Remarks by Prasad Anguluri
62 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 34:28
“Today we had a successful LTAC monthly meeting. StreetSense, our marketing services vendor, provided a 23-24 matrix. All our committee members, we are full now. Thanks to the council for approving two new board members. We are a full seven member committee and also we met a consultant recently with Claire and Nick. So we are looking for a couple of options for the consultant to help on the new strategy that we wanted from our retreat with events and whatnot. So overall it's going fine. Yeah, just wanted to give a quick update. A lot going on, but a lot of questions we asked Street Sense, the…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:16:03
“Thank you very much for a great summary of the details. And to balance this biennial budget, are we borrowing any additional money for this term?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 1:45:29
“That translates, how much do we make with this increase? How much money annually we will be able to collect because of that 0.1 cent? It's about $200,000 a year.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:01:09
“Yes. So we can ask questions now? Yeah, yeah.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:01:18
“Yeah, that's what Kyle also mentioned in one-on-one. First of all, I request my fellow council members, I may have a few questions, and I'm sure Council Member Alrix or Council Member Todd, you guys are very organized. So if something is in the packet, please feel free to let me know. I will note down which page it has. I can go back and look at it. So first question I have maybe for City Manager or the Kwan. Based on our retreat, we had our priorities. Based on the priorities, is there a section where we have budgeted for the specific priorities that we worked on?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:02:34
“Yeah, just in case, if we can have, if there is a section, I will go back. But if there is a section, okay, based on eight priorities, we are able to add an item to achieve that priority, $100,000 or $1 million. because we have eight priorities that we put together. Just wondering if there is a section we are adding.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:04:07
“Yeah. First of all, I'm really happy with the very detail. And I loved the introduction, the demographics, top 10 employers, or whatnot. I really liked the demographics, community diversity. So it gives the first picture. So I really loved overall everything. I'm just asking some questions. Not necessarily I'm looking for all the answers wherever possible. That's completely fine. And when it comes to the personnel, are we adding how many employees we have as a city? How many employees we plan to add? Is there a section like we have 300 now, we are planning to have 350? Like number of…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:07:13
“some of the wish list that I have if I may add we talked about DEA downtown I think sub area plan we talked about DEA like a specific art pieces or something this could be part of some of the committee's but wondering the reason I'm asking is I just wanted to raise that so that we don't miss the opportunity of budgeting. If it is already part of any of the committee budget, that's great. Is it possible to have, like, some specific budget for specific art? Our vision is for a day or a lifetime, no matter who we are, where you come from, Botel is everyone's hometown, and we had a discussion on…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:08:36
“Sounds good. Thank you. The other one is we talked about youth internships. I think you mentioned city manager. Around 10, we do it right now. Even if we can do another 10 or 25 internships, would it be possible to add youth internships? I was looking at demographic data. that are at Cascadia and UW Bothell, which is great. We have a lot of students that are studying. I know we have businesses that are giving internships. How about City of Bothell also can give, like council member... Alcabara also mentioned about youth program starting it. So if we can add even another 10 internships,…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:10:24
“Thank you. Compared to previous budget, our current budget, 25-26 versus 27-28, are there any expenses that we removed or, like,”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:12:10
“And maybe the last question, it may be there, are there any new revenue opportunities? One is the taxing. I think the tax increases where we can collect more revenue. Just a question, are there any Interesting ways we can have our did we find any interesting ways to make more money for city of bottle I know last time you mentioned about collecting the interest on our deposits That's a good money that we are making on the deposits that we have right now on the fixed deposits or something CDs We have CDs Maybe we have none, but are there any did we plan anything any interesting revenue revenues…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 2:13:01
“Exactly. So there you go. We'll say any legal and interesting ways. Exactly.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
- Play at 56:14
“Thank you, Deputy Mayor. First of all, Claire and Ashish, great report. Thank you so much. Employment is key for all our communities, and we have Canyon Park. Some of us were at portal space systems, which grew from 600 square feet to 6,000, and now to 60,000 square feet. So it's really awesome to see that it's growing in our own communities. And I really loved the connecting employers to the campus training programs. That's really great. We are blessed with our UW Bothell. So definitely unemployment and office vacancy, probably a couple of metrics, but I wanted to hear from you. What are the…”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 57:41
“And unemployment rate in 2018, 2019, we were close to 3%, 3.5%. Now we are at 4.7%. Is that a bit concerning or not really? What do you think?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 58:42
“Thank you. And a quick question, City Manager. Anything we can talk about Philips, or is it better not to hold it for the future Philips?”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 59:42
“Thank you so much. Great report. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 1:06:14
“Yeah. So, yeah. Please share more information through email or however, in case, yeah, if that can help me to catch up anything.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 1:07:43
“I'd support that too. I 100% support. I used to comment a couple of times, our city manager. It was a very working session, last time retreat. I think we need to have more team building. I 100% support. The more we spend, of course, it needs to be a public, I think, informing way in advance and all. But I love it. Thank you for bringing it up, Council Member Miles.”
City Council · Sep 9, 2026
- Play at 1:07:09
“Thank you, Mayor. Overall, this summer, Washington real estate cooling down. A lot of us know. I'm sure Council Member Alcabara can give more data. When I'm looking at the slide, building permits, could you please explain a little more on 2026? So this is YTD. Is it year-to-date until like August or July? slide 11, where it is quite low.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:08:15
“I'm personally a bit skeptical about all the real estate market. It's moving to the buyers market and the rental. So I'm just wondering how we are anticipating. I think you have great statistics, but based on what is happening and the interest rates are going to go up, most likely interest rates are going to go up and inflation is still high. I just wanted to know, are we anticipating the same numbers next year based on what you're showing on the graph at this moment?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:09:18
“Sure, sure. No, no, I understand. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I want to be wrong, but it looks like overall market is quite uphill, I think, and especially a lot of technology companies also not hiring and a lot of, you know, layoffs or whatnot. We also depend upon a lot of tech jobs. So I'm trying to see, I mean, how we as a city also trying to embrace all these changes that are happening, interest rates or inflation or whatnot. Yeah, that's all. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:23:25
“I just want to quickly update. Last month, I had an opportunity to meet Kenneth Doubt. He's at our museum, a new director, it looks like, and he has a degree in history, and I was able to look at a lot of artifacts. One thing that he kind of mentioned previously preserving a bottle history, artifacts and all seems quite important. And he also moved from Shoreline. It looks like he worked at Shoreline. I visited long back, but visiting again, I think it was a detailed tour. So I just wanted to share. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 1:24:12
“Oh, by the way, he's a part-time director, looks like. He's not full-time.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:01:35
“Thank you, Mayor. I am trying to understand and piece this together if I can. My apologies if I'm asking any question that doesn't make sense. So I'm looking at slide eight projected. So 2025, 26. So we anticipated 9.3 millions and we need additional 20 million. Okay. And I'm looking at page number 330 in our agenda. And so when it comes to parcels, we are not making any changes. Like page number 330 has one, two, three, four, five, six parcels. So is that also additional amount that was budgeted originally, page number 330 in the agenda?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
- Play at 2:04:06
“Okay, so the design increase $5.3 million is an additional contract, right? Design increase. That's not going to the parcel.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026