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Fired officer’s paid administrative leave: $34K
BY STUART MILLER
smiller@snovalleystar.com
Though the Nick Hogan saga appears to finally be over, taxpayers have footed the $34,772 bill for nearly 1,000 hours of the former Snoqualmie police officer’s paid administrative leave since 2015. Hogan, a former Snoqualmie police officer, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge for pepper-spraying a patient who was handcuffed to a gurney at
Harborview Medical Center. The incident occurred while he was a Tukwila police Nick Hogan officer, before he was fired from that city’s department in 2012. The plea agreement Hogan entered into forbids him from being employed in law enforcement, private security or a job
Snoqualmie Tribe, city work to mend frayed relationship BY STUART MILLER smiller@snovalleystar.com
Near the end of September, the clock was running out on the deadline for the City of Snoqualmie and Snoqualmie Tribe to reach a sewer service agreement. If the two organizations could not come to an agreement by November, the Snoqualmie Casino and Reservation would have been cut from using city sewer utilities — plunging the casino’s more than 1,100 employees, countless patrons and other reservation residents into uncertain waters. On Sept. 27, the two sides sent a joint press release announcing that an agreement had finally been reached. Importantly, both the city and tribe acknowledged the agreement was a step in the direction toward a better working relationship between the two bodies. It is no secret around town that the city and tribe have been butting heads for a while. Between development projects, utility agreements and
PAID TO NOT WORK Former Snoqualmie Police Officer Nick Hogan received nearly $35,000 in paid administrative leave in 2015 and 2016. n 2015 paid administrative leave: $17,994 (550 hours) n 2016 paid administrative leave: $16,778 (440 hours) n Total paid administrative leave: $34,772.44 (990 hours)
where he must carry a gun for at least 15 years. In return, the felony civil-rights violation charge he was indicted on in May was reduced to a misde-
meanor “deprivation of rights under color of law” charge. Hogan’s sentencing is set for Jan. 27, where he could face up to one year in jail, a fine of up to
$100,000 and a year of supervised release. Since joining the Snoqualmie Police Department in 2013, Hogan was involved in four encounters involving use-offorce, according to Jodi Duran, the department’s records technician. “All four were reviewed by command staff and were justified per policy, training and procedure,” Duran wrote in an SEE PAY, PAGE 2
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lawsuits, the relationship has become strained on both sides. This small victory for partnership may be a step in the right direction, but the possibility of more discord looms on the horizon. The past “There was a difficult period of about 18 months to two years,” Snoqualmie Mayor Matt Larson said of recent relations between city and tribe. The joint press release ends with two similar paragraphs, one from each authoring party. Both factions give a nod to their history. “Known as the People of the Moon, Snoqualmie tribal members were signatories to the Treaty of Point Elliott in 1855,” reads part of the tribe’s sign-off paragraph. Similarly, part of the city’s sign-off reads, “Established in 1903, the City of Snoqualmie is located in the heart of the Mountains to Sound Greenway.” Both entities have co-existed for more than a century. SEE MEND, PAGE 3
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Rex Price of Snoqualmie Ridge deposits his ballot into the King County drop box outside the Snoqualmie Library on Tuesday. Election results were released after press time for this week’s newspaper; please visit us online at snovalleystar.com for the latest updates on all of the local races.
Solutions sought at teen homeless forum BY STUART MILLER smiller@snovalleystar.com
A second forum on teen homelessness was held Nov. 2 at Sallal Grange in North Bend, expanding on the ideas and progress made at the first forum in October. Representatives from many local organizations attended the second forum, ready to make concrete progress toward solutions and help for
the more than 60 homeless teens in Snoqualmie Valley. “At the last meeting we had a great conversation, but some people were a little frustrated. They wanted to get stuff done,” moderator Alexis Kaplan said at the meeting. “Maggie Wong is going to help us accomplish that in this meeting.” After introductions by representatives from the Snoqualmie Valley School
District, Snoqualmie Police Department, Friends of Youth, SEE FORUM, PAGE 6
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