Remarks by Thomas F. Carney, Jr.
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“That was from 2024 to 18. That was the battle constantly with the examiners. Well, you've got to do this. Okay, fine.”
“One of the things we're trying to do is retain our flexibility. I acknowledge that we are in a quagmire at this time, a political quagmire at this point. We are. And I, look, you may be right. It's not political, it's financial. I know I stand alone in thinking it's not going to pass.”
“I know. And try to keep our flexibility.”
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“Well, can I just ask you, what do you want to cut?”
“That is the cost of their- Well, we can argue about the current level then.”
“Oh, no, no. No, no, no, you voted for it. The ministerial part after was approved by the commission I voted for. Oh, yes. Stop. Please don't make the nuance.”
“I'm actually at the current one of 6.1 something. But, I mean, I'm willing to – to look at a higher number as we try to address the cost. So I came into this with trying to make sure that we could reduce what was being proposed. We've already got a $2 million give or take reduction.”
“Which is a great start. I mean, do I think that there's more that we can tweak during this? I mean, at this point, I think”
“I appreciate your comments, but I'd like to have mine too. So you've asked me for my view. That's my view. I mean, right now, I'm not at the 6.4. I'm closer to the 6.3. So I'm going to see whether we can tweak it a little further. But I think that we should proceed based on the savings that have been identified tonight. And you should come back. I think Commissioner Markert is correct. We'd like to see it on paper, see what the true impact is so that we can look at all the numbers ourselves. Because we don't have them in front of us, so we're all talking hypothetically based on what”
“Well, I mean, I think he's going to come back. He's going to propose a budget of 6.3501. Okay. Although I'm going to try to look farther to see if I can dig deeper to see if we can get any other savings that have not been identified tonight. That's all I'm saying.”
“Are we good? Are we done? May I summarize then, based on what I'm hearing?”
“I'm gonna say that I'm happy with the understand analysis that was done by the by the by our finance director and I'd like to dedicate the reductions to saving saving the taxpayers money otherwise I”
“Yes. Otherwise, we're fine. Come back for something.”
“We had to cut the t-shirts. Sorry, I haven't been in the office.”