City Council - Regular Meeting

All right, I'm first. So welcome, everyone, to the July 20th, 2026 Newburgh Urban Renewal Agency meeting. I call the meeting to order. Can we have a roll call, please?

Certainly. Councillor McBride?

Here.

Councillor Wheatley? Here. Councillor Yarnell-Halleman is absent so far. Councillor Kilburg?

Here.

Mayor Rossacker?

Here.

Councillor Tergesen? Here. And Chair Carman?

Here. Here. So for the first part of committee business, we're going to appoint board members. So the first one is the board chair. Do we have any nominations? I'm talking to everyone. Do we have any nominations? Okay.

I don't know if you'd be willing, but I think you'd be a great to serve again. So I would nominate Derek if he's willing.

Okay. I appreciate that.

Did you second it? Second.

I actually have a nomination of my own and I'd like to nominate Jerry. I mean, I've done this for three years and you know, this is a involves in her district a lot. So I would like to nominate Jerry. Second.

Currently, I have two motions on the floor because there's my nomination.

I withdraw my nomination.

All right. So is there any other nominations, any other discussion? Shall we have a vote? All in favor of Councillor Tergesen becoming the new board chair, say aye.

Aye. Aye.

Looks like it all passes unanimously. So I guess I'll hand it over to you.

So the second order of business then would be nomination for a vice chair to help support NARA.

Who is the current vice chair? I'll nominate Mike again.

Second. Second.

So we have a nomination and a second. Is there any discussion or further nominations? OK. So can we have a vote? All those in favor?

Aye.

Looks like it's unanimous. OK. And then our third appointment is the NARA CAC chair. Do we know who the current CAC chair is?

Peggy? I'm going off the council in December, so I shouldn't do it.

So do we have it?

I nominate Robin. Second.

Thank you. What does the CAC chair do?

Well, do you want to chime in?

Sometimes, although rarely, if something contentious comes up, the NURA group, which is a normal group of residents with no special affiliation to any outside organization, that group may hear such as reviewing plans that may come before the NURA Complete Board. They haven't met for a while, but the last thing they did was endorse work on a certain street.

Will, you said NURA, but you meant the NURA Citizen Advisory Committee, correct?

Yes, I did.

Just for the record. Okay. Can citizens be chair of this committee? No. OK.

So I have a motion and a second for Robin. We'll accept. All right. Can we get a vote, please? All those in favor?

Aye.

That's unanimous.

Okay, thank you.

Okay, and then our second order of business, we have the de annexation of parcels from the Newburgh urban renewal area and plan. We have a presentation from staff. Thank you.

Oh,

It's just they're slightly different. But I can, I mean... But just by way of introduction, we're on the fourth of five steps for this process. So after the three hearings you all had at the last council meeting, we will have the hearing for Nura and then the hearing at the council meeting tonight. So almost the end of the de-annexation. All right, so tonight we are looking at resolution number 202616, a minor amendment to the Newburgh Urban Renewal Plan, removing territory from the area and the plan. Staff's recommendation is to adopt resolution number 2026-16, removing Yamaha County tax slots 3230B-2300, 3230B-6000, 3230B-6100, and 3230-1400 from the Newport Urban Renewal Area and Plan. So... Did you have a question before we...

I do. Will you remind us why they wanted to de-annex?

Yep. So the community development held a pre-op, it may have been two years ago now, about doing some development of single-family dwelling and storage facilities in these areas that were annexed back in 2006. i guess we can go i'll skip ahead a couple slides so the zoning map there in the middle shows the parcels highlighted in blue and the red areas are the flood hazard and then the blue is the stream corridor um so that's kind of that is part of of the rationale is just per the city's restrictions on each of those overlays it's fairly restricted development-wise. And then also, you can see on the map on the right, the utilities from the subdivisions end just to the northeast, and the cost of extending those and kind of the associated infrastructure is prohibitively expensive. So staff has concurred with that analysis from the applicants, and so that's why they came thus far. And so they were annexed in 2006, and then they are just over 28 acres in size combined. On June 15th, the council adopted resolution number 20264032, declaring the intent to withdraw the territory from the city limits. held a public hearing, and then adopted order number 202647, fixing a time and place for a final hearing, which will happen at the subsequent city council meeting tonight. And then tonight, the urban rental agency will consider this to remove it from the area and plan, and then we'll hold the final hearing at the next meeting tonight. Those are the parcels again. And then the 2025 assessed values for lots were $3,600, $47,000, $50,000, and $2,600 roughly. It's in subareas B and C of the area plan, and there are no projects on the area. I believe the esplanade in B runs up to it, but doesn't cross onto the properties itself. And then when the reason that this is coming to Nura is at the time of the adoption of the plan, The county approved unincorporated areas but required the city to go to a vote in order to include them. And so the city chose to withdraw those areas from the plan. But so by de-annexing, this would make these newly unincorporated parcels. And so after consulting with James, we would then have to go back to the county to ask them to include those newly unincorporated parcels into the plan. So we chose to go this route and take it out of both. The resolution is written to be dependent on final withdrawal. So if for some reason tonight council chooses not to annex, it would stay within the urban renewal area until that is finally approved. And then one last note. So we are taking those four parcels and associated tax increment out of the plan. The plan requires that five years after the first tax increment is received, the city do an update and review of the plan. And so the resolution just requires that at the time of that update, all of these changes are incorporated for review of future funding, et cetera. So these changes will be incorporated back into the fiscal planning at the time that finance does their review. So that's all for me, unless there are any questions.

Do we know how much taxes we're going to be losing if we de-annex? I mean, I just see assessed values, but how much will the city be... There's no amount on here.

We can do some math between now and the city council meeting. I don't have the math in front of me. But... The parcels are vacant currently, so there is an improved value. It's the land value.

So we don't know how much they've paid in taxes? I guess that's what I'm wondering, how much they've paid over time in taxes.

The values that we add up there amounted to about $100,000. Katie, what's our millage rate? Oh, I thought you'd know it off the top of your head. I'm sorry. It's going to be like $20, right? On $100,000? No, $200,000.

Yeah, yeah.

$200,000, roughly.

Any other questions?

Is there a motion?

I move we adopt Neuro Resolution 2026-16. Second.

Motion and a second. Is there any other discussion? Otherwise, all those in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? Thank you. And I think that's it. Yeah. Any other business? Okay. So I'm going to close the meeting. Thank you.

Welcome. It is July 20th, Newburgh City Council meeting. I call this meeting to order. Could we have roll call, please?

Certainly. Councillor McBride?

Here.

Councillor Wheatley? Here. Councillor Yarnell-Halliman? Just joined online. I don't know if she can speak yet. Let's see.

Hey, hi.

