City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening, Kennedy, and welcome to the September 16th, 2026 City Council meeting. If you would please rise for invocation and pledge of allegiance.

Thank you, Lord. I just want to thank you for all the blessings that you give upon our community. There's a lot going on in the world. I just pray your blessing and protection over everything that's going on in the world. We've got floods. We've got mills collapsing. We've got a lot of folks that are in harm's way. So I just pray that you put your protection around those in harm's way, including our men and women in service. Thank you again for all the blessings you give us. Amen.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

OK. Maya, can you do roll call, please? Thank you.

Okay, just a little housekeeping memo here. We have a request from staff to move an item on the agenda. We wanted to move the e-bike presentation that was 10A on the published agenda. We want to move it ahead of the public hearing. If that pleases me, counsel.

Madam Chair. I move that we amend the agenda by reordering item number 10, e-bike update, to item number four, citizen input and public comment, and shift all those other ones down to match. Second. All those in favor? Aye.

Okay, so be it. Staff introductions. Randy.

Thank you, Council President. We do have one introduction, and I don't know if Patrick there, here comes Patrick. We, I think, are fully staffed at the wastewater treatment plant right now.

Good morning, Council. We are very happy to be fully staffed at the wastewater plant, as Randy mentioned. This is our new maintenance technician. He's been doing great so far. doing everything we need, just taking on oil changes and everything that just is required of our maintenance at the plant. He's been wonderful. Marcus comes from Portland where he was last working as a lift station mechanic, so he was in the sewer industry already, so we were happy to get his knowledge in the industry and get him off and running at the treatment plant. So if you want to say anything about yourself.

Oh, there's a story here. Lived in Canby over 30 years. I was even a volunteer firefighter here for 16. So I've seen a lot of familiar faces here. Just glad to be working in town. Excellent. This is going to be fun.

Good to see you. Well, welcome to the team.

Thanks.

Is the other one here, Randy? Yes.

I'd like to thank Patrick and team for submitting a $1 million grant application yesterday for a $2 million project, so 50-50 match, and fingers crossed for our UB project. Okay.

Good job. Excellent. Good job, Patrick.

Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Yeah, just one. Okay.

All right, then we're going to move on to the e-bike presentation.

One quick thing, Madam Chair. Mayor, Council President, just a second, folks. One thing before you guys. I know we're anxious, but... Council, today in Seaside, the Oregon chapter of the American Planning Association met. So I'd like to call Don up, Jamie Stickle, Steve, our consultant. Cultivating Camby was recognized in front of their peers today. And they're going to tell you a little bit about it. It's been about a five-year journey, I understand.

So, Don, please share the good news. Good evening, Council President Hensley and Council Members. Thank you, Randy. Yes, we are at Oregon American Planning Association today. Steve Faust with 3J Consulting is our consultant. This is a three-year culmination recognition award for comprehensive plan, transportation system plan, and urban growth boundary. EXPANSION PROCESS. SO THAT WAS THIS AFTERNOON AT LUNCH. THAT WAS RECOGNIZED. AND JUST GRATEFUL FOR THE AWARD. AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S OTHER FOLKS THAT WERE OBVIOUSLY COMPETING FOR THAT RECOGNITION AS WELL, BUT JUST GLAD THAT WE WERE ABLE TO BE ACKNOWLEDGED FOR THAT. AND THAT CAN BE AS IN WHAT WE'VE DONE SO FAR. SO JUST, YOU KNOW, Thank you, Randy. It was basically thanks to Jamie Stickle and Ryan Potter in particular. There she is. On their end, Jamie. And just for their outreach and extensive community involvement with this. It's appreciated and with all the works 3J did on this as well. So that was it. Just keep it simple and short. Thank you.

Very good. Thank you.

If I may real quick.

I saw Brian's hand, but go ahead.

Oh, sorry.

Mr. Mayor, I see your hand up. Did you have something before the e-bike presentation? No? Okay. I saw your hand up, so.

I think it's the cursor mouse.

Well, it's not my mouse.

Is that your mouse, Maya?

Okay, never mind. There's a hand over your little square. It looked like you had your hand up. But we're having technical difficulty here. Never mind. Okay. Yes, Council Patten.

Yeah, so I just wanted to take a minute to commend some folks here. This award means a lot, and not just to the city, but I think the community as well. A lot of cities around us have been going through this comprehensive plan update. I started my involvement with it as a member of the planning commission and then as chair of the planning commission and now as a member of council and serving on several boards or several of the focus groups. But to Don and Jamie, the planning staff and other city staff, the members of the Planning Commission, us here up on the dais, but especially the community. There are a lot of communities that are in a way worse position with this process than we are today. They have gone off the rails. They are having to spend a lot of money to go back through it all over again. And I think we are all to be commended for the job that folks have done. Granted, there's been teeth gnashing and there has been a lot of passion behind this because it's a huge change for the city. But the way that this has been handled, the way that this community has gone through it will pay out in spades in 20 years as we start to enact this plan. And so I just want to thank everybody who's been a part of this. Thank you.

All right, thank you. Anybody else? Okay.

EBAC presentation. All right. Chief. Oh, I see Captain Murphy coming up from the back. Oh, and we have Jennifer with us, our superintendent of schools.

Yeah, I brought some backup tonight.

Brought some backup.

I didn't know what to expect. There's a lot of people to back me up tonight. So good evening, Mayor, Council President, members of the City Council. Obviously, we passed the ordinance back in August 5th this year. And I want to give you an overview of what we've done since then. I'm going to have tonight a couple of guests. I'm going to have Chief Mendoza as Happy Valley Chief. He's going to give a little perspective of his ordinance in Happy Valley. And the reason being he established the ordinance in late May. So it's one of the first cities in the Clackamas area that enacted their ordinance. And I want you to hear from him his successes and lessons learned because he and I were in communication same with Captain Murphy. And obviously we kind of talk to each other so we do the right thing for the right reasons and for the citizens that can be and obviously for Happy Valley. Also gonna have the school district superintendent, Jennifer Pan. She's a partner on this e-bike ordinance. She's helping us with our SROs to educate the kids and the parents and she's gonna give you a little perspective what she's doing with our SROs and so you can hear from her from that part of the e-bike ordinance perspective. Obviously, the e-bikes are popular and a lot of people are using it. We, like we told you, I checked with a lot of chief around the area, Clackamas County. I talked to Chief Rollins in Westland. They implemented, enacted their ordinance in July 9th. Since then, they're doing a lot of education and they have cited one person for evaluation there. Oregon City, they enacted theirs last month. And the only thing they've done thus far, the information that I got, is just warnings, educational, to their citizens. And obviously us, since we enacted on August 5th, we have established, we have cited one person. a parent for a kid riding an E-motorcycle, which is already illegal to have it on the road. Several calls were received that day. It was September 1st. Several kids riding E-bikes or E-motorcycles by the high school. Later on, it was on territorial in Redwood. Officers responded to the call. tried to stop the four, it was four kids riding e-bikes, e-motorcycles, and three of them took off. One of the kids were able to get caught, and obviously he was cited, or the parent was cited for the violation. They were riding wheelies in the middle of a territory road in Redwood. So it was an obvious violation, and we went ahead and go ahead and cite that person for it. But with that, we ran a couple missions. We had, when school started, I think it was August 31st, we ran a mission for while the school was opening to educate all the kids who were coming riding bikes to the school. And overall, the first week the school opened, August 31st, and later after Labor Day weekend, August 8th, we run another mission, another education perspective, sort of enforcement but education at the same time. And we got at least 70 to 80 warnings for kids and parents alike about e-bike and educate them about the e-bike ordinance that we have. With that said, obviously I established some partnership with the school district. Sergeant Murphy actually ran the ordinance and brought it to you together here. And also we're working with our acting Public Works, Spencer, he's been helping us out a lot with the signs. We haven't issued the signs yet in the logging road, but tonight he's going to present some signs that he and I and Captain Murphy worked together to put together. In the next couple of weeks, we're going to post those signage at the logging road. Once we get that, we're going to be doing some enforcement and education over there. And by that, we're going to send at least four officers, I think four officers, For officers to bicycle, in order to ride a police bike, we had to be certified to ride police bikes. So I went ahead and found a school in Beaverton. We're going to send four officers to do bike schooling. Once those officers are certified, we're going to run missions on the logging road, put in the speed trailer on the logging road, and make sure that people are following the rules and the ordinance and the area. So maybe in another month or so, we can maybe come up here and give you an update on that. With that, I'm going to have, if you don't mind, Chief Mendoza give you an update or a little synopsis of what Happy Valley did. So you can see the comparison between what we're doing and what they did and they're doing. So if you have any questions for the future, how this ordinance is going to be implemented, you can ask me and we can move forward with that. Okay? Thank you. Mendoza?

Thank you. Thank you for having me. I'm Chief Marcus Mendoza with the Happy Valley Police Department. I wanted to share with you, I do have a nexus to the city of Canby. I have three kids that are in, one in high school, one in middle school, and one in grade school here in Canby. And we live just outside of town. So we're in the Canby School District. I've been, for several years, I've been a basketball coach for youth here in Canby, and I'm on the basketball board with Canby Junior Basketball.

Hi.

So a lot of what we're dealing with with the e-bicycles and e-motorcycles are that youth and that 12 to 15-year age range. So I've got a few of those at home, and I'm familiar with them. So the city of Happy Valley was having the same problems that every other city I think in this area has been having with the explosion of e-bicycles and really e-motorcycles are our main concern. And we try to really approach this from a safety standpoint and an education standpoint. And so the city of Happy Valley did adopt an ordinance very similar to yours. As Chief explained, he and I have talked about this probably many times over the last year. The challenges that we were faced with in Happy Valley and the challenges that you had in Canby, very similar. I think that maybe some of the differences, we have had some very large ride-outs, street takeovers with 40 to 50 motorcycles taking over an entire roadway. which is a very difficult situation for law enforcement to handle. And a lot of this, I don't want to go over too much detail because I know you know a lot of this already, but really the state laws weren't keeping up with technology, and so we really needed a tool, this ordinance, to do something about the issues that we're having, the safety issues. I feel like we've really approached this from an education standpoint. Before the ordinance, it was all about education, about safety. Once the ordinance was adopted, I told our officers, I really want to hit on education. We were only citing people that we felt were dangerous or reckless or the blatant violations of the e-motorcycles. And to date, I believe our numbers were 12 citations basically from the end of May or really June until now, 12 citations and 86 warnings. We do have code enforcement that does some of these as well. So they wrote some other citations, but from the police department, there were only 12. Really happy with the work that our officers have done. And if we look at the graph, our complaints were shooting up, skyrocketing. Complaints either coming in email or through dispatch. And once we started the ordinance and started enforcement and education, I've seen a drop off over the summer before school started. I was very happy to see that. I'm hoping that it continues. But I think that for us it's going to be just a continuation of that consistent education and enforcement. And we're seeing a lot of compliance, a lot of compliance from not just the riders but also from the parents, which I'm happy to see. And then I think now what we're going to see into the future is kind of the – the few that are going to need more education and, unfortunately, citation because they know they're aware of the rules, aware of the ordinance, and they're just not following it.

