25-02041H

BAHIA LAKES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADOPTION
OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2025/2026 BUDGET; AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC
HEARING TO CONSIDER THE IMPOSITION OF OPERATIONS
AND MAINTENANCE SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS; ADOPTION OF AN
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT ROLL AND THE LEVY, COLLECTION, AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE SAME; AND
NOTICE OF REGULAR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING.

Upcoming Public Hearings and Regular Meeting

The Board of Supervisors (“Board”) for Bahia Lakes Community Development District (“District”) will hold two public hearings and a regular meeting as follows:

TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS AND REGULAR MEETING
DATE: August 11, 2025
TIME: 6:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Firehouse Cultural Center 101 1st Avenue NE
Ruskin, FL 33570

The purpose of the first public hearing is to receive public comment and objections on the District’s proposed budget(s) for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2025 and ending September 30, 2026 (“Fiscal Year 2025/2026 Budget”). The first public hearing is being conducted pursuant to Chapter 190, Florida Statutes.

The purpose of the second public hearing is to consider the imposition of operation and maintenance special assessments to help fund the District’s Fiscal Year 2025/2026 Budget; to consider the adoption of an operation and maintenance assessment roll; and to provide for the levy, collection, and enforcement of the operation and maintenance special assessments. The second public hearing is being conducted pursuant to Florida law including Chapters 190 and 197, Florida Statutes. At the conclusion of the hearings, the Board will, by resolution, adopt a budget and levy operations and maintenance special assessments as finally approved by the Board.

A Board meeting of the District will also be held where the Board may consider any other business that may properly come before it.

Description of Assessments

The District imposes special assessments on benefitted property within the District in order to fund the District’s general administrative, operations, and maintenance budget and to provide the funds necessary to pay debt service on outstanding bonds as reflected in the District’s debt service budget. A geographic depiction of the District boundaries is identified in the map attached hereto. The District presently operates and maintains stormwater facilities, amenity centers, landscaping, and other improvements. The District adopts its budgets for these operations and maintenance expenses each year after consideration by the Board and after the holding of a public hearing.

All benefited lands within the District pay operation and maintenance assessments. Lands within the District are assigned units of measurement, known as “Equivalent Assessment Units” or “EAUs,” in accordance with their use and as described more fully in the District’s assessment methodology on file at the offices of the District Manager.

The table below shows the schedule of the proposed operation and maintenance special assessment for each product type within the District. (Note that this does not include any debt assessment previously levied by the District and due to be collected for Fiscal Year 2025/2026.)

BAHIA LAKES CDD FISCAL YEAR 2025/2026
O&M ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE
BAHIA LAKES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT  NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE ADOPTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2025/2026 BUDGET; AND NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE IMPOSITION OF OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS; ADOPTION OF AN OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE ASSESSMENT ROLL AND THE LEVY, COLLECTION, AND ENFORCEMENT OF THE SAME; AND NOTICE OF REGULAR BOARD OF SUPERVISORS MEETING.  Upcoming Public Hearings and Regular Meeting  The Board of Supervisors (“Board”) for Bahia Lakes Community Development District (“District”) will hold two public hearings and a regular meeting as follows:   TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS AND REGULAR MEETING  DATE: August 11, 2025  TIME: 6:00 p.m.  LOCATION: Firehouse Cultural Center 101 1st Avenue NE  Ruskin, FL 33570  The purpose of the first public hearing is to receive public comment and objections on the District’s proposed budget(s) for the fiscal year beginning October 1, 2025 and ending September 30, 2026 (“Fiscal Year 2025/2026 Budget”). The first public hearing is being conducted pursuant to Chapter 190, Florida Statutes.  The purpose of the second public hearing is to consider the imposition of operation and maintenance special assessments to help fund the District’s Fiscal Year 2025/2026 Budget; to consider the adoption of an operation and maintenance assessment roll; and to provide for the levy, collection, and enforcement of the operation and maintenance special assessments. The second public hearing is being conducted pursuant to Florida law including Chapters 190 and 197, Florida Statutes. At the conclusion of the hearings, the Board will, by resolution, adopt a budget and levy operations and maintenance special assessments as finally approved by the Board.  A Board meeting of the District will also be held where the Board may consider any other business that may properly come before it.  Description of Assessments  The District imposes special assessments on benefitted property within the District in order to fund the District’s general administrative, operations, and maintenance budget and to provide the funds necessary to pay debt service on outstanding bonds as reflected in the District’s debt service budget. A geographic depiction of the District boundaries is identified in the map attached hereto. The District presently operates and maintains stormwater facilities, amenity centers, landscaping, and other improvements. The District adopts its budgets for these operations and maintenance expenses each year after consideration by the Board and after the holding of a public hearing.  All benefited lands within the District pay operation and maintenance assessments. Lands within the District are assigned units of measurement, known as “Equivalent Assessment Units” or “EAUs,” in accordance with their use and as described more fully in the District’s assessment methodology on file at the offices of the District Manager.  The table below shows the schedule of the proposed operation and maintenance special assessment for each product type within the District. (Note that this does not include any debt assessment previously levied by the District and due to be collected for Fiscal Year 2025/2026.)  BAHIA LAKES CDD FISCAL YEAR 2025/2026 O&M ASSESSMENT SCHEDULE 

