Motion at the City Council meeting of 2025-09-23 (vote 6): approve Ordinance No. 11-2025 amending Chapter 14, Offenses and Miscellaneous Provisions, Article Ill, Sidewalk Cafés, Section 14-68, “Permit Fees,” to specify that the annual permit fee shall be established by the Planning and Zoning Fee Resolution adopted by City Council Agenda item: Ordinance 11-2025 Sidewalk Café Permit Fees. (2025-907) Result: CARRIED 5-0 Moved by Patricia Weeks; seconded by Lorraine Koss. Voted yes: Mike Blake, Patricia Weeks, Alex Goins, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss Recorded as unanimous.

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2019-08-28 (vote 12): Approve an Initial Assessment Resolution 2019-069, for Stormwater, Fiscal Year 2020 Agenda item: 6. Approve an Initial Assessment Resolution 2019-069, for Stormwater, Fiscal Year 2020. (19-396) Result: CARRIED 4-1 Moved by Don Boisvert; seconded by Lorraine Koss. Voted yes: Jake Williams Jr., Brenda Warner, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss Voted no: Alex Goins

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2020-09-09 (vote 6): approve the item Agenda item: 2. Approve the Final Stormwater Assessment Resolution 20-196 and the Non-Ad Valorem Assessment Roll for Stormwater Utility Services, Fiscal Year 2021. (20- 553) Result: CARRIED 5-0 Moved by Lorraine Koss; seconded by Brenda Warner. Voted yes: Jake Williams Jr., Alex Goins, Don Boisvert, Lorraine Koss, Brenda Warner Recorded as unanimous.

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2025-08-26 (vote 7): approve Resolution No. 2025-053, approving the Final Stormwater Utility Services Assessment Agenda item: 4. Approve the Final Assessment Resolution No. 2025-053 for Fiscal Year 2026, Stormwater Utility Services. (2025-836) Result: PASSED 5-0 Moved by Mike Blake; seconded by Lorraine Koss. Voted yes: Mike Blake, Patricia Weeks, Alex Goins, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss Recorded as unanimous.

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2024-08-13 (vote 13): approve Resolution 2024-072 Agenda item: 3. Approve the Preliminary Assessment Resolution 2024 -072 for Stormwater Utility Services, Fiscal Year 2025, and to Accept our Financial Consultant, Stantec’s - Stormwater Rate Study. (24-415) Result: CARRIED 4-0 Moved by Lavander Hearn; seconded by Alex Goins. Voted yes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Alex Goins, Lorraine Koss Recorded as unanimous.

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2023-08-08 (vote 9): approve the Preliminary Assessment Resolution 2023-083 for Stormwater Utility Services for FY24 Agenda item: 3. Approve the Preliminary Assessment Resolution 2023-083 for Stormwater Utility Services, Fiscal Year 2024. (23-471) Result: CARRIED 5-0 Moved by Alex Goins; seconded by Mike Blake. Voted yes: Mike Blake, Lavander Hearn, Herbert "Rip" Dyal, Alex Goins, Lorraine Koss Recorded as unanimous.

Motion at the City Council meeting of 2026-08-25 (vote 21): approve Final Assessment Resolution No. 2026 -065 for Fiscal Year 2027 Stormwater Utility Services Agenda item: 2. Approve the Final Assessment Resolution No. 2026 -065 for Fiscal Year 2027, Stormwater Utility Services. (2026-694) Result: CARRIED 5-0 Moved by Mike Blake; seconded by Lavander Hearn. Voted yes: Mike Blake, Patricia Weeks, Alex Goins, Lavander Hearn, Lorraine Koss Recorded as unanimous.

Motion at the Planning & Zoning Board meeting of 2021-10-06 (vote 3): AMEND THE ORDINANCE TO MAKE THE $50 FEE AN INTIAL FEE AND THEN REQUIRE A RECERTIFICATION EVERY YEAR AFTER Result: PASSED 7-1 Moved by GREEN; seconded by ALTERNATE MEMBER GREENWOOD. Voted yes: DOBRIN, WASHINGTON, ANDERSON, GREEN, SENGEL, SIMPSON, GREENWOOD Voted no: MOCK

[…] Speaker 15: “This agenda item is to approve the preliminary assessment resolution 2020-194 for stormwater utility services for fiscal year 2021. Yes, correct.” Attribution uncertain: “Back” Speaker 15: “in 1992, the city established a storm, stormwater utility fee, and that fee has been in place, um, in 2019, uh, through, uh, approval process by council.” […] “bill. And therefore, we have to adopt a preliminary assessment and the tax roll each year. Um, so” […] “As a result of going through the tax bill methodology for revenue collection. There was a full stormwater rate study, um, performed and adopted last year. Um,” […] “um, this increase is necessary to be able to fund the projects that need to get done.” […] Speaker 2: “explain that in dollars and cents without taking too much time? So folks aren't” […] Speaker 15: “So for, um, tier one, which is the average size home, the assessment will go from 7196 to 7843 for the entire year.” […]

[…] Speaker 35 (introduced as “Steve Murphy” — machine-transcribed, not verified): “One is that the references from the city budget director over here are fine for just the millage rate increase, but they do not properly reflect the totality of” […] Attribution uncertain: “of Cocoa.” […] Speaker 35 (introduced as “Steve Murphy” — machine-transcribed, not verified): “They don't cover the stormwater assessment fee. They don't cover the fire protection fee. They don't cover the, the waste management increase that was approved by the city council as well. And so all of those things should be in there to provide a true reflection so the city council can see the overall effect of what they are passing this year with their budget. The second thing that I would like to mention here is not just directly to homeowners, but for those that, that” […] “Sometimes I think they get forgotten in these discussions. The budget presentation that was made reflects that for homeowners with the deductions that are made there for homestead exemption and for the save our homes.” […]

