City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome to the 12/08/2025 to all city council meeting. I'll go ahead and call this meeting to order and our first item on the agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance. Usually it's led by a city councilor, but tonight we have approximately 10 Eagle Scouts here. And so I'm going to ask the Eagle Scouts to lead the Pledge of Allegiance tonight. Thank you, scouts.

Alright. So our first item is announcements and that is the Eagle Scout recognition. The event everyone's eagerly waiting for tonight. Jackie, come on up.

Thank you, Mayor.

Good evening, mayors and counselors. I'm pleased to be here tonight to introduce you to the 10 Eagle Scouts who have completed projects in our community from 2024 through 2025. Where our Eagle Scouts projects come from are from our parks maintenance team. Every one of our park technicians keeps a close eye on our community assets like fences, benches, trails, artwork. And once a year or twice a year, we compile a list.

And these candidates have searched our website, have found these projects and have done the research, the legwork and boots on the ground to get these projects done. So I'd like to call our first Eagle to the podium, Nicholas Brophy. So Nicholas took on a very unusual project. As you know, on the Tualatin River Greenway Trail, we have a lot of artwork, including simulated artifacts. One of the mastodon tusks was vandalized and Nicholas did the research, put the time in and we had a mold for him, but he had to do everything else.

And he made not only one replacement tusk, but two, and one will remain in storage in case that same unfortunate occurrence happens again. In addition, Nicholas made a tutorial on how to do it. So for other Eagle Scouts in the future, we need to call on him. Nicholas is homeschooled. He lives in the Tiger Tualatin School District.

He's from Troop seven ninety nine and has been a scout for twelve years. Scouting has been very influential in his life. During our interview at the end of his project, you can kind of see his work over there and his team. He said in scouts, has learned many valuable leadership skills, made friends, had lots of fun, and learned how to cook great food outdoors like steak and cedar plank salmon.

Nice.

He has completed 22 merit badges, and his favorite has been wood carving. He has a goal of carving a custom chess set. Wow. From his work on the Mastodon Tusk project, he's learned all about paperwork and research and what it takes before a project can begin. His advice for success on projects is to send emails and communicate. Thank you, Nicholas.

Nicholas, would you like to say anything? He's he's he's the first guy up.

He had no So more

give a moment. You like to say anything?

Nothing comes to mind that pretty much covers everything.

Alright.

Well, Would

you like to step up to the podium? Thank you, Nicholas. I'd like to call Nico Cone to the podium please. Nico tackled the Venetia Trail stair project. There were a lot of stairs, not just one staircase, but two.

Nico is from Tualatin High School. He's with Troop five thirty, which has a

long history in our community. He's been in scouting for nine years. He replaced the anti slip treads on two staircases, 86 steps. This involved scraping the old tread, power washing, and installation. The staircases look brand new.

Yeah. His favorite thing about the project was the compliments and congratulations he received about the work and the feeling of a job well done. His biggest surprise about the project was how fast his volunteers worked. They completed the project well under the time he estimated. Scouting has influenced Nico by the skills he has learned, the friends he has made, and by giving him an opportunity to serve the community. Nico has earned 29 merit badges with his favorite being lifesaving in water. His advice for scouts, be good at communicating with adult leaders and talk less and listen more.

Alright.

Well, this is your opportunity to speak, Nico.

I'd like to

thank my fellow Scouts and my adult leaders for helping me and just guiding me through the the journey, and my parents as well for sacrificing their time to help me with my project and get my merit badges done.

Alright. Nice. Congratulations.

I'd like to call to the podium Cole Helland. Cole tackled the split rail fence at Jurgen's Park.

Mhmm.

He is from Tualatin High School, troop five thirty, and has been in scouting for ten years. Cole completely rebuilt eight sections of split rail fence at Jurgen's Park. The fence was 25 years old and compromised due to dry rot and aging. His project complemented the other additions to the park, including the two new play structures. Cole's favorite thing about the project was seeing it come together after all of the planning and organizing.

He prepared for the project by getting advice for others and YouTube videos. Scouting for Cole has provided the opportunity to build life skills such as survival, fitness, and camping. He has learned through scouting the importance of communication and how to convey messages and ideas in a way that is helpful and useful. Cole has 36 merit badges with his favorite being bugling, like taps and revelry. Cole's advice for scouts, go for your eagle. Work on the requirement badges first.

Cole, floor is yours.

I would just like to thank the city for being willing to drill the holes in advance and purchase the wood. That was a huge help. And so I just brought the people and we just got it done one rainy Saturday morning. So I'm really appreciative of that. And I'm also really would like to extend a thanks to all the adult leaders who helped me and advised me. It was their advice was made the project happen. It was it was very useful. Useful.

Nice. Thank you.

All right. That's one of the projects that park is right near me. And I noticed immediately, yeah, the fence is falling apart then magically in a few days, I'm like, holy, It's all new. Thank you.

I'd like to call to the table Windsor Lane. Windsor and our next candidate, Alexander Lane, I first met them during COVID. We started a new volunteer program in our city called Do It Yourself Volunteering. And Windsor and Alexander's parents, Courtney and Darty, were among the first people to join that program. And they were out for two point five, maybe three years picking up trash along the Tualatin River Greenway Trail.

So you've come a long way. So Windsor refurbished three benches at Follity Park. She is from Wilsonville High School and she is in a Troop five fifty five or the triple nickels. She has been in scouting for seven years. Windsor took three benches completely apart.

She planed the wood, sanded, reconditioned it, or replaced the boards. She cleaned and painted the brackets and cleaned all of the area around the benches. Her favorite thing about the project was getting outside and doing something. I quote, it was fun to actually build something that looked amazing. Her takeaway from the project were leadership and communication and a, again, I quote, love hate relationship with emails.

Windsor was inspired by her brothers to get into scouting. She loves the people, activities, hiking, camping and backpacking. She has 32 merit badges with her favorite being archery. Her advice for scouts, don't wait until the last minute, small things will get big.

Windsor, anything to say?

The city of Tualatin has been really amazing and being so flexible with the switch between my project and the one I did for West Linn. So I just wanted to thank you all for that. That was a big help.

Nice. Glad it worked out for you.

Thank you.

I'll call to the podium Zander Lane. Zander refurbished and repaired three benches at At Follity Park. He is from Wilsonville High School, troop one four nine, and eleven years in scouting. Zander took three benches apart. The wood was replaced, refurbished, planed, sanded, stained, and reassembled.

Brackets were cleaned and painted and the areas around the benches were cleaned. His favorite thing about the project was working with volunteers, leading them through the project and seeing the final results. Small frustrations about the project were leading younger scouts and small setbacks like stripped bolts and chipped metal. Xander's scouting experiences have influenced his love of people, teamwork, leadership and being outdoors. Scouting has helped him learn about life and how to be better. He has 22 merit badges with his favorite being first aid. His advice for scouts, always have a plan for what you are doing and stay on top of it.

Right, Xander. I just want to say thank you for the opportunity to give back to the community, the place I live in and do all I can to support everyone else around me.

Thank you.

Thank you. One thing about the benches is I always hear from our seniors that they very much appreciate a really good bench. They walk around and so do kids. And the value of park benches are usually sometimes overlooked. But for many folks, it makes a difference when they're walking around the park or through a town that the moment to take, like you're doing here, sitting on their tree and take a break. So thank you for reconditioning the benches.

