Remarks by Olgy Diaz
53 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 3
- Play at 2:04:01
“I believe it's where the employee is based, but I will, thank you. Debra gave me a thumbs up, so Debra knows all things.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:04:38
“Excellent question. If we pass this proposal, we will keep LEAP and we will keep EIC, and this is another layer of the onion to help. Something that might help clarify that is on page 10, if you look at the chart that's after the recommendation, it goes over the ways that currently the LEAP program does have penalties that we assess on folks who don't meet the requirements that we're asking of them. CWAs would help approach us in a proactive measure. So we would keep the assessments that we find people and we would have this proactive measure to help get people there in addition to.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I believe that that's because in year one we're just setting up the program and in year two we would be actually negotiated out and the program would be happening and moving.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Staff is doing a great job with our two programs and the equity and contracting folks were really engaged in the conversation and really interested to make sure that we don't erode the work that they do. So that's really something we have an eye on as we're doing the proposal is not eroding in the work they're doing, but that we're adding to it. And like I said, because this is just a sort of an unveiling, I do want to encourage that either we have some of those conversations or folks have those conversations with stakeholders and staff over the next month as we actually develop a proposal…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. So $5 million is the threshold that every other city or county who has these uses. So it's a pretty common threshold as a smaller municipality than the other folks. So the other comparables are Spokane, I want to say City of Vancouver, not City of Vancouver, Spokane, Seattle, City Government, and King County. And then I want to say Sound Transit as well. THEY ALL HAVE PROJECTS THAT ARE SIGNIFICANTLY BIGGER AND MORE EXPENSIVE. SO WITH OUR SIZE, GIVEN THAT EVERYBODY ELSE USES 5 MILLION AND OUR PROJECTS ARE, WE'RE A SMALLER CITY, COMPARATIVELY, 5 MILLION, I DON'T SEE A REASON THAT WE WOULD…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:10:51
“We do. I also recently got from King County updates that they made because they've had a CWA in place for at least five years, if not more. So they recently did an update this last summer that I got from Council Member Mosqueda that we're looking to make sure that we have lessons learned from other folks and theirs into whatever we put forward for ours.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:11:33
“We had a really robust conversation about that at the building trades table, and I will say it's not a short answer. We can make sure we get you a good answer in the FAQ and in just conversation because it was a longer conversation around chicken or egg. And particularly Mariana Hike with the Carpenters is really knowledgeable about that because she used to run a partnership program. So we have a lot of experts in town. That's great.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I BELIEVE IT'S THE LATTER. UTILIZATION RATE? LOOKING AT MY FRIENDS. ON PAGE FOUR. WE MIGHT HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU. OKAY. THAT'S FINE. I GOT A LOOSE THUMB UP, I THINK. SO IT WAS UTILIZATION RATES? OR WAS THAT THE THUMBS UP THAT WE'LL GET BACK TO YOU LATER?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you. And point well noted, we actually did hear from a lot of the subcontractors who were people who started in the field and then eventually became someone who owned their own company and are now doing that work. So it is a pathway even into entrepreneurship.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, I can see if staff can add that to the FAQ. I know we met with Seattle, and I believe King County, and Department of Transportation, and there could have been some others that I missed, but those were the ones, the conversations I know of most recently. Fantastic. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:15:31
“That is the exact question I asked, staff, and I want to say it will be addressed in our FAQ.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:15:56
“Yeah. We can flesh that out, too, because I am a little bit more curious about that, too, and how we would assess it and how we put that money away. So I think it is a critical piece of the funding is how do we make sure that the subcontractors, particularly with the contractors, have the money they need to help offset the costs that we're pushing forward. To get local hires and get better wages.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“And these costs are really preliminary because once we have an actual ordinance and things drafted, then we can number crunch a little bit closer, which is why I had the two AB sort of stacked next to each other because the estimates were very similar as opposed to originally they were laid out as options one, two, and three, and they felt like more of an AB and an option two has a significantly different cost associated.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:17:44
“Yes. And I think that's where part of that 15 to 20% is coming from. Gotcha.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, I think it's very sort of spinning two plates at once, making sure that we have OMBE contractors and folks from those communities as workforce, right? We can't have one without the other. Make sure that we're weaving that in together. And then you bring up transit. I also think a big piece of this is how do we get people off of I-5? People are just like losing their whole lives trying to get to projects outside in other parts of the region. So how do we help incentivize folks staying local both to live and work and be here?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Yeah, and that is, I think, critical to the work that happens in LEAP and EIC is that we have to keep those subcontractors in there because they're the ones who are meeting a lot of those goals, too.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Knowing that the city manager is the one who's going to have to decide how he staffs people, my assumption would be particularly for some of these estimates around a 0.5 FTE, we'll probably be combining some folks who already work with some new pieces of this, but some of it will be whole new individuals. It's going to depend on how the contracting goes also.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I'M LOOKING AT THE HARDCORE. I CAN'T CLICK ON THE SEATTLE EXAMPLE, BUT MY GUESS IS THAT THE ANSWER IS IN THAT LINK.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:22:41
“NO, THAT'S HELPFUL. THANK YOU. IF IT'S NOT, WE'LL HAVE LINDA ADD IT TO THE FAQ.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:23:31
“I'm not certain, but we can put that in the FAQ if staff don't have that answer handy. I think they might have come out in some of the conversations, so might be got at also when we answer Council Member Palmer's question around who all we spoke with and what the plus or minus was, because I'm not sure who all is in the room. I know the city will be there, I know the unions will be there, and I know that King County does this really cool meeting that folks talked about where every quarter, I think, they reevaluate sort of publicly with everyone, contractors, unions, everybody, how the…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:25:26
“It could. I know that I want to say it's LEAP, but one of the programs brings to us in their update their zone map that they use that I think comes from Workforce Central, and so it's the broader Pierce County map, not just the city map. So it might be more aligned with that map than with TPU boundaries, but there's an overlap there too.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“DO YOU WANT TO COME UP WITH AN ANSWER OR DO YOU WANT ME TO ADD IT TO THE FAQ? I INVITE MY FRIENDS.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
- Play at 2:34:59
“Thank you. And I would just add, just based on your questions and the answers from staff, I think the piece around whether or not we include the TPE service area or not, would, for me, be based on whether or not we model the ordinance on LEAP or not. And so I think that's going to be a policy choice for us. My preference as the person drafting this policy, as I'm engaging conversations with you all and stakeholders, is going to be for what is going to make the program most administerable by staff. So if that is doing what LEAP does, that would be my preference. If it's not, that would be my…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“THANK YOU. A COUPLE QUESTIONS. FIRST, THANKS FOR LETTING ME COSPONSOR BECAUSE I AM REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE IDEA OF A FLAG COMPETITION. TO COUNCILMEMBER PALMER'S POINT, I THINK YOU'RE ALWAYS THE ONE BRINGING COMPETITIONS, SO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT YOU AND YOUR NEED TO HAVE WINNERS AND LOSERS. I DO HAVE GENUINE QUESTIONS. ONE IS KEN ASKING FOR A COUNCIL COLLEAGUE WHO IS MORE CREATIVE THAN I OR A CITY STAFFER, CAN STAFF APPLY?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Would this be something that we do this one time? Are you looking at some sort of a sunset for the flag? Is there something you want us to do every centennial? What are your thoughts on this being the flag forever or not?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026