Remarks by Toni Carter
48 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
- Play at 31:52
“Sure, I'll go ahead and comment on this. First of all, thank you all for all the work that you did today. I understand that these questions came in late from the mayor. I saw them yesterday, I think, as well. But I will tell you that this is a part of the budget process. Budget is two-way. We didn't see it in its totality, I believe, until what, mid-August? I don't know what all the spear throwing has been, and some of you have seen the email that I'm talking about, but the mayor has a right to ask a question. And I appreciate that you are unfettered, y'all are answering these questions. but…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I mean, the good news is, is we have time. I mean, budgets are not arrived at in major corporations. I worked for one GE. I didn't just work for the feds. And I can tell you, we were there burning the midnight oil when it had to go to the board of directors. So this is not unusual. I know it doesn't feel great. So I do appreciate the questions. I thought they were actually very good questions. The other thing is on these COLAs, they are indeed a cost of living increase, but COLAs are not mandatory. COLAs are certainly elective. Raises are not mandatory, right? So I appreciate that the mayor…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I appreciate you running all those numbers. It was brought to my attention by at least two retirees out of those eight.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I didn't know there was just that few. And I know it's from the time they retired to the time of 62 or 65. Okay, so there's a gap. And that's tough. I mean, it's tough to cover that, but it's also from a retiree standpoint, they're on a fixed income, no different than my grandma, grandpa type of thing, being on Social Security on a fixed income. So that $100 a month, I think, is really threatening to folks. So I appreciate you running that down for us.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“First of all, thank you again. All of you. I mean, all of you sitting out there, too. We see every one of you, and we know that you've been here late with us. It is a huge responsibility, but we have a responsibility, too. We were elected. And I am not going to... beg for forgiveness when I cast my vote on anything. I've weighed everything that you tell me, everything that you give me. But it is my responsibility to do my due diligence for the people that put me here. Because they put me here for a reason. So whether you like the lines of questioning or not, whether my peers do or not, I'm…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I appreciate that because, you know, it's, we just have to look where money is that, may or may not be better served to be in one pot or the other. And that's the reason for an evaluation. So that's all I'm asking for. I don't have my eyes set on anyone. Some of them I don't even know what they're for, because I wasn't here when they were put in place. I just know they exist. So, you know, I think it's a worthy exercise.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Heavenly Father, as we gather tonight to serve our community, we ask for your guidance, wisdom, and grace. Watch over the many children as they return to school, protect them, and give their teachers and families strength and patience. We are grateful for the city employees who work long hours to keep our community moving forward. Give them strength and remind them that their service matters. We especially ask for your protection over our police officers, firefighters, dispatchers, first responders, and all who serve on the front lines of public safety. Keep them safe and give them courage,…”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 46:41
“And on this item, I had requested that the staff from the airport discuss safety because I don't direct staff to do a presentation. I'm not going to do a presentation about something that I don't know about. Are any of those folks here?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 47:15
“Do they have a presentation, or are we just gonna do questions?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 47:35
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City Council · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 49:54
“And how long did you say it's been out for a minute?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 50:24
“Okay. But it is a serious item, I would presume, because he made a special effort to contact me on this particular one.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay. And my understanding is, you know, not only is he an Air Force pilot, he is the inspector general. And then they consider this very serious, the comms that they're reporting problems with in New Braunfels, so much so that the leadership of that base, I don't know if that includes the general or not, but they wanna come and have this discussion with us about de-conflicting communications and de-conflicting patterns, which, you know, I'm out of my expertise here, so my apologies, but my understanding is that there are some great concerns over the takeoffs and the, you know, perhaps the…”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I think you're going to have the opportunity to, to be honest.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Are there other communications problems, or is it just the shout line?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 55:01
“And about how long will that take? It's already been down for a while.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
- Play at 55:09
“Okay. And that's what we're just funding? Yes, ma'am. Through budget request. And is that for next year's budget? So you'll have to wait until after October 1?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“They have airport construction going on at Randolph. And effective, are you aware of all this? I assume that you're more aware than I would be. Have there been things worked out as far as deconflicting the routes that our aircraft are coming out? And I say this because he was showing me just yesterday an aircraft that was coming out of New Braunfels. It was presumably a training aircraft. It was going about 80 miles an hour. But they are going to be taking off out of Seguin, which is due east, I think, of here. And... Their aircraft go about 300 miles an hour.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Well, he said that it's gonna be mandatory that they come in, and it always has been. He showed me those radiuses around their airspace and our airspace. Yes, ma'am. And there is a trail into our airspace. And he said there is a necessary, it's necessary to get a deconfliction procedure.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“And do we have that in writing, that there's a procedure?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I mean, but obviously, if you've got intermittent comms, nobody really can hear each other, right?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“Okay, so I'm likely gonna put accept their invitation if you're okay with that and Jeff and city manager are okay with that to get the people together so that y'all can agree that we've got a safe situation for military navigators as well as our private navigators because they question that, okay?”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“And all I can do is salute and say, yes, sir. We'll see what we can do. I look forward to that. This is a lieutenant colonel, so he's pretty voiced in his experience. And I would think logically that an aircraft traveling at 350 miles an hour can close very quickly on one that's you know, 100 miles an hour in training. And my overriding thing is that I hear a lot about growth of this airport, and I want to make sure that it's current date as far as our operations go. Yes. He tells me that there's opportunity for FAA to be told by Randolph that they will support UBN's supplied a FAA radar.…”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“I think we can get along with these folks. And I encourage it, right? But I do wanna make sure that, because I understand we don't have a radar, is that right? I'm trying to understand air traffic.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026
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“It sounds like they're very open to that, especially because they're going to be coming out of Seguin for, I think, a couple years is what he said. And you know how federal construction is. It might be 10 years.”
City Council · Aug 24, 2026