Remarks by Ronald Frederick
101 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 4 of 5
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“is now six o'clock and i will call the meeting to order uh clerk please do the roll call mayor frederick here just doing the audio levels okay deputy mayor winkler here”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“Thank you. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“one nation under indivisible with liberty and justice for all now is the time for public comments uh clerk anyone call in or email some comments no we have no written comments and no one's online okay and i see no one in the audience so um we'll move on to the uh approval of the agenda Do we have a motion for that? Council Member Barrow?”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“Do we have any further discussion? Okay, I'll call for the vote then. All those in favor say aye. Oppose? The agenda is approved. So first on our agenda tonight is item 6.1, which is our 2025 budget overview and 2026 midway budget. And Tara Dunford is here tonight to help us with that along with Keith. So go ahead, the floor is yours.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“We got a question. Deputy Mayor Winkler.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“We have another one here, Council Member Walton.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“We have Council Member Thakur with a question.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“We have another question here, but one of the thoughts I had on that was that we had some golf tournaments and things going on, but council member Gassick.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“So if we talk about... Councillor Wolton has a question.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“One other thing, Councilmember Thakur, is we didn't used to get as much interest, but since Keith has been here, we started using the sweep accounts to get maximum interest off all of our funds that aren't being spent.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“in the positive overall in the in the water utility fund and tara our public public works people and our city engineer uh in previous meetings have uh informed the council about coming projects and you know like our hoffman hill reservoir and other things that are going on so some of that money will in fact be drawn down perfect”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“That's also going to be a subject matter for the next council meeting too. We're going to talk about that.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“Okay, well, I want to thank you so much. I know Tara that you and Keith and did a tremendous amount of work on this. This is the best budget report I've ever seen. So I really appreciate your work on this and we'll look forward to more such reports and as we're going to be developing our next budget over the fall months. So this will give us good information as we move forward and develop that budget. So again, thank you very much. We'll move on to the next item, which is 6.2, which is the item we discussed briefly in individual meetings about data centers. So Keith, you got a few comments on…”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“Questions for Keith on the data centers. Council Member Elliott.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“Yeah. Any other questions for Keith on that? Okay. Well, I wanted to make clear also that we don't have any current applications for data centers or any such thing going on. This is just kind of a get ahead of the curve type of thing and give us six months to kind of study the situation and figure out the best path forward in the event that we do get some applications in that regard. At this time, we have approval of the consent agenda items. There's one item on there. I would like to delete the former on the council meeting minutes for the last council meeting, July 28th. We inadvertently…”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“Okay any further discussion? Seeing none I'll call for the vote all those in favor say aye opposed Okay, the consent agenda has been approved.”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“We'll move on to the mayor's comments. The only comments I have is that I would like everybody to pay attention to all the different activities we have coming up in August and in September. There's a lot of different things. So for the public and the council members and everyone, keep an eye out for all the different activities. things like facebook or bits and bytes that tell you all the different things that are happening so with that i don't have anything else do we have council comments okay council member barrow”
City Council · Aug 12, 2026
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“It's now 6 o'clock, and I'll call the meeting to order. Clerk, please take the roll call.”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026
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“Any further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor, say aye. Oppose? Deputy Mayor Winkler was excused. Thank you. Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026
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“Next is the time for public comments, excluding new business and public hearings with the three minute time limit clerk. Has anyone called in or emailed in?”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026
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“Is there anyone in the audience that wishes to speak? Okay. Thank you. We'll move on to the approval of the agenda. Council Member Wargo.”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026
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“Any further discussion? Seeing none, I'll call for the vote. All those in favor say aye. Opposed? The agenda is approved. The first thing tonight, item 6.1, is our executive session. That will be for 30 minutes, and this is to discuss litigation under RCW 42.30.110.”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026
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“The executive session is now concluded, so we'll move on to item 7.1, a briefing for the Paddleton Esqualisee Medicine Creek Potlatch, Healing Through Our Waters by Honoring Our Ancestors. And our city administrator will give us a briefing on this.”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026
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“Thank you. Any other questions for Keith? okay well seeing none we'll uh move on to the new business item 8.1 is a memorandum of understanding between the dupont emergency services foundation and the city of dupont and uh if you haven't heard about this before keith will give you a kind of a thumbnail sketch of it a overview of what's going on and then we can we can vote”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026
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“Any questions for Keith on this? Okay. Well, I'll entertain a motion to approve the memorandum of understanding. Council member at the court?”
City Council · Jul 29, 2026