City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the October 12th, 2026, Tualatin City Council meeting. I'll go ahead and call the meeting to order. Our first item on the agenda tonight is a Pledge of Allegiance led by Council President Pratt.

Please place your hand over your heart. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible,

That brings us to announcements. Our first announcement tonight is a proclamation declaring October 23rd through 31st, 2026 as Red Ribbon Week in the city of Tualatin. And we have members of LEAP to do a presentation. Welcome. Cozy knows how to use a microphone. She's got it down.

Well, what I have to say is extremely anticlimactic compared to the eloquence of our incredible youth. But I'll start and say, first off, again, thank you for being here. Thank you for all your efforts. And thank you for making sure that this effort every year is brought in front of our community. And what a treat to have so many of our community members here tonight to hear it, right? You rock. You better go back to the QR code. Anyway. And in full transparency, I have the honor of being the club advisor for these students. And so this is near and dear to my heart. City of Tualatin Proclamati

All right. So the next item on our announcements is a new employee introduction. Sherilyn. Welcome.

Well, I very much appreciate you coming to Walton. To me, it's very impressive. Your experience at Hillsboro and your experience at WCCLS will be invaluable going forward with all the... changes that we're going to see coming here with the levy and the changes to collections and all that good stuff. And to have someone who has come from a bigger library, you know, sees how that's done, can adjust for our size library, and especially, you know, the inside baseball of Washington County, the WCCLS being valuable. So I just want to give you a very warm welcome to Tualatin and look forward to worki

Thank you. All right. That brings us to public comment. Public comment is an opportunity for anyone to address the council regarding an item that is not on tonight's agenda. Please keep your comments to about three minutes. If there's anyone in the room who would like to address the council, I'll do that first. I do have sign-ups, but you don't have to be signed up to vote. provide public comment tonight here in person. I'll do the sign-ups first, then open to the floor, folks here in the room, and then we'll shoot over to Zoom and see who's out there in Zoom land who would like to provide com

Next I have, is it Chloe Eve? Welcome, Chloe. Can you go ahead and turn the microphone? There's a little button for the microphone so people can hear you across the world. There you go. Welcome.

Thank you. All right. Last sign up I have is Josette Mint. Mingus, am I saying it right? Josette? What's that? Hi, I'm Josette. Hi, Josette. Hi.

So that's all the sign-ups I have. Do we have anyone else in the room who would like to address the council on something that's not on the agenda tonight? All right, seeing none. In 13 years, you just talked to Nicole, and she'll get you all registered to run. No, it used to be working. Is everybody in Zoom? This is your chance. Thanks for coming tonight. This is your chance to Zoom. All right, so we'll go ahead and move on to our consent agenda. These are items that are considered routine. They will be adopted by one motion unless someone on the council would like an item removed and heard se

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

I have a motion and second to adopt the consent agenda as read. Any discussions on those motions? Seeing none. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? Abstentions? It's unanimous. Thank you. That brings us to general business. Everybody's here for tonight. All right. So next on the agenda is the appeal of LAM Research AR 26-0002. The Tualatin City Council will now resume consideration of two appeals of a Type 2 architectural review staff decision for AR26-0002, approved on June 17, 2026, with conditions for the construction of an approximate 3,900 square foot addition to the existing Buildin

Well, I've had ex parte contacts with both parties, but not discussing this particular issue, so I feel I could be unbiased in my deliberations.

I haven't had conversations of ex parte, but I have seen social media posts and other things basically from the safety portion of this, and I still believe that I can render an unbiased decision.

I have heard conversation about this, but have not engaged directly and believe that I can render an unbiased opinion.

All right. Okay, with that. In addition, a member may not participate in this matter if they were not present during a September 14th public hearing. Provided, however, the member may participate if they have reviewed the evidence, including recordings of the hearing, and declare such fact for the record. Are there any members of council present that did not participate in a public hearing on this matter? You were here? I thought Cindy wasn't here.

Yes, I was. I just was not at the last council meeting.

Cool. Just crossing our cheese. All right. Okay. We're going to kick off deliberations. And the question I'm going to pose to you are, are the environmental regulations set out at TDC 63 mandatory approval standards that land must show compliance with at the time of architectural review? Or are they performance standards that must be followed once the project is operating? If you recall, we made findings as part of the LAMTUX approval that TDC Chapter 63 standards were performance standards. So with that, let's go ahead and kick off deliberations. So part of the criteria tonight that we're loo

Council President Pratt. Yeah, I reread through a lot of this again today, and... I think the concerns are legitimate, but like you said, we have to follow just TDC 33-0205C for this purpose. We have to follow those guidelines, and the noise is under municipal code. And there's a lot of talk in there, too, about... chemicals and emergencies and I know that's a growing issue in our community but that just doesn't fall under the architectural review it is something that you know can be addressed in other forms but tonight we're looking at architectural review and it doesn't fall under that other

