Remarks by Jay Arnold
59 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
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“I will be voting against this motion, not because I don't support doing something, but I think this is an additional step that slows us down to the final solution.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Deputy Mayor, was your intention that those targeted code amendments have the council holding the public hearing?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Chief Commander, Lieutenant, thank you for the presentation. It's really impressive, the work that you're doing. And beyond the outcomes of the people involved, that are released. One thing that was covered in the memo is how this, the work we do here actually saves the community money compared to these housing in the King County Jail or score. And it mentioned some of the direct costs of how we've been able to keep that score number low. One of the things I'd like to have is some backup information. It's just saying, okay, you've said, okay, if we housed everybody in score,…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“And then secondly, you mentioned the jail navigator position has been in effect for just a year and a half now. When we got briefed on community court, they had some information over the history of community court before community court and with community court to be able to say, okay, this is impacting recidivism. Do we track that to be able to show, okay, before the jail navigator, after the jail navigator, here's the impact that we're having?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“And both the quantitative aspect of it, but also the qualitative aspect of it, the individual stories of hearing how people really said the services and the support that they got were transformational. It's great to hear those stories as well. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Kim. I appreciate all the really thorough stuff. These are my notes from looking at the packet. Lots of interesting stuff in there. Couple things on the study, the information in the packet showed kind of annual numbers of occupancy. One of the things I'm making a case, especially for downtown parks, I'd be more interested in peak and summer days to be able to say how many summer days are we hitting that 80% level that really justifies the need for turnover. So I'd like to see that data as we consider moving forward. Oh, I should have opened up with, I am…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Madam Mayor, I move approval of Ordinance 4944. Second.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Two brief things. You might recall from our affordability discussions, solid waste is looking at options for long-term disposal, whether we export when the landfill fills, whether we export by rail or invest in a waste-to-energy facility. This is going to be a key part of the solid waste comprehensive plan that MISWAC is dealing with. SCA is really involved in this as part of the affordability work, and I've been asked to serve on the SCA working group on working with the county on that long-term disposal strategy. This group is a combination of people from MISWAC, the Solid Waste Advisory…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you. I appreciate bringing this forward. I don't have a particular objection to this, but what we have done in the past for state advocacy, at least, is run things through the legislative work group, and I would note if there is council interest in looking at this, the work group already has a meeting scheduled for the end of the month, and we could come back to council for our August meeting if there was interest in more analysis on this.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026