City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening everyone. Everyone, today is April 7th, 2026, and this meeting of the Lake Ogo City Council is now called to order. Miss Hawkins, will you please call the role? Mayor Buck here, councelor Maboo here, councelor Wland here, sitting, councelor Verdick here, councelor Corrian here, and councelor Atkin here. Thank you. Thank you very much. Hi everyone, will you please stand, remove your hats, and join us in the pledge.

Welcome. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Okay. Uh we have one uh proclamation to um one proclamation tonight and that is ArabAmerican Heritage Month. We recognize ArabAmerican Heritage Month and celebrate the many contributions of ArabAmericans to our community and our country. We also proudly acknowledge Councelor Afghan, the first Arab-American to serve on our city council. It leadership reflects the strength and importance of diverse representation. You'll find our uh this proclamation as well as all other proclamations on the city website. And then we have a presentation coming from China, but I actually have I'm going to have a public comment uh go first because Chris and Carrie, it's just the two of you who have signed up. So, please come forward and if anyone else would like to provide public comment, please fill out a white form on the back table and bring it to Miss Hawkins. But it's great to see you, too.

Good evening. Good evening, Mr. Mayor, counselors, city manager, and staff. I'm Chris Derky, 2356 Glen Haven Road in Lake Asiggo. I'm accompanied by our co-director, Carrie Love, uh to give you a quick update on our campaign for uh bond uh ballot measure 3635 to fund the new Southshore Fire Station. Uh we have nine arguments in favor that have been filed in the voter pamphlet. Those are the only arguments either pro or con in the voter pamphlet. Uh, city council, thank you. Chamber of Commerce, school board, our committee, IFFF, local. Uh, one individual's heartfelt outpouring of appreciation for the first responders that came to her husband's aid, uh, 13 civic or organizations, 20 neighborhood associations and HOAs, and 118 individuals. We ran out of room on the letter. We would have had many, many, many more, but 118 was all we could fit in with the word count limit. The county told us that was a record. They'd never seen an argument for or against anything that had that many names on it. So, we have presentations. We've given about 20 presentations. We have six uh more coming up that are booked so far, plus a couple of farmers markets and other events.

Yes, thank you for having us this evening. Um Carrie Love. I live at 17061 Crest View Drive in Lake Asiggo and I am a co-chair of the Lake Asiggo fire station rebuild pack. Um I've been working a lot on the outreach to the community. I think our biggest um challenge is just notifying and getting the information out and educating uh our residents on the importance of the rebuild of the fire station. uh we are investing in mailers that will be going into homes right after the ballot in the end of April as well as right be uh May 12th will be our second and again that first will just be an educational telling the need we're really focusing on reliability of response as well as community safety not only for us as residents but also for our firefighters and paramedics. Um and then uh the second mailer of course will be return your ballot. So, we are in the thick of it and we're still getting out there in front of people. As Chris has mentioned, we are continuing with our art contest, which was all online. So, Mayor Buck, thank you for offering to um to be a judge for that contest. And we are getting any student in L, regardless of the school district that you attend, is able to participate, which allows us to get into multiple um schools in our district. They've been very helpful. And now you're going to be seeing yard signs and we're going to start canvasing. So more neighbors will be on the street talking to the residents about the importance of the Southshore Fire Station rebuild. And thank you for your time. Any questions?

All right. Chris, thank you very much for the update. Thank you for all your good work. Really appreciate it. Thank you so much. Thank you. Would anyone else like to provide public comment right now? Okay. And our friends at TRIT. Try is here to give us a regional update. I'd like to invite John Sarah and Grant Okonnell to join us. We're really glad to have you both here.

Hi. Hi, John. Hi, Mayor Buck. How are you? Good to see you. Good to see you, too.

Good evening, Mayor Buck and members of the Lake Asiggo City Council. My name is John Sarah and I'm the local government affairs manager for Trimet. Joining me tonight is Grant Okonnell. Our manager of service planning and development. Unfortunately, our chief public affairs officer, JC Vanetta, is sick tonight and was unable to join us. Thank you for the opportunity to join you all tonight to discuss Trimett's budgets and the and the actions that we have now formally proposed to address our deficit. One of the most challenging parts of this conversation is the conversation on cutting service. We first announced these proposed cuts on January 5th and we have spent the last few months engaging with your community members in Lake Asiggo and our many regional partners to gather feedback and identify the best path forward. You are an essential partner to us and we understand the changes to our network will affect riders in Lake Asiggo and throughout the metro area. And so we appreciate the city's continued engagement throughout this process and we look forward to our partnership as we work to secure the future of transit for this region. Tonight, Grant Okonnell is going to walk us through the specifics of our proposed changes to the local network. But first, I want to provide some context on TRIT's budget and how we arrived at this point. But most government affairs or most government agencies are facing budget crises right now. And I know that you all are seeing and experiencing this. You know how painful it is to make decisions to reduce services that your community members rely on. And today's con today's presentation gives a bit of context on how Trimett has reached the point of needing to cut service due to our budget challenges. the actions that we've taken already and then I'm going to hand over to the mic to Grant Okonnell to talk about the service changes in specifics. Next slide, please. Just to set the sta the stage of what we are facing, nearly 9,000 mass layoffs were reported in Oregon in 2025. An unprecedented level surpassing the cuts during the Great Recession, and Oregon's unemployment rate rose a full percentage point to 5.2%. its highest point since the pandemic and the third highest in the nation behind California and Nevada. The

office vacancy rate for the market raised to more than 27% during the last quarter of 2025, up from the previous quarter of 2026. In downtown Portland, the direct vacancy rate reached more than 34% also up from the previous quarter. more Oregonians are working remotely and this continues to be uh this continues to be impacting the amount of foot traffic in the Portland city center be as compared to before the pandemic because of the public safety challenges our communities face. We have also dedicated more money and more people to address the safety concerns that extend onto our system. While calls for police services, including crimes, have been dropping over the recent years, we must continue to focus on providing public safety for our riders and our employees. Next slide, please. The current status of Trimet and what we're facing. Our ridership is currently holding steady at about 1.2 million riders per week, and that's about 65.8 million boardings per year. You should know that about 35% of our riders are transit dependent. We know that they need TRAT to get where they're going, and we are a lifeline for many people in the community here. And we see this as both the enrollment and use of our fair program designed for people with low incomes has hit record levels in the last year. We also have started to see declining tax revenue, which you will hear more about in the coming weeks. In fair revenue, we continue to see a drop in our fair revenue. The post-pandemic drop in ridership has led to a drop in our revenue from fairs by about $60 million a year. Inflation has increased our cost by 56% over the last six years from 2019 to 2025. And while we've worked to create a safe and welcoming environment for our riders to welcome them back, that effort has also required a record amount of resources to increase security and cleaning on our system. We've made investments to reconfigure our network to serve the new needs of your community in a post-pandemic world. And we are dealing with a capital maintenance backlog of about $700 million, which is growing rapidly. Case in point, two of our bus garages are more than 40 years old and

will need to be upgraded or replaced in the coming years. For us to be a sustainable and reliable transit system, we must fix this problem now. We've set a goal to balance our budget by July 1st of 2028 to fix a minimum of a $300 million budget deficit. We've committed to cutting $93 million in administration. And we need to raise a minimum, I stress, a minimum of $48 million a year in new sustainable funding for transit. And we will need to cut service by at least $159 million. That's about 10% of our service by July 1st, 2028. And I would note that without new revenue, we will need to cut more. Internally, we've already begun making changes. We've cut roughly $150 million through efficiencies and an average of 5% reductions in administrative expenses for divisions across the agency. And we've made reductions in staffing, including internal reorganization of some work groups with the elimination of 68 positions and the layoff of 26 employees. We've cut plan service increases from our budget. And I will note that there are more significant internal cuts and layoffs ahead. Externally, we've increased our fairs for the first time in more than a decade. And we've appealed to our state legislators to increase dedicated transit revenue via the stiff program, although there's a great uncertainty about the future of that effort. We've also begun cutting service. And I want to tell you that cutting service is the last thing we want to do, but it is necessary as we work to bring our expenses in line with our revenues. On this slide, you'll see the two small service cuts that went into effect in November of last year and March of this year. The proposal that we are discussing tonight, which is planned to go into effect this August, and another necessary round of cuts coming in 2027. Before I hand over this presentation to Grant to discuss the proposal, I do want to quickly go over our outreach process for the first round of major service cuts we'll be making this August. We

started our outreach our outreach efforts. Something happened with the slide deck. Apologize. Uh there we are.

Thanks R. For the first round of major service cuts that we'll be making this August. We started our outreach in the fall and we asked people to write the types of cuts that we're considering. Our service planning team used that feedback to develop the proposal for specific lineby line cuts that we shared with the public in January. And in our outreach last fall, we invited comments through the many online channels that we have and with information posted at major stops and stations across the system. We hosted 13 multilingual events and partnered with community- based organizations to recruit participants and provide language interpretation along our bilingual staff. The survey asked people to rank the cuts we could make from cut last to cut first. We heard from over 4,800 respondents and heard strong support for beginning these cuts with strategic network efficiency oriented cuts. The types of cuts people said we should cut last were late night, weekend, and highfrequency services. These priorities helped us shape the proposal that Grant's going to share with you now.

Thanks for that preamble, John. Get that stage set. So, in my work in service planning, we before embarking on any type of change, we always just reflect black on our guidelines. Those being equity uh to consider those of most vulnerable demand where is the wrership the strongest productivity where is is wrership not only strong but relative to the investment um connections key destinations such as schools colleges and housing and then growth where where do we see growth happening in the future? Um this is a metric um that may be a little hard to follow but um rather a rubric that we use to evaluate um all of the different changes that we could possibly imagine doing. Um so most importantly uh any change would have to save. So things that were estimated to save uh the highest amount uh were key to look at for us. But also in the fourth column there, we from that survey that John referenced last fall, we got from the community sort of a priority things that the community thought they'd want us to see do first and and those that they'd like us to try to avoid. But there's also other things to consider um such as what is the wrership, what is the degree of impact? Is it is the bus coming two and a half minutes later or is it not coming at all? Um and what is the job access impact? One of our best roles in the community is getting people to work. And so we can do an analysis to to effectively see what each what each lines function is in our community to be able to get connect people to jobs and which lines have the biggest impact on that. Um what we see here is um network changes is is the one that we and and the green line is essentially that the

green line and the network changes were the two top things that both saved a lot had lesser impacts and the community said do this first. When I talk about network changes, the idea is try to think about was was the community was saying try to think about where you can serve the same people but with fewer numbers of lines. And and the green line is exactly the best example of that. It starts at Clakmus Town Center, goes up I along I 205 and then runs along the Bfield into downtown Portland and down to PSU. And from where it turns to go west, it runs on top of the max, blue, and the red lines. So we have three different lines all going from Gateway on into downtown. And so if we end the green line there and ask folks to consider a transfer, we're we're still preserving that journey. That journey is still possible, but we're expending far fewer resources to do so. And those were the types of that's the best example of what the community said. Lean into that. Focus on that. focus on an efficiency approach because the same journeys will still be possible um and you actually yield a significant amount of savings. And so there's some examples of that in Lake Asiggo. But where the community said to steer clear of was FS and for us internally at Trimet that means frequent service. So where buses run uh higher frequency every 15 minutes or better those most notably especially and I think it's reflected in the job access impact over 75% of the um are where our frequent service buses run happen to also be where the highest concentration of trips are in the region and so uh the community said uh don't touch those and they happen to impact a lot of rides. So that just kind of gives you a little window into the framework of thinking of how we developed our our proposal. This

