Remarks by Daniel Kilmer
142 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 6
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“Okay, I'd like to make a motion that all members of committees... Advisor? All members of committees for... To restrict all members of committees from contacting town attorneys and or any agency as an officer of the town without going through the town board or your liaison beforehand. To receive authorization. To receive authorization.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Do you want to make it stronger as an attorney?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“All in favor? Aye. Before we do budget, there was a couple things I had on the agenda. If you don't mind me freelancing here for one second. Did you guys decide on setting the rate while it was gone for the battery storage units? No. I saw your email too. Yeah. Ron sent us an email 500,000 is that an agree? Is that something you guys want to grant? Because we got we got 2 in the hoop right now, right? Well, we got to make sure I have a rate for him to pay.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I kept seeing emails about, I guess condos.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I think your email about the 20 grand negotiated car or something. I read yours. I just saw the back and forth from the highway department. Oh, it's a different time maybe?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“No, I guess we just need to give the guy in the highway department that green light because he's confused. Oh, he said...”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“We also need to give them a budget number, too.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Well, I, I guess we'll get jump in because this was my motion to, uh, I think. I think we should freeze all elected official salaries because. I mean, and this is not a hit on personalities or people. If you look when a new supervisor come in, it's not like we said, we roll back when a new guy comes in, he builds himself back up. That never happened here, but that's okay because the supervisor is an ongoing job. It's not like. You know, it is what it is is chief executive of the town, but. At this point, I just think we should freeze just out of. Optics, it shouldn't be an elected official…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“It's optics. So we're going to do supervisor and everybody, all of the officials froze at 2026, but okay.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Again, I don't think any of us are on the bottom of any of the scales when you compare them with other towns in our population.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“We have zero fund balance. $6,000 on our fund balance. I'm not going to argue with it. I appreciate that. It's definitely great.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“But it's their job, but we're also elected. And again, Tom, in any other town we've been, we did not have... The thing that I'm trying to root out, and it's not because any specific person, but these step increases that we decided to start giving our highway superintendent and our supervisor, we're not union. We don't do steps. We're elected officials. We should get just the 3% or 2%, whatever we give our town employees.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“The last supervisor before you made $78,000 when he started. No, that's his last year paid 78,000 dollars right in the fair. Well, I know it goes back. You made 3 grand.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I'm talking about money. I know you are. Money in pocket. Money in pocket is more than...”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“And, you know, all of us, same of all of you, when you first started walking around with doing your petitions, did you even know what a councilman's pay was? I did not know. I did not. I just wanted to do the job. I wanted to be a councilman. I wanted to help drive the council.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Don't sign a petition if you don't want to make this the month of the new year.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I do for this year because of the budget. I do only simply because we can't restore our fund balance to even... I mean, we're not even close to 10%. No. And 10% is the minimum. They like to see a 25%. We used to be there. I know, but we don't get back there if we don't start making decisions like this.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“So if we spend $12 million, we should have 1.2. We have 6,000. So this is a $8,200 swing. Okay.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Go. One line at a time, Pete. We're going to go there.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Page 12 of 167, the general fund. And this could be a confusion on my part, but maybe we can help clear it up. Grant writers, we have 24,000 additional grant writer, 24,000 other vendors, 46,000. I have no clue what all that money is being spent for because the new grant writer is like 37,000, aren't they, Rhonda?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“So why do you have 24 twice? I mean, that used to be the old grant writer's number.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Right. But what's the bottom on additional grant writer?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“All right, so one of these 24 is coming up. And what are the additional vendors? I don't understand. Who is an additional vendor under grant writing?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I'm just saying, does anyone know what that 46 is for?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“That stuff was all stuff that was professional service that came out of that. So we put a little bit of money aside to get a big project? You did the commons? Is that where the money came from when we did the drawing of the commons? No, we used grant money for that.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026