Remarks by Skeet Phillips
11 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 14:50
“380s is for a tax, I mean for a sales tax.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 15:44
“And then one there and one over in Terrell. What did we do in Terrell? I don't remember. This year? No, last year.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 16:06
“It should be. I mean, the reason I say seven, you know, the reason... You know, it's not made. It's more for startup. If it's in county, it's more for startup, getting them to get started. Seven years, if they haven't made it in seven years, I'm not sure they'll ever make it. Yeah, come on, Stuart. I mean, I'm sorry. You know, it's not there to support them forever. Not us.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 16:50
“I know we can. I'm not saying there's not a good point because the county, we don't have any extra money. We have only, only. tax. And if you give it all away, it makes it almost impossible for us to keep up with our growth.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 20:43
“Yeah, a couple of things. I mean, you know, like the 312 or whatever, it was a certain amount of money, so you're always paying the same thing. It wasn't something that It's a big task to try to figure out sometimes on abatements. They'll wear that department out trying to figure out what the value is and what the thing is and be able to figure it out because it changes every year.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 21:08
“And, you know, I think we talked about it a few years ago, and we said, you know, some of those things, 312s and things, are just so simple because it's that amount of money every year, no matter what happens, doesn't change things that, It just seems like a simpler process. But everybody's got their own opinion. One, you know, it's hard to keep. What am I going to do? Hire a person to keep up with the people? Then keep the person. Or, you know, it's not just as simple as everybody says it. It sounds simple, but it's not very simple when you're doing, you know, two thousand abatements or…”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 23:30
“I'll tell you what. I'll tell you what. My success came between three and five. After my third to fourth year in my company, I had a lot of employees on a lot of trucks. I was smoking, and I never got a nickel from the city, county, or anybody. I mean, it was 100% on my own power.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 28:53
“They don't want to do that. You don't want them. No. You've got to pay your bills.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 28:58
“That's got cities in trouble. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. We know why. But, you know, that's just what it is. And we are separate. They come to us. It's generally the reason they're in the city first. And they bring it to us because they have a development service. We don't do that. We don't hire development services.”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 29:34
“Sometimes, you know, and I talk about it, it's a simple process where you're saying, hey, you're going to have this and that and we're going to pay you backwards from the face of it and say, hey, we're going to give you 10% of your tax back and whatever it is and not on a sliding scale thing. It's that amount of money for the next five years, six years, seven years, whatever you decide to do. And it's a simple payment. As long as they're in business and thriving, she's going to write out the check when they pay the taxes. In the end of the story, you don't have to always worry about...”
Commissioners Court · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 17:48
“Yeah, you've been. Oh, yeah. It's a neat, it's a very good process. A lot of people don't understand that. Okay. Okay. They can take a piece of thing you can't even read, and the next thing you know it looks like it's brand new. Yeah, interesting. And it's the original document. Thank you.”
Commissioners Court · Aug 25, 2026