Remarks by John Taylor
230 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 10
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“And that is inclusive of the borrowed CRA officer? Yes. Okay. All right. I'm good. All right. We can move on to the next one, which is Parks and Rec. We have another budget hearing, right?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's not what I was asking. I was asking because you have here the events and I know there's going to be a long drawn out conversation. So I wanted to make sure that we don't, you know, cause I know it has to go before August, but I just wanted to make sure that we don't as a commission belabor this time on this. Cause we have a tendency to do that.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's what I'm asking. So go through it and then we'll skim through it real quick because we got a lot to get through.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Are we fully staffed with parks now? Or we still have vacancies? I think they have one or two vacancies. And the part-time? Yes. Oh, lifeguards. Oh, the two lifeguards. Okay. All right, the two lifeguards. All right, and then I see that, okay, the summer is the same, so nothing else has changed. All right, so the part that we like real quick, which is the events. We left that the same. We didn't change it. Everything is the same.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, he said they put money into going forward that we are doing maintenance on the swimming pool. Right now, yes. But this is for next year. But he's asking, what about the swimming pool now?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“We're not begging the company. It's the inspector.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay, so we went big because it was the 100. I know we want to continue the Arabian Nights Festival, but without the donations, where did we land today?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“We would have went over. Yeah. So did we do the $250,000 or we went a little under? We spent the entire budget. We spent the entire budget. So can we remove the $20,000? No, sorry. That's not $20,000. That's $30,000. And just make it the $250,000? So that'll give you $30,000 right there. I knew you was going to make us do this. That's why... I think our biggest expense, well, bingo is a 22, but, you know, we can't. What is this, 4th of July? Did we, 4th of July? Did we use everything?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Alright. Question. I don't see where you can cut other than an Arabian Nights and 50th birthday. the toy drive six down to lighten someone in one. Easter 25 Juneteenth. Labor Day.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“The gun buyback, we didn't do this here. So, and normally that's through the police department, but I asked it to be an event. Actually, we haven't done it in two, three years, three years. So I guess we can move that. Also the mayor's business luncheon or next, the new one wants to do it. So that right there is 2,500. You also have the 5K run bike. walk unless urban is going to take it or okay we can leave that then you have so that right there my manager you have um so far 30 to 500. uh anything else that you you you you pay you make the payment so any other events that you think we can…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“And I think we talked last year this time about including that number within the the proposed budget for EVAN.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“The problem that we had, even when we were begging because we were last minute, and even now, most people are doing their budgets. So if we're going to seek donations, it would have to be now. We should be sending out letters, which we've tried to start already. sending out letters to everybody to say, put us in your budget, because everybody's doing this process. But the problem, we're a little behind the eight ball, which is why I say that we're going to cut just the $30,000, which was for the birthday part of it, take that back. But the $250,000, I think, should remain. And like…”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's what we were doing before you went back to it. We started off with $30,000, then we found $2,500, and we were going through it.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Commissioner Santiago, I think we all understand what you're saying, but Arabian Nights is our culture. We wanted it back.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yes, the city's culture. Okay. We celebrate the city's history.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“No, I don't respond to messiness and pettiness, but I will say this. I'm still the mayor now. I know. So, yeah, there will be changes, but we have a fiduciary responsibility right now to pass a balanced budget. I know. So that's what we're doing now. So we're not talking about what's going to happen, the changes that are coming down the pipe, but we're here now. So if you have a suggestion, you have a suggestion to decrease it, we've heard it. We've heard it, and we're listening to it.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“We heard you loud and clear. We all agree. Hence why we're trying to figure out how can we remove some of this money.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor? Ma'am, sorry. I didn't do it, ma'am.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“I mean, Madam Clerk, how much do you normally use?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“We have funding to the side there. We have it. So the mayor's business luncheon is $1,000. The buyback program is $1,500. So that right there is $2,500. You think that's good enough for us right now?”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's what I was saying. Take away the city's birthday celebration. I mean, the $30,000, just take it away.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, that's why I said take the $30,000 and we can do something else.”
City Commission · Jul 14, 2026