City Council - Regular Meeting

It's 530. So good evening everyone. I will call the study session if you order to order sorry. First item on the agenda is Packard Chamber of Commerce quarterly update and we I will invite a board chair Sarah Tanner to provide an update. Good evening.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have quite a few things today. An update on Leadership Tiger. So we graduated after class in June and they completed their That's project they actually raised $8000 for their class project, which is pretty impressive number and they donated items to for local nonprofits, family promise, good neighbor center, community partners for affordable housing and with love and we are now accepting applications for Tiger for this fall and that applications are due September 14th. So we have slots available if you know anybody. We'd love to have that class full. We are now getting the full swing with the candidate endorsement process through our Government Affairs and Public Policy Committee's Candidate Endorsement Committee. So if you know or you are running for office in November, in the November election, please reach out to Megan to indicate your interest in our endorsement because we're going to start having interviews and just discussions with different people. And She made a note, this is from Megan, our local businesses need your support now more than ever. Please remember that every dollar counts and we encourage the community to continue to support these local businesses that you care most about. And our directory is full of those wonderful businesses if you'd like to find some. And then right now in full swing is the farmer's market and they're doing absolutely great. We have 45 to 55 vendors every week on rotation. And of course, we're on the ground. So if you want to find out what's happening there, our latest news, it's right there. And you can reach out to our manager, the market manager by email or website. If you'd like to learn how to sponsor anything at the event or at the farmer's market, an issue that we're having and sort of a sign of the times, but we're seeing an increasing number of SNAP users at the farmer's market. and we will run out of matching dollars again this season much sooner than we have in the past. So we're looking for businesses, individuals and our local partners like the City of Tigard to help us bridge that gap again this year. And please reach out to Chamber staff, Megan in particular, if you would like to contribute to that at all. Our number that we're shooting for is to raise around $4,000 to be able to keep the matching funds going for the remainder of the season. You know about our networking. We do every Thursday morning, Good Morning Tigard. And then we have affinity groups for health and wellness. But our website has everything along with a calendar for those types of events. And then the state of business this year feels like it's going fast forward. But here we are again. It feels like we did state of business 10 minutes ago. But the theme for this year, state of business, is building Tigard's next chapter, turning vision into action. which I know you're all dealing with and living in. So we're excited about that. We'll have an opening keynote from the city of Tigard on economic development strategic plan, the regional economic forecast and report from the state of Oregon. Employee of Oregon will be with us. Workforce and education analysis presentation from work systems, which is great. These are a lot of the connections that we try to make. think about the hub and we're trying to connect with folks that these are all the things that we're trying to do. There'll be a networking lunch. After lunch will be infrastructure and transportation panel with the city of Tiger, TriMet and other transit partners. And we will end with a look at the future of Main Streets, tourism, destination marketing and visitation. So we'd love it if you're able to attend. And I think, have you all been to the state of business before? you know you're not on the hook for the whole day. Okay, so you could come and go. I just want to make that clear. It's not like you have to lock up all day. If you want to come for some of it, we'd love to have you. And we just held our annual meeting where we unveiled our chamber report card, which will be featured in the 2026-27 Tigard Community Guide and Directory. And businesses that want to be in the guide, we need them in there by Friday. So it's end of July is when we're shutting that down and advertisements are available as well. We're encouraging our members to upgrade their partnerships with us in the forms of investments and sponsorships. You know, as well as everybody, everything is more expensive. So the things that we want to accomplish are just taking more. And Megan and Ainsley are the folks that you'd want to speak with about that. We still have sponsorships available for Leadership Tigard, State of Business, and Holiday Happy Hour, and sponsorships for next year as well.

I think that's it.

Lots going on.

Any questions at all for me?

State of Business, could you remind me of the date?

I'll look it up on my phone. Okay, that's okay. Yeah, it's on there.

It's on there. I can look on the website too.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Thank you.

I'm happy to do that for you though. Yeah, yeah. Any other questions?

No?

Okay. Great.

Thank you very much. Yeah, have a good evening.

Next up is Tiger Downtown Alliance. And we have a lot this year. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

On behalf of the Tiger Lodge, I would like to thank the city for their support and their funding for our activities.

We really appreciate it. We couldn't do it without you, so we appreciate that. When I went preparing for this, it was pretty unstructured. I do have some comments on three topics. I could go ahead and jump in there. Okay, the first topic is Inside TDA. with the organization itself. We are having preliminary discussions with the Chamber of Commerce about some new relationship with them. Maybe we're a subsidiary organization. That has been a constant question to me about our relationship.

We're going to try to formalize that with better definitions. Those discussions will be probably starting in the fall here. That's one thing. We also have a planning committee underway for the third Thursday event, which would be art events. I believe that that's really got legs, that this is going to happen, and so that'll be another activity for us.

Second topic is street fair. Street fair is scheduled for Saturday, September 12th, and it'll generally be the same format as last year.

closed down the areas mainstream land. What's different is that rather than the board taking such a high profile, we have a committee ad hoc committee made up of local businesses and with some support from the board and they will be driving that.

So that is a change.

The focus this year, we're gonna be on market for artisans, crafters, makers like that. We're going to de-emphasize as much as possible organizations that aren't that. And we are going to try something new. Now, details I broke out, we'll have this free speech area for those folks who are not artisans or craftsmen like that. And we've had some interest from people running for office and like that. That's where we have the free speech area, but not for the main body of the organization. Selfishly, I think of how I would take my grandchildren around with politicians and like that.

I think it'd be much better as they're, you know, face painting and little things with the kids. So I believe that's the focus of that.

So again, Saturday, September 12th. More information that we'll be following as we gear up. The third topic is the bank project.

The First Bank of Tigard. Just by way of review,

TDA's involvement is that we sponsored the bank rehabilitation project and we made application to the state of Oregon, the Oregon Parks and Recreation Heritage Program for money to support the rehabilitation.

We received $400,000, which is the maximum that is given. And so we're very grateful for that. And so TDA is responsible for all the

reporting and reimbursement requests like that. And then we will in turn, uh, uh, forward that money to, um, the project developer who was sitting right here. Well, fortunately, uh, just sort of kind of proficiently ran into each other right here. He was, the information I was going to give you was probably eight to 12 hours old. And so Kevin will give you information even more current than that. But, uh, Jim, we can talk about the project schedule, which I'm sure is very important to you, or what you're very curious about. But there is some website information report that I can give to you, Lindsay, and then you could distribute that to the rest of the people.

But again, my information is probably 8 to 12 hours old, so I'm going to turn it over to Kevin right here. You just exited with the planning department, is that correct? I'd like to just give everyone a quick update on the schedule if you'd like it. I know it's an interest to many of what's going on inside the building. And basically what's inside the building has just been on paper so far. So we have been one year in, as of July 31st of this year, we've been in one year since we started the initial planning discussion with the planning department. And in my development and maturity, I didn't know it would take that long. But that is pretty common. And so we have spent the year working on architectural drawings, structural engineering drawings, getting everything stamped, comp checks, and schedule a sequence of construction. So as of literally like 15 minutes ago, I received the final structural engineering drawings for the project. And I just left the building department counter planning department counter.

Talked to two people in two different departments and got basically a schedule of permitting.

So we're about four weeks out from getting a building permit. Everything will be turned in if he's paid. And that is the first stage of the project. So of course, so we have that actually completed. SMG has been Smith Monroe, has been our structural engineer.

