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Board of County Commissioners Budget Workshop - Final July 12, 2017 CALL TO ORDER ROLLCALL Present: 5 - Chairman Joseph Flescher Vice Chairman Peter O'Bryan Commissioner Susan Adams Commissioner Bob Solari Commissioner Tim Zorc INVOCATION Commissioner Susan Adams, District 1 PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Commissioner Tim Zorc, District 3 GENERAL OVERVIEW SESSION Jason E. Brown, County Administrator 17-0737 Attachments: Budget Message County Administrator Jason Brown announced that the County's proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2017-2018 was $327,646,370, a decrease of $18,766.301 or 5.42% from the current year. He noted that this was an increase of $19,617,063 or 6.7% from the beginning budget of $308,029,307 for the current year. He stated that this was still 30.65% below the approved Fiscal Year 2006-2007 amount of $472,420,328. Through the use of a PowerPoint Presentation, Administrator Brown specified that the major impacts to the budget were: (1) A 7.6% tax roll increase Countywide, still well below peak; (2) Sheriff requested $4.6 Million increase (all funds); recommended increase of $2.6 Million or 5.84%; (3) An increase of $556,000 for Children's Services funding; (4) Increases to the Senior Resources Association Transportation of $200,000 and to Senior Services of $123,000; (5) Additional $1.9 Million in operating costs for Fire Rescue Station 14; (6) The addition of five (5) positions to address building plan review response times; (7) The addition of three (3) positions to eliminate single source dependencies in key operational units; (8) The increase of employer monthly contribution for Health Insurance; (9) The construction of landfill Cell II, Segment 3 of $2,252,500; (10) Funding for window sealing at the County Courthouse and pressure washing and painting of the Parking Garage; and (11) Full-time Position increases of $2,220,217 for 32 BCC positions (19 for Fire Rescue) and 33.92 Full-time Constitutional Officers. Indian River County Florida Page 1