Assistant County Manager Tommy Crosby presented the above item.
Mr. Crosby presented an overview of fund balances and reserves. The FY26 budget is $944,325,780 and increase of $81,692,026 over FY25. The County Manager has approved $4,438,041 in budget request. The Tax Collector debt on their new facility has been paid of early. That should result in about $500,000 increase to the County this year. The Clerk of Court had no additional funding request. The Supervisor of Elections had a $190,000 in request that were included in the proposed budget. The Sheriff's Office had a request for 3 new positions which were included. The County will have several facility preservation projects coming up in the future which will need to be addressed. It is anticipated that $3,000,000 a year will need to be added to the budget for these projects.
Mr. Crosby further stated that at some point in the future an Assistant Facilities Director position will need to be added due to the workload in the Facilities Department. Also, staff if monitoring the FEMA changes to see what adjustments the County will need to make.
Commissioner Cornell requested that when the debt service ratios are presented, he would like to ensure that Leon County is used as a peer comparison as they are very similar to Alachua County. He further inquired what the budget impact would be if the County choose to go with the roll back rate for the millage.
Mr. Crosby stated that the impact is roughly $11,000,000 lose in revenue. He stated that staff has done an exercise on the impact to the services provided excluding the required functions. He will provide the results of the exercise by email.
Commissioner Prizzia, Commissioner Alford, Commissioner Cornell, Budget Manager Maureen Rischitelli, Commissioner Cornell, County Manager Lieberman, and Commissioner Wheeler presented comments.