Remarks by Shlomo Danzinger
381 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 16
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“I just want to make sure that staff understood that there was direction to put a safety program in place. Yeah, that's, okay.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“We didn't cover it again after the motion, but yeah, that's the consensus of the commission up here. All right. Okay, so amending Article 7 of the Town Code of Ethics. Madam Clerk, if you read the title of the resolution, ordinance, please.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you, Commissioner. All right. If you guys want to speak, now's the time.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“No comment. All right, so I think because we're just repeating each other's talking points, this is not the first, this is, what, the third time we're having this conversation. You know, to address this and this trust, I know Mary Ann and George were at a condo event yesterday, and to quote the Congressman Moskowitz who got up, right, he's like, People distrust him as a congressman. People distrust politicians. They distrust their boards. It is, unfortunately, how it works. You have to work hard to gain that trust. But people are always questioning what the motive is. And I think until you…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right. So noted. Madam Clerk, let's call the roll, please.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you. Meeting adjourned. Thank you all for coming. We'll see you back here in 55 minutes.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right, ladies and gentlemen, if we could please find our seats. Good to go? All right. I almost don't feel like saying the time, because then we'll know how late we are. But it's Thursday, August 27th, 1.40 PM, calling today's budget workshop into order. Madam Clerk, if you'll take the roll, please.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Chief, you okay to talk? Yeah, I just didn't know if you could speak after your crown came out. Thank you. All right, moving on to a budget workshop discussion direction for fiscal year 2027 budget. We move this down here a little bit to kind of hopefully ease a lot of the formalities that happened when we're up there and a much more comfortable conversation. It's a little difficult. I know we all got this book last night, or at least the update that Andrea here who will give us some of the highlights was what has been happening over the last couple of weeks. And at some point, I mean, I…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“We're not speaking. We're waiting for Andrew. Well, I think you just let's just cover the summary of the changes from that. Yeah, we can do it from sitting there, right?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“I know we've got some public comment. I guess we'll start this.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“I just want to add for the record, these are not positions that are currently filled. There's no disruption to current service or reduction in force. These are just open positions that have been open for the last couple of years that we're looking to close.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So I think the idea today was, again, the town staff has gone through this budget, was built essentially throughout, when did you guys start? Like, when did you start putting this together with the departments?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Beginning of April. I mean, we still hadn't, you know, the commission input hadn't been put in. I think the directive of what our initiatives hadn't been projected yet. And when we looked at a budget, it was essentially utilizing all the general fund revenue for operations. The goal is obviously to look at the growth responsibly. Again, the state has been going after cities that have exceeded, I think it's like 20, 26.3% or something over five years. This budget in a lot of areas has gone up over 25 in the last two. We need to start being a little bit more responsible as far as operations. At…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Essentially, what would we like to focus on the next years? The money is not unlimited. I don't think any of us want to sit here and start raising taxes. You've been able to create some funds for us to access for some projects over the next few years. But what we don't want to happen is every commission meeting, we keep throwing something else at the town administration. Hey, we want this. We want this. We want this. That's what this cycle is about. It's about prioritizing, putting it together. And so we'll get that list of what we worked on at the last budget workshop. And we'll kind of put…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Just to be clear, we have $2.9 million, and Surfside Memorial is already included.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“When I glanced through this, I noticed it was something like $3.9 million. Is that...”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Okay. So Summer Memorial Park, 3.69. We approve 3.550. Is there a reason why And again, I don't want to start bouncing book to book, but we were talking about capital projects.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“No, so let's be clear. The county gave us a half a million dollars, which was already spent. We have a million dollars for the memorial. That was the 3.5 is taking into account a million from the state. And then we're hoping that we, in the development order with the property, I believe it's another million, million and a half. But that's all encompass of the project.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So it's not 4 million, it's 3.550. Why don't we set 3.69?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“That's incorrect. The $3.5 includes a million from the state. It's not $4.5 million. It's $3.5 million. The money from the county was already spent two years ago.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Okay, so 2.9, does that include, that's in addition to everything that's in the book, correct? Correct.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Okay, so I guess it falls now to the commission to kind of look through the list that we were just given, and hopefully we have some pricing to some of it.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yes, I think the assumption is if we go through this entire list, we might exceed the 2.9 million, right? So what we're here to do today is try to figure out, you know, we're kids in a store. We want everything. I have 20 bucks in my pocket. What is it that we're buying and walking out with today? And that's what we're going to try to do at this meeting. But I guess before we dive into it, let's just open up the public comment. This is Sal's hour.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026