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HomeMy WebLinkAbout18 - MINUTES - City Commission MINUTES OF PUBLIC HEARING FINAL FY 06/07 BUDGET DANIA BEACH CITY COMMISSION WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2006 - 7:00 P.M. 1. Call to Order Mayor Flury called the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m. 2. Roll Call Present: Mayor: Patricia Flury Vice-Mayor: Bob Anton Commissioners: John Bertino Anne Castro C.K. McElyea City Manager: Ivan Pato City Attorney: Thomas Ansbro City Clerk: Louise Stilson • Patricia Varney, Director of Finance, presented a brief synopsis of the FY 06/07 Budget: FY 2007 Proposed Annual Rates ® Millage Rate: 6.0679 ® Voted Debt Service: 0.149 ® Garbage Rate: $240.12 (1% increase) ® Stormwater Rate: $23 per ERU (no increase) ® Fire Assessment: $95.55 for residential (1.2% decrease) ® Water Rate: 12% increase ® Sewer Rate: 8% increase Other Sources of Balancing the Budget ® 3 Cents Gas Tax: $77,000 ® Water Fund: Retained Earnings: $118,312 Impact Fees: $492,500 ® Sewer Fund: Retained Earnings: $197,120 Impact Fees: $130,000 Voted Debt Millage The voted debt millage is 0.149 Mills Mayor Flury announced in accordance with Florida Statutes, Section 200.065 (2)(e)l, the first substantive issue to be discussed shall be the percentage increase in millage over the rolled-back rate necessary to fund the Fiscal Year 2007 Budget. In order to maintain the level of services provided to our citizens for Fiscal Year 2007, the City of Dania Beach tentatively adopted a millage rate of 6.0679 on September 14, 2006, which is an 11.65% increase over the rolled-back rate of 5.435. Further, in March 2005, the voters approved the issuance of General Obligation Bonds. The debt service millage rate for Fiscal Year 2007 for this Bond is 0.149. The Commission will discuss the percentage increase and millage rate first, then, open the hearing to the public for comments. After we vote on that, we will then discuss the actual budget items for final approval of the Budget. Mayor Flury opened the Public Hearing. Ron Dooley, President of the Dania Beach Chamber of Commerce, questioned if the Chamber was receiving $5,000 because they requested $20,000. He presented a copy of the Chamber's proposed budget to the Commission, including how they would spend the $20,000. He indicated the Chamber is trying to modify the activities of the Chamber and make sure there are no personal reasons, only the best interest of the Chamber of Commerce, which serves the needs of their members and the community at-large. He thinks the Chamber has been lax in things in which they should have been involved, and is more aggressively working to promote interest within the City. He stated he is interested in appointing people with a strong interest, rather than someone who just is appointed and does not participate. • Mayor Flury commented the Commission has been supportive of the Chamber, but we did not receive any financial accounting for funds allocated in past years. She confirmed $5,000 is in the Budget for the directory, but no additional funds have been allocated to the Chamber. Commissioner Castro indicated that last year the Chamber was supposed to ask for money in advance, and receive approval of the City Manager. This did not happen. Second, she thinks the Chamber still deals in personalities. Commissioner Bertino stated he is a strong proponent of the Chamber of Commerce, and motioned to take $15,000 out of Contingency and add it to the Budget for the-Chamber to use for pre-planned items, with City Manager approval; seconded by Commissioner Castro for discussion. Commissioner McElyea stated he supports the Chamber, but not with taxpayer dollars. Vice-Mayor Anton suggested funds from the Economic Development Fund could be used for the Chamber. Commissioner Bertino and Commissioner Castro withdrew the motion. Commissioner Bertino motioned to take $10,000 out of the Economic Development Fund for the Chamber of Commerce, to be used with the advanced approval of the City Minutes of Public Hearing 2 Final FY 06/07 Budget Dania Beach City Commission Wednesday, September 20,2006—7:00 p.m. . Manager; seconded by Commissioner Castro. The motion carried on the following 5-0 Roll Call