City Council - Regular Meeting

Oh, assistant city recorder in the hot seat tonight.

Yeah. Happy Tuesday. Okay. Councilor Duggar?

I am here.

Councilor Hartmeyer Prague?

I'm here.

Councilor Hassan?

Can you do that again? We can't hear you. I don't know if it's our end or your end. Hold on.

Okay. Sorry, councilor Hassan. Can you try that one more time, please?

Yes. Can you

hear me? Counselor Kimmy? Here. Counselor Teeter?

Here.

Counselor Tipton?

Here. Mayor Beatty? Here. Thank you.

Alright. We will now move on to visitor comments. The city requires preregistration for online in person visitor comments at council meeting. Registration closed at noon today. All registration was conducted through the city recorder's office via email or phone in preparation for this meeting.

There are four people registered at tonight's meeting. As a reminder, visitor comments provide the opportunity for the community to speak about matters even if they are not on the agenda. Visitors may state their comments and should not expect the council to engage in back and forth dialogue regarding the comments at this as this is the time for the council to hear from the community. The city council seeks to be welcoming and inclusive towards all speakers at public meetings, and we strive to create atmosphere of mutual care and respect. While community members may disagree with each other or the city on issues and may give critical feedback, they are expected to do so respectively and without disruption.

Disruption interferes with the ability of other present in person or online to participate in tonight's meeting. Council members do not interrupt community members during their public comments, and we expect community members to offer the same courtesy to other speakers. Visitors are limited to three minutes for each person. If follow-up is needed, our city manager and city recorder are taking notes. So tonight, we have four speakers with us tonight. First will be David Kearns. Second will be Heather Hellman. Alright. Alyssa Collier, Jennifer Croft.

Great. Thanks. Hi. I am Jennifer Croft. I'm a resident here in Beaverton. I've lived here for about five years. I am also a volunteer with the city. I volunteer with the, Center for Mediation and Dialogue. I have some thoughts after attending last the last meeting that I wanted to share. We talked about or we heard y'all talk about, a levy that was to be proposed for, for, you know, the property taxes.

And, honestly, I probably would have been on the no vote side for that levy. And I've got, like I said, some feedback if it's helpful. I think in currently, we're kind of all in the same boat when it comes to that. We're kind of being squeezed from both sides to the middle. If you're a working family, you're working because and you have to, and the costs are getting higher and higher, and wages are not keeping up in any way.

And so I get that we are all in the same place when it comes to that and pry trying to provide city services and what a spot that puts, the city in, but it's also putting the residents in that same spot. And you're asking them to you know, even if they can't afford it, you're asking them to budget from something else so that they can put more towards their mortgage each month or their rent if they don't have, you know, the privilege of having a mortgage, which sounds a little weird to say. But still, who is not being squeezed at this time is Nike. If I remember correctly, your levy was asking between 5,000,000 and 6,000,000. The land that Nike is sitting on would be worth between 11,000,000 and 15,000,000 a year in property tax revenue for the city of Beaverton.

I understand that that's not really an option currently until the thirty year, like, 2035, and then we then Nike could be annexed. But I do want to make it, like, to say that that 11 to 15,000,000 would solve those problems. And I wanna be clear that I think that what you're asking for when you ask for a levy like this is you're asking for the citizens to supplement what pay Nike's way for them. That matters. They made 3,200,000,000.0 in profits last year.

They are not being squeezed from each side, not in the same way by far. The second thing I wanna talk about when it comes to that is I think it would be more effective of a message to talk about services rather than staff. When it comes to budget cuts like that, you can't say the things you would need to say about staff because that's personal information. Right? You you can't share that. But it's also so the message is not as compelling. It's of, oh my gosh. That was super fast.

I had two more things.

Okay. It goes super quick, but we'd be happy to grab your other two items via email. Okay.

Thank you.

And we we definitely read them. So thank you for joining us. Thanks. Hey, David. We called you before you walked in, but happy to have you join us.

Good

evening, counselors. For the record, my name is David Kearns. I am a Beaverton, Beaverton resident. Am going to keep my statement short today. ICE and Border Patrol agents continue to operate in Beaverton with zero regard for the inalienable human rights of our community.

I would like us to start considering out of the box solutions on how to deal with these. We have all This is a state of emergency that we have all that you have all collectively declared here. These are, as each one of you have said, individually unprecedented times and I believe that it is time for some unprecedented solutions. I intend to meet with each one of you to talk about how we might go about some of these solutions and what levers of control that are possibly less obvious we might have at our disposal that we that are a little difficult to see at the moment. Thank you.

That is everything.

Thank you, David. I know you come to a lot of our meetings, so I appreciate you taking some time

to share with us today.

Thank you. Catch my breath now. Alright. We are on to our first presentation of the evening, Agenda Bill 26,035, Impact Beaverton Program Update. Looks like we got a few of you. So, Mike, please introduce your friends, and we will turn it over to you.

Okay. Mayor Beatty and members of council, for the record, my name is Mike Williams, and I'm the Economic Development Manager for the City of Beaverton. This is the third and last of a series of presentations from our economic development partners. Impact Beaverton fits strategically in our broader economic development program as a supporter of our small and emerging local sector businesses. These are the businesses that make Beaverton such a great place to live and work and provide goods and services to our residents and our visitors.

