Remarks by Alison Dennington
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“We're going to take a recess so that she can control herself. We are recessed.”
“No, a recess is not votable. We're recessed.”
“You are illegally having, I'm not going to engage. Ryan can speak, but we are recessed.”
“Recessed. Look it up. Marie, is Ryan around? Go ahead.”
“You could get on the phone with the vice mayor. No, we're not on the record. We're recessed. So if you're going to speak to the vice mayor, just call him on the phone. Y'all can talk. We're recessed for 10 minutes.”
“All right, we're back on the record. We took a recess because of the repeated failure and violation of our rules about decorum, and Commissioner Corey continued arguing and addressing comments not to the issue, so I will remind you again, Commissioner Corey, address the issues, discuss the issues, do not address your comments at other commissioners. That is the rule that we passed, and you repeatedly violated it, so that is what caused us to have to recess so we are back on i hope you can behave address the issues could the clerk please call roll mayor allison dennington here go i i'd like to…”
“I don't have a problem that you're not an engineer. I think you have a lot of institutional knowledge, and I think that you do know about stormwater. So I think that that's not an issue for me. I also think that the new manager has improved a lot of sort of upgrading, like modernizing our technology. I think she's even gotten you some fairly inexpensive software that's going to help with that going forward. I think that if you'd ever been given that before, that assistance... THAT WE WOULDN'T BE IN THAT PROBLEM. BUT WE DO HAVE A GAP OR WHATEVER. SO I DON'T MEAN TO BLAME YOU. NO, NO, NO. IT'S…”
“I KNOW, BUT I WANT TO DISPEL THAT I'M NOT TRYING TO CRITICIZE YOU.”
“That's actually what's saying transfer to that's the 4.6 budget Does it say roll back at the top or not?”
“So under the 4.6 budget, these should be zero too? Pardon me? So under the 4.6 budget, these should be zero too?”
“Yeah, but basically, so your point, because it's in there, is actually wrong because this one is just not corrected matched up.”
“Well, anything projected 28, 29, 30 should be the same on both of these or zero, because you're basically”
“We need anything past or future that is not fiscal 27 under either 4.6 or the rollback. They need to be the same.”
“Well, on that point. After and after and after. I'd like to ask, on the old and the new versions, strangely, If you look at the 4.6, which is the town is taking in more revenue versus the rollback rate, taking in 142,000 less in revenue. But then if you look at what the town intends to spend under the 4.6 expenditures versus the rollback rate expenditures, if you look at some things, projected expenses, they don't match, which there are particular categories where that's intentional. but some don't make sense because 4.6 budget, legal expenses, you have like $10,000 less. You're gonna spend…”
“But who made the decision to say if we take in more revenue and tax people more at 4.6, We don't think we will need as much, and we will spend $10,000 less on that one line item for town attorney, and we will spend $10,000 less on planning, but if we take in less money for these exact same line items, we're gonna actually spend more of it, because for planner and a town attorney, those are kind of the same either way. If anything, you would say, well, maybe we're gonna cut back a little bit on planner or town attorney, but I actually don't think, I think those would be ones that would be the…”
“You updated that one, but not the other.”
“But again, so that makes sense because you updated. So if we update the other one, the 4.6... together on those two things that commissioner quarry because when commissioner quarry was talking about that we never had the rollback it was only a 4.6 budget correct and so she requested let's bump that up so what you did was then it was like okay there was a request to bump it up But you didn't bump it up on the 4.6 budget, which is the one that we did. And for some reason it was like, oh, I bumped it up on the new one.”
“Let's hope our legal fees go down. I was trying to figure out if it was a deliberate choice made by the manager for a specific reason between the budgets. It does sound to me it was a bit of an error.”
“It wasn't a choice that was reflected to the 4.6 budget to which the discussion had attached. Okay.”
“I mean, basically our next meeting is the actual required first hearing. We know we have three votes. You know you have three votes? You would have votes to pass the rollback. That next published one should have that. And if we had to make changes or were going to make changes, we could. But, I mean, yeah. We don't know that. That's what it should be, have the rollback rate. Plus, we need a consistent document. One document at the rollback rate, discussion can go from there, but we have no time. That'd be my preference.”
“You had provided it prior. There were so many errors. I mean, it was practically impossible to look at those. And I know that y'all did the, because you separated the two late Friday, but I mean, it's... Vice Mayor, I understand your...”
“For what it's worth. I wish I hadn't voted on the increase last year. we'd be an even we'd be even a worse rollback rate if i had yeah motion to adjourn yes please second all in favor say aye aye did we did we allow public comment we did say we were going to do that mrs stark i see you are you wanting i believe we said we were going to did you want to come up no okay all right all in favor say aye aye aye aye okay all”
“Okay, it is 6.06. Sorry if you guys have been waiting. We've been having a few little technical issues. There are some documents that the finance managers from updates are being printed right now. It's like 10 copies. I think they're on copy six. And then another printer is printing some stuff. So that's where the manager and the finance director and I have been. Everybody will get a copy. The public table will get a copy of those updates that are being printed. so we're just going to take a quick you want to call a roll that will take a quick recess until they come in but with that…”
“I know, but I think the manager presents that. She's not here. She's over there with Jenny or with the finance director.”
“Yeah, we'll go ahead and do that. Okay. We'll talk slowly. Okay, so. Okay, so. Roll call.”