First 40 feet has been our architect and our efficiency design modeling.

He's been a fantastic organization.

And Randy Magley, who is our construction. So schedule of operation is first sequences, just post and beam to replace the post and beam that's in there to do the joist work and the ceiling and roof joist work.

And then the roof goes on and we received generously the facade grant from Tigard as well from the TCAC board approved that for us. And so we received that in conjunction with the grant. So there's a, there's kind of a relationship with grants that has to happen with that grant, the two grants, but that is 50,025 matching. And so that will pay for, well, There's a $90,000 redo on the front end of the building.

So the facade will have new canopies, new lighting, new signage, tuck pointing for all of the brick is being re-tuck pointed and new entries. So there'll be an ADA entrance.

So it's all ADA compliant.

Once we're done with the new entrance that used to be the old entrance to the 1919 bank. So that will be reinstalled, dividing it into two limited service restaurant spaces.

So our hope, And our advertising marketing has been to limited service, meaning pizza places, ice cream shops, delis, small service counter, order at the counter, pick up, sit down, small seating under 49 seats on each side.

Firewall will split the two sides so that we could have two different style of occupants, so a restaurant and a bookstore, restaurant, toy store type of thing.

So we're hoping that within nine months, within, excuse me, October, we'll be dry in. So that means the roof and we're dry on the inside.

Dehumidifiers come in, suck out all the water, and then we're ready to move forward with cities putting in new meter, new, bigger water. PG&E's study has already been done and approved and a new can on the outside and a trench to drop that wire that's on the back sides. We're trying to clean up the electrical on the back side. So that's great news for like, you know, other development.

Big 400 seat cam on the outside. So we have some other things scheduled that are just going to be dropped in place as the city can do the work, as PTE can do the work that just happens. By 2028, March, the project has to be done. But I'm hoping within nine months, we'll be able to really advertise for tenant acquisition and then final TI build out. So that's the phase four would be the TI build. So after nine months of heavy construction, then we'll move into hopefully tenant acquisition and then moving forward with TIs. So then we'll go, those tenants will then apply for the TI grants if it's available still for the service restaurant space on both sides.

Outside seating, Vault in Maine is our instruction site.

spelled out Maine.

That shows all the updates.

So you can look at pictures and look at, look at, you know, whatever you want to look at as we update, we'll set foot more pictures, but that's, that's what we're doing. And that's the scope.

We'll have two new and viable and wanting to rent to people. I know that we have some space above main street, but the people don't want to rent for some reason. We want to rent these, and so we're hoping to create a nice ecosystem of commerce and economic vitality along that strip and get rid of our missing tooth. They call that a missing tooth, the building, our bank building.

So we're going to replace the tooth with a nice skull crown. Nice. All right, David. Thank you so much. Thank you. And the record was Kevin Bates. Yes, Kevin Bates. All right, so people can see you. Thank you. Thank you so much for the update. Yes. All right, so let's move on.

Thank you very much. Yeah, thank you.

Take care. Exciting to see you. Yeah, me too. All right, so. Great timing. Tiger Housing Plan and Construction Access Pipes presentation and housing plan and Miller to present.

Hello. Hello.

Good evening, Mayor Fu and Council. My name is Judy Miller, Housing Planner. During this study session today, I will give you an introduction to the Tigard Housing Plan work, an overview of the steps, and highlight the nexus between the housing plan and construction exercise steps in advance of the August 11th City Council meeting. So the Tigard Housing Plan is part of the state requirement to study the future housing needs of our community and develop actions that encourage needed housing to be built. In 2019, the Oregon legislature passed House Bill 2003, which aims to help communities meet the housing needs of Oregonians. So the law requires that Oregon cities with a population over 10,000 study the future housing needs of their community members and to develop strategies that encourage housing production. So the bill also requires that each city over 10,000 people adopt a housing production strategy within one year of completing the housing analysis. The housing production strategy must include specific actions the city plans to take, like changing regulations or offering financial incentives to encourage the development of necessary housing types identified in the analysis. Tigard conducted its last housing needs assessment in 2019, and Tigard also adopted the Agorpa Housing Plan in 2019. The Tigard Housing Plan project kicked off in June of this year and is expected to be complete during summer of 2027. And after this project gets complete, TARGET will update the housing capacity analysis and housing production strategy every six years. So the housing plan follows Oregon's housing planning cycle. There are three components within the TARGET housing plan, each with its own set of analyses. The contextualized housing needs analysis, or CHN, the housing capacity analysis, or HCN, and the housing production strategy, or HDS. The first part of the housing plan determines the housing need. The second part develops an action plan. And finally, we will track and monitor progress until the next plan update in six years. Now I'm gonna dive into each of those components I highlighted. The first component is the contextualized housing needs analysis, or CHN. This is more than just a count of units. This analysis identifies needed housing type, characteristics, and location. It includes an affordability analysis, analysis of past discriminatory actions, fair housing issue area analysis, and urbanization analysis for lands recently added into the UGB. The CHN also requires community engagement with an emphasis on engagement with low-income populations, people with disabilities, BIPOC communities, and trans. And the CHN really tells more of the story about how housing is beyond affordability issues on the number of units needed. The second component is the Housing Capacity Analysis, or HCI, The HCA was formerly called a Housing Needs Analysis. This analysis estimates the capacity of buildable land for housing in Tigard and will identify if the city has enough land to meet housing needs for the next 20 years. The HCA includes a buildable lands inventory, which looks at how much land is available for additional housing, including vacant land and redevelopment opportunities, residential land needs analysis, how much and what kind of land is required to support the development needed housing. And these help us determine land sufficiency. So land sufficiency compares that buildable lands inventory and the residential land needs analysis to answer questions like, if there's a shortage of apartments identified, is there enough land within the city that allows for the development of that housing type? The third component of the Tigard Housing Plan is the Housing Production Strategy or HPS. The HBS is a citywide action plan with a set of specific actions the city plans to take, which will make it more likely that the housing needs identified in the HCA are actually built. So the HBS includes a development-ready lands inventory, which identifies land that can be developed in the next six years based on infrastructure readiness. These are really areas where the city can focus some of the action selections for housing development. It also includes equitable engagement with housing producers and developers. Action sheets, which will clearly describe the action selected, the needs that those actions are meeting, and the implementation steps for those actions. And the development-ready lands inventory is actually strongly aligned with Council Goal Strategy 1.1's direction to balance the infrastructure capacity needs of the city when developing a housing strategy. Just some brief examples of HPS actions could include changes to a zoning map or code, providing direct support for land banking, financial incentives that support the development of needed housing like tax exemptions and SBC reductions, and policies that make land development ready, such as infrastructure improvements. So the HPS progress will be clearly tracked, and the city will also evaluate the progress and effectiveness of the HBC actions at the midterm checkpoints of three years into this period. The mid-cycle report will be an evaluation of the strategies implemented in the HPS, This allows the city to identify which strategies are having the intended outcomes and identify any areas that require some course correction. It's an opportunity to also request the implementation timeline extension or to replace an action. The state will also review the city for the acceleration program referral at this time if the city is failing to make progress. So in conclusion, the Tigard Housing Plan will deliver on Council Wall Strategy 1.1 to develop an inclusive housing strategy that increases the variety of housing types while balancing the infrastructure capacity needs of the city. This work will help the city clarify vision and policy measures that directly respond to community needs, outline a practical plan to create meaningful change, and achieve the outcomes the community needs. Any final policy decisions are at the discretion of city council. Now I'll move on to talking about the construction exercise times and how those ties. Construction excise tax on commercial and residential improvements was established to provide funding for affordable housing in the City of Tiger. The CET was an action implemented from the 2019 Affordable Housing Plan. In this context, improvement means any improvements to a property that result in either a new structure, additional square footage added to an existing structure, or additional living space. The City's CET enabling municipal code is based on the language in the enabling statute. Each person who obtains a permit to construct commercial or residential improvements in the city must pay a CET in the amount of 1% of the value of the improvement. Improvements with a value of less than $50,000 are exempt from payment of the CET. And there are other CET exemptions, including for affordable housing, accessory dwelling units, improvements to structures that were destroyed by unintentional means like a fire, middle housing, school improvements, hospital improvements, public improvements, religious facilities, long-term care facilities, residential care facilities, and continuing care retirement communities. There are quite a few exceptions. The expenditure of CET funds is outlined in Tiger Municipal Code 3.90. In short, the city may retain up to 4% for administrative expenses after deducting the administrative fee for residential CET 15% of that is remitted to OHCS for state. 50% of the funds are used for incentives for the development and construction of affordable housing. And 35% of the funds fund programs and activities related to affordable housing. Then we'll also look at after deducting the 50% of the net revenue from the commercial construction tax liabilities tax funds programs of the city related to homeless. The CET is one of two key funding resources to accomplish actions that the city selects in the housing production strategy to incentivize the development of needed housing. Tigard's housing plan projects equitable engagement started in July, so earlier this month. Equitable engagement is split into two phases, and it builds upon the input that we've heard from other long-range planning projects like Tigard Home Planning and the Karistu Playhouse. The first phase of equitable engagement will focus on determining the city's needed housing. This will gather input on desired styles of housing and barriers to living in one's preferred housing. And the second phase of equitable engagement will focus on housing producer engagement to determine which actions would support building the needed housing. Currently, a survey is live on the Tiger Housing Plan webpage and other tools in the equitable engagement plan will include focus groups, interviews, and engagement activists. So at the August 11, 2026 City Council meeting, I'll provide a more detailed briefing on the components of the entire housing plan and expected outcomes. But during tonight's study session, I just want to present a preview of these components to gather Council's initial feedback, concerns, or questions ahead of the meeting, and I'm ready to answer the initial questions or note them to gather more information.

