Remarks by Mack McCray
87 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 4
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“Thank you, Mayor. Not at this time. Commissioner Kelley.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Kudos to staff for the presentation at the 9-11 ceremony. Job well done. Also at the groundbreaking for Octavia, job well done. And on Sunday, that was a green market. I was passing by and I said, well, what the world are they doing out there? And I had enough sense to turn around and go back and come back in and Excellent job with that as well. I'm just saying, staff, although we don't say thank you enough, I just want to make sure that you all know we do appreciate you all. Thank you.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. I'm all in favor of this, but my whole take is that I'd like for it to come back before us. I'm just saying. You know, just don't say give you all the leeway to go do what we requested and we don't see it again. We need to follow this all the way through to the end. Thank you. That's Mike.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“To execute it. And if we're all ready to execute, just go ahead and execute on it. The mayor signed it.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Excuse me, let me. Is that an urgency that we cannot wait until October the 6th for this? Well, I just don't want to kick the can down the road.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Thank you. I'm ready to vote. But, you know, forest kicking the can down the road. We are the policymakers for this city. But the citizens sitting out there, they have already spoken. They told us this is what they want, and this is what we have to abide by. We represent you all, so I'm definitely in favor of it. Okay.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I have comments about the Girl Scout Park parcel. And all you have to say is that ever since I've been sitting up here, the Girl Scout Park parcel has always been before this commission or a commission or something like that. But I'd like to hear from you all that lives around there to let us know really what you want is if you want it to be a park. So we need to do improvements there or what?”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Commissioner McCray. Thank you. Dan, I heard what you said about don't blame your predecessors and all that stuff. I was one of those elected officials who sat up here some years ago. The people that was reporting to us, sir, we was going by what they was telling us. We was making decisions by what they was telling us. We are not in the water business. We can only vote and go on what they was telling us and they was telling us that everything is okay and Boynton is great and when we did the, I call it the whatever that, the martini glass and all that stuff and ran pipes all the way from east…”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So at the end of my fault Thank you, let me make sure I'm sitting up and understanding where we are We keep talking about fund balances the fund balance with this city is the same as the reserve for this city. Yes, sir Okay, how much money I'll be supposed to have in the reserve and”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Let me go ahead and say this. We talked about predecessors before, and predecessors before got us where we are now. So follow what I'm going to say. We look to you all for guidance. And we have to go on what you all say. That's the way we make our decisions on how we're going to vote. So the only thing I can do is depend on what you all are telling me. And I hope that you all are telling not only me, the rest of us, the correct information. I'm just saying because down the road again, I don't want to say, uh-oh. We've been hearing too much uh-oh. But we need to go ahead and do what we need to…”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Historic resources. I have my script. Great.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“The reason I pulled B is I need to know what is the balance for those write-offs. What is the total?”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Alan, thank you. I don't know who dropped the ball before, but every year we would do write-offs. I don't know why we had to wait so long to do write-offs this time. Every year.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I hope we can go back to doing the little bits and pieces because when I see 1.5 million at the end, it's something hard to swallow.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I pulled this because it says the Boynton Beach City Library long-range plan, but I'm looking at a long-range plan for five years. 26 to 2031. Tell me what's in that plan.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So yes, the question is, I know you said you have to do it every year. Have we done it for this year?”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“So when we approve it this time, you're not going to let it expire. This is what I'm trying to get at, you know, because if it expired, you know, because this is a long range plan. Do you all get anything in returns for doing this long range plan money or anything like that?”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Well, you know, I'm, I'm voting in favor of this. And the reason I brought it up is that I don't like to lose money when I see money that we could have.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“The reason I pulled this was when we was talking about equipment, you know, and buying trucks, et cetera, and all that stuff, and I said, is there any that we can get out like the lease? My question is, Why are we increasing like $50,000? How long was this? Was it for a year? And when is the year end? Because we're getting ready to go to a new budget. And I'm like saying, you know, I'm seeing $50,000 added now and we get ready to go to a new budget October the 1st. What's going on?”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“I don't think they can hear you because I can hardly. Can you hear me now? I can hear you.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“How much you already spent? You said $97,000.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“And then you said that we're going to be spinning up the 50,000 that you're all requesting.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Oh, okay. That's good. Follow me. The budget. Did you all put in enough this year? Next for next year's budget. Did you all, so you have to come back before. So I don't mind doing it, but you know, that's why we do budgets. I know some things we can't see and some things, you know, but I don't like to see people coming back saying we need additional. I don't mind minuses.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, so we got $100,000, so you might be before us again.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Motion to approve. All right. I did a motion to approve.”
Commission · Sep 16, 2026