Remarks by Rachel Streitfeld
749 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 9 of 30
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“You said you're caught up with seven. And the total of all of this is 6.8. If you're going to go, look. If he's saying he's going to go to seven, we really don't need to have the conversation about the pay scale implementation costs because we can afford the pay scale implementation cost at 6.87.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“6.8729 gets us a backup for Johnny, a third person in Alba's department, the PS scale implementation, 3% COLA across the board, 9 and 10, community events and coffee.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“6.8729 achieves that. So seven achieves that as well. I mean, I think we can get into the weeds on what we want to do and we can do that in September, but if we have five votes for seven, we can be done.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Again, again, again, we don't need to make a decision on pay scale implementation if we're agreeing to set it at seven and come back in September.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Let me just speak to that and then I want to move on. Okay. We have grown the community engagement department by two staff in the last six months. We have Shanika now, who's helping with events, and we have Christina, who was hired on communications.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yeah, that's not the point that I was making. Okay. The point that I'm making is that we do have someone within the community engagement department who is responsible for communications. Does she report to a director? Yes. But we have someone whose sole job it is, is to produce communication to the residents. And I think that that job could be maximized to be more productive, to have more output, more communication, for our Friday emails to be less just a dump of the flyers for all of the events that we have going on, and more substantive communication. Our residents open those emails. They…”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I wonder if we have five votes for seven. Not seven. Five votes for seven.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Well, we were going to go down the list and say what everybody's priorities were. But then Commissioner Acosta asked, what would it cost to get 5 through 12, all of them, including, you know, if we start at 6.4873, right? And Sandra, if we're starting at 6.4873. 6.873. No, no, no, we're starting at 6.4873, which is one through four, okay? If we're starting at 6.4873 and we want to include five through 12 at the cost of seven, not eight, right? Five through 12 is everything except for eight because we're looking at, right? That total, that millage is 6.8729, correct? Okay. It's almost half a…”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I'm trying to understand where everybody's priorities are.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, so I'm putting a D for Doris. Thank you, ma'am. Next to everything except community events?”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“This is an issue that we can cover up. Hey, bring it back. We can make cuts and choices in September. What we're doing tonight is setting a ceiling. And so far I have three votes for seven. Do I have four votes for seven? Do I have five votes for seven? Wait, you said yes. You were the one that started us off with the seven. You said that seven was your limit.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“My motion needs to include both. Is that what you're saying? Yes. Oh, because of the debt. Okay. So the motion is the millage is seven and the debt millage is, the staff recommended 3.4? 098, yes. 3.409. I have to split the debt since it's two different dates.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“The proposed, the motion, do you want to revise it? The motion is a proposed millage for FY27 at 7.0000. Proposed FY27 debt millage 3.4098. That is the motion. And I'll second that. Okay. Madam Clerk, will you please call the roll?”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Frank, I'll be honest. Because this has been such an iterative process and we've learned all of these things that seemingly were groundbreaking every five days and the numbers were changing, I have not chosen to spend my very valuable time going through the itemized line by line of our budget, right? I mean, I wanted us to get... through tonight to set a millage and provide direction to staff knowing full well that I have the month of August to run through line by line everything that we are spending money on and not spending money on so that when we come together in September, we can have a…”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Would you like to do that to me? Or would you like to adjourn and go to Happies?”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Amazing. All right. That was great. I was ready. Good evening, everyone. We're adjourned at 10.48 PM. Congratulations.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Let's try to get this show on the road. Sorry for my delay. I had a Wi-Fi issue, and then I didn't have the Zoom link in my calendar, but here we are. All I can see is... Hang on a second.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“It's a little better. Is everyone in the chamber but me?”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“That's great. Thanks for being there, everybody. I'm sorry that I'm not with you all. Johnny, is there a way for me to look at the days so I can see my colleagues' faces? I mean, it's nice to see an empty room, but for our deputy chief and our chief of police, thank you, gentlemen, for your service.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“There we go. Look at that empty chair right in the middle. Let's call the budget workshop to order, shall we? That's me calling it to order. Okay. I don't have a flag here, so... Would everyone be offended terribly if we skipped the Pledge of Allegiance and moved right on to the mayor's or to the manager's introduction of the budget?”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Why don't you guys all stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and I'll be joining you in spirit. How about that?”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Madam Clerk, do you want to call the roll, please?”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“I actually think... Because I feel like once we start asking questions on the slides that you've all, I mean, I know that I have a lot of questions and I assume my colleagues do as well. Why don't we allow Sandra to move forward? And by the way, welcome back, Sandra. Thank you, Mary. If folks are in agreement, why don't we allow Sandra to move forward with the presentation and then we can dive in?”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Okay, yeah, I'd love to hear this sort of big picture millage assessment.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026