City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening. Today is April 15, and we all know what day that is. So, hopefully, everybody got their taxes in and postmarked because, you know, they're not postmarking everything all the time. I'd like to call the meeting to order and welcome everybody in tonight. We have a very, very busy meeting tonight, but we have a lot of joy tonight at our first part of our meeting, so I'm glad to see the room is filled with friends and family. So I'd like to, call the meeting to order and ask for the roll call, please.

Commissioner Hadamaro? Here. Commissioner Rocky Smith? Here. Commissioner Scott Wilson? Here. Commissioner Mike Mitchell? Here. And mayor Denise McGriff? Present.

So on our agenda, we have a flag salute. So if you are able to stand, please join us in the flag salute. I pledge allegiance to the flag of The

United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

So it is my pleasure to turn the first item under three a over to chief Sean Davis.

Good evening, mayor commission. As you just said, it's a very special night. We're swearing in two of our newest officers. So if I can invite up officer Aguilar and officer Cristo Faro. When they're coming up, I'm gonna read just a little bit about them. Harry Aguilar, he was hired on March 26. He was born and raised in McMinnville. He graduated from McMinnville High School, and he's currently attending Western Oregon University, where he's set to graduate this June with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a minor in psychology. So congratulations to Aaron on that. Before being hired, he worked in manufacturing, building cabinetry, as well as having an internship at the Yamhill County Sheriff's Office.

Away from work, he likes to enjoy his dog, taking him on walks, and being out in in nature. Unfortunately, his parents, his father, Ramaldo Aguilar, and his mom, Luisa, were not able to be here, but his aunt and uncle and and niece sorry, cousin, is here tonight. So I'd like to recognize them for

So family, raise your hand. His family, raise your hand so we can see you. Thank you.

Alright. And then, I'd like to introduce, Nicholas Christofaro. He was hired March 30. Nick is a hometown kid. He was born and raised here in Oregon City. He graduated from Oregon City High School and and, has attended Clackamas Community College, where he's still working

on his degree. Nick was

a Clackamas County sheriff's cadet. Away from work, he likes enjoying traveling and exploring. Tonight with him, he has his mom, Tracy Buckholz, his stepdad, Brian Buckholz, his dad, Nick Crisaparo, and many friends and family. And I there's there's a lot here, so I can't introduce them all, it's it's great to see when family comes out here and supports. It's a special day for them. It's a special day for us and a special day for our community. So I like to have them just raise their hands.

Yeah. Thanks, family. Raise your hand. Alright. Happy audience. Okay. Awesome.

So both Arian and Nick are going to currently going through our pre academy training. They start the sixteen week basic academy on April 27, and they're slated to graduate August 28. So we're excited to have both of them on our force, join our department, and we look forward to them serving our community long into the future.

Thank you. You ready? I'm signing your life away. And, come on up,

and you're gonna just read this. So raise your right hand. Go right ahead. I, Ari Nagilar, do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of The United States and the constitution of the state of Oregon. I will abide by the law enforcement code of ethics and the department's rules and regulations while faithfully performing my duties as a police officer for Oregon City, Oregon. Congratulations.

I should sign your name. We'll wait a minute. You're looking for that fabulous pen. Just hang tight, and we're gonna do a whole bunch of pictures. Alright. So oh, incorrect. Congratulations. Thank you. Alright. Raise your right hand.

I, Nicholas Cristoferro, do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of The United States and the constitution of the state of Oregon. I will abide by the law enforcement code of ethics and the department's rules and regulations while faithfully performing my duties as a police officer for Oregon City, Oregon.

And sign your wife away. I'll give you all photos all the photo ops. This is

the fun part. Yep.

So we'll just wait a minute. So we have plenty of seats. So people hanging out in the back, come on up and sit in the seat. So, Hannah, are you gonna come up and introduce this? So next on our agenda is, the winners of the Oregon City If I Were Mayor contest.

I'd to like introduce our staff, Hannah Schmidt. Good evening, mayor McGriff and commissioners.

My name is Hannah Schmidt. I'm the community engagement specialist for the city of Oregon City. I'm here tonight to be able to aid mayor McGriff and our youth advisory commission chair, Justin Evers Evers, not Evers, Evers, in awarding our If I Mayor contest winners. So for those who don't know, the If I Are Mayor contest is held at the state level for ages all the way from fourth grade to twelfth grade. There's a poster category for fourth and fifth grade students, a essay category for middle school students, and then a multimedia category for high school students. So tonight, mayor McGriff and our youth advisory commission chair are going to be awarding our lovely contestant winners.

Well, let me do a little more background on that. So the, If I Were Mayor contest is a is a contest that's sponsored by Association. So in Oregon, we have 241 cities. Not all of them are members of the OMA, but most of them are. And they've been doing this contest for probably about twenty years or so.

This is only our third time entering, the contest, and we have been very fortunate that we've had two statewide winners in the last two years, and we're gonna have number three this time as well. So that, they'll be announced in in August 2026. So the Oregon Mayor's Conference is being held in Ashland, Oregon, and one of the features of that, event is to announce the winners of the If I Were Mayor contest. So the purpose of it is is to instill, in our students some civics in a lot of ways to talk about things that, what goes on in the state. And the mayor's association created this to basically help students understand how their city government works.

So Justin and I are gonna come up, and we're going to, have you be introduced to our winners. And we wanna thank everybody that submitted an application and a poster and an essay in our contest because that's what's that's what this all about, and we hope to have more next year. Okay. I'd like to call up, Lily Chase. Thank you so much for coming tonight.

Who's who's Lily's family? Right. So come in the middle between the two of us. Justin's gonna see him on that side. So Lily was our third place poster winner, and we, she goes to Holcomb Elementary School, she's in the fourth grade. And, I'd like to present you with her certificate and an award of $25 for your fabulous poster. We wanna thank you so much for entering.

As a staff member, I myself am not evaluating the youth advisory commit or the if I were mayor posters. We did have six staff members who assisted in judging the essays this year in the multimedia entry. Something that I personally loved about, Lily's poster is that she emphasized that if Lily was mayor, that she

would

emphasize that staff members should have more allocated break time

sessions because

city employees get burnt out. So all of our contestant winners were amazing, but that was a particular aspect of Lily's poster that stood

out to me. Writing going on. Right?

Thank you so much.

You so much. You. Okay. Next, we'd like to next, we'd like to bring up our second prize poster winner. That is Olivia Cain. Come on up, Olivia. And here it is right here. Here. Let me pull that, Justin. Hang on So, Olivia is in the fifth grade, and she goes to Candy Lane Elementary School.

And hats off to Candy Lane. They're our most prolific entry people, so we love that. They've done such a great job. So Olivia is our second place winner, and here's her poster. And, some of the things she talked about is that she would have meals for the homeless and school gardens. So that was pretty good. She'd get rid of graffiti too, and, we would be getting electric cars and bikes. So, congratulations, and we'll have you hold that too. And let's put that behind. You can actually have Justin's wallet.

So we'll get another picture. Alright. And now for our first place winner, as we make the exchange here. And I'm particularly excited about this one. Now these were all blind because we didn't see who the people were, but this is, Aaliyah Gilrosales.

And that should sound familiar because her older sister entered the contest and was our second place winner statewide. So come on up. And she is in the fifth grade and again from our friends Elementary School. So mom's been up here. This is the second time. So hold on to that, Justin.

There you go.

Thank you very much. Couple of features she had on her poster was, addressing homelessness, drug addiction, pollution, community healing. So big sis, stand up. Thank you so much. Congratulations. And you'll be entered into the state contest. So let's go for number two this time that you'll win the whole thing. K? Alright. Thank you.

Okay. Next, I'd like to bring up our first place essay winner is Miriam Wolf. She is in the sixth grade at Gardner Middle School, and we wanna thank you so much for entering. So here, I'll have you hold that, Justin. We'll get this turned around.

And

an exciting anecdote about Miriam is that Miriam was actually our third place poster contest winner last year, and now she's our first place essay winner this year. Unfortunately, Miriam will have to until high school to be able to enter again because she's won first place, and there's nothing better than that.

That's right. Yeah. So one of the tenets of Miriam's poster is that she said that the mayor is an important part of our government. They represent cities at meetings, and our role model for how our town should act and how we should respond to things. And the mayor has lots of ideas about how to make their city better. They have an opportunity to share, and here are some things she would do. So she's got here, distributing hygiene products, opportunities for active care for environment, food insecurity is an issue. And then she says, your money is important, but knowing that you're not alone is really, really important. So she says, in closing, if I were mayor, my focus would be on the well-being of kids and teens. It's important to me that the next generation care about our society and be better than the one before, starting with health, health as kids.

When young people are supported and healthy, they grow into adults who can make our community strong. A mayor's job isn't just to make sure the city survives, but it's to help our city thrive. With the help from our community, we can make our city the best it can be. Thank you, Miriam. And, this is exciting because this was our first place essay post, video contest.

Last year's was Justin, did not participate as an advisory member. So this is our second entry. So I'd like to call up Zuri Zhao. She is a what does it say on there? She is a tenth grader sophomore at Oregon City High School. So let's give her a round of applause. And this is really exciting because, again, this one will also be entered into the event for the Oregon Mayors Conference. Let me give you that, and then I'm going put this down. I'm going to hand that to you.

And so all of you know, in the back of the room, there is a QR code for everyone not to only be able to see Zeri's entry for the video of the multimedia section, but also all the other entries you can be able to take a better look at. These winners will also be featured at the library for the next month. So starting tomorrow, if you head over to the library over in the Carnegie Hall, there'll be a certain area where you can be able to see the posters, the essay, and the multimedia presentation on display for the April 16 through mid May. So thank you to all of our contestant entries and winners.

So it'll actually be in the in the old Carnegie Library section, but Carnegie Hall is in New York. So we won't that. But while we're here, I'd like the members of our, the members of our youth advisory commission who are here in the audience tonight to stand and be recognized. So Max, where are you? There we are.

So Max, Emma, Hadley, Hadley, and Justin, who's our chair. Thank you for coming, and thank you for participating with us. So just so you know, I've thrown down the gauntlet, so we seem to have multiple year winners from the cities of Lake Oswego and Albany. So mayor Buck, mayor Johnson, it's on. Alright.

