Remarks by Amanda Dodd
105 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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“I move the second recommended action, which is all you're going to get from me.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I love that for all of you. I think we're good.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So that's just my feedback. Just to tag on to that, I think, and I'm looking at Kyle because I'm going to paraphrase a longer discussion, but I think as we revisit the agreement that we have with Lime, because ours is very bare bones at this point, and we've seen other cities, like it's advanced since we first adopted it, I think understanding how we can get responses to scooters without just going and moving them ourselves would be great, and then just really improving the communication between like residents in Lyme would be great. Because there is supposed to be accountability for parking,…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Totally agree. I think it's a really great thing, and we should get to where a couple of Lime scooters where they aren't supposed to be is something that's solvable and doesn't derail it for everyone. Yeah.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“like plus one to that and say, we've had discussions. I don't know if it was this exact seven of us about how expensive it is to own a car. And that one of the ways that you can save like thousands of dollars a year is to not have a car for every eligible driver. So the exemptions that the mayor mentioned for housing for people with disabilities or senior housing, also affordable housing, like I don't necessarily understand that reduction on the face of it. The other part of bike parking for just people of all abilities, like one of the apartment buildings in Bothell that I'm familiar with,…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Building infrastructure that makes it possible because everywhere that has ever done that has seen people use it more Well, once we have a network that people are more comfortable traversing It's not like every building is going to redevelop quickly and they'll be hit with new standards that we then update later so some of my concern I think is if we don't I Don't want to over correct either because then when we do have the infrastructure it'll be like I'm here and now I'm attaching it to a telephone pole and which I have a friend who does in a place he goes with no background. Old school.…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I don't disagree. I just want to see more kinds of bikes. And as Steph mentioned, micro mobility stuff accommodated.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I actually would like to add something. All right, Council Member Dodd. You will find on our shared desk... a copy of a letter from the City of Lake Forest Park to King County Metro and they have asked us if we are interested in signing on to this. They plan to deliver it to Metro in two days, so this would be a cool thing to make a decision about tonight. Where would we throw that into the agenda, Mr. Mayor?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Hey, so we have this letter on our desk and essentially the City of Lake Forest Park has authored this. They are aware of the typo in the last sentence. And City of Kenmore has signed on, other organizations, and I would like us to consider whether we could sign on to this. And Deputy City Manager, I know we might have some staff input that we could share as well.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“inclined to agree bringing it forward. But I don't live anywhere near the 372 and I haven't taken it. So I appreciate both Deputy Mayor and Deputy Mayor Emeritus for bringing up their personal experience and I support signing the letter.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I would like to move the recommended action. Second.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for bringing this to us. There is no planet where I could speak as intelligibly as Councilmember Curd about this restoration work, but it is great to get confirmation that it is a wonderful and exciting project. what i am capable of understanding is the slide that has all of the grants that you guys received to make this work like what an amazing bit of work because we don't do environmental restoration just for bothel it is obviously part of our whole regional water network and um Now I'm going to take away Cool Salmon Hotel from this. So thank you for all the work that…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Point of information, Council Member Ongulary, I just wanted to jump in because a lot of these rates are things that either we will set as a council, like if we change our general levy collection, or that the RFA will set in their authority. And I don't know that our staff can it's not appropriate for them to estimate that amount because they do not have the statutory authority to set these rates. They would be guessing what we will do as actions, and that's not normally something we ask our staff to do.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for the presentation, Claire and Quan. I don't know if I want to call you deputy city manager, acting city manager, so Claire. But I just really want to shout out your efforts, the efforts of our other staff, our fire chief, and just getting through this process and taking two organizations that have shared goals but different ways of operating, different ways of administrating is really difficult to put it very simply. So I really appreciate all the dedication that's gone into this and the ways that our concerns of a city, that the RFA's concerns as their district have…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'd like to move the recommended action.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'd like to move the recommended action.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. I did want to add, inspired by things that other council members have said, whenever you take over a job that someone else has held, whether it's a city council or a finance manager or a deputy city manager or a fire chief, I'm just picking on people in the you're going to inherit the decisions they made. And I think it is very easy to be like, ah, man, like, um, Mr. Mayor, you mentioned, you know, we replaced two of our three fire stations in our 2018 levy. None of us were seated up here. Um, but now it feels like, oh man, if only we had done all three, right. And we, we weren't…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Tangentially, will Fire District 10's measure have different pro-con committee members? It's a fully separate deal. Is that correct? Because they're not part of our measure. They're running their own. Is that accurate?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Oh, I was just going to say, I fully support your dreams and I think you're going to be great.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Anyway, Council Member Dodd? I'm assuming we need a motion, Clerk. Okay, I got a nod. So I move that we appoint Mason Thompson, Wesley Wang, and Brandon Keith to the pro committee for Proposition 1. I second.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I don't love the looseness of that because it just means one of us has to think this might be big or staff might have to think that and I and it just I don't know I think I'm a much more defined process person I wonder if it's a big enough topic that staff is holding some kind of open house on it that we then have the second public hearing at Council I also wanted to ask You said state law only requires one. Does it require the one at Planning Commission? Or is that the one you guys chose because for the smaller issues, that's where we get more comments?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'm still digesting it a little bit. But yeah, I don't like the looseness of we could have a second one if we ask for it because I feel like we can't always predict what will strike a chord with people. as we're working on it early.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I definitely agree with that. And I think the main thing that I'd love to see with public hearings is that they're just a little bit earlier it does feel like it's at the end of our study session process. And while there's opportunity for people to give feedback throughout the life cycle of a project and doing that work, public hearing makes it sound like that's when you should do it. And it's often weighing in on the final product, not shaping the decision. And so I think some way to make it more clear when we're shaping it versus like having it right at the end, I think gives people the…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“And to your point, there are other, it's not judicial when the hearing examiner examines something, but there are other times when a judge is intended to consider what the legislative body was intending with legislation. So it would be good to get, I'm going to just look at Eileen, but it would be good to get kind of a grounding, I think in how that would, that concept is applied with the hearing examiner. Does he look at our intent or just the direct word of the law? And like, even, the last round of hearing examiner reports that we got, um, the hearing examiner had called out a code update…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I was going to talk about, one of the things you had mentioned was landmarks and shorelines items. Formally go to the Planning Commission before the council and I'm wondering so those are those Types of things are in two different boats right now shorelines joke So we don't have a shorelines board. We chose not to reappoint one So how would that work in practice without a shorelines board I”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026