City Council - Regular Meeting

All right. Good evening, everyone. I will call this Tiger City Council meeting to order. Acting City Recorder Bartholomew, would you please conduct the roll call?

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

No, it's not on. There we go. I'm mute. You have two minutes.

If you can wrap it up, please. Okay. Two minutes up.

Thank you, Chris. All right. So next item is Roger Potoff. Hi, Roger.

Thank you, Roger and Chris, for your public comments. So let's move on to phone in or video public comments. Mr. Warder, are there any callers in the queue for phones or video testimony?

All right, so please patch in the caller. Hello. Hello. Welcome to Tiger City Council meeting. You have two minutes to provide your public comment. Thank you.

Thank you, Jim. All right, let's move on to city manager report. City manager Rager will provide a brief report. Good evening.

Thank you, City Manager Rager. Council Member, do you have any questions or comments? No, okay, let's move on to next agenda item, which is 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. This item 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. Tonight we have a resolution to approve the Comcast Cabl

Thank you. The motion be moved by Councillor Schlagg and second by Councillor Guddusi. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, those in favor please say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. The council agenda is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council member present. All right, thank you. Let's move on to our next item on our agenda, which is quasi-judicial public hearing. Consider approval of Summer Creek Bridge Stabilization Comprehensive Plan Map Amendment and Sensitive Land Review. I will open the public hearing. The calling number is 503-966-4101, and those wishing to comment for thi

All right. Thank you, City Attorney Rahala. Are there any declaration or challenges? ONE OF MY MEETING WITH THE MAYOR EVENT, MR. ROGER AND I BRIEFLY DISCUSSED THIS, BUT WE DIDN'T GET INTO ANY DETAIL THAT I REMEMBER. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT DECLARATION. SO ASSOCIATE PLANNER WILL PROVIDE THE STAFF REPORT. GOOD EVENING.

Thank you, Associate Planner, for the staff presentation. Next, I will invite applicant to testify, and our project manager, Bowling, will present the applicant testifying. Yeah, go ahead.

Thank you, Project Manager Bolling, for providing the applicant testimony. Let's move on to public testimony. There were no written comment received for this item by noon Monday. So when I call your name, if you sign up, when I call your name, please come forward to the table. Please state your name and spell your last name and give us your full mailing address, including zip code. If you can, please do not repeat comments made by other people. So, do we have anybody, so we have nobody sign up. Okay, Mr. Walter, are there any caller in the queue to testify on this item?

All right, so good evening caller. So before you begin, please give you your name, spelling your last name, and give your full mailing address, including zip code. After that, you have two minutes. Thank you.

Yes, I can. Mr. Walter, can you stop the clock and start over again? Please, we can hear you. If you can hear us, please start.

Some council members say yes. Not by noon, by Monday noon, but please go ahead. I'll give you more time.

Thank you. All right. Do we have any Yeah, I will give you an opportunity to respond. Go ahead, yeah.

Yeah, so please do, yeah. So please respond to testimony by staff. So please go ahead.

And I believe he asked about why the work has already started before the hearing.

ANYTHING ELSE YOU CAN REMEMBER? OKAY. SO COUNCIL MEMBER, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCIL SHOCK, PLEASE GO AHEAD.

All right, seeing no further question, I will close the public hearing, and now we're going to council deliberation. Any comments or concern or motion?

Just comment. Thank you, Matt, for following up and responding to the questions that were submitted as well as in the testimony. But with that, I move to approve ordinance number 26-14. I'll second.

Thank you, Council President Wolf, move the motion. Make the motion and then Councilor Shah second it. Any further discussion? Will the Acting City Manager Recorder read the number and title of the ordinance?

THANK YOU. WELL, ACTING CITY RECORDER, PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL VOTE.

Yes. Ordinance number 26-24 is adopted by unanimous vote of the council present.

All right, let's move on to public hearing. Next item is public hearing. Consider ordinance for street name change. And this hearing is being postponed. The public hearing will be noticed again for the council meeting on October 6, 2026. Does anybody have any question about the postponement? No? Okay. So let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is photo enforcement program update. And I will invite Lieutenant Carson and Sergeant Dulty to provide the staff report.

Thank you, Lieutenant. Council Member, any questions? Councillor Shaw.

Thank you both for the presentation. And just to confirm, I appreciate the recommendation for the three half-time non-sworn. Any downside, anything that would be missed by replacing sworn officers with non-sworn individuals or FTE? Just kind of confirming. I know that that's allowed. In my mind, it makes sense. But I feel like just to ask that question,

When you talk about consider program expansion, are you ready to give us a preview of what you're thinking about, or you would rather wait until come back later? I'm definitely not ready.

Okay. And one final question. I think earlier on with this new vendor, we received concerns or comments about test bright lights. Yes. A little bit test flash that are a little bit too bright. Do you think you have addressed those concerns?

Okay, great. Any other questions? Hearing none, thank you very much for the update. Have a good evening. All right, so let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is also photo enforcement program, but this is financial updates. And now we invite our finance director, Ken, to provide the staff report. Good evening.

Thank you, Finance Director King, for your presentation. Any, Council President Wolf? GO AHEAD.

