Remarks by Amy Falcone
88 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
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“Yeah, that would be great for us to do that, to be able to, as I said, save both administrative cost and burden to them. So thank you. I appreciate being proactive. And I love the idea of a shared portal, but I would love that for as many of these different jurisdictions and entities as we possibly could, again, just to have more of an economy of scale savings there. So thank you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. Thank you for the explanation, Quinn, and also city manager for your remarks about, you know, the cost driver being Quinn's position, right, which is really important. But I do think as we talked about the need continuing to grow, not only like, and you know, as Quindage you were talking about just the overall cost per customer or per resident, right? That that dollar value will likely increase, but also the number of residents who qualify may also likely increase. So I see this as a, you know, how to make your position as efficient as possible, right? And so as we…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I just wanted to mention thank you for, I don't remember who mentioned, but mentioned the kudos that we got on establishing a network of peer agencies. And I just wanted to call out and thank Ryan Buck of the Lake Washington School District in particular for their work on that, because that's something that I know we've learned a lot from their expertise. And we really value our partnership with the school district.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“I was just raising my hand because I was ready to move on to the next question if we were.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Great, thank you. Well, first, I agree with my council colleagues' comments. Thank you to staff that have been working on this to community members who have expressed just so much interest in this project and also to the Eastside Tool Collective. I know it took a lot of work and I also agree in response to the first question that there was a lot of really detailed information. You can tell they did their homework and obviously we'll make sure as a city that we do our due diligence to make sure every T is crossed and I dotted to make sure that this is a successful facility. Reading the memo,…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I have a question for the city manager just about next steps. So obviously, I think we're hearing that the strong preferences for track A and track B kind of as a last resort, if nothing else can work out. So my question is, what are the planned next steps? If we approve, adopted a motion tonight to ask staff to go back with both options still on the table, are you then coming back to check in to say, this is more information on the two options and which one do you wanna pick? And then we make another motion to say, bring us back in a final agreement with one of those,…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“I guess I guess my my follow question related to that is. At what point is it a Council versus staff decision to pivot to option B if we give you authority to go to both right? Because I could imagine there could be a situation where You know, you may think that it's not feasible to move forward with track A, but council may want to say, well, we do want to concede on that thing and we do want to make it happen for track A. I guess that's my question is how will we navigate that? Is it that if we move forward with track A, you don't need another check-in point? But if you think that you need…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. And bear with me as I try to modify language on the fly to... Wait.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I move to authorize staff to proceed with negotiations based on the tool library implementation plan and to return to Council with either a proposed contract for consideration of track A or a check-in with Council to consider proceeding with track B if track A seems infeasible.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you. Yes, City Attorney, that would be wonderful. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. Nothing really new to add. Just wanted to share that I support staff's recommendation and including the exchange ratios applying to all of the affordable housing requirements. And I really appreciate not only its simplicity, but its responsiveness to the stakeholder engagement. So thank you for that. And I'm looking forward to hopefully adopting this in the near future. Thanks.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Well, there you go. Councillor Falcone. thank you madam mayor i was um intently listening to the conversation so that i would have things to respond to and to see if you know to be able to share my thoughts on um the great ideas from coming from my fellow council members well first um thank you um mr pantley ms rosman and all the partners involved for bringing this to us you know we heard from the community loud and clear during the comprehensive plan process that they want us to prioritize preserving affordable housing And to me, this is just a no brainer. It's a great opportunity that…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Great, thank you. That's really helpful. I mean, my lens on this is that I have like two goals here. One, I want to make sure we get the largest community benefit that would actually be helpful to community members most in need. And two, that we don't kill the deal by any changes that we want to see, right? That I want to make sure this goes through and that we don't over squeeze to try to get so much out of it that some potential partners walk away from the table, right? So those are kind of my two check marks that I wanna make sure in any of these proposed guidance that we give to stop to…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Council Member Falcone. Thank you, Madam Mayor. I wasn't going to speak, but Deputy Mayor raises a good point. So I just wanted to share one of my thoughts that may be helpful for staff and the direction is that I support Council Member Arnold's thoughts on seeing if there's ways to break this into smaller parts to be more efficient in doing the work. So a plus one to that, please.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Member Falcone. Thank you. Yes, since it's late, I'm only going to mention one thing, and that is thank you to everyone who's come out to watch the amazing young athletes at this week's Junior League Softball World Series in Everest Park. It's been so fun. I know I've been out there every day. I know I saw Deputy City Manager Lopez out there. I know that Council Member Arnold's been out there. So if you haven't been out there, definitely check it out. It's so much fun. There's a lot of great energy. And the games run through Saturday morning. Thank you. Thank you. Council…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. Since Councillor Paschal presented the other LRM, I hope he doesn't mind if I present this one just to share the workload. This is a joint proposed LRM by Councillor Paschal and I. I won't go into much detail about it because I think we're all fairly familiar with these issues. There's two issues in here. You've probably all read the language, but just for those watching at home, These both relate to the Holmes Point Overlay, which is a part of the neighborhood in the Finn Hill neighborhood, right? It's a portion of the Finn Hill neighborhood for those who may not be…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Council Member Falco? Thank you, Madam Mayor. Well, thank you for this. I think this is really solid and I do have some thoughts as well. So I'm glad it's just in draft form. So thank you for bringing it to us to be able to provide this input. I really like that you talk about sustainability in here and resiliency to climate change. I think that's really crucial. Another aspect of that that we talk about a lot is really the intersection between housing and trees and sustainability and combatting climate change. And I think it's really important that, you know, I know we have a lot of…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. Well, thank you to, sorry, I'm still saying that. Thank you, Council Member Arnold as well. I appreciate your comments. Yes, I agree with, like when I said trickling down into guiding principles and then into goals, et cetera, with the housing, so thank you for that. And then with his comments about the different types of land use throughout our city, I had two specific things about that that I was gonna wait till later, but I'll raise them now just since we're talking about that. The first is, I know I've said this before when we were talking about our Vision Zero…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you for that. Just a clarifying question related to that. I've heard from some Holmes Point residents that they don't have the same ability to remove two trees per year, to apply for a permit to remove two trees per year, that the response from city staff is that they're not allowed to do so since they live in the homes point overlay section. That's the specific issue that I hear most about, I would say. So are you saying that's not true? Are they able to have the same property rights to be able to remove two trees per year and get a permit for that?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay, perhaps we could talk more offline just about specific situations. Is that right?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, I think there may also be education of some of our contractors that work in the city, some of our arborists as well, because they also are having a typical time finding anyone even willing to submit a permit application because they may have outdated information, so thank you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. Just a small note related to Council Member Arnold's previous comment about, you know, you've talked about like the age of trees and the impact on tree canopy. I would love for us to look at what the data that we do have in tree canopy and some of those different land areas throughout the city and like look into the future, right? On like which trees need to be planted now to have the eight, you know, so that they will grow. So when some of the other trees might be dying out that they're able to replace them and, you know, just thinking at looking at things…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, just that, yeah, I had a very similar thought, like looking at the green under, you know, draft for increasing variety of one-time tree events and other things that go beyond education to actually increasing the tree canopy on private property as well. So I could see it fitting either one.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Mayor. I move that we postpone agenda item 9A, the Kirkland Youth Bill of Rights, until our next business meeting.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Oh, thank you for that clarification. I have a friendly, you know, accept a friendly amendment to a meeting in September.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026