Remarks by Jenne Alderks
126 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 5 of 6
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“Not on public hearings, no. Yeah, like sometimes a study session item I'll hear back.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'm really glad to hear that you are considering an extension process where one previously didn't exist. I do like the idea of 90 days and then being able to ask for extensions if needed. I think you covered it pretty well. If most permit applicants are able to respond within 90 days and that seems to be working, then let's do that. Because one of the things that we hear from the community is that the permitting process is taking too long and that it's dragging out, right? And I also want to make sure that while we can we can shorten it by making this a requirement that puts it on the person…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Great. Yeah. And I think that reciprocity is just really important, right? It's respecting, it's both sides respecting each other's time and making sure that things are moving forward so that we're not losing opportunities to, you know, create value in our community, you know, that benefits the applicant and the community as well. So thank you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I think my priority tonight was to be able to hear discussion and contribute and talk about the policy that you're referencing. The refinements all seemed good. And housekeeping made sense. So I'm glad that we had a chance to talk about the policy pieces tonight.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'll start. I don't think I do agree with the AMI and duration. The duration piece seems very different than, so I opened up the packet and I'm on page 401 to that comparison chart. Super helpful comparison chart. Thank you very much for including it. If you haven't already heard that feedback, I did pass it on. And I'm just saying it publicly because, yes, it's very helpful. But also, yeah, it does give us a chance to compare other jurisdictions, including Shoreline, who has, like, they have been doing amazing on their MFTE. And I think a lot of that has to do with transit-oriented…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“One could hope. And so I think I would like to be more like our neighbors, because even Bellevue with 12 as the lower limit, their upper limit is still 99, which is about 100, or hopefully encompassing that meaning of the life of the building. And so that's where I think that we should align more with our neighboring cities. And then... 70% seems like a very middle kind of target from what we're seeing between our neighboring cities. But I do like that there, I think I prefer the range of other cities too. So could we consider the 50 to 80%? and know that 70 is in the middle of that. And then…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Everett even has a property list for tenants that has the affordable units listed. It's really nicely broken down. I really like that suggestion. I would love to see us being able to do something like that too.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Well, and I think, I think what we're hearing is we tried something that didn't work. And so we are iterating and we're trying to figure out what is that next iteration to see what could work. And I think it's worthwhile to be persistent, to not give up and, and to just make changes until we see what we want. Like, you know, create the change that we want to see and just continue working towards that. And so I'm grateful to staff for continuing to refine and suggest and make recommendations so that we can try something new and see if we get different results. So I'm hoping this time around we…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“So I was going to just suggest to Council Member Angulary that there are a few youth seats on boards and commissions, and you could point people to the boards and commissions webpage. Those openings aren't generally until the spring. So not necessarily like in preparation for the new school year, but it is something that we can inform folks about and keep them, you know, looking forward to those opportunities that can come up.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I'll also share about a letter that staff received from NUSA not too long ago about the risks and dangers of kratom, which is a herbal supplement used that has been linked to addiction. And so there is an effort by the resilient communities committee at NUSA to raise awareness of that to North King County cities. I believe that came through collaboration with other coalitions in Snohomish County, which is how that came to NUSA's attention. And so that may be something that comes to council at some point or that staff might update us on. And maybe Councilmember Dodd knows more.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“It's very public, very free information. Yeah. I am an EV user and also a user of the chargers. So I am glad to see this coming to us. One of the questions that I had from... from your presentation is, did you consider setting a time limit on how long charging could be happening in a day? For example, my employer, also a local municipality, has a four-hour limit. And so if folks come in, you know, if employees are charging, they do need to move their car after four hours. And I'm wondering if that is something that you had considered for these chargers as well.