All right, we're going to start soon. You like that? Chicken's a little tough. Good evening, everybody. Good evening, Mr. Mayor. We're going to start in two hours. We have three hours. There's a TV show I'm waiting to watch. Okay, let's go. Okay. I'm sorry, I have to read a script. Mike, can you make it louder in the back? Because we have some people that are very loud in the back. Please take your seat. Commissioner Fisher. There he is. GQ Commissioner Lamar Fisher. Good evening. Tonight, the Broward County Board of County Commissioners will conduct public hearings on the final millage rates and final budgets that will support county services during fiscal year 2027. I will try to talk fast so this doesn't take five hours. This is the last of two public hearings as required by law. The purpose of this hearing is to receive comments from the public and provide information on the county's proposed budget and tax levies. The public hearing will be conducted in three sections. First section includes public hearings on countywide and Broward Municipal Services district millage rates and budgets, as well as the fire, rescue, and street lighting sub-district millage rates and budgets. The second section includes public hearings on the millage rates and budgets for the county's dependent water control districts. The third section includes adoption of the county's five-year capital improvement program. An agenda listing all the items to be discussed and the order of the items is available near the entrance. It's a very interesting reading. If you're interested in addressing the Board of County Commissioners about an item on the agenda, please register with the county staff member near the entrance of the commission chambers if you have not registered already. County staff is also available near the entrance to answer questions about the county's budget and taxes. If anyone has any questions about property value assessment or exemptions, the property appraisers office staff is available near the entrance. Where's Marty Keir? I don't know. And can be reached at 954-357-6830. We'll get his cell number to you soon. Marty Keir at bcpa.net or in room 111 on the first floor of this building from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. With that introduction, let's begin. We're first talking about the aggregate millage rate. For fiscal year 2027, there's a proposed 5.02 percent aggregate increase in property taxes when compared with the taxes generated from the aggregate rollback rate. The rollback rate generates approximately the same amount of taxes as the prior year, plus taxes generated from new buildings added to the tax roll. The aggregate millage rate of 5.6998 as compared to the aggregate rollback rate of 5.4276 includes all adverting taxes levied by the county and its dependent districts. This aggregate millage rate is the basis for the state-required advertisements concerning the budget and taxes. The rollback rate rates and the percentage change in property taxes are based on the assessment rolls certified by property appraiser Marty Keir. A county-wide millage and budget. The public hearings open on the general county millage rate and budget. The final millage rate proposed for the general county purposes is 5.6658, which represents a 5.03 percent increase in property taxes compared with the rollback rate of 5.3946. I'd like to introduce a special guest star today, Monica Sabero, the county administrator, to provide a brief overview of the county budget and millage rate. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Good evening, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Commissioners. The fiscal year 2027 budget is a fiscally responsible and strategically balanced financial plan that reflects prudent stewardship of public resources while advancing the county's highest priorities. This recommended budget substantially minimizes growth in department budgets to ensure that the county-wide property tax millage on the county's taxpayers is maintained at current levels. The budget was developed with careful consideration of evolving fiscal conditions and uncertainties, including potential future impacts on property tax revenues. To strengthen the county's financial resilience and preserve flexibility in the face of these challenges, reserves have been strategically increased, positioning Broward County to responsibly manage risk while continuing to deliver essential services. Today, we are presenting a budget for fiscal year 27, totaling $9.219 billion, which is $483.1 million more than fiscal year 26. The operating budgets reflect an increase in the amount of $185.2 million, largely due to increases in the constitutional officers' general fund budgets, primarily for BSO regional general fund services, and the dispatch contract. The county-wide employee benefits fund, the county-wide employee benefits fund, to reflect increases in the health insurance and the self-insured state-required reserve, the local provider participation fund, paid fully by private hospitals, and the transit operating fund, to address cost increases in contracts and diesel fuel. It also reflects an increase in the capital budget of $332.7 million, largely due to the budgeting of the following major non-property tax-supported capital projects in fiscal year 27. Pardon me. Thank you. Water system improvements in the Water and Wastewater Enterprise Capital Fund and the Broward Commuter Rail South Project in the Transportation Surtax Capital Fund. Finally, there is a decrease in the debt service budget of $34.7 million. The general fund budget proposed for fiscal year 27 totals $2.145 billion, which is an increase of $109.4 million. The general fund regional Broward Sheriff's Office recommended budget increased by $41.5 million, and the general fund transfer to the dispatch contract fund for 9-1-1 services increased by $2.7 million, which includes funding for the third and final year of $8 million salary adjustments for the Broward Sheriff's Office detention deputies, as originally proposed by the sheriff two years ago and reiterated as a priority by the sheriff in this year's budget request. This represents a $24 million total increase over the past three years for salary adjustments for detention deputies, coupled with an additional $15 million increase for a 5.8 percent salary increase, inclusive of increases in benefits, FICA and FRS, for the following BSO departments in the functional categories. General law enforcement, courts and fire rescue, and emergency services. In addition to an increase to BSO's special risk for the Florida retirement system for FRS of $6.7 million, along with an increase of $19.1 million for BSO's health insurance and fully funding BSO's operating expense and capital outlay budget request for fiscal year 27. Those items, combined with an increase of $5.8 million to fully fund BSO's request and operating expenses, along with a decrease of $10.4 million to fully fund BSO's request and capital outlay, overall increase the FY27 BSO budget by $44.2 million, which is an increase of 5.3 percent, while the county general fund agency budgets have modestly increased by 3.4 percent when compared to fiscal year 26. The fiscal year 27 proposed budget provides the largest operating investment in public safety in Broward County's history. In addition, for the other constitutional officers, the property appraiser's office recommended budget increases by $1.5 million. The supervisor of elections budget increases by $5.9 million, primarily due to the different elections planned in fiscal year 27 compared to fiscal year 26. The clerk of court's budget increases by $0.3 million, and the fiscal year 27 budget for the tax collector increases by $4.9 million, which is driven by the 2 percent commission levied on the county from the tax roll, which includes the county paying the school board's share per state law and as a result of recent legislative changes. Now includes the school board's voted debt, excuse me, debt service that will be withheld by the tax collector in the distribution of property tax revenue to the county. The budget proposes a fiscally responsible approach and a series of actions to restrain the county budget, given the available resources, while protecting to the greatest extent essential services to those most in need in our community and continuing to invest in the county's highest priorities. There is a reduction in the county's overall number of positions by 21, identified through operational efficiencies. The recommended budget also increases reserves to strengthen the county's financial position and guard against future uncertainties, including an increase in reserves by $3 million for revenue fluctuations and an increase in reserves by $5.5 million for potential fluctuations in property tax revenues. To support the general fund, the certified property tax roll increases 5.40% when compared to the tax roll used for the adopted fiscal year 26 budget, but we do not anticipate this level of growth to continue. The fiscal year 27 total millage rate remains the same as fiscal year 26. It should be noted that county taxes make up approximately one quarter of the overall property tax bill. The increase in assessed value for homestead property owners is capped at 2.7% for fiscal year 27, and therefore, generally, homestead taxpayers will experience a slight increase in county taxes. For other properties, the change in the assessed value of each property will determine how much the property taxes will change. Thank you, Mayor, Vice Mayor, and Commissioners. Thank you for that unrehearsed speech. I'd like to ask OMB, is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak? Yes, Mayor. There are currently four speakers signed up to speak. The first speaker is Reverend Aaron Lauer, followed by Adeline Lubin. Good evening. Good evening. Just say your name, please. Yes. My name is Reverend Aaron Lauer. I'm from the United Church of Christ, Fort Lauderdale, and Bold Justice. I want to start first by recognizing this commission and the work that you have done, the big steps you have taken on affordable housing here in Broward County. Year after year, the county has increased its investment into affordable housing, and seven months ago, this commission adopted the 90% policy for the Affordable Housing Trust Fund because you recognized the scale of this crisis. And that was the right decision. But a policy only means something if you follow it. This year, the proposed budget falls about $1.6 million short of fully implementing the 90% policy. A $1.6 million shortfall means that 30 affordable homes won't get built. 