Remarks by Paul Macaluso
54 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
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“Quick question, Chief. What's your staffing level for dispatchers currently?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. But at that point, that does give you the opportunity to add more patrol officers?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“But I'm saying excluding these four officers with your officers in training. Essentially, they're not currently out on the beat on their own.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, I just don't want the perception that like, you know, hey, we're removing this, so we're in the need of having four more officers on the street right now, and because we don't do this, we're making our city less safe. I think that's not a valid view of it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So removing these four officers is not going to make the streets more unsafe?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay. Second to that, on the dispatchers, I know that you've had an issue because of the pay. What's the staffing level that you're trying to be at, and what's your current staffing level?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Like you said, you're more in need of the communication officers. In my professional opinion, yes, sir.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I haven't heard anybody else mention the excess fund balance. I don't know where people's thoughts are on that. Because that could make me more comfortable with it if I knew that others were more interested in putting it towards future debt than just putting it in the bank with very little to no interest.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“No, I'm talking about the, well, you had proposed $5 million for the reserve.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“That's what I'm saying. I have an interest in using some of that so that we lower that future debt so that actual homeowners see a benefit to it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Steve, can you clarify again on the total ongoing revenues over expenditures? You had the $250,000 on there on the sheet that you handed us.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“But that doesn't offset it enough to add the dispatchers?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“No, I'm just, the way I'm reading it is that if it was at the 5118, the revenues over expenditures would offset the cost of the communication officers.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I could see myself supporting the 51.75 just to make sure that the dispatchers are ended. But like I said, I'd like to see that we commit to taking down the future debt so that we can see the benefit here in a couple years and kind of what offset that current increase.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I think that that should be at the beginning, that that should be one of the considerations.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Well, I think some wanted you to show how you can keep the rate the same, but add the four officers and the communication officers, which is 624,000, which I think you said at that point you'd have to find cuts in other departments. I know I don't support that, but I think that's fine.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“At that point, I think the only thing that would happen is that the four police officers wouldn't be added, but everything else would just stay the same.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yes, just to clarify, I think... the no new revenue would be on existing properties. It wouldn't be on anything new. So if we were to set it at that, it wouldn't necessarily be the same amount of revenue. I think we'd still have higher revenue because we have new properties. Set accepting the no new revenue rate, that doesn't prevent us from going below that potentially, correct?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, that was, I just wanted to make sure, cuz I know we were discussing the maximum and just understanding what the new revenue rate is. But I think that's one thing, it's a little bit of linguistics that the state uses cuz they make you think that there's no increase, but for some people there is, some others there might not be. ultimately on the same properties, it's the same revenue that we had on the books, but it does not include anything new that we've had added. So I just wanted to clarify that.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'll make a motion to set the maximum tax rate.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Two questions. I noticed when you listed some of the industries and some of the bigger employers, do you see Tesla having an impact on our area? I didn't see it listed as one of the larger employers, but I would think that some of their suppliers might be looking in this vicinity. Is that something?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“My other question was, in your opinion, does it appear that we're properly leveraging the education community to provide the employees for the employers in our area?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“What about from the community college level?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Go ahead. Michelle would really like to have that liaison, so I'll bypass and let her take it.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Just real quick, just a couple of them. I saw the linear graph that you had there and showing the score going up consistently, so I think that's something to say about the leadership that we have. So good job for doing that. A little bit surprised by that statistic that you had there about the employees that are close to retirement. That was a pretty high number. So hopefully that's being looked at and being planned for.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026