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, I was seeing in the presentation that the average charging is three hours and 37 minutes with about an hour of idle, which pushes it over the four. And so I'm wondering if maybe just putting a limit on it might cover that. like exactly what we're already seeing. There may be people who are there for longer and charging, you know, I've seen, you know, charging overnight and things as well. But that does also, because there's only six chargers available to the public and employees, that might help with turnover and reduce the fees that can be associated with being there and idle, you…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Maybe. And I, and I realized like, this is not a study session. And so you are not necessarily bringing it to us for, you know, for like shaping it. And, um, and so really my question is more of like, did you consider, um, not to say that like this shouldn't pass or that this should be edited. Um, but like there, that might be something to look at. Like I. in a, in a way is this sort of considered like a pilot, like you're trying, trying to policy and like be able to make changes over time. Um, and so if that's the case, then that might be something to consider in the future. Um, we also…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Got it. Okay. That makes sense because it's all managed through the app. Um, and then the other thing that, um, I, um, as, as an employee of a, of an employee, my employer doesn't charge for the first four hours of charging, um, that I'm wondering if. there is a kind of a pathway forward for maybe, like right now, employees would be paying for their charging through the app, but might that change in the future where employees might not be paying for charging?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. I'm glad that those conversations are happening and being considered, which leads me to my last question. I will try to keep it to be my last. When we're just talking about the eight charging ports that are here at City Hall, but as we have sought feedback from the community around where to place other charging ports, is it being considered that other off-site, not City Hall, other Bothell buildings will also get charging ports? That's, I see nodding.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Great. Thank you. I'm glad that you've put so much thought and effort into this and brought this forward to us.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. This is irrelevant and I'm sorry. But I'm just remembering all of the time I spent at parks with my kids and how much charging we could have been doing during that time. And then the next thing that came into my mind was imagine if we could just like bottle kids energy and use that to charge the cars.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Absolutely. Yeah. I hear your concern and also think that there might be plenty of parents who are happy to charge their car while their kids are releasing their energy too.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“And it works. Totally. I will tell you it works.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. I'm excited that we have come to the end of this process and that now we can take all of these big ideas and start making those efforts become a reality. I was really hoping to hear just how many community members participated in the development of this plan, and 3,000 is an excellent number. That's very exciting. And so I really do appreciate that you started out by thanking the community because it really was a group effort and many, many voices were involved. And it speaks to the community engagement efforts that your team does and also the enthusiasm of our community. Our parks…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I motion to approve the appointments of, do I need to read the whole thing? Okay. Of Mark French, position number two, and Andrew Schell, position number six, to the Landmark Preservation Board, and Mark Lee, position number six, to the Lodging Tax Advisory Board.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I think if you call yourself cool, you automatically disqualify yourself. Point of information.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I'll just jump in and say that I've been looking forward to this conversation since around the time that I moved here when the last downtown plan was new. I remember kind of looking at what I knew that lots of changes were occurring, um, and was like, was curious about, okay, so where is this all headed? Like, what are we trying to accomplish here with the, with all of these, you know, Mount Bothell and all that. Um, and, and I remember there's a couple of features that like didn't get accomplished from the 2009 plan, specifically the gateway at the crossroads of 522 and 527. because soil…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I think the town square conversation is, is part of that. Um, because when we, you know, we, we heard this from, from parks and as we've been, you know, kind of going around about, uh, what, you know, what makes an effective downtown event and it was the missing infrastructure from main street, like bathrooms and water hookups and that kind of stuff. Um, a town square could, could be built with the end goal in mind of hosting events and having the space that works for that. And I absolutely, like, you know, I recall a Diwali event on Main Street that was really lovely. Having Chai Holi at the…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I do want to add one thought that came up in the conversation around 522 improvements. I believe that this is like this happened a long time ago, but I'd love to see an opportunity for restaurants to exist along the waterfront so that people could, you know, be sitting on a deck overlooking the river. And I don't know what kind of like development regulations need to change to make that happen or what kind of like rules need to be in place so that we're protecting the waterway and make that possible. But I think that there's got to be a future, like a way to make that possible so that, so…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026