Remarks by Amber Brach-Williams
127 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 6
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“When you go into Williamston, you're able to see September numbers. Like, when I go in, I can only see through August because it hasn't closed because I have a different access than you do. I'm just curious if there was a big expenditure. That when I was doing this, there was a check that came through or something. So if you can look at that, just to make sure sure because I will sometimes do that.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I was going to say, I'm not finding it, but if I come up, if I disagree, I find a note later.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, we've historically, like, it started, I think, at, like, 90,000, and then went to 95,000. Like, Jay, we started this years ago. It wasn't like, every three years, we, like, the schedule has us bringing it up. So I still had us in a $115,000 year.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“It just, I'm looking at the sort of fund schedule. And I have in here for well, just 2026, we put it, we started the year with 195,768. we're adding the 110,000 from this year's budget. We had the. last payment on the hook lift truck coming out this year to 62 000 we did have the walking floor trailer which was a big hit the hundred and fourteen thousand seven hundred and then the hyundai loader sixty two thousand dollar payment to be taken out over four years right and then the hazmat trailer fifty thousand that's the estimate that i have that's one that i i do think we have to since we…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“But if with that in here, then we're down at the end of the year to about a $20,000 equipment reserve. So, I mean, that is lower than I would like. For 2027, I also have that we might get a trade in on the old loader. Is that still a possibility?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Oh, okay. Was that 10,000? 10,000. Okay. I just have it in the wrong year then. Okay. So then that at least brings the end of the year to 30,000. Okay.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, just because when I looked at it, so this 1, I guess I had the wrong price increase. I had a 25 to 40, but they're saying this is time to, I believe. So.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, because there were 3 different concrete. Yes. No, again, which 1 went to. Yeah, no worries.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I think so. If I had used that ratio, I would have taken it to 21 then.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I was doing a deep dive on construction, and it's like, okay, Long Island's a little better than other parts of the country.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“The things are slowing down. Everything I'm reading is flat, but I just don't... Yeah, I've been...”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“October 19th. No, next time board meeting. Yeah. So for October 19th, anything that doesn't require a code change is going to be included.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“And the thing to keep in mind, which is that overlooked in an editorial letter to the editor today is. Because we don't want to show our hand in our contract negotiations. Highway and PD are in at last year's rates. The only changes were if someone was increasing in a step or someone went from to CEO, or I always get it wrong.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“So then I made those adjustments. In the salary totals, but then my guest in it is to where we're going to land on the contracts. Have been put into contingency, so it's not a way to raise taxes. It's a way to disguise where our negotiations are. So those numbers, if we should finish the contracts before we close the budget. then we'll pull from contingency and put them where they should be. But it's not like there's a huge increase in contingency. It's just a mask. Yes, it's a mask, but I want to make sure. Exactly. I wanted to make sure that we took into account that. So I wanted to get…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“And some work that I think CPF is, you know, contracting out for. that we could bring back in. And it won't, like, I think it's less money when we do the work in-house. It definitely is. It helps us pay for our people.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“And I did like fuel, like I'm just looking at like mechanics line fuel I took up, you know, and Ken took it up as well. It's just like, in terms of gas prices.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“So historically, we had, where's the line?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Highway improvements. BB 5110.445. Highway improvements. Okay. That is road money. Okay. Last year we budgeted $141,000. But we have revenue items for money that we received from New York for Pave New York, Extreme Winter Recovery, Pave Our Potholes. Chips, we have a separate line, like, we had here's our chips. Repaving and here's our chips revenue. We have the. These other 3 categories in our revenue items, but they were funding the 141,000 dollars. I just broke it down. So that it was clearer and it also makes it easier for the grant and the amperage. Yeah. We're back. Okay. It's like.…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah. So that means that those lines also on the revenue side have to change. So if you flip the page, We'll have to adjust those. So this will have no budget impact. However, it does give you more money for paving.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“No, no, no, I make that rumbling sound. Okay, so you guys were talking about .”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yes, I was going to say yes. You and I already have.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Okay, so is there anything else for Ken, maybe?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, because we're going to talk two weeks.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, the total so far this year on the tree trail and tree maintenance is 35,000 dollars. And I know we've got a bunch more planned. Yeah, but some like, that includes the consultants, some of his work, I believe, for the West neck property. But we could get a breakdown of that.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, because we do have a lot of revenue line for billing the CPF. So if we put in the. Employee, and then we can reimburse it from the CPF revenue line, you know, money's getting transferred.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026