is again a menu of all the things that we looked at. And now here's a distillation um the things that we didn't take called out uh didn't do. and and this is reflective of how that uh proposal overall networkwide scored um to yield high savings but also follow what the survey said to to do these things first. So, specifically zooming into Lake Asiggo in the current network, um you have line 37 starting at the Twitin Park and Ride operating on Boon Ferry up to Country Club and then on to into um downtown Lake Asiggo here where we are today. Um we are proposing to combine that with line 96. And this is a full circle moment for me. I worked with your staff 11 years ago to design that streetscape project through Lake Grove on on on Boonferryy with excellent sidewalks and bus pullouts. And while this o this package overall is is a reduction in service, but but by taking you know that efficiency approach, we have Line 96 today operating on the freeway and when it's on the freeway, it can't make any stops, right? it can't serve anybody other than where it picked up at the park and ride. By taking it off the freeway, we're actually doing essentially what the community says. Try to do the same thing but with with lesser resources. So take that bus off the freeway, put it on Boone's Ferry and suddenly that community where you're building an affordable housing project and and you made that great investment in bus stops those many years ago um is now going to see a one seat ride uh on through Mountain Park and into downtown Portland with express trips. And we've effectively uh replaced line 37 with something arguably better. Um the 38 line that today is the blue line that comes out of Portland and circles

through Mountain Park and then cruiseway and down 72nd to Swallaton Park and Ride. Um we're essentially uh lpping off the Multma County portion of that line and sending it to Barber Transit Center, but merging it with Line 97. So you now from Barber Transit Center through Mountain Park, Cruiseway 72nd and Towal and Sherwood Road. Mountain Park now has uh one seat connection to the growing employment centers um along Twel and Sherwood Road such as Lamb Research and and many of the other high-tech and and warehousing and distribution um jobs along that research that course. And we've saved the Multma County portion of that line. Um, line 78, no change there. Line 35, no change there. But then there's line uh 153 operating on McVey and Stafford. Um, that route uh is is only about a year to a year and a half old. It's newish. It was frankly a bit of an experiment. Um with uh you know hearing some advocacy from West Lynn, we launched that line running uh south out of the the transit center here in Lake Asiggo from uh McVey to Stafford then along Rosemont and Salamo down into West Lynn. But as you see here, we have standards for what we sort of expect upon for the community to to realize out of an investment in service. Historically, we expected 15 boarding rides per hour and that would mean at cost per ride about 10.53. Now, you know, ridership is changing as we note and so we've lowered our standards recognizing that, you know, that those standards may not be achievable um in a where we've got tremendous work from home rates. Um brought that down to eight and 24 and

now in 2025 it's down to six. But line 153 is is only averaging two rides per hour that vehicle is out on the road, which means the operating cost per rider that we're subsidizing there is around $76 per ride. Um, put into context, the line 35 that runs on State Street out there, um, you know, sees 14 boarding rides per vehicle hour while it's out. So that line is proposed along with line 82 out in Gresham. The two lines that are not being recombined in any other way, but just outright proposed for elimination. We are required to do a title six impact looking at the disproportionate burden on low income or any disperate impact to minorities. And um this proposal in total does not uh show to have any of those impacts. Uh what it does though also impact is is the lift. This is door-to-door paratransit service available for those um who have disabilities preventing them from accessing the fixed route system within 3/4 of a mile of any fixed route. So any bus line or or max line in our system, we are required by ADA to provide um door-to-door lift service for those who demonstrate an inability to use fixed route. Um but with the elimination of lines 153 and 82, um we would be retracting that boundary from which um areas where lift service would be available. Though we note in particular for here in Lake Asiggo line 153 and this is combined with Westland. So those numbers I don't have a Lake Asiggo specific breakdown but combined with Lake Asiggo and West Lynn that affects 11 addresses. Um so that is uh one way to slice the

impact of this proposal. Um we did uh we have already gone out to the public and done outreach on this. We did um postings at all the affected stops, mailing 200 253 physical addresses systemwide for where we identified an impact. We had on street customer service team engaging writers and and major news release pushes. Um we also had 16 events uh throughout the region with 783 participants and that yielded uh you know 8,100 responses. The top themes um were concern about disruption to work commutes, increased weight time and but also frankly general appreciation. That's a point of pride for me. I think about um if you think back into the big picture of what all we're doing that max green line for context is of a 5% uh cut represents 2 a.5%. And by by by doing that efficiency approach like the line 96 pulling it off the freeway, those types of changes where we try to still serve the same population but with fewer resources actually means that that list boundary contract is contracting quite a bit less commensurate with the level of service impact. And I think the community recognized that that that while um as painful as this is this process by leaning into those survey results um folks are actually generally pleased with the results you know broadly speaking understanding there's still targeted and localized impacts. So that is our proposal. Happy to take questions.

Thank you gentlemen. I'm sure we'll have questions. I just have two quick uh questions. the the so the new 96 how does it compare in frequency to um the current 37? Uh roughly the same. So the 37 only operates in the peak hour today and the 96 uh proposed will actually do so but with more trips. The 37 is about three trips in the peak hour. The 96 will have five. So that will be an increase in frequency for Boon Fairy Lake Gro area. That's five trips per

per peak uh period. So generally, you know, there's AM peak and PM peak uh when people are most likely either going to or or coming home from work. So I'm I'm talking about five trips in the AM and then again five trips birectionally in the PM peaks. So 10 trips total.

What's the total cost savings of the of the cuts to the lift in just that that area of L and Westland identified on the map? Um I do not have that information. I can we can get back to you. That was not a stated our our process was to focused on reducing cost on the fixer router route side and whatever costs yielded on the lift boundary side was was not part of the goal. So not freshly tracked in my mind. Um I'm more aware of the fixed route side but we can get back to you on that. Was there any It just seems like a relatively I mean it's folks who I imagine are dependent on the service. It's not even that many people yet it will be dramatic to them.

And we we do know Mayor Beck, we do know exactly who those folks are and we are working with all of them directly to try and figure out solutions. There are other opportunities for them with some other ride services that are in the area. So we're working with those folks each individually to try and resolve their issues. Okay. because I know even we do some um picking up from the ACC and I don't know if that's even a partnership between tryment and the city is would be more efficient. No, no. Oh, let's Okay. Uh council.

Yes. I thank you very much and I think it's kind of difficult to see that we have to cut all of this. And the first question I have one question that's very important to me is Leos we go we pay I'm an employer and I pay for the primate tax. What I wanted to know how much payroll is collected from Lake Kosfigo annually from our businesses and how much does the service cost to serve Lake Kosfigo? Because when I pay $100, I expect a service at at least $90 or 95. But if we we collect all, I want to know the number and how much it cost like what the ridership in Lake Oiggo annually and how much you collect from Lake Oiggo cuz it's that's my first question.

Okay. Thank you, counselor. I'm happy to look into that for you all. Um, specifically the number that uh, Lake Asiggo pays into the payroll tax. I don't know that number offhand. Um, I'm sure that we would be able to figure it out. Um, in terms of what the value is that Lake Asiggo gets out of the system. I do want to be very clear that part of the value is not just every moment that a bus spends within the boundary of Lake Asiggo. It is also the access to the entire network that the trime service provides to Lake Asiggo. I understand that everyone here's highest priority is probably uh how much service we provide directly to you, but I do want to be very clear that it's hard to quantify that number in the way that you are looking for it because part of the value is the network. No, the the reason I'm asking the question is Lake Kosigo is very poorly served by trimeat and it's not fair like you I understand that yeah we they minoritized the areas that we have to serve that's a I think it's the role of the state to do that but lakeo should not serve as a places when its own people cannot be served correctly ly that's my question like you know it's a matter of fairness because we always talk about fairness we can participate in the big jar where we put the money for the whole the entire the you know for everybody but we have also to be served and uh very often places like Lake Oiggo very often because you live here when you repair things it's higher because you live here when you ask for a grant even for the school oh no you won't get it but yet we are

participating in these things so we need we expect we want our city to be a green city which mean we want we which means we want more ridership so that we leave our cars at home we have an aging population that want to move. It's very difficult to go from here to the other side of town. We are even thinking of shuttling ourselves. While we are putting money, maybe if we get part of that money, it would be easy for us to have our own shuttles that will go from that serve our population. And that's I think the idea of fairness. And uh my second question is like how do you get like Why did you have because this is a big loss and if you were not on public agency you would go bankrupt. Anyone if it was my business that were on your position we would be shut down. So my question is how did try get to this mess this financial mess?

Well thank you. I would I respect that question and I would ask I would actually humbly point out that frankly many employers are laying off and going bankrupt right now. Inflation a cost of delivering service has gone up 56% due to inflation and that is affecting the community and I see that every day. Um so that's number one. Number two really is that ridership. We we do we charge a fair. It has been a fact since we were before we were a government agency. We charge fair. And so before the pandemic if someone rode try 5 days a week that's two round trips a day. That's a 100% that that's 10 trips in a week. That's 100% wrership. Well, now even if somebody works from home just one day a week, that's a 20% drop in paying a fair. So wrership is is down right now hovering around 70% of prepandemic levels. And so because we charge a fair that is affecting our bottom line. Then third is the safety and security aspect. um you know we have but my hope is someday we might be able to pull back on that but we don't feel like we're there yet. We have had to expend quite a considerable amount of resources to be able to make sure that folks feel safe and and comfortable to ride. So those are the answers to your questions from my perspective. I don't know if you'd care to add to that.

We certainly understand your concern counselor. Um, I just would think to add to Grant's comments, um, that one of the ways that we think about our funding is how we are good stewards of the public funding because, as you said, these are your tax dollars that we're using. Um when we are talking about providing a ride that comes at the subsidy of a level like $75 per ride, um that is far outside the subsidy that are provided for riders on other lines with more ridership. And it is hard for us to justify continuing to pay for that subsidy to serve so few riders when there is so much need out there. And I understand that this may not be the answer that you want to hear, but this is just this is the constant push and pull of of the opportunity cost that we are working with. And I'm happy to work with you more about some of the information on specific dollar amounts that you're looking for and how we can continue to partnership with like uso to improve writership with the service that we have and get to a better place in the future.

