City Council - Regular Meeting

And welcome to the October 26, 2026, Tualatin City Council meeting. I'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. First thing on our agenda tonight is the Pledge of Allegiance, and we have a group of veterans here tonight, and so I'm going to have the veterans led by Dale Potts lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance. Thank you, Dale. All right. That brings us to announcements. We have one announcement tonight, and that is our proclamation declaring November 2026 as Native American Heritage Month in the city of Tualatin. I believe we have members of the IDEA committee that are going to come on up

Hi. My name is Lexington Washington, one of the newest members, too.

All right. So I know what we're going to be doing. Councillor Sacco will read the proclamation. Then once the proclamation is done, we'll come over and do pictures. All right. Councillor Sacco.

Thank you. And I just want to recognize that Tay Washington has provided feedback for the proclamation. So as soon as we, the CCAA, have nominated Tay, she jumped right in, providing valuable feedback for the IDEA committee. So thank you both for being there tonight. My apologies for not being there in person, but I just wanted to recognize your work that you're doing already. Thank you for that. Okay, on to the proclamation. And I just had it up and I skipped over on my computer. So hold on one second. Whereas Native American Heritage Month provides an opportunity to learn a more complete his

All right well thank you for coming tonight

All right, that brings us to public comment. Public comment is an opportunity for someone to address the City Council on an item that is not on tonight's agenda. I ask you to leave, to keep your comments to about three minutes. There's a sign-up sheet, but you don't have to have the sign-up sheet. I'll go ahead and do folks who are in the room first, and then we'll move on to Zoom. I understand we have a group of vets, so come on up for the first comment. Welcome, gentlemen.

Come on, Lynn, sit down. We need one more seat for Lynn.

I got questions. I always make them promoted heavier.

I'm not going to do that. I'm just going to thank you all for coming. I already signed up, so just did my little walkthrough there, but I'm really happy that it's happening again this year and that you guys are all going to be there.

I unfortunately won't be there because I have to work, but I want to say thank you for your service and for all that you do, and just wish I was there, but I couldn't, but I want to just thank you.

We appreciate it. Again, it's November 10th from 9 to 1030 at the Poll Center. Great. Easiest way to get registered is to call the Poll Center and talk to Sarad or Marilyn, and they'll get you registered. Again, it's free for vets. Guest of vets is $12, and we usually have, what do you think, usually 100, 125 people come. Yeah, easily. It's pretty full usually. Yeah. I just, it's a great event, it's a great breakfast, so I encourage people to come.

And Dale and Sarah have lined up three speakers. We have, yes. That we'll be listening to about their stories of their experiences.

All right. Do we have any? I have no one signed up right now. Do we have any other folks who would like to address the council on something that's not on tonight's agenda in the room? I don't see any. Do we have anybody in Zoom, Nicole? All right. So that will bring us to the consent agenda. Whoa. Everyone just had to raise their hand. All right. Welcome.

All right. Well, thank you for your comments. They've been noted. Appreciate it.

All right. Do we have any other folks in Zoom? All right. Last chance in the room. All right. We'll go ahead and move on then. We'll move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda are items that are considered routine. They'll be adopted by one motion unless someone in the council would like an item removed and heard separately later tonight. Nice consent agenda consists of three items item number one consideration of approval of the work session a regular meeting minutes of October twelfth twenty twenty six and number two consideration of resolution number six zero zero three dash twenty s

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

I have a motion and a second to adopt the consent agenda as read. Any discussion on those motions? All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? extensions It's unanimous. Thank you All right, that brings us to special reports.

Thank you for coming, and I'm glad that you're working on the supportive housing services with Montreal. That's really good news. We just had a meeting earlier tonight with Megan about our coordinated services person here for housing insecurity and homelessness, and we were talking about, I was talking about the fears that I have around housing The need of enough services for people that are going to be dealing with their requirements for their disability payments, they're going to change quite radically.

