Remarks by Mason Thompson
160 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 7
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“Um, And we've talked about it. So we're essentially not funding other projects. Where does this money exist right now? Like, are you asking for it from the general fund or is it sitting in impact fees or like what, where is the actual money right now?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I know we have the percentage of the levy funds that was set aside for completing big projects like this. What percentage of those funds are we using for this?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Okay. How were there more business relocations than expected? And I guess, who determines that the business needs to relocate? Like, how does that process work?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Do we ever just go to the businesses on a weekday and look at how much parking is being used?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“So basically all of the business relocation is due to parking? Completely. Yeah, every single one of them. Yeah. I'm generally very skeptical of parking problems being as bad as people claim they will be in the future. But it's just one of the examples of how much parking costs us. Right.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“They're all in process right now and requiring these funds. Okay. There's a property like a tri-pyramid and we're buying the whole parcel because of an economic remnant determination? Correct. What does that mean?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“They can keep it, but we have to make the offer to buy it. Okay. and then we would own it and then we would sell it. That's right.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Is there a chance we're going to recuperate any, like if we're, you know, of this 20 million extra dollars, 10 million of which is just coming from us, like what do we anticipate from real estate sales and proceeds coming back one day?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Tearing down a large building to put in a small building so that there can be more parking is a whole mood.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“This is one of those agenda bills that you just, I mean, I know you guys don't like this any more than we don't like this. And all of the negotiations, these are all in process. Businesses are relocating. Like everything is settled pretty much. This is.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I mean, now we know. Council Member Anguillery?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you guys for the presentation. This is probably not the one you were looking forward to all week. I would just encourage you as we finish this up, I want to make sure that we make people whole, but I don't want to run the voluntary relocation fund for people. I mean, I want to do right by folks, but I don't want this to be a huge economic boon or opportunity for somebody who wanted to do something anyway. So go negotiate well on behalf of the city, and we appreciate the work you do. City Manager? Actually, I need a motion before we call anything. Anybody want to make a motion?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, and we're doing them separately, like in a row, right? Not all as one?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I have a motion from Council Member Alderix and a second from Deputy Mayor Alderix and a second from Council Member Dodd. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? Seeing none, City Clerk.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Would anybody like to make the next motion? Council Member Dodd? I saw your finger.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I have a motion from Council Member Dodd to adopt a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute settlement agreements in the condemnation cases filed for the following parcels listed on our agenda. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? City Clerk?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Second. I have a motion from Council Member Dodd to adopt an ordinance amending the 2025-2026 budget. And a second from Council Member Kurtz. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? Council Member Aguilera.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Thank you, guys. All right. It is 837. We are going to break until 9 o'clock. We'll see you at 9. Welcome back. Next up on our agenda bill is appointments to Joint Fire and Medical Advisory Board. City Manager.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I'm going to circle us back to the agenda bill here. Thank you very much for bringing this back to us. It makes me really happy when we are quickly reevaluating things that we're doing to make sure that they're working. And that brings me joy. And if something's not working, we should change it. I am in favor of the ordinance in general. I generally like kind of removing some of those restrictions. There are two things that I don't like about it. I don't like exempting senior housing. Because seniors are a huge growing contingent of people that buy e-bikes. And there are a lot of people that…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“From a simplified answer, I'd say yes. Like, you know, it's hard to judge demand for a bridge by counting the people swimming over the river kind of a thing. Like, if there's nowhere to store a bike and nowhere to ride a bike, nobody's going to ride a bike. So we've got a situation right now where there's not many places to store a bike and there's not many places to ride a bike, and we're trying to fix that, and bike parking is just part of the...”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I thought that the numbers that we're moving to, and I'm looking for them in the packet right now, were really reasonable. We're going from two per unit or 0.5 per bedroom to two or one per unit up to 100, and then 0.25 per unit thereafter. Honestly, if somebody's got a 300-unit building, I mean, a third of the people probably aren't going to need dedicated bike parking. So this seems like I don't feel like this is a big overcorrection. I feel like this is all pretty reasonable.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Are we good? All right. Thank you. We're adjourned. Sorry, we're not adjourned. Hold on. Elaine wrote me something to read. Eileen. Why did I call you Elaine? It's late. All right, it is now 9.34. Council will adjourn to executive session to discuss potential litigation pursuant to RCW 4230.110.1i for 20 minutes with no action taken. Council will adjourn the meeting from there at 9.54 p.m.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Welcome, everyone. I now call the July 21st, 2026 regular city council meeting to order. We'll start by taking a moment to take a roll call of the council members by position number. Please say here when the city clerk calls your name.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. We're gonna start off with a city manager review of agenda. And in lieu of our city manager, we have our deputy city manager, Claire, here to do that tonight. And if I call you city manager at any point in time during this meeting, Kyle, forgive me if you're watching this.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Next up is council approval of agenda. Are there any changes proposed to tonight's agenda? Seeing none, we'll move on to...”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026