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BCC Minutes 09/06/2012 B (Budget) BCC BUDGET MEETING MINUTES SEPTEMBER 6, 2012 September 6, 2012 TRANSCRIPT OF THE MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Naples, Florida, September 6, 2012 LET IT BE REMEMBERED, that the Board of County Commissioners, in and for the County of Collier, and also acting as the Board of Zoning Appeals and as the governing board(s) of such special districts as have been created according to law and having conducted business herein, met on this date at 5:05 p.m., BUDGET SESSION in Building "F" of the Government Complex, East Naples, Florida, with the following members present: CHAIRMAN: Fred Coyle Jim Coletta Georgia Hiller Tom Henning Donna Fiala (Absent) ALSO PRESENT: Leo Ochs, County Manager Mark Isackson, OMB Director Jeffrey A. Klatzkow, County Attorney Ian Mitchell, BCC Executive Manager Page 1 COLLIER COUNTY BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIOENRS AGENDA Thursday, September 6, 2012, 5:05 PM NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST REGISTER PRIOR TO SPEAKING. ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING PERTAINING THERETO, AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED. ALL REGISTERED PUBLIC SPEAKERS WILL BE LIMITED TO THREE (3) MINUTES UNLESS PERMISSION FOR ADDITIONAL TIME IS GRANTED BY THE CHAIRMAN. 1. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE 2. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING —Pelican Bay Services Division Budget Hearing: A. Executive Summary — Fiscal Year 2013 Pelican Bay Services Division Budget B. Public Comment C. Resolution Approving the Special Assessment Roll and Levying the Special Assessment against the Benefited Properties within the Pelican Bay Municipal Service Taxing and Benefit Unit. 3. ADJOURN Page 1 September 6, 2012 COLLIER COUNTY Board of County Commissioners Community Redevelopment Agency Board (CRAB) Airport Authority 01II, r I AGENDA Board of County Commission Chambers Collier County Government Center 3299 Tamiami Trail East, 3rd Floor Naples, FL 34112 BUDGET SESSION September 6, 2012 5:05 PM Fred W. Coyle - BCC Chairman; Commissioner, District 4 Jim Coletta - BCC Vice-Chairman; Commissioner, District 5; CRAB Vice-Chair Donna Fiala - BCC Commissioner, District 1; CRAB Chairman Georgia Hiller - BCC Commissioner, District 2 Tom Henning - BCC Commissioner, District 3 NOTICE: ALL PERSONS WISHING TO SPEAK ON AGENDA ITEMS MUST REGISTER PRIOR TO SPEAKING. ANY PERSON WHO DECIDES TO APPEAL A DECISION OF THIS BOARD WILL NEED A RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING PERTAINING THERETO, AND THEREFORE MAY NEED TO ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDING IS MADE, WHICH RECORD INCLUDES TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED. ALL REGISTERED SPEAKERS WILL BE LIMITED TO THREE (3) MINUTES UNLESS THE TIME IS ADJUSTED BY THE CHAIRMAN. Page 1 September 6,2012 IF YOU ARE A PERSON WITH A DISABILITY WHO NEEDS ANY ACCOMMODATION IN ORDER TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROCEEDING, YOU ARE ENTITLED, AT NO COST TO YOU, THE PROVISION OF CERTAIN ASSISTANCE. PLEASE CONTACT THE COLLIER COUNTY FACILITIES MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT LOCATED AT 3335 EAST TAMIAMI TRAIL, SUITE 1, NAPLES, FLORIDA, 34112-5356, (239) 252-8380; ASSISTED LISTENING DEVICES FOR THE HEARING IMPAIRED ARE AVAILABLE IN THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' OFFICE. 1. ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING - BCC - Fiscal Year 2013 Tentative Budget A. Discussion of Tentative Millage Rates and Increases Over the Rolled Back Millage Rates B. Review and Discussion of Changes to the Tentative Budget C. Public Comments and Questions D. Announcement of Tentative Millage Rates and Percentage Changes in Property Tax Rates E. Resolution to Adopt the Tentative Millage Rates F. Resolution to Adopt the Amended Tentative Budget G. Announcement of Final Public Hearing as Follows: Final Public Hearing on the FY 2012-13 Collier County Budget Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:05 PM Collier County Government Center W. Harmon Turner Building (F) Third Floor, Boardroom Naples, Florida 2. ADJOURN Page 2 September 6, 2012 September 6, 2012 CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. The Board of County Commission meeting is now in session. Will you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. (The Pledge of Allegiance was recited in unison.) CHAIRMAN COYLE: Thank you. All right, County Manager. It's all yours. MR. OCHS: Thank you, sir. Good evening, Commissioners. Welcome back. This is the first of two statutorily required advertised public hearings that will result in the adoption of your Fiscal 2013 county budget. The first item of business this evening is consideration of the Pelican Bay Services Division budget. Mr. Dorrill is here to present, sir. Item #2A EXECUTIVE SUMMARY — FISCAL YEAR 2013 PELICAN BAY SERVICES DIVISION BUDGET MR. DORRILL: Actually, the chairman would like to introduce it, and then I'll be happy to. MR. OCHS: Very good. The chairman, Mr. Keith Dallas, is here to kick this one off. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay, Mr. Dallas. MR. DALLAS: Good evening. I'd like just to explain the process of how we went through this this year. As we do every year, our budget committee actually starts meeting in January, February, March, April, and we go through our budget item by item, bottom up, and we're -- our objective this year really was to -- as it has been in the past, is try to keep our budget not increasing but, if anything, decreasing, and then use the monies that are -- if we don't change our rates, the money that might be left over to put into capital funds. Page 2 September 6, 2012 Three years ago we had a project. We worked with the foundation to do a capital improvement fund for the Pelican Bay. We're a 30-year-old community, and we need to keep ourselves up to date. And from that, after many, many meetings, 30-some meetings and town hall meetings and articles in our newspapers and so on, we came up -- each respective board came up with some thoughts of what we wanted to do. And in the service division what we came up with was we said, all right, we want -- our landscaping's 30 years old. We want to update it. We want to refresh it. We also want to make it more ecofriendly, and we're using less water, less fertilizers, more native plants, that type of thing. We're doing some work on safety. We've put in crosswalks where we didn't have them before in high traffic areas. And then one of the areas we had was streetlighting. Our streetlighting is getting old. They tell us that we've got less than 10 years of life left in the fixtures that are hanging on the polls, and we didn't have any reserves set aside for that. So we said, we don't want to borrow money. We want to set it aside frugally. And when the time comes, then we will have the money to spend it. So that was part of our budget. If you look at the global numbers, our budget has been flat since about 2007. Going -- prior to last year, we were -- it was $370 non-ad valorem tax. Last year we bumped it up to 398. This year we're keeping it at 398. Like I say, the split between the operating and the capital is actually changing a little bit, so it's more in capital this year. This has been a very public process. We've had -- interestingly enough, I've only heard one negative comment out of the 6,500 residences we have. Our committee -- budget committee recommended this unanimously. Our board recommended it unanimously. We actually revisited it yesterday at our monthly Page 3 September 6, 2012 meeting to see if anybody had second thoughts about. It, again, was unanimous. What we feel is that this is a very reasonable budget. It's designed so that we can properly maintain Pelican Bay and keep it the premiere community that we think it is and make sure we freshen it up as time goes forward as communities (sic) need to be done. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Commissioner Fiala -- Commissioner Hiller, go ahead. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you, Commissioner Coyle. Mr. Dallas, thank you for your presentation. If I understand your budget correctly, in essence, what you are doing is reducing your operating costs and only increasing the overall budget by the amount that you're contributing towards reserves for future capital expenditures. So, in effect, you're not spending more. You are actually saving more, as I understand, to avoid borrowing in the future, given that you are committed to these capital improvement projects like the lighting, as you describe, in the next few years; is that correct? MR. DALLAS: That's correct. That's been our objective, since we got into this, is saying, let's -- anywhere we can save on the operations, let's do it and let's take any savings we have and put it into capital, and then we can do some of these projects faster. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Not -- if I may just clarify. You keep saying putting it into capital. You're putting it into reserves for future capital improvements. MR. DALLAS: Yes, that's right. COMMISSIONER HILLER: That you're not actually spending the money. So, overall, your budget has not increased this year. In fact, it has gone down, but your savings are going to increase by way of this allocation to reserves. MR. DALLAS: Correct. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you. I appreciate your Page 4 September 6, 2012 presentation and that you're here tonight. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Motion to approve. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Motion to approve by Commissioner Coletta, seconded by? COMMISSIONER HILLER: I second. Item #2B PUBLIC COMMENTS ON PELICAN BAY SERVICES BUDGET MR. MITCHELL: Sir, we have some public comments. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Yes, okay. How many public speakers do we have? MR. MITCHELL: Sir, we've got four public speakers. The first one is Joe Doyle. DR. DOYLE: Yes, good evening. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Good evening. DR. DOYLE: I'm Dr. Joseph Doyle representing my mother, Sandy Doyle, Laurel Oaks, Pelican Bay. And I respectfully disagree with Mr. Dallas. And I'm, once again, here to object to the computation of the preliminary assessment and role for Pelican Bay. Specifically, it was noted at the county staff meeting at the budget workshop on June 28th that most of the departments in the county have been able to decrease their budgets by five percent, okay. And I opine that we have a lot of nice people that serve on the board of the Pelican Bay Services Division, but we suffer from bad leadership. And what we really need is a 5 percent reduction in the operating budget. So that would -- based on this year's proposal, we would look at trying to save $128,000 out of this year's proposal. And let's be creative about it. Page 5 September 6, 2012 We could look at trying to leverage the FTEs. As was mentioned at the budget workshop for the other departments, we could look at the maintenance staff and the full need for that. We could look at the frequency of mulching. They mulch at least three times a year. I know most other areas mulch maybe once or twice a year. Maybe we could go even to a nine-month cycle. So there's some savings. We need some creativity. This is basically the same budget as last year's. I don't see any creativity or any discussion for creativity. And, quite frankly, I've kind of dropped out of going to the meetings because I just get patronized when I go there, and my comments never get really adequately recorded in the minutes. Okay. And this is in a letter that I actually sent to Mr. Coyle and to Mr. Brock last week. Long-term creativity, maybe for future years -- and it's not the subject of tonight, but -- would be to look at maybe some privatizing the maintenance functions. You know, we have employees that put down the mulch and do the mowing. Maybe we could look at contracting that out to some of the private lawn mowing services around the county. We could look at retiring the office space in Laurel Oaks and using possibly space where the commissioner is, Commissioner Hiller's, in the Orange Blossom or possibly in the Marketplace at the Fifth Third Bank where the tax collector has an office. So just being creative in trying to save us those dollars. You know, it's the principle of the matter. Can we all afford it? Yes, we can well afford it, but it's the spirit of trying to save money in these -- in this continued economic downturn. And as far as the capital projects go, you know, we talked about crosswalks the last two years. Well, they didn't put in any new crosswalks this year because there was an issue with the cobblestones. And there really is no plan to really put in the crosswalks next year, at least that we know of, because they're tabling the discussion to November and December when the rest of the residents come down. Page 6 September 6, 2012 So I feel that there should be a reduction of maybe $150,000 from the capital budget to reflect that, the fact that we are not moving along quickly with the capital. And then, as far as the streetlighting goes, which is actually an ad valorem item, I really object to the fact that you're collecting that -- those funds for streetlighting from current residents, and you could actually collect it when you get closer to the time that you need to replace those polls, et cetera, which I said last year. And actually, Commissioner Hiller, you recommended that they put it into a separate account, which I don't know if that's been done. But I still object -- they did collect it last year. I object to it being collected again this year. So thank you for your attention. And I would hope that you would either reject tonight's proposal or at least amend it to -- with those 5 percent savings that's been recommended and have them come back to the drawing board in the next couple weeks. Thank you. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Thank you. Commissioner Hiller? COMMISSIONER HILLER: Yes. Mr. Dorrill, could you come to the stand. Thank you. Just a couple of questions. First of all, could you explain, if you eliminate -- if you take your budget and you eliminate the reserve contribution that you're making this year to the budget, comparing that net budget minus the reserves to your last year budget, have you increased over last year, have you decreased over last year, and by what percentage, approximately? MR. DORRILL: The current decrease to the total net budget is 2.3 percent. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Well, but that's including -- MR. DORRILL: That includes the money reserved for the streetlight replacement. Page 7 September 6, 2012 COMMISSIONER HILLER: Right. I'm asking to eliminate your -- MR. DORRILL: Six percent decrease. COMMISSIONER HILLER: So if you eliminate your contribution to reserves for the streetlighting, your operational budget this year is decreasing by 6 percent. MR. DORRILL: Essentially. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you. Could you please address some of the concerns raised by Mr. Doyle in his letter? Could you maybe explain what your position is for the benefit of everyone here tonight. MR. DORRILL: Certainly. