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The Infomaniacs: August 20, 2026 (8:00am) · WTAW - Infomaniacs

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Speaker 1: Go to Pioneerboys dot com. From the WTAW newsroom. Good morning,
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Speaker 1: I'm Will Welch. The Brian Police Department are investigating the
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Speaker 1: discovery of skeletal remains. The remains were found in the
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Speaker 1: fifty nine hundred block of Jones Road by a surveying crew.
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Speaker 1: They were located near what appears to be a homeless encampment.
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Speaker 1: The condition of the remains is poor and they have
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Speaker 1: been unable to determine the identity or sex. The investigation
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Speaker 1: is active and ongoing. A man was arrested in College
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Speaker 1: Station after approaching two girls while they were painting their
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Speaker 1: high school parking spaces on Tuesday. The girls called police
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Speaker 1: day and him consolidated high school after they say the
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Speaker 1: man would not leave them alone and made them feel uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: Thirty six year old Bob Esquibble says he was trying
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Speaker 1: to work on his social skills. Reports say he was
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Speaker 1: swaying back and forth and his speech was slurred. He
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Speaker 1: denied having alcohol or other intoxicants in his system, and
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Speaker 1: he said he planned to walk home. Esquivel failed a
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Speaker 1: field sobriety test and was arrested for public intoxication. He
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Speaker 1: was released on personal recognissance bond, even though this was
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Speaker 1: his twenty sixth visit to the Brass County Jail. His
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Speaker 1: previous arrest includes several for criminal trust pass possession, public intoxication,
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Speaker 1: and assault of EMS personnel. Two women were arrested after
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Speaker 1: a trip to the West Brian Walmart on Monday. Brian
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Speaker 1: police responded to the walmart at six forty three North
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Speaker 1: Harvey Mitchell Parkway after store security reported that the women
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Speaker 1: were truspassing. Reports say thirty nine year old Whitney Ariano
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Speaker 1: and forty three year old Valerie Gregory were inside the
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Speaker 1: store despite having active criminal trustpass warrants. Are Lano was
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Speaker 1: also accused of stealing a pair of headphones and a
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Speaker 1: mini torchlighter. The combined value of these items was approximately
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Speaker 1: twenty four dollars, but because of a lengthy criminal history,
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Speaker 1: including sixteen previous bookings into the Brass County Jail, she
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Speaker 1: was charged with theft of property less than twenty five
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Speaker 1: hundred with two or more previous convictions. She was also
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Speaker 1: booked on criminal trustpass and outstanding warrants and is being
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Speaker 1: held on seventy three thousand dollars bond. Gregory was booked
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Speaker 1: into the Brass County Jail for her twenty third time
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Speaker 1: for criminal trustpass and outstanding warrants. She remains jailed on
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Speaker 1: three thousand dollars bond.
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Speaker 2: A man was.
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Speaker 1: Arrested for criminal truspass and resisting arrest after refusing to
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Speaker 1: leave a college station. McDonald's. CESPD responded to the McDonalds
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Speaker 1: at twenty four to twenty Texas Avenue South just after
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Speaker 1: noon on Tuesday after employees say twenty five year old
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Speaker 1: Montarious Love tried to enter the kitchen area. Love reportedly
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Speaker 1: became agitated while waiting for his food and pushed an
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Speaker 1: employee who tried to stop him. When he was asked
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Speaker 1: to leave, Love hid in the women's restroom. Officers say
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Speaker 1: he kicked and pulled away as they tried to take
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Speaker 1: him into custody. Love was arrested on charges of criminal
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Speaker 1: trustpass and resisting arrest. He was released on nine thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars bond. News is presented by Pioneers Steel and Pipe.
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Speaker 1: com I'm will Welch sixteen twenty ninety four to five
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Speaker 3: Sixteen twenty ninety four to five wta W And yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's gonna get hotter. Like you look at it that way,
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Speaker 3: it's a beautiful day. When you compare it to what
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Speaker 3: it's going to be Saturday Sunday, it's like one hundred
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Speaker 2: So we got that to look full into, which is nice.
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Speaker 3: from the County, including Judge Dwayne Peters. First time I've
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Speaker 3: seen you in here? Is it really not the first
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Speaker 3: time he's been in here. I've been in here with
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Speaker 3: really fun. Yeah. Also joined by Bras County Auditor Marcy Turner.
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Speaker 3: And we're going to talk a little bit about taxes today,
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Speaker 3: everyone's favorite subject of raids. So Judge obviously like if
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Speaker 3: you if you've dumb, like if you're not dumb, this down.
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Speaker 3: But if you reduce this to just like a family budget,
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Speaker 3: just making a family budget is a lot for most people.
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Speaker 3: And then now let's extrapolate that all the way out
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Speaker 3: to an operation the size of Bras's County.
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Speaker 4: How do you.
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Speaker 3: Determine that budget and what goes into it and what's
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Speaker 3: your process for that?
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Speaker 5: Okay, so Tuckery, the process is budget officer meets with
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Speaker 5: all elected officials and department heads. They'll make their request
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Speaker 5: of what they want to see in the budget. She'll
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Speaker 5: meet with every one of them and they'll go through
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Speaker 5: the budget, buying at them by lying at them, and
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Speaker 5: see what their requests are. They have to justify everything
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Speaker 5: that they're asking for, and she makes the first pass
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Speaker 5: of the determination about what'll go into proposed budget. And
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Speaker 5: so she presents proposed budget with what she believes they
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Speaker 5: justified to be in there. And if they're not happy
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Speaker 5: with those requests that got into it, then they can
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Speaker 5: reach out to somebody on the Commissioner's court and ask
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Speaker 5: for something additional to be added into So it's a
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Speaker 5: long process, it takes a lot of time and it's
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Speaker 5: a lot of effort to get that done, but it's
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Speaker 5: fairly efficient, I believe, and it's I think it is
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Speaker 5: really what has kept our budget as low as we
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Speaker 5: possibly can keep.
