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Deltona announces IRS settlement, DOE grant for city hall windows and $22M FDEP award for Fisher plant redesign
Summary
City staff told commissioners the IRS penalty issue from 2016–2019 resolved with no city payment and a $7,800 refund; the city received a $139,000 Department of Energy grant for city hall windows and a $22 million FDEP water quality improvement grant toward a roughly $44 million redesign of the Fisher wastewater plant.
City Manager (referred to in the meeting as Doc) and staff gave the Deltona City Commission a set of fiscal updates on April 7 that included the outcome of a multi‑year Internal Revenue Service review and several grant awards.
The most immediate item: staff said a previously announced $1,000,000 IRS penalty stemming from earlier documentation issues (2016–2019) ultimately cost the city nothing. "Instead of paying the IRS $1,000,000, the city already deposited the check from the IRS today," the city manager reported, adding the review produced a $7,800 payment to the city. The manager said the staff who addressed the issue were current employees and that all of the earlier staff involved had left.
In other budget news, staff said the city received a $139,000 grant from the Department of Energy to replace roughly one‑third of City Hall windows after hurricane‑related leaks were identified on the first floor. The city manager also reported the following legislative funding items (as provided to commissioners): $750,000 on the Senate side for an unspecified item, $1,250,000 in the House for an AWS recharge project and $187,500 for a three‑basin mitigation project; the manager said the full report would be posted publicly.
Most significantly for utilities, the manager announced the city has been awarded a $22,000,000 water‑quality improvement grant from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) to help fund a redesign of the Fisher wastewater plant. Staff estimated the full redesign will cost about $44,000,000; a prior $1,500,000 grant had funded preliminary design, permitting and procurement work. The manager said staff expects to place formal grant‑acceptance on an upcoming commission agenda.
Ending: Staff said it would present acceptance actions and implementation details for the FDEP grant at a future meeting and will post more detailed budget documentation publicly; commissioners thanked staff for the grants work and said they would publicize the positive developments.
