Teresa Jorgensen wants to stay in Garden City.
Jorgensen, who was first appointed by Mayor John Evans in 2020 and won her first choice in 2021, is still on the podium for four years, which represents the small Boise Enklave. She runs in a race in which the two best voters are elected to choose one of two places for re -election in Garden City.
The upcoming resignation of long -time mayor John Evans is the main reason why Jorgensen said she wanted to run again. While the city of the mayor is under new leadership, she said that it is important that the city council is of experienced managers who understand the nuances of the small city's finances as a budgeting, for which municipalities are becoming more nationwide. This is also the reason why she supports the current member of the Garden City City Council, Bill Jacobs for the mayor about the new political and the College of Western Idaho -Freuhänder Molly Lenty.
“I think the value is a consistency and experience,” she said. “There will be a need for experience and knowledge of the city and many of the problems that will affect stacks and the effects on us, also at short notice, the need for leadership and guidance. Certainly a new mayor has to rely on a fairly strong advice and that is what has typed me: the ability to bring this experience, knowledge and strength.”
Jorgensen started in Micron directly outside of school and stayed there for over a decade in several different roles. She completed the training of micron engineers and a handful of Boise State University courses, but never deserved a diploma in the basic course. She is now the National Accounts Manager for the Photo Copier and Printer Company Fisher technology from Garden City.
In her last five years in the city council, Jorgensen said that she was the proud of her work that the local government of Garden City City resources promotes domestic violence and brings representatives of the women's alliance to the city's library. She also worked at the meeting with a group of other local government officials from Ada County to deal with the speed of the Greenbelt.
Predicted budgeting
Cities in the entire Schatztal have problems with increasing expenses and property tax revenue that do not cover the costs.
This year Garten City has made an even more robust budgeting process than usual due to the scarce budget and the importance of maintaining essential services than invoices for personnel, services, software and other projects through the amount of the IDAHO code of the property tax, the cities control the cities. She said to do the mathematics of budget work, the staff of the city tour takes no salary increases and the city will not insert any free positions to reduce the costs.
Jorgensen said these slim financial times for the city mean that the council has to decide which projects can be put aside and which services must continue to be carried out. She said that the residents often tell her how much they guess Garden City despite the small size of the city that this is a priority of it so that the city can further improve its safety and cleanliness. However, the increasing costs must either mean an improvement in the green belt or have to be restored.
“Overall, we have to make sure that we protect the city and continue to offer the services that everyone expects,” she said.
Jorgensen Backs balances growth with private property in harmony
Garden City has set itself rapidly from mobile home parks to a denser development of mobile houses in recent years.
Jorgensen said that she supported the recent code changes that have brought the rules of the city into harmony with the extensive plan to lead the city's growth into the future. She said that many of the recent changes in the city came from a “pronounced, man -made” regulations after updates last year, which focused on the “administration” of the effects of the density on nearby neighbors with buffer zones and new requirements for the height of the height in the new developments.
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She also pointed in her direction and agreed during a hearing for a proposal for new apartments in the Boise River Club as an example of how she would like to urge herself in Garden City. Jorgensen said that she had approved the project, but asked to make design changes as a compromise, who tried to keep the appearance and the feeling of the project more with the existing houses in the region.
The affordability, especially since some of the aging mobile home parks were removed from Garden City, is a big topic in the treasure Valley. Jorgensen said that the city should continue its current trajectory to allow the free market and a flexible zoning code to offer developers the space to add affordable units if they wish, which means that older parts of the city can continue.
“We have benefited from many developers who recorded the percentage of affordable units when they go through the development process,” she said. “I think that GC is in a way very happy to have local developers who have come in and manage it themselves. I don't think there is an appetite to dictate or require an affordable living space, but there is also no effort or interest in force anyone.”