Remarks by Dave Morell
42 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
- Play at 47:20
“It's just the main entrance. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:17:16
“Thank you, Ashton, for putting the winning application in, and for Executive Mello for seeing the value in bringing you forward. You have a great team that you can depend on, because I can't tell you, you've got big pumps to fill. But, You know that a county's economic development is totally different than a city's ability to navigate. So I will be looking forward to your strategic plan to move the economy forward. A lot of things in Pierce County, as some of my colleagues had mentioned, Our incentive packages are far and few between that we can offer. We can offer, hopefully, quicker…”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:43:00
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:22:10
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:23:02
“It says that they put together 24 million in private funds. And you verified, I mean.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:23:18
“Okay. And then this is a question that either one, Brian, you might, you could center at the podium. Why are we taking the money out of the Maureen Howard Affordable Housing Act versus Therapeutic Court Behavioral Health?”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:23:53
“Yeah. Okay. And Mary Connolly, do you know if Behavioral Health Therapeutic Court, do they... um pay for capital projects or is it just services i would need to double check on that okay Okay, I just want to make sure that, you know, I understand based on what was stated that this is a capital housing project, unique for Pierce County, but I just want to, you know, if people ask, well, why are you using affordable housing dollars for this? um when we need so much affordable housing out there so um that i just wanted to see if someone could take a shot at that question and we're okay with that…”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:25:14
“Okay. If you could do that and follow up, I was not going to hold up my, my vote on this. I just, you know, and looking at this, making sure we're taking the money out of the right pot. And since we have both of them, because I assume that Truve may ask at another time to take funding out of the behavioral health account also, but that's in the future, so. Those are my questions. Thank you.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:26:45
“So, it sounds like we could pull capital out of either or.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 11:58
“Thank you, Madam Chair. I move for approval R2026-179.”
County Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 16:51
“Thank you, Madam Chair. I move Council Amendment Number 1 to R2026-179.”
County Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 18:40
“Thank you, Madam Chair. I just wanted to thank staff for bringing this forward. This has been an ongoing challenge. You know, we did the City of Roy, I think, a year, two years ago, and had multiple challenges there. This is the issue with small towns. I know a lot of you don't have small towns. Um, usually when there's a vacancy, you get multiple, multiple applications. In this case, uh, when your town's only 351 people, 30% of it is an RV park. Um, you know it is a challenge to get people to get engaged and involved fortunately they've been able to have four council members including the…”
County Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 30:25
“Council Member Murrell. Thank you, Madam Chair, and I'll address this to legal. This doesn't kind of, it still allows transparency for the public to see these claims.”
County Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 30:50
“Okay, so we're not trying to kind of hide anything. It doesn't affect that at all. Okay, good. Okay, thank you.”
County Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 52:13
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
County Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 53:21
Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
County Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 1:04:33
“Thank you, Madam Chair. I'm going to ask permission from you to read from a couple of articles. about data centers because I think we're only getting one side of the story here. And this is my concern about running an emergency ordinance on this. But anyway, The Puget Sound Business Journal ran a very lengthy good article about power dynamics in a small town. The backlash against data centers have been a public relation nightmare for operators and developers nationwide. But in one central Washington town, residents have welcomed these facilities. Nick Passion, who wrote this article on July…”
County Council · Aug 25, 2026