I'd just like to clarify.

Please say your name.

Oh, sorry, Jake Schlecht, Tigard City Council. Trinidad, thank you for the presentation and all the detail around it. I just want to make sure I'm understanding Council's role as part of this process based on what I was reading in AIS and what you said. My understanding is that by law, by statute, we are required to conduct these analyses. However, it's at the Council's discretion on the implementation of findings of these analyses. Is that accurate or correct?

By lawful and by statute, we are required to conduct these analyses and reports and select actions that the city commits to implementing.

Thank you, so yeah, yeah, so it so basically it will come back and then it will be updated and it will all be in the council's court in order to address the findings.

Yes, all policy decisions will remain at council session.

OK, thank you. And this is mayor who I assume there to figure out the housing type will have other data than survey or outreach, right?

Yes, yes. So preferred housing type is based on all of the analyses that I previously discussed, so I can dive further into that as well.

And also my question is, you know, we are setting these goals, different cities are setting these goals for ourselves, so you don't have to answer right now. I'm just curious of how How do we make sure that we are not setting goalposts above or beyond or below other cities? But you don't have to answer right now. That's just my concern. How can it be objectively set so all the cities are on the same playing field? I mean, I know that different cities have different situations, but I'm just looking forward to that. Are we all doing the same thing among different studies?

Thank you for sharing that. Also, I'm curious, given we've been on this road since, I'm sorry, Councillor Jeanette Shaw, that we've been on this road of housing for seven years and we know that City of Tiger has been innovative, creative. We know what housing types pretty close to what we've needed because we've been building for the last seven years, including multiple units of affordable housing. Given that we've had that, where does that play into the strategy, and is there an opportunity to educate DLCD and others that we have been way ahead, we've been innovative, and how do we get a credit or a score for that?

My understanding is that this looks at strategies from the adoption base, so we do not get credit or a score for we basically adopted implementation strategies or actions, but we can look at the actions and strategies that we've already implemented and adjust them so that we are continuing the efforts.

So perhaps this is something we would love to talk to our city attorney about because there seems to me if we have that perhaps we can speak to other cities that have also been innovative and creative and perhaps even through our locally elected officials or even LOC, come up with a plan that asks for. Cargot may not be the best word, but credit for things that we've done in the past because we have done all this work previously.

Council Anderson, are you doing this at all in house or do you have a consultant?

Great question. So we received a grant award from the state to support this work and with that We have hired a consulting team. I've been with my students also supporting the analysis.

The city, sorry, the state provides $7 million. That's gone to 86 different cities to pay for this because they mandated it.

These states did it over the full cost. Yeah, so the state did provide awards. I don't know the exact number of cities, but we did receive two awards for both the housing capacity analysis and housing production strategy. which is unique, and it does have a lead full-fledged consult.

I think, Mayor Wu, I think Metro Council President Kamdahl has sort of mentioned to me there's Metro grant available for housing study or housing planning. I don't know if that's something you're aware of. If that's something you can look into. Okay, Council Robbins, that's your... Let's go ahead.

hi there thank you um i just want to reiterate what mayor who and counselor shaw said and kind of add that it's a little concerning to hear that we don't get quote credit for what we've done in the past and i i understand that just because we did stuff in the past doesn't mean we get a complete pass on continuing our housing strategy i would think that we ought to be able to get recognition or credit or or whatever words you want to use there for what we have done in the past so that we are starting at the same starting point as other municipalities that have not done much to increase affordable housing and variety of housing so i do encourage staff to look into that and make sure that we are positioned as best as we can moving into this.

Thank you. This is Councillor Shaw. Thank you, Councillor Robins. I concur on that as well.

Any questions or comments before we move into August 11th? All right.

Thank you so much for your presentation and

study session is over and we will be back in business meeting at 6 30. so thank you thank you

It's 6.30, so before I start the meeting, I just want to remind everyone in the Tiger community that fire conditions are extremely dangerous right now. According to the latest reports, wildfire have already burned more than 1 million acres across Oregon this year. So please be especially careful and avoid any activities that could accidentally start a fire. We do not want to add to the burden already facing our firefighters and emergency responders across our state. And I also want to take the time to thank the firefighters, first responders, emergency personnel, and everyone working to protect our communities. Please stay safe and continue to look out for one another. I will call this City Council meeting to order. Deputy City Recorder Bartholomew, would you please conduct a roll call?

Council President Wolf is absent. Councillor Anderson?

Here.

Councillor Gaddusi?

Present.

Mayor Hu?

Here.

Councillor Robbins? Here. Councillor Schlagg?

Here.

Councillor Shaw? Here.

