Remarks by Jim Kastama
67 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
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“Mr. Mayor, I move that we postpone indefinitely this motion and that we wait for them to go through the process. And then we will have it before us. The motion can be made, even though I'm not... Council Member Castaneda, you do not have the floor.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I'd like to get a ruling by our attorney as to a motion to postpone indefinitely is, in fact, appropriate when a motion is made and seconded. That's why I ask the motion to be postponed indefinitely till we go through this process. Thank you. OK. Attorney Beck?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I think I'm in. Never mind. I see my name as number two, but if you want to give Councilmember King, that's fine.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Council Member Kastner. I would like to move to postpone this indefinitely and have them go through the same process that our food bank and other nonprofits for the community grants so we can vet a lot of this. She, in fact, agrees that we should vet all of these other organizations first. So I move that we just postpone indefinitely so that we get the information and we see what all of our partners here will do in Puyallup.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I still have the floor. I still have not completed. However, I did make a motion. I guess I am looking for a second.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Councilmember Kastema. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Stacey, there's no offense intended at all. It's just that we have other partners in this city who provide this service. They provide food. And it's unfair to those members that they go through a process of evaluation through our community grants program that look at the P&Ls that do an examination of them And in this case, we go around that entire process that we have set up in the city, and it just shows favoritism, shows special privilege. And I don't think that that's in line with what we have always talked about with our community grants. And…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Well, it wasn't on, you know, the first I had ever heard of an allocation associated with this was this weekend. When I received a PowerPoint, that was the first I'd ever heard of an allocation. And I thought, wow, that's going around the entire process that we laid out. And I hear a lot of ideas out there, a lot of different presentations. There's a lot of difference between that and then implementing it and asking us to fund that without the input of our partners and without going through the process that, again, seems like favoritism. And we don't want to do that.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I think, Mr. Mayor, may I comment? A motion that is made that's called a motion to postpone indefinitely is a motion that postpones it for the remainder of the session. That's a Roberts Rules order. And I think our attorney can advise on that, hopefully. He can correct me. It's been years since I've made that motion. But that means that as of this meeting here... Can we get the parliamentarian's position, please?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“That's fine with me, Council Member Adler.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Mr. Mayor. So we passed the transportation, I get the acronyms all messed up.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yes. Help me out here, Barb, because I thought when we did that, all of our shortcomings, all of our consternation with everything dealing with transportation would be over. And I look at this maintenance budget and the gap we have to fill there. What's the long-term prognosis?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Correct. We still do pay, however, correct, out of the general fund.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Council Member Kastema. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. I was thinking about data, if we could look at per capita numbers. In other words, per capita, what is our maintenance budget? What's our capital construction budget, et cetera, on a per capita basis? That would be interesting, you asking about metrics. And that might be a way to approach that.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Councilmember Kastema. Thank you. Two of my favorite words, strategic plan. So a question I have, what do you think are the, if you can give me three of the biggest challenges that the library is going to face in the next five years?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay, other question. How will AI... influence the library system here and you know if you want to kind of talk further in scope feel free to do so but how will it impact the city of Puyallup library that's a huge topic but I think what I will answer is you know for us the”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So someone will, excuse me, a little liberty there. So someone will just publish 10 books a month. They could.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Councilmember Kastema. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. To address a few comments that were made this evening, just so the public knows, there's no data centers that are planned that I have scoured everywhere for the city of Puyallup. We have had a data center already since 2011 at the Benaroya facility. Then Voltage Park AI and artificial intelligence data center did come in last year. I think most of us here attended the opening of that. I agree with many of the concerns that the audience has that we have to be very careful. in light of expanding data centers and what we're seeing across the United…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026