City Council - Regular Meeting

As Doug indicated, we've had CIO annual meetings. Some of them have been very well attended, and we give thanks to the counselors and the city for participating and giving great information to our residents who attend these events. This just kind of runs down the list. Let's see here. We just had the, going up from the bottom, the ice cream social for Midwest. Coming up September 15th is the commercial annual meeting. And then on September 19th, we're going to hold our first, hopefully annual, commercial model sailboat regatta. We're going to have races and... It should be a fun, fun event. And our goal is to bring, you know, more visibility to the lake and the businesses around the lake. So we hope that you can all come and join. And pictures. Now, I didn't take any pictures of our fair because I was too busy. Well, I just forgot. So anyway. Okay, I'll take this one. Several CIOs have been pretty involved with developers as we see development coming to our neighborhoods. The IBAC CIO we've been in concert with does development to create a unified and civil relationship with our community. That has not been an easy task. RIVER PARK CIO HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE WITH THE LAMB RESEARCH CORPORATION EXPANSION. THAT HAS HAD ITS CHALLENGES AS WELL. AND BYRAM CIO WITH THE BASALT CREEK LIVING DEVELOPMENT. WE HAVE A LOT OF DEVELOPMENT HAPPENING IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND THE CIOs ARE VERY ACTIVE IN THE COMMUNICATION. AGAIN, OUR GOAL IS TO REALLY HELP CREATE THAT COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEVELOPERS AND THE AND THE RESIDENTS.

OKAY. SO ON AUGUST 25th, 2020, I'M SORRY, CERTAINLY NOT THE TOP THERE. SO THE CIO DISCUSSION ITEMS PRESENTED OR TO BE PRESENTED WILL BE THE REVIEW OF THE CIO BOUNDARY MAP DUE TO THE CITY GROWTH AND THEN REVIEW HOW TO INCREASE THE IMPACT OF THE CIOs AND NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNICATION TO DEVELOPERS. So discussion items would be review the CIO boundary map due to city growth, which is a new downtown CIO map approved by all CIOs. Review how to increase the impact of the CIOs and neighborhood communication to developers, which is active.

Yeah, so I'm not going to read it. I'm just going to bring your attention to it, which shows each CIO, the total households, and the options that we're presented with.

Want me to do it? All right, so option four is the seventh residential CIO, which is going to be the Trollerton downtown CIO. This will include missing multifamily units from downtown and on Lower Boone's Ferry. To further balance the household count, include and joining multifamily units on Southwest Sweep, Lake Grove, and Nyberg Lane.

Okay, red is hard to read.

I can get it if you want. Okay. All right, so the process for updating the map is to analyze the current boundaries. City staff create map alternatives. CIO leadership reviews and provides feedback. City staff revise preferred options. CIO leadership outreach to neighborhoods. City staff revise preferred options. CIO leadership selects preferred option and individual CIOs vote to recommend new map. And then city council adoption.

So here's our current CIO map. And here's the new downtown CIO proposed area. So the new discussion items requiring city approval, this is what we'd like you all to consider. Initiate the process for the city council to adopt the updated ordinance for the new downtown CIO. Reconsider adding funding for park rangers. Encourage a new cell tower for the IBAC neighborhood since Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile wireless users report poor coverage and more on that in a minute. and consider adding recycling bins to the parks. So let's just go back for a minute and look at this new map. Anybody have any questions from council, mayor, city on this?

When you, I know you did this, but when you divided up and got this new CIO, did you equalize the number of housing units in each different CIO?

Well, it's not actually equal. If you look at the total households, yeah. We ended up taking from, and I'm going to need Megan.

Well, we took a little bit out of River Park, and we took a little bit out of East, and we basically are on option four. Column one is the total, and we looked at one, two, three as the options, and we selected four just to try to create the downtown CIO, so it's more than just businesses. Right. Yeah.

And I would say also that the downtown, well, some of the CIOs have a higher number of residents due to multifamily, due to condos. That's just how the math works.

And I think with the downtown creation, you know, because, I mean, the city's looking at developing downtown. Correct. And having the CIO input as that process develops is key.

No. Well, yeah, thank you for all your work on this.

Any other questions? You got one more.

Bridget.

Okay. Yeah. Okay, Council Brooks.

Thank you, Mayor. Hi, guys. Thank you very much for your presentation. It's not over yet. I know it's not over. I'm curious, when we go back to the map of the new one, So is that all residential in the yellow or all the yellow is residential? Yes. And so then the commercial CIO still stays its own? Correct. Yes. That's all I want to know. Thank you very much.

Any other questions? Yes. If we could see the attendees on Zoom. Is that possible? Oh, you can't show both. Okay. So I'd like to introduce to everybody Beth Hancock, who is... going to be taking on the role of the downtown CIO president position. She'll be working with... I was going to say provided that it's approved. Provided that it's approved, yes, by city council. We're very excited to have her. She works at the Trailblazers. There's Beth. Hi, Beth. And she got stuck in traffic today, so she is from her office. We're all excited about the railroad tracks being replaced. However, it did create quite an issue today for a lot of people. So Beth, do you want to say a couple words, introduce yourself further?

Sure. Thank you, City Council. I'm excited for this opportunity, and I think it's a great chance for us to really bring some new ideas and just listen also to the community as well. I happen to both live and work in this new boundary area. So I think that's another reason that Kathy asked me to consider this. So with the approval, I'm excited to get started. Thank you, Beth.

Any questions for Beth?

Wait until the end.

All right. Okay, we're going to go back to the slides. Yeah. I do want to touch on this. So you'll see on this slide that we would like the City Council to reconsider adding funding for park rangers and we can have a bigger discussion on that. I want to bring to City Council the the lack of cell coverage in the IBAC area. And I'd like to just share with you a personal story. I'll be brief. Many of you know my family and many of you have met my husband who is severely disabled. He navigates our house with a rolling walker and I don't leave him alone very long. We have actually a caretaker who comes in three days a week so that I have the ability to get out and live my own life but I do walk in the park twice a day at least. I probably do five miles with my dogs every day and one day about a month ago I was in the park I was way in the back by the trail not on the trail in the park and Jim called me and I couldn't get the call and I tried calling him back and he couldn't get the call And now I'm running through Ibex Park with two dogs. I shouldn't be running through Ibex Park with two dogs to get to my husband. I don't know if he's had a heart attack. I don't know if he's fallen. He's at great fall risk. I don't know if he's, I don't know. But my heart is like up to here. So during our last CIO leadership meeting, I brought this up. And I can't remember who it was who suggested that I reach out to our neighbors to find out, kind of take a poll on who has coverage, who doesn't. And so I did. And my email said, how would you rate your coverage, 1 to 10? Who is your coverage through? And do you have an extender? I have about 40 responses here. And I will tell you that most of them rate their service at about a one or a two. Everybody says they have to have Wi-Fi cell coverage or they have to have an extender. And there's absolutely zero coverage while you're in your car driving through our neighborhood. So I know Kathy was trying to take a call coming to my house last week. and was driving in and out of the driveway to even get coverage. So thinking about this, and I'm happy to email you all these responses from just my neighbors, but thinking about this, I wonder if there's a possibility to place a cell tower at the property where the water tower has been constructed. That's city-owned property. It's right in the middle of IBAC. And I just will tell you that if this has happened to me, I can't imagine being a parent trying to reach their kids or kids trying to reach their parents and not being able to get through. I'd like to encourage the city to recognize that our city has a responsibility to give every resident utilities. And I would count this as a utility. So that's my story. Any questions?

We do questions at the end.

Okay. On the park rangers, that was something I kind of brought to the table. As you know, I'm the president of the board there at Orchard Hill. And, you know, we have the new wonderful trail there. I don't know what the reason was for dropping the funding for park rangers, but park rangers give the community a sense of security when they're walking the trail for residents living there, people just walking there. It's the same concept for apartments. A lot of them have the private security firms that come through once or twice a night. People just seem to sleep better knowing that there's somebody coming through. So I guess try to imagine your city without a police department. And that's how some of these people probably feel on the trail and living next to the trail. So the ask is just next budget season, maybe just reconsider funding for park rangers.

And then I know that most of you know I've been talking to our parks department about adding recycling bins to the parks. Still on my list, so it's on this list today.

A benefit of park rangers is public officials protect, manage, and enhance the urban parks and recreation areas. Patrols support users' sense of security and provide assistance and foster environmental stewardship and collaboration with other agencies. I mean, they can report vandalism, needs to the proper city department. So, you know, they can be kind of the eyes out there, too, assisting other departments.

We covered this. Okay, so I don't think we need to even get into the benefits of recycle bins in the parks, but I will tell you that as I walk through IBAC Park twice a day during baseball season, soccer, frisbee season, I see the garbage cans full of recyclables. And I'd love to see some sort of program put together so that we can do what's best for our planet in our parks. Okay.

All right. The 2026-2027 CIO expansion of community outreach is form a new downtown CIO for residents, return River Park Fair to Juergens Park, expand the holiday parade with watch parties, and expand educational outreach on the e-bikes and e-scooters. And that's it.

So now, questions.

All right. Questions for Patricia and Doug. Council Brooks.

First of all, thank you for bringing up the park rangers. I didn't know that we weren't doing park rangers anymore. I don't think we had a specific conversation about that. I remember when we brought that on. And so that's interesting, so I really appreciate you bringing that up to us. I also understand the concern about the recycling. I also have an issue with the ones here. They're not clearly marked. And so I do think we could do a much better job in our recycling and waste. But I also don't know what the whole... CONTRACT SITUATIONS LIKE WITH THE REPUBLIC, BUT THEY'RE GREAT FOR OUR HOMES. SO ANYWAY, THOSE ARE MY TWO COMMENTS. AND THEN I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY. I'VE GONE TO A LOT OF EVENTS LATELY. SEEMS LIKE A LOT OF EVENTS LATELY. NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AND THE EYE BOFFING WAS REALLY GREAT AND JUST A WHOLE BUNCH OF THEM. AND SO I AM A BIG um proponent and fan of the community talking with us and i always learn just like today i learned something and just because we're up here doesn't mean we know everything um and i definitely can miss a detail i'm that kind of girl so i appreciate you coming and then doing the work on the map is really important and including more of our community that especially that live in multi-family Units that sometimes have a harder time with communication in general as we know due to just how mailers go out so Anyway, thank you very much for the presentation and all the work you do all year round and be my neighbors Cuz the president Pratt

I'm just going to give my own anecdotal evidence that you do not have cell coverage in Eibach Park and Eibach by where you live and Cindy lives. So I had that happen multiple times in that neighborhood. So I'm just reaffirming that. And I just want to overall thank the CIOs because back in COVID, these things almost fell apart. And thanks to Kathy Holland and other people. But you guys have pulled this together and you're such an important voice to us and especially the land use issues where we kind of have you know aren't allowed to say anything because of the quasi judicial position we're in so I really appreciate all the work you've all done and bringing this back and just expanding them and really having a voice for our neighborhoods because race I thank you for the presentation it was very informative like always

JUST FOR EQUITABLE, JUST THINKING EQUITABLY ABOUT THE CELL TOWERS, MAYBE THERE'S MORE EXPERIENCE, PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE EXPERIENCING THE SAME THING AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE TO ASK AROUND SO IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IBAC IS GETTING THE CELL TOWER AND THEN SOMEWHERE DOWN IN VALLE LAS VECITAS. I WOULD ENCOURAGE COMMUNICATION AMONGST THE PRESIDENTS OF THE CIOs TO SEE WHERE ELSE, SO THAT WAY IF IT'S GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTED IN ONE PLACE, WE'LL DO IT EVERYWHERE INSTEAD OF COMING BACK AND SAYING, OH, WE SHOULD HAVE DONE THIS, WE COULD HAVE DONE THAT. SO LIKE TRY TO SEE WHERE ELSE IT'S NEEDED BECAUSE I'M SURE OTHER PEOPLE EXPERIENCE THE SAME problem. So that's my comment on the cell tower. And honestly, I have zero knowledge of why those things happen. But it could be something else than our area or not having a cell tower. I don't know. So that's kind of my comment on that. As far as the new CIO, I think that it's a great idea. I actually, the apartments that are by where it used to be a Starbucks there. The community there, I felt they were underrepresented. So I'm glad that there's this idea of getting these apartments and around that area and as we develop as well, having a better representation or more representations. I like the idea. I would also like to see more on the east side of Tualatin, the east Tualatin CIO, more of voices from there. I feel like maybe they're doing well. They don't need to be like, you know, I just don't hear much, but I love to hear a little bit more about what's going on there. So are we making an impact there? We, me, Maria, as a city councilor, are we supporting what they need to be supported with? So that's kind of like why your voices mean a lot to me, because I get to hear from you what's going on there. I live on the west side of the freeway, so I try my best to go and ask questions, but I don't always do that. GET THE ANSWERS. SO I DO THINK THAT IN THE FUTURE CONSIDER HAVING MORE VOICES OR IF THERE IS NEED, MAYBE THERE ISN'T ANY NEED. I DON'T KNOW. THERE'S ANOTHER THING THAT YOU MENTIONED. Park ranger?

I too did not know we didn't have a park ranger.

I'm glad you brought it up because I didn't have any knowledge on that as well. So getting to hear a little bit more on what's happening with the parks and who's caring for parks as far as safety in the evenings. Maybe the police does that.

My understanding was it was about two years ago, maybe a year ago, that that funding got cut. Again, I only know a little bit. I mean, I'm on the outside of it, so there might be more inside. I may be completely off mark on that comment, but that's my understanding.

Okay.

Well, thank you. Thank you very much. That's all I have.

Okay. Council Hillier and then Councilor Gonzalez.

Thank you everyone who's here representing all the hours that you put into all the different things that happen and Beth, welcome. We hope that that will be a short-lived on hold for that because as far as I'm concerned, I don't know why we would not move forward with that for the representation to ensure that. And I love that we're being sure that we're including a business community mix in there and that it's not usurping or taking away from the business CIO. Because I do think that that industrial one is a critical voice in our community. I could tell you the many stories that I have about my cell phone and all the neighbors' cell phones being an issue, specifically in the park and hearing that. So I thank you for bringing that up. I love seeing your calendar of events. It is so much more full than it was even a couple years ago. And thank you to the people in this room for making sure that that happens and Megan and all the coordination and things that happened. I SEE THERE'S AN EXPANSION OF THE WATCH PARTIES FOR THE PARADE OF LIGHTS, SO THAT'LL BE FUN TO SEE HOW THAT COMES OUT. I THINK THAT, WERE THOSE YOUR QUESTIONS? WERE THOSE THE THINGS WE'RE ANSWERING? I DO LIKE OPTION FOUR THAT YOU'RE RECOMMENDING. I THINK THAT MAKES THE BEST SENSE TO ME, AND I WOULD LIKE TO BE SURE THAT We are hearing from all the voices. Is there anyone here from, so I know is Byram here? That's you, Danny. Two people from Byram. Who's here from East? You're East, beautiful. I back, I know. Martinazi? Nope, not Martinazi. Midwest? That's right. River Park. And then the new, then the new town. Okay, thank you. So I just wanted to make, to understand who is in the room. So thank you very much.

And I would say that the CIO leadership had much discussion about which option to adopt. We had many, many meetings and many discussions and really took this to heart and made sure that we were going to be recommending the best possible solution. So I thank you for that.

Thank you. Councillor Gonzales.

Thank you very much for the update. This is very exciting. I do have one question that I brought in the past is that a lot of people don't even know what CIO stands for anymore. And I know that I had brought up it maybe for a period of time, calling out what CIO stands for, community. See, I too even forget what it stands for to try to encourage a little bit more participation. With all the signs everywhere in the city, sometimes those just people just drive by and don't even know what's happening. So could we consider naming the whole organization out versus just calling it an acronym? So, thank you.

Thank you.

I just have 1 more question, because I don't remember if it came back or not, but. At 1 point, uh, the community involvement. organization was going to be going to non-profit or not be, or just something about becoming a non-profit or having seven non-profits. Did that ever get discussed? And I never heard back, so I just, I'm curious.

Thank you for that question. It did get discussed. A LOT. AND EACH CIO HAS THE ABILITY TO MAKE THAT DECISION ON ITS OWN. AND AT THIS POINT, I BELIEVE NONE OF THE CIOs ELECTED TO GO FORWARD WITH THAT.

Thank you. Okay, so making an assumption that we do vote in the new downtown, will you all take the budget that you have for this year and divide it up equally among all of them, or are you asking the City Council to add funds?

Or is that a whole separate conversation?

Sorry, I just wanted to be clear what the ask is.

Yeah, to be clear, we are asking the City Council to increase the budget. Go ahead.

And the City Council already took that action. The budget for this fiscal year includes funding for a hypothetical seventh residential CIO. Thank you. I couldn't remember.

Other questions? So it sounds like, just from what people's comments are, there's support of changing the CIO map. So let's go ahead and bring that forward and all the requirements for it. I know it's just not a simple... That's done. There's a couple other changes. As far as the park rangers, it sounds like the City Council would like to hear more about that, either, especially during the next budget session, you know, when we do the next budget to find out. where it was cut off, what it costs, what it would take to implement. Because I know there's also a need for additional police officers the next budget cycle. So there will be competing priorities for that. And then as far as the recycling, that would be a great – are you working with Dustin on that?

I am.

And then Amanda in our CAP would be the person to talk to. Because I guess it would just come down to how it would work, costs, stuff like that. So I'm sure we want to hear about that, maybe part of the CAP, okay? And that was all of them? As far as the tower, okay, the tower, I'm the geeky IT guy. So the problem with the towers that I see, because we had it in our neighborhood for a while, it's just line of sight and topography. Usually... The cellular carriers have no problem putting up towers, but the towers have to actually work and hit the blind spots. I'm sure that we could reach out to the carriers, or usually it's customer-driven that you're yelling at your carriers to say, hey, we've got these blind spots. The last time, and it was our neighborhood over in River Park, about the cell tower behind the totem stove that people ask for them, then neighbors start losing their minds about having a tower nearby, especially people who live close by, about potential effects of radio frequency and all that good stuff. So it's a double-edged sword when you ask for a tower, especially for those folks who live around where the pump station is. But I'd say the first thing is to go to your carriers and find out why the spots are there, and they're just – ask them to put one in, and usually they do. And also, 5G is being rolled out, but that might be the Wi-Fi thing you're talking about, that the Wi-Fi is stronger on your cell than the actual cellular signal.

Yeah, and just to add to that, I will say, Maria, to your point, I did bring this up to all of the CIO presidents, and everybody was like, what, you have no cell coverage? So I think that that's already been vetted. This pocket in IBAC is the problem. We are in a shadow. Every single person that I reached out to had a different carrier. It's not carrier-specific. It is topography. And there has to be a fix to this. I cannot not be able to call my husband. You cannot not be able to call your children. This is a safety issue. And I am taking this to the mat. I don't care how we fix it, but I'm telling you this is a problem and we need to fix it. So it's not a matter of the residents screaming at their carriers. I have spent hours on the phone with Verizon, hours. I have an extender. I have a neighbor who has two extenders because of the topography of their house. They have an upstairs and a downstairs. I have neighbors who can't have to go out on their back porch to make a phone call. This is absolutely not acceptable. So I'm just going to put it to city council and the city to put this at the forefront so that We all have the ability to make phone calls. That's, again, it's a safety. It's a safety measure.

I understand. It's just as people start, get very sensitive when you say you're going to put a tower somewhere.

And maybe it doesn't need to be a tower. Maybe something else needs to happen. I don't know. I don't have that geek mind. I mean, I have a hard time with the remote control for the television. All I know is it's not working. Right.

Council Brooks.

