Remarks by Dave Eggers
526 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 22
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“Thank you. We have the Board of County Commissioners as taxing authority for the BCC countywide, dependent special districts, and MSTUs as previously referenced. I will now proceed with the public hearings.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. Are there any questions from the board on the presentation? Yeah, Commissioner Flowers.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Any other questions? We will now continue this public hearing as taxing authority for the BCC countywide dependent special districts and MSTU levies as previously referenced by taking public comment from citizens who wish to be heard regarding our fiscal year 27 millages and budgets. And I do have a card from Shaquina Reese uh... you're welcome to come and you have three minutes to address the commission good evening”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Thank you. I'm looking for my place that I left. 26. Thank you. Or 25. 25. At this time, we'll take public comments from those who have preregistered online.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay. Okay, we are now at the part about board discussion on any changes, a motion and a vote for any changes. So... We are open for discussion. Just to kind of wrap up where we were last week when we left our budget workshop, with the form that we have in this form here that talked about the yellow and gold together, those are the recommendations from administration and represent a 51.4%”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Are you talking about the half that they've recommended or the additional?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“So Kelly. I have an example today just it's kind of goes across some of the infrastructure issues related to. Well, the name of the street is Dunbridge Drive.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“They said this is an unknown street to the county, right? Clearly, when you drive down that street, there's been some utility work done from what I've been told. uh... but the road itself is a disaster i mean i i mean it's been paid for the dead you know where the inundations were uh... but it really is it's way beyond so i said well have you found out what like where it is on the on the schedule and i said it was not even on the schedule to me that's that's not what we're talking about here these are that those are the first two additional millages covering the local that they were able to…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“So those are the ones we took from an F to a C?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“I was talking about the overall rating that we have.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Well, I'm going to continue my story. So there is a culvert that goes into some land that we own behind these houses, and it doesn't look like it's in great condition. It connects the road flooding to this open area. And when I looked at it, I said, well, where's the pond back there? There's no pond. It just kind of goes into this area. Area and yeah, create well, I don't know if it's wetland, but anyway, it creates wetland for sure. And and it creates a lot of issues and we're not taking care of that land. So we have. To use hyperbole, a gazillion. bunches of Brazilian peppers that have…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“This area is not acceptable in my mind. So to me, again, we don't have to bring it up to an A. We don't have to bring it up to a B or whatever the ratings that you do. But when you have... the different elements that are in that property, the different flooding, the different Brazilian peppers, the different road conditions, it speaks to a problem. If we don't have the funding for that stuff right now, getting back to the core issues or core functions of government, that concerns me. And I just went out there to look at it today for the first time. And I wasn't sure what the name of the…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Well, I would argue that when we go back to talk to our residents next year about the penny, that instead of 50 or whatever percentage we're using on infrastructure, that it's higher.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“You haven't touched this street either, the one I was just mentioning. Sorry, Kelly.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“But again, I worry about how we cluster streets so they all work in the same area. This is like streets all by itself, and it doesn't cluster with anything.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“and so it becomes a major project versus a resurfacing and it takes longer to do again if we let things go that's what happens we get more expensive streets correct so those f-rated roads that we're talking about are those roads probably yeah um i didn't mean to i just wanted to bring that example because i just again it was refreshing my mind from from this morning so uh commissioner scott”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“On that point, It was a $1.7 million budget for old requests and some new requests, correct?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“My only comment to that night, you know, makes me, makes my heart really hurt when I, when I hear about the number of kids who are living homeless, uh, right now. I mean, they're living in their cars, they're living kids going to school every day. Um, what worries me more about it is that we, uh, We, not all of us sitting here today, but this county government has agreed in principle to be a partner with these organizations. We've agreed to that. I mean, whether we should have or not, we did. And again, this is the only difference I had last year at the budget when we at the last minute…”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“You don't want the drainage part cut. Right, not the 651, but you are for the social action funding. Right. Okay. So you have... I've heard from six people. Three to three. Yeah, so there you go.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“I know. I'm just saying. It's just, yeah. Well, this is what I was talking about, that sudden change. Commissioner Nowicki.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“You're talking about you're not talking about you're just not talking the green. You're talking the blue.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“There's about two million there in the blue.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Commissioner Peters was for it. You guys both?”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“Okay. We've got two Chris's that want to speak. And I think Renee too.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026
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“we were looking at the millage for 600,000 and we said we're gonna keep that. We're gonna keep the one and a half reduction only. And then we looked at the social action funding, but we're not gonna do that. So we're gonna find it in the one time reserve level. That's where we're gonna find the 600,000.”
Board of County Commissioners · Sep 10, 2026