Remarks by Harry Thomas
10 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 56:48
“First of all, I want to say thanks to city manager and senior staff for taking my phone call last Thursday morning and working through this reduction in this fee. One of the things that we've talked about, and I didn't see it on your slide, Patrick, is have some retirement communities and a couple of pretty good sized apartment complexes in my district. And that's what really triggered me asking questions. Will they be addressed any way different than what you had on your slides?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 58:00
“Okay. I guess I could probably go over the same thing that Tommy asked. My concern is I've still got granddaughters in this town that at some point in time in the future will be citizens on their own. If we don't keep these roads the way they are, then some future council— Some future citizens are going to have to pay for the complete rehab of some of these roads if we don't... Is that a fair statement?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 59:24
“One other point I want to emphasize, because I do have several citizens in my district that are at or below the poverty line, so this money that we will be investing with a nonprofit to help with some of these fees, That's something that will come back to the council every year, the same as this. So if we had to come back sometime next year and say, hey, that 875 is not cutting it, and we may have to go to 10 or whatever number it may be, that money is still going to be there to help these citizens pay for that particular fee if they qualify.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:17:47
“Probably not a question, probably more of a comment right now. Many of the people in this room knew that before I retired, I worked for Goodyear. So we did seal coat on 55 miles of road on a regular basis. And the reason we did that is because, as Patrick says, it's a lot less expensive to try to maintain a road with seal coat than it is to replace that whole road. Millions of dollars. And I'm afraid that's what's going to happen. Future councils are going to have to tackle that. My granddaughters are going to have to foot that bill. I'm really thinking that we need to continue the seal coat…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I don't have a whole lot of questions. I know what he does. I had an opportunity to serve on that board more than once, so I want to say thanks. And by the way, Jeremy, you and I are good enough friends. You can call me Harry.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Well, I'm glad to see that we've got some applicants from the north side of town on this because we've got... typically got a lot more money out there. I certainly think this is a good thing. I'd recommend approval.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 4:50:09
“Typically on the west side, it belongs to you. But I got one little piece in there, I think.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:00:12
“Both of them are, yeah, District 3. So, you know, from my perspective, this is a different way to look at tiers money, and we've got an opportunity to finish out the River Stage project and do some improvements on the historic building. Personally, I think it's a good opportunity. If I'd have been on the tiers board... I would have probably been in the minority, too, because I would have recommended to split it. But I'm comfortable as long as we're not going, you know, as long as we got the money, so. All right.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:00:57
“I motion to approve both of these, including the second one, which will take that $475,000 out of this fiscal year.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 5:03:56
“You're right, and I've been more than first patron. Yes, you would have.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026