City Council - Regular Meeting

direction on this topic during the next two meetings.

So in front of you, you have a handout that was provided, which helps lay out the complexities of system development charges. This work is ongoing. So the numbers that you see on the two pages of this handout, they're actually already outdated. We're continuing to revise and refine. But what they're doing is providing an example of what a tiered freight structure could look like. So again, the study session is to prepare for our upcoming meetings. The first is on September 1st and the other is on October 13th. We'll be presenting policy direction concepts on September 1st, so we're not going to focus on the numbers. We're going to try to ask you at that time if our analysis is on the right track to support your policy goals. From there, On October 13th, we'll be showing you the numbers. We're going to ask you, do these SDC numbers reflect the policy direction that you gave us, or is our refinements needed to more closely align? So originally, we planned on sharing the hard numbers on September 1st. We found out that more time is needed to continue refining the approach, so we're going to spread it out over those two weeks. So during the September and October meetings, we'll be asking three policy direction questions, which are on your handouts. The first is, should the city implement tiered River Terrace 2.0 supplemental parks and transportation SDCs based on unit size? The second is, should the city complete an SDC methodology update to tier parks and transportation SDCs citywide? And lastly, should the city implement any policy-based discounts to support housing goals? So to kind of tee up this discussion, I wanted to start at the beginning. What are SDCs? So SDCs are a fee paid by development that covers a portion of the cost needed to expand or build infrastructure needed to support development. SDCs pay for things like widening a road, building a new park, or enlarging a sewer line. So today we're focusing only on parks and transportation SDCs, each of which has two components. There's a city-wide portion to that fee, and there's also supplemental fees specific to geographic areas. So for our discussion today, we're focusing on the citywide component and the specific River Terrace 2.0 supplemental. So our current SDC rate structure for residential development is structured by housing type. On the handout at the bottom table, you can see that our current SDCs are based on either single detached types of development or other residential dwellings, which includes things like middle housing, townhouses, apartments. Our current rate structure currently has ADUs and regulated affordable housing exempt. So believe it or not, this is actually a tiered type of structure. It's assigning fees based on impacts of different housing types. So in our current structure, detached dwellings are paying a higher fee because they have higher impacts due to larger household sizes and more vehicle trips. So the way that SDCs are calculated is that the costs of needed infrastructure are distributed amongst anticipated development. And then from there, city council can choose to offer discounts to support our policy goals. So our current structure actually includes multiple policy discounts. The first is that there is a 69% discount to the citywide transportation SDC. There's also a 15% discount to the citywide parks SDC and our exemptions for ADUs and affordable housing are another type of exemption.

So the 69 was, how was that landed on, I guess, the number to use, if that makes sense?

When the STC rate structure was adopted with the transportation STCs, essentially the discount was set so that Tigard's STC rates were competitive with neighboring jurisdictions.

Because if we charged the full freight, we would essentially stop development within the city. And so 69% hit that sweet spot of we're getting enough and we're still a little higher than other jurisdictions. But we weren't so high that we basically became non-competitive. And so that's still true today? That discount has been in effect since we adopted the STC.

Perfect.

Thank you. Yeah, of course.

That question was asked by Council President Wolf and answered by Assistant Development Director Skylar Lawrence. So please remove the city of name before you speak. Thank you, Mayor.

Great. So as we've been going through this work, we've identified two core problems with our current rate structure. The first is that it's based on housing type. And we know that that's been causing implementation challenges because changes in state law have been making housing types obsolete. We're seeing this in our plans for River Terrace 2.0. The current policy discount structure that's attached to our current SDC rate structure, it actually creates a de facto penalty for building smaller units since it's applying the same type of discount to every single type of development. So you have small units of any size receiving the same discount as, say, a new grocery store. So even though we're hearing from the public that small units are most needed across Tigard, our discount structure is not reflecting that. So as we've gotten into the tiered STC concept, which is continued on page two of your handout, we've tried to work to respond to these issues. So we've been exploring a new expanded tiered STC structure that's based on unit size and the associated household size, which comes along with an impact structure. for both citywide STCs and supplemental STCs. An example of the structure is in the table on page two of your handout. So these numbers under the S2 columns are showing the pattern that the space structure is creating. So the breaks themselves should not be focused on because those are still being refined, like I mentioned. What you can see here is that the smaller unit sizes are paying lower fees and the larger unit sizes are paying higher fees because the impacts are different across that spectrum of unit sizes. So in this draft system, tiering by unit size, this impact is primarily based on their household size. So when we shared a similar example of this tiered rate structure with developers, we heard two things. The first is that it's very difficult to deliver smaller units without SDC discounts and that the draft tiered rates don't do enough to support our housing goals or the types of housing that we're expecting in River Terrace 2.0. Since that meeting, we've revised the approach once. We're still working on it. And we're also trying to identify other opportunities to better support our housing goals. One opportunity that we've identified since that meeting is to potentially redistribute the existing policy discounts in a more equitable way. So rather than having a blanket discount on all types of development, we could instead provide steeper discounts to, for example, smaller units citywide. Since this would just be redistributing an existing discount, it's budget neutral. It's not creating a new discount. So this is something that we're looking into right now, and we'll be returning to you on September 1st to discuss this approach with you in greater detail, and we'll come prepared with some visual aids to help convey the concept. So again, today's ask during the study session is that city council ask questions, let us know what type of information we can gather or what types of questions that we can come prepared to answer at our upcoming city council meetings. So before we move on to the discussion, I just want to share a brief project schedule update. We continue to be on track for the May 2027 community plan adoption. Like I said, our next two meetings will be in September and October on SDCs. And as you may have noted, we are expanding this conversation into two city council meetings rather than sharing the hard numbers on September 1st. just because we're not there yet. But luckily, it's not a delay to the project since we always thought the work on SDCs would continue into October. Lastly, we're beginning engagement with developers and the community on our development code amendments starting at the end of September. So that concludes the staff presentation portion. I'd like to leave the remaining time for discussion. Thank you, Mary.

Thank you. Questions?

Chancellor Jacob-Malek,

sure regarding uh request at action two which um escapes on handout should the city complete sdc methodology update to tier part sdc's city-wide um obviously like what would what would the work uh look like to go into that and would the expectation be that that would um that we would have one tier structure for tears to point out in the whole city or would this just be for the city part they would still have separate hearings if that makes sense so we discussed what

Yeah, it's a good question. So if we can get to the point where the numbers fully support our housing goals, the idea would be there would be one tiered rate structure. And it would apply in the same way to the citywide component and any geographic supplemental fee components. That said, you also asked about process, though. How would that happen? You might have to take this one, because I think the citywide was going to be piecemeal with infrastructure.

Yes, so Assistant Director of Community Development, Skylar Warren.

Essentially the work has already gotten underway because we heard from Council at an earlier meeting that you wanted us to explore this option. And so our consulting team is already at work on it. And essentially what we would be doing in preparing that would be to prepare those final numbers for the October meeting.

we should be able to deliver a tiered structure hopefully by the October meeting that reflects numbers and then provide a comparison of what that would look like for different housing types compared to the current structure so that you can get a sense of, well, what would it be like to build a 1,400 square foot row house under the current structure and what would that look like under the proposed structure so that you can really see what the outcome differential would be

right so just to make sure i'm i'm tracking so the october meeting um when we're presented with the numbers it'll be the proposal for the city-wide numbers not just a river terrace it will be both okay yes okay thank you answer shop yeah thank you um on the sheet and this is counselor jeanette shaw

On the sheet, that's a draft STC tiers that was revised on 8-3-2026. It says one of the options is a multi-unit flat rate. And why would a multi-unit flat rate be flat given that there's going to be multiple people, multiple cars, multiple trips? Just would love clarification on that. Thank you.

That's a really good question. And it gets into the weeds a little bit. So we'll go into more detail on this in September. But essentially, this would allow apartment developments to determine which method would result in lower fees for their development. Is it either by pricing out the fees based on unit size, which might have the unintended consequence of discouraging larger apartment units, which is one of the needed housing options we're seeing, or would their rate be lower just by assuming a flat rate? So This structure both allows for the impact-based method where apartment units of different sizes are assumed to have different impacts based on household size and trips, but it's also recognizing that development might prefer a different option for a flat rate.

I have a follow-up on that then. This is Heather Robinson, City Councilor. Based on that explanation, I question why we even have the other size rates then, because the only rate that would be lower is the less than 800 square foot rates. Yeah, so, and, you know, those are those studio apartments, but everyone else is larger, and this one costing the money a significant amount of money, anything you could make. It's really nice condos that are attached that are over 2,000 square feet and might have three cars per unit. and they're getting an SDC of 9,500 per parts instead of 15,000. And so is that really a viable option? Because it's so low, it's lower than any of the other ones. So how does that work?

Yeah, it's a good question. So it really depends on the development and what they decide to put forward. So if an apartment development came in and they had units that average 600 square feet or 700 square feet, it would be advantageous for them to do the first tier because they would be paying a lower fee than what the flat rate would provide for them. So 7,000 roughly versus 9,500 per unit in that example. So it really just depends on what unit size breakdown they want to provide.

Just because if I could ask, then why don't we just have two To please 100, 801 over.

Assistant director warning and so that the reason there is this flat rate option for apartments is that we have the opposite problem with apartment development that we have with housing like housing development, housing for purchase. The problem that we have with housing for purchase is that we're not getting enough small units. We're not getting enough star units that are accessible for first time homebuyers in apartments.

complete opposite.

We readily get studios and one bedrooms and what we don't get is family size three bedroom and four bedroom apartments.

And what Senior Planner Gato was conveying is that the rate structure that scales up and charges more for those larger apartment units acts as a disincentive to build those that there's already a disincentive out there.

to the point where Metro had to actually intervene to make sure that they got the bigger units in the affordable housing bond. So this is a way for us as a policy matter to intervene and say, we don't want to penalize those larger units because those are the family size units that are needed.

