Remarks by Alison Dennington
473 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 10 of 19
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“All right, we will stand to say the Pledge of Allegiance. Okay, we will have a moment of silence. Okay. Uh, I will read the civility pledge, 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, each other and towards staff. We will be respectful of one another, even when we disagree and we will direct all comments toward the issues. We will avoid personal attacks. So now I will…”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Thank you. Yes, my mother was a public school teacher and she had a second job also. Next. I'm just saying, public school teachers or public service, you don't get paid a lot.”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“You know, but yes. So the public the way not every town has a general public comment. Sometimes they only have it on the issue, but we have a general. So you don't comment on the issues on the on the agenda. You comment when we have the vote. So let me this will definitely we'll have to have a vote.”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“expressing my concerns and you answered questions that i need a clarification for and that's what's the beauty of a small town and so thank you for that thank you thank you for your time meeting with all of us also thank you anyone else okay seeing uh nothing no one no one else we will close general public comment the uh only item on the agenda um five public hearings public hearing on the town's fiscal year 2026 2027 so fiscal year 27 millage rate and annual budget town manager but before we start there are two walk-on documents there is a document a one-page document that was on up here…”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay, really quick, I do have one question though for the town attorney about something that we spoke about earlier today. Is there an issue with the resolutions needing to be updated because of the trim statute that I mentioned to you and you told me on the phone that you were going to be revising”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“397. and the language in the resolution itself complies with the statute in terms of stating the carryover what what if that that information that i sent you you don't have to state that language in the statute or you don't have to state that language in the resolution okay But what we have in the packet is not the updated one that you're going to do that's going to include the exhibit because it can't be incorporated by reference. Is that correct?”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Is that what it is? We'll get to that then. Okay. Does anybody have any questions before... We have debate because we do have a motion and a second. Does anyone need any clarification? Seeing none, okay. We have a motion and a second. Is there any discussion or debate? I wrote, there's 29 pages that will be put online hopefully tonight, soon, that contains my discussion, so I'm not gonna.”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“of care for the first and then we go. She asked about public comment. I'm sorry I didn't really get commissioner read you recognized.”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“I mean I understand and I do think people do know about the tax measure but our code does say that you put in the budget message sort of trends so trends are forward-looking and therefore are not fact now but a trend is something I do think the tax however at the same time you know there's the issue of something that's going to be on the ballot and are you advocating for against because we are going to have a bond on the ballot so I think getting some kind of very neutral, basic language. It was one of the things I mentioned, but I put it in there as minor, not having the tax, it was not a…”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Yeah, I get it. I agree, yeah, I understand. Yeah, so I did write something.”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“That the resolution, whether it's defective because it only, and the budget goes with it, but it only appropriates, it only deals with one fund and the statute itself says each fund. It doesn't say each major fund, doesn't say...”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“OK, but there are other sections of the one of them being 129.0336. There's but that one is incorporated in and it does relate to the budget resolution itself, I believe.”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“yeah I think we are supposed to officially take a motion if that's what I mean because yeah so there's a motion on the floor you can make a friendly amendment yeah so would somebody like to make a friendly amendment sort of being discussed and like just but they have been discussed before I believe and it was never taken up but now the manager is saying she will do them at the Commission agrees but we don't have a formal vote so Because honestly, if we get to the next thing, it could just be not done and say, well, we don't have a vote. In the past three years, that is what has happened. So…”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“So would you like to maybe – here's a suggestion. You're amenable to making an amendment. Would you like to request that Commissioner Reed give you sort of the statement?”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Or he can just make the amendment himself and then –”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay, so I have a commitment to a mid-year budget review, a commitment to, do you have it? Reserve fund. Reserve fund policy.”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay, so we have basically the six things. Three commitments, commitment to mid-year budget review, commitment to a special fund policy, commitment to a reserve fund policy. Four is a full road and stormwater project description estimate. projection projection cost projection five is pie charts there's two pie charts that are apparently uh that would go in in the budget message i take it uh about revenue and expenditure okay and then number six uh would be that you'd revise the budget message uh vis-a-vis the geo bond and these sort of estimates to be able to put in the message now i do want…”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“No, I know, but I have a I just want to make sure something is clear to everybody or mystery. So, Commissioner Reid, if you're getting these prospective commitments in the future, they can always change afterwards and just literally decide well we're not going to do that afterwards and there is no I mean for whatever reason a new commission with three votes could say you know I know we agreed to that but we we just were fine with how it is and also there's no specifics on the length or detail of these reserved but you're okay with that okay all right uh so we have a friendly amendment that…”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay. And then we'll also be done. Okay. All right. Uh, and you're satisfied. Okay. So we have, uh, and you'll, you'll make that motion. Okay. So we have a motion from commissioner Butler visa V those six, um, items, uh, mentioned by commissioner Reed, and that has been seconded by commissioner Corey. Uh, is there any other public discussion? um sorry discussion um among us i i'm just going to read this related to the resolution and again my objections in detail are in my 29 page little memo but page um eight of that the the resolutions uh both of them um they adopt the amount But the…”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“um probably a couple days ago we were just you know scrambling to try to get it out so that we can make you know the deadlines okay i mean exactly as i said i remember there there could be some reason for for some of these in the parking you're using money from that and stuff but you you would explain that these are different but this is why um but 165, the difference in the number for those two, there's never been an explanation that made any sense for why the increase in the town attorney and the planner only shows up in the rollback budget, which decreases the amount by $20,000 and…”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“So why is that not explained in writing for posterity? Cause it's very strange how it's very strange that you would spend more for a planner and a town attorney depending on, you know, well, I think part of it's timing and I think part of it is, you know, we have a discussion with all of you in the meetings and we describe it.”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“know hearing what um you know your colleagues wanted what you know you i don't when was the vote was there a vote or was it just sherry commissioner corey mentioning that maybe we need maybe we need to put more into the planner and the town attorney mind you when we never had the rollback budget in front of us we only had the 4.6 are you telling me that there was a vote of the commission and not just sherry corey mentioning it that said i think that we need to add to a town attorney and um you know ten thousand dollars or was there no vote and somehow it was just briefly discussed without a…”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“There was no vote. So it was not the commission. It was one commissioner who mentioned maybe we should put more money in those. No, I didn't say that. And that rolled into the...”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026
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“So you pointed out all the deficiencies that do get corrected.”
Town Commission · Sep 3, 2026