Remarks by Susan Walton
124 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 3 of 5
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“Not just that conversation before we do take a break. I'm going to be really honest. I don't want city staff to have to spend time on that. We know how busy they are. We know we are short staffed. And I will not... I will not support something that this has to be done independent of the city staff. They are maxed out. We watch our finances. People are doing double time. We all know that we appreciate them. And it just, like I said, even half of that bulleted list is, is a full-time job to really keep up on. So I think this has to be something done outside of our city and I won't, I cannot…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“He's like, I'm a freaking dentist. Okay.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“So they have figured out ways to make communication with teenagers. Whereas we don't have access to those systems in place.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Or their email. But then a private email of Jubils to a private email. Oh, boy. Can we get everybody here?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I just had a quick question. When you talk about the six months, whatever work plan, what would be involved in that work plan? Would it be more specific details about where there could even be one and the implications? So just a deeper dive into the bigger questions that you presented on the slides.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I would like to make a motion that we establish a six-month moratorium in DuPont, Washington regarding data centers.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I would like to have a second reading on data centers moratorium in DuPont, Washington.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I had a quick question. It'll still be a study session, right? Oh, yeah. Great. I don't know much about it, so I'll look forward to that. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“I had a question. So what do we have right now? Because we have volunteers like 4th of July, events, activities. Remember we did the great picture of Robin chopping down things on our parks looking great. So obviously we have volunteers. So it would be nice maybe moving forward to have what do we have now Cause it's not prevented us from having volunteers. We have them and I've volunteered. My husband's son had volunteered. So I guess like kind of why would we need more just kind of the back of your head, right? Cause clearly we have a lot of volunteers in DuPont. So whatever we have, I'd…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Speaking of children, I was waiting for a good time. I know for schools, you get fingerprinted to be a volunteer in school. So are you all going to speak about what if someone was brought in in a volunteer capacity and harmed a child or? did something of that nature. Will that be part of what you discuss? Yes, there is a slide on background checks.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“When you talk about training, can that be online nowadays?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“What we do with volunteers, they go online, they fill it out. They say they've read and watched the short little video on how to volunteer in a kid's classroom, blah, blah, blah. And they have to sign that they've seen it. So it doesn't mean that we have to free up someone from parks or public works to stand out there and watch someone put things in a dumpster.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“It could be very streamlined in terms of being online.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“And before you go, earlier in your presentation, I heard the things that maybe kind of would be very careful is if you have to do a task as a volunteer and you're given protective equipment, kind of not so great, but yet Here, you're actually saying we would provide the, I mean, we had during COVID and all that. So it seems like kind of a mixed message. Is that true? It's a true gray line, right? Very gray.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Does a city get to determine what lets someone volunteer and what doesn't based on a criminal background check? Is it like a set protocol? I mean, I know in school districts, you have anything not coming. So because it sounds like we talk to the person, we interview them. I'm like, if there's a red flag, do we have the ability to say no?”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“We'll have people sign a waiver. You're not allowed.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Can I follow up on that? So here's where I'm confused because I'm not with the one that Robin did, but I think there was a year or two before that. We, three of my family members went down and did some like cleanup of a park kind of stuff, right? Bag of garbage. I do not remember filling out a form. at all. So we might have a policy, but are we, I'm just being really blunt. This seems great for liability. No one wants to put people liable. But you're saying that we do have this process, but as a volunteer, I've never, When you volunteer for 4th of July, do you fill out anything? You know what…”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“We might have the documents, but we're not implementing them.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Okay, so what this is is to take policy, make it better, because I have volunteered on stuff, and I've never filled out anything ever.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“So this is kind of like new in terms of like, what are you starting to talk about? Kind of.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Go back up. Improving. It sounds like to me, it's ground. It's kind of like starting from the ground up in many ways. I think we're talking waivers and filling out things and signing things and doing trainings. Okay.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“This fall, Key Club from the school, correct? That's that would usually fall under the school would have their own piece of that as well. their own volunteer program to allow kids to go serve the community.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“will do yeah okay just just making sure oh yes oh yeah this would be more for you yeah so i never even made it to lake city yeah well it would be less practice right now thank you guys okay next bye”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026
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“Mr. Mayor, would it be OK? I just want to recognize one of our DuPont's finest. We have one of our law enforcement officers here. Thank you for being here. Just so you know, when you're here, we want to make sure that people know that. And you guys are the best. So yeah, and I'm not biased at all. Thank you.”
City Council · Aug 25, 2026