Remarks by Richard Chervony
409 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 17
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“and it is a required 20% of our general fund budget.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Madam Mayor, I agree wholeheartedly with what you're saying. That's what I said originally. We have to also figure out what our rollback rate would be, would be if the law passes based on what we decide is our final figure to make sure that we're covered next year in our bare bones minimum. And let's be realistic. The highest we can go with four out of five commissioners is 6.3 mils, which is only 3.6 mils higher than what it is right now.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“So we have to keep that in mind as well, that we need a full commission vote to bring it higher than the 6.3 mil. But there's also a debt, a debt mill to add to this. And we're talking about another 10 million being borrowed and we're at the highest city with the highest millage. If we do the 6.3 and the 1.66 and add a little bit more to it, say two mils in debt service, we're already at eight mils.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Right? And then we have the monthly tax of sewer, water, garbage, et cetera, et cetera.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Let me be very truthful. We have stayed at a minimum increase, if any, for the last four years. I believe we have been at the same level for the last four years in general fund millage. And debt millage has gone up because of the borrowing of the $10 million. We really haven't. We have increased taxes because of increased property values, not because of increase in millage.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“So we have our work cut out for us for our next budget meeting to finish hashing out our differences, unless anybody else has anything else to add to what we've discussed. Basically, it's one-on-ones with different staff departments explaining our positions. But I'd like to see at the next one, we need to have the emergency fund included in there and hopefully we'll have an answer from pfm and hopefully we'll have answers as to what's our what are we looking at as far as what have we paid from utilities in the past from the general fund that has to be reimbursed to the general fund to try to…”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“They have given us what the millage impact is for the four community events, for the circulator, for the addition.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“We can add what our millage is right now and basically add the impact of what we want to see to see how high we need to bring up the millage roughly, right? Because we need to see the other figures thrown in here as well that we've discussed.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Right. I mean, I personally want to see the millage with item one and two, potentially three, if possible. Potentially. We can give that to you right now. Huh? We can give that to you right now. No, because you cannot give, well, the millage, yes, because it's not the utilities involved, but we don't know what funds are being refunded from the utility overpayment by general fund that's going to make up the $2 million plus that we need for the emergency.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“It's going to be over a period of time. We have a large utility reserve. That's our cash cow We may have to drain our reserve from the utility department to pay the, what we should have paid originally. We may have to. I don't know the figures. I mean, for me to say that I know where the, I mean, I can go up to my books and look at 21, 22, 23, 24, 25. Yes, I can do that.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“We need time to look into that one. Okay.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Okay. I've heard for the last 12 years that that's our cash cow.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“So we now have to leave and we've got to take care of it.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Right. Sandra, supposing we have the 5.7 millage.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“And we add one and two, because you have here three and four together. I mean, two and three together, not one and two.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“I'm saying that's without adding the emergency fund of $2 million.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“We have to add at least $2 million for emergency funding.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“But the exact figure of the emergency fund is based on 20% of the general fund.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“So we don't know what the figure is, so we can't add the exact amount. So for argument's sake, add $2 million. Correct.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Now, let me ask you a shabony question. We currently have in 25 budget $2,342,000 plus. Do we have those funds or those funds don't exist? They only exist on paper?”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“Emergency fund balance for 2526. It shows here $2,342,910. Does that exist or is that only on paper? It shouldn't exist.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“But if we had these funds available and we could just push them over for the next year, the emergency funds, but if they're just on paper, I don't want to push numbers just on paper over.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“That's why I said I don't want to just push numbers on paper. I want the money.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“We need, and I hate to bring it up again, we need to restrict our funds that we need to restrict.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026
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“We don't have a chance to pass another bond until next month. No, but we can get a mortgage. We can do a special election, but that would cost us $20,000.”
Village Commission · Jun 25, 2026