Our ask of Impact Beaverton over the years has been fairly straightforward, with an emphasis on providing technical support, outreach and engagement, and partnerships with the greater ecosystem of small business providers. Impact has also been a great partner of ours in many of our strategies and initiatives over the years, including restaurant strategy, emergency business assistance during the pandemic, and the child care strategy. More recently, IMPACT should be commended for they've taken a real leadership role in assessing and mitigating some of the impacts of immigration enforcement on our businesses. So from here, I'm pleased to introduce Christian Arroyo, Outreach Coordinator and Advisor for IMPACT Beaverton. Thank you, Mike.

Hello, Mayor Beatty, City Council. My name is Christian Arroyo with the Beaverton Area Chamber Of Commerce. I'm the Outreach Coordinator Advisor. And today, I'd like to share to you to share the real impact we're seeing through Impact Beaverton. This program is more than just technical assistance.

It's about creating real pathways for entrepreneurs in our community. Our goal is very simple, meet business owners where they are, help them move forward with confidence. Impact Beaverton established in 2015 by the City of Beaverton as a resource hub for new, micro and small for profit businesses. The first two years of a business are very crucial for it to know if it's going to succeed or close its doors. Our mission is to help business start strong, keyword, start strong, stabilize their operations, and ultimately grow and succeed in Beaverton.

Our work is very hands on, relationship driven. We provide one on one technical assistance tailored to each business owner's needs because we know that not every business has the same blueprint. This includes support with business plans, strategy, and the next steps. So when an entrepreneur comes to the Impact Beaverton office, we help them by understanding what they want to start, what they have in mind, what are their goals, and we create metrics. These metrics are utilized for them to go out into the field, come back to us within one month, two months, three months, so we can create a line.

And if we need to pivot the business, we will. Every business is different. Our approach is customized and practical for the business entrepreneur. Over the past years, we have delivered workshops covering key topics like branding, finance, marketing, and business administration. We reached a 167 workshop attendees throughout these efforts.

But beyond the numbers, what matters most is the direct engagement we maintain with the local entrepreneurs. Because we understand that the entrepreneur can't come into the Bureaus Area Chamber of Commerce office, so we decided to offer these hybrid for anyone to attend. We have entrepreneurs, small business owners, and the individual that has an idea but doesn't know where to begin. We continue to show up constantly at different networking events and community gatherings, such as the Washington County Small Business Support Network, where we can come together with different organizations to offer the same programs we offer and work side by side. The work that Impact Beaverton is doing is producing real results in our community.

We supported 36 new businesses this year to either open or formally register with the State of Oregon, IRS and the City Of Beaverton. The industries that we have served include construction, cleaning, food trucks, service businesses, but most importantly, day care. We understand that there is a lot of at home day care businesses here in Beaverton and they're great at doing at taking care of kids, providing them the right skills. What they're not so great at is administrating their business, which is why we partnered up with Community Action, where we offer Business one on one workshops every year to the new day care providers. As someone who has worked closely with the small business entrepreneur, I see firsthand how critical this type of support really is.

Our partnership with the city is a key strength in this program. We assist business owners with the building improvement applications to help them navigate open opening the process. Dave Snyder and I walked down Allen several times to meet with the different business owners and let them know what kind of incentives or opportunities there is in their community. When the business owner is ready, they come to the Impact Beerton office, and we help them get all the application documentation properly done so we can submit to the city. One thing that really sets Impact Beeberton apart is that we are boots on the ground approach.

We've been actively canvassing along Allen Boulevard alongside city staff, Dan Turk, Jose Casares. Through these conversations, we've gathered direct feedback from the business owners and the residents. We've identified that a lot of, residents and business owners would like to have improvement lighting on Allen. However, this type of direct engagement with the business owner and resident, knowing that it comes from Impact Everton, they feel more comfortable talking to us than it is with the city. We recognize that businesses along Allen, Unincorporated Washington County, Cedar Hills have reduced foot traffic due to ongoing federal agents and social challenges.

In response, we have collaborated with the City of Beaverton, the Beaverton Area Chamber of Commerce, to produce spotlight videos on our Latino businesses. Those videos have reached more than 20,000 views, not just here in Beaverton, but we've seen them in Salem, Waterbury, Hillsboro, all throughout Oregon. They are posted on our social media, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube. And as a result of these videos, we've had Alanto Mujeres, an organization that we work with, help financially, one of our featured business owners. Looking ahead, we're focused on scaling Impact Beaverton.

We plan to double the number of workshops that we offer to continue strengthening the relationships with our organizations like Washington County Small Business Support Network, Centro Cultural, Island Tung Heredes and Community Action. We want to expand our network and outreach efforts by being at more tabling events, serve a broader Beaverton community. The demand is there. We just have to build an ecosystem that supports the continued growth. Thank you for your continued support with Impact Beaverton and the small business support and the small business community.

Together, we're helping entrepreneurs start stronger and grow faster here in Beaverton. I'm happy to answer any of your questions, and I appreciate your time. Thank you.

All right. Thank you for joining us. We've been excited to have you come and chat with us for a long time. And I think for those that don't know, Impact Beaverton was also one of the reasons that our numbers looked the way that it did during COVID. We really pushed Mike and his team to think about what businesses don't typically have a seat at the table, how can we get some of this funding that's coming from the federal government into the businesses that need it.

