City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening everyone. I will call this uh Tiger City Council meeting to order. City recorder Krager, would you please conduct a roll call? Councelor Gdusi present. Youth councelor Helock is absent. Mayor who here. Councelor Robbins here. Councelor Schlack here. Councelor Shaw here. Council President Wolf here. Councelor Anderson here.

Thank you. Uh will everybody please unmute your mics and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Thank you. City team and uh council, do you have any non-aggenda items? Seeing none, let's uh move on to the next item on the agenda, which is proclamation and recognition. Uh this is National Police Week, an opportunity for communities to honor the service and sacrifice of the men and women in law enforcement and to remember those who have died in the line of duty. The members of Tiger's Police Department serve our residents with professionalism, compassion, and dedication. I hereby proclaim National Police Week in Tiger and encourage all residents to recognize the important service of law enforcement officers and remember those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty. Uh I will present a friend proclamation to police lieutenant fox and anyone uh who would like to uh accept the uh department and uh we will have a photo taken. So come on.

All right, let's move on to the next section of the agenda which is public comment. The public comment period provides an opportunity for members of pop of the public to address the city council. While it is not a dialogue, either I or staff will follow up to address the issues brought forward in these comments. The calling number is 503-9664101 and those wishing to comment should call now to get into the queue. Anyone present wanting to comment should sign up on the public comment form at the front of the room. Uh first section is written comment. Uh we received um two written comment regarding a topic on the May 5th agenda repeal which include repealing the soundtrack ordinance and encouraging the police to use uh decibel meters and uh we now next section is uh in person and we have one person's sign up and the person's uh Koa. Good evening.

So please uh come forward and can can somebody help and turn turn on the mic? You don't have to if you don't want to. So, I just wanted to make sure the microphone's on so people can hear you. Yeah. So, you have two minutes. Thank you.

All right. Um, well, first off, um, me and my family was just sitting down relaxing because of my condition. Uh, we were told that we can't stay in one place um, too long. We was just waiting then, you know, but we got warned, but the cop told us that we can't, you know, rest. We got to keep on moving cuz we had all our camping gear and whatnot. We have a family of 10. My youngest is 2 years old. But um yeah, that that's one thing, you know, I I really don't like I mean I mean I understand but we had all our things all one place. We didn't make a mess. It wasn't causing trouble. We're just minding our own business and relaxing. And the other thing is to be straight some of the laws is pretty dumb. But one thing I would like to know is if you kids can make a law against children running over from you know truency enforce that cuz many kids run away from school for whatever reason we do not know and when they leave no one knows what they what's happening but that child is out on it by itself by his or herself. They find many things. They get curious. My son, for instance, he ran away from school. Then the next day when he went school, he found a whatever mod that he found. The day he ran away from school, he took it to school. We did not know. CPS was called and then we got, you

know, um on CPS for a while. So with Trinity being enforced, you know, kids will most likely stop cuz us as parents because of CPS and whatnot, we can't child the way we want. Please wrap out your comment. It's two minutes. Yeah, I know. But we as parents, we cannot do, you know, the actual punishment that that child needs or, you know, yet alone spank them without being questioned. But those are the two things.

Okay. Thank you. To say mostly mostly is about the kids running away. Chy, you should enforce that. Thank you. All right, that's nobody else signed up. And so, Mr. Miller, are there any caller um in the queue? I do not see any callers in the queue. Mayor,

thank you, Mr. Miller. So, let's move on to the Tiger uh Tiger Youth Advisory Council annual report and we'll have our management analyst uh Richardson and she'll be joined by Tayak members. So, good evening, Alex.

Good evening. I would like to just give a brief introduction and then go ahead and bring up the president and vice president of Tyak. Um, for the record, my name is Alex Richardson. I'm your management analyst in the city management department. I've been working with Tyak for about four years now. Uh, the last time that they were present to give their annual report before council was about a year and a half ago um, in December 2024. So some of the things that they'll be reporting on reflect a little bit further back than the last 12 months, but I wanted to make sure that you all were aware of all of those activities. Um, and so I will bring up Tayak President Chelsea Vicente Shilo and Vice President Kylani Ru. Thank you. You need to turn on your mic.

Yep. Okay. Thank you. Uh hello and good evening. Thanks for having us and we're thrilled to give our annual report for this year. I am Chelsea Vicente Shiloh and I am the Tiger Youth Advisory Council President. Hi. Um my name is Kylani Ru and I'm the Tiger Youth Advisory Council vice president. uh slide.

Um I'm just going to give a a brief overview, kind of a reminder of who we are and uh what our goals were this year. Um the Tiger Youth Advisory Council is made up of Tiger's Youth who are invested and dedicated in ensuring that youth voices are heard. Um this year we focused on uh as you can see on this slide feedback and advocacy, professional development and networking, TAK produced events as well as city produced events and uh guests coming into our meetings and giving presentations. Um I think we're going to start with feedback and advocacy first. Yeah. Yeah. Would you like to take that over?

Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Uh so as a Tayak, we've had an amazing opportunity to provide our feedback. uh for the community and as you can see all these projects that tiger has and the surveys that we've responded to. So one major source of input um from the tryet and ride connection microransit project also known as spot where we gave our feedback on transportation related ideas and concerns. As we all know youth rely on transportation every single day and so by the speaker coming in they gave us insight about what their goals were for this project. And so as a as Tayak, we gave our feedback on it on what we want to improve in our city and make it more efficient for students and for ordinary people to use every single day to get to work. Um, we also gave responses to the many surveys as you can see such as the Oregon Health Authority Survey, the Eugene Yak survey, and the Civic Valor program as well as the River Terrace 2.0 a project and including our police department/public works new facility outreach. Uh these inputs that we gave created a more created more opportunities for the youth to engage within their community and give their input about all the hardships that are going on with Tiger and basic basically make Tiger a better place by providing our feedback on that. uh we give a deeper perspective and understanding of what they look for in the city and about what citizens can use to their advantage to live in a place where they feel comfortable and safe. Um not only this but this also contributed to youth engagement and basically development in our city to make like I stated before Tiger a better place to live in for many people of all ages. Uh next we will slide. Okay, thank you. Um, professional development is a pretty broad subject that we uh worked on this year. Um, but

I believe it's very relevant and uh a very crucial aspect of not only what we do but who we are. Uh this year we took part in the League of Oregon uh League of Oregon Cities youth summit, the National League of Cities uh conference, the if I were Mayor contest, the Teen Library Council Teen Takeover, and various uh joint meetings particularly with the Hillsboro and the Twolitin Youth Advisory Council. Um these were in my opinion very crucial uh experiences for our members to have. They allowed us to meet with peers from around the state and uh for me uh Chelsea and our youth counselor to meet with people around the country. It allows you to uh discuss and build your strengths and weaknesses as a council and in what you do and really see how youth in different places are making change in their communities. Uh speaking of the uh National League of Cities conference, I think we can

Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Uh, first of all, we would like to give kudos to um, oh my god, why did I forget her name? Really? Uh, Rebecca, yes, Rebecca for allowing us to have this experience and for traveling with us all the way to DC and for counselor Wolf to also come in at the very last day just to like talk to us and engage with us. So, it was an amazing opportunity for us. So, NLC in my opinion was one of the most impactful events that I had and honored to attend. and as a student who wants to pursue a career in law. This opened up a path for me and to explore and to engage with. So it was a wonderful event to attend. Um it also gave me an insight of like the different councils all around the country and what they do every single day to try to improve the lives of their citizens. Uh I would love to give thanks to the council also for this opportunity that honestly it's one of a kind opportunity that many people dream of every single day and I had the chance to get that. So thanks to you all. Um other than just sightseeing and eating all these delicious food, uh we had the opportunity to engage, collaborate and participate in many of the workshops meant for the youth and also were created by the youth themselves. Oh go sorry I'm not done yet. Uh to share their input and bring back this newfound knowledge into their communities and councils. Uh through the three sessions that I was a part of, I built relationships with many of the councils throughout the country such as the Kentucky as Kentucky, Texas, etc. There's so many out there. But it made me realize that many of these councils work every single day and they put in so much hard work and dedication to improve the lives of their citizens and also the youth themselves. They voice their opinions through these projects that they do every single year to improve the lives of many others and to show students of their age that they