30 homes that would remain affordable for 30 years, serving family after family over that time. We also know that funding affordable housing does more than just provide homes for families in need. It has a huge economic impact. The Florida Housing Coalition found that for every $1 invested into affordable housing, it generated about $9.50 in economic activity. So, with this $1.6 million shortfall, we are talking about more than just 30 units of housing. We are talking about families who may have to choose between food on the table and a roof over their heads. We are talking about whether the people who teach our children, care for our seniors, staff, our hospitals, can actually live in Broward. We are talking about making an investment into Broward County that will serve our community for generations to come. Nothing about the affordable housing crisis has changed since you voted for this policy back in February. You already made the right decision, and now we are asking you to follow through with it. Fully implement the 90% policy and put the additional $1.6 million back into affordable housing. Thank you. The next speaker is Adeline Lubin, followed by Susan White-Baisley. Good evening, Commissioners. My name is Adeline Lubin from Plantation Seventh-day Adventist Church, and I'm a board member with Bold Justice. This September, our congregations are holding listening sessions all across Broward County. We expect more than 500 people to gather and share what families are facing, what is keeping them up at night. After two years of working on affordable housing, we know almost everyone has a story. Jason, from my own church, was living with his fiancée and two-year-old son in one room, working 11 to 13 hours a day and still struggling for rent, groceries, and diapers. Already in Margate, Juliet told us her son wants to move back from Orlando, but he can't afford Broward County because it's almost double. Catley in North Lauderdale told us her son wants to move out, but he cannot find a one-bedroom for less than $1,800 a month. And for me, this is personal, too. In 2028, my daughter graduates from college, and she has already determined that she can't come back and live in the place where she grew up. Seven months ago, this commission recognized this is a crisis, and you adopted the 90% policy. Since then, the crisis hasn't gotten smaller. The stories haven't stopped, so the commitment cannot stop either. We're asking you to fully fund the policy you already voted for. The future of Broward County rests on the decisions that you make on affordable housing. Thank you. The next speaker is Susan White-Baisley, followed by Annabelle Yupanqui. My name is Susan White-Baisley. I'm a member of Trinity Lutheran Church and a bold justice member. On February 17th, I spoke to you in this chamber, and I shared my story with you. I told you that I moved to Broward from Homestead in 1993 as a refugee from Hurricane Andrew. Although I was flat broke after the hurricane experience, I managed to purchase a home in which I still reside. Shortly after I closed on my home, my daughter was born. Fast forward to now. My daughter is age 32. She works in retail. She's wanted to move out on her own for years. She has searched high and low for housing she can afford. Everything that is decent and livable is way out of her financial reach. She loves living in Broward. She doesn't want to move away, as many have been forced to do. At one point, my daughter shopped for a van so that she could live in it. I was frightened for her safety. I was distraught that the situation is so bad here that my daughter was seriously planning to live in a motor vehicle. It seemed to be the only thing that she could afford. I couldn't believe I live in a community where my daughter seriously thought about living in a car. It used to be that young adults that couldn't afford to buy a house would rent until they could afford to purchase a home. Now they cannot even afford to rent because the prices are so high. I've since convinced my daughter to live with me. I'm happy. I'm really happy that she has a safe place to live. All the same, she works very hard. She deserves to have a home to call her own. That is what I said to you on February 17th. I was excited and hopeful when you passed the affordable housing policy. And I'm here today to urge you to deliver the goods and keep your promises. Vote to allocate the full 90% of the expired TIF money to support affordable housing measures. Thank you. Thank you. The final speaker is Annabelle Upangui. Good evening, commissioners. My name is Annabelle Upangui. I am an Oakland Park resident. And I'm here to talk about the community cat program that we have here in Broward County. Broward County has effectively transferred much of its community cat program's field operations to its residents. We are now expected to locate cats, purchase traps, provide food, trap them, transport them to appointments, retrieve them the following day, and return them all at our own expense. If the county cannot provide additional field officers or transportation, then the very least it could do is provide fundings to help residents perform these county responsibilities. The current appointment system is restrictive and ineffective for many residents. It does not adequately serve seniors, people with disabilities, residents without reliable transportation, or people already experiencing financial hardship. Traveling long distances, making repeated trips, and complying with limited appointment availability is simply not realistic for everyone. Please follow Commissioner Nan Rich's example. She committed $24,000 in unused office funds to TNR, enough to sterilize approximately 330 cats. I respectfully ask every commissioner to identify available discretionary or unused funds that can be directed towards additional TNR vouchers. These vouchers should be distributed among qualified veterinary clinics throughout Broward County. This would allow residents to use participating veterinarians closer to their homes, and this will increase the number of cats sterilized, reduce transportation burdens, and expand the program's capacity immediately. If Broward County expects residents to serve as its unpaid field agents, then Broward County must give them the financial resources necessary to do the job. Please fund additional community veterinary vouchers and help the residents who are already carrying this program on their backs. Thank you. Oops, thank you. Any other speakers? No further speakers. So, bringing it back to the day I said, I just want to ask Monica one question and then hand it off to commissioners. Monica, can you please explain how affordable housing is funded? Yes, sir, and thank you, Mr. Mayor. So, in this budget, you have a couple of different areas where affordable housing is funded. So, the $27.7 million that the individuals from both justice were referring to, which was not quite the 90 percent, it was at 85 percent, the equivalent of 85 percent of the expired CRA dollars. That is found on page 5-34 of the recommended capital program. That's the affordable housing dollars that they were referring to. Also, you will find in the recommended operating budget on page 13-18, there's two sections there that have the equivalent of just over $6 million more for affordable housing. It's $5.8 million, that $5,870,000 from the Hollywood set aside, that this commission has set aside for affordable housing. And then there's an additional $250,000, a few lines down, that are stated for future project-based funding commitments. But that is expected to come also in fiscal year 27. That is those kind of delayed TIF dollar projects that you guys have been doing. We did one earlier today. That was the fifth project. But this one here is coming online for this fiscal year. So, when all is said and done, there's over $33.7 million for affordable housing in this budget. And if you look at the total FY27 expired CRA dollars, that actually represents 103 percent of those expired CRA dollars. So, the value. So, it's actually, the commitment by the board is actually exceeding what your resolution was. We're exceeding the 90 percent by 10 percent. By 13 percent. 