I have a question about this too. I think for our attorney, I'm just curious with not having, I didn't know about the cell reception at Eibach. I'm there a lot. And anyway, my concern is around if there was an accident at the park, And people can't reach emergency services. And we know that this is happening. Do we have liability as a city?

Thank you, Councillor. I do not believe so.

Okay. So, anyway, it seems to me. I think we should pursue it. It seems really concerning to me.

And see what the carriers come back with as a solution. But knowing that some of your members of your CIOs might not like the solution. If a tower is going to come in.

I mean, there's some towers somewhat nearby. Could it just simply just be a height issue and there's just not enough height and it's just being obstructed by the terrain?

Yeah, it's all terrain. I'll pick on our neighborhood where Ms. Holland lives after her house. There's a big dip, and where I'm at, near the river, it drops. Right. So the beams go right over where our houses are sometimes.

Right. Yeah, but no, I personally would agree with you. Nobody wants a tower in their backyard. Yeah. And I understand that, too.

You need service. Service, yeah.

We have to have service.

It might be a solution that they put on telephone poles. There's ways around. It's got to be.

There has to be. I mean, we send people into space. I don't know how we do this. I really don't even care to know how we do this. But we do it. I will say, too, that I even went as far as to go into Verizon because I thought, well, I'll talk to somebody there. And they have a big map, and you can find your neighborhood. And they said, oh, you have great coverage. So I don't even think they know what's happening. But I guess my question back to City Council is, who will take this on? How will this be implemented? solved by council.

We'll follow up with staff and let you know.

Okay. Thank you so much.

Thank you for coming tonight. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Thank you.

I mean, we have – it is a purely market issue. It is not – we have no – we don't have franchise agreements with any of the carriers. We have no – we have a couple of carriers that have towers on property that we get lease agreements with. Um, but they have approached us on that. Um, and, um, public safety deals with it through the my fives. And I mean, we have, um, uh, technology in the cars that, um, that makes sure that, that, um, they have coverage. Um, and I, there, we have no leverage. It is not.

government a local government issue it might be something where we reach out to the governor affairs people on some of these places I know I don't have anything with those three carriers it was Comcast that'd be different but let's see I'll see what I can dig up and you know with the governor affairs folks and on the big carriers and Like Sherilyn's saying, we don't have a lot of juice. It would just be a matter of poking them and saying, hey, what can we do? Bridget, do you have something?

I also just think having a gap where there's kids playing ball and stuff like that is a really serious thing. So I don't know if there's a way to strengthen the argument or understand the level of service from which carrier so that we can be sure that we at least post which ones work. That to me seems like it might motivate some of the people, some of the companies where it doesn't work. Thank you. Just to be like, if there's an emergency because the chief can call out, that's great. But if you're sitting at the park and you can't call them, then if somebody gets hit in the head, sometimes it's just a matter, we know, a matter of seconds. Right. It makes a difference. So I appreciate that.

And thank you for that comment. I will tell you that as I reached out to our neighborhood, It's all the carriers. It's AT&T, it's Verizon, it's T-Mobile. They're all battling the same topography. They're all battling the same topography. So to Doug's point, perhaps maybe the cell tower owners that have cell towers can bring them up higher. I don't know. Again, technology is way over my head.

I mean, my research showed that Washington County has kind of like a height limit. Yeah, like 325 feet or something like that. But who knows what the current height is on some of these towers. Maybe they're 289. So, you know, that extra 15, 20 feet is all that's needed. Yeah.

To that point, the federal regulations have changed and there is no height limit. Oh. We aren't allowed to put height limit on any of them. So if they come in and request an extension, it's not up to us. We don't, Kevin may have more.

Yeah, Sherilyn, that's correct. As you probably are aware, the FCC, they changed their rules about seven years ago and severely restricted local government's ability to impose restrictions on cell towers. So if they want a cell tower, in a particular jurisdiction, chances are they're going to get it built.

And Sherilyn, to your point about having modern technology in your car, that works great if you have a modern car that has that technology in it. I would argue that most people don't. Yes, yes, you can always call 911. You cannot always call your neighbor or your kid or your husband. And I've got to tell you guys, just on a personal level, this terrified me when this happened. It was not good.

I'll reach out because back in the day, that's why there's a crap ton of antennas on top of Meridian Park Hospital because that had the height to cover that neighborhood. Exactly. And they make... I mean, it's a lot of antennas. I'm running a park hospital.

Okay. Thank you. All right.

All right. That brings us to our next item is the project update on 65th Avenue and Borland Road intersection. There they are. Mike was hanging over there. Mike and Abby, welcome.

Good evening. I'm Mike McCarthy. I work for the city as the city engineer. You do? Really?

You've never seen us before. I'm Abby McBetridge, engineering associate also for the city of Tualatin. All right. Okay, so the purpose of this presentation is to provide an update on the 65th and Borland project and then also discuss a potential jurisdictional transfer with Clackamas County for 65th Avenue, or at least their half of 65th Avenue. So a quick look at the agenda. We're going to go over the timeline for the project, the existing conditions, future improvements, and next steps. And then hopefully if Mike and I can zip through it, we should have plenty of time for questions. But we both like to talk about transportation a lot, so we'll see how we do. So here we have the overall project timeline. We started in September of 2024. Now we are in August of 2026. If you're thinking, wow, that is a lot of time, we agree with you. If you remember, we tried to allocate or we tried to secure $3 million in federal funding. There's a lot of public improvement projects out right now. So we only were allocated $250,000, and unfortunately, the cost to federalize the project was going to be more expensive than $250,000. So the city ultimately decided to decline the funding. There were multiple discussions throughout that timeline. SO THAT HAPPENED IN APRIL OF 2026. AND NOW WE ARE PROCEEDING THROUGH DESIGN AGAIN. SO HERE WE ARE TODAY. AND WE ARE PLANNING TO START CONSTRUCTION IN SPRING OF 2027. ALL RIGHT. SO THIS AREAL SHOWS THE EXISTING CONDITIONS OF 65th AVENUE AND BORELAND ROAD. THE MAIN HIGHLIGHTS HERE ARE THE LET ME SEE IF I CAN. YEAH. northbound left-hand turn and the westbound through movement. Just keep those in your mind for the next slide. And then I also would like to point out the Clackamas County and Washington County, the dividing line between jurisdictions down the road. As Mike calls it, a county's road.

Stealing his joke.

So now the fun part, the future improvements.

There it is.

So the goals of the project were improving safety and improving congestion. So we're trying to attempt that in a multitude of ways. The main congestion improvements are shifting the northbound through movements into the existing left-hand turn lane, and then separating out the northbound right turners so that they have their own movement. And then by eliminating the northbound left turns and the westbound through movement, we can just allocate green time to the busier movements. And I also would like to point out that The thought of eliminating these movements, the property still has two accesses and we did discuss with the property and they were open to this solution. IN ADDITION, WE WOULD BE ADDING BUFFERED BIKE LANES, NEW WIDER SIDEWALKS ALONG 65th AVENUE AND PLANTER STRIP IN COMPLIANCE WITH OUR TSP. AND THEN ALSO SOME SLIGHT ROAD WIDENING ON THE NORTHER END SO THAT IT LINES FOLKS UP BETTER FOR CROSSING THE INTERSECTION. AND NOW I WILL TURN IT OVER TO MIKE.

So, thank you, Abby. So, as we discussed, the county line runs right down, well, the Willamette Meridian, which happens to go straight down 65th Avenue. So, the western half of 65th is Washington County. The eastern half is under the jurisdiction of Clackamas County. Clackamas County officials approached us and, like, well, We only have this one half of a road in this area, and we'd like to generously offer it to you. So they offered us the road, and they're also offering us $750,000 towards the project if we will accept this part of the road. And as you can see in the figure, it's the part above the red line. We then were asking, okay, what would it cost to maintain and what sort of agreements are in place already to maintain the roads? I think we discussed this a little while back at a previous workshop, but Clackamas and Washington County have an agreement in place. There are about a dozen roads like this where either the county line runs down the middle of the road or the road goes in and out of one county or another. They work together a while back and said of those dozen roads, okay if Washington maintains these six and Clackamas County maintains those six will consider it about fair and We won't have to like reimburse each other for maintenance costs or send crews out to different places. So they're like, okay So they'll do that Washington County maintains these six Clackamas County maintains those six and They call it fair We then said, okay, so if this part of 65th becomes ours, would anything change there? And Clackamas County said, if we do take this part of 65th, they would not ask Washington County for a change in the agreement. Washington County said, as long as Clackamas County maintains their roads, Washington County will continue to main the ones that Washington County maintains which includes this part of 65th Avenue So as long as that agreement holds and that understanding holds Washington County will actually be maintaining this room and But there could be future cost to the city to maintain it there could also be quite a bit benefit to the city and Taking jurisdiction of the road for example when we built a crosswalk we had to get Washington County permits for the western half of the crosswalk and Clackamas County permits for the eastern half of the crosswalk and Meet both design standards and this way It would be Washington County for the western half the crosswalk still and then we just meet our own standards for the eastern half If we were to do another case like that So with that, we believe that the $750,000 offered by the county makes it a good deal for the city to accept jurisdiction of this part of the road. And then there will be an intergovernmental agreement on tonight's consent agenda to memorialize the start of that process, after which there would have to be a couple official actions. The county would have to offer it to us, and then we would have to accept it. and some more process to come. So the next steps would be if you agree to accept jurisdiction of this to complete the IJA with Clackamas County and then go through the official transfer. Meanwhile, we'll continue working on the final design of the project towards construction starting in the spring of 27. Any questions?

Questions for Mike and Abby?

I just had a question if, for instance, the maintenance did fall to us. Have we done the math about what kind of percentage increase it would be for our road maintenance program?

I haven't calculated the specific percentage. It was repaved by Washington County within the last five years. So that helps us out quite a bit. The pavement is in good condition now. But it would add half of, I forget the length, but I think it would be less than a total four mile to our existing about 80 mile pavement maintenance needs.

Okay, so it's less than a mile of road maintenance, if it were to fall to us?

Correct.

Okay, thank you. The pavement index, the PCI, is in good condition. We confirmed with Washington County, too. So with this improvement project, doing rehab on the pavement, we would be improving it as well.

That's my only question. I'd just like to know, because if people are worried, I'd like to be able to have the information and One mile out of 80 miles about is good to know. Thank you.

Council President Pratt.

I don't want to dig too deep in this, but if Washington County pulled out of maintaining, we'd be maintaining half the road and they'd be maintaining the other half because that would literally happen.

If so, it could end up like that.

Okay, I mean, that's not likely, but I mean, okay. And then, will you just remind me what the cost of this project is overall, approximately?

Approximately about $2 million.

Okay, so that's a big chunk of pain for this project.

That is.

Okay, well, thank you.

Other questions? Council Heria and then Council Reyes.

Thank you, Mayor. Will you just one more time please clarify for me the length? Is it one mile or how much of 65th? Is it the all of 65th that will become?

So it would be 65th. And I'm sorry I don't remember the specific length. That's all right. Where the ODOT right-of-way ends just north of I-205.

Okay.

So basically about the end of the fill next to the bridge.

Okay.

And then it goes up to the north end where the road curves away from that one. I'm reading 65th Avenue is where it becomes part of the road. There is actually right-of-way that extends up to Nyberg Lane. so some extra property that we would then be maintaining that way. So that whole area right by the 65th Nyberg intersection is all right-of-way.

Okay, great. Thank you so much.

Councilor Reyes.

I had a similar question, but it was more like from the red line. Just a clarification question from my brain to picture something. From the red line that's right in the middle of 65th, the one that's on the east side, that extra portion is going to come to Tualatin? Is that the half of it or north half?

So yeah, correct. It is the east half, which is the top, like above the red line. So I'm trying to...

Okay, so right on the sidewalk.

Yeah.

Okay.

And then the right-of-way width actually varies a little bit. depending on properties and what was dedicated or not dedicated when the properties were built.

And they're giving us $750,000 to get that or take care of it?

They are.

Oh, wow. Okay, thank you.

Other questions? I can't see. Councilor Gonzalez, do you have a question? Can't see you. Okay. My question is, this seems like a weird example or a weird circumstance. Is it a city road or a county road? And what's the classification going to be in the future? Are you aware of any other instances of something like this in Washington County where half a road is a city road and the other half is a county road? Or responsibility? This just seems weird.

I'm not aware of any specifically. I've seen cases where a similar kind of situation where a city boundary goes to the center line of the road or a county line comes in. So I've seen cases like this before. Okay. but I can't think of specifically if any particular right now.

And in terms of design standards, obviously all design standards have to meet Washington County's design standards, so there's not going to be an issue or improvement in the future that one of the design standards is out of whack with the other side of the street?

I think they'd be pretty consistent. It's possible you could end up... What Washington County typically does for private development cases is they'll apply their standard within the curbs and then defer to a city standard behind the curb. So what it basically means is we could get city sidewalk standards on both sides. Road widths, they're a little different. We sometimes allow a lane that's a foot narrower than what the county would allow. I would think any kind of a development case, we would just work together with the county to work out a good standard.

My last question is, you just mentioned it, my favorite thing with the county, sidewalks. Who's in charge of the sidewalks on both sides, and who maintains them? Because we've got Norwood Road, and we all know about that one.

Yeah, and they defer to the code that puts the responsibility for maintaining sidewalks on the abutting property owners.

Okay, so it's the same as, even though it's there right away.

Correct.

Do you feel comfortable with this arrangement? I do. Okay.

We would be taking the eastern sidewalk. Yeah.

Okay. It just seems weird to me that a city-county road, it's usually one or the other, and this is like a blend.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's a bit of a blend. One day we have a mischief project on this. Holy crap.

And it is MSTEP eligible. All right. It is on Washington County's map for that. All right.

I think in general with sidewalk planter widths, our standards are a little bit wider. So it seems like Washington County doesn't have an issue with, you know, being better than that standard.

Okay. Any other questions? All right. So you need anything from us or it was just an update?

This is an update, and then the intergovernmental agreement will be .

Okay.

For now, it's just an update.

All right. Well, thanks for coming. You have one more?

I just had a question. This brings up, people have asked me about with the 12th and Sherwood Road, since it's a county road, and the widening about street trees. And I'm just wondering how we make sure that we ensure the street trees. And are we going to ever see more street trees on the expanded part of 12th and Sherwood Road? Do you know? They took out a ton of trees, and everybody's been asking me, like, what's the story with the trees? And I'm like, I'm not part of the county.

Yeah, I'm not aware of any short-term plans from the county to plant more trees.

Right. I just would want our standards with trees to be thought about and protected.

The north side of the road will have it. The north side of the road will have it.

Yeah, this will allow us to require more trees along 65th.

Good.

That sounds great to me.

Thanks. We actually just commented on the plan set that we need to plant more trees on it. All right. Also, sorry that I don't remember the length. I just reviewed the IGA, and all I can remember is 220,000 square feet is what we will be taking, and that does not help. Yeah.

All right. Anything else? Thanks for the update. All right. Thank you. All right. So that brings us to agenda review, our reports and roundtable. Councilor Pratt, you're up for the Pledge of Allegiance tonight. The announcements will be Councilor Hillier and Sacco with the science and technology, correct? All right. Any questions or concerns with the consent agenda? We have five items on consent. Council Hillier.

Thank you. I am not going to ask to have it pulled off, but I am going to say I completely do not believe that Red Robin needs to have a change in their liquor license to sell bottled alcohol. I think that is ridiculous. They should, especially with other community members coming in and talking about restaurants and bars in our community, I think we have a responsibility to do a better job. And I do think that we have to work harder as a council to sift through some of these things and make statements when we can. And so I know it just would be symbolic. Okay, whoops. Sorry, I thought you were telling me, shh.

I wasn't telling you. I did get more information that it is a change of ownership. It is only a change of ownership.

Okay.

Does it look like they require a new liquor license?

They just require a new liquor license. It's not to sell bottled. Okay. Correct. Thank you. Okay. Never mind. I still think we have a strong responsibility, especially after last council meeting.

Uh, okay. With that, I think that's that, that, that we'll go ahead and start the round table and we'll start with our city manager, Cheryl Lambos.

Thank you, Mayor. Well, I was on vacation a significant portion of the last two weeks since the last council meeting, but I do have a few updates, a couple of personnel updates. So after several rounds of interviews and process, we've narrowed the library director down to two finalists, and I'll be meeting with them the end of this week. Hope to make a job offer soon. very soon and get somebody on board. So I'm excited about that. Heidi Stanley, our Creative Communications and Marketing Program Manager, has taken flight and has to pursue her own consulting business. And yes, we're very happy for her. The good news is that she will still be available to us now as a consultant. But we do want to refill that position. Given that she reports to Megan and Megan will be out, we are going to fill it in an interim way with our own Lindsay Marshall. So Lindsay, you know from Public Works. Lindsay is a fantastic writer and editor and has a passion for community engagement and public involvement. So I know that she will step in capably and then with the support of Heidi on some of the more design issues. Lindsay will be in place, and she'll have her fingers in public works as well, but for the next, probably until mid-January, we'll have her in that position. A few other things, Willowbrook Arts Camp wrapped up their summer programming at Browns Ferry Park, and they will spend the next two weeks tearing down and cleaning up, so be aware of that. Today marks the beginning of session seven of eight for our summer camps. It's crazy that it's coming to a close. We've got 73 kids registered this week. There are two remaining concerts in the park. On Wednesday, our lunchtime concert features Cal Scott and Richard Moore. And then next Friday from 6.30 to 8.30 at the Lake featuring Dance Hall Days. Always a fun time with them. Pumpkin Regatta Planning is in full swing, if you can believe it. It'll be here before we know it. We're also working on a designated and we're preparing a future pollinator garden at IBAC Park, so I'm really excited about that. From the library and city offices, foot traffic at the library has remained up even since Tigard Has reopened we're seeing about a five percent increase this year compared to this time last year, so that's good news Summer reading ends at the end of August so remember to turn in your logs Even adults for every log you get entered into a drawing to win one of our amazing prizes Including a botanical Lego set and a gift card to garden corner We are doing slurry seal work on parking lots in downtown and This will impact the lot in front of the library on Friday, August 21st, so next Friday. We'll have signage and are noticing people signed up for programs. We put it on that date because it impacted the least number of programs. it will impact people and folks will have to park a little further away. In addition, the re-striping of the lot won't happen at the same time, so there will be temporary markings for a while. Tomorrow is City Hall selfie day, so this is put on by engaging local government leaders and has become quite the viral thing internationally and is a celebration of public service showcasing pride in local government institutions. So if you're anywhere around a city hall or a city facility, take a snap a selfie and tag us in it. That'd be great. Next, the 18th. which is Tuesday. Next Tuesday is our 113th birthday, so we're looking really good for 113, and I don't know how you'll celebrate, but I may have a cupcake. The final thing that I know that you're interested in, the Plantex Amendment for food carts is going to Planning Commission next Wednesday, and then it is scheduled for City Council on September 28th, so that's exciting. The only other thing, the road closure has been quite the disaster and a very big challenge. So it's scheduled to go through Thursday, and ODOT put out a traffic alert, but the signage and the noticing is just inadequate. had folks poking them and Westside Transportation Alliance, WTA, got involved and has been advocating as well. So avoid it, but it will be over eventually and it'll be great, but it is a real disaster down there.

On that point, when I drove by 12, 30-ish or so, the I-5 south exit was backed up from Tualatin past the Bridgeport exit to get off. And then if you looked over at the Tualatin Park and Ride, you could see all the way down the road, cars just wanted to make the right-hand turn movement. They were way down to Club Sport. So it's a design that the signs are a joke from ODOT there. It's ridiculous. And, you know, first off, I'm like, or a what? They had the state highway name as the detour. It's terrible. Yeah, but it is. It's bad. Yeah, it's bad. Yeah. Okay. All right. Thank you, Sherilyn. So we'll go ahead and go to Councilor Brooks and then following with Councilor Gonzalez.

