Remarks by Vanessa Kritzer
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“Wonderful. And I will also reiterate that after Director Cochran sends out some of the more complete information about each of these projects, If council members have questions and want them to be included as part of a matrix we can look at at the next fact committee, we just ask that you submit your questions by a week from this Friday. So that way it gives you a little time to review, but also it would help us to be able to have the staff look at it and be able to get it into the packet for next month's committee meeting.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“september 18th the the deadline to submit thank you so much um all right well with that um i'll close out this item and i'll hand it back over to council president stewart to close us out thank you very much for your time thanks everyone um and thank you chair kritzer thanks for helping us”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“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 what the prioritization is there and making hard choices. So I'm curious to hear your perspective on how you'd approach making…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“of the Redmond City Council Committee of the Whole for Finance Administration and Communications on Tuesday, September 8th, 2026, commencing at 4.32 p.m. In attendance are Council President Stewart, Council Vice President Nueva Camino, Council Members Forsyth, Parsi, and Soni, and online we have Council Member Prakriya and myself, Presiding Officer Council Member Kritzer. We have six items on the agenda there because one item that was originally posted, the contract for fully managed video production was removed and will be on a future agenda due to more information needed. And so the first…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Are there questions from the council? Council Member Parsi, did you raise your hand?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Any other questions? Council Member Sonny.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, any other questions? Not seeing any, I will note that this is being proposed to put on consent for our September 15th meeting next week. Is there any objection to putting this on consent? See and thumbs. All right, so let's put this on consent. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you very much. The next item on the agenda is the adoption of an ordinance updating the Revenue Municipal Code subsection 9.30.060 to remove conflicting code language. And I believe our Deputy Finance Director, Haritha Nara is gonna introduce this item, go ahead.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Are there questions from the Council? Council Member Stewart? Council President Stewart?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Member Soni. Thank you. Oh, did you have a follow-up question, Council Member Pekria?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“All right. Well, um, this, uh, I'm just gonna, sorry, pull up here. So this is also being proposed to go on consent on September 15th. Is there any objection to moving this to consent? All right. Thank you. And thank you for the diligent work on this to align our, our code. Uh, so we don't have inconsistencies. All right. I'll move that to consent. Um, So the third item on our agenda, as I noted, will be moved and we'll see it at a future meeting. The next item on our agenda is the payroll transition update and approval for consultant services contract for human resources assessment. And we…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And are we gonna discuss that? I know that we have Director Cochran to also give an update as part of this item on payroll. Do we wanna just have you give the update and then we'll take questions? Great, thank you so much.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you so much, Director Cochran. I think the intention was to be able to have that context as we start on the discussion about the HR contract as well. So thank you so much, or services contract. Council President Stewart.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Council Member Pecoria. Council Member Forsyth.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I think that would not be just payroll, but HR. Certainly.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Vice President Nueva Camino.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. And I see there's another question from Council Member Prakrit. I'm going to go first round and then I'll call on you for the second round. One question that I have is this is not a budgeted expense. So can you share with us about generally list general fund as the funding for this? Can you speak to where we would be pulling for this to pay for it?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, and in terms of actually the bids that we got on this and ensuring that we're at the right level in terms of the cost for this, can you share a little bit of what the considerations were?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. My understanding was from hearing the presentation is that this is for an assessment of our HR team. and it's separate from a payroll audit and assessment that would happen as a third party. And that would come afterwards, is that correct?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And can you clarify whether it was at all sought to do a joint scope of work on this to include both items?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member Percy. Would any council members like to comment on that proposal? Council President Stewart.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. I will note that I feel a little torn here myself because of some of the things that Council President Stewart just said. We have heard concerns, and I do think that it's important for us to be able to move forward and get an assessment so that way we can address any gaps or issues that are going on to make sure this is a really great place to work and that we're providing the HR support that we need. And I would love to get to the payroll assessment sooner than later as well. Because part of what was raised to us was about our existing system, having one sole source provider…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“And Council Member Parsi, I will just say, I think some of this also responds to the fact that the council received a letter of concern about some of the HR, about HR systems and practices. So this is related to the systems and practices, not to the payroll, which was also included in there, and that would be a separate piece. So that's my understanding. Okay, I'll go Council Member Parcheria, then I'm going to cut off this conversation. We'll get to, and we'll decide if we want to have another conversation on this. Council Member Parcheria?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member Pacrea. So, Council Members, I'm going to ask, since it sounds like there are still some questions and concerns, would Council Members want to put this on new business? So that way we could get some additional information that's been requested by the Council and have a separate vote on this? Or would we prefer to just see this again at a committee after we've gotten our answers to our questions? I guess I'll ask, are Council Members good putting this on new business if we don't get... Okay, so we have, so let's put this on new business and please follow up. I'd say…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. Council Vice President Nueva Camino.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. One question that I had was that usually I think we see this item and we approve it in conjunction with the budget. And it's being proposed for us to do this within the next week. And I think some of this discussion, especially as we're looking at, for example, in the Office of the Executive, some of the pay bands and some of the roles there, I believe there's still some discussion that might come with the budget around that. So it does mention in the memo that it would help to do this earlier to be able to address, to be able to make some of these changes in advance. But can you…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026