Remarks by Jon Pascal
52 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
- Play at 5:54:23
“Thank you Madam Mayor. So just a little bit of just quick background for those that might be watching. I think several of us were approached some time ago by representatives of Lyme. and indicating that they're in our adjoining cities and agencies surrounding Kirkland, Bothell, Woodinville, Redmond, and now are just starting a program in Bellevue. And saying that now Kirkland is kind of in a donut hole, right? And so they'd like to start conversations with us about introducing micromobility options here to our city. And then they followed that up with a letter to the council believe yesterday…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 6:05:34
“Thank you. Council Member Falcone did a great job of explaining that. The only couple of things I just want to add or emphasize is that these things are issues that we've heard from the community members. These aren't just wild ideas that both of us came up with, but these are things, conversations I've been having over the years. I'm sure you've heard too from other community members about this. And then second, we were very specific with staff that we wanted these to be very targeted and really want to, and that's why that last sentence is there, is to try to find a way to see if we're…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
- Play at 19:16
“Yeah, thank you. Also, thank you for the good work you're doing for the police department. I've been impressed by the marketing and branding that I have seen.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 19:25
“So I didn't realize it was the same firm, so that's great. And thank you for reducing your number of slides. I'm a big proponent of that. You actually answered one of my questions. One of my questions was, I think, addressing the comment letter that we got today from the Commercial Real Estate Development Association, which is, I think, the new name for NAOP, or... you know, they're related to NAOP somehow. And they raised similar concerns to what you just said about, you know, the branding and the name is less important than some of the regulations to promote development and investment in…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Great. Yeah, thank you for this. I mean, I guess my own perspective on it is that I find the marketing branding, that's something that doesn't come easily to me personally. And I look to the experts to kind of take that on and provide the recommendations and the less that we can debate names and branding and marketing at the council level. To me, that's a good thing.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Just a couple things came up listening to my colleagues talk. One, and I think you're gonna get into the goals here, but I mean, one of my overarching principles is the health of our urban forests. That's the ultimate goal, is to promote the health of the forest, and I know you'll talk about that, but we tend to kind of focus on the 40% canopy a lot, but if the 40% canopy is made up of a portion of unhealthy type of forests, then how good is that goal, right? So I know that they're all interrelated. So that's something I'm looking for. And just to kind of tag on to my colleagues' comments…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“When I read this goal, I see it really focused on what the Kirkland government can do to maintain and grow the urban forests, and I'm just wondering if it should be broader than just the government. You know, build programmatic capacity internally, but I think that's externally. So that's how I read it. I don't know if that's intentional, and maybe it can be more maybe it can be modified to make it more apparent that it's also, I mean, the expectation is we want our private landowners to maintain and grow the urban forest canopy, well, urban forest assets as well. Or do you think there's…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I'm just wondering if you could eliminate the first, like, four words there and just maintain and grow Kirkland's urban forestry assets. So it's not about the capacity of the government. It's about the need to maintain and grow the urban forest overall as a community, as a community.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Before we move on to that, I just wanted to bring up another topic that you had mentioned earlier. You mentioned about, you know, untabling the affordable housing fee until the council reports, but I'm really fearful that we have a lot of important topics tonight and that that could, you know, be at the very end of the meeting and it's a really important topic and I just disagree with waiting until later and I'd like to take up that topic now.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:10:37
“Thank you all. I know this is irregular, but I recognize that it was caused by myself being at the June 2nd meeting, and so you arrived at a 3-3 tie on this ordinance, and it required us to We couldn't untable it until all seven of us were together, and this has been the first time since the beginning of June. And so I'm not going to go into all the merits of the ordinance because we've had a lot of discussion on the affordable housing fee. I just wanted to be here to be able to vote on that fee tonight, and I'm going to be supporting raising it to $2,500.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:31:20
“Yeah, thanks. I know that last time you came to present to us, I could get the sense that you were hoping that we would approve it at that time. And I don't know, that's how it came across. And I totally understand because these are important updates, I think. And you continually get feedback and complaints and stuff that you're unable to address fully without some of this increased authority or clarification. So thank you for your patience as we kind of walk through it, but I felt like my comments around bicycles and really focusing on the behavior of a cyclist rather than the device itself,…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:03:53
“Yeah, thank you. Good discussion so far. You know, I came into this kind of looking at it from, you know, enabling our police department to have the tools to address very egregious and situations that might arise, you know, after exhausting all And that's kind of how I feel and what I hear that you all, that's how you do things. And I think we all would agree with that. You know, so I understand the concern about down the road that maybe those procedures get altered or changed or modified. And so it'd be good to have those in written format somehow as policy. So I totally support that or…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:18:22