And, in fact, Beaverton played such a pivotal role in in the city's success. And, honestly, we brag about those statistics all the time. And we do know sometimes government isn't the right tool to get things done, it requires partnership with other people. And this partnership with the chamber is one that I think just speaks volumes of the work that we do together. I know that economic development is all of a sudden, like, super sexy to people, like, at other levels of government, but

Safe for me.

It's something the city of Beaverton has been quietly doing for some time. I mean, I think people ask me all the time, like, what's Beaverton's success? Like, there's some, like, magic thing that we do, but it's really just the boots on the ground, the canvassing door to door. We did that during COVID as well and just staying on top of relationships. I mean, when Kevin was the ED of our downtown association, it was the same, like, going and talking to people where they are. We forget that business owners are busy. Mhmm. They put their life savings and everything on the line to do something. We can't expect that they're following city council meetings. They understand how grants work, how to get the money in the door.

So just thank you for the work that you do on behalf of the city. And as a true mayor, I take credit for your work in every social event. So thank you. Councilor Hartmeyer Prigg.

That was really lovely. Thank you. So I won't go on too much, but thank you for coming and presenting with us tonight, and it's really cool to have this round out the program around these presentations. But also just thank you so much for being like that lifeline to especially, our neighbors on Allen right now, and finding ways to connect them greater into the community. Right? And let let the rest of Beaverton know your neighbors and your local businesses need you right now. And so thank you for doing that because think that that is just truly meaningful in a way that we could show up while our Latino community is being affected by immigration. And and we know there's just so much profiling happening. And so for someone to come in and say, I see you as a business, and I'm here to help you. I just thank you for doing that.

Council President.

Thank you for this. Your boss came up and asked us to be mean to you, but I insisted that we were not gonna do that. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. She actually said to be really nice to Number one, great presentation. Thank you for you nailed it. I remember when I first ran for office, I was prepping for my chamber interview. Right? And I remember reading about Impact, and I thought, what a cool program. Right? Like, economic gardening and learning about, like, how we grow business here in Beaverton. And over the years of getting to know it, I'm actually even more proud today because I've seen behind the curtains. I see what you guys do, and you're you're still making us proud. You're still doing this hard work. Right?

Like, it's so easy to just sit and kinda rest on the stuff that we've done for years on a really cool foundation. You can do that. You guys aren't. You're still growing this. I I live a few blocks from Allen. I I see the work. I know how hard it is for those businesses right now, and I know how important what you're doing is. We've tried to spend money on Allen lately. Right? Like those businesses are struggling. I've talked about it here. Right? Like go to Allen if you can. Right? Like those businesses need great job, great presentation, even though your boss, you know, she said what she said. But but just good job tonight. And and and more importantly, good work on this program. This is a critical part of our story here in Beaverton. Thank you.

Thank

you. Councilor Hudson.

Yeah. Christian, Mike, just want to give kudos. I loved hearing when you said just walking around. I think I've actually potentially seen you a couple of times walking around, so just connecting with the businesses. So thanks for the work that you're doing, and then just urge us to keep thinking about retention of businesses too, I think, especially as we start to see what the next few months and years look like, making sure we're doing everything we can to keep businesses here as well. So thanks for all you're doing.

Councilor Teeter.

Thank you here. I am excited or happy to see and hear about the positive impact that impact is able to make on the community, especially the community that's so heavily affected by immigration enforcement these days. People are often asking the city to do more, and I get it. I feel that too. And I'm very happy to see people like you and your team and Mike's team doing more, oftentimes behind the scenes without much publicity and recognition.

And so I think I'd wanna call attention to that, that we have some really good people on the ground stopping door to door to businesses and people who are really, really struggling these days and connecting them with resources that actually make a meaningful difference. And it is work that that is so so badly needed here in the city. So thank you for doing that and for partnering with the city and all of our great community partners who are working alongside us.

Thank you.

Councilor Kimmy.

Yeah. Thank you for coming in. I just want to say thank you to the chamber and you, especially doing all this work, legwork, boots on the ground. It takes, as I said to PDA last week or last time they were here, you need to connect with the local businesses and they're too busy. They'll be hard to follow-up with emails or sign up with anything, so you need somebody to visit in their visit their businesses to build relationships so then they feel comfortable with you.

And I think it's essential. And I think our city council, I wasn't here back then when we started the impact be written, but recognize that we need people to be engaging businesses. So I think you're doing wonderful work, especially this era, you know, with the federal enforcements, people are hesitant to shop, walk around. I wanna do whatever we can to support and people feel safe to shop, just engage us more. And we don't know how much we could do, but least we should be aware of what's going on.

So when we when the opportunity comes, then we can take action. I'll be interested to hear more about discuss more about how can we put more lights on Allen Boulevard. I mean, after work, I drive through Allen to go to Murray, and it's really dark. I could you know, it's unsafe too, especially when it rains. So I'd to discuss more about putting more lights there to make people feel safer. Thank you so much for coming in.

We could do anything with money, counselor Kimmy, so just be prepared. Counselor Tivnan.

Thanks. I echo everything that my fellow counselors said, and also just the the two biggest takeaways for me during your presentation was that focus on the fact that what you're doing is helping the entrepreneurs that are facing barriers to traditional support. That bullet in particular just struck me that we've we've got an excellent chamber here. We've got an excellent economic development team with the city. But I think we take it for granted sometimes because we're here in these meetings and because we see the work so closely that everyone immediately understands how to access and utilize the resources.

