Remarks by Dr. Robert L. Sheridan III
43 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“Yes, I want to make that motion to cover that cost.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Attended the NEP luncheon, the chamber luncheon, and attended the 9-11 commemoration morning event. And again, I want to say thank you to the city council for a great job today. It was a long night. To the city, city staff, continue to do an outstanding job. Again, thank y'all for all what you do and appreciate you. To our first responders, thank y'all.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm kind of on the same page as Councilman McAloosa is in regards to trying to keep the rate at the same, you know, and I saw your, these numbers here and is there another analysis that we can utilize? You know, you know, we need our first responders, you know, these cuts, Is there, was there another picture that we painted or can we paint to show, you know, maybe some reallocations of positions or something like that. I'm just throwing some stuff out there. I'm not saying, I don't know, I'm sure you're trying to understand what I'm trying to get at, but these are, I think they're required or…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, but I don't want to suffer that workload. Those are needed positions for the safety of our citizens and our community. I personally don't want to see a cut there, or I would like to see more bodies there. From my understanding and the discussions that I've had with chief of all departments, I think they're They're really being tasked. And I think that we need to definitely support those positions that they're asking for. I just want to make sure that long term that we're not putting ourselves in debt, further debt. I know CEOs and DOs, my analysis that we're currently about $250 million…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So question, with that new growth that's coming, why couldn't we just rely on that versus raising the tax rate when we're going to be getting more money and some more revenue than we did this past, this previous year? Couldn't we rely on that? You can rely on it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Question. Again, I want to go back to the new growth. With the new growth revenue that we're going to receive, now, maybe you answered this earlier, but how can we not utilize that to support the, you know, with the additions of the... you know, the police officers and the communications. Why couldn't we utilize that $1.2 million worth of new growth to support this versus raising the rate?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“But again, using the rationale that you guys just pointed to me, here you have the four communications dispatchers and the four police officers staffing here as part of that.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I am a proponent of having... giving the chief all the resources he needs to include the police officers and the communication officers. I've been there, I've seen what the dispatchers, the lack of resources that they have and they're doing a tough job over there and I've seen it. I think there's, again, ways that we can work efficiencies to keep the rate at the same level. and still offer these and still increase the manpower that we need. So at this time, I'm going to say no. I want to keep the rate at 5118.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I just think, you know, some options here. You know, just give us a good picture, some options that we can look at. And if, you know, if we can't keep the rate at 5118, we have to go up to the new revenue rate, then I think for me, this is the reason why. You gotta give me the good why of why we can't do with this rate and we have to go up this rate. It's just my concern, just all the way around us, the economy is just, everything is going up. Our gas price is going up, grocery bill is going up. And to me, you know, I hate to see that our, you know, our rate, you know, everything else, this…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Good evening, Mayor. Can we have item four, resolution 26R090, and also item five, resolution 26R091 removed?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yes, I've, you know, in review of the documents provided, you know, I just had some, you know, some questions and just, you know, trying to get an idea of, you know, some of the main projects that are coming up with SSLGC, if we could, as just to, not just let us, you know, just be more transparent and kind of give the, you know, residents an idea of what is projected here in the future with SSLGC, if that makes sense.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“YEAH, NO, I'M SORRY, I GOT A LITTLE COLD THAT I'M FIGHTING. BUT, YEAH, I NOTICED THAT THE OPERATING COST HERE WAS SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASED, AND THEN ALSO THE REVENUE DIDN'T LOOK SO COMFORTABLE IN THAT SENSE. SO I GUESS MY QUESTION IS WITH SSLGC, DO YOU GUYS FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THE REVENUE THAT YOU'LL SEE WILL CONTINUE IN REGARDS TO, LIKE, I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS ARE SELLING WATER OFF TO SALES AND SOME OTHER TIER TWO AREAS. ARE THOSE CONTRACTS, YOU KNOW, ARE SIGNIFICANTLY HEALTHY ENOUGH TO WHERE, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T SEE ANY FUTURE DECLINES OR PROBLEMS WITH THOSE TYPE OF CONTRACTS?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“YEAH, I PULLED THAT ONE OUT BECAUSE IT WAS PREDICTED ON THE PREVIOUS ONE. SO I'M GOOD. SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO FOR RESOLUTION 26R091. SECOND.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I DID, BUT COUNCIL MEMBER WAS BROKEN. GOT MY QUESTION. SO I'M GOOD.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“No, I just want to kind of piggyback off what you said, Mayor, and Council Member McAloosa. You know, looking at page 12, slide 12 there, it seems that we're really... out of touch with the local or in our surrounding cities are providing in regards to these impact fees that we're charging. So it kind of contradicts what we had earlier in regards to we want to make sure businesses are looking at shirts. And to me, that could possibly scare them away in a sense, but we don't want to do that. So again, the revenue that we're collecting on this, I don't think it's really significant enough to…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, so there's no point that we reimburse them for meeting certain target points, et cetera, in their development of their business?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So the takeaway from this is that we're gonna reevaluate and then hopefully we can be somewhat competitive to our neighboring cities in a sense.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I attended the Northeast Partnership luncheon, the chamber luncheon, and also today's event with this street historic preservation sign.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026