Remarks by Lacey Beaty
32 remarks on the record, newest first · Page 1 of 2
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“I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT TO YOU GUYS THAT IT'S MUCH HARDER THAN IT LOOKS TO FACILITATE A MEETING, COUNCILOR DUGGER, SO GOOD JOB ON THAT ONE.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Thank you. I have items. So I'm going to start with the first one. To ask the council support in directing the city manager to ensure that our contracts require consultants and contractors working on the city behalf to follow this AI policy or create their own. Our standards are responsible. Sorry, Mayor.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I'd like us to ask for the council's support in directing the city manager to ensure that our contracts require consultants and contractors working on the city's behalf to follow the city's AI policy. Our standards for responsible AI use should apply to work performed for the city regardless of who performs it. And so we have a policy on this so they could take language from our own. or create their own. It's already part of the city's, when they sign contracts, that people have to follow the city's rules. But we don't often say what they are or what it is. So I would like us to add into the…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“It's all right to go on to the second one.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I mean, I think my concerns are, you know, we contract with a lot of culturally responsive organizations, and I worry about directing people that if they receive city funds that they can't block people. I mean, I think... this incidence is very different and it's one-off, but like a blanket policy from the city. And like, where does it end? If you get $5,000 per storefront improvement and you're a local restaurant, do you no longer have the ability to control your own social media? And I worry about a violation of the first amendment here and that we're trying to direct things. And so this is…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Okay. I want to chime in here as the person driving this. I've already talked to our IT director about researching best practices for nonprofits that aren't us. And so I guess I'm confused from the city attorney on how much work it would be required to add sentencing to ongoing contracts.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“So, Mayor, are you okay with that if the city attorney comes back with... Yeah, I'm real interested because I just don't understand the city attorney's pushback about adding a sentence to contracts going forward. Like, this is routine. We go through every contract as it's coming. So, I guess I don't see this as a massive lift. It's already... in our policy that they have to do this. So I would welcome back a worksheet from the city attorney on the workload expectation because I'm not seeing his concern the same way. So maybe him and I can, I'm interested in him coming back because I think…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, the other thing I'd like us to think about is a religious and cultural observance. Members of the council in our community have raised concern about city meetings and events conflicting with important religious and cultural observations. These conflicts can create real barriers to participation. And I'd like to ask for the council's support in directing the city manager to develop a policy to help avoiding, to avoid scheduling council meetings and major city events during significant observations whenever reasonably possible to avoid reasonable accommodations when conflicts cannot be…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Cool my last item is earlier this week or earlier this year I brought an intern a PhD level intern from osu to work in our office. He worked with finance and the city manager's office to research a potential fee for ride share trips beginning or ending in the city of beaverton. The report provided a good starting point, but additional work is needed. I'd like to ask the council's support in directing the city manager to continue evaluating this option and return to council with a more reliable revenue estimate, policy considerations, and staff resources and timeline needed. I know as we're…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm supportive of it going forward. My concerns have been, and this isn't anything that I haven't shared with the Northwest Carpenters and other people. I've talked about this. It's the enforcement capacity that I'm really worried about with staff. And so in that workload subgroup, I'd really like to understand what it's going to do to the permitting process. And yeah, when Councillor Duggar talked to me about this, I encouraged him to reach out to developers too. And like, we need to have a full understanding of, you know, what will this do in the process? And then what happens? Like,…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Mayor? I just want to confirm that you talked to the judge and the court staff about adding this and, like, their capacity to do this.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, I'm supportive of it going forward, but I think we need to – I think, you know, as the council, we tend to focus on, like, the attorney side of the house, like draft – We need to consider the impact to the rest of the organization. And we're down a judge. And like, do we actually have the mechanism to do this kind of like hear these kind of lawsuits? And so like, I'm supportive, but I need that when it comes back from the judge to know that like our court can actually handle this because this doesn't match the language of Foley and their fair housing. So if we can't handle it here, If…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Yeah, I mean, I think we're going to have to rack and stack based on the workload and timing. And I think we need to rely on the city manager to kind of help us with that since we give her the work plan for the year coming back with a timetable and agenda. And if we don't like the timetable and agenda from the team, then I think we should move the priorities around. But I think relying on our professional staff to give us a timeline and what they can do when I think would be a good step.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“In the same vein that I brought in a PhD-level student, we did send to the council quite a lengthy document on gross receipt tax. We are hitting some walls with the state on releasing some money. This is a monumental lift of staff time. The city manager and I have talked about it. I've talked about it to the council president. I don't think this is something we can turn around for the fall. I mean, we just had a PhD-level student spend an exorbitant amount of time researching this, and it's really difficult with our borders, and we need to have a legal opinion if we can even do this, because…”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“I think it's a monumental ask. So I think we need to hear from the rest of the council. And I think you guys got the report and the concerns previously from the city manager. And so I think removing the timeline of the fall is easy. I think this is a pretty big project.”
