Remarks by Cole Stanley
414 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 17
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City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I think if we can pause real quick council, let's take this bite at a time. So questions on. The proposal so far.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Are you sure you're done? No, but I'll reserve the right. It seems like you're thinking. Councilman Prescott, how are you doing over there? You got anything you need to add? Blink twice if you can hear us there, David. I just saw the one. Maybe there's a delay. Okay, let me jump in. I don't see anybody lit up, so if David has anything, just wave at us, sir. Okay, let's go back to the TIF, which is tiers, pulled out 291 million, then you put it back in to get to the 16.9 million. The reason that jumps off the page is we've been working on that 16.9, I'm sorry, billion, that 16.9 billion in tax…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“You're capturing the total tax and then you're paying it out 1.2 million. Correct. Yes, sir.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And I got my two tax assessors out there. So just want to make sure that both Potter and Randall County seen all this, like the structure, according to the tax code, everything's in the right box.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“OKAY. I'm following along then on the tiers and kind of see what we're doing there. Are we budgeting based on a 98.5% collection rate?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And then typically we collect, what, 99.8% of taxes?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Do those monies eventually end up in that available fund calculation? They end up in our reserve?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. Yes, sir. Let's go to your revenues here. Well, before we do that, let's go to your debt. Okay, so you guys got the email from Bond Council that I hit him up on last week. And so I was trying to run the total payments for everything. And so beforehand, you guys had in our budget, if you go back to the The very, well, the back section, it's like a page 1,034, 1,035, something like that. You had our total debt service, 66.3 million. And so bond council has our total debt service, 62.01 million on his updated report. And then that doesn't account for what could be coming that's proposed in…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“That's great. I think my biggest hesitancy is with these large water and sewer increases that are proposed. And I get that we've got monies that we're going to need for wastewater treatment plant, but we really need to be considerate in everything when it comes to that enterprise. And so I still feel like that enterprise is very healthy. I also feel like we're going to see more volume in sales based on the way that we're metering now and so I would like to go back through water and sewer and pull all that let's make sure those transfers aren't shifting going anywhere they don't need to we had…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“80.4. At the no new revenue. Okay. So we're now doing a good job of separating our revenues out from our expenditures. Are we done with revenues, like in analyzing those?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. Would we be willing to take another look at our revenues council? I still feel like our licenses and business fees are under projected and then we see these sales tax numbers continuing to push.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So before we get into the expenditure side and trying to figure out where the money goes, what are you projecting when you're taking into account the total now with these new numbers for NNR and Vader?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, what are you looking at on the sales tax?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“90.5, 91, OKAY. Council, I'm going to ask one more time for direction. You have roughly a $1.2 million deduct from what you've ran consistently in business and licensing fees that would contribute to this. So does anybody have an appetite for projecting that number back up to what the actuals are that have come in before?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“SO WHAT WAS THE ADJUSTMENT? WHAT DID WE ADJUST IT UP TO?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“SO YOU ADJUSTED OUT THE POV PERMIT AMOUNT, THEN YOU TOOK THAT AS YOUR FLAT NUMBER, YOU ADDED BACK IN 300,000 FOR GROWTH.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“While she's looking, the reason that this is important for anybody who's watching or paying attention, we're fixing to discuss like, which which rate are we looking at here? Well, if you don't have a comprehensive understanding of the total amount of revenues that you're pulling in, it's really hard to just lean into property tax alone. And as you know, property taxes. They don't support 22% of our total budget, they're more than that, but we're not running the city on property taxes alone. So I'd like to see exactly where we're at on the total for the NNR and the total for the Vader,…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yeah, so really more like $287 almost. It was like $286.6, right? Yes, sir. So gentlemen, we're getting really close to where we've got a good revenue source right there to cover everything that we're looking at. And then we still have an opportunity to move some of these monies around. So before we go on the expenditure side and move on with the calculations, does council have anything else they'd like to cover?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“We'll check back in with you. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Real quick, sir. Yes, sir. So on the police side, this does include the additional steps that they ask? It does not. It does not.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026