Remarks by Mike Williams
31 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“ON ONE OF THE PREVIOUS SLIDES THAT YOU CUT THE 5 MILLION OUT OF THIS YEAR'S BUDGET AND YOU SAID THAT THAT'S NOT SUSTAINABLE.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Councilman Williams whenever you go through this process and and you know you look at a tax increase do you kind of dive into what impact that could have on sales tax revenue I mean if it's more money coming out of somebody's pocket that is less money for them to spend so it has to be connected.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And I heard it at several meetings about public safety and how much we spend, and it's tough for me to continue to let them be the, you know, the whipping child of our budgetary issues. I just think that is so unfair. I mean, we can point to, you know, some of us weren't here, but we've spent $5 million on the AT&T building for a piece of property that's now vacant, that's sitting there, that's not collecting any tax money. We've spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on hotel studies, on bond studies, and to sit up here every single meeting and say, public safety, public safety. Public…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER THE TAX RATE PROPOSED TODAY IT IS ABOVE Right? I mean, I'm not following.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“The rate with the current rate plus the bond rate was like 0.675.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And the no new revenue rate is what 0.683%”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Whenever you're having these conversations and they're expressing the concern and where we're headed, I know that you weren't in that position and Chris wasn't in his, but have they said if they shared the same concern with the shrinking fund balance over the last four or five years, or is this the first time that they've said we're now concerned about it?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“BUT SURELY THEY WERE CONCERNED AS THE GENERAL FUND WENT FROM $50-plus million to where it is now. I mean, they've raised these concerns every year, I guess, is my...”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“AND WHEN WOULD LIKE A TRIGGER HAPPEN I GUESS TO WHERE IT WOULD IMPACT YOUR BOND RATING?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'll make one. Okay. I make a motion to amend the proposed tax rate to the 0.675963. Second. There is a motion to, where is that amount?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“It's the current rate plus the... Plus what?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I make a motion to change the tax rate to the current rate plus the addition of the voter approved GO debt.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Current adopted doesn't include the bond election.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“You just voted against that. We just made a motion. No, I didn't. I just made a motion for it.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“AT OUR LAST MEETING, THE BUDGET WORK, WHENEVER THAT WAS, YOU ASKED FOR OUR DIRECTION. AND YOU ASKED FOR WHERE WE STAND. WHAT RATE WE WANT TO GIVE YOU. AND THERE WERE THOSE OF US UP HERE THAT SAID WE DON'T WANT TO MOVE. AND THERE WERE OTHERS THAT SAID THEY DID. i've made a motion we voted on it i would implore those that that instructed the city manager and staff to move in a direction to to make a motion to reflect what you instructed them to do two weeks ago”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“THAT'S TAKEN IN, I GUESS, THE FULL SCOPE OF DEBT ATTACHED TO THAT PROPOSITION.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“SO IS IT ADVISABLE TO TAKE ON, TO INCUR, TO KIND OF TAKE THAT MONEY IN NOW FOR SOMETHING THAT YOU MIGHT NOT, WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THESE PROJECTS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN? SEEMS LIKE A BAD IDEA. I MEAN, JUST TALKING IT OUT LOUD, I'M JUST NOT SURE HOW feel about that.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So you should really go for it whenever you actually are in need of it.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“About how many hours a year do we put on our truck, the cement mixer currently?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Do you have any idea on the type of warranty that comes with a new cement mixer?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“second there's been a motion and a second for i'm assuming that's approval of item number one uh and now we'll move into discussions and councilman williams um here on the sheet it calls it attainable workforce housing and earlier when the gentleman spoke he called it luxury apartments so which is it and and our our attainable workforce Housing units, typically luxury units, or can somebody?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“You have a proposed $60 million cost on the development for 220 units, and that's roughly... 270 grand per unit. That seems high. I mean, that seems very high.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“I just want to circle back to the per door cost. Are you saying that the 4% tax credit is what allows this to be a project that cash flows? It's hard for me to... Excuse me. To look at the rents and the amount of units and what you're claiming you're going to spend and see where this math – it doesn't math for me. Right, right. So that's – okay.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So I guess to you as a developer, whenever you are doing a project like this, and then I read, you know, Beaumont has more than twice the state average of housing units supported by tax credits. What makes Beaumont attractive to someone like you whenever we already have twice the amount of similar properties? And then also to us as a city, I mean, I'm not against growth, but what is the impact of continuing to add kind of these properties? Developments that are supported by tax credits.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Councilman Williams? First, happy birthday, Councilman Durio, and happy anniversary, Joey and Shanoa. That was a long day. I know. I just want to circle back to this morning and the budget talks and taxes. I just think it's really important that we look inward first before we place that burden elsewhere. I'm not saying we haven't looked inward. I know that everybody in this building is working hard to do that. And, you know, city manager, I did mention the idea of a efficiency study before. I'd like you to look harder at that again. I just think this is a very serious deal for, you know, for…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026