JC Harris For Des Moines, Washington
City Council, Position #2
Non-partisan. Independent.
Next City Council Meeting is May 7, 2026
Working hard to support local businesses!
An advocate for airport issues!
League Representative: See all of you made it here. Welcome to the League of Women Voters Seattle King County candidate forum for the Highline School District School Board. How’s that? Okay. Again, welcome and joining the League of Women Voters of Seattle King County Highline School District School Board Forum. The League is an organization
... continue reading.Transcript Date: September 24, 2025 Chair: Harry Steinmetz, Deputy Mayor Roll Call and Introductions Harry Steinmetz: Let’s call the Citizens Advisory Board meeting of Wednesday, September 24th, 2025 to order. I’m Harry Steinmetz, the deputy mayor and the chair and facilitator of the meeting. First things first is just go around the room in order
... continue reading.Don’t hold it against me when I tell you that the story of Midway Park, and in fact all of Pacific Ridge, has to do with the airport. 😀 But when people wonder how/why Des Moines expanded east beyond Pacific Highway, well… like pretty much everything in Des Moines. There’s a story, more than there
... continue reading.(machine-generated) Transcript Date: Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 Chair: Deputy Mayor Harry Steinmetz Call to Order and Roll Call Deputy Mayor Steinmetz: Okay, all right. If I can have your attention, we’ll call the Wednesday, July 30th, 2025 meeting of the Citizens Advisory Board to order at this point. The first item—well, I guess we should
... continue reading.(machine-generated) Call to Order Mayor Traci Buxton: The July 24th, 2025 Des Moines City Council meeting is now called to order. Is Councilmember Nutting out there? Councilmember Nutting is actually going to lead us in the flag salute tonight and he is online. Please stand if you’re able. Councilmember Jeremy Nutting: I pledge allegiance to
... continue reading.At our last meeting, there were a couple of public comments from colleagues about the machine-generated transcript I posted along with the video of the June 25, 2025 Citizens Advisory Board meeting. Long-time readers know I usually turn the other cheek on personal attacks. But information science, and particularly voice recognition was my thing in
... continue reading.Welcome to the CAB. This body is now officially called ‘Citizens Advisory Board’. I only vaguely recall a discussion at the City Council Meeting where a resident felt that the acronym ‘CAC’ had an unpleasant sound. Which is weird because at the state level there was a second airport committee, the CACC for several years,
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The City did a real solid in civics lessons by recording this presentation and Q&A. For those who prefer reading to watching long videos (me, Me, ME! 😀 ) took the liberty of adding a machine-generated transcript. It’s pretty good, but as with all such things: caveat lector. City Council Candidate Orientation Slides Opening Remarks
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Overview The Marina Steps project we voted on last year came in way over budget and has been scaled back by a process called Value Engineering. To avoid confusion, from here on out, I’m calling the Marina Steps, ‘Project VE’. There are four options for Project VE – A, B, C, D. Option A is
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