Remarks by Dave Eggers
526 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 21 of 22
“The extra money we set aside for the purchase of the land is not in those blue numbers.”
“That was a pretty big hit. And yet we had plenty of reserves. I think I still argue on the 20.8%, but that's a policy decision.”
“It doesn't affect our budget this year because what are we at now?”
“And I think that's another piece that we don't have any clue right now. We don't know what the total cost of the campus is going to be.”
“I mean, those are, as they say, low-hanging fruit that we can... Well, that's fine.”
“I don't know where we're going to find the money, the additional money, unless we talk to the sheriff. I have some recommendations. To me, that's where the money is. It's either in those reserves or the sheriff's budget. Set aside, right? I mean, that's... Where else do you have it?”
“I don't know when that list is coming out. That's not general fund based, but it's still something we can talk about. The Chamber of Commerce's are coming from our TDC. Economic Development. We can still talk about it. It's just not from the general fund as we're discussing today.”
“Hold on, hold on. We're talking about Chamber of Commerce funding. Where does it come from, general fund or TDC? That's pretty straightforward. It's both.”
“Yeah, okay. I thought that's what we were contributing to the chambers, the visitor centers. We do for that.”
“I don't, I don't disagree commissioner. I do think there's some value in, in sharing some ideas here from different people that, you know, just, There was a thought the other day, and I think it was Commissioner Nowicki, but as soon as I say that, I may be wrong, that talked about the next budget being a dress rehearsal for our voters on the referendum in November. Now, of course, we're only one of 67 counties, and if we prove it right to our counties and we vote not to do it so that we can control the pace at which we roll out those additional tax reductions instead of the way they're…”
“They're doing that even though it won't affect next year. Yes.”
“Including the sheriff. Did I read it correctly? You can't do it without it. Barry, is there anything in that constitutional thing, or is this more going to be driven by the House and the Senate next year about changing the way that whole...”
“And that's just one fund that needs some work. And that's just one fund. And that needs work to balance it by itself, right? Because we're not balanced in that fund.”
“No, I'm talking about in that fund itself.”
“I've got about a minute and a half, so we're going to go ahead and break from this meeting. I'm going to turn it over to our county attorney.”
“The board will enter a closed session to discuss settlement negotiations and strategy related to litigation expenditures. The persons attending the closed client attorney client session will be myself, Chair Dave Eggers, Vice Chair Chris Latvala, Commissioners Renee Flowers, who will not be in attendance at the meeting, correct? Yeah, she just had to leave. Commissioner Brian Scott, Commissioner Vince Nowicki, Commissioner Kathleen Peters, and Commissioner Chris Shearer. County Attorney Jewel White. Chief Assistant County Attorney Don Kroll, Managing Assistant County Attorney Kristi…”
“Motion by Commissioner Peters, second by Commissioner Scott. And do we need, we'll just do a roll, no, we'll just do a voice vote. All in favor say aye.”
“Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously.”
“We are officially adjourned on that meeting, but we are reestablishing our current meeting. We're back to talk additional budget. I think where we left off pretty much is that there's a seems to be an interest on getting additional information from you guys before our next budget workshop.”
“Compromise maybe between what you proposed and what we've been doing somewhere in between. That's what I'm suspecting, but maybe that's my own preference.”
“And that includes the proposed increases for the annual passes and that kind of thing.”
“It wasn't, I don't know how long ago, but Pasco County did that.”
“They brought it into the, that's correct. Okay. Are there examples of that?”
“Anything else? All right. When's the next budget workshop? September 3rd.”
“Okay, anything else before we jump into agenda?”