Thank you, Mayor. This is just a point of information. On Tuesday, the 28th of July, I attended the Tualatin Valley Crates board meeting where they interviewed me for being on the Tualatin Valley Crates board. And then the next day, I found out that I was appointed to that board. And that Wednesday, the 29th, I helped arrange a gallery tour for the board over at Jeffrey Allen Gallery, who's also been starting an Asian arts nonprofit. On Tuesday, the 4th of August, I was at the National Night Out. We saw the chief, our wonderful CIO leadership, which we just saw, and Commissioner Treece came into town. Council President Pratt was there and they had a lot of variety of ice cream this year and I said ours does it first the Midwest yeah, so I said this goes with my husband's Slogan of eating divert dessert first so they get to have their dessert first on the fifth of August I attended the women's caucus meeting we mostly went over we did some rules changes around leadership And instead of taking nominations from the floor we're going to do applications so if anyone's interested in being on the League of Oregon cities women's caucus board You can fill out an application. If you have any questions, you can ask me. And then they're also, I sent out an email. They're also going over the ballot that we're talking about this evening. And they have a new, pretty new legislative director now, who also happens to be a woman, who is going to be part of that conversation today. And more information is on their website, and there's more information about the Women's Caucus on their website as well. And then on the sixth, I attended the Washington County Urban Services Framework Project briefing discussion follow-up, which was kind of interesting. It was hosted by our Commissioner Snyder and Chair Harrington, and I don't know if the mayor knows about this one, but they had studies about what the cost is for cities to take over unincorporated islands within cities and looking at if there's a burden or not. Basically, the outcome was it depends. And so they have to do more. They did two cities for the study, which happened to be Tigard and Beaverton. And then I don't know if any of the data from these studies is helpful in any way. Of the urban growth area like we have in Basalt Creek, so that would be the only thing That was also the same night. They had a public meeting about the wildlife refuge At the federal one down in Sherwood and then on the sixth That was that one on the 7th. Oh, we went to the Winita Poll Center Grand reopening. Council President Pratt did a great job doing Um, talk remarks on behalf of the city. We also had commissioner trees who served with me on the path for a little while. So I think that's why she took that. Although commissioner Snyder was there as well. And, um. And then Congresswoman Salinas was there too that money comes from community development block grant money, and I just want to say I've been serving on the pad now for eight years and I the um engagement that the cities had talking about lindsay too and the staff um applying for those programs and seeing our federal tax dollars come back to our community is inspiring and really great work um and the other thing that's great about that is that when we're on these committees working together excuse me it's not um It's not partisan. It's different city counselors and city representatives talking with each other, learning about each other's areas where the improvements are being and working together to try to bring some of our dollars back to our own community. AND I THINK THAT SOMETIMES THOSE COLLABORATIONS KIND OF GO UNNOTICED, AND I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE COMMUNITY. THEY SENT ME A LIST OVER OF ALL THE PROJECTS THAT WE'VE GOTTEN FROM COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANTS, AND I FORGET HOW MANY TIMES, BUT I THINK IT WAS FOUR TIMES THAT WE'VE HAD IMPROVEMENTS ON THE WINNEEDA POLL CENTER SINCE THE START OF THAT PROGRAM. AND THAT'S ALL I GOT. THANK YOU.

Councillor Gonzales.

I have nothing new to report at this time. Thank you.

All right. Councillor Sacco.

Thank you. Um, so we, um, had the idea committee, um, canceled this month, um, due to, uh, people being very busy in the summer. Um, and so I have nothing to report there. Um, and then, um, Last week we had the CAC, we met on the 5th, and we reviewed suggestions for the Lake of the Commons area. And it was fascinating to see all the different ideas that came forward, and also fascinating to see or to hear all the different remarks. And it was interesting that we have such a diverse group of folks on the CIC. And generally, there was a lot of shared feelings about what to do with the Lake of the Commons, which was really great to see. I think we have a lot of shared values within our community and how we want to see that space used. So excited to see once that work comes to fruition and in front of everyone to share that. Thank you.

Councilor Hillier.

Thank you. I have no formal meetings to report, but I wish that I had known that National Night Out, I thought I understood it was canceled, and so I didn't go anywhere. And so I just am embarrassed that I didn't get out there, and I'm sorry I just didn't understand.

Councilor Hillier. Councilor Reyes. Okay.

Um, I, I too, uh, have not, uh, have had a formal meeting, but, uh, also missed the national night out events because I was going to go to the Las Casitas and we got any, uh, an email saying that it was canceled because of the smoke. Um, I wonder if that's going to come back or is that, that was it. That's all. Thank you.

President Pratt.

Well, I'll start with on August 3rd, we had our R1 Act meeting, and it actually went better than our previous, what, six months have gone, or whatever. So I think we still got a lot of issues, but there were some open discussions, and I think we're... MAKING AN ATTEMPT TO MOVE FORWARD. AND ONE OF THE THINGS WE LOOKED AT WAS CONNECT OREGON GRANTS, WHICH CAN BE USED FOR MATCHING FEDERAL FUNDS, AND WE WENT THROUGH THE LIST, AND THEN THAT WILL GO TO A FINAL COMMITTEE, AND OF OUR TWO EMPLOYEES TO THAT COMMITTEE, MAYOR BUBENIX, OUR ALTERNATE. SO CONGRATULATIONS. YEAH, I WENT TO THE MIDWEST CIO ICE CREAM SOCIAL, AND THAT WAS REALLY FUN, AND IT WAS SMOKEY, BUT THE ICE CREAM HELPED. And then our CAC meeting was focused just on the lake and people's ideas, and it was really nice to see that we kind of all had similar thoughts on it. And then Clackamas County Coordinating Committee, we went over our priorities for the year, and transportation came number one, economic development two, and land use third. So those came out of the... that retreat and that's that we picked that word and that's the order we put them in and then we got a really great presentation on uh... e-bikes it was westland and another city and oh it was happy valley people give us a presentation in there way ahead of us but the bottom line is there they're doing a full force uh... campaign on letting people know what the rules are and then you know after and then they're you know notifying kids and parents but they're starting out with the educational outline to everybody making sure it's well known and um that's one thing i heard our cios i think they could be really helpful in getting that information out once we get to that point Then yeah, the one need to pull Center grand opening was really nice and well-received and Everybody loves the new paint color. Nobody misses the peach and I do want to thank councilor Brooks because and the city staff because I'm sure we only got that because they advocated strongly for us. So I really appreciate it.

That's it Busy couple of weeks was my pleasure to the final safety town of the summer spent lunch with the littles and that was again a lot of fun a lot of peppering of questions and a lot of bad jokes oh my god but it was fun with so the jokes were kind of fun but did i didn't try to tell any i just got a lot of kid jokes thrown at me uh... later that afternoon uh... the clapkins county uh... mayors met with the chair roberts uh... discussion there was the recent resignation or of a the the clackamas county sheriff and who was running for clackamas county sheriff and then what does clackamas county do in light of the sheriff's lobby failing in the last election what's what's uh... plan b on the twenty ninth i attended the third freight subcommittee of the governor's transportation committees uh... we're starting to get into the recommendations the next two meetings are what are going to be our recommendations to the governor in terms of uh... federal highway funds you know, assisting in conveyance of freight and then revisions to Connect Oregon. And Connect Oregon focuses on rail, ports, and aviation rather than vehicles. On the 30th, attended Small Cities Consortium, Taylor Sarman gave an update on the recommendations from the Prosperity Committee that were of concern to small cities, and then he gave his prognostications of the 2027 legislative session. On the 31st, that was a Friday night. It was a warm Friday night in Tualatin Community Park. Senator Wagner and Representative Walters had their town hall. I was surprised so many people came on a hot evening, but very much enjoyed it. They gave their prognostications what the 2027 session is going to be like, but then took a lot of Q&A. No surprise, there were a lot of residents from West Linn in attendance discussing the new housing rules and what's going on in West Linn in terms of LACK OF THE ABILITY TO APPEAL LAND USE AND LACK OF PUBLIC NOTICE. THEY BOTH PROMISED TO LOOK AT THAT LEGISLATION AND SEE IF IT NEEDS TO BE TWEAKED DURING THE 27TH SESSION. THE R1 ACT WITH COUNCIL PRESIDENT PRATT AND WAS VERY HAPPY THAT IT WAS ACTUALLY A FUNCTIONAL MEETING. On the 4th, attended the Washington County hearing on the SIP that we're going to hear tonight, along with Council President Pratt. We just sat in the audience, didn't say anything. We just heard the presentations. That night, we did have National Night Out in our neighborhood. Our neighborhood prides ourselves on our food and having a lot of food for the cops. And no exaggeration, I think 12 Tualatin police officers descended between 6.15 and 6.30. before rolling out to the other hoods. Yep, we even had police staff was coming to visit us, but had a good evening that night. Yeah, because we always have ribs and everything like that, so they know where to come first. Then they head out for the ice cream. Yep, yep. Went to the CORA meeting. As Councillor Sacco said, a lot of vision about what the community has in mind for the lake. I spent the last few days, the 6th through the 9th, down in Ashland at the Oregon Managed Association, their summer conference. I'll write up my report of all the sessions I went to. What's interesting there is what they're doing in terms of their food pantry and how they approach stocking that food pantry. Quick and dirty is they have what they call a green bag program. and that every resident who wants to participate is given a green bag, and every two months, you have two months to fill that green bag, leave it out on your doorstep, and they have community leaders, about 100 of them, that spend two hours picking up those bags. Their food pantry never runs out of food, gets fully stocked every two months, and they're in such a good position that they don't need federal or state money to run their food pantry. Yeah, it's fantastic, and so it's a model that's starting to roll out across the United States called the Green Bag Program, It was so good, so I'll write that up. The other thing that was cool, what's that? Cans. Yep, they put in cans, paper goods. The neighborhood leaders know what they're short on, and we'll put an email out to the people in their jurisdiction what the food pantry needs. I actually drove by the food pantry where it's at in Ashland. Check that out. The other thing is the green bag program. I'll have it in my report. It's really cool. Urbanized deer. Deer that are not afraid of people, not afraid of car, are taking over Ashland. And mama deers with fawns are actually attacking people and dogs. And it's gotten to a point that Ashland now needs to deal with it. I have no exaggeration driving through Main Street at night. There are like seven eight-point bucks right in the middle of the road, and they don't give a rep about a car. It doesn't faze them at all. They're eating. They are trying to figure out what are they going to do because the wildlife is no longer wild in Ashland. Well, there's other good stuff going on that I'll get into. One more thing I'll put in there is that for some reason I gravitate towards the mayors on the Oregon coast. Their change in TLT is night and day. FOR THE OREGON CITIES. THE MAYOR OF SEASIDE TOLD ME HE IS NOW ABLE TO ALLOCATE 50% OF HIS ROOM TAXES TO THE POLICE AND INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS. THEY ARE GOING TO BE SPENDING A LOT OF MONEY ON THEIR ROADS, AND NOW THEY CAN HIRE MORE OFFICERS AND HAVE MORE OFFICERS DURING THE SUMMER. ALL THE MAYORS ON THE COAST WERE SUPER HAPPY WITH THE CHANGE TO TLT. Today I was at the Aging Task Force. They're going to get very active. A couple things they're talking about. Washington County has reached out to them to be part of the active transportation group, to have a representative from the Aging Task Force be part of that group, and they're going to do that. The city reached out about them participating in the housing capacity analysis. They're going to participate in that. For those people who are running for positions in the city of Tualatin, they are now planning on putting on a – Event in early October at the marquee for City Council candidates mayor candidates and Washington County Chair More information to come but it'll be during the day about 90 minutes long The marquee is already agreed to host it, but we don't have a date yet But those are the three things they're working on last thing I want to talk about is got a fantastic call from Mayor O'Neill and Wilsonville we knew this but let us know that he was very proud to push not push through and but talked with his city council and Smart about the Route 6 extension down on Boone's Ferry Road. He knew we were looking for more, but that's the best he could do. I told him that we're very grateful. It's better than nothing, but very much appreciate the support from Wilsonville and Smart, the assistance in our transportation needs in that area. That's all I have. So with that, I'll go ahead and close our work session. We'll reconvene for the regular city council meeting at 7 o'clock. All right, good evening and welcome to the August 10th, 2026, Tualatin City Council meeting. I'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. First item on our agenda tonight is a Pledge of Allegiance led by Council President Pratt.

Please put your hand over your heart or salute if you're military. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America. into this world with liberty and justice for all.

That brings us to our announcements. We have one announcement tonight, and that's our Tualatin Science and Technology Scholarship. This will be led by Councillor Hillier and Sacco.

Thank you, Mayor. So if we could have our amazing candidate come up, candidate, scholarship winner. We would like to say a few words and then we have your certificate and we'd like to be able to get a picture with you. So if that's okay. Yes, okay. So it is our pleasure and honor to announce the Tualatin Science and Technology Scholarship winner for the 26-27 school year. This year the city is awarding a $2,000 scholarship. And our recipient this year is Bilal Harani. Bilal graduated from Tualatin High School in June with his ultimate goal of becoming a certified registered nurse anesthetist. Those are the most important people, I will say. In his personal statement, Bilal said that nurse anesthesia combines advanced pharmacology and physiology in moments where precision matters most. That balance of science, responsibility, and patient care motivates me deeply. Well, at Tualatin High School, Bilal served as the president of the Muslim Association of Students for two years and ASB representative or Associated Student Body representative for two years. He earned his international baccalaureate or IB diploma after completing the rigorous coursework associated with the IB program. In his spare time, he was a student in voices group, played soccer and was on the varsity wrestling squad where he won two varsity awards. Bilal is fluent in both English and Arabic and has been taking Spanish courses since middle school, giving him the ability to connect across cultures and communities.

In his recommendation letter, one of Bilal's teachers said, Bilal is a student of remarkable substance. He leads with his heart, works with purpose, and treats others with profound respect. Any institution fortunate enough to welcome him will gain not only a brilliant scholar, but also a principled leader and a genuine good human being. Son of Jihad Hirani and Hala Sheikha, I hope I pronounced that right. of Tualatin, VLAW plans to pursue a Bachelor's of Science in Nursing at the University of Portland. The scholarship committee consists of Counselor Cindy Hillier and myself, Kristen Sacco, representing the Tualatin City Council, Nicole Wong of the Youth Creative Labs representing the Tualatin Chamber of Commerce, and Jill Zerschmid representing the Tiger Tualatin School District Board. The criteria considered in selecting scholarship recipients include academic standing, field of study, extracurricular activities, and community activities.

We are so happy to recognize Bilal for his many achievements and are pleased to be able to help him reach his academic goals. And half of Tualatin came tonight to celebrate you and help the Tualatin City Council and the committee honor you with this. Would you like to say anything, to share anything about your studies and your amazing interest?

It's tricky when it turns red. There you go.

I'd like to say thank you so much for the scholarship. It means a lot in general. And I would also like to say that my me wanting to pursue anesthesia is also not just as me liking the medical field, but I feel like it's a mission statement for myself to take away the pain from those that feel the most pain, as that is what anesthesia does. Anesthesia makes you numb to the pain during surgery, so I feel like there's millions and millions of people all around the world that are going through painful processes and physical pain every single day, and many of them aren't able to feel, or they are feeling all the pain because they do not have access to anesthesia. I would also like to say how there's many children in Gaza, in Palestine, that have been getting amputated limbs, and they have been doing it without anesthesia. And many people from my home country, Syria, that just came out of a civil war have been going through so much pain, and I feel like anesthesia would be so helpful for them. So I would like to hopefully, as a personal mission statement for myself, to be able to go help those in need around the world in undeveloped areas.

Thank you. The future is indeed bright. Moonlight, do you want to do the picture? I think you need to do it.

You guys do it.

Okay. I don't know that he can do that.

I just think it's probably better. Yeah. We'll put you in the middle.

Is that okay with the mayor and everything? All right.

Again, congratulations. I'll just put my two cents in of, as an IT guy, I was working with the nurse anesthetists at Kaiser Permanente, and they are very special people. A lot of education, a lot of people prepare for stress through anesthesia, but they We're super dedicated to their patients, just like it sounds like you're going to be. And good luck, best wishes. I know my former business partner is a former pilot, so I know he'll be very happy to hear you're going to UP. But congratulations and best wishes. All right, that brings us to public comment. Public comment is an opportunity for someone to address the council regarding an item that's not on tonight's agenda. Please keep your comments to about three minutes. I'll take those folks in the room first, and you don't have to be signed up, but it always helps. We'll do that first, and then we'll go to Zoom. For the folks who are interested about lamb, that is on the agenda tonight. We'll get to that when we get to that item on the agenda. That's when we'll do the comments for that. So right now for public comment, I have one person signed up for public comment. And it's no name, but it's Baha'i Faith in Tualatin. Welcome. Press where the little guy with the waves coming out of his face. There you go. Are we good? We got it. Okay. All right.

Start over. From the Baha'is of Tualatin, we'd just like to present and present at the end copies of the Common Endeavor. It's a statement about, well, it's a statement about how we can all work together. And it really was brought on with the 250th anniversary of the United States celebrating the community of the United States. So just a good evening, Mayor, City Council, members of our community. Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today. I'm here on the behalf of the members of the Baha'i faith in Tualatin to share the spirit of our statement, the common endeavor. At its heart is a simple idea. Building thriving community is a responsibility that we all share. Tualatin is strengthened by the diversity of its people. We come from different backgrounds, cultures, beliefs, and life experiences. Yet we all share a common hope for a safe, welcoming, and flourishing city. The question before us is not whether we have differences, but how we work together despite them. The Baha'i teachings emphasize the oneness of humanity and the value of consultation, which is a process of respectful dialogue in which people listen carefully, learn from one another, and seek solutions that serve the common good rather than individual interests. These principles can help strengthen the relationships and build trust throughout the community. Many of these challenges we face today, such as housing, public safety, environmental stewardship, youth development, and social connection cannot be solved by government alone. They require collaboration among public institutions, businesses, schools, neighborhood organizations, faith communities, and residents. Every person has capacity to contribute. The message of common endeavor begins with recognizing that each of us has both something to offer and something to learn. When people feel included, respected, and encouraged to participate, communities become more resilient and better able to meet the needs of all. We are grateful for the service of Mr. Mayor, the City Council, the City staff, and the many volunteers who work each day to improve life in Tualatin. Their efforts demonstrate that lasting progress is built through cooperation and shared commitment to the common good. As members of the Baha'i community, we seek to contribute in that same spirit. through service, friendship, meaningful conversations, and partnerships that strengthen bonds of our community. Our hope is that the common endeavor serves as an invitation to continue building a city where every person feels they belong and everyone has the opportunity to help shape our shared future. Thank you for your leadership and your service. and your commitment to the people of Tualatin. Thank you. And then we'd just like to pass out copies.