13 percent. Thank you. I'm going to go around this. Anything you want to bring up? Anybody? Yes, Commissioner. Thank you. And so, I know the people's resolution. And what, I think what was expected was that it would be 90-10 from the CRA, the TIF money, sorry. Right? The ending of the TIF this year. It would be 90 percent of that. That was the understanding from the resolution. So, Commissioner, yes, the resolution, if I, I don't have it in front of me, but from my recollection, it was that it was the intent of the board, subject to appropriations and to commission priorities, that there would be 90 percent of the expired CRA dollars to go towards affordable housing. And so, you did 85 percent instead of the 90, but then you're saying there is an additional monies. There's $5.8 million that this commission has set aside that ordinarily would have gone to general fund, but it's set aside for affordable housing in a Hollywood Beach CRA area and the jurisdiction of that area. And then there's another $250,000 associated with affordable housing projects in Oakland Park for the Sky project. So, when all said and done, when you add all those together, it's $33.7 million. And the value of the expired CRA was around $32.6 million. So, the value is actually that this board would be committing towards affordable housing is actually 103 percent of the value of the CRA expired dollars. So, the only difference is that some of it is already projected to be used in certain areas. That's correct. And so, instead of using that 85 percent in some of these areas, you wouldn't need to use it. That could be used elsewhere. That's correct. And these areas will be covered in projects that, the Sky project, if that's a project that's up and coming? It's already built. And so, this is the first year that the dollars would go back. That's correct. Okay. And then the Hollywood Beach CRA, they're coming back. That's correct. And then the money can be used anywhere? Well, no. The 5.8 is that was an agreement that it will be used in Hollywood Beach. Only? That's correct. But the $200,000 can be used on any project? The $250,000 is revenues that we would be giving towards that project because we're giving it back to that community. The Sky project? Oakland Park, that's correct. So, that's to be used in Oakland Park? That's in Oakland Park. Okay. And so, we have $27.7 million that can be used throughout the county? That's correct. All right. So, could I, Mr. Mayor, could I find out if this is something that they understand or they need more clarification from Boat Justice? You could do whatever you want to do. Okay. Whatever you want. Could I hear from Boat Justice? Are you confident that this now exceeds the amount, the 90 percent? Yeah. I guess our question would be the Hollywood set-aside. Does that money go to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund or it's specifically for building in Hollywood? It's not part of that exact trust fund, but it's for affordable housing. In Hollywood? In Hollywood. In Hollywood. Yes. I can address that if you'd like. Sure. Okay. When we did that, we set aside certain areas of Hollywood, low to moderate income areas. So, the money is only going to those areas. And the money is set aside for people to build. It's also if developers want to build affordable housing projects, which they've been using that money very well. So, if you look at the projects, they're doing a great, they're doing a great, I mean, Hollywood's probably building more affordable housing than anybody because of that. So, is that a recurring, is that come every year or is that just a one-time thing? It's scaled up at different levels based on the settlement agreement. And I'm trying to look here. Hold on a second. Yeah. It went up from this current fiscal year that we're sitting in today from 4.1 and it went up to 5.8. It started at 3. Oh, okay. And then will that happen again next year? And we're looking it up. Okay. Yeah. But I will just tell you that, you know, this board has absolutely prioritized affordable housing. You've seen an enormous amount of projects out of Hollywood. Yeah, Mayor, I just want to talk about Oakland Park. The Sky Project is brand new. That's what Oakland Park committed to build affordable along with their City Hall. It's a dynamic project. I think you've seen it on Dixie Highway. And then their old City Hall as well, they're going to rebuild affordable housing on that, too. So, it's a very great thing that Oakland Park is doing as well. They're seeing it. And ultimately, hopefully, we'll get Camino Rail there, too, as well. But one day. One day. But if you go by there, you can see exactly what they're doing. And the product is beautiful. Like Hollywood, it's just an amazing product. We're going to be past Camino Rail. Did everyone speak? Is that? You want to speak? Sure. Please take your time. Yes. Commissioner Davis, are you done? I know they all interrupted you already. Sorry, yeah. Did you finish? I guess we'll just wait for the answer on whether or not it's a recurring. I think the other question we had was in the policy that you passed back in February, the priority was for 60% AMI and below. Is that the same for the Hollywood set aside? That, I don't remember the particulars of that settlement. It's all based upon census of LMI areas, low to moderate income. So, by and large, it is in those areas. Low to moderate, okay. Yeah. Yeah. All right. We'll do a sidebar and give you that information. The only final thing I would say is we're just aware of, you know, 90% was the commitment and the priority. And this is the first year that you're voting on the budget and to not meet the 90%, you know, we just don't want it to set a precedent in future years. We're exceeding at 13%. Yeah. No, no, no. And then I'm saying, and it sounds like with the Hollywood set aside, especially if that's recurring every year, that you would be exceeding. So, yeah, we understand that. I think his new argument would be we should reduce at 13% so we hit 90%. I'm joking. No, no, no, no. We'll take more than we do. We'll take more. But, yeah, we'll just wait for the answer. Thank you. And that would be the answer that I owe you is for future years. This year is set in the budget at that 5-8. Yes, yes. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Davis, you done? Great. Senator Rich? No, he's ready. Let him go first. Commissioner Udine? Go. We want you to go first. So, the expired TIF is what amount? 29? It's we're at 113% of expired TIF? It's 103, sorry. I think I may have misspoken during one of my briefings where I may have mentioned 113. So, if we went to 100% of expired TIF, we would be exceeding the 90% by 10% and that 3% could be used for other county programs? It could be used for whatever the will of the board is for general fund revenues. Okay. Question for you. You said you had 21 employees through attrition. No employee in Broward County lost their job this budget cycle due to budget issues. Correct. Every employee in Broward County got a raise this year? If they met their performance review, yes. Okay. Every public safety professional that Broward County funds got a raise? As far as we know, yes. The ones that we can... We budgeted for. Yes, we budgeted for. We budgeted for every public safety professional. Yes. The average median salary in Broward County is approximately $72,000 a year. The average public safety salary in Broward County is over $112,000 a year, the median numbers, if I'm comparing them correctly. So, we're well ahead of what our medians and what our averages are of what the public sector is paying their employees to work. Okay. I don't have those numbers, but I'm going to take that. Take my word for it on that. Okay. How are we now going to provide tax relief for residents of Broward County that are paying the taxes on all this? Last year, we did some of the dollars from the expired voted debt millage. This year, are we going to be able to... Can the county come and provide meaningful or any kind of tax relief through the millage rate, through taxpayers who are getting ready to vote on this in November, to deal with property taxes? Because I hear them loud and clear, my constituents, they want to see affordability, and they want to see some tax reduction. They want to see insurance reduction. They want to see some other things. But the only thing we control up here, really, is their ad valorem taxes. Has there been any discussion internally through management about the reduction of the millage rate for this upcoming budget? So, we have listened to the direction that we've been receiving through the budget workshops. If there were... If the board chooses to entertain a slight reduction in the millage rate, similar to last year, my recommendation would be to do the same that you did last year. If that is the will of the board, to take it from the reserve, a slight increase that we had done to the reserves. And you put some dollars in the reserve, you call it a tax stabilization fund. It's revenue fluctuations. And then there's two different categories that we increased in the reserves. One was, let me give you the exact, revenue fluctuations and reserve for ad valorem. I mean, I would like to see this board at least do some kind of modest millage reduction so that we could say to the taxpayers who are paying all these bills that we've at least heard them and are doing something tax-wise. We've now funded the affordable housing, which I agree with, and we're providing numbers that are off the charts for what other counties are doing with affordable housing. We're far exceeding what any other county in the state of Florida is doing as far as affordable housing. And we're at 103% of the expired TIF. We said 90% originally, but even if we said we went to 100%, there would be the dollars there that we can give some tax relief to our residents that are paying the bills. Thank you, Mayor. Monica, with respect to Commissioner Udine's reduction on millage, can we vote, maybe council would know this, if we said, yes, we're willing to reduce millage depending on how the vote comes in November. So if the vote comes in November for that ballot thing, we're not reducing millage because it's going to be reduced drastically anyway. But if it doesn't pass, then can we do that here where we do it conditionally? No, this is the budget hearing to make the decision on millage, right? We need to know that so that you can send out your tax bills, which are going to be due before the vote happens. But can't he change, in a month from now, six weeks from now, can't he make, if he had an agenda item to change the millage then, can't he do it then? No, we're statutorily required to get our budget set in this time period in the month of September before the start of the fiscal. But what's voted on in November has nothing to do with the tax year that we're budgeting for now. It's next