City Council - Regular Meeting

I suppose.

Oops. It's my start over.

Did we, can you check?

Intent was there.

We just got the whole thing recorded? Okay. We're good. Okay. Alright. Well, on to citizen comments. Sylvia, do we have anybody sign up for citizen comments?

None, mayor.

We have no one online, so we'll go right into the public hearing. Sylvia, you wanna read us in?

Sherwood City Council will hold a public hearing this evening to receive testimony on ordinance two zero two six dash zero zero one, amending chapter 15.04 of the Sherwood Municipal Code to reflect the current Oregon building code. The public hearing this evening will be conducted as follows. Staff will present a staff report. Questions, if any, by the city council for staff, we will we will then receive written testimony. We will then open the public hearing for testimony, and the time will be limited to four minutes per person. Any interested person may present testimony. We will then close the public hearing. No other comments will be heard from the public. Final comments by staff, questions of staff, if any, by the council, followed by council discussion. This is the second hearing before the city council on this item.

A decision may be made by the council at the close of this hearing, or the matter may be continued to a time and date certain. If the matter is continued to to a time and date certain, this is the only notice of that date you will receive. If you wish to speak, please fill out a request to speak form and submit it to the city recorder prior to the time the public hearing is open for testimony. The mayor will recognize people who wish to speak, and any comments must be addressed through the mayor. When you come forward, please state your name and place of residence for the record as this hearing will be recorded.

Alright. Thank you, Sylvia. And we have, Jared Bradbury here.

Hello. Good evening. Jared Bradbury, building official. So building code, amendments, ordinance twenty twenty six zero zero one. We have not had any comments or any replies, and so the staff recommends approval of the ordinance to adopt the current state building codes.

Thank you very much. Any questions for staff?

Yeah. I just the financial impacts of this, do we know what that There's some.

Okay. Yep. No.

Any other questions?

I also I think I know the answer to this as well. What about for inspections or time to completion or building or anything? Is there any impact, at all on that? Okay. That's what I thought.

Any other questions? Alright. We'll go ahead and open the public hearing up. Sylvia, did we have anyone sign up to give testimony?

I do not, mayor.

Alright. And I'm just checking. Anyone in the audience? Last chance? I'm seeing some head shakes. No. Alright. We will go ahead and close the public hearing, and we'll move on to council discussion. Or if you have more questions for staff, feel free. Yes.

I'm in favor of the closed ordinance as is.

Yeah. I'll take make a motion.

That would be great.

Well, I'm

it's been the Captioning Yeah. I motion that we recapture the dock ordinance two zero two six dash zero zero one amending chapter 15.04 of the Sherwood Municipal Code to reflect the current Oregon's COVID code. Second.

I have a motion and a second. And, Sylvia, do we need to do roll call?

Ordinance two zero two six dash 0 zero one amending chapter 15.04 of the Sherwood Municipal Code to reflect the current Oregon building code. Councilor Giles, how do you vote? Four. Councilor Scott?

Aye.

Councilor Mayes?

Aye.

Councilor Stankey?

Aye.

Councilor Brous? Aye. Council President Young? Aye. Mayor Rosner?

Aye.

Thank you.

Alright. Thank you, Sylvia. Sounds like motion passed. We have new ordinance. Alright. With that, we will go ahead and move on to the city manager report.

Thank you, Jared.

Yeah. Oh, yes. Thank you, Jared. Appreciate it.

Mayor and council, good evening. Just a couple of quick announcements. I wanna let you know the community enhancement program grant, is open and runs to April 15 at 5PM when applications have to be submitted, and you can find that information on the city's website. And then, also, I just wanted to remind you that Brookman Road is closed from this yesterday until the sixteenth of, February from Brook, Southwest Brook Brookman Road and Orbost Road, part of the sanitary sewer project. So just a reminder. So any questions for myself or the staff that's here tonight?

Any questions for Craig?

Thank you for checking into the mysterious noise.

Yeah.

We could we'll continue to, look into it.

But

I appreciate the putting the respond or what you've seen, you know, out on social media and I to circle back with those that had asked about it. So Thank

you. I

know this isn't in city limits, but I have noticed strange, sounds, and most often they come from the gun range. It seems like I could hear

Yeah. This is this is a different noise than what these ones are saying because they know what the gun range one sounds.

Okay. Because I I'm like, wow. That's very early on a Sunday or something that I'm hearing

tons. But, anyway Fine.

I do have a question. I was driving two or three nights ago under the bridge, and I noticed the right hand the farthest arc closest to the high school was not lit up.

Okay. Was.

I sent

out that on social media tonight as well.

I did meet a weekly meeting with Rich this morning, and they are looking into that, so with the contractor. Do you have any new information, Rich?