Thank you, would you please stand and join me in the Pledge of Allegiance? Councilmember and city teammates, do you have any non-agenda items? Seeing none, let's move on to 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 should call now to get into the queue. Anyone present wanting to comment should sign up on the public comment form at the front of the room. There were four written public comments received by Monday noon deadline. Topics include concerns with the Community Development Block Grant, CDBG, TIGER's lack of disability forward housing infrastructure, and the next step for the TIGER police and public work facility. So let's move on to in-person public comments. So when I call your name, please come forward. And Mr. Vang will put two minutes. Mr. Vang, would you please put a two-minute timer on the screen? All right, so first person, please come forward, Bill Monahan. Good evening. Please state your name and where you live, and you have two minutes. Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. My name is Bill Monahan. I'm a Tigard resident. I submitted public comments, including a letter with several questions to you that should be answered before the Council and staff proceed with direction on public facilities next steps. The public deserves to know how much the city has already spent on the Wall Street property and pre-construction consultants that have been used before asking to fund additional improvements. I'm concerned that the staff report appears to prioritize public works needs over those of police. Even though the city's May election materials emphasize critical police needs, Those needs should be evaluated, and if they are critical, they should be addressed soon. My main concern is the Council and staff may again move forward without fully understanding the residents' ability and willingness to fund new facilities. The failed measure was flawed from the moment the Council placed it on the ballot. The timing was poor, the scope and cost were too large, the chosen site was questionable, and the needs were not clearly connected to the plan. Public trust was lost. To earn support for a bond or utility rate increases, the city must first engage honestly with the residents. Solutions should not be shaped by efforts to craft persuasive language for ballot titles or for bulk mailings. For let us just in support instead the public should receive facts sound analysis and clear justification So I'm concerned that going forward the trust with the community needs to be rebuilt and as a candidate for mayor I find that it's going to be even more difficult going forward without facts in addition I'd like to acknowledge Mike Lewick, who's retiring at the end of this week after serving for 20 years as your emergency management coordinator. He was hired while I was city manager. I couldn't be more pleased with his performance, and I hope you acknowledge him. I'm sure you will, and I wish him the best of luck. Thank you.

You're welcome. All right, so next person I want to invite forward is Felix Martimer. I'm sorry. What's your name? Felix. Felix. Yes. Good evening.

Good evening, sir.

So please state your name and where you live, and then you have two minutes. Thank you.

Okay. My name is Felix Martinez. I live in the Dartmouth Project, other known as the Oberlin Apartments. And I have court, because I'm being evicted from there, actually. And I know that I am the Dartmouth of the project. But that's not even the matter. But what I come here to talk about today for sure is the Just Compassion Shelter. They do good work there and they have a building coming soon. But it's like the people they're feeding that don't stay there are oozing into the streets of Tiger, right around that area. About a week ago, I got pepper sprayed for no good reason. And the staff there did nothing to help me at no time. And I could have lost my eyesight because the spray was very thick and for about an hour or half an hour I was trying to spray my eyes out and I could not. But no one there volunteered any help. They tried to kick me out of the shelter when I was just trying to find a safe haven so I could get medical attention. And that's very scary. I could handle that, but I don't know if another individual in Tiger could actually handle the things that I can handle. And I think we need to look into that. And the police of Tiger, they do great work. I think we need more communication with the way these buildings are being ran by these people that come with these nonprofits. And we need to secure the people of Tiger. Because Tiger's a beautiful place, and I don't wanna leave Tiger. But these run-ins, like the eviction I'm dealing with, and these people from that shelter that's hanging around, they feed the people, but then it's time for them to go. If they don't wanna program, I really believe they should not be just loitering the streets like that. That's something we could probably communicate with the shelter. Like I said, police tigers, they have enough to work with. You know, they do very well. And one other thing, when I walked in, I did hear, you know, all these projects for housing and this and that. So I just wrote something down really quick that could probably help some people there.

You're two minutes up. Can you wrap up really fast? Yes, yes, sir.

Okay. Just some type of work program for those that have vouchers or for those people that you're building these new buildings with tenants to come in. Some of them's gonna be low income and they're gonna need vouchers and they're gonna need assistance from other programs. But I think our job is to put them on their feet. Maybe have a work program for them when they slip off or something like that. I mean, I could get into more details and I'll write it down, I'll wrap this up.

Thank you. And I don't see your contact information. Would you like us to respond to your comment? Yes, yeah, yeah. So can you provide your contact information with our deputy city recorder? So thank you. All right, so let's move on to phone or video public comment. Mr. Vann, are there any callers in queue for phone or video testimony?

There are no callers.

Thank you. All right, let's move on to city manager report. Our city manager, Rager, will give a brief report. Hello, city manager.

Hello, Mr. Mayor and Council. Good to see you. Tonight, I've just got a couple of things. No slide tonight. I just want to give you a quick update on Universal Plaza and the splash pad. So our staff met with what I'm going to refer to as a technical advisor, this gentleman. We got some advice from him during the design process, found him to be very helpful. We called upon him again to take a look at the situation. And he's come up with what appears to be a workable solution, but he's not the one that would end up developing the plan. So the next step is presenting that proposed solution to our contract engineer on this project, and that's the Carollo firm. They'll take a look at that. If they agree with it, the next step would be for them to actually develop the plan. and the specifications for that that would then get submitted to the Oregon Health Authority, OHA, and that's ultimately the approval we need to be able to move forward. So we look at that as good news that there's a potential solution and now we'll work that through the process of getting that through our engineer. So for this summer, it's still going to be closed. So hopefully we can, you know, this gets worked through and gets approved by OHA. But we'll keep the council, keep the public up to speed as to what's going on there. The other thing I want to mention, I appreciated Mr. Monahan mentioning Mike Lewick. Yes. Mike is retiring. I got to be a part of hiring Mike back. I keep forgetting the year we hired him. But Mike has taken the emergency management program for the city and just elevated it substantially and largely has been a one-person show the entire time. I would say as an organization, we're in a much better place than we were then. He was involved in getting the CERT program started here and developed, and then it was able to take off on its own. And so we're happy for him. It's bittersweet, of course, to see someone go, but we're happy for him. There will be a celebration for Mike on Monday at noon, and I think that'll be in our Public Works auditorium. So you're welcome to attend if you'd like. So that's the end of my report tonight.

Thank you. Question or comments? Yeah, I worked with Mike when I was on CERT. He's a great guy, so thank you for the invitation. All right, so let's move on to next item on the agenda, which is Tiger Police Department report, and Police Chief Rogers will give a brief report. Good evening. Oh, is your mic on? Is it on? No, it's on.

I want to start over. Good evening, Mayor and Council. I'm Bob Rogers, your Police Chief, and alongside me is our Assistant Chief, Brad Sitton. This month's update will highlight thefts and a few trends you may see in the dashboard for June. Trends for crimes constantly evolve, and thefts have as well over the last several years, from confidence schemes and check frauds to credit-based, credit card-based thefts and also computer crimes. We've had to adapt and remain abreast of these trends as we address them as well, using specialized teams such as our Commercial Crimes Unit, and also working alongside our regional partners, and considering policy updates as you're seeing up on the screen as well. Since violent crime sentencing has made robberies and violent thefts far less attractive for those who have been involved in thefts prior, we've seen an uptick in thefts and shoplifting as a result as well to include organized efforts that have been led both by state and regional crews focused on large retail establishments. The Law Enforcement Council and the District Attorney's Office have a unified policy statement supporting a presumptive arrest for thefts within the county, and in concert with a commitment to prosecute these types of cases with a higher level of priority. As long as increased space at the jail is maintained and the staffing continues, committing thefts in our county is going to be considerably more costly for those who decide to do that. This has and will continue to cause an uptick in certain statistics that we track. Assistant Chief Sitton is going to go ahead and elaborate on those.

