Remarks by James Carter
149 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 6
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“I would just say a couple of things. One, especially this past year, I've been in this position for about two and a half years. This past year, I've gotten quite a few compliments on the smoothing out of the process. Also, there's a degree of uh it's your job to make sure that your staff is working and getting their job done it's his job to make sure you're doing it and so there's a there's a i mean none of us are in the building enough to be to in my opinion to be we're not the supervisors of those employees we're just not so um you know if if you're suggesting this is a necessary position…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“One thing to be clear, this is just my opinion, but I think we may get some agreement here. And I kind of want to see this with a lot of different things going into the next year. But we're hiring this new person, and they're going to be trying to seek out grants and programs and things that can be getting done. I would love at a minimum like a quarterly report on what is being worked on. They can come out here, tell us, talk to us about what they're working on, what they've gotten done. Because obviously, if this is going well, we should be seeing it, right? You know what I mean? We should…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Monthly, quarterly. I'm not bullish on which way, but just something regular.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“but I think it depends on if you think Darby Pavilion and that area there is separate from the Rotary Park and then Alustee Park and then Sallie Mae Jerry, so that would be four to three. Sorry.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“We were supposed to spend it in three years and it's been six, so we're three years past that. Are we experiencing some sort of penalties for that?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Go ahead. No, that's it. That's the question.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Sure. Okay, so then just a good way of looking at it is we probably ought to come up with a plan this year. Yes. Thank you. Absolutely.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“I'll explain my animation if you'd like.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“A whole lot of what was just asked for was given to us very clearly months ago. Secondly, if we decide to spend $14 million on a city hall after we've just made the entire city cut their budgets and after we just took 14 road repavings out of the budget, I would expect to see this building or whatever building surrounded by pitchforks. So I can't really speak on the purchase, not purchase, et cetera, of that building over there. To be clear, I'm employed by the people who own that building. But you are speaking. I'm not. I'm not. To be clear. Hold on.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“I'm not speaking about that deal. I wasn't really going to say anything, but it is still my job as a member of this council to make sure that if I can influence us making smart financial decisions, I will. So if we have the ability for whatever building in whatever place to spend $5 million instead of $15 million, that seems like a... No brainer. And that's all I'll say on that. My animation, again, was because I feel like staff was just given a real hard time. Like they didn't do what was just asked of them in the last six months because they did that exact thing. And then we gave them…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yeah, just a quick question. Really, it's a clerical question, but I don't, why are all of these parts of the wastewater treatment process put together as separate departments?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Not a question, but again, you and your whole team at utilities, gas, the pipes in and out, gas, liquid, all the stuff. I know you guys do a ton of stuff in-house. You're always finding creative ways to save money. Doing that and also passing those things with no issues is very impressive. It's great. That entire department and all the departments involved in that. You guys are killing it. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Maybe take a brief recess, come back, and determine what we want to talk about before we do this. Sure, yeah, five minutes.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Yes, at this moment, I have a couple questions and then some thoughts. At this moment, we do not have an active and functioning Parks and Rec Department. I understand that there's technically a unstaffed, like on the books, there's a Parks and Rec Department that just doesn't do anything or have anything. But last year, we gave $50,000, half of the total from the Mayor of Matching Grant Fund to Bridges Community Center. as part of the budget process and then during the summer they asked for and we gave another 20 000 so last year we gave a total of 70 000 to the richardson community center…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Full staff is a very subjective term. You can mean whatever you want to mean. How are you guys currently funded? Is it just donations?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“the different sports and things that take place there at the moment, how are they organized?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Okay. So they have, so like a coach and there's, there's quite a few teams. I'm assuming the coach comes.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“And those coaches kind of manage their own teams? Things like money for the uniforms for the kids? Yes. Is there an organization outside of you guys that is the management of a league of some kind or something like that?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“What is $250,000? Is that your entire budget? What does that number mean to you guys?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Last night, whenever the folks from Richardson Community Center were here talking, what do i remember correctly that they said that sometimes they use animatics for some of the stuff like when when they don't have enough room or or overflow or something like that so i guess my part of my question there would be is not funding them to some degree allowing they can use whatever space if they wanted to use the softball fields over here if they wanted to use animatics park or what have you they can funding that organization which is already organizing programs can use whatever space they want to…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Well, I would just say, Mr. Mayor, for my... point of view, as short as I think this conversation could be, it doesn't seem like it's gonna be. Really, we could determine how short the board wants the conversation to be now. I expressed earlier what I think we ought to do this year.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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City Council · Aug 5, 2026