Remarks by Joey Hilliard
33 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“Yes, Councilman. I'll agree. I mean, the literacy is very important. I would hate to see a reduction in anything to do with literacy. We have a problem with that here, and so I have to agree. It'll make our city better. I would hate to see this type of cuts when it comes to that.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Councilman Hilliard. So I have a question. So have we looked at... The unbilled money from the water department, from the water usage, I know we have 47,000, but I'm guessing that anywhere from 10 to probably 12,000 people are not being charged. Is this being figured in here? Because, I mean, it could possibly be $10, $12 million in water, also solid waste. We haven't done an increase. Have we looked at that? Have we looked at... landfill increases you know before we start going to the taxpayers we've got to be able to live within our means and so there's a lot of discrepancies that we could…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So they don't go into the general fund and aren't used for?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“All right. On this on this last slide charges for services also has decreased exponentially why why is that what what services did we do a reduction, I mean why are we seeing a reduction in. Charge for services. It went from 7 million 384 and you're projected 27 is 6 million 9. 63 what what's going to change to reduce that.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“They have not stopped playing. Sorry, we got distracted.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I'm a big opponent. I don't agree with tax and spend. I think that we're overtaxed. And I'm going to agree with Councilman Williams, Councilman Crenshaw. I think we should keep the current adopted rate. We should learn to live within our means. I think there's a lot of things as far as how we collect our money. Those type of things need to be looked at. I mean, we just don't want to raise taxes and go business as usual because we're going to be in this place again. So in another three years, we'll be looking at upping the tax rate again because we haven't learned our lesson from the last…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“It does. No, it doesn't. It does not. So when we have to buy a new pump truck, it doesn't come out of our budget?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I want to make sure the enterprise fund can run.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026