She'll distribute them. Thank you for coming tonight. Thank you. All right, that's the only sign-up I had tonight. Is there anyone else in the room who would like to address City Council on an item that's not on the agenda tonight? All right, I don't see anyone in the room. How about on Zoom, Nicole? All right. For those folks in Zoom, this is your opportunity for public comment. I'll give you a few seconds to get your hands up so Nicole can recognize you. Anything? All right. So we'll go ahead and move on to our consent agenda. Our consent agenda are items that are considered routine. They will be adopted by one motion unless someone on the council would like an item removed and heard separately later tonight. Tonight, the consent agenda consists of five items. Item number one, consideration of approval of the work session and regular meeting minutes of July 27th, 2026. Item number two, consideration of approval of a change in previous liquor license application for Red Robin Tualatin number 534. Item number three, consideration of approval of a new liquor license application for J&J Basket Company, LLC. Item number four, consideration of resolution number 5989-26. Authorizing the city managers to sign the First Amendment to the Intergovernmental Agreement with Washington County and the cities of Tigard and Sherwood related to funding a homeless services system city liaison and homeless services capital projects. And finally, item number five, consideration of Resolution 5991-26. authorizing the city manager to execute an intergovernmental agreement with Clackamas County relating to the 65th Borland Improvement Project and the transfer of jurisdiction of a portion of Southwest 65th. Would any council like one of these items heard, pulled, and heard later tonight? I see none.

I move that we adopt the consent agenda as read. Second. Second.

I have a motion and a double second to adopt the consent agenda as ready. Any discussions on those motions? All those in favor say aye.

Aye.

Didn't hear that. Councilor Gonzales got unmute. Aye. Thank you. All right. It's unanimous. All right. That brings us to special reports. Our special report tonight is the Republic Services 2025 Annual Update. That will be Lindsay Marshall along with Cindy and Travis from Republic services. Welcome.

Good evening, Mayor, Council, Lindsay Marshall, Republic Works. I am here to introduce some familiar faces from Republic Services. They are here to talk about the calendar year 2025, so not too long ago. And they'll tell you about all the great things that they were able to do this year and also work with us in such great partnership. So I will go ahead and turn it over to you guys.

Good evening mayor, counselors, and members of the Tualatin community. My name is Cindy Rogers and I am your municipal relationship manager for public services. And I'm joined here this evening by Travis Comfort, your municipal contract administrator. This evening's presentation is a review of the essential services that we provided for the city of Tualatin in 2025. Before we get started, I'd like to recognize that this may be the last opportunity that Travis and I have to present to the mayor. It has truly been a pleasure, and while we will certainly miss these occasions, we are grateful that we will still have opportunities to connect with you at Tualatin Chamber and other community events. Next slide. In 2025, our drivers were at the homes of nearly 6,200 households 12 times a month. This is a nearly 2% increase over 2024. The 35 gallon cart for trash continues to be by far the most popular. The residents of Tualatin have a robust waste and recycling program. Residential service includes trash, yard debris with food waste, commingle recycle, and the glass bin all weekly. As a reminder, customers can put motor oil and batteries in their glass bin. We also offer additional services, including Recycle Plus for hard-to-recycle items, bulky waste pickup for items that won't fit in your roll cart, and drop boxes for larger projects. In 2025, we collected just over $8,800 TENS OF RESIDENTIAL MATERIAL. THIS AVERAGES OUT TO BE 1.43 TENS PER HOUSEHOLD, WITH TRASH MAKING UP JUST OVER 50%. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WE SAW IN 2024. FOR BUSINESSES AND MULTIFAMILY, WE OFFER TRASH UP TO SIX DAYS A WEEK, COMINGLE RECYCLING UP TO FIVE DAYS A WEEK, FOOD WASTE UP TO FOUR DAYS A WEEK, AND GLASS WEEKLY. IN 2025, WE SERVICED 46 MULTIFAMILY CUSTOMERS AND 627 COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS. WE SAW A NEARLY 5% INCREASE IN COMMERCIAL TENS IN 2025. THE TOTAL COMMERCIAL TENS IN 2024 WAS 12,722, AND THEN IN 2025, IT WENT UP TO 13,341. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SLIDE FOUR SHOWS THE NUMBER OF LARGE CONTAINER HALLS THAT WE DID IN 2025. So large containers are either drop boxes that range from 10 to 40 yard or compactors. In 2025, we did 8,428 large container hauls. And this is down slightly by almost 2% from 2024. We hauled over 20,000 tons of material in 2025, which was also down from 2024. This means that the average haul was just under 2.4 tons per haul. versus in 2024, it was 2.6. So it's still very consistent year over year, not much difference. Tualatin residents and businesses have free access to our recycling depot on Southwest Ritter Road in Wilsonville. The recycling depot is open 8 to 4, Monday through Friday, and is staffed by a Wilsonville High School graduate. And I have to say that customers just adore this guy. We are so grateful to have him on our team. People can drop off cardboard, electronics, glass bottles, scrap metal, metal cans, paper, plastic, jugs, and tubs. Oregon's new recycling law went into effect in July of 2025, and even more items can now be dropped off. So that includes like your rigid nursery pots, large storage totes, pots and pans, liquid cartons that juice and broth come in. And now you can also keep your caps on your plastic containers, like your laundry detergent, milk jugs, and juice bottles. In 2025, we did nearly $14 million in revenue and paid nearly $350,000 in franchise fees. In our industry, disposal is our largest expense at $5.8 million, and then labor is second at $2.8 million in 2025. Although we continue to see disposal of trash increase, we did get some relief for recycle in the second half of 2025. Due to the Recycling Modernization Act, Tualatin recognized $26,000 in savings for the processing of recycle and $23,000 to help offset some of the cost to collect glass. I know, Mayor, you often bring this up, so I wanted to just say that in the year of 26-27, Metro increased was 9%. Next slide. Just want to make sure.

Oh, yeah, I know.

I know you're going to ask anyway.

The Metro Council heard about it. Yeah, yeah.

One of the most common things that we hear when we attend and staff community events is how amazing our drivers are and how helpful. the employees at our Wilsonville office are. Many customers, including the kiddos, know our drivers by name. It means a great deal when people take the time to compliment our drivers and our staff, and we always share these compliments with the supervisors because it's important for them to hear that their hard work is appreciated by the Tualatin community. And I will pass it off to Travis, and he will tell you more about the Recycling Modernization Act and some of our other community engagement for 2025.

Thank you, Cindy. Good evening, Mayor, Council President, City Council, ladies and gentlemen. It is a pleasure to be with you all here this evening to cover the Recycling Modernization Act, our bulky waste events from last year, and our community outreach. Tonight, we have three key takeaways for the Recycling Modernization Act. First, the Act established Oregon's extended producer responsibility system, shifting some of the responsibility onto producers to help fund and improve Oregon's recycling system while creating greater accountability across the program. Second, the Act introduced a new uniform statewide recycling collection list, which we've given before and we provided again today. This creates consistency across Oregon's communities and makes it easier for residents to know what can and cannot be placed in their recycling carts. And third, the Act significantly expanded education, outreach, and contamination reduction efforts. The RMA provides $3 per capita annually to fund contamination reduction work. Tualatin has designated Washington County to receive this funding, and for the first program period, the county has allocated some of those funds to help cover purchase of blue multifamily containers for recycling. As many of you know, we have partnered with the city for years to provide annual bulky waste collection events for the residents of the Las Casitas neighborhood. Last year's event was held on April 26, and it was another successful community effort. During the event, we filled and hauled five 40-yard drop boxes containing 3.14 tons of material. These events continue to be extremely popular with residents and provide a valuable service to the community. I would also like to recognize city staff, particularly Betsy, who has been a tremendous partner in helping organize, coordinate, and promote these events. The success of this program is truly a collaborative effort and we greatly appreciate the city's work on this. In addition to the Las Casitas event, we also host an annual bulky waste collection event at our transfer station for Tualatin residents. Last year's event was held on May 3rd and we saw strong community participation with 266 vehicles bringing in 29 tons of material. Looking ahead, we are excited to expand our program through a new partnership with the Mattress Recycling Council. As a result, we were able to add mattress recycling to this year's event, which was held on April 11th at no additional cost to residents. This is a significant benefit for the community because mattresses can be difficult and expensive to dispose of, and recycling them helps to remove valuable material and keeps them out of the landfill. We are always looking for ways to enhance these events and provide additional value to Tualatin residents, and we believe this partnership is a great example of that commitment. We are honored to partner with Tualatin to participate in Tualatin's inaugural Big Truck Day. It was on May 21st of 2025. One of the highlights for us was showcasing our new electric garbage truck. We had hundreds of families stop by our display where hundreds of children patiently waited in line for their opportunity to sit in the driver's seat, explore the cab, and get an up close look at the truck. Seeing this level of enthusiasm is truly rewarding. The event was such a positive experience that we were excited to return this year on May 22nd and it appeared the turnout was even larger. Events like Big Truck Day are a fantastic way to connect with residents, provide education in a fun and engaging environment, and strengthen our community partnerships. We greatly appreciate the city's leadership, participation, and particularly Lindsay's in organizing the event and looking forward to participating in 2027. We were grateful for the opportunity to participate in Tualatin's Summer 2025 Safety Town Program. This was our second year taking part in this program, and after such a positive experience, we were excited to return again just a few weeks ago. At Republic Services, safety is our number one priority, so programs like Safety Town provide a great opportunity to share that message with the next generation. We talk about staying visible, keeping a safe distance from the truck and equipment, and being aware of their surroundings when collection vehicles are in their neighborhood. We are thankful to the city for including us in this important program and look forward to continuing our participation in the future. One of the unique things in our industry is the connection between drivers and the families on their routes. Many children look forward to collection day each week, and some even know all three of their drivers. Whenever schedules and operational conditions allow, our drivers like to make birthday stops for the young residents. While these moments are fun, they also provide an opportunity to reinforce our important message of safety. Children can learn firsthand of the size of these vehicles, blind spots, and why it's so important to have a safe distance during collection activities. It turns out that one of the best ways to teach safety is through excitement, and nothing is more exciting than letting a child climb into a garbage truck on their birthday. Last year marked our second year participating in Tualatin's annual holiday light parade, and it was another fantastic opportunity to connect with the community in a fun and memorable way. Thanks to the creativity and leadership of our operations supervisor, Leanne, we transformed our electric garbage truck into a holiday showpiece with nearly 4,000 lights. Leanne also had the opportunity to ride in the parade with Steven Trevino, who is one of our drivers. Their enthusiasm and commitment are a great reflection of the culture we strive to build at Republic Services. Events like the Holiday Light Parade remind us that we are more than just the service provider. We are part of the community, and our team genuinely enjoys finding ways to engage with residents outside of their normal collection services. Thank you all for your time and attention tonight. We welcome any questions you might have.

All right. Questions for Cindy and or Travis? Or comments? Council President Pratt.

So did you say that you could put motor oil in the glass bin?

Yeah. You want to put like a milk jug, like in a milk jug. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay.

As long as it's where we can kind of see through and be able to tell that it's motor oil.

And market oil or if it's back in a motor oil jug, that's fine.

Oh, okay. And then it just gets dumped in the garbage truck?

No, no, they hand, no, no.

I'm sorry, I'm trying to visualize this.

Yeah, the glass bin. So this is like the little tub. Yeah, the tub. And so they'll grab it and set it aside. Oh, gotcha, okay. Yeah, they keep it separate from there.

And like with the batteries on the back side of your recycle guide there?

Yeah, I see that.

Put them on top of any glass or other items you have in there? Yeah. And then like motor oil or, well, you can't do cooking oil, but you can place it on the side of the bin. You don't have to put that in with your glass.

Okay, and then I was wondering on that, mixing the food with yard debris, are you seeing a more, picking up more yard debris now that we've added the food?

That's kind of hard to tell, because the yard debris is so dependent, the volume is, it's so seasonal, and also it depends on, like, do we have a bad winter? Is it a really wet winter? Oh, right. So, like, we go, everything we do is by weight, right? Yeah. And if it's a really bad winter, there's a windstorm, and then people are really pruning and filling up their carts, so... It fluctuates. It's so dependent on the weather. It's hard to tell if there's more participation in the food, you know, portion of it. But we do a lot of messaging about the, you know, food. So trying to get people to separate out their food.

Okay. And thank you so much for adding that mattress thing because that's a tough one for people.

It is, yeah. They're hard to get rid of, yeah, for sure.

Okay.

Thanks.

Other questions or comments? Council Brooks down here.

Earlier, we had the CIO community talk about their desire to see more recycling on city property, especially the parks. And I'm just curious, from your perspective, is that in the realm of possibility? And are there things that we should know about that as a city?

Anything's possible for sure. And we would encourage, we always want to encourage folks to recycle. But it is even, you know, putting in the right messaging on containers and receptacles, especially if you have little ones and they can't read and they're going up and then they can, it can easily get contaminated. So it's definitely something to look at. We could try it, but I want to make sure that we, you know, just realize any public facing receptacles are kind of, if they're unattended, They're really subject to being contaminated, and we don't want that.

And then I've seen in other countries and things like that, there are specific containers that you can only put certain things in. There's ones for cans and ones for, and I'm just wondering if there's any best practices around helping with identifying recycling versus non-recycling, especially in public buildings like our buildings and our parks.

That's part of the reason that some of the contamination reduction funding went to color coding, is going to color coding, because even if you can't necessarily, you're a little one, and you can't, if there's a difference, like if the recycle is always blue, then that's a good indicator that, hey, this is recycled, as long as it's consistent. So Metro has these color standards, and so That's one of the reasons that that's an approved way to spend that money is through color coding the receptacles. Okay. Okay.

Thank you.

Council Hilliard.

Just a quick thank you, as always, for making sure you're taking care of our youngest to our oldest and all the things in between. And the big truck day, I know people not just from Tualatin go. And so just thank you for always having a smile, always saying yes and being part of whatever's happening. So thank you for your partnership. Appreciate it.

I just got three wonky little questions for you. So on the pizza boxes, I thought pizza boxes went in the compost, in the compost garden bin. Which one is it?

You can, but with the RMA, the county changed their messaging to you can put it in the recycling. But if it's got food attached to it or cheese attached to it, throw it in your compost bin, please. Okay, that's where I'm going to keep it. If it's clean and no oil and no cheese on it, then you can recycle it. Then it's not a pizza. Where did you get your pizza? It sounds like a horrible pizza. All right.

And then on the metal, on the pots and pans, is there Teflon? Is there any limits or any kind of pot pan?

Anything you would cook with, yeah.

Cast iron skillets? We really want those. Those you pass down generation to generation. Yeah, exactly. All right. My car's outside. All right. And then on my favorite subject of Metro, any impact, and you don't have to answer me now, but I'm always concerned about when they jack up their fees, it's a pass-through to you, and then it eventually becomes a pass-through to the residents. So have you got a... I'm assuming you already did some number crunching on the 9% increase in impacts possibly to the community or TBD on that one.

Yeah, that rate just went into effect in July of this year. Yes, there's no way it can't have an impact because it is our largest expense. But things like the Recycling Modernization Act, the funding that we got, so we only had the impacts for six months of last year. So we'll have that for all of this year. So those, the RMA money is helping. We do have some concerns about glass because now we're being charged to take glass in, which we never had been before. That just went into effect. So yeah, I mean, there's absolutely no way that that can't have an effect on our OUR COSTS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT. BUT, OF COURSE, THE MORE PEOPLE RECYCLING, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S SOME THINGS THAT WERE GOING IN THE TRASH THAT NOW WITH SOME MORE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH THAT PEOPLE WILL UNDERSTAND THAT THEY CAN PUT IT INTO THEIR RECYCLE SO WE CAN KIND OF DECREASE. SO WE'LL HAVE TO SEE. I MEAN, WE'RE ONLY A YEAR INTO THE RECYCLING MODERNIZATION ACT, AND SO I THINK IT'S GOING TO TAKE A FEW YEARS FOR US TO REALLY SEE THE IMPACTS OF THAT. We'll see what Metro does next year, too.

You already know what they're going to do next year. Yeah. On the Recycling Modernization Act, I thought a group of manufacturers has challenged that and have taken it to court.

They did with the court, and they have not made a ruling yet. I think it was last Monday the – They had to submit their closing summary, their briefs. I don't think they did it in person. I think they did it in writing. And the judge, as far as I know, has not made a ruling on that yet.

It's all my wonky questions. Anyone else have any questions? I love the wonky questions. This is your last chance. I'm going to miss the wonky questions. Oh, I know how to get a hold of you. You know where we are. You know where we are. Yeah, I know where you are in Ritter Road now that all that construction is done in Wilsonville. Dude, they still have the roads there. Oh, it was closed last week? They're still out there. Closed it again? Okay.

It's not closed. It's just their pavement.

Yeah, and to get to that intersection is a nightmare.

A little bit.

A little bit. Well, welcome to our railroad track issue now. Do you have anything, Councillor Gonzalez?

I do not. Thank you.

He's frozen. He's frozen, yeah. All right. Well, thank you for coming tonight. Thank you. Thank you guys for giving us time. All right. So that brings us to general business. Our first item on general business, item number one is consideration of resolution number 5990-26, authorizing the city manager to enter into a strategic, Investment Program, or SIPP, agreement with Washington County and Lamb Research Corporation. Starting off the conversation tonight are Marnie and Sid. Welcome. For those, Marnie represents Washington County and Sid represents the city of Tualatin.

Yes, thank you, Mayor. Sid Sen, Urban Renewal Economic Development Manager. Like the SIPP agreement, we are partnering with the county and LAM to do this presentation this evening. And so with that, I'm just going to turn it over to Marnie, and everyone will go ahead and introduce themselves as well.

Okay.

Hit the guy with the little face. There you go.

Not the words guy. Okay. Great. Thank you. Mayor Bubinek and Council President and Council Members. As you mentioned, my name is Marnie Kyle. I'm an Assistant County Administrator. And I'm here today with Aaron Doyle in the audience, the Policy and Government Affairs Division Manager and the Project Lead for the SIPP. As you are aware, the County Board of Commissioners approved entering into the SIP agreement last Tuesday, August 4th. Our board's policy has 10 objectives that center on balancing benefits to the community, ensuring job creation and retention, workforce development, economic development, and accountability. LAM has committed to a significant investment of at least $1.5 billion, creating new high-paying jobs and committing to workforce development. Today, we are coming to the Council with a recommendation to approve entering into the strategic investment agreement between LAM, the County, and the City of Tualatin. As you know, SIPP is an effective economic development tool that the county has used since 1994, bringing billions of dollars, and that's with a B, of dollars in investment and thousands of high-paying jobs to Washington County and the region. Although these are partial tax abatements over the 15-year agreement, the company does pay ad valorem taxes, a community service fee, and a negotiated payment in lieu fee. These revenues combined represent increased revenue for the city and the county that would not happen without this agreement. Each SIP is tailored to the unique business needs and model of the company. But more importantly, each assures that the county and the city have those additional revenues in both the short term during the life of the agreement and the long term, the years after the agreement to provide the critical services that our community members depend on. I want to say that I am proud of the county staff and our partnership with the city of Tualatin. As local governments, We strive for transparency with the community, ensuring that they're brought along on our journey. However, projects like this require that we adhere to state laws and non-disclosure agreements to ensure productive negotiations that lead to the community benefits that we're looking for. We met those requirements in this instance, as we have in the past. At last week's public hearing, the Commissioners heard from the community about concerns as well as opposition and support for this agreement. The Board took all of these communications, both verbal and written communication, into consideration in their unanimous vote to approve the agreement. I'm proud of the proposed agreement before you tonight. I believe it was negotiated in the spirit of what is best for Washington County and the City of Tualatin. Aaron and I will stay and we're happy to answer any questions that you have after these presentations.

