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Please join councilwoman Luvodachi for the pledge of allegiance.

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All right, good afternoon everybody.

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I think our town clerk has noticed that he has to read into the record.

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And then we'll just say hello to the conversation about the budget.

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Good afternoon everybody.

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I'm meeting notice delivered on August 24, 2026 in address to Councilman Benaro, Councilwoman

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Lovinachi, Councilwoman Mara, Councilwoman Hebert, the following was stated, pursuant

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section 62, the town law, two special meetings of the town board of the town on Huntington

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Mobile on Wednesday, August 26, 2026 to 2 p.m. and Thursday, September 3rd, at 2026 at 2 p.m.

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from 14 at Huntington Town Hall 133 on to New York.

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To consider reviewing the draft 2027 budget

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and to discuss all related financial business

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and any other business that may come before the board.

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Board members will analyze fiscal data

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to ensure they are fully informed before voting on whether

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or to override the state mandate and tax cap,

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signed as engaged.

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Met supervisor, supervisor Smith, they can confirm.

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That said, meeting noticed was really signed, distributed, and hosted, as required by New York State of Paul.

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Thank you, Mr. Rath.

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All right, so going right into it, I hope that everybody over the last couple of weeks has had an opportunity to speak to our directors and deputy directors, and he's department, and also with the controllers office if you haven't yet.

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I say again, the control is offices that everybody's disposal any data that you need or what.

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The same thing, directors as well, deputy directors, you know, from an operational standpoint,

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nobody's going to give you better information than speaking directly with directors,

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or their deputies to find out if there were any cuts to be made,

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how that would have an actual impact on the ground within any particular departments.

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So with that, we went through last week, we were talking about what the budget under the tax

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cap, but right at just below the tax cap line, would look like, as far as what a fully

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funded budget looks like going forward, which is taking this year's budget rolling

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forward into 2027, a couple of changes that you'll see. I don't know if this was provided

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up, but it will be the right here. So the vacant positions right now total of 3.3 million

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if you had it those back in, that's a total of 57 vacant positions that are in the budget

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currently. It was 14 of them are appointed vacancies and 43 of them are civil service positions.

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So that was fully funded and added back in.

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And then looking at the garbage collection,

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I would recommend, and I'd probably put it into my presentation.

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It presented budget is an additional $1 million for garbage collection

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because while we can look at the numbers as they are.

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And very bluntly, I think the cost of garbage collection realistically is going to continue

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to rise up and saying it for several years that the biggest fiscal crisis, the long island

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in general is going to face is going to be solid, waste garbage collection on the island.

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It's a real problem.

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And then, in addition, the special events fund, we currently budget 100,000 for it.

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I want to raise that by 200,000 for a total of 300,000.

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So, special events just serve me understand what that, why we're doing that.

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For years, what the practice has been for the town.

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Whenever there is a talent-wide event, for example, the fall festival.

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So the fall festival, we put out for security and other reasons.

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The highway department will park 10-wheel trucks on the roadways to prevent any air cars

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when they can turn into the festival or at parades on the parade route doing the same thing.

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Whenever that happens, those vehicles and the personnel that separate those vehicles,

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So they come out of the highway department's budget, because they're highway trucks.

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However, these are tamois events, and I think Andre has had a little bit of a...

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We've done it last year for 100,000, but I think more realistically, as close to 300,000 dollars in expenses, we've created a line item in the budget called special events where the highway department will still continue to provide those trucks and additional services, but it shouldn't be coming out of the highway.

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department's budget to do that. It's a townwide event, so it's a huge amount of a townwide

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fund so that we've created a budget line called Special Events last year for 100,000, but realistically,

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it's close to 300,000, so there's a $200,000 addition of that.

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So with that, looking at the numbers

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currently, for adding those three items back in, we're actually closer to $269 million in the total

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budget. Okay. And let me just ask it. Was this, was it circulated? Where's it?

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We've got, okay. Yeah, this is, this is hard off the press. But looking at that and then

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going into some of the things that were suggested in conversations both here at the last meeting

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we have here and also just listening from, you know, what conversations that you have with

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the controllers office, what they suggested, so the several resolutions that are available

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for cuts, but again, anything's on the table, you can cut, or add whatever, whatever

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they think is important.

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I'd like to question about what is the main theme mentioned.

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What is the possible premise, you know, is it going to get the dollar amount of the unfilts

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pointed positions versus the field of civil service positions, but to see the difference between those with a dollar.

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That's in there. These are the 14 pointed zones. I don't know if that's

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but the dollar amounts. So I have a choice over all the entire

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line item for the 11 pointed positions from the 11 pointed positions.

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So there's 57 total. There's 14 pointed zones which are right there.

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And as far as the point it's go, those are what the board votes to compensate from ask.

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But there's general guidelines on what they fall into.

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And then there's 43 civil service positions that are unfilled.

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However, baked into next year's budget already.

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Three of those positions would be filled.

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There's two entry-level IT positions that we would fill.

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But those two individuals are currently part time.

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we've made them full time and then there's one fire Marshall position which doing inspections

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and like for the fire Marshall's office there are sure handers and I think those two

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positions were necessary positions and I think actually the fire Marshall's office typically

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looking at the business. Yeah they pay for themselves. So we asked about that I was looking

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to have as much as I'm the person that's kind of arguing to find the cuts. I was looking to have

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a person at the back of fire Marshall's office because from what I understand that's going to be

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positive for us because of the extra person that we're going to bring in the extra ready.

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So, yeah.

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Really a net zero to the bottom.

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So, the 57 total of the breakdown of it is the 14 appointed 43 civil service, but 3 being

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filled.

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So, it's 14, 40, and that's great.

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That's your total 57 conditions.

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And I'm sorry, I won't see entire $1,000 and I know that the three has been appointed so the number has been different, but just what was selected working number.

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For all the vacant positions, $3,361,300 and $1,312.

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I don't know what to write it down.

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I don't know what to write it down.

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If you look right here, if you can't.

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When I write stuff down, it helps me remember basic.

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Just as a kid, always, I always feel that it helps me remember better

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and it's sort of the information.

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So thank you, though.

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In my mind, if it means that we've cut $3 million out of our budget,

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without losing any staff, that seems to be like

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with place to stop.

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When you would lose people, not already on SAMHSA, or for a musician's that had not been filmed yet.

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Some of them are positions that haven't failed.

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So for example, if there's currently a current vacant position, the deputy and waste management,

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it's vacant position.

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So John Clark doesn't have a deputy currently.

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or direct impersonal was vacant, or there's no deputy, well-traffic is now rolled into

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engineer.

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But Scott Spittles working without a deputy, deputy, committee, committee positions vacant. So there, you know, I've heard a lot of, you know, you hear the people talking and saying, well, cut the fat out of the budget. Well, we've done that for the last four years. We have cut, you know, there are so many vacant positions because we just don't, you know, when people either leave or retire or whatever, we just don't fill them. So we're left with a lot of them. But some of those positions on there, I mean, we can go through them and look at some of them, I was suggest we should not cut.

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they really need to be filled, like a director of personnel, for example, is somebody that

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this is necessary or a former director can tell you to have a liability.

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Yeah, it's a very busy, very important position, HR.

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The plan, there's some positions within that list of positions that, you know, are not

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costing anybody a job currently, and could hold off on maybe being filled in a year when we're

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having such a challenge, but you know, no question about it.

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So, if I could just jump in because I was actually a perfect sideway to something that I was holding to the time-time.

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I did not, I was unable to participate in last week's meeting, but I can say that I did watch it.

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And I thought a lot of interesting points for raise.

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And I thought that in particular the issue raised by Councilwoman Hever has a release to the healthcare benefits was one that struck me in particular.

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And I say that what you just said about the vacancy and the position is that at the time that was voted on it was under the banner of recruitment and retention.

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And also under an impression that we were fiscally healthy, it's now become very clear that that is not in that case.

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So, I, I, I'm going to echo, uh, the council meets a question and I noticed that one was

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asked it last week. It was on answer about appealing that, um, you know, about appealing that

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was a solution, um, that I had appeared. Uh, and if not that, at least in a memory to it.

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Because, um, I think that it's definitely one of the first and most important,

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important steps that we can take, um, you can send me a minute to go back where it was before.

