TO THE CODE OF
ORDINANCES. 
          SO YOU'RE GOING TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET? WELL, WE'RE GOING TO WE'RE GOING TO START, BUT IT WON'T BE. 
          THAT PROJECT WILL NOT BE ENCUMBERED UNTIL NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET. 
          WE. BECAUSE DEFERRING THIS. WE ARE PUSHING THE COMP PLAN PROCESS ITSELF OUT THROUGH ALMOST
THE END OF 2027. 
          THAT'S PART OF WHY THE BUDGET IS STILL SIZABLE IN THAT LINE ITEM. 
          SHE'S NOT TALKING 2728. NO, YOU'RE TALKING RIGHT. 
          THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT I HEARD. YEAH. NO, I WANT TO CLARIFY THAT THERE'S ENOUGH
APPROPRIATIONS IN PROFESSIONAL SERVICES THAT ONCE THE COMP PLAN IS READY, THERE'S THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LINE ITEM IS STILL LOADED UP ENOUGH TO TO TAKE THE NEXT
STEP. 
          AT THIS STAGE, WE HAVEN'T DEVELOPED THE RFP OR WHAT THAT PROCESS WOULD LOOK LIKE. 
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SO I DON'T HAVE A NUMBER FOR YOU OF WHAT THAT WOULD BE. 
          BUT WE DID. WE DO HAVE THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LINE ITEM IS LARGE ENOUGH TO ANTICIPATE
THAT, BUT I DON'T HAVE A NUMBER SPECIFICALLY FOR YOU. 
          OKAY, GOOD. BECAUSE I KNOW WE HAVE TO WAIT ON THE STATE TO SIGN OFF ON WHATEVER WE DO. 
          BUT YEAH, THE TRANSMITTAL PROCESS IS LENGTHY FOR THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN,
BUT HOPEFULLY WE CAN USE THAT WHILE WE'RE WAITING ON THE STATE. 
          WE CAN ALREADY BE PLANNING TO DEVELOP THE ART SO WE CAN ROLL RIGHT INTO THE CODE UPDATES. 
          YES, YES, WE'LL HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. 
          AGAIN, WE DON'T WE DON'T HAVE A ADOPTED PLAN YET,
BUT WE'LL HAVE A BETTER IDEA OF WHAT WHAT CHANGES ARE GOING TO BE REQUIRED. 
          AND THEN YES, WE'LL WE'LL DEVELOP AN RFP AND THEN PUT THAT OUT. 
          YOU KNOW, THE PURCHASING PROCESS TAKES A LITTLE WHILE. SO YEAH. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANKS. ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS? NICELY DONE. 
          ALL RIGHT. SO WITH THAT MAYOR. NEXT UP IS COMMUNITY SERVICE. 
          AND MR. MERRITT IS HERE TO PRESENT. 
          GOOD MORNING AND GOOD AFTERNOON, MR. MAYOR. GOOD MORNING. 
          YEAH, I'M USED TO THE AFTERNOON FOR SURE. SO CHAD MERRITT,
COMMUNITY SERVICES DIRECTOR. 
          I HAVE AARON HOPKINS HERE AS WELL. WHO'S GOING TO SPEAK ON THE RECREATION SIDE? SO FIRST TO START WE'VE GOT OUR GENERAL FUND STAFFING. 
          THIS JUST SHOWS YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE HAVE COMING OUT OF GENERAL FUND. 
          WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR ANY MORE PEOPLE. WE'RE NOT LOSING ANY PEOPLE. 
          SO WE'RE REMAINING THE SAME AS FAR AS STAFFING. 
          GENERAL FUND. WE HAVE ABOUT A LITTLE OVER $15 MILLION EXPENSES AND THAT'S BROKEN DOWN INTO
THESE DIVISIONS. 
          ADMINISTRATION, PARKS AND PARKWAYS MAINTENANCE,
FACILITY MAINTENANCE, AND THE RECREATION DIVISION. 
          AND AS YOU CAN SEE, OUT OF EACH ONE OF THESE,
YOU'VE GOT THE ADMINISTRATION 1.1 MILLION PARKS AND PARKWAYS AT 5.7 MILLION. 
          THE FACILITY MAINTENANCE AT 3.5 MILLION AND RECREATION AT 4.5 MILLION. 
          AS A DEPARTMENT, YOU CAN SEE AS A WHOLE 6% INCREASE FOR US IN PERSONNEL SERVICES. 
          THAT WAS A LITTLE OVER 400,000. THAT WAS WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS THAT WERE DONE WITH THE ALL
OF OUR CONTRACTS OPERATING EXPENSES, NOT A WHOLE LOT OF CHANGE. 
          WE'RE AT $45,000 INCREASE IN OPERATING EXPENSES FOR THE DEPARTMENT AND GENERAL FUND. 
          THAT'S A 0.6% INCREASE. AND WHAT I WANT YOU TO KIND OF LOOK AT AGAIN,
IS LOOKING AT AS WE GO THROUGH THE COMMON THEME, WILL BE SOME OF THE ADJUSTMENTS THAT WERE MADE IN CONTRACTUAL SERVICES DUE TO CONTRACTS
THAT WE HAVE THROUGHOUT DIFFERENT AREAS OF OUR DEPARTMENT, BUT ALSO REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE. WHERE YOU LOOK AT THERE WAS A SOME INCREASES THAT WE
REDUCED OR WE REDUCED IN CERTAIN AREAS TO SEND IT OVER TO REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE, BECAUSE A LOT OF OUR FOCUS WANTS TO BE,
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MAINTAINING OUR FACILITIES AT THE LEVEL THAT WE FEEL THAT WE SHOULD BE, AS WELL AS WE HAVE A LOT OF PROJECTS UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW. 
          SO REALLY TRYING TO GET THOSE FINISHED AND THEN TRYING TO GET OUR CURRENT FACILITIES UP. 
          SO YOU WILL SEE THAT AS YOU GO THROUGH. BUT WE'LL START OUT IN THE ADMINISTRATION
ADMINISTRATION 1.1 MILLION. 
          AGAIN, THAT'S 4.1% INCREASE, WHICH IS 45,000. 
          PERSONNEL SERVICES IS A PORTION OF A GOOD PORTION OF THAT AT 64,000,
WHICH IS 7.3% INCREASE. 
          WE DID ADD EDUCATION REIMBURSEMENT INTO HERE. 
          WE HAVE A COUPLE OF STAFF MEMBERS THAT WANT TO DO SOME CONTINUING EDUCATION AS IT RELATES
TO THEIR POSITIONS. 
          WE ALSO DID OPERATING EXPENSES I PUT IN HERE. 
          SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW THEY THEY CORRELATE. 
          BUT A REDUCTION IN 19,000 WHICH IS ABOUT 8.5% DECREASE. 
          BUT WE ALSO KNOW WE'VE TRIED TO, AGAIN, REALLY FOCUS IN ON,
ON A LOT OF THE MAINTENANCE. 
          SO WE'LL GO INTO PARKS AND PARKWAYS MAINTENANCE 5.7 MILLION $103,000 INCREASE,
WHICH IS A 1.8% INCREASE. PERSONNEL SERVICES BEING 8000 OF THAT. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE OPERATING EXPENSES ONLY A 0.6% INCREASE OF 22,000 CONTRACTED SERVICES. 
          THAT'S YOUR TREE TRIMMING, YOUR LANDSCAPING,
ALL OF THOSE CONTRACTS THAT FALL WITHIN THAT. 
          SO WE HAD TO DO AN $11,000 ADJUSTMENT THERE TO ACCOMMODATE SOME OF THOSE. 
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TELL ME WHAT PAGE YOU'RE ON. THIS IS PAGE 99 IN YOUR BOOK. 
          OH THANK YOU. SO AGAIN, PARKS AND PARKWAYS MAINTENANCE. 
          WE HAD SOME INCREASES IN THE EQUIPMENT FUEL SERVICE THERE THAT WAS DONE,
WHICH IS DETERMINED BY THE EQUIPMENT SERVICES. 
          BUT WE ALSO HAD A REDUCTION HERE THAT I WANT TO SHOW YOU AS IT RELATES TO THE NEXT SLIDE,
WHICH IS REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE LEVEL OF SERVICE, $15,000 REDUCTION. YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT IN THIS SLIDE AT THE BOTTOM WHERE IT SAYS
REPAIR, MAINTENANCE LEVEL OF SERVICE. THERE WAS AN INCREASE OF 41,000. 
          A PORTION OF THAT IS THIS $15,000 REDUCTION. THAT WAS BECAUSE WE HAD PLAYGROUNDS
MAINTENANCE WITHIN PARKS AND PARKWAYS. 
          PARKS AND PARKWAYS DOES NOT DO PLAYGROUND MAINTENANCE. 
          THAT IS FACILITY MAINTENANCE. SO WE WE MOVED THAT INTO THEIR AREA. 
          THEY ALSO HAD SOME INCREASE IN THEIR REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE AS IT RELATES TO OUR
FACILITIES, WHICH HELP MAKE UP THE REST OF THAT 41,000. BUT GOING BACK UP TO THE TOP OF THIS SLIDE,
3.5 MILLION IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, WHICH IS 7.6% INCREASE OF 254,000. THE PERSONNEL SERVICES 157,000 OF THAT AND THEN OPERATING EXPENSES 6.4% INCREASE AT 96,000. 
          AGAIN THE CONTRACTED SERVICES HAVING TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS WITH ALL OF OUR CONTRACTS. 
          AND THEN YOU HAVE THE FUEL AND THEN THE REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE,
WHICH I SPOKE ON. 
          ON PAGE 101. YOU'LL GET TO RECREATION. I'LL LET AARON TAKE RECREATION. 
          THANK YOU. CHAD AARON HOPKINS, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SERVICES DEPARTMENT. SO FOR
THE RECREATION SIDE OF OUR DEPARTMENT, WE HAVE AN OVERALL INCREASE OF 1.3%, WHICH IS JUST SHY OF $60,000. 
          THAT'S A BREAKDOWN. WE'LL GO THROUGH EACH SLIDE OF FLUSHING PARK. 
          ANDREW NORRIS CENTER, RIVER PARK AND ANTHONY PARK. 
          RIVER PARK AQUATIC RESERVE. FLESHMAN PARK. CAMBIER PARK. 
          NORTH. CENTER. RIVER PARK. ANTHONY PARK. THE AQUATIC CENTER. 
          NAPLES PRESERVE. AND THEN MOVING ON TO BAKER PARK. 
          SO FIRST FLESHMAN PARK 6% INCREASE, JUST OVER 80,000. 
          AS CHAD HAS MENTIONED THROUGHOUT THIS PRESENTATION SO FAR,
WE'VE HAD AN INCREASE IN PERSONNEL SERVICES AS WELL AS OUR REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF MAINTENANCE LEVEL OF SERVICE. FLESHMAN PARK HAS,
HAS A LOT OF WORK CURRENTLY GOING ON, SO WE'RE ABLE TO KEEP A PRETTY SIMILAR BUDGET FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR BECAUSE OF ALL THE
WORK THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET COMPLETED WITHIN, HONESTLY, THE LAST TWO YEARS OVER AT CAMBIER PARK NORRIS CENTER,
WE ACTUALLY HAD A DECREASE OF 4.9%, WHICH IS JUST SHY OF 50,000. SOME OF THE AREAS THAT WERE NOTABLE FOR THE DECREASE WAS WE
DECREASED OUR OPERATING EXPENDITURES BY 10,000 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES BY 50,000,
CULTURAL ARTS THEATER BY 5000. 
          THIS IS ACTUALLY THE FIRST YEAR WE'VE MAINTAINED OR WE'VE BEEN RUNNING THE NORRIS CENTER
WITHOUT GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE, SO WE WERE ABLE TO LOWER SOME OF THOSE NUMBERS DUE TO THE PERFORMANCES,
AS WELL AS BRINGING IN A LOT OF OUR OWN ACTS THAT ARE NOT CONTRACTUAL. 
          SO WE'RE GETTING ALL, ALL OF THE REVENUE FOR THAT. 
          AND THEN AGAIN WE HAD A $10,000 DECREASE IN DUPLICATING,
BUT WE PUT THAT MONEY UP ABOVE IN THE OPERATING EXPENSE OF ADVERTISING SO THAT WE HAVE MORE FLEXIBILITY WHEN WE'RE ADVERTISING OUR PERFORMANCES AND PROGRAMS. NEXT UP IS RIVER PARK AND ANTHONY PARK. JUST A SHORT OR A SMALL EXCUSE ME,
INCREASE HERE OF 2.5%, JUST SHY OF 25,000. AGAIN, THAT WENT TO PERSONNEL SERVICES AS WELL AS OUR OPERATING
EXPENDITURE, WHICH IS REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE LEVEL OF SERVICE. 
          AND THEN A NOTABLE DECREASE HERE WAS THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES,
WHICH WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE THAT DOWN 27%. 
          THE RIVER PARK AQUATIC CENTER JUST HAS A SHORT OR A SMALL,
AGAIN, 1.9% INCREASE. 
          WE'RE BASICALLY MAINTAINING THE SAME BUDGET THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE THIS YEAR. SAME THING
WITH THE NAPLES PRESERVE AND THE HEDGES ECO CENTER. 
          WE ACTUALLY HAD A DECREASE HERE OF 3.4%. WE'RE PRETTY MUCH MAINTAINING A SIMILAR BUDGET TO
WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY HAVE IN THIS FISCAL YEAR. 
          BAKER PARK. WE HAD A 1% DECREASE HERE, JUST $3,500. 
          AGAIN, IN THE LAST TWO PARKS THAT I MENTIONED,
WE'RE MAINTAINING A SIMILAR BUDGET TO WHAT WE HAVE THIS CURRENT YEAR. 
          AND BACK TO CHAD. YEAH. AND I'LL ADD ON HERE TO TO UNDERSTAND THE GOMEZ CENTER CURRENTLY
OPERATES, WE HAVE TO SHIFT STAFF FROM OTHER LOCATIONS TO COVER EVENTS. 
          [02:30:03]
SO THE NEXT YEAR, ONCE THE OFFICE IS COMPLETE,
WE ANTICIPATE THAT WE WOULD COME BACK WITH A A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. 
          PLAN ON HOW THAT WILL OPERATE. I'M SORRY. IT'S LIKE I'M AN AMATEUR AT THIS. 
          YES. ON HOW WHAT WILL OPERATE, HOW BAKER PARK WILL OPERATE. 
          SO AGAIN, JUST FOR THOSE THAT I MISSED THE BAKER PARK WE HAVE RIGHT NOW,
WE HAVE TO UTILIZE STAFF TO COVER ALL OF THE EVENTS THAT TAKE PLACE THERE. SO WE SHIPPED THEM FROM OTHER LOCATIONS. 
          WE ANTICIPATE NEXT YEAR, ONCE THE OFFICE HAS BEEN COMPLETE,
THAT WE WOULD BRING A DIFFERENT PLAN TO YOU ALL TO HOW THAT FACILITY WILL OPERATE. 
          SO THAT TAKES US TO THE BEACH FUND. I'M JUST GOING TO ADD,
SO SPECIFICALLY, THERE WAS A REQUEST BY THE DEPARTMENT TO ADD A POSITION THERE. 
          AND I SAID, WELL, FRANKLY, IT'S NOT EQUIPPED TO HANDLE ONE,
FIRST OF ALL. 
          AND SECOND OF ALL, THAT WOULD BE A SEPARATE DISCUSSION ONCE IT IS. 
          AND THAT IS WHAT HE IS ALLUDING TO. SO IT WOULD STILL HAVE TO BE HE SAYS HE'S GOING TO ASK
FOR IT AGAIN. 
          WE'LL STILL HAVE ASSUMING I'M YOUR CITY MANAGER,
I'M GOING TO HAVE THE SAME CONVERSATION. 
          SO I JUST TO BE PRUDENT, IT WAS A MATTER OF IF WE'VE BEEN COVERING IT,
THAT'S THE WAY WE'RE GOING TO COVER IT CONTINUED. 
          AND WE NEED WE NEED TO PROCEED WITH GETTING THE PROJECT DONE. 
          THEN WE'LL HAVE A CONVERSATION. CORRECT. CORRECT. 
          IN FAIRNESS, MAYOR, THANK YOU. SO THE BEACH MAINTENANCE IN YELLOW,
YOU'LL SEE THE STAFF THAT'S RELATED TO OUR FACILITIES, WHICH ARE OUR DEPARTMENT, EXCUSE ME, WHICH COMPRISE OF EQUIPMENT OPERATOR CUSTODIANS AS
WELL AS THE LANDSCAPE TECHS. 
          THERE'S TEN POSITIONS AND THE CURRENT BUDGET YEAR AND WE'RE REQUESTING TEN POSITIONS. 
          SO NO CHANGE REQUESTING TEN, MAY I? WHY THAT STILL UP THERE? ABSOLUTELY. I WANT TO ECHO THIS BECAUSE I WANTED TO TALK WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS
IN PUBLIC, BUT I WANTED TO ECHO THIS IN THIS MEETING SO THAT THE OR EXCUSE ME IN PRIVATE,
BUT IN PUBLIC SO THAT EVERYONE WOULD KNOW. 
          WE SHIRO HAD ALLUDED TO IT EARLIER AS FAR AS THE BEACH ENFORCEMENT INCREASING IT BY ONE. 
          IT'S BUDGETED AND SAYS IT'S A FULL POSITION,
BUT IT'LL BE BASICALLY HALF THE YEAR. 
          AND IN ANTICIPATION OF THE PIER OPENING, I DO WANT TO SAY THAT IS OUR INTENT OR MY INTENT
TO COME BACK TO YOU IN OCTOBER TO DISCUSS LOUDERMILK PARK AND PARKING FEES. FROM WE HAVE BEEN NOW FOR THE LAST SIX MONTHS,
WHENEVER THERE'S A HOLIDAY, SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR, WE'VE INCREASED AND OUTSOURCED THE CLOSING AND HAVING SOMEBODY OPERATE THE GATE AT THE
ENTRANCE TO THE PARK AND AT THE EXIT SO THAT WE CAN CONTROL TRAFFIC A LITTLE BIT. IT'S MY INTENT TO COME TO YOU TO TALK ABOUT A FEE INCREASE
AND WHAT WE COULD DO THAT, USE IT AS A PILOT PROGRAM FOR THIS SEASON. AND PERHAPS,
MAN, THAT DURING ALL THE TIME THAT IT'S OPEN. 
          AND THE REASON BEING IS AS PEOPLE COME IN, IN THE PARKING LOT IS FULL. 
          THEY JUST CIRCLE IT BACKS UP TRAFFIC INTO THE ROAD. 
          AND IF WE CAN CONTROL AND HAVE THE ARM DOWN THAT SAYS PARKING LOT FULL AND CONTROL WHEN WE
LET THEM IN AND OUT, YES, THEY'LL BE UPSET THAT THEY CAN'T GET INTO THE PARKING LOT,
BUT IT WILL SHOULD ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE TRAFFIC CONCERNS WE HAVE BY NOT GETTING THEM THERE AND JUST SITTING THERE AND BACKING EVERYTHING UP. SO I'LL BE COMING TO YOU IN
OCTOBER AT LEAST TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. 
          I DID WANT TO FORESHADOW THAT IN THIS MEETING. 
          SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. BEACH FUND REVENUE,
THIS EVERYTHING IN YELLOW IS AS IT RELATES TO OUR DEPARTMENT. I DID WANT TO HIGHLIGHT THE ALLOTMENT PARK CONTRACT,
WHICH THAT IS THE CONCESSION OPERATION THAT SHOWS YOU THE ANTICIPATION OF WHAT WE BRING IN EACH YEAR FOR THAT. BEACH FUND HAS WE HAVE ABOUT 2.1 MILLION THAT WE OPERATE OUT OF IN THE
BEACH FUND, AND THAT IS LOUDERMILK PARK AT 272,000. THE NAPLES PIER AT 273,000,
AND THEN THE BEACH MAINTENANCE AT 1.6 MILLION. 
          SO STARTING WITH THE BEACH MAINTENANCE AT 1.6 MILLION,
WE'RE LOOKING AT A $94,000 INCREASE, WHICH IS 6.2%. THIS DOES INCLUDE A CIP. WE DO HAVE LESS FROM OUR CIP THIS YEAR. 
          SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE OVERALL WE'RE LOOKING AT PERSONNEL SERVICES,
$71,000 INCREASE AT 81 OR 8.4 THOUSAND. 
          AND THEN THE OPERATING EXPENSES, $40,000 INCREASE AT 6.1%. 
          AND THAT IS FROM THE SPECIAL EVENTS AND THE FIREWORKS. 
          WE ARE GOING TO BE REDOING THAT CONTRACT THIS YEAR. 
          AND WE ANTICIPATE THAT THAT CONTRACT IS VERY OLD. 
          SO WE WANTED TO MAKE THE ADJUSTMENTS SO THAT WE WERE ABLE TO PUT A QUALITY SHOW TOGETHER. 
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NAPLES PIER YOU SEE 160,000 $165,000 INCREASE HERE. 
          AND THAT IS BECAUSE WE WANT TO CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THOSE RESTROOM TRAILERS AND THE PORTA
JOHNS AT BOTH LOCATIONS UNTIL THE PIER HAS BEEN FINISHED. 
          AND UNTIL THEN, THIS IS WHAT THAT WILL REFLECT. 
          AND THEN WE'LL HAVE WE'LL GO BACK MORE TO A OPERATING BUDGET IN THE NEXT YEAR. 
          LOUDERMILK PARK, WE HAD A $259,000 DECREASE. AND AGAIN,
THIS WAS CIP DRIVEN. 
          WE HAD SOME REDUCTIONS IN THE CIP, BUT WE. WE DID DO AN $8,000 INCREASE IN OPERATING
EXPENSES, WHICH, AGAIN, AS I SAID AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS,
WE'RE LOOKING AT THE REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE BEING A MAJORITY OF THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE MAINTAINING THOSE FACILITIES THAT WE'VE HAD TO GO AND REBUILD. 
          ANY QUESTIONS ON BEACH FUN. OTHERWISE, I'LL MOVE ON TO CITY DOC. 
          CITY DOC. THIS IS THE CURRENT STAFFING. THEY ARE WORKING EXTREMELY HARD. 
          WHAT PAGE ARE YOU ON? I'M SORRY. SORRY. PAGE 244. 
          AND IT'S GOING TO BE 243 FOR THE REVENUE. SO REVENUE IS IN YELLOW. 
          AND JUST TO HIGHLIGHT WHERE YOU SEE THE FUEL CELLS,
WHAT I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS IS THE THAT UNDERGROUND, UNDERGROUND, UNDERGROUND TANK, THAT PROJECT,
WHEN IT STARTS, IT'S GOING TO IMPACT THIS LINE ITEM. 
          IT'S GOING TO IMPACT THAT LINE ITEM AND THE REVENUE. 
          AND IT'S ALSO GOING TO IMPACT THE EXPENSE. WE WILL HAVE HAVE TO SHUT DOWN OUR FUEL SERVICE
UNTIL THAT PROJECT IS COMPLETE. 
          BUT WE HAVE NOT GOTTEN WE'RE AT THE DESIGN AND PERMITTING SIDE OF IT RIGHT NOW,
BUT I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY KNOWS THAT GOING IN. 
          BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT EVERYTHING ELSE AS FAR AS DOCK RENTALS,
TRANSIENT RENTALS ALL OF OUR RETAIL SALES, THEY WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THIS. SO ON PAGE 245,
YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THE EXPENSE AT 2.7 MILLION, WHICH IS A $74,000 DECREASE, WHICH IS 2.6% DECREASE. 
          THERE'S YOU'VE GOT YOUR PERSONNEL SERVICES AGAIN,
THAT ADJUSTMENTS WERE MADE. 
          AND THEN WE'VE GOT A TECHNOLOGY CHARGE THAT INCREASED BY 46,000,
BUT SOME OF THE NOTABLE DECREASES HERE, YOU'LL SEE THE SELF-INSURANCE CHARGE. BUT THE FUEL,
WE DID DO A REDUCTION ON THE FUEL BASED ON WHAT WE WERE ACTUALLY SPENDING. 
          AND AGAIN, THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE A LITTLE BIT WITH ONCE THAT PROJECT STARTS UP. 
          BUT THIS $2.7 MILLION NUMBER DOES NOT INCLUDE THE $50,000 CAP THAT IS GOING TO BE FOR THE
MAINTENANCE DREDGE OF THE CITY DOCK. SO YOU'RE GOING TO SEE THAT NUMBER HERE WHERE YOU GOT THE REVENUE AT 3.2. 
          AND IT SHOWS 2.7. IF YOU INCLUDE THE CIP, THAT'S GOING TO GO TO 2.8 MILLION. 
          SO THAT NET WILL BE A LITTLE BIT LESS. AND I'LL ACTUALLY LET JERRY SPEAK ON THIS. 
          YEAH. THE THING ABOUT THIS IS REMEMBER REMEMBERING THIS IS AN ENTERPRISE FUND. 
          SO NOT ONLY DOES IT HAVE TO TAKE CARE OF ITS OPERATING EXPENSES,
BUT ITS CAPITAL AND ANY DEBT RELATED AS WELL. 
          SO AS YOU RECALL, WE DID AN INTERNAL LOAN WHEN WE REBUILT THE CITY DOCK AND WE WERE MAKING
EXTRA PAYMENTS FOR A PERIOD OF TIME OF THE PRINCIPAL REQUIRED IS $305,000 A YEAR. WE HAD SUCCESSFULLY MADE FIVE EXTRA PAYMENTS. 
          AND SO WHEN YOU TAKE A NET OF 468, YOU TAKE AWAY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT OF 50,000,
INTEREST OF 61,000 AND PRINCIPAL OF 305. 
          IT'S OPERATING WITH SLIGHT PROFIT AND IT'S THE WAY THE ENTERPRISE SHOULD. 
          HOWEVER, BECAUSE OF THE FUEL PROJECT THAT WE HAVE BUDGETED FOR $1 MILLION,
IF YOU RECALL, AND IT'LL SHOW IT ON THE NEXT SLIDE HERE IN A MOMENT. 
          GO AHEAD AND GO TO THAT, CHAD. YEP. YOU ALREADY DID. 
          NEVER MIND THIS. NO, THE OTHER ONE. SO WE HAD PAID 610 OR DOUBLE THE PRINCIPAL PAYMENT FOR
A PERIOD OF FIVE YEARS BECAUSE OF THE MILLION DOLLARS IN THE FUEL PROJECT. WE EXPECT TO STILL REMAIN WHEN THIS PROJECT IS DONE. 
          ONE FULL PAYMENT EXTRA AHEAD. HOWEVER, WE WILL DO INTEREST ONLY UNTIL THIS FUEL PROJECT IS
COMPLETE. 
          I WOULD REMIND YOU THAT WE'RE WE'RE AT ABOUT 60% DESIGN NOW ON THE PROJECT. 
          WE BUDGETED $1 MILLION. WE EXPECT IT TO BE SOMEWHAT HIGHER THAN THAT. 
          HOW SIGNIFICANT? WE DON'T KNOW YET. BUT CHAD WAS ABLE TO AND IS IN THE PROCESS OF
FINALIZING A GRANT APPLICATION THAT WOULD COME TO YOU. 
          THE POTENTIAL FOR JUST OVER $400,000 TO ASSIST WITH THAT. 
          SO WE'RE HOPEFUL AND REMAIN OPTIMISTIC THAT WE CAN COMPLETE THAT GRANT,
BRING IT TO YOU IN ANY ADDITIONAL ABOVE THE MILLION IS COVERED WITHIN THAT THRESHOLD, 
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BUT THAT'S A WAIT AND SEE UNTIL WE GET THE FINAL NUMBERS. 
          SO BUT OTHER THAN THAT, THE DOC IS STILL POISED TO OPERATE EFFICIENTLY AS AN ENTERPRISE
FUND RESUME ITS PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST ONCE THIS PROJECT IS DONE. AND THAT'S WITHOUT THE RECOGNITION THAT WE'LL ACTUALLY BE IN A BETTER POSITION TO
SELL MORE FUEL BECAUSE OUR TANKS HOLD MORE FUEL WHEN WE RUN OUT. 
          SO AND I'LL LEAVE IT AT THAT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. SO THAT MOVES US OUT OF THE CITY,
DOC, AND INTO PAGE 266, THE AUTHOR, AUTHOR ALLEN TENNIS CENTER. EXCUSE ME. YEAH. MAYOR GOT A QUESTION OF CHAD ON THE FIELD. 
          OH, YES. PLEASE. ABSOLUTELY. IN REGARDS TO THE FUEL,
THE PRICE BEING CHARGED PER GALLON. 
          WHERE WHERE DOES THIS WORK? AS FAR AS THE CITY,
WITH OTHER MUNICIPALITIES THAT HAVE SUCH SERVICES AND DOCKS AND THAT KIND OF STUFF, WHERE ARE WE AT IN THE FEE STRUCTURE FOR EACH OF THOSE GALLONS THAT ARE THERE FOR
COMPARATIVE COMPARATIVE PURPOSES WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES? YEAH. SO WE'LL DO A AN ANALYSIS. WE'RE DUE THIS YEAR TO DO IT,
TO KIND OF COMPARE HOW WE SET IN ALL OF OUR FEES, WHICH INCLUDES THE FUEL. I DON'T HAVE THAT NUMBER RIGHT NOW. 
          IT'S SOMETHING THAT I CAN GET TO YOU AT A LATER DATE. 
          BUT I, I WOULD SAY THAT THIS YEAR WE WOULD GO THROUGH AND WE WOULD WE DO EXACTLY WHAT
YOU'RE ASKING, WHICH IS FIND OUT WHAT OTHER MUNICIPALITIES ARE DOING,
WHAT THEY'RE CHARGING, BUT ALSO HOW IT COMPARES TO THE SALES AND WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE CHARGING WITHIN THE MARINAS IN THE BAY AND IN OUR AREA. 
          SO THOSE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE REALLY HAVE TO FOCUS ON. 
          AND WE TRY TO PUT THAT REPORT TOGETHER. SO WHEN IT COMES TO YOU ALL,
I'LL HAVE A LOT OF THOSE ANSWERS TO BE ABLE TO SAY, THIS IS WHERE WE AS A AS A STATE, THIS IS WHERE WE,
WE RANK FROM A MUNICIPALITY AS THE ONES THAT WE PULL UP. 
          BUT HERE'S ALSO HOW WE COMPARE TO THE ONES LOCALLY,
TRYING TO AVOID A SCENARIO WHERE WE'RE IN ONE WITH NOW WITH ANOTHER CITY ASSET IN REGARDS TO SOMETHING THAT'S BEING DONE IN REGARDS TO COST FOR FUEL. 
          AND SO JUST TRYING TO AVOID SUCH A THING SO WE CAN BE UP IN THE UPPER TIER,
NOT THE LOWER TIER FOR SUCH DISCRETIONARY TYPE FUNDS WITH EQUIPMENT THAT OPERATES WITH THAT FUEL. YEAH,
ABSOLUTELY. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I HAVE A QUESTION ON THE MAINTENANCE AND EXPENSE FOR THE CITY DOCK. 
          THE EXPENSE OF 14,000. IS THAT LAST YEAR'S WAS UP TO MAINTAIN THE FLOATING DOCK ITSELF. WAS THAT BECAUSE THERE WAS BARNACLES THAT NEEDED. 
          IS THAT COMPLETE OR. YES. SO WE DO EVERY YEAR WE,
WE HAVE A DIVER THAT WILL GO DOWN AND THEY'LL DO KIND OF A OVERVIEW AND EVALUATION OF WHAT WE HAVE DOWN THERE AND THAT'LL, THEY'LL CLEAN OFF THE DOCK AND THE BARNACLES IF THEY'RE
BUILT UP, BUT THEY'RE ALSO THE ONES THAT SAID, IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO BE CONSIDERING A MAINTENANCE
DREDGE. 
          SO WE, WE TRY TO MAINTAIN THAT ON A YEARLY BASIS. 
          WE EVEN STAFF AT TIMES, THEY HAVE TO KIND OF EVALUATE WHEN THEY GO AND THEY LOOK AND THEY
CAN SEE DOWN AND SEE WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          AND WE TRY TO GET AHEAD OF IT THE BEST YOU CAN. 
          BUT OBVIOUSLY EVERYBODY KNOWS WHEN IT COMES TO THE THE SALT WATER,
IT DOESN'T TAKE LONG FOR THAT STUFF TO, TO BUILD UP. SO BUT WE DEFINITELY WANT TO CONTINUE TO,
TO DO THOSE THINGS. 
          AND YES, WE DO TAKE THAT OUT OF THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR AND SOME OF THE CONTRACTED
SERVICES OR PROFESSIONAL SERVICE LINE ITEMS. AND THEN HOW MANY BOATS DO YOU HAVE AT CITY DOCK? AS FAR AS CITY, WE HAVE A POLICE FIRE AND A NATURAL RESOURCES. 
          SO WE HAVE THE CITY BOAT THAT WE UTILIZE THAT WE'VE HAD,
I DON'T KNOW FOR HOW MANY, MANY YEARS, BUT WE DO HAVE A POLICE BOAT THAT THAT UTILIZES AND COMES IN AND OUT AND THEN A FIREBOAT
BUT WE ALSO HAVE NATURAL RESOURCES, UTILIZES THE DOCK. WE HAVE SEVERAL DEPARTMENTS THAT COME THROUGH THERE,
AS WELL AS STATE AGENCIES LIKE FWC AND SOME OF THOSE FROM TIME TO TIME, YOU MAY GET A COAST GUARD, BUT WE WE HAVE A LOT OF AGENCIES THAT RUN AND OPERATE OUT
OF THE CITY DOCK AND UTILIZE THE SERVICES THERE, ESPECIALLY FUEL. SO THEY'RE MAINTAINING. RIGHT. 
          I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK. I CAN GET YOU THAT NUMBER. 
          EXACTLY, BECAUSE WE HAVE A COUPLE OF THAT KIND OF MIGRATE TO HAVE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS THAT
THEY GO TO. 
          SO I CAN GET YOU THAT NUMBER. I'M SURE WE CAN PROBABLY GET IT BEFORE THIS MEETING ENDS. 
          AND THE MOORING BALLS THAT ARE TO THE WEST OF OUR CITY DOCK,
THOSE ARE BEING 
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MAINTAINED. AND HOW MANY ARE THERE AT THIS POINT? SO THERE'S 12 THAT THAT WE MAINTAIN. SO THERE'S ONE OR EXCUSE ME,
HALF OF THEM ARE ON OUR SIDE OF THE NAPLES YACHT CLUB, AND THEN THE OTHER HALF OF THEM ARE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE NAPLES YACHT CLUB. 
          SO WE MAINTAIN EACH ALL OF THOSE. OH, WE MAINTAIN THOSE AT THE YACHT CLUB. 
          THAT'S ON THE OTHER SIDE. CORRECT. AND THEN WHAT ABOUT THE ONES THAT ARE RIGHT THERE BY
THE LANDINGS? THOSE ARE NOT MAINTAINED BY US. THOSE ARE JUST,
YOU KNOW, WATERS, INTERNATIONAL WATERS OR WHATNOT. 
          THEY CAN JUST MORE THEY'RE NOT ON MOORING BALLS. 
          YES. THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. AND SORRY TO BRING THIS UP NOW,
BUT WE'RE ALL HERE. 
          POLICE. AND THERE'S A VESSEL THAT'S BEEN OUT THERE. 
          IT'S A DERELICT VESSEL. AND I MEAN, I WAS SURPRISED I HAVEN'T BEEN ON THE WATER IN A LONG
TIME, BUT THAT IS STILL OUT THERE FOR YOU. SO FOR THE RECORD,
WE DON'T TAKE BOATS OUT OF THE WATER. 
          WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO TAKE BOATS OUT OF THE WATER. 
          NO, THERE'S A PROCESS THAT YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH WITH THE STATE WHERE YOU DO A REPORTING
AND THEY HAVE A MAP THAT'S ON THERE. 