vote: Commissioner Bertino Yes Vice-Mayor Anton Yes Commissioner Castro Yes Mayor Flury Yes Commissioner McElyea Yes Mr. Dooley thanked the Commission and noted that in previous years the Chamber did not have a budget. He stated the Commission would have accountability from the Chamber. George Jason, on behalf of Dania Beach Neighborhoods United, spoke in support of the CERT Program and requested approval of a Training Captain for the Fire Department. Cynthia Pentam, resident, commented she spoke with Vice-Mayor Anton about roundabouts at a neighborhood meeting. She asked if anything was going on because the residents did not receive any information. Vice-Mayor Anton responded the meeting related to projects dealing with traffic flows, lighting, and sidewalks. He noted the City is in the process of developing a priority list of how the Bond money will be spent. He indicated we are considering making the street discussed a one-way street, but final decisions have not been made. He commented the Street Lights are progressing through the system and will be installed. Ms. Pentam commented the Tax Assessor's office said she should come here tonight to discuss the ad valorem tax. Vice- Mayor Anton commented we control the ad valorem rate for the Municipal Tax only. BSO Chief Cowart addressed the traffic issue. He noted that residents were opposed to a diverter at the corner of 54t" Court and SR 7. He indicated Public Services Director Dominic Orlando volunteered to come up with additional designs to reduce the impact of traffic. They are still looking at designs, and plan on holding another meeting in the near future. Bob Adams, 330 SE 3 d Terrace, thanked the Commission for reducing the millage rate. Seeing as there was no one else to speak, Mayor Flury closed the Public Hearing. Mayor Flury asked the Commission if they were interested in addressing the Firefighter issue. The consensus of the Commission was no. Mayor Flury asked the Commission if they would consider not filling the Firefighter positions until we get an opener on the pension. Commissioner McElyea responded yes. • Minutes of Public Hearing 3 Final FY 06/07 Budget Dania Beach City Commission Wednesday, September 20,2006—7:00 p.m. • City Manager Pato noted there currently is no opener on the pension issue, but there is a willingness to discuss it. Vice-Mayor Anton responded he would consider the option to not fill the positions until a re- opener is discussed. Commissioner Castro commented it is not fair to tie a pension discussion to adding Firefighters. She said she learned yesterday that there are some BSO items that are negotiable, so if we open up the Firefighters, let's open up BSO. Commissioner Bertino agreed with Commissioner Castro that we need manning for the safety issue. He commented if there are openers in the BSO contract that we should look into them. Vice-Mayor Anton stated he is a strong proponent of the Fire Department, but he is disappointed with the Union. He would like to see them have an opener. He questioned if we could tie the positions into a pension re-opener. Mayor Flury commented the Commission agreed they wanted pension re-openers, but the Fire Department did not. She thinks this is an appropriate time to do it. She agreed public safety is #1; but we have had the same number of Firefighters for 9 years. Commissioner Castro clarified for the record that she supports the Firefighters because it is the • appropriate thing to do for the safety and well being of our citizens. For this reason she does not think it should be tied to the Pension. She is on the record of asking the Firefighters for an opener on pension and other issues. She stated she is convinced that it is in their best interest for those hired post 1992 to go to FRS. She is for a pension re-opener,but not for tying the two. Vice-Mayor Anton commented there is a serious cost issue. He supports the three Firefighters because it is liability issue, and also involved a number of concerns for him. He does not know how to work the pension re-opener into the approval of the three Firefighters, but asked the City Attorney to look into it. He would like some pressure put on the Fire Department so that we do not end up with problems. He stated he does