And we would we get the number like of the payroll taxes we paying for? Yes, I can look into that for you. Absolutely. Yeah. And

I think to build on um councelor Boop's questions, I mean it does seem like there's perhaps a growing mismatch between who's paying for the system and how the system is used, you know, and and so how does try I mean if if we're seeing decline from the report, decline in payroll tax revenue and we have more decentralized employment, more you know remote uh work and other um you know ride share options. What's the long-term plan? You know, we're looking at all of the different options for future funding opportunities with TRAT right now. We will be going back to the state legislature in 2027, hopefully with a coalition of partners looking at the stiff increase. Uh the governor has convened a task force looking into what other possible opportunities there are to fund and change the way that we fund transit in the region. Um we are looking at that as an opportunity to bring over bring across broad stakeholders from business and government um and communities and folks like yourself uh to try and figure out the way forward that it that does feel like a fair and equitable way to do this. Um I don't have specifics on exactly what other opportunities we will be looking for for funding right now. I'm happy to engage with you those on those when we have them. Um but we're we're considering all options at this point. I just wonder if it's I mean because you know we all engaged in the discussion down the state and it's just more of the same system and I think a lot of the push back you're receiving is because we rely on this payroll taxed kind of workbased commute-based system but that's not really what the system is anymore that's not really who the system is serving and I think crime's going to continue to receive that same political push back and you're facing really it's a challenge you have both you know systemic financial challenges and then political challenges because of how the system is funded

that's right but it would be great if trimeat could lend a voice because I think a lot of people would be willing to support a broader base because it's really a public good. It's not a business-based system, but it's paid with a business-based tax. You know, I think that leads to a lot of the uh the push back. And so going and just telling more employees they have to pay for a system that they can't use,

you know, it's just too narrow given the broader base, you know, and given and and given the data. And I know I would be, you know, standing right beside you working for something broader based and getting away from this system, which I think just creates real polit both, you know, like I said, political and and and systemic challenges, you know, for us because we need the climate system. I mean, our our climate plan as a state relies on a good transit system and many people rely on it. But to put that all on the shoulders of employers when that's really not the system we have anymore, it's just going to lead to constant conflicts, you know, that I'm sure you're encountering in every jurisdiction that you're

That's right. We see that. Um, so another point that I'd like to add for you all is we do have our regional coordination program and that is funding that TRAT passes through to the counties and our local service providers like Ride Connection and some of the local Clackmus County uh shuttle services. Those are actually funded in large part by TRAT with our regional coordination program. Mayor Buck, we've talked about this extensively in the past. Um, you know, we see to your point, we see these locations where it seems that fixed route service is not always providing the service that you as local electeds are looking for for your community. Um, we hear you that you are looking for shuttle services. Um, which is not the core of what provides. U, but we do provide for those services with our regional coordination funding and the funding that we provide. Um if there were an increase in the stiff in the past when we had looked to do that during the last legislative session we had hoped to increase the funding for the regional coordination program and also the funding that's going directly to the regional uh to the local service providers. Those things independently would go a long ways towards providing some of the services that you all are looking for and some of that would be done with trimets funding. So we want to continue to think about these partnerships. We know it's a dynamic situation and we want to make sure that we're able to move forward together because that's really the only way that we'll be able to figure this out.

Thank you, John. Uh councelor Afghan.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh I have three question. The first question is yes or no answer. when you eliminate well first of all I believe the state has this law that if you are within half a mile of uh transit lines you don't have to have parking uh or garages. So if I my memory serves me correctly, when you eliminate lines, do you look at how it impacts the residences in that area that don't have uh parkings or they need to have parking? Yes. But can I add to that?

Sure. Uh I would say that I think you're talking about the climate friendly, equitable communities, CFAC requirements. Those are for frequent service lines. Uh those are for uh housing developed along frequent service lines. We are not we are not proposing to cut any service along a frequent service line. Okay. Thank you. Grant, do you have something? Well, it's it's actually also the inverse of what you're saying. It's it's saying that if if you are along a frequent service line, you can relax your parking requirements. Um, so it it's functionally it works what you're described, but it's the inverse of what you're saying.

That that was a right answer by the way. Thank you. Uh, next question is I'm hearing a lot of effort into efficiency and when I stand back and look at your criterias like equity, demand, sometimes those two go against each other. And Lake Asiggo has a lot of service people who come and work and go back to their homes. And I'm not sure how these eliminations of lines affect those people who are the most uh population who need these services. So what are commitment to make sure that the cities like Lake Asiggo who have a lot of service people are served the right amount of service? Did my question make sense?

Yes, it did. I'm just trying to think of exactly how I want to answer. I I would say that you are right in identifying one of the tensions in our service planning and Grant can expand upon that. Um but I would say that the intention of this proposal that we have made was to do the least of amount the least the least effect to the fewest people. So even as we make these cuts and based on the feedback that we've gotten from the community, I I think that we have attempted to at least harm the fewest people because we know that this is going to harm someone no matter where we do this and we do need to do this because of our budget situation. Um, so I don't know exactly how to respond to your question of of what kind of commitment can we make to a communities that have a large service worker population other than the fact that no matter where we are looking to make changes, we are trying to do the least harm to the fewest people

and the least harm to fewer people. That's awesome. But when we talk about equity, when we have people who cannot afford uh having their own apartment and they're living at somebody's ADU along the line that is being eliminated. Yes.

So when I look at those kind of things, the efficiency part of the conversation doesn't make sense for me because we're supposed to take care of the people yet we're looking at it as a business. But Mayor Buck just said, "We're in the business of providing service for people, especially those who need us." I'm not sure if we can answer that question right now. But that's something I want you to walk away with that our city has a lot of people, service people who come and then go home. How do we take care of them from the equity part of it, not from the demand part of it? Thank you. Next question is I'm also hearing a lot of continuous improvement. Well, if we go from Clackamus Town Center, go up north this way. The right now we know where the land use boundaries are. We know where the jobs are. We know where populations are. Have you stand back and look at the big picture and say if we were to do this over right now not efficiency continuency it's like forget about what's existing how would we do this have we done that we did through forward together that that was the main point of our forward together project was to say the the the old paradigm of commuting to downtown Portland for commute hours 5 days a week is no longer. And we did redraw our map of what we envisioned that would be, but we we drew it to a

different budget target than than we now have because we were at that point um aspirational that if we did so, we would recapture the writership that we had lost. Well, what's changed is is not that that map is incorrect. Uh we are still if you if you really are a nerd and and look at what we're doing with our routes, you still see us following forward together, but we're doing it with lesser frequency because um that that it was built around a premise that if we if we reorient to the new normal, we could recapture writership and and therefore fair revenue, which is part of our funding stream. and and that just we had to reach a tipping point and acknowledge that um we weren't going to get there that that we could not recapture enough writership to make up for the old paradigm of of the commuter 5day a week. And so we're we're still working towards a vision where where there are more cross town trips. There are more services and more places that aren't oriented towards downtown Portland. We're still working like you just saw. I'm I'm working to recognize that that line 38 that today goes to downtown Portland, we're essentially reconfiguring it to go to the warehousing and distribution centers where there is still in-person work where you have to still show up 5 days a week in Twallet along Twit and Sherwood Road over that that old model of of the worker be in downtown Portland. So I think we're still doing it. We're just working to a different bud budget target than we were a few years ago would would be my longer answer to your question. I don't know if I heard redesigning everything based on today's

information. Again, I heard a lot of efficiency, productivity. How can we make this better as opposed to redesign everything with a clean slate? And that's okay. That's okay. Again, I I don't know if you can answer that uh question right now, but we have over 80 lines and forward together touched 90% of them. It was drawn with a clean slate approach envisioning or orienting our service towards a new paradigm uh that where folks are not always going downtown. So it was a clean slate approach. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks, Councelor Afghan. Councelor Woodland.

Well, I don't envy the two of you to go around to all the city councils and talk about service cuts. Um you guys uh I grew up as a younger person in the area and you know you just threw 35 cents in the um till and you got on a try bus and every it was safe, it was frequent um it was doing everything with the poster child of of uh transit whatever and and the paradigm has changed. Um and I I think one thing that um to councelor Afghan's um question uh is really at the 30,000 foot level are it it seems like we're um still using the same parameters of the transit system and part of it is max is fixed. We can't really just move that around. Um, but the current bus system that we have, uh, there's we're cutting routes and we're not necessarily adding routes, but I'm concerned about the people that have never really had the service. Um, and to councelor Afghan's point, all the people, if we redid the entire system, would we be serving more people now? um that a could be revenue generators um and also uh um adapt um to the new um commuting figurations. Um, I don't know if I'm making sense, but I you're looking at routes that exist and that you're adding and and I I don't know if we're necessarily servicing the metro area in the best way um by

keeping all the routes and just um changing uh the parameters on them. I'm looking at, have we thought outside the box and said, "Geez, we've got 1,200 people that work in Lake Asiggo that work at Nike. Why don't we have a um a service that takes people from Westland and Lake Asiggo to Nike or to Intel?" Um, and I haven't heard that sort of out of box thinking. Um, I look at like San Francisco where the private world uh has there's Google buses, there's Facebook buses, there's, you know, all kinds of different buses that, uh, people get on and they, you know, they go on a coach, it has, uh, internet connection and they get back and forth. Now granted, you might tell me that, okay, these are the rich and snobby people who have stock options with Facebook and whatever, but they are still um revenue paying. And I think you have to look at your revenue side to boost that up. Um because I I mean, if you just continue to cut and cut and cut and cut, pretty soon there's nothing left to cut. Um I guess I'm just trying to find out. Listen, if when I go by a try bus, there's hardly anybody on it when I drive by. Yes, I drive a car and I look, why don't we get shorter buses or um maybe that doesn't make sense. Maybe it does. Um in my business, we adapt or die. Um and uh we've reinvented. I've had a company for 25 years and if you knew it from the day I started it and today um we've evolved four times um completely different

same people many of the same people but we have completely readjusted and adapted and I guess that I don't hear enough about that in the headlines of saying hey what are the true needs um of of people that maybe even aren't served now with the current lines that could be served. So I guess opportunities um that's my part and and when it says the you know you want to do the least amount of harm to the fewest people you almost are saying to the current people instead of potential people and that's where I would say to open up maybe a little bit of the lens um to say what opportunities are we missing in the regional area that we could add revenue um to help support some of the other services that that we do. Um, it's a hard problem. There's no doubt. And you guys I I'm I know you go to work and try to fix it. Um uh and I'm just hoping that the leadership and the political people are willing to say, "Hey, maybe we need to um open up some options and have a real um uh hard conversation to say um if we're going to do this regional transportation, right, what are some opportunities that we could maybe get into that are not just cutting our current services, but things that we could be um looking at And maybe you've already done that. Um, but uh, if you have, you guys need to get the message out because I'm a pretty avid reader of lots of I mean, I I read a lot about policy and and things and and I don't see enough of those u bullet points. I see too many of upward cutting and you know and revenues

not hitting targets and and uh pre- pandemic um try was already challenged to uh you know we saw I mean I remember a meeting with trimet in my early years um before the pandemic where we had growth curves that you were trying to hit from before pandemic to meet budgetary um challenges. So, um it's a world of hurt now where you're minus writership and higher costs. So, anyway, um I don't envy your position, but I thank you for doing it and being um really soldiers in the cause um to make um uh better transportation options for people. Um, I just think we need to think out outside the box a little bit um and look at new revenue streams and and new ways of doing things. Easy for me to say, but um um uh that's the challenge.