I'll call to the table Jackson Park. Jackson replaced 72 feet of guardrail at Chualton Community Park. He is from Jesuit High School, troop six zero five, and has been in scouting for eleven years. Jackson replaced a 32 year old guardrail between the playground and boat launch parking. This structure is very important.

It guides foot traffic, vehicle parking, and the safety of the sand and water play area. Jackson described the project as being the culmination of everything he's learned and experienced in scouting. He applied the principles of leadership, time management, delegation, and organization to be successful in his project. His favorite thing about the project was getting to see how far he's come in his scouting journey. His first scouting project was simply hauling gravel in a wheelbarrow.

His biggest surprise about the project was was once things were situated, how well everyone worked together from ages 11 to adults, and I quote, they were as a single organism. He has 25 merit badges with the favorite being wilderness survival. Advice to scouts, take your time to enjoy every bit of it, every experience.

Mhmm. Good advice.

First off, sorry. I'd like to thank mayor Bubinec and the city council for providing this opportunity to speak in front of you guys. And I'm very proud to be a scout, and I think it means a lot for the program for you guys to provide this opportunity to for the scouts to be represented in front of the city. I also like to take this opportunity to thank my parents who are sitting in the back of the room for driving me to those late night meetings, being there in those rainy nights in when I know you didn't wanna be their dad. And also just funding and supporting me throughout my scouting journey. So thank you, mom and dad.

Congratulations. Thank you.

Our next scout, Grayson Richard, is absent this evening. He refurbished, cleaned, repaired and sanded and stained 15 benches at Commons Lake Park. Those benches are between twenty five and thirty years old. He is from Tualatin High School, Troop seven ninety nine, and Grayson has been in scouting for nine years. The teak benches are between twenty five and thirty five years old.

Part of their longevity is because of a good maintenance schedule. Scouts have been contributing to bench maintenance for many years. Grayson's project was a two day undertaking requiring many steps in the maintenance and care of the benches. The hardest part of the project was getting all of the needed signatures and keeping track of paperwork details. And he did not plan for the extra trips to Home Depot.

Of his merit badges, his favorite was citizenship of the world. His advice, don't quit scouts. Scouts will bring you the most wonderful memories and experiences you will have in your young life. Thank you, Grayson. Call to the table Spencer Fye.

Spencer repaired the concrete wall behind the baseball diamond at Follity Park. Spencer goes to school at Cattlin Gable. He is from Troop four thirty two. He has been in scouting for ten years. The concrete wall behind the backstop was deteriorating where the metal safety fencing was attached to the wall.

Spencer repaired several contact points along the wall doing the research on how to patch the wall and repair the effects of aging due to weather. After the repairs were made, Spencer and volunteers painted the wall and the fencing. The learning curve for Spencer was learning about concrete and acrylic fortifiers and having the patience to try five times to get it right. The best part of the project was seeing the end results and how great it turned out. Spencer has 35 merit badges with favorites being fishing and scuba diving certification. His advice for scouts, take time with friends and enjoy the moments.

Spencer.

I wanna thank the city of Twalton for providing the opportunity to for me to help give back to the community. And I also wanna thank my parents, especially my dad, for taking all those trips to the wall several times per day to go try to fix it. Alright. Congratulations.

Ryan Weinstein is not with us tonight. He will be, checking the city's website. He's in school at in Florida right now. Ryan completed the split rail fence at Jurgens Park. He is from Tualatin High School, troop five thirty.

Ryan was in scouting for six years. The west fence at Jurgens Park had deteriorated due to weather and age. Ryan removed the old fencing and replaced fence panels and 200 feet of wire. He also spread bark chips on a large planting bed adjacent to the fence. Ryan's favorite part of the project was removing old fence posts and using tools like a jack, hand tools, and a staple gun.

As the leader of the project, Ryan's biggest challenge was trying to be everywhere during the project. Ryan has 22 merit badges with the favorite being climbing. His advice for scouts, start early so you can enjoy the fun stuff. Ryan's mom's here tonight, which is nice. I call to the table Sid Balanke.

Sid had a fence rebuild at Browns Ferry Park. Sid is from Jesuit High School, troop six zero five, and has been in scouting for six years. The Browns Ferry Park fence around the pond had deteriorated and panels were in need of repair. Sid replaced four vertical posts and six fence panel frames. Sid was the first scout to tackle this project, so he worked closely with city staff to determine the scope of work and best practices.

The project changed two times. Sid had to communicate often and be flexible to get the project off the ground. The best part of the project for Sid was installing the posts and tamping the gravel. The challenge of the post was having to redo the work to achieve level. The biggest surprise of the project is that Sid had planned on a two day project, and he and his volunteer team finished in one day. Wow. Sid has 36 merit badges with favorites being horsemanship and rifle shooting. Advice for scouts, enjoy the process on getting to Eagle and don't focus only on getting it done.

Good advice. Sid.

I would like to thank the city for giving me this opportunity. I learned a lot about kind of planning for something, but then things won't go your way, so you have to kind of adjust. To my leaders or to my volunteer team, I'd like to thank them for coming on such a hot day and sticking with me. To my parents, my dad for being patient with me while I was figuring out things, and then for my mom for cooking such a wonderful lunch for all the volunteers.

Congratulations.

I'd like to thank all the scouts. They were amazing to work with. They were professional. They were earnest. They were determined and all of the projects were completed with great expertise. Thank you, scouts.

Yes. I'd like to add, thank you very much. It's to Toowalton's benefit that you all I mean, as we heard, you're not all from Toowalton. So it's fantastic that we get the benefit of your expertise, your knowledge and your volunteerism to make our community better. And I again very much want to thank you for all that time and effort. You're planning, you're coordinating. As a former scout, I never got to Eagle Scout. But the reoccurring theme I heard in all your advice was, you know, enjoy the ride, take your time, enjoy getting the badges, don't rush it. I've seen folks in the scouting who got to Eagle Scout. It seems like in a matter of a handful of years.

And to me, that's the goal is not to rush through it, it's to again like all you wisely said, enjoy it, take your time, enjoy the fellowship, learn the skills that the Scouts give you and the opportunity for personal growth. I think it's fantastic and I commend each and every one of you for reaching this thing. It's not easy to become an Eagle Scout. It's daunting and you all did it. So I just want to give another round of applause to all these scouts who made the highest rank there is in scouting.

Believe there's a reception for you folks in the in the lobby, so go enjoy. You don't have to listen to all this blah blah blah after this. All right. Right. Now we got some empty seats.

So that brings us to public comment. This is an opportunity for anyone to address the City Council regarding an item that is not on tonight's agenda. Please keep your comments for about three minutes. I'll take comments from those folks who are in the room. What? Did I skip something?

New employee.

Oh, new employee. Jeez, sorry. No, no. Mike, come on up. You got to have your moment to shine this new employee, come on.

Well, good evening, Mayor Bubinec and members of City Council. I'm Mike McCarthy, city engineer here in Tualatin. It's my pleasure to introduce the newest member of the engineering division of community development, and this is Lauren Irving.

Hello. Hello.

And Lauren started with on October 27. And Lauren grew up near Hilo, Hawaii.

Oh, wow.

