Remarks by Thomas F. Carney, Jr.
415 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 14 of 17
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“No, Mayor, the catch-all was what they do. We still have the opportunity to make those changes when it's presented.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I got an email today from somebody who said it was nearly clipped by one of them.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's it. All right, I got three things.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“You're only allowed two. First, and this is kind of along the line of what Commissioner Burt said. One of the people called me the other day, and they own rental property. And they have set up each one of these rental properties to be owned by an LLC. Of course. They were told that this LLC does not need to get a business tax receipt.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Why is that because that is a revenue source? The city should they call the Richards you don't need it for an LLC If it's a rental property, I'm just telling you what they were they call the city If you have to file an annual report with the division of corporations, yeah, you are a business LLCs have to file an annual report Does that to be a big even if it's only 50 bucks? If it's an operating LLC and they own a piece of real estate and they're collecting rents.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, okay, they may have talked to you too, but the point is it is a good revenue source, number one, and people will pay the 50 bucks for the BTR.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“It's not a short-term. It's a business. It's getting the operation.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's two separate things. You want to register the rental property? That's one set. But the fact that you're an operating business in the city, if you have to file an annual report with the Division of Corporations, if you're a shell and you're not really operating, you have to say, I'm a shell and I'm not really operating. You sign a form. Fine. But if you have an operating business, you ought to pay a business tax receipt. Well, if you show income, Yeah.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I think we need to look at that. Secondly, the second thing I want to do is to talk about amending the local rules on something that has been bothering me for a while. In the course of my time up here in the last year or so, two years, You know, someone will say, we'll adopt something at the commission level. And then, for some reason, it changes and something else happens. And the remark is, well, I received a consensus from your other commissioners. My view is, if something is decided on the commission, we all give consensus, we want this to happen. If this isn't going to happen...…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. So do we have agreement on this? Yeah, absolutely. I'm cool with that. It really should be, if we've decided something in public, any change to that has got to go back to the commission. Okay. And the last thing I want to say. I would like a local rule change. I'd like to see the language. I mean, it shouldn't be that hard. The last thing I'm going to say is someone said last week something out, and they said, well, it was in the weekly report. You put a lot of stuff in your weekly report, but I don't consider your weekly report notice to the commission. If you're going to put…”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“All I'm saying is I sometimes read this in the weekly reports, like, I don't remember agreeing to that. Right. Well, understood. Good to go, Mayor. I'm trying to make things transparent, and I have nothing else to say. Oh, my goodness.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“Except I want to read this speech. Any other things? Then we are adjourned.”
City Commission · Sep 8, 2026
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“I don't think we're, oh, now we're on. Are you on now?”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I appreciate the city managers and the city's position. You have your job. We have our job, which is to give direction. Yes, sir. I will say that one of the reasons that I thought this would be important for us all is that each one of us, you know, we all speak to you about what we would like to see and all the cuts we want to have, but nobody really knows what the others think. Because maybe Commissioner Malika has a great idea, but I don't know what it is. She shared it with you, but you don't share it with me because she shared it with you because you're not allowed. No, sir. Same with…”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, it was question time anyway, so there you go.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Go ahead, yes. I'm hoping we're going to have a discussion now about what we've just seen.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm just going to, I want to, before we get started, you know, you talk about Palm Beach Gardens, and I've spent a lot of time looking at Palm Beach Gardens. Okay. You know, similar population and all that other kind of stuff. In almost every single category, they have fewer people working in there.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm just talking generally speaking in terms of they have 20% fewer employees. And that's across the board, by the way. They have 10 or 12 fewer uniformed police officers, for example. They've got fewer fire people. And I understand the dynamics are different in the town because they have more gated communities. So I understand a lot of the distinctions. But city employees, they have about a good 20% to 25% fewer city employees.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I understand what we're trying to get to. And in fact, in 2012, when I sat in that chair where Commissioner Mollick is, Palm Beach Gardens instituted online submissions in the planning and zoning department for zoning applications. And I brought it up at that point to do. And we finally got around to starting to do it some 14 years later. So I understand Palm Beach Gardens has been ahead of us for a long time certainly in the in the technology area I think we're frankly a better run city but that's just my own view but I do worry when we talk about attrition I do worry that you know we are…”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm agreeing. Okay? Nobody's disagreeing with you.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“See, my view is I don't think we should be raising the millage. And I've made that point. And everyone says, oh, we have to do it because we had that rollback. Untrue. Untrue. I've looked at statistics about the increase in the percentage of the property value increases for all these other places. And ours outpaced them. So by our rollback, really only brought us back to where the others were in terms of their increases. So when you look at what the percentage of the property value increase was in Delray for that same period, we really did great. I mean, we were a bubble. We did great. We did…”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I would love to discuss housing units. Like over 3,000. I've actually had this conversation with the city about the number of housing units. Everybody's always saying, oh, we've got all this increased housing and all this. No, we have the actual percentage of increased housing is much less than you think.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“People are taking four-unit buildings and they're building two. They're taking two lots, they're building one.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026