2. Who we are:
PBC is the largest county in size in the State of Florida,
2,228 square miles total
38 Municipalities – 10 of which are located in District 1
We employ 11,001 people of which 6,316 are controlled
by the Board of County Commissioners.
Remainder are employed by Constitutional Officers -
mostly the Sheriff’s Office
3. Discussion Items
County Budget
Department of Airports
Fire Rescue Department
Department of Environmental Resources Management
Parks and Recreation Department
Palm Tran
Solid Waste Authority
Convention Center Hotel and Garage
Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office
Water Utilities Department
BioScience
Issues
4. State of Financial Affairs
Where the Money Comes From Where the Money Goes
Total of all Funds $3,884,240,421
Total of all Funds $3,884,240,421 Non-
Internal Departmental General
Current Services 4.8% Government
Property 3.4% 5.6%
Fund Taxes
Balance 22.1%
35.1% Public Safety
Reserves 21.5%
21.0%
Licenses, Per
mits & Other
Taxes
5.5%
Physical
Interfund Environment
Transfers 8.7%
12.4%
Interfund Intergovern
Transfers mental
10.1% Transportation
12.4% Culture &
Interest 12.7%
Charges for Recreation Human Economic
Earnings & Services 3.9% Services Environment
Other Misc. 13.6% 2.7% 3.3%
1.2%
5. Palm Beach County 2013
Major Sources and Expenditures
($ in millions)
Sources Expenditures
Ad Valorem Taxes $859 General Government $219
Licenses, permits, fees 215 Public Safety 830
Intergovernmental 391 Physical Environment 338
Charges for Services 530 Transportation 495
Interest and Misc. 44 Economic Environment 128
Balances Transferred 228 Human Services 105
Total $2,267 Culture/Recreation 152
Total $2,267
6. Department of Airports
2013 Revenues – $90.5 million
Uses No Ad Valorem taxes or general fund money;
100% self sufficient thru user fees and Federal and
State grant funding
Provides an annual economic impact of over $3.5
billion
Operates PBIA and three general Aviation Airports:
North County, Lantana, and Glades
PBIA serves 6 million passengers annually and more
than 80,000 general aviation operations
7. North County Expansion Plans
Provides relief to PBIA
for general aviation
(private) traffic
Length of current
Runway 13-31 is 4,300 feet
Length of proposed
runway 6,000 feet
Will allow mid-size
corporate aircraft
No large all-cargo carrier
services such as UPS or
FedEx
No scheduled
commercial airline
services
8. Fire Rescue
MSTU Ad Valorem – $192
million including Town of Emergency Call Activity
Jupiter PBCFR FY 2012
Area Served:
Medical Calls 93,395
Unincorporated County + 10
Municipalities Vehicle/Boating Accidents 7,724
Square Miles: 1,822 Alarms 6,788
Population: 864,528 Assists/Investigations 4,681
Dispatch For: 10 Fires 2,692
Municipalities
Hazardous Conditions 819
Positions: 1,490
# of Stations: 49 Others 936
# of calls (FY 2012): 117,036 Water Related Injuries 117
9. Environmental Resources Management
Natural Areas
System
• Over 31,000 acres
of environmentally
sensitive land in
Palm Beach County.
• 27,000 acres and 15
natural areas
located in Northern
Palm Beach County.
• Natural areas
shown in green
have public use
facilities.
10. Riverbend Park Improvements
Improvements
Include:
Information Kiosk
Battlefield Overlook
Historical Marker
Area
Restrooms
Park Office
Project will cost
$2 Million, and will
be phased
based on funding
availability.
Construction will
begin later this year.
11. 31 acre property
Waterway Park
located adjacent
to Jonathan’s Landing
at base of Indiantown
Road Bridge.
Phase One includes:
3 boat ramps
floating docks
60 boat trailer spaces
24 car spaces
Project expected to
cost $4 million.
Construction could
commence in early 2015,
subject to operational
funds being available.
12. Bert Winters Park Boat Ramp Improvements
Renovations to existing
two boat ramps
New staging docks
36 new boat trailer spaces
New entrance at north end
of park
New restroom building
Design complete in 2013
Construction to begin in
2014
Project expected to be
completed
in 2015
13. Burt Reynolds Park West Side Improvements
16 Boat trailer spaces
10 grass boat trailer
spaces
Pavilion building
Restroom building
Staging dock extension
Project cost $1.2 million,
with over half funded
thru grants.
