Remarks by Patrick Keely
76 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
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“As always. Patrick? Have you ran the numbers on the potential payback of this?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“It doesn't. I just was curious because I'm like, wait.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“My issue is not with them doing completely what is within their right. My issue is that we have tiers funding for basically residences when You go one block east of that, and we have infill money, but it's at $5,000 versus $100,000. So that's what I struggle with on these. They brought one before. I voted on it for the same reason. So that's my opinion of it. Because I've ran the payoff. It's 25 years at best.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“for us to receive the tax money back. It was 25 years. That's including that the value actually goes up, so.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“How extensive is that drainage study? Because that's going to be my biggest worry, because we had the same with Paul Ann, and especially, I mean, the flood was obviously way more rain than they're used to, but just in other rains that they've had more issues now than they did before more development came. So how can we make sure that's going to affect those that are already there, and then plus obviously the base?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I don't think you've got time for that. No, I don't. Can they use the striped portion as part of their retention bond? Can they dig it out more?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Are they going to try to use that bottom right portion at all?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And then the street is going to go and intersect with Stonewall there, correct?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think it fits with our established need for housing in that area. And that ought to just help keep bringing up the area. So that's all the questions I got. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Patrick? Good morning, gentlemen. I'll try to ask kind of my questions for y'all. I have others, but I'd like to let them answer theirs and let everybody else have a chance to ask them. Going back to the kind of master meter scenario y'all talked about, how are y'all going to classify those when it's a big organization, they have multiple meters, and you kind of said you're going to put it under one. Are you going to take all the different classifications and just put it on one meter, or are you going to classify it differently as a multi-use type facility?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“So it's going to take all those land uses or is it going to be a different?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Gotcha. I'll clarify that. Okay. On the manual, so the only one I found online was a ninth edition. Is that a manual that we can find online so businesses can start to look at what tier they would fit in?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“On that, we talked about the other cities. Did you all model any of it off of other cities, or was it based off of here's what Senator Zill needs, now let's see how we can spread it out equitably, correctly?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Gotcha. And on that proportional, and I understand the overgeneralization of a house creates this kind of trip factor. But a 1,000 square foot house and a 3,000 square foot house, 99% of the time are going to be a vastly different trip factor. So why was that not considered in some way?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“No, and I understand that. Yeah, it's too tough to find out because you could have six college kids living in a 1,000-square-foot house that are using a lot, right, versus an elderly woman that uses it once a week. So I get that.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yeah, to your credit, I couldn't find one that split up that way. But that was just my question originally. I kind of asked Patrick, you know, it was like, why don't we look at it that way? But yeah, like I say, I couldn't find any others that did have it split up. So that is a question I wanted to ask, though. And then this is kind of a mix, so if y'all can answer it, great. If not, we can move on and then come back to it with somebody else later. When we were looking at that fee and when y'all were working on it, did we look at the general fund supplementing it instead of trying to put all…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Do you think that's part of it because we weren't going to start this until January, so we have that three-month gap?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Perfect. Guys, thank you all. I'll let them ask you all questions.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Going back to the $80 million slug of money from 2015, where is that a recurring debt? Where does that come from? Is there a way to raise that to get it to where we're back on an eight-year cycle?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“So that $80 million, we can't go back to that will.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“With the assistance program, basically, and maybe this may have to happen next year. There may not be enough time this year. Is it where we could... So Abilene was brought up. Abilene has a low-income... So basically, they apply for it like we would have them apply through CVCA, and then they can just automatically set their rate at that. Is there something that we can do with that so, A, they're not having to apply all the time, and, B, when we do find those people that need it, we can just go ahead and set it so they don't have that continual hardship?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Let's see here. You've kind of already talked about it. You have, so we, you know, you talk about anything with my budget at home, if I have another expense and I got to find somewhere to take it from, right, if I don't make more money. So you have already done that as far as the streets department. Y'all have already had to you have no more money, so you're like, well, this needs done. We have to find a different way to do it. Right. We've talked about some of the, Phillip talked about in his meeting, some of the robotics that y'all have implemented, stuff like that, to be able to do more,…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“So there's really nowhere else y'all can cut.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“In your estimation, do you think the number one gripe you get from us is streets and signs and along those lines?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I think you've answered most of my questions. Some of it's going to have to be reviewed over next year's budget. This program, so kind of from what I'm hearing is, it is an annual basis. So this is not, we're putting it in now and it is set in stone for the next 10 years. It's going to be reviewed every year and council has the ability to look at it and say, yes, it worked great or no, it caused undue hardship.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026