Remarks by Alison Dennington
473 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 19
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“we will start this meeting. It is September 16th. Town Clerk, if you could call the roll. Okay.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay. We'll stand and say the Pledge of Allegiance.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“All right. We will have a moment of silence. Okay, I'll read the civility pledge. After being acknowledged by the mayor, members of, no, sorry, the commission and the staff of the town of Melbourne Beach pledge to conduct all public discourse in a civil manner. The mayor and all members of the commission will treat one another with courtesy and respect and ask the public to do the same towards the commission, towards each other, and towards staff. We will be respectful of one another even when we disagree. We will direct all comments toward the issues and we will avoid personal attacks. Okay,…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“It was the March 2023 owner-occupied exemption on short-term rentals. You were on the commission.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, she doesn't seem like she wants to.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. Any other public comment? Come on up.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Anyone else? Seeing none, we'll close public comment. Okay, I do have a couple walk-on items, and I'm not sure which ones go with this meeting. I can kind of tell, but some of them I can't. Looks like there is a public comment.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Oh, okay, okay, thank you, looks like. from mr. L you from the same gentleman yeah I know yeah I know it is former former tax assessor of the county okay so looks like there's an ordinance related to part of parking the parking program and there is also a executive assistant office manager position Are those with the regular meeting, or?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, yeah, because we would have to have this in order to be able to fund that position.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So is it going to be with the budget meeting?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“so those are the two walk-on items for this budget meeting okay okay so there are two numbers are the same okay there are two walk-on items um one is a the final budget and it's uh the same but it does have the column names that you request great that is wonderful uh actual audit okay all right cool Budget actual estimate. Awesome. Thank you. Appreciate that.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“All right. So this will be after the millage and before or with the vote for the budget. Okay. Those two items, I will put this one away. I take it we're going to discuss this at the regular.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay. and then these two public comments, these are not to be read then?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay. And then the other item up here, I take it this is also going to be then at the regular meeting?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, so there's two walk-on items, and I already said what those are, so I will turn it over to you.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, I'm gonna just open it up until, unless somebody objects that we do it formally, but if y'all have any questions or wanna speak, just turn on your microphone.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, we have a motion and a second. We'll go to public comment.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I'm not going to read this public comment on the record, but there was a suggestion that somebody looked at the math and they thought that it actually required a unanimous vote potentially. Have you all looked at the numbers for sure to make sure?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, it's something that's on the desk up here.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. Next. Sorry, but I need to get the number of pages right. Is there any other public comment? Seeing none, I'm just trying to count these pages for this budget because it will go in the thing. The numbers are a little bit off, but do you know how many pages it is total? The walk-on item number two is three pages, so just for the record. Okay. yeah i was trying to i realized it was like oh it doesn't um i was trying to look most they start to go okay but yeah the page number's off so 45 47 then they go back on 47 okay so that would be 49 50 51. call the question um yes uh i'll all in…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, so that carries 401. Okay, and then now we will go to the budget. I will have a statement that when we do the minutes that I will add to the, but thank you for fixing the other two things. So I won't have to. All right, so would you like to present the budget? Oh, I'd like to, can we do a roll call on the vote? For the?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. And thank you for making those changes on the columns. Yeah. Oh, and I counted it 60 pages. Oh, OK. So one of 60. So that would be walk on one, which is the budget with the columns. Did you want to discuss the present it and we could vote on this?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I'm afraid that if we vote on the budget first before we vote on this.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026