[Music] Hey, Okay, ladies and gentlemen, uh, welcome. I will call the meeting to order.
Welcome everybody to the 50:05 p.m. meeting of the September 3rd of the Temple Terrace special meeting of the city council. We are here for two purposes. One is to establish the mill rate and one is to uh first reading of the budget. And so Mr. Be anything to uh
begin with? >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Um members of council, uh no, Mr. Ingram's prepared to just start out. There's some language he has to read in for the record, and I've got a few slides to just complement what he's going to be uh presenting. >> Okay. Very well, Mr. Ingram.
Welcome, sir. >> Thank you. Good evening, Mayor Ross and city council. It's that time of year again. [Applause] And as required by the state of Florida,
we do the millillage rate presentation, the hear first hearing on the millage rate first and then we do a separate on the uh on the budget. So I will start with the millage rate. Well, let me open the public hearing formally here. So,
I'm going to open the public hearing and Mr. Ingram is here to explain. >> Thank you. In accordance with the applicable provisions of the city charter in the Florida statutes, the city council scheduled two public
hearings on the property tax millage rate levy. The first hearing is being held on September 3rd, 2025 to solicit public comments on the proposed property tax millage levy prior
to the adoption of the annual budget for the 2026 fiscal year. The agenda has been structured to provide the council with the opportunity to comply with both city charter and
Florida statutory requirements on the budget and tax levy. The council convened a public hearing on the proposed property tax millage levy and made announcements at the public hearing prior to the formal
consideration of the attached ordinance. The recommended city of Temple Terrace, Florida property tax millage rate for fiscal year 2026 is 6.455 455
per $1,000 of assessed value, which is the identical mill from the current fiscal year millage rate of 6.455. The recommended property tax millage rate of 6.455
is 3902 mills or 6.3 6.4 43% higher than the roll back rate of 6.0648. The council should take action to approve the attached ordinance approving
the advalorum tax rate for the upcoming fiscal year. If approved on first reading of the ordinance on September 3rd, 2025, it is to be scheduled for second and final reading on September
16th, 2025. Main reasons for the advalorum tax revenues increasing a proposed 4% cost of living adjustment to general employees
and a 2% merit pay increase upon a successful performance evaluation. Funding for the second year of a three-year fire union contract. Funding for the third year of a
three-year police union contract. A projected 10% increase in general liability, property insurance, and auto insurance. A projected 12% increase in health
insurance. 2.9% increase in operational cost to maintain funding of current services and programs. This does also include cost reductions,
including $259,300 in debt service payments due to making the final payment this month in fiscal year 2025 on the Temple Terrace Country Club loan
through Wells Fargo. A twothirds vote of the governing body is required to adopt the millage rate of 6.455. And I will stand for questions. I know
Carlos has a presentation. I don't know if you want to do that at this time, but >> I do need to read also. It is recommended that city council approve the ordinance on first reading and schedule a public hearing at second
reading for September 16th, 2025. >> Thank you, Mr. Mr. Bea. >> Mr. Mayor, members council, if Mr. Hill can just bring up the uh slides on the screen. Okay. So, uh, not to repeat what
director Ingram has stated, but just to provide you a little bit more of a historical and geographical context for the the questions and discussion of the millage rate. So, so it's showing up there. There you go. Uh so the the final property value so
the tax value growth uh rate for our community this the upcoming year is going to be 4.3% for a taxable value of 3 bill218,733,959. As you know per statute we take 95% of that adorum revenue. We multiply again
by 6.455 mills which is what uh director Ingram stated uh is the proposed millage rate. Uh, and we also add in the Hampton Oak Special Assessment, which council recently um uh enacted again every year. We do that. That's $10,500. You put those two numbers together and
you get $19,748,581 in Advil revenue. Now, uh, just to see how our revenue has been doing over the last several years for this community. So if you look at this chart in 2023, you see the
significant jump and that was when the Amazon facility came online. So there was a 24.35% increase there. Then it was 9.46% the subsequent year in 24, 5.26 in 25 and then 4.3% this year. Um so what's
telling about this is that our community, like all communities in the Tampa area, we've been riding this wave of of growth. uh you'll see the the the slope is starting to flatten out. Um and that will likely continue. I think our new normal is probably going to be somewhere between 3 to 5% in a given
year. Now, there might be a blip here and there if we get a new project, um but I think that's the neighborhood we're probably going to be in. So that growth pattern if you just take if you invert that same growth pattern you can see here it basically mirrors
our our millage rate. So historically um this is now the ninth consecutive year the city of Temple Terrace will have will not have a millage rate increase. Uh that's a great statistic to have. Um and I think many communities would be envious of us uh for for getting to that
point. Uh again, it's in part due some to that tax base growth, but also due to the work of director Ingram and the finance, the entire finance department in managing our budget and making sure that they take advantage of every single penny that we can to make all the numbers work. And of course, uh as you
know, Advalarmor is not the totality of the budget, but it is the largest single source of revenue for our general fund. Now, I wanted us to place our conversation in terms of where we stand geographically. So if you see this slide here is if you
take I think when somebody gets a tax builder property owner they're not necessarily looking at each individual taxing authority. What they're looking at is what's the total bill going to be. So if you look at the total taking all the taxing authorities and you're a property owner in Temple Terrace your total tax bill next year or this current
year I should say is going to be 19.5319 mills. If you are in the city of Tampa and I compare ourselves primarily to Tampa because when we compete for employees for example the recruitment pool it's largely Tampa uh where where we compete with they're also physically
connected to us. So if you're in the city of Tampa your overall bill there you're property owner you're going to be at 19.8428 mills. So right now we are um under the total burden uh relative to the city of Tampa if you're a resident there.