are also capable of making this change in their community. Um, one of the activities that I found most insightful was the Q&A sessions within these workshops which included um questions from legislators, from mayors, and from council members themselves. I got to meet a council woman from Kentucky, which was really also very like one of the most important things to me. I got to talk to her as a as a woman. She's shown me the difficulties and the hardships she had to face within her career as a council woman and the hardships she faces every single day and how she strives to help others in her community to voice the voiceless and to be the advocate for the youth. So, I'm like very happy to have talked to all these people and I got to see how they support their youth every single day to show that they care, that they can make a change in this world. Um, I just also want to say that I'm very fortunate enough to have this dream and to continue pursuing to to continue helping people and this opportunity was one of a kind and I want to make that change in the world and experience this and everything that I learned from DC, I want to apply it to the council itself to better our community as Tiger and improve our Tayak as a whole. Thank you. Uh, Kai, do you want anything else to say? Um, I think you really said a lot of what I was going to say. Um, but I do think it was a really uh, impactful uh, trip. Um, obviously for me, Chelsea and Asher, but even for a lot of the other youth councils that I got to talk to, it was a very, very nice experience to sort of see the problems that other councils run into and how similar they are to some of the the issues that I find that we might run into, how other people troubleshoot and

uh make change in their community And I'm really hopeful that I can take some of the advice and some of the sort of I don't know stories that I heard from others into uh our council in the coming years and sort of be able to work that in. Um yeah, you kind of said what I was saying, so I don't want to I don't want to repeat for you too much. At the end of the day, we're all teens, but we all have a big passion and a big strive to empower our communities as much as possible. And our goal as Tayak is to voice the opinions of many of the students in Tiger High School. So yeah schools yeah in other high schools other high schools that we

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events. So our goal for Tayak this year was to confront our growing struggles with houselessness and also his uh continuing struggle in Tiger. Um, by trying to tackle this issue, we produce events such as the clothing drive for just compassion in which we managed to donate 30 pounds of 300 lb of clothing to people who need it. And I'm very proud of our Tayak for dedicating and putting in the hard work in order to raise as much clothes as possible cuz sometimes we as humans take things for granted and as the saying goes, our trash can be somebody else's treasure. So, I really love the drive that we put on. Um, we also put on another event called a Family Promise movie night in which Alex, me and the whole kayak went to Family Promise in order to set up a movie night for the children such as uh one of the movies being a K-pop Demon Hunters and uh Rise of the Guardians. And we brought them snacks, coloring books, anything to engage with during the movie. And it just brought this light into my heart just seeing them engage with their families and having this beautiful moment with them despite all the struggles that they're facing themselves. And we also collaborated with the twatin yak uh the event called braver angels and my vice president Kai attended. So I don't know if you want to give some insight on that.

Yeah I can. Um this was put on by the twolatin youth advisory council who as I mentioned earlier we collaborate with occasionally. Um, Braver Angels is an organization that is dedicated to bridging the gap in highly polarized conversations, whether that be politically or in everyday conversation, especially um with youth, because I think it's sort of a hard thing for a lot of people to talk about. Uh so the Twolitin Youth Advisory Council put on an event where they invited a speaker to uh speak to uh youth in their community and uh I and a couple of our members were able to attend and assist with some of that which was I think it was very impactful. Um, I think that hopefully if they can do this again in the future, uh, I do think it would be a very helpful for a lot of, uh, for managing a lot of conversations in the current climate, uh, especially for youth who maybe aren't able to do that at home or with certain friends.

Uh, to add on to what Kai said, we also, uh, helped with city events as well. So, not only did we produce some, but we also helped support the city with their own events such as the Pride Parade and Festival where we got to or like decorate a car and make posters and like all festive and stuff. Um, I think and through this we basically supported the LGBTQ community by basically showing them that we support them, that they're cared for, and that we hear them and that they they should not hide who they are. And we as Tayak we had so much fun during that day and we basically showed our support to that community and farmers market since Yukai went a lot to those. Do you want to share your experience in that?

Um yeah the farmers market was a lot of fun and I hope to be able to do that again uh at this upcoming season. Um in particular I remember that I and one of our members uh Aya Lener did I say her name? Lener,

Lenger, I think, um, attended quite frequently. Um, I found it really wonderful to not only speak with the city staff who were also at the booth, but with just sort of being able to interact with the community, see what questions they might have, see what input they might just want to talk about. It was very fun. Uh to add also the civics for kids library event and the holiday lights walk which in my personal bias is one of my favorite events that the city holds every single year. Um thanks to Primo for holding and for giving free hot chocolate during that time. Uh me and Kai were both there to give out that hot chocolate. Just seeing people smile come with their families with their ugly sweaters and their holiday spirit made a great way to wrap up the year. And just seeing them together was honestly a very big thing for me. I really love seeing families together and a community together as a whole. Uh MLK Days of Service, which Alex holds a weekend of activities for families to engage and participate in. One of those events being the Tiger turns the tide in which Tiger High School students. And I think you also attended that, Kai. Yeah, Kai and I attended that. and we made posters with kind words and supporting and encouraging messages within it. Uh, state of our city. Do you want to talk about that?

Yeah, we uh were at the state of our city. Um, I and did you No, I was not able to. You weren't. Um quite a few of our members I think were either able to attend or help um usher which was um it was really nice again just to see the community and sort of see the uh presentation and talk to people and I hope that that's something that we can continue to do in the future as we've done in the past. uh slide.

Um we had a lot of really interesting meeting guests uh in this past term. We had of course our own mayor. We had the former city manager Brent Stockwell. We had Maui Maddie Maddie, pardon me. Maddie Bower from the police department who's the community engagement coordinator. Sean Ferrelly. Fairly Fairly I think it's Fairley,

who is the community development redevelopment manager and Lindsay Washburn who's the former sustainability project manager. We also had a few others um that I think might have just gotten we had we had quite a few over the term. Um but it was I love whenever we have uh guest speakers to come and talk. It's really engaging. um to see what people are doing within the city, within their respective positions to answer questions and discuss in uh relativity to our council. Um and I hope that in the coming years we can have lots more slide. Oh, so as I mentioned before, this is one of the MLK Days of Service events. Uh this is Tiger Turns the Tide and you can see me and Kai there. Uh we just wanted to thank you all for listening to our presentation. Uh and yeah, honestly I just wanted to share everything that I that we did uh this year as a Tayak and the things that we're going to continue to do further on. Do you want

Thank you very much for giving us the opportunity to speak to you. Um I hope you all have a a wonderful rest of the meeting and your night. Oh, beforehand, uh, do you guys have any questions for us that we can answer? So, counselor, do you have any question? Councelor Sha,

uh, one, I also attended NLC and and got to meet with the Tayak. Um, unfortunately, you all had to leave the morning. We were meeting with our congressional delegation. Uh, so perhaps in the future we can change that. And I know too with NLC, the city councilors being in a weekend, the Tayak being a weekend, and the city councilors being in a completely separate building. Unfortunately, it wasn't a lot of interaction, but I know we got a chance to talk about government and the practice and take pictures in front of the capital. So, that was exciting. Um, so I just wanted to applaud you for taking the time for being there for learning and just having the report out. So, thank you very much. Thank you.

Thank you. It was wonderful seeing you there, by the way. Um, I think we forgot to mention that, but it was a lovely conversation. Councelor Robbins. Thank you, Mayor. Um, thank you both for being here and thank you for the tremendous amount of time that you give back to the community through volunteering and advocacy. Um, I read in the report that we have nine members or all I have a question. Are do all of those go to Tiger High? No, it's a mix.

Um, we have I believe uh currently one uh member who is at Jesuit. We have another uh who is not yet sworn in. He missed the um interview uh section but also goes to Jesuit. We have um a graduating member who goes to Twolitin High School. Um we have our other graduating member goes to Tiger High School. She goes to Tiger. Yeah. Okay. I um and I think we have and then I go I don't go to Tiger High either.

