Remarks by Charlie Bradt
146 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 6
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“And a lot of that's out of your control.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Been there, done that. Let's see, our revenue is dependent on sales tax, which we can't control at all who shops over here. Yeah. Or if they go away or COVID comes along or whatever, which devastated us several years ago.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“But then you sit, Joe, and look at Oak Ridge and everybody around you, and we're well below all of them. You know what I mean?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“And that's good. I'm not... Yeah. It's just that I want council to look at the whole budget.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“And you have to have the sales tax. The state's 6.25% and more too, of which a half a cent is MDV.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“If we run over, we can just get it from available cash. Well, you know, I'm off. What's already encumbered of it? We don't know. And I've asked her. She's done a great job addressing that. You know what I mean? So even though this says there's $3,000 in available cash, not the 180, but just the $3,000, it's really $900,000. Right?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“you look at your last monthly report and that's what you had oh the three it's a three million yeah the three yeah the unexigned unsigned sorry but in other words encumbered we said we're on tam in the road with a million nine mdd said they're going to put in there you know and that's all even their money's in this pool that's what i'm concerned about why i started looking at all of this and feel the pinch that we yes we want police office yes we want to pay them but It's going to come to a point where we're between a rock and a hard place. And it's going to come, and it's close. And so do we…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“They're not spending what they budget. The budget is just about, we intend to spend this amount. And if you go over, you have to have available cash like this.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“It's self-supporting, basically, Joan. I'm sorry. It's self-supporting, basically. $100,000, $90,000.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“That's money we didn't spend. That's money we did not spend. Right.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“We don't have a policy written. No. But we have a good plan of what to do. A priority plan. You know what I mean. But it's not etched in stone.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“You never mentioned warrants, FTAs, for example, that kills the police department.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“And it just helped. Texas is a right to work state, so it's a little harder. Yeah. Did it hold water? Yeah. I've tested them.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“How's the turnover in that side of the engineering? For operators in specific? I was an operating engineer in New York for 33 years, but I was on the hoisting and portable side, not stationary side. This is what you're talking about. This is stationary.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“But you're looking right now for someone that is an operator that's going to step into this?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“private ourselves and our employees and we're not going to take care of them. Yes, sir. Whatever their job.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“So Mr. Mayor and Sam and... Lisa, I'd like to propose that Lisa take this amount that he's asking for per office or whatever, apply it to the personal expenses of the police department before we adopt the budget and let us see it that way. I think it would be a lot better than just talking about all these attributes and everything. If it's all right with you. Did I make sense?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“No, no, Lisa. If everything stays the same. I'm just trying to put it in perspective work.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“You know what I mean. I understand Joe. I know him equally as well. I know where both of them are coming from. But monetarily, I don't. You know what I mean? In our picture that we're talking about.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“In my thing, we're to the good $91,500. I know you don't see this. Yeah.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Exactly, exactly. We have an item on the budget in revenue, and it's called fund balance. a place where we fill deficits in the general fund. And it comes from available cash. It comes from the next item we're going to talk about, trash pickup. It comes from cutting expenses. I mean, it can come from a lot of different ways. Or raising taxes. What we don't want to do is raise taxes. We don't want to. We want to keep the police department 100%.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“So if we just make it a common dollars and cents, here's what it is, then we can make a better decision and get all of the emotions out of this conversation. That's all I'm saying. Because I want to do the best that we can. And can we support it long term yeah? We did something with the trash. It's going to go right back on the rest I mean, it's yeah And we don't know what the state's going to do to us So if I hear you right what we want to do is is”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yeah, right. We're saying we don't bring it to 90, maybe 120, or whatever that number is. Let's see what that is. It protects us still.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“No, you're good. You just got to put it in one lump sum. Say, OK, here it is. Takes the emotion and everything. Then we can figure out how to pay for it. OK. No. We will.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“If it affects other sides of the budget, we want to know that too. So that's why I asked the way I asked. It's going to be more work for you, yes.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026