Providence Committee on Finance-4-30-2024-5:30 PM

Good evening. My name is Nella Anthony. I'm the chair of the committee on finance. I'm calling to order our regular meeting on Tuesday, April 30 at 05:33PM on the.

Chairwoman Anthony,

present.

Vice chairman Taylor?

Here.

Councilor Andrew? I'm here. Councilor Grace? Here. Councilor Sanchez?

Here. Vice president, no action.

You have a problem. Thank you so much. And I would like to thank Kathleen and Shelley Peterson for attending today. Thank you very much. If you have a must be solicited out of this, our lovely flirks, Donna Breach, and Lauren Rivieres.

And we have a lot of very wonderful guests here this evening. So I look forward to hearing from all of you, Mad Clerk. Actually, I'm sorry. I'd like a motion to waive the reading about items number one through four.

So moved. Second.

All in favor?

Aye. All opposed? Alright. And then we can begin then with our presentation. I think we're starting with the plan proceeding.

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Thank

you. Have a seat.

Thank you so much. I think I'll start by...

Before you start your presentation, I will...

Mister director, you're gonna have to... Either your clerk is gonna move this way or you're gonna move this way so I can have a direct line on the table. Yeah. Can't hear it. But...

Second.

Okay..

Chancellor Amdevaugh, seconded by councilor Graves. All in favor?

Aye.

All opposed? Wonderful.

Who would like to start?

Finance department and by the director so very... That very November, and the way they... The summary of

this

department, but... As I did, and we'll be available for questions. Yeah. I don't have with the.

With that, I may

Yes, please.

Chair turnover to direct.

Tonight, So we've talked to the of planning

and development. So

there is no revenue in this department. It's not a revenue generating department. As far as expenditures, total salaries for fiscal twenty five are proposed at $1,652,251. This is a decrease of $200,275 from the '24 budget. And this is primarily due to the transfer of 17 positions to the part...

To the Department of Housing and Human Services that occurred over fiscal twenty four. And you'll notice that as we review some of the operating supplies and services line items, that some of those items have gone down as well, and that is also due to the transition of some staff to the new department of health and human services. Benefits. Total benefits for fiscal twenty five out of fiscal is at $905,482, which includes $544,036 in the '24 budget. Moving on to services.

Total services for fiscal five are proposed at $33,500 a decrease of $3,300 from the 'twenty four budget. And this is... Reductions primarily due to decreases in postage and other service costs. Supplies for fiscal twenty five are proposed at $364,057 a decrease of $196,462 from the '24 budget. This decrease is due to a decrease in rents at the 444 Westminster property due to reorganization and moving some other expenses to the human...

Sorry, having a human services department. And there is no capital in this budget. And if I may, I'd like to turn it over to to our end login to make

some opening remarks about this department. Sure. Thank you, Dore.

Great. Thank you very much. Happy to acknowledge my my one year in the last month, and in that time, it's been a pleasure and a joy to work through some of the projects and initiatives that we inherited from the prior administration to make sure that those were navigated successfully or by... Along to a level of independence that we hope to resolve in the near future. We were able to further dig into the comprehensive plan process, which has been going on with rate affirmative activity throughout the past year all throughout the city and through the neighborhoods.

Now we're very important from proposals to written chapters, and we had our first community engagement on that process last night at the program that will library now have the additional coming out over the next couple of weeks here to the point we'll be able to prepare that for filing a few approval by city council in the near future. And we've had the ability to reach in and develop these administration planning priorities that will positively impact the city's roadhouse neighborhood and moving areas that will be sensitive and not to see the type of attention that they need in the half where we would bring them up for the citizens to be able to enjoy prosperity opportunities here among all residents here in Florida. So we look forward to doing the ongoing work. We're happy to have seen our cohort on housing unit to establish long directorship, which we would need a resource for the city at this time of. And we continue to fill out our staff to its full complement so that we can lean into the needs projects that we have kind of including quite a bit of of federal and state money to grants that would be applied to improving infrastructure throughout the city to improve mobility, connectivity, and multimodal use that we look forward to biomethanegity and moving traffic survey, giving them traffic, and could definitely say the.

There's several initiatives that are ongoing that point to sound economic development strategies.

Well as these natural environments that were good for their survival?

Sorry. I was collaborating with other departments, particularly as we as they had the comprehensive planning process, and we said they can get priorities and forward planning that will be in effect in the city for the next decade.

And is it appropriate to ask questions, or do you wanna finish your presentation, or how would you like to handle this? How are your questions?