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From: Mark Vincent <gomarkvi@yahoo.com>
To: "council@redmond.gov" <council@redmond.gov>
Subject: Redmond Teen Center
Date: 2025-03-28 11:37:35-10:00

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To: Redmond City Council

I just got done watching a story on KIRO news <https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kiro7.com%2Fnews%2Flocal%2Fteens-parents-fighting-keep-redmond-teen-center-closing-down%2FYPS5ZUUDUNHNVP3TOX2SXIQZYI%2F&data=05%7C02%7Cvkritzer%40redmond.gov%7C347483a4a117438eac1a08dd6e40c2d9%7Ccb894d07355f495fb9c1a2a6d84a7468%7C0%7C0%7C638787946615402802%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=uqiqpU%2BZbpmTgdgFuZYHZqcP28uYx7ZaWUYLlMtEyv0%3D&reserved=0>  about the city leadership unilaterally deciding to close the Redmond Teen Center with no or little notice to the facility, NO PUBLIC discussion, and no clear or truthful reason for closure.  

Listen.  My wife, family and I have been members of the Redmond community as long as this facility has been serving the city's teen population (1992).  It's distressing and, frankly, unacceptable, to learn that our own City government would take such an action without any well-advanced notification to the facility itself, let-alone no public discussion for a long-standing service for our younger population.  

With all the current chaos being thrown out in government at the federal level, this type of action makes the community feel that much more disconnected and distrusting of our local government.  I would hope this is something the Mayor & Council do not want as an outcome here.

This needs to be discussed at length in an expected public discussion along with an explanation for the abrupt closure.  If this is yet another play to sell city properly to build more apartments with your Developer of choice, at the expense of a great long-standing service to our Teen community, I certainly know where our votes will be heading next.  Let's do the right thing here.

I would like a response back on this concern (and not an automated response).  Thank you.

Mark  Vincent
14221 NE 72nd St
Redmond, WA 98052
+1 (425) 985-8519