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you. MR. DORRILL: I think Dr. Doyle made several points. His points are always, I think, well taken, and he is shown the respect that he's entitled to by our board, and we also have a budget and finance committee. With respect to outsourcing first, about a third of our current labor is outsourced through a day-labor arrangement that we have with the Board of County Commissioners. The FTEs were frozen at 15 about 15 years ago on the maintenance side. There are two administrative positions that are the same two as when the division was created almost 25 years ago now, I believe. Last year we did renegotiate the administrative office lease, and we're now on a short-term lease. We renegotiated at rates about 25 percent less than they had been previously. I renegotiated that lease on behalf of you. We're working with the foundation there to actually terminate that lease and move into some office space that is being contemplated by the foundation, and we're going to share space with their executive offices and also share a workroom and a conference room. So our plan is to get out of the SunBank building there, Page 8 September 6, 2012 hopefully, within the next two years in that particular regard. Concerning the crosswalk, that's a phased project. We're building brick crosswalks throughout the community to enhance pedestrian safety. And, in fact, we just cut a purchase order for the next phase. We're going to be building a brick crosswalk on Myra Janco Daniels Boulevard, and we hope to start that, perhaps, this month, but if not, in the next fiscal year. And then, finally, everything else that the chairman has already said I don't really need to repeat. This is an extremely fiscally conservative community. The assessment for this year is $398.11. I think there's tremendous value afforded in the community for that assessment, which has, essentially, been unchanged now for three years. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Any other questions? (No response.) CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Who's the next speaker? MR. MITCHELL: The next speaker is Sandy Doyle. MS. DOYLE: I'm going to waive my time. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Mrs. Doyle waives. MR. MITCHELL: The next speaker is Noreen Murray. MS. MURRAY: Good evening. I'm Noreen Murray, and I am now a member of the Pelican Bay Foundation board. The only thing I wanted to comment on was that the improvements that the services division has made over on the last few years with respect to the crosswalks and the landscaping have been incredibly well received by the community. And also, it's worth noting that we had a focus group for realtors because, of course, one of the things our community is always concerned about is maintaining property values and maintaining Pelican Bay as a premiere community. And the realtors all commented on how good the new landscaping looked, how good the Page 9 September 6, 2012 crosswalks looked. And also, what's happened over the last few years, I think, among the services division, the foundation, and county commissioners, is we've had a level of cooperation that's really enhanced our community, and we are much appreciative of it. I understand in -- if you go back 10 or 15 years, the foundation and the services division weren't always working together, and we weren't always working with the county, and we sometimes came to cross purposes. But over the last few years, pulling it all together and working together where the county employees and the services division are maintaining the county-owned lands and the foundation is improving the foundation-owned property, we end up having a community that's working well and that we're all very proud of. Thank you. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Thank you. MR. MITCHELL: The next speaker is Mr. Dallas, Keith Dallas. MR. DALLAS: Waive. MR. MITCHELL: No? So that was your final speaker. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Very well. We have a motion on the floor; a motion by Commissioner Coletta to approve, seconded by Commissioner Hiller. And, County Manager, do you have something? Item #2C RESOLUTION 2012-141: RESOLUTION APPROVING THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT ROLL AND LEVYING THE SPECIAL ASSESSMENT AGAINST THE BENEFITED PROPERTIES WITHIN THE PELICAN BAY MUNICIPAL SERVICE TAXING AND BENEFIT UNIT - ADOPTED Page 10 September 6, 2012 MR. OCHS: Commissioners, under your Pelican Bay budget hearing tab, under the agenda, it would be appropriate to make a motion that includes Item 2C, which would be a motion to approve the resolution approving the special assessment role and levying the special assessment against the benefited properties within the Pelican Bay Municipal Services Taxing and Benefit Unit. CHAIRMAN COYLE: And that was your motion, was it? COMMISSIONER COLETTA: And I include that in my motion. MR. OCHS: Thank you. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Commissioner Hiller? COMMISSIONER HILLER: Second. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. All in favor, please signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Aye. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Aye. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Aye. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Any opposed, by like sign? (No response.) CHAIRMAN COYLE: The motion passes unanimously. COMMISSIONER HILLER: May I make one comment? CHAIRMAN COYLE: Sure. Commissioner Hiller, go ahead. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you. As the year progresses, Mr. Dorrill, I'm sure that you'll be carefully evaluating the budget and looking for savings. And with respect to any expenditures that are made by the services division, they will come before the board for the board approval. And to the extent we see that savings could be achieved beyond what you have budgeted, we will recommend as such. A budget is a living document. So we will continue to work with you to tweak it. And I'm so happy to hear that the cooperation Page 11 September 6, 2012 between the services division, the county, and the foundation has been moving forward in such a positive manner. I want to commend you. MR. DORRILL: Thank you. And actually, and in conclusion, to their credit, your board there, your advisory board, they actually review the balance sheet and the income statement monthly, and it is current and maintained by district staff, which is, frankly, a very healthy exercise for them to do. And, in fact, to your second point, you'll actually be receiving and ratifying our next major project next Tuesday at the Board of County Commissioners' meeting where we're rebuilding the water management and storm protection firm, and you'll see that Tuesday. And so that speaks to your point about confirming approvals as we go forward. COMMISSIONER HILLER: And, thank you, Mr. Doyle, for continuing to, you know, look out for savings. I appreciate your efforts. MR. DORRILL: Thank you again. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Thank you. MR. OCHS: Mr. Chairman, we'll move on now to the balance of the county budget. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. BCC FISCAL YEAR 2013 TENTATIVE BUDGET PRESENTATION MR. OCHS: I'll turn it over to Mr. Isackson at this point. MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, good evening. Welcome to our first budget hearing, and welcome to those in the audience and those watching on Collier Television. This is the first of two public hearings on the Collier County Government Fiscal Year 2013 budget which begins October 1, 2012, Page 12 September 6, 2012 and runs through September 30, 2013. The public budget hearings in September must follow a specific format pursuant to truth in millage guidelines. Your agenda contains a specific sequence of agenda items to be covered. Pursuant to statute, this hearing was advertised as part of the TRIM notice mailed to all Collier County property owners. The final hearing is two weeks from tonight, or September 20, 2012. This hearing will be noticed as part of the statutory advertising requirements contained in the truth in millage statutes. The budget notice ad will appear in the Naples Daily News on September 17, 2012. Final tax rates and budget decisions will be made at this final hearing on September 20, 2012. Agenda and speaker slips are available in the hallway. Anyone interested in addressing the Board of County Commissioners regarding our county budget must complete a speaker slip. Mr. Ian Mitchell will collect the speaker slips. Following some introductory remarks regarding the tax rates and changes to the tentative budget released in mid July, there will be an opportunity, which is Agenda Item 1C, for public comment. Speakers will be called by name. As a public service announcement, the individual property owner TRIM notices contain information pertaining to market value and the point of contact at the Property Appraiser's Office, through which questions could be addressed. In addition, there was a notation indicating that a petition for adjustment of market value is available through the Property Appraiser's Office, and this petition must be filed with the property appraiser by close of business, 5 p.m. on Tuesday, September 11, 2012. Item #1A Page 13 September 6, 2012 DISCUSSION OF TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATES AND INCREASES OVER THE ROLLED BACK MILLAGE RATES MR. ISACKSON: The first substantive issue to be discussed at this particular hearing is a discussion of the rolled back rate and, number one, the percentage increase in millage over the rolled back rate needed to fund the budget and, two, the reasons ad valorem tax revenues above the rolled back rate is calculated on the state DR420 forms are increased. Rolled back rate is defined as that tax rate necessary to generate prior year tax revenues, and this tax rate is calculated not including taxable values associated with new construction, additions, deletions, and rehabilitation improvements. The board-adopted budget guidance for Fiscal Year 2013 included a millage-neutral position for the General Fund and the Unincorporated Area General Fund. Together these two funds represent 91 percent of the total aggregate taxes levied across all Collier County taxing authorities. The Fiscal Year 2013 tentative General Fund and Unincorporated Area General Fund budgets, as presented, are based on millage-neutral tax rates. Neither the criterions mentioned above applies to the Fiscal Year 2013 Collier County budget based upon the TRIM statutory definition of an ad valorem tax increase above the aggregate rolled back rate. Referring to Exhibit 1 A in your packet, Commissioners, each Collier County taxing authority, exclusive of debt service, exclusive of voter-approved millage rates for operating and debt, exclusive of the Pelican Bay Municipal Services and Benefits Taxing Unit, the Collier County lighting district, Rock Road MSTU, Haldeman Creek dredging MSTU, and the Golden Gate Community Center MSTU, have proposed millage rates either at the rolled back rate or below the rolled back rate. Page 14 September 6, 2012 Budget guidance provided that millage-neutral tax rate positions would be taken in the General Fund and the Unincorporated Area General Fund. Further, MSTU tax rates would be set between millage neutral and tax neutral based upon the respective advisory board recommendation. The cumulative aggregate rolled back tax rate for all