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Speaker 3: Now, once you have the obviously the things that you
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Speaker 3: have to spend, right, like the cost to keep the
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Speaker 3: entire county running, Now it's the money side of it
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Speaker 3: and figuring out where you're going to get the money from.
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Speaker 3: And since the county doesn't manufacture sell right anything, it
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Speaker 3: means taxes. Right, So help us understand the moving parts
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Speaker 3: that go into the process of setting that rate.
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Speaker 5: Okay, and that is a process we go through. Marcy
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Speaker 5: is better explain in some of that stuff probably than
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Speaker 5: I am.
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Speaker 3: Here jump in, how do we set the rate?
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Speaker 6: Just call me the math girl, No, it says, I
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Speaker 6: don't want to hate you. So seventy one percent of
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Speaker 6: our revenues that we bring in for operations or property taxes,
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Speaker 6: and then the other fifth, about fifteen percent, is sales tax,
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Speaker 6: so property tax funds the majority of our our operations
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Speaker 6: in the county. So setting a tax rate is a
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Speaker 6: great analogy. It's like setting a budget, like a family
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Speaker 6: sets a budget. We want our ongoing revenues, our salary,
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Speaker 6: our paycheck, which is through tax revenue, primarily to cover
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Speaker 6: ongoing expenses and then we have savings like a family does.
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Speaker 6: We call it fund balance in the county, and we
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Speaker 6: use that fun balance to fund one time incidental charges.
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Speaker 6: So that's kind of our goal for the county. The
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Speaker 6: challenge is we have with through this legislature is something
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Speaker 6: called the no new revenue rate. You hear about that
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Speaker 6: a lot during this timeframe, and the no new revenue
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Speaker 6: rate is the amount of property it's basically the rate
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Speaker 6: the tax rate that raises the same amount of property
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Speaker 6: revenue from the prior year. If we were to pass
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Speaker 6: the budget this year with the no new revenue rate,
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Speaker 6: we would need eighteen million dollars of savings to fund
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Speaker 6: our budget, our operations budget. You can only use savings
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Speaker 6: for so long before you run out, and so we
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Speaker 6: want to make sure that we don't get on a
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Speaker 6: dead end road with no exit ramp, and so we
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Speaker 6: need some options because if we were to continue on
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Speaker 6: that path in four years, we would run out of savings.
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Speaker 6: So our strategy the next forty eight years is keeper
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Speaker 6: costs as low as possible. As our praise values grow
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Speaker 6: as we add new property to our tax rolls, our
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Speaker 6: revenues will catch up.
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Speaker 4: With that exactly.
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Speaker 3: Now, this is always interesting is you think in terms
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Speaker 3: of property tax and taxes in general. I guess, and
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Speaker 3: then per dollar you like, if I pay a dollar
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Speaker 3: to the county, how much of that dollar goes to
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Speaker 3: you guys? And what does that dollar pay for?
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Speaker 6: So, first of all, when you pay a dollar of
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Speaker 6: taxes for the entire county, your tax bill that pays
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Speaker 6: school district, city county, we get about twenty five cents
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Speaker 6: of that dollar.
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Speaker 4: Twenty five cents out of the dollar.
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Speaker 6: Yes, And of the expenditures that we have on our
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Speaker 6: ongoing operating expenses, about sixty four percent of those expenses
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Speaker 6: are required by state law. And those aren't sexy things.
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Speaker 6: Those are essential things like law enforcement, county jail, fourteen courts,
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Speaker 6: emergency management, elections, roads.
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Speaker 3: And bridges, right, which of course grows right as the
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Speaker 3: population grows, as the county grows.
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Speaker 6: There's figures in facts. The county sheriffol could probably come
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Speaker 6: in here and quote you. As the population grows, the
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Speaker 6: number of people inmates and our jail grows.
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Speaker 3: And so now there's also the wrinkle of unfunded projects
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Speaker 3: and like things that just pop up and mandates. Judge,
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Speaker 3: do you have maybe some examples of unfunded mandates or
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Speaker 3: or things like that that might necessitate having some money
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Speaker 3: to pass.
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Speaker 5: So I mean we are required to indigen defense. That's
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Speaker 5: one thing. This mandated right mandate counties to pay for that.
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Speaker 5: What we did was we ended up creating a public
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Speaker 5: Defender's office, and I think long term that's going to
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Speaker 5: be the best strategy to try to hold that expense down.
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Speaker 5: My hope is that over the next year or two
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Speaker 5: or once that what we used to call the one
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Speaker 5: O one building, the Admin building across the street from
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Speaker 5: the courthouse. It's in place that gives the public Defender's
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Speaker 5: office room to be able to expand into a regional
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Speaker 5: public defender's office. And if you go regional, the state
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Speaker 5: likes that idea of regional public defenders and they will
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Speaker 5: in the past in other areas. They'll fund more money
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Speaker 5: portion wise than what they normally would if you're doing
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Speaker 5: that kind of thing. So if you can get the
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Speaker 5: other counties to join in and it gets state to
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Speaker 5: agree to it, it's it's a it will hopefully cheapen
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Speaker 5: up the cost of public defense. But that's one of
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Speaker 5: the things that's required. Indigen healthcare. You know courts. I mean,
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Speaker 5: there's just a lot of there's numerous things that were required.
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Speaker 3: And tax it's probably one of the most unpopular things
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Speaker 3: you can get out there other than the minards jingle.
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Speaker 3: Yeah maybe taxes no one likes them. But I mean,
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Speaker 3: I know both everyone's a taxpayer here. Why would you say, like,
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Speaker 3: why is it sometimes necessary to set a higher rate
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Speaker 3: than you would you know in your own mind, like
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Speaker 3: it's like, oh, it's a taxpayer, this is not fun.
