FREE • THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 2023
VOLUME 10, NO. 57
SPECIAL COMMISSION MEETING ANNOUNCED TO DISCUSSED BUDGET City offici s want input on the city’s budget for the next fi cal year.
MICHELLE CACERES STAFF WRITER
Join city commissioners at a special city commission meeting to discuss the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2023-2024. The meeting will be held Monday, August 14 at 5 p.m. at the Nettie Berry Draughon Municipal Building (City Hall), located at 302 W. Reynolds St.
In an effort to maintain transparency, the public is invited to attend and weigh in on the budget, which serves as a spending plan and investment in the community and its workforce. The adopted budget for Fiscal Year 2022-2023 included $46,781,370 in the General Fund while the total budget (including Water/Sewer, Solid Waste, Stormwater, Streets and several special revenue funds) was $96,395,983.
The millage rate was set at 5.7157 mills, which included a 1.0 mil dedicated solely to street resurfacing and related maintenance. It is proposed that next year those funds will cover the repaving of a large section of Collins St. For more information about the budget visit plantcitygov.com.
BURNEY ELEMENTARY TO CELEBRATE
MICHELLE CACERES STAFF WRITER
A centennial birthday deserves a celebration, whether you’re a person or a structure. Burney Elementary, located at 901 E. Evers St., will get its celebration this month. Principal Brooke Quinlan said the community is welcome to attend the event, held at the school on Thursday, August 24, that will include speakers who are former alumni and staff, a tour of the original structure with student historians sharing facts about the building, a walking museum featuring photos of the school’s rich history and refreshments.
“We’re trying to get the word out to invite the community to the event,” said Quinlan. The two-story red-brick school, constructed in 1923, was named after Esther Dorothy Burney, who, with her husband Professor E.G. Burney, were two of Plant City’s earliest teachers. They taught in a one-room schoolhouse opened in 1885. In their lifetime, they witnessed Plant City schools grow from its 1885 enrollment of approximately 20 students to its 1931 enrollment of almost 2,000 students.
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