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correct or at the earliest, you know, because, you know, in light of this financial

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crisis, I think that it's, it's in person who needs to authenticate.

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That's not really a conversation we can all have because obviously everybody is going to

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have a, you know, we've all got some amounts of skin in the game where it comes to that

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particular resolution. So it's obviously a conversation that we can have so we can arrive

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at something that people would feel comfortable with, but I don't see going forward without

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doing some kind of work to that particular, the particular health benefits package,

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but frankly, I think it's, you know, even if it's just symbolic that you are willing to start with ourselves.

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I think there's a value to that.

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Well, I don't disagree, and I think that if we're, I don't see how we can keep an executive

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perkin place, if you will, and then ask the taxpayers to have their property taxes raised,

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while also simultaneously, it's scared of a pencil of the workers.

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Are you suggesting repealing the health insurance for the elected?

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Not workable repealing the entire resolution.

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But it's pretty good.

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Sure.

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Your high school of participation is the highest level of education.

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The highest level of education.

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I don't like that.

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I don't like that.

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I don't like that.

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I don't like that.

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I don't like that.

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We're talking about repealing health insurance as we're sitting in the

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change. Because if you've repealed the six year change, it's going to have zero fiscal impact.

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Absolutely, that's symbolic. It's purely symbolic, I mean, because, you know,

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everybody's sitting here at this table next year is still entirely, so it's symbolic.

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It's purely cosmetic to repeal that and put it back to where it was.

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It'll have no fiscal impact on next year's budget.

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I don't disagree with that point, but I do think, though, that I think we can all relate that.

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And to keep a perfect like that in place, while may not be an immediate expense, I think

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that we can all read it.

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A definitely, it's going to be a point to ease where our work is going to have you, that

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there will be at some point.

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And I think that it's definitely worth a discussion, whether it's decided right now.

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I mean, I'm talking about the suming that the health and the package that our civil service workers

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get and that working, they're not getting away from the health insurance after six years.

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I'm pretty sure.

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And so, for us to get it, it seems, I don't know, to close it.

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But it's not lifetime, right?

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It still kicks in at 62, not 65 years old.

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It's a little tickle.

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Man, it's working to make it play an A, and then it's just something that's playing B, which I think it's about.

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Which all are two years old.

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Which all are two years old.

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I think it's still two years old.

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And I don't have the things to take it away from people overall.

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I'm just saying that it seems like the change that was made before I arrived here.

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Thank you very much.

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Well, there was no reason to believe for those from my perspective anyway, but there was any financial crisis around the back. And now, in fact, we're being faced with one of those persons.

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Well, I disagree on a couple of issues. Number one, I don't think there's a fiscal crisis, even remotely close to it.

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Number one in terms of financial suicide.

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Yes, sounds pretty.

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No, it's saying that the tax cap would be.

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I would just be clear, you know,

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you're talking about, you know, panicking the workforce.

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I've never for a second suggested staying under the tax cap.

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I did that as an exercise to demonstrate what that would look like.

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I thought it was something that, you know,

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okay, useful exercise for the directors to do.

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Okay, but, you know, to the other thing is, you know,

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health insurance when we're looking at this and, you know, I get it. It's great political

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optics to start talking about the 6 years, but it's been grossly exaggerated into something

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that it's not, especially when we're sitting here talking about the 27, the 2027 budget that we all

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know and everybody's acknowledged that changing the health insurance will have zero fiscal impact

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on the 2027 budget. Literally zero. Okay. Now, we can still talk about it. That's great. Why don't

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do it in an open form in a town board meeting, we've got to maximum impact for next year's

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elections, fantastic. But today we're talking about the budget.

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No, it's just a little reaction. No, it's just a little reaction.

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No, it's just a little reaction. Take the exception with that.

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Take the exception with that.

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Take the exception with that. Let's focus on the budget.

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What I'm trying to do is, you know what I'm going to do is to get the budget.

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That's responsible. No, I'm not going to do this.

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It's like the bubble. It shouldn't. I agree that we should do something, but it's not

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symbolic, but it's not something we are, even though it's not

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I don't know if that's the, but it's not in fact,

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just wasn't much enough to do it, but I don't have a problem.

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I was just saying, no, that we want to take it away from all of our point.

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It's been a minute and it's okay.

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I don't care if it's done to me.

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I'm not really the benefit from it anyway.

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It's been a week to old, so it doesn't really matter.

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But it's not for me.

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So it's not a symbolic thing in the words of violence used.

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If you're going to do it, you're doing it for the right reason,

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because you want to show that we're willing to also take that.

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I'm not really, and I can't say like that.

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I'm not really taking the head because I'm too old, but he should have passed.

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Yes, he should have passed.

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But I am.

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But it's for your birthday.

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But it's a lifetime.

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But I'm taking his eye and I have no problem saying that that's something that we should do in light of what's going on.

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But we can take a look at the way from the front of the wall.

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Yeah, I just want to say, let's talk about the...

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You know, at the time of his own time,

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is that there was no indication at least for here, let me back out.

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In the tent, let's look at the towns of the way this is a corporation,

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but where your board of directors, the residents or the shareholders,

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and yours is CFO. At that time, it wasn't even a Toyota of an indication,

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and actually all the more fascinating that we were staring down at financial issues such as

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as big as what is being presented before us, right?

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So my issue is that moving forward, it is forward,

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thinking that it doesn't matter,

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because maybe won't affect 27,

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but what are the financial numbers

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of the projections moving forward

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as of the least of that particular action?

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I mean, that is early,

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or as recently as you say, is July.

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There was the 2025 financial board,

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which I reviewed, they July first,

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And it stinks and hears glowing.

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It's glowing about the state of affairs, the financial state of affairs of the town.

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So my question, I guess, is this?

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What happened?

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Yeah.

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I mean, it's only been.

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This was the line first.

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So what happened?

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That's what happened.

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That's what happened.

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What happened in one year?

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And we're staring at 16 million dollars.

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Okay.

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So first of all, I'll be happy to go through it line by line.

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I'll start with this.

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I've been saying for the last two years at least that it's very unlikely we were to stay

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under the tax cap.

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We could cut everything we possibly could.

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I've been saying that every budget meeting we've had publicly, whether anybody's been paying

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attention or not, I've been saying it's going to be exceptionally difficult to stay under

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the tax cap in the year ahead.

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That's been part of my presentation at least the last two years that I recall.

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Well, what we have been doing as a town policy is we had exceptional reserves, and we did,

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and as a matter of policy, we were paying down our reserves in a pay as you go policy with

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the town, so we put a lot of money on our capital projects that we would have ordinarily

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been bonding.

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We paid cash for, we did not fund for those projects. In addition, any surplus is that we had. We did the same thing. We returned it to the taxpayers by additional pay, any additional drain, and additional projects throughout the town.

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And as you can see, by the 57 vacant positions, it wasn't go higher people left than right. In fact, I would cut some positions that were returned into the budget over my objection.

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But to say that there's, oh, this is a fiscal crisis, it's not.

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We've just come to a point where for the last several years, we have paid down on reserves

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and we've had an increase in costs of operating the town that exceed the 2% tax cap and

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there's only so long you can continue to have expenses go up by 4, 5, 6%, and some light

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the tax cap at two or 2.3% when there's a growth factor in just to it.

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But after a certain period of time, the math doesn't add up any longer.

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The savings has gone down to, you know, we still have the fair amount of savings,

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but we're not where we were two or three years ago where we had savings to the point

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that would be criticized for holding out the tax payers money.

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Okay, so as a matter of policy, we paid that down, and that's where we're at now.

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We're not at a crisis.

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We're not a crisis.

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The memo address to the board of directors is that remaining under the tax cap, which

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by way, I happen to find, and I think that everybody in this table does, piercing it to

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be a very, very serious thing, okay?

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And that the assertion is that if we remain under it and don't pierce it, it's fiscal suicide

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for the town of Huntington.

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Yes.

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Moreover, you have been indicated that there's no circumstance that you look at on a final budget that we're using on the task.

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I'm characterizing that as work really facing a financial issue here.

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Because again, there wasn't a whisper of this.

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In fact, when it first came on, but the radar, if you will, or my radar anyway, was when it appeared kind of on the agenda item in June.

