Remarks by Jenne Alderks
126 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 6
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“All right. Last call for council conversations. All right. Moving on to projected agenda discussion. We have council member Dodd here to introduce this item.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I will also add that this process has been used in the past to align our positions with clearly stated values that we have expressed as the city. And so I do appreciate that Council Member Dodd is bringing this forward because my understanding is that by hearing the discussion from the city, from members of the public, and weighing that, we are able to then make a united decision here on council where we're able to stand in alignment with those values.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. So I know that one of the situations needed here. Can I have my script back?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Alright, so we do need at least three council members to voice support to be able to put this on the agenda and have the discussion.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. And one question I have is, is it three council members in addition to council member Dodd or is it council member Dodd and two council members?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“So inclusive of council member Dodd, we have, I think, support to put this on an upcoming agenda. If I can count correctly.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Next up, we have the consent agenda. Is there a motion to approve the consent agenda? Council Member Dodd.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“The motion to approve the consent agenda has been made by Council Member Dodd and seconded by Council Member Curd. Is there any discussion? Clerk, you may proceed with the roll call.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay. We have a public hearing, which means I am going to go to our Choose Your Own Adventure agenda item. So let me explain the purpose first. The purpose of this agenda item is for the City Council to review and take action on the street vacation for a portion of Northeast 185th Street between 108th Avenue Northeast and 110th Avenue Northeast as requested by the University of Washington Bothell. As this is a quasi-judicial proceeding, it is handled differently than other matters that City Council routinely discusses. I will first go over the order of operations for this matter. At the start…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you, city attorney. Does anyone in attendance wish to challenge the participation of any council member based on appearance of fairness doctrine? If so, please step up to the podium. If you are viewing the meeting on Zoom, please use a virtual raise hand feature located at the bottom of the Zoom interface. Select raise hand. The host will then see that you have your hand raised and can invite you to speak. When called upon, please state the name of the member and the reasons why you believe they should be disqualified from this matter. Please remember we are not taking public testimony…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, I see no challenges, city clerk. Okay, I'm gonna keep going until I find the place where we're supposed to be. I'm on page seven. Okay, so we're moving on to public testimony. Public testimony for the proposed street vacation for a portion of Northeast 185th Street between 108th Avenue Northeast and 110th Avenue Northeast is now open. Sign-ups for public comment were received by the city clerk. We will now ask for members of the public to present testimony. When the city clerk calls your name, please step to the podium. Please remember to state your name, confine your remarks to the…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, with that, I will now close the public testimony period. We will now ask the street vacation applicant to speak on the proposal.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you. We will now ask city staff to present their staff report on the proposal. All right, we're getting some tech set up. Don't worry about it. I don't know if I have good jokes. I know this is where we get to ad lib. And then the city attorney gives me a stink eye because I'm going off script.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I literally can tap dance. Please don't ask me to do that here. That doesn't stop me. All right. Staff is set up, so thank you so much to Peter Pearson and Boyd Benson for being here tonight and presenting to us.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. With that, the applicant will now be provided a brief opportunity to present a rebuttal if they wish. I don't believe there's anything to rebut. Seeing none. All right. And that means staff does not have anything to rebut. So we will move on to deliberations. All right, city council members, is there any discussion of this matter or questions for staff or the applicant? They're confident. I went and sat down.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Now that the flashbacks are over, there is still time for Council Members for questions or discussion, if you'd like. All right, with no more, the evidentiary record on this matter is now closed. It is my understanding from the testimony tonight from the applicant and staff that both the applicant and staff are not looking for a motion tonight, but we'll bring back a draft ordinance at a future meeting in October for council's consideration. With that, unless there is more discussion from council, we will conclude this agenda item. Okay, I'm going back to my regular script now. Before we take…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“I have a motion from councilmember Alcabra and a second from councilmember Dodd Move to roll call.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“With that, we are going to take a 15-minute break, and then we will reconvene down at the table for a study session. At 8-0-2. Recording stopped. All right, we are back. And are we? We're almost all here. Okay. Yeah, Council Member Alcabra can join us. We are going to get started with a study session on the Transportation Safety Plan implementation, and we have staff here to present to us. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“One data set that I think would be really useful in this conversation is the near miss map. I was a little surprised not to see it in here, especially if we could, because that was some really great data that was available to us few years ago when we were talking about this, um, to be able to overlay, uh, some of the data that you've presented with, like looking at those, the collectors and these school zones, um, for near misses. I know that both of the two school zone areas that you are proposing, um, have the feel of a country road because at one point they were and I live off of one over…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“The neighborhood occasionally experiences reckless driving through there. And so my thought is that that probably happens on 23rd and 4th as well. Any straight shot road that was formerly a country road, people will find the opportunity to do that. And so I do think that like having that near miss overlapping what you're proposing here would be helpful in a future presentation. Yeah, those are some of my thoughts. I will just say as a family that lives in West Hill, we saw the, um, the benefit of, of speed, like deterrent, um, not just cushions, but, um, it's going through conifer view and…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“And I would just also add that we've had positive emails being thankful and appreciative for the change that has taken place in that neighborhood too. We've definitely heard some positive feedback from the community.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“so much of this is rule of law, right? If we change the rules, then how are we getting the rule change out to the public so that they're aware of what those changes are? And so, you know, one of my questions was like, are there good PSAs around the safe systems approach? And so then of course, I just asked the internet myself and found that there's this lovely playlist on YouTube called the safe system approach that like breaks it down one or two minutes at a time. So like something like that might be really beneficial for our community to just be able to share this as like, what are we doing…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“All right. Well, ending on a throwback. Thank you. Did you have anything else to add? Okay. Sounds like we're good here. Thank you. And since we do not have an executive session, we can adjourn. Thank you, everyone.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Whereas suicide remains the 10th leading cause of death in the United States and over 49,000 people died by suicide in 2025, an estimated one death every 11 minutes. And whereas suicide was the second leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 10 to 14 and 25 to 34, the third leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 15 and 24, and the fourth leading cause of death among individuals between the ages of 35 and 44. And whereas suicide rates in Washington state have increased by 12% over the last 20 years and have been higher than the…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Thanks for being here, for doing these updates. We enjoy and appreciate them, so it's not a chore for us. It might feel like one for you, but we really do appreciate it. And I definitely appreciate how you've broken it down by current projects. so we might be seeing some names of projects that are new to us that weren't on the last update and so to hear you say that there is a variety of housing types coming on board is there one that you believe is particularly innovative that might be new on the radar?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026