Okay. Any questions for Chief Mendoza?

So over the time frame, once you established your ordinance, how much more of a workload do you feel like it's put on the officers? Obviously, having to keep more of an eye out and be more mindful of what's going on around with the kids on these bikes can sometimes be a little bit more daunting. Yeah.

Well, I mean, it's easy to say that, yes, it's an additional workload because it is something that they didn't have to address before, but these violations were still happening or they're now violations. So if I were to, I would say that, you know, 5% to 10% workload depending on how much time was devoted to that. One of the directions that I gave them is that we were going to respond to every complaint. I didn't want to clear one out even if it was 30 minutes old and we hadn't been there yet, we're still going to go to the area and check because we did have, we heard from our community that they wanted it dealt with and so that's something that we will respond to regardless of the time delay. Likely they won't be there, but we're still going to go try. So it does add to the workload but we're also seeing the crashes and the complaints coming in that we had to deal with. Thank you.

Just speaking on behalf, obviously crashes happens. We have one incident on August 16th. A 13-year-old kid riding a bicycle crashed, going the wrong way on the bicycle lane, but not following the rules, crashed into this car, rolled over the hood of the car, and was transported to the hospital. The kid's fine, but it could have been pretty serious. The officer at that time, we decided to give a warning. The parents were already distraught about their kid getting injured, and it felt like educational and a warning. It was sufficient. The parent told our officers the e-bike will disappear as soon as we get it back. So I think they learned their lesson. Obviously, we don't want people to get hurt or injured, but it obviously brings a lot of staffing levels that we had to put out on the street. For instance, I instructed my sergeants to do extra patrol. We get a lot of complaints on Territorial Road and some of the high schools. So I have an officer going there and patrol routinely. So it takes, sometimes we get calls, sometimes we don't get calls, but we want to be proactive in contacting those individuals so we can educate them. If they're acting negligent, we're ready to even issue a citation. Just wanted to be perfectly clear here. But that is our stand. Thank you.

Now I'm going to have... Councilor Stearns has a question. Go ahead, sir.

I have a question probably just as a reference for the entire community, maybe a proxy of that. I noticed since I walk to and from work a lot for a while, and ever since this ordinance was passed, I seem to notice it more because I'm aware of it. But if you do see people that are driving recklessly, like just today I... A guy on a wheelie, on a e-bicycle or a motorcycle going down, you know, locust. But I'm not sure what do we, do you want us to call as non-emergency or do we want us to, I don't know, I was wondering.

I always recommend, if you think it's a dangerous situation, it's okay to call 911. The dispatchers can triage the calls. That's why they're trained to do that. Obviously, something you saw and it did disappear. reported to know our emergency number is appropriate because we want to know. If we don't know, we don't know where to put our resources. So it's important that you make that phone call, whether a 911 call or not an emergency number. And the reason being, if it's an active situation, let's say you see what appears to be a kid riding a motorcycle, which is dangerous by itself, a 911 call is probably appropriate because we want to contact that kid right away before... Either he gets in an accident or crashes into some pedestrian or something like that, it causes a bigger problem. So I don't have a problem if you feel at that moment, if you see that active situation to call the emergency number or the non-emergency number. It doesn't really matter. What we want is to know. Because the more we know is when we can allocate resources to different areas to see what's happening in the state in South Locust, like you mentioned. It was North Locust. North Locust. Yeah. Or different areas in town, because that way we can act as a sergeant, build strategies how we're going to be patrolling different areas at different times when this happens. So it helps us to be more effective with the resources that we have to implement the ordinance and educate the public if we have to. I'm gonna have Superintendent Jennifer. She's a great partner. We talk to each other a lot, and especially with the e-bike, having kids, especially the middle school is where we get into the most complaints. I just want you to hear from her. what they're doing at school with the SROs and trying to educate the parents and the kids. Please, thank you for being here.

Yes, absolutely. Good evening, thanks for the invitation and I appreciate all you've done as a council and really appreciate the leadership of Chief Gonzalez and his team around this ordinance. I think the big headline that I want you to hear from me as the superintendent tonight is there's nothing that matters more to us than kids being safe on their way to school, on their way home from school. and every, of course, evening and weekend in between school. So what we can tell you, and I've talked to principals, all our K-6 principals and middle school principal as well as high school principal, we've seen a notable difference in student safety and attention to how they're engaging with e-bikes and e-scooters since the ordinance. So your leadership really has a felt impact and it's been noticeable. So we just want to say thank you. Certainly in the spring, as soon as the sun came out, it was a real concern for us. And we want kids to have fun. We want kids to be active. We're big fans of push pedal power on scooters. And foot pedal powered bikes. So we want to remind people that those are great options. And we want kids walking to school and using, again, push pedal mechanisms to get to school. So we hope that families really hear that. We want children to engage in fun and active ways, and we want them to get to school. And sometimes walking is not very fun. So pedaling a bike or pushing a scooter is a great way to come to school as well. So we wanna remind people that there's still lots of choice and options in how they come to school. And I think most important, just wanna echo what we heard previously, which is a commitment to education and helping families understand the law. And also the risk involved when children don't have helmets and or are riding these kinds of vehicles really essentially, just how unsafe they can be. So I think we really overall have had parents be very responsive. I think they appreciate the clarity and students the same. So I would say in our K-8 campuses, notably most at the middle school, Really, this is almost a non-issue, so that just speaks to the importance of being clear about what we expect and leading really from the top around what we want for our children and what we want in our communities. We have some more work to do with the high school, probably because we have a very tempting track and turf, and it's a really open campus, so kids are on campus a lot. So we're really asking for the community's help. We will be working to absolutely take a no-tolerance stance for e-bikes and e-scooters on our turf and our track. They've actually caused damage. And so we really care about our student athletes having access to turf and track that's safe and designed for the purpose that's intended. We want our community using turf and track for its intended purposes, but we will be really taking a strong stance against any kind of e-scootering, e-bike activity on turf and track. So you can anticipate that from us. We're also looking, and I appreciate Council President Hensley's question, we met last week, she's the liaison for the school district, and asked some really good questions about will the school district be taking any action to actually ban e-bikes or e-scooters on campus. So we're looking at that right now, talking with the board, talking with principals. We wanna make sure that what we do is responsive to the need. And again, I think at this point, our biggest concern is just turf and track at the high school. But we're really not seeing any concerns at all on our elementary or middle school campus. So again, just gratitude, really appreciate the partnership, and I want to end by highlighting our SROs. I think it's one of many hallmarks of our partnership together. Our SROs are quite popular people on campus, so that's credit to the way they show up in the work and build relationships with kids first. But Officer Woolers and Principal Thompson will be doing some educational outreach both at lunch and through advisory periods at the middle school just to reinforce for students that they know what the law states and what the expectations are. And then Officer Y and Officer Rollers together are gonna make a TV appearance at the high school So they will be famous quickly and do the same thing, just educate kids and get the word out. So we're really committed to working with our SRO partners to make sure that parents and students are informed. And in my last newsletter to the community, we also included information in both English and Spanish. around the new city ordinance and what that meant. And so I think we're doing a good job working together. And again, just really want to appreciate the work of the council and our chief of police and his great team for the opportunity to really center students and their safety.

Thank you.

Well, I want to thank you for your partnership with the police department in this because the school system is obviously the quickest way to get to the parents with the information. Not everybody's going to check Facebook to find out what our latest ordinances are. So love that you are partnering with us. So thank you for that. Any questions from the dais?

Okay. Thank you, Jennifer. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. I told you I brought some backup, so. Anyways, I'm gonna bring Spencer. He's gonna bring some signs, show you what we designed, so you guys can see it. I took the lead of Councilor Petten. He's did some analytical perspective last time we were here about how many miles per hour somebody should be riding a bike. If I remember, correct me if I'm wrong, something about eight miles per hour or something like that was the average that somebody should go. I just ran the number up to 10 miles an hour. I think it's something that people can remember easier. So we designed some signs that we're going to post at the logging road sometime in the next couple of weeks, give and take. That way people are aware what the rules are. And when we do run our missions, educating, and then if they deserve a citation, they will be issued a citation for that matter.

So we do have some props. This, as I think everybody knows, the logging road has a ton of entrances on different side streets and everything else. So this is kind of the design that we came up with for posting at most every, I think we're up to 25 different major... entrances onto the logging trail from some of the different neighborhoods. So these will be kind of going in on those walking paths for those areas. Let me show you to the public here.

Oh, yes. So once you get to see it.

And then there was a slight miscommunication on my side to the guys in the shop. But this sign is going to be slightly larger when it's actually done. A bigger 10 miles an hour speed limit sign. And then making this sign a little bit bigger and easier to read. But then these will be posted more on the... Bigger main entrances at like Eco Park, the new walking path up by Fred Meyers, down at 13th. So some of the more major ones where more people are coming in and then that will be placed in some of the side entrance areas. And then... Captain Murphy actually called, or I think it was at a meeting, had a great idea. I'm still working through some of the logistics of it, but instead of having to post additional signage downtown where there's already a ton of signage, is actually putting a legend on the sidewalks. kind of similar to what is currently out in a couple of areas with the no skateboards or for the sidewalks, but adding some verbiage and some more pictograms for all the downtown sidewalk areas.

Good. Okay. Yeah, thank you. Any questions for Senator? Councilor Maldonado. Captain Maldonado.

My main question, or I guess it's more of a concern, is the first sign that says no e-motorcycles. Excuse me. That one's going on the logging trail, correct? And multiple areas.

Multiple areas, all the little side entrances.

Would it not be more pertinent to remove the 10 mile an hour and use that as a different signage, as a standard 10 mile an hour sign, and have the actual no e-motorcycle sign to be, yeah, by itself, so that way the verbiage and everything is bigger, more noticeable from a distance, and nobody's just coming up on it. What does that say? I mean, my eyes are pretty bad, so that might be, just be me. The second part to that is, You know, I was thinking about it a while back. In the bike lanes that we do have, it wouldn't be a bad idea to put a 10-mile-an-hour speed printout in the lane.

On the pavement?

On the pavement itself.