Here. All right, thank you. Councillor Kilburg? Here. Mayor Rossacker?

Here.

Councillor Tergesen? Here. And Councillor Carman?

Here.

Thank you.

Thank you. Would you all stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? Well, it is time for one of our favorite parts of the meeting, city manager report.

Statistics. Woo. Planning. Combined planning decisions of all sorts. There were 11. Each one, a significant decision to the person affected and many taking many hours of work. Building permits for housing units, there were seven. And other types of permits, 84. And that's trending up a bit, as you can see. And building inspections, only one and a half blocks. That's people. There were 300 of those inspections. That's pretty cool. Community engagement, there were 30 questions came in through the website that were answered. And just for fun, I changed the way the bar chart looks on top. We had 29,264 events of social media engagement. which were click-throughs, opens, file downloads, or whichever type of triggering action. And that's just about as high as it's ever been. Public record requests, nine. And these nine requests, many of which took several hours of research in, as you know, from Rachel's presentation last time. We had 2.15 million of payments from accounts payable and 1.13 million of payroll. The largest check amounts for this particular period a couple of months ago that we're looking at was cedar mill construction, $155,134.70 for one of the last parts of the covering the water basins at the groundwater treatment plant. A water pipe replacement that happened, conducted by Pacific North Construction, was $70,132. And, Taylor Associates, and this was for a wide variety of different projects, combined together, $81,808.25. And, HR, as usual, working extremely hard, only two people, six recruitments advertised, four hires, six separations, and two claims of all sorts. And in this batch, we were recruiting for both types of dispatcher, both types of police officer, public works operations staff, and a tech one. IT resolved 185 service tickets for the city. And you can see that that trend is going down. And recently that's been because of moving to the Azure virtual desktop. I will say that when the numbers for this month come out, they're going to be a lot higher because things weren't going so well this morning. But people were on it. And there were three after-hours on-call events, but nothing major. Library activity, explosive as always. 7,889 on the door count and 32,834 circulation events. And this has been a big success story for the city. For those of you at home who managed to watch the four-year summary that I did a few months ago, the statistics have just been going up and up and up every year. Public safety, 2,377 calls for service, and that's a really big number if you look at our averages. And also, 781 traffic stops, another very busy time, right, for that period two months ago. And, as a result, 644 citations and warnings were issued to various folks, mostly speeding and whatnot. However, six particularly stupid people chose to drive vehicles while intoxicated, and so we had six of those events. 2,033 911 calls occurred and 3,050 emergency calls. And some of this, though, I do know the 911 calls were skewed because there was some kind of ghost calling problem with the software that we had to take the calls anyway, but there was nobody on the line. So that statistic got skewed a bit, and the chief can explain that better than me, perhaps, if there's any questions about that one. But that was a mechanical thing. We still have to answer them. Water production. 79.38 million gallons of some of the most fresh and delicious water that a person could possibly drink. And an almost exactly the same amount of the other stuff was exuded by our residents and went off and got processed. Public Works, 1,421 work orders were completed. And currently, we see that work order completion is back up, coming up again. And I think partly that might be because of breaking into these separate new teams that we are doing. And that is the end of the totals for the May 2026 batch of yummy statistics. Any questions, folks?

Sort of related. Will there be any more compost this summer? Yes? Yes.

So the compost took quite a hit as a lot of it went over to prepare for the 4th of July field. We spread many, many yards of that out there to make the grassy area so people could be comfortable and watch the fireworks. I believe, though, that they are expecting the amounts to start increasing again. And as we say, we're always making more.

So this is for the chief. On the 911 calls, the ones that when you answered and nobody was there, how did you know that it wasn't somebody that had maybe passed out, or how did you determine that?

I don't think they were tracked by any alley, so they didn't come back to a particular address, but it still takes time to answer every single one of those and do your best to ensure there is not someone on the other end. So it took a lot of staff time.

And then the permanent archival copy of this, I'm going to make a note what happened that month so that if it blips up in four or five years, we know what the spike was.

So next on our agenda is public comments. First, we have Leisha Adams. Hi, Leisha. Welcome to City Council.

My name is Leisha Adams. I'm a Newburgh resident. Um, have you ever had one of those weeks where there starts to be a trend, a weird trend? And for me this week, that was, uh, it's actually been about two weeks, um, city committees. Um, I had the honor earlier this year of sitting on the rate review committee with Mr. Knight, who's here in the room and, uh, and counselor Kilburg. And, um, I was asked by email, uh, myself and several others who sat on committees to help the city recruit at the September Art Walk. Very happy to do that. I loved the Rate Review Committee and I loved asking Mr. Worthy about 100 questions in every single session. He was very patient with me. And then last week, two weeks ago, I was here for council and heard the discussion about Illinois Street. And the almost wonderment with which it was considered that the Traffic Safety Commission might have had some input to give about the initial decision or about the decision that you considered two weeks ago. And then this past week, I've been hearing about that the River Street Ad Hoc Committee was going to be put on the agenda to offer their report when they're only halfway through their meetings and couldn't possibly have had their work completed in this amount of time. And it just made me think about the nature of these committees. These city committees are volunteers. We are an essential part of the municipal government because there are seven of you and your careers did not equip you to make all of these decisions. So I would ask you to please consider the input from these committees and commissions and take advantage of them. Don't just use them as an escape hatch for ill-informed decisions. to escape the consequences of those ill-informed decisions. And people like me, normal people like me in the community, we're paying attention and we're listening and considering if the city council really values the voices of its constituents. There's been a lot of debate about that in the last six months, including about public comment rules. So I'm asking you, please don't just sit back and listen to reports about how wonderfully everything's going in the city, but really step in and listen and lead. Thank you.

Thank you, Alicia. And next we have Jim Paul. Hi, Jim. Welcome. Good to see you.

Jim Talt, Newburgh resident. I was at the River Street Town Hall gathering on March 9th, and I'm here tonight because I'm thinking it might be helpful for you to hear my firsthand account of that meeting. I learned of the town hall from the city website, which had a banner announcement flying on the homepage, and it was also listed on the city calendar. River Street is Neura territory and I was on the citizen advisory committee with Councillor Molly Olsen and later with Councillor Kilburg. So I went to the town hall. It was very well attended. Maybe 30, 35 people, certainly more than are here tonight. The city manager and staff were there and I think I recall that there were like three from the consulting team and they gave a very professional presentation and took audience questions. There were 10-foot-long plots of three design concepts that were laid out on long tables in the middle of the room right here. And after the presentation, virtually everyone got up to inspect those designs and ask further questions, and everybody mingled, staff, consultants, and residents. There was definitely a perceptible tension in the room. You could hear it in people's voices when they spoke, but everyone, and I mean everyone to their credit, remained civil throughout the whole meeting. Here's my overall assessment. There was not a public outreach problem because it was a very well attended and professionally conducted meeting. The problem was understandably, the problem was that people understandably didn't like what they saw. And that was not an outreach problem, that was a design problem. There's no way to sugarcoat the message. There's an 80-foot right-of-way, and you could lose a chunk of your yard. Happily, an improved design concept is evolving that offers relief for many of the early issues. The other thing to remember is that the River Street Ad Hoc Committee is, itself, part of the public outreach process, and that committee, under Councillor Turgerson's guidance, is making progress on all fronts. I hope this information is helpful. Thank you. Thank you, Jim.

