Remarks by Thomas F. Carney, Jr.
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City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Next up, Allie Berman is going to be up here talking to you about the Special Events Manager. This is Resolution 131-26.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you very much. I'll start off because I've always been critical. I believe in second chances. I believe that this woman has done a good job while she's there. She's taken responsibility for the action. She's given us assurances that it's not going to happen again. She's going to have the requisite insurance. My inclination would be to say go ahead and do it. But that's just me. Commissioner Casato.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? It is adopted. Thank you very much. Now we're moving on to Resolution 128-26.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Great. To the commission, any comments? If otherwise, they need a motion to approve.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you very much. I have passed out to my commission, which I'm going to actually send some letter in to somebody on this. But I am still of the position that we should not be raising the millage over and above where we are this year. As it is, if we just keep the same millage, it's going to be a 6.9% increase at what taxpayers are going to actually pay. At the recommended rate of 6.3501, that's a 10.2% increase in what they're going to be paying. I'm just not prepared to layer another 10% taxation on the people of Delray when they're paying for increased insurance, increased groceries,…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's a different one. There's more. Trust me.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes. I'm turning it over to, I've got more to say, but which, you know, I'll wait to my.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do you have a presentation that's going to show that we're not going to pay 10.2 in additional taxes?”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Great. Thank you very much. I want to ask you a question because, and I looked at all your figures there, and you're very good with showing what all these other cities do. Do you know offhand what the taxable base change, when you apply your millage rate, it has to be against what your taxable base is, right? I mean, we all agree on that. Do you know what the taxable base change was, for example, for Boca Raton for the last five years? No. What percentage? No. I do. It's 47%. Boynton Beach is like 51%. Do you know what Delray's is? What? 57%. In the last five years, 57% increase in our tax…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm happy to answer that question. Starting from 2015 to 2025, okay, we increased our budget from the 98 million.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“And when you know something, when companies are. Excuse me, let me finish. Let me finish mine. When you're in a company and they're dealing with inflationary issues, they don't sit there and they don't pass it on to the customer. Because there's only a certain amount that you can pass on. Don't they look at what their competitors do? Of course they do.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“We have negotiated contracts. Then you need to deal with personnel issues.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Then you're going to have to learn how to deal with staff. What does that mean? Gentlemen. Let me just say one thing. That's on me. Our budget in 2013 was $98 million. Okay? I'm just going to go up. It goes up to $190 million. I had the same question asking me for the press. Well, when you add inflation. Yeah, we did. We did a whole inflation analysis. It would have been $140 million. We were still. 100% higher than the inflation rate in terms of what money we were spending. When you have a 56% increase in your taxable base and you give an 11% relief, The inflationary component was about $22…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's not a zero-based budgeting under any analysis.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“You're just, well, be honest about the zero-based budgeting process, because it was not a zero-based budgeting.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, it was an element, but it was called. Modified zero-based budgeting.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think I've made my piece known. So who would like to go next? Commissioner Burns. I'll go next. Thank you.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, you're comfortable leaving it where it is. I'm very comfortable with leaving it where it is.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“With respect, that's not my job. That's his job.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think you picked up a lot of what I was talking about with the overtime, which is fine.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“My plan is that the city manager will figure out if we have to address”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Not the salaries contract. Not the personnel contract. We don't vote on those. So we don't vote on those. Those are his purview.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Agreed. But we're not talking about the capital improvement budget. Making decisions about here is- We're not talking about the capital improvement budget.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026