And then moved to Oregon to get her civil engineering degree from Oregon Institute of Technology. Her work experience includes a few years developing engineering skills at AKS Engineering, designing different projects around the region. She's also developed her communication and customer service skills working for Disney as a park greeter at the Magic Kingdom Oh, wow. And also working at the LEGO store. So we really like the mix of engineering and communication customer service skills.

She'll be getting to apply all of those and more on capital projects like sewer and storm water work and helping address citizen concerns like drainage, traffic and parking, including putting together some items for tonight's agenda. And I know you join me in welcoming Lauren to the City of Twelfth.

Yes. Welcome.

Thank you.

The floor is yours.

Oh, I don't know what else to say. I feel like everything about me was

How's all going so far?

Really great. I'm very excited to be here and work with all of you. Everybody's been so welcoming and very helpful. Like, I've never had to I wasn't scared to ask for help yet, which I think is a very good sign Mhmm. Of the community that I'm gonna work with. Alright.

Well, congratulations on the position. Thank you for coming here to the City of Tualatin. Mike and his folks are terrific group to work with. You probably already heard it, transportation, traffic, traffic, traffic, all everything is, it's all you're going hear the whole time here, which is good. Because our goal is to resolve as many issues as we can. And we know our communities, one of the top issues is traffic and commuting and better transportation options. So I look forward to seeing all your valuable input to the city as all of us do. And best wishes on your new position here. And we'll see you at the breakfast coming up. All right.

Thank you.

All right. Thanks for coming tonight. Appreciate it. I'm tripping all over the place tonight. Until the end of the year.

Alright. Now can I do consent agenda? Alright. Public comments. No public comments. See? I'm like, I'm ready to get out of here. Alright. So public comment. This is opportunity for anyone to address the council regarding item that is not on tonight's agenda. Please keep your comments for about three minutes. If there's anyone in the room, I'll take those comments first and then I'll go to Zoom. Do we have anyone in the room? I have no one signed up, but you don't have to be signed up for citizen resident comment. I am not seeing any. Anybody in Zoom? Alright, then I'll move to consent. Consent agenda, those items consider routine. They'll be adopted by one motion unless someone accounts would like an item removed and heard separately later tonight. Tonight, the consent agenda consists of seven items.

Item number one, consideration of approval of the work session and regular meeting minutes of 11/24/2025. Item two, consideration of resolution number 5930Dash25 for no parking signs along the 68th Avenue North of Southwest Saggart Street at Southwest Boones Ferry Road North of Southwest Iowa Drive. Item number three, consideration of resolution number 5931Dash25, accepting the system development charge annual reports for fiscal year twenty four twenty five. Item number four, consideration of resolution number 5934Dash25, authorizing the city manager to execute a collective bargaining agreement with the Tualatin Police Officers Association. Item number five, consideration of resolution number 5935Dash25, awarding and authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement with OTEC Inc.

For Nyberg Creek Stormwater improvements phase two design permitting and public involvement. Item number six, consideration of resolution number 5936Dash25, awarding the contract for construction of the Hundred And 8th Reservoir and pump station project. And finally, number seven, consideration of resolution number 5938Dash25, accepting 2024 urban area securities initiative grant funds to support the Tualatin Community Emergency Response Team. We're a member of council like an item removed and heard separately later tonight. Okay. Seeing none.

I move that we adopt the consent agenda as read. Second.

I have a motion and second to adopt the consent agenda as read. Any discussions on those motions? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? It's unanimous, six zero. Alright, moving on to our next item on our agenda is special reports. The fiscal year twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five Washington County Housing Department Annual Report. And it's Jess, welcome.

Good to see you again.

Good to see you. Good evening, mayor, city councilors, pleasure to be with you again. My name is Jess Larson. For the record, I am an assistant director of the Department of Housing Services. We're pleased to bring you our annual report this year. And I'm joined by my lovely colleague, Liz. Good evening. Okay. So getting started, we've shared with you all our annual report and this is a presentation that will summarize some of the highlights of our work in the Department of Housing Services and then we'll have time for your questions that we can provide answers or get back to you if we aren't able to provide those answers to you tonight.

Alright.

Just orienting myself here. There you are. So these are the vision and mission statements for our department. And as we reflect on our last fiscal year in our work to create housing stability and create pathways of homelessness for our community members across Washington County. I think we have some themes that are emerging that you will hear repeated throughout our presentation.

There's a lot of work hitting the ground in our community, especially thanks to voter approved measures here in the region, both with the affordable housing bond and the support of housing services and some important new investments at the state level too. And in the department, we are proud and feeling a sense of stability and kind of hitting our stride as we implement these new programs. It's been rapid growth over the last five or so years, and things are coming into fruition. And we hope that you're seeing that in your community too. And at the same time, we also see we are hitting new headwinds, especially with changes at the federal level that are creating some real instability in funding and just certainty in how we operate our programs.

And so that is a reality in our funding levels, but also in our community, how we continue to show up and respond to the needs when there is increased uncertainty around government's role in response to homelessness and housing stability. And so in that work, we just feel so grounded and grateful for our partnerships, especially with our city jurisdictions like yours and our community based service providers, metro, our state partners to be able to continue to push through and adjust as we need to continue serving our community. So we'll bring those things up to you throughout our presentation. But we always like to start with a story of impact in our community. Jo Anne pardon me.

Jasmine here is one of the community members who moved into a family shelter when she experienced homelessness with her children and now lives in an affordable housing home that is funded through one of our affordable housing programs in the department, specifically the Metro Affordable Housing Bond. And shares that a lot of times people when they're in the trenches or their own trenches, they wanna give up but perseverance can get you where you need to go. She's offering us all some advice and just reflecting on her own journey and how important it was to find her way from shelter to stability now in her own home with her children. So Jasmine's is one of thousands of stories coming from the various programs operated by our department. Here are some of those highlights by the numbers you'll find in the report.

We served over 20,000 people through one of our various programs. We like to tease that that's about the population of the city of Sherwood here in Washington County. So significant need and significant impact through these programs that flow through our department. This work has included the financing or development of over 26 capital projects. Sorry, having a hard time reading that slide.

77 households who were helped with a short term infusion of rent assistance to stabilize their housing. 3,100 people who came through one of our shelter programs, we have over 400 shelter beds that open

year

round twenty fourseven, three sixty five days a year. So 3,100 individuals who move through one of those shelter beds. Over 10,000 who receive monthly rent assistance to stabilize their housing. Rent assistance, a long term rent assistance voucher fills the gap between what the market charges and what a low income household can afford, especially those on fixed incomes like social security disability benefits. And then 1,100 homes were maintained through our various programs.

I understand Plambeck Gardens is one of those wonderful buildings that we were able to open in partnership with your city council that now is housing over a 100 families, some through permanent supportive housing programs, programs that support people moving out of homelessness, and also with a real focus on serving families. I think there are several four bedroom apartments in that building, a very rare find, especially in affordable housing in the in the in the region and in Washington County. So those are some of our successes. I, as you may know, because I've visited you a couple of times, my focus is on the homeless side of the work. So I will go through some of those highlights for you this evening.

And then I will pass the baton to Liz who will outline some of our rent assistance programs and our affordable housing work. So first, stopping on our homeless services work. We talk about the front door services, how people get into the system when they are experiencing that crisis of homelessness. And we do that work through our outreach providers, housing liaisons or housing navigators, individuals, case managers who are trained to help people navigate the housing system when they experience homelessness, our access centers as well as our shelters, which you'll hear more about on the next slide. But we have nine geographically distributed outreach teams.

