City Council - Regular Meeting

It's 6.30, so before I start the meeting, I just want to remind everyone in the Tiger community that fire conditions are extremely dangerous right now. According to the latest reports, wildfire have already burned more than 1 million acres across Oregon this year. So please be especially careful and avoid any activities that could accidentally start a fire. We do not want to add to the burden already facing our firefighters and emergency responders across our state. And I also want to take the time to thank the firefighters, first responders, emergency personnel, and everyone working to protec

Thank you, would you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? Councilmember and city teammates, do you have any non-agenda items? 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 should call now to get into the queue. Anyone present wanting to comment should sign up on the public comment form at the

You're welcome. All right, so next person I want to invite forward is Felix Martimer. I'm sorry. What's your name? Felix. Felix. Yes. Good evening. So please state your name and where you live, and then you have two minutes. Thank you.

You're two minutes up. Can you wrap up really fast? Yes, yes, sir.

Thank you. And I don't see your contact information. Would you like us to respond to your comment? Yes, yeah, yeah. So can you provide your contact information with our deputy city recorder? So thank you. All right, so let's move on to phone or video public comment. Mr. Vann, are there any callers in queue for phone or video testimony?

Thank you. All right, let's move on to city manager report. Our city manager, Rager, will give a brief report. Hello, city manager.

Thank you. Question or comments? Yeah, I worked with Mike when I was on CERT. He's a great guy, so thank you for the invitation. All right, so let's move on to next item on the agenda, which is Tiger Police Department report, and Police Chief Rogers will give a brief report. Good evening. Oh, is your mic on? Is it on? No, it's on.

Thank you, Chief. So I also read recently we have a partner effort together working on a human traffic issue involving one business in Tiger. And I got a question from a community member just asking us what is Tiger Police or our regional partner doing to address human trafficking in general?

Thank you. Thank you for everything you do. Thank you. All right, so let's move on to the next item on the agenda, 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 nonprofit low-income housing tax exemption application

Do I have a second? Second. All right. I think anybody disagree with that? All right, so we will remove that. But let's move on. So let's first vote on the other item, which is A, C, and D. So do I have a motion?

All right. Moved by Councillor Schlagg and seconded by Councillor Robbins. Any further discussion on the three items on the consent agenda? Seeing none, all those in favour say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. So the consent agenda item A, C, and D have been adopted by unanimous vote of the council present. All right, so let's move on to item B, which is considering resolution to approve IGA with Washington County for CDBG joint entitlement and whole consortium participation. And housing planner Miller is here available to respond to any questions, so... Housing planner, Leila, would you please come

When do we have to enter this IGA by? Is it deadline?

Well, I remember the previous presentation, I was not made aware personally of the drawback of our nonprofit will lose their ability to apply grant directly from the county. So that was a surprise to me. So in the future, when you present policy recommendation, I will appreciate you presenting both the pro and con, so I do not have any blind spot. coming from community members like this. And right now I feel like we are in a bind because the deadline is July 31st. And last time when I asked you what plan do we have to use this lump sum and you did not give me a definitive answer. So is that st

Are you comfortable with the new IGA, or would you lean for Councillor Robbins' proposal going back to the old ways?

Okay, so we will stay tuned and thank you for the discussion. Let's move on to the next agenda item. So we will have a briefing on updated intergovernmental agreement with Clean Water Services and City Manager Rager will provide the staff report.

Yeah, I really appreciate you sending CWS staff to the Metro meeting. They were with me there for six hours waiting to testify, so. we will make sure this trail will be built, so thank you so much. We feel the same way, so thank you. Thank you. All right, so let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is facility next steps. Again, City Manager Rager will provide the staff report.

All right. Thank you, City Manager Rieger. Thank you for the presentation. And the staff report represents a lot of work, and I really appreciate the effort that went into developing these options. And first, I appreciate you mentioning public engagement, because when I read this, I don't see any public engagement efforts, so I just want to be candid. that I remain skeptical about moving forward with this project at this point. So I just remember back in February, according to our polling, 56% of residents expressed support for the bond after hearing more information about the project. But whe