Remarks by John Morrissey
251 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 11
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“I'd like to start with 15, and I'll go from there. 15 minutes. It is 735. We will be back here at 750. Are we bringing Jay in? We are bringing Jay. We're bringing in the money. Thank you. You guys are going to call? Yes. We've got things handled.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“It is 7.50. We are going to ask for an additional 10 minutes, and that will be our only extension.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Okay. I think this room goes like this all the time. I almost brought sleeves again tonight, but I said, it's still going to be 80 when we're done. I shouldn't need sleeves. But then I said, but what about inside?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. Welcome back from executive session. Looks like Council Member Rosapetti.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“So we have a motion on the table to appoint Tiffany Mitchell to our open seat five on Port Orchard. Is there any discussion? Jay, you made the motion. You get to lead us up.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“You want a second bite or you want me to give my two cents before you go to second bite?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“I like Tiffany. I like a lot of the people that we have talked with. And I would say I was trying to approach this with taking out personal relationships but i bring that into every decision that i make here upon council so i don't know that i can completely discredit that either i will say i try to be objective as best as possible in thinking through all eight candidates i will say tiffany definitely was rose uh to the top for me in um i don't know if i have a full-on rank of per I would say, but there's definitely a set of candidates that I would like to see move forward and come out of…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“If I can help and understand a state's budgeting process, I think I can figure out and work through the cities with the team. She also said, I'm one of seven. So I don't have to have all those answers. I can lean on my counterparts as well. And then another huge thing that really drove it home for me with Tiffany in particular was her willingness to speak up. And I know you all know because I talk about it all the time to go advocate on our behalf down in Olympia and to outside of the four walls of this city. And I think that is a skill set that we could shore up on this council i think it is…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“You got one more? I think I have to call for the question once it's been raised. Or does he need a second?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“No, we're not quite done, so I'm hearing we're not quite done council member. So I am going to allow a little more deliberation. Would you like to deliberate?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“like to call for the question. Well, I'm going to give my last little bit. Everybody else got two bites. I'm going to give my last two bites. So I'm just going to throw this in. I too want to echo a little bit what Jay said about I thought about where people live and what that looks like. And I also thought about if we really had that concern, we'd have districts like Bremerton does. And so I threw that right back out just as it came in because we have a mechanism to ensure that if we want to, but we choose not to do that here in this community. I think that if we want to go down that road,…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Okay, roll call vote. Since you get to ask for that, Councilmember Rosa Pepe, how do you vote?”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Councilmember Warden, how do you vote? Yes. Councilmember Diener, how do you vote? Yes. Councilmember Trenary, how do you vote? Yes. Councilmember Morrissey votes yes. The decision is unanimous and the motion passes. We have nothing else on the agenda. Unless they had something for good of the order, they can't wait until next Tuesday. The cruise is this weekend. We hope you can get out and be downtown on Sunday. The Port Orchard Rotary is having a pancake breakfast in the backstage alley if you want to get some breakfast there as part of that as well. But good call. Thank you for that. I…”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“Good luck to you. With that, this meeting is adjourned at 820. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 6, 2026
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“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“And I might point an order of that, Mayor, that part of this meeting has already come and passed. She should have done that during the agenda portion, setting the agenda.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“This particular motion and what's put in front of us conflates more than one project. And so one of those projects is getting outside funding that is already set, the other we're still working on. I just wanna make sure we have nothing that's going to foul up any understanding we have with the PFD or the funding mechanisms that are in place with these changes.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“So two things I would ask for future reference. I'm going to vote in favor here tonight, but I would like to ask whether it's coming direction from you or at least have Director Crocker and team maybe look at that. It would be nice to be able to have that laid out in future iterations because we are going to have a little bit of that confluence happen because all this is going to happen at the same time. So we can know what's being allocated to what. And that I hope somebody's in the background making sure that it's not just somebody checking off a box saying, hey, we did this activity across…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I have seen what Director Crocker and his team do just isn't here tonight.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I MOVE TO APPROVE CONTRACT AMENDMENT 23 TO CONTRACT C066-20 FOR THE COMMUNITY EVENT CENTER DESIGN CONTRACT IN THE AMOUNT OF $44,942 AS PRESENTED.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I GOT YOU COVERED, MR. MAYOR. THANK YOU. FELLOW COUNCIL MEMBERS, IN FRONT OF YOU IS A LIST OF THE QUESTIONS FROM THE FIVE TOPICS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT A WEEK AGO TONIGHT. SWIPE IT TRYING TO COME UP WITH WHAT WE CAN. I'M NOT MARRIED TO ANYTHING ON THIS PAGE TEAM. IT WAS JUST ME GETTING OUT AND PUTTING SOME WORDS TO A DOCUMENT SO THAT WE'D HAVE A STARTING PLACE TO WORDSMITH THIS TONIGHT SO THAT IN HOPES OF MOVING THIS ALONG SOONER RATHER THAN LATER AND I DO HAVE A POSSIBLE LAST QUESTION WE COULD TALK ABOUT AS WELL. SO I SAW COUNCILMEMBER ROSAPEPE AND THEN I THINK COUNCILMEMBER DEANER.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I don't believe we set anything in stone at this point because we were trying to get to how many and what those questions might look like and ran out of that time last week. So I think let's finish the conversation around the questions and then we'll go to that structure to be able to finalize that if that's okay.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“council member warden yeah i'm not a fan of giving you too much credit but uh good job appreciate it appreciate your efforts i'm i'm fine with all five uh questions as well thank you perfect so just just for human me humoring me sake i'm just going to throw out this sixth one um oh i'm sorry thank you for the help i'm not used to looking at the screen uh council member deadman”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay. Thank you for that. So, the last question I was looking at possibly toying with and adding to this, I didn't, so I just wrote it down just so that we didn't have it out there, but I brought it with me just in case, was council members regularly work with colleagues who hold different viewpoints and must make decisions based on incomplete information. How do you approach collaboration, respectful disagreement, and ultimately reaching a decision? So, again, I would also echo the comments of the rest of you. We're gonna run into some time constraints, but I just wanted to throw that out…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Perfect. Okay. We have our five questions. The last piece of that puzzle is the actual layout and design of what we want this to look like. So do we want to allow for an introduction period? I THINK YOU'RE GETTING A GOOD CHUNK OF WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IN THOSE QUESTIONS, BUT AGAIN, THIS IS A TEAM EFFORT HERE. SO COUNCILMAN ROSAPEPE.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026