And last year, 80% of the individuals they helped moved into shelter or some other positive exit out of street outreach services. We also launched new access centers. These are physically front doors to the system for people who are unsheltered and trying to get connected. Meals, storage, a safe place to sit down and rest during the day when someone is experiencing homelessness, but importantly connections to services, referrals to shelter beds. It's really that front door of our system.

So we didn't have these before the supportive housing services measure. We've now opened the Just Compassions in Tigard and are in the process of working on an access center in Cornelius and Hillsborough and with plans ahead for one in Beaverton as well. And then another highlight is the six eighty two households who moved out of those housing navigation services and into some other stable housing solution. Moving forward into our shelter and transitional housing work, I'll move a little more quickly because I've mentioned some of these details, but we've opened new permanent shelters. These were purpose built facilities.

We used to operate all of our shelter beds pretty much just during the winter and often out of church basements or other places we could find and cobble together volunteer based services. Now with these regional resources, We've been able to invest in capital development of projects that are designed shelter, facilities that are designed to provide shelter services and have just begun open opening them. As I mentioned, just Compassion Site. Beaverton has also opened their building. And, well, it says broke ground on Hillsborough Shelter, but that's a dated statement because we just opened Hillsborough Shelter a couple days ago a couple weeks ago.

And then we are also in the midst of working on about a 100 transitional housing units. These will be like shelter, but longer stays with a programmatic focus of serving people who are in recovery, either through a substance use treatment program or a mental health program where they can get those additional services on-site site while they have a stable place to call home until they're ready to move on to more independent living. This is the kind of program we don't quite have readily in Washington County, we're looking forward to these two sites that will have those programs designed to serve those community members. All right. Well, more from me later, but for now, I'll move it on

to Liz. Thank you, Jess. Good evening again. My name is Liz Morris for the record, and I give the honor of serving as the rental assistance division manager within the department and the community. I am going to talk a little bit about our rental assistance programs, affordable housing, and that stability.

So as folks are coming out of homelessness and we can hopefully get them on that path for stability and maybe further down the road of not even needing any of our direct assistance, that is also our ultimate goals. We do this with such community, so many partners with partnering with nearly 1,500 landlords to help serve everybody in Washington County, so those 20,000 households that Jess had mentioned. With those households, we are serving over $89,000,000 annually on rental assistance subsidies. So that's the subsidy part, making up with the total of the tenants rent to get out to the landlords as well, helping the economic stability as well. So with those funds, we're supporting 5,300 households.

So those families of that 20,000, it comes down to about 5,300 households who are receiving long term rental assistance. Over 800 households are receiving short term rental assistance. And about 2,000 households were able to receive eviction prevention program funds so they could stay stably housed and potentially not need our services or just have that additional stability. A little bit more about our residents and participants. We serve over 4,200 children in the programs and over 1,400 seniors.

As Jess mentioned, that we do struggle with some headwind from our federal government as they are sunsetting some of our voucher programs. And with these local investments are more crucial than ever before. So as we continue to look at finding ways that we can work with our community partners to ensure that we're able to continue with that stability. So our affordable housing and supportive communities span the entire county across. So this map highlights a lot of our shelters, access centers, transitional housing, properties from our regional affordable housing bond, and some of our county owned affordable housing.

It's showing some of this reflected right here in your backyard. As well, what is not technically shown on this map is over nearly the 200 households who are individually receiving assistance as we obviously don't want to highlight their addresses. But we are proud to be able to serve folks right here in Wellington. As Jess had mentioned, we are lucky that we have the Metro Affordable Housing Bond, which gave us access to programs like Plant Based Gardens and others. And through this, dollars 192,000,000 were allocated to Washington County.

And we are on target to exceed our goal of 958 homes that are either open or underway at this point. So it spans over 12 specific communities. And as you got to hear a little bit about Jasmine's story, who is one of those who are benefiting from this specific fund. In addition to building new affordable housing, we wanna preserve, like our scouts taught us, you know, with those benches and other things. We wanna preserve what's already out there so we can have the longevity with the communities that have been built.

So with the affordable housing preservation portfolio, we have renovated almost 600 affordable homes across 10 properties and invested in $113,000,000 back into our community. We've also through a Section 18 disposition, which is through home it's a homeownership transition program from our public housing properties where we have had after decades of federal underfunding on our public housing, we had to meet the difficult disposition, a decision to dispose of some of our single family units. Those households that we did decide that we were no longer going to subsidize and we were going to put back into the market were able to get a voucher and some of them were even able to buy the homes that they lived in. And we're really excited and proud of that pathway to homeownership for those households as well. And then more numbers.

The financial overview, as you can see, it takes many different programs, many different funding sources as we deploy resources from the federal, state, regional, and local levels with different reporting requirements and oversight for every single one of them. Navigating this foundation is difficult it's different challenges with the federal divesting funds and programs that we continue to provide services using flexible resources where we can. Our we have a really impressive team who has to deal with over 34,000 transactions annually, including processing 3,100 invoices and reimbursement over $114,000,000 into our community partners or help continue that stability. I'll pass it back to Jess.

And we could not do this work without our partners like you and like Megan, who's in the back room. I think the next slide has her pictured here with a member from Kim Hong, who serves on the Tualatin Valley Fire and Rescue team, and Kim Marshall, who's the director of one of our 25 community based partners providing homeless services at Project Homeless Connect. So our housing or pardon me. Our city liaison program, funds a position in a variety of our Washington County cities to work day by day, side by side with our staff at the Department of Housing Services and with our community based providers working in those cities to coordinate services, to be responsive to what's happening at the city library that day or city council that evening, or understand the particular needs of any of what's happening in that city and then translate them into the the county wide services system to make sure that we are being responsive with our, the various programs Liz and I have walked through and being able to meet those very local needs. So we're thrilled to partner with Megan who serves as the city liaison coordinating these services, in the sit for the city of Tigard, Sherwood, and Tualatin.

That that work also includes our emergency e or e beds as we call them for short and our shelter programs. These beds are available only for law enforcement members who are working with someone who might be facing unsheltered homelessness and be willing to go into shelter instead of having to resolve the matter differently. So we wanna make sure we are readily able to respond to anyone who's providing that first response to, to someone outside and have that available shelter bed. And so folks like Megan help make sure that those connections are happening successfully from our communities to our shelter beds. And the previous slide, I skipped right over it.

I'm not sure that I know how to go back to it, I'm sorry. There it is. Also describes some other exciting collaborative efforts, including our health care case conferencing. This has actually become a national best practice model. We have health system experts in the same room with our shelter providers and our outreach providers talking about how to coordinate health care while we're simultaneously connecting someone to housing services.

So we're planning for discharges out of the emergency rooms, but we're also planning for how do we get this individuals who's in our shelter into the proper level of care. And that partnership works both ways and both parties or both sides of the system both systems are just as grateful for one another. And we have advisory bodies to help inform the ongoing implementation of our housing and homeless services, as well as these community listening sessions like city council conversations. We also go out to the general public to make sure we're listening directly to those experiencing homelessness, housing instability, and wanting to make sure we're doing all we can with the resources we have. So moving into what's next.

