SWEETWATER, Fla. — The City Commission of Sweetwater voted unanimously Wednesday to set a proposed property tax millage rate of 3.5634 mills for fiscal year 2025–26 and to schedule a public budget hearing in September 2025 at City Hall Commission Chambers.

The vote, taken at a special meeting on July 23, also declared the rollback millage rate to be 3.3102 mills. City staff and commissioners said the figure represents $3.56 per $1,000 of assessed property value under the proposed rate.

The measure came as a single resolution read on the record that the clerk described as a resolution “determining the proposed millage for fiscal year 2025–2026, the rollback rate, and the date, time, and place for public hearing as required by law,” and directing the city clerk to file the resolution with the Miami‑Dade County Property Appraiser and the Florida Department of Revenue. The resolution sets the first public budget hearing for “6 p.m. in September 2025” at City Hall Commission Chambers, 500 Southwest 109 Avenue; the transcript did not specify a calendar day in September.

Commissioner Yanez moved to adopt the resolution; Commissioner Diaz seconded. The clerk recorded the vote as yes from Commissioner Yanez, Commissioner Diaz, Commissioner Garcia and Commissioner Reynaldo Ray, and the motion passed.

There was no substantive public comment recorded at the meeting. City staff confirmed the proposed and rollback millage figures on the record: “The proposed millage rate for the public budget hearing is to be hereby declared to be 3.5634 mills,” and “that rollback millage rate is hereby declared to be 3.3102 mils,” language read during the session.

Commissioners and the mayor discussed logistics only briefly. The mayor told commissioners, “I will be sitting with each one of you to discuss like we’ve done the last two years,” indicating staff and elected‑official briefings before the public hearings.

The meeting convened with four commissioners present (a quorum) and with the commission president and vice president absent; commissioners designated a temporary chair to preside over the special meeting. No additional budget details, revenue projections or expenditure changes were presented during the session; the resolution focuses on setting the proposed millage and the required hearing schedule.

Next steps under the resolution are procedural: the city clerk was directed to transmit the resolution to the Miami‑Dade County Property Appraiser and the Florida Department of Revenue and to publish the public hearing notice as required by law. The transcript does not record publication dates, the exact hearing date in September, or any amendments to the proposed millage.