I just think if that's the case, then why don't we just do under 800? For the unit rate alone to have a separate Yeah, I'm trying to imagine, and this isn't my job, but I'm trying to imagine why any developer would choose to do a unit size higher than the flat rate, so why don't we just get rid of all this?

I think a good way to look at it would be just for a moment to ignore the adjustment factor column, and kind of just look at how the fees are given in this example. Let's say a family-sized apartment unit is 1,200 square feet. It's three bedrooms. That fee in that size column is nearly $1,100. That's significantly higher than the multi-unit flat rate, which is $9,500. So it incentivizes them to continue to provide those larger units at 1,200 square feet, and they're not penalized by being in a higher fee bracket, as all of the other types of housing.

Does that help?

No, I understand. Okay. I see a couple of questions. One, when we're talking about the multi-unit flat rate, is it actually a flat rate or does that end up being that much per unit?

It is per unit. It is per unit.

And when we're talking about SDCs, what specific needs are those? Who has a payment team? the developers?

Yes, developers pay the SDCs. Tigard's current policy is that SDCs are paid at the time of final certificate of occupancy, so it's associated with the building permit.

With the discussion for changing the citywide SDCs, if we change citywide SDCs, does that change current housing and do people have to then pay more?

That's a good question. So, no, it wouldn't. So, new units that are going through the permitting process, if there were any that came in.

Actually, do you want to answer this?

Because I think we can come prepared to answer that question at the next meeting. It's a good one, and it probably gets to some timing complexity that we're not quite prepared to. That is something that we will come prepared to answer for you at the next meeting.

Yeah, thank you for that question.

That's good.

Yahoo. So I'm glad to hear that the new approach will be budget neutral. I would just request you provide some certainty on how you can be sure that it's budget neutral.

I don't need to answer right now.

Also, I know the second the SDC tier will change. It looks like on 1600 to 1601, there's a big change, big jump. So I just don't know why That is, I was just wondering if there's something we can put another tier in between. I don't know. Also, for the transportation SDC, the first three tier seems like the base rate is $9,100. For the higher tier, the base is $10,000, based on the discount adjustment factor. So I don't know why there are different tiers based SDC. Those numbers will change, but I'm just curious if that's the final number, why the bases are different for the first three tiers versus the next six tiers. And also, I assume that because developers will pay for the SDC, if they build rows, they'll get some discount later on? Okay.

Yes, that's correct. Any... Any infrastructure they build that is beyond the requirements of what's needed to support their development is eligible for SDC funds.

Thank you. That's all my requests. And sort of going off with Councilor Schlack again on the budget neutral comment, I know we've had a lot of discussions around general fund funding, which obviously, if I recall correctly, SDCs don't impact our general funds, so it would be useful to understand specific funds that are getting impacted and the sort of operations for capital projects that would be impacted more specifically just because i know a lot of people when they start hearing discounts they get concerned about how it could impact other city services and because of our fund structure it's not as simple as saying there's less money for other things it's very hard questions

I was just going to follow up and ask the same questions about the budget control.

Just really trying to understand the impact and then really appreciate going forward the comparative analysis because it's hard to make kind of decisions on the rates and not clearly that was the plan is to bring that forward. So thank you. And that's it. And I apologize, Councilor Anderson, if I jumped in.

Councilor Anderson. These are the Tigard fees. Would you kind of help me if I could see all the fees, the Washington County, the CET, clean water services, to see the whole, see kind of what percentage it's actually speaking. Yeah.

May I just want to follow up on that? Maybe provide an example of how much fee a typical development of that size would be total fee.

I would like to see the total amount.

And if it's not too much, could we see a comparison to a neighboring, let's say, Beaverton?

Sure. Any last question or requests? All right. Thank you. Thank you, Senior Panagata. All right.

Let's move on to the next time on our side session, which is a council liaison report.

Like this time. OK, since this becomes a big slack, I can start.

So on July 15th. I attended a meeting of the community homelessness investment response team. The meeting included several updates, including information of the houselessness advisory board, potential updates to the time, place, manner, or Vincent Wallaton, a review of the safe parking program, which is marking its two-year anniversary this month, and a discussion of current community resources. Regarding community resources, Community Action has reopened its rent assistance hotline, which will be available one day each month. The next hotline opening is August 17th at 9 AM. More information is available on Community Actions website. And then from Council's perspective, there will be a discussion about updating the time, place, manner, or events of Tiger in September of this year. Additionally, on August 3rd, I virtually attended a meeting of the Planning Commission. The Commission received a kickoff briefing on the Tiger housing plan, which will be presented to Council later tonight. The Commission also held a quasi-judicial public hearing on the Comprehensive Plan Amendment and Sensitive Lands Review for the Summer Creek Bridge Stabilization Project. The Comprehensive Plan Map Amendment seeks to remove or seek to remove Goal 5 Safe Harbor Protection for 0.03 acres of Tigards and Hit-Line lands and associated vegetated corridor to allow for emergency repairs to the Southwest 121st Avenue bridge replacement and extension of the existing sewer pipe and stabilization of the banks Summer Creek. The commission ultimately recommended approval of the comprehensive plan amendment and sensitively introduced to council, and this will be coming to court council on September 8th.

Those are my updates. I'm so proud to be here.

I'm so proud to be here.

Just a couple things. For our idea of summer vacations, I believe that GAP, the government affairs meeting to the chamber, will resume later this month. WANT TO THANK COUNCILOR ROBINS WHO COVERED THE AUDIT MEETING WHILE I WAS OUT OF TIGERED AND SHE'LL GIVE THAT UPDATE. JUST A COUPLE THINGS AS A FOLLOW-UP FROM OUR BUDGET DISCUSSIONS, MEGHAN COHEN AND I, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, COUNCIL SHILEE FROM COMMUNITY ACTION, THEY ARE WORKING MAYBE ONE DAY A WEEK TO LEVERAGE THAT PARTNERSHIP TO SEE THOSE SERVICES FROM COMMUNITY ACTION COULD BE IN OUR COMMUNITY MORE ACCESSIBLE But Megan's really taking the fall from that point and having that conversation for possible next steps there. And then I attended the Urban Services meeting that was hosted by Washington County Chair Harrington. There was a representative from almost all major cities, and it was a very similar presentation to what council received. So Beaverton Councilor Teeter and I both just gave our comments, appreciated the data and the information. both needing more, and I certainly voiced Council's conversation and concerns about taking on additional areas where that was really kind of an added burden to our operations. I really appreciated the work and look forward to additional conversations.

And I think that is it for me. This is Council Robbins. I just I've been attending the TIAC meetings. The last meeting wasn't really well attended. They were because of summer vacations, but they're working on, everyone signed up to do the various surveys that have been sent out by the city. And they had an idea to plan for an interactive event for kids in the community to kind of practice how to say no, whether it's to personal violence or offerings of drugs or other things that might make them uncomfortable. So they were working on kind of fleshing that out more and should it be in person or perhaps add some videos that people could watch, how they can reach the most people. But like us, we go to Tiger Water Partnership meeting. I attended with Councilor Shaw. We have good water. Not a lot of relief. We need to report there, but I think the partnership is working very well. I don't even know if Tiger had any complaints at this last time. The audit committee I did attend and they went over a presentation of the plan for the fiscal year 2026 audit. No real surprises or concerns there and the library meeting is tomorrow.

This for us to do see. While I was out of town, the Parks and Rec Advisory Board did their annual tour of the Tualatin River. So I know a lot of you all attended. It's always a wonderful event. I recommend people go down to Cook Park and do a tour of the Tualatin River. The Water Advisory Board did a tour of the Lake Oswego Water Treatment Facility, which is really interesting. I took some videos and I educational video together because not a lot of people know where our water comes from. I thought it was really cool and my kids thought it was wonderful. So just sort of sharing that with everyone. And we ended up meeting on Wednesday. Councilor Shah, you want to go?

Certainly, Mayor. This is Councilor Shah. I want to thank Council President Wolf for attending the meeting with Community Action since I was unable to attend due to family emergency. I did have the opportunity to kayak on the Tualatin River with Councilor Slack and Parks Rex, and also I believe a number of us from TCAC were on that. Very well attended right before, of course, the road closures happened due to the installation of the ADA ramp and some other infrastructure needs. And then Councilor Robbins reported out on the Lake Oswego Tigard Water Partnership. So I don't want to repeat that. And that is the end of my report. Thank you.

Thank you. Council Anderson, I attended a CCE. Meeting and we. I got an update from. Meandro on the Tigray Fest. And we also got an update on the Tigard housing plan, which will probably be identical from. I said the Tiger Library. Board meeting. check for. Council Robins and. That was an interesting one because it was just two weeks after we had there they had. Let their social services coordinator go and everything was very smooth. They didn't have any backlash. They said they he almost enough time to make other arrangements and they hadn't had any, so wondering to see how it's going to be on the next one and. They also had a lesson from Halstead about how to present yourself at a council meeting. Somewhere, well, most all of the board testified. It was confusing whether they were testifying for the board or themselves, so I think the lab knows this claim so clear and so that was pretty good conversation.