          AND IF YOU GO ON THE MAP, YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO SEE ALL OF THEM THAT HAVE BEEN
MARKED. AND AT THAT POINT, YOU HAVE TO WAIT. 
          ONCE IT'S TURNED OVER TO FDEP, YOU HAVE TO WAIT FOR THEM TO ARRANGE TO HAVE IT REMOVED. 
          THAT'S JUST THE PROCESS. SOME OF THEM, YOU KNOW,
I SAW THE ONE THAT, THAT WE HAD THAT I THINK WAS FINALLY REMOVED MAYBE A YEAR OR TWO AGO. 
          IT HAD BEEN ON THERE FOR A LONG TIME. AND IT'S JUST THAT'S THE PROCESS THAT YOU GO
THROUGH. 
          WE REPORT IT. POLICE. THEY GO AND THEY CHECK IT. 
          ONES THAT ARE REPORTED DERELICT. AND THEY HANDLE IT THE WAY THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO
HANDLE IT. 
          BUT ULTIMATELY IT'S A, IT'S A STATE SITUATION. 
          RIGHT. I UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT JUST IS THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT THAT MAKES THOSE REQUESTS OR IS
THAT THE POLICE? WE WORK WITH POLICE WHEN WE SEE IT BECAUSE WE DON'T GO OUT AND DO ANY INVESTIGATION. 
          RIGHT. BUT JUST WHO DOES THE REPORTING TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT ONE'S REMOVED? YEAH. OKAY. THANK YOU. NO FURTHER QUESTIONS,
MAYOR. 
          JUST ON THAT POINT. YES. I'M SORRY, MR. MCCONNELL. 
          THERE WAS A RECENT HOUSE BILL THAT CAME OUT THIS YEAR THAT I'M ACTUALLY WORKING ON AN
ORDINANCE FOR. 
          IT DOES HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY THE FWC, BUT IT DOES ALLOW US TO INITIATE CODE ENFORCEMENT
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST DERELICT VESSELS, AND IT GIVES US SOME MORE ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY. SO I JUST THINK IT WAS RELEVANT TO THE
CONVERSATION, SO I FIGURED I'D MENTION IT. I'LL PUT THAT BALL IN YOUR COURT THEN. 
          IT'S ALREADY THERE. OKAY. THANK YOU. SORRY FOR THE INTERRUPTION. 
          NOW WE ARE FINISHED WITH THE CITY DOCK. MOVING TO TO ARTHUR ISLAND TENNIS CENTER. 
          IT'S PAGE TWO, 66. THIS SHOWS THE CURRENT STAFFING. 
          WE HAVEN'T CHANGED OR MADE ANY CHANGES TO THE STAFFING. 
          HERE'S THE REVENUE. EVERYTHING IN YELLOW IS WHAT WE'RE PROJECTING FOR THIS COMING UP YEAR. 
          AND YOU CAN SEE THAT MEMBERSHIP AND THE LESSONS IS A GOOD PORTION OF THAT. 
          AND TOTAL AT 1.1 MILLION. NOW ONE THING I WANT TO SAY IS THIS FACILITY IS DUE FOR A ALSO
FEES TO BE ADJUSTED. WE HAVEN'T DONE THAT IN A FEW YEARS NOW. 
          SO WE'LL DO THAT SAME RESEARCH THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WITH CITY DOC. 
          WE'LL DO THAT WITH THE TENNIS CENTER, AND THEN WE'LL BRING IT TO YOU ALL WITH ANY
ADJUSTMENTS THAT NEED TO BE MADE. 
          SO ANTICIPATING THOSE ADJUSTMENTS THIS NUMBER IS NOT REFLECTING THAT. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK AT THIS, THE EXPENSE IS 1.1 MILLION. 
          AGAIN, IT'S VERY CLOSE. WE ARE MAINTAINING A VERY SIMILAR BUDGET,
BUT WE ALSO, WHEN YOU PUT THEM TOGETHER, YOU SEE THAT IT SHOWS A NET OF $36,000 LOSS,
BUT THAT'S NOT THE WAY THAT WE'LL HAVE IT OPERATED. 
          AND WE DO TRY TO MAINTAIN IT, BUT THAT'S JUST BASED ON THOSE NUMBERS. 
          IF WE DO THIS ADJUSTMENT, THAT NUMBER IS GOING TO CLOSE A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN THAN WHAT
WE HAVE HERE. 
          EXCUSE ME, SKIP TO SO ANY QUESTIONS ON THE TENNIS CENTER BEFORE I MOVE ON? JUST MORE OF A COMMENT. YES. IN THE ONBOARDING TOUR I TOOK WITH YOU FOLKS CAME TO CAME TO
FIND OUT THAT THE USTA NATIONAL CENTER AWARD YOU GOT IT'S, THAT'S A PRETTY AMAZING AWARD AROUND THIS
COUNTRY. 
          A LOT, A LOT OF CLUBS WANT THAT THEY FIGHT LIKE THE DICKENS TO GET THOSE APPOINTMENTS. 
          AND YOU GOT IT. SO WHOEVER WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN THAT,
PLEASE GIVE THEM MY RESPECT YOU KNOW, ENCOURAGEMENT FOR CONTINUING TO RUN A CENTER AT THAT LEVEL IS SOMETHING THAT THE CITY
DOESN'T REALLY KNOW ABOUT. 
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THE TENNIS PLAYERS MIGHT MAY DO IT IN MY TRAVELS AROUND THE COUNTRY COACHING TENNIS THAT'S
A BIG DEAL. 
          SO MY HAT'S OFF TO YOU GUYS. THANK YOU. AND I'LL KIND OF ON THE HALF OF THAT,
I WANT TO SAY THAT YOU CAN ADVOCATE AND YOU CAN TRY TO GET YOUR NAME OUT THERE, BUT YOU HAVE TO DO A LOT TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT AWARD. 
          SO YOU DON'T JUST GET IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW SOMEBODY. 
          SO IT IS A, IT'S A TESTAMENT TO WHAT STAFF DOES THERE AND HOW THEY MAINTAIN THE FACILITY
WHEN THEY'RE THERE EVERY SINGLE MORNING AT 6:00 IN THE MORNING, DOING COURT MAINTENANCE. AND THEN WHEN WE HAVE TO DO RESURFACING PROJECTS AND THINGS THAT
WE DO TO KEEP IT UP AFTER HURRICANES. 
          SO I DO WANT TO TAKE MY HATS OFF TO THE STAFF,
BECAUSE A LOT OF THAT WAS BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY DO AND HOW HARD THEY WORK, AND WE'RE VERY PROUD OF THAT AWARD. AND I HAVE HAD TENNIS CENTERS IN PREVIOUS CITIES. 
          WE'VE NEVER TOUCHED THAT AWARD. WE NEVER EVEN CAME CLOSE TO TOUCHING THAT AWARD. 
          SO NAPLES IS THE BEST. SO THAT'S WHAT WE EXPECT. 
          AND YOU'RE COMPETING WITH PRIVATE FACILITIES. 
          CORRECT. WHICH IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT BALL GAME. 
          JUST THE COURT MAINTENANCE. I'M JUST IMPRESSED THAT THAT GOT DONE AT THE LEVEL IT DOES FOR
A MUNICIPAL COURT. 
          THAT'S THAT'S BIG. SO HATS OFF TO YOU. THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. AND KEVIN, 30 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AS A VERY,
VERY IMPORTANT WHEN IT COMES TO STUFF LIKE THAT. 
          IF NO OTHER QUESTIONS ON PAGE 92 YOU'VE GOT THE EXCUSE ME,
I THINK IT'S GOT PAGE 92, BUT I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IT REFLECTED ON THERE BECAUSE IT'S FROM LAST YEAR. SORRY, I APOLOGIZE. 
          THE THIS IS JUST AN OVERVIEW OF THE CURRENT CIPS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON. 
          AND I WANTED TO DO THIS SO THAT YOU SEE A LOT OF THE PROJECTS THAT ARE UNDERWAY,
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE STILL PENDING, GETTING READY TO COME TO CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL. 
          THE ONLY THING THAT WE HAVE ON THIS LIST RIGHT HERE THAT'S REALLY ON HOLD IS THE HARBOR
DRIVE THAT MEDIAN PROJECT BECAUSE OF THE ROUNDABOUT DISCUSSION, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE IS MOVING ALONG. 
          SOME OF THESE THINGS COULD ACTUALLY BE UPDATED A LITTLE BIT MORE WHEN I PUT THIS
PRESENTATION, I HAVE SOME OF THE NUMBERS, BUT YOU GET THE DRIFT. BAKER PARK PROJECT, THIS IS THE ONE WITH THE OFFICE,
THE ADDITIONAL RESTROOM AND THEN FIXING THE PAVERS THAT PROJECTS IN DESIGN AS WELL AND FINALIZE THE DESIGN. 
          SO WE ANTICIPATE BEING ABLE TO GET THAT TO BID VERY SOON. 
          BUT THEN HERE YOU LOOK AT THE CRA, AND WE HAVE PROJECTS WITHIN THE CRA. 
          THOSE C, RCR PROJECTS ARE UNDERWAY AS WELL WITH THE ANTHONY PARK PLAYGROUND THAT RECENTLY
CAME TO YOU ALL. 
          AND THEY ALSO HAVE FUNDING GOING TOWARDS THE PAVER REPAIR AND BAKER PARK. 
          AND THEN HERE YOU'VE GOT THE TENNIS FUND WHERE WE HAVE THE RESURFACING THAT'S COMING TO
YOU ALL HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MEETINGS. 
          AND THEN THE THE SHADE STRUCTURE, WHICH WAS APPROVED. 
          AND THEY'RE WORKING NOW THROUGH THEIR PERMITTING AND THEN THE CITY DOCK. 
          WE TALKED ABOUT THE FUEL TANK PROJECT, THE NAPLES LANDING IMPROVEMENTS. 
          THAT IS ALMOST DONE. WE'VE GOT TO COMPLETE SOME PAINTING AND THEN THAT'S CLOSED OUT. 
          SO THAT PROJECT WILL BE COMPLETE. AND THEN THE BEACH FUN. 
          WE HAVE THE LOUDERMILK PARK IMPROVEMENT, WHICH IS THE PLAYGROUND AND THE SHELTER. 
          AND THOSE WERE COMBINED. THOSE WERE APPROVED. 
          THOSE ARE ALSO GOING THROUGH THE PERMITTING AND AND DEVELOPMENT SIDE OF THINGS. 
          SO WE'VE GOT THAT ONE THAT'S WE ANTICIPATE COMING PROBABLY AT IN THE SPRING,
I WOULD GUESS, OF 2027 BEING COMPLETED. AND THEN HERE'S AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT WE PROPOSED IN FY 27 FOR OUR CIP. AND A LOT OF GOOD THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN THIS COMING UP HERE. 
          SO WE'RE EXCITED AND WE APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S PATIENCE AS WE GO THROUGH IT. 
          BUT THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT AS WELL. THANK YOU. 
          WHAT ARE SOME OF THOSE EXCITING THINGS THAT ARE GOING TO HAPPEN THIS YEAR? WELL, THE NAPLES PIER YOU'VE GOT AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE CAMBIER PARK PLAYGROUND,
THE LOUDERMILK PARK PLAYGROUND. 
          WE MAY EVEN HAVE ANTHONY PARK PLAYGROUND. THEY COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE THAT ONE DONE THIS
YEAR. 
          SO WE'LL HAVE WE'LL GET A TASTE OF SOMETHING EXCITING RIGHT AT THE END OF THE YEAR HERE. 
          WE HOPE. BUT YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE REALLY TRIED TO TO GET THESE THINGS MOVING THE BAKER
PARK PROJECT, BEING ABLE TO GET THE, THE RESTROOM FACILITY THERE. 
          A LOT OF THOSE THINGS ARE, IT'S, IT'S A BIG DEAL AND WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT IT. 
          I HOPE EVERYBODY ELSE IS EXCITED. I WANTED YOU TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT. 
          YES, WE ARE EXCITED. SO THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK. 
          YEP. AND THIS WAS AGAIN, THE BEACH FUN. THAT'S WHAT WE SUBMITTED FOR THIS COMING UP YEAR. 
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AND THAT'S IT. ANY QUESTIONS? YES. VICE MAYOR. 
          YEAH, LOTS OF GOOD PROJECTS UNDERWAY THERE. VERY EXCITING. 
          CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO EXPERIENCE THEM. ON THE FIVE YEAR PLAN. 
          FOR PROJECTS. I THINK WE SHOULD CONSIDER REDOING THE CAMBIER PARK RESTROOM BEHIND THE
BENCH. 
          HELL IS IN JUST AS BAD A SHAPE AS THE FLEISCHMANN PARK RESTROOM,
AND IT'S ONE THAT GETS SO MUCH USE FROM PEOPLE VISITING THE ART CENTER, FIFTH AVENUE, CAMBIER PARK. IT REALLY NEEDS AN OVERHAUL IN MY OPINION. 
          SO I ABSOLUTELY AGREE. ANYONE DISAGREE WITH THAT? I THINK DEFINITELY. I'M NOT SURE OF THE TIMING OF HOW YOU FIT IN WITH OTHER PROJECTS,
BUT WE SHOULD START PLANNING IT. 
          THANK YOU. AND THEN I SKIPPED OVER A QUESTION. 
          BACK IN THE PARKS SECTION, THERE'S A LINE ITEM FOR TEMPORARY COUNSELORS AT RIVER PARK FOR. 
          IT'S GONE UP A LOT OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS FROM 90,000 TO 260,000. 
          CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT TEMPORARY COUNSELORS. YEAH. 
          SO THAT'S THE SUMMER CAMP. SO AND AS WELL AS ANY HOLIDAY CAMP,
OR IF WE DO A AN AFTER SCHOOL. 
          SO WE HAVE TO HAVE STAFFING FOR THAT. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT COVERS. 
          SO IT WENT UP BECAUSE WE STARTED TAKING ON A LOT OF THE CAMPS ON OUR OWN,
WHERE WE HAD ALL OF THESE CAMPS THAT WERE CONTRACTED OUT. 
          SO A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, THAT WAS THE DIRECTION THAT WE WENT. 
          WE SAID, WE'RE GOING TO TRANSITION THOSE OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS,
WHICH WE'VE DONE. 
          SO WE ANTICIPATE THAT HAPPEN A LITTLE BIT MORE COMING UP IN THIS NEXT SUMMER,
EVEN TO GET TO A POINT WHERE WE'RE OPERATING THOSE CAMPS IN-HOUSE INSTEAD OF HAVING OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN OUR FACILITIES. 
          I'M NOT SURE WHERE THE FEE INCOME IS, IS ON IN YOUR SECTION. 
          MUST BE SOMEWHERE ELSE, BUT DO THE FEES COVER THOSE COSTS? YEAH. SO THE, THAT'S THE WAY WE WOULD RUN THAT CAMP. 
          THE CAMPS, WE WOULD WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY COVER THEIR COST AND THEY WOULD BE
DESIGNED TO DO THAT. 
          AND YEAH. OKAY. I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE WE CAN HAVE JUST SHARE A SUPPLEMENTAL ANALYSIS ON THE
CAMPS THAT JUST SHOWS THE FEES VERSUS THE EXPENSES. I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL AGAIN,
MAYBE AS PART OF YOUR LOOKING AT THE OTHER FEES FOR THE DOCK AND THE TENNIS COURTS TO SEE THAT WE'RE SETTING THE FEES APPROPRIATELY. I AGREE AND THAT'S ALSO I'M GLAD YOU SAID THAT, BECAUSE THAT WILL BE SOMETHING, ESPECIALLY WITH THE UPDATE TO THE MASTER PLAN. 
          ONCE THAT'S DONE, WE WOULD WE WOULD WANT TO COME TO YOU ALL WITH A FEE ADJUSTMENT FROM THE
RECREATION SIDE, WHICH WOULD INCLUDE THINGS LIKE THAT. OKAY. AND IS THAT PART OF THE SPECIAL EVENTS MANUAL
AS WELL, OR IS THAT SEPARATE WHERE YOU LOOK AT FEES CHARGED FOR PERMITTING SPECIAL EVENTS TO SEE
THAT WE'RE COVERING OUR COST, THE SPECIAL EVENTS WE WILL NOT LUMP TOGETHER TO GET THE FINAL MANUAL ADJUSTMENTS FOR
ANYTHING TO DO WITH PARKS AND RECREATION FEES. 
          WHEN WE'RE READY TO BRING PARKS AND RECREATION FEES,
WE WOULD BRING THAT TO A WORKSHOP IN ITS OWN ISOLATED. 
          WE'LL BRING THE DOCK AT THE SAME TIME. TENNIS CENTER,
WE BRING YOU ALL THOSE. 
          BUT THE SPECIAL EVENT MANUAL IS IT'S, IT'S, IT'S ITS OWN DIALOG TO GET TO THE REST OF THE
CHANGES IN THE MANUAL. 
          AND THEN WE WOULD DO THE, A SEPARATE DISCUSSION ON THE FEES. 
          OKAY. THAT'S FINE. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S YEAH,
I DON'T, I DON'T WANT TO WAIT THAT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE NEVER GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE DO MAKE A MANUAL CHANGE FOR THE
SPECIAL EVENTS I DO, IT IS PAST DUE AND SOME OF THE PARKS AND RECREATION FEES AND WANT TO GET THAT BEFORE YOU
HERE WITHIN THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, THREE WORKSHOPS WHICH WOULD, YOU KNOW,
BY NOVEMBER. 
          WE'D LIKE TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION. ALL RIGHT. 
          THANKS, BARTON. SO IF THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE IN THE TEMPORARY COUNSELORS,
BECAUSE WE ARE TAKING OVER THOSE SERVICES AS A MUNICIPALITY AND THEREFORE NOT CONTRACTING OUT,
SUBCONTRACTING OUT THOSE SERVICES TO ANOTHER COMPANY. 
          I ASSUME THAT THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT DECREASE IN COSTS,
BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GIVING SOME MONEY TO SUBCONTRACTORS TO HANDLE THAT FOR US. 
          CORRECT. AND SO THAT'S WHEN YOU LOOK AT PROFESSIONAL SERVICES,
WHEN WE HAVE THE CONTRACTED, THAT'S WHERE WE START DOING THAT THAT SHARE OF 6535 AND REVENUE SHARE. 
          AND FOR US, WE WOULD, YOU WOULD SEE A REDUCTION IN WHAT WE'RE PAYING OUT. 
          AND THEN ALL OF THAT REVENUE WOULD COME IN. AND THE WAY WE WANT TO TRY TO MAKE SURE AND WE
DO YOU KNOW, EVALUATIONS AND THINGS ON ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS,
WE DO A, AN EVENT EVEN, I MEAN, WE CAN, WE DO A FIVE K EVENT. 
          WE EVEN SHOW WHAT WE CALL OR WHAT WE SPENT, WHAT WE BROUGHT IN. 
          AND OUR GOAL IS ALWAYS TO BREAK EVEN. AND THAT'S WHAT I TRY TO PUSH ON ALL OF THESE NEW
PROGRAMS AND DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT THEY DO. 
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SOME OF THEM, THEY'RE, IT'S MORE OF A SERVICE. 
          SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT THINGS LIKE FIREWORKS YOU KNOW,
WE DON'T HAVE ANYTHING NECESSARILY COMING IN, BUT THAT'S WHERE THE OTHER PROGRAMS ARE REALLY TRYING TO CREATE A BALANCE. 
          IT DOESN'T ALWAYS GET THERE BECAUSE AGAIN, IT'S QUALITY OF LIFE AND GOING BACK TO HOW WE
BUDGET, BUT WE DO TRY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE COVER THE COST OF THOSE PROGRAMS. THANK YOU. AND ARE YOU GOING OVER THE CRA BUDGET? BECAUSE THAT'S WITHIN YOUR THAT WON'T BE HANDLED. 
          NO. THE CRA BUDGET WILL BE DISCUSSED AT THE NEXT CRA MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 8TH,
AND YOU'LL BE DISCUSSING IT AT THAT TIME. 
          OKAY. I CAN BE PRESENT, BUT I'LL LET. THAT'LL BE HANDLED BY. 
          YEAH. I MEAN, IF IT'S A QUESTION OF SOMETHING THAT'S IN YOUR SECTION,
BUT YOU WILL BE SITTING AS THE CRA ON SEPTEMBER 8TH, AND ANYONE WHO HAS A PORTION OF THE BUDGET WILL BE ATTENDING THE CRA MEETING TO ANSWER ANY
QUESTIONS RELATED TO THEIR DIVISION. 
          AND THEN THOSE 505 MEETINGS THAT SAME DAY. YES,
MA'AM. 
          OKAY. YES, MA'AM. ALL RIGHT. AND ACTUALLY, ONCE I HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY,
WE'RE STARTING TO TALK ABOUT THIS NOW. 
          WE MAY SEE, BASED ON THE CRA OVERALL MEETING. 
          AND IT'S JUST THE BUDGET AND A FEW UPDATES AS FAR AS MANAGEMENT. 
          BECAUSE REMEMBER, WE'VE FOCUSED SO MUCH ON CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE BEGINNING
DESIGNS, ETC.. IT'S POSSIBLE THAT MEETING MAY ONLY NEED TO BE,
YOU KNOW, THREE HOURS OR SOME. 
          SO WE MAY HAVE A LATER START THAN 830. BUT I WAS GOING TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT THAT
TOMORROW. 
          SO AND I WANT TO TALK TO THE CHAIR CHAIRPERSON ABOUT IT,
BECAUSE IT DOES MAKE SENSE TO NOT COME IN AT 830, THEN HAVE A, YOU KNOW, A FOUR HOUR MEETING BREAK FOR THREE HOURS AND COME BACK. 
          SO I WAS GOING TO APPROACH YOU ON THAT YOU KNOW,
AND THE CHAIR TOMORROW SOMETIME. 
          THANK YOU. AND I'M SORRY, I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE NORRIS CENTER. 
          PAGE 102. WITH THE CULTURAL ARTS THEATER, YOU KIND OF WHIZ BY THAT ON ME. 
          SO THE ACTUAL EXPENSES WERE 59,020 425, AND THEN IN 2526,
THE ADOPTED BUDGET WAS 175,000 AND THE ACTUAL WAS 75,000. 
          BUT THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS 125,000. SO WHY IS THAT PIECE? AND SO THIS IS WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THOSE ADJUSTMENTS WITH HOW WE'RE OPERATING THAT
FACILITY. 
          AND IT WAS UNKNOWN. SO THE FIRST YEAR WE KIND OF WENT IN BLINDLY AND WE SAID,
OKAY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE ANTICIPATING TO HAPPEN. 
          WHAT'S HAPPENED IS INSTEAD OF WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT DOING A COST SHARE,
WHAT'S THE SAME THING WHEN YOU BRING IN ACTS INTO THE NORTH CENTER? WE WERE DOING THESE COST SHARES, SO WE'D SAY,
YOU BRING IN 100 PEOPLE, BUY TICKETS, THEN EXCUSE ME. THEN WE WERE SPLITTING THOSE TICKET THAT TICKET REVENUE. 
          SO NOW WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE TRIED TO SHIFT IT MORE TOWARDS AN ACTUAL RENTAL BECAUSE WE
DON'T KNOW IF WE BRING IN AN ACT, IF THEY HAVE 200 PEOPLE OR IF THEY'RE GOING TO COME IN WITH 120 PEOPLE,
OR IF THEY'RE GOING TO COME IN WITH 79 PEOPLE, WE DON'T KNOW. SO IT'S BETTER FOR US TO KNOW THAT THIS RENTAL,
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING TO GET. 
          SO WE'RE TRYING TO KIND OF ANALYZE WHERE YOU'RE AT. 
          YEAH. BUT ANYTHING THAT'S SPENT OUT OF THAT MEANS THAT MONEY HAS COME IN AND,
AND THAT'S THE BIGGEST THING. 
          SO WE WANT TO BE PREPARED AND, AND WE TRY TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS BASED ON THE ACTUALS,
BUT WE ALSO DON'T WANT TO BE COMING BACK TO YOU ALL AND ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS OR A SUPPLEMENT TO THE BUDGET IF WE DON'T HAVE TO. 
          OKAY. THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT. BUT THEN TO HAVE A PROPOSED BUDGET THAT'S LARGER JUST DIDN'T
MAKE SENSE. 
          BUT I GET WHERE YOU'RE AT. SO. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. AND I WOULD SAY MAYOR ON PAGE 30 OF OF THIS BUDGET THERE'S A LINE ITEM THAT
THEY REDUCE THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE FOR NORA CENTER THEATER TICKETS COMPARED TO THE CURRENT YEAR,
BUT STILL LEFT IT ELEVATED ABOVE WHAT THE CURRENT YEAR ESTIMATE IS IN ANTICIPATION OF WHEN ONE GOES. IF YOU DON'T GET AS MUCH REVENUE, YOU DON'T HAVE AS MUCH EXPENSE,
AND THEY KIND OF WORK HAND IN HAND. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT OUT AS THAT IS THE REVENUE LINE THAT MOVES THE SAME KIND OF
DIRECTION WHERE YOU HAVE SOME FLUFF BUILT IN, AND THEY BOTH GIVE, DEPENDING ON HOW MANY EVENTS YOU HAVE AND HOW MUCH REVENUE YOU
ACTUALLY DO. 
          OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT REVENUE PAGE 30,
PAGE 30. 
          YES, MA'AM. OKAY. ANY FURTHER COMMENTS? OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. MAYOR. 
          SO ONE THING I WOULD LIKE. I THINK MR. BENJAMIN'S ONLY GOING TO BE 8 TO 10 MINUTES. 
          OKAY. AND BECAUSE HE'S OUT IN A DIFFERENT BUILDING. 
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SINCE HE'S HERE, I THINK IF WE TAKE TECH SERVICES AND THEN MAYBE TAKE A 1015 MINUTE BREAK
OR PERFECT AND THEN PLOW THROUGH. 
          OKAY. IS THAT OKAY? CAN YOU TELL VICE MAYOR TO HOLD UP? IS THAT OKAY? I APPRECIATE THAT. SORRY. IS THAT OKAY? OH, YEAH. IT'S PERFECT. OKAY. SO WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO START TECH SERVICES,
AND MR. BENJAMIN IS HERE TO PRESENT. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          MAYOR. COUNCIL. GREG BENJAMIN, TECH SERVICES DEPUTY DIRECTOR. 
          I'D LIKE TO START WITH AN OVERVIEW OF THE DEPARTMENT. 
          WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE OVERALL CITY TECHNOLOGY ENVIRONMENT. 
          WE OVERSEE THE TECH, THE CITY NETWORK, THE DATA CENTER,
THE TELEPHONE SYSTEM. 
          WE'RE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE END USER COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. 
          WE ALSO MANAGE THE EMAIL SYSTEMS, THE INTRANET. 
          WE ARE ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TELECOMMUNICATION. 
          AND THIS ALSO INCLUDES PUBLIC SAFETY. ON THIS NEXT SLIDE THIS SHOWS AN OVERVIEW OF OUR PROPOSED BUDGET WHERE IT REFLECTS A 4% INCREASE,
WHERE IT GOES FROM 4.894053 TO 5 088804, WHICH REPRESENTS $184,751. THIS NEXT SLIDE, WHICH IS ON PAGE 288 GOES OVER NOTABLE NUMBERS ON THEIR PERSONNEL SERVICES. 
          WE HAVE AN 8.8% INCREASE UNDER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE. 
          IT SHOWS A 3% INCREASE. OUR TV PRODUCTION SHOWS A 17.6 INCREASE. 
          OUR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, HOWEVER, SHOWS A DECREASE OF 4%. 
          OUR HARDWARE MAINTENANCE DOESN'T SHOW ANY DIFFERENCES,
SO IT REMAINS THE SAME. 
          OUR REMAINDER OPERATION OPERATING EXPENSES SHOWS A $1,000 AND OUR NOTABLE. 
          OUR OPERATING EXPENSES SHOWS A 0.2%. UNDER STAFFING WE SHOW NO DIFFERENCES. WE ARE STILL PROPOSING THE SAME TEN STAFF THAT THAT WE HAVE HAD
FOR THE LAST THREE YEARS. 
          THIS RECAPS THE. THE OVERALL BUDGET WHERE AS. 
          AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, WE HAVE AN INCREASE OF 4% IN. 
          THAT TOTAL IS $194,751. OTHER AREAS THAT WE HAVE A HAVE AN INCREASE IS PERSONNEL SERVICES WITH AN 8.8%, WHICH SHOWS $132,011. 
          OTHER AREA IS OUR VIDEO PRODUCTION WITH A 17.6% AND THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT EQUATES TO $15,000. 
          UNDER PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE,
WE HAVE A DECREASE OF 4% IN THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT IS $20,000. 
          AND UNDER HARBOR MAINTENANCE, THERE'S A 10.6% INCREASE IN UNDER SULFUR MAINTENANCE. 
          WE ALSO HAVE ANOTHER ANOTHER 3% INCREASE. ANY QUESTIONS? OH, I DO. SO WITH THE PHONE TECHNOLOGY, WE TALKED ABOUT THIS BRIEFLY. 
          HOW. HOW LONG ARE WE COMMITTED TO USING THIS PHONE SYSTEM AND ARE,
IS THIS PHONE SYSTEM UPGRADE TO CONTINUE TO USE THE ONE THAT'S EXISTING? WELL, THE CURRENT SYSTEM HAS BEEN IN PLACE FOR A LITTLE OVER
THREE YEARS. 
          THE SYSTEM ITSELF. IS WELL IS SCHEDULED TO BE REPLACED IN THE NEXT TWO YEARS,
BUT I THINK THAT IS GOING TO BE A CONVERSATION THAT WE WILL BE BRINGING FORWARD,
CONSIDERING THE DOLLAR AMOUNT, AND WE WANT TO GET A CONSENSUS AS TO WHAT THE OVERALL SENTIMENT ON THAT SYSTEM IS. 
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THE URGENCY AND HOW WE WANT TO APPROACH IT, WHETHER IF WE WANT TO KEEP IT,
THAT IS A POSSIBILITY. 
          IF WE ARE NOT HAPPY WITH IT, THEN WE CAN EXPLORE AND PRESENT NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND WHAT'S
OUT IN THE MARKET. 
          SO BUT WHAT PERCENTAGE OF STAFFING IS HAS. CITY ISSUED CELL PHONES. THAT NUMBER I NEED TO GET BACK TO YOU. 
          I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A NUMBER OUT THERE. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF STAFF THAT HAVE CITY ISSUED
CELL PHONES, BUT I DON'T HAVE THAT FROM THE TOP OF MY HEAD. BUT I CAN DEFINITELY FACILITATE THAT
INFORMATION. 
          YEAH. JUST WHEN YOU LOOK AT 450,000 FOR 27, 28 FOR AN UPGRADE IN THAT PHONE SYSTEM,
THAT'S WHAT TRIGGERED ME WHEN THAT'LL BE THE OVERALL PHONE SYSTEM, THE CELL PHONE. RIGHT. BUDGET. 
          THE COMMUNICATION BUDGET IS A DIFFERENT LINE LINE ITEM. 
          BUT YES, I CAN SEE WHERE THAT CAN SHOW A BIT OF CONFUSION AND THE AND THAT'S UNDER WHAT
THE CELL PHONES, THE CELL PHONE WILL BE UNDER COMMUNICATIONS ON OUR,
ON OUR BUDGET. 
          OKAY. YES. AND THEN TELL ME ABOUT YOUR GIS COORDINATOR VERSUS THE ONE THAT'S IN STREETS
AND STORMWATER. 
          OH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. SO OUR GIS WE CALL HIM OUR GIS COORDINATOR. 
          HIS NAME IS ROBERTO WHO HAS BEEN INSTRUMENTAL TO OUR OPERATION. 
          IF YOU RECALL, WE HAD A SMALL GAP ON THOSE SERVICES FROM OUR,
FROM THE PREVIOUS STAFF THAT WAS HANDLING THOSE RESPONSIBILITIES. AND WE WERE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BRING ROBERTO,
WHO HAS CARRIED THAT ENTIRE OPERATION FOR THE WHOLE CITY. 
          LUCKILY, NOW THOSE SERVICES HAVE EXPANDED, HAVE GROWN,
AND THERE ARE MORE STAFF INVOLVED WITH THE GIS SERVICES. 
          AND AS A RESULT TO THAT INVESTMENT THAT THE CITY HAS MADE,
THE GIS SERVICE TO ALL OUR USERS WILL INCREASE OUR USE OF THE GIS SYSTEM ITSELF. WE'LL SEE A RETURN ON INVESTMENT VERY SOON,
WHERE A LOT OF SYSTEMS WILL HAVE A BETTER DEPICTION AS TO WHERE THEY ARE, HOW OLD THEY ARE,
HOW THEY OPERATE, WHEN THEY SHOULD BE REPLACED. 
          IN REALITY, THE WAY JAZZ IS INTENDED TO BE TO TO BE USED WHERE UNFORTUNATELY,
IN OUR CASE, WE WERE FALLING BEHIND ON THOSE SERVICES, AND OUR INTENTION NOW IS TO BRING THEM UP TO THE
FOREFRONT. 
          GOT IT. THAT EXPLAINS GIS ON THAT POINT OF VIEW. 
          THANK YOU, THANK YOU AND NO OTHER QUESTIONS. ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU, THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. YEAH. COUNCIL. 
          I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE A LUNCH BREAK BECAUSE I THINK WE COULD JUST TAKE A TEN MINUTE BREAK. 
          JESSICA, COULD I HAVE YOU COME FORWARD BEFORE WE GO TAKE OUR TEN MINUTE BREAK? INSTEAD OF HAVING LUNCH, WE THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD RECOGNIZE YOU. 
          SO JESSICA, IF YOU'LL COME FORWARD HERE I THINK MISS RAMOS CAN. 
          YOUR WHOLE DEPARTMENT HAS OH, ACTUALLY, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY GO STAND BY,
MRS. RAMOS, NOW THAT EVERYONE'S HERE. BUT THAT'S. I JUST WANT TO SAY,
YOU KNOW, YOU DO WORK FOR CITY COUNCIL AND I MENTIONED IT EARLIER. I'M NOT SURE THAT IT ACTUALLY MADE IT ON THE TV,
BUT FOR 23 YEARS YOU'VE BEEN A PUBLIC SERVANT WITH PROFESSIONALISM FOR OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR COMMUNITY. 
          AND IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES HAVE BEEN ENORMOUS AND YOU'VE BEEN ENTRUSTED WITH A LOT OF
RESPONSIBILITIES AS THE DEPUTY CITY CLERK. AND I KNOW THIS CITY COUNCIL HAS HAD MORE ONE ON ONE WITH YOU WITH THE
OFFICIAL RECORDS AND PUBLIC MEETINGS AND LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS. AND SO ONE THING I KNOW ABOUT YOU IS THAT YOU ALWAYS HAVE ACCURACY. 
          YOU'RE ALWAYS MAKING SURE THAT YOU'RE ACCURATE AND VERY TRANSPARENT IN YOUR CARE OF THE
PUBLIC RECORD. 
          SO I ALSO WANT TO SAY YOU'VE BEEN VERY STEADFAST IN YOUR DEDICATION TO THE CITY AND
RESPONSIVE TO THE PUBLIC AND THE PUBLIC SERVICE. SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MRS. BOSQUE. PATRICIA. CITY CLERK. AND YES, IT'S A BIG LOSS TO LOSE JESSICA AFTER 28 YEARS. 
          AND HER SITTING HERE CLERKING MEETINGS HAS REALLY ONLY BEEN A QUARTER OF HER JOB THAT
SHE'S BEEN WORKING ON FOR THOSE YEARS. 
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AND I HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH JESSICA,
EVEN WHEN I WAS UP IN THE LEGAL DEPARTMENT. 
          SO I WORKED WITH JESSICA FOR THOSE FULL 28 YEARS. 
          SO IT'S REALLY BEEN A PLEASURE. AND ONE THING THAT THE MAYOR JUST HIT ON IS HER ACCURACY. 
          AND ONE THING THAT I'LL NEVER FORGET ABOUT JESSICA,
BECAUSE EVERYTHING THAT'S IN YOUR PACKET THAT YOU GET, THERE'S CERTAIN ITEMS THAT NEED TO BE SIGNED BY VENDORS OR CONTRACTORS. 
