Remarks by Tim Davis
256 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 11
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“Anybody else want to speak on this, Adam? No, Alan? Do we have a camera on him? Did he go to sleep?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Okay, all right, all right. We were just checking on you, Alan.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Oh, okay. All right. I apologize for that. No, no, you're fine. I think that it's appropriate to point out that all this development that we're talking about is in a designated industrial park. with a landfill to the north and a power plant to the south and the loop road to the west. So, and, and a railroad track. And this is, uh, this is all appropriately located and, um, To me, the location means everything. It's not going up next door to Scott and Wyatt or something like that. This is a designated industrial park, and that's what it's for. Anybody else want to speak on the public hearing?…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“We have a motion by Mayor Pro Tem Walker. We have a second by Councilmember Immons. Council, please cast your vote.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Aye. Adam 12 passes four votes yes, zero votes no, and one abstention. Council, I'll entertain a motion on item 13.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“We have a motion by Councilmember Pilkington. We have a second by Councilmember Emmons. Council, please cast your vote. Item 13 passes, four votes yes, zero votes no, and one abstention. That's the end of tonight's agenda, but I would like to, real quickly, we've always done this in the past, point out the leadership temple class we have a couple of of the leadership temple no I think we've got to we've got Stewart yeah so so Whitney or BJ Uh-oh, you're up, BJ. If you would stand up, give a two-minute synopsis of Leadership Temple, and then we'll have each of the members, participants,…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Oh, sorry. Those two guys, y'all come up, too. You're going to speak for just a second. Don't take too long.”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“Do they get extra credit if it's over two hours?”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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“living or coming and commuting to a city so looking forward to it it's just the start but uh it's definitely a pleasure to be a part of it thank you thank you all thank you all for your participation in that i've put a couple of employees through that and they've really benefited from that so that's been good um i want to thank everybody for being here tonight i know that uh it was at times fiery and um you know some disagreement here and there and that happens that's what community outreach and discussion is about so we are all building a community that we that we believe will best serve the…”
City Council · Sep 3, 2026
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City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Because it's budget time and this is pretty, we have department heads and some police officers. We do this every year.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Including the fire department folks back there. You can have an extra five seconds.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Let's go ahead and do that now so that anyone who's going to speak during the public hearing will have the full scope.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Before we do that, a point of clarification. Because as we look at the no new revenue rate, we talked about there by that 0.0041 cents how we're actually raising slightly less money. But then whenever I read in the item, it talks about that the budget will raise more total property tax last year, more property taxes than last year's budget by an amount of $7 million. If I'm new to this process, I'm gonna scratch my head. The mayor just read about tax increase, but now we're talking about a no new revenue rate?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Right. It's just, you know, whenever we do these presentations, it seems like different things are being said.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“apply different formulas to different parts of the process that's very frustrating I know it is to you guys it's frustrating as we go through our processes because we talked about transparency truth in taxation etc etc and it seemed like the state system works directly against those mandates so or even just the names of those those those those requirements so”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Very good. Thank you all for that explanation.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Okay. Then with that, I will open the public hearing, which is to receive comments on the proposed tax rate of 75 cents per $100 valuation for fiscal year 2027. If you'd like to speak, we just ask you to step to the podium and state your name for the record.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“We'll get him, we'll finish up with him.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“So are you recommending we cut parks? That's what places and spaces is.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“You know, and we've talked about this before. The city is one of the fastest growing cities in the United States and has been for years. And so I also see a lot of, uh, for sale signs coming up, but you know what I also see, I see a lot of sold signs. So there are houses for sale and there are people buying them.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Is that reflective of the City of Temple and the City of Temple's budget, or is that reflective of Taylor and Austin and Georgetown?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026