Remarks by Vanessa Kritzer
63 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 3
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“Thank you. And I believe we typically had approved this at our first meeting in December. So if we were able to approve it in November, it would even give an extra month from the usual timeline. But I guess I will ask Council Member Forsyth.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Great. Thank you. So I guess with the comments we've gotten today, just so that we can keep moving on the agenda, I think we'll bring this back for more discussion at future fact committees. And if council members have any additional questions on this that they want to send in between, then they can do so I think there are a couple for me there's a couple conversations I think we want to have before we move to adopting this so. Great all right well let's move on to the next item on our agenda, which is the. Which is the update to the elected official pay plan for the mayor's salary. And our…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you so much for that recommendation and the background COO files. I am gonna note because we are over time on this item and we have or on this agenda and this item historically when we've looked at this has taken a lot of council discussion time, especially when it's been proposed to make larger than a COLA increase. I propose that we plan to have some more time either on a future FAC or on a study session. I saw our council president raised her hand. So in case you want to have a comment on that, I'd be happy to entertain if anyone wants to send in in advance of that next meeting.…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Great, Council Member Soney, did you have a quick comment?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Great, thank you. And I will note for the council that it didn't get attached to the item, but I did ask and COO Files did send around a history of the mayor's salary to the council. And when we see this item again, hopefully we can have that attached for the public. But just to note that in 2024, we did have, we did authorize an increase to go from 2024 of 153,000 to 170,000 in 2025. So that was the last time the council considered a larger increase was two years ago. Council President Stewart.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you very much, Council President. And with that, I think we'll move on and we'll plan to bring this back for another touching committee before we move forward with any decisions on it. Thank you. Great, thank you. That brings us to the last item on our agenda, which is our Respect, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion program update. And I believe, actually, earlier, I think I gave the wrong title to our assistant COO, Lisa Marr. Our Deputy Executive Director, Zach Hooverner, is here to introduce the item. Go ahead.”
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 since we are a little bit over time here, I'm going to close out on questions, but feel free to follow up with Teresa. Thank you so much for being here. We're excited to have you. I hope it has been a good first month. And looking forward to hopefully seeing people out at welcoming week as we begin. And as a reminder, we'll actually kick off welcoming our community on Thursday the 10th with our council conversations that are going to be in Spirit Brook Park at 5 o'clock. So just wanted the listening public to know to come and connect with us and then join in all of these great…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you so much for the update and for the really amazing work that you do. The program highlights, I think, just emphasize what a really wonderful space our library is. And I just want to commend you in particular for the efforts to make it such an inclusive space and inclusive program. Right now, I think in particular libraries and access to a diversity of books and making sure that we have access to stories that everyone can see themselves in and their own identities in is really important. And then combining that with really good programming to help people to engage with it is just...…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yes, ma'am. I just wanted to comment on the previous comments that were made after the previous speaker to clarify for our roles for the listening public that in our rules around items from the audience, that there are several pieces that are requests of the audience and several things that are rules. And there are only certain things that would lead to someone's commentary being ended. So just wanna be clear about that. We do ask everyone to be respectful and note in our rules. For example, we value a diversity of opinions and that we ask that all comments be free from hate, harassment,…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Councilmember Kritzer Thank you so much for the work on this and I'm looking forward to seeing it move forward. One question that I had since we haven't been able to see the direct work that you're referencing, I noticed in the slides that you reference a lot of different buildings that incorporate color or kind of mural design almost on the side of buildings. Is that something that will be showing up in the standards or in incentives to be able to create more Just as as a design standard to have more color.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Yeah, I won't repeat a bunch of that were already said, but I will say that I had some conversations at office hours as well as out in community, support for ADA projects, as well as some feedback on those. And also concerns about safety and encouraging more use of the MHP in certain situations and funding for that. Also had some questions about parking permits and some of the upcoming changes on parking. Also some feedback around event impacts on nearby businesses that I believe our staff followed up on. Also was shared some additional information about impacts of 6 PPD on our waterways and…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Council Member Kritzer. I attended the Kokanee Management Committee meeting for our ILA with the cities around the lake and the Snoqualmie Tribe, and we approved an updated budget for the upcoming year for the Kokanee, for that ILA, including funding a lot of the newest kind of science-based practices that We're seeing working and scaling up some for bringing back our little red fish. And we also affirmed some additional practices on emergency voting because we didn't have those really clarified. And in the last year there was a moment where we really needed to allocate some funding in an…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026