and uh stand for any questions along with director Ingram. >> Very good. Thank you, Mr. Be. So, for the record, there are no members of the public here, so there are uh no there's no public comment. So, council members questions, council member Kravis,
>> this is to Mr. Ingram. I just wanted to um ask whether I heard that correctly. We are about to receive the final payment from the golf course on the loan that the city extended to them. Was that accurate? No, we are making the fi we are we are making the final payment of the original
loan uh from 2005. So we we will be debtree from it. The the golf course is still reimbursing us for uh for that loan. >> I understand that was to uh rebuild the
building, right? I don't know off the top of my head all the details of it. I do know that that was part of it if not all of it. I maybe some other members of the council remember. >> It's a mix. >> I mean, it was a it was a bunch. It was
the clubhouse, the cart barn, >> the maintenance area, all that. It was all in the pool was renovated. It was all all that. >> Interesting. Okay. Um do you happen to know if the golf course is current with its payments to us at the moment? I know
that's been a discussion occasionally. >> Yes. Um as a matter of fact, the new model that they worked on this past year, um they are actually right now exceeding what the
current um because we haven't actually changed the agreement, but we had an agreement that they would be paying $125,000 a year. uh $31,000 a quarter and uh for the last at least 6
months they have been trending just slightly above that. >> So it's a big turnaround and they've been consistent paying uh on the 15th of every month and sending us the reports
that I believe uh Mr. Bay uh has been uh sending to the council. >> That was wonderful news. Thank you. Really happy to hear that. >> Um and just final question to uh city manager. Um we discussed I think it was
probably two maybe 3 months ago whether we might have an itemization of the individual amenities plan for Riverside Park. I was curious if there's been any movement on that. >> So I do plan to bring that to the council. I apologize that it's been a little bit delayed on our end here. Uh
we have that information. We'll be presenting it to the council shortly. >> Okay. And um if we move ahead with the budget today, just a question about process. If we wished to revisit the funding that's appropriated for Riverside Park potentially to look for
savings or to maybe focus the scope of the park on the most desired amenities, would we still be in a position to do that or to reclaim the money that's been put in the budget or would that require an amendment? >> So right now there's uh 3.4 $4 million
in in the budget from LA from the current fiscal year um for in the capital budget basically for the park. Um this budget, the 26 budget if you recall from the CRA is contributing an additional $400,000 to that to that
park. Um that money uh we could yes, you could look at reformulating that money, repurposing that money if the council so desired. Once you go through the whole park thing, we can phase it. there's different ways you may want to consider to address the the park project. Um but
you're not bound that those dollars are basically still there. So you're not bound by that. >> Great. >> And if I may clarify um the 3.4 million and the 400,000
plugged in from the tiff, um it's not general fund or unassigned. um that is for the construction which we haven't even broken ground but it's appropriated for the construction the cost of the design that was appropriate
I think two years ago and that's what we've been using currently >> um and uh final question for the city manager uh we've had some alarming overruns recently due to our aging water
and sewer infrastructure. Um I guess my question is twofold. One is um do we need to appropriate something in order to create a uh to to give you the resources you might
need to manage those projects in a more effective way. Is there anything that we might be able to do in that respect? So the the so the water and sewer are those those projects are going to be in the water and sewer fund. So they're rate dependent. So we have we proposed a
rate increase that'll be considered at the next meeting on the two weeks from yesterday actually. >> Um and right now you know based on the projects we have in there we're comfortable where they are. Now, if there there were overruns, which there might be depending on inflationary
pressures or details you find from projects, we'll bring those to your attention like we have done in the past. There's a reserve built into the water and sewer fund as as well as the reserve built into sanitation, for example. So, that reserve is there for a reason in case there are these unforeseen issues
