City Council - Regular Meeting

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so we're five thirty five, so want to call this study session to order. And first steps first sub session will be on the intergovernmental agreement, IGAs, with the service. And finally, Sarah McCain, library director for now, will lead this this this conversation.

I can open it up, and then I'll pass it to you, open. So tonight, we are, providing some information to counsel on the, long term discussion with the county of Washington County Public Library Systems on a new intergovernmental agreement. So right now, this is context. This is within several years in the making, and that has included in the phase one, which was a funding governance model or a funding model leading up to the levy. And then in the current case, we've been discussing the governance and or how we continue to operate as a cooperative. So with that, I'll transfer to Alice. Great.

Thanks so much, Eric. I know everyone already, but just for the record, Halsted Bernard, library director. And we are here to discuss or to have a conversation about the new IGAs, as Eric has noted. As he has noted, this is part of the funding governance process that started several years ago, and we are rounding the corner and finally wrapping this up. So we wanted to let you know that you were briefed on the funding model last October, and I believe that you've recently seen a state report that was sent out last October.

To give you a sense, it is a 31 page report, so happy to try and answer your question when expect you to memorize that by this evening. But we have locally given feedback on the funding model. You might remember that several other municipalities weighed in on the funding model, And one of the municipalities chose to vote against, but all other municipalities and nonprofits did vote for it, and it was approved by the board of county commissioners. So the funding part of this has been set for a while now. Since then, we've been needing to draft new intergovernmental agreements that reflect the new funding model and also address the governance questions that were raised in this process.

And we IGAs don't have everything in-depth, of course, but we have reached reasonable consensus. So we are recommending that when they come to you in June that you do the IGAs. We do want to flag a potential funding impact, and that is that the 5% increase to the library's allocation is only guaranteed on the levy portion of the funding and not on the funding general funding of the funding. So that's nothing for us to do now, but this may be an opportunity for advocacy in the future. This was flagged, and one of the reasons why Beaverton was was quite opposed to this initially was this was flagged back when were talking about the funding model last year.

So we wanted you to know about that. We also wanted you to know that we're finalizing the documents now and that this will come to you as a consent agenda item on June 20. Happy to answer any questions you might have. And if I can't answer right now, I'll certainly research and get back to you.

Feel free to jump in if you have a question.

No. Hopefully, my only so I did try to go through the report, and there were a lot of disagreements or unhappy. Yeah. So so I guess what my hope is and I think you kind of said it's not everything that we wanted, but it's a movement in right direction. So I guess, do you feel that that survey, hopefully, in five years is done again that you feel that the agreement is working to the best that it could? I mean, that that was the only thing that really struck me is that it walked through that is there was a lot of, dissatisfaction, with the current system for existing system.

That's a great question. I will note that that the disagreement that's reflected in the report was from an earlier portion of us working together. And I do think that we have moved in the right direction towards greater consensus. Certainly, the IGAs addressed some concerns that we we had with what is the role of executive board and what is the role of what's called policy group or the library directors. And that was some of some of what you saw in the disagree is what's the the clarity the lack of clarity of role and accountability. And the new IGAs do attempt to address that.

I do want the, things I would highlight. So I've had the opportunity to sit on the, as the executive board, member of our team and tighter, during, the last couple months. And from my observation, you know, I think the the clarity is an important piece on the role of an executive board member because previously, there had been many periods where the executive board had not. Now one of the big, changes is stipulating, for any sort of funding, discussion, but that would go to the executive board prior to going to the board of county commissions. So that is kind of our elaborate and control in terms of grouping, some advocacy and and input to how the modeling goes before.

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I guess, has a say on the general fund general fund portion of the company.

They they can provide a recommendation, but they don't have formal authority. So that that is a distinction. Ultimately, the the board county commission would have the policy to go from there in terms of how the model or how the funding is distributed.

They're changing the exec board members at all? Is that They do not. It's fine. It will still be either city manager or assistance fee manager for the municipalities and the nonprofit executive director.

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You you know, do like One thing I do wanna clarify, since I also highlighted, the allocation model or the guarantee of 5% increase is only on the levy portion. From a conservative standpoint, we we have forecasted, a potential. It would be it could be less than 5% in the out years. We we do know for sure we will get it.

You for mentioning that. That was in James' forecast last night. So I was appreciative that was reflected. Yeah. That was kind of my question. Mhmm. That's why I don't know. They take away 5%, so let me just No.

That is just our conservative forecast in terms of what we what we know for sure.

But for this year, it's steady. Correct. So because you see a I'm sorry. No. Go ahead. Do you see a reduction in to be paying that on that outer later years?

So the the signal and, again, this is a bit of reading the team piece. The the signal we received from the the county is that they have been operating at a deficit. You know, the Washington kinda have their general fund. That was. So I I I also got another callback, but I again, the team leads and anticipating that there there might be some appetite for not increasing neural function at the same level as the. Again, that is that is just my opinion.

And it also is borne out by the fact that the the past several years, we did receive less than was stipulated in the previous SGA because of the assessed

value. So as and one of the other indicators that we received is as part of the the SIPs I'm not sure if you know the SIPs in Washington County or Hillsborough. It's chief investment. Yes. They're the investment plan. They have a few businesses that are coming opposite, and so they received a one time large increase in their property tax revenues. Okay. And so it's part of the IGA. There's a stipulation in the current IGA where we will receive any sort of access collection. However, because they've been operating at it, means that we I'll stick with it.

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That's a good thing. Hello. So let's move on to the next item on this study session, which is driven by 2.37 finance study section, and we have senior panel, Gada. And, Tyler, are you presenting as well? We're presenting. I'm just curious. Okay. Yeah. If you want to speak to introduce yourself because people can see it. So please go ahead.

Great. Good evening, everyone. Britney Davis, new planner. Study session is on the River Terrace 2 project, just providing a quick update on our finance strategy, our project schedule, and our street designs. So let's start with the finance strategy updates.

And I'll note that at the end of the brief presentation, there will be time to answer any of your questions that you may have or to hear your feedback. So for the finance strategy on March 24, we heard unanimous support from city council for two things, the first being tiered system development charges in River Terrace 2 and citywide for both parks and transportation. We also heard council support for preventing shortfalls to maintenance budgets for the new River Terrace 2 infrastructure with a note to make sure that equity and affordability are balanced. This update is to report out that city leadership has decided to move forward with two things in response to that feedback. The first being to move forward with a study to tier system development charges citywide and in River Terrace 2 to help support housing production, affordability, and our equity goals.

The city leadership has also decided not to establish a supplemental maintenance fee for River Terrace 2 residents. There are a couple reasons for this. The first being that we're finding that the River Terrace 2 designs are kind of the new normal. We're seeing a lot of these same elements such as multiuse paths citywide, so it would have created some equity issues to charge River Terrace 2 residents a fee for similar facilities. And we also found that it was incredibly challenging to implement.

So instead of that, leadership has decided to study how new transportation and parks infrastructure citywide would impact the the funds in the street maintenance fee and park recreation fee accounts and the need to ensure that there's adequate funds in order to maintain citywide infrastructure for those types of services. So staff will certainly bring the findings and recommendations back to city council most. Both of those studies are k. Next topic is the project schedule update. So the project team has been working very hard to advance the project.

We've hit some good strides and made made progress on the transportation system plan, the park system plan, finance strategy, and code concept development. Despite this progress, I'm here to share that the project timeline has been extended by five months. This is primarily to allow more time to continue working on development code amendments and the finance strategy. So the previous timeline set the adoption process in November and December of this year. The updated timeline shifts that adoption date out to April and May 2027.

So there are a couple reasons for this. The first being that we really wanna get it right, and that takes a lot of time. The second reason is that city council has also made it abundantly clear that you also want to get it right. And we've also experienced some delays in trying to provide city council with adequate information to aid in that decision making process. So a good a good example of this is the average housing density questions.

