Remarks by Jani Hitchen
279 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 12
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“Thank you. Okay, so I still have two lights up. So we'll go to Councilmember Morrell.”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. Any further conversation on this one? So thank you, Council Members Morrell and Denson for working on this. I think this is one of the things with new technology. I appreciate making sure that we're letting our fire chiefs know because it may require them to respond in a different way or with a different type of engine. And once they get there is not the time to find that out. So that was, I appreciate making sure. And again, as we look at this policy holistically over the year, we may think of a different way of doing this. Don't know what it is yet,…”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you for your comments. Barbara followed by potentially Sally. Okay, not Sally. So then Jonathan, not Jonathan either. Okay.”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Anyone else on this item?”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“No other hands. I'm going to close public comments and bring it back to the Council. Is there any further discussion on Proposal O2026-526S for as amended? We will go to Council Member Denson.”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for your comments and thank you for your work on this. It was not done alone, but you were definitely behind quite a bit of it. We're going to. Council member is your light on or off? Okay. I go to council member.”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Nothing left to say, but I'm really excited to get this off of our work plan. We've been working on this for a long time, but I think it's been as council member Denison said, it's been thoughtful. We have done an iterative process where we've gone back and we've looked at instead of like. Off the cuff, just changing something we paused and we did the learning that we needed to do. We did the stakeholdering and that's good policy making. And we're going to go back and we're going to check in and see how it worked. And then we're going to look at it again. So I think that's the way…”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Aye. You have seven ayes, zero nays. With seven ayes and zero nays, the motion is adopted. I feel like we need to clap, everybody. Okay, so item number two is an item that we are going to look at potentially rescheduling. Council Member Krueger, I'm going to go to you to make a motion.”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“It's been moved and seconded that we continue proposal O2026-552 to the September 29th, 2026 regular meeting. Any further discussion? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries, thank you. So we are now at community forum. Community forum is an opportunity for members to address the council on any topic of significant to or affecting Pierce County government that did not appear on our agenda for final action today. There is a three minute limit. Please state your name if you'd like it on the record. And I'm gonna start with the two that signed in for this. And I read their…”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“No, their hands raised. I'm going to close community forum and bring it back before the council for other business. I'm just going to remind, I assume the two council members at each end potentially have announcements. Council Member Kruver, for your in-district, I'm assuming you want to remind people. Yes, thank you, Madam Chair. I almost forgot.”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. And I will just reiterate what she said. So we will not be in these chambers next Tuesday. So if you're one of our friends that like to just come show up at our council meetings for fun, we won't be here next Tuesday. We're going to be on the road in Eatonville. We'll still have our Zoom options if you don't want to travel. But just be aware our normally scheduled 3 o'clock meeting is being shifted to an in-district that night. 6 p.m. 6 p.m. in the Eatonville High School. I'm going to go to Councilmember Denson.”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you for your work on that and Council Member Herrera and your two amazing assistants. Are there any other announcements from my colleagues? Seeing none, there is no other business before us. We are adjourned. Thank you, everybody.”
County Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Good afternoon. I'd like to call to order the Pierce County Council. Today is September 8th, 2026. Time is 301. If the clerk could please call the roll.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You have seven members present. With seven members present, we do have a quorum. Thank you all for joining us. In a moment, Council Member Denson will be leading us in the Pledge of Allegiance and read a land acknowledgement. Following the pledge, while standing, we'll ask that you remain standing during a moment of silence in honor of those men and women serving overseas in our military. So if you can stand, please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you Council Member Denson. We have a packed agenda today. I'm going to look to my colleagues to request that in Section 9 of our agenda that we rearrange the order, basically flipping items number 1 and 3. So kind of... essentially going in reverse. So are there any objections to changing the order of our agenda? So this is the ordinances section. Okay. Seeing none, then we will accept that change. So for the public, the sequence will basically be three, two, one for the last section of the agenda. On today's council agenda, there'll be multiple opportunities to provide public comment…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“That's all. Thank you for your comments and for your service. Okay, I'm not seeing any other raised hands. So we'll close public comment, bring it back before the council. Is there any further discussion on the approval of a consent agenda? not seeing any, can the clerk call the roll on the approval of the consent agenda?”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Aye. You have seven ayes and zero nays. With seven ayes and zero nays, the motion is adopted. Thank you and congratulations. We appreciate you volunteering for this role. We have no messages from the executive or other county elected officials, so we'll move on to proclamations, recognitions, and awards. Our proclamation today is the council and executive designating September 22, 2026 as fall Fall Prevention Awareness Day in Pierce County. And I would like to invite the following individuals to the podium as Council Member Kruver reads this into the record. We've got Bunny Smith, Director of…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Let me turn your microphone on, otherwise somebody will yell at me. There you go.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, thank you all for being here. I'm going to look to my colleagues to see if there are comments. We will start with Councilmember Denson.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. We'll go to Councilmember Yambe.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. And speaking of Council Member Kruber, we're going to go back to the sponsor of this proclamation, Council Member Kruber. Thank you, Madam Chair.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Well, I just will conclude that this is a great way to learn both for family members who are helping aging family members or just if you want to know because we all keep aging. It just keeps happening. So we all will be seniors. So good thing to learn. We're going to take a photo. We have lots of people. How do you want to organize?”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026