Good evening, Mr. Mayor, Council. Again, for the record, my name is Brad Sitton. I'm the Assistant Chief of Police. Next slide, please. Okay, so on this slide, you're gonna see the overall property crime numbers for June of 2026 are up 187, as opposed to June of 2025 at 178. Oddly enough, the number of arrests are equal of 85 for both 2025 and 2026. The number of felony arrests increased and the number of citations to appear decreased. We believe that the increase and decrease of these numbers are an early result of the Washington County presumptive policy on the previous slide. You'll also notice that under the year-to-date columns, organized retail thefts are half of what they were last year. These numbers are a result of the dedicated effort of our commercial crimes unit that have conducted multiple organized retail crime, or ORC, blitzes over the years. These efforts combined with the DA's new organized retail crime detective assignment that was made earlier this year are having an effect on the retailers and the city in general.

If you had any detailed questions that you guys would like to ask, we're available for that. That pretty much summarizes what we intended to talk to you about. June has been a busy month for a lot of different things. Our staffing's reduced, and we're pushing hard with recruiting efforts. But if you had any questions, we're open to hearing them and trying our best to answer.

Thank you, Chief. So I also read recently we have a partner effort together working on a human traffic issue involving one business in Tiger. And I got a question from a community member just asking us what is Tiger Police or our regional partner doing to address human trafficking in general?

Go ahead.

Yes, Mr. Mayor. We have a part-time detective that works with the FBI on a task force officer level. He specializes in internet crimes against children and other human trafficking issues. We also have a local detective assigned to assist him in those endeavors. Our commercial crime unit also investigates human trafficking crimes when they are business related. As such, earlier this month, the research warrant served at four locations throughout the Tigard-Sherwood area. The end result of those warrants were the arrest of three people and the seizure of over $40,000. Property owners also will be evicting the businesses involved. So as an agency, we are definitely involved in the investigation of human trafficking crimes.

Yeah, and that specific incident that involved the tiger... On the mic, Mikey? Mayor, I don't know about this. I actually just read this and it says... Ironically, that was led by a task force from the Department of Justice Oregon Attorney General has been putting a huge focus on that. So it wasn't just a Tigard-specific incident. It was actually in concert throughout that. It kind of goes back to the organized criminal aspect of this. We're having to work twice as hard and rely on regional partners for one consensus attack on these types of issues, such as human trafficking, which is all, it's pervasive throughout not only this area, the Portland metro area, but all along the northwest and along the western suburbs. Any other questions that come to mind? Thank you guys for your time.

Thank you. Thank you for everything you do. Thank you. All right, so let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is consent agenda. The consent agenda is used for routine items including approval of meeting minutes, contracts, and intergovernmental agreements. Information on each item is available on the city's website in the packet for this meeting. This item 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 a nonprofit low-income housing tax exemption application and three intergovernmental agreements. The first one is CDBG joint entitlement and whole consortium participation. The second one is city houseless liaison. And the third one is a transfer of water customers from Tewatam Valley Water District to the city of Tiger. And I understand, Councilor Hsiao, you have a request.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. I'm requesting that the CDBG joint entitlement and home consortium participation be taken off the consent agenda.

Do I have a second? Second. All right. I think anybody disagree with that? All right, so we will remove that. But let's move on. So let's first vote on the other item, which is A, C, and D. So do I have a motion?

Mayor, I move to approve consent agenda items A, C, and D as presented. Is there a second?

Second.

All right. Moved by Councillor Schlagg and seconded by Councillor Robbins. Any further discussion on the three items on the consent agenda? Seeing none, all those in favour say aye. Aye. Opposed say nay. So the consent agenda item A, C, and D have been adopted by unanimous vote of the council present. All right, so let's move on to item B, which is considering resolution to approve IGA with Washington County for CDBG joint entitlement and whole consortium participation. And housing planner Miller is here available to respond to any questions, so... Housing planner, Leila, would you please come to All right, so Councilor Shah, please start with your remark or questions.

Great, thank you so much and I appreciate that this item was pulled from consent agenda and in full transparency I did let staff know ahead of time. Part of the reason is the concern that I have with regards to the presentation where I don't think that Council understood what the impact and the trade-offs or the pros and cons were going to be of this decision. In particular, it's my understanding that nonprofits could potentially not be able to apply for grants if we were to accept the full amount in year two of the three-year agreement. So that'd be a concern I have, and perhaps you have the impacts and the trade-offs or the pros and cons available for us to discuss tonight. And then also I'm concerned that potentially there could be a crossover of staff providing policy as opposed to the council providing policy because within the resolution and the fifth whereas it talks about with the recommendation of its adopted affordable housing plan and this council has not had a discussion that those dollars would go towards the affordable housing plan. So I think that the council's policy decision making has been removed in this case, and that is also of concern to me. Thank you, Mayor.

Good evening, Council and Mayor Hu. My name is Trinity Miller. I am your housing planner. I am ready to address the pros and cons in the first remark, and I'll defer to our Assistant Community Development Director, Skylar Warren, for the second. And regarding the entitlement, if the council decides to elect to retain 15% of the entitlement that was previously allocated towards the county's competitive pool for public facilities and public infrastructure projects, then nonprofits within the city of Tigard would be ineligible to apply for that competitive funding pool. Instead, any application would be at the discretion of city council. The pros to this is it provides greater oversight and direction from city council over public facility improvements within the city of Tigard. That decision making authority is currently overseen by the policy advisory board through the Washington County. It also allows for greater flexibility to administer large-scale public facilities and improvements projects within the city.

Good evening, Mayor and Councillors. Skyler Warren, Assistant Director of Community Development. So on the question of the policy decision being made here, the CDBG joint entitlement arrangement that we have with Washington County was originally a policy decision that was made with Council in 2019 as part of the three-year entitlement process that we do with Washington County and HUD. So with every three-year cycle, we look at the question of whether joint entitlement still makes sense. And we bring that question back to council. And so this item, as well as the previous briefings on this, are the policy decision to be made. Staff recommendation is to adopt as proposed, but certainly we welcome policy debate about the merits of decision that is before us and to be clear the the change is to the allocation it was an arrangement that was discussed very late breaking with Washington County within the last month so there was not time to bring that to Council and so it's part of the resolution If Council wants to stick with the status quo, that is a perfectly acceptable option. It won't impact anything other than the two outcomes that Trinity covered, which are that we would get less CDBG allocation money, which would be a decrease in our capacity to apply that to public services. policy outcomes that we might identify in that housing plan. And it would give council less local control over its CDBG entitlement. by remaining in the consortium for the public facilities portion of the CDB allocation, the policy decision of how to spend those dollars would rest with the Policy Advisory Board, which rests with Washington County, rather than with Council. So again, that is the policy question that is before the body tonight.

Go ahead, Councilor Hsu.

Yeah, and perhaps just for clarification, because as stated, it sounds like Tiger doesn't have a voice on the Public Affairs Board, but we do, because I'm the current liaison and our Council President Wolf was the former liaison. So we do have a voice and it's a strong voice within Washington County of where those dollars go. So I don't think it's an either or as presented. Either we go back to the original agreement or we go with the new agreement. I'd like to see if there's a policy discussion that we could have that if we do accept ALL THOSE FUNDS IN YEAR TWO WHICH IS APPROXIMATELY MY UNDERSTANDING $525,000 AS OPPOSED TO THE 125, 135 PER YEAR THAT THOSE DOLLARS COULD BE USED FLEXIBLY NOT JUST FOR THE HOUSING PRODUCTION PLAN BUT COULD ALSO POSSIBLY USED FOR if there is infrastructure needs for a nonprofit, let's say, because we know that current CDB jobs have gone to two former nonprofits in our community, both Just Compassion and Good Neighbor, for facilities upgrades. So that is a policy discussion. If there's a third item, and looking at you, Skyler, if that could be a third item for discussion as opposed to an either-or. But also look to my colleagues for their thoughts.