Thank you, Marnie. So just for the agenda for this evening, I just want to start off tonight with just a high level overview of the strategic investment program. And we have the LAM team here that will talk about LAM Research Corporation, as well as some other information. We'll also have Don Hudson come up and also do some financial overviews for the council. And lastly, I'll close it with the proposed SIP agreement and the recommendation. So with that, as was mentioned, the SIP, strategic investment program created in 1993 It's been in use for with the county for since 1994 there's been Approximately about 50 billion dollar of investment and up to about 19,000 jobs that have been retained locally It's a three-party agreement between the city the county and lamb corporation a company in this case Excuse me as was also noted it is a partial abatement for the property taxes Revenue stream will continue to come in and that will be something that's done. We'll talk about a little bit the after the 15 years the full Property tax assessment will go back onto the tax rolls for the city the county and all the other taxing districts and The minimum investment to participate in the SIP program is $150 million for urban projects. In this case, as has been noted in the staff report, LAM is looking to invest between $1.5 billion to $1.7 billion in this project. The revenue stream was talked about ad valorem taxes, the community service fee, and additional negotiated fees. In this case, it's the payment in lieu that is found in the SIP agreement. And then lastly, per state statute, the county is required to hold a public hearing, which was held last week on August 4th. And so with that... to go ahead and pass it over to the lamb team get the slides going there you go cautionary statement make sure you turn your mic on good evening mayor bubenek city councillors and members of the public

Thank you for this opportunity to be here today. My name is Wayne Nobles. I'm Corporate Vice President for Global Product Operations and responsible for LAM's Global Lab Network. Joining me is Vartan Jnanian, Director of Global Government Affairs for LAM Research. We're pleased to be here to discuss the Tualatin Expansion Project, also referred to as TUCS, and we believe it will represent a transformational opportunity for the City of Tualatin. Today we'd like to share three things, who LAM Research is, what we are planning to build, and why this investment means for the city of Tualatin, Washington County, and the state of Oregon. Before discussing the project itself, let me briefly introduce LAM Research. Since 1980, LAM has been a global leader in semiconductor manufacturing equipment and services. Our equipment enables the production of the world's most advanced semiconductor devices that power everything from smartphones, automobiles, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, medical technology, and national defense. While many consumers may not recognize our name, they rely on technologies made possible by LAM every day. The world has never been more dependent on semiconductors than it is today. As technologies like AI continue to evolve, the chips that power them become increasingly sophisticated and increasingly difficult to manufacture. Lamb develops the highly specialized equipment used to make these chips possible. At the heart of every electronic device is an incredibly complex microchip. Our technologies enable chip manufacturers around the world to produce these devices with extraordinary precision. In fact, virtually every leading-edge semiconductor device produced today anywhere in the world is manufactured using LAM equipment somewhere in their production process. Oregon has become one of LAM's most important global locations. We've operated in Oregon for more than 30 years, originally as Novella Systems, and have proudly called Washington County home for more than 20 years. Today, our Oregon campus employs approximately 3,000 people and spans roughly 850,000 square feet. What makes this site unique is that it brings together all elements of the entire product lifecycle on one site. research and development, engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and field service. Ideas are conceived here, developed here, built here, tested here, and ultimately deployed to customers around the world. Products like Sabre, Vector, and Striker that are designed and developed here in Oregon help enable the production of advanced semiconductor devices used throughout the global economy. Each of these products designed and built here in Tualatin are ranked either number one or number two among global products used by semiconductor manufacturers around the world. Let me talk a little bit about the project itself. Building on the foundation brings us to the Tualatin Expansion Project, also referred to as TUCS. The TUCS project represents the next chapter in LAM's investment in the City of Tualatin. It is expected to include more than $1.5 billion of total investment, including more than $620 million in planned construction. making it one of the most significant private investments in the county. At full capacity, it will be staffed by approximately 445 high-wage employees in research, engineering, operations, and technician roles. Tucks is LAM's largest-ever investment in lab infrastructure and will be LAM's most advanced research and development center anywhere in the world. The project will significantly expand our cleanroom laboratories and research capacity, ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE FULL SPECTRUM OF SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES. THE PLAN ALSO INCLUDES A NEW ENGINEERING OFFICE BUILDING, EXPANSION OF EXISTING CLEAN ROOM SPACE, CONVERSION OF AN EXISTING FACILITY INTO AN ADVANCED METROLOGY LAB, AND SUPPORTING INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDED TO ENABLE FUTURE GROWTH. TOGETHER, THESE INVESTMENTS WILL STRENGTHEN THE CITY OF TWALTON'S POSITION AS ONE OF THE WORLD'S PREMIER CENTERS OF SEMICONDUCTOR INNOVATION. Projects of this scale require planning and confidence. The Strategic Investment Program provides that confidence. SIPP is a critical factor in LAM's decision to move forward with a full-tux investment here in Oregon. It helps ensure Oregon remains competitive as a large-scale semiconductor investment in the industry where states across the country and around the world are competing for the same projects. LAM is committed to Oregon. We've invested here for more than 30 years and have proudly called Washington County home for 20 years. Our goal is to continue growing here. With SIPP, we're not just building facilities to meet today's needs. We're making investments in infrastructure, utilities, and site capacity and capability needed to future-proof our Tualatin campus so that it is ready to support continued expansion and innovation for years to come. Without SIPP, we would likely need to significantly reduce the scope of this project. and focus only on our most essential operational needs, limiting the full economic potential of the TUCS project to the city of Tualatin. Our goal is simple, to move forward with the full vision of TUCS and continue investing in Oregon for decades to come. At this point, I'd like to turn it over to Vartan, who will discuss what this investment means to Tualatin's economy, workforce, and community.

Thank you, Wayne, and good evening, Mr. Mayor and city councilors. As Wayne shared, the Tucks project represents a significant long-term investment in the city of Tualatin. I'd like to spend the next few minutes discussing what that investment means for the economy, the workforce, and the community. Before talking about the future, it's important to recognize LAM's impact today. LAM currently employs approximately 3,000 people in Oregon, but our impact extends well beyond our own workforce. According to an independent, in-plan economic analysis, our operations support more than 10,100 jobs across Oregon, including approximately 7,300 jobs right here in Washington County. Each year, LAM contributes nearly $1.7 billion to Oregon's economy and generates approximately $108 million in state and local tax revenue. These numbers demonstrate that LAM is already an important economic engine for the City of Tualatin. The TUCS project builds on that strong foundation. During construction, the benefits begin almost immediately. Over the three-year construction period, the project is expected to support an average of approximately 930 jobs each year while generating roughly $500 million in economic output. The project is also expected to generate more than $24 million in additional state and local tax revenue. Beyond those numbers are opportunities for local contractors, suppliers, engineers, manufacturers, and many other businesses throughout the City of Tualatin. Once fully operational, the impact becomes even greater. The Tufts project is expected to create 445 new high-quality jobs, bringing LAM's Oregon workforce to more than 3,300 employees. Annual employee compensation is projected to exceed $530 million. Overall, LAM is expected to support nearly 11,270 jobs across Oregon while contributing approximately $1.85 billion annually to Oregon's economy. These are long-term, high-quality jobs that strengthen families, support local businesses, and reinforce Tualatin's position as one of the world's leading centers for semiconductor innovation. But LAM's commitment to Tualatin extends far beyond economics. For more than 20 years, we've been proud to partner with this community. We invest in education, workforce development, employee volunteerism, charitable giving, and organizations that strengthen the communities where our employees live and work. Whether it's supporting the Tualatin Chamber STEAM Education Foundation, providing scholarships to local students, volunteering in our community, or helping organizations like the Oregon Food Bank and the Tualatin Schoolhouse Pantry, we believe being a good corporate citizen is part of being a successful company. These partnerships reflect a long-term commitment to the city of Tualatin that extends well beyond our campus. I'm going to come back to that previous slide. Investing in future talent. We're equally committed to investing in the next generation. The semiconductor industry depends on a highly skilled workforce, and we're helping build that pipeline right here in Oregon. Through partnerships with Oregon State University, Portland State University, Portland Community College, Clackamas Community College, and local schools, we're creating pathways for students to pursue careers in advanced manufacturing and semiconductor technology. Programs like our microscopy technician training program, Support for Girls Inc.'s Eureka initiative and mentorship opportunities with local high schools are helping prepare students for meaningful careers while strengthening Oregon's long-term competitiveness. As we talk about this investment, I also want to address what it means to grow responsibly. We've been part of this community for more than 20 years, and being a good neighbor matters to us. We recognize that a project of this scale requires thoughtful planning and close coordination with the city and the surrounding community. Throughout this process, we work closely with city staff and our local partners to understand potential impacts and identify practical measures to minimize them. TUCS will be developed and operated in full accordance with applicable laws, codes, permits, and regulatory requirements. We'll continue looking for reasonable ways to minimize impacts, listening to constructive community input, and working collaboratively with the City and our neighbors as the project moves forward. Our goal is to make this important investment in Tualatin while continuing to be a responsible and responsive member of this community. And I will add that every concern raised with us is taken seriously and thoroughly evaluated. We take the time to understand the issue, work with the appropriate experts and city staff, and determine whether additional action is warranted. We are committed to listening, carefully considering the facts, and responding thoughtfully and in good faith. As we continue to grow, we're also committed to growing responsibly. LAM has established ambitious long-term sustainability goals, including achieving 100% renewable energy globally by 2030 and net zero carbon emissions by 2050. We believe innovation, economic growth, and environmental stewardship go hand in hand, and we're committed to advancing all three. Mayor Bubanek, City Councilors, today you've heard about who LAM Research is, what we're building, and the benefits this investment will bring to the City of Tualatin. For more than 30 years, we've invested in Oregon, and for more than 20 years, we've proudly called Tualatin home. The Tux project represents the next chapter in that partnership. Tux is projected to deliver broad public benefits. It's expected to bring more than $1.5 billion in total investment create 445 new high-quality jobs, strengthen local businesses and suppliers, invest in the next generation of talent, and reinforce Tualatin's position as a global leader in semiconductor innovation. Projects of this scale require long-term planning and certainty. The CIP provides that certainty and helps Oregon and Washington County and the City of Tualatin remain competitive with other states that are actively competing for advanced manufacturing investments. It allows us to make the infrastructure investments today that future-proof our Tualatin campus for continued expansion and innovation. As Wayne mentioned, our goal is simple, to move forward with a full-tux vision for this project and continue investing in Oregon for many years to come. Thank you for your time, your consideration, and your partnership. Thank you.

All right, get the clicker back, please, Vartan. Thanks, Wayne and Vartan. We're going to transition into kind of the economic and community benefits of this project, and Vartan did a great, included a great summary of those impacts but I also wanted to highlight a few things the county did a economic impact analysis and using optimal solutions group and some of the things that that came out of that was they're looking at an additional 1,400 construction jobs 445 of high-tech jobs with at lamb and 152 additional jobs in annual operations, and another 669 in capital equipment. And some of these numbers, it's important to point out, because over the last year, we've had a lot of job losses here in Oregon, both at Nike and Intel. This is a great opportunity and a great timing for the investment. Earlier this week, or last week, there was another, Damon LeCriser, said they were laying off another 375 people. Avemere Health Services Group was laying off another 129. And it's just not regionally here, but it's also down south. Bowtech out of Eugene, they're laying off 42 employees there. And in fact, they're moving their operations to Texas. So the importance of this opportunity at this time is really important. The other great impact is at the state income tax level. Oops, sorry, there we go. Is the state income tax revenue level. The EIA indicated that the average annual salary for these 445 jobs at LAM is gonna be about 173,000. That range, it'll range depending on skill sets and the job classification. But the impact of that is the payroll taxes at the state level, which helps fund the general fund as well as schools as well. At the local level, certainly we're looking at approximately $332 million in construction spending. And that, again, is kind of that two- to three-year period during construction. But we're also looking at following that almost $32 million in annual operating expenditures as well. And as Vartan mentioned, our community partners and just the level of commitment that they are ingrained into this community. In fact, last summer at a concert in the park series, Lam had a tent at the same event that we were at for the downtown revitalization project, and I got to talk with some of the employees there, and they thought it would be a great idea to be able to increase our housing opportunities in our downtown center, and certainly we're hoping to be able to provide those opportunities for new employees as well. So with that, I'm going to turn it over to Don and Amy.

So I'll lean in a little bit here. Hi, my name is Don Hudson. I'm the Assistant City Manager and Finance Director here with the City. And I'd like to talk a little bit about the numbers in this. As it's been mentioned by a couple of the people, Sid and also Marnie, this is a partial tax abatement. It's not a full abatement. There are three components of revenues that are still coming in to the taxing entities for the parcels that are over on the Lamb campus. The first two that you see up here, the ad valorem taxes and the community service fee, are governed under state statute. Those are mandatory fees that LAM will be required to pay under this project. The third is a payment in lieu, which is a negotiated amount, and that was a negotiated piece between the city, county, and LAM during this process. So on the estimated ad valorem tax, the first $103 million of development goes right onto the tax rolls. And it's just as if any values that come on our rolls are taxed the same way across all the different taxing entities you see on the screen. And that value increases by 3% annually. And again, these are all governed under state statute. With this project, the estimated new taxes over that 15-year period for the ad valorem tax is about $38 million that will be divvied out, as with any other property tax revenues to all the taxing entities that you see on the screen there. The second component is a community service fee. And this is calculated as 25% of the abated tax with a max of just about $3 million that is also indexed. So this project as it is expected to be invested in over those 15 years, we'll bring in about $45 million to all the local governments, again, at the estimated amount percentages of the taxing entities on that bill. So you see the city of Tualatin is about 32% of the tax bill. And so we'll be receiving 32% of that $45 million community service fee over the 15-year period. The third component, I don't have a slide for this, is that payment in lieu. And the payment in lieu was a negotiated amount. It is $27 million over the 15-year period. That will start out at about a $400,000 payment in year one, increases $200,000 a year up through year 15 for a total of $27 million. That was a piece that was negotiated again between the city and county, and the city of Tualatin will receive 43% of that $27 million over the 15-year period. As with any projections, it's at best the modeling that we have at this point, and given the numbers and the timing of the investment that LAM has given us, we are estimating the city will bring in about $33 million over this 15-year period. At that, I will turn it back over to Sid.

All righty. Thank you, Don. And just to... wrap up the presentation here. The SIPP agreement was included in your packets. But some of the highlights of that SIPP agreement, again, 1.7, up to a maximum of 1.7 billion investments over the next 15 years. That will run to approximately 2041. The abatement period is estimated to begin sometime in 2028 or 2029. Don recapped the revenue stream that will continue to be able to support our services at the local level and other taxing efforts further. And two other things worth highlighting. One is the first source hiring agreement that is a requirement and this looks at hiring first at the local level and also at disadvantaged job seekers when hiring. And then lastly, there's also an employment requirements for LAM, which is on the annual employment income report required by Business Oregon to be able to track where we are in the process. And then lastly, the recommendation is to approve Resolution 5990-26, authorizing the city manager to sign a strategic investment program agreement with Washington County and Lamb Research Corporation. And with that, we are available for any questions. We also have the county team here as well. Thank you.

All right. So just so folks remember, this is a resolution. It's not a public hearing. So it's a little bit looser, if you will, in terms of formality. We will be taking comments from folks who are for the project and those who are against it. As far as Q&A, I'll probably wait for questions from the counselors until after we're done with comments in case there's a question for questions. a speaker or a commenter, kind of like we do for a hearing. I want to kind of keep that kind of process because it's fair to everyone. So with that, gentlemen, you can probably sit back, and I'll start with, as we usually do, we start for the parties that are in favor of the applicant, if you will, or for the SIP agreement. So with that, in no particular order, I have folks who are signed up. You don't have to be signed up, but I will take the sign-ups first. I'll be taking the vote that people are in favor of this agreement. I'll first do those folks that are signed up or in person and then go to Zoom. Please keep your comments to about three minutes. If you're doing a tag team thing, we'll consolidate your minutes as we usually do in past history. First person I have signed up, Nick, Nick Triska of GPI. Familiar face. I KNEW I HAD TO SAY YOUR LAST NAME, VERSUS... YOU DID, MAYOR BUVENECK.

NOW I KNOW YOURS. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, CITY STAFF. MY NAME IS NICK TRISKA, AND I'M HERE REPRESENTING GREATER PORTLAND, INC., THE REGIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION FOR OUR SEVEN-COUNTY METROPOLITAN REGION HERE. MY JOB IS TO SUPPORT THE REGION'S PURSUIT OF GLOBAL BUSINESS INVESTMENT THAT GROWS THE TAX BASE, CREATES QUALITY JOBS, AND DRIVES OUR LOCAL AND STATE ECONOMIES. On behalf of my organization, I'd like to express strong support for LAM Research's Strategic Investment Program Agreement and the resolution under consideration this evening. As you've already heard, LAM is a global leader whose tools help make nearly every advanced chip in the world. Their Tux expansion will soon be the latest achievement in their more than three-decade tenure here in the Silicon Forest. This expansion is no ordinary project. It would establish these facilities, these global facilities right here in Tualatin. Securing this expansion in Oregon is an extraordinary win. The Strategic Investment Program is Oregon's primary tool for staying at the table for this caliber of investment. And without a comparable tool, we don't compete. At Greater Portland, Inc., we look at the Strategic Investment Program through the lens of cluster development. Each agreement does more than land a single facility or campus or building. It raises the concentration of high wage capital intensive industry in one place, and that density compounds. Investment enabled by the strategic investment program draws in suppliers, in this case deepens the talent pool, and makes the next investment easier to secure. LEM is an essential player in Oregon's semiconductor cluster, and every dollar that strengthens it strengthens the entire ecosystem, the suppliers, the contractors, the talent pipeline, and every future recruitment we take through this region. On behalf of Greater Portland, Inc., I respectfully urge the council to adopt this resolution and authorize this agreement. Thank you for your time. Thank you, Nick.

All right. The next person I have signed up is Pat Clemens Mortensen. Welcome, Mr. Clements.

Thank you, Mr. Mayor, council, city staff, and visitors. Thank you for the opportunity to speak here today. My name is Pat Clements. I'm with Mortenson. We are the construction partner for LAM Research Tualatin Lab Expansion Project, also known as TUX. We're very proud to be here in support of LAM, this historic investment in Tualatin and Washington County, and encourage approval of the resolution today. TUX, you've heard, represents $1.5 billion in investment, including many hundreds of millions in planned construction costs. But from a builder's perspective, those benefits materialize well before the facility begins operation. During construction, we're expected to have, you know, 900 to 1,000 jobs created annually during the 10-year construction. That includes from engineers and electricians to pipe fitters, carpenters, and many others who earn substantial wages and will spend that money within our local communities. It also provides valuable opportunities for apprentices entering the workforce at a time when skilled trades are at a high demand and we're working very hard to develop that pipeline. It also creates opportunities for hundreds of local trade partners suppliers and small businesses that rely on investments like this for growth. And you've heard about the tax revenue and $500 million in statewide economic output and whatnot, but without the SIPP, these investments are really difficult to make happen. puts at risk these jobs that we're talking about, this economic activity, and the long-term community benefits that accomplish them. This project represents the kind of investment every community hopes to attract, one that creates jobs today, builds opportunity for tomorrow, and strengthens our economic future for decades to come. So we really encourage approval and appreciate you all taking the time today to hear our thoughts. Thanks. Thank you.

Next sign up I have is Silicon Forest Partnership.