And especially for folks that it might be intimidated by it or might have other barriers, this kind of hands on approach is just it's it's so meaningful. And to hear that through that work of walking the streets and talking to the business owners and hearing directly from them, on Allen And Cedar Hills Boulevard, to hear that those spotlights resulted in that kind of response on social media and especially the story about the one particular business owner getting that financial support that they needed is just it's it's inspiring at a time we think we need that. So thank you for coming in tonight and giving us this presentation and for the work that you're doing and playing such a critical role in helping us make this a city where all all sorts of businesses can thrive.

Thank you.

Awesome. Thank you for joining us this evening, bringing us good information. So, all right, you're excused.

Thanks.

You didn't even have to talk, Mike. That was great. Right, no pressure, city manager report.

Yeah, don't know if I can beat that one. While we're waiting for the slides up, I just want to also acknowledge, Jessica and Alexis who's here Alexis, excuse me that are filling in for Sue. So thank you so much for your help this evening. All right. If we can move to the next slide, I just have four brief announcements.

The first is, as you know, counsel, we've been going out, to the community talking about our fiscal health and our road to recovery. Our last fiscal sustainability forum is scheduled for Thursday, February 19 from 06:30 to 07:30. It'll be at Conestoga Recreation Center on Southwest 125th Avenue. Next slide. Building in Beaverton takes many shapes, everything from small home improvements to major commercial developments.

And whatever you are planning, we're here to help you navigate your improvements and requirements that you want to get your project done. So under the building excuse me, under the Building in Beaverton umbrella, you're going to find land use planning, site development, engineering, and building services. And these teams provide a comprehensive development support, including pre application meetings, application review, entitlements, permitting, plan review, and inspections. So if you're planning a project, we're here to help. If you check out the website backslash Beaverton or building in Beaverton, we can find you all the information that you need to plan your project.

Next slide. So if you need help resolving a conflict, the Center for Mediation and Dialogue offers free confidential mediation for Beaverton and Washington County residents East of 105th 185th Avenue. So whether it's with a neighbor or a landlord or a coworker or within your own community, we're here to help. The Center for Mediation and Dialogue recently received a state grant to lodge restorative justice justice adult diversion program within our Beaverton Municipal Court. And if you're not familiar with what this means, this program will give eligible participants a chance to join community dialogue with representatives and or victims to discuss what happened, who was affected, and how to make things right.

Restorative justice brings together those that are harmed and those who caused harm to create meaningful accountability and repair. Visit our website for more information. And the last slide. Finally, to make sure we want you not to miss our twenty twenty six State of the City, to hear annual updates about the city initiatives and priorities as we celebrate our community, our progress, and our future. This year's event is March 2 from six to eight at the Patricia Research Center for the Arts.

The event starts at 06:00 with a free dessert reception and networking. And at 7PM, you can join mayor Beatty, in the Research Auditorium for the State of the City presentation. Presentation. Just a reminder, this is a free in person event, but tickets are limited and they go fast. They're, on a first come, first served basis, so grab yours at www.thereeser.org. Thank you.

Alright. Council president, consent, please.

I move that we approve the consent agenda as presented.

Second. Been moved and seconded by councilor Kimmy. Any discussion on tonight's consent? I do want to point out councilor Kimmy that the karaoke box located at 9955 Southwest Beaverton Hillsdale Highway is getting an alcohol permit tonight. And so I expect to see you there tomorrow and every Wednesday the rest of this. I'm surprised you didn't make a comment, I just want to help you out on that. I am also really excited to see the build grant application moving forward tonight's in agenda item. There's a lot going on in the city these days. Alright. Will the recorder please call the roll?

Yes, Mayor. Councilor Duggar? Yes. Councilor Hartmeier Prague?

Yes.

Councilor Hassan? Yes. Councilor Kimmy? Councilor Teeter? Yes. Councilor Tivnan?

Yes. Mayor Beatty?

Yes. I also wanna point out, thanks for the question on this, councilor Hartmeier Prigg, that tonight is the last night we will see approval for alcohol rich on the liquor licenses on the consent going forward as part of our streamlining move in our city government and making sure that the city managers team does the right work, we're gonna not be having these on here anymore since they go through so many approvals already. So this is the last time we'll know about exciting new places to hang out in Beaverton. So we will need the city manager to tell us, though, when good things are happening because this is the way that the council often sees new businesses and business license and liquor license. So maybe between you and I know that the chamber often looks at this as other cool places to hang out.

So maybe maybe a quarterly report to the council would be helpful for us in making sure that we don't miss some of these great businesses that are opening. Alright. We are now on to our action item agenda bill 26,043, a resolution adopting the the 02/2035 Beaverton climate action plan and repealing resolution four six one zero. It does look like we got the climate dudes here to talk to us this evening. I know, Scott, that you typically take fifty minutes every time you sit at that mic. So if we could, have it, like, a little bit shorter today, we'd appreciate it.

Thank you, Mayor. For the record, I'm Scott Keller, senior program manager for Sustainability and Recycling. And Kevin is going to introduce the topic for us tonight, and

we will keep it brief. Good evening, everyone. Yeah. We're back with the culmination of our Climate Action Plan update project. We won't be walking through the entire plan tonight, but we will be doing a quick recap of how we got here, some highlights of what's new, and some of the next steps.