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And I remember I asked the workshop, I said, well, what am I doing?

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was brushed off as it was a mere administrative formality. It's just in case, I don't know. We went

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from that to now this where you're indicating what you've indicated that it's fiscal suicide

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you don't. So I guess what I want to know is what's happening here? Why is the first time any of this

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thing discussed with the Board of Directors from the CFO? Now, why did I get a lot of the panic

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emotional phone calls from work force saying, I think I'm losing my job.

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I'm like, what are you talking about?

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Why?

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What's going on?

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Well, I'm about.

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Okay, apply your empire.

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I can't pay attention for you, okay?

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You wouldn't even have a public loan.

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I don't even have a public loan.

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If you don't, you can actually ask the thing.

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So you would never...

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You wouldn't even have a public loan.

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You wouldn't even have a public loan in any way.

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That's your asset.

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That's your asset.

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That's your asset.

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To even discuss it.

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So when you say you won't even hold a public loan here, you can tell a graphic

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that you will not pierce the tax cap, which is fine, that you can do that. But if you say you're not going to pierce the tax cap, then you have to look at the consequences of that.

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And the consequence of that is with very small cuts to do to stay under the tax cap and also there's massive impact out in real world, where you have no seasonal employees, you have no part time employees, you have no temporary employees, and you've cut materials down to a bare minimum.

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And what that means is on the seasonal side, which again, they're relatively low cost and payroll for seasonal pay.

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You're talking lifeguards, camp counselors, you're talking folks that work at the golf course.

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These are low amounts of the payroll, but they have a huge impact on life out in town.

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But we have to cut them first for the contract.

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So you cut those, but it doesn't move the needle far enough.

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So you have to keep cutting and cutting and you have a massive impact

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for a very little gains on the budget.

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You have massive impact out of the hand.

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And that's why I said it's absurd to even think about staying under the tax cap this year.

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But that's a good question. Why is this the first time

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that as a board of directors, essentially, that's the first time I'm hearing about what we're

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staring down right now.

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I mean, you've been the CFO for five years.

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And I've been saying that we're likely going to pierce the tax gap I've said that for three

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years now in a row.

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Okay.

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And just a hundred hundred point about how many I don't subscribe to a low bar for public hearing.

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I actually...

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This is my own personal voice. If you feel that, as a town board member, when we schedule a public hearing, we're sending out a signal to the residents to the shareholder. That something is right and potentially ready to go.

340
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Well, I disagree completely.

341
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I don't think the low bar is right.

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We're either, but that's the general number.

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I understand.

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I understand why.

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I think the public to let them hear what's going on before any decisions are made.

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So I think the public here is important.

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But we can agree to disagree on the point.

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Why not five?

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I agree.

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Okay.

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And I'm a fire fire, actually.

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The reason that I was going to put a good note on the hearing.

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and it's a piece of text that is, I wanted the public presentation first, so that's why I

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as a postponate.

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Right, but I also asked all the school that procedurally we couldn't have the presentation

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as we clearly voted on it, and then some of you were.

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So just, like, no, but the truth is, that's exactly what I wanted all along.

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So I never said I wouldn't vote to pierce the text that ever, but once what I said was,

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I will not take that moment, so I think that the public has been properly informed

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about what we're thinking of doing with their tax dollars,

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why it's so challenging, what we can cut

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and what we've got so we can't.

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And then I'm just going to call it all in the second floor.

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All right, whoa.

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And then you can ask my guess that things we can cut thanks to.

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So what did I learn?

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So just looking at the sheet of paper that you've got,

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a couple of ideas that were thrown out there.

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We had, we'll go through the resolution number one.

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These were, these were ideas that were put on the table.

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So you're looking at a resolution for half the funding for outside agencies.

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Again, you want to save $388,000 doing that.

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The Result 2 would be the funding all appointed vacancies.

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That's we talked about that already.

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reducing the open space fund by a million dollars.

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You cut it from, currently it's at 1.5 million annually.

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Cut it down to 500,000.

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Removing funding for lead bags, that's a $300,000 savings.

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The million dollars was my adjustment that I just put in, you know, adding, you know,

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adding that million dollars into the refuse fund.

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We welcome the throw resolution back at me saying you're removing that.

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And then the bottom of the 300,000 is, again, that was the existing 100,000 plus the 200,000 that I added in for total 300,000 again.

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You can put a resolution in, removing that for special events.

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So those are just some of the ideas that they're put out there as for illustration.

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You can add as many more of them as you like.

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You can, I know you're talking about fees earlier, you can add in just the fee revenue as well.

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But as far as what is important to the board as a whole, where we're going to spend the town's money,

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those are policy decisions that, as a group we can decide on, what's important,

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what's more important than other things, what's most important, what's least important.

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So, that's, you know, I would say that leaf bags, you know, again, I, I, I don't know.

391
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I don't know.

392
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I don't know.

393
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No, but I, you know what I mean?

394
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Because it's my time, how before.

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What do you, I, I have, you know, listen, I,

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it's, it's something that, it was one of the first questions I had,

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when it was in the town council, because leaf bags, okay.

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But there's, there's a practice side to it as well, and it's not necessarily a 300,000,

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It costs the town free of $1,000 to provide the leaf bags.

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But then if we take that away, the leaves don't go away.

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The leaves are still there.

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So what winds up happening is the residents really

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that blood leaves into rake the leaves.

404
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That's the issue.

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Yeah.

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The leaves will suddenly wind up in the roadway in front of their house.

407
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And in addition to that, those leaves will be put into ordinary gardens.

408
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So just put them in and put them out with their regular garbage.

409
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So what happens now with those is they get sent to and believe.

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Power Crush.

411
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Yeah.

412
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Mr. Clark, excuse that power Crush?

413
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So they recycle.

414
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Yeah.

415
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I should go to the Omni.

416
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I'll leave.

417
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Okay.

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So those leave the leaves get put in the leaf bags that go to a separate garbage stream,

419
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which goes to a split with the Omni.

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Omni.

421
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And we they take those leads and turn it to the mulch and probably sell them back to us as well, you know, throw or you know

422
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But motion, your landscaping. But the point is it's taken out of the regular garbage stream, which, again, you can, the cost of collecting that garbage is either going to be collected through, leaf bags are collected at curbside waste. And I believe we're going to be paying more through curbside waste than we would for leaf bags. So again, it's a $300,000 top line savings of not buying those leaf bags.

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I think plastic in your face, by the way.

424
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Yeah, okay.

425
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So, it looks like this.

426
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It looks like we're going to have a plastic bag,

427
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something we'll need to see your cycles.

428
00:30:33,380 --> 00:30:35,080
And now you have all this plastic bags.

429
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:38,160
It's not, but we don't have any less things.

430
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We have this by the way.

431
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We don't need to have a plastic bag.

432
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But they're really nice, but it's not that easy.

433
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All the other words are, but look, my whole face is just around.

434
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I can carry on with that.

435
00:30:49,340 --> 00:30:50,920
Yeah, I've got that up from my health, right?

436
00:30:50,920 --> 00:30:51,280
Well, that's fine.

437
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Again, not saying we don't do it.

438
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I'm just saying that's like this.

439
00:30:54,920 --> 00:30:58,260
Yeah, there's a ripple effect on all these things.

440
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I think truth believe I would hold most people would be responsible enough and I know, you know.

441
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If we don't want to regulate people of regular people that the truth matters, some people are going to do wrong things.

442
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If you don't sound too good right thing, but in this case, I'm going to ask her for community.

443
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It's just a mess.

444
00:31:16,020 --> 00:31:16,760
It's just a mess.

445
00:31:16,900 --> 00:31:18,380
So now I don't have her, I'm sorry.

446
00:31:18,740 --> 00:31:19,860
You know, we can't support her.

447
00:31:20,060 --> 00:31:20,900
It's this fight.

448
00:31:21,120 --> 00:31:23,820
But doesn't you usually reflect your needs and it's not so bad.

449
00:31:23,820 --> 00:31:25,880
That's what I would say.

450
00:31:26,400 --> 00:31:30,120
So we can take a second and we can take comments.

451
00:31:30,420 --> 00:31:32,780
It's a workshop and I'm meeting on sorry.