Collier County taxing authorities, exclusive of debt service, totals 4.3459 per $1,000 of taxable value. The proposed aggregate tax rate for all Collier County taxing authorities, exclusive of debt service, totals 4.3214 per $1,000 of taxable value. This is a decrease of .56 percent. That concludes the discussion of the tentative millage rates as it relates to increases over the rolled back rate. Are there any questions from the board? CHAIRMAN COYLE: Commissioner Henning? COMMISSIONER HENNING: Jim, do we need to talk about the community center? Are you okay? UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Tom, unfortunately, I -- COMMISSIONER HENNING: You want to meet at a further date? UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Give me a call and we'll go over it, because we have one more hearing on the budget. UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Okay. COMMISSIONER HENNING: And Fund 130 is slightly higher, the Golden Gate Community Center. I'll make a motion to approve the -- or make a motion to adopt the resolution for the tentative millage rate for 2012/2013. MR. ISACKSON: Commissioner, I'd ask, if you could, to hold that motion for a bit, if you wouldn't mind. COMMISSIONER HENNING: I'll put it in my pocket. MR. ISACKSON: Thank you very much. Page 15 September 6, 2012 Item #1B REVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF CHANGES TO THE TENTATIVE BUDGET MR. ISACKSON: Item 1B on your agenda, Commissioners, is a review and discussion of changes to the tentative budget. For tonight's hearing, changes to the budget, as noted within Exhibit 1B of your tabs, Commissioners, pertain exclusively to receipt of the tax collector's budget and the movement of dollars internally consistent with the board-approved reorganization. There is no change to the net budget submitted in July other than the tax collector's component. These budgetary actions are found within Exhibits 1B, Pages 3 through 13, and a summary of these actions are described within Exhibit 1B, Pages 1 to 2. The most noteworthy, again, is the customary submittal of the tax collector's budget, which is due to the Department of Revenue on August 1st, an included -- and inclusion of this budget as part of the first public hearing. According to the tax collector's statement of commissions and expenditures, Fiscal Year 2013 budget totals $16,977,700 and is offset by service commissions. The tax collector is a fee-based operation. This year's tax collector budget represents a decrease of 2.63 percent from the Fiscal Year 2012 submittal. Turnback from the tax collector is significant each year and represents excess commissions over actual expenses to run the operations. Turnback for the past two fiscal years, Fiscal Year 2010 and Fiscal Year 2011, has totaled $7,122,337 and $5,995,336 respectively. Cumulative changes to the Fiscal Year 2013 July tentative budget, as contained within the enabling resolutions, total 17,829,400, Page 16 September 6, 2012 of which $16,977,700 is attributed to the tax collector's budget submittal. The actions that are specified in Exhibit 1B, Commissioners, do not change the maximum millage rate set by the board on the 24th of July of 2012. Commissioners, questions on Item 1B on the agenda, please? CHAIRMAN COYLE: No questions. Item #1C PUBLIC COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, that brings you to public comments and questions regarding the tentative budget, Item 1C. MR. MITCHELL: Commissioners, we've no requests for people to speak. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Yes, you do. MR. KRASOWSKI: I'm sorry. I'm just a little slow. MR. MITCHELL: Okay. The speaker is Bob Krasowski. MR. KRASOWSKI: Good evening, Commissioners. I was looking through the papers here, and I wasn't able to locate the tourist development tax, which is going to be used to manage beach renourishment and other, you know, facilities for the county, and -- is that discussed separately, or is it in here and I just haven't found it? COMMISSIONER HENNING: It was in the workshop. MR. KRASOWSKI: In the workshop, but it's not part of the budget now? COMMISSIONER HENNING: It's part of the budget, but we discussed it in the -- MR. OCHS: Yes. Commissioner, that tax is set by a separate ordinance of the Board of County Commissioners. It's four cents, and it is -- it's not changed in the Fiscal 2013 budget. Page 17 September 6, 2012 MR. KRASOWSKI: Yeah. But, you know, so you have your income from that four cents, and then it's -- may I? MR. ISACKSON: Mr. Chair, if you'd like me to address the question, I can. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Go ahead. MR. ISACKSON: The iterations of the budget from June to July to September are in various forms. We have a very detailed budget review in July, and then a -- what we call a budget-by-fund detail in July. And in September, if you'll notice the budget resolution tab, you'll see that there's a summary budget by fund. That's all you get is a high level detail. And you're looking for specifically Fund 195. And I think that's where you'll find a one lump-sum budget number. If you'd like some specific details, we certainly would be able to get that to you. But those details, as Commissioner Henning suggested, was at your June workshop. MR. KRASOWSKI: Yeah, I might have -- I've seen it on television, you know, when you went through each individual section, and I thought maybe tonight that would be spelled out and broken down as well. Because what I watched on television, as far as the budget, there were questions regarding what department was managing those funds and what happened to it. And I just thought it would be really beneficial to the community; being that this is a tax and the tax is levied by a vote of the people to do so and that there are different categories of disbursing that tax which involve buying or maintaining facilities on the beach, that it might be interesting to see that at this point in time. Apparently, what, I missed the boat? I should have been observing at the earlier meeting for details, which I can still get through you. But as far as tonight, it's not mentioned, but maybe it should be listed. I mean, it's a pretty substantial amount of money, and a lot of people are looking to get a piece of it. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Well, Bob, it is mentioned. It's Page 18 September 6, 2012 mentioned on the tab, Page 3 of agenda Item 1F, and it's under Funds 192 or -- I'm sorry, 193, '94 and '95. MR. KRASOWSKI: Okay, okay. Good. CHAIRMAN COYLE: So as has been mentioned, we don't provide a detailed budget breakout for any of the departments here, quite frankly. MR. KRASOWSKI: Okay. CHAIRMAN COYLE: We don't provide a budget breakout for the sheriff or anybody else. We indicate the amount of money that has been reviewed and approved in our prior meetings, but we don't give a complete budget breakdown of where it's going to be spent. MR. KRASOWSKI: Well, thank you very much. I appreciate your clearing it up and answering my question. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Any other speakers? MR. MITCHELL: Not that I can see. Nope. That was your last speaker, sir. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Commissioner Henning, you were going to make -- no, you're going to go through the millage -- MR. ISACKSON: Commissioner Henning's -- CHAIRMAN COYLE: -- recitation. MR. ISACKSON: Commissioner Henning's motion would be applicable under 1E, sir. I have to go through my -- CHAIRMAN COYLE: Yes, I know. MR. ISACKSON: -- rudimentary -- CHAIRMAN COYLE: I think it's ridiculous, but go ahead and do it. Item #1D ANNOUNCEMENT OF TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATES AND PERCENTAGE CHANGES IN PROPERTY TAX RATES Page 19 September 6, 2012 MR. ISACKSON: Commissioners, Item 1D on your agenda is announcement of the tentative millage rates and percentage changes in property tax rates. Let me, at this point, begin my reading of the proposed property tax rates, the proposed rolled back rate, and the percent changed from the rolled back rate. I'll begin with the General Fund. General Fund, Fund 001, the rolled back millage rate, 3.5736; the proposed millage rate, 3.5645. That is a percent changed from the rolled back rate of minus .25 percent. Water Pollution Control, Fund No. 114, the rolled back millage rate, .0294; the proposed millage rate, .0293. The percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus .34 percent. The Unincorporated Area General Fund, that would be Fund 111, the rolled back millage rate, .7219; the proposed millage rate, .7161. Change from the rolled back rate of a minus .80 percent. The Golden Gate Community Center, Fund 130, the rolled back millage rate, .1971; the proposed millage rate, .1990. The percent changed from the rolled back rate, .96 percent. The Victoria Park Drainage, Fund No. 134, the rolled back millage rate, .0479; proposed millage rate, .0479. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, zero percent. Naples Park Drainage, Fund 139, the rolled back millage rate, .0090; proposed millage rate, .0090. The percent changed from the rolled back rate is zero percent. The Vanderbilt Beach MSTU, Fund 143, the rolled back millage rate, .5022; the proposed millage rate, .5000. The percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus .44 percent. The Isle of Capri MSTU, Fund 144, rolled back millage rate, 2.0424; proposed millage rate, 2. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 2.08 percent. The Ochopee Fire Control MSTU, Fund 146, the rolled back millage rate, 4.0536; the proposed millage rate, 4. Percent changed Page 20 September 6, 2012 from the rolled back rate, minus 1.32 percent. The Collier County Fire MSTU, Fund 148, the rolled back millage rate, 2.0729; proposed millage rate, 2. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 3.52 percent. Goodland Fire MSTU, Fund 149, rolled back millage rate, 1.2803; proposed millage rate, 1.2760. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus .34 percent. The Sabal Palm Road MSTU, Fund 151, the rolled back millage rate, .1107; proposed millage rate, .1000. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 9.67 percent. The Golden Gate Parkway Beautification, Fund 153, rolled back millage rate, .4753; proposed millage rate, .4753. Zero percent changed from the rolled back rate. Lely Golf Estates Beautification, Fund 152, the rolled back millage rate, 2.0550; proposed millage rate, 2. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 2.68 percent. Hawksridge Stormwater Pumping MSTU, Fund 154, the rolled back millage rate, .0531; proposed millage rate, .0500. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 5.84 percent. The Radio Road Beautification MSTU, Fund 158, the rolled back millage rate, .3210; the proposed millage rate, .3210. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, zero. The Forest Lake Roadway and Drainage MSTU, Fund 159, the rolled back millage rate, 1.1672; proposed millage, 1.1551. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 1.04 percent. The Immokalee Beautification MSTU, Fund 162. The rolled back millage rate, 1.0465; the proposed millage rate, .9354. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 10.62 percent. The Bayshore Avalon Beautification, Fund 163, the rolled back millage rate, 2.4444; the proposed millage rate, 2.3754. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 2.82 percent. Haldeman Creek Dredging MSTU, Fund 164, the rolled back Page 21 September 6, 2012 millage rate, .7613; proposed millage .7735. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, 1.6 percent. Rock Road MSTU, Fund 165, the rolled back millage rate, 2.7024; proposed millage rate, 3. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, 11.01 percent. The Radio Road East MSTU, Fund 166, the rolled back millage rate, .4828; proposed millage rate, .2401. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 50.27 percent. Conservation Collier, Fund 172, the rolled back millage rate, .1694; proposed millage rate, .1651. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 2.54 percent. Forest Lakes Debt Service, Fund 259, the rolled back millage rate, 2.9301; proposed millage rate, 2.8449. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus 2.91 percent. The Radio Road East Debt Service, Fund 266, the rolled back millage rate, zero; the proposed millage rate, .2319. Percent changed is not applicable. Conservation Collier Debt Service, Series 2005, Fund 272, rolled back millage rate, .0815; proposed millage rate, .0849; percent changed from the rolled back rate, 4.17 percent. Collier County Lighting MSTU, Fund 760, the rolled back millage rate, .1502; the proposed millage rate, .1631. Changed from the rolled back rate, 8.59 percent. Pelican Bay MSTBU, Fund 778, the rolled back millage rate, .0853; the proposed millage rate, .0857. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, .47 percent. The aggregate millage rate, the old rolled back rate, 4.3459, proposed millage rate, 4.3214. Percent changed from the rolled back rate, minus .56 percent. Item #1E Page 22 September 6, 2012 RESOLUTION 2012-142: RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE TENTATIVE MILLAGE RATES - ADOPTED COMMISSIONER HENNING: Move to adopt the resolution for the tentative budget millage rate for 2012/2013. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Motion -- COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Second. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Motion by Commissioner Henning to adopt the millage resolution for Budget Year 2012/13, seconded by Commissioner Coletta. Any discussion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN COYLE: All in favor, please signify by saying aye. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Aye. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Aye. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Aye. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Any opposed by like sign. (No response.) CHAIRMAN COYLE: The motion passes unanimously. Item #1F RESOLUTION 2012-143: RESOLUTION ADOPTING THE AMENDED TENTATIVE BUDGET - ADOPTED COMMISSIONER HENNING: Move to adopt the resolution for the tentative budget for 2012/2013. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Motion by Commissioner Henning to adopt the tentative -- the resolution for the tentative budgets for Fiscal Year 2012/2013. Seconded by -- COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Second. Page 23 September 6, 2012 CHAIRMAN COYLE: -- Commissioner Coletta. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Yes. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Any discussion? (No response.) CHAIRMAN COYLE: All in favor, please signify by saying aye. Aye. COMMISSIONER COLETTA: Aye. COMMISSIONER HENNING: Aye. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Any opposed by like sign. COMMISSIONER HILLER: Aye. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Motion carries 3-1 with Commissioner Hiller dissenting. Okay. What else do we have, gentlemen? Item #1G ANNOUNCEMENT OF FINAL PUBLIC HEARING MR. ISACKSON: Commissioner, Item 1G is the announcement of the final public hearing. The final public hearing on the 2012/13 Collier County budget, Thursday, September 20, 2012, at 5:05 p.m., Collier County Government Center, W. Harmon Turner, Building F, third floor, boardroom, Naples, Florida. That's all I have, sir. CHAIRMAN COYLE: Okay. Very well, then we are adjourned. Thank you very much. MR. OCHS: Thank you. ***** Page 24 September 6, 2012 There being no further business for the good of the County, the meeting was adjourned by order of the Chair at 5:43 p.m. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS BOARD OF ZONING APPEALS/EX OFFICIO GOVERNING BOARD(S) OF SPECIAL DISTRICTS UNDER ITS CONTROL FRED COYLE, CHAT AN ATTEST DWIGHT E. BROCK, CLERK Aka n 436.101`/ j iI n&tar+ These minutes a the Board on 5 2 tv 25, 2biZ ,s pp ved byte oa d o as presented or as corrected TRANSCRIPT PREPARED ON BEHALF OF GREGORY COURT REPORTING SERVICE, INC., BY TERRI LEWIS, COURT REPORTER AND NOTARY PUBLIC. Page 25