I just wanna make sure it was Yeah. It's middleware. Yep.

I'm assuming that's all under warranty.

Yeah. Yeah. Good. I hope

so. Now

that Yes.

Awesome. Any other questions for the city manager? No? We'll go ahead and move on to, council announcements. Taylor, you wanna go first?

My planning commission got canceled. I was all geared up for a long, long meeting. Dan, sorry. You could take it back. This is your last chance.

I'm off for that.

So we're looking forward to another work session on the that with council first, and then I think we're having a planning commission meeting. So that's all for me.

Yeah. That's it. Renee?

I'll start with thanking the staff for a great works goal setting session last week or the week before. Thank you for that opportunity. Don't have a lot to report on. Tomorrow is the water consortium meeting. However, I will be in the air and will miss it. So, Rich, I think, will be attending on behalf of the city. My apologies for that. And I would announce that next Tuesday, which is the that no. The February 10 is the next chamber of commerce meeting at the senior center. So I know the advisory board's plan on being there, and it's going to be about age friendly city and all the things that are happening at the senior center. And I have a shameless kudos because my grandson

Wrestling. I

five years old, he won or he's in fourth place in the state of Oregon out of 60 wrestlers he came in for.

So That's amazing.

Pretty proud of that little dude. That's all I have. Very

cool. Awesome. Mister Mays. Wow. Thank you.

Sorry. I'm stopping properly prepared with my mic on. Thank you, mayor. Yes. Kudos to staff and the council for a very good goal setting in the PD community room, which went long, full of energy to the very end, passion by council and staff, so that was great. And I was supportive of continuing to go on. True story. Despite the doubts, I was in favor of let's attack issues, solve problems, set goals. It's great. As I mentioned, I the I missed the cultural arts meeting last month because it was got rescheduled the same night as council.

I heard it was fabulous. So if you wanna see a wonderful meeting, attend a future cultural arts board meeting. It was in the update from Craig about the upcoming event on Saturday at the art center celebrating

Chinese New Year.

Chinese New Year. Lunar the Lunar New Year.

Lunar New Year.

Two to five. It'll be it's always a big ton of fun, so show up if you can. WACC nine one one board met last week, CEO board. So that was fine. Things things keep pulling pulling forward. Last Thursday, Friday was LLC quarterly board meeting. Interesting meeting, interesting conversations. The mayor, of course, was there. Our our outstanding vice president, first meeting as VP of League of Oregon Cities. Got an update on interesting stuff with FEMA and floodplains.

More to share depending upon what happens. Hopefully, there'll be a congressional fix, but some pending rules are pretty crazy when it comes to some FEMA floodplain activity for development, even the utilities and floodplain. Very interesting. Hopefully, there'll be some legislative some lay legislative fixes in DC. We'll see. And then we got a nice preview of the short session in Salem that's happening and potential legislation to be supportive of and to fear. So that's all I got.

Mayor? Awesome. Thank you.

Thank you, mister Mayor. Also wanted to just comment on the the goal setting session Saturday before last, you know, I think that's my seventh or eighth one, eighth one now. I feel like they've continually gotten better every year. I think we've gotten more effective. I think the the staff and the facilitator have gotten more effective, so it was really nice to be able to strike a number of things off the list as completed. Didn't add too much, but we added some things. And then I think we we also did some kind of kind of deeper diving into some areas that we really need to want to focus on this year. So it was a great session. Thank you all, everyone, for that. Park's board met last night.

In addition to the usual maintenance. Like, the there was two really good conversations around how they can be one of one of the members, is out here as well, how they can be more proactive, you know, going forward. So kinda following up on the goal setting session, you know, conversation that we had around this. I think their parts board is interested in kind of helping with taking on the kind of the wayfinding thing we talked about in goal setting, right, where we kinda have standardized, you know, wayfinding signage and what that might look like across town and developing that program, realizing that funding will have to come down the road. But at least if you have a plan, then when you have funding, you can start executing on it.

And then the second area that I think you're gonna be diving into in their next meeting is to come up with kind of what like, quick strike small smaller projects out of the the park's master plan, trail infill, you know, connectedness. Right? So we have gaps around town that have existed forever. They're not big enough to be on the CIP, list, but they might be some things that, again, as funding arises, we might really go for CEP grants for some of these things or or other ways. So they the next meeting, they're gonna tackle kinda coming up with a list of priorities in these kind of backlog, if you will, that that then they can make recommendations on as there's funding available or as we can go after a grant. We hear some areas where we might be able to to to get some quick wins.

So that was good. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you, Dan. Yep.

