Remarks by Sam Peebles
43 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“I got some. Sure. So I'm fine with the budget as is for now, but just looking forward, we can always make amendments. And I think it was Johnny Bashir that brought it to my attention that Ty and some others had come up with some good ideas, so I want to give them credit for it. And then I talked to Ben today about it. And there are some items that we can move from the general fund over to CRA fund. For example, maybe you're allowed to do some code enforcement as long as it's doing code enforcement within the CRA area. People that are like, for example, the ones that spend man hours mowing…”
Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Keep me straight. I just wanted to say thanks to Jeremy. You know, when we appointed Corey Lankford and Ryan Scraystep down, I knew that we needed to fill those positions quickly so that we can continue with the charter review. And, you know, when Jeremy threw his name in the hat, I was like, oh, wow, that's a perfect candidate. Absolutely. So I'm really excited to see what the new nominees can bring to the table because I know that they're going to do a great job. Awesome. Awesome.”
Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Mayor, I think the deficit was actually closer to 6 million, if you include the debt service payment.”
Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“I'll second. I just want to say, now that I've seconded it, there's a ton of work put into this by staff, by the financial review committee, by the commission. Since I've been up here, this is the most work that's been put into a budget by far. Thank you, Commissioner Ward, for championing starting early. I just want to give kudos to everyone involved. Great work.”
Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“I just wanted to say again, thank you to our appointees for the Charter Review Committee. You're volunteering your time to make the city better and I appreciate it. Second thing is along the lines of the road closures, I kind of wanted to talk about the Lynn Haven Community Fund. It is literally just... Citizens like me and you that are not funded by tax dollars, they're 100% volunteers that have created what's eventually going to be a non-profit that is literally just volunteering their time. These concerts that are going to be funded is because the Lynn Haven Community Fund went out and…”
Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Hypothetically, this is what would happen. You'd take someone that's already being paid, you'd give them a raise of $44,000 or something similar to that.”
Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Mathematically it will be because you would remove a salary Replace the salary, but if you don't it's only a net of 44,000 but what if you don't if you don't you have to you have to bring somebody from the outside correct that one how are you gonna take that person's salary and Hire somebody then you would remove a role.”
Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“We'd have to talk about that. We don't know that yet. But we're budgeted for $44,000, so that's what we'd do. We'd have to make it work.”
Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Just wanted to say again thank you to everyone that reached out during this long budget season, whether it was citizens that sat down with lunch with me and talked about it, whether it was department heads or staff coming to talk to me, city manager, finance director, thank you, everybody, financial review committee, thank you all. you open my eyes to a lot of things, and it makes it a lot easier to make a decision when you have more informed information. So I really appreciate it. Let's get this next fiscal year going strong. Commissioner Langford, welcome aboard, and I'm looking forward to…”
Commission · Sep 22, 2026
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“Sure. In this current proposal, I know we're just doing the millage right here, not the actual budget itself per se. But in my opinion, I would rather you lower the CRA to like a 50 or 60 before I'd want to see the millage go up any more than a 4.25. That's really where I stand on that. I know that, because if we're going to raise the millage, I want, you know, I've said for the past three years, I'm not a fan of raising the millage, but I think, I mean, I'd rather the millage, if we vote for a 3-2 and we go back to the rollback rate, we're looking at potentially not even having a city. So…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Not at this time. I'll let everyone else talk, and then I guess if I have any more thoughts, I can't raise my hand, but I'll chime in.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thanks. I just want to piggyback on with it being a, this is just to reiterate what Commissioner Perno is saying, just like the trim thing. I agree that this is just the ceiling. So let's treat it as the ceiling in this vote. It'll make life a lot easier for all of us. And for our next official vote at our next meeting, then we can do more of the negotiating in terms of who want to lower it or not. I'd rather, you know, I, I don't really necessarily want a 435, but I also don't want to handcuff us at the same time. And we need a 50 vote to be able to give us a little talking room. I'd rather…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I just think it's because we haven't, I think in my mind, when I'm from reading the room, I don't think all five of us see eye to eye on the CRA. And if that's the thing that we're worried about, we need to worry about that when we're actually talking about the budget, not the millage. And so based on the budget, then we can do the millage next time. This will give us a little more time to hash out the CRA bit because I don't think we're there yet.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I don't think we necessarily need another workshop. I think what you said was kind of The main point is there's two sticking points that we don't all five see exactly eye to eye on. So over the next two weeks, we need to formulate our arguments or debates on why you want the CRA at a certain rate, if you do or do not want the animal shelter, and then make your decision based on that. I think it's as simple as that to me.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I was just going to ask that... if Chris would potentially ask her for her address maybe after the meeting, because if her water bill went from 60 to 200, we have not raised rates, so it's a possibility that there could be a leak. So we need to look at that and make sure that that's not happening.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm right here. What's your thoughts? I guess my opinion is I'm always open to looking at options, but I also agree with the mayor that we're at a point where we do need to approve this budget. I'm not, we don't, I would say if we're talking about we're going to improve this budget and then in the future we look at the Humane Society partnering with whatever after this budget, sure, why not? Let's be a team. Let's get all the data. But as far as today, we need to make a decision on, I mean, if the animal shelter is the sticking point, let's just leave the animal shelter. The county, I've…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So, yeah, I mean, I'll agree to talk to the county commissioners. I got no problem doing that.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“My thoughts are still kind of the same. If the millage rate is going up, we've got to make some sacrifices. I mean, let's be clear, the city has made a ton of sacrifices already. I believe the budget currently stands at like a 23% to 25% cut, which is probably one of the largest cuts in the history of Lynn Haven. But that being said, I do think that if the millage rate does go up, then we need to do it so that we have more surplus or unallocated funds that we can use in in the sense of an emergency so as much as i love the the i am a fan of the cra uh because it is you know essentially grant…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“This is not like a silver bullet item for me, as you said earlier. So my thing is I just want us as a team to talk it out and really decide as a whole, try to get as much unity as possible in making this decision. So if it's my vote on whether it should be 50 or 75, I'm not a silver bullet on this. This is one of those things where we're looking at pros versus cons. It's not as simple as it's bad or it's good. There is a lot of pros to have 75 instead of 50, but there's also, you know, that's down the road. So what do we want to focus on? Do we want to focus on down the road and how this is…”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'll say this. If we can agree that the focus on the CRA, if we leave it at 75%, if we shift the focus from the paint programs and the residential side to help people that already have houses to actually do things that will bring in revenue to the city, which would be businesses more so, because that brings in more revenue to the city, I am fine with the 75%.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So with that being said, I'll go ahead and make the motion to approve the budget where we keep the animal shelter and have the CRA at 75%.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Just one more thing. Just one more thing I just wanted to say. I would like to say that we do owe it to the staff that if we don't do the 3%, that we, again, need to make it a priority to fix this so that they have clarification on what the way is forward.”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So my idea is kind of that just like what Chris does as a city manager right now, the treasurer would just Be ultimately the person that signs off on the checks. That doesn't mean that they have to do all the financial work. It just means that the financial side of things is going to be more directly connected to. Reporting to the Commission so you still would have all the stuff that's being done right now at the clerk on the ministerial side, but also you have that final sign off on the check. Signing off on the check is the big thing, right?”
Commission · Sep 8, 2026