PORT ANGELES — There’s not much LaTrisha Suggs and James Taylor agree on.

The two candidates for Port Angeles City Council position 1 debated each other during the Port Angeles Business Association’s meeting Tuesday at Jazzy Joshua’s restaurant.

When asked what specific policies they would champion to stimulate small business, Suggs, the incumbent, said one tool the city can use is tax incremental funding to finance infrastructure.

“I really want to work with the community,” she said. “What areas do we want to see grow? Where can this happen? Our job as a city council is to look at infrastructure. Growth happens slowly over time.”

Taylor said the city already has businesses that are under attack.

“We’ve got to fight like heck to keep what we’ve got,” he said. “There’s a lot of propert

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