Pencil?

Yeah.

I don't know. So in an actual bike lane on the roadway, I believe it would still be the same. Nobody's running... A regular pedal bike, at least I don't think they are, above the speed limit, but it would still be with the road.

I beg to differ. I have paced them.

A pedal bike. I have paced them. Pedal bikes that can go 30?

Oh, yeah. They can go more than 10, I can tell you that.

Okay. Well, if they're on the travel lane and traveling with traffic, I don't think that there's a requirement for going legally right now for 10 miles an hour. So it would just be for the logging road itself where it's a pedestrian path that also has bike and scooters and...

And that would be my only suggestion then is to make it a separate signage between the 10 mile an hour speed sign and the actual literature on it.

That's a great recommendation. So Captain Murphy, Spencer, and I were talking about what kind of sign we could put at the heap. He brought us maybe six different types, and we're selecting, so that's a good suggestion for you. Now we'll take it back, and we'll put it together, and I think it's a great suggestion. I think you'll learn more for us.

I appreciate it.

Thank you.

So, thanks. All right. I'll let you keep it. All right, Pat, you have something?

Wait, we got a question here. Sorry. Go ahead.

Yeah, I was just going to say, you had mentioned something about maybe putting something on the sidewalks about this, correct? A stencil. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it in the ordinance that they aren't supposed to be writing on the sidewalk? Correct. So I would say if there's anything going to be stenciled on the sidewalk, it should be get off of the sidewalk. Okay. This is the speed limit you should be going. No, no, sorry. There will be no, like a.

Like no bikes, no skateboards.

Unless they were like spikes that pop up when they test, when they detect a bicycle, that'd be great.

But. Stop. No e-bikes.

Okay, I like that. Okay. Sorry. What's going on here? We're not putting a speed limit on the sidewalks.

Especially when they put it on the ramp, you know, where the wheelchairs get up. Yeah. Because most people use their bikes to go because it's easier instead of jumping on the curb. Sure. They'll see it there. That's what we think. They'll see it there and hopefully follow our suggestion. Hopefully follow it.

I like it. Okay. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Spencer. Thanks, Spencer. I really appreciate everybody. The team is here tonight. Captain Richard put a lot of work on this. Having Jennifer and Chief Mendoza here with their perspective is really helpful for me as we move forward with this ordinance. And thank you for you guys passing the ordinance. That's all I have, unless you have some other questions for me.

Well, actually, I have a note here. This is on the agenda, so this would be the pertinent time to take it. June Ball would like to testify about this or have a question.

It's hard for me to move around. I just have a question.

Okay.

My husband and I, we are eight-by-friars, and we do the Boggy Bridge Road regular.

Yes.

Very great place, great, you know, interacting with our community. We've come across a small situation we've been kind of dealing with in our lives. Three young boys, I think middle school age, that they're not following the rules. So we've kind of dragged them and kind of made a little friendship here, discussing what we know to be the right rule. Some of them are kind of listening, there's a lot not, we've been interacting. If I'm understanding, you kind of want us to bring the attention of what's happening, which I haven't thought to do, to you directly. But if we're on the logging bridge road, How would we get their, you know, because they can just ride their bikes away before you can come over. I don't want to take a picture of them again and again. So what would be, because they are interacting on the 9th Street Road, you know, with other cars. They're interacting with other people walking and on their bikes. And we don't know who they are, but how would we address that? I mean, we kind of were just doing it on our own.

I will recommend, I'm going to speak to the microphone so that folks at home can hear me. I would recommend, like I was speaking to Councillor Stern, if you have a cell phone, just call us and we can get to the logging road. And we've got different ways to, if we need to talk to them, stop them, we will. You know, we're not gonna necessarily be in a chase with any of them perspective, but we're gonna do whatever we can to stop and ID them and talk to their parents and educate them if we have to. Now, if they're super, like you suggested, you'd be a good witness for us, right? If they're doing willies and being negligence and that they can injure somebody, we were prepared to cite the parents or the kids, so.

Yeah, because their actions this last Monday was they were... the wrong way against traffic, and they were not safe. But we couldn't figure out what to do quickly.

I want you to feel free to call the normal emergency number, 911, if you think it's appropriate, and we'll be there. We'll have officers responding to the call. We can get it to the loggerhead. We've got ways to get in there.

And we really enjoy using it, and a lot of people are out there riding bikes with us and such, so we appreciate the rules out there for everybody's safety.

Thank you, I appreciate that question. It's really good that you asked that. I just want you to feel free, you see something, let us know, okay?

And if you notice a certain pattern of time frame, you can let them know, and then they can just be there waiting.

Yeah, we've seen them all across town. We went all the way out, and that's our intersection into town because of my inability. But we've seen them in a lot of areas.

Okay. Okay, thank you. Okay, all right. Thank you, Chief.

I just want to offer, we can add to our educational outreach. We've been really quick.

Can you come to the mic? I'm sorry. It doesn't get to the audience or the recording if you don't talk in the mic.

I just want to be responsive to what we're hearing in the community and we can add to our educational outreach to include the logging road and other places. So I'll work with chief and our SROs wherever there's hot spots, we can add that to our outreach. We've been really focused on to and from school and on school campus, but we can absolutely work to broaden that message just to be helpful in making sure our youth understand. That's a great idea.

Thank you, Jennifer. Appreciate that. Thank you. Okay. Anything else on this subject before we let Chief go out of his chair? Okay. Thank you so much, Chief. Appreciate you coming to us tonight.

Oh, thank you. Okay, great. Thank you. I love note writers in the office.

Okay. Now we'll go to citizen input, public comment on non-agenda items. I do have some comment cards here, but they are for an agenda item. So if you have something to speak that's not on the agenda, we need you to fill out these cards. It's available on the podium in the back of the room. Hand it to Maya, our recorder, and then we will call you up to speak. And for the sake of time, if you want to fill that out while you're speaking, I'll let you do that. Okay. Are there any commenters online, Maya? No, there are not. Okay. Okay, I do have one that just came in. This is on the agenda, so I'm going to add this to the pile. All right, seeing none on the non-agenda comments, we'll move into proclamations and special presentations. We have a proclamation recognizing POW MIA Recognition Day, and the mayor is going to read this proclamation virtually.

Thank you, Council President Hensley. I appreciate it. So this proclamation is POWMIA Recognition Day. So whereas the United States of America has participated in many wars, calling upon its sons and daughters to fight for their country, whereas American men and women have been held captive by hostile powers during their military service, whereas many American prisoners of war were subjected to harsh and inhumane treatment by their captors, which often resulted in death, Whereas Americans are still listed as missing and unaccounted for, and the families and friends of these missing Americans as well as their fellow veterans still endure uncertainty concerning their fate. Whereas the sacrifices of Americans still missing are deserving of national recognition and support for continuing priority efforts to determine their fate, And whereas the City of Cambie is proud to join with other cities in the state of Oregon and the nation in honoring those that are still missing. Now therefore I, Brian Hodgson, by virtue of the authority vested in me as the Mayor of the City of Cambie, hereby proclaim September 18th, 2026 as POW MIA Recognition Day in Cambie and encourage all citizens to join in this observance. Doing unto my hand the 16th day of September, 2026. And Council President Hensley, I think you, hopefully I think there's a couple people there to accept the proclamation.

Yes, I have Irene Brashears and Larry Horn in the audience. I'm assuming one of them are coming to get this from me.

Okay. All right, Jerry. And what's your first name, sir? Jerry and? David. David.

All right, Jerry and David. Okay.

I just want to tell you how grateful our veterans are in this community for the way they're treated and can be. I've been here three years. I'm a newcomer to the place. But I was in the military for 26 years before I retired. And I know... two that are missing. I can name them today. And I also lost a few, and I doubt there are very many that are still prisoners of war, but there are still many who are missing. So I want you to know how much we appreciate that, and we salute you in the efforts to honor those folks, okay? Thank you so much.

We thank you for your service. Yes, Larry.

On behalf of the VFW and the American Legion, we want to just say thank you very much. And please keep all the veterans in your hearts and your minds. My dad did 44 years. My brother did 22. So please, thank you. And Irene has things for you.

Of course she does. She always brings presents. Thank you, Irene.

A couple of President Hensley and Mary.

Up to the mic.

I wasn't going to do it. Thank you, Larry.

This is our president. President Larry Horn, who's been really faithful and just a rock for all of us at the VFW and the American Legion. This is a copy of the 2026 POW MIA. And I just want to pass this out to you as a reminder of POW MIA. We are very grateful that one of our own, Warnie Newton, was an MIA. And when we dedicated the memorial in 2011, we found out in 2016 that the helicopter and the remains of the rest of the crew from his helicopter were discovered. And we had the privilege of being able to hear and see Arlington ceremony that the families decided that the last three from the crew to be buried together in one casket and they had the Arlington Cemetery with all the families there. And we were really privileged to have the half-brother, Warnie Newton, a local boy here, from Canby he was able to attend the ceremony and it was just wonderful because again it was a full circle for the Vietnam era memorial that one of our own was lost as an MIA. We were faithful to him and in 2016 he was able to come home so when you go to the memorial warning Newton's home. So for you guys to support us in the POW MIA every year, we thank you very much because like Jerry Keene said, our chaplain and senior vice, is that there's somebody you remember and we just don't want you to forget. Just like 9-11, you don't want to forget. So One more thing is a shout-out to the Camby UPS Porter. He's been wonderful. He helped me have this designed out for you, and he also did my husband's Celebration of Life program, and I appreciate him. So anytime you need something from Camby UPS, just ask for Porter. Okay, Porter. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Irene.

Okay.

Yes, Council Patten.

Oh, I was going to move on to the next item.

Okay, we're moving on to the consent agenda. Councillor Patton, did you have something to say?

Yes, I move to approve the consent agenda that includes approval of the August 5th, 2026 City Council meeting minutes and the appointment of Kelsey Campbell as a new member of the Heritage and Landmarks Commission with a term ending on June 30th, 2029. Second.

I heard Daniel first, sorry. It's been moved by Councillor Patton, second by Councillor Stearns to approve the consent agenda that includes approval of the August 5th, 2026 City Council meeting minutes and the appointment of Kelsey Campbell as a new member of the Heritage and Landmarks Commission with the term ending June 30, 2029. All those in favor?

Aye.

