Remarks by John Morrissey
251 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 11
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“How about it says city supplied background?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“right uh council meetings on the rest of page 13. go ahead john yeah so right in section four paragraph three to allow for summer winter break the city council shall not hold i would like that to say it shall be customary to not hold i do not want uh future councils to have you got something better yeah i don't think you need that paragraph you adopt”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. And then again on B, you just started with it shall be customary.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Regular council work study meetings at 630 on the third Tuesday. We don't have to box in that it's always a work study on a third Tuesday. I don't even know that that. I don't know that we do either. Now that you're saying some of those things, but I'm just saying if you're going to put that in there, I'd rather it be it shall be customary rather than not. Could we?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thanks for writing. Yep. No, absolutely. I just had in my notes on the side, is legal risk included in this? Is this read the way we want it to for legal risk? Charlie?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“THANK YOU, MR. MAYOR. last week already, I had to think of what day it was. I got the opportunity to attend a listening session for the KPUD and talking about potentially KPUD taking over electrification services in our area. So I did raise some questions. I did speak as a citizen of this county and just say, I don't have enough information to make a vote on that. It's my understanding that they took some action today to move forward with that. So I know that we have a good long-standing relationship with PSE. If I could see where this might work for the betterment of the people of Port…”
City Council · Jul 28, 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”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“YEAH. MR. MAYOR, I MOVE TO ADD TWO ADDITIONAL ITEMS TO TONIGHT'S AGENDA. WE HAVE SOME THINGS WE NEED TO VOTE ON SO I THINK WE SHOULD ADD A PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD. I'D LIKE TO ADD THAT AHEAD OF ALL BUSINESS ITEMS. DIRECTLY IN BETWEEN BUSINESS ITEMS AND PUBLIC COMMENT, I'D ALSO LIKE TO ADD AN EXECUTIVE SESSION.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Certainly. Okay. I move to approve amendment number one to interlocal agreement C025-25 with Kitsap County and authorize the Mayor to execute the amendment. Second.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you Mr. Mayor. You know so I was just calling out that when you look at the actual draft There is no cap put on that. And so it doesn't talk about the materials or any of the things that we are pushing on that we're in the actual agreement. It is a blank agreement.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“not completely correct i think councilmember morrissey is understanding your question better than i am i think so too so i'm going to try and provide some color here uh councilmember what i as i'm understanding this the first one we're voting on is the contract to do business with the county this allows dennis and his team say they need to purchase salt to put down for an ice event we're going to have that's going to fall underneath the threshold of a dollar amount to spend that he'd have to come ask authorization for us for, but they can just go buy that and that's their contract to be able…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, I move that the council adopt a resolution authorizing execution of a request with agreement for work under interlocal agreement C025-25 with Kitsap County in terms and conditions acceptable to the city attorney. Second.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, unless you have conflicts of interest.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, Mr. Mayor. I don't know that I have a lot to add from last week. I think I got most of that out other than, you know, when it comes back to the misrepresentation of the things that happened in said meeting. We all took an oath of office that I think we all uphold and I hope we all uphold it to the same degree. I put my full faith and being into that you understand the weight of what that holds and we need to make sure that we continue to represent ourselves well, that we don't erode additional trust with our community and that we move forward as a whole. So thank you. You…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“It's up to you. original motion i move that city council formally censure and express its disapproval of the conduct of council member deadman for publicly making statements about the resignation of former council member fenton despite not being present for that meeting her comments have misrepresented what occurred and have contributed to public confusion and unfairly diminished confidence in the integrity of this governing body I recognize that elected officials have the right to express their opinions and engage in public debate. However, those opinions should be grounded in accurate…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, so first of all, thank you to the team that worked on this. I had circled all the Xs on POMC, so I will just ignore that. I'd like to call out in section two, line two, approves the annual budget. Again, it's a biannual budget. Thank you. So I wanted to call that out. That's a good one. And that's the only thing for page one for me.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Comma, while the mayor and staff handle day-to-day administration, period. Turns it into a little more of a run-on, but I see where he's saying, because the rest of that is a restatement of what happened.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“So I was going to take a different side. I'm thinking of somebody new who might just want to look at this section, understand what they got themselves into. You may not know that. Had I not had a decent relationship with Mayor Robb in getting my soaring in done, especially the first time I got elected because I actually had to travel, right, and there's some time in there, so I would have known those things. I would appreciate it, but I understand where you're coming from in not making it 33 pages. That's just my two cents. Take it or leave it. I'm not going to die on that hill.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I might just add, as the guy who gets to wear that badge or say that sometimes, nobody has any clue what that means. And I think they'd have a better understanding in its new term. But again, I think I concur with they are adding some stuff. The mayor and I even talked a little bit about it yesterday. But by and large, other than I think the agenda stuff, it should remain the same based off what I read.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Council Member Morrissey. Yeah, so that is already a part of Robert's rules, because I have used that in the past to call for the question for individual votes and it is recorded by the clerk.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I think I'd like to leave some flexibility if it's already in Robert's rules. I don't want to add it here. I'll stick to it because it already we start off this document by saying we're governed by Robert's rules.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, so subsection C says for no less than one month. I would just point out, we didn't just follow that. Well, we don't know just I know. So I'm just saying I don't know if that's the right term. What would you like to see? That's the question. I would like to say I don't know. I think it depends on the expediency of when that would happen. I would I would like to see absolutely no less than a two week period because I think that's enough to be able to get out there. But again, we're setting a minimum there. And so I'm not to say that a future council couldn't do it for a month. I just…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“big glaring one is E and that's vastly different than what you're doing. So I would say remove E altogether. Okay. I think each council should determine how they would like to define what that process looks like.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Why remove it? Well, in particular, this one calls out for five minutes. You know, so I just think that you'd probably want a little more deliberation and hear from a candidate more than five minutes. Do we want that this time?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“So my thought process is that may look different for a different council than this council. The types of questions you may be asking or not asking may look different. Again, I'm trying not to box a future council in so that they can do that because they'd have to look at this body of work, go do this deliberative process while still on a time clock to fill that vacancy. So I think there are certain things where you would like to be more restrictive and create narrow lane and I think there are places where you want to be less restrictive and have a much wider path I think this is one that…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026