Next on our agenda, we have two proclamations this evening. The first one is recognizing, Sam's month, which is sexual assault awareness month, and I'd like to read that. And we have do we have people from the county here tonight? So you guys can come on up while I'm reading because I know you're gonna have something very wonderful and exciting for us to hear. So you can come on up while I'm reading it.

Thank you. So whereas April marks sexual assault awareness month, SAAM, a time to honor twenty five years of progress and recommit to creating safer communities for all, this year's theme, twenty five years looking back, moving forward, celebrates the resilience of survivors and the communities that have worked for change. And whereas for twenty five years, SAAM has supported survivors, raised awareness, inspired action to prevent sexual assault, abuse, and harassment. As we reflect on how far we have come, we also recognize the work that lies ahead. And whereas prevention starts with all of us, it is in how we support each one another, practice consent, and create spaces that are rooted in care and respect.

When we act with intention, we move closer to the future free from violence, and whereas we honor the survivors who have shared their stories and the advocates who have led the way. Their courage reminds us that prevention is possible and that each of us has a role to play. And whereas statistics show most women and men across all sexual identities who experience consensual contact sexual violence report that a person who has harmed them in some way they knew, and whereas one in five women in The United States experienced completed or attempted rape during their lifetime with approximately half, fifty one point one percent, of female victims reporting an intimate partner as the perpetrator and forty point eight percent reporting an acquaintance. And whereas one in three female victims and one in four male victims have completed or attempted rape experience in it for the first time between the ages of 11 and 17. And whereas as we look to the next twenty five years, we renew our commitment to building a future free from sexual violence.

Together, we continue to strengthen prevention, support healing, and create communities where everyone feels safe and valued. Now, therefore, I, mayor Denise Siegel Griff, declare April 2026 as sexual assault awareness month and encourage all residents to support survivors, learn more about prevention, and work together to build community rooted in respect, dignity, and safety for all. Thank you. Yep. Green button.

There we go. Okay. Good evening. I'm Erin Ritchie, the training and outreach manager at Clackamas Women's Services. We thank you, mayor McGriff and members of the commission for having us and for, again, proclaiming April as sexual assault awareness month.

Every year in April, we look for we bring forward the issue of sexual violence, witness the strength and perseverance of survivors, acknowledge the crucial work of advocates and service providers, and engage our community through our collaborative work group coordinating local awareness activities and events throughout the month. We know that one month alone isn't enough to solve this serious issue. However, the more we bring awareness and educate folks, the more allies we gather to support survivors and prevent sexual violence from happening in the first place. We've been recognizing sexual assault awareness month for twenty five years now, and as we look forward, we will continue to create safer communities together where everyone can live free from sexual violence. Thank you for being a vital part of this movement.

Thank you very much. Do you want to announce the event that's happening? Absolutely. I have a

couple events. That's okay. Yeah. Through sexual assault awareness month, a work group at the A Safe Place Family Justice Center, we planned a full month of awareness activities. First, A Safe Place has partnered with the OC Public Works once again to stream teal lights on the Oregon City municipal elevator all month long to bring awareness to the issue of sexual violence.

Tomorrow, April 16 at 2PM, the district attorney's office is hosting a public event at the Circle Of Honor Courtyard at the Clackamas County Courthouse to honor victims of crime through strength, support, and hope. Community members can join us to learn more through about survivor services and support, survivors of crime. We also, on April 20, in collaboration with Ant Farm Youth Services and Clackamas Women's Services, will be hosting a community conversation about how we can all support survivors in our lives as friends, family members, and neighbors. Anyone is welcome to attend the event at the Ant Farm Youth Hub in Estacada on April 20 at 05:30. And lastly, on April 29, it's international known internationally as Denim Day, where people across the globe wear jeans with the purpose to show support for survivors, educate themselves and others on all the forms of sexual violence.

So

we have a variety

of things. Good. Thank you so much, and we have a we have the proclamation for you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Next, it's my pleasure to have the library staff come forward. So our proclamation is National Library Week. Whereas libraries spark creativity, fuel imagination, connect people with knowledge, and inspire lifelong learning, and whereas libraries serve as a vibrant community hubs fostering civic engagement, critical thinking, and cultural enrichment, and whereas libraries provide free and equitable access to books, technology, innovative programming, ensuring that all individuals, regardless of background, have the support they need to learn, connect, and thrive. And whereas libraries partner with schools, businesses, and other organizations to max maximize resources, increase efficiency, and strengthen the entire community, and whereas libraries empower job seekers, entrepreneurs, and lifelong learners by providing access to resources and training that support career growth and economic success.

And whereas libraries nurture young minds through tore story time programming, literacy initiatives, and they foster fostering curiosity and a love of learning that lasts a lifetime. And whereas libraries protect the right to read, think, and explore without censorship, standing as champions of intellectual freedom and free expression, and whereas librarians and library workers provide welcoming spaces that inspire discovery, collaboration, and creativity for all, and whereas libraries, librarians, and library workers across the country are joining together to celebrate National Library Week under the theme, find your joy. Now, therefore, I, Denise Seamagriff, mayor of the city of Oregon City, do proclaim April 2026 as National Library Week in Oregon City, and we, the city commission, encourage all city residents to visit their library, explore its resources, and celebrate all the ways that libraries help our communities find joy.

Thank you very much, mayor McGriff. Good evening, commissioners. Yes. It's National Library Week. I know everybody's been waiting all year long for this week to come around. So Yes. As mayor McGriff read, the theme of this year's National Library Week is find your joy. And at next to your microphones, you will each see that you have a little, blue Post it bubble here. We are asking patrons who come into the library during National Library Week to jot down what sparks their joy when they come into building into the library and how they use the library. We'll be posting those in the lobby. So I would encourage you if you'd like to fill one out. You don't have to do it right now. But if you wanna fill one out, can give Can we

do it right now? You can do it

right now if you like, and I'd be happy to happy to, pick them up. And, you know, since we had so many great posters, already, I had to bring, you know, I had to bring a sample of our National Library Week poster here. So, thank you very much, and we encourage everybody in the community to come visit the library this week and every week

of the year, of course. Would you like to add anything to that? Would you please talk about One Book, One Coast, please? Oh, I

can certainly talk about One Book, One Coast. So we are also in, we we are Clackamas County Libraries in association with multiple library systems all along the West Coast in Washington, Oregon, and California are participating in a community West Coast Community Reads, event and centered around the book. They called Sending Me by George Takei. It's his memoir of growing up, as in internment, in camp, and, we are having, I believe we still have some left to give out. So, yes, you can come to the library to get a free copy of George Decay's graphic novel.

For those ebook users out there, we have a limited time, where anybody can log in to our Libby ebook service and check out a copy of the digital graphic novel with no waiting, which is a rarity with ebooks. And we will have several programs throughout the course of the month culminating on at the May. Right? At the May with an online, live presentation by George Decay himself. So we're very excited to be participating in the one book, one coast, and we encourage everybody to check out our website for more information and come on by the library to learn more about our programs.

Yes. The first session was April 11, and, that was at three on Saturday. So I participated in Oh, great. In that one. There were, half a dozen people there, and we had a quite a lively conversation. You also might wanna talk about the, let me just give you all the feeds here. Sure. So talk about the, the,

passport. Oh, the Link Library passport. So yes. So we have a bunch of fabulously talented, library staff members who work at all libraries throughout Clack Clackamas County. And they got together, and they decided they wanted to do a, what they're calling the Link Library passport. So you can stop by any Link Library, 13 locations in Clackamas County, pick up your, passport, and okay. Let's see if I can get this right. You, you get a raffle entry for the first, fifth, and thirteenth entries. Okay. I think I got that right.

But the idea is you can visit every single link library, get a stamp at at various desks at the library. And once you complete and have visited all your libraries, first of all, your life will be incredibly enriched by having gone to every single Clackamas County library. But like a you will also be able to enter a a raffle and get some special special prizes. So we're really excited to be doing that. We have a great library system in Clackamas County. We really hope people take advantage of discovering all the different libraries, throughout throughout our area.

I've done five already. Alright. That's great. Setting the pace. That's that's yeah. Thank you. I put the George Decay thing in my phone, and I thought, okay. Let me look. I thought it was at the very May. I believe yes. I believe you're correct. But, yeah, it's a live stream. I think it's gonna be at 11:00. So he's gonna be in LA, so it'll be Pacific daylight time. Yes. So Yes. Very exciting. Okay. Thank you so much. I was trying to think if there was one other thing that was going on at the library when I was

there. So so much going on the library. I do have to we we recently the youth advisory commission, we welcomed them for a tour on Monday. That was a really fabulous time. We got to take them around the library, and we could have spent hours talking together, but, know, I was limited to forty five minutes. So, but that was really, exciting. Thank you, commissioner Marle,

for We'd like you helping us. We have three of us Alright. Excellent. I would you to come up and pick those up. We can come up and get them. We don't have to put our name on them, do we?

No. You don't need to. That's

alright. Alright.

You wanna plug May 4?

Oh, yeah. I can sit here

at you. We could take the

whole meeting talking about library stuff if you want, and I'd be happy to.

Well, May 4 is not on a commission day, but it's close. No. It's close. So

so so, yeah, unfortunately, the calendar, didn't quite line up, but it's quite possible that wing commander Greg may bring an after action item report to the commission on May 6. So, for those of you who may not know, every year, the Oregon City Library, goes all in on Star Wars. So we are having our annual May the fourth be with you celebration. It is Monday, May 4 Four to six. From four to six.

Once again, we are anticipating having a whole bunch of fun activities for, Jedi and Sith of all ages. We'll have pool noodle lightsabers. We will have, tattoos, photo booths, and we're really excited about our raffle prizes this year. Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Oregon City Library. And also with some support from, two of our local business actually, three of our local businesses, we will have some amazing Star Wars Lego sets to give away, and we should have a couple of very fancy awesome lightsabers to give away as well.

