Remarks by Jon Pascal
52 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 46:20
“Yeah, thank you. Thank you for the presentation. Thank you for kind of the overview. When I think about this program, and I really like some of the words you use, the relationship building, the connections, the trust that you're building, I mean, those are kind of the things that are hard to quantify. But, you know, when it comes to sexual violence, sexual assault, those are really critical elements. You mentioned that this was a good model that Kirkland kind of took the lead in this. know my my questions are that you know is it a repeatable model um how can it grow from just kirkland um…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:33:08
“Yeah, thank you. Yeah, my question, and I've asked, this isn't a new question for me, something I've asked in the past, but we've changed, we've fundamentally changed the structure of the CIP where we've gone from a project by project line item to program line item. Safe routes to school, after transportation improvements, safety improvements, so forth. And so the question, and this is a question I get from the community quite a bit, is how do we take that program funding and obligate it to specific projects because the CIP no longer includes those specific projects. They're contained in the…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:35:08
“Yeah, so I guess, I mean, my asks are when you come back, walk us through some of that. I would, or if I'm the only one that has this question, I'd like to maybe we can have a conversation. I'd love to see that. And then two, how can we kind of share that or daylight that with the community and say, hey, we have 750,000 funded for school walk route projects for next year. how can we then say, hey, we've gone through our list. These are the next two projects that we're going to build next year, where we're gonna take that money and we're gonna, how can, before we actually start the design on…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:36:40
“Yeah, and I'm not asking for a debate on all of that. I'm asking just more for that information to be shared. I don't, I mean, maybe others do, but it's not about debating the projects. It's about kind of, hey, this is how we got there. before we actually start, because if there was something that we saw that was questionable or whatever, you know, the public could weigh in on that. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 3:41:36
“Yeah, thanks for the detail summary of the proposal. You know, a number of the comments that were received were related to traffic impacts in the neighborhood. And it sounds like those are existing today with the current enrollment. And so the proposal looks like it it modifies like on-site um circulation and parking and stuff to address those off-site impacts so i just wanted to be clear does is it staff's uh feeling that those that on-site mitigation would prevent that off-site uh those off-site impacts from occurring in the future”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 3:43:08
“to minimize the impacts but if there continues to be any issues um that we do have some different mechanisms to kind of help yeah so the improvements um accommodate the increased enrollment but also address the existing issues that they're seeing today yeah correct thank you thank you anyone else”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:17:28
“Thank you. So I think I've been clear from the beginning that I don't support more fees on housing. That's why I wasn't able to support this fee when we passed it in 2025. As I said then, a building at home already costs $75,000 in fees. that doesn't include the carrying and the financing costs that builders incur. So, um, you know, increasing the fee additionally, isn't something that I'm, um, wanting to do. Uh, I do, I do also, um, share the concerns of council member Tim Chisholm, uh, When we are considering putting permanent fees on housing or increasing permanent fees on housing and…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:49:27
“Yeah, thank you. Thank you for the additional work on this. And, you know, I think kind of taking to heart some of the comments you heard last meeting. You know, I came into this really kind of reflecting that I thought the language added language kind of strike that right balance between addressing some legitimate concerns about abandoned and stored vehicles in the public right away, but really also emphasizing Kirkland's outreach first approach and The way that I read the code was that impoundment was a last resort. That's how you tried to write it without actually saying those couple words…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 4:57:36
“You can call me. I'll move Ordinance 4946. Second.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:05:48
“Yeah, thanks for this. And thanks to staff and WSDOT. I just hope that we continue to monitor and kind of see if we see like really favorable results. This is pretty unique. I can't think of an interchange where there's speed humps in Washington. So this is kind of like almost like a first thing, really. And it's quite remarkable. So it'd be cool to show that it's working.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 5:07:51
“Yeah, and that reminded me that I will be missing the next meeting. So hopefully there won't be any tie votes.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 58:22
