City Council - Regular Meeting

ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. WE'LL CALL THIS TIGER CITY COUNCIL MEETING TO ORDER. BEFORE I START, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY FROM MY COUNCIL LIAISON REPORT THAT THE COUNTY IS PLANNING TO RAISE VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEE BY $10 EVERY TWO YEARS, NOT $100. SO PLEASE DON'T BE ALARMED. IT'S $10, NOT $100. SO WITH THAT, CITY RECORDER CRAIGER, PLEASE, WOULD YOU PLEASE CONDUCT A ROLL CALL?

Thank you. Will everyone please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? Thank you, staff and council. Do you have any non-agenda items? Seeing none, let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is a resolution thanking city recorder Carol Crager for her years of service. Well, this is another emotional meeting for us. So our city recorder is retiring at the end of this month. So the city council, we would like to present you with a resolution thanking you for your years of service. So I will just read the whole thing. So a resolution honoring city recorder Carol Krager for more than 20 yea

and former city manager Marty Wine. Carol has a great care for her profession and made a lot of technological improvements in Tiger and through OAMR to digitize records. Carol is one of the most meticulous, caring, and professional city recorder I have ever worked with. Now therefore be resolved by the Tiger City Council that section one, the Tiger City Council and city teammates hereby express their sincere gratitude and appreciation to Carol Krager for her more than 20 years of exceptional service to the city of Tiger. Section 2, the Tiger City Council and city team may congratulate Carol on

Everybody second. Yay! Any further discussion? Anything you want to say to Carol? Council President Wolff?

I'll just be brief. Carol, just thank you so much. Heartfelt for just your care, not just as an employee, but a community member and everything that you've done for Tigard over so many years.

All right. So those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. The resolution is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council. So, Carol, we would like to have a group photo with you. Would you like that? All right, so I know you're... Okay, let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is public comment. The public comment comment period provides an opportunity for members of 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

Thank you. So I allow four minutes, double the time on the last one because we need time for translation, but please keep your comment to two minutes. Next one is Felix. Good evening. Just make sure, no it's not on right now, just press the button.

Thank you. You too. Thank you. All right. Next, we have Liz Newton. Hello, Liz.

I don't know how to practice. We also receive your written comments, so thank you. Thank you very much. All right, so next item on the agenda, Leandro, come on up.

Thank you, Gabe. Oh, next one, we have Jeff Dollar. Jeff, hello. No, that one is on now. There we go.

Thank you, Jeff. And we also receive your two written comments, so thank you. All right, so there's no one else sign up for the in-person testimony. Mr. Walter, are there any caller in the queue for phone or video testimony?

All right, so would you please pass the caller through? And the caller, you have two minutes.

Thank you. Mr. Water, are there any other people in the queue?

All right, thank you so much. And so we'll move on to the next item on the agenda, which is city manager report. City manager Rager will provide a brief report. Good evening.

Thank you. Council member, any questions? Seeing none, let's move on to the next item, which is presentation of police award. Police Chief Rogers and Assistant Chief Sutton will present life-saving medal to Officer Bively. Good evening.

Well, thank you again, officer. Appreciate your service to our community. Thank you. All right, let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is Tiger Police Department report. And we have our chief and assistant chief and our community engagement coordinator, Bauer. Good evening.

Yeah, that's something I'm hearing more and more from community members, so that's, yeah, and so it's good that, you know, we have a reporting method, and I understand officers cannot be everywhere at once, but at least if we see a trend somewhere, they can focus the enforcement in certain areas, so yeah.

Yeah. But other than e-bike, I just heard nothing but good things people say about our police department. So you're doing a great job. So thank you so much. Thank you. All right. All right, so next item on the agenda is a consent agenda. The consent agenda is used for routine items including approval of meeting minutes, contracts, or intergovernmental agreements. Information on each item is available on the city's website in the packet for this meeting. These items may be enacted in one motion without separate discussion. Council members may request that an item be removed by motion for discus

Mayor, I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

Is there any discussion? Seeing none, those in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. The consent agenda is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council. All right, let's move on to the next item agenda, which is Tiger Housing Plan Briefing. Housing planner Miller will give the staff report and lead the discussion on the plan.