Okay. Um, I would love to hear what you see in the city that you would love to have changed or what the council or city could consider to get more youth engaged with the city. Okay. You know what? I'll I'll start off. Um, since I'm a student at Tyard High School, we've recently been facing like budget cuts on many of our I don't know if you guys can do anything about it about like fundraising and stuff like that. like many of our clubs at the school have been shut down because of the lack of funding that's been going on and so that diminishes students from following their passions and following their dreams. So I don't know if you guys have a say in that or if you guys could like

that that's actually funding through the school district in the city. We are dealing with our own budget issues just last night. So, oh, I also wanted to address the like mental health issues also in students because I know that's a very big deal nowadays, especially with like social media and like other other effects that go on to it. Thank you.

Yeah. Yeah. I also have been um really trying to figure out ways for more youth engagement and uh engagement with the community uh in general. Um, so we're kind of in the process, uh, actually right now of like trying to think of ways to not only work on recruitment, but just work on, uh, getting our name out there. So, that's a very, um, appropriate question right now. Yeah, that's um, something we're going to talk about next, too, to see how we can get Thai more engaged in civic

education. So, thank you so much for your presentation and again for everything you do. So yeah, have a good evening. Thank you. Thank you. All right. So, next item on agenda is provide direction on civics education program to replace youth counselor program and we have again our management analyst Richardson will uh present the staff report. Hello again.

Hi everybody. Get situated. Um, first of all, thank you Chelsea and Kai did did a great job and um and I really I I am impressed too with just the amount of time that they spend outside of Tayak meetings. I mean Tayak meetings are um a couple hours per week uh per month and that's significant in and of itself when you have a a full schedule at school. Um but the time that they devote to all of our events and recruitment and different things is is really impressive and I very much appreciate it. um I think they know I I really love working with this group. So um to that just once again for the record um honorable mayor and council I'm Alex Richardson, management analyst for the city management department. Um so as you know later tonight city attorney Shelby Raala will be presenting a resolution to sunset the youth counselor program. Um so for this item and we can go to the next slide. Thank you Jason. Um, I'm looking for feedback on the following plan which I developed in consultation with TYAK in response to the proposed dissolution of this program. I'm also looking for direction on whether council would like to assign a council onto Tayak in the absence of the youth counselor. We can go to the next one. Um, so in the previous agenda item, you all learned about Tyak's activity over the past year. Um, that should serve as kind of a good foundation to segue into this conversation about Tyax's future. Um, I know that also standardized bylaws were recently passed. Um, so this is fortuitous timing to talk about how we might um change some of what we do while still retaining the essence of what Tayak is. We currently have nine members. We're always trying to recruit more. However, it's been a a pretty stable number for a while. Um, which I'm I'm happy about. We have many long-term members. I wanted to mention um the two behind me have have been in Tayak for a

few years now. Um but we know that we can go up to 15. So recruitment does remain a top uh goal for TYAK. Um but we are looking at refreshing TAK so that we can uh add more of an advocacy bent to what they do. So this program recommendation as I mentioned comes out of council's decision to sunset this program but in lie of developing a new civic education program which you know feasibly would require more staff time um budget further training things that I know can be constrained currently with our budget situation the way that it is. This proposal really refineses TAK's activities to include more civic education. Um, and I wanted to note too that I originally planned for more of a structured educational curriculum that took into account civic engagement programs that I researched across the the country and the state. Um, with kind of tours of city facilities and lessons, you know, in a way on different departments. Um, but after discussing with Tayak, members indicated that they really were more Is this still coming through? Oh, okay. If it happens again, I'll switch. Sorry. um members indicated that they would appreciate a greater emphasis on how to advocate and interact in policy spaces. So, how to do things like this, which I mean, they're doing a great job, but I think affording more opportunities for other members to interact with council um and just learn about some of the more formal aspects of um serving, you know, be it preparation for joining other boards and committees um when they when they turn 18 or when there are other youth spots for other like ad hoc committees that we may have. um and how to how to advocate, you know, coming here or even doing so at the state level. Um so they indicated that they would prefer that rather than an overview of the city's internal

operations. However, that said, I think continuing to have some of the guests as they referred to this evening is very helpful. um it does give insight into uh possible career paths and just different aspects of our operations that I alone as one staff member can't necessarily convey um the the complexity of everything that we do. Um so that's a little background and if we could go to the next slide please. So, um, Tyak's current charge, and this will be a refresher. You know, I know that you all, um, did talk about, uh, all of the board and committees, um, current charges several weeks ago, but their charges to provide review and comment to elected officials and city decision makers regarding public issues, projects, and proposals that have an impact on youth. work with the mayor, city council, city departments, chamber of commerce, civic clubs, and other community organizations to create civic engagement opportunities for local youth uh and find creative ways to educate the public concerning um issues concerning Tiger's youth. So, I believe that they are doing quite a bit of that already as you as you learned previously. They volunteer for events. They create their own original programming. They attend professional development opportunities. Um, and they learn from guest speakers from city and partner organizations. Uh, so the the outline that I'm suggesting here does retain all of those aspects, but just emphasizes the civic education advocacy aspect of Tyak's charge. So, um, one model that I look to is called the connected learning framework. I'm looking at Council President Wolf because she might be familiar, but you all might. Um, it's it's a a framework or a theory of learning. In in this model, youth's personal interests, relationships, and access to opportunities are leveraged to spark

their passions and really get them invested in learning and change. I think there's already a lot of passion and investment in Tayak. Otherwise, we wouldn't see longevity in members and so much time being spent um on these projects. But I think being able to focus that a little bit more um is something that that we could do if um if they led more with their own personal passions and then were directed how to really um like springboard that into a more meaningful change that is is heard in a more formalized structured way to um adults in decision-m uh um situations. So, one thing that I would suggest is that a Tyak envoy type position um to council be added. I wouldn't necessarily call it an envoy because we already have a Tiger High School envoy. Um but having perhaps the president or um this is something I wanted to discuss here before firming that up with all of Tayak, but having a a regular representative come um perhaps quarterly at your study session meetings. So, that's one idea. Um and then adding some of the the civic education focus. Um so governance youth they do lead the agenda items in many respects. Um but I think that there's even more opportunity for them to take a greater uh planning approach further in advance of the meetings and really own that that role especially the officer positions. Um and um utilizing Robert's rules. that's not something that we've actually done in Tayak for those of you who have visited us. Um, we we have an agenda and we get things done and we stay on time. However, it's more of a casual atmosphere and I think that has made it special, but I also think that it might turn some people away that are looking for more of a structured um time spent in these meetings. Um, it also does prepare them for other boards and committees should they choose to to

run or even for for council. Um, so that's one thing to consider. Um, and then more focus on skill building. So, um, writing a policy memo, reading budget. This is budget season. I mean, it's it's complicated for most of us that work at the city, but it's certainly pretty opaque, I think, for most teens. Um so just kind of going with the flow of the year and what the city is working on um at that moment or you know uh utilizing the agendas of upcoming council meetings to be able to educate a little bit about what is coming up with those specific items um is another would be a bit of a change. Um and then having committees. Um one thing I did want to state is that we don't plan to change the schedule. So unlike most boards and committees in the city, we meet twice a month um for an hour each time. We did discuss going to two hours just one time per month, but they very firmly want to have that really regular touch point um feeling that a month between is too long. But within that framework, we can spend perhaps one meeting a month on some of this committee work. So, I don't want to get into too much into the weeds, but these are some of the areas that we can, especially with a larger roster, can split folks into these focus areas. So, we're all committee um familiar with subcommittees from other boards and committees, but we really haven't done that in TAK. So, that would be a change. Um and then being able to make formal policy recommendations to council, like to councelor Robin's question this evening, like what are city issues that you all, you know, would want to weigh in on? um having just me setting up more guided conversations so that there's uh tangible recommendations that are made either via the envoy type position at your study session meetings or um you know written memos that are delivered um either to our acting city manager or uh we can figure out the mechanics of it

but um that is something else that I would like to potentially consider. Um and then finally um initiatives that maybe uh we have been working on houselessness for the last year but maybe longer term um initiatives like the clothing drive for example was a real sprint and they did a wonderful job but something that is a little bit more long-term um that really leads into something that the city is uh acutely invested in at that moment is another idea and advocacy at the capital. We do go to the city summit every other year. Um, which is how often it's offered. They only offer that in Salem every other year. Um, but being able to even provide testimony perhaps for, you know, bills during legislative sessions, things of that nature. So, that was a lot of uh a lot of talking, but that's that covers some of the proposed um additions. So, if we go to the next slide, please. So, um, based on this information, I would love to hear your thoughts on changes presented. Um, I know that there is no, um, there's no budgetary aspect to this. There's not, uh, an increase in budget. We get $300 a year, uh, which isn't a ton. Um, but we make it work. We make it stretch. And most of this just, um, is dependent upon me working with officers and the rest of Tyak to develop out this this program. So there aren't there isn't much in the way of resources requested for this. I'm more just um looking for your your feedback and also um if you would like to assign a council onto Tayak now that there will no longer be a youth counselor in that role um if the envoy type recurring visit to council serves that function or if there's a desire for a more regular connection to council um with that member attending all or you know some

meetings um kayak meetings. So with that, I will open it up for discussion. Thank you, Alex. Anybody want to start? Councelor Gluci, go ahead.

