City Council - Regular Meeting

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There we go. I call the order of the work session. from Wils City Council of April 6, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. I'll start by asking council members for review of the agenda and items on consent. Any issues at all? Okay. Any client or excuse me, any counselor concerns? Okay. Turning now to our work session. Class County Sheriff's Office finance update. I'm going to kind of tee this up. Um, mayor and council. Um, I am Gina Troha. I'm the city manager. Uh, I'm going to introduce Patrick and then I'm going to have him give a brief presentation. The item before you tonight is related to uh an unanticipated change in the city's law enforcement contract with the sheriff's office. Uh this change results in an increase to the current fiscal year contract that we have. That increase will be coming forward to the council in your April 20th council meeting as part of a budget supplemental. So in preparation for that budget supplemental that you will see in April. Uh we asked that Patrick be here. He'll introduce himself but to give a little bit of background and context for why we are seeing that increase this year. uh and then he'll talk a little bit about um kind of uh moving forward to the next fiscal year. So with that, I'll turn it over to Patrick.

Thank you, Gina. Good good evening, Mayor O'Neal and C uh council. Uh my name is Patrick Williams. I'm the finance and business services manager for the Clackamus County Sheriff's Office. I'm here to explain uh the um the overage in this year's uh actual cost that we've built the city and uh provide you some context on why that happened and what we'll what we've done to fix it moving forward. Um, the most recent labor contract we have with the Peace Officers Association includes a complex set of incentive payments depending on a lot of different factors including seniority, educational uh, attainment, special unit assignments like search and rescue, dive, SWAT, things like that. Um, and also the certifications that they've obtained. The incentive structure is unique to each individual deputy. So, it's not a blanket that we can apply to all patrol deputies, all jail deputies, or even Wilsonville patrol deputies and Happy Valley patrol deputies and Clacamus County patrol deputies. Our uh when that was uh implemented and due to the complexity of it, our budgeting software did not capture all of those incentive payments. So, uh, as I think you're aware, we bill actual personnel costs and budgeted materials and services costs to the city monthly. So, um, while while the deputies were getting paid for their incentive payments, they were not accurately budgeted for in this fiscal year. As a result of that, uh, it it was kind of unusual for the city of Wilsonville in that many patrol deputies were out on leave for an extended period of time. And if a patrol deputy is out on leave for 30 days or more than 30 days on the 31st day, Clackamus County absorbs those costs. Those costs are not passed on to the city. However, the result of those patrol deputies being out created more

overtime for coverage within the city. So, um, the overtime amount, which is really the if you look at the the raw numbers, that's the the, uh, the pretty much the portion of what the overage is and what will be asked for in a supplemental budget in the future. Um, however, those were exacerbated a bit because of the incentive pays not captured, including in that overtime, and the savings in the straight time were not as big as they could have been because of the incentive pays related to those. And I know that's labor contract language and and fairly complicated. I'm happy to answer any questions regarding that. The problem has been uh resolved moving forward. We worked with our um our IT team that actually programs the incentive pays into our budgeting software. It's much more accurate. It will be precise in in uh next year and moving forward. Uh we we really regret the error. Um it caused us some issues with our board where we had to go in front of them and ask for $4 million. um and the method an additional $4 million in supplemental this year to cover our additional costs after keeping 40 positions open and cutting our overtime and everything. So, it was an impact for everyone. Uh but we invested the time to, like I said, have more precision and accuracy in future budgets.

Let me if you don't mind, let me tell you what the dollar amount is because somebody's probably going to ask that question. So, it's uh $297,000 um that you will be seeing in your budget supplemental um at the next council meeting. And I also want to it might be worthwhile to bring up that there are two other cities that contract with the sheriff's office for law enforcement services. They are also faced with the same increase and that is the city of Happy Valley and the city of Esticada. And what what do we envision could be the potential future result in next year's budget?

How dramatic of a change are we? So the the change in next year's budget, so the the impact that you're seeing obviously this year will carry over to next year um from and you can correct me if I'm wrong. The next budget, it's about an 8% increase from this current, including this new $297,000 to what next year's budget is going to be. Um, we will be bringing that before the budget committee and you'll be able to have a conversation about what that item is at that time. Is that is that accurate?

That's correct. And that 8% does is not uh solely related to increases in personnel costs. um our SECOM, which is our our 911 system, and our C800, which is our radio system with the towers and the maintenance and the the use of that. Those costs have gone up fairly substantially. Um uh other costs have have gone up. There's and you can get into the details uh when you talk about it next year. It's not solely related to the to the um incentive pays. There are other factors related to that, too. Thank you. Any other questions? Councelor Skull.

So the overrun of the 297 that's to cover what we've missed for the first three months and then catching up or basically taking care of business for the rest of the year. No, the 297 is actually for the entire year. It's for the the projected the projected overage for the entire year. Okay. Yeah. All right. Yep. Any other questions? Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you.

Okay. The next item on the work session is the town center urban renewal feasibility. Thank you. Okay. Thank you for your patience. Uh, Mayor O'Neal and city council, it's my pleasure to be here again tonight. My name is Matt Lorenzan. I'm the city's economic development manager and I'm joined virtually by Nick Papanuk of Tiberious Solutions, our consultant on this project. Uh, we want to keep our presentation brief to allow for as much time as possible for questions and discussion. During our last presentation on March 16th, the council reviewed two scenarios. a scenario based on a 10% redevelopment acreage reduction and a 25% reduction scenario. Those scenarios also included additional adjustments to development assumptions which were discussed during that meeting and also in the staff report and I've included the slide again for summary purposes. At the conclusion of last meeting, the council requested to see a third scenario, a 17 and a half% reduction in red redevelopment acreage to split the difference between the two scenarios

presented. I do have those figures ready to present and discuss with you this evening. Of course, they're in the staff report as well. Before doing so, um I'd like to reiterate a point I made during the recent meeting because I feel it's worth reiterating. Uh these scenarios represent financial plans rather than a development plan. The development plan has been in place since 2019. The town center zone, a roughly 150 acre area, allows for two to fivetory buildings to be constructed. Such buildings can be occupied by a mix of uses including multif family residential, town houses, condos, commercial offices, retail stores, restaurants, and other uses. That has remained unchanged and has been consistent since 2019. The scenarios we're reviewing here are about financial planning rather than land use planning. Yes, we are estimating how many two to five story buildings we think might be constructed during a roughly 30-year period throughout the town center area. We're also asking what will be in those buildings, how much land will those new buildings consume, how much parking will they build on site, what will the market demand, and what will developers build? We ask all these questions in order to estimate the ultimate question when it comes to urban renewal. How much tax revenue will new development produce? and how much does the city need to invest in order to ensure the town center area functions well and serves Wilsonville residents in a way that brings them joy rather than frustration. For this area to work the way it was planned, critical investments are needed for roads, utilities, intersection improvements, parks and public gathering spaces, vehicle parking, a bridge over I5, and other projects that ensure this area is really is really a healthy beating heart of Wilsonville and not a

failing organ. With that preface, let's get into the numbers. On March 16th, we saw two revised development and financial forecasts. Tonight, we are looking at a third alternative. This new scenario assumes 17.5% less development than was forecasted in 2019, excuse me, 2023. Or stated differently, this scenario assumes about 35% of the planning area will redevelop over 30 years, spurred by urban renewal investments. This scenario has a financial capacity, also called maximum indebtedness, of $85 million, and that's stated in 2026. We discussed in the March meeting that approximately $17.6 million are needed to complete all of the projects included in the 2023 feasibility study. In other words, uh, all three scenarios being considered tonight will have insufficient financial capacity to complete the full slate of projects. But not to worry, this is not uncommon with urban renewal planning. Projects can be selected and completed over time as funding opportunity, partnerships, and council priorities dictate. As long as a majority of projects can be completed, we are not at great risk of underfunding the investments needed for this area. Still, this begs the question, is there a scenario in which all the projects could be completed if a future council desires it, the community supports it, economic conditions allow for it, and development activity justifies it? In short, yes, it's possible, but it would require what's called a substantial amendment, and that's a uh statutory term. Probably about 10 to 15 years from now, give or take. If financial capacity

were to be increased, it would have to be done by ordinance and subject to public hearings. In any case, the spending cap for the area could not be increased more than 20% above the original financial capacity. If measure 3-632 passes this May, such an amendment would also be subject to a binding public vote. It's very difficult to predict with precision which of the scenarios presented tonight would be sufficient to fund all projects assuming a 20% increase to funding capacity. As s such staff only offer some very basic guidance knowing that macro and microeconomic conditions will change in the next decade or two. So as you see on the screen, we estimate that scenario one would be likely sufficient if that 20% increase were made at some point in the future. Scenario two likely insufficient and scenario three possibly sufficient. It's a lot to consider and ultimately a policy decision as we can't see the future, but we do know a few things with certainty. The community wants a downtown with shops, restaurants, food carts, some character, a main street, something that makes us all want to stay right here in Wilsonville rather than leave to spend our leisure time elsewhere. The community wants better traffic flow, sufficient parking for vehicles and residents, and a safer route for those crossing town to access Town Center. There may be disagreements about how much housing is needed, but there seems to be consensus that housing affordability is important. The best way to ensure our businesses stay in business and the best way to ensure housing afford to ensure housing affordability is to build housing. When supply exceeds demand, prices fall. We know that.

Thank you for indulging me on these last points. I hope I don't overstep. As economic development manager, part of my role is to ensure that Wilsonville's economic and fiscal future is healthy. There's no better way to do this than to catalyze the development of new buildings. Where today there are vacant relics of the past and vast unused parking fields. When the city maximizes the utility of its limited land supply, we ensure we are passing revenue generating assets along to f future generations rather than sprawling liabilities. The existing development pattern was popular for a time, but it provides relatively little value to the city, to the community. Multi-story mixeduse business districts with housing integrated, also known as downtowns, in city after city after city of every size have proven to be the best and most enduring way to accomplish community development and economic development simultaneously. With that, I look forward to your questions and your discussion this evening.

Council questions. Councelor Cunningham.

Yes. So, as I've taken more time since the last meeting to digest these numbers and think about what they mean, and I understand that these are illustrative numbers. Um, you know, the illustration paints a picture that's larger than what we promised. I stand by that. I know that we're looking at a financial plan here, but when that financial plan is underpinned by more than 2,000 residences, that's not the promise. That's not the plan. We're still not there. We're still not at the plan. The plan in 2019 was 1,600 residential units. The last mayor on her way out in December of 2024 sat here and told us all it's just 1,600 residential units over 30 to 40 years. What we're talking about here will fund more than 2,000 residential units in Town Center and under the possibility of an amendment. If if uh 3632 does not pass, the city council can just come in and just go ahead and just blow it up even bigger at a whim. It won't take another vote of the people to make that decision. the people have to make the final decision on this and we shouldn't leave it up to five people to come in on a whim and just do what they will with it. So to that point, uh I disagree with your view of downtowns. We're in the south metro region. We're in a suburban community. Go to Westland. Do you see fivetory buildings hugging their downtown? No. Just drove through Cami the other I think there's one four-story building in their downtown area and it's vibrant. There was a farmers market out there last Thursday. It's a great day to be out there. It didn't require five-story buildings. Recent development over in Sherwood outside of Langers, singlestory commercial buildings. It can be done in these areas. I don't know why we're so in love and why we're

chasing this dream of high-risk suburban mixeduse development because it is a high-risk building type in a suburban environment because we don't have built-in density. 1,500 to 2500 people per acre in the nearby area is what's required for a good high density mixed use area. We don't have that here. We don't have it built in. So, we're going to be promised that a catalyst will come in and it will push this thing through and it's going to make it happen. Well, it's high risk and and who's going to be who's going to be paying for this? Who's going to be who's going to be the risk on it? It's going to be our taxpayers. It's going to be our city. It's not going to be the developers. If it was the developers, if they were going to build right now, if they were already ready to build, they would have done it between 2019 and now, it's been seven years. Nothing's happened. They're waiting on your tax money to build this. If that doesn't happen, I guess it won't happen. But the plan that's being provided here, this these over 2,000 residential units that underpin redevelopment. Now, without it, we don't get the tax increment financing we need in the times allotted, the time being promised of 30 years. That means that either the tax increment financing will have to continue on for another 10 years or five years or 15 years depending on how shortfall how much of a shortfall it is or we'll just have to develop taller, wider, more more density. That's not what was promised in 2019. And uh revisiting my comments from from last meeting on this um I know I said scenario 2 25%. I would go with whatever number says 1,600 residential units of redevelopment. Those are my comments.

Okay, councelor Skull.

So, in short, pretty much disagree with uh with councelor Cunningham. Uh you know, the plan's a plan. This is a financial feasibility plan and we've scaled it down almost 50% off of what the original plan was. And uh still, you know, the the uh it comes in with likely sufficient financial capacity. I went through the plans uh the 19 plan, the 23 T plan, and the 24 plan, and u I'm not seeing 2,000 units, and I'm still seeing the 1600 units. And I'm also got went through the other uh infrastructure plan and the infrastructure plan was still listed at 1,600 or 1682 units as we as they work through those financials and everything. So you know basically the decisions that we make now from a financial perspective will give us the capacity to basically fit whatever uh the developers want to fit into that uh that footprint over time. And this is going to be a 10-year, a 20 year, a 30-year plan. And there's going to be a half a dozen other councils that'll be able to basically review this and make decisions up or down in terms of where we need to go. Uh my decision uh last council meeting was uh that I'd wish to advance the uh the ballot to uh the urban renewal ballot to 20 uh to November 2026. And I'm going to stay with the 10% reduction. And the reason why I'm going to stay with that is I think that it's stated here it's likely sufficient uh capacity to get this started. And as we've discussed uh you're not going to finance the whole program uh at one time. This will be incrementally financed. So it actually does reduce the risk over time. And uh and it basically it's not that we're going to go take out a $und00 million loan right now and and basically have to pay it back in the next 10 years. you

know, we're going to we're going to chunk that up over time per development bas on a development basis and those will be p those uh uh vehicles will be paid back over time if I'm understanding how that works. Uh the temp and then secondarily to that uh I'm a hard no on the uh 3 point or 3-632. I think that actually limits our success and basically our our flexibility to essentially uh put this program together. And uh I feel that we've come down off the uh the high number if I I think the FI number was 4,100 in the feasibility study and we're down to a 10% reduction now. I'm not sure how we got to that number, but uh with the measure uh 3-3 632 pending, uh if that was to pass, I think that we need to stay uh as close to that uh break even line as possible to limit uh any further changes moving forward because we would be limited in the amount of changes that we could make without going to ballot and that wouldn't work very well. So, thank you. Councelor Chevlin,

I appreciate I appreciate the uh perspectives provided by both councelor Skull and Councelor Cunningham. Um I do take a bit of exception. We don't know how future uh councils will perform, but our city has a strong track record of very thoughtful uh council members and decisions made by counselors. So to project that uh future counselors will just make decisions on a whim and make decisions that would be poor for our community both financially and for um the the um infrastructure that we wish to build around the town center. Um I I don't believe I'm being poly being a polyiana. believe that I can look at how we have performed historically as a council for our city and what we could expect in the future. Um I was not at the last meeting although I watched in detail and read um all of the information after the meeting and um my uh support is with the 10% reduction would be willing to look at the 17 12% reduction but that does put us at more risk. Um so I'm le I'm leaning toward the 10%. Thank you.

Thank you. Well, now I'll weigh in. Um, I was the one that brought up the the 17.5. Um, it wasn't, you're politically correct to say council did, but it was my last minute thought just to see how it would look, not that I was leaning there. I was at the 10%. I remain at the 10%. I've I don't like that it possibly would be sufficient to me. I'm very conservative in thinking. I want to make sure we pick something and I'm that goes in November that is far more secure in uh an analysis for the future. I take exception a bit to the thought that somehow what we're talking about is a development promise. It's not anything to do with development. It's a financial analysis as far as I understand. Correct me, Mr. Lorenzo, if I'm wrong, but this really what actually gets built is going to be decided in the future by any particular landlord, land owner, excuse me, and developer. And so these are just an exercise of scenarios as to what we could potentially anticipate would be the best financial use of the land. Is that a correct understanding? Yeah, I think that that's right. I I think I would add that um while developers and land owners decide what will be built, of course, they have to do that within the parameters of the zoning. I know you realize that, but I just want to state that for the record.