that we can address and we can use the reserve to draw down and pay for those overruns. Um, so right now I think we're we're in a in a good place. I think in the future we are going to have some more demands on the water fund. Obviously the PAS discussion whatever comes out of that regardless of whether
it's a independent treatment solution or some sort of hybrid where we we partner with a different entity and buy some water as well as do treatment there's going to be a revenue bond likely that's going to be required to pay for that. I would imagine based on the scale of costs we're talking about and that will
impact whatever future rates will be assessed to the customers and that'll draw that'll address that question about having enough reserve to to accommodate for those costs. Thank you for indulging me. I yield the floor. Anything other questions? >> Anything? Okay. Remember we're talking
about the millery. We got the budget as the next item. Yes. >> Okay. Council member Fernandez. >> Okay. So, I do want to just make sure that the people watching understand that we're discussing the general fund tonight, which is a separate fund from
the enterprise funds, which are water and sewer. And the general fund, when we set this millillage, it can only fund the items that go through general fund spending. And that the general fund can't actually give money to the water
and sewer funds. So, I know that's been a question in the past. Well, how is my millillage not covering why why do we need a rate increase in those funds or or something like that? But this millage based on our property
values can only fund what's happening and what can be paid for in the general fund. So my question before uh we approve the millage rate is that we've obviously had multiple workshops and we've discussed how this millage rate
will provide the funding necessary for the expenditures that we have determined we need in order to meet our goals. Has anything changed in the analysis assumptions and um budget items since we
discussed them at the previous workshops? >> Nothing materially. There's a about a just a few thousand difference in the general fund of what we presented at the workshops.
Um the reserve the expected money going back to the reserve is still the same $59,000 uh 59908 I think 59,000 and change.
So nothing of a material nature has come up to to make a change since the workshops. >> Can I >> council member or >> it's me city manager? Um, so I just not to disagree, but we we had estimates for
health insurance. >> Oh, okay. Well, I was referring just to the budget numbers, but go ahead. That's >> right. We're going to talk about that in the next in the next slide, Deck. Um, we'll talk about >> when we what's in the budget was based on the estimates in the last several week or so. We've we've now gotten some
firmed up numbers for some of our health insurance costs. So, there's a there's a change there. The only thing I want to establish right now is that we we esta we discussed and we um agreed to this millillage when we had the conversation
all the the budget workshops and I just want to make sure that we know and that anyone listening knows that this millillage is still the millillage that meets all of the spending necessity and that will fulfill the goals of the city.
So >> all right. So just to be clear, it won't meet all the funding the funding assessment. >> Well, obviously we have different revenue sources, but yes, this is the millillage that we there needs to be no change to the millillage to meet our expend our spending goals, >> right?
>> Okay. >> Council member Chambers, anything? >> No. >> Very good. There were no other questions. I'll close the public hearing and ask the clerk to read the title of the ordinance. An ordinance of the city of Temple Terrace, Florida, adopting a millage
rate of 6.455 mills for the fiscal year 2026. Said mill rate being 3902 mills or 6.43 percentage more than the
rolled back rate of 6.0648 mills. directing the city clerk to provide certified copies of this ordinance to the county property appraiser, county tax collector, and the state department of revenue providing a
severitability clause and providing an effective date. >> Thank you, Madam Clerk. Council, is there a motion? >> Move to approve the ordinance adopting a millage rate of 6.455 455 mills for fiscal year 2026.
>> Second. >> Do we need to say first >> on first reading? >> I'm sorry. On first reading. >> Second. >> Discussion of the motion. >> All those in favor say I. >> Oh, we need a roll call vote. Miss Seder, would you please call the role? Thank you.
>> Council member Chambers. >> I. >> Council member Fernandez. >> I. Council member Kravitz. >> I, >> Vice Mayor Slitler, >> I. >> And Mayor Ross,
>> I. >> Motion passes unanimously on first reading. Ordinance will appear for second reading and public hearing on Tuesday, September the 16th at our normally scheduled council meeting at 6 PM. Very good.
