Remarks by Mason Thompson
160 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 6 of 7
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“All right, we'll move on to projected agenda discussion. You faked me out. All right, and if there's nothing, I would love to accept a motion to approve the consent agenda. Council Member Dodd?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I have a motion from Council Member Dodd and a second from Council Member Alderks to approve the consent agenda. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? Seeing none, City Clerk?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you very much. We will move on to our first ordinance of the day. It's Agenda Bill 26129. It's Electric Vehicle Charging Policy. City Manager? Yes.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I'll just say I'm on those apps. I have an EV. Everybody in Bothell knows that we have EV chargers here. You can sort by free on those apps, and I promise everybody knows, yes. Okay.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I was just thinking, that doesn't sound like abuse. That sounds like good planning.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I didn't get a chance to speak, but we now have a motion on the table and a second. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? You would. I would. Council Member Kirkwood, would you mind withdrawing this motion so I can speak and then make the motion? Sure. Okay, thank you. I have a couple of things that I've been waiting to say. Rather than exempting fleet vehicles from EIDL fees, did we look at, because obviously they stay overnight, but sometimes the public and staff also stays overnight. Ask me how I know. And, you know, if your car finishes charging at 4 a.m., like, are you going to get…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Okay. Like it just seemed like if somebody's charging overnight and it like, I don't want to charge them 20 bucks cause they didn't get up at four in the morning to get their car. Like, I don't know if, and I know we have city hall hours, like maybe we could exempt the hours that the city hall parking garages closed from those idle fees. Um, as we go further in this. And question, I saw that the, at one point in the slide, we used 25 cents per kilowatt hours, our cost for electricity. I saw in the packet that we're planning on like future increases. But don't we pay like a whole lot less than…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I mean the cost per kilowatt hour. Is 25 cents is what we pay?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Residential customers get a deal. The Oh, I just wanted to say, Councilmember Dodd, you mentioned not subsidizing employees for their private driving. And I think that Director Linhart mentioned that when she talked about addressing it in the climate action plan, because the goal there isn't necessarily like equitable treatment of employees. It's how to incentivize behavior that is beneficial to the climate. So I'm looking forward to that work happening too. And if somebody gets free fuel by driving an EV if they work here, then that is an incentive for them to drive an EV, which is good for…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I think that's all I got. Council Member Curd.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Second. I have a motion from Council Member Curd and a second from the Deputy Mayor. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? Seeing none, City Clerk?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you, and thank you guys. All right, next up we have the PROS plan, agenda bill 26-130. Say what? Oh, city manager.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I want to echo everything that my colleagues said. I don't think I had much to say for the last time. I just want to say this time, it makes me really happy to know that your staff has the space to have personal things come up and not be here tonight on a night when you wanted them here and they wanted them here. That makes me feel really good about the organization that you run over there. And we see that in the great work that comes out of everything that you guys do. So we appreciate you and thank you for that. And with that, Council Member Dodd?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I have a motion from Council Member Dodd and a second from the Deputy Mayor to approve a resolution adopting the 2026 Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Plan, the BROS plan. Would anybody like to speak to the motion? Seeing none, City Clerk?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thanks, Nick. All right. Next up on our agenda is appointments to the Landmark Preservation Board and the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee. City Manager.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I will just echo the thanks and the good news is they didn't even have to interview to get on, but the bad news is we didn't get to meet them and interview them. So I hope they, I hope if you're watching this, feel welcome. Congratulations. We appreciate you. And I think we're ready for a vote. If somebody wants to make a motion, Deputy Mayor.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I have a motion from Deputy Mayor Alderix and a second from Council Member Dodd. Would anybody, or to move the recommended action, would anybody like to speak to the motion? City Clerk?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“All right. With that, it is 7-21. We are going to take a quick break before our study session tonight. We will come back at 7-35. All right, it is 7.35. Welcome back. It is time for the study session for the downtown sub area update. City Manager.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I was really excited to see how much market rate housing we've gotten and see how that market rate housing has attracted folks with lower incomes that can't afford to live in the rest of Bothell, but they can afford to live here. And that's exactly what we're trying to do. And it's cool to see it happening. And I think we should keep our foot on the gas so that we can make room for folks that can't afford to live in the rest of Bothell. So big picture, I would like to see this plan be really aggressive in terms of getting more housing built through redevelopment. I'll pause for you all to be…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“A physical space where people can gather, that is designed where people can linger, where people can show up with their friends and family. They can show up with a lunch and hang out. And it's a pleasant place to hang out where we can have events and it's set up for that. And there's electricity plug-ins and there's a place for a stage and there's ingress and egress. And all of it's been planned around both the casual day-to-day as well as the events that we would like to see more of. So a space that's really designed for being present at, for arriving at.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“A hundred percent, but the people also need a place to go. The people can't lead and create a third space out of a highway. Like there needs to be a physical space that people can do that. And because I'm not just a mayor, I'm a cool mayor. Like I want to, hey, she did it first. We're gonna go.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“He's dead, mayor. We're referencing a movie.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Seriously. And so, yeah, and, you know, when we look at the growth projections and we look at, I don't know, we've added thousands of new housing units, and each one of those housing units probably averages More than one people more than one person and we're gonna have thousands more people in 20 years living down here living within a short walk of down here and I think you're right and that like We can't create a public space without the people without the vibrancy like that absolutely has to be here but that's what we're planning for and if we're planning for the people like we should plan…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I mean, what I would say is that whenever there's a restaurant that doesn't make it, another restaurant goes in. And there's clearly businesses that are sticking around a while, and they're making enough to keep it going. And I don't think we have access to their books. But again, every new apartment building that goes in is going to have 300, 400 new people in it. Then those people are going to want to walk downstairs and go to dinner. I don't get in my car to drive places if I don't have to. And if they can walk across the street and go to whatever business that is, I think we should give…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I think we should focus on creating the retail space for places, and whoever wants to fill it's going to fill it. It's not really our job on land that we don't own to say, here's who you need to lease to. It's more just like, we want a certain amount of retail in these buildings that are going up.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026