And that was it for me. Alright, this is the man who I I attended the Washington County Coordinating Committee, WCCC, where Metro presented its draft 2020 transportation plan work plan and engagement plan update. Just for background information, Metro updates their regional transportation plan in five years. The plan covers major investment in roads, transit, walking, biking, and transportation programs across the Tri-County area. In a local project, generally must appear in the Metro's RTP to remain eligible for federal transportation funding. And my understanding is that our staff are working on our own plan so we can coordinate to make sure it's in Metro's plan. So the job work plan divides the process into five phases. The first one is scoping and approval of the work and engagement plan in 2026. And then the second one is updating policy, transportation needs, priorities, and revenue forecasts. And that will be done by the end of this year. And next year, they will be calling for a project, and they will evaluate their performance and refine investment priorities. And fourth step is publishing a draft plan for a 45-day public comment period in early 2028. And finally, the final council, Metro Council adoption by November 30th, 2028. At that same meeting, Washington County also presented its plan for a county-wide vehicle registration fee increase. The board's current preferred option is to raise the fee slowly by $10 every other year for the next five years. And the board or commission will potentially vote on the fee increase schedule the 25th of this month. I also attended a Metropolitan Mayor MMA meeting. Governor's Transportation Office, Kelly Brooks, presented, and she gave just a lot of indication for direction of what the governor is thinking about transportation and of interest to us is that She sees no indication of changing the 50-30-20 split of our gas tax, and the mayors encourage, highly encourage them not to change that. And the mayors also encourage the office to consider policy direction to take care of the existing maintenance needs in the state, as well as stretching our limited resources as far as we can. The mayor also adopted our 2027 legislative agenda for the state legislature, covering a variety of topics. And we also discuss our approach for potential supportive housing services renewal, which will come up for discussion. I think the mayor's desire is that any renewal should cover the needs for local, to directly provide local support for public safety. And then I also attended the R1 Act meeting, and we adopted our updated work plan, and we also adopted ranking for federal grant application for the Connect Oregon program. So that program is a non-highway flight and transportation project grant, which include rail, aviation, and marine transportation. So a lot of transportation meeting. So that's all I have. Any questions? for other council members about anything you heard?

Council President Wolff. Yeah, Council President Wolff. Just to follow up, I was curious on the R1, I believe you said that it was a ranking, a prioritization. So were there particular cities or projects that were then prioritized, and did Tiger have something, or am I not understanding that?

We don't have anything that's non-highway. Oh, that's true. This is a non-highway project only, so Tiger was not. That's true, yeah. That was not on here. Any other questions, comments?

Regarding the 45-day public comment period for Metro's regional transportation five-year plan, is there a plan as part of

not our legislative agenda necessarily, but as part of general advocacy to make sure Tigard's voice is heard as part of that process, either by submitting public comment on behalf of the city or yourself?

That's a good question.

I can ask our principal transportation planner. And that's not going to take place until early 2028.

So we still have a little while. Always good to plan ahead. Yes.

Quick question on the increase in the county-wide vehicle registration fee. Does that mean a $30 increase total over five years? $10, let's give you your $10.

Oh, I'm sorry, it's not $10, $100.

So someone's going to have a $300 increase on the vehicle?

Yeah, I think it will eventually double.

How much do we pay now?

It's just $300, isn't it? Two years.

For a car registration?

Well, I'll get back to you on that.

That's an awful lot for every single person.

Yeah, that's why they're doing a gradual increase.

Even a hundred bucks a year is a lot for a lot of people.

Every two years.

Yeah, but it comes as a big jump and then you get a break.

Yeah, yeah. Oh. Thank you, I think it's more than 10. Otherwise I was, I would not have put it down.

I thought you said 10.

I think it's more than 10. I would double check, so thank you.

Alright, so that's the end of the study session and we will adjourn and then we'll reconvene at a regular business meeting at 630.

Thank you. Bye.

ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. WE'LL CALL THIS TIGER CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER. BEFORE I START, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY FROM MY COUNCIL LIAISON REPORT THAT THE COUNTY IS PLANNING TO RAISE VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEE BY $10 EVERY TWO YEARS, NOT $100. SO PLEASE DON'T BE ALARMED. IT'S $10, NOT $100. SO WITH THAT, CITY RECORDER CRAIGER, PLEASE, WOULD YOU PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL?

MAYOR HU?

HERE.

COUNCILOR ROBIN? HERE. COUNCILOR SCHLACK?

HERE.

Councilor Shaw? Here. Council President Wolf? Here. Councilor Anderson?

Here.

Councilor Gaddousi?

Present.

Thank you. Will everyone please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you, staff and council. Do you have any non-agenda items? Seeing none, let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is a resolution thanking city recorder Carol Crager for her years of service. Well, this is another emotional meeting for us. So our city recorder is retiring at the end of this month. So the city council, we would like to present you with a resolution thanking you for your years of service. So I will just read the whole thing. So a resolution honoring city recorder Carol Krager for more than 20 years of dedicated service to the city of Tiger. Whereas Carol Crager began her career with the City of Tiger in January 2006 as Deputy City Recorder, and I was appointed City Recorder in 2014, dedicating more than 20 years of service to the city. And whereas throughout her career, Carol has faithfully served mayors, city council, city leadership, staff, and the Tiger community with professionalism, integrity, and an unwavering commitment to public service. And, whereas, Kara has been the trusted steward of the city's official records and election processes, while serving as a treasured source of institutional knowledge whose wisdom has benefited generations of elected officials and employees. And whereas Kara has been an active member of the Oregon Association of Municipal Recorders, having served on several committees over the years, including the Records Committee, Conference Committee, Mentor Committee, Chair of the Legislative Committee, Regional Director, and more. Whereas Carol's kind heart, gentle manner, patience, and genuine care for others have made everyone feel welcome and supported, while her quiet dedication, attention to detail, and steadfast commitment have left an enduring legacy. And whereas after more than two decades of distinguished service, Carol will retire at the end of August 2026, leaving behind countless friendships, cherished memory, and a city that is stronger because of her service. whereas reflections on those who have worked with Carol including the following. Carol has earned my complete confidence through her professionalism, careful preparation, and unwavering dedication to Tiger. She has always been responsive when I have questions about council agendas and has made sure we have the updates needed for our meetings to run smoothly. Just as importantly, Carol has generously shared her knowledge and mentored the next generation of municipal recorders, ensuring that her legacy of dependable and trustworthy public service will continue long after her well-earned retirement. And the next one is from Councillor Jeanette Shaw. Councillor Shaw, do you have that in front of you?

I do, Mayor. I'm happy to read that if you'd like.

Yeah, please.

Thank you. And Carol, I'm not going to well up, or at least you can't see me well enough. So City Councilor Jeanette Shaw, Carol Crager, City Clerk of Tigard, has been and is the steady hand that keeps our council meetings running smoothly and on schedule. Carol brings a real blend of professionalism, and genuine warmth to everything she does, treating everyone she works with, whether counselors, potential counselors, staff, or the public with empathy, respect, warmth, and friendliness. Tigard is so fortunate to have had her and is so excited what her next chapter holds for her. Thank you, Carol. Thank you, Mayor.

Thank you. And Counselor Schlack?

Carol Crager represents the very best of Tigard, both as a dedicated city employee and as a member of our community. Since I first met her as a community volunteer, Carol has consistently demonstrated integrity, reliability, professionalism, and a deep commitment to public service. I have appreciated her wisdom and institutional knowledge as I've learned my role as a council member, as well as her steady commitment to serving the city. I congratulate Carol on her well-earned retirement and wish her all the best in the adventures ahead.

and former city manager Marty Wine. Carol has a great care for her profession and made a lot of technological improvements in Tiger and through OAMR to digitize records. Carol is one of the most meticulous, caring, and professional city recorder I have ever worked with. Now therefore be resolved by the Tiger City Council that section one, the Tiger City Council and city teammates hereby express their sincere gratitude and appreciation to Carol Krager for her more than 20 years of exceptional service to the city of Tiger. Section 2, the Tiger City Council and city team may congratulate Carol on her well-earned retirement and extend their heartfelt wishes for happiness, good health, and many joyful adventures in the years ahead. Section 3, the Tiger City Council and city team may recognize Carol's lasting legacy of service, kindness, and dedication, and thank her for the positive impact she has made on the city and everyone fortunate enough to work alongside her. Section 4, this resolution is effective immediately upon passage. So may I have a motion, Councillor?

Mayor, I move to approve resolution number 26-28, a resolution honoring City Recorder Carol Crager for more than 20 years of dedicated service to the City of Tigard.

I'll second.

Everybody second. Yay! Any further discussion? Anything you want to say to Carol? Council President Wolff?

I'll just be brief. Carol, just thank you so much. Heartfelt for just your care, not just as an employee, but a community member and everything that you've done for Tigard over so many years.

So thank you. Also briefly, thank you so much for everything, not just for myself, but for my family. You've made everyone feel so welcome every time they came here.

Thank you.

All right. So those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. The resolution is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council. So, Carol, we would like to have a group photo with you. Would you like that? All right, so I know you're... Okay, let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is public comment. The public comment comment period provides an opportunity for members of 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 is written comment. We received four written comments by the noon deadline Monday. Topics include downtown parking, River Terrace 2.0 financing, housing plan, and a proposed change to the Tiger Municipal Code related to keeping livestock. And let's move on to in-person public comment. When I call your name, please come forward to the microphone and make sure it's on, and please state your name and where you live, and you have two minutes to speak. All right, so, Mr. Walter, can you put a timer on the screen, please? All right, the first person, I think it's Deborah or April. Tag. Alexis. Alexis. Sorry.

Hello. Good afternoon. My friend Leandro is going to be my translator.

Good evening, I'll be translating for Alexis today.

All right. My name is Alexis Tay and I've been living in Tigard for over 20 years. Estoy tratando la manera de crear una comunidad, empezando con el fútbol y ayudando a los pequeños negocios.

I've been trying to build community here in Tigard, beginning with a local football team here, soccer team, sorry, fútbol, in Tigard and helping small business.

El motivo de mi presencia el día de hoy es solamente para ver si ustedes pudieran ayudarnos tanto a la comunidad como a mi persona.

The reason for me being here today is to see whether or not Tigard City Council can help not just me, but my community.

The reason for me being here is to talk about excessive force and excessive authority in Tiger Plaza. And the culprit of this excessive force is a security company named Olaf. And even though this company is functioning without a license, he is still harassing members of the community. Siento que en algunas ocasiones hay exceso de actividad policiaca. Por ejemplo, el día de ayer, se trató solamente de niños de 10, 12 años que estaban pasando por la plaza con su skateboard.

For example, yesterday there was a police incident that he called in over children that were on their skateboards going through the plaza that were 10 and 12 years old.