Council President, I really appreciate your comment. Uh we agree with you. Uh I want to assure you that it may not come through on a slide deck presentation, but we are constantly looking at different opportunities. We're trying to take a wide a wide lens to look at how we can think uh and innovate in this space. Um even some of the examples that you mentioned, we've been thinking about shorter buses. Yes, we've thought about shorter buses. There may be an opportunity for that in the future to better serve some of the more rugged terrain in Clackamus County that it's hard to get a 40ft bus on. Part of the problem there is uh the biggest cost um when gas and diesel isn't so expensive uh for driving a bus is actually the operator and not just the bus itself. Um so it doesn't solve as many problems as you think it does. Um but it could solve some problems and we are trying to think creatively and tackle some of those problems. Um I would love to talk with you more about your ideas and what you're thinking um and sort of bring you into that conversation a little bit more. It's hard to do. um you said that it's not coming through in the news media and the public sphere very much. I would agree with you. It is hard to share that kind of information uh and get that out to folks right now. Um information about challenges and other things happening on the try system are usually getting more views uh and more often are picked up by news and um we would love to talk with you more and have your help to get some of the good news out when that is happening. Um there was a lot that you said and I I'm trying to respond to all of it. I would I would love to talk more with you about it though because I think that there was a lot um that you said that we agree with and would love to partner on. Grant, I don't know if you

Yeah, I just really appreciate the the the spirit with which you deliver that that that you you're interested in looking to help and we are I my email is and phone number is available and open. I would hap happily work through any idea that one that people have. I I didn't choose this career to be a transit Grinch. I chose this career to be a transit Santa. And so if I can find a way to find get back to the Santa spirit, I am all ears. Um I minor thing I would just point out, you know, the Google Facebook buses are are paid for and operated by them, not because the transit service doesn't do what they want it to do,

right? But but the spirit is there and and I I that should not take away from what I said. I I really sincerely appreciate we are open to ideas and would love to partner with anybody to figure out a way to do some stuff that would increase wrership. So

and council president, one other point uh that I wanted to make to you is that I I hear from you and from many others um a very valid concern that there are large groups of people in demand that we are just currently not servicing. Um and certainly there is demand that we're not able to meet. That's part of the constant, you know, the challenges of operating a constrained system with constrained resources. Um but we have done a lot of research into where that demand is. Um we have done a transit market index study for the region to determine um where the riders are and if there are places that are glaring gaps and where service is not but there are people who want to ride and where they want to go. Um so I'm happy to talk with you a little bit more about that. But I just wanted to assure you also that that's something that we're thinking about too. We're always happy to take feedback from you all if you are seeing parts of the community that you think we're not taking into account when Grant and his team are doing this very data heavy planning that they're doing. Um, but I want I want to be clear that it is something that we're trying to think about and and get that answer as well because we want to serve those people. If they're out there, we want to give them service. Well, I think we see the um you know, like councelor was saying, I mean, the the the region has been changing for decades now, and this is before any of our time, you know, um and think back to even in the late 90s when JPAC adopted like a new transit model and then nothing ever happened with it because that's when when employment was changing. There was growth out in Washington County, Clackamus County, and the employment center of downtown was already then changing. So I know the current story is oh it was co well it's not co you know I mean it as a region we have just refused to change we've sat on our hands for all these years and now here we are I know someone asked earlier like why are we here councelor boo like all of a sudden and it's and it seems like that because now people are waking up to wow this is

huge pending impending fiscal cliff at try but it has been coming for a long time I think um a lot of people echo councelor's comments is like well we're not going to cut our way you know out of this like the system needs real structural changes. This year, Lake Asiggo, Westland, Sherwood, and Towalton, we all set council goals and are working together to address the transit needs of our communities and we'd love for Trimet to be a part of that. We'd love for you to be getting the ears of more um suburban communities into what their different needs are in the system so that we can work together and we can work together on long-term um more sustainable funding solutions for that system as well because it is so important to to to residents all throughout the region and to our broader goals uh as a region too. So I just really though want to thank you both for taking the time to be here tonight. Um it's not an an easy job, but we we do not want to just see the the the us to continue down this same challenging path and it will take and we tend to do this in Oregon. You know, structural problems abound. It's not just in transit like left and right, city funding, everything. And we just say no to this, no to that. Oh well, that this is we just take everything off the table and we just keep doing the same thing. Um, so hopefully we can all work together to achieve some different results and just so thanks for your as always for your collaboration and your partnership and your time here tonight.

Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Buck. We appreciate you and the city of Lake Asiggo. Um, and we we share your concerns and want to work together. Thank you, John. And sorry, JC couldn't be here tonight. We apologize. We miss him. Yes. Thank you. But you're wonderful. You were great. So tell him we appreciate that, Council President. Thank you. Okay. Um, now, uh, we move on to the consent agenda. There are two items on the consent agenda. Resolution 26-7-17. It's an IGA with Clackamus County and approval of meeting minutes from some of our February and March meetings. Is there a motion to adopt the consent agenda? Move to adopt the consent agenda. Second that.

Motion made by councelor Corgan, seconded by councelor Afkin. All those in favor say I.

I. Any opposed? Okay. Motion passes 6. Right. And now on to council uh business. We are going to discuss and approve the work plans for the 2026 council goals and initiatives invite our assistant city manager, Miss Felen. Talk to us about the work plans. Good evening. All right. Uh, good evening, mayor and city council. My name is Megan Failen. I'm the assistant city manager. And I just wanted to first take a moment to say thank you again for such a productive um, inspiring, inspirational, informative uh, council um, goal setting session that we had last month. And also want to thank certainly the executive team who was there as well um, to to have conversations with council about the various different goals you guys were considering for 2026. As you may recall, that resulted in 22 initiatives under eight overarching goals. 14 of the 22 initiatives are being carried over from the previous year. Goals and initiatives were adopted at your last council meeting on March 31st and work plans have been developed for each initiative that outline the key elements and milestones and are before the city council this evening for approval. Specifically, the question before city council is whether the work plans properly articulate the scope of the initiative, identify the right key elements, establish the appropriate level of community engagement, and set realistic expectations or milestones rather to complete the work. City council may also recall that during goal setting, there were approximately six work plan items that did not fall into any one of the adopted initiatives. In my staff report, I addressed each one of those items and provide a proposed response plan on how each of them will

be addressed and or implemented. The executive team and other city staff are here this evening and are happy to answer any questions city council may have about the work plans or the work plans um items that are addressed in the staff report. And with that, we'll take any questions. Thank you so much. Yeah, very detailed reports. Colleagues, any questions? Can we add some more? No, I'm just kidding. Um, I wanted to identify the one. We had a goal around the It's our goal around um, uh, assistance to students, some of the students in town and the housing. Um, let me find it here.

Mayor, I believe you're referring to the advocate for and explore partnerships to strengthen resources that subsidize affordable housing properties. Yeah. For the children who live there. Yes. Exactly. And I just want to and let's see I mean we don't have to obviously you know make a just so it's I was thinking on that we would work you know it's a different goal not anything that it's really in as we talked about it goals in our um so I'm just trying to so many more plans here number page 60 on page the whole

um but anyway I was thinking we would collaborate on that both with um with the county as the um provider of the supportive housing services dollars obviously then with the housing providers uh themselves, the local housing providers and then um and then with the school district um as well on that at least as initial kind of um partners in doing that looking at how to best approach that.

Yeah, I think absolutely. My understanding was there was a meeting approximately about a year ago with some of those similar stakeholders and as identified in the plan we would arrange and hold that that meeting. It's been about a year maybe a little bit year and a half later to um reassess the situation. My understanding is a lot of those partners were at that initial meeting as well. Yes. Yes. That makes good sense. We're happy to do that. Anyone else? Everything look good? No. Okay. Is there a motion to approve the work plans? I move to approve the work plans. Is there a number? Second. No, it's just approve the work plans. Yeah, I I move to approve the work plans.

Thank you, councelor Korean, and seconded by councelor Windland. Any discussion? Right. All those in favor say I. I. I. Any opposed? Okay, that motion passes 6. Thank you and the team for all the hard work putting these plans together. Yeah, it just a lot of work in these. Thank you. And as a reminder, we'll be back for a quarterly update so we can keep you updated on our progress towards completing these initiatives for this year. Thank you, Megan. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Okay. And now uh we have the 2025 Lego Police Department annual report. Invite Chief Burke and Captain Simon. Join us. Good to have you both here. Sorry, I'm trying to fit in the chair. All the stuff on. Taking a second. I didn't put as much on. You ready with the uh I think we are. Yeah. Well, in a second, I suppose. Yeah.

Okay. Good evening, Mayor, members of council. I'm George Burke. I'm the chief of police department. Captain Simon is here with me for the presentation tonight. I think over the last several years, we become accustomed to the presentation that we make to kind of give you the state of the union when it comes to our our police department. I can't say how proud I am of the work that our members the members of our organization do uh in representing this community and I think that shows through especially when take a look at some of the survey results that have shown uh how pleased our community is with the service that they provide and what they receive. We say that and I I will tell you that we'll talk about some of the state of the organization when it comes to our organizational chart and positions within the organization. Um we have done things a little bit different over the years and uh for the first time I think that I've come before you I can say oh knock on wood that lowcom our communication center is fully staffed. U we have uh made some adjustments in LOCOM a little bit. We've moved some other nonsworn positions to to beef up the ability to do the job. um and provide 24-hour service to the communities that we provide service to. And I am super proud of the work that they've done. We have two folks who are ready to uh to get out of their training program and hopefully get into uh dispatching on their own. So, not only will we be full staff, we should be full we'll be full strength and full train, I hope. So, that's my knock on wood moment. As I shift to talking a little bit about where we are with our police department and our sworn positions, um we are currently uh we have two vacant positions. Um that doesn't sound like a whole lot when we take a look at 48 people within the organization, but we have had some other vacancies that have occurred due to different leaves uh that have caused us to have three different uh positions that have not had people actively working in them. So that puts us at a position where we have had to withdraw a lot of our specialty units um away from places that we would have had them working like as SRO's and as uh

working we had a partnership with the transit police. Uh we've all those folks have come back to our organization and are filling patrol districts. The good news is we have a vacant position that we have out uh trying to hire a lateral officer for traffic position. So, we're down to one motor officer right now, which we'll talk a little bit about when we talk about traffic enforcement and how we educate in our community and create traffic safety. Um, I think it's really important to understand that we are doing our best to bring in somebody who is already trained so that we can uh we can use those resources fairly quickly rather than put them through a exhaustive training program where we have to get them certified. So, those are some of the things we're trying to do in that area. Um, we have also uh focused our efforts in hiring new positions, trying our best to bring in lateral officers. You all you all heard some of the strategies that we used when we when we came before you with the collective bargaining agreement. There are things we're doing to try and entice people who are already certified to come over and work for us. So, those are some of the things we're doing. Uh, we have four people currently in a hiring process that I feel pretty strongly about that I think we will probably get hired. Um, we know that we have some anticipated vacancies coming through retirement. So, we are going to be in this hiring process for quite some time. I don't believe we're at the end of the world and I think that we have a lot of good programs in place that are going to help us get through that. Part of what we talk about is uh, you know, we start talking about traffic safety and how we're going to impact traffic safety and with only one motor officer, how do we become visible? And I think a lot of that has to do with having conversations, looking at data to tell our to see where our officers are working and how we encourage them to be more visible in the neighborhoods. It's really easy for us to to highlight and focus on those areas where we have our biggest, you know, our our highest amount of traffic as well as focusing on our our hight traffic or our high collision areas, but also being visible and showing enforcement and education within the neighborhoods, I think goes a

long way. Some of the other things that we want to make sure that we're doing is we're taking a look at how how can we involve community, how can we receive community input and how we can impact traffic safety in the neighborhood through engagement with our community partners. So, a lot of different things I think that we're looking at doing to make sure that we are uh focusing on engaging with community and providing the service that our community expects to receive. So, it's a lot on where we are kind of with the state of the union. I'm going to give the details over to Captain Simon because he's going to get into all of the measurables that I know that you guys like to hear about as far as where we are and what we've done over the last year.

