Remarks by Mason Thompson
160 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 7
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“We could. Why don't we do this right before the study sessions? Oh, council reports and conversations?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, there's not going to be a vote needed.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“And we probably don't need to take a vote because we're not adding it to the agenda. We're just going to talk about it then. Cool. Thank you. Anybody else? In that case, we will move on to public engagement opportunities. Help shape the future of downtown. Help us plan for the next 20 years of growth by attending the Downtown Sub Area Plan Open House. Learn about the draft plan, explore its recommendations, meet the project team, ask questions, and share feedback. That's Wednesday, July 22nd, 5.30 to 7.30 p.m. right here at Bothell City Hall. Opportunities for artists. We're seeking…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. All right, next up we have the City Manager report and presentations. City Manager.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I can't believe we made it here. All right, next up is council reports and conversations. Council members? Council Member Dodd?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“This is Council Reports and Conversations, so I do not have to call on anybody. You can just jump right in.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I think I'm pretty comfortable having, you know, the Lake Forest Park kind of take the lead on something like this. Like, that's like I don't know that I would expect you guys to spend a lot of time working or any time working on that. I do really appreciate that we have allies just across the north end of the lake that care about the same kind of things we do. they they're they're rowing in the same direction we do and and whether or not this is incredibly impactful for us is to me less of a concern than just wanting to show support to our neighbors with similar values so I'm totally…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Would it be Deputy Mayors or Deputies Mayor? Probably Deputy Mayors. Yeah. I want to say Deputies Mayor just because it sounds nerdy, but I'm going to stop talking now. I think you guys have what you need. Cool. We will move on to projected agenda discussion. Does anybody have an item they would like to discuss? Seeing none, I would love to accept a motion to approve the consent agenda.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I have a motion from Deputy Mayor Alderks and a second from Council Member Rodd to approve the consent agenda. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? I will just say that it always makes me happy to see the multimodal projects coming in, contracts going for that in the consent agenda. So that pleases me. City Clerk?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you. Next up is our first ordinance and resolution, establishing a public hearing date for the street vacation petition for a portion of Northeast 185th Street between 108th Avenue Northeast and 110th Avenue Northeast. Deputy City Manager.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I have a motion from Council Member Dodd and a second from Council Member Aldrich. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? I would like to speak to the motion. I just want to say I enjoy that the UW Bothell is talking about pedestrianization and kind of a lot of the same sort of things that we're working toward. I'm looking forward to hearing what the further improvements to that street is sort of a pedestrian zone are, and I'm excited that they're looking at making pedestrian improvements. And I will be voting yes. City Clerk?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you very much. Thank you, guys. All right. Next up, we have the Sammamish River and Wainita Creek Restoration Project Construction Contract. Deputy City Manager.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yeah, it is 628. We'll come back at 635. Thank you. All right, it is 635. I think we've got our technical difficulties ironed out. And I'm going to turn it over to staff to talk about the Sammamish River and Weyneda Creek restoration project construction contract.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Somebody's got to have something to say about this.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I have a motion from Councilmember Curd and a second from Councilmember Dodd. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? Councilmember Dodd.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“I am so excited to have this back to us. Um, I don't get to say things like all my salmon friends, like council member curd does, but I'm really glad that we have him up here. Um, I also love that we get this presentation cause it's like a victory lap for all the good work that y'all have done this whole time. Like, cause we have to approve it. Like we're not going to, um, and, um, it's just, yeah, I'm, I'm so pumped for the next two years. And I also just want to like shout out like the project team, like when we were going through the design of this, like we, when we talk afterwards, I had…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“All right, next up we have a resolution authorizing a ballot measure for the November 3rd, 2026 general election proposing annexation of the Bothell Fire Department into the Shoreline Fire Department Regional Fire Authority. Deputy City Manager. I would have talked slower if I would have like seen you getting up to come to the table.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“All right, Council. Council Member Alcabra. I'm still working on it.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“And the other thing I would say is, I think it was the last meeting that we talked about this. We got a lot of the details on those finances, and we are going to essentially, between now and the levy, decide what we're going to do, and we will have the opportunity to communicate that to the public. And so we're going to have all of these conversations, and we're going to get all of the data, all the information, because we know that the fiscal part of this is super important to our voters. So that's absolutely work that we're planning on doing.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“No, we're going to. So we're going to appoint members to a pro committee next. And that committee is going to draft what is on the ballot measure. This is adopting the resolution saying, yes, we're going to submit a ballot measure. This is not what people are going to see in their voter penalty statement. I mean, unless the committee copies and pastes this, which I don't think they will.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Yes. So this decision doesn't affect the public safety levy because the voters have approved that levy and that will go to the end of it. But as a council, we will decide what we want to do with our general levy now that we're not going to have to use it to pay fire anymore. And I've already said my piece on what I think about that. So I'm not going to repeat myself yet. But that those are conversations we are planning to have that we haven't had yet. And we absolutely will.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Okay, give me a second. Okay. I am really excited that we're here, not just so we can stop talking about it. I know Chief Cowan's probably really excited to stop talking about this and get back to just dealing with one board that you have to work with. And it's been years, and I... I have not always been a big cheerleader for it because I just didn't know if it was the right thing to do. And this is one of those decisions that when we make this, when we put this out, like it can't be walked back. And that has a lot of consequence to me. So I, um, I'm only happy to move this forward because I…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Second. I have a motion from Council Member Dodd and a second from Council Member Curd to adopt a resolution authorizing a ballot measure to be submitted to voters within Bothell for consideration at the November 3rd, 2026 general election, proposing the annexation of the Bothell Fire Department into the Shoreline Fire Department Regional Fire Authority and approving the amended RFA plan incorporating such annexation. Would anybody like to speak to the motion?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“And also to be clear, you only know what you know. And I don't know what we knew back when this happened. And like looking with the benefit of hindsight, like we should have done more, but I don't know what we know then. So if you're watching this and you were on the city council in 2018, man, get a hobby. But also like I didn't want that to seem like a naked criticism because it wasn't. Council Member Angulari.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Thank you very much, and thank you very much. All right. Next up, we're probably going to have the same people at the table because our next agenda bill is the PROCON committee appointments for Proposition No. 1, annexation into the Shoreline Regional Fire Authority for the November 3, 2026 general election. Deputy City Manager.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026