Move 6-0. Okay. Next item on the agenda is a public hearing. Then we will consider ordinance number 1685, an ordinance adopting the Canby Urban Growth Boundary Expansion Amendment and maps UGB 26-01. The matter presently before the hearing body requires a public hearing. All interested persons in attendance shall be heard on the matter. This public hearing was noticed and those who wish to speak were instructed to contact the city recorder. Do we have any that want to speak that have not already done a card? Seeing none. The people, those that are interested in testifying are either proponents or opponents. Please indicate your desire to speak by raising your virtual hands at this time or handing a card to our city quarter. I have four cards. Do we have anyone online? None online. For longer presentations, proponents and opponents may buy time from one another. In so doing, those in favor or opposed may allocate their time to a spokesperson who will represent the entire group. All questions must be directed through the council president. Any evidence to be considered must be submitted to the hearing body for public access. All written testimony received both for and against shall be summarized by staff and presented briefly to the hearing body during the staff report. The public hearing will be conducted as follows. Questions by the hearing body or staff. Then we'll open the public hearing for testimony. Proponents will have three minutes. Opponents will have three minutes. Then we'll close the public hearing. Questions, if any, by the hearing body. Discussion by the hearing body. A decision shall be made by the hearing body at the close of this hearing or the matter will be continued to a date certain in the future. This will be the only notice of that date you will receive. Does anyone have any questions about the procedure of the hearing? Anyone in the audience? Okay. Saying none, we will get a staff report from Dawn, and then we will open public hearing.

Good evening, Council President Hensley, Mayor and Council Members. I just wanted to do some introductions first before we get into the presentation. Steve Palast is with us from 3J Consulting. They've been helping us with our urban growth battery expansion process over the last three years. I also have Josh Soper from Barry Elsner Hammond online in case there are any legal questions that come up during the hearing process. This macro framework here on kind of the why and just framing that a bit in context. The last urban growth boundary was from 1981, so about 45 years ago. So that's really kind of the contextual part of the reason we're going through this exercise tonight for Council to adopt this. And based on our housing needs analysis and economic opportunity analysis, which are forecasting 20 years of forecasted residential and employment growth, given the fact that it's been 45 years in the making for the last urban growth boundary, it's not surprising that there's a need for an expansion. I'm going to walk through the presentation These are staff findings, staff report findings and just to walk through this, I'm happy to dive into detail as we go through this as well. So just high level in terms of the urban growth boundary process, So yes, the findings for this is we did a sequential urban growth boundary process, which I'll speak a bit more about on one of the slides. is a framework that allows us to use 2020 population projection for the urban growth boundary. There's consistency, as I mentioned, with housing needs and economic opportunity analysis over the next 20 years of projected housing and employment lands. This is reflective of that. THE URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY IS CONSISTENT WITH STATEWAY PLANNING GOALS AND THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN POLICIES AND GOALS THAT WERE ADOPTED IN JUNE, INCLUDING GOAL 14, URBANIZATION. IT'S CONSISTENT WITH CLACKAMAS COUNTY POLICY GOALS AND STATE RULES AND STATUTES AND SPECIFIC PRIORITIZATION. AND STEVE WILL GET INTO THAT A BIT. THERE'S A SET OF PRIORITIES ON LANDS THAT CAN BE INCLUDED IN URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY EXPANSION AND THOSE THAT ARE NOT ABLE TO DO SO AND A PRIORITY ON WHICH ONES COME IN FIRST. ADDITIONAL STAFF FINDINGS, AGAIN, THE ENGAGEMENT PROCESS OVER THE LAST THREE YEARS HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE ENGAGEMENT WITH MULTIPLE PUBLIC MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS AND OPEN HOUSES, TABLING GROUPS AT PUBLIC EVENTS, A ROBUST NOTIFICATION PROGRAM, AND ONLINE ENGAGEMENT TOOLS, AND I'M SURE THE FOLKS TONIGHT RECEIVED POST GUARDS. THERE ARE ABOUT 250 THAT WERE SENT TO URBAN GROWTH BOUNDARY area that is proposed. So we intentionally sent those out. Materials and meetings were catered to both English and Spanish speaking community. We had one in Spanish community summit as well. There was also interactive mapping with the community about expressing the community's interests and ideas related to land use patterns. Steve will show a map a bit later. Identifying what that mapping prioritization of the community desired, community character was involved in that and circulation, recreation and other topics were covered in that. The urban growth boundary was also overseen by our project advisory committee, and it was reviewed and updated with our appointed officials, community leaders, business owners, and other stakeholders. We also had three listening sessions, specifically with a property that is proposed for the urban growth boundary expansion, one in November 2023, one in June 2024, and one in June 2026. And that was intentionally to speak to property owners about the urban growth boundary expansion. Those were all well-attended meetings. This, again, there's There were updates for the Planning Commission and City Council on the urban growth boundary process and Department of Land Conservation and Clackamas County have also been very involved in the review process as well. The county will be involved in the review as well. They ultimately have to approve the urban growth boundary expansion that the city would forward onto them. I WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A RECENT CHANGE THAT DOES HAVE SOME BEARING ON YOUR DECISION TONIGHT ON TIMING AND SPECIFICALLY ABOUT OUR RECOMMENDATION AS TO MOVE THIS FORWARD TONIGHT. THERE WAS RECENT LEGISLATIVE CHANGES THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS BROUGHT FORWARD AND THAT IS RELATED TO those communities that are under sequential urban growth boundary process. And what this all really boils down to is we're required to have our complete and urban growth boundary adoption by the end of this year, 2026, including the County Planning Commission and County Board of Commissioners. Kind of what is at stake if that doesn't happen would be a repeat of our housing needs analysis that we would have to do over and we would have to delay our current urban growth boundary concept planning, which is occurring parallel with the urban growth boundary process. Urban growth boundary concept planning is related to the designation of those properties that are in the urban growth boundary that would be identifying them for land use, residential, park, and employment lands. So that would be a fairly significant delay in my estimation if we were to not make the deadline. We do have a submittal deadline of September 28th to make the November 9th Clackamas County Planning Commission hearing. So just putting that out there that there is an importance of this, how this is all stacked. We were initially given another year of time in the sequential urban growth boundary process, but as a lot of things happen in the legislative process, there's unintended consequences where they make changes and Both Malala and Kambi are in the same identical situation right now where we both have to adopt this by the end of the year or have to repeat the process again. So that's just again contextually, but just important for you all to know tonight. I'm going to turn it over to Steve now for the urban growth boundary process and report.

Good evening, Mayor Hodson, Council President Hensley, and councillors. This should all look familiar to you from a few weeks ago. To begin the urban growth boundary expansion process, as Don mentioned, through the housing needs analysis and the economic opportunities analysis, we identified the land need. The land need includes 73.1 acres for housing and related infrastructure, It is mandatory, it is required that the city accommodate that 73.1 acre need. Optional for the city are 25.7 acres for parks, which would have an underlying residential zone when brought in. and 439.2 acres of employment, which is almost entirely industrial. So the total UGB expansion land need is up to 538 acres. A few notes, important notes to understand. Properties that are included in an urban growth boundary expansion are not required to annex into the city or develop the property, and they will not see a change in property taxes. A change in property taxes does not occur if and until a property owner decides to annex their property into the city. This urban growth boundary process expands the boundary but does not assign land uses. We will talk about land uses for contextual purposes and it's important to understand where different land uses are intended to occur. However, just want to be clear again that all this does is expand the boundary itself. And then I'm going to go to this map here from some of our earliest community engagement summits, several of them in person and online. There was overwhelming support and identification of the northwest portion of our study area as being appropriate for residential growth and the eastern portion adjacent to the city for industrial growth. And so we took that to heart when putting together the recommendations. As Don mentioned, the state has rules around priority properties for bringing into an urban growth boundary. We're going to focus on the first and fourth priority here. The first priority includes urban reserves, exception lands, and non-resource lands. Canby does not have urban reserves or applicable non-resource lands, but Canby does have exception lands. Those are our first priority for consideration to bring into the urban growth boundary. The reason for that is because they do not have a resource zoning, a farm or forest zoning. These are properties that are zoned rural residential farm forest five acre, which is a more urban zone. The purpose of these priorities is to protect farm and forest lands. So we first look to those exception lands, and then we move to the fourth priority because Cambia is surrounded by high-value farmland. That's our other category of land, and so we look to those areas after we look to the exception lands. FOR THE RECOMMENDATIONS. SO AS I MENTIONED, WE STARTED WITH THE EXCEPTION LANDS, WHICH ARE HIGHLIGHTED HERE AS AREAS, SUB AREAS 1A, 1B, 1C, AND 1D. SUB AREA 1A IS ABOUT 116 ACRES AND VERY SUITABLE FOR RESIDENTIAL USE AND CAN ACCOMMODATE THAT ENTIRE 73.1 ACRES OF RESIDENTIAL NEED AND THE ENTIRE 25.7 ACRES FOR PARK USE. So the recommendation is to include 98.8 acres of subarea 1A to accommodate residential and park use. And Don will show the specifics of what that looks like towards the end of the presentation. Subarea 1B is about 50 acres with about 7.7 acres of constrained land. We recommend including subarea 1B, the entire 50 acres, into the urban growth boundary for employment uses. Subarea 1C is approximately 34.3 gross acres with no constraints. Like Area 1B, we recommend that this exception land be brought into the urban growth boundary to accommodate a portion of employment needs. Subarea 1D, the new era area, is about 39 acres. It is built out with a manufactured home park and a cemetery, and for those reasons, we do not recommend including subarea 1D in the urban growth boundary. Those are the priority one exception lands. We'll now move to priority four, the high-value farmland, subareas two through 10. Sub area two is approximately 13 acres, no constraints, very suitable for residential use. But as I've mentioned, we've already proposed accommodating our residential need and our park need in sub area 1A. So we do not recommend inclusion of this area in the UGB at this time. The city may consider adding it through a future process. Similarly, subarea three, about 61 acres, very similar to subarea two, suitable for residential use, but we're not recommending its inclusion at this time.

Council President. Staff, would you clarify that Those recommendations are based on the zoning of 2 and 3, not necessarily what we would ultimately recommend. They're EFU.

Just to clarify for the record. Yes, Randy. So subarea 1A is, the word exception land means non-EFU land. It's the same as a synonym essentially. It's not EFU land. And so to Randy's point, the prioritization is It's not really something that staff or the city has a choice of proposing, but the state rules require that exception lands come in first to the extent that they can come in for the need. And subarea 1A, because it's exception land, which is non-EFU land, that has to come in first. Before subarea 2 and 3, which are EFU land, if that makes sense.

