Remarks by Jugal Thakor
73 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 17:28
“So when you said that, first of all, I think I should say my story, and since you are here, I have to say a huge thank you to DuPont Library because when we moved here in 2008 and all the kids were little, And we were walking all the way down from Hoffman Hill to come to library. And my wife has taken the pictures. And when I share them now, because they all are out of the house as of yesterday. So I have no kids left. And I share those pictures. They love it. And that's the only place we walked in the town to go. And they would love to come because how they were welcomed by everyone. and how…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 19:23
“okay so the follow-up question is that uh with the you have both sides i mean you're renting the spaces and also you own the spaces financially which is the most uh better solution for the library system”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 24:50
“I'm sorry, I keep thinking about everything what I just asked you. And I do have some follow-up question on that also. Do you have a separate budget for doing the new constructions? Or would it be more beneficial for you just to buy the existing building and put a library there?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 26:10
“okay there's a one more food for thought there's a one property on sale right in the dupont downtown i don't know if you're aware but that's something if you want to purchase it i think that might fit to your possibly the square footage what you need and possibly there's a more to it which you can possibly rent out so you have some income coming in to pay for the if you don't have enough capital to purchase it”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 34:22
“I have a question for the B&O tax. And sorry, on the first slide. Oh, yes. So I'm not I mean, I'm well aware of what is B&O taxes, but do we see that we will have a continue of that revenue stream with having the warehouses or maybe some other businesses within the DuPont will stay and continue to operate? Long story short, that confidence.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 45:16
“So this animal license and miscellaneous permits, it's a very small amount of income. And one time we were talking about how much time staff has to spend behind those license and permits. I'm just wondering, is it really worth it?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 46:58
“Kaveh Khoshnood, Is it not something animal control has some our county has some kind of a control on it, that we have to have a CD do this job just wondering, we want the right. Yeah, but it's such a small revenue and I don't know how much city staff spends the time behind it. And that was some, my question was related to city staff time. And that's why we try to discuss so many times everything about city staff time. So 7,000 income or 10,000 income versus the staff time. Well, yeah. So is it really worth it? That's that. And then I would really like to see that.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 57:40
“Okay, sorry, if you can go back to that slide, I thought we are going to explain this business taxes penalty. Can you? I don't know if Keith needs to explain this. Can you explain what is this means? How are we getting the penalty from business taxes?”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 59:44
“I think I might have a little different opinion here because we are at 3.7%. I understand it's high, but it's not going to go down very soon. It doesn't even look like it might go down. It might go up actually. And that's what is happening if I just raise the interest rate. So, I mean, conservative approach is the best approach, but we are cutting down by 50%, and that's not the conservative. We are just cutting it down to 50%. So if I were you, I mean, it's not a big number. 52,000 to 84,000 or 74,000 is not going to change much, but we should not be having this kind of practices. So I would…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:02:04
“And I for a quick second. Sorry, I do want to agree with you. Sorry. I mean, next time I'm not sitting with Susan and sharing a microphone here. I don't know. We love each other. So it's all right.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:02:19
“Oh, oh. There we go. Okay. So I think, uh, I agree with you and so far you had a lot of conservative steps and, uh, in each, uh, slide and I totally get it. This one is just too much out of the way. So that's why I have to speak up. Otherwise I love your conservative approach. I do know what's coming up and we do know that we have a something bill, big bill to do to pay. But I don't think we should be considering this much of conservative steps, which is not an ideal way of working on any kind of budget. So that's why I'm saying it's not a much into the big piece of pie. Maybe it's not even a…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:03:55
“Wow. I'm not going to go on that route, but I think to solve this problem, hopefully we have microphones for each council, so we don't have to do that. It was here to the wrong.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:15:12
“So I think just following up on what Mike said is correct. I was at the AWC conference in Leavenworth and a budgeting workshop, and I thought that we cannot do it. That's what my understanding was. So again, if there was a legal opinion was we cannot do, and there's always a challenge between lawyers and CPAs. So we understand that. And going with that flow, yeah, that's why I clarified. I mean, they both have a different opinions, always on the one legal battle, you know? So please look into it before you make any recommendation. And I'm saying to the city staff also and to Kit that we don't…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:29:18