So I just want to give us options for tonight. So tonight there would be a motion to either deny the appeal, approve the appeal, or continue the proceedings again. A denial will affirm the June 17, 2026 staff decision approving AR 26-002 with conditions and council will adopt a resolution or order containing funding supporting its decision. Or you can approve the appeal, which would reverse ARR 26-002, staff's decision, and council will adopt a resolution in order containing a finding supporting its decision for the appeal. In accordance with council rule 4B6, the council may incorporate findi

I mean, I agree with what Council President Pratt said, and it is my understanding that if, and just to be really clear, that if we don't deny the appeal, if we uphold the appeal, then the applicant can then appeal

Okay. And because the criteria has been met, I can't bring forth anything that would allow me to approve the appeal that we've seen thus far. So I will make a motion to deny the appeal.

I could go through the 635 pages. No, there's just one page.

So I move to deny the appeals and affirm the June 17th, 2026 decision approving the A.R.

26, 0 0 0 2 subject to conditions of, of approval contained in that decision and direct staff to bring forward a proposed resolution for council's consideration at its November 9th, 2026 city council meeting, incorporating the following findings in accordance with the council rule four B six. Second. Do I keep on reading all of these bullet points? Yeah, keep on reading. All right. AR260002 Notice of Decision Attachments B Memorandum addressing the appeals of AR260002 September 14th, 2026 and B1 Supplemental Memorandum addressing written comments received during the open record as findings in

I'm done. Second. I have a motion and a second to deny the appeal and affirm the June 17, 2026 decision approving AR 260002. Any discussions on those motions? This is a roll call vote or want to make sure we do it right? Let's do roll call. All right. Councillor Sacco?

I'm going to ask one question about what we're proposing, just real quick. I understand that we are not looking at environmental issues, but I have questions about how we are how we are taking care of what the livability is around the people that are living close by around sound. I mean, my thing is, like, I feel, I think that there... Might be something that we could be looking at around how we're enforcing different rules with the things that we have going on right now. As a city. Sound noise. I'm just curious about how that fits into this.

Aye. Okay. Chair votes aye. It's unanimous. Right. So, Councillor Brooks.

Aye. I am feeling uncomfortable lately with some of the ways that things have been coming forward around how we're enforcing different codes. So I want to make sure that we're doing a really fair, objective job, and I am concerned about consistency with the data and things that we've been getting as far as how These codes are being enforced and how the city is managing that I don't know Who like we have these codes around? noise for instance But I don't know the mechanisms well enough to understand this. We have never had it, like the eight years I've been on, we really haven't had that conver

I'm just curious. If I were to call about a big noise, like I listen to the gun range all day, I don't know how that fits into our code. I know that the gun range was there before we are, so it doesn't impact quality of life from where I stood from moving into this community. But as far as things that have changed from noise, how quickly does a person that's doing this kind of code enforcement come out? What's the community expectation supposed to be around being able to get that kind of result that's accurate if noises come and go?

I'm curious about how that process goes and just other complaints too about code enforcements because I feel that there's just been a few instances lately where I don't understand how long people are anticipated, if there's really an accurate way that we can catch a time span, et cetera. I don't think that the code enforcement officer is doing anything wrong or that the city is doing anything wrong. I'm just saying that I don't know if it's effective. So I'm just curious about how we're doing it, and I'd like to learn more about that. Thanks. Also, I think that we should do a work session on E

I think Councillor Brooks has a point and I do have a question more on the there were some environmental issues or at least claims how does a city find, like, when that happens, do they send someone, or how is that taken care of when someone brings it up to your attention? Like, there's something going on here. Can you go check? I guess for lack of a better word, but I'm just curious on that, too.

So I thought a lot about this topic and safety and wellness is core to who I am and what I do every single day as my day job, if you will, in this community. And I guess what I wonder about the performance standards, I feel comfortable in how I voted this evening. But I do believe that there could be and maybe should be an additional conversation to understand what other threats. From what I understand, I don't think LAM is the only one in our community who holds chemicals. And I think there are many other places. And it would be an interesting exercise to understand from the school district,

I just want to add on to what Councilor Hillier is saying, and it's we do have businesses with chemicals. There's a big concern about that, and we saw diagrams of that. And I lived in Wyoming for a while, and we had a chemical plant near us, and we had sirens in town in case something happened. So I think we just need an understanding of, a real understanding of if there are dangers and what procedures we should be following. if something happens so our community is aware of what precautions are in place.