year's budget that we would be talking about. Oh, I see. Could I speak, please? Does anybody here want to comment on, you know, Commissioner Udine? I would like to speak. Senator Rich? Thank you. Thank you. Okay, first of all, I want to thank you all for coming here. You have had a tremendous impact on what we do here, and I want you to be aware of that. And we're, you know, it's important to us to have, to be hearing from people like you in the community that are understanding that we still have a huge problem in our community. And I'm thrilled right now that we're going with 103%, okay? But I just want to say that we still have a situation. Alice's report just came out from United Way. 50% approximately of people in Broward County are cost burdened, and half of those are severely cost burdened, and they can't afford homes. You heard some of the stories that people talked about here. So I think it's very important for us to maintain what we're doing here. It's the right thing to do for people in our community. We have people like teachers who are leaving. If anybody is paying attention to what's going on in Broward County schools with teachers leaving, we're 50th in the nation in funding of teachers. We don't have librarians in a lot of our schools, as Commissioner Burke could tell you. So there's just so much out there that there are still so many people in need. And I believe that this is our prime responsibility. And I think because of advocacy on your behalf and many others and many of us up here, we have been able to come up with, I think, is an important message to our community that this is a number one priority. And I do want to disagree with my friend, Commissioner Udeen. Miami-Dade does spend more money than we do on affordable housing, so we are not the most of it. But at any rate, I think we're doing the right thing. And I would certainly not support any millage rate. We have too many uncertainties here right now, and what we need to be doing is what several of us have said today, is to be out there educating the public on the possibilities, if this passes the property tax, what impact it would have on all the services in Broward County, many, many of them. We don't know which ones. We don't know what. So it's very uncertain. But we need to go be out there letting people know what we're doing to help people and how important it is. So I just, again, want to thank you, and I support this exactly the way it is. I have speakers lined up. I got Commissioner Udeen, Commissioner Furr, and then Senator Geller. Did you want to? So I don't agree with Miami-Dade County spending more than this. They have so much more unincorporated area. We have all the cities and all the municipalities, so that's not comparing apples to apples. I believe that the, I think Ball Justice has done an amazing job in getting us over 90% of the TIF money. We're now at 103%, and I can tell you there's people that are on the other side of that spectrum that are going to be moving into the affordable housing need because their property taxes have gotten out of hand. We must provide some level of affordability, and we must say that we hear the public and bring them affordability. So I don't know what the motion I need to make is, but I would make the motion at the appropriate time to reduce our millage rate, give me the number, take it out of that 5.5 reserve stabilization, keep it funded as affordable housing exactly as it is, we are doing so much in affordable housing, plus the private sector has come in now on a lot of the affordable housing stuff. The problem is, is that it is taking so long to get these projects out of the ground that we're not increasing the supply of housing in general. As much as my, and I love Senator Rich, we can just agree to disagree. This is a very complicated issue, and every subsidy that we provide, yes, it helps, but it's not the answer. Because if it was the answer, we could have figured this out for years. We've been funding it with so much money. This is a better way to do this, in my opinion. And one of the ways to do it is lowering the rates and making it a little bit more affordable for the people that are paying everyone's bills in this county. So if you give me the number, that's the motion that I'm going to make to lower the millage rate again. Before you make your motion, I'm going to speak, and then we'll come back to you. Commissioner Furr and Senator Geller. Okay. Thank you. I say this to Bull Justice, even though now I have a microphone and can't take it away. When you look at the Amendment 3 and think of what that, and you go back to your congregations, and you think about how big a dent that's going to take, you're thinking about the 90% Amendment 3 passes, you're talking about a huge decrease in terms of money that would be able to go toward affordable housing. That drop in millage and general revenue that we would be bringing, you may want to have a chance to talk with your congregations on some of those things, on those matters, not to mention all of the other services, human services that this county brings to the people of this county. I say that just something to think about. Senator Geller. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Two items. First, I want to follow up on what Commissioner Furr was saying, because actually I was planning on asking that. And first, let me ask the county attorney, if I say anything that is out of order, please jump, you know, wave your hands, get me to stop before I say anything too bad. It's actually a question for county administration, which is if Amendment 3 were to pass, we've heard speakers on two topics today, the animal shelter, specifically cats, but I'll talk about the animal shelter in general and animal services and affordable housing. Do you have any idea if Amendment 3 were to pass, what type of impact that would have? I mean, I'm assuming that we would have to concentrate our few remaining dollars on things like, you know, law enforcement, you know, BSO, first responders or whatever. Or do you, can you address what potential impact that could have on the two items that have been brought up? Can I ask that question? We want to limit our remarks to just factual information that's available. Okay. I would like, I'm asking for educational purposes only. So, and again, I'll say the same thing to our county attorney to guide me. But what we know that the anticipated revenue impact would be $195 million in the first year. And the second year. And the second year would be $334 million of an impact based on the property appraiser's data and the actual impact of those increased exemptions. So that would, if you look at, you know, the budget, there's obviously, you know, the largest portion of your general fund expenditures are public safety. And so that would be obviously a priority of the board at that point to look at if those revenue impacts come to fruition. Is that factual and fair? Okay. And then the second thing is Commissioner Yudin. Love you like a brother. I think you're great. Like a brother? Well, actually, I like him better. But the issue that you said about being overtaxed, I've written an op-ed, which I'm told will be published. We are flat out not overtaxed in the state of Florida. Depending on which set of numbers you look, there's four or five different rating groups. They have Florida at combined state and local taxation at somewhere between 45th and 49th lowest in the nation. Objectively, we are simply not overtaxed. But affordability is an issue. And the reason that affordability is an issue largely has been the price of insurance. Florida is number one almost every year. Surprisingly, occasionally Nebraska is number one if they've had a very bad hailstorm the year before. But we are approximately one and a half times higher than the national average. We are typically by far the highest every year. We do have an affordability crisis, which is largely caused by insurance. It is not because of taxation. Our property taxes, we are approximately the 20th lowest, meaning 30 or higher. But we're one of a handful of states without an income tax. So if you combine them and look at our overall tax burden. So while I love you, I don't really like when people keep saying we're so overtaxed in Florida because we're not. And if people think they are, it's because too many politicians are constantly repeating that we're overtaxed when objectively we're not. Having said that, I might support a token reduction to show that we are listening to the will of the voters, but we're not overtaxed. We're just not. Love it. Thank you for that love. I'm glad you're going to support it. Commissioner Udine, would you like to make your motion, please? I'd like to make a motion to amend the millage rate for general purposes to 5.6628, which reduces the property tax revenue by $1,7808,000, and I'd make that motion. I'm going to pass the gavel. I'm going to second your motion. Mr. Mayor, can you, Vice Mayor, can you put your mic? Thank you. Yeah, I'm sorry. We have a motion on the floor. It's been second. All in favor? Aye. Do you want comments first? Well, I don't think we want it. We had the comments. So, all in favor? Aye. So, by raise the hands? All against? Raise the hands? Wait, wait, wait. Wait. I don't know. Some of those came up like half and half. So, who's in favor? I might, but I'm the chair now, so I can't. I know. Can I say something for the vote? Okay. Mr. Vice Mayor, Jennifer Steelman is passing around a revised script based on the new motion statement that you will need to read as soon as you'll be administering the meeting at this point. I would like to speak. He's only at two. Yeah, I want to say something because I didn't get an opportunity to speak on this. Okay. So, we haven't voted yet. Okay, we haven't voted yet. Please. So, Mike, whereas I don't mind a slight reduction, my concern is that we have to face the reality