Docks completed by
September 2013 with
remainder to be
completed by 2016
dependent on funding.
14. Palm Tran, operates 33 fixed route bus routes throughout the County
operating approximately 8 million service miles a year;
Fixed-route ridership set several records in fiscal year 2012, with a total
annual ridership of 11,579,076. The figure marks a 4% increase compared to
2011. Fixed-route weekday ridership averaged 39,288 passengers for the
fiscal year, eclipsing 2011’s record of 37,708. Average Palm Tran Weekday
ridership over the past 10 years has increased by over 15,000 passenger trips
per weekday and 4.6 million annual riders.
Palm Tran operates 11 routes that provide service in District 1. They are
routes 1, 2, 3, 10, 20, 21, 30, 31, 33, 41 and 49.
Key points served by these routes include: Downtown at the Gardens, The
Gardens Mall, Palm Beach State College, FAU, Abacoa, and the Gardens and
Jupiter Medical Center. 14
15. Is the branch of Palm Tran responsible for providing/overseeing demand
response shared ride para-transit trips for customers qualified for service under
ADA, TD and Senior programs.
Service uses smaller vans and transport vehicles providing door to door service
Connection determines eligibility, takes trip requests and schedules paratransit
trips that are operated by a contracted Vendor(s) currently Metro Mobility.
Currently average approximately 3,000 trips on a Weekdays.
Handles customer concerns
Responsible for monitoring the performance of the Vendor(s).
Currently in District One there are 2153 active Connection customers.
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16. Solid Waste Authority
Serves 1,335,415 permanent residents, plus seasonal
residents and visitors.
Collects 1,573,026 tons of solid waste, plus 107,894 tons
of recyclables generated by the residents, visitors and
businesses of Palm Beach County in FY 2012.
6.90 pounds per person per day generated in FY 2012.
107,894 tons of recyclables received from residential
and commercial programs with $10.8 million in gross
revenues from the sale of recyclables.
17. Solid Waste Authority
Renewable Energy Facility
Reduces the volume of waste delivered to the facility by 80% by
volume. Without this facility, the landfill would already be full.
386,000 megawatt hours sold to FPL in FY 2012.
$17.2 million in revenue from sale of energy to FPL in FY 2012.
New Renewable Energy Facility currently under construction
and will extend the life of the landfill until 2046.
Projected Cost is $700 Million.
Bond Financed:
S&P AA+ rating
Moody’s Aa2 rating
18. Convention Center Hotel
400 room first class hotel
operated by Hilton Hotels.
500 space parking garage Convention
Center
County will provide $27 Convention
million which will not be Center Hotel
provided before Garage
October 1, 2013.
Developer agreement City Place
provides for the
design, construction, equip
ping and furnishing of the
hotel and garage.
Developer bears all risks
and is responsible for cost
overruns.
Hotel opening anticipated
to be summer of 2015.
19. Sheriff’s Office
FY 2013 Budget - $486
Million, primarily funded
by ad valorem taxes
Employees 3,912
Maintains law and order,
Corrections and
Detention facilities and
Court Services & Bailiffs
Problem Areas: Gangs,
pill mills, and crimes
against the elderly and
children
20. Water Utilities -WUD
2013 Revenues – $165 million
Provides potable water, wastewater and reclaimed water
services to approximately 529,000 people in unincorporated
PBC
Provides services to Royal Palm
Beach, Greenacres, Haverhill, Palm Springs, Lake Clarke
Shores, Lake Worth, Boynton Beach and Atlantis and indirectly
to Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay through the Glades
Utility Authority
WUD is AAA rated and has approximately $190 million of
revenue bonds outstanding
Net Capital Assets are approximately $900 million
FY 2013 Budget of $60 million, with 560 employees
21. BioScience
FY 2012 - added $39,336,411 to Jupiter is the sole Max Planck
Florida’s gross domestic product Institute in the United States
Employs 474 people Employs 90 people
FY 2012 - awarded 52 research Nine research groups
grants totaling $49,553,238
focusing on brain function
Since inception, Scripps Florida and neural circuits
has been awarded $305 million
from non-State funds Anticipate growing to 135
FY 2012 - 22 foreign and employees by 2015
domestic patent applications
were filed
23. Beach Erosion
Beach program is focused on:
• Long-term maintenance of public beaches in
partnership with municipalities, taxing
districts, State and Federal governments.
