Remarks by Kelli Curtis
362 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 15
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“THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. WE ARE NOW ADDRESSING THE MOTION. I'M GOING TO GO TO COUNCILMEMBER ARNOLD, AND THEN I'LL CALL ON YOU.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Anyone else? Council Member Arnold, and then I'll go to Council Member Falcone.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right. Anyone else? All right. Before we move forward, I think we're going to, I'm going to take a motion on this amendment and then we'll go from there. Deputy Mayor, did you have?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“This has been moved by Councilmember Prem, seconded by Councilmember Falcone, to move forward the amendment that changes the $15 per square foot to $20 per square foot. Is there any further comments? Deputy Mayor.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“No, please don't. Let's wait till the next amendment. Okay, go ahead.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“All right. Thank you. All right. The questions on the motion to amend Ordinance 4937 to increase the square footage fee to $20. City Clerk, I suspect we're going to need to do a voice vote on this.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes. Amendment carries 4-3. Adam, back to you.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member Prem. move to uh i move to remove the section d as shown on the screen thank you it's been moved by councilman prem second by councilman falcone to delete section d of ordinance 4937 um any discussion councilman”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Anyone else? All right questions on the motion to amend ordinance 40 or 49 37 to delete section D City clerk, let's do a voice vote again Councilmember Tim Chisholm.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes. Thank you. Motion carries 7-0. All right. The question is on the amended Ordinance 4937. Is there any further discussion?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Motion fails 3-4. All right. Thank you, everyone. We voted on the amended motion. So it failed. So now we go back to the original motion, which was made in June 2025, which is 2,000 square feet at $15 a square foot. So to wrap up, this was two years of effort with the community and with our planning department and our planning commission. So I want to thank everybody for all the work that they put into it. Sometimes things are complicated and hard, and it takes us time. So thank you.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay, we are going to move on to 9D, which is Revised Parking Enforcement Code Amendments. City Manager.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Council, questions for the Lieutenant and Ryan?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Just a tough one. I do sincerely appreciate the improvements that were made. You took our comments to heart, and this is a better product. I'm still struggling a little bit with, are we talking about abandoned vehicles or exclusive of vehicles where people are living in them? Um, but I don't have an elegant solution for that. And it's, it's really what you've heard from the comments, particularly from council member Tim Chisholm and deputy mayor black, that this is, this is not a black and white issue. There's a lot of gray area in here and that we have put in processes and procedures and…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“It's been moved by Council Member Paschal, second by Deputy Mayor Black to move forward Ordinance 4946. Any further discussion? City Clerk.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Ordinance passes 6-1. Thank you, everyone. All right. We are moving on to council reports. And I will start with the deputy mayor.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Council Member Prim. Nothing to report. Council Member Arnold.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. I have nothing to report. So city manager.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“We continue to lead. Absolutely. Watch it carefully.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Paschal.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you. The City Council meeting of August 5th, 2026. As you can see, tonight's Council meeting is being held virtually. due to critical maintenance and upgrades underway in council chambers during the meeting we may take brief breaks as needed to address any technical issues and help ensure the meeting proceeds as smoothly as possible and council thank you so much please give me a little grace as we start out as i get the lay of the landscape here. I'm very appreciative to former Mayor Sweet having done this for quite a long time, but we'll get through it. So City Clerk, will you please…”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Here. All right. Our study session tonight is on two items. First, we'll have an update on the 2027-2028 utility rates. Second, we will have an update on the Kirkland Cares Low Income Support Program. We expect to reconvene our regular meeting at 7.30. City Manager.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Sorry, before you go on, question on the previous slide. Sure. So when you talk about customer growth, and this is my question is on all utilities, is the 0.9% per year, is that an industry standard? And my question really is, is that anticipated growth based on our comprehensive plan and our”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“That's helpful that just it's based on Kirkland, not an industry stand.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026
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“Let's pause for a second. I'll see if anybody has any questions. Absolutely.”
City Council · Aug 5, 2026