City Council - Regular Meeting

Welcome to the August 24th, 2026, 12th City Council meeting. We'll start with the Pledge of Allegiance, led by Councilor Sacco, so please stand.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic,

Next, we have announcements. First is a proclamation declaring September 11th, 2026 as September 11th, Remembrance Day in the city of Tualatin. Are we just reading the proclamation? Yes. Okay. There's no presentation. Councillor Brooks will read the proclamation. Oh, sorry. Wrong one. Councillor Sacco will be reading the proclamation.

Thank you. Whereas nearly 3,000 citizens of the United States of America were killed on September 11th, 2001 in New York City, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. as a result of an unprovoked and cowardly terrorist attacks. And whereas we pay tribute to the men and the women who perished and reflect on the bravery and courage of our civilian and military first responders, and our emergency personnel for their quick and selfless actions. And whereas it is also important to remember the countless families who were forever changed by the loss of a loved one because of these horrendous attacks. And

Now we have a proclamation declaring the month of September 2026 as National Preparedness Month in the City of Tualatin. Councilor Brooks will read the proclamation.

Thank you, Council President Pratt. Whereas September marks National preparedness month the annual campaign for emergency and disaster preparedness which encourages individuals and communities to take steps to increase their resilience and look out for one another when major emergencies or disaster strike and whereas disasters often strike quickly with little or no warning Residents may be forced to evacuate neighborhoods schools and work sites or be confined to homes and Whereas the challenges posed by climate change such as more intense storms heat waves drought wildfires and extreme floodin

Yeah. All right. Now we have some new employee introductions. We'll start with Chief Pickering.

Officer Tomachon, would you like to say anything?

And then, Officer French, I spent a couple years in Yuma, and I think we've ended up in a much better place. I would agree. Yeah. And just congratulations. Well deserved.

Congratulations to you both. And I was just curious if you had anything to say about being promoted to captain and what? That means...

Yeah. Thank you so much. I appreciate the work.

Now we have another new employee introduction. No, no. No, for county clerk. Oh, sorry. I kept you wondering.

Welcome Joel and I'm going to ask you if you have any thoughts on how you're adapting to the Tualatin way. I didn't great splendidly perfect yes well thank you and welcome thank you so much okay now let's meet our new interim city deputy manager deputy city manager

Welcome, Robin. Some of us got to meet you earlier, and it was a pleasure, and we look forward to having you. As we discussed, you have some big shoes to fill in the interim, but we're looking forward to working with you, and is there anything you'd like to comment to us?

We're grateful to have you. All right, now we're up to public comment. This section of the agenda allows anyone to address the council regarding an issue not on the agenda or request to have an item removed from the consent agenda. The duration for each speaking person is limited to three minutes. Matters requiring further investigation or detailed answers will be referred to city staff for follow-up and reported at a future meeting. Anybody in the queue for public comment?

Now we'll move on to the consent agenda. The consent agenda, are there any items that anyone would like, counselor would like removed from the consent agenda? Okay, we have two items. First is consideration of approval of the work session and regular meeting minutes of August 10th, 2026. Second is consideration of approval of a new liquor license application for Chen's Kitchen, LLC, DBA Lee's Kitchen. Any discussion? Do I have a motion?

I move to adopt the consent agenda as read.

Second. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. All right. So now we're on to the Tualatin CERT 2526 Annual Report. And I see a couple of people.

I just want to say thank you to you both. I know that you are very active. I see you out and talk to you at the events that you're working at, and it feels really good to have such bright, well-informed, and engaged community members helping spread the word around some of the potential situations people could find themselves in and how to come together and be ready instead of being freaked out and falling apart so I just appreciate it thanks counselor hillier thank you council president Pratt I just want to say thank you for making sure

not only for everything that you have done, are doing, and will be doing, but your attention to the fact that it will take multiple strategies for the community to be successful, should it be a small local emergency or more of a regional sort of thing. And empowering the residents is really inspiring. And so I just wanted to say thank you for that. I think that part is really important. needed and I think will go a long way to help us get to reaching our goals of being a little more resilient. So thank you.

Thank you. You mentioned emergency supplies throughout town. So how many, like can you just go into a little more detail what's in there and how many there are throughout town?

That makes sense. And then if money were no object, what would you add to the CIO program or to the CERT program?

