Remarks by Cole Stanley
414 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 17
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“Okay. Yeah, and I know I've got the City Hall piece for the 2.5 included in the 19.776. So essentially, Council, what I'm hoping to do here is to just maximize our efforts with The no new revenue rate is just a consideration. But we need to know, is that no new revenue rate going to bring in 60 plus million? Or is that no new revenue rate going to bring in 57 million? There's a $3 million, $3 point something million difference there. And I'm sure if we let these guys work on this before our meeting today at 3, we could put that together and know. Because I think the way you're presenting it…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, essentially, you know, bottom line, it's hard to come in and say, well, we expected to collect $82 million this year in taxes. And that's where we should land, right? And we collect most all of them. Then you look down at your page and It's $80.4 million at the no new revenue rate. So how are we taking that $2 million deduct right off the front end? And it was explained to me, well, that's sales tax calculation. Well, no, that's just on the VADR, right? Then it's, well, these tax ceilings, no, those all come back in separate. And then I think really where you get to it's like, well,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, so it's just the net-net effect of how do we net 2 million difference if, let's say, it was a $100,000 difference payment. I mean, they're the same expenditures year after year. So I really appreciate y'all digging into that and would like to look through that. Councilman?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Only other thing that I think would be really good to hear today, based on the two differences, there's a $4.3 million difference that everybody agrees with, right? The difference from no new revenue to Vader.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I'm curious, though, like if you flip over to your next page, page eight, you know, you go from the 60.5 VADR rate, which if you go to page eight, like I think if y'all could blow that up, it says it exactly the way I'm saying it. The VADR rate”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“But you're saying that's the VADR rate, 60.5? Yes. But if you go to our current projections, that's what we're bringing in currently, 60.5. And if there's a $4.1, $4.2 million difference, I should go. from the 60.5 to the 64.5?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Right, so the no new revenue rate is the previous budget. Is what I'm saying. That's the amount that you'd have to charge. Whatever that rate is doesn't matter if it's 42 or 43 cents, but that's the beta rate is how we're showing it. But only revenue we're showing the 57.1. But and that's what I'm saying is the middle column here says 26. budgeted M&O revenues at 43 cents. The no new revenue rate is whatever rate for the same properties in order to produce that same amount of money, 60.5 million. The Vader rate should be 4 point something million on top of that. Can we get, like, Something…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do we have a calculator that we can put up on the screen? I don't know if we have that. I mean, it's super nice to see the math. So if we just take what... Christina McMurray has to do her job, right? Her job is to take us from 25 billion in total property down to the 20 billion and then back out all of the tax ceilings and everything, do those adjustments to get us to the 16.7 billion. If y'all run that, just run 16.7 billion times 0.421 per hundred. So take two zeros off. of the 16.7 billion and you come up with 70.4 million. That's our actual revenue at the no new revenue rate. Then you…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm good to, if you want, we could adjourn, come back at 1 for a”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm good to leave it here and take it up at 3. I know we put it on the agenda for a discussion item. So, I mean, I've listed about four items there and would be greatly helped if we could revisit this during discussion.”
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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“Councilman Prescott, I see you. Just want to double check before we adjourn if you had anything you needed.”
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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“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you all for letting us do that. It's always good to honor that crew. There's a few more of them over there and we always tell them even though we keep them in the basement, we hadn't forgot about them. That's just because it's the easiest place to be safe and prepared, right? So thank you all for letting us do that. We're going to move our agenda items forward here. Do we have any announcements? No? OK. We're going to move into discussion items. We are currently working on item 4.2. We had a meeting this morning at 11. And so with some recalculations, we don't know…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. chief thank you it's good presentation um it's it's a good discussion i think it can get even better and so what i'm hearing you you well what i'm watching you do is i'm watching you answer questions directly and so for that we appreciate it um you know we sit on this side of the table and so we represent the public at large and we need to represent this concern adequately right You know, when I first got elected, I heard Sergeant Hudson say something, you know, at I think it was an APOA meeting. He said, we police at the will of the people. It was the first time I had registered…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Well, then my last My last request would be I would take the flock camera system down if I need to. And I think we are willing to do that if it's needed. I wouldn't want to entertain doing that if we didn't know that we couldn't protect it with what we have. So if there's a way to make sure that that data is not shared sold, then that's good enough. But I am no respecter of companies. So if Verkada is easier to work with, And we can get the same safety protocols out of it. Then I think the, the flock contract is up. When it's up and so I'm just saying that across the board. Our…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I definitely hear that request. I think that can be accommodated. And I think that, you know, chief and staff probably have what they need to go out and take that next step. I'd summarize with agreeing with my councilman, never trust the government. I don't think it's a bad way to live your life.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, I wouldn't ask for this one. I'm saying that in the way governance is set up, your last line of defense, in the Constitution, a well-regimented, well-organized militia. Right. And that may be what we used to have. And I love having a well armed society that is still organized. But that overlaps into your local sheriff, your local sheriff, your local police chief is your last line of defense. against a rogue military or any government that doesn't have your best interests at heart. Local matters most, and those people that are closest to you locally that you know are your friends, not your…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Chuck. I would give a statement of fact. This council's never signed any non-disclosure agreement. This council's never sold any water rights. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Real good. I appreciate you guys for coming up and signing in. Do I have anybody else here who'd like to offer public comment? Yes, sir. And Alan, if you don't mind, just state your name for the record. I know you frequent. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do I have anyone else here who would like to offer public comment? Yes, ma'am. This will be our last public commenter for today.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026