So we encourage everybody to come by. Encourage all the kids who come by dressed in some sort of costume. We'll get a little treat, a little prize for coming by. So really excited to see people there. Oh, and public works, we're we're and c sweepio will also be making an appearance at the library.

That's yes. Three c Sweetio should be there. Absolutely. Yes. So awesome.

K. Anything else I can plug? Let us We might

as well just spend the

whole Just let us know when we're are we gonna do the proclamation ahead of the fourth or a little after the fourth?

It'll probably be a little after.

Little after. Okay. Well, we can man we can manage that. Okay. Alright. Thank you so much. Thank you. Alright. So we have next on our agenda, we have public comments. Paulette, come on up.

Just make sure the green button's on.

Before I get to where I am really here, I am a huge library user. Yay. I like putting my books on hold. I I go once a month to genealogy group. Yeah. Oh, what else? Anyway, gone. Old person. After all this pleasant Oh, Collette Merrill, 16390 Hiram Avenue. City of residence.

Oregon City, Park Place, off Holcomb Boulevard, traffic hazard of the city. We Holcomb has gotten in the recent years sidewalks from Holcomb School down to Front. We got the new stoplight right at the corner of Front, which people are actually starting to use, which is a good a good thing since somebody died there. But we the that road is getting more and more traffic, and I'm not gonna talk about the fire hazard because there's multitudes of people that talk about that. But we just got rear ended at the end of our street for the second time and totaled our car and totaled the other car too who hit us.

I have to say we had two Oregon City police cars, the medics, the firemen. They were all there. Wonderful response, but our car was totaled, and it was the second time. It's not okay. We have that horrible corner coming up Holcomb.

As I turned the corner, I could look up the hill. The road isn't wide enough for a turn lane. There's no turn lanes. And with the new county building, you know, where they tore out everything and they're building it all up Affordable housing, you mean? The affordable housing.

All those Holcomb people are gonna be coming down there, so it's gonna be twice as much as it ever was. So the more traffic is gonna be concentrated on front end Apperson. It's more rear enders and more people, and we were lucky we didn't really get hurt. So, anyway, my next stop is the TAC committee, but, you were on the agenda first. So that's my

again, where you where did you you were stopped and you were rear ended where?

We were stopped at the at Hiram, ready to turn left onto our street. And You were on Holcomb turning onto Hiram. Okay. Holcomb turning onto Hiram. They didn't even slow down. Don't worry about that.

Just so they just so you were they were coming and you they were

They were going up the hill. They lived a mile from us. The last time the people that hit my husband lived about a mile up the road, they're just not paying attention. What can I say? But, anyway, that's all I'll say.

Thank you're saying that they should have known better. K. I am so sorry. Alright. Well, Paulette, do you know when the TAC meets so you can go there? Paulette, do you know when the tech the transportation advisory committee meets so you can make an okay. So you know when it is. Okay. They have to say. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Wow. Okay. Next on our agenda is item number five a, and I believe I'm gonna turn that over to our city recorder.

So you've got a public meetings law update because they were very busy, unfortunately or fortunately. Yeah. That's right.

I am gonna pass it over to our city attorney to cover it.

Thank you, mayor and commissioners. Carrie Richter, city attorney. I we have prepared, Jacob and I prepared a memo, covering the few bills that were passed this last legislative session dealing with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission and the obligations of public officials with respect to ethics requirements. Most of my presentation, the wind has been taken out of the sails because it appears that the governor is going to veto House Bill forty one seventy seven. She announced that on Friday.

She has yet to actually veto. She has until this April 17, but my expectation is that she will. Even though there's the bill is likely to be vetoed, I wanna talk just briefly about it because my expectation is that it was gonna come back in another form in the longer 2027 session. And so if I can have just less than five minutes, I'd like to preview it for you just so you understand what the issues are. I'm sure you probably have heard of heard some about it.

The the reason why this bill was necessary was to deal with this question of serial meetings. Serial meetings is when a quorum of public officials has a conversation outside of the public meetings law requirements, and they don't it doesn't happen all at one time. So it's commissioner a speaks to commissioner b, commissioners b speaks to commissioner c, commissioner c commission speaks to commissioner d. Those four commissioners, even though a and d never talk to each other, create a serial meeting, and that's a violation of public meetings law. And so that that problem has existed for many, many years.

What has happened more recently is OGEC made some interpretations about the breadth of the kinds of conversations that can violate public meetings law, which was far broader than city attorneys and city officials had thought.

And

so whereas before, the impression was that it was about deliberation towards making a decision. So if you had a conversation about other things that were not specifically towards deliberation, towards making a decision, the step your feelings about a matter of city business, then there wasn't a public meetings law violation. What the OGC said was that was wrong and that, essentially, any discussion between four people, when the when the four people didn't know that the others were being talked to could be liable for a violation of public meetings law, and that comes with personal liability, not city liability. So the idea was a good one to revisit this this scope of deliberation that that required a public meetings law obligation. The problem with house bill forty one seventy seven from many people's point of view is that it contains many exceptions.

And those exceptions are very broad, and they seem to swallow the general rule because what they allow is commissioners to have conversations to collect factual and educational information, to speak with the media, just to gather information related to a decision that will be deliberated upon at a later time, which in theory sounds like a clear line between those two. But if you think about it, there is no clear line between that because if commissioner a tells commissioner b to read this article about, you know, domestic violence, probably commissioner a cares about something having to do with domestic violence and wants the city to do something about it. Right? So there's there's a it's just not a very bright line rule between what is information gathering only and what is in furtherance of making a decision or deliberation. And so that, I think, is what and that's what concerns the media is that that this information gathering could happen outside of the public meeting process, and, the public would know about it and essentially, bake a decision and then come forward in a public meeting and proclaim the decision.

And that's not what government and the sunshine is supposed to be all about. And so so although I think there were good intentions, I think the language is the the problem with the language for the objectors is that it's just too broad. What I really like about the language is it does clearly exempt things like act activities that are procedural matters, scheduling, who can come to the meeting, you know, here are the materials, do you have the materials, all of the sort of mechanics. Those things ought to be outside of the public meetings law. And although there is a talk about there is there is currently in the in the law an exception exception for things that are non substantive in nature, making it perfectly clear that the mechanics of making a meeting happen and all the things are outside of the public meetings law is a really good thing.

So that is that is the that is the controversial part of the house bill. The other parts of this bill that you should just be aware of, the current rule requires public meeting law training for governing bodies that have total expenditures of over 1,000,000, which I know you have experience with. Under the current law, the public officials inquired to attend the training during the official's term. The training now must be attended between three months and twelve months. And then the third part of this bill that I think is really critical and really important to local governments is the change in how the enforcement happens for a grievance.

The grievance period for someone to file a complaint, it under current law is thirty days, and it will be ninety days. So that's really good for our challengers to have an up longer window in in which to file a grievance. And then under the current law, you're you you violate it, and then the remedy remedy is a penalty, and that's the end of it. Under this this bill, a local government can cure by having a public meeting or providing the requested notice or, you know, so that the so that the remedy is actually getting the daylight onto the decision in the first place rather than just penalizing public officials for violating the law, which I think makes a lot more sense from a public policy standpoint. In addition, the city or local government itself can be found to violate the the bill, not just the public officials.

So if there's a failure in the notice, then the responsibility falls on on the local government. I'll move on to the other two bills that I have been I think have been signed or will be signed. I don't believe have they been signed? They have been signed. So forty one sixty one solves the age old food problem. The hot dog mean the hot dog rule? You can now eat on the city's tab with impunity. Right? That's not true.

I wouldn't say that. I I I'm you're you're correct.

You can you're correct. You you cannot you can you can eat in in in you could eat city food and beverage without without limitations so long as it's in further ends of city business, so long as you're in involved in a city assigned task or conducted city to city business. The bill also exempts merchandise provided by the public body up to a $100 per calendar year. The bill will take this bill will take effect as soon as it's signed. And then finally, house bill forty one fifty nine provides for at least one member of OGEC.

You must have local government experience. It further provides that attorney client privilege is preserved for communications providing information regarding a complaint, alleging a violation, which is really good for the sort of open communication between local governments and OGEC. So I am happy to take any questions, but that concludes my report.

Are there any questions? How many of you have taken the, public officials training that we're required to take? K. I guess Mike and I are the only one. Are you taking it this year?

Start. I don't know.

That we've received a notice from Jacob that we needed to get with it and get it get it taken care of. So two of us have done it. Please get it done. You've gotta do it this year. Would be helpful. I'm I'm grateful to see that, you know, if I wanna share my recipes with the commission that I'm not going to be subject to public meeting Or exercises. Pardon?

Or exercise.

Oh, my or my ex oh, I don't know about my exercise. Well, maybe they might wanna know that. Who knows? Yeah. There there was a lot of consternation at the Metropolitan Mayor's meeting because, you know, we're all blaming mayor Beatty from Beaverton about the hot dog rule. I am assuming that the jurisdiction where the the counselors, were texting each other during during a meeting is clearly a violation of open meetings live. That isn't covered in here because it's already a violation. Not gonna say what city that was, but it was in the paper. I was completely horrified by that whole incident. Anything else?

Okay. Let's move on then. Thank you so much. Thank you, Jacob and Carrie, for putting this together. Important updates. And would you, when you have a moment, sometime in the weeks and the folks that need to take the training, that a little notice again. Alright. Let's move on to item b. Is that you, Kelly Hart? K. So we're gonna have a twenty twenty six short session wrap up. Yeah.

Good evening, all. So Carrie went into great depth on a number of the really important bills that came through this short session. My presentation tonight is more of kind of what we did as a city and participation in the the legislative cycle. And And then I do have sort of a readout of the key bills that, we were paying attention to that just sort of provides a summary, if you have any questions about it. So, we did a okay amount of of participation in the short session.

Again, it was thirty five days including weekends. So it was very quick, to go through everything, and we're sort of figuring out how we're moving forward with this process. So, this was a a good first day of, faith effort on, our part to to be a little bit more active on it. In total, we tracked 55 bills, through 12 different policy areas. Of those bills, there was about a 25, of them that actually ended up moving forward, so about 45% pass rate.

