W. Ajibola Balogun

The budget message discusses the Adopted Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Budget, highlighting the city's financial status and future plans. Key topics include ensuring safety and quality of life for residents, maintaining fiscal strength, encouraging community engagement, upholding ethical standards, providing quality customer service, promoting economic growth, and fostering small business development. The budget addresses traffic calming improvements, sustainability initiatives like electric vehicle charging stations, college scholarship programs, community benefit programs for home repairs and childcare, and free fresh food distribution. It also covers the city's taxable value, ad valorem tax revenue, commercial and residential tax bases, non-ad valorem tax revenue, code enforcement lien amnesty, business tax receipts, and grant funding for various projects.

The City of West Park's budget presentation for FY 2025-26 includes a proposed millage rate of 8.20 mills. The city realized a positive percentage change in taxable value at 11.38%, the highest net percentage change in taxable value among all cities in the County at 10.72%. The budget also covers ad valorem revenue, non-ad valorem tax revenue, special assessments for services such as fire services, solid waste, and the Twin Lakes Water Control District, and revenue from grants.