          AND ONE DAY AND JESSICA PROOFREADS, EVERYTHING THAT THE MAYOR SIGNS AGAINST THE PACKET TO
MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS EXACTLY THE SAME. 
          ONE DAY WE SENT OUT AN AGREEMENT TO BE SIGNED,
AND I BELIEVE IT WAS A PARKING AGREEMENT FOR ONE OF THE GARAGES OR SOMETHING, AND IT CAME BACK AND JESSICA PROOFREAD THAT THING,
AND EVERYTHING WAS THE SAME, EXCEPT SOMEBODY CHANGED THE NUMBER OF PARKING SPACES THAT THE CITY WAS DEDICATING. AND SO JESSICA FOUND THAT AND SHE SAYS,
WHAT DO I DO? I SAID, WELL, YOU MAKE IT THE SAME AS THE PACKET. 
          SO WE DIDN'T TELL THEM THAT. WE CHANGED IT BACK AND SENT THEM A SIGNED COPY. 
          BUT IT'S THINGS LIKE THAT THAT JESSICA'S DONE FOR 28 YEARS. 
          AND I KIND OF SUM THIS UP IN A LITTLE POEM THAT I WANT TO READ ABOUT HER,
BUT YOU HAVE TO COME FORWARD. 
          YOU'RE SO SHY. IT'S YOUR. IT'S YOUR MOMENT. GET HER. 
          CARMEN. I'M STILL GOING TO BE AROUND TILL THE 28TH. 
          OKAY, SO I'M NOT LETTING YOU GO TODAY. TRUST ME. 
          FOR YEARS AT CITY HALL WITH A SMILE AND A PLAN. 
          JESSICA'S BEEN THERE TO LEND A HELPING HAND SINCE 1998. 
          SHE SERVED WITH CARE, AND SINCE 2003 SHE'S BEEN OUR DEPUTY CITY CLERK EXTRAORDINAIRE. 
          RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES. CONTRACTS TWO. THERE ISN'T MUCH THAT JESSICA DOESN'T DO. 
          SHE PROOFREADS TRACKS, ORGANIZES WITH FLAIR,
AND SOMEHOW KEEPS EVERY DETAIL IN HER CARE. 
          NEED SOMETHING FROM YEARS AGO? DON'T WORRY OR FRET. 
          JESSICA KNOWS EXACTLY WHERE IT'S KEPT. WITH EVERY DOCUMENT CAREFULLY TRACKED IN A
SPREADSHEET, SHE MAKES SURE NOTHING GETS LOST OR INCOMPLETE. 
          SHE'S DEPENDABLE, HELPFUL, AND ALWAYS SO KIND,
WITH A WONDERFUL SENSE OF HUMOR AND A SHARP, ORGANIZED MIND. SHE KEEPS THINGS MOVING, STEADY AND TRUE AND SOMEHOW MAKES IT ALL LOOK
EASY TO DO. 
          THEN SHE GOES OFF WHEN THE WORKDAY IS THROUGH TRAVELING AND BALLROOM DANCING WITH LARRY
TWO. 
          THEY LOVE TRAINS, NEW PLACES AND ADVENTURES TO SEE. 
          AND JESSICA IS ALWAYS PREPARED, AS SHE PROVED IN VERMONT,
FAMOUSLY. 
          SHE ASKED ABOUT FLOOD SACHSE ALONG THE RIVER. 
          ONE DAY THE VERMONT FOLKS JUST LOOKED AT HER AND SAID,
NO WAY! BUT WHEN A HURRICANE CAME NOT LONG AFTER THAT,
JESSICA MAY HAVE BEEN RIGHT. 
          AND THAT'S A FACT. SO, JESSICA, AS YOU BEGIN YOUR NEXT CHAPTER IN LIFE,
MAY IT BE FILLED WITH ADVENTURE, LAUGHTER, AND DELIGHT. YOUR KNOWLEDGE, DEDICATION,
FRIENDSHIP, AND CHEER HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE THROUGHOUT ALL THESE YEARS. 
          WE'LL MISS YOUR SMILE, YOUR WISDOM, AND ALL THAT YOU DO. 
          AND YES, WE'LL USE THOSE SPREADSHEETS TOO. THANK YOU JESSICA,
FOR YOUR SERVICE IS SO TRUE. 
          THE CITY WILL MISS YOU AND WE'RE GRATEFUL FOR YOU. 
          OH. THANK YOU. 
          SO SORRY, DAVID WITH THAT. JESSICA, CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR RETIREMENT. 
          AND WE'LL TAKE A TEN MINUTE BREAK. OKAY. WE'RE BACK IN FROM OUR BREAK AND WE ARE CONTINUING ON MR. YOUNG WITH YES. THANK YOU. HUMAN RESOURCES AND HUMAN RESOURCES DIRECTOR, CHARLOTTE LOWELL. SO WITH THAT, THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING,
GOOD AFTERNOON. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I'LL BRIEFLY WALK YOU THROUGH THE HUMAN RESOURCES
DEPARTMENT PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR 2627 BUDGET AND HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF THE SIGNIFICANT CHANGES. THE HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT OPERATES ACROSS THREE FUNDS THE
GENERAL FUND AND TWO INTERNAL SERVICES FUNDS, WHICH IS OUR RISK MANAGEMENT FUND AND THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FUND. 
          OUR MISSION CONTINUES TO FOCUS ON RECRUITING,
DEVELOPING, RECOGNIZING, AND RETAINING A STRONG WORKFORCE SO OUR EMPLOYEES CAN CONTINUE TO PROVIDE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF SERVICE TO OUR RESIDENTS AND VISITORS. 
          THIS SLIDE GIVES YOU A SNAPSHOT OF THE RANGE OF SERVICES THAT FALL UNDER HUMAN RESOURCES. 
          IN ADDITION TO RECRUITMENT AND EMPLOYEE AND LABOR RELATIONS,
WE OVERSEE COMPENSATION AND CLASSIFICATION, COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT,
TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT, EMPLOYEE RETIREE BENEFITS, 
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RISK MANAGEMENT, AND THE CITY'S INSURANCE PROGRAMS. OUR PROPOSED GENERAL FUND BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2627 IS APPROXIMATELY 1.1 MILLION,
WHICH IS A 2.6% INCREASE FROM THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          WE CONTINUE TO OPERATE WITH SIX EMPLOYEES WITH OUR MAJOR EXPENSES SUPPORTING PERSONNEL AND
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES, COMPENSATION, BENCHMARKING, TRAINING, AND OTHER CORE HR OUR FUNCTIONS. 
          OUR RISK MANAGEMENT BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2627 IS APPROXIMATELY 4.9 MILLION,
WHICH IS ACTUALLY 7.3 DECREASE FROM THE CURRENT YEAR. THIS FUND SUPPORTS OUR VARIOUS INSURANCE PROGRAMS AND CLAIMS,
INCLUDING WORKER'S COMPENSATION, LIABILITY, AND PROPERTY COVERAGE. AND THERE IS ONE FTE BUDGETED OUT OF THIS FUND. 
          THIS SLIDE PROVIDES A LOOK AT THE OVERALL FINANCIAL POSITION OF THE RISK MANAGEMENT FUND. 
          WE ANTICIPATE BEGINNING THE FISCAL YEAR WITH APPROXIMATELY 7.8 MILLION IN UNRESTRICTED NET
ASSETS, WITH APPROXIMATELY 3.75 MILLION IN BUDGETED REVENUE AND 4.9 MILLION IN EXPENDITURES. 
          WE PROJECT ENDING FISCAL YEAR 2627 WITH APPROXIMATELY 6.64 MILLION AND AS AN UNRESTRICTED
NET POSITION. 
          SO WHILE THE EXPENDITURES. I'LL JUST GO BACK. 
          WHILE THE EXPENDITURES BUDGETED TO EXCEED REVENUES FOR THE YEAR,
THE FUND MAINTAINS A SIGNIFICANT UNRESTRICTED NET POSITION TO SUPPORT THE CITY'S RISK AND INSURANCE OBLIGATIONS. MOVING INTO OUR EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FUND. 
          THIS INCLUDES FUNDING FOR HEALTH, DENTAL, LIFE SHORT,
SHORT AND LONG TERM DISABILITY, AND VISION INSURANCE. 
          THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS APPROXIMATELY 11.35 MILLION,
WHICH IS AN INCREASE OF APPROXIMATELY 907,000, OR 8.7%, FROM THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR. THE FUND IS SUPPORTED THROUGH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM
THE CITY EMPLOYEES AND OUR RETIREES. 
          THE PRIMARY DRIVER OF THE INCREASE IN THE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FUND FOR FISCAL YEAR 2627 IS
HIGHER HEALTH AND PRESCRIPTION CLAIMS. DESPITE THOSE INCREASES, WE ARE PROPOSING NO INCREASE TO MEDICAL INSURANCE PREMIUM RATES
AGAIN THIS YEAR. 
          DENTAL PREMIUMS ARE PROJECTED TO INCREASE BY 5%,
AND WE WILL CONTINUE OUR HRA AND WELLNESS INCENTIVES. 
          SIMILAR TO RISK MANAGEMENT. THIS SLIDE SHOWS THE OVERALL FINANCIAL POSITION OF OUR
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS FUND. 
          WE EXPECT TO BEGIN THE YEAR WITH APPROXIMATELY 6.93 MILLION IN UNRESTRICTED NET ASSETS,
WITH APPROXIMATELY $10 MILLION IN REVENUE AND 11.35 MILLION IN EXPENDITURES. THE PROJECTED UNRESTRICTED NET POSITION AT THE END OF FISCAL YEAR 2627 IS
APPROXIMATELY 5.61 MILLION. 
          THERE IS ALSO AN IMPORTANT NOTE HERE REGARDING EMPLOYER HEALTH INSURANCE CHARGEBACKS. 
          THOSE ARE REVIEWED ANNUALLY BASED UPON ACTUAL UTILIZATION,
WHICH GENERALLY RESULTS IN SAVINGS TO THE CONTRIBUTING FUNDS. 
          LOOKING AHEAD, ONE ITEM WE WANT TO MAKE COUNCIL AWARE OF IS THAT IF OUR CURRENT HEALTH
CARE SPENDING TRENDS CONTINUE, WE DO ANTICIPATE EMPLOYER AND EMPLOYEE CONTRIBUTIONS MAY INCREASE IN FISCAL YEAR 2728. 
          AND FINALLY, WE ARE VERY PROUD OF THE CONTINUED RECOGNITION THE CITY HAS RECEIVED FOR OUR
WORKPLACE WELLNESS AND EMPLOYEE PROGRAMS. THESE ACCOMPLISHMENTS REALLY REFLECT THE CITY'S OVERALL COMMITMENT TO OUR EMPLOYEES. 
          AND THANK YOU AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO. YOU MADE THAT SOUND VERY SIMPLE. 
          ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCIL. GREAT. THAT WAS EASY. 
          THAT WAS EASY. AWESOME. WONDERFUL TO SEE YOU ALL. 
          GREAT. THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. NEXT IS MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          IS THAT MR. YOUNG? YES. THANK YOU. MAYOR. I WILL TAKE CARE OF THIS DEPARTMENT. 
          SO THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL IS PROPOSED. BUDGET IS 126,000. 
          IT'S SLIGHTLY UP. IT'S JUST 3.2%, WHICH INCLUDES 19,401 ABOVE THE CURRENT YEAR BUDGET. 
          THIS INCLUDES THE EVERY MEMBER OF COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR. 
          EVERYTHING RELATED TO LUNCHES, SUPPLIES, ETC.,
ETC., AND SANDRA'S SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFITS. 
          SO WITH THAT, IT'S A MARGINAL CHANGE. AND THAT'S ALL THAT'S FOR THAT BUDGET. 
          I HAVE TO GRAB A KEYBOARD. OKAY. THANK YOU. I DON'T KNOW. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU DAVID. SO THE NEXT IS THE CITY MANAGER BUDGET. 
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THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE IS COMPRISED OF THE CITY MANAGER'S ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE CODE
COMPLIANCE AND PURCHASING. 
          THE 2026 PROPOSED 27 PROPOSED BUDGET IS 2 MILLION 371. 
          THAT'S A 5% INCREASE, OR 113,407. NEXT SLIDE. 
          SPECIFICALLY IN THE CITY MANAGER'S ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE. 
          IT'S AN INCREASE OF 2.3% OR 25,000 275 CODE ENFORCEMENT DIVISION IS 23,871 OR 4.2%,
AND THEN THE PURCHASING DIVISION IS 64,261, OR 11.1%. 
          PART OF THAT IS IN PART BECAUSE THEY HAD HAD A VACANT POSITION FOR A SIGNIFICANT PERIOD OF
TIME THAT IS FILLED NOW AND EXPECTED TO BE FILLED THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. 
          IN ADDITION, WE'RE MIGRATING TO AN OPENGOV PLATFORM RELATED TO BIDDING IN HOPES OF GETTING
ADDITIONAL BIDDERS AND APPLICANTS AND LETTERS OF INTEREST. AND SO THERE'S SOME COSTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE OPENGOV PLATFORM TO DO
OUR PURCHASING BIDS ON. 
          SO AND WITH THAT, THAT'S IT FOR THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE. 
          AND SO WITH THAT, STEFAN MUSCLE FINANCE DIRECTOR WILL HANDLE THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT. 
          UNLESS YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS. NO QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. SO JUST OVERVIEW FINANCE DEPARTMENT. 
          WE HAVE TWO DIVISIONS. WE HAVE OUR ACCOUNTING DIVISION. 
          AND WE HAVE OUR CUSTOMER SERVICES DIVISION. OUR COUNTY DIVISION IS ENTIRELY ALLOCATED TO
THE GENERAL FUND, BUT ONLY ONE HALF FTE OF OUR CUSTOMER SERVICES DIVISION IS ALLOCATED WITHIN GENERAL FUND. 
          THE REMAINDER OF THE POSITIONS ARE ALLOCATED BETWEEN THE WATER SEWER FUND,
THE BEACH FUND, AND THE SOLID WASTE FUND. AND THAT'S BECAUSE THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES SPAN ACROSS THOSE
VARIOUS FUNCTIONS. 
          SO THERE ARE YOU KNOW, 11.5 POSITIONS IN TOTAL IN GENERAL FUND,
6.75 FTE POSITIONS IN WATER SEWER FUND, 0.75 FTE ALLOCATED TO BEACH FUND, AND THEN TWO FTES ALLOCATED TO SOLID WASTE. 
          JUST AN OVERVIEW OF PERSONNEL OPERATING AND CAPITAL EXPENSES. 
          WE DON'T HAVE CAPITAL IN ACCOUNTING, BUT WE IN TOTAL REPRESENTS A 29,000 OR ROUGHLY
$30,000 INCREASE ACROSS PERSONNEL AND OPERATING, BUT A FAIRLY CONSISTENT BUDGET WITH 25,
26 ADOPTED. 
          REASONS FOR THE INCREASE ARE THE WE HAVE AFSCME EMPLOYEES WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, THOSE NEGOTIATED SALARY INCREASES AND CORRESPONDING CHANGES ARE THE
REASONING FOR THOSE INCREASES. 
          IN WATER, SEWER CUSTOMER SERVICE THERE'S ACTUALLY A SMALL DECLINE IN PERSONNEL BUT AN
INCREASE IN OPERATING NET FOR NET, IT'S BASICALLY NEUTRAL. SO VERY MINIMAL CHANGES IN THAT ASPECT. 
          AGAIN, DRIVEN BY, YOU KNOW, CONTRACTUAL REQUIRED INCREASES FOR PAY. 
          AND SOLID WASTE. WELL, WE DON'T HAVE ANY OPERATING COSTS OUT OF THAT FUND. 
          THERE ARE TWO POSITIONS THAT MIGRATED INTO THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT FROM THE SOLID WASTE
DEPARTMENT. 
          AND THAT WAS BACK IN 2020 425 TO ADD SOME EFFICIENCIES. 
          IN CUSTOMER SERVICE DELIVERY. AND SO THAT THOSE TWO POSITIONS REMAIN BUDGETED WITHIN SOLID
WASTE FUND AS BEFORE. 
          NOW BEACH FUND, THERE IS AN INCREASE YOU'LL NOTICE UNDER OPERATING MAIN REASON FOR THE
INCREASE THAT WE HAVE IN THIS PROPOSED BUDGET, THERE ARE SOME LOCATIONS AFTER THE VARIOUS HURRICANES THAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED WHERE THERE
ARE, THERE IS NEED FOR SOME RESURFACING OF SOME PARKING AREAS,
YOU KNOW NORTH LAKES, AN EXAMPLE OF THAT ONE. 
          AND THEN THERE'S ALSO NUMBERING THAT WILL NEED TO BE DONE AT THAT LOCATION AND OTHER
PLACES WHERE THE PAINT IS JUST FADED AND THE SURFACES HAVE BECOME BEAT UP. 
          WE DON'T KNOW THAT WELL. I DON'T ACTUALLY ANTICIPATE USING THE ENTIRETY OF THAT AMOUNT IN
THIS UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR. 
          HOWEVER, WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THOSE AREAS BECAUSE IT WILL BE NECESSARY IN ORDER
TO ENFORCE PARKING REGULATIONS. 
          FINANCE DEPARTMENT, BEACH FUND ADMINISTRATION. 
          SO ALSO JUST WANTED TO MAKE MENTION THAT THERE'S A DEBT PAYMENT ELEMENT INCLUDED IN THAT
PORTION OF THE BUDGET RELATED TO THE PIER RECONSTRUCTION. 
          YOU'LL RECALL THAT BACK IN 2024, THERE WAS A CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BOND ISSUED. 
          IT WAS IN TOTAL $23 MILLION OF DEBT. 12 MILLION OF THAT WENT TO THE CRA FOR THE FIRST
AVENUE SOUTH PARKING GARAGE. 
          11 MILLION OF IT WENT TO THE BEACH FUND FOR PURPOSES OF HAVING THE LIQUIDITY NECESSARY TO
COMPLETE THE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES FOR THE NAPLES PIER. 
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SO THOSE REIMBURSEMENTS TO THE CRA FUND AS WELL AS THE BEACH FUND ARE NOW COMPLETED. 
          SO FROM THAT POINT, FROM THIS POINT FORWARD,
THERE WILL ONLY BE TRANSFERS FROM THOSE FUNDS INTO THE DEBT SERVICE FUND FOR THEIR PROPORTIONAL SHARE OF THE DEBT SERVICE. SO THEY'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO BEAR WHAT THOSE
COSTS ARE FOR THEIR PROPORTIONAL SHARE. 
          SO THIS SLIDE HERE IS THE REVENUES. AND YOU'LL SEE TOWARDS THE BOTTOM OF UNDER IN THE FY
2526 ESTIMATED ACTUAL COLUMN. 
          THERE ARE A FEW ITEMS I WANTED TO POINT OUT RELATED TO THE PIER RECONSTRUCTION. 
          YOU HAVE $12.9 MILLION REPRESENTED UNDER FEMA AND INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENTS IN THE BEACH
FUND. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE FEMA MONEY WILL BE COMING IN ON A REIMBURSEMENT BASIS. 
          SO WE HAVE ALREADY SUBMITTED. WELL, NOW OUR SECOND REQUEST FOR REIMBURSEMENT,
REALLY THE FIRST ONE FOR CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES RECENTLY. 
          YOU KNOW, IT'LL TAKE TIME TO ACTUALLY GET ALL OF THE FUNDS IN. 
          SO IT'S VERY LIKELY THAT THOSE WILL ACTUALLY STRETCH INTO 26,
27. 
          BEFORE THEY'RE TOTALLY REALIZED IN TERMS OF BOND PROCEEDS,
YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT I ALLUDED TO EARLIER THAT THE REMAINING AMOUNT OF THE $11 MILLION HAS BEEN NOW RECEIVED INTO THE BEACH FUND FROM THE DEBT SERVICE FUND,
AND THEN THE STATE GRANTS BELOW THAT OF $5 MILLION, SIMILAR TO THE FEMA GRANTS, THOSE WILL LIKELY STRETCH INTO 2627 BECAUSE THEY'RE
REIMBURSEMENT GRANTS. 
          SO WE HAVE TO PROVIDE THE PROOF OF PAYMENT IN ORDER TO GET THOSE FUNDS RECEIVED INTO THE
BANK. 
          RIGHT. AND THIS CHART HERE SHOWS A TREND ON UNRESTRICTED NET POSITION WITHIN THE BEACH
FUND. 
          YOU'LL SEE THAT BACK IN 2020, IT WAS YOU KNOW,
JUST UNDER $5 MILLION. 
          NOW WE'RE PROJECTING GOING INTO 2027, JUST UNDER $4 MILLION,
STILL A HEALTHY FUND BALANCE AND OFFERS ADEQUATE LIQUIDITY FOR NORMAL OPERATIONS. 
          AND THIS IS REALLY WHAT THE PLAN WAS ALL ALONG WHEN WE WERE DETERMINING HOW MUCH DEBT TO
TAKE ON RELATED TO THE NAPLES PIER. 
          KNOWING THAT THERE WOULD BE THOSE REIMBURSEMENT GRANTS COMING IN. 
          AND WITH THAT, WE'RE ENDING UP BASICALLY WHERE WE SET OUT TO WITH THIS PROJECTION. 
          THAT'S IT FOR FINANCE. ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU STEPH. 
          THANK YOU SIR. CITY CLERK. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON MAYOR. 
          MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. PATRICIA. CITY CLERK. TODAY I WILL PRESENT THE PROPOSED CITY CLERK'S
BUDGET FOR 2627. I LIGHT A FEW OF OUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS PAST YEAR AND REVIEW GOALS AND
ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES DESIGNED TO STRENGTHEN OUR SUCCESSION PLANNING AND IMPROVE OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY. 
          OVERALL, THE PROPOSED BUDGET REFLECTS A 6.5% INCREASE DRIVEN SOLELY BY PERSONNEL COSTS,
WITH NO INCREASES IN OPERATING EXPENSES. 
          OUR BUDGET BEGINS ON PAGE 49 OF THE BUDGET BOOK. 
          COMPARING OUR BUDGET OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS,
THE PROPOSED INCREASE OF 6.5% IS ENTIRELY FOR PERSONNEL COST OF LIVING INCREASES, WITH NO INCREASE IN OPERATING COSTS, AS I JUST STATED. 
          I LOOK BACK AT OUR OPERATING COSTS IN OUR BUDGET 17 YEARS AGO IN 2009. 
          AT THAT TIME, OUR OPERATING BUDGET WAS APPROXIMATELY $79,000. 
          SO TODAY IT'S JUST 89,850, AN INCREASE OF ONLY ABOUT $11,000 OVER 17 YEARS. 
          THAT REALLY SHOWS HOW LEAN OUR OPERATING BUDGET HAS REMAINED. 
          WE HAVE VERY LIMITED OPERATING BUDGET WITH OUR TWO MOST SIGNIFICANT EXPENSES BEING THE
PUBLICATION OF LEGAL NOTICES AND SUPPLEMENTS TO CODIFY NEW LEGISLATION INTO THE CODE AND THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. 
          THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE HAS EIGHT FULL TIME EMPLOYEES,
WITH THE DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR POSITION REMAINING VACANT. 
          WE ARE A VERY LABOR INTENSIVE OFFICE, AND MUCH OF WHAT WE DO REQUIRES SPECIALIZED
KNOWLEDGE, ATTENTION TO DETAIL AND A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT OF TIME. 
          AT THE SAME TIME, WE CONTINUE TO EXPAND RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND DIGITAL SERVICES TO MEET
THE GROWING DEMANDS OF THE CITY AND THE PUBLIC. 
          JUST TO HIGHLIGHT A FEW OF OUR MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS,
THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE SUCCESSFULLY ADMINISTERED THE FEBRUARY 2026 MUNICIPAL ELECTION WHILE MEETING ALL STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS AS THE CITY'S CHIEF ELECTION OFFICIAL AND
QUALIFYING OFFICER. 
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WE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT TASKS LEADING UP TO AND THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE
ENTIRE ELECTION PROCESS, INCLUDING CREATING AN ELECTION CALENDAR, CALCULATING THE QUALIFYING DATES AND FINANCIAL
REPORTING DEADLINES IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE CHARTER, THE FLORIDA STATUTES AND THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS,
UPDATING THE CANDIDATE HANDBOOK, DESIGNING AND MAINTAINING THE 2026 ELECTION WEBPAGE,
MONITORING THE RECEIPT OF CANDIDATE FINANCIAL REPORTS AND POSTING THEM TO THE CITY'S WEBSITE. PUBLISHING ALL LEGAL NOTICES AND RESPONDING THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO NUMEROUS
CITIZEN INQUIRIES REGARDING THE ELECTION PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS. I ALSO HAD THE PLEASURE OF CHAIRING THE CANVASING BOARD MEETINGS ALONGSIDE
MAYOR HEITMANN AND JUDGE CHRISTINE GRIDER. 
          AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO RECOGNIZE OUR CITY ATTORNEY,
MATTHEW MCCONNELL, FOR ALSO ATTENDING THE CANVASING BOARD MEETINGS AND FOR HIS ASSISTANCE THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCESS. WHILE MUCH OF THE WORK HAPPENS BEHIND THE SCENES,
IT IS CRITICAL TO ENSURING THAT OUR MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ARE ACCURATE, TRANSPARENT, AND LEGALLY COMPLIANT. SO DEMAND FOR PUBLIC RECORDS CONTINUES TO RISE EACH YEAR. WHILE OUR OFFICE CONTINUES TO MEET THAT DEMAND,
THE WORKLOAD HAS EXPANDED SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          CITYWIDE PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS HAVE INCREASED FROM APPROXIMATELY 48,300 LAST YEAR TO
MORE THAN 5000 THIS YEAR, WITH ANOTHER INCREASE PROJECTED FOR NEXT YEAR IF THAT TREND CONTINUES. 
          REQUEST VOLUME WILL APPROACH THE HIGHEST LEVELS RECORDED OVER THE PAST SIX YEARS WITHIN
THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE. 
          PUBLIC RECORDS WORKLOAD IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE BY APPROXIMATELY 30% THIS FISCAL YEAR,
AND THAT'S DUE IN PART TO COMPLEX LITIGATION RELATED EMAIL SEARCHES AND DISCOVERY REQUESTS. 
          I PERSONALLY MONITOR ALL PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS THAT ARE RECEIVED BY THE CITY TO ENSURE
COMPLIANCE WITH FLORIDA'S PUBLIC RECORDS ACT, BUT ALSO, MORE IMPORTANTLY, TO HELP PROTECT THE CITY FROM POTENTIAL LITIGATION THAT COULD
RESULT IN COSTLY ATTORNEYS FEES AND COURT COSTS. THIS GROWTH REINFORCES WHY RECORDS MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY REMAIN PRIORITIES FOR
OUR OFFICE. 
          LAST YEAR ALONE, THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE DEVOTED 550 HOURS OF STAFF TIME IN REVIEWING,
REDACTING, COORDINATING AND RESPONDING TO PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS. 
          AND LOOKING AHEAD, WE ANTICIPATE THAT NUMBER TO CONTINUE TO CLIMB. 
          IN ADDITION, ONE EMPLOYEE SPENT NEARLY NINE MONTHS RESPONDING TO SUBPOENAS AND RECORDS
PRODUCTION REQUESTS ASSOCIATED WITH LITIGATION INVOLVING THE CITY. 
          AND UNLIKE PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS, THIS WORK IS NOT TRACKED AS A PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST
AND IS GENERALLY NOT BILLABLE. 
          HOWEVER, WHEN COMBINED WITH OUR PUBLIC RECORDS WORKLOAD,
THESE RESPONSIBILITIES EFFECTIVELY JUSTIFY A FULL TIME POSITION DEDICATED TO RECORDS, PRODUCTION AND RESPONSE ACTIVITIES AS THESE DEMANDS CONTINUE TO GROW. 
          I WILL LOOK AGAIN AT RECLASSIFYING THE VACANT DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR POSITION TO
BETTER SUPPORT PUBLIC RECORDS, COMPLIANCE AND RECORDS PRODUCTION FUNCTIONS TO MANAGE THE INCREASING WORKLOAD AND IMPROVE
EFFICIENCY. 
          WE CONTINUE TO LEVERAGE THE JUST FOIA PLATFORM AND EXPLORE SYSTEM ENHANCEMENTS THAT
STREAMLINE WORKFLOWS, IMPROVE STAFF TIME, AND OPTIMIZE THE COLLECTION OF SPECIAL SERVICE FEES. 
          THE CONTINUED GROWTH IN RECORDS REQUEST DEMONSTRATES THE IMPORTANCE OF INVESTING IN STRONG
RECORDS MANAGEMENT PRACTICES, TECHNOLOGY AND EFFICIENT WORKFLOWS. BUT MOST ALSO IMPORTANTLY,
I REALLY NEED TO RECOGNIZE ALL THE CITY'S RECORDS COORDINATORS. 
          THEIR DEDICATION, RESPONSIVENESS, AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN ENSURING
THAT WE CONTINUE TO PROVIDE EXCELLENT SERVICE WHILE MEETING ALL OF OUR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS. ANOTHER AREA WHERE THE CLERK'S OFFICE HAS SEEN A SIGNIFICANT WORKLOAD IS
MEETING ADMINISTRATION AND PUBLIC NOTICE REQUIREMENTS. 
          THIS PAST YEAR, OUR OFFICE CLERKED A TOTAL OF 106 MEETINGS REPRESENTING 405 HOURS OF TIME. 
          IN ADDITION TO ATTENDING AND CLERKING THESE MEETINGS,
STAFF PREPARED AND FINALIZED THE MINUTES FOR EACH MEETING DRAFTED AND POSTED 266 PUBLIC NOTICES AND DRAFTED AND PUBLISHED 32 LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS. 
          TECHNOLOGY HAS ALSO PLAYED A MAJOR ROLE IN OUR EFFORTS TO IMPROVE EFFICIENCY. 
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SO LAST YEAR WE IMPLEMENTED SWAGAT AS PART OF OUR GRANICUS SYSTEM. 
          SO WHAT SWAGAT DOES IS IT PROVIDES A TRANSCRIPT OF ALL THE COUNCIL MEETINGS AND MAKES
THOSE TRANSCRIPTS AVAILABLE ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE, PROVIDING AN ADDITIONAL RESOURCE FOR THE PUBLIC AND THE STAFF. 
          AS WITH ANY NEW TECHNOLOGY, WE HAVE LEARNED THAT IMPLEMENTATION DOES NOT ALWAYS MEAN THAT
TECHNOLOGY DELIVERS EVERYTHING WE NEED. 
          WE ARE CONTINUING TO EVALUATE GRANICUS AND SWAGAT BECAUSE WE FOUND THAT SWAGAT TRANSCRIPTS
ARE NOT AI RELATED AND OR GENERATED, AND IN THEIR CURRENT FORM, THEY DO DO NOT PROVIDE ANY ASSISTANCE WITH US IN PREPARING
MEETING MINUTES. 
          SO WE ALSO DISCOVERED THAT WE LOST TIMESTAMPING FROM THE MEETING MINUTES TO THE VIDEOS OF
THE MEETING, BUT WE ARE CONTINUING TO EVALUATE THOSE SYSTEMS FOR UPGRADES AND SOLUTIONS THAT PROVIDE
MEANINGFUL RETURN ON INVESTMENT. 
          UNDER TECHNOLOGY. ONE OF OUR SIGNIFICANT ACCOMPLISHMENTS THIS YEAR WAS COMPLETING OUR
EVALUATION OF ENTERPRISE RECORDS MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE. 
          THAT EVALUATION RESULTED IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW QUESTIS REPOSITORY,
WHILE ALSO ALLOWING US TO ELIMINATE A REDUNDANT SOFTWARE SYSTEM AND REDUCE ANNUAL SOFTWARE COSTS BY APPROXIMATELY $50,000. 
          WE ARE ALSO USING QUESTIS TO EXPAND OUR ABILITY TO MANAGE AND PRESERVE RECORDS ACROSS THE
ENTIRE ORGANIZATION. 
          I HAVE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH STEVE BECKMAN AND THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT STAFF AND
QUESTIS TO COORDINATE THE TRANSFER OF BUILDING PERMITTING RECORDS FROM CITY VIEW INTO QUESTIS. THIS HAS BEEN A SIGNIFICANT PROJECT THAT HAS TAKEN MORE THAN A YEAR TO
COMPLETE. 
          AND I WANT TO SPECIFICALLY THANK STEVEN FOR HIS SUPPORT AND FOR WORKING TIRELESSLY WITH US
TO COORDINATE AND MOVE THIS PROJECT FORWARD. 
          THIS IS A GREAT EXAMPLE OF DEPARTMENTS WORKING TOGETHER TO IMPROVE THE CITY'S RECORDS
MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES. 
          ON THE RECORD SIDE, WE CONTINUE TO OUR EFFORTS TO DIGITIZE PERMANENT AND HISTORICAL
RECORDS, IMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY AND REDUCING OUR RELIANCE ON PHYSICAL STORAGE. 
          I SPENT MANY MONTHS WORKING WITH OUR RETIRED PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR TO ASSESS HISTORICAL
RECORDS, AND TOGETHER, OUR OFFICE DIGITIZED MORE THAN 800 PERMANENT UTILITY MAPS FOR WATER AND
SEWER PROJECTS. 
          THESE ARE RECORDS THAT THE CITY NEEDS TO PERMANENTLY MAINTAIN,
AND HAVING THEM DIGITALLY ACCESSIBLE IS A TREMENDOUS IMPROVEMENT. 
          WE ALSO COMPLETED ON SITE RECORDS REVIEW AND DISPOSED OF 618 CUBIC FEET OF PAPER RECORDS
THAT HAD MET RETENTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATE'S GUIDELINES. ONE STORAGE ROOM IN CITY HALL WAS COMPLETELY
EMPTIED OF RECORDS, AS YOU WILL SEE IN THE PICTURE ON THE SLIDE. HOWEVER,
THAT PICTURE WAS WHEN THE ROOM WAS HALF FULL. 
          WHEN WE ACTUALLY OPENED THE DOOR, ALL THE FILES FELL THROUGH THE DOOR. 
          SO THAT PICTURE DOESN'T DO IT JUSTICE. AND FINALLY,
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE PROVIDED TRAINING TO INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENTS ACROSS THE CITY TO IMPROVE RECORDS COMPLIANCE, CONSISTENCY, AND UNDERSTANDING OF RETENTION REQUIREMENTS. 
          SO WHETHER IT IS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY, DIGITIZATION OR SIMPLY ELIMINATING RECORDS THAT ARE
NO LONGER NEEDED TO BE RETAINED, OUR GOAL IS THE SAME PRESERVE WHAT THE CITY NEEDS,
MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE, AND ELIMINATE WHAT IS NO LONGER NEEDED TO BE KEPT. 
          SO MOVING ON TO GOALS FOR NEXT YEAR. THE MAJORITY OF OUR GOALS ARE CONTINUATIONS OF WORK
ALREADY UNDERWAY. 
          WE ARE BUILDING ON THE FOUNDATIONS THAT WE HAVE ESTABLISHED AND FIRST LEGAL NOTICES. 
          WE WILL CONTINUE WORKING TOWARD ALLOWING CERTAIN LEGAL NOTICES TO BE PUBLISHED ON THE
CLERK OF COURTS WEBSITE AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO NEWSPAPER PUBLICATION. 
          THE ORDINANCE REVISING THE CITY CODE HAS BEEN APPROVED BY THE PLANNING ADVISORY BOARD AND
IS AGAIN ON THE COUNCIL'S AGENDA FOR CONSIDERATION AT FIRST READING. 
          IF APPROVED, THIS COULD PROVIDE THE CITY WITH A MORE EFFICIENT AND COST EFFECTIVE WAY TO
MEET ITS LEGAL NOTICE REQUIREMENTS. 
