Remarks by Reagan Dunn
27 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Please stand and join me in pledging allegiance to our nation's flag.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“There we are. Forgive me. Today, I am honored to present the King County Council Recovery Champion Award to Johnny Ota. Johnny, please come on up to the podium my friend, be recognized. Bring it in, bring it in baby, bring it in. You're doing good, you're doing good man. Johnny is not just a youth substance use disorder professional, he is a lifeline. He embodies a rare kind of relational case management, one built on profound earned trust that refuses to give up on anyone, no matter how many times they stumble. His approach often extends beyond early recovery and into a lasting committed…”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Whereas the King County Council recognizes that recovery is made possible by extraordinary individuals and organizations that put in the hard work and perseverance that it takes to support people in achieving and maintaining recovery and.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Whereas Johnny Ota has dedicated himself to the field of substance use recovery and mental health wellness. Demonstrating a profound commitment to supporting teens and young people in recovery across King County and”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Whereas under Johnny's guidance, Ryther and other community organizations have been empowered to create meaningful, lasting change in behavioral health policy and support systems and.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Now, therefore, we, the Metropolitan King County Council, recognize Johnny Ota as the 2026 King County Recovery Champion and commend him sincerely for his dedication to helping people in King County recover from substance use disorders dated this eighth day of September 2026 and signed by all members of the King County Council. Let's give him a round of applause. And then, this is This is the actual award. I don't want to drop it. This is pretty cool. And we're going to hand this over to Johnny for his great work. And come on up. Give us your thoughts, my friend. You've got a couple minutes.…”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Do your thing. I'm going to do my thing.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right brother, congratulations. Let's do a picture.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“There's an important point for folks to remember, and that is for anyone here who has endured any kind of substance use disorder, in my case, alcohol use disorder, nine years without a drink, 90% of the public who have an alcohol use disorder won't seek treatment because they're afraid of the stigma associated with the disease. And that's one of the great problems we have. It's really important to give people grace, dignity, and space so that they can recover. And it's one of the great challenges we have in our society, and we all need to work towards that. Thank you.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I haven't voted on the surveilling side.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Move Proposed Ordinance 2026-0256 and speak to it.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Are we going to have a briefing on this?”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“You ready to brief? All right, well, we're going to get a briefing on this. This thing is a unmitigated disaster.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“The utter failure of other local governments not to get the job done. We're going to get a briefing on this.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Hold on, not yet, Jenny. Okay. These are my introductory remarks.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Parliamentary procedure. I'm going to tee this up. So Jenny, whatever she says will be far more responsible than what I'm about to say. Look, state law creates these drainage districts. They're all across the state. They're big and important things in eastern Washington where we have these drainage and irrigation districts. They fall under special purpose district authority and administrative and legislative codes form. Over here in some places, they're not as necessarily important. We continue to have problems with some of these drainage districts, even finding the commissioners to do their…”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Let me have any comments and it might have the questions might make more sense. Okay. So drainage just number five isn't located in claw prior to 26, 40% of that territory was located in unincorporated King County and 60 inside the city, the board members. ones that we worked hard to recruit, train, and I swore in some years ago now, determined that it was not in the best interest to continue having a mixed drainage district and in May of this year, I question the wisdom of this decision, but I'm not the one that was put on that board successfully completed the redrawing of the district…”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“OK, first of all, I'd urge my colleagues support on this. We're going to temporarily take this over. We're going to make the repair. Hopefully we can make ourselves reimbursed from the 100K that's in the district's budget. I'd urge you to do on this one. We just want to avoid a nasty flooding scene. But moving forward. This continues to be a problem and it needs to be fixed at a different level. County Council Reagan Dunn's job to run these districts. It is the state of Washington's job and the state representatives and senators in the governor's office who need to fix this problem. What I…”
Metropolitan King County Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I don't think we need the item brief. We pass this unanimously up here from committee. But just to remind my colleagues, as we continue to improve the functions of King County government, as we continue to reform what we do delivering local services, this is another piece of that. As you all know, we've done some audits and really worked hard to make our grant making process greater accountability moving forward with the tax dollars that we are bestowed by the taxpayers. We've done things recently, like streamline the homeless governance organization, working to make that more…”
Metropolitan King County Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Brandy, you want to take a cut at that? And then I'm happy to add in what I know.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Great. Yeah, I think this legislation changes the code. Then once the code is changed, we will encourage both the Board of Ethics as well as the executive to use their appropriate outreach channels to get the information to our employees. Things like our regular trainings will be one method. Newsletters, emails from managers will be another. We'll certainly use the news media to Enhance that, but it's 1 thing to have a rule, but if it's not broadly known, it has no effect. So we look forward to the next steps of this being. That outreach process will, which will since the overwhelming…”
Metropolitan King County Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“I think there's two amendments. So I'm happy to move amendment one.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Just very generally, it's a technical striker, and what it does is it changes the language. Since last meeting or meeting before last, we put language in regarding the Inspector General. This adds and acknowledges the existence of that office, and so it's a technical striker, and I'd urge your support.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“That's all you. My understanding was what brandy just spoke to was amendment 2 sounds like. Amendment 1 is the technical striker that provides clarity is recommended by the board of ethics and I certainly support that as well. So. It doesn't change my motion for amendment. 1. I just want to make sure that what I'm putting forward is properly labeled within the council council meeting materials.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Very well, then that will be all we'll amend with unless council members have an additional amendment as well.”
Metropolitan King County Council · Jul 28, 2026