Remarks by Scott Diener
71 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
- Play at 1:17:54
“i just wanted to point out that that when eric and jay and i were meeting about this and trying to craft up what the roles of the council president might look like we kind of threw everything to see what would stick we knew that this would probably want to be one of the more interesting discussion points i can certainly understand what mark And I think, if I might sum it, it's fairly well oiled now, so why add another complication to it? I think that, to your point, I think three does make sense, but I'm happy to look at toning down those responsibilities.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:28:07
“I had my hand up. I just want to clarify that when you look at under A, this is about when you're meeting with, speaking to, or appearing before community group or another governmental agency or representative. So I think the scenario that you were just talking about wouldn't necessarily fall under this Section A under guidelines.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:40:43
“When you say the whole section, can I get clarity on what specifically? You're talking about?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:46:59
“Do you have a section you were referring to?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:50:23
“I just wanted to say thank you to Eric and particularly Jay for herding all these kittens. It was a lot to go through, a lot to prep and so my thanks to both of you. We're moving forward.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:51:44
“So I didn't you know, I tried to be selective so that I wasn't like completely overshadowing the questions that we had in front of us. But I think some of these are pretty important. And the first one is how how would a potential candidate propose to manage growth in the city of Port Orchard? One of the things that I think we have to be aware of is that we have a major housing crisis, not just here, but particularly felt in Western Washington, but it's all over. And experts have agreed across the nation that the way to address that is through saturation of a housing market for housing of all…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:55:23
“But it would be nice if these questions could be done in confidence.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:57:10
“Okay. And that generated an additional question for me. Are we precluded from having a second round of interviews through this process? Good. Okay. I'm saying that we're not precluded and that's good. The other thing that I was just starting to say is I feel like giving away the questions in advance may not necessarily pull out of somebody genuine responses. maybe they're saying what they think we want to hear. And so I don't, maybe it's too late for this, but I'd love to explore a process whereby we give people questions one half hour in advance of their interview. I have found that that…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:00:00
“My response to that would be is when we're sitting here in the dais, we're actually being required to make split-second decisions, if you will, based on new information we learn about a matter in front of us. Like amendments to motions.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:00:21
“So so there is there is a need for being able to you know be able to React rather quickly to issues and in front of you that may not have a lot of experience about and I agree That's not what the purpose of these But I also just feel like this can be gamed and and I think most good people would not gain this but”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:00:48
“And because they have their own motivations, which may not be in alignment with council or city values at all.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:03:11
“It was also my intention that maybe before we start workshopping some of these, we decide whether we want them in or out to begin with.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:03:29
“Sorry, let me start over. My intention was that we could certainly re-tailor some of the questions I proposed, but first, perhaps, are there any questions we want to take out of the nine or I think Jay added a tenth so that we don't spend time reframing those questions if we're not going to if they're not going to get the vote to move them forward.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:05:46
“Sure. Can you give an example that's not related to county employment?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:06:20
“That's fair. Now we have 11 questions. Now we have 11.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:08:14
“uh... i think we would be remiss in not asking a question about one of the issues that gets people most excited in terms of land use uh... and it's something that the state is foisting upon jurisdictions to take care of through unfunded mandates uh... an example of where this could be important is we recently had a couple of rezones. One of those rezones was pretty excitable. But I don't think people ever had a discussion about what is needed to help fix the housing crisis. Can we even fix it? And so I think there needs to be a better discussion about character and what that means and where…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:09:58
“Clarification, if I may. How many questions are we trying to get down to?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:10:12
“I would like five, but we'll see where we go.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:11:57
“And that's also in your question? Okay. Are those from the supplemental?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:19:29
“passionately about this should be considered we can still pair this back from what we have scott you had your hand up first and then i'll go i did i just was going to say that that i think five is good and we've got a half hour but you just said let's keep going and we can pair it back okay i would actually say let's stop here because the sixth question should be is there anything else that you want to add”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:19:58
“So may I have a friendly on this? What if we go through the remaining questions that haven't been added which is 1, 5, and 6 and my middle question and see if any of those need to be included because like for example number 5 is a no-go for me.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026