Um I would also speak to a question that councelor Skull raised and and or a comment rather about the incremental nature of urban renewal and urban renewal um debt capacity. Uh the tables um that you see have these sections below about debt availability. Um I I've tried uh to think at length about how we can explain to the council and to the public about how urban renewal debt works, but maybe the best way to describe it is in negative terms. What it is not is um a lump sum borrowing or deposit into the city's bank account that we're then um bound to for you know three decades rather um development is what drives increment increment revenue and revenue is what uh the bank is going to underwrite when they decide to give a loan. And in the early years of an urban renewal plan when development is still getting up off the ground, our debt capacity is quite low. So you can see here we're only forecasting about $3 million of debt capacity in the first few years and then it increases assuming that development increases over time. But uh one analogy perhaps is um uh a line of credit although that's not a perfect analogy but you're approved at a certain amount and you can draw upon that over time as your financial capacity allows and as projects dictate. um you you don't get all of that money right up front. And so that's maybe one way to to think about it. But each of these borrowings are separate loans and they're they're financed and underwritten separately all based on the revenue coming into the city. So I mayor, forgive me. I feel like I got off track there, but I wanted to speak to that point of risk and um how it works from a mechanical perspective.

No, that was helpful. Thank you. Any other questions? Uh, councelor Cunningham.

So, going to the tax increment financing, if if a development is proposed, what is required for the city to sign off and and allow it? Uh it would be the same if I'm understanding your question. It would be the same as anywhere else in the city. Um maybe maybe I'm not understanding your question, but there would be a development application which usually consists of five or six applications. Uh it would go through land use review. It go through building permit review. There would be a traffic impact analysis done to ensure that infrastructure is sufficient to support the development. I'm probably not capturing everything, but those are the types of things that are in place to make sure development happens in a healthy way,

right? Um, and the tax increment financing, that's that's meant to pay for infrastructure, correct?

It's uh largely infrastructure. Part of what was included in the project uh list was some real estate related funds in the event that those were needed to catalyze development or create incentive programs or to support businesses in the in that in the existing town center with various tenant improvement grants. So I I digress but primarily infrastructure. Councelor Cunningham. So, a substantial portion of this tax increment financing is meant to develop infrastructure. And if the infrastructure needs to be in place for the city to approve a permit to develop a ne the next building and the next building after that, next building after that, as long as the infrastructure is there, the city would have no cause to say no to that next development, as I understand it. um

as long as it meets code, we have the infrastructure in place or can have it within two years is also my understanding that the city would approve that next development. So my my fear is that if we write the check for the original amount, let's say for $106 million, that's $106 million, so to speak, of infrastructure. I know there's some other things in there, but it's a it's a substantial amount of infrastructure that we're going to build to support development, which could support 4,200 residential units. So, we could hit that number had we gone that way. It is it is feasible. That's that's what we were told. Is that correct?

Yeah. One thing I tried to emphasize at the outset is that the zoning is for a mix of uses in two to fivetory buildings across a 150 acre area. And that's been consistent from the time of adoption in 2019 all the way to today. That hasn't changed and and won't change in the future. Well, at least not as part of this item in front of the council,

right? not not this item, but the the building height waiverss that we are working to address that could have those buildings go well over five stories um unlimited as staff said that there would there's no actual dictated cap on those. So as long as as the the check you know the the maximum indebtedness so to speak check is written to a certain number we can build infrastructure to that point which could support that number of residential units as outlined in these different options. So the point that I'm making here is that when I asked a few weeks ago, what assurance can we give to our citizens that we could cap out development in Town Center so it doesn't grow into this giant behemoth of development out of our control? I was told that we basically don't have a way to just say, hey, this zone is capped at this many residential units. And so we don't have a lot of tools there to to cap that. Uh, one of the tools that we do have going through this exercise is that if there's not the infrastructure there to build the next building, then that next building doesn't get built. Seems to me like that's one of that's one if if one of the few if if any tools that we have to actually ensure that the promise of 1600 residential units is kept. Now, if we were to say, let's say, go with the 25% number, which is, I believe it was about just under 2,000 units, as you said, city council later could come along and they could do a substantial amendment to the plan. They could increase that number. Uh, if the city, if the citizens were begging for, hey, we didn't want just 1,600 residential units built here. we wanted or 2,000 I guess under the 25, but we wanted 2500 or 3,000. So, so there are options later to to audible on this. But my point is is that if if as

I've been told before, if the infrastructure exists or it can exist within two years, something that that we would use tax increment financing to do, we'd be able to pull some more money because we can count on that tax increment coming in. Then what we're doing here to me is an exercise in how, you know, it's not how low can we go, it's how high can we go, it's it's how much can can we can we fund out infrastructure-wise to get to these levels of development. And if we don't have any other control mechanism on town center, this is how I see us keeping our promise to our citizens. Um I and that's that's also to the idea too of I think that we had a substantial outreach on town center given the recent uh town center focus groups survey results. I don't think we drew the right conclusions. I don't think fivetory buildings and hyper density was what our community was asking of us. That's reflected in the surveys.

Councelor Skull. So in the uh the totality the total number of units whether it be the 1,600 that's been planned or the feasibility units it's a mix right of various different types of commercial retail and office and apartments or not apartments but residential right yeah so um it's it's tough to see uh the community, even the council um get stuck on this number of units um issue primarily because there is so much flexibility in the zoning code that allows for such a mix of uses and that's by design. Um, as the economy evolves, as the demand for space involves evolves, whether that's for office, which doesn't exist today, or whether that's for more retail, or whether that's for any of the different allowed uses within the zone, we expect, like I said, micro and macroeconomic conditions to evolve. And so, it's possible that some of the space that we're forecasting to be in, let's just call it 2,000 housing units. It's possible that in 20 years we're seeing a demand for a different kind of space

and and that get that space gets allocated to a different type of development, a different type of use. So if I could go back in time, I probably would have not included unit counts in some of our original study. And that's not to be disingenuous, but that's because or or to to deflect or in in some way confuse the public. It's just that there's so much flexibility in the plan that what we do know is two to five story buildings across the town center area. Beyond that, as we look into the crystal ball, it's so hard to see. So the calculus could be all over the place. I mean, it could change next year, it could change five years from now. It'll be based on market demand in combination with the way that we've subsequently planned, you know, planned it out at a high level. I I I think that that's right that I mean I I I don't want to make it seem like we're just shooting in the dark. We're trying to be informed and educated and intelligent about what we're doing. At the same time, we're humble in the sense that we know that the future is going to be different than what we expect it to be.

So, could we go back to the other uh the other sheet that shows the financials? Not that one. Yeah. Right there. So my read on this and maybe I'll help you out a little bit here is I look at this as the city 401k and investing in property. You know, you start out in your early years and you invest a little here and you invest a little there and kind of uh build things up to see how it goes. And if you're successful, you continue to go down that path with different levels of investments and different types of investments. And as they grow, you you use you compound off those investments. And that's the way I see this program. And you're going to have to vary your investment uh year to year, maybe every five years or whatever in terms of how how that works. Uh splitting tiff investment versus SDC's. There's going to need to be some incentives, but it's going to be a situation where we at least have to start somewhere and get this kicked off and and get things going and then uh and then basically navigate navigate the markets and all the other requirements uh over time and see how that how all that fits. And hopefully we gain, you know, in years 11 through 20, we gain some pretty decent momentum and we're able to, you know, per what you're right up here is is that year 15 or 10 or 15, we're able to uh take another look and and ren or, you know, put a new course in and see where we want to go from there. So I I again I stick with the you know let's get this on the ballot in November and uh you know I stick with the 10% and I ask that we get this started.

Councelor Chevlin Oh if you don't mind yield to the city attorney.

Thank you mayor. I I just wanted to clarify one point um that is not something that it's come up today. So, it's not something that I would say staff's totally prepared to talk about, but there are state statutes that limit the ability for cities to um delay public infrastructure as a means of um delaying development. So, to the extent there are discussions about that, there are state statutes that directly address that issue. So, um if council would like further information about that, we we can definitely provide that, but I do want to make council aware of that. Thank you, councelor Chevlin.

Thank you for that. Um, Mr. Kyle Himnan, I believe we can look at the approach to town center and tax increment financing in two different ways. One is a fear and worst case scenario. It's going to be awful. People are going to be deciding at whim and the implication there then is not making good decisions about the future of our city or we can make our decisions based on trust. Trusting that we have a good plan. This is a feasibility study. We have uh the ability to move forward with a 10% wherever we decide that we land uh reduction in in units. But I believe it's a good plan. Councelor Cunningham actually gave a good example of what I'm referring to when I I believe if I understood him correctly, he was talking about scenario two with about 1983 or let's say 2,000 units and then the community coming forward in the future and saying, "Oh, we we need more than that." That's the work we do. That's the plan we use. so that we listen to our community. If they say, "Gosh, we we need bigger." You know, whatever number we decided on, we're going to need bigger. That's the trust that I have in our community, in the leadership in our city, in our city council today, and in our future city councilors that are elected by our public. If we are transparent about this plan, if we make sure that our community understand what we're trying to do and how we're trying to do it, then I truly believe rather than basing decisions on fear that we can base them on trust and how we go forward in the future. Thank you,

Council Cunningham. I wanted to I wanted to clarify that I'm not uh making any mention of delaying infrastructure, but I am saying that we do need to control our spending on infrastructure because the state can't mandate that we come in and make expenditures, take your tax money and build extra roads that are counter to what your answers were on the Town Center survey where you said that you don't care about housing in Town Center. where you said that that was the last priority on the list. So if we want to talk about trust, our citizens have told us what they want, what they expect. And I don't hear a lot of people listening. The trust would be that, you know, Frog Pond had a minimum housing level in East and South of 1325 per state and uh regional standards and rules. and we're expecting to build over 1,600 units out there. That's not trust. That's not that's not fulfilling the trust of our community. Our community is expecting moderate levels of growth. They're expecting a town center where they can go and enjoy it. They're not expecting an entire residential development Trojan horse to occur in the middle of the city. 50 acres with 1,600 residential units. Villa is 480 acres with about what? 2600 2,800 units.

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2600 units. I mean, we're talking multiples of density here. And and and I'm using the the kind number of 1600. I don't believe just like Frog Pond that we're going to stick to, 1600. I don't think the city ever has on a housing development. I don't think that Villa was supposed to be 2600. So, we can talk about trust and all that, but but I don't know that there's a you know, I don't know that that what we're doing right now with the information that our citizens have given us, they have told us they don't care about housing. They don't they don't want the traffic. The concerns were traffic and density and all these things. You don't see another downtown in the South Metro region that looks like these artist renditions that we've been handed after, you know, as my wife and I talked about, what we thought we were looking at when we were at the park and we put some stickers on some things was a little bit of a facelift on our downtown to make it a nice place to be. This is a housing redevelopment being jammed into the middle of our city where we can least afford it. and we're just going to go ahead and be like, let's write a blank check for up to what 2400 residential units with only a 10% redevelopment acreage reduction. Like that doesn't speak to trust to me. Well, Councelor Cunningham, while I appreciate your views, I don't particularly agree that of your interpretation of what all citizens want. I think we're a body of f let me finish if I can five members of council all that have members of the community that reach out to us communicate with us and tell us their concerns. We had a urban renewal

district vote that happened in 2024 that only failed by 54 votes. We went back to work. We've made an adjustment uh with these three scenarios. The 10% one that I'm looking at seems to be a much different scenario than was presented in 2024. Uh we've listened to the concerns of the community by uh potential heights in the buildings. We're trying to work within the framework of what the city attorney and our city managers propose as a way to examine that. Um I do know that citizens want a new town center. Very comfortable with that. And the delay that has happened has impacted our city and our community is frustrated that we're taking too long. So we can only make the best scenario decision now. Put it out to vote in November because the citizens have called for a vote and I'd like to honor that vote and ultimately they will need to decide. The other component is that this is talking about development that's going to span long before I'm alive over 30 potentially 40 years. Who knows how this is going to be. Um, and this is more about the future generations. And so there's only so much we can do to analyze what could happen from an a financial feasibility examination. But what is the most important thing you do for a vision is pull the trigger and move forward. And so ultimately in November, I think we need to present a scenario that the

community makes a decision about the future of our city. And scenario one, which we're on scenario three. We can move to scenario one if we can. Sure. Is the one that I'm supporting. It sounded like I heard councelor Chevlin and councelor Skull support. Uh but um and I do appreciate councelor Cunningham's thoughts, but ultimately we have to make a decision and that's what um the community asked us to do when they voted us in office. Okay. Councelor Cunningham.

Like to clarify that at no point in time did I say all citizens uh and that was the point that I was trying to correct you on as you were speaking. At no point in time did I say all citizens want this. I said we have received feedback from focus groups from a survey that was I think one of the one of the most responded to surveys that I've seen in our city and it was very clear that housing was last on the list of things that things people were cons concerned with. So, we we have some data in front of us right now, fresh data in 2026 from a from a stale seven-year plan, and it's it's not saying keep moving forward with with housing density. That's not what it says. And so, to ignore that at this point in time, I think is folly. Um, you know, that vote could have lost by one vote that that but it lost. Those were the rules of the game. Just because a tennis player wins more games during a match doesn't they if if they lose the sets they lose. That's the rules of the scoring of this. So one vote 54 votes 540 votes. And I'll remind you that this conversation around the actual amount of spending the city was willing to do on infrastructure to underwrite and underpin a substantial residential redevelopment well above what the plan initially promised. that was not in the in the public zeitgeist at that time. It was not being discussed. I I'm trying to help. I'm trying to help here, you guys. People are going to come out and say that I want to kill development and I don't want to see Town Center redevelop. I want to see Town Center redevelop just as much as anybody else. But if we put this number in front of voters in November, I can't help you.

Well, Councelor Cunningham, thank you for your clarification. Again, what I'm alluding to on that past vote is that that post reflected a higher unit density number portrayed in that prior urban rural district and that only failed by 54 votes. We have gone back and are looking at scenarios that are much different than what was originally has occurred. And I think that the council's hearing what the public wants and ultimately they'll tell us if we're right or wrong in November. Um but I'm all for moving forward on a November vote. Um I'm all for scenario one with a 10% redevelopment percentage. Um anybody else? Okay. Uh, with that, I think you have what you need. Um, Mr. Lorenzan, and by the way, um, you've been on this a lot longer than we've been on council, and I've watched you over the years. I've known you over the years, and it's not fun doing what you do. And you have led this discussion with grace and thoughtfulness. And I, someone that's been raised uh as a trial lawyer to rely on experts, uh you're the best we got. And um I've heard a lot of great things outside our community about your expertise. Your your commitment to this city means a lot to us as a council. your thoughtfulness um and your willingness to hear us out and create different scenarios that we ask. I appreciate that flexibility, but you know, it must be hard. So, and often

we don't get a chance to say this, but I want to thank you for all your efforts. I appreciate it and the efforts you'll do moving forward for our city. You're very welcome, mayor. And I I'll just say that I want to agree with you that I think everyone in this room and everyone in this community wants the same thing and that is for a vibrant healthy community into the future. There's going to be disagreements about the finer points, but um I care and I know you care too. Thank you.

Okay, next up is housing statutory compliance. Good evening, Mayor O'Neal and city councilors. I'm Kim Ryold, senior planner. And give me one moment here while I pull up my slideshow. All right. Uh with me tonight is uh Heather Austin from 3J Consulting and we are here to provide you with an update on the housing statutory compliance project part one uh which are draft code amendments related to uh our residential review process here in the city. Um, very briefly, uh, we, um, presented in your packet for this meeting draft code amendments that we will be moving forward for consideration based on input that we got from you and from city council at work sessions back in December. The staff report uh, highlights some of the key changes that we are looking at in this part of the process. I'm going to turn it over to Heather now to give us a bit of an overview of what is in here and what we hope to get from you this evening. Thank you.

