City Council - Regular Meeting

IT'S 630, SO GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

I WILL CALL THE TIGER CITY COUNCIL WORKSHOP TO MEETING, MEETING TO ORDER, AND BEFORE WE BEGIN, I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE THAT TODAY IS ELECTION DAY, AND IF YOU HAVE NOT VOTED, BALLOTS MAY BE DROP OFF IN THE OFFICIAL BALLOT DROP BOX BY 8 P.M. AND THERE'S A DROP BOX CONVENIENTLY LOCATED HERE AT CITY HALL, SO PLEASE COME OVER AND VOTE. ALL RIGHT, SO CITY RECORDER CRAIGER, PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL. Is here.

Councillor Guddusi.

Present.

Youth Councillor Hellick is absent. Mayor Hu.

Here.

Councillor Robbins is absent. Councillor Schluck.

Here.

Councillor Shaw is absent. Councillor President Wolf. Here.

All right, thank you. Will everybody please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance.

ALL RIGHT.

CITY TEAM AND COUNCIL, DO YOU HAVE ANY NON-AGENDA ITEMS? THERE ARE NO NON-AGENDA ITEMS FROM STAFF. All right, seeing none, let's move on to public comments. The public comment period provides an opportunity for members 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 503-966-4101. 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. First, we'll go to the written comment. And there, we received two written comments by Monday noon deadline. And in person, I don't, do we have anybody sign up for in person?

I signed up to speak.

All right, so nobody signed up to speak. Let's move on to video phone. Mr. Walter, are there any callers in the queue for phone or video testimony?

There are no callers in the queue.

Thank you, Mr. Walter. And so next item, community update, our Tiger High School envoy unfortunately could not be with us this evening, so we'll skip to item number four, which is TVNFR state of the district. And I would like to welcome Chief Alex Heaven to present the TVNFR state of the district report. And there may be some TVNFR teammates present. Good evening, Chief. Welcome.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, members of the council and city staff. Thanks for having me. My name's Alex Haven, Deputy Chief of Operations with 12th Valley Fire and Rescue. And I've got with me Public Affairs Officer Jacob Fuhrer. And I know that we may have a crew or two that drops in in the next 15 minutes, depending on what they're doing with calls. So I'm happy to give you our state of the district for 2025.

We'll start with that. Next slide, please.