City Council · Sep 15, 2026
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“Here. Thank you. On tonight's agenda, we will begin with an executive session. We will go into public session at approximately 6 p.m. with the first reading of an ordinance and then conclude with a work session on fiscal sustainability. We have an executive session pursuant of ORS 192.6620 to consider matters related to safety of a governing body and of public body staff and volunteers and the security of a public body facility and meeting space. Generally, members of news media may attend executive session. However, the news media must not report on information from the executive session.…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“WE ARE ALREADY IN SESSION, SO WE ARE RETURNING FROM EXECUTIVE MEETING. WE WILL BEGIN WITH THE FIRST READING OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 4884LU32026-00094, SCHOLE HEIGHTS AND SCHOLE VALLEY HEIGHTS PUD MOD ZAM A32026-0081. On September 15th, 2026, during the regularly scheduled city council meeting, a public hearing will be held regarding an ordinance amending the zoning map for five parcels in the Shoals Heights and Shoals Valley Heights PUD LU32026-00094, Shoals Heights and Shoals Valley Heights PUD MODSCMA32026-0081. Okay, we are on to our work session for this evening, which is a work session…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I THINK WE SHOULD DO A LITTLE BIT OF QUESTIONS BEFORE WE MOVE INTO THE NEXT ONE. THAT WAY I KNOW I COULD SEE THE COUNCIL FEVERISHLY WRITING. SO LET'S TRY TO PUT A, THIS COULD GO ON FOREVER. SO AT THIS JUNCTURE I'M ONLY GOING TO ALLOW IF YOU CHIME IN ONE ROUND OF QUESTIONS. YOU CAN'T COME BACK IN 11 TIMES BECAUSE WE NEED TO MOVE FORWARD TO THE NEXT ITEM, WHICH I KNOW IS UNCHARACTERISTIC, BUT I WANT TO GET US TO THE END TO BE ABLE TO ASK MORE QUESTIONS. I DO WANT TO ASK, I'LL START Tell me how you frame and came to this because I'm surprised at some of it in it And I'm surprised that I don't…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I guess I was looking at like was staff outside of the executive team consulted with this?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Council, any questions? Please tip your card if you have any. Councillor Husson.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“For the record, I would view that as a question, not a comment.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Yeah, I would say, when I look at these council goals, they're not gonna change much, and rather than go through an exercise where we wordsmith what good governance means, I think we have lacked the ability to have that in-depth conversation, which is why I think the city manager is kind of recommending that we go that path, so just keep that in mind.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Councilor Titor, first to the gate. Oh, you were first. Were you first? Did Councilor Hartmeyer pray? She's hiding behind the computer. She's so skinny now I didn't even see her.”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“Spoken like a true marketing person. We'll be switching out the banner this year to put the dollar in. And I will tell you, because I think Jocelyn is sitting over there, we drive to Salem together probably 25 times a year and talk about this. Anytime you're welcome to drive down with us and I will tell you that this is a. Massive topic of conversations with local government and showed up in the governor's prosperity council recommendations. But the problem is the state legislature does not rely on property taxes they rely on income taxes there's no incentive for the state legislature. to…”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026
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“I'm trying to sum up kind of where council's at to give closing remark feedback at the end. Can you help me understand what you mean by make the community whole? You'll support cuts if we make the community whole. Like, what do you mean by that?”
City Council · Sep 8, 2026