Remarks by Sayna Parsi
25 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 9:01
“A question for both of you. Imagining that you're at the end of your term, what would you like to step back and look back and think this is the mark I left on the city?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 15:18
“Thank you. Starting with a comment before the question, there was a lot of helpful information that you shared tonight with us verbally that wasn't actually in the presentation. In the future, it would be really helpful if the full content of what will be presented would be available in full reading versus just presentation because a lot of detail can be missed.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 16:04
“Fantastic. And to get to the questions, would you be able to highlight again how many new positions would be created as a part of this department? And how much would the cost of those new positions would be? And if I understand correctly, those would be funded through the development fund? funds, not part of general funds, or maybe right now part of general funds, but specifically funded through development. Is that correct?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 41:36
“Thank you. So first information that I would like to see in future is what are the biggest pain points that currently we have identified as causing the longest delays? So we can have a list of those pain points and have an idea of if we wanted to solve one problem first, what would be that one problem that we could kind of address first? The kind of point that kind of I want to go from here is at work I have been part of the design and orchestration of multiple reorgs and in many times what we have done is we look at what is the first milestone that we can achieve and address by identifying…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 45:06
“May I ask a follow-up quick on that topic? So if this is still under planning, I can still see it having a unified one leader who owns this org or this charter. I still can't see one unified leader in that direction. opportunity as well. So that doesn't necessarily kind of break down the responsibility, but we'd love to see more.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:33:09
“Thank you. So generally 95% of everything looks great. So thank you so much for your work on this. There is one item that I previously prior to my time on the council I did some research on and I hearing the miles traveled policy and our support for it gave me a little bit of concern because when I reviewed that policy I remember I was concerned about miles traveled for a vehicle causing privacy concerns for tracking miles traveled for vehicle. Another concern that I had was heavier vehicles cause more erosion on roads rather than smaller vehicles. So charging all kind of per miles traveled…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:53:07
“Okay, did you have one more, Councilmember Parsi? One small thing. I was wondering if we can add the, in the technology section, add a surveillance component to it as well as privacy.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:53:45
“Yes, so for example, protecting data privacy and preventing surveillance and the rest. What does the council think?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:54:13
“Sure. For example, let's take the vehicle miles travel reduction, as we discussed here. But I understand that the components might have changed. But that would be an example of a policy or a bill that could have surveillance implications. Even the component that you said might have changed, that there is a rebate program that people can get maybe some tax incentive for opting into, that to me still means that if you need additional money, you give up your privacy to get additional money and that kind of creates a really bad dynamic again in my mind. So that's a component that I think where…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 1:55:40
“That's a great question. Let me give you an example. Data privacy could mean that if I go to my healthcare, my healthcare data is, say, protected and private from my employer. Another example of it is, for example, my private information being shared publicly online. That's not necessarily surveillance as in how government handles the data, This is about kind of one person sharing data or one instance of data. When I think about surveillance, I think about government collecting data on individual residents at large. So I think we can reference to kind of commonly defined way of surveillance.…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:01:29
“Council Member Parsi? Would it be possible for us to have more written input on that? I have a hard time, similar to Council Vice President. It's getting a little late in the day, and I'm having a hard time. Would it be possible to get this in writing, please?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:36:38
“Thank you. So for the projects that we looked at, our interest on the potential debt proceeds and inflation taken into account into the pricing that we see here. And also on these projects, some of them, there is somewhere between 10 to 20% contingency, but on some of these, there is no contingency. So for example, for something like MOC, if there is another 20% to the kind of end price, that would make me really worried. So I would love to know if a cost like MOC includes those data points or not.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:37:26
“Yeah, a few elements. Interest for the debt proceeds?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:56:56
“Thank you. I want to share my support also for multiple things that Council President shared as well. I would love to see how Council can support moving, kind of bringing forward the support for East Redmond Corridor, In terms of playgrounds, I also want to see more playgrounds in our fastest growing neighborhoods as well. And I would love to see more diverse playgrounds with different capabilities to offer different experiences to kids. In terms of Idlewood concession, I would love to see data to verify the priority and justification for that. having living very close to Idlewood I don't see…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:16:46
“Thank you for Northeast 40th Street shared use path. I wanna acknowledge that majority of that road is commercial and corporate owned and very little of that area has residential kind of front. So I'm curious if there's opportunity or interest to expand this a little bit into, more residential areas as well, or if not, if we can later get additional input on kind of usage studies from data from Strava or other areas so we can have a better understanding of this. I understand that this goes directly to the light rail, and we want to expand access over time, but I do want to acknowledge that…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:25:57
“Thank you. I just wanted to add for the bike in the justification and data. I think my main point was that I hope that the one there is public benefit equally distributed and also if there is a possibility to have a visual map to say to indicate future planned work or kind of existing connections, that could be really helpful in terms of us being able to visualize how this specific path will connect to the rest of the spine network. But I'm definitely aware that we have our plan spine network for our bikes plan through the transportation master plan. So I appreciate it.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 8:28
“A question for both of you imagining that you're at the end of your term, what would you like to step back and look back and think this is the mark I left on the city?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:24
“Go ahead. I was wondering what is our current solution for this use case and how much does it currently cost the city? I saw that there was a note in the memo that if not approved, we go to a month-to-month plan, but I was curious, have we always been a month-to-month plan or have we been on a different contract and how much that costs?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:08
“This answers my question, but if I may ask a follow up for this.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:12
“So does this mean that for similar services now we're getting a lower cost or are we kind of changing the contract structure or different scope now?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 23:56
“I am curious, given that the transition has already begun to some extent. We have started work on UKG as the new application to do. This effort has not begun and is set to take roughly five-ish months. And this is not clear to me yet how the outcome of this work will influence what decisions we make. So can you clarify exactly kind of if you could list a few decisions that we could make differently based on what we learn from the results of this contract today that would help me a lot because the timelines don't make a lot of sense to me just yet.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 24:47
“The outcome of, so I'm curious what the outcome of this contract, what decisions we have to make that the outcome of this contract will inform us to make decisions potentially differently. So how are we using data and results from this contract to make any decisions that we have to make?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 25:49
“I think I would really appreciate to have some more specificity around this, because efficiency and customer experience are very kind of hand-wavy things, and I don't have a, reading the scope wasn't super clear to me, and kind of what I'm hearing is not really helping paint a better picture for me to be confident, and especially given that this was in a competitive bid, I'm not feeling I have everything that I need yet to be comfortable about making it kind of going to consent with this yet.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 34:25
“I was wondering, beyond the context of the specific contract, I wanted to see if Council would be interested at this point to explore a policy around ensuring that staff is paid in a timely manner, that if there is identified discrepancy in pay, that could potentially impact other employees as well. If it's reported, we would be able to still notify others, or if we identify it, we would be informing those who may be experiencing such issues, or if we identify a broad issue, we would be able to handle it appropriately. So I wanted to see if there is potentially interest from council in doing…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 43:08
“So I asked the question earlier about what this work could inform. I will ask that question differently because I feel like some of the council is kind of, there's question about if this work could block work on our end or not. And I'm not seeing exactly what work this, what decisions could be blocked based on this. So could you help inform us if this decision is blocking, if this work is actually blocking work from our HR implementation or our implementation of payroll? And if so, exactly, could you specify what would get blocked? So I think that would be really helpful to see if our work…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026