And the good news is is that most of them are technical fixes or clarifications of items, or adding tools to our toolbox in terms of some of the land use and economic development procedures. There are a couple of them regarding the the public meeting laws and some land use laws that were passed that will affect us and require us to do some things a little bit differently. But, overall, it was a fairly calm short session when it came to actual city impact. We did do quite a bit of of testimony. Again, on the public meeting legislation, we provided letters of support for three of the bills.

And then after session, we did provide a follow-up letter of support to the governor's office as well to to support her passing and signing the the bill into law. In terms of housing and the land use, legislation, we did provide a letter of support to, well sorry. We provided testimony for HB forty thirty seven. This was the housing omnibus bill, which had lots of great things in it, and then also some areas of concern. And we did provide a letter that supported some of those great things, and then provided our statements of concern and some recommendations of how to amend the bill, for the city to support it, in wholesale.

As it stands, not all of our requests for removal or modification were successful. For house bill forty thirty seven, there's really two sections in it that affect the way that we do business. Section 16 refers to building plan reviews. It basically identifies that for single, one and two family residences, we basically skip the plan review process on the the building permitting side, if the plans are stamped by a a certified engineer. And so they would be submitted to the city staff.

We would issue a permit associated with those plans, and then we would still have the responsibility to do inspections of those plans to make sure that they're being built per the stamp certified engineer and not our plan reviewers saying

that the plans meet code. Is this in some way saying that this is a full employment act for certified engineers who, heaven forbid, don't ever make mistakes. Right?

I I it it it's going to be some interesting consideration of whether or not, this is actually utilized on a grand scale. The certified engineers at that point are taking on the liability associated with the plans that are then not going to be reviewed. So it'll be interesting to see how often this section of the bill is actually implemented. The next section, section 17, this is where it really, changes, further the process of, permitting housing in the city. It changed the language to basically say that, we can require no public hearings for housing development, which we mostly do to begin with, process, housing as a type two.

But this one's explicitly saying it because not all cities were doing that. And it changes the public notification process as well. It changes the the language from you shall provide notice to cities may provide notice, and it strictly strictly limits, the areas in which you can notice. For housing developments that are less than 20 units, you can only notice the immediate area of a 100 feet. They expand that out to 500 feet if it's 20 or more units.

It also greatly changes the appeal process, and it identifies that the only, entity that can appeal a decision is the applicant themselves. So that is a very broad overview of that bill. I we have, Missy, from Carrie's office that's putting together a presentation for the planning commission regarding this bill and how it's, further impacts it, and we can provide you all a further conversation about that at a future day as well. I would argue that out of all the bills, this will be the one that results in the most change in how we do things, that was provided, in the legislative session. Next up, we also had some testimony that we provided in terms of recreational liability.

We provided testimony on senate bill fifteen seventeen, which was sponsored by senator Meek. It ultimately did not move forward, but an alternative iteration of the same type of bill with different standards was, ultimately successful moving forward, to to sort of further solidify the recreational liability, waivers for the for the state. We also provided testimony for the transient lodging tax legislation, which changed the allocation method for how, cities can utilize the funding. Previously, it was 70% of the the TLT funds had to go strictly to tourism related activities, and 30% of it could go towards the city's general fund or other expenses as as the city deemed appropriate. This bill sort of moved the the allocation to a fifty fifty separation, that provides cities flexibility.

From my understanding right now, the city does not, take any of the TLT money into the general fund. It all stays towards the tourism related fund, but this would provide the city that opportunity to to, utilize it for different purposes. This bill was originally an iteration of it was presented at the long session last year and was really pushed through with the the League of Oregon cities. And the reason behind that push was a recognition that tourism impacts is not just tourists, but it impacts our roads. It impacts our parks.

It impacts our, utility systems. And so providing a greater flexibility of, cities to to be able to utilize the fund to support those services. That was the ultimate goal. And so we provided testimony on two bills related to that as well. And then finally, in terms of actual testimony, there was the senate bill fifty seven zero one, which was the the capital funding requests bill.

The city did submit a request for funding for the intersection of Highway 213 in Beaver Creek. We had the the request sponsored through senator Meek's office. They did a great job of working with us in setting up meetings and having conversations regarding our request with other legislators. We also submitted a significant amount of correspondence to other legislators to try to gain support for our request. Ultimately, it did not move forward, but an interesting fact is that there was no transportation funding requests that were, authorized as part of this funding bill.

So it was kind of universal across the board that that type of funding did not move forward. During this time as well, we did submit on the federal side a funding request, as they go through their oh, they the community initiated projects or the community funded projects. It's different on the senate and the house side, but we did submit a funding request at both the house and the senate side at the federal level for the police department in getting some improvements and modernization of some of their technology, and it's all way over my head. So if you wanna know anything about that, then talk to Sean. But but we submitted that as well.

Representative Bynum's office has announced their funding support, and our request was not included in it. Senator Merkley's and Wyden's office are working together, and so they are still evaluating their funding, requests for that as well. So, that is what we have done for the short session. It was a good start, I think, but, you know, more to come and available to answer any questions.

Go right ahead if anybody has a question.

Yeah. I have one. We have so on the, plan review thing where our staff is not reviewing single family home plans. Right? Correct. We have a fair number of design standards in our code. Is that saying that those are thrown out the window, or or are they supposed the engineers still supposed to comply with our standards and we're taking their word for it that it does? Which

So we're gonna have to dive into this a a little bit. But from my understanding of the plain language of the bill, it is only related to the building division plan review process. And so when a, person submits for a single family residential dwelling unit, they submit it to the the city for review. It gets reviewed by planning. It gets reviewed by engineering, and it gets reviewed by the building division as well.

Planning reviews it to ensure that our design standards are met, that our setbacks are met, and all of the the standards in the zoning code are met. Engineering does so on the public related side, and building does so in terms of the building code side. From my understanding, this is just saying that you do not have you circumvent the building plan review, which means that our plan review staff are are the only ones that would be circumvented, as a a way to say that a certified engineer has identified that this meets building code and is safe. And so therefore, we don't need you to do that extra step, basically.

Okay. But your understanding, it would it would still be reviewed by planning for the design standards.

That is my understanding of the plain reading. I don't know if Carrie's heard anything different.

I think that's correct.

K. Okay. Thank you. Mhmm.

Go ahead. I just have a a couple of statements. First of all, thank you for your work and your advocacy on behalf of our city during this short session, and it was nice running into you a couple of times in the capital. Going back to the ethics issue, one of the reasons why I I haven't taken that course is because LOC has recommended against taking it, because of what they were, recommending elected officials do, such as not talking to your colleagues because if they accidentally talk to someone about something, then you could be liable or not even talking to your city manager, because if your city manager talks to a quorum of your elected body, then that could be a serial meeting. Or not talking to the press because if two of you were to read that quote in the news, then that would be a serial meeting.

Or to not talk to our constituents because if if that constituent talked to two of you in addition to me, that would be a serial meeting. So I was not enthused to take that training, because the LOC recommended against it. So as soon as it, gets changed something that's workable, then, obviously, I will be happy to do that. And I just think it's really unfortunate that the governor, is going to veto, forty one seventy seven. I just checked, and out of the 90 legislators, 30 in the senate, 60 in the house, there were only seven no votes across both chambers.

So this was a bipartisan vote in support of making sure that we, as local elected officials who are far in a way a majority, all volunteers as we are, are not penalized for trying to serve our community. It's difficult because of how far they went in one direction anyway at trying to make it workable makes it look like you're trying to chip away at ethics laws, even though the intent of it is to make it so that it's something that we can actually abide by. So, yeah, I I'm grateful that the vast majority of legislators were able to see this issue and act on it and hopeful for next session that something better will come out of it.

Well, I will say we we took the course before they did all these changes. So we weren't subject to any of the stuff that you're talking about. Well, then that wouldn't be the

one that they were talking about. Yeah. So none of us would have taken it.

Yeah. No. They it's not it's not changed at all from what when we took it. So I I looked at It has changed. Yeah. I looked at it, I said, okay. Well, we're done. We already were done.

So we might all need to do it then.

Yeah. I'm not I'm not doing it again. I I I paid my I paid my fee. Questions? Rocky. So I've got a couple. Again, I also thank you for that work. Was notable that Oregon City, you know, showed up. I know some of the other cities have their own lobbyists, and, we appreciate your taking the extra time. So it looks like we did receive some additional unfunded mandates, to do things.

Was any of our work done? Not that we agreed with them because, again, just because we're members of LOC doesn't mean I agree with everything that they are talking about. And when I don't agree, I let them know about that. So did we did you spend any time talking to those guys? They're you know, because they got a whole new lobbyist group and, you know, coordinating, and we told them we don't like this or we don't like that. And I do appreciate some of your notes because when I was in meetings, I could say, hey. City of Oregon City doesn't like that, and here's why. And they said, yeah. We know. I said, okay. Good.

Short answer is yes. Okay. Good.

That's it. Yeah. And then, because, I have been very well schooled by prior city attorneys and the current one as well, when we have the word may, gives us a little more latitude to do things, and I will hope that we will respond to make sure that our community is informed in terms of the may. Because having only noticing people whose property touches the other property, that that is complete violation of goal one. And I'm trying to figure out how they manage to violate our statewide land use goals when that was it's number one for a reason.

I mean, citizens are allowed to participate in all phases of of the public public process. And if we don't have the ability as community members or we don't happen to drive by that place and see a sign on a on a piece of property, then people don't know. And we always get, you know, from our community, something, you know, is going on, and then all of sudden something comes out of the ground. They go, well, when did that happen? How come I didn't know about I mean, I'm sure you've heard that throughout your career. It's it's it's you know?

Yeah. So this May is a little misleading maybe. So the first iteration of this bill basically took out any notification, ability, and there was lots of questions, from from people, us included regarding, okay, does that just include, you know, mailing notifications? Does that include signing the property? Does that include that we can't even post on our city's website that, there's an application pending, and here is the the application materials that we currently do.

So the response to that was to put in what they have now. The May means that cities can choose to go the route of the original type of bill of not providing notice and and just processing it without doing that whatsoever. Or if you are gonna provide notice for developments that are less than 20 units, you can notice the 100 foot radius, and that's it.

