Remarks by Eddie Lin
13 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thank you, Council President. Thank you, Council Member Rivera for bringing this forward, Council Member Kettle. I will be supporting this today, but I also wanna speak to why I abstained and sort of why I'm supporting and what I think this means going forward. First, I wish I could have attended this symposium, obviously, with the closed-door session, and for good reason. You know, these are sensitive discussions. But, you know, representing the district that is most impacted by gun violence, I mean, we've all had tragedies, and one tragedy is too many. But I feel a particular...…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. I do just want to clarify a little bit, and I think as others have said, it's not about the cost of this contract, but it's really about the next steps of what has to happen. And it's a little bit awkward to do it through a resolution. I know it's non-binding. But what I see in this sort of contract and this model is, you know, first the landscape analysis, but then there's going to be recommendations. that come out of that analysis. And there's going to be recommendations about how to do the positive supports, again, the mentoring, the jobs, and those will all…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. Thank you to my colleagues for bringing this forward and it's really powerful listening to you, listening to the public comments. You know, I think about our youth who are struggling in many ways with, you know, issues around mental health and, you know, kids, as Council Member Foster mentioned, kids, should just have a right to be kids. They should just have a right to participate in school and sports and other programming. And unfortunately, too often some of our kids are bullied, are discriminated against. And it's gross that this initiative would double down…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thanks so much, and apologies having tech issues with logging on. But just want to thank Council Member Foster for bringing this forward. In addition to South Park and Georgetown, you know, there's schools right above the International Airport there. on Beacon Hill, Maple Elementary, Cleveland. And it's a little bit shocking to know that there's still leaded fuel used in these small planes. And it's still a little unclear how big of an impact that is in terms of how much that's landing on, you know, the dirt and soils and playgrounds near this airport. But certainly, I think it's about time…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. We'll have a Land Use Committee meeting on Wednesday. We have some appointments to the Green New Deal Oversight Board, the Urban Forestry Commission, and the Sweetened Beverage Tax Oversight Board. We have our bill... AMENDING DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS FOR INSTITUTIONS IN MULTI-FAMILY ZONES. WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING ON THAT. AND THEN WE HAVE SOME SUB AREA PLANS. WE HAVE THERE ORIGINALLY WERE FOUR SUB AREA PLANS. NORTH GATE, DOWNTOWN. Greater Duwamish and the Ben Mick The downtown we're gonna propose an amendment to remove Downtown because of the growth management…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. I'd like to move Amendment A, Version 1, to Council Bill 1254.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you so much. And first, thank you, Council Member Foster, for bringing this legislation forward. Thanks to everyone that came to speak today. This amendment is, I brought an amendment to the original bill, and in terms of enforcement, there's two primary ways that this bill will be enforced. There's SDCI enforcement, and then there's the private right of action. And, you know, in the private right of action, while it is great that we have attorney's fees and other penalties, it still requires tenants to go to court, which could be a lengthy process, you know, often requires tenants to…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President and Council Member Kettle. Thanks for bringing this forward. and for the amendment, the amendment to the amendment. I read some of the feedback we received, including Betsy Hudson's, and I do think there are real costs that landlords face that are not always captured by the damage deposits. And so I do think that those costs will be sort of spread out. I don't know. What is hard to know is how much those costs really are. But I think we've also heard from a lot of tenant advocates that... you know, that even if those costs are spread out, that that is something…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I'd like to move Amendment A, Version 1, to Council Bill 12-1253.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you so much, colleagues. This amendment would add $500,000 of general fund to the Human Services Department for investments in highly impacted areas, including North Beacon Hill, North Rainier neighborhoods. It would fund two dedicated neighborhood outreach positions. You know, when I took, came into office in November, it's when, so at the end of last year's budget, it really started to get to crisis level in North Beacon Hill and North Rainier. And, you know, I appreciate that this typically would be something that we would discuss at full budget. And I know that the full budget is…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I just want to, and I should have said this in the opening remarks, just want to, regardless of your support for this amendment or not, to Councilmember Kettle, just want to say thank you so much for all the attention you've been providing to District 2, in particular doing those safety walks. And it means a lot. It means a lot to the community to have you showing up there. So I just want to put that on the record. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“I'm so sorry, Council President. Councilmember Cattle, I appreciate your amendment. I don't think I can be supporting today, although I will. You know, the CCTV program, I'm very excited to see the audit reports that will be coming hopefully soon, because I think that that will help our community. You know, we have a very divided discussion about sort of the benefits, the costs, the, you know... the potential risks of our CCTV program, and I'm hoping that those reports will help us kind of make decisions based on sort of what we can learn from the data on those reports. My community, District…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Council President. And thank you, Council Member Kettle. I do think it's really important to hear that, especially given your background, your years of service in the military. And I really appreciate that. And just want to say thank you to Council Member Rink for all of your work in this. And also just want to speak to, you know, I think... Just wanna speak to the contributions of, you know, it is a difficult thing when people are fleeing oppression and violence, and so obviously we need to do what we can to support and to be a welcoming city, but I also just wanna recognize…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026