City Council - Regular Meeting

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Welcome to the August 4th, 2026 City Council meeting. Thank you for joining us. For translation services, please use the QR code on the poster on the left hand side of the room. We're on the front page of the agenda. Just as a heads up, there have been several disruptions during city council meetings lately, and I want to begin by setting an expectation for everyone. Please do not disrupt. That precludes the council from being able to conduct its business and to hear from the community. Those who cause disruptions will be asked to watch the meeting from the conference room across the hall or a

Councilor Salgado, you're on mute. Councilor Salgado, can you confirm that you've joined us? Okay, moving on. We have Councillor Allcare attending virtually, and Councillor Segato seems to be online, but he hasn't responded yet. Councillor Segato, just let us know when you join us that you're with us. Okay, moving on. Let's see, we have no presentations or items for consideration this evening, so we'll move straight to public comment. Persons wishing to speak will be recognized at this time. If you are here in person and wish to speak, please fill out a yellow card. You can get the yellow card

Okay. Councillor Salgado, if you could please mute yourself. Thank you.

And please mute yourself when you're not speaking. Thank you. So this is called public comment because it's time dedicated for you to inform the city council about your views. This is not a time for members of the public to address the audience or the general public. Please direct all comments to council. Each person will have up to three minutes. If you exceed the three minutes, you'll be given a warning and asked to stop. If you refuse to stop your presentation, it will be deemed a disruption of the meeting and you may be asked to leave. If you feel you have to publicly express support for a

THANK YOU, PASTOR. WE HAVE NO OTHER VIRTUAL COMMENTS, SO MOVING TO IN-PERSON COMMENTS, WE HAVE LAFE ECHOLS AND TORY LEWIS IS ON DECK. Just press that center button and when the light is green you are live and you have three minutes.

Next up is Tori Lewis, and on deck is Mark Watson.

Next up, we have Mark Watson, and on deck is Mr. Brown. Excuse me. Excuse me. Yes. Is there a timer on the screen? Sure. I am keeping time, so... Okay. Yeah, they're on the clock, yeah, as well, yeah.

Thanks. Next up is Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown, I would ask that you keep the chair on that side of the desk and you address council. Thank you very much. You have three minutes.

Next up is Antonia Lopez, and on deck is Carter Calhoun.

Time is up. Next up is Carter Calhoun and on deck is Denise Kerr.

Next up is Denise Kerr. You have three minutes. You have to press the center button, though, before you speak. And as soon as you start speaking, you have three minutes. And then on deck is Jana.

Next up is Jana. Your microphone is already on, and so when you start speaking, you have three minutes.

Okay, thanks everybody for showing up tonight and speaking. We will move to the city manager's report.

Thank you, City Manager Hammond. Moving to item nine, we'll now move on to council comments. And before we jump into council comments, just so you all understand, We had a shortened city council meeting because typically on the first August is national night out. And so typically we come in for a short meeting and then some councillors decide to go out to national night out gatherings to interact with the community. So that was canceled because of the smoke and the heat. But if you're just wondering why it was a shortened meeting, that's why. All right, so moving to item nine, council comments

Thank you, Councillor Allcare. Any other councillors wish to comment? Councillor Sinclair.

If you want to support Councillor Sinclair's request to further look into flock cameras, because we have discussed this in the past. So, Robbie, can you give us an update on, because we've discussed this like last year. We pulled the flock cameras offline, the two that we had.

So if you want to entertain banning cameras inside the city limits of Hillsboro, please email Robbie Hammond individually to let him know of your support or not. of Councillor Sinclair's request. Councillor Harris.

For those of you weren't able to make the transportation meeting last week. We did as mr. Eccles testify today Get some information to have a hearing how the county engineer the count the city project manager and our Transportation chief transportation planner there to answer a lot of our questions And I thought it was very informative. I think everyone learned a lot. I think that the county and the city INDIVIDUALS HEARD US AS TO OUR CONCERNS, PARTICULARLY ABOUT ALL OF THE INTERSECTIONS ON MAIN STREET ALL THE WAY FROM 53rd TO 185th. that this is more than just an engineering or a safety probl

Thank you. Councillor Allcare, I see you have your hand up.

Thank you. Moving on to item 10, advice and information. We have a few items under advice and information. Residents interested in running for city council can file now through Friday, August 21st at 5 p.m. And as always, community members who want to be informed and engaged on city council matters can sign up to receive the Happening in Hillsborough email newsletter. Spanish language updates are also available through our Creciendo Juntos email newsletter. And with that, the city council meeting is adjourned.