452
00:31:33,200 --> 00:31:33,960
I'll talk to you after.

453
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:40,220
So anyway, these six resolutions were put in there as examples.

454
00:31:40,840 --> 00:31:41,160
Yeah, right.

455
00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:44,040
We can adjust up and downwards.

456
00:31:44,460 --> 00:31:46,020
It's now policy.

457
00:31:47,220 --> 00:31:48,940
And you know, I don't care.

458
00:31:48,940 --> 00:31:51,200
I said to the last time, Jenny, I said to the line,

459
00:31:51,260 --> 00:31:53,580
by line, things you have ideas for cuts for,

460
00:31:53,860 --> 00:31:55,020
I'm happy to do it.

461
00:31:55,060 --> 00:31:57,540
One of the things we have to balance it without BC2

462
00:31:57,540 --> 00:32:00,580
is both the services we offer, community,

463
00:32:00,920 --> 00:32:03,380
which make this a place people want to live,

464
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,640
which make for our house values go up.

465
00:32:06,180 --> 00:32:07,980
We don't have lifeguards,

466
00:32:08,420 --> 00:32:10,580
then we don't collect money for beach passes.

467
00:32:10,880 --> 00:32:13,940
So there's a lot of things we have to look at.

468
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:15,980
The SFO fund we used, some of that money,

469
00:32:16,060 --> 00:32:18,460
as I understand, they're also for the parking group

470
00:32:18,460 --> 00:32:24,360
for how beautiful of parks are. So maybe there's a way to cut it, but maybe it's not

471
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:28,020
five from 1,000, and maybe this is a different number we use, but that's something that

472
00:32:28,020 --> 00:32:33,020
we can talk about also. Yeah, no, when I start to have a conversation, because as far as I know,

473
00:32:33,160 --> 00:32:39,340
the open space fund is again, doing a private, loving, private, and changing a lot of that.

474
00:32:40,220 --> 00:32:45,780
But at my mistaken thinking that the open space fund, I've already had $12 million in the

475
00:32:45,780 --> 00:32:51,060
that's unspense and unallocated because if that's the case then for one year we skip

476
00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:55,060
that I mean obviously I thought that I'm not taking money from that. Why do you think

477
00:32:55,060 --> 00:32:58,860
I have a question about that year? You're Mark Stove? No, I'm Mark Stove? No, I'm Mark Stove.

478
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:01,540
And I spoke to one about it. What do you think of it?

479
00:33:02,300 --> 00:33:07,040
What happens is the only space committee makes recommendations right now for an annual basis

480
00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:08,860
as to how it did be of the money.

481
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:13,960
Okay. And right now the money that gets used up to most is the proper improvement.

482
00:33:14,700 --> 00:33:22,000
because part of the commitment is amazing and expensive, but the demand from the public for the

483
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:26,500
part of the commitment is very significant. Most of the money that is sitting right now in the

484
00:33:26,500 --> 00:33:32,880
US program is sitting there for open space acquisitions. That doesn't mean that you don't have

485
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:38,080
to write as a board to look at that and say, you know what, next year we're going to move some of

486
00:33:38,080 --> 00:33:41,160
from open space, put it in the floor.

487
00:33:41,880 --> 00:33:44,580
And then maybe like she said, don't collect a lot of money.

488
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:46,580
And this is a past practice.

489
00:33:47,020 --> 00:33:48,980
That's what has it done in his past.

490
00:33:50,100 --> 00:33:54,000
On the open space acquisition fund is in swirling away the money.

491
00:33:54,920 --> 00:33:57,100
So they make a big purchase because typically,

492
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,720
one year's worth of open space money is not going to buy one.

493
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,280
So you see years.

494
00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:07,480
It's pretty old here and there's so many pieces of funding, I thought it was right there.

495
00:34:07,580 --> 00:34:10,660
No, no, it was in there because there's a million things I don't have there.

496
00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:20,200
So I also think to, in educating the public too, helping us to see just the basic of this idea

497
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:21,760
of how this impacts everybody.

498
00:34:22,200 --> 00:34:26,360
So we have journalists to do it to show a task.

499
00:34:26,740 --> 00:34:29,200
So I just want to present that to everybody.

500
00:34:29,720 --> 00:34:30,880
Just give you a quick idea.

501
00:34:30,880 --> 00:34:35,680
So this is an average text that I have highlighted by the library.

502
00:34:36,140 --> 00:34:42,600
I highlighted the line at the town where it has a thaw ring over, which is, this is a

503
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:44,400
property that's located outside of the village.

504
00:34:44,840 --> 00:34:50,840
So this is a text where it has our general fun, part-town, street lighting, open spaces that

505
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:52,900
are included in this, and then a record statistic.

506
00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:58,000
The total town tax that's built is $1600.

507
00:34:58,000 --> 00:34:59,420
you like

508
00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:10,660
15% increase with people's prisoners of $7 dollars for $25 dollars and $60 per cent of them off to the tax bill.

509
00:35:10,920 --> 00:35:14,420
So this tax bill that comes to $14,000.

510
00:35:16,260 --> 00:35:18,320
Only $1,600,000. Only $1,600.

511
00:35:18,320 --> 00:35:20,800
Only $1,000. That you guys have authority.

512
00:35:20,800 --> 00:35:26,260
And I don't know that most people understand that that's the only portion of the bill that was

513
00:35:26,260 --> 00:35:32,740
talking about, it's not, it's not, it's not the 20th, you know, I met with a very smart lawyer

514
00:35:32,740 --> 00:35:38,840
friend of mine yesterday who had no idea that the increase of what you're talking about was an

515
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:43,740
unheard entire bill. And I don't think a lot of people understand that. So the only portion

516
00:35:43,740 --> 00:35:48,580
of the bill that's affected is the 1600. I'm not saying I'm not trying to minimize, I'm just,

517
00:35:48,580 --> 00:35:54,260
want to make sure that everybody understands that and I think it's important to understand it.

518
00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:59,920
And I brought that up last time. I'm $27,000 a sapper. It feels 2300 is the town.

519
00:36:00,420 --> 00:36:05,800
Yeah. Well, that's it. Our logos at the top of the bill and the Jillian Beckham collects those.

520
00:36:05,800 --> 00:36:09,760
How does it for the full amount? And it all goes to Jillian.

521
00:36:09,800 --> 00:36:10,120
Right.

522
00:36:11,600 --> 00:36:13,060
I mean, what are you doing, Jillian?

523
00:36:13,060 --> 00:36:18,540
All right, I'm going to correct you from one, but I think you'd be.

524
00:36:18,580 --> 00:36:23,460
Gillian got from our taxes to collect over, I think, $2 billion in two parts.

525
00:36:24,160 --> 00:36:29,520
The tax warrant is over $0.00. That's about 1.3.

526
00:36:31,220 --> 00:36:36,180
So that's the gross amount collected. We do not get to keep that money.

527
00:36:37,620 --> 00:36:42,020
It gets parceled out around the county into all the other tax and districts in the school district,

528
00:36:42,660 --> 00:36:47,080
the police department and all the line items that you see in the tax bill.

529
00:36:47,500 --> 00:36:50,060
It gets broken up to all of them.

530
00:36:50,300 --> 00:36:57,240
And the town gets to keep those portions that are pound or the highway tax or the lighting district.

531
00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:04,860
Those are the portions that we keep, which is just a fraction of any individual woman's tax bill.

532
00:37:04,860 --> 00:37:14,520
Even though, again, we, we get tagged with it because the town of Huntington is at the top of the bill and the town of Huntington tax receivers is the one that collects the money.

533
00:37:15,040 --> 00:37:16,840
But we don't get to keep all of it, so.

534
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:28,440
And looking at these, you know, potential, you know, even reducing the funding for our eight-to-aids, you know, I would love to have some idea of how that's going to affect that.

535
00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:32,520
That's going to be one actually that I would argue that we should back off of, frankly,

536
00:37:32,620 --> 00:37:35,460
I think our outside agencies, libraries, and everything.

537
00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:38,680
They're also going to hit with reduced revenue from other places.

538
00:37:39,400 --> 00:37:43,400
So I would hate to see those kinds of organizations suffer because of that.

