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A county staff member explained to the board that Florida law allows a special assessment tied to stormwater, but the statutory process is stringent and requires that fees directly benefit the fee payer. “We have the ability via Florida statute to charge what is called a... special assessment relative to stormwater,” the staff member said, adding that a previous stormwater utility effort evaluated each unincorporated parcel’s impervious area to calculate stormwater discharge.

Commissioner McDaniel noted institutional memory that the board had previously rejected a stormwater user fee: “We unanimously rejected it the last time it came before the board several years ago,” he said, and other commissioners agreed the political path would be challenging.

Why it matters: Staff said the fee is designed to both fund maintenance and fund capital stormwater projects. The county’s current plan in the budget process already assumed use of ad valorem revenue for some stormwater needs; staff said the current budget policy had $20.5 million of ad valorem set aside for stormwater purposes in planning for 2026. Commissioners asked for an earlier, more detailed discussion of stormwater options and their implementation timelines.

Details and next steps: Staff said the county will study the statutory approach, evaluate impervious area and managed systems for credits, and plan stakeholder outreach. Commissioners asked for earlier engagement than 2027 in the planning calendar; staff responded the plan was to examine options at the end of the year with potential implementation timing targeted to FY 2027. Several commissioners requested that staff return sooner if feasible and present timelines, crediting studies and sample bills for review.

Ending: Commissioner McDaniel and others said they want the county to continue analyzing options; staff said legal and technical complexity, plus prior public opposition, make the path difficult and require careful public outreach and statutory compliance before any proposal would return to the board.","mediaType","Video","parentTitle","Board of County Commissioners - Budget Workshop, Cont. (3-4-2025)","oneSentenceSummary","At a workshop discussion, county staff outlined the statutory special‑assessment process for a potential stormwater utility fee, while commissioners recalled a prior unanimous rejection and asked for earlier consideration and clearer timelines.","taxTitle","Collier County, Florida","taxId",12758,"location","headline","","shortSummary",{"_33":76,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":77,"_41":78,"_43":79,"_45":80,"_47":81,"_49":82,"_51":83,"_53":84,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":85,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":86,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6298704,"County briefed on ResourceX work; staff report about $37.3 million in implemented savings and new revenue",3518,1311000,4829000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2501725-a031593b67cedcfaf35416f74e9815bf&start=1311&end=4829","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2501725-a031593b67cedcfaf35416f74e9815bf/thumbnail_1311000.jpg","/articles/6298704/Collier-County/Florida/County-briefed-on-ResourceX-work-staff-report-about-373-million-in-implemented-savings-and-new-revenue","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6298704-247a4b9acedf6cacbbce5ca8cf28cd8a/orig.mp4?Expires=1771102083&Signature=DnNFg86YPdRVTtXS11j9oH8buR45d7iE-YIaZK9SJPN7WnyAn~E~ULZrtqNrU-QqvjUde~R9Juf8IA2XT79hugx5ovmTs2glvFNtBNYQAdz6AdDPaM1QHimOt2tyOMkQiF7E6YNB4hOWu~cV5l35FuhXXmpYEGZzHJ4TwRqLhdvuivExo3IsCp0HY6yXp-6ZvK1qy8rc9hm1-eREz0Q1cD-HhdV6X9hpcjOeaWcQkc3mg5T6u9HJNPeek-F3M05j9q6AV8PJ00Dveky7gpWUMCvJJ4iaa7e1dTAnVF3KkpVm5N2WKzjPMmvTwXY0P9~Jj3CgZtoK3vjUpBGlPJGooQ__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Collier County officials and consultants from Tyler Technologies’ ResourceX gave the Board of County Commissioners a progress update on the county’s priority‑based budgeting (PBB) work, reporting roughly $37.3 million in implemented savings, grants and revenue changes to date and outlining a multi‑year plan to target program efficiencies and measure impact.