What about And then

for projects that are 50 for more than 20 units, that that jumps up to the

500. What about on our website? I mean, we have an app we have an application log. So if I wanna go on and I you know, I don't care about what application is so I wanna just click on something and go, oh, that's happening over there. Yes. Are we still gonna be able to

do that? From my understanding, yes. Because the language does say it may, and it only provides the guidance and the restriction on the the notification areas. It it does not read into a language that restricts us from doing any of that other stuff. The original iteration when I said I can't provide notice, that's where the questions came up of what is our our path and restrictions.

So my esoteric question, which is not for you to answer, just for the universe, is that what are they afraid of? If your application's great, why does why don't why don't these people who put this bill forward want people to know about what's going on in their community? I mean, to me, that is the antithesis of everything that we are trying to do to be informed. Sure. And it's not just it's not just about lack of notice.

It's about providing information to our community who have a right to know. I mean, I'm just, you know, flabbergasted that these things keep passing. I don't anyway, thank you for for that, and I'm glad about the TLT. So I I hope that we will continue to provide notice to our public in a manner by which people can actually access it so that we are not looking like we're in collusion and hiding something because that's the first sex the second thing we'll get. I don't know how our neighborhood association are gonna feel about this, but I'm sure that they're not gonna be happy. Sure. So, again, thank you for the work. We appreciate it. We just have to keep fighting the good fight. Absolutely.

Thank you. Alright. Let's take a look at the consent agenda. And I did notice, chief, for just just for your information on item a, I noticed that the application has changed a little bit from the OLCC, which makes it a little clear about what the heck is going on. Because my first comment went to myself was I looked at that and I said, okay. Well, that guy just bought that place, and then it said change of ownership. So that answered that $64,000 question. So so we have any, any are there any questions or comments or corrections on the minutes of this eleventh, second, and sixteenth, is also part of the consent agenda? Did I miss one? Yes.

On the sixth. Sorry. K. Hearing none, let's have a motion.

I'll move to approve the consent agenda. Second.

K. It's been moved and seconded that we adopt the consent agenda.

Commissioner Adam Marle. Aye. Commissioner Rocky Smith.

Aye.

Commissioner Scott Wilson. Aye. Commissioner Mike Mitchell. Aye.

And mayor Denise McGriff. Aye.

Motion passes. And we have somewhere on a presentation to get, Clackamas County Recycling in to give us an update about where we are on all things recycling, food waste, etcetera, etcetera, somewhere in the next couple of months. Could we get one? I appreciated the the IGA, updating it, and would be nice to hear what's going on, how pro what the progress that they're making. Does anybody have any objection? K. We'll take Claire Clackamas County to come on down. Alright. And now for the exciting part of the event, the the second exciting part of the the first part was the exciting part. General business.

So we don't have any public hearings tonight. Let's talk about item nine a, intergovernmental agreement for the Riverwalk project, and that would be city manager Tony Conkel and Yeah. Assistant city manager Alex Trotman.

Alright. Yes. Mayor and commissioners. So as you stated before you this evening, we are seeking approval of an IGA with the Confederate of Tribes of Grand Ronde for

the Riverwalk project. So to start

the beginning, the city received $12,500,000 in state grant funds for the enhancement of the area of Willamette Falls. So we're talking about the area extending from 90 9 E to the PGE Dam and adjacent to the Willamette River. Upon receipt of the funds almost immediately, we reached out to the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde and began negotiating this IGA with them, in order for them essentially to, run by, excuse me, oversee the design and construction of this project. So they would hire, all of the various consultants and contractors needed to complete it under still the oversight of the city. Of course, it's still ultimately a city project receiving city funding, but they would act, essentially almost as our contractor.

So the agreement itself, as you'll see in the staff report, outlines the terms of this arrangement and how we will complete the project. Specifically, and some of the things I wanted to highlight in the agreement itself is that, there are two different easements you'll see in the agreement. One is an a temporary access easement that will be in place while we design the project because we don't have a specific design in place yet in order to inform us how big the easement should be. So we did make arrangements with them, to do an initial temporary easement. This will then be replaced by a permanent easement once we get to the construction phase of the project.

It is important to note that we have agreed that if during the design phase, you know, something were to happen, the project were to stop, and the funding were required to be returned to the state, that we would split the cost of returning those funds. In terms of how we make decisions, we are forming a Riverwalk advisory group. There will be three members, from the city, three members from the Confederated Tribes. And of those three on each side, it will include the project manager. Generally speaking, we will seek to make decisions by consensus.

However, if for some reason that cannot ultimately happen, the final say will be with the city as the funding is coming from the city's grant. Again, as I mentioned, development of this project is still the sole obligation of the city even though we are working with the tribe to run the project. And and then finally, because we are signing this IGA with them, as they move through the process of hiring, consultants and contractors, those, agreements will be, executed with, through their processes, so we won't be bringing those back to you all to sign off on those. The IGA is the final agreement that you will see as this project moves along. We'll, of course, bring you updates, but that's how it will function in terms of the IGA itself.

Did you wanna

add anything to that? Yes.

Yes. And, I think, appreciate all the work, staff has done, Alex, on this, in in reading through the IgA. Well, what I've done is worked with Scott Archer, our parks and recreation director, Alex, Kelly Hart, our community development director. And we're you know, I'm assigning this as essentially like a a special project. So Scott is gonna be our project manager.

Scott, Kelly, and Alex are gonna make up our advisory group. And then we've identified staff from the appropriate departments that'll make up the project team so that we have consistency through this process. As you're well aware, we have until 2028 of to encumber the funds, spend the funds. So, yeah, I think being able to have a good working relationship that's consistent internally as well as with the Confederate Tribes of Gran Rana is important in order to get through design engineering, permitting, construction of this project in two and a half years. I know it sounds like a lot of time, but we have you know, it's a it's a big project.

Very excited, actually, to get to this point. I think it's a huge milestone for the city as well as I really wanna thank the Confederate tribes of Grand Rana and their staff. They've been wonderful to work with and and and and really worked with us collaboratively to come into an IGA that is acceptable. They are Confederate Tribes of Grand Ronde is taking it to their tribal council at the end of this month, so we're a little bit of ahead of them. If there are any edits, we'll obviously bring those back.

But we are looking forward to getting this project rolling and making some improvements out there. I think the other the other part of this is, you know, we we, as the city with our partners at Metro, the state, and Clackamas County spent a significant amount of time on this property after it went bankrupt. The Walnut Falls legacy project, I think, was one of the best public engagement processes I've ever been involved with. The amount of support that we created was significant. And and and and so as we're moving, I consider the work that we did with the Willamette Falls legacy project as well as the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde did come in and have a master plan on their property that was approved by the Planning Commission.

And so, really, we're we're out of the the conceptual design. We're to actual construction. And I think acknowledging the four principles that Grand Ronde have identified for how they wanna develop their property as well as the goals that we had through the Walnut Falls legacy project, you know, and and here, we're we're we're really focusing how to get from point a to point b and really create a a design and a and a and a capital improvement project that we can really be proud of. So, you know, I I I think it's just trying to get to we're not gonna have ten months of open houses and whatnot. We are we are to design in engineering and making sure we have check ins with Confederate Tribes Council as well as the city commission as we move along.

But really, this is about a a capital improvement project design and delivery.

Well, I just wanna say I wanna thank the staff because and I also wanna thank the commission that I served with in 2021, 2022 because the commission, Brian Moore, was the project manager for Metro. And we all said, why don't you just give us the easement so we can move forward? Because there was not any agreement between the the Grand Ronde and Metro, and they had a falling out. And this is the culmination in those discussions that got started at with this body. And, you know, this has been a very long time in coming, and I'm hoping that we can get this we will get it.

I'm not gonna say I'm hoping. We will get this done by the deadline. Any questions, questions, comments, or a motion?

I've just got a quick question. I'll make sure I understand. Yeah. First off, thank you for all the work. This is I'm sure it's amazingly complicated. But in terms of the 12 and a half million, so if you think about the blocks starting at 99 e $1.02 $3.04 headed closer to the falls Mhmm. Block 1 is the 14 foot shared path. Correct. And Confederate Tribes of Grand Round is building that. Right?

It is part of their approval for their first phase of develop their infrastructure improvements that they have approved for for that first block. Correct.

Okay. So the 12 and a half million, we're gonna start at block two?

We're yes. We're we're we're jumping off from where they end. Yeah.

And going as far as we can.

As far as 12 and a half mil, we are. Hopefully, in

block three. Which seems like it would go a long ways, but we all know better than that. So okay. Thank you. That was my only question.

Yeah. So, I was just gonna say to add to that. So, the agreements that we did with them regarding and ODOT regarding the area by nine by Bluffin Boulevard at the end, that all ties into this as well. So does anybody like to make the motion? Oh, you have a question.

This is the first time I've seen the name the street name changes. Is was what was the process for not officially done? Are they gonna be signed that way, or is that what is our normal process for for changing street names, and and what was the process here?

I I need to get back to you. I mean, I know that that they spent quite a bit of time with their their group in trying to identify naming nomenclature on their property that is representative of their history or their culture.

I think the street right

away Typically

Go ahead.

I think the having all this this is all these aren't legal deeded streets anymore. I believe they all got

They're they're private streets with public access easements over the top of them. Okay.

So they're Got it.

They they've been Main Street, Water Street, 4 3rd had just been vacated over time as Blue Heron continued to But

they're still technically not gonna be public streets. So they're

Private. I mean They're they're private streets with twenty four seven public access

Okay.

For vehicular and pedestrians.

I asked the same question because I knew all that had been vacated Right. Somewhere between Jefferson Smurfit and Blue Heron. Well, I I of it happened.

I like the idea that the stories take or the the the road the name changes change in that district, essentially because that's the history of place. I'm not opposed to I just didn't know about it. It's it's cool. I mean, I'm sure that they're you know, I can tell definitely some of the meanings to to to the name. So

I I plan to ask just politely if when we when they do the streets and they're stamped and there's a they're signed that somewhere could be just the notation of the history that maybe 1st Street still is there kind of on the side and stamped in

there so that because it is

I mean, it is it was part of the original plat. I know it was their land, but it's still part of the original plat, and there is some history that goes with that.