So next slide, please. Okay. This is the timeline that we've been working with, and this tracks with the interactions that we've had with all of you with the over the past eighteen months. We've been here to talk to you about greenhouse gas inventories. We've been here to talk to you about future conditions in the community and climate risks and expected impacts, about our engagement with implementation partners in the community, and how that led to objectives and strategies that are now shown in the plan, and then how all of that will be measured.

So tonight, is the consolidated product of those efforts in the plan that you've all received. So this graphic here, this tries to sum up how the plan was developed. I think we've said the last time we were here maybe that, you know, this plan is not just a bunch of good ideas that Scott and Kevin and other people had on the way to work. It's the result of a lot of things that went into it, including over a year's worth of engagement with the community, with partners, and with staff that included, you know, workshops, surveys, one on one conversations, focus groups, tabling events, a community open house, monthly discussions with the Climate Action Task Force, several visits to you all, and general outreach to the city's communications channels. We took all of what we learned from those processes and combined them with the greenhouse gas inventories that were conducted and with the future conditions study, as well as all of the learnings to date at the city, over the past five years of implementing the current climate action plan, along with learnings from regional partners like other peer cities that surround us.

So all of that informed the middle column, which is the result, which is six focus areas and their associated objectives, strategies, and activities organized in a, measurable hierarchy. All of that then, in turn, reflects what we heard was needed and desired from the community while still working towards the city's goals. So those goals are to reduce emissions and prepare for the impacts of climate change. That's pretty much the simple answer of what this plan is intended to do. It outlines what is needed to reduce emissions and to prepare for the impacts of climate change.

The plan's narrative outlines the background and rationale of the objectives and the strategies that it includes so as to help it stand the test of time. It quantifies greenhouse gas reductions to show scalable impact, and it highlights co benefits, at the objective level, including, but not limited to, improved public health, cost savings, and building stronger communities. It's also worth noting that even though this, this new document is about a 100 pages long, its scope is not the entirety of the environment. It is concerned with the most impactful ways which the city has to influence the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and preparing for the impacts of climate change. And finally, we also want to point out that it is purposefully not overly prescriptive, and this allows us to avoid defaulting to a checklist of items and instead allows flexibility for activities to contribute to impactful measurable goals.

So I just quickly want to touch on a bit of what is new. I'm going to just run through these six things here, so we can go to the next one. First up is organizational capacity. This is the opening section of the plan for a reason, and that's because it's pretty much the foundation to all of this work. In it, it highlights the need to account for true total costs and building them into the decision making process as a prerequisite to demonstrating measurable progress.

This section is geared towards enabling climate action to succeed at the city rather than, you know, having a plan that sits on a shelf somewhere. Next is the plan's focus on actions that are within the city's range of influence throughout all of the focus areas. That doesn't mean unilateral city control or responsibility to implement. This is still a community plan that requires participation, of both those in this building and actors within the community. The city's role is listed at the strategy level in the plan and ranges from regulating and setting policy to enabling and supporting action.

Next slide. These two items work together. They are the plan's improved structure. Can we go to next slide, please? Thank you.

These are, the plan's improved structure and metrics. So the structure of the plan has been streamlined into 12 measurable objectives, down from 86 individual actions. There are also targets for each objective that have been set, along with indicators that can be used to determine progress. The structure and format of the plan allow it to serve as a reference document for the source and development of other additional materials. Slide.

The plan also includes attention to where strategies and other efforts or funding opportunities taking place, at the state and federal levels as well as regional and local efforts where those exist. And speaking of money, cost. This plan does not price every strategy within it. Part of the reason for that is the plan's ten year time frame and its flexible design. It is designed to be a strategic framework and not a detailed implementation budget.

Its purpose is to set vision is to set the vision, goals, and priorities for climate action over the next decade and not to assign costs to every individual action. What the plan does do is calculate costs community costs avoided as a result of taking action. So that way, we can see the economic value of acting rather than deferring or avoiding and eventually bearing those costs in other ways down the line. Next slide. So now, the real work begins or continues.

We will use this plan to create public facing resources, including a digital dashboard to interact with the plan and to track and report its progress. We plan to work with departmental leadership on the development of two year work plans and how the work plan process will align with the budget because if this work isn't funded and broadly championed from within, then we will continue to scrape and continue to piecemeal and probably continue to fall short. And finally, while I like to think that a lot of this work has already begun as part of this process, now the work of culture and process shift begins in earnest. When the city when when work at the city occurs on all levels, we need a championing. We need, like, those thousand tiny little pushes at every point in a project to begin asking or to continue asking the questions of how does this project affect the climate and how does a changing climate affect this project or this work.

So finally tonight, I would just like to say thank you to everyone that's been involved. I can't name everyone, but, you know, all of the staff, all of the community partners, all of the community members, to you all for all of the attention that you've given us in this project, and to the members of the Climate Action Task Force who have been engaged in this project since before we even started it 18 ago. So to everyone who showed up in this process and let us know what we could do better, and what it is that they wanted to see, we are incredibly thankful, and we feel as though it has helped make this plan all the stronger. So thank you, and we look forward to continuing to working together to reach the goals of the plan.

Okay. It's a reminder that this is

an action item that we'll be voting on. So go ahead, counselor.

Thank you. Thank you, Scott and Kevin. I just have a couple comments. I don't I think I do have one question about, one of the high like, the what the highest contributor contributor was around food production. Is that, like, the actual growing of food or, like, also, like, preparing food and, like, restaurant and, like, home, like, use of food?

