Remarks by Kelly Green
23 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Whereas, despite working to pass the 19th Amendment, women of color were effectively denied the right to vote through state laws, violence, and discrimination for another 45 years until the passage of the Voting Rights Act and in 1965, and whereas black women continue to lead the way in communities that are most impacted and continue to protect voting rights and build communities and policies that are equitable and safe for all, and.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you for being here alley, I just want to say it's nice to see you again and I'm very. excited that that the ywca is still part of our community and the vital work that you're doing.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Whereas International Overdose Awareness Day is an opportunity for all Olympians to stand beside those who have lost loved ones to an overdose and those who have a substance use disorder and are diligently working toward recovery.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Christina, thanks for being here for this recognition. And I just wanted to kind of share. In addition to just appreciating the work that all of you do to support folks, especially folks in recovery and family of folks navigating this. One of the reasons I'm glad we're doing this tonight is because. I'm a communicator by trade, and I know this, but you forget it, is that somebody has to hear a message so many times before it sinks in. And even myself, I've sat through discussions up here. Our youth council presented to us last year a really great PSA. I sat here, I watched it, and then I saw…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Stacey, I just want to ask a clarifying question on that. So the by name list is closed. Folks are not being allowed to come in and start camping there if they haven't camped there. But folks who are coming in are still eligible for services through that coordinated entry, just not through the services that would be paid for by the ERP program?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“It does. And then just one follow-up on the, are you, as far as you're aware, were there any folks who have been kind of permanent residents of the jungle, but were not there during the time the by name list was established. Like maybe they have a structure there, but for whatever reason they were not there.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you so much for that, Chief. You alluded to this, but I'm going to ask a kind of specific question that I get a lot from community members, which is if OPD is in the jungle and sees something, sees someone using narcotics, sees stolen property, sees other, you know, I think you referred to them as low-level offenses, but criminal activity, why do they not just act on that?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you so much for this, Tim. I have just two kind of clarifying questions. You just mentioned that one of the things you're suggesting adding is some type of ability to prove that it's a primary residence and not, you know, visiting relatives. What would be an example of like how your team could establish that?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And then, uh, would there be, for somebody who has this permit, would there be a way for me as a neighbor to know that it's a permitted use versus there's just suddenly an RV parked there and now code enforcement is going to get calls and now code enforcement knows that it's permitted. But like, yeah, just, is there any going to be, is there going to be any sort of visual indicator of, this is here under this permit don't call code enforcement.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that, City Manager. I think my thought process in this goes both ways, though, of if there's a way to avoid some code enforcement calls because it's permitted and the city already knows or whatever, it feels like that would be easier than the code enforcement calls or emails coming in and then somebody's got to follow up on all those. So anyway, so that was the angle of my question.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Council Member Barron. That sparked a question for me, which was, so if I, as a property owner, I get this permit, I give somebody permission, and then two months in, like, it's not going well. Does the city have any obligation to step into that, or is that an issue between me and the person I gave permission to be on my property?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Since Council Member Gilman isn't with us tonight, I'll just give a very brief report. We had a Finance Committee meeting, I think, since our before last, anyway, since our last reports. And Council Member Vanderpool can correct me, but we just we had a briefing on the capital facilities plan, which I know will come forward to this body. And then we also got a little I'm not going to call it a sneak peek into the budget, but some early conversation around general assumptions that the city is using to build the budget and kind of what how they're approaching that process and…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“That's the total amount a person drives in a day that's to work, to the grocery store, and so on and so forth.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, Mayor. This is super helpful. One question that came to mind for me, though, when I was looking at it was, is there any, over the same 10-year period of time, I know the expectation is that the population in the city will increase as well. Is there any threshold or like how frequently do new trucks, new routes, new whatever need to be added as the population increases? I mean, is it for every 2,000 rate payers or is it just very dependent on on what part of the city they go to and Yeah, I guess is any of that accounted for in here or would that be something that that we could…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. One thing that's not covered in your services section but is a question I get a lot is around the types of items that can be recycled or commingling of recycling. As far as you know, the private haulers, at least those that serve Lacey, Tumwater, the county, Do they offer pretty similar recycling options to what the city does? Do they take more? Do they take less? Do you know about that?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I'm going to put my memory to the test here and for my colleagues. Tell me if I'm remembering correctly. So we recently saw a presentation from the head of the fleet maintenance. And I don't remember, was that finance committee or was that full council? OK, so in that case, I'm going to ask this question for all my colleagues. So in that presentation, he talked about the availability of electric vehicles, particularly when it got into heavy duty like garbage trucks. And I remember him saying that right now the cost of those trucks is in the ballpark of $800,000 to $1…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. Mark and Ron, thank you so much. When this first came to finance several months ago, we had a lot of questions. There was a lot more questions in April, and I feel like we have gotten a lot of answers. For me, though, I don't feel like this is the end of our due diligence. I think there's a lot of... And let me say, your pros and cons chart, I think I'm very much in agreement with in general. However, a lot of the cons are unknown, but those things are not unknowable. We haven't asked the question. We haven't said, what does it, what would it look like in a scenario where we…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, thanks, Mayor. Savannah, I really appreciate this plan. I appreciate all the work that's gone into it, and I know, you know, and I take Councilmember Madrone's feedback seriously. I know this is a place where she and a lot of community members have really dug in. I think the question that's just bouncing around for me, and maybe it's just a little bit of a I don't know if sticker shock is the right word, but I agree with some of the comments that we've received that just that amount of money for ultimately a consultant, and I mean a very significant body of work, as I see your…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Let me just do 1 follow up question. So, uh, with with the Rebecca Howard park plan, uh, was there sort of written like, what were the parameters of when someone would get a stipend? Because as I think about this plan, and I, I hear about, like, all the, the organizations and individuals throughout the community that are going to be engaged, like.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah. No, thanks for that. So I appreciate that. I, you know, just candidly, I am struggling a little with the cost because we don't have those things laid out, um, or don't have a little more of a budget breakdown. Um, so just, I don't know, I'll continue listening to some of the other conversation, but thank you.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Just a quick comment mayor. Thank you. Um, just and I just, I really appreciate this presentation and really my only comment is, uh, I think what I. learn most from this was, you know, particularly with the incentives for the affordable units, you know, seeing brand new developers coming into the area, the MFTE seems to be a little more familiar names. I'm not putting judgment on that. It just seems to be the thing. But to see that these incentives, I won't say they brought other developers here, but certainly just brought, you know, gave the opportunity for new folks to come into the…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you, Mayor. I just have one piece of good news I wanted to report out from the Joint Animal Services Commission meeting yesterday. We had a wonderful presentation from an organization called Posado Safe Haven. And they are... hopefully soon, uh, they said definitely by the end of the year, uh, opening a low cost spay and neuter clinic in the community. So it'll be in some water, but, uh, they'll do low cost spay and neuters four days a week. They expect to be able to do 35 a day, all for cats and dogs, but dogs of all sizes. And, uh, I kinda, I said, okay, well, what, what's…”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026
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“They will, they will partner with joint animal services and other rescue organizations as well, which is just part of their work. They also have a sanctuary. They also they have a pretty big body of work. So yeah.”
City Council · Aug 11, 2026