And along those lines, I think that's an important conversation Yeah. At least for people identifying historic places along that roadway Exactly. From the past. Right? To to to say, you know, formally or whatever. This road was this name, so people could say, oh, okay. So if I'm walking down Main Street, I can say, okay. This is where the McLaughlin house was. Yes. Because the McLaughlin house wasn't on Yeah. You know, Water Street or on 4th Street or 3rd Street. It was on or it was. But

Yeah. That's the context I planned. So it'd

be cool to know that.

Yeah. That's the context. Yeah. And the motion? Sure. Okay.

Alright. I move to authorize city manager to sign the IGA and easements for the river Riverwalk project. Second.

Commissioner Adam Marrow? Aye. Commissioner Rocky Smith? Aye. Commissioner Scott Wilson? Aye. Commissioner Mike Mitchell? Aye. And mayor Denise McGriff? Aye. Motion passes.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And if I could just tag on real quick and update. So, one, congratulations, and thank you.

I You guys did the work. I

went bankrupt in February 2011. It's been fifteen years of working on this project. It's Yeah. I don't know. It's I know I don't always exude it, but this is pretty exciting.

And I really, once again, can't appreciate nor thank the work of Confederate Tribes at Grand Ronde and their willingness to work with us and the efforts their staff have made to try to make this successful so far. On that note, we've been Grand Ron brought to our attention earlier this week, a a potential grant opportunity, with, Travel Oregon for some additional funding potential for this project. A letter of interest is due April 27. So, obviously, we don't have another meeting between today and and May 6 by the time we have to submit the letter of interest. I just wanna bring it up and hear if there are any concerns about, one, we wanna submit the letter of interest.

And if we need the mayor to sign anything that the commission's okay that we move forward with that as, you know, to to to try to identify additional grant funding available moving forward on this project. If the commission's okay with that, once again, the Grand Ronde put together a really great first draft of the application and we're reverse reviewing it internally. But I just wanted to let you know that some of these timelines are pretty quick and don't quite line up with our meetings. So if you're okay with that, we'll continue to provide whatever approval or letters of support that we need. And then if there are resolutions or whatnot, obviously, we would bring that back to the commission and just the the turnaround on this one's pretty quick.

Okay. I'll sign my life away on behalf of the city.

Great. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Thank you. Alright. And now for the second third most exciting thing, resolution number 26DashO5, resolution adopting an updated city of Oregon City Public Works water distribution systems design standards. That's a mouthful. You're gonna just be by yourself? She's she's not coming?

No. She's she's supporting me from back there.

Okay. Alright. I like that.

Good evening, mayor and commissioners. Josh Wheeler, assistant city engineer. I have a small presentation to go through to show you what, we're requesting, this approval for. The water standards, we're gonna briefly talk about the history and where we are and where we were, where we're going, what kind of revisions we're looking for and why, and then, generally, what those next steps or, potential approval would look like. So the water system, standards, the original document was in 1993.

The commission adopted the current standards with resolution 1910 in 2019. We did a major overhaul of the standards at that time. In that resolution, we had a section that said that the staff, had the ability to make minor revisions as needed to stay in conformance with, you know, modern technology and things like that. And so we did that in May 2022. And I'm gonna go through what that was.

That's what I just, said was that that resolution empowers the city engineer to periodically update the standards as needed to maintain currency with standard practices. So that's what we did in May '22, and those were just minor items. But now we're looking at new revisions that might veer a little outside of minor revisions, and so we felt more comfortable bringing this back to you for a new updated resolution. Some things that we have revised, a little

bit of its

cleanup. So making sure that people understand where Clackamas River water serves our city, which is in elevation 450 or above up in the Park Place area. So it's never been noted anywhere. It's just been a design standard that we've all known. Some definitions that were updated reflect the current AWWA standards, and our water quality specialist, Mallory Ott, was the one that was really big onto this to make sure that the work she does was reflected in these standards.

Just tell people what, for the record, a what AWWA is. It's not everybody knows.

Thank you very much. American Water Works Association. Yep. They're the agency that has standards for water. She also requested some clarity on cross control and backflow prevention.

We've been doing a lot of work on that over the last couple years in coordination with the building department to make sure that when a building is supposed to have flow protection that it gets it, and then she has a whole program to make sure that those get tested, I believe, And then surprisingly, color fire hydrants was a bit missing in there. All public hydrants are orange in Oregon City, but they're red if they're private. And more and more, we're leaning towards more private hydrants. What you used to see in the city was that we would have public hydrants in the middle of private development everywhere with private loops everywhere. Other areas of the country, in fact, some areas of Oregon privatized those.

So that's something that we we have been doing in the past few years that when there's a large development and it's all private, those are private hydrants, not public ones. And so we needed to make sure we clarified that in the standards.

Could you give an example?

An example would be Home Depot. Home Depot has public hydrants everywhere, throughout the site. If we were to do that today, we would have made them all private. An example of where we made them private, is the Maple Lane Apartments, phase 1 and phase 2. It's public along the roadways. They're private on-site. Okay. Thank you. Other revisions that we're requesting are some definitions to what is a service line and where is the public portion, where is the private portion. The public portion is from the water main to the meter.

The private portion is from the meter to the structure, house, commercial building, industrial building, apartment complex. We've also placed some information about tapping of existing water mains with new services. The reason behind that is it solves a construction issue related to where a connection is allowed. We've had a lot of contractors tap the main without knowing what they're tapping, and then it ends up being right next to something else, and now we have problem. We are now telling people that you need to pothole the main, find out what else is in the area you wanna connect to make sure that you have the proper separation so that we don't end up with a a water main that needs to be shut off, and now people are without water until it can get all fixed.

One of the big ones, which we had some challenges with with some various subdivisions over the last few years is providing specifics on locations of meters and service lines. So the way the code used to read or the standards used to read was that you may do this or may do that or back to that word you were talking about earlier, may or shall. We turned it into a shall because where meters are being placed, they're in areas that are more likely to fail. They could be hidden by vehicles in driveways. They could be beat up by vehicles in driveways.

There's there's a lot of reasons why we have the standards that we have, and We've worked with contractors over the years to get our standards in place, but we can't necessarily require that for those that feel that that's too much effort or too much cost. And so we have requested to change the standards to make that much more definitive, and that's generally what I say in some of those clarifying notes there. Another thing that does is really ensure that those utility lines are not gonna be in conflict with hydrants, trees, other utilities. I've met with many residents over the years when dealing with the sidewalk program that they had a secondary issue that says, well, yes, there's this tree and sidewalk issue, but what about that line you put in right next to that tree or that line that went right in a place that doesn't make a lot of sense? So now my plan review staff are now reviewing plans that make sure that the line on the piece of paper is where it should be.

And then my inspection staff is now saying, did you put it in the right place, and did the tree not get placed right on top of it, and things like that. This gives us the specificity to be able to enforce it. There's also a revision about testing, clarifying the timeline on testing. So what happens with, water mains is that you construct it, and then, you put water in it, you chlorinate it, and then you make sure that it's worthy of drinking. If people do that in the wrong time of the week, then the water sits for too long, and then the test fails, and then we do it all over again.

And we've told people that in practice. We've never documented it in practice, and so this is a way to document that to make sure that people can know on their own before we tell them. And then we have had a handful of contractors who have been providing some subpar work, and that's been a real struggle for our water operations department. And we're

we were trying

to find a way to enforce the work to be done in a way that meets our standards and also gets the work done in a way that it will last for the amount of years it should last. What ends up happening in these subpar work situations is it requires our staff to spend numerous hours kind of directing the contractor how to do something that in theory they should know how to do if they're a licensed contractor. But our standards only say you need to be licensed and not disbarred. And that has been a real struggle for a handful of contractors, not not a majority, a handful. What this section does is it allows the staff to help the contractor as much as possible up to two times.

And then after that second time, we're gonna do it on our own and then build them for it. We did that in coordination with a contractor within the last year, and they agreed to that, and it worked out. It was a small amount of money. But we didn't have any way to we we got lucky that we had someone wanting to cooperate with us. This is in case someone doesn't wanna cooperate, you know, we've done everything we can.

Now we just need to do it. And so those are the revisions that we're requesting. So tonight, you have options of either approving the resolution for the standards as they are. The red line standards are in the code, and I'm prepared to answer any questions about those and then the clean version without the red text. Or you could tape the resolution and request revisions to those standards, or you could say, you know, this doesn't seem necessary, so let's not pursue forward. And that's my presentation.

K. So I'm gonna mix it up and start this end of

the table.

No. I think it looks good. I don't have any issues with it.

Same. No questions? Me neither.

Mister Mitchell.

I won. With, and and I I I don't know the answer to the first part of this. But what caught my eye was, in the red line, it says that waterline can't go across another property owner's piece of property. And what I'm wondering about is expedited land divisions. Are there situations where a divided lot is I is is isolated from the street, and the only way to get a waterline to the street would be across, like, across the parent property before the division?

Yeah. So and if you know the exact page that's on, I can look that up. But I can tell you that

try to

find it.

With middle housing, state law requires us to allow easements to let, sanitary and water services cross property lines. I can also tell you that's an extremely bad practice. Sure. Because most people don't fully understand easements in my experience, and they end up saying the city allowed this. You guys are at fault, not the fact that a legal easement exist.

And so to kinda make everyone play nice and have neighborly reactions to each other, We strongly recommend not crossing property lines, but we do it's in our planning code, and then it's in state law that we do have to ultimately allow it, but we do everything we can to prevent it. Now there's another part of that that has occurred that would be what really we're trying to go after is there's some situations in the city where you've got two parcels, and for some reason, the water meter is over here, and it's going over parcel a over here to get there just because that was the most direct route to get there. That's where the water meter was, you know, fifty years ago. We've been in those situations with kind of a retrofit or rebuild situation. We've been saying, don't let that exist anymore.

You need to move the meter where it belongs in front of the property. So that one, it doesn't cross the property line and then there's a dispute. Two, so when you actually go out there, the the repair person actually knows, oh, that's very likely your meter because what happens in those situations is you don't know whose meter is whose. The

the section that I was looking at is on page 37 of the red line. Yep.