539
00:37:43,520 --> 00:37:48,360
And I don't think that, you know, I've had a tip to reach out to them and then take out the outside.

540
00:37:48,380 --> 00:37:49,240
So I don't...

541
00:37:49,240 --> 00:37:49,640
I don't think so.

542
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:50,560
I don't think so.

543
00:37:50,840 --> 00:37:51,060
I don't think so.

544
00:37:51,060 --> 00:38:01,340
real simply and say, I am advocating and we're robbing all of you for a fully funded budget.

545
00:38:02,320 --> 00:38:06,660
And keep in mind, just because we budget for it doesn't require us to spend it next year,

546
00:38:07,300 --> 00:38:18,380
but to take not always to take this year's budget and roll it forward with what the actual cost are going to be to do that.

547
00:38:18,380 --> 00:38:20,160
And that to me is it is a responsible,

548
00:38:20,160 --> 00:38:21,720
physically responsible budget.

549
00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:23,440
That means change this to yourself.

550
00:38:23,740 --> 00:38:27,180
Without those things now, if we want to put those up,

551
00:38:27,180 --> 00:38:30,080
line out and vote on those to take them out,

552
00:38:30,160 --> 00:38:31,900
or we don't have to do the outside agencies,

553
00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:35,860
or we can ask for by a percentage, or all of them.

554
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:40,340
Whatever the case may be, those customizations, if you will.

555
00:38:41,420 --> 00:38:42,860
We can do that as well.

556
00:38:43,540 --> 00:38:48,360
But that's when you're getting into one of the policies

557
00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:56,160
priorities of the town. And that's what we're here to do. But what I'm advocating for right

558
00:38:56,160 --> 00:39:04,120
now is to take this year's budget, roll it forward to 27, and add whatever the projected

559
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:10,900
increase in cost is. That's where we go. And then if we don't spend it, we decide between now

560
00:39:10,900 --> 00:39:14,480
and then that we're not going to spend it on certain things. We don't.

561
00:39:14,480 --> 00:39:17,040
Here's a question, what structural reforms are going to be

562
00:39:17,040 --> 00:39:19,480
couldn't place to ensure that we're not sitting in these seats.

563
00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:21,300
I'm going to say, in the same time of discussion in the future.

564
00:39:21,980 --> 00:39:22,180
Yeah.

565
00:39:22,520 --> 00:39:24,700
Well, that's going to be up to the town board to decide.

566
00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:26,460
I mean, that's now you're going to get the policy.

567
00:39:26,800 --> 00:39:29,640
Like, you know, yes, I'm going to cheat by Angela Officer,

568
00:39:29,820 --> 00:39:33,540
but I'm also, as Dr. Bruno and I say,

569
00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:35,540
I'm more of a prime minister than a CEO,

570
00:39:36,180 --> 00:39:38,480
because my vote is equal to each event.

571
00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:39,420
Okay.

572
00:39:39,420 --> 00:39:41,300
So I don't have a veto over anything.

573
00:39:42,060 --> 00:39:42,860
I can't.

574
00:39:42,860 --> 00:39:50,600
I can only do what we collectively all five of us decide and have three votes to do, you know, so while, you know,

575
00:39:50,760 --> 00:39:58,580
well, I think, yes, you know, that in title on the chief executive and title on the chief financial officer in practice.

576
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:05,280
Can I just jump in real quick because I want to duck down at what you said about the outside agencies?

577
00:40:05,960 --> 00:40:15,860
So I have a finger on inspector. Hortime. She makes $22,000 a year. For that $22,000 a year, the town makes $47,000.

578
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:27,020
But seven groups that have been made a million dollars. These are groups like little shelter, churches, the Knights of Columbus.

579
00:40:27,020 --> 00:40:35,060
And if I lose, because she's part time, so as for the people of color contrast, if I have to fire her,

580
00:40:35,460 --> 00:40:41,000
Bingo will go the way it has in most other towns. Most towns don't allow Bingo.

581
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:46,480
Huntington is one of the few towns that allows Bingo. Because it's a revenue gentleman.

582
00:40:47,260 --> 00:40:53,180
But that's a million dollars that these outside organizations lose for 22,000 dollars.

583
00:40:53,180 --> 00:40:55,840
No, and that's totally, this is a cost of telling you what.

584
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,080
Honey, since it's a big yellow cap, a lot of one I want.

585
00:40:58,360 --> 00:40:58,560
Correct.

586
00:40:58,880 --> 00:41:00,000
And you just like the kisses.

587
00:41:00,120 --> 00:41:00,700
The kisses.

588
00:41:01,060 --> 00:41:01,480
My hand.

589
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,660
I was not looking to get rid of any of our staff.

590
00:41:05,220 --> 00:41:05,500
Absolutely.

591
00:41:05,920 --> 00:41:07,640
You know what I want that you should have to be in.

592
00:41:07,680 --> 00:41:08,300
No, exactly.

593
00:41:08,940 --> 00:41:08,960
Actually.

594
00:41:09,080 --> 00:41:10,680
That's why I was in the outside.

595
00:41:10,940 --> 00:41:11,520
You can see that.

596
00:41:11,740 --> 00:41:12,020
It's not.

597
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:13,000
I'm going to go that way.

598
00:41:13,180 --> 00:41:15,200
I'm going to let your both of us.

599
00:41:15,480 --> 00:41:15,720
But no.

600
00:41:15,920 --> 00:41:17,160
What is under the umbrella?

601
00:41:17,780 --> 00:41:18,560
I don't know.

602
00:41:18,760 --> 00:41:19,100
Where's it?

603
00:41:19,280 --> 00:41:20,720
Right here.

604
00:41:21,060 --> 00:41:22,380
So about home full of those.

605
00:41:22,380 --> 00:41:24,160
It absolutely is one more in design.

606
00:41:24,600 --> 00:41:25,040
It's from the museum.

607
00:41:25,240 --> 00:41:26,120
What has the museum?

608
00:41:26,180 --> 00:41:28,460
It's from the museum.

609
00:41:29,620 --> 00:41:32,240
The museum is called the Whale Museum.

610
00:41:33,060 --> 00:41:34,500
The museum is called the Graviate Boys.

611
00:41:34,840 --> 00:41:35,620
It's one whole page.

612
00:41:36,740 --> 00:41:37,620
They think it's your name.

613
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,520
Because I don't know the name of the museum right here.

614
00:41:40,620 --> 00:41:41,360
Here it is.

615
00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:42,540
That's the second whole.

616
00:41:43,420 --> 00:41:43,500
Yeah.

617
00:41:44,400 --> 00:41:45,100
That's the reason.

618
00:41:45,300 --> 00:41:46,500
It's the second part of the museum.

619
00:41:46,500 --> 00:41:47,560
We're going to have a hard work.

620
00:41:47,900 --> 00:41:48,080
Okay.

621
00:41:48,360 --> 00:41:49,260
I think it's your name.

622
00:41:49,260 --> 00:41:53,220
this again, Sarah, I'm sorry, you can see these are the things that you're on in some special.

623
00:41:53,740 --> 00:41:58,580
Right, one right. And again, if you're talking about costing somebody a $22,000 job,

624
00:41:58,680 --> 00:42:02,040
it's not going to cost us an review. Well, then that doesn't make any sense.

625
00:42:02,240 --> 00:42:03,360
Right, yes.

626
00:42:04,000 --> 00:42:04,140
Yes.

627
00:42:04,140 --> 00:42:04,640
It's going to be, yes.

628
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:05,800
You think about the process.

629
00:42:06,220 --> 00:42:06,700
Has it been done?

630
00:42:07,240 --> 00:42:08,080
Has it been done?

631
00:42:08,560 --> 00:42:08,840
Has it been done?

632
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:16,520
Has it been done?

633
00:42:16,980 --> 00:42:17,640
Has it been done?

634
00:42:18,140 --> 00:42:18,220
Has it been done?

635
00:42:18,220 --> 00:42:19,140
Has it been done?

636
00:42:19,140 --> 00:42:21,240
But we really shouldn't have had that revision of funding.

637
00:42:21,720 --> 00:42:25,060
We may not be able to have the Pearson tax again,

638
00:42:25,080 --> 00:42:26,400
in order to restore that funding.