Thank you, mayor. Um, I do think that the envoy does serve as a good touch point in terms of giving the council that sort of recommendation. Um, however, I think that it would be really fun and cool if instead of having one individual, each of us, to be honest, has something different that we can help out with. You don't want to ask me about how to put together a city budget, but you talked to councelor Schlack and he'll have a lot of opinions and be something passionate, you know, that he's able to really bring. So, I think if it's something that council felt okay with, instead of having one person, we could end up rotating be like, I can contribute and help you out with this. I've advocated for like this kind of thing so I could talk to the group about this and if it's something that we're passionate about, everyone will have fun.

Yeah, I like that idea. Thanks, Council Schlack.

Thank you, mayor, and thank you, Alex, for your work on this. Um, I really like the direction that the civic education program is going. I look forward to um the benefits that the um youths of Tiger get out of it as well as the city community. Um, regarding the I don't think I I like councelor Gdusi's idea. I don't think we necessarily need a formal liaison role because um we aren't giving um we don't have envoy ro positions for any other advisory board at this point. They come annually and and present. So um even having a quarterly visit from the Tayak president would be more than a lot of other committees are getting. But I like councelor Gdusi's idea and think that can just be worked into the the regular curriculum as opposed to a formal liaison role that we're all rotating through. So that that's my position on that question. Thank you.

Thanks. Yeah. And now

um thank you so much. Uh few thoughts. One, I'd really like um Tayak to revisit exploring and learning more about city operations and budget because without having both those you really can't have much of an influence. You can propose a lot of great ideas through government relations, through your policy and research, but without having a solution or a budget that goes with it, oftentimes it can it won't be successful. So, um, that is part of that's what I've done professionally for well over a number of years. Um, and so you always have to have that solution of how you're going to pay for it pay for. So I would love to see that as and perhaps to councelor Gdusi's comment I'm happy to come in and explain but I'd love to see like a policy and research and budget or a government relations and budget but something that is included there. Also I'd love to see you partnering with TTSD Jesuit Talton because they have civic programs um his history programs but how are they teaching that subject? How are they advocating? And so perhaps given um your time I'm sure is going to be limited that you can partner with them and get that type of resource as well. Just a thought. And then also um I think too just coming whether it's you know maybe even semianually or quarterly as Tayak to report out would be fantastic. And then I'd also want to make sure that we coordinate with our um Nicole Hendricks and with um Shelby um Raala with regards to advocacy because we want to make sure we're um not coming going to Salem or even Washington DC with two different messages or messages that haven't been curated by the city um that support our four goals. So that would just be my thoughts. Thank you, mayor.

Thank you, Council President. Thank you, Councelor Shaw. Okay.

Yeah. Thank you, Alex. And um I haven't heard of the curriculum that you referenced, so would um be happy to chat about this. So, at the risk of getting in the weeds in that, I am a big proponent of kind of the um youth opportunity to um have a conversation around policy or you know uh so what I was wondering and this by no means um would occur on a you know a regular council meeting opportunity or um schedule but you know we have our agendas, we have our information sheets. So if during the year there were a few items that the youth council was passionate about, they write a policy advocacy piece and it gets attached for us to read. Um because we no longer have a youth advocate um to or a youth counselor. But I I personally would uh appreciate however and respecting your time respecting the but is that an opportunity around education. This is a particular thing that impacts us. We've spent some time researching. here's our recommendation, you know, pro or con, and it's attached to our information. And then that's a way to continue to build that muscle of um and then I also think how how would you do that? How would you draft? How do you show your research? How do you show your advocacy? So, I think there's some opportunities to really learn and grow and then just be part of our process in a different way. So, that's my two cents. So, thank you.

Thank you, Councelor Anderson. Well, very ambitious. Um, I would agree with all those bullet points and I would just leave it up to you to see how far you can get with these. I like the Robert's rules. Even if it's just very basic, they can learn how to listen and wait and then speak. I It's very important, right? Even in business. So, yeah. Great. I think it's great.

Thank you. And I agree it is ambitious but um I think even doing a few pieces of it well and you know may maybe it's more of a phased approach um and what you were talking about is kind of exactly what I had in mind in terms of developing like a position paper and yes point well taken about making sure that that we're not advocating for things that the city is not squarely on board with. So definitely thank you councelor Robins. I appreciate everyone's very thoughtful comments. I agree with all of it. Um the the meetings happen twice a month for an hour. I'm assuming that's right after school time. 5 to 6 every other Monday.

Okay. So 5 to six is a little more doable for people who are working um as well. I didn't know if it was going to be like 3:30 or something. That would be tough. Yeah. But um I agree that I think us rotating through kind of more as like guest presenters would be very valuable. I could also see the value in having a council liaison as well, someone that maybe could develop a little more trust with the students that they feel free to come to to talk about things um outside of the official if they want to have any kind of advice. So maybe we could do some kind of a hybrid, but if nobody else likes that idea, I'm okay with that, too. You could volunteer. I I would be willing to volunteer for that. Especially since it's not at 3:30.

Okay. Um that's right. Yeah. I mean, if councelor Robin would like to volunteer, I'm I'm okay. I'm perfectly fine with that. And maybe we can also do hybrid method. Um, I have my monthly meet up with the mayor event and I will encourage Thayak member to attend to see what that looks like. You know, me interacting with the public. Um also I like the idea of uh learning about budget

because um that's you know when they present us with their policy position paper whatever or thesis I think they need to understand how budget works and what the trade-offs are when they advocate for something. So um yeah very germanine to now and true. Yeah exactly. Yeah. And uh yeah and I I'm I'm very happy to hear previous presentation they talk about learning the the bear's angel about how to respect others different

learn how to work together even we disagree with each other that's so important so so I encourage them to continue learning that and Robert's rules of course and just how they pro how they provide public comments I think that's part part of public uh robber's rule is, you know, that's part of the civic engagement. Agree to disagree, I guess. So, yeah, but but yeah, certainly want to be mindful of your time as well. So, it's pretty ambitious. So, but I I like the direction. So,

yeah, I do that. I I Yeah, I hear you. And um yeah, professional communication and conduct was something that one of the members actually brought up wanting to learn more about just how to really interface with adults in positions of authority. Um, I mean, of course they do that with teachers, but with elected officials, there can be another layer of intimidation or um, and so I think helping to break down that barrier uh, by learning some of those formalities, but but also just having more interaction with you all is is great. So, I'm I'm really pleased if councelor Robbins would like to take that up. And I also think having you guys all come through at some point, your schedule allowing would be really helpful. Yeah. So, thank you.

Are we all okay with council Robin being? Okay. Thank you, Council Rollins. Appreciate it. All right. So, anything any anything else? No. All right. Thank you so much. Oh, an alternate if needed. Oh, okay. Oh, we can all rotate. That's fine. So, thank you, Alex. Thank you. Have a great evening. You, too. All right. So, next item on our agenda is the resolution sunsetting the youth counselor position. And we have city attorney Rihala to give us staff's report. Good evening.

Good evening council. So this uh really just piggybacks on the last item. Uh because the youth council position was established by resolution. It takes a resolution of council to repeal it. Uh and we will implement the great things that management analyst Richardson just planned. Uh so this just uh ties together all the presentations from tonight. All right. Any other questions or motion? Mayor, I move to approve resolution number 26-16, a resolution sunsetting the youth counselor program established by resolution 19-13 and affirming the city's commitment to youth civic engagement through the Tiger Youth Advisory Council. I'll second the motion.

