Remarks by Sandesh Sadalge
21 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
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“THANK YOU. IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU. I HAD THE PLEASURE WITH SEVERAL OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS. I'M SURE THEY'LL CHIME IN ON DOING A LITTLE TOUR. I LEARNED SOME REALLY IMPRESSIVE FACTS ABOUT CONCRETE TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION. I WOULD BE REMISS IF I DIDN'T ALLOW A CHANCE FOR YOU GUYS TO TOOT YOUR OWN HORN IN SOME OF THE STUFF YOU'VE DONE. Do you remember? I mean, you had the longest single concrete span, correct?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, so it's not only here in Tacoma, not only with Sound Transit, with some of the projects over there, the I-5 bridge over the water, all across the nation, and I believe internationally as well. a large project up in Alaska. And what really did warm my heart was the story of how back when no one else was willing to do it, Concrete Technology built products for the monorail down in Florida, right, at Disney World. Correct? I've been on that, so it was really cool. So it's amazing to see that we have a homegrown company right here and that you guys are all still part of it and provides real…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you. Council Member Sedalga. Thank you, Mayor, and thank you for being here. I feel like I keep running into you.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Yeah, something like that, for other reasons. You know, in starting my comments, you know, I am very much in support of this, but I do want to talk about the frustrations that, you know, that constituents are going to have, residents and voters are going to have, right? This is just another tax. And I want to be cognizant of the fact that we live in a state that has a regressive tax system, right? We tax poor people to help poor people is what I say. This is three-tenths of one percent. It isn't a small amount, but then the question becomes what do we get from it, right? And in my district,…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“As we grow, we need to invest in transit. I can both be very annoyed and angry that the only tools I have are regressive tools to do it, but also understand that the end goal is one that we absolutely need to be responsible to our neighbors, to the people we represent, and move forward, because those are the only tools we have. And we have a different fight on the state level to talk about what are less regressive tools on a local level that allow us to still meet that goal. But that doesn't mean we don't do the right thing today. I think you've made a really compelling case. I felt it when…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“THANK YOU, MAYOR, AND THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER RAMBAH FOR SPONSORING THIS. I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO BE A CO-SPONSOR. I'VE BEEN PART OF THE URA DISCUSSION SINCE I don't even know how long ago it was actually. I think about it almost two years. And this is a process where, quite frankly, I learned a lot. I learned a lot about what homelessness means to other jurisdictions, how they see it. And I also think other jurisdictions learned a lot about what we've done here in Tacoma. and how they could benefit from some of our learnings. I think throughout the process I was really proud about what we…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Thank you, Mayor. I had a couple of last things I wanted to talk about. First, I want to thank Council Member Walker, Parks Commissioner Smith. Eastside Neighborhood Advisory Council President Lynette Scheidt, Vice President Tara Scheidt, Jennifer Camersall, Street Operations, Environmental and Public Works, for coming out with me last week to do the unveiling of the wayfinding sign for the Eastside Community Center. And earlier today, I believe, our media team has posted a social media video talking about that. I WANT TO ESPECIALLY THANK STAFF FOR GETTING THIS DONE SO QUICKLY BECAUSE I…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“THANK YOU. Thank you, Mayor. I'm going to just piggyback off of some of Council Member Scott's questions, especially since we're already on this slide. Just to reiterate, this isn't a proposal to increase the budgeted number of patrol officers by 12. This is a way to pay for 12 hires in the future that would help backfill regular attrition.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“OKAY. SO I JUST, OKAY. BECAUSE WE CURRENTLY, ARE WE STILL IN SINGLE DIGIT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN OUR BUDGETED HEAD COUNT AND ACTUAL RIGHT NOW?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I was unclear on whether, okay, that's fine. And then to get a grant match of $4.6 million, we have to outlay $500,000. That's correct. And that $4.6 million pays for them for how long?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“YEAH, LIKE DID WE, DO WE HAVE $4.6 MILLION SITTING OUT THERE THAT WE GOT TO GIVE THEM $500,000 FOR OR NO?