City Council - Regular Meeting

All right. Let's get started. Welcome, everyone, to the Sherwood City Council regular meeting, 05/05/2026. It is about fifteen after seven. For those of you dialing in, I apologize that we're running just a little bit late tonight, but we'll go ahead and get started here. If everyone could rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. 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.

All right. Thank you, everyone. Sylvia, roll call.

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

Here.

Councilor Stanky?

Here.

Councilor Mayes? Here. Councilor Scott? Here. Councilor Giles?

Here. Thank you.

All right. Thank you, Sylvia. Approval of the agenda. Do I have a motion?

I make a motion to approve the agenda. Second. Second.

I have a motion and a second. All those in favor of approving the agenda say aye. Aye. Opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, counsel. All right. We have five items on I'm sorry. We have three items on item five, which is the consent agenda. Item A is approval of the April Council meeting minutes. Item B is resolution twenty twenty six dash zero two two approving the Sherwood Police Department policy updates. And item c is resolute excuse me, resolution twenty twenty six dash zero two three authorizing the renewal of the municipal judge contract and increase compensation.

I move consent. Second.

I have a motion and a second. All those in favor of approving the consent agenda say aye. Aye. Opposed? Thank you, counsel. We'll move on to citizen comments. Sylvia, do we have any citizen No, no. And I'm checking, and we have no one watching online, so we will move right forward to presentations.

Okay,

great. Thank you. All right, so our first item in presentations tonight is recognition of our city's legal intern, Keegan Sanchez. Eric or Ryan, do you want

to kick us off? Yeah. Keegan, why don't you come on up? So Keegan came to the city in September. He is a 3L at Willamette Law School getting ready to graduate, and even though he doesn't have to, he is going to take the bar, which I respect. So with that being said, I served with Keegan in Kosovo and met him for the first time over there. Keegan is now a captain in the Oregon Army National Guard and ran into me over there when I was the command judge advocate and said, Hey, I'm in law school. And I said, Are you interested in doing city work? Would you be interested in an internship? And he said, Yeah, I would.

So he didn't leave me alone when we got back. He kept emailing me, and so we hired him. And he has done an excellent job for the city. So his duty has mostly been in our municipal court. He prosecutes our traffic citations and code violations in represented cases. So he's gotten some great experiences litigating against other attorneys and some good trial experience, some good court time, and has really been a benefit to the city and saved us a lot of money as well. So Keegan, we're grateful for your service to the city, and we wish you the best of luck.

Thank you so much for spending time here and helping us out. Was traffic court fun? Yeah. Was it just like on TV? Yeah.

Learned Okay. A lot. That's awesome.

So the big question first of all, thank you for your service to the city and to our country. Yes. But also, are you still interested in city legal work? Or did this cure you of that? Okay.

This is not an area of law that I want to run from.

Okay. Great. Well, that's

good news. Wait a minute. No as in you're not interested in municipal law?

Okay, all right. Lawyer fight. Lawyer fight. I

think while he was here, he worked on a couple some projects as well besides municipal law.

Yeah, wanna talk a little bit about what you did?

Yeah. Yeah, so so I one of the projects I worked on was trying to get around the ethics board.

Well, get around. I solved

the issue we faced with the ethics board and that resolution that came out while me and Ryan were deployed. Yeah. I did a research memo on Oregon's First Amendment free speech and signage requirements and what are the options the city can do with those. Oh, yeah. And then I also did another research memo on the conditions prereqs for operating our yellow light cameras and identifying deficiencies the city had and then addressed those to get them fixed. Yeah. Great.

And he will be, we found out about a month and a half ago, he is going to join the Army JAG Corps. So he is, there's about seven to 8% of applicants that are accepted into that program. It's very competitive. And Keegan was one of the 7% in the house, so it's a big deal. Congratulations.

That's awesome.

That is very awesome. Yeah.

Cool. And yes, thank you for your service to the city and as Taylor put it to our country as well. It's greatly appreciated. We have a certificate here for you. We'll press you to a picture and get Ryan over here.

