City Council - Regular Meeting

This is my group, and I will call the study session to order. Right now, we will convene the Town Center Development Agency, TCPA, and I will invite the redevelopment manager, Farrelly, to present the first item, which is Town Center Development Agency briefing on the requested for qualifications for cinema sites.

Director Wolf, I'm just interested, Sean, and I know that based on the timeline, you're probably still compiling answers, but the close date to ask city questions was the 27th. So I'm just curious, what are people asking about? What are they interested in? And so.

Okay, so I think it would be prudent to have the three board members who are guaranteed to be here serve on this committee, so I will ask for volunteer later, but I just have one question about, do we, how about any final, any part designs? Are they going to be finalized before the developers get involved?

I'm also interested. Okay. So that's great. So my question, Director Wolf. So I was surprised when you said November. If it closes mid-September, that you think it will be six weeks before the process starts. So that was my only curiosity. I don't know. It's still probably the safer route to go. But I was surprised at the six-week delay.

Early November might be awesome. Yeah. And Sean, I was not, I forgot about the second one, like the short list, and to give that time. So, okay.

All right, so thank you, Sean. Thank you for that update, and we will have Directors Shah and Schlapp serving as the RFQ review committee liaison. Thank you. Thank you. All right, so let's move on to the next hour being convened with the City Council for the remainder of the meeting. Next item on the agenda, I will invite an assistant to the City Manager, Hendrix, to present feasibility of establishing senior advisory board.

Thank you, Councillor Shaw and Nicole. Great research and I support staff's recommendation. The curiosities that I have is even if we don't designate a senior person on every committee, you know, I still think it's fair to kind of have those questions. you know, what is the impact to this particular group? Because they are different than a group of 45-year-olds or a 35-year-old. And I think that's fair to just kind of be cognizant of those needs, whether it's parks or libraries and what services. So I think there's a great opportunity to be creative in how we create opportunities. What I'm cur

So we can follow up and see. Okay. Cause I just thought that might be an opportunity. Yeah. Definitely. Thank you.

Okay. Go ahead, Council President Wolff. So the only thing I would like to add is to make a plug. Councilor Shaw and I met with Stacey Triplett, and AHRQ has the Age-Friendly Program. I know staff attended their conference in Salem last year. So I guess maybe that's part of the strategic plan or back to that idea. But I think there's really great frameworks to leverage and partner with. if it's something that we're serious about and want to make that as part of our vision for the city. So that's my thought. Thank you.

This is Mayor Hu. For me, I'm fine with a one-year trial period. I mean, maybe if that's in the senior position, as discussed, as CCE.

Okay, I'm fine with that. And I also appreciate Council President Wolf's suggestion on senior standard and Councilor Anderson's suggestion on the Summerfield and King City Retirement Village. I don't know if we can get them into the mix somehow because I'm thinking along the line of having a Tiger High School envoy quality update. So maybe we can have one of the senior representatives from one of those three to provide quality update because I've been visiting senior center almost monthly now and they have a lot of stuff going on. So I would like them to come before council and report like the

All right, so let's move on to, I just need to remember, we just had a liaison report, right?

Yeah, just a couple things. WEA did have a board meeting, but I think I want to highlight, and I forwarded to you all, this slide deck from Hillsborough's community development, economic development manager around data centers. I just thought it was a really great presentation to give clarification around the types of data centers, what Hillsborough is doing, how that's impacting the community. So hopefully those of you that were interested had a chance to look at that. And then also after that, they also hosted an education summit, which really focused a big piece also on workforce developmen

I don't want to put you on the spot, but... what's your biggest takeaway from the data center?