Thank you, Councelor Schlack and Shaw. Uh, is there any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say I. I.

I. Those oppose say nay. Resolution 26-16 is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council. Thank you. All right. So, let's uh move on to briefing on McDonald Street improvement and principal engineer Ferman will present this briefing. Good evening. Thank you. Good evening, mayor and counselors. I'm Courtney Ferman, assistant city engineer, and I'm joined here by Nicholas Plinsky, our consultant project manager. Um, and we're really happy to be here and share an update on the McDonald Street project with you. Um, so you can go to the next slide. So McDonald Street is um endcapped by Highway 99 on the west side and Hall Boulevard on the east. Um it's a really important route in Tiger um for connectivity to the neighborhood but also to an elementary and middle school. And this project is in line with Tiger's complete streets policy. Um it is also a safety priority corridor identified through our recently adopted um safe streets action plan. And so in addition to the street improvements, we will also be replacing and upgrading water lines. Uh we actually have four water lines along McDonald Street and we will be undergrounding um utilities. So you can go to the next slide. Um here is our schedule. So we are almost done with phase one. we are wrapping up our early design efforts and so that's what we'll be sharing with you tonight. Uh we'll be going over the options that were considered and where we landed with the preferred design. Um

we'll go right into phase two and that will have the rest of the design work. Uh we'll also have a rightaway acquisition process um with the property owners along the corridor and we expect that phase to be completed at the end of 2027. Um at that point we'll be able to hire a contractor to do the work and we plan to start construction in spring of 2028 and it'll be uh two seasons of construction. We'll be trying to work around the school schedule as much as we can. Um so as much as we can in those two summers. Um if we can go to the next slide. So for this project we did develop uh project specific goals and we felt that this was really important because we knew that we have a a lot of constraints on this corridor and we really wanted to be thoughtful and make sure that the decisions that we're making um with the design recommendations are really rooted in these project goals. So keep these project goals in mind as later Nick will be going over the different options and our evaluation criteria that we established. And all of that is really rooted in these these project goals. And so I'm not going to go over all of it, but the highlights are that first and foremost we want to have safe facilities for everybody um for all modes. Um, as you heard a lot about with the safe streets action plan, um, in order to achieve safe streets, we really need safe speeds. So, we need to manage speeds and we need to have some amount of separation um, between people that are walking and biking and um, vehicles. So, keep that in mind. That's really our that's our first priority, our first goal. That's really overarching. Um, in addition to that, we also want to

improve traffic operations. Um, we want to minimize impacts to the properties along the corridor and we want to balance project costs at the same time. So, talking about budget, we want to be mindful of the costs as well while achieving those other goals. Um, as I said, we're replacing water lines or upgrading water lines. So, we need to maintain service during construction. Um and then the other piece is really working with key stakeholders um throughout the project and and I'll be sharing a little bit about that. Um so we can go to the next slide. Um, so as I said, um, we really did take some extra time with this project to look at different options and make sure that we were really being careful and thoughtful in the improvements. Um, and only having impacts when they are absolutely needed. Um, so all of the improvements are really right-sized um, to meet the project goals and we'll be going over all of that in a little bit. Um, and then we also wanted to include community engagement throughout the whole process. Um, and really asking the questions that we're able to incorporate um, into our design. So, if you can go to the next slide, these are the strategies um, that we used for our public engagement on this project. and we really wanted to rely on some of our existing communication channels um using things that people are familiar with. We did have events that were specific to the project, but in addition to that, we also wanted to go where people are, so to go to community events and go to school events. Uh we partnered with the school district and were able to attend some events at the school as well. Um and then also just

trying to use different methods because everybody has their own preferences. Um and this is as you saw with the project schedule, this is a fairly large project and it is going to take years and so we really see this as an opportunity to build trust with the community as well. Um so you can go to the next slide. So something that we were able to implement um with this project is that city staff re received a training about equity centered community engagement. And so something that we were able to do with this project is we held an in-person work session. Uh we had city staff um the consultant team, school district staff, um as well as a school parent who actually after this ended up joining our uh transportation advisory committee which was great. Um so through this process we identified or developed the engagement um objectives as well as identifying our key key stakeholders which really helped us um plan for our uh engagement efforts for the project. Um so you can go to the next slide. So these are the the things that we did as far as engagement in fall of 2025. So, we had an online survey open for a few months and that was looking at the different options for the street cross-section and we'll be sharing those a little bit later. Um, we also attended some school events. Uh, we were at city events like family funday. Um, we also did a community open house in October and then uh the transportation advisory committee. I'm go to the next slide please. So, these are some photos from our first open house, and we actually used these uh floor mats that showed all of the different four cross-section options that were being considered for the corridor. And they were actually to

scale. And so it was really helpful to see the difference in footprint between the different options and how that may feel if you're the user for the different facility, but also the impact that that could have on the um properties along the corridor. Um you can go to the next slide. Um the other thing that we did at this event was we just had a a large map with sticky notes and we talked with a a lot of um community members about the things that they're concerned with um and also the things that they really want the project to achieve. Um so the improvements that they'd like to see. And so we heard a lot about concerns with left turns at different locations. Um concerns about speeding and other items. And so we were able to gather all this information and um this was able to be included in our design as it was developed. Um so you can go to the next slide. So in spring of 26 um this is kind of our second round of engagement and um we did individual meetings with property owners um that will be impacted by the project. And so these started in February and we really saw these as just starting the conversation. We know that we're going to be working with these property owners very closely over the next few years. Um and so we met individually with so far we've met with about 45 of them. Um but it is an ongoing effort. Um and these meetings were so helpful. Um, it was great to meet the property owners and to hear their concerns and we learned so much about how their property works. You know, the things that they need for their driveway to do to feel safe. Um, trees that they either really deeply care about us protecting or that they don't. Um, and so it was just we learned so much. Um, and it's been really helpful because um, we're able to use

that information and we're including it right now in our design. And so looking at um different driveway options and working with the property owners and making sure that we can address their needs. Um we also did um go to the committee for community engagement as well as transportation advisory committee. Um and then we held our second uh community openhouse in March. Um if you can go to the next slide, these are some photos from um our second open house. And at this event, we were actually able to bring our preferred design, which we'll be um sharing in a little bit. And we had a few different stations set up um to really walk the participants through the decision-making process and all of the options um that were looked at. Um you can go to the next slide. Um so, as you can see, this is just some of the materials that we had there. Um, we also did have a separate area for property owners if they weren't able to meet with us yet and they wanted to talk about the potential impacts for their project specifically. Um, we were able to talk more with them as well and that was really helpful. Um, and I think I'm I think we can go to the next slide and I think I'm turning it over to you Nick. Yep.

Yep. Sounds good. Thanks, Courtney. Um, so yeah, so kind of everything that Courtney walked through from the public engagement standpoint. Um, I'm going to give you an overview now of kind of where we've what kind of the same messaging that we've been giving the public in terms of where the project is and how we got there. Um, so there was a a pretty robust alternatives analysis done with this project both for uh the pedestrian and bicycle facilities on the corridor as well as uh vehicular traffic on the corridor. Um so that kind of the two bullets here on the slide uh they they were they were evaluated together but also separately um just because they are kind of two independent utility items um that we wanted specific feedback for. Um so yeah if you can go to the next slide. So from a pedestrian and bike standpoint, this is what was presented um both with our uh online survey that was put out to the public as well as the community house number or community openhouse number one. Um so there are four different pedestrian and bike alternatives that were presented as options that could exist along McDonald Street. Um and all these are very similar. they they provide um continuous active transportation connections along the entire corridor. Uh but they're slightly different. So alternative one is kind of a traditional buffered bike lane that you would see um these these exist pretty regularly across the area um where the bikes are directly adjacent to vehicular traffic with a striped buffer. Um and then sidewalk separated by a landscape strip. Uh and then a shared use path option um which combines the two facilities. So bicycles and pedestrians are mixed in one um separated mode from vehicular traffic. Um and then alternative three is actually I don't know if you guys uh remember my presentation that I gave on the 72nd Avenue project. It's a very similar cross-section to that where we

