Remarks by Les Simpson
96 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
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“Yeah, I'll look forward to that. Yes, sir.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I just want to state for the record that with the approval of today's 6.42 agenda item, the city will have spent more than $1.2 million on separation calls for two city managers in three years. $891,731 for Jared Miller, $342,265 for Grayson Path. I vote no.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“We talked about reserves. Have we gone back on that?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Okay, well, I'll have to take a look at that. I missed that on page 17 of the email, so I'll go back and look at it.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I think it's clear because we use language and language is important. A flat tax rate does not mean your taxes are flat. Your taxes are going to go up and they've gone up quite a bit. What I find interesting is two weeks ago, three weeks ago, we were here and we agreed on a budget because we thought that that's how much money we had and we said we can make this work. By the way, I think the pay increases I think are staying the same for the staff. I don't believe that they go up, the others may. And we've given good raises to everybody in the past. Two years ago, we gave substantial raises to…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“I vote. I'll let the vote speak for itself. Thank you, Mayor. Appreciate the opportunity. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
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“Yes, sir. So walk me through. So you covered a lot and spoken really fast in a very short period of time. Go. So from where we were. A week ago or whatever it is. Walk me through what we had wrong very slowly and simply so that I can make sure that I understand it.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And so to begin with, were we using the same calculations that we've always used before we got into this?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So have our TAP calculations always been wrong?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“But to go into this, to begin with, we were using the same structure, philosophy, and then now that we began to look at it, we say we did something, it wasn't correct. So we don't have the right debt number. Have we always double dipped on the TIF?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And then, so in our original budget, we had 20 million going towards INS? Correct. 20.35? Yes, sir. And after we've gone back and figured all this out, where are we on what that INS actually is?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Because I'm looking on this, on number three, it says INS is 17.8 million.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Then can you tell me, so what was the amount of property tax in our budget for 25-26?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And then total, if we combine M&O and INS for this year? For current year? Yes.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Then can you give me this number? If we take the maximum... The voter-approved tax rate, if we say we're going to have that, what would be the total property tax income if we take advantage of the full?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Yes. How much more property tax revenue will we get? What will be the total amount that we'll receive if we do the maximum tax that we're allowed without a vote?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So we go on the no new revenue, we're actually getting some new revenue.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So if we take the maximum rate, that's $7 million more in property tax in this upcoming year than we got the previous year.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Because we're saying we got 60.5 million.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And in the no new revenue rate, again, I know that it has a misnomer of that, but the $61,437, does that include new property? It does. And do we know what the value of the new property is?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. Yes, sir. So if we take the full voter approved tax rate, Even if you subtract the $300,000 out, just for numbers sake, $60,000 compared to $66,000, somebody's paying $6 million more in property taxes.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Right now, that's looking at about a 10% increase. Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“So sales tax revenue. So where are we forecasting to finish this year?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“And so the original budget that came to us, what was the, I have 83.8 million originally when we started this.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay, but the original budget was $90 million?”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026