Welcome.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, Council President, and members of the Council. I'm Peter Chung. I'm here on behalf of our executive director, Soleil Ozer, at Silicon Forest Partnership. SFP's mission is to strengthen Oregon's semiconductor ecosystem by bringing together industry, education, workforce partners, and government to advance innovation, develop talent, and support long-term economic growth. That's why I'm here today. The Tualatin Expansion Project is exactly the type of investment our organization exists to support. For decades, Oregon has earned a global reputation as the Silicon Forest because companies have chosen to invest here. Educational institutions have developed world-class talent and communities like Tualatin have created an environment where innovation can thrive. Maintaining that leadership requires continued investment. The Tucks project represents more than $1.5 billion in anticipated investment and will establish a world-class semiconductor advanced research and development center right here in Tualatin. Projects like this strengthen far more than one company. They create opportunities for local suppliers and contractors, support our colleges and universities, expand career opportunities for students, and reinforce Tualatin's reputation as one of the world's leading centers for semiconductor innovation. The SIP is an important tool that helps Oregon remain competitive. For these transformational investments, it provides companies with the certainty to make long-term commitments that benefit our economy and our communities. On behalf of Silicon Forest Partnership, We believe this project aligns directly with our mission of strengthening Oregon's semiconductor ecosystem and creating opportunities for future generations. We respectfully urge you to support the SIP agreement, and I want to say thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you. Next up, I have the Westside Economic Alliance. Danny. Now the test is can you turn it on?

Yay.

Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor, Council President, Councilors. I'm Danielle Siver with the West Side Economic Alliance. WEA represents a coalition of about 180 public sector jurisdictions, private employers, and community benefit organizations. We work collaboratively to advance balanced economic development throughout the Tualatin Valley and the broader west side of the Portland metro region. Thank you to the Washington County team and the City of Tualatin team for collaborating with LAM to submit a plan that will bring much needed economic activity to the region. Having worked with LAM, Mortenson, and their partners, we feel certain they will continue to be good neighbors and find solutions to minimize neighborhood impact. Today, approving this resolution for the SIPP agreement signals Washington County's commitment to economic development and competitiveness. At a time when Oregon is losing businesses, companies are expanding elsewhere, and companies are not considering Oregon as a home, LAM continues to invest in our semiconductor ecosystem and our residents through community contributions, global innovation, and jobs. This investment will yield a durable revenue base to support our communities, schools, and other local services. At WEA, we measure success by multi-level job creation. This agreement means hundreds of construction jobs. Pat from Mortenson mentioned the value of these jobs, and especially for training highly skilled apprentices. As a mom of a son who just finished his first year as a sheet metal apprentice, I can't express how important jobs like this are for the future of our youth. This also means nearly 450 new full-time high-wage jobs for our residents. And, of course, the multiplier effect reaches small businesses, vendors, and suppliers, along with the workforce. Oregon and the region need an economic win, so we want to express our sincere thanks for today's resolution. This CIP agreement reflects your commitment to strengthening leadership in the Silicon Forest. Thank you.

Thanks, Dani. Next up, I have Jen Little with the Washington County Chamber.

Okay, I did it. I was a little concerned about that sitting back there. Good evening, Mayor, Council President, members of the Tualatin City Council. My name is Jen Little and I am Vice President of Public Affairs for the Washington County Chamber of Commerce. Thank you for the opportunity to be here tonight and GIVE COMMENTS OF SUPPORT FOR LAM'S PROJECT. I DO WANT TO, BEFORE I GO INTO REMARKS THAT I PREPARED, I DO WANT TO APPLAUD THE CITY OF TOWALTON STAFF AND THE WASHINGTON COUNTY STAFF FOR ALL OF THEIR HARD WORK AND HUNDREDS OF HOURS TO GET US TO WHERE WE ARE THIS EVENING. VERY IMPORTANT, THE WORK THAT THEY DO, BEHIND THE SCENES, UNSUNG HEROES, IF YOU WILL. LAM HAS BEEN A LONGTIME PARTNER OF THE WASHINGTON COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THROUGH OUR SCHOOL TO CAREER PROGRAM, WHICH OFFERS PATHWAYS TO CAREERS FOR OUR STUDENTS TO live and grow and have careers here in the communities where they grew up and not have them have to leave where their families are and grandchildren to go out of our area because that's where the jobs are. That's why this is so important. This $1.5 billion project represents exactly the type of investment the SIP was created to encourage. It strengthens Washington County's position as a global leader in semiconductor innovation, creates new opportunities for workers and local businesses, and reinforces our reputation as a place where businesses choose to invest and grow. LAM's planned expansion will bring hundreds of new high-wage jobs and create opportunities for local suppliers, contractors, and service providers throughout our communities. This is a big win for Tualatin. This is a big win for Washington County. This is a big win for Oregon. This agreement positions our region for continued economic growth and opportunity. Thank you for your commitment for fostering a strong economy and for your thoughtfulness in considering the SIP. We urge you to support this agreement and the innovation, investment, and jobs it will bring to Arlington and Washington County. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Thank you. Next up is Brian Carney.

Good evening, Mayor, City Council. Many of you know me. My name is Brian Carney. I'm the president of the Tualatin Chamber of Commerce, and I'm here to support Lamb Research's SIP agreement. I've lived or worked in this community since the 1980s. I graduated from Tualatin High School. I remember playing in the park, Ibok, when it was being built and playing on the excavators. Lamb Research... has had a positive impact on this community. It's not just a company that's located in Tualatin, it's a long-term community partner. One of the things I really appreciate is LAM's commitment to the next generation of our workforce, partnering with the high schools, community colleges, and universities in the area to develop skills in our young people that'll give them a good future going forward. We've heard a lot about really big numbers, you know, $623 million in construction spending. But that $623 million, that's construction workers going to to get lunch, maintenance guys going to A1 coupling to get hydraulic lines fixed for the machines, renting equipment from C&E rentals. That's money directly flowing back into our local businesses and community. It's also expected to create 445 new jobs, but they're just not jobs. These are family wage jobs that can help support the American dream. At a time when Oregon's private sector employment and construction employment have been falling, this is a great opportunity to say yes to investment, yes to jobs, and yes to a company that's already demonstrated a commitment to its community. The strategic investment program gives us an important tool to compete for these jobs with other places around the country. We should come together to support a proven long-term community partner like Lamb Research, who's willing to spend $1.5 billion in our community. Companies have choices where they invest, and Lamb's choosing us, so we should choose to support them. Thank you.

Thank you.

Next up is Dave Carney. Mayor and council, I've been in Tualatin for 41 years. The council has done a fantastic job in those years balancing residential, commercial, and industrial. I think this is a huge feather in the cap for Tualatin to maintain that for many more years to come. And the other thing, being a business owner in this city, we always need more employees. And LAMS is partnered with all the schools, which everybody's already brought up. And that is a huge asset to our area. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. Kearney. That's all I have as far as sign-ups for those in favor of the SIP agreement. This is your opportunity, if you haven't signed up and you're in the room, to come forward and make a statement. Seeing none, do we have anyone in Zoom? No hands? All right. Last chance on Zoom. Give you a few seconds just in case I know there's a delay. Still nothing? FM staff, all right. All right, so now we'll flip over and I'll take those comments from folks in opposition of the SIP agreement. First, folks I've signed up are Brett Hamilton, Sue Pelletier, and Danny O'Neill, who are tag teaming this. Come on up. So you'll have a total of nine minutes.

Welcome. Thank you, Mr. Mayor, Council President Pratt, and Councillors, my name is Brett Hamilton, and I'm here speaking on behalf of Save Tualatin Road with my neighbors here, Sue and Danny. So we have some serious concerns about this SIPP. Both the process that was used and the content of the agreement And so we're asking you to pause your vote because there has been a totally inadequate public involvement in this. We found out about it four days before the county vote. It was negotiated in secret, and we understand that's a requirement of these things. But if you're going to negotiate something under a nondisclosure agreement, when it becomes public, the public needs more than 10 days to be able to read it and understand it. And as we've been reading and understanding it, there's some serious concerns. So residents don't have a lot of leverage or power, right? We don't have anything we can trade in exchange to get our needs met. There's nothing we can offer in exchange. We are wanting livability. Lamb wants money. The city wants jobs and development. This SIPP agreement is a perfect opportunity for all three of these groups to get what they need. If two of the groups negotiate and the third one is left out, guess which group doesn't get their needs met? So in this presentation, there is a key number. I've read all the things I can read. The total estimated value of the tax abatement. I cannot find it anywhere. I put an email to you guys. Hopefully somebody can get that number. Basically, in other words, what are the total fees LAM would pay if without this SIP and then with the SIP? And so how many million dollars is waived in taxes? What is that that we're talking about? So the difference between THIS SAME PROJECT WITHOUT A SIP AND WITH A SIP. THE ECONOMIC ANALYSIS TOUTS THE BENEFITS, BUT IT IGNORES THE COST. IT'S LIKE A SALES PITCH FOR YOUR CAR WHERE YOU HAVE ALL THE BENEFITS, BUT HOW MUCH DOES A CAR COST IS KIND OF AN IMPORTANT NUMBER TO BE LOOKING AT. SO WE WOULD REQUEST THAT THE CITY HIRE SOME IMPARTIAL ANALYST TO TRUST A THIRD PARTY TO GIVE AN IMPARTIAL COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, NOT JUST AN UPSIDE, BUT THE COST AS WELL. Speaking of being a good neighbor, this slide on your packet, page 140, these are some great commitments that LAM has mentioned. They're not in the SIP. If LAM is willing to make these commitments, we would ask them to put them in writing in a contract that they'd sign because a presentation slide is not a binding agreement. LAM says they want to engage with the community. That is fantastic. We've been trying to engage with them for three and a half years. And the only times they engage is when the city of Tualatin makes them engage. For neighborhood developer meetings, which they said they were going to hold two of them, they held one. And then during these hearings, that's the only engagement we've got. So if they would put that in an agreement and sign it, that would be fantastic as well. Something like that would be a good neighbor agreement. It's a typical situation for a neighborhood group that has no leverage to get their needs met with a company that has all of the leverage. Let's see. The agreement... It's one of the recitals in Part B of the agreement. It says that you may negotiate, quote, negotiate such additional terms and conditions as are deemed to be in the public interest. You have the power to do that. That part is missing from the agreement. There's no public interest. There's no public benefit. Yes, jobs are great. Economic growth is great. And what else is great is when big companies pay their taxes. That is great. So instead of a public benefit, the thing LAM is offering us and you is to build this Tux project, which is already under construction. So you're not getting anything new. They're offering to do what they're already doing in exchange for this massive tax break of unspecified millions of dollars. We're not really getting anything. And it sounds from their presentations like they're committing to staying here if you give them this tax break. Unfortunately, either party can cancel the SIP at any time. So they're not locked into any kind of long-term relationship. It's like they can lock out whenever they want. And it sounds to me like they keep threatening to leave Tualatin. That's their leverage. It's like, if we don't get our way, we're going to take our business somewhere else. I don't know if you've seen the project, but it doesn't look like they're going anywhere. The staff report, your packet, page 120, says LAM anticipates breaking ground shortly to begin operations in 2028. I have some breaking news. They've been breaking ground for like two months. They've been shaking our houses for two months. I can guarantee they have already broken ground. So this false narrative that if you give them tax breaks, they're going to build the project, who are they trying to fool? You can go out there. They're already building it. So when you guys approved the Tux project with our appeal, over our appeal, the big thing Lamb kept mentioning is all this money. We are bringing so much money to our community. That's what they offer us. It sounds like this is some sort of 75% off their property taxes. I don't know where I saw that number, but I think it's in there somewhere. And it feels like a bait and switch. They offered... this huge project with all these benefits, the money is the benefit, and now they're negotiated to get rid of that benefit. So what's the upside to this? And this is after spending $20 million in Oregon CHIPS Act funds to build the building. So they're using taxpayer money to build a building. And the biggest deal is the noise. I have mentioned this. I hope you guys have seen our YouTube video. It's so loud you can record it on an iPhone on a public sidewalk and post it on the internet. The noise impacts are ridiculous. We just want to sleep at night. And this SIP agreement would be a perfect opportunity for the city to say, hey, in exchange for these tax breaks, how about you fix your noise pollution problem first? That is what we are asking for. And in order to do this, you need to slow down. This deal does not meet our needs of the residents of Tualatin, and it needs to include some public benefit for livability because this noise is unlivable. If you have a house that you can't sleep in, what is your value of your house? I love going camping because I know there's not going to be beeping two-tone siren sounds. And I'm not complaining about the construction noise. Construction makes noise. We all know that. This is operational 24-7 HVAC equipment that is on their roof. It is 80 feet above the ground level. It runs 24 hours a day. LAM's employees go home at night. They leave their fans running because it's too expensive to turn them off at night and turn them back on in the morning because they have to recalculate all their loads. They're like idle fans that are just droning on and on. And when the wind is out of the south, blowing right into our neighborhood, and it's 55 degrees outside, you can hear it inside the houses with our windows closed. So there's not really much where we can go to escape it. So I'm asking you to vote no on this SIP agreement or to postpone your vote so we can find out all of the details at the very least so we can understand what's in it and hopefully renegotiate it so that the residents who were not part of this nondisclosure agreement can have our interests represented. Thank you very much for balancing all of our needs, for serving on the city council. We all appreciate your guys' work more than you know. And thank you for letting us do a tag team thing, because I swear three minutes is not enough time to tell a decent narrative. So thank you very much.

All right. Thank you. Next, Deborah Anderson. Welcome.

Hi. Thank you, Mayor and members of the council.

Oh, can you hear me? Well, usually everybody can hear me without a microphone, so... I don't have much more to add because the information that was given by both Lam and Brett answered quite a few of my questions. I do want to add to what Brett just said about the noise. I live pretty much directly across the street, and until about three years, I always thought that Lam was a really good neighbor, and I do want them to be here. I want good business dealings in the city that I have lived in since 2005. But the noise is a problem. The construction noise is a problem, too. But I understand that construction causes noise. It's also rattling my dishes and my windows on occasion. But it usually knocks off by 5 o'clock. And it's not on the weekends, so I've been putting up with it. But the beeps at night is a problem. I can't hear it as much as some of my neighbors because I have an older home, which is lower than theirs. We finally figured out that's why I don't hear it as much as they do. Everybody with more than a one-level house is at a disadvantage because I have a single-level home. I don't hear the noise as much as other people do. But if I have my windows open at all, I can hear all the beeps and the buzzes all day and in the evening as well. So, Liam answered a lot of the questions that I had. I do have a question. I mean, my question is the same as Brett's. They got an Oregon CHIP Act grant in the amount of $20 million. That is a lot of money. And it makes me wonder why Washington County and the City of Tualatin has to give them more free money. This is a company that makes quite a bit of money, and I think that they can pay their own taxes. I, like Brett, would like to see this vote postponed so that we can see the full effect of all of the things, not just what they have presented here. It's a lot of information to get, and I'm sure a lot more people would like to see all of it presented. all at the same time. So thank you so much.

Thank you. Next one I have signed up is Marius Bryson. And you have folks with you in Zoom.

So I have more than three minutes, in other words.

If they're in Zoom, yeah. I have here Riley and Sherry.

Okay. Mayor, city councilors, thank you for giving us time to talk about LAM. I urge you to vote no on the request for tax relief. All it does is enriches the shareholders and corporate leaders. All I'm going to say now is all public information. Lemp Research Corporation is a Fortune 500 public corporation trading on NASDAQ market. For fiscal year 2025, their annual revenue was $18.44 billion. which was a 24 percent increase from 2024, net income of $5.36 billion, a 40 percent up year-over-year from 2024. For fiscal year 2026, annual revenue is $23.23 billion, up 26 percent year-over-year. Stock price is up 200% in the last four months, and up 427% in the last five years. Currently trading at roughly $306 a share, and it is rated a strong buy by Wall Street. I think all these numbers... Ah, one more thing. Current president and CEO, Tim Archer, receives a base annual salary of $1.2 million. Probably more than all of us here. And a total yearly compensation package of $28 million. Um... This is by no means a company that suffers financially, and it doesn't need a tax reduction by any means. Tax started at least six months ago, physically, on the campus. I live across the street. And now they are asking county and city for a tax relief under SIP. This SIP request was not publicly known until four days before Washington County met to consider the request. And SIP was never disclosed during any of the many tax meetings we had in Tualatin in the three-plus years. If it was such a benefit for Tualatin, is there a particular reason why they never brought it up? I compare this situation with buying a used car and having your interest rate jacked up in the last minute when you are signing the papers. It is underhanded and deceitful, to say the least. As everybody knows and probably feels it, Cost of living has been going up and up and up significantly in the last five years. Everybody knows about PGE increasing their rates 50% over five years. The state is in a very rough financial situation. Every school district in Portland area is laying off teachers and admin personnel. For three years, the surrounding community has been asking LAM to implement measures to reduce campus noise and air pollution. To this day, there has been zero measures implemented and zero improvements. Nothing. They didn't commit to anything. In spite of LAM doing extremely well financially, on the country, due to the current expansion, noise and pollution is at an all-time high during the day. Nights and weekends are as bad and as loud due to the HVAC, scrubbers, and exhaust systems. Once again, I urge you to vote no or at least pause till LAM commits to work with the community bordering their campus. Thank you very much.

Thank you. That's all the sign-ups I have for those in opposition of the SIP. Again, you don't have to be signed up to state your views on this. Anyone else in the room? All right. Nicole, anybody in Zoom? All right. We also have the folks, always leave it open for hearing, just general comment. You don't have to be for or against, but you just want to have a general comment about the application. Anyone in Zoom or in the room? I see anyone in the room. Do we know one in Zoom? All right. With that, I'll go ahead and we'll bring it back to City Council for questions, comments, discussion. Who wants to lead it off? All right. Council President Pratt.

I just want to address these issues that have been brought up here.

So if you have questions for somebody.

Oh, okay. So I think the lamb people first. I guess I'm just going to get to the bottom line. I know that you... I mean, I see your employees at every event we have in town, and it's great. You guys do a lot of good. And this issue with the noise has been going on for a while, so... and you put in that you're a good neighbor, and I believe that, but we've also heard that we're not getting communication to the neighbors, so I'm just wondering, like, it seems like it's these scrubbers in the HVAC system. Is there anything you can do to help alleviate that or reduce the noise and that you're willing to do?

Thank you so much for that question, and As I mentioned during the presentation, we're very attuned to the concerns of the residents. We do get every email, we get every phone call, and we meet internally to discuss the best way to handle each one. In terms of the specific issues that you brought, there were noise complaints. as you all know, an enforcement investigation related to LAM's current operations, which concluded that LAM is compliant with the noise ordinance. That being said, we are always happy to hear from the community, to take whatever feedback they have, to find solutions. I'll give you a recent example. There are recent complaints regarding construction noise. We engaged seriously with the contractors and with the city, and we had a swift and thorough response to that, and we were able to address those issues. So, like I said, as those issues come up, we're happy to take them back, to talk to the experts, to talk to the city, and find a way to resolve them.

Okay. One suggestion I would make is that a River Grove Citizen Involvement Organization is that neighborhood, and if you would be willing to just have periodic discussions with them on these issues, that would, I think, go a long way, because I feel like a lot of this is a communication problem. Thank you for that suggestion. Yeah, and then my other question is It was said that this tux project is already under construction and I want some clarity on that. I

The project is not under construction. There is an office building, which is going to support all the activities of this lab, but the lab has not started. We obviously have done development work. We've got our contractor in place, et cetera. But the construction that's going on on site today is an office building, which is, again, peripheral and part of the program, but not part of the lab.

Okay. And I guess if you didn't get the SIP agreement, How much would this project be reduced? I know it's a guess, but...

Historically, when we've done a lab project like this, the reason we talk about it as a long-term investment is because we're not like an Intel where they build a fab or a factory, fill it with tools as fast as possible, and start generating revenues. That's not what we're doing here. What we're investing in is capacity to allow us to do R&D for many, many years in the future. Historically, what we've done in these cases is we'll build out part of or a shell project and then leave the rest of the facility open. And then later on, when we decide we need it, we'll invest in increasing that capacity over time. What we're doing in this case is we're investing up front to make sure we have capacity ready quickly when we need it. But what that means is we're making a bigger investment in the community for the long term. The alternative would be doing the models we've done in the past, which would be a reduction in the investment and a reduction in our commitment to the community. So that's why this is a big difference in what we normally would do in our lab construction projects.