Thank you, Don, for the clarification. Sub area four is the Dahlia Farm, which is an important social, cultural, and economic institution in Canby, and therefore is not recommended to be included in the UGB expansion. Sub areas five and six, respectively, about 392 acres and 346 acres, again, Good opportunity for future residential growth, but at this time, our residential growth is proposed to be accommodated in sub-area 1A, so neither five nor six are recommended for inclusion at this time. Sub-area seven, like 1B and 1C, is being recommended for inclusion to accommodate a portion of the employment land deficit. And it's surrounded by 1B and 1C, so it's appropriate there. Subarea 8 is about 228 acres with some constraints. The recommendation is to include subarea 8 in its entirety to accommodate employment land use needs. Likewise, subarea 9 is about 112 acres. There is about 43 constrained acres due to 100-year floodplain in the southern portion of sub-area 9. Therefore, we are recommending that approximately 60.8 acres from sub-area 9 be brought into the urban growth boundary. That's really the areas north of that 100-year floodplain. Important note is that sub areas eight and nine are potential locations for a sports complex that we know the city has been looking into over time. Park use, a sports complex was identified in the economic opportunities analysis as a potential targeted industry or targeted use and parks are an allowed use in industrial zones. So that is a possibility and we will explore that possibility further through the concept plan process. Subarea 10 could be suitable for residential or employment uses. If we were to bring it in now, it would need to be for employment uses. Therefore, the recommendation is to not include subarea 10 at this time and consider that for future urban growth boundary expansion. So that brings us to, again, the 20-year land need is up to 538 acres. Our recommendation, staff recommendation, is as I presented, which would total 512 approximately gross acres and 488 unconstrained acres for the urban growth boundary expansion. This map identifies the areas to be brought in. It's the areas in yellow or gold. So that's subareas 1A, 1B, 1C, or sorry, a portion of subarea 1A, 1B, 1C, 7, 8, and a portion of subarea 9. And then not recommended for inclusion at this time are 1D, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 10. And I explained the kind of partial, that 100-year floodplain that results in us recommending the northern portion of Sub Area 9 for inclusion. And now Don's going to talk a little bit about Sub Area 1A.

So following our September 2nd work session regarding Sub Area 1A, we spent a bit of time discussing that. So back to sub-area 1A, it's exception land, non-EFU land, and so up to 73.1 acres of that area could accommodate that in residential. There's also the ability to have up to 25.69 acres, and these are based on going through and looking at actual tax parcel boundaries, but that's what is available for what would be considered parkland. And again, to Steve's point, to echo what he said previously, this is really an overlay, essentially. So the underlying base, if this property were to go through all the steps involved, which is we'd be going through the urban growth boundary concept planning, and then we're going to have to amend our comprehensive plan and transportation system plan yet again. And then if somebody wanted to, at that point, a property or wanted to annex a property, all of that area would be underlying base designated as residential. But in the urban growth boundary concept planning, up to 25.69 acres of that area will be shown as some sort of park overlay. But ultimately, if that were not developed as park area, which would mean if the city were not able to build it or acquire it as park, it would become residential. So basically, that total is therefore 73.12 and 25.69 as roughly about 99 acres of land, and that's the area there. So that boundary in blue, in our urban growth boundary concept planning, and there'll be more discussion on this, this is separate from the urban growth boundary. The state requires us to go through the urban growth boundary process adoption first, But the concept planning, which is going to continue on into next year, into June, would be designating what properties would have park overlay, what properties would have residential, what properties would have employment lands on them. And the next project advisory committee meeting is on October 15 in the Willamette room at 6 p.m. And then there'll be another community summit on October 20th. At the town hall it cuts fourth town hall at 6 6 p.m. And that will continue into next year ultimately council will be Planning Commission and council will both see What the recommendations are still more community involvement that will happen and property owner involvement that will happen on those designations But the boundary essentially tonight is essentially just a boundary with But in order to do the boundary, you have to have some assumptions around where things might go in terms of land uses. Hopefully that all makes sense. I'm just trying to provide the context here.

Questions for the staff? Councillor Davis.

Thank you, Don. So that last area that you were covering, those property owners, again, would have to request annexation.

They would absolutely. The city is not annexing any property, period. I mean, this is not what this is about. Someone could, let me finish that. Someone could literally keep their property outside the city and the county forever. That would be their choice. There's no pressure for someone to bring their property into the city. And the taxation on that is county taxation. It's what we've checked with the assessor's office of the county. There's no tax implication on this unless you annex your property. It's still in the county. Thank you.

Councilor Dupatt.

Yeah, so just to recap something that was brought up last time we had this discussion. There was initially some talk of... neighborhood commercial, we decided we're not going to do that because a person or a land owner would need to essentially agree to have that, and then they would be restricted to that. Correct? But with the parks, if you were to do... Do landowners now need to say this land will be park and then it will be there? To me, it seems like the park designation is way more fluid and can be moved around where that commercial residential neighborhood commercial was not in that way.

Exactly. So in really, and this is really the state framework here, is that essentially the difference is that the parkland is something that we've adopted into, you know, it's consistent with the 10 acres per thousand basis that we're, so we're not technically adding, we're not technically asking for more expansion land, whereas the commercial, neighborhood commercial, is in the view of the state and expansion. You're expanding the boundary even further. These are the nuances of the state law, and that's, but parkland is fluid. It's absolutely, if it doesn't become parkland, it's going to be residential.

Okay, and I guess that's kind of what I wanted to point out for the community is that in this scenario, as we go through the process of starting to designate these things, the land might be designated on the map as park, but that doesn't necessarily mean that it will be park. It ultimately is the landowner's decision. But we need to at least color in the boxes to make the state happy.

So the underlying base will be residential, and then there'll be some overlay, which would be a park. So it's always going to be residential, but there's this premise of, like, where would a park possibly go over the next 20 years? Yeah, that's really the question.

Councillor Stearns. Yeah, I just wanted to... Just for those out there who I know who are somewhat confused by this whole process, I'll give my overall basic understanding of what's going on. For me, it seemed like some giant Rube Goldberg machine that we've been doing for the last five years. But right now, if this doesn't pass, the city cannot really grow beyond a couple of those lines. If it does pass, the city doesn't necessarily have to grow, but is allowed to grow into those areas that we're voting on. Is that a correct 50,000-foot view assessment that was going on?

Yes.

Yes, that's correct. As Don said, this creates a new boundary within which urban growth can occur, but that is dependent upon property owners' desire to annex their property.

So the option is if we vote no, the city of Canby can't grow any further than the current urban growth boundary, but if we vote yes, it'll be allowed to grow approximately 500 acres more.

The only caveat here, though, is we are required to accommodate the housing. I mean, the residential, I mean, that's a state law. So there will be consequences if we said, no, we're not doing a growth at all. It's probably like grants. We would probably have, I mean, punitive.

So we kind of have to grow some, and this is the process aside how much we can grow.

That's exactly right. I mean, and that's the nature of this.

Okay, I just wanted to see so we didn't get all these weeds and, you know, the overall picture to be clear.

Council bottom And to the sort of the deadline requirement if we don't vote on it And you don't have enough time to get this done by the 31st. It's not just that we it's not just starting it over. It's also The cost of starting over as well. We have to we have to pay to do that Process the housing needs analysis and all that again.

We would yes, and yeah I'm not trying to throw that into the I mean I was hoping we weren't even gonna have to talk about that issue and that we're Department of Justice were going to say, yeah, you got another year. And they were like, no, we're going to stick to that. And that's recent in the last few months. So this is not something staff has held back. But I think that the issue really is you would have to probably get consulting services back for the housing needs analysis. These are involved processes. And then we have a grant from ODOT to do the concept planning. So that's active and that's moving forward. So These are all layered processes and that would end up really slowing that process if not halting it. And I'm not sure how much time they would give us because it's not infinite, these are biennium grants. So we might end up having to give whatever residual money that we were given out of the $250,000 back to the state. So these are the things that roll kind of in play here at this point.

Any other questions from the council? Okay, before you go, gentlemen, I do have a card here. Mr. Kramer, did you want to come ask your question, or did you want me to just read it to them while they're here to answer it for you?

Yeah, I think it's been answered, but go ahead.

Okay, Mr. Kramer's question was, is there a reason that property south of Barlow couldn't be annexed for business or industrial use? It might keep future industry noise from residential areas.

And this would be west of the river is that the area? Okay Those are, well they're not in our, they're not in an area that we have as the ability to actually expand into. They're technically, there was a 2010 legislative plan essentially for where Cambie could grow into and Barlow is not in that area. So it was intentional. That was a legislature. Our city didn't have anything to do with that. And so that really is the short answer of it. It was not intended that we would grow past the river.

Talk to your state legislature if you have a problem with that. Exactly.

If I may, just to clarify on that, when you look at a map, there is an area of green around the city, and that is the rural reserve. And so there is a buffer between us and Barlow that is designated rural reserve, and that cannot be touched for another 40 years. It was locked up for 50 years. We're about 10 years into that. So that is why a lot of that green area, if you look at the map, was not included in this because by law we are not even able to consider it.

Unless the legislator changes their mind, which, like you say, it's under their control, not ours.

Exactly. Okay. Thank you, gentlemen. Okay, I will now open the public hearing. I have three cards left for proponents. First one I'll call up is Alan Patterson.

We've got some aerials here to share too. I am Alan Patterson, 18926 Southwest Arrowhead Avenue, Lake Oswego, 97035. Mayor Hodson, city councilors, city staff, and community members. I am a commercial real estate broker specializing in investment and industrial properties with Capacity Commercial Group. I am in total support of the amendment before you expanding the urban growth boundary. If I might be permitted a little personal history here first, I've been incredibly honored to work with the 21 owners over the years in marketing their 365 acres of farmland turned industrial. These forward-thinking city fathers and mothers, I might add, drew a circle around this land 25 years ago, which led to the master plan Canby Binary Industrial Park. Looking back, it was a very basic grassroots effort, sitting down with families such as the Burdens, the Weigants, the Zimmers, to name a few, at their kitchen tables with Terry Tolles, my partner then, laying out different scenarios for roads and sites that we thought that the city might approve. An industrial association was formed with a board that made decisions for the group. Coming up with a name, was a result of several fun meetings throwing different names against the wall. One that stuck had the heritage flavor they wanted and is in use today with the Pioneer Industrial Park. My daughter then designed the logo which is still at the park's entrance on Sequoia. Those early steps by the community promoting candy Everybody being a cheerleader has led to a vibrant near capacity Cambie Pioneer Industrial Park, home to both manufacturing and distribution companies from across the region. At the same time, Cambie has magically been able to maintain its small town charm. Ask these companies, they truly enjoy being here. The availability of ready industrial sites, low operating costs, and a chance to live in a community where they work are among the main attractions. Yes, there were seemingly impossible challenges throughout the process, as there are and there will be in the current land proposed for the UGB expansion. These challenges get figured out, though, with a well-defined process. The results are really impressive. Hats off to the incredible patient work over the years by city staff, the many councils, and consultants. I guess I'm out of time, but a few more minutes? Okay.

