Remarks by Joy Hollingsworth
336 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 7 of 14
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“Awesome. Thank you, Council Member Strauss. Welcome back to love, y'all. Okay. So I just want to thank y'all. We're the love floor.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Well, thank you. What's the love floor? Okay. I love all y'all. All right. Thank you, Council Member Strauss.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay, yeah, step into fall. Y'all know you like your, you like your cuddle poxies and your north faces. All right, so now we're gonna go right into executive session. Are there any other comments? Thank you. Appreciate y'all. So if there's no further business, we will move into an executive session. Hearing no further business, we're now moving into executive session. As presiding officer, I am announcing that the Seattle City Council will now convene into the executive session. The purpose of the executive session is discussing... is to discuss pending potential and actual litigation. The…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Thank you. That's the first time I've ever had to use the gavel. So good afternoon, everyone. The August 11th meeting of the Seattle City Council will come to order. It is 2.06 PM. I'm Joy Hollingsworth, your council president. Will the clerk please call the roll?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Okay, Councilmember Juarez and Councilmember Foster are excused until they get here. I know they stepped out. Today the council will present three proclamations. Well, we'll present two, excuse me, two proclamations. The first one is presented on Susan Hahn Appreciation Day by Councilmember Rink and the second proclamation will be presented by Councilmember Saka recognizing West Seattle Little League Day. So we will start with Council Member Rank.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Awesome. Thank you, Council Member Rink. Are there any other council members that would like to give comment before we suspend the rules? So we're going to go ahead and suspend the rules so the proclamation can be presented. And then we also have three guests. We have Brian Callahan, who's going to speak, Shannon Gee, and then Susan herself. Oh, there is someone who wanted, oh, sorry, Council Member Rivera, thank you.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, CP. Awesome, thank you, Council Member Rivera. Okay, so we'll go ahead and present the proclamation, and then I will call up Brian, are you here, Brian Callahan? Callanan, I'm sorry, I always mess up, I'm sorry, Brian, yes. Okay, awesome, Shannon, then Brian, and then Susan. Hi, Shannon, welcome. Hey.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Awesome. Thank you, Susan. CP. Sorry, this microphone. And now we're going to take a group photo. So we'll have Susan and everyone come up to the front. Not everyone in the audience, but the folks. Sorry. Just letting you all know. Only the people that are coming up, I guess they know. And then Deanna Lee will take a photo. We'll pause here. It will be quiet.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So everyone, so if everyone, I have a microphone, Council Member Kettle, we're good. So this is what we're gonna do. We're gonna scrunch in as best as we can and we're gonna look at this camera right here at Deanna Lee. So we'll scrunch in, we'll scrunch in. Everyone scrunch in as much as you can. Go right there. As much as you can. We're scrunching in as much as you can.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you. All right. Thank you all for indulging us. For the record, we also have Council Member Foster and Council Member Juarez who have joined us. They have been here for a long time. I apologize. I did not recognize y'all when y'all came in.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“So. Thank you all. And then right after the proclamation, we'll jump into public comment. So if you are online and listening, we have one more proclamation and we will jump right in online. Council member Sokka, congratulations, Susan and team and Seattle Channel. Thank you for all the work that you all do. We're so grateful for our Seattle Channel, Emmy Award winning Seattle Channel. All right, Council Member Sokka will now address the proclamation recognizing August 11th, 2026 to be West Seattle Little League Softball Day. Council Member Sokka, you are recognized.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“And then we'll present the proclamation. Absolutely. You got it, Council Member Saka. I'll pause here to see if any other council member would like to say some comments. Council Member Rivera.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Awesome Thank You councilmember Rivera and then now if there are no objections I'm gonna suspend the rules so councilmember Saka can present the proclamation in my understanding you have the team manager Brent here coaches Brooke Fox and James Frazier that are here as well, and then other speakers?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“You could do the, yeah, you could present the proclamation and then they can speak whichever way you'd like.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“All right, so we're having Team Manager Brent and then Coaches Brooke and James. Welcome. Welcome.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Talk in the microphone, Brent, or use your coach voice.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“And then the rules have been suspended. Council Member Saka will come to present the proclamation. And then would you also like a picture, Council Member Saka, as well? Okay, awesome. And then we will invite the young girls to come up. We're gonna take a photo together. So if you all just start making your way right here to the right. Just this way, just follow. Awesome. And then right after this photo, we will jump right into public comment. Okay. Awesome. Thank you all. So we'll come up here. We'll take a photo with our young girls from the 11U, the state championship team. Hey.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Congratulations. I heard the girls up here talking about back to back. That's what I heard. I heard them say back to back titles. That's what I heard. Someone said back to back. Okay. We're going to jump right into the public comment. Colleagues, at this time, we're going to open up our favorite time, which is our hybrid public comment period. Public comment is limited to items on today's agenda. The introduction referral calendar and the council's work program. The council cannot accept comments on quasi-judicial items or campaign-related matters. Clerk, how many speakers do we have signed…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“You said 75 in person plus 30 remote. OK, awesome. So we are going to go over time. And that's allotted for our public comment period. So I am going to ask my colleagues. We're going to hear everyone speak today. Is that cool? I will not continue to extend the time. We'll go as long as it takes. Is that cool? I'm looking left and right. Awesome. All right, so because we have over 100 people, We have about 100 people. We are going to do one minute. If you have 60 or less, it's less than one minute. I think that would just be ridiculous to do 30 seconds. So everyone's going to get one minute.…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Poe, Paul, Julian. Is Poe? Polipai? All right, welcome.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Poe. Next we have Paul. Is Paul here? Julian? Is Paul here? Paul? Okay, welcome. Then Julian, then Manti.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Thank you, Paul. Next, we have Julian, followed by Manti. Julian, followed by Manti. And just a reminder, when people are speaking, if we could just be respectful, no booing. I'm not gonna let them boo you either, so let's just try to keep it cool, all right? So next we have Julian. I'm Julian. You're Julian Blackthorn?”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026