Remarks by Dave Eggers
526 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 20 of 22
“Because obviously the need for that Service in our county is without question important, critically important. 100%.”
“Well, push the hospitals. I mean, we seem to work with the hospitals pretty well. Correct.”
“hey barry those seven that 727 that you're talking about does that reduce the fee that gets charged to everybody to pay for the g general services you know how we get to get an add-on number for each department to cover the indirect cost plan yeah yeah through the indirect cost plan so yeah it'll impact that so it'll reduce that it will it's two years in the rear um on your indirect cost plan so it'll it'll impact in a couple of years okay”
“And that was- Is that general fund? That was before the, without the pay increase, right?”
“So you have the 3% reduction, 3% pay, so it's kind of the same costs.”
“16 over 16 million, so it's a net of a 12 million reduction. Is that what we're saying? Yeah, Commissioner in the wiki you had a question.”
“As a conversation piece going forward, we do have a sense, I think we've talked about this before, but just of what those... If we didn't do the campus, what the ongoing costs would be for... the existing facilities that we have because that's that's the number you almost have to compare to your your bond payment because it's it's really in the short term we're not going to have a high maintenance cost on on on those facilities so we're going to so you're going you're going to have a savings for you know the ongoing maintenance but the real issue if you recall back and this has been several…”
“I think that's always good to refresh because in this time of what we're going through, I mean, I think it's important.”
“That's all incrementally important to understand for our residents.”
“Thank you. The only thing, again, I don't disagree with you, but we're still trying to negotiate with the state that didn't even know that they were doing this about the proper responsibility. They could fund us the money to operate those two parks. I just want to make sure that... That's fine with me. They keep talking about having the healthiest of budgets up in Tallahassee. They need to take responsibility for what they own. We can manage it. We can operate it. We can do all that stuff. I just want to make sure we get all of that considered. But I don't disagree with your concept.”
“Go ahead, Commissioner Flowers. I'm sorry. No, I'm just going to get in the middle of you two. I'm not going to do that. Go ahead. Finish up.”
“Commissioner Scott. Oh, are you finished? Commissioner Scott.”
“Well, I understand anywhere where attorneys are involved, and I mean this, no, I'm saying it in a positive way here, that whether it's the public defender's office or our own office, they're grossly underpaid compared to what the private sector. So, again, it's good to understand what you're talking about, but But what's the alternative?”
“And when I use the word grossly, I didn't mean that badly. I just meant it's a significant difference between what they're getting paid and what that private sector alternative is. And it's hard to keep people. And her office tends to be, by definition, it's almost a revolving door. So anyway, well, I look forward to that list. Thank you, Commissioner Scott, for asking for that.”
“Okay, it's now 12 o'clock. Is there food coming for lunch or not? We do. Okay. So we can set that up whenever you want. Yeah, I think we go ahead and take a half hour break now and come get some food.”
“I know, I know. But we've got to get some food in, people. So let's take a half-hour break. We'll come back, work for half an hour, and then we'll do our other thing.”
“I know, just so we have, it becomes like a moving target, but let's say before the discussions that we just had a minute ago, I just want to make sure we're clear that what the estimated value increases are from the property appraiser's office. So what we have to do on our end But to effectuate a no growth government versus the one you're proposing, I just want to make sure I'm clear on what you're proposing and what that really looks like for, you know, in terms of the reality of it, but also what we as commissioners can tell our constituents.”
“So the sheriff's original request was $23 million higher.”
“He lowered it by $7 million. So now it's about $15 million higher. That's correct.”
“a a everything out of a very small percentage of the overall general fund barry how the fiscal year 26 um positions on that page 12 that you have um what what kind of what's the that look like i see from 20 to 27 there's only a hundred and Looks like 120 people that were added of which mostly in the constitutional office, probably mostly in the sheriff's office. Is that fair to say?”
“So from last year, this current budget that we're in versus next year, are we seeing increases in people or is it mostly just in?”
“And of the people, the frontline officers versus administration at the sheriff's office, do you have a sense of the numbers? I have no idea. Okay, all right. So we don't know if it's 50-50 or 75 on the streets, we just don't have any concept. We don't, okay. I mean, because they're both two different issues, right? I mean, you know. Yeah, so just trying to get it over. Anyway.”
“at a certain point as we draw down the so so Barry he could we could get a detail of that makeup of the of the reserves because I think we also had and I didn't support it but we did have a change in policy also from 15 level to 20.8 I think on reserves and I'm I'm assuming that's a reflected in that in that 16”
“I'm talking about the regular reserve, not the stuff that he just talked about. There was a reserve policy change that went to 20.8.”
“That's right. Okay. I know. It becomes a little confusing to know which question to ask. Right.”