All right. Thank you, Chief. Uh good evening, everyone. It's good to see you all again. Thanks for having us. Uh I'm going to jump right into a lot of the data points. Please slow me down if you have any questions. Uh but I know that we've done this a few different times. So, uh last year we saw a 1.3% increase in 911 calls to dispatch. So, it's great that they're, you know, full staffed and almost full trained because, you know, they're staying really busy over there. We saw a 7% increase in total incidents from the year prior. Uh, that increase mostly came actually from self-initiated activity, which we saw about a 37% increase over the year prior. And that's typically in traffic stops and in extra patrols. Calls for service breakdown. So, we saw a nearly 8% decrease in miscellaneous offenses. I saw an 11% decrease in part one crimes, which you see up there. A 15% increase in part two crimes. That's typically for us, it's thefts, frauds, those types of uh by those types of offenses that we see. And then we had an 8% increase in arrests from the previous year. Uh on the noteworthy calls for service, now some of these, if I give a percentage, it seems really high. It's because the numbers are really small. So just I know you guys all see that. So, I've tried to narrow that down so it doesn't sound so sensational in some ways. Um, but uh assaults were essentially the same uh from 24 to 25. Uh we saw an 18% decrease in burglaries uh which is great. There was a 23% decrease in stolen vehicles and you I think you all know from the few years that we've done this presentation going back to 2020 stolen vehicles was a big thing. So, we're seeing a decrease there. However, we are finding a lot of stolen vehicles. So, we had about a 223% increase. I wanted that for the sensationalism. So, that's why it's in there. Um, our officers are very active, working a little bit. Uh, you know, they they're really good at identifying some of the areas where we're seeing that

suspicious activity and where we're finding this types these types of offenses. Um, there was a small increase in weapon related offenses and a 7% decrease in thefts. One of the things I'd love to highlight in the uh stolen vehicle recovery is as you see our stolen vehicles are dropping. We're recovering everybody else's. So we just we're helping everyone else,

you know, we're all about service. So that's what we're here to do. Uh for those that you might not know, so last year was really our first full year of our drone program. So our unmanned aerial uh systems. And so we had those out there. Uh we have nine drone pilots and four different drones that are operational out in the field. And then we have another training drone. So if you know we smack into something, it's a little easier to replace that because these things can get kind of expensive. Um of the 41 operational deployments, 14 of those we uh resulted in locating uh subjects or suspects uh not just here in Lake Oiggo, but also helping out agencies around us. Uh actually the fleer image that you see up there uh that's uh locating a homicide suspect uh in a Cami incident. So absolutely instrumental

device that we've been using. It helps keep people safe, helps us track things in a safe way. So it's a wonderful to have and and they do a lot of training with it and uh I always cringe when they show up and go, "Hey, can we get another drone?" because kind kind of expensive. Now let's talk about traffic violations and this is where I get excited as the former motor. So, what we hope to do is focus on offenses that we know contribute to crashes. That's the biggest thing that we're looking for. As the chief talked about, you know, we have we've had one motor at times in the past year. Uh, part of that reason is one of our motors got promoted. He's a sergeant now. So, I think he's going to take his, you know, his his love for traffic and he'll probably spread that into the patrol side. But, you know, it's it's really efficient on a bike. Sometimes a little bit harder to do when you're just in the patrol vehicle. But uh overall uh in comparing the years we saw a 3.7% increase in uh violations that were cited. And for us on the traffic enforcement side we really try and focus you know aside from the on the violations that we know contribute to crashes but we kind of take that three E uh philosophy which is the education enforcement and engineering. On the education front you know we do a variety of presentations this one included. Uh we also meet with a lot of neighborhood associations and we talk about traffic. Sergeant Hall, who you I think you guys all know, he goes to a lot of these and he shares a lot of what's happening on the traffic front. Uh we take feedback from contact us submissions that ask for certain extra patrols in different areas. Uh we share this info out to our folks. Um we engage in like child safety seat clinics, which is again another way to help address issues, especially related to safety. We want those kiddos to be safe. Uh we have speed trailers. We're looking at purchasing another one so that way we can get that out there and provide that information to folks. On the enforcement side, uh we're very proactive and reactive. So, you know, we've got when we have our motors and we have our patrol staff that aren't attached to calls for service, they're going to get out there and they're going to do what it is they can to to make sure people are being safe. Um, we also engage in a lot of high visibility enforcement

details which I know we try and put out words in the city saying, "Hey, this is when we our folks do a really good job of networking with other agencies and we kind of it's like a traveling road show of motors that go everywhere to uh really really focus on uh bad driving behavior. Um we're also participate in um a variety of traffic enforcement grants from speed, distracted driving, impaired driving, uh and a number of others as well, pedestrian safety enforcement.

On the engineering side, I'm really thankful for our partners in the traffic engineering department. We actually work with them to send all of our crash data to them. So that way it helps us all look at areas within the city that we might identify as a hot spot. And whether that's just because of the amount of vehicles that in there or maybe there's an engineering issue that we need to look at. Years ago, I remember us doing this on Cruise Way when we had kind of the flashing red or flashing yellow turn at at Westlake. We had a lot of crashes and they were just offset enough that we were able to to switch that and working with them. And then our supervisors, uh, we we look at our officer statistics. We look at all these different extra patrol areas that we ask you know our folks to be a part of typically in the residential areas as the chief alluded to and they help drive those uh those activities with our officers. So and again we're always looking for outside the box strategies as well. Um but we you see we've we're on the uptick. We just need to get another motor in and I think that it'll continue to be uh higher. Now the Oregon stop report. So traffic stops typically lead right to the information in this and we've talked about it before. So I don't want to get too much into it but you know that the CJC uses three different stop model or three different analysis models to analyze the stops that we have. So the decision to stop search hit rate and predicted disposition. Um, and out of nearly, you know, a little over 6600 different stops that they evaluated, uh, there were no statistical disparities in any of the data that we submitted, which shows that our folks are going out there and they're stopping for the right reasons, um, and and doing the things the right way. Uh, getting into use of force. So, it's we have a pretty low uh, reporting threshold. So any force whether displayed or used, we're going to go ahead and report on. And as usual, the vast majority of the force that we document is from calls for service as

opposed to selfinitiated activity. It's really rare. I think we've talked about this before. Um when you consider the number of police in incidents that we uh respond to or are involved in and then when we actually use force it's less than one quarter of 1% of everything that we do results in some sort of use or display of force. And in actually last year we had a 12% decrease in the number of incidents involving the display or use of force. Uh there was a decrease in the number of force events involving an outside agency where we went to help out. A lot of that is because of it's typically canine usage that we send out and then they go out and help out and we've been fortunately we've had a couple dogs retire so we haven't had you know as many canines out there. We have we have one now. It's officer Ball and Shadow are released and ready to do their thing. Um injuries are also very rare when you look at this mostly consisting of superficial scrapes, bruises or strains for both the officers and the subjects we encounter. The most significant injury that we had last year involved a subject that was called in as a slumper. The driver was in a stolen vehicle, tried to ram several of our police cars, tried to flee, end up getting bit by the dog. So that was the most significant injury we had last year. And I think for us to actually track those those different types of events where it's not just force used but where it's displayed I think really helps us focus as a learning organization as to how how do we create some of the best outcomes that we could possibly have. And I think the low numbers of incidents when you take the number the number of calls for service even if you broke it down to number of arrests that we make the still the force used during those events is extremely low.

Yeah thank you for that. Um there was a 6 12% decrease in total uses of force or displays of force from the previous year. There was a 5% increase in multiple officers using force which just means that we're getting more of our folks to a scene which is great because we want more resources there in order to kind of think get things safe as quickly as we can. There was a 13% increase where officers used or displayed multiple force types. And to the chief's point, this is this is a great example of deescalation, right? will show up and we'll display or be using one type of force and as the situation dictates we move to a different more effective uh force option. Oftentimes maybe starting out with say like a taser that's out then we go to a hands-on and then we're able to take a person into custody. Uh I said K9 again both uh K9 use did retire in in in 25 and so that's why those numbers are as low as as you see there. This speaks exactly to what the chief was actually just mentioning. So the graph on the left or the the chart that you see on the left, this is everything. This is every display of force, every use of force. The chart on the right is the actual force that was used or where we actually pointed a device at someone, not that they just perceived it. Um, as you can see in both, physical control is the highest, which is kind of what you would expect, right? When we get folks that are resisting arrest and doing that type of stuff, we're going to go hands-on most often. uh there was a decrease uh of 30% in total force used versus uh displayed when you go from the you know the chart on the left and you go to the right and again like I said physical control was the most uh common uh force used by police it's not an exact science but we do try and identify certain common incident factors um just it helps us in our analysis to help point to what we should do in training and what it is that we're seeing and what resources we need to bring to bear in some of these situations uh more than one factor can be present So when you see that up there, it isn't just like this one force

incident had this one factor. Often times there could be many things. Um behavioral health factors tended to be the most common amongst all of our force incidents. Um I think followed right by, you know, followed closely behind by eluding and resisting. If I could jump in really quick, I I think when you take a look at the behavioral health aspect of uh those incidents that that result in some level of force being utilized, um I I think really helps us to support the position that we've added through the grant that has allowed us to bring on a a case manager to help us with our behavioral health case the all the work that gets done out of that unit.