Next, we have some visitors with us today. Would you like to come on up? We have the princesses and the queen of the Newberg Old Fashioned Festival. My understanding is you have something that you want to say, so feel free.

Hi, I'm Maggie Taylor, and I am the queen of the Newberg Old Fashioned Festival this year. I'm going into my senior year at Newberg High School, and I am so excited to be here and see more of my community and meet new people and create outreach with others.

Thank you so much for having me. Hi, my name is Gina Rogers. I'm the princess this year. And in September, I'll be attending college at PCC studying education. And I'm so excited to be here because my family loved going to the old-fashioned festival when I was a kid. And I'm so glad I get to see all of you there. If you go. Thank you.

Hi, I'm Georgia Fail. I'm a princess. Princess. I don't know what I was going to say.

I'm going into my junior year at Newburgh High School, and I'm so thankful for being on the court. Thank you so much for having us. Hi, my name is Juliana. I just graduated fifth grade at Dundee Elementary. I'm going to Chehalem Valley Middle School. I am junior princess this year, and we are so excited to see all of you guys at the festival. Thank you.

Want to take a picture?

Sure. Who do you want? So we have one more piece of business for the old-fashioned festival. And this is a proclamation declaring July 23rd through 26th, 2026 as Newberg old-fashioned festival week in the city of Newberg. Whereas the city of Newberg is a family friendly community that hosts many gatherings, numerous celebrations, and a variety of entertainment venues, events in which the old friends and new friends alike can gather, And whereas each year, the City of Newburgh and many members of the community participate by celebrating community spirit during the last full weekend in July. And whereas the City of Newburgh welcomes the community and the visitors each year to join them in the Newburgh Old Fashioned Festival activities and enjoy the camaraderie and sense of community built by the festival of this extent. Whereas the Newberg Old Fashioned Festival theme for this year is then and now, signifying the community tradition in celebrating Newberg's history, local businesses, and small-town spirit, celebrating 100 years of Newberg together. Now, therefore, be it resolved that I, Bill Rossacker, along with the City Council of Newberg, do hereby proclaim July 23rd through 26th, 2026, as Newberg Old Fashioned Festival Week in the City of Newberg. So I'm wearing a volunteer shirt because one event that we had when I was very young was a pie-eating contest at the Berrien Festival. We are going to bring that back this year. So please join us about 1 o'clock on Saturday at the area where the pancake feed is, and we're going to have some fun and get our faces in some pie. Good to see you, ladies. Thank you for joining us today.

Bill, do you want to give them a proclamation? Thank you.

Since I've been on council, I've had opportunity to observe the ladies. And when I'm up making pancakes with the rotary before 7 o'clock in the morning, these ladies will show up, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, You know that they've been up for a couple hours getting ready to that point. And throughout the day, they will change clothes several times. And they will always be there with a smile on their face and a friendly attitude. It's fun to watch you guys during that festival. So next on our agenda is a public hearing today. And it's the follow-up of what we just had, the de-annexation of property from the city limits.

Good evening again.

My name is James Dingwall, for the record, one of the planners, and we are going to be looking at... James, you know I'm looking at you because I just realized again this is a legislative hearing. We've got some things to take care of here. So, first of all, this hearing is to consider the annexation, de-annexation, Ordinance Number 2026-2945. I will open the public hearing. Citizens will be able to testify on the issue by first submitting a public comment registration at the back of the table should they wish to speak. At this point, each of the council members need to declare conflicts of interest or absentations. Do any of the councillors have? All right. Next is our staff report. James, good to see you.

All right. So tonight we are looking at ordinance number 2026, 2945, detaching territory from the city limits. This is considering Council Goal 4, implementing a careful and prudent fiscal policy. Objective 3, ensuring that the city has a long-term financial plan that supports its goals and objectives, and furthering strategic planning and growth with local taxing districts. Staff's recommendation is to adopt ordinance number 2026-2945, declaring Yamaha County tax slots 3230B-2300, 3230B-6000, 3230B-6100, and 3230-1400 detached from the city. The applicants approached the city and held a pre-application meeting and these properties were annexed in 2006 through ordinance number 2006-2651. Their zone are two medium density residential in the riverfront district and contain significant areas of the stream corridor and the area of the special flood hazard overlay and are just over 20 acres in size. On June 15th, 2026, the council adopted resolution number 2026-4032, declaring the intent to withdraw the territory, held a public hearing, and then adopted order number 2026-47, fixing a time and place for tonight's final public hearing. And then before this meeting, the Newburgh Urban Renewal Agency adopted resolution number 2026-16, removing the territory from the Newburgh Urban Renewal Area and Plan. Here you can see the sites, the zoning, and the utilities, and the materials as well. And then here on the left shows the parcels that were part of the original annexation, so the subject areas are to the bottom there, and then it also included some of the park area, and then what was included in the subdivision in that proposed R2RD. So the majority of the annexation is either park or has been developed with the River Run subdivision. Reviewing the process per the ORS, so city council adopted the resolution initiating the withdrawal, held the initial public hearing, and then considered the order to set the final date. Tonight you're holding the final public hearing within the timeline set out in the ORS. NERA approved the minor amendment that will go into effect if the annexation is approved. And then tonight, council will consider by ordinance officially detaching the territory from the city. We referred the application to Yamhill County, and initial discussions have indicated that the sites will revert to the previous county zoning prior to the annexation, and the withdrawn areas will remain subject to any bonded or other indebtedness existing when de-annexed. And then also included in the ordinance is the condition that the applicants sign a waiver to the changing land use approvals and then a non-protest agreement for the city to remove them from the UGB. So either through the 1537 process or later housing needs analysis type UGB amendments, if the site is de-annexed and won't be developed to urban densities, the city will likely at some point look to remove that from the urban growth boundary and allocate that go to the area elsewhere. The assessed values are included in the packet, and we did trace down that the city from 25 to 26 received $312.09 for the properties, and the urban renewal agency received $28.70. And then related to the Senate Bill 1537. So there is currently the open solicitation for one time UGB expansion bids that closes July 31. If the city council chooses not to proceed with that one time option, there is still the land swap option. And so this newly unincorporated area that will still be in the ugb until removed could be a candidate to swap these 30 acres for 30 here somewhere else so at the time that that we bring the 1537 back to council that will be included in the suite of options for you all to consider And then one final note is part of the annexation process and then similarly the de-annexation process is to get the legal descriptions and surveys approved by the Department of Revenue. We send it off for a preliminary review and they had some possible changes. So there is a tentative legal description included in the exhibits. And then once we hear back from Rachel and staff will deliberate if it's substantive changes enough to bring back to council or if it could be possibly consent agenda or some other way to approve those changes. But the tax slots won't change. It's just possible that the state might require the language of the legal description altered somewhat. So staff's recommendation is to adopt ordinance number 2026-2945 declaring Yamo County tax slots 3230B-2300, 3230B-6000. 3230B-6100 and 3230-1400 detached from the city. Thank you.