639
00:42:27,220 --> 00:42:28,860
And the way that we also got to get to some things

640
00:42:28,860 --> 00:42:31,080
to think about is that when we were debudging the fund,

641
00:42:31,300 --> 00:42:33,600
the supervisor has said before is that we have been using

642
00:42:34,160 --> 00:42:38,440
our underserved reserves, we have won a lot of our projects

643
00:42:38,440 --> 00:42:40,020
here in the South, we haven't been so forth.

644
00:42:40,220 --> 00:42:41,140
We have a snowstorm.

645
00:42:41,540 --> 00:42:44,300
Now we want to personal, but we haven't had snow for years.

646
00:42:44,840 --> 00:42:47,100
That was the expense that was on the account work.

647
00:42:47,100 --> 00:42:51,220
We used our savings instead of taking money for debt services and so forth.

648
00:42:51,780 --> 00:42:57,480
So, these are reasons that we don't know what our 20-price will look like yet.

649
00:42:57,700 --> 00:43:01,320
But as we don't do cutting S-pop partners, funding is as I used to see.

650
00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:02,660
When we say, you know what?

651
00:43:02,660 --> 00:43:05,180
These things are truly tuning it for S-pop, you know what?

652
00:43:05,680 --> 00:43:10,740
There's money there, but we really should put more money in, so there's really no cost to arrest them.

653
00:43:10,900 --> 00:43:15,760
So, we need to do the same situation again, and we have to resort these things.

654
00:43:15,760 --> 00:43:30,900
So, because I think it was worth, because that's exactly, and we've all to respect, that's how I'm bringing this up of what structural forms can we put in place, that is to the most reasonable degree of certainty, we're not sitting in this, because some of these things that came up and they didn't fall off the turn of the class.

655
00:43:30,900 --> 00:43:33,720
You know, I worked before I was sat in the seat.

656
00:43:34,080 --> 00:43:36,060
I worked in town walls in the earlier days.

657
00:43:36,660 --> 00:43:38,200
You know, certain things that you come down and put.

658
00:43:38,640 --> 00:43:39,720
So that's what I'm saying.

659
00:43:39,860 --> 00:43:43,620
How can we make sure, to visible degrees, certainty,

660
00:43:44,800 --> 00:43:48,280
that that we're not sitting and having to talk to our shareholders

661
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:51,100
as well as again about this.

662
00:43:51,920 --> 00:43:53,480
So, I mean, maybe I can't do this.

663
00:43:53,620 --> 00:43:55,060
I mean, now, but I definitely...

664
00:43:55,060 --> 00:43:56,240
I know that.

665
00:43:56,680 --> 00:43:57,920
You know, I wasn't here for this.

666
00:43:59,460 --> 00:44:06,660
But this is kind of an unpacking, and this is shows the $40 of items that we had in

667
00:44:06,660 --> 00:44:11,380
appropriate for the year, and to assert that something we don't have to do with it.

668
00:44:11,900 --> 00:44:19,540
So, it doesn't necessarily look at say, well, we can control salaries of contractual, we can't

669
00:44:19,540 --> 00:44:20,480
control business in crisis.

670
00:44:21,080 --> 00:44:24,520
Well, but we can forget because that's contractual.

671
00:44:24,520 --> 00:44:27,760
All right, but these are the things that are right,

672
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:32,500
structural is a class of course, I'm sorry if you have a tool.

673
00:44:32,620 --> 00:44:34,660
But that doesn't mean that we should control better.

674
00:44:35,820 --> 00:44:39,440
So whoever's come, mean again, you were in a wrong part right here.

675
00:44:39,620 --> 00:44:40,500
You don't have a problem that is.

676
00:44:40,500 --> 00:44:40,880
I do.

677
00:44:41,720 --> 00:44:42,780
But that's what you just mentioned.

678
00:44:43,020 --> 00:44:43,320
That's the 10 on that.

679
00:44:43,320 --> 00:44:43,880
So that's what you just mentioned.

680
00:44:44,580 --> 00:44:47,480
So John, that's exactly what I'm trying to bring to the table

681
00:44:47,480 --> 00:44:49,800
and for us to try to figure out

682
00:44:50,180 --> 00:44:54,040
How do we need to, again, I'm kidding, it's not pretty sure, it's reasonable to be a certainty.

683
00:44:54,720 --> 00:44:58,780
Budget for these things when we're forward, making sure that we're doing this, finding it like this.

684
00:45:01,520 --> 00:45:25,800
So, on the begin, put up, is the motion to rise your hands, the roll up, the roll over the 19% that bleeds its account over to be budgeted for over time. We went to working in a realcy, because knowing into this next budget, that we can't utilize our fundals, our unrestricted fundals to fund these things, we have to pay for that, that's quite a question.

685
00:45:25,800 --> 00:45:29,080
So you know, it seems very odd, and I know that $16.60,

686
00:45:29,100 --> 00:45:30,080
90% of them.

687
00:45:30,340 --> 00:45:31,980
You're talking about, it's actually a homeowner.

688
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:32,860
Money's money.

689
00:45:33,540 --> 00:45:35,120
But if you dollars, it's paying that back.

690
00:45:35,300 --> 00:45:38,440
You're talking about, because if you look at the court, it's based by now,

691
00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:39,940
because it will wish you.

692
00:45:39,940 --> 00:45:41,880
You're resin, and our resin is paying $16.

693
00:45:42,660 --> 00:45:43,560
This is because it's a program.

694
00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:46,180
But if you're talking, you're going to have to pay.

695
00:45:46,260 --> 00:45:47,720
And you say there's, you're going to have to pay back.

696
00:45:47,980 --> 00:45:48,680
You'll be aware of it, too.

697
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:49,240
You have it.

698
00:45:49,240 --> 00:45:50,760
Based on the laws, I'm not going to do it.

699
00:45:50,820 --> 00:45:51,160
Pretty fair.

700
00:45:51,300 --> 00:45:52,460
So there's a homeowner.

701
00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:53,860
It may not have it.

702
00:45:53,860 --> 00:45:58,060
I think for some homeowners, if we see negligible, the fair bloodler homeowners, I would think

703
00:45:58,060 --> 00:46:00,200
to go to be a make or break, I don't know.

704
00:46:01,200 --> 00:46:06,640
I think there are homeowners, but in the Huntington that even a small amount of dollars is

705
00:46:06,640 --> 00:46:10,340
going to affect fair budget in a profound way.

706
00:46:10,420 --> 00:46:15,160
But as one of the best things, the first thing, the way to be budget is counter everything.

707
00:46:16,100 --> 00:46:21,360
So if we don't, and the prescription things, and they're on the road, they're unforeseen things.

708
00:46:21,360 --> 00:46:27,440
Again, we can't utilize funds, we only have to sort out a lot of things we've got to ask you.

709
00:46:28,100 --> 00:46:35,420
And just to be clear on our reserves, while we say we've paid it down, we've taken out of our reserves.

710
00:46:35,860 --> 00:46:39,860
We're still, I think it's 61 million in reserve funds in total.

711
00:46:42,180 --> 00:46:50,360
We still have a very healthy reserve balance, but it gets to a point where we're...

712
00:46:51,720 --> 00:46:54,840
From an operational standpoint, you get the lower line of comfort.

713
00:46:55,320 --> 00:46:58,320
And quite frankly, there are already agencies have certain reserves.

714
00:46:58,540 --> 00:47:00,600
They want to see that we have for town of the size.

715
00:47:01,260 --> 00:47:05,820
But when you look at one big storm,

716
00:47:06,220 --> 00:47:09,980
by Isaiah, I think that was about eight million dollars.

717
00:47:10,320 --> 00:47:12,100
Well, they're starting to put down the spot there.

718
00:47:12,680 --> 00:47:17,840
But that was a huge number to the town.

719
00:47:17,840 --> 00:47:28,760
You know, we came out of nowhere, and so while we said, you know, we have $25 million in reserve and this account that could disappear very, very quickly with one good, you know, two good storms that were done.

720
00:47:29,380 --> 00:47:37,840
So yeah, so yeah, so, you know, so, well, you know what, we brought our reserves down, we haven't depleted them, I just want to make that point.

721
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:46,360
We're at a point now where it's like, okay, I'm not comfortable to continue to pay as you go and pay cash for improvements around the town.

