Remarks by Jani Hitchen
279 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 12
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“Thank you. Any questions on council amendment number five, council member Denson?”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Any further discussion on amendment number five? Seeing none, all those in favor of approving council amendment number five say aye. All those opposed say nay. Nay. Motion does not pass. That brings us to council amendment number six. Council Member Krueger.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Councilmember Krueger, to you.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. Any comments or questions on this one? Well, while I appreciate the thought and the level of detail, I want the work plan to have the flexibility to really think about this holistically, so I'll be voting no on this. I know the department has seen the list of areas that are articulated in this, and I know that they are thinking about all those different, potentially some others that maybe didn't make this list, and I want them to have the ability to kind of Really focus on the wider breadth of how we cite facilities like this. The needs I think back to how…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Member Krueger to speak to your amendment.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you. We're going to go to Council Member Ayala.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Chair. Thank you. We're going to Council Member Morrell.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you for those comments. Any additional comments or questions? Seeing none, all those in favor of adopting Council Amendment No. 7 say aye.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All those opposed say nay. Motion passes. That brings us to item number, amendment number eight, Council Member Krueger.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Member Cooper to speak to your amendment.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Um, I think I have a question of department staff on this particular 1, because I'm, I'm not sure that department staff can do this level of work before before we say, yes, let's do this. I, I hear you. And as council member morale said, I have both McNeil island in western states. So fair share is near and dear to my heart. Um, but. i also don't want to put something in in here that potentially jeopardizes the ability to to do this and and again i hear you i want to make sure so is there someone from the department staff mr kruger i think that's probably the right i don't know…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“okay thank you so to to summarize that this particular one because initially i really appreciated like looking at this at the level of detail and and the idea of using the evidence behind why we might regulate something a specific way and i know that the several of us had similar ideas and i just wanted to make sure it wasn't”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. We're going to go to Councilmember Denson.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Sure Thank you any further discussion on this one? Councilman Riley you just turned your mic off, right? Okay. I want to make sure you didn't have a second thought Okay, I'm not seeing any other comments. So I'm going to ask, thank you for jumping in and answering questions. So at this time, I'm going to ask all those in favor of adopting council amendment number eight, say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Nay. Motion passes. Thank you. That brings us to item number nine, council amendment number nine. Council Member Hoover. Thank you, Madam Chair.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member Denson. Any other comments? I too agree. I appreciate the level of detail here, but I want to give flexibility to the department staff, the groups they're going to be working with to really think about how this looks, what it looks like so that when they actually craft the policy that will come before this council in a future time in 2027, which. Just around the corner, um, and, uh, we'll take it under consideration at that time and see what thoughts we have and what questions we continue to have and feel like that's the appropriate time to have the level of detail…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Councilmember Cooper to speak to your amendment.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. I, too. Not sure how I missed it the first time, maybe because I'm not on CDC, but it caught me when you brought it up as an amendment, and I was like, oh, yeah, usually it's just in the packet, which I appreciate. I know we had a lot of public comment, and it was one of the reasons that we moved this forward as an emergency. So maybe—nope, this isn't the one as emergency. That was the other one with similar— too many moratoriums everybody but we did run it and we did receive a lot of public comments so I get it but agree that pulling it out so I would to keep us doing what…”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you for your comments. No other hands raised. I'll close public comment, bring it back to the full council. We'll start with Council Member Murrell. Thank you, Madam Chair.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. We're going to go to Councilmember Ayala.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you for those comments. We are going to go to Councilmember Denson.”
County Council · Sep 8, 2026