All right. Thank you. Next is public testimony. So I'm opening public testimony. We have no public testimony at all, so public testimony is closed. James just gave his recommendation, which was to approve ordinance number 2026-2945. Is there any further discussion? Somebody want to make a motion?

Please. I move that we adopt resolution 2026-2945. Or ordinance. I'm sorry. It's an ordinance. I have to read it? Oh, and waive the second reading. Thank you.

By title only, waive the second reading.

I move we adopt ordinance number 20262945 by title only and waive the second reading.

Second. It has been moved and seconded that we adopt ordinance 20262945 and by title only and waive the second reading is there any further discussion seeing none all in favor signify by saying aye oh thank you all right the

Ordinance title is an ordinance declaring Yamhill County tax lots 3230B-02300 and 3230B-06000 and 3230B-6100 and 3230-1400 detached from the city. Councillor McBride? Yes. Councillor Wheatley? Yes. Councillor Yarnell-Holliman? Yes. Yes. Counselor Kilburg.

Yes.

Mirror soccer.

Yes.

Counselor Ferguson. Yes. Counselor Carmen.

Yes.

Thank you.

All right. That was painless. Sort of next item on our agenda is report from waste management. Didn't realize it was our staff that was going to get this report.

Good to see you. So, Mayor, you also need to open the legislative hearing for this one as well. I was not told.

This legislative hearing? All right.

Special resolution.

Okay. So I call this legislative hearing to order. This is a hearing to consider wastewater transportation queuing lanes. I will open the public hearing. Citizens will be able to testify on this issue by first submitting a public comment and registration at the back table should they wish to speak. At this point, do any councillors have conflicts of interest or absentations to declare? Seeing none, we're ready for our staff report.

Thank you, Mayor. Jeremiah Cromie, Associate Planner for the record. So the project before you tonight is actually in Yamhill County, and I'll go through that. So when there's projects in the urban growth boundary or urban reserve area in certain circumstances, the county requests that the city provide them a recommendation before they issue their final decision. So that is why this matters before you tonight regarding the waste management queuing lanes at the transfer station on Wynoski. So waste management plans on adding four new queuing lanes at the waste transfer station on Winooski, and staff would recommend adopting Resolution 2026-4037 tonight, recommending Yamhill County approves. So just a little background, as you're all aware, in the last couple of council meetings, we've had extensive discussions on known issues on queuing problems, backing onto White News Quay Road. And so they're proposing four new queuing lanes. And as I mentioned, the current Newburgh Urban Management Agreement requires the city make recommendation for items having substantial land use, health, and safety. So that is why this is before you. Yamhill County will, however, have the final decision. So on your map there, so it's adjacent to city limits with the concrete plant there where the waste management queuing lanes are. And I'll show the next slide here in a minute is on that would be your left parcel with that shaded flood hazard area and then your transfer station on the right there. And the one on the left is currently in the urban growth boundary. And the one that actually has the building on it is within the urban reserve area of the city. So here's a map of their proposed queuing lanes. And then they're transitioning the existing queuing lanes as exit lanes. So as part of the Newburgh Urban Management Agreement, Council recommends with conditions, future development plans in those areas to be consistent with the city's goals and guidelines and making sure that future development plans align. uh so staff and the findings you'll see in your packet it doesn't preclude future development of the site with driveways you can put in utilities you can extend the waste transfer station if it were to be annexed into the city it's it would be come in as heavy industrial so staff finds it meets it and we recommend adopting resolution 2026 4037 we did make some recommendations for conditions in to Yamhill County, including putting cameras on the building for queuing so people could see how long the queuing lines are, as well as a sidewalk on the urban growth boundary parcel, and then some other just mechanical solutions, which I think waste management can tell you about tonight coming up. And they are here, as well as our consultants online if you have more questions for the applicant that I may not be able to answer for you.

All right. So at this point, I need to open public comments. I have one public comment registered. Are they online?

All right, Piper, it sounds like we're ready for you.

Oh, all right.

Can you hear me?

Piper Crawford, are you available?

Yes. Sorry, I missed it. I was getting put on as a panelist, so I missed your.

Can you turn the volume up? We're having Houston. That's better. Go ahead.

Okay. I'm Piper Crawford. I'm the civil project engineer for this project at waste management. Um, I am available for any comments for this design. This is, we permitted this through the County of Yamhill, but I'm aware that this is under the Urban Growth Boundary Agreement. So if there are any questions for the design, myself and Dan Velde are here as well.

Go ahead, Robin.

Hi there, I have a couple of questions.

Hi, I have a couple of questions about the queuing lane. So there's going to be four now. How many cars can line up in those four lanes?

Yeah, we did a turning study a little while ago. Let me just pull that up.

How many cars? And I mean, a lot of people have trucks with trailers too.

Yeah, we did a turning study in the conservative estimate with trucks with trailers. Let me just pull that up. If there's any other questions in the meantime, while I pull that up.

I also have another question. So the two lanes going in currently, is that going to be the exit for people or what is going to happen with those lanes?

I'll defer to waste management to answer that question. I believe they're at the meeting.

Your Piper can help. Hi, council. This is Dan Vilde, KPFF project manager. The two existing lanes are planned to both be exits.

Hold on. Hold on just a minute.

He's part of the same.

No, I understand. This is not public comment. You're here to testify. Let me go ahead and close public comment, which I have just done. So now please answer the question. Thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. The two existing lanes, which are one entry and one exit, or two entries right now, will convert one to an exit so that vehicles exiting the facility aren't going through the internals of waste management's site. The hope is dependent on capacity that they could both become exits, but it is possible that one will remain an inbound lane and one will be an exit lane.

And I was able to pull up that turning study and with a conservative estimate with each vehicle pulling a trailer, we can fit 19 additional vehicles in those lanes.