The the highest contributor in the greenhouse gas inventory for food production is about the production and all of, like, the inputs that go into growing food. And so it's one of the imported emissions because most of that happens outside of the city of Butte.

Okay. Thank you. Okay. So just a couple comments. I really love the top line of we're trying to reduce emissions and prepare for impacts of climate change because I think it just brings a really amazing focus to the plan, and it makes it so clear what we're trying to achieve.

And I really, really love, and I see there's some members of our climate action task force in the audience who have definitely you can see their input on this, but one of my favorite ones in there is around the measures and strategies being built into all city projects. I know that was something years ago working on a rubric and trying to figure out how we could get it done and so to see it, like, coming into the new plan as, like, a core tenant is really, really cool. And then the last thing I'll call out that I was grateful to see in here is, like, the long term funding model. I think that while, we had some investment in climate programs from the Biden administration, we saw that quickly shift and change, and so any investments we could make or any programs were temporary. Right?

But climate change is not temporary, and it's going to need long term and permanent funding for us to do our part as a city. So I really like that call to action in the plan that we will work to find a long term funding model for these programs. So minor just comments, and I'm just really grateful because I think that while it's still long, it's a lot more actionable than the last model. And I I just having it tied around measures and strategies, I think, is really, really strong.

Councilor Dibnan.

Just a general comment here. Going back to when I was considering even running for this seat and feeling very intimidated by that, one of the things that I felt was absolutely necessary, and I would encourage anyone running for office to do it, is downloading and reading every single plan that the city currently had on the books. It was a lot. And I gained a lot of insight of from all of them, but the climate action plan was the one that I just was frustrated by because it was 86 ideas, and that's basically it. There was no real plan in it.

It was just ideas. Some of them wholly ambitious, some of them that seemed like they and themselves needed a plan. And so the work didn't seem done to me. And I I over the last five years, seeing how that came together, seeing all of the effort that's gone into this, the outreach that's gone into this, the task force that was stood up for it, all the staff time, and the resulting plan is a real plan. It it's it's just, a wonderful night to see this come to a place where we can actually start doing something about it. So I just wanna say a big thank you, just like your last slide, to all of the hands that touched this to get it to where it is today.

Councilor Hudson.

Yeah. So shout out Kevin, Scott, and the Climate Action Task Force members behind you that I cannot see from this view. I'm sorry I couldn't be there. But if you can remember, I think it was 2021 when the climate action task force was actually formed. It was one of our first, items that we started, when we were all a couple of us that are still here were elected.

And so, I was just doing the math, like, five years later, and it's a reminder that these things can take time. And I know that there's been moments when we've felt that we haven't been moving fast enough on this, because climate just feels so real, and I'm just really excited. I know that all of our hands have so closely touched this, and I'm excited that we've been able to be a part of it. So just special thanks particularly to our climate action task force volunteers who, just by the goodness of their hearts, have decided to give us these last four to five years to to get this closer. And, of course, Kevin and Scott, thank you as well.

Council president.

Thanks, guys, for this. This is I'm not gonna echo everything, but I I completely agree with my colleagues have said. This is definitely the right plan and the right framework and the right structure for us to be successful. The old plan felt it it was cool. Like, as a nerd and as a climate like like, nerd myself, my degree is in environmental science. It was but it it was cool to read, but it was a gram bag. It wasn't a strategy. It wasn't the right thing. So this feels deeply personal. It feels like the right thing for this this government to institute.

It feels like the right flexibility for us. You know, I was looking the other day when I when I ran and won my seat in 2022, we were at 417 parts per million of carbon. Today, we're at 429, just in under four years. Every part per million is 7,800,000,000 tons of c o two in the atmosphere. So now we are just another three and a half years that I've been on this council, we have we have dumped 94,000,000,000 tons into the atmosphere.

Like, we have to get serious about this. And we and I know Beaverton cannot solve this ourselves. It's not something we can do, but we can we can damn make sure we do our part. And we can set an example for other governments and other organizations and institutions, and you guys have given us the right plan now. So I just wanna thank you for the work. Thank you for taking it so seriously. The community engagement part was incredibly important. I'm incredibly proud of that too. I'm not gonna say there's an opportunity here because they will laugh at me, but I do think there's an opportunity here for inside joke. But but I do think there really is something special here for us if we really take this seriously and begin to work on it. So I I just commend you for the work and I'm excited. Thank you.

There is an opportunity and we also noted how many times that you're gonna say when I ran for office.

It does.

Counselor Teeter. Not true. We don't have a treat.

Thank you guys for for coming to present to us and working on all of this and to our community volunteers and other staff members who have done the great work. This is a very exciting plan that I think will have a lot of really great meaningful action we can take to both reduce our our climate impact and mitigate some of the harmful impacts that community members feel when there are heat waves and natural weather disasters that really hurt people. So I think there's a lot of good work in here that we should be very proud of and we will be proud of as we keep going forward. Beaverton is only also only one part of this, so I appreciate the data that shows, like, the impact that we can have locally and the impact that our state and our federal government and the broader communities need to have as well. For me, I often think globally about climate change, but also we can only control what we control locally.

