Remarks by Kristina Walker
24 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for all of this information. There's so many things I look forward to hearing more, learning more in the future. I want to focus a little bit on slides 15 and 16, the buildings. First of all, the graphics are awesome to the individuals. And really appreciate knowing the timeline of all of those buildings. And, you know, what a joy to have historic buildings in this city. And I know they are beautiful and they cost a lot of money. And we have a lot of pride in them, so we want to keep them going. Absolutely. appreciate those timelines. I have a couple comments.…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So maybe we can pull you in when we have our legislative agenda meeting. I don't know what that is, but just thinking out loud. And I think that somebody will correct me if I'm wrong. We just got a big grant for the number one carbon emitter. So we're ready to fund the next one.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, I think some of those leveraging the different departments we have with the library I think is the way we get some of these things done anyway. And then also just a note for our government Advocacy team and our federal agenda on those digital costs and I would be really curious. I mean the offline We don't talk about it now But just what the efforts are at a national level to figure out how we bring those down because as you said This is not just a Tacoma problem and it's not a year. That's not sustainable Yeah, so figuring out how we can add that into our federal agenda as well as you…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And then the last thing, this is definitely a question for you, Allison, is when are we talking about the facilities plan overall? We did all that work and that study two years ago, and then are we getting, is that coming back to us at some point? Because this is a piece of that, but I feel like a very substantial piece of it.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Great. Well, thank you so much for all the information and all the things that you're doing. I always learn more and it makes me excited to get more involved.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you for all those really thoughtful edits, Councilmember Diaz. Because I've been involved in this, I feel good about it. I feel like we're headed in the right direction. I feel like so many of these things are just things that maybe we're naturally doing anyway, so they feel easy. the one thing I was just gonna add was And and I think I will circle back with my staff on this because I know you did interviews with all the staff It's just understanding if this feels good to them because as I remember you said they're the ones that fill it out But I do feel like it's getting at the right…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor, and excited about the work that is represented in here and happy to sign on. I think one of the things that I have understood in the process of this, and this is sort of to address Council Member Scott's comments, is that this is not taking any steps backwards on any of our goals because a lot of the pieces in here we already had, but is reinforcing them, saying we're going to continue to do that, and making sure that we are not investing in something that's going to cost us a lot of money in terms of tracking something new, but we're committing to being in community and…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Can I just interrupt for a second? We all know you, but the public doesn't. Will you introduce yourself?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“At the August 12, 2026 Infrastructure Planning and Sustainability Committee meeting, the committee conducted interviews for the Climate and Sustainability Commission and the Transportation Commission and recommended the appointment and reappointment of the following individuals. Sierra McCarty to the Climate and Sustainability Commission and to the Transportation Commission, Luke Cassidy, Maria Buchanan, Herschel Wilson, Ainsley Zura, and Matthew Stevens.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I just wanted to quickly thank staff. I do have the pleasure of serving on the Pierce Transit Board along with Council Member Hines and Council Member Diaz as your Tacoma representatives on the board. And so we were able to work with staff as they created the package. And I can't tell you how... great the process was in terms of it being iterative and back and forth and Tina would bring something forward and we'd ask for more numbers and ask her team to go back and really, really great work in reaching out to community, maybe even hundreds of events, I'm not sure, but your…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I'm bringing forward a contingency fund request tonight for $2,500 to support the Nourish Pierce County annual luncheon, a place at our table. I know most of you know Nourish Pierce County, but for those who don't, they're a vital organization for our community. They're a nonprofit. They're based in Tacoma. Their mission is to provide nutritious food and support services to people in need with compassion, dignity, and respect. They operate six brick and mortar food pantries and 16 mobile sites countywide. Three of those brick and mortar pantries and eight of the mobile sites…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. The Infrastructure Planning and Sustainability Committee has met twice since