Unfortunately, the needs in our communities persist. We are not keeping up despite the game changing level of regional infusion of resources through both the bond and the supportive housing services measure and important investments at the state level. Also, The need is far outpacing the capacity we have. We have wait lists for our shelter programs and our housing programs. And we need to continue to maximize the impact of these resources because as soon as we can help one family, we have another family or actually four more families waiting to go.

So this slide just highlights some of those examples of need as expressed in our community, the number of people who were counted in our point in time count. We like to shine a light that even though homelessness is going up by this year over year count that we do in Washington County, the increase in homelessness in Washington County did not happen in unsheltered homelessness. It only was expressed through the sheltered homelessness, which is an expression of increased capacity to serve our community. So while it's daunting to know the need increases, we're pleased to know that more people are getting the services they need. But what's really challenging is that rent continues to far outpace incomes.

It's not keep incomes are not keeping up, especially for people on fixed incomes. And sadly, homelessness and housing instability is especially growing among our aging population. So we continue to figure out what we can do to be responsive with these resources as I mentioned. And then to close, I'm sorry. Thank you, Liz. This is just repeating many things that we've described. In addition to navigating those changes, we're also updating our local implementation plan. It's an opportunity to relook at our system. We're five years into homeless services with the SHS measure. What do the next five look like?

Those two transitional housing projects. And we're we're wrapping up our affordable housing bond work this next year. So we'll be looking to what comes next after this regional housing bond. Alright. And to close, a wonderful story from Pierre, one of our participants who was experiencing homelessness and moved through the Tigard Just Compassion Shelter and then went on to get, enrolled in a workforce development program to become a certified nurse assistant and now works on staff at that same program.

So he just has had such a transformation through this work and continues to share all that he has learned to inspire the hope and transformation for those who come through the shelter today. With that, we turn it over you to Mayor Bubinec and your and your team here to ask any questions that we can help with.

Great. Well, thank you. Questions for Liz and Jess. Council Brooks? And then Council Reyes?

I a few questions. Okay.

Thank you very much for your presentation and all your work. It's not easy work. And thank you also to Megan for coming tonight as well. We really appreciate your work in our community. I had a question about with the transitional housing for the people that are moving through treatment? Where are the two sites located? Happily happy

to answer, Councilor Brooks. We have awarded two projects, one in the city of Hillsborough, which will, create new transitional housing for people coming through mental health programs with Transcending Hope. I think it's about 45 beds. And the second is in unincorporated Washington County on Cornell Road and Highway 26. We acquired a hotel, the former Doubletree. I think it has a different name before that, at the Phoenix Inn. I'm not sure. I'm so sorry. It's okay. But you can imagine that intersection off of Highway 26.

And that will have about 75 to 80 beds for people coming through recovery, especially through our new CAAT, the Center for Addiction, Triage, and Treatment. So it's just a few minutes away from that location.

Great. And then for the e beds, how many of those beds are available?

Well, they're available on any given night. And we aim to have, I think, three to five in every congregate shelter program. So really, these are mats that can come out from the closet or just sort of make a makeshift space for anyone in any given night so that we can maximize capacity of the shelter, but always be on hand to take a few more from any law officer who would need to use use that use that service. Okay.

Great. And and then as far as for the lip, is there a place that we can I was part of that first plan, and I'm just curious what that process is going to look like and if the plan is available on the website?

Absolutely. Thank you. That's an excellent question. I'll be happy to gather your feedback. I believe there's a survey that's available. So I'll make sure to connect Megan with that so she can share that with your counselor or your counsel. It's been open for a while now, but the engagement process goes through the rest of this month. And then we will be compiling all the feedback that we've received through those various settings and updating the last year's sorry, the initial local implementation plan, which is linked in that survey.

Okay. And it's linked in that survey. And then is there a place that you can find it on the website as well?

Absolutely. Yes. We can help connect

to Okay, that

as that

well. Would be good, because I think it's good for people to know. Then finally, I know that there was I guess my hardest thing around some of it has been the eviction prevention conversation. That's what our community is really invested and interested in. And just also as a therapist myself to prevent people, especially all these kids, from being traumatized so early. I'm just wondering if there's other what what the strategy is or what you guys are thinking around getting some of those funds to make those programs whole again.

Thank you. So the councilor is speaking to significant reductions in eviction prevention at the state level. We were very grateful for Metro Councilor. I'm looking back to Councilor Garrett who's with us this evening for approving, one time investments, through unallocated, unutilized admin funds from the support of housing services that Metro was holding. So they will be re, distributing $10,000,000 to Washington County, which will, in part, help us to restore eviction prevention resources with community action to the level that we had hoped the state would fund for the next two years in hopes that there is a more permanent long term solution identified.

And then I guess that leads me to the supportive housing services question as well with the, is there any feedback that you have on the proposal that's been put out by Metro and thoughts about how that would affect and impact our county?

Yeah. The you're speaking to the reforms that Metro Council is currently considering for the current implementation of the program. Previously, there were some discussions of a ballot measure to reform the the program. Those are no longer proceeding at this time. Of course, we will need to ask voters to renew this measure when it expires in '20 before it expires, hopefully, in 2030.

But at this time, Metro Council is, considering, and I believe they've just had their first reading of, kind of five or so proposals that would reform parts of the program around how we measure our key performance indicators, how we represent our outcomes to the public through a public facing dashboard, how we convene oversight through a reformed oversight structure that brings both the two separate bodies together into one and resets that table primarily with more elected leadership from across the region to help oversee this work. Those are three of the five. I'm sorry. I'm not quite remembering the other two. But in general, we are finding these improvements to be responsive to the various feedback we've heard across the community and and thoughtful about the roles of the various partners who are working to implement this measure, including the role of the counties who receive resources and contract with our service providers to implement our county based systems.

There are definitely some feedback coming from our board, but I believe they are discussing that tomorrow before they officially submit that. So I don't want to represent a county position one way or other, but just to say we are engaged in that conversation and it seems to be constructively moving forward.

That's good to hear. I just for me, I just especially from a historically neglected area, I'm just really wanting to make sure that while we integrate, that we can coordinate and collaborate with each other in the different counties, but also maintain our ability to do community assessments and make sure that we're attending to the specific needs of the communities that we serve because there's such a difference between even one end of the county to the other, much less a huge tri county area. So I really appreciate your work. It's not easy right now. And thanks for listening to all my questions and answering them so well.

Thank you, counselor.

You for the presentation. Very informative. I have a little my questions are from your financial stewardship graph. The total program was $225,000,000 You mentioned that you will be or somehow it's uncertain what's happening with the federal level funds. How much of those $225,000,000 came from federal funds, if you have that?

From federal funds, it's close to about 80 to 85. Our housing choice voucher is our biggest federal fund that comes through. But that also, in addition to that, we would add in some of our affordable housing, public housing, continuum of care. And so it's probably just shy of $80,000,000 actually.

A total that funds the public housing and the vouchers?

Correct.

Okay. And then the rest kind of came from the bond that was passed from the measure that was passed a couple three, four years ago.

A good chunk. So it's about 60% of it comes from the supportive housing measures fund and that that does not include the Metro Affordable Housing Fund, which we keep seeing go down because we are spending that and then putting those in place. And then the rest are some state funding as well. Okay.

Just I was curious because as things move forward, I'm trying to see how much money if these federal funds don't come in, you might lose from that amount. Right? Yes. It's kind of like that. I'm just trying to do the math there.