It was assisted on my this year to patrol. Yes, it is a rather on total perimeter of the Latarga Plaza. It was, but I don't know my los Padres del Nino for me. It says, oh, porque el Nino started in trauma or it up or K. No, it's just I don't think you live on the other person.

There were over six or seven patrol cars that were present and they shut down the plaza and it scared not just the kids, but the parents that were there not understanding and it caused a lot of trauma for these kids.

He wants to know if there's anything that can be done with the excessive force that's being used by the security agency at Tiger Plaza. Even the janitors that work there have been threatened with weapons. And he wants to know if there is an ability to have some kind of investigation on this person, security company. It seems that he's also been taking photos of minors. Mi finalidad es en la ciudad de Tiger es ayudar a los pequeños negocios. Este año soy parte del Festival del Tigre por segunda vez. Gracias a la ciudad de Tiger por llamarme. Y estamos contando probablemente con unos siete pequeños negocios de la ciudad de Tiger que quieren formar parte del evento.

I'm very grateful and thankful that I'm able to work with local business here in Tigard and grateful that I've been able to return. This will be my second year bringing a soccer tournament and bringing seven different local businesses to El Tigre Fest for this year.

Solamente ese es mi comentario, que siento que es una barrera que él está efectuando a favor de la ciudad de Tiger y gastando también nuestros impuestos con exceso de autoridad en cosas que no deberían de ser.

Muchas gracias. And with that, I leave my comment and decision up to counsel. And thank you to look into someone that has been using excessive force and authority and using taxpayer dollars to look into this person. Thank you so much.

Thank you. So I allow four minutes, double the time on the last one because we need time for translation, but please keep your comment to two minutes. Next one is Felix. Good evening. Just make sure, no it's not on right now, just press the button.

There we go.

All right. My name's Felix. I live on 72nd Avenue between Dartmouth and 99. I'll make it short and simple. Basically, just my concern there and probably a lot of other residents on 72nd, because there's like probably three or four of the buildings there. There's a lot of traffic going through there, and they got the gates up by where they're building the creek up or whatever, and there's no way to walk. And the other day, I've seen several people A woman with a carriage, they're riding scooters through there. The people are coming from the bus stops to shop at Winko, Walmart and everything. So there's a lot of traffic there and it's looking pretty dangerous there. If the city could or speak to the developers that's working through there, maybe we could put a little bridge or something or clear the path because that gate is holding all the trash, all the leaves, so it's getting harder for people to walk through there. And it's just a safety concern, that's all. And there's a lot of traffic going through there because of the stores, which are good, you know? But that's really it. That was it. I meant to mention that last time.

All right. Thank you.

Thank you for everything.

We'll get back to you.

Have a good night.

Thank you. You too. Thank you. All right. Next, we have Liz Newton. Hello, Liz.

Hi, my name is Liz Newton and I live in the progress Ridge area of Tigard and I just handed City recorder Crager copies of the November 1st 2022 council minutes on adoption of keeping livestock regulation and the report that Ken Ross code enforcement officer put together on the complaint that I filed regarding my neighbor's excessive livestock operation. One thing I wanted to point out, it was difficult to get pictures of the operation because of the height of the fence and the structures and the screening on the property. So I wanted to point that out. And I trust you had time to read the document that I emailed yesterday, so I won't go into detail here. But I wanted to suffice it to say it was a very expensive and time consuming process to go through. We had really good advice from the rodent control professionals, but We were advised when all the droppings were found in the house of the danger to the children because of the health under the house droppings. So we had to move the family to a hotel for 10 days. So that became concerning to me. The residents of the property next door were renters and the property owner had given permission for them to have livestock but he had no idea of the extent of the operation and so Ken Ross was great. It took about two months but we did get compliance. So I was notified of that in December. The activities really reduced and so we're grateful for that. but i just in my email that i sent you i i'm not opposed to chickens you know on property but i do think that we should have some limits and so i was recommending that the regulations be revised to allow for chickens which is what i think they have in Portland and Beaverton and require annual documentation of a contract with rodent control services and then making sure that residents check their covenants and restrictions before they invest in livestock and also maybe an annual review by the council just to make sure things are going well for both sides. So that was my recommendation. I hope I went over two minutes.

I don't know how to practice. We also receive your written comments, so thank you. Thank you very much.

Thank you for coming.

All right, so next item on the agenda, Leandro, come on up.

All right, I'm just gonna join in on the festivities of the evening. Good evening, Mayor, Council, and everyone here tonight. I just wanted to take a minute to recognize, this is my first time making public comment, by the way, and it's one of the most important things, I think. I just wanted to take a minute to recognize and honor the decades of service and dedication that Carol Crager has given to the City of Tigard. Carol's tireless commitment to the City Council, the City Recorder's Office, and most importantly, the very people of Tigard deserves our gratitude. So on behalf of myself as a tiger community member, and as someone who has had the privilege of working alongside Carol serving with her on the equity advisory committee, sharing conversations, and even swapping advice about how to keep our backyard beehives healthy. and which flowers to plant. I simply wanna say thank you, Carol. Thank you for your years you have given to Tigard, for the knowledge and care you have shared, and for the impact you have made on this community. Tigard is better because of your service, and I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to know, work, and work alongside you. Thank you, Council.

Thank you, Leandro. And we have Gabe.

Gabe, come up, come forward.

Hello, Gabe.

Hi, everyone. For the record, my name is Gabriel Vlasquez, and I just want to talk about data centers for a brief moment. Last month, Mayor Hu highlighted that the language of data centers was outdated from 2022, and he inquired if council should use that staff time to update the outdated data center language in regards to data centers. The majority of council opted not to recommend the use of staff time. I think that was a mistake not to. I haven't seen any other issue rise up this quickly in our community. I hope you all change your mind on the matter. And Carol, you don't know this, but you were actually the first person I met in the city. So thank you for your years of service, and thank you all for your time. And thank you, Mayor Hu, for bringing up this issue.

Thank you, Gabe. Oh, next one, we have Jeff Dollar. Jeff, hello. No, that one is on now. There we go.

Hi, okay, I'm Jeff Garrow and I live here in Tigard. Thank you, Mayor, Council, thank you for letting me have the time to comment. I did submit some comments in writing and I kind of wanted to just touch on those briefly. As the city goes forward and develops its housing plan and River Terrace 2.0, I think we have a responsibility to reflect on what worked well. identify gaps, and whether our policies are capable of meeting the challenges coming ahead. The state now requires Tigard to allow a much broader range of middle housing, but allowing more housing does not necessarily make housing more affordable. When land is given greater development capacity, the additional value can be reflected in the price of the land and ultimately in the cost of homes built on it. We should be asking are our current policies producing the housing outcomes We need and are they capable of actually supporting middle housing at the scale intended? the city already recognizes the value and separating land ownership from housing through its investment with proud ground and But today we largely approach this model one property at a time, lifting one owner at a time. And this is difficult to scale at the rate we need. We need to be proactively finding ways to help people achieve ownership and housing stability. rather than allowing land appreciation to continually push ownership farther out of reach. My written submission asks a simple question whether growth itself can help us build a permanent land base for a portable home ownership. I'm not suggesting this is the only answer or that it's easy. I'm suggesting it's a starting point for a conversation and a concept worth testing through the housing plan and River Terrace 2.0 to determine whether it's feasible, financeable, and scalable alongside our other housing tools. Thank you, and that's the end of my comments.

Thank you, Jeff. And we also receive your two written comments, so thank you. All right, so there's no one else sign up for the in-person testimony. Mr. Walter, are there any caller in the queue for phone or video testimony?

There's one caller in the queue.

All right, so would you please pass the caller through? And the caller, you have two minutes.

Hi, Mayor and Chancellor, this is Daphne Ann Marie. I believe I have commented on a few items and I just wanted to personally and, you know, commend you and thank you for your response to my email in regards to the Disability Forward Housing Agenda and the Kelsey that I expressed my concerns about. And I just wanted to thank you for your thoughtful and considerate comments. you know, response to that. So I look forward to keeping, you know, track of the different agenda, different presentations that are going to be happening in the next few months, especially as I am also tracking development of different properties like Dartmouth South. So anyway, thank you so much. And yeah. Thank you.

Thank you. Mr. Water, are there any other people in the queue?

There's no other callers in the queue.

All right, thank you so much. And so we'll move on to the next item on the agenda, which is city manager report. City manager Rager will provide a brief report. Good evening.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor and Council. I'll wait for the slide to come up.

I guess while I'm waiting for the slide, I'll take this opportunity to also thank Carol.

I can't tell you the number of times when Carol needed to help me with our Agenda Quick software, and her patience with me and others on our team is very much appreciated, and we're gonna miss you, Carol. Thank you for all you've done for us. All right, so vendor applications are now open for El Tigre Fest taking place on October 3rd at Cook Park. Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, including Northwest Natural, Cielo, and Club Benados. As the council and the community heard during our budget process in the spring, El Tigre Fest, along with Juneteenth, Pride, and the Fourth of July celebration will no longer be organized by the city in future years due to budget constraints. As you know, this came down to a need to focus on our core services, and as much as we love these community events and have enjoyed organizing them, the truth is that event planning is not a core service. That being said, our staff have been meeting with various community partners and organizations who have expressed willingness to take over the event planning for those events. Staff are actively working with organizations to support a smooth and successful transition. We look forward to celebrating with the community this year while laying the groundwork for these traditions to continue in the years ahead. That's the end of my report.

Thank you. Council member, any questions? Seeing none, let's move on to the next item, which is presentation of police award. Police Chief Rogers and Assistant Chief Sutton will present life-saving medal to Officer Bively. Good evening.