How about I take it with you in front of the city council? I've got a lot of pictures of Keegan. Are you sure? Oh, unless you want one, Keegan.

Let's

get the dais behind us this time. Thanks. I'm fine with that. I look better behind the dais. Except Ryan's big head. No. You're good. Should we stand? Stand Stand up. Okay. Well, because

Thank you.

Is his final day already? Today. Today. Okay.

Right now.

Right now, you're off the clock. Go punch. Go punch out. Alright. Oh, well, awesome. Whatever that is about, somebody passing a board is always a good thing.

Awesome. I love our intern program. We've had a lot of great interns come through over the Yeah. And it's a huge benefit to the city. All right. So we're gonna move ahead to our second what did I do with my pen?

I didn't take that. Ta da.

Well, we'll figure it out later. Our second item is we have two proclamations tonight. The first one is a proclamation naming, this public works week, May 17 through the twenty third. So we do these nice little proclamations with a little seal on them. So I'll go ahead and read this.

So proclamation, national public works Week, May 17 through the twenty third, twenty twenty six. Whereas public works serves services are important to health, safety, and the well-being of our Sherwood citizens, and whereas these services can only be provided through dedicated public work professionals, including government and private sector employees who oversee water distribution, water treatment, sewer systems, equipment services, public properties, solid waste, recycling services, city streets, and park maintenance. Whereas these employees are the city's silent heroes who guarantee that these essential services are always working and whereas the support and understanding of an informed citizenry is vital to the efficient operation of public work systems and whereas the year 2026 marks the sixty sixth annual public works week with a theme of rooted in service powered by community, sponsored by the American Public Works Association. Association. And now therefore be it resolved that I, Tim Rosner, Sherwood, Oregon mayor, do hereby proclaim May 17 through the twenty third twenty twenty six as National Public Works Week in Sherwood and urge all citizens to recognize and thank Public Works employees for their dedicated service they provide.

I'll go ahead and affix my signature. And I was just talking to Rich earlier. We have a wonderful, wonderful Public Works department. They do an amazing job. The staff is great. They care about our community. And I know I make this joke a thousand times, but you know when you're leaving Sherwood because the potholes start. And you know when you're coming home

because they end. So That's

so much.

Landscaping looks great. The parks look great.

Yes. It's just I don't know. And I think as a community, we're so used to seeing it that way that we don't realize the amount of work and dedication and passion that goes into keeping it that way. So Rich, please pass along to your team that we all really appreciate what you guys do. Anyone else want to come in?

Awesome. All right. Then in addition to that, we have another proclamation for National Police Officers Week, May. I'll go ahead and read that proclamation. A National Police Week, May 2026, and 05/15/2026 is National Peace Officers Memorial Day.

Whereas the congress and president of The United States has designated the week of May 2026 as National Police Week, and whereas the women and men of the Sherwood Police Department provide a vital public service by safeguarding the rights and freedoms of the Sherwood community, and whereas it is important that all citizens know and understand that the duties, responsibilities, hazards, and sacrifices of their police department and that the members of our police department recognize their duty to serve the people by safeguarding life and property, protecting them against violence and disorder, and protecting the innocence against deception and the weak against oppression. And whereas the safety of our citizens is the foremost goal of local, state, and national governments, and whereas the ability to exercise the rights and freedoms as set forth by our forefathers depend upon law and order, and whereas law enforcement is one of the few chosen professions that require the willingness to lay down one's life to protect others. Whereas the daily performance of the police officer's normal duty is a dangerous, stress filled, often unappreciated, and requires a person with a supportive family. And now, therefore, it be resolved that I, Tim Rosner, Sherwood, Oregon mayor, do hereby proclaim May 2026 as National Public Police Week and 05/15/2026 as National Peace Officers Memorial Day in Sherwood and urge all citizens to recognize and thank law enforcement officers for the dedicated service they provide.

I'll go ahead and fix my signature there too. And chief, your team does an amazing job. You I've told you that a million times. The officers are great. They're friendly. You just had your May 4 coffee cup. Did that how'd that go? It went well. Did we have a good turnout?

