Remarks by Juli Casale
215 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 9
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“And the last thing is the e-bike ordinance. Wellington has theirs. The city attorney shared it. Palm Beach has not done anything yet. So I think we should just move forward with the Wellington. and modify it according to our own needs. So I'll email it, or the city attorney can re-email it. And can we put it on an agenda?”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm telling you, if you're down there at night, it's scary. They're scary. These children are frightening.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you. And we should all look at that one to see if there's anything. I'll send it to you. Okay, thanks.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Could I say something? Sure. We used to, that was happening, and then we ended up creating a rule where if you were going to be doing something that was asking for a consensus, you have to get a consensus to put it on the next agenda. Then provide all your documentation and it could be something because what happens is we all say that sounds brilliant Let's do it. And then of course Once you start talking to staff you figure out costs or whatever else something changes and then it may be Everybody gets the same information and then it drops but you're right. It doesn't officially circle back…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Can you go to that slide? Can we look at the slides while you're talking?”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“May I just comment in this realm? When we look at our population, though, everybody says, oh, you know, you've got so much more money coming in and your population hasn't increased. That's not at all true. Yeah, you see a 6% increase. But when you look at the census, the census only calculates people who are permanent residents here. What you really need to look at is the development in the number of housing units that have come in to talk about the needs. And we're talking like there's thousands of them.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“We've got all those apartments that are on Congress. There's over 1,000 units in a couple of years approved and developed. Disagree with you totally.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, give them to us. Let's work on the numbers.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, let's get to the conversation then. Without any effort to try to. Let's just get to the meat of it, because talking theoretically about cutting, it's all great, but let's get to the cuts. I have some if you want me to lay them out.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“They have way more commercial property tax revenue. Boca has way more commercial property tax revenue than we do. We can't keep on arguing these numbers line together.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'll do it. And I just would say to you, though, even if... We also have to look at our reserves in this and what we want them to be. And at the end of this budget, you're going down to 18. So even if you cut things out, I would argue it would be better to cut and leave things and allow our reserves to be back up to the 21% where we want them to be, where we agreed. We used to have reserves, when I sat here last time, at 35%. Then they went down to 25%. Now they're below 20%. That should raise flags for people. And look, I think there are cuts. But you have to ask yourself, why are the costs…”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Listen, I'm going to tell you right now.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Right. You could actually do eight, but you've got to give them the buffer so they're not coming back in front of us. That's correct.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. I appreciate you taking that.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. I appreciate you taking that recommendation. So I've endorsed that.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Huh? About 2.5, right? 1.6 and then the, you know. 1.4.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Right, that was in my leasing program. If you go back 20%, you save money.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“If I may, I'll need to think about that. But this GFOA two months is the baseline starting point. You build from there depending on if you're a coastal community or what have you. Our auditor did a report for us on – the reserves and the suggested balance based on the surrounding communities and all the factors that we should consider as a city ourself was 21%. That was just given us in an audit report. I don't care what they're doing. But you're talking about one community. The study presented a bunch of coastal communities. That's an expert study done for us at request That's adjusted 21%.…”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I gave you the 1.6 originally in that whole list of things. I gave you 1.6 and then the overtime is 1.4. That's $3 million.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“What's the debt in that part and what's the where?”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm just making sure it's not a combination of the two. You're just talking about operating millage.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“we are on the same court with respect to what that should be and that's the feedback coming back up externally mr moore may i if you go back and look at the bond rating letters when we got the bonds one of the things that they highlighted in those letters was that our reserve level was high enough to justify that bond rating and i remember what you remember what the the i'm going to put you on the spot here but do you remember”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026