“Today we're gonna go through...we received the draft return on investment report in July of 2024,” Christopher Johnson, the county presenter, said as he opened the ResourceX update. Johnson summarized both completed items and projects in process across multiple departments.

What staff reported: Johnson and consultants listed implemented actions that staff said together total about $37.3 million in value. Examples presented to the board included:
- Workforce prioritization pool: projected salary cost reduction of about $2.6 million in the pooled positions set aside for reallocation or reduction.
- Public utilities grants: staff reported $10.5 million in grants received for septic‑to‑sewer conversions and related projects (three awards: $3,000,000; $4,500,000; $3,000,000) and additional grant applications totaling about $28.9 million in pursuit.
- Fees and user charges: Financial planning and public utilities updated user fees, impact fees and implemented customer credit‑card processing fees; staff projected roughly $16.5 million in additional revenue from those changes.
- Operational and procurement changes: rebidding landscape maintenance contracts, changing mulch color and contract structure, irrigation controller upgrades and conversion of about 70 miles of irrigation to reclaimed water were cited as contributors to savings and reallocation of roughly $1 million to date.
- Pollution control and airport fee schedule changes: pollution control fee model projected $162,000 additional annual revenue; airport fee adjustments projected about $65,000 annually.
- Grants and capital: a legislative appropriation funded an aquatic weed harvester (~$116,000) purchased with grant funds; the Bayshore Community Redevelopment Agency received a $1 million grant for land acquisition to expand stormwater capacity; growth management’s updated fee schedule (approved 06/25/2024) is projected to yield about $4.9 million in 2025.
- Smaller operational savings: examples included a $19,000 annual savings by changing a bus data plan and contract efficiencies in other departments.

Consultant view and next steps: Chris Fabian of Tyler Technologies told the board that PBB data built last year is now being used to surface implementation options and that 2025 work will shift toward program efficiency — analyzing business processes, technology use, cross‑departmental collaboration and customer interaction points to find further savings. “This year we'll be tackling all programs with process efficiency,” Fabian said.

Fabian and Jesse Muniz (Tyler Technologies/ResourceX) outlined a phased approach: year one built the program data foundation; the current phase focuses on resource optimization and execution of high‑value insights; the next phase will analyze program efficiency (processes and technology); later years would pilot measuring program impact and outcomes.

Questions from commissioners: Commissioners asked for more explicit timelines on when projected savings and reallocations will appear in budgets and requested implementation schedules for in‑process opportunities such as stormwater funding options, advertising on county transit (CAT) and large road projects. Staff said timelines are included in the full presentation slides and that staff will return with more detailed implementation schedules; staff also noted legal and policy complications for some items (for example, CAT advertising requires further legal review because the county cannot regulate content).

Ending: Staff said they will present a policy for adoption at the next budget‑cycle meeting and will continue implementing the ResourceX recommendations, moving from funding‑model options to efficiency improvements and eventually to outcome measurements for selected pilot programs.","County staff and Tyler Technologies’ ResourceX reported implemented insights and ongoing opportunities from the priority‑based budgeting project, citing roughly $37.3 million in implemented savings/revenue, multiple grant awards and a program of next‑step work focused on process efficiencies and performance measurement.",{"_33":88,"_35":36,"_37":38,"_39":89,"_41":90,"_43":91,"_45":92,"_47":93,"_49":94,"_51":95,"_53":96,"_55":56,"_57":58,"_59":97,"_61":62,"_63":64,"_65":98,"_67":68,"_69":70,"_71":68,"_72":73,"_74":73},6298709,"Collier County to shrink public strategic-priority list from 57 to about 25 projects",739,117000,856000,"/Search/View?dp=1&key=2501725-a031593b67cedcfaf35416f74e9815bf&start=117&end=856","https://assets.pipeline.soar.com/2501725-a031593b67cedcfaf35416f74e9815bf/thumbnail_117000.jpg","/articles/6298709/Collier-County/Florida/Collier-County-to-shrink-public-strategic-priority-list-from-57-to-about-25-projects","https://secure.pipeline.soar.com/6298709-21645997411fc47cf5a520816a81ea4f/orig.mp4?Expires=1771102083&Signature=P8TpTlnMI0hJF~vPriHYNQbBLXv-VRR3tyTy4BBe7EeLIAFn6IC5nQJGjIXbtvq0DuAeiQtXEIWieA2Nov2sK6zxxfs-MqBMBAXPnTfa6bTwc1tfG~vPaWM2rVZ8EYSe0TfDk3LfoZlaKe5Vt4lOAv8Nk~Mrhwjy5AVjrp67vtaCpQ0DB5TU0jk0MLMKXubgjqtdGSGjltV252032TaWtzHMgQf0hySBI5TQXr5xuv6~ZBqERKWJM2F4IEMMFOVh5Vvhcj2jupe12GfZSU6VfjRWLE-3B-ZlalZNtpe7dGIdeRIO6VC-6vygQUGSGAUFBPzkuZ2YpemKj~I6K2RZkA__&Key-Pair-Id=KUT5TJCACFTXG","Collier County officials said at a Board of County Commissioners workshop that they will shrink the county’s public priority-project list from 57 items to about 25 for 2025, while keeping the county’s overarching strategic plan, mission, vision and four focus areas unchanged.

