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Council to hold final public hearing on assessments By MEGHAN BRADBURY
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The city of Cape Coral will hold its final public hearing today for the various assessments that will appear on property tax bills. The introductory resolutions were approved by Cape Coral City Council on July 23, and notices were sent out in the first week of August. The first public hearing is to approve the fiscal year 2025-2026 non-ad valorem assessment roll for assessments imposed to fund the lot mowing services and assessment rates. The program calls for mows 13 times
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a year for vacant parcels in four districts from February through December. The program also includes pepper tree removal and owl nest trimming. The proposed annual rate for district one is $70.48, a reduction of $15.94 due to a previous increase to finish Hurricane Ian cleanup; a $3.28 increase to $48.05 for district two; a $4.12 increase to $51.44 for district three; and a $1.42 increase in district four to $44.63. A standard parcel is two lots. The annual assessment for district one would be $140.96, a reduction of $31.88; an increase of $6.56 for district two to
$96.10; a $8.24 increase for district three to $102.88; and $89.26 for district four, a $2.84 increase. The final hearing for the non-ad valorem assessment roll for solid waste service assessments will also be voted on today. The proposed fiscal year 2026 annual residential rate is an increase of $38.49 from $345.76 to $384.25. The city also imposes a levy for fire protection services. It determines the amount by setting a “recovery rate” at a percentage of the cost of operations. It also sets a “tier” rate based on the cost of “readiness to serve.”
Fall ballroom dance classes begin Sept. 4 at Four Freedoms Park USA Dance Chapter #6123 will begin its fall ballroom classes on Thursday, Sept. 4, at Four Freedoms Park, 4818 Tarpon Court, in Cape Coral. The classes will run from September to December and they are open to the public. The new instructor for the ballroom dance classes is Leigh Ann Lawson and the cost is $10 per person, per session. Classes run from 7:308:30 p.m. with practice afterward until 9 p.m. The scheduled dance classes by each month are September - Salsa, October Rumba, November - ChaCha and December - East Coast Swing, It’s casual wear in a casual atmosphere; no RSVPs are needed and no partners are needed. Please, no flip-flops for your protection. For additional information, please contact Carol Davis at (239) 565-7947 or Angel Brana at (850) 7786535.
See ASSESSMENTS, page 4
Special meeting today for city attorney’s annual evaluation By MEGHAN BRADBURY
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Cape Coral High traveled to North Fort Myers High Friday night to renew a longstanding rivalry as part of the opening week of the high school football season across Southwest Florida. The Seahawks dominated the Red Knights, 40-10, avenging a tough loss last year. For details on the game, see the related story on page 3 or today’s Cape Coral Breeze.
Cape Coral City Council will hold a special meeting today to discuss City Attorney Aleksandr Boksner’s evaluation. Last August, City Council gave Boksner a near 21% raise. The above-standard rating given by council last year adjusted his base salary from $247,500 when he was hired to $298,937. Boksner began Aleksandr working for the city Boksner in August 2023 after working as the deputy county attorney for Sarasota County. The meeting will be held at 2 p.m.,
City manager appoints Feast as finance director
Cape Coral City Manager Michael Ilczyszyn has appointed Crystal Feast as the city’s findex nance director. As finance director, Feast will lead the Legal Notices. . . . . . . 5 City’s Financial Services Department. The deLocal Tides. . . . . . . . 3 partment oversees key city operations, includSports. . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ing accounting and financial reporting, budget development and management, procurement, treasury and debt management, payroll and grant administration. “Feast brings more than a decade of municipal and financial management experience to 7 48445 46010 1
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The non-ad valorem assessment roll for fire protection services for has a proposed 81% recovery rate, an increase from 70% recovery last year. The tier one rate, all parcels, including vacant share the cost of readiness to protect, per parcel is $349.32, a $70.48 change, or 25.28%. Tier two, improved parcels only and based on structure value, rate per equivalent benefit units, is $3.47, a 40-cent increase, or 13.03%. The stormwater proposed rate is $156, an increase from $149, which will increase current lines of service for operations and
this role,” the city said in a release issued Monday. “She joined the City of Cape Coral in September 2022 as Deputy Director of Financial Services. Prior to her service in Cape Coral, she served as Finance Director for the City of New Port Richey and worked in public accounting with CBIZ MHM, LLC, and Clifton Larson Allen, PC, in Tampa.” Feast succeeds Mark Mason, who was recently appointed assistant city
Crystal Feast
See EVALUATION, page 4
manager after serving multiple terms as Cape Coral’s finance director. The release does not include compensation numbers. A request for Feast’s salary numbers from her previous position and her new one had not been provided by the city’s communications office as of Tuesday morning. A public records request related to the information also remained pending.