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Speaker 3: But from the county and the county administration side, why
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Speaker 3: is it important to raise those rates occasionally?
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Speaker 5: So, I mean, as Marshy said, as we're looking at
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Speaker 5: it this year, and she's done some projections about what
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Speaker 5: it's going to look like like over the next four
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Speaker 5: or five six years. And while using fund balance is
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Speaker 5: that it's okay and we've been doing that to balance
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Speaker 5: the budget. You can't continue to do that way on
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Speaker 5: out in the future because fund balance is going to
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Speaker 5: run out. So, I mean, those are the kind of
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Speaker 5: things that we have to look at like today, is
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Speaker 5: it's gonna be what's gonna be the next few years,
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Speaker 5: not necessarily this budget right as much, but is what's
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Speaker 5: going to happen in the future.
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Speaker 4: And obviously the new tax rate. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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Speaker 3: It's proposed this last was it Tuesday or this last week? Yes,
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Speaker 3: what are the next steps? And when do we expect
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Speaker 3: that to be adopted?
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Speaker 5: September one, I believe will be it'll be on the
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Speaker 5: agenda to actually pass something. What was passed this past
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Speaker 5: Tuesday was a ceiling, if you will, I mean so
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Speaker 5: that September first. It couldn't go above that. It certainly
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Speaker 5: can be less than that, and the court will take
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Speaker 5: a look at over the next two weeks until that
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Speaker 5: meeting happens about what we believe it should be said
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Speaker 5: at and what we hope it will take care of
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Speaker 5: in the next few years.
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Speaker 3: Yesterday we were talking in the studio like how we
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Speaker 3: were off air about how both of us really wanted
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Speaker 3: to tour the new medical examities, Like.
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Speaker 4: I guess there's crazy if y'all are doing tours.
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Speaker 3: Yes, did y'all get to go through I mean you've
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Speaker 3: been through it obviously a few times here you know,
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Speaker 3: it's your facility. But how did it go yesterday? The
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Speaker 3: ribbon cutting, the tours?
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Speaker 4: How do we like it?
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Speaker 2: It went very well?
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Speaker 5: There were a lot of people there at the ribbon cutting,
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Speaker 5: and then yes yesterday afternoon they had our I believe
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Speaker 5: it was a public tour, and they'll have another one Saturday,
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Speaker 5: the twenty ninth, from ten to two. And it's the
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Speaker 5: opportunity for anybody in the public to get and take
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Speaker 5: a look at that building. They may never get that
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Speaker 5: opportunity standing up and walk in.
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Speaker 3: That's the truth. When you moved through there, you're not
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Speaker 3: going to be able to appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: People are dying to get in.
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Speaker 3: It's finally done.
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Speaker 4: How does it feel to have this this cross right?
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Speaker 5: You know, we've had discussions about medical Examiner since twenty twelve,
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Speaker 5: you know, so and early on there was certainly no
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Speaker 5: money when ARPA, the American Rescue Funds that after COVID
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Speaker 5: that the federal government reimbursed cities and counties. They gave
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Speaker 5: us the opportunity to have some funds that we could
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Speaker 5: actually dedicate towards that. And that's that's what we do.
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Speaker 4: It's a wonderful thing. I've actually got an alarm set
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Speaker 4: on the twenty ninth. I have to go see this.
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Speaker 2: I might shoot.
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Speaker 3: Uh, guys, thank you so much for coming in spending
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Speaker 3: some time with us today at sixteen twenty ninety four
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Speaker 3: one hundred and four.
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Speaker 4: Oh no, I don't.
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Speaker 3: I'm getting ahead of myself one hundred and fours like
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Speaker 3: Saturday or Sunday.
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Speaker 4: The Facebook lawsuit.
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Speaker 3: This only gets so you know what a gift to
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Speaker 3: me on National Radio Day that Facebook is getting sued
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Speaker 3: for a trillion dollars.
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Speaker 2: So now it's Facebook and Insta right, oh yeah.
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Speaker 3: Meta, yeah, everybody the entire valuation of the company.
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Speaker 4: Basically, they're being sued over this. Why would you.
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Speaker 3: Sue Facebook and Instagram because it destroyed an entire generation
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Speaker 3: of our minds? Like it wiped our minds are all
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Speaker 3: googes because we were raised. Well I'm not raised. I
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Speaker 3: got it later, but Riley's generation definitely was raised.
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Speaker 7: Oh thank god I didn't have that Oh yeah, it
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Speaker 7: started like Facebook was before a little bit before, but
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Speaker 7: Instagram really was around like twenty eleven twelve.
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Speaker 8: It is just when it really started amping up.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, one point four trillion is what the suit is for.
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Speaker 3: Oh hit them for everything.
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Speaker 1: And on top of that, if if this goes through
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Speaker 1: things that you might see that are gonna be a
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Speaker 1: little different. It's an infinite scroll and auto play gone.
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Speaker 3: You didn't have to sell me on this, will I
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Speaker 3: was already on board.
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Speaker 2: All right, Well how about this one? The end of
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Speaker 2: the like button? Yeah, I don't know. I like a
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Speaker 2: good like, but no.
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Speaker 3: Get rid of it.
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Speaker 8: Guy, that's gonna I don't know if they can do that.
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Speaker 3: Yes they can. That's the drug. I don't know if
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Speaker 3: you guys knew the like getting the likes. It's getting
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Speaker 3: the likes. The like incentivizes you to continue to post
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Speaker 3: content because when you get those likes, you get a
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Speaker 3: little rush. And if they don't give you that rush,
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Speaker 3: you're not gonna want to post as much content. And
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Speaker 3: if you don't post as much content, then you don't
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Speaker 3: spend as much time on the website. And if you
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Speaker 3: don't spend that much time on the website. Mark Zuckerberg
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Speaker 3: can't afford to buy a second island in Hawaii. Look
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Speaker 3: it up second island that he would probably like to
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Speaker 3: buy in Hawaii.