Okay, this is to certify that the City of Tigard has awarded the life-saving medal to Officer Benjamin Byerly, number 61775. For life-saving efforts that occurred on January 11, 2026, Officer Byerly was notified that a person had fallen, was unconscious, and was not breathing. After arriving on scene, Officer Byerly determined that the person did not have a pulse and immediately began administering CPR. After several rounds of chest compressions, additional medical personnel arrived and took over care of the person. Officer Barley's response directly contributed to the person surviving this medical event. His actions reflect great credit upon himself, the Tigard Police Department, and the City of Tigard. Given under my hand in the City of Tigard this 11th day of August, 2026, signed by Robert Rogers, Chief of Police, and Wee Kang Hoo, Mayor.

Yeah, we would love to.

Well, thank you again, officer. Appreciate your service to our community. Thank you. All right, let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is Tiger Police Department report. And we have our chief and assistant chief and our community engagement coordinator, Bauer. Good evening.

Good evening, Mayor and Council.

I'm Bob Rogers. First off, I'd like to thank you guys for joining us and acknowledging Officer Byerly's saving of a life. There is no better award for a Chief of Police to give to one of our members is to save a life. We get to watch our fellow compatriots, firefighters do it all the time. For us, it's a heck of a rush to get involved in something like that, but the officers have quite a bit of training and are very well equipped, and as a result, save this person's life. And it's been seven months since we had the opportunity to actually acknowledge it, but we do a pretty thorough vetting and make sure that all awards that are given, that's a significant one for us. Let me begin again. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm your Police Chief Bob Rogers. With me is Assistant Chief Brad Sitton and our Community Engagement Coordinator, Maddie Bauer. This dashboard tonight, we wanted to highlight just a few things that are special for us that have occurred in July. Our community-oriented policing team has been very active throughout the summer months. We've been working hard to make sure we're addressing some of the nuisance abatements and a call load that's been occurring. And I wanted to give you just a real quick snapshot in how hard they've been working. So the community policing team that comprises two officers that are dedicated during the days to handle issues that involve pretty much any kind of code compliance or nuisance abatement issues, it seems like we've been centered with those two folks on unhoused community issues. And literally they've taken 127 calls that are related specifically to nuisances related in the corridor, but also on trails and in our parks. Specifically, 158 campsites they were able to go identify and either post, abate, or go ahead and refer services to members in the community that are unhoused. They checked on 170 of these unhoused community members, specifically making sure that they're healthy, whether they were in distress or they had called us asking for assistance, making sure that they also felt served as community members. We only had to make one arrest, but we made multiple warnings in order to gain compliance for the rules, ordinances, and laws that we expect for any community member for decorum, whether it was trash or some of the other issues you may have heard. The council gets lots of information about that as well. We do as well daily. Every one of these contacts allows us to build relationships. Those things are crucial for us, ensuring that the members of our community, wherever they live at, also feel that we want to deliver police services equitably and consistently. For them, when they call us as well, because it's been oftentimes where we're getting calls from our unhoused community members as well, but also when they're the subjects of our calls, that they can expect that we're going to be present, that we're going to listen, we're going to do that, police services consistently. They know what they're getting, they know how we're going to react, they know the rules, and they know we're going to be consistent as we apply them. I'll turn over the dashboard to the Assistant Chief now and then Maddie later so they can go ahead and brief you on some of the other factors we wanted you guys to know about July.

Again, Mr. Mayor, Council, thank you. I'm Assistant Chief Sitton. As we come to the end of the summer months, we've been dealing with typical summer behavior. During the months of June and July, we've had numerous incidents with individuals, mostly juveniles, on e-bikes, ranging from reckless riding on the trails to four separate e-bike eludes from officers. And we've had a few houses that were shot at with paintballs by people on e-bikes. This summer we've conducted seven bicycle patrol missions, and yesterday we conducted a pedestrian crosswalk enforcement mission. We are gearing up for the Labor Day DUI enforcement mission, and SROs are prepping for the start of the school year, and we'll be conducting school zone enforcement and bus stop operations, ensuring that kids can get back and forth to school safely. For more information on e-bikes and our efforts to ensure everyone's safety, I will pass it off to our Community Engagement Coordinator, Maddie Bauer.

Thank you. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm Maddie Bauer, Community Engagement Coordinator for Tigard Police. As e-bikes and e-scooters have become more common in Tigard, the police department has taken a proactive approach centered on education, community engagement, and partnership, all centered around one goal, which is keeping riders and the people around them safe. To help people better understand Oregon law and ride safely, we've created a dedicated webpage along with an easy-to-understand safety flyer that explains the rules in plain language. It offers practical safety tips, and we provide information on how to report dangerous behavior as well. We've taken these resources directly into the community through presentations, bicycle rodeos, and other outreach events. To expand our reach, we've partnered with the Tiger Tualatin School District, who plans to include our flyer in every back-to-school packet, at home to families, at the start of the school year and in new school newsletters as well. We've shared our materials with community organizations and neighborhood groups so that they can help reinforce these safety messages as well. On the next slide, our work doesn't stop there. Today we launched an online reporting tool that will allow community members to report dangerous e-bike and e-scooter behavior. This will help the police department track concerns and potentially help us identify trends and better focus our education and enforcement efforts where they're needed most. We'll continue sharing information through social media while coordinating with other city departments to ensure residents receive consistent and accurate information regardless of who they contact. Police officers play an important role in all of this. Bike team officers regularly engage with riders and pedestrians while patrolling our trails, parks, and downtown. creating opportunities to educate, answer questions, and address unsafe behavior before it leads to a crash. Our school resource officers reinforce these same messages in our schools, and if a Tigard student were to be identified riding dangerously in the community, those established relationships help SROs to follow up with students and families in a way that is often more impactful than enforcement alone. Together, these efforts are helping us build a culture of safe, responsible riding while addressing the safety challenges that accompany the growing use of e-bikes and e-scooters in our community. Thank you.

So just to wrap it up, if any of the Councillors had questions, we are more than ready to answer them.

Councillor Robbins?

Thank you. I just have a brief question. Did you say that the online reporting tool is live?

Yes. How do we get to that? That is on our main e-bike website from the PD. It's tiger-or.gov slash tpd dash e-bike.

E-bike, all one word?

Yes.

Great. Thank you. Thank you.

Yeah, that's something I'm hearing more and more from community members, so that's, yeah, and so it's good that, you know, we have a reporting method, and I understand officers cannot be everywhere at once, but at least if we see a trend somewhere, they can focus the enforcement in certain areas, so yeah.

The sheriff and the TVFNR fire chief also did some type of a... public outreach complaint. They also have for our members of the community within Tigard who are in the unincorporated areas, they can also touch base with that too. We'll try to put a link on there too, just in case folks don't know. They feel like they're in Tigard, but they're not actually in Tigard.

Yeah. But other than e-bike, I just heard nothing but good things people say about our police department. So you're doing a great job. So thank you so much. Thank you. All right. All right, so next item on the agenda is a consent agenda. The consent agenda is used for routine items including approval of meeting minutes, contracts, or intergovernmental agreements. Information on each item is available on the city's website in the packet for this meeting. These items may be enacted in one motion without separate discussion. Council members may request that an item be removed by motion for discussion and separate action. On tonight's consent agenda, the only thing we have is minutes for approval. Is there a motion?

Mayor, I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Thank you.

I second.

Is there any discussion? Seeing none, those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. The consent agenda is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council. All right, let's move on to the next item agenda, which is Tiger Housing Plan Briefing. Housing planner Miller will give the staff report and lead the discussion on the plan.

Hello.