Balancing some reductions of some programs like the emergency housing voucher program, which is sunsetting three years earlier than it was designated. It was it came out of the ARPA funding, and so that was about 80 households that we're finding new solutions for and was it's about a 150,000 a year that we're gonna have to adjust for. But the other thing that we're seeing with that is the continued resolutions that are coming in, that flat funding. And then our programs like our voucher programs and our public housing just aren't being funded a 100% per the cost of them. So that And make some choices that we have to decide in continuing to serve folks, as we know that, as Jess had mentioned, there's a long wait list for people coming behind that would like access to those services.

One:

And then my other question is on activities or education, I would say, for individuals that are seeking more of that homeownership or transferring to something more permanent. Because I know that being in this subsidies, it depends on how much income you make. If you make a dollar more than, you know, or a certain amount of money, so our people pick or choose not to work more or not to have more income so they can stay in the program. Are there any educational programs that are provided to encourage people to have home ownership, which is more, in my opinion, future transfer of wealth to their family and all that. So I don't know if there's any kind of education happening on that level.

So that can cycle out people to get better and then help more that are coming in financially. Yeah.

Yes. There could always be more, but we do provide several different streams through our family self sufficiency programs, partnering with one of our many service providers that we've been able to help support. They also offer direct support assistance with individuals. We have a lot through our foster youth programs of education. Team members who are continually hearing these exact same questions from our participants and trying to connect them to other resources that are already in the community as we want to also encourage that.

Sometimes we do focus on the housing aspect and then we'll connect them out to other services as we continue to try to grow. Our home ownership program is vastly underused, and we would love to see that improve until we get more funding from the federal government. That's been on hold. And as you had mentioned, that folks do find that having to make that choice of as they we call it a benefits cliff in our world where, you know, the you start making more money, and then all the benefits goes away. Mhmm.

We're really excited that as a housing authority that can do a moving to work part is something that's through the federal government. We're extending our safety net so folks can stay on the program for six more months and and almost a year to make sure that they have stable income before they have to give up that voucher. And that gives the opportunity for people to feel maybe just a tiny bit more comfortable in making those payments every single month so then they can successfully graduate.

Thank you.

Other questions? Hello, President Pratt.

Hi. Yeah. Thank you all three of you for all your hard work and what a service you're providing to our community. It was already mentioned that I noticed that SHS is 59% of your budget. So I wish you the best that that will continue. I was wondering with your outreach providers, I know you have overall KPIs, but do you vet them? And then do you check-in with them on a periodic basis to make sure they're being the best providers for you?

Thank you, counselor. Excellent question. And yes. And yes, this is also a part of the system that we are continuously improving. As I mentioned, we really kind of launched quickly this SHS program just five years ago and brought on the outreach providers that were sort of already working in our community and created a a structured program for how outreach would be operated, the base level expectations and metrics for reporting, etcetera, etcetera.

And we continue to provide ongoing training and check-in meetings and then contract management for those providers as we do with each of our providers, not just the outreach program. Recently, just this year, we updated our outreach map. So kind of drawing redrawing some of the boundaries to reflect the needs that are being reported back from each of the local communities and rightsizing the boundaries for each of the each of the providers so that there was a reasonable turf for them to manage, if you will. So that's one level of the system improvement. We also expect that now that all of our outreach and shelter and housing providers are kind of in place and have done this work for several years, we'll likely be reviewing those providers and reopening the opportunity for procurement for new providers and reselecting not every year, but in some sort of revolving way so we can refresh that those commitments and those providers to ensure we are providing the best services to each community.

Great. And then my last question is if someone needs services, whether it's a place to stay tonight to eviction prevention, who do they call or where do they go?

That's a great question and another point of continued improvement. The long standing practice in Washington County has been our Community Connect phone line. It's sort of operating as a you know, a one shop one stop shop to call for any level of assistance. And that is still the case. Community connect is still there.

However, we're trying to also institute a no wrong door approach for Washington County so an individual can go to just compassion because that's who they've been working with or maybe their social worker at the school who is also connected to the system so that, everyone will find their way to the same answers and the same availability of services, and it doesn't always happen have to happen through a phone assessment.

Other questions? Okay. I just have one, and it's to a follow-up on the question Council Brooks had about the Metro proposal on reforms. I know you can't get political because that's not your world. But as far as their five proposals, got to ask the question right away because I don't want you to get political.

You have has Metro listened to your suggestions and be way more cooperative than they were previously with the counties. I know you have to frame this the right way, but what I'm looking for is the answer to that Washington County, and I know the Board of Commissioners are going talk tomorrow about it, but staff wise working with Metro is looking at the draft here is this something that you're comfortable with and could support going forward for watching. And if you say you'd rather not answer that or some kind of my concern is I don't want before it was metro pushed down to the counties and the counties resisted. And I know this has been shaken up. I want something where the three counties going to work well with metro and this is going to work.

So that when it does come up for a vote again to renew it that it's not going to be a hard job to sell it. Hopefully it'd be way easier than what we've been going through for the last year. So however you'd like to answer that.

Thank you, mayor. I'll do my best. Alright. I say

that's a great question. Yeah.

I I do want to underscore that my board is meeting to discuss this item tomorrow and we'll be deciding how to put forward their testimony to Metro for our official county position. I think we have for unofficial county experience, I think we have come a long way in partnership with Metro and the jurisdictions working in partnership to implement the supportive housing services measure. We still have a lot of work to do, I think both to rebuild trust with one another, but most especially with our voters

Mhmm.

And key partners who will support this future measure when it goes back to voters. And I'm hopeful that resetting the table and bringing elected leadership to to that that table table to understand the choices at hand will help us get there. And I I will there's maybe some cautious in caution in my optimism because homelessness can has become a very politically charged issue. And it is a challenging one to it is challenging to implement this system and or in this this work. And when there are leaders in roles with microphones, but without the obligations and responsibilities of making those choices, it can become more politicized.

And so it will be important for metro and the counties to really hold that ground and how we invite all of those voices in and also are clear eyed about what the choices that are before the implementers and the responsible parties, who are managing these resources. Because there are no easy decisions at this this point. Every single dollar is accounted for and keeping the lights on in some program across our region that is keeping someone housed. And so if we're going to repurpose those resources, we're going to be making tough decisions decisions across the region. So I hope that the table comes together to help us make those tough decisions and help us restore faith and confidence in local government to address homelessness in our region.

Nicely answered. All right. Any other questions? Very much appreciate the update. Appreciate you coming out tonight in a very late night and very nice job on that last answer. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you all.

Thank you.

All right. That brings us to general business. Item number one of the general business is consideration of resolution number 5930Three-twenty5 approving the new time parking sign installations on Southwest Eitzel Street and Southwest 120th Avenue. Chief and Mike. Welcome.

Good evening, mayor and council. I am chief Pickering. Here today just for a brief statement regarding the consideration of Resolution five hundred ninety three thousand three and twenty five to institute some parking restrictions on Southwest Edel and Southwest 120th between Edel and Twalton Sherwood Road. So this area has become quite an issue, as you've all known from emails and public testimony here in front of counsel. Just a quick snapshot, from January till today, the police department has taken over 67 calls for service in that area related to abandoned vehicles and RVs parking on the streets in this area.