I'm exactly right there.

And it

says a service lane line may never cross an adjacent property owner's property line. The line shall only cross the property line of the of the property who is using it. Yep. So I'm wondering what what would we do in that situate if somebody wants to subdivide their property Mhmm. And it's not gonna it's not gonna touch the street where the main is

Yep.

How do

we get water to it?

Yep. So what we'll do is nine times out of 10, we will follow that, and we'll either have a flag lot or they'll have a unique orientation of their lot to make sure the services stay on their property. If there's a situation where that's just not physically possible, we've tried every orientation geometry that exist, then we'll go to what's in the zoning code and the state law and say, in this case, there is no other option. You can place an easement over it. Okay. Alright. Thank you.

Okay. We would like the honor of making the motion.

Move to approve resolution 26 dash O five. Second.

And moved and seconded. Commissioner Smith seconded. Yeah. Let's have the roll call.

Commissioner Adam Marle. Aye. Commissioner Rocky Smith? Aye. Commissioner Adam or excuse me, Scott Wilson? Aye. Commissioner Mike Mitchell? Aye. And Mayor Janiece McGriff? Aye. Motion passes.

Thank you very much for everybody's work. Did you guys and I know we don't have the development, review group anymore, but did you get any feedback from any of our friends? Alright. Let's move forward. Thank you so much for the work. And as he comes up, go on to our next item, which is item nine c, city seal approval.

Good evening, mayor and commissioners. So you have the files before you. We took the comments from the last work session, provided them to the designer. They made those tweaks. I should note that you're gonna see some differences between the color version and then what will ultimately be for the embossed version. The designer, you know, did the research on what you can and can't do for an embosser to make it work, incorporated those elements. So there are some differences between the two files that you'll be able to notice, but those are the results there.

So Is it anything we would be interested in?

Not really. It's just it's just more it's more along the lines of, like, font sizes and what lines go where and so forth. And if if you look at the the the second one where it says, the the black part is raised, what that means is on the embosser, those parts will be what is raised on the stamp versus the lower part.

Just go right ahead. I

have a few comments, and I regrettably will not be able to support moving this forward tonight for a few reasons. I've there are a few adjustments that I would like to see. So the first is that when you gave us your mock up with the elevator, my assumption was that when it went to the professional designer that the orientation would be fixed because I knew that that was not something that you were equipped to do. And so I was discouraged to see that it was not going with the rest of the landscape in its orientation. The So

these specific I know what you're talking about. So these specific so you want it turned? I mean

Well, as we're looking at all of these from a certain perspective, and I would prefer if the elevator were also from that perspective, not as as if we're just standing straight on, on the street looking down.

Perfect. Thank you. That's I know that's what you meant, but it need needed to be clarified.

The second thing is it looks fine when I see it in this format, but when I shrink it down to the size that we're going to normally see it, the text is too small. So I think that the inner circle needs to be smaller to the point that the text where it says city of Oregon City is able to be enlarged. We're not going to see it this size ever. And so in order for it to signify that it's this is city of Oregon City, I think it needs to be larger. I do have concerns.

I'm sorry, but I gotta bring up the font. The font that is being used is Aptos, which is the default, Microsoft font, and I just don't want us to be I would prefer that we not use the default Microsoft font on Outlook, on our city seal. And then, so those are my three things. Elevator, the text, making it bigger, and the inner circle smaller, and then the font. So I

if I if I remember before, you wanted something that's sans serif. Right. So so look at a different sans serif font that's sans serif font that is Adaptos. Right. Correct. Okay.

Isn't.

That is not. No. It's not. Yeah. Do you have a

preferred font? I mean font.

Honest question, do you have a preferred font?

Like, I I don't know if

you look through things. I'm curious.

I I love fonts if it hasn't been made abundantly clear.

I I I hope you look. I'm curious. Yes. It's all about fonts at home. I I I I look through it. I love fonts.

I I don't I didn't come prepared with any suggestions. I just when I saw it, I knew immediately, and it made me think of work. And so, I would prefer that not be the case.

Maybe we can find one. Go right ahead.

I hate to do this.

Did you

shrink it down really small?

Because I I didn't No.

Oh, okay.

I didn't see by the same But you have it on your screen really small. I Oh, yeah. I was look I

was just and commissioner Marrow's right on that. The more I look at this, the less I like it. The the proportions of the base and the observation deck of the elevator are way out of whack. It I think. Or maybe it's just too short.

But I I the bigger problem I'm having is that view doesn't exist. And I actually had a comment from a citizen today, and I I thought it was a pretty good suggestion, and you gotta visualize this with me. And this he said, so imagine you're in a drone on the Nathy Bridge and go up. So you would have the bridge in the foreground. You would have a representation of the city of the downtown skyline on the left and the falls behind. Doesn't have Mount Hood in it because Mount Hood's the wrong way. Well,

if you're over the bridge, you're not gonna have a fall

zone because those are further up here. No. They're behind I'm talking about look looking if you're on the Abernethy Bridge Oh, the Abernethy Bridge. Abernethy thought

you meant the arch Bridge. No.

Okay.

On the Abernethy Bridge, looking at the falls. The arch bridge is in the foreground. The city skyline is on the left. The elevator's on the left, and the falls are behind. And I know that's just throwing all your work out the window, but I've this is this is all the pieces, but not in a view that exists.

But on the other hand, how many people are ever gonna see it? Because we it's not like we it's not gonna be on a flag. Nope. We don't use it every day, so maybe it's not worth the effort.

I don't I don't know.

But I wanted to bring it up.

It's just that is shorter. We don't use it except for on our most important documents this city. Other than that, I wasn't gonna say anything because I got some comments from the public too. And as a graphic design teacher and student, I could go on with this stuff for days, and I wasn't gonna say anything. But since everyone else said something, I do agree with, commissioner Mamaro on on on some of the the comments, and I'll just keep my comments simple.

I still have a problem that the l I think the proportions of the elevator were wrong because the top of the elevator is, you know, too much space. It's it's shrunken it's shrunk down. And I have a problem with the the top of the elevator not meeting the bluff. It's it's a it's a elevator to nowhere. So but, I mean, that does change the proportions of the bluff and the the the everything else too.

So the bottom of the elevator, Horseshoe is where the the bluff is. I'm I'm just looking at

Well, no. When you get off the elevator, you get off on the top of the bluff. In this elevator, you're stuck.

Where it is in this in this in this picture is that I don't know

how what you think you're clarifying because I think Yeah.

Well, I'm looking at a picture of it in the in the where it

should Does the bluff not match the top of the elevator?

Not the top.

No. The

the observation deck. I'm talking underneath about the horse.

On this elevator, you go up, and you're stuck in the observation deck, there's nowhere to go.

Yeah. The bottom of the observation deck is right at the block.

The first step's a doozy. Yeah.

I'm that's all I'm gonna say.

I I'm not gonna add insult to injury. I'd again, I I don't I'm a font person too. Don't I like the font. That's the only thing I didn't like about it. And I thought, again, the incorporated 1844 needed to be a little bigger and be that's our that's our claim to fame, One of our many claim to fame. Go ahead, Scott.

I was just gonna say I I agree with, I think, lot of the points that commissioner Marle brought up. I was looking at it, and and I did my my thoughts, again, were the angle. I will say that I realized that this view is not one that can be recreated. However, to that doesn't bother me personally because this is really a thematic representation of, you know, the iconic parts of Oregon City. Yeah. I'm personally fine with that, but I again, I do agree with commissioner Marrow's points. So

moving forward, do we wanna stick with this basic design and tweak it a little bit so the elevator's more that the perspective is right and and things are lined up better with the bluff and the different font size, or do we wanna try kicking this can down the road and doing a different perspective?

Could we create a a general mock up of a I 205 looking self perspective?

Yeah. I just wonder. I'm just I'm just questioning my abilities is all, but yes.

Right. I just I just I do wonder, like, because, you know, the the question about Mon Hood, it'd be interesting to pull a picture from the I 205 turn off right over there in West Linn because

she talking about?

As you go up, like, you're on top of the Holly Building, you can see the mountain. Mhmm. I just wondered if

And the falls like that.

If you wanna see that in our perspective, we could try to mock something up. Yeah. Maybe we could play with this a little bit and come back for you all to to look at look at it because I understand what make one. Commissioner Mitchell is saying and inserting that that potential view from looking straight down south down the river. Yeah. Absolutely. And we can maybe try and declutter it a little bit. Your prerogative.

Yeah. So, I mean, the elevator needs it you know, needs to be turned.

I'm gonna do towards

the bridge. I'd say let's give it another shot. We're we are gonna get there. See, I like the elevator on that side anyway.

Am am I looking at the new perspective as well, playing with both options? Or

Do you want that perspective? Gentlemen, do something like that.

That's the will of the commission.

I

I What do what do you Rocky, you want the perspective? I'm drawing it. Okay. He's drawing it. Alright. Okay. Adam? That's

I don't know. I I it's the problem I have is that it's going to cost us more, but since we're delaying it anyway, it's also gonna cost us more to get it to redesign from the graphic designer. But I'm I'm fine with this view just with the changes that I had suggested. And then one more thing is I think that I would prefer without the clouds because they do look a little cartoonish.

Those were our secret Disney messaging clubs.

I understand. I just

I I just said y'all are like you had a nice bigfoot. I know. One one more thing.

I think Mount Hood is too big. It needs just to be a little bit smaller because we're supposed to be looking at it in the distance. So we've got font orientation of the elevator. Cloud's gone. Rocky, hurry up.

I kinda wanna just do it and see what I mean, not tonight. But You

need a pencil. I have a pencil. I think

view that's the view we're talking about. Right?

Okay. Well, you're gonna Ish? Yeah. We're gonna have to pass that down if we can't quite see.

Is this well, this is is this the view we're talking about, ish? Myself. Elevator bridge. Yeah. My understanding.

That makes sense?

I mean, from that view. View. Yeah. That angle.

Okay.

Okay. What?

I'll be giving this to you.

I'm re drawing now. Turn the elevator. Font size.