I have another question. This may be for waste management, but are there plans to separate the trucks and trailers? Because I know they have a new area for cars to drop small amounts. Are they going to have another lane? I think that was the thinking, that that would speed the process up. If the small cars could be in one lane and get through faster, do you guys have plans how you're going to organize the traffic, perhaps?

I think we'll defer to waste management on that item. We don't have specific.

Would you guys like to come on up? But obviously council has questions for you. Welcome. Good to see you guys again.

Good evening, Jason Willie, District Manager of Newburgh Operations. Currently at this time, there's not a plan to separate vehicles due to the fact that checking with our safety team, I would have to figure out some way to put a car barricade down there so that my employee wouldn't be ran over in any way. And we haven't come up with a good way to do that this time.

I'm just wondering how many people are lined up on Wynoski right now. Is that about... That will get everybody off Wynoski?

Um... For the last 10 days, we've had two days where there's been cars out on Wynoski. Other than that, they've all been contained on our property. This afternoon was very bad. Earlier in the day, there was three people in line all day long, and at 3 o'clock, it seems like the floodgates opened and everybody in Newburgh had trash to bring to us. Other than that, they've all been contained on property.

I have lots of questions. Should I keep going or does Jerry have a question? So if we pass this, this goes to the county, then when do you guys anticipate you will start building this?

The plan is to start in October.

Completion date?

We don't have a completion date. I'd say estimated would be Dan, do you have a approximate date you would think for this?

It's hard to say depending on how quickly we're able to get a contractor under contract. We will need to behave not in the middle of winter. And so that might be the long lead time here. I think the worst case scenario is this is early summer of 2027 with the best case scenario being end of fall this year.

So I have a question for our staff. I'm not, I'm not quite understanding why we are dealing with this because it's in the county. I know it has to do with the urban growth boundary and urban growth reserve. Can you enlighten us a little more on that?

Yeah, so as part of the urban management agreement, anytime there's development that has health or safety, and you've had a couple partitions come before you recently for future development in UGB or the urban reserve areas, Ian Hill County sends a request to the city for that recommendation before they will approve a project. So as part of that agreement, We're required to give them a recommendation before they issue a decision. Does that answer your question, Mayor?

And if I may add, Mayor Scott Segal, Community Development Director, the Urban Growth Management Agreement specifically says that the City Council, I believe, is to make that recommendation. So that's why it's before you. There are other decisions that the county makes outside of our city limits that are referred to the city for comments routinely, but this is elevated because of the development.

So why aren't we enacting this into the city? Why is it staying in Yamhill County?

So part, and this is a nuanced question, because we have part of the West Transfer Station urban reserve area, which... would then have to be brought into the urban growth boundary area, which is another separate process, a long process. And then we have this small sliver that's in the urban growth boundary that could be annexed. So could the one portion be annexed? Yes, although typically outside of Island, You typically have a property owner petition to annex into the city. In this case, we do not have that, but it's something we could look into further if you would like.

I guess I'm looking for direction from you as to what triggers that decision. Should we be putting them on the path to getting them annexed into the city at the same time, or should we not?

Mayor, I think, you know, we welcome any property owner, institution, commercial, industrial, residential who would like to annex into the city. However, it is a consensual process. So we would work with waste management and maybe to their benefit, actually, to come into the city. We would need to go through that process of amending the urban growth boundary to bring in their entire site so that it would be fully operational and consistent with our zoning guidelines. But we would welcome that conversation with waste management if they're interested. We have demonstrated through our economic opportunities analysis that there's a deficit of industrial land within our urban growth boundaries. So we've taken the first step in evaluating our needs, whether the city would wanna do that or approach that on a parcel by parcel basis or to look at the land needs comprehensively and take a more strategic approach on industrial lands, we would look for your direction on that. is we do have a demonstrated need for approximately, I think it's over 100 acres of industrial land. This would be a relatively small portion of that.

I mean, I don't want to get off the subject too much, but I mean, if we were going to look in the direction that you're suggesting, I think that would be good to look at all that land in there. I mean, is the Cal... cement place is it in the county and the land on the on the West side of that is that also in the county and if so we ought to be looking at bringing that whole chunk in through there into the city.

So cancer McBride so on the map there the the cement plant is within city limits currently so It's kind of hard to see on this screen here, but just to the south of Winooski there, outside of that. Yes, thank you, Rachel. That green line is our urban reserve area there that goes around. The only portion that's currently within the urban growth boundary is that portion, that long skinnier parcel. The rest is all within the urban reserve area currently. So as Director Siegel was talking about as part of the economic opportunities analysis, that could be looked at. There are some constraints just with the flood hazard area there. But most of that is already occupied by a waste management lease at that site.

If I may, not to belabor the point, this is, I believe, a land use application that the owner has filed with the county. So the process, from their perspective, is... they're seeking your comment, your recommendation, you know, under our urban growth management agreement. You know, we're expected to respond to that one way or the other. They're going to process the land use application. So you could choose not to comment or not to make a recommendation or go ahead and make a recommendation. And then the county will process the application.

Okay. So the recommendation is just going to be to allow the queuing lines. It has nothing to do with the land use. Is that right?

That's correct. So they submitted to Yamhill County. So there should be a recommendation to Yamhill County who has the final decision authority on the application currently. We just have the new Mac or the urban management agreement for that recommendation.

And it is worth noting to Planning Director Siegel's comments earlier that We will, of course, be bringing the wider land use issues back to council and considering many possible parcels at that time that may be eligible for swaps among that basket of options. And although that's more sort of residential thinking, we also will have other opportunities to look at industrial land as well and think about what we might be able to do separate from this very narrow issue.

I'm going to go back to the four lanes in. So it sounds like four lanes in and then is it two lanes outbound or is it one lane outbound? I felt like I heard both from...

we've had many discussions on it trying to figure out what we're going to do with the inbound lanes uh when we were originally one of the options we were talking about is customers that have um accounts with us we were going to make that an account only line and then one outbound line so we're virtually giving us five lanes but looking back now with open having the office open you know, Monday through Friday. Now we're thinking that the parking spots up front, we need to be able to utilize those for the residents coming into the office. So we're probably just going to go with one outbound lane so that way those parking spots will be readily available for customers coming to the office. But it's a moving target right now, so we really don't have an idea what we're ultimately going to end up with.

It sounds like the biggest benefit is that this will clear the traffic that can back up out onto Wynoski. I love hearing that there's more outbound capacity, but I also heard you all say that one of the biggest barriers was the speed of residents unloading their own items. So there's still potential for very long waits, maybe. Is that fair? Yeah.

