Remarks by Amber Brach-Williams
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“Number 16102, we're back to our budget meeting. First up, we have Chief of Police to talk about PD and other budget items, other, you know, categories, departments.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Okay, oh, never mind, because it's a continuation we don't normally.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“I took the union contract and calculated that out.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“I would want to make a decision on that now. Or we can revisit it.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“okay that was the cost of the new car but that's where we and that's where we ended up which is like you'll see the adopted budget was 55 000 and modified yeah yeah that's what i was asking about the car because i was like well it's modified so we know some things but where's the expense yeah what'd you do with the old car sell to another police department”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Okay. And also just, I've said it before, but I'm not sure the public, just for them as well, the personnel services number does not have any of the contract increase. So I have a number in contingency so that we've got it in the budget, but it's not reflected here because I don't want to tip our hand while we're going through contract negotiations.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Yeah, I was like, wait, what line did I do?”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“so i think that's probably a reasonable reduction in light of that however i'm glad you brought that up because i wasn't thinking about that that um that reimbursement is going into a different line we have a cdbg grant expenditure line but we may not put that in again for next year in which case then our costs would go back up right so i i'm not”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“no that's where the money that we're spending right now is 25. yeah and so we don't have any in the 26 right ask that's what we have to publish here no that's for the 27th yeah yeah we're always a year behind yeah that's so we didn't put it back in for that year so So, we didn't put it in for 20, so it won't be in the 20. yeah, we didn't put it in for 26, which means it's money available for 20. so we should put it in 27. But then that won't help us until 2028.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Yeah. Got to love the CDBG. Can I get any more confusing? Well, it was, it was a little bit hard to administer to. Just, I know the machinations that you went through trying to, like, designate.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Do you recall how much the 4 poster program used to cost us annually? I feel like it was a big number. It was a very large, like, 250,000.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“I was thinking 29. Grant was for 29. Okay. Yeah, it's just, we need to attract the hunters. And I know, like, the reason I asked about the four poster program is just because North Haven miraculously got sign off from all of the people. I don't think we could accomplish that here, but I know that some people want to try that again, having heard that North Haven was successful.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“I'd also be curious about your thoughts on whether or not you thought it was successful in bringing down tick-borne illnesses?”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Yeah, no, that was my big recollection. I just, In trying to come up with ways to deal with tick-borne illnesses, which seem to be getting worse.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“That's why I was like, how much money would this entail? If we do a pivot and do something with four posters, what would that look like? So what did we decide on for the number? 29? Yep.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“And I think that there was an employee that was largely designated, so I had another $70,000 for that.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Thanks, Val. All right. I think that's all of your categories.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Yeah, so page 34. Yeah, I was going to say, there's a lot there. Oh, actually, I did want to try to correlate a number. the police towing?”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Yeah, I just we're over on towing expenditures. So I did want to find out how much of a budget modification I can make to increase the revenues that potentially could come in for those versus then upping your towing expenditure line.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Yeah, just because I wanted to do a budget mod.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“And we haven't hit twice the budget, at least through August 31st. It was $1,495 out of $1,500 had been billed or received.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Yeah, not for Monday night's meeting, but for the next month's meeting. Other revenues, the police revenue sharing.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Yeah, I think 1 year there was risk of it actually going down, but I think. Well, it went down in 25, it was right. Yeah.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“And we do keep getting that lex program each year.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026
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“Okay. Yeah, just I used to see grants that, like, repeat year after year.”
Town Board · Oct 16, 2026