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Resolution R-24-0389
Legislation
City Hall
3500 Pan American Drive
Miami, FL 33133
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File Number: 16626 Final Action Date: 9/26/2024
A RESOLUTION OF THE MIAMI CITY COMMISSION, WITH ATTACHMENT(S),
ADOPTING A FINAL BUDGET AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS RELATING
TO OPERATIONAL AND BUDGETARY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE FISCAL
YEAR BEGINNING OCTOBER 1, 2024, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2025;
RATIFYING, APPROVING, AND CONFIRMING CERTAIN NECESSARY
ACTIONS OF THE CITY MANAGER AND DESIGNATED CITY OFFICIALS IN
ORDER TO UPDATE THE RELEVANT FINANCIAL CONTROLS, PROJECT
CLOSE-OUTS, ACCOUNTING ENTRIES, AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS IN
CONNECTION THEREWITH AND FOR GRANTS IN PROGRESS; PROVIDING
FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, pursuant to Sections 200.065(2)(a)(4) and (2)(c), Florida Statutes, the City
Manager has prepared and submitted to the City Commission a proposed budget of the
expenditures and revenues of all City of Miami ("City") Departments, Offices, and Boards for the
Fiscal Year beginning October 1, 2024, and ending September 30, 2025 ("Fiscal Year 2024-25");
and
WHEREAS, a copy of the proposed budget has been posted on the City's website and
has been on file in the Office of the City Clerk since August 19, 2024; and
WHEREAS, on September 7, 2024, the City held a public hearing as required pursuant
to Section 200.065(2)(c), Florida Statutes, and the City Commission adopted the proposed
budget as the tentative budget of the City pursuant to Resolution No. R-24-0329; and
WHEREAS, the General Fund Budget for Fiscal Year 2024-25 is $1,166,801,000
and the total Budget for all non -capital funds is $1 ,793,053,000; and
WHEREAS, the City's proposed tentative general operating ad valorem millage rate is
7.1364; and
WHEREAS, the major source of revenue for the General Fund is derived from the
category identified as "Property Taxes" in the amount of $589,253,000; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City to authorize the City Manager to make
any necessary changes to adjust, amend, and appropriate the City's Operating Budget, Five -
Year Financial Plan, Strategic Plan, and Multi -Year Capital Plan, all for the purposes set forth in
this Resolution; and
WHEREAS, it is in the best interests of the City to ratify, approve, and confirm certain
necessary actions of the City Manager and designated City Departments in order to update the
relevant financial controls, project close-outs, accounting entries, and computer systems in
connection therewith and for grants in progress; and
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WHEREAS, provisions have been duly made by the City Commission for Public Hearings
on the proposed budget before the City Commission as a Committee of the Whole and Public
Hearings thereon have been held as required pursuant to Section 200.065, Florida Statutes; and
WHEREAS, this Resolution is adopted as amended by incorporating the applicable
changes listed in the memorandum including the attachments thereto and signed by the City
Manager, attached and incorporated as Exhibit "A" ("Information for Second Budget Hearing —
Fiscal Year 2024-25 Tentative Budget");
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI, FLORIDA:
Section 1. The recitals and findings contained in the Preamble to this Resolution are
adopted by reference and incorporated as if fully set forth in this Section.
Section 2. The tentative budget, as described herein, is hereby adopted as the final
budget of the City as amended to include all of the applicable changes contained in Information
for Second Budget Hearing — Fiscal Year 2024-25 Tentative Budget, all of which is
incorporated herein.