And so we are doing really good work here and that needs to be celebrated. I am also very excited about the online dashboard. I think that'll help hold us accountable as a city where the community can easily look at the actions we are taking, the metrics we've put out for, like, how we're wanting to measure project progress, And they'll be able to say, hey. You're either you either need to step it up and do more or that we would be able to celebrate the wins that we've gotten. I'm hoping we can celebrate a lot of those good wins together. So I do think this is a great step forward, and I'm excited to keep keep doing the good work with it.

Councilor Kimmy. I just want to say thank you, both of you, and the Climate Action Task Force. I was a council liaison for a year. It was just such an intimidating group to be with. I felt so dumb during the during the committee meetings.

I was so uneducated about climate, but you guys helped me a lot to get a bring me along to the journey, and it's just great to see the actual plan coming together. We're voting on it tonight to put it into action. Thank you for educating me and be patient with me. And I learned a lot. One thing I noticed when I went to Nepal on the medical trip mission trips, they don't have trash cans because they use everything organic and everything's recycled and they use it long time.

And, we are the ones who bring all the trash with us and we end up burning everything because we have nowhere to throw them away. Right? So, I learned a lot. We have to reuse, recycle, not just temporary. Right? So thank you for bringing the bring this to us. I'm excited to vote on it. Thank you.

I I agree that this plan is super awesome, but I also want to acknowledge when the past plan was created with an administration that typically and I mean local administration that didn't want a climate action task force that really didn't want a plan. The council, we really drove the mayor to do it. But this council has expanded the FTE. We've prioritized this and how we're doing it. We've moved past the idea that recycling is just reduce, re reuse, recycle.

You know, we were the first in the county to adopt, you know, composting. We were we have a hydropower plant that does things. Like, we we are doing really cool climate work. It just often is not translated. And I think one of the issues we're always struggling with as a city is communication. What does that mean to people? Purple pipe, underground ASR wells, the work we're doing in water. You know, we push the county to do more in the recycling program. Like, we have done really good climate work. We, you know, not too many people know that the parking garage over there, we forced the design to have conduit so we could upscale it later to have all charging the entire thing.

We didn't do it from the jump because it was the cost, but we built with the idea of future proofing it in mind. So we've done quite a bit of work, but I still you know, as the mayor now for five years, still no tree code. Still some of these low hanging fruits that are really feel low hanging fruit to me. So I'm hoping that, you know, the council, we could get some of this this work done because every time we cut the best source of carbon mitigation down, when we cut historic trees, we're just there's not too much we can do to replace it. The amount of remediation we have to do is astronomical.

And I do wanna thank the Climate Action Task Force. It was really important to me as the mayor that, you know, half the membership was under the age of 30, that we had renters, that we had people that rode bikes to work, that it was diverse, that the people making the decisions about our future's climate are contributing with us. We're the ones most impacted by it. And so sometimes we go slow, and that is really hard. I probably should have told that to everyone I interviewed that you're gonna be in this for five years, and it's not gonna be immediate change. But their voices matter, and it it shows through in this plan. So thank you for including them in this work and what we're doing and excited to adopt this plan this evening. With that, council president.

Thank you, mayor. I move that the council adopt resolution number forty nine forty five, a resolution adopting the twenty thirty twenty thirty five Beaverton climate action plan and repealing resolution forty six ten.

Second.

It's been moved by council president and second by councilor Prigg. Is there any discussion on

the motion? Seeing none, will

the recorder call the roll?

Yes, mayor. Excuse me. Councilor Duggar?

Yes.

Councilor Hartmeier Prigg?

Yes.

Councilor Hassan? Yes. Councilor Kimmy? Yes. Councilor Teeter?

Yes.

Councilor Tivadon?

Yes. Mayor Beatty?

Yes. Motion passes. Seven zero.

Thank you,

counselors. Thank you. All right. It was a good it was a good one. We don't we don't get a lot of good ones. I know. Yeah. What are we gonna do when you're not here, like, clapping for us? You force us to take a moment.

Don't you feel like you should take a photo?

They're like, bye. They got work to do. Thanks.

Metrics to measure.

Metrics to measure. Dashboards to put up. Okay. First readings. Where can I find them in here?

Okay. Agenda bill two six zero four four, ordinance number to be announced related to the liquor license renewal processing, amending Beaver code chapter five point o two, and agenda bill two six zero five four five ordinance amending the comprehensive plan ordinance number two zero five two, the Beaverton development code. The next item on the agenda is the reading of these two ordinance. On 03/03/2026, during a regularly scheduled city council meeting, a public hearing will be held regarding an ordinance related to the liquor license review process and amending Beaverton code chapter five point o two. Also on 03/03/2026, during the regularly scheduled city council meeting, a public hearing that will be held regarding an ordinance amending the comp plan and ordinance number two zero five o, the Beaverton development code l u four two zero two five dash zero zero six zero eight, designing walkable places project comprehensive plan amendment c p t a four two zero two five dash zero zero six one five, and text amendment TA four two zero two five Dash zero zero six zero seven.

And if anyone is upset that we have to read these like this, you should send an email to past councilor Sansouci that demanded to put this into the charter this way when nobody else in the world does it this way. So elections matter. We are on to the council items this evening, and I do have one to start. I would like to first acknowledge that the city manager sent the city council her official notice that she will be taking a job at the helm of the city of Eugene. And while not required that we accept her resignation, I tried earlier today to talk her out of it and she said she was going.

