Remarks by Jason Turney
104 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 5
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“All right, we will start this city council special meeting public hearing on August 20th, 2026. Roll call.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“All right, if you'll stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Pam, you want to do the invocation?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“All right, this time we will open up the mic for citizens' comment. Do we have any cards for tonight? Do we have anybody in the audience who would like to speak in citizen's comment? If not, we will move forward. To new business, this is the City Council's schedule to continue the public hearing. That was open on August 20th and considered option of the proposed property tax rate of .481878 per 100 of taxable value. This is a 7.99% increase in the tax revenue. The tax rate will effectively be raised by 3.5%. And we'll raise taxes for maintenance and operations on a hundred thousand dollar…”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“So we have a motion on the floor. Does anybody second the motion? I'll second. We have a second. We have to do a roll call. Roll call.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I'll second. We have a second. Roll call.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“All right. So neither motion passes. So before we move on, I'm just going to state that Pam, the last?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Pam voted nay. Oh, you already voted? Yeah.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“No, it doesn't. It requires a four to one vote.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“It's because you don't run the day-to-day operations. It's not our job.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“How come you voted in favor of the tax rate? I did not. You voted in favor of the ratification of the tax rate.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“You did. It's on record. You voted against the budget for the tax. She voted in favor. And then the next item up, you voted in favor of the ratification of the tax. no yes you did it is on record that last the last meeting you voted in favor of the ratification yeah she was it's in the minutes i pulled the minutes and looked down you voted in favor of the ratification i'm just asking on the voting wise i have given my reasons and i stick by my reasons i'm only stating i feel like sometimes we don't know how are we going to lower we don't even know what we're voting for i don't i'm not voting…”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“All right, don't do that. We don't want to see it.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“is anyone online that wants to speak up they're not allowed to so i don't have to make the i'm gonna all right the floor is closed i'm gonna for the next uh meeting we don't have to have a motion or nothing to set the next one or i can so where do we go from here because there's we're gonna have another hearing we're gonna have another public hearing and this will go on until we come to a resolution”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Yeah, this is the max we can go if it was approved because that's what we advertised.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“And all the questions for the emails were answered.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“So we want our employees, half of them, walking.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“It goes down. The no new revenue rate goes down.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Well, that economic director is going to be huge with the things that are, which can't be spoken of, that are moving in the discussions that are already happening.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Maybe. They're talking. There's people out there.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“We've definitely tied in the bill. We've dropped the tax rate since I've been on council for 10 years, 13 cents. It used to be 0.61. So there's been a lot of adjustments and they're growing.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“But we made cuts. We're not going to get to that agreement. Right, we made cuts. We made cuts. We made a lot of cuts.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I mean, we could have went out even further, but we didn't.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Which is a big cost usually for most cities, local governments. so the um are you making a motion on that so to answer your question i i i that's a possibility all you have to do is read the motion that was read yeah just change just change the number i i think it's too low i think we're going to end ourselves”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“The current one on a $100,000 home is approximately $13.76 a year. A year, yeah. That's a year, yeah. But that's a year. She's speaking in months.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“So if you have a $300,000 home, that's a $39 increase a year.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026