So we'll go over tonight just a few things. We'll start with the City of Tigard Incident Snapshot for 2025, talk about the upcoming wildfire season, what's going on in EMS, current update on bond and capital projects, and then a program we've got internally called Struggle. Next slide. Just making sure you all can see it. Yep, you can. We're seeing the same thing. So for the city of Tigard, 2,025, 6,225 calls. Kind of start at the top just to give you a breakdown if you haven't heard this before. So we categorize our calls to broad categories, EMS, fire, hazard, service type, good intent call, false alarm, natural condition, and then other categories. You'll see the dispatch DAS. That is the information that's coming in the dispatch center as they work through their triage process. They dispatch our crews, and then the situation found, which is what our crews actually find, and when they do their incident report back at the station, they're fine-tuning that data for us, so it gives us an accurate account of what the incident was. You can see in the situation found that 70% of our calls are EMS in nature, emergency medical services. 2.2 and don't let that fool you but that's you know that's the amount of fires that we have at 168 and then walking over to situate or walking over to good intent I Usually hit on that because a lot of people will ask but a good intent call would be on it on the EMS side Somebody's noticing somebody's sleeping in a park in a car thinking they're having a medical emergency call we show up They're just taking a nap Or on the fire side, they think there's smoke coming from the roof of a house, and we show up and it's a barbecue in the backyard. So that's oftentimes what you get with the good intent call. And then false alarms, when we show up, we go on a significant amount of alarms every year, and they turn out to be false. THE INCIDENT SUBCATEGORY WITH STRUCTURE FIRES, THERE WERE 22 IN THE CITY OF TIGER. 16 OF THOSE WERE RESIDENTIAL, 6 OF THEM WERE COMMERCIAL. WORKING OVER 14 COOKING FIRES, VEHICLE FIRES. THE VEGETATION FIRES AT 72 BECAUSE THAT WILL BE A TOPIC OF CONVERSATION TONIGHT. BUT THOSE ALSO INCLUDE A LOT OF SMALL FIRES THAT HAPPEN IN THE URBAN SETTING LIKE BARK DUST FIRES. SO THOSE AREN'T TRUE WILDLAND FIRES IN THE CITY OF TIGER. You know, we did have 1,441 critical EMS incidents, so people with critical need, and then walking over, you know, there's about 4 to 420 crashes that you have within the city. Looking down or going to the bottom in hours of day, so TVSNR is a data-informed organization. We really look granularly at the data, understand if our resources are in the right position, do we have the right resource type, responding to the call. And a big part of that is knowing when the calls happen. So as you can look at that, usually when people wake up in the morning at 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, the calls tend to go up throughout the day and then start to decrease into the evening. That's pretty consistent across the fire district. Days of the week, there is no one day of the week that we tend to get more calls than the other. Pretty consistent amongst all seven days. And then working over to the right, you see the five-year trend in calls within the city of Tigard. Slight uptick from last year. We have seen a five-year trend across the fire district increase in call volume. And then those are the bottom right is the top stations that respond in the city of Tigard. Most of those are within the city. Station 70 is slightly on the outside that will come and assist. And then we do have varying resources and stations that will respond when things get really busy. In the upper right is a heat map of call concentration. Of note is the red and the dark red, which tend to be areas where we have a higher demand of calls. Those are often associated with care facilities and nursing homes. And at any point in time, stop me and ask questions. I'm happy to answer anything that comes up. Next slide. So the, you know, the upcoming wildfire season. I think last year we reported, gave a report on the 2024 wildfire season being one of the worst in Oregon's history as far as acreages burn. And then we had, in early 2025, we had the California fires that kicked off in which the state provided aid to. TVF and all was a part of that. 2025's wild season it was fairly moderate in retrospect to to the other you know some of the years we've had in the past decade but we still did see a significant impact around communities with structures lost throughout the state and it's just an indicator that fires are happening closer to populated areas and the fire behavior is is significant So that brings us to 2026 with a reasonably warmer winter, the lower snowpack, a little less overall precipitation. We really do try not to predict what's going to happen. We want to be prepared for what the potential is. But they are, you know, the analysts are predicting that we're going to have a warmer, drier fire season coming up or coming into the summer. We use a lot of different analytics when we look at it. The biggest determining factor being wind and the humidity. Heat has some influence. And then we also look at the fuel moistures, especially in the forest to understand if the fire starts, what's the probability of it growing. And so that brings us to our preparation, and all of our firefighters are trained in wildfire operations. We've got a wildland team that has additional training that's prepared to deploy either internally or outside of the fire district if there's a need from surrounding communities. We just went through three months of pretty robust wildfire training to get our crews prepared. And I am happy to say May 1st, we were ready to deploy both internally and within the state. And we're just fine tuning as summer approaches. So a lot of really good works going into that. It really is a year-long conversation for us as we walk through all the months of the year where it used to be before. We were focused on four or five months. It really is a year-long preparation.

Next slide.

So the evolving EMS landscape, over the last 30 years we've seen the utilization of the 901 system change. And we're starting to feel that within the fire district. I would say the fire service across the country is, but we're really starting to notice. Before people would utilize 901 if they were having a significant emergency or something was on fire where they needed the fire department. People are now utilizing that more for their access to healthcare. and our, you know, our number one priority is to ensure that we provide fast and effective response to our communities and it's becoming more and more challenging for us and so we continue to look at ways to evolve within the system and engage within our communities so that we can ensure that Our paramedics and our firefighters can get to those critical incidents, but we do know that there's still a need within the communities. People still do need help. So as we start to walk into, we'll switch to the next slide, maybe. No, yeah, we'll walk to the next slide. So there's a few things that we're doing to address that.

We have a, sorry, one more slide.

