Remarks by Juli Casale
215 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 9
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“He talked about a guy going 50 times or something to, right? But the hospital has these services. I mean, we're duplicating efforts that are being provided by other organizations. We're a city municipality. I mean, this is providing a service that, to me, is great if we had a ton of money. But I don't know why at this point in time, well, when the taxpayers are asking, you know, why are costs are going up? That's all I'm saying is it's these votes up here.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“And I don't, I definitely don't want to waste... Well, actually what the person is doing is not preventing death. They're following somebody through their services. It's almost like a social worker. So the Delray Beach is going to essentially have a social worker that is going to be helping somebody with their recovery process. That's what it is. And it's going to become a larger department, depending on how successful it is. And listen, if we had a ton of money, I would say we should do it. But the fact of the matter is, which agencies are you speaking to that are going to come in and help…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Delray Medical has this. The county has a whole paraprofessional unit. Like, I just, I don't know that cities are really doing this.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“He said, I'll be back asking for more money once it gets started.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Have we found any of that money? You've been out looking for money for over six months to help cover this.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Can't even get that, Judy. That's the problem. Sorry? He hasn't gotten that yet. I mean, that's the problem.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I'm wondering, would it be appropriate to take the Karen money and put it back into our budget for if we're insisting on starting this new program, and by the way, you're going to have one person doing it at this cost, then you're not going to have two people for $150,000?”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Could I just finish, please? Two people, one single certified paramedic, $155,100 a year, one fire paramedic assistant, $185,000, and then the various equipment, the total cost is $412,600 for two people.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, this is his document that he sent to us on this memo city fire rescue department.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So he took that down by half. We can just go across the board and take it down by half the cost of the program from what was presented to us. That concerns me greatly. We are seeing a lot of things that can just be cut in half randomly. Which makes you wonder, how much padding is going on around here? Because that's really strong. Now, I'm just saying, one minute. So maybe we take the $155 from this for this moment, put it back to cover the cost of the paramedical program, and hold off on the grants until we understand what the long-term funding is going to be for the Karen. how much we're…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“We said we were to the RFP at the last meeting.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, it's just we need confirmation from the city attorney with respect to that.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I agree. She apologized profusely and was very kind on social media and didn't engage. Some people were, you know, looking to do that, and I think, you know, yes.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Motion to approve resolution number 128-26.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“You wanted the workshop. OK, you have to give him some direction.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, the point is, where are you going to cut? Last year, you sat up here and said, or sorry, two years ago, perhaps we drop one person off the ambulance. The chief explained to us, we would save $2 million. But at the end of the day, You can't pull the trigger because what they say is life safety, health, response time, and the like. You're just talking about $4 million that you need more to just keep your current level of employees paid. Well, if your amount, you were $4 million in the hole, so do you want to dig into the reserves, use another $4 million, and drop them down to 10? Is that…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“numbers of personnel then we have to just every other city is doing so you want how many people are we firing everybody else is doing it no but which departments are we losing people are we going to drop down the police i'm not going to i don't want to know it is your job in a sense because you voting you're voting for these contracts that are costing the money all year long Then you're sitting up here after you voted for these. No, we voted on police and fire.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Every consent agenda is a contract of some sort. Everything we're approving is a contract, an increase to the contract.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“problem is you don't with sticking where you would like to say stay and everyone would like to you think we all don't want to cut taxes and you're the only one who wants to yeah but you never it last year same thing you didn't present anything viable to take it down so you wanted to wait where you mayor We cut the fireworks. You got a text about the fireworks. And you wanted to put the fireworks back on at the last minute. The idea of cutting sounds great. But when we get right down to it, what are we cutting? And you can't say nobody experienced any loss. We stopped our road paving program.…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm talking about things that- Well, you're talking about it. General fund money goes into CIP, so don't say it doesn't. So if you're cutting and you're taking money out of the general fund, then that's some money that may not go into CIP. So it is connected.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026