Remarks by Dexter Fisher

1. Play at 2:06:41

   “Sort of educate me on that. The impact, especially on small businesses, and I know probably the majority of taxes will be coming from outside, possibly with all the events that we have, but then also about the people who are less vulnerable in this community that because our sales tax is going to go up, how it might impact them. A little bit of pause, but everybody wants their property tax lower, and I get that, but we need to take all those things into consideration when we start. And the last thing, I don't know whether or not we have really educated our public enough about this. I think we…”

   Commission · Jun 2, 2026

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2. Play at 2:24:07

   “Thank you, Mayor. I also want to thank staff, especially with the budget. Again, I really want our budget this year to really be pretty bland and not do all these CDOs that we've done in the past. I want to thank my colleagues. for sort of falling in line and trying to work together to make sure we make that happen. I do want to thank y'all for that. I do want to thank the staff, especially Sarah for keeping us on track and what we was doing and what she had put out for all of us to share. And again, trying to make sure that we keep our public and the people in this community informed about…”

   Commission · Jun 2, 2026

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