Remarks by David Prescott
28 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Anthony, can we bring the crew in? Alright. Whereas the health, safety, and well-being of Amarillo, Texas and its residents depend on the protection of the environment in which we live, work, and play, and safeguarding our air, water, food, and communities is essential to maintaining a healthy and thriving city. And whereas environmental health is an essential component of public health, grounded in scientific evidence and the application of proven practices to identify, assess, prevent, and reduce environmental risks that can adversely affect human health, and whereas science provides the…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Max, in the contract that we're going to let or in previous contracts, is there a recovery mechanism for the FTE that we're going to have? Does the city receive funds from the awardee per tow?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Is that industry standard or is that low?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I just wanted to have verification that Objective B, single source, was supported 100% by police and fire. Is that what I heard? Yes.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Councilman? I just had a question on the usage compared to last year in 2025. I'm looking for the graph that that was on. We'll pull it back up on the board.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I believe so. So the total water production that we produced, it was 1.798, I guess, billion gallons. And then we had, what, 2.24 is what we produced. And that water production is the clean water that we're putting into the system, right? So that was a 24.8% increase.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Now, were the new meters, did they give us... higher accuracy on how much water like if we put it just hypothetically if we put a thousand gallons into the system I've heard that we might have at one point been only charging seven four seven hundred gallons so seventy percent of the amount of water that was going into now with the new meters we are seeing we're capturing A thousand dollars.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And so could that be part of the concern that citizens are seeing on their bills that we are actually capturing? If we're putting 100 units in and we used to only capture 70 units, now we're putting 100 units in and we're capturing 98 units. Could that be some?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And how much do you think that is occurring? How much of those old meters were out there? And now that we have the new meters, how could that explain some of these discrepancies that have our citizens so concerned?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“i do have one question would with those funds not go to help us with criminal too i mean i i get that we're we've got some significant not only with the wastewater treatment plan we have significant cost with the pipeline that's several correct that's built into the rate increase as far as annual contribution to criminal okay so we are i mean if we if we are again just going back to easy math if we have 100 gallons And historically, we've only been billing for 70 gallons. And we go up. Yes, that's going to produce more revenue. But we've all been living on a 30% discount that we didn't…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'm just glad I had a 30% discount for all these years.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I move for adoption of ordinance number 8270, adopting the budget for the fiscal year October 1, 2026 through September 30th, 2027 for the city of Amarillo. Second.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I move that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of 0.43070, which is effectively a 2.3% increase in the tax rate.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Just a quick question. On the 75,000 flat attorney fees, can you just explain that to me?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“That seems excessive for a lease. Just my thoughts.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Where is the phase two? Is it done or is it in process? It's in process.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“And if we give the agreement to purchase this and something comes back negative on that, we would have the ability and we have time that we could pull out of the agreement, correct?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I move that we... take action on the purchase of item 7.8. Second.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I move to award the settling basin repairs phase two for $3,071,000. Second.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I move to award the construction service contract for storm drain improvements as presented.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I don't have any. I just wanted to make sure you could hear me. I don't have any comments at this time. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“You know, I think that, um. You know, the critical things to me are making sure that everything is covered that we've listed, but I definitely want to make sure that all staff sees a strong increase in pay. You know, I liked a lot of the things that you were talking about earlier. I don't know which rate that is because there's so many options that we have. You know, from the VADER all the way to the NNR, there's many options in there. You know, it's, I'm gonna have to lean on you and the rest of the council on the exact number. I like the direction we're going right now. I do, Amarillo…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I would agree. I like, can you hear me, Mayor?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I like that idea of setting the ceiling and then identifying if any additional data comes in. And if it is the proposal that Councilman Simpson said, then that would be good, but give us a little bit of room on the ceiling.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I'd like to make it, I would like to make a motion that we accept the VADR rate for the ceiling and get the additional data and on the 22nd at the next meeting set the, I guess that's when we'll set the final one. I would like to make the motion to accept the VADR rate now.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026