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1. 1Call to Order – Roll Call▶ 0:00
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   Pledge of Allegiance

   The Pledge of Allegiance was recited followed by a moment of silence honoring servicemen and women.

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   [00:00:07] I'd like to ask everybody to please stand, join me in the Pledge of Allegiance and remain standing for a moment of silence in honor of our servicemen and women at home and abroad. [00:00:16] I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, [00:00:23] one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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   Moment of Silence

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   [00:00:30] Thank you. You may be seated.

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4. 4.a

   Resolution No. 2022-22: Declaring a Local State of Emergency

   approved

   Council adopted Resolution 2022-22 declaring a local state of emergency in response to impending Hurricane Ian, effective September 27, 2022 at 12:01 AM for a seven-day period, authorizing the City Manager to take necessary actions to protect the city.

   Ord. Resolution No. 2022-22

   • motion:Move to approve Resolution 2022-22 declaring a local state of emergency due to Hurricane Ian. (passed)

   👤Ms. Vance#Hurricane Ian#Local State of Emergency#Resolution 2022-22

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   [00:00:36] First item on the agenda is Resolution 2022-22. [00:00:42] This is Resolution 2022-22, resolution by the City Council of the City of New Port Richey, Florida, declaring a local state of emergency due to Hurricane Ian and declaring an effective date. [00:00:56] Yes, ma'am. [00:00:57] In lieu of impending Hurricane Ian, the agenda item is asking us to effectuate a local state of emergency effective on Tuesday, September 27th, 2022 at 1201 AM and spanning a seven-day period of time, [00:01:22] the purpose of which is to authorize that all actions, whatever is determined to be prudent and in the best interest to secure health, safety, and welfare of the community, [00:01:41] in respect to contracts or obligations or employment or the acquisition of supplies or materials, that that power is bestowed upon the city manager to take whatever action is necessary to protect the city. [00:02:00] And the recommendation is to adopt Resolution 2022-22, declaring the local state of emergency in response to the impending Hurricane Ian as submitted. [00:02:18] Thank you. I'll open it up for public comment. Seeing no one come forward, bring it back to Council. [00:02:23] I move we approve. [00:02:24] Second. [00:02:26] Hearing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. Opposed, like to sign. Motion passes. [00:02:32] Next is the final public hearing on budget with Resolutions 2022-19 and 2022-20. Mr. Driscoll. [00:02:43] Resolution number 2022-19, a resolution of the City of New Port Richey, Florida of Pasco County, Florida, adopting the final levying of ad valorem taxes for all non-exempt real and personal property in New Port Richey, Pasco County, Florida for fiscal year 10-1, 2022 to 9-30, 2023, providing for an effective date. [00:03:03] Ms. Vance. [00:03:05] Certainly, Mr. Mayor. Florida statute 200.0652C1 prescribes that Council adopt the millage rate prior to adopting the 2022-2023 budget. [00:03:20] A notification regarding the public hearing has been provided to every property owner in the city by the Pasco County Property Appraiser's Office. [00:03:31] This notification in the form of the Truth in Millage Trim Notice was mailed the week of August 15th. Action requested is to adopt Resolution 2022-19. [00:03:46] The name of the taxing authority is the City of New Port Richey. The tentative millage rate of 8.4500 mils is 5.50% less than the rollback rate of 8.9148 mils.

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5. 4.b

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   Final Public Hearing - Resolution No. 2022-19 & Resolution No. 2022-20

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   Council held the final public hearing and adopted Resolution 2022-19 setting the millage rate at 8.4500 mills (a 0.0500 mill decrease from prior year) and Resolution 2022-20 adopting the final operating budget of $83,102,330 and Capital Improvement Program of $24,395,900 for FY 2022-2023. Both resolutions passed unanimously with brief discussion about the alley improvement program funding and North River Road neighborhood improvements.