[…] “The city has had a stormwater utility since 1992 that was done to align with the city's cop plan at the time to address water quality and flooding concerns. This study was done in 91. Ordinance 2-92 actually adopted the city stormwater utility system based on a user fee system.” […] “There's also a secondary rate for unimproved property. Most of the funding does come from the impervious area. The impervious area, I would like to point out in the existing 92 ordinance is defined as the number of square feet of hard surface areas which either prevent or retard the entry of water into the soil mantle as it entered under natural conditions as undisturbed property and” […] “roofs, roof extensions, patios, porches, driveway, sidewalks, pavement, and athletic courts. The current” […]

[…] “An enterprise fund means that you can only spend those funds for the reason that they were collected. And typically, there are numerous enterprise funds. And” […] “Okay? Building department is an enterprise fund, typically. So, when you pay your permits, that means that the money needs to go back to the building department. Okay? Utilities the same way. Utilities, stormwater, all those, when you collect the fee, it's got to go back to that purpose. Some people have golf courses. Golf course fees. Got to go back into the golf course. So, there's different ways. But if it's defined as an enterprise, it needs to stay within that. Now, having said that, not encouraging it, but just to let you know the history that I have,” […] “They borrowed funds from their utility.” […]

[…] “And impervious area in the industry is considered the gold standard. Many hydrological studies will look at impervious area as the single largest factor on a parcel for its stormwater generation or contribution to your system.” […] “of this fee. Impervious area measurement.” […] “impervious area to bring it to current figures. Impervious area, again, is defined as hard services, which either prevent or retard the entry of water into the soil. What we went through as part of the analysis was to digitalize impervious area. So we use geographical information systems to use remote sensing or aerials that were provided to us from Brevard County in 2018 to look at every single parcel and make a determination of how much impervious surface is on that parcel. Each parcel in that database has a unique footprint assigned to it.” […]

[…] “This can be very inequitable, especially when we talk about parcels that develop in a vertical manner where dwelling units are stacked one on top of each other because fundamentally, that impervious footprint doesn't change with those additional dwelling units, but the fee currently scales with that. So we'll look at that in a second. So the takeaway as we evaluated your rates and moved into the analysis side of the equation was there's an opportunity here to provide sufficient revenues for an environmentally and financially sustainable stormwater program. And I think there's also a number of opportunities to improve the method of revenue collection. So with this next session, what I'd like to go into is the actual fee structure and selecting the basis. With regards to stormwater services, there are a number of” […]

[…] Speaker 21: “So their total budget” […] “the consultants, the utility fund budget” […] “in time. Stormwater fund.” Attribution uncertain: “Um,” Speaker 21: “again, we work with a consultant and, um, have projected total revenue of $18.3 million and virtually all of the revenue in the stormwater fund comes from that special, uh, assessment, which is the, uh, stormwater fee going on the tax bills and any tax certificates that we collect. Also of note with the stormwater budget,” […] “to support the operations and capital requirements of the fund. So looking at the total budget, as you recall, we have a lot of different funds other than the general fund stormwater and water and sewer funds. And even within the water and sewer fund where it's broken out into many other different funds.” […] “It's a reduction from last year of $155 million.” […]

[…] RA Plan, or Alternative Restoration Plan; other secured funding sources, stormwater fees etc.) , if there are any not described in the table above . Include a narrative description for each anticipated source of local funds and/or match committed to the project information proposal request or entire project (e.g., St. Johns River Water Management District $X, Leon County $X, City of Tallahassee in-kind contribution equivalent to $X, etc.). • Does the proposal’s organization have a dedicated stormwater fee? Yes No If yes, state the monthly fee: The billing method for Stormwater revenue collection stormwater fee as a non -ad valorem assessment on the property tax bill. The City uses impervious area as the sole basis for apportioning costs to benefitting […]

[…] by M. Arsenault, Assistant City Clerk) City of Cocoa, FL Stormwater Utility Rate Analysis Preliminary Results May 14, 2019 EXHIBIT A: Stormwater Utility Rate Analysis Preliminary Results Presentation Topics 1. Stormwater System 4. Impervious Area Measurement 3. Fee Structure & Collection Method 5. Stormwater Fee Calculation 2. Revenue Sufficiency 6. Questions & Discussion Stormwater System Why Manage Stormwater Overview  Regulatory Requirements • Clean Water Act • NPDES MS4 Permit  Water Quality • Total Maximum Daily Load • Save Our Indian River Lagoon  Flood Control • Property Protection • Roadway Access Stormwater Activities Overview Water Quality Improvement Projects Drainage Structure Maintenance Maintain Conveyance Stormwater System ChallengesOverview  Flood protection throughout the community  Address water quality needs for […]

[…] NO Policy 6.1.4.3: The City shall utilize funds from the stormwater assessment fee for correcting deficiencies in the public stormwater management system and funds from the stormwater utility service fee to provide funding for financing proposed improvements related to new development.

[…] NO Policy 6.1.4.3: The City shall utilize funds from the stormwater assessment fee for correcting deficiencies in the public stormwater management system and funds from the stormwater utility service fee to provide funding for financing proposed improvements related to new development.

[…] NO Policy 6.1.4.3: The City shall utilize funds from the stormwater assessment fee for correcting deficiencies in the public stormwater management system and funds from the stormwater utility service fee to provide funding for financing proposed improvements related to new development.