We think back to that process. It took about six months to get to a decision on what that appropriate density was for Reterus through preparing renderings, which took about three months, and then preparing for the policy workshop, which was another three months, and another month to implement those changes. So this process ultimately resulted in the best path forward, but it does take time, and it is a a significant part of the delay for the project. The last the last reason for the delay is there's a lot of interdepartmental coordination that needs to happen on the finance strategy. It's a bit more than we expected.

It's been very fruitful, but it is very time intensive. K. The last update is on our street designs. So, also, during the March 24 meeting, we shared the recommended street designs with city council. There was not a consensus on two of the street designs that evening, the first being the Mountainside Way Collector Extension and the Collector Main Street excuse me, Commercial Collector Main Street.

There are also concerns voiced about the added added infrastructure costs brought on by the designs and the effect on development feasibility and affordability for future assets. So since that meeting, staff have been working to respond to council's concerns. We've met internally as a staff team to try and identify potential changes to the streets and to understand how those impact our policy goals that have been set for the project. We've also sought input from the transportation strategy team, the planning commission, and we're meeting with the Tiger Transportation Advisory Committee tomorrow evening. And we're bringing this topic back to council on May 26.

So part of the purpose of this study session is to prepare city council for that discussion. Of course, we'll share the feedback that we've heard from the advisory groups. We'll also be able to share some qualitative information about safety concerns in River Terrace 1 and how how affordability may be impacted for future buyers, but we do not expect to be able to bring quali quantitative data. So and based on what we're hearing, from all of this follow-up research and from consulting with our advisory groups, we're finding that it's been incredibly difficult to identify potential changes to the street designs without, in some way, compromising our standing policy goals. So we're planning on recommending during the May 26 meeting that council move forward with the current designs in order to maintain alignment with the policy goals that have been set for the project.

But in turn, we'll also be asking city council if there are policies that should be scaled back or modified in some way to support specific changes to the street designs. So it's going to be critical that city council provide final direction on May 26 by identifying either specific changes to the street designs and specific changes to policy goals or or deciding to move forward with the designs as is. And we'll be asking that council either reach a consensus or take a vote. And the last segment is just to open up for questions. So, mainly, I'm hoping if city council has any feedback or concerns about the approach for the street designs for the May 26 meeting.

And if they do have any recommendations how staff can help prepare you all for that discussion. And lastly, if you have any other questions about the information shared. Thank you. For the SDCs, I am concerned that the recommendation is not to have a supplemental maintenance fee because we heard last night just with Dire Straits season. Also, I'm assuming that the parks, they're within ten minutes, which a whole list of other parts of Tiger isn't.

I mean, there's you don't you mentioned equity, so I can see make an argument that it's actually not equitable to the other parts of Tiger. I know we're one Tiger, but it's a new part. Is that the case? And I know you mentioned you're working closer to any departmental, but what is the long term forecast in that depth of the city would be? Yeah.

It's a good question, and that is the primary reason for implementing the study to see how the street maintenance fee in the park should be increased, that small increment, in order to both manage the additional infrastructure coming online in River Terrace 2 and then also the projects that we're seeing citywide. So the purpose of that study is to identify how to prevent a budget shortfall. It's just taking a different approach. What's the timeline on that? I mean, will River Tares 2 be built and then study still going ongoing, and then we're still in a deficit situation. Not likely.

If I can just make a comment on that. So the one so so street maintenance fees operate out of a separate fund, not tied to the general fund. So in the current situation without the county for any of the infrastructure, I would characterize the fund as healthy to maintain what we have today. We don't know what it's gonna look like depending on what what the new infrastructure looks like in.

That's That's what's

concerning to me.

I can kinda speak into that a little bit. From a practical perspective, what we're doing maintenance work, the reason we weren't in favor of the supplemental fee is that we would have our crews would have to literally fill out one work order for one segment of the of the neighborhood and then switch to another work order with another code for this other fee. Potentially, it would it would just be extremely hard for our crews to to break their work up that way because that's that's just not how they work. So with respect to, you know, the park maintenance situation, the separate track or the separate conversation we're having with the council about sustainable funding, we think, you know, can solve for the for the entire community.

I'm skeptical, but I appreciate the addition. And I know it's healthy, but we're also gonna talk about street maintenance fees and that change. And and so kinda earlier, there's a question on debt in the future. There's

Mhmm.

Doubles in the detail, and and I'm just afraid we're gonna end up in a situation where the study won't be done in time. We think it's healthy now, but talking about changing that. Thank you.

So for me, it will be helpful for the street design discussion. I think you got a preview of what a contact council member would like to see in terms of scaling it down. So it would be helpful for me if if you can present something like if we were to scale this down or the trade off in current policy. We have we have to give up. We can make it more workable. So

this is, kinda more, know,

break it down for me. So

Thank you. I I agree that would be helpful to even have an example where your policy says this. If you want to bring this down to this, the policy would have to say

Yeah. Of course, we can no longer fulfill.

And after the hard work we did yesterday with the budget work, I have concerns about city being able to look forward to continue to progress and have these great streets and stuff with without figuring out a way to fund it all. So I look forward to seeing the studies and making sure that we're making the right choices.

So we can tag onto that. I guess my and the answer might be they're independent. But are there unintended consequences or decisions that we say, yes, go forward now, but we're not having the financing conversation for five to six months? That concerns me that we made this decision here, and then we get here. And there's, like, that's a, oh, now we're stuck, and I don't wanna do that. Yeah. So I I just have concerns about the time.

Yeah. I appreciate that. And and there's no there's nothing stopping the city council from directing staff later to go back and change something if there are serious concerns that come to light based on new information that's uncovered as we continue through this project. Part of part of the problem with the community plan project is that it takes place over such a long period of time, There and are so many different interrelated components of the work that have to happen sometimes alongside one another, and sometimes that's just not possible. So, certainly, if there's a concern that arises later, things can can go back and be changed.

So if we find that the commercial collector, for example, is completely untenable from a financial strategy standpoint, and we learn that along the way as we dig deeper into the finance strategy, the transportation system plan, street designs, is still a draft form. Council hasn't adopted that or finalized it, and we can go back. Certainly, that comes with delays to the project, both in terms of time and then added budget is also a factor. So there are repercussions to that, but, again, it's in this pursuit of getting it right. So things can change later if necessary.

I remember the conversations about the relative size that we're talking about. So I wanna respect and appreciate that, but I appreciate knowing the flexibility.

I just wanna confirm it would be just policy trade offs for commercial collectors a and b. It would not be for the rest the the vast majority of the street signs, which,

you know, sort of

agreed agreed upon. Right. We're not reopening that campus. Those two small segments. Yes. Yeah.

Any other comments, questions, requests?

Or it comes back to us May 26.

I think, I'm sure it's in the previous presentation. I'll just need to review the infrastructure cost and development and feasibility and affordability side of it because I think trying to understand the concerns that have been raised versus the policy the policy goals. The way I would look at it is, like, okay. We're saying it's too expensive to develop or not affordable to develop. Okay. What's the price point that we're trying to get to, and what would that actually look like? That's what I'm I'm trying to reverse engineer. I mean, like, I'm fine with with commercial collectors, they need to be as they're presented, and I said so at the time. So I think that's Yeah. Where I'm struggling to to I'm trying to seek to understand the other viewpoints on the council. So I I don't yeah. That's that's where I'm at. Any clarity there would be helpful.

If I recall, I think it was that the the designs as presented were going to be about 10 more expensive than the typical street in Tiger. Is that correct? Yes. It was 14. 14. And was that to make it or to maintain it? Oh. Don't understand. Was that increased cost to to develop build the road build the road or maintenance going forward? To develop that for the initial construction. Yes.

To keep the same amount. But I guess my question is, like, what how much would the policy have to change to hit that price point? Because I feel like there's based on the conversation we had, which I had trouble following, it feels like that's what we keep circling. It's like policy goal, but also cost. It's like, okay. If we're trying to hit this amount, this is what that's gonna look. This is the policy change that's gonna happen. You're having to get there. Are you willing to live with that? And I that's what I'm struggling right now.