Hi, good evening, Mayor Hu and Council. My name is Trinity Miller, Housing Planner for the City of Tigard. And during tonight's Council briefing, I'll provide an overview of the Tigard Housing Plan work. Next slide, please. The overview tonight will highlight what is the Tigard Housing Plan, what is required by the state, what has already been done, and what are the next steps. Next slide, please. So the Tigard Housing Plan is part of a state requirement to study the housing needs of our community and develop actions that encourage that that needed housing is built. The Tigard Housing Plan kicked off in June of 2026 and is expected to be complete during summer of 2027. We're very grateful that Tigard was awarded two grants from the state to support this work, and the grant funds cover the cost of professional consultant services from ECHO Northwest. Next slide, please. There are three main components within the Tigard Housing Plan, and each has its own set of analyses. The three components are the contextualized housing needs, the housing capacity analysis, and the housing production strategy. So these three components shown on the slide here build upon one another to create a comprehensive housing plan and the steps that will follow, which will be the key tools identified in the housing production strategy. Next slide, please. So what is required by the state? In these next slides, we'll discuss that. Next slide, please. For cities with a population over 10,000, the housing plan is going to follow Oregon's housing planning cycle. The graphic above outlines the housing planning cycle. So the Tigard Housing Plan will create the deliverables that are highlighted with the red box on this slide. The first part of the housing plan, highlighted in yellow, really determines the housing need of our community. The second part develops an action plan and then finally we will track and monitor the progress until the next plan update. Next slide please. Now we'll dive deeper into each of those state required documents. The first component is the contextualized housing needs analysis or CHN. This is more than just the count of the number of units. This really tells the story behind that. So after receiving the state allocation of housing production targets, this analysis identifies the needed housing in our community by type characteristics and location it includes the following analyses such as an affordability analysis of ownership and rental housing an analysis of barriers to fair housing choice and an analysis of past discriminatory actions The contextualized housing needs analysis requires equitable engagement with an emphasis on engagement with low-income communities, people with disabilities, BIPOC communities, and tribes. Again, the purpose of the contextualized housing needs analysis is to tell more of the story behind the housing needs beyond just affordability issues or the number of units needed. Next slide, please. The second component of the housing plan is the housing capacity analysis, or HCA. The housing capacity analysis replaces the former state required housing needs analysis. This analysis determines whether Tigard has enough buildable land within the urban growth boundary for that needed housing. So the HCA includes an analysis of historical development trends, a buildable lands inventory, a development-ready land inventory, and a residential land needs analysis. These analyses all work together to help us answer questions like, IF WE IDENTIFY THAT THERE IS A NEED FOR MORE HOUSING APARTMENTS IN TIGERED, IS THERE ENOUGH BUILDABLE LAND WITH INFRASTRUCTURE IN PLACE READY FOR APARTMENTS TO BE BUILT IN THE NEXT SIX YEARS? NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THE THIRD COMPONENT OF THE HOUSING PLAN IS THE HOUSING PRODUCTION STRATEGY, OR HPS. The housing production strategy is a set of specific actions that the city plans to take over the next six years, which will make it more likely that the identified housing needs in the other housing capacity houses are built. The housing production strategy includes equitable engagement with housing producers and developers, It also includes a review of the housing production strategy menu of actions from the state. So some examples of HPS actions on that menu include land banking and conversion limitations, but we'll dive into that later in the project. The housing production strategy also includes action sheets. So on each action sheet, it will clearly describe the actions that the city selects, the specific need that the selected action is going to meet, and implementation steps for that action. The city will evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the strategy selected and implemented in the housing production strategy at the midpoint check-in. This midpoint allows the city to identify which strategies are having the intended outcomes and identify any areas that require course corrections. It is also an opportunity to request an implementation timeline extension or replace an action. Next slide, please. Some councillors asked the question of what if we didn't do this. As listed here, there is potential to be required to enter into the housing acceleration program which includes an agreement with the state and ultimately it could replace our development code with the state model code. Next slide please. Next I'll highlight what has already been done. Next slide. So Tigard conducted its last housing needs assessment in 2019, and this was adopted in 2021. Tigard also adopted the affordable housing plan in 2019. Next slide. The prior decisions related to the housing plan include a resolution of support for housing planning assistance grant from DLCD was approved in September of 2025. And again, we're very grateful to have been awarded the housing planning assistance grant to support this work. In January of this year, the grant was awarded to the city of Tigard. And on July 28th, a briefing on the Tigard Housing Plan and its nexus to the construction excise tax was presented to Council during a study session. During the study session, Council also provided initial questions and feedback, which we incorporated into the content of this presentation. And I hope it has effectively answered the questions and comments. Next slide. So looking forward, what are the next steps in the Tigard Housing Plan? Next slide, please. The Tired Housing Plan's equitable engagement work started in July of 2026, and this work emphasizes equitable engagement with low-income communities, people with disabilities, people of color, and tribes. Our engagement will be split into two phases during this project, and it really builds on the input from other long-range planning projects like Tired Home and River Terrace 2.0, so that feedback will also be incorporated in this plan. The first phase of equitable engagement will focus on determining the city's needed housing. This will gather input on desired styles of housing and barriers to living in one's preferred housing. And then the second phase of equitable engagement will focus on housing producer engagement to determine which actions would support building that needed housing. Some examples of engagement tools that will be used during this phase of engagement include a visual housing survey, engaging at local events with activities, public testimony, interviews, and focus groups. Next slide, please. I'd just like to take time today to highlight that the visual housing survey is available now on the Tigard Housing Plan webpage. The image here is an example of a question from the survey to address the needed housing. So far, we've received 95 survey responses. And in addition to the survey, interested parties can join the list on our Tigard Housing Plan webpage to stay up to date with the project. During the next phase of engagement, we'll identify the ways to provide housing. Next slide, please. In addition to equitable engagement, other items and tasks in progress include the contextualized housing needs and all of the analyses associated with that are in progress, the buildable lands inventory is in progress, and the inventory of actions TIGER has already implemented is being reviewed. Next slide, please. Shown here is a schedule of future council briefings where we hope to collect your feedback and direction throughout the project. Starting in fall, we plan to bring you the draft buildable lands inventory and the development ready lands inventory, as well as an equitable engagement summary for phase one. In the winter, we hope to have provided a contextualized housing needs analysis results and the equitable engagement summary from phase two, which is consulting with housing producers. And by spring, you will be able to see a draft housing capacity analysis and a draft housing production strategy with the idea that we will complete this work by summer of 2027. Next slide, please. With that, this concludes my presentation introducing the Tigard Housing Plan, and I'm available for questions and feedback.

Thank you, Housing Plan and Miller, for your presentation. Council Member, Councilor Shah, please go ahead.

Great, and thank you very much, Susan. My voice is... impaired due to a cold, but thank you. Housing planner Miller really appreciate the report with regards to contextualized housing need the outcome that states is needed. Housing is this based on data or is it based merely on the surveys and engagement from the community? So it's anecdotal versus factual. That's my first question and then I have two additional questions to follow up with.

Hi, thank you for that question. So the start of the Oregon housing planning cycle includes a state allocation for the number of housing units that are assigned to each jurisdiction. There is a very complex methodology that goes into that. And I'd really be happy to have that discussion in a study session so we can really dive into the details behind that methodology. That total number that's assigned to the city of Tigard is then further divided into buckets by affordability. So there is quite a bit of robust quantitative data that backs up that state allocation. In addition to that, we'll also be looking at best practices when we are evaluating the needed housing, which again is really telling that story behind more than just that number, but what does that number actually look like to our community?

Thank you and so we were assigned a number and my understand you're supposed to be looking at buildable land. So just the fact that we were assigned numbers of housing seems to me. Not representative. Whatever come what our community needs and that it was just a blanket statement from the legislature to assign to housing numbers. So it goes back to my question. What is really the data we have to show what type of housing we And you may be asking the state these questions, Trinity. But in addition, with the fact that HB 2003 was passed in 2019, we know a lot has happened between COVID, the state's reduction in manufacturing jobs, which has hit Tigard significantly. And so I'm wondering, again, what type of data do we have that supports that we need a significant amount of housing and the number that the state has assigned to us without knowing what our buildable land looks like?

like and I'm happy if that Trinity is met for a future study session that's fine too thank you Thank You councillor Shaw and thank you again for clarifying and raising that question I think that this would be best discussed in a future study session just so I can pull up the analyses and show us the data that backs up that methodology but I have noted that as well so thank you again Thank you.

Thank you. Yeah, just follow up on that. I also have a question about any underlying assumption about those numbers, right? I mean, assumption could change over time. So just to tag on Councilor Shah's request. So thank you. Council President Wolf.

I think I'm the third to tag on and thank you Mayor and Councillor Shaw for the questions because my curiosity really is I look forward to a study session to really understand how the state does that because my question is how how is it defined for us that we build more apartment complexes before, as opposed to create opportunities for housing that could be purchased and really promote home ownership. And so I really look forward to an opportunity to dig in that. And again, the fact that we're looking at 2019 and so much has occurred. And I'm also just curious, with neighboring communities, right? I'm just curious to kind of benchmark some of maybe our like cities, our neighbor cities, what are they defined as by the state, what is required for them to build? So anyway, thank you.

Councillor Schlag. THANK YOU. I'LL BE THE THIRD OR FOURTH PERSON? YEAH, WITH JUST THE GENERAL SENTIMENT, BUT NO, I'LL JUST SAY DITTO TO ALL THAT. BUT I REALLY APPRECIATE THE CLARITY BEHIND THE PRESENTATION TONIGHT, ESPECIALLY BEING CLEAR ABOUT WHAT ENFORCEMENT COULD LOOK LIKE BECAUSE THESE ARE STATUTORY REQUIREMENTS THAT WE'RE HAVING TO FOLLOW, REGARDLESS OF WHAT OUR OWN INDIVIDUAL FEELINGS AS COUNCIL ARE. I KNOW WE ALL WANT TO ADDRESS HOUSING NEEDS, BUT I ALSO KNOW addressing housing needs follows the grain of what our community has already been doing and where we see our community going. So I think that's where a lot of the, I don't know if frustration is too strong of a word, but questioning sort of comes from. It's more of that aspect, not the, not concerned about addressing housing needs, which of course is one of our council goals. To that end, I would like to have more study sessions on it, just because this is a really complicated matter and something that many people in our community are concerned about. I think there's plenty of opportunities. I appreciate all the opportunities for council to weigh in, especially on what potential actions could look like, since we will, under Oregon law, be required to adopt some plan to address housing needs. And also, I think the more we talk about it now, the more this could impact potentially our legislative agenda for 2027 if we wanted to pursue technical fixes as part of the long session next year. So that's something I'd like to make sure we're aware of. since we'll be having those discussions in the coming months. Thank you.

Councillor Robins, please go ahead.

Thank you. I agree. The legislative agenda is actually a very good point and I agree with the same thing about the other numbers. I have a more specific question. The housing survey is now opening. You said you have 95 respondents. So we have a little over 55,000 people living here. So what level are you expecting to get for the survey and what level is sufficient? And if those maybe are or aren't the same.

Yeah, great question regarding the survey specifically. That survey has been out less than one month, so I'm really impressed with 95 responses. I would like to see a minimum of 150 responses, so we've made significant progress already. It will be open through October as we're doing these other engagement opportunities.

Just a quick follow-up. Is it available in languages other than English?

Another fantastic question. So the survey is in English on our website, but you can use the translation tools embedded in internet browsers to translate into other languages.

Thank you.

Thank you. Any other questions? All right. So you got all questions. All right. Thank you so much.

Thank you. Have a great night.

Yeah, you too. All right, next item on agenda is economic development strategic plan update, and we have our community development director, Kirkman, to provide the staff report.