Yeah, good evening, Mayor and City Councilors. I'm Dave Huber, WM's Public Sector Manager. Yeah, there's a couple of components here. This is the first step. And so this is what we really need to get, you know, the roads or Winooski Road, the traffic off the road. So that's the first and foremost, the safety aspect. Once we get them off the road, then we can figure out these fine details, I think, that everybody's kind of asking about and really see what works best in terms of getting the throughput quicker. But once this – we do have a topic here after this is done, just providing some updates as to what we have done, which I think will shed some positive light on – the throughput and things that we've done here just recently.

So we've already had your staff recommendation, which is to approve the resolution. Is there any further discussion? Would somebody like to make a motion? Robin?

I move we adopt resolution number 2026-4037 of

By title only, waive the second reading.

Title only, waive what?

Waive the second reading.

Waive the second reading.

Second. All right, it's been moved and seconded that we approved Resolution 2026-4037 by title only and waive the second reading. Is there any further discussion? Rachel?

Title is Resolution Recommending that Yamhill County approve the proposed four new queuing lanes at the Newburgh Transfer Station at 2904 Northeast Winooski Road, Yamhill County Tax Lot R322801800 and R322801700. All right. Councillor McBride?

Yes.

Councillor Wheatley?

Yes.

Councillor Arnell-Halliman? Yes. Councillor Kilburg? Yes. Mayor Rossacker?

Yes.

Councillor Turgerson? Yes. And Councillor Carman?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you, gentlemen. Will you want to make another report?

Yes, Mayor, if that's okay. So, yes, good evening again. Following our June 15th annual report, As you all know, there were understandable concerns about the conditions at our facility, particularly as customer volumes have increased at our site. We heard that feedback clearly from you, and we viewed it as a call to action. So over the past month, Jason Willie, Jason Brown, they and their team have worked diligently to evaluate those concerns, implement improvements, and invest additional resources where needed. I've joked here recently that Jason, both Jasons went into the conference room, locked the door, hid the key, and didn't come out until they had a plan that would make a real difference. And in reality, they did. They worked tirelessly to develop and implement solutions that are already having a positive impact right now. The letter that is before you, it's part of the packet this evening, summarizes those efforts and the tangible progress that has been made in those areas of safety, traffic flow, customer wait times, and operational efficiency. We appreciate the council's engagement on these issues, and we're committed to being a responsive community partner as we continue to make improvements. With that, I just would like Jason Willey to... speak to those recent actions and improvements quickly.

So we've established a new unloading area on the backside of our transfer station. What we refer to as the Z wall is a concrete pad back there. It was used years ago. We got in contact with DEQ, made sure it was still part of our solid waste permit that we could utilize that space, made sure we're still in compliance for stormwater management under all of our permitting. DEQ approved that. We still had that available to do if we wanted to. So Mr. Brown and myself got a hold of some contractors because it had a handrail that was about six feet in, which would have made it very difficult to offload vehicles there. Got ahold of our safety team, made sure that we could move the handrail, made sure we met all OSHA standards. So we have had that handrail moved out. We've got containers down below. We can stage unloading vehicles, seven vehicles at a time unloading, and we can stage another six to seven on the pathway down to there. And we have a flagger down there that's directing traffic and keep an eye on the container so they don't overflow and material fall on the ground. It's been very beneficial. It took some time to get it all in place. And we're, you know, Brown and I, like Dave said, we locked ourselves in a conference room. I think we're on about plan N and we started at A. So it's practically changed every day since we've implemented this process back there. Increasing outbound. Transportation. Oh, increasing. We talked about a third-party hauler who transports all the waste out of the facility for us, depending on its destination. He managed to find us three more additional trailers to help with capacity coming in. We're slated to get five more new 53-foot possum belly trailers by the end of October, which will then again help us with the loading process. Currently to date, we're behind about five to six trailers a night being able to get that floor clean on a nightly basis. I'm adding operational staffing. Of course, it takes some time. We have got an offer out to another equipment operator. We have one offer out to another scale house attendant. We're hoping to extend another offer for another scale house attendant. Hopefully by the end of this week, we've got some interviews. But with that. The equipment operators being transferred to us from 12 value waste recovery Hillsboro will be starting with us the 1st of August as soon as that new operators there we're going to increase the operational time for our employees are going to be there from 530 in the morning until about 8 o'clock at night trying to process this waste and get out as fast as possible. Typically we go to summer hours Memorial Day to Labor Day those hours are going to be year-round going forward will be 7AM to 5PM for the public. And if we need to look at increasing the hours for the public coming in to dump, we will take a look at that. But if we can manage it in that time year round, that's what we plan on doing. We may need to take a look at that. We may need to expand it, but we don't know at this time until we start doing some more research and some studies on that process.

Thank you, Jason. I think it's important to note, too, that, as I mentioned, we were here in front of you with our annual report back on June 15th. They locked themselves in the conference room. July 2nd, they made those changes. If anybody has frequented Wynoski Road since July 2nd, you have noticed a huge improvement there. With the traffic flow, there's only been maybe two, three days where there's been vehicles out on Winooski, which is a testament to that back area that they've been able to utilize since then. So now we still need those QE lanes that you just approved, but it's made a huge difference just already. So it's great to see. Finally, I would just like to remind everyone that our office is available and open to the public Monday through Friday, 12 to 5 p.m. Daymarie is there to answer or take care of any service-related matters. The email to contact her is NewburghOregonOperations at WM.com, and that is posted on our Newburgh website. We would also like to come back in a few months to provide further updates. And on behalf of all of our WM Newburgh team, we thank you for your trust in providing the best solid waste services to our community here in Newburgh. With that, open it up to any further questions that you may have.

Well, actually, I've been going by recently and just looking, and you're right, the traffic isn't on Wynoski like it used to be. But I went to the dump last Friday with a small pickup load, and I was directed to go down behind the facility to this smaller area for residential loads. And I thought that was really, really good. to have that set up. I think that was a good move on your guys's part. Um, and it seemed to, for us that had smaller loads there, it just was easier to get in, get it unloaded and then get out. So, uh, thanks for, for paying attention to, you know, our concerns and, and fixing it. And I think this four lane is going to be really, really good. I, That's going to be a huge improvement.

