Remarks by Shlomo Danzinger
381 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 16
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“Thank you so much. Michael Kurok in three minutes, please.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So again, I wish we had these as kind of a spreadsheet. along with some pricing, and then we can allocate and move it. But, Commissioner, you seem to have a lot of work done. I'd love to hear what the assessment has produced.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“No, no. Yeah, because it's a different fund. Well, I mean, yeah, again, I wish. Until we have scope. Go through this, prepare it, and kind of categorize it, which was going to kind of, I wanted to do that before our next meeting. The 2.9 that we spoke about is general fund money, right? So, you know, we can use it towards capital improvement projects and different initiatives. If there's initiatives that tie into, you know, whether it's the water taxi or pressure washing, those kinds of things come out of the tourist money. So it's different than that. Right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, yeah.…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Oh. Again, I don't know if this belongs on here, but the home, we spoke about purchasing the last home on Harding Avenue as an initiative for this year. That could, I mean, in theory, we really don't have to budget for that, because that is a lifelong investment in this town, and I think we should be able to access reserves for that. How much do we have in reserves?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So essentially in our savings account we have”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Yeah. Okay. So, I mean, if we have to take a specified amount.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“It's half and half, so part of that, you know, these lawsuits or these threats that we've been having now, some of it is the building fund and some of it went straight into the general fund reserves, and they would have to be paid out of that, if I'm not mistaken. Manny's shaking his head yes, no. You want to say something? Just to clarify that, the refunds, the vice mayor's point, right? Certain people decided that they're going to charge whatever they want for permit fees. They're going to charge a certain amount for review. We're going to have to, these people are now suing. Now that…”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“It's not like we're just gonna cut them a check, but you can't just make up fees. The state regulates this.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“We'll take it outside. But to your point and to the Vice Mayor's point, there's money. I don't think that's in the budget, but I guess if it comes down to it, we'll have to start pulling it out of reserves. All right, so.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So on some of the things, let's say Vice Mayor, since you're talking, the street cleaning, the robot, one of those initiatives, is there even an estimated price of what something like that would cost?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“We have a thing on the budget for street cleaning, so I guess we could just kind of keep it as a wash for now if we put a price. All right. I'm sorry. Oh, there's Andre.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right, so I'm trying to throw some street lighting.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“But that's for this fiscal year, not for the next one, right?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“The budget amendment for the current year?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Okay, so that's not for 27. So assuming that moves forward, I think we had a plan kind of put together. What would an estimate for a project be? Do we have any sort of number for that? Can you make something up, Andrea?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“We were talking about getting our own poles. Anyways, I think that the challenge, and I may be mistaken, but I think right now the engineering is about spacing, confirming the spacing, confirming where we need them. And then we're going to look at the type of hardware we're looking to do. And that's the next step.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So we've got Hawthorne, Flutterman. That's not in here, is it? The second project that we've identified for the flooding, right? We did Abbott. I think the next one we looked at is Hawthorne. I know Christina is looking at grant opportunities now and appropriations. We're going to be looking for those things, but we still have to allocate money for it.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Well, that's not gonna be enough. The Abbott ended up being like 10 1⁄2 at the time.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Well, that's not gonna be enough for the project.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“All right, again, just to throw some numbers onto these things. Street and parks, are you? Yeah. Do we have a cost for that?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Nice try. We're going to throw that into 26.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“How long is it going to take you to do that? Three months? We're going to want to start to put a shovel down now.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“So can we throw just a rough number on there?”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026
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“Just as a rough number, I'm saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Street sign improvements, again, something that's come up. There was a cost to that that we had brought forward a couple years ago. The project got scrapped because of the undergrounding, but there was a cost. Even if it's rough and it's going to go up, again, right now we're at, like, without finishing all our priorities, we're already at 2.7, so... Just want to make sure that we have enough to move forward with our initiatives.”
Town Commission · Aug 27, 2026