not support another Captain for the training position. Mayor Flury commented we should not get BSO into this discussion; they have a contract that requires a 5% increase, but if we have some opportunities to reduce it we should do so when the contract comes up. Commissioner Castro commented that it is her understanding that we can do it mid-contract, which she found out yesterday from the City Manager. She indicated we need to look at the number of people in BSO because that is the flexibility we have. She stated she was irate to find out yesterday that we had this option. City Attorney Ansbro remarked either you link the re-opener, or you don't. He does not see any labor issues; it is purely discretional whether or not the positions are added, and when. He will look into it further for the Commission. Minutes of Public Hearing 4 Final FY 06/07 Budget Dania Beach City Commission Wednesday, September 20,2006—7:00 p.m. • 3. Public Hearings 3.1 RESOLUTION#2006-157 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF DANIA BEACH, FLORIDA, AS REQUIRED BY THE CITY CHARTER AND SECTION 200.065, FLORIDA STATUTES, APPROVING THE MILLAGE RATE NECESSARY TO BE LEVIED FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2006- 2007; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS; FURTHER, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. City Attorney Ansbro read the title of Resolution #2006-157. Mayor Flury opened the Public Hearing. Seeing as there was no one to speak in favor or opposition, she closed the Public Hearing. Commissioner Bertino motioned to approve Resolution #2006-157; seconded by Commissioner Castro. The motion carried on the following 5-0 Roll Call vote: Commissioner Bertino Yes Vice-Mayor Anton Yes Commissioner Castro Yes Mayor Flury Yes Commissioner McElyea Yes 3.2 RESOLUTION#2006-158 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF DANIA BEACH, FLORIDA, AS REQUIRED BY THE CITY CHARTER AND SECTION 200.065, FLORIDA STATUTES, APPROVING ITS ANNUAL BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 2006-2007; PROVIDING FOR A PUBLIC HEARING WHEN OBJECTIONS THERETO WILL BE HEARD AND QUESTIONS CONCERNING SAME WILL BE ANSWERED; PROVIDING FOR CONFLICTS; FURTHER, PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. Mayor Flury announced in accordance with Florida Statutes and the City Charter, the City Manager has submitted to the Commission a proposed General Fund Budget of$36,616,904; a Capital Projects Fund Budget of$6,881,598; a Stormwater Enterprise Fund Budget of$891,914; a Water Enterprise Fund Budget of$6,098,460; a Sewer Enterprise Fund Budget of$5,587,733, a Debt Service Fund Budget of $630,538, a Tree Preservation Fund Budget of $48,000, and a Marina Fund of$315,455. City Attorney Ansbro read the title of Resolution #2006-158. Mayor Flury opened the Public Hearing. Seeing as there was no one to speak in favor or opposition, she closed the Public Hearing. Minutes.of Public Hearing 5 Final FY 06/07 Budget Dania Beach City Commission Wednesday, September 20,2006—7:00 p.m. . Commissioner Bertino questioned the educational requirements for the Assistant City Manager. He thinks the position should require a degree in Public Administration. City Manager Pato responded it is included in the job description. Commissioner Castro asked that the degree not be specific to Public Administration, but also accounting, finance, business, or other disciplines. Mayor Flury agreed with Commissioner Castro. Commissioner . Castro motioned to approve Resolution #2006-158; seconded by Commissioner Bertino. The motion carried on the following 5-0 Roll Call vote: Commissioner Bertino Yes Vice-Mayor Anton Yes Commissioner Castro Yes Mayor Flury Yes Commissioner McElyea Yes Mayor Flury thanked Director Varney, Nicki Satterfield, and the entire staff for the outstanding job on the Budget. Commissioner McElyea announced that he will run for the School Board District 1 Seat. • 4. Adjournment Mayor Flury adjourned the Public Hearing at 8:11 p.m. CITY OF DANIA BEACH ATTEST: PATRICIA FLURY MAYOR-COMMISSIONER LO ISE STILSON, C&C �?_-,—/a/e-CITY CLERK Approved October 10, 2006 Minutes of Public Hearing 6 Final FY 06/07 Budget Dania Beach City Commission Wednesday, September 20, 2006—7:00 p.m.