Remarks by Suzan Torguson
37 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“Yeah. I meant to ask this earlier, but my day's been crazy. On the checks that are on this particular consent agenda is the one for art and industry on that one. I know we pay them a certain dollar amount. Every quarter. Is that this or is that going to be in October?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“For art and industry. I'll double check it. They have a special name in the front of it. We always forget what that is.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So should we do that a little bit later when she gets her chance to?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Today we met September 15th at 4 p.m. We went over a little bit until about 5.10. We first started talking about the CED activity report because we always have that as last and we never get a chance to really get to it. So we chose to go over that and that was very interesting. And then we talked about parking regulations, which included some biking parking requirements, you know, parking your bike. in in residential and commercial areas and we decided on that one to kind of maybe we like the regular parking with parking that is basically state mandated but the biking I think we wanted it was…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yes. On August 27th, King County Regional Law, Safety and Justice Committee met at 730 in the morning. The meeting focused on how King County and community organizations can better respond to people experiencing behavioral health issues. Crises, Homelessness, Substance Abuse, and Repeated Involvement with Emergency Services, and the Criminal Justice System. And actually, just so you all know, I'm the one that brought this one up, so I was excited it got on the agenda. The Sawyer Culbertson Project described a community-based approached center on housing, healing, and income. The program uses…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“The Snow Valley chamber. Um, the chamber has, uh, several updates. Um, They have a seven-week veteran entrepreneurship program through Snow Valley Innovation Center offering scholarships to help veterans launch a business or develop new ideas starting on September 30th. And most of their facilitators are business professionals from North Bend. If anybody wants to apply that's a veteran, they just need to go to the website, snowvalleyinnovationcenter.com. And then the Best of Valley is in conjunction with Snoqualmie Valley Record has voting now open with winners announced at their Best of…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Do you, sorry, that follow-up question is, I know the contract was for $30,000. Is that the third payment? I think that's the third payment. It's the third payment. So that's... So we're still in... We're still good. Yeah. So... Our procurement laws are that it's up to $25,000 that we give contracts. For $30,000, council needs to approve it. So I'm suggesting that we do something to approve that because we want to approve that. But I think we slipped on that.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I have no objections to going ahead and approving that as it's written. Okay. Do I have a second on that?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“In our packet, we don't have page numbers. We have our packet's page numbers. So can you describe which page you're wanting us to go to?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. Susan, please talk. And I'd like to follow up on that. Because in your notes, you did say you're going to. you'd have a bond that you would go out to the public and get, do you know what percentage that would be? Like, you know, levy, live, lift, we toss around 0.1, 0.2, 0.3. Do you know?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Do you have any bonds that are expiring soon? Because right now I think it's like in North Bend, it's like 33% of our property tax is going to the school district.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. And out of curiosity, does the school district? I don't know what the rules are for the school district. Do you guys get grants anywhere like from any entity?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm on page 20. Is that it? No, that's 81. Yep, that's it. Okay. Motion to approve AB 2681, an ordinance related to school impact fees, adopting a table of school impact fees, amending the taxes, rates, and fee schedule, and repealing ordinance numbers 1636 and 1838 as a first and final reading. Can I get a second?”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'm debating on this one cause I just, um, I guess I'm concerned about the potential bond that it's going to happen to occur. I know that doesn't affect this. That's something that school district would be do separately. Um, so that's where I'm just, I'm worried because everybody has, you know, being taxed to death and, um, Yeah, I'm just I'm just I have some concerns, so I don't not really I'm actually not even sure how I'm going to vote yet. So.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Clarifying, when you just said that, what you're saying is the contractors that we would be paying are going to make that link from Adventure North Bend to our sitting website? Is that part of the contract?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“Motion to approve AB 26-077, authorizing the mayor to execute and administer a contract amendment with Peach Global Solutions in the amount not to exceed $18,000 in a form and content approved by the city attorney. Can I get a second?”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“We have a revenue problem. And doing something like this, which is actually not that expensive, $1,500 a month, to get a website up and running to potentially reach out to businesses to fulfill buildings we have that are empty, is going to help the entire city. And I think this is a good investment into hopefully getting more businesses here. You know, the more businesses we have here that are helping with our revenue situation, you know, the better everyone in our town is. So I think it's definitely worthwhile. Thank you very much.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“This is kind of standard. I mean, if you're running a business and you had a similar situation, this is exactly what you do is you go out and contract for help in the meantime. So this is kind of basic. And so, yeah, I'll be supporting it.”
City Council · Sep 1, 2026
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“I love that. That's what you're supposed to do, though.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“The Community Economic Development Committee met today. August 18th at 4 p.m. Here's a summary of the four agenda items that we covered. First, we went over a unit lot subdivision and lot splitting regulations. We reviewed proposed municipal code updates for unit lot subdivision North Bend Municipal Code 1718 and lot splitting regulations for North Bend Municipal Code 1722 while we're doing this. These updates align with our local code with recent state legislative mandates requiring cities to provide alternative ways for land division. Unit lot subdivision 1718 works similarly to traditional…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I don't really have a lot of details on it other than that we discussed the budget a lot again. And a lot of different agencies are discussing regional fire authority options for their groups. And that's just a quick summary.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“I do have a couple of things. First of all, the Regional Law, Safety, and Justice Committee did not meet as well in August. the last two months that we will be meeting August 27th though. So that should be an exciting meeting. I'm excited about it. And then we had the inaugural regional fire authority planning committee, special joint meeting between the city of North bend and fire district 38, which took place on August 13th at, the North Bend City Hall. As a reminder, this is an advisory committee. Our purpose is to study, evaluate, and plan for the future for our regional fire protection…”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Regarding the tollgate property land swap, if for some reason that doesn't go through, how will that affect the rest of the project?”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Absolutely. Wonderful. Motion to approve AB 26-071, a resolution approving the Parks Element amendments for the 2026 North Bend Comprehensive Plan update.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026
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“Certainly. It's been well thought out. Many people have been involved and lots of input has been provided. So I think it's been really vetted. And this is an update to our existing North Bend comprehensive plan. And I think that we should do it. Excellent.”
City Council · Aug 18, 2026