Thank you, Kim. Uh good evening, Mayor O'Neal and the council. It's a pleasure to be with you this evening. Uh we have just three simple um objectives for our work session with you this evening. We want to provide some updated context for this project. A little bit of change has occurred at the state level since the last time we had a chance to come before you in work session. Um, we want to present the development code amendments that were in your packet this evening and get any input from you as we move forward into getting ready for our public hearings for this project. So, the project schedule on your screen is as um planner Ryold said is for um phase one of this project. This is a two-phase project that will occur all through the year of 2026. But for this first phase, we are um doing some public outreach through your Let's Talk Wilsonville format online as well as right now uh we've drafted the code amendments and we'd like to get um feedback from this body. We met with your planning commission last week to receive feedback there as well. Um we will take all that feedback. will finalize the draft amendments and go to planning commission next month for a hearing, be before you in June of this year, I think very beginning of June, June 1st, and then uh we'll be ready to make these changes effective, compliant with state law on July 1st. So, the project scope and goals, um the the change that's occurred since the last time we spoke with you is a legislative change. Um in the short session, the legislature did approve House Bill 4037. Um it has a couple of changes. It's meant to be um in um accompany Senate Bill 974 that we spoke about at the last meeting in that it's also required to be implemented by July 1st, 2026. Um it does change um that class 2 administrative review is required for all residential development applications that are meeting clear and objective

standards. Um so as a reminder, Senate Bill 974 required that class 2 administrative review for zone changes that increase density plan developments and um variances and waiverss to residential standards. So now um the the bucket of review types um has been expanded to include anything that's a residential development that again doesn't need a waiver or adjustment or some other um type of approval. Um the other thing that's different with HB 4037, we had discussion at this group and heard a clear preference for the 250 foot radius for public notice. Um so with HB437, the state was very clear that 100 feet is the limit for um being able to mail public notice. Um and that is um for applications of residential up to 500 units above 500. They do allow or yes, excuse me, they allow up to 500 um feet, but to keep consistency and make sure that there aren't any administrative errors on the staff side, um we are recommending that using that 100 foot for all land use applications to make sure that we're meeting those requirements. Um and then the final thing that has changed with HB 4037 is that only an applicant will be able to now appeal a decision on a residential land use application. So right now um if someone receives notice or is in some way um providing testimony on a residential application, even if that's a staff level decision that they've written in testimony, they then have a right to appeal that decision with in a certain amount of time that would go to I believe your development review board for appeal. Um after July 1 of this year, it will only be the applicant who applies who will have the right to appeal the staff level decision. And I do want to clarify that that's the appeals limitation is on the applications meeting the clear and

objective standards. So there's there's a little bit of a vin diagram going on with uh 4037 and 974. So, uh, I guess that,

yeah, I I'll just note that, um, it's on here in s sort of a lighter gray, but, um, we spoke at our last meeting with you that, um, in addition to the changes 4037 and Senate Bill 978 that we discussed, 974, we are also, um, implementing that housing production strategy that you adopted last year, had a chance to go through that process, action C, requiring that um, or um, suggesting as a way to increase the possibility of housing development that you evaluate administrative review processes for re residential development. So this project um was already in the works um in a way and then the state requirement overlaps with that city um process of looking at those standards.

All right, I'll give it to Kim from here.

Thank you. Uh so I do want to briefly just walk through uh highlights of what all is included in the uh set of amendments that are in your packet. Uh the first couple pieces really speak to that point that we just talked about on that last slide. Uh which is uh making some changes to development code standards um or the development code itself to better distinguish which applications are subject to clear and objective standards which versus the ones that are uh reviewed using a discretionary process. and therefore we can still uh the appeals process is different. Uh so one of the amendments that we've done is to pull out waiverss which are currently housed in 4.118 that is a code section that is related to all plan development zones. uh we wanted to have the specificity um related to waiverss that makes that distinction that if you apply for a waiver, you are no longer on that clear and objective path. So that is very clear in our code now going forward that a waiver uh still has appeal rates. Uh so we've moved that to a new code section. uh there there aren't changes to the standards uh as it relates to what is included uh as being eligible to be waved. Uh however uh we do have some questions for you at the end. Um in m keeping in mind that these waiverss that historically have been reviewed and deliberated by the DRB uh would now have initial decisions made by staff. Um, we also updated uh completely rewrote section 4.022 which is about the appeals process. Um, we wanted to be it it's very confusing when you're trying to tease apart the requirements of the

different legislation and we wanted to be as clear as we could about which applications allowed for appeals versus which ones don't. Uh so we've tried to clarify that in the code and we just added a little more clarity around how the appeals process works um versus trying to interpret what some of those steps might be. So that was a complete rewrite uh that we did in coordination with the legal staff. Uh, another topic that we took a look at um, based on your feedback in December was the modifications for what can qualify as an administrative review for all development types. Uh I think there was this question that we had um as we were doing our code analysis about um the fact that we are now being pushed toward a process where whereby a 50-unit subdivision uh has to be a staff level administrative review but if you're let's say an industrial development and you want to do a small accessory addition and that addition is more than 1250 square ft that application still has to go to DRB and So, we did get feedback that this was something that would be worth looking into. Uh we uh we uh suggested a limitation of 10,000 square ft to these changes. So, increasing that from,250 square ft. Um but keeping the percentage limitation that is in the code. Uh so that uh as you can see on the right side of the slide, if you had a 20,000 square foot building, you you can't you you would have to go to DRB for anything over a 5,000 square footage square foot increase. And so there's still a proportionate cap. Uh the planning commission agreed with this number. Uh importantly, this is not applicable to new development. This is only for existing development or modifications to

approved site plans or architectural plans. Um and so uh if you have any feedback on that number, we would be happy to hear it at the end of the presentation. uh we uh based on the direction we got at the December work sessions, we created an expedited process for annexation for residential uh development that is uh meeting a master plan that's been adopted. And so uh this is a process that is pretty similar to what we use in the Coffee Creek area for industrial development. uh this is not a requirement of the state statute but really is looking at uh you know how do we better implement action C in light of all the other changes we have to make to the residential development process. And so residential annexations will come straight to city council for a hearing uh once we have a complete application without prior recommendation from the development review board. And then a couple of other updates that are included in this package. Uh we created some new definitions to help us better define uh what residential development consists of and what that review authority would be throughout the code. So instead of saying planning director or development review board every time, we created a definition for review authority. That way um you know that language can apply everywhere and it's not being too wordy in the code. Uh we looked at the site design review section of the code which is uh the part of the code that really speaks to things like landscaping materials, building materials, things more related to appearance of development. Uh that language is arguably very subjective and discretionary and because the state statute does not allow us to apply discretionary standards uh to the

development of housing unless an applicant opts into those. uh we have made modifications that essentially reflect current practice which is that you know if it's related to a standard about landscaping for example we direct the standards for site design review back to the landscaping standards in the code. So if you're meeting the landscaping standards you are therefore also meeting the site design review criteria. Uh so this will make the code more compliant with state statute in that regard. Uh and then the last um bit of updates in the code really um tried to remove some conflicting timelines that didn't match up with state statute. Uh we looked at application review procedures and made some adjustments to reflect current practice. Um you know notably that we don't take paper forms in for applications and things of that nature. Uh we also in that process looked at our pre-application requirement and opted to put an expiration date on those meetings. Uh typically that is something an applicant must apply for prior to submitting a development application. And without an expiration, we can run into situations where they had a pre-application meeting of that's like three years old and then submit a development application and standards change. And uh that makes it a more confusing process for everybody when we have to go back and explain that new standards have been adopted and uh you know what they submitted is not compliant. And so we're hoping that this expiration of a year um will keep information more current. Lastly, uh at your direction, uh we had meetings in February with both development review boards to get their input um on, you know, their experience

serving on the DRB and uh what um what advice they might offer you as you consider consolidating down to one DRB panel. Uh I think on the whole and we heard um a gratitude to be serving the community and a desire to be doing that and in you know because of that people who were there felt like um meetings get cancelled a lot and they're not serving the community that they signed up to serve. Uh so there was a preference to have fewer cancelled meetings and you know to the point about flexibility that we heard from you at the last work session. Uh I think on the whole uh DRB members expressed a willingness to be flexible and be available for additional meetings if needed um throughout the month. So um our proposed amendments based on this would consolidate the two DRBs into one panel uh but would increase the number of people serving on that panel from 5 to 7. Uh this uh it it it provides a little more flexibility in terms of um making quorum for a meeting but it also provides an increased opportunity for people to serve. And so that would essentially have the city's quasi judicial body have the same number of members as the planning commission. Uh the way that these amendments have been drafted uh they would be effective um the the change to the panels would become effective in 2027 so that we aren't um we aren't changing anything with the current appointments that we have this year. Um so with that uh we just want to know if you have any questions or comments uh on the proposed amendments uh before we uh do our final edits for public hearing. Uh if um in particular any of thoughts you have on some of the

waiverss and either you know should they remain eligible um should we consider some criteria as we move into the next phase of the project. Uh and then as well if you have any feedback on that 10,000 square foot uh cap for modifications we would take that as well. Thank you councelor Skull.

So good information. Thank you. U my question is concerning the uh the waiver process. Uh I think the waiver processes should stay in place. I think it's a good thing. Uh we had lots of discussions about that when I was on planning commission and I think we talked about it on DRB too and it gives some flexibility to the system uh as the developer or the architect works through the process. question is is a if a waiver a waiver submitted and it's not accepted or for some reason it has to go to appeal is there an internal city process to look at that appeal first before it goes to luba

that's a good question um so because uh an application with a waiver would be considered not clear and objective uh but discretionary uh there would have uh there would be more appeals rights not just to the applicant but to other interested parties. That appeal um if an appeal were filed um you know whether or not there was support for the waiver or not in the initial application that first appeal hearing would be before the DRB. Um and so it would go through the city appeals process which first step would be DRB. you know, a decision could be made there and if there were no further appeals, it would be final. Um, but there would also be the option to then appeal to city council. The city council is the final local review authority for the development applications in that case. And so, it wouldn't be until it gets through that city appeals process that something could be appealed to Lubec.

Okay. Thank you, Councelor Chevlin.

Thank you. um you've done a good job um making changes. Um as far as the amendments, it's not easy when the legislature tells you have to do something and then trying to make sure we're in up to code on everything. My comments specifically have to do with the development review boards and the two panels. I'm particularly sensitive to uh citizens that volunteer to be part of the community and making decisions about uh the community. Um and I believe we handled it well. we here on the council and you as well as far as meeting with them. I think uh I believe moving to the seven member panel is appropriate beginning in 2027 and um just recognizing that um when we have volunteers we want to have some work for them to do and already they're wanting to be flexible to say okay well if we don't have you know enough meetings but we'll we'll be available if something comes up. I just want to acknowledge that and I'm sure the mayor or other comments this evening will be uh talking about volunteer recognition uh events coming up here in the city. But I'm just really grateful that we have citizens that want to continue to be involved uh and make decisions and I uh I'm in support of the amendments. Um I don't have any um changes that I would make to the waiverss. Uh and um thanks for your work.

Thank you, Councelor Cunningham. Yeah, I had a question and maybe this is for the city attorney regarding the uh what was outlined in believe it was HB 40 4037 um that said that we are correct me if I'm wrong but it says that we are not allowed to inform people outside of that 100 foot radius if Kim might speak better to this but my I guess the first question is for Kim here.

Sorry. Uh so you know how how um up until this bill how uh the the the way that mailed notification radiuses have been called out in state statute has been to set a minimum. Uh what 4037 introduced for the eligible application types which is not every residential application but it's residential development applications meeting clear and objective standards. It says that you cannot go um you can go you may go no more than 100 ft. So essentially the the minimum is 100 feet but the maximum is 100 ft unless it's a certain number of units. I think it's 20 then it can go up to 500 ft. Um we did not recommend that multi-tered approach in this application package because the feedback we got during the last round of work sessions when we posed the question uh seemed to be pretty clear that we didn't want to introduce the legal risk of multiple managing multiple notification radi for the city for mailed notices. Um but yeah essentially it's limiting the distance. So then I go back to you with the question of this seems like a wild overreach by the state legislature to um limit our ability to inform our citizens of things in our city.

Yeah. And I I again don't want to speak for Kim but one of if I recall our planning commission discuss planning commission city council all kind of blur together on this topic because it's happening so rapidly but one of the things that we have discussed are the mailed notice is what is being discussed in that provision. And so what we have talked about are what are other tools and avenues that might be available that are outside the mailed notice language that may be available to the city to still utilize. So things like for example posting at the site that you know the there's an application pending on this that we currently do. um those kinds of things as um ways for us to give additional information out to the community outside of this mailed notice radius um provision.

Yes. You don't want to make any legal opinions on the state legislaturator's decision? I'll I'll I'll give you that one. I mean, I have my personal opinions. So So do I.

I have legal opinions. Um, and as part of that, I would like to thank uh because she happens to be in the room tonight, uh, Representative Suriki Smith is in the back there, I can see, and she is the sole uh, state representative who voted against this. So, thank you very much for standing up for for our home rule and for our local rights to control our future as our own city. Uh, so very much appreciated. Um along those lines, uh I asked city reporter Kimise to add uh these documents to the official record tonight and to have a copy for each counselor up here as well as the city attorney and city manager. But it's a copy of uh Sherwood's uh measures 34347 and uh 34348. And uh these the first one um

the caption is it it uh amends charter and enshrines city citizen involvement in land use decisions that would uh update their charter to um for type two or higher applications mailed notices must be sent in advance to all property owners within a thousand feet of the subject property. So, I don't know if that's something that they're going to run into any issues with the state legislature on, but they're updating their city charter to try and further protect their home rule and their local control um with that measure. And then the second one uh establishes city authority over annexation decisions. Uh both of these the city council referred to the ballot on behalf of their citizens to offer those citizens that expanded trust and um assurityity of transparent transparency and accountability in their uh city representatives that they have their backs uh in uh controlling what's going on in the city and that they trust their citizens to be able to uh be a part of that process as well. Um, with that, uh, you know, the other thing as I was reading through all this, it's hard to kind of try to tell, uh, what what changes are being made to our code that are, uh, due to the House bill and the Senate bills and which ones we are going above and beyond for. Um, and there was no distinct way to tell in the packet, but I was hoping that maybe uh between now and the the public hearing on this that there might be some way to illustrate for council in the community what we have to change and what we are uh voluntarily updating to this um so that we can compare and ensure that what we're doing kind of follows that that role that of Sherwood City Council in in

making sure that we are doing everything we can to maintain our local control. So, um that would be my request on this. Um thank you for all the work on this. Obviously, a lot trying to dig through. I was trying to read all the legal ease and all that fun stuff and bouncing around between sections. Always fun reading uh reading all these bills. Um, but I mean I know that at the end of the day, um, poor Representative Ricky Smith lost that vote just a little. Um, and, uh, so we just have to go with it now. Uh, just another thing that's that that we have to just go along with. Um, but I would like to to see if we can delineate that a little bit and just understand that better. If I may ask a clarifying question, are you because I could see a couple of ways of potentially doing that. Um, are you thinking something more because I could see putting together a table of section by section and maybe just highlighting which changes um are required by which bill versus which ones are combination or um staff and you know something that staff had um suggested in conversation with planning commission and council. So that's one approach. The other approach which I think might be a little more ownorous and I don't know it would be as user friendly would be to actually annotate the code markup. Um which I think would probably require us to maybe do like a second copy of it. Um and so I just would like your feedback as what you think you would be looking for in that.

Yeah. I know some some colored highlighting that says like this this is from the legislature and we have to do this and then the other one just saying that these are updates that we think would be helpful and and um you know I I in my notes I said material changes so you know for changing the the name from council to um what are the responsible or the

review authority thank you um you know wording wording is is one thing but kind of these material changes is that that make differences in in our notification um distances in in our pro in the process more than just the way that we clean up language and things like that. But yeah, just just doing the highlighting back and forth, that's that would be completely sufficient and it would be much appreciated.

