Remarks by Alison Dennington
473 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 19
- Play at 23:49
“But the project part of it is, because what I understand, I was looking at the book, it looks like there was two different amounts. There's like a, basically a position bump up. She's not just going to be the office sort of clerk. It's more of an executive assistant. um that there's a bump up related to that that's sort of indefinite uh because it's yeah and then there is a project sort of management but i could be wrong so tell me that that's also just related to that that would not be indefinite that that's under the duties of what she's going to be doing as my executive assistant oh so…”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“So then question, because that does change some of this then. Okay. Because I did not clearly, I misapprehended that. So you gave me the office clerk and then the town clerk position descriptions. Yes. is there a pre-approved position description with duties and base salary for this position that you are basically bumping her up to if not we we would need to have that written up okay um we have a draft of it okay yeah jenny and i are just parsing that out okay because that covers the policy then that if there's a written description then okay and i don't have to worry about some of the other…”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 32:01
“I'd be in favor of that. Anybody else want to speak or opine?”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 32:18
“Oh, go ahead. Yeah, just speak freely, Vice Mayor.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 32:56
“I'D LOVE TO MAYBE... THE FINANCE, SHE'S READY TO SPEAK TO EXPLAIN. GO AHEAD.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 33:39
“And they, was that a question that you would pose to them? Yes, and it's a response they gave me. And you got a good written response. Okay, perfect. Thank you.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah. Well, I do think stormwater, though, benefits the I mean, because, you know, if that area floods, I mean, you know, I mean, it might be that we would say that that has to be if the money is going into stormwater, then we might need to allocate it to stormwater in the vicinity. I don't know, but. But I do think stormwater, I mean, we're such a small, 1.4 square miles, when we have a huge rain event and things flood, it does, I mean, it's the whole area, but I don't know.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“well i do think that like so when you have a bond you it is very restricted there's like a certain set of rules where things are really restricted or when you have an assessment that goes against property itself so like if we have the stormwater assessment that's that does have to be restricted if we did but that wasn't what i was talking about i know but but this is sort of fees these aren't assessed against land it's basically just a fee to be able to park on an area so it is a BIT DIFFERENT FROM ALL OF THE RESTRICTED DIFFERENT LEVELS OR TYPES OF RESTRICTED FUNDS, WHICH I KNOW THE FINANCE…”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“would love to read that the email that you had if um just to be able to understand it but i do think that somebody said that they checked some of the other cities coco india atlantic that have parking that they do use a portion of their money specific to that area and then they do roll it over so there's a bunch of other cities that do similar but i mean i i definitely think that we would need to have at least a we like a portion of it that would go to that area but”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“So they said that it had to be tied to it, but they also sort of said, well, we're not going to look behind the commission's decision, essentially.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Well, I mean, I know like, even with the assessment, the fire assessment, if we eventually do a fire assessment. So there are some things that like that are in our fire department, but that are not. but you have to really like segregate those. So like the Marine Rescue Unit would not we wouldn't be able to use fire assessment money for the Marine Rescue Unit, but that would be something where we could say, OK, we'll be able to segregate that out and we would say a portion of parking funds can go to fund that, whereas the fire assessment goes to fund all the things you're allowed to with fire.…”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, so no conditions. That's pretty clear.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 41:30
“Could you just provide those? Of course, yeah.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 41:44
“Okay, is there more discussion or questions on that? I mean, I think it's really... Go ahead.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“I have a question. Were you able, you had said last week that you would get it this week, you didn't know when, but were you able to get the, there's two different, you have them or whatever, they get updated, but the $500 or more sort of capital items inventory and then the $5,000 or more?”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“But do you think you'll be able to get them by Friday? You said this week. I'm hoping. Okay.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Because I understand they're just things that are in the system that get printed out.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“You and I had met, I think, August 16th. I requested it then, and you had told her to get it, and then I've requested it several times. And then last week she said she would get it this week. But now it sounds like I won't get it this week either.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“As I understand, it literally exists and it just needs to be printed. Perhaps the reason why... there's pushback to printing it is because it exists, but it's not been updated in a while, and so it's stale? No, it's not that.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“And nobody could just find that document and print it?”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“but we i mean we've had this bsna for a while but it's never been used before for the budget function going forward next year it's going to be is what i've been told we've been always using these sort of excel and so that's sort of the the problem historically why it's not it's not the commission's fault it's more of just the antiquated use of Historically, the Excel and not the BS&A budget software that we have and pay for but haven't utilized in the past and are getting trained to utilize going forward next year, correct? Correct. Yeah, so I mean, that's not our fault. I'm not trying to…”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“for the Commission not including other boards and J lack has been here through most of it oh yes yes mm-hmm my other just sort of standing complaint though is also going to be that none of these have the mandatory minimum requirements that are code chapter 15, section 15 require and that the town attorney did opine orally that are required, but still, I don't know if the final document's gonna have these required columns or not, but.”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 46:49
“No, they don't. I mean, you literally read, there's nothing that, there's this very specific language in section 15 and well i mean i don't know what i don't know what else i mean is it just the names of the columns that yeah i mean for one it's because the uh the actual is different from the odd the later audited so the fiscal year 25 is the last audited budget and it says that you have to have the so it's essentially when they go through because they made they in the budget there was i think there was like maybe 200 000 of things that had to be reconciled and changed like It's not what you…”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“No, no, no, it's a set of language, it's language. The manager has it and it's, it's in your, it's in our town code, it's section 15 . and it's the mandatory minimum requirements, and it says, let's see, and it's for proposed revenue and expenditures, it requires, I mean, it's like an entire page, because there's A, B, and different ones apply to different ones, so read the memo that I provided. It's got for each, like for expenditures, it's supposed to have this, and it tells you which section, whether it's C or D,”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah, because here's the thing. If that is what they actually are, great. I mean I just what I want is I want to track the language of the requirement because later on you know somebody you could say oh well that's not what it actually is but if we certify we track the language and you say yes that is what it is then you know somebody can't later say oh well that's you know it we didn't we didn't do that it says actual it doesn't say that language that's not what it is like track the language and then I'm good on the columns so it's just the column names that yeah make the yeah track the leg…”
Town Commission · Sep 9, 2026