I think that's what I was struggling with too. Yeah. So asking for an example of if you want to get to this cost, your policy should really say something more like this then Would be helpful for me.

I understand. Like, I feel

like this may be getting too in the weeds, but I'm gonna need to discuss on May 26, but what development costs look like in other jurisdictions, like, where they're trying to do things like that. I feel like that's always my reference point doesn't look like, well, this will, like, Beaverton or Walton. I don't know if that's really applicable here.

Yeah. I'm not in terms of cost plan planning to prepare a and just a comparison of what other jurisdictions are doing for streets and Greenfield fountain areas, but I don't have any data on cost. Just with then general design.

Yeah. The policy side of it. Like, these aren't policy goals. These are what other

are

doing for Greenfield. You know? Okay. That's helpful. So it's

a couple that we can look at the policy and maybe even change it too because we may be very aggressive. That's not affordable. So we're not gonna look at it. These two seats and fees, we may need to scale back the policy there as well. That would be from a maintenance side. We don't have any cost estimates. We've been working closely with our colleagues in public works to understand what is what is possible, what is. So from that perspective, we don't have a breakdown. Well, they have FTEs. They know how many FTEs they would need. Certainly. So I assume you can extrapolate from that.

Assume all the miscalculation is part of part of the other. I need I to make conversations. K.

Anything else for the last couple of minutes?

Thank you for that. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. It's a couple

of So now we'll we'll have a break before our

we'll join the study session, and we'll start our regular custom meeting at 06:30. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Nice to you.

So I call this council meeting to order. Deputy, City of Court of Bartholomew, please conduct a roll call.

Council president Wolf. Here. Councilor Anderson.

Here.

Councilor Gaddusi.

Present.

Use councilor Hallock. Mayor Hu? Here. Councilor Robbins? Present. Councilor Schleck? Here. Councilor Shah?

Here.

Alright. Thank you. Everyone please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Council and staff, do you have any non agenda items? Seeing none, let's move on to next section, which is public comments.

The public comment period provides an opportunity for members of the public to address the City Council. While it is not a dialogue, either I or staff will follow-up to address the issues brought forward in these comments. The calling number is (503) 966-4101 and those wishing to comment shall call now to get into the queue. Anyone wanting to comment should sign up on the public comment form at the front of the room. Those calling in for agenda items number nine or 10 should wait until that item is announced and then call in.

First is written public comments. We received two written public comments by Monday noon deadline regarding the Water Advisory Board recommendations, public hearing agenda publishing and the proposed code change and soundtracks. Next, we move on to in person. And those who are wishing to comment in person, please sign up in the on the form in the front. So no one signed up, so let's move on to phone or video. Mr. Vann, are there any callers in the queue for phone or video testimony?

No callers.

Thank you, Mr. Vann. Let's move on to city manager report. Acting city manager Rager will provide a brief report. Good evening.

Good evening, counsel. This past weekend marked the opening day of the Tigard Farmers Market, always a welcome sign of the summer season and something so many of our community look forward to each year. It's a great opportunity to connect with local vendors, neighbors, and it's also a great time to stop by the city booth to ask questions, chat with staff, learn about current projects, or simply to say hello. It's events like these that bring people together and help keep Tiger a welcoming and connected community. Looking ahead, tomorrow, May 6, students across Tiger will take part in the spring walk and roll event at their elementary schools.

It's a great celebration of active transportation and healthy habits and a chance to support the safe routes to school program for students and families. Events like Walk and Roll bring families, schools, and neighborhoods together, encouraging students to walk, bike, roll, or take the bus, supporting healthier lifestyles, reducing congestion, and helping care for our environment. As they head out, it's also a timely reminder for all of us to slow down, stay alert, and watch for kids traveling through our neighborhoods. Thank you.

Counselor, do you have any questions or comments? Counselor Shah?

Just one comment. I was fortunate enough to be in the city booth and it was exciting because we apparently are the first Tiger Farmers Market or the first Farmers Market to be online in our region. So we had a lot of folks who were there from Hillsborough and Beaverton and Lake Oswego spending their money to support Tiger. So I really appreciate that. But thank you.

Yeah. That's very exciting.

All

right. Let's move. Thank you for the City Manager report. Let's move on to the Consent Agenda. The Consent Agenda is used for routine items. Information on each item is available on the City's website. In the packet for this meeting, these items may be enacted in one motion without separate discussion. Council members may request that an item be removed by motion for discussion and separate action. Tonight, we have two consent items, both are resolutions of support, one for an Opportunity Zone nomination and one for Safe Streets and Rose Bowl grant. Do we have any discussion or motion?

Mayor, I move to approve the consent agenda as presented.

I second.

The motion be carried for moved by Councillor President Wolf and second by Councillor Robbins. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, those in favor say aye. Opposed say nay. The consent agenda is adopted by a unanimous vote of the council. Thank you. Alright. Let's move on to the next item, which is the Water Advisory Board recommendation. And acting Cinemage and acting Cinemage Manager Reagor will introduce this item.

Thank you, mayor and council. For the record, Brian Reagor, public works director, acting, city manager. I'll try to keep my comments as brief as I can. You saw the memo I wrote, in the in the packet. You know, basic we we appreciate that the Tigard Water District would like to donate toward the water system.

The challenge for staff has been in the approach of how these recommendations have come to us. We've had some disagreement, expressed some concerns to the Tigard Water District and through the Water Advisory Board. So it's a it's a difficult situation that we're in. So we have some you know, I provided some thoughts in in the memo. With regard to recommendation number one, this is the emergency water distribution idea.

For, you know, basically, the the TWD proposal is for us to agree to an engineering study that would look at one of our reservoir sites to house a emergency water distribution manifold system that could be operated by volunteers. Really to sum up our concerns with that is that that is not how we will distribute water during an emergency. We our emergency response plan, our emergency management planning calls for distributing many things through what what are called commodity points of distribution. So in a state of an emergency, we're we're gonna be looking to, at the very least, the four quadrants of the city where our CERT teams are you know, there's there's distribution across the city. And we would be setting up these points of distribution where we can be able to provide not only water, but food, emergency supplies, first aid, that kind of thing.

And this concept was also mentioned last night at the budget committee the in the when Rick Gruen was talking about resiliency hubs. This is a new concept that staff will be bringing to the council soon. And we think it has a lot of potential for how these c pods could become one with a resilience hub. And even if we didn't have the resilience hub, if we had an emergency tomorrow and we had to set these up, we would be setting up c pods. You could envision, the very least, a large tent would have supplies that people could come to.

But we would not be using our reservoir sites for that kind of for that kind of use. Recommendation two is regarding a water filtration trailer. Like I said in the memo, we're not necessarily opposed to this one, but we don't think that the use of the trailer would meet what the Tigard Water District is hoping for. They had some when they presented it to us, they're thinking about the the Cascadia subduction zone earthquake scenario, which is, you know, the work probably the worst thing that we could we could deal with. We wouldn't be using a filtration trailer right off the bat.

For the first weeks, months, we're gonna be man we're gonna be working on other things in the in the city, in the water system, and that's why we we talk about how the community really needs to be self reliant for a while until CPODs can be set up and and water and food can be distributed, but we would not be operating a trailer during that that time. Now what we what we are interested in are these smaller units that I mentioned in the in the memo. And we're still looking into that. Other agencies, water providers have been looking at them. And it looks like it has promise.

They're much more portable. They could be deployed very easily to CPOD locations. And if we ultimately had resilience hubs permanent set up, could even be permanently housed there, staged for when they're needed. So in summary, our recommendations for the council, and we're looking for your direction really, that the Tiger Water District consider a financial contribution toward the design of a future resilience hub or CPOD in a specific district, even in their specific district would be great. You could direct us to have conversation with the Tigard Water District.

Let's see. I'm sorry. Looking at my memo here. Oh, just to talk about this other water filtration tool that could be set up. That could be also another potential contribution.