          SECOND BUILDING RECORDS. WE WILL CONTINUE WORKING WITH THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT TO DEVELOP
AND MANAGE THE CITY'S BUILDING PERMIT REPOSITORY. AS SHOWN ON THE SLIDE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT
REPOSITORY HAS NOW BEEN ADDED TO QUEST, AND SO WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO ADDING ALL OF THE ONLINE PERMITS. 
          NOW BACK TO 2019, WHEN ONLINE PERMITTING BEGAN. 
          THIRD, CONTINUED DIGITIZATION. WE WILL CONTINUE DIGITIZING PAPER RECORDS NEXT YEAR,
INCLUDING PLOTS AND MAPS CURRENTLY STORED IN THE CITY CLERK'S 
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OFFICE VAULT. THIS WILL ALLOW US TO ELIMINATE VERY LARGE FILE CABINETS CURRENTLY NEEDED
AND GIVE US MORE ADDITIONAL SPACE, WHILE ALSO IMPROVING ACCESS TO THESE IMPORTANT HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS. 
          WE WILL ALSO BE PRESERVING HISTORICAL RECORDS DONATED TO THE CITY BY THE HEIRS OF TOM
MORGAN, A LONGTIME LOCAL NEWSPAPER REPORTER. IN ADDITION,
I WILL COMPLETE THE RECORDS, INVENTORY AND ASSESSMENT OF ABOUT 80 BOXES THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE STORED IN THE RECORD MANAGEMENT CENTER. THESE RECORDS WILL EITHER BE DIGITIZED FOR
THEIR HISTORICAL VALUE OR DISPOSED OF IF THEY HAVE MET RETENTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATE OF FLORIDA GUIDELINES. AND THE TOP PHOTO ON THE SLIDE SHOWS THE RECORDS AS
THEY ARE CURRENTLY STORED AT THE RECORDS CENTER. AND FINALLY, TECHNOLOGY AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 
          WE WILL CONTINUE EVALUATING TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS. 
          THAT CAN IMPROVE EFFICIENCY, INCLUDING THE APPROPRIATE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. 
          WE DID DO A TEST OF AI TOOLS DESIGNED TO ASSIST WITH DRAFTING MEETING MINUTES. 
          AT THIS POINT, WE FOUND THAT THE TECHNOLOGY IS NOT YET SUFFICIENT TO SUFFICIENTLY DEVELOP
TO MEET THE CITY'S STANDARDS FOR OFFICIAL MEETING MINUTES. 
          THE CHALLENGE IS NOT SIMPLY TRANSCRIBING WHAT IS SAID. 
          PREPARING ACCURATE MINUTES REQUIRES UNDERSTANDING THE CONTEXT AND THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WHAT
OCCURRED DURING A MEETING. 
          SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IMAGINE A COUNCIL MEMBER SAYS,
I DON'T SUPPORT AN ORDINANCE. 
          AND THEN 30 MINUTES LATER, AFTER A LONG DISCUSSION,
AN AMENDMENT IS MADE TO THE ORDINANCE AND THAT SAME COUNCIL MEMBER VOTES IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDED ORDINANCE. AI CAN ACCURATELY TRANSCRIBE WHAT WAS SAID,
BUT IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY UNDERSTAND THAT THE AMENDMENT CHANGED THE CIRCUMSTANCES AND THEREFORE CHANGE THE COUNCIL MEMBER'S POSITION. 
          THE TECHNOLOGY CAN CAPTURE THE WORDS, BUT THE CLERK HAS TO UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT,
THE SEQUENCE, THE ACTION AND THE FINAL DECISION. AI COULD ASSIST US IN PREPARING MEETING MINUTES,
BUT IT CANNOT MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT HAPPENED AT THE MEETING. 
          AND RIGHT NOW, WE FOUND THAT WE HAVE TO BE VERY,
VERY CAREFUL AND WE ARE NOT RELYING ON AI TODAY. 
          AND FINALLY, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SUCCESSION PLANNING AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES. 
          WITH THE RETIREMENT OF OUR DEPUTY CITY CLERK JESSICA ROSENBERG NEXT WEEK AND THE UPCOMING
RETIREMENT OF YOUR CITY CLERK IN APPROXIMATELY 18 MONTHS. I HAVE BEEN WORKING ON SEVERAL ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES DESIGNED TO
STRENGTHEN THE OFFICE AND ENSURE A SMOOTH TRANSITION, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THESE CHANGES WILL HAVE NO OVERALL IMPACT ON OUR TOTAL BUDGET. 
          THE CHANGES FOCUS ON THREE AREAS REORGANIZING DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES TO BETTER ALIGN
WITH THE CITY'S CURRENT NEEDS. 
          CONTINUING TO EVALUATE THE VACANT DOCUMENT MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR POSITION BASED ON OUR
FISCAL CONDITIONS AND THE GROWING DEMAND FOR PUBLIC RECORDS, AND UPDATING OUR STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES TO ENSURE THAT CRITICAL INSTITUTIONAL
KNOWLEDGE IS DOCUMENTED AND CAN BE TRANSFERRED TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF STAFF. THESE CHANGES WILL PROVIDE A BETTER WORKLOAD DISTRIBUTION,
GREATER OPERATIONAL CONTINUITY. 
          CAREER PROGRESSION OPPORTUNITIES, ENHANCED CUSTOMER SERVICE AND MOST OF ALL,
STRONGER SUCCESSION PLANNING AS REQUESTED BY THE COUNCIL. 
          AND WE WILL ACCOMPLISH THAT ALL WITHIN THIS APPROVED BUDGET. 
          AS YOU LOOK AT THE ORGANIZATIONAL CHART ON THE SLIDE,
THE POSITIONS AFFECTED BY THESE CHANGES ARE HIGHLIGHTED IN LIGHT BLUE. 
          THE RETIRING DEPUTY CITY CLERK POSITION WILL TRANSITION TO A LEGISLATIVE AND RECORDS
ADMINISTRATOR ROLE. 
          THE OTHER DEPUTY CITY CLERK WILL TRANSITION TO CHIEF DEPUTY CITY CLERK. 
          WHILE WORKING CLOSELY WITH ME OVER THE NEXT 18 MONTHS TO ENSURE CONTINUITY IN THE
MANAGEMENT AND OPERATION OF THE OFFICE, AND THE ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR POSITION WILL TRANSITION TO AN ASSISTANT TO THE CITY
CLERK ROLE. 
          THESE CHANGES ARE ABOUT MORE THAN CHANGING TITLES. 
          THEY ARE ABOUT BUILDING A STRONGER BENCH, TRANSFERRING INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE AND MAKING
SURE THAT THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE IS PREPARED FOR THE FUTURE. 
          AND IN CLOSING, OUR OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK REMAINS COMMITTED TO TRANSPARENCY,
ACCOUNTABILITY, EFFICIENCY, MODERNIZATION, AND, OF COURSE, EXCEPTIONAL CUSTOMER SERVICE. 
          WITH YOUR APPROVAL, THIS BUDGET WILL ALLOW US TO CONTINUE MEETING THE CITY'S GROWING
OPERATIONAL NEEDS, 
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INVESTING IN TECHNOLOGY AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT,
AND STRENGTHENING OUR SUCCESSION PLANNING, ALL WHILE MAINTAINING FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY AND STAYING WITHIN THE APPROVED BUDGET. 
          WE ARE FOCUSED NOT ONLY ON MEETING THE NEEDS OF THE CITY,
BUT ALSO ON BUILDING AN OFFICE THAT IS PREPARED TO SERVE THE CITY WELL INTO THE FUTURE. 
          AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT,
AND I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT DETAIL. CAN YOU JUST EXPLAIN THOSE THREE POSITIONS SO THAT
WE HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE OF YOUR THINKING? FOR THAT TRANSITION. THANK YOU FOR THAT ORGANIZATIONAL CHART. 
          SO YES, SO AS I SAID, WE'RE, WE'RE LOSING AN EMPLOYEE WITH 28 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE. SO WE'RE, WE'RE DOWN AND, AND TYPICALLY ORGANIZATIONS,
WHEN YOU HAVE RETIREMENTS, YOU HAVE A CHANGE IN THE ORGANIZATION. YOU NEED TO LOOK AT THE STRUCTURE OF THE
ORGANIZATION TO SEE HOW YOU'RE GOING TO BEST BE ABLE TO OPERATE WITH WHAT YOU HAVE. I, I CAN TELL YOU THAT THERE'S BEEN NO ADD PLACED TO REPLACE JESSICA AT THIS
TIME. 
          SO I DON'T HAVE SOMEONE THAT CAN STEP IN TOMORROW TO DO ANY OF THE FUNCTIONS THAT SHE DID. 
          EVEN IF WE DID HIRE SOMEONE IN ANOTHER MONTH,
IT'S GOING TO TAKE YEARS OF TRAINING TO BRING THAT PERSON UP TO A POINT THAT THEY'RE GOING TO LEARN WHAT WE DO IN OUR OFFICE AND REALIZING TOO,
THAT MOST OF WHAT WE DO IS THROUGH TECHNOLOGY SOFTWARE PROGRAMS. SO THERE'S A LOT OF LEARNING CURVE BESIDES CLERKING MEETINGS THAT THERE'S A LOT OF
TECHNOLOGY TO LEARN. 
          SO, SO BEING THAT WE ARE DOWN TO WHAT DO WE DO TO REPLACE THE CURRENT DEPUTY CLERK THAT
HAS ALL THAT KNOWLEDGE, LONG TIME KNOWLEDGE. WE WANT TO HAVE A POSITION THAT SOMEBODY CAN WORK UP TO IN THE FUTURE IF ANOTHER DEPUTY CLERK IS NEEDED. SO WE'RE STARTING AT A LEGISLATIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE
COORDINATOR POSITION BECAUSE WE FEEL THAT THOSE DUTIES ARE REALLY NECESSARY. WE NEED SOMEONE TO LEARN RECORDS. 
          WE NEED SOMEONE TO LEARN THE ARCHIVING, THE LEGISLATIVE PROCESS. 
          I NEED A BACKUP AND REVIEWING THE LEGISLATION. 
          AND SO WE'RE THAT. I'M SORRY. SO THAT'S WHERE THAT TITLE COMES FROM. 
          SO THAT'S THE BASICS OF WHAT. SO JESS IS DOING. 
          YEAH. YES. SO IT'S PROVIDING THAT POSITION MAKING IT A LOWER LEVEL POSITION THAT WILL
PROVIDE GROWTH FOR THE FUTURE FOR THAT POSITION THEN. SO WE HAVE ONE ONE DEPUTY CITY CLERK LEFT. 
          SO WE WANT TO TRANSITION THE DEPUTY CITY CLERK TO A ROLE THAT IS MORE THAN THE DEPUTY CITY
CLERK TODAY. 
          SO HOW I CAN EXPLAIN THIS PROBABLY BEST IS EVERY DEPARTMENT HAS A DIRECTOR AND A DEPUTY
DIRECTOR. 
          AND IN THOSE DEPARTMENTS THEY ARE CLASSIFIED AS A TRUE DEPUTY TO TAKE THE PLACE OF THAT
DIRECTOR. 
          IF THAT DIRECTOR IS ON VACATION OR WHATEVER WOULD HAPPEN. 
          THEY LEARN ALL THE SKILLS AND THEY CAN JUST STEP IN. 
          IN OUR OFFICE. A DEPUTY CLERK HAS NEVER BEEN IN A MANAGEMENT ROLE,
NOR HAVE THEY DONE THE FUNCTIONS OF THE CLERK. 
          THEY HAVE BEEN CLASSIFIED BASICALLY AS AN EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT WITH A DEPUTY CITY CLERK
APPOINTMENT BY CITY COUNCIL. 
          SO I WANT TO ELEVATE THAT POSITION TO WORK MORE IN ALIGNMENT WITH THE DUTIES THAT I DO
EVERY DAY TO, TO BE ABLE TO TRANSFER THAT AS MUCH HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AS I CAN,
AND TO TEACH MORE OF THOSE DUTIES THAT I DO. AND AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS THE ADMINISTRATIVE COORDINATOR POSITION. 
          WE WANT TO. AND IT'S A SMALL ELEVATION OF. ELEVATE THAT POSITION TO ASSISTANT TO THE CITY
CLERK ROLE. 
          AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE NEED ASSISTANCE IN PUBLIC RECORDS. 
          AND MUCH OF WHAT WE DO IS CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT WITH EMAIL SEARCHES. 
          AND THAT POSITION IS NOT A CONFIDENTIAL AND EXEMPT EMPLOYEE. 
          IT'S A UNION HOURLY EMPLOYEE, AND WE HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO UTILIZE THAT FOR THIS POSITION. 
          BUT WE REALLY NEED TO GIVE ADDITIONAL THOUGHT TO THAT AREA WHERE WE KNOW THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO GET HELP IN THAT AREA. AND THERE'S A DESIRE FROM THE EMPLOYEE TO MOVE UP AND TO DO
THOSE OTHER TASKS. 
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SO THAT'S, THAT'S JUST IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS,
I'LL BE HAPPY TO YOU KNOW, MEET WITH YOU. 
          I THINK THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT NEW POSITIONS. THEY'RE JUST ASSIGNMENT OF DUTIES IS
REASSIGNMENT AND JUGGLING OF SOME DUTIES TO KIND OF GET US THROUGH THIS PHASE BECAUSE WE DO HAVE TO HIRE SOMEONE AND. WE'LL GO FROM THERE. 
          DAY AT A TIME, RIGHT? AND I APPRECIATE THE DETAIL BECAUSE YOU HAVE A LOT OF TRANSITION
THAT MIGHT BE HAPPENING IN YOUR DEPARTMENT NEXT YEAR AND POSSIBLY AFTER THAT. I KNOW YOU'RE, YOU KNOW,
STABLE, BUT YOU'RE LEAVING NEXT YEAR. 
          SO NOT NEXT YEAR. 20 MONTHS OR SO WITH YOU. YEAH. 
          SO I MEAN, AND THEN YOU HAVE, I MEAN, CARMEN'S HISTORIC KNOWLEDGE. 
          SO THIS REORGANIZATION IS, IS FILLING THOSE POSITIONS. 
          SO THAT YOU CAN CONTINUE ON AND, AND, AND KEEP UP WITH THE,
YOU KNOW, WHEN COUNCIL ASKED ME FOR A SUCCESSION PLAN, THE FIRST THING I DID WAS GO TO HR TO FIND OUT WHAT WE HAVE. 
          AND I WAS TOLD WE HAVE NOTHING IN PLACE. SO THE NEXT THING I DID IS REACHED OUT TO THE FCC
AND THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CITY CLERKS, AND I STARTED TAKING TRAINING. AND THROUGH THAT TRAINING,
I DEVELOPED KIND OF THIS LITTLE SUCCESSION PLAN. 
          BUT ALSO SO THE COUNCIL IS AWARE THIS IS NOTHING NEW. 
          YOUR CITY HAS HAD A CHIEF DEPUTY CITY CLERK BEFORE THIS. 
          SO THIS I'VE JUST USED THE SAME TITLE AS WHAT WE'VE ALREADY HAD. 
          SO I DIDN'T REALLY GO TOO MUCH OFF THE GRID HERE,
BUT I DON'T KNOW. 
          BUT IT'S IT'S GOOD FOR US TO UNDERSTAND. I MEAN,
WE ONLY HAVE THREE EMPLOYEES SO THAT WE CAN UNDERSTAND. 
          AND EVEN, YOU KNOW, WITH MR. YOUNG'S REPOSITIONING OF POSITIONS,
IT'S ALL, YOU KNOW, IT HAPPENS AND IT'S NEEDED. 
          SO I THINK IT'S BEST THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S WHAT CHANGES ARE BEING MADE. 
          SO CAN I INTERRUPT YOU OR YOUR COMPLETE I AM COMPLETE. 
          OKAY. ANY QUESTIONS TO THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND RESTRUCTURING? THANK YOU FOR THAT NEW ORGANIZATIONAL CHART. THANK YOU. 
          YES. MR.. COUNCIL MEMBER. SCHULTZ. QUICK QUESTION IN REGARDS TO THE FOIA REQUEST. 
          WHAT ARE THE TOP ITEMS THAT ARE BEING SENT COMING YOUR WAY IN THE TOPICS THAT ARE BEING
REQUESTS FOR FOIA? WHAT WHAT WOULD THAT BE? SAY YOUR TOP THREE. WE HAVE OUR FOIA REQUESTS SPLIT INTO FOUR
AREAS. 
          SO WHEN THE PUBLIC GOES ONLINE TO SUBMIT A REQUEST,
THEY CAN SUBMIT DIRECTLY TO POLICE DIRECTLY TO BUILDING DIRECTLY TO FIRE DIRECTLY TO US. 
          THE MOST REQUESTS THAT COME IN ARE GENERALLY FOR BUILDING AND THEY ARE FOR ELEVATION
BUILDING PERMITS. 
          A LOT OF THE LIKE JUST NORMAL THINGS. POLICE HAVE GOTTEN OVERBURDENED WITH BODY CAMERA
VIDEO. 
          AND THAT'S KIND OF A NEW TREND. SO THERE'S BEEN A LOT FOR THAT. 
          BUT THEN IN OUR AREA, IT'S LITIGATION RELATED ATTORNEY REQUESTS THAT ARE TEN PAGES LONG
AND A LOT OF DETAIL AND EMAIL SEARCHES AND THAT KIND OF THING. 
          SO OURS ARE A LOT MORE COMPLEX THAT WE DO IN OUR OFFICE,
BUT WE HAVE TO GATHER ALL THE RECORDS, WE PRODUCE WHAT WE CAN, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO GATHER EVERYTHING ELSE THROUGHOUT THE CITY TO
RESPOND TO THOSE REQUESTS FROM OUR OFFICE. 
          SO THEY'RE THE TOP THREE. ARE, I COULD SAY THE BUILDING EVERYDAY BUILDING ONES,
THE BODY CAMERA AND LITIGATION RELATED REQUESTS. THE LITIGATION REQUEST THOUGH,
WOULD THAT BE FROM LITIGATION REGARDING AIRPORT PRIDE? WHAT? YES. YES. ABSOLUTELY. YES. THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR. 
          YES. YES. YES. CAN YOU GIVE A PERCENTAGE OF WHAT IS WHAT OF JUST THAT ONE. 
          I, I CAN'T TODAY, BUT I CAN PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO YOU. 
          I'M PRETTY SURE THROUGH LIKE I CAN GIVE YOU A REPORT. 
          I'LL BE HAPPY TO GET ONE OF THOSE PREPARED AND LET YOU KNOW HOW MUCH TIME THAT WE SPEND ON
LITIGATION. 
          IT'D BE NICE TO GET AN IDEA OF WHERE WHERE ARE WE? AND YOU REAP AS YOU SOW. YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE DOING? YES. NO, I'LL BE HAPPY TO TO DO A REPORT. THE GREAT THING ABOUT JUST FOIA THAT WE'VE,
HOW WE'VE LEARNED HOW TO USE IT OR JESSICA'S BECOME A PRO AT 
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THAT TO CREATE REPORTS. SO WE HAVE A LOT OF FEATURES THAT WE CAN USE. 
          SO WE APPRECIATE THAT. SO LET'S TAKE ADVANTAGE OF WHAT WE HAVE AND PREPARE THOSE REPORTS. 
          THANK YOU. BE SURE TO ADD THAT REQUEST INTO YOUR STATISTICS. 
          YEAH. WELL AND WE'LL WE'LL ADD THAT REQUEST INTO OUR DATABASE. 
          I WOULD CAUTION HOWEVER CHANGES IN POLICIES YOU MAKE TO THE PLOTS AND THE MAPS THAT YOU
KNOW, THOSE BIG SHELVES REMAIN BECAUSE I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION AS
UNDERSTANDING OUR PLOTS AND MAPS AND OH YES, WE'RE KEEPING THEM. OKAY. YES. NO, DEFINITELY. 
          WE'RE, WE'RE, I THOUGHT THAT WAS A MANDATORY. 
          WE HAVE ALL THE OLD PLOTS AND WE WILL HAVE THOSE ALL ACCESSIBLE FROM OUR WEBSITE BEFORE
THE COUNTY EVEN HAS PLOTS ON THEIR WEBSITE. SO THAT'S MY AIM. SO WE'RE NOT GETTING RID OF THOSE FILES THAT YOU HAVE IN YOUR. 
          NO WE'RE NOT. NO. OKAY. WE'RE KEEPING THEM. WELL,
I DON'T HAVE ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS. 
          THAT WAS VERY DETAILED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. 
          SO WITH THAT, MAYOR NEXT UP IS THE CITY ATTORNEY. 
          YES. THANK YOU EVERYONE. APPRECIATE THAT. SO I'LL BE I'LL BE QUICK. 
          AS YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE THREE CHARTER OFFICERS,
ME, MISS RAMBO AND MR. YOUNG. I THINK WE WORK WELL WITH EACH OTHER. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. 
          THERE'S DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THE CITY THAT WE ALL KIND OF TAKE CHARGE ON,
BUT ENSURE WE COORDINATE TOGETHER WITH. 
          AS YOU HEARD FROM MISS RAMBO'S, THE PUBLIC RECORDS,
HER OFFICE IS PIVOTAL IN DISCOVERY AS WELL. 
          THERE'S BEEN SUBSTANTIAL DISCOVERY THIS YEAR AS OPPOSED TO THE PRIOR YEAR. 
          SO SPECIAL SHOUT OUT TO HER BECAUSE IT WAS, IT WAS VERY HARD. HER AND HER TEAM HELPED US
GREATLY WITH A LOT OF THE REQUESTS THAT CAME IN. 
          ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, THE MISSION STATEMENT,
AND I'LL JUST SUMMARIZE IT, IS REALLY TO JUST BE PROACTIVE IN LITIGATION, TRYING TO LIMIT EXPOSURE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE,
WHILE ALSO COORDINATING WITH ANYONE THAT REALLY HAS A LEGAL QUESTION FROM THE CITY SIDE. 
          THIS INCLUDES YOU ALL, AS YOU KNOW, BOARD MEMBERS,
APPOINTED BOARD MEMBERS, AND CITY STAFF. 
          I WOULD SAY THERE'S A LOT OF NEW NEW LEGISLATION THAT CAME INTO PLAY AS WELL. 
          NOT RELATED TO THE AIRPORT, BUT OTHER ISSUES THAT WE'VE HAD TO KIND OF COORDINATE BE
INVOLVED IN. 
          I FIND MYSELF IN SOME ADDITIONAL MEETINGS THESE DAYS JUST BECAUSE OF PROCESS CHANGES,
THINGS GOING ADMINISTRATIVE WHEN THEY WEREN'T BEFORE. 
          SO I DO THINK OUR CONTRACT IS SET UP IN A GREAT WAY WHERE THE TRANSITORY COMMUNICATIONS IS
A FLAT FEE, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THAT GIVES STAFF THE ABILITY TO FEEL LIKE THEY'RE NOT RUNNING UP THE
BILL, BUT IT ALSO PROVIDES THEM THE FREEDOM TO CALL ME FOR A THREE MINUTE QUESTION OR A FOUR
MINUTE QUESTION OR FIVE MINUTE QUESTION, KNOWING THAT WE CAN PROVIDE LEGAL ADVICE AND HOPEFULLY LIMIT ANY EXPOSURE ON THE BACK END. 
          SO WITH THAT, I COULD GO THROUGH THE SLIDES,
BUT I THINK ULTIMATELY YOU PROBABLY HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT I DO. 
          WE TALK QUITE OFTEN WHEN IT COMES TO ORDINANCES. 
          I WILL GO TO SLIDE. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS IN YOUR BOOK IN YOUR BOOK,
BUT. 
          183 OH THANKS, GARY. I FORGOT I HAD A KEYBOARD HERE. 
          YEAH, I'M TRYING TO. POINTER, PLEASE. OKAY. IT'S WEIRD. 
          YEAH IT IS. YOU HAVE THE MOUSE? NO MOUSE IS OVER HERE. 
          EITHER WAY. I'LL JUST VERBATIM READ IT. SO TOTAL THIS YEAR AS OF NOW. 
          AND THIS WAS PREPARED IN JUNE. MIGHT HAVE BEEN MAY. 
          WE HAD REVIEWED 175 RESOLUTIONS AND ORDINANCES,
137 AGREEMENTS AND 98 OTHER LEGAL REQUESTS, OTHER LEGAL REQUESTS ARE THINGS LIKE LEGAL OPINIONS,
INTERPRETATIONS OF CODES. 
          NEW STATUTE CAME OUT. ARE WE DOING THIS THE RIGHT WAY? PRETTY MUCH ANY OTHER THING THAT YOU COULD THINK OF FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT. THIS DOES NOT
INCLUDE LITIGATION THOUGH. I WOULD SAY THESE NUMBERS I PROBABLY REVIEWED BASED ON THE AGENDA TOMORROW. AND THE ONE NEXT WEEK, AN ADDITIONAL 30 TO 40 ITEMS,
WHETHER THAT BE AGREEMENTS OR RESOLUTIONS. 
          SO THE VOLUME IS, IS THERE, YOU KNOW, YOU GUYS HAVE A LOT OF EMPLOYEES,
YOU ENTER A LOT OF AGREEMENTS AND THERE'S A LOT OF LEGAL WORK THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. 
          I WILL SAY DEVELOPING TEMPLATES. THE FIRST YEAR DID HELP. 
          CONTRACT REVIEW IS REALLY GONE DOWN. YOU KNOW,
IN THE BEGINNING IT WAS MAYBE 20 TO 30 MINUTES OF CONTRACT. 
          NOW IT'S DOWN TO TEN, 15 MINUTES DEPENDING ON THE CONTRACT AT HAND. 
          NEGOTIATION, I WOULD SAY IS GETTING MORE PREVALENT BEFORE PEOPLE WOULD JUST TAKE OUR
AGREEMENT AND RUN. 
          NOW I'M GETTING PUSHBACK, I WOULD SAY ON PROBABLY 15 TO 20% OF THE AGREEMENTS. 
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SO I UNDERSTAND THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS SOMETIMES GET A LITTLE FRUSTRATED WITH THE
TIMING, BUT I CAN'T CONTROL WHETHER PEOPLE ARE GOING TO AGREE OR PUSH BACK. 
          MY INTENT IS ALWAYS TO MAKE SURE THE CITY IS PROTECTED. 
          IT USUALLY FALLS IN ON INDEMNIFICATION AND INSURANCE. 
          AS YOU CAN IMAGINE. THEY DON'T WANT TO DO IT. 
          I'M PUSHING FOR IT. EVENTUALLY THERE'S A MEET IN THE MIDDLE SITUATION. 
          BUT THAT DOES TAKE TIME TO WORK WITH THOSE VENDORS ULTIMATELY WHEN IT COMES TO THE BUDGET
ITSELF. 
          AND I DON'T THINK THE, OH, IT'S LIKE RUNNING OUT OF BATTERIES. 
          ALL RIGHT. HERE WE GO. SO OVERALL, FROM THE ADOPTED BUDGET,
IT'S A 3.9% INCREASE. 
          I WILL SAY THE ONE THING THAT'S NOT IDENTIFIED IN THE ESTIMATED ACTUAL IS THERE WAS AN
INCREASE IN OTHER LEGAL SERVICES THAT YOU GUYS APPROVED FOR AN ADDITIONAL 125,000. SO THAT WOULD HAVE, THAT WOULD TAKE THE LINE ITEM FROM 150 TO 75,000. 
          SO THAT ACTUAL BUDGET ITEM IS PROBABLY GOING TO BE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN WHAT IS
PORTRAYED HERE. 
          I WILL SAY WE JUST NOW STARTED BUILDING TOWARDS THAT EXTRA INCREASE. 
          BUT I'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH YOU ALL AND CAN I ADD SOMETHING? YEAH, PLEASE. THAT LINE ITEM, JUST BECAUSE I DID INDIVIDUALLY WITH EVERYONE. 
          REMEMBER, I FUNDED THE 65 ON THE APPRAISAL AND SAID THAT I'D BE COMING BACK. 
          SO IT'S NOT THAT LINE ITEM, BUT YOU'LL ALSO HAVE ANOTHER 65. 
          AND THEN ANYTHING WE NEED TO DO BETWEEN NOW AND THE END OF THE YEAR ON AN ENCUMBRANCE THAT
COULD ADD TO THAT, WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT IN AN EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          CORRECT. SO I JUST WANTED TO POINT THAT I DID IDENTIFY THAT INDIVIDUALLY WITH THEM WHEN WE
WERE AN INDIVIDUAL. 
          THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE THAT, GARY. HENCE WHY WE ARE A TEAM,
RIGHT? WE WORK WELL WITH EACH OTHER, BUT ULTIMATELY LEGAL BUDGET. 
          I THINK I DID A PRETTY GOOD JOB ESTIMATING THIS YEAR,
ALTHOUGH IT IS HARD TO ESTIMATE EVERYTHING. 
          YOU KNOW, THINGS COME UP. YOU GUYS HAVE OBVIOUSLY MADE DECISIONS TO PURSUE CERTAIN THINGS
WHICH RESULT IN ADDITIONAL ATTORNEYS, ADDITIONAL FEES, ETC.. SO I DO FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT WE'VE PRESENTED TODAY. 
          THE BIGGEST TAKEAWAY I WILL SAY IS WE'RE KIND OF REMOVING 50,000 FROM THE OTHER LEGAL
SERVICES AND PUTTING IT IN THE GENERAL CITY ATTORNEY BUDGET. 
          THIS BEING THE FACT THAT I WOULD SAY ROUGHLY 98 TO 99% OF THAT GENERAL GENERALIZED LEGAL
SERVICE BUDGET HAS BEEN ON AIRPORT RELATED ISSUES. WE'VE DONE A GOOD JOB OF MINIMIZING THE USE OR
THE NEED OF OUTSIDE COUNSEL. 
          JUST TO PUT A NUMBER ON IT, WE'VE PROBABLY SPENT JUST UNDER $4,000 ON OUTSIDE COUNSEL. 
          THAT'S NOT AIRPORT RELATED. THAT'S EITHER US REVIEWING THINGS LIKE COMMUNICATION TOWER
APPLICATIONS, TAKING IT UNDER OUR OUR REVIEW OR JUST LIMITING A LOT OF THESE LINGERING CASES THAT WERE
OUT THERE FOR 12 TO 15 YEARS THAT HAVE FINALLY COME TO A RESOLUTION. 
          SO UNLESS THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS THAT'S REALLY THE PRESENTATION I HAVE. 
          NO QUESTIONS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. WHEN THIS STUFF FIRST CAME ABOUT IN REGARDS TO THE
AIRPORT I EXPRESSED CONCERNS ABOUT THE LEGAL COSTS AND LITIGATION COSTS AND WAS AT THAT TIME
LOOKED FOR SOME SUPPORT TO CAP THINGS THAT MAY BE 125,000 AND YOU WOULD COME BACK WITH OTHER MATTERS AS THEY CAME UP. THE QUESTION I HAVE IS,
YOU KNOW, HOW FAR PAST THE 125, AND WE'VE GOT A LOT OF A LOT OF LANDINGS STILL TO GO,
A LOT OF LEGROOM ON THIS ISSUE IF THINGS ARE BEING PUSHED HOW IS THAT GOING TO BE IMPACTED BY THE REQUEST TO TRY TO LIMIT LITIGATION FEES ON SUCH EVENTS AS THE AIRPORT? GOOD QUESTION. SO AS OF NOW AND NOT TO THE SENATE,
BUT I HAVE A ROUGH ESTIMATE. 
          OUT OF THE 125, WE'VE ONLY ENCUMBERED. 13. 13,000. 
          RIGHT. THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE 1ST JULY INVOICE. 
          AND WHATEVER HAPPENS IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER. SO I DO THINK THAT THE FULL 125 WILL BE
ENCUMBERED, IF NOT PRETTY CLOSE TO BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR. 
          NOW, AS TO YOUR OTHER QUESTION, AS IT RELATES TO LITIGATION,
RIGHT NOW, WE ARE DOING WE ARE GOING DOWN MULTIPLE AVENUES ON THIS, WHICH MEANS THERE ARE CERTAIN ATTORNEYS THAT ARE PAUSED,
RIGHT, BECAUSE WE'VE ABATED OUR CASE. 
          SO WE AREN'T LITIGATING ANYTHING WHILE OTHER ATTORNEYS ARE ACTUALLY BILLING MORE BECAUSE
THEY'RE HELPING WITH THE PATH THAT WE'RE GOING DOWN RIGHT NOW. 
          SO THAT BEING SAID, I DO MY BEST TO NOT HAVE TWO ATTORNEYS DO THE SAME THING. 
          EACH ONE HAS THEIR EXPERTISE. EACH ONE HAS THEIR. 
          BUT ULTIMATELY, THE REASON. IF I DO NEED MORE THAN 100,
THEN I'M GOING TO HAVE TO COME BACK HERE AND ASK YOU GUYS FOR IT. 
          THE CONCERN I HAVE IS THAT, FOR EXAMPLE, THE EVALUATION OF THE CONSULTANT THAT GAVE US THE 
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APPRAISAL. APPRAISAL? YES. CORRECT. THAT WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN DONE IF WE DIDN'T HAVE
LITIGATION. 
          THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN NO REASON TO HAVE IT DONE. SO MY QUESTION IS,
IS THAT'S NOT INCLUDED IN LEGAL FEES, BUT IT'S TOTALLY RELEVANT TO THAT CASE. IT'S SPECIFIC TO THAT SITUATION. 
          SO HOW IS THAT NOT INCLUDED AS A LEGAL FEE WHEN THAT'S SORT OF WHAT IT IS FOR? WELL, I THINK YOU HEARD MR. YOUNG SAY WHEN IT COMES TO MY ACTUAL ESTIMATED BUDGET,
THERE'S GOING TO BE AN ADDITIONAL LINE ITEM THAT IDENTIFIES A 65,000. 
          SO WHEN I GIVE YOU THE ACTUAL BUDGET TOTAL, IT WILL INCLUDE THE APPRAISAL THAT WAS PAID
FOR. 
          YEAH. AND SPECIFICALLY THAT IS APPRAISAL SERVICES. 
          SO IT WOULD FALL UNDER 531010 PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. 
          BUT IF YOU REMEMBER WHEN WHEN COUNCIL AGREED TO DO THAT,
I SAID I WOULD CREATE A SEPARATE LINE ITEM AND PUT A PROJECT CODE OF NA WITHIN THE WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY'S BUDGET. SO A IT DIDN'T SHOW UP IN LEGAL FEES AND BE BURIED SOMEWHERE
BECAUSE THAT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN A LEGITIMATE COST, BUT ALSO TO NOT INFLATE THE NORMAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICES LINE AND DELINEATE THAT IT'S A N
A. 
          SO THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT I DID WHEN I MOVED THE MONEY INTO THERE. 
          AND SO AGAIN, WHEN YOU SEE OSTENSIBLY THE YEAR END REPORT IN NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET,
IT LINES UP AND WILL SHOW IN THERE, YOU KNOW, FOREVER IN A SEPARATE LINE ITEM FOR NA FOR PROFESSIONAL SERVICES. 
          BUT IT'S PART OF THE LITIGATION. IT'S A RESULT OF BEING IN LITIGATION. 
          I'M IF IF WELL, IT'S A RESULT OF A CONTRACT THAT CITY COUNCIL SAID,
YES, WE WANT TO EXECUTE WHILE WE WERE IN LITIGATION. 
          SO I'LL INFER, I'LL LET THAT BE. IF YOU WERE EVER GOING TO DO A PIECE,
I'M ASSUMING YOU WERE GOING TO HAVE AN APPRAISAL OF SOME KIND. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE EXACT TIMING OF THAT ONE,
BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S IN GENERAL RELATED TO LITIGATION AND RELATED TO,
BUT IT'S NOT ATTORNEY FEES. 
          AND THEN IT'S NOT LEGAL SERVICES. AND THAT'S WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS,
WHY WE DON'T PUT IT IN THERE BECAUSE THAT IS LEGAL IS, IS THAT ONLY ATTORNEYS WOULD BE, WOULD FALL UNDER THAT SECTION. 
          SO I WOULD BE BEGGING THE QUESTION, SAY THAT IT'S LITIGATION. 