When do we have to enter this IGA by? Is it deadline?

Yes The deadline to enter the IGA would be July 31st.

Yes So have we complied with the July 8th deadlines there are two deadlines one

Yes, we complied with the July 8th deadline, which was to elect joint entitlement. This is the decision to look at the operating agreement and intergovernmental agreement. The previous discussion was the consideration of joint entitlement versus full entitlement or no entitlement and joining the consortium.

Well, I remember the previous presentation, I was not made aware personally of the drawback of our nonprofit will lose their ability to apply grant directly from the county. So that was a surprise to me. So in the future, when you present policy recommendation, I will appreciate you presenting both the pro and con, so I do not have any blind spot. coming from community members like this. And right now I feel like we are in a bind because the deadline is July 31st. And last time when I asked you what plan do we have to use this lump sum and you did not give me a definitive answer. So is that still the case? Do you have a firm plan to use this lump sum now?

Mayor, I'll take that question. So one of the issues that we have with joint entitlement is how low our dollar figure is. $125,000 a year is not enough to accomplish any single project. And the fact that if we pair that with city dollars, it federalizes that city contribution and it makes it very complicated for both our housing planner as well as for our finance staff to administer so the reason for the roll-up and this was discussed with Washington County staff was to actually reduce the burden of that and do a single project part of the reason that we don't have a project identified is we have considered with engineering staff the the case of could we do sidewalk and fill even at $525,000, it's not quite enough to do that kind of project. So we've been looking at other creative ways to utilize those funds, including acquisition and disposition of property for the purpose of housing development. And the reason the housing planner was not able to commit to a specific outcome there is because we don't have a specific outcome. We only got agreement from Washington County to go the route of rolling the funds up in year two, two months ago. And so what the housing plan is doing is setting out a roadmap of housing policies that the city will implement that will foster housing development to meet those identified housing goals from our housing capacity analysis. And in that process, we will identify where we could best use these funds. And the parallel that I would draw here is when we did the affordable housing plan in 2019, we identified the construction excise tax and community development block grant funding as the city's only two reliable sources of consistent funding to support affordable housing development. And then the rest of the measures in that affordable housing plan were, METHODS OR PROGRAMS THAT COULD UTILIZE THOSE FUNDS. SO AN EXAMPLE IS OUR AFFORDABLE HOMEOWNERSHIP PROGRAM. AS WE GO INTO THIS NEW HOUSING PLAN, WE WILL HAVE TO CONSIDER THINGS LIKE LAND BANKING. THESE DOLLARS COULD BE USED FOR, GRANTED IT WOULD BE SHORT-TERM LAND BANKING BUT IT WOULD BE LAND BANKING NONETHELESS BECAUSE WE WOULD BE LOCKING UP THE LAND AND THEN DISPOSING OF IT TO A DEVELOPER. There just simply hasn't been time to identify those programs that we would put it toward, but what we can say definitively is that the single year allocations of about $125,000 are too small to actually make any meaningful impact in terms of our policy goals from council.

Council Robin, go ahead.

Thank you and I want to thank Councillor Shaw for pulling this because I was going to ask the same thing but you're more prepared. I have similar feelings to what we've already talked so I won't go over that a lot. I will say I find the numbers that are being REITERATED TO BE A LITTLE BIT CONFUSING. OUR NONPROFITS ARE SAYING THAT CHANGING THIS WOULD GET US ABOUT AN EXTRA $40,000 A YEAR, A TOTAL INCREASE OF $120,000. THERE'S A NOTE IN THE PREVIOUS SLIDE FROM JUNE 23, SLIDE 11 SAYS ALL FUNDING FOR FISCAL YEAR 2, FISCAL YEAR 2028, BUT THERE'S NO AMOUNT LISTED THERE. But then we've said it's about $525,000, which sounds confusing to me because this year is only 125,000, or generally every year it's 125,000, which would be about 50%, so I don't understand how that turns into 525,000. And I understand what you're saying, you say it's very complex, but so... when i would just ask that when we have these presentations where we're being educated on something that we may not know about we don't do this everyday for a job uh... we have to know a little bit about a lot of things that we can get tables with numbers you know it doesn't have to be super complex but if you do this you get this if you do this you get that so that we can see these numbers and truly understand and so that way if when the A member of the public comes to me and says, well, you're only going to get an extra $40,000 every year. If it's actually $525,000, I can then say, well, no, actually, even though this year it's this amount, next year it'll be that amount, right? And so I can speak intelligently about these things. And I would just reiterate that I've said this before. We don't know what we don't know, right? You're telling us what we need to know to make these decisions. And like has been said, the previous presentation didn't say anything about really any pros and cons. There was a little bit about more direct control, which is great. But I would also reiterate that we do have a member on the advisory board. In a way, I want to say that I appreciate the process of having the presentation in June, that then we had time for the public to reach out and say, hey, wait a minute. And I am very concerned about changing this because even if we do get 525,000 next year, which could be a great windfall for the city when we have significant shortfalls, My understanding from your presentation is that those funds can only be used to acquire or dispose of land for affordable housing and sidewalks. That's what the presentation said, and again, I'm going off of what what you guys are telling me, whereas I have heard from Tualatin Family Promise, and their building needs waterproofing. The two projects they're facing right now include a roof sealant replacement and the building envelope replacement. Estimated cost for both is $2.1 million. So even if we got all that money, we can't use it for that project, and that's not our project, certainly, but They are a great partner to the city. And if that shelter, if that family shelter closes, we will have a large influx of families who suddenly are homeless again. And that will invariably fall on city staff and police to help manage that. And so those are my concerns. And if we have to make a decision now, which it kind of sounds like we do because the deadline is Friday, I would advocate for sticking with what we have currently until we know more and can better understand and perhaps we make a different decision in three years.

IT WAS ALREADY ON. THANK YOU, MAYOR. I JUST WANT TO CONFIRM, JUST READING THROUGH THE RESOLUTION, JUST TRYING TO WRITE MY HEAD AROUND A LOT OF THE REMARKS THAT WERE MADE THIS EVENING. SUPPOSE WE GET THE FULL ALLOCATION IN YEAR TWO, WHO HAS THE DISCRETION TO ULTIMATELY DECIDE HOW THOSE DOLLARS ARE SPENT? IS THAT A STAFF DISCRETION AS PART OF THE NORMAL BUDGET PROCESS? WOULD THAT LOOK LIKE COMING BACK TO COUNCIL? WHERE WOULD THOSE DOLLARS BE DECIDED UPON?

So like with our current CDBG allocation, that would be a Council decision. So to Councillor Robbins' question as well, if Council wanted to, as part of the affordable housing plan, or sorry, as part of the housing plan, or as just part of another policy directive, if Council wanted to say, instead of putting that toward a local facility, like a sidewalk facility, and we wanted to put it out for a grant, we would bring that forward to council as an option. It would be what's called a subrecipient agreement. There's some challenges there because we are responsible for a lot of the federal compliance with that subrecipient, but we don't get the admin dollars from Washington County. They retain those. So there would be, you know, policy tradeoffs that we would provide to Council at that time.