If I may just um respond to that as well. Um so the we could potentially go back to the slide too that lists what the changes are. Um I think the HPS um strategy 3 is also included in most of the state related changes. So it would be like the legislative changes that are also supported by HPS um C that was adopted by the city. Um so I think besides you know the the distance of the um notification radius that's straight out of the state. Um and then the um adjustments or excuse me um when you're adding to a site that's not residential the

Yeah. So that is completely outside of residential and a staff um suggested via discussion with planning commission city council but I think everything else would fall into the state sHPSC bucket. Um, so would would it be I guess would there be any are you aware of any delineations between where it would fall into the state requirements and the uh HBSC? Is there is there anything in there that we went the 100 foot radius is not part of the HPSC? Definitely.

Right. Um, I guess I guess to to clarify, I'm looking to kind of separate the wheat from the chaff here on what is the state making us do, what are we doing voluntarily that if if we just didn't want to do it and didn't want to make a change, we could absolutely strike it and just leave it the way it is and what is the state making us do. Okay.

I think we we can uh huddle together as a team and figure out the way that we can accomplish that in the most transparent way possible. uh we don't want to add confusion to an otherwise uh hefty hefty attachment in the code. Um but you know maybe even even if it's a box in each section that summarizes what's what I we'll we'll throw around some ideas but I I think we would want it to be clear as well. So

great. Thank you. that would that would just be helpful, you know, in in looking at those Sherwood um uh measures that they refer to the ballot um and to, you know, keep it on our radar of whether or not that's something that uh our citizens deserve from our council. So, thank you. Let me jump in if I can because uh the Sherwood uh chart amendments were something that I had an interest early on when I first had notice. It would be helpful that maybe the city attorney could prepare something for us to show the distinction between the charter in Sherwood and Wilsonville. And I'm not and I because I think uh Sherwood doesn't have a DRB possibly. There may be some distinguishments between the two. And I have talked with uh other mayors in mayor meetings uh with Mayor Rosner where there likely going to be litigation that's going to arise because of the Sherwood charter amendments. And I'm one of those that uh I also am supportive of local rule, but I'm also supportive of keeping our expense down. So I wonder if we're in that lucky situation that we sit back and see what how Sherwood does in this litigation or what happens, but that's what I've heard. But I don't have enough information from my perspective to know what's going on.

Yeah, I'll I'll jump in really quickly. So, um, less about the notice charter amendment, but more about the annexation charter amendment. Um, not that I've had specific discussions with, um, officials at Sherwood, but it is it looks to be very um, particular to address a court of appeals case out of Corvalis on their charter um, and some language in comparing a state statute to the local charter. So, it seems like what they're trying to do is get to a legal question that went unanswered in that Supreme or in that court of appeals case. Um, so it's an it's untested to your point. It's an untested question as far as what I'm reading from their charter amendment and some of and the existing um case law around that issue and this debate about home rule and where how far it extends. Um, so I yes, we can definitely do a comparison and also I can provide some insights from what I see from those two charter amendments and just generally from kind of like the landscape, the legal landscape, what it's getting at. The other thing that I just wanted to note for councelor Cunningham because it's one of those things of balancing getting into the weeds, but also being very transparent about what we're doing here. Um, so I want to get some additional clarification from you. So, uh, one of the things that is always fun as, uh, municipal legal council is when the state does something and then you're not sure what that means and they say, "Consult your legal counsel and we go, well, we didn't write it. We we we didn't participate in the discussion." So, thanks. Um, so some of the uh some of the proposals are based on and it's particular around the waiver language. they are based on what is written in

state statute as given from guidance by HAPO. Um, but at the end of the day, they say consult your legal counsel. So, there's I will say there's some areas where it's gray. Um, and we're kind of making a judgment call based on what the state statute says and some of the advice we're getting from Hapo. How in the weeds do you want us to get when we're because I feel like a highlight doesn't necessarily do that justice of of that nuance um that we're looking at versus for example I know um we had to address the appeals process in all of this because of the appellet rights that are pretty clear with that we also felt like we could clean up our appeals process language just generally and make it easier to understand. So there's some things that we're going above and beyond because we're in there, we have to make a change anyway. So I think that is easier to sort of parse out what is the requirement versus what are we cleaning up because we think it makes sense to do that. So with that, do you have addition initial additional feedback on um on what you'd like to see from staff as far as making those distinctions? Yeah, I mean I I guess maybe if there's an in between there um maybe we pull out the third highlighter color.

Okay. And and just a quick note annotation on it. Um just to give some clarification on um you know not required but due to this um this this this appears to be a u a good change to make in order to clarify other things in other parts of the document. You know what whatever those things might be. Just just a quick note. Um, yeah. I don't I don't need all the the legal ease and nerd stuff. Thank you. I appreciate that. I think councelor Skull.

Yeah, I think you've all circled around it a bit, but I have to ask the question um if we decide to go down a path on our own, say per se, the the radius, you know, plus or minus a 100 with no tolerance into it. we decide to do our own thing. What's the penalty? I mean, do we get a planning speeding ticket or do we do we have to go to court? I mean, how does that work?

So, if I had to guess, if I was reading tea leaves, um, which is always scary to do as a lawyer. Um, my guess would be more likely where a challenge would come from is from a developer rather than the state stepping in. Um, so for example, if we give out mailed notice um that goes beyond a developer who's the only one who potentially has appeal rights um could could appeal if if for some reason it led to a decision being made in that land use decision. I don't see that being likely. I will say though, the Corvalis case um started as a developer, it was an annexation case. A developer was trying to get annexed in. It kept on getting um they kept on saying, "Well, you need to go out for a vote." It failed. It got challenged. The state did step in in that case and um ultimately was successful. So, it's it's kind of this balance of usually where it starts is a developer challenging something that a local government is doing, saying you're not complying with state law. And if it appears that the local government is engaging in a continual pattern of violating the state law, then the state ultimately will step in. That's what we've seen play out in other jurisdictions. And what the what the state then does is they take us to court and then the court says we have to follow state law. I mean that's what's happened in these other cases.

Any other questions or thoughts? I just will say that um I'm all about notice to the community. You know, in fact, I had issues when I was on DRB if I thought, you know, the community wasn't properly noticed. So, I'm a little concerned about the changes in the notice, but my understanding, we're talking about the mail notices, right? And we have the flexibility. We'll still have the sign out. Possibly we could create a list on our website, couldn't we, of listing all the a map of what's going on. So, there's a way to get around maybe this issue because

I mean, I'm if if I were to have to argue it, I would say mailed notice means something different than posting or putting something up on a website.

I would strongly suggest we do that because uh um frankly to me, the sign that's physically out there is the one that when I'm walking or driving by gives me a wakeup call. And I understand some people read their mail more than others, but that is something they go, "Hope, what's happening in our area?" Uh, so that's important. Um, I just really value community input. I've always thought that I'm uncomfortable the changes of DRB, you know, it just because I was so used to watching the community come in and share. Um, and uh, I think it was a helpful exercise and the way this change has been made, it takes away community involvement. And I get a little bit nerv Well, it's not a little, a lot nervous when it's an administrative decision because administrative decisions aren't necessarily watched visually on how they're reached. They just happen. and DRB was a method by which people came and were able to see things happening and make decision. I value our experts at the city,

but it just takes one step away of our community actually being involved in the process. Um, I do agree with enlarging the DRB if we're going to be going down this road to seven. I think that makes a lot of sense. Uh, because I think that people that take take the time to go through civics academy and apply for these boards and commissions. Um that they should have an opportunity to serve and help their community. That's why they they signed up. So I think that's a great idea. Um so those are my my comments. Any anything else? Okay. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you.

Next is 2026 legislative report. Okay, let me get full screen here. Sorry. Uh, good evening, uh, city council. Uh, I'm Ever Wild, the government relations manager for the city, and I'm joined here tonight by Greg Leo of the Leo Company. Uh Greg is our uh former now um but but still around uh government relations consultant. Um on April 1st we transitioned to a new government relations contract with CFM. Um but Greg and I did the 2026 legislative session together and so we wanted to give you a a recap of what happened and answer any questions you may have. And I'll just say for the record, uh, Mayor O'Neal, members of the Wilsonville City Council, my name is Greg Leo with the Leo Company as introduced. Thank you.

Take it away.

Okay. What a great session. Uh, what a busy session. So, first just want to go through the numbers. Uh, 33 days in total. Out of the 35day max, there's eight weekend days. 304 uh measures uh passed through the process. 599 amendments. Uh 279 committee meetings. That's over 11 hearings a day. Uh wow. Uh and 143 measures passed. So there was a lot of the next slide. Uh important themes. We're just going to kind of hit the treetops tonight to allow some time so you can ask more in-depth questions. But on the major themes that budget was uh the overriding theme coming into the session because because of the passage of HR1 there was a major budget deficit. It improved with the disconnect and even more with we found out what the revenue collections would be. So uh the budget um they legislature did a good job of getting the you know budget in balance for the benium without uh uh without too much difficulty. Transportation is a big theme. It is still a matter in progress. Uh we will be back and or the city will be back and all cities will be back in 2027 to work out the details on the transportation funding package. A good session for economic development especially, you know, as it relates to our enterprise zones and the modus center. uh tourism uh had two kind of major uh bills with the local act which is of course the league's highest priority about the reallocation of the transit lodging tax at the level for uh post 2003 cities. Uh so not all uh destination marketing organizations were affected but it certainly made a big difference and also the 1.25% increase in the statewide transit lodging tax for

wildlife was major. Um, we saw quite a bit of concern, serious concern about immigration enforcement and legislation to protect the rights of all citizens regardless of their legal status. Um, there was a lot of uh discussions about gun regulations as it relates to some of the litigation that we've seen on Second Amendment issues and the regulation of who can get a firearm. Uh and then of course always education funding and healthcare funding were major priorities and received a lot of attention.

And I should say that the themes that we highlighted there were not necessarily all things that the city was engaged on. A lot of them don't apply directly to the city. They were just uh issues that were coming up a lot during session. Um so uh as Greg said, the budget was a a major consideration. We kind of entered uh the session expecting there to be major budget reductions. There were still reductions made, but they were less significant than expected. That was due to three reasons. The first was an improved revenue forecast that came out uh partway through session. The second was uh federal disconnect due to Senate Bill 1507. So um Oregon tracks the federal uh definition of income tax, taxable income rather. Um and there was a disconnect on three specific provisions um of that definition and that uh helped rebalance the budget to the tune of $311 million and then $128 million of uh reductions due to um position eliminations uh and hiring freezes, materials and service reductions, reduced travel at state agencies, that kind of thing. Um, a note for future years, there's kind of a trend of declining revenue in lottery, some criminal fines, marijuana, and corporate activity accounts. Um, that that could impact shared revenues going into the future because we get a a small slice but a slice of of all of those. Um, some new investments to highlight. Uh, on the general fund side of the ledger, there was $5 million in industrial site readiness. That also pairs with $10 million of bonds for industrial site readiness in the um other half of the ledger. So $15 million total plus 10 million from 2025. So uh $25 million total for industrial site readiness. Um I've heard that those funds will be available fairly soon. Definitely something that Wilsonville is interested in and will will apply for.

Uh so other general fund investments for wildfire um small city infrastructure um and some other other projects. Um the big thing on the bond side was the Moa Center renovation that appeared partway through session um when the new owner uh of the Trailblazers um talked about potentially moving the team to a different media market and then it this MOA center uh renovation conversation kind of became a a central focus of the session. um and it received uh pretty substantial bond funding. Uh next, moving on to transportation and some ODOT stuff. The ODOT budget rebalance was done through a bill uh601. Um and as you can see on the pie chart there, it it made changes to more or less equal shares of some vacancy savings, some program reductions, and then redirecting funds, both federal funds and um state highway funds. uh to allow for more O andM flexibility from those funds. Uh there were program reductions to safe routes to school and to connect Oregon um which the city may benefit from um those programs indirectly. So there's um some potential loss to those programs there. Uh most important thing for for the city of Wilsonville that passed uh or was successful related to transportation. As you all know, we received $1 million and an earmark uh in the last 2025 session to kind of kickstart that uh uh effort on the Boone Bridge. We were able to keep that um full, so it it did not get cut. It remains at 1 million. Um I also learned just this afternoon that um Representative Selenus has submitted an earmark um for the Boone Bridge uh at the federal level. So progress u happening there. Uh some other big transportation issues were the change of

the referendum. I'm sure you all read about that in the news. Uh and then some other bills that made small transportation tweaks. Nothing major. There was no big transportation package. So, we're we'll be looking to 2027 to continue that conversation. Um, there was a a attempt in one of the bills uh via a couple of amendments to shift some revenue responsibility, at least that's how cities interpreted it. It would the amendments that failed um which the city and League of Oregon cities um advocated to to remove those amendments. uh they would have basically allowed cities to raise revenue on our own in a particular way that we thought was a a kind of a precursor or prelude to eliminating state revenue sharing. So we were concerned about how that came about and were successful in removing those amendments from the bill. Um there are a couple of other bills that uh uh we think may come back in 2027, especially related to autonomous vehicles um and some uh continued ODOT reforms. uh economic development. Greg mentioned uh a little bit earlier the enterprise zones was a major uh point of of support from the city to allow flexibility in uh creating an enterprise zone. Previously, we were prohibited from doing it under the criteria and state law. Um, with House Bill 4084, we uh would now be able to create an enterprise zone in the city and kind of use that um as a a deal sweetener to help um attract a company that may be looking at multiple sites across the state or in multiple states to kind of lock them down and bring them to Wilsonville. Uh, and then I already mentioned the funding for industrial site readiness as well. Uh there was a lot of conversation around a a Senate bill 1586 that had some tax incentives

that could have been um beneficial to Wilsonville, but also involved some um land use. uh a pretty sizable land expansion in in Hillsboro and that uh drove a lot of conversation uh during session and um it ended up not passing uh but it it kind of brought up some uh questions around land use and how land ties into economic development statewide.

So in land use there's a lot of discussion of UGB expansions. House Bill 30 or 4035 expanded the eligibility for cities in metro to amend their UGBS under a temporary program. Probably not an issue for us because we, you know, have ample urban reserves. Uh but for some cities, this gives them some flexibility for UGB expansion. uh HB 4082 added some temporary uh UGB uh expansion for programs that would assist seniors uh with manufactured housing including um manufactured housing for people uh less than 120% of the median uh income. So uh for seniors and people of low income to be able to expand the urban growth boundary to some degree in order to build additional housing. So not a big session with land use but two very important UGB bills I think. So uh in the housing area uh we have talked a lot tonight about house bill 4037. So I will just say that uh there's a lot of changing going on with you know some of the original HAPO legislation and I just want to credit Kim and the staff and the excellent discussion you as a council just had on this. Uh but we have to is in my opinion if I may editorialize we have to watch that we don't lose our local control with you know a nick you know a thousand cuts it's kind of death by a thousand cuts that each little increment of local control you lose like noticing and things like that are important things to fight for I think but anyway uh house bill 4082 temporarily I'm sorry excuse me u establishing the housing opportunity uh fund for HB 4036 six and that's deposit uh bonds for use by the housing community services department to provide more additional funding for affordable housing and uh SB561

uh which really was about some of the housing that was burnt in the fires that uh the question is what uh building codes will apply to the new housing. will you use the previous building codes or will you use the upgraded updated housing codes when you rebuild that housing. So that's we think an important bill. We took a strong position on it. Uh and those were pretty much there's a lot going on in housing generally and it's quite technical but I think those are the high points. Uh the city doesn't engage very directly on a lot of public safety issues since we don't um operate our own law enforcement agency, but a couple of um high-profile bills that uh passed this session were related to masking for law enforcement was a direct response to the uh reports out of Minneapolis related to customs enforcement. Uh and then some uh privacy concerns around license plate readers. Um there's a uh some issues that Eugene was having around license plate readers and how uh the information was being shared and how secure the data was. Um so there was a a a bill to to talk about privacy concerns for that. There was a another bill that did not pass related to um notifications if the city was subject to a cyber security incident. we, you know, got hacked or ransomwareed, um, that we would have had to report that to the state within a particular time frame, a very short time frame, so short that we probably wouldn't even have all the answers. So, there's a lot of discussion, good good conversation around um, what does that time frame look like? And um, anyway, that that bill ended up not passing.