Yeah. Not as much, I think, as last year, but it's always great with all the characters in costume. It's always a big hit. I think The Mandalorian Mandalorians and Darth Vader and everybody was there this year, so Chewbacca?

I don't know. No Chewbacca?

I don't think he was

didn't hear you there. I saw one one year, but Oh, yes, you're Yeah. But

It's more

of winter cost. I can say when I talk to people in our community, they have nothing but appreciation for the work you guys do. It shows because we have a very safe community, and a lot of the community policing that you do and getting out in the community, I think, makes a huge difference. I can't say enough. I appreciate you and your team and everything you do. Any others wanna

chime fitting might it be that on National Peace Officer Day that we will be having a big gala to raise money to help support. The Sherwood Police Foundation is holding a gala that helps support our wonderful officers. I just put those two together. Tiny.

Yeah. Sherwood community is very proud of our police department, our officers. Obviously, the city council, but we have we have great we have a great team that works to defend and protect our community, and we're very proud of them.

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah. And and please pass that along to the the team out there. I will. Appreciate it. All right. So we're going to go ahead and move on. We have a public hearing tonight, a resolution authorizing the city manager to execute a purchase and sale agreement. And Eric. We don't need to be read into this one, do we? Yes. Okay. Go ahead.

The Sherwood City Council will hold a public hearing this evening to receive testimony on resolution twenty twenty six-twenty four authorizing the city manager to execute a purchase and sale agreement for a point nine eight acre property located at 22468 Southwest Pacific Highway Sherwood, Oregon. The public hearing this evening will be conducted as follows. Staff will present a staff report, Questions, if any, by the council for staff. 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 first hearing for the city council on this item.

The council may hold two hearings and Eric at that time will identify a date for that hearing. In accordance with the city charter, the council reserves the right to make a decision at the close of this hearing by unanimous vote of all city council members. If 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 to 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, Eric.

Thanks, Sylvia. BB mayor Rosen, our city council. So this is a public hearing, so we'll accept public testimony tonight. But just to cut through things, staff's gonna recommend a continuance on this item. But we're your the resolution would authorize the city manager to to execute a purchase and sale agreement for the property that's shown on the screen there.

It's 22468 Southwest Pacific Highway. It's 0.98 acres. The city acquired this property in late twenty twenty four, and we were approached in 2025 by a potential buyer of the property. And we've been slowly negotiating with them over time, and that has really picked up in the last few weeks, months here. And the reason we're requesting the continuance is because we're still negotiating the final terms of the sale.

Things are close, but we have the details of the purchase and sale agreement. We don't want to bring that forward until we finalized that, the purchase and sale agreement, and bring that forward in a clean clean document. The reason that we're holding the hearing tonight is because we there was a chance we would be ready, and so we did the public notice for tonight per the ORS. And so we had to come here tonight, open the hearing, and continue to date certain. So that's why we're holding it tonight.

Again, we we recommend a a continuance of the public hearing. May 19 is the next city council date. I'm optimistic we can get it done by then. If we can't, and that's certainly possibility, then we would come here again quickly, open it, and continue it again to a date certain. But just to be safe and cover the bases, we recommend accepting oral and written testimony tonight and again at the next public hearing.

We'll take any questions. Great. Thank you, Eric. Any questions for Eric? And do we have any written testimony?

I receive none, mayor. No. Great.

I'll go ahead and open a public hearing. I am not seeing anyone online, and I don't think we have anyone from the audience. Speak now or forever hold your peace. Nope. All

you people out there.

All you people out there. We'll close the, public hearing, and now it's a discussion and or questions for staff. But it sounds like they're recommending a continuance. So unless there's any man.

Is there any discussion to be had without the term of sales? Yeah. I don't think so.

I have nothing to discuss. I have nothing to

in front of me to discuss. We need to know

what the final terms are. So yep. Alright. Well, thank you, Eric. We'll go ahead and continue this till May 19. No. I think we're good. Awesome. All right. That was fast. City manager's report. How are doing, Craig?

Doing great. Good evening, mayor and council. I don't have a whole lot tonight. If you have any questions of myself or the staff that's here, that'd be great. It's going great.