Well, good evening, Mayor and Councillors, Sambo Kirkman, Community Development Director. Next slide. This agenda item is an update to Council on the progress of the Economic Development Strategic Plan to summarize the things we are working on and things we'd like to complete for this fiscal year. Next slide. As a refresher, Tigard's first economic development strategic plan was adopted March of this year. This three year plan provides guidance to the city on the actions to meet the council's second goal to elevate economic opportunities for current and future residents. The plan contains vision and mission statements, strategic pillars, and guiding values that help create key action items to help us implement the plan over the next three years. Next slide. These action items were organized into four strategic pillars, business attraction, support and growth, partnerships and navigation, operation and communication, development and placemaking. The following slides will identify the action items for each pillar and provide Council with an update on some of the work that has been done for the year one priorities. I'd like to note that with a few actions, a few of the actions span multiple pillars. But for this presentation, I'll be limiting my responses to an action item for a specific pillar just to limit the repetition there as well. So next slide. So for the first pillar is business action support and growth. The focus of this pillar is to provide tools through service programs and guidance that support businesses at different phases from starting, growing, and adapting. This includes connecting workers with training and career development to support our local employers. The pillar also looks to create cohesive, targeted messages to highlight local businesses and showcase opportunities here in Tigard. Next slide. For this status, I've provided you a copy of our current downtown marketing flyer. This new flyer is to provide useful information we can share with prospective businesses. The team has provided these or shared these with the Chamber, TDA, and real estate brokers to show what makes Tigard a great place to locate. Also, staff resources are constrained as we look to hiring a marketing specialist to continue the marketing and branding campaign, a key priority for year one. The project team has also been working to assess existing project and programs and how they can better be utilized. For example, the team has been working on the marketing of the Business Spotlight program and working with TVCTV in elevating the segments. The first updated version of these segments is expected to be released this September. We are also working to update our business resource guide with more relevant information on our partner resources and updated data. Some of that data has already been updated also on our website for economic development. Next slide. With constraining resources, we look to bolstering our network of partners and finding ways to be efficient in how we support our businesses in addressing the action items for pillar two. Next slide. Some of those things include meeting with our partner organizations to determine opportunities, well actually, if opportunities remain to collaborate and support our business communities. For example, we've been working with MISO in understanding how they can support our micro businesses such as the Opportunity Cafe and have found that, you know, there may not be capacity for some of our partner organizations. And so we are looking to introduce ourselves to other organizations like Lively Northwest, who we're currently working with on trying to restart the Opportunity Cafe. The team is also working to complete our agreements with Tiger Chamber of Commerce and the Tiger Downtown Alliance on establishing clear expectations on the outcomes of our fiscal year 27 funding. The town center advisor committee has also been working to update their strategic plan that aligns with the council goals, which includes the action items in this plan. This is to be presented to the TCDA, which is this council as well, at a joint meeting on September 22nd. Next slide. Pillar three focuses on internal systems, tools, resources, and communication practices across city departments to ensure high quality and reliable support to our business and workers. Next slide. Here are some of the things that we've been able to accomplish. First is we've been working on the TIF district building improvement grant program. We're evaluating the marketing and grant process to improve the number of applicants to the program by removing barriers and improving the visibility of the program. The findings and recommendations will be brought to the grant committee this fall. The team has also completed two new Business Connect events, which invites new businesses that have applied for business licenses to meet with city staff to learn about resources that are available to them. This is also a way we've been able to utilize our Tyler program to capture information and data on new businesses that are here. Transient lodging tax benefits. sorry, the transient lodging tax review committee was created to review grant requests that could be TLT fund eligible. And this was done prior to our fiscal year 27 adoption. The TLT committee was made up of the economic development manager, the community development director, city attorney, finance director, and one councillor. The recommendation was forwarded to the budget committee to confirm. Again, the opportunity in creating this committee is that midstream from the adoption of our budget, we can look at other opportunities to fund other grant applicants through the midyear as well. We are also completing work with our consultant matrix in auditing our development process, which includes surveys and interviews with the community related to customer service. The findings and recommendations will be shared with the Council once the final report is provided. Next slide. The last pillar is development and placemaking. This pillar reflects the importance of development, infrastructure, and placemaking in retaining and recruiting businesses by supporting the establishment of high quality commercial areas around the city. Next slide. Okay, the city team has brought updates to council on key planning projects such as Tigard Home, Downtown Reimagine, and River Terrace 2.0 for policy guidance. As new codes are developed or updated, we look forward to bringing those back to council for your policy input. One other key project is the TIF district update project, looking at not only our existing TIF district, but River Terrace 2.0 as well. This study is being funded through Metro's 2040 grant. For the cinema site, our request for qualifications was published August 5th. We will be providing an update to Council on the submittals along with direction to Council's participation in the selection process with the request closing on September 15th. Last item here is working on the wayfinding program as part of this year's CIP, and phase one is to begin this fiscal year as shown on our future action slide, which is the next slide. So evaluating first year priorities and the work currently in motion, we assessed our resources and developed this list of future actions. The table organizes the list of actions based on the four pillars the team felt could be completed this fiscal year. And this kind of concludes my presentation and what I'm hoping I can capture as comments that the council may have for our team in determining what the work plan should look like for the remainder of the fiscal year. So with that, I'll conclude my, actually, if we can leave that future actions table up, I'll conclude my presentation and look to questions or guidance or direction.

Thank you. So just to be clear, you are asking if we have any prioritization, any thoughts?

Any thoughts or feedback that you'd like to provide? This really was an opportunity for us to showcase the items that we've been working on and things we'd like to move forward. And knowing that there's quite a laundry list in our first year priorities, I want to make sure that we've been mindful of what the council sees as direction to encourage economic development.

Council, any comments, questions? Council President Wolf, please go ahead.

Sambo thank you so much and I know I sent a variety of questions and thank you for incorporating those in the response. Thanks for sharing that as well. And I think my one question under pillar four with and I know that the teams are working really hard on the new regulations and kind of future forward which some of that is long term action. Are you learning anything from businesses who might be kicking the tires in Tigard and looking like today to develop and are there challenges or excited to come in, just curious what you're experiencing today.

Well, what I think we're seeing is that there is an interest and an understanding of how those regulations work. And with downtown, Reimagine is a good example where we've had businesses come in and have indicated their interest in developing in the downtown area, but there are some limitations to our code. And so it's been learning to balance what the concerns are for established businesses who sometimes can find some anxiety and change in codes and to new businesses that have an interest in coming in. And so that's a great example of one in which a recommendation by our... by our chamber executive director was to provide a survey and so the survey which we hope to eventually bring forward to council before we move forward with more work on the downtown reimagined is to give the council a temperature check on what we're hearing from businesses in again a spectrum because again for a lot of businesses some of it is a concern about changes in regulations and for others it's a matter of we need the changes. Yeah.

Councilor Slack and then Councilor Anderson.

Thank you, Mayor, and thank you, Samba, for the presentation. I'm really excited by all the future actions, and I don't have any timeline changes to present there. I will highlight I'm particularly excited to see the TCAC's revised strategic plan. I know that's something that Councilor Shaw and I as the liaisons to TCAC helped provide a bit of feedback and guidance on. I look forward to seeing what they come back with. I GUESS MY GENERAL COMMENT I WANT TO PUT OUT THERE IS KNOWING THAT THIS TWO-YEAR COUNCIL GOAL CYCLE IS ABOUT TO CONCLUDE AND WE'RE ABOUT TO MOVE INTO ANOTHER COUNCIL GOAL CYCLE, I'D REALLY LIKE TO ENCOURAGE THE COUNCIL, CITY STAFF, AND THE COMMUNITY TO REALLY BE THINKING BEYOND THE THREE-YEAR CYCLE OR START THINKING BEYOND IT. I WANT TO START THINKING 30 YEARS AHEAD. WHERE DO WE WANT TIGER TO BE? WHAT'S OUR PLACE IN THE WASHINGTON COUNTY LOCAL ECONOMY? The economic development plan was focused on a three-year cycle to be really tactical and focus on immediate improvements, but I want to make sure we're not losing that long-term vision of where we want to go as a community, because unlike a lot of other municipalities in Washington County, we don't have a lot of developable, I can't say that, INDUSTRIAL LAND THAT WE CAN DEVELOP AND EXPAND INTO SO WE NEED TO BE REALLY THOUGHTFUL ABOUT WHAT OPPORTUNITIES WE HAVE TO GROW OUR LOCAL ECONOMY IN TIGER. I JUST WANT TO PLANT THAT SEED BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. THIS IS A NICE PIECE TO GET OUT TO BUSINESSES. Boy, one thing I think you have to look at, especially with the downtown piece, that's what I'm gonna concentrate on, is parking, right? We need some kind of parking structure, parking garage. On your bullet point here, it says more than 7,000 vehicles travel through Main Street daily. How many are we actually capturing, right? They're driving through. So I just think that would make downtown a little more attractive for people to come in, businesses.

An update to that, Councillor Anderson, is we have heard from, we did complete our parking study which identified where the key areas of, I guess, parking contention might be. The difficult part is its location along our Main Street area. So what we did do in this current fiscal year is lease out some parking spaces within the TriMet parking lot that is located off of Ash Street. And the intent of doing that was, one, to alleviate some of the parking for employees, but also to capture some data on how many people are actually willing to locate in a specific area. in the TriMet area as a way of saying, okay, if we were to do a parking structure, what does that mean? Because one of the concerns that I have is that as we start having spaces where we provide, you do diminish the number of potential developments for businesses in these vacant parcels, or these redevelopable parcels. It's difficult to determine what the threshold is for a parking structure. And I know that there are many businesses in the downtown area that have an interest in a parking structure. But the question I think that this council or future councils will have to determine is what is the benefit of a parking structure to the benefits of actual development? And so, again, another kind of spectrum and balancing act that I hope to be able to provide the council with more insight with data.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for presenting the action item. So for me, maybe a request for future is maybe you can let us know the target date and whether you are in danger or at risk of not completing the task on the target date. So I think that would be more helpful to me with that information as well. So I appreciate you pointing out the cinema side, there's date. So yeah, so that's my only request. But other than that, I think everything looks good to me. So thank you.

Wonderful. And what we can do is look at a midpoint for this fiscal year to talk about what priority year two looks like on the action items.

Yeah, okay. All right, thank you so much. Have a good evening. Oh wait, I'm sorry I concert shot raise her hand so sorry concert shop. Please go ahead. Sorry I didn't see you.

Not a problem here. Thank you. I just wanted to thank community development director Kirkman for this update. I really appreciate it and all the actions that the staff have been taking on pillar 1234 and for mentioning Tyler and just the benefit that that has to this project and I'm sure we could probably weave in some CRM in the future and planting that seed. But again, just really appreciate it. Thank you so much.