Yeah. Okay. Uh talking about complaints in the simplest terms, formal complaints are violations of policy or rules if the violation was true. Uh informal service complaints are are typically don't violate a policy, law, or rule. They could, but it might be such a minimal thing. It could be saying like, hey, be a little bit more courteous out on the traffic stop, you know, type of deal. Uh and they're definitely treated as opportunities for improvement. um uh last year. Uh so again, very rare compared to the number of incidents that were involved in I think it's .002% of everything we did resulted in some sort of informal complaint. Uh there were no use of force complaints. Uh last year we did receive one bias-based policing service complaint. uh the facts sort of announced themselves so it didn't require an IIA but we still looked into it investigated it and we forwarded those results to the state as were required to by law um of the uh IAS in 25 um which you can see there's only eight of them there there were 23 sustained policy violations that we addressed through various uh means and then on the service complaint side uh which was a 42% decrease from the year prior there were no sustained policy violations So pretty good. I think it's testament to, you know, the the great work that our that our folks are doing and as the chief talks about being a learning organization and looking for ways to improve and then our supervisors doing a really good job of coaching and mentoring folks and helping work through some of those um more manneristic type of issues. Now, getting back into the behavioral health specialist, which the chief had talked about, uh, important to know when you see some changes up here that the adult resource officer uh, in light of some of the staffing that we had on patrol was reassigned to patrol, which is why you don't see them up there in this case. Uh, the addition of the behavioral health uh, case manager also

helped with not only just the services that we provided, but also with the data capture. And what we learned is Amber as the specialist was probably way busier before and now we're actually getting accurate counts of what it is that they do. So they stay really busy. So having Evan there has been great because she's able to really capture what it is that we're doing. Um in Lake Asiggo, we had an 88% increase in responses with the with the department staff. An 82% increase in responses uh without LOPD staff. These are folks that they felt safe that they've got usually typically ongoing contact with. Um, and then a 28% increase in phone outreach. I do think that Amber did a lot of phone outreach before. It's just we're now actually getting kind of accurate numbers. And you'll see we had very similar uh increases in activity for the for us helping out Westland. And I think if you guys remember Amber and Evan, they go over there once a week to uh to help out in that capacity there. We're going to talk about overdoses now. Uh small numbers, but still some of the percentages might be a little bit um they might be kind of high once we talk about it, but the good news is there were zero reported fatal overdoses in Lake OGO last year. There was a 92% increase in non-fatal overdoses. Again, small numbers, and we'll talk about this in a sec. Um and an 80% increase in total overdoses from the the year prior. uh the 20% increase in non-fatal cases with the nlloxxone uh that was administered and there was 133% increase in non-fatal cases where nlloxxone was not administered. Now sometimes that could be because calls are sent to us as an overdose. We get there and it's not necessarily an overdose. Um or in this case maybe something was administered before we got there and it's just not captured up in through here. Um 74% of the overdose calls that we resp

uh responded to resulted in a transport to a hospital. Uh 40% of those overdoses uh or overdose calls involve more than one substance uh which is pretty common. Um you'll see that uh we'll talk about in the next slide kind of what some of that is. The lowest age that we had on a call was seven. The highest we had was 91. Uh typically obviously on the low side it's usually an accidental exposure. Hopefully at 91 too.

You hope so. Sometimes I well I didn't go back and look at that specific case so I can't speak intelligently to it but yeah hope so. Um unknown mixes of substances were most often present. That's what we we saw. So a combination of things. uh still seeing a lot of prescription drug uh overdose also mis mixed with alcohol would be the most common. A lot of times our folks are getting there and they're not able to discern what exactly caused the issue. Um and but I think that we do a pretty good job of of getting resources there as quickly as we can and making sure that we get people help when they need it. So um I have gone through that really fast. I think really fast. But of course if you guys have any questions Thank you so much.

Thank you. You didn't do you have any I want to give councelor Corgan and verdict the chance to ask questions. So questions and we will post all this on our website right after this too. Ask a quick question. Well, I'm giving the ladies a chance. They didn't speak last time. Councelor Verdict, please go ahead.

Thank you. I appreciate that. Uh first, thank you for all the work that you guys do. Um the teamwork is noticeable. uh the fact that our community feels safe, you know, is in large part because of what you do and how you engage. So, thank you very much for all of that. I just want a point of clarification and that's do you think if we would have had two uh full-time traffic officers out there, our numbers would have been closer to a couple years ago because I'm a little I mean, I would think so. Yes.

Well, I I'll take it one step further. I I will tell you they would be and even with the traffic officers that we had at the time, we had reassigned because of some of the staffing issues, we had reassigned them away from doing traffic enforcement. So they they still increased the numbers even though they were not actively working traffic as much as they had been. So now that we we can refocus that back to full traffic enforcement, I would expect to see the numbers increase. Okay, that would be fantastic because that's the one thing I hear all the time from our citizens is, you know, the speeding, the going through stop lightss, and you you all know this, you've seen the data, you've talked to the citizens, but I think the more we can keep kind of focusing on that in terms of citations, education, you know, everything that you're doing, if we can just kind of keep that focus and also, you know, it's great to be at on State Seed Street, but I think also getting out a little more into town. um to the different areas within town is also really great as much as you can pull that off. So, thank you.

Yeah. Yeah. So, our supervisors do try and manage that and actually in our briefing room. So, Sergeant Hall when he gets a lot of those requests because they typically land in the in the traffic area um actually puts those up on the reader board so that way the officers when they go into briefing they can kind of see hey these are the more residential areas maybe not quite thoroughfare areas that folks are looking for some extra patrols for and so he gets those out there and then our supervisors can help direct that. Right. And I got one final. What can we do to support you?

I I would say you you guys you support us every time we come in here and we make a presentation to council. There is there's not a time that we come in that there are not positive comments come back from all of you. And that to me is the highlight of the work that we do when we present to you the information that we do is to to take that feedback and give it back to our officers because hearing it directly from you to them I think really matters and it impacts really the environment in which they work in. And I can tell you from working in several different communities, you don't get that elsewhere. And you bring that up at all the swearing in it's a big it's a big deal and we really appreciate that. Mhm.

It's a hard job and uh all the people here that do it, you know, we want them to well including you too, but you too, you know, I mean, you work hard stuff, but they do all the they do all the heavy lifting. It's a lot, you know, and they're out there, you know, and I know recently especially, they've all been working a lot just with the the staffing and and remain really dedicated to this community and we definitely appreciate that and we know very appreciate it for sure. Thank you. Thank you. Nothing. You're awesome. Councelor, you Oh, okay. Councelor and then councelor.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh, I have a couple three questions and one comment on traffic violation. There was a category in 2023 that didn't exist, but in 2024 it was failed to renew registration and then last year it's number three. So, what do you make of that?

Well, a lot of folks are driving around and not renewing their registration. And so, we do have folks that get out there and when they see that, they address it. I know here in the court, I believe that they're all fix it tickets now as well. So, it's just a matter of getting the violation corrected. If you look back at So, if you look at the fourth highest citation that's issued there, it's actually still higher than the year prior, which is that failed to bay traffic control device. So, it's still on there. And you can see that they wrote 318 of those citations. The year prior they actually only wrote 297. So they did write more. It just happens that we apparently this year for whatever reason or this last year for whatever reason we ran into a whole lot more folks that were driving with uh greatly expired tax.

The amount of information you have here is awesome. So, as I'm looking at year to year, I go, is there a trend or pattern that we could address someplace else that would help this situation? That's why I asked that question. Uh, use of force, subject injured. These numbers are very small relatively speaking, but if I look at the previous year to 2025, the numbers are twice as much. Correct? Can you share some insights there?

So, I have to go back to our our threshold is pretty low for reporting injuries. I mean, we it, you know, when you look at the state statute for what a physical injury is, it's like substantial pain and protracted disfigure. I mean, it's a pretty big thing. Um, our threshold is way less than that. So, we've had some folks, again, when we bring more officers to a situation to try and get someone into custody fairly quickly, right? because the longer it goes on, the greater the risk is for injury to not only the folks that we're we're encountering, but to ourselves. But when you bring more people to an incident, which what you saw here, you also have the ability you have the potential for more people to maybe have an injury. And so we saw some of that. Um whether it's just spraining something. I'd like to think that, you know, you know, all of our young folks are some of us are getting a little older. It's a little easier to get hurt. So there's some of that, but again, we we try and be overly cautious in terms of our reporting. So there are times where people are like, I wasn't injured. We're like, you have a scrape, market is injured, you know, because that's the right thing to do. We'll say it even even though all it took was a band-aid to get you back up and running, but we want to make sure. So I think because we're bringing more people to it, that's probably why.

Thank you. Behavior behavioral health specialists. I think Leasugo has proven that not every case requires a police officer. And I want us to get in front of having a full-time person and not share that person with other jurisdiction when there are enough cases that we can justify that. so we don't fall behind the curve and we're in front of it. So it's a comment. Uh I think I'm also one of the counselors who keep pushing chiefs and say do you need more people? Do you need more people? So that one he pushes back very nicely. This one I think we need to stay ahead of it and make sure that we don't mix the type of calls again because we have made a huge improvement to get here. Last but not least, Chief, I think I'm more prouder than you are about the police department because I'm on this side and receiving some of the interactions. I run into most of your uh officers and probably 90% of them don't know who I am. But when I start having conversation with them, they're amazing. They're nice. They're polite. They're courteous. Uh they're caring. Uh and I'm very proud of our police department.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And your comment on behavioral health is duly noted. Contrary to you, most of them know me because I'm a nice guy and you know I have coffee with them and I have a chart just for you. Just you know and I have their hat. Where's Chief Johnson? Yeah, I have their hat. It's everywhere in Europe and I have their badge. Yeah, we're not talking about that. Did you get a tattoo? You said I have their badge. Yeah, I Yeah. and and and shoulder and I will show you the text I told you that I was going to publish in research on police. I finish it today. It's so funny today.

Oh, I'll send it to you. Yeah. Thank you.

So, yeah. Good. And uh yeah I you know I think for as a policy maker and an elected officials when you don't when you don't get calls complaining about employees it it means you are fine you know no one we don't get any emails complaining about the police am I right like honestly no none which means you're doing a wonderful job on cont people are saying I think they're not more aggressive to give more tickets like people driving industry the scooter people you know like the electric bike folks and stuff like that that's the complaint we get but not you know no use of force I just in in the we I've get I have the privilege to get two times this presentation with the youth leadership And now and I have the privilege of seeing the drone frown many times. Um, see the dog, the K9. I'm That's why I say I'm cooler than you. So, so driving uninsured in 2025. I didn't see it in 2025. There was no driving non uninsured. The tax drop. Oh, it dropped down.

So, they just did the top ones. So, okay. Yeah, correct. Yeah, that there's But okay. So, this is a Isn't it a It's a good thing. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, that is a good thing.

Yeah. So I'm really happy and like honestly I think not we add more people but the you know the mental health specialist behaviors but we need to have more of those like because it's very important there are some we all some as a police officer we not trained to like there are some mental crisis you what can you do they can be aggressive they can be behave in a way that create drama. So when we have someone who specialized, he can talk they can talk to them. So I think when I when we talk and see what they're doing, I'm very happy about that. I think it's one of the best thing we've done to have that behavior specialist helping the police and and also on lowcom you know it's also very p like everywhere you go you talk to other counselors you tell them yeah you using our lowcom and that's why we said we were going to go and annex one city next door you so

Portland no yeah you know we have 48 official says, "We are going to take care of buy a tank and then we'll do the job." So, thank you. It was a joke. Thank you, Mercy. Thank you for your work. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, Council, I agree. I'm going to put lots of positive um comments on you, but they've already said it. I'll get straight straight to my point. Um uh out of the total of the stop reports, do we have any idea who's local and who's not? like who are residents and who are not residents. So we do uh we don't explicitly because the data that is captured is supposed to be anonymous. Oh.

But every field that the stop report or the stop program can collect on we have made mandatory in our CAD system. So when an officer makes a selfinitiated contact, one of those fields is the zip code of the driver or the person that we've contacted. So there there is some of that, right? And obviously we know that we have a lot of folks that obviously live here in the community but then travel through the community. So, right. But I don't have that exact number here for you.

Okay. No, it's just I'm just curious because I'm I'm just trying to figure out the educational piece. Um, I know that in local neighborhoods usually they're local people or they are Amazon drivers and I think a lot of them speed through and and do and I'm I'm just trying to get a a feeling of um what kind of educational outreach we have um that might show a trend that we're having. our residents have less violations um and our outside people may be having more if that makes sense. Um because it's hard for us to educate people outside of the community. Um but um I didn't know if there would be trends on something like that.