Keep going. But we have an advanced practice community paramedic program, APCP. The advanced practice is paramedics that we have that have additional training and tools to be able to respond internally within the fire district to help our crews on critical calls. We've been able to show a marked improvement in the outcomes of patients when our advanced practice paramedics show up. On the CP side, the community paramedic side, they are engaging with what we call our high utilizer group. So they're actually creating case files on individuals that utilize an I-1 system more frequently than what we would expect. And what we often find is they have LACK OF RESOURCES THAT CAN GET THEM CONNECTED INTO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM. AND SO WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME WITH THOSE HIGH UTILIZERS TO HELP GET THEM CONNECTED TO THE RESOURCES. THERE'S A LOT OF TIME THAT GOES INTO THAT. BUT IT'S FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT IMPACT FOR OUR CITIZENS. WE'VE HAD SOME, SAY SOME Very interesting, very rewarding cases in the last couple of months of just our community paramedics engaging and really helping people with the outcomes and getting them better resources within the community. And overall, that's helping drive down our call volume and ensuring there are people in the right places where their crews can respond. We have community risk reduction staff that also work with our EMS office on a program that was recently launched called the Care Facility Outreach Program. And that is to work with 70 of our health care facilities within the fire district. Calls to those facilities generate for about 13% of our call volume. So there's a lot of engagement there to educate staff and the leadership within those facilities to understand that the data really does suggest that it's It's better outcome for the patient if they stay in place, minus them having a critical emergency. So we really are trying to work with them on how do we keep those patients in those facilities and avoid calling an ambulance or a fire engine. And then we have a program called Nurse Navigation, our dispatch center, that was kicked off last year. Think of that as telehealth. It's a nurse that's available. So as the dispatcher walks through the call and triages it, it's a resource available for them. If they're not sure if they should send an ambulance or not, they can send that over to Nurse Navigation, and Nurse Navigation will work with that caller to get them the resources that they need. And as our health care system continues to experience stressors, we know that our traditional response isn't both fiscally and resource responsible. So we continue to look at ways to engage in the system. And I think that's going to be ever changing. But we also continue to collaborate with our cities at the state level and even at the federal level to try to address the issue.

And then let's move on to the next slide.