The league uh, led on HB4005, which establishes the water professionals stay as the second uh, Saturday in October. This is an opportunity to thank and celebrate those people who keep our water systems going. Of course, that's important issue for us. I think uh HB 4144 battery producer responsibility bill so that people that produce batteries share in the cost of how those batteries are recycled. Uh we were a supporter of that. Uh HB 4134 uh which was probably one of the more controversial bills. That's the local tax. I'm sorry, excuse me. That's the uh 1.25 25 increase for wildlife. So the money that we would collect them from the statewide transient lodging tax would pay for natural resources staff at uh ODFW uh at some of the other agencies. So that one was strongly supported by the natural resources community but opposed by the tourism community that felt that it added cost when we attract conventions and that kind of thing.

Am I got the next one here? I believe so. General

general government to talk about the Oregon Government Ethics Committee with Representative Ricky Smith in the room is a little bit intimidating in that she was at the table on all of these things. So, I'm not going to totally pass the baton to her, but when she comes up for her turn, I'm sure she will give you a lot of details, but it's basically very good news. And that is that um legislation was passed which allows the feeding of city councils. and you don't have to declare it if we buy you hot dogs or a you know pizza. So that is not an ethics violation which is really good. A more serious note though the serial meetings clarification was badly needed because you know legislation as you know uh you know was needed to clarify the opinion of the Oregon government's ethics commission about how city councils can interact without being considered a public deliberation. So I think that was very important. And then the league really weighed in on getting a city attorney or a person with a background in local government on the Oregon Government Ethics Commission in order to bring some sanity to the process of that regulatory. I will not editorialize any more on that, but I'm sure that Representative Ricky Smith will uh be able to tell you much more on those issues. So

appreciate it. Well, if we can clone uh our city attorney and give them I see an excellent candidate. So great a clone.

So looking at the revenue and finance side, I already mentioned the federal disconnect bill. There was also one related to cash transaction rounding. So uh this is due to the penny shortage. Um, but it, you know, it affects how much money people pay if they're paying in cash. Uh, and then there was a a bill heavily supported by the League of Oregon Cities related to the split of how lodging taxes can be used. It had been 70% had to go to uh marketing for for future tourism and 30% could be used for general government uses. Um, that's been shifted to 50/50. Um so it allows uh cities especially on the coast some of those like Newport Lincoln City they they had this influx of folks that are needing law enforcement services needing fire AMR type services um during the summer and not being able to to adequately pay for them with all this this influx of tourism. Um so it was opposed by some of the destination marketing organizations because they wanted to you know get more revenue and and um bring more people in. Uh but it was supported by the League of Oregon Cities. up. That was it.

And I just want to jump in because, you know, I'm uh always saying that we're a city that punches over our weight. You know, we're a 2003 transient lodging tax city. I mean, so we were a leader that put that in place before there was legislation that this affected to that degree. We were not affected. But, you know, um also it's we are a city our you know, explore Wilsonville is a city department. And so in a way it doesn't matter whether you know the destination marketing organization when it's part of the city can make those kinds of stronger more directed but the the idea is local government needs to be reimbured for the impacts of tourism. The legislature stepped up and passed them.

Uh so we've talked about a lot of things some of which are directly applicable to Wilsonville some aren't. So just a a roundup of some of the highlights that matter the most to us. Uh we protected the Boone Bridge funding like I said. Um, we've got that flexibility for enterprise zones. Um, public meetings, law clarity was a a big thing that we worked on this this session and then continued partnership with LOC and and other cities on shared revenues and and other issues that we all care about. So, uh, there's a lot packed into just a handful of days. Um, really want to thank um, Senator Courtney Neon Mistlin, Rep. Sue Ricky Smith uh and their teams, all the nonpartisan support staff in the policy and research office and legislative fiscal um getting us bill amendments uh online so we can analyze them and uh helping understand what the fiscal impact could be to local government. There's a a section on on most bills that that says that. Um so appreciate all the the legislative staff's work. Um thank you also to city council and the Wilsonville staff. Um, often I I'll send out a bill and and say, "Hey, I need, you know, input on on this from from um staff in community development or transit or somewhere else in the city and really appreciate everyone that helped and and got answers that Greg and I needed to advocate for the city in Salem." And then of course all the coalitions that were part of um and couple of fun photos. So, uh, there was a reception in the governor's, uh, office after the the construction wrapped up. Um, so I I, uh, stole a seat at the governor's ceremonial desk. Greg, snapped that photo of Governor Wild's campaign photo there.

Uh, and then on the right is Greg testifying on STR 206, which was a memorial for Senator Aaron Woods. So, a little bit of of live action uh, happening during the during the session. And thanks to Latana Blanco who's here tonight who really guided that whole process. Just a point of personal privilege, Mr. Mayor and council, if I may, as I said, you know, last week at the Clackamus County Business Alliance meeting, I really appreciate the support over 27 years of the city council. Uh it's half of my working life that I've worked with you and it's hard to go, but I think uh we're in really good hands. And so normally you'd pass like a torch or something, but in this case, and this is not a contribution, this is a recognition. I passed my Wilsonville hat, which I have worn proudly at many different places. Well, it's pretty clean. And there it is, Emirate to you. The passing of the torch, the identity of Wilsonville as we deal externally with the legislature and the other agencies. I think the city of Wilsonville is in very good hands and uh thank you for the opportunity to serve. Well, thank you, Greg. I appreciate that. And I have some some things to say as well. Um, so as as you mentioned, uh you've been here for uh as the city's contract lobbyist since 1997, nearly 30 years. Um, and while Greg serves from the shadows, um, and the elected officials take the spotlight, um, you've been a secret weapon for Wilsonville. Uh, we often say that Wilsonville is a city that punches above its weight, and your contributions are a big reason for that. Some major city initiatives that have benefited from Greg's advocacy include giving Wilsonville the agency to determine where to locate the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility uh which allowed for the development of Villawis, promoting the Wamtt River as both a municipal water source and a component of the city's tourism promotion program. Securing funding for Wilsonville projects that have helped the city advance worldclass development. ensuring the voices of our elected officials and

Charbano residents are heard during multiple iterations of Aurora airport master planning, protecting the French Prairie rural reserves from overdevelopment, and that is just the tip of the iceberg. One of the things that uh has made Greg so effective over the years is his charisma. It's a great skill for a lobbyist and one that Greg has mastered. He always greets people by name and remembers details about them like their family members or their interests. His role isn't easy or glamorous. You have to ask repeatedly before people start paying attention to your issues.

You need to know when to stand firm, when to compromise. You're on the front line defending decisions and positions that are your clients, not necessarily your own. You spend years building relationships that can break over one bill. Uh, I spoke with my predecessor Mark Atnod about Greg and he shared, quote, "Greg Leo is a credible authoritative lobbyist and tourism promoter who tackles challenges with gusto, and he is a joy to work with." End quote. Although we only worked uh together in this capacity for a few months, I have appreciated Greg's wisdom, expertise, and camaraderie. When you're in the trenches during legislative session, you need a confidant by your side. Thank you, Greg, for being in the trenches with me. Fortunately, although this is a transition, it isn't the end of our relationship with Greg, who will continue to be a presence with our tourism groups, with the Wamut Falls and Landings Heritage Area Coalition, and as a subcontractor for our new government uh relations consultant, CFM Advocates, and continuing to work on issues that matter to Wilsonville. So, from one lobbyist to another, and on behalf of so many staff members and elected officials with whom you've worked, thank you, Greg, for your hard work and influence on Wilsonville's behalf.

Thank you, Ever. Thank you. And with that, if you have any questions, councelor Shavelin, a comment. Thank you, Mr. Wild and Mr. Leo, for your report. I always enjoy reading it. I like the format. It's so nice to be able to look through it and get a a capture of of what went on and be able to inter interpret and understand what happened at the legislator legislature and thank you for your hard work this past session. I want to recognize Mr. Leo who also served in a similar capacity in my community of Charbano as the government affairs consultant for many years. I don't know that it was 27.

So, it was close around 25.

But nevertheless, Greg uh worked tirelessly in our community, kept his ear to the ground, always let us know when something was coming up. He was the force behind Charbano uniting our voice in opposition to polling. when we realized that the loc the proposed location of the the uh polling tolling I'm sorry tolling booth uh would create a situation where Charbono residents anybody living south of the of the river that was a Wilsonville resident would have to pay to get into their city. Greg was the force, as I said, to be able to help us get our voice together and appear. What was that? 24 20 24

three 24 like it was just last week. But anyhow, uh I know you're off to New Horizons. Um but you will be missed both here in the city and also in my community. Thank you very much. Thank you, counselor. Councelor Cunningham. Yeah, thank you both for the presentation, your hard work in this short session. Um, but of course, special thanks to uh Mr. Leo. Uh, you have always been there if I've had a question. Extremely responsive, sometimes pestering me a little bit. If I said, "Hey, can we chat?" I'd hear three or four text messages might come up through the morning as I was working on something else and I Okay, Greg. Okay, thank you. Thanks for keeping on me.

Um, but any any question I had, you were right there to answer. Um, I always, you know, always a straight shooter with me. Um, I always appreciated your feedback to me as well. Sometimes criticism, sometimes positive. Um, but all taken well, all appreciated. Um, so thank you very much. That's that's a a long service to our city. Uh, and uh, you know, I'm glad I'm glad to hear that you're going to be working with CFM advocates and still kind of in the fight for us. Um, I remember when when I saw that, uh, that that proposal was up, I called you. I said, "Who do I need to go to fight for you? Who do I need to go to war for you with?" And uh you said, "No, it's okay. This is good." So, um humility, good guy. Appreciate you. Thank you for your service to our city.

Thank you, counselor. Councelor Skull, also would like to thank both of you. Uh great report. I appreciate you taking the time the other day to walk me through this since I missed the French Prairie meeting and all that. Uh and uh Greg, great job. Thank you. I met you back in 2015 on a tour through the state capital. Oh yeah.

You were very very knowledgeable and you walked us through uh all the uh all the hallways and all the secret offices and everything that was going on in there and really appreciated that and learned a lot from that and you've uh taken that experience and for years and years of experience and done well for uh for the city of Wilsonville. So thank you very much and uh good luck with whatever's next and uh enjoy yourself.

Thank you councelor. Appreciate it. Mr. Leo, I first met you 12 years ago. You may not remember, but when Kinder Morgan pipeline was a concern of mine as a community member, and you're all always gracious to me back then, um, as mayor, uh, especially in the first year as mayor during the longer legislative session, I could count on you to text me at 5 in the morning or 5:30 uh, while I or talking with you on the phone while I'm walking my dog to give me the latest update of what's happening. ing and uh you you always kept me informed, always were in a position to explain what was going on, the nuances. I've never seen someone when I'm in Salem be able to multitask as well as multi- message, if you will, to various leaders. It's a talent that many of us will never have. I don't know how you do it. Um but thank you for your service. you essentially can look at Wilsonville today and say you were part of building it.

So, uh, and that's putting it mild mildly given how long you've been here for the city. Thank you for your service. Um, thank you for the new service you'll provide in a different capacity, but we appreciate you always. Thank you, mayor. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. Is there any questions on the report? Nothing. Okay. You did that good of a job that we Sounds good. Thank you. Thank you all.

Okay, with that before we adjourn the work session, council, since uh council city uh council president Barry is not going to be present when I go through the agenda, I'll be calling each of you um to handle various roles that she customarily did. I'm going to go in order with councelor Cunningham first and councelor Chevlin to at the end councelor Scholes. I didn't want to surprise you. With that, we're adjourned for till 7:05 if that's okay. Does that give us enough time? 705.

I'll call I'll call to order the meeting the Wilsville City Council. for April 6, 2026 at 7:06 p.m. Will the city recorder please call the role? Councelor Chevlin here. Councelor Cunningham here. Councelor Skull here. Mayor O'Neal here. And Council President Barry is excused. Please stand and join us for the pledge of allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to theublic which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Councelor Cunningham, can I have a motion to approve the following order of agenda? I move to approve the following order of agenda. Is there a second? Second.

Motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor say I. I. The motion passes 40. Good evening and for those who celebrate, happy Easter Monday. It's been a few weeks since our last regular city council meeting. I hope everyone had a chance to step away, enjoy spring break. If you have children in school, spend time with family, and recharge. For those who celebrate Easter yesterday as my family did, I hope it was meaningful time, one that brings a sense of renewal, hope, faith, and togetherness. It has been a absolutely beautiful weekend. And for those who are currently observing Passover, I hope it is a special time of reflection, resilience, and a renewed appreciation for freedom, a value we all share in this community. Tonight is also a special moment for our city. Gina Troja has been spent years at the staff table in the back of the room offering guidance, support, and a steady leadership. Now she joins us with the city council on the deis in her new role as city manager. Welcome Gina. Next are a couple of proclamations that we're issuing tonight and I'll go over them briefly. The first is the Arbor Day proclamation. Wilsville recognizes the important role trees play in our community in our annual Arbor Day proclamation. The city of Wilsville has had the honor of being recognized by the National Arbor Day Foundation as a Tree City USA for 28 consecutive years.

The pride we take in being a Tree City USA can be seen in the consistent care of our trees and the efforts to plan plant new trees. Additionally, the city has partnered with a local nonprofit, Friends of Trees, to strengthen our urban tree canopy and ensure the benefits of trees, including clean air, clean water, shade, soil, soil retention, wildlife habitat, and many, many more are available to all Wilsonville residents. On Arbor Day and every day, the city encourages our residents and businesses to plant and care for trees for the benefit of this and future generations. Our second proclamation recognizes volunteer appreciation month. This one matters a lot. We have over 300 people in this community who are giving their time quietly, consistently, and without expecting anything in return. And the truth is, without them, many of the things we value in Wilsonville simply wouldn't happen or wouldn't happen at the level we expect. When neighbors are out cleaning up our roads, shelving books in the library, live delivering meals to seniors, serving on our boards and committees, and stepping up in so many other ways. They're not just helping out. They are shaping the kind of community we all want to live in. In a time when city budgets are tight, their contributions are not aren't just appreciated. They're essential for us. So to every volunteer, thank you for thank you for your time, your commitment, and for helping make

Wilsonville the community we're all proud to call home. The city will host a volunteer appreciation event on Wednesday, April 22nd. All current volunteers are invited and can get more information and the link to RSVP through the department they volunteer with. Turning to my uh activities, uh in addition to my regular constituent regional meetings with other mayors and public officials, on March 18th, I attended a reception with the artist of the new mural in the children's room of the Wilsville Public Library. Our young library patrons helped inspire artist Julia Hunkller's beautiful work. The mural is a great addition to the library and part of our tradition of public art here in Wilsonville. Later that day, I attended with Council President Barry and Councelor Skull a tour of the Portland General Electric's Integrated Operations Center. This is where a PG&E monitors power demand, buys and sells excess power generated by other utilities to meet need, ensures all the components of the system such as transformers and substations are functioning and coordinates repair efforts and disaster response. I appreciated learning more about PTE's long-term preparations for demand growth and hazards like wildfires as well as how they keep the lights on dayto day. Many thanks to the PGE team who led the tour, including Larry Beckad Doll, excuse me, Beckdall, senior vice president of strategy and advanced energy delivery, and Meredith Armstrong, who's our the senior manager for local

government affairs and arch contact for the city of Wilsonville, and all their colleagues that supported that tour. On March 31st, I attended the Clackamus C County Business Alliance which hosted a mayor summit on and with that I participated with 10 mayors from across Clakamus County. We each shared our city's priorities, needs, development projects, and ways local governments and the business community can become partner, excuse me, better partners. The balance of my past working schedule can be found in my written materials which I'll provide the city recorder at the end of the meeting. With respect to upcoming meetings or events, we have a number of events which I encourage you to look at the city of Wilson's calendar at wilsonvilleorggon.govcal. I'll highlight a couple tonight. First is the Pollinator Pedal, a community bike ride this Saturday through some of our beautiful pollinator gardens. It's a great way to enjoy the outdoors, spend time with family, and see firsthand the work that goes into making our city as vibrant as it is. The ride is a 10mi loop starting at the Memorial Park tennis courts at 10:30 a.m. this Saturday. It's family friend friendly, but helmets are required. If you're able, I encourage you to come out, enjoy the ride, and take in a little bit of what makes this community special. Following the Smart Bike Ride on April 11th, I'll be attending the Rotary Club of Wilson's Heart of Gold Gala and auction with along with other city councilors. This is always a special event. It brings people together, but

more importantly, it recognizes some of those in our community who quietly make a difference every day through their service. The First Citizens Award is one of those meaningful ways to honor that. Congratulations to this year's finalists, Brad Christensen, Jenny Hill, John Hillen Payne, Scott Nichols, and Rick Wallace. and thank you for everything you do to give back and strengthen our community. Proceeds from the event will go to the Wilson Rotary Foundation, which supports all of the Rotary service projects and programs that benefit our community. Our next city council meeting will be on Monday, April 20th, starting at 7 PM. The meeting will begin with my annual state of the city address in which I will outline a vision for Wilsville rooted in belonging and how we shape our community for future generations. All are invited to attend or to watch on the city's YouTube channel or cable television. That's Xfinity channel 30, I guess. uh Ziply channel 32 as I've been told and that's the extent of my report. Turning to communications, please join me in welcoming our state senator Courtney Nuran Muslan and state representative Sue Ricky Smith. They can come on up. They both work hard on behalf of this community and we appreciate their service. They'll be sharing a brief recap of their work during the 2026 legislative session. And thank you for taking the time to come before council.