          WE BEGAN IT'S TOWARD PUSHING THAT CASE. WE BEGAN IT AS REGARDS TO WHAT HAPPENED IN
TALLAHASSEE. 
          EXCUSE ME. SO WE TOOK A STEP THAT WE DID, AND I WAS NOT IN FAVOR OF THAT STEP. 
          SO MY CONCERN STILL RUN CONSISTENT IS THAT AT WHAT POINT WILL WE DETERMINE WE'VE GOT TOO
MUCH MONEY INTO THIS LITIGATION THAT THE PUSH ME PULL YOU ISN'T THERE? NO. AND I UNDERSTAND YOUR POINT. AND I WASN'T DIMINISHING THAT IN ANY WAY. 
          I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU KNEW FROM AN ACCOUNTING PERSPECTIVE WHY IT WAS THAT LINE
ITEM. 
          BUT CERTAINLY IT IS A IT IS A ONE OF THE RAMIFICATIONS OF LITIGATION AND,
AND, AND CONSIDERATION IN LEASE. IT'S ATTRIBUTABLE. BUT,
BUT BY LINE ITEM, IT FALLS INTO A DIFFERENT CATEGORY. 
          THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO SAY. AND I CAN UNDERSTAND THAT POINT. BUT AGAIN,
IT GETS BACK TO THE RESIDENCE QUESTION TO ME IS WHAT YOU WERE AGAINST THIS. 
          WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO STOP THESE LITIGATION FEES FROM GOING THROUGH THE ROOF? AND
WHAT, WHAT CAN I SHARE WITH THOSE FOLKS THAT ASK ME AS OUR BOSSES? WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO IS BECAUSE THIS THING IS GOING TO MORPH INTO A LOT OF OTHER
THINGS, I JUST, I KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. HOW DO WE PROTECT THE RESIDENTS? SO I'LL TAKE A STAB AT THAT. SO, SO ULTIMATELY,
FROM A LEGAL STANDPOINT, I DON'T THINK IT'S REALLY THE BEST CHARACTERIZATION TO SAY THAT THE APPRAISAL WAS ONLY DONE BECAUSE OF LITIGATION. 
          IT MIGHT HAVE PUSHED US TO DO IT. BUT AS YOUR CITY ATTORNEY,
I WOULD SAY IT'S PROBABLY A GOOD PRACTICE EVERY 3 TO 5 YEARS TO APPRAISE ALL CITY OWNED PROPERTY TO SO THAT YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR VALUE PERIOD. 
          JUST BUSINESS WISE, I THINK THAT'S A SMART DECISION TO MAKE. 
          I THINK ULTIMATELY RIGHT NOW, NO MONEY WILL BE SPENT PAST THE 125 UNLESS I COME BACK TO
YOU FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDS. 
          SO IF RESIDENTS ASK YOU AND YOU CAN SAY RIGHT NOW,
WE'VE BEEN CAPPED, THERE HAS BEEN NO REQUEST FOR ME TO COME BACK AT YOU. 
          BUT ULTIMATELY, LITIGATION IS WHAT IT IS. A MAJORITY OF YOU MADE A DECISION. 
          WE'RE PURSUING THAT DECISION, AND IF WE EVER WANT TO CHANGE OUR MIND,
WE CAN. 
          I'M WELL AWARE THAT I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT VOTED NO. 
          SO. AND THAT'S FINE WITH ME. I'LL DIE. I'LL DIE ON THAT HILL. 
          BUT THANK YOU. IT'S JUST HARD TO GUESSTIMATE. 
          BECAUSE FOR ALL I KNOW, LITIGATION COSTS COULD END. 
          WE HAVE A JOINT MEETING THAT WE'RE SCHEDULING. I THINK WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU FOR
SEPTEMBER 17TH IN THE AFTERNOON AFTER THE MEETING. 
          DON'T KNOW WHAT DECISION IS GOING TO MAKE. BUT AT THE SAME TIME,
IF RESIDENTS ARE WORRIED, I, WE DID NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY WAS PROTECTED IN ALL ASPECTS BECAUSE ALTHOUGH
WE'VE INITIATED SOMETHING, THE N A HAS MADE IT CLEAR THAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH THEIR OWN 164 PROCESS BECAUSE THEY
HAVE ISSUES THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO INITIATE AS WELL. 
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SO WE JUST HAVE TO MAKE SURE THE CITY IS PROTECTED FROM ALL,
ALL ASPECTS. 
          AND I'LL JUST SAY JUST APPROXIMATELY OVER 20 YEARS WATCHING,
YOU KNOW, WE'VE SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO LITIGATION WITH ANYBODY,
QUITE FRANKLY. 
          BUT WE HAD BOAT SPEEDS. WE SPENT DECADES ON THE BOAT SPEEDS SEAWALLS UP IN SEA GATE. 
          THAT LITIGATION WE HAD THE OLD NAPLES HOTEL FOR DECADES. 
          WE HAVE ONE NOW WITH N P, AND WE HAD LITIGATION WITH A PROJECT THAT'S NOW CURRENTLY WAS RESOLVED UNDER THIS COUNCIL. AND SOMETIMES IT HAS TO HAPPEN. 
          I, THAT'S NOT THE WAY I CHOOSE TO. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WOULD TO SPEND THE TAXPAYER
DOLLARS ON LITIGATION, BUT SOMETIMES TO PROTECT YOUR CITY OR TO PROTECT AN ASSET OR PROTECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS,
LIKE ON THE BOAT SPEEDS OR THE SEAWALLS, YOU HAVE TO. SO AS FAR AS THE ATTORNEYS BUDGET,
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I DON'T REALLY SEE HOW THOSE ARE GERMANE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SO WITH THAT, MAYOR THE ETHICS COMMISSION IS UP NEXT,
AND MR. MURAWSKI IS HERE TO PRESENT. AND IT'S NOT 6:00,
MR. MURAWSKI. WELCOME. GOOD AFTERNOON. GOOD AFTERNOON,
MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE YOU. MIKE MURAWSKI EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE ETHICS COMMISSION. 
          I WAS I'VE BEEN WATCHING YOUR MEETING ALL DAY,
AND I NOTICED THERE WAS SORT OF A THEME OF THAT WAS EASY. 
          SO I WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE ALONG THAT THEME. 
          THANK YOU. THIS SHOULDN'T BE TOO COMPLICATED. 
          SO AS YOU ALL KNOW, THE THE NAPLES ETHICS COMMISSION WAS CREATED IN AUGUST OF 2020 BY 62%
OF THE VOTERS WHO APPROVED THE REFERENDUM ESTABLISHING ITS CREATION. OUR MISSION THESE PAST SIX YEARS NOW IS REMAINS THE
SAME TO ENSURE THE ACTUAL AND PERCEIVED INTEGRITY OF CITY GOVERNMENT AND ITS DECISION MAKING PROCESS TO BUILD CONFIDENCE IN CITY
GOVERNMENT TO PREVENT UNETHICAL CONDUCT BEFORE IT OCCURS TO ADDRESS IT WHEN IT DOES OCCUR, AND TO TRAIN AND ADVISE CITY OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES IN ETHICAL
MATTERS, AND TO GENERALLY SERVE AS THE GUARDIAN OF THE PUBLIC TRUST. 
          THIS IS JUST A LITTLE SORT OF BUDGET OVERVIEW HISTORY GOING BACK TO 2020,
2021, THE VERY FIRST BUDGET THAT WE HAD BEFORE THE ETHICS COMMISSION HAD ANY EMPLOYEES AT ALL. WE WERE WE WERE AT A BUDGET OF $207,620 IN 2021 2022. 
          I STARTED WORKING HERE IN JUNE OF 2021. OUR BUDGET WAS 266,
62703, AND IT REMAINED THAT WAY THE FOLLOWING YEAR. 
          IN 2023, 2024, IT ACTUALLY DECREASED A LITTLE BIT,
AND 2024 2025 DECREASED A LITTLE BIT FURTHER LAST YEAR. THIS CURRENT YEAR, IT WENT UP A LITTLE BIT,
THEN 2425, BUT NOT BY MUCH. 
          AND OUR PROPOSED BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR IS 267243,
WHICH IS AN INCREASE OVER THIS YEAR'S BUDGET OF JUST ABOUT $3,000. 
          AND HALF OF THAT 3000 MORE OR LESS, IS TAKEN UP BY THE TECHNOLOGY SERVICE CHARGE THAT THAT
MY DEPARTMENT GETS HIT WITH, WHICH IS THIS YEAR GOING INTO NEXT YEAR, $8,520 THAT THEY WANT FROM MY DEPARTMENT,
WHICH IS JUST ME. 
          BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S A SHARED EXPENSE THROUGHOUT ALL DEPARTMENTS IN THE CITY. 
          SO THIS IS KIND OF A BUDGET DETAIL. THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR'S COMPENSATION AND MY,
MY, MY RETIREMENT PACKAGE, FICA AND ALL OF THAT LEGAL SERVICES. THAT'S OUR GENERAL COUNSEL THAT WE PAY $36,000 PER
YEAR. 
          WE PAY THE CLERK'S OFFICE $8,000 PER YEAR FOR THE SERVICES THAT THEY PROVIDE US DURING OUR
MEETINGS. 
          WE HAVE A. SET ASIDE SOME MONEY FOR LOBBYING PURPOSES. 
          I USE SOME OF THAT MONEY. LAST YEAR, IF YOU RECALL,
IN 2024, THE LEGISLATURE PASSED A SENATE BILL 7014 THAT'S SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTED THE ETHICS COMMISSION'S AUTHORITY. 
          AND WE HAVE MADE SOME EFFORTS TO TRY TO RECAPTURE THAT BY HIRING OUR OWN LOBBYIST. 
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AND I'VE BUDGETED SOME MONEY FOR THAT PURPOSE FOR NEXT YEAR AS WELL. 
          WE HAVE AN INVESTIGATIVE FUND RIGHT NOW OF $15,000. 
          WE'VE NOT SPENT ANY MONEY OUT OF THAT FUND. I HAVE A TRAVEL AND TRAINING FUND OF $3,500. 
          OUR WEB MAINTENANCE IS FOR THE, THE THE WEBSITE THAT WE HAVE,
THE ETHICS COMMISSION'S WEBSITE, WHICH CARRIES ALL OF THE ONLINE TRAINING FOR FOR EVERYONE IN THE CITY THAT HAS TO TAKE IT
A BUDGET AGAIN, FOR OPERATING SUPPLIES, PENS AND PENCILS AND LEGAL PADS. 
          THINGS LIKE THAT. OUR MEMBERSHIP FEE IS $500. 
          THAT'S TO PAY OUR MEMBERSHIP IN WHAT'S CALLED THE COUNCIL ON GOVERNMENT ETHICS LAWS. 
          IT'S ALSO KNOWN AS KOEGEL. IT'S A NATIONWIDE UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION OF ALL ETHICS
COMMISSIONS AND OTHER GOVERNMENT AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. THAT SOFTWARE CHARGE. THAT'S $1,000. 
          THAT'S THE THE SOFTWARE THAT'S NECESSARY TO PRINT YOU OUT A CERTIFICATE ONCE YOU COMPLETE
YOUR TRAINING. 
          I HAVE TO I HAVE TO PAY FOR THAT SOFTWARE. AND THEN COMMUNICATIONS IS $250,
WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY FOR THE USE OF MY TELEPHONE IN MY OFFICE OUTPUTS AND OTHER ACCOMPLISHMENTS. YOU'LL SEE AT THE VERY END THERE,
THERE'S A CATEGORY CALLED O S WHICH IS STANDS FOR OTHER ACTIVITIES. 
          AND THIS IS A METRIC THAT I JUST STARTED KEEPING TRACK OF IN 2024. 
          AND IT'S BASICALLY TO KIND OF MEASURE THE ACTIVITIES THAT I DO IN THE OFFICE OTHER THAN,
YOU KNOW, ISSUING FORMAL OPINIONS OR INFORMAL OPINIONS OR THINGS LIKE THAT OR TRAINING. 
          AS THE YEARS HAVE GONE BY, YOU CAN SEE HERE FROM INFORMAL OPINIONS. 
          I'VE GONE FROM LIKE FIVE, SIX, SEVEN DOWN TO THREE. 
          THAT'S BECAUSE THE WHOLE PROCESS HAS GOTTEN A LITTLE BIT MORE RELAXED. 
          SO NOW PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WILL JUST CALL ME ON THE PHONE OR SEND ME AN EMAIL AND I'M ABLE
TO JUST SORT OF ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS WITHOUT GOING THROUGH A MORE FORMAL PROCESS. 
          SO THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT'S KEEPING ME BUSY OVER IN THE OFFICE. 
          I HAVE UPDATED AND REVISED THE ONLINE TRAINING PROGRAMS FOR OUR EMPLOYEES AND LOBBYISTS
AND BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. 
          I PARTNERED WITH AVE MARIA LAW SCHOOL AND FLORIDA GULF COAST UNIVERSITY. 
          EARLIER THIS YEAR, WE HAD A ONE DAY ETHICS CONFERENCE THAT WAS ATTENDED BY LAW STUDENTS. 
          LOCAL ATTORNEYS, INCLUDING MATTHEW WAS WAS THERE THAT DAY. 
          GETTING OTHER, YOU KNOW, OTHER STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED. 
          I'VE DELIVERED AN ETHICS PRESENTATION TO YOUR CITY OF NAPLES YOUTH COUNCIL AND PARTNERED
WITH COLLIER COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS, DELIVERING A PRESENTATION TO HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS ON GOVERNMENT ETHICS AS PART OF THEIR
GET TO KNOW YOUR LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM. 
          I'VE ENTERED INTO A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING WITH THE INSTITUTE OF ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
AT SAINT THOMAS UNIVERSITY FOR THE PURPOSE OF JOINTLY PROMOTING THE PUBLIC TRUST IN GOVERNMENT THROUGH EDUCATION, TRAINING, RESEARCH,
AND TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVES. 
          THEY HAVE BEEN NICE ENOUGH TO LOAN ME SOME OF THEIR TECHNOLOGY THAT I WAS ABLE TO DO SOME
TRAINING USING USING ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, WHICH DOES MY VOICEOVER. 
          I'VE ADMINISTERED FOR LIVE, IN-PERSON TRAINING SESSIONS TO EMPLOYEES AND ENSURED THAT 292
EMPLOYEES, 40 BOARD AND COMMITTEE MEMBERS. 17 LOBBYISTS RECEIVED THEIR ONLINE ETHICS TRAINING. 
          THIS IS SORT OF AN ONGOING THING. AS PEOPLE COME ON BOARD,
THEY HAVE TO TAKE THEIR ETHICS TRAINING, AND THEN CURRENT EMPLOYEES ARE REQUIRED TO TAKE IT ONCE EVERY THREE YEARS. 
          I AM CONTINUING, AS I, AS I MENTIONED, TO SORT OF TRY TO AMELIORATE THE EFFECTS OF SENATE
BILL 7014 AND CONTINUE JUST OUTREACH AMONGST THE COMMUNITY. AND I TARGET THE COLLIER COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION,
THE COLLIER COUNTY BAR ASSOCIATION, WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, THE FLORIDA MUNICIPAL ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION,
THE FLORIDA BAR AND FEDERALIST SOCIETY ROTARY CLUB AS OTHER OTHER LOCAL GROUPS THAT BASICALLY ANYBODY THAT WANTS TO HEAR FROM ME,
I GO TALK TO THEM. 
          MY GOALS FOR THE COMING YEAR ARE TO AGAIN UPDATE THE ETHICS TRAINING FOR EMPLOYEES. 
          I REALLY HAVE TO KIND OF REDO THE WHOLE THING AND EXPLORE MORE WAYS THAT I MIGHT BE ABLE
TO USE AI IN THAT REGARD. 
          I NEED TO ENSURE THAT ALL THE EMPLOYEES AND LOBBYISTS AND EVERYONE COVERED ARE COMPLIANT
WITH THEIR ETHICS TRAINING. 
          THIS ONE I'M KIND OF EXCITED ABOUT. I'M, YOU KNOW,
YOU ALL KNOW THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE AN ANNUAL FOUR HOUR TRAINING IN SUNSHINE LAW. 
          AND FOR THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, I'VE DONE SOME OF THAT WITH ONE. 
          SOME OF YOU JUST LIKE ONE ON ONE IN MY OFFICE,
WHICH IS INCREDIBLY EXCITING. 
          TALKING ABOUT ETHICS FOR FOUR HOURS WITH JUST ME. 
          BUT WHAT I'VE DONE WAS I PUT TOGETHER A PACKAGE WHERE I'VE GOT SEVEN INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS
ONLINE, 
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SO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO JUST GO ONLINE TO MY WEBSITE,
NAPLES ETHICS, COMMISSION.COM, AND TAKE YOUR TIME AND GO THROUGH EACH SESSION. 
          WHEN YOU FINISH ALL SEVEN SESSIONS, YOU'LL YOU'LL HAVE COMPLETED YOUR FOUR HOUR TRAINING. 
          SO SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO, HOPEFULLY. AGAIN,
MY, MY GOAL IS TO CONTINUE OUTREACH AND EDUCATION ACTIVITY TO INCREASE COMMUNITY AWARENESS AND THE MISSION OF THE ETHICS COMMISSION AND PROMOTE
PARTICIPATION BY CONTINUING TO OFFER, AGAIN CREATIVE VEHICLES SUCH AS SEMINARS AND OTHER PROGRAMS ON,
ON ETHICS RELATED TOPICS. 
          AND WHERE AM I THUS FAR? AS I'VE SAID, THE ETHICS COMMISSION HAS BEEN OPERATING IN
EXTREMELY FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE MANNER, AND WE'VE BEEN FAITHFUL GUARDIANS OF THE PUBLIC TRUST IN FULFILLING ITS MANDATE UNDER THE
CHARTER. 
          AND I RESPECTFULLY SUBMIT THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO. 
          SO IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, I'D BE HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS. 
          YES, KRAMER. THANK YOU SIR. THAT'S SEVEN SESSION ETHICS TRAINING. 
          IS IT UP AND RUNNING OR HOW LONG CAN WE ANTICIPATE. 
          MR. FREILICH AS WE SPEAK, IS IS WORKING ON THE EDITING OF THAT. 
          I'VE GIVEN HIM THE WHOLE PACKAGE. HE'S BEEN NICE ENOUGH TO TO EDIT IT FOR ME ONCE IT GETS
EDITED BY HIM, I JUST NEED TO SEND IT TO MY WEB PEOPLE AND THEY'LL GET IT UP. 
          I'M HOPING FOR THE END OF THIS MONTH. AWESOME. 
          AND YOU'LL FIRE OFF AN EMAIL TO ALL OF US, LETTING US KNOW. 
          I WILL THANK YOU, SIR. YES. THANK YOU. THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY QUESTION. 
          IF NOT, ARE YOU ABLE TO DO AN ETHICS TRAINING FOR ALL OF US AS LONG AS IT WAS NOTICED? I'M READY AND ABLE TO DO THAT WHENEVER YOU WANT. 
          AS I SPOKE TO COUNCILWOMAN PENNIMAN ABOUT THIS,
AND, YOU KNOW, I WAS GOING TO GIVE HER SORT OF A ONE ON ONE. 
          SHE SAID, YOU KNOW, CAN WE DO IT AS A GROUP? YOU KNOW,
IT'S GOT TO BE IT'S GOT TO BE A PUBLIC MEETING. 
          SO IF YOU CAN, IF YOU CAN PUT TOGETHER A PUBLIC MEETING,
AS LONG AS EVERYBODY'S SCHEDULE WORKS OUT, I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO DO IT. ETHICALLY SPEAKING,
IT'S GOT TO BE A PUBLIC MEETING. 
          YES. SUNSHINE LAW SPEAKING. YEAH. 
          OKAY. THANK YOU. WE CAN COORDINATE THAT WITH MAYBE IN CORRESPONDENCE. 
          IF THERE'S A GENERAL WHERE WE ALL NEED TO TAKE OUR ETHICS COURSE AND MAYBE,
POSSIBLY HAVE YOU. 
          YOU DO THAT FOR US UNLESS YOUR COURSE IS ONLINE,
UP AND READY AND WE CAN ALL DO IT INDIVIDUALLY. 
          AND IS THERE A REASON YOU CANNOT USE OUR WEBSITE THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR OWN? YOU KNOW, WE JUST BECAUSE WE'RE INDEPENDENT,
SO WE HAVE OUR OWN WEBSITE THAT PUTS OUT JUST, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT INFORMATION FOR PEOPLE THAT I MEAN,
I SUPPOSE THERE IS A LINK ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE THAT TAKES YOU TO OUR WEBSITE. 
          SO IF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FOR THE ETHICS COMMISSION ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE,
IT'LL JUST AUTOMATICALLY BOUNCE THEM OVER TO US. YES, I KNEW THAT. I THINK SOME OF THOSE DECISIONS ARE HISTORICAL IN NATURE,
BECAUSE YOU REMEMBER THE LEGISLATURE ITSELF WHEN IT WAS PASSED INSTEAD OF OSTENSIBLY ALL YOU'RE DOING IS SAYING, HERE'S A BUDGET, A REASONABLE BUDGET REQUEST,
HERE'S YOUR LUMP SUM. 
          THEY RESIDE WITHIN OUR CURRENT FACILITIES, BUT THERE'S NOTHING THAT REQUIRES THEM TO. 
          AND SO THEY COULD OSTENSIBLY GO SOMEWHERE ELSE,
NOT BE AFFILIATED. 
          IT'S THERE'S SOME LEGAL DISTINCTIONS THERE. AND THAT BOARD VERY EARLY ON DECIDED TO JUST
HOST THEIR OWN WEBSITE, BUT WE'D PROVIDE A LINK. I YEAH, IT WAS, IT WAS,
IT WAS MUCH MORE ECONOMICAL TO STICK ME IN A, IN A CITY OFFICE THAN TO GO OUT AND RENT SPACE AND DO ALL THAT. 
          SO YEAH. OKAY. OKAY. IS THAT OKAY? THANK YOU,
THANK YOU. 
          YOU ALL HAVE A GOOD DAY. MR. MAYOR, WITH THAT,
WE CAN CONTINUE. 
          I ORDERED, I ASSUME THIS WILL PROBABLY BE 30 OR 40 MINUTE DISCUSSION. 
          I DON'T KNOW, BUT WE CAN TRUDGE ON. OR DO YOU WANT TO BREAK BEFORE JUST BECAUSE IT'S BEEN
TWO HOURS? OKAY. WE'LL KEEP. KEEP GOING. WANT A FIVE MINUTE BREAK? YOU GET TWO, YOU GET TWO. FIVE. WE HAVE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK. 
          OKAY, WE'RE BACK AND WE'RE WRAPPING UP ON OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP. 
          MR. YOUNG. THANK YOU MAYOR. AND SO WHERE WE ARE NOW JUST TO IS TO TRY TO GET CONSENSUS ON
WHAT WE WANT THE MILLAGE RATE TO BE, WHETHER WE WANT TO CONTINUE THE PUBLIC SAFETY ENHANCEMENTS THAT BEGAN TWO YEARS AGO. 
          AGAIN, THE COMMITMENT AT THAT TIME WAS, WAS THE COMMITMENT THAT WAS DELIVERED,
WHICH WAS TWO YEARS PHASING IN POLICE OR EXCUSE ME, FIRE RECEIVED SIX NEW FIREFIGHTERS, TWO BATTALION CHIEFS,
AND THAT WAS PHASED IN OVER A THE 12 MONTH PERIOD. 
          POLICE HAD MORE VEHICLES ON THE FRONT END, HAD FOUR OFFICERS IN THE FIRST YEAR AND 2 IN
25, 
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26 THAT WAS EXECUTED. AND SO WHERE WE STAND TODAY IS THE CONTINUING THE DISCUSSION AS TO
WHETHER YOU WANT TO HOLD THE LINE AT THE 1.23 IN THE MILLAGE RATE AND OR CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION ON ENHANCED PUBLIC SAFETY. 
          SO IN ORDER TO ACCOMPLISH THAT, THE BOTH THE POLICE AND FIRE CHIEF ARE HERE TO DISCUSS
THEIR REQUEST IN CONSIDERATION OF YOUR MAXIMUM MILLAGE DISCUSSION AT 1.29 FROM JUNE. AND THEN BOTH STEFAN AND I, OR WILL ALLUDE OR HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT THE
HEADWINDS OF THE. 
          BOTH THE PROPERTY TAX DOWN PRESSURE FROM PROPERTY TAXES. 
          REITERATE WHAT WE HAD SHOWN YOU EARLY ON IN THE PRESENTATION RELATED TO HOW MUCH REVENUE
WOULD BE GENERATED, AND THEN YOU CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION AS TO WHAT THE MILLAGE RATE YOU ARE GOING TO ASK US TO
ADVERTISE AND BRING INTO THE FIRST HEARING ON SEPTEMBER 8TH. 
          AND AGAIN, IT'S BETWEEN 1.23 AND 1.29. AND SO WITHOUT FURTHER ADO,
I WOULD TURN IT OVER TO THE POLICE CHIEF FOR HIM TO GIVE YOU THE DETAILS BEHIND HIS PROPOSED ENHANCEMENTS. 
          IN CONSIDERATION OF THE 1.29. 
          GOOD AFTERNOON, CHIEF DOMINGUEZ. GOOD AFTERNOON,
SIR DOMINGUEZ, CHIEF OF POLICE. 
          AS YOU CAN SEE IN YOUR SLIDE THERE THE INITIAL OR OUR CURRENT REQUEST IS FIVE OFFICERS FOR
FOR PATROL AND ONE FOR TRAFFIC AND ONE CRIME SCENE ANALYST. AND OUR GOAL HERE IS TO KIND OF NARROW THE GAPS THAT
WE HAVE RIGHT NOW BETWEEN RESPONSE REACTION TIME AND PROACTIVE TIME. BUT BEFORE WE GO DEEP INTO THAT,
I WANT TO MAKE A POINT OF IDENTIFYING SOMETHING THAT'S IN YOUR BUDGET BOOK IF YOU HAVE IT. 
          AND IF YOU LOOK AT YOUR BUDGET BOOK AND IT'S PAGE 111,
WHAT YOU'LL NOTICE IS AND THIS, THESE NUMBERS COME FROM OUR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND FROM EBERS AND EBERS IS THE NEW UCR FORMAT THAT THE FBI AND THE STATE HAVE US
REPORTING BACK. 
          AND IT'S THE INCIDENT BASED REPORTING SYSTEM. 
          AND ESSENTIALLY, IT IDENTIFIES CRIMES BY DEFINITION. 
          AND THAT WAY EVERYBODY'S REPORTING THE SAME THING. AND THAT'S PART OF IT. AND ALSO THE
FRONT PAGE HERE IS OUR OWN INTERNAL STATISTICS FROM CAD, WHICH IS COMPUTER AIDED DISPATCH. BUT THE THE REASON WE'RE ASKING THIS IS BECAUSE WE'RE
SEEING THE UPTICK IN OUR ACTIVITY AND THE UPTICK IN CERTAIN CRIMES THAT ARE THE TYPE OF CRIMES THAT PROACTIVE POLICING IS THE BEST AND ONLY WAY TO
ADDRESS THEM. 
          BUT IF YOU LOOK AT PAGE 111, AND THIS IS THE WHY,
IF YOU NOTICE ACCIDENTS ARE DOWN, RIGHT. 
          WE IN 2023 TO 2024. AND YOU SEE THE NEXT ONE,
IT GOES DOWN SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT TICKETS, TICKETS ARE UP. THAT'S A DIRECT CORRELATION BETWEEN ACTIVITY OF
BEING PROACTIVE AND WRITING TICKETS AND GETTING PEOPLE TO SLOW DOWN AND CALMING TRAFFIC, WHICH LOWERS THE ACCIDENTS. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT ARRESTS IN THE FIRST COLUMN, 2324,
YOU SEE 491 ARRESTS. 
          YOU SEE IN 24, 25, 535 ARRESTS, THAT'S THAT'S A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE. 
          AND WHILE DOING THAT, YOU ALSO SEE THAT OUR RESPONSE TIME STAYS WITHIN FOUR MINUTES FOR
EMERGENCIES. 
          MOST AGENCIES THAT'S THE KEY. YOU WANT TO STAY BELOW FIVE MINUTES. 
          WE'RE AT FOUR. WE ARE AT A GOOD POSITION FOR THAT. 
          SOMETIMES IT'S FASTER, OBVIOUSLY, WHEN YOU'RE RIGHT THERE,
BUT THE AVERAGE STAYS AROUND FOUR. 
          MEANWHILE, OUR NON-EMERGENCY TIME THE AVERAGE. 
          THAT IS BECAUSE THERE COULD BE DELAYED BASED ON HOW BUSY YOU ARE. 
          IT STAYS AROUND TEN. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING WE WANT TO GET AWAY FROM. 
          YOU ALSO LOOK AT THE TRAINING HOURS AT THE BOTTOM. 
          THIS IS ALL ABOUT TRAINING HOURS, IS ABOUT PROVIDING THE CITY OF NAPLES AND ITS CITIZENS
THE BEST TRAINED, MOST PROFESSIONAL FORCE ON THE AVERAGE, MOST AGENCIES DO 30 HOURS AND CHANGE. 
          WE'RE HITTING 105. WE HAVE RAISED THE STANDARD OF OUR PERFORMANCE,
WHICH SHOULD BE THE WAY FOR FOR NAPLES. 
          IF YOU LOOK AT PAGE 112, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS ARE UP FROM 16 TO 20. 
          BUT BUT SIGNIFICANTLY IS BELOW THAT IS LARCENY. 
          THOSE ARE THEFTS 70 TO 104. WE INCREASED. IF YOU LOOK AT NARCOTICS,
THESE ARE ARRESTS AND AND EMBEZZLEMENT. BUT LOOK AT NARCOTICS 34 TO 104. 
          THAT'S SIGNIFICANT. ROBBERIES WENT DOWN. HOW DO YOU PREVENT. 
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BY PREVENTING ROBBERIES? BY BEING PRESENT. SO YOU HAVE CRIMES THAT YOU RESPOND TO,
AND YOU HAVE CRIMES YOU CAN PREVENT BY YOUR PRESENCE AND BY OFFICERS BASICALLY DISPLACING CRIME. SIMPLE SALTS FROM 106 TO 132. 
          AND IF YOU LOOK DOWN AT THE VERY GRAND TOTALS IN 24,
WE HAD 471 REPORTED CASES. 
          WE WENT UP TO 694. BUT OUR CLEARANCE RATE, HOW MANY CASES WE CLEARED BY ARREST OR
OTHERWISE BY INVESTIGATION WENT FROM 46 TO 58, WHICH MEANS WE'RE MORE EFFICIENT AT PUTTING CASES TOGETHER. 
          YOU SEE BELOW, AND THESE ARE AGAIN FROM EIBAR'S CRIMES AGAINST PERSONS. 
          WE WENT FROM 134 TO 171. CRIMES AGAINST PROPERTY,
286 TO 373. 
          AND A LOT OF THAT CAN BE ELECTRONICS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE,
BECAUSE THEY'VE BECOME THE THING TO STEAL, INCLUDING ELECTRIC BIKES AND THAT AND THEN CRIMES AGAINST SOCIETY,
WHICH IS THE PHRASE THEY USE. 
          THAT'S FOR LASCIVIOUS SEXUAL CASES AND DRUGS AND ALL THAT. 
          WE WENT FROM 51 TO 150. SO THE GRAND TOTAL IS SIGNIFICANT. 
          WE SIT DOWN WITH MY STAFF AND WE LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE IN COMPARISON TO OUR STRATEGIC PLAN. 
          WE LOOKED AT OUR TECHNOLOGY AND THAT'S HOW OUR BUDGET GOT PUT TOGETHER. 
          WHAT WE NOTICED WAS THAT WE WERE STARTING TO LOSE IN IN TIME AS FAR AS YOU LOOK AT THE
HEAT MAP AND I'VE SENT YOU ALL THE HEAT MAP, BUT WE GET OUT OF CAD AND YOU CAN LOOK AT THE NUMBER OF HOURS
AND IT'S CERTAIN HOURS IN THE AFTERNOON, WE'RE BUSIER. SO WE TRY TO WAIT OUR SHIFTS. BUT EVEN WITH THAT,
WE'RE BUSIER AND WE'RE GETTING KIND OF BEHIND THAT NUMBER. 
          OUR GOAL BY ASKING FOR THESE PEOPLE IS TO GET AHEAD OF THAT NUMBER,
ESPECIALLY AS WE'RE GETTING CLOSER TO TO SEASON. 
          AND SO BACK TO THE SLIDE. THAT'S WHY WE'RE ASKING FOR THE FIVE OFFICERS. 
          NEXT SLIDE. SO AS YOU LOOK AT THIS AND YOU AND YOU CONSIDER QUALITY OF LIFE ISSUES,
NOISE COMPLAINTS AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS, THOSE THOSE TAKE TIME FOR US TO SIT SOMEWHERE AND
WAIT FOR THAT TO COME BY. 
          THAT'S HOW THAT WORKS WHEN IT COMES TO RESPONDING TO THE CASES,
IF SOMEONE GOES TO RESPOND TO A CASE, HE'S NOT HE OR SHE IS NOT THERE TO PREVENT THOSE KIND OF THINGS OR TO AT LEAST DETERMINE
WHERE THEY ARE AND TRY TO TARGET THAT. 
          SO YOU HAVE RESPONSE AND YOU HAVE PROACTIVE WORK. 
          WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO DO IS GET BELOW IN OUR PROACTIVE WORK. 
          AND IF YOU REMEMBER THE HEAT MAP AND I SENT IT TO YOU ALL. 
          IT SHOWS THE, THE TIME FRAMES. AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT THOSE TIME FRAMES,
ESPECIALLY THE AFTERNOON, YOU'LL SEE THAT. SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO,
AND AS I SPECIFIED IN THIS SLIDE, FOR OFFICERS TO HAVE TWO ADDITIONAL UNITS TO WORK, AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THE NUMBERS, BUT 3 TO 3,
3 P.M., 3 A.M. 
          TO HAVE THAT OVERLAP SHIFT THAT WOULD COVER THOSE PEAK TIMES. 
          AND THEN WE REQUEST ALSO OF THE FIVE, ONE WOULD BE A TRAFFIC OFFICER. 
          RIGHT NOW OUR TRAFFIC. WE HAVE TWO OFFICERS THAT WORK TRAFFIC ON THE MOTORS. 
          WE'D LIKE TO HAVE ONE MORE TO WORK AFTERNOONS TO BE SPECIFIC TO TRAFFIC,
FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE MORNINGS RIGHT NOW, BECAUSE THE SCHOOL ZONES ARE BACK, THAT'S THEIR FOCUS. 
          WHEN THE SCHOOL ZONE IS OUT, THEN THEY GO WORK TRAFFIC AT A HOT SPOT. 
          WE DETERMINE WHAT HOT SPOTS ARE BASED ON TWO THINGS. 
          ONE, WE LOOK AT OUR DATA AND WE AND WE DETERMINE AT THIS INTERSECTION THAT PEOPLE RUN RED
LIGHTS A LOT. 
          THIS INTERSECTION, THERE'S ACCIDENTS A LOT. THAT'S ONE WE SHOULD PAY ATTENTION TO. 
          BUT WE ALSO LOOK AT NEIGHBORHOOD COMPLAINTS. SOMETIMES IT'S A NEIGHBORHOOD COMPLAINT THAT
SOMEBODY SAYS, LOOK, THERE ARE REALLY CARS ARE RACING UP AND DOWN CREIGHTON ROAD,
WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN PROVE THAT OR NOT, BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT'S A SPEEDER, NOT A SPEEDING PROBLEM,
BUT WE PUT OFFICERS THERE. 
          SO WE TRY TO ROTATE THEM AROUND. BUT YOU ONLY HAVE TWO RIGHT NOW FOR DEDICATED TRAFFIC
ENFORCEMENT. 
          SO ONE MORE IN THE EVENINGS WOULD BE ABLE TO WORK PAST THE SCHOOL TIMES INTO THE LATER
EVENINGS, RUSH HOUR GOING OUT OF TOWN. AND WE ALL KNOW THE FLOW IN THE MORNING. 