Bond and capital projects, last year we provided, we touched on a little bit that we have several station builds and remodel projects that kicked off from the November 21 voter approved general obligation bond. At the direction of our board, there's a few priorities I'd just like to touch on that all of those current bond projects have been set by our board of directors. That's on both rebuilds and remodels. which is to prioritize seismic security and equity needs within our stations. We must be able to fit all types of apparatus, future growth and adjustments within the fire district. And so we're building stations to be able to accommodate multiple pieces of equipment if we need to, and they must fit the size. And then decon space was an emphasis with hot, warm, and cold zones. So what we're finding is our firefighters are bringing a lot of those contaminants back to the station. And there's an effort nationally to reduce that exposure in the fire station. And this is just future design of fire stations to help with that. And then we have battalion chiefs that are stationed throughout the fire district, and we want to build a house of battalion chief if we need to, so they're all being built with battalion chief quarters. And those are key leadership positions for us within the fire district. Station 62, which is being relocated from its current location to 108 Fifth and Pheasant, is currently underway. The site work's being done, and we're crossing fingers that the structure itself is hopefully going to start erect in the next few months. Station 67, that was a design-build project. The design is currently underway for that. Of note, that's our busiest fire station in the fire district. The lot is fairly unique, and we were challenged with trying to keep all of those resources at that location because it was just going to create some emissions for us. We were able to accomplish that, so they'll all be responding out of that same location. Same site during the remodel. Station 17 and 19, they're concurrent projects. We went out for RFP for one developer to work on those, and those are just now, the design phase of that's starting to kick off with hopeful construction starting maybe in the spring, summer of next year. And then our training center, which is located in Sherwood, services all of the fire district. The admin building, which is at the top of the screen of that picture, it is being demolished next month. And so our staff will be in modular units at the training center for the next couple of years as we work through rebuilding the administrative building. Let's see. I'm going to kind of tee this up because I think this is important for, you know, a lot is going into our station designs. And for this next slide, on average, our citizens will see three to five traumatic events in their life. Our first responders see on average about 500. And their working environment, just through data, their working environment from a day-to-day basis has been directly correlated to how they deal with that. So as we walk through our station builds, you might start to hear a term about trauma-informed design, and it's all the things that go into the station that help create an environment for our first responders to be able to recover from the things that they see on a day-to-day basis. Which brings me to the next slide on Struggle Well. And I'm going to kind of walk through this a little bit, but since 2022, 12 Valley Fire and Rescue has partnered with the Boulder Crest Foundation to provide struggle well training for our staff, all of our staff, both our first responders and our support staff. The framework for the program was initially developed for military personnel. and veterans and proved impactful in those that were dealing with post-traumatic stress. It then expanded across the country to law enforcement and now to first responders to help them deal with the things that they see on a day-to-day basis. It is a paradigm shift moving away from post-traumatic stress disorder to post-traumatic growth, which is to try to get in front of that and help first responders and those that have suffered tragedy utilize that tragedy to better their lives. And so at the core, I'm going to read this quote. While life will have struggle, deep struggle will cultivate profound strength and help us achieve the life that we want. While everyone experiences struggle, we can all learn to struggle well. So our goal is to get all of our staff to date. We have 40% of our staff have gone through the training. It's a two or a four day class, depending on kind of where you're at in the organization. And our goal is to get to 60%, because we feel if we get to 60%, that that'll truly indoctrinate that into our culture. And then that will just be part of our routine. So we continue to provide that training. We've sent a lot of our staff to what we call struggle well guides that provide that training internally. And then during the last state's legislative session, short session, in the spring, TVF&R sought state investments to provide a one-time financial support to continue struggle well within the district and then expansion into Washington County. And unfortunately, just with the state of the budget, or with state of the budget, with the state's budget. We weren't able to get that this season, but we have a commitment to continue to push forward to try to provide that not only internally, but also be a presence in the struggle well space within Washington County and even in the state. I've gone through the training. It's pretty significant pretty significant impact on me on just how I view the things That I'd experienced in my career And just how I looked at them and I know that it's made a huge difference for a lot of our staff and so that's Something that we're seeing huge benefits from and will continue into the hopefully in the years years to come And then last slide I thank you so much for the opportunity. There's so much going on and so much more that I'd like to share, but unfortunately, save you all the time. There is a QR code, though, that does have our year in review if you'd like to watch it. That's available through the slide, I think, hopefully in your packet. And that is the state of the district for 12th Valley Fire and Rescue. Thank you, Chief. If you take any questions.

Thank you, Chief. Any questions? Council President Wolff.

Deputy Chief, thank you for the presentation. And I just have a couple of things I'm curious about. I really appreciate the title, Struggle Well. I think that captures owning that it exists, but how we're doing it differently. And my question is whether... IT'S AN EXAMPLE THAT YOU'VE EXPERIENCED OR ONE OF YOUR TEAMMATES. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE, AS YOU'VE HAD AN EXPERIENCE, BECAUSE CLEARLY YOU'VE GONE THROUGH TRAUMA TRAINING AND YOU MENTIONED THAT, BUT NOW YOU GET AHEAD OF IT. SO WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? HOW DO YOU EXPERIENCE SOMETHING AND THEN TRY TO WORK THROUGH THAT IN A DIFFERENT WAY? I HOPE THAT MAKES SENSE.

YEAH, I'LL TRY TO GIVE YOU THE ABBREVIATED VERSION OF IT, BUT IN MY CAREER, AND I I would imagine law enforcement counterparts can attest to this. A lot of what we dealt with, you didn't talk about it. And so that's a starting point is just providing an opportunity to talk about what you're experiencing. The goal of struggle well is to take that struggle that you're having and maybe it's affecting you internally and even both at work and in your private life and give you the tools to be able to deal with that. to get that out and not be a victim of the work that you've done and the sacrifices that you made, but how to take ownership of it. And there's a lot of things that they walk you through, but part of that is life balance and the things that different individuals and personalities need in order to do that. Some people need structure. Some people need outlets. And so Struggle Well is just a way to help you recognize what you need to take care of yourself.