“Thank you. Question or and a couple of comments. One is it's really I really like the table at the beginning of the memo that kind of shows all the rate increases over the next six years for each of the individual utilities by percentage. Could you when when you come back could you just have an overall percentage increase by year when you look at all of them together. Sure. That would be helpful. And then my second comment is, I'd love to hear someone disagree with this, but it feels like these rate increases are going to be really impactful, really impacting cost of living, affordability,…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 1:26:36
“Yeah, thank you for the presentation and the information that you shared. I'm going to kind of build off of a little bit of what Council Member Falcone was talking about. And, you know, the one thing I guess that surprised me a little bit wasn't, I mean, I wasn't surprised about the need and the fact that that's likely going to increase with some of the utility costs that we're forecasting. But I was a little surprised by the administrative costs. It looked like $357,000 between 2024 and 2026, which seemed to represent a pretty good chunk of the available funding. And so I know that you…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 3:20:29
“Yeah, so maybe I'll just save my comments for the discussion on that. You know, once we have a motion there.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 3:33:01
“Sure, I mean, I have a problem. I have overall comments on waiting for the motion.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 3:37:06
“staff for all the work you put into this and I want to start by also emphasizing that you know I do think a tool library does seem like a good idea and but the concerns I want to talk about regarding this concept really are how the cities roll in it and so the first thing is I honestly don't wasn't convinced that it was a financially sustainable proposal we only received one proposal and and its financial plan relies heavily on a variety of unsubstantiated assumptions. I don't see evidence that outside funding has been secured. And before investing taxpayer dollars, I really do think we need…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 4:44:57
“Thank you. A couple questions. So this, so maybe I'm getting this development confused with the other one next door. So the other one had multifamily tax exemption and this one didn't. Is that what is that what you're saying? Correct, yeah. OK. And then on You know, I guess what I heard from the presentation was that the eco flats, you know, many of them currently rent less than 60% AMI. It's just that there's no income restrictions on renting to folks that meet that today, right?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 4:45:59
“I guess what market information do we have that would say that the current rents would exceed 60% AMI in the future? Is it just kind of just more back of the envelope? calculations or estimates? Or is there more there to kind of substantiate that?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 4:46:47
“I'd be interested in just a little bit more. focus on that, I'd like to be assured that at least we gave it a good due diligence. Thank you. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 4:57:58
“YEAH, I JUST HAD A COUPLE QUESTIONS AFTER LISTENING TO ROBERT SPEAK. THANKS FOR COMING TONIGHT WITH ROBERT AND ANGELA. I APPRECIATE IT. You know, one of the bullets up here is the unit types, number one to three bedroom units aren't included. Could you talk a little bit more about that? And how would the deal need to change to include those?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 5:33:13
“Yeah, thank you. Thank you for all the effort on this, Martha. Yeah, I mean, it's fun to see Great to see that kind of the policy, the comp plan policy come to life, so to speak, right? Kind of moving that policy forward to implementation. And like the mayor got and the deputy mayor got to participate in the workshop with Block Sub and the other community members that participated. And it was, I participated in a number of workshops and, you know, things like that over the years. And it was something different and unique. And Well, well done. So impressed by the team as well. I just want to…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 5:34:51
“Well, I'm just wondering if, did we learn something through that where staff's now recommending us to do what the Planning Commission chair is suggesting, which is just not do the sub-area plan?”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 5:36:16
“Yeah, I guess it was always my impression that the sub-area plan would consider how and if the area transitions over time, right, that it's, you know, that it might not stay intact even with some of these changes that over time it could change over to housing and more density and things like that and what infrastructure would be necessary to support that, you know, is what I'm hoping that that planning effort would, you know, evaluate. So I was just, I guess I was just a little surprised to read in that email that it made it sound like we'd already made a decision that we just target…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 5:37:42
“Okay. but you don't feel like you've received direction from us on that yet, right? Correct. Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 5:51:31
“I don't have anything to report that can't be reported via email. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026