Remarks by Alison Dennington
473 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 19
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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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“We didn't take a vote on that other one, but you read the amended language.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So is there any other questions for, any other issues anyone wants to talk about on this?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“and it's limited to a hundred and it's a hundred dollars per pass and she wanted to know if you all wanted to increase that even by like 25 or something like that so i do want to alert the commission to the fact that when this came up before like people are very opposed to us doing more and i'm i looked at i looked at our numbers and we like the year before we hadn't even sold anywhere neat we hadn't even sold 50 of them so i'd be interested to see how many they've actually sold but the more uh people are really opposed to selling too many of these uh visitor passes because the more you sell…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, I thought it was 50 too. When I saw that 100 in there, because I believe that Mascaro, Tried to get it raised to $100, and that got voted down. Okay, well, I could be wrong then about the $100.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“What happens is around Christmas and different types of people come in, and then they want to get a discount on it, and they want to get more, but... you know it's like no because i mean there's people that live here that cannot get a parking spot anywhere on friday night up here and so if you sell more of those what happens is people that go that don't live here don't pay taxes here they you know go there a lot and then there's residents can't even you know so that's even i would just say it's a can of worms on the matter madam mayor what why is the price set at a hundred dollars I know. I…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“When it was originally passed, there weren't guest passes, and this was before I was on the commission, and then there were, like, I believe it was Commissioner Runte, there were some people that said, oh, like, my mom comes, or different people, it would be nice to be able to have a guest pass, but a lot of people were opposed, because people were opposed to the parking in general, but then are fine with it, But because the more, you know, more guest passes you sell. So they they're like had a limited number and it's essentially first come first serve. And when it first came out, I mean, it…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“And so they're the ones who are buying it.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah. But I mean, I think I think that's why we picked the 50 number and did it first come first serve, because we really it was like we wanted to have a possibility for people that really are going to use it a bunch, but don't live here to be one of those first 50 people to get it. But if you don't and that way, people that live here and know if you want to go in for your mom or whoever, But if we open it up more, our revenue is going to go down, and we are relying on this revenue. Even if you looked at the numbers, this August is less than last August, even though we raised the rates or…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, sorry, I didn't know if you heard me. I didn't know if you heard me.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“And this doesn't require an ordinance, this is just a policy, like a financial policy that we can put up?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So would this go into a chapter in like the employee manual in like the finance, or does this go in, do we have a set of fund policies? I mean, policies has been my thing forever. I know y'all are gonna be working or are working. Yes, yes, we'll be working. Would this be something that goes in the administrative, like the policies, the employment policy,”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“like a little bit more than one month. I mean, because 12 months in the year and your expenditures, that's what you're spending.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I think they give it in guidance of you should have at least X number of months, but then I do think the policies usually have it in a percentage.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“don't understand that yeah if you did it on your revenue you would actually get it when you got the money from it'd be a lot more though you'd actually be putting a lot it might be great hey change it change it to change it to your um like your but if you changed it to revenue you're saying it would still be the same because you have to balance revenue to expenditures but it would be the same number yeah i mean”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“well if it helps if you put it i'm just going to tell you that if you did it on revenue i would be really happy because you guys would kind of be require it i'm just there's a because of the way fund accounting goes you'd be setting a big trap for yourself i'm just trying to tell you i'm fine with it i've changed it to revenue so if that helps you to know that you're probably not going to want to do it the way they have it written on general fund expenditures because your expenditures are different from what your revenue is and your general fund expenditures”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, that's if you did it a lot more, it would require you to put a lot more in reserve. You would not be able to fund the fire department if you did it that way is what I'm going to say. But. Go ahead, that'd be great.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, like they would be repaid, like a repayment.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“capital so it's different from sort of capital improvements the long term so this is more of a short-term capital reserve like a maintenance short a short-term capital maintenance reserve as opposed to a long-term capital improvement the long-term cip yeah yeah because i just whenever you use capital to me it's it's usually capital is associated with more long term but this i mean it's sort of capital like your infrastructure your bigger things Then but this is associated with the sort of short-term kind of things do break down Just this gives us the gives us the ability to basically…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“for what it's worth the GFOA and I think I sent you that link they are doing something where they have a database so it's cities from all over the country but there's a bunch of their Florida they're doing like a it's like a financial policy database and so they actually have a bunch of different financial policies that people have put on there so if you wanted to look at things and mr knight i had sent the um it to the manager a while back but it's free available like i found them a couple florida ones on there but on all different types of things so they give you good great language what…”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Do you need to vote on that? No, I think that it would just get tabled to the next. I don't know if we need a motion or not, do we? I mean, if we don't, yeah. Okay. Would somebody like to make a motion that we, not table it, but that we just take it to a workshop. It needs further discussion and will be scheduled at the next workshop.”
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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“second okay we have a motion to second mr knight i have one question when they're an um alternate they are a voting member if they need to be if there's not a quorum they go and sit but how long are the terms for an alternate until there's i'll get back to you just give me one second let me look at the code oh okay it may say on there but”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I think it's three years. Do they finish the term out?”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Yeah, that's what I'm saying. This commission has never approved.”
Town Commission · Sep 16, 2026