Okay. The traffic safety board met last Thursday. The police chief spoke about the mobile red light cameras. There's pretty good discussion about that, and it seems like the traffic safety board would like to help with recommendations for that for the police. I'm not sure how much those will be, you know, used, but at least some input with what they're seeing.

The other thing was we talked about the school zone crossings, to give them an update of what we talked about as a council. And, especially or specifically, the chair had some feedback for us as a council regarding the rapid rectangular flashing beacons versus the hybrid pedestrian beacons. You know, I mentioned that the consensus is to kinda go with the hybrid pedestrian ones, and he feels very strongly that we should reconsider that and look more at, the why the RRFBs are recommended right now. So I I don't know if that's an informal or formal conversation, but very strongly that you'd like to speak more about that before we officially implement that into our TSP or some other

Did they address the data? Is there data to show that the rapidly flashing red ones are more safe or less?

I I don't that they're more safe. I think that the difference between the cost is his concern is that we don't have the funding to do these and the safety benefits of the rectangular ones. You know, he can speak more to that than I could.

We didn't

really get into the details of it, but that would the cost is the biggest thing.

To do four of those for the price of one or the other. Yeah. Better to have four

of those. That's also why we go after grants.

Exactly. So just wanted to pass that along.

For conversation. Yeah. Make sure we're

making the right decision. Library board met last week as well. They're they're looking for additional direction from the council here. You know, I think we talked about this a little bit in the goal session that we have these volunteers, amazing volunteers on these boards who are on these boards for a specific reason. They're not picking board that they don't wanna be on. And so if we can empower them to be doing these things that maybe our staff, know, isn't able to. And so as a council, really wanna push for additional guidance from us to these boards to empower them.

Should we schedule a joint session with them?

Thoughts? I I think that'd be great.

Yeah. I I mean, I

think we mentioned this at goal setting. Yeah. We should have a joint session with all of our boards because no parks felt the same way. They want direction from us. Okay.

I will work with Craig, and we'll get that on the schedule for this year.

Okay. And then the other thing from the library is that there's a Sherwood seed share February 22. The library is partnering with the Sherwood plant group to offer seed sharing. And if you don't have seeds, not a problem. There'll be plenty of seeds to go around, but good opportunity to connect with people who are growing food. I know that, you know, things are a little bit different now, and growing food might be a a good option for people here in Sherwood.

Awesome. Good things. I'm able to figure out what you're saying. Sorry.

Yes. And not just food. The plants as well. And then I just wanna speak again to the current events going on in our country. You know, I think every country should have some form of immigration enforcement, but what is happening currently right now is this isn't normal.

And our community deserves to know that constitutional protections apply to all people of Sherwood, citizens and noncitizens alike. The Fourth Amendment protects every resident from unreasonable searches and seizures. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments guarantee due process for every person physically in The US. And the 14 or the First Amendment ensures that we can speak, assemble, and record public officials without fear. Recent federal operations demonstrate a troubling pattern, warrantless arrests, racial profiling based on language or appearance, denial of due process hearings, and even violent force against citizens.

These practices reveal consistent violations of rights our constitution explicitly protects. Our government has declared that there's a group of people that no longer deserves these rights, and it seems like from day to day, anybody can be in this group. And if one group does not have these rights, no group has these rights. I'm not asking you to agree with everything I'm saying tonight, but if you agree with anything, if even one part of what I'm speaking strikes you as wrong, unjust, or simply not the kind of community we want to be, then please speak up. Please talk to your neighbors. Share this information. Silence is how rights are lost. Awareness is how communities stay safe, informed, and united.

Thank you. Thank you. Council president.

Same goal setting. Kudos. It was a great great all day Saturday. Really appreciate that. I spent last Thursday, an all day Thursday in Hillsborough at the Washington County Public Services Building, listening to grant applicants for CDBG grants, home grants, public services, infrastructure.

And we were there a much longer day than normal, and that just means there's that many more grant applicants, especially in the public services sector with people with nonprofits that are trying to serve people who need rent assistance, utility assistance, helping our youth homeless youth, which is fast growing more than even adults, helping people with mental health services. Yeah. It's just the the list. And, unfortunately, when it all comes out, there will not be enough money to fund all of these organizations. So that's where the committee comes in, and we all do our own individual scoring to see, who we can get.

These are federal funds, which come with the, federal rules on who is eligible to use the funds, but they they do, help a lot of people. So that's always a good day, and that's, on that board is one member from every city in Washington County and a member of the Washington County Board of Commissioner. So it's quite a group of us that get together and do that. And then last night was region one area commission on transportation board. Always lots of conversations about ODOT and priorities and working to get three to five priorities into the ten year plan from from our region.