It's a great question. I've uh I've kind of made a note here to see what we could maybe go back and and take a look at and I might be able to get some information to you. That may be something that we can get from CJC which is where all the data goes to. And then I I know that that was one of the categories that they were interested in was was pass through traffic. So we may be able to come back with that

because I think that would help our communications team to figure out who who are we targeting. Um the other um one that I was really impressed with was our drug um slide where the the hard drugs, cocaine, whatever, heroin, whatever were like at zeros almost. and then it was just mostly unknown. And I know that we had more drug things, but I'm I'm very happy that it was a trend where almost I don't know, it's almost a a non-issue. Um uh which is it's a nice trend to see, I guess, is um one of the things. And last I I guess is um it's these are phenomenal reports. Um and you should be extremely proud and we are very proud of you. Um is there enough activity and like we go to retain people?

There's plenty of activity and I I think our officers when you take a look at the numbers you can see that they are very very good at finding locations within the city to that bring that work to them. Um there is there's plenty to keep people busy and interested. Um but I'm awfully proud of where our numbers are and I'm not looking to bring in additional crime to our city. So no, I'm I just want to make sure that we have enough for them to do to retain them so that we're not too um I mean too common and perfect. Um if that makes sense. That makes total sense that that we part of, you know, one of the things I didn't talk about in here was the partnership I talked a little bit about with TRAT and one of the things that we're able to do by working in some of these other work groups, task forces, what have you, is to give our officers some exposure to different types of work, which then one get it helps educate, it helps train. It brings that back to our organization when they rotate back here and it creates new opportunities for other people to rotate into those positions. So for those who are really looking for that, they get that they get that taste. But I will tell you that I think there are a lot of people who really um cherish what it is that this city has to offer, which is exactly what we've been talking about. And I think those folks are the long-term lego police officers who are committed to working in a community that has everything this community has to offer.

Thanks. Would would the um I noticed the and chief this might go to your comments earlier, but the the selfinitiated stops went up quite a bit this last this last year. We see the speeding, you know, overall the citations are not, you know, they're they're well overall they're up, you know, a bit, but that the speed is that just the nature of not having the motor that the patrol officers are more likely to do a diff like less likely to sit in one place and do speed enforcement. Is that kind of what we're

So in in my experience here having uh so almost 21 years but then also being a motorcycle officer and the patrol officer uh as a patrol officer it's kind of the ancillary duty. So when you're not tied into something you're not following up on a case you're going to jump into that. We have some folks obviously that's what they love. They're going to go do that all the time. The vast majority of our selfinitiated activity when it comes to traffic stops has almost historically always been the traffic unit because that's what they do. They're going to crashes and hitting runs, but they're going out there and and they are just hitting every every spot that we know we have crashes and they're also then responding to every extra patrol area and and staying pretty busy with just that, right? And it's just it's way easier to do traffic on a bike.

Yes. So, do why but we see the selfinitiated calls up but still a decline in the traffic or in the speed like how do you square that? Well, so some of that you know so as a motorcycle it's really easy to kind of park yourself almost anywhere,

you know. So, when you get some of those areas that maybe you know that there's an issue or you're responding to someone who's called in, it's just really easy to kind of hide out in in a spot because you don't eat up a lot of space whereas not necessarily so with a patrol car. Um, so it's a little bit more difficult. Uh, we do have moving radars in a lot of the cars now. That's something that we've done over the last few years. I really appreciate Officer Bogs and and now Sergeant Maley's efforts in those and and they work to get those in there. So, uh, you get folks that, you know, they'll do it, but they're moving, right? So, a little less likely than just I know my spot. I go to my spot. I sit there. I'm going to hit there. I'm going to grab 10 10 motorists right off the bat and I'm going to move to the next spot. Um, makes good sense. So, it's really is the motor that's more likely to issue speed to do speed enforcement

more likely. I I think the other officers what you're seeing is they're they're I don't there are other reasons for those stops because they're involved in other activities that draw their attention and those are the reasons for the stop and it may be that they're focused on problem locations. They might be trying to solve a neighborhood issue and those those stops are done for things other than for speed.

Right. Right. That makes good sense. Would um and I appreciated your comments at the beginning, you know, chief, and addressing council verdict's concerns, too. I mean, we um you know, people really feel that traffic safety most viscerally, you know, in the neighborhoods where they're walking, where they're biking, when they're pulling out of their driveway and whatnot. So, um, it's it's it's great to focus on the crash, you know, crash corridors, of course, but to really get the results. I think that's why we hear from the residents so much. And and so that uh effort to concentrate on both, you know, the main arterials, but also in in the neighborhoods is really appreciated. Um, and really does go a long way to making people feel safe because what we don't when we're just looking at crashes and we're not looking at the near misses, you know, the people that feel like they're about to get they just don't feel quite safe. And the neighborhood enforcement goes really well with the millions of dollars we're investing in in safe pathways, safe routes to school, as well as the reduction in the neighborhood speed, which we know has to be coupled with enforcement and education to really be viable. And we want that to be a real thing, you know, for the community. and it's not going to be real unless we have that, you know, that partnership. So, I really appreciate your guys' efforts um in getting the officers aligned, you know, with us, all of us together as a community. And what um and it would be helpful as we go forward looking at when we look at the data, looking at what is arterial versus what is neighborhood. So, we get a sense for like where are citations happening, you know, where is speed enforcement um taking place. Um, and I think that goes a long way too because you never know. You know, neighbors don't and they say, "Oh, there's no enforcement." Of course, until there is enforcement, then there's too much enforcement, you know, but it's the data is great to have because then we can see no, there is, you know, on these especially those collector streets, you know, that's where people are really where they're not always engineered right to the right. They're most they're often engineered for a

little faster speed than we would like, but yet they're made for neighborhood traffic. people walk on them, kids are out there, you know. Um is there um uh I wanted to ask too about the ebikes. That's a big of course remains like a huge thing. Have we been engaged these past years on the education, you know, LOPD with the city in general and and the school district laws now have changed this year? Do we have anything planned education wise on the ebikes? So, one of the things that we're doing, I I actually just reached out to the superintendent the other day, just making sure that we're still uh working with the school district and um and eliminating those ebikes from being at some of the schools where where they're prohibited by age. And those those things are still we're still doing that together. So, uh we're going to continue. We know this time of year ebikes, we're going to start seeing more and more of them. Uh we're still at a place where we're doing a lot of education. So when we make contact, we're not looking to site people with ebikes uh necessarily. If it ends in a citation, it does, but for the most part, we're trying to educate and really working on educating parents. Um so that that has an impact on who's allowing these kids to actually operate the ebikes. Um Captain Simon was fortunate enough to be part of a work group out of the legislature focused on ebike legislation. Um, and I think uh, so maybe I don't know if you have any more insight into where that legislation headed.

They cleaned up some of the definitions in terms of what is, you know, what is an electric device essentially that you're going in there, but um, I think there was there's more work that could have probably been done in order to kind of make things a little bit safer for for folks. So hopefully we'll be able to revisit that in the in the future. Uh, it is still illegal for for folks under a certain age, but they're still out there riding. Um there really wasn't bless you uh there really wasn't much that was uh changed on the on the enforcement side. They changed the age down to 14 for the class one. Right. Yeah. And that just makes you could be 14 and do a class on a class one. The thing is no one knows.

It doesn't take much to make a class one not a class one. Yeah. No. The other issue too is I mean if when you go and you look at the you know the the laws and rules for ebikes they're actually pretty complicated even for some of the officers to be able to look at something and go oh that's a violation right you know or that's a violation or that's a violation you'd almost need to be waiting for them to go all right I'm waiting for you to hit 40 and once you hit 40 miles an hour I know that's probably not legal you know and so even then to be able to have an an educational conversation with someone if they don't want to stop and talk to to you and you can't verify what that is just by looking at it. You can't stop them, right? Helmet required.

A helmet is required, but now everyone's wearing those full face ones, so you don't know how old they are anyway. So, yeah. Yeah. Nice helmets. It's It's difficult. I mean, our folks are are working real hard. They're trying to do what is it they can. And we've got plenty of calls where we've sent folks out that, you know, uh usually it's a neighbor who has said, "Hey, I saw this. This is where they went and this is the house they went to." And so then we're going and then visiting with the parents and and talking with folks there if we can do that

right it is challenging of course I know that the thinking behind this this the reduction in age was well great now we can provide education to these because we couldn't educate a 14-year-old before because it wasn't legal for them to ride the ebike but now we can but of course this was the state's thinking they had provided no program funding or anything really they just said well hypothetically we could educate so I don't know if Is there anything and well city manager and I were talking with um about the uh the judge judge Lingren has mentioned too that these violations you know could end up like they're moving violation then it impacts this kid 14 15 not necessarily they don't probably even know the parent obviously is buying a bike then they have a traffic thing

telling college they can't well yeah um stop them they uh uh so is there anything so I can appreciate what she's doing because it is it's crazy. You don't want to mess up their driving record when they don't even have a driver's license and it's really half the most slash mostly the parents fault. Um is there anything locally that we can do? I know Happy Valley is also similarly situated community high presence of the ebikes big topic there like it is here. I is there anything that we can do?

That's a great question. So, I posed a question to the chief a little while ago and um it's probably the most captainy thing to do, but I'm going to propose additional things with words. Um but I wondered if there is some things we could do locally, much like in our in our ordinances, that maybe would allow us to have a little bit more teeth into addressing these issues. And that's some certainly something that would be interesting to explore. I I think we can look at some of our neighboring communities and see what what communities have had ordinances that have been successful and if any and I I think that would be a place for us to start. Okay. especially for the under 16 kids if there is any way to you know levy more enforcement perhaps against the parents you know than than the kid because we are hearing that I mean we've been talking now we're going to educate for years now the community is like how's this education working out you know so at some point I think we do have to you know take but again you know we're not trying to jam up pre-teens with you know not being able to get insurance when they turned 16. But um I don't know anything I think we can do education wise too. People I just had a stack of envelopes from kids they had to write as an assignment and they're all about how ebikes every single one of them and not they want they want younger faster. I mean, because it's great. They I can they love it, but it's just this horrible combination of big cars, roads not made for this, and then little kids on these tiny bikes. And the big they don't have lights. None of them.

I mean, they should be like a motorcycle always on lights. I anyone who cycles know you have that light on regardless of the time of day, you know, because otherwise you can't be seen. I'm just shocked these bikes after dark, no lights. And it's like, what is going on? How? And that's nothing we can do about on the manufacturing side that they're even allowed to sell that. It's crazy.

