Remarks by John Dugger
76 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 4
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“Thank you. Oh, Kevin. Councillor Teeter.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. So we'll hear back from you next meeting. Cool. Yes, Council President. Thank you. Going back, I think you're up again.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“That was only the first one. You are up again.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you. Cool. Councillor Hartmeyer, please.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And you're comfortable with that? And did you have any other? Cool. Anyone else? I do have a couple that I would like to bring up. I have two items for new business. The first is the ask of council and staff to consider updating our ordinance banning discrimination around relationship status, as well as for multi-generational households. Other cities in the region have similar ordinances, including most recently Portland and Olympia, Washington. I've been working with a few folks engaged on this issue in the past few months and have talked extensively with the city attorney about the workload…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“We've talked. It's been a while, yes, but it's been a long time, like six months maybe.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I will reach out again to Judge Britton and speak with her.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Well, we can at least have the conversation with Judge Britton on our side, and then if they have capacity, then we will feel safe moving forward. And then, Councillor Hutmeyer-Prigg?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Cool. My second ask is an ask of the city leadership, city manager's office, to evaluate adding a gross receipts tax to our fiscal sustainability plan and bring back that estimated lift with potential for a fall work session, depending on what that information shows. I think it's our responsibility to evaluate all options and discuss them in public when we talk about fiscal sustainability, particularly in regards to a potential levy or something like that. I'd just like to see multiple revenue options. So when I spoke with the city manager in her office, this is not an ask to bring back a…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“NEW SPEAKER SO MAYBE I'LL ADMIT THAT AND SAY NOT A FALL. IT WILL JUST BE WHENEVER YOU CAN BRING BACK THE INFORMATION ON WHAT THE LIFT WOULD BE. IS THAT SATISFACTORY, MAYOR?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So I think I'm hearing at least agreement from the council that that we'd like you to bring back what the lift would be and then we can decide whether we want to if we want to move forward or allocate the the prioritization to that at that point cool i think that is everything anyone else before we close cool thank you all let's adjourn this thing”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. How much are we spending on consultants this year?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“there was a whole bunch of stuff in there i'm drawing a blank off the top of my head here but very little of that was actually true consultant that is hired to do some service that is otherwise provided by the city because i think um i can't speak for it like that's pretty high on my list and not because it's not important work everything we do is important work but i want more of our important work done by our important people you've asked about this a number of times and i know there's reasons to do that and sometimes it's cost beneficial to do that but we also like like that's an important…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'll be paying very close attention to that too In my mind this represents to maybe two and a half percent So were there scenarios where we asked? the entire city to give us two to two and a half percent of cuts and what would that look like because I see I see I'll get where I'm going to just ask the uncomfortable question. This feels like purposely uncomfortable for us to make us make a decision. And I'm not saying that's the case. I'm just saying what it feels like. Like, oh, we're going to cut the things that are really visible to make it difficult to do versus something else. And that's…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“that additional context I'll say my comments obviously but I would like to reiterate what a couple others like for our November retreat I think it makes so much sense for us to spend like I don't want to talk about our goals anymore I think we have to spend our November retreat talking exclusively about these and these cuts and getting this right because the reality is I don't think If we go out to levy, I don't think it would pass right now based on the thousands of doors we knocked in this for this May election. And I don't, I just worry about that. Like, I don't know that that's going to…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'll start with questions. This is a revenue question. I know that new development is heavily a good thing in Oregon and in cities because of measure five and 50. We passed the Cooper Mountain Plan. I know that's not a budget question, but at the end of the day, we've got to get that developed. That's a revenue question for me. and don't answer tonight because i know you don't have the answer but like we like what is this strategy and what do we need to do because it's it's we've passed it a while ago and it's still sitting at the up there and we got to get that developed so not necessarily a…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Believe we can I believe it. I remember hearing that or can we get clarification?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, like I remember someone saying that at some point.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“to overturn bureau like are you are you saying i'm saying like the 150 million dollars we're not required to spend it like we can eliminate and and in the program today with obviously the existing bonds in place that's what i mean so maybe i'm not clarifying but we can stop that stop you know and and reset stop future debt yeah but but reset the tax ultimately right does that make sense”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The reason I ask questions is, to me, we've looked at this through a few different lenses. We haven't looked at massive shifts in the way we're operating. I don't support that. It would be a really big... LEAP FOR ANY OF US, SO DON'T TAKE ME AS SUPPORTING THAT, BUT I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW. THAT WAS MY LAST QUESTION. AS FAR AS COMMENTS, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US MOVE INTERNAL AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. SO I KNOW I ASKED A QUESTION EARLIER ABOUT CONSULTANTS. I KNOW TO YOUR POINT, LIKE, IT'S NOT QUITE JUST, WE'RE NOT JUST BUYING OUTSIDE KNOWLEDGE OR OUTSIDE PROJECTS, BUT I THINK I know that there's expertise…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, I was just going to actually thank Councillor Harden for helping me communicate better because if that's what you heard and I heard it in your voice and I believe you, you're my friend, that was not my intention was to call into question staff. In fact, it was quite the opposite, which is a deep appreciation for our staff and more, like I want more of their input. I want more, so like I was really bad at communicating that, so thank you for pointing that out and allowing me to clarify that. I just, like I think about it as a person who manages people myself, just because you're doing a…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Council President. I get to be the current liaison, although this is my second time. It's kind of what I want to mention is not about your reporting, but I attended meetings before I was in council. My first year, I got to be the liaison. And this year, so I've actually seen the group not only grow, in its conversations, but in its technical sophistication. We have planners, basically. I know Mick is a recent graduate, but like the level of sophistication and the advice you're giving us on a regular basis, not just on the presentations, I find it incredibly illuminating. And we have an…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I move to approve the council consent agenda and the contract review board with the exception of agenda bill 26122 and 26128. Is there a second?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Yep, I'm in agreement with what... The only thing I would add, and there are some boards and commission members in this room, many of us have served before being on this council. Councillor Kimme, I believe, was one of the original members of DAB and the Night Market, right? If you're out there, don't wait on us, right? Like, you can do some of this work now. You know it's coming. THEY DIDN'T WAIT ON THE CITY COUNCIL TO DO THE NIGHT MARKET. IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO DO. IT WAS INCLUSIVE. IT WAS FOCUSED ON EQUITY. SO I'M CHALLENGING OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSION MEMBERS. WE WILL WEIGH IN, BUT DO…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I am declaring an actual conflict of interest for both water and sewer because I am a Beaverton water and sewer rate payer.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026