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Speaker 1: I'm not I'm not as hung up on the lights
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Speaker 1: as I am. The infinite scroll on auto play.
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Speaker 3: The infinite scroll and auto.
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Speaker 2: Play, I don't even know how to use that.
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Speaker 3: You don't use it, it uses it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, anytime you're rolling through something and that video starts automatically.
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Speaker 3: There used to be a play button on the videos
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Speaker 3: and the feed would end. You would get to the
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Speaker 3: bottom and it would say, Hey, that's all we have
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Speaker 3: for you. It's all the new stuff. Come back.
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Speaker 2: Some other times, you have reached the end of the Internet.
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Speaker 8: See my thing is is what I want.
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Speaker 7: I don't know if this has happened to y'all, but
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Speaker 7: I'm tired of whenever you're scrolling like you're trying to
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Speaker 7: see someone's story or something, you click on it in
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Speaker 7: this alarmingly weird and disturbing advertisement and commercial pops up
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Speaker 7: on your phone out of absolutely nowhere, and all it
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Speaker 7: is is just these commercials on repeat, over and over
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Speaker 7: and over. And you don't even for starters, you've never
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Speaker 7: even seen this content. You don't know where it came
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Speaker 7: from and you don't know.
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Speaker 2: How it happened.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, so that's if you if you want to keep
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Speaker 3: track and you go on Instagram, Uh, it's a commercial
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Speaker 3: every third post in case you have noticed, it's a
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Speaker 3: commercial every third post, and then inside the videos on
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Speaker 3: Facebook obviously they're going to play. So Facebook also about
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Speaker 3: every third post is a commercial, a straight up commercial.
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Speaker 3: That's an insane amount of ads that you're getting thrown
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Speaker 3: at you. And yeah, it sucks, but that's the way
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Speaker 3: it's been ever since. I mean it's been it's whenever
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Speaker 3: they discovered you can do an algorithm. I think that's
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Speaker 3: when we reached a point where we really shouldn't have
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Speaker 3: ever gone to.
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Speaker 2: Well, you mentioned that, no.
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Speaker 1: No more algorithmic manipulation the old This could mean a
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Speaker 1: return to the old chronological way to view your feet.
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Speaker 3: And you might actually get to see posts from humans
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Speaker 3: and friends, actually your friends.
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Speaker 8: I'm like, I actually see people my that I follow.
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Speaker 3: That was That's what the algorithm is.
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Speaker 4: What blew that up.
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Speaker 3: It's like, you know what, yeah, your friend, you might
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Speaker 3: like your friends, but we're going to send you the
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Speaker 3: algorithm content anywhere. That's what created influencers. That's what created
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Speaker 3: influencer culture the industry. Everything that we don't like to
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Speaker 3: a large degree about Facebook and Instagram is that algorithm.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 7: See, I'm fine with them doing that on TikTok because
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Speaker 7: TikTok's its own deal in itself, and I don't really
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Speaker 7: watch my friends on there anyway.
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Speaker 8: I go on there to watch other people's stuff.
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Speaker 7: But like on your facebooks and Instagrams, the whole point
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Speaker 7: of those apps, I want to see what the people
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Speaker 7: in my life that I know are doing.
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Speaker 8: I don't want to see anything else.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. If this is on the list, will
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Speaker 3: I'd kick all businesses off of there. I'd say you
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Speaker 3: can't have pages, and yes, I know that would include us.
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Speaker 4: I get rid of the pages.
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Speaker 2: I won't go that far.
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Speaker 1: I mean, if a business look back on what Wendys
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Speaker 1: did years ago on Twitter. Oh, I mean, come on,
18:57
Speaker 1: if a business could create.
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Speaker 3: And it goes and it hits and when our business.
19:02
Speaker 1: I mean, in our business, I feel like we have
19:04
Speaker 1: a personal relationship with not only the people that are
19:06
Speaker 1: listening to us, but all the people that are interacting
19:09
Speaker 1: with our social media.
19:10
Speaker 3: That's that's true.
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Speaker 2: So it's not just an advertisement sort of thing.
19:14
Speaker 3: What else we got any other changes.
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Speaker 1: Herbing frequent notifications. They'll seek to cut down on any
19:18
Speaker 1: excessive push notifications. Those things are they say, designed to
19:22
Speaker 1: get you hooked again. Uh, just when you think you
19:25
Speaker 1: got out, they drag you back in and to death
19:28
Speaker 1: of the finsta.
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Speaker 3: How are they going to get rid of fenstas.
19:33
Speaker 1: If you don't want to offence day is that's essentially
19:35
Speaker 1: your Instagram, your burner account.
19:37
Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, that's the Instagram for uh, for basically the
19:41
Speaker 3: people you don't want it, probably your real friends.
19:43
Speaker 2: Yeah.
19:43
Speaker 1: So states states are pushing for stricter parental verification, which
19:47
Speaker 1: I agree with, and limits on account creation.
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Speaker 8: I didn't get a fence to til I was in college.
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Speaker 3: Do you still keep offens to? You still have yours?
19:55
Speaker 5: Well?
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Speaker 8: Not confirmed.
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Speaker 3: Every every college age kid has the Instagram. That's the
20:03
Speaker 3: very polite Instagram, and they don't post a ton from it,
20:07
Speaker 3: And so you might be fooled into thinking, wow, it
20:09
Speaker 3: seems like you don't spend that much time. No, you
20:11
Speaker 3: just don't have it.
20:11
Speaker 4: You don't.
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Speaker 3: You don't have the fluff, and they're smart, You're not
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Speaker 3: going to follow you unless they know that.
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Speaker 7: I don't follow my fence to and I by friends.
20:19
Speaker 7: Spinsters are the only ones that are allowed to follow it.
