Remarks by Reid Ekberg
16 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“Move to approve Resolution 1371. Second.”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“Move to approve the resolution adopting the residential target area for the MFTE ordinance.”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“That's a clarifying question, Director Baker, the other items you mentioned would be separate from this or?”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“Thank you for that clarification. With that understanding, I'll move to approve the ordinance amending Key Harbor Municipal Code Title 17 for expanding housing diversity. And then if we have a second, we can have some discussion.”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“Is there a motion to adopt all of these changes into the prior motion? OK.”
City Council · Oct 12, 2026
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“Save my questions for the sessions next week, but I just want to say thank you for a really comprehensive report there. i get constantly run into misunderstandings when i'm talking with people about how the budget works in the city and how things are funded so i laid it out really clearly it's important for people to understand and know where the money comes from and how we use it so thank you for that and i commend the scouts for keeping their eyes open through the debt service any other comments or questions from council”
City Council · Sep 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor Barber. We've been working on this for quite a bit now. It's a huge challenge to provide more workforce housing in our community that has been pushed down upon us by the state and a condition of what we wanna do. I think this council shares the goal to provide more housing for different ages, stages, and wages, and I'm proud of the work that we've done so far. There's not one silver bullet for this problem, but I think MFTE is a big lever that we can pull on to help move the direction. We've studied the housing conditions in our community. We've done lots of work here, and I…”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Okay. Council member Eckberg. Hearing no other comments, I'd like to move to approve ordinance 1566, adopting the multifamily tax exemption program in Gig Harbor.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“Just one quick comment. Yesterday was the 16th running of the Race for a Soldier here in Geek Harbor. I saw Councilman Coronado out there with his kids running. I was out there with my son in the finish area handing out drinks and snacks. It's an outstanding event. It's one that's personally close to me. And it's a great testament to the work from our public works, our police, our city that helped put that on here. So thank you to everyone that had a hand in making that event such a success.”
City Council · Sep 14, 2026
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“I just had a brief comment. Really like the look of this. It's a great job of summarizing what we had discussed and the work that had been done. It's a really nice visualization of all the topics. So well done on that. And I think it's a great document that we continue to put forward. The old strategic plan kind of got tacked on the back of meeting agendas at the very end. And I don't know how much it got put into public facing positions. And this is a very good looking presentation that I hope can get in front of as many of the citizens as we can.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“Move to approve Resolution 1365. Second it.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“Mayor Mrakas, House member record quick clarifying question on the West side of this site Jeff we're on on hunt going westbound currently. Mayor Mrakas, That curb lane, you can make a right turn it goes past the driveway to the development and then merges, so you have two lanes past that and then it merges into one so is that. Mayor Mrakas, The current through lane is that all going to be Center turn lane at that section as well, extending that way westward.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“That would extend where the development is and then merge after that. Okay, that's what I thought. Thanks.”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“Thank you, Director Larson, for that report. I appreciate it's well summarized and easy to digest. I appreciate your conservative outlook as well on the new tax revenue sources. While those are still up in the air to a lot of potential contests. So just a couple of clarifying questions on the utility funds, the operating funds, there were appear to be running a good operational profit. Do those profits get transferred to the capital funds for those utilities? Do they go back to the general fund or?”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“Thanks. And then my other question. On the sales tax revenue, it's on page eight of the report. There was information I hadn't heard in that report that was really interesting to me where you talk about our per capita basis. And you mentioned that the city performs much better than other cities per capita wise in terms of our sales tax take. Is this just a function of us being small geographically and population-wise and now becoming a regional service center for a large population? Is this a testament to us being a good city that people want to come spend money in? Is there more we should…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026
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“City Council Chambers, It was a very informative tour and Julie shared a lot of the facts, I think another piece that was interesting to me, we heard from. City Council Chambers, Developers that we're moving forward with multiple projects on the ground in pierce county so that the numbers were very real and very current and. City Council Chambers, The dream into the time element and delays also any additional costs. that get spread over time. It's more financing costs, more what the developers called carry costs. So the longer the project takes, the more layers there are, the more cost it…”
City Council · Jul 27, 2026