Remarks by Yến Huỳnh
97 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 4
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“Thank you. And with that, I'll just close us out of announcements just saying a hearty welcome from all of us on here. Truly, Council has been keeping abreast of the hiring and interview process. And while Council Member Madrone is correct that it was open for a while. And that's not because no one wanted to apply. It was because we needed the right person. And it was competitive. And I have heard so many great things about you. And I think I speak for all of us when I say that we're looking forward to getting to know you more and being able to learn from your expertise and do some great work…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“All right. With that, we'll move to approval of the agenda.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Second? All right. I will just note that while the agenda for tonight has been republished to now just go from three to two items for business items, we decided to move, which was originally item 6B, off till a later date. It just needed a little bit more work. So with that, all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Aye. All right. The agenda has been approved. And then that moves us to special recognition. And we're just having one council member read that tonight. And is it appropriate if I ask you, Council Member Barron, to stand up so we can read your shirt?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“It says parks make life better, with the exclamation point. So I think we chose the right person to read this proclamation, so go ahead.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you, Council Member Barron. Next, we have a receiving this proclamation tonight, and I understand a short presentation to follow from Laura Keahan, who is a director of Parks Planning and Maintenance.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Thank you, Laura. Are there any responses from council members? Oh, Council Member Barron.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Well, I think that wraps us up really nicely. Here, here. I agree with Council Member Barron. Parks makes life better. You did such a great job of laying that out. And you are one of many, but a very, very important one of our park system and maintaining it. So thank you so much. And would you like to take a picture with us?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Yes. She sees us all the time. All right. Thank you, Laura. I'm still going to come give you the proclamation. All right. So moving on, we have public comment tonight. And I see we have a few that have signed up in person and just one online. So just quickly for those that may not be familiar with public comment, or are returning after some time. So each public commenter gets two minutes. We'll do in-person first to honor those that have made their way here to join us in person, and then we'll follow with our single public commenter online. So when you hear your name, please do step at the…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Another thing I should have mentioned in the housekeeping is that there will be run through all of the public comment tonight. There's just four short ones. It'll go pretty quickly. And then there will be an opportunity at the end for council to comment. So we are listening to you and you're hoping if you're hoping for a response, I'd really encourage you to stick around. All right, next, Jen, and you're going to teach me how to say your last name, Jen.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Oh, I see what you're saying. Unfortunately, I don't have the time.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
- Play at 24:36
“Sorry, I'm going to have to wrap you up. This is the unfund part of my facilitation role.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“It sounds like you have some comments written out there. And so I don't know if you feel comfortable sharing that with our assistant city manager so that we can have a copy of that. You're also welcome to email us as well.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. Okay. With that, we are transitioning to our single online public commenter. Okay. Oh, looks like they're online. So, is it Andre Lynn?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Oh, wonderful. Okay, we can hear you. You can go ahead.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you for your comments so before I go to the Ask counsel for their response, but just with this one I heard most of the things that you had said and then there were some moments that I'm not sure I quite caught everything and this is sounds like a an urgent and delicate matter so i see that when you registered to public comment we also have your email so if it's all right i'm going to ask staff to follow up with you directly as soon as possible to just understand more fully what's going on and how what support looks like on the city level it sounds like you do understand that we the city…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“All right, I'll just run through mine. I think Councilmember Gilman covered it well, but for Norman, thank you for coming and taking the time to express your frustrations. And I oftentimes think that, well, I know it to be true is when people take the time to share their frustrations, it's because they care. So while I don't quite see it your way because I mean it's probably because I'm on the City Council and I'm aware of what efforts that we're trying to do and I could sit here and tell you all the efforts that we're really doing this we put more emphasis in here and at the end of the day…”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thanks so much, Natalie. This is a win. So it's great to have you pull and highlight it. And speaking of if it's going to be approved, we'll just pick it up at the end here by opening the consent calendar and asking if we have a motion from council.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Aye. Consent calendar passes. Congratulations to all and congratulations to Natalie. All right. And that moves us to our first item of business tonight, which is item 6A. That's Deschutes Estuary Restoration Project Update. And we have a number of folks that are in person tonight. And so I'll just hand it over to Southwest Region Director of the Washington State Department of Ecology, Bobak Tlaiby.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Lynn, is it already if I ask you a question? Of course. I just don't want, I got a little caught up when you said, completely unintended, but you said at which time we will do the dam removal. And I know you mean D-A-M.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Remove the dam. But I want to make sure I didn't miss over something that very important that you said. You said that there are two items that potentially could move. in time. And so could you tell me again what those two things are?”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Okay, that's really helpful for me. And I didn't mean to, you know, cause you don't have to spell it out for the rest. It was great levity for me at these meetings. So thank you so much for clarifying that.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. I'll go ahead and turn it over to my councilmates for response, comments, questions. Sounds like Council Member Madrone and then did I see your hand, Council Member Vanderpool, followed by Council Member Gill. Probably everybody. But feel free to stand up. And we'll go ahead and go in that order.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. And is it all right, Council Member Vandepoel? It sounds like city manager had to follow up on that. Go ahead.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. That's a great point, Council Member Gilman. Did you have more to share? It's fine. Go for it. Tessa, this council loves hearing from you.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026
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“Thank you. That was helpful. Council Member Barron.”
City Council · Jul 28, 2026