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Speaker 7: Like my friend's actual.
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Speaker 3: Account, secret secret algorithm of the most unhinged stuff you'll
20:28
Speaker 3: ever see it.
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Speaker 1: So the stuff I share with my buddies via text, Yeah, exactly,
20:33
Speaker 1: the unhinged stuff I really just I kind of now
20:37
Speaker 1: want to peep on Riley's fencetof.
20:42
Speaker 3: Okay, Michael, I'm tired of being bombarded with videos from
20:45
Speaker 3: political view viewpoints wholly opposite of my personal beliefs.
20:49
Speaker 4: Well, those are paid for, Michael.
20:51
Speaker 3: Are those are? Those are ads that are being shoved
20:52
Speaker 3: in your face because Facebook and Meta get money from it.
20:55
Speaker 3: Can you imagine a world? Can you imagine a world
20:58
Speaker 3: where we weren't being incentivized to literally claw each other's
21:03
Speaker 3: eyes out to get more time on site in a war.
21:07
Speaker 2: Company, where you aren't incentivized to do.
21:10
Speaker 3: You remember when family gatherings used to be fun and
21:14
Speaker 3: you didn't have an argument every five minutes. You can
21:17
Speaker 3: blame the algorithm for that, and you can blame these guys.
21:22
Speaker 2: Just turn it up.
21:23
Speaker 3: I I cannot say in words harsh enough on the
21:30
Speaker 3: radio what I wish would happen to the board of Meta.
21:35
Speaker 3: I'd consider it to be one of the great crimes
21:39
Speaker 3: against humanity in recent years.
21:41
Speaker 4: It's tobacco level for me.
21:44
Speaker 2: I see that.
21:44
Speaker 3: I take it very personally because it makes life suck.
21:48
Speaker 4: Now it is. It is a horrible, horrible thing.
21:53
Speaker 7: You've also never had an experience where you're on Instagram
21:57
Speaker 7: just casually scrolling through your friend's stories and an advertisement
22:01
Speaker 7: commercial comes on that you don't know how it's even
22:04
Speaker 7: possible that it's allowed to be a commercial, but yet
22:08
Speaker 7: play and everyone's around you staring at you, and you go,
22:11
Speaker 7: I don't even know where this came from.
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Speaker 2: I think, sorry, you're trying to.
22:16
Speaker 3: Are I forgot to log out of the fence to
22:18
Speaker 3: every Yeah. By the way, another this is a great
22:22
Speaker 3: recommendation documentary came about Geez probably Yeah twenty twenty, Sarah
22:27
Speaker 3: says everyone should watch The Social Dilemma on Netflix. It
22:31
Speaker 3: will confirm all of your worst fears about how we
22:33
Speaker 3: got here. It's all the platform creators of the like
22:36
Speaker 3: button and how each platform addicts you.
22:40
Speaker 4: As some very good documents.
22:42
Speaker 3: It's one of the best ones that I watched it
22:44
Speaker 3: with the kids.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, they don't get rid of the repost button.
22:47
Speaker 3: Though I love that oh Riley loves the reposts, we
22:50
Speaker 3: gotta take a break.
22:53
Speaker 2: Good morning from the wta W newsroom. I'm will welch.
22:57
Speaker 1: The Bryan Police Department says Skeletal Room. The mains were
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Speaker 1: uncovered in the fifty nine hundred block of Jones Road.
23:03
Speaker 1: A surveying crew located the remains near what appears to
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Speaker 1: be a homeless encampment. The condition of the remains is
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Speaker 1: poor and they have been unable to determine the identity
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Speaker 1: or sex. A man was arrested after approaching two girls
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Speaker 1: while they were painting parking spaces outside A and M
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Speaker 1: Consolidated High School on Tuesday. The girls called police after
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Speaker 1: they say the man would not leave them alone and
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Speaker 1: they became uncomfortable. Thirty six year old Bob Escobel says
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Speaker 1: he approached the girls to work on his social skills.
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Speaker 1: Reports say he was swaying back and forth and his
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Speaker 1: speech was slurred. He denied having alcohol or other intoxicants
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Speaker 1: in his system and said he planned to walk home.
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Speaker 1: Escabel failed a field sobriety test and was arrested for
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Speaker 1: public intoxication. He was released on a personal recognissance bond,
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Speaker 1: even though this was his twenty sixth visit to the
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Speaker 1: Brass County jail. His previous arrest included several for criminal trespass, possession,
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Speaker 1: public intoxication, and assault of EA personnel. A man wanted
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Speaker 1: in connection with the shooting death of a Brenham man
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Speaker 1: is behind bars. Twenty two year old Trenton Gilbert surrendered
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Speaker 1: himself to police in Brenham Wednesday morning. Gilbert has been
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Speaker 1: charged with murder and is being held without bond. Governor
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Speaker 1: Greg Abbott is proposing a ban on H one B
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Speaker 1: visas for public education workers and teachers, seeking to eradicate
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Speaker 1: so called classroom and doctrination. Speaking to reporters, Abbot set,
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Speaker 1: American students should be taught by American educators, and we're
24:32
Speaker 1: tired of the federal government not putting limits on who
24:35
Speaker 1: can come in under H one b's and because of
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Speaker 1: the federal government's failure to control H one BA visas,
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Speaker 1: Texas is having to put our foot down, Abbott once
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Speaker 1: the item passed next legislative session. Meanwhile, his Democrat opponent,
24:48
Speaker 1: Gina Hinojosa says Abbot has driven more teachers away from
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Speaker 1: classrooms than any other governor and large school districts may
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Speaker 1: need the foreign employees. It's not a good look for
24:58
Speaker 1: the University of Texas, San Antonio. They have one of
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Speaker 1: the top cybersecurity programs, yet the university systems were breached.