So and then on the fun side, I got to last not last Thursday, the Thursday at four, get to be a judge for Sherwood High School's Broadway bits. And it just never ceases to amaze me the talent that we have in our community. These high schoolers, they they choose their own Broadway musical bit. They rehearse it. They do all their own props,

their own

costumes, and it's solos, duets, groups. And then there's judges, and there's awards given out for, you know, best costume, best choreography, best solo. But, anyways, just always a fun night, and that's the Sherwood High School Choir, one of their biggest fundraisers. So I just love being part of that. My daughter was part of the choir group, so it was fun to kinda get back. She's been graduated for ten years now, so it was kinda fun to get back in the high school.

Awesome. Thank you. I've just a couple things. The legislative session has started as of Monday down in Salem, so that will be consuming a lot of my time not not only supporting and and representing Sherwood down there, making sure our rights aren't being impinged on by the state as a city. So I have my hat as MMC Metropolitan Mayors Consortium.

I'll be down there on Thursday with some of the mayors from the metro region lobbying on behalf of cities as well. So it's gonna be an interesting session with the transportation challenges, so get your popcorn and and hold on. I would also like, just as a reminder, just, on top of what Dan just talked about, for those in our community that are feeling like they're impacted by immigration enforcement, go to our website. There's information there so you can understand your rights, and understand how to proactively protect yourself and, be in a good spot. There's a lot of good information.

It also talks about how to identify our police officers versus federal officers because our police officers are here to help you. They're here to make sure you're safe, and we want you to feel comfortable calling them if you need assistance. So, that's really, really important. So there's really good information on the website. I encourage you to go there. And then on the, don't we have a a police foundation function coming up?

Yep. He wants dinner on Friday.

Well, that's a internal thing, but Friday night is our police awards banquet that our police holds to honor or Mhmm. Recognize officers who this past year have gone over and beyond or whatever the particular work be. So that's always a fun event.

Yeah.

And then Police Foundation on May 15 is having their Boots and Blank Gala.

Yeah. Thought you'd wanna get a plug in for all that. So and then on the the fun side too, for those of you who know the Sherwood Education Foundation that used to do the sip and spell as celebrities used to do. Well, standby. It gets better.

Hold

on. And we are changing it up this year, and it is a sip and sing. Wow. Yes. And that group does an amazing job of raising money for the Sherwood Education Foundation, which helps our teachers and our our kids out in the community. So they got celebrity singers.

They didn't even invite me to sing. They invited me to spell one year, but they because they don't want me singing up there.

So that should be a lot of fun. So

with Is anyone on this dais a celebrity singer?

Not that I know of.

Feel like

I live singing. Yes.

That's something that you could be part of the reveal of the night. Right? Yes. Ah. Okay.

I'm I'm I'm so I'm just not in the know.

If if think the masked singer. That's the that's gonna

be

the format. So, yeah, it should be pretty entertaining. Anyways, unless there's anything else, we're good with the order.

More meetings.

I'll go ahead and close this meeting, and we will jump right into our URA board meeting. So with that, I'm gonna call the URA board meeting to order, 02/03/2026. Sylvia, roll call.

Chair Rosner? Here. Vice Chair Young? Here. Member Browse? Here. Member Stankey?

Here.

Member Mays?

Here.

Member Scott?

Here.

Member Giles? Here. Thank you.

Alright. Thank you. We have very exciting agenda today. We have three consent items to approve, and that's it.

So Won't you do take anything off consent and talk about it for a while.

Would anyone like to take anything off consent?

No. Because we have another work session and two exec sessions. Alright.

So we have three items on the consent agenda. Approval of the 06/24/2025 URA board meeting minutes, approval of the 11/04/2025 URA board meeting minutes, and URA resolution twenty twenty six dash zero zero one, adopting a plan of action for controlled efficiencies. All pretty standard stuff.

I move consent. Second.

The motion is second. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda, say aye. Aye. All those opposed, say same. Motion passes. Thank you, counsel. Do we have any citizen comments?

I do not.

Alright. Same same as I. That's how that works. Case you're wanting say nay? You can say nay.

Well Or say

the same it's weird to say I by voting now.

It is a weird thing. But

Voting in the affirmative for For no.

I think it's the timing that that matters more than anything else.

Like it.

I didn't like it. Anyways, any citizen comments, Sylvia?

I do not.

Alright. With that, we are adjourned. We're going into executive session.

Work sessions. So Work session first.

I was

Oh, we go into work session. Yes. You wanna do council announcements again in the URA?

URA? I have one.

Great member of us. I wouldn't mind that if we add that to the agenda.

You're talking to URA. Thank

you. You're the absolute

I'd love to. Yeah.