Remarks by Vanessa Kritzer
63 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 3
- Play at 18:54
“Yeah, thank you, and I'll wrap up actually by asking a question to Hannah, but if it feels relevant, Jenny, feel free to answer as well. So in particular, the Human Services Commission, they do us an incredible service of doing a lot of work to sort through a really important set of applications for funding, and there's always a difference between the amount of money we have available to spend and the amount of requests. And so have to spend a lot of time figuring out, you know, what the prioritization is there and making hard choices. So I'm curious to hear your perspective on how you'd…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'll just follow up on that point with a comment and then we'll ask a quick question here. So yeah, I do think as a council president mentioned at the beginning, I think we missed an opportunity to be able to share out in presentation a little bit more of the matrix study findings so that we could connect what it is. As you actually mentioned at the beginning, Mayor Bernie, this comes out of even our original housing action plan we passed in 2020 where we said We want to be able to get to more affordable housing and what are the different tools that we can use to be able to increase housing…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“No, I appreciate it. I'll just note because you were mentioning about the different departments that we'll get to see to also kind of all the affected departments, including fire or finance. So we can also see kind of holistically any ones that are being moved. What are they going to look like afterwards?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I'll just build on this to say that I think when you come back, one way that might be helpful just hearing my colleagues would be if we might be able to have several policy alternatives side by side with some criteria or pros and cons, you know, to be able to look at the status quo, what the matrix study proposed, what you're proposing kind of side by side. I think it could be helpful for us to be able to look at some of that. as we look at this decision and whether there's anything else that could be another option. One question that I have just as we think about moving to this central…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Appreciate the work on this. And it's, it's interesting to see how this agenda has also evolved during my time on council. Looking at the current agenda, I remember multiple years where different pieces that are now in here came on and different discussions that we've had. So it's also nice to see kind of how we maintain as a through thread and previous work that we've done and continuing to kind of consistently come back with certain messages of things we want to build on where we've had wins, but it's like a long term effort. I think it's helpful to have some consistent messages…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'd also support at least having you come back with the information so that we can look at how that would fit on the agenda. I do think, especially as a city that's also used MFT as a tool, I think if Redmond's not telling the story and talking about it, then there's an important voice missing at the table. So I think we have a responsibility to be able to kind of share from the experience, especially because as we discussed when we were discussing MFTE recently, there are also some misunderstandings about MFTE sometimes or different applications. And for example, in Redmond, our application,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Just support, I was going to just email it, but I'll just say if we wanted to close it on the surveillance, I was thinking if we wanted to kind of holistically address a couple things that came up and also take in Council Member Procrea's idea, we could in the first sentence have it say standards and regulations on technological advancements like autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, surveillance capability, because that could kind of cover like doing, studying a bunch of different things related to surveillance. And then that can cover, because I think the use of this would also be,…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Council President Stewart. So this is the first of meetings that I will have the opportunity to chair this fall or sections of meetings that I'll have the opportunity to chair. And while this isn't the beginning of our budget process, it is our first kind of look at one piece of the budget that we will be working on approving this fall. So as a reminder, as we kind of enter into this, one of the things that council passed in advance of the budget process was a set of ground rules and how we'll go through some of the work. And I'll try to make sure that we're guiding our…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, just a call for questions. Council Vice President Nueva Camino.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:30:20
“Any other questions? All right, let's move on to the portfolio.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 2:39:28
“Thank you, and one note I was able to confer with Director Cochran before this, since we have the slide deck that we're getting tonight, but we also will be getting a more complete packet for each of these projects where we'll have more information on each one of the projects that will come to us. Can you remind us of the timeline of when you estimate?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So the council will get a chance to be able to look at those and dive a little deeper. So this is kind of introducing, but if you end up when you look through, you can also send some additional questions on those items. Did I see your hand? Okay, great. Are there other hands on this one? um i will i will raise one question um can we go on the teen center project i'll just say we don't have to dive deep on this tonight but i would like to have more discussion about the timeline that's projected on this project um i think based on some of the council direction i think we are going to have more…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Appreciate that. I just wanted to make sure because I think Some people may look at this tonight and be concerned. So I just want to make sure that that's clear out there. And I appreciate that. Also, we may have more information by the time we approve this budget to be able to have that information reflected in here. Council Vice President Nueva Camino. Thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. All right, I'm not seeing other questions, so why don't you continue on?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And I guess I would just add on that. If, as we think about budgets, if the, if there is a budget consideration for having more adaptive lighting or other types of lighting considerations, we might consider that as part of the budgeting as well. Any other questions? I will, I will just ask or make a more of a comment on this. And I guess a question that I would have for, for follow-up on kind of building on some of my colleagues' comments. I think one thing that would be helpful for me as we look at this budget as part of the budget process would be on some of the ones that are further out…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Great, thank you. And I will just say, I think your answer you just gave is an example of what I was saying. I don't need you to answer all these things tonight. But I do think it's an example where that context is very helpful. So I assumed, you know, it's not a huge, it wouldn't be a huge lift for us to be able to add $70,000 into our CIP in the near term. There must be a different reason why it's in the farther out term. So I think on some of these other ones of what kind of the reasoning why it would just be helpful for us especially when we get feedback from community on why aren't we…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I do want to note that we're getting a little bit later on time that we started this item. later than we expected, so we may not get through this entire packet tonight, and I anticipated this in discussing with Director Cochran before, so we may schedule some more time to be able to finish the entirety, but let's keep going.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And the council also had a study session on this earlier this year. So I think we can also follow up with any additional questions here. And let's keep going.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you so much for the highlights. I do see at least one question. Council Member Percy.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:18:16
“I think that'll be in the next section, yeah. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:20:07
“And before we go to next questions, which I see a couple hands up, I did want to acknowledge the time. It's 1026 and our meetings are usually slated to go till 1030. The council can choose to extend the meeting. We do have another item that's coming after this as well. So wanted to check in with the council in terms of whether we want to extend our time on this or I acknowledge that we would miss having the Council talk time since I believe we would need to extend in order to then be able to revisit that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So I'll ask, would anyone like to make a motion to extend the meeting by 15 or 30 minutes just so we have the time to be able to do council talk time as well? Council Vice President?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“For how long? Would you like to extend until 11 o'clock? We don't have to go all the way to 11. You can just extend as a maximum, like 15 minutes, please. Okay, there's been a motion to extend the meeting by 15 minutes, we'll say till 1045. And has it? Is there a second?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Great. It's been moved and seconded. Is there any discussion? All in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Any abstentions? Okay, passes. So we'll go until 1045, and if we get up to that point, then maybe with another motion, but hopefully not. Council Member Forsyth, go ahead. Oh, Mayor Burnie?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 3:29:54
“Thank you so much. Any other questions? All right, not seeing any. I think our next piece is kind of diving into both the forecast and then the portfolio projects on utilities and then on wastewater. So I'm wondering whether we might pause here and then plan to revisit this item. I could put it as an agenda item on FAQ for us to get the presentation update and council members could send in any questions that they have on these items in advance as well. And we can cover any any items that have been pulled out if that works for everyone. Okay, great. And I want to thank all the staff that came…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026