Section 3. The following appropriations are made for the municipal operations of the
General Fund for the Fiscal Year 2024-25:
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GENERAL FUND APPROPRIATIONS
Departments, Boards and Offices:
Mayor $ 3,560,000
Commissioners 12,611,000
City Manager 3,689,000
Agenda Coordination 492,000
Independent Inspector General 2,106,000
City Attorney 15,006,000
City Clerk 2,459,000
Civil Service 648,000
Code Compliance 13,048,000
Com m unications 2,204,000
Economic Innovation and Development 1,598,000
Equal Opportunity and Diversity Programs 711,000
Finance 13,971,000
Grants Administration 2,227,000
Human Resources 6,746,000
Innovation and Technology 16,971,000
Management and Budget 4,418,000
Procurement 3,974,000
Resilience and Sustainability 1,377,000
Human Services 8,118,000
Building 44,073,000
Planning 7,746,000
Zoning 6,555,000
Housing and Community Development 3,879,000
Capital Improvements 2,048,000
General Services Administration 37,823,000
Resilience and Public Works 41,500,000
Solid Waste 48,033,000
Fire -Rescue 243,529,000
Police 378,574,000
Real Estate and Asset Management 21,392,000
Parks and Recreation 63,384,000
Risk Management 5,286,000
Non -Departmental Accounts (NDA) 70,215,000
Transfers - Out 76,830,000
Total $ 1,166,801,000
Reserves Based on Financial Integrity Principles:
(Included in General Fund — NDA)
Contingency Reserves
$ 5,000,000
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Undesignated Reserves
TOTAL RESERVES
$ 5,000,000
Section 4. The above appropriations for the municipal operations of the General Fund
are made based on the following sources of revenues for Fiscal Year 2024-25:
GENERAL FUND REVENUES
Property Taxes $ 589,253,000
Franchise Fees and Other Taxes 156,298,000
Interest 17,363,000
Transfers -In 7,457,000
Fines and Forfeitures 7,379,000
Intergovernmental Revenues 107,933,000
Licenses and Permits 101,281,000
Other Revenues (Inflows) 38,695,000
Charges for Services 141,142,000
TOTAL GENERAL FUND $ 1,166,801,000
Section 5. The following appropriations are made for the municipal operations of Debt
Service Funds for Fiscal Year 2024-25:
DEBT SERVICE FUNDS APPROPRIATONS
General Obligation Bonds $ 37,284,000
Special Obligation Bonds 56,365,000
TOTAL DEBT SERVICE FUNDS $ 93,649,000
Section 6. The above appropriations for the municipal operations of Debt Service Funds
are made based on the following sources of revenues for Fiscal Year 2024-25:
DEBT SERVICE FUNDS REVENUES
Property Taxes $ 22,682,000
Transfers -In and Other Revenues 70,967,000
TOTAL DEBT SERVICE FUNDS $ 93,649,000
Section 7. The following appropriations are made for the municipal operations of Special
Revenue Funds for Fiscal Year 2024-25:
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SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
General Special Revenues
Planning Services
Planning and Zoning Tree Trust Fund
Public Art Fund
Historic Preservation Trust Fund
Public Benefits Trust Fund
Fire Rescue Services
UASI-Fire Rescue
Parks and Recreation Services
Police Services
Law Enforcement Trust Fund
Public Works Services
Solid Waste Recycling Trust
City Clerk Services
Community and Economic Development
Homeless Program
Human Services
Bayfront/Riverfront Land Acquisition Rouse Trust
Miami Ballpark Parking Facilities
Departmental Improvement Initiatives
Transportation and Transit
Emergency Funds
American Rescue Plan Act
TOTAL SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
APPROPRIATIONS
$ 4,103, 000
28,488, 000
4,383,000
1,766,000
863,000
1,290, 000
11, 732, 000
42, 504, 000
1,231, 000
14,403, 000
1,881,000
10, 059, 000
120,000
2,019,000
107, 790, 000
3,407, 000
210,000
2,214,000
12, 820, 000
70,161, 000
23,170, 000
100,000
48, 000, 000
$
392, 714, 000
Section 8. The above appropriations for the municipal operations of Special Revenue
Funds are made based on the following sources of revenues for Fiscal Year 2024-25:
SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
All Sources
TOTAL SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS
$
$
REVENUES
392, 714, 000
392, 714, 000
Section 9. The following appropriations are made for the municipal operations of Internal
Service Funds for Fiscal Year 2024-25 :
INTERNAL SERVICE FUND
Life and Health Insurance
Workers' Compensation
Others
TOTAL INTERNAL SERVICE FUND
APPROPRIATIONS
52, 905, 000
25, 091, 000
61, 893, 000
$
139, 889, 000
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Section 10. The above appropriations for the municipal operations of Internal Service
Funds are made based on the following sources of revenues for Fiscal Year 2024-25:
INTERNAL SERVICE FUND REVENUES
All Sources $ 139,889,000
TOTAL INTERNAL SERVICE FUND $ 139,889,000
Section 11. This Resolution is a resolution of precedent and all other resolutions in
conflict with it are held null and void insofar as they pertain to these appropriations; however, no
provision contained in this Resolution shall be construed to violate the Anti -Deficiency Act, as set
forth in Sections 18-500 through Sections 18-503 of the City Code. The appropriations are the
anticipated expenditure requirements for the City, but are not mandatory should efficient
administration of City Departments and Boards or altered economic conditions indicate that a
curtailment in certain expenditures is necessary or desirable for the general welfare of the City.
The City Manager is specifically authorized' to create awards and to transfer funds between
accounts and awards, and to withhold any of these appropriated funds from encumbrance or
expenditure should such action appear advantageous to the economic and efficient operation of
the City. The City Manager is also authorized' to transfer any excess unrestricted moneys from
other funds to the General Fund provided that those are appropriated moneys which are no
longer needed to implement the original purpose of the appropriation, which are legally available
at the time of such transfer, and whose expenditure is not limited to use for any other specified
purpose.
Section 12. The City Manager is authorized' to make any necessary changes to adjust,
amend and appropriate the City Operating Budget, Five Year Financial Plan, Strategic Plan, and
the Multi -Year Capital Plan, with transfers in and/or out, as necessary and applicable, of legally
available funds, and to designate projects, services, components, values, amounts, and uses, as
necessary and applicable, for purposes set forth in this Resolution.