   Ord. Resolution No. 2022-19; Resolution No. 2022-20

   • motion:Approve Resolution 2022-19 setting the millage rate at 8.4500 mills. (passed)
   • motion:Approve Resolution 2022-20 adopting the final operating budget and capital improvement program for FY 2022-2023. (passed)

   📍North River Road👤Mike👤Mr. Driscoll👤Mrs. Feast👤Ms. Murphy👤Ms. Raulman#Alley Improvement Program#FY 2022-2023 Capital Improvement Program#FY 2022-2023 Operating Budget#North River Road neighborhood improvements#Pavement Management Program#Resolution 2022-19#Resolution 2022-20

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   [00:04:04] Total ad valorem revenues that will be generated are estimated to be $6,814,020. That is approximately $929,450 more than what was generated in ad valorem in fiscal year 21-22 due to the increase of property values. [00:04:34] The millage rate is 8.4500 and is .0500 mils less than the prior year's millage. [00:04:46] Although the statute requires discussion regarding the percent increase over the rollback rate and the specific purposes for which ad valorem is being increased, for the record in our case neither apply. [00:05:00] At this time an overview will be provided of the proposed budget. After the close of the presentation is requested that the Mayor invite public comment on the millage. [00:05:10] Thank you. [00:05:19] Hello? [00:05:20] Yes. [00:05:21] Is it my turn to talk? [00:05:22] Yes, it is Mrs. Feast. We're waiting. [00:05:25] Okay. [00:05:30] Good evening, everyone. [00:05:33] On September 15, the City Council's first public hearing of the fiscal year 2023 Grading Improvement Program. [00:05:46] Mrs. Feast, we're losing about every other word. [00:05:52] Okay, I will hang up and read that. [00:05:56] I think it's better than me trying to talk. [00:06:03] Is now exiting. [00:06:25] Okay. [00:06:56] I didn't get the number. [00:07:15] Sorry about that. [00:07:17] So the budget overview that I will be presenting tonight is exactly the same as the tentative budget adopted on September 15. [00:07:27] So there were no changes between then and now. [00:07:32] Mike, do you have the slide up? [00:07:35] Just a second. [00:07:38] Thank you. [00:07:44] Go ahead. [00:07:45] All right. [00:07:46] So on the second slide, you'll see you're provided with a summary of the citywide budget for fiscal year 22-23, and it totals $83,102,330. [00:08:02] The slide provides you with a breakdown by fund, and you'll see that the city's general fund and water and sewer fund remain the largest funds for the city. [00:08:15] Next slide, please. [00:08:16] Next slide, please. [00:08:18] This slide provides you with another visual just broken out a little bit differently, but, again, you can see the breakup by fund, which, you know, [00:08:28] Intel makes up the total operating budget that's presented to you for adoption tonight. [00:08:36] Next slide, please. [00:08:38] The general fund being proposed tonight totals $28,730,720, and the divisions or departments presented on this slide provide you that breakup. [00:08:53] You'll see that the city's police department and fire department, public works, those are our three largest departments. [00:09:02] This breakup also provides you with the majority of the city's programs and other government services that are provided to our residents. [00:09:14] Next slide, please. [00:09:17] The budget being proposed includes these key highlights. [00:09:20] They haven't changed from what was presented on September 15th. [00:09:25] The proposed millage rate for adoption tonight is 8.4500 mills. [00:09:31] We've included the four proposed positions, including development clerk, recreation supervisor three, information specialist two, and a part-time aquatics coordinator position. [00:09:46] The budget also includes a proposed 3% COLA and up to a 2% merit for the city's general employees. [00:09:56] Next slide, please. [00:09:59] The capital improvement program being presented tonight totals $24,395,900, and there's no change to what was presented to you on the 15th. [00:10:12] The CIP program is broken up by general capital projects totaling $635,000, stormwater projects totaling $710,000, parks and recreation projects totaling $1,180,000, [00:10:30] public safety and public facility projects totaling $4,355,000, transportation right at $1.7-$1.8 million, water and sewer projects total $6,745,000, [00:10:48] our redevelopment projects total $3,380,000, and finally the street improvement project, which mainly consists of our paving management program, but also includes some other road and street projects, totals $5,625,900. [00:11:10] And at this time, I will take any questions that you may have, and after that, we will open it up for public comment and then ask City Council to approve the following resolutions. Thank you. [00:11:26] Questions for Ms. Feast? [00:11:32] Hearing none, I'll open it up for public comment. [00:11:36] In that case, bring it back to Council. [00:11:40] For a motion on Resolution 2022-19. [00:11:48] Correct. That's the millage. [00:11:50] Okay. [00:11:52] I move we approve the resolution for the 2022-19 millage rate. [00:11:57] I'll second. [00:11:58] So, we chose to make a slight decrease in the millage rate in this year. [00:12:11] I know that many municipalities and other government agencies around the state, in particular the Tampa Bay area, were not able to do so. [00:12:19] It did not come necessarily