Oh my gosh. Well, for me, one of the biggest things for me is to understand what are the types of data centers that are in Hillsborough versus the mega centers, which might be more so in Eastern Oregon or on the A84 corridor. The other thing I think was really interesting is what are those data centers providing and the use in terms of advancing technology and And some of those other components to really understand the industries that the data centers are supporting. And the use of, as technology continues to improve, the use of water and some of those concerns. And really that that's not happ

This is Leo Hu. For me, I attended a metropolitan mayor consortium meeting. We have Representative Gamba and Walters presenting. They were both former mayors. While they didn't paint a good picture of what's going to come in the next legislative session, H.R. 1, the big bill will have significant cuts with funding coming to the state, so it would be detrimental to state budget. And given the transportation package didn't pass in 2025 and the gas tax didn't pass in May, those things will put us in a worse position to discuss another transportation package. And they talk about, Representative Ga

Everyone, welcome to the Tiger City Council meeting. I will call the Tiger City Council and Local Contract Review Board meeting to order. Acting City Recorder Bartholomew, would you please conduct the roll call?

Thank you. Would everyone please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. Council and staff, do you have any non-agenda items? All right, seeing none, let's move on to public comments. The public comment period provides an opportunity for members of the public to address the City Council. While it is not a dialogue, either I or staff will follow up to address the issues brought forward in these comments. The calling number is 503-966-4101, and those wishing to comment She'll call now to get into the queue. Anyone present wanting to comment should sign up on the public comment form at the

All right, so next item on the agenda is Andrea Campbell. Hopefully I read that correctly. All right, so Andrea, welcome. Please make sure the microphone's on and you have two minutes. Thank you.

Yeah. Yeah, go ahead. All right, the next one is Lily Stone. Hi, Lily. Yeah, you have two minutes once you turn on the microphone. Nope. There we go.

Thank you, Lily. And next on the list is Yousef, Yousef Alizi. Hi Yousef.

Thank you, Yusef. Next person will be Lisa Gates. Mochler. Yeah. Hello, Lisa. I know who you are.

Thank you, Lisa. Next person is Ron Layton. Hi, Ron. The mic is on already, so yeah.

So we are already out of time, but since Roger and Mary Potthoff signed up, is there any way you can consolidate your comments into one, two minutes?

All right, Roger. Oh, no, wait a second.

No, I said I can give you two minutes. Okay. I say, that's why I say, yeah.

All right. Can you talk into the mic? and you have two minutes.

Thank you. Thank you. Mary? Hello, Mary.

Humbly ask. This is not a dialogue. We will respond to you. The city or I will respond to you. So thank you and Roger for bringing this to our attention.

All right. So Mr. Vann, are there any callers in the queue for phone or video testimony?

All right. Good evening, Jeff. Please state your name, and you have two minutes. Good evening.

Thank you, Jeff, for your public testimony. All right, let's move on to our City Manager report, and City Manager Rager will give a brief report. Good evening.

Thank you, City Manager Rager. Any questions or comments? Okay, well, to those who presented comments about the River Test 2.0, I'm sure you know that we will discuss that later on, so I encourage you to stay and listen to staff perhaps respond to some of your questions or comments. All right, so let's move on to the next consent agenda. The consent agenda is used for routine items, including approval of meeting minutes, contracts, and 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 moti

Thank you. The motion has been moved and seconded. Is there any further 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, so let's move on to the next item, which is update from Washington County Sheriff's Office. And we have Under Sheriff Koch and Chief Deputy McCrea to provide the update. And there's a slide. Good evening.

Thank you. Counselor, do you have any questions? Yes, Counselor Shah.

Thank you so much and ditto to Councillor Shaw and the work that you do. And I think just as a follow up, going back to the leveraging technology slide, you heard public comment earlier and just the anxiety, the concern about many of our local community members. How do you ensure, as we leverage technology in so many ways, that really helps move the work forward but has the concern of the risk? OF INFORMATION BEING SHARED THAT PUTS COMMUNITY MEMBERS AT RISK. I JUST THOUGHT I'D ASK IF YOU WANTED TO ADDRESS THAT AND WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO DO TO ENSURE THE BEST THAT WE CAN, THE SAFETY OF THOSE THA

Yeah, thank you. Thank you, Council President Wolf, for raising that, because I talk with a lot of immigrant and underrepresented group, and that's, you know, we need to build trust, right? And one thing about AI-assisted report writing, just... I'm no way expert AI, and Councilor Goudous, you probably know more about that. It's just that I heard a lot about AI bias, right? So I don't want to answer right now, but just want to flag that for you, that AI could introduce bias unintentionally. And one last thing, how would the public learn more about the difficulty or the challenges we are facing

Yeah, thank you. Any last questions or comments? Seeing none, thank you so much for your report and everything you do. We appreciate your partnership. Thank you. Have a good evening. Have a good evening. All right, so next item on agenda is a check-in with Commissioner Snyder, and he will be joined by Director of Housing Services Rogers. Good evening, both. Thank you for having us. Oh, the mic is not on. There we go.

