Remarks by Elizabeth Hanley
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“So we met this morning, so I had some notes from our meeting. So the first one was, I'm starting on page 10, and the parks and beaches. What's the line? Oh, yeah, 1490409. Thank you. So I'd ask before I upload the last session, whatever that day is, whatever time is, I was thinking that this was budgeted a little bit high at 22, just considering that we had just over $9,000 as an actual in 2025. We only have about $7,000 in expenses. It's budgeted at 22. We got together and talked about it. There was no large outstanding expense that we were aware of that was going to be coming in. So my…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“So, would that move it to 0 and then it would show up on the other or how do you, how does it, how does that. Okay, mechanisms, how do those mechanisms work?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I have more notes on page 25. I don't know if anybody else has other stuff on that.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I was asking. I have notes on the next page, but I wanted to make sure everybody didn't have anything else for page 10. No, that's OK. OK.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I have some notes on the landfill portion. 25 on our copies. Accounts 8160 series. 8160? Yeah. What was your number, Liz? I had page 25 of the 860 series of like landfill. Okay. So Let's see here. So, I mean, I think that there's still like a question of just like, you know, I just wanted to revisit, we were talking about basically adding another person. So I think that there's probably just more to be discussed. We can come back to that. So like, that's obviously one of the bigger increases we have here. And then, sorry, just going through all my notes. Okay, the miscellaneous equipment. So…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“The $2,000 for the QuickBooks, but I actually think that QuickBooks should not be in equipment. So I am going to suggest this is mostly just moving stuff around, but we were also, we were asking, we're like, is it a typo? So then we like, we're like, what is going on? So I think that this should actually be moved to $8,000. Right. And. 81, 60, 200, and then in office and miscellaneous, which we currently have at 17, this should represent The 2K of QuickBooks, the $13,000 in the annual software expense. And then we went back in and we looked at the previous year's office expenses, which comes…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I think there was just a... Yeah, no, we just had had questions.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“And we went through the ledgers this morning just to figure out exactly what it was. Yeah. And do you want a pen?”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I had also had that note of reducing that to 160.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“And then I know it last time I had asked the question, we didn't talk about it this morning, which the other repairs and maintenance line 8160-408. It's like the first kind of the expense line there. We have it. We had it You guys had said 15,000, your department proposed and Amber, you had put it to 2070. And I'm suggesting that we move that back down to 15,000, unless there's some reasons why we wanted it higher. You know, because I'm looking at I'm looking at like this year, you know, where it's like pretty de minimis. I mean, understanding that it's super variable, but it's like fourteen…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I think I mean, it feels it feels pretty safe.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Okay. I'm just like looking, you know, especially if we're thinking about another adding position, I'm just like, is there places where we could pick up some of that? I'm just looking for my note on why I took it up. And then I have some revenue questions, but I will let you get through.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I think we, I think we should move it to 120.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“And then I just have a couple notes on landfill revenues. Page 31, the 2130 series. Yeah, so now I have to see if I can read my notes.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I can't remember again. We're in the 2130 series. So I'm just like read it because we had like kind of talked about. OK, great. So I guess I'll just start with like the biggest delta that I saw. There's really only three that I'm suggesting changes on. So fill in, which is 2130Q. Right, so this is Department proposed was 8,000. You put in 11,600. However, this is probably one of the biggest price increases that we had. We moved it from 10 to 25. So I would, my math says that this should be closer to 20,000, even based on it having, you know what I mean? Even having a similar volume to…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, so basically what I did is I went, I averaged out the fill for the last couple of years and then kind of, well, basically I took the number and then I like, it was like, okay, if it was $10, backed it into it and then said, okay, if that's how much tons or whatever we brought in, then at the new price, this would be the new average. So I just got a number that was much higher. That was probably the biggest delta that I got in this section. What do you want to take it to? I think I want to take it to 20, right? Because we're more than doubling it. We're more than doubling this price. i…”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, yeah, when we were up in the prices, so that's great. This is going to be what if you want to do 17, 5. Sure.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“There's a ton of stuff in here. Easy to do.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, we don't necessarily want it. Which also makes sense.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“And then there were just really two other ones that just are smaller.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I thought a 2130 K with the change based on like, this kind of like the averages of previous years, I thought that this was a look, this was low, considering the price increase in the average over previous year. Yes, correct. That's concrete in. And I thought it should be closer to 20,000. Based on the just the averages and the price increase.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“I just, like I said, it's not a big jump, but I was like, I was like, even at no, I was like, I think that that. So, I think that this 1 should go to. 20,000, just even based on the average, like just, I basically, I went back in, I figured out what the average is, you know what I mean? For like the tonnage coming through then that at the new price. And even, even doing that conservatively, I got a higher number.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm happy to do 21. I was trying to be conservative because I know you want to be conservative, but I was like, I was like that number. I wasn't quibbling about $500, but I was like, I was like, I think 21 is okay. Let's do it. Let's do 21.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“Okay. And then I just have one more and then I will let this be.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026
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“How'd you know? How'd you know? Because my averages say even super conservatively, this should at least be 275. I actually think it should be too many, but I'll be fine at 275. But just we're moving up. We have such a significant amount and we're moving from 240 to 250 a ton. 240 to 250.”
Town Board · Oct 8, 2026