Gov. Ron DeSantis continues to work with Surfside
Governor Ron DeSantis met on site with FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell regarding the Surfside Building Collapse response. Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM) Director Kevin Guthrie requested an Administrative Declaration for Miami-Dade County from the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide disaster loans to individuals and businesses impacted by the Surfside Building Collapse.
This morning, FDEM Director Guthrie also welcomed the Israeli Homefront Command Team at the Miami International Airport. The team is being deployed to support the Surfside Building Collapse response and recovery efforts.
Governor Ron DeSantis was joined by FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell, Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava, Surfside Mayor Charles Burkett, Lieutenant Governor Jeanette Nuñez and FDEM Director Kevin Guthrie.
State response efforts include:
• FDEM is assisting Miami-Dade County with establishing a call center and facilitating public notification capabilities for the Family Assistance Center.
• FDEM is activating an existing contract to assist with time-tracking and meal-tracking for individuals responding to the collapse.
• FDEM coordinated with Escambia County to deploy an additional mobile command vehicle.
• FDEM is deploying an Incident Management Team to support local response efforts.
• FDEM is deploying a mobile laundry facility to the site of the collapse to support first responders.
• Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 3 (West Central Florida) is on-scene to assist with search and rescue efforts. Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 5 (Northeast Florida), 7 (North Florida) and 8 (North Central Florida) are deploying to the scene.
• The state has ordered additional machinery to support search and rescue efforts including cranes, excavators and nibblers.
• The Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) has identified an alternate site to assist with the clearance of debris.
• FDOT is deploying additional excavators, dump trucks and front end loaders to the collapse site to support rescue and recovery efforts.
• The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles is providing traffic control in the Surfside area for the safety of residents.
• The Florida Department of Health (FDOH) is coordinating with the Miami Poison Control Center to review on-scene personal protective equipment and identify and respond to potential public health hazards.
• FDOH is activating the Florida Crisis Consortium to provide behavioral health care for impacted individuals at the Family Reunification Center.
• The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has a mobile unit on scene with deployed personnel who are assisting individuals with completing housing assistance applications and coordinating available business resources.
• Volunteer Florida is coordinating with local nonprofit organizations to establish a multi-agency donations warehouse.
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Coral Springs proposed budget
The City of Coral Springs is now in the process of preparing the 2021/2022 budget.
The current Total Operating Budget and capital is $233,399,245 with a millage rate of 5.8732. The proposed increase in the milage rate will bring it up to 6.2232.
The Budget for the upcoming fiscal year is still being finalized as the programming is still in discussion. The Budget is finalized for the September Public Hearings.
The budget is the product of much discussion with the Commission and listening to the public opinion surveys each year by the residents and businesses. Many other forms of information and data are gathered and discussed with the Commission to form a Strategic Plan which took place in February and the plan was adopted in April. The budget is then formed and proposed to the Commission after a series of workshops over 6 months. In Fiscal Year 2018, the City began the process of reshaping the financial trajectory to reach a positive 5-year forecast, implementing a plan to fund upcoming costs and long-term liabilities. The recommended action was to structurally correct, slow cost growth and begin a series of millage increases to keep up with inflation in future years. This action and planned smaller future millage increases will provide the City’s financial stability while keeping and enhancing service levels. There are plans to address aging infrastructure and increase service levels which the commission is discussing.
The presentation was delivered to the Commission at a business plan 1 workshop on June 23rd and the presentation goes into the detail in the “additional programming, services and operational funding.”