Several businesses in the area complain about the RVs parked there as well as boats that have been dumped, vehicles that have been dumped in that location. So staff has met from the police department and from engineering and community development to try to find the best short term resolution that we could to help the businesses in the area, but also try to deal with the issues at hand. With that and over a length of discussion, we feel that designating that section of Eadle and that section of 1 Hundred 20th as a no parking from 10PM to 5AM, essentially eliminating the overnight parking in that area should hopefully alleviate the issues until we can tackle the bigger issues that we know that we're facing. Mike, anything to add?

So we designed this is Mike McCarthy, City Engineer. So we designed a signage plan in accordance with the manual and uniform traffic control devices to address the enforcement needs identified by police.

Yes.

And I think the biggest thing that where we really have noticed is that our current ordinances and ORS that would this is a public roadway. There is no shoulders on these roadways. It's a three lane road with a center turn lane, two travel lanes in each direction. It is a commercial zoned commercial area. So there's big rigs, big trucks, things that are trying to move up and down the roadway. And with RVs parked there, it does obscure the lanes and make it difficult for the businesses to do what they need to do in that area. Questions for Chief or Mike?

Say the names of the streets again.

It's Southwest Eadle and Southwest 120th.

Oh, I see.

Over near La Z Boy, right?

Yes, on the backside. It's Eagle between the whole stretch of Eagle, which is really runs from 120th to the dead end past one hundred fifteenth.

Other questions? Councillor Gonsal? Thank you very much. Very timely response. Even up until a couple of days ago, received texts with pictures of that. So it's very timely and I texted them back that today we're going be talking about it, so hopefully people are logging in. What is the alternatives? Where are people gonna be going now that we've we're gonna do this? Have have you guys identified with where that's gonna take place? So

that's the bigger issue that we kind of skipped over the top of, right?

Because the need is there And

we all are tackling this in the region, not just here in Toowalton. I will say that our time, place and manner ordinance does not address vehicle camping, and we're one of the only ones in the region that does not. So the fear from the police side of this issue is that we feel like there's really not a lot of teeth for us to deal with RVs and camp car camping on public roadways and public right of way. Obviously, vehicle camping or vehicles camping on public property, it's a completely different issue. But when it comes to the public right away, we don't have anything in our ordinance that allows us to deal with those situations.

There are safe park alternatives in other communities surrounding us. Wilsonville does allow RVs in their safe park and there are some other communities that do. City of Portland does, but even the City of Portland RV safe park areas are they've just closed one, some are getting smaller. So we're all tackling this issue to figure out how we deal with this. But again, in this area, in this situation, it's just not safe for them to be parked where they are parked.

A follow-up question, will they be able to park at the police station where we had designated that piece of land where somebody could stay the night there? Is that going to be an option to consider opening?

So we haven't discussed that at this point. Currently, I would say the option is no because currently replacing our roof and that area is completely full of the roofing materials that we have. But we haven't discussed where we could potentially park RVs at that in the city of Tualatin at this point.

Okay, last question. What will So now you find somebody, they moved into the community, they're parked in front of somebody's home, what happens next?

Well, again, we're talking about on the public right away, we would be able to there are ORSs and municipal codes that we could deal with when it comes to residential areas. Again that we would tackle on a case by case basis that we go.

Thank you.

Yeah. Other questions? Council Brooks.

I'm just curious if it's not safe to park there because of big trucks and stuff, which seem like they would be during the day why we have parking there at all?

We looked at that there are incidents, you can park cars on those roadways safely during the day and there are some of the businesses during business hours that use those as overflow parking. And some of the issues that we have at night when you have RVs and sometimes four to five to six RVs that have been lined up along that roadway, deliveries that come in overnight, businesses that are open twenty four hours or run late shifts into the evenings, those parking lots usually have enough parking for them to be off the streets. And so but during the day when all of the businesses are working usually during business hours, it becomes a tight location. So the overflow there would be limited overflow onto the roadways themselves. But after over in the evening hours, it becomes much more different situation with again being that dark and then bigger trucks coming in throughout Thank the

you. And then my other question is just because I'm curious now if there's roofing there, is the camp is there enough room for somebody if they needed to be camping? Are they going to

Well, absolutely. We have we currently have one gentleman who camps almost every night.

Oh, okay.

And has plenty of space and is following the ordinance. He's sometimes a little late getting up after 07:00, but he cleans up after himself, does a great job, and so he's there probably four to five days a week. Yep.

And, yeah, no issue So there's enough room

Oh,

plenty of even though with the roofing and all that?

We just there there wouldn't be, and we haven't discussed the the issue of parking an RV in that parking lot right now.

Oh, in the parking lot? Yeah. Okay.

But the area that is designated for the time, place, and manner ordinance is readily accessible and and is used pretty frequently.

Okay. All right. I guess another day about if we ever would put gravel over there. Okay, thanks.

Thank you. But the Tide Place banner is just about tent camping,

right? Correct.

Not RVs. Correct.

That's the issue.

So to Counselor Gonzales' point, mean, where they're at now is not that needs to be addressed currently.

But

it's just going to become an issue somewhere else, and we're going to have to deal with this more depth at some point.

We are. And that was, as I alluded to earlier in my comments, that's the bigger issue that we will need to tackle as a community going forward at some point.

Okay. Thank you.

I

motion that we adopt Resolution five thousand nine hundred thirty three-twenty five. Second?

I have a motion and a second to adopt resolution number five nine three three dash twenty five. Any discussions on those motions? Seeing none, Councilor Sacco? Aye. Councilor Reyes?

Yes.

Councilor Gonzales? Yes. Councilor Brooks?

Aye.

Councilor President Pratt? Aye. Chair votes aye. It's unanimous. Six zero, the resolution is adopted.

Thank you, gentlemen. Thank you very much. Thank you. Item number two in the general business is consideration of resolution number 5930Seven-twenty5, affirming the 09/10/2025 Architectural Review Board decision approving Lam Research Campus expansion AR24-two located at 11150 Five-eleven Thousand 361 Southwest Levitton Drive, tax lots 2S122AA500 and 802 S122A00100, two S122BA00100. Before we get into the discussions resolution, our state attorney would like to make a few points on how we're going to frame this discussion.

Kevin?

Yes. Thank you, Mayor and Counsel. Kevin McConnell, city attorney. So before you is a resolution with three exhibits attached to it, affirming the ARB's Lam decision and denying the Lam appeal that was filed that you heard on November. So why you have three exhibits?

One is the September 11 ARB findings and analysis. The other exhibit, exhibit two is the council appeal supplemental staff memo and there's also the Exhibit three and I think that's caused a little bit of consternation with members of the community. And I know that the appellant has raised some issues regarding that Exhibit three and redlined some issues that he believed did not need to be in the final decision. But why you have three exhibits is your council rules and to all 10 development code require you to adopt a resolution or order containing findings to support your decision. The council may incorporate findings proposed by the proponent, the opponent or staff in its decision.

So right off the bat, it's not improper for the council to consider findings forwarded by or advanced by Lam tonight. So I think the issue is they were very thorough, and I believe the intent was to address each and every issue that the appellant raised at the council appeal hearing, especially lot of issues, but especially as to noise standards. So I know that the appellant had some issues that maybe the council saw and requested some revisions to that Lam Exhibit three. And generally, those were pages 25 through thirty one and thirty three through 35 and that was the noise standards that have been advanced by Lam. And why would a council want or want to consider adopting supplemental alternative findings.

