Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
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- R78Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
Several speakers So this would assume the maximum amount that we would need the fire MSTU millage rate to be to fully absorb rescue without any half cent sales tax subsidy from the general fund. And so based off our July final taxable assessed value, that millage rate would shake out to be two point three, two two two four, which is an increase of point one nine nine nine mills, which would require five votes at the final public hearing in September.
- R78Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
Several speakers All right, so then if we look at the big summary of our transportation capital plan, we're looking at roughly 376 million of capacity projects, 68 million in sidewalks and trails, about 39 million in signal projects over the next five years. All right, so now we're at our millage rate slide, and so this is really the I'll call it the meat and potatoes of what the board's taking action on today, and it is setting those proposed millage rates. And again, those are the millage rates that are going to go out on property tax notices next month. It is the ceiling. of of what the millage rates will end up being. We can always come down at the final public hearing. We just cannot come up. And so this table represents the county administrator's proposed millage rates compared to our current year actual adopted
- R78Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
Several speakers Yeager: I'm for I am I'm for I I'm for the seven two uh five nine three military. Is that the rollback rate?
- R78Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
Several speakers Hello, Amy Farrell, Budget Director with the Office of Management and Budget. I'm here with item R seventy-eight or OMB 260056. So while the presentation is being pulled up, um so high level, the purpose of this item is for the board to approve proposed millage rates for the trim millages that will go out on property tax notices and also set the date, time and location for our first public hearing. We did two very in-depth workshops, one in June and one in July. So the content for today is going to be a high-level summary and recap of those meetings and then moving to the meat and potatoes of the presentation, which is setting those milletriates. And again when we set the millage rates today, we are setting the ceiling on those millage rates. When we come back in September for the first and final public hearing, those tr uh millage rates can come down. They just can't come up from what the board sets today.
- R78Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
Several speakers Unidentified A: You can go to a hundred and ten percent with four votes under the new law.
- RS1 Government Finance Professionals Week
Mariano wouldn't like this one. 2,562 account requests were processed. 132 funds were balanced. And then my personal favorite, um, so Dan wrote multiple millage rate scenarios calculated, but I'd like to rephrase that. I'd like to rephrase that to somewhere around Countless side quests we were sent on. Бен серіснес. When I come up here and I get to present to you guys, it's not just my team, the budget office's body of work that I get to be the mouthpiece for. It's everyone standing here across all of the branches: public safety, development services, internal services, public infrastructure, public services. It's we all come together. Every year to make sure that we are getting the most accurate information in front of you guys in an easy to understand manner so you can make the hard decisions that you need to make to make sure our money is working for our citizens and our stakeholders. It's a group effort. So as honored as I am to
- Consent agenda with C5 school ballot question
Several speakers Thank you, County Commissioners, and thank you for having us here today and bringing this resolution up to put on the ballot. Just to kind of refresh your memory, I know many of you know it quite well. Uh I can't believe it's been uh almost four years already, but approximately three three years ago, uh this board uh uh ratified a resolution from our school board to put on the ballot uh a resolution in order to use local millage money to Enhance our teachers' salary. Uh state statutes require it to be re to come up to if it's to be renewed, it must be renewed every four years. So we are here in 2026 to place it back on the ballot with uh with uh your approval here today. Um just to give you a little overview of where we are and where we've come from, uh if this uh if this referendum were not to go into effect. act were not to be passed, uh, it would result into a net cut of our teacher salary and support personnel across the board of approximately 12%. So approximately
- Consent agenda with C5 school ballot question
Several speakers um, but we were. We were able to attract teachers from Hillsborough and Pinellas and our our principals are telling us that they were recruiting and we were being successful and having individuals that we're perhaps were living in Pasco but were teaching across the county line. They were coming home. coming home to where they belong here in Pasco, But since that time, Hillsboro last year and Hillsboro and Penales both have uh uh added uh a a millage and have increased their teachers' salaries. We are concerned that if this resolution were not to be adopted by you and the voters come November, it would put us at a real competitive disadvantage where our neighbors to the South would be once again poaching our teachers. But this is not just about putting teachers or bodies in a classroom. Because we are able to make gains, we are now able to increase the quality of our teachers. We're
- R78Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
Several speakers Starkey: Uh no, no. We have building fees.
- R78Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
Several speakers Mike Carballa: It's changed a little bit from your briefings with the final calculations. It was around point three, but I think right now it's about point one nine nine.
- R78Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
Several speakers Unidentified A: That was weird.
- R78Tentative Millage Rates for Truth in Millage (TRIM) Notices and First Public Hearing – Fiscal Year 2027 Budget – No Funding Required – To Be Distributed
Several speakers Yeager: Right. So but you were saying that you were keeping you w wanted to keep it the same, which would be seven percent. Well no, I