Remarks by Dr. Mark E. Davis
18 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Yeah, this is just a finance budget related question here. I mean, why would we focus, why would we factor in anticipated vacancies? If we have a staff directory that says the city has X number of staff, why would we not just budget for that X number? And if there's no vacancies, then that's what our budget is, we're paying that anticipated amount. And if there are vacancies, then that would just mean that there's excess now left in that department that would roll up into a budget excess at the end of the year, versus we're factoring in, oh, we think there's going to be a vacancy, And then…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“That's a good explanation, but to me personally, I would feel better... at the end of the year, having a discussion that we did not use all of our personnel funds. And because when we have our budget discussions, we look at what all the departments need and we look at a cut line and we see what's below the cut line. So I know there's things out there that the departments would have liked to have gotten, but during the budget discussion, they were below the line. I would rather come into this last month or two of the year saying, hey, we did not use all of our personnel funds. We can…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm on the bubble on this. I mean, I can understand... some of the discussions that we have about our tax rate and maybe raising it. Mr. Mayor, I think you're a little bit incorrect. As I understand it, when you hit a certain age, your property value is frozen, but that doesn't mean you don't pay more in taxes. It means your property value is frozen, but if the city keeps on raising their tax rate, what you pay in taxes keeps on going up. So you may be 70 years old and your property may have been frozen for the past five years, but if we keep on raising, You're saying no?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“this were to get approved um that area now is a dirt area where they've been storing equipment without proper development correct can you so that area where they're that we're talking about that five acres is currently used for storage of equipment and it's it's not developed because there was never a permit pulled for correct correct sir and if this were to get approved they would have to pull the permits and and develop that so it's compliant, paved surface and all the other improvements?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think this is a great path forward and I'm all for it. I just wanna make sure that we are communicating for the example that you gave, you have a property that is out of compliance and they need 2,000 square feet of concrete or asphalt. I wanna make sure that they understand and it's documented that by them fixing that 2,000 square feet of concrete or asphalt, doesn't give them an opportunity to say, oh, we're gonna park on the next 2,000 feet and we can skip and speed through the whole process to add the second 2,000 square feet. As long as we have something that's communicated to them and…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“No, I understand the logic of not. going with two entities and not having two sets of overhead. The leases that are jointly owned or that are owned by CVLGC, us and Cibolo, are located where?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:58:01
“Wilson County. And does SSLGC currently pump any water from Wilson County?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:58:21
“So it's reasonable to drag it up there. So we could, in theory, if we're looking at increasing or securing our water rights, we could take our portion from Wilson County and transfer, sell it, whatever, to SSLGC and ultimately develop those wells and send it to one of the SSLGC treatment facilities and into that existing pipeline that we've got.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 3:58:55
“I mean, so again, I agree. We need to make sure we're secure on water rights, but if we're looking at that current table of what we already have, and it takes us out to 2070 or so, and On top of that, you've got the potential for what's existing in CVLGC. We've got approximately 5,000 acre feet, and we say that we'd be comfortable with 1,000 or 2,000. To me, we could potentially sell our portion of rights for 3,000 acre feet, and that would help fund the... costs that we would need to take our 2,000 acre feet that we retain and get it pumped into the SSLGC environment.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 4:00:07
“And they do that now. I mean, SSLGC is selling excess water to San Antonio and a few other locations, so.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 4:01:05
“But on the same token, if an agreement is reached for our portion with Green Valley SUD, Green Valley SUD is providing some water to the southern part of Schertz.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 4:01:32
“But we wouldn't have the overhead associated with Green Valley.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 4:01:36
“Versus having a separate overhead to administer CVLGC like we do with SSLGC.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 4:02:11
“I mean, to me, if we don't need the full 5,000 acre feet, give or take, plus or minus, whatever it is, I mean, to me, the more logical sense is not have the secondary overhead and partner with those rights with someone we're already connected with that's providing a service, whether that's Green Valley or SSLDC.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 4:06:21
“I'm not locked into I have a lease and I have to maintain that lease. Right. I'm focused on we have a right now a source a potential source for an amount of water if i can get that same amount of water from a different agreement from a different lease from something else it doesn't matter if i'm getting it from this lease or this understood i'm worried about the amount of water that's where that's from okay so i mean if there's some kind of an agreement that we can have where where we're getting Like I said, under these leases now with CVLGC, we have the potential for around plus or minus…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:12:52
“Well, since it's early in the process, and again, we can certainly come down, and I think we do have a need to come down, I'll go ahead and second the motion.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I attended the ribbon cutting this afternoon down in Old Sharks for the celebration of their new water and sewer lines and new streets.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026