Remarks by Jim Ferrell
160 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 7
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“All right, great. Council Member Sessoms, Parks, Recreation, Human Services, and Public Safety.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right, thank you. All right, Council Member Kuchmaier, Finance, Economic Development, and Regional Affairs Committee, also known as FEDREC.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“That's right. That's right. So I'll be giving my budget presentation at our next city council meeting in two weeks, and council will receive it days before that. Okay, and we'll see it before the public sees it. Okay, now Council Member Sefa Dawson for Lodging Tax Advisory Committee and Regional Committees.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, thank you very much now report from our council president, thank you I'm excited to invite everyone to attend coffee with council.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Okay, and now for the most important part of the meeting, to hear from the folks that we work for, you, for public comment. So I'll name a number of individuals, and if you could sort of cue toward the back there, and then after we go through a few, then I'll call some more up. Green means go, yellow means you've got about 30 seconds, red means please stop. Everybody's got three minutes unless you're here with five other folks and you've listed them. Okay, now first we've got Janine Barber, Jack Dovey, Jeffrey Tancredi, Bob Derrigan, Lana Bostic, Julie Oliva, Paul…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thanks. All right. Thank you so much. Next is Julie Alava.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Nathan Orth. And as Nathan makes his way up here, we do have some three other folks. Sean Damon Hagler, Harold Booker, and Gordon Bach.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Nathan. All right. Sean Damon Hagler.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Sean. We're going to have Bill Vedino in the back of the room. Get your contact information, and we're going to get that to you tomorrow.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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Not quoted here: it may name a member of the public. Hear it at the meeting.
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Gordon. And thank you, Nathan and Harold. Thank you. Okay, thank you very much. Okay, is there any other public comment? I'm out of pink sheets, at least at this stage, because I know we've got the public hearing, which I do want to let everybody know we're not going to be voting tonight on the data centers. We did issue a six-month moratorium as required, 12-month moratorium, thank you. What's that? One year. One year. But what's required is a public hearing. So that is the public here tonight, and we thank everybody who's here to let us know your opinion on this issue. So that's…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Great, okay. Okay, and if Bill gets here, we'll have her come back up. And Celebration Park. Chief, I saw the same thing about the RV in Celebration Park at exactly 9 a.m. this morning. So let's have a conversation about that. I know you've got patrol. Our parks director, did you hear anything about that today?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“We close off that parking lot every night?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And we wouldn't leave an RV there overnight, would we?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right. Council President, did you have?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“And they're allowed to do that during the day. They're allowed to, you know, there's nothing, you know, it's a parking lot. So, okay. Okay. Angelina, I know I was trying to, do you know anything about where we're at with, this is Angelina Pisi, everybody, our human services manager. Angelina, would you tell us anything you may know about the Red Lion status?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Great. All right. Thank you very much. Thanks. All right. Okay, now that concludes public comment. Thank you, everybody. We have the consent agenda. These items, we only have one item, and it's the approve the minutes for the August 11, 2026 City Council Special and Regular Meetings. Council President Honda, do you have a motion?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Second. It's been a motion to second. Is there any discussion?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All those in favor? Aye. Opposed? All right. The minutes are approved. Good job, Heather. All right. Item 6, public hearing. Item A, public hearing ordinance number 26-1048, data center moratorium. I will now open the public hearing at, what do we have here, 8.07 p.m. And Senior Planner Evan Lewis will present this item.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“The MRSC is Municipal Research Council. You can access that through the AWC website, the Association of Washington Cities. So if you go to the website for AWC, Association of Washington Cities, you can access. It's really sort of a clearinghouse of all kinds of information. not only for elected officials but also for the public as well. And so if you look on the AWC website, you can look under MRSC, Municipal Research Council, and many individuals on this dais and around the state rely on some of the information there. Council Member Moore.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I would note, I think you're talking about the former DeVita building. Yeah, thank you. Which is no longer being used. This is on 32nd. It's that first light on the other side of the freeway on 320th. where you take a right, right there, it's the street where KOAM is at, at the very end of that street where DeVito was, that's now empty and it's not being used for that purpose. Perfect. I just want to make sure that it's clear about that.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I think it also just said, you know, I've been on I was on the council. I've been mayor for a while Normally when we do a moratorium, it's usually it's almost always for a six-month period, and then they could always make it a year. Here, the council did a full 12 months right off the bat. So, okay, the most important thing is we need to hear from the folks that showed up here. I've got four public comment sheets. The last one is via Zoom. So we've got Gail Mailer. It's okay, Gail. As you make your way, I'll announce the others. Ryan Lee will follow. Then Jenna... Karofsky Weeb, or Weeby, and…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Anyway, there's currently... You can finish your thought.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. All right. Okay, we've got Sarah Lee via Zoom. Sarah, can you hear us?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. And then Gordon Buck. Mayor, we also have someone else on Zoom. Okay, great.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026