Are you comfortable with the new IGA, or would you lean for Councillor Robbins' proposal going back to the old ways?

GO AHEAD. I APPRECIATE COUNSEL ROBIN'S COMMENTS GIVEN THE FACT WE HAVE A DEADLINE EVEN THOUGH THIS HAS BEEN ON THE KNOWLEDGE FOR TWO MONTHS. I'M WONDERING IF WE CAN'T TAKE JUST TAKE OUT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF ITS ADOPTED AFFORDABLE HOUSING PLAN, STRIKE THAT FROM ANYWHERE IN THE DOCUMENTS WE HAVE AND THAT WAY IT GIVES THE COUNCIL THE FLEXIBILITY TO PUT THOSE DOLLARS TOWARDS and it has to be compliant with federal laws, so it's very narrow, which could be the affordable housing. It could be potentially sidewalks, though. That's not even close to what we need, or it could be towards a nonprofit's infrastructure needs is my understanding.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I was sitting here scrunching my face up. I would support that, and I would support having a conversation later in this calendar year where council could provide policy direction about how what percentage of the year two allocation and year one allocation for that matter could be opened up for a competitive process for any grants and what amount could be set aside for a non-competitive process for other matters. I think that would be helpful just if council does have final discretion on how those dollars are spent having a conversation where we can provide that guidance.

Certainly, and I guess I might suggest, I don't know if the city attorney wants to weigh in, but the affordable housing plan does not include the 65% allocation. So striking that, I guess what I would suggest is that in the Council hereby resolves section that Council could their direct staff to retain the current whatever portions of the current agreement that you wish us to keep so it could be that 50% allocation I Think because I think that is the critical Concern that I'm hearing

That sounds good. Scott, can I ask a clarifying question then? So when it says with the recommendations of its adopted affordable housing plan, is that our plan or is the Washington County plan? Because it's not specific here.

It's our plan and the whereas statement is essentially carrying over the same whereas statements from when we did this in 2020 and 2023. because it was the affordable housing plan that first recommended that we enter a joint entitlement. So when it's referencing that in here, that is, the affordable housing plan is still the effective housing plan that we have, and so it's referring back to that because joint entitlement is part of that recommendation, but that affordable housing plan does not have a specific allocation recommendation in there.

So if that portion is removed, does it change then? Because the whereas would go to let it be resolved. So even if we struck recommendation if it's an adopted affordable housing plan, is this resolution dependent upon that last five or six words?

I mean, I guess there's two options. One is to put in information in the hereby resolved part, but also, I mean, we can share the copy of the IGA back with you. We've heard very loud and clear what council's, well, I don't know if you intend to take a vote ultimately on which option to choose, but whatever option you choose, we'll implement that. at the signing of the IGA, the drafting and the final signing of the IGA?

Because the reason why I'm asking for clarity is because the dollars would be received in 2028 and we potentially will have some new counselors at that time. And so having been on the last council where there was some less than clear guidance from whether it's resolutions or even our charter on particular issues I would just want us to be as clear as possible for the next council and so that's why I think if we keep that with the recommendations adopted affordable housing plan and then have and therefore let it be resolved that could be contradictory And I know we can come back and look at tonight's exciting public hearing, but I'm not so sure how many people would actually do that. So look to you, Skyler, just on that.

City Attorney Rehalla, please.

Council, if I might make a suggestion. The next item is a briefing. I'm happy to meet with the CD team offline and we can hash out some options for council and bring it back at the end of this meeting.

Okay, so we will stay tuned and thank you for the discussion. Let's move on to the next agenda item. So we will have a briefing on updated intergovernmental agreement with Clean Water Services and City Manager Rager will provide the staff report.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Council. Yes, I'll give a briefing tonight about the efforts toward an updated operating IGA between Clean Water Services and all of the cities in Washington County. We cities serve as co-implementers of the permits that govern sanitary sewer and stormwater programs. So the operating IGA is very important to clarify the roles and responsibilities between the parties. The operating IGAs outline the operating, financial, and overall working relationships between CWS and the co-implementers. And from an operational perspective, the IGAs provide details and definitions regarding the local program, which cities cover, versus the regional program that is covered by CWS, and then as well as details about the responsibilities for each one of those. So again, the local program is performed by cities, and that's usually defined by pipe size. Pipes under a certain size belong to the city, and that includes all of the associated assets like manholes, catch basins, and that kind of thing. The regional program performed by CWS, think about sewer treatment, think about the larger pipes, the transmission pipes that go from one city to the next or pump stations. We have representatives from CWS here tonight in case there are questions you might have and that you could ask them here at the end. As I mentioned in the agenda item summary, the city has enjoyed a very positive and productive relationship with CWS over the years. And that relationship is unique in the country. Most cities of our size must manage their own stormwater, national stormwaters, or sanitary sewer permits. And CWS serves as the permit holder for each one of those. And so it's From my own perspective, I think that's a great thing. It's a very collaborative relationship between the cities and CWS. We're very much a part of the development of IGAs or the amendments that come along the way. Personally, I've been involved in at least one overhaul or redo of an IGA, like what's happening now in my time in public works, and then Like I said, there's multiple amendments that happen over time. So the cities and CWS agreed a few years ago that the time was right for a fresh IGA. So that began the long task of updating the agreement to a form that all of the cities could agree on. CW CWS began meeting with cities in a particular order and it just so happened that Tigard was not first So other cities like Beaverton and Hillsboro I would say probably did the heavier lifting on you know Negotiating and working out the details of the IGA. So by the time it was our turn The the agreement was really in good shape. So our review was pretty simple. The key updates that are in this new IGA are elements such as creating an even more collaborative relationship, providing the co-implementers with greater clarity around expectations for sanitary sewer and stormwater management within their jurisdictions, includes opportunity to do sub-basin planning and defining the roles for coordinating with CWS in those cases. Clarifying asset ownership and maintenance responsibility and methodology for asset transfer. One example of where that comes in is when annexations take place. The assets that are within that area that then comes into the city, those have to be transferred to the city. Updating the fee structure for utility billing and permitting There's a new approach for utility billing. Cities have been providing, the cities have taken care of the billing for CWS for the regional component. So we collect both the local and regional component and then transfer that regional component to CWS. So there's a change related to compensation that I'll talk about here in a moment. Another update is updating the operating procedures for dispute resolution, amendments, governance, termination, and indemnification, and then meeting annually for more efficient coordination and communication. So those are the key updates. On the utility billing piece, the cities and CWS agreed that the city should receive some compensation for taking care of that regional component. And so the finance directors of the cities have been meeting with CWS toward an agreement as to how that would work. And yesterday, finance director Kang and I attended a meeting at CWS with all of the cities represented and I'd say we're very close to consensus on how that's gonna look. The city's agreed that for simplicity, a common percentage of revenue should be used to determine the compensation for the cities. So what will happen next is the cities will get together again and come back with what is that common percentage and they'll present that to CWS. So the draft operating IGA has language in there that basically spells out that CWS will pay a, I think is that a reasonable amount for this. So we're not specifying in the IGA what that percentage is and we really, that shouldn't be in there. But that'll be taken care of by way of a separate, what we're talking about is either an MOU or possibly pulling the financial parts of the IGA out of this operating IGA and having it be a standalone agreement. So regardless, even the way the IGA is drafted, tonight's just a briefing, so no action tonight, but it's an opportunity for you to ask any questions. And again, folks from CWS are here. It is scheduled, the IGA is scheduled to come back to you on August 11th, and it'll be on the consent agenda. So at this point, I will open it up for your questions.

