Remarks by Shirah Dedman
74 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
- Play at 43:12
“A point of order, you cannot publicly censure somebody.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 43:33
“Opposed because I was not stated, a violation was not stated.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 55:23
“Oh I was with somebody else. It was. I don't think that's our form of government but whatever.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 56:09
“like applicable in the sense of like when I asked for a show of hands so that it was clear who was voting it was like at the other meeting it was kind of like no so who makes that determination whether or not”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 56:53
“Can we have that in writing? I would rather have that in writing in our new rules that anybody can call for a hand vote because if anybody's asking for it, they're asking for clarity and that it shouldn't be up to one person to be able to ask for that.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 57:46
“Yes, so in our new rules, what I'm asking is that in our new rules, we state that if somebody, anybody, any council member asks for a hand vote, that that be respected because it's just as easy to say yay than to just hurry up and put up your hand. because the other time there was somebody talking and then like I said, I only heard like two people say it, but then it was called as saying like it passed, even though I only heard two people say yay. And so that's why I was like, okay, we have a question up. And so I realized in that going on that I was like, oh, it's actually really important…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:00:57
“It's for the mayor to acknowledge me. Thank you, Mayor. I have a question about Right now I'm looking at the city council work study and the documents everybody's looking at, I realize they're not attached to the agenda packet. And so we're kind of going through this and nobody else can see what we're going through. Was there a reason for that, that it's not attached?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:01:37
“I'll download that. I'll look for it. I'm so used to everything being on the agenda that I was like, oh, I just realized they're not attached here. Okay. Well, thank you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:05:14
“I realize that we're talking about vacancies and all of that. And so after everything that happened, is it possible that we could include in our new rules that in addition to what is required by the rcw that we require um a written or form a written uh resignation or something where we require resignations that are made open and public um because i think that as long as we are more restrictive than rcw we're allowed to do that we just can't be like less restrictive but i don't know we have the city attorney here and she can answer that”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:07:04
“Uh, nobody's stating that it can't be oral-like. formality of needing a written something written or maybe we just say that the formality of having it done at an open meeting maybe something like that like having the person come in and say oh yeah i resigned in open meaning verbally that way there can be no misinterpretation about people's words and i'm just saying that for the sake of our body that we don't ever want to have this kind of risk of litigation how what can we do looking forward to make sure that we as a body like don't have that happen”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:13:12
“guess i'm gonna schedule the time with the brandy too so it should be the mayor yep sure i had a question comment yeah so if somebody can have an excused absence because they get sick you're back on page oh sorry we were just talking about excuse uh you uh the absence So I'm looking at this language. It says a council member misses 50% of a meeting, it will be considered an absence. However, people are allowed to be sick. So if you, so you're stating that a city council member, although if they were sick ahead of time, they would be absent, they can't get sick in a meeting? That's kind of…”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:14:26
“Or if they even have an emergency, like anything, that statement does not allow for anything like that.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:26:36
“How do we know that the mayor passes that on?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:26:53
“We're gonna have an executive session Saying that a city so a City Council person has to go to a mayor about a legal risk issue for the city but the City Council is doesn't report into the mayor because the city council is not an employee of the mayor and the city council might have questions that have to do with the mayor but we should still go through the mayor to then go to the city attorney that's my understanding what was just said is that accurate um so what you're saying right now”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:31:34
“So right now I'm a little bit concerned and we've been having this conversation with the fact that it keeps, we keep telling council members they have to go through a council president. So we're making it so that council members now have a boss called a council president. Is that what's happening?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:31:58
“So we're giving council members a boss when there's really, so we're creating extra layer of bureaucracy, why? You're saying exactly, sorry. Mayor, may I talk fast? May I ask Council Member Trenary a question? Okay, Council Member Trenary, sorry, you're saying exactly as if that's a good thing?”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:32:29
“I was hoping you could explain to me why. Okay.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:33:18
“Okay, so then I think then somewhere we need to include that the mayor has to send city council an email stating that mayor pro tem or council president is now being considered the pro tem slash the pro tem and then must then send another follow up email to city council when that is no longer the case. So we have to add that in.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:34:54
“The obligation then goes to the council member to state that they have been authorized now as the mayor pro tem and then once that authority ends to then send an email saying this authority has ended and then making that clear if that's what we're responsible.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:35:19
“Yeah, the Mayor Pro Tem then, if we were supposed to follow that, there has to be very clear as to when we would need to address the Mayor Pro Tem as the Mayor Pro Tem, because otherwise you're just a council member.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:55:56
“I object to this discussion when we still haven't established our authority as a body to hold this vacancy.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 1:58:10
“With what Councilmember Diener just mentioned, I believe that that would put any member or candidate at disadvantage who is neurodivergent who might need more time to prepare because of how, well, you understand why, or I hope people understand why. And so I would like to go on record that yes, I still think that it's an invalid vacancy, but also that as a general statement, we should always be looking out for, you know, not disadvantaging folks.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:22:25
“I would like to thank Director Crocker for getting back information to let us know that a veteran who was who is suffering financial just I guess I'll say distress from utility bills um that they talked to him and they let him know about um the resources that we have available and also got him in contact with kitsap community resources veterans assistant manager program to um to to make sure that he received assistance so i really um love that we are our city is doing that kind of work um i would also i'll wait”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026
- Play at 2:23:16
“Okay. I would also like to point out that a point of order is a formal statement or question raised by a member of a meeting, debate, or deliberative assembly to draw attention to a breach of established rules of procedure. Thus, my use of the point of order earlier was correct. Thank you.”
City Council · Jul 21, 2026