I think you do that generally. The city believes the city's findings, those first two exhibits are generally sufficient to withstand any appeal that someone might file with Luba. But let's say, for example, that Luba disagreed, that the council and plausibly interpreted a provision of its code or there wasn't substantial evidence in the record to support your final decision. They could latch on to one of those alternative findings and it would serve to save your decision without it having to be remanded and have the council consider one or two issues again a remand. So I think that was the intent.

The counsel for Lam is here. I don't know if she's going to speak or not. She might. There's opportunity for members of the public to speak during this agenda item. But what we have done, we understand that there was concerns raised specifically as to the noise standards.

And what Lam has agreed to do, and this is in your packet, it was submitted into the packet about 03:00 this afternoon, is there's a clean version and a red line version. They have taken out the vast majority of the material regarding the noise standards of the findings that were objectionable to the appellant and members of the public. There there is a provision in there that if this matter is appealed to Luba, that the council reserves the right, and you have the right under state law to do this, to reconsider, withdraw your decision, and reconsider it, and modify any decision you may have to incorporate reincorporate these noise standard findings that have been stricken and taken out or other findings that you wish to insert if it was appealed. So they are not they are alternative findings. They generally, if there was no appeal, they would have no impact.

It is my opinion, they would have no impact on this ancillary code enforcement proceeding. But with it taken out, that should resolve the majority of the issues that the appellant and members of the public had regarding the Lam's Exhibit three noise standard findings. So I'll stop there.

Okay. So I just want to remind folks that Resolution 5,930 seven-twenty five, we're not reopening the hearing. There's no additional evidence. All we're discussing tonight is the resolution itself. But I am going to open it, of course, to folks who want to speak in favor of the resolution and folks who want to speak against or have some concerns with the resolution.

Just a reminder, Councillor Brooks and Councillor Hilliard cannot participate in this at all since Councillor Brooks was not here for the original hearing and then Councillor Hilliard was on the ARB. So it's only the original five participants can ask questions and be involved in this hearing just so you know, Councillor Brooks.

Thank you.

And I'm gonna actually step off the dais so there's no And if I leave early, Merry Christmas. Happy holidays.

All right. So in the traditional mode, we usually take the folks who are in favor of resolution to go first. So is there anyone in the room or in Zoom who would like to give some feedback on resolution 5937Dash25. This is a little different than a public hearing because you are limited to three minutes. Welcome.

Good evening, mayor, members of the city council. I hadn't planned on speaking, but I can't sit here and not speak. I really just wanna make myself available in case you had any questions. What I think you may ask is one, why have supplemental findings at all? Why would we have alternative findings?

So the reason for supplemental findings are, you know, I agree with your city attorney that what was in the materials is defensible. It's just strengthening what was already drafted. Also, the supplemental findings addressed issues that came up in public testimony that weren't addressed in the staff report or in the ARB's decision. So in order for the decision, the city council's decision to be complete and address all issues that have been raised, you need some supplemental findings. The findings in the alternative, that's we talked about that as belt and suspenders.

And why does that matter? Luba appeals take a long time. They take about six months to review. So if your decision this evening is appeal to Luba, we probably won't get a decision until roughly the third quarter of next year. And if that decision gets remanded on an issue or two, it has to come back before the city, get readopted, and then it could get appealed again.

So then we're talking about 2027 before we have a decision in this case, and that's without any appeals to the court of appeals. So that's why we try to preload and address everything in the alternative so that there's one shot at at LUBA. That being said, we understand the concerns. We disagree in terms of them prejudicing the noise enforcement proceeding, but, you know, happy to withdraw those findings or the the alternative findings. The issue of the city having a voluntary withdrawal, that is something that you're allowed to do under state law.

And it's it's like a mulligan. Basically, if your decision is appealed to Luba, you say, yep, we're gonna take it back and bolster the findings a little bit more. And you have twenty one days to take it back, then you have to reissue your decision in ninety days. So it's a quick process because time is critical. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions. Otherwise, we appreciate your attention to detail, your attention to this community, and we recommend our request that you approve it this evening.

Thank you. Thank you. Alright. Individuals who want to testify against or have issues with or wanted to testify on resolution number five thousand nine thirty seven dash twenty five. Mr. Hamilton, come on up.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, members of council. I would like to thank Lam for their prompt revision of their draft. I think it addresses the vast majority of the issues and the ones that are the most prejudicial to the municipal court and the code enforcement. I would I'm still very curious about what is there. What do they intend to do about the existing noise issues? And I know they are not that's not relevant to this hearing, so I won't, like, really bring it up. But that's what we're thinking about is, like, the the issue that exists now is not even caused by this proposal. It's the existing. So but with that, I I would encourage you to adopt it as written, as edited, and I appreciate it.

It it would have been nice had that document been released to our side when it was released to the city. I just happened to stumble on it on Thursday night. I don't know when it was written. I don't know when it was submitted to the city. It was kind of frustrating that it was just kind of slipped in at the last minute. So in the future, it'd be nice to be able to get notice of those things. But thank you so much.

Questions, discussion?

My question to Kevin is if we adopt this resolution as the the what we received this afternoon.

And council president, you're correct. So it's the revised exhibit three that was submitted later late this afternoon. That will be the exhibit that the council adopts as its own incorporates as its own findings.

Okay.

Not the one that was submitted last week.

Okay. Thank you. Other questions? The question I have following up on Ms. Hamilton's request about the sound.

So I just quick check on what's the status of the existing complaint about sound at Lam and then in the strictest to city manager. And to Kevin reaffirming that in the future there's nothing in this resolution that would bar community members from registering a noise complaint and asking to have it looked into. So question for Sherilyn status of the existing you don't have to get into details, but I know it's still going on. Correct? There is some existing

Yes. It absolutely is. There's an investigation, code enforcement investigation underway currently and it's winding its way through the process.

Okay. I know what the, you know, dirty deal, but it is continuing on, so nothing's disappeared. And then to Kevin, in the future when, you know, Tux is built out, nothing here stops a community member from registering a sound complaint.

Mayor, you're correct. There's nothing in these findings that would preclude a member of the public from registering a noise ordinance complaint with a code enforcement office. Okay.

Any other questions?

I move that we adopt resolution number five thousand nine hundred thirty seven dash twenty five. Second.

I have a motion and a second to adopt resolution number 5937Dash25. Any discussions on those motions? Alright. Councilor Gonzales.

Aye. Yes. Mike. I yes.

Agree. Councilor Sacco.

Aye.

Councilor Reyes.

Yes.

Council President Print.

Aye.

Chair votes aye. Resolution 5,937 is unanimously adopted five to nothing. Moving on to items removed from consent agenda, we had none. Council communications, we did our normal roundtable earlier at the end of our 12 development code, but anything pop up in people's minds before we call it a night. I just want to say happy holidays, everyone.

Have a safe and enjoyable holiday. We've seen the storm starting to hit. Be safe, be smart out there and enjoy the holidays, enjoy the time with your family and friends and looking forward to a new year and continuing to make this city a terrific place to live, work and play. With that, our usual person who does the is not here, so who'd like to do it?

We got

two of them. Second. All those in favor adjourning for the final time in 2025. All those opposed. It's unanimous. Thank you everyone. Have a terrific holiday.