          EVERYBODY COMES INTO TOWN TO WORK IN THE AFTERNOON,
EVERYBODY LEAVES. 
          BUT THEN LATER AFTERNOON, EVERYBODY COMES BACK TO EAT,
SHOP AND WHATEVER. 
          AND IN THE MORNINGS IT GETS FULL AND THEN IT FLOWS,
EBBS AND FLOWS. 
          SO THAT'S WHY WE WANT AN AFTERNOON TRAFFIC DEDICATED TRAFFIC PERSON. 
          AND BY THE WAY, EVERYBODY WORKS TRAFFIC, MYSELF INCLUDED. 
          BUT THE IDEA OF HAVING AN ACTUAL PERSON WHOSE ONLY JOB THAT DAY IS TO FIND PROBLEMS LYING
IN WAIT FOR TRAFFIC RELATED ISSUES IS KEY. 
          AND THEN AS YOU KNOW, AND I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE,
YOU KNOW, WE KEEP STATS ON EVERYTHING AS AN AGENCY AND THAT'S JUST PART OF THE POLICING INDUSTRY. SO WE TRY TO LOOK AT EVERYTHING FROM YOU KNOW,
TIMES WHEN CERTAIN THINGS OCCUR TRENDS IN OTHER AREAS. 
          ALL OF THAT TO LEAD TOWARDS DATA LED, INTELLIGENCE LED POLICING,
WHERE WE CAN LOOK AT TRENDS AND SAY, 
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WE KNOW THIS IS HAPPENING. AND AS I MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE EARLIER PRESENTATION,
WE KNEW WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR BASED ON BEACH AND ISSUES. 
          SO THIS YEAR WE GOT AHEAD OF IT. WE LOOKED AT WHERE PEOPLE CONGREGATE,
WE, WE HAD AN ANALYST SCRUB SOCIAL MEDIA AND SEE WHAT WAS GOING ON IN SOCIAL MEDIA. 
          WHAT'S UP AT ALL THE POSTS? YOU NEED SOMEONE DEDICATED TO DO THAT,
TO FIND OUT WHERE, WHERE THE NEXT BIG PARTY IS GOING TO BE SO WE CAN STAY ON TOP OF THOSE THINGS. SO WHAT WE'D LIKE TO DO IS HAVE ANOTHER ANALYST WE HAVE A PHENOMENAL ANALYST NOW
THAT DOES YEOMAN'S WORK AND WE'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO SEPARATE SOME OF HER WORK DUTIES. ONE ANALYST WOULD BE SPECIFIC TO PATROL AND PATROL DRIVEN PREDICTING
ISSUES AND TRENDS. 
          AND HER ROLE WOULD BE MORE INVESTIGATIVE AS WE'VE ROLLED OUT THE AND WE'RE SENDING HER TO
BECOME A CERTIFIED FRAUD EXAMINERS. 
          AND WE HAVE TWO PROCESS FRAUDS HAVE GONE UP AS WELL. 
          AND SINCE WE STARTED THE CYBER CRIMES UNIT, THAT'S GOTTEN BUSIER. 
          THAT'S NOT MY CAR. IT'S GOTTEN BUSIER BECAUSE AS SOON AS YOU START EDUCATING THE PUBLIC
ABOUT CYBER CRIMES, THEY REALIZE THAT THEY WERE A VICTIM OF A CYBER CRIME. SO NOW WE'RE KIND OF WORKING
BACKWARDS ON SOME HISTORICAL CASES, AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THE SECRET SERVICE AND THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE TO KIND
OF TARGET THOSE THINGS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT DO CYBER CRIMES AND DO THOSE KIND OF FINANCIAL FRAUDS KNOW NO
JURISDICTION, RIGHT? BUT OUR PEOPLE ARE VULNERABLE TO IT BASED SOMETIMES ON AGE AND WEALTH. 
          AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS. SO WE HAVE A CYBER CRIMES UNIT NOW THAT WE STARTED NOT LONG AGO. 
          AND IT'S IT'S GETTING BUSIER. AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT ANALYST HAS MORE HANDS
ON, ON THAT. AND SO WITH THAT SAID, WHAT OUR GOAL HERE IS ESSENTIALLY WE WANT TO MAINTAIN OUR
LEVEL OF SERVICE, IF NOT MAKE IT BETTER. WE ARE READING THE FUTURE AND WE SEE WHAT'S COMING OUR WAY AS IT'S
GETTING BUSIER, AND THAT WE BELIEVE THAT AT THE MINIMUM, FIVE OFFICERS WILL HELP KEEP US ABOVE WATER AND
AND WHEN ANALYSTS WILL MAKE US MORE EFFICIENT AND MORE EFFECTIVE. 
          AND WITH THAT YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SPECIAL EVENTS,
WE HAVE ALL THESE OTHER THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON THAT PULL YOU AWAY FROM INVESTIGATIVE CAPACITIES THAT PULL YOU AWAY FROM RESPONDING STUFF. 
          AND ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO ADD BEFORE I TURN OVER TO THE FIRE CHIEF IS WE CAN'T
OVERTIME OUR WAY OUT OF THIS BECAUSE THERE'S AS MUCH AS OVERTIME IS NICE FOR SOME FOLKS AND THEY CAN PAY BILLS AND ALL THAT. THERE'S A BURNOUT FACTOR TO THAT AS WELL. 
          RIGHT. AND THE IDEA HERE IS TO BE ABLE TO KIND OF INCREASE OUR,
OUR ABILITY TO RESPOND TO STUFF WITHOUT EXTRA BURDEN ON THE EXISTING STAFF, WHICH ALSO HELPS TOWARDS RETENTION AND,
AND, AND THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE CULTURE OF THE ORGANIZATION. 
          WE'VE HAD SPECIAL EVENTS. WE'VE HAD THE KICK OFF TO ANOTHER DAY JUST BECAUSE WE DIDN'T
HAVE THE STAFF TO DO IT. 
          I'M TALKING ABOUT CITY EVENTS. THIS HELPS US BE ABLE TO PLUG IN THAT DIRECTION. 
          SO MY REQUEST AND TURN IT OVER TO PHIL NOW IS FOR THE CITY. 
          IT'S TO MAKE IT SAFER AND WE KNOW WHERE WE ARE. 
          AND I THIS, ALL THIS PLAN, THIS, THIS CONCEPT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT IT WASN'T THOUGHT OUT
BOTH ON DATA AND ANALYSIS, BUT ALSO ON THE 100 AND SOMETHING YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN MY COMMAND STAFF THAT WE LOOKED
AT OUR PROBLEMS AND SAID, WHERE ARE THE PROBLEMS LYING IN WAIT AND HOW DO WE GET AHEAD OF THIS BEFORE WE GET BEHIND? THAT'S WHY WE'VE MADE THIS REQUEST. READY FOR QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS. SO OH, GO AHEAD, VICE MAYOR. THANK YOU FOR THE ANALYSIS AND THE DETAIL. 
          IT'S VERY HELPFUL TO UNDERSTAND YOUR THINKING AND THE NEEDS AND HOW HOW YOU GET THERE. 
          IF YOU WERE ABLE TO HIRE THE PEOPLE OCTOBER 1ST,
THE FIRST DAY OF THE FISCAL YEAR, HOW LONG BEFORE THEY'RE ACTUALLY WORKING? LIKE THEY HAVE TO GO? ARE YOU HIRING EXPERIENCED PEOPLE,
HIRING NEW PEOPLE THAT HAVE TO GO TO POLICE ACADEMY AS A MATTER, LIKE I MENTIONED, I THINK I MENTIONED EARLIER,
I WAS TALKING TO SOMEONE ELSE. WE'RE REALLY PICKY. AND THE REASON WE CAN BE REALLY PICKY IS BECAUSE WE HAVE GOOD RETENTION AND WE HAVE GOOD PAY. 
          AND I, AND I REALLY BELIEVE WE HAVE A GOOD CULTURE,
A GREAT CULTURE. 
          SO WE'VE BEEN VERY PICKY. AS A MATTER OF FACT,
I TURNED SOME OTHERS AWAY THE OTHER DAY JUST BECAUSE THEY JUST WEREN'T GOOD ENOUGH. 
          WE DON'T WANT ANYTHING LESS THAN THE BEST. WITH THAT SAID WE HAVE TWO THAT WE'RE LOOKING
AT ARE IN, IN THE ACADEMY RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE, THEY'RE SELF-SPONSORED,
BUT WE KIND OF, YOU KNOW, CHECKED THEM OUT AND WE HAVE TWO, YOU KNOW, WE COULD HIRE AND THEN WE LOOK FOR CERTIFIED PEOPLE. 
          SO IF, IF GOD WILLING WE WERE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WE WOULD BE ABLE TO BRING ON THE
CERTIFIED PEOPLE PRETTY FAST AND HAVE THEM 
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READY TO GO BY DECEMBER. THE OTHER ONES TAKE A LITTLE LONGER. 
          THEY WOULD BE IN TRAINING, BUT IT WOULD STILL BE A FORCE MULTIPLIER BECAUSE THEN YOU WOULD
HAVE A TWO PERSON VEHICLE. SO THAT KIND OF HELPS AS WELL. 
          SO I WOULD SAY THAT BY DECEMBER WE WOULD, WE COULD GET THEM ON BOARD AND WORKING. 
          YES, SIR. OKAY. SO THEY COULD BE WORKING IN EFFECTIVE BEFORE SEASON. 
          YEAH, YEAH. AND THAT'S KEY BECAUSE ONCE THEY'RE HERE,
I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THEY ALL LEFT. 
          BUT I THINK ONCE IT REALLY STARTS TO GO UP. YES. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. SO CHIEF I PERSONALLY COULD WOULD GIVE YOU ANYTHING YOU WANTED. 
          BECAUSE I THINK THAT WHAT YOU'VE DONE IS AMAZING. 
          BUT I'VE ALSO BEEN HERE ON THIS, AT THIS DAIS WHEN WE HAD TO CUT POSITIONS. 
          I DON'T SEE THAT HAPPENING. I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WITH THE TAX CUTS. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL REALLY SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECT US OR NOT. 
          AND BELIEVE YOU ME, I'VE HAD THE COMMUNITY CALLING AND GOING. 
          I DON'T GET IT. SAFETY IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. 
          AGREED. I JUST DON'T WANT TO GET IN A POSITION WHERE WE HAVE A GOOD WORKING FORCE THAT WE WANT TO MAKE SURE IS STABLE, THAT THEY'RE PAID PROPERLY. 
          WE HAVE UNION NEGOTIATIONS COMING UP AGAIN. WE JUST GOT THROUGH IT. 
          AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE. 
          SO ADDING $2 MILLION TO WOULD I WOULD THINK,
NEED SUBSTANTIAL INFORMATION TO SUPPORT IT, NOT JUST I GET WHERE YOU'RE GOING AND I AGREE WITH WHERE YOU'RE
GOING, BUT IS IT NEEDED NOW WHEN WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE TAX WILL BE,
WHICH I AGAIN, I DON'T I'M NOT USING THAT AS A COP OUT. 
          BECAUSE SAFETY IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. BUT I MEAN,
ARE WE HAVING OFFICERS THAT ARE GETTING PULLED FROM OTHER AREAS BECAUSE WE CAN'T MEET THE NEEDS, ESPECIALLY WHEN TRAFFIC CRASHES ARE DECLINING. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE YOU REALLY WHERE YOU WANTED TO FOCUS IN WAS ON TRAFFIC. 
          DO I THINK WE NEED EXTRA SUPPORT IN THE BEACHES? ABSOLUTELY. AND MARINE PATROL. I MEAN, IF YOU WOULD HAVE SAID MARINE PATROL,
I COULD HAVE GONE BECAUSE THERE'S A BUNCH OF YAHOOS OUT THERE THAT ARE JUST WHIZZING THROUGH. 
          SO SPEAKING OF MARINE PATROL AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS THE DATA IS HERE,
AND I SENT THIS ALL TO YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. THIS IS A FIVE YEAR. YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING BY. 
          YEAH. AND IF YOU NOTICE THIS HAS AS MUCH TO DO WITH CULTURE AS IT HAS TO DO WITH STAFFING. IT DOES. AND CULTURE COMES FROM MY DESK THAT THAT'S WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET
ACROSS TO YOU. 
          I KNOW MY PEOPLE. I KNOW WHEN THEY'RE GETTING PUSHED TO THEIR LIMITS. 
          RIGHT. AND SO WHEN I HAVE. FOUR PEOPLE WORKING COMMUNITY POLICING,
WHEN THERE USED TO BE SIX, SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE, RIGHT UP WHEN I HAVE DETECTIVES WORKING THIS AND THAT,
SOMETHING WILL GIVE. 
          AND THE FIRST THING THAT GIVES IS GOING TO BE THE NICE TO HAVES LIKE THE MARINE UNIT IS A
NICE TO HAVE IF YOU IF I, IF I HAD A SITUATION WHERE MY TRAFFIC IS GOING UP,
FIRST THING I'M CUTTING IS THE BOAT, BECAUSE THAT'S NOT AS IMPORTANT AS ACCIDENTS AND RED LIGHT RUNNING. THAT'S WHAT I'M GETTING AT. WE ALWAYS GO UP LIKE THIS SEASON GOES DOWN A
LITTLE BIT, SEASON COMES BACK, GO UP AGAIN. WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET ACROSS TO YOU ALL IS THIS IS A REAL
PROBLEM. 
          IT'S IT'S NOT NICE TO HAVES. AND I UNDERSTAND THE WHOLE CONCEPT OF CONCERN ABOUT THE THE
AMENDMENT THREE ABSOLUTELY VALID CONCERN. I GET IT. I ALSO KNOW THAT I HAVEN'T BEEN TO AN HOA THAT PEOPLE HAVEN'T
COMPLAINED ABOUT TRAFFIC EVER. 
          AS A MATTER OF FACT, AND SOMETIMES IT'S NOT EVEN REAL TRAFFIC. IT'S NUISANCE TRAFFIC,
RIGHT? I MEAN, JUST PEOPLE DRIVE POORLY AND WE NEED TO BE THERE. 
          MY GUYS ARE OVER HERE. IT TAKES TWO PEOPLE TO WORK NOISE VIOLATIONS AND. 
          RIGHT. BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO SEE IT AND SOMEONE HAS TO GET THE GUY BECAUSE HE WENT PAST YOU.
THEY'RE OUT THERE DOING IT ALL THE TIME. WE SEE INCREASE OF DRUGS. 
          WE HAVE 47 LIQUOR LICENSES ON THE AVENUE, AND WE SEE THIS COMING IN. 
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SO IF I PUT GUYS THERE TO DEAL WITH UNDERAGE DRINKING AND EVERYTHING ELSE,
THEY'RE NOT WORKING THE ROAD BECAUSE THEY'RE WORKING THAT RIGHT. 
          SO THE THING IS, SOMETHING WILL GIVE AND IT'S JUST HOW IT WORKS,
RIGHT? THEN WHAT HAPPENS IS WE HAVE TO PRIORITIZE WHAT KIND OF CASES WE'RE GOING TO FOLLOW UP ON
AND WHAT KIND OF CALLS WE GO TO. 
          SO IT'S, IT'S JUST LIKE A RESTAURANT WHERE, LOOK,
THERE'S ONLY 80 TABLES. 
          I CAN'T FIT MORE IN HERE. SOMEONE'S GOING TO HAVE TO WAIT OR GO SOMEWHERE ELSE,
GET TURNED AROUND. 
          SO WHEN WE ARE AT A STAGE WHERE AND THIS IS WHAT I MEANT ABOUT THE HEAT MAP WHEN ON A
TUESDAY AT 1 P.M., THE 80% OF THE TIME IS SPENT ANSWERING CALLS THAT THAT LEAVES US 20% TIME TO DO
SOMETHING PROACTIVE AT 1 P.M.. 
          SO WHEN PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT UNDESIRABLES SO MUCH IN THE PARK,
OR THEY'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT SOMETHING WEIRD AT THE BEACH, WE WON'T BE ABLE TO SEND PEOPLE TO THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE BUSY. 
          THAT'S THE REALITY. YEAH, THAT WAS MY QUESTION. 
          IF ARE PEOPLE BEING POLLED? YES, MA'AM. ABSOLUTELY. 
          AND SEVERAL PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, AND I SPEAK ABOUT THE ANALYST,
THE ANALYST SHE DOES BEYOND YEOMAN'S WORK, BUT SHE DOES EVERYTHING. SHE DOES ALL THE REPORTS THAT YOU GUYS GET EVERY DAY. 
          AND YOU I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEFORE,
BUT I GUARANTEE YOU, YOU GET MORE TRANSPARENCY AND MORE INFORMATION FROM OUR OFFICE THAN YOU'VE EVER HAD IN THE HISTORY OF THE CITY. AND WE KEEP ALL THE PUBLIC. 
          EVERYTHING'S OUT IN THE OPEN. EVERYTHING'S OPEN. 
          UNLESS OBVIOUSLY, UNLESS IT'S AN INVESTIGATION OR SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T TALK ABOUT TYPE
OF THING. 
          BUT THAT TAKES SOMEONE PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER AND PACKAGING IT. 
          RIGHT. I HEARD THE CLERK EARLIER MENTIONED ABOUT PUBLIC RECORDS REQUESTS. 
          ALL RIGHT. WE NOW HAVE EVERYBODY OUT WITH BODY WORN CAMERAS AND EVERYBODY WHO,
WHO THINKS THEY'RE AN ARMCHAIR CONSTITUTIONAL LAWYER WANTS WANTS THE VIDEO CAMERAS ON EVERYTHING. I WANT REPORTS ON EVERYTHING. YOU ALL SEEN IT? YOU SAW ONE RECENTLY? THE GUY
SENT US. IT WASN'T EVEN OUR CASE. 
          YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. THE EMAIL. RIGHT? YOU KNOW, BUT WE STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT. IT'S TIME. RIGHT? THAT'S THAT'S A SERGEANT THAT HAS TO GO AND TRIAGE ALL THOSE THINGS AND IT MULTIPLIES. 
          THAT MEANS HE'S NOT OUT ON THE ROAD. RIGHT. WHEN ONE DOMESTIC IS A MINIMUM,
TWO PEOPLE, MINIMUM TWO PEOPLE. 
          RIGHT. WE HAD LAST YEAR 77 BAKER ACTS THAT 77 PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS PROBLEMS. THAT'S A MINIMUM. 2 OR 3 OFFICERS. I GOT A SHIFT OF 6 OR 8 PEOPLE WORKING AT BEST. 
          SO YOU GET TWO OF THOSE BACK TO BACK. THERE'S NO ONE LEFT TO ANSWER THAT CALL. 
          AND THEN YOU GUYS WILL GET AN EMAIL THAT SAYS,
HEY, I CALLED THE COPS AND IT TOOK THEM 15 MINUTES TO GET HERE. YEAH. 
          BECAUSE WE WERE BUSY THAT DAY AND THAT KIND OF STUFF. 
          WHAT I'M TRYING TO DO IS LIGHTEN THE WORKLOAD FOR MY PEOPLE AND PROVIDE BETTER SERVICE TO
THE PUBLIC, BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT WAITING FOR THE PIZZA TO BE DELIVERED. 
          WE'RE RIGHT THERE. THAT'S THAT'S WHAT THAT'S THE TIPPING POINT WE'RE AT. 
          BUT I AM I ABSOLUTELY UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM. 
          MAYOR. IT IS A SCARY TIME. IT IS A SCARY TIME TO LOOK AT MILLAGE RATE. 
          BUT WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES BECAUSE FORT MYERS IS DOING IT. 
          FORT MYERS BEACH IS DOING IT AND OTHER CITIES ARE ALSO DOING IT. 
          AND WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY IS IT IT ISN'T EASY,
BUT IT DOES TAKE COURAGE TO STAND TO SOMETHING AND LOOK AT THE FACTS AND SAY, THIS IS TRUE. THESE ARE TRUE. THERE'S THERE'S NO WORD GAME IN IN HERE. 
          THESE ARE THE FACTS. RIGHT. AND I'M. AND IN OCTOBER I'LL BE HERE THREE YEARS. 
          AND IN SEPTEMBER THIS WILL BE MY 44TH YEAR IN THIS PROFESSION. 
          I KNOW THIS BUSINESS. I WOULDN'T TELL YOU THIS IF IT WASN'T TRUE. 
          AND WHEN I SAY IT TAKES COURAGE, YOU THINK I IT WOULD BE EASIER FOR ME NOT TO ASK. 
          IT IS. IT WOULD BE A LOT EASIER FOR ME TO BE STATUS QUO AND NOT TO ASK AND TAKE THAT RISK, AND I'M NOT. I KNOW WHAT WHAT MY PEOPLE NEED. 
          I KNOW WHAT THE CITY NEEDS. I WANT TO BE AHEAD OF PROBLEMS. THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM. BUT I DO APPRECIATE YOUR POINTS,
ESPECIALLY IN REGARD TO THE AMENDMENT. 
          WELL, AND YOU KNOW, WE NEVER KNOW WHAT OUR SCARY TIMES. 
          I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IN OH NINE IT TAKING AWAY THINGS FROM OFFICERS WAS HEARTBREAKING. 
          OKAY, SO THAT'S WHERE I'M COMING FROM. YOU KNOW,
MAKING SURE WHAT WE HAVE IS STABLE AND THAT THEY'RE PAID WELL, THEY'RE TREATED WELL, THEY'RE IN THE ENVIRONMENT THAT YOU'VE CREATED. 
          THAT CULTURE IS VERY IMPORTANT. I'M JUST SAYING,
DOES IT HAVE TO BE THIS YEAR? CAN IT BE NEXT YEAR THAT WE WORK IT IN? I JUST WE HAVE,
I THINK THANK YOU, MR. YOUNG, BECAUSE WHEN HE WAS NOT EVEN THE CITY MANAGER WAS HEARING US SAY WE NEED TO BE ABLE
TO, 
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TO STABILIZE OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT FROM A PAY POINT OF VIEW. 
          AND HE MADE IT HAPPEN FOR US. AND SO I APPRECIATE THAT. 
          AND, AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT. AND YOU HELPED STABILIZE THAT. 
          I UNDERSTAND THAT. AND AND AGAIN, WITH ALL I WAS JUST ASKING WHERE WITH ALL UNDERSTANDING, WE'VE HAD A HISTORY IN IN REMEMBER I WAS HERE IN 1982 THROUGH 92,
82. 
          I STARTED HERE, I WAS 20 YEARS OLD. WE'VE HAD AN ABILITY TO KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD
LIKE WE WERE SOCCER PLAYERS. 
          ALL RIGHT. THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT ON EVERYTHING INFRASTRUCTURE,
ROAD, PAVEMENT, EVERY DARN PART OF SERVICES. 
          WE'VE KICKED THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD. AND I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF KICKING THIS CAN DOWN THE
ROAD. 
          BUT IT'S YOUR DECISION. BUT I WOULD BE WRONG NOT TO TELL YOU WHAT'S IN MY HEART AND MIND
AND SPIRIT, THAT THIS IS A VALID REQUEST, AND I AGREE. I'M NOT ARGUING WITH YOU. 
          I AM JUST TRYING TO GET TO A MORE THE JUSTIFICATION TODAY WHEN I LOOK AT WE ARE RAISING, YOU KNOW, ALMOST EVERY FEE AND RATE WITHIN THE CITY. 
          AND NORMALLY, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S $2 MILLION TO A COMMUNITY LIKE THIS? WHAT I UNDERSTAND NOTHING. MADAM. MADAM MAYOR,
I'M SORRY TO INTERRUPT, BUT THERE'S A COUPLE COUPLE THINGS. 
          ONE, IF IT'S WHAT THE OPERATIONAL PLAN IS I'D LIKE THE CHIEF TO ANSWER ANY MORE QUESTIONS
DIRECTLY ON THAT, AND I'D. PLEASE UNDERSTAND WHERE I'M COMING FROM. I WANT TO RESPECTFULLY KEEP THE
DELINEATION BETWEEN WE'RE CO-MINGLING SOME THINGS THAT DON'T NECESSARILY BELONG COMMINGLED. AND I WANTED THE CHIEF TO MAKE HIS PRESENTATION. 
          THE REASON I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE THE FEES THAT WE RAISED ARE ENTERPRISE FUND FEES. 
          AND IN THE SAME TOKEN, MAYOR, THERE'S MERIT TO LOOKING AT THIS CITY AS A GLOBAL ENTITY. 
          AND WHAT IS THE RAMIFICATION OF YOUR DECISION TODAY AND THE DOWNWARD PRESSURE THAT YOU'RE
ACKNOWLEDGING ON THE POTENTIAL VOTE AND WHAT THIS BUDGET MEANS? I'D LIKE TO GET THROUGH THE INDIVIDUAL DEPARTMENTS AND THEN BRING THAT WHOLE PICTURE HOME
FOR YOU ON THE PROPERTY TAX AND THE REVENUE AND EVERYTHING, BECAUSE I THINK THAT IS WHAT SHOWS. WHERE ARE WE GOING TO LEAD THIS CITY? AND I'D RATHER NOT DO MY REMARKS AS YOUR CITY MANAGER TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION WHAT,
WHAT THE POLICE CHIEF JUST SAID AND SUMMARIZING THOSE THINGS FOR YOU AND WHERE I BELIEVE LEADING THIS CITY,
WHAT THIS CITY MEANS. 
          AND SO BECAUSE IT'S NOT ONE OR THE OTHER, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IT IN TOTALITY,
AS YOU'RE SAYING, YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT IT AS WHO'S ON THE PAYROLL TODAY AND WHO'S GOING TO BE HERE TOMORROW. 
          WHAT ARE THE HEADWINDS WE'RE FACING? AND DO WE HAVE TO THE CHIEF'S POINT,
THE COURAGE TO TAKE THAT ON HEAD ON IF WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ON HEAD ON FOR A DURATION OF TIME, IT CAN HAVE DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS TO THE OVERALL ORGANIZATION. 
          SO WE CAN'T JUST JUMP IN WITH OUR TOE. IF YOU'RE JUMPING IN ON THAT,
YOU GOT TO FUND IT. 
          AND THAT'S THE CONVERSATION I WANT TO BRING HOME IN THE END. SO I WANTED YOU TO KNOW,
I JUST, I TRIED, I WAS TRYING TO GET IN IN THE MIDDLE A LITTLE BIT,
BUT I THINK WE IF THERE'S MORE QUESTIONS ON WHAT THE RESOURCES WOULD GO TO, LET'S DO THOSE. AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK TO THE PAINT,
THE PICTURE OF WHAT THE CITY'S FINANCES ARE IN REALITY, WHAT WE'RE FACING FROM HEADWIND PRESSURE, WHAT THAT QUANTIFIES INTO. 
          AND THEN WHAT THE RAMIFICATIONS OF THESE REQUESTS ARE. 
          IS THAT A FAIR WAY TO GO ABOUT IT? MAYOR. OH YEAH,
I WAS JUST NO, I KNOW, I WAS JUST TRYING TO I WAS TRYING TO GET IT SO WE DIDN'T GET TOO FAR DOWN THE POLICE ONE BEFORE WE LOOKED AT THE CITY AS AN ENTIRETY. 
          AND IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT ABOUT POLICING OR IT'S NOT ABOUT FIRE. 
          IT'S ABOUT THE CITY. AND I WANTED TO FAIRLY SAY,
CAN WE GET TO THE OPERATIONAL PART BECAUSE WE CAN HAVE A BIG PICTURE CONVERSATION TOO. 
          SO THANK YOU, CHIEF, BECAUSE YOU HAD THE COURAGE ALSO. 
          SO THANK YOU. YEAH. JUST I DON'T WANT TO, CHIEF. 
          THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO ADD TO THAT THAT SITTING ON THE TDC. 
          AND WE KNOW THAT THE NAPLES PIER IS THE MOST VISITED PLACE IN SOUTHWEST FLORIDA BY FAR,
AND IF THERE ISN'T SOME ACT OF GOD, IT'S GOING TO BE ON JULY 5TH. AND IF YOU THINK THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
THROWN AT GETTING PEOPLE TO VISIT THAT THING. 
          SO IT IS MY BELIEF THAT CREATING AN INHOSPITABLE ENVIRONMENT FOR BEHAVIORS YOU DON'T WANT HAS TO BE DONE IN ADVANCE. YOU DON'T WANT TO TRY TO CATCH CATCH THAT THING BY
THE TAIL. 
          SO WE HAVE TO CREATE THAT ENVIRONMENT IN ADVANCE OF THAT COMING ONLINE AND THE
MONSTROSITIES. 
          ON DAVIS COMING ONLINE AND THE NEW MARRIOTT COMING ONLINE. 
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ALL OF THAT IS COMING HERE, PERIOD. I DON'T NEED ANY OTHER I WOULD HAVE SAID TO YOU IF YOU
CAME WITH NOTHING. 
          WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO ABOUT THAT? THERE'S NO IT CAN'T BE WHAT WE HAVE NOW BECAUSE IT'S
GOING TO GROW EXPONENTIALLY. 
          SO IT'S GOT TO BE SOMETHING. YOU DIDN'T MENTION ANY OF THAT. 
          I'M JUST SAYING WE HAVE TO GET AHEAD OF THAT. 
          AND IF WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT TELLING FUTURE COUNCIL PAVE THE ROADS,
I'M GOING TO TELL THIS COUNCIL WE GOT TO GET AHEAD OF WHAT'S COMING FROM ALL OF THOSE FROM THE PIER AND ALL THAT DAVIS TRIANGLE STUFF. 
          AND THAT STARTS WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS YOU'VE MADE,
SO THANKS. 
          ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? HI. TWO OF MY FIRST ACTIVITIES WHEN I GOT ELECTED, I REACHED OUT TO THE CHIEF AND SAID, CAN I DO A RIDE ALONG? I WANT TO SEE WHAT YOU ALL DEAL WITH ON A DAILY BASIS. 
          AND THEN ON THE BOAT. WHAT? WHAT'S THIS PERSON DO? WITHOUT GETTING INTO OPERATIONAL DETAILS, THE RIDE ALONG WAS INCREDIBLY ILLUMINATING. 
          NAPLES AFTER 830 OR 9 IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT PLACE THAN WHAT WE SEE WE DO HERE. 
          AND I WAS WITH THE SERGEANT. HE TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE DUMMY. 
          AND SO THERE I WAS. AND WE WERE WE WERE PARKED. 
          HE WAS EXPLAINING WHAT WAS HAPPENING. AND I SAID,
THAT CAR JUST RAN THE STOP SIGN. 
          IF I, IF I GO GET THAT CAR NOW, IT'S GOING TO TAKE ME BETWEEN 30 AND 45 MINUTES WITH ALL
THE DIFFERENT. 
          I GOT TO RUN HIS PLATES, I GOT TO. AND THAT WAS NOT ME. 
          SO LET CERTAIN THINGS GO. I GOT TO PRIORITIZE WHAT I THINK IS GOING TO HAPPEN ON THIS
SHIFT. 
          THAT WAS VERY ILLUMINATING TO ME. BUT THEN TWO OF THE CALLS THAT CAME,
ONE WAS SOME FELLA IN OLD NAPLES HAD A ROW WITH HIS FRIEND, HIS LIFE PARTNER, AND CLOCKED HER, RAN OUT WITH A BRIEFCASE OF LIKE 12 GRAND OR WHATEVER
IT WAS AND NEVER FOUND THE GUY. 
          BUT THAT TOOK THREE CARS OUT OF THAT. OH, JEEZ. 
          THAT'S THAT'S WHY I CAN'T BE CHASING THESE THINGS. 
          AND THEN THE CAR DOUBLE PARKED IN THE RAMPS. I SAID,
YOU GOT THREE CARS JUST LINED UP RIGHT HERE. 
          HE SAYS, YEAH, BUT I'M GOING TO GET OUT THERE. I'M GOING TO WRITE THEM UP,
AND THEN I'M GOING TO HAVE TO SPEND ANOTHER 40, 45 MINUTES WHEN I HAVE ALL THESE OTHER ISSUES. SO THAT WAS VERY, INCREDIBLY ILLUMINATING UNTIL THE NEXT CALL CAME SOMEBODY WITH A
KNIFE AND A MACHETE GOING AFTER SOMEBODY. 
          NOW, SOMEBODY IN NAPLES, IN NAPLES, INCREDULOUS,
THAT CAN'T HAPPEN HERE. 
          I THINK IT CAN. BUT THOSE TWO ITEMS, WHEN THAT CALL WAS MADE,
THERE WAS REALLY ONLY ONE, MAYBE TWO OTHER CARS LEFT DOING THE REST OF THE CITY AT NIGHT, WHICH IS A WHOLE DIFFERENT GAME. 
          SO THAT WAS INCREDIBLY ILLUMINATING FROM WHAT I SAW THEN. 
          THEN ON THE BOATS, THE YOUNG OFFICER WOMAN VERY OBSERVANT,
PAYS ATTENTION. 
          SHE WAS GETTING CALLED OVER BY RESIDENTS. WE WERE IN AQUILON AND PORT ROYAL JUST HEADING
OUT TO THE TO THE GULF. 
          AND PEOPLE WERE CALLING HER OVER TELLING HER,
HEY, I SAW SOME CRAZY PEOPLE OVER HERE LOOKING BECAUSE I GUESS THERE WERE PEOPLE STEALING EQUIPMENT FROM THE BOATS COMING IN FROM THE WATER. 
          AND I SAID, WELL, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO? SHE SAYS,
WELL, I KNOW WHO THIS AREA AND BLAH, BLAH, BLAH, BUT I'VE KNOWN THESE PEOPLE. I GUESS SHE'S 9 OR 10 YEARS ON DOING THAT SHIFT,
AND THERE'S TWO OF THEM. 
          BUT I WAS JUST WITH HER. IT WAS JUST AMAZING TO ME HOW MANY BECKONED FOR HER. 
          HEY, COME OVER HERE. I GOT SOMETHING FOR YOU. 
          AND SHE JUST TOOK HER LITTLE NOTES AND THIS AND THAT. 
          BUT IT WAS VERY ILLUMINATING FOR A ROOKIE PUBLIC POLICY MAKER. 
          AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO APPROACH THE CHIEF AND GO FOR A RIDE IN THE EVENING. 
          AND JUST. YOU'D BE SHOCKED WHAT HAPPENS IN THE CITY. I WAS BLOWN AWAY. 
          SO THAT'S THAT. AND I CAN'T EXPRESS ENOUGH THAT JUST COMING FROM WHERE WE DO IN
NORTHERNMOST BUILDING IN THE CITY THE THINGS THAT HAPPEN, WE GOT TO GIVE THE MAN THE TOOLS. 
          THAT'S HOW I LIKE IT. WE GOT TO LOAD HIS GUN AND JUST YOU SHOOT HIM AND THEN,
YOU KNOW, IF YOU IF YOU GET IT WHAT YOU WANT THIS GO AROUND AND LAY LOW AND NOT LIKELY TO EXPAND IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS. BUT I THINK THESE REQUESTS ARE VERY REASONABLE AND I
TOTALLY SUPPORT THEM. 
          SURE. MAYOR, I'VE GOT COMMENTS ON THE VERSION OF THIS SUMMARY. 
          OKAY. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. PHILLIP PENNINGTON,
FIRE CHIEF. 
          SO BASICALLY BACK IN 24 CAME WITH, CAME OUT TO EVERYBODY AND TALK ABOUT WHAT WE THINK THAT
WE NEEDED TO ADD TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO, TO GET US TO WHERE I FEEL THE FIRE DEPARTMENT NEEDS TO BE. 
          MYSELF, MY STAFF, EVERYBODY LOOKING AT THE, THE THREATS THAT WE HAVE OUT THERE. 
          SO BACK THEN WE WERE LOOKING FOR SIX FIREFIGHTERS,
A DIVISION CHIEF, THE FIRE INSPECTOR, LIEUTENANT, 
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THE PUBLIC OUTREACH OR EXCUSE ME, THESE WERE THE REMAINING PIECES OF THOSE. 