Next is the first public hearing and first reading of an ordinance adopting the fiscal year 2026 annual budget. I will open the public hearing and asked our finance director Jim Ingram to explain. >> Thank you. The this is the overall budget. It
covers what we just talked about the general fund plus all the other funds. And so some of this may sound repetitive. First of all, I do want to give a a thanks to all the city staff, especially
the directors and all the departments. This is a big process. Uh, everyone pitches in and helps put together this budget. They are always great to work with, uh, very cooperative and very
helpful in putting this together. The second is I want to thank our finance team. There's two of them here. Our assistant director and our finance operations manager. But let me say I have to say this. We
have an amazing team. And I wouldn't say that if it wasn't true. Um these guys are great leaders. These ladies are great leaders. And uh we have a excellent staff that have worked very hard and help us to be able to do uh
this kind of work to be able to present a sound budget to you. So on to the budget discussion. The proposed 2026 budget reflects the following. The millage rate of 6.455
has not changed from last year's millage rate. $824,200 in capital projects are using a unassigned general fund balance. These are general fund projects
and $331,317 of um non- capital operating expenses are that are not like reoccurring annual costs are also being funded with unassigned fund balance which is simply our reserves. The importance of that is
it doesn't affect the military because it's money we've already earned and received and it's it's in a reserve bank. So we don't need to use the millage rate the ad valorum
taxes to budget for these expend expenditures. It's 4% cola salary increase for all general employees, 2% for merit pay increase upon a successful performance
evaluation. Just a note on the I mentioned earlier the the paying off of the Wells Fargo Country Club loan. With that, we will only have as of today or not as of today, but as of October
1st, 2025, we will only have the redevelopment loan remaining and by the end of fiscal year 26, the outstanding principal will be down to 9.3 million.
We have, as discussed, added $400,000 from the tax increment fund. That's our CRA money uh to fund additional construction cost if we do that for the
Riverside Park in the with a over $700,000 remaining in the tiff reserve. So the tiff reserve is starting to build now that we finally a couple of years ago we got past the always having to use all
the money coming in to pay off the loan. We are now at a point where we're adding to that reserve. $3 million of resurfacing projects, half of which are reimburseable from the county sir tax funds which I
understand are being uh handled by FDOT now and an additional half or 1.5 million from the city street improvement fund. an additional $2,250,000
of capital projects from the street improvement fund, including $750,000 earmarked for the Brentwood Drive and South River Hills Drive storm water construction project.
Um $350,000 for storm water retention ponds, rehabilitations, and pipe rellining. $360,000 in sidewalk improvements and $500,000
for roadway improvements to Sunnyside Road. We have over $2 million in capital projects funded through the community investment tax or CIT. That includes $75,088
in public safety projects and equipment, $694,500 in leisure services, which includes $70,000 for renovations to the public library restroom and
$250,000 for River Hills playground improvements. Those are just some of the highlights. We are also funding a utilities project as allowed with CIT funds for the Montro Avenue gravity main
replacement at $500,000. [Music] An additional $200,000 is being used from CIT to fund a new storm water master plan. [Applause]
Going on to the enterprise funds, uh we have in this budget plugged in a 5% increase in single family residential and commercial sanitation rates beginning October 1st, 2025
to offset cost including $600,000 to replace two aging residential sanitation trucks and an 18% increase s 18% increase from Hillsboro County for
waste disposal. The addition of new revenue in 2025 from a service and scrap material agreement with Amazon is also helping to offset the county's disposal increase. If it wasn't for
that, we may have to look at a higher rate than 5%. But, uh, Mr. Warnfelts has done a great job getting new business commercial accounts and adding this sanitation uh I'm sorry this Amazon account which
is uh very significant. We also have plugged in a 5% increase in water, sewer, and irrigation rates increase beginning October 1st, 2025 to offset
cost, including $3,755,940 in water and sewer infrastructure improvements. Among these are $2 million for the lift station SB construction and a 3% increase annual increase in the
wastewater rates from the city of Tampa. As um Mr. Bay Ba has stated in two weeks we will also we do by resolution the rate increases um in conjunction with adopting the
budget. There are I know a lot of questions about this with we have some unknown costs down the road regarding the uh the the system the water system even some of our capital improvement schedule which
we are working with the uh the consultant at this time. This is what we're plugging in and suggesting because we don't know the full gamut of those costs that may, you know, come down to
something next year that we will have to address in the water and sewer fund or perhaps even this year. We we are allowed to do um more than one rate rate increase during the year if needed.
But seeing that we don't have any of those numbers yet, we are going with what we do know. There are also five FTEEs added in the enterprise funds, two in utilities, three in sanitation.