Questions? Go ahead, Councillor Shaw.

Well, given we have CWS guests in the audience, is there any concerns or, as we were talking earlier, sort of pros and cons that you have for this IGA? If none, you can thumbs up perhaps, but I just want to give you an opportunity to say a few words in looking at Joe.

Councilor Shaw and Mayor and fellow Councilors, Joe Gall, Chief Utility Relations Officer. We feel really positive about our relationship with Tigard. Brian did a great job. I was whispering to my staff, like, I want to take him on the road because I've got eight of these that were trying to get done by November 1st and he described it very well. Tiger did benefit from the work that Beaverton and Hillsboro did and it was a fairly easy conversation to have. I also want to reiterate I think the large cities have been doing the billing for many decades without any compensation and I think it's probably long overdue that we pay the city for the work that you do on our behalf. So I think that that's a, we had a very positive meeting yesterday. I think we'll get there very quickly. That's an important component to our relationship. And we enjoy working with Tigard. We feel part of the Tigard team and we feel like Tigard is part of the CWS team. And I always joke that this is kind of a prenup So it's not like we pull this out every day and see who's supposed to do what, but it's much better to say, what did we agree to three years ago? Let's figure that out. The other is it's a five-year agreement, and I think we had a history of having 20-year agreements, which are way too long. The world changes very, very fast. So we will revisit this every five years. And as I may have said in a previous presentation, audience they're the ones that really did the heavy lift in terms of coordinating with your staff and uh we really enjoyed working with with Tigard and look forward to a long future together thank you well thank you so much i appreciate the sentiment that you want to pay cities who are doing your billing work so thank you for that okay with no question or comments uh thank you so much yep and i have to say yeah go ahead We are partners on the Ash Creek grant application, and we were very disappointed with Metro's decision last week. We understand the process, but we are a committed partner. So we are ready to sit down with your staff as you reassess the future and what can we do together, so.

Yeah, I really appreciate you sending CWS staff to the Metro meeting. They were with me there for six hours waiting to testify, so. we will make sure this trail will be built, so thank you so much. We feel the same way, so thank you. Thank you. All right, so let's move on to the next item on the agenda, which is facility next steps. Again, City Manager Rager will provide the staff report.

All right, good evening again. So I am here tonight at your request to start a conversation about potential next steps related to facility needs in the city. I'm also joined tonight by several members of our project team that worked on the proposed police and public works facility concept and some maybe weren't on that project but are here just expertise related to projects and how projects move forward. Given the results of the May election where a proposed bond to pay for the police public works concept did not get approved, and the council asked staff to start this conversation about next steps. Our project team met last month in what I would describe as a brainstorming session, and I provided details from that discussion in the agenda item summary. I want to clarify that the information and the summary is only there to really get the conversation started. We provided some ideas as to next steps that the council could consider. The scenario I laid out in the what, where, and sequencing section of the report is one way of moving forward. As to timing, we noted the upcoming renewal of the public safety levy. and how the city might coordinate a future general obligation bond proposal with that renewal effort toward a standalone PD facility. Before I open this up for questions, I think it's also important to provide some context around how we got to where we are now. And this may also shed some light as to how some of the ideas got presented in the summary. So, A lot of this comes from my own experience being here. In 2006, Public Works lost one facility to the Ash and Burnham intersection project. In 2008, the city did a facilities system plan, and that was done by an outside consultant, and that laid out a proposed sequencing and acknowledged the needs of both police and Public Works at that point and the the idea was to move Public Works out of the downtown first which would then open up the existing Public Works site for a new police facility in parallel with this the downtown visioning work that was taking place at that time acknowledged that Public Works is a non-conforming use in the downtown so it's really you know we're more of a industrial use and not not great for what was envisioned for the downtown so public works began looking for land somewhere around 2010 meanwhile time goes by and public works lost another facility toward the development of the atwell commons project and also police experiencing problems with their building and just the aging of the structure and losing you know just running out of space The city looked at a one-campus approach around 2013. That was re-envisioning what would happen here at the Civic Center. That did not move forward. And in around 2020, the city looked at an approach in conjunction with potential light rail, where step one would be moving public works out. somewhere else and developing the existing public works site into a new City Hall and police facility. That did not move forward largely due to the light rail project not being approved by voters. Meanwhile, problems continue to compound with running out of space and the facility issues. Public Works continued to look for property because it was acknowledged that moving that function was a good first move, kind of the first domino to tip over. And as you know, property was secured a few years ago. And then former city manager Reimer asked, while during due diligence, if we could manage to squeeze both Public Works and PD on that property on Wall Street. And then you know the history from there. But that history plays into some of the ideas that were shared. And what we're looking for tonight is just direction from you. You know, what questions would you like us to explore? One question in particular that was mentioned in the summary is, you know, doing some polling or public engagement around the acceptance of a smaller GO bond. in conjunction with perhaps utility rate adjustments to help pay for a public works facility, that would be a new set of questions to ask the public. Also, just a reminder that while we're having this conversation, there is the effort to bring forward a new 20-year facility system plan. So that will take about a year to get through that. So I guess part of the direction we're looking for is related to public engagement. What's important to you? What are you looking for there? What kind of questions do you think we should be asking? And yeah, that's where I'll leave it for now. And I'll open it up for discussion and your questions at this point.

All right. Thank you, City Manager Rieger. Thank you for the presentation. And the staff report represents a lot of work, and I really appreciate the effort that went into developing these options. And first, I appreciate you mentioning public engagement, because when I read this, I don't see any public engagement efforts, so I just want to be candid. that I remain skeptical about moving forward with this project at this point. So I just remember back in February, according to our polling, 56% of residents expressed support for the bond after hearing more information about the project. But when I knock on hundreds of doors during the campaign, I repeatedly heard questions and concern about the city's approach. So the vast majority of residents I spoke with, they understand that our 40-year-old police and public works facilities need to be addressed. That's an issue. But their question were about, you know, the proposal itself, you know, why is it $150 million? As you mentioned, why do we need to have two facilities together? And what happened to the existing facility? Are there ways we can... reduce the cost? So I think those are reasonable questions. And the election result obviously showed that we did not adequately answer those questions for the voter. So, and just going back when this proposal, previous proposal was first being discussed, I requested that the city establish a community input committee or citizen input committee, but that request did not move forward. And I personally think that that was a missed opportunity that we need to address if we decide to go forward with anything. And I probably stated many times, as mayor, I will not support moving forward with another major facility plan without robust community involvement. At this point, again, I just don't see any component of that in the staff plan. So for a major project like this, we need to work with the people, not ahead of the people. So we need to involve residents, small businesses, utility customers, city employees, and other stakeholders who can help us evaluate the needs, options, and costs before the city settles on a preferred approach. And to be frank, I'm not comfortable moving forward with the assumption that enterprise fund should be used at this point. Just put it more plainly, that means paying for at least part of the project through water bills and other utility charges. To some residents, I'm afraid that shifting the cost from a voter-approved bond to utility fees will feel like we are going around the measures resolved, right? Regardless of whatever the costs appear to be on the property tax statement or utility bill, residents, we do have to pay for it somehow. And also, sometimes there may be a reasonable case for using enterprise funds, particularly for portions of a public work facility that directly support water operations. But before making that,