Remarks by Joe M. Summerlin, Jr.
157 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 7
- Play at 9:08
“So you're saying that HB9, I just want some more clarification on that. Is that like the business had to be valued above that before they were taxed or they're able to take that off?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 10:44
“I think it's gonna get trickier going forward. Oh, it will Yeah, yeah, that was one of my biggest concerns when I got on council was to be The one thing that we just don't pay attention to is what happens at the state level and how that affects us. And here's the very first tickling of this coming in.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 11:39
“They are going to. And there's got to be some type of an amendment for cities her size”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 29:55
“What was the percentage? I'd like that recent column, just the total of that.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 30:20
“Does that fall into, does some of that fall into the step?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 30:51
“So realistically, for all the different departments, we can look at, we can plan a 3% increase pretty much per year.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 31:16
“Is the, probably a part of what I'm, I guess I'm looking at. I know there are some costs that are associated with it. The insurance, those types of things are, a lot of that's out of our hand. The only thing we can do is shop around for a better place unless we have restrictions on that. What I'm really looking to get at is what were the percentages of the revenue for salaries? Where did that fall? What was that last year?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 32:36
“Is there a way to extrapolate what 24 then was over for 25? Or you can do the 25 to 26. No, we haven't agreed on that one yet.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 33:06
“But just do you have available 25 to 26 of what they wage difference or increase was from 25 to 26?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 35:32
“Yeah, I guess what I was just trying to get at, and 100% understand all of the variations that... An employee isn't just, I got a paycheck. Yes, it's all the other factors that go in. It's all the other factors that go into it. We need to be aware of that. So many of that, if we want to provide those benefits to our employees, which we do, those are control factors that are out of our hands. And really what I was trying to get to kind of goes back to What is the actual take home for them? Because a lot of people, benefits are benefits. Sometimes they, some people understand the importance of…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 36:30
“It's a completely different thing. And so my only point, and I don't want to labor it any longer, was just to try to get to, what are our manageable? And are we doing the best program for doing that? And I know that I brought it up as an agenda item, talking about, do we reconsider our process? Do we take a look at our process? Do we need to make some changes? Do we need to modify it? Are we not paying enough? Um, you know, are we not, you know, as we just give someone a, you know, a program to raise and honestly their value is greater than that. We don't want to lose that knowledge or there…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 37:38
“I was going to allude to that. You're in luck. Yeah. So I know that we're, but I wanted to just talk about it because these are considerations. We can consider the things we can change. Yes. Can't necessarily affect the other items if we want to provide them to our employees.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 38:24
“Yeah. And the way we have it right now is our taxes is such a high dependency upon them performing terrific.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 40:04
“That's the landmines right now, in my opinion, for what can come down from the state. We cannot plan that.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:19:21
“I just had a question on, just one curious question. What is that, the capital project that was 299,000?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:20:55
“No, that's 45. The next item you're going to talk about, I just wanted to find it.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:25:11
“I'm trying to find out what you're talking about. Oh, the 52?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:26:35
“Is there one plan to replace the meters?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:26:45
“Yeah, that's what I thought. Those meters are very old. They're getting new meters.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:34:39
“My question is, what does it cost us based on you know, what it has maybe over the last five years, how much have we had to put into the reserve to keep it at that $180,000?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:52:09
“I just, more of, I guess I'm still trying to, I've been through different things of this, and so definitively, depending on who you're talking to, what industry you're talking to, haven't been, haven't done that here in this industry, and so I'm just trying to find out what's this kind of scope, you know, the tangible scope that you can grab onto, say this is, This is the vision of looking at what we want to do for the vision that we see. So there has to be so many different types of tangibles. You know, that's, so I guess I'm looking for the financial goals.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 2:14:25
“Yeah, I think if you're carrying multiple certifications, we're making our people too marketable.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 2:15:10
“Do we ever, have we ever, or can we? Honestly, we did this when I was in telecommunications when we put people through certifications that we had them sign a document that they're going to be around for at least a certain amount of time. I didn't know if that's, you know, you can do it or not.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 2:17:48
“Yeah, you all probably should have already had this person. in place, you know, in reality because of the amount of work that those guys do.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 2:25:56
“Last year, I don't remember the numbers in front of us, but how far out of the line were we?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026