our last report out. On July 22nd, the committee was briefed on an update from Tacoma Water on groundwater supply and regulations protecting the public and meeting regulatory requirements related to PFAS, commonly known as Forever Chemicals. On August 12th, the committee voted to recommend candidates to the Transportation Commission and Climate and Sustainability Commission, and you all voted on those recommendations tonight. The committee also received four memorandums from Public Works, providing…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for the presentation. I think Council Member Scott and Council Member Stalge got at most of my questions, just sort of understanding why some things are in one and not in the other. So I may just need a little bit more math in the next day or so. But overall, the goal of each of the proposals is to total $16 million, because that's what we estimate we're going to bring in. So if we wanted to pick and choose from one and two, we could do that. So we talked about the body worn cameras. There's some sort of trade-off that we could put that in proposal two and not…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“OKAY. GREAT. WELL, THANK YOU. SO THIS HAS DEFINITELY GOTTEN, I HAVE MORE INFORMATION NOW. I FEEL LIKE I HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO CONTINUE THE CONVERSATION, BUT I DEFINITELY DON'T FEEL LIKE I'M AT A POINT WHERE I KNOW WHERE WE WANT TO GO SPECIFICALLY. AND I THINK IT'S BECAUSE SOME OF THOSE TRADE-OFFS, RIGHT? LIKE, WHAT AREN'T WE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO IF WE DO THAT? AND SO I THINK JUST THIS IS GREAT TO HAVE THIS NOW IN AUGUST AS WE MOVE INTO THAT. SO THANK YOU. AND MORE DISCUSSION COMING.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Councilmember Diaz, for all of the work and the background, too. I knew this was a long time coming, but I didn't know it went quite so far back. So thank you. I appreciate that. And I think that makes a difference. I think the conversations that have been had and pulling that in really important so I think I appreciate the long document a couple questions and maybe one really dumb one that I feel like I should already know but I haven't figured out yet and so on the the the proposal Just for city projects. I guess just starting there.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, and the on page three is a chart of These are the projects that this could apply to and when we did in we have had the leap apply to most of our projects over five million dollars and So that's already been happening. How does something over $5 million not apply to, how does LEAP not apply? Why are there four public works projects that didn't do LEAP?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And it doesn't have to be right now. That can just be on the list of questions.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And then on the local portion of that, when we, This is the question I feel like I should know, so I feel kind of dumb, but is the local employee, do we track that based on where the employee lives or where the business is based? What makes it local?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, great. I was hoping that because I do want to support local businesses, but ultimately I want to support Tacoma and staying in Tacoma and being able to work in Tacoma. So that's really great and really important. Is there an analysis of the things that change? If we go from LEAP to a CWA, for example, is there analysis of what more we get out of that?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Awesome. Thank you. That's super helpful. My last question is about the costs and I see the fiscal impact. So why does it get so much more expensive in year two?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So that's the staff to do that proactive work and things like that? Yes. think well that's definitely all my questions I think there's so much good stuff in here it's all things that we want to do I want to make sure I understand that when we put more dollars into it we're getting more out of it because I am so proud of the work that our staff has done around the LEAP program it feels like we're doing so many things my understanding is that we can get more but I just maybe need to do a little bit more reading to understand that. But it feels like we're on the right track.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Great. Thank you. Thank you for all of the work that went into this. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“We gratefully honor and acknowledge that we rest on the traditional lands of the Puyallup people, where they make their home and speak the Lushootseed language. Please stand for the flag salute and remain standing for a moment of silence. .”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I was just getting excited about my final council comment This Saturday August 22nd from noon to 2 p.m. We are going to celebrate the opening of Sheridan Avenue which is now a MULTIMODAL STREETS AND THE EVENT IS AT FIRN HILL ELEMENTARY STARTING AT NOON AND THEN WE'LL CUT THE RIBBON AT 1230 AND I JUST WANT TO GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO OUR FORMER COLLEAGUE COUNCILMEMBER CHRIS BEAL WHO REALLY CHAMPIONED THIS PROJECT AND IT'S A VERY EXCITING CORRIDOR TO OPEN BUT IT'S ALSO A GOOD INDICATION OF HOW LONG THESE THINGS TAKE AND HE HAD SOME vision back even before I was on council, and here we are…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026