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Speakers urge council to save Old Firehouse teen center, criticize process
Summary
Multiple residents and youth urged the Redmond City Council to preserve and renovate the Old Firehouse teen center, calling the decision process insufficiently transparent and raising allegations that the city planned to sell the lot. Commenters described emotional harm to teens and demanded deeper public engagement.
Several Redmond residents and young people used the public-comment period Dec. 2 to urge the council to preserve and rebuild the Old Firehouse teen center and to criticize the city’s process for deciding the facility’s future.
Multiple commenters described the closure as sudden and traumatic for teens who relied on the space. One speaker said teens had only two weeks’ notice that services were moving and warned that moving programs into a temporary campus would destabilize vulnerable participants. "You should have given the teens time to…
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