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Speaker 9: UTSA says their systems were responding to unauthorized activity over
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Speaker 9: the weekend. Their IT team detected the breach before it
25:14
Speaker 9: reached core systems. As a result, officials said they will
25:17
Speaker 9: delay the start of classes to next Monday, August twenty fourth.
25:21
Speaker 9: This precautionary measure gives some time to properly restore any
25:24
Speaker 9: services that were affected by the cyber breach. Classes were
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Speaker 9: to begin today. UTSA says no university data was accessed
25:31
Speaker 9: or stolen, and they'll continue to monitor the system eric.
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Speaker 2: Likeom TSN news.
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Speaker 1: A minor league baseball coach has been picked up by
25:39
Speaker 1: immigration officials in Texas. The man is now facing deportation.
25:44
Speaker 1: Here's Connor McShane with more.
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Speaker 10: The family of this guy. His name is Oswaldo Perea
25:49
Speaker 10: and he's originally from Venezuela says he was detained at
25:52
Speaker 10: Alpassow International Airport early Sunday morning. Works as a catching
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Speaker 10: court dator for the Triple A affiliate of the Padres there.
25:59
Speaker 10: His wife tells The Athletic he was trying to fly
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Speaker 10: to the family home in Arizona. Prea has a pending
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Speaker 10: asylum application, but according to his brother, he did not
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Speaker 10: have his work permit card when they stopped him.
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Speaker 1: He works for the Padres Triple A affiliate the El
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Speaker 1: Paso Chihuahuas. The organization says they are working to gather
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Speaker 1: additional information about the situation. Highway six will be closed
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Speaker 1: at Briarcrest Drive in Brian's Saturday morning. The intermittent lane
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Speaker 1: closures will be in effect from six until eight am
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Speaker 1: as BTU removes power lines to make way for progress
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Speaker 1: on the Big six project. BTU says they hope to
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Speaker 1: have the work done as quickly as possible. They expect
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Speaker 1: lane closures to last approximately ten minutes at a time
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Speaker 1: and no customer outages are anticipated. In association with the work,
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Speaker 1: a heat advisory will take effect at noon today and
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Speaker 3: Good morning, worth the infomniax WTAW weather today very hot,
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Speaker 3: Feel the difference on budget with County earlier today, Let's
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Speaker 3: talk budget the City of Brian. What's up, Kevin NEBERISKI
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Speaker 3: play six at.
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Speaker 2: Large, Yes, on play six at large.
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Speaker 3: That's what our thoughts. Uh So, welcome to the show.
28:10
Speaker 2: Thank you for having me.
28:11
Speaker 4: I was mentioning, I need to figure out who does
28:13
Speaker 4: who does the jackets for for you?
28:15
Speaker 2: And yeah, you and.
28:15
Speaker 3: Bobby that does slick that's that's James James James too.
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Speaker 11: Yeah, I think the pressure is on James. James is
28:24
Speaker 11: right there doing the same thing now. But yeah, a
28:26
Speaker 11: lot of times when I go out, me in the
28:28
Speaker 11: mirror pretty close and that is not planned.
28:30
Speaker 3: So do y'all exchange texts like we don't either and
28:33
Speaker 3: we'll match sometimes it really freaks us out. Yeah, it's
28:36
Speaker 3: just we should we should have like a list of.
28:38
Speaker 2: Just because our cycles are sinking up.
28:40
Speaker 3: It's Hawaiian, Hawaiian. One of us should really go here
28:44
Speaker 3: ner there. So let's talk let's talk budget, let's talk business.
28:48
Speaker 3: What do we uh, what do we want to go
28:49
Speaker 3: over to?
28:50
Speaker 11: Absolutely so, we were in the midst of budget season
28:53
Speaker 11: right now, so at our last council meeting, you know,
28:57
Speaker 11: with a presentation in the workshop going through our budget
29:00
Speaker 11: and looks like the proposed budget for fiscal year twenty
29:04
Speaker 11: twenty sevens about five hundred and sixty nine million dollars,
29:06
Speaker 11: a little over half a billion dollars, which is up
29:09
Speaker 11: about three point seven percent over the adopted fiscal year
29:13
Speaker 11: twenty twenty six. You know, how's that funded. Of that,
29:17
Speaker 11: about sixty nine percent of those revenues, or about three
29:19
Speaker 11: hundred and eighty two million dollars, are really funded from
29:22
Speaker 11: city services related to delivery of like energy services, water waste,
29:27
Speaker 11: water solid waste. About nineteen percent of that comes from
29:31
Speaker 11: anticipated tax revenue. The main category that people always look
29:36
Speaker 11: at is our general fund, a general fund for next
29:40
Speaker 11: year's proposed one hundred nineteen million dollars, and those funds primarily,
29:44
Speaker 11: you know, control the activities of the city, the day
29:46
Speaker 11: to day operations or public safety, public works, development services,
29:51
Speaker 11: general admin. That's funded mostly by a property tax and
29:54
Speaker 11: sales tax. And of that, if you look at it
29:57
Speaker 11: by type, about sixty nine seventy percent of all of
30:00
Speaker 11: that is really through personnel, and then public safety makes
30:04
Speaker 11: up about fifty percent of that. So where it looks
30:07
Speaker 11: like you have a pretty big budget, it gets taken
30:10
Speaker 11: up pretty quick for tax rate. We talked about that
30:14
Speaker 11: last week. Now it looks like we're going to propose
30:17
Speaker 11: to keep it at the same the point sixty four percent,
30:20
Speaker 11: same as last year. And what that does is when
30:23
Speaker 11: the CFO they projects out next year, we project about
30:27
Speaker 11: one hundred and thirty five days of what they call
30:29
Speaker 11: cash on hand to maintain operations of the city. The
30:33
Speaker 11: required minimum fund balance is sixty days. We shoot for
30:37
Speaker 11: a target of one hundred and at that tax rate,
30:40
Speaker 11: we're about one hundred and thirty five days. Property evaluations
30:44
Speaker 11: came back from appraisal District for the city we're about
30:47
Speaker 11: ten billion, which once you net all that down, it's
30:50
Speaker 11: a tax Olivia of about sixty nine million. We're up
30:52
Speaker 11: about four point sixty eight percent. So we just went
30:56
Speaker 11: through that last week. A couple more opportunities for the
30:59
Speaker 11: public to be in with that. We have next week
31:02
Speaker 11: on the twenty fifth of public hearing on the budget.