          SO IT WASN'T THE WHOLE THING. WE, WE GOT SOME OF THOSE POSITIONS IN THERE ANOTHER ADMIN
AND AND THEN IF WE WERE TO LOOK AT OR HAVE TO GO INTO THE TRANSPORT BUSINESS, WE WOULD NEED ADDITIONAL SIX FIREFIGHTERS. AND THEN ALSO THE POTENTIAL FOR AN OCEAN RESCUE
BUREAU. 
          SO OF THOSE POSITIONS, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR THIS YEAR,
IT WOULD BE THREE, THREE NEW FIREFIGHTERS. 
          AND WE WOULD LOOK TO START START THE PROCESS WITH THEM IN OCTOBER. 
          AND THEN ALSO A PUBLIC EDUCATION OR OUTREACH INSPECTOR. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK THAT THAT IN PARTICULAR IS A PIECE THAT WE REALLY NEED TO GET IN
THERE IS TO GET SOMEBODY THAT DOES THE PUBLIC OUTREACH FOR US. 
          YOU KNOW, THE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT,
THERE'S IT'S KIND OF LIKE A FOOTBALL TEAM. THERE'S OFFENSE AND DEFENSE, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, THE DEFENSE IS THERE'S EVERYBODY SITTING IN THE FIREHOUSE WHEN SOMETHING SOMETHING BAD
HAPPENS. 
          WE'RE GOING OUT THERE NOW. YOU KNOW, WE'RE WE'RE BEHIND THE EIGHT BALL,
BUT WE'RE GOING TO GO OUT THERE AND MAKE GOOD THINGS HAPPEN. RIGHT. OUR ONLY PLACE WHERE WE GET TO PLAY OFFENSE IS IN OUR OUR FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU AND HAVING HAVING SOMEBODY IN
THERE THAT CAN REALLY START TO FOCUS IN ON THE PROGRAMS THAT, YOU KNOW, BE IT A WHAT'S CALLED A CERT PROGRAM WHERE,
YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAMS, WHERE WE EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ABOUT WHAT THEY CAN DO DURING EMERGENCIES TO HELP THEMSELVES
AND HELP THEIR NEIGHBORS. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE EVEN PROGRAMS LIKE STOP THE BLEED. 
          YOU KNOW, MORE CPR PROGRAMS AND THINGS LIKE THAT,
THINGS THAT ENHANCE THE SAFETY OF THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE OTHER POSITION WE'RE LOOKING FOR. 
          SO IT'S FOUR POSITIONS TOTAL. DEPENDING ON WHEN WE BRING EVERYBODY IN,
YOU KNOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT A COST OF ABOUT 530 000 WITH THE RECURRING COSTS OF ABOUT 483. 
          AND THAT'S REALLY OUR ASK FROM THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          AS VICE MAYOR. DO YOU HAVE ANY DATA LIKE THE CHIEF DID THAT SHOWS LIKE THE LAST THREE
YEARS OR FIVE YEARS TRENDS AND, YOU KNOW, FIRES OR CAR ACCIDENTS OR OTHER THINGS THAT YOU GUYS DEAL WITH THAT SHOW SUPPORT
THE CASE. 
          WELL, OF COURSE. SO YEAH, I DON'T HAVE A BASEBALL TEAM,
LIKE TO GET ALL THE SPECIFIC STATS. 
          I DIDN'T PUT ANY TOGETHER BECAUSE OUR, OUR CALLS HAVE BASICALLY REMAINED ABOUT THE SAME
OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS. AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE, WHEN WE SIT DOWN TO PLAN WHAT,
YOU KNOW, LIKE WE JUST DID OUR FIVE YEAR PLAN AND, YOU KNOW, SO WE DO A SWOT ANALYSIS, YOU KNOW,
WHAT'S OUR STRENGTHS, WHAT'S OUR WEAKNESSES, OPPORTUNITIES AND THREATS. AND WE LOOK AT WHEN WE PUT THOSE THINGS TOGETHER, WHAT ARE OUR THREATS? AND COACH BROUGHT IT UP. YOU KNOW, THERE'S GOING TO BE PRESSURES THAT CAN BE BROUGHT IN
HERE. 
          THOSE PRESSURES ARE GOING TO BRING MORE CALLS TO US. 
          BY BRINGING THREE NEW FIREFIGHTERS ON, I CAN BRING UP SQUAD ONE 100% OF THE TIME IN
SERVICE. 
          THAT PUTS AN EXTRA TRUCK IN THE CITY TO RESPOND TO CALLS. 
          SO AGAIN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT,
YOU KNOW CARDIAC ARREST SOME OR EVEN A PERSON HAVING A HEART ATTACK OR HAVING A STROKE. 
          YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION STANDARDS AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT,
YOU KNOW, TIME IS MUSCLE, MEANING HEART MUSCLE OR TIME IS BRAIN TISSUE, SOONER WE COULD GET SOMEBODY THERE TO, TO INITIATE CARE, GET THE RIGHT CARE GOING,
NOTIFY THE HOSPITAL, HAVE THAT CATH LAB READY FOR THAT PERSON WHEN THEY GET THERE, THAT PERSON'S GOING TO HAVE A BETTER CHANCE OF HAVING LESS INJURY,
YOU KNOW, BASED ON THOSE THINGS. 
          IT'S IT'S ALL ABOUT HAVING THE RIGHT PEOPLE AT THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME. 
          YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T GO WRONG AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED,
BY HAVING ANOTHER TRUCK ON THE ROAD TO, TO HANDLE THOSE CALLS. YOU KNOW, WHEN THE SEASON COMES,
IF WE, YOU KNOW, GET A HIGH ACUITY CALL AND I SEND A PERSON INTO THE, IN THE BACK OF, OF THE AMBULANCE TO THE HOSPITAL,
IT'S GOING TO TAKE A WHILE FOR THEY GET OUT BEFORE THEY GET OUT OF THE HOSPITAL. 
          YOU KNOW, I GOT TO HAVE ANOTHER TRUCK READY TO GO. SO,
YOU KNOW, I DON'T HAVE ANY STATS IN FRONT OF ME, YOU KNOW, TO GET TO TO WHERE YOU'RE AT. I MEAN,
OUR CALLS TYPICALLY STAY IN THE SAME, SAME REALM. 
          WE RUN ABOUT PROBABLY, I WOULD SAY ALMOST 5050 BETWEEN EMERGENCIES,
MEDICAL EMERGENCIES, AND THEN FIRE RELATED CALLS. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, AND A FIRE RELATED CALL COULD BE THE THINGS THAT,
YOU KNOW, AND SOMETIMES YOU'LL SEE, LIKE I SAID IN THE RECAP THIS MORNING IS GAS LEAKS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. 
          THESE ARE THESE ARE PLACES WHERE WE DODGED A BULLET. 
          YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE AN ACTIVE GAS LEAK SOMEPLACE,
YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN LUCKY, YOU KNOW, AND I SAY THAT IT'S LUCKY TO A CERTAIN EXTENT PEOPLE,
SOMEBODY WALKING BY SMELLS GAS. 
          WE GO OUT THERE AND THERE'S A, YOU KNOW, A HIGH LEVEL OF GAS IN A BUILDING,
ONE SPARK. 
          AND THAT THAT THING'S NOW AN EXPLOSION. SO, YOU KNOW,
WE GET THOSE ALL THE TIME. 
          I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY IF YOU GUYS REALLY LOOK THROUGH THOSE WHEN I SEND YOU THOSE REPORTS. 
          YOU KNOW, WE GET GAS LEAKS ARE VERY COMMON. SO THERE'S A HAZARDOUS CALLS THAT COULD,
IN AN INSTANT GO, GO THE WRONG WAY. SO I COULD, BUT I DON'T TYPICALLY PUT ALL KINDS OF STATS BECAUSE I KNOW
FROM A CRIME PERSPECTIVE, 
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IT'S EASY TO THROW THOSE THINGS OUT THERE. FOR ME,
I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S AS GLORIOUS WHEN I SAY, OKAY, I RAN SO MANY HEART ATTACKS, SO MANY STROKES. 
          YOU KNOW, A COUPLE OF STRUCTURE FIRES HERE, A NUMBER OF VEHICLE ACCIDENTS. 
          YOU KNOW, IT'S WHAT WE DO NO MATTER WHAT THE EMERGENCY IS. 
          AND IT'S OVER MY CAREER. SAME THING I'VE STARTED IN THE BUSINESS AND IN 87,
YOU KNOW, THE I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE BALLISTIC GEAR IN MY TRUCK TO GO INTO ACTIVE SHOOTER SITUATIONS. I NEVER THOUGHT I'D HAVE A BEEKEEPER'S HOOD IN MY TRUCK AT SOME
POINT. I MEAN, WE EVERYTHING THAT HAS HAPPENED AND YOU THINK ABOUT IT,
WHAT DOES THE FIRE DEPARTMENT DO? YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME THERE'S SOME NEW THING THAT POPS UP,
YOU KNOW, AND I CAN WE CAN GO BACK THROUGH TIME. 
          I REMEMBER WHEN THERE WAS NO HAZMAT TEAM, RIGHT. 
          AND THEN, YOU KNOW, LIKE, THINK ABOUT HOW MANY CHEMICALS HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED SINCE 1980 TO
2026. 
          AND THESE THINGS GET TRANSPORTED IN TRUCKS, TRAINS,
PLANES, ALL KINDS OF STUFF, RIGHT? SO YOU GOT TO HAVE PEOPLE THAT ARE TRAINED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT TO DO WHEN THESE THINGS
HAPPEN. YOU KNOW, THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS THE ONE RAISED THEIR HAND. YEAH. OKAY. WELL, WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THE HAZARDOUS MATERIALS. RIGHT. 
          TECHNICAL RESCUES. PEOPLE STARTED THINKING, WELL,
YOU KNOW, I GOT A WINDOW WASHER HANGING, YOU KNOW, DANGLING FROM THE SIDE OF A BUILDING. WHO'S GOING TO GO GET THAT PERSON? FIRE
DEPARTMENT RAISED THEIR HAND. WE'LL TAKE CARE OF THAT, YOU KNOW? SO EVERY SINGLE THING THAT COMES DOWN THE PIPE,
YOU KNOW, WE RAISE OUR HAND BECAUSE THERE'S WHEN YOU CALL 911 AND YOU HAVE SOME TYPE OF EMERGENCY, FIRE DEPARTMENT DOESN'T GO, WHO'S GOING TO HANDLE THAT? WE'RE GOING TO HANDLE THAT. THAT'S WHAT WE DO,
RIGHT? WHEN YOU CALL, WE'RE COMING FOR YOU. AND THAT'S WHAT I WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW. 
          YOU KNOW, WHY DO I BUY THERMAL IMAGERS? WHY DO I GET THE EQUIPMENT THAT I GET? WHY DO I PUSH SO HARD TO GET THESE THINGS? SAME THING. 
          I WANT MY PEOPLE TRAINED. I WANT THEM TO HAVE THE,
THE, THE ABILITY THAT NO MATTER WHAT COMES DOWN THE PIPE, WE'RE COMING FOR YOU. THAT'S WHAT WE DO. YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE ALL THAT. I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU DO FOR THE COMMUNITY. IT'S JUST
WHEN I'M BEING ASKED TO APPROVE A TAX INCREASE ON OUR RESIDENTS, IT HELPS IF I HAVE THE DATA OR ANALYTICS TO SUPPORT IT. 
          YEAH. I MEAN, WE OUR ANNUAL REPORTS PUTS OUT IN THE ANNUAL REPORT SHOWS YOU THE SPREAD OF
WHAT OUR CALLS ARE. 
          I JUST DIDN'T BRING THEM WITH ME TO, TO, TO BRING THEM. 
          ALL RIGHT. THANKS. YES, PLEASE. ONE QUESTION I'M WONDERING ABOUT DO YOU HAVE THE SAME
STRESSES WITH OVERTIME AS, AS OR BECAUSE OF THE POSITIONS WE WERE ABLE TO ADD. 
          ACTUALLY OUR OVERTIME HAS DROPPED SOME. WHICH IS WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE THEN THEN FROM A
FUNDING PERSPECTIVE, WE'RE NOT HAVING TO DO THAT. BUT YOU KNOW, THERE ARE TIMES WHEN LIKE,
ESPECIALLY DURING WHEN WE HAVE MULTIPLE SPECIAL EVENTS IN A DAY, YOU KNOW, WITH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE ON SHIFT,
WE'RE ALMOST PULLING IN A WHOLE NOTHER SHIFT JUST TO COVER THE EXTRA POSITIONS THAT NEED TO BE FILLED FOR THOSE SPECIAL EVENTS. BUT I WOULD SAY BASED ON WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED SO
FAR, WE'RE IN A BETTER POSITION THAN WE WERE. SO IT'S TRACKING THE RIGHT DIRECTION. 
          YEAH, WE'RE DEFINITELY MOVING IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION. OKAY,
THANKS. LET ME SAY A FEW THINGS BEFORE CITY MANAGER, ALTHOUGH I'M PROBABLY GOING TO. 
          I'M GOING TO DO IT ANYWAY. FIRST AND FOREMOST,
THIS IS ANECDOTAL, BUT I'LL TELL YOU THAT AT MY HOUSE ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, DURING ONE OF THOSE STORMS AT ABOUT 10 P.M.,
I HEARD POPPING IN THE BACKYARD. 
          WALKED OUT AND THERE WAS AN ELECTRIC ELECTRICAL LINE THAT WAS HITTING MY NEIGHBOR'S PALM
FROND OR PALM TREE. 
          AND SPARKS WERE FLYING EVERYWHERE. IT WAS POPPING. 
          SOUND LIKE GUNFIRE GOING OUT. I MEAN, I THOUGHT IT WAS KIDS WITH FIREWORKS INITIALLY. 
          I CALLED 911. DID NOT TELL THEM I WAS COUNCILMAN BARTON,
BY THE WAY. 
          SO THERE WAS THERE WAS NO FAVORITISM THERE. AND I HAD BOTH YOU GUYS SHOW UP. 
          SO BOTH OF YOUR OF YOUR STAFF SHOW UP. I HAD A SQUAD CAR SITTING THERE AND I HAD A FIRE
TRUCK SITTING THERE ASSESSING THE SITUATION. 
          SO THAT WAS AT TEN AT NIGHT. SO I WAS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT SOMEBODY ELSE WAS PROBABLY
STRESSED OUT AND TRYING TO DO THEIR JOB, BECAUSE I HAD I HAD YOUR HALF OF YOUR TEAM SITTING BEHIND ME IN THE ALLEYWAY. 
          REAL QUICK, JUST SORT OF, I'M JUST GOING TO RUN OVER SOME OF THIS REAL,
REAL FAST. 
          YOU KNOW, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT TRAFFIC AND IT APPLIES TO BOTH OF YOU GUYS. YOU KNOW,
EVERYBODY JUST ASSUMES THAT TRAFFIC IS ONLY GOING TO BE POLICE ISSUE. IT'S NOT THERE'S TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS. YOU GOT PEOPLE INJURED. YOU NEED TO HAVE FIRE THERE. 
          AND THE REALITY IS OUR LICENSE PLATE READERS I'VE BEEN PAYING ATTENTION THROUGH THE SUMMER
AND IT'S RARELY DROPPED BELOW A MILLION CARS PER WEEK. 
          WHEREAS IN THE OFF SEASON 2 OR 3 YEARS AGO, IT WAS DOWN 700. 
          IT WAS 740, 720, 690. I THINK MAYBE ONCE OR TWICE I'VE SEEN IT DROP BELOW A MILLION FOR A
WEEK. 
          AND WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST. SO WE'VE GOT TRAFFIC COMING INTO THIS COMMUNITY AT A
RATE THAT'S SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER THAN WHAT IT USED TO BE. 
          AND THAT AFFECTS BOTH OF THESE DEPARTMENTS SIGNIFICANTLY. 
          SO WE NEED THE PERSONNEL IS MY POINT. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A MILLAGE INCREASE HERE
OBVIOUSLY, 
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AND WHICH EQUATES TO ABOUT $60, $60 INCREASE IF WE GO TO THE 2.9 OR 1.29,
I'M SORRY. 
          IF WE GO TO THE 1.29, IT'S GOING TO EQUATE TO ABOUT $60 PER YEAR PER MILLION OF VALUED
HOME. 
          SO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT A LOT FOR WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET HERE. 
          AND AGAIN, WE'RE FOCUSING ON THE SAFETY AND SECURITY OF THIS COMMUNITY. WHEN I,
WHEN I LOOK AT THESE STATISTICS, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, I TOUCHED ON THE TRAFFIC AND I THINK THAT THAT'S A FOREGONE CONCLUSION.
WE HAVE THE NUMBER OF CARS COMING IN HERE. 
          WE NEED, WE NEED MORE, MORE PEOPLE ON BOTH STAFFS. 
          BUT THEN WHEN WE TAKE A TAKE IT OUT OF THE, TRAFFIC EQUATION. 
          HERE WE'RE LOOKING AT A 30% INCREASE IN AGGRAVATED ASSAULTS. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT A 40% INCREASE IN ALL OTHER LARCENY. 
          WE'RE LOOKING AT A 30% INCREASE IN SIMPLE ASSAULTS,
A 30% INCREASE IN CRIME AGAINST PERSONS, 30% INCREASE IN CRIME AGAINST PROPERTY, AND A 300% INCREASE IN CRIME AGAINST SOCIETY. 
          THAT SCARES THE HELL OUT OF ME. I MEAN, WE'RE WE'RE WE'RE IN CHARGE OF KEEPING OUR
COMMUNITY SAFE. 
          AND WE'RE LOOKING AT SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN ATTACKS ON PEOPLE,
NOT JUST STEALING SOMETHING OUT OF A CAR. 
          I DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH ON THOSE STATISTICS. THOSE ARE UP TOO,
BY THE WAY. BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ATTACKS ON PEOPLE. AND IF I'VE GOT MY MY POLICE CHIEF SITTING HERE TELLING ME THAT THAT THE WAY WE NEED TO TACKLE THAT ISSUE IS TO INCREASE THE
NUMBER OF PEOPLE, AND IT'S GOING TO COST US $60 PER $1 MILLION VALUE HOME TO TO GET THAT JOB DONE. 
          I SAY, LET'S DO IT. AND LET'S ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT THAT'S NOT THAT INCREASE IS ALSO
ACTUALLY TAKING CARE OF SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES THAT WE'VE GOT HERE. 
          THE THE POLICE AND FIRE INCREASE HERE IS 1.1 MILLION. 
          IF WE IF WE INCREASE THIS TO 1.29 MILLS, WE ARE GETTING A $2.3 MILLION INCREASE IN
REVENUE. 
          SO THAT LEAVES US WITH A 1.2 MILLION THAT WE CAN APPLY TO AMENDMENT THREE. 
          SO WE'RE ACTUALLY TACKLING MORE THAN ONE ISSUE HERE. 
          WE ARE BEING PROACTIVE JUST IN CASE WE DO GET WHAT I BUY. 
          BY THE WAY, MY OPINION WOULD BE A REALLY BAD,
BAD IDEA BY THE BY, THE PEOPLE OF FLORIDA TO GET RID OF OUR PROPERTY TAXES. 
          BUT NONETHELESS, THAT'S THAT'S MY OPINION. HOWEVER,
IF WE END UP STUCK WITH THAT AND WE ARE GOING TO AND HAVE A SHORTFALL BECAUSE WE'RE NOT RECEIVING THE TAX REVENUES THAT WE'RE USED TO,
SEEING THIS INCREASE TO 1.9, 1.29 MILLION IS IS PREPARING US FOR THAT, AND WE ARE GOING TO BE IN A GOOD POSITION BECAUSE OF IT. SO WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE
IS TO BE PROACTIVE ON, ON POTENTIAL AMENDMENTS, THAT AMENDMENT THAT'S GOING TO COME DOWN THE PIKE. 
          THAT COULD NEGATIVELY AFFECT OUR COMMUNITY AND ALSO DOING WHAT IS NECESSARY TO MAINTAIN
THE LEVEL OF SAFETY AND SECURITY THAT OUR THAT OUR RESIDENTS EXPECT. 
          AND FINAL POINT HERE WE GOT A LETTER JUST RECENTLY,
ALL OF US DID FROM THE HOA COALITION WHICH REPRESENTS 75% OF OUR RESIDENTS. AND THAT LETTER WAS IN SUPPORT OF THE STAFFING INCREASE. 
          SO WE'VE GOT THE VAST MAJORITY. AND THAT WAS A FORMAL LETTER. 
          IT WASN'T JUST THEIR DIRECTOR SAYING, OH, YOU KNOW,
THIS IS MY OPINION. 
          THAT WAS A FORMAL LETTER FROM THAT COALITION SAYING WE SUPPORT THIS. 
          SO WE'VE GOT THE VAST MAJORITY OF OUR RESIDENTS,
AND I'M NOT SAYING THE OTHER 25%, BY THE WAY, THAT ARE NOT REPRESENTED BY THAT COALITION DON'T WANT IT ALSO. 
          SO WE PROBABLY GOT MORE THAN 75%. BUT EVEN IF WE JUST FOCUS ON THAT COALITION,
WE'VE GOT VAST MAJORITY OF OUR RESIDENTS TELLING US THIS IS A GOOD IDEA AND THAT THEY WANT THE SAFETY AND SECURITY AND THAT WE NEED WE NEED TO MAKE A MOVE NECESSARY TO GET IT. 
          SO WE'RE WE'RE BEING FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE BECAUSE OF WHAT AMENDMENT THREE MIGHT DO TO US. 
          AND WE'RE ALSO BEING RESPONSIBLE FROM A SAFETY AND SECURITY STANDPOINT WHEN IT COMES TO
KEEPING OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR COMMUNITY SAFE. 
          SO AS YOU CAN IMAGINE, OR AS YOU CAN PROBABLY TELL,
I'M IN FAVOR OF THIS INCREASE TO 1.29. 
          THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. I'D LIKE TO IF EVERYONE'S DONE WITH THEIR INDIVIDUAL QUESTIONS,
I'D LIKE TO JUST TALK, GENERAL. YES. OKAY. I WAS JUST GOING TO ADD A LITTLE BIT TO IT. 
          ONE QUESTION. FIRST OF ALL, I MEAN, YOUR BALANCED APPROACH IS GREAT THAT WE'RE TAKING HALF
THIS INCREASE AND TACKLING OUR DEFICIT AND OUR GENERAL FUND AT THE SAME TIME, GIVING THEM SOME OF THE RESOURCES THEY NEED TO GET ACCOMPLISHED TO KEEP
OUR CITY SAFE. 
          AND JUST EVERYBODY REMEMBER, WE STARTED THIS MILLAGE RATE AT 1.33,
1.3 AREA. 
          AND WE WORK TO GET IT DOWN TO WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW. 
          SO 2.9 MAX. SO WE'VE MADE PROGRESS IN TRYING TO CONSTRAIN THIS. 
          IT'S NOT I DON'T THINK ANYBODY IN THIS ROOM IS WANTS TO BE A TAX HAWK. 
          YOU KNOW AND WE'RE TRYING TO BE RESPONSIBLE HERE. 
          I DO TRUST BOTH OUR CHIEFS THAT THEY'RE NOT LOOKING TO SQUANDER MONEY. 
          THEY'RE LOOKING TO REALLY KEEP THE CITY SAFE AND DO THE RIGHT THING. 
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SO, YOU KNOW, I TRUST TRUST IN THEM. SO I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT OUT THERE AND PEOPLE'S
THOUGHT PROCESS. 
          SO I'M GOING TO KIND OF PREACH FOR A MINUTE IF THAT'S OKAY. 
          FIRST OF ALL, IT'S BEEN A IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY. 
          IT'S BEEN A GOOD DAY. BUT THIS COUNCIL AND THE ONE PRIOR SHOULD BE VERY PROUD OF THE
DECISIONS YOU MADE. 
          AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS WE MADE THIS STATEMENT IS WHILE THIS INFRASTRUCTURE WAS OLD AND
WE YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT FEES AND ALL THOSE ARE STILL TRUE. 
          BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, TO THE PERSONNEL AND THE COMPENSATION AND THE EMPLOYMENT LEVELS
ARE NOTHING LIKE THEY WERE FIVE YEARS AGO. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT KILL A COMMUNITY AND MORALE IN A
COMMUNITY. 
          AND ONE IS STAGNATED WAGES FOR A PROLONGED PERIOD OF TIME,
AND THE OTHER ONE IS BRINGING PEOPLE ON BOARD AND HAVING TO LAY THEM OFF NO SOONER THAN YOU BROUGHT THEM ON BOARD, BECAUSE THERE WASN'T ENOUGH FORETHOUGHT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU
WERE TAKING CARE OF THOSE FUNDAMENTALS. 
          WE TOOK CARE OF THE STAGNATION IN WAGES. IT WAS THE CONTRACT BEFORE LAST THAT ATTEMPTED TO
DO THAT, BUT THEN WE RAN INTO COVID AND 9% COST OF LIVING INCREASES,
AND IT DIDN'T WORK OUT THAT WAY. 
          BUT YOUR LAST CONTRACT TOOK CARE OF THAT. IN ADDITION TO THAT,
UP UNTIL TWO YEARS AGO, THERE HADN'T BEEN AN INCREASE IN PERSONNEL. 
          AND IF YOU GO BACK TO VACANCY RATES IN 2011 AND POLICE DEPARTMENT,
IT WAS 12. 
          IN 2013, IT WAS 13 AND IT BECAME NINE. AND NOW WE HAVE VERY LITTLE VACANCY RATES. 
          SO YOU SHOULD ALL BE PROUD. THE CHIEF SHOULD BE PROUD. 
          AND WHEN WE DID INCREASE THE WORKERS TWO YEARS,
TWO YEARS AGO WITH THE SAFETY ENHANCEMENT, IT WAS PUT TO GOOD USE. AND THAT SHOWS THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT YOU THAT YOU CHARGE BOTH
THE PREVIOUS CITY MANAGER AND THESE CHIEFS WITH. 
          SO NOW WE COME TO THIS YEAR. WELL, THIS YEAR WE HAVE AN OPERATING DEFICIT IS AT 2.6
MILLION. 
          WHEN WE SIGNED THAT LAST CONTRACT, I SAID, REST ASSURED,
YOU ALREADY HAVE THAT CONTRACT PAID FOR. 
          YOU'RE STILL GOING TO HAVE A FUND BALANCE OF 22 MILLION. 
          BUT I REMIND YOU THAT YOU HAVE DOWNWARD PRESSURE BECAUSE THE SEA WALL IS IN ANOTHER FOUR. 
          THAT GETS YOU TO 18 MILLION, BUT THAT'S STILL VERY HEALTHY BALANCES. 
          SO BUT IF YOU'RE OPERATING AT A $2.6 MILLION DEFICIT,
YOU'RE FACED WITH THE HEADWINDS OF THE UPCOMING ELECTION. 
          THAT'S WHY THIS SLIDE SAYS ADDING OF STAFF IN CONTEXT OF AN OPERATING LOSS AND LOOMING
REVENUE CHALLENGE NECESSITATES A BALANCED APPROACH WITH RESERVES. SO IF GOING TO 1.29 IS GOING TO GENERATE ONE POINT OR 2.3 MILLION,
YOU CAN SEE WHERE WE SAY BETWEEN 1.2 AND 1.15, ABOUT AT LEAST HALF SHOULD GO BACK TO REPLENISHING THE RESERVES. 
          AND IN THE WORST CASE SCENARIO IN THE VOTE NEXT NOVEMBER,
WE ESTIMATE IT'S 1.4 MILLION. 
          WE WOULD LOSE IN THE FIRST YEAR AND 2.8 IN THE SECOND. 
          SO NOW THAT'S CUMULATIVE 4.2 OVER A 24 MONTH PERIOD. 
          SO IF THAT WOULD OCCUR TAKING A MILLAGE RATE OF 1.23 TO 1.26 AND GIVING THE SAME POLICE
AND FIRE WANT TO GENERATE 1.1 MILLION EXPENSES. YOU'VE HEDGED NOWHERE. 
          AND IF YOU LOSE THE VOTE. NOW YOU HAD 2.6 DEFICIT. 
          YOU ADDED 1.1 IN IN IN PERSONNEL. AND OH, BY THE WAY,
YOU'RE ON THE VERGE OF LOSING ONE POINT FOR GOING INTO NEGOTIATIONS. 
          IT MAKES ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE. AND THOSE SAME PEOPLE WHO YOU NEGOTIATED WITH IN GOOD FAITH, IF YOU DON'T PUT SOME FUND BALANCE RESERVES AND SAY,
OKAY, WE'RE JUST GOING OUT AND HIRING MORE PEOPLE, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ONES THAT ARE STILL HERE? AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE FACING
HERE IN FIVE MONTHS. 
          AND SO THAT IS WHY THE BALANCED APPROACH IS THERE. 
          IT IS ABOUT NOT ONLY AND I SAID THIS INDIVIDUALLY,
AND I'LL SAY IT HERE. 
          I SAID IT TO MY STAFF WHEN I WALKED IN THE ROOM WHEN WE STARTED THIS BUDGET PROCESS,
MY, MY JOB ISN'T TO SEE HOW MANY MORE PEOPLE I CAN ADD. 
          IT'S ABOUT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY THAT IS ON THE PAYROLL IS ON THE PAYROLL 36 MONTHS FROM
NOW. 
          AND SO IF WE'RE GOING TO ADD THEM, MY JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THOSE SAME ONES ARE ON THE
PAYROLL 36 MONTHS FROM NOW AS WELL. 
          SO IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE COURAGE TO SAY WE KNOW WHAT'S COMING AT US. 
          I'M JUST SAYING, LET'S NOT DO WHAT WE DID LAST TIME AND CUT IT SHORT AND GO FROM 1.23 TO
1.26, BECAUSE WE WILL HAVE SET OURSELVES UP FOR FAILURE. 
          FAILURE. IF THE HEADWINDS COME TO FRUITION, WE DON'T KNOW. 
          AND THAT'S NOT A THREAT. BUT IN THE ABSENCE OF THAT KIND OF COMMITMENT,
YOU'RE BETTER OFF HOLDING SERVE THAN YOU ARE TO ADD PEOPLE AND THEN TAKE AWAY FROM THEM NEXT YEAR. SO THAT'S WHAT I WAS TALKING TO. SO DO WE HAVE A LOT TO BE PROUD OF IN WHAT
WE'VE ESTABLISHED IN THIS COMMUNITY? 
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YOU SURE DO. AND SO THAT SO DOES THE STAFF THAT THAT PUT THOSE PLANS TOGETHER AND EXECUTED
THEM. 
          BUT IT'S GOING TO TAKE THAT COMMITMENT OF THE WHOLE THING IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO IT,
BECAUSE IF WE WEREN'T FACING DOWNWARD PRESSURE AND ALREADY IN AN OPERATING DEFICIT SPENDING RESERVES IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THIS CONTRACT,
YOU COULD MAKE THE ARGUMENT, OKAY, WE CAN ABSORB IT. 
          WE'RE NOT GOING TO GET KILLED. WE'RE IN GOOD FINANCIAL POSITION. 
          WE CAN ABSORB IT, BUT WE CAN'T ADD PEOPLE AND ABSORB IT AT THE SAME TIME. 
          WITHOUT FUNDING, THAT WOULD BE VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE. 
          SO I THANK YOU. I HOPE I'VE PAINTED A MORE. ROSIER PICTURE,
BUT A REALISTIC PICTURE OF WHERE WE NEED TO BE. BUT THE NEEDS AND WHAT'S COMING AT YOUR PUBLIC SAFETY ARE REAL. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE I STAND. AND I'M DONE PREACHING. 
          SO THANK YOU. YEAH. BACK WHEN THIS CONVERSATION CAME UP,
I WAS THE ONE NO VOTE ON THE 21.29. AND I WAS NO, BECAUSE I DON'T I DIDN'T THINK IT WAS HIGH ENOUGH. 
          I WAS TRYING TO ANTICIPATE THIS SAYING, WHY ARE WE TRYING TO HAVE SOMEONE GO SWIMMING WITH
THEIR HANDS AND FEET TIED WHEN WE CAN DO IT NOW AND BE JUSTIFIED? AND THEN. IN THE NEXT YEAR OR TWO AFTER,
WE CAN REDUCE IT. 
          IF WE DODGED A BULLET IN NOVEMBER, WE DON'T HAVE TO KEEP IT,
BUT WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO KEEP. 
          AS HAS BEEN PAINFULLY CLEAR, THIS. THIS CITY WAS IN A ROUGH PLACE 3 TO 5 YEARS AGO,
AND IT'S IN A DECENT PLACE NOW, BUT IT'S NOT WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE. SO MY CONCERN AND I TOLD GARY IN THE IN THE,
THE ONE ON ONES THAT WE JUST WENT THROUGH, I WAS THE LAST ONE. I, YOU KNOW, I SAID, THIS IS WHY I VOTED NO. 
          HE SAID HE THOUGHT HE HEARD IT. AND THAT'S WHAT IT WAS,
IS I DON'T THINK WE'RE DOING ENOUGH FOR FORWARD PLANNING OF ONE, THREE AND FIVE YEARS. I JUST DON'T THINK WE ARE. 
          WE'RE GOING TO BE DOG PADDLING AGAIN. AND WE CAN ALWAYS TRUST EVERYBODY AND SAY,
LOOK, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO GET ANY MORE IN THE NEXT 2 OR 3 YEARS. 
          YOU'RE GOING TO GET IT NOW, AND THEN WE'LL EVALUATE WHAT WE'VE DONE. 
          BUT THAT WAS MY REASON WHY I WAS THE NO VOTE,
IS THAT I DIDN'T THINK IT GAVE US ENOUGH SLACK. 
          SO THAT'S MY $0.02. THANK YOU. WE'RE GOING TO GO. 
          GO BIG OR GO HOME. THANKS. I HAVE SOME THOUGHTS TO SHARE. 
          SORRY IF I RAMBLE A BIT. FIRST OF ALL, THANK STEFAN AND HIS TEAM AND GARY,
YOUR TEAMS FOR PUTTING TOGETHER THE BUDGET AND ALL THE THOUGHT YOU PUT INTO THIS THE DETAILED WORK. THANKS TO THE RESIDENTS WHO'VE ALSO PROVIDED SOME
INPUT ALONG THE WAY ON, ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF THIS. AND I UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS AND CERTAINLY ON THE POLICE SIDE,
I TOTALLY GET IT. 
          I APPRECIATE THE DATA YOU SHOWED AND SHARED AND FULLY SUPPORT THAT FIRE. 
          I'M STILL A LITTLE BIT UNCLEAR. I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. 
          I LIKE TO SEE THE NUMBERS. THAT'S JUST ME, MY BACKGROUND TO UNDERSTAND THAT NOT SAYING NO, I'M JUST SAYING IT'D BE NICE FOR ME TO HAVE MORE MORE INFORMATION ON IT. 
          BUT I AM REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT NUMBER THREE. 
          AND IF IT PASSES, AND IT'S NOT JUST THAT, IT'S WHAT THE GOVERNOR CANDIDATES ARE SAYING
THAT ARE ESPECIALLY THE ONE WHO'S LEADING IN THE POLLS, ARE SAYING THEY WANT TO GO MUCH FURTHER THAN THAT. 
          THEY WANT TO REDUCE PROPERTY TAXES OR ELIMINATE THEM,
THAT WITH NO PLAN FOR REPLACING IT, THAT THAT TO ME IS REALLY SCARY. SO THAT'S WHERE I GET INTO THE QUESTION. 
          IF WE HIRE PEOPLE AND THEN WE GET IN A REAL BIND NEXT YEAR,
WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO? WE HAVE TO DO WE HAVE TO LET THEM GO. THAT'S TERRIBLE. 
          SO IT'S JUST THAT UNCERTAINTY THAT'S REALLY CAUSING ME CONCERN. 
          THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE, IF WE EVEN IF WE DIDN'T HAVE THAT WEIGHING AGAINST US. 
          NOT ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS ARE RICH. WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE STRUGGLING. 
          WE'VE RAISED WATER RATES, SEWER RATES, STORMWATER RATES,
FP AND LS RAISED RATES. 