Thank you, mayor and city councilors. We're looking forward to presenting this evening. Um I think it's ready to go, right? Okay. Um so really appreciate the the meeting so far and um being here with all of you tonight. I have a brief presentation. Uh, I've been asked to present five to seven minutes, so I'll try to talk fast because I am known to go on and on and on. Um, so hello Courtney Neuron Miss uh your state senator serving district 13 and honored to present a quick recap of our u 2026 short session that we held in February and the beginning of March. And how do I advance the slide? Maybe space bar. Oh, let's do space bar. Okay. Um, so in this session, it was a short session and you heard a great recap. I really enjoyed um Everett and Greg's recap of the session. And a lot of what I have in my slides is similar to the content in their great presentation. Um but our goal as your representation in the legislature is to understand the Wilsonville priorities and deliver the best we can on those. So, um I worked really hard on a few of the top priorities and really appreciated the legislative um document that um your that Greg and uh Everett provided us so that we really had that touchstone of what we needed to make sure that we were focusing on and uplifting on your behalf. So, we passed the recreational liability compromise. Um the original bill um was amended. If you're following vote history, you'll

notice that I voted against it as it headed out of the Senate. The House then worked on it more and it came back and I was able to support 1517. Ideally, liability waiverss will be now more enforcable and insurance will be more available, ideally cheaper for um sports, fitness, and recreational activities. Um we also, as you heard in their presentation, worked really hard. Both Representative Ricky Smith and myself were part of Representative Sosa's workg group on the public meetings law um challenges and we wanted to make sure that we were providing clarity and um that we were cleaning up any statutes um that needed to be addressed. So with the Oregon Government Ethics Commission workg group, we came up with three bills. Um, we passed a bill adding a lo a member of local government or with local government experience to the government ethics commission. We also made sure that we cleared up any confusion around if food and beverage say at a baby shower is allowed um for public officials. And we also of great concern to our city councilors, our county commissioners, those in public office, we address serial communication statute clarity. I do think we're going to need to make sure that we're monitoring how 4177 is implemented and you have a lot of commitment among the legislators on that work group that we will try to make sure that it's uh working for everyone as intended. Um we also know that housing and local control are very important to Wilsonville. We passed the local act as you heard. This lets cities manage more of the transient lodging taxes that come to the city. um ideally helping to better serve local needs. This will really impact our tourist um heavy cities um who need to make sure that the infrastructure is keeping up with a tourist season, tourism season, public safety, infrastructure is keeping pace.

So, this is a really great um emphasis on the local control and trusting our local governments to invest appropriately for local needs. We also made sure that we listened to the lack of housing available and accessible for Oregonians experiencing disability. So, we passed House Bill 15 1576 that will ideally increase inventory for people who are having a hard time finding wheelchair accessible mobility um challenges um that they're able to find housing. Um, Representative Ricky Smith and I um hear you when we're talking about local control. Um you'll see some of our no votes um in the bills listed here relative to housing, land use, local decisionmaking. Um these reflect our support for um smart planning for your understanding of the local land use and local housing needs and making sure that we're part of the voice. Um continuing to emphasize where our local governments can make um the most agile and um finesse decision on behalf of local communities. Um, we also made a lot of investments that align with Wilsonville's top priorities. Um, we, Representative Ricky Smith and I successfully defended the $1 million that we were able to get from the state in the 2025 um, transportation uh, in the 2025 session. Knowing that the transportation package was um not project heavy, we went for the dollars needed to advance the Boone Bridge seismic resiliency capacity improvements. In partnership with Mayor O'Neal and Representative Congresswoman Selenus, we are continuing to try to move this project forward. And as you just heard, uh Congresswoman Selenus is pursuing federal uh funding leveraging that state investment that we have started. Um I also want to take a moment to thank Greg Leo as many of you

have already done. Um in and you know and also Everett their work throughout this session has been incredible. But Greg, in terms of the Boone Bridge funding, I remember one of my first sessions we were fighting for the study to understand the Boone Bridge at a deeper level, its seismic resiliency, capacity needs, how it was constructed, and Greg came rushing into my office at the end of a day uh at the end of a session and said, "The funding for the study has been stripped out of the the budget bill." and we were able to thanks to his diligence, his focus, the way he was tracking the dollars that made a difference to Wilsonville, we were able to get that funding back into the final bill before passage. So, I just really want to highlight uh again, as many of you have, Greg's service to the city. Um so, Washington County Courthouse is another uh priority um for the region. I know that not much of Wilsonville is in Washington County. um like we fought for the Clakmus County Courthouse and built that. We need to make sure that we're fighting for a Washington County courthouse and we successfully as a caucus Washington County caucus defended the $1.25 million um that we invested in 2025. Um so it might not seem like a a new accomplishment, but defending the dollars that we invested in 2025 was part of the work we had to do given the budget impacts in the 2026 session. As you heard also, we invested in the industrial site readiness, um, $10 million, but also there was a pot of five million and some previous investments. We need to continue as a region investing in this critical economic development tool, and I stand ready to continue to uplift how much these dollars leverage um, additional dollars for our region. Um, in partnership with Wilsonville's top priorities, we invested in stabilizing employment related daycare to the tune

of $67 million. Again, this is stabilizing it. We do need to make sure we're continuing to increase and give access to families where the parents would like to work um and make sure that all families in Oregon have access to affordable quality child care. And we also invested in housing. $100 million is going to create and preserve affordable housing. Um preservation of affordable housing is one of the areas I really like to work on so that we know that our um residents who are in subsidized housing don't suddenly experience market rate housing. Uh three more policies or areas that I want to highlight that we passed um that protect Oregon are expanded earned income tax credits for 200,000 of Oregon's most vulnerable working families. We also balanced Oregon's budget. Different from our federal government who can run a deficit, we must balance our budget every cycle. So, in um 15, Senate Bill 1507, we responded to the HR1 uh federal HR1 impacts and um disconnected from some of the most harmful components to preserve 300 million $311 million that protect core services that Oregonians depend on, including health care, education, natural resources, child care, and public safety. Uh we also push back against federal overreach with a robust immigration justice package. Um the bills included um protections uh of privacy, safety in hospitals and schools, making sure that we um are protecting against unlawful immigration enforcement and also that we're providing support to respond to ICE activities and communication in our communities. Uh also something that I'm celebrating is investing in wildlife conservation and wildfire mitigation. Um, House Bill 4134 dedicates funding to protect

Oregon's natural resources and wildlife conservation through a 1.25 statewide transient lodging tax increase. So that'll be on like hotels um stays um so that we are able to invest in the things that really actually draw people to Oregon for tourism. Um, as the co-chair of the natural resources budget committee, seeing how difficult it is to defend our natural resources budgets, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, Marine Board, etc., Department of Agriculture, we really need those $1.25 to make sure that we're able to provide essential services for our natural resources. Um, I've got six more policies that I want to highlight that I worked very, um, closely on. Uh we protected reproductive health care for patients and providers. Um that is making sure that um providers seeking already legal reproductive or gender affirming care here in Oregon are protected from legal attacks that originate out of our state. We also closed a predatory lending loophole that protects consumers. Understanding that affordability is on Oregonian's minds. Uh we made sure that outofstate digital loan sharks are no longer able to um charge tripledigit interest rates um putting people into cycles of debt. We also established a battery producer responsibility program. Um we've heard a lot about costly fires in our landfills, the impacts to human health of batteries. making sure that we have battery manufacturers um selling in Oregon who are also then responsible for collecting and recycling those batteries was our goal and we achieved it. And we put buyer home Oregon home buyers before billionaires with a bill to make sure that private equity firms have to wait 90 days after a home comes on the market to before they're able to u make uh an offer. So, Oregon home buyers, our

neighbors will be able to make their offers first. If the home doesn't sell in those 90 days, then it would be open to private equity. We also, something I care a lot about is animal rights and um humane treatment of animals. We fixed some um oversight structures for animal rescue entities, ideally allowing more resources to go straight to animal welfare efforts. and we streng uh strengthened wage protections for um bad actors who um see penalties simply as a cost of doing business. This bill, House Bill 4089, established targets uh targeted criminal accountability for contractors who are knowingly working with unlicensed labor brokers. And um now that we're an interim um Representative Ricky Smith and I are working on policies for upcoming sessions, listening to community, three areas that I work a lot on our education environment, and I'll be looking at our transportation sector as well. Um I specifically am working in education on our post-secary attainment steering committee in partnership with the higher education coordinating commission. I'll continue to work on my efforts to provide school meals and quality nutrition to students in Oregon schools. This helps with not only healthy development and social interactions, but of course with learning outcomes. And then I also uh interested in dusting off some of the work that I did as I led the statewide educator salary task force and looking at bringing back some of those recommendations that need to be revisited. In terms of the environment, I'm the co-vice chair of the environmental caucus and really focused on clean energy solutions and how that can play a role in our economic strategy. Um, I introduced a bill on virtual power plants u which mayor as you toured the PGE uh facility. You might have seen they have an entire room dedicated to their virtual power plants pilot programs which are very successful. PGE is doing great work on virtual power

plants, and it's time for us to really make that available to all of Oregon's um uh rateayers, making sure that we're rolling pilot projects out to more of a statewide level because they're successful at bringing down the load on our transmission and ideally uh reducing the rateayers um need to invest in physical power plant construction. So really strategic also make sure that we're investing strategically in things like solar um battery residential battery electric vehicles and I'm also going to be looking at inclusive utility investments which are an affordability effort as well as a climate um proposal. I work a lot on food waste pollution toxins and water and land. So, I'll continue to do that work. Um, as well as I serve on the task force for municipal solid waste in the Wamut Valley, and we're looking at solutions relative to preparing for the coffin but landfill uh to be closed. Transportation is something that's on all of our minds. Um, Representative Ricky Smith and I are fierce defenders of the 5030 20 making sure that 50% of the the bill of of the funding for transportation comes back to our local counties and cities at that 20 and 30%. Um, I'm going to continue to support solutions that include transportation solutions that include seismic improvements, rail, transit, making sure that we're investing in multimodal including EV infrastructure. And the last slide here is just highlighting that during the interim we're connecting with community. We're in district. We're not in Salem each day as often. Um I host monthly town halls and coffees and my next event will be April 23rd at 10:30 at the Sherwood Community Center. So hope to see some of you there. Um just a snapshot into my week. These are some of the events that I'll be attending. We've got a child care

conversation relative to the closure, potential closure of the Seaman's Child Care Center. We have a conversations around um policy for education coming this week. Um my office and I will also be connecting with schoolboard members and city councilors around the district. I'll be presenting some of the um pollute polluters pay uh policy concepts to the just transition alliance tomorrow. and I'm so excited to be minging the Tiger Chamber Civics B. Um but then also um policy work and professional development are a key part of our interim and so I'll be attending the National Caucus of Environmental Legislators Conference as well as the Clean Energy to Legislative Academy and then touring Southern Oregon with other legislative colleagues. I want to thank everybody um for all of your partnership in the session. Um and really want to make sure that people feel comfortable reaching out to me in my office so that we can understand the local um interests and and policy and the local conversations. Um and I really just appreciate the opportunity tonight to uh present a little bit to you all. My email is here and I'll turn it over to our my colleague Representative Ricky Smith.

Wonderful. But looking and uh looking at the time, I I would say that my role is to be the closer. Uh and uh so I'm going to try to bring it home here very quickly. Uh number one, I want to say thank you to my colleague Senator Niron Mistlin for a very thorough review of the work uh that we did in 33 days according to uh Everett and and Greg and appreciated their uh recap as well. things that um the work for me um the while this is considered a short session for me it was actually my first long session because I came into the legislature the last three weeks of the long session so I had an opportunity uh to uh fully experience um a full legislative session uh and I will say that uh my areas of of u focus and expertise uh were in education committee on the economic development small business and uh trade committee and also in labor and workforce And so I would just quickly highlight uh the areas that were of um prime concern for for me. Um mayor, as you and I have discussed relative to um ICE raids on on school campuses and college campuses. Um proud to say that it was achieved house bill 4079 um and was able to support uh the carrier in the delivery of that bill. Uh in addition um also the wanted to address the threat of swatting which many districts um and communities um experience um and supported House Bill 4151 uh which now creates a new felony um if someone engages in that activity and someone is either um seriously physically injured or um has has a death as as a result of that. Uh in addition to public safety, I also carried the copper theft bill, which was House Bill 4140. That has an impact for cities and counties. Um because uh copper right now is actually trading at a higher level than gold. Um and so we know that uh landlines that our seniors primarily um

and those that are out in rural areas depend upon uh for their access to 911 um are being dug up and cut um in in hopes of of stripping copper. We saw recently uh in Multma County and in Portland a staying operation that brought a copper ring uh to bear and because of this legislation uh now will face stiffer penalties uh for that activity. I will be expanding that work going into 27 um session uh and working on a RICO statute um that will actually get at the head of these rings um that go after copper uh endangering our cities and our counties and businesses. Um in addition um on the um education side I had the privilege of working with the Oregon Department of Education relative to school um accountability um bill and and will continue that work. Uh I also look forward to working on uh expanding the school year work task force um as well as dealing with school attendance issues. Uh and um we'll be discussing an opportunity potentially to have a conversation relative to class size um and its impacts um relative to how we best serve our children um in in our districts. Um relative to the uh economic um development, you've already heard you about the investments made. Um, I'm pleased to say that I've also had conversations with uh Congresswoman Selenus relative to her continued work on infrastructure and what bills I might be able to uh bring alongside that to further deepen and expand um access for cities and and counties uh to put more infrastructure into the ground. Um in addition to that also uh supported the small business tariff um which gets back to refunding um and supporting businesses that have been impacted by the federal tariffs. uh to we know that small businesses are the backbones of our communities and it is important uh

that they be supported in that effort. Uh and with that um we would entertain any questions that you might have. Any questions? Councelor Shavevel just a comment. Thank you Senator Neron Mifflin and Representative Ricky Smith for the work you do at the state house but also in our region and specifically for Wilsonville. We so appreciate you knowing what we need, asking for what we need, having open lines of communication, and um coming here tonight to let us know you worked hard this last session, and I know you will continue to work hard for our community. Thank you. Thank you,

Councelor Skull. I would also like to thank you. It's a lot going on there in a short short period of time and uh it's a lot to keep track of and appreciate it very much in terms of what you're doing uh taking care of us and taking care of the state and uh and there's lots of different moving parts there and it's I'm sure it's difficult to keep track of but uh good job. Thank you very much. Thank you councelor

councelor Cunningham mirror it. Thank you for your hard work. Uh especially as as mentioned before the the work on helping to keep local control. I know that during the long session um uh Senator uh Neon Smith, sorry, Neon Mistlin um you you also uh you know stood up for our rights uh here with the home rule and the ability to control our our destiny as a city. And then during this short session, um the work you all did on uh the bills to uh with the housing to ensure that we uh or to attempt to ensure, but uh keep up that fight for us. We appreciate it. Um we say it a lot here in this council chamber that uh we do expect to to be able to control our destinies as a city and uh your advocacy on that is greatly appreciated. So, thank you. Thank you. With that, I'll say that I really appreciate working with both of you. Uh I've never seen I mentioned Greg Leo's text messages at 5 in the morning. Uh I should say ditto to you two. Uh the communication's been wonderful. uh the outreach, especially when citizens raise concerns. The outreach I've gotten from both of you and helping uplift our local concerns to uh the legislature and in Salem, uh the amount of time and effort you come into our community and uh spend time with our citizens is amazing and continue the fight. Thank you for your service and I look forward for all of us working for you and many years down the road. So, thank you.

Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, mayor. And I want to also return the thanks to you. You came to Salem so many times to testify on behalf of Wilsonville, and it really does make a difference. And our Wilsonville team there um the delegation, the um the Mr. Wild and Mr. Leo and yourself showing up so many times. I think it really has helped, as somebody said, helped Wilsonville punch above its weight. So, thank you for being there so often.

I would add to that point that um my colleagues who have worked on on the housing bills, particularly 4037, uh reached out to me directly and said, you know, I want you to know, heads up, and this we couldn't get what you wanted, so please vote and vote your conscience. Um and uh so we will continue that good fight. Um and uh it's earned me more than one trip to the governor's office, but I will continue to um you darken that door as many times as I need to on your behalf. So, yeah. Thank you very much for your presentation today. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Now, next up is citizens input and community announcements. This is an opportunity for visitors to address the city council on any matter concerning city's b city business or any matter over which the council has control. It is also the time to address items not on the agenda. It's also the time to address items that are on the agenda but not scheduled for a public hearing. Staff will make every effort to respond to questions raised during committee input as quickly as possible following the council meeting. Please limit your comments to three minutes. Please, when conveying your remarks, whatever they may be, please speak to the council as a whole and not directly to any one member of council during your comments. Also, please note you can use the podium or sit at the tables in the front of council, whatever makes you feel more comfortable. Please make sure you talk into the microphone at either location. To comment before council in person or virtually, you must sign up either by completing a speaker card at the side of the room or by using the raise hand feature in Zoom. You will need to provide your name, address, and topic. you will be discussing. Information on engaging with city council can be found on the city council's web page, wilsvilleorggon.gov city councsel. As a reminder, when you begin your comments, state your name for the record and state your address or state that your address is provided on the speaker card. Please note that this is not the only way to communicate with the council or myself. You are welcome to submit information in writing or via email. additionally encourage you to schedule a meeting with me or any of the other counselors to discuss your concerns in person further. And with that,

I'm going to call Sharon Kishner. She here. Okay. Doris Wher Doris Waver and my information is on file. I remember when Wilsonville first created their development review boards. It was rather unique, at least in this area. It gave an opportunity for just everyday people to come and say what they thought about development in our town. So, I'm sad to see that the state has now taken that away from us. I agree with Mayor O'Neal about notices on the website, but I also think there should be a column in the Boon Fairy Messenger since everyone receives that. The other thing I wanted to talk about was a different kind of notice. I started my career as a legal secretary. So I was particularly interested in reading the brief about the city being sued by the owner of Fry's property. So my question, and maybe this should be addressed to the city attorney, is was our policy to notify all the people within the town center loop an opportunity to address the zone change before the zone changes were made? Anybody want to tackle that one?

probably not. Yeah, probably maybe reach out by email. That would be great. Have a followup. Thank you, Miss Wher. That was the flaw I could see in their argument. So, hopefully we did the proper notices.

Thank you, John Lelo. Hello, I'm John Ledllo and uh you have all the information. Today I've come to talk to you about chairing meetings. I've chaired a half a thousand meetings this town um uh planning commission as mayor and four years as county chair. You know what we did, and you can look back on it, is some would think, you know, have their opinions of me and how I might run meetings, but go back and look at them. Here's what I did. I gave free license to my commissioners to ask questions and answer questions as they will because some of the commissioners were willing to tell those people who are pleading for an answer their answer. I know it's outrageous, the unmitigated audacity that a counselor or commissioner would talk directly to somebody testifying. these meetings that three minutes and thank you Mr. prayer for extending me an extra 40 seconds or 45 seconds last time, but these are really tight, you guys. I mean, 3 minutes. Some people are so nervous they can't talk and and they stumbled through it. I let people go. I had such phrases as, "Are you done yet? Can you finish the paragraph?" But we always let people go a little longer. Why? Why not? Who are we here to listen to? consultants whom we praise or volunteers that come up and spend their time here, their good, precious time, unpaid time to give you advice. And some of it's good advice. I've never heard from that side of the pulpit about what a good job somebody did testifying unless they're a really good friend. Winky winky. But, you know, it is just crazy to me that nobody answers any questions. They ask plenty of questions.

Nobody answers them ever. It's quiet up. It's It's no birds singing up here, you guys. And you continue doing it. It's really um embarrassing to other people. Look around. You'll see a lot of cities and commissions, county commissions saying, "Yeah, I want to talk some more about that." You know, we're not going to put it on our county administrator or city manager. We're going to answer some of those questions ourselves. What a crazy idea. I would just ask you to change some of the policies here. They're way too tight. I don't know what kind of side agreements you have where, well, we don't ask those kind of questions. We all agree to advance. Well, agree to advance on your on your rules as you wish, but give the public what they deserve, and that's time. Thank you, Tristan Roland. Uh my name is uh Tristan Roland and my information is on file. Um I'm here to speak on uh measure 3-632 which will be on the May ballot. Um, I'd like to preface by saying that I understand that urban renewal does have bad connotations. Um, it has been used by many large urban areas and planning agencies as a tool for gentrification and um uh but but I would suggest that it must be looked at on a case-bycase basis. So yes, there have been some cases where it's been uh really bad, but some cases

where it's greatly improved communities. I would argue that uh Wilsonville is one of them and will be one of them as we continue as we hopefully continue uh urban renewal. It um as planned, it will help build new developments that include low-inccome housing and housing for seniors. um help uh improve and maintain infrastructure and attract businesses to support the Wilsonville economy. Um basically increasing the development of the city. Um next I would like to discuss the impacts of the proposed measure. Um first plainly it will limit growth in Wilsonville. It's costly. would force automatic new votes every single t every time uh there's a change to the urban renewal plan th less costing tax you know including taxpayer money that to you know fund those elections. It would put us on track for higher taxes despite what uh the the the proposal says. You know, uh new development in the urban renewal plan helps pay for infrastructures and improvements. Um this amendment to the charter will likely lead to lawsuits um which would also be costly. And I would also like to emphasize that when most citizens of Wilsonville will be looking at whether to vote for this measure or not, they will not see the words of the measure on the ballot or on uh on the voters's pamphlet. So, um they won't even know what they're voting for or against. Um,

and I I like to I sometimes like to examine the social media community in Wilsonville, but I try not to engage in it, but I'm seeing a whole lot of nimi. Again, I I know I bring it up a lot, but it's a whole lot of we want uh we want to improve things in the city, but not in my backyard. no low-income housing in my backyard, none of this uh development. Um, and I'm hearing from the the uh the propos people proposing this. I I'm not hearing any alternative to the urban rural um plan. I'm mostly hearing uh hearing opposition but with no um uh uh alternative. So I I'm just here to strongly encourage citizens to vote against this measure as it will be a barrier to progress in Wilsonville. Thank you

Christie. Mayor Can I take a chair? Yes, please.

My name is Chris Mayer. My information is on the card. It's been a wicked crazy week. Most people here know me, but they probably don't know much about me. I was born in Detroit and raised in Massachusetts, schooled in Boston. New England is in my heart, but Wilsonville, Oregon, is my home. New Englanders have a reputation. We laugh a little too loud, and we use language that's a little too colorful. We're fighters. But why do we fight? We're not instigators. We learned that lesson real young. I think it's because we're fiercely loyal people. loyal to our families, loyal to our friends, loyal to our neighbors, to our home team and our hometown. Almost a year ago, I was in my garden attending my Aelas when I learned about the proposed charter amendment that would later become ballot measure 3-632. It was badly written and could harm our neighborhoods, businesses, and our schools. it could lead to higher taxes or more empty parking lots. I felt that urge to fight. I came to city hall and I gave my first ever public testimony. What I learned from sticking my neck out almost a year ago is that loyalty, that fire, that fight isn't geographically dependent. It lives in certain people. Maybe it's how our moms raised us or how our teachers mentored us or just playground rules. But through this fight, I have met hundreds of good people in Wilsonville. People with fire, people with fight. These people are not fighting for themselves. They're fighting for each other. They're fighting for you and they're fighting for me.

If this measure passes, it will hurt Wilsonville. It will hurt our beautiful tree city with its rich boon fairerryy history, its top tier schools, award-winning neighborhoods, and parks that draw visitors from Portland to Salem. A city that can't take care of itself will decline. You might not notice it tomorrow, but it will come faster than you think. I'm just one lady who hasn't tended her aelas in a year. I need help with this. Please think of one person you care about in this city. When you get home tonight, ask them to vote no on measure 3-632. If they can't vote, tell them about our campaign. If you're a fighter, too, and you think this measure is just a bunch of shenanigans dressed up as voter rights, come find us. We are Wilsonville United. That's my time. Thank you, Susan Reed. My name is Susan Reap and my information's on record and I'm going to talk about a tree. Um, I wish I was going to talk about something a lot more fiery because that that was wonderful. But we're a tree city and I thought I would just mention that there is one really fantastic tree that everyone

should go see before it gets its leaves and you can't see its structure. Every time I go down um that street that I'm not sure what the name it is. I think it's Parkway. When you go past Al's nursery before you get to that church, you're headed towards Target or Costco. There is a beautiful tree on the left. Just beautiful structure and if you're looking, you just can't miss it. And it's just worth going to look at. That's all I have to say. Miss, is there I got a note. Is there someone online?

The online speaker card for David. He's no longer wishing to speak. Understood. But there was also a online speaker Carol note underneath. Is that something relevant at the Sorry, just it's my handwriting that's bad. card.

Oh, card. Oh, okay. I misread. Thank you. All right. Uh Chris Hidleman. Thought that wasn't Oh, no. Sorry. Good evening. My name is Chris Heidam. My info is on file. So, should the Wilsonville Charter be amended to require voter approval of urban renewal plans? Well, of course, voters should have a say. Simple, right? But as usual, the pain is in the details. Details that those voting on this modification to our city's charter will almost certainly never see. Here's what will show up on the ballot and in the voter handbook. And this is the whole text of the actual initiative, right? Nobody is going to read this whole thing because it's not typically available. To start with, the amendment defines substantial change as any change that expands the boundary, duration, borrowing, or spending authority of any plans or alters the basic purpose, engineering, or financial principles of a voter approved plan. Any change in all of that is substantial. So, if engineers determine that the boundary needs to expand a few feet to access or improve infrastructure, say an electrical or water hookup, then that's substantial. The amendment does say any change any change that alters the engineering is substantial. Engineering designs surveys specifications and drawings changes in materials the measure doesn't specify. Suppose that in late fall of an even numbered year engineers determined that a plan road needs to go not over there but over here. Engineering change, right? Any engineering change and so substantial. Well, the November election just passed. So now we need to wait a year and a half, 18 months for voters to approve the substantial change at the next even numbered primary.

What about changes that are not substantial? I can't imagine what those are given that any change in all those categories is substantial. For those, the amendment requires that we all wait around for 90 days just in case 5% of Wilsonville's registered voters, so maybe 800 people call for an election. And if that happens in the late fall of an even numbered year, again, we're waiting around 18 months for voters to approve the notsubstantial change. So, should voters have a say in how improvements to our city are financed? Absolutely. But it is not this measure. Any change in the categories I mentioned requires a vote and potentially an 18-month period where we're all sitting on our hands waiting for that vote. The effect of this measure will not be to require voter approval of urban renewal plans. No, what it does is create insurmountable roadblocks to using urban renewal to address blight and Wilsonville. The only other path is bonds which have the unhappy effect of immediately raising all our already high property taxes. This measure is for you if you want to enjoy the empty sheries, you want to look at the empty fries forever, you want to look at the empty movie theater, or if you'd like your property taxes to go up, that's for then it's for you. Please, please, for a better Wilsonville, vote no on voter approval of urban renewal plans. Thank you,

Mary Rooney. My name is Mary Rooney and my address is on the speaker card. Thank you mayor and council for this opportunity to speak. The term substantial amendment was brought up during the work session, so I felt the need to speak on that as it relates or doesn't relate to 3-632. To better grasp some of the amendment language, it's helpful to understand the framework for urban renewal plans when they are subjected to changes. Depending on the size and scope of an urban renewal plan change, there are three types of recognized amendments. These are substantial amendments, minor amendments, and major/counsel approved amendments. Substantial amendments are defined in OS457.085 and by law are required to be included in urban renewal plans. To summarize, definitions for substantial amendments include A adding specified amount of land to the urban renewal area and B increasing the maximum amount of indebtedness. These amendments are a big deal and must undergo the same notification, reporting, and approval process as the original plan. The other two types of recognized amendments are minor amendments and major/counsel approved amendments. These are recognized by the Oregon Economic Development Association. A quick look at urban renewal plans across Oregon revealed that the plans surveyed include included substantial amendments and often minor amendments and major/counsel approved amendments. Each type of amendment had criteria and a spec a specific path for completion such as through urban renewal agency resolution or city council ordinance. The proposed charter amendment for 3-632 however doesn't mention the three types of recognized amendments. In fact, it uses the term substantial change and

also non-substantial change. A substantial change would trigger a vote of the electorate limited to a primary or general election and is defined in the amendment as any change proposed to be made to an existing urban renewal plan that a expounds the boundary, duration, borrowing or spending authority of any plan or b alters the basic purpose, engineering or financing principles of a voter-approved plan. That is not the same definition as a substantial amendment. This term is broad and vague and incorporates various actions or decisions of an urban renewal agency as it relates to urban renewal plans. Adopting this language into our charter could upend a clear and legal process through which our city accesses urban renewal. This exact proposed substantial change term isn't the same as the state law definition of substantial amendment. And yet I have I have yet to find a precedent anywhere else in Oregon that it is written into their into their city or county's constitution. Where is the wisdom in adopting this into our city's charter without fully understanding the impact? The proposed charter amendment for measure 3-632 is risky and will be costly for the city to clarify it is if it is ever to access urban renewal again. Ultimately, this will cost us the taxpayers too. Voters should be aware of what is at stake and protect their investments in the city by outright rejecting this misguided proposal in May. Thank you,

Rick Wallace. Hello, my name is Rick Wallace. My address is on the speaker card and I want to say happy Monday um and happy spring. It's uh was a beautiful day today. I biked here in flip-flops and it was 70°. Um but I'm here to say that uh I'm in favor of the town center plan that we have and would really like to see progress on that. I was in favor of the plan back in 2024 when we voted on urban renewal. And even though the advisory vote lost by 50 votes, I was one of more than 3,000 residents that voted yes on urban renewal and a thriving town center as it was in the plan back then. That is why I oppose this measure 3-632. Now, it claims to fix a problem of not having the right to vote, but we've always had the right to vote. It claims to fix the problem of us not having enough information to vote, but the information that it requires the city to fill its pamphlet statement with has always been a public record and easily available on the city's website. We all know that you can't fit a square peg in a round hole. This measure is trying to use a 900word two-page block or PEG to fill a hole that has never existed. So, while I appreciate the efforts of my neighbors, the petitioners and advocates of this measure, I strongly ask everyone to vote no on this upcoming measure, let's move forward with voting on urban renewal as we've always have and finally make progress on our hopefully soon to be beautiful town center. Thank you. Okay, I'm going to call this name one more time of Sharon Kishner. Okay,

turning now to councelor. Is there anybody online? Okay, now turning counselor comments, leaison reports, and meaning announcements. Uh, councelor Cunningham.