Um, two new funds have been added to record revenues that have specific funding uses. A grants fund was created to record governmental non-enterprise grants and funding related to revenues and
expenditures for police, fire, EMS, storm water, FEMA, leisure services, and other applicable projects receiving external funding. One of the reasons why this is important
is because when that gets mixed in the general fund, it skews the numbers and we're looking at, wow, we budget of $5 million here and we've only spent so having a separate grants fund where we
can keep all of those special items. Other governments do that. We thought it's time we do that too to um alleviate any confusion when we're looking at our reports. A mobility fees fund was created to
separate street impact or mobility fees and related expenditures from other fuel taxes that serve as revenues in the street improvement fund. Mobility impact fees can only be used to
address growth and capacity needs in the community. Separating these revenues and expenditures will aid the city to comply with Florida state statutes for reporting purposes.
It's another case of this helps us like just keep it in one fund so it's not intermingled with the other fuel taxes for uh similar projects but not the street improvement would be for projects
that don't qualify as a addressing growth and capacity. I will say that the uh the attachments you have include a budget summary which I think Carlos I'm sorry Mr. Bea will be showing you in a minute. That's a that
format is what the state requires us to use. Uh we also have the attachments that list all of the capital projects. I sent you a link last week for with the full budget with department narratives.
This has been posted on the city's uh website. If you want to find it on the website, you go to our homepage, then to departments and city services,
then click finance. Ignore that picture of me. Then click on budget and financial reports. and it will be at the very top uh the proposed it'll say fiscal year 2026 proposed budget. It's the very top item and it's
about 81 pages long but it has the full budget in there. It is recommended that city council approve the ordinance on first reading and schedule a public hearing and second
reading for September 16th, 2025. And I believe uh Mr. Baya has uh some more slides to show you uh relating to the entire budget. >> Thank you, Mr. M. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Mr. Could you just
bring up the slides, please? So, Jim did a great job going over most of the detail. Again, I'm going to try and just keep this broad. Uh address a few uh few issues, put give some context. So, um
when we started the budget, one of the things that and you've seen this slide before, one of the things that was very important to us is to make sure obviously that we had certain guiding principles. Um one of course was the the main was meeting council priorities. We also always start out with the goal of not increasing the
millillage. We were successful there. Um, we were also looking to uh provide an emphasis on professional development to enhance our services through efficiencies. Of course, we have union obligations. We're going to continue funding those union obligations. We're going to talk about that shortly. And then maintaining our city
competitiveness. And this general fund budget also does not propose any new FTEES. So, the budget summary that Mr. Ingram u just alluded to is uh here. So this this is just an understanding of you can see the full breadth of the total budget. So
if you work from the left to the right you'll see the general fund is programmed to be 40 million755,896. The special revenue funds uh Mr. Ingram just went through those U grants funds street improvement mobility building fund CIT and TIFF. Uh that's at
$17,879,458. the debt service fund which again now is just the remaining downtown redevelopment debt 97,34. Uh the enterprise funds here are water sewer related funds as well as sanitation that's $40,247,741.
The internal service fund here is the fleet fund and that's $680,64 for a total city budget of $100,470,833. this the biggest driver as the council's aware for uh our budgets uh typically
are wages and benefits personnel costs. >> So uh we are entering the third year of our police union contract. So we will be negotiating a new contract uh probably starting sometime March perhaps. Um so the police union 30-year they have a
cost of living adjustment at 4 4.5%. They also have an additional step of 4%. The fire union will be entering their second year. They have a cola of four uh and a step of 3.7, an average of 3.7. As has been mentioned, the general employees, we have a cola of 4% and then
a 2% um bump on their u successful merit increase at their anniversary. The insurance costs uh have, as I mentioned, they've come in in the last several days, so this hasn't been changed necessarily. Uh but the health insurance premium uh renewal came in at 7.5%.
Liability property and workers comp came in at 9%. Because of this, what we are recommending is that uh we take some of the savings that we have here uh and we do for a second year in a row, we absorb the premium increase and not pass it on to the employees. That's what we did
last year. It was very well received by that. If you recall, for years the city struggled in terms of dependent care coverage. We were very out of market when it came to that. So, everybody's worked very hard and I thank the council support to keep those those premiums for the employees at an affordable level.
Last year, we absorbed the increase. I I recommend doing the same thing again this year in the budget. We've programmed that in now. Um, and that'll keep us. I think right now we're we're the most competitive in terms of the county or Tampa right now in terms of our of our health costs, health insurance costs.