have um both bicycles and pedestrians separated with a landscape buffer uh but then also separated from each other behind the curb. Um and then alternative number four is very similar to alternative three um but putting that landscape buffer in between uh cyclists and pedestrians um but still the the modes are separated by a curb uh from vehicular traffic. So if you go to the next slide please. Uh and I won't go over all of the really small words on this slide but this is just this is just a representation of the alternatives evaluation that we did for these four different cross-sections. Um so generally the evaluation criteria in the far left column are what we use to u qualitatively look through these different items and have a way to compare against each other. Um so broadly speaking green is good uh on on the on the matrix here. So uh the slides that or the the cells that are highlighted in green here um either that particular cross-section was better compared to its counterparts um or or equal to and then uh yellow is kind of just so so and then red is is kind of deemed as poor. Um so just to kind of highlight some of the the big evaluation criteria. So that top item is overall kind of cost for the different elements. Um environmental impacts, community support, user experience, safety, and access management were all things that we looked at and compared these to each other. Um if you go to the next slide, please. And based on all of that, uh the option that had the kind of most um public support and kind of the least amount of impacts uh was the shared use path option. Um, so really the the biggest draw for this is the overall width of this cross-section. So combi com

combining the bicycle and pedestrian experience to one particular area of the road allowed us to significantly reduce the cross-section. So um if you're if you're looking at all the different options against each other, this is about 10 ft narrower um than the rest of the the options. Uh which is pretty significant based on the number of properties along the corridor. Um so that was a very very big reason why both we and the public thought that this would be a good option for us to move forward with. Um and it does the also main goal that Courtney highlighted with our project goal number one is providing that kind of safe experience for all all users. Um so if you go to the next slide please. Um, and then once we once we kind of figured out the the pedestrian bicycle experience that we wanted to look at, now it was what do we do for vehicles? Um, so for for this project, we we needed to look at this kind of as a whole corridor. Um, just because it's there's not different segments on this one that really make sense to break it out. So, we needed to look at something that worked for kind of that whole mile length in between 99 and Hall. Um, so there were two different overall corridor alternatives that we evaluated. Um, I'll start on the right hand side of the screen. Actually, the the three-lane cross-section um was something that was programmed into the city's capital improvement plan uh for for this project, which essentially is at a center turn lane for the duration of McDonald Street. Um, so maintain the two travel lanes and then put that third one in the middle to allow for kind of left turns on and off of the corridor. Um, but there's uh the the pros obviously is that we like Courtney highlighted from some of the public feedback that we gathered. Left turns on and off of McDonald Street are very challenging especially during kind of the very very busy times a school drop off coming to and from work. Um, so that would

accomplish that. Um, but it still was not uh where it needed to be from a traffic operations perspective at the different intersections. Um, so we wanted to look at a different option as well. So, and that's kind of where the roundabout option comes into play. Um, so the the roundabout option is essentially strategically placing roundabouts at some of the major intersections along McDonald Street, but maintaining two lanes of traffic in each direction. Um, so not widening the corridor from a vehicular standpoint other than at the intersections. Um, and that does two things. it it it really improves the flow of traffic similar to how the turning movements would be accomplished with a left turn lane. Uh but then it also drastically improves the safety at the intersections because it fully removes kind of the the most severe types of crashes in those kind of left turn movements. Um and yeah, next slide please. Um so and this is just highlighting kind of the the two different alternatives that existed. Um, so this is the the three-lane crosssection. Um, so and I apologize for the small picture, but um, essentially it's it's again widening the corridor here, using that preferred pedestrian and bicycle treatment that we had with the shared use path. Um, but then adding that center turn lane for the entirety of McDonald Street. And then if you could go to the next slide. And then this is the same the same area but with the roundabouts on the corridor. So, this is two two two lanes um maintaining kind of the same vehicular footprint uh outside of some of the intersections for the majority of McDonald Street. And then the two roundabouts you see here in the picture at 103rd and at Omar at 98. Um and then if you go to the next slide, please. Um, and then another piece that we looked at in terms of evaluating the two different options, uh, was the kind of sheer amount of rightway that would be

necessary, uh, based on the two footprints. Um, so there's a lot of lot of words here on these slides, but big picture, the roundabouts actually are less overall impact permanent rightway perspective for the majority of the corridor. Um, there are 59 properties that require permanent right-of-way takes with the roundabout corridor alternative and 71 with the threelane alternative. And that's surely just due to the kind of consistent cross-sectional widening that the threelane crosssection would do. Um, and the there are there are more impacts at the intersections with the roundabout options. Um, we're not we're not trying to hide away from that. Uh but just purely from the entire project corridor perspective there there's just less right-of-way impact and less right-of-way costs associated with the roundabout corridor. Um next slide please. And then just uh this was this was an exhibit that we prepared for the um open house highlighting the um proposed roundabout corridor. And um the two shaded shapes here represent the the kind of consistent right-of-way footprint that exists. So this is kind of what I'm talking about at the intersections you see the shapes get slightly wider um for the roundabout footprint. Um but outside of the intersections so in between 97th and 93rd here on the picture um consistently the threelane cross-section is actually wider um and require would require more right of way. So next slide please. Um and then very similar exercise that we did for the pedestrian and bicycle alternatives. uh the the evaluation criteria are the same as well. Um but and then kind of the red green yellow as well. Um but really kind of they're just high high level concept B which is the far right column. This is split into two

tables. Um but the the far right column on both of these lot of yellow a lot of green the roundabout corridors seem to accomplish a lot of the project goals that we were looking for. Um, and these evaluation criteria again are are trying to line up as best as we can with the the project goals that Courtney highlighted earlier. So, um, that that is the intent of the project moving forward is the preferred corridor is the roundabout corridor. Um, and that is what we plan to move forward with the project. Um, next slide, please. Um, and now what I'll do is just kind of walk through the actual kind of preferred concept. Um, I don't know if we're going to be able to click on this right now. If we can, then we can. Uh, but we can always come back to it. We have a lot of um most of the information is in the slides too. So if if if it doesn't work just clicking on it then that's that's okay. Um but yeah the we we we've created a project story map that has um a lot of the information that I'm giving you tonight and and just kind of a a knowledge dump of everything that we've done on this project to understand for for the public because this is also live on the city's on on your website right now so that anybody um interested in the project can get the information. Um, but it has the background of the project. Um, oh yeah, great. Yeah, this is the this this is the story map that has all this information. Um, so it has some nice headings up top that that walk through different pieces. Um, and then uh if we want to go to the preferred concept slide uh right here, um, this is where we can jump in and if we wanted to look at all the different plans, we can certainly do that. Maybe maybe I'll we'll go through the presentation. Maybe we can jump back and play around with the um the story map here. Um but glad to know that works. Thank you.

Do you want to show the sliders? Right. Do do you want me to go through the presentation or do you want We could maybe just show the the sliders really quick. If you could Would you be able to go back Jason to the Sorry.

Yeah. If you go down just a little bit. I think they're the next piece on here. So, um I think we've shown you these before, but these are a really powerful tool to highlight changes on the corridor. So, this is um aerial imagery that we got with drones on the corridor, but then we were able to overlay kind of a 3D model. So, that uh little button right in the very middle of the screen, Jason, is a slider that you can drag back and forth. So it highlights kind of what's what's the existing condition um versus what's the proposed condition based on this kind of um this 3D model that we've prepared. Uh so this is we we we prepared these at um the the five major intersection changes on the corridor. So this is at McDonald and 103rd. Um and then the next one is at 100 100th and McDonald which doesn't have a roundabout. We did look at a potential roundabout at this location, but all the properties at this intersection were so close that it just didn't feasibly make sense. Um, so what's proposed here is actually a a concrete separator um to restrict the left turn movements on and off of 100th and then anyone who needed to make that movement would use the roundabouts on either side. Um, so we we did hear this uh from a decent number of people at the second open house that uh this is a pretty I forget exactly what I think somebody said it's like playing chicken at this intersection a lot is people will get to the stop the stop sign on either side of McDonald and then figure out how to jump across because there are some through movements that exist here. Um but this this provides a much safer crossing for pedestrians and bicycles. Um, and we know that a lot of people with this being one of the only streets, interestingly enough, on the corridor that does have a north and a south connection, most of them are T intersections. Um, but yeah, so this one this one does not have a roundabout, but then if you go down a little bit more,

