Remarks by Alison Dennington
473 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 19
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“OK. We'll get that checked out. Do we have a motion? Do you need an amount for, would you like an amount? I don't think that you necessarily do, but if you- No, it's under 5,000.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So if somebody would like to make a motion, we don't need an amount on it because she's going to be able to operate under the $5,000. She just needs an approval of the sort of design and location move. Yep.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“If anyone has any questions to speak freely, I'm reading it.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“isn't it those are those are included in the definition of paid parking locations yeah page one 30 49 a proposed to this section the following day and then it has paid parking locations is the word shall mean include the rickman parking lot ocean um park park parking lot avenues a b all right i missed that when i wrote it in first through six yep uh”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I can't recall. I feel like we did it as a separate resolution back when we raised the rates or whatever. Okay. All right.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, because you want to do those by resolution rather than in the ordinance. The parking enforcement specialist, it says by police officers or parking enforcement specialists. Is that a term of art?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“My understanding is we don't necessarily have a parking enforcement special. Yeah, you can give somebody a parking, like if somebody's parked there illegally, because it's not a traffic ticket that requires a police officer to do the uniform traffic. It's essentially like just a... you know it's a non-criminal site yeah so i i actually i like that because we could potentially have you know if we ever had um one of the non-sworn officers or like we you could deputize them as the parking enforcement specialist because it would be something that they could do so i like that i would anyway so i…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“That was I was going to ask about that to I feel like I would rather. I would rather make that the resident one have it be like all like property, you know residential property owners. are entitled to um according to like the the policy and have it be resolution because we we didn't ever have a written thing on what you had to do and then my first year i was like we've got to have this because there was allegations about people getting like extra passes and stuff and they weren't so they did they the finance did it right away and it's been they've been better about it but um yeah because…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Like a utility bill or something like that. I would almost like to say resident annual pass, like town residents shall be eligible to obtain annual parking passes pursuant to the town's administrative resident parking policy.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“No, I'm not. That's that's what I'm saying is that we. We we mentioned it in there and like all town residents shall be eligible.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“But see, technically, a resident is somebody then that lives here. So that's why I'm saying that I would say that we would reference the administrative resident annual resident policy. And because that way you have flexibility of how you write that, because it's kind of evolved a little bit over time, but I do know that y'all have a, because like you said, we've got people, I mean, anyway.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“delete all town just say qualified residents and continue the sentence are eligible yeah there we go so i like that so uh we have an amendment proposal from commissioner corey would somebody like to uh second it but it would be to amend um are we going to do the whole strike thing so my only question would be instead of writing to obtain an annual pass yeah you want me to put annual passes yeah yeah qualified residents are eligible to obtain annual passes uh which um yeah just annual passes to all locations other than ocean park it says excluding ocean park yeah so are we going to approve one…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I thought we were going to talk through all of it first and then, yeah.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I would just like to, I think it, and I'm, um i think it should be in order of like i i would reword these around and make it like they shall be limited to the following and in this order uh operational cost for the management of the paid parking program because basically i mean if it doesn't even pay for itself you know i mean like that's the one thing because the kia whatever so that's the operational cost for the management like paying for the kiosk whatever And then the next would be capital projects related to the improvement, maintenance and repair of the parks and associated…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I wasn't done. And then it also puts it sort of in an order of like, here's the most important things, which in that order I gave, I think makes sense. I mean, that's my contribution.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Can I jump in here real quick on this? Because Commissioner Corey is correct. I mean, we basically have underfunded the playground equipment. last year in last year's budget um i mean that was one of the things that got we we took money from a bunch of different places eliminated some positions and that and took money from reserves to be able to put in the money for the paid fire department people so i mean it's one of those it was you don't necessarily want to underfund the capital improvement for that but at the same time we were being told you know we need to have the fire so we made a…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, but I hear you. But I think that basically a special fund policy, because that's kind of what this is, it's creating, it actually does, because once you create it, it does have an effect for your audit and when you do accounting. Because when you have a sort of special fund policy, they will then ensure that you are accounting and using the money according to your special fund policy. and so and you know it's good i mean like people want to know well you're charging at this how are you using it you want to have some flexibility but at the same time you want you know that's why again i…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So if we got Santa Bell hit, we wouldn't be able to, we'd have to spend two months to amend this before we could even use any of the parking money, which is money again.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Now, I'm saying if we got hit by a hurricane, not at the parks, but say an entire area of the town, other areas, and we had to spend a bunch of money and our revenue went way down because those houses now are not going to be assessed at and be paying. You wouldn't be able to use this without changing it.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I mean, I think that the reserve needs to be in there. I think there's ways that you can leave it in there, but also address the valid points that commissioner, um, Corey has made and, you know, uh, so that's, so it seems like we have, um, concurrence on everything except, uh, 30 54.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I will pass the gavel and second the motion.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Nope, anybody can ask for a roll call vote.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026