Mike Neman, who presented the plan as part of the county’s new Strategic Initiatives division, told the board: “This is a very important item and it's important that the board takes ownership of this — the strategic plan.” He said the change aims to make the public list more achievable and to ensure projects show meaningful, measurable work during the calendar year.

The proposed change would remove or roll up projects that staff judged to be operational, multi‑phased in ways that made high‑level reporting difficult, or that produced few quarterly updates. Neman said many of the items being removed will continue to be tracked by the departments that own them, not abandoned: “They’re not being removed from our strategic focus. They’re just being removed from your strategic focus necessarily. They’re still being necessarily attended to.”

Why it matters: County staff said the public priority list was intended as a transparency and education tool — a concise public snapshot of high‑visibility, high‑importance work that receives quarterly updates. Presenters said the previous list’s size (57 projects) made it hard to deliver substantive updates each quarter and created reporting gaps. The pared list is meant to present only priorities with measurable work planned during the current calendar year and strong alignment to the county’s stated goals.

Details and context: The county’s two‑page strategic plan retains the four focus areas — quality of place, infrastructure, community development and responsible governance — and the LEADS values (leadership, ethics, accountability, dedication, service). Staff emphasized there is no proposed change to those top‑level elements.

Neman laid out three criteria used to select priority projects: high visibility/importance to the board, staff and public; measurable work planned during the calendar year; and alignment with priority‑based budgeting work being implemented with ResourceX (Tyler Technologies).

During discussion, several commissioners urged clearer language on public materials so that an external reader would not interpret “removed” as “ignored.” Commissioner Hall suggested labeling items redirected to departments as “priority shifted to the department” rather than simply “removed.” Commissioner McDaniel and others sought assurance that large, multi‑phase programs (water resources, stormwater, housing) would be monitored in the internal tracking table even if not listed on the public two‑page summary.

What happens next: Staff said the revised priority list is a proposal and the board can add or subtract items during follow‑up meetings; staff will present a final list for approval in upcoming meetings and will continue quarterly reporting on the projects that remain on the public list.

Ending: Presenters said the visual layout of the two‑page public plan will also be updated to match county communications branding. Commissioners asked staff to ensure the public materials clearly explain which priorities were redirected to departments versus discontinued, and to include tracking dates so the board and public can follow implementation progress over time.","County staff told commissioners at a workshop that Collier County will pare its public-facing priority project list to improve tracking and focus, moving many operational items back to individual departments while keeping the strategic plan’s vision and four focus areas unchanged.","actionData","errors"]

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Commissioners discuss stormwater user fee options; staff says statutory process required

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Collier County to shrink public strategic-priority list from 57 to about 25 projects