just so voters know that should this Amendment 3 pass, the options will be to raise the millage. Am I correct? Or to cut service. That's one of the options. One of them. It's layoffs, increased the millage rate, cut services. Those are what we're looking at. So, a token we can do now. But, you know, after, if it's voted in, just know that these are the options facing this commission in order to have a balanced budget. Right. Thank you. So, we'll be fine in the upcoming year. It's after that we have to deal with if that happens. So, next, Senator Geller. I want to explain. I don't want you to explain. I want you to just state your case so we can move forward. That's what I'm doing. So, I don't want to correct anyone who's already said something. Just tell me what you want so I can have a temperature for the days. Now, can I do so? Yes, sir. Good. Thank you. I think that when we're facing the voters now, having the ability to say to them that we did make a tax reduction this year is likely to help us avoid a catastrophe in Amendment 3. And that, for that reason and that reason alone, I would be forward to get. Thank you. Thank you for your support. So, just for the record, all in favor of the motion is on the floor by Commissioner Udine. Please raise your hands. Beautiful. Passes. Thank you. All opposed? Ayes have it. Thank you. We have, Mr. Mayor, you have your gavel back. Still have the rest of the script to read. Yes. Yes. Can you please put your mic on, Mr. Mayor? Your mic. Okay. Okay. When do I get a chance to speak? On what issue? No. That's gone. So, what are you reading? What are you... So, we're reading what we just voted on. I'm reading what I just voted on. Okay. Go ahead. So, Commissioner Udine moved to amend the millage rate for the general county purposes to 5.6628. Is that correct, Commissioner Udine? You can skip down to the second set after the mayor or county OMB. Well, I'm just regurgitating because I don't think this was read into the record. Do you want me to... What do you want me to do? So, if you... You can start on the third mayor line. On the... Okay. Now, the Commissioner... County Administrator and OMB. Okay. County Administrator and OMB, please provide the amendments to the millage and budget that will be needed to adopt the millage rate being proposed. Okay. Then, Admin OMB. Yep. I've got it. Amendments to Resolution 2026-582 for general county purposes are as follows. Section 1 is amended to set the final millage rate at 5.6628 and to reflect a 4.97% increase over the rollback rate of 5.3946 in Resolution No. 2026-583. Schedule B, amendments to the general fund include a reduction of $1,700,810 in ad valorem taxes and an adjustment of $50,390 in the less 5% line for a net decrease of $957,420 in general fund revenues. On the expenditure side of the general fund, the reserve for ad valorem is reduced by $957,420. In Schedule A, the general fund is amended to $2,143,686,430. And the total all funds amount is amended to $9,217,559,000. Copies of both resolutions as amended have been distributed to each commissioner and are available at the front or are being presented. They're available. We've got them here at my desk at the dais. Broward County's final amended millage rate for general county purposes is 5.6628, which represents a 4.97% increase in property taxes as compared with a rolled back rate of 5.3946. Thank you, County Administrator. In the over a decade that I've been here, we've lowered the millage rate three times. We've never raised the millage rate, just for clarification. Is there a motion on resolution number 2026-582 as amended, establishing the final millage rate for the general county purposes? Moved by Senator Geller. Is there a second? Senator, Commissioner Udine? All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show it passing unanimously, 9-0. The final millage rate, we just voted on the final millage. So show that passing, it's going down, 7-2. Passing, 7-2. Two disgruntleds. Okay, got you. Is there a motion on resolution 2026-583 as amended, adopting the final budget for general county purposes for fiscal 2027? Do I have a motion? No, moved. Moved by Senator Geller, seconded by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor? This is the budget. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Okay, adopting the final budget. Do you want to adopt the final budget? Yes, this is the budget as amended. Yes. Budget. Yes. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Senator Rich? 8-1. Show it 8-1 passing. The public hearing on item A, the general countywide millage rate and budget is now closed. Are we going now back to the regular unrehearsed script? No. Okay. I'm sorry, is that page 7? Page 9. Okay, thank you, because we amended it. The top of page 9. B, Broward Municipal Services District millage rate and budget. The public hearing is open on the final millage rate and final budget for the Broward Municipal Services District to provide funds for municipal level services in the unincorporated areas. The final millage rate for the purpose is 2.3353, which represents an 8.86% increase in property taxes as compared to a rollback rate of 2.1453. The county administrator will give an overview of the millage and budget for the Broward Municipal Services District. The Broward Municipal Service District millage rate remains the same for fiscal year 27. The county continues its investment in the Broward Municipal Services District, which is reflected in a 10% growth in the property tax roll. The average homestead property owner will pay approximately $10 more than the prior year based on the increase in property values capped by Save Our Homes. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak? No, sir. I'm sorry, you say no? No, sir. Thank you. Let's bring it back to the dais. Anybody here from county? Yes. I'd like to make the same, however the budget people... You're out of line. I'd like to get the unincorporated area to have the same tax millage cut that whatever the number is, so that we can make sure that we're treating our friends in the unincorporated area, of which I have a small sliver, but no one lives there, as the same. That's outrageous. That's outrageous that you want to be, like, treat people equally. You want to treat people equally? That's unbelievable. I think we're going to take a minute break. So, to be clear, Commissioner, you didn't write, the unincorporated area will get the benefit of the countywide millage break that you propose, so you're proposing an additional millage break to the millage decrease for the BMSD? No. They are getting it. They're getting the same. Well, they're getting it on the countywide, right? So, they're going to have two pieces. They're going to have the countywide that was just passed, and they'll have the benefit of that. So, then, are you also proposing an additional decrease for the municipal millage rate? I mean, I'd like to give them a little slice of relief, too. They're getting the relief from the person. I'd like to give them a little more relief, but that's just me. That's because you're in the unincorporated area, and we understand that. I mean, can I ask county administrator? No, wait. I'm going to make sure. So, you want me to come back to you with a motion? Chair, Commissioner McKenzie and I. County administrator, the county, the unincorporated areas, approximately 1% of the county, are not able to be subsidized. So, everything that goes on in there, their streetlights, their law enforcement, everything comes from their county millage. If there is a reduction in this that would affect Commissioner McKenzie's district and my district, I mean, would this necessitate cutbacks in the unincorporated areas? It very well may. That's what I was just talking with my budget team and that I shared with the vice mayor quickly, because the revenues in the unincorporated area are significantly less than, obviously, the countywide revenues. And, as you said, the only way we could provide services in the BMSD are from the revenues raised within the BMSD. So, the impact would be significantly more on those residents. I'd like to hear our Commissioner McKenzie's thoughts on this. Since I'm forced to go out of order, yes, it's difficult to swallow what has been put out there. But, when you look at the reality of what we've been talking about, and you look at the BMSD, which has been the least served over the years, but we've done some heavy lifting, not just this commission, prior commissioners, John Rossum and Josephus Eglashan in particular, when times are very, very difficult, and no one wanted to be in those areas. I mean, we took some of the empty lots, we developed them, we put houses back on the tax rolls. But, what I also realized is that, in these trying times, an 8.86% increase in their property taxes. This is a fixed income area. This is probably lower wage earners. Any time that they can get some relief, it could stop some of the perception of redevelopment, or the word I don't like to use was gentrification, coming in and our grandmothers and aunties losing their homes, because a water bill can wipe someone in this area out. So, we're just going to have to pull up, roll up our sleeves in these areas, and deal with what we don't have. Because, for example, right now, if it weren't for the relationships I have with some of the officers, I don't get the 55 officers that are assigned to that district. I don't open that can of worms, but the services that we are supposed to be getting, we aren't getting. And the ones that we do get is the city of Fort Lauderdale water, the highest water in the 31 cities. And it's being dumped on top of this population, trash pickup. I mean, it's just other taxes that burden them, and now this increase in the assessed values. I know Save Your Home helps some of them, but I've watched so many people in these areas fall destitute to these increases that we have