Remarks by Ned Witting
222 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 8 of 9
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“All in favor? Aye. Motion passes. Next, we have three sets of minutes. to approve minutes of May 5th. Do I hear a motion?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Second. Motion has been moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Motion passes. Second minutes, May 12th. Do I have a motion to approve? Motion to approve.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Any opposed? Motion passes. And the final set of minutes for June 2nd. Motion to approve? So moved. Second. Moved and seconded. All those in favor? Aye. Motion passes. We will now move on to the portion of our meeting for citizen comments. Could the clerk please provide the instructions on public comments?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Our first citizen comments will come from John Hopkins, former mayor.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Arts Commission, we're looking to beef up that. So if some of your artists would be interested in serving that capacity, I'd appreciate you reaching out.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Next, we'll hear from Jim Jenkins.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Next we'll hear from Rose Pettit-Conway.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. We'll next hear from Val Dent.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Next we'll hear from Zach Sanders.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Next, we'll hear from Jim Detweiler.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. Our next speaker will be Michael Craven.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Our city attorney is. I'm sorry. What's your question, Mayor? You heard Council Member Kastema's comments that this was inappropriate. These comments are inappropriate.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I do feel the need to respond here that the flagpole is due for delivery in the next week or so. It will be installed. There are some details in terms of treatment to the flagpole to make sure that it is stands up to the weather and so forth. So it's not invisible. It will be here. It's taking a little longer than expected, but there is no fraud or anything going on in this city. Thank you. With that, that's the last of the requested citizen comments. Is there anybody that would like to speak from the floor? OK, well, I'll take this one over here. Please state your name and address or…”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Are there any other citizens who would like to speak?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Any additional? Okay, we'll move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda is the portion of our agenda that is considered to be non-controversial, and therefore we can approve it. as a group. Do any of my colleagues feel the need to remove anything from the consent agenda at this time? Hearing none, is there a motion to approve the consent agenda?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Second. The motion has been moved and seconded. All those in favor?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Any motion passes. Okay, now we will move on to our ordinances. We'll have a first reading of an ordinance amending Chapter 8.08, Animals, and Chapter 20.20, Single-Family Resident Zones of the Puyallup Municipal Code. And we'll have a presentation from Shane Pierron.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“We have a motion. Second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor? Aye. Motion passes.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you, Shane. We'll now move on to considerations and request presentation of considerations of installing a Goodroots Northwest food distribution locker at the city's Memorial Center. City Manager Steve Kirkley will introduce our speaker from Goodroots.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Welcome, Stacy, and we're happy to have you with us. And I'd just like to go on record. You've already got a food locker up at Pierce College in the city, correct? We do, yes. Thank you. Perfect.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Stacy, just a quick question, just so I understand what that $80,000 is. Is that the cost of the locker themselves? It sounded like it was going to cover some of the operating costs.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“So I'm still not clear. The first year is $80,000. How much was the second year? $24,930.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Yeah, perfect. And we'd like to recognize our former mayors. We've got a former mayor, Bill Pugh, from Sumner. You beat me to the introduction. I'd like to recognize him as well. Thank you for being here. Thank you for your work on Good Roots.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“I just want to put things in context. Dan, could you tell us what the amount of our community grants contributions were last year?”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026
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“Thank you. I think it's about $180,000. OK. Council Member Adler.”
City Council · Jul 14, 2026