Well, I think I mean we're very much open to what it is we can do to help educate the parents and get because that's the first step. So much like how you talked about getting and even just for traffic enforcement getting into the neighborhoods. I know I heard it quite a bit and I know my officers hear it quite a bit which is when they stop someone for maybe stop, you know, rolling through a stop sign in a residential neighborhood. They're like, "Oh, I live right here and I call you guys. I complain about this all the time." I'm like, "You just ran it." So, you know, so uh we run into that quite a bit. So like what I mean we're we're always open to ideas on on finding ways to further educate people to to get the word out because like you said there's going to be a subset of folks that they didn't know that their child's not supposed to be able to have this and there are some that just go yeah I know you're not supposed to but here you go. Yeah, I've seen that even in the kind of Yeah, the discourse in Happy Valley is similar to that too, you know, like, well, at least they're not playing video games like well,

right? But I mean, is this an option, but most of them are not exercising because they're not pedaling. So, I mean, it's kind of a little, you know, doesn't have to be those two things, right? It's not the only options. Um and just one final thing are you seeing on the just noticing that use of when you address this a little bit the use of force and the behavioral health you know related are we seeing a lot of repeat you know folks on that side or is there a real effective use of the behavioral health specialist and kind of

that's that's a great question. So something to consider and and I I'll try and get to that a little bit. I I'll probably be speaking more anecdotally as opposed to very concrete on the data. So even though there's a behavioral health factor there, it does not mean that maybe our behavioral health unit was there when that actually occurred, but we recognize an issue. So sometimes we get called to there's a disturbance, there's a domestic disturbance, there's a theft in progress, there it is relayed as a crime and we get there and I think our folks because of the training that they get from Amber, the training that we send them to as part of working here as an officer, they start to recognize what are the underlying causes of how we we got here. They're still going to deal with the offense, but then they're going to realize, hey, there might be a behavioral health component. And if Amber is working, then they reach out to her. They'll determine whether or not this is someone who's a repeat offender or not, or some a repeat person that we've we've come into contact with. Some of that is like we have a handful of those. Um, but again, because the numbers are so few, I I don't know that it we're always using force on the same person. I don't think that's not what I've seen. It is it is a lot of different individuals

and we're actually collecting that data on the calls for service. It's it's something that we're collecting off of the off the clearance. So if we're having if we're having contact with people that is one of the issues, one of the things we're trying to indicate from uh from the call itself. So we're probably going to indicate those on far more incidents than what our behavioral health people even respond to. Okay. Right. It's good. I know just in general like that's the the cycle you know and kind of conditions and this well and if any if if they're not where if if the behavior health unit is not on when the incident occurs like I said our officers do a really good job much to the chief's point of of going hey you need to be aware of this incident that we had involving this individual I think they could use your help and so we follow up after the fact

great again uh thank you um both very much for the report and to everyone in the department for the continual good work and um all the trust that the community has in you all, the work you do daily and we are here to support you and that we know the biggest thing is the recruitment and um the hiring and we know that's not unique to Lake Oiggo, but this is a great place to work. You are two great leaders to work for and um I know it goes a long way and the people that we've been able to bring and retain here in Lake Oiggo. So, thank you very much. Thank you so much. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you colleagues. Two good questions. Okay, last item, well, last business item on the agenda is uh the 2026. We have an open seat down here. Who wants to sit next to council verdict? It's a hot ticket. It's a hot ticket. Um Madison Theor, deputy city manager, we're just going to talk about the kind of selection process uh application around the vacancy. Thanks for being here.

Of course, mayor, city council. I'm Madison Thesing, the deputy city manager. I am here to briefly go over the proposed plan for filling the city council vacancy um from councelor Raph's resignation. To begin, um just for context, the last time we have filled a city council vacancy was 2015. And so we have not done this process in quite a while. Um since then we've adapted and adopted many practices about having clear expectations about roles, having um defined criteria that we're looking for so that not only do applicants know what what are the desired values and skill sets that we're looking for but then also it guides the conversation for council as well. Um so with that after co having conversations with the mayor we've identified three uh key attributes that we would really like to have emerge through not only the application process but the interview process and then um I'll also go over the timeline and questions for council. So um with that to go over the evaluation criteria. So the steps are going to be that we will have a application um that was included in your packet. We will invite then uh invite people to apply from the applications. There will be scoring which then we will hopefully um narrow down the list for interviews out of respect for time not only for the the interviewees but also your time because this will be a special meeting we will have and then from there um we would appoint someone from that interview process. So the idea is that these three skills core elements is what I called them will carry from not only what's in the application but through that interview process and what you'll be evaluating on um these were pulled from not only what we are using for how we hire um the boards and commissionment appointments but then also city recorder Hawkins did research with other cities

and seeing how how are their interviews and applications structured structured as well. Um, so what we would propose is that we're going to be looking for related leadership experience. The ability to prioritize, excuse me, the ability to prioritize this commitment. As you know, it is not only attending meetings, but it's prepping for meetings. There's a lot of work that's going to be taking place in 2026. Not only with the work plans, but um, we know there's going to be site visits for wastewater treatment plans. We know you'll be hiring a city manager and a city attorney. So not only understanding the expectations for those two meetings but all the things that will be happening for this year as well. And then the last core element that I think is uh true of not only the city council but this organization is being a productive collaborator and being a member of a team. And so these were the three proposed evaluation criterias as I shared this is what you will see in the application. Um so trying to distill that through the questions and then the interview which was interview questions that were also included in the packet. So um very simple but we actually want to just name it what we're trying to uh have what we're seeking for as a skill set. The proposed timeline to fill the vacancy as soon as possible. Again recognizing the council has a lot on um your plate this year to get through. What we would propose is today we're reviewing the the council um or excuse me the candidate process. Um as soon as Friday we would open applications for two weeks. That would then allow council to review the following week after the boards and commissions process to then narrow it down and then have ideally the the announcement of who would be selected for interviews May 5th with then the special meeting then the off week of city council in May and then to swear in by June 2nd. It's tight. Um we city recorder Hawkins and I have talked

about this process as well as with um city manager prom um Peterson and and and assistant city manager Megan Failen as well of of we can do this. We are prepared to do this. This would allow us to get someone in as soon as possible to support you all as well. So for the questions for council direction, again this was included in the council packet along with all the materials is really just to make sure we're on the right track and this is how you envision this process is that we would have a screening through the application. We would then invite people back for interviews and then um a point from there. And so the questions for council and hoping for council direction is one is the are these evaluation criteria appropriate and what you had in mind for a short-term six-month appointment. Second, are you comfortable with also the proposed process but then also the narrowing down by coun or excuse me the mayor to bring back a short list based off of the volume of applicants. And then three, given the timeline, is there any specific outreach asks or suggestions you might have for city staff?

Counc. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Uh do those duration are they dictated by any uh laws or ordinances or we just decided two weeks, 3 weeks and so on? We did it um by choice. There's nothing in ordinance or code. Um, that was a choice to to to most effectively use the limited time you have to get someone in as soon as possible without also overextending during boards and commissions interviews that are going to be taking place at the same time. Okay.

If you would like this extended out, we can do it. We can also shorten it. I also want to acknowledge that we do have a few counselors who are going to be on vacation and out of town as well during that same time period. And so it was also a scheduling too. Thank you. on the first first of the three criterias. Uh do boards and or no second boards and commission are are they included in the special sessions? You go back sorry the being the the evaluation criteria. Can you go back to I think it was the second one more

there. Prioritization of commitment. It says regular twice monthly meetings and special se sessions. Do are at being the liaison to boards and commission is that uh part of the special sessions or do we need to add that? I can add that. Oh, the answer is no. It's not there. We need Yes, that's part of the Yes. And sessions, two monthly meetings, special sessions, and other meetings. Yes, I can include that.

All right. Thank you so much, Councelor Woodland. Uh, I'm all good with this. The only thing that I I know we want clear and objective and transparent and everything. So, just to get this right. So, we would receive all the applications. The six of us would go through those. We'd rank them

and we'd give them a a score and then you would take them all and then you would uh add up all the scores and then we would have a list of the the scores, right? So, um I mean I'm fine with Joe doing the recommending an interview short list, but I'm just wondering just to make it transparent, would we want to just say top five? We could do that. Gore capers just so everyone knows that there's no um nothing. I mean, I I don't know. Yes. Does that make sense?

So, do you mind if I share kind of the thinking of why we said the recommendation? you could do that. We don't know if we're going to get 25 or three applications. And so the idea was allow us to receive the applications, rank them, similar to what we do with boards and commissions where the mayor is able to have a review of it and then make a recommendation to council of how to proceed. Um if we only have a handful, that can be then the council's decision to say we are going to interview all. Um what we were trying to a avoid was um sharing all the names who applied out of respect for their privacy and and also the ranking we were also going to try to make that um less uh trying to think of the right word in that moment. Uh

transparent transparent but respectful of people's privacies. Okay. And so the short list we could say if you wanted to just say we're going to be planning to invite planning being the the strong word 30% of the applications to come back for interview. We just don't know if we're going to have a huge pool or a small pool and then being respectful of you'll have to do interviews at that point and the interviews could take 40 minutes per candidate and and so just thinking about timing with that.

Right. Well, I Yeah, I just know that the when the school board had something like this, they had 27 applicants for um the position because everyone goes, "Geez, I can serve without doing a campaign." Wow, that's like the dream. Um so I was just maybe saying upfront to say we'll just take the top three candidates or the top four or something. Um just so that everyone is clear on whatever is that candidates. Okay. So just the top candidates. So Okay. Yeah. Good question. Great. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for putting the process together and everyone likes the time the timeline. Yeah, timeline's good. Yeah.

Okay. It's great. So, we'll start um advertising the we'll go live Friday and so a press release will go out on Friday. It will be shared out. We'll get it in the lowdown next week as the time. And then if and then I would I what I'll ask um city manager Peterson is that we'll include it on your Friday email so that word of mouth is going to be our best asset in this short timeline. And um I can also email boards and commissions and neighborhood chairs, but word of mouth will be our best. I think what's going to really be a kicker to get the recruits in is that we have to list the stipen that they get each month so that they know that there's just this huge amount of money. Sitting next to me. Oh, thank you.

Oh yes. We'll put a piece of paper there. It's good to you see yourself here. Okay. Thank you, Madison. That's great. Thank you so much for bringing this to us. All right. Information from council. Does anyone have any information to report? Councelor Afghan. Uh Mr. Mayor, uh I guess there's a little correction. Uh councelor Afghan is not a ArabAmerican. Councelor Afghan is Iranianame. And I I'm I I be proud to be an Arab American, but I didn't want that confusion or uh perhaps uh creating a situation.

Afghan. We're very sorry for misidentifying. I I can be Persian, Iranian, Arab, Jewish, Buddha, you name it. I'm more than happy to be. We're all human. You are you. I am you. That was Thank you. Easy. Oh, that was your update. Okay. Anyone else have any? No. Can't top that one. No. City manager. Oh, you know,

mayor and council, I just wanted to draw your attention to uh an email that you got from Chief Johnson uh that I also had included in one of my first letters to um an invitation on May 7th to the wildfire presentation 10 to noon. Um and then the uh partial evacuation of the assisted living facility or um so uh just take note of that if you want to attend. Love to see you there.

And thank you. I just wanted to add on all the bad news that happened in the world. Artimus send beautiful pictures of the moon that human have never seen and they did something no human has ever done. I think for that I can go to bed not very you know having anxiety of having my president insulting people on Easter and I think that solved all the problem for me. I'm very happy that America is moving forward in science and is moving that's where we should focus our energy and not fighting wars. I am against wars and I'm saying it no wars but more optimist more exploration.

Thanks Councelor B. Thank you everyone. We'll put our next team together to go to the moon. Yes. Would that be great?