And my second question is many of us have had the amazing fortune to do your community academy weekends. And as I was listening to you talk about some of the stops, right, which often isn't a critical need that needs to get them to an emergency room, but maybe a triage and figure out their care. ARE YOU ALL KIND OF TRACKING HOW YOU'RE REDIRECTING AND REALLY UTILIZING RESOURCES IN A BETTER WAY? I MEAN, I WITNESSED THAT. I'M SURE THAT MY FELLOW COUNSELORS POSSIBLY WITNESSED THAT IN THE RIDE ALONGS THAT WHEN YOU ARRIVED, THE TEAM DID. THE NEED WASN'T NECESSARILY NEEDING TO GO TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM BUT JUST REALLY TRYING TO HELP GET THEM THE RIGHT CARE. SO I HOPE THAT MADE SENSE AGAIN. IF YOU'RE ABLE TO KIND OF TRACK able to kind of redirect or assist folks with the appropriate care as opposed to what they think they need.

Yeah, as far as tracking, we do keep track. Like I say, a lot of those that utilize the system that need those types of services, they're in the system, multiple areas of the system. And so we do create a case and it allows us to track and trend and then even follow up if it seems like things have stabilized, which is nice because sometimes people will stabilize for a bit and then they'll they'll need additional help to continue the consistency and the continuity of care. But then a big part of that tracking is just partnering within the county and within our cities and finding the resources that they need. So I often say sometimes people don't know who to call, so they call the fire department. So once we get them connected to those resources and if those resources have the capabilities of helping, we do try to partner so that we're working together and just maintaining that continuity of care with people.

Thank you. Thank you. Council Gattusi.

Thank you and thank you for presenting today. You're welcome.

I have a question about the nurse navigator program specifically. It sounds like it's been going on for about a year. Do you have any key performance indicators or just generally how's it been going? Have you noticed a decrease in other calls because of it?

Yeah, so our, we have, you know, I didn't talk about it, it was called our charm initiative where the APCP program is in there, the nurse navigation program is in there. So we're hoping about two and a half to three percent of our calls. I'd say probably about 0.5 right now. And so we're seeing improvements and we're working through our dispatch center just on some adjustments. The feedback that we've gotten on new programs within centers, it takes one to two years for that to really kind of start to improve. So I know our EMS office and then our county's EMS alliance is really engaged in how do we continue to see the benefits of utilizing nurse navigation. And we're working within our dispatch system to ensure that we're making the right adjustments. And there's a few still that we need to make, I think, in order to really start to see the benefit of it. Yeah. Good question.

All right. Thank you so much, Chief. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. I really appreciate everything you've done for the community, and especially your focus on using resource responsibly and wellness for our first responders. I think that's such an important thing to do. So thank you so much.

Thank you. Thank you for all your support in the communities and for our people in TDFNR, and good luck with your bond.

Oh, thank you so much.

I appreciate it.

All right, so let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is community updates. And we will have Tiger Police Department report and Commander Rogers and Crime Analyst Christopher will give the report. Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor, good evening, Council, and happy election night.

Is the mic on?

There we go.

Good evening, Mayor, good evening, Council, and happy election night.

I'm Bob Rogers. I am the services commander, one of the commanders that handles detectives, analysis, most of the non-patrol side of the police department, and alongside me is crime analyst Gayla Christopher. the specialist in some of the stuff you've been seeing for the last couple years, the dashboard sense. The previous chief, before Chief McDonald came along, came up with a dashboard. We've tried to refine it. And as some of the statistics come to life, you're going to see on the board up here, we're going to discuss Some of the things that drew our attention, the chief and the other commander, Commander Sitton and I, discussed what we wanted to highlight. One thing that came to mind was residential burglaries. You'll notice that there's been a tick up on it. Burglary numbers rise and we start looking at residential stuff as really gathering our attention. Noticing that we've had some vacant apartments and some vacant homes that have been intruded in by non-residents. We know that because we've literally been able to track down a couple of the different suspects, and I say we, most of this has been done by crime analyst Christopher. They're homesteading, they're going inside and starting fires, basically seeking some type of respite. It's fairly troubling along the Greenberg and even up into the triangle near Winco and up in that area where there's some vacant homes that are being entered into. One that caused us the most concern was a subject that was armed, actually in the daytime, entered through an apartment window, and the residence was occupied at the time. We were able to get to that location quick enough because it was on day shift, and we were able to arrest the person and take them into custody. This is a trend that is troubling. It's not only residential, occupiable structures or burglaries in general, but also storage facilities and those types of... structures. Business ones are down, which is good, but the residential stuff is truly troubling for most of us in the corridor. Again, they're non-residents that we're seeing, and there's been a proliferation of those folks that are coming into the community and seeking some type of shelter respite. I'll spin it over to the graffiti stuff and the vandalism stuff to crime analyst.