This budget also contemplates the use of unassigned fund balance. Um, $824,200 in capital projects, $331,317 in non- capital purchases for the amount that's referenced there that Mr. Ingrams also uh mentioned. Uh the important part
here you're probably going to ask is what does this do to our reserve? So if we chip away at at 1.1155 million what does that leave in our reserve? And you can see on this next slide that we had a a ratio our target council will
recall last year we increased it used to be 20% was the ratio ratio between the reserve or unassigned fund balance we're using those terms interchangeably here and the operating budget. And last year we felt comfortable enough recommending to the council that we increase that number that target to 25% or better. Uh
council agreed. So I'm happy to say that at the end of this year we still anticipate we're going to be above that. We anticipate being at 31.2%. And next year even with the expenditure that was on just the last slide using unassigned fund balance we should still be at about 28.7% projected for the end
of next year. So we are above those targets. The next uh thing I want to bring your attention to is just the use of the community investment tax. So this budget includes uh $2,289,588 of CIT usage. Uh CIT is I've referenced
here before is uh an incredible asset for for our community. Uh it's a tool that doesn't exist in many places and here it's been growing very well for us. So you can see here the the growth in CIT revenue to the city. Um and it allows us to pay for the almost the
entirety of our police and fire fleets. Uh a lot of other equipment as well through we can buy through CIT as well as uh parks and wreck. So it's been a a boon to us. Um and I want to thank the the voters again who approved the the renewal of the CIT. So, this slide again
is from the county and it shows that we are scheduled to receive under the 15-year renewal. Uh, over those 15 years, we're going to schedule to receive over $53 million projected uh from the CIT. So, that again will help our budgets and help us keep our equipment up to date and our parks and
playgrounds looking the way the the best way they possibly can. And having said that, I uh stand for any questions as does director Ingram. >> Thank you, Mr. Be. Council members questions. Council member Fernandez. Um, so I just want to ask if you can clarify
the process if we need to look at water rates uh after we find out what's happening with the PAS remediation. >> Good question. It does uh require
if we were to consider um once we have the numbers we will take a look at our proforma you know we we try to maintain that uh best practices 25%
ratio also on the enterprise funds. So, we'll take a look at that, see where we, you know, with our latest numbers and trends um based on how we are going to be
structured, whether it's a a revenue bond or maybe working something out with the uh with the local uh a regional approach or a combination.
we will look at and determine what kind of rate increase would we then need to to fund this going forward. After that, of course, we would present it to council
uh or Mr. Baywood and it would take before we could before council could approve it by resolution, we would have to send a notice out to every utility uh billing customer. It uh it's required to
go through the utility bill itself which we have done for this round as well. Uh notifying of the date, the time of uh of a discussion on a rate increase.
So that that that's the process. Mr. B, >> just to add to that. So, and we've mentioned this in a prior meeting, uh, if we do end up having to do a revenue bond, we there's you're required to have a a study, a rate study done, a formal rate study, >> and then you're going to be required to
have fixed rates u because that's the security against the the bond. So, that will that's a little different. um because that takes a little bit it you still have some say but it takes a little bit of that say away from you because there's going to be this is the rate you have to lock this in rate because you have the fiduciary
obligation to the bond holders >> to make sure that that's the rate that stays there and they can build on that you know >> okay I and just so just wanted to get it out there in case people were wondering and then the new funds that you added u like the grant funds for example will
you be will that fund have all revenue from grants, but will it also have all of the expenditures for the grants? >> Yes. >> Okay. So, they'll be >> and that way we can track them easily and it won't skew the the general fund budget.
>> Okay. And then I just I wanted I know that we discussed this, but I just want to make sure we um answer it in case somebody's wondering. um for the non-c capital expenditures that we're using an assigned fund balance. I just want to
make sure those are not for recurring ordinary expenses. Correct. >> Correct. We that's not a good practice. We look for uh we look for items in the operational expenditures that are out of
the ordinary that may be one-time expenditures. they don't qualify as capital, but they're an operational expense or they might be something we only do every five years or three years so forth. And
so good question. >> Okay, thank you Chambers. Anything vice mayor, anything? >> Yeah, I got a few. Um, the ARPA reserves, are they sitting on the balance sheet or are they part of the total reserves?
ARPA. No, that is that is >> encumbered on the balance sheet. It's it's not part of the 11 bill. >> It's it's not. No. >> Okay. Good. All right. >> Yeah. It's um Yeah, it's in its own separate pot. We've already received those funds. >> So, as we spend the money,
>> we take it out of the little pot >> that's outside of the and then apply it as a revenue. >> I just make sure >> to match the expenditure >> in Indiana. Okay. Um, capital go to
capital clears. Mr. Bayer, the remediation potential remediation projects, are they in this capital plan? >> The reme which remediation project? >> Uh, with the county, the ones we were discussing with the county. >> The remediation projects for the county.
