Remarks by Vivek Prakriya
16 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 1
- Play at 38:28
“Great. Thank you so much for the presentation. And at a macro level, I'm absolutely in favor of more across departmental coordination. I would like to see some more specific numbers to echo my colleague, Council President Stewart. But at a macro level, this is something I absolutely do support. My one concern is that, you know, we're bringing together planning, public works, fire, finance, all these departments, but I do not see any positions in this new department allocated towards TIS. So I kind of have a two-part question, which is I've had conversations with Director Marchand and others…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“YES, THANK YOU. AND THIS IS DEFINITELY A MATRIX ITEM. But one thing that I would like to see is kind of that dichotomy between, I'll say, little D development and big D development, because not every permit is created the same. When I went around knocking on doors last year, there were a lot of folks who said, look, I can't get the city to approve this permit for my sink or this permit for what have you, these smaller permits. And I would like to see, I guess, not necessarily just the bottlenecks for permitting in general, but also permitting that, I don't know exactly what the threshold…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thanks. Yeah, in general, just a couple of things. So when it when it comes to that, I would just say, maybe we can say, instead of just statewide standards on technological advancements, we can add standards and regulation. But I'm more than happy to also add the specifics, ie surveillance pricing, for instance. My question was about funding I believe this is probably covered in the city budget stability, but I just wanted to ask Amy and Brianna. For instance, I guess, what is the breakdown in lobbying between city and county government when it comes to an item that is brought up like the…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yes, I had a question at a point I wanted to bring up about a project that was in the wastewater CIP. I'm not sure if I should do that now or wait if we're going to get to that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Well, I guess for this section, I wanted to ask about the general methodology behind... I know we created a plan, but how was the plan implemented for deciding which... PAVEMENT PROJECTS TO GO WITH IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Okay, great. So it was made just purely, purely using that strategic plan.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 14:05
“Great. Well, first of all, thank you so much for being willing to step up and volunteer to help serve this city that we all love. I have a question for Jenny and not to quote, Tyrion Lannister from Game of Thrones but a mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone right and I'm really of the opinion that you know the reason why we are all living in this world that we are living in today is because of books it's because of the written language you know 800 years ago people thought that 95% of people weren't capable of reading now we know that almost everybody is capable of of reading. But I…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Thank you. I was just wondering, first of all, I totally, totally support this change, but I was wondering if you could give a little bit as to the provenance of how we came to notice this seeming contradiction. I'm sure there are other issues with our code. It's just inevitable and a code that I think it's I believe it's well over 1,000 pages is our code. I could be mistaken. But I'm sure there are other issues. I'm just wondering what the process was to actually catch this one.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 10:32
“No, no, sorry. I was just saying thank you.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 20:10
“Thank you. Yeah, I had a couple of questions. Number one is in the attachment, it says that work is planned to begin no later than August 17th of 2026. Has work already begun on this project? Because if we're approving the contract, I'm just wondering if that is out of date or if work has begun?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I see. Okay. And... Can you tell us a little bit more about how this consultant was chosen?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 31:05
“Thank you. First of all, I was wondering if you could share any details you may have about the procedural startings and the timeline for the UKG payroll project. And then I have a quick follow up based on based on that.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Great. Thank you. And then my thinking on this contract is, first of all, you know, this is... almost a third of a million dollars. It's a non-trivial amount of money, more than we would budget for an FTE for an entire year. I'm sorry, my voice is a little bit scuffed. I'm a little bit sick. But more than we would budget for an FTE for an entire year. And I think that a third-party system, a third-party audit is needed here because this is a different scope of work than building out a new kind of software. We need to make sure that every employee in Redmond is being paid fairly according to…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 37:07
“DIRECTOR PROCREA. Thank you. I would like to go back to Council Vice President Nueva Camino's first question. on how this timeline lines up with the budget. It sounds from this conversation that there is great interest in hiring out, but both on the council side and on the staff side, in hiring out a forensic accountant. But I'm just wondering how that hiring lines up with our timeline of our budget in November. Director Cochran.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 44:53
“Thank you. I was just going to share my perspective, which is that I do believe that this scope of work is needed, but in order to move forward to consent, I would like to see, number one, a list of other jurisdictions to whom this consultant has helped, the prior issues they had, what kinds of resolutions they were able to get to, and then just a more clear definition on the deliverables in scope of this contract. But I also really do want to appreciate all the work that has gone into this. You know, we have a billion dollar budget, right? And it's not easy to transform the way that the…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
- Play at 41:16
“yes thank you so this is the entirety of the month of august as we didn't have a meeting we received a number of inquiries from members of the community so we received a request for budget funding in the upcoming biennium for soil and groundwater pfas testing as well as an independent city employed arborist we received a proposal for a council allocated legislative policy analyst. We received a community member, a letter from a community member opposing the PSC rate increases. We received advocacy for funding for certain community organizations to be included in the city's funding. A…”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026