I've got to give everybody three minutes because that's what I said at the beginning. Okay. You're four. If you want to submit your written for the rest of us to read them for you, that's fine, but... Okay. We understand you are a proponent.

I can keep going. No.

At the beginning, I gave everybody three minutes. All right.

No problem. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Patterson.

Those are aerials from the early days and the final industrial part. Nice.

I like the before and after shots. Thank you for bringing those. Okay. Bruce and Kathy Parker. Bruce, Parker?

They left.

They left.

Okay. And that's it on that.

Are there anybody like Paul Paton online? Okay. And I don't believe there's any opponents in the audience. Okay. Closing the public hearing. Questions of any by the hearing body in discussion? Any other further questions, gentlemen? Council Patten.

I don't have any questions, but I'd be willing to make a motion to move this forward. Yeah, I'm good.

I guess we don't need to discuss either. Go forward.

Go forward. I am super jazzed that we are taking this next step. This is huge, folks. I move to approve ordinance number 1685, an ordinance adopting the Canby Urban Growth Boundary Expansion Amendment and Map, UGB... to a second reading on October 7th, 2026. Second.

It's been moved by Councillor Patton and seconded by Councillor Davis to adopt ordinance number 1685, an ordinance adopting the Urban Growth Boundary Expansion Amendment and Maps, UGB 2601, to a second reading on October 7th. All those in favor? Any discussion? Okay, all those in favor?

Aye.

Passes 6-0. Okay, thank you Maya for that little quick edit. All right, moving on to ordinances and resolutions. We have a calendar of second readings with roll call vote. Does anybody want to pull any one of these ordinances out for further consideration? I'll take a motion.

Madam Chair, I move, hold on a second, let me make sure I'm on the right page, right here. I move to adopt ordinance number 1681, an ordinance authorizing the interim city administrator to purchase one police vehicle for the Cambie Police Department in the amount of $54,665.49. Ordinance number 1682, an ordinance authorizing the interim city administrator to execute Amendment number two to the Professional Service Agreement with Scott Edwards Architecture, LLP, for the Canby Swim Center remodel, increasing the current agreement by $57,700. maintaining a cumulative project limit of $249,999 for all SEA services and in extending the agreement through April 1st, 2027. Ordinance number 1683, an ordinance authorizing the interim city administrator to execute a construction contract with Line Commercial Construction incorporated DBA inline for the Canby Swim Center remodel in the amount of $1,244,837.44 and declaring an emergency, ordinance number 1684, an ordinance authorizing Mayor Hodson to enter into an interim city administrator employment agreement between the city of Canby and Randy Ely. Second.

It's been moved by Councillor Patton and seconded by Councillor Maldonado to adopt Ordinance Number 1681, an ordinance authorizing the interim city administrator to purchase one police vehicle from Canby Police Department in the amount of $54,665.49. Ordinance Number 1682, an ordinance authorizing the interim city administrator to execute Amendment Number 2 to the Professional Services Agreement with Scott Evers Architecture LLP for the Canby Swim Center remodel. increasing the current agreement by $57,700, maintaining a cumulative project limit of $249,999 for all of the SEA services and extending the agreement through April 1st, 2027. Ordinance number 1683, an ordinance authorizing the interim city administrator to execute a construction contract with Inline Commercial Construction Incorporated, DBA Inline, for the Canby Swim Center remodel in the amount of $1,244,837.44 and declaring emergency. And ordinance number 1684, an ordinance authorizing Mayor Hodson to enter into an interim city administrator appointment agreement between the City of Canby and Randy Ely. Roll call vote, please. Councillor Padden.

Quick discussion.

Oh, absolutely. Councillor Davis.

Yes, just a quick question on Ordinance 16E for the Interim City Administrator Employment Agreement. We didn't put a date on that. When would that be accomplished, where the mayor would meet with the Interim City Administrator to get that resolved?

Mr. Mayor?

Sorry, I didn't hear the question, so I can repeat it.

Can you repeat your question? He didn't hear it.

Yeah, Brian. I asked a question just on Ordinance 1684, which is the employment agreement with the interim city administrator. When could that get accomplished, you know?

When can it be accomplished?

Yes.

That would be done this week.

Okay. Thank you.

All right.

Any further questions? Roll call vote. Councillor Padden.

Aye.

Councillor Maldonado. Aye. Councillor Davis.

Aye.

Councillor Stearns.

Aye.

Councillor Waterman.

Aye.

And Council President Hensley.

Aye. Okay, we come to City Administrator's Business and Staff Reports. Randy.

Thank you, Council President. Council. Feel free to ask any questions as we move along. Just time check, we're at 8.30 and I know that you have a piece of business that you need to tackle as well, so we'll be mindful of that with your LOC priorities. Just a quick report, we're running up on the end of our city-led homelessness initiative funding, the grant you wrote a couple years ago for almost half a million dollars with Clackamas County. And Together Can Be really appreciated that, so they reached out and we're talking with Clackamas County about going for another grant. They used those monies to deliver about 8,500 hot lunches. 2,600 basic survival support items, 127 emergency food boxes, 186 financial literacy classes, and then we used 300,000 of that, that was 300,000, we used another 200,000 for the behavioral health share with the city of Malala in Canby PD, some PD security and a library grant that Marissa Ely, library director, has used. Good successful grant, good track record, so we're poking around about making another run for another two years. As you know, we have some vacancies at the city in public works. We have a director vacancy, an office administrator vacancy, and a public works lead vacancy. So Spencer, who's here in the audience, I think I've lost track of how many jobs he's doing down there now.

Just stepped out. He just stepped out.

Hopefully he went home to get some rest.

He knew you were going to say something about him.

Yeah. So Pete Wood and I are actively working at filling those positions. And as you can see driving around town, Spencer's been busy with some of the paving that's going on, which I'll get to later. Police chief's situation, we have Gonzalez filled, which left a vacancy in the captain. I'm working with an individual and legal counsel to replace that captain vacancy. So we're very excited about that move, which I'll be sharing more with you all later. Street maintenance fee task force is meeting September 23rd. So you'll be happy to hear that they will be making a recommendation back to this body in October for us to adopt new numbers and then start working on some public engagements and public hearings and hopefully, like our target has always been January 1st, roll out new street maintenance fee calculations. Look ahead. We're not meeting next week. We're meeting the week after, October 7th, or the first Wednesday of the month in October. So that'll be next. We're likely to have an executive session, so keep your eyes peeled for the October 7th calendar. We are scoping, the mayor and I and Maya are meeting with a consulting firm about a council, to scope a council retreat with our new councilors for next January or February for their goal setting. And then most notably I think I'd like to touch on is that working with Jamie Stickle on a Canby Town Hall. It has been since 2009 since Canby voters have faced charter amendments. So with the swim levy renewal and the two items on the charter for consideration by Canby voters, We thought a town hall would be nice to bring everybody in and just answer questions and have staff speak to the community. And then you all are free to speak as elected officials, elected officials for City of Canby on those positions. And we're getting guidance from legal counsel. In fact, they're looking at a flyer tonight. that would be sent out to our residents. This is a draft, but it announces a lot of community meetings that are going on on the backside, our civic academy. Thanks to Jamie and Tyler for putting that together. And then essentially just some announcing about the town hall. So legal counsel hasn't blessed that yet, but we're working on that.

I have a question.

Yes, sir. Councillor Stearns.

It's all election season and season for signs to pop up everywhere. Yeah. I'm wondering if... We can or should put like signs up to say to pass the ordinances that we all think that should be passed up or if there's any, you know, so that people know about them and the ones that don't see the pamphlet.

I'll ask Emily, but I don't believe we can do that. We can only educate the public.

Sometimes you see these levies come out and there's signs, so somebody's got to be able to put signs up, right?

Somebody else would have to be in charge of that.

We cannot do that as a city or a council. Yeah, so good question. And it can be a little bit tricky sometimes. So the rule is that public employees, which include employees and then also your appointed officials, so like your planning commissioners, cannot, in their official capacity, on work time, during working hours, engage in any sort of activity that is advocacy. So vote yes, vote no, support this, support that. That's all advocacy that public employees cannot engage in. They can engage in purely informational activities. So just simply giving neutral, balanced, impartial information about ballot measures, for example, is something that public employees can do. When it comes to individual counselors and the council as elected, Individually, you all can take advocacy positions on ballot measures or other candidates or things like that. That's your function as an elected official. You're supposed to be policymakers. You're supposed to be taking positions on things. You can do that in your individual capacity and you can do that as councillors. Furthermore, the council itself can take a position. on ballot measures, candidates, and that sort of thing. Your appointed cannot, like I said, so your planning commission cannot take a chair, take a position on anything, and your planning commissioners as planning commissioners cannot take positions on anything. But no matter what, every single person in their own individual capacity, public employees, appointed, elected, can always take positions on political matters. It just has to be as an individual for public employees. They cannot do it as public employees. And I can get into some more information about how do we make sure it's clear that someone is acting as an individual instead of as a public employee, if you have more questions.

But that's the... Well, it seems like the council took a position on these measures because we voted to put them on the ballot. So would we take another vote to say we support what we already supported? Or... how do we, how do we as a, as a, and like I say, who puts stuff on the ballot, you know, the ballot measure, you know.

We put it on the ballot, but we're not going to buy signs.

Okay. I'm just saying.

That's not in the budget.

I'm just saying if we're going to support something, we should support it. I'm just saying.

Councillor Davis.

Thank you. You know, based on the last election where so many issues were defeated that should, and some of them were just simply renewals. And we've got the swim center as well as the informational one for the charter changes. I do know that we can do informational flyers or informational mailers to the citizens rather than just these town halls because people are busy and I think we shouldn't assume that the swim levy is going to pass and we should assume that the charter changes we need to owe it to the citizens to inform them to all the registered voters on what these measures are and would urge you to do a flyer mailer to every registered voter.

Yeah, and as long as it doesn't say vote yes, that's permissible, right?

Informational.

Yeah, there's... FAQs. Yeah, information only, impartial, balanced, explain all sides of the issues, that sort of thing.

Okay.

Yeah, you can put it out with the town hall flyer. Randy, did you have more?

Just in the town hall, there's a QR code, and if it's passed by legal... You can take a picture of that QR code and it takes you to our website where we have the FAQs that legal is approved for the charter changes and that's one thing. Yeah, I understand that.

But we need to hit every registered voter. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't think Hopeville just needs QR codes. Emily and I can cite that. My understanding is we probably don't have a swim center.

