Remarks by LaDonna Sherwood
54 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“Okay, yeah, that's what I'm trying to get to. Right.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“And we just had a meeting where there is a housing demand. I can't remember the numbers, but we did have a meeting where there was.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“What's the participation in the literacy program? Like, what's the participation?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Is this something that we've ever partnered with BISD on?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So just for the record, because we need to understand, if we're looking back at 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 years,”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“22. That's what, one, two, three, four, five, six years we paid more. And currently we reduced it. And I know people aren't in favor of raising taxes, but the norm over the last 10 years in line with normalcy, right, six years with, you know, generally, we've been paying 0.71, right? Okay. So I just want to be clear on that.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Over the past 10 years, typically, generally, it's been higher than it is now. And is there a real reason that you can give us that we reduced it? Why did we do that? Because when you take things away, it's hard to explain why. or you give an incentive, it's hard to explain. It's hard to justify going backward. Why? Why did we do it? For the record, do we have any answers?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I got a question. If I could stop you right there. Can you repeat that? It's okay to reduce the rate when? When you can afford it. Okay. I just want to get clarification on that. When you can afford it.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So I'm sorry, I just I want to revisit this a little bit because we reduced it because we could afford to reduce it. And now that we're looking at these numbers, expenses have also gone up as well, right, from whatever we had going on prior to. the expenses that we spend or the cost of things to do business prior to this, when we paid more, expenses have gone up. Yes?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay. Yes, sir. And when did we get this voter approval, right? How old is this voter approval?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay. And the city's not, for clarification purposes, we're not responsible for the collection. That's not our 97% rate collection. Correct. That is.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I just want to be clear because people may think that we're collecting the 97%. That's not our burden.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Just for clarification, what percent are we supposed to have or did we agree to have? 20%. 20%. 20%. Correct.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“right now with all those things at the current tax rate it would be 17% general fund fund balance so at the current tax rate it's not taken into account the increase from prop a because the numbers that we this is not taking that into account this is at the current tax rate I just want to”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Not us raising it up to the previous slide point to something.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Increase the rate to compensate for the additional INS the debt service it would have to come out of the O&M Which means we would need to reduce the O&M or to cover that I'm just I won't I just want to clarify that that is not us taking the increase and Adding it to the text which the voters already approved because they approved prop a this is us keeping it current at what it is now and”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“However, Karma, we have the ability to go back and capture that point to whatever the number is, because that should, if we don't increase it, but we could because voters approved this, the other.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay, but on another note, I got one more thing before we move on to the next slide. The state requires what percent to have in the fund balance? There's no requirement. There's no rule.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“How long has it been that? When did we set that? Did we set that recently, or has it always been that, or what's the metric on that?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So if I'm understanding correctly, what you're saying is after we... after that it drops off in 27, then it will increase? Is that what you're saying? Because it has a final, A clause or year, whatever it is, at 27, it'll drop off, but also it's decreasing. But after that point, it will go up. I think that's what people are trying to hear.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Oh, right. I got you. All of them. That hadn't happened yet. That hadn't happened yet. But basically, going from 80% to 70% is what we're saying is it's dropping off, but it's also being decreased because of the change in whatever it is. The next agreement or whatever could... potentially be better for us, but it's 27 that we're looking at that this is transpiring.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Oh, you're fine. Well, and my question is just how much Because I saw the decreases in freezes and travel and all the things, but there's been a lot of talk about increases on industry or what in any of this as far as IDAs or abatements or whatever. Is industry going to be additionally responsible for any taxes or this or that or whatever? Because there's been a big talk about industry helping pull us out of this situation or they're going to this and that and magical. I didn't see any of that. Is there something that we're supposed to...”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I just, for clarity, because people keep insinuating that there's a... magic pill to this, and there's not, and it takes time. So just for the record and for people to hear that we're discussing, oh, well, we need to make this one do that or that one do this or this or that, and all of that doesn't happen out of thin air.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“And it's different. It's important to know how you operate when you have money in the bank and how you operate when you don't have money in the bank. Because when you don't have money in the bank, then that changes the way that you do things. However, I think it's also important to, I heard yesterday that we're responsible for public safety contracts increases and all of these things, whether we have the money or not. And that matters when 50% or 60% or 65% of the budget is going to one place. So when we talk about numbers, we've got to talk about them realistically because that matters.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026