Remarks by Cole Stanley
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Right so so let me ask a few questions on the Potter County side right? So what I'm unclear is the Potter County debt reserve and how that's calculating. So if if I'm looking at what bond Council sent for all of the debt payments, it was 19.773. We had a number plugged in of 20.9. You believe that 19.7 could go down to.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So you have to have that accurate to know what your true Vader tax rate is. So, Council, here's a couple of things just to check off the list. Tiers, no $1.2 million deduct. So we don't have to start with $61.5 and then take $1.2 million out of that. We don't have an expenditure that's coming out of that. We've got that in the calculation above, correct?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Great. So we can check that one off. Monday is being discussed, so I don't know if you're hearing it, but what you're being asked to do is come in on Monday, have a special meeting to finalize your tax rate. The reason that that would be needed is if we are going to go towards what would be the VADR, right, the voter approved tax rate, which right now is 44.7. And so if we don't need to do that, I'm going to tell you, we could potentially still take action today. I don't know that there's wisdom in that. And I think we should, we should probably ask council on that what that looks like. But…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So, Councilman Reid, you've been quiet over there. I don't want to have a public meeting and not be able to hear where you're at. Think in this NNR rate, now that we know it's $61.5 million, that looks pretty good. I'm with Les on this one.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I know Council hasn't been treated well on the presentation of the budget and the understanding of the budget. I feel like we've done an excellent job of questioning, asking questions, and really trying to walk this out. It's unfortunate that we're here, and I get the frustration, but it doesn't change the condition that we're in right and the condition we're in is a good one right we were not four million dollars in the whole we think we think uh... you that you can uh... yeah trust but verify i mean i don't have anything at this point that i don't know”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“10 o'clock, maybe? 10.30? 11? What's best?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“11's best? Councilman Reed? Can one of you guys text Prescott to see what his availability is?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm available. time on Monday morning to make sure we come in with everything right because I mean that is our our d-day right so these transfers in understanding the transfers that are going into that debt fund there was eight million dollars shown on this page but it's listed underneath the transfers in From what you would say is general fund, right? So I'm expecting it to come in from. Entities are funds that are are within general fund. I'm not expecting that 8Million to be funded by hot tax. I'm thinking hot tax sits over on its own side and you can see those as they come into. I…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, sir. Council, you're only on the revenue side of the budget. you're going to get over on the expenditures. What this council's done very well is we fought pretty hard to make sure that we're tracking down CIP projects, and now they're coming back to you, right? And you're making budget amendments mid-year, budget amendments end of the year. So on the expenditures side, let's come Monday to really figure out these revenues. Let's pass a healthy budget that gets to everything we can. But let's really hold these actuals accountable as we get the actuals in from the end of this current year.…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's great. Thank you, ma'am. We appreciate you sitting through this meeting and then all the help earlier today and previous week. Council, anything before we schedule a time?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And then I think if Council has any questions on any of that, getting with staff before Monday morning would be great. Can we say Monday at 11? You comfortable? Yes, sir.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Real good. Anything further on item 4.2, gentlemen? Okay, we're going to move forward. Item 4.3, any future agenda requests?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Councilman, how much time do we have on that? When's that day center come online?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So city management, can we get through budget and all of this stuff before we put these additional agenda items on? Does that give you time to get what you're looking for, but also get through?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah. Real good. Any other future agenda requests? okay we're going to move ourselves forward we have successfully accomplished section 5 public comment we will now move on to section 6 the consent agenda council is there anything listed in this consent agenda that you need pulled off for further detail would request a motion on section six I move to approve the consent agenda as presented. Second. I have a motion and a second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Let's move into our non-consent agenda, Section 7. We will... Take up item 7.1 here. Take no action on…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You know, I think if you had something just to speak in general for this, we probably would like to know what the general market conditions are that you're seeing for this type of affordable housing.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So you're 1,000, 1,200-square-foot home maybe?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“What do you expect to be able to sell those to individuals for?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026