Remarks by Jessica Forsythe
21 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 6:40
“Thank you. Question for both. Given the instability in the times we're facing right now, how do you see your role playing a part of keeping stability and what will you in particular focus on for that?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 18:11
“Council Member Forsyth and then Council Member Kritzer. Thank you. Understanding that this is also an alignment to make sure we comply with new state law that goes into effect end of April 27. One thing that we as council members hear a lot is that the city seems to care more about developers and making sure developers are taken care of. but that it isn't necessarily benefiting and impacting the community at large in a good way. So what can we walk away from this conversation understanding and communicating with our constituents that this is a benefit for the everyday resident?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 36:26
“Just a follow-up on that comment about seeing something in the matrix. document that is different from what we're looking at. I'm seeing that in the fire section, the document that we keep referring to as the matrix document recommends seven staff, and we're only seeing five and a half on this structure chart. So just kind of along the same lines of trying to marry what we're trying to do here and what we're seeing in the report. Look forward to when we can dig into this report some more and have more conversation around it. But generally speaking, having more information around how we landed…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 54:06
“Council Member Forsyth. Thank you. For the matrix, I'm interested to know what comparable structures are in other cities. If there's another city that has a similar structure to this, if we could see kind of a layout like we do when we see looking at comparable salaries or looking at comparable policies in other cities. If we could see something like that, I think that would help with the conversation as well. And then I'm also really interested in any conversations that have happened or around the longevity of this department. We've been experiencing an expanded period of growth over the…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And I echo the thanks for this because it's really thorough. I feel like we've been growing this over the last several years and it's really tight. It's really succinct. So I only have a few small comments. One being that in our storytelling about affordable neighborhoods, livability and housing, we don't call out that we are two-thirds renters. So I think that's a really important distinction to share with the legislature that generally thinks of Redmond as being single-family homes. So maybe the mayor is making comments, so maybe I missed it in there, but I think we should really prioritize…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'll just add on to that in this part of the conversation. I know that level is probably set because most cities aren't doing what we're doing. But showing that we, that was the level we were at like five, six years ago. We've gone deeper. It's still working. I think that is a really important story to tell and appreciate the flag on that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:56:44
“Thank you. I would also add surveillance pricing. I know that's a conversation that has come up in the legislature as well. But again, with the emerging technologies, we're hearing more and more about the use of potential surveillance pricing in grocery stores. Because you can afford more, you get charged more. We need regulations around this as well.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:05:43
“Thank you. Just wanted to give a quick... Thumbs up for the ADA park equipment for different abilities and another reminder for which I believe director Hamilton you've already been, but if not the Seattle Children's Play Garden and their accessible play for all different abilities.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:23:24
“Thank you. Just real quickly, just really appreciate the stats at the top around, we have 366 miles of street. Interesting to see that it's only 80.5 for bikes. Would love to see that. 42 more miles as the very floor and that will take us up to a third of our streets having bike lanes. Very excited also to see the call out for being able to use those impact fees for these shared use paths. We did that, so that's very exciting that we opened up that funding. But I'm also going to put a plug in for making sure that any of these projects that we can level up and make that a protected bike lane,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 6:08
“Thank you. Question for both. Given the instability and the times we're facing right now, how do you see your role playing a part of keeping stability and what will you in particular focus on for that?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 22:00
“Thank you. Just going back to the payroll audit, can you just clarify? I think I missed something. Are we not doing a forensic audit?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 22:25
“Great. I was like, we can't do this without a forensic audit.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 22:31
“You're welcome. The only other question I have is it was recently brought to my attention that we currently have a contract with our former HR director to finish out some projects. Can you advise if that what I heard was accurate, how that plays into this contract and any other overlap that we might see?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 23:23
“So that's on the department reorg, a new department. Correct. That we're talking about tonight. Correct. And only that project.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 36:11
“the intent of your question thank you councilmember forsay i also support the intent of the question um and i'm curious director cochran if you could say if policy choices would be a part of that forensic audit because i'm hopeful but i don't know if that's actually part of that scope”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 36:57
“DIRECTOR HAMPSON- Great. I would just put in a request that we build in time for that part of that conversation when it comes back.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 48:36
“Thank you. Just a thing to note, I noticed some of the draft ordinances still have Daniel Kinney listed as our city attorney. So I'm assuming that needs to be updated and changed. And I just wanted to more make a comment in hopes that our Salary commissioners are listening. I know I commented this before. I personally feel adamant about the fact that the council vice president does not get a pay bump. When I took over as council president with council member Kritzer as vice president, we turned that into a role that was co-led and leadership and making sure that we're meeting together and it…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 53:49
“On that note, does that delay any of the negotiations going into effect that we've been so eager to get on track?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“thank you um very exciting on the centennial please let us know how we can be involved and participate and celebrate and what an amazing story of those women and making that happen so please let us know um and you know if there there might be some council members that are very excited about that sorter and maybe followed it on instagram and saw it and if there's ever an opportunity for us to go visit oh please let us know absolutely there would there be interest i can arrange a tour”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 49:56
“Thank you. And you were missed at the Rockin' on the River, I will say, at least by me in particular. So did attend the Rockin' on the River, the last one that got moved due to the smoke in the air. Sad about the smoke but grateful that that one got moved so I could actually attend. It was a wonderful event Diving into the rest of my report my colleagues mentioned a lot of the things so I will skip over some of those But again National Night Out was lovely Thank you to our police department for coordinating and I'm sorry that our fire department was busy dealing with the smoke and helping…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 59:10
“Thank you. Attended the East Trail Regional Council planning meeting for our next quarterly meeting where we discussed the major topics we want to close out the year with and the new incoming chair potential and how we're gonna move forward next year with the Revisioning and making sure that after the ten years that we've been together. We are Moving forward with the best possible vision for the future.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026