Thank you, Housing Plan and Miller, for your presentation. Council Member, Councilor Shah, please go ahead.

Thank you. Yeah, just follow up on that. I also have a question about any underlying assumption about those numbers, right? I mean, assumption could change over time. So just to tag on Councilor Shah's request. So thank you. Council President Wolf.

I think I'm the third to tag on and thank you Mayor and Councillor Shaw for the questions because my curiosity really is I look forward to a study session to really understand how the state does that because my question is how how is it defined for us that we build more apartment complexes before, as opposed to create opportunities for housing that could be purchased and really promote home ownership. And so I really look forward to an opportunity to dig in that. And again, the fact that we're looking at 2019 and so much has occurred. And I'm also just curious, with neighboring communities, ri

Thank you. Any other questions? All right. So you got all questions. All right. Thank you so much. Yeah, you too. All right, next item on agenda is economic development strategic plan update, and we have our community development director, Kirkman, to provide the staff report.

Thank you. So just to be clear, you are asking if we have any prioritization, any thoughts?

Council, any comments, questions? Council President Wolf, please go ahead.

Sambo thank you so much and I know I sent a variety of questions and thank you for incorporating those in the response. Thanks for sharing that as well. And I think my one question under pillar four with and I know that the teams are working really hard on the new regulations and kind of future forward which some of that is long term action. Are you learning anything from businesses who might be kicking the tires in Tigard and looking like today to develop and are there challenges or excited to come in, just curious what you're experiencing today.

Councilor Slack and then Councilor Anderson.

Thank you so much for presenting the action item. So for me, maybe a request for future is maybe you can let us know the target date and whether you are in danger or at risk of not completing the task on the target date. So I think that would be more helpful to me with that information as well. So I appreciate you pointing out the cinema side, there's date. So yeah, so that's my only request. But other than that, I think everything looks good to me. So thank you.

Yeah, okay. All right, thank you so much. Have a good evening. Oh wait, I'm sorry I concert shot raise her hand so sorry concert shop. Please go ahead. Sorry I didn't see you.

All right, thank you. All right, next item on our agenda is the League of Oregon City legislative priorities. Assistant to the city manager, Hendrix, will give the staff report and request that council identify five legislative priorities from the voting guide to submit to LOC. So that's our wish for them to be the priority. And the voting guide was included in the meeting packet and then staff, the top five legislative priorities also in the meeting packet. So good evening.

Are those recommendations ranked or just? Yeah, in order importance. Yes. So let me start. Who wants to start? Councilor Anderson, are you okay with the ranking and the selection of the five out of 27? Or are there anything else you would have done differently? Okay.

THANK YOU, NICOLE, AND I WAS JUST PROCESSING COUNSELOR SLACK'S KIND OF STRATEGY AND WHILE I AGREE WITH IT, I ALSO THINK THERE'S VALUE IN VERY CONSISTENT LARGE AND BROAD SUPPORT TO SAY Public meeting laws is currently not working and that City of Tigard agrees So I wouldn't necessarily agree, but I I did give pause Especially around the shelter and homeless response. I do think other associations are going to hit workforce development pretty hard that may not be League of Oregon cities, but I think that will be a priority and So I am fine with the five. It does give me pause, given the number o

I WOULD SUPPORT COUNSELOR ROBIN'S SUGGESTION OF DROPPING THE FIFTH AND BUMPING UP THAT. SO THANK YOU, COUNSELOR ROBIN.

I SEE HAND NOTTING. ALL RIGHT. SO WE'RE OKAY WITH PUBLIC MEETING LOB, HOUSING PRODUCTION, PREVALENT WAGE CHANGES, ALTHOUGH COUNCILOR GADUSI DOESN'T LIKE IT. 2027 TRANSPORTATION PACKAGE AND THE FIFTH ONE WILL BE FUNDING AND COORDINATION FOR SHELTER AND HOMELESSNESS RESPONSE.

Yeah, we're okay with the top four. So just see, please check with staff to see if switching out the fifth one with homeless will be, will there be any concerns or policy consideration? okay yeah all right thank you so much thank you okay all right so we don't have non-agenda items so uh next item will uh the tiger city council will go into executive session to discuss the performance the public official and the ors 192.6602i 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 pro