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So I'd like to challenge staff to come back with even less than 6.4948, given the fact that, as our residents have stated, many people have come back and said that there's fluff.
And based on that million-dollar lawsuit that never came to fruition, as well as the Amazon giveback, there is fluff in there that we need to be accounting for.
One of the questions that I had asked in the workshop was about looking into the option of selling the utility off, because as we've seen, these rate increases become very political, and so we do see where there may have been some challenges experienced by the utility over the years due to political pressure.
Because it says that if somebody's not present, that they can, after making reasonable effort to locate the owner or other persons having charge or control of the property and request entry, explaining the reason, therefore, if entry is refused or cannot be obtained because the owner or other person having charge or control of the party cannot be found after due diligence, the animal control officer or authorized rep…
Because, obviously, for second year audits, whenever we switch firms is probably going to elevate the cost a little bit.
I just wanted to say that you guys are currently in district four and I will be sad to see you
So we have kids that are walking across the street, which is a busy street, down the street, and then back about a quarter mile because they have to go down beyond the school to come back because there is no connectivity.
And do we need to take a look at the projects that we have on the books and look at the ones that are not encumbered and can't be moved, but the other projects that are discretionary, and determine does that still fit the need of the city?
And I would love it if we would look at potentially using some of those CDBG funds, as we've talked in the past, kind of partnering with nonprofits to look at opportunities to use some of that funding to help bring shelters into our community.
And he has been participating in a lot of events that we are afforded the ability to participate in through Team Volusia because Team Volusia pays the large sums of monies for the membership in various organizations.
And that's why my concern was making sure that we would be abiding by the statute that requires anybody who has signing authority over $35,000 to have filled out Form 1.
So the residents should expect to see a very considerable amount of improvement in our community in the next 12 months based on the amount of money we are collecting.