“So just a quick, my opinion on increasing revenue is okay until we have a justified expenses. So we can have a revenue coming in, we can increase the revenue, but we have to also see where are we spending it. So it has to go hand hand in hand and we have to have that justification written that okay we need a two million dollar for sidewalks and we're gonna increase this much to bring the two million dollar in without justification of expenses increasing the revenue is not the right way of doing the business”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 1:30:51
“And I agree with that. It's just, you know, we are also an elected official. Somebody is going to ask us, hold responsible that, okay, you just increased their, you know, whatever percentage on whatever taxes. Why? Where are you going to spend? And I should be ready to respond that question. And that's why I'm asking that question. Okay. We have to have a justification of spending before we ask for the revenue. That's all I'm saying.”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 2:01:59
“So I do have a question, but as I remember my kids growing up here, and DuPont is very friendly, family-oriented policing, I see in general. So sometimes they listen, they have a helmet, and they wear it. Sometimes they don't, and they just are out from the garage, and you don't know, right? And I'm not just saying that my kids did that, but majority of the kids do that. All kids do that. All kids do that, okay? So otherwise, my kids listening, then they were, Dad, you are not... But anyway, I think how do we enforce this helmet regulations and how many citations have we really issued in the…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 2:09:14
“uh and he seemed excited he was thinking about it actually a couple years ago and and so when he came over and said hi i said time to make that decision let's go for it okay i don't know any further any further discussion no i just wanted to say i think it will be great to see the pool planning commission now in place and that would be the one of the”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 2:11:43
“So we had some citizen or one citizen posted on, uh, you know, social media about the historic Parker missing. And, uh, I had a talk about it and, and also we received an email, but, uh, uh, right next to this checklist trail. Uh, but eventually I did received even a response from the mayor stating that, uh, there was somebody was sent out and the historic marker has been found. and just because of the growth around the marker. So it's not been seen from the distance. So I moved. Yeah, it's not mode. But I think the main important point is that I have to take you back for one minute that when…”
City Council · Sep 22, 2026
- Play at 20:47
“So if we find our, uh, if there is a chain emails going on or the text message or anything is going on, right. And the, if emails are on the, are in on an official, uh, you know, uh, emails or anything, who really, uh,”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 42:54
“So I had a follow-up question from my last question. So what you answered is that talk to city administrator or a mayor, but then I was thinking about some of the situation where presented when I was in AWC conference last time. So based on those, these are two types of question here is what if you report to the mayor and city administrator and still nothing happens? So it's kind of a whistleblower situation, right? And a second thing is what if somebody is fearful to even report it or to initiate that conversation? So that's where the whistleblower word comes in. So it's an anonymous place…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 44:26
“So is this reporting is only for the council and or is it for the city staff also in terms of say the city staff observe something and if they want to report it?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:09:19
“Thank you, Mayor. And I'm sure It will be a very exciting to hear this, but I think one of the thing happened to me, this is how I started thinking about the youth program and youth council program. So when I become council member, some of my kids, I was talking and they were so excited and they're like, yeah, dad, you know what? I like it, I love it. And maybe I should think about running for election or becoming something, you know? And some of my kids are like, I absolutely hate it, dad. I don't want you to do it, and I don't want me to do it. So I asked them a question. I'm like, why…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:16:53
“Yeah, so I think I was thinking about it and I do some research online. So there's the two cities which I found has already this kind of youth council program in place, which is a city of Scrim and city of Federal Way. So I look at all those, you know, their application, their eligibility criteria and what they do. It doesn't sound very complicated. And this was something also I thought maybe I should check the interest of the school district. So I did send out an email just to check the interest to our school district admins. And they said that they will be interested to do it. And to answer…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:18:27
“My suggestion would be to do at least the body who gets selected or elected, they come at least once a month. So not two meetings a month at least, but if they can come once a month. So that's part of their learning process. And one of the other benefit also we have to think about it that many times our colleges are very competitive, right? And they need something above and beyond to show and prove that, hey, I did something. And especially when it comes to the civic duties and the governance, it's pretty good. It looks pretty good on their resume. So I think it's a yes, we can make that…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:20:33
“we can put some another criteria in place that you can be a mayor only if you are a senior or you can be a deputy mayor if you're a junior something like that so these are the ideas we have it and definitely we all can put in our two cents into it while we are forming the how do they get elected? Now, that's a good problem to have. First of all, we should have the seven people or seven students or nine students should be ready to come.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026