Community might want to it's you probably already put it on social media. Maybe it already turned on. When's the Cannery Fountain turned on?

It's usually Friday before Memorial Day weekend. Wow, that's crazy. Was gonna ask

the exact same question.

Wow. It's already been asked all over social media this past hot weekend.

Yeah, I know I do know that excuse me, Doug. I do know that the water feature at Snyder Park, we had some storm damage up there this year and being on through an insurance claim, public works is actually working on that. So we're hoping to have it opened up right around that same time or it could be a little later. So just so you if you get questions on that.

And I know this was on social media, but there's also the slowdown during the middle of the day for the Middleton Crossing. Yeah, there's been a post on social media.

We've been putting it out there, so.

That's going according to plan? Yeah, my understanding, yes. Great.

I just avoid that street now and go out off Pinehurst to get where I need to go.

Any other questions for staff?

Did Councilor Scott have a question? I'm good. Oh, sorry. I do.

All right. We'll move right into Council announcements. Dan, do you want to

go first? Sure. The Traffic Safety Board did not meet last week. It was canceled, again, partly due to no new requests. So again, if you have some traffic safety concerns or improvements you'd like to see, please submit a request. They do a great job of handling that, processing, and then, implementing, as we've seen around the city. Library board has not met since, I last spoke on that, since our last meeting, as well as the Sherwood School board, has not met either yet. So no real news from any of the boards that I'm assigned to, and I don't have anything else to comment on tonight.

In a rare event, the Parks Board did not have any dead or dying or dangerous trees to cut down this month.

They also had no other business, so they didn't meet last night.

And I have nothing else to report on. Awesome.

Thank you, Mayor. The Cultural Arts Commission was excited to be able to call a special meeting. We got an extra one in the books I met last night to do a follow-up conversation on the medallions. We reviewed updated designs on the 2nd Floor. So all very exciting and hope to be able to present the designs to council next month. Can

I ask a question actually The wrap for the Cannery Square

Restroom Yeah?

Where are we at in the process for that?

I am not certain. I know we've put the RFP out.

Okay.

I don't know if we've closed the RFP yet.

I

apologize for not knowing. We did not cover that last night. Just curious.

Thank you.

So, in my continual

are you I'm gonna Renee's next. Oh, okay. Renee.

Hello. Well, the youth advisory committee met. And as you all heard from the work session, they toured the police station. They got to meet with the dogs, and I think that was the highlight was playing with the dogs. I we didn't the senior advisory committee did not meet, but I do wanna say a huge thank you to Tammy for the volunteer appreciation dinner that she put together.

It's amazing as always. We're really blessed to have such a talented staff who truly cares about the people who are serving on behalf of the city. So well done to Tammy. It's hard to believe that we're in May already, and soon the festival season will be upon us. So just a reminder that the Pride Festival is coming up on June 13, Robin Hood Festival, I think it's the July, and cruising Sherwood is the August 8. So lots of activities that will be upon us in just a

couple months. That's all I have. Thank you, Renee.

Taylor. So in a continuing effort to get under Dan's skin, planning commission was canceled. Dan, I feel like we should do a midyear rebalance, and I should take some of those committees from you some sort, because this just feels unfair. I tried to take it back, but hopefully it'll pick up here and I'll just be into some midnight.

I agree. I disagree.

You can

shuffle some stuff your way if you're feeling left out.

No, I've been I have been trying to fill it up. I had some good meetings with Washington County Commissioner and some other people just looking at some again, what is I'm concerned about some of the money that has been allocated for affordable housing and those kind of projects and seeing what is in the realm of possibility for I know it was a goal, the city council this year, to get a definition and things like that on. So I'm just continuing to do homework on that and trying to figure out what is available there. And my son graduated from college this week. So that was pretty exciting.

That's why I missed the volunteer day thing, but it was well worth my son and my daughter-in-law. So two graduates in the family. Anyway, that's all for me.