Thank you. I'll keep my comments brief tonight, but I wanted to wish everyone a happy Easter season. Um, for those who are celebrating, um, also those who celebrated Lent, good job. Made it to the finish line, uh, 40 days. Um, but, uh, again, thanks again tonight to our state legislators for coming and speaking, uh, delivering their report to council, as well as, uh, city staff and, uh, Mr. Greg Leo for um their reports on what's going on with uh the state legislation or the state legislature. Um all those things, you know, they're little things, but they impact us. Um I think it was it was mentioned earlier the death by the thousand cuts uh that Mr. Leo mentioned. Um that we don't lose our control of our city overnight. Uh we lose it through tiny small incremental uh changes in codes. Um, if anybody watched the work session, even codes as ridiculous as uh moderating the maximum distance that we are allowed to communicate with our citizens about uh a change in their community. Um, that one I just I can't get past that one. You know, give us the minimum and let us go from there, but to give us a maximum and say you're not allowed to communicate with your citizens past this line, that irks me a little bit. So, uh, again, thank you for for the fight, um, in Salem and trying to keep those those local controls in place. U, that's all I have for tonight. Thank you.

Thank you, Councelor Chevlin.

Thank you. I'm going to make a few comments about some upcoming events in our city and then I'm going to provide some personal comments about an issue that is of concern to me. First of all, April 25th is work day. That's WERK, which stands for Wilsonville Environmental Resourcekeepers. This is a day, it's uh Saturday, April 25th, where we ask the community to come together to support our parks and getting things cleaned up in preparation for a busy summer season. Um, past projects have included painting soccer goals and picnic tables, bark chipping trails, and removing ivy and other invasive uh, species. Again, workday is Saturday, April 25th. It starts at 8:00 in the morning with a complimentary breakfast from our Rotary Club at the community center. Who doesn't like a free breakfast? After our tummies are full, we will head on over to Memorial Park where we um can get some direction in how we can help get our parks ready. Uh of highlight that day will be some goats. Now, who doesn't like to pet a goat? Bring the kids, bring the grandkids. Uh these goats are special because when they are there on Saturday, April 25th, they will have already completed their work for work day and that is they will be munching away at ivy and other invasive uh species in order to get our parks ready. So please join us. If you'd like more information, you may visit wilsonville parksandrec.com. Go to the events tab and choose workday WK for a little bit of WK. Also, the diversity, equity, inclusion committee has posted their calendar for the month of April. April is deaf heritage month. April is also Arab

American Heritage Month. And lastly, as mayor mentioned, Passover, which began on April 1st and extends through April 9th. Now, for my personal comments, I'd like to speak this evening about something important for the future of Wilsonville, how we plan, grow, and take care of our community. One of the things that makes Wilsonville special is that we've always been thoughtful about growth. We've made decisions that support our neighborhoods, our local businesses, and the future opportunities that we hope to create. And just as importantly, we've kept the flexibility to ad to adapt as our city's needs change. I've been thinking about this not just as a counselor, but as a citizen who will be voting in the upcoming primary on May 19th. This evening, you have already heard others speak about measure 3-632. In simple terms, this measure would change Wilsonville's charter to add new restrictions on how the city can use urban renewal or if it can be used as a finance tool for special projects. And I'll be honest, it's a complicated measure. So, let's take a step back and talk about what that actually means. Urban renewal, of course, is a tool that Wilsonville has used for decades to fund improvements in specific areas of our city without creating new taxes or increasing tax rates. It's helped us invest in things that improve everyday life. Things like our city parks and the water features that so many families enjoy. It's helped us build this building, city hall, and it's helped us build our neighborhoods and support our schools.

These are the kind of investments that make a real difference and often ones that we don't think about because they're just behind the scenes, but they're make they make what Wilsonville is such a great place to live. Just as important, Wilsonville has a strong track record of using this tool responsibly. We follow state law. We have a transparent public process and historically we've gone a step further by asking for extra community input along the way. Put simply, nothing is broken. Yet, the wording in favor of this ballot measure would have you believe that things are indeed broken. Most other cities in Oregon follow the state's framework for urban renewal the same as we do. A few other cities have tried adding conditions and then later found out that those didn't work and they had to go back and fix them. So, what will this measure do? It would add new unusually complex restrictions that make it harder for the city to use the tool effectively. It creates additional hurdles that reduce our ability to respond when opportunities come along. And that means when a city loses its flexibility, projects can slow down as we've heard from other testimony. Opportunities can be missed and over time those delays can lead to higher no will lead to higher costs including increased pressure on taxpayers. You're careful with how you spend your money as am I. None of us wants to spend unnecessarily. I've heard some people say the measure is about giving residents a stronger voice in these decisions. I agree people must have a voice, but in Wilsonville we

already do and we do it better with than most with additional layers of public input in place. We have a transparent process. We have community participation and you elect local leaders to make thoughtful decisions on your behalf. At the end of the day, this comes down to a simple question. Do we want to add heavy restrictions to a system that already works well? From my perspective, this measure is expensive and inefficient. It it introduces risk, increases costs, and slows down the kind of progress that has helped Wilsonville thrive. I've taken a close look at the facts and the history of the town center plan. It was developed through extensive community engagement. Today's council is continuing that work as we consider adjustments to building house building heights and housing. That kind of responsiveness is exactly how local leadership should work. We've taken community input seriously and we're looking at adjustments to bring your vision of our town center, all of us, to fruition. Adding new restrictions at this stage doesn't improve the process. It risks delaying progress and sidelining the work this community has already done to move the town center forward. That's why I believe this measure is a step in the wrong direction. The town center plan is for the residents and by the residents. Voting no on this measure is a way of protecting the time, energy, and financial investments that you, our residents, have already put forward. I encourage you, the wise citizens of

Wilsonville, to vote no on measure 3-632. Thank you,

Councelor Skull. Thank you, councelor Chevlin. Well said. Great words. Uh I will submit my public or my public schedule uh for the record here uh after my talk. Uh it's kind of hard to follow up with that. The one thing I wanted to highlight highlight is I did get to visit the PGA integrated operations uh uh center in Talatin. It was a great place, very fascinating. uh if you're in the NASA type stuff, uh it was uh pretty uh pretty neat to see where they buy power, they distribute power, and they service the system uh real time. Um on from that, just intended several meetings uh throughout the the last couple weeks. Uh this past Saturday was a joyous tradition in Wilsonville. Uh the annual egg hunt in Memorial Park. Uh kids from uh 1 to 11 clamored all over uh 18,000 candy and prize filled eggs. Uh many thanks to our parks and recreations team. They did an outstanding job uh for putting together this great event. And a special uh thanks to our gold sponsor Nicholas Family Agency for their support. It was a great event. Uh was there for most of it and I bet there was probably a thousand people if not a little more. So it was fun. other events. Uh let's see. Every two years, the uh city of Wilsonville is part of a national community survey called the NCS. Over 500 communities nationwide participate in the professionally managed and statistically valid survey. Uh the 2026 NCS uh administered by PO uh PCO is now underway. Uh the survey asked residents their opinions on city amenities, services, community needs, civic participation, and other topics. Uh data. The data helps show how

Wilsonville is performing compared to both our prior results and other cities and helps the city to understand what is important to residents and how that changes over time. Public uh participation in this uh survey is welcome. It's open until April 15th and you can find the survey at the on the city's website at wilsonvilleorggon.gov.2026 survey and uh I took the survey today and it's uh it's not it doesn't take that long. It's a good survey and it's uh very comprehensive uh spring events at the library. uh upcoming events. If you're looking for something to do uh with the kids, uh an affordable uh date night or just uh to mix it up, mix up your routine, uh the Wilsonville Public Library is offering a number of events and activities this spring, including the continuation of the Booknotes concert, a series of performances performances by local musicians, a music and uh movement classes for children under seven and younger, uh beginning birding for families, uh an inform informative talk uh about the history of Japanese Americans in Oregon as a part of a one book one coast program where the west coast creates a giant book club uh I'm assuming online by reading George Teay's graphic novel they call this enemy so that that is uh that will be uh coming up here and more so to find details uh please uh you know re reference the city council uh calendar Wilsonville or Oregon.govcalendar at the library web page. And that's all I have.

Thank you. The next item is our consent agenda. Will the city attorney please read the items on consent? Resolution number 3239, a resolution of the city of Wilsonville authorizing acquisition of property related to construction of the Beckman Creek flow mitigation project CIP number 7068 and amending resolutions numbers 3167 and 3223. Resolution number 3254, resolution of the city of Wilsonville authorizing the city manager to execute a construction contract with Turney Excavating Inc. for the annual pedestrian enhancements project capital improvement project number 4717. Resolution number 3255, a resolution of the city of Wilsonville authorizing the city manager to execute easements concerning certain infrastructure relating to the will intake facilities commission's water intake facilities. Resolution number 3259, a resolution of the city of Wilsonville authorizing the city manager to exe execute goods and services contract with Trojan Technologies for procurement of ultraviolet disinfection equipment as part of the wastewater treatment plant backup ultraviolet system replacement project capital improvement project 21109. Resolution number 3261, a resolution of the city of Wilsonville authorizing the city manager to execute an amendment to the professional services agreement with DAO LLC for the Wamement Water Supply PLM 1.3 construction inspection of city infrastructure project capital improvement and project number 1127 and minutes of the March 12th, 16th, and 31, 2026 city council meetings.

Thank you. Councelor Chevlin, can I have a motion to adopt the consent agenda? I move that we adopt the consent agenda. Is there a second? Second. Motion's been made and seconded. All those in favor say I. I. The motion passes 40. Next we turn to uh new business. Uh the next item is resolution number 3260. I will turn it over to our city attorney Amanda Hinman to discuss that.

So this is resolution number 3260 resolution of the city of Wilsonville establishing graffiti abatement programs. Thank you, mayor and council. Again, Amanda Gile Hinnman, city attorney. So, tonight for council's consideration is resolution number 3260, um, which is concerning graffiti abatement programs. As an agenda for tonight's um discussion, I'm just going to give a very brief overview. I know we've all heard this a few times in some work sessions. So, a brief overview of the council goals, um some background on this particular project, and then the proposed programs that are included with resolution 3260, particularly the um graffiti uh rewards pro tip rewards program, the removal subsidization program, and the removal loaner kits. So the question for council consideration tonight is whether to adopt resolution 3260. So by way of background um and I know council's well aware of this is count council goal number two is around public safety. Um the first outcome within goal two is to streamline response to code enforcement challenges. And to achieve this outcome strategy 2.4 calls for the city to investigate developing a graffiti enforcement/reward program. So, um, while the, um, strategy specifically looked at an enforcement or reward

program, as we, uh, worked as a staff and with council, we looked at not only a rewards program, but some additional opportunities for property owners in particular on how to address graffiti that occurs on private property. Um, so we've reviewed several, we've talked about this a few times on work in work session, the last one being on the March 2nd work session where we looked at four programs. The fourth program council elected not to move forward with um as a full-blown program which is the volunteer program. um instead we discussed potentially an ad hoc option if there's you know a significant tagging event that occurs or if there's a particular community group who might want to um do that as a as a project um for this particular strategy uh for this particular program um review looked at several different jurisdictions both within the state of Oregon and outside the state of Oregon um to get some inspiration for these the program language we've also looked at other city programs So, in particular, the subsidization program is modeled after our sidewalk subsidization program. And there's been significant interdep departmental discussions. Um, I want to give a big thanks to our administration, code enforcement, law enforcement, parks and recreation, and public works who have all been really involved in this discussion on these on these programs. So, getting into the proposed programs, the first is the tips reward program. Um what we've set up as that's included in this uh resolution 3260 is a standard 20 $250 reward for people who provide um a who provide a report of vandalism to our law enforcement. It does need to lead to an arrest of either a graffiti charge or having the materials associated with graffiti. Um based on council discussion, we've included some additional language, two

that I want to highlight here. first is that if the graffiti isn't to the point of causing damage up to of a value of $250, it's basically the lesser of $250 or the cost of the damage. But we also have um the ability, the flexibility for the city to offer a higher reward, particularly if there's an event that is significant damage and particularly if we might be able to get some restitution as part of that criminal charge. So there's some some flexibility, some parameters put around that. Um to access this rewards program, an individual needs to provide information that leads to the arrest and they have to file a claim for the reward within 90 days. Um we already have a web page on our city website dedicated to graffiti reporting. So, we are going to be adding the a form that somebody can fill out uh to claim the to uh claim the reward on that um on the city's web website. So, there will be additional information assuming council adoption. There will be additional information that will be added to that web page. The next program is um the graffiti subsidization program. And like I mentioned, this is modeled after generally after our sidewalk program. So, there's basically two different um types of subsidization that somebody can apply for. They can either seek um a partial subsidization of um any materials that they have to buy to address graffiti on their property um or if they have to pay a professional to remove the graffiti, they can get um some subsidy for that. And like I mentioned again, it's modeled at the same thresholds and um percentages of the subsidy is the exact same as what we have in our sidewalk program. And then the final program is our loner uh removal loaner kits. Um so what this

uh looks at is basically it's a bucket that has a def uh several different types of um cleaning supplies in it based on the type of material that the graffiti is on. So, if it's metal versus another type of um brick or something like that, uh that an individual can check out that kit from um and right now we're working on the logistics of will it be housed at public works or parks and wreck or both. Um but basically they can check out a loner kit. Um they can go utilize it to clean up the graffiti and then they bring it back. Uh these are relatively low cost. Um, so it's a really good tool that the city can pay for and the community can use and it's not um, a significant funding uh, cost to the city. So those are the three programs at a very high level. We've had a lot of discussions about them in the past. Um, so the question for council tonight is whether to adopt resolution number 3260. And I'm happy to answer any questions that the council may have at this time.

Anyone on the council have questions? Uh, councelor Chevlin, just a comment. I believe it was last March, March of 25, when we chose this as one of our goals, and you've done a very nice job keeping this in front of us. It's we knew it wasn't dormant. You worked on it, brought back ideas, listened to us, and incorporated them. I'm in full support of the work that you've done, and I think you've done a very nice job. Thank you.

Thank you. If if as other people are maybe looking to press their buttons, I I failed to thank and I really do need to thank um my legal team, both Tobin Montalo and Hannah Young. The main reason this has stayed in front of you is probably because of them. So, um I really appreciate all of their hard work on this and I'm really thankful that they got the they're both students, so what a great opportunity for them to work on a city policy that's hopefully going to be passed tonight. Councelor Cunningham.

Yeah, I would uh echo the the thanks uh also to Tobin and Hannah. Um great work on this by all parties involved. I'm very pleased to have um have this program being put in place. It's a it's a uh you know it's it's always reactive when we're dealing with u with graffiti, but this is a proactive approach to being prepared for that so that uh we can give our citizens the tools they need to keep our city beautiful and uh you know just knock that stuff down when it happens so that it uh diverts um hopefully diverts it from occurring in the future. So I'm very pleased with this and and thank you and all the departments for all their work especially Tobin and Hannah. Thank you,

Councelor Skull. U echo, double echo of the thank you. Uh, excellent job. And, uh, it was late to the to the to the party here. So, but it was a it was nice to see it's nice to see that there's a process there top to bottom to, you know, to identify this and then basically mitigate it in a fast fashion. And, uh, and, you know, hopefully this will promote the community to kind of keep an eye on things and, uh, make it a habit. But thanks to the whole team. Thank you.

Well, going last, there's nothing more I can add other than this. Um, I thought based on your efforts and your team that we as a council had very thoughtful discussions and it it's kind of pleasant to have a conversation on something that we all resonated around, but thanks to your help and I'm in favor of supporting this tonight, but thank you for your efforts and your team.

Thank you, Mayor. With that, Councelor Skull, can I have a motion to approve resolution number 3260, establishing the city of Wiln's graffiti abatement programs? I make a motion to adopt resolution number 3260, uh, resolution for the city of the city of Wilsonville establishing a graffiti abatement program. Is there a second? I second. Okay, motion's been made and seconded. Any further discussion? Okay, all those in favor say I. I.

Motion passes 4 zero. Turning to city manager business. I have nothing this evening. No. Thank you for uh for my first council meeting. Um like I've told you all before, I look forward to this. It's been a long night. Um, I look forward to this opportunity and to working with all of you as well as our community members. So, um, thank you. Thank you again. And, um, it's, uh, not too long of a night, I guess. Yeah. I expected a 10 o'clock. Thank you.

Legal business. I was going to say, do you do you need me to prolong it for an hour and a half? I can. Please don't. I mean, okay. Nothing tonight, Mayor. All right. The city council is adjourned at 8:32 p.m.