Let's hope you get the grant. And thank you to both of you. I know you're out there in the community all the time. And thank you for keeping this program going. It's so important for our safety. Now we have a public hearing, so I have to read a script. This is for ordinance number 1457-26. This is a legislative land use hearing for the City Council to consider ordinance number 1457-26, amending ordinance number 1499-25 regarding the annexation of approximately 54.79 acres of land located at Tonkin Loop west of Gramps Ferry Road and north of Basalt Creek Parkway. The proposed amendment clarifie

All right. Are there any members of the public who wish to testify in favor of the proposal? None. Okay. Are there any members of the public who wish to testify against the proposal? None. Okay. And lastly, I have to ask if there are any members of the public who wants to testify at all on this matter, which I'm assuming the same answer. Okay. Does anybody, member of council, have questions for staff or any person who testified? All right. If there are no further questions, the public hearing is closed. Now we, Council can deliberate. Any deliberations on this matter? I'll make a motion.

Okay. I move to approve resolution number. We have to do first reading. Yes. You should approve. Okay. I was just going to say, what is it? I approve or consider. Here. Sorry. I move for a second reading by title, a first reading. I move for a first reading by title only of ordinance number 5993-26. Sorry, 1457-26. Second.

Okay, I have a motion and a second. All those in favor, or no, we have to do a roll call, right? Okay, Councilor Brooks. Aye. Councillor Gonzalez. Councillor Sacco. Aye. Councillor Hilliard. Aye. And I'm also aye. Councillor Sacco.

Okay, I didn't tell the truth. I move, is it my turn? Okay, I move for a second reading by title only of ordinance number 1457-26. Second.

We have a motion and second for a second reading by title only of ordinance number 1457-26. Councilor Brooks? Aye. Councilor Gonzalez? Councilor Sacco? Aye. And Councilor Hilliard? Aye. And Amal Salat? Aye.

I move to adopt ordinance number 1457-26. Second.

I have a motion second to adopt ordinance number 1457-26. Councilor Brooks? Aye. Councilor Gonzalez? Councilor Sacco? Aye. Councilor Hilliard? Aye. And I'm also an aye. Motion passes. All right. Thank you. All right, now we'll move on to general business, and we have one item, and that is consideration of resolution number 5993-26, authorizing the city manager to execute an intergovernmental agreement with Clean Water Services for ongoing operations and cooperative management. All righty.

Well, first of all, thank you very much for all the work across all the departments that the city staff has done. And thank you as well to clean water services. It's kind of an amazing model that we have. and I feel really fortunate. I did have a couple just points of information questions, not about the agreement, but just in general since we're all here. I was curious when you talked about enforcement, is there a place that it's located that you can look up if there's been citations around, since it's a public?

Okay, and there's not patterns or anything that we need to be worried about?

Okay. And then I just want to also, I just keep advocating around water and technicians and I just want to thank the technical service people for their expertise and hope that we can keep supporting more people to fill those roles. And then I had one other question about, well two I think, is Is there I'm just concerned you know it's interesting the other day at a conversation with somebody and they talked about how people couldn't paddleboard on certain parts of the river because of the drought being so bad and I'm just curious like as far as extended planning for services and how we manage t

I know that we do that, but I mean, at a certain point,

Yeah. I'd be interested in what that is. And then, finally, I am also wondering about when it's the parts of the management, like so we're downriver from other users that source the same basin and we're looking at PFAS measures and things like that. How do we as a city protect ourselves and how does clean water services help us in managing some of the things that can happen from industry further upstream?

Okay. Yeah, I heard some kind of startling numbers from some environmental people that I know about changes in measurements, so I was just curious about that and wanted to follow up on what you guys saw.

Yeah, I don't have any facts so far. So I like data, so I really appreciate the information.

Thank you. I just wanted to say thank you for taking such a holistic look at the systems that are involved with this and the relationships and bringing everyone to the table and using a process that's worked in the past. And so I'm glad it was able to be applied here, including lessons learned. And thank you for taking the time to share that history with us. And Joe, for being here as such a great partner. So thank you so much for all your hard work.

I believe I remember reading, I just want to confirm that the discussions with the administrative fees, it's not just Tualatin and each individual city, it says a group. Is that correct? Correct. Okay.

Well, that sounds like a lot of positive improvements, so that's a great thing.

All right. Well, we have a resolution before us. I'll make a motion to approve Resolution 5993-26, authorizing the city manager to execute an intergovernmental agreement with Clean Water Services for ongoing operations and cooperative management. Second.

All right, I have a first and a second for this resolution, so now we go to roll call vote. I will go backwards. Councilor Gonzalez? Councilor Sacco? Aye. Councilor Hilliard? Aye. Councilor Brooks? Aye. And I'm an aye, so motion passes. Congratulations.

All right. We had no items removed from the consent agenda. So next we move on to any additional council communications. Anyone? Okay. I just want to remind everybody the emergency preparedness fair is on September 12th at the library from 11 to 2. And with that, I move to adjourn. Second. Okay. All those in favor? Aye. Aye. All right. Thank you. Meeting is adjourned.