And then recommending that the water advisory board and Tiger Water District get involved with our CERT programs because it's it's trained CERT volunteers that we're gonna look to first. And if we have some kind of water filtration tool available, we would be that's one where we think that appropriately trained personnel or volunteers could actually operate those. So there there is potential there. That's it for my report. Happy to answer any questions you may have.

Thank you, acting city manager Rager, counsel. So in front of us are three staff recommendations. So I will like to open the floor up for your, comments on how you will like to proceed. Councilor Schlack, please go ahead.

Thank you, mayor. I support the staff recommendation in full.

Any other comments? Councilor Gudusi?

Thank you, mayor. Although I do agree that we should follow with what CERT would want to do and would say what if it did come to that, and we should look at the resiliency hub and things like that. I do think that if the water district wanted to do the donation for a new water filtration system that that should be something that we should look at for the trailer. Alright.

Councilor Robbins.

Thank you. Thank you for your report, thank you Water Advisory Board and Tigard Water District members for being here today. I do have a a couple of questions. One is if, say, if we we proceed with the proposal of purchasing water filtration trailers and then saying, you guys are trained. You get to run them. What liability would the city have for those volunteers at that point?

So just a point of clarity. The water filtration trailer, we have one, and we believe that trailer, if it were deployed, would have to be operated by one of our operators that have the certifications through the state because it's really a miniature water treatment plant. But what I'm to understand about these smaller units is they're much different unit that the training and the operation of them is much more simple. A trailer, it's not like a plug and play and flip the switch and go.

So I think part of it then seems like kind of a disconnect between the proposal and how it would be implemented. That if Tiger Water District were to donate money to purchase another water filtration trailer, it would not be something that then Tigard Water District or WAB volunteers could run. Is that correct?

That's correct.

Okay. So so then we would be taking money for something to purchase that then we couldn't use, and that gets back to what you're saying about for the first several weeks to months, we won't be using this. So so now I see that that's I I really wanna work with the Tigard Water District, our partners, and the Water Advisory Board, but I wanna make sure that what we're doing is realistic. And one concern I have is that it seems like some of our volunteers are reluctant to trust our city experts, which I don't have much experience at all with anything other than, like, hooking up hosts. Right?

So I have to trust you. I know we while I was on the web, we had an extensive emergency preparedness review of all the things. And I think we have to figure out a way where our our various councils that we're working with can work with city staff to come to something that is is utilizing the generous donations that Tigard Water District is offering in a realistic and economical way. So I am for exploring using the these these smaller water filtration things. Another clarification question that I have is that because we did get a letter saying, what does the city have to lose with doing the engineering study?

And it sounds like we could spend what could be a lot of the Tiger Water District's money doing an engineering study that then said, this is how you should do something that we've already said we won't be able to man that. And so it would be better to do some sort of study on something that would be foreseeable and implementable. And so I want to work both with the water advisory board and the Tiger Water District, but also taking staff recommendations. So I would be amenable to learning more about the smaller things so that everyone can feel like they have some control. And I also would encourage anyone who is worried about emergency preparation to join CERT.

I have signed up.

So, you agree with those three recommendations from the staff? Okay. And, again, councilor Gudusi just want to confirm.

I would want to pursue the trailer, but otherwise agree with

recommendations. Councilor Shah?

Thank you, mayor, and thank you to my fellow counselors. I'm always one who likes to have a strategic plan in place and know where it start and finishes. And what I'm afraid with this proposal is that it's a piecemeal proposal. And to staff's point, it wouldn't be utilized because the staff that would be needed to utilize it wouldn't be available. And I think we have a very robust program with CERT, and they do have a very strategic plan as well as our own emergency operations center. So I would love to explore the idea of the smaller units that seems to make a lot more sense and could be more nimble. And so with that, I would support the staff recommendations both one, two, and three.

Okay. Council President Wolf?

Because I feel the the end game goal is how do we get access efficiently and effective Mhmm. Effectively to our community members. So I think we're both trying to get to the same goal, and I, again, not an expert, will defer to acting city manager, Reagor, in this idea of having these hubs that provide a variety of resources along with easier access to water. So to that point, I support the recommendations presented by my staff.

Councilor Anderson?

Yeah. I support the staff recommendations. And, you know, we do belong to the Regional Water Providers Consortium, and they have some emergency smaller units that they well, I think they prefer. So, I mean, we could check-in with those guys. I'm sure our water guys at Brian Chickensat, so there you go.

So, you support staff recommendation in full. Okay. So, the vast majority of console well, all of us support staff recommendation in full and only console because this you want to explore trailers, so that's not a majority recommendation. So all right. Thank you.

No, you are not scheduled to give a presentation. So thank you. All right. So let's move on to the next item on agenda, which is capital improvement plan, CIP update. And we have City Engineer, Joe Wenonoske, to introduce the item. Good evening.

Good evening, mayor and council. For the record, I'm Joe Wisneski, city engineer, and I'm here today for a quarterly update on the capital improvement plan. Before we get into the plan, just a quick high level summary of what's in front of you tonight. There's approximately 54 projects that are in this current year's capital improvement plan budget. It ranges from anything in the early planning phase through design, construction, and a handful of projects are in their closeout phase right now due to construction being wrapped up.

These projects are delivered primarily by the engineering division within public works, where we have 21 FTE staff. Engineering also includes our private development group. So when you take them out of it, we have about 10 folks that work day to day on delivering these projects along with some administrative support staff. Next slide, please. Today, we'll go in this order.

We'll talk about, water projects first, then move into sanitary sewer, storm water, transportation, parks, and we'll wrap up with some facility projects. And we'll use the traffic signal color coding of green, yellow, and red based on kinda the status of if we're on track or if there's any issues that we need to bring to your attention. Next slide. So in the water system, the first project to talk about is the 560 East Pressure Zone Consolidation Project. We are currently in the planning phase and drafting the RFP.

Before I get into too many projects, I will note that the amount of time it takes to put together our project management worksheets, do some financial accounting behind these projects, the status you're seeing is about six weeks old at this point. So some of the projects, I will try to give you a more current update than what you see in the PM worksheet if there's been recent bidding or anything like that to know. But the slides are aligned with the project management worksheets that were a supplemental add to your AIS or your agenda. The next project is the Red Rock Creek waterline relocation project. This project's been around for quite some time.

This is the third and final phase of that effort. It says that we're moving into construction in June to August. This project was recently bid. And one thing that's really nice to celebrate today is it's a very city friendly climate right now for bidding, and multiple projects have come in under engineer's estimate, including this one. So in a few weeks, the local contract review board will see some of these contracts coming to you for approval, And this is one that came in under engineer's estimate.

The Aquifer storage and recovery well number two and number three, that construction is complete. So we will be just closing out paperwork on that and you will no longer be hearing about that project going forward. And then the pipeline renewal and replacement program, this is an ongoing program where we're trying to proactively replace aging infrastructure in the water system. One thing that we're starting to do with this program is pair it with our pavement management program. So anywhere that we know we're going to be doing some resurfacing or paving projects, we're evaluating the water system in advance of that.

And one location you'll see this year is a sectional waterline being replaced on Gardy Street. It's another bid that came in underestimate, and you will see here in a few weeks in front of you. And then we'll be paving shortly after that. So this summer, a sectional water main will be replaced. Next slide, please.

The generator replacement at Pump Station 1, also known as Canterbury, We're about 90% complete on design, and we'll be moving into construction this summer and fall for the replacement of the generator. The budget and the schedule are getting more on track now, but there was some early issues with the the budget that has been corrected now. And then schedule is just the uncertainty on lead time for generators is quite lengthy. So we're hoping to get this wrapped up by this fall, but we won't know until we get through the bidding and get a contractor on board to establish that time frame. The water system plan addendums project, that is for the urban growth boundary expansion areas of Kingston Terrace and also River Terrace 2.

The Kingston Terrace plan just recently went to planning commission and will be coming to council for adoption soon along with the River Terrace addendums that will be coming to council closer to December time frame. But this is looking at those expansion areas and addressing what project needs there are for serving those areas. Reservoir 8 and Reservoir 4 improvements. We have a consultant selected for a structural assessment, and then that will drive what the improvements are necessary to make the improvements at those two reservoirs. That one was mostly a little bit behind schedule right now due to some early on project management resources.