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Speaker 11: Then again on September eighth, we have a public hearing
31:07
Speaker 11: again on the tax right second reading of the final budget,
31:11
Speaker 11: and then again on nine fifteen for a final reading
31:14
Speaker 11: of the tax ordinates. So that's what we have for budget.
31:17
Speaker 3: When people think about like I know, the numbers are
31:19
Speaker 3: screamingly big. For all there's a sound screamingly big and you.
31:22
Speaker 2: Started throwing half a billion, half a billion, Yeah.
31:24
Speaker 3: Yeah, half a billy you it really you're how how
31:30
Speaker 3: long has your family been in Brian A long time?
31:32
Speaker 5: Right?
31:33
Speaker 4: Genera generation? Yeah, I'm what are you use? College station?
31:37
Speaker 1: College station? No, I'm first generation generation. My parents moved
31:40
Speaker 1: here in seventy two, right.
31:41
Speaker 3: Okay, so I'm I'm I'm third at this point. And
31:46
Speaker 3: you have to remember how I don't even know how
31:51
Speaker 3: many people we had when I was growing up in
31:52
Speaker 3: the city of Brian.
31:53
Speaker 2: It was not no, it was half. No, it was
31:56
Speaker 2: less than half, less than half.
31:58
Speaker 3: Well, my dad was growing up in Brian and families
32:01
Speaker 3: on North Oak in North oak Wood, so kind of
32:04
Speaker 3: a you know that neighborhood across from from Sushi Masa
32:07
Speaker 3: and and all that stuff that was there. They were
32:10
Speaker 3: the first house in there. It was farm. It was
32:12
Speaker 3: just fields back when they built that house. And yeah,
32:16
Speaker 3: the more you expand and the more we grow, which
32:20
Speaker 3: I it's it just speeds up every year, the bigger
32:24
Speaker 3: the numbers are going to get.
32:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's I mean, the numbers grow. You have
32:28
Speaker 1: a bigger budget, but you also have more properties and
32:32
Speaker 1: more valuable properties on your tax rolls.
32:34
Speaker 3: Yeah.
32:34
Speaker 1: So that's that's the delicate balance that you guys always
32:38
Speaker 1: are trying to do.
32:40
Speaker 11: That is it's you know, you have to have the
32:43
Speaker 11: tax revenues to have to have the revenue coming in
32:45
Speaker 11: to be able to support your day to day operations.
32:48
Speaker 11: But you're absolutely right, as you grow, uh, you know,
32:52
Speaker 11: you need you know, more services, you need more firefighters,
32:56
Speaker 11: you need more police officers, just everything that goes with
32:59
Speaker 11: that to maintain you know, the quality of life that.
33:01
Speaker 2: That we have.
33:04
Speaker 4: What are what are some areas?
33:07
Speaker 3: Are there any problem areas that people should be aware of,
33:09
Speaker 3: like areas like, hey, is what we're going to need
33:11
Speaker 3: to this is where we're gonna have to watch uh
33:15
Speaker 3: not to watch money, but like watch out in the
33:17
Speaker 3: future that we need to kind of have on the
33:18
Speaker 3: horizon to eyeball for future budgets.
33:21
Speaker 2: Yeah.
33:21
Speaker 11: I think that we always have to be you know,
33:23
Speaker 11: good stewards of the you know, the citizens taxpayer dollars.
33:28
Speaker 11: I think the City of Brian does a great job
33:29
Speaker 11: of doing that. That's kind of why they forecast out,
33:32
Speaker 11: you know, multiple years to make sure we have that,
33:35
Speaker 11: you know, cash on hand in our general fun balance.
33:38
Speaker 11: But I just think being good stewards of our money.
33:41
Speaker 11: You know sometimes that you know, you get different mandates
33:44
Speaker 11: from the state level that come down that will change things,
33:47
Speaker 11: and you know, you really have to be conscious of
33:50
Speaker 11: that and just make sure in all your planning if
33:52
Speaker 11: something like that does come and you would get blindsided
33:55
Speaker 11: by it, that you know you have the funding and
33:58
Speaker 11: you have the planning to make make sure you can
34:00
Speaker 11: take care of that.
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Speaker 1: We heard County Commissioner Dwayne Peters, We've heard school districts
34:04
Speaker 1: talked about this. Yeah, what are some of the unfunded mandates?
34:07
Speaker 1: Is the terminology that's that's being used now that the
34:10
Speaker 1: city incurs some of the unfunded mandates. This does the
34:15
Speaker 1: city much like the county or the school district have
34:18
Speaker 1: some of those unfunded bound mandates?
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Speaker 11: Not as many, you know, I know that the county
34:24
Speaker 11: has that. Obviously school district definitely has that. But that's
34:28
Speaker 11: just something that we keep an eye on. But right now,
34:31
Speaker 11: you know, it's looking at trying to take a little
34:33
Speaker 11: bit more control from the municipalities and the cities, and
34:38
Speaker 11: you know, some of that, you know, could come back
34:40
Speaker 11: to be an issue.
34:42
Speaker 3: All right, Thank you so much for coming in today, man,
34:44
Speaker 3: We appreciate it. All right, anything else we want to
34:46
Speaker 3: get to before you before we dip.
34:48
Speaker 11: Just say a lot going on. I can mentioned real quick.