Okay, so I'll talk about the other number that was really different was the difference between vandalism.

Is your mic on? Oh, yeah, sorry.

Now it is. Hi. The other crime that I wanted to talk about was vandalism. If you notice, it dropped way down. Part of vandalism is graffiti. Graffiti is included in that. But we look at it outside of it. So the numbers look like we just don't have it, right? But we actually are having it. Vandalism and graffiti... are types of calls that are self-generated activity, proactive policing for officers. So when officers are busy dealing with other situations, and because our calls have gone up, they don't have as much time to do that proactive policing and go out and document the cases. We're still taking reports when the public calls it in. But that is why that number is down. It's not because it's not existing. It's just that we haven't documented it as much.

You heard earlier from the TVF and our partners we have, a lot of people are calling. He mentioned that they're calling the fire department. They're calling WACA. And a predominant amount of those calls, law enforcement's responding first. So we're getting there and also assisting at some point alongside our partners to evaluate with kind of those folks that are just in need, they're reporting stuff to us. We've had an uptick on calls just in general. People that are, again, looking for assistance in some level of crisis. Part of the shifting in priorities you've seen as crime analyst Christopher's referring to, why haven't we seen as many of these vandalisms? If you drive up Pacific Highway, you're going to see some choice vandalism that's brand new and fresh. It's from folks that are non-residents in the area that are taking the time just to, I guess, share their opinions.

I saw it today when I went to go get my hair cut right at Pacific Highway and 217.

It's striking. It's in the community. Why aren't those being reported? Why aren't we seeing them? We shifted a lot of our priorities along other things. You've noticed we've had a push hard with our time, place, and manner in making sure that we're following along with that. And our CSO has to shift priorities for abandoned vehicles, putting it towards... So the graffiti numbers is like a false what we're seeing there. That's what I'm trying to say. We're still seeing more of that. Last thing I'll throw in there when it comes to statistics is thefts have been going up. Specifically, they have to do with fuel, fuel costs, siphoning of gas, going into fleet vehicles, and then also the propane, where they end up storing them outside of businesses, breaking the locks and taking the propane. All of those are, again, price-related and just needs being met.

Yeah, so if I could add just a little bit to that. So the theft number right there across the board, it looks like nothing's changed. Theft is a large category. There's like six things that fall inside of that. So even though the numbers are ending up being very close to each other, almost exact, We're seeing less reporting of shoplifting, but more reporting of the theft of gasoline, the theft of propane tanks, and the other things that are happening. So those numbers are all adding in. So even though some types of thefts within that category have dropped down or aren't being proactively reported, other things are increasing. So the very fact that the number looks equal is misleading. It's just about what types of thefts are changing.