Decreased federal funding, increased reporting requirements, and paperwork they're not used to doing. And I just know from working with the population that if one thing goes, then the next thing goes. And the estimate that we heard at the... local Advisory Committee for Health and Human Services was that right off the bat if they keep the Budget as it is at the state that 4,000 people lose their housing They're very concerned about they're gonna be spending a lot of money on state funding just to get the the paperwork filled out so I just am hoping that we can look a little bit at putting some

I just think that for this upstream, we can go the most prevention that we can do, and it's a low-cost solution compared to trying to, and I've tried to get people housing in this state, and it's very difficult. Thank you.

Thank you. I just, I don't know if you, you briefly went through it, but what are the, what's the status on the resignation of the commissioner? that just resigned and what is the process for full transparency for our community of replacing that role and what does that look like so people can understand what that means?

Okay. Just wanted the community to know. Thank you.

Other questions? Council President Pratt.

Thank you. I'm really interested in this Creative Revenue Solutions Committee. Could you give some examples of would that be like public-private partnerships or...

Okay. And then moving on, oh, you talked about budget priorities. So is the county potentially looking at, what was it, $20.5 million deficit last year? Are we in that same ballpark this coming year?

Okay, and so now I'm going to ask you about today's news about that. Was it Cameron Jewett property? And people are asking why the county spent close to $6 million on that property when we're in this budget deficit. But was there a good purpose for that land and that purchase near North Plains?

It was just really unclear in the news blurb, so I wouldn't.

Okay. And then I guess, well, you mentioned the library and the WCCLS, and I think we still have some concerns here. I thought the MOU was kind of vague myself. And then we brought up the concern, too, that the executive committee is city managers, and we're wondering why it wouldn't be electeds that would be more willing to speak up and contact... like you and the other commissioners. So that's just a question we have because we feel like, or I feel, that that might bring more issues to the forefront earlier in the process.

And last, I know we're in this very tight budget constraint, but this whole east side of Washington County, as I know you're well aware, being the former mayor of Tigard, we really could use a satellite office for mental health services at some point. And thank you very much for being here and for serving on all these committees. Oh, and I have to back up what Megan Cohen said and what Councillor Brooks said about the assist program because she highly recommended it for helping our homeless services.

Okay. Other questions? Councillor Sacco.

I don't have any specific questions, but Council President Pratt was speaking on behalf of herself, but I just wanted to echo the concerns around the WCCLS and the services here in Tualatin and this part of the county. So I share those concerns as well with my fellow Councilor. Thank you, Councilor Pratt, for bringing those.

And hopefully moving the rest of the Commission forward to there's been discussions And I true I also want to Make it on record and put it on record that I to believe that we should have representation from elected officials Because of the Peer-to-peer or just the the fact that we are also elected officials and we should have that be part of that as well. So based on what Councillor Pratt said earlier, I support that as well, and I would like to hear what, at one point, if there's any feedback or what does the rest of the commissioners say about that.

My biggest concern is I I never would want our city manager to feel pressured by the county or any of the county Employees to do certain things that they wouldn't do on their own and I think that just like other cities that has this form of government that we have Oversight with our city city manager and that we don't want her to be in a position or him to be in a position of being so if there was technical to technical, but any kind of Reporting out our pressure from other County Elected that makes sense And then I had a total left-hand turn Stepping back to councilor a asked question about f

Other questions or comments? I just have two. Going back to the executive committee for WCCLS, the discussions I've had with other mayors, wasn't all the mayors on this committee was just a subset, like two or three, in addition to the city managers? Okay. just so the perspective of electeds is there. I assume like you're saying, Commissioner Snyder, about the coordinating committee or something like that. Yep. You have that blend of expertise. Okay. My second thing, still on the library subject, as you know, we are all over this. It's just the uncomfortableness still about centralized collect

It talks about fair and all kinds of general words, consensus and stuff like that, but it's not specific. Just something to ponder until after the election.

It's interesting because I was just having a conversation and I was talking to my husband. I'm going to send you an article that was in the New Yorker this month that was about the studies and the trends around centralization and how small bookstores are coming back and how a lot of the trends that people have been considering around this topic have shifted quite a bit in the last small amount of time. So I think it's good data to look at and understand when we're making these kind of decisions because some of the presumed notions that we have are not holding as people thought they would.