All right, so I'm hearing at least three folks are interested in a work session schedule of hazardous materials and or sound dealing with environmental issues. Do I have a fourth? Councilor Sacco?

Yeah, I would support that. I'm a little confused on the sound because I thought that we have asked the CIO to work with LAM on the sound. And to my knowledge, that's the direction that we have given to both the, or the, direction's the wrong word, the advice we have given to both the community and LAM.

So you're more focused on the hazards? Correct. Okay. Council Brooks.

Thanks. The thing with the sound isn't really about the sound, even though I know that we have a direction. It's more about code enforcement. I think that there's been a conversation around code enforcement on more than one topic and subjectivity, and I think that's the role of the council is to understand that what we're doing and if we're doing it, I would like to know more about how we're doing that. Yeah, so it's not really about the, it's not about this application. I want to be really clear. I voted yes on the application. And this is not a mini trial of any sort. This is just me being c

but I think I think even just the framework of it around whether it's putting more resources or not or be not proactive for everything but if there's like ongoing to be looking at how are we targeting things that could be of concern like we just don't if there was a smile or if there was something and it would cause there could be a problem like how do we rank priorities and how do we make sure that we're responding to things that are, you know, it's just like first aid or triage or intensive care, you know what I mean? So it's like levels of prioritization. And I'm happy to not have the conve

Okay, so what about the hazardous material discussion?

The hazard, yeah. I think I'd like to know more.

So basically a work session to discuss hazardous materials and probably something with TVF and R and TTSD, not specifically to land, but just in the city in general.

So how it would be impacted, you know, with, say, there's a release and a chemical cloud is coming towards Hazelbrook. Part of this is emergency preparedness and stuff like that.

She needs more clarification, so let's help her out.

So may I recommend, I don't know if you all agree, but I know every year we get reports, an annual report from the fire department, and maybe that could be the moment where they can talk a little bit more about something like that and not have them do an annual report and then come back again. So maybe doing the annual report, would that be...

Or am I am I am not community when you tell me no you know it's okay I think it be nice to have a little more down for myself and focused in I don't know if there's a way to do this and we make it more complicated but I'd really like to hear I'm sure these businesses have some kind of plan too just overall no what's in place, I guess, is what I'm trying to find out here, and what would happen if the worst situation occurred and how we would reach out to our community.

Okay. Want to ponder it a little bit? Yeah.

It could be like a, I guess maybe from TVF and it would be the good start because they would tell us what to do.

One of the times when I first started being concerned about this kind of thing was when I did a tour with the mayor over at the electric and plumbing trade school. And they were talking about how they build these double pipes because they can't touch the air, certain chemicals. I don't think we have that here, but there's some places that that's true. And they also have specific, we have one of the best schools like that in the whole region in multiple states. And so they have a lot of understanding around safety and precautionary work and they do a lot of specialized things. So I think that,

I'd say that, in my opinion, stick with TBFNR to just kick off the conversation and go from there. Because they're going to have the expertise, you know, in all honesty. TVF&R knows what's in the community. They already know because they have to be prepared for it. That's why the hazmat team's here. So they have an inventory. I know it's been done in preparation for an earthquake preparedness that they know, in addition to the police, what sites they have to go to first to shut things down. So my suggestion is, like you were saying, is TVF&R informational session in the future that discusses t

Yeah, because they need to know what they're walking into so they know, you know, they don't get hurt.

Right. We'll have to work with them. All right. All right. Any other further discussion on this? All right. With that, I'll move on the agenda. Items removed for consent. We had none. Council Communications. Any Council Communications?

I apologize for missing work session. I had a family emergency. But did we announce the Tualatin Housing Forum already? Yes. Okay. That's it. Thank you.

You can state it again. That was a work session, this isn't a regular session, go for it.

All right, we have a Tualatin Housing Forum taking place here in this room on Wednesday at 6 PM. Thank you for the head nods, I appreciate it. It's a requirement of the state that we have a housing forum. If we don't meet a certain criteria, and I don't know off the top of my head, I apologize. But it's a real chance to see, one, what the state, the region are doing for housing, and also the gaps. And folks come in the past and they've shared stories. It's very impactful. And if you have any short stories to share, I think that that's a great forum. to talk about housing and how it impacts peo

I was just going to remind people, you don't need reminders, but go to the Pumpkin Regatta and... Tell your neighbors and friends to come and I hope that everybody has a nice time enjoying 12 turns during spooky season And that's as spooky as we got Thanks everybody for taking time to come out tonight and be part of your democratic process.

We appreciate it Any other announcements, I'm sorry Thanks I move to adjourn second I have a motion and a second to adjourn the meeting for this evening. Any discussion on the motions? All in favor say aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. Thank you. Good night.