So any real quick questions from any of you folks on what we just covered, those three areas, the burglaries, pretty much is the highlight that we wanted to address. One other quick thing I'll just make clear is that we have about 50 applicant interviews we're pushing hard in June. So beginning of June, three different days, we're going to spend staff time to make sure we're doing as many applicant interviews we can for a police officer. We have four applicants that have proceeded to backgrounds within the property and evidence field. We had one of our long-term P&E specialists retire. Another one moved off to another job, a good job. She went off to go find, she'd been looking for it for a while. But that brings us down to one property and evidence specialist currently. We're backfilling it with somebody who's on a lighter duty status and trying to shore that up. But that's a critical component of our police services, making sure that property and evidence is available. So we're trying our very best to make sure we get those P&E positions covered sooner rather than later. And then we're also doing backgrounds for about eight officers and candidates. We even have interviews coming up. Hopefully they'll go well. As you know, we don't lower our standards just because of the times of trial and the necessity, but we have a target. That's leading everything we do for the next year is recruiting, being in the community, making sure that we're trying to do a positive image to attract folks into public service, but also trying to find opportunities for everybody we contact that if they have that itch to to take the test and to join the Tiger Police Department ranks. We're open to giving an opportunity to do that. So any questions you guys have for us? I wanted the analysts to be here this evening just because these things come to life for us. We chew them and ruminate on them, talk about them all the time. What's the trend? What's behind it? And she reads all the reports. She looks at all the suspect stuff. She has the detectives, the CSOs. It's that, making it less opaque. We see the higher level, the 30,000 foot, but she's definitely reading the ground level stuff and meeting with the officers and roll calls. So if you had any questions about a trend or something, hopefully we'll make crime analyst Christopher available as we do these little dashboards. And if you had questions, we sent out the dashboard. For sure, let us know if there's something that drew your eye or you want a deeper dive into.

Councillor Anderson.

Well, what about downtown? So we get some complaints, homeless, trash, loitering, just scary for a few people on sidewalks, that kind of stuff. Do we have anybody dedicated for that? How do you work in the downtown?

Yeah, I hate that the chief's sitting over there, but at the end of the day, we have two officers that are dedicated to the community-oriented policing projects. Those priorities shift, as I kind of insinuated earlier. So if there's a hot spot on a trail, if we end up having damage within a park, If we end up having something that a patrol commander, one of the shift supervisors, identifies as an area that they want to deploy, we can put those two officers on that, and they can ride ATVs, they can get out and walk on foot, and they love riding the bicycles that are coming up, too. So, yes, we do have people we can deploy to that.

AND IF I MAY, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS PROBABLY GOOD TO KNOW, ESPECIALLY THOSE COMMUNITY ORIENTED POLICING OFFICERS, THE TWO THAT ARE ASSIGNED FOR THAT, THEY HAND OUT THEIR PERSONAL CELL PHONE NUMBERS OR THEIR DEPARTMENT CELL PHONE NUMBERS TO A LOT OF THE BUSINESSES. SO WHEN SOME OF THOSE FOLKS SEE THINGS DOWN THERE, THEY CALL ONE OF THEM DIRECTLY. Although it isn't maybe the best way to do it because it makes it more difficult for us to track some of the work they're doing because they may not be as diligent about entering it into the system when they do it, they do get that touch point of maybe having a quicker response or a more personalized response in many cases. So it is on the radar. I was talking about it with Officer Orth yesterday, as a matter of fact, about some of the things he's trying to do. to work on and it really becomes that hot spot type of issue where you know they tamp it down in one area and it it flares up somewhere else so and that's i think what we're starting to see right now in downtown because we've we've kind of tamped down some other spots in town and we're I've heard from a couple of businesses the same thing that you just mentioned, that we're seeing some things we haven't seen over the last probably few months that are now starting to surface. And like Commander Rogers said, we'll take that focus and redirect it and use something like that maybe for downtown, for example. Yeah, Brian actually mentioned it to me the other day, yesterday when we were talking about it.

So it's on his radar for sure. When we started those positions, we wanted them to be more self-directed so they could do it, they could go out and have their own projects. They've been chasing the tail for a while, trying to keep up with some of the issues around Time, Place and Manor and the downtown corridor. So that draws a lot of their attention, but we were hoping they could also branch out to other areas, move around into some of the fuel thefts, go and do some of the, we've had all kinds of different types of metal thefts and other things in the evening around our business districts too.