um, this is this is probably this is the only kind of irregular roundabout on the corridor. So, this is at the Omar and 98th intersections. uh as they exist today, they come together but offset from each other. Um so it makes kind of a pretty challenging movement to understand priority. Um so what we've done here is uh put what I'm dubbing an ellipse about. Um it's not a technical term. I made that up. But uh it it essentially draws a an oblong circle between the two intersections, isolating it and making it a single intersection. um that still operates the same way as the rest of the roundabouts, but that way that offset T intersection goes away. Um and that way there there's much less conflict movements between bikes, peds, and and vehicles. Um and then if you go down a little bit more, this is the 97th intersection. Um so this is the the street that has uh the the middle school and elementary school just south. Um, so this is a pretty major intersection on the corridor in terms of traffic volumes. Um, so this very similar roundabout footprint to what was shown at 103. Um, not much more there. And then if you go down to the last slider, this is at 93rd. Um, so very very similar roundabout, just a different perspective here looking up 103rd at the intersection of McDonald. Um but yeah, so all of these are are are single lane roundabouts. They will drastically reduce speeds on the corridor. Um the fastest you could possibly get through one of these is about 25 miles an hour. Um which is a a huge thing that we heard from the public and and a huge goal of the project. Um these are also designed specifically for fire trucks and school buses to traverse these um with with

large freight not being allowed on McDonald. um that made us from a footprint perspective able to reduce these roundabouts. They're they're pretty small uh in terms of a traditional roundabout that you would see. Um but as all of these images are projecting, they still will have a kind of central island with with landscaping. And then the the red area that you see in the graphics is also intended to be a mountable surface. So if trailers or boats or anything needed to um take the turn a little bit tighter, then they they can and are able to mount that that that red area of the the in inscribed circle there. Um and then yeah, in between all these roundabouts and yeah, maybe we can jump back quickly to the presentation. Likely we can skip a lot of slides now. Um, but the the rest of the presentation was really just kind of going through these different pieces and kind of where the project's at. Um, oh, sorry. I didn't know that would make you go all the way back as it gets caught back up. Um yeah so and then um oh great yeah perfect. So I think this is I think this is the next slide as I was walking through it but um we can we can also watch it too at the very end. Uh but we we did prepare a video uh that does a simulation that flies through the the whole project that is a very powerful tool. We had this playing at our open house um in March as well so that people could kind of fully understand the transformation of the corridor because it's pretty significant. Um like C Court Cordy had mentioned early on, another big part that's somewhat shown in in this is uh this is a huge utility job too. So there's four four water lines that exist. Um we're planning to improve those uh as well as underground all of the existing overhead uh power lines and

communication lines which changes how everything looks on this very very significantly. Um so yeah, maybe we'll we'll finish the slide and I think we'll have time to to bounce back. So if you can go to the next slide please. Um so another piece that our our project team has been working on through this initial phase is also evaluating how we're going to deliver the project through construction. Um as part of our scope we we looked at different alternative delivery methods for the project. So mo most construction projects go through kind of a traditional design bid build um uh mechanism where that it's a low bid environment. Uh we prepare construction plans, contractor bids and and generally you're taking that low bid. Um we wanted to see if it made sense to go a different route with this project just because of the complexity and the size of it. Um so the other four bullet points on here are are the different um alternative delivery methods that we evaluated as our team. Um so the second item is is design build which is where the the owner in the owner meaning you the city would hire um a contractor and they would be the essentially main conduit line with the whole team. Um, so you you you'd hire them earlier on most likely pro probably right now is if if we were to go that route. Um, and the contractor would be the main point of contact and then they would hire a a consultant or somebody else to do the design in tandem tandem with them. Um, and we'll we'll I'll kind of go over the pros and cons of different things on the next slides, but I'll just quickly go through these. Um, progressive design build is another alternative option that we would go with. um similar contracting mechanism as uh design build where you'd hire the contractor then they would hire anybody else that's on their team. Um

and then construction manager general contractor CMGC is where you'd have two separate contracts, one with a contractor, one with a consultant. Um and they would kind of be working in parallel um but under different kind of different teams um per se. And then uh the last one is best value which is very similar to traditional design bid build but it adds a qualifications base factor to the selection when you're picking the the contractor. So it's still um you go through the normal process where our our team would prepare the construction plans. Um, but then as when you get to the point where you're looking for a contractor to build the project, um, you put out kind of a set criteria, not wi with low bid being one of the that criteria, but it's also qualifications based. So that way you know that you're getting a contractor that can do the job. Uh, next slide, please. Um and happy to kind of go through the all the different things that we use to evaluate it. But really for this project um the team recommending best value as the as the method because it it gives us um like I just said it gives us the ability to select a contractor that we know that can do the work for a complicated job. Um and a lot of the other contracting mechanisms are kind of schedule driven um benefits. Uh but with this project with the the right-of-way phase being a very complicated piece of this project, there's not really the opportunity to have any early work packages um that we could benefit from hiring a contractor really early on in the design. Um so that that's a big reason why we wouldn't suggest design build or progressive design build. Um, and then it it just gives the uh really kind of it doesn't change the process

really either for for kind of the city and our our team. It's a very familiar bidding environment. It's just we we're adding the kind of the qualifications based thing. So, it's something that everybody's used to um that while we get an added benefit of having a a competent contractor, it's not something that's kind of out of left field and something very very new for everybody. So, it's it's something that everybody feels very comfortable with. Um, and then we we also plan to to kind of come back uh at a at a later point in the in this project to kind of formally uh work through this process with you all and and make sure that u we have everything in place from a selection criteria and u just kind of overall solicitation once it's time to get get to this point. So, that that that'll happen later in the project, but we just wanted to give you an overview of kind of this process that we've been going through. Uh, next slide. And then as far as next steps, uh, it does say contract for phase two. Uh, the and and that's something Courtney and I are currently working on in in revising just the additional scope to take this project now through design and construction. So, we're kind of just finishing up the the concept alternatives phase as as we've discussed today. Um the the plan I think we were maybe a little ambitious when we put this together saying that we'd come back next month to to do that. Uh we we do have a a contract time amendment in place where we um are still comfortable to work through everything that we're doing right now, but I think the plan really is we'll we'll probably be back in July to talk to um put that item on the agenda for you all. Um, and then the resolution for delivery method, what kind of just what I just talked about with the alternative delivery method is we'll probably plan to come back later in 2026 towards maybe the end of the year to really kind of um put the fine print on that. Um, and then in early 2027, uh, we'll be looking for a resolution of necessity for the ride

ofway on the project. Um, and that's just all the different kind of pieces related to the permanent and temporary ride ofway acquisition needs that we'll have. Um and then big picture overall project the the plan is to have construction ready documents and the design complete at the end of 2027. Um which and then we'll jump into construction in 2028 in the spring um through ideally kind of the fall of 2029 and then I think that was my last slide. Yeah. And then yeah, now if we want, we can. It does have sound, but I don't know how loud it's going to be, and we also don't need the sound. Totally up to whoever's clicking the buttons. Um, but yeah, this is just a fly through of the project. The music playing.

Yeah. Yeah. So again, if this is the as you're kind of going west or going east on the corridor, this is the first roundabout that you'd hit at 103. And then this is that traffic separator I was discussing at at 100th. Um, so again, it would it would limit kind of the left turns on and off of 100th. But then these roundabouts are spaced very close together. So it's it's not it would add maybe 10 seconds of travel um to go and use one of the roundabouts and kind of flip a U-turn. But this is the roundabout at Omara 98. You can kind of see the oblong shape. It it does allow for a larger central island as well. So it can kind of be like we have we haven't fully figured out all the landscaping items, but it could definitely be a gateway kind of roundabout that looks really nice. Um and this is at 97th. Um, yeah, just kind of and and we Courtney mentioned we've had a lot of conversations with with property owners on the corridor. We've had a lot of conversations with with kind of especially these people at the intersections that um would see their their property change a lot and all of them are very supportive at the moment, which is great. Um, and we're having follow-up conversations uh later this week, too. So, um, yeah. Yeah. And then this is the the last roundabout at the east at 93rd. Um and then in between 93rd and Hall, it will be very similar to what people are used to today with two lanes of traffic, but then kind of the that landscape strip and shared east path all the way to Hall. That's the That's McDonald.