I APPRECIATE IT'S ALMOST AS IF YOU READ MY MIND ABOUT CAUTIONING THE LAST SIX MONTH WE WILL WIPE THE DEFICIT OUT AT THE END OF THIS YEAR AND WE WILL BE GOOD TO GO. IN A PERFECT WORLD THAT HAPPENS. I APPRECIATE ALL THE SLIDES BUT WHAT KEPT GOING THROUGH MY MIND IS forecasted scenario. And if I remember correctly, part of our challenges over the last couple years was the performance of the cameras themselves operationally. So have we been able to kind of protect ourselves maybe from incurring high operational costs where our revenue pretty much becomes almost nonexistent because the cameras aren

Thank you. I think the previous presentation sort of hinted that we always want safety to be a priority, but I understand all this discussion about deficit and make-up deficit could definitely, we might have lost track of many goals. I appreciate your bringing that up. So yeah, but definitely happy to bring that up in a future agenda item, so thank you. Any other questions or comments? All right, thank you for your presentation, and I guess you will stay on for the next one. All right, so let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is public hearing on proposed fee resolution on credit

THANKS, FINANCE DIRECTOR Uh, Councilor Guzzusi, you haven't spoken much today, so I'll give you the first chance.

Were you also seeking direction on us about how We could use the saving utilize, or is that for another conversation?

OK. All right. So let's settle the first question first. Go ahead, Councillor Schlag.

I will hope you would consider something like give... at least for the first couple months, people who ask question, you will refund the fee, no question asked, right? So, you know, so that will just ease the transition pain, so. Any other question?

So, Councilor Schlage, which approach, ABC, would you? would you go for?

Councillor Anderson, any question, comments?

Thank you, Mayor. Eric, so I support the hybrid and my only question is I'm assuming the 300,000 is an assumption that a bunch of the credit card users will convert to ACH so that bucket of people will dramatically increase.

THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO CONFIRM THE 300 FACTOR THAT IN WHICH MAKES SENSE AND I SUPPORT HYBRID BECAUSE I AGREE PEOPLE WOULD BE FRUSTRATED IF THEY HAD TO PAY FOR AN ACH.

Yeah, I also support the hybrid approach, but I have a question about, you know, in your staff report in slide number seven, you said under this approach, the car user will have to pay $4.83, but if we kept the status quo, the city will only have to pay $4.03. So it seems like, so where would that 80 cents, it seems like the city is getting extra 80 cents under the hybrid approach, or am I reading that wrong?

Okay. All right, so thank you for answering that question, for clarifying it. So yeah, so I have no further questions. So it's unanimous, we prefer alternative C hybrid approach. Oh, okay, yeah. Thank you. No written comment received for this item by noon Monday. Mr. Walter, are there any callers in the queue to testify on this item? There's no callers in the queue. OK. We have Dennis Worsnack. Dennis, hi, good evening. So just make sure the microphone is turned green. Yeah, push the button.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR COMMENT. YOU'RE WELCOME. ERIC, DO YOU WANT TO PROVIDE A RESPONSE?

All right, any further question? Councilor Hsu?

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? All right, seeing none, I will close the public hearing. Yeah, thank you, Councilor Shah, for asking that question. That's the reason I asked why, you know, car user will pay 483, but the city only pay 403. It's not because the city's pocketing the extra 80 cents. We're just paying the fee that we are required to charge, right? So any comments or motion? It's time for council deliberation.

It's been moved by Councillor Shaw and seconded by Councillor Patterson-Wolf. Any further discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor say aye. Aye. All those opposed say nay. Resolution number 26-30 is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council member present. All right, thank you. All right, so let's move on to the next item on our agenda, which is discussion on public works service levels. work level of service. And Acting Public Work Director Wisniewski and Asset Manager Ricko will provide the staff report. And I just want to quickly say that Councilor Schlagg and I request discussion along

Thank you, Asset Manager Rico. That's a very... very comprehensive view of the entire public works. So, Council Member, any comments or questions? Council President Wolf?

So comment and then I guess a request as we look to budget. So first, Samantha, I just have to say how much I appreciated your sense of pride as a team and the work you do and the passion that you demonstrate. And it just shows and just the respect you have for your colleagues. And I just wanted to call that out. AND JUST REALLY APPRECIATE THE WORK YOU ALL ARE DOING. SO THANK YOU. MY REQUEST AND WHAT I KEPT THINKING ABOUT AS YOU PRESENTED, AS I LOOK FORWARD TO WHEN WE GO INTO BUDGET SEASON, KIND OF THIS IDEA OF TAKING THIS PROCESS AND THIS SYSTEM AND THEN HOW DOES THAT REFLECT ITSELF IN DOLLAR

Ditto to Council President Wolf's comment. I really appreciate every time I have meeting with you, talking with constituents, I can see the pride you have in everything you do, so thank you so much. I also want to also have the similar request of as we go into the budget season, I would just appreciate some more clear options, like how you present to council on what are the service level, what are the options, what are the trade-offs, if we increase or decrease certain service level, what are the long-term consequences to the budget? So just bring us along a little bit more, I think. I would j

Okay, thank you so much again. Really appreciate it, have a good evening. All right, so we have no non-agenda item, but we do have an executive session. So the Tiger City Council will go into executive session to discuss the performance of a public official under ORS 192.6602 . 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 session may be held for the purpose of taking any final action or