Remarks by Thomas F. Carney, Jr.
415 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 16 of 17
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“Look, the budget's not done yet, so we still have time to make any... I mean, we're not voting on millage tonight. That's next week, so we're going to be...”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“So far, we've only saved a couple million dollars. I'm just saying.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I think the overtime was a- Thank you. And then some of the others that were I mean I go ahead and are you I think that's it, but I reserved the right to speak Inject good Commissioner market.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I agree with everything. I mean, it's interesting because my number of saving police was about 500, so you were 300 more than I thought we were going to be able to grab out of them. And I was also at 500 for fire, so we got another 400,000 added to the pot, which is always a good thing. I do think that we need to look at... uh whether we can't have additional savings in in police and fire in terms of number of personnel that we have because i'm seeing that i mean everyone i mean everybody says well you know it affects public safety i don't know if it does or it doesn't i know technology can…”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“From my standpoint, I am not for keeping the same millage rate. I want to reduce the millage rate. by how much that number i don't know yet um i'd like to keep it where it is if you want to know the truth we can discuss you know the whole con i mean i happen to think that we were over reserved everyone talks about reserves but yeah but we're not like a pizza store that when a storm comes all of a sudden we're out of money i mean the taxes still keep continuing to accrue and and every single time in the prior i've gone through several times uh with this it's not like I mean, you redeploy. The…”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“GFOA, which talks about two months. You know, we're over two months. That's fine. I think two months actually works fine. I'm actually looking for a meaningful reduction in the millage rate. Because we always will have the ability, we can always raise our reserve. We're at the low end. When I met with the League of Cities some years back, they talked about you're already in the low end because we're allowed, if we had to, we could go to 10 mills and tax everybody and pay for all our debts. They would hate us.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“We can no longer do that. If it doesn't pass, correct. But we have the ability to raise money when we need to. So let's talk about trying to Just because my property values go up doesn't mean I should be giving all that benefit to the city. So I'm just trying to find a way to, I don't want to do the 6.4. I mean, I can't get my rollback, but, you know, unless you want to give me my rollback, I'd love my rollback.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“You're looking for direction, and I think we're trying to give you direction.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“please i'm just all i'm going to say is that you keep referring back to the fund balance i'm very happy with the fund balance that mr dockwood's you know the percentage that he came up with so if i can i would really would like to drop them all into savings for what people are paying out of their pocket because that is what they feel that is what you know as the as they're paying increased uh insurance every everything everything everything about their daily lives It's gotten more expensive.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“When the city projected, when they gave the information to the bond agencies, what they said that the reserves were going to be?”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“No, no, no, no, no, no, no. We came in with, what was it, a 10%, 12%? What was it? I'm trying to remember what the bond thing was. It wasn't. I'd have to go back and find the letter.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I have the letter. I mean, I was there kind of when we did it.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm just going to tell you that. Well, we could argue that point.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Let's work on the millage. Let's get our millage determined first. I'm asking. Let's figure out how much we can save. I made a recommendation separate from what we did. You made 6.3501, which is a good start. But I think I'd like to see where we can do.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“Maybe next year. Yes. I mean, I've absolutely, you know, I've spoken about this thing. Right. So let's be fiscally responsible to our taxpayers. Look, as I said, I'm just trying to tweak it as best I can. And we are... We're getting there.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“No, it's probably going to be higher than that. I have two questions, please. I'm sorry?”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“We've never really done it. We haven't done a 10% increase. And I don't want to.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“The millage rate tied to a library is .5411.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“I don't know what .5411 translates into dollars. You could tell me that. Probably you'd have to look it up. So I guess my point is. We could take that off our payroll.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“No, I'm not making that a judgment, whether it's a good or bad thing. There may be a time when we have to, at our own operating budget, be able to have more money on our own operating budget. And under the statute, we are allowed to let the library essentially be paid for by the county, which also does include salaries. Their .5411 includes payment of salaries and things such as that for the library personnel. That's what they do. But it would become part of the Palm Beach County Library.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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“When we made the application for the bond rating, that's the letter you want to look at, what the base number was.”
City Commission · Sep 1, 2026
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City Commission · Sep 1, 2026