Anything else? Again, appreciate you coming tonight and making time for us. All right, thank you. All right, special report number two is our Outside Agency Grant Awardee Family Peace Center Annual Report. Welcome Judy Willey and Rachel Schultz.

Second favorite counselor's wife. Yeah. Welcome, Judy and Rachel.

Questions for Rachel or Judy? Council Brooks and Councilor Gonzales.

Thank you for the work and I was there on the grand opening and it was not as empty in the front yard that day. That was quite a day. And the best part of it was going through and talking to each provider system that was there. I guess my first question, one thing that What struck me when you were speaking was when people first come in, that they can sometimes see, I forget how many different services. So do they do, is there a, Is there a coordinator that goes with them, or do they do all different intakes for all of these? Oh, that's a great question.

Oh, that's great. I mean, my next thing is, of course, like, how do we duplicate this for housing insecurity and all kinds of things like that?

I know. Okay. I'm in. I always found that when we did community assessments for services in Detroit and everything was on the same street, it wasn't necessarily all integrated at that time, but everybody knew each other, so it was just a way to work together and nobody... It's to me so great to not have wraparound services mean that you're wrapping yourself around 500 different calls. And I don't know how some people can jump through this many hoops that have to do this while they're traumatized. So to have everything like this and not have to go through a bunch of different intakes is pretty

And I know sometimes, too, they align with the county mental health services that do transport, and then I think we also have a, we have mental health that we share, so I don't know if they're doing any transport or not, but I know that the county will sometimes. All right, well, those were, I think those were my biggest questions, and I also go into wondering about how, how do we identify who a survivor is? And that's a bigger conversation, but I think that it's something that we should keep thinking about, because I think there's a lot of, in violent situations, there can be a lot of cross v

Yeah. All right. Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Is there any restorative justice in this system?

Councillor Gonzalez. So thank you very much for being out there. Thank you for being here. This is an amazing program. For the people out there who may be listening, what is it that you need and how can somebody get involved? I'm on your website now, but just for other people to see, how can they donate as well?

Thank you very much. I am just amazed of all the things you've done and have been able to accomplish since, what, 2017? That's, like, less than 10 years. That's amazing. I do want a clarifying... I have a clarifying question based on your slide, page 7. There's services and it's on the line of what counselor Brooks were saying services versus survivors. So explain which is services and which is what, what's the difference? Cause one is 60, I think you said 73 survivors and 166 services. What it.

What a fantastic model, and I so agree that people in other forms of distress could really use this because it's so difficult to navigate some of our systems. Also, I've always wondered how we get people out there, so that was very enlightening and made me a little more hopeful here. I was wondering, you had on one of your things the survivor outcome score of 99%, and what does that mean exactly?

Okay, that's wonderful. Thank you. Thank you.

Other questions or comments? Well, I want to thank you, Judy, for all the efforts you've done over the years. You've been a tireless champion for this organization. Fundraising, you know, doing the political whippersnapper stuff to get you in a line and getting all of these on board with this has been a significant effort for you, and I very much appreciate it. I also understand, Rachel, you are transitioning too. Not just Judy, but you are too. So I want to thank you for your efforts. So it looks like there's going to be a lot of change coming at the Peace Center, but you both said that good

Thank you for all you're doing. You're making a huge impact on Washington County. It is a model that should be replicated.

All right, so that brings us to general business. Our first item under general business is the downtown revitalization project update. Gwen, welcome. Is Sid just going to sit in a peanut gallery and throw tomatoes at you? And Ken, welcome. Welcome, Mike.

Wait, wait, sir. Where are you and Joshua? Oh, yeah. Change that picture out. Previous year, yeah. Swap that one out. Welcome, Ken.

Questions for Ken, Mike, and or Quinn? Council Brooks.

Thank you very much for the presentation. I love systems. I have two questions that just sort of pop out at me. Well, three. I'm curious when you look at that first piece, what people answered that question, those questions about which ones that were really leaned into. I'd like to know what kind of numbers were for each one of those, whatever you called them, was it columns?

