Remarks by Alison Dennington
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“I know, I know. It's just, it's confusing. Will, when these minutes get done, because normally the chair is supposed to restate the motion. I can't restate all that. Will they make that part verbatim? Whatever Anna just said verbatim. Because that's the motion. Can I, can we get, the clerk will make the motion itself verbatim.”
“No, no, no. I'm saying when you do the minutes. I know we don't do verbatim minutes, but all of our motions are verbatim. The motion itself, you will make it verbatim.”
“Okay. All right. So we have a motion that is very long with six conditions for the 4.6 that will be verbatim described in the minutes later, and we have a second. The motion was made by Commissioner Butler, seconded by the Vice Mayor. Any discussion? Seeing none, any public comment? Seeing none, all in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. All opposed, nay. Okay, that carries 4-1. Could we do a roll call vote?”
“Okay, and I have under 250 words. okay all right motion to adjourn uh hold on hold on we have two items on the uh oh that's right we have two items so i love let's adjourn we have a motion to adjourn is there a second okay sorry uh commissioner corey that fails for lack of a second um My microphone was off. You will put the minutes. It's the page two, page three. I know, but my microphone went off. Okay, we have the next item, which is strange because this is one special meeting with two items, but I will turn that over to the manager.”
“So question, if you tax people more, there's no problem with doing a 3.7 salary raise, but if you tax people less, you wanna do a 4.25%? Could you explain that to me, because I never did understand. So it could always be a 3.75, But if we tax people less, we were gonna do a higher raise?”
“And what I was saying is that- So you've got a consensus of people individually?”
“Yeah, that's a question but it is evading the question there's no answer because why why would a raise matter. and you would give less raise under a higher tax millage than you would, you'd give a high...”
“And if there is a rational reason for it. No, the commission, you've been talking to people and taking emails from certain people to try to get votes, one in particular, and that i think what it was in order to get commissioner reed to vote for the 4.6 i suspect that he said it has to be a 3.75 so you changed it on the 4.6 didn't change it on the other one but the fact that didn't get changed on the other one affects the actual bottom line number under the other one and misrepresents it to the public it was not requested it was not requested to be changed on the a rollback rate by any of it…”
“Like the email that went around that's not public, but that was basically saying these are the things that a certain commissioner has requested for the 4.6 budget. And to which I responded, this is inappropriate because you're basically having consensus and telling the other commissioners what it will take to get a fourth vote. that was not public that was private no i asked them if they were willing to accept certain conditions i know but you're saying you keep saying the commission the commission decides things in the public and votes you can have discussions with people but if you're…”
“Okay, we have a motion and a second. Is there discussion?”
“It also applies to this vote as well. So two statements to go with it.”
“I've been asking for a couple of different things for a few weeks. I was told today that I would get two of those, the updated capital improvements uh capital projects um and also capital assets uh document which the finance manager has as well as the capital items inventory which is anything over 500 uh and the finance manager said she wouldn't be able to get it to me but she would get it to me next week is that correct”
“Okay, definitely have it next week. Okay, all right. And will we have any update on the FEMA or the records request that I made for the documents on FEMA? Point of order, I think. He's discussing. He wants to know if there's any. For me, I have no discussion to make until I get the records.”
“I put a public records request in today after being in discussion about FEMA.”
“And that's great. But what I've asked for is every document that that is every document in there is a public record and every one of his electronic. All it requires is the town account holder, which is finance to basically log in, just drag all of those over. as a public records and I made a public records request but ask you a mayor because to me I will look through that vast set of documents to try to figure it out because that's relevant for me on the budget of what we have so those I just want to know can I am I going to get those three can I get those three things next week because we're…”
“Public comment. Public comment on the budget.”
“Seeing none, we will close public comment. This is an extra. Anna Butler does not care to read it. And Commissioner Corey doesn't want to read it either. So you have extras. Interesting. We have an audit 18 months from now.”
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“I have to use the little girl's room. I'm going to take a short recess, restroom break. Come back in two minutes. You can't do that. Yes, you can. You cannot. Check your rules. Check your rules. Watch 10 years of meetings.”
“Okay. That motion failed, so if anyone else would like to entertain a motion or adjourn, or make a motion to suspend the rules and have informal discussion, which requires four votes.”
“Okay, we have a motion from Commissioner Reed to set a workshop for the budget. Is there a second?”
“Okay. Thank you. Okay, we'll take a recess then. Y'all are okay with that recess? Because the town attorney needs to do a little research. So you'll just indicate to me when you're ready. We'll recess, but I'll stay here because I just took my bathroom break that I needed. Okay, we're going to take a short break. should be should be five minutes ten minutes at the most but I want to make sure yeah what those are required for the budget since it is different that's good just the former attorney sometimes would do that and take a 10 minute recess to look up an issue so we are recessed for…”
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“Okay. I am not sure about that, but I would love for us, I would love for us to go with that and it'd be wrong. And then we don't have the budget. We won't, but, uh, so we're going to go with, uh, the town attorney says that we, but what's the, what is the provision?”
“Okay, question though. You know the bill that was passed in 2026, the one that talks about certain effective dates being January 1st, 2027. There is a statute though that passed that says that it's retroactive and it has to do with the voting number.”