TOTAL O&M BUDGET
$374,400.00

COLLECTION COSTS AND EARLY PAYMENT DISCOUNTS @ 6 %
$23,897.87

TOTAL O&M ASSESSMENTS
$398,297.87

Product Type
Number of Units
Operation and Maintenance Assessment Amounts: FY 2024/2025 and FY 2025/2026

Platted Parcels (per lot)

Fiscal Year 2024-2025 24-2025
Fiscal Year 2025-2026 25-2026

Single Family 40’
180
$695.03
$734.19

Single Family 50’
127
$868.79
$917.74

Single Family 60’
116
$1,042.55
$1,101.28

Single Family 70’
17
$1,216.31
$1,284.83

The proposed operation and maintenance special assessments exclude collection cost and/or payment discounts that Hillsborough County may impose on assessments that are collected on the Hillsborough County tax bill. The District expects to collect no more than $398,297.87 in gross revenue (this gross revenue amount includes Hillsborough County’s 6% collection costs and early payment discounts).

By operation of law, the District’s yearly assessments constitute a lien against benefitted property located within the District in the same manner as yearly property taxes. For Fiscal Year 2025/2026, the District intends to have the tax collector for Hillsborough County, Florida collect the assessments. It is important to pay your assessment since failure to pay will cause a tax certificate to be issued against the property which may result in loss of title, or for direct billed assessments, may result in a foreclosure action, which also may result in a loss of title. The District’s decision to collect assessments on the tax roll does not preclude the District from later expecting to collect those on assessments in a different manner at a future time.

Miscellaneous Provisions

The public hearings and meeting are open to the public and will be conducted in accordance with the provisions of Florida law for community development districts. A copy of the proposed budget, proposed assessment roll, and the agenda for the hearings and meeting may be obtained at the offices of the District Manager, located at 2700 S. Falkenburg Rd. Suite 2745, Riverview, FL 33578, Ph: 813-533-2950, during normal business hours. The public hearings and meeting may be continued to a date, time, and place to be specified on the record at the hearings or meeting. There may be occasions when staff or board members may participate by speaker telephone.

Any person requiring special accommodations at this meeting because of a disability or physical impairment should contact the District Office at 813-533-2950 at least forty-eight (48) hours prior to the meeting. If you are hearing or speech impaired, please contact the Florida Relay Service at 711 for aid in contacting the District Office.

Please note that all affected property owners have the right to appear at the public hearings and meeting and may also file written objections with the District Manager within twenty (20) days of publication of this notice. Each person who decides to appeal any decision made by the Board with respect to any matter considered at the public hearings or meeting is advised that person will need a record of proceedings and that accordingly, the person may need to ensure that a verbatim record of the proceedings is made, including the testimony and evidence upon which such appeal is to be based.





















Ruben Durand, District Manager
July 18, 25, 202525-02041H

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