And then the other question I had was, A lot of what it seems like to me is how one would go in and out of it. So it feels like a closed off system with a lot of, like you said, blank sides, but also like a maze that you're kind of guessing at, or is there even anything back there, right? So I'm just curious about like different entryways and also the integration. I know a lot of times when there's rivers and communities, I just think it's cool that we're like the only downtown right on the 1210 River and the whole River Basin But you wouldn't have a river walk necessarily on our River which i

And that's my last one, is just with the environmental nature and the artistic nature, especially if we're going to do things that help with existing buildings for a start, my concern always is I wouldn't want it to feel like something that we put all this energy into that feels like it was yesterday, which sort of it feels like right now with all the parking lots and all that. So how do we do something that's revitalizing existing buildings and increase function but also form where things are more environmentally sustainable as well as appealing and modern in the future, not modern today?

Other questions or comments? Councilor Reyes.

Thank you. Thank you. Great presentation. I'm just kind of on the lungs with Councilor Brooks of visibility of how do we let people know that there's something going on there, because it's all surrounded by all these buildings, and there's no way, like, even now, like I said, oh, Lake Atacama, they're like, what, there's a lake? So, yeah, I'm just curious to see, I'm excited to see what that's going to look like. It's been something I've been thinking about for many, many years, and I'm excited about it. I just... which there's businesses there and I want them to have foot traffic and people t

Amenities to food and different things like that. Thank you.

You bet. Other questions or comments? Zoom land? Nope. Well, thank you all for coming tonight. Thank you so much.

Can I ask what magnetic means? Since you say you weren't able to describe it, what does that mean?

Well thank you gentlemen. Thank you so much. Good to see you. All right, that brings us to item number two of the general business, consideration of recommendations from the council committee on advisory appointments.

All right, again we met. Thank you to all the individuals. We had a pretty good group. We met on October 6th and it was again a big group of individuals that are so well qualified on any of these committees, and they were just wonderful. And I just love that committee because I get to meet people. And then when they come here in person, it's like, oh, Man, I got to see you on virtual, in a virtual way, now I see you in person. So it's always cool to see our community wanting to get involved. So anyway, it was a privilege and honor to do that. And now I'm going to have counselor Pratt. Talk a l

We had five nominees, and first is Ralph Gallantine for the Core Area Parking District Board. Then we had Ashley Payne and Emmy Lowanson for the Library Advisory Committee.

And then we had Tay Washington and Lexi Washington, both for the IDEA Committee, who you all got to see in person today. So I would like to make a recommendation that we appoint these individuals to said boards previously listed. Second.

I have a motion and a second to appoint the nominees as discussed. Any discussions on the motions? All in favor say aye. Opposed? Abstentions? It's unanimous. All right. Thank you. All right, that brings us to items removed from consent. We had none. Next item is council communications. Council President Pratt.

Just a reminder that tomorrow night at Hazelbrook, there will be a micromobility listening session. That's on the e-bikes and e-scooters. And there will be Spanish translation. It's at 6 o'clock at Hazelbrook Middle School.

Other communications? I have one. So I'm going to do a mayoral proclamation. I don't do a lot of these, but I'm joining other Oregon mayors in remembering the 100-year anniversary of the removal of the Black Exclusion Clause from the Oregon Constitution. So I'll go ahead and read this. The City of Tualatin mayoral proclamation, whereas Oregon entered the Union in 1859 as the only state admitted with a Black Exclusion Clause embedded in its Constitution. Constitutional Clause was approved by Oregon voters in 1857 and reflected a broader history of exclusionary laws enacted by Oregon's provincia

Thanks. I just wanted to invite everybody and remind anybody that the third annual Titanium Trades and Manufacturing Forum is going to be this Thursday. I think it starts either 1230 or 1. I have it earlier because I'm helping to set up. But just look at the Chamber website. Also that night, the league of minority voters is having a state of the civil rights and candidate forum which is not it's not what would you call it partisan it's just a conversation about inclusion thank you anything else I'm gonna say counselor hillier from Zoom I'm yep I am moved to adjourn second

I have a motion and a second to adjourn. Any discussion on the motions? All those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed? It's unanimous. Thank you. Good night.

Thanks for hanging in there, you guys. I hope you feel better. Yeah.