Remarks by Alison Dennington
473 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 17 of 19
“Like the southeast? Could you give her the name? I think you brought it up last year.”
“I would like to point out, there's two projections in my 83-page walk-on document, attachment three and then attachment four. Attachment four is a 20-page document related to the last three years of town data, specifically from our budgets, and then it pulls every single Excel document of records from the FDLE, you can get them online, for every police department in the state, For the last three years, it has all of their PD, like what is it required to be a PD? It also has things like, and then of course has the local Brevard County, but it also has things like not just salary, but it has…”
“So I've sent these to you over the last three. No, no, no.”
“Wait, so you're saying that they lose it, and they can never, ever be compensated for it? Or does it accrue that they can be compensated for it?”
“Well, I believe that our comp time comparison, lots of discrepancies. Noted by the auditors that we weren't following it.”
“It pulls from what you reported to this FDLE, literally.”
“I'd like to address those really quick to explain. The data, and it is cited in here, is pulled directly from the FDLE website. The FDLE does a survey every year on a number of things. Every one of those surveys is on their website. You can pull 2025 and 2024, as well as the prior years. You go into the archive for 2023 and back. Everything in that is pulled from those Excel spreadsheets. which is stuff that every police department, including you, Chief Zander, would have reported to FDLE because that stuff gets reported from the agencies. Now, it is true that if you look at the way that…”
“I'm taking the information that you reported to FDLE and that's publicly available and it specifically states so people could go and look at that. There isn't a thing on there where you can say yes for one position or two but no for the other. It's just a yes or no. So yes, but that information is like the main information relates to other things which are explained in there. But you know i mean it's pulled directly from the information that you and other agencies reported for each year 2023 2024 2025 for the various list things uh as to coco beach coco beach and a bunch of other cities and…”
“Okay, but it is your job as the department over the people that would get the raises to try to advocate and make a case for the highest increase that you could get for them.”
“If I was advocating for that— Excuse me, you're interrupting me.”
“In 2030 or at the latest 2036, when the town goes bankrupt and we don't have a fire department or a police department, I'm gonna come to the meeting, I'm gonna say, it's been a long time, but I told y'all so.”
“No, I know. I know. I mean, I'm not going to restrict myself if something comes up, but I absolutely respect and understand it. Just the way it came about and I put it together was because of a bunch of some discussions behind the scenes where some things have been brought up particularly the parallel columns which was the most important thing and the feeling that we were getting so close to the end and i and i wasn't sure if it was ever going to be addressed because there was a response as to well we'll see what the commission whether they want to include it and i was like okay i need to…”
“when the next version comes out so that means there's a chance and no and then after that like for example the compensation one it does say at the end like this is what i would be willing to do it's a scale back so if we were to if you were to go back to the rollback rate right and those numbers”
“Yeah, I think we need to be at the rollback. Yeah, I mean.”
“I would not vote for 4.6 under any circumstances whatsoever.”
“I would not vote for 4.6 or probably anything anywhere close to it. The rollback rate I would vote for?”
“Possibly, once we have the rollback rate and all the figures and stuff, if we were to go over something slightly over that for some school. We don't need your vote.”
“We're asking about the proposal. No, but to go anything over. We're asking about the proposal. No, anything over the rollback rate, you would need a fourth vote. So what I'm saying is you don't need my vote for the rollback. There is a chance that if we had all of the stuff and there was some small amount over the rollback rate that was tied to something specific, that that's where there might be some play. But it would require those specifics. But I would not vote for the 4.6 under any circumstances.”
“And question that that amount is not actually being currently carried. on our like as uh so so that there's a 500 000 amount that we are entitled to or applied to fema but because of what it's not being carried as a as a revenue or income anywhere so it's not showing up but it's not our revenue until we have it we don't have it okay but we could put it as a revenue that we believe we will get how long we've been waiting”
“17 correct 17. okay we're going on nine years yeah okay um so it's yeah but there's a bunch of cities who just recently got their irma money okay so we it's like that one is a weird one but that money is you know so if we we we could potentially put that in our revenue and say we do expect to get it it would be nice Because right now, it showed up before, but it's never actually been calculated. Say we didn't put in our revenue. Say that we file the paperwork and we actually get it. It would be $500,000 of revenue that we had never recorded that would go in our revenue, but...”
“that we had never counted in. So that's in addition to the parking funds, that is an additional. Yes.”
“I'd like to address that. I was on the commission, it was when Adam Meyer was on the commission, when Chief Zander requested that we add additional officer. At the time, they wanted two officers. Instead, this whole can we afford it, is this even necessary was discussed with the five commissioners that included Adam Meyer at that time, my first year, and I believe that the vote was only for one and only because we found the money from parking but if it hadn't come from parking I don't believe that that addition of an officer that we had never had in the whole history of the town would have…”
“I remember what I was gonna say. When we get the updated budget the next time, and it does include all these parallel columns, I mean, like if there's those parallel columns on the parking revenue, because it'll be what we budgeted, what we thought we were gonna get for those two areas, what have we gotten so far what do we estimate left to get because those actual because the parking you know it does kind of vary and we have in the we have raised the rates which then we like two different times or whatever but it um it caused our at like after the budget it caused our actual what we're…”
“You're not supposed to address the issues and not any individual commissioner. I'm addressing your... You have repeatedly said you?”
“Point of order. Do not address me or Tim or anyone else.”