The Redmond City Council held its regular business meeting on Tuesday, October 7, 2025, at 7:00 PM. The meeting featured robust public comment, a consent agenda with one item pulled for discussion, staff reports on economic development and World Cup planning, and updates from council members. Key decisions included approval of the consent agenda (minus item 6) and a 6-to-1 vote to purchase the Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village.
Consent Agenda Item 6 – Acquisition of Redmond Community Center at Marymoor Village (RCCMV)
Staff Report – Economic Development and Tourism Progress
Staff Report – World Cup Planning Update
I'm calling this meeting to order. This is a regular business meeting of the Redmond City Council held on Tuesday, October 7th, 2025, commencing at 7 o'clock PM. I will call roll starting with Council President Kritzer. Here. Councilmember Fields. Here. Council Vice President Forsyth. Here. Councilmember Slahoudine. Councilmember Stewart. Councilmember Stewart. Thank you. Councilmember Nueva Camina. Here. Councilmember Anderson. Here. The first item on the agenda is items from the audience. I have the sign-in sheet for members of the public to speak tonight. When I read your name, you will come up to the podium and have three minutes to address the council. Council members generally will not respond to comments or questions directly at the meeting, and members of the public are welcome to email the council any time at Mayor Council at Redmond.gov. The views stated by members of the public do not represent the opinion of the city of Redmond. And as a reminder, RCW 4217A555 prohibits any public comment during the council meeting in support or opposition about propositions, measures, or candidates. And I'm changing how I'm doing things. I've noticed that people are going over the three minutes, so at exactly three minutes, I will be turning off the microphone. There are nine people signed up to speak tonight, and two people have signed up to speak remotely. Um I'll call out the first four names or so so you know when you're coming up. We'll start with Aaron Hamilton, then Sasha Glenn, then Matt Lobby, then Chester Anderson. There you go. There you are. Thank you. Hello. So hopefully you all have uh a pretty interesting slide in front of you. Uh it's a slide that was presented on the study session, the last study session, um, that I feel like the public should uh know what it says. So it's highlighting about the city building assessment throughout the entire city of Redmond, and it states proactive maintenance prevents major problems, proper maintenance extends the service life and prolongs the intervals between major reinvestment. Um so that got me thinking. I was wondering how much is the city actually spent on the firehouse since the city is recommending proactive maintenance. So I did a public records request and asked for the very specific data of how much the city has spent on construction, repairs, and maintenance. And since 2023 to today, they have spent less than 20,000 on construction, maintenance, and repairs of the building. Do you call that proactive maintenance? Nope, I don't. So now we're this is where we're at. And I found this interesting because your own city employees are staying are saying that the building can collapse at any moment. The roof can collapse at any moment. Your city employees are saying that to the public. If that was the case, by law, you are required to classify the building as condemned, fence off the lot, so nobody can approach the building at all. If you're worried about public safety, you have to be worried about the entire public and having people just walk around the park next to a building that can debate that can collapse at any moment in time per the city. That tells me you're lying. Because if that was the case, it would be condemned, it would be fenced off. No one would be able to be near the building if it is close, if it can be collapse at any moment. You didn't close this building because of safety.