Remarks by James Carter
149 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 6
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“I want to address like seven things real quick. First of all, a lot of people have been calling you Pastor Nelson. I don't know you as that. I know you as Coach Nelson. You taught me in school. I understand why you would feel distrustful. I understand why you would feel like you're not being treated fairly by anybody. And I understand why what I said earlier may have been misconstrued as in some way distrust. But I want to first assure you that I don't need to close my eyes. None of the considerations that one would need to close their eyes for are relevant to me at all. Okay, we have to be…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“May I ask you a question, Mr. Mayor? Why would Richardson and Annie Maddox each get a set amount of money and then there's an advisory?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“No, that's not what I said. I said what I said. I said they came, they got, they did. They came, they got, they did. They've done it for the last three years that I've been on this board. They have been successful with the thing. So saying all of a sudden now, no, you don't get that and stuff like that. And that was the suggestion when I came in was I was going to protect the amount that they had gotten last year and then create a pot for everybody else. And that idea had been shouted down. So Mr. Mayor came up with a general pot that everybody can come to. And I said, that's a great idea,…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“If I may just one more time advocate for a particular idea. Like I said before, we all agree that That it is a shame that the city government is not more involved in recreation. Used to be very involved, isn't anymore. We all agree on that. A general focus is going to be much easier to generally grow from over time. That committee will have the opportunity to get more and more institutional knowledge. more and better members as it goes on. More people will want to serve on that committee. The people will recognize the importance of the committee to the youth in the community. I think the way…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“The sign on the splash pad that we were talking about the other day. Whoever pays X amount of money to put their sign on the splash pad, that money would be going into that pot, theoretically. Creating an organization under our umbrella like that may allow us to apply for grants. I can't imagine all the grants I know that are for that sort of thing. We may need that committee in existence in order to get grants like that. We could grow that fund theoretically the way the mayor just said through local sponsorships and through theoretical grants way more than the city would have to put money…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“No, he said the public is welcome to come. The public is welcome to go to Walmart. The public is welcome to walk into any store in town.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“I think the numbers that she just added up, I think are $140,000.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“We don't have one at this time. You don't have a president? They don't have a president. Okay, good.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“I would just appeal to my fellow council members to pull back to a slightly more responsible number. We just cut a bunch out of our own budget and every other department in the city just cut mine. We just advertised and are going with the rollback rate. We're bringing in no new revenue this year.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“We're already at a point where we're talking about 100 to 140,000. That's a number in the middle from the original 15 and the 100 that was asked for.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Sounds good. Exactly. That needs to be emphasized. We just spent a million dollars”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“I mean, that we have not spent in many, many, many, many, many years.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“I think it's close to $200,000. I think it's close to $200,000.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Well, to be clear, I was suggesting that we do a smaller amount and we centralize it to the whole community where it feels like we're turning back to a much larger amount and very specifically where it's being spent. I mean, it makes a lot of sense. All I ask, this isn't necessarily how it would need to be handled every year, but this year, We roll back. This year, we cut everywhere. This year, we have to find the money somewhere. And if y'all want to spend $200,000, we've got to find it somewhere. I don't know. I mean, I can't. Listen, there's five of us. It's going to be an even and an odd…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“If I may continue to elaborate. All right. Obviously, when we started out yesterday, we were spending, based on what we did last year, $70,000. $50,000, $50,000. Mayor talked about maybe doing another $50,000 to $100,000. I was pretty stuck at that $75,000 mark, understanding that we're constraining ourselves fiscally this year. I feel like we started out $70,000 and $200,000. I came in earnestly wanting to be like, you know, listen, we're still going to have to find somewhere to get it from. We're going to have to take it from somewhere. But trying to meet in the middle, right? Trying to…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I have a question of clarification. If we're just gonna give 70 to one organization and 70 to the other, that makes the board pointless. What's the board gonna do? We're just giving each organization 70.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“So is the suggestion, sorry, I'm sorry, go ahead.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“but is it a suggestion that the board exists to determine what those two organizations get only? I'm asking.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Real quick. First, some math. Mayor's matching grant fund is $100,000, $50,000 of which you were going to allocate to the Richardson Community Center originally, right?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026