722
00:47:46,360 --> 00:47:54,820
I don't want to get the reserves in the fact that I think the budget that I'm proposing is replenishing those reserves.

723
00:47:55,440 --> 00:47:56,780
But anyway, that's...

724
00:47:56,780 --> 00:48:02,220
Isn't it the case that movies actually looked at all this and they're not much happy about the reserves we've been doing?

725
00:48:02,400 --> 00:48:02,820
Is it?

726
00:48:02,820 --> 00:48:04,420
And our bond really could be getting affected?

727
00:48:04,780 --> 00:48:05,920
Yeah, we go much lower.

728
00:48:06,460 --> 00:48:09,980
We're at that line where we continue to deplete reserves.

729
00:48:10,780 --> 00:48:15,280
We've got the point now where our reserve funds are about as low as they want to see them.

730
00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:18,560
Because other than that, we'd become a little bit of a threat risk.

731
00:48:18,840 --> 00:48:19,520
But we're not.

732
00:48:19,760 --> 00:48:21,260
We still have a AAA bomb rating this time.

733
00:48:21,560 --> 00:48:24,780
What's our timeline for like, you know, on the new?

734
00:48:24,820 --> 00:48:25,180
I don't know.

735
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,820
When do we need to vote on piercing the tax cap?

736
00:48:28,060 --> 00:48:29,360
So we need to do that.

737
00:48:29,640 --> 00:48:30,160
How are we?

738
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:31,340
Like moving forward?

739
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:33,060
Because I know there was a question about a meeting,

740
00:48:33,300 --> 00:48:34,360
and I told her, which I'm sorry.

741
00:48:34,460 --> 00:48:35,520
I haven't responded to yet.

742
00:48:35,580 --> 00:48:39,260
No, so I can turn it into work, actually.

743
00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:40,620
Anybody can correct that.

744
00:48:40,620 --> 00:48:41,440
I have the dates on.

745
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:43,280
So by September 30th,

746
00:48:43,280 --> 00:48:50,420
Yes, I have to present a preliminary budget, you have a public meeting to all of you

747
00:48:50,420 --> 00:48:57,580
To me and I give it to the clerk and the clerk gives it to you

748
00:48:57,580 --> 00:49:02,920
So and that has to so I actually presented to the clerk by September 30th and then from September 30th

749
00:49:02,920 --> 00:49:07,880
He has five days of leaves to present it to each of you and then between September look

750
00:49:08,760 --> 00:49:18,940
We'll go back to October 5th, okay, if it goes all five days, so from October 5th until November 20th,

751
00:49:19,040 --> 00:49:24,020
which is the last final day for state law that can have an adopted final budget.

752
00:49:24,180 --> 00:49:30,200
But realistically we do it, the first, we have scheduled public meetings the first week in November,

753
00:49:31,260 --> 00:49:35,260
which is when we go through our budget and we'll make amendments and adopt it.

754
00:49:35,260 --> 00:49:42,900
But those are the hard dates are September 30th and five days to September 30th.

755
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:44,460
I give it to the clerk.

756
00:49:45,100 --> 00:49:46,240
You will get it.

757
00:49:46,340 --> 00:49:46,840
It's same second.

758
00:49:47,300 --> 00:49:48,380
Yeah, I'm going to have a first.

759
00:49:48,680 --> 00:49:48,920
I'm going to have a first.

760
00:49:48,920 --> 00:49:49,380
I'm going to have a first.

761
00:49:49,380 --> 00:49:50,280
So where is the first?

762
00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:51,300
Yes.

763
00:49:51,640 --> 00:49:53,040
So we will be moving on the center.

764
00:49:53,340 --> 00:49:54,100
I'm coming to the center.

765
00:49:55,060 --> 00:49:57,500
No, but here's a practical matter.

766
00:49:58,420 --> 00:49:59,980
If we don't vote, it appears to be tough.

767
00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:07,360
The last four hours, there's at least eight or ten days of work that has to go into actually preparing the act of budget.

768
00:50:07,380 --> 00:50:21,620
Ministerial work of preparing the budget so it's not like we can say on September 29. Okay, prepare this budget because there's so many cascading spreadsheets that have to put together.

769
00:50:21,620 --> 00:50:25,960
You know, Sabrino have a part of that.

770
00:50:29,180 --> 00:50:36,620
So, as a practical matter, that's why we're looking at September 15th at the board meeting,

771
00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:40,860
put a resolution on to say, okay, Pierce attacks, Aberdon Pierce attacks.

772
00:50:41,120 --> 00:50:45,420
If we don't hear, if the vote does not go through to Pierce attacks, that by law,

773
00:50:45,620 --> 00:50:47,800
I have to present a budget that doesn't Pierce attacks.

774
00:50:47,800 --> 00:50:48,360
Right.

775
00:50:49,220 --> 00:50:50,660
No, I understand that.

776
00:50:51,060 --> 00:50:51,560
And that's...

777
00:50:51,560 --> 00:50:51,940
And that's...

778
00:50:51,940 --> 00:50:52,240
Yeah.

779
00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:53,420
Yeah.

780
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:55,640
And then...

781
00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:58,100
That has to be presented at some September 15th, so like...

782
00:50:58,100 --> 00:50:58,960
No, no, no.

783
00:50:58,960 --> 00:51:00,200
It has to be...

784
00:51:00,200 --> 00:51:01,620
By September 30th.

785
00:51:01,800 --> 00:51:03,920
But the only schedule meeting, I mean...

786
00:51:03,920 --> 00:51:04,480
We could...

787
00:51:04,480 --> 00:51:04,960
I mean, if we...

788
00:51:05,440 --> 00:51:08,140
If it doesn't go at September, we didn't schedule meeting on the...

789
00:51:08,140 --> 00:51:11,280
Special meeting on the 16th, 17th, 18th, all the way through the...

790
00:51:11,280 --> 00:51:11,820
The 30th.

791
00:51:12,180 --> 00:51:12,500
And...

792
00:51:12,500 --> 00:51:12,680
Right.

793
00:51:12,960 --> 00:51:13,100
You know.

794
00:51:14,860 --> 00:51:20,260
And just with a drink, we're going to put it at the next upcoming meeting or if we were scheduling an extra meeting.

795
00:51:21,380 --> 00:51:22,720
You can do it right now if you'd like.

796
00:51:23,020 --> 00:51:23,980
No, it's good, all right.

797
00:51:25,200 --> 00:51:30,040
But again, the first vote is not a vote on the budget itself.

798
00:51:30,500 --> 00:51:35,100
It's just a yes note to actually prepare a budget that exceeds the tax cap.

799
00:51:35,540 --> 00:51:36,800
That's the step one.

800
00:51:36,800 --> 00:51:48,660
And then once that is done, then I can, I say, I think, control is also, do the happy lifting

801
00:51:48,660 --> 00:51:49,300
of actually.

802
00:51:51,000 --> 00:51:55,240
So we're able to do the happy lifting of actually getting the spreadsheets together, getting

803
00:51:55,240 --> 00:51:59,960
producing a budget that you actually need to familiar with.

804
00:51:59,960 --> 00:52:11,140
So, that's the rough time when, again, in terms of putting together special meetings that we can do that on me, I think it's about 48 hours notice.

805
00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,960
Yeah, 48 hours notice, so that's the...

806
00:52:14,960 --> 00:52:15,760
Try not to do that.

807
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:19,780
Yeah, actually, because I think it's a fairly important point of why we're sitting here.

808
00:52:20,040 --> 00:52:22,140
And it doesn't matter if it doesn't, it doesn't.

809
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:24,260
No, it's that.

810
00:52:24,260 --> 00:52:29,300
because what the will be, it gets posted on the website and what we have to do is notify

811
00:52:29,300 --> 00:52:31,220
the one paper of record.

812
00:52:33,560 --> 00:52:33,960
So.

813
00:52:33,960 --> 00:52:34,020
Okay.

814
00:52:34,380 --> 00:52:35,700
So that's not what they'll do.

815
00:52:36,560 --> 00:52:37,680
That's all, that's all.

816
00:52:37,740 --> 00:52:38,000
That's all.

