Fort Walton Beach Ordinance — 1233--Fiscal Year 93-94 Budget — reading text

numerous hours creating this budget. This includes each Department Director and his/ her administrative staff. Respectfully submitted, 5~ Reid Silverboard City Manager xi  CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH 1993- 94 BUDGET TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE NO. City Manager' s Budget Message. i xi Table of Contents. xii Historical Background. xiii Economic Forecast. xiv xv Organizational Chart xvi Fund Structure xvii Ordinance 1233 xviii Fund Summary 1 30 General Fund Detail. 31 44 City Council 45 48 City Manager 49 52 Human Resources. 53 56 City Clerk 57 60 Finance Department 61 64 Purchasing 65 68 Police 69 74 Fire 75 80 Parks & Recreation 81 86 Golf Course. 87 92 Senior Cit izens. 93 96 Tennis Center. 97 100 iiIt" V Right- of- Way Maintenance 101 104 Cemetery 105 108 Library . 109 112 Museum 113 116 Public Works 117 120 Planning & Zoning. 121 124 Engineering. 125 128 iiI City Garage. 129 132 Service Maintenance. 133 136 Street 137 140 Sanitation 141 144 Recyc1 ing. 145 148 Computer ( MIS) 149 152 Debt Service 153 154 WfiIiI Non- Dept 155 158 Special Projects GF. 159 160 Water Enterprise Fund. 161 166 Sewer Enterprise Fund. 167 174 Position Summary 175 202 Glossary 203 206 xii  HISTORICAL BACKGROUND OF FORT WALTON BEACH The City of Fort Walton Beach exciting and has had an romantic history. From legends swashbuckling pirates to of sunken treasure, from Indian chiefs to renegade outlaws, from hard luck fishermen to millionaire vacationers - some of the tales were based on truth, some on fiction. 1! Ir.- I<< As 600 B. C. Indian tribes attracted from the early as were River Valley, the Tennessee River Valley and the Mississippi Southeast the known Fort Walton Georgia coast to area now as Beach. The beginning for the city occurred in the period following the War Between the States. Alabama war veteran John Brooks selected a site of 111 acres where he built a three- room cabin in 1867. Other settlers soon followed. Several names have been attached to the city over the years. P., W First came Brooks Landing and later Brooksville, names associated with the Brooks family. These names were followed by Camp Walton. Fort Walton and, finally, Fort Walton Beach. The name " Walton" came from Colonel George Walton who was secretary of West Florida during the governoship of Andrew Jackson, 1821- 22 and secretary of the East- West Florida territory 1822- 26. Walton was son of George Walton, singner of the Declaration of Independence and Governor of Georgia. A small known Walton Guards" encamped the area. guard post as " By 1884 the population of the area required establishment of M'''''' a small school house. In 1902 the first hotel, the Brooks House, was built along the sound. The first post office was built in 1906. Mail and supplies were transported by boat from Pensacola. In 1933, airport was developed on 137 acres of land for an use as a bombing and gunnery range by the military at Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, and was designated " Eglin Field". A municiplaity was created by Ch. 18539 of the Florida Legislature in 1937. However, the city was not formed until 1941 when the Legislature passed Ch. 21247. officially naming the municipality the " Town of Fort Walton". There was a total population of 91 people and the area included little more than property on both sides of what is now U. S. Highway 98 in the city. Establishment of Eglin Air Force Base. construction of several facilities such as Florosa visitor Inn, Gulfview Hotel. Indianola Inn, The Miramar Inn. and building of roads and bridges greatly enhanced the area' s growth. In order to take advantage of its Gulf of Mexico location and to enhance visitor business, the name of the city was changed to Fort Walton Beach in 1953. Jerry Melvin) xiii May 21, 1991  CITY OF FORT WALTON BEACH ECONOMIC FORECAST NORTHWEST FLORIDA NATIONAL ECONOMY The nation' s economic growth is expected to continue in 1994 much as it has in 1993, with no major exceptions. Inflation and interest rates remain low and steady. The prime interest rate is currently at 5. 5 percent. and Morgan Guaranty nation' s Trust, fourth largest bank, the recently lowered lending rate to 5. 5 percent. Meanwhile, the