I agree with Councillor McBride. Thank you. And I also want to just sincerely say thank you for taking our comments so seriously and taking action so quickly. And in a large corporation, I know that can be really hard. So thank you for doing that. One update, I had committed to doing some research legwork from the legislative side. I'm happy to hear that you got DEQ to do something positive for us all. But there is a committee right now, there's a joint committee on solid waste for the Willamette Valley that's currently underway through the legislature. And I attended that last Friday or the Friday before. And I think it's really important that we as a council stay up to date on that committee. That committee is really tasked to develop a solution for the Willamette Valley for solid waste. I know that waste management has alternative options as well, and we're lucky to have access to some of those options. But I don't believe – I believe that there will be large increases to – solid waste across our region when we fully understand the impact of the denial of the Coffin Butte pub. I don't think we know what those are. And I think it's important that common sense people like ourselves have a seat at that table at the joint committee because they're making highly, highly, in my opinion, what will be cost increased decisions. And so I do think that this is an opportunity since it seems like, I feel like we've had alignment on this issue for us to try to take some action together to at least, I think that would be the area where we would want to write a joint letter So that's the first thing. Second, I wonder if it would be possible, and this is not a requirement, obviously, but I think we don't always do the best job in government of rounding back. And we wait until a complaint happens to circle back to have some progress or accountability. So I'm wondering if it would be possible. possible to develop some KPIs to report back in a more frequent nature since we have we have received each one of us lots of concerns around customer service um and I you know one of those I would really appreciate if you're going to have the cameras on the exterior of the building would be um wait time at your average wait time for weekday and weekends and by So what are you experiencing on a seven-day trend or a five-day trend for weekday and then two-day trend for weekend for 7 to 9 a.m. and then 9 a.m. Do an actual scale. And then also giving a comparative to other transfer stations. So what is that in comparison to one in a region nearby? Okay. And then thirdly, I also continue to hear customer service complaints of just service. And so I think that a KPI around that of service Um, specifically trash not being picked up at people's homes. I will say I have been one of them recently and it's super frustrating. And even the video camera footage sent to my house was of someone else's home. Um, so I think there's a myriad of issues under underway, and I think that this is an opportunity because you are so engaged to try to really demonstrate to the community that we're taking it seriously.

Let me address the wait time thing. As yesterday, we sat down with the office staff and we came up with a form. as of yesterday, and we're going to start handing out to people in line. So we will know that if you're at the corner of the building, we're going to hand you a piece of paper and say, turn us into scallops when you get there. So we'll be able to tell the corner of the building to dump in is about this time from the edge of the street to dump in is this time. Four cars back in line is about this wait time. So we've implemented that, and we're going to actively, that's why Mr. Huber would like to come back in a couple months, give you guys some more updates, and hopefully have you some solid data on that. And at the same time, we can give our partners at Hillsboro and one of the metro facilities and bring some data on that as well. And then we, if we'll bring back data on missed pickups for the entire city and we can pull a lot of data for that kind of stuff and bring to us. Yep.

So I would also like to say, I go into the dump on a fairly regular basis for my business. And it's, From the beginning of this year, it is about a two-hour trip to get in line and get up to where I can dump my garbage. The last two times, which were obviously both in July, I was able to pull off of the street. when I approached into your driveway, which is a big improvement, and the times are down to about an hour. So that's a lot of production that you guys are saving for contractors out there. Please keep it up, and thank you for getting that handled.

And to be helpful, any data that you do derive, like KPIs or a link to the URL for the camera, we'll be glad to mirror that on the city webpage just so that even more eyeballs are on it.

On the camera, was that when the lanes were done being built or now?

I met with a contractor last Thursday to start getting bids to put some additional cameras at the facility, and that was one of them.

Excellent.

So we're good. Gentlemen, thank you very much. Good to see you all.

Yeah, thank you.

All right. The next item on our agenda is the library internet policy. How are you today?

Good evening, Mayor and Councillors. I'm Cori Burkle, Library Director. I'll keep this short and sweet. A few weeks ago now, I came to you for the first read-through of the Request for Council action for an update of our library internet policy. So today, my recommendation is... that the City Council approved the updated internet policy as reviewed by legal counsel. The Library Advisory Board approved the policy before slight changes were made by legal counsel. So the policy will go back to the Library Advisory Board when they next meet in September of 2026. Are there any questions for me?

All right. Very reasonable policy. Would somebody like to make a motion? Please.

Yeah, I read it. It's just very common sense and reasonable. So I move that we adopt the updated library policy, internet policy.

Second that.

All right. It has been moved and seconded that we adopt resolution 2020. Yeah. 20, 26, 40, 43. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you, Corey.

Thank you.

And next is our intergovernmental agreement to provide court services for Dundee. Don't let me forget you.

Save the best for last, right?

Obviously not.

I just had to keep it exciting. Okay. So as you guys probably saw on the RCA, so we've been in talks with Dundee about absorbing their court procedures. So After sitting over in this core area when we were flooded, there would be lots of residents who would come in with a citation and we'd say, oh, you have to go pay that in Dundee because you were cited in Dundee. And so I think it gets a little confusing for people because they don't realize that we're two separate entities and all that. So administratively, I think it makes sense for us to absorb that. their court because it's our officers doing the citations. And then they would just come to one court instead of having two separate courts because it can get confusing. So do you have anything you want to say on some of this?

Yeah, some of the things that would streamline as well as Dundee has a night court that meets once a month. So You could actually, and we have to supply a bailiff for that as well, because it has to be just like Newburgh Municipal Court. So that would be a better schedule as well. We don't have officers going to court during the day and then also at night. It would just be narrowed down to one court. I think it would further cement the relationship that we already have with the two cities and share the same police department. And like Katie said, it would just streamline things and make it a lot easier.

Yeah. And Dundee's court currently only meets once a month and our court meets weekly. So it just makes more sense to get people in and out and seen quicker for any citations or if they want to talk to the judge. It makes it a lot quicker rather than having to wait a whole month or longer, depending on how booked up their dockets are for court. So looking at their citations, so the citations that Dundee gets varies between 25 to 100 a month, which is not a lot of activity. If you compare to what we do, we do about 500 to high 600s a month. So administratively for our court staff, there wouldn't be any new FTE needed. This would not be any additional work for us to take on for our existing staff. And it would be relatively easy for us to fit in the extra citations for this so working with the dundee city manager, we came up with an agreement, based on the last three years of revenue we did kind of an average, which is how we came up with the 55,000 citation revenue. that Dundee has been receiving. And so we took a 70-30 split. So we would take approximately a 30% administrative fee to process that. And so basing it off of the 55,000, we would just give them a flat rate of 3,200 a month. And then we would just keep the remainder of that. because we're expecting citation numbers to be relatively the same as they've been in the past. And so we're going to reevaluate that after a year and see if that still makes sense. And if it doesn't, we can come up with a different, maybe a different reporting system or something like that. But just doing a flat rate seemed easiest for us to do this right now rather than having to do by paid citation because we have people who, you know, get on payment plans or it just gets really confusing when you do it that way. So if we just do a flat rate, then they were good with that and we were fine with that as well.

Okay.