I attended also the Volunteer Appreciation, dinner, which was always a fun event and how Tammy brings in, the line dancer and the amount of volunteers that went up on stage to learn a line dance. It was fun. But most importantly is she talked about the number of volunteer hours this past year, and it was, off the top of my head, 14,531 or something like that, which didn't include any of the hours of boards, city council, and commissions. Boards and commissions and city councils. So it's just all of our other city volunteers.

And that equated to there's a dollar per hour that the, I think, the federal government attributes to a volunteer hour. And so she had a big check that she handed me that it was over half $1,000,000 that those volunteer hours gave to the city, which saves us money in the end because it's not having to come out of our budget. So that was pretty impressive that you guys tracked that those items. I also attended on, someday last week, the Chamber of Commerce, their third winemakers winemakers meeting for the special sort of offset that they're doing within the chamber called the winemakers, getting some local wineries together to really highlight the wineries and vineyards that Sherwood has to offer and collaborate. It's kind of interesting to watch because they're not they say that they're not competitors.

They work with with each other. And if they have somebody visiting their winery and then the people wanna go to another one and say, oh, we're looking for some big bold reds, then they know where to send them by by doing this networking. They talked about that night and come up with a a few names. They're gonna call themselves the Sherwood Winery Alliance, and they really wanna adopt the tagline welcome to Sherwood Wine Country, and they want to sort of collaborate with the city on that kind of discussion and how we can highlight that at the city as well. Had a riveting region one, area commission on transportation meeting last night that was not a normally planned meeting because it's really difficult to get 30 people in one room to agree on things with different priorities of putting forward to the ODOT CIP.

Every region has their projects that they want. And in the end, we didn't get to where we wanted to. We did agree on five projects to put forward, and we are now going to work on over the next year the process for this for the next year and what that should look like because we really need a better process. That was it.

Awesome. I have a few items. A lot of fun items this time around. I got to the Metro Mayors Consortium in Greater Portland, Inc. Host a Meet the Mayors event every year that I got to speak at.

And it was a lot of fun because while most of the region is talking about job losses and a lot of the challenges they're having, I got to talk about all the success we're having when it comes to economic development and all the great work staff is doing and bringing businesses and new jobs into our community. So that was a lot of fun. I also got to go on coin on Monday morning for their meet they do a mayor's Monday event, so I got to brag on the city and the city staff and everybody else even about that. Yeah. Was lot of fun.

Got to talk about our festival season coming up and all the great things coming this summer in Sherwood. And the word must be out because they they asked me. They're like, we hear you're a pirate. So I had to go in the whole pirates, pints thing too, which was kind of entertaining. I also attended the League of Oregon City spring conference out in Prineville.

A lot of great networking, working with other regional leaders as we collaborate on moving the region forward. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend the volunteer appreciation dinner. That was frustrating for me, but one of my kids was is in a Indian traditional music ensemble and was having a concert that night that I had to go to and kinda had to prioritize that one for that night. But our volunteers do an amazing job, you know, supporting our libraries, our senior center, our arts center, our police department, and other areas of our community. And not to mention, I mean, that dinner is about celebrating people who volunteer for the city, but we have tons of other volunteers in this community as well that should be mentioned.

We have wonderful nonprofits and booster clubs, organizations that promote the performing arts. It just goes on and on and on, and there just seems in this community there's just a real volunteerism is in the heart of this community, you see it every day. So I can't say enough. And then the last item, I sit on the Regional Solutions Advisory Council, which is a council that the governor appoints, and we met with the governor and Tim Knope, who's heading up their prosperity council, which is looking at some of the economic development challenges for the state. So we had a couple hours of robust conversation around what we need to be doing to promote jobs in the state and bring more jobs in.

That was an interesting meeting, and I think that's all I got. Oh, and May 19. It's primaries, and it's election day, so get out and vote. I think the deadline to register is passed

Yes.

For that, and ballots are going out. But, yes, vote. There's there's you know, a lot of times in the primaries, everyone focuses on the house seats and all that kind of stuff, but there's a lot of other important elections, county commissioners, etcetera. Pay attention. Read those pamphlets and and vote. So appreciate it. Anything else for the good of the order? All right. We are adjourned, and we'll go into executive session.