Remarks by Pierre Blosse
50 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Thank you, Jeff. Good presentation. Senator Orwell mentioned that there was a raise in foreclosures in the state, and I'm seeing that their property taxes are 5% below what we estimated. Is that related? Are we seeing some foreclosures increase in Des Moines?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“I understand that priorities can change depending on what grants are available. I'd like to have a better view of what grants we're applying to and kind of timelines on these grants. I only hear, I'm new to the council, but I only hear things when it's been already approved and get the funding, but I don't have a general idea of what grants we've applied to.”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“WHAT'S THE PERCENTAGE OF HOW MANY GRANTS WE APPLY TO?”
City Council · Aug 27, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I'm a member of the WIA 9 Watershed Ecosystem Forum. It's a group of 17 local and tribal governments, state and federal agencies, and nonprofits focused on salmon habitat recovery in the Puget Sound and our local rivers. We had our meeting today right before this in Burien. We talked about the preliminary numbers coming in for the salmon in our rivers. Looking pretty good this year. The forecast for the whole year for Chinook will be about 25,000 in our rivers. For coho salmon, it's over 100,000, which is really good numbers. 50% increase from last year, so good news. We'll…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“The budget is a little over a million dollars. Then one share is $17,000. The bulk of the funding comes from the City of Seattle, King County, and King County Flood Control District. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you for the presentation. Thank you for joining the police force. I really like your approach. When you came in, you had a listening tour. You met with me. You met with a lot of community members. And that's a great thing. You don't have a set way of doing things. You want to listen before you act. I love that. And welcome to the city. Thank you, Council Member.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“In terms of parking, again, so I'm looking at a satellite imagery here. Currently, there's about eight angled parking and about six parallel parking on Redondo Way South. Is that going to stay there and five of them are included in the kind of, is what's required for the code? Or are some of these parking spaces going to be removed?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“CAROL, YOU MENTIONED THERE WOULD BE ZERO RUNOFF FROM THIS PROJECT INTO PEGIT SOUND. WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY THAT?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“The Redondo area is so beautiful. I love going with my kids there, walking on the boardwalk, going to the beach there, going to the Mass Center Aquarium. But ever since we moved here for years, there's just nothing to do aside from them. There's no businesses. Salty's been closed for years. We always wonder, why isn't there anything? And people are asking for something to be there. This is our first chance, really, in years for this to happen. And I would be in favor of this. What we're voting on today is the development agreement. And really, we're only voting on three small things in there…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Thanks for the presentation, Mike. On option two, if you go to the map, it says almost 50% of the cost goes to decorative lighting, which is not reflected in the rendering. Decorative lighting in there too, or is it just the same?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“And that's 50% of the cost of the sidewalk?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“And then the water feature, so it's no longer above ground. It's just large tanks underground that would hold the runoff water for just the time and then go to the steps, water filtration.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I thought the steps took in all that water from the whole downtown. The steps don't take the whole downtown, no. Okay, just two acres that it takes. Okay, and then you said you could build the sidewalks and then separately have a project where you ask for additional grants from the state to build the underground sidewalks.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“So there could be two separate projects where you build, fund the construction of the sidewalks, and then you accept the grant that we already have from the state, and then ask for more grants. And if we get it, then we can build the water feature. OK. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I understand we can separate the two projects. We don't have to reject the grant. We could separate the project, approve the grant, and then wait to see if we get grants later down the line to build the underground. We could do that. So I don't think we should reject.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Yeah, so the steps are going to be completed at the end of the year. There's currently nothing really pedestrian to walk from the steps to downtown, which is the whole point of the steps. And I think we need something. So I like the option two like to have sidewalks improvement there. Option three obviously looks awesome. It's got landscaping, all the wires, the cables are down. But it's expensive, and it's going to take a while to build. The sidewalk could be built in a year. The option three would take four or five years, maybe. And I'd rather see something now rather than later. With that…”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Yeah, in addition to option two, I'd like to add a $75,000 to $100,000 beautification fund.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“This is going to connect the downtown to the marina. And we have the steps. We are spending $11 million on it. It would be nice to have a nice-looking connection point between downtown to this step that goes to the marina. I think it's fair to spend a little money now to make it look nicer. This is going to be good for 20, 30, 50 years maybe. Let's spend a little money now and make it more inviting for people to walk down, for visitors to come from downtown to the marina and vice versa.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Your... Point of order question. Is the... REJECTION OF THE GRANT IN THAT MOTION? IT IS. CAN I PROPOSED AN AMENDMENT TO REMOVE THAT FROM THE MOTION? THE REJECTION OF THE GRANT?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I PROPOSED TO REMOVE THE REJECTION OF THE GRANT. I'M STILL UNCLEAR OF WHAT WE CAN SEPARATE BOTH PROJECTS.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“That's what you want your... No, I want just to remove that.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“No, I would be completely separating that out. I have a different motion or discussion next week or next two weeks to talk about”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“So I move to amend the motion to remove the statement by rejecting the grant.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I feel like it's kind of the first time I heard today about being able to separate the two projects and have it be a completely separate project. And I need to have more information on that and what it would take away from other projects in the capital improvement plan. I need more details on it. And I think if it's two separate projects, then we should separate the motions too.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I agree with what Damir said and how she summarized it.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026