Remarks by Dr. Dean Kumpuris
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“Willie, thank you. I'm going to have to study this a lot more now. We've got a lot of information out here. But you think we are in sound footing in replacing everything we need to do at $15 million a year?”
“Going back to, I don't know which slide, for fiscal year 2027 was one of the peaks, and the waste and police you said were additions to it. That's the reason they're going to be so high.”
“Okay. So when we start the budget process, do we have to plan on an extra $6 million, or has the money already been put away?”
“But if we bought the vehicles, we'd have to find $6 million in our budget.”
“And then the police cars you talked about, Before, where are they right now? Before. The extra police cars that we were going to purchase or lease earlier?”
“And when are they going to be on the street?”
“Director Contreras? One more question, and this will be one you may have to go back and research. The increase from 26 to 27 is basically police vehicles and waste, right?”
“As you look at your numbers, the reason these have gone up is waste and police, right? The numbers?”
“Okay. So when we get to the point where we can't deliver on picking up garbage, then we go back and do what we need to do, and we get more vehicles so we can get the garbage picked up and that sort of thing. If you look at the other departments that you've analyzed for us, how many are just getting by but really need more to do their task? And you singled out parks before.”
“I'm constantly complaining to the chief in Leland that these people call me and tell me they can't play the golf course because we can't cut it and we don't have any equipment to cut it. So how many departments do we really have that we're shorting them the vehicles or the equipment to adequately do their job to the level that we want to have done for the citizens of our city. And that's something I'd go back and look. I know we're short, but go back and just send me a thing saying, X department, if I had a money tree growing outside that I could get on Broadway. how much more would they need…”
“But that's really, as I look at this, we're the squeaky wheel board. We need some police cars, so we get police cars, and we should. We need, you know, ways we can do it. But where else do we need to look for maybe another squeaky wheel that we need to fix? Okay?”