Happy in the water area that we are full staff now and these projects are proceeding on a better schedule now. And then the water meter modernization project. We're saying that we're still in a planning phase, but we're more assessing technology and doing a lot of pilots right now on the radio reads and the different way of modernizing our water meters. So this is a multi year long range project, but there's a lot of effort going on to assess the technology for the new water meters. Next slide, please.

The water treatment plant and RIPS generator project, this was delivered by Lake Oswego. It was primarily completed last year, but for billing and closing out the project, it rolled into this fiscal year for a small payment. So that project is wrapped up, and I believe we made our final payment at this point and will be closed out. The lead and copper rule revision compliance project, we say it's complete, but it's always gonna be around just pending further revisions from EPA. And if there's anything else that comes out of their direction, we will address it as it comes up, but we are meeting current guidance and complete as we sit today or as it is today for mandates.

The ASR expansion feasibility study, this one has not started yet. Right now, we're forecasting that it may not start until fiscal year twenty seven. Still shows as green right now because, we're we're looking at some of our longer range planning in the water system, doing some modeling, to really determine, the order of a few projects coming up. So my next update will have a better schedule for this project, but we're mostly gonna focus on the Reservoir 19 siting and some water modeling for where we need to site that reservoir before we get into the ASR feasibility study. And that Reservoir 19 project is the last one on this list.

And then finally on this page, the Lake Oswego Tigard water expansion project. The design kicked off in January 2026. However, this is a large project that has multiple phases. So we also have an RFP out with the same title for the bigger effort of design. The work that kicked off in January was for a additional pump to be added to our Bonita pump station.

Excuse me. So that portion of the design is taking place right now. And then the larger effort that the RFP processes advertise for is for the piping and larger portion of the project to increase the amount of volume that we can bring over of water supply from Lake Oswego. We have, I believe it's approximately 4,000,000 gallons more water that we can bring over from the treatment plant and this project will allow us to move that water into the system. Next project or next page, please.

So at the end of each system, I tried to put a few highlights in here of photos. These photos here are from last summer's emergency response to a water main issue that we had on Catherine Street. And we used our pipeline renewal and replacement program funding to respond to that. The issue we had here was just before school started or opened, we had multiple water main breaks in one block, and we were able to respond quickly because of that CIP program and replace this. And then in this upcoming summer, we'll come back through with PMP, and we'll actually pave that section of street to clean it up after, the water main work was completed previously. Mayor, would you like me to pause at each system for questions or

just Any questions about water before we move on to sewer? Nothing, so go on to next session. Thank you.

Thanks. Next slide, please. So sanitary sewer is one of our smaller CIP sections, and that's primarily because anything on a larger scale like pump stations and treatment is handled by our partner agency Clean Water Services. However, we do have a few projects to highlight. The first one is our major maintenance program, and this is just for things that are a little bit larger on the maintenance side that wouldn't be handled by our routine crews day to day on the operations side of public works.

And that's just a good program to have. We have it in most of our systems. That budget and schedule looks great. The sanitary sewer system plan update is underway right now, and council can expect to hear a briefing and then hopefully adoption of that, come July 2026. There's a few new chapters being added to talk about unserved areas of the city, kinda identifying areas that may still be on septic and talk about what we wanna do with those areas.

The next one is Cured in Place Pipe Project. This project is actually going to become a program in future years. So we had a large need of pipes that needed to be lined. It's a trenchless technology. I probably talked about it many times before, but it's a good bang for our buck to get in there and line pipes and preserve what is there without having to do the conventional open cut and disrupt the neighborhood or the community.

So we got caught up on a lot of our needs, but we are already starting to identify more areas that need this. So we're looking at creating a program out of it where we do a design one year and then a construction package a second year. So you'll start seeing some of that conversation in budget committee meetings as well. And then the final product or project in sanitary sewer is the Rotary Plaza restroom project. This project is showing as red on schedule because a while back we were looking at doing a sewer upgrade and we determined that it was in the best interest to just remove this restroom.

And so now we're pivoting and working on the decommissioning plan for removal of the Plaza restroom. And next slide. On that, we do plan to have it removed this summer, but we're coordinating with all the downtown events and making sure that we pick the right schedule. So more to come on when that is planned to be removed, and we'll definitely communicate on that before it takes place. And then here's just the photos of what it looks like before and after we do that pipe, the CIPP liner project.

On the left side or the before side, you see a lot of root intrusion. We go through, the contractor will clean the pipe out. And then on the right side is when the liner is cured and it looks essentially like a brand new smooth pipe.

Any question about sewer? Councilor Gutierrez.

Thank you, mayor. Going back to the Rotary Plaza restroom, can you give a little bit of history in terms of why it was placed and then why we are currently decommissioning it?

So I may have to follow back up with the original why it was placed, but more why we're decommissioning it is there was a lot of issues with being able to manage the hours that it was open and the way it was being used. And then also there was a lot of issues with things being put down the sewer and having to frequently maintain the sanitary sewer side of the restroom. So that is why it showed up as a sanitary sewer project because we were proposing some upgrades to the sanitary system to hopefully alleviate some of those concerns. But then we went through some downtown engagement, talked to the chamber, talked to some of the businesses down there, and we landed on the best solution was to just remove the restroom.

Go ahead.

Follow-up question. Are we seeing or are we worried we will see similar concerns with the Universal Plaza restrooms?

I don't I don't think we're seeing those concerns. I don't know if we wanna follow-up with our parks manager and get you some more on that from Rick Gruen, but not that I'm aware of.

Yeah.

No, I'm not aware of anything either. I think those are functioning just fine. But the one at Rotary Plaza was there was just a lot. There was also a lot

of

vandalism of those facilities and

a lot

of money spent trying to fix them.

Councilor Shah.

Yeah. My understanding was that they were it was placed there because that's originally where the Tiger Farmers Market was, so it was to be a resource for community members. And COVID happened and became more of a resource for the houses and homeless with a lot of items being disposed that the sewer system was just not meant to handle. And there has been no downtown opposition to this removal, but I just wanna make sure I'm accurate in that.

Yeah, I believe that's accurate. So we went through, engaged with the chamber, I believe the TDA and various businesses right around there. The restroom has actually been locked and closed for extended period of time right now and seems to be operating. And then during business hours, the visitor center has restroom available as well. So there is a period of time that there's a public restroom down there.

All right,

Let's move on to stormwater. Next slide, please.

So stormwater is a little bit larger system, and we'll start with another one of those major maintenance programs. It can be anything from outfall retrofits where storm sewer dumps into like a creek or a stream, some smaller projects to take care of inlets and drain structures, that kind of stuff. And then the next project would be the water quality facility rehab program. This is an annual program, and the area that we're focusing on for this upcoming year is the water quality facilities along Burnham in the phase one of Main Street. It's kinda ran its course of its life.

The plantings need to be replaced. The media, the plant the growing media needs to be replaced periodically. So we're gonna use this program to improve those areas so that we're continuing to treat the storm water that comes off of the paved surfaces before it gets to the waters of the state. This program is also going to start working on some of our older, larger water quality facilities throughout the city. And you'll hear more about that coming into next year, next summer's program where we get into doing similar work, but on older water quality facilities.

The Red Rock Creek stabilization enhancement project is under construction right now. It's a multiyear effort. It is currently scheduled to be completed by November 2026. It is on schedule for the contractor's contract, but we do show it as a yellow light on schedule because we had some earlier permitting delays and land acquisition delays that led to a delayed schedule, but the contractor is on schedule at this point to complete their terms of their contract. The stormwater system plan update is we're in the early scoping and charter phase of it right now, and we plan to take about a year to complete that task and come to council next spring.