34:52
Speaker 11: You know Midtown Legacy Park. If you've noticed that there's
34:56
Speaker 11: equipment arriving there. That's going to be thirty two thousand
34:59
Speaker 11: square feet playgrounds, pavilions. That's going to be a great
35:03
Speaker 11: asset over there. Oh yeah, and looking at the end
35:05
Speaker 11: of the year or end of January for that to
35:07
Speaker 11: come online.
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Speaker 2: Game you have to finish your.
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Speaker 1: Drink if The christmas cynic is filled with holiday, spirit
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Speaker 1: or it starts snowing On, christmas.
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Speaker 3: Well fortunately that that's only gonna happen once in the,
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Speaker 3: movie so that's.
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Speaker 7: Good or it's gonna be one of those things where
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Speaker 7: it's the main character came back to their childhood home
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Speaker 7: because a family member passed. Away and then the.
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Speaker 8: Other guy comes into town too because he.
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Speaker 7: Coincidentally just lost his job and now he has to move.
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Speaker 2: Back, hey looking For. Christmas looking into my magical crystal.
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Speaker 1: BALL i have seen this in your, Future, riley because
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Speaker 1: your plan is to run off to a major metropolitan
37:48
Speaker 1: area and work FOR nhl or some big sporting. THING
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Speaker 1: i feel this in the.
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Speaker 2: Future you're gonna come home because something's going on with
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Speaker 2: the family, farm not For, christmas and you got a.
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Speaker 1: Company it might Be, christmas it might be you gotta
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Speaker 1: come home.
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Speaker 7: The second they're gonna have a SELF i have come
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Speaker 7: home for helping for farming.
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Speaker 8: Reasons we are in.
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Speaker 2: Trouble, WELL i get, it But i'm just, saying, ry, yes.
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Speaker 3: Come home and save the. Farm this starts snowing a.
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Speaker 3: Corpus that's a.
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Speaker 2: List, Yeah i'm just SAYING i see that happening In riley's.
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Speaker 3: Future oh, Wow, oh another text MESSAGE i want to
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Speaker 3: get to From. Jason, jason HAVE i missed the sing
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Speaker 3: along segment this? Morning is this the second time he
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Speaker 3: texted about a sing?
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Speaker 1: Along he texted twice AND i think he did last week.
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Speaker 1: Too because we did not do a sing along last.
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Speaker 3: TIME i probably should quote unquote let it.
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Speaker 2: Go we see what you did.
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Speaker 3: There the segment was too much. Fun riley wasn't here
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Speaker 3: for either one of these Because alison was subbing on
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Speaker 3: the day we did the Actual disney sing.
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Speaker 2: Along and then does it have to Be? Disney this is.
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Speaker 3: The only music that, oh look at, this look at.
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Speaker 1: This some enthusiasm was an enthusiasm the evil eye that she's.
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Speaker 3: Shot Here's here's the problem is that While riley is
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Speaker 3: very enthusiastic about A disney. Version the single Our boss
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Speaker 3: is not oh, Okay, No ben Loves. Disney he just
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Speaker 3: he thinks it might be a little Too it might
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Speaker 3: be a little jarring for people to be hearing me
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Speaker 3: saying fronted with us Singing disney. Music Now will sing?
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Speaker 3: Along was actually quite? Good that was that was quite.
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Speaker 3: Decent question is how many songs are In will's? Wheelhouse?
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Speaker 1: Anything anything By johnny Cash can that's in my?
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Speaker 2: Register?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay that's THAT'S i could see.
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Speaker 2: That, YEAH i could see.
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Speaker 1: THAT i can easily sing along With Bob dylan because
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Speaker 1: you just pick a, key doesn't matter if that's the right.
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Speaker 3: One any, others any others we SHOULD i should Investigate Josh, turner,
39:42
Speaker 3: Obviously Josh.
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Speaker 2: Turner you could do some Some Josh, turner like.
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Speaker 8: The back of my. HAND i probably know it.
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Speaker 1: Probably just you, know the old school country deep voice
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Speaker 1: PEOPLE i CAN i can go along.
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Speaker 3: With, okay that's pretty, good and that gives me something
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Speaker 3: to work with the idea is that, generally and we
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Speaker 3: talked about this spre internation or radio, day people like
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Speaker 3: to sing along with the. Radio, well you, know people
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Speaker 3: like to sing along with the.
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Speaker 2: Radio or.
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Speaker 4: Radio who do, radio which would be you know, us the.
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Speaker 1: DJs i did make a suggestion to you a couple
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Speaker 1: of weeks ago that that was a very interesting.
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Speaker 2: One BUT i doubt you're going there.
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Speaker 4: Today oh, no, no, no this is For.
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Speaker 3: Riley this is just a just A.
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Speaker 8: I don't, Sing, NO i haven't, REALLY i can't.
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Speaker 7: SING i can guess it THOUGH i, can't AND i
40:31
Speaker 7: will sing for y'all, too BUT i you don't want.
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Speaker 2: To way way mine is.
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Speaker 1: HORRIBLE i just could, sing horribly self conscious about, it
40:42
Speaker 1: but YET i stepped.
40:43
Speaker 2: Up and did.
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Speaker 7: It there IS i will do just about anything in this,
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Speaker 7: world accept.
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Speaker 3: Sing we will figure out.
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Speaker 8: Karaoke it's not.
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Speaker 3: Happening we will figure out a solution to this at
40:52
Speaker 3: some point on the, show sooner than.
40:54
Speaker 4: Later, yeah it's.
40:56
Speaker 2: Got to come. Back we've got lots of.
40:57
Speaker 3: People it comes up every week now and it's gonna
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Speaker 3: up being a. Thing there's nothing you could. Do it's
41:02
Speaker 3: like it's like trying to stop an.
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Speaker 2: Ocean, yeah you should not have started