Remarks by Jani Hitchen
279 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 12
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“Thank you. And we will go to the Vice Chair.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. And we'll go to Council Member Denson.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Councilmember Denson. And I will just express my gratitude to those of you that are here and to those that may be listening later or right now. Thank you. Thank you for the work you do before an emergency happens. And thank you for the work that you do selflessly, sometimes for a full-time job or sometimes as a volunteer role. You show up and say yes and put yourself in harm's way to help the community. So thank you for doing that. We're going to take a picture, and I think we have a couple other guests that maybe are here as part of this. I'm not 100% sure, but if you're here for…”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“so this afternoon we also are going to kind of under this proclamations recognitions and awards we are gonna get an update from the Pierce County library system during this open public meeting as they are an entity that serves so many in our County and so Gretchen Casarotti is the executive director of the library system and so she is going to come up and do kind of a what's going on in library”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, I waited long enough. Council Member Morrell, and then we'll go to Council Member Denson.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay, now I have a couple. We'll go to Council Member Denson first.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. I'm not seeing any other questions. So, Director, thank you so much for the update. Appreciate you spending so much time with us. Sorry, not sorry, but my comm director is with me today. It's all good. So we are now at section... which is resolutions, we have proposal R2026-189 before us, Vice Chair, for a motion.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“It's been moved and seconded. Can the clerk please read it into the record?”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Executive Mello, welcome and thanks for being with us.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Executive Mello, and welcome, Ashton. We'll let you do a brief introduction and then see if there are any additional questions.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“thank you again for your time and the opportunity to serve i look forward to working with each of you to advance a strong resilient and inclusive economic future for pierce county thank you so much for joining us and that introduction for those of us that have not watched the eidc meeting i'm sorry i really meant to and i just didn't get it done um so i appreciate that i'm going to see if there are additional questions from members of that committee or the two of us that were not present we'll start with vice chair herrera thank you chair”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Any additional questions? Okay. Well, I'll ask mine. So I have the honor of representing Joint Base Lewis-McChord and would just love to kind of hear some initial thoughts or ideas that you have around how we can support both people exiting the military and also their partners or family members that really struggle to find work close to home in a meaningful way where they're not commuting and just wondering initially just things that maybe you've done in the past or ideas that you have just to throw a curve ball at you?”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“thank you and we're just going to go down the line here and go to councilman bryala”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. We're going to go to Council Member Krueger.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Madam Chair. Thank you. And now we're going to go to Council Member Yambe.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“No hands raised. We'll close public comment, bring it back before the council and see if there's any further comments from any of my colleagues. Well, thank you. I'm not seeing any lights come up. So thank you for being here. It seems like you, just in my very brief, just this meeting, I'll have to go back and watch that meeting. Sounds like I really missed out. So just truly appreciate the thoughtfulness to the quick question I answered and just the information that you've been able to share with us. And at this time, I'm going to ask the clerk to call the roll on the approval of R2026-189.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“With seven ayes and zero nays, the motion is adopted. Congratulations.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So I believe as we've done before, we're going to pause and take a quick picture. We've been going for a little while. So I'm not going to formally put us in. I'm going to take it. We've been at it an hour and a half. So we're going to take a five minute recess. So we're going to be back at 439 so we can take a photo and then we'll come back and call the order and take on our next item. So we are in recess till 439. Thank you.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And we're going to pick up on item number two, which is resolution 2026-177. Vice Chair Herrera, we're going to you for a motion.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you so much for the introduction and the work of my colleagues to really pull this together and get us to this point. I know it took a while to get to this point. So I'm going to start with questions. Are there any questions from council members regarding this legislation?”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you for the question and learning. We should always be learning. Other questions before we open this up for public comment? Okay, Vice Chair Herrera.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you for the comments. Not seeing any other lights come up for questions or comments. So we're going to go ahead and open this up for public comment. I had two that signed up on the form that I have. So I'll call on you and then anyone else that's here to speak on this one, we'll just kind of queue up behind that. So I have Sarah first. Sarah Razor and Matt Metzger are the two. You'll have up to three minutes and the timer should be right there on your little light up thing.”
County Council · Sep 1, 2026