If I could just add one thing. The SIP is a competitiveness program. I'm one of the folks in the company who fields calls from economies around the world who are throwing all kinds of incentives at semiconductor companies right now, whether it's regulatory incentives or financial incentives, tax incentives. You're being pulled in all these directions. We're very pleased that we're able to stay in Tualatin and SIP helps with that. We have a tremendous workforce here. We've got amazing talent here. We've got some of the smartest people in the world working at our company here. And SIP helps Tualatin and Washington County and the state of Oregon be more competitive when we're deciding, making these decisions about where to grow our company.

Thank you. And then I have one question for Kevin. Yeah, wake up. So there was a comment made that this SIP agreement could be canceled by either party at any time. Is that correct?

Thank you, Council President. There is a provision in the SIP agreement that the agreement can be terminated by mutual assent of all the parties. It's a three-party agreement.

Thank you. That's all I have for right now.

Other questions? Councillor Hillier, then Councillor Sacco.

Thank you. Thank you. I think I'd like to say we're proud that you're investing in Tualatin, at least from my perspective. And we thank you for the work that you have done already and that you're willing to do in the future. That said, I'd like for you to use the words very carefully, constructive and collaborative in the good neighbor conversation. And will you please share with me in the last example that you gave how you applied constructive and collaborative solutions to that?

Are you referring to recent noise complaints?

Yes, sir. Yeah, so as soon as those- Or with the construction company.

Yeah, so as soon as those complaints came in, our team consulted with the city as well as with the construction firm. And they had folks. I was not involved in the details of that, but I know that there were some complaints about the hours of operations. We made sure that a LAM employee was there, I think it was at like 7 AM and before that, to make sure that the construction activity was not occurring until after that 7 o'clock. TIME PERIOD HIT. SO AS SOON AS WE GET THOSE ISSUES THAT COME TO OUR ATTENTION, WE MEET INTERNALLY, WE TALK TO ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS, AND WE FIND A SOLUTION TO THEM. AND IN THAT CASE, WE'RE ABLE TO ADDRESS THEM. AND TO THIS DAY, YOU KNOW, THE FOLKS IN THE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY AND AT LAM ARE MAKING SURE THAT NO EQUIPMENT IS BEING USED BEFORE SUNDAY.

THANK YOU. I LOVE THAT. I GUESS WHAT I AM, I THINK FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AND POTENTIALLY I'M NOT TRYING TO PUT WORDS IN THE COMMUNITY'S MOUTH, But what I think that I am missing in the story is that I didn't hear the closing the loop with whomever it was who made the complaint. So I don't know if that's because I don't know the process. I don't know if that complaint goes to the city and then the city reaches out to you or is it the neighbor or whatever. Because I do understand that there's a lot happening and there's a little bit of history and we have to be, you know, I think selective and intentional with complaints as well as our solutions. And so I'm trying to understand if the loop goes back to the community and how something's being resolved. Because to me that may be part of the missing piece that could help make this instead of having regular meetings or something like that. To me I would like to have heard that as part of the solution. And so could you speak to that for me please?

You know, I was not involved in that particular case. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. No, no.

So maybe a different example. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to pull that up.

But I will say that once those actions would be taken, certainly our team would reach out to whoever was emailing them, whether it was the city or the individual, to let them know what the steps are being taken.

Okay. That's just what I missed. Okay. Thank you. That's all I have for right now. Mr. Sacco.

Thank you. And thank you for everyone who came tonight and spoke on both sides, because it's very helpful to get the full scope of the project and the issues at hand. So through this process, I've had concerns with, and I forget who spoke to this, but there are corporations moving outside of Oregon. And I think from news sources, a lot of that does have to do with the tax structure of the state. And so that was definitely a concern to me as this came across our desk. And LAM has a lot of resources, which also means they would have resource to move, which again was a concern of mine as well. And through this negotiation process, I believe the council and the city fought for the community's best interest and fought for everything that we felt that we could get without pushing LAM away and being good partners in that negotiation. And there were times where it felt like it went back and forth, and I think ultimately our goal was to strike a balance between getting what we needed to get for the community Also keeping lamb here because of all the benefits that were spoken about tonight. And I've said this before, but 0% of $0 is zero. And that was my concern. I didn't want to have the result of this be lamb leaving. And I... I don't want to be the one to call lamb's fluff, and want to make sure that the community is getting these jobs, this tax revenue, and I mean, again, that negotiation felt like we really did fight for the best interest of the community, and in that spirit of trying to reach a a, um, a reasonable negotiation for all parties involved. I hope that same spirit can be extended to this noise issue that the community has brought up. And even if the noise falls within code, our noise code, that you continue to work with the neighbors, the neighborhood, to make sure that their concerns are heard, the noise is alleviated as much as possible, and continue to stay within that code and reduce that if at all possible, even if it falls within our city code. And I also want to the neighborhood to please continue to advocate for needs because if we're not hearing about them, you know, we want to make sure that we can be a good partner to our entire community, and that includes residents, businesses, so people have living wages in our community, and we have that tax base that we need. Thank you.

Councilor Reyes.

I SHARE THE SAME SENTIMENT THAT A LOT OF OUR CITY COUNCILORS HAVE SPOKEN PRIOR TO ME. I THANK YOU FOR BEING IN THIS COMMUNITY AND THANK YOU FOR THE THINGS YOU'VE, FOR THIS PRESENTATION, FOR COMING TOGETHER AND HEARING EVERYONE'S THOUGHTS, THE CITY, THE RESIDENTS, LAM, AND EVERYBODY THAT'S IN FOR OR AGAINST THIS AGREEMENT. I'm I share the same sentiment as Councillor Sacco of not just meeting code like being compliance but also be mindful when things be a little bit proactive and I'm speaking to them as like well how would this affect this community you know I think that waiting for the city residents to come and tell us what's going on, and I encourage that, obviously. But being mindful of, would this affect this community and how is it going to affect? So like the noise, I mean, I've been hearing that for a little while. It's not the first time that's brought up to us. BEING PROACTIVE WITH THAT AND BEING MINDFUL AND LISTENING AND ALSO GOING BACK AND PROVIDE THAT GREAT CUSTOMER SERVICE THAT WE ALL WANT. I MEAN, WHEN WE MAKE A PHONE CALL AND COMPLAIN, WE WANT RESOLUTIONS, RIGHT? SO IT'S THE SAME THING THAT I THINK WOULD HELP ALL OF US UNDERSTAND HOW DO WE WORK TOGETHER AND BE COEXISTENCE. I THINK THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT It's very important for all of us to be co-existent and be mindful of one another. The jobs are great. The people that are within those jobs are doing great. The community is doing great. We're benefiting from that as well. But I also feel like that we need to be more proactive and not just being compliant because that's just like the minimum. and learn more of what you're doing in the community. I think everybody wants to know what's happening and not just not learn when I'm reading or when getting a presentation, but maybe a shout out somewhere out there about what you're all doing in this community. I think that will help a lot. Thank you.

Council Brooks.

Thanks to everybody that came tonight to our city council meeting. It's a busier night than usual. And I appreciate the work that the city's done in negotiating and what people have talked about around our deal with the county. I appreciate the conversation around the technology. It's funny, I've been talking about lamb because of that book chip wars and my brother's a computer geek and so the fact that we can get to this micro micro level is really really different than ai and very smart brilliant stuff And I'm also curious because I understand that there has to be really clean areas, and so I imagine maybe the sound is from these very, very particular needs that this type of business would have. And so my curiosity is around, I have a couple actually, but one is, whether it met a standard at the time that it was measured. We have heard now for a number of years that this is an issue for the community that lives close by, and some that even work at the company that wouldn't even want to come forward, right, and say things. So I think that people are not, you know, sometimes we have this These old patterns of conversation where it's like it's the company against the community and I don't feel that way about this I think the community Respects the work that you do likes being a neighbor has historically liked it until the last three years and And now is wondering how this moment can be helped to use to leverage for their concerns around this and maybe if there's going to be any future problems with the advancements of technology and the ways that we have to figure out how to manage it. So I don't know if you have any comments.

You know, as I mentioned during the presentation, we're always happy to listen to feedback from the community. We will continue to take all of that to heart. We do analyze every single complaint that comes in and we process that and we talk to all the experts and all the stakeholders. I will say that, you know, all that being said, we're not going to always agree on every outcome. But we are absolutely going to hear you out. We're going to listen to the complaints. That much we can promise. But again, there are going to be moments that we just don't agree. And we hope that we can continue to have that honest conversation with each other, knowing that we're not always going to agree on the outcome all the time.

Okay, thank you. And then my other question was around, there was a building time, there was a statement of, somebody said three years, and then the contractor said 10 years, and I'm just curious how long the...

It's three. I thought I heard that, too. I wasn't sure what he may have misspoken, but it's a two- to three-year construction process.

Okay. So just to be clear for everybody in the room that if there's an anticipation of 10 years, that might not be correct. Yeah. So we don't want to have false promises either way, right? And at the same time, because part of these public meetings are about public disclosure at this point now that we're putting this on the floor. And so I want to make sure, because one of the real issues is around construction fatigue that communities have next to construction sites like this. And these are the people that we have to look out for as elected officials. And then I guess the other question I have so the other complaint that we've heard is that it was a short time between the NDA and the Decision-making process and I'm curious if there Is in I guess I have two pieces to that I One is, is there any barrier to extending time to have people have a better look at it? And my second question is, what parts are public now that were not public four days before the first hearing?

Neither Wayne or I are attorneys. I might defer to the... TO PERHAPS THE COUNTY STAFF ON THIS QUESTION.

OKAY.

REGARDING THE NDA PROCESS.

I'M SORRY. I'M USED TO THE OTHER FORMAT THAT WE HAVE A LOT OF TIMES WHICH IS ALWAYS ATTORNEYS.

MAYOR, I CAN POP IN. I SHOULD HAVE ASKED KEVIN. So as it's been stated before, there's a statute, a state law, it's 285C620, and it says notwithstanding the public records laws, the identity of an applicant for a SIP project, the application form submitted to the county governing body, and the negotiations conducted between the applicant and the county shall be confidential until the county governing body gives notice of its intent to take official action. ON THE PROJECT. SO THAT HAPPENED LAST WEEK. SO THE NEGOTIATIONS, THOSE ARE NOW PUBLIC. A LOT OF THE DOCUMENTATION THAT YOU SAW TODAY, THAT HAS BEEN OBVIOUSLY MADE PUBLIC. WE'RE HAVING A, THIS IS A PUBLIC MEETING. AND TO GO ALONG WITH THAT, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE NEGOTIATIONS. IF YOUR LAM CORPORATION, I WON'T SPEAK FOR LAM, BUT THEY DID WANT THE COUNTY AND THE CITY TO SIGN A NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENT. AND THAT GOES HAND IN HAND WITH THE STATE LAW BECAUSE in order to have those negotiations, they have to provide confidential information to the county and the cities, things like trade secrets. They don't want those becoming public after the county and the cities take official public action. So there are documents that will remain confidential throughout the term of that nondisclosure agreement. And I'll stop there.

Thank you. Yeah, those are my specific questions, and I think those were the kinds of questions that I think that the community is concerned about. And then as far as, like, the agreement that people are supposed to take a look at over four days or whatever it's been, like, how many pages? Okay.

I'M NOT REALLY FAMILIAR WITH HOW THE COUNTY GOT TO HAVING ITS PUBLIC HEARING LAST WEEK, BUT I BELIEVE THAT AS FAR AS WHAT I READ IN THE STATE STATUTE, THAT IS IN COMPLIANCE WITH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF OREGON LAW, BUT I DON'T HAVE SPECIFICS ON THE TIMELINES.

OKAY.

ERIN, DO YOU WANT TO?

ERIN'S DIGGING THROUGH HER PAPERWORK.

YEAH. I'VE LEARNED THE LITTLE MAN. AND ALSO INTRODUCE YOURSELF. YES. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COUNCIL PRESIDENT, MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL I'm Erin Doyle, the policy and government affairs manager for Washington County and the lead for the county. The agreement itself is a total of 10 pages. The 10th page is the schedule of fees and a chart. There is legal language that's required in any contract, but the terms are clearly laid out within those 10 pages. And that was part of the publication process. We had to have final approval to have it ADDED TO THE RECORD, IT WAS ADDED INTO THE PACKET FOR THE COUNTY ON FRIDAY MORNING. THE REST OF THE INFORMATION RELATED TO OUR MUCH LONGER PRESENTATION THAT WAS PROVIDED TO THE COUNTY COMMISSION, 36 SLIDES WITH MORE DETAILS WAS PROVIDED ON THURSDAY WHICH IS THE DATE WE COULD GO TO PUBLICATION. AND THAT FOLLOWED OUR PUBLICATION PROCESSES OF WE ANNOUNCED THE PUBLIC MEETINGS, APPROXIMATELY four to five days in advance and then put materials onto the packet as we have them ready and approved by our general counsel attorney to make sure that we're not going with the wrong draft, for example.

So I guess my question is, is there... Well, I guess with... with there being public meetings and making sure that there's public discourse, is there an opportunity for time before we make the final decision for the community to feel more comfortable around? I mean, and I guess my big concern is How do I want to say this? I think I just want to reiterate that I think the city's done a great job, that we've come through a good process. The only feeling that I'm having right now is that the community that lives very close isn't feeling heard. And I don't know if there's any way that we can help foster an agreement to You know, the big concern I have is if we have this noise thing that's debatable and not agreed upon, Is there a way that we could find a solution that helps the community and also look at if there's going to be impacts from the other building that's going to also add to it so we'll have more people that have sleep on the second floor with their children or are fighting cancer or, you know, we've heard all the stories about what people are trying to deal with and not being able to sleep.

You know, I will reiterate that we – Really take every single complaint to heart. I mean, I'll give you an example. When we started having these conversations, they were about Tualatin Road. There was a concern about a driveway. We ultimately eliminated that driveway.

No, I think that the city and you have worked very well together, and I've always said that I believe that part of the reason that we have community hearings is so that the community brings the wisdom of the community as well. I don't live in that area, so I don't have that noise, but I don't know that that's happening until the people that live there come tell me about it, and then... we have the opportunity of helping those citizens in our negotiations make sure that their needs are taken care of around just basic needs of sleep. And I happen to also be a therapist, so I know how important sleep is for people. And just like you guys know, because we have high-stress jobs...

Right. So when the conversation was about traffic, it was all about traffic, and we addressed that issue. We're happy that we were able to address that. Now the conversation has become about noise. And again, we're happy to address that as well, and we're confident that we'll be able to get to a place where we can talk to all the stakeholders and come to a reasonable conclusion. conclusion on this. That being said, as I mentioned, I don't think that on every issue we're going to agree with every single person on every single outcome.

What does that mean? I don't think that there's going to be a perfect solution for everything. And I think that the city leadership, the community, and LAM have shown a great ability to come together and have difficult conversations and negotiate solutions. And I believe that that is part of the reason that it's great that you guys are here and that the community likes you being here. But this particular one is just something that you know, I'm not part of lamb, but I've gotten a lot of letters over the last years. I don't know how many we got for the public record tonight from the community. So if there is a way of, you know, putting something that we would be, um, expecting, uh, at least a conversation and towards a solution as part of the agreement that, um, we could do that for our community. That's just part of us being a good advocate for our community.

You know, I think LAM has a track record of being in this community for 20 years. We've been in the state of Oregon for 30 years. We have consistently stayed true to our word. We've consistently been a great neighbor. We've consistently offered high quality jobs to this community. And our track record speaks for itself in terms of our community outreach and our ability to listen to the community. So we hear you. We are in complete alignment with you that we want to continue to hear the feedback from the community and address their concerns. And that's our commitment is that we'll continue to do that. Okay.

And I just want to make, and I agree with everything that you said, and I also hear that the community doesn't feel heard about this one issue. So there's a thing about validating that, even though I do believe that you're doing your best in good faith. And I think that the community is feeling unheard in a certain way, or else I wouldn't be getting these letters. That's just my evidence. So I... And I don't think it's a hard thing. And I think there's brilliant people at LAM that have invented all kinds of things. So I have confidence in that part of it as long as there's really a meaningful way that people are coming to the table and really trying to find the solution. That's my only thing is that thing. I think the rest of the whole thing, I think LAM's an amazing company, delightful, innovative. Community partner I work with the chamber we I see everything that you do on those aspects but also we have a Responsibility to the community since we have this big manufacturing area right in the center of our city that butts right along the same area where people live and sleep and raise their kids and are Concerned about not being able to do those things Just sleep from what I understand That's Yeah, so I don't know if there's okay.

Yeah. Councilor Gonzalez.

So, I do want to echo some of the feelings that our council members have already said, and thank you very much. Our community as well. I applaud you for coming out and speaking up. I do want to say that. we are so fortunate as a city to have a high quality of life because of the kinds of jobs that we have here, the community happiness that they are. These are tough decisions that we as a council have to make to the future. As we are heading into next year, we're looking at the high cost of operating a city and the increased cost everywhere. You know, the city is facing possible, Tax increases as we head into the next two and three years. We have to consider additional revenues, additional partnerships with LAM and other businesses that are coming in. This feels very good to me. I believe what LAM has said in the time that they've spent with us and some of the negotiations. It doesn't feel like they're not listening. They are listening. I know that we can't make everybody happy. I mean, in my prior home, I lived right next to the freeway. Every single day I opened that window, the freeway sound would come out. Eventually, I didn't even hear it anymore. And I know that right now that it first was Tualatin Road, the driveway. Now it's the noise. You know, Lime has been a really great partner. And I think that we are very fortunate to have a good partner like us who's listening to us and doing all the efforts so they can to make it right. And I see that. And I don't want to say any more other than that the council has done a good job in asking these questions in the community. But we are very fortunate to have the kind of infrastructure that we have in the city of Tualatin to be job friendly, especially right now when jobs are leaving our state. Especially now when Oregon taxes are so high for companies like LAMP. I wish we could talk more about those kinds of things, but those aren't our problems to fix here at the city. We have to deal with LAM and what they've been doing. So thank you. Thank you for showing up and thank you for listening and taking the time to listen to our community and also to the council. So thank you. That's all I got to say.

So my two cents is... You've heard loud and clear about neighborhood concerns, and it sounds like you have a process that you're vetting them with. So I'm not asking you to put this in the SIP or have a separate contract, but I'd like to see a process that you have, but that, as people are saying, that when you do make those complaints, let us know what you've gone through to vet that complaint. that we can validate from the neighbors when i hear when we get an email as council brooks says complaining about this the potential noise that might come from building b's hvac you've received that we hear about it and then doesn't be super formal but that you close the circle say hey this is what we can do this is what we can't do we've gotten back to the community that resident I think that's the feedback loop that Councillor Sacco and Councillor Herriot were mentioning would be helpful to us, that we know that when a concern comes up from, it's my neighborhood, you know I live there, when it comes up, that you address it, that it's not blown off or it gets sucked into void, and that you actually do vet it. If you have that process, and again, it doesn't have to be formal, but that the loop goes through and we hear about your resolution. And, again, it's not always going to make people happy, like you said, that you say, hey, there's nothing we can do about this, or it costs us a gazillion dollars to address that issue. But at least that these complaints, that you are fielding them, you are screening them, You come up with X, Y, Z feedback to us, and then we can go back to the community or the community can say, hey, is that really – you know what I'm saying. I don't want a formal written agreement, but just a commitment from LAM that it's a process that you could work with us on and the CIO. Okay.

