HomeMy WebLinkAboutR-2025-143 Budget Adoption FY 2025-26RESOLUTION NO. 2025-143
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF DANIA
BEACH, FLORIDA, AS REQUIRED BY THE CITY CHARTER AND SECTION 200.065, FLORIDA STATUTES, APPROVING THE CITY’S FINAL ANNUAL BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026; PROVIDING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING WHEN OBJECTIONS WILL BE HEARD AND
QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE BUDGET WILL BE ANSWERED;
PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS; FURTHER, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. WHEREAS, the City Charter of the City of Dania Beach, Florida, requires that the City
Commission shall, by Resolution, adopt an annual budget, determine the amount of millage
necessary to be levied, and publish the budget so adopted, together with a notice stating the time
and place where objections to it may be heard; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager of the City of Dania Beach, Florida, has prepared and
submitted to the City Commission an annual report covering the operation of the City and has set
forth in it an estimate of the expenditures and revenues of the City for the ensuing year,
beginning October 1, 2025 and ending September 30, 2026, with a copy of the report and
estimate being on file in the office of the City Clerk so that any interested parties may view such
copy upon request; and
WHEREAS, the City Manager has presented to the City Commission detailed
information supporting such estimate, affording the City Commission a comprehensive
understanding of the City Government for the ensuing period, including expenditures for
corresponding items during the last two fiscal years and increased and decreased demands for the
ensuing year as compared with corresponding appropriations for the last fiscal year; and
WHEREAS, the City Commission has met and carefully considered such annual report
and estimate for the ensuing year, has prepared a tentative budget setting forth the amounts
necessary to be raised for the various departments of the City and has appropriated the amounts
to the various departments of the City considering the applicable funds on hand and the estimated
departmental revenues.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF DANIA BEACH, FLORIDA:
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Section 1. That a final budget for the City of Dania Beach, Florida, for the fiscal year
beginning October 1, 2025, and ending September 30, 2026, is adopted (subject to the public
hearing for which provision is subsequently made below). A copy of the tentative budget
summary is attached to this Resolution and made a part of it as “Exhibit A,” and the
appropriations set out in it are made for the maintenance and carrying on of the government of
the City of Dania Beach, Florida, and for the purpose of paying debt service requirements, if any,
of the City for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2025 and ending September 30, 2026.
Section 2. That all delinquent taxes, collected as proceeds from levies of operating
millages for former years are specifically appropriated for the use and benefit of the “General
Fund”.
Section 3. Automatic Amendment: The Fiscal Year 2025-2026 budget is automatically
amended to reappropriate open P.O. encumbrances that have not been closed by the Finance
Department as a normal function of the City’s fiscal year-end review, fund outstanding contracts,
fund required payments on approved City debt, and fund capital projects reserved or unexpended
from prior years including Fiscal Year 2024-2025 such appropriations having been previously
approved by the City Commission.
Section 4. Contingency Funds: Department heads or their designee shall only be
allowed to transfer funds from their designated contingency accounts below an aggregate amount of
Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) per fund with City Manager approval. Aggregate amounts
above the Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000.00) threshold per fund that are requested to be
transferred from Contingency must be approved by the City Commission.
Section 5. Reserve Funds: That individual disbursements of fund balance reserves
below Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars ($25,000.00) may be authorized by the City Manager from
time to time for a single purpose/initiative until the aggregate total of all such disbursements has
exceeded One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000.00) within a single fiscal year, upon which
all disbursements, regardless of amount, shall be authorized by a resolution of the City
Commission.
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Section 6. That City staffing positions and capital expenditures reflected and
approved in the annual budget establish Commission consent over these areas, and that all
additions to these items shall be approved through Commission approval of an amendment to the
approved budget.
Section 7. That the City shall maintain a General Fund Unassigned Fund Balance of
at least Twenty-Five Percent (25%) of the total dollar amount of budgeted annual operating
expenditures in the approved General Fund budget and a Disaster Emergency Fund Balance to be
utilized for unforeseen disasters or other emergencies as deemed by the City Commission at a
minimum of Twenty Percent (20%) of the total dollar amount of the General Fund reserve
balance, across all fund balance designations.
Section 8. That all resolutions or parts of resolutions in conflict with this Resolution
are repealed to the extent of such conflict.
Section 9. That this Resolution shall become effective upon its passage and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED on September 25, 2025.
Motion by Commissioner Lewellen, second by Commissioner Ryan.
FINAL VOTE ON ADOPTION: Unanimous X
Yes No
Commissioner Lori Lewellen ____ ____
Commissioner Luis Rimoli ____ ____
Commissioner Archibald J. Ryan IV ____ ____
Vice Mayor Marco Salvino ____ ____
Mayor Joyce L. Davis ____ ____
ATTEST:
ELORA RIERA, MMC JOYCE L. DAVIS
CITY CLERK MAYOR APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
EVE A. BOUTSIS CITY ATTORNEY