• Sand bypassing at inlets, the major cause of
downdrift erosion.
• Nine major renourishment projects, adjacent to
public access points, act as feeder beaches.
• Other areas periodically restored with dune sand.
24. Jupiter
Beach Park
Some dune work is anticipated to
begin next month in Jupiter Beach
Park.
27. Funding for Beach Erosion Projects
State Assistance Federal Assistance
Recent budget shortfalls have Historically, earmarks were used
limited funding. to help fund four County beach
renourishment projects.
A proposed emergency funding
bill and a recovery of funding With earmarks no longer an
through real estate documentary option, the required
stamp revenue may help the appropriations need to be part
State to meet its commitments. of the Army Corps of Engineers
annual budget.
The Legislative Delegation and
county lobbyists are working
towards shepherding such
language into law.
28. Long Term Solution
Recognize our beaches as essential infrastructure
that supports the local economy and quality of
life for our residents. That infrastructure
requires an annual investment of $15 million to
maintain.
Some Facts:
In 2011, 86.5 million visitors to
Florida spent $67.2 billion dollars.
58% of those visits were primarily
for the beach.
Beaches are the #2 activity (behind
shopping) activity for tourists.
29. Contract Fix
with MetroMobility
• 14 new vehicles put into service this month
• 50 additional new vehicles put into service by March 1st
• New office and maintenance facility to consolidate all
Florida operations
• GPS and Mobile Data Terminals to be installed and
activated in coming week
30. Glades Utilities Authority
Facing many challenges:
GUA was established in 2009
Provides water and wastewater utility service to
residents of Belle Glade, Pahokee, South Bay and
surrounding areas
Decline in utility revenue due to unemployment,
housing unit vacancies and reduced business activity
Fragile infrastructure due to inability of GUA to make
capital investments
Significant Rate Increase needed to remain financially
viable
31. Proposed Plan to Absorb GUA
• Upon absorption, maintain the GUA Base Facility Fee and
Commodity Fee as of May 1, 2012 for eight (8) years. After eight (8)
years the rates will equal the Countywide Base Facility Fee and
Commodity Fee plus 7%.
• WUD will assume to GUA’s eleven (11) current debt obligations
which total approximately $28.6 Million. Of this amount, WUD will
pay-off five (5) of the debt obligations totaling approximately $2.2
Million.
• The County agrees to continue to pay an annual entity transfer to
each of the three (3) cities totaling 7% of gross receipts for each
municipal entity service area.
• The County will retain the current GUA employees.
• The County will make a $25 Million capital contribution to the
system in the first five (5) years.
PBC Fire Rescue provides fire protection, Emergency Medical Services, ALS/BLS Transport, Hazardous Materials Mitigation, Special Operations, Aircraft Firefighting, 911 Dispatching, Public Education, Inspections, Investigations, Plans Review and Community Assistance.18 municipalities served:10 Municipalities Dispatched:Belle Glade Lantana Atlantis (served by Greenacres)Cloud Lake Loxahatchee Groves GreenacresGlen Ridge Manalapan Jupiter Inlet Colony (served by Tequesta)Haverhill Pahokee Mangonia Park (served by WPB)Juno Beach Palm Springs North Palm BeachJupiter Royal Palm Beach Palm Beach GardensLake Clarke Shores South Bay Palm Beach ShoresLake Park South Palm Beach Riviera BeachLake Worth Wellington Tequesta West Palm Beach
Through the implementation of rate indexing, cash reserves as of September 30, 2011 were 97% of annual operating expenses net of depreciation and amortization and exceeded the minimum benchmark of 25%. Bad debt expense for 2011 was .56%. The budget forecasts that revenues will continue to be sufficient to fund operating expenses, debt service, a portion of the Department’s capital project expenditures and sufficient reserves without a rate increase beyond annual indexing.
PBC requests annual grant funding from the state for all of the county’s beach related projects. Recent state budget shortfalls have limited funding. A proposed emergency beach funding bill and a recovery of funding through real estate doc stamp revenue may help the state to meet its commitments.On the federal side, Congress historically added earmarks to the Corps of Engineers budget to help fund 4 County renourishment projects. Since earmarks are no longer an option, the required appropriations need to be a part of the Corps annual budget. The County’s Legislative Delegation and lobbyist are working towards shepherding such directive language into law.