We're now looking at March 2027 for council adoption of that system plan. And then the detention pipe retrofit project. This is addressing various areas throughout the city where we have older underground detention systems that during large rain events will store water and slowly release it to the outfalls or to the drainage way. But these areas were constructed many years ago where there's no access to that pipe system, and so we're not able to maintain it. And what this project will do, we'll install those access points so then our operations staff can get in there and do their annual cleaning and televising of the pipes and make sure things are functioning the way they're supposed to.

Next slide, please. 121st Avenue Bridge and Summer Creek Bank stabilization. We just recently went through the land use and most of the permitting phase of this project and will be advertised for bidding very soon. It's being reviewed right now. And then we will move into construction as soon as possible.

There's restrictions for in water work windows, so it may go into next summer, but that project is moving along. And then the final one here to highlight, and this is a big win of many years of trying to figure out how to solve the problem. Many people probably know every time it rains, the turn lane on Durham At 99 W is holding water or flooding. With ODOT taking on some of the ADA ramp improvements at that intersection, we successfully got them to incorporate this work into their project. And as of right now, no cost to the city at Tigard. So

Yay. Hopefully, it stays

that way. But if not, it's budgeted so we can cover it if if we have it. But that work is hoping hoping to take place this summer. But either way, it's in their project and happy to have a solution to that location. Next slide.

And just the project highlight is kind of the current state of that 121st Avenue at Summer Creek. You can see one of the utility structures there. I think it's price sanitary sewer that's exposed. And then on the right side, see because of erosion, you're starting to see more of the guardrail post and different things that the stream is causing damage to. So that is the area that we'll be focused on, stabilizing when we get into construction.

Alright. Questions on storm water project? None? Okay. Let's move oh, councilor Shah.

More of a comment, congratulations on Southwest Durham Road and Pacific Highway because I get to drive that frequently and just watch some seniors try and navigate that while walking and just individuals with dogs. Not that I have a dog yet, but even having walked there,

it's gonna

be a delight not to be flooded. Thank you.

Yeah. Welcome. Alright. Let's move on to transportation project.

Okay. Next slide. By peer count of projects and budget, this is probably our largest system. So we'll have multiple slides here to go through. The first one is our pavement management program. This is where we complete slurry seal, crack sealing, and major rehab of paved streets. And right now, we have various contracts already issued and construction underway. We just recently bid our slurry seal package for this summer, which came in under engineer's estimate as well. So council or LCRB will be seeing that one as well at the May for awarding. And things seem to be going well with that program.

The next one is haul and FAFEL traffic signal. We are looking at we kicked off design right now. We're showing this schedule as yellow and it's because it took a long process to get approval from the state for the traffic signal. Had to go through the traffic analysis and warrant analysis and then work with Salem and the traffic engineer from ODOT or or the state traffic engineer to get that approval. It was just long process, but there wasn't any, nothing negative from ODOT on it.

It's just going through the process that took time. So now that that's approved, we're kicking off the design. I don't have a schedule yet for construction. By the time we get a design, go through all the permitting being in the ODOT right away, It will take time, but we'll keep council updated on when that signal is going to be in construction. The next project is our North Dakota bridge replacement project.

Previously, I announced that we were successful in securing more grant funding. But because of the terms on that grant funding, it's a couple of years out yet. So the project is pretty stagnant at this point, but it's being delivered by ODOT. And I believe it's around fiscal year twenty twenty eight that we'll start picking up steam on that project more. But then the next project is a little bit more exciting, Tiger Street Bridge replacement.

We are at final design. We're securing right away, and we'll be going into bidding phase for that shortly. And we're working out what the construction schedule look like. We'll report back on the final construction schedule as soon as we have it. You may see work as early as late this summer or early fall along Teteman preparing for the bridge replacement.

That is most likely going to start next summer, in the dry weather season for for in stream work. And then the ADA right away program, is a similar program like our pavement management program where it's an annual program focused on maintaining and updating our, curb ramps or curb cuts. I'm hoping this will be the last year that we show the schedule is red as we come out of the issue where we had to fire a contractor a couple years ago and we're getting caught up on backlog of work. I believe this is the year that we'll we'll come out of that. We have multiple contracts going out, so things are improving with that program.

Next project per page. Traffic and transportation major maintenance program is primarily focused on maintaining traffic signals and all the components that go with the traffic signal. It can also include rapid flashing beacons, but it's primarily like signalized locations in our transportation system. The Bonita Sequoia Intersection project is a county misstep funded and county led project to install a brand new signal that doesn't exist today at the intersection of Bonita and Sequoia. That project was just bid by the county, and I believe it came in at or slightly below engineer's estimate as well.

We have very little funding in that project, mostly our internal effort because it's all funded through the county, but still nice to see the bidding climate continue on this same path as other projects. The Murdoch Street sidewalk and stormwater improvements project, and then I'll jump down to the final project on the Safe Routes to School. Both those projects were combined into one and they are complete. They're in the Templeton to Aldi neighborhood, McDonald Street to Sattler Kinda area. And then McDonald Street, the community engagement and preliminary design effort is underway.

Excuse me. We're approaching 30% design right now. We've had two public open houses and we've met individually with probably about 45 property owners talking about right away impacts along there. And so just stay tuned. There's going be a lot of communication on this project. And I believe next week or the week after very soon, have an update coming to council about the project. So our project manager and consultant team will be here to talk in more details about that one. Next slide. The Greenberg Road Hall to Highway 217 project. This is another county missed it project.

The budget is yellow at this point, but I think county's managing it quite well and working with the consultant to make sure that they have a reasonable scope that they can deliver within the awarded amount or awarded budget by misstep and meet the county or sorry, meet the city's complete street policy, which is our number one goal for for the project. So we're still showing it as yellow because it was awarded at a dollar amount less than what the city applied for, but we're we're confident it's gonna be successful at the amount that it's at right now. We'll report back to the council if that changes and have to have any concern. The ultimate goal with that is if the county delivers the scope of work that we are asking for, then we'll do a jurisdictional transfer and take over maintenance of that section of road. So we're in the early phase, probably about 10% design right now, and I'm sure the council will have a briefing briefing on the project as we get closer to 60%.

The street light replacement program, construction has kicked off. Nothing in the field yet as far as construction, but the contractor is procuring all the materials. There's a long lead time on street lights right now. The big thing for this one is it's a safety improvement for the community. PGE was maintaining all of these street lights for us and still will after the project.

And they put us on notice that all of our old wood laminate poles were in dire needed replacement and basically just fall over looking at them. So we put together this program to replace them and the bids came in under budget and we're hoping to replace them over the next year and a half. We just had a really good coordination meeting with PG to talk about the logistics of our contractor working with them and getting all the materials procured and the approach on how we're gonna replace them. The Safe Streets and Roads for All Action Plan, council has adopted that in November 2025. So I think you've had a lot of briefings on that one.

And then the Fano Creek Regional Trail Crossing safety improvements. Our status on here is that the IGA is completed, but that's essentially all we have to do at the city for this project because it's an ODOT led effort in their right away. So our portion of this is done, and we're just waiting for ODOT to actually make the improvements out in the hall. The work has been bid and we're just waiting for them to give us a schedule update on when the work will take place. Next slide, please.

The 95th Avenue, Highway 217 ped and bicycle bridge refinement study. Right now, we're at is the consultant has been selected, and ODOT is working on kicking off that project. It's a state funded effort and delivered by ODOT. So we're a little bit at their mercy for schedule and that's why we're showing this schedule is yellow right now. It's just a little bit slower process for us.

And then the final project is the wayfinding signage installation plan and construction. We've been coordinating with community development on the wayfinding project and it's now in engineering to implement that. So you'll be hearing more about that as this year goes on as well. Next slide. This time of year, we don't have a lot of projects and exciting construction.

So I found a few things to highlight. On the left, we had Salinas visit or Congresswoman Salinas visit. We took her out for a little tour of where these Fano Creek crossing improvements were going to take place. It was also the same day that we looked at the library HVAC project that we were able to have some federal aid on. The middle picture is showing one of those streetlight poles that will be replaced as part of the replacement program. And then on the right hand side is just our McDonald Street, one of the advertisements for an open house. So questions on transportation?

