Remarks by John Morrissey
251 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 10 of 11
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“So I might also point out that, I don't know if you cut that in the email, I don't know that he verbalized it, he was also positioning to remove questions two, three, and five from the original. And so I'll just point that out. I did see you had your hand raised, Council Member Deener.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:03:19
“Well, I think that's already been decided. We can't do that in private. We have to do it in this open.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:03:51
“So I think what I'd like to do to take this now hearing that and I haven't is anyone else want to put some stuff on the table because i also want to say hearing that we're going to have 10 questions and 30 minutes doesn't sound feasible and so i think yeah so i think we're going to end up having to edit that but i think what we should do at this point to get to that point is to say does anybody else have any questions they want added outside of the what i'm now seeing is nine questions and i think you added the tenth um that they want added for consideration moving forward Councilmember…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:05:56
“So I might throw one out. It would just be nice to know for that person coming in, right? Let's say it was Councilmember Trenary who was a candidate. It would behoove us to understand what little conflict of interest he has, but he has one. Now, he has contracts with the city of Port Orchard. I think that's fair for us to know ahead of time. Just my thoughts. I'm not saying that I'd rank this one.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:06:23
“So, anybody else have a question they want to add for consideration? Councilmember Gennari.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:09:12
“Okay, so I'm hearing there's no more questions we're adding to the list. Thank you. Clerk Wallace, can I get you to take our notes down from here, please? So what I'd like to do now is semi-rank choice voting for questions. And so I wanna do this as best we can. And so I'm gonna guide this without having to make it overly complicated and try and do a voting process like we did committees or anything like that. So I might take the liberty of leading this and saying, if I were only in charge, I would like to start with the question of a role of council member.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:10:02
“Well, so I think we'd like to get through and see where we're ranked. I'd like to see where we rank somewhere around that five, six number, if that's okay, and then kind of go from there.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:10:14
“Okay, so I'm not trying to box anybody in. I'm just trying to throw stuff out there that makes this process work.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:10:36
“SO THAT WAS NOT ONE THAT WAS PROVIDED BY.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:10:40
“SO UNLESS THERE WAS SOMETHING ON THAT RIGHT NOW, I WAS ONLY WORKING OFF OF THE SHEET THAT MS. WALLACE PROVIDED US THIS EVENING. IF THERE WAS ANYTHING ON THAT, You probably printed it from last week's packet where all this was put together. There was multiple different possibilities you could choose from. So we're working off of this one that was provided to you this evening that only has one through six. So as I said, I think if I only had a say, I would ask the role of a council member question first. No hands? I'm not putting them in order here. Right now I'm just saying that would be…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:12:12
“Okay, it's okay, because we'll get through them, right? Okay, one last call. Does anyone else wish to add any potential questions to be asked? Okay, hearing none. Now back to this, and the way I'm going to try and do this without us just rank choice voting would be, if I were going to do this, this would be in my top list of questions. For me, the role of the council member would be one for sure. Is, we're good? I'm looking for thumbs, head nods, some kind of, that would make my top.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:13:06
“Next. I'm looking, I got two here. I don't see it on there. It's from Scott's question, role of a council member, on Scott's email. And we can workshop the wording. It doesn't have to be the way Scott put it, but it's a question around role of a council member. I'm seeing in general agreement there. Okay, moving forward, that's gonna be in consideration. Anybody else have a number one that is absolutely something that you would want asked? We can't miss this question. Council Member Deener.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:13:53
“I had that as my third if I was ranking them. So I too would like to have a managing growth question.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:14:01
“Again, we're not ranking them now. I just, I did so that I can see which ones I wanna keep in my top five or six. Council Member Trenary.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:14:12
“So he's on, I'm sorry, not to get us out of order, but he's on the managing growth. Would that make your top five? I'm looking for head nods to see, I can put it in a, we can come back to it after we get some. Okay. So right now we only have the role of council member. Now, council member Tremory, you have one that you would like, and that would be number two, what skills do you possess or accomplishment that you have done in the past that will directly benefit the citizens of Port Orchard, which I think also goes to the, one of the questions that you had described the strengths you would…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:15:11
“Well, we put that on a, no, I'm not saying, because none of these are in order. I'm just trying to get the top questions.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:15:22
“Okay. So we're revisiting managing growth. Do we feel comfortable that managing growth will be in”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:16:37
“I would also like to maybe add in and do another amalgamation and whether we include the utility rates in that. I think it's overall fiscal approach, right?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“i couldn't imagine them really knowing that i mean that they do i mean fantastic but that's just to me to me we're really asking so can i before we go there i think what i'm hearing and i just want to make sure we get everybody on board with what i'm hearing uh is that we're actually talking about uh their approach to the city's fiscal policy as opposed to it necessarily having to be capital plan related, any of that. When we say we do two things, policy and budget, I think a fiscal policy or outlook on how they would do that would be a pertinent question. But I don't know the right…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:18:44
“well so again none of these questions are set in stone they're more topics so yeah yeah i want to wordsmith all of these is there a way but let's get the topics down and then we'll for sure work down yeah all right so we're settling on that right now i'm going to say fiscal policy uh just call it that and then we can wordsmith that i don't want to take a look at number three if you would in that area yeah that's what i'm trying to correct okay So right now I'm showing five, role of council member, describing of their strengths, managing growth. What do you believe are the most pressing issues…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“And we can do that. I'm just making sure that we've provided all the feedback. I don't want to cut off public comment before.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:20:20
“number one is a no-go for me i mean so i think i think some of these naturally eliminate themselves but i'm just i'm not going to even worry about the other ones unless you guys think that we need to add them to the list but i hear these two are good anybody else mr edmund no okay uh Okay, so we have our five topics. Let's wordsmith those questions.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:21:01
“I'm okay with doing that if you guys want that, and then you guys can, we can wordsmith them out, and then we can make adjustments from there. Yeah. If this council's okay, we can do that, and we will just add that as a, I will caveat, we've got to keep it short next week because we're adding staff to meetings that anyhow. Yeah. Okay.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:21:29
“Everybody agrees? I have three. Definitely going to need a fourth. One, two, three.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:21:43
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City Council · Jul 21, 2026