Mountain smaller. Mountain smaller. Smaller.

Clouds. Twist no clouds. Twist the elevator. Look at the

bluff height. The font itself.

The font itself. Make the circle the blue rim circle wider. So the

Right. And and given that, when I go back and look at a much smaller version of the seal, not only to see the text, but also the graphics, I do think that going the direction that commissioner Mitchell had suggested would translate better better in that smaller format and maybe I'm sorry, Jared. I'm sorry.

I get paid by the hour.

But the the good news is commissioner Smith's gonna, you

know, help out with that.

Blame me. No. Nobody's getting blamed for anything.

Girl.

I'm curious how you feel about papyrus font. Absolutely.

I'm You're comic fans. One? Comic fans. No. Not comic fans.

I move What about

I move that we censure commissioner Scott Wilson and commissioner Rocky Smith. Commissioner Rocky Smith. Why do we care for all of

them to make Can

we go back to Algerian? That's the one we have for a long time.

How about the ransom note one? Have you seen that one? No. What about here where they cut out,

like Oh, the letter Every letter is in papers. I'm kidnap.

Yeah. The kidnapping. Yeah. Kidnapping of Yeah. The printing. Where they cut out the letters and paste them on there without using it getting your fingerprints on it.

Okay. Yeah. When did we lose the handle?

We lost it when before he came up. So

So we'll we'll take those comments for this one, and we'll have a look at commissioner Smith's rendition here at some point. Would you like

I gotta find my fault. And

There's probably a a photo out there of that view that you could just work off of.

Actually, I think I've got a similar one that I've taken with my drone before I crashed it.

So Is this not the

one of the drone we can use?

He had one. Yes. Actually, my favorite new font that I've been using is Century School, but but that won't work for this. It's a little thin. It yeah. It's very thin. But and then I have another one that's, I think It's called something. Anyway, it's like a it's more like my script. So I use it on DocuSign document. Alright. Jared, thank you, and I'm sorry. Appreciate it. When it when we get it, it will be glorious. Thank you. Alright. Let's go to 10 a quarterly goal update.

Alright. So Are we just

gonna hit the highlights?

Well, I was just gonna wanted to, give a a another update before I jump into that real quick.

Oh, I don't know.

We we have a a a management a management policy handbook that

that's applicable to hear what

I said.

To to our staff to the management staff. Traditionally, I've you know, the city manager has approved the changes. I just wanna make you aware of we opened it back up just as we've been improving IT security and looking at how we remotely access our system. This started with one, it had been a long time since the management book had been updated into as technology is changing, we wanted to make some clarify clarifications in there on the expectations around cell phone use. So we've we've updated the policy to address mobile device management, both what apps can be used if you have a Citi phone.

A lot of us who've been here a while still just carry one phone instead of two. So the requirements if you're going to if I'm gonna continue to use my one phone, the how this phone can be used to maintain security for our system. So we started with that, updated that. As we were going through, we made some minor clarifications on language, but I just wanted to point out what what I consider kind of the bigger changes is about the mobile device management. The reimbursement for having a personal cell phone has been reduced.

How much we reimburse somebody for using their personal phone monthly, we reduced the amount that we do the reimbursement. As we're going through there, for some reason, for the management team, the vacation accrual, there was a there was a ten year jump in between additional vacation accrual. So you went from you you were stuck at the same step of vacation accrual from year five to year 15 Okay. Which is not consistent with what we see in any of the other union contracts. So we added a step between there.

So instead of going from five to 15, you now go five to nine, ten to fourteen, fifteen plus. So the other thing that we did change is we did add a a vacation buyback option for the management team. It it limits the amount of vacation. You can do it once a year in December. It was forty hours that could be cashed out, but you after the cash out, you still had to have a minimum balance off the top my head.

Think it was a hundred and forty hours. So I just wanted to to bring it up. One, just so you're aware that we've made some changes. Two, that I've signed it as I've traditionally done in three. There is no benefit to increase benefit for myself, which is why I I didn't we were comfortable in talking with Alex and and Patrick that, you know, this this isn't benefiting me.

So I just wanted to get that out there. But just wanted to update you that we made some minor changes to that, and those were those were really the four highlights of of changes. From a financial impact, it's it's it's minimal too, if anything. You will have some increased vacation accrual for folks from that that new step of 10 to 15. But once again, I mean, that's it's pretty minimal.

It's an additional two hours per month on that step in there. And so, anyway, if there's any questions, please let me know. And I just wanted to give you an update on that. Second update, we have an application in for a general development plan on the old Walmart property on Malala Avenue across from the Safeway. It's going to the planning commission next Monday.

We are fully anticipating an appeal. So we are kind of clearing the May 6 agenda as much as we can to allow time for that appeal. And I bring this up just because we are bumping up on the 01/20 decision notice a decision date that we have to meet. So we're scheduling assuming the appeal comes in, we'll schedule the appeal hearing for May 6. You then have a work session the next Tuesday on the twelfth.

Depending on how that hearing goes, I think we've got probably two options. If it's a simple adoption of findings, we could potentially add a city commission meeting before the work session starts to adopt the findings, whatever those may be. Or we may have to schedule a special meeting on Wednesday or Thursday. We have to get the decision out on Friday. We don't anticipate the applicant willing to give us an extension on the 01/20. So I just wanted to put that on your radar that we're kinda trying to clear some things so that we can try and get through this appeal.

I'm fine with the twelfth. We have to go there. So

So just realize that work session agenda might look not like our traditional normal work session if we try to slide it in that date. Once again, just just a heads up in anticipation of what we expect to come.

K. It's just a little bit of a pet peeve, but I just prefer if we call it the younger property because Walmart was never really there. That's true. The youngers were there for, like, a million years.

That is true. Yes. Alright. Any questions on that?

Nope.

Alright. So I'll jump in. I think I I you know, obviously, if you have any questions about any of the goals, I wasn't gonna go through all of them. I did wanna point out one that's gonna tie into the presentation from from the chief here afterwards about the exclusions on it as addresses some of the homeless and work that we've been doing along that. And, hopefully, you had a chance to to to read, about the Caring Court.

And I just wanted to take a sec to read it because I think it's important for our community to hear that, after six months, Caring Court is making a real difference in people's lives, and you can feel that impact in the courtroom each week. We've celebrated 15 graduates so far and are currently walking alongside 30 active participants, many of whom are navigating significant challenges like homelessness, substance abuse, and mental health needs. What stands out most is the level of engagement participants are showing up with showing up with a 90% attendance rate. We're watching people begin to stabilize, getting into housing, connecting with treatment, and other resources. It's been incredibly rewarding to see the trust building between the participants and the Caring Court team, and it's clear that Caring Court is becoming a place where real change is possible.

So, you know, I thank the judge and the court staff for leading that charge and the commission for supporting us in in creating that new program.

Any questions? Anybody? K. Looking down the line. Okay. Do you wanna go on to the next item?

Certainly. For you to be

the mayor commission, I just wanted to give an update on that exclusion zone. As you're aware, that went to an into effect on January 2. To date, five people have been given an exclusion notice for various crimes that they have committed in the downtown core area. I can go through a little snippet of all those. Today, we've had no appeals or variances applied for or have been requested.

None of the individuals that have been given the exclusion have violated or have been caught violating the exclusion. I meet monthly with DOCA, and they have had, no complaints and shared that they believe it has been successful. I would also agree that the exclusion zone and exclusions have been successful. I can go through just a little snippet of all five of those so you can kinda understand what our officers excluded them for. Okay.

January 5, a '44 year old male who was a transient, committed a theft and offensive littering. He was given a thirty day exclusion. That's currently inactive. He stole some Trimet bus driver's gear, a bag, and did some littering. Two other reports since then, were outside the zone that we dealt with, the next day. And after that next day, there's no other reports in Oregon City with that individual. However, he's been in some other cities and had some other crimes in those cities. January 12, a 41 year old male. He was a transient. We were there to investigate harassment, criminal trespass, disorderly conduct, and escape.

He was given a thirty day exclusion that's currently inactive. This is the individual that engaged in a fight with another male downtown. He, a business owner, confronted him to see if he needed any help. That male that subject pushed the business owner up against the business and smeared blood on her when we tried to arrest him and ran from us. This individual was previously trespassed from my father's heart before that incident because of behavior issues.

There's been no reports with him since. I don't if any individual is still in custody, but there's been no reports. May 21, 53 year old male from Portland was investigating a criminal initiative on the obscene conduct. He's given a thirty day exclusion that's currently active. I think there's only, like, six days left on that one. He threw glass into a business, hit some property of the business, and broke on the ground. He had been previously arrested for us for op scene conduct when he was urinating on the side of one of businesses downtown. There have been multiple reports all over the city with that individual. He'd also been trespassed from Oregon City Hilltop Mall. There's been no reports with that individual in Oregon City since that was give he was given.

March 26, there was a 42 year old male. He's a transient. We investigated criminal mischief. He was given a thirty day exclusion and is still currently active. He was doing graffiti on a business. This individual, there's multiple reports leading up to this and around the city. He was also trespassed from Father's Heart. Oregon City Viper and two other businesses for similar conduct. Since then, we've had two reports, but nothing inside the exclusion zone. And finally, six, we had a 53 year old male, also transient. We investigated criminal trespass. He was down at the business. They asked him to leave. We get there. Asked him to leave.

He refused, so he's arrested. Again, multiple reports with this individual throughout the city, multiple after that around the city, including a burglary, but nothing inside the exclusion zone. So with that, I think it's been widely successful. It's changed the behavior of those individuals, at least not in that area, and none of them have violated it. So here to answer any questions, but I think it's going good.

I don't see any questions.

K. That's

all. Okay. Any communications commissioners? I just wanted to add because we didn't have the date when, our library director, Greg, was talking about the live stream. So it is going to be the live stream with George Takei is on May 31 from two to 4PM, and there, there's a way on the lie our library's website to, on that particular topic, you register for it so they no. You can get the code to get into the session. So that's all I have. Seeing no further business, thank you, staff, for the work, particularly on the public works material. I think John Lewis would be very proud. It's gotten done, and, we are adjourned.