80% of the operation. 85? Yeah.

So basically, no levy, no swim center. And that should be clear to people. I'll work with Emily on that.

I mean, just... Okay, I hear the message loud and clear. Mark your calendars on September 25th if you can. I think that's a Friday. We've organized a tour of a couple of water treatment plants to show you sort of the space that they are in with walking trails and nature and so on and so forth. And I know that we're talking with our own CAMB utility. who will host the tour. If we provide the transportation, they'll buy us lunch, I understand. So if you can make it, Maya is coordinating that. Please let her know. We had a nice tour yesterday of Canby Parks, over a dozen different parks with our Canby Parks and Rec Advisory Board. And we are moving forward with some Maple Street projects that are prioritized. So I'm meeting with finance to see if we can get some money out the door through you all to do some maintenance work up in Maple. Power capacity is a big question that's going on right now, and it has since I arrived. So as you know, we just heard tonight, this is the first time since 1981 that the urban growth boundary has expanded in Canby. And the folks at Canby Utility feel pretty good about sinking our... concept planning, urban growth boundary expansion, and demand in the next five plus years. So that's 2030, 2031. That power will likely be upgraded to serve industrial load. Speculation, of course. And just so you know, the talking point is in the next zero to five years, that's when those studies need to be done, which are very extensive studies that BPA and PGE require large load over a megawatt folks to do to determine if they can come into the system. We are meeting next week with CAMU Utility, Don, Jamie, and I on load planning because their reports are due to Bonneville Power for their planned load growth for the next 20 years. So that's going to be an exciting meeting that we will have with them. Your five-year budget update is coming, forecast that you've been calling for on October 21st, and a look at how we close the books on last budget. And I will take a pause there since we need a little time to talk about League of Cities legislative priorities, unless there's any other questions.

Sorry, I'm just dense, I guess. So when the... Canby School Board decided they wanted to levy. A whole bunch of signs appeared.

They had an organized independent campaign.

But that organized independent campaign could not have even started without them voting for it. So somehow there had to be some coordination involved.

I'm just saying. So here's the thing. If you and some other counselors or people in the community want to create a PAC that collects money to put out signs specifically for that, that is the only way to do it. Okay, so that's what happened with the... Correct. So the school board, the school said we're going out, we need to go out for a levy. There was a group of advocates... That was not necessarily spurred on by the school, but spurred on by a desire for it to see it pass. It created a PAC or a group that then funded all of that stuff. Now, the school put out information to say, look, this is the data of where we're at, where we'll be if this does or doesn't pass. But they couldn't say, we need you to pass this or else. So, yeah. So, if you wouldn't... The rest of us want to do it, then we can totally do it.

I would just think if somebody else could do it, we could probably do it because I understand.

That's how we would have to do it. We would have to create a separate group that is different from everything else.

The superintendent was out flopping for it. She was educating. Correct. It's a fine line, Daniel.

I'm not faulting her.

We're going to be educating.

If somebody else can do it, I think we should.

Okay.

It is 8.43. We have a discussion ahead of us. So I propose that we punt our pontifications to the next meeting and just talk about LOC so we can get done. Everyone's nodding. Okay. Mr. Mayor, do you want to lead this off or did everybody read their email? We got nods. Okay. Go ahead, Mr. Mayor.

Thank you, Council President Hendley. So, yeah, so what's been in your packet last meeting and hopefully and obviously in this one as well are the list of potential LOC items, so League of Oregon cities that they are seeking feedback on from cities to support. And what there are, I think I said in the email, 27 different items that the League of Oregon Cities feel that they could get out and support. And so what you see here in front of you, I think, are some notes that Randy, our interim city administrator, gone through and highlighted a couple. Council President Hensley and I met on Saturday this past weekend to go through the ones that Mr. Ely had highlighted, but also went through and looked at that list that I did send to you is about eight items long. The League of Oregon City is asking each city to submit five that they feel should be supported by League of Oregon City and therefore the other cities in the state of Oregon. It will help streamline when it's City's Day at the Capitol during the session. to be able to go through and speak to items that we feel are our priorities as well as that of just other cities in Oregon. So in that list of eight, we can narrow it down to five or we can just, or less than that. It depends on the council's flavor. So with that, I will open that up for discussion. I do have the... Eight in front of me if you want to start talking about that. Or if there's another flavor of everyone's conversation topics.

The picture before us has some pretty small fonts, so I can quickly read the email list. 2027 transportation package, infrastructure funding, water workforce development, maintain local control of a safer modern right-of-way, public meetings, law clarity, support increased energy transmission capacity, strengthen economic and workforce development, and cautious adoption of autonomous vehicles. Those are the eight before you. That's kind of what we figured would have the most impact potentially on CAMI. So any thoughts initially? Councillor Davis, then Councillor Waterman.

Mayor, we... Trying to get this down to five, or can we leave them the way they are?

Five or less is what they're asking at LLC.

Five or less, okay. All right, thank you.

Councillor Waterman?

Yeah. Or is there any additional documentation or information about what?

It's in the packet. A whole description of all 27 are in the packet.

In this packet?

In the packet that we got a week ago. In this online. Okay. In our council packet.

All right. I missed that one.

Council Patten, is that your finger up or are you just thinking?

Let me turn that on. Okay, here we go. I got green light. I'm good. So anyways, yeah, so I did look this over, and I kind of looked at the ones that had been highlighted, and some of the ones that I have on my list match what you folks put together, and some of them don't. And so I don't know how you want to... Well, let's start with the ones that match. So the ones that matched is the maintain local control of state modern right-of-way, right? State modern, yep. Support increased energy transmission capacity and the infrastructure funding. Those three of the five that rose to top for me match what you had there.

Okay. Before you move on, does anybody else have something that matches the list that he did mention?

Councilman Donato. Mine was infrastructure funding of my top three.

Okay. Was there something of your top three that is on our list but not on Councilman Pettis?

No. Well, the 2027 transportation and cybersecurity list.

So the ones that are crossed out are ones that we don't want to deal with? We feel that the Mayor and I thought they would have less impact on CAMBI than these items.

Okay, because I remember reading through them and I'm seeing some of the ones I read through and I'm like, okay, these are the ones not to read through.

So transportation package. So far, it's four that match.

Well, one of the things I even read through it, maybe I didn't read through it carefully enough, but some of the were quite vague. For example, transportation package, you could have a good one or you could have a very bad one. And what are we supporting, the good version or the bad version?

And that brings up a very good point. And the mayor and I talked about this because last time we put the package on and we ended up with a really crappy one that the voters had to go and tell them where to put that package. So the only way to... to navigate this, if we say that's what we want, which I have a hunch other communities will say that, we're going to have to be more proactive with LLC as to what we mean by that as far as what we want that to look like so they don't go advocating for this package and then say, well, you wanted a package, and so I'm advocating for a package.

So we would have to be- Any package is good, right?

Right. We would have to be more, if this is what they choose as one of the top priorities, we would have to be very definitive in what we meant by that. Mr. Mayor, do you have anything to add to that?

No, I think you encapsulated the conversation correctly. I mean, to me, the whole verbiage here is that the League of Oregon Cities is looking at us to say, yes, we want the League to be lobbying for a transportation package. To which point in our conversation and myself with a couple of the other mayors is, what is that package going to look like when it comes out? Because then that will require either cities that have staff dedicated to lobby and or us as counselors and mayors. to pivot and push back accordingly if on aspects of the transportation plan we don't agree with or we're going to be challenged by or take away certain aspects like the 50-30-20 rule from the cities. Yeah, I don't know. And all of these, here's the deal, everything in here, you know, yeah, by title and I guess the positive intent of these headings and the descriptions are there, right? But, of course, when legislators start writing bills under these categories, that's when, yeah, we continue to support that that movement, or how do we get involved and stay involved to help our representatives to create or fine-tune the language in the proposed legislation?

Thanks.

So I guess, so one of the reasons why, so I'm just going to throw this out here. Yes, I saw the 27 transportation package. And the reason it didn't come to the top of my list is the following. One, it's a hot freaking mess. It is a hot mess now. It's going to be a hot mess later. It's probably going to be several years before they even get anything figured out, if they even get there. Plus, I think a lot of other cities and a lot of other organizations have this at the top of their priority list. And so whether it is at the top of our priority list or not, we will most likely still get a say in the matter, right? Because it is such a huge deal. So to me, it's like, do I want to spend our voice beating a dead horse into glue, or can we take something else from this list that is maybe a bit more obscure that we can then put our... voice behind to try and get it to rise to the top. Because this transportation package is already at the top. We need to try and get some of the lower hanging fruit moved up. So that is why that one did not end up on my list.

Council Waterman, then Councilor Stearns.

If we were to try to look at maybe removing some of these, it's kind of interesting the verbiage for alcohol revenue modernization.

Brian and I already removed that one. Okay. The yellow highlights is what Randy gave us. Right. So we crossed a couple of his off and put a couple, I think six of his made it and we added two.

Okay, because what we see up here isn't.

Yeah, can you put the email up that Brian sent and put that list up? Is that possible? Yeah.

Because that's literally just taxes when we have a lot of wine and beer industry.

Real quick, can we extend our meeting like 15 minutes just so we don't cut off? Well, yeah.

Extend to 9.15? Yeah, we can do that. Okay, let's try to make it a hard stop then if we can.

So, well, Madam Chair. Yes. Well, that's coming up. I will just throw out. Yeah, but you have ones that didn't. So the two that made it to my list that was not on this was supporting municipal cybersecurity proficiency. All right. There is something that is, as AI continues to develop and as these scammers get more and more proficient in what they do, it is becoming easier and easier for them to take control of municipalities and really ruin their day. And so for me, any way that we can advocate as a smaller city to get those sort of resources from a larger block, is going to pay out dividends in the end because it's something that we might not be able to pay for ourselves, but it is something that we desperately need. And there's been several municipalities and districts and stuff in the state of Oregon that have been attacked and had this problem. So that is one that rose to the top.

So can we start addressing these one at a time so we can wrap this up? I agree with you, Jason. To me, that's an important one. Does everybody else agree? I've written it down a little bit. Okay, so there's one.

Yes. And then the other one that was on my list was invest in community emergency resilience and disaster planning. So we have done some of the disaster planning, but something that we have seen start to develop with the fairgrounds and stuff is investment in generators and stuff to help make the city more self-sufficient in a disaster situation. As we have seen with the fires this year and what we will probably continue to see as time goes on, I think it's important for us to really start to look at Plus with the whole thing that we've got going on with PGE and Bonneville with the whole power grid thing, really advocating for ourselves and other cities to start to become more energy resilient. whether it's battery farms or generators or whatever, I think that is going to be work that needs to start now because it's going to take several years to get that rolling. So that is the other one that rose to the top of my list.