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Got it. So if we win it, the next 12 people we can subsidize. Correct. We also increase our ceiling of number of officers. And then to fill that, we have to figure out how to fill that, right? Correct. Okay. Got it. That was important for me. And so then going back to Proposal 1... The body worn and in-car video systems, that's not related or that is related to increasing that ceiling?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay, so I guess the question is why is it in Proposal 1 and not 2? That's a good question.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I see. I wasn't sure if that was related to another one. Like if we increase the number of officers, we need more equipment. Okay, got it.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Okay. And then on the HEAL team personnel cost $1.1 million, it goes back to the same question I had more with the 12 officers. Is that increasing headcount, increasing something, or is it paying for something we already do but through this fund instead? Oh, we need someone to, yeah.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“So this is a way to provide some meaning, some way of having some sort of sustained funding for a portion of HEAL team. Correct. Yes. But unlike the 12 officers, we're not increasing anything. We're just finding this as a new source. TO SUBSIDIZE IT. GOT IT. THANK YOU. AND THEN WITH THE PUBLIC SCHOOL AND DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP OFFICERS, IT KIND OF SOUNDED LIKE THEY WERE CLOS. ARE THEY NOT CLOS? BECAUSE THE WAY YOU WERE DESCRIBING IT SOUNDED LIKE THEY WERE DOING A LOT MORE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN SPECIFIC KIND OF CONSTRUCTS. CLOS BEING COMMUNITY LIAISON OFFICERS.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Got it. No, that makes a lot of sense. I did want to add my support of a contract psychologist, primarily because a few years ago when I did the Community Police Academy, one of the things I was really pleasantly surprised about was when the psychologist, that individual came in and talked about their work with the men and women that serve. And as we all talk about mental health, you have to realize that police officers are often meeting people, usually one of the worst days they're ever having, right? the residents they meet regularly are having bad days and that kind of emotional charged…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“COUNCIL PRESIDENT DALGATE. THANK YOU. I, YOU KNOW, APPRECIATE THE the objectives here, because I personally, you know, I keep talking about going through the Community Police Academy because, as you kind of pointed out, it was a forum in which we could have dialogue. Right. One of the first things that happens when you come in is, you know, the officer who's presenting the lieutenant usually will say this is a safe place for you to ask all the questions you wish you could ask. Then we can answer them because in the midst of active investigations, you know, investigating agencies are precluded…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Thank you. THIS IS EVOLVING SOMETHING YOU'VE ALREADY BEEN DOING BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, YOU YOURSELF HAVE COME TO MY DISTRICT DIRECTLY WHEN I'VE ASKED YOU TO SIT DOWN WITH BUSINESS OWNERS IN AREAS THAT HAVE HAD CONCERNS, REPEATED CONCERNS, AND THAT MADE A DIFFERENCE BECAUSE IT GOT AREAS OF THE CITY THAT HAVE ROUTINELY COMPLAINED BUT FELT THAT IT WASN'T WORTH IT TO CONTINUE TO PUT IN CONCERNS AND COMPLAINTS BECAUSE NOTHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. And we started seeing them engaging, and we started a dialogue that is, you know, I'm not going to say we've solved every problem, but we're way better off…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“THANK YOU, MAYOR, AND THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER DIAZ. I LEARNED A LOT BECAUSE I WAS READING YOUR BOOK REPORT, AND I LOVE HOW YOU PUT IT TOGETHER BECAUSE IT HELPED ME KIND OF FORM A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS. I'M NOT GOING TO ASK THEM HERE. I WOULD LIKE TO JUST TRY TO FIND AN HOUR WHERE WE CAN KIND OF GO THROUGH IT BECAUSE I HAVE A NUMBER OF KIND OF THINGS. BUT I DO APPRECIATE THAT WHEN WE DO MEET I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING TO BE AT LEAST IN CHAPTER 2 RATHER THAN IN THE INTRODUCTION OF THIS BOOK. So I appreciate that. They're just kind of detailed questions in various policy sections over here in trying…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“No, absolutely. You know, I just appreciate the opportunity to co-sponsor with Council Member Walker. Nourish does some amazing work and pretty soon will be doing some work even in District 4. as well. I'm not at liberty to explain all of it right now, but there's some really good stuff that's happening because, quite frankly, food insecurity is high in our area. We anticipate it increasing. not only because of the sustained increases in inflation that we're all seeing, but there's just a lot of policy coming down from levels much higher than us that are putting pressure on working families…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026