Loading...
HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes 07-18-2017 Budget WorkshopCITY COUNCIL BUDGET WORKSHOP MEETING CAPE CANAVERAL LIBRARY MEETING ROOM 201 Polk Avenue,Cape Canaveral,Florida TUESDAY July 18,2017 4:00 PM MINUTES CALL TO ORDER: The Chair called the Meeting to Order at 3:57 P.M. ROLL CALL: Council Members Present: Council Member Mike Brown Mayor Bob Hoog Mayor Pro Tem Brendan McMillin Council Member Rocky Randels Council Member Betty Walsh Others Present: City Manager David Greene City Clerk Mia Goforth Administrative/Financial Services Director John DeLeo Capital Projects Director Jeff Ratliff Community Development Director David Dickey Economic Development Director Todd Morley Human Resources/Risk Management Director Jane Ross Culture and Leisure Services Director Gustavo Vergara Public Works Services Director Ralph Lotspeich Community Engagement/Deputy Public Works Services Director Joshua Surprenant Brevard County Sheriffs Office Commander Linda Moros Cape Canaveral Volunteer Fire Department Assistant Chief John Cunningham PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: None. DISCUSSION: 1. Proposed Fiscal Year 2017/2018 Budget and Five (5) Year Capital Improvement Plan: Mayor Hoog invited Council Members to ask questions or make comments. City Manager Greene summarized the Proposed Budget including: the proposed slight millage increase, the opportunity to reduce the millage rate for fiscal year 2017/2018, positive feedback with most Brevard County Commissioners regarding Community Redevelopment Agencies (CRA) and the City CRA, going forward with projects located within the CRA, fulfillment of remaining Strategic Planning Retreat/Visioning items to include City infrastructure projects. City of Cape Canaveral, Florida City Council Budget Workshop Meeting July 18, 2017 Page 2 of 2 Discussion ensued and included employee benefits, family health insurance coverage costs, salaries, contingency funds,no funds received yet from Federal Emergency Management Agency, a mixed use project coming to North Atlantic Avenue, Capital Improvement Projects, State legislature actions negatively affecting municipalities, the City continues to self-finance when possible, City continues to have the third lowest tax rate in Brevard County, City Hall Project will come under budget, moving forward with road paving program, Central Boulevard, increased value of homes, substantially completed property not being taxed as a complete structure because Certificates of Occupancy cannot yet be issued, possible policy ordinance to be brought forward by Staff to deal with those issues, facility improvements and added amenities in the City since 2010, Fire Rescue workers compensation line items and the need to revise some language in the Canaveral Fire Rescue services contract. Council reached consensus there would be no need for budget workshop meeting in August. ADJOURNMENT: There being no further business, the Meeting adjourned at 5:02 P.M. / ,, Mia Goforth, CMC, City Clerk Bob Hoog, Mayor Seal of Cape Canaveal, Florida