1991.07.23_TC_Minutes_Special~'_. R
TOWN OF HIGHLAND BEACH, FLORIDA
• Minutes of Town Commission
SPECIAL MEETING
Tuesday, July 23, 1991 1:30 P.M.
Mayor Joseph A. Boulay called this Special Meeting to order in Commis-
sion Chambers at 1:30 P.M., stating its purpose was to set a tentative
millage rate for Fiscal Year 1991/1992 for submission to the Property
Appraiser.
Deputy Town Clerk Doris Trinley called the roll. Present were the
Mayor and Commissioners Arthur Eypel, Arlin Voress and John F. Rand.
Vice Mayor Bill Paul was absent.
Town Manager Mary Ann Mariano was also present.
Elliot Kleinberg, a reporter for the Palm Beach Post, was in the audi-
ence; however, no other members of the general public were present.
Mayor Boulay asked Town Manager Mariano to start discussion and she
referred the members to the budget package recently transmitted to
. them. She said this budget had been accomplished in the same manner as
past budgets and briefly explained the process, concluding with the
fact that the Financial Advisory Board had done a line-by-line review
and their recommendations, including the proposed tentative millage
rate, were included in the budget package.
For Fiscal Year 1991/1992, Mrs. Mariano advised the proposed tentative
millage rate had been set at 2.5653, a decrease of .3767 from the
present fiscal year; the breakdown was as follows:
General Operating Millage = 2.2150
Debt Service Millage = 0.3503
2.5653
During her remarks, Mrs. Mariano also noted that Commissioner Rand,
whose area of interest is Finance, had attended all Financial Advisory
Board budget meetings and had shared in some of their deliberations.
Following brief discussion, COMMISSIONER RAND/COMMISSIONER VORESS made
the following MOTION, which carried with unanimous favorable vote:
THE TOWN COMMISSION ADOPTS A PROPOSED TENTATIVE MILEAGE
RATE OF 2.5653 FOR FISCAL YEAR 1991/1992 FOR SUBMISSION
TO THE PROPERTY APPRAISER.
Responding to Commissioner Eypel's question as to how this information
. was to be transmitted to property owners, Mrs. Mariano said that the
Property Appraiser's Office would include the proposed millage
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with preliminary tax bills, which would also include the date of the
Public Hearing relating to same. She added that other required adver-
tising regarding the proposed budget would be placed in a local news-
paper at the appropriate time.
Mayor Boulay announced that a Public Hearing to receive input from
residents would be held Friday, September 6th at 5:01 P.M. and a Public
Hearing/Special Meeting would be held Tuesday, September 17th to adopt
budget ordinances.
Commissioner Rand commended Town Manager Mariano and her staff for the
budget preparation and resulting reduced millage. He also complimented
the Financial Advisory Board members for their intelligent and in-depth
review of the entire budget package.
Upon MOTION by COMMISSIONER RAND/COMMISSIONER EYPEL, the meeting was
adjourned at 1:40 P.M.
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