Remarks by Thomas F. Carney, Jr.
415 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 15 of 17
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“Those are people using our roads, using our police. You'll get your chance. you get your chance mr mayor respectfully i've looked at all those things and i and we i understand your argument i understand your argument and i do understand that a police department needs to have a complement to be able to have not just the 67 000 people that are here full-time residents as we would say you have to account for the 105 000 that are really here because you have all those people that are down here seasonally I understand all that too. I've calculated. We have been a lot of figuring out what all the…”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I want to hear from everybody else about what, because all I keep hearing is we have to raise our millage.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Because they did not have the increase in the base property values. And I've got all those. I mean, that analysis has been done. But they did. They actually did.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“To put the city of Pompano Beach, the city of Miramar, and the city as comparables is ridiculous.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Why? Why do we reduce our military? Because we had exploding tax values.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Increase in our tax base. We had exploding compared to everybody else around us.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“We eclipsed every single one by sometimes several digits. We eclipsed every single one, with the possible exception of Palm Beach Gardens. because only because they had the PGA and other things that were building in those big developments. But other than that, we eclipsed the property values for Boynton, percentage-wise, based on our population of things, not total numbers, because Boynton's always going to be bigger than us. But if you look at Boca's increase in valuation from one year to the next, that percentage was much less than the appreciations in Delray.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm trying to finish, but if I can finish, you'll get your turn. So I understand the point. All I'm saying is that we are not paying enough attention to try to figure out ways to Trim our costs so that we don't have to raise our millage. That's the sum total of what I'm saying. And I believe there are ways to do it. Now, if you'd like to talk about cuts, let's talk about cuts.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“You and I have been on the same side on a lot of these issues.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“On these cost matters. And all I'm trying to do is to get us back.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Seriously, because I don't know what you've said to him.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“He will rightly and correctly. He doesn't say, well, Commissioner Casale suggested it. He doesn't do that. I can't do that. I know that. And I won't. You're obeying the law. That's fine. This is why I want us to know where everybody thinks about it.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Maybe I don't. But I'm expecting others to have great ideas.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, no, you did. I mean, you had two of the, I have these on my, that's great. The overtime was a real, I remember the same conversation. Commissioner Burns.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“No one's talking rollback. I would love to talk about rollback myself.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“You can't do more than 10% of your prior year without a supermajority.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“You're not allowed to round up. I think it's a supermajority.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm not saying anything. You need the four. That's correct.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“No, it goes to the current. It goes to the rollback.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“You're making the assumption that there's no millage rate adopted because you don't have to adopt the 6.4. You can adopt the 6.2 or 6.1. That's correct. You can. That is correct. We're making the assumption that we can't come to agreement with any millage rate. And I do believe that there is some number out there that we will all – I mean –”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you so very much for your input. You're welcome.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Well, let's talk about that. We spent $473,000 on the teen center so that roughly 18 kids could use it at the cost of $35,000 a kid.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“We're a number of people that have expressed an interest in trying to take it over, but I got nowhere with it. Thank you for bringing it up.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“It's the total cost. I mean, it's owned by the women's club. Women's club. And we rent it. We pay them rent. Not very much. And how much? We pay them rent. How much? We sub-release it from them. Oh, it's not. We don't pay them much.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Sorry, I'm okay. Thank you. I need some water. Until the budget's done.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026