easy. [00:12:22] It was budgeted, even though we have some more ad valorem taxes expected, but we're also looking at inflationary periods, some increased staffing, and some certain economic storm clouds that may still head. [00:12:44] So, I think this type of budget, this millage rate, provides us to budget in a prudent manner. [00:12:49] I'll second. [00:12:51] I agree, and I think the fact that our properties are appraised much higher now makes it a little easier for us to take this decrease in the millage rate. [00:13:02] Ms. Raulman? [00:13:04] No comments. [00:13:06] Ms. Murphy? [00:13:08] Yeah, it's definitely been the goal of mine, or I'm sure the rest of us, too, since the bad times and the millage rate was so high. [00:13:14] When you have the good times, you try to bring it back down and give a little bit back. [00:13:18] When everybody's doing good, everybody's happy, but when it's rough, every little bit counts. [00:13:26] So, everything we can do every year to take it down is good to me. [00:13:30] I would agree with those sentiments. [00:13:32] There's no further discussion. [00:13:34] All those in favor, please signify by saying aye. [00:13:36] Aye. [00:13:38] Opposed, blank sign. [00:13:40] Mr. Driscoll, 2022-20. [00:13:41] Resolution number 2022-20, a resolution of the City of New Port Richey of Pasco County, Florida, adopting the final operating budget for fiscal year 2022-2023, [00:13:51] and the capital improvement program for fiscal year 2022-2023, providing for an effective date. [00:13:58] Yes, ma'am. [00:14:11] That's the budget one. [00:14:13] Budget one? [00:14:15] Yeah, 2022. [00:14:17] All right. [00:14:19] As indicated in the resolution, this is intended to support both the operating budget, which we have presented to you now for, we've worked together on for the last five months. [00:14:36] Our first public hearing was conducted on the 15th of September. [00:14:45] This is our second public hearing as presented to you this evening by Mrs. Feast, and we're prepared to respond to any questions that you have. [00:14:55] And we will have more discussion on the capital improvement program as we get to the CRA. [00:15:00] this is for the relates to the general fund budget and pardon me thank you any [00:15:07] questions I'll open up for public comment seeing no one come forward bring [00:15:17] it back to Council I move we approve second the maker comments I made earlier [00:15:27] would apply here as well a second mr. Allman only thing I would like to [00:15:34] mention other than the fact that this budget when we approve it will allow us [00:15:40] to talk about it more as we are sitting at the final hour final days of the [00:15:45] fiscal year and it's not going to get printed again we don't want to get it [00:15:50] printed again but when we look for example in the street of improvement [00:15:55] budget and I say this after just reading about all of the DOT safety [00:16:01] money that's Pasco County just approved and was in the newspaper to which you [00:16:06] know a lot of that was was targeted to us but the the alley improvement program [00:16:14] that we say we're finally going to get started on has $95,000 in it and we [00:16:19] never really had much discussion as a council as far as the level of [00:16:24] investment that we wanted to make in that project I'm going to be very [00:16:27] curious to find out just exactly what that will do because there's a lot of [00:16:32] alleys in our downtown and there was even discussion in our on our board here [00:16:36] that everybody didn't benefit from those improvements and man Street assessments [00:16:43] is the hardest thing to try to determine how to do fair because everyone has [00:16:47] their opinion about whether or not their street is used or they need a street or [00:16:51] especially when they've been asked in the past to pay for it but the the 1.58 [00:16:57] million that's in this year's fiscal budget for the neighborhood improvements [00:17:01] on North River Road for those sidewalks and those improvements which have been [00:17:05] talked about a lot and are needed and will be a valuable improvement to our [00:17:11] city and particularly along those areas as I look at that number which is kind [00:17:17] of a new introduction and I think of the four years that I've been hoping [00:17:22] that some alleys would just be cleared from trees that block them or to have [00:17:26] them reclaimed as we talked about for two years ago I think there needs to be [00:17:30] more discussion on the alleys as we go I'm not sure what 95,000 will do and I [00:17:37] think it's probably a low figure but I'll approve the budget [00:17:43] I would love to have that discussion about how we go about fixing the alleys [00:17:51] up I am glad to see the North River project that was actually some of that [00:17:56] was slated for before the Great Recession and here a decade plus later [00:18:02] we're finally getting to it so glad to see that hopefully we can do a bunch of [00:18:09] other places that really need a lot of work and keep this pavement management [00:18:15] plan doing what it's intended to do because it seems to be very popular by [00:18:20] the residents so any further discussion hearing none all those in favor please [00:18:27] signify by saying aye opposed like sign communications I'll kick off with the

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6. 5Communications▶ 18:35
7. 6Adjournment