been enjoying for years. How many years now we've enjoyed an increase in values, assessed values? How many years? That's how we have been growing. That's how we have sustained ourselves. So tonight, when we do something totally different, and last year I didn't do that. I went on the overall county piece to say reduction. But this year, I'm going to support doing this and how we make that happen, Monica. I mean, I represent a different demographic than most of the folks up here. Senator Gellar does too, and I think there's a couple other pieces, but there's really no people there. But there's parcels there. So I have to stand up tonight because there is an issue in my district, and particularly BMSD. And I'm sure those folks will respond very well to the decision I'm going to make based on the information that's being presented to me tonight. I've asked and I've appealed to Marty Keir about the assessed values, but that's another mechanism that he doesn't control. It comes from the state that won't allow him to reduce the assessed values. So tonight, I support, and I will be seconding that motion. How it turns out, it's up to this day. Thank you. I was, Mr. Mayor. Yes, please. I was waiting to hear from my colleague. I'm adjacent to those properties. They're adjacent to 31st Avenue and thereof. And I felt, I just knew he would think that we need to do something this time around. Because in as much as we are saying, reduced, there are so many other increases. When you talk about not being, the food price, cost of living is high. And it's a community that majority are seniors. Most are seniors on fixed income, which is Social Security. So any help that we can provide when someone is on a fixed income, that millage rate being reduced, whatever small you might believe it is, it is worth it. So for that reason, I'm supporting my colleagues' request to have the same percentage millage rate reduction on this portion of their tax bill. So if I may ask, county attorney, what we just voted on before, on the millage rate introduced by Commissioner Dean, is giving everyone in the county, unincorporated, regular, whatever, a reduction, correct? That's correct. Okay. So now what Commissioner Udine is saying is that only those people that live in the unincorporated area should not just get the reduction, we just have to get another reduction. Yes, on their municipal tax bill. That's what he's now talking about with the Vice Mayor getting a second reduction. That's correct. Okay. For that area, $2 million combined if it's $1 million, right? So it's $1 million combined budget decrease and then another decrease depending on the amount. So if we didn't do that, if Commissioner Udine didn't propose it and the Vice Mayor didn't propose anything, they would still be benefiting from what we just voted on? Yes, that's correct. Okay. I just want to make sure that's clear. Mr. Mayor. Let me give Ron here, Senator Rich, and then Commissioner Davis. Okay. So I just want to make one comment here, which I just got the figures for this, because I just want to, it's kind of distressing what we're doing here, okay, because we didn't really get the background, we don't have the numbers, and we're doing something. Okay. Just so you would know, that the $1,7,000 that we just passed, would anyone like to guess what that is per homestead? Try $0.84. So for me, to look at this and see that we're giving someone $0.84, and everybody can figure that out, because it will be in the newspaper, whatever. $0.84 is what this is. And we lost over a million dollars that we could put into something that would mean something, you know, in this community. So I don't know what we're doing here, but all I know is we've had this thing, and then all of a sudden, at the last minute, we're coming in and doing this and not even knowing the impact of what we're doing. For that, Commissioner Davis. Yeah, I think it's mainly symbolic, a symbolic gesture really is not significant enough to make a dent in anybody's budget. But I think that same opportunity should be given to the BMSD. You have cities right now across the board who are also looking at possibly reducing their mileage rates, plus they're going to get that benefit of the county reduction. So there's no difference for the BMSD to also get a slight symbolic reduction and then go from there. So I'm in agreement with Commissioner Udine's proposal. Okay, before I go left, I'm just getting with the county attorney. She said give the same opportunity, the BMSD, we are by based on what we've originally voted on, correct? Am I correct that everyone's getting the same opportunity? So I'm really getting confused what commissioners are saying. So everyone right now is getting the same opportunity of the decrease that we voted on already. So this is not, we're not, okay. Except that this is like a city to us. Yes, we are the city. We are the city government. We are their city. Their manage. Oh, I see. So you're saying we're wearing two hats here. Yes. I get it now. Thank you. Thank you. I'm going to go down the line here to Commissioner Fisher. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you, Mayor. I understand what the goal is here, but there's no guarantees that the cities are going to reduce their mileage rate or increase it. So if we're going to do it for the BMSD, I want the same benefit that Northwest Pompano has. I want it to benefit Northwest Pompano. I want to benefit Northwest Deerfield Beach. I want to benefit Lauderdale Lakes, low-income housing folks that are struggling to do that. You can't do that. We've already given them a mileage rate reduction now, but now you're singling out the BMSD, which I understand is it's like our own city, but you can't guarantee that Pompano is not going to raise or reduce. You can't guarantee Coconut Creek is not going to do it. There's other low-income housing opportunities, people that are struggling day by day just like the BMSD, and we're going to single them out. I want what's fair for one and fair for all. And that's my issue with this motion is, again, what's fair for one is fair for all. I don't want to single anyone out at the end of the day because my cities and my communities need the same as well as the BMSD if we're going to do that. So I have a problem with this part of it. Thank you. Commissioner Furr, and then did you want to speak again? We'll go down the line, do it three times, everybody, four times. Thank you. If I looked at the demographics of my district, I think they're very similar to yours, actually. And I think it's a false assumption to think that you're going to be helping those people on the lower end by reducing this property tax rate because who uses the taxes more than anybody? The people that are on the lower end. Who uses transportation? Who uses libraries? Who uses parks? Who uses community services? Who uses housing? Human services? All of those things are used by the people on the lower end of our demographics. And now you're taking that money away from the very place where it could probably be best used. I say that because that's why I'm not supporting this. I think it seems like you're helping, but I think it's actually the opposite. Senator Geller? Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I want to hear what Commissioner McKenzie said, Vice Mayor McKenzie said, because, again, he represents around 51% of the BMSD. I have about 49%. And I listened to what you said, but I think I'm more persuaded by what Commissioner Furr said. And the reason is I've been thinking back on what I hear from Broadview Park. I haven't heard a lot of complaints about property taxes. What I have heard complaints about is they want more money for flooding. They want more police. They are concerned about security. I think I mentioned flooding. Parks. They have a community park there. I do get complaints from them about lack of service. I know you must get the same in your district. And I've had more complaints from them about that, substantially more than I have about property taxes. So upon reflection, although I did want to hear what you had to say, I'm going to oppose this because I just don't want to further reduce the services in the district. And because we can only fund the BMSD from property taxes collected there, if we do this additional reduction, it has to reduce their services. And I'm just unwilling to further reduce their services. Okay. Mr. Rogers, did you want to? Yes. All right. I seconded my colleagues' endorsement of the military reduction. And I'm going to tell you why. The same argument I'm hearing from my colleagues, I can apply that $1.7 million to all of these programs that will be affected, not in this 2027 budget period. Because you're talking, we're scaring everybody. What we're doing for 2027 has nothing to do with the interest with Amendment 3. Okay? It has nothing to do with it. So I would say we didn't have to give a break to any of us. Because if we looked at all the things that need to be done, we have homelessness that needs to be fixed. I speak to our library system that will be impacted. We can speak to transportation and all of these other things that people are talking about, Senator Geller. Right? And I would agree with you. When I talk to my residents, they talk about services more than they talk about even housing. Because they're already in the house. So they're concerned. But that was not what I'm hearing. But when we decided to reduce the billage rate, knowing all of these challenges that are facing us, then why not give it to those that are in need? I know that community very, very well. And like you would like to compare. I use the 33311 zip code because that's what everyone uses. And go to Tallahassee and go to the federal government and request funding. And then we don't see those funds being spent in those communities. And we have said that over the years. But I believe if we did it for, because