Yep, absolutely. And our teams, whether it's the architects or the LAM, the LAM internal folks, we work very closely with the city. But I'll make sure that that message is heard loud and clear once again on our side to make sure that we're closing the loop with the residents and also with the city.

And to the point, I forget, was it Council Hillier? I'm sorry. Or it might have been Maria. Sorry, Council Reyes. about, yeah, there's always the city standard, but that's the minimum you can do. You know, if you have an HVAC exhaust that is two decibels lower than the city, you know, if we were talking a few decibels difference, if there's something that we can adjust, fix, and, you know, temper down, because, of course, you guys want happy neighbors across the street. It would make your lives way easier, as we all know. Let's figure out how we can make a very simple system, a feedback loop, that things get vetted, you look at it, we respond back, and the neighbors know that you're listening, coming up with solutions, or why you can't fix it, or how it's going to fix, in partnership with the city. Just something informal to start off with. I think it would address many of our concerns because, as many of us already said, the economic benefit that we're all going to agree upon, the county, the state, if you've looked at the record, I got a letter from the governor. How often do I get a letter from the governor asking us to support this application? But I've got to think about the impact of the neighbors around them, and you're working with the neighborhood, and some kind of system we can work on will go a long way.

Yep, we will absolutely work on that and we'll follow up with the city on that.

Okay.

discussions that's all for the prep start the discussion uh... yeah i'm still concerned about that you're going to put the noise issue and we're going to just hold it to it because that's the only thing here that's holding all this my concerns out as far as the revenue uh... in in the transparency thing that's really hard i feel like the community didn't get the transparency they deserved and it's just the way the process works But when we looked into this, I truly believe that in the end, the overall revenue, you just see this tax reduction. But the overall revenue, there's so many different buckets in the economic development. We're going to come out ahead on this. The city is coming out ahead. And when we talked in private, that was the big, big, big concern for us. We do not want our city to be behind because of this project. And I do not believe that will happen. yeah this is this is the big thing for our city it's huge we're fortunate what you're the top five company in the state and you're hearing a little tualatin it's wonderful and you're bringing in really high-paying jobs and as a council that's the one thing we've wanted we've wanted these high-paying jobs and um good opportunities you have that workforce requirement so you're going to bring in you know the workforce which is great and then you're we're happy over on this end because you're being environmentally friendly and so it's all it's all good stuff it's just this one last thing but um of dealing with our neighbors and um then we're 100 but thank you

I Really appreciate the work we brought in a lot of experts and help make sure that the city was well represented as a city and And part of the things we did have to negotiate and get in writing right so I'm not one that just thinks that always get handled by a conversation, but that's fine and And I do think that having time, giving time if there is time for people to look over things just helps people feel more comfortable so they don't have a problem with that conversation. I also don't have a problem with the SIP agreement and the way that it's been negotiated. The actual agreement itself I feel comfortable with. And I also really applaud the work that LAM's been doing. It's an amazing company. It's amazing innovation. When we talk about development, we're picky here. We really want campuses where professionals are developed, and then as far as technology goes, this is not like AI that's all dispersed. This is actually a concentrated, more solid investment financially, and you guys are leading the pack after there's been a lot of mistakes in the industry, and so I think there's a lot of wisdom there, and I know the community feels the same and feels proud that you're here. And there's just that one nagging issue around the noise, which I don't want it to color things, but at the same time, it's like it's really, they don't feel all the way concluded about it. So when they're happy, I'm going to feel happy. I know you guys will too. I'm okay with the delay if it worked for people, but I don't I'm not like I'm not pushing a charge or anything like that and I think that Hopefully the informal way But I'm gonna put it on the mayor if it doesn't work out you guys know who to blame.

Thank you So We have a motion discussion further discussions.

I

I'll make a motion To do we have to do is it just okay to adopt resolution number five nine nine zero two six Authorizing the city manager to enter into a strategic investment program agreement with Washington County and lamb research corporation I have a motion second to adopt resolution number five nine nine zero dash 26 any discussions on those motions I

If not, this is a roll call vote. I'll go ahead and start with Councillor Sacco.

Aye.

Councillor Hilliard.

Aye.

Councillor Reyes. Yes. Councillor Brooks.

Aye.

Councillor Gonzalez.

Aye.

Councillor President Pratt.

Aye.

Chair votes aye. It's unanimous. Resolution number 599-26 is adopted. Congratulations.

Thank you so much.

All right, that brings us to item number two, consideration of resolution number 5992-26, adopted in the City of Tualatin's 2027 State Legislative Agenda. I got Megan and a very patient Tyler and Leah. Thank you for your patience.

There you go. It's right here, Tyler.

Yeah, how coordinated are we at 930? Hello, Mayor. Hello, members of the City Council. I'm Megan George, your Deputy City Manager. And like you already said, I'm joined by Tyler and Leah from Thorne Run Partners. They are here again. to help us move forward our state legislative agenda for calendar year 2027. They were last here in early July to review options and potential priorities in the draft of that agenda. And so we're here to hopefully finish things up. So they're going to do the majority of the presentation, but I'll come back on at the end.

All right. Thank you, Megan. Mayor, councillors, it's nice to be with you this evening. And good to see you again. I think we can be fairly brief and get everybody home. What you see before you there is not much new from what you saw just a few weeks ago. So we had a great robust discussion with you all. You gave some very critical feedback. These policy themes reflect the fact that you all are a city and you do a lot of things. And so this is a very expansive list, but it is the right list for the work that you all do. I will pause on it for a moment if there are any questions or comments or concerns with the policy themes. Great. Looking ahead at your specific 2027 legislative agenda, I just want to note, again, these are the same items that you saw in July. What I love about this agenda is that your priorities as a city, should you choose to adopt this agenda, are the same priorities as the state or what we feel the state's priorities might be going into 2027. There's a world of time between now and January when that legislature convenes and things can change but I Just want to say that that provides a lot of opportunity When we know that these topics are going to be discussed and we know that Tualatin has some unique needs around it That provides us the opening and the direction that we need to jump in on your behalf and get your team involved. I

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, OR MAYBE GOOD NIGHT. I WILL ALSO KEEP MY COMMENTS BRIEF SINCE WE'VE ALREADY DELVED INTO EACH OF THE PROJECTS. TYLER AND I MET WITH REPRESENTATIVE WALTERS RECENTLY AND SHE WAS PARTICULARLY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT um the riverfront park and is committed to um submitting a capital request on that if we do move forward with it in terms of the other two projects i think we'll just explore if there are available funding opportunities with that for instance if there is consideration to include projects in the transportation package we think that the Intersection improvement project would be a good fit there. But, um, in terms of advocacy efforts, we are also in the works of getting a meeting with Senator Wagner, and we'll continue to inform our legislative delegation on the priorities for the city of as they've been great partners. Um, and we look forward to advocating for the city of in 2027.

Okay, back to me. So that was the state agenda, which is before you this evening for adoption by resolution. This slide covers the draft federal legislative agenda, which is not before you this evening for adoption. As you may recall from previous presentations, our current timeline has this scheduled to come back before the City Council in December after the November election for adoption. That being said, it is currently in draft form because we believe that advocacy should begin sooner than that, specifically next month as several folks travel to D.C. to meet with our Congresswoman. And so for that reason, wanted to get your eyes on the draft based on your last conversation in early July. So the top bullet points should be familiar with the exception of one bullet point. That was what you included on your agenda for 2026. So it's support for several funding programs, including the Community Development Block Grant, which was spoken about earlier this evening, the Community Fueling Infrastructure, which is our mysterious $15 million grant, which we hope we will still see someday. And then, of course, the Railroad Crossing Elimination Program, should we get to the point where we would like to submit an application for that. It also includes opposition to a couple of things. One, changes to FEMA, Federal Emergency Management. If you follow the governor's press releases, you'll have seen a slurry of press releases over the last couple of weeks related to fires, some of them getting awfully close. So that still feels quite relevant. And then cuts that support Tualatin's most vulnerable populations. This includes a number of items, including significance to eviction prevention funding, which was discussed at the last council meeting. In addition, we anticipate the federal legislative agenda also including funding requests either via grant program like the railroad crossing elimination or via a community project request or an earmark request. um this list is long right now um i don't think that all of we will likely not submit all of these projects um for funding requests but given where we're at in the vetting process it felt appropriate i had the opportunity to meet with Erin Chen who is on Congresswoman Salinas' staff in the last couple of weeks and had a preliminary conversation with her about these project requests and got some feedback. And then have also discussed it with our federal lobbying team. So the projects listed there are the Tualatin-Sherwood railed Walton Sherwood Road Railroad crossing. It's a hard one to pace out. The shade structure at Veterans Plaza, the Nyberg Creek Trail, Riverfront Park construction, which I'll put a little asterisk because I'll circle back to that one, and then A1 reservoir upgrades. So as part of submitting a community project request, you have to find a committee that it fits within. And there is... Some committees are more competitive than others. And then we also have feedback based on what Congresswoman Salinas has prioritized and passed from funding. In my conversation with Erin, she felt like the Riverfront Park construction might be a good fit in this year's funding cycle if given a particular angle. And the angles that she described were either, one, from a river safety access or river safety access for public safety, or two, more of a streetscape perspective, so having it lean more into a transportation project specific to vehicle movement, traffic, and pedestrian and other forms of active ped transportation in that area. So, highlighting one of those angles might be a better fit for the congresswoman moving forward, but she emphasized their eagerness to support the project. So, for that reason, we've got that list there. I think the two most competitive projects, with the exception of the railroad crossing, which is in a separate funding category, could be the Riverfront Park project, as well as the A1 Reservoir upgrades, based on the feedback we've received thus far. So next steps for those funding requests, similar to the funding requests on the state side, would be to put together one-sheeters to use the council level and with our representatives on both sides. So again, no action needed on the federal legislative agenda this evening other than feedback, should the council have any feedback at this point. But we are looking for specific action on the state agenda. which is this slide right here. So direction on the policy themes and adopting resolution number 5992-26. I'll leave it there in case there are questions or comments.

Right. Council Brooks.

Just because we had that conversation tonight with 65th, I'm just curious if there's anywhere that in our transportation package any of those funds would fit now that we have different leveraging for funding.

In terms of our federal agenda, I think not because we already, I don't know what a good analogy is for that, but went for it, received it, but it didn't work out. On the state level, I don't know. We haven't vetted that question specifically. That's something that we can take back and talk about.

Okay. And then my second question is about the actual program that moved forward, the, what is it, housing...

The federal program? Yeah.

Is there anything that fits in with that work?

Yeah, we asked Greg, our federal lobbyist, some follow-up questions about that that came out of the last council meeting. There are not planning funds available as part of that. They are specific to construction of housing or housing. There's maybe a few other hard costs associated, but it did not feel at this moment that we had a project that fit within that category, although in the future, potentially with the downtown area, maybe. They also, with that bill, I believe there might be multiple years of funding or multiple programs of funding that come out, so it's something that our team will continue to look at.

Okay. That's it for me. Thank you.

Yeah. I know we're talking about state, but on your federal list, sorry, it's the Vets Plaza stage.

Tell them so we can see Octavio. Oh. Yeah, okay.

Anyway, we had talked about also adding a shade structure at the splash pad, because I hear more about that from people than anything. But are we just ignoring that for now, or is that not feasible, or what's the deal?

Two things with the shade structure. First thing is we do have design for the shade structure over the Veterans Plaza, and so that one is shovel-ready, whereas the shade structure in other locations, including the splash pad, not currently shovel-ready. Second thing, a shade structure I think is going to be difficult to get funding for based on the initial feedback. So it's on the list because it was something Council discussed and had interest in following our July, but based on the initial feedback from the Congresswoman's office, I'm not sure it's a great fit. One of the other pieces of feedback she provided, in addition to the comments on specific projects, was the dollar range for projects that they're looking for. So that project, as it currently stands, is around $200,000, $300,000, and she was looking for submissions in the $1 million to $3 million range.

The Riverfront Park construction would be just fine, too. Thank you.

Other comments or questions? All right. If not, what's the... Feeling about adopting 5992-26.

I move that we adopt resolution number 5992-26, adopting the City of Tualatin's 2027 state legislative agenda. Second.

I have a first and a second motions to adopt resolution number 5992-26, adopting the City of Tualatin's 2027 state legislative agenda. Any discussion on those motions? I think this is a roll call vote again. So go ahead. We'll start with Councilor Sacco.

Aye.

Council Hillier.

Aye.

Councilor Reyes.

Yes.

Council Brooks.

Aye.

Councilor Gonzalez. Aye. Council President Pratt.

Aye.

Chair votes aye. It's adopted unanimously.

Thank you. Thanks, guys. You want to hang out? All right.

Our last item on the business subsection is the League of Oregon Cities 2027-2028 legislative priorities. Based on the notes from our city manager, I guess I'm facilitating this discussion. So I asked you over the weekend to go ahead and look through the LOC's pamphlet. And each counselor pick their five items that they'd like to see as the LOC's priorities. And so I'm going to ask is either Nicole or Sherilyn just to scribble down on a piece of paper as someone mentions a priority that you just keep count. And whatever gets the top five counts, bubbles up to the top, and we can discuss it.

Are we all going to go through them?

We're all going to go through them.

Okay.

So we'll go ahead and start. Hopefully you all did it, did your homework. We'll start with Councillor Sacco.

Okay. So you just want me to list them? You don't want to give me no commentary yet?

It's up to you.

Okay. So funding and coordination for shelter and homeless response I particularly like to this one based on the funding eviction prevention and rehousing emphasis Strengthening economic and workplace development I think for all the reasons we just talked about for the last couple hours and then the transportation package Infrastructure funding, I mean, for all the things mentioned in this section, including sustained investments in drinking water, wastewater, stormwater management, and also includes expanding flexible low-cost financing tools to reduce rate payer burden. As we know, the cost of all the things are going up. And then lastly, support expedited local renewable energy generation. And I particularly like this one as well because it spoke to having local control and not just being dictated from the top down.

Thank you. Councillor Hilliard.

Okay, mine in no particular order. We're under General Government Committee to the Public Meeting Law Clarity. It seemed like that's kind of something that really needs to get navigated for all of our best interest. The funding under housing and land use, the funding and coordination for shelter and homelessness response for the exact reasons Councillor Sacco indicated. I THINK IT CONTINUES TO SUPPORT OUR POSITION AND GOALS FOR THE COUNCIL. THE 2027 TRANSPORTATION PACKAGE, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE INCLUDING ANY SORT OF LOCAL DOLLARS COMING BACK. THE RATEPAYER ASSISTANCE, UNDERWATER AND WASTEWATER COMMITTEE, AND THEN THE ALCOHOL REVENUE MODERNIZATION. AND I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SHARE that Oregonians die from alcohol at a rate of 83% higher than the national average according to the CDC data. It's a problem that has gone unchecked for decades here in Oregon. It's specific to our age 65 and over population. Oregon, Portland, Metro, Salem, and Eugene are on the list of top 30 in the nation for such huge high rates out of 100,000 people, 278 in Eugene, 224 in Salem, and 207.6 people in the Portland Metro. Oregon also has three of the top... And alcohol continues to be the third leading cause of preventable death in Oregon, according to the state epidemiologist. And I think it's really important to note that the tax rate has not been changed in the state of Oregon since 1979 or something like that. And it would make a total of about a five cent difference in a six pack of beer or whatever. And there is a ton of proof that by increasing prices, it reduces use. And so we've seen it work in the tobacco industry over a lot of years. And I really feel like this is something that's passionate to me personally. I can't imagine anyone else is going to vote for it, but I would like it as my top five.

All right. Councilor Reyes.

But I'm just going to, there's some here, but the top, I'm just going to say the top three for me will be the maintain local control, transportation package, and economic development. Those are the top three. Okay.

Okay.

Councilor Gonzales.

Transportation, economic development, and maintaining local control. Thank you.

Okay. Kelso Brooks.

One of the ones that hasn't been brought up that I think is really important is the... I wrote it down, but I can't read my writing. Sorry. It's the water... We're in a really bad situation with that. I think it's something that's probably going to pass, but I think that the city's understanding and knowing about it would be helpful for the decision-making at the state because it's gotten close a couple times and we're really in need. I also put down... there it is water of first development the Energy resilience and disaster with the fires and everything else it's and The problems with FEMA. I think it's really important the Yeah Energy environment yeah I I think we already have sort of the water reuse. I don't see what the problem is really exactly with that one. The work for, or the housing, and especially with the eviction prevention and the transportation package, of course, because we're in Tualatin. And I've gotten texts since I've been here about what a mess it is out there at that. Like people getting stuck there for an hour. Yeah. Can I ask?

Yeah. When you said the housing, is that the funding and streamlining for housing production?

No. Or the shelter and homeless response? Shelter and homeless response. We've already streamlined enough. We need to not do that.

House President Pratt.

All right, in the order they were listed, maintain local controls for the rideways, because that's revenue we would lose. The one that I haven't heard is public meetings law clarity, and that's the whole thing where we know what kind of conversations we could have. Oh, Cindy said it, okay. I just think it's going to go anyway. Funding and coordination for shelter and homeless response, invest in community energy resilience and disaster planning, and the transportation package.

All right. My five, again, as everyone else said, no particular order. Public meeting clarity. What a surprise, transportation, 2027. Infrastructure funding.

I had that one in mind, too.

No, there's one in particular for infrastructure.

Water and wastewater.

I'll be the odd guy out here. Cautious adoption of autonomous vehicles. Because Portland's starting it and it's going to creep to us pretty darn soon. And finally, strengthening economic and workforce development. Survey says.

So the 2027 transportation package got the most number of votes. So that one, two, three, four, five, six, seven. We got the message out. With a tie with four votes, funding and coordination for shelter and homeless response and strengthening economic and workplace development. And then there were three that had three votes, the infrastructure funding, public meeting law clarity, and maintaining local control.

So we've got our top three then, right?

You got it, top three. Funding and coordination for shelter and homeless response, strengthening economic and workplace development, and 2027 transportation package.

So what are the ones that are remaining?

Infrastructure funding, public meeting law clarity, maintaining local control.

I'll add to the infrastructure funding vote. You have to pick two of those three.

You have to pick two of those three.

I'd pick the infrastructure one for sure. I feel like...

The other ones, they're going to impact that. What was the other one?

I'm going to pick my two already, infrastructure and maintain local control.

All right, so it sounds like infrastructure is four.

Okay, what's the fifth one? What's the last two?

Maintain local control.

public meeting law clarity and maintain local control over of a safe and modern right-of-way. Specific to that.

As Councilor Brooks is saying, the public meeting law thing obviously is going to get attention. When I was in action at OMA, that was one of the big topics we talked about. All the other cities. Yeah, I think it's gonna get covered well, but so people won't do public right away. Yeah, I gotta speed you out people out, right?

You got those five we got the five maintain local control over public right away Infrastructure funding Transportation package strengthen economic and workplace development shelter and homeless response One, two, three, four, five. So we left off public meeting law clarity and energy resilience and disaster planning.

And repair.

Well, yeah, there were other ones that didn't get more than one vote.

Sorry. Which one? Which one? The disaster. You didn't. I had two, yeah.

All right. So the five sound good?

Again, remember, other cities are across LOC. With that, we had no items removed from consent. Council Communications.

Just want to wish Councilor Gonzalez fast and easy healing on his recovery.

Thank you very much. It's going to be a good, solid year. Oh, geez. Yeah. Did a number on myself.

All right. Cindy.

I move to adjourn. Second.

We have a motion to second to adjourn. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Thank you. Good night. Have a good evening.

I want to give a shout out.