Remarks by FRED SPENCER DENO IV
158 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 7
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“OK. We don't have it on the screen here, do we? Do we have a picture of the residents or anything on the screen? We have this here. You have this here. I don't have one, so I'll just .”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“So we're actually going down. Where is the shed going to go?”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“It would be a rear setback of five feet?”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“I mean, one of the big reasons, one of the main reasons before, in the past, we had the setbacks, number one, approaching neighbors' properties, but with utility lines. One good thing is the utility lines are now going underground. So at least from 64th all the way to 57th Avenue, all the residents now will be underground, except for Xfinity and AT&T. But the power lines are now underground. Were there any objections from the residents at all? I will ask this question.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“So one of the ones they come and deliver and drop on the plate. Yes. Well, not fed, it's shed people.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“Okay, so this is a big one here. And normally we're not in this predicament. It's been a long time. And I normally have a recommendation, but today I think it's important that we have a discussion on this topic here because most of the county did see a percentage increase in the total taxable value of their cities, villages, and towns. The average increase was 5.5% this year compared to 8.5% last year. But this year, we actually have a 5% deficit on the assessed values in Virginia Gardens. So next year, it all depends on what happens with the property taxes, too. We don't know what's going to…”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“The main thing is once we set the millage rate tonight, we cannot go any higher. We can always go lower when we start our budget process, but that's why it's important we set the bar somewhere where it's manageable between a 5.0 and a 5.05 to be realistic. There's still going to be a deficit. I feel confident we can make up that $21,000. with a 5.05.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“you know 0.2 mils or two tenths of a mil that's it we're stuck with what we have now what we can go lower so with that being said um you know i was a little confused because normally the rollback rate is the same dollar figure you would take in it from the previous year i even asked purchase what's what's going on with that so it's really strange this is the first year i've seen where it's still less than what we're taking in from the previous year so the value adjustment board throughout the year they had different hearings um property owners including business owners and residents.…”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“It's businesses, it's homes, any property owner. And it's throughout the whole year. So it's not like they hear everything in the month of January or February. You can file a petition and they haven't heard in two months from now.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“We can and we can always go lower once we go through our budget process.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“Well, it's going to be 21 plus because we have our police contract. So realistically, we're probably looking at about $35,000. $35,000 to $40,000, that's what we're looking at.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“Yeah. Because we work. That's what we have budget, you know, workshops for.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“We got the 5.8. five or 5.6 so um you know hopefully next year we'll be able to lower it back down and well and again it all depends on this um property tax issue we have now what what a lot of the residents don't understand is that money has to be made up somewhere so a lot of people don't want to see property taxes they want to vote against property taxes Money's got to come from somewhere.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“What day of the week is that? Monday. It says Monday. It's September 14th. Well, you can't go by that.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“I do have a couple things to report. I would like to thank our police department, our chief, our lieutenant, Detective Darwin, and Mandini. We had a very covert operation here last week. It's been planned probably for about two months now, a month and a half. It's been planned for a while. And I got to sit in and hear the briefing. There was probably about 40 officers downstairs in our senior's room. And it was a task force, a state attorney's state county trafficking task force that came in to the village and set up a scene operation in Kennewick. So there was a 25th operation during the…”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“Well, they didn't even know. The workers didn't know either. So only the manager, I guess, probably. Nobody knew about it. We got the rooms, rented the rooms. The detectives went in there, dressed them. You couldn't even tell. It looked like all of us inside this room right now. And set the cameras up. And they did that. A lot of background stuff that was going on. And So yeah, it was interesting. Again, there was no children involved. Even the mother was not a real mother. She might have been a mother outside of her work, but she was not a mother with a 12 and 14-year-old. So they thought…”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“They actually apprehended three, yes. This is just the three people off the streets and, you know, preying on young children. And the mother was an undercover officer.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“There was no children involved. I know one of our council members was very concerned, but there were no children involved.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“You know, everyone's sworn to secrecy. You can't talk about it. And once it's over, you can discuss it. That's why we put it on our social media page to get ahead of, you know, how the Internet is and social media. Oh, Virginia Gardens, they got predators in a hotel. That's not it. That was not it. So, you know, I talked to the lieutenant that night, talked to the chief. Everything was good. Go ahead and, you know, you're allowed to go ahead and post the pictures and everything. So I want to make sure. we got to go ahead from the state attorney's office. And again, it was like you're saying,…”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“It's in the works. It's going to be, right now the main line runs 66th Avenue from north to south. and the tee off on those lines in the front going under the sidewalk. It's kind of like what FP&L is doing now. They're boring. All the electrical lines are going to bore. The idea is to bore the on.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“So they bore everything. Everything's underground.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“Boring. It's not a village project. I know, I know. I don't know. I don't even know about that.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“So whether they're removed or abandoned, I don't know. We're still preliminary. I don't like to spend money until we know there's a project. I'm not going to go spend $20,000 engineering a project in hopes to receive the money. So now we're starting the engineering phase of that project. We'll cut the line off in 66.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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“I mean, years ago, I know when I was a kid growing up behind my house here, The garbage cans used to be underground. There was a lid, you'd lift it up, the garbage cans were there, put the lids back down. Do you remember that? Yeah, that was in Lansing, Dad.”
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
Mayor & Council & Clerk · Jul 23, 2026