          INSURANCE COSTS ARE UP. OTHER TAXES ARE UP. GASOLINE IS UP. 
          EVERY YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE ARE REALLY, REALLY STRUGGLING. 
          SO WHAT SEEMS LIKE A SMALL AMOUNT TO SOME PEOPLE IS A BIG AMOUNT TO OTHER PEOPLE. 
          SO THAT'S ALSO A CONCERN THAT I'M TRYING TO TO WEIGH AND WEIGH IN THIS WHOLE EQUATION. 
          AFFORDABILITY. YOU KNOW, WE KEEP PUSHING MORE AND MORE PEOPLE OUT OF NAPLES. 
          THEY JUST CAN'T AFFORD TO STAY HERE OR WORK HERE. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S A REAL CONCERN I HAVE. I APPRECIATE THE LETTER FROM THE HOA LEADERS 
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SUPPORTING THE POLICE STAFFING AGAIN. THEY GET IT. 
          THEY SEE IT. LIKE YOU SAID, I'VE BEEN IN THOSE MEETINGS AND HEARD THE SAME CONCERNS PEOPLE
HAVE. 
          PEOPLE WANT TO BE SAFE AND THAT'S. WE WANT TO BE SAFE. 
          WE SEE THAT AS OUR NUMBER ONE CONCERN FOR OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE NEED TO NEED TO TAKE CARE
OF. 
          SO I WAS TRYING TO THINK OF, OF WAYS TO NAVIGATE THIS SITUATION THAT WE FIND OURSELVES IN. 
          AND HERE'S ONE POSSIBILITY THAT MAY OR MAY NOT WORK. 
          SO IF WE TENTATIVELY AGREE TO FUND THE POLICE POSITIONS,
BUT WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE NOVEMBER 3RD ELECTION. 
          THAT'S JUST ONE MORE MONTH. ONCE WE HAVE THAT ELECTION,
I THINK WE'LL KNOW SOMETHING BETTER WHETHER THE AMENDMENT THREE PASSES OR NOT. 
          WHAT WE'RE WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH. FIRE. I'M NOT SURE YET. 
          I'M NOT CONVINCED ON YET. MAYBE. MAYBE WE GET THERE AS WELL. 
          I WOULD HOLD AT NO TAX INCREASE AT 1.23. I THINK OUR RESERVES ARE AT THE UPPER END OF
WHERE WE ARE. 
          THERE'S SOME BUILT IN CONSERVATISM BY THE STATE MANDATED LAWS WHERE WE CAN ONLY BUDGET 95%
OF PROPERTY TAX REVENUE WHEN WE EXPECT TO GET 97, 98%. WE BUDGET AT EVERY POSITION BEING FULLY OCCUPIED FOR A FULL AMOUNT OF THE YEAR. 
          AND THAT'S NOT THE CASE. WE HAVE VACANCIES AND HAVE SAVINGS AND SALARIES DURING THAT TIME. 
          SO THERE'S SOME NATURAL CUSHIONS BUILT INTO THE BUDGET PROCESS THAT HELP WITH THAT
UTILIZATION OF RESERVES. 
          THEN IF AMENDMENT THREE FAILS, WHICH WILL NOVEMBER. 
          WELL, NO. NOVEMBER 3RD. WE'LL BE IN GOOD SHAPE. 
          WE KNOW WE'RE NOT LOSING THAT REVENUE. WE ALSO KNOW THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF
UNITS. 
          A LOT OF HOMES COME ONLINE DURING THE COMING YEAR,
LIKE THE NAPLES BEACH HOTEL, ALL THOSE CONDOS, OTHER CONDO PROJECTS THAT ARE ARE UNDERWAY THAT WILL COME ONTO THE TAX ROLL NEXT YEAR. 
          SO WE KNOW WE'LL HAVE TAXES TO FUND THE THE STAFFING INCREASES WE NEED. 
          AND NOT THIS THIS YEAR WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT THE FOLLOWING YEAR,
IN THE YEARS AFTER THAT, WE KNOW A LOT OF OF UNITS ARE PLANNING TO COME ON. 
          HOWEVER, IF AMENDMENT THREE PASSES, THEN I THINK WE HAVE TO STEP BACK AND SAY,
WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR US, PARTICULARLY IN SEEING WHO WINS THE GOVERNOR'S RACE AND THE LEGISLATIVE RACES AND WHAT
THEIR PLANS ARE. 
          WE MAY HAVE TO RETHINK HOW WE OPERATE THE CITY. 
          AND WE MAY NEED SOME TIME TO, TO WORK THROUGH THAT. 
          SO TO THE EXTENT WE CAN BUY OR SELL SOME TIME,
I THINK THAT WOULD BE WISE. 
          IT'S JUST A FEW MONTHS JUST TO GET TO NOVEMBER 3RD TO UNDERSTAND MORE. 
          SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I'M THINKING. I'M SURE APPRECIATE EVERYBODY ELSE'S THOUGHTS AND
CONCERNS ON IT. 
          OUR. REASONING FOR THEIR POSITIONINGS POSITIONS. 
          I'D LIKE TO STAY AT THE 1.23 AND NOT PASS ON A PROPERTY TAX INCREASE TO OUR CITIZENS AT
THIS POINT, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, FIND A WAY TO SUPPORT THE PUBLIC SAFETY POSITIONS THAT ARE NEEDED. 
          YES. MR. YOUNG. THANK YOU, VICE MAYOR. THE ONLY SUMMARY I WOULD PUT TO THAT IS YOU. 
          YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO AMEND THE BUDGET BY ADDING PERSONNEL AT ANY POINT DURING THE
BUDGET YEAR. 
          SO RATHER THAN IF YOU DID GO TO SOMETHING, IT WOULD BE SIMPLY IS THE WAY YOU WRAPPED IT
UP, WHICH IS TO HOLD IN ABEYANCE ANY ADDITIONAL POSITIONS UNTIL AFTER,
BECAUSE YOU DON'T PUT THAT ON THE RECORD. 
          AS FAR AS THAT, I'M GOING TO AUTHORIZE POSITIONS,
BUT DEPENDING ON THE BUDGET, I'D TAKE THEM BACK. 
          YOU JUST HOLD SERVE AS TO WHAT YOUR RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE. 
          THEN ONCE YOU KNOW, WHETHER THOSE HEADWINDS SUBSIDE. 
          I'M ONLY SAYING I WOULD DO THAT AS A MATTER OF PRUDENCE AND RHETORIC. 
          NOT EVEN THOUGH I KNOW WHAT YOU WERE SAYING IN SPIRIT. 
          YOU'RE BASICALLY JUST SAYING THE BUDGET AS IT IS AT 1.23 CURRENT STAFF AND COME WILL
EVALUATE IT AGAIN IN DECEMBER. 
          THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE BASICALLY. I JUST I KNOW IT'S A NUANCE,
TED, BUT I DON'T WANT IT TO BE THAT WE'RE GOING TO HIRE POLICE. 
          IF IF THE IF THE IF IT FAILS, THAT'S NOT THE WAY THAT WE APPROACH THAT FROM THAT. 
          THANK YOU. YOU UNDERSTAND THE GOVERNMENT. I GOT EXACTLY WHAT YOU BUDGETING PROCESS MUCH
BETTER THAN ME. 
          YES, SIR. BUT NOVEMBER 3RD, I HOPE AND EXPECT WILL KNOW MUCH MORE. 
          AND IT'S FRUSTRATING BECAUSE I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY DOCUMENTED POLL RESULTS ON THIS. 
          I'VE HEARD ANECDOTALLY, SOME PEOPLE SAY THEY THINK IT'S GOING TO PASS. 
          I'VE HEARD OTHER PEOPLE SAY THEY THINK IT'S GOING TO FAIL. I DON'T KNOW OTHER THAN A GUT
FEELING THAT LOTS OF PEOPLE WANT TO CUT TAXES. 
          [05:35:08]
BUT WHETHER THAT REACHES A 60% THRESHOLD REQUIRED,
I DON'T KNOW. 
          I THINK JUST FROM A TIMING PERSPECTIVE, WE HAVE TO FILE WITH THE STATE FROM A MILITARY
STANDPOINT. 
          RIGHT. AND IF WE IF WE IF WE. ARE WE ABLE TO WAIT TILL WE SEE THE RESULTS? NO, I WAS JUST MAKING THE POINT. HE SAID HE DIDN'T SUPPORT A TAX INCREASE IN EITHER CASE. 
          I WAS SAYING. AND HE SAID, BUT I SUPPORT INCREASING IT,
BUT HOLDING IT IN ABEYANCE UNTIL AFTER WE HEAR, WELL, THAT'S THE SAME THING AS JUST AFTER WE KNOW THE ELECTION. 
          JUST COME BACK WITH A SUPPLEMENT IN TERMS OF A BUDGET AND PERSONNEL. 
          SHOULD IT SHOULD IT FAIL? AND YOU BELIEVE I WANT TO GET STARTED RATHER THAN WAIT TILL NEXT
YEAR AND KNOW THAT THAT WE'RE GOING TO INCREASE OR DO WHATEVER I WANT TO START HAVE THE FUNDS THOUGH? WELL, IF WE IF WE WAIT, IF WE IF WE SAY,
OH, LET'S WAIT AND WE DON'T INCREASE OVER 1.23, WE DON'T HAVE THE FUNDS IN DECEMBER, EVEN IF WE WANT TO ADD PEOPLE. WELL,
I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR HIM. I WAS I WAS ONLY TRYING TO GET. YOU DON'T LEVERAGE A VOTE COMING UP IN NOVEMBER AS TO YOUR WHAT WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO IN PERSONNEL. 
          I'M JUST SAYING THAT SHOULD NEVER BE A MOTION THAT SAYS THAT IT JUST. 
          IT WOULDN'T BE. MY CONCERN THERE IS WITH WITH THAT CONCEPT. 
          AND I UNDERSTAND, BY THE WAY, THE FISCAL CONSERVATIVE NATURE THAT YOU'RE TAKING RIGHT NOW. 
          I GET IT AND I EMBRACE IT WHOLEHEARTEDLY. WHAT I ALSO UNDERSTAND IS THOSE STATISTICS I
RATTLED OFF. 
          WE CAN'T ASK THE CRIMINALS TO HOLD OFF UNTIL DECEMBER BEFORE WE DECIDE WE'RE GOING TO ADD
SOME PEOPLE. 
          THOSE THOSE STATISTICS ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW AS WE SPEAK. 
          THEY'RE HAPPENING OUT BESIDE THESE DOORS. SO THERE'S NO HOLDING OFF ON WHAT WE NEED. 
          AND WHAT WE NEED IS AN INCREASE IN PERSONNEL TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR COMMUNITY IS SAFE AND
SECURE. 
          AND I UNDERSTAND THE THE RATIONALE BEHIND, OH,
I DON'T WANT TO INCREASE THE THE AFFORDABLE, THE AFFORDABILITY IS AN ISSUE. AND THIS, THAT AND THE OTHER THE REALITY IS,
IS THAT AT 1.23 MILLS, WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW, WE ARE THE SEVENTH LOWEST OUT OF 397 COMMUNITIES STATEWIDE. 
          AND IF WE INCREASE THE 1.29. ACCORDING TO THE CHART I LOOKED AT,
WE WOULD BE THE NINTH LOWEST. 
          SO WE ARE ALREADY DOING OUR JOB AS A COMMUNITY,
AS A MUNICIPALITY, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP OUR NUMBERS LOW, WHERE THEY ALREADY ARE LOW, AND WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE TO KEEP THEM LOW,
EVEN WITH AN INCREASE, THEY'RE GOING TO BE REALLY, REALLY LOW. AND I'M GOING TO REPEAT THAT NINTH OUT OF 397. SO I GET IT. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT
AN INCREASE SUCKS. 
          NOBODY WANTS A TAX INCREASE. I THE THOUGHT OF TAX INCREASES MAKES MY SKIN CRAWL. 
          BUT WITH THAT SAID, WHAT BOTHERS ME MORE THAN A TAX INCREASE ARE CRIMINALS OF PERFORMING
IN OUR COMMUNITY AND AND VIOLATING THE RIGHTS OF OUR OF OUR RESIDENTS AND, AND PUTTING OUR RESIDENTS IN DANGER. 
          THAT BOTHERS ME MORE THAN THAN THE THAN THE INCREASE IN MILLAGE FROM 1.231.29. 
          SO I, I, WHILE I UNDERSTAND WHERE THE VICE MAYOR IS COMING FROM,
I STILL FEEL LIKE WE NEED TO MAKE A DECISION. 
          AND, AND I UNDERSTAND DECISIONS NOT TODAY ALSO,
BUT NONETHELESS, I THINK AS A BODY, WE NEED TO WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHERE OUR, WHERE OUR HEADS ARE AND LOOK AT CONSENSUS. BUT NONETHELESS,
THAT'S WHERE MY HEADS NEED A CONSENSUS. 
          CORRECT? REALLY? YEAH. SO. SO ULTIMATELY YOU DON'T VOTE TODAY,
BUT I DO NEED CLEAR ENOUGH CONSENSUS DIRECTION TO DO THE ADVERTISING AND PREPARE FOR THE HEARING. THE 1.23 OR THE 1.29, IT WILL STILL REST ON THE ACTUAL VOTE BECAUSE UNTIL THAT
VOTE IS CAST, IT WOULDN'T TAKE EFFECT. BUT I WILL NEED A GOOD CONSENSUS AS TO WHAT WE'RE PREPARING THE
DOCUMENTS ON AND ADVERTISING THE RATE, WHETHER WE'LL KEEP IT IT, AND IF WE CAN'T GET TO A 5.7. 
          BUT WE HAVE BECAUSE OF. WHICH IS FINE, I PUT THIS ON THE SCREEN. 
          SO TO REMIND US OF WHAT WE HAVE TO GET TO ON THE HEARING DATE. 
          BUT IF WE GET TO CONSENSUS MAJORITY, THEN WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH ADVERTISING THAT WAY, AND THEN IT COULD STILL BE SUBJECT TO CHANGE AT THAT VOTE AND IN THE HEARING BECAUSE OF
THE VACANCY ON THE DAY. 
          AND TODAY, I DON'T KNOW ANY OTHER WAY TO APPROACH THAT. 
          AND TO BE FAIR ABOUT IT. SO THAT WOULD BE THE WAY THAT I WOULD ATTEMPT TO DO THAT. 
          I HAVE A QUESTION FOR HIM, KRAMER, AND I'M SORRY IF WE GOT FIVE TODAY. 
          IF YOU GET FIVE OUT OF THE GATE, WE WOULD MOVE TO THE 1.29 PREPARATE. 
          UNDERSTAND, IT'S STILL NOT SET IN STONE UNTIL YOU THE HEARING DATE. 
          BUT YES, WE WOULD APPROACH IT. BUT EVEN IF IT WAS FOR TODAY,
BECAUSE OF THE VACANCY, I DON'T KNOW HOW. 
          I DON'T MOVE FORWARD BECAUSE I STILL HAVE THAT. 
          BECAUSE HERE'S WHERE THE ISSUE LIES IS IT ALWAYS RESTS ON THE VOTE,
NOT ON A WORKSHOP. 
          BUT IF YOU IF YOU HAVE A MAJORITY TODAY THAT REACHES CONSENSUS,
THEN WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT, AT LEAST FOR PREPARING THE TRIM NOTICE AND PREPARING THE DOCUMENTS FOR THE BUDGET. 
          AND THEN IF IT DOESN'T GET TO ITS NEEDED FIVE,
THEN WE WOULD MAKE THE CORRESPONDING AMENDMENTS. 
          I MEAN THAT WE'LL KNOW WHAT BOTH OF THEM ARE ON THAT HEARING DATE. 
          WERE YOU DONE? YEAH. I THINK YOU GOT FIVE. YEAH. 
          YEAH. I JUST WANT TO THROW OUT TO THAT THAT I VIEW THIS AS A DOUBLE WIN BECAUSE IF THE
HOMESTEAD PASSES, 
          [05:40:05]
WE'LL HAVE OUR CUSHION, RIGHT. SO WE'LL HAVE OUR CUSHION SAVED. 
          SO WE'LL HAVE SOME SOME FINANCIAL INTEGRITY IN PLACE FOR IT. 
          AND YET WE'RE STILL PROTECTING OUR COMMUNITY WITH,
WITH OUR CREATIVE PROPOSALS THAT, THAT OUR TWO CHIEFS PUT TOGETHER. 
          SO I VIEW IT MORE AS A WIN WIN. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO GO UP BEFORE YOU CAN GO BACK DOWN. 
          AND I THINK WE'RE AT THAT STAGE WHERE WE'RE KIND OF IN THAT IN THAT SITUATION,
GIVEN ALL THE COMPLICATIONS WE HAVE WE'RE FACING RIGHT NOW. 
          SO THAT'S I WOULD BE A YES. OKAY. SO YOU HAVE A CONSENSUS OF FIVE. 
          I BELIEVE I HAVE FOUR I DIDN'T KNOW MAYOR WELL,
I WAS ACTUALLY TRYING TO JUST GET TO THE POSITIONS THAT HE WAS RECOMMENDING BECAUSE HIS STATISTICS DIDN'T FIT THE POSITIONS. AND I SEE THE CRA BEING AN ISSUE. 
          I SEE THE MARINE BEING AN ISSUE. THAT'S. I WAS JUST TRYING TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH
THAT AND. 
          WELL, I WASN'T TRYING TO WHEN I SUMMARIZED EARLIER BECAUSE WE GOT OFF INTO THE BIG PICTURE
CONVERSATION, I WAS TRYING TO BRING THAT HOME AT THE END HERE. 
          SO I STILL DON'T WANT TO CURTAIL ANY DIALOG. MAYOR IF YOU THOUGHT THAT I WAS. 
          THAT'S ALL. WELL, I WOULD DO CAUTION BECAUSE I. 
          I'VE BEEN THERE WHEN YOU. AND IT'S NOT PRETTY. 
          SO I RESPECT THAT. AND I ALSO KNOW WE HAVE NEGOTIATIONS COMING UP,
SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE YOU'RE GOING TO GO WITH UNION NEGOTIATIONS AND TRYING TO MAKE THE PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE SATISFIED. I JUST THAT'S MY ONLY CONCERN BECAUSE WE JUST FINISHED THE
THREE YEARS AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO THREE YEARS. 
          AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE ASKING FOR. 
          YEAH. SO THAT'S JUST. I HAVE TWO THOUGHTS. AND BOTH CAME TO MIND WHEN THE VICE MAYOR WAS
SPEAKING. 
          I AM A FISCAL CONSERVATIVE AND HAD TO BE MY WHOLE LIFE. 
          AND I THINK IT'S A, IT'S NOT A QUANTUM LEAP. IT'S,
IT'S, IT'S A TENUOUS PERCH FROM BECOMING A FISCAL CONSERVATIVE AND AN IDEOLOGUE WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THEM. WE'RE NEVER RAISING
TAXES OR HAS TO BE THE RIGHT ENVIRONMENT. THERE'S ALWAYS A BOOGEYMAN OUT THERE. THERE'S ALWAYS THINGS WE, WE CAN THAT'S COMING DOWN THE ROAD OR SOMETHING THAT WE CAN'T ANTICIPATE
OR WHATEVER THAT'S THE CASE. 
          HAVING SAID THAT, I HAVE TO REITERATE, WE'RE FIFTH OR SEVENTH IN THE STATE. 
          WE'RE GOING TO BE NINTH. LIKE, IS OUR GOAL TO BE THE LOWEST MILLAGE RATE IN THE STATE? DO
WE GET AN AWARD FOR THAT? IS THERE WHAT DO WE HOW DOES THAT WORK? DO WE GET A REBATE? OF COURSE NOT. SO. IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. THAT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF. 
          I WILL SAY THIS TOO, AS FAR AS PEOPLE LEAVING TOWN,
I'M THE GUY THAT LIVED ON THAT SIDE OF TOWN, AND THE FOLKS THAT I KNOW THAT HAVE LEFT RIVER PARK OR MY NEIGHBORHOOD ARE THE ONES NORTH
OF ME THAT WE'RE ALL EAST OF 41. 
          THE PEOPLE THAT ARE LEAVING TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN. 
          THAT'S NOT THE ISSUE. THE ISSUE IS I'M TRYING TO HIRE TEACHERS THAT CAN LIVE IN THE CITY
AND WORK AT NAPLES HIGH SCHOOL, AND YOU CAN'T HIRE THEM BECAUSE THEY CAN'T AFFORD TO COME HERE. THE ISSUE WAS NEVER ALL OF MY ALL THE PEOPLE AND ALL THE FRIENDS,
THEY'RE LIKE, HEY, MAN, SEE YOU BECAUSE WE'RE MAKING A KILLING OFF OUR HOUSE. 
          SO I DON'T SEE THIS AS KICKING PEOPLE OUT OF THE CITY FOR 60 BUCKS A YEAR ON $1 MILLION
HOME. 
          AND IF THEY LIVED IN A $400,000 HOME, YOU CAN DO THAT MATH. 
          IT'S A COUPLE PIZZAS. SO I, I GOT TO PUSH BACK ON THAT A LITTLE BIT. 
          IF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE LEAVING ARE NOT LEAVING BECAUSE OF THIS,
BUT IT WILL BE MORE COULD BE MORE DIFFICULT TO GET SOMEONE WHO'S A SINGLE FAMILY INCOME WORKING FOR THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OR A NURSE OR A FIRST RESPONDER,
FOR EXAMPLE, YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO NOT BE ABLE TO LIVE IN THE CITY. 
          THAT'S THE CASE THAT EXISTS NOW, AND THIS ISN'T GOING TO CHANGE IT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER.
WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE MOVE FORWARD IN SETTING THE TRIM NOTICES I LIKE. 
          OKAY. WELL THEN I'M I'M I'M FOR THAT. I'M FOR 1.29 AND I WAS,
BY THE WAY, BUT MR. SCHULTZ, I WAS FOR 1.35 OR WHATEVER IT WAS INITIALLY TOO. 
          BUT I'LL TAKE I'LL TAKE WHAT I CAN GET HERE. YEAH. 
          AND I REALLY WANT TO ARGUE WITH YOU, BUT I, BUT I REALLY DON'T BECAUSE WE ACTUALLY ARE IN
THE SAME PAGE. 
          IT'S, BUT THERE'S SO MUCH THAT I COULD SAY AGAINST WHAT YOU'RE SAYING BECAUSE WE DON'T
KNOW WHAT THE COUNTY IS GOING TO DO AND WE STILL, WE STILL HAVE, YOU KNOW, WHAT? THE COUNTY CAN INCREASE THEIRS. 
          SO IT'S NOT JUST US, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO PAY THAT AND THE COUNTY. 
          BUT DESPITE WHAT THAT IS I MR. YOUNG STATED IT QUITE CLEARLY WHEN WE BEGAN AND I AM MOST PROUD OF WHERE I HAVE BEEN ON COUNCIL AND WHERE WE ARE NOW. 
          AND WE SHOULD BE. AND I ALSO KNOW THAT CAUTION AND QUESTIONING IS ALWAYS OUR
RESPONSIBILITY. 
          AND LIKE I SAID, WITH MY OPENING IS I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT BECAUSE I'VE WATCHED WHAT
YOU CAN DO. 
          [05:45:02]
AND THAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT. BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT THERE ARE DIFFERENT AREAS THAT I THINK
THAT WE NEED TO REALLY LOOK AT. 
          AND I HOPE IT'S NOT MARINE BECAUSE THERE'S, YOU KNOW,
THAT'S WHERE I WAS GOING TO GO. 
          SO WE DON'T NEED TO GO DOWN THAT ROAD OF ARGUING BECAUSE WE'RE REALLY ON THE SAME PAGE. 
          OKAY. PUBLIC SAFETY IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. 
          YES. CONSENSUS TO BE 1.29. YES. YES. NOT ENOUGH. 
          OKAY. WE CAN'T GO MORE THAN THAT RIGHT NOW. MR.. 
          MR. SCHULTZ, THE ONLY WAY YOU GET PAST 1.29 NOW IS IF YOU GO AND SEND OUT CERTIFIED
LETTERS TO ALL. 
          AND BECAUSE WE THE SHIP FOR THAT SAIL TO JUST GO THROUGH NORMAL PROCESSES AND ADVERTISING
AND HAVE TWO HEARINGS WITHOUT SENDING OUT CERTIFIED MAIL TO EVERY HOMEOWNER RELATED TO GOING ABOVE THE 1.29 IN THERE FROM THE
BEGINNING. 
          THANK YOU. SO, SO TO BE CLEAR, TO GET THEM WHAT THEY NEED 1.29 TO MATCH. 
          HOLD ON ONE SECOND. SO WHAT WHAT DO YOU WANT TO GET? WELL, IT'S ME WHO NEEDS IT. SO. RIGHT. I WANT IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE. 
          SO I WANT TO JUST GO BACK TO THIS SLIDE HERE. 
          SO WE DO HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF MASSAGING TO DO TO GET TO THE. 
          BECAUSE I HAVE IT AT 1.2 TO PUT AWAY, YOU KNOW,
I'M WILLING TO GO 1,000,001 50 EACH DIRECTION. 
          WE GOT TO TALK ABOUT TIMING ON A COUPLE OF THOSE POSITIONS. 
          BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS, IS TO PUT ONE TO, TO GO TO 1.29,
DEDICATE AT LEAST 1,150,000 TO POLICE AND FIRE AND A PUBLIC SAFETY ENHANCEMENT OF WHICH WILL GIVE YOU THE FINAL NUMBERS ON AND THEN PUT THE OTHER
01,000,001 50 HEDGING INTO THE RESERVES, HEDGING AGAINST THE CONTINUED DOWNWARD PRESSURE AND FUND BALANCE AS WE GO INTO AS WE GO
INTO THIS VOTING PERIOD AND AS WE GO INTO NEGOTIATIONS OVER POST FOR FISCAL YEARS 2028 AND BEYOND. 
          THAT'S WHAT I'M THAT IS TO BE CONSISTENT WITH WHAT YOU ADVERTISED IN MAXIMUM MILLAGE,
PARING BACK THE REQUESTS FROM THE THE NOT TRYING TO GIVE EVERYTHING THAT WAS STILL IN THE ENHANCEMENT REQUEST,
BUT SUFFICIENT TO MAKE A TANGIBLE DIFFERENCE AND MOVE FORWARD. 
          AND THAT IS WHAT IS I BELIEVE I HAVE CONSENSUS FOR IF THE 1.29 HOLDS IS AN OBJECTIVE AND YOU'RE WILLING TO SUPPORT THAT AS OPPOSED TO SOMETHING ELSE. 
          OTHERWISE IT'S THREE AND THREE. AND I'M NOT OFF EITHER ONE OF THEM. 
          SO. AND BECAUSE I KNOW WHAT YOU WANT IS HIGHER. 
          BUT. I LOOK AT THE POLITICAL PROCESSES A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN SOME FOLKS. 
          I'VE RUN FOR CONGRESS. I'VE SEEN IT TO RUN NOW AND SAY PEOPLE WOULD RAISE TAXES WOULD BE
SUICIDE. 
          BUT THIS IS NOT AN ELECTION THAT WE'RE FIGHTING RIGHT NOW. 
          NOBODY APPEARS RUNNING THIS TIME. I MEAN, IT'S NO,
I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE TRIM RULES AND REGULATIONS, NOT THE ELECTION, BUT PEOPLE VOTING. WELL, I'M GOING TO CUT. 
          I'M GOING TO CUT MORE THAN ANYBODY. BUT WHEN THEY GET IN OFFICE,
THEY GENERALLY DON'T DO IT BECAUSE THERE'S NOT SUPPORT. THE GOVERNOR PUSHED OUT HIS PLAN, AND THEN HE EVEN CAME OUT AGAINST IT BECAUSE THE LANGUAGE USED BY THE THE PEOPLE DRAFTING
THE LANGUAGE FOR THE BALLOT SAID IT'S NOT GOING TO WORK. 
          SO HE EVEN CAME OUT AGAINST THE PLAN THAT HE WAS PUSHING INITIALLY. 
          SO I DON'T I WAS INITIALLY SAYING, THERE'S NO WAY THIS THING CAN'T PASS,
BUT I'M NOT OF THAT MINDSET ANYMORE. 
          BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SIT HERE AND IN LOSE SLEEP OVER IT BECAUSE I. 
          THE. THE ART OF SUCCESSFUL POLITICS IS BEING ABLE TO MAKE FRIENDS WITH ENEMIES OF PAST
WARS AND TO BE ABLE TO TO SIT HERE AND TELL THE PEOPLE, LOOK, WE'RE GOING TO GO HERE AND I'LL ACQUIESCE TO THE ONE,
TWO, NINE, EVEN THOUGH I DON'T LIKE IT. 
          I THINK WE NEED MORE. WE CAN GIVE IT BACK. AND THAT'S WHERE THE HARDEST THING FOR MOST
PEOPLE IN OFFICE IS THEY DON'T WANT TO GIVE IT BACK. 
          BUT I THINK IF YOU GO IN WITH THAT AS THE ISSUE AND LET THE THE TOP GUY RUNNING IS IS
GOING TO WIN ON THE REPUBLICAN SIDE, I DON'T SEE THAT GOING AWAY. I MEAN IN MR. JOLLY'S GOT OTHERS,
BUT THAT'S A, A DISPUTE FOR OTHER DAYS, SO I'LL, I'LL COME AROUND WITH COACH KRAMER ALREADY ON THE 129. 
          SO HE GAVE YOU HE SAID YES TO 1.29. YES. SO YOU HAVE A CONSENSUS. 
          YES. I HAVE MY CONSENSUS. MAYOR ANDERSON. HOLD ON. 
          WHAT? SORRY. MY IPAD RING. THAT'S FIVE. THAT'S FIVE ONE. 
          OKAY, I HAVE MY CONSENSUS MAYOR AND I KNOW HOW WE'LL APPROACH FOR THE HEARING AND FINALIZE
FINAL PLANS ON THE SUBMISSION HERE IN THE NEXT DAY OR TWO. 
          AND WE WILL PUBLISH FOR THE HEARING AND BE READY TO GO. 
          [05:50:02]
GREAT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU,
MAYOR AND AND COUNCIL, ON BEHALF OF BOTH THE SUPPORT FROM THE CITY MANAGER AND AND THE CHIEF AND I, THIS REALLY MEANS A LOT TO US THAT YOU HEARD US
OUT AND AND THAT YOU SUPPORT OUR PEOPLE AND YOU HAVE FAITH IN WHAT WE HAVE TO SAY. 
          AND IT MEANS A LOT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH, EVERYONE OF YOU. 
          THANK YOU. WITH THAT IS THERE FURTHER BUSINESS,
MR. YOUNG? THAT WRAPS UP THE BUDGET, AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL OF YOUR TIME OVER THE
SUMMER TODAY AND, AND APPRECIATE ALL YOUR ALL YOUR DUE DILIGENCE. 
          WE DEFINITELY APPRECIATE IT. ACTUALLY, THE GRATITUDE GOES TO YOU AND YOUR STAFF BECAUSE
THIS IS A LARGE DOCUMENT AND A LOT OF WORK, SO THANK YOU. WE'RE NOW AT PUBLIC COMMENT. DO I HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT SLIPS? I HAVE NONE. THANK YOU. CORRESPONDENCE AND COMMUNICATIONS,
MR. 
          [7) COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, AND STAFF]
CROWE. YEAH. ONE THING I WANT TO REALLY CONGRATULATE THE STAFF,
BECAUSE WE MET ONE ON ONES, AND I FELT SO THOROUGHLY PREPARED WELL, PREPPED FOR THIS AND CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD THE ISSUES
WHERE I HAD A LOT LESS QUESTIONS. 
          I WOULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, HAVE WITHOUT THAT. AND I THOUGHT THEY DID A FANTASTIC JOB. 
          AND I APPRECIATE GARY, WHAT YOU COORDINATED THERE BECAUSE THAT WAS REALLY,
I THOUGHT IT WAS WELL DONE. 
          I, IT'S NICE TO SEE THE PASSION OUR TWO CHIEFS HAVE FOR THE CITY. 
          I THINK THEIR PLAN MAKES SENSE. AND I, I THINK WE DID HAVE A COMPROMISE ON THE MILLAGE
RATE FROM THE HIGHER LEVELS THAT SOME PEOPLE WANTED AND THE LOWER LEVELS THAT SOME OF US WANTED. 
          SO I THINK THAT WAS DONE IN FAIRNESS AND JUST AND I THINK JESSICA'S GOING TO BE MISSED
ANYWAY, SO I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE HER ON HER RETIREMENT. 
          YES, I KNOW. 28TH. BUT I MEAN, I, I, YOU KNOW,
I'M ALREADY THINKING ABOUT IT. 
          SHE WAS VERY HELPFUL TO ME. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. 
          BARTON. KRAMER. I JUST ECHO EVERYTHING JOHN SAID. 
          WE ARE BEST IN THE BUSINESS HERE, AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR IT. 
          AND THIS IS NO MEAN FEAT. YOU PEOPLE ON TV, YOU WHOEVER'S LEFT WATCHING. 
          AND THEY'RE METICULOUS. I MEAN, METICULOUS ATTENTION TO DETAIL. 
          AND THAT'S CULTURE. SO THANK YOU. GARY YOUNG. 
          THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER SCHULTZ. THANK YOU,
VICE MAYOR. 
          I HAVE OTHER UPDATES FROM THE SUMMER I'LL SHARE ON WEDNESDAY. 
          I JUST CAN'T HELP BUT MENTION THE. BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU LOOK AT STATISTICS THAT SAY WE'RE
ONE OF THE LOWEST TAX JURISDICTIONS IN THE STATE. 
          IT'S EASY TO HAVE A LOW TAX RATE WHEN YOU HAVE TRILLION DOLLAR REAL ESTATE VERSUS OTHER
TOWNS AND CITIES THAT MAY HAVE 10 MILLION OR 100 MILLION. 
          SO JUST BE CAREFUL ON THOSE STATISTICS. AND ALSO WE ARE HAVE OUR COUNTY WHO PROVIDES A LOT
OF THE SERVICES FOR US, LIKE ELECTIONS, JAIL COURTS, ALL THOSE THINGS THAT THAT THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE TO PAY FOR. 
          SO I DO AGREE, WE HAVE LOW TAXES IN WHOLE, AS A,
AS A WHOLE. 
          JUST BE CAREFUL HOW WE EXPRESS IT. I'LL ALSO ADD TO THAT THOUGH IT'S A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD, IT'S EASY TO HAVE HIGH TAXES WHEN YOU HAVE $1 TRILLION TAX BASE AS WELL,
BECAUSE NOBODY IS PAYING ATTENTION. SO WE COULD EASILY HAVE A MILLAGE RATE THAT'S WAY THROUGH THE ROOF AND EVERYBODY WOULD BE FINE AND DANDY ABOUT IT. WE'D HAVE ROSES,
ROSE BUSHES DOWN OUR MEDIANS AND, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY GET AN UBER TO WORK EVERY MORNING. 
          BUT NONETHELESS, WE STILL PAY ATTENTION TO IT. WE KEEP IT LOW FOR A REASON. 
          I AGREE, I'M JUST SAYING, LET'S JUST BE CAREFUL HOW WE TALK ABOUT THIS. 
          HOPEFULLY THE VOTER SEES THE MILLAGE PROBLEM. 
          THE 4.29 MILLAGE RATE THE SCHOOL SYSTEM HAS IS A LOT IS REALLY MOST OF TAXES. 
          SO IT'S REALLY POLITICAL. SORRY, BUT BUT I MEAN,
YOU KNOW, I'M, YOU KNOW, FIRST TO SAY IT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT THE PRIVATE SECTOR IS EDUCATING FOR AT A COST BASIS COMPARED
TO THE COUNTY, I MEAN, I JUST I THINK THERE'S A LOT OF ROOM THERE TO SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS. MR. YOUNG, I HAVE NOTHING TODAY, MA'AM. MR. MCCONNELL. 
          YEAH, NOTHING. GOOD WORK. OKAY. AND THERE YOU HAVE IT. WE'RE ADJOURNED.
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.