Remarks by Richard Chervony
409 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 17
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“I have even a 0.2126 in play where I can bring it up again in September once I have a better idea of where our 5.9 is.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“If I'm going to give them their boost, I'm going to force the 20% charter mandated emergency funds. In September. You know, what's fair is fair. And I agree with you in September. Because that is an emergency fund for the whole city.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“If a building falls, if there's a hurricane, whatever. We still have a fallback. We still have a fallback.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“And I understand that next year I'm going to run into a problem of a high percentage of Their salaries are not coming back down. They stay at that level.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“And they're going to want to, those that increase a step go up higher. FRS goes higher. And a 3% COLA goes higher. Where? We're a million and a half under already next year.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Let's see what happens in November 3rd. We cannot be blinded by that. I agree.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I don't mind coming back and discussing it when I have the funds, but I don't have the funds right now. For the future.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“We don't have the funds for nothing. Exactly. We are pulling here teeth. It's either norm or, you know. We have given everything that they have needed for accreditation. They have the best equipment that they have. We have never said no to the increase of staff.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 4:27:40
“Where are you getting the 3% for utilities? Which comes out to $119,536.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 4:27:59
“You will have the money in utilities for them to get a 3%, because we had, when we talked, we were going to do a line item here and transfer it from general funds to utilities.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“So I can take the 0.0662 of utilities 3% column. Correct.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 4:33:08
“But being fair, also, that department has just been taxed with a community center ordering equipment, assembling equipment, getting staff, planning meetings with PFL, AFL, Indira, Brent, my aunt, my grandmother, come on. She cannot do anything else. So Christina has to come in and do the job that normally Lilly was doing. We don't have the extra help. We have taxed that department to such a level until they get their part-time employees to work funding in October, you're not gonna see a change in that department.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I remember when the chief was the lowest paid chief in all of the county. because he kept on promoting his staff and not giving himself a raise.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“You have always said that we're not taking the furniture that is in existence at the City Hall for the new City Hall.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“No, we're not. We're getting the money for the new furniture.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Wait till you open the bids on the... Oh, listen.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“And then we get an order from the Senate of Florida saying, hey, you can no longer have your millage that you had last year. You have to go to rollback. No. And the mayor doesn't want to go to Tallahassee. No.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“We need to go to Tallahassee. We need to see how we can turn this around.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“for seven. Okay, great. So I'm going to move that we set the millage at seven. Do I have a second? I have a second. Madam Clerk, will you call the roll?”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Very well done, Mayor. Now we need to realize, well, we need to discuss the two dates.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“Anything above the 5.9. You're going to need 7.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“And we need to look at the book and see what pennies we can cut here, there, and everywhere. Because they all add up.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“And we have a CIT budget that we haven't even looked at.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I moved to adjourn. Wait, sorry. I moved to adjourn.”
Village Commission · Jul 28, 2026
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“I believe that there's something in the law, and I'm going to ask legal to explain that one for us, that next year we're going back to the, potentially, we're going back to the rollback rate of whatever we decide this year. Could you do a brief explanation on that one?”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026