Okay. Brian, you want to take that one? We kind of discussed on some of these things on the list, we felt that Canby was already kind of down the road on the work on that, and we didn't really want to lobby for other cities that need to catch up. We wanted to do things that were going to impact our town completely. Councillor Stearns and Councillor Davis.

I would like to... basically take a couple things off the list. One, I think the transportation package, because it's going to be there whether we're going to, whether we do it or not, and we're just as likely to oppose it as we are to support it, whatever they come up with, the transportation package. The same thing with infrastructure funding. Of course, unless we're advocating for specific funding for our city, we know there's going to be infrastructure funding in there. That's just part of the pork of being the legislature. They're going to throw that in there for their district, but but without any specific infrastructure funding, I don't know that we'd advocate for more infrastructure in Portland or more infrastructure, you know, in Medford. I mean, you know what I'm saying, for statewide levels. And the same thing, water workforce development, it just seems like I'm not sure how that's going to help Canby itself. So, I mean, I do like the public meeting law clarity. I do... Transmission capacity, because obviously we've had the problem with that with CAMBI. Strength in economic and workforce development, I'm just sort of scared of what the state's going to do for that. I can guarantee they'll get that one wrong. Yeah, so that's my comments right now. The ones we're likely to oppose, we should probably not support.

Well, the water work first development made its way on there with so many municipalities around us, including ourselves, working towards new water plants that it would impact us.

So this isn't, we're not necessarily saying that we're going to support, I mean, the whole point of this is this is where they're going to focus on helping make sure that we all come together and tell the state what we want them to do, right? That's the point of this, not we're just going to accept whatever these are the priorities that we accept.

We're directing the League of Oregon City's lobbyists in how we want them to represent us and in what areas are our priorities.

Right.

And they're going to whittle our list with Malawi and Estacada and Medford and everybody, Ontario. They're going to take all those lists and then they'll come up with their priority list.

Right. So I think, yeah, definitely infrastructure should be on our priority list in the water workforce and so forth. Because if we don't have our say, then somebody else is going to have their say for us. So I think we need to be involved in that.

Okay, so far I have five tick marks by infrastructure funding, so that one's going to stay. Okay. And we had, do we have any more to say about water workforce development? So how about just nod if that's going to be on your list. One, two, three.

I don't even know what that means.

Okay.

Are we cleaning up the river? I mean, are we putting boats in the river? What does that even mean?

It means water juice.

Drinking water, waste water. Oh, yeah, fine.

Okay.

Maintain local control of a safer, modern right-of-way.

So what does that mean, safer, modern right-of-way?

Mr. Hodson, Mayor Hodson, I see your hand up.

Yeah, thank you. To just kind of follow up on a couple of those things, I'm going to ask Randy to expand on the water workforce development piece here in a second, but I wanted to touch on kind of how this process has worked in years past. Council President Hensley hit on it. They're going to collect everything from the city they're going to come up with their list of the items and then at the League of Oregon Cities Conference they will present based on present their LOC slate if you will of initiatives that they want that we the cities have collectively said here are the ones that we feel are our priorities. And so then the representative from each city at the League of Oregon City Conference will vote on the slate either for or against, if that's the case. From that moving forward, then we as a group can look at, okay, well, we feel that maybe if we leave off, you know, the cybersecurity one. If we leave that off, we still feel, or that gets left off the list, we as a city still feel that that's important. Then we can, as, you know, council and mayor during, you know, city's day, go down and lobby our representatives to say, hey, this isn't the leaks, you know, not throwing any weight behind this. feel this is important and here's why. So I hope that explains, you know, that piece of that. You know, to Councilor Strunk's point about infrastructure funding, yeah, a lot of cities are going to be putting that as a key piece because a lot of cities are going to be, are in a similar situation we are with, you know, water treatment plant or wastewater or pick any infrastructure pieces that we are dealing with as a city. Other cities are dealing with it as well. So being at that table and being ones that are wanting to back some support or get some support from the League of Oregon Cities, I think is an important step for us to be taking with the infrastructure funding. Randy, can you explain? Yeah. Yeah. What was the one, the water workforce development?

Thank you.

Can you expand on that a little bit?

Yeah, just really quickly, the reason I selected it, a little personal bias, my nephew is in the business, he's in community college and training for water and wastewater treatment certification. So this supports those community college water, it's sort of like a trade, support for the trades, CTE, etc., So supporting those fields, it's very hard to recruit to those. And as I mentioned earlier tonight, we're fully staffed at wastewater treatment plants. That's cool. So that's why I, it's kind of Pollyanna, but you know, support, just like supporting fire trade or anything we can do on that front. Those are important technical certifications.

Are we seeing, I guess, those that are in that general area of employment, is that an aging bandwidth, much like we're seeing in the other trades?

I think our answer, Mayor, is yes. You're correct. Yes, and emphasis on trying to find those folks coming out of high school and community colleges that are looking for a good career job with a pension to get their eyeballs on wastewater treatment is... something that I can get behind. And I think that's what this is aiming. Emily, you've got it in front of you.

Yeah, I'll just chime in real fast. It is really notable that you are fully staffed with wastewater with folks with all the certs that you need. It is really hard right now for cities to recruit folks that have the levels of certification that cities need. So you guys are in a special spot, but I would say statewide it's kind of a big issue. Okay.

All right, we had that on our list along with infrastructure funding. We have two tick marks by cybersecurity so far.

Where are we at?

We have two. We need three more, and we've got ten minutes.

I'll do for cybersecurity.

Cybersecurity, anybody on board for that?

Yes.

Well, you were my tick in Maldonado, so now I've got Waterman.

Yeah.

And we need at least one more to say yay. Yes. No, you can't say yes twice.

Did you count me?

No. I'm the one that threw it out. Oh, I'm sorry. I see it. Okay, cybersecurity is on the list.

Me too.

Okay, sorry. I accidentally scratched it.

It's all right.

We're going all over the place.

Well, because I wrote support municipal, and then I couldn't read my own writing, so I crossed it off. Okay, and then we've got infrastructure funding, water workforce development, cybersecurity. We need two more.

I think public meeting laws clarity is definitely, should be on there because it's, ODEC is just cuss.

Okay, public meeting law. Infrastructure.

Makes no sense.

One more. If I may, real quick, I just want to make sure I got what I, so we're doing water workforce development, infrastructure, cybersecurity.

Public meetings law clarity.

Oh, okay.

So we need one more?

We need one more.

And from staff's perspective, I can guarantee you that the home rule, local control one's probably going to be on the top five list ultimately. Yes. Which one?

Maintain local control and safer modern right of way.

That'll probably make it anyway. Perfect. Okay, well, I can get behind that one.

Anybody want something different than that? I think actually that was on Patton's list.

Which one?

Maintain local control of right-of-way.

Yes.

Okay.

What does that mean? Is that what you mean, home rule? Like local right-of-way? Is that a different one? Yes. Okay.

Because I think right-of-way like a street or... Protecting the right-of-way, as folks use your right-of-ways to conduct business, the privilege of that is franchise agreements and just making sure that we have revenues, folks that are using our right-of-way to make gross revenues, that we have the flexibility to regulate those.

However, you believe that one's already going to make it. That is what I stated. Regardless of whether we say yay or nay on it. So if that one's already going to make it, we might as well vote on another one.

So we decided to increase energy capacity. I mean, it's on here.

You're talking about the transmission capacity?

I mean, isn't that like a major issue we're facing right now? I think we should.

That's something that we've been in discussions about.

Replaced right away with transmission capacity?

Yeah. Okay. 100%. Got it. Okay.

We have five.

There we go.

Mr. Merida, anything you want to add before we reread this list back to Maya? Yeah.

No, I missed that last part about you couldn't hear the energy transmission capacity comments. That is kind of a major thing we're dealing with.

Yeah, they replaced the right-of-way one with that. So the final list that we've ended up with is infrastructure funding, I hope Maya's getting this, water workforce development, support increased energy transmission, municipal cybersecurity, and public meetings law clarity. Okay, did you get all that, Maya? You can watch back if you can't read it. Okay, all right, action review. Oh wait, sorry, is there any, go back to citizen input. Oh wait, what?

How about council input?

We bumped council input.

We're moving it?

Yeah, we decided that before we started the LOC conversation.

Okay, I must have been at the bathroom. I would like to mention one thing that I'd like to, and I've got agreement with Tracy to move... To bring up the community, down at Community Park, we have a real problem down there in regards to campers and very large vehicles parking down there throughout the day. And we've got a lot of damage going on in Community Park. And I've requested another councillor's request to move our camping ordinance back in front of us again and ask staff to make a recommendation to us on what can be done to try to curtail having those very large motor homes down at the park. They put video cameras down there with the amount of damage that's going on there, but I've also received a lot of input from citizens that they're not going down there. They're just not going to go down there during the daytime. They feel unsafe. So we've moved the problem from next to residential areas, which is in the ordinance, you can't be in a residential area, yet they're right next to a residential area in community parks. There's that huge trailer park down there.

The back fence to those backyards is on that park.

So why are they allowed to be down in that park? So I'd like staff to make a recommendation to get to look at that ordinance and see what can be done with that because we're violating our ordinance by having them camp next to a residential area.

If I'm not mistaken, I remember there was a slight key to that where we had also stated they couldn't be in the parks. They had to be more towards the industrial area.

Well, they're going there at night, but they're staying down there until the park closes.

Yeah. So anyway, in a nutshell, we'd like to revisit that ordinance on a future agenda.

I'll support that as well as an agenda item if we need more councilors to put behind that.

Okay. Second opportunity for citizen input. Anybody want to input?

Sherry Patterson. I'm a member of the Lake Grove Fire District 57 and have been a CERT member for over 30 years. What I would like you to be aware of, the least expensive period of time to put in residential fire sprinkling systems is during new construction. And with your eventual planning on densifying, I hope that you will keep that in mind. And your fire departments will appreciate it.

Okay. Who are you with?

Lake Oswego.

Lake Oswego.

I live in Lake Oswego.

Okay.

I'm related to Alan Patterson.

Okay, thank you.

Anyway, I told them if we don't live in Lake Oswego, Canby is my next destination.

We will welcome you. Any other citizen input? Seeing none, action review.

You have approved the consent agenda, approved ordinance number 1685 to a second reading on October 7th, 2026, adopted ordinance number 1681, 1682, 1683, and 1684, and narrowed the LOC priorities to five. I'll take a motion to adjourn.

And there was a motion made by Council