Sorry, I'm trying to >> offset offset any penalties. >> Valer, >> no. >> Bor Avenue. >> Baller Avenue. Oh, yes. Okay. With the envirment. >> I'm sorry. I'm I'm not describing it properly.
>> Uh, so are those programmed? No, they're not programmed in in >> Okay. Okay. That's fine. That's fine. Um, >> tell us what you were talking about. I'm not clear. >> Sure. So, the what what the vice mayor is referring to is the So, the Environmental Protection Commission uh issued a uh penalty.
>> Oh, those Okay. >> for the Fer Avenue project because of the sanitary sewer overrun that happened back in May. >> Yeah. >> Okay. And you know related to the to the new grant funds, are they all general fund grants or is there any utility fund
grants and can they be comingled? >> Not the enterprise. So they're governmental. Some of the special revenue funds are considered governmental activities and the >> Well, I'm talking about the new grants. The new grant funds. Okay. All right. So
there's there's just >> it's mostly general fun. Well, I wouldn't say could there be uh some in the special revenue funds? >> There could be as long as it's governmental activities. >> They separate
they separate governmental activities from like uh proprietary or what's the word >> the enter the so the enterprise funds the business type funds those 80 grants for that would have to stay in the enterprise fund. >> Okay, that was so the grant All general
fund stuff. >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. Um and I had one word. I can't decipher my writing. Um presented right to come back if I figure out what I wrote. Okay. Council member Kitz. >> Um mostly directed to our legal
department on a couple of these points. Um first question would be the lift station SB with the $2 million allocation. Um, is that contract with an external provider or are we doing that on our
own? Do you have >> Sorry, which contract? >> Is there a contract on this lift station SB? >> So, yeah. So, the lift station SB. Yeah, that's going to be a external contract. >> Yeah, I assumed so. I just wanted to make sure. And um are there any safeguards in that contract regarding a
cost overrun? Is it a fixed price or is it an as uh as worked contract? So that that project is in the FY26 budget. So we we have an issue to >> Okay. >> So it hasn't hasn't happened yet. Good. Okay. Just checking. Thank you. Sorry about that.
>> Uh I understand now. That's good. And the other question relates to the um not to the legal department anymore. Um, regarding the street street sweeper and two sanitation trucks, um, out of curiosity,
do they come with a warranty or is this also a situation where we are not yet aware of where we're getting them? Is this just budgeted for and is there any information that has been gathered in that direction? >> Not specifically, but Mr. Warfelt maybe.
>> So, I I can probably answer that. They the I can speak to the sanitation trucks for sure. Okay. >> Uh they do typically come with a warranty. >> Um just like a typical vehicle warranty they come through. Uh and the street sweeper I would imagine has a warranty too. I'm getting the nod there. Yes. So
we have again we haven't purchased these but they typically based on our past experience will come with warranties. >> Yeah. That's good good to hear. I'm just thinking in terms of making sure that we don't overextend on some of these things. And I'd be curious to know whether an analysis was done with respect to these vehicles because I
think in total they're somewhere around 1 and a.5 million to compare purchase with a lease if lease is an option for these kinds of vehicles. >> So I don't believe we can we we did a lease analysis for these vehicles.
Jason, you want to maybe come up >> now? And I will tell you based on our experience because we do acquire these based on the the vehicles these are replacing, they've been here for a long time. So we get we typically buy and keep these things and run them kind of into the ground. >> They don't make them like they used to.
>> Yeah. Jason Morval, public works director, mayor, city council. Um, so we currently are leasing a residential garbage truck and we have been because of the age of the the current fleet and the downtimes we've experienced.
I have inquired about purchasing the leased unit and we would spend uh more than half of the value of the vehicle to buy the lease out if we continue to maintain that vehicle. So, and this is not the first one that we've leased since I've been here. So, the previous
leases we had at the end of the lease, we the city has invested anywhere from $10 to $25,000 to rehab that vehicle back to an appropriate condition to return it. It's not negligence. It's just normal wear and tear that when we sign the lease,
that's part of the agreement. Um, some things happen. We have low tree canopy. Um, you know, it just normal wear and tear that we have to rehab these things. So, um, from my experience and my recommendation is not to lease them. um that we would spend more money just
leasing a vehicle and then trying to turn it back in at the end of that than we would if we buy it and then run it as hard as we do and as long as we do and then cash out with the little bit we get at the auction at the end. >> All right. Sounds like you're pretty confident that you're able to maintain them in good shape and that we don't need the lease in terms of having to
give them back if they run into issues. >> Yeah. And I will say, I mean, since I've been here, the fleet department has done a tremendous job of keeping these under, and I say we have downtime, but we also have a large service area that we provide exceptional service compared to what other communities give. Residential
gets two times pickup a week where that's not a common thing close to us. Um, and we have a, you know, a dedication through our staff and our fleet to to provide for them. So, fleet's doing a phenomenal job. Um, we have our downtimes, but it's hit or miss. >> Yeah. Thanks,
Um, just last comment. I think the 5% increase for sanitation, we might want to look at that a little more carefully because there have been a lot of costs in that department. But otherwise, I yield the floor. Thanks, >> Vice Mayor. You remembered your good.