Thank you both. And Commander Rogers you a couple times when you were just talking about some of the current incidents in homes referenced non-residents and my curiosity is so when you're working with them do they have identification on them or you just ask them where was your last place of residence because it seems like in some of the work that we try to do to understand some of the unhoused challenges we're trying to meet here in Tigard is that the identification of where folks are from is not provided or unknown. And so I was just curious how you collect that data. And I don't know what I'm trying to accomplish. I guess I think a lot about these challenges that we're trying to take care of in Tigard. So I don't know if you have any thoughts on that.

Into the macro, I would tell you that many times we actually know the folks. However, I would leave it to analyst Christopher to tell you, just drawing the conclusions on where their residence is at, we ask them when we arrest them or contact them.

used to be a day when we didn't know who they all were, but now there's so many more new faces it is more challenging. The officers do have to try to determine who they are. A lot of times they do have ID on them. A lot of times their name and photo will be in the system and we can compare before we release from them. Reports are all written up with that information. We have done some interesting data, just different things before where we've looked at everyone we've arrested in the past year and looked at what is their residence and then took a look at how many people we are arresting in our community. And I mean not just for these, but just across the board. Are they Tigard residents or actually people from outside of Tigard? And those are interesting. That's interesting data. I would love to see that data. Thank you.

Yeah, and we're not the only ones. The district attorney's just been doing it recently. We've been looking at some of the information. They're preparing a process to share some of that. We see a lot of theft coming out of not only Washington Square Mall, the other locations throughout that's probably just similar to our population size, to be honest. So there's a lot.

Any other questions or comments? Well, with that note, thank you so much for your presentation. Thank you. I appreciate it. Thank you. ALL RIGHT, SO LET'S MOVE ON TO COUNCIL BOARD AND COMMITTEE LIAISON REPORTS. WHO WOULD LIKE TO START? COUNCILOR SCHLACK.

MINE IS PRETTY SHORT. I DID NOT HAVE ANY LIAISON RELATED MEETINGS SINCE OUR LAST UPDATE.

SHORT AND SWEET. COUNCIL PRESIDENT WOLF.

DID NOT SEE THAT COMING. SO I HAVE ONE. MAYBE IT'S JUST GOING TO PROGRESS. TOM, DO YOU HAVE FOUR? So I just have one, and it was the quarterly Willamette Intake Facilities Commission meeting. And what was interesting is they have identified the consultants near water reserve. They will implement the WIF watershed protection monitoring OUTREACH PLAN AND THEN THE REST OF THE MEETING WAS A LOT OF WHAT I WOULD CONSIDER HOUSEKEEPING, ADOPTING BYLAWS AS NOW THE PROJECT ITSELF IS REALLY MOVING INTO HIGH GEAR AND OPERATION PLAN, EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLAN. They adopted their recreational immunity protection plan as well, and then received a legislative update. And the one thing that I did appreciate, just kind of acknowledging that Ken Helms was a huge advocate of water protection and watershed, and he obviously announced he was not running again. So who was that champion in the legislature in trying to sort through that? That is it. Thank you.

Thank you. Council, good to see you.

There were a couple of Mac and leave Oregon City's telecom and AI meetings. They actually had a lot of overlap this time. One of the biggest things is as we're having decreased cable use, we're revaluating the agreements and fee structures overall and looking at things like streaming services and that. So it's just sort of a shift in how people are getting that sort of service and what we end up doing with it. There was a PRAB meeting last week. We had the budget meeting, so I wasn't able to attend. And of course, we can send a liaison. But one of the things I'm looking forward to is in the coming months, they're going to come to us to discuss the resiliency hubs. So I'm excited to hear about that. Great.

And you have nothing? So no updates for me. I got a couple next week. Okay. Sounds good. Talk to you next time.

Yeah. And I don't, you know, I missed one meeting because of budget committee, but I attended WCCC, Washington County Coordination Committee. And one thing they approved is the $1.5 million missed tip opportunity fund expenditure from Tiger. request to be used as a match fund for a 72nd project. So if we ever get the rest of the money, $22.3 million, this $1.5 million match fund will come in handy. So that's all I have. So I guess anything else for the good of order? All right, so there being no additional items, this meeting is adjourned. Good night, Tiger. Please vote. You have 45 minutes. Good night.