“Yeah, just a question on the community engagement plan. You know, this is kind of following up on a comment we heard earlier, but the consulted stakeholders here that show up on this slide are kind of like everyone else, the general public. And I noticed in the plan at the end that under phase one that they're kind of, you're going to focus on kind of just digital outreach with those groups. I'm wondering if there's opportunities, or maybe you could talk about opportunities for in-person engagement with those groups as well, just because digital, you know, doesn't always work for everyone.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay, yeah, I think what I'm asking for, I think it'd be nice to just get a little bit more thought on is having an opportunity, whether that's an outreach event, you know, at one time for consultant stakeholders, where someone can actually have a dialogue with staff, you know, rather than just, you know, filling out a survey online. That's all, but I'm not suggesting that both the core and the consultant stakeholders have the same level. I'm just looking for making sure that it's more than just digital, that there's an opportunity for actually an in-person discussion. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:38:26
“Yeah, thank you. I'm not going to repeat what we heard already, but I just want to first say that I support the goal here that we're trying to achieve in seeing more neighborhood commercial businesses. And then, you know, I thought I thought Leander you had a really good slide that showed kind of the project assumptions I totally agree with. You know I think you've really thought through some of those issues and things that are going to need to be discussed, so I don't know that I have anything more there so other than i'm just curious to see where that goes. The one thing that i'd asked for…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:40:26
“I mean, I don't want to see like, you know, a spreadsheet of a thousand comments, but I mean, just more kind of like, what are kind of the main things that we hear from the community?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 3:41:22
“Okay. Yeah, well, thanks for that. Let me see. Look at my list. Oh, my list is short. Yep, that's all I had. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 4:46:27
“I too will be voting no. I'm much more in favor of a permanent solution rather than temporary. That's what a moratorium is. It's temporary. We have a permanent proposal here. Let's move forward with it.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 45:21
“Thank you. First off, thank you for the presentation. Just the whole layout of it. You had someone who's very good at doing PowerPoints. That was pretty impressive. You upped the bar here in Kirkland, probably. I had just a couple comments, questions. Maybe I'll just kind of go through them and then you can, if you have a response, or you can respond later. One is I noticed that there was an increase in yearly bookings, particularly over the last couple years and kind of what's contributing to that. I echo some of the comments from my colleagues around the score and also the King County Jail…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Question, do we have data about percentage of residents versus non-residents that are parking at our parks?”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you. Thank you for all the information so far on this. I know we've been talking about it for a while. I was most glad to hear about the fact that the outreach is the next step, that you really want to tailor the outreach to the things the council's most interested in, so I think that makes a lot of sense. I think I want to start out big picture. What I'm looking for is kind of, you know, really clear vision of where we're going, what are those objectives that we're trying to achieve, and then a you know, somehow compare those objectives or those options to those objectives and…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
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“Thank you. You know, I regret that I missed the last meeting where you all talked about this funding. And I just wanted to say that I agreed with much of what was said at the last meeting about, you know, why this is an important program to support. You know, even though I didn't attend the last meeting, I did raise some questions with the city manager, just kind of wanting a little bit more information and background about the project itself, what it was specifically going towards, how it was benefiting the community, and then asking for, you know, a little bit more kind of a written…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 3:29:00
“Thank you. Thank you, Jennifer, for, as always, the in-depth analysis and documentation on how you arrive at your recommendations, so I appreciate that. I can just go back to the fact that the city's done some And Public Works has done some really good work here. I don't know of another city that's kind of putting this much emphasis on school signage and beacons and everything else that is proposed here. So I just go back to that fundamental thing where we're making some good progress here. And so that's the thing to kind of kind of keep front of mind, recognizing that there's always…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 3:30:27
“Madam Mayor, I'd make a motion to recommend that we go with option one. Second.”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026
- Play at 3:31:49
“I was just going to say that I think I'd give an update on the Cascade Water Alliance. I know that I missed the last meeting. You all had another presentation on rates. So as a board, we're continuing to have that discussion, particularly around the proposed capital a facility plan, funding plan that is, which is quite different than we've seen before in terms of just the overall magnitude of cost to implement the Cascade Supply Program. And I just want to thank city staff that are supporting us for preparing a letter. I don't know if the rest of the council has gotten a copy of the letter…”
City Council · Jul 7, 2026