Remarks by Mo Malakoutian
103 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 5
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“I think we can close the public hearing. Do I have a motion?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Is there a second? It has been moved by Deputy Mayor and seconded by Councilman Robinson. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Any opposed? The motion passes. Before we go, I just want to thank you, everyone, for being here. 48 people. Thank you for sharing your thoughts. Second, thank you for being flexible to shorten your comments due to the number that we have here. And lastly, if you... Still want, please email us the remaining of your comment if you have not been able to deliver everything you want to tell us. We read emails, I promise you. Thank you so much. City Manager.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Diane, I really enjoy when you sit over there, not there, I don't know why. But thank you, Diane, John, and all of the staff that they are here or they are not here, but they help and support developing these budgets. I can just imagine how much work you have put into a budget like this. I really, really appreciate the balance that this primary budget is trying to manage, protecting the services people rely on, managing the higher cost inflation, looking at the resources that we already have, and being very thoughtful about the use of reserves and one-time money. I think as…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much. Council Member Robinson.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you, Chancellor Robinson. Deputy Mayor Hamilton.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Deputy Mayor. Thank you. I have only four quick comments. One is a request. We already had one public hearing. Tonight is our second, and we have a third. My memory is so bad that I cannot memorize my name these days. Is there a way that we can have a summary of what we have heard? Like how many people spoke, speaks, how many people gave us the written comments, what was the main budget topics people raised, and roughly how many comments supported or oppose? each major request, and I completely understand this is not a scientific survey, but I think it would be helpful for…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So you couldn't give me the credit of the genius idea. You need to say you already have done that.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“The other thing I would love to see in the memory bank is... When I was reading all of the package, I see that we are using one-time dollars and reserves to continue some programs, and then others are being moved to core services. Do we have a simple list of the programs being supported with one-time funding or reserves, and identify which of those could require a new funding decision after 2028? Have you already been thinking that and that's already linked to the memory bank that is going to be released?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. The third one is, At some point, maybe this council ask for increasing have a tax for transportation or anything else. I think we should make sure we have already look hard to see where we can reduce cost or are we spending maybe too much. Is there any way we can have a lease of where already we have actually reduced costs somewhere, or change how we do something, or stop doing something because we realize there is no longer value to do that, or where do we think we can still do more cost cutting? Is that something that we can also have in memory bank? Approximately, not all of…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“And if any big item came not in the continuous improvement, it would be great for our public to know that we are already thinking about reducing costs, and we are doing all of the stuff that we can do. So if there are some items that we can add to the memory bank, that would be awesome. And I think the last one is something that Council Member Bargaba and both Council Member Nieuwenhuis brought or talk about, is before we make any final decision, I also would like to see the total impact of everything that our constituents are going to experience through the taxes. The holistic, what is…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Completely understand. I'm just talking about total impact on our resident that includes utility rates includes all of the like They don't they is the money that they are going to spend in any capacity so if you can have a full picture of that would be Great to see the holistic view Great. Thank you so much. I just wanted to look at anyone else has any comment. I see already one hand anyone else customer new house”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Of course. Great. Thank you so much. We have written reports, intergovernmental affairs, monthly update of August 31st, 2026. I hope that everyone goes and read that before the bed tonight. Thanks for joining us this evening. And there is no further business on the agenda, Charmaine, so we can adjourn. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I am also very excited about this project. We are making Bellevue more affordable for folks. So very exciting. Thank you. Uh, yes, the whole department, beyond coverage, housing and everyone. Uh, I have just kind of maybe a follow up on councilman your house question. Uh, we are, uh, giving all of these kind of, um. Design and land use flexibility. Uh, right now. But, for example, the minimum affordable units is not finalized. I think it mentioned from 140 to 172 or 24 units, at least 24 units kind of for people with disabilities. Uh, so not even the project goes sideways that maybe that was…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“So you come back with more accurate final product that we sign.”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you, Deputy Mayor. I also wanted to echo my colleagues and show my appreciation to the Commission, to the Chair, to the Lucy and all of the staff. Great work. I have one quick question. If you are looking at the slide nine, that is comparing the second proposal change between current and proposed for some examples, single family, multifamily. Do we have the same slide, but we can see all of the three changes and see what would happen between current and proposed for some of the examples that you have there?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“The third proposal, does that change anything between proposed and current for these examples?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“There is no change for these examples for the third proposal?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“But yeah, I understand this is just CRC versus CRC based on the second proposal. I think it would be great if we have a big table that shows all of the payment that people are paying between current, not just for CRC, for everything, and proposed, and then see all of the three proposal impact in one table. I think that would be great. I also would like to... I'm not really understand how much of the differences comes from moving to this meter-based method that we are seeing instead of the previous method, and how much of that comes from adding the remaining of that DFCC cost into the whole…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Addressing first mile and last mile are very, very important to encourage folks to use public transportation and light rail. We just expanded bellhop recently. With the help of Amazon, visit Bellevue city of Bellevue and sound transit and. This line is also going to. Help us to do that the same thing that they'll have expansion doing connecting people with and help them with the last mile and. Fair smile. I just have a two quick question. I think slide 11 had several metrics that you were showing to us. And I love that. And then for one of them, you said maybe, I think it was parking…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Okay, thank you. Again, it would be awesome if we have a plan for if they don't hit targets, what our plan is. But let me maybe ask my next question, and I think that's maybe one of my kind of concern is, so what level of parking, like noncompliance, or what level of the people blocked sidewalk and they are causing issues? or repeated problems at some of the location that we will see there are some issues. How are we fixing them? How fast we are fixing them? And how quickly Lyme is required to respond when basically some of we are seeing repeated issues?”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“Thank you for the response and I think I'm going to end on this note that, uh, the, the agenda and your slides are all great and says that we are going to. We are going to monitor parking compliance and line response time. But I think what I didn't see, and I'm sure you have, I didn't see the standards, the thresholds, what are the response requirements are. So I think if we all have that and make that available for people, I think it shows that we have done all of our due diligence. And not only we are monitoring, not only we have targets, but we know the standards, the thresholds, the…”
City Council · Aug 4, 2026
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“We can call the meeting to order. Welcome everyone. Thank you for being here, taking the time to engage with our beautiful city work. Your voice matters and we are glad to hear from you. Uh, before I go to the roll call, can I have a motion to excuse councilor in your own house? He's not going to join this evening meeting.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“It has been moved and being seconded. Any discussion? All those in favor say aye.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
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“Any opposed? The motion passes. With that city clear, are you ready for the roll call?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026