Remarks by Cory Crenshaw
177 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 8
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“Yeah, that you classified water bills that are residential and small business because the access that they have is a pipe less than five-eighths.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah. So what's the next meter size that would, in my opinion, classify more as commercial?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay, so I am proposing and what I would be in favor of would be an increase in wastewater rates only for the one inch customers and larger up to industrial.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“No, I'm talking about wastewater and classifying those accounts. Because he said he couldn't classify small business earlier because they're not divided between commercial and small business.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“We don't currently have our billing set up based upon the size of the meter or the 5-8s as differentiated between one inch?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“WELL, I MEAN, IT SEEMS LIKE LAST YEAR WE ONLY INCREASED ON THE WATER SIDE. commercial and industrial. And it seems like we were told that that did not include residential and small businesses that had the 5-8 inch pipe.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“All right. Well, I guess where I'm going with this, I... AM IN ZERO FAVOR OF INCREASING RATES ON THE WATER SIDE FOR ANYONE OTHER THAN INDUSTRIAL. ON THE WASTE WATER SIDE, WHETHER YOU HAVE TO GO BACK AND RESEARCH IT AND BRING THOSE NUMBERS BACK TO US AT A LATER DATE, I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF AN INCREASE FOR THE ONE INCH ACCOUNTS ENLARGER ALL THE WAY UP TO INDUSTRIAL. I can't say that increasing wastewater rates on residential or small business are a good idea at this time. That's all I have.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yes. Thank you. Let me start by saying thank you to our water department employees. They had a really tough weekend. I was told that the water main that busted near the county courthouse, water was not available to the inmates at the downtown jail that housed federal inmates. And I think there was about 300 of them. And they were within hours of being required to move the inmates out because of the lack of access of water. And that could have been a real problem. So thank you to our water crews that got out there and got water restored. And then a few hours later, we had the incident over at…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Can we look at that beautiful new road? And the road previous to this was rough. I don't know if anyone's... I'll take that shortcut to get to the freeway leaving Rayos by the mall. And you go right there behind Best Buy. You were teasing us, Tina. No, I'm not going to get it.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Oh, there it is. Oh, yeah. Isn't that nice? So thank you, Molly and the contractor. Yeah. Smooth as can be. Not a pothole in sight.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you. Yes. Do you know of any impact that moving the bond, I'm sorry, moving the reserve balance from 20% to 19% would have any real impact? I mean, is 20% some bright rule with these lending?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“The gap you're talking about, the deficit spending that we've been doing for five years? Yeah, okay. Seeing none.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yes, Councilman Crenshaw. All right. TINA CAN WE PLEASE PUT UP THE EXCEL SPREADSHEET THAT WAS PROVIDED TO ME WHEN I REQUESTED SOME BUDGET DOCUMENTS FROM TRANSIT. THERE'S AN ASSET PURCHASE FOR 2026 FOR OVER $3 MILLION. I'M ASSUMING THAT'S BUSES. CORRECT. WHEN DID THIS COUNCIL APPROVE $3 MILLION IN BUSES?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So I guess what I'm trying to figure out here is that it looks like we're fairly consistent every year with around a $6 million, $6.5 million budget, but all of a sudden for 2026, we're at 9.9 million. So let's just say 10 million. So we go from 6.5 million to 10 million this year, and it appears that it's just these asset purchase. Okay. So I want to then go back to where did the 1.3 million come from that we were told in a previous budget session that the city was over budget for 2026 and instead of the 4.5 million we were projected, we're now over budget 6.3 million, and that the reason…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So I just don't understand that. Of the 9.9 million, if we got revenues, why are we having to transfer 1.3 million out of the general fund to cover what you just said if we got 9.9 million in revenue to fully cover the budget?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah. Chris, can you help with that? Well, I mean, I think it's because if I'm confused, I'm just going to guess people at home are confused.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Yeah. Tina, can we put up the budget document I was sent?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“While that's good news, I wish we could have led with that. You know, because here I am trying to figure out Our fund balance for 2027 is projected to be below the 20%. And, you know, without cutting services, without, you know, hiring freeze and all these things, trying to figure out and make the numbers work so we get back above that 20%. You know, now Eureka, we have 800,000. So that's great. I still don't know. That 800,000 winner was going, and now it's back, so I guess that's good. Can we get the Excel up?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“It's safe to say our budget shortfall for 2026 is now projected to be, it was 6.3, I think, the last number we saw. So 800 off of that, we're now at 5.5.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“All right. Moving in the right direction, it looks like. Am I not going to get that Excel up there?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“The one that was sent? The Excel spreadsheet I emailed you? That's not it. It was like it had it broken down.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay. And later in this presentation, or later today, we're going to find out the details about what the $550,000 that increased 2026 from the $1.9 million to the $2.4 million, we're going to find out what that $500,000 was? Correct. Okay.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Well, I'll reserve my further questions about that until later in the presentation.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Since voters approve that, does that mean that we will increase our .659 to cover the cost of the GO?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“But the voters technically approved that expenditure and the increase in our debt rate in order to satisfy that. So what of the increase in the debt rate is just that GO that we could increase the total tax rate to say this was voter approved?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026