Great. Thank you for the presentation. Absolutely. Council, any questions or comment? Council Gusi. Uh, thank you, Mayor. Just for clarification with all those pictures and everything else, it looks like um we were assuming the cross-section alternate two with all of those roundabouts. Is that correct? And then when we were talking about the rightway calculation, was that the rightway calculation with alternate two plus either the roundabout and the

Yes. Council President Wolf. U great presentation. I enjoyed using the video last night as I was reviewing. My one question though is and I mean I understand with the schools and Omara 98 being funky, but those two roundabouts that close together is that that just seemed really unusual to have those. And I understand the safety and it sounds like if the residents that live there, everyone's in favor, then it's all thumbs up. It just seemed really tight to have two roundabouts so closely together. And that was my only wondering um of the decisions that or recommendations that are being put forward. you may be able to get into more details, but it's interesting when you start laying it out

when you need to add the center turn lane, which even if you didn't put in both, then you would need the center turn lane. And I was very surprised when they started laying these out, when you add the center turn lane, it ends up being a lot wider than I expected. And then so even in between the two intersections um where we're able to narrow in between then you lose that um ability to do that. And so um even though they are close trying to transition to something else wouldn't really work well either if that makes sense. Um, so it because they are closely spaced, it was really I know we started looking at each one on its own and then we really needed to look at them together to think about how they could transition. And the other thing we didn't talk about, but something that we were also looking at is we did land on the shared use path, but we would need to transition to a shared use path at the roundabout regardless of what option was selected. And so that was another thing that we were looking at is even if we did pick the cycle track, for example, um then you need to transition it to the shared use path to get through the roundabout. and there's actually doesn't make a lot of sense to switch back and forth. Um, and so but it's a great question. It's it is a very tightly spaced corridor.

So, and I don't know if you have anything else to add on the design side of just how the two will operate together.

Yeah, I think it it's I I can understand the kind of concern, but it it also helps having them right there to help with traffic flow in general, just the two. If you had kind of a mix of different things happening in terms of operation treatment at each of those intersections, they would not work well together. But when when it's roundabouts, they kind of inherently introduce the gaps for each entering vehicle at each one of those intersections. So from a flow perspective, it'll actually work really nicely. Um especially 97th uh was the worst uh operationally uh on the entire corridor just because of the school pickups um and buses getting on and off. And we heard that at our original kind of stakeholder mapping session. We had a few staff from um the school district there as well that uh told us that that was a a challenging maneuver. Um so really to kind of help get buses on and off and and move through the that area. It was kind of ne the roundabout at 97th was extremely necessary from everything else. Uh and then kind of the the everything else kind of fell after that. But mo most of them are necessary from an operations perspective.

Well, and I think the fact that Omar is really the main connection to the north. I think it would be different if all of the intersections connected north south, but they really don't unfortunately. So, interesting layout. Yeah. Councelor Schwack.

Um, thank you, Mayor, and thank you for all your work that um you've done on this. Um, I just wanted to say I'm not a huge fan of eliminating the left turn access or um mobility on Southwest Street and Southwest 100th Avenue. It just seems um odd to me that we would be trying to eliminate that option there. I understand the the plain chicken to try and get across, but I'm I'm curious how that would impact sort of neighborhood traffic and neighborhood flow trying to access McDonald because I'd imagine if you live in that area now, you have to entirely reroute to try and get to a left turn there. Could could you speak to that a little bit?

Sure. Sure. Yeah, it's I I think inherently that I totally agree. Um it's it's a change in how you'd operate, but there is a roundabout now at 103rd um and at Omar 98. So, taking a right turn to essentially go left is your movement. Now, um it's a little bit out of direction, but you it would it would add maybe 8 to 10 seconds of travel time to turn right, then use the roundabout, and then you essentially turn left on McDonald. So, it it becomes very quick. Well, that assumes that you because I think when we looked at the traffic operations, the left turns onto McDonald Street, even adding the center turn lane, the delays were going to be very very bad.

Um, and so even even making the right turn and going out of direction, I think, will actually probably be the faster option. Of course, it is the safer option, but I think it'll actually be faster than waiting, you know, a minute to make your left turn. So, thank you. I suppose I'm the odd one out on the council on that one, but appreciate the explanation. Conor Shaw,

thank you so much. This is just a fantastic project. Um, so excited that we're seeing it come to fruition. I support all the McDonald Street project goals and I think you've hit every one of them. Um was really excited about the cross-section scale that the community actually got to walk on top and see what it felt like. I think that was a game changer from just an informative standpoint. Um I love the fact it's creating the safe routes to Templeton and Twalty um which a lot of our kiddos didn't get and excited that the utilities will be underground and we get that opportunity with the water as well. Um, I had a similar question to Southwest 100, but as someone who plays chicken quite a bit turning left, I'm really excited that's gone. It can slow the traffic significantly. Um, and it's dangerous. So, it may take a couple more seconds, but I'm appreciative. May put a little bit more traffic on 103rd and 98th, but I think it's well worth the the safety aspect. Um, and then just for my knowledge, the shared pathway that's similar to what we have on Murdoch, correct? So, we have a we've done this before and so we have history with it and it's working. Yeah. And the the path on Murdoch is I believe also 10 feet,

although it does narrow to eight in a few constrained um sections. Um, so it is a similar width. um that one doesn't have the landscape buffer. Um you know that project was we were very limited in the scope of just trying to get that route on the one side of the street. This project is you know more of a rebuild. Um but yeah, it is a very similar type of facility and we have been hearing positive things about that um about that path so far. Well, thank you. I think it's uh fantastic and so thrilled that you've had so much community engagement and thank you all for the work you've done. Thank you. Councelor Anderson,

I know it's early, but have you had any push back on the acquisition, the rightway acquisitions for many neighbors?

No. Um, I mean, we definitely have had some hard conversations with property owners. I mean, there the impacts are real. Um, and I I completely understand that. So, the conversations have been hard. Um, but I think they've been really good conversations. And I think there were actually a lot of property owners that we talked to that were fearful that they were going to lose like 20 ft of their front yard or like their entire front yard. And so when we came to them and explained, you know, how we came to this decision and that the impact was going to be I'm just making a number up in this case. Let's say it was 10 feet. Um it is still an impact for them, but they were relieved that it wasn't maybe as drastic as they thought it would be. Um, and I think they appreciated that, you know, we really were trying to be mindful and minimize the impact as much as possible. Um, so yeah, it's and like I said, we've met with 45 of them so far. So there's still a lot more a lot more conversations to happen, but it's been been really good so far.

Sure. And just one more, just curious, what is the classification of the street for McDonald? It is an arterial. It's an arterial. doesn't rise the collector because they have different specs, right? So the arterial you you can do the the slower speed limit on those. Yes. Yeah, we are we are designing it to um 30 miles an hour. Um and are it is currently posted at 35. So we would be uh wanting to reduce the the posted speed to 30 and there's a process with with the state to do that. Um but it is in the range of what um the state recommends for arterials. It's typically 30 or 35. So

all right. Thank you, Councelor Robbins. Just really quick, I appreciate the questions. It's very educational. Um very excited to get this going. Again, I think the community engagement has been great. I love seeing the little notes that repeatedly people said, "It's really hard to cross here. We need to crosswalk." So it wasn't just one person complaining. Um I've myself been cut off and almost hit someone. So um I really appreciate it and look forward to it. Good job. Thank you.

Yeah. Thank you. And yeah, I did every comments uh except councelor Schlacks. I I I like to see turn right roundabout and to make a left. I think that's safer for the main street as well as uh um side street. Um uh just in in ter of the power line the plan is to put them underground and I for I think for my neighborhood 121st street was planned to be underground but they ran out of money so they put o above ground. So I just have a request that if we ever reach that, you have to make that decision, please include us or notify us so we can perhaps work together, maybe find more money to put it underground because it's once in a lifetime opportunity to do that. So um yeah, that's only that's my only request. So thank you so much for the presentation. Well done. Thank you.

Thank you. Appreciate it. Have a good night. All right. So there being no additional item, this meeting is adjourned. Good night, Tiger.