Remarks by JC Harris
102 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“Yeah, I would move to REMOVE THE SCHOOL ZONE 24-7 SECTION FROM THIS ORDINANCE.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Oh, wait. Councilmember Harris? No, I mean, a point of order. I mean, shouldn't we vote on the actual committee before?”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I will vote no to me. This is like basically, you know, trying to do whatever that thing is about working on the plane while you're trying to fly it. And so, thank you.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“THANK YOU. THERE IS AN ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS, FANTASTIC, BEYOND WONDERFUL MUNICIPAL FINANCE BOOTCAMP, WHICH NOBODY EVER ATTENDS, SPONSORED BY IWC, BECAUSE IT'S OUT USUALLY IN YACAMA OR SOMEPLACE LIKE THAT. MUNICIPAL FINANCE IS, REGARDLESS OF I THOUGHT I KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT ACCOUNTING BEFORE I GOT INVOLVED WITH THIS, AND IT'S VERY DIFFERENT.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“It would be better to have somebody come in to train the council and the public and watch how municipal accounting works. That would be a greater benefit to the city. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Thank you. It really pains me, but I can't support this. And if this is something where there's a council vote, I will ask that there be a footnote with my specific objection. This has too many errors of fact. And I'm sorry, they're not trivial. There is no such thing as a Seattle area metroplex. It does not exist. It's a specific FAA program, and that matters. An employment is not a passenger. There were not 52 million employments. An employment is when somebody gets on the plane. It's a specific FAA term regarding funding. These are the kinds of things that will just get, you know, I…”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“I did not want to go through, there's just, it's like a lot. I actually tried to meet with the staff to talk about it, and there's just too much for this venue. We have other, I just pulled out a couple, and I, yeah.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“THE ONLY REASON I MENTIONED EMPLAYMENT IS WHAT THAT DOES IS THEN THERE'S THIS WHOLE OTHER STREAM OF CALCULATIONS WHERE THE ARGUMENT IS THAT THE AIRPORT COULD BALLOON IN ANNUAL OPERATIONS TO 880,000. which is like ridiculous. I'm sorry. It's just, it is physically impossible. And it is so, it's like you're getting to like Hartsfield Jackson territory. And so what I'm saying is I tried to be discreet by saying here are two things, but it's like any kind of math argument where You have a couple of axioms, and if they turn out not to be true, everything downstream, 5, 10 pages, 20, 50, that…”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Thank you. I was not present for the fourth, but I want to show my appreciation for council members and the dunking and so forth. And also to the mayor and deputy mayor for showing up for the port thing today. I may have sounded a bit harsh to our committee people, but just again, I will say that The airport was supposed to, when they did the second runway, they pumped $170 million into the area. That was the level of mitigation. It was almost a one-to-one capital versus mitigation thing. And the second runway was $1.1 billion, and you ended up $600 million in mitigations. And it may not have…”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Thank you. The Regional Transit Committee met last week and a couple of items of note. We review the changes in service and there are a number of things coming. There will be 12.5% added capacity if the unconstrained budget is approved. Unconstrained is a funny word, that just means 100% of the plan that the council has seen which cut service, especially to the south end. And the comment was, if this is unconstrained, I'd hate to see constrained. There will be a 0.1%, it's not in stone, but the likelihood is there will be another 0.1% councilmanic sales tax increase next year. This year was…”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“So the most important thing is, is the tie indicating support for Brazil, or is it just something totally unrelated?”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Okay, so I won't – I asked a vague question via email, and I apologize. But my real question about accrual versus cash is does it – is it usually – Do you get surprised? In other words, is it a reasonable thing to make the assumption that you're going to get paid with those things? I mean, does it usually? Yeah. Or is that still too vague? I'm sorry.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“So my last but not least, on utilities, do they – They, meaning the utilities, do they report out the number of units? Because I'm just, you keep seeing this increase in both natural gas and electricity, which I would assume means that there are more homes or there are, I mean, in other words, is there a way to account for, because it's pretty large.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“I mean, do they explain why? Because I guess I was just assuming that over time I've been a little concerned that maybe some of these would go down, but they're going up double digits.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Okay, but they don't give you any kind of demographics or anything? No.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I usually don't like to be rhetorical or whatever, but thank you for your attention, legal, on the whole business park thing. I just spent years at the corner of 24th, and I would look to the east and I would see that one thing and then I'd look to the west and I'd see another thing and the population sees these shiny buildings and they thought it was something else. Your work will, you know, people always focus on restaurants and ribbon cuttings and everything like that, but that's like the meat and potatoes that the city is going to They, yeah, it will be wonderful as long as this…”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“I actually had a follow-up on the Wesley thing. I don't know if in your last position, did you say that the taxable portion was the lodging and the non-taxable is the...”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Maybe Washington is different, but it was a thing in Michigan where you'd have these mega hospital complexes that were run by the Catholic Church or something like that. And at a certain point, the state said, no, you're a bajillion dollar corporation and started doing collections. So what you said kind of struck me as backwards. I thought it would be more that the medical facilities would be. I'm asking you, is there any like precedent for this throughout Washington with hospital systems? And if that's not your experience, that's fine.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Thank you. And you can put your earmuffs on now. The Port of Seattle has invested about $170 million into this city through sound insulation and various stuff. To have one sentence about the impacts and so on, it is hard to overstate what impact THE EFFECT THEY HAVE ON THIS CITY, HAVE HAD ON THIS CITY SINCE THE 70s, THIS THING CALLED THE CTAC COMMUNITIES PLAN. AND MY COMMENT IS THAT THE COUNCIL HAS, THE THING THAT YOU HEAR FROM RESIDENTS IS I LOVE OUR LITTLE TOWN, AND WE DO NOT, WE'RE IN THIS CONSTANT DENIAL THAT THE small amount of regular sales tax we get every year and everything, that…”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“to their home so I guess that would be my my two-part answer councilmember Harris just to be clear this is authorizing any school zone to be extended to 24 hours yes but if we yes potentially if we have”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“As an administrative matter, that would not require a council vote?”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Maybe I missed it, but are you... You're authorizing, like, this range of anywhere along Kent-Des Moines within this set of blocks? I mean, there's not, like, a specific... I'm just, it's a pretty windy bit of territory.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Okay, and a quick, I asked last time, I mean, is there any clarity now as to what the signage would be in a school zone? Because it is a thing when it shifts from one speed limit to another. I'd be very curious to know what it's going to look like to people visually.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Could we get that before the second reading, maybe something pretty please?”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026