Councilor Shah.

Great. Thank you so much for the report. And last week, we had a few community members in public comment talk about McDonald Street project, and they were concerned about the number right away, but more so that they hadn't been notified of the project. Sound like they may have been on the street. I know they happen to be very engaged community members, but I just wanted to it sound like you were you knew about that, but just wanted to highlight it.

Yeah. So I believe our project manager provided a response for those concerns. I'm not sure exactly where those folks are where they reside, but our communication, we've had direct mailing to all property owners that front McDonald Street to schedule those one on one conversations that we had. But then we picked the radius, I don't know the distance, 500 feet out or so. So we captured some of the side streets of everyone that we sent postcards to for all the open houses.

But then we had a digital presence as well. So all of our social media channels, and then there's a project website that we communicated all these open houses on as well. So it's hard to say if they were on the fringe of some of those distances and may not have got a mailing to it, but I'm hoping the amount of time that we're talking about it here now, the response that we provided to the individual that showed up last week and just by word-of-mouth, this project is quite large and will impact the entire community that by the time we get to construction, the hope would really be that everyone is fully engaged in this project and aware of it.

Thank you. And our communication's been robust, so really appreciate following up too. Thank you.

Any other question, comment on transportation, youth counselor?

I was just I was just curious why the grant for the North Dakota Street Bridge replacement is like, the restraint is you can't access it until fiscal year twenty eight.

Yeah, so that project we ran into some funding shortfalls a couple years ago and we identified we needed to secure additional money. So then there was another, we call it a NOFO, a Notice of Funding Opportunity came out for the grant that we secured. But those monies are typically tied to an appropriation at the federal government level. And those monies are not available until fiscal year twenty eight and beyond. So it's more of the federal budgeting cycle and how they appropriate all the money for projects that you can't bring it up early.

Thank you. Yeah. All

right, let's move on to parks. Next slide please.

The first project, Dirksen Nature Park, small nature play. The Dirksen Nature Park has a master plan for full build out of everything, and this is one of the final projects that need to be delivered for that plan. However, we are coordinating with Clean Water Services for a large Fano Creek trunk line project that they're gonna be taking place and a possible pump station they have to build. And so before we start to deliver additional projects at Dirksen, we're gonna coordinate this effort with the Clean Water Services project. So we anticipate it being on schedule or slightly behind depending on what we negotiate with Clean Water Services, But we see it to be a benefit to everybody if we can either get them to deliver the work or worst thing that I could see happen is we build something that they impact right after we construct it.

So the city wants to do some coordination with Clean Water Services before we start any of this effort. Similar to all the other systems, we have the major maintenance program. We use this one primarily to replace small playgrounds and features in parks that exist today and are due for maintenance or replacement. The Steve Street Park And Trail project is going to construction this summer. That one came in significantly under engineers' estimate.

I wanna say by the magnitude of about 600,000 under at a price tag of about $1,200,000 compared to the estimate of 1.8. So we're happy to see that. And that project also has some metro funding tied to it that helps with the budget as well. The trail system plan, we broke that into two phases. Phase one was kind of current state or current condition of trails and identifying the need, what it's gonna take to maintain our current trail system before we get into a phase two of planning expansion of the trail system.

We show it as yellow because it's ready to come to council and have more discussion on that and we need to get that scheduled. So it's coming up very soon. But right now, we're in a holding pattern for that one, so we're showing it as yellow. And it's not holding, we just need to get it scheduled to come talk more. The Baggin Park project is also coordinating with Clean Water Services, similar to the Dirksen Nature Play effort.

Baggin Park is impacted by the Metzger Sewer Trunk Line project, and we're coordinating with them because they need to work in Bagan Park area. So we need to have the sewer work completed before we build a park in or around where the sewer work will take place. And then Cook Family Park accessible boat ramp phase two, we just awarded the contract for the fabrication of the dock and we're putting out to bid right now the civil side or the construction side of the improvements for that boat ramp. Next slide please. The Lasage Park Boat launch and parking lot, we're looking at kicking off design right now.

The charter and the scoping of that effort is being put together. This is the area that's out by Roy Rogers Beef Bend and it would be another access point to the Twalton River Water Trail. The Copper Creek Cook Family Park Stream stabilization, this project is out for bid and hopefully the timing works out that we can see construction this summer, but it's another one of those in water work windows where we're very restricted on when we can work in the stream. Depending on contractor availability and when materials are available, we may have to look at pushing that into next summer. But for right now, we're hopeful it can take place this year.

And this is if you're in Cook Family Park and you leave on the trail heading west, you'll see the, I think it's an Eagle Scout Bridge that's built over the stream. And our maintenance crews did a great job maintaining that flow for a while. But there's a lot of pipes and different things that are starting to erode and it's time to do a more robust solution to that. And then, Fanno Creek Trail, the Benita to Durham project development effort. This is grant funded as well through the state and we are coordinating with ODOT right now on project delivery and kicking off that project with some uncertainty in the schedule from them.

So we're showing it as yellow on both budget and schedule just because of the delays. We don't know how it's going to impact budget potentially as well. And then Ash Creek Trail, this is the one that we just asked for the letter of support from council to submit to Metro for large scale community visions grant, coordinating with Clean Water Services for a large partnership and match and hopefully build a connection someday from Beggin Park across two seventeen with the study that just mentioned over 02/17 for a ped bridge through the green space and connect to Oak And Washington Square Regional Center. So there's a lot of things all coming together in this one area and this is a great opportunity for public private partnership and including bringing clean water services into the project. Next slide.

And then just some highlights. The before photo, this is just the open space that is currently the Steve Street Park property. In the middle is a little bit of a civil plan sheet from the bid documents. And then on the right hand side is the rendering for the park that will be going into construction this summer.

Question on parks. Councilor Schlach.

Thank you, mayor. Two questions on my part, and I feel like they're they're admittedly a little trivial. One, Steve Street Park. I recall back in 2024 that the council was interested in renaming Steve Street Park. Are we still looking at renaming Steve Street Park, or are we going with Steve Street Park?

So my understanding right now is we are staying with the Steve Street Park name. Our parks manager, Rick Gruen, has a memo that he put together outlining all the research that he has put into this area. I mean, met with Historic Society, SHPO, Tigard House, really did a lot of effort looking into something alternative or something that might be tied to this property. And I believe the recommendation right now is that it stays Steve Steve Street Park, but we'll make sure that that memo gets out so that can be reviewed.

For the record, I like the name Steve Street Park and did so at the time. And then the second one is for the Lasage property. I guess where I'm a bit confused with that project is how it relates to the broader plan for that property considering that's sort of an indefinite holding pattern for a variety of reasons. So I guess I'm just trying to understand how that individual, like how does it fit into that if at all or if this is just an individual project so people can access to Walton River there regardless about of the use of the rest the property?

Yeah, it's a good question. I think the long range plan is always have water access or river access at that property. But the bigger picture of the original plan was having some sports field and more of a community park there. However, it's outside of the urban growth boundary at this point, and we've researched it that it's going to be quite some time before that could ever come into the urban growth area. So the work that we're proposing right now fits within the zoning of Washington County, and we're able to at least deliver that access for our community to get to the river.

It's a very long stretch of Tualatin River that you cannot reach at this point. So we're looking at at least getting in the kayaker boat launch for that property and then further planning for what can be done between now and when the urban growth boundary encompasses that area.

Thank you.

Councilor Shah.

Thank you, mayor. On the Cook Family Park accessible boat ramp, I'm very excited that's gonna be starting. Will that have any impact on the current boat ramp? Any about with day use with summer coming up?

Yeah. So there will be some impact and we'll definitely be putting out a lot of communication on there as far as the timing and what those impacts will be. A lot of the work is actually going to be downstream from there, but the contractor is going to have to be floating in materials and they're gonna have to be accessing the water as well. And so that will be partly their access point during construction. So there'll be a lot of construction fencing and secure areas for construction, and we'll try to minimize that as much as possible, but it will be impacted.