JUST BECAUSE WE'RE ON THIS SLIDE, I JUST WANTED A FOLLOW-UP FOR CLARIFICATION. SO I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FUND BALANCE 53 USED FOR CAPITAL AND THEN THE OPERATIONS AROUND THE 94, BUT IS ALL THOSE DOLLARS GENERATED FROM THE ANNUAL INCOME TAXES AS OPPOSED TO THE BONDS, RIGHT? I JUST WANTED TO GET THAT CLARIFICATION BECAUSE I THINK THE CAPITAL BOND DOLLARS ARE ESSENTIALLY GONE SO THAT'S STILL ALL GENERATED ANNUALLY.

Can I ask a question? My understanding is that The City of Tiger, Sherwood, and Tualatin share two, three outreach team members. And I heard that, it just sounds to me like that seems like a lot of work for two people. So how do you reach that two people number for outreach team for our region?

Thank you. Thank you. Counselors, questions?

That's why, because you are answering our question, I didn't hold you to our time limit. Any questions? Counselor Shah.

I'm nodding head because I agree with your question. I was like, yeah, I want those performance metrics.

I do want to thank you both and the thoroughness and thoughtfulness of the slides and the information that you shared, but I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't take my opportunity just to once again advocate for those opportunities to bring resources locally to Tigard. As I look at my sheriff's report, the total population in Washington County is 614,000 and we are roughly 56,000 and as the only access center, as a city that holds major shelters and supports those individuals as they kind of flex during the day, it has taken quite a bit of resources locally to support those individuals. A

We can be very pushy. And I'm glad Metro Councilor Rosenthal is here too. We look forward to be good partners and I'm glad Commissioner Snyder now is taking a more active role in this discussion. And I just say I've been really valuing the partnership we have with the county. We talked to other mayors and we know the frustration, mayors in Multnomah County and Clackamas Counties, are facing and I think Washington County is doing a great job, but we can always do better, right? So thank you again for both of you for your presentations tonight. I really appreciate it. Thank you all, have a great

So any questions before we start on this? Okay. So, Council Anderson, do you want to start?

So essentially ditto down the line. And I think my only comment, Brittany, is first I just want to thank you for just the link to the developers forum, posting all the questions, all the follow-up letters. It was very helpful for me. I appreciated listening or watching the developers forum and just hearing the questions and even some of the confusion for someone that this is not at all in my wheelhouse. JUST AN APPRECIATION OF JUST TRYING TO LISTEN TO THEM AND HEAR FROM OUR EXPERTS IN BUILDING WHAT THEIR CONCERNS WERE. SO I SUPPORT THE DIRECTION AND LOOK FORWARD TO GREATER DETAIL ON HOW THE RA

I support continuing to develop a tier STC approach structure, but at the same time, I do wonder what budget neutral means, right? I just want to see, Of course, more numbers will be coming, but I want to see what assumption you're making and how we're going to make sure that, how we can course correct. If it turned out that the developer are not building enough budget neutral buildings, how are we going to course correct, right? We don't want to, as Councilor Robbins said, if they start building bunch of small homes, then we'll be in deficit. That would be a problem. Also, I think I also conc

Okay. Let's move on to the next apartment policy addendum.

We'll start with Councillor Robbins this time.

COUNCIL PRESIDENT WOLFE. AGREE. SUPPORT. COUNCILOR SCHLACK.

Thank you, Brittany. Any other last comments, questions? No? Thank you so much for the presentation. Have a good evening. All right, so we don't have an agenda item or executive session, so we're still ahead of schedule. Great. So there being no additional item, this meeting is adjourned. Good night, Tiger.