So with that, I would like us to create a subcommittee to do a couple things. One, to work on the long term work of hiring the city manager, picking the firm, going over the job description because it has been almost six years since it was developed and working through what that would look like. I'd also like the subcommittee to meet and put forward a recommendation to the city council for an interim city manager to get the work moving quickly because six weeks is gonna go like this, and we have to get the work going quickly. I would like that subcommittee. I put a lot of thought that John and councilor Teeter and I could do that work and with the goal of bringing to the council on March 1, a recommendation of an interim city manager and kind of working on the plan after that.

City attorney, am I missing anything?

No, mayor. Not from my perspective.

Okay. Know last time we created a subcommittee, there was confusion on what they were gonna do. So I wanna be clear that this subcommittee will work to make a recommendation and then stay on after the recommendation to work through the process. And we're not new to this. We just did it with Scott's position not too long ago, and we did it with the judge.

So while this is the second time the city will be undertaking a city manager hiring, it's gonna be really important and it's gonna take a while. If you remember how long it took with the city attorney, it takes a long time to get a firm on, get everything going. Now, obviously the council will make the final decision both in the recommendation of that person and moving forward. This way the work can be done in between the meeting similar to what we have working on other subcommittees. Councilor Hartmeyer Prigg.

So we do have to accept the resignation? Just just checking. Well, we'll embarrass Jenny later, and I do appreciate that things will go quickly. So and I we don't meet at the very March, I think, because of spring break and things like that. So I think we'll only actually have a couple more council meetings together.

But my I have a clarifying question because one of the things when we were going through the city attorney search, we had thought we had delegated enough responsibility to our subcommittee and we could not have or maybe we didn't direct enough. So I, I guess I'm I wanna clarify with your intention of like, so the recommendation for the interim, I understand. And then would the objective for the long term be that you would be the subcommittee that's, like, reviewing the items, but you're not the interview panel. The interview panel would be all of us still?

Correct. The interview panel would be all all of us. Okay. And it would also include staff. And I know I think you participated even though you weren't sworn in, and counselor Husson also participated. But we there is multiple panels involved in hiring a city manager in public hearing and staff in the union. Like, there is zero chance that the subcommittee of three is gonna be like, boom. Here's our city manager.

Yep. Yeah. And I I didn't get to go through that experience before. So thank you for the clarification because I definitely I mean, I think it's a really important decision. I also appreciate having a subcommittee to maybe quicken some parts of the process because we know how hard it is to schedule all of us.

Was there a third piece of it, or was it just those two? The interim and the long term? Was that Process. Oh, in process. Okay.

And some of that's dictated by past precedents, and so we have

Like guidance to

go from. Yep. And Okay. And we've have how we did it with the judge and the attorney. And so what we would also do in the subcommittee, we would have Kirsten, the labor attorney, sit in in all those meetings just to make sure that we're following the law and what we're doing, and it it also she's if you remember from Scott's interview in the like, she was in all of those interviews too. Often with camera off, but that's for the legal protection.

Okay. And I guess also counselors Teeter and Duggar, do you want to be on the subcommittee? Cool. Just making sure. Just being

the vice mayor and asking their permission? Or what?

I mean, you nominated them, but they didn't say if they actually wanted to do that.

True. It's true. Councilor Teeter.

Yes. I am more than willing to serve on the on the on this subcommittee. One of my bigger concerns about just the transition process here is wanting to move quickly. I was worried that if we wait until March to have a a deeper conversation as a council without setting up a subcommittee first, that we would be getting into April before even having a good good transition plan, and we don't have that sort of time. So I'm more than willing to prioritize this and make sure we've got time to be able to meet as a subcommittee so that when we get together again as a council in March, we can have a solid recommendation for you all, and we can talk through that together.

But then also to continue on supporting it support supporting the process so that our time is not wasted in areas where it doesn't need to be, but we can really leverage efficiency and and collaboration when we bring things back to the full council.

Councilor Tivnan?

Yeah. I just wanna throw out a a note of appreciation to the three of you because it's a lot of work, and and it's absolutely urgent that we get our heads wrapped around this. I also just wanna throw out a note of appreciation for the subcommittee approach to doing this, that there are certain things that council's got to get their heads wrapped around, and we can't do it in in public meetings with all of us present with everything else that we have going on in public meetings. So thank you to the three of you for taking on the lift, and y'all love process, and and y'all have feelings and thoughts and perspectives around this that I'm I really appreciate you putting putting towards it. So thank you.

Councilor Kimmy.

So we would get recommendation for interim at the next city council meeting?

Aiming for March 1. We have a meeting in between now and then, but I don't think we could move that quickly. And that meeting's a bureau meeting that we have in between now and then.

Oh, okay. I just wanna make sure.

Councilor Hudson.

Yeah. I just congratulations, Jenny. Very excited for you. Also, devastated for us. I'm sure staff is feeling all the feels, and I hope that you know that this council is prioritizing this process. It's clear that the mayor has identified a path forward. So thank you guys for taking on the subcommittee work to get us moving. I hope that we're able to move it. I want to be really honest. Hiring a city manager is a three to six month process.

So anyone who thinks it's gonna happen quickly, it will not. And as someone who served on the first subcommittee, really sitting down and thinking about what what we want to have in in this moment is gonna be really important. So thank you guys for stepping up, and congratulations, Jenny.

Okay. Any other counsel in business this evening? Seeing none, the meeting is adjourned.