we represent that area as a city, we don't know what everybody else is doing in their other 31 municipalities. But we know there's a need and there's a fixed income in certain communities. And whatever relief we can give them, collective, individually, it might not seem a lot. But it means something. And I understand fully what my colleagues, you're saying. I do understand. But I'm also saying you did it, that reduction, that was not necessary. Because like you stated, if you have to go back and take it back, we can do it. So what's the big deal? If you can take it back for the larger funding is what I'm saying. When we discuss it, we are saying if the value reduction, voters vote, and we have to adjust and take back what we gave you last year and this year, we can do that. We have all right. I heard that was explained by the attorney. We can make those adjustments at that time. Today, we are looking at today. And if I would support what my colleague, like we said, what my colleague will represent that district is asking us to do. That's one more comment. Wait, I mean, just. I thought that was everyone. Let's make one more comment. I'll talk after you. Go ahead. My comment is still the same. I think we misconstrued the dollar amount and the percentage reduction that we were referring to. It was still a small percentage. And if he gave you that number, I'm going to have the administrator do that in a minute. But I don't want to debate anyone's facts. I've said time and time again, this is the only pocket of residents that we govern. The other 31 cities have representation. They can go up or down when they have this opportunity to present their budgets and help those cities. If I don't help or speak for the unincorporated, especially the police that I represent, then I'm not doing my job. Tonight, I'm doing it because I hear the voices. I hear the cries. As early as this morning on my walk, and I talk about these bus benches all the time, there was a lady right across from the YMCA, and I reported to Monica and Corey this morning that was being accosted by a person that wasn't riding the bus. And when he aggressively moved towards the woman, thank God I was there. I was not afraid of the elements of my district because I live it. You guys drive through it on your way to work. I live there. I live four blocks from where this lady was being accosted this morning, but I talk about this public safety issue. But yet, still, I don't have a public safety department to go to if I don't be in a relationship with BSO officers on the street because the cries that I have made here at the dais go unanswered, not because of you guys, but because of how it's structured. I don't have a police department. I don't have a fire department. I don't have an administrator of the BMSD. So I take the issue seriously, but this increase that she's going to recite to you in a few minutes is very minimal. But yet, we don't want to do it because we want to be good stewards with the taxpayers' dollars. But I wouldn't be a good steward or a good representation if tonight I didn't fight for some relief in this trying economic environment that we are experiencing today. So with that, I want you to divulge or disclose the number so we can see what it is we have, I think, overopined on. So now that that, thank you, Vice Mayor, now that it's been clarified that it's not the same dollar value number, but the same percentage value, that because the revenues generated in the BMSD are only equal to $3.8 million total. That equal percentage reduction yields only about $1,900 of a reduction overall. And that, they're calculating right now what that per house would be. Let's make the motion and move it. And so with that, because we were not prepared for that conversation, we will have to take about a 30-minute recess because we have to do everything that we just passed out because we don't have that prepared. We did not, no one had individually asked us to run those numbers. So if you just give us about... No, we have to do... Sorry. Mayor, so this is what I just asked you to just call me in front. So we have to pause the meeting, right? This has to be the first thing that's addressed, and they have to address the change to the budget, including, you know, for the last one, how we read the line items that were going to be changed on the budget, and then adopt the millage that is in align with the budget, statutorily. You can do the same vote. So just the same way we did the vote to see if you wanted to make the change, and then we would, you could pause after. Excuse me, we would like to just go around the desk and see if we could support what the commissioner wants to do with his district. Yes. So it's a $1,900 hit to the county? It's a $1,900 hit to the BMSD revenues. That's it. It's a total of $1,900? That's it, total. That's definitely ceremonial, so I guess I'll say yes. No. So we've got one, yes, two, yes, three, yes, four, yes, five, yes, six. So we have enough to, so we're going to take a recess. Take the motion. You can take the initial vote, and then we'll take a recess after. Okay. Okay, so we have a motion. Can you craft the motion, please, of what percentage we're talking about? We've got the numbers, so we just need to go back and- So we'll take a recess and go back. Just give us 30 minutes. Really? Okay, 7 o'clock. We've got another food recess. We've got dinner waiting. Welcome back to the Broward County Commission. Today is October 12, 2027. Are we getting new scripts? I know it's not October 12, 2027. I was just trying to make a point. It's no sense of humor. Listen, you should be upset with this guy right here and that guy there. They caused a problem. Are we ready? Councilor, we're ready? Okay, you can make your phone call. It's okay. Okay, we're back live here at the Broward County Commission. Does anyone have a substitute motion? So am I reading- I'm going to read this? Yes, yes. Okay. Does anyone have a substitute motion to amend Resolution 2026-584 of the military for the Broward Municipal Services District? Substitute motion. 2.3341. This reduces the property tax revenue by 1960. Commissioner Udean moves to amend the military for Broward Municipal Services District to 2.3341. Is there a second? I second it. I have a motion and a second. All in favor? Any opposed? Let's do hands. How many in favor? Raise your hands. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. And opposed? 1, 2, 3. Showing that pass. 6 to 3. Am I doing the next one? Just follow what I was given? If a motion is made and seconded to reduce the millage rate, Mayor. Commissioner, which commissioner was going to move to amend the millage rate for the Broward? Is it the same thing? I don't understand this script. So we're going to do the same thing like the last time and start kind of three sections down. County Administrator and OMB, please provide. County Administrator, OMB, please provide the amendments to the millage and budget that will be needed to adopt the millage rate being proposed. So amendments to Resolution 2026-584 for the Broward Municipal Services District are as follows. Section 1 is amended to set the final millage rate at 2.3341 and to reflect an 8.80% increase over the rolled back rate of 2.1453. In Resolution 2026-585, Schedule B, amendments to the Broward Municipal Services District Fund include a reduction of $1,960 in ad valorem taxes and an adjustment of $100 in the less 5% line for a net decrease of $1,860 in Broward Municipal Services District revenues. On the expenditure side of the Broward Municipal Services District Fund, the Reserve for County Commission is reduced by $1,860. In Schedule A, the Broward Municipal Services District is amended to $14,185,330 and the total all funds amount is amended to $9,217,557,140. Copies of both resolutions as amended have been distributed to each commissioner and are available here at the dais where I am sitting. Broward County's final amended millage rate for the Broward Municipal Services District is 2.3341, which represents an 8.80% increase in property taxes as compared to the rolled back rate of 2.1453. Thank you, Monica. Is there a motion on Resolution No. 2026-584 as amended establishing the final millage rate for the Broward Municipal Services District? Moved by Commissioner Udean. Seconded by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Three opposed, showing that pass 6-3. Is there a motion on Resolution No. 2026-585 as amended, that was 584 we did before, now this is 585 as amended, adopting the final budget for the Broward Municipal Services District for fiscal year 2027? Somebody want to move it? Moved. Moved by Vice Mayor McKenzie. Seconded. Seconded. By Senator Geller. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? You're opposing the budget? This is adopting the final budget. Show that passing 8 to 1. The public hearing on item B, the Broward Municipal Services District millage rate and budget, is now closed. We're now going to item C, the Fire Rescue Municipal Services District millage rate and budget. The public hearing is now open on the final millage rate and the final budget for the Fire Rescue Municipal Services District to provide funds for fire rescue services in the unincorporated areas. The final millage rate for this purpose is 2.6191, which represents an 8.86% increase in property taxes as compared with a rollback rate of 2.4060. The county administrator will give an overview of the Fire Rescue Municipal Services District tax rate. The Fire Rescue Municipal Services District millage rate remains the same for fiscal year 27. The average homestead property owner will pay approximately $11 more than the prior year based on the increase in property values capped by Save Our Homes. OMB, is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak? No, sir. Great. Is there anyone else from the public? So now that the public comment period is completed, I'll take comments from the county commission. Is there any comments? Seeing none. What if we had any questions for the fire provider, the sheriff who provides the service now? Can he answer him? I don't know. We asked our county attorney. I'd like to know because this is in Tallahassee. What if we had some questions on the fire service provider? Are they here? Fire chief is here. The fire chief is in the back of the room. Okay. All right. Just want to make sure someone's here. Okay. All right. I need a motion on resolution number 2026-586, establishing the final millage rate for the fire rescue municipal services district. Moved by Senator Geller. Is there a second? I'll second it. Second by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Showing that pass unanimously. Is there a motion on resolution number 2026-587, adopting the final budget for the fire rescue municipal services district? Do I have a motion? So moved. Vice Mayor McKenzie moves it. Second by Senator Geller. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing unanimously. The public hearing on item C, the fire rescue municipal services district millage rate and budget is now closed. D. Street lighting sub-district millage and budget. The public hearing is open on the final millage rate and the final budget for the street lighting sub-district to provide funds for street lights and portions of the unincorporated area. The final millage rate for this purpose is 0.3743, which represents an 8.71% increase in property taxes as compared with the rollback rate of 0.3443. The county administrator will give an overview of the street lighting sub-district tax rate. The street lighting sub-district tax district rate remains the same for fiscal year 27. The average homestead property owner will pay approximately $1 more than the prior year based on the increase in property values capped by Save Our Homes. Is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak? No, sir. Okay. Now that public comments period is completed, I'll take comments from the county commission. Anybody have any comments? Great. Is there a motion on resolution number 2026-588, establishing the final millage rate for the street lighting sub-district? Senator Gellar moves. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Davis. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing unanimously 9-0. Is there a motion on number 2026-589, adopting the final budget for the street lighting sub-district budget? Do I have a motion? All in favor. I have a motion by Vice Mayor McKenzie, seconded by Senator Gellar. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing unanimously. The public hearing on item D, the street lighting sub-district millage rate and budget is now closed. E, water district, number two, millage and budget. The public hearing is open on the final millage rate and final budget for water control district number two. The final millage rate for this purpose is 0.1163, which represents a 0.00% increase in property taxes as compared with the rollback rate of 0.1163. OMB, is there anyone from the public who wishes to speak? No, sir. Coming back to the county commission, any comments? Okay. No intelligent comments. So, is there a motion on resolution 2026-590, establishing the final millage rate for the water control district number two? Senator Gellar moves it. Second? Second by me. Second by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. Is there a motion on resolution number 2026-591, adopting the final budget for the water control district number two? Move it. Move it by Vice Mayor McKenzie. Second by Senator Gellar. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing unanimously. Next, the public hearing on item E, the water control district number two, millage rate and budget is now closed. Water control district number three, millage and budget. The public hearing is open on the final millage rate and the final budget for water control district number three. The final millage rate for the purpose is 0.1215, which represents a 0.00% increase in property taxes, compared with the rollback rate of 0.1215. OMB, is there anyone from the public who wishes to speak? No, sir. Okay. Bring it back to the county commission. No comments. Is there a motion on resolution number 2026-592, establishing the final millage rate for water control district number three? I hear that Commissioner Gellar is moving it. Do I have a second? Second. Second by Commissioner Udine. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. Next, is there a motion on resolution number 2026-593, adopting the final budget for the water control district number three? Moved by Senator Gellar. Second by Commissioner Udine. All in favor, say aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. The public hearing on item F, the water control district number three, millage rate and budget is now closed. G, water control district number four, millage and budget. The public hearing is open on the final millage rate and final budget for water control district number four and its sub-districts. The final millage rate for sub-district 4A is 0.0115, which represents a 0.00% increase in property taxes as compared with the rollback rate of 0.0115. The final millage rate for sub-district 4B is 0.0312, which represents a 0.00% increase in property taxes as compared with the rollback rate of 0.0312. The final millage rate for sub-district 4C is 0.1200, which represents a 0.00% increase in property taxes as compared with the rollback rate of 0.1200. OMB, is there anyone from the public who wishes to speak? No, sir. Coming back to the county commission, any comments? Seeing none. Is there a motion on resolution number 2026-594, establishing the final millage rate for water control district number four and its sub-districts? Senator Gellar, you're moving it. Second by Commissioner Udine. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. Next, is there a motion on resolution number 2026-595, adopting the final budget for water control district number four and sub-districts? Moved by Senator Gellar, seconded by Commissioner Fisher. He got in there before you. All in favor? Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. The public hearing on item G, water control district number four, millage rates and budgets is now closed. H, unit area number one of Kokomar, water district millage and budget. Kokomar. You have to do this one. All right. The public hearing is open on final millage. The public hearing now is open on final millage rate. Hey, on final millage rate and final budget for unit area number one of the Kokomar water district. The final millage rate for the purpose is 0.1290, which represents a 0.0000% increase in property taxes as compared to with a rollback rate of 0.1290. OMB, is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak? No, sir. Okay, bringing back County Commission, any comments? I'll comment. This isn't our last water one, so congratulations to the County Administration and our Water Department. We went to the rollback rate on every one of these ones. Every one of the water districts. Not like this minor decrease. We went to the rollback rate on each one. Zero dollars more. Well done, Alan Garcia. Is there a motion? I'll move it. Wait, wait. I have to ask, is there a motion on resolution number 2026-596, establishing the final millage rate, for unit area number one of Kokomar water district, moved by Commissioner Udeen, seconded by Commissioner Fisher. I'll get you to the next one. All in favor, say aye. Commissioner Udeen, I didn't hear you say aye. Commissioner Udeen. Thank you. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. Is there, next is a motion on resolution number 2026-597, adopting the final budget for unit area number one of Kokomar water district, moved by Vice Mayor McKenzie, right? Yes, sir. Seconded by Commissioner Fisher. Is there, all in favor, I read your mind. All in favor, say aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. The public hearing on item 8, unit area number one of Kokomar water district, millage rate, and budget is now closed. Aye. FY 2027-2031, capital program adoption. The Board of County Commissioner adopts a five-year capital program annually in accordance with Chapter 20 of the Broward County Administrative Code. The five-year capital program includes all capital projects and revenues required to support the projects proposed for the fiscal years 2027 through 2031. OMB, is there anyone from the public that wishes to speak? No, sir. Okay, coming back to the county commission. Anybody here that'd like to say anything about that? Seeing none. Is there a motion on resolution number 2026-598, as amended by the revised capital program summary attached as Exhibit A to the resolution, adopting the five-year capital program, including fiscal year 2027 through the fiscal year 2031? Moved by Senator Gellar, seconded by Vice Mayor McKenzie. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Show that passing 9-0. The public hearing on item I, fiscal year 2027 to 2031, capital program adoption, is now closed. This concludes the Broward County public hearing to adopt the final millage rates and final budgets that will support county services during fiscal year 2027. Thank you for attending. Thank you to all the people out there for attending. Appreciate your time. Mr. Mayor. Yes. I wanted to make a comment. This is Commissioner Furr's final budget with us. Oh, yeah. Thank God. Thank God. Oh, yeah. Thank God. And I just wanted to thank him also. But also, I wanted to, I asked the budget team to come in. This has been a Herculean effort again this year, and I just wanted to recognize them. So thank you for your support. Thank you all. Thank you, budgetees. Hey, Monica. Budgeteers. Budgeteers. Budgeteers. Have them come back at 12 tonight, and I've got something for them. Hey, Phoebe, coming back next year. I see just at least 30.