Thank you, Councillor Shaw. And my apologies, I did provide a flyer for the rest of council present here. I think it's one you have seen, which is the downtown flyer, which I think I might have presented to you at a different time. At TCAC? That's right, TCAC. Yes.

All right, thank you. All right, next item on our agenda is the League of Oregon City legislative priorities. Assistant to the city manager, Hendrix, will give the staff report and request that council identify five legislative priorities from the voting guide to submit to LOC. So that's our wish for them to be the priority. And the voting guide was included in the meeting packet and then staff, the top five legislative priorities also in the meeting packet. So good evening.

Thanks. Good evening, Mayor and Council. Good to see you. My name is Nicole Hendricks. I'm the Assistant to the City Manager. So as the Mayor stated, I'm here tonight to ask the Council to consider selecting five legislative priorities from the League of Oregon City's voting guide that will help the League, also known as the LOC, determine WHAT PRIORITIES TO FOCUS ON FOR 2027. THE VOTING GUIDE IS ATTACHED IN YOUR MEETING PACKET AND INCLUDES 27 POSSIBLE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES THAT WERE DEVELOPED BY SEVERAL POLICY COMMITTEES OF THE LOC. EACH CITY MAY VOTE ON THE TOP FIVE ISSUES THAT THEY'RE INTERESTED IN AND SUBMIT THOSE TO LOC. LOC IS ASKING FOR SUBMITTAL BY SEPTEMBER 25th. SO THERE'S SOME TIME. The Tigard professional team and our state lobbying firm CFM advocates recommend five legislative priorities for your consideration and included a brief justification for each of those in your meeting packet. Those top priorities include clarity around public meetings law given recent Oregon Government Ethics Commission rules and then legislation to help clarify those rules and so those conversations continue. fully funding and streamlining for full funding and streamlining for housing production. So again, given recent legislation and pacing of that legislation, it's made it difficult for staff to meet statutory requirements and then still continue to be innovative in the housing space. We also listed targeted prevailing wage changes, which are impacting the feasibility of affordable housing and complicating our public-private partnerships. And we also are recommending a 2027 transportation package, so that would help support efforts to fully fund Holland Boulevard jurisdictional transfer, which we've been working on for some time now, and also support public transit agency, public transit services. And then the last one was infrastructure funding specifically with waste and wastewater to address infrastructure needs for housing development and also provide funding for managing STANDS FOR SOMETHING SCIENTIFIC THAT I WON'T BE ABLE TO LIST FOR YOU RIGHT NOW. I'LL HAVE TO GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT. THEY ARE ALSO KNOWN AS FOREVER CHEMICALS AND THEY ARE DIFFICULT TO MANAGE AND SO WE'RE LOOKING FOR FUNDING SUPPORT FOR THAT. SO STAFF PROVIDED SOME ADDITIONAL PRIORITIES ON THE MEETING PACKET THAT WERE ALSO OF INTEREST, JUST DIDN'T MAKE THAT TOP FIVE RECOMMENDATION. And then council can choose to accept any of those or you can choose your own. So really just looking for your guidance on the top five and I'll hand it back over to you, Mayor.

Are those recommendations ranked or just?

Yeah, they're in order.

Yeah, in order importance. Yes. So let me start. Who wants to start? Councilor Anderson, are you okay with the ranking and the selection of the five out of 27? Or are there anything else you would have done differently? Okay.

no i i'm fine with them okay counselor slack i recognize i'll probably be the minor in the minority on this one um just thinking strategically about our five votes versus all the other loc cities that are voting i'm sure that public meetings law clarity will get a lot of attention from our other municipalities so i would personally prefer to use that vote and if they need to be ranked we can just shift everything up one but I would prefer for the fifth one to either be strengthening economic and workforce development or funding and coordination for shelter and homeless response just thinking back to conversations we've had over a long period of time as a council THOSE TWO JUST SEEM MORE ALIGNED WITH OUR COUNCIL GOALS AND IF WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE HEADWAY ON THEM I THINK WOULD HAVE A MORE MEANINGFUL IMPACT ON OUR COMMUNITY BEYOND PUBLIC MEETINGS LAW CLARITY WHICH OF COURSE WOULD JUST SORT OF IMPACT THE EFFICIENCY WITH WHICH COUNCIL CAN DO BUSINESS. SO THAT WOULD BE MY PREFERENCE WOULD BE DROP PUBLIC MEETING LAW CLARITY AND THEN SUBSTITUTE ONE OF THOSE TWO IN.

THANK YOU, NICOLE, AND I WAS JUST PROCESSING COUNSELOR SLACK'S KIND OF STRATEGY AND WHILE I AGREE WITH IT, I ALSO THINK THERE'S VALUE IN VERY CONSISTENT LARGE AND BROAD SUPPORT TO SAY Public meeting laws is currently not working and that City of Tigard agrees So I wouldn't necessarily agree, but I I did give pause Especially around the shelter and homeless response. I do think other associations are going to hit workforce development pretty hard that may not be League of Oregon cities, but I think that will be a priority and So I am fine with the five. It does give me pause, given the number of resources in Tigard around homelessness, because I think that's going to continue to be a huge challenge. And I know there's not room for six. But anyway, that's just my two cents on the side. Thanks.

Councillor Shaw.

Thank you Mayor. Thank you so much. Assistant City Manager Hendricks for the list. I'm in somewhat agreement. Number two, the full funding and streamlining. I wish they had weaved in HB 2003 because I think that is causing a lot of consternation with regards to the full funding and streamlining. And perhaps that's a conversation we could have with LOC. And then with regards to the last of the infrastructure funding, I actually, similar to Councilor Schlagg, In his review, I thought strengthening economic and workforce development would be a stronger priority at this time for the LOC, but it's certainly not a hill I'll die on. So if we want to go with these five, that's fine. But my request would have been to change infrastructure funding to the strengthening economic and workforce development. Thank you.

Thank you. Councillor Gazzuzzi.

Thank you. Although overall I like the targeted prevailing wage changes, the way that they specifically talked about it in their priorities was a little odd. So it seems like it's very focused on NOT DOING IT FOR THOSE THAT ARE AIMED AT AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND DAY CENTERS SO THE INTENT WOULD BE TO NOT GIVE A PREVAILING WAGE FOR THOSE SPECIFIC SUBSETS SO THE VERBAGE IS A LITTLE BIT WEIRD AND SEEMS NARROW SO IF WE WERE TO CHOOSE ONE THING I THINK THAT IS A REALLY NARROW THING AND I WOULD PREFER TO SWITCH THAT WITH ACTUALLY MAINTAINING LOCAL CONTROL OF THE SAFE MODERN RIGHT OF WAY BUT CLEARLY IN THE MINORITY.

OVERALL, I DON'T MIND THE PRIORITIES. I THINK THEY'RE FINE. BUT IF I, TOO, WOULD MAKE A CHANGE THAT'S PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, BUT I THINK INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING COULD, UNLESS WE HAVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT SPECIFIC INFRASTRUCTURE FUNDING IN THE CITY OF TIGER THAT WE NEED, I WOULD advocate for moving that down and putting funding and coordination of shelter and homeless response up top simply because we have been saying for the past year that we want our neighbors to do their part and having the state approve something or pass something that that either gave us more money since we are doing a lot more or somehow prescribed more responses from our neighbors would WOULD HELP US, I THINK. BUT AGAIN, I THINK WE ALL HAVE LIKE ONE LITTLE THING THAT WE'RE WILLING TO, WANTING TO CHANGE AND NO ONE IS NAMING OUT THE SAME THING. SO.

HERE MAYBE A THEME A LITTLE BIT ON THE SHELTER AND HOMELESS RESPONSE. I HEARD THAT FROM A FEW FOLKS. SO THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING THAT WE CAN TALK WITH STAFF ABOUT TRADING OUT THAT FIFTH. I DON'T KNOW, MAYOR, WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE.

SO COUNCILOR ROBINSON AND

I WOULD SUPPORT COUNSELOR ROBIN'S SUGGESTION OF DROPPING THE FIFTH AND BUMPING UP THAT. SO THANK YOU, COUNSELOR ROBIN.

I SEE HAND NOTTING. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE OKAY WITH PUBLIC MEETING LOB, HOUSING PRODUCTION, PREVALENT WAGE CHANGES, ALTHOUGH COUNCILOR GADUSI DOESN'T LIKE IT. 2027 TRANSPORTATION PACKAGE AND THE FIFTH ONE WILL BE FUNDING AND COORDINATION FOR SHELTER AND HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE.

I'M FINE WITH THAT, BUT I GUESS I JUST WANT TO ASK STAFF, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THERE WAS SOME THOUGHT WENT INTO IT, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTAND THAT TRADE-OFF BECAUSE I KNOW WHICH ONE I WOULD HAVE TAKEN OFF DIFFERENTLY, SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY.

I CAN FOLLOW UP WITH THE TEAM, TOO, AND HAVE SOME CONVERSATIONS BEFORE WE MAKE A follow up and make sure we're all on the same page and that staff's in agreement. And we can follow up too with the league and see about verbiage. If things are too specific and we want the broader, it's not too late to have those conversations too.

Yeah, we're okay with the top four. So just see, please check with staff to see if switching out the fifth one with homeless will be, will there be any concerns or policy consideration? okay yeah all right thank you so much thank you okay all right so we don't have non-agenda items so uh next item will uh the tiger city council will go into executive session to discuss the performance the public official and the ors 192.6602i all discussions are confidential and those present may disclose nothing from the session Representatives of the news media are allowed to attend executive sessions as provided by ORS 192.6604, but must not disclose any information discussed. No executive sessions may be held for the purpose of taking any final action or making any final decisions. The Tiger City Council will adjourn at the end of the executive session. Good night, Tiger.