Remarks by Jugal Thakor
73 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
- Play at 2:42:07
“So quickly, if we go back to that slide, every single bullet point has some kind of a price tag on it. And that's something we don't know. And so even if you say, how much to charge monthly okay ten dollars then how much how many years how much do we need and does it satisfy even if we charge ten dollars are or are we supposed to charge that for how long how many years so so many things every bullet point needs some kind of uh numbers associated with it before we can think of all these bullet points because these are the half”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 2:49:43
“I'm going to just go ahead. Sorry, just a quick question. But before we get to the consultant, is there a way our city staff can put it together, some kind of database that this is how much like every bullet point we were talking about?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 3:15:36
“Just one clarifying question. Linear feed. So what is the... We are talking length right now. What is the width of it?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 3:32:54
“it might be multi-year or whatever and start implementing it by just doing that that reduces our liability good intentions yeah right right so i have a one question and one comment the quick question is that as we know the history predicts the future how long this sidewalks lasted So if we fix that right now, how long are we looking at? In the future, we don't have to fix it. No, you always have to fix it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 3:34:50
“So one quick comment what I had. So personally, I also looked into... So in front of our houses, it's our personal liability and personal property. It's not the city property. so just last week just let everybody know last week i had somebody come out to see how much it's gonna cost me so 10 by 10 section he quoted like fifteen hundred dollars if i am looking at uh what's up here at is three thousand three hundred at uh three three thirty per one linear feet by 10 feet. And then you add another 45% on top, which I added is 1500. So $4,800, which is not bad to be honest with you, with the…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 3:46:52
“So just a quick comment, but I think the REIT money looks pretty good. But if we are looking at the last slide of increasing $40 or $50 on the card app, already we are paying so much money on the card apps. And as soon as you put that extra $50, it's going to be a big...”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 3:58:58
“OK, so I do have one more question and comment on it that I don't know what percentage of the sidewalks in our entire city is owned by city and percentage is owned by the private owners. And the question is that, yes, we can fix the sidewalks for the city. What's going to happen with that? Suppose there's a 70 30 ratio. Who's going to take care of the 70% of the other sidewalks? We are definitely having challenges. So are we going to, how we let citizens know that, hey, this is your property and you're going to fix this sidewalk. We are not going to fix it. Or are we going to fix it? So…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 4:03:18
“Okay, so one more thing I have to say that we are talking about the non-compliant part of the citizens, but we also need to talk about the compliance part of the citizens. So say we send out the notice that, hey, you need to fix the sidewalk and the citizens say, okay, I'm going to fix my sidewalk by myself. I don't want millions of dollars of levy. Great. So do we require the permit from the city? What is the permit cost? So suppose a $1,500 fix can cost $600 of the city permit. That doesn't make sense also. How quick is the process of getting the city permits? Who is going to oversee what…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 4:05:47
“So and if we are going to agree, then sooner the better. That's what I can say, because if we are going to start repairing the sidewalks, the citizens will ask, oh, or they will think that a city is fixing all sidewalks. They don't realize everybody is not as informed and not watching the four hour hour discussion on the studies. So, yeah.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 4:06:16
“Yeah, so I think we need to make sure that if we're going to act on this, then we need to act at the same time for the other sidewalks issues also for the private properties. So making sure that if I want to fix my sidewalks, I'm not going to be charged 30% fees to apply for the fixing the sidewalk.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 4:11:27
“And also we have to be mindful of it that we should so far have understood that governing government here versus the privately doing the business, right? So the cost is almost three times to 10 times sometimes. So if we just say, okay, go ahead and fix my sidewalk and put a lien on my property, i don't think anybody will agree not including all of us sitting on the table saying that okay charge me 10 times and send me the bill or put a lien on my property so i don't think that's an option but we should give more option to the citizens in their hand and say okay follow this you know guidelines…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
- Play at 31:17
“Yeah, I had a few questions and comments, but I thought I will save it for the last and I will. But just to expand something on what just Susan said about police and fire contracts, and we have a two years in, but also we have to remember that this is an ongoing process. I don't know if say they agree for two years or three years, then we are already over with that bargaining and we have to restart. So this is like an ongoing process for us and we need it to be more better doing budgeting and our physical responsibilities and all the physical management. And I think that is only my comment is…”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 52:00
“Okay, so I have one question about which has not been asked so far, which is about the interest revenue. So if you can go back to that page, wherever it shows in the general funds, and it shows that we have received only 29% of the interest. Why is so?”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 53:28
“My question, again, I don't think I got that, or maybe I didn't understand your answer very well. But so we are having only 29% received means that are we still getting more interest revenue?”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 1:02:18
“okay thank you for that just trying to council member so it's a good question from uh council member walton and a good answer from you and uh explanation but the depreciation word itself is not should be the bringing the revenue in my opinion and having that as a uh you know one of the fund doesn't make sense totally”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 1:02:45
“Yeah, it doesn't make sense. And that was my one of the comment I put it on to say, I don't know why we have no revenue and depreciation and still it's on as a budget item. Yeah.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 1:04:17
“So I think we can look forward from the city staff recommendation on how to move this and get it out of our way. Yes. Okay, thank you.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 1:07:39
“So I think this transfer in and transfer out also always all the pages has it. And I had a question and I'm like, I think it would be nice to have a line item underneath just to show. So we don't wonder that where the half million went to or where does the half million is coming from? Also, there are transfer ins and I'm like, where does the half million is coming from? So even if it's going from one fund to another fund, And if it is just spells out underneath that, hey, this went from specific fund to a general fund, that will be very, very helpful. So we don't, we avoid a lot of questions.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 1:13:34
“So I guess I'm going to say my few words. First of all, I have to say a huge thank you to our staff for the report format and the presentation. As you might remember, asking twice during the last meetings, I made the comments that because of my personal business experience and accounting methods and using the softwares, These reports are really the best reports we can read out of. And we do not want to see the reports which is presented in the Excel spreadsheet, which can be very well manipulated at any stage by anyone. So I'm very happy to see that. Also, second thing I wanted to point out,…”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 1:28:32
“Okay, so... As you know that we have a some of the sidewalks in the streets and has some kind of a war going on at some point in the city and I think I have a one just a suggestion that if it's possible as you know I travel a lot and some of the states. And some cities put the sign on the street saying that your tax dollar at work. And it also says where the money came from. Sometimes it says, hey, it came from a state grant or the federal grant and what's happening. Or sometimes even people, I have seen signs which actually says that how much money is going to be spent for the improvement of…”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 1:32:24
“Yeah, I guess budget concerns and questions just carried us away. But I do want to say a huge thank you to city staff. I mean, that was no means it was a small event and making that happen with a few handful of you managing thousands of people in our town, almost half of the size of our town was not easy. So thank you so much. And I was part of the event and I really enjoyed every moment of it. It got a little hot on that day and a little dusty too, but I, you know, and also a huge thank you to Nesqually tribe. They did this to in our town and you guys work very hard in the long term for a…”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
- Play at 48:49
“So we are talking about the arrivals of canoes, but also whatever arrives has to depart. So I don't know when all the how many canoes are coming in and when are they going to depart from here? and the time between arrival and departure, if they are parked at this area or location. I don't know. I'm just clarifying.”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026
- Play at 52:02
“I make a motion to approve the memorandum.”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026