Does that also include parking then, I'm assuming?

Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Alright.

So we have about three minutes left for the facility project and everything's green. So I have faith you can take us home in three minutes, Joe.

Yeah, this is a quick one for us. Next slide please. So the first project is the library HVAC system. That project has just been completed and the library is back open and everyone relocated from their satellite location where we're sitting right now back to the library. Open the doors earlier than we planned by approximately a week or maybe a few days.

So that's always good to be on schedule. The other project is a library roof replacement effort that was completed in advance of the HVAC project. So that one is complete as well. Safe facilities modernization project, that one has been talked about quite some time. So we'll be talking about that for hopefully next couple of years ahead of us as we move into construction or delivering the new facility.

And then the final one is the facility system plan. At the point of putting this together, we're doing the scoping and consultant selection. Where we're at right now is really identifying our internal department needs and facility needs. And then the consultant team will be putting together a twenty year system plan that will guide what we do with all of our existing facilities, come up with the funding needs and what that project list. It'll be similar to all the other systems we talked about tonight where they all have a system plan that guides project prioritization and how we deliver all our projects.

Next slide is just some photos of the library HVAC project. The middle photo is probably the biggest component of the project and it's the chiller. This is a new system that the library didn't have before. So the enclosure, the chiller, and everything that's outside the library was all constructed as part of this project. And then the AHU, the air handler unit, that's just showing one of the areas that didn't have an air handler before.

So we're trying to make the library more comfortable and making sure the even heating and cooling everywhere. So in the lobby area, that was a new unit that was added that didn't have before. So with that, questions on facilities or anything I may have

Councillor Schlach.

Thank you, Mayor. Regarding the facility system plan, being sort of involved with the bond measure campaign and talking to community members, the facility system plan is something that has come up with, as something that people are really interested in. What's the long term vision for these facilities, if the bond measure passes on, May 19? So I'd like to understand, will counsel be briefed on the scoping once staff have sort of agreed on where that is? And what counsel's role and maybe even public the public's engagement would look like throughout the the development of that plan?

Yeah, I'm happy to keep counsel informed on where we're going with the scope and keep you all involved in that. And then just like any of the other system plans, there'll definitely be briefings and then it comes to you for adoption as well. So the simple answer is yes to your question.

Councilor Anderson.

I don't know if you want to comment, but I love hearing that these construction bids are coming in lower than estimates. We've had times where they were quite a bit over. So we're taking advantage of that obviously, right?

Yeah, yeah, it's been a pleasant surprise and we're hearing from other agencies that they're seeing the same thing right now. So I don't know if that's because more on the private construction side, there's less work and our work is a little bit more stable and available. So it's a hungry market for contractors to be bidding right now.

All right. Thank you so much, Joe for the update. Lots going on.

Thanks for the opportunity.

Yes. And let's hope in two weeks we'll know if we'll be busy for next two years on the new facility. So thank you so much. Thanks. All right.

And we're perfectly on time. Excellent. So next will be next item on agenda is legislative public hearing. Ordinance repealing Tiger Municipal Code 5.16 regarding soundtracks. And I will open the public hearing. Anyone may testify on this public hearing by phone, video or in person and may call now to gain the queue now by calling (503) 966-4101 And city attorney Rihala will give the staff report. Good evening.

Good evening, counsel. So repealing this section is really a cleanup item. This section, we could not find any registration submitted to the city in the forty plus years that the ordinance has been in place. Additionally, even if we did require it, it would probably be unconstitutional based on current case law, both the registration requirement itself and the regulations that are imposed by this section. Importantly, this section does nothing to change the regulation of loud noises and sound in the city of Tigard, including from vehicles.

There is a state statute that specifically addresses sound from vehicles, and the city's nuisance code continues to apply exactly the same as it does today. So this is really just a cleanup item. With that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. We received only one written comment for this item by new Monday. And I have already responded pretty much paraphrasing City Attorney Hala's points. So Mr. Wang, are there any callers in queue to testify on this item?

No callers.

Thank you. Deputy City Recorder Bartholomew is going to run very quickly to check to see. I don't see anybody here. So nobody sign up to testify in person. So no response by staff, now any questions from council members on this? No question? Okay. I will close public hearing. Now it's time for council deliberation. Any comments or motion?

Mayor, I move to approve Ordinance 20 six-ten.

Second.

All right. Councillor Schlage moved to approve the ordinance and second by Councillor President Wolf. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, will the WDC reporter read the number and title of the ordinance?

Ordinance 20 six-ten, an ordinance repealing Tiger Municipal Code chapter 5.16 regarding soundtracks.

Thank you. Will the city will the deputy city recorder please conduct a roll call vote starting with the youth councilor for an advisory vote?

Youth Councilor Hellick? Aye. Council President Wolf? Aye. Councilor Anderson?

Yes.

Councilor Gaddusi? Yes. Mary Hu?

Yes.

Councilor Robbins? Yes. Councilor Schleck?

Yes.

Councilor Shah? Yes.

Ordinance number 26 dash 10 is adopted by unanimous vote of the council. Thank you. All right, let's move on to the next legislative public hearing, Tiger Municipal Court amendments to Chapter 2.4, and I will open the public hearing. Anyone who want to testify by anyone can testify by phone, video, or in person and may call in now to gain the queue by calling (503) 966-4101 and city attorney Rihanna will again provide the staff report.

Thank you, counsel. So this is a slightly more relevant code section. This chapter deals with elections and nomination to the council position. So with the help of the city recorder team who are the elections officers by city charter or code we have gone through. And one is just make this code easier to understand. It was a little confusing the way it was written. Some things could definitely be pared down. So we made it more approachable and easier to understand. The second change is with the adoption of our new charter. Now a couple years ago, there was the requirement that a seated counselor resign their council seat in order to run for mayor.

That was eliminated in the new charter and so the code now mirrors the charter and that was deleted. The final change reflects a change in state law. So, right now, incumbents and ceded or incumbents and new candidates have to have the same filing deadline. By law, that has now changed, and an incumbent who was elected to their seat has a filing deadline seven days earlier than everybody else. The importance is that it is an elected position, so somebody who was appointed to their position has the same filing deadline as somebody running for election for the first time.

So our code now reflects that change in state law to provide the different filing deadline deadlines for a reelected incumbent. So with that, I'm happy to answer any questions.

Thank you. We we have we received no written comment on this item by noon Monday. Mister Ben, are there any callers in the queue to testify on this item?

No callers.

Thank you. Deputy City Recorder Bartholomew. Anybody sign up for it? None. None? Okay. Counselors, do you have any questions for our city attorney? Councilor Robbins.

Thank you. I I just had point of curiosity, why do incumbents have to file seven days earlier?

So

it's a state statute. It was part of the big campaign reform bill from a couple years ago. I didn't look at that specific provision, but my guess is that it's something to do with the perceived advantage that or the real advantage that an incumbent has. Prospective candidates know before they file whether they are challenging an incumbent is my guess.

Any other questions before I close the public hearing? Alright. Seeing none, I will close the public hearing. Now it's time for council deliberation. Discussion or motion?

Mayor, I move to approve ordinance number 26 dash 11.

Second.

Councilor councilor Schlag moved to approve motion ordinance number twenty six dash eleven and second by councilor Shah. Is there any further discussion? Seeing none, will the deputy city recorder read the number and title of the ordinance?

Ordinance number 26 dash 11, an ordinance amending Tigard Municipal Code 2.4 regarding election filing procedures.

Thank you. Will the deputy city recorder please conduct a roll call vote starting with the youth counselor for an advisory vote?

Youth counselor Hellick?

Yes.

Council president Wolf? Yes. Councilor Anderson? Yes. Councilor Gaddusi? Yes. Mayor Hu?

Yes.

Councilor Robbins? Yes. Councilor Schlack?

Yes.

Councilor Shah?

Yes.

Thank you. Ordinance number 20 six-eleven is adopted by an analyst vote of the council. All right. Thank you, everybody. There being no additional items, this meeting is adjourned. Good night, Tiger.