817
00:52:38,260 --> 00:52:39,980
Alright, again, all right.

818
00:52:40,240 --> 00:52:43,880
This is not the perfect, but again, the value of self with the controllers office.

819
00:52:44,080 --> 00:52:46,080
Any of the directors, any of the deputy.

820
00:52:46,520 --> 00:52:47,140
Yeah, so.

821
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:48,200
Open, open.

822
00:52:48,840 --> 00:52:50,860
If I can do the systems, I'll be happy to do it.

823
00:52:51,700 --> 00:52:52,100
Good.

824
00:52:53,180 --> 00:52:57,060
Yeah, John Clark, or director of environmental waste management.

825
00:52:57,840 --> 00:52:59,420
I don't mind what it is, probably.

826
00:52:59,960 --> 00:53:07,420
In my prior life, I was like, you know, what I did overrated with this.

827
00:53:08,060 --> 00:53:11,380
I can tell you that one of the things that it believes in reality,

828
00:53:11,740 --> 00:53:13,280
we have large contracts.

829
00:53:14,100 --> 00:53:16,260
And we have extensions to each contract.

830
00:53:16,580 --> 00:53:21,060
We try to manage a budget in that 2% into an 1%.

831
00:53:21,060 --> 00:53:27,540
and you have escalation causes that are based on various CPI indexes, like we do the

832
00:53:27,540 --> 00:53:28,040
grid work.

833
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:33,460
Like we do with our current side of collections, and those renewals come in and in

834
00:53:33,460 --> 00:53:37,180
more than half, we're five percent on a CPI index.

835
00:53:37,720 --> 00:53:43,660
You have to have operating expenses that increase, you have 33 million dollar budget in the

836
00:53:43,660 --> 00:53:51,580
report about itself, you go up 5% in that sort of list of significant peace of the total increase

837
00:53:51,580 --> 00:53:52,560
of the capital budget.

838
00:53:52,980 --> 00:53:58,040
So, you know how that, you have the highest, I think, the inflation rate that we've had

839
00:53:58,040 --> 00:54:02,820
in the last few years, I'm going to try to improve our infrastructure.

840
00:54:03,020 --> 00:54:10,100
We have access, this extreme plan is probably a $100 million asset, believe it or not.

841
00:54:10,180 --> 00:54:11,880
That's not the replacement cost.

842
00:54:11,880 --> 00:54:13,660
That's the value of the asset.

843
00:54:14,060 --> 00:54:25,860
When you're managing capital assets, there are percentages that you need to contribute every year to that asset to maintain it, so that you're not reacting to emergency situations.

844
00:54:26,460 --> 00:54:33,380
So you're maintaining the asset, that's two and a half to three percent on any capital asset that's two and a half to three million dollars a year.

845
00:54:33,380 --> 00:54:38,000
We're not spending that at the point, we're trying to keep it up and control the back of the matters.

846
00:54:38,320 --> 00:54:45,360
As those assets grown about you, the annual expenses that you have to incur, you maintain that asset, increases.

847
00:54:45,960 --> 00:54:47,940
And then the other thing is, let go of it.

848
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:53,400
I'm a Christian at a great little world. The other side of the coin is, and we look at it, we have the remedial as well.

849
00:54:53,860 --> 00:54:59,880
When you have to go in there to replace aging and destruction, you have to find and support your bonds.

850
00:55:00,590 --> 00:55:09,650
We should log into the patient's own, you know, the cost of the principal interest repayment every year, goes into your actual operating class.

851
00:55:10,310 --> 00:55:24,710
What used to be 10% and bring one more district, quickly became 20%. We had a 10 million dollar budget, but 2 million dollars, that was basically financing debt on projects that we had to take on, and the same thing happened to the council.

852
00:55:24,710 --> 00:55:30,550
So it's not an easy environment, I respect everything that the hotel board does, because

853
00:55:30,550 --> 00:55:31,570
it really is tough.

854
00:55:31,730 --> 00:55:32,610
I mean, it's a corporation.

855
00:55:33,130 --> 00:55:33,710
It's a large corporation.

856
00:55:34,670 --> 00:55:40,690
When you're looking at 260 million dollars, it's a lot of those outside factors that we really

857
00:55:40,690 --> 00:55:45,290
don't have like control over CPI increases that are based on contract renewal.

858
00:55:45,790 --> 00:55:48,230
It's also possible that we do the best of time.

859
00:55:50,030 --> 00:55:50,610
Thank you.

860
00:55:51,190 --> 00:55:51,790
Thank you.

861
00:55:51,790 --> 00:55:51,910
Thank you.

862
00:55:52,210 --> 00:55:52,810
All right.

863
00:55:52,810 --> 00:55:55,810
And then we also start working.

864
00:55:57,510 --> 00:55:58,930
And motion close.

865
00:55:59,350 --> 00:56:00,010
We pull that.

866
00:56:00,030 --> 00:56:02,350
I'll just send that to me.

867
00:56:02,790 --> 00:56:04,950
We question your ability to pull that.

868
00:56:06,050 --> 00:56:06,070
Me.

869
00:56:06,390 --> 00:56:08,210
We're at the end of the year.

870
00:56:08,870 --> 00:56:09,250
That's that.

871
00:56:09,470 --> 00:56:11,270
So if you have a specific relationship,

872
00:56:11,530 --> 00:56:13,190
a doctor or a doctor or a little kid,

873
00:56:13,330 --> 00:56:15,630
so you're going to push it to five in a second.

874
00:56:16,110 --> 00:56:16,170
Okay.

875
00:56:16,350 --> 00:56:17,130
That's the way to let us know.

876
00:56:17,730 --> 00:56:18,590
And then if you need,

877
00:56:18,610 --> 00:56:20,350
there's a five in our left hand.

878
00:56:20,350 --> 00:56:22,910
You can pay the TTA and you can pay whatever it is.

879
00:56:23,050 --> 00:56:24,050
So you can pay it for yourself.

880
00:56:24,570 --> 00:56:24,730
Okay.

881
00:56:25,850 --> 00:56:26,150
All right.

882
00:56:26,430 --> 00:56:26,550
All right.

883
00:56:26,550 --> 00:56:26,750
All right.

884
00:56:26,750 --> 00:56:26,830
All right.

885
00:56:27,210 --> 00:56:27,270
All right.

886
00:56:27,270 --> 00:56:27,930
All right.

887
00:56:31,910 --> 00:56:33,990
I can buzz in and buzz out.

888
00:56:34,570 --> 00:56:35,610
Please pay for this budget.

889
00:56:36,350 --> 00:56:38,370
You know, looks like we.

890
00:56:38,530 --> 00:56:39,910
It looks like we're supposed to pay for this.

891
00:56:39,910 --> 00:56:40,170
Okay.

892
00:56:40,170 --> 00:56:41,190
Give it a good.

893
00:56:41,630 --> 00:56:41,950
Okay.

894
00:56:42,530 --> 00:56:42,670
Okay.

895
00:56:42,670 --> 00:56:43,870
So he then turns around.

896
00:56:44,470 --> 00:56:45,190
He walks down the line.

897
00:56:45,310 --> 00:56:46,130
He gives it everybody else.

898
00:56:46,690 --> 00:56:47,990
I will read there.

899
00:56:48,450 --> 00:56:50,270
The only thing that caught my sister's out.

900
00:56:50,270 --> 00:56:53,090
surgery, so something goes wrong?

901
00:56:53,250 --> 00:56:54,390
Nothing's wrong.

902
00:56:55,410 --> 00:56:55,890
All right.

903
00:56:55,890 --> 00:56:56,030
I love you.

904
00:56:56,510 --> 00:56:57,050
I love you.

905
00:56:57,530 --> 00:56:57,890
I love you.

906
00:56:57,890 --> 00:56:58,130
I love you.

907
00:56:58,630 --> 00:57:01,010
All right.

908
00:57:01,230 --> 00:57:02,470
Most of the girls in the world.

909
00:57:02,570 --> 00:57:02,810
Second.

910
00:57:03,110 --> 00:57:03,630
All the papers.

911
00:57:04,250 --> 00:57:05,170
Any vote?

912
00:57:05,670 --> 00:57:05,930
All right.

913
00:57:06,350 --> 00:57:06,770
Good job.