Remarks by Pierre Blosse
50 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 2 of 2
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“IF I UNDERSTAND, THIS IS REJECTING THE GRANT, BUT ALSO REJECTING OPTION 2 AND 3 AND GOING DE FACTO OPTION 1?”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD MAKE THAT DECISION NOW. WELL, FOR REJECTING, WE CAN, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD STILL DISCUSS TO DO SOMETHING DOWN THERE.”
City Council · Aug 13, 2026
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“Thank you for the presentation. It's my first budget cycle process going through it, so I have a few questions. How much of the financial data of this year will we get by the time, say, September 12th? Obviously, we'll have first quarter, second quarter, anything from third quarter to help us kind of see what the trends are.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Can you talk a little more about the new accounting system? Is it called Tyler?”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“And they look like for the 27-28 budget process, you're still using Excel sheets on SharePoint? Yes. You can't use the other system?”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“I TRUST YOU ON THAT. JUST WHAT WE'VE SEEN BEFORE IN MY EXPERIENCE, THESE EXCEL FILES CAN GET HUGE OVER THE YEARS AND THEN YOU HAVE 100 DIFFERENT COLUMNS.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“So you have automatic connection between the Excel file and your accounting systems.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“JUST WONDERING WITH THE STATE, SO WE HAVE TO send a budget to the state by October 1st and then they review it? No, no.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Yeah, thank you for the presentation. Wondering about the process after, so we send these comments out, what happens after that?”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“So they have to read everything we send them and they will respond to every point that we make? Yes. And it may influence their final decision perhaps?”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“BECAUSE WE ONLY HAVE 60 DAYS TO RESPOND TO THERE.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“And then that's over? We don't comment back on their comments?”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Well, I'm concerned by what Council Member Harris has said. I don't have enough knowledge to know what is factual in this 340-page document. I think a lot of it is probably factual. And it's good to have that coming from the airport committee. I'm struggling, though, not knowing what, I mean, to put our name in something that I don't know how many ERRORS ARE IN IT, BUT I GUESS THERE IS AN OFFICIAL CITY RESPONSE, AND THIS IS THE CITY OF DES MOINES AIRPORT COMMITTEE RESPONSE WITH TWO SEPARATE DOCUMENTS.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Yeah, I get your point. It is the job of the airport committee, and I thank you for spending all this time to volunteer for the airport committee and to write this document. I guess I will leave it to your expertise, and I will vote in favor of this.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I have nothing at this time.”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“I also attended the 4th of July event. I was also on the dunk tank. Some staff members did hit the target and got me in the dunk tank. The water was cold, the wind was cold, but it was for a good cause. We raised a lot of money for the food bank, so that was great. The event itself was really fun. I'm sad I missed the magician because it was the same time as our dunk tank because I love seeing magicians, and I had a big crowd to see him, and I heard great things about him. And the inflatables were awesome. There was that cool, like, Kraken getting a ship. So my kids had a great time there,…”
City Council · Jul 9, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I'm now a member of the King County Board of Health. The role of the board is to advocate for the preservation, promotion, and protection of public health, prevent the spread of disease, set local public health regulations, and enforced it in local public health laws. I was nominated by the Sound Cities Association as an alternate member. That means that I attend and I participate in all meetings, but I only vote if one of the members is not present, which was the case last week for my first meeting. So I was actually a full voting member for my first meeting. We heard from…”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“IN FACT, WHEN WE WERE TALKING WITH THE COUNTY, I WAS GETTING FRUSTRATED BECAUSE THE DATA THEY WERE GIVING ME INCLUDED WESLEY.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Thanks, Jeff. How is the collection for the warehouse square footage tax going? I think in the first quarter,”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“I remember we had issues with some warehouses not paying before it's going better now.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“And then those new warehouses that are being built, that's going to increase our revenue that way, too. It's our hope that they are considered taxable.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. THE TICKETING WOULD HAPPEN FIVE MILES OVER THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT, IS THAT CORRECT? CORRECT. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DOING SO FAR WITH OTHER CAMERAS?”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“I support the new cameras. I'm a little uneasy with the 24-7 Woodmont camera. Like Councilmember Steinmetz said, using the authority of a school walk zone to have tickets at 2 a.m., I think it goes a little against the spirit of what the law is, even though it is allowed. I think it could be confusing to drivers to have two different sets of speeds that are enforced at a different time of the day. So I'm a little uneasy about it. I kinda wanna hear from my colleagues maybe on that, if you have some thoughts.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. The city recently decided to discontinue the long long running after school program club chaos. We've heard from a lot of frustrated parents about this decision. I think it'd be good to bring this up to the next council meeting to have the city staff explain the decision explain what comes next. I think it'd be good to have that publicly to kind of explain that to the whole community.”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026
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“I attended the USA-Australia World Cup game at the theater on Friday. I showed up with my son right after kickoff, and it was packed. We walk in there. There's about 100 seats on the floor, and that was all taken. Even the standing room on the top floor, that was kind of hard to find a space to watch the game. So great attendance. I think close to, what, 400 people were there. The bar was open. There was steamed food for the U.S. team, the Australian team. So, yeah, great event, and it's a great preview of what the theater is going to be. Everyone's excited to all the new events that are…”
City Council · Jun 25, 2026