Remarks by Scott Tate
228 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 10
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“Do you know what that percentage is annually? I think I've asked you this before. I don't know if you've ever—”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Understood. I don't want to jump in with a bunch of other questions.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Again, I was echoing on top of Commissioner Maldonado's, but I want to let the other commissioners have questions and comments if they have them.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Commissioner Causey, I see you reaching. Go ahead.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Stay here, sir. I have a few questions for you too, please, with apologies. What's your current FTE right now, your staff? How many full-time equivalents do you have?”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. And so, You know, as I think about things like this, historically, I'm looking, I'm comfortable with strategic investments where we acknowledge that we've got a bottleneck, hypothetically, you know, and being able to deliver what we budget on an annual basis. We haven't delivered, you know, we might budget, x dollars and we always deliver some percentage of x on an annual basis and so i think there is certainly some appetite to make sure that we relieve that bottleneck and we make strategic investments uh... where we can start to drive a higher percentage of of actual delivery on these…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“They are included. Okay, thank you very much. Okay, so I'm foreseeing hopefully some operational efficiencies, some reduced operational costs going forward. And I'll turn this question back to you. Now you're asking for another FTE. And again, I'm going back to that strategic investment. I expect we're going to get some more efficiency just out of software and processes and things like that. And so I'll ask you again, bearing all that in mind and assuming that's going to come to us next year, I don't want to end up with people you know that we've added another ftp theory theoretically and yet…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, and theoretically as we become more efficient in your team and we need less direct labor and more, we rely more on operational efficiency out of software and such, do you have a plan of how we're gonna reduce your costs otherwise as we go through these things that might, we spend eighty ninety thousand dollars whether this FTE is I'm hoping you'll tell me we'll find more than that in operational efficiencies next year and and actually even with the investment on this accelerate projects and yet through some of the other investments we're doing vis-a-vis software and process change will…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“I think I alluded to that. Hi again. Thank you. I think I alluded last time that that kind of for me, the transfer is just kind of obfuscate, you know, what's really going on. I really want to understand what the revenue is and what the expenses. I get that we're readjusting hopefully in the next year or so. This kind of settles down and we can actually see revenue in and revenue out on these funds. That's more of a comment than than need you needing an answer from you, but City manager just acknowledged that all of these kind of operational efficiency things around You know software and…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“aligning with what Rep. Tellis suggested to us, we will ultimately get those reserves back that I think you were alluding to. You had some concerns with the reserves, but that will naturally correct itself as those fees get brought into place. Correct. Okay, so you saw that as much as wait for the fees to come in.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay, last question, I think. So we've, based on our millage discussion earlier, we've rolled back. I think I saw the impact, roughly $80,000, so you'll have to adjust this budget accordingly. There's a question to the Commission of whether we make the strategic investment that Director Mills has asked us to do for his FTE. So I think we're looking at not only a decrease in revenue of roughly 80,000, I'm using rough numbers here, and then an increase in costs of 90-ish, I think was the number. And so I want to make sure that, at least my perspective, not allow the other…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you. A lot of topics. Did you have more to, you're just here for questions? No, thank you. Perfect, yeah, thank you. I just wanted to make sure, I want to make sure, unless there's questions more from the commission, I don't see any green lights, so I think you're absolved for now. Are there any audience comments?”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you. Yep, so thank you for your comments. I don't think there's a person up here that would say we're not looking for more grant money. So we're always happy to, whatever process we can or whatever improvements we can make, we've been talking a lot about. operational efficiencies and improvements and everything. Everything's up for grabs, right? Including grant submissions and let's hope we get more money coming in like we got earlier this session. So I'm all for it. That aside, I'm not sure that's germane to this particular ordinance on the thing. So city manager, just to be clear, I…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Yes, thank you, because that is ratified, yes, with the adjustment of the millage rate adjustment and then so we've got the budget being adjusted based on the millage rate adjustment and then theoretically the second question being do we approve the second FTE for strategic investment on operational efficiencies. So do I have a motion from the Commissioner on these items?”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. With that, I believe there's no further business. And should the clerk correct me before I adjourn our first meeting? I'm good? Okay. With that, we'll call our, let's see, officially city commission budget meeting adjourned. All right, I know you asked for a few moments, so I'm kind of off record here for those of you in the room. This was actually the first of two different meetings we had this evening scheduled. The second one is our actual commission meeting. I suspect we might wanna have a conversation about the agenda adjustments on that one, but we'll get to it in a moment. So I…”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you. First item on the agenda is a motion to approve this agenda as written. I will entertain motions at this moment. I I will I will just acknowledge right off the bat that we I think took considerably longer on the prior meeting than we anticipated so You know, I don't I we usually like to wrap by 10 and so I'm seeing three pages of stuff here But I won't comment on that as much as just say is there a motion or do we need any adjustments to the to the agenda as proposed?”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, first item is audience comments, please. General audience comments, I think.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you, sir. You know what, I... Thank you, Mr. President. I will say, I think we're aware of what's going on, and I think we're having our conversations with the city manager as well, so I understand, and I thank you, and we understand, so.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thanks. Yeah, I'll just acknowledge as well. I know our city manager has acknowledged that they're talking to you daily. Yes. I'm looking at her and I know that she's got an interest in solving this through for you. I think we're having a lot of dialogue on it. I think we're all sympathetic and understanding. I just think we're trying to figure out how to resolve it. I don't know if we can solve it right here tonight, but I understand and I acknowledge it. And yes, sir, we're doing our best to work through what we can.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you. We move on to the consent agenda. Are there any amendments to the consent agenda proposed? or do we approve it as is?”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you. We move on to ordinances. The first item is the first reading of ordinance 2026-15 amending land development code section 39.9 to update green building requirements for new construction and major renovation in the community redevelopment district.”
City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 9, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 9, 2026