Totally supportive. Just some logistical questions. I like anything when we can combine services with Dundee. Wish we could do that with water. And still think we can. But I don't believe that it's going to be no staff time increase. I am the queen of overcommitting. And every time I've ever done an assessment like this, I always try to say it's not going to be a staff time increase, but 100 additional even. However many FTU have the spread over 500, you know, I just don't see that. And so obviously I trust you and I trust you. And if you say you're good, then I'm good. But I just think that you're going to need more. Um, and I also just worry because those a hundred, those a hundred citations have to go somewhere within our current court docket. And so obviously ours will have to be extended. That's more dedicated FTE. I don't know how much, if that increases the judges FTE or just transferred over or whatever, but I just want us to be mindful of it. And all of us like really take note that this could be a budget ask next year. Um, and that we may need to go to Dundee and, uh, I think that you're saying we would get 30% of it. Yeah. Like, no, we get 70 and they can have 30. You know, I like, sorry, mayor Ford, but I just, why, why do they get 70? What are they doing? Do you want to, they should even get zero.

I mean, I liked that approach, but I'm serious though. What are they doing?

I know if we're processing it, we're citing them. We're processing it. We are conducting court. We're probably like, no, We're doing all of your public safety. So we get all of your public safety revenue.

One of the things that's written into the RCA is that we can evaluate it in a year and see where we're at, see those asks. You know, I would say that They're canceling their court. They still pay for three police officers. So when they're assigned, we're their police officers. So it is their city. So it's similar to what we have in Newburgh. All the fines that come through Newburgh go to Newburgh. Typically, the fines always go, if it's municipal court, they stay in Dundee already anyway. So they're collecting 100% of the money now. But Katie has worked out that it would be a 70-30 split.

And it's because they already pay for the officers. Yeah. So I get that. You don't do expenses. And if you don't, yeah, expenses are going to have to follow. But I still think we should be like on the table with them. But 3070 potentially needs to change. Yeah.

And I think it might. And to address some of the staffing stuff. So our judge, we pay the judge a flat fee. fee monthly. And we have him technically booked for an eight hour day, all day Tuesday. He's never had to stay that long, but technically he is ours all day for that at the rate that we pay. And then we did an evaluation when we were looking at the types of citations. Most of them are typically ones that you wouldn't go to court for necessarily. Most people would probably qualify for traffic school, which is a simple phone call and paperwork or they might just pay it online. So it wouldn't, most of the ones were not heavy workload involved, which also took into consideration because we were looking at the types of citations that they were cited for typically. But that is a good point. I mean, we did look into that too about, you know, with extra workload, is it worth the fines, the money that we were gonna get for that? And so it for sure will be something that we reevaluate in a year to see if it still makes sense.

I think it's important to Katie and I both went to the court administrator. She, she was thoughtful, but didn't blink an eye. So, you know, we, we, we certainly weren't forcing this on her at all. We just asked, actually started a conversation with me asking, Hey, could you, could you handle this amount of increase in citations without adding people? And like I said, thoughtful, but was not a big deal. But I do like that we can evaluate it in a year.

Yeah. Yeah.

And you're talking about the strain on staff. Is this like one, if every one of these went to court, this is like one to five a day in traffic court.

Is that it? I doubt it is even that much. Yeah. Yeah. I think I can't give you a solid numbers or I wouldn't swear to it because I don't know for sure, but I think most people call and go through the violations Bureau. And like I said, we're having, I mean, if the judges, when he's actually, On the bench, I would say maybe an hour, hour and a half. So, I mean, I think a lot of people are taking care of that administratively versus actually coming to court.

What about it? Oh, well. I just wanted to mention that Courtney is a very strong negotiator and Katie is a very strong negotiator too.

I was aware at least with that. I'm like, we should get everything.

I had to talk Katie off the wall.

Would anybody like to make a motion?

Derek? I move that we adopt resolution 2026-4039.

Second.

Been moved and seconded to adopt resolution number 2026-4039. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, all in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. All opposed? Motion passes unanimously. Thank you.

Thank you.

And the last item on our agenda, saving the best for last.

Sorry, Katie.

Is Jerry's report on the River Street Committee.

Yes. So we had our third River Street ad hoc committee meeting this last Thursday. It was a really good meeting. So that meeting brought us back up from a timeline standpoint to where we were when we decided to pause and initiate the ad hoc. So we have had some really incredible community input. I want to call out Mr. Jim Talt for all of his work. engineering drawing work that he has done. We took the initial plan, the engineering team through Keller finessed it a little bit and brought a full role plot that we could look at from a committee standpoint, which gave us the opportunity to kind of look at what this might look like block by block throughout River Street. We had some really great questions from the members of our ad hoc committee. They have clearly spent lots of time talking with members both on and off River Street and I think had a lot of really good input. So I think it was exciting to get to a point where we felt like we could really visualize a plan and potentially what that plan could look like. And then we also, I think the difficult part of our meeting this last week, we had some really incredible expert guests who came and spent some time with us from the Oregon Department of Forestry. They were someone that I was connected with through some members from River Streets. They have been incredibly gracious with their time. answering all of my questions. And then they actually came and spent the afternoon here in Newburgh on Thursday. So they met with members of the city and then we went out and spent a very long portion of time walking River Street, looking at the trees, reviewing trees, talking about kind of the impact that construction would have. And they have some really wonderful recommendations that I think we're going to be able to put into a plan for the trees. Ultimately, Their recommendation was that all of the trees on River Street would need to be removed, which was, I think, hard to hear at that last meeting. So we ended that last meeting. We made a motion and approved the TALT plan as a plan that we would be moving forward for recommendation to the city. We also made a... What did we call it? A... It was a statement to go in the RFP around the importance that, thank you, give me the word I'm missing.

The motion was that a primary objective of the RFP would be to retain the existing curb width to avoid, as much as possible, taking people's front yard area.

So we think for the vast majority of spaces, we will be able to stay within that 58 foot. The intersections with the ADA might be a little bit tricky, but I know the engineers are already kind of, they've responded to some questions with really great feedback. So. We are scheduled for our next, we will have one more meeting in August where we are hopefully going to dig into the tree plan and tree recommendation with the guidance and the feedback from ODF and hopefully ongoing citizen and community input so that we can come up with a really solid tree plan with the hope that in September, we will be able to make a full, one of the city council meetings, but if I can get on the agenda, that we can make a full recommendation, which will include the plan, a tree replacement plan and prioritization around some RFP guidelines for both trees and width. So they've been very long meetings to this point, but I feel like we've made it through some pretty difficult both technical and emotional content. And then this next meeting will be really solely focused on trees. That is my status update.

I would just like to say that if nothing else comes out of this committee, they chose a cross-section that was not one of the original drawings that we had provided to them. So if nothing better comes out of it, we at least have the citizens' recommendation for a very reasonable cross-section, which in my mind accomplishes all of the goals that I had set out. So thank you very much. Well, 7.54, this meeting's adjourned.