Section 13. All departments and the number of employees designated therein provided
for in this budget either by position summary or by the organizational chart are deemed approved
by the City Commission. Any permanent change regarding same shall require City Commission
approval.
Section 14. The City Manager is authorized' to administer the executive pay plan and
benefit package, to disburse the funds appropriated herein for said purpose in a manner he or
she deems appropriate. The City Manager is also authorized1 to administer and disburse the
City Commission benefit package. With the exception of those positions in which the salary is
established by City Commission action, the City Manager is further authorized' to establish the
salaries of those employees in executive and staff positions in accordance with the executive and
staff pay plan. These employees may receive any salary increases given in Section 16.
Section 15. The City Manager is authorized' to disburse any funds that may be
designated by the City Commission as cost -of -living or other pay adjustments to Civil Service,
executive and staff employees as may be approved by the City Manager.
1 The herein authorization is further subject to compliance with all legal requirements that may be
imposed, including but not limited to, those prescribed by applicable City Charter and City Code
provisions.
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Section 16. Nothing contained in this Resolution shall be construed as to prohibit or
prevent the City Manager, the administrative head of the City, who is responsible for the efficient
administration of all Departments, from exercising the power granted to and imposed upon him or
her in the Charter of the City of Miami ("Charter") to fix, adjust, raise, or lower salaries, and to
create, abolish, fill, or hold vacant, temporary or permanent positions whenever it has been
determined by the City Manager to be in the best interest of efficient and economical
administration of the City and all its Departments. The authority' contained in this Section shall
also be applicable whenever the City Manager shall cause a Department to reorganize itself to
perform its services more efficiently; such reorganization may include reduction of budgeted
positions, reclassification of positions, and alteration of the number of budgeted positions in any
given classification .2
Section 17. The transfer of funds between the detailed accounts comprising any
separate amount appropriated by the above sections hereof is approved and authorized' when
such transfer shall have been made at the request of the City Manager and when such transfer
shall have been made of any part of an unencumbered balance of an appropriation to or for a
purpose or object for which the appropriation for the herein fiscal year has proved insufficient.
Section 18. The transfer of funds between the detailed accounts comprising any
separate amount appropriated by the above sections hereof is approved and authorized1 when
such transfer of funds is made at the request of the City Manager and when such transfer is to be
made between the detailed accounts appropriated to the same office, department, or division.
Section 19. To effect salary adjustments, the City Manager is further authorized' to make
departmental and other transfers from any reserve accounts established in the General Fund,
and is authorized to approve transfers for any unforeseen requirements of all appropriated funds
as may be required so long as such transfer is consistent with the provisions contained in
Chapter 18, Article IX of the City Code.
Section 20. To facilitate effective budgetary control and sound fiscal management, the
City Manager is further authorized' to transfer funds from departmental budget reserve accounts
to the Emergency Account of Non -Departmental Accounts to other Funds, and to departmental
budget reserve accounts from the Emergency Account of Non -Departmental Accounts to other
Funds.
Section 21. The Emergency Account is declared to be appropriate to meet emergency
expenses and is subject to expenditure by the City Manager for any emergency purpose.
Section 22. Except as herein provided, transfers between items appropriated shall be
authorized by resolution amendatory hereto, except that transfers from the Non -Departmental
Accounts may be made by resolution.
Section 23. The City Manager is authorized' to invite or advertise for bids for the
purchase of any material, equipment, physical improvement, or service provided by the
aforementioned appropriations or which may be provided for in accordance with the authority of
Chapter 18 of the City Code, for which formal bidding is required, such bids to be returnable to
the City Commission or City Manager in accordance with Charter or City Code provisions.
Section 24. Further, expenditure of the herein appropriated funds is authorized in the
2 The provisions of this section 17 are subject to the limitations and requirements set forth in City
Commission Resolution No. 22-0230.
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procurement of goods and services by award or contract for the same by the City Commission
following the use, if applicable, of competitive negotiations unless the award of such contract by
the City Manager is expressly allowed under City Code provisions.
Section 25. Certain necessary actions by the City Manager and the designated City
Departments in order to update the relevant financial controls, project close-outs, accounting
entries, and computer systems in connection therewith and for grants in progress, are hereby
ratified, approved, and confirmed.
Section 26. The City Manager is authorized' to negotiate and execute any and all
agreements necessary, all in forms acceptable to the City Attorney, in order to accomplish any
of the appropriations and allocations stated herein
Section 27. This Resolution shall become effective immediately upon its adoption and
signature of the Mayor.3
APPROVED AS TO FORM AND CORRECTNESS:
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ng II , Cty ttor -y 9/27/2024
If the Mayor does not sign this Resolution, it shall become effective at the end of ten (10) calendar days
from the date it was passed and adopted. If the Mayor vetoes this Resolution, it shall become effective
immediately upon override of the veto by the City Commission.
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