>> Okay, no further questions. I'll close the hearing and ask the clerk to read the title of the ordinance. An ordinance of the city of Temple Terrace, Florida, adopting the final operating budget for fiscal year beginning October 1st, 2025 and ending
September 30th, 2026 and the capital improvement budget acknowledging satisfaction of statutorial requirements for preparing and adopting the budget, authorizing the city manager to issue such instructions as are
necessary to achieve and accomplish the service programs. Authorizing the city manager or the finance director to transfer monies monies among the departments and programs within any fund. Authorizing the city manager or
the finance director upon receipt of a donation or grant to appropriate said funds in the expenditure line item of the program as requested by the donor grantor. Adopting the recital as
legislative findings and intent providing a severitability clause providing an effective date. >> Thank you madam clerk. Council, is there a motion? >> Move to adopt the fiscal year 2026
annual budget for first hearing and first reading second. >> Motion and second. Uh, Madame Clerk, would you please call the roll call vote? Oh, is there a discussion? I'm sorry. Is there a discussion of the motion? >> I just want to say one thing. Council
member Fernandez, >> I do want to commend the finance department and all of the uh department heads because I know that you all put a great deal of effort into determining the best way to maintain the quality of
service and achieve council goals with being very fiscally responsible. Um and it would be nice if other areas around us actually budgeted with the same model. But um for those wondering, you
know, the model is you take your contractually obligated expenditures and then you take what it's required to meet the goals and the needs to serve the citizens and then you establish what you're able to spend. So, um, I think
that you all have done a very good job and and, uh, I commend you. >> Discussion of the motion. Vice Mayor, >> I'd like to echo that. I've been doing this for almost 40 years and I know how hard it is and how well you guys work together and I remember what it was like
years ago with with within the city. So, uh, kudos to you guys and to the staff and everybody that supports them and, uh, provides the information because it's to be to be done now and to be friends still is, uh, and be and work
together is quite an accomplishment. So, >> any discussion? >> No, I've mayor. >> Council member, >> I don't want to be left out on the thanks. So, thank you very much. It it's a great process and to my colleagues up here on the DS, too. Thank you. We
worked hard on it. Okay, madame clerk, would you please call the role? >> Council member Chambers, >> I. >> Council member Fernandez, >> I. >> Council member Kravitz, >> I.
>> Vice Mayor Slesler, >> I. >> And Mayor Ross, >> I. Motion passes unanimously. The budget is adopted on first reading. uh ordinance will appear for a second reading and public hearing on Tuesday, September 16th, 2025 at our regularly scheduled
council meeting here at 6 p.m. So, I I too want to commend you. Um it's been a rough fiscal year for all of you. I know it's been trying with the storms and the challenges that we've had this fiscal
year have been um it's been difficult. And so I' I've seen the stress on you and your colleagues and and uh just know that we appreciate it. We don't take it for granted. Um we know that this doesn't happen automatically.
Um and that every one of you, whether your department is large or small, uh have contributed to this uh to this financial stability of the city, which makes it really um much easier for us to interact with the residents and talk to
the residents about where we are and where we came from. and and uh these slides that show back to 2015 2016 era um and show where we've come from are basically the talking points that I use
almost every time I talk to groups of citizens and so um many of you were not here but those of you who were know where we came from and that this process was not nearly as transparent or
orderly or you know professional as it is now. And so I I think that residents of the city can have confidence that we're good stewards of their funds and that we're heading in in the right direction. And that is only possible
because of the work that you uh and your teams do. Uh we can vote and fund the budget and approve it, but it takes the city manager, the city attorney, the city clerk, and all of you and